Survivor - Heroes vs Villains
Chapter 14 - Day 12 Part 3
Alright, so here we are with chapter 14. For the second time in Survivor history, two people will be going home today due to the double elimination twist.
And I suppose it came at the right time because things are happening on both tribes right now.
We'll go to the Heroes first as Master Hand stated since thanks to Donkey Kong, they won the reward in the form of pizza as well as listening in on the Villains' Tribal Council.
All this leads to a big chapter we have going on here. Are you all ready?
~KF
Tribal Council
Night 12
There was just no break for the Heroes tribe. Yes, the challenge technically counted for ending their losing streak (at least when it came to winning a simple reward). However, it is the simple fact that they attended the first four Tribal Councils that provoked some fans at home to give them some sort of sympathy.
At least they were all grateful to not be Bowser Koopa from season one.
...
"...Well,... at least you guys are gonna feast on pizza." Master Hand decided to start with the good news. "Pizza, soft drinks, and you have the advantage of listening in on the Villains' Tribal Council, which will be their first tribal ever."
"I think that is something we all look forward to." Meat Knight nodded at that. "But at the end of the day,... we are going to lose yet another member. Nearly half the tribe is going to be gone once we're finished."
"Honestly, Master," Vector raised his hand. "all those complaints Ridley made about this twist, I can't be too mad at him. If the rules were a little different, we would have won our first immunity and the Villains would have attended tribal by themselves."
"Well, that is something I can understand. But it was an individual challenge for you all for a reason. The winner of that had to make it to the final round. But to make things fair for everybody, since there was the chance of one person from each tribe winning individual immunity and a unique reward challenge that went with it,... everybody attends Tribal Council tonight. Not just the heroes, not just the villains, everybody."
"I mean, I was on the winning side when this twist happened in my season." Yoshi brought up. "And yeah, we understand the rules of it. I believe that is fair for everyone involved here, but we're all clearly tired of losing members. Like,... there were ten of us last week and now we're about to be down to six? By the time we get to the merge there would only be like, three of us left!"
"So Donkey Kong,... this twist... other than pizza and you having the individual immunity necklace,-"
That was right! King Kong at Tribal Council, baby!
"This twist really did not do your team that any favors. Basically a 'how could things possibly get worse' situation. This tribe just can not breathe for even a minute!"
"It's becoming more of a routine at this point, master. The only advantage I get out of this is that I was on a losing tribe before. I was one of the four people of that tribe that made it to the merge, so that's the one thing allowing me to keep my composure." Keeping composure... That was one thing about DK. Gentle giant one could say,... until he was messed with. For example, K. Rool in the canon games getting under his fur all over some bananas. How childish. "When you lose a lot of challenges, the most you can really do is to socially and strategically maneuver yourself so that you can be sure of your torch not getting put out. But yeah, it's been a rough twelve days for everyone that is still in this group."
"Perhaps the one thing we could get out of this situation is that if one of us somehow wins this season, we would actually appear to be bigger heroes to the audience at home watching." Shovel Knight still had some hope in him. "Sure, it is not likely at all to lose every single challenge and win Survivor, but it is not impossible. I'm still holding on, so we still should keep hope alive..."
"...even though we're probably swapping tomorrow." Donkey Kong replied back, causing a few other members to snicker in response.
"Golden, there are no more winners left on this tribe now. What is going to happen next with this group?"
"I mean, you know. Isabelle and Sonic were the biggest targets here, Mario was aligned with them so he also got voted off, but now that all three of them are gone, we are at a point where literally anybody could be voted off for anything. Including me, perhaps. I know people are gonna call someone like me a potential physical threat if I make it close to the merge. But every person remaining in this group has his or her own reason to be voted off, so on the inside,... we're all gonna feel on edge from here on out."
"That's the game..." Vector sighed hunching his shoulders. "I am quickly remembering how overwhelming this game can get. You can't even go to pee without worrying about someone talking about you writing your name down. And with this being an All Star season, that only makes things worse. In addition to that, none of us won, so everybody is gonna get more competitive than ever."
