When life gives you goo, you make goo-ade.

Dedenne is currently hiding in a bush, doing nothing for the most part. There wasn't exactly much strategy to be had with challenges like these other than running and hiding so he's focused on just repeating his winning strategy during the first challenge by hiding in place and not saying a word.

"..." Though, Dedenne immediately grew bored, waiting for the challenge to end. There were only so many ways you could hide after all, so the little mouse was tired of doing nothing and regretted not volunteering to be a hunter, since at least he'd actually get to do SOMETHING worth noting, instead of just hiding. Sure, he was always a wallflower but that barely applies to a children's game like this.

"This is all Klinklang, Magcargo and Magearna's fault…" Dedenne grumbled to himself, slightly frustrated that his teammates split up from him, without even trying to inform him that they were going to split up. "They better not be going off making alliances without me. That would be the worst. As if this team couldn't get any worse than it is now."

He shook his head with a drawn out sigh. "Ugh, there's no use being worried about nothing. Besides, Empoleon is on this team so I can take advantage of him. He has a lot of issues to work out on his own…" He continued to think to himself, assessing his current position on the team before his ears twitched at the sound of rustling leaves. Either there was a Wild Pokemon nearby or there was someone in the game nearby.

Neither situation was ideal so that was another reason to sit still and do nothing. He remained silent but his eyes scanned his surroundings through the thickets, to see the source of the noise. It was Cramorant. The blue bird seems to be fixated on her broken phone for some reason.

"Oh, it's just someone from my own team." Dedenne muttered. "What is she even doing?"

"No signal…" Cramorant murmured, putting her phone back into her feathers as she picked up her paintgun. "Well, that was completely expected, but I can't help but still feel disappointed."

The camera panned back to a confused Dedenne who tilted his head to the side. What did Cramorant even mean with 'No signal' when her phone wasn't even working. Of course, it wouldn't have a signal. It wouldn't have any signal with how bro-

"Dedenne, what are you doing el oh el." Dedenne's train of thought was interrupted by Cramorant walking over to the bush he was hiding in. "Are you trying to hide? Cuz like, I think your hiding spot is a bit obvi. But that just might be me. Sorry sorry, if you heard anything annoying from me. I'm trying to see if I can get my phone to work again if I can get a signal."

"That's not how phones work." Dedenne pointed out. "And uhm? I think my hiding spot is solid enough… but I guess you have a point there, seeing as you found me almost immediately. Which by the way, I'm shocked about. I thought you were distracted on your phone so how in the world did you even find me so quickly?!"

"I'm a pro-seeker!" Cramorant answered. Noticing Dedenne's look of disbelief, she rolled her eyes with a huff. "I practiced my seeking skills, to avenge Gourgeist like yuuuuh… she was soooo good at seeking and she's not in the game anymore, to carry any team so like, I want to be the new team carry and stuff. I'm doing good, right?"

"Well, if you keep this up, you just might find everyone from the other team and win the challenge for us." Dedenne said.

"Yaaah, thanks. That being said, tee tee why el, De-de-NEH, I have a challenge to win!" Cramorant said, running off in the opposite direction. Dedenne waved goodbye at the bird before emerging from his hiding spot.

"So, this wasn't a good hiding spot all along." Dedenne whispered. "What do I even do now? Climb up a tree or something?"

"UGH, you should climb down already. I hid in a tree first!" Vivillon screamed at Skwovet, face turning red from frustration. "I am already starting to get sick of your face!"

"What?! I was here first!" Skwovet said, pointing at the butterfly threateningly. "I didn't even know you were hiding in a nearby tree… BECAUSE I DIDN'T SEE YOU, ERGO I was here first and you need to find another hiding spot, because I'm the one who's MORE sick of your face."

"Okay, now you're making excuses. Hypothetically, if you were the first to hide here, it barely matters when you still owe me for poisoning me underground!" Vivillon countered. "So, you need to leave me alone and poison someone else. I'm trying to be nice here and you're making it hard for me."

"Oooh, now I wish I pilfered all your stuff now…"

"Are you threatening me?"

"So what if I am?"

"You have no right to threaten me. You're just jealous that I am more affluent and richer than you are."

"You're literally a nepotism baby."

"YOU are the baby, you you… YOU BABY!"

"How mature of you, bitch."

Walking from underneath them, Vanilluxe looked pale from overhearing their arguing for awhile now. "Why do they have to fight all the time?" While he was tempted to join in the conversation and try to force them to make peace with a lighthearted joke, he had a feeling they would criticize him for being distracted when he volunteered to be a hunter.

He was already starting to feel dizzy from the yelling so even if he wanted to tell a joke, he wouldn't have been able to. Quickly covering his ears, he floated back to where he came from, hoping that the yelling would slowly quieten down as he went further away.

"I still don't get why some people would put too much energy into fighting with others." Vanilluxe commented, still shaken from all the arguing. "Maybe, if they put that amount of energy into making casual small talk and funny puns, the world would be a better place but that's Whiscash thinking… GET IT, since the WHISC in Whiscash sounds like WISH!"

He cleared his throat, smiling awkwardly for a moment. "We're on a new team with 3 OG Shuppet and an obvious OG Trubbish majority. I was hoping they would have a truce, at the very least, and try to work with each other but I guess I was wrong to assume that they'd make peace. That's… NUTS! Get it?! Since Skwovet is a squirrel!"

Teddiursa and Floatzel have decided to travel together, searching for NuShuppeters to hunt. But they don't have much luck in their search. Teddiursa held back a curse as she accidentally stubbed her toe on a relatively large pebble.

"We've been walking for ages and we still haven't found anyone! This is so terribad. I honestly expected people to have a worse hiding spot~" Teddiursa commented, nudging Floatzel's arm. The weasel only grunted in response, making the small bear pout. "Aw Floatzy, don't snub me! We've been together for over 2 weeks now. We're practically besties!"

"Just friends." Floatzel corrected him, focusing on searching rather than conversing with the fake cutie.

"Don't be a party-pooper. I know you might think too much about it but I honestly consider you to be one of my best friends!" Teddiursa said, surprisingly sincere and not trying to over exaggerate her high-pitched tone. "Floatzel? Are you even listening?"

"I can hear something… and it sounds evil…" Floatzel replied, putting out his paintgun and aiming forward at a bush as it rustled ominously. Teddiursa peered over his shoulder with interest. Grunting, his grip tightened on the trigger. With a bang, Floatzel shot the paintball gun at the bush.

"AAAAH!"

"Yay, we did it!" Teddiursa cheered. "That was ea… sy?' She paused as the screams didn't stop. "Is it me or does the screaming sound like Sableye?"

Floatzel turned to Teddiursa with a deadpan expression. "Are you telling me I accidentally shot my own teammate?! T-that doesn't count, right?! Sableye is not eliminated from the challenge, right?"

