HELLO ALL!
Oh, how I missed all of you so much! ToT
I didn't anticipate how long two weeks would have been...especially after so many weekly updates, it just felt too long of a time. I'm glad to be back :') and I'm glad you guys are back too!
Episode 2 begins...and everything is all new and fresh! I hope you enjoy :D
Episode 2
Who...is...the Mole?
NAME: PEACH
SURNAME: Toadstool
AGE: 31
OCCUPATION: Princess
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NAME: JOKER
SURNAME: Amamiya
AGE: 18
OCCUPATION: Student
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NAME: LUCARIO
SURNAME: Hanzo
AGE: 27
OCCUPATION: Kung Fu Instructor
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NAME: KAZOOIE
SURNAME: Breegul
AGE: 23
OCCUPATION: Egg Breeder
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NAME: ISABELLE
SURNAME: Leafe
AGE: 22
OCCUPATION: Mayor's Assistant
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NAME: DARK PIT
SURNAME: Angelent
AGE: 16
OCCUPATION: Temple Guard
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NAME: WII FIT
SURNAME: Trainor
AGE: 27
OCCUPATION: Fitness Trainer
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NAME: LUCINA
SURNAME: Emblen
AGE: 19
OCCUPATION: Combat Instructor
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NAME: DONKEY
SURNAME: Kong
AGE: 30
OCCUPATION: Cargo Manager
Fox is gone, shot into space.
Nine players inside this unworldly place
It was the second episode. All was new...yet, all of the memories from their first episode still remained like a haunting ghost. The memories even continued into the next morning in the throne room as they ate breakfast quietly. Especially when the players saw Fox's sword still existing, thrust into the wall of the throne room, they eerily felt as if they were still viewing and sensing the ghost of Fox McCloud himself.
"The Mole got him…" Joker couldn't help saying to the group, as they all eyed the sword sticking out from the wall. Peach noticed as well, a hand over her mouth in shock as she saw Fox's weapon from the night before.
"He was just here yesterday...fighting and full of life…" the Mushroom Kingdom princess began sadly. "And now..." The others felt the same.
Peach: He was gone...he had become the friend of some of us. But maybe, and unfortunately, he had accidentally befriended the very Mole themself.
DK cleared his throat.
"Well..with Fox gone from the game," the ape began speaking, as everyone turned to the player sitting at the front of the long table, "we no longer have a leader. Isn't that right?" Some of them looked curiously at DK, not sure of what he was to say next.
"So I propose...I am the new leader now," DK finished.
The table erupted in disorder.
"What!" Dark Pit sputtered.
"Hmm…" Lucario began, thinking.
"I...I cannot agree with that," Peach said firmly. DK's mouth was agape.
"You're absolutely ridiculous..." Wii Fit sighed with a laugh, her face in disbelief while looking at him.
"Hey! What do you all have against me?" DK shouted, looking offended.
"You will not be the new leader," Wii Fit stated to him, sighing in disbelief. "What makes you think you can take that role?"
"We should not argue," Lucario spoke with peace, trying to calm everyone within the atmosphere. "Let us take a deep breath...together. In...and-"
"Then who's gonna be the new leader now that Fox is out of this game?" DK continued to argue, as Lucario sighed. "Someone needs to step up!"
"Who even said that Fox was our leader in the first place?" Joker questioned, as everyone turned to him. "True...he did play a leader-like role, but in the end, perhaps...this is truly an individualistic game. And we must find the Mole ourselves." Everyone thought silently, and seemed to settle into quietness.
"Though, I do think having a leader would be fun though…" Kazooie piped up, taking a sip from her drink.
"That's what I was saying!" DK shouted. Kazooie chuckled, seeing DK become agitated again.
"Well, well, well..." Wii Fit spoke with annoyance to him. "You're not giving up this leader thing, huh?"
"Fighting to become leader is indeed fun," Joker said, grinning.
"Umm, are we all fighting to be leader?" Isabelle asked, wide-eyed. "Oh wow!"
"No, we are not," Peach said to her calmly, shaking her head, mostly to everyone.
"If we're all fighting to be leader, then l suppose I'll nominate myself too," Joker said, his eyes shining as he flashed a smile to DK. The ape looked shocked, as he stood up.
"This is extremely annoying," Wii Fit sighed, rolling her eyes.
"No way! I'm the leader here!" DK glared back at him.
"Heh...as if," Joker scoffed.
"Fight me, little man!"
"Gladly, chimp of the jungle!"
"RARGH!"
"There will be no leader!" Peach spoke loudly in a firm voice, and everyone turned to the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom who was sitting at the other end of the table, on the opposite side from DK. Everyone became quiet.
"We must...play this game as it is," Peach continued, her voice less loud but still resolute and strong. "Choosing a leader may break us apart. I know from experience. If we fight to choose a leader...we may instead fall as a team. Do trust me." Everyone listened to the wise words of the princess and reflected upon them. But one player in particular had the most admiration: Lucina looked at her, her eyes wide...and full of respect.
Lucina: She speaks so eloquently...so wisely...with words of wisdom. She is how I thrive to be as a princess and ruler in the future in my own land.
Lucario: Thank you, Princess Peach...for allowing the rest of our poached egg breakfast to continue in peace.
And from there, the rest of breakfast continued quieter and a bit less tense.
"I vote we make her leader," Kazooie chuckled quietly, taking a bite of her sandwich.
Outside the castle, the players were brought out and gathered. For a moment, they turned around to look behind them, seeing the monumental, striking castle that seemed to loom over the entire world. The tops of several towers of the castle were chipped away however, blackened by fire and smoke, serving as the visible proof that a war between them had taken place just two days prior. The castle and the land of Ylisse itself had held a large significance in their first episode. But now, they were going into their next one.
"Welcome...officially...to Episode 2." Smash Host greeted them all on the green, burnt grass. His black top hat was already familiar to them, the symbolic Smash logo on its front shining in color to them all.
"It looks like all of you made it out of the castle safely...except for Fox, of course. He was taken by the Mole." Everyone nodded, a little sadly, and a little nervously.
"However, the space captain will be only the first of many to go. So he won't be alone for long." The host grinned, and the players didn't.
"How are your journals?" the host asked suddenly, and some of the players looked down at the books they were in fact holding in their hands. Each of them had in their possession a fresh, newly-given Moleskine journal: green, small, and extremely useful.
"Splendid...thank you," Joker spoke, waving his book in the air with a smile. After the execution ceremony, the host had given them each a present to mollify their gloomy feelings of despair: a single mole journal, designed to help them in their game.
"Like I said before...they are crucial," the host said quietly. "Write everything you can about your opponents in these books. Keep track of your suspects, because the quiz always determines who stays and who goes. But also...do not forget to write about your own thoughts and feelings as well. Reflection is good sometimes too."
