The Mole: Deceiver's World Chapter 25: A Song of Death, a super smash brothers fanfic

Alas, the end is here! :)

Well, for just one of them, lol. And the episode!

Once again...your words and reviews...just crying with how supportive you all have been recently :') I really take none of you for granted EVER. Every single review just makes me so thankful for your support in the story. And definitely, definitely helped me continue!

And in result...we are here! At the end :) So, the turtley mission ends, and then players enter a new, high world, before the execution!

But just WHO IS EXECUTED? Let us see! Enjoy! :)

Episode 5 (Final)

A floating land of wonder is where the players relax, and after two days...a song of death closes in on one of them, taking a fifth player forever from the sinister game.

The six players were doing their difficult best to not fall off the turtle.

But the shell was unmistakably crowded.

Joker:This was…a complete disaster, really.

Slowly…wobblily…the giant ancient animal which was their only way to success swam across the water of Termina. All six uncertain players were now aboard it, riding across the sea with discomfort for the last moments of their game. The turtle had to make it to the final island…or forty-thousand coins would be lost to the sea...and to the Mole him or herself.

"We can almost make it…just…this boat needs to stop swaying! Oh no!" The group sailed on.

"Ergh!" Kazooie tried to get a better view of the ocean ahead of them. "As captain, I command everyone to stay on board…and be considerate to those next to you!"

Kazooie:I could've probably sail us better…if DK's foot wasn't in my face! I love you, buddy, but WE'RE GONNA DIE!

"Hey, it's not my fault there's nowhere to go!" DK replied, his own body contorted, frantic. "I can't even move another inch, man!" The large ape was already half-bodied off the turtle in panic.

"Umm, I think someone can use some of the room next to me…!" Isabelle offered politely, shuffling a bit to the side on the shell. "I'm rather small!" She smiled amidst their panicked faces.

"Oh…no…" Lucina, holding the three important Zora eggs in her arms, cradled them carefully, but as the turtle moved to its side, the Ylisse princess realized that the task would be harder than she pictured it to be to balance and keep them in place...from a watery doom.

The time limit was almost done.

"How's the chicken?" Joker asked, peering over and smiling at Dark Pit.

"I smell like rotting meat," Dark Pit muttered, five slabs of raw chicken meat stuffed into the dark angel's tunic pockets. Kazooie continued using the fishing rod as the turtle's leader, as Isabelle used a pair of binoculars from the beach players.

"Come on, turtle! We're almost there!" Kazooie encouraged loudly.

"The island!" Isabelle cried. They could finally, with relief, all make out the last island finally in the distance. Now, the mass of land was clearer than ever, marking the end of their journey. The fifth stop would secure their victory. The turtle sailed closer to the finish.

Kazooie:We could taste victory! If only nothing bad would happen!

"Oh no…how many minutes do you think we have left?" Isabelle wondered nervously. Everyone thought.

"Perhaps seven minutes remaining…I would say about three and a half minutes have passed since we left the shore of Termina," Joker sighed with calculation, nodding, looking at the turtle's expression. "It was 11:50 when we left. Though…I suggest we speed up. The turtle looks tired." He chuckled softly.

"Y'all are worrying too much!" Kazooie said nonchalantly, chortling and using her fishing rod to slowly pace the turtle. "But do not worry! We will sail on! We are just… uhh…" She paused. Kazooie noticed that one of her talons was completely wet and soaked in sea water. She looked down, upon her legs; she was the only one standing on the thick neck of the turtle. Now, she realized, the turtle had sunk lower…slightly…below the surface of the water.

Kazooie:Uh oh.

"Huh?! Kazooie…that 'uhhhh' did not sound good…" DK croaked, looking more panicky. "What's happening!?"

"Are we…okay?" Lucina asked worriedly.

The unfortunate truth was evident . Kazooie turned to the rest of the players on board in panic.

"We're sinking."

"Huh? No…" The players all looked over the edge of the shell together with alertness and alarm. The turtle was no longer floating as high as it was above the water, and no longer keeping the players a high distance from touching the ocean level. Now, the turtle was still swimming…but sinking at the same time, inch by inch. And the players were nowhere near the island.

Isabelle gasped loudly. "Ahhhh! We're going to SINK! Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my GOSH…!" She looked around with worried panic. So did everyone else, looking worriedly at the bottom of the turtle boat.

"The boat is already sinking?" Dark Pit exclaimed with a sigh. "This game is becoming worse and worse!"

Dark Pit: Though if we did all sink… I wouldn't complain. Hehe. Byeee, suckers.

"AHHHHHHH!" DK clutched onto Kazooie, jumping and jumping. "Help us! HELP US!" The turtle sank even more from his frenzic antics. Kazooie shook him off, also frenzic.

"Panic will get us nowhere," Joker sighed to them. "You're all making a mess."

"Calm down, DK! Everyone, calm down…let me think!" Kazooie tried to reason, staring around. The island was now closer in the distance….but just out of reach. The turtle was so close...but they were too far. Everyone was panicked.

"What are you going to do?" Lucina asked her. Everyone turned to Kazooie slowly.

"Can you save us…captain?" Joker said, smiling at her. Kazooie faced the group back…then put on her ready face.

Kazooie:Of course I could. Captain Kazooie here!

"Everyone: look for anything purple…anything purple on the shell that might be from a purple plant!" she ordered the others. All six players immediately began searching the grassy surface of the sinking shell, some of them already feel splashes of water from the closer water.

"I don't understand…purple? Why?" Dark Pit asked, crouching down on the shell and searching with a confused face.

"Purple…a remnant of a plant that will help bring us to the end…speed up the turtle and save us all," Lucina told him with worry, but hope, the princess also on the ground of the shell and looking.

"Where is it? Where is it?!" DK continued, frantically looking around.

"Ooh, I…I think I found something!" Isabelle shouted excitement, and everyone turned to her. "Could this be it?!" She was holding a small remnant of a purple plant in her hand: a single petal that was magenta, tiny…yet powerful.

"That's it!" Kazooie shouted excitedly. "That's a petal! I knew that smelly plant could save us in the end!"

"Okay…I'm gonna go feed it to the turtle!" Isabelle called out. Hastily yet carefully, Isabelle tiptoed her way to the front of the sinking turtle, toward its very mouth. Joker laughed, and he faced Kazooie.

"What is this going to do, anyway?" Joker wondered, peering at the turtle and folding his arms. "Will it help us, Kazooie? Or is this sabotage once again?"

"I'm gonna help your skinny ass win," Kazooie smirked to him. She turned to Isabelle, who smiled back and nodded.

"Everyone ready?" Isabelle began to the others with caution.

"Ready for what?!" DK asked loudly, discombobulated.

"We must be ready for th—-" Lucina tried to tell him.

But Isabelle had already dropped the petal of the plant into the turtle's mouth.

Guuuuuulp... At first, all the turtle did was swallow. It bobbed slightly, as if nothing happened. But a second later, everything changed.

"Oh no….!" Everyone saw the turtle's eyes suddenly shoot open, as if it had eaten a hot pepper that was even beyond its many years. And then the shell suddenly began to gain momentum on the water. The creature then began to violently shake as it moved, and before they knew it, it bolted forwards at immense speed. No one could prepare themselves for the sudden, supernatural velocity of the turtle.

The turtle zipped across the ocean like a speedboat. The players hung on for dear life.

"Hold on!" Kazooie screamed, waves splashing into the air and hitting all the players. They all screamed in unison together.

"I can't see...!" Dark Pit yelled, water splashing into his face and getting some into his mouth. "Pfthgh…yuck! This game totally sucks!"

Dark Pit:It was like being on a warpstar all over again. So lovely. So fun.

"Oh…!" Lucina tried grabbing onto a palm tree, surviving in place with her eggs. Isabelle did too…but she grabbed onto DK and Joker instead.

"Ahhh!" Isabelle screamed, blindly grabbing onto the players in front of her.

"Hey, I'm not a palm tree!" DK yelled out loud, almost losing his stance on the slippery shell.

All six of them could see the large animal's arms and legs pushing and rotating at breakneck speed across the water. They were in awe, disbelief, but also mostly in fear for themselves that they wouldn't make it to the final destination.

But within a minute…they had begun to slow down. And looking around at the new water they had entered…they saw that they were slowly drifting to a last location...the final island: they had arrived together. The players shook their heads, bedazzled, dazed from the fast ride. They couldn't believe that they had survived.

All except for one of them.

"Is…is everyone okay?" Lucina gasped, looking around the shell. She was still holding the three crucial eggs to her own relief, as she sighed. Those aboard nodded.

"Wait…hold on…where's...JOKER?" Dark Pit realized, alarmed. Everyone turned to each other upon the shell is disbelief: the skinny man who chuckled at the turtle's own sinking was gone.

"Whu…WHAT?!" Isabelle shouted, her eyes shocked and face entirely confused. "Oh my…gosh! He's…"

"He's...not...here," Lucina whispered with alarm. Everyone shook their heads once again. And they saw the result of their ride: one of them had fallen off the turtle in the fast, unexpected ride. They exchanged glances, disbelieving.

"I remember he was like...right in front of me!" Isabelle squealed with misfortune. "But…now where'd he go?! Oh no…" The players looked back at the water they had zipped across, but he was nowhere in sight. The shell was missing one.

Dark Pit:I couldn't believe it. He was just…gone.

Dark Pit twitched. "That stupid…useless…good for nothing…!"

"He's so thin, he probably just flew away in the wind!" DK said angrily. "That's what you get for having no muscles! Kinda serves him right!"

"Let's hope this isn't just him trying to sabotage again," Kazooie sighed with annoyance. "As the Mole."

"It…could be," Isabelle shrugged, looking around.

Isabelle:Anyone could be the Mole!

"Well, never mind him," Kazooie said with new alertness and preparedness, seeing the stationary turtle sink even more below the surface. "We have to care about us! Us five gotta move! Get off the turtle!" Both islands were now next to each other, but one was sinking, to their panic. Their goal was right next door.

"You don't have to tell me twice," Dark Pit said with relief, hopping to the island next to them. His sandals touched the new grass. The chicken meat in his pockets were fresh…and won for the team.

Successful:

Passengers:

Zora Eggs: 0/10

Dark Chicken: 5/10

"Ah! I don't want to sink!" Isabelle climbed upon the second, small island too, and shortly after, Lucina did as well, the valuable eggs in her possession.

Successful:

Passengers: 3/6

Zora Eggs: 3/10

Dark Chicken: 5/10

"Wahoo! We made it!" DK yelled, climbing off the turtle and onto the small island. Four out of the six players were safe.

They turned to Kazooie, still on the boat. She smiled. A strange smile on her beak. Then, she waved to them, her feathers waving at them in the air.

"Sorry, guys!" the bird replied sadly, grinning as the turtle began to sink more. "I'm the captain of the ship! I have to go down with it!"

"WHAT?!" The other four looked at her in total disbelief.

"You have to…sink with the turtle?" Lucina gasped. "I...I don't understand, Kazooie."

"Yeah…" Kazooie moped, sadly, but smiling to them.

"But why!?"

