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 welcomes us. “Now, of course, is when the glory goes to the fastest and the strongest, but first, I wanna meet our two teams…”
“On the Red Jaguars, we have Donna; she’s into basketball and softball, and her favorite subject is math. And her partner is Tim; he likes to draw, and he wants to be a doctor when he gets older—let’s hear it for the Red Jaguars!” The audience applauds for the blue-eyed girl with long auburn hair and freckles and the taller brown-eyed boy with short black hair.
“And on the Silver Snakes, we have Jessica; she’s a cheerleader and she wants to be an actress when she gets older. And her partner is Jose; he plays baseball and he also likes to collect rocks—how ‘bout a hand for the Silver Snakes?” The audience applauds for the brown-eyed girl with shoulder-length brown hair and the slightly taller Hispanic boy with slick black hair.
“All right, are you guys ready to play?” Kirk asks the teams.
“Yeah!” they loudly reply.
“Well, go get ready for the Temple Games!” Kirk exclaims playfully. “Ha, ha…now, in the Temple Games, our teams are competing for…” Kirk retrieves a Pendant of Life from a pouch at his side and holds it up to the camera. “…Pendants of Life. The 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, please…”
The black lights and torches under Olmec come on as he begins to explain the first Game:
“Emily Dickinson had a talent for putting words together beautifully, and wrote some of the most well-known lines of all time. In this game, you’ll be gathering up the first seven words of one of Emily’s most famous poems. When Kirk gives the signal, jump up, grab a word off the ceiling, come back down, and place it in the proper position before you. Then jump up, grab another word and do it again. Make sure you place the word in the right position, or it won’t count. The first player to successfully complete the line, or…the player with the most correctly placed words at the end of thirty seconds…wins.”
“All right, I hope our players feel poetic today,” Kirk remarks. “Set the clock for thirty seconds, please!” The clock slams down in the bottom right-hand corner with a loud gong sound effect. “On your mark, get set, GO!”
Donna and Jessica each jump up to the ceiling to grab a word of the phrase “Because I could not stop for death”, then bring it down to place it on their boards on the floor. Donna successfully places “STOP” and Jessica places “COULD” about six seconds into the game. Both girls jump up to grab another word off the ceiling, bringing down “BECAUSE” and “STOP” with 18 seconds left. Jessica grabs “DEATH” and Donna grabs “COULD” on their next jump, and they both bring the words down and place them with eleven seconds to go. Both the time on the clock and the words on the ceiling are getting shorter now, and Donna fails to grab a word off the ceiling on her next try; however, Jessica grabs “BECAUSE” and places it with five seconds to go. Jessica fails to grab a word on her next jump to the ceiling, and with two seconds left, Donna manages to grab “NOT”. However, she can’t place it on the board before time expires.
“Okay, that’s it!” Kirk says as he appears back onscreen. “Come down here, girls, and let’s see how we did.” Kirk now kneels beside the boards on the floor. “Well, the Red Jaguars got one, two, three words, all in the right place. And the Silver Snakes got one, two, three, four words, all in the right place—the Silver Snakes get the half Pendant of Life!” The audience applauds for a few seconds. “The Red Jaguars are behind for right now, but they could catch up in this next Temple Game. It’s worth a half Pendant—Olmec, tell us about Temple Game #2…”
Olmec begins:
“If Lavinia had kept her promise to Emily, she would have had to destroy over 1,000 poems that Emily had written. In this game, you’ll only have to destroy three. When Kirk gives the signal, roll out to the far end of the track, climb out of your wheel and rip the poem you find there in two. Then, as quickly as you can, climb back inside your wheel, roll out to the other end of the track, and rip apart the poem you find there. Finally, roll to the middle and destroy the final poem placed there. The first player to destroy all three poems…wins.”
“Seems like a shame to destroy all those nice poems,” Kirk remarks. “We’re not gonna set the clock in this one, so just get in position, guys.” The guys prepare to roll their giant wheels toward the far end of the track. “On your mark, get set, GO!”
Both boys roll their giant wheels down to the end of the track, eventually reaching it, where a sheet of yellowed paper with some writing on it is placed. Tim and Jose both climb out of their wheels and tear their pieces of paper in half, then scramble back into their wheels and roll back to where they started. Jose reaches his destination just a few seconds before Tim does, and climbs out to tear his second paper in half. Tim reaches his second destination just as Jose is climbing back into his wheel, and as Jose rolls toward his third sheet of paper at the middle of the track, Tim tears his second paper in half. Tim climbs back into his wheel and starts to roll toward the middle of the track, but Jose is already there, and he scrambles out to rip apart his third sheet of paper, ending the game.
“All right, he got it!” Kirk says, appearing back onscreen a few seconds later. “He did it…the, um, Silver Snakes reached the end first; they tore all three poems up first, so they get the half Pendant of Life!” The audience applauds for a few seconds. “So now, the Silver Snakes have a full Pendant; the Red Jaguars don’t have any yet. Now, we go to the third and final Temple Game. It’s worth a full Pendant—Olmec, tell us about Temple Game #3…”
Olmec begins to explain the final Game:
“After she died, Emily Dickinson’s poems were not all published immediately—some were published years or even decades apart from one another. In this game, you will be gathering some of Emily’s poems to be published. Before you stands a large net with several of Emily’s poems. The blue ones at the top are rare poems, and are worth two points, while the white ones are worth one point. When Kirk gives the signal, one player from each team will propel themselves up to the net and grab a poem, come back down and place it in their bin. Then, their partner will do the same. The first team to get all their scrolls, or…the team with the most points at the end of sixty seconds…wins.”
“This is for the Temple,” Kirk remarks. “Let’s put sixty seconds on the clock!” The clock slams down in the corner, ready to go. “On your mark, get set, GO!”
The teams’ male members launch themselves up to the net on the trampoline, and reach up for a white scroll. They both bring it down and drop it in their team’s bin with about 52 seconds remaining. The girls propel themselves up now, and while Donna goes for a white scroll, Jessica climbs all the way to the top to get a blue scroll. Donna gets down quicker and drops her white scroll in her team’s bin, but Jessica is much slower about coming down, having climbed quite a bit higher, allowing Tim to climb up the net and get another white scroll to bring down. To make matters worse for the Silver Snakes, