The Ranch

Team Troublemakers (3)

The round ends with one victor and one loser. "Lets welcome in Teams Glados and LingLing!...Next up is WDGaster vs Sephiroth...The next round is Team Sephiroth vs Team Gladiators..."

The staff learned from the first round and warned Kai not to call out the answers.

Kane's team and Phillip and Casanova's team, Sincompany, both won their matches.

"Next we have Daleks vs Poseidon! Open the doors!" Simon D announces.

Tih's group of four enter their lane. Victor inserts himself as leader," Start rolling." Theodore and Basile nod as all three start pushing. Tih follows along, letting his hands glide along the rough surface as it rolls while he looks at his surroundings.

Both teams reach the first checkpoint. Team Poseidon finds it in record due thanks to Tih who spotted it earlier and walked over before the boulder rolled against it.

"Stop!" Victor prevents his group from almost crushing Tih. The three follow around the side and see the question.

[According to Greek mythology, who was the first woman on earth?]

They were given four options to choose from: [Chiron] [Hecate] [Pandora] [Harmonia]

Victor looked between his members," Any ideas?" They look between each other blankly.

"Hurry it up coxswain or they'll get ahead!" Kai spouts.

Victor gives the far away Kai a look.

"Just being supportive!" He yells, backing off to hide behind Sherlock.

Victor sighs," Guess." He taps a random one. As expected, it's wrong. Luckily, the other team was also wrong, so they are ahead by mere seconds.

Now, when Victor said "guess", he wasn't just referring to this question, but all of the following questions, realizing waiting before having to guess would be slower than immediately choosing something and taking the ten seconds.

They roll up and over, around, and down. All the while, Tih's still barely touching the boulder and then something happens.

Tih spots his team's balcony section. Kai waves. Tih waves back.

This meant he took his hand off the boulder for everyone to see.

"Is that newbie not pushing along with his teammates?" People in the crowd start discussing. The cameras caught it.

"I gotta give the kid credit, his face is thicker than earth's crust." Simon D comments. The cameras switch to Major Jax and Private Scott. The announcer asks," What are your thought on the pig teammate?"

Major Jax pipes up first, "If he's really a pig teammate, we'll have to wait and see." He turns his head lazily," OI! Teach your children properly, yeah?" This was aimed at Poseidon's balcony members.

Coming to a realization, Kai hurries while he still has Tih's attention," Tih! Push! Push the rock to the other side!" He makes a pushing motion in the air and points to the end of the track.

Tih tilts his head and copies Kai's movements in the air.

"Yes! But with the boulder!" He points at the rock next to Tih. Tih turns and makes the pushing motion in front of the boulder.

"Yeah! Do it!"

Tih's smooth, childlike hands push against the boulder. The stone ball slides across the dirt, creating a mark.

Unfortunately, Theodore, Victor, and Basile, who had to start low and push up to roll the ball, almost fall forward as the push was too sudden.

Even more unfortunately, they happened to be right above the slope that leads down to the horizontal spike in the wall.

So, adding those two things together, the most unfortunate thing happens. With that push, it's on the slope. With no one in front of it to hold it back, the stone starts rolling downhill on its own. It picks up some speed before it crashes into the spike, breaking into smithereens.

The three stare blankly at the rubble. The crowd started an uproar of noise. Some sighed in disappointment. Others laughed at someone else's problem. Some started cursing the pig teammate. The screens showed a replay of what just occurred and a slow motion of Tih's teammate's reactions. The guest commentator's expressions were quite interesting as well.

Tih stopped paying attention to Kai and started staring at the more interesting thing that just occurred. A ginormous rolling rock barreled into a wall spike and got decimated. It was something that doesn't happen often, too bad it was so short lived, he probably will never be able to see it happen aga-oh, where is he going?

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crack...crack egg....crack crack

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While thinking about the fun scene, he jumps onto the broken boulder to push himself up and over the border dividing the two lanes. He locks onto the opponent's boulder.

...you see where this is going.

They still haven't noticed the child, as their vision is blocked and they are too distracted with catching up to any individual sentences in the mess of noises. All they know is that it got really loud all of a sudden and their minds went to the worst possibility. But they haven't given up yet!

Tih runs down the the opponents lane with a skip in his step. The boulder seems to anticipate its ending, and it rolls nearer. Tih reaches the grainy surface and his hand claws the stone into a death grip. No one will ever know once the rock is shattered, but if one looked at that area, there would be an imprint of a small hand.

Tih walks backwards, dragging the boulder with him. The opponents stumble, as the weight they were leaning against gives way. They don't have time to collect themselves before it's too late.

Tih reaches the slope and drags the boulder down with him. He lets go and runs forward, the boulder chasing from behind. He reaches the inverted corner and jumps on the moving boulder, pushing off with his boots which increases its final velocity, before turning one-eighty degrees and landing on top of the platform just in time to watch the boulder be split.

Tih: *waves at Kai*
Crowd: facepalm.jpg