"Indeed; you must be extra detailed about your own adventures too, besides simply Mole suspicions," Peach added and told the others, "so that you may look back at them some day in the future when this is all done and smile at memories you've made." The players nodded, taking the host's instructions seriously and also putting Peach's words into thought. Smash Host looked around the green land.
"Now, we will be teleporting to somewhere else," he said, tipping his hat. "Another world. This place holds no more purpose for us, unfortunately."
"I understand…" Lucina, the princess of the very kingdom, couldn't help but say her two words just a little dejectedly. She turned to the castle just once more: it was destroyed, and though the structure served no more purpose for their game, she could still admire the gorgeous castle that still remained living upon the land.
"So...where will we be going next?" Lucina asked inquisitively, turning away from the castle for the last time. "We would all like to know, if you could kindly inform us?" Everyone had the same question in mind.
"We'll be going a little...higher this time," Smash Host said mysteriously, picking at some of the burnt grass at his feet.
"How high?" Dark Pit asked, suspicious at the host's line.
All of a sudden, by the entrance of the forest, a bright platform transpired and formed rapidly before their eyes. The players were not just surprised by its sudden appearance: they were surprised even more by the size and length of it. It was similar to the first glowing platforms that they had boarded upon to arrive into the Battlefield world at the very beginning of the game, but this one was larger, as if big enough to fit a group of unsuspecting players upon it. The players stared at it, mystified, as it floated above the grass.
"Will we be traveling...by that?" Isabelle asked, surprised. The host cleared his throat, then gestured to the large, bright platform.
"Yes. Please board the platform. We will be traveling together." Everyone was stunned.
"Episode 2: whoo hoo!" DK grinned excitedly, and he was the first one to board upon the floating platform. "Come on! Let's go on another adventure already!" Everyone else, one by one, slowly boarded upon the expanse glowing platform.
"Oh my," Peach said out loud, putting one of her feet carefully upon it, peering down at the shiny, large platform."
"Hmm…an unconventional way...but we must always be ready for an unexpected event," Lucario thought, being the last one to step upon the platform itself. Finally, after a minute, everyone was on board the mysterious platform. It was, without a doubt, a teleporter for them all.
Wii Fit: Just where would we be going next for Episode 2? I was excited to see where we would continue the game of The Mole. And I was also excited to see...what I could possibly do next.
"We'll be elevating...up, up, up," the host said, as if the large platform was an elevator itself.
And the agent would be elevating with them as well.
The bright platform glowed brighter, and brighter, and the players even seemed to even glow themselves as everything around them began to lighten up. Before they could perceive the transformation that was happening, the castle and forest grounds were no more. And then, the platform disappeared. And with the vanishing of the platform, the nine players had also disappeared as well.
Blink...blink…
Opening their eyes, they immediately saw the explosion of color around them. Staring down at the land they had arrived on, the players were in shock. Their new world was colorful: pink, purple, and other bright colors in bursts of life and energy surrounded then. They were on a land of visual beauty.
Peach: We suddenly entered this new world...and it was all of just such pretty colors. I just couldn't be more glad or pleased.
Several purple towers loomed over them, beautiful and tall in image. Gorgeous fuchsia trees existed around their area as well; they were the most striking flora on their land, their branches holding leaves that were in unnatural shades of purple and blue. Other stunning structures could be seen in their distance, appearing like little pink huts.
"Whoa…so, where is this?" Kazooie voiced, stunned. "I'm thoroughly impressed." The other players felt the same emotion towards the breathtaking world.
Whoooosh… A shooting star flew high above them. As they looked up, they saw the night sky, immediately witnessing stars and dark sky on their arrival in the new world. But also directly in front of them, staring at the horizon, they also saw many twinkling stars, along with something else unusual: many gorgeous, colorful spheres. There were other worlds in close distance.
"Planets?" Peach gasped in realization.
"We're...in space," Wii Fit wondered. "I suppose the Mole got tired of being held down."
Lucario: And the last answer we needed, to finally realize where we had landed, was simply at our feet.
Water trickled everywhere. Now that their platform was slowly disappearing, some of the players found their feet becoming wet as they were lowered onto a very thin layer of water. Around them, they saw that most of the earth they were on had water covering it, and they quickly tried to shuffle to any dry patch of ground they could find. They were all in a trance.
"My shoes are soaked!" DK complained, staring around in confusion and a bit irritated. "And I know this place...I think? It's…"
"It's a place of dreams," Smash Host sighed, as everyone turned to him. "Is it not, players?" As unimaginable as it was, the entire planet's surface was truly covered in a single layer of water...all originating and flowing from something they spotted a bit farther in their distance on their land: a Fountain of Dreams.
"Here, we are upon a beautiful land...one of the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful, in the Smash Universe...I'd confidently say," Smash Host told them. "We can thank Kirby for that. Our second episode will begin here: at the Fountain of Dreams. Welcome." The colors of the land were beautiful and striking: the soft shades of pink around them gave them all a calm feeling. Smash Host motioned to the space and galaxy in their surrounding world, beyond their land.
Isabelle: What a surprising location! But what would we be doing exactly on this beautiful, purple planet?
"That is the Gamble Galaxy, above your heads!" Smash Host explained more, pointing at the beautiful galaxy above them and in their distance as well. "There are many stars and planets in the sky, as you can see. Take a second to admire them." The resplendent view of colorful stars and planets hit them all, and they all felt both amazed and relaxed by their new location. They all loved it. Almost all of them.
"Nice: a vomit of rainbows," Dark Pit muttered, overwhelmed by the colors.
"On this land, we will be playing your next games," Smash Host informed them all. "We will be splitting...into two separate games. Some of you will be playing one game...and some of you will be playing the other."
"Two games," Wii Fit smiled, intrigued. "Very interesting indeed. But just how will we divide up?"
"Six..and three," Smash Host explained. "For now...I need three of you who don't very much like to reflect back on things." Everyone turned to each other, thinking about the given prompt: just what would the next game be?
"I've learned and accepted, over the many years," Lucario began in a wise voice, facing the others, "that the past is gone...and we shouldn't look back and hold ourselves back due to it. I volunteer myself." The Pokemon looked resolute as he stepped up. He would play in the game.
"Yeah, pfft, I'm the same," Kazooie called out, raising her wing. "I just go with the flow. No use looking back at the past!" The red bird joined Lucario as well, giving him a hearty pat on the back, her way of signifying teamwork.
"And I consider myself not reflective at all as well," Joker spoke suddenly, and the masked man stepped up third.
"You are totally the reflective type," Wii Fit said suspiciously to him, eyeing Joker as he stepped up to join the other two. Joker just smirked.
Wii Fit: Just what even was his game?
Joker: If it's a special role...then perhaps you get special things.
The host faced the other six who remained.
"You remaining six players...you will be traveling through the sky." The larger group looked at the host in incredible surprise: they did not expect to be traveling adventurously amidst the world of outer space for their game.
"The first mission will be called...'Warp Star Travel'!"