"Why are you asking me!? We should be helping Sableye rn cuz he is very loud!" Teddiursa pointed out. Floatzel nodded in response as the duo sprinted over to the bush to find a fallen Sableye, lying on his back, hands positioned over his chest as if he was dead.

"Sableye, are you okay?!" Teddiursa said.

Sableye's eyes slowly opened as he mustered a smile. "I-I'm fine… I didn't expect you to actually shoot, Floatzel. H-Heh, I already told you all over and over again, I ain't a bad person, I swear."

"It was an accident." Floatzel said in the flattest tone, making him sound insincere. "I thought you were someone from another team so I just pressed the trigger before you could get away. Sorry about that."

"W-when you say it like that, I dunno if you meant it or not."

"Oh please, if I wanted you to repent, I would've used actual bullets." Floatzel drawled sarcastically.

"H-haha, that's not a funny joke!" Sableye stammered, sitting up straight. He then rubbed the part of her stomach where there was a messy goo splotch. "So, I was shot… does this mean I'm out of the challenge or something? That sucks."

"I don't think so! I mean, we're on the same team and judging from the fact that you're kind of covered in a green goo means that Nihi planned for the other hunters to have purple goo? So this def doesn't count, tee hee~" Teddiursa assumed. "So uhm, you should probably get hiding again before someone from the other team finds you or somethin'"

"Y-yeah…" As Sableye was about to run off and hide again, Teddiursa then decided to stop him.

"Wait wait wait. This is perfect timing actually!"

"H-huh?"

"Let's talk strategy, bestie. We're in an obvious minority on this tribe so we need to strategize so that we can survive, cuz I def think the other people might think of voting one of us three off."

"Shouldn't we worry about this l-later, heh?" Sableye pointed out, eyes darting around his surroundings.

"Oops, I almost forgot we had a challenge!" Teddiursa covered her mouth awkwardly, then made a 'okay you can leave now' hand gesture at the gremlin. The Dark/Ghost type laughed awkwardly before skittering back to the bush he came from, emerging at the other side then leaving the area.

The little bear turned back to Floatzel with a neutral expression. "Well, at least you can say you actually shot someone with your paintgun and uhmm, I suppose you destressed a bit by shooting your 'mortal enemy'~"

"He's under investigation so that doesn't exactly make him my mortal enemy." Floatzel corrected, crossing his arms.

"Awww, that's some huge character development from you~" Teddiursa teased as the duo started walking away from the area to search for the other team. "If this was Day 1, you would've screamed at him for no reason."

"I would. But as you already know, I am preoccupied." Floatzel said sarcastically.

"Oh you! Let's just go~"

"Okay, maybe I am starting to get a LITTLE bit attached but it's not because Teddiursa's my bestie… or whatever she calls it." Floatzel defended himself with a steeled expression. "I don't fully trust her but it's better to keep her at a close distance, in case she even considers backstabbing me."

Rolling his eyes, he leaned back. "If you think that's me being overly cautious, it's rightfully justified. The world is a shitty place and I've seen how bad it can be. So from personal experience, trying not to be vigilant is a smart thing. Sableye hasn't done anything bad YET but it's inevitable. Teddiursa is being 'sweet' to me NOW but I'm starting to get worried she'd change sides soon. We're on another team and she's fickle."

Cramorant is humming to herself, as she aims her paintgun threateningly at any potential players to shoot at before she finds a cave… specifically, a different cave from the cave they were stuck in during a previous challenge.

She smirked as she aimed at the opening of the cave. "A cave is like, a smart hiding spot. I bet someone is hiding in there!"

Without any second thought, the cormorant rushed into the cave, with her voice still being loud even with the camera not following her in there. "Teddiursa, is that you? You look bigger than usual."

…

Cramorant immediately rushed out the cave, dragging along her paintgun across the floor as a wild Ursaring chased after her. "WWAAAAAAAAAH!"

Oricorio was just wandering around the island during the challenge, not necessarily focused on finding a set hiding spot since she had a strong feeling that no matter where she decided to hide, it wasn't going to be too much of a struggle to find her. Right now, she ended up at a flower field filled with blue flowers. That, and an oddly-placed white cottony flower in between. Listless, she carefully plucked this weird flower, revealing it to be a nervous-looking Gossifleur.

"Gossifleur, I don't think this is a good hiding spot. You know the other team only has to find all 5 of us and it's over and you're not exactly making it harder for them." Oricorio pointed out, gently placing the flower back onto the ground while crouching, in case a hunter from the other team suddenly showed up.

"I genuinely thought this was a good hiding spot." Gossifleur reasoned. Noticing the bird's look of disbelief, the Grass-type sighed. "Okay, maybe it was obvious but I'm not too good at hide and seek… or running so this challenge was built against me no matter what. My sister was the one who's a total pro at this-"

"Wait, you have a sister?"

"Oh, did I not mention that before?"

"Strangely enough, no. But enough of that, we need to find a better hiding place!" Oricorio steered the conversation back to the challenge immediately.

"Can't we stay here? I like smelling all the flowers."

"You kind of stick out like a sore thumb."

"M-Maybe I do… b-but, Oricorio?"

"What?"

"It's a b-bit awkward but-"

"Just spit it out already!"

"B-behind you!"

The duo turned around to find Empoleon, aiming his paintball gun in their direction.

"I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE!" Gossifleur sobbed as she ran quickly into the woods, dodging the balls of goo aimed at her.

"W-wait for me!" Oricorio called out, following after her and even almost getting hit. Noticing Empoleon taking chase at them, she gulped. "Okay, I think we're done for, Gossifleur."

"L-let's just keep running!"

"YOU'RE NOT GETTING AWAY FROM ME THIS TIME!" Empoleon yelled.

"H-he seems angry." Gossifleur whimpered.

"It's a long story…"

Gossifleur sat in the confessional with a startled expression. "Okay, I will admit… I DELIBERATELY chose an obvious hiding spot so that I can have a more interesting adventure in this challenge instead of just remaining hidden." She pouted, blushing in embarrassment. "Yes, that was not a wise decision but I'm tired of just sitting by the sidelines. I can't practice being a bad girl if I just sit back and let everything happen in front of me!"

She then turned to the side, holding her head. "Though, I think I underestimated Empoleon's determination. Dedenne keeps undermining him but he's still a powerhouse?! T-this doesn't seem like a fair match-up!"

Meanwhile, Vivillon and Skwovet were still focused on an intense glaring match on their respective trees, with neither backing down from the argument. At this point, they almost forgot a challenge was even happening.

"Shut the fuck up, Vivillon. How can you prove I was the one who took your lipstick, hmm?"