"Things are gonna be more competitive for you all, especially since the seven of you made an alliance against Mario, Isabelle, and Sonic. Now you seven have no choice but to target each other."
...
With the camera view shifting from Vector, to Golden, then to Yoshi, no one said a word. They knew he was right. And that was exactly what they were all doing.
"...This is really gonna get interesting." Master Hand talked again. "Zelda, now it's just the seven of you left on this tribe, are you aware of any possible secret alliances that could be forming?"
"That wouldn't be a surprise if that was the case. People were probably making deals left and right the moment we got back to camp after Sonic was voted out. We're all trying to save ourselves from being the next to go before we reached the swap. And had things played out as normal, say if this twist was not happening, and if we won immunity, the seven of us would not have had to worry about who's being voted off next. ...No offense to you, of course. I'm not trying to knock against the twist."
"None taken." The host 'smirked'.
"But people are really going to be paranoid and threatened, so they're going to make moves in order to advance themselves further. Had the seven of us made the swap together, maybe we all would have somehow made sure at least one villain got their torch snuffed before the merge. Even if we're against certain people on here, the villains are still the common enemy. We do not know them as much as we know each other, and we are not aware of how they are playing, so naturally we have even less trust in them."
"Yoshi, Golden made a point that every last one of you sitting here being a threat. That being said, you never know when you're really on the chopping block. But since you're playing this game as well and assuming you want to make sure you last as long as possible,... where do you even start? Worst case scenario, it could become a bloodbath and the heroes could start behaving like villains!"
"Well... I guess with this team, the overall goal for us right now is to have at least one Villain sent home soon." Not counting what was set to happen after the Heroes' tribal was finished. "But for right now,... maybe this could be some sort of sacrifice. This is the last thing we would have to do so that we could see tomorrow. I am pretty sure everyone's done going to tribal all the time. And we already made sacrifices by sending three of us home. We were really hoping we would not have to come back here, but I know I have to put somebody's name down just so that I could move on. Who in particular? ...I guess it all depends on what's best for me. All you could really do is... hope that you're not the one getting the votes tonight. And like Isabelle and Sonic, I've never been voted out before... That only makes me even more scared and jumpy inside..."
...
Donkey Kong was seen eyeing Yoshi with a bit of pity in his eyes, Meta Knight looking away. Knowing their intention, did Yoshi really needed to say something like that? Talk about bad timing.
"Zelda, you have not been voted out before, either." Master Hand brought up. "Do you think that it could be a reason why you might be in trouble? They could send you home right after Sonic and say something such as, 'Okay, we just voted out the winners, why not just vote everyone that has made it to the end before?'"
"That is pretty much the number one reason why I would be voted out. And I have already been targeted twice before, but if people are saying that everybody sitting right here is a threat, then I shouldn't be the only one on the chopping block."
She was not wrong.
"And since we already lost three challenges, simply voting off the weakest link at this point would be rather pointless in my opinion, especially knowing the situation we had to deal with upon hearing the news on what was going to occur today. Strength shouldn't be the absolute biggest priority, so if I'm a target tonight, perhaps people should take that into consideration."
"...Donkey Kong... You're not a weak link, are you?"
That made his tribemates and the ape himself snicker and laugh. "Well, I don't think that I am especially since I'm wearing the necklace. But Zelda made a point saying that challenges shouldn't be our number one priority. But since the three people are on the bottom have already left the game, they could be having the 'every survivor for themselves' mentality, and it's pretty much understandable. Somebody's gonna be on the losing end of the seven. Usually things like this doesn't occur until the merge, but due to our losing streak, we're probably already playing as if we're in that stage of the game. At the same time though, just because it might not be in somebody's best interest to vote someone off by simply being the weakest, it doesn't mean automatically eliminate someone like me for being one of the strongest in the tribe. Other factors play in. Relationships, the way you've played last season, and what people think you might do later on. Long story short, it might definitely become a bloodbath like you said."