"Oh...what?!" DK began. "Flying in the sky? No way!" His face was excited. Everyone else looked terrified.
"You will all ride on three very swerving, fast, lightspeed warpstars themselves!" The players looked at each other with surprised, slightly excited eyes. But the emotions of nervousness were also strong within them.
"Oh dear!" Peach thought. "Can it be possible for us to do such?"
"That's so...scary!" Isabelle couldn't help saying. "But warpstars are a little fast!"
"Very fast," Smash Host corrected. The players looked out at the dangerous galaxy.
"It is an intimidating game idea...yet, strangely alluring," Lucina expressed. She saw a shooting star above her, sailing in the sky.
"It will certainly be an adventure for all of us," she concluded with certainty.
"It better be..." Wii Fit hoped, folding her arms. "Do tell us more, Smash Host." The others looked at each other with conflicted feelings.
"You must travel to a distant moon not far from here...and land on the Dark Side of the Moon via warpstars," the host began explaining. "First, you must fly into the sky...pass safely through an asteroid belt...and retrieve an engine piece each located on the moon's mysterious dark side. Then, fly back here safely and bring the three engine pieces back here to the Fountain of Dreams. Each successfully retrieved engine piece wins money." The players seemed silent at one of the phrases the host had spoken.
"Fly...through an asteroid belt…." Dark Pit repeated in disbelief.
Dark Pit: Sure. Just slip that in nonchalantly, Smash Host.
"Each engine piece brought back here wins 8,000 coins," the host continued, "which means that this game is worth... 24,000 coins in total. But if you can retrieve all three, then 25,000 coins will be the bonus total. Each pair can only retrieve back one engine piece each. So, if a warpstar gets lost in space or doesn't make it back in one piece...that's automatically 10,000 coins lost." The players turned to each other, wide eyes.
"Lost...in space?" Peach asked, slightly alarmed. Kazooie laughed from the other side.
"Oh boy...could your game get any worse?" Kazooie joked to the other six, happy she wasn't playing the game being described.
"Yep," the host replied, hearing her. The host explained further.
"Two players will be on a warp star each. However, only one player, the Driver, will be steering each star. The other player sitting behind them, the Guider, must shout directions for the Driver. 'Up, down, left, right...faster...slower'...these directions will be important. Teamwork is vital." The players nodded, but seemed a little confused at the mission's rules. DK shrugged to the host.
"Why does the partner even have to shout directions to the driver?!" DK laughed, and he gave out a hearty chuckle and faced the others. "It's not like the driver is…wait. Oh, snap." His mouth dropped, and his eyes turned wide towards the host.
"Yep," the host replied. "The driver of the warp star...will be blindfolded." The group gasped with shock.
DK: Oh shucks.
"WHAT?!" Dark Pit sputtered. "That's...that's impossible!" The six star riders stared at the host with utter incredulity.
"No...no no no!" Isabelle exclaimed, her eyes showing fear.
"Oh..." At the host's line, Lucina had gasped slightly.
"The unseeing element...changes the mission into a very daunting mission itself," Lucina realized, her eyes concerned. Yet, she and the rest of the others were also looking a little skeptically at the host.
"We have lowered the maximum speed of each warp star," Smash Host reassured them all. "Do not worry. After all, we create these missions to not just be fun, but also safe."
"What...the heck is...the point...of even being.. blindfolded..." Dark Pit uttered. "Why can't we just see normally as we drive?"
"Because it's a challenge," Lucina spoke confidently. "Without a blindfold...it would not be a challenge. We must deserve our win."
"And die?!" Dark Pit argued.
"This..." Wii Fit huffed, unbelievingly, "This mission...how sadistic."
Wii Fit: So we just had to risk our lives, blindfolded on flying stars, face the possibility of crashing into asteroids, for only a measly 25,000 coins? Not worth it. 250,000 coins was more appropriate, in my opinion.
"You must guide your blindfolded partner safely to the moon. Drivers...listen to your partner's words. Guiders: every word and direction you say will be crucial to your victory and safety. 25,000 coins depends on you all. Teamwork is vital." The host turned his full attention to the group of six. They were soon to play.
"Well, we cannot delay anymore," Smash Host said quickly. "Without further time to pass, we will begin...our first missions of Episode 2." He was motioning to the edge of the colorful planet. In their distance, they were able to make out a little sign, and a glimmering symbol was present upon its front, a single shape that made them all nervous for their next game: a yellow star.
"Follow me," the host winked, and he began to walk to the edge of the planet. The six players had no choice but to slowly follow him across the water, their shoes splashing slightly along the way.
DK: Oh boy, whoo hoo! I couldn't wait! ..couldn't wait to smash face-first into an asteroid and DIE! Yeah, right! Come on, Mr. Host! At least let the winner of this game be able to live after all this and enjoy their money!
Mission 3: Warp Star Travel
Goal: To ride a warp star safely through space using blindfolded teamwork.
Rules: Six players. Three swerving, shiny stars. Two players each upon a warpstar through the Gamble Galaxy. One driver will be blindfolded while their partner must guide their directions verbally. Each star pair must travel through the galaxy, avoid asteroids, and make it to the Dark Side of the Moon. There, they must retrieve a heavy engine piece for each star and then return back safely to the Fountain of Dreams. Each successfully retrieved engine piece will add 8,000 coins to the team pot, with a bonus 25,000 coin total for a perfectly-played game.
The edge of the land was magical; it was where the layer of water on the planet's surface met its end. The water magically flowed off the edge of the colorful land, going to a place under their world and off into space where nobody could guess where. But as the players walked closer and closer to the land's edge, they saw something else: their new, shining vehicles, three warpstars, ready to travel.
"Time to die!' Dark Pit said in an enthusiastic voice. "What a way to start Episode 2!" His face however looked miserable.
"I am nooot ready!" Isabelle gasped, looking scared at the mysterious stars. Everyone indeed seemed apprehensive.
"But we are strong players, and we can accept any challenge..." Lucina philosophized to them, and she looked at the stars. But they looked odd, slippery, and daunting.
Lucina: Or...perhaps this was more of a challenge than we would initially perceive it to be?
"What!? Oh, come on! My left foot can't even fit on one of these!" DK explained, trying to step onto one of the warp stars.
"Not yet," Smash Host instructed, as DK took his foot off the star with a surprised look. The host looked at them all.
"First, I want you all to choose a leader," the host spoke. The six players turned to one another slowly.
"I vo-" began DK.
"I vote Peach," Wii Fit said quickly. Peach looked surprised. DK frowned heavily.
"Oh, are you sure?" Peach replied to her. "I could never!" Most of the other players nodded.
"After that breakfast speech...of course, we would like you to be our leader," Wii Fit nodded, smiling.
"Ugh…" Dk groaned. Wii Fit folded her arms, smiling.
Wii Fit: Hmm, hmm, hmm. I suppose he will not be this game's leader after all.
