It's the finale. Whoever wins this, will win the artifact of Wisdom. And it's either Vill, Syde or Chaos.
Syde was determined to win, even when his shoulder was hurting from the last two challenges. He was proud of how far he came with the help of his friends. Chaos on the other hand, came so far because he sacrificed everyone he worked with and he has no regrets. None. Vill was on his way of gaining trust from everyone but he blew his chance last challenge. Now all he has to do is win alone, no matter what it takes.For the first part of the challenge, the contestants choose which eliminated contestant will help them. The chosen eliminated contestants will bring the finalists their flags and the finalists have to climb the mountain of knowledge to place their flag on the summit's pedestal and win the competition.
Chaos chose Pom because she craves for vengeance against Vill. Sarasa thought that Syde will choose her because they trained together for this competition but he chose Larimar instead. And no matter who Vill chose, everyone refused to see him win. Therefore he chose Foil, who was on a wheelchair because Vill had no other option. They were given a choice to choose their own boats to cross the rocky canyon while closing their eyes. Foil chose a motor boat, Larimar got a canoe and Pom chose a paddling pad. All 3 of them started racing against each other.
Foil was the fastest because he had a motor and he collided against Larimar and Pom so that they'll fall off their boats.
However Foil didn't notice the rocks and collided against them, sending him flying towards Vill. He gave Vill the flag and they both started climbing the mountain of knowledge. Larimar hopped on the rocks and reached Syde to give him the flag and they started climbing. Finally Pom reached
Chaos and they started climbing. Foil had an idea to cut the harnesses of the contestants climbing below them but Vill refused and he said he'll retreat the game if Foil sabotages them. Foil rolls his eyes and contemplates that Vill was too hesitant. Foil tells him that the only reason these people tolerated Vill was because they could use Vill to win for themselves and they never really cared for anybody. He tells them that if Vill helped them win, no one would never look at him again since he has no use anymore. Vill stays silent.Suddenly, a horde of bats started flying towards them. The bats collided against Foil as he lost grip on the rope. However, Syde caught him on time by one hand. Foil thanks him and then tries to pull him down with him so that Syde will lose but Larimar grabbed a bat by its legs and slammed it against Foil's face. This made Foil lose grip again and he fell down and collided with Chaos below. However, Pom caught Chaos by his hand before they fell but she let Foil fall back to the ground. Vill reached the top half way since there was no harness to hold onto. The next challenge waits to assemble a flying drone that will carry each player to the summit (the drone has their owner's personality).
Syde and Larimar was the first to assemble their drone but the activated drone was too scared to fly. Meanwhile Chaos and Pom already finished fixing their drone and it started carrying him upwards. Even though Vill was the first to start assembling, he was the slowest because he had no helper with him. Syde started giving positive encouragement to his drone and it started carrying him. Pom offered to help Vill to build his drone but she secretly sabotaged it so that it will break down. She taunted him, saying that Vill doesn't deserve to win. Vill decides to take a risk and climb the mountain without any drone or harness. Pom tried to stop him by climbing the mountain too but her designer coat gets stuck in a ragged rock and she couldn't get it off without tearing it. Meanwhile Chaos started throwing rocks at Syde's drone so Syde will fall down. Syde's drone didn't drop Syde despite the attacks it got as it valued Syde's safety. Larimar made a makeshift catapult from the remaining drone parts and aimed one at Chaos's drone above.
After one hit, Chaos's drone wanted to save itself despite the life of its owner so it dropped Chaos and flew away. Chaos quickly grabbed onto Syde's leg, no matter how many times Syde wanted to get rid of him.
Syde and Chaos arrived on the summit at the same time. Syde was going to place his flag on the pedestal but Chaos tackled him down and hits his shoulder where it hurted the most. Meanwhile, Vill took the opportunity to sneak past their conflict in order to place his own flag...until he heard a cry for help. It was Syde, dangling over the summit's edge because Chaos had pushed him. Chaos offered to pull him back up if Syde dropped his flag but he refused. Chaos was about to push Syde but Vill came in and held Syde's hand before Syde lost his grip on the edge. Chaos started pushing Vill too towards the edge and he couldn't defend himself because he's using his full strength to hold onto Syde.
Syde tells him to let go of his hand and that he will be alright. Vill refused to do so but Syde tells him that he has a plan and needs Vill's trust. Syde tells him to let go of him. Vill finally agreed and lets go of Syde before punching Chaos out of the summit. Vill sees Syde fall down and gets rescued by Syde's drone before reaching the ground. Now that Vill knows that Syde is safe, he goes to the summit and was going to put his flag on the pedestal. However Chaos sneaks up from behind and knocks down Vill with the dismantled parts of his own drone. Turns out Chaos's drone saved him too from falling but he broke it and down and dismantled it.
Vill gets knocked down and Chaos steals his flag and breaks it. Then Chaos proceeds to put his own flag on the pedestal before Vill could stop him.
The challenge was over.
The winner of this battle for Wisdom has been decided.
Chaos lets out a maniacal laughter as everything he did finally paid off. The speaker box descends with the artifact of Wisdom and gave an announcement."The holder of the Artifact of Wisdom and the winner of this competition is...Syde!"
Chaos stopped laughing. He retorts in anger saying that he was the one who placed his flag on the pedestal. He looks back at the flag and noticed it was Syde's flag. Syde had switched their flags when Chaos tackled him. Chaos was so focused on beating them both that he didn't even notice the dlag he was holding. Syde arrives at the top
with his drone and checks up on Vill.
Vill asks why did Syde swap his flag with Chaos because there was a chance that Vill could've actually defeated Chaos and won the challenge instead. Syde just says that he also wanted to give him a fair chance at winning too because Vill also did his best. They hug and Vill apologises for every trouble that he caused him but Syde forgives him. Syde apologises that he stole the win from Vill but Vill didn't really care anymore. It was finally over. Everyone came onto the summit and celebrated Syde's victory.
Chaos wasn't sad because he lost the game. He was sad because there was no chaos anymore among the players. Everyone had made up with each other, all problems were solved. Everything he made to cause disorder was pointless.
Vesary congratulates Vill for getting this far. Pom couldn't suck up her pride to apologise to Vill so she just angrily left.
Chaos wishes Syde the best of luck and leaves quietly. It was over, everyone was celebrating and having fun.Everyone raised Syde towards the sky as he thanked everyone who helped him so far (Larimar gets his portion of Syde's prize).
And Sarasa silently looked at him from below.
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Battle for Wisdom (SEASON 2)
Short StoryContestants have to battle once again for the second artifact, the Brain. However some new players were added this time.