"Are you assuming I'm an idiot?! I am in one of the top Universities of Kalos! Anyone with a brain would notice you taking things from there. I wouldn't be surprised if Oricorio, Dedenne or your other 'friends' already knew about this and is just hiding it from you to not damage your fragile ego."

"O-okay, now you're just trying to psyche me out!" Skwovet yelled, face red from embarrassment and anger. "You're calling me out when you don't even know how much you're annoying everyone else!"

Vivillon rolled her eyes at this, gritting her teeth. "Oh really? You think I'm unaware of how my personality is 'too much' for everyone else. Well, you thought wrong. I know everything. I have the money to afford proper education so I am blessed with great observation skills. Oh, do you still think I'm a brainless bimbo? Or do I do have to keep reminding you?"

"Fuck you. Mind your own business."

"Not until you make a sincere apology for thinking of poisoning me!"

"That was an accident!"

"I don't hear an apology~"

"You're doing this on purpose at this point…"

"..."

As the two were arguing, Chansey looked up with a sheepish expression. She overheard their argument for a couple of minutes now. Silently aiming her paintgun at the duo, she took a short breath then grunted as she pulled the trigger.

BLOOOOOORRRP!

A gloopy sound was made as a ball of purple goo was shot from the gun, aimed at Vivillon, who was immediately hit as she was distracted. Vivillon screamed on impact, surprising Skwovet… only for him to break down in laughter a few seconds later.

"HA! SERVES YOU RIGHT!"

"W-what are you even talking about?! We're on the same team and if someone shot me then there's a hunter nearby and you should-"

Before Vivillon could finsh, Skwovet recoiled as another ball of purple goo hits Skwovet, hitting him with the sticky liquid. "I-"

Vivillon groaned, stifling a small chuckle. "I'll be honest. You deserved this but look at what you've done. Now, we're going to lose this challenge!"

"ME?! If you didn't choose the same hiding spot as me, I wouldn't have been found!" Skwovet yelled back. He face-palmed, shaking his head. "UGH, honestly, I'm tired of this."

"Yes, I am tired of you too."

"NO! It's not that… but we've been arguing since the digging challenge that I barely focused on the same. Do you know how many times I had to ignore Gossifleur because I had a headache from your screaming?! Too many to count."

Vivillon blinked, before her eyes narrowed. "I hate to say it… but you have a point with that. While I still WANT an apology, I don't think fighting is good for my game."

"Well, you better pray our teams wins since I don't think anyone likes you too much-"

"F*ck yourself gently…"

Skwovet held his head with an annoyed look. "I think I'm going to be crazy from all of this arguing with Vivillon. Literally, all we've done ever since I accidentally poisoned her was arguing. I haven't even been able to get a word in with anyone else without her hovering over my shoulder and interrupting!"

He face-palmed, shaking his head. "What am I even going to do NOW?!"

Gossifleur was nearly out of breath as she managed to sneak her way into a random bush, having successfully maneuvered her way out of danger, at the cost of her friend being caught by Empoleon.

"The coast is clear…" She thought to herself as she leaned back to catch her breath… only for her to tense as she heard a grunt coming from the same bush she was hiding in. Reluctantly, she turned around to find a familiar sight.

It was Sableye, who looked shocked to find her in the same bush. Gossifleur perked up at this, wide smile forming on her face.

"What a delightful coincidence, Sableye! It seems that we have ran into each other!"

"S-shouldn't we not hide in the same place or…" Sableye pointed out, twiddling his fingers anxiously.

"That's a good point but I do want to chat with you about my bad girl routine. Do you think I'm being a bit over the top with it? Or am I bit too subdued that nobody would even notice the difference."

"W-we're in the middle of a challenge."

"Another good point."

"So uhm… has anyone from our team got caught yet?"

"..."

"Gossifleur?"

"What?"

"I asked a question…" Sableye said sheepishly, turning to the side.

"Oh. You said we're in the middle of a challenge so I'm keeping my mouth shut so that nobody would hear us here!" Gossifleur chirped with her explanation.

"Good point."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

Gossifleur and Sableye just continued to stare at each other awkwardly as they waited out the challenge to just end. Teddiursa peered into the bush for a split second, noticing the two's presence and tilting her head in confusion before immediately leaving.

Gossifleur sighed, facing the camera with a frown. "I will admit. I consider Sableye a dear friend of mine but there are some situations, where he is a bit too restrictive and inhibitive of my bad girl 'energies' or whatever Cramorant calls it. How can I be a bad girl when I have to follow the rules too much? But at the same time, rules are there for a reason and I suppose I shouldn't question them too much."

Her petals dropped as she continued to sulk. "But I just want to have more experience. I haven't even said someone's outfit looked terrible yet…" She smiled weakly, laughing awkwardly to herself. "I guess I can survive. I wonder if my parents are watching this though. What would they feel if their nice peachy daughter is acting all sassy and rude, hmm?"

"So uhm… w-why is everyone intimidating all of a sudden?" Sableye commented. "Not just Empoleon and Floatzel but nearly everyone here except Magcargo and Vanilluxe are suddenly scary." He gulped, putting both of his hands on his head. "N-Nihilego was RIGHT! The game is changing and so is everyone else!"

Magcargo was just wandering down a straight path through the woods, hoping nobody would catch him. He had the terrible realization that he would just burn down any bush he chose to hide in, forgetting that he was actually part Fire-type.

Unfortunately for him, he was also cursed with slow speed so he was barely moving away from where he currently was so unsurprisingly, Teddiursa and Floatzel just immediately caught up to him the moment they emerged from some nearby bushes.

"Okay, I feel bad shooting someone so defenseless!" Teddiursa commented before pelting Magcargo with her paintgun. "Okay… maybe not so much."

Magcargo groaned at this, stopping at his tracks. "Dang it! I thought I'd have a better chance winning this challenge but who knew having a slow speed would actually make you terrible at dodging paintball attacks?!"

"Isn't that common sense?" Teddiursa pointed out flatly before turning around to leave. "I'd love to stay and chat but we have more people to shoot at~"

Floatzel stayed for a while, muttering quietly. "Sorry about that, I guess." He then followed after Teddiursa shortly afterwards, leaving Magcargo alone yet again.

"... maybe I shouldn't have been distracted…"

"..." Oricorio twitched as she walked back to where the hosts were, drenched in a purple goo. Empoleon managed to shoot her from afar while Gossifleur managed to barely escape thankfully. She groaned as she noticed her teammates Vivillon and Skwovet were also eliminated from the challenge, waiting there.

"How did you get eliminated?" Skwovet asked.

"Empoleon caught me…"

"Ugh… does this mean we'll actually lose this challenge?" Vivillon complained. "I knew Teddiursa and Floatzel were worthless curs who dragged their team down. There's a reason their pre-swap teams lost literally every challenge!"

