We return from the break to find Kirk standing in front of the Temple with the two remaining teams.
“Welcome back to Legends: Rebirth,” he says. “Now is the time that the glory goes to the fastest and the strongest, but first, I wanna meet our teams…”
Kirk first turns to the Red Jaguars, who are made up of a tall brown-eyed girl with long, straight blonde hair and an equally tall blue-eyed boy with messy brown hair.
“First, on the Red Jaguars, we have Amanda. How old are you, Amanda?”
“Thirteen,” she replies.
“And…it says here you like playing softball, but you’re also into drama…tell us a little about that.”
“Um…I started acting in, like, plays and things when I was about six,” says Amanda. “I’ve taken a few classes and things on it, and…I really like it.”
“All right, sounds neat,” says Kirk as he turned to Amanda’s male teammate. “And over here, your partner is Paul. How old are you?”
“Twelve,” he says.
“And your card says you play basketball, but you also want to be a zoologist…so you like animals, I take it?”
“Yeah, um…I’ve got a bunch of pets at home,” says Paul, “and…I’ve always liked takin’ care of animals, so…I think it might be cool to do that for a living.”
“We’ve got an aspiring actress and an aspiring animal-man,” says Kirk. “Let’s hear it for the Red Jaguars!” Paul and Amanda clap along with the audience as they applaud.
Kirk now turns to the Silver Snakes, who are made up of an average-height blue-eyed girl with long, frizzy brown hair and a slightly taller African-American boy with curly, dark brown hair.
“And on the Silver Snakes, we have Leah. Hold—how old are you?”
“Thirteen,” replies Leah.
“And, um…it says here that you’re a cheerleader, but you also have a pretty unique nickname…what is that?”
“Uh…‘Stinky’…” Leah replies, giggling.
“Why do they call you ‘Stinky’?” asks Kirk.
“Well…it’s kind of a long story, about something I did at school…in front of the whole class…” Leah says, giggling and blushing.
“Ha, ha—okay, fair enough,” laughs Kirk before he turns to Leah’s teammate. “And here we have Jackson. How old are you, Jackson?”
“Fourteen,” he responds.
“And here it says that you like basketball, and ‘parkour’. What exactly is ‘parkour’?”
“Um, it’s basically where you take your—the stuff around you, and…basically run and bounce off the walls and rocks and things,” says Jackson. “It’s really good exercise.”
“Bouncing off walls, huh?” asks Kirk. “Do your parents know you do that?”
“Yeah,” laughs Jackson.
“Well, oka—” Kirk begins, but Jackson starts to speak again:
“Who you…who do you think I’m running from?” he quips.
Kirk begins to laugh heavily, as does the audience. “Well, you won’t have much to run from in these Temple Games…let’s hear it for the Silver Snakes!” Jackson and Leah clap along with the applauding audience.
“All right, are you all ready to play?” Kirk asks.
“Yeah!” the players reply.
“Okay, go get ready for the Temple Games,” he says. “Now, the teams are gonna be competing for…” Kirk retrieves a Pendant of Life from the pouch at his side and holds it up to the camera. “…Pendants of Life. Our winning team will need those Pendants to protect them from the dreaded Temple Guards as they make their way through Olmec’s Temple. There are three Temple Games—Olmec, tell us about Temple Game #1…”
The black lights and torches under Olmec come on and he begins to explain the first Game:
“Though it hasn’t been proven, many people still believe that an alien craft landed at Roswell in 1947. Aside from the strange material, however, nothing was ever found. In this game, you’ll be searching for evidence of UFO’s. When Kirk gives the signal, crawl out to the first pile of sand and begin to dig through it with your hands. If you find a miniature UFO there, come back and place it in your bin. Then, crawl out to the next pile of sand and start digging for the next tiny UFO. The first player to find all four UFO’s, or…the player who finds the most UFO’s in sixty seconds…wins.”
“Alright, time to find some alien life,” says Kirk. “Let’s put sixty seconds on the clock, please!” The clock slams down in the bottom-right hand corner of the screen with a loud crash. “On your mark, get set, GO!”
Leah and Amanda both crawl out to their first miniature sandbox and begin sorting through it with their hands. They both find a small toy UFO buried in the sand at about the same time, and both bring it back with about 50 seconds left. Both girls move on to their second, slightly larger sandbox, where Amanda lucks out by finding a toy UFO almost immediately—she brings it back with 44 seconds on the clock. As Amanda moves on to her third, much bigger sand pile, Leah continues sorting through her second one until about halfway through the game, when she finds her second UFO and brings it back with 27 seconds left. Amanda is still digging in her third sand pile when Leah comes up and starts digging through hers as well. Several seconds tick by until about ten seconds remain, when Amanda finds a third toy UFO and brings it back. Leah frantically digs for the last few seconds as Amanda moves on to her fourth and final gigantic sand pile. With about three seconds left, Leah finds a UFO, but time expires before she can reach her bin with it.