"..." Shovel Knight curled up his lips out of nervousness.
"Alright. It's time to vote. Meta Knight, you're up."
Hmm... Kind of a short tribal in comparison to others. But then again, they were less people which meant less mouths to speak with.
Already knowing what he was going to do, Yoshi's name was spelled out on his parchment.
"You've had a successful run making it to the end in our season, but I'm afraid you are the most likely person to make it to the end again. You are not known to be super strategic nor super physical. And with your connection with Vector, that's more than enough reasons to send you home. My apologies."
Following Golden, Shovel Knight was the third member of the Heroes to be called forward. Man... He was already going to make his decision and majority of the tribe still had yet to vote.
But whatever. It was not as if Master Hand knew absolutely everything. If that was the case, Shovel would have most likely been called on last for dramatic purposes.
"Here we go..." He mumbled, slowly uncapping the pen.
Zelda and Donkey Kong both watched from afar, the former being called up next once Golden was done.
After Yoshi sat back down, Vector was the last one to head up to the urn.
M-E-T-A K-N-I-G-H-T
"Including Yoshi, I know you more than anyone else on this tribe. You're a smart guy, and I think you found an idol. This is a good way of getting rid of you first before wondering how long it will take you to get rid of me."
And that was that. Now Master Hand needed to do his thing.
"I'll go tally the votes."
It was probably gonna be the most 'on edge' moment for the Heroes tribe thus far, as well for all the fans that were watching the season up to this point. Moments like those happened when majority alliances were forced to turn on each other.
So... Who was going to get voted out?
"If anybody has a hidden immunity idol and you wanna play it, now would be the time to do so."
Nope. DK felt there was no reason for him to do anything.
"Okay. Once the votes are read, the decision is final. Person voted out will be asked to leave the Tribal Council area immediately. I'll read the votes..."
Perhaps it was most appropriate to cue in tense and suspenseful music.
"First vote... Meta Knight."
"Hmm..." He blinked.
"Yoshi."
"!" His heart fell immediately, Shovel Knight remaining the most still out of everyone aside from the two names the host read out to the tribe.
"Meta Knight."
Two votes so far...
"Yoshi. Two votes Yoshi, two votes Meta Knight."
Three votes left...
Vector and Zelda kept their composure, but there was obviously some more concerned on the inside.
"Yoshi. That's three votes Yoshi, two votes Meta Knight."
Using whatever nose Meta had on his face, he breathed in and out slowly to not panic too much.
Yoshi literally looked scared to death.
"Meta Knight. That's three votes Meta Knight, three votes Yoshi, one vote left."
Now it was Shovel Knight nearly being on the edge of his seat, Golden and Zelda not making any sort of movement in their places.
"Fourth person voted out of Survivor - Heroes vs Villains..." Master Hand paused for a brief moment clutching the final vote in his hand.
"...Meta Knight."
"!?"
Golden's jaw dropped, Yoshi already exhaling a sigh of relief.
"You need to bring me your torch."
Donkey Kong gradually turned towards Shovel Knight in shock, who had a guilty expression all over his face staring at the floor of the tribal. Good thing he was wearing a helmet.
After being stunned from several seconds, Meta Knight promptly got up from his spot.
"Interesting..."
"Wow..." mouthed Golden out loud.
Vector's lips curled into a grin, Zelda forming a small smirk.
"That was close..." said Yoshi.
"Meta Knight, the tribe has spoken."
Snuff.
Shovel only watched from his spot.
#Blindside
"Time for you to go."
"Good luck everyone." Were his last words as the puffball gradually started making his way down the many stairs. Damn... Okay sure, he made a decent run in Caribbean. But from that moment, it was official. The Kirby franchise was the most cursed game series when it came to Survivor of all time. First Dedede, then Bandanna Dee, then Kawasaki in Meta's own season, and now Meta Knight himself. Every last Kirby character that ever participated was voted out early.