"Gossifleur and Sableye are still uncaught, so we still have a chance to win this!" Oricorio pointed out with a hopeful look.

"I'm not going to lie… getting a LITTLE bit sick of optimism." Skwovet drawled, deadpanning. "Oricorio, I want you to mediate something."

Oricorio blinked at Skwovet's sudden request. "What?"

"For once, I agree with this heathen." Vivillon affirmed. "Help us settle our argument on whether or not Skwovet deliberately poisoned me."

"D-didn't that happen a week ago? You still haven't settled that?" Oricorio pointed out.

"I thought it was settled, but Vivillon literally won't accept any of my apologies."

"Because none of them were sincere!"

"I sincerely apologize for all my faults and transgressions. I'm a terrible person but maybe you should get over it-"

"THAT IS NOT SINCERE!"

"G-guys, guys! We should stop fighting! We're not only an alliance… we are a TEAM!" Oricorio reminded the two, in a haphazard attempt to get them to make up and stop arguing. "I know you both have your differences but we can't just keep fighting, on a new team where the players from the other team might be united and not fighting with each other like we are-"

"I saw Floatzel and Sableye argue literally yesterday." Skwovet pointed out flatly.

"That is true, but Floatzel is the type to be a bit argumentative with his ideals." Oricorio surmised with a confident expression. "So, I guess he argues even with his close friends."

"Not exactly a convincing case." Vivillon drawled before turning to glare back at Skwovet. "ANYWAYS, back to OUR situation. Who is correct? Skwovet or myself?" She then went closer to the cheerleader to whisper into her ear. "By the way, Skwovet has sticky fingers and probably stole some of your things so that should help your decision."

Oricorio gawked at this, waving her wings around. "I knew that! But uhm, I still think you're blowing things out of proportion!"

"See, I told you-"

"NOT JUST HER! You too, Skwovet!"

"Wait what?!"

"I want you both to make up immediately. We need to be a cohesive unit!" Oricorio explained, trying to make her best intimidating expression but only coming off as severely desperate.

Skwovet and Vivillon exchanged a look of confusion before shaking each other's appendages with a listless expression.

"See! You're getting along again!"

"..."

"I will admit. When Dedenne and Skwovet forced me into the leadership role, I was unsure of what to do with it but I think I'm coming out on my own to be a relatively great and capable leader!" Oricorio explained, looking proud of herself. "I like to believe I'm managing everything in the game very well. Especially with the Gourgeist situation on the side. Unfortunately, it seems that my team seems to be losing finally so I suppose that not everything could be perfect."

She mustered a smile, giving the camera a shaky thumbs-up. "Give me a Y! Give me an E! Give me a S! YES YES YES! We can do this!" She giggled, wiping off sweat off her brow. "Phew, it's been so long I practiced my routine. It's refreshing."

"Oricorio is such a MINDER honestly!" Skwovet complained in the confessional, kicking the side in frustration. "She was a good leader, sure. But now, she's acting like she can solve everything with the power of friendship that it's starting to get on my nerves. It doesn't help that Vivillon has really made me lose my patience. I can't even take a single joke anymore! That's how bad it is!"

After going off on his own separate ways from Magearna, Klinklang decided to float up the air, knowing it'd be easier to dodge incoknig attacks from there but at the same time, discreetly deciding to follow after Magearna to learn more about her apparent deceit… or well, based off the information Magcargo gave him at the very least.

"So far, so good." Klinklang commented, as Magearna seemed to be just floating in a straight line, with little to no regard for hiding at all. But other than that, there doesn't seem to be anything suspicious yet.

Magearna stopped as she ran across a searching Chansey, who was looking for members of the other team. Noticing her opportunity, Magearna smirked to herself as she floated closer to chat, while Klinklang followed after her, hiding behind a bush.

"Chansey! What a coincidence! We ran into each other!"

"L-Lady- Err… I mean, Magearna? What are you doing out in the open? Shouldn't you be hiding?"

"Oh, I was hiding but I saw you and I wanted to… clear the air since I heard that things aren't doing well between us. So I want to help and try to make amends. I didn't mean to hurt my biggest fan after all." Magearna lied, looking to the side guiltily.

"Oh… so she's lying now? She wasn't even trying to hide…" Klinklang thought to himself, narrowing his eyes.

"Magearna… I said my piece already. I don't think we should see each other again. Hell… I don't even think we could be friends. The pain is still fresh and I don't know if I could even trust you." Chansey pointed out, clearly hurt.

"What do you mean?! That was all an accident. It wasn't my fault. It was Teddiursa's fault for pushing my back to the wall. It made me feel desperate. It was an alien experience and I shudder to think that I became so ruthless for the sake of the game, when I came here for charitable reasons."

"Another lie. She clearly said she played because she was bored." Klinklang recalled Magearna's introduction. It was very vivid since she was literally the contestant introduced directly after him.

"Magearna… I really do want to trust you but in the game, I don't think I can." Chansey explained.

"Chansey, I feel like you're being unfair and overly stubborn right now." Magearna murmured.

Chansey's eyes narrowed as she lifted her paintgun, preparing to aim.

"W-wait?! Chansey, what are you-" Before Magearna could finish, she was immediately covered by purple goo from Chansey's paintgun. At first, she was shocked before anger set in. "OKAY! What the fuck?! We're on the same team! Why are you sabotaging me for being nice to you?!"

"I'm just tired of you acting like you could push me around just because I'm a 'fan'." Chansey said, looking uncharacteristically mad… like really mad for once, as a scowl made its way to her face. "I admired you because I thought you were different from all the uppity and snobby Mythical and Legends but now, I've come to realize that maybe, you're just as bad as the rest of them are and maybe, the world isn't as bright as I thought. You gave me hope and now, you are taking it away. I hate you."

Without another word, Chansey stormed off in a huff. She didn't think she would just lash out at Magearna like that but the timing was just wrong that everything just blew up, leaving her mind in a jumbled mess.

Magearna looked shocked… before a cocky smirk popped up on her face. "Oh no~ It looks like Chansey is throwing the challenge. She isn't a team player at all. Maybe, she shouldn't be kept in the game any longer. She is far too emotional."

Humming, she left for the other direction, satisfied with what she's done. Klinklang blinked in shock… or well, it looked like shock but his expression barely changed. Magearna decided to egg on Chansey on PURPOSE to get her to shoot her?

"Okay, she is worse than I thought. Emotional manipulation is not even a good strategy since it will get people to dislike you. Goes to show that my strategy is the ideal one, in the very end." Klinklang murmured under his own breath before floating away to assess the situation.

"Chansey is so predictable that it's actually boring. I almost want to get VOTED out to see the look on her face when she…" Magearna said before rolling her eyes. "WHATEVER, I'm still here to win the game to disappoint everyone, I'm sure. It's not going to be that hard, looking at my competition."