Everyone else seemed to nod in unison: Peach was chosen as their leader. Lucina looked at the other princess, a slight, pleased expression on her face.
Lucina: If Peach was not a player in this game...I perhaps may have stepped up for the role of being the leader. But she is a princess of higher seniority than me. She has more experience and authority. So it wasn't my role to be the leader in this game. It was her role.
Peach: Heavens; the one thing I didn't want was a stressful role. I hoped it would be easy!
"Peach," the host spoke, as the unsure player turned to him. "I want you to choose the three pairs on the stars." The princess looked surprised, then turned to the remaining players.
"Umm…" she began slowly. The other five looked at her a bit apprehensively.
"Isabelle and I did very well together in our first waterfall mission, so I will pair with her," Peach began, as Isabelle smiled gleefully. "Lucina and DK, you may be a good balance of intelligence and strength, so I will also pair you two together as well." Lucina and DK nodded to each other, looking pleased. Wii Fit and Dark Pit's faces immediately dropped.
"What…wait." Dark Pit began in disbelief. "You're not…"
"You are pairing me with him?" Wii Fit spoke, face in complete displeasure.
Wii Fit: ...oh, some people just cannot take a break. I suppose I just had to kick his butt again.
Dark Pit: ….Are you kidding me, Peach? Are you absolutely, seriously non-jokingly kidding me? Peach...how do you even run your kingdom back at home? Huh? Teaming up Toads with Bullet Bills?!
"Good choices, Peach," the host said to her.
"My pleasure…phew, please don't give me more stressful choices," she finished, bowing to him. The host turned to everyone as a whole.
"One player of each pair must designate themselves as the driver. They will be blindfolded." The pairs immediately looked indecisive.
"I often train blindfolded with a sword, believe it or not," Lucina brought up to DK, facing him with a small smile. "If I may, I suppose taking the blindfolded role will play us into advantage."
"What!" DK looked at her, surprised. He laughed, impressed.
"Whoa, nice! All right then. I'll be directing you!" DK said enthusiastically, taking her suggestion, and they both looked content with their assigned roles for the game.
"I don't care," Dark Pit sighed. Wii Fit stepped forwards, as Smash Host gave her a blindfold.
"I...will be leading you," Wii Fit decided, "so here. Put this on..." She held out the blindfold for him with an evident smile. Dark Pit grumbled and proceeded to tie the cloth over his eyes.
"Would you like to be the leader, so you'd be able to see?" Peach asked Isabelle.
"Oh no no no!" Isabelle squealed. "If I can see, then that'd be scarier! I'd rather not be able to see! Then I wouldn't panic about my surroundings." Everyone exchanged glances.
Wii Fit: Was that...logical?
"And one for you then, Isabelle," Smash Host said, as Isabelle took one with a sigh. "Drivers: please cover your eyes completely. You'll be penalized if you look..even for one second. If you view the galaxy, then you can guarantee a penalty. And Direction Givers...no guidance other than using your voice. That will ruin the game's goal. The goal is teamwork." The pairs were set.
"Now…" Smash Host began again, facing the stars, "the game will begin." Everyone froze. "So...without further ado...please board your stars."
Very slowly, inch by inch shuffling their feet, the blindfolded drivers were guided verbally to sit on the stars. After a minute or so of nervewracked feelings, each pair was now on their star. Three stars were ready to go off...and their precarious game was soon to begin.
Star 1: Isabelle (Blindfolded Driver) and Peach (Guider)
Star 2: Dark Pit (Blindfolded Driver) and Wii Fit (Guider)
Star 3: Lucina (Blindfolded Driver) and DK (Guider)
"Please head and fly safely...to the Dark Side of the Moon." The instructions were simple: the host pointed to a moon in the distance. The Guiders saw it clearly as day...but the drivers' visions were all gone. The darkness they saw was enough to give any player a shot of anxiety.
"Oh no…" Isabelle whispered, fearing a bit, knowing that she was fully blindfolded. There was a considerable bit of distance, about three feet, between her and Peach.
"To start your warp stars...hit the front point of the star," Smash Host began. "Please feel for the front point."
"Could it be...this one?" Lucina carefully felt her hands upon the star she was sitting upon, trying to distinguish its unique texture and shape. Her fingers glazed over the front of the warpstar, as she finally felt its important front point.
"Oh...I have gotten it in possession," Lucina said with relief, feeling the crucial point of the star. It was their steering wheel...and also their engine starter. However, her partners were not having as easy as a time.
"Where is it!" Dark Pit exclaimed, blinded and trying to find his own engine starter. "Tell me! Ahh!" Wii Fit stifled a laugh.
"Is this it?" Isabelle began, frantically trying to feel the star's surface in front of her. Her cries made the rest feel a bit uneasy. "This is already just oh-so scary!"
"Right here," Peach said calmly, guiding Isabelle's hand.
"Hit down on that front point of the star very hard...and off you will go," the host winked. He began a count off, as the players all tensed.
"3…"
Peach: We had no choice...but to fly.
DK: Uh oh...here we go! To all of our dooms, maybe!
"2…" Each partner got ready.
"1..." The players, even the blindfolded ones, closed their eyes in preparation and unreadiness.
"Go!"
Lucina, Isabelle, and Dark Pit hit with their fists the front points of their stars.
And all three warpstars shot off the edge of the Fountain of Dream at near light speed.
"I cannot wait for our game!" Kazooie stated, excited. Lucario, Kazooie, and Joker were talking to the center of the curious, magical land. With every step they took, water seeped into their shoes. The trio was walking on something that looked almost like a mystical lake.
"This land is...peculiar," Joker voiced, "but, I find it curiously favorable as a location."
"Super, super weird world," Kazooie agreed, looking around at the purple and pink colors surrounding them. "Interesting...color selection too, huh. I wonder what the Melee producers were taking when they created this place."
"I don't think these pretty colors are all there is to this land...I know there is evil...somewhere…" Lucario spoke up to them slowly, looking around carefully.
"Do you feel it?" Joker asked him slyly, "because of your rather...unfair aura abilities?"
"I find mostly beauty and inner calmness on this land," Lucario stated, looking more content and pacified than his teammates. "The evil is only...slightly strong amidst my senses." They traveled closer and closer to the source of the water.
"Oh look, it's him. And our game. And...a fountain?" Smash Host was standing next to the object that defined their entire land: a fountain, water overflowing and superfluous, but surprisingly small than expected. In the fountain's center, a little globe was present, beautiful, and just like the earth itself with its blue and pink arrangement of colors. Sticking up-right from the center of the fountain was a tall star staff itself, purple and black in color and towering high with a shining star at its end.
"Welcome," Smash Host greeted.
"Hello…" Joker said suspiciously.
"The others have gone off...blindfolded to face against space rocks and the obstacle of speed itself," the host told them all.
"Sounds just as safe as our first two missions," Kazooie noted sarcastically. "We trust you a lot."