"Well, I suppose that was the first official blindside of the season. Perhaps the game has finally begun." Master Hand addressed the rest of the Heroes. "But we're not done yet. One more tribe to go to. We will move over your torches, you guys can head over to the jury bench and wait for the Villains. Once they arrive, you will have your reward."
Votes:
Donkey Kong - Yoshi
Yoshi - Meta Knight
Zelda - Meta Knight
Meta Knight - Yoshi
Vector - Meta Knight
Shovel Knight - Meta Knight
Golden - Yoshi
-/-
4-3
17th Place: Meta Knight
Total Votes Received: 4
Final Confessional Run: 4-2-3-2
"Really surprising for me to be sitting here so early on. I figured I actually had a chance of at least outpeaking myself this season. Came into tribal with a plan, and this is the result. Shovel Knight told me directly that I was not going anywhere, but clearly the opposite occurred. I'm interested in seeing how the rest of this plays out for the other heroes, and I will be rather curious of what's going to happen with Shovel Knight's game in particular."
Tribal Council
Night 12
Music: Dark Realm (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)
Now due to the fact that it was the very first time the Villains were scheduled to attend a Tribal Council that season, the music had to change of course. Something more dark or moody.
"Villains, get your first look at the new Heroes tribe."
One by one, the red team entered the area while getting a brief look at their competitors who were now on the jury bench. And every last one of them were quite surprised.
"...Seriously?" Springtrap said raising an eyebrow, Specter Knight staring at them all right behind him.
"Wow..." Wolf did not even blink.
"Oh goodness..." It was definitely not something Ryu or any of his tribemates expected.
"Is this a joke?" Foxy found it to be a bit amusing, he and the rest of the Villains sitting down in the ten seats that were there.
"Meta Knight voted out at the last Tribal Council."
All ten of them did not believe their eyes, Ridley in particular appearing to be so frozen in place he might as well have become a statue in that moment. ...Wait... Meta Knight left? Holy Zebes! Why!?
"It's game on over there..." Sheik assumed.
"Behind each of you is a torch, go ahead and grab one, dip it in, and get fire." Master Hand immediately instructed them to follow his orders. "As you are no doubt aware, this is part of the ritual of Tribal Council where in this game fire represents your life. When your fire is gone, so, are, you."
Once all of the now lit torches were set down, the master needed to take care of the Heroes before things got started with the Villains.
"Alright, Heroes. Pizza is right next to you on the right. We have pepperoni, cheese, meat lovers, hawaiian, vegetarian. Enjoy and start eating."
Severe jealousy took place as the red team all watched their opponents immediately get up and rushed right to the pizza to grab plates and a few slices, chatting among themselves in the process.
"Only six of us left but less mouths to feed..." commented DK.
"Why are they getting the pizza?" Bowser appeared to be the most jealous of them all. "We're the ones that have the most numbers!"
Umm,... because Springtrap did not win the challenge?
Though Ridley never said anything, he was pissed off based on looks alone as he watched them back on the jury bench eating away. What if looks really did kill? Especially knowing the type of person Ridley was, he would have brutally murdered every last one of them. No doubt he would have kept his villain title... serving six life sentences behind bars.
"Alright... It took this team twelve days, but the Villains are finally seeing Tribal Council for the first time. As of this moment, the entire tribe is still in this game while the Heroes are already down to six members. And all ten of you are now part of Survivor history. For the first time ever,-" The camera made sure to zoom out to view all ten players. "-an entire team competed for individual immunity. Springtrap, you have the immunity necklace, but you had the power to single-handedly earn your tribe the reward... That did not happen."
"Frustrating moment for me." He grinned. "But I had to deal with that big ol' ape over there."
Donkey Kong hunched his shoulders, having the audacity to grin right back between bites.
"There was no way I was gonna beat him from the start. By the time he got done with the challenge I was pretty exhausted. I didn't wanna look like a fool in front of my tribe so I did the best that I can. But I feel like we're the ones that should have gotten the pizza reward. We have not lost one member up to this point. The exact same situation happened when I was on Barahona. My team had more members, but we had to suffer the most because we didn't get anything to eat."