"Magearna is devious. But not devious enough. She didn't even notice me hiding and listening into their conversation. She is my ideal target right now because of that. She talks a big game for herself but it's all just blatant emotional manipulation that I feel everyone is already aware of." Klinklang said, starting at the camera intensely.

Sableye and Gossifleur continued to stare at each other in silence. It was uneventful but the duo seems to be focused on their staring match.

"..."

"..."

"U-uhm, how long are we going to keep doing this?" Sableye decided to break the silence, looking around nervously since it's been awhile since they've hid in that bush. "Do you think the challenge is almost over or what?"

"Nihilego hasn't said anything yet so I think it's still going on but uhm, we should be quiet or someone would hear us and find us." Gossifleur reminded him.

"Oh yeah, oops!" Sableye said, covering his mouth as the duo resumed their silent staring match.

A few minutes later, Empoleon peered into the bush with a nonchalant expression. Surprisingly, Gossifleur and Sableye are both relieved by this.

"FINALLY! Took you long enough!" Gossifleur commented, glad that she doesn't have to shut up and do nothing for any longer.

Empoleon was a little bit confused by their surprising enthusiasm to see him but didn't waste any more time to let them get away, covering both small Pokemon with a coat of purple goo from his paintgun."

"THE CHALLENGE IS OVER! EVERYONE, PLEASE HEAD TO THE BEACH!"

"FINALLY! We won something!" Empoleon cheered, smirking to himself.

As the cast finally made their way to the beach, Nihilego decided to examine the cast, to confirm if the footage was accurate.

"What happened to you?" Nihilego first asked, noticing Cramorant's dishreveled appearance.

"I don't want to talk about it." Cramorant said simply.

"And what happened with YOU?!" Nihilego asked Magearna, who was somehow covered by the color of her own team.

Magearna shrugged, forcing a smile. "Oh, not much… other than my friend betraying me for no reason." Chansey rolled her eyes at this statement. "I'm fine though. I'm used to it, after being in the spotlight for so long."

"Uhmm… okay? WELL, I WON'T DRAG THINGS OUT TOO LONG! For a SHOCKING TURN of events, THE SHINING SHUPPET FINALLY WINS A CHALLENGE!" Nihilego announced as the 7 members of the team erupted in cheers of celebration.

Meanwhile, Teddiursa deadpanned, turning to Floatzel, crossing her arms in frustration. "OKAY, I hate to say it… but maybe we're cursed to be on the losing team forever."

"I have a couple of guesses why…" Floatzel muttered, side-eyeing Sableye who made a yelp, noticing the Water-type's examining stare in his direction.

"Anyways… SCRAM! Not even going to drag this out. BOND, TALK, CHAT. You have elimination to worry about later!' Nihilego yelled as she and Poipole turned to leave and return to their trailers.

Gossifleur looked deflated as she faced the camera. "Okay, I'm disappointed to finally be on the losing team for once. Up to now, I kind of treated this game as a vacation with nothing to worry about with the other team doing all the voting but now, I'm on the losing side. So, that's a tough pill to swallow. I'm not even sure I'm even ready for this… "

She mustered a smile, rubbing her side awkwardly. "At the very least, I am close with Sableye along with my original teammates so I should have a foothold? I'm not too good at this honestly…"

"Of course, we lost because we absorbed not one, not two but THREE pieces of deadweight from the other team!" Vivillon snarled at the camera before taking a deep breath to regain her composure. "Oricorio is trying to keep ourselves together but we all know it's all shaky since Skwovet likes ruining things for no good reason, like he ruined my digestive system with those berries."

She shook her head, leaning closer to the camera intensely. "Honestly, I don't know what's even going to happen since I know people would be jealous of my natural talents. I am intimidating, I'm sure. But it's their faults for doing nothing with their lives but complaining that they aren't as blessed as myself."

She scoffed, rolling her eyes. "If possible, I want to vote everyone on this team off but that's not even possible so I'd have to settle for voting off the worst person on this team, if that wasn't obvious already."

"We lost. And it S! U! C! K! S! Sucks!" Oricorio exclaimed, waving her wings around frantically. "I am honestly nervous. I was the de facto leader of the Twinkling Trubbish but this isn't the Twinkling Trubbish anymore so there's so much lost ground to cover!"

The defeated Trubbish sat in the mess hall, not even bothering to eat their mush as they worried about their current loss. Not only did they lose, they lost in record time. It didn't even take 2 hours and the challenge was just over.

Vivillon was the first to break the awkward silence, jabbing her fork into her mush in frustration."OKAY, let's get this straight. We had a ONE-person lead then immediately blew it, losing the challenge so much. I had my worries when I saw the swap but I didn't think it'd be this bad."

"Oh please, like you helped." Skwovet drawled.

"OH, I definitely helped. We would've won if you weren't loud."

"You were shot first!"

"Because we were caught because of your big mouth."

"You were literally screaming at my face!"

"C-Can't we not argue while we're all eating?" Oricorio huffed, crossing her arms in an attempt to sound commanding. Vivillon and Skwovet stared at her with a deadpan expression before resuming their argument. Oricorio deflated at the fact that her teammates were just ignoring her words, slouching back on her chair. "Well, that could've worked better."

"I-it's not your fault. You tried your best." Vanilluxe assured, trying his best not to just float out of his seat and out of the mess hall in the first place, with all of the arguing. "I don't know how you Shuppet survived arguing all the time…"

"Eh, it's an acquired taste." Teddiursa said, shrugging as she scooped a large spoonful of mush into her mouth. She then slowly rose up from her seat, signalling Floatzel and Sableye to do the same. "I think staying here wouldn't be so uwuseful, tee hee~"

"W-wait, you're all just going to leave?!" Oricorio gawked at this, stopping herself from even smacking the table in frustration. "We're a team. Shouldn't we just have a peaceful meal together?"

Teddiursa deadpanned at Oricorio's words, crossing her arms with a cheeky shake of her head. "No offense like really, no offense… but the mood of this place is like The Last Supper but less holy and shit. I don't think I want to listen in on Skwovet and Vivillon arguing over literally everything they could think of. I already had too much of that with Empoleon and Vivillon. No thank you, no siree."

"I'll come with-" Vanilluxe tried to leave his seat but he gulped as Oricorio put her wing in front of him, to stop him from leaving. "Oricorio?"

Oricorio was shaking, eyes completely shut. "Vanilluxe… I expected Teddiursa and her friends to not want to deal with this business but…" She gulped, sweating nervously. "I need you!" Her words leaked with desperation as she tried to follow the ice cream's weakening stare.

"That i-is mush appreciated but-" Vanilluxe whispered, feeling like he was starting to melt away from all the sudden pressure. As Oricorio brought her face closer, Vanilluxe had no choice but to sigh in agreement.