Lucario: I could not have been paired with more...sarcastic, cynical players.
"You three non-reflective players..." began the host. "Your mission will be a little different. It will be called, 'Fountain of Temptation'...and it is a dangerous one." Lucario, Kazooie, and even Joker himself seemed a bit apprehensive: just what would their next mission be in dangerous comparison to their other teammates' game?
"Oh no…" Kazooie said, rolling her eyes and just a tad nervous.
"You must…" The three of them held their breaths.
"Stare at open air for thirty minutes," Smash Host finished. They all blinked.
"I...I see.." Lucario voiced in surprise, having suspected more. "But that is all?" The host nodded, as the three players stared at him with incredulity.
"That's...all we must do," Joker wanted to confirm. "We must look at simple air."
"Yep indeed!" the host smiled. Lucario and Kazooie exchanged glances.
"Hmm," Joker said, unbelieving.
Joker: So the others had to risk their lives blindfolded on stars, while us three just stared at air? Quite the unbalance.
"Staring at air...that's suspiciously underwhelming for a task," Joker scoffed.
"A bit less," Lucario nodded, looking at the host's eyes. Seeing Lucario's stare, the host turned away.
"Well, the goal of the game is simple, so let me elaborate more," the host began again. "You must all stand around this fountain." He turned to the majestic, colorful pedestal.
"You must stand around this fountain...for a time of thirty minutes. You can look anywhere in this land. You can look at the strange, purpley green trees. You can look at the night sky above you. You can look up at this little star on the tall star staff in the middle of the fountain.. You can even look at each other's eyes and play a fun staring contest! I actually encourage you to talk to each other in ordet to pass time and not be bored in this game."
"But…" Kazooie began, folding her wings, face skeptical. The host smiled.
"You cannot, under any circumstances, look at the fountain's water….no matter what. If you do...the game is lost." The three of them had suspicious, uneasy emotions.
"If you look down at the water of the fountain at any point in time...you lose the game," Smash Host continued. "However, if you successfully survive thirty minutes without ever looking down at the water...not even once...then 15,000 coins will go right into the pot. As simple as that." The players nodded...but were thinking heavily.
"What...could even be in the fountain water?" Joker whispered under his breath.
Lucario: It seemed like a very deceptive game. As if it wouldn't be so easy at all.
"What! So that's the whole game? Sounds easy peazy!" Kazooie reasoned calmly. "Easy peazy as sunflower seed pie. Okay, we're ready to play." She stepped up to the fountain, then looked confidently upwards, eyes away from the water.
"Time starts when I say go," Smash Host informed them, as Lucario and Joker also stepped up to the fountain. The height of the fountain was such that the fountain's brim reached the two guys' waist levels...but for Kazooie however, the surface of the water was right under her beak.
Joker: And with Kazooie's eyes so close to the water...she unfortunately was at risk to become the most tempted.
Lucario: I will not lie...something about this simple, ordinary game seemed a little strange. Maybe it wouldn't be so ordinary.
"Let's begin this simple game!" Kazooie laughed. The host stepped back, away from the fountain's flowing water, and was now away from the tempting structure.
"Are you ready?" the host asked them. The players nodded.
"As ready...as a Mole about to sabotage," Joker said calmly, looking up at the sky and holding a thumbs-up to the host. Smash Host nodded. The three of them were now standing around the mystical fountain. Their game would start soon.
"And the timer for this game will begin in three...two...one…"
Drip...
"It has begun."
And the Fountain of Dreams...became the Fountain of Temptation.
The stars were at near-lightning speed, soaring through the sky.. But all that was heard in the dead of space were the sounds of the stars...along with screaming.
"Oh my GOOOOOOOOOSH!" Isabelle screamed, pushing down on the front of her and Peach's warpstar. "Ahhhhhh!" She and Peach were zooming through the galaxy on their warpstar, way ahead of the others. But they were going too fast.
"You're going dangerously fast!" Peach told her. "You need to pull back on the star's point! Stop pushing too hard!" Right behind them, Lucina and DK were flying through the sky behind them at an incredibly fast speed as well. They were both letting out shouts of panic as well.
"What is...happening!" Lucina gasped, trying to stay calm on the second star with DK. "Please describe to me the contents before us...what is ahead?" DK was indeed nerve-wracked as well, but out of the six players, he was seemingly the most relaxed.
"It's totally cool! We're flying through space!" DK shouted in a tone of exhilaration, looking out at the night sky. "Keep going, keep going, Lucina! THIS IS AMAZING. AMAAAAAAZING!" He hollered into the world of the galaxy, as if calling out to the stars and planets they passed and sped by.
"DK...I imagine the view is outstanding...but please guide me directions instead of screaming very loudly," Lucina ordered him politely, pulling back on their star's handle a bit and slowing it down. "To win...we need to utilize our potential teamwork." DK nodded apologetically, snapping back to the game.
"Sorry, it's just too fun!" he tried to reason, letting his hands into the air. Behind them, the last team was also flying.
"AHHHH!" Dark Pit was the most panicked he'd ever been since the beginning of the game. "Where are we going?! Tell me something! Guide me, dang it!" Tightly blindfolded over his eyes, he steered with more terror.
"There is nothing in front of us!" Wii Fit shouted out with exasperation. "Do travel faster, please! We are looking bad and inferior compared to the other stars!"
Dark Pit: She was rushing me so much...but there wasn't even a time limit for our game! Grr! And she had no, no idea how difficult it was being blindfolded driving a warpstar. Ugh.
"You have NO idea how scary this is!" Dark Pit shouted back.
"You travel through heavenly skies, for heaven's sake!" Wii Fit told him.
"Yeah, but not blindfolded on a star!" Dark Pit retorted. He sighed.
"You want faster? Fine!" He pushed down on the star's edge and they began moving a little more rapidly than before. Wii Fit nodded, satisfied.
"Just the speed I wanted," she smiled, as they flew through the sky at fast speed.
Now, all three stars seemed to be parallel to each other, traveling still at very fast speed through the galaxy world and the darkness of space.
"How is everyone!?" DK yelled, looking to his left and right at the warpstars and his teammates to his sides.
"Absolutely happy!" Dark Pit shouted sarcastically.
"Not...not so good," Peach said out loud, looking at Isabelle.
"Ahh!" Isabelle screamed, suddenly pulling back on her star point, activating its strong brake. Both her and Peach's star decreased at such a halting speed, as if it had stopped dangerously in place. The other two stars sped right past them, and in result, Isabelle and Peach were greatly farther in distance behind than the others. Wii Fit looked back, startled at the star's disappearance.
"Isabelle!" Wii Fit shouted out, surprised and looking behind her. "Shoot!"
"What! What!?" Dark Pit shouted, blind and panicked. "What happened to Isabelle?!"
"Shh! It doesn't concern you!" Wii Fit informed him. "Just focus on the road!" DK looked back, mouth open.