Maybe if Charizard won the reward challenge at the time against Vector, then they would have earned the reward. But hey, people did not win everything... Crap was bound to happen at some point. Deal with it, sore losers.
"Well, they're the underdogs." Master Hand defended the blue team. "They deserve to win a reward just as much as you guys, and perhaps they have finally gotten some sort of break, even though they just lost another member."
"It's still an insult to us, especially me in particular." Not this again, Ridley... "First the twist itself, but my team actually won the reward challenge. And now I'm on the losing end while Vector ended up getting the reward twice."
Vector snickered and shook his head at his opponent, too busy eating to say anything. Oh, he was not allowed to. The team was only allowed to talk to each other. Regardless, it served Vector best to stick with his clique and stay away from the bad guys.
"It's just us villains pouting because things didn't go our way." Wolf caused about half his team to laugh. "We're the bad guys. We deserve all the luxuries that we feel like the heroes can't have. We should be on the bench right now shoving pizza down our throats and laughing right in front of them just so we can say the heroes didn't get it."
"...You all literally won the first four challenges!"
"Sure, but it's not enough. We gotta win it all and smear victory all over their faces because we're that petty."
The lupine really did not give a damn.
"So Plague Knight, while we're on it, since you guys won every challenge until now, what was the overall vibe of the tribe? Based off peoples' reaction to losing the reward, I'd say you were all pretty much having a good time on your beach."
"That seems to be what we were all doing. We woke up, maybe strategize a little (because it's Survivor), do our camp work, win a challenge, enjoy the reward, and that was it. We went almost two weeks without voting anybody out! This is the biggest winning streak the show's ever seen, so even when we were strategizing, it really wasn't that much... until we had the idea in our heads that going to tribal was the inevitable for us."
"I'm assuming this is before you guys found out about what the challenge was."
"Yep. Just like in season four, if there was no reward challenge on day ten, people were already getting the impression that we needed to go. And so,... people began strategizing more, and eventually everyone started doing it."
"...So names were thrown out."
"...Yep."
"Did you feel like your name was thrown out there?"
"...My name was thrown out there."
Ooh...
Now that was how the mood of Tribal Council changed within about ten seconds.
"...Why was your name thrown out there, Plague?" The host wondered, everybody including the Heroes all eyeing his way.
"Oh, my name was thrown out there since day one, master." He decided to simply let it all out. The blue team was watching, anyway. "I was target number one because I am the weakest threat in this group. That's why I was glad we won the first three immunities. Otherwise, I would have been gone last week. More than half of this tribe wanted me out and they all know it. Even the Heroes probably thought I was gonna be first out."
A couple of them even confirmed that nodding.
"But it was a good thing that we were on a winning streak like this, because out of everyone, I probably needed it the most. And since we're just now going to tribal, that means more names could be on the block right now knowing that challenge strength isn't the biggest priority in peoples' minds anymore."
"So Shadow, Plague Knight says he's been a target since this game started and that he likely would have been the first boot had you guys lose a challenge earlier. True or false?"
"It's true a hundred percent." Shadow nodded in reply. "It made sense for the tribe at the time to unanimously send Plague home. He's the weakest link, and he has a connection to Specter Knight. We all know what he did, and Plague Knight is a number for him. Me personally, I think that I was a big target coming into the game as well. And the only reason why my name wasn't tossed around as much is because Plague and Specter together are two people and I'm only one person."
"You think you're still a target somewhat?"
He shrugged his shoulders. "I pretty much could be if everyone's gonna come together and send me home... But like Plague said, there are other names out now, so I'm hoping that's not the case."
Another castaway raised a hand.
"...Sheik."
"I'm not gonna lie here, my name was really tossed around these last few days."
!?
Now that was something the Heroes were not expecting, them all listening in closely as they feasted on their food.
"What did Sheik do?" Zelda questioned quietly, not even realizing that regarding the canon universe, she was literally talking about herself.
Even Master Hand was a bit perplexed. "Why was your name thrown out there?"
