Contestants began the game. They got a taste of their first time on the show, including a task, an elimination ceremony, and even a little cheating. Link, unfortunately, was the first victim of the Mole, who is still unknown among the players. Will players begin to uncover the Mole�s identity, or will he or she pick off unsuspecting players one-by-one? Read on to find out.
The contestants wake up in their rooms in Hotel Delfino on Sirena Beach to an alarm clock in each of the rooms. It is 7AM, and they are groggily awaking. Mario is the first one to leave his room. He goes to open his door, but it is locked and protected with an electric force field, which thrusts him across the room and fills his body with painful waves of shock. The other players soon realize this too.
�Nothing like a foreign land to put a real shock to your system.� comments IngRaider over the hotel intercom. The participants groan in annoyance at this comment and the electrical state of the doors. �Congratulations, you have survived the first episode of Nintendo: The Mole. Now, things will become more complex. You have noticed that your doors are locked and protected by a force field. Your task is simple: You have an hour to escape the room in which you are locked. Look for clues to help you find the exit. You need to cooperate with each other to solve this puzzle, as the key to unlocking one room may lie in another. You each have been supplied with a cell phone to call each other if you do not already have one. Good luck and I�ll see you in an hour. Any questions?�
�Um, what about the whole preview of next episode at the Space Pirate Fortress on Zebes? Why is our task here?� asks Yoshi.
�I lied� answered IngRaider. �It sounded catchy.� They all stare at him through the monitors in their rooms blankly. �Just kidding. That�ll be next episode. For now, just focus on escaping your room. Remember, all of you must escape to win. Ready, set, go! (He blows his whistle and presses a button on his stopwatch.) May the best player win.�
The players begin to scramble about their rooms, searching for clues. The rooms are numbered from 1-9 in the hall. The following players are in each room:
1: Mario
2: Wario
3: Bowser
4: Peach
5: Yoshi
6: Donkey Kong
7: Zelda
8: Tingle
9: Ganondorf
Mario begins to explore his room. He raises the lid on the toilet in his bathroom and sees a red switch with an exclamation mark on it.
�Yes-a!� he exclaims, as he jumps on it. �I�ve-a got it.� All of a sudden, his phone begins to ring. �Hello� he says as he answers it.
�Hey Mario, its Yoshi.� is heard through the other end of the phone.
�Yes-a?�
�Well, good news Mario: the switch you triggered just opened my entertainment center, which was previously locked. Also, I found a note in my bathroom that says, �Press B.� At first, I had no idea what this meant. But now, I know that it means to press B on the N64 controller in the entertainment center. You�re a real help, Mario. Great start!�
�Ok-a. Press-a the button.� Yoshi presses the button and the force field around Mario�s door diminishes and he is free to exit the room. �My door-a opened.� says Mario.
�Excellent work.� says IngRaider. �You�ve escaped your room in 3 minutes. You leaving your room will play a great role in freeing everyone from theirs, so feel free to leave and walk around. (All the players are aware of this and congratulate Mario via intercom) Do not celebrate, fools. You are far from done. Now get to work.�
The players continue searching for clues but find none. They are at a loss for ideas as they are helplessly flailing around, trying to open their doors. Wario is punching his door repeatedly, only to get electrocuted time and time again. Bowser is breathing flames at the door, but nothing is happening. DK is using his Hand Slap move on the ground. All of a sudden, a piece of paper falls out of one of the ceiling tiles. DK reads it cautiously. It says:
�Tread cautiously, grasshopper. Placeth thou garment of the neck in a place whereth it lie among the discarded. Then, the dinosaur shalleth be set free.�
DK ponders this for a few minutes, and then realizes that the paper he found wants him to place his tie in the garbage can (?). He does it, and sees the floor and walls trembling. Yoshi�s door slides open and he is free to walk out.
�Congratulations,� booms IngRaider�s voice over the intercom. �Fifty-two point five minutes left.� Yoshi and Mario meet in the hallway outside their rooms, unsure of what to do.
�Hmm, wonder how Mario is..� Peach says to herself. She goes to take a shower to relieve some stress. As she opens the curtain, Peach notices a number on the curtain. It is 007. �That�s odd. Didn�t I see a code entry pad at the door to my room? Maybe..�
Bowser is thrashing through his room, unable to find a way out. The room looks as if a cyclone hit it, with the bed, pillow and sheets tossed all over the room. Bowser stops to hear footsteps and voices in the hallway�
�Hmm, what�s this-a indent in the wall for-a?� ponders Mario. He presses it and a large portion of it crumbles away, revealing a key that is too tightly enclosed by wall for Mario to reach.
�No problemo,� says Yoshi confidently, as he inserts his tongue in the hole, grabbing the key. The key has a large red number three written on it. They know what it means.
�Bowser�s room..,� they state in unison.
�What about it MARIO?� booms Bowser from inside.
�We can open it,� says Yoshi.
�Sweet!� replies the Koopa King. Yoshi inserts the key and the door opens.
�That�s three out,� says IngRaider. Peach enters �007� in her code entry pad and her door opens as well. �Four,� he amends.
Bowser and Peach join Mario and Yoshi in the hall.
�We�ve gotta get the others out,� says Peach.
�Yeah� says Yoshi. �By the way, who do you think is the Mole?�
�Who cares about that right now, we�ve got something bigger to take care of.� says Peach. �Besides, we�re all working for a common goal, right? I mean, no one would purposely shut themselves in to sabotage us, right?� she wonders uneasily. A shrill moan can be heard throughout the hall. �Umm, guys. There aren�t any ghosts here, right?�
�Ghost!� screams Bowser in fear and he begins to run around in circles and crashes into a wall.
�You�re-a afraid of a little ghost-a?� laughs Mario.
�Am not.� argues Bowser.