"It's my duty," Kazooie responded sadly, wiping away a fake tear to them. "Always the duty of the captain. I saved the team. Now…I must die…" The bird did a salute with her wing as everyone watched her sink with surprise.

"Goodbye….farewell…give my best wishes to everyone…."

"Oh, please! Stop being so dramatic" DK grabbed her by the neck, and before the flash of an eye, Kazooie was brought unwillingly and safely onto the safe shore.

The turtle finally sank…as they all waved goodbye to it. With a little smile on its tired face, the large, aquatic acquaintance sank to the depths of the sea.

12 o'clock had finally been reached. And the turtle's game was over.

Successful:

Passengers: 5/6

Zora Eggs: 3/10

Dark Chicken: 5/10

Turtle Status: Sunk

Island: Reached

Game: Success

The players were back on the village shore. The large land of Termina could be viewed easily in the distance behind the hut-filled village of activity, green and mountains stretching for miles behind the beach. Anything that didn't resemble water before their eyes gave them all absolute comfort, especially after their game of worry. With surprise, the players also saw their host for the very first time since the beginning of their long-feeling mission. In his gloved hands were several objects that they recognized from their mission: eggs and chicken meat...along with a frying pan.

"Thank you for making breakfast for me," the host told them, juggling the eggs.

"Hey! Give us our money before you eat all that!" Kazooie demanded to him.

Kazooie:Also, I wanted food too! That was a long mission! But...money also, hehe.

"Dark Pit and Joker...did you know you could have cooked the chicken meat to make it less slippery on the tray?" the host began. "They wouldn't have slipped off Isabelle's tray. By you refusing it...you may have made a mistake." Everyone stared at the two boys in disbelief.

"Hmm…" Joker began, smiling and looking at Dark Pit suspiciously. Everyone looked at Dark Pit too.

Joker:His fault. He couldn't deny it.

Dark Pit mumbled incomprehensibly. "I…the…ugh, fine. Whatever. I screwed up. So what?"

Joker:He refused the meat man. Perhaps he wasn't such an angry boy after all. He was out to get us all...as the Mole? Oh, Dark Pit, I didn't know!

DK:Totally the Mole! Yep! I would have cooked the meat!

Dark Pit:Whatever. I lost. You all don't deserve meat anyway!

Isabelle:Oh, Dark Pit always takes the blame for me! Like in the Mushroom game in Episode 3. But is it good or bad for me? Anyways, thank you, Dark Pit!

"Speaking of money, I wonder just how much money we even earned in total," Joker thought with a smirk, while at the same time, he was twisting water out of his gloves.

"I know we did really well, but we also failed at a lot of parts," Isabelle gulped, looking at the eggs and meat the host was holding. "And…some of us falling!" She turned to Joker.

Isabelle:There were so many penalties, so I was really worried about those too!

"For this game, "All Aboard the Turtle", you discovered quite early on that the task was to speed up the turtle…in to beat the one hour time limit for it sinking," the host told them, "and once the book was discovered by Lucina and DK...you two were then quick to relay the information to Kazooie and Isabelle." The four players nodded, both pairs smiling to each other.

"Thank you so much for finding that info, Lucina!" Isabelle said gratefully to her. "If you didn't, Kazooie and I would have just slowed down the turtle the entire hour of the game! What a disaster it would have been!" The players laughed.

"Kazooie," the host continued, as the red bird alerted to him upon hearing her name, "You did express, at first, some hesitation in trusting the words being spoken by DK, when he told you that the boat had to be sped up. What made such thoughts happen?" Everyone in the group turned to Kazooie. She herself was thinking, half-smiling.

"Mayyyyybe you could say that the skeptical mind of mine was just working normally as it should have been," Kazooie shrugged nonchalantly. "But then, I thought: DK is a good person! He wouldn't trick me! I was then SURE he was telling the truth." She gave a grin to her friend.

"Awww, you're TOO SWEET!" the large ape replied in an over-exaggerated yet genuine tone of laughter.

Lucina:I was a bit wary of DK telling Kazooie and Isabelle so late and delayed to speed the turtle at the window. If I hadn't reminded him…perhaps he never would have told them in the end. I do not know what to think of his actions overall in the game.

"If it was someone ELSE besides DK telling me to hurry the boat, I wouldn't have trusted them at all," Kazooie said proudly, turning her eyes slightly to towards Joker.

"Hmm…still a hostile, suspicious bird, I see," Joker chuckled in response.

"Stop 1: DK and Lucina, you managed to find four eggs out of ten in the Marine laboratory," the host finalized. "But…one met an unfortunately splattering fate on the way out."

"Yeahhh….ooooops," Kazooie began, smiling sheepishly. "That was on me. And DK! We were rushed to get the eggs out the window, bleh!"

Joker: Hmm, dropping eggs, Kazooie. How is a bird to drop an egg? Let's see what obvious sabotages like this she'll come up with next, as possibly the Mole.

"Lucina and DK…this is the important book about the turtle," the host said, holding up the glowing, laminated book up to them all to see. "You found the crucial information that made you realize that the turtle should have been sped up. But...Lucina and DK...did you notice the…back?" They looked at the host, expressions baffled.

"I don't understand. The…back?" Lucina answered, her face confused. "I don't understand the meaning..."

"Well...if you turned to the back…you would have seen…these," the host displayed. As he turned the book over, all the players saw various X marks etched into the back surface.

DK blinked with perplexity, still not knowing. "So, err…I don't get it."

"If you noticed the back of the book…the rectangular shape matched the rectangular shape of the room…and the X's pointed to where each egg was hidden." The entire group gasped.

"Those X's pointed to where ALL THE EGGS WERE?!" DK exclaimed, grabbing the book for himself to see its back cover with disbelief. "You're totally pulling our legs!"

"But… we didn't realize the back of the book until afterwards while riding the turtle," Lucina continued in disbelief.

"The six last eggs you didn't find were in the lamp, within tank seaweed, and lastly, two eggs hidden under the tiled floor." Both of the lab players seemed to nod in surprise and shock, yet acceptance.

Lucina:What DK said earlier….about 'we are missing something'…resonates strongly beyond words now.

DK:How did we MISS that? We're both super smart…yet super dumb! All the time. Nothing new! But I think this time, we can agree that we were both at fault! A combined, unfortunate error.

Dark Pit:But was it a coincidence that they both ignored the back of the book? Maybe...this could have possibly been an elaborate plan by Lucina. She seemed like the hero discovering the book in the first place, but then later, made sure that the back of the book was never seen by them. Playing both hero…but secretly saboteur.

Joker:Overall, you just couldn't help but be suspicious of DK and Lucina's lack of success in the first place. They had nearly thirty minutes to find ten eggs…but managed only a measly four? Surely, you can argue that perhaps one distracted the other from finding more Zora eggs. I would bet DK played a dumb card.

"Stop 2: Dark Pit and Joker," the host continued. "Through carnival games, you managed to get seven pieces of dark chicken meat." The two male players faced each other, nodding, acknowledging their success.

"We were mostly successful…but had some slip-ups," Joker began slyly. "Dark Pit, why don't you explain?" The angel faced him in shock, then shook his head angrily.

"Fine. I chose a wrong door in a carnival game and cost 3,000 coins," he said.

"What?!" DK exclaimed. "Sabotage!"

"As if you could have done better," Dark Pit snickered. "But whatever."

"You cost 3,000 coins…" Isabelle added sadly.

Lucina: He hadn't done much this episode to lose money, so to know Dark Pit cost the team in such a way was surprising. I suppose...he could be the Mole? We do not know.

"3,000 coins...big whoop! After literally costing no money in the Bridge of Eldin game! You're all on my butt!"

"But….you stilllll sabotaged," Kazooie said to him, her eyes suspicious.

"Yeah," DK said loudly, going up to him. "I could have eaten that food! Traitor!"

"Geez...all right… I'm a damn screw up!" Dark Pit sighed angrily. "Why does everyone have to get on my ass for the smallest things?!" Everyone was silent.

Isabelle:Oh...oops.

DK:Dark Pit was probably the Mole just messing them all up! So bad! Bad guy! So guilty! But...umm, maybe I should stop picking on him too. He's also good sometimes, like me!

Dark Pit:Literally only sabotaged 3k in this game. And yet I still get as accused as much as the other players literally dropping ten thousand coins left and right. Every damn mission….every. Damn. Time. A failure.

"No one ever appreciates anything I do," Dark Pit mumbled under his breath.

"Exactly," Joker smiled to him. "Aren't you used to it?" Dark Pit's eyes widened with shock as he looked at Joker. And Joker… quickly vanished his smile.

Joker:Perhaps…I had meant it as a joke...but, Dark Pit...at that very moment in his state of mind...did not take the sentence as a joke. Not at all.

"Seven pieces of chicken sailed off on the turtle…but only five made it to the end," the host continued, anunfortunate smile. The players turned to both Isabelle and Kazooie: their turtley, two captains of the team.

Lucina:Kazooie and Isabelle's entire role during the entire game….on second thought…could be seen as deceptive. They managed to slow down the turtle very much…but if one of them was the Mole…they'd had known beforehand to try and slow the turtle as much as possible.

"Hey! UHHH, why are you looking at me, too?!" Kazooie exclaimed funnily to the others. "Isabelle dropped the tray off from meat, not me! No offense, Isabelle."

"Oh, it was totally my fault!" Isabelle jumped up, smiling and trying to defend Kazooie. "You see—-"

"You were both the captains," Joker shrugged, "so you both take responsibility together. Isn't that the job of a captain?" Kazooie glared at him, then laughed and shrugged.

"Okay, okayyyyyy…" Kazooie chortled. "I take blame too."

"What?" Isabelle began, looking at her. "Ohh, Kazooie…"

Kazooie:But. You couldn't help but look at Isabelle. At times when we needed the turtle to slow down, like on Stop 1, Isabelle for some reason was able to make the turtle go FASTER! But how did she do that? Did she know about the whistle making the turtle swim faster? Or something else she secretly knew? That was a little suspicious.

"Losing your balance and slipping the meat off the slippery tray…that indeed cost 2,000 coins when they slipped off the tray while the turtle was sailing in the second half of the game," Smash Host confirmed to the dog. Isabelle covered her head with both embarrassment and dismay.

"Oh..well…I didn't know two pieces of chicken meat could ever be so valuable in my life!" Isabelle said, sighing, but she laughed. "Like, I hope you can forgive me for my little mistakes!"

"Forgive?" Dark Pit ridiculed to her. "After blaming me?"

"Eggs dropped here, meat dropped there…" she continued, glancing at all the others innocently. "We all made mistakes ourselves! Shouldn't we just forgive each other? And for me…just with a few pieces of silly chicken." She smiled with a bit of embarrassment, wanting their mercy.

Joker: Isabelle does small actions. Messing up during some of the Bridge games. And now, slipping and accidentally dropping the meat…it seemed like a very "Isabelle" thing. But if she's the Mole, maybe she's not as innocent-appearing as she always plays off. A possible suspect for being the Mole.