"Fine…"

"Okie. Good luck with your 'family' drama then?" Teddiursa said awkwardly as she slowly backed away from the table before quickly skittering out of the room, with Floatzel and a worried Sableye following after her.

This left only the former Trubbish left in the mess hall. Skwovet and Vivillon's arguing had died down by then as the two Pokemon decided to just focus on clearing their plates while ignoring each other.

Gossifleur, who was completely uninvolved with everyone, looked rather confused by everything. She wasn't exactly updated on whatever was happening on her team, more focused on her personal goals. Though, her gaze went over to Oricorio and Vanilluxe who were both just staring at their plates silently with a somber mood around them. She didn't even know Oricorio and Vanilluxe were even close. Wow, was she that focused on being a bad girl that all of these interpersonal drama just went over her head?

Noticing the flower's observant eyes, Oricorio smiled weakly, drawing her attention with a 'psst'. "Gossifleur… uhm… so this is…"

"Well, we do need to nip the problem in the bud." Gossifleur whispered to her. Oricorio's face paled at this before she sighed in defeat.

"You're right… what do we even do?"

"It's not an easy decision but here's what I'm thinking…" Gossifleur started to say as the scene faded to black.

"So, we have to vote Oricorio off 100%." Teddiursa told her companions as they returned to the Twinkling Trubbish cabin to discuss the vote.

Noticing Floatzel and Sableye's unsure expression, Teddiursa face-palmed, waving her paws around frantically. "It's not rocket science. Like, Oricorio is the leader of Trubbish so voting her off would permanently cripple them, instead of you know… doing the obvious thing and voting Vivillon off because she's annoying."

"I thought you knew better than to try and rock the boat." Floatzel reminded her. "Making moves on our last team made Magearna cockroach to the swap. I don't want Vivillon to just cockroach any further."

"Oh boo, you're no fun!" Teddiursa pouted childishly.

"We are voting Vivillon off." Floatzel said.

"Okay, who said you were going to call the shots here?!" Teddiursa looked shocked by this.

"I did." Floatzel said simply, folding his arms with a stern expression. "Teddiursa, you called the shots on our last team… so I want to call the shots, for once."

"I-" Teddiursa tried to argue before groaning. "Actually, you have a point there. I'd be a pretty shit friend if I just ask you both to do everything I want."

"Thank you, Teddiursa." Floatzel said, relieved that Teddiursa wasn't going to just strongarm his vote. "But anyways, Vivillon is a firecracker. She has no actual alliegances and I'm pretty sure she's evil too so it's the best decision to make. If we can't vote Magearna off, we might as well vote off the Magearna of this team off."

"Vivillon is not a Magearna. She is so in-your-face like a brick to the face!" Teddiursa corrected, stroking her chin curiously. "If anyone was a Magearna, it'd be Gossifleur."

"That was… a metaphor."

"My point still stands."

"So uhmm… we're voting Vivillon off, heh?" Sableye chimed in, being absent from the conversation until now.

"Yep, looks like it!" Teddiursa replied. Floatzel nodded in agreement, with only a grunt in affirmation.

"Oh… n-neat!"

"I'm honestly just glad it wasn't Gossifleur they wanted gone." Sableye admitted, wiping off the sweat from his brow.

Meanwhile, on the Shining Shuppet side of things, Cramorant rushed out of her new cabin with a panicked expression that a nearby Klinklang had noticed.

"Where is it?! Where is it!? I swear it was with me during the challenge!" Cramorant exclaimed, pacing around the porch, looking around her feet for anything she had dropped.

Her mood further worsened as she noticed Klinklang's presence.

"Oh… it's you."

"I wasn't doing anything. No need to have your mood dampened further when my participation in your current escapades are at a bare minimum." Klinklang said in a slightly condescending tone, which made Cramorant's mood worsen even further.

"Ugh… you saying it like that makes me want to hit you with something…" Cramorant said, wing going down her face slowly.

"I apologize for accidentally ruining your mood, I suppose. But what are you even doing?" Klinklang said inquisitively.

"..." Cramorant looked away, biting her lips. She was unsure whether to tell Klinklang or not before sighing, turning back to the gears but avoiding his watchful gaze. "It's about my phone…"

"Your clearly broken phone." Klinklang corrected.

"Yeah… broken phone." Cramorant breathed out, still annoyed. "It's well… I think I dropped it during the challenge."

"You certainly did look dishreveled after that challenge." Klinklang recalled.

"It's… a long story." Cramorant said, forcing a smile that was obviously fake, given the fact that her eyes were literally twitching wildly. "But those were very important."

"It's broken." Klinklang repeated. "Broken things have no worth-"

"I know, I know. It's for sentimental reasons!" Cramorant gawked at the Steel-type's blatant insensitivity and overall nonchalance. "It was a family heirloom so I really need to find it!"

"Your family heirloom is a phone?"

"UGH, I knew I shouldn't have told you! You think it's all a joke!" Cramorant said, face turning red from embarrassment.

"Your overreliance on an object is worrisome and confusing." Klinklang explained flatly. "It's one of the biggest mysteries on this island after all."

"Y-you…" Cramorant pointed a finger at the gear, ready to make a rebuttal before backing down, looking away in anger. "Ugh, I am like… not in the mood to even argue! Like wow, you are so rude. You don't even know…" Stomping away from the cabin, she yelled at the gear. "I'll just look for it myself. I don't need your help!"

Klinklang's eye furrowed at the bird's surprising resolve. All to save a PHONE?! It sounded absolutely absurd… yet for some reason, he was a little bit intrigued. Preparing to follow the bird, he was then stopped by Dedenne who was joined by a teary-eyed Magearna.

"Oh great… so much for following Cramorant…" Klinklang grumbled to himself as Dedenne twiddled his fingers awkwardly, expression worried.

"Klinklang, we need to talk… It's about Chansey."

"What about her?" Klinklang asked with a dull expression, pretending like he was unaware of Magearna's two-faced personality.

"Chansey really hurt Magearna's feelings and it's all because of a stupid misunderstanding! I feel like Chansey is being unfair to her. Magearna told me everything!" Dedenne explained, sympathizing with the Mythical Pokemon's plight.

"It's true… Chansey was my best friend on the island but she immediately believed in Teddiursa's lies that it made us just…" She paused, struggling to hold back tears. "... drift apart! I thought we would be friends forever. She admired me so much and I wanted to be a great role model… but to think, that it was all just going to be broken apart because of a silly game."

"I… see."

"Yeah, so… Magearna really needs help. I think people are eating up whatever Teddiursa is saying that she's all alone and that makes me feel bad for her. She didn't even do anything bad. Unlike you know… Floatzel or Empoleon." Dedenne pointed out, biting into his nails.