“All right, stop right there!” says Kirk as he runs back onscreen. “Stop digging—these two are digging machines here! Let’s come over here and see how we did…” A spotter brings both bins over to Kirk, and he kneels beside them. “Red Jaguars got one, two…three UFO’s. And the Silver Snakes got one…two UFO’s! That gives the Red Jaguars the half Pendant of Life!” The audience applauds briefly. “Silver Snakes did great, but they can catch up in this next game. It’s worth a half Pendant—Olmec, tell us about Temple Game #2…”
Olmec begins:
“After July 18th, 1947, many people claimed to see several more objects flying in the skies over Roswell. In this game, you’ll be recreating what some people may have seen. When Kirk gives the signal, grab a UFO, jump up, and stick it on the ceiling above you. Then come back down and grab another UFO. The first player to hang all their UFO’s, or…the player who’s hung the most at the end of sixty seconds…wins.”
“Strange skies above,” says Kirk. “Well, maybe not…let’s set the clock for sixty seconds!” The clock slams down in the corner, ready to go. “On your mark, get set, GO!”
Both Paul and Jackson, suspended from bungee cords, drop down and grab a silver disc suspended from a string. They then jump up to the ceiling with the intention to hang it, but Paul doesn’t jump high enough, and only Jackson hangs a flying saucer from the ceiling above him at the 52-second mark. Jackson drops down to get another one as Paul manages to jump high enough to stick his first UFO on the ceiling with 47 seconds left. Paul has a little trouble jumping up high enough to reach the ceiling, allowing Jackson to place about two more UFO’s than he does about three-fourths of the way through the game. Jackson mistimes a jump with about ten seconds left, allowing Paul to bridge the gap a bit. However, he can’t catch up completely, as time expires soon afterward.
“Okay, that’s it!” says Kirk as he walks back onscreen. “That’s it; come on down here, guys. Great match—let’s see how many they got.” Kirk looks up to the ceilings and begins to count the UFO’s there. “The Red Jaguars…I see one, two, three, four UFO’s; and the Silver Snakes got…one, two, three, four, five! The Silver Snakes get the half Pendant of Life!” The audience applauds for a second or two. “The, uh, Red Jaguars had a little trouble reaching the, uh…ceiling there, but that’s alright; they can catch up in the third and final Game. It’s worth a full Pendant—Olmec, tell us about Temple Game #3…”
Olmec begins to explain the final Game:
“No one really knows for sure if a UFO actually landed in Roswell, but in this game, you’ll be recreating what a UFO landing might look like. When Kirk gives the signal, the player on the ground will grab a UFO and throw it to their partner. Catch the UFO, slide toward the landing site, toss it over the landing site, and go back for another. That’s the cue to toss another UFO. The first team to place five UFO’s at the landing site, or…the team that places the most UFO’s at the end of sixty seconds wins!”
“This is for the Temple,” Kirk explains. “Set the clock for sixty seconds, please!” The clock slams down in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. “On your mark, get set, GO!”
Both girl team members grab a ring and throw it up to their male partners suspended from ziplines. The boys then slide out and try to throw the rings over the giant post at the “landing site”, but neither one makes their shot, so they go back. Paul fails to catch the next ring Amanda throws to him, but Jackson does catch Leah’s thrown ring, and slides out to successfully toss it over the hob, taking first blood at the 46-second mark. Paul catches a ring and tosses it over his hob with 40 seconds left, but Jackson manages to pull ahead again by getting a ring on the post about seven seconds later. With 29 seconds left, Paul makes another ringer to tie the game up 2-2. No one scores for quite a while, as Paul and Jackson can’t seem to recreate the accuracy of their first two throws, but with about ten seconds remaining, Jackson throws a ring over his target to pull ahead. Paul struggles to get another ring on his post, but he can’t, and time soon expires.
“That’s it—stop right there!” Kirk says as he hurries back onscreen. “Come on over; we’ll check it out. Well, the Red Jaguars got…two UFO’s, and the Silver Snakes had…three UFO’s! The Silver Snakes get the full Pendant of life…that gives them a Pendant and a half; the Red Jaguars have a half—the Silver Snakes are goin’ to the Temple!” Jackson and Leah jump up and down and clap as the audience applauds. “They’re excited! Red Jaguars, come here—you guys did a great job, too, and you’re not goin’ home empty-handed. We’ve got a great fit—gift for you, and here’s what it is!” They receive a $50 savings bond provided by Wonka candy.
As the prize disappears off-screen, we see Kirk standing beside the Silver Snakes. “We’ll see if these two can make it through Olmec’s Temple, retrieve the Mysterious Material of the Roswell Object—right after this!”
The camera pans in on the Bottomless Pit and zooms in on a flowering vine creeping up the back wall of the room before the title appears onscreen, and we go to a commercial.
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