"There was…very good news, however, in the second half of the entire game," Smash Host began delivering to them in a more positive, changed tone of voice, along with a face of less misfortune. "For Stops 3 and 4…nearly everything was successful. All four tickets were found. That in itself… was 20,000 coins to the team."

"Yes…" Lucina let out a sound of satisfaction and happiness. The players turned to each other, grateful.

"Hey, that's our victory right there!" Kazooie realized. "Despite how much we messed up in the first half…we made it up TOTALLY in the end!" The players were able to feel a little bit of satisfaction, smiling together.

"Amazing," Dark Pit said sarcastically.

"I guess we are slightly still a team!" Kazooie boasted gladly. "Come on! Don't be so glum!"

"…if only we had all made it to the end!" DK suddenly remembered, turning to Joker with a dropped mouth. Joker grinned in challenge.

"Joker…would you care to explain why you were not aboard the turtle at the end of the game?" the host began. Everyone turned to Joker. The unmasked man almost laughed. He was the only one to have not made it upon the turtle to the final destination…and 5,000 coins had been lost.

"Do I need to explain?" he chuckled. "I…simply fell off. So much was happening…it is just hard to remember. It's not quite easy, players, to remember all, when a turtle is propelling water towards your very fancy clothes."

"How did you just FALL off the turtle?" DK stammered with heavy disbelief to Joker, "when someone like ME, nearly flopping off the small turtle, was able to stay on the boat?" Joker looked with surprise at DK.

"The turtle was going approximately forty miles per hour on splashing waters," Joker replied calmly. "Wouldn't one naturally fall off? I find being blamed for such fast turtle circumstances rather…laughable."

"We'll, we had no choice but to speed up the boat," Dark Pit told him. "So why are you making excuses, Joker?"

DK:Joker knew that we would think his falling off was totally natural! Or something! Huh! If that wasn't a Mole act of falling off for 5,000 coins, I don't know what it is!

Joker:If anything, I think it is just more suspicion that DK and the others stayed on. Just to be honest. How does one survive on a zipping-mercilessly shell, hmm? Not a giant ape.

"SOOO sabotage!" DK bellowed, looking at Joker with angered incredulity.

"It's only sabotage if you think it is, King of the Jungle," Joker replied, looking at DK with a grin and tricky eyes. Dark Pit looked at the two, rolling his eyes.

Dark Pit: What do we even believe? Two episodes ago...Joker told me he'd be sabotaging on purpose to make people think he's the Mole, when he's "not". But…what if he's actually just the Mole sabotaging as the actual saboteur? I don't know which path to believe anymore. No one even to trust. And here I am. Still a screw-up.

Kazooie:We're so conflicted in our thoughts! I mean…who the hell is the Mole?! At least I know it's not me.

"You almost lost one more member of the crew too…." the host added lastly. Those who had made it to the end remembered the final, dramatic actions of the red bird on their team. Everyone collectively faced Kazooie.

"About that…BAHAHAHA!" The bird began laughing…and laughing…and laughing loudly even more. And after nearly a minute, she couldn't stop laughing while rolling on the sandy floor, sand everywhere. Everyone just stared at her with confusion.

"NOT funny!" DK moaned to her, wanting to beat her up but also with a face that looked like he wanted to cry. "We almost LOST you!"

"Why were you even trying to sacrifice yourself in the first place?" Isabelle asked her, wide-eyed and curious to her.

"We were confused...concerned," Lucina expressed.

"…DK was right," Kazooie finally said, getting up from the ground and wiping the sand off her feathers. She sighed happily. "I just wanted to be dramatic as the captain. I like role playing in games!"

"Role-playing as the Mole," DK groaned, rolling his eyes at her. "Come on! Don't make us think like that!"

Joker:Hmm. As if the bird thinks she can exempt herself from suspicion. And then...she just makes it worse.

Kazooie: This game is called "The Mole"…so sometimes it's fun to act like one! But, in reality, I wasn't trying to act like the Mole. Nope, not at all! I was just trying to act like the brave, hero captain at the end of a dramatic game. It was super cool! Like I said from the beginning of this episode, I just wanted to have fun! And it worked!….kinda. The others were definitely not happy, hehe.

"Your total…comes to this," the host began to them, and the players all turned slowly to the host and held their breaths, listening, ready. "Three eggs…and five pieces of meat…all bring 7,000 coins to your pot. And...with the successful boarding and sailing of three out of the four players to the end…that's 15,000 coins to the pot as well. Your final winnings for this game…are 22,000 coins." The players looked happy on the hearing of the final number. They were relieved...having expected less. But they had won a lot of money in the end. Everyone looked at each other.

"Yes…yayy! Yes yes yes!" Isabelle said happily to the others.

"More than half!" DK cried happily. "We totally won! No one can tell us otherwise?" He hugged his team members.

"But out of 40,000 coins?" Dark Pit said disappointedly. "We're still losers."

"Hey, isn't 22,000 coins still a LOT of money?" DK said to him. "Think about it! It's more than we've ever won in like…days for a game!" Dark Pit nodded admittingly.

"More than our first game was ever even worth," Joker remembered with a smile.

TEAM POT

107,000 coins 22,000 coins =

129,000 coins

"I'll add one-thousand coins…I found an extra egg on the way here," the host joked, as the players turned to him in surprise. "Plus...it's nice to have an even number. Count me...as not the Mole." Everyone laughed, but gratefully to their helpful, mysterious host.

130,000 coins

"Yeahhh!" DK roared happily. The players nodded...and smiled to each other.

"Wow…we're getting high…and higher….and higher…I just want to FLYYY!" Kazooie spread her wings, looking up at the ocean sky gleefully.

"You can… but I'll have to lower this pot if you do, Kazooie," Smash Host smiled to her. Kazooie closed her beak…and her wings. Everyone laughed.

The bay game was over. The six players looked around. The people of Termina were never to be seen again…and neither was their beloved turtle.

And after the next day…one of them would never be seen again either.

A massive, floating world is where the players were brought for their final day in the world of Hyrule. When the helicopters landed...they couldn't believe it.

Lucina:For it was Skyloft that served as our end of the episode. A place of sky and beauty.

Isabelle:We just...didn't deserve such an amazing place!

The group was brought to their fourth location in the Legend of Zelda universe, and each location so far had been wonderful…but this final place was a world that made them all gasp upon its sight: it was as if lush lands of green, hills, mountains, and houses were brought up many miles into the sky, forming a land of peacefulness and majesticness, and overall, pure wonder for them. Waterfalls fell from one piece of floating land levitating in the sky to another. Farmlands and buildings existed in different parts of the world and made up a town of nature and beauty combined. Humans walked along the lands with familiarity and comfort, going to and from their homes, jobs or daily classes. The largest structure of all loomed like a guardian: it was a stone statue of goddess Hylia, patron goddess of Hyrule, protector of the land seen by anyone in the north part of Skyloft...and protector for the players who would be entering their execution the following day. But for one day...they could relax. Relax in the floating land.

Isabelle:Ahh, just, it was...so, so pretty!

Kazooie:Well, I could finally fly around! Or at least...haha…it just FELT like I was flying while I walked on the land!

The players had spent an entire night in the land...a dinner of pumpkin soup and chicken, and small discussions and games, and relaxing and talking, carefree in a precarious game. And when morning arrived for the next day...some of them took the time to look around and explore the elevated world of wonder for the day they had. Two of them stayed in, discussing and chuckling to each other about everything they had experienced for the past many days.

"Man, and then I just threw Fox off the castle without thinking! I felt awful!" DK chortled, laughing so hard that he almost rolled off his wooden bed. He and Kazooie were in the Knight Hall, a place normally for thriving students to live and train to become knights once they had graduated...noble roles, unlike being the Mole. The main building consisted of two floors, with the kitchen, academy's classroom, and male dormitories on the bottom level, and female dormitories on the second level, but all was vacated for the week: it was vacation time for nearly all the students. Now, the academic building served as the staying place for the players for two days.

"When Wii Fit and I were at the top of Electrocution Tower in Episode 4...wow, we really wanted to throw each other off too…" Kazooie chuckled with a shake of her head and memory, "Luckily, we were secretly still friends, she and I. We couldn't dare. And it was all for those fake exemptions anyway, haha…but well , mostly for friendship, I guess." The two of them were reminiscing their past games together in the academy room...as well as their past friendships.

Kazooie:What's the difference between a friend and a coalition partner in this game? Hmm...hard to tell. But you just feel it in you! Gut instinct. That's how it all works! I think.

"Friends...yeah…" Kazooie sighed, sitting back on her bed with a smile on her beak. "I like them."

"You know...I think we're the best people here left in this game EVER!" DK began, sitting up on his small dormitory bed with realization. Kazooie raised her eyebrow at his audacious statement.

"Huh? You sure about that? What makes you say that?" Kazooie asked him, lazy and reaching for her comfort food in her drawer.

"We're the two to have had the greatest friendships in the past in this game so far," DK smiled happily. "Me and Fox, and you and Wii Fit. And then now, us with each other! That means we're good people! We can always bond with others and receive their trust!"

"Whoa whoa...haha! You think I'M a good person?" Kazooie began, getting up and laughing, whacking him with her wing to his annoyance. "You're pulling my feathers, you jokester! Do you know how many times I've screwed over or almost screwed over the team?!" She laughed, much to the confused DK.

"What are you talking about?!" he replied. "You've never done anything bad!"

"Really? So the Fountain Game, stealing Yoshi's cap from your own head, and almost costing 70,000 coins last episode doesn't ring a bell at all to you? Bad memory." Kazooie replied from now back on her chair, staring at him and rolling her eyes.

"Oh...yeah…" DK remembered. He laughed loudly himself. "But even with all that...you're still a good person!

"And don't forget: betraying you," Kazooie decided to say, her eyes then turning sorry and big to DK. "I, uh...never said sorry for that afterwards. I'm really sorry." DK suddenly stopped talking, also looking surprised himself. But his expression turned to one of a smile, quickly.

"I could tell you didn't mean to say it that night cause of how scared you looked afterwards!" DK managed to laugh. "I wasn't mad at all!"

"You're, uh….never telling me any secrets ever after this, are you?" Kazooie chuckled nervously.

"Nope!" DK shrugged. "But Kazooie...no matter how many times you question if you're a good person...you TOTALLY are!"

"Hah...easy for you to say," Kazooie retorted. "You're an ape! You have a heart of gold."

"Yeah...but a brain of...nothing," he said in a trailed-off voice. DK looked to the ground.

DK: How the heck am I going to end this game if I'm executed this episode? By feeling this...dumb, stupid way? Incompetent? Huh? The last game I play...being a game trying to futilely find eggs in the middle of the sea and ending in utter failure?! I couldn't let it end like that...but what if I leave?! That would just really totally be the worst. Now that I was thinking about it all…I was really not feeling good...not even a little….

"Kazooie," DK asked, the ape now standing up and looking out the window of the academy dormitory.

"Mmmpphhhhtt...Yeah?" Kazooie answered, snacking endlessly on a bag of pumpkin seeds.

"Kazooie…do you think I'm dumb?"

"What!" Kazooie almost choked on the seeds she was eating. She turned to DK...a peculiar look on her face.