"Thank you for informing me then…" Klinklang said, face remaining unchanged.

"Okay, Teddiursa and her goons absolutely made my day just now!" Skwovet cheered, smirking at the camera. "Voting Vivillon off? It wasn't something I was planning to do, especially without anyone else's support so when they came to me, with the offer of voting Vivillon off… it was something I couldn't just refuse. SO YES! FUCKING TAKE THAT, BITCH! YOU'RE A GONER!"

The sky went dark as the time changed from afternoon to evening, with the new Twinkling Trubbish gathering around the campfire pit, to wait for the votes to be read by an eager Nihilego. Okay, eager was stretching it, the jellyfish hostess looked rather bored and it was Poipole who was carrying the enthusiasm and a plate of marshmallows between the both of them. "Welcome Twinkling Trubbish to your very first ever elimination. Surprising since we're 6 episodes in and it's always been the Shuppet who came here."

"Yeah yeah, we get it. We suck. This isn't exactly new to like… almost half of us." Teddiursa drawled, looking bored by the hostess just dragging on with the results. "Just get on with it already. We already voted so you don't exactly have much drama to milk out of us either!"

"Oh please, I want this over with too, but that's not my choice to make." Nihilego scoffed, rolling her eyes as her tentacles grabbed one marshmallow off Poipole's tray. "I guess the novelty of elimination has fully worn off, huh?"

"There wasn't any novelty anyways." Teddiursa said sarcastically, only to yelp as Nihilego hurled a marshmallow directly at her forehead. "OUCH, what was that for?!"

"BOOM! HEADSHOT! You get the first marshmallow of the night since you're SAFE!"

"Warn me next time! What if it accidentally burns my cute face, _!" Teddiursa whimpered, rubbing the spot the marshmallow hit as she gobbled on the marshmallow.

"Floatzel and Sableye are ALSO surprisingly safe, with zero votes!" Sableye cheered as he stood up to grab his marshmallow before choking on it immediately. Floatzel shook his head at the gremlin's clumsiness. "Vanilluxe. Gossifleur." Vanilluxe was prepared to say a marshmallow pun but was stopped by Nihilego shooting the marshmallow into his open mouth while Gossifleur looked rather sheepish as she stood up to get her marshmallow then quickly joining her fellow safe teammates.

"Everyone, we are down to the Bottom 3. Oricorio, the cheerleader. Vivillon, the rich bitch. Skwovet, the literal kleptomanic. Only two of you will be called safe and honestly, this was very expected. Oricorio, you claim to be a good leader and while that may be true during the pre-swap, your leadership didn't save your team from losing this challenge by a landslide." Oricorio looked nervous by the jellyfish's harsh yet partially true statement. "Vivillon and Skwovet, you kind of argued for most of the challenge and didn't exactly… do anything but argue. If someone told me you were both secretly a Zangoose and Seviper, I'd honestly believe it."

"IT'S HIS/HER FAULT!" Skwovet and Vivillon yelled, pointing at each other at nearly the exact time.

"Well… sad to say that it's both of your faults~" Nihilego mused, throwing a marshmallow at Oricorio. "... since Oricorio is SAFE!" Oricorio looked relieved at her safety but her relief quickly turned into sadness, in realizing that she failed one of her friends.

"Only one marshmallow left. One will be left STARVING!"

Skwovet and Vivillon glared at each other intensely. Gossifleur looked rather confused while Oricorio looked guilty. Teddiursa, Empoleon and Sableye exchanged a curious expression.

"The final marshmallow goes to…"

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"Skwovet."

"OKAY. WHAT THE FUCK?!" Vivillon gawked in surprise at the results. Skwovet cheered immediately, hopping off his seat to grab a marshmallow, shoving it at the butterfly's face.

"Look who's staying on the island for another day!"

"This… I demand a RECOUNT!" Vivillon squawked… only for her to scream as Poipole lifted her off the ground. "NO, PUT ME DOWN, PUT ME DOWN!"

"Sorry Vivillon." Nihilego pretended to sympathize. "But you have been eliminated from the game."

"NO NO NOOOOO!" Vivillon continued to scream as Poipole carried her to the woods, off to board the boat to Losertown.

As Vivillon's scream died down as she went further and further away from the area, the surviving members of the Trubbish all stared at each other in surprising satisfaction… save for a few.

"So… she's just gone." Oricorio said, saddened. "It's been a little bit over two weeks and she's just gone…"

"Yep, good riddance!" Skwovet said, smirking insensitively.

"Agreed. She was a pain to live with." Gossifleur affirmed, dusting herself.

"I knew her for literally a day and I'm glad she's gone. FINALLY, someone I don't like goes home immediately, at the first given opportunity!" Teddiursa said, flashing a thumbs-up.z

"People people, I get that Vivillon is gone but that doesn't mean you can just shittalk her in front of my face. It's too late for that and I don't want to get a headache, hearing you all talk to yourselves. Just go to your cabins and shittalk her THERE." Nihilego piped up, with a deadpan stare as she was somehow now drinking from a mug that came from out of nowhere.

"S-sorry!" Sableye whimpered as he was the first to march out of the area, with Floatzel and Teddiursa following after him. Skwovet, who was feeling rather pleased with himself, moseyed after them, confidence evident from his relatively louder footsteps. Gossifleur stared at an exhausted Oricorio for a short while before eventually leaving the area just like the rest.

Vanilluxe and Oricorio. An unlikely duo, yet they found themselves together alone for another time. Vanilluxe looked rather sympathetic.

"Oricorio, I-" He then quickly stopped himself. He wasn't sure what was going on in Oricorio's head and he didn't want to be too intrusive. Maybe, Magcargo would be better at getting people to open up but nothing has worked out for him.

Oricorio, who noticed the slowly approaching ice cream, managed to force a smile onto her face. "Hey…"

"Are you-"

"I'm fine. Just a bit worn out. Is this how elimination usually feels? It feels terrible and it's not a good feeling to discover that maybe I'm not an effective leader like I thought I was. I shouldn't have overstepped beyond what I could do."

"Snow-body's perfect!" Vanilluxe attempted to insert a pun to lighten the mood but whimpered as Oricorio looked mildly annoyed by his poorly-timed joke. He smiled weakly, looking to the side. "You'll be fine… right?"

Oricorio shrugged at this, picking herself up from her seat. "I don't know but it's just Vivillon. She WAS a bitch so I guess it was justified that she was always going to get voted off, but I feel like I should've tried to keep us all together since we are a T! E! A ! M!"

"Uhm… I'm sure you could handle it!"

"Thanks. I really appreciate it-"

Nihilego cleared her throat loudly, spilling out the remaining coffee from her mug with a small scowl. "Are you two focused on having a heart-to-heart or are you doing this on purpose?!"