"Um..." Sheik glanced around the entire tribe as they all stared back. "As far as I'm concerned, unless there is something going on that I don't know about, I can't really find a real reason. Okay. So Plague was targeted from day one. That was something everybody expected. We won the first three immunities, and it has become to a point where Plague Knight is no longer the main focus. Specter Knight is actually the bigger threat here, but we couldn't afford to cut him off at the time, because he's obviously stronger than Plague at the challenges. Now I'm thinking the tribe is comfortable enough to get rid of Specter altogether..."
"And I suppose he threw my name out just so that he could save himself."
That was obviously going to get a reaction from him.
"Otherwise," she hunched her shoulders. "I feel like I'm randomly being thrown under the bus for no real reason."
"Specter..." The master wanted his side of the story.
"Alright, so I suppose the target has switched over in my direction due to my threat level. I did what I did in my season, and that seemed to end up where the move is so significant, I of all people am currently considered to be a massive threat at this moment. And you know, yes. I did throw Sheik's name out there. I have no other choice because I am on the chopping block, but me throwing her under the bus is not simply because of that alone. There are actual legitimate reasons why she should get the boot over me tonight."
"Okay. Anything realistic you can come up with?"
Uh oh... Sheik was not playing around.
Foxy widened his eyes a little. Not even he was expecting that.
"I'm over here thinking that it is the only reason why you're targeting me. You know you're a big threat, so you're trying to save yourself. Not that I blame you, but I personally feel like it would be better if you actually came up with more realistic reasons to explain why I'm somehow a bigger target over somebody who's made one of the most infamous moves in Survivor history."
He began to glare. "Well for starters, you also made one of the most infamous moves this show has seen. And the tribal where you blackmailed Marth into working with you was one of the most controversial tribals ever. I didn't blackmail anyone into working with me when I used my idol on Plague. People had a choice to vote with me in that round and the two people that were on the bottom did, and that was how we split the votes between Golden and Espio."
Golden simply blinked his eyes, starting to eat another slice of his hawaiian pizza... Hold up.. Hawaiian? ...Golden had pineapple on his pizza? Gross...
"Forcing somebody to work with you should at least be considered to be just as threatening as me simply playing an idol on someone. I never even predicted Espio to pull out his own idol and accidently send himself out of the game. That was completely unintentional."
"This is what happens when you win all those challenges." Now the bear was talking. "This is getting juicy..."
Plague Knight wanted to gulp out loud.
"Really? ...I thought you wanted me out because you figured I was the nicest villain of the group and would be the most likely to flip to the heroes. Now my move is just as villainous as yours?"
Woah. She was going in on him, members of her tribe all taking quick glances at each other.
Judging by the look of Foxy's face, he definitely wanted to say something, but part of him told him to not get involved.
"You can at least be consistent, because you're kind of proving my point here. It's just about you saving yourself and that's perfectly fine."
The skeletal warrior grew even more frustrated. "You were brought in this group for a reason, but I never said that you weren't a villain at all. Now for me personally, I feel that literally everyone else on this whole tribe overall played more villainous games than you. The move by itself was just as villainous as mine, but for your game overall, who would think you had a negative edit throughout the entire time? ...Crickets."
Ooh. It was on. Who was winning the argument so far?
"And that is why I called you the least villainous of this team. You had one. One villainous moment throughout your entire game. Everybody else sitting here right now had more than that." The knight argued. "Bowser and Ridley are two of the biggest villains in this group, Shadow is a notorious flip flopper, and even someone like Springtrap became manipulative when his alliance was on the bottom after the merge. As a villain, you can't name one other thing you did and you lasted thirty-eight days. So that right there is actually two reasons why you should be getting your torch snuffed tonight. You made a notable move for the game and at the same time, your overall game edit was not really that villainous once you finally left. Perhaps you should be rather lucky. If it weren't for that one move you pulled, the producers would have had a hard time finding a female villain for this team."
! ! !
Woah...
...
Ryu pulled a hand over his face, Ridley simply shaking his head at the whole scene.