Kazooie:Where did THAT come from?

"No...well, I mean...not always…"

"So that's a yes...yeah?" DK moaned glumly, looking away and at the room flooring. "Thanks a lot." Kazooie turned to him, a concerned expression on her face.

"DK…" Kazooie slowly walked up to his side of the room, and when she spoke, her voice and demeanor was not as harsh or sarcastic as usual. She smiled as she sat down on the other side of the bed. "If I thought you were dumb...would I have wanted to make a coalition with you on our first day in the game as we ran across those stupid, rocky, watery lands of Battlefield? When we were partners? Remember that? Huh?" DK looked up at her...and with memory, his eyes lighting up, remembering everything she was saying to him. They were friends since their first game.

"Oh, yeah...I remember!" DK said, his mouth turning into a small smile too. "But...I asked you first to be partners!"

Kazooie grinned. "And I replied positively."

"Well...maybe you only said yes because you felt you could use me, I thought," DK added, frowning, folding his arms.

"Well, maybe twenty percent true," Kazooie laughed. "BUT, hey…. things are so different now. Feelings change. And my feelings since Day 1 about who you were...have changed a LOT." She sat on the bed, grinning softly. "You're not a dumb bloke! You're more than that. You're great and smart…and so awesome, DK, my big friend! I'd never, ever call you dumb." DK turned to her, wide eyes….and smiling just a little.

"Well...thank you Kazooie," the ape responded, looking at her more than thankfully.

DK:Well, at least one person...out of these final six in this game...thinks that I'm smart enough. And maybe that's all I need.

"Oh...oh...Joker!" Isabelle called out. Joker was making his way across a stone bridge, and he turned around, seeing Isabelle back on the land he left from. The gentleman was walking his way across the isles in the sky, pondering to himself…and about the game itself. But the shrill greeting of Isabelle herself was louder than the waterfall nearby…and his thoughts.

"The little mayor's assistant," Joker whispered to himself, smiling. He turned around to see the dog herself at the end of the stone-constructed, floating-above-air bridge that separated them on opposite pieces of floating lands. Both Isabelle and Joker were on opposite ends of the bridge itself, and below the bridge…thousands of feet of endless air existed. They looked at each other. Isabelle went to catch her breath. She smiled...thinking...and then spoke.

"I just wanted to find someone to exchange information with…help me survive the nerve-wracking next quiz…maybe you can be it?"

Joker: Like a prophecy. It was exactly what I was telling Dark Pit himself the day before. When numbers get smaller...people are forced to talk to each other. But…is it good if these people speak to each other? I did not know.

"Oh my gosh…a bridge…again…" Isabelle laughed with a humored yelp, taking a step back from the bridge separating them both. "I might just perish from fear before the execution even happens tonight!"

Isabelle:Like always, I was just so nervous! Execution #5: who would be going?! Because it's a question I ask myself at the end of every episode. Well…you never really know who will be falling next. Hopefully not me, like I did before!

"If you desire conversation, I suppose we can find another, safer place to converse that is not on this bridge," Joker spoke to her.

"I don't want to converse with you," Isabelle laughed to him, her eyes sparkling with joy. "I just want information from you!" Joker stared at her..

"Okay…" he replied, looking at Isabelle like a hawk. The dog noticed his beady eyes.

"It's funny that you're looking at me like I could be the Mole...why?" She giggled loudly. "I could say the same about you, Joker Amamiya. Maybe…the truth is… you're the Mole?!"

"I do not know, Isabelle Leafe," Joker told her with a shrug, "I do not truly know if you're the Mole or not…as much as you don't know whether I'm truly the conniving Mole of this game or not either. But the game is to find out, no?"

"Well...I guess that could be fun…heehee…" She gave out a cheerful smile to him.

"Sure," Joker began walking to her slowly across the bridge at a steady pace. "Let's talk.…and ask questions. So tell me, Isabelle, player of this final six: how can I help you today?"

"Hmm…" she thought, walking across the stone bridge as well.

"Two questions for two questions," Joker responded suddenly. "I don't want to help you more than I need too." Isabelle smiled at his quick decision of mind. She closed her eyes slightly...thinking herself...

"Okay...I have one question, just to help me calm my nerves," Isabelle began to him, smiling sweetly. "How devastated did Lucina look when she let go of me on the Bridge of Eldin?" Joker stared at her, amused and taken back by the question she asked.

"Elaborate."

"I know you're surprised by this question...but I really need to know EVERYTHING before this next, upcoming quiz...I just don't want to be executed, Joker," Isabelle explained with pleading eyes, her voice wavering with fear. "To reach a spot in our final five…to prove to everyone in my town that I love them and really care for them, as I've always done…always! Anyhow. Tell me: how devastated was Lucina when I fell off the bridge?"

"How...sad was Lucina, when she dropped you...is what you're asking me..." Joker reiterated, not believing her question. "Uhh...from a scale of 1 to 10...I would say 8 or 9. She expressed heavy remorse, it seemed. Both in face, and in words." Isabelle displayed a quick face of realization to him.

"Wow, okay...thank you," she replied, taking a step closer to him. "That is so useful to hear! Or…I don't know! I'll maybe use that information later."

"Maybe Lucina was acting?" Joker smirked, "that she was upset?"

"You're sooo skeptical of everyone…that's not good!" Isabelle chided. She laughed. "Though I am skeptical of others at times myself, so I'm guilty. Anyways, I have another question! Just to help me more...please? For the quiz?"

"Go on," Joker sighed.

"About Dark Pit: what carnival game did Dark Pit mess up that caused him to sabotage 3,000 coins? How suspicious was Dark Pit to you? From 1 to 10? Tell me details, if you please." Joker thought for a second.

"It was a Door game…" Joker answered slowly, still looking at Isabelle strangely. "One door had winning chicken, and two doors had losing sharks. I chose a door, and the attendee offered to switch. Dark Pit didn't want to switch, but I wanted to. He ended up losing for us. Suspicious level was an 8." Isabelle was silent.

"Oh...you didn't want to switch?" Isabelle said with a straight face to Joker.

'Exactomundo."

"Oh, wow...thanks for this information! …so… " With a smile, she went to reach to get crumpled pages out of her pockets, as Joker raised his eyebrow.

"What are those…?" he asked slowly.

"Here are notes… about the sly Kazooie when I was alone with her on the turtle…and also stuff about tricky Dark Pit I find suspicious!" She smiled gladly, holding out a series of papers to him with written notes. "I made sure to re-write these notes twice to make sure they are legible and made sense. When you read them! Use these to find the Mole, Joker! If one of them is really it!" Joker grabbed them from her slowly, glancing and trying to read over the notes quickly and furtively during her transfer to him. Isabelle smiled.

"I would really be quite disappointed if these weren't useful and genuine at all, Ms. Leafe...they are, aren't they?" Joker asked her, looking at her carefully.

"Oh, please! I take very good notes," Isabelle responded to him, hearing his tone of speaking. "I'm a secretary, after all! A wonderful mayor's assistant to an even more wonderful, respectable mayor that I want to become like one day."

Isabelle:I'm hoping when I win this game…if I win… I can start my own town and be mayor! If only wishes could come true if you just thought them a lot!

"Okay…" Joker began, putting the papers into his coat pocket. He stared at her, still with many thoughts and questions in his head.

Joker:So...she must be a genuine player. Going all this way to get random, strange information from me. No saboteur would do such a ridiculous thing. But...unless her goal was something else. What if her goal was different? Just to rattle me up? I had to consider all angles.

Isabelle:I was hoping Joker trusted me. I even gave him really good notes! But what if he's the Mole? Oh, dear, what a waste those notes would be...I worked so hard on them, too...

"Well, I don't think you're the Mole, Joker, so I'm totally trusting your info to get me through to the next quiz…" Isabelle said gladly, breathing a sigh of relief and smiling to the nodding gentleman. Joker looked at her.

"I don't believe you're the Mole either...unless you truly are the deceiver, pretending to want all this information from me so that I wouldn't think you're the Mole," he responded with a shrug. "That'd make you very clever." Isabelle giggled out loud, hearing his words to her.

"I just wish I was that smart," Isabelle responded, putting a hand over her mouth to control her giggling. "A little ego boosting, if it was me!"

"If you say so," Joker replied, shrugging. "For me…though I'm just smart enough to be the Mole…I'm just too genuine and innocent as a young, naive man to be the Mole, I'm afraid."

"Oh, but Joker! You're not so innocent yourself! You can be the Mole too, instead of me! And I have proof in my memory and first-hand experience!"

"What makes you say that?" Joker smirked back. "How are you so sure?"

"I saw you jump off the turtle! You didn't fall off accidentally! Oh...Joker...just...be careful in missions from now on, please! You don't want to die before an execution! Or...from thinking you're the smartest one here in this game either!" She smiled and walked on to the other, separate part of the land. Joker watched her leave...and then chuckled, then turned around to cross the bridge again. But then...he stopped. He was left on the bridge...unmoving.

Joker:And then, I realized. No. Not at all. I didn't jump off the turtle. You only discover truths once lies come out. And I needed to think of what I should do to set things right.

Marbled walls held a courtyard of beauty. The sun was almost gone, but somewhere in the darkened land of Skyloft...there was still spirit and life. The most holy place of Skyloft was where Lucina slowly walked her way to at the end of the day, the princess preparing for the next, daunting execution of the game to come. At the end of wooden stairs that led to the Isle of the Goddess, the princess herself stopped carefully and cautiously before the great, tall walls...but bravely and willingly, she entered her way past them. She was entering into the courtyard...and gasped. She saw, before her, and high, the Statue of the Goddess.

Lucina:Protector of this Earth...protector of this world...I put my trust to find peace and calmness in Goddess Hylia. Peace before...this execution of this life-changing game. I sought wisdom and guidance…and anything that would bring me closer to peace.

The princess saw the grand statue of Hylia, towering over her, its power immense and felt by her. Lucina gasped slightly at its large sight...then closed her eyes. In her own spirit, she could feel the spirit of the goddess.

And in the middle of the courtyard, sitting on the floor before the grand statue...Dark Pit sat on the marble, alone.

"Oh..." Lucina's eyes were with surprise. She carefully, hesitantly, walked her way across the marble, towards a path to the center of the courtyard where a circular platform existed, and where Dark Pit himself was. She was quiet, not knowing if she should speak.

There was silence between them in the night air in the holy ground.

"I...did not know you were here…" Lucina began again. "I apologize."

Dark Pit didn't respond. The dark angel just sat in place, quiet. Lucina continued, her eyes looking at him with concern.

"I...came here to seek guidance before the execution. To seek guidance...and also wisdom...for what I should do for the end of this episode...and for the days to come after this...if I am fated to make it past this episode, that is. Dark Pit… is that why you're here too?" The angel didn't speak for a second. But then, he finally spoke.

"No," he responded.

"Oh…" Lucina whispered.

"I came here to talk to all the goddesses in this universe…not just this one," Dark Pit spoke further, not looking at her, "and…to ask them a simple question."

"What question?" Lucina wondered, asking.