"Isabelle and Peach..are stuck behind us!" DK shouted, turning to look behind him, speaking to Lucina next to him on the star. "What should we do? Should we get them?!" Lucina, despite having a blindfold on and driving, was able to think clearly, yet she had on a conflicted face.
"If we...try to...turn around…" Lucina contemplated, thinking heavily and keeping her hands steadily on the star's control, "we might end up in more danger. However..." Lucina's face seemed troubled.
"I do think…" she began again. However, they had no time to decide anymore. DK let out a surprised yell, and the next word he yelled sent a wave of panic to all the players who heard him, especially those whose visions had been ruthlessly stolen.
"Asteroids!" And the two remaining warpstars entered into the wild, deadly asteroid belt of Gamble Galaxy.
Mission 4: Fountain of Temptation
Goal: To resist looking down at the water in the Fountain of Dreams
Rules: Three players must stand around the beautiful Fountain of Dreams and endure thirty minutes without looking down at the water's surface. If one player looks down and sees the surface of the fountain water, then the game is lost.
Clear, reflecting, and glistening, the fountain water had a calm existence to it. They could hear the water trickling...but they couldn't see it. Kazooie, Joker, and Lucario's faces were all looking in different directions, eyes also focused on different things, but none of them dared to look in one particular direction: downwards.
The three of them stood still, in place around the fountain.
"So...uh…" Kazooie began, trying to break the awkward silence. She looked from a star in the sky to Lucario.
"Does anyone think this game is weird?"
"Shh…" Lucario whispered quietly. He was closing his eyes, meditating.
"Sheesh, whoa!" Kazooie replied, trying not to be annoyed by his reaction towards her. But she shook her head with a laugh, understanding his response.
"Oh! I get it: you're trying to meditate!" Kazooie realized, seeing his closed eyes.
"Yes," was Lucario's short reply. Kazooie chuckled.
"You need complete peace and silence. Any talking would distract you, wouldn't it?" Lucario didn't reply anything.
"So is it bad if I talk too much?" To Kazooie's question, Lucario nodded slightly.
"It'd distract me too, if I was trying to meditate but someone kept talking," Kazooie told him. "Completely rude. Okay, I'll stop. I'm doing exactly what you don't want me to do. Haha. Okay, I'll stop talking now." Kazooie stopped talking.
The fountain water trickled for another minute.
Kazooie: This game was rather, completely...boring! I wanted to talk!
She continued to look at the sky above her for a few seconds in silence. Then, Kazooie focused her eyes on the purple and black star staff in the middle of the fountain, sticking upwards from the fountain's center like a foci helper for their game. It was the only part of the fountain that was safe to look at...but it was nevertheless above the dangerous water. Anything below the star staff's body… and the game would be over.
A minute later, a shooting star passed by in the galaxy above them all.
"Whoa, nice star!" Kazooie remarked, spotting it. She sighed
"I wish I could fly," she started. "Ugh, if only." She laughed, then looked at Joker, who was silent as well. Joker was looking straight at a purple tower in the distance.
"Hey, Joker," the bird laughed. "If you could fly to anywhere in the world, where would you go to? To the edge of the Smash World? The moon? France? Pick a place! And make your answer long and entertaining."
"I'd choose to go somewhere very far away...where a legendary Pokemon couldn't attack me for talking too much," Joker replied, tilting his head towards Lucario's direction. "You?" Lucario had his eyes closed, but Joker could see from Lucario's heavy breathing that he was one percent away from losing his patience and concentration. Kazooie gulped.
Kazooie: Uh oh...I did NOT want to upset a legendary Pokemon.
Kazooie finally shut up.
Another minute went by. Joker let out a sigh.
"Who is the Mole?" he asked, a smile on his face.
"Shh! Hey, I thought we were being quiet!" Kazooie whispered to him. Joker laughed silently.
Another minute passed.
Finally, Lucario sighed.
"Yeah, this is not working," Lucario finally spoke out, after seven minutes of silence and closed eyes. Then, he finally opened his eyes.
"I will play the remainder of this game...by talking to you guys," he concluded.
"YES! FINALLY" Kazooie shot up, looking more excited and pleased. "Now, the mission has become way more fun!"
"It is a rather peculiar, strange, very odd mission, I do admit," Joker told them both, hand on his chin and replying to Kazooie's very first statement from before.
"Part of my meditating was to theorize what this game could entail," Lucario told them, making sure not to look at the water below his very own eyes. He was looking at the stars above him, however, suspiciously.
"I think you guys are all overthinking this game too much!" Kazooie began, laughing a bit. "I think it's just gonna be-"
And then, they heard a strong ripple from the water below them. Almost instinctively, their eyes wanted to look down, but then they immediately shot them back up, refusing instantly. They stared at each other with confused faces, all wondering what the ripple sound could have been.
"What the…" Then, above them all in the galaxy, the stars seemed to all move suddenly. Slowly and slowly, the sparkling little dots seemed to come together, as if spelling a sentence. The three players looked up with stunned feelings as a message was spelled for them amidst the stars above. After a minute, the characters were decipherable, and the three players could only stare in shock:
Look into the fountain water...you will see the face of one player who is not the Mole.
The two remaining warpstars were now going through the deadly asteroid belt. Every few seconds, they passed by several rocks, each rock they flew by being large and menacing enough to give them a jolt of anxiety.
DK: Crazy mission, I'll tell ya! We were like a spaceship through space...but with no metal exterior or protection! Or oxygen supply! Though strangely, we were able to breathe in space...anyway, whoa! It was just dangerous!
"Left!" DK hollered. Lucina nodded, and gently and slightly veered their star to the left with preciseness and perfection. An asteroid that later appeared on their right was dodged by them safely.
"Nice..." Lucina whispered, and under her blindfolded eyes, she smiled a bit.
Lucina: Teamwork. It was a satisfying feeling. DK was surprisingly well to work with. At that very moment, he did not strike me as a player who could be the Mole.
"There's an asteroid right in front of you!" Wii Fit said with exasperation to Dark Pit, pointing to it. "Why aren't you slowing down?!"
"UMM...I think you're forgetting the quintessential fact that I CAN'T EVEN SEE!" Dark Pit shouted back, panicked. Wii Fit smirked.
Wii Fit: It was...just a little fun to see my opponent a bit flustered. I know we were supposed to work together. But...just a bit.
A rock suddenly loomed to DK's left.
"Whoa!" he explained, tilting Lucina to the right by reaching forwards and touching her shoulders gently. DK then quickly let go of her, and then Lucina then turned more to the right herself, steering the star's control. They had avoided another asteroid.
Lucina: Was he...allowed to do that? Guide me without speaking?
They continued on for several minutes through the dangerous asteroid belt, surprisingly calmly. But even still, the fear running through their bodies was present each second they flew on, and they highly alert for every millisecond.
Wii Fit: It was simply chaos for a good five minutes...a mental exercise of anxiety more than anything.