"Rather cruel on that last part..." Vector mumbled from the bench. "Did he lie though...?"
"He's pretty much telling the truth. ...Buuut I won't be surprised if this sparks controversy online with Specter getting attacked by Sheik fans..." Yoshi added.
"Bowser..." Master Hand called on King Koopa. "When we first started this tribal, I've received vibes that the group was simply having a good time out here and enjoying their winning streak... What happened?"
"Well, for me I went from the guy that lost all the challenges to the guy that won all the challenges. But from what I can say, since this team has won a lot, tensions are high, and people are letting it all out there now that we've finally made it to tribal. If we weren't going here in the first place today, people would have continued to postpone their thoughts and intentions for another time."
"Specter and Sheik both know that they are the two main options on the board and they're fighting for their lives right now." Wolf added. "This may be the last elimination round before the swap and people want to at least make it to that point in the game."
"I'd be doing the same if it was me of course." Ryu found no reason to blame either of them. "You've got to do what you gotta do to survive out here. It's not fun being voted out. Most of us sitting at this tribal have been there."
"And you have played with Specter Knight before. You are more familiar with him than most of your castmates. Do you see him being more dangerous than Sheik as a player?"
"Depending on how you look at it. From an unbiased perspective, they have both made pretty good points here. But I think this vote is really about who do people wanna align with and who would certain people would rather see go just for the sake of their own games. We might not be at the merge yet, but for all we know, we could be pretty much be playing for ourselves already."
"Foxy, you have played with Sheik before. What do you think of her and this whole situation?"
"Sheik and I had a bit of a rivalry going on. It really started post-merge where I felt like I needed to do what I needed to do to get myself further. We were fighting each other, but we're cool with each other personally."
Wolf was seen briefly whispering to Springtrap who was not too far from him. "No change?"
He shook 'no'.
"But I do agree with Ryu on everything that he said. This vote is gonna be about who people are gonna risk keeping around and time will tell when it comes to us figuring out if we made the right decision."
"All I gotta say is that we are not actually at the merge yet. We're still on a tribe together for a reason. So no matter how we vote tonight, I do hope that the whole tribe thing is still taken into consideration here. No offense to the heroes, but we don't know what they got going on over there, especially given the fact that Meta Knight was taken out here. We trust them less than we trust each other, we have the numbers advantage, so we really need to think carefully here and know what we're doing. We make a mistake by voting out the wrong person, we're all gonna pay for that."
Was Foxy trying to make some sort of statement or something?
Anyway, Master Hand felt like that was an appropriate time to end the discussion.
"Alright... Heroes, finish what is in your mouths, you guys can head on back to camp."
There were a few mumbles, disappointed they did not eat the amount of pizza they wanted to, but he was their boss. They had to follow his orders. He was Master Hand for a reason.
"Alright, villains. It is time to vote. Shadow, you're up."
The last hedgehog in the game got up on his feet and began to make his walk.
Sheik was called up next and she did not hesitate.
S-P-E-C-T-E-R K-N-I-G-H-T
"Hopefully with everything that was said, people do realize that you're just trying to make it for another day. If I end up going over you, there's something wrong here..."
Ryu was briefly tapping his fingers on the table, Foxy laying his piece of parchment down on the table and doing nothing but simply stare at it for a couple seconds.
...
He then went on to briefly count on his fingers.
Plague Knight made it to the urn quickly writing down Sheik's name in big letters.
And Specter followed right behind.
S-H-E-I-K
"You'd better go home tonight. You really gave me a hard time and now I'm getting worried."
Bowser and Ridley each followed after he returned, Springtrap being the one called last.
"I'll go tally the votes..."
Specter placed a fist beneath his chin with a mix of anxiousness and frustration, Plague Knight sitting quietly hardly even moving.
...
Soon after, Ridley and the rest of the tribe watched as Master Hand came back.
"If anybody has a hidden immunity idol and you wanna play it, now would be the time to do so..."
...Ridley then looked away. No reason to get up at all.