"Why do they relish in making mistakes like me?" Dark Pit answered. Lucina's mouth widened. She was silent.

"...Dark Pit…"

"If you were me, you'd be making the same request: for an answer to that question," the angel muttered. He faced back towards the large statue. Lucina was quiet.

"…Dark Pit…I'm sorry…" Lucina began to him softly. She walked slowly up to his spot. "We don't know, for sure, why any of us are on this planet. I may say the same...for myself at times, too. But...we must take things for the days we experience things. Day...by day. And today...I am choosing to pray to the Statue...but also, to also talk to you."

"But...why are you even choosing to talk to me, Lucina...if I could be the Mole?" He turned around to face her, his eyes gleaming...cross and angry. She looked back at him, surprised at his expression. "What if I was the Mole, Lucina? Here to destroy you? Wouldn't you be scared of the Mole? And run away? Terrified of potential sabotage someone like me would use to attack you? Because that could be me...here to cause nothing but ruin to everyone around me." Lucina's eyes widened, but then she swallowed.

"Whoever is the Mole, whether it be you, or me…or someone we least expect…they deserve compassion," the princess replied to him. "Everyone deserves compassion and pity...even the Mole. No matter what...if someone is suffering...they especially deserve reprieve from hurt." Dark Pit looked at her, silent.

"You're praying for the wrong reasons," Dark Pit told her, facing away.

"I...don't understand," the princess replied softly to him. "Dark Pit, I-"

"You should be praying for execution. So you don't have to keep suffering in this game. Also, I should be praying for execution too. Because if I make it to the next round...I'm afraid a darkness within me will come out. And nobody should ever see that." Lucina stared at him, her eyes wide.

Lucina: What did he mean...a darkness within him?

"If I'm the Mole...why are you still talking to me?" Dark Pit snapped, his eyes gleaming to her, almost threateningly. "If I'm the Mole...wouldn't talking to me ruin your chances of winning? I'd be someone full of deceit! Lies. Nothing good. And guess what? That's exactly what I am Lucina!" His eyes shined even more in the dark to her. "I'm the Mole, Lucina. A player of ruin and destruction. A darkness within me. And this place…is my world. And you'd better leave...now!"

With many emotions within her...mostly fear...but also a longing to reach out...Lucina left the temple with worry and apprehension in her heart from Dark Pit's words.

...but as the princess left the heavenly court, she looked back at the statue...and said a small prayer of her own.

The floating world was closer to the moon than the players had ever been during a quiz in their game. The moonlight shined across each of their keyboards and screens as they faced their quizzes simultaneously in different parts of the symbolic land. It truly was a symbolic world… one that held strong meaning to a Hyrule hero…and like that hero, six players tried to play heroes themselves… as they battled ten questions each that would ultimately determine their life or death.

In the sky-floating world...the fifth quiz of the game was here.

Kazooie, not flying like she was used to while in the sky, looked at the first question. She was sitting at a table not far from the yellow-colored building which was the academy she had been at herself. Wishing she had DK as her friend to help her out...and the pumpkin seeds to snack on and relax with from earlier...she took her quiz slowly, thinking.

1) The Mole is:

-Male

-Female

Kazooie:Well, another quiz…another migraine! Another opportunity to also try and answer unknown, confusing questions as best as you could! But we still don't know the darn answer to a question: who's the Mole?

Kazooie looked at Question #2...her mind racing with the best of her memory to the Pokemon hotel from the beginning of the episode.

2) At the start of Episode 6, from the host's left to right, in what position was the Mole standing?

-First

-Second

-Third

-Fourth

-Fifth

-Last

Kazooie:I fly from person to person whenever I think of suspicions! I just don't think it could be DK…he's been my friend! But he has done things that have been suspect. Failing to find Zora eggs, and also being the first to fail his cross the jump of the Bridge of Eldin due to a weird sense of confidence…could it be DK? I don't think so! But it can be anyone cause this game is too twisty! Maybe it's me! Haha!

3) How many times did the Mole successfully cross over the Bridge of Eldin during the first mission of Episode 5?

-1 time

-2 times

-3 times

-4 times

-5 times

-6 times

On Question 3, Isabelle was taking the quiz, sitting near the bridge in which she had received valuable information earlier and surprisingly from Joker. She stared heavily at the question…and thought about the words she was told earlier...her eyes appearing nervous as she read the question over and over.

Isabelle:I take everything with a grain of salt…like the sand on my town beach! Oh, so let's see…was Lucina truly sad when she dropped me? I mean, if she was, then maybe she's not the Mole! But Joker could be right? Maybe she is just an actress! Oh…but if I think that, I'm just a skeptic of my own fault and doing! I really like Lucina! But, well, I really, really have to focus, and not think so frantically and emotionally. I guess I have to use my thinking and logic...who's the Mole?

The fourth question shined to the eyes of Joker. The cape-wearing man was on the opposite side of the bridge from Isabelle...on a separate, floating island away from the little player. Away from a player who disturbed his mind, if only for a moment, he grimaced, thinking about their interaction.

4) Did the Mole successfully make it to the final platform at the end of the Bridge of Eldin game?

-Yes

-No

Joker:Players like Isabelle…they're simply a wild card. Most others think she is genuine, but just a speck of me thinks she is not so innocent of a little dog after all. So if she's the Mole...then she is successfully under the radar. But today...she spoke to me. And now she can't escape the radar anymore.

DK:One thing Isabelle did was drop that metal ball when we were throwing it in a circle on the bridge, but…she catch apples really well, and one of her Smash moves is even to catch items! I mean, that was totally sketch! Could a little, cute dog like Isabelle really be the Mole?! That is unbelievable to me.

DK moved from Question 4 to Question 5…and laughed out loud. He looked around, wondering if Kazooie on the other side of the floating island had heard him make a sound out loud. Then he shrugged, thinking about the disaster date from two nights prior even further.

5) Did the Mole sneak out of the Hyrule Town Inn on the first night?

-Yes

-No

DK:That date night dilemma…was a true disaster! But when we were sneaking out, we ran into Dark Pit! I found it really super duper suspicious that he was outside in the middle of the night! Was he conspiring? Maybe he was doing Mole stuff, or conferencing with the producers to know ways to sabotage the next mission! Wha! Who knows! Who knows what that little guy is going?!

Kazooie:Dark Pit, but also, yeah, he can definitely be Moley sometimes. Such a sneaky guy. He seems to have your back…but maybe he's just an angel Mole in disguise who will whack your back. Such a tricky guy, indeed. Gotta watch him too!

6) Which of three roles did the Mole play during the mission "All Aboard the Turtle"?

-A Marine Researcher

-A Carnival Carnivore

-A Turtle Captain

Dark Pit sighed. Cruelly, he was placed back on the Isle of the Goddess, forced to see the statue itself in his near distance. Placed outside the courtyard this time, the marble walls of the square were before his eyes. His feelings felt raw, and slightly angry, but none of those feelings were of priority at the moment. The dark angel needed to think...and answer a quiz.

7) Which of these foods did the Mole touch or hold during the entirety of the Turtle game?

-An Egg

-A Slab of Meat

-Both

-Neither

Dark Pit:When I think of Joker…I think of like...a bad coin. He smiles and grins, and you think he's being friendly on one side. But then the other side of him comes out…and he's not the friendly guy you thought he was for a second. Everyone confuses me in this game…as if I already don't confuse myself. But Joker, he's two-sided. And maybe he's trying to get me to like him. And so he could definitely be the Mole...despite everything. I can't forget that.

He clicked the next question with a sigh.

8) Was the Mole aboard the turtle at the time of 11:45am?

-Yes

-No

Inside the religious walls, in the middle of the holy square, Lucina sat quietly. She stopped her quiz…and looked up at the sky before her. The Statue of the Goddess loomed over her, and the large, stone figure of the woman was nearly the only thing she could see. She looked at the statue with reverence…respect...wishing and desiring wisdom...forgetting about the quiz for just a small second.

Lucina:I hoped to go on. If I don't…that is...more than okay. We must accept everything. But I feel as if I have to go on and find who the Mole is. However, maybe my game ends here. What do the higher powers have in store?

Lucina focused back on the quiz.

Lucina:When I think of something opposite of the Mole, I think of humor and happiness. It is something Kazooie has been delivering to us for many days. Her mistake of fruits and vegetables in the Metronome game…and even making us laugh as she attempted to sink with the turtle. All of it...it can be a diversion.

Isabelle:I never thought Kazooie was the Mole when I was her very partner on the water! But when she blew the whistle and lost the plant…I just thought after: had I been sailing on a turtle with the Mole for an entire hour all this time?! All these crazy thoughts!

9) Nearest to where is the Mole taking his or her quiz at this very current moment in time?

-The Knight Academy

-The Bridge

-The Statue of the Goddess

Joker:These wild, wild thoughts in the game of 'The Mole'. Which do we follow? Hmm? And which do the players around me follow?

All six players held their breaths…and clicked the final answer on their own time. An important question in the land of floating isles. A very, sneaky, daunting question. One that one of them knew the answer to very well.

10) Who is the Mole?

-Dark Pit

-Isabelle

-Kazooie

-Joker

-Lucina

-DK

On a separate, elevated piece of land, located above the majestic remainder of the large world that was Skyloft, the players were brought together. The floating, small land was higher in the air than the other islands that made up the floating universe, and the isolated, grassy platform was part-land and part-water: a horseshoe-shaped strip went around a small pond, and the players walked from one end of the curved strip to the other, walking calmly and anxiously around the calm pond water...to finally reach six chairs...a television...and their waiting host.

Below the small-scaled piece of land that they all stood upon together, water fell down to the earth below like a waterfall. They could hear the rushing waters plummeting in the night air below their grassy platform. And from their elevated, little island, they saw the rest of Skyloft: a breathtaking view of the floating world under the moon's near light. Each floating island they saw before them was unique and full of beauty, and all sights were wonderful to them: from the lowest garden patch to the highest tip of the Statue of the Goddess, the players took the time to appreciate their final location of Episode 5.

For one of them...it would be their final location in the game ever.

"We end this episode in a world of symbolism and meaning...the birthplace of Link…" Smash Host began, speaking to the players before him, his own eyes gazing across the land of Skyloft itself. "Our hero of Hyrule...our hero of time...was born here. For one of you, however...this is not a place of birth. It is a place of death." The players shuddered at the host's words.

"I...I don't like the sound of that…" DK gulped.

"As you know...an execution awaits...and one of you will be leaving forever." For a second, he paused. The players waited for the host to continue. He then…grabbed something from his pocket..and the players stared in awe.

It was a blue ocarina. And the host held it up.

"That looks familiar.." Joker whispered, smiling.

"The instrument...of Link?" Kazooie wondered, awed.

And the host began to play the instrument. It was a soft sound that came from the ocarina…a melodic tune...and one that made the players feel indeed sad and melancholy. The host played more, his eyes closed, each note long...strong...and piercing through the air softly. The players listened to each note...feelings of sadness sweeping over them. It was as if the host himself was playing indeed...a song of death.

But despite its sad tune, the players felt slightly happier. Uplifted. One had to feel sadness to feel better.