But, as they flew on, they couldn't help but realize the asteroids' beauty as well. DK and Wii Fit gazed at the gigantic space rocks, appreciating its pretty nature and appealing existence within the galaxy sky. Mixed with the background of colorful space gases and mysterious air, the view all around them was indeed stunning, mystifying, and amazing. Another minute passed by in silence.
"Could there be...anything I should look out for?" Lucina called out cautiously to DK. "You have been a bit silent for the past minute."
"Nope," DK said, folding his arms and smiling. "It's all good." He looked out into the rocky, awe-inspiring world before him.
"Maybe this is what Fox meant," he thought to himself silently, smiling. "To enjoy the world."
The two warpstars were almost at the end of the large asteroid belt. Their destination, the moon, was not far off.
Dark Pit: And then...apparently, it came out of nowhere.
A final, speeding asteroid came shooting from their left, cutting perpendicular to the flying path of the warp stars. Wii Fit gasped.
"Turn left! ...no, right!" Wii Fit screamed quickly.
"What!" Dark Pit sputtered, surprised at her sudden yell. "Which w-"
SMASH! At full, flying speed, the large rock smashed into the warpstar of Wii Fit and Dark Pit. Both players yelled in terror from the strong, sudden impact, as DK and Lucina only gasped at both the sound and sight.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" The warpstar shattered at impact. Both players were thrown off violently...and were, within the blink of an eye, lost into space.
Only two-thirds of their time remained. Joker, Lucario, and Kazooie were still staring with stunned, mixed feelings at the message that had materialized mysteriously in the stars above them:
Look into the fountain water...you will see the face of one player who is not the Mole.
Then, Joker shook his head with a sound of, "Aha."
"What is it?" Lucario asked curiously.
"It's a trick," Joker figured out. "We'll just see our own reflections in the pond. Quite clever wording." Lucario looked at him, surprised.
"The message is very tricky," the Pokemon admitted. "In that case...I will continue meditating." He closed his eyes. Kazooie made a suspicious "hmm" sound.
"But what if one of us was the Mole?" she complained.
"If one of us is the Mole...we'd just see the reflections of the other two players," Joker stated. "I stand by my case."
"Speaking of which...do you think one of us three could be the Mole?" Kazooie asked him with interest. Joker stopped talking. Hearing her question too, Lucario couldn't help but open his eyes.
"I know that meditating is important...but conversations like these may be more vital and important at this time," Lucario spoke. He turned to Joker.
"Indeed, I am curious...do you think...one of us three could be the Mole?" Lucario asked the masked man. Joker only smiled just ever so slightly.
Lucario: I remembered...our initial conversation we had on our first day underground in the coffee room. And ever since, something struck me with him.
"You see...Lucario...I truly believe..." began Joker, but his answer never came, because at that instant, the stars above them started to align into another phrase, making chime-like sounds that interrupted their conversation and halted Joker's reply. They stared up in silence.
The stars were now making different letters, and after a few seconds, the three players couldn't help but feel shocked at the new message they saw above in the starry sky.
Look into the fountain water...and give any other player of your choice a minus -5 on the next quiz.
Ahhhh! D: This fountain is not as friendly as we initially perceived, huh.
Brief FAQ: Huh? What is a minus (insert number)?
Answer: No worries! A plus (any number) or minus (any number) is an adder or subtractor to one's final quiz score on the quiz at the end of the episode. For example, if a player's final quiz score was 7 questions correct out of 10, their official quiz score is 7. However, if they receive a -5, their final official quiz score is ultimately a 2. As you can perhaps see...a -5 is perhaps deadly enough to eliminate someone out of the game. :o
Thank you all so much! :D It's good to see you all again! :D
I will update in...a week and a half! It'll be a Wednesday, American time :)
Dark Punxysaur: It was so fun seeing your thought process through the episode! :D When you said that Fox was a, " a main center focus this whole episode and losing him will be a shock to all the players overall really," I was thinking like, "Ah sh*&! Yikes! This is gonna be bad!", because I knew that yes, he actually was going to be the first executed xD I do like how you contrast and juxtapose Joker and Dark Pit; though they're both young teenagers and look the same (black attire and all even), their personalities are very different! Yay, you took the quiz! It was fun to see your results :) Even cool that it was in the middle of your review so it felt realistic reading it! Like it was real time. Same with your Execution ceremony feelings for each player! Felt real time :O Anyways, nice new suspects! I love seeing them! Let us see how those players continue! :D
Princess Toady: Wow, the last chapter really did change your opinions! And suspect list! :) I must say, excellent clue hunting. I cannot confirm any of your clues, obviously, but your connecting with the "small animal" was a clever potential find and I give that! :) It's very interesting to see how your suspect, Isabelle, will play for the rest of your story. For DK, you got it! Hehe! DK's signature throw is exactly what he did to throw Fox off the edge! :D Also I am so glad you are liking him more! I like to do that with some of my characters: make them purposefully unlikable, and then likable later. :) You talking about Fox's first execution and how I "continue to impress" AWW! *hugs* haha You're too sweet :) but I can say the same about you...after playing excellently the role of a Mole, you still impress me so much with your Mole sleuthing :)
Cavin856 (1): You must have clairvoyance? ESP?! Cause your beginning comments of you having a sinking, worrying sense that Fox wasn't the Mole really spooked me out! :o Especially when it turned out he WAS the first victim! Please get yourself checked with the paranormal :) Haha! Anyways, well done! Such a nice, well-written paragraph on how you believe the trap couldn't be set beforehand! I was thoroughly convinced; you have a way with words :)! You took the quiz! And did a live execution reaction! :D And the answer is: Fox was always meant to be the first executed player from the getgo! I'm so honored to hear the words "masterful job of deception" from you, what a compliment T_T! Do you know what's masterful? Your mention of poetry with Fox and Dk and the exemption at the end of your review! That was quite beautiful to read :')!
Darksymphony777: Yay! Yeah, I really wanted to include that fight between Fox and DK and make it as you said a "bang-out knocker'; knowing that Fox was going to be the Mole's first victim, I wanted to give him as much screentime as possible before he died forever :') Bahaha! "Amazonian fitness", I mean, Wii Fit does kind of shout that personality out, doesn't she? Haha. Ooooooh...that mysterious Peach final line. Nice, nice, eye and nice, nice, nicee thinking. So what is she referring to exactly? Her own life and past experiences as a ruler? Or a possible past game? Or...a possible past life? LOL. Chapter 15 of Agent's Elevation?! You're kidding me! I can't believe you got that far! And the all-important question I want to ask you: who do you think is the Mole so far? ;))) And any favorite characters?
xXErineilXx: Omg, yes! It was so, so, so painful just having to executed Fox! ;( I almost didn't want to do it myself! The more I wrote about him and the more roles and adventure and importance he had, the more it became harder to make him the first eliminated victim of the game :( Yes! DK would make a great avenger for his fallen friend indeed! Hehe :) ...speaking that he's not the Mole, lol.