"Okay... Once the votes are read, the decision is final. Person voted out will be asked to leave the Tribal Council area immediately. I'll read the votes..."
With a pit in her stomach, all Sheik could have done in that moment was watch in suspense.
"First vote... Sheik."
She exhaled through her nose.
"...Specter Knight. One vote Specter, one vote Sheik."
Plague Knight grew nervous for him.
"...Sheik."
The ninja faced the alchemist directly.
"Two votes Sheik, one vote Specter."
Ryu sat still and stared. Was he getting any sort of revenge that night?
"Sheik."
Now things definitely were not looking good for her...
Wolf curled his lips up, Springtrap keeping his arms folded.
...
"...Sheik."
She glanced up in the sky in disappointment.
"Four votes Sheik..."
Foxy did not appear to be looking at anyone.
"...That's five votes Sheik, one vote Specter."
Plague Knight was perking up underneath his mask, Specter beginning to feel a little better as well. Yet, just to be sure...
"Fifth person voted out of Survivor - Heroes vs Villains. Sheik."
There it was.
"That's six, that's enough. You need to bring me your torch."
#Blindside
Sigh.
"I don't see how getting me out over either of those two is a good move guys, but... I'm not mad at anyone. Time will tell in the long run..."
Alright, so she was not coming across as bitter at all. Just confused.
And she was not the only one. Foxy did not feel satisfied at all.
"What a way to write off the only female of this tribe, by the way."
Hahaha!
"Sheik, the tribe has spoken."
She turned around as Master Hand was snuffing her torch. "May the best villain win."
With Foxy and a couple of the others briefly waving, the ninja was on her way out.
Specter Knight was actually grinning hard even though it was not really shown on the surface. The dude got his way.
"Well, things escalated quite quickly here. But I'm a fool if I say I didn't expect moments like this coming from a group of All Stars. People have clearly come here to fight hard. Imagine what's in store for the rest of this season."
"Grab your torches, head back to camp. Goodnight."
Votes:
Bowser - Sheik
Sheik - Specter Knight
Wolf - Sheik
Ridley - Sheik
Shadow - Sheik
Ryu - Sheik
Specter Knight - Sheik
Plague Knight - Sheik
Foxy - Sheik
Springtrap - Sheik
-/-
9-1
16th Place: Sheik
Total Votes Received: 9
Final Confessional: 2-1-1-2
"Well,... I suppose it's a new feeling being out this early. My plan was to sort of play under the radar a little bit,... and... all it did was send me home. Specter Knight... he was lucky. Really lucky. I don't know why they decided to kick me out over him. To me it doesn't make any sense, but at the same time this shows that people might have other plans going on and I paid the price, hahaha!"
Castaways Remaining:
Donkey Kong, Yoshi, Zelda, Vector, Shovel Knight, Golden / Bowser, Wolf, Ridley, Shadow, Ryu, Specter Knight, Plague Knight, Foxy, Springtrap
Character Confessional Count:
15: Donkey Kong (+2)
12: Sonic
11: Golden (+1), Meta Knight (+2)
9: Zelda (+2), Shovel Knight (+4), Ridley (+2), Vector (+2), Ryu (+3)
8: Bowser (+1), Foxy (+3)
7: Specter Knight (+2), Yoshi (+2)
6: Wolf (+1), Shadow (+1), Sheik (+2), Springtrap (+2)
5: Mario
3: Isabelle
(Just to be clear, starting next season, I will try to cast more females from that point on. Ugh... it's just so hard selecting women for this because options are rather limited. I hope you guys don't take the whole thing the wrong way lol. But... Specter has no filter lol.)
Well, both tribals ended up resulting in blindsides. And I think of this twist taking place in the past two seasons, this season was definitely more entertaining surrounding that. Both tribes had interesting Tribal Councils and the second one was entertaining indeed.
So... Shovel stabbed Meta in the back, and Sheik got the boot over Specter... Interesting.
I'll leave it up to you all to give your opinion on this. I'll post the extended final words tomorrow. I'll see you all next time!