We return from the break to see Kirk standing in front of the Temple with the two remaining teams.
“Welcome back to Legends: Rebirth,” he says. “Now, the glory goes to the fastest and the strongest. But first, let’s meet our teams, whaddya think?
“On the Red Jaguars, we have Leslie—she likes to make macramé, and she wants to be a nurse when she gets older, and her partner is Charlie—he plays soccer and baseball, and he also plays the trumpet—let’s hear it for the Red Jaguars!” The audience applauds for the brown-eyed girl with long wavy sandy-blonde hair and the tall boy with black hair and hazel eyes hidden by glasses.
“And their opponents, the Purple Parrots, are made up of Annie—she likes to dance, and her favorite subjects are math and science, and her partner is Vince—he likes to play all kinds of sports, but he especially likes soccer and basketball, and he wants to be a veterinarian—let’s give a hand to the Purple Parrots!” The audience claps for the blue-eyed girl with short black hair and the slightly taller boy with brown hair and hazel eyes.
“All right, are you guys ready?” Kirk asks both teams.
“Yeah!” they reply.
“All right, go get ready for the Temple Games. Now, these Temple Games—in these Temple Games, our teams are competing for…” Kirk retrieves a Pendant of Life from his pouch and holds it up to the camera. “…Pendants of Life. They’re gonna need those Pendants to protect them from the Temple Guards as they make their way through Olmec’s Temple. There are three Temple Games. Olmec, tell us about the first one, if you would, please…”
“Since you said ‘please’,” says Olmec. The black lights under Olmec come on as he begins to explain the first Game:
“When Midas first received his Golden Touch, he touched everything in his palace he could find, including the roses in his garden. Your task is to find the four golden roses in King Midas’s garden. When Kirk gives the signal, insert your peg into one of the holes on the wall before you. If you find a golden rose, it will sprout up at the top of the wall, and pollen will rain down on you; otherwise, climb up and try a different hole. The first player to find all four golden roses or…the player that’s further along at the end of thirty seconds…wins.”
“Going in search of the golden roses,” remarks Kirk. “Set the clock for thirty seconds!” The clock slams down in the corner with a loud gong sound effect. “On your mark, get set, GO!”
Leslie and Annie each begin scaling their way up the two-sided slanted wall, inserting their pegs in the holes in it all the way. About twelve seconds into the game, a small, gold-colored tube erupts from the top of Annie’s wall, and confetti shoots out of it, indicating that she found a correct hole. A gold tube appears on Leslie’s side about five seconds later. Both Annie and Leslie find their second tube with about fifteen seconds left on the clock. The two girls have now reached the top of their respective wall, and both head downward. Annie finds a correct hole with five seconds to spare, and time expires soon afterwards.
“All right, that’s it!” exclaims Kirk as he rushes back onscreen. “Come back down here—they had to climb and climb some more in that game; let’s see how we did.” Kirk glances back at the wall. “Let’s see—the Red Jaguars found two gold roses, and…the Purple Parrots found three gold roses—that means the Purple Parrots get the half Pendant of Life!” The audience applauds briefly. “So the Purple Parrots have a half Pendant now, but the Red Jaguars can still catch up. This next game’s worth a half Pendant as well—Olmec, tell us about it…”
Olmec begins:
“Almost as soon as Midas wished for the Golden Touch, he began to regret it, because all his food would turn to gold before he ate it. In this game, you will be removing the golden food from Midas’s table. When Kirk gives the signal, jump up, grab a piece of fruit, come back around and place it in your bin. Then run around, grab another piece of fruit and do it again. The first player to clear all the fruit from Midas’s table, or…the player with the most fruit at the end of sixty seconds…wins.”
“Time to set the table,” says Kirk. “Let’s set the clock for sixty seconds!” The clock slams down in the corner with the usual sound effect. “On your mark, get set, GO!”
Charlie and Vince each jump up high enough to get one piece of gold-painted plastic fruit on their first try, and they both drop it in their basket. Vince gets another one, but Charlie doesn’t jump up high enough on his second try. Vince manages to get a piece of fruit almost every time he jumps up, even though he misses the basket a few times. Charlie isn’t nearly as consistent as Vince is, and time finally expires.
“All right, stop spinning!” Kirk instructs. “Come down here, guys, and we’ll count ‘em up!” A spotter brings both bins over to Kirk, and Kirk kneels beside them. “Red Jaguars got…one, two, three, four, five pieces of fruit; and the Purple Parrots had…one, two, three, four, five, six, seven…eight pieces of fruit! Wow! That means the Purple Parrots get the half Pendant of Life!” The audience applauds for a few seconds. “So now, the Purple Parrots have one full Pendant to the Red Jaguars’ zero Pendants. But now, it’s time for the third and final Temple Game. It’s worth one full Pendant of Life—Olmec, tell us about Temple Game #3…”
Olmec begins to explain the final Game:
“When Midas undid his wish, his daughter reverted back to normal, but everything else that he touched remained solid gold. In this game, you will be helping Midas clear his palace of some of the golden objects. When Kirk gives the signal, grab a golden object, and then jump down from the platform you’re standing on. Then, your partner will bounce up to you, catch the object, come down and place it in your team’s bin. Then, you’ll go back up and grab another object. The first team to get all four objects, or…the player—team with the most objects 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 corner, ready to go. “On your mark, get set, GO!”
Both teams have a little trouble getting the hang of this new Game—the bungee-cord-strapped boys must grab an object and drop down to their partner, who uses a leaf-adorned trampoline to bounce up to them and drop it in their team’s bin. The Purple Parrots manage to get the hang of the game first, as Annie drops a golden staff in the bin with about 42 seconds left. The Red Jaguars are quite a bit worse about it, as Leslie can’t bounce up high enough to reach the objects Charlie tries to hand off to her. The Red Jaguars finally get a golden object in their bin with 21 seconds to go, but the Purple Parrots already have two in their bin by this time. Both teams get one more object in their bin just before the clock reaches zero.
“Okay, that’s it!” Kirk shouts as he runs back onscreen. The spotters are seen unhooking the boys from their bungee cords and helping them down off the seven-foot high platforms. “Come down here, guys—let’s see how each team did!” Another spotter brings the bins to Kirk, and he kneels beside them. “Let’s see…the Red Jaguars got one, two golden objects; and the Purple Parrots got one, two…three golden objects! That gives the Purple Parrots the full Pendant, giving them two Pendants; the Red Jaguars don’t have any, so the Purple Parrots are goin’ to the Temple!” The audience applauds as Annie and Vince high-ten one another. “Red Jaguars, you guys were great, too; you faced a tough team over here. But we’ve got a great gift for you guys for playing, too; here’s what it is!” They receive Wii Sports Resort for the Nintendo Wii.
As the prize disappears off-screen, Kirk is seen standing between Vince and Annie with his hands on their shoulders. “Now it’s time to see if the Purple Parrots can make it through Olmec’s Temple and bring back that Golden Rose of King Midas…right after this!”
The camera flies over Kirk’s head. He ducks, and the camera zooms in on the back wall of the Bottomless Pit as the title appears onscreen, and we go to a commercial.