And then, the host finished. He put the ocarina back in his pocket.

"I hope you six had enjoyed that tune. It was all the happiness I could give you before we are to eliminate one of you...forever." He sat down on his own chair, also located next to the pond on the little floating island. He then faced them all.

"I will begin entering your names. And if the screen turns red...like a note of death...you are executed from the game." The players knew. They nodded to him.

The host spoke his last wishes. "Good luck. Let us begin."

The players all tensed up. They were to begin their execution.

"Joker," the host began, and the unmasked man just looked at the host carefully. Joker peered at the host's fingers with curiosity as they tapped away on the keyboard with, as his own name was typed in. Everyone looked at the player's face: he seemed silent...and in his eyes, he was slightly apprehensive. But even with apprehension, he held a calm face.

Joker looked at the host's last finger...as it finally pressed the 'Enter' button.

J-O-K-E-R

…

GREEN

Now, his calm face turned to one of more relaxation. He was officially safe. He turned to the others, nodding.

"Isabelle," the host called out immediately. The little dog buried her face in her lap. She was not ready for the calling of her name...but she could only wait for the results to show in just a few seconds.

"Oh...oh dear…okay…" she began. Just before the host pressed 'Enter', Isabelle looked up, eyes wide and expression full of fear.

I-S-A-B-E-L-L-E

…

GREEN

She let out a little yelp, looking down again. She was safe...and four more players were yet to see their fate. DK, Kazooie, Dark Pit, and Lucina all sat quietly...anxiously and unknowingly...next.

"Kazooie," the host called, and the third player looked at Smash Host with nervous eyes, but also a nervous smile. She watched her name get entered into the screen letter by letter, her talons tapping on the grassy floor as she awaited her fate.

"Let's see..." she said, laughing a little with anticipation. A few seconds later, the host pressed 'Enter'.

K-A-Z-O-O-I-E

…

RED

"Oh! Darn it all! I knew it!" Kazooie laughed again, getting up from her seat and stretching her wings. Everyone turned to her in emotions of surprise and disbelief.

"Oh…" Isabelle whispered sadly.

"NOOOO!" DK yelled loudly.

On the floating land...the song of death had called for her. Kazooie was the Mole's victim of Episode 5 of the game.

She ruffled her feathers, shrugged, and walked over to the host and the bags. She was grinning…a mixture of emotions…and sadness and regret…but did her best to trot off with pride and happiness.

"I'm the Mole's victim...I knew it…totally knew it!" she said in a laughing squawk. "See ya, everyone!"

The host handed Kazooie her bag, and began to walk off from the players, and the others watched with disbelief as Kazooie began walking away from the group as well…away towards the edge of the small, floating land…away from the game.

And as Kazooie walked away in defeat...Smash Host played his ocarina again. Each note was once again in the air...in respect to the leaving bird that had lost.

The players were silent in shock….as a song of death had taken one of them they had known for so long.

Each hop down to the lower land through a series of platform built by the game makers the day before…gave Kazooie more time to think about her leaving from the game . She chuckled to herself as they finally reached the main land of Skyloft's earth. She turned to Smash Host, grinning.

"...dang, I knew my time was up," she told him, as they landed on the firm grass.

"Really?" Smash Host asked.

"Nope. I'm just saying that." Kazooie smiled. She and the host walked past the large, powerful waterfalls to their right. Above, the large amounts of water flowed down from the small land where the five remaining players still sat.

"We really enjoyed your company in the game, Kazooie…and as did I myself," Smash Host told her with a saddened voice. "You brought a multitude of things that I desired to host in a player…carefree emotions, humor, and your own adventure and way of playing into the game. Something that will become less and less as the game goes on into its final episodes."

"Aww, and I'm glad…and I hope the others will miss me now that I'm gone…they better!" Kazooie chortled, her laughing voice like an instrument of sadness and happiness in the night air.

Upon the small, floating land…the sitting, safe players were both relieved… but most of them were struck with feelings of silence and downheartedness.

"Well…damn. The end of Kazooie," Dark Pit said, wide-eyed. "Just, gone."

And some of them were still in heavy shock from the elimination as well. The red of the glowing screen of the television…matched that of their friend who had just left. The red was both ominous…but enough to evoke many feelings of emotion.

"I didn't expect her…to go," Lucina whispered, looking to the others. "I am just...surprised beyond words."

Lucina:She had taken such a big stand this episode. She helped others…even me…and now, she was gone.

"Neither did I," Joker said calmly. "Though I'd rather her than me in this execution, I'd say." DK turned to glare at him amidst his sadness.

"Whaaa! I'm gonna WHACK YOU to a pulp!" DK looked back at him in his chair dramatically. Then, he sighed, and looked downheartedly to the ground. "Kazooie's gone! You guys don't even care! She was my friend! And friends are important too! Whaaaa!" He was bent over in sorrow.

"DK…actually, I could really say that Kazooie was a good friend of mine too!" Isabelle said happily softly, putting a hand on DK's back, "and I care so much and am sad that she's gone…" She smiled cheerfully at him. "I remember the first day we were together, the first night spending in the game...it was so, so fun!"

"What do you mean? What happened?"

"Kazooie and I tried to explore the underground land the first night…and then we found the wooden Mole sign! We were so frightened and scared!" Isabelle laughed. "But oh, after…we just laughed and joked about it after! She made me feel better and less scared about the whole game!" DK turned to her at her words in realization.

Flashback Kazooie:(Episode 1, walking back down into the cave) I bet the Mole is scared of us right now since we found their weird message, laying fifty eggs from their butt as we speak! (Isabelle giggles, and they both laugh)

"I felt like we finally connected in this episode too...riding the turtle together across the sea!" Isabelle added. DK began to smile more.

"It is very nice...the things she did" Lucina said, listening to her. "I…I also felt Kazooie's lightheartedness at many times. Even outside of missions…she was carefree. On the beach…and even sillily eating food…"

"We really appreciated her humor…she made sure that the game wasn't as serious as we all felt it was," Isabelle said with a sad smile, turning to DK. "We will miss her! You and us!"

"Like when she messed up during the Metronome game and said 'Peaches'…I suppose her sabotage sometimes always did make me laugh," DK thought back, smiling and humored, and feeling better overall.

"Not sure about you guys…but she was also secretly really smart too," Dark Pit spoke with a shrug, thinking .

"Really?" DK asked him. "How was she so?"

"I mean…when we were in the Stadium game, she basically found out the secret of the saboteur," Dark Pit admitted. "And solved Wii Fit."

Flashback Kazooie:(Episode 4, gulping to Dark Pit with realization) "Dark Pit….the crime never happened at 8:02. When we first saw that footage of the crime in the security room...it wasn't live!" (Dark Pit looks at her with shock and surprise).

Flashback Dark Pit: "How did you figure that out?" (Kazooie just shrugs)

"She was just super smart that episode…" Dark Pit began, then shook his head. "Well, actually…I guess she was secretly super intelligent throughout this entire game."

"Actually…I suppose she was indeed smart, as much as I despise to admit it, to take that Plus 7 on the Fountain of Dreams…when Lucario and I were playing our Fountain game with her back in the second episode," Joker remembered, sighing with newer reflection. Everyone turned to him. "To secure security so early on with no qualms or worry of what others thought. Hmm. Her first sabotage…was perhaps not even sabotage. It was her smartest decision."

Flashback Kazooie:(Episode 2, looking down at the Fountain water before the others could take it) "Sorry guys...I took it! Yyyyyyyyep…" (Joker and Lucario look at her around the fountain in shock)

Joker was silent in realization. "Perhaps she was really a good player… after all. As good as me. Or perhaps…in a way…because she was able to make friends with many others…even better."

"Do you think you played this game well?" the host asked her as they passed by and walked past small houses together on the floating land.

"Hard to say as I'm being executed right now and walking away from the game," Kazooie chuckled with humor to the host, almost rolling her eyes.

Smash Host grinned to her. "Then how about your game as a whole?" Kazooie pondered for a bit.

"So, I guess I took a lot of risks and adventures that no other player would have ever done," the bird thought, as they walked on. "Like sneaking on a date in the middle of the night. Or taking chances like getting Plus 1's and hats and making coalitions. Maybe I was crazy and just playing on my own terms! Or maybe I was 'smart'. Hard to tell."

"I'd say both," Smash Host said, looking at the farmlands and big towers in the distance. "You played smartly…because you played your own way. You played uniquely. That's what makes a great Mole player."

"If I'm a 'great' Mole player, then why am I being executed right now and trotting away from the game?" Kazooie laughed in response, shaking her head.

"You're only leaving… because you did poorly on a ten question quiz," the host told her, honesty in his voice. "Ten questions…such a method, really…" He paused. "It does not gauge one's level of greatness in this game. It is almost, in a way…unfair. But…those are the cruel rules of the Mole." Kazooie thought about his words, nodding just a little bit in realization. She was silent as they continued on past the farm.

"If I had made this game with my own rules instead," Kazooie said with a smirked beak, "I'd have definitely been the winner then! You can't deny that, Smash Host!" At her sentences, Smash Host laughed.

"Perhaps most definitely, Kazooie…perhaps most definitely."

"Do you know what Kazooie told me…earlier today…as we talked and joked in the Knight Academy building?" DK began, looking up from the ground among the chairs of players. "She told me that she didn't think she was a good person...all because she played selfishly at times and was greedy! But, I couldn't believe she'd say that! Just…I don't know what to think. …What do you guys think?" The others thought about DK's expressive words in wonder and silence as they sat on the floating island. For a second, everyone thought quietly, and no one said anything. Then, Isabelle spoke.

"I thought she definitely was," Isabelle spoke first, smiling. "She did many, many good things! I don't think anyone really ever thought she was bad at all!" DK turned to her in surprise.

"You think so?"

"Of course!" Isabelle said happily.

"Yeah…actually...," Dark Pit decided to speak up to the others, "Kazooie helped me. Back in the first episode. I'll never forget it."

"What?!" Everyone turned to him.

"We were in Castle Siege, and Wii Fit said something mean against me. But then…Kazooie noticed that. And she countered it back with saying something nice. You know…she probably just said that to make me feel better."

Flashback Wii FIt: (Episode 1, to Dark Pit, angry in the castle) "Every suggestion you make brings us closer to doom! Are you the Mole, our evil saboteur? Or even worse than the Mole in our game...just an incompetent player who can't do anything correct?"

(Dark Pit looks shocked and hurt, as Kazooie notices his changed expression)

Flashback Kazooie: "Hey, Dark Pit...whacking the statues was actually a bit fun. Thanks for the fun suggestion, Dark Pit!" (As the angel turned to her in surprise, the breegull gives him a small smile).

Everyone looked at Dark Pit with new feelings at his words.

"Her genuinity in kindness and wholesomeness…it was even present since Episode 1," Lucina whispered with realization. "She just always kept it just a layer hidden."

"Also, remember, remember! DK, she could have taken your Yoshi hat at the end of Episode 3, but she gave it back!" Isabelle remembered, jumping up. "Remember in Episode 3 when she took your Yoshi visor…but then, she changed her mind at the end of the Storybook game and gave your visor back!"