Wg152: Hello! :D Thank you for reviewing! I'm so happy to hear from you! ….wait. You. Finished. THE. ENTIRE. TRILOGY….IN JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS?! I don't even know how you had done that! :OOO I seriously cannot finish reading my own stories in that short of a time! (I've known...it takes me like over three months just to completely reread just one of my past fics xD) I love Isabelle and Dark Pit even in their respective games so I'm so happy to include them as new characters in my story :) I absolutely love your suspect picks! I must say, great theorizing with Kazooie! Connecting her with the waterfalls...I cannot say if you're correct or not, but you have such sharp thinking! ;)! And I believe you're the first reviewer to mention that the Mole was written as looking at a small land in the very beginning! Great eye overall! I hope to hear from you again :D
Guest: Dang! I love your writing style in your paragraph that was listing potential clues and important elements! :O You sort of nonchalantly glide over each one but that makes it even more mysterious in a way?! Let me try to answer as many as I can! The execution ellipses...I will tell you that it's not a clue xD I swore, I even looked back and tried to fix them to be the same and I STILL managed to mess up somehow?! The Mole either being themself in the Mole journal or not sounding themself: if it's hypothetically the latter, I will say that there is indeed an existing reason for them to sound differently! Wii Fit's last name...I will say that this is something I discovered once I thought about it, and I kept it in purposefully ;) Regardless of whether she is indeed the Mole or not. Yes! Isabelle sounds under destroying statues...they just all want to destroy things, don't they? xD And lastly, the Peach mystery just stirs up! Thanks for your heavy theorizing on her existence! I suppose she has become a bit of a Snifit herself! Mini-mysteries in juxtaposition with the main mystery of who is the Mole are always fun to include :D and I plan to add as many as I can!
The Wise Zora: "Rooting for Fox to be executed", :D sorry Fox, but I laughed reading that cause it's morbid to wish for one's death, but you had 100 percent reasoning behind your desire LOL. Your mentioning of DK having such a personality that has never been in a Mole before...I do whole-heartedly agree with that statement and I stand by that so much ;) I do agree that he would be an interesting pick as a Mole, if I were to view and say that from a reader's perspective. You mentioning the music from the show….I FORGOT. YOU WATCHED THE SHOW TOO?! :D I forget which readers have seen the real show and which haven't! Do you know that I listen to the Mole soundtrack CONSTANTLY?! Whenever I jog, or am just regularly bored on the train, or especially to motivate me while I'm writing?! I'm so glad to know that you know the epic music too :) And you even played the Execution music during the execution!? Yes! I can't! xD I secretly wish I could erase my mind and do that too. As for Execution themes and the Quiz-taking themes, I like them both (S1-4 vs. S5) equally! :D But for intro song...I can't help but fall in love with Season 5's intro theme. Your theorizing on the order of names is WHOA! So intense seeing all those letters in a row in lines! And...the fact that you replied to other author's reviews….I could almost cry :') Ugh. So sweet and wholesome, and best of all, it makes this "Mole family (?)" so much more close-knit. I feel fuzzy! And I like it it! Haha :D
Cavin856 again: So I felt like you at the least deserved another review reply because your second review was indeed so, so long! Thank you for that too :D I...can't even express how awesome your extra theorizing is. The orders of the Catapult shots?! :o I'm literally dying here. That's such an analysis I could expect from like a guidebook of a videogame showing all the secrets or something. So well done! You also have very valid, well-thought theories which both plausibly rise your Number 1 suspect (Lucina) in Mole suspicion as well as lowers your previous Number 1 suspect (Isabelle) in Mole suspicion. And I commend you: well done! :) Also, I must say... YOU LOOKED AT THE BACKGROUND OF THE BATTLEFIELD MISSION?! Yes! :D I was hoping a reader would do that, cause I literally based the entire first mission on the actual backdrop of Battlefield! :) Wow...thank you for actually analyzing all that so correctly and to the detail! The only thing I will reveal is this: the platform that Mole was standing on in their beginning speech was...on the Smash fighting platform itself! :) Your last interesting clue mentions were very interesting, like the host having a similar tie like DK's, or how Joker's description of execution attire sort of parallels Eclair's dress clue. Anyways! :) great theorizing and clues once again!
LuiasyLover: Love your name intro! :D I couldn't help get Double Dash flashbacks of Daisy waving item-less xD Fox is gone! I laughed because Falco would indeed be shaking his head at all of us crying/fake-crying at his departure, ahaha. Genuinely and truthfully however, I am sad to see Fox gone from the group :( Great Mole suspecting! You are very right that there is a time gap missing in some of the players' journeys during the first mission! What!? You fell asleep during Chapter 4 and 5?! How dare you! Just kidding :) I totally understand, since those chapters were longer than usual and so action-packed xD bahah. Yes! A combination of Piantissimo and Wario is an interesting way to put it :) I love that you remember all the past players from the past seasons!
Toady: Hello again! :D Yes, discovering a clue and marking it down is the best way to call bragging rights if it does end up being revealed as a clue in the end! :) Of course, you have experience in this! Wasn't it you who discovered that clue in Agent's Elevation, about the 3 Questions game with mushrooms and dinosaurs? Well...I remember you DEFINITELY calling out clues beforehand in reviews, and you got bragging rights! Overall, You are so right: I will be including both: a few clues pointing to the Mole in respect to their Smash life :) While also include clues that point to the Mole without anyone having to know anything about their background! :) So it's a win win for everyone!
Vivalahomestar: Ahhhh! How are you? :DDD I am so so so happy to hear from you again! If I knew that was you beforehand I would have been flipping everywhere! :) You do know that your Mole story Fiend's Burrow was one of the only few other Mole stories I had ever been reading through :) Still SHOCKED over Timpani's execution! Not at ALL a failure! If anything, just remember that it took me seven years to finish my Mole story "Agent's Elevation", and in the last two years, I took a two year break...it's never too late :) Also if you looked into my story history...I think three-fourths of my stories are unfinished fanfictions xD Hehe. Anyways, I am both so happy (and also so sad, lol!) that Fox's execution was devastating for you! And the Fox-DK bromance too T_T! That makes me feel both cause I'm happy I was able to make Fox have an impact on you, but I'm sad cause...you were sad! xD I'm so happy you enjoyed Destroy Castle Mole! :D That mission went through like fifty drafts, I swear, until I decided on the final format of being a three-section game: the roof, the forest, and the caslte inside :) Nice suspect list and reasons! What?! You say you don't have Mole predicting skills?! You totally have Mole-suspecting potential! You brought out the most suspicious moments for Joker, Peach, and Wii Fit in the Castle mission! I won't be saying whether one of your stated suspects is the Mole or not ;) but seriously, one who writes their own Mole story I feel is the best to analyze for sabotage and clues! Anyways, yay! So glad to see you :)