�Guys, there is no ghost, right? affirms Yoshi. They stare at the phantom behind him and begin to tremble. �RIGHT??� he says, fully consumed by fear.
He turns around and sees what the others are looking at. A floating white sheet, draped in blood, hovers before them, making all sorts of eerie noises. The four scream in terror and quickly run around the hotel halls in a never-ending circle, purposely designed that way.
�IngRaider, help!� screams Yoshi.
�Off duty,� he responds, shoving a 6-foot hoagie into his mouth. �It�s snack time.�
�But we need help,� says Yoshi, as he and the others continue to run.
�No can do,� says the preoccupied host. �All in!� he says to a poker dealer in the hotel�s casino, handing him his stack of chips (which are oddly potato chips, by the way), as he continues to chomp away on his hoagie. �I saved you from the last one. You got to protect yourselves this time guys. Goodbye.�
�Heck yeah, it was a good buy,� says Bowser, as he pulls a Poltergust 3000, seemingly out of nowhere. �Luigi sold it to me cheap. I can�t say I find a deal like that every day. Sucker!�
�You idiot, use it to suck up the ghost!� shouts Yoshi.
�Duh, you idiot-a!� says Mario.
Bowser turns on the Poltergust 3000 and sucks in��a white sheet.
�That wasn�t a ghost,� says Peach.
�I knew it all along.� says Bowser firmly, while the others give him a foolish look.
�No way, it�s Diddy Kong!� exclaims Yoshi. �What are you doing impersonating a ghost?� Before he can get an answer out of him, however, the chimp flees. The group gives chase.
Meanwhile, Tingle, Zelda, Ganondorf, DK, and Wario, are still trapped in their rooms. Wario looks into the bathroom mirror and it shatters, almost too easily. Behind the mirror is a note. It says�
�Uno: nada
Dos: JUMP
Tres: nunca
Cuatro: nadie
Cinco: nada
Seis: JUMP
Siete: JUMP
Ocho: JUMP
Nueve: JUMP
Do this all on the company with the counting sheep at the same time- abre la puerta.
Wario, knowing some Spanish, recognizes the first words as the room numbers 1-9. He also knows nada, nunca, and nadie mean nothing. �Abre la puerta� means open the door. Yet, it says to jump in five rooms at once. He calls Zelda who responds quickly:
�Hmm, this is a tricky one, but the answer is this: The people in rooms two, six, seven, eight, and nine must jump on their mattresses. The company with the counting sheep is Seta and Seta makes mattresses. We must do it all at the same time. Let�s go. (They all jump on their beds at the same time and the remaining five doors open.)
�Excellent,� says IngRaider. �You guys still have a half hour left. Fantastic job.�
�Ah, it was nothing� says Zelda.
�We did it, G-Man� says Wario to Ganondorf,(although he did virtually nothing) as he slaps him five. �Up high!�
�Oh yeah!� says Ganon.
�A fine job indeed.� responds IngRaider. �But I am afraid to tell you I could�ve done it in five second. You see, each player had a pair of rubber gloves in their drawer. All you need to do is to use the rubber to negate the effect of the electricity and open the door.� The group sighs.
�Hey, at least we did it!� exclaims Yoshi. �We�ll be headed for Zebes tomorrow.�
�What about Diddy?� asks Peach. They see him trying to sneak away. IngRaider stuns him with his Power Beam.
�So DK is definitely the Mole. It makes sense: He used Diddy to do his dirty work.� states Zelda.
�I am not Diddy,� he responds.
�Nice try, fool!� bellows Bowser
�I am Doopliss!!!!� he says, revealing his true identity. (Insert ghost music here)
A battle begins between Doopliss and the others, but it is quickly resolved. IngRaider shoots a Super Missile at the ghostly boss and topples him in one hit. He lies motionless on the floor.
�Voting time,� says IngRaider.
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"That was an interesting second round." says Yoshi.
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"Indeed it was" responds IngRaider. "Who do you believe is the Mole?"
"I think it is DK based on the evidence and what Zelda said."
"Tingle, who do you think is the Mole?" asks IngRaider.
"Uh, I dunno. Um. I think its DK." responds the elf.
"And why is that?"
"What he said." Tingle states, pointing to Yoshi.
"Bowser?"
"I think its Mario because he's a goody-goody. says Bowser. "Its always the good ones you have to look out for. They can turn bad any time. But, bad guys like me: at least you know we're bad already."
"That's very insightful of you, Bowser." declares IngRaider.
"Huh?"
"Never mind. Let's start to vote."
The players begin to vote, taking the evidence of the past few days into consideration.
�Let�s tally the votes.�
Mario: DK
Wario: DK
Bowser: DK
Peach: DK
DK: Wario
Zelda: DK
Tingle: DK
Ganondorf: DK
Yoshi: DK
�The decision is clear. DK has been voted out. And for good reason: He is the Mole and he has cheated. He hired Doopliss and Rawk Hawk to do his bidding. They almost did a halfway decent job, but they couldn�t of with a super host like me! Very cunning, but against the rules. You know how we know? The appearance of Diddy Kong this time is an obvious giveaway. But also note, DK spoke to Rawk Hawk with a sore throat, then truthfully told us he had laryngitis. That proves it. The new Mole will be chosen at the beginning of next episode. Have a nice day!�
On the next Nintendo: The Mole:
Players will head to the Space Pirate Fortress on Planet Zebes (for real this time). They will brave the gauntlet that is the lair of the Mother Brain and survive in an atmosphere almost devoid of oxygen. Can they do it? Although DK has been unmasked, contestants will be at the mercy of a new Mole next time. It will take the best player to outwit, outplay, and outlast (oops, that�s Survivor), uh.., I mean claim victory. Until, then goodbye everyone!