Flashback Kazooie: (Episode 3, looking at the Yoshi hat in her wings) "Hey...actually...I don't need it." (smiles and tosses the visor to DK, as everyone's eyes widen. Joker and Lucario look shocked).

Joke (confessional): What was the point of all that prior drama then?

Dark Pit: confessional): Is Kazooie actually a nice person? Hmm…after the Castle mission of Episode 1, I always suspected something.

Flashback DK: (erupting into excitement) "WHATTT?! YESSSSSSSS! THANK YOU!"

DK grinned widely. "That's what I thought…she was a good person when she gave me the Yoshi hat back!" DK said, smiling and feeling more confident in his thoughts.

"And as much distress as she caused us last episode…almost taking the credit card bribe…I can only imagine how much regret she has now, having refused it all," Joker thought with a sigh.

"But I do not believe she would have been happy," Lucina responded firmly, shaking her head. "To know that she cost the team 70,000 coins as she left…she would not have had happiness at all. Because Kazooie...truy has a good heart. And she would not have been pleased." Everyone thought about her words, silently agreeing.

The host and Kazooie passed by a red building in the middle of the floating town. A color of the red bird herself….and the color of execution. The color of red also seemed to symbolize bad instead of good...always in symbolic representation and nature...and the executed player couldn't help but ask herself whether she had been a bad player all this time once she heard the host's next question.

"Do you think you were a good person as a player in this game?"

"Oh...oh, no, not at all," Kazooie laughed. "Look how much havoc I cost while playing on my own accords! Nope, definitely not."

"Are you sure the others would agree with you, however?" the host said to her with a smile. "I'm sure they remembered all the good about you instead of the few bad."

"Hah...don't make me laugh!" Kazooie chortled.

"I am just saying what I truly feel they would say," the host told her, shrugging. "I have a feeling...a great feeling...they are talking about your goodness and all of the good things you'd done in the game. You were a good person, I believe." And he grinned, adjusting the earpiece secretly in his ear, unbeknownst to Kazooie. They turned slightly in another way, leading to another path.

"What were your two or three top memories from this game, Kazooie?" Smash Host asked her. "What moments and games made you feel alive?" Kazooie thought for a second, humming, trying to collect her memory.

"Hmm...I think I'd say all the sneaky, fun stuff I did...really made me all giddy while I played this game," Kazooie said with happy, reminiscing memory. "Planning and having secret conversations with Wii Fit, DK, and other people through Episodes 2, 3, 4... talking about who the Mole was...I liked all that smart planning stuff! I totally felt like a spy! Don't get me started with the dinner date sleuthing three days ago. All of that undercover stuff agent stuff was just so fun for me!"

Flashback Kazooie: (conspiring with Wii Fit together hidden in Woody Woods at the end of Episode 2) "Either Lucario has a crush on you...or he's deflecting suspicion off from himself by blaming other people."

Flashback Wii Fit: "Let's hope for the former." (Kazooie and Wii FIt laugh out loudly, then quickly quiet downso no one discovers their hiding spot)

"Sounds like you should have been the Mole instead of...whoever the spy is," Smash Host said with a wink. Kazooie nodded strongly with humor. "So, what else did you enjoy the most during this game, Kazooie?"

"Oh, I know! I don't mean this in a bragging way, but all the times I won. And all the succeeding in puzzles was totally fun too cause it made me feel awesome! I don't mean it in a boaatful way, nahh...okay, maybe a little...but I felt like I was reaching my full potential each time I was able to get a riddle or solve a game. Totally."

Flashback Kazooie: (Episode 3, in the underground pipe game, solving her riddle): "Yes! I got it! Nineteen letters...nineteen coins." (with satisfaction, she begins to collect coins)

"Fees good to win, I suppose," Smash Host smiled with a little nod. Kazooie nodded a little sadly.

"Yeah..if only I could have won this whole game," she chuckled, sighing, but she smiled.

"I think one of my other favorite memories of Kazooie was when we were riding that rickety carriage in Episode 1," Isabelle smiled. "She just kept ranting about the Mole! The whole ride!" Everyone also smiled, picturing the scene.

Flashback Kazooie: (in the carriage) "The Mole must be having so much fun! Watching us poop our pants from fear! The Mole's a sadist! Nothing else." (everyone looks at her, amused)

"She totally made us so scared and worried when she wanted to go down with the turtle!" DK remembered, eyes both mad and laughing. Everyone nodded, chuckling.

Flashback Kazooie: (saluting dramatically on the turtle): "Goodbye….farewell…give my best wishes to everyone…."

"She did so much extra, extraneous stuff...just, such, such, such her character," Isabelle thought.

Dark Pit grinned, the others seeing his malicious face. "And sabotaging with her during the Storybook game on Yoshi's land...that was totally...totally fun. Can't lie. Pretty great playing dastardly during this dastardly game."

"Both of you were being the Mole for all of us that episode...I remember that clearly," Joker said with a disapproving, sly smile. "How Mole-ish of you both."

"But awesome," Dark Pit grinned.

"I really liked when she and Wii Fit worked together to win the Tower game in the Pokemon world," Isabelle said with memory. "I mean, I know it made us lose money, which obviously made me sad, but knowing she worked with Wii Fit and was able to put their differences aside...I was really proud of Kazooie in that game!"

Remember the Electrocution Tower game, where they all fought against Kazooie, they all nodded with positivity. It was one silver shining from losing that game.

(Flashback Kazooie and Wii Fit in Episode 4, reaching the final light tower)

Flashback Kazooie: (eyes wide with surprise) "We...we did it!"

They all remembered their friend. Now, she was the fifth person to leave the game of 'The Mole'. Kazooie would be no more.

"Let's wish her well...as she leaves this land," Joker nodded. Everyone turned to where he was looking. Kazooie was approaching the edge of the land. And for some reason...the players felt that she wasn't going to use a helicopter to leave the land of Skyloft. She would depart...on her own. They watched her in silence...and they would miss her.

"We wish you a great departure…" DK said, smiling, his eyes tearing up, "Captain Kazooie."

A tall, scalable pillar was located near the southern tip of Skyloft. It was the Light Tower, powerful, capable of shining a light stronger than anything in the world. But it was not time for light. It was time for nighttime...the sky dark... the end of the day...and symbolizing the end for one of them. It was a time of leaving and departure in the floating town for a red bird. Kazooie and the host walked to the edge of the light next to the Light Tower. They were at the end of the world of Skyloft, and the host was silent for a second. On the edge of the land together…the host then turned to Kazooie with a smile.

"Do you know… what a Crimson Loftwing is?" he asked her. Kazooie looked dumbfounded.

"No, but it must be something important if you're asking me," she retorted with a laugh. Smash Host smiled lightly.

"It is Link's guardian bird," the host replied to her, looking to the sky. "When Link had met the wonderful bird...he had formed an immediate bond with it. Our Hyrulian leader was able to fly on the bird without even needing instructions. It was red...majestic...flying...great...like…" The host turned to Kazooie, "like you." Kazooie faced the host with surprise.

"Like...me…?" Kazooie responded, flabbergasted.

"And also like you...the Crimson Loftwing was able to make the best of friends and bonds with anyone it met. You, Kazooie, as much as you might not agree...are a grand bird of friendship. Just like the bird who flew these lands." Kazooie was just wide-eyed for a few seconds. Then, she grinned. She grinned proudly.

"Well…I don't meant to toot my own kazoo, haha…but, thank you, Smash Host. Those words mean a lot!

"You've displayed this largely yourself, too, through your own game. You have always had an inseparable bond...with Banjo himself," the host said. Kazooie nodded, slowly realizing.

"Indeed," she said, thoughtfully. "And...I think it's time to go back to the big bear." Smash Host nodded.

Suddenly, lights lit up in the distance…among the clouds in front of them. Through the darkness of the cirrus clouds, there was a lit-up path through the sky. Red lights were newly present, stretching into the distance from their very spot…almost as if they led somewhere…or they were meant to lead someone somewhere. Kazooie looked at the lights with wonder.

"Hey, Smash Host," Kazooie said with curiosity, pointing with her wing, "What are those?" Smash Host smiled.

"Well, Kazooie," the host said slyly, grinning, "We were going to let the executed player utilize the helicopter to leave this land…but as soon as we knew it was you at the end of the quiz…there was one thing we wanted to change…to mollify and pacify the sadness of it all. An opportunity…for a little lift-off." Kazooie's eyes grew wide with surprise.

"I will...fly?!" She couldn't believe it, flapping her wings excitedly.

"You're a bird, after all," Smash Host grinned. "You deserve to be free. You're out of this game. Why don't you fly off?" Kazooie was in disbelief. But then she grinned. She looked off into the clouds and the open air ahead of her. She was meant to go free.

"The heck I WILL!" She got ready to jump off the edge of the land...but then stopped. "This is really my end, isn't it? Once I jump off." Smash Host thought or a second.

"I think it's rather your beginning." And he opened his arm out to the open, night sky. "Follow the red lights, Kazooie. They are to your freedom."

Kazooie nodded, and then took a deep breath. It had been the longest she had gone without flying in her entire life. But now, lifting off from the edge of the platform of Skyloft, she jumped off. She flapped her wings...once...twice...then rapidly in succession as she realized with pure delight that she was flying once again, because she was finally allowed to...she was finally free. She glided through the dark clouds, following the trail of red lights back home...and like a grand bird in the sky...a bird of friendship...she flew back home.

Kazooie was happy…smiling…finally in the air. Finally flying. She closed her eyes, the wind in her face.

And into the night sky, as a free person, and no longer a trapped player, she flew off...and was gone.

The moon shined to the eyes of the five remaining players on the high, elevated land. When they watched Kazooie fly off into the distance, they couldn't help but feel happy for her. She was free at the end of the episode. Episode 5 was over for the players...but the players knew...that for them...they were still trapped themselves. And they knew that the deceits were still to come even more for them...and very soon for them all. The next day...had mysteries to be dealt with. They were silent.

"Well..." Dark Pit said, looking a little miserably as he watched Kazooie fly off into the clouds. He then...just looked at the marble ground. "Here comes Episode 6...another episode…another terrible…something."

Lucina thought silently. "It is not just a new episode...," she whispered. "It is…the beginning of a new era. We are the final five of this game. And our duty...as one of the surviving, important final five, is to go on. To finish this game. As far as we can fly ourselves." They were silent on the pond-surface, grassy land.

"Well, uhhh…things are definitely going to get harder…!" DK gulped, anxiously looking around. "And the Mole is still here!? Come on: how can one of you be doing this to us?!"

"Hmph...an unrelenting saboteur," Joker sighed, chuckling, shaking his head. "The Mole...still strong, it seems, among us. And don't be so surprised, DK, if the Mole gets you from underneath your feet…from under the very ground you stand."

"I'll whack him back into the ground," DK chuckled, yet still nervously.

"Oh, but there's not really much left…," Isabelle voiced from her seat with worried eyes, and everyone turned to the small player. "Just...after this...we have just three episodes left until the really end!" Her face was panicked. "It's already ending! And how will we even play and go on?!" The players all felt together a new emotion: that the final stages of the game were coming into their reality. They all looked to each other.