"Sorry…"

"I know I voted against Vivillon. We all did. But it's not a good feeling to just give up on people I was close to. I could've helped change her for the better… but there just wasn't enough time." Oricorio said, a bit teary-eyed. As she was about to cry, she immediately smacked the sides of her face to pep herself up, balling her wings in an attempt to regain her determination.

"I won't let that happen again. I can't be a team player if I just let the team get played like that. We are strong… We can do this! I CAN DO THIS! There's no I in team after all!"

She laughed confidently which immediately devolved to awkward chuckling as she looked to the side, unsure if she'll be able to follow through with her statements.

*STATIC*

The screen remained pitch black, as a hoarse and androgynous voice played out.

"DAY XXX. Nihilego decided to move the swap a round earlier than we had planned. Who knows what's even going on in that empty skull of hers but I have a bad feeling she knows. Does she? I hope she doesn't. Gourgeist hasn't been useful either. But maybe… just maybe, our agent would be more useful. XMDEMWDKWKD have been successful in keeping attention away from them thankfully. It's just a matter of time… I won't give up… not until this show and series itself is destroyed from the inside out."

"Gossifleur, you seem restless?" Teddiursa commented as the two have been lounging on the Trubbish cabin porch after returning from elimination. The flower seemed to be a bit fidgety ever since they came back. Teddiursa didn't know the flower much but she pegged her as someone who might be too nice for their own good, even offering to help Teddiursa move her things from the Shuppet camp earlier… even though she was clearly struggling to lift a single piece of luggage and of course, she had Gallade to help her when she needed it.

"I'm fine. I'm just thinking." Gossifleur explained, staring into the forest. "I haven't made any progress on being a well… worse version of myself and I'm starting to wonder if I'll never be a bad girl."

"You want to be a baddie?" Teddiursa murmured, arching a brow.

"Something like that." Gossifleur answered, hopping off the porch, giving the little bear a look. "Uhm… if you don't mind, I'll take a short walk… to clear my head."

"Sure? Don't go out for too long. Cramorant has been complaining earlier about a wild Ursaring attacking her so…"

"Don't worry. I'll be fine!" Gossifleur assured as she quickly scampered into the woods. Teddiursa tilted her to the side in confusion, putting a paw to her mouth.

"So much for getting to know each other?"

As Floatzel was preparing to head to bed, Skwovet jumped off his bunk, waving around a familiar device with a proud smirk.

"Look at what I have!"

"Isn't that…" Floatzel's eyes narrowed.

"Yep, it's Cramorant's phone!" Skwovet said proudly. "Picked it up from the ground after I got booted from the challenge!"

"Uhm… shouldn't you return it? And why didn't you mention that earlier?" Floatzel stared at the squirrel harshly. Stealing was something only villains would do after all.

Skwovet blushed in embarrassment, rubbing the back of his head awkwardly. "Actually… I just noticed I had this in my tail. I think I grabbed it by instinct and didn't even notice until now."

"Well, you should return it-"

"Floatzel Floatzel Floatzel, you don't know how I felt when Vivillon was watching my every single move! Well, now that she's gone, I! AM! FREE! I can finally do whatever I want without her complaining."

"Give it back-"

"So! I can be guilt-free, keeping this. It's broken so it's not like Cramorant would miss it. And it's nice to know that I still have the magic touch. I don't even think Cramorant noticed her phone is missing!"

"I-I'm pretty sure she would've noticed by now…" Sableye corrected, hiding underneath his blanket as he was attempting to go to sleep but was woken up by Skwovet landing on the floor. "S-she did check her broken phone a lot…"

"Pshaw… whatever. She can buy another one. I can sell this at the scrapyard, I'm sure." Skwovet said, rolling his eyes.

"Give it back."

"Floatzel, chill. Like I said-"

"Give it back. I'm serious." Floatzel's tone sharpened as he crossed his arms with a huff.

Skwovet yelped, slightly intimidated by the weasel's imposing figure. "F-fine… I'll give it back…" He then whispered under his breath. "... eventually."

"Good. You can give it back tomorrow. It's late." Floatzel remarked, slowly covering himself with his blanket as he was about to go to sleep.

"Yeah, mom." Skwovet drawled as he climb up to his bunk to go to sleep.

As the three guys fell to sleep, a familiar voice rang around the island but was ignored as they were lost in their exhaustion.

"WHERE IS MY PHONE!? HELP ME! LOST PHONE! SOS! SOB EMOTE!"

Vote Count:

Vivillon - Floatzel, Gossifleur, Oricorio, Sableye, Skwovet, Teddiursa, Vanilluxe

Skwovet - Vivillon

Shining Shuppet - Chansey, Cramorant, Dedenne, Empoleon, Klinklang, Magcargo, Magearna

Twinkling Trubbish - Floatzel, Gossifleur, Oricorio, Sableye, Skwovet, Teddiursa, Vanilluxe, Vivillon

Eliminated: Unfezant, Pikachu, Musharna, Bayleef, Gourgeist, Vivillon

ELIMINATED: Vivillon, The Ice Queen (15th Place)

Vivillon is one player, who had a self-contained plot. She came into the game, rubbed people the wrong way, and her main focus was feuding with Skwovet after an accident that happened a few episodes ago. While she had the luxury of surviving the first few episodes because of a dominant group, she wasn't so lucky after the swap since she wasn't given enough time to actually get a feel of her tribe and honestly, I will admit, she was actually ORIGINALLY making it past this episode and even make the merge but after a few rewrites, I realize that ONE day wasn't enough for her to turn things around so this is as far as she goes.

There weren't much changed with her plot other than her being more strategic as time goes on but I feel like some characters fulfill that role better so Vivillon ended up more and more expendable in comparison.

AND THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: Every vote in the pre-swap was lowkey… wonky with how they play out and there were some regrets from the decisions I made, aside from the solid parts like Bayleef and Gourgeist's eliminations. So Vivillon is kind of a palette cleanser and cleaned the slate for the game, being an obnoxiously obvious boot who was played straight. There weren't any sudden twists or last-minute fumbling. Vivillon was already unpopular and was viewed as the easy vote that everyone decided to cast. But her departure pushes the development of some characters further, especially some arcs in limbo because of Skwovet being very focused on Vivillon and such.

GASP! I actually finished a chapter fast!? Well, praise me, I am great… or whatevs. This is pretty much a brand new game and I have my notes to keep me up to date but there have been a couple of CHANGES with the hiatus so wow. But other than this round, the swap episodes pretty much stay the same with a bit more story arcs foreshadowed that will be focused on during this new arc and set of teams.

Read and review. I really appreciate it and it helps me a lot! Motivation is a drug, I know.

Vivillon: Do I need to say it?! I'll pay you 1,000,000 Pokedollars if you review. Tch, that's too cheap.