Dark Pit:We did not know.

"Just...oh, but...let's try not to panic though. That's silly! It's only a game..." Isabelle laughed lightly again.

"Then...we just have to keep fighting! And don't give up, ever!" DK shouted with heavier determination, nearly getting up from his chair. "RIGHT, guys?! Fight till our very last breaths! Come on: we can't give up when we're all so close!" They nodded.

"Of course not…" Joker responded, folding his arms and sitting back in his chair, chuckling. "If we do...we lose to the Mole." He laughed. "Alas, however, I just can't believe one of you had been sabotaging us all this time."

"I can," Dark Pit muttered, not caring, looking to the ground. "You're all just...bad people. Each of you is conniving and evil enough to be the Mole." Everyone was silent at his words.

"Well...uhhm…we just have to trust our instincts...to not trust that wrong, one person in our group," Isabelle said fearfully, but hopefully.

Isabelle: Oh dear...and if we did…!

"Yes…" Nodding, Lucina closed her eyes. "As we travel to the next world...let us see what the new era has in store for us."

"And we'll also see...just what the Mole has in store for us in these last, remaining episodes to come," Joker spoke with ready, skeptical eyes, looking to the dark sky. He smiled a bit. "Alas. We continue on...with lessened numbers. And with lessened numbers...comes heightened disquietude and trepidation. So...let the games truly begin."

The five players had a strange mix of feelings. It was a mix of emotions...of determination...but also heavy perturbation. Because one of them was still the Mole.

And floating on the small, wonderful, marvelous land...the terrible, conniving, sinister Mole remained.

And he or she couldn't wait for what was to come next.

ANNNNNNDDD SHE'S GONE!

Ahhh! I will definitely miss Kazooie :')

You know, there was an original ending where Banjo was supposed to greet her at the end of the episode and her execution! But I deleted it...as I thought flying off would be more majestic and meaningful and better for her :)

And Banjo can't fly, hence the change...oh wait, he can...with Kazooie...cough anyways

PLEASE review your top suspect or top two suspects! :D I would appreciate it so much! :) WHO. IS. THE MOLE?

There were no votes on my profile this time :( So no poll results, hahaha. XD Or maybe the site is glitching stuff and it never showed up for anyone? But it's okay! No bigs honestly! :) Your reviews are more important than anything!

Thank you all so much for the support up to now! :) I can't thank you guys enough!

Stay tuned! The game indeed enters a new l, unexpected era...the final five! Just what things will change?? Stay tuned!

Darksymphony777: Thank you so so much for: 1) Deciding to return back to reviewing my story after this, despite your recent busyness; only review when you can :) And then 2) Thank you SO much for this INCREDIBLE story! I will miss this nearly-maybe-I should make-officially-canon sequel to Agent's Elevation :') It had grown so much, and I am so excited to read the finale! So: I am so glad Sherry was able to grow as a character, she was such a deep character! And I'm glad she will have an invited to the Deceiver's World finale : D So it was Carpaccio's idea for this reboot and continuation of the Mole? I guess we have to thank him for something! NOOO! The destroyed building :'( I almost cried reading that light. A mysterious, magnificent building full of so much adventure and gaming. I'm glad McHallyboo saw the truth of how helping others can be the true, good answer is life. Wait...he is..immortal…? Kinda explains these very wild theories of how he could be the host of TMDW. Yay, Tiny and McHally are going on a world trip together! Tiny deserves it :) And I'm so fascinated with how Rosalina was the final character to end this story with McHallyboo: I guess she was way more mysterious than we ever knew she was in Saboteur's Island. Anyways….THANK YOU FOR THIS WONDERFUL STORY! I will make it pretty much officially canon as the spin-off sequel to TMAE. :)

Salamander: Your words are always inspirational to me! :) I really can't thank you enough. You're working on a publishable work of art?! That is AMAZING! :D I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that it'll be outstanding! What genre/plot is it? Yeah, the players' games all had mysteries in them! Just what things were the lab people missing that could have helped them out? And what was the significance of the Zora chef offering to cook their chicken?! I like how you caught onto such a small thing that might end up being important later :) Intelligrnce ahoy! Okay, seeing your smart math analysis on the Monty Hall Problem…I was like *sweat drop sweat drop* because you're so dang smart! xD I am just nervous you're gonna analyze all these games and get the Mole soon! Hahaa. I totally also love how you spotted out a possible personality reveal/shift in terms of Isabelle! What is the truth of her? And was she actually intentional when she cheerfully revealed to DK that Kazooie didn't trust her while on the turtle? :o I'm glad this episode's execution victim is unknown! I feel too this is the first time it's less predictable xD Are one of the date couple players the love-executed victim for this round? :O Ah, we shall see!

Dark Punxysaur: Yeah! References to the Zelda series :) I'm sad cause I haven't played the series as much as other people! I had to do my own research and watch playthroughs on YouTube in order to write these past chapter hahahaa. Exactly! The potential sabotages are everywhere, made even more difficult with the fact that they don't even know whether to speed or slow the turtle down. What will the results be?! Your prediction of a "partial" success is nearly spot on, haha! In fact, that's usually how missions in the Mole end up working out lol. Will DK and Isabelle make it to the next round?! Our animal duo is in danger ,( haha. And can't wait to see your quiz taking! You're always good at that :)

Cavin856: The book about the turtle is indeed more important than meets the eye! You would have succeeded in the mission for sure :) Probably tear apart and decode that marine lab in no time, no doubt haha. Manipulation is always a sad, unfortunate thing to exist in the game of The Mole, and you saying that Joker may be manipulating Dark Pit's emotions is so sad but could be true :'( I like how you recognized the Monty Hall Problem! You do have a point in maybe saying the carnival game may possibly even be a scam itself, as it is almost impossible to win all the chicken if it costs one to even switch, hahaha. Nice thinking that the turtle didn't have to make so many trips: I was even thinking of cutting down the number of extraneous stops! To make the chapter shorter! But then I realized: it'd make the turtle game that much less epic if it only had 2 stops...thus, I kept the 4 :) And one thing I made sure to include was that the large, ticket-holding fish tank in the marine lab only opened once the turtle left the dock after Stop 1 (in the carnival players' deleted scene, probably they were only given the cave instructions after Stop 2 was done xD Ahhh yes! Priorities to tell the turtle captains to speed the turtle! You definitely would have succeeded in this game, Mr. Cavin! And whether this was clever sabotage planning by Lucina or not, could it be? And yes, the clue count! I just couldn't just have 2 clues in each episode: I really want the clue reveals in the end of the story to be an epic one, so I guess the more hidden, the greater that ending reveal chapter finale! :) Hidden, clues were always my favorite part in the real show too, hahaha.

Luaisy Lover: Just wanna say: you have NO IDEAAA just how happy I was to hear (see?!) your voice again :')) To have the gift and honor of your reviews again...ahhh! It felt like my birthday already :) Thank you so so much for deciding to come back! I miss your AWESOME REVIEWS AND YOUR WIT AND WORDS! By the time you read this, you'd have finished Ch. 24, so sorry if this review reply is a little off! xD I am DEAD from your line: "We find a closet and inside it is... Wait, its that Dark Pit?" HAHAAHA. Only some people like us know ;) Yeahh! So true that the Mole knows prior info to the missions, so they definitely knew all the bridge puzzle answers beforehand! Loool, I'm laughing at your rant against how bad the girls were at the bridge Metronome game: they truly were super lacking in their skills in that game and it's funny that you called them out for it cause...they were actually really bad xD Especially knowing at least two of them aren't the Mole hahaa. And lol! Isabelle's "Oh no"...it's becoming just more and more and more...moving onto your review for Chapter 23! Oh YES! Writing this chapter and even brainstorming its outline, I totally pictured Kazooie and DK with sunglasses in a spy mission! :D Like that was totally the image that kept popping into my head as I planned this "date spying" scene! Haha! Lucina sensing auras...what if she really was Lucario's long-lost daughter?! They're both blue! I absolute loooooooved your analyzing and philosophy of the Mole and whether they deserve pity or not! It's an interesting question! Hmm, personally, my answer falls in between both answers :). I like how you think Lucina and Joker talking have good chemistry! I aimed for that :) Now we don't know who to ship anymore! Lol! Joker finally pointing out all our feelings of Isabelle being off-putting xD And your names for each team for the Turtle Mission….those definitely should be canon! Hahaa

Masking What Remains: Ahaha! The shade! Joker is pretty good at his lines of shade! So is our token bird Kazooie. The others…pretty innocents themselves xD if they're not the Mole. Yesss! The purple plant was more than important and you definitely knew that! :) If only the players utilized it better, oh well haha (though they did, if only just a tiny petal, lol) Yeahhh! I'm glad you spotted the 3 Door Monty game! Dark Pit definitely should have paid more attention in school to know that it wasn't beneficial to stay on the same door at all! And nice three suspects! Does Isabelle have a secret side to her that she's hiding from the other players or does she not? :O conspiracies, haha. Oh yeah hmm, maybe Dark Pit being stubborn and losing is just personality ways to help if he's the Mole? xD haha. And DK! Him being the Mole would be shocking to several readers, I am definitely sure. I guess we have to keep expecting the unexpected :)

DealthourX: Oh wow, now I REALLY REALLY have to watch the Belgian series! They sound so bingeworthy! :) The Mole binging is a match made in heaven! I'm gonna search now! I feel like every word becomes important in a Mole game! DK with his "fishy" line...could there be more to it? And interesting opinions! First, thinking that Isabelle may not be truly "cutesey" as we thought. What is the truth? And also, your belief on the italicized text being about Dark Pit! What do these dialogues truly mean, anyway? I like how you immediately take the "I'm not gonna think about it too much" route: I think that's exactly the right thing to do about vague, second-plot content like these! xD That "whahay" line was definitely a Banjo thing that I for some reason synonymized Banjo's "whahay" sound with the sound of a crowd...not the best connection but haha xD I'm so glad you liked the "actiony-paced" aspects of this chapter and mission! :) I actually do several re-reads of each chapter and cut out any boring, overly-elongated parts. Actually incidentally, I actually DID cut out a portion of Dark Pit playing the Shell game! It was too long and unnecessary...and there were more important things to focus on for the turtle chapter :) Speaking of Dark Pit, it's so cool to see him at the top of your suspects list! :) I feel like not so many people choose him! He is a bit under the radar a bit I suppose, and whether that's him being the Mole or just his character in comparison to the others, we'll see hahaha. It's so interesting too to see you viewing DK in a more genuine light and not as the Mole! Opinions just so rapidly! Kind of like me watching the real show of the Mole xD But we'll see: does DK's genuinity truly shine enough and make him not the Mole?! And same with Kazooie, our red-feathered friend! I guess we will find more answers as this episode comes to an end! OH, P.S. I searched high and low for Belgium seasons! I am having trouble finding them! :( If you can P.M. as many site locations of the seasons you could find, that'd be amazing haha :) I am cry...but i did for S7 and S9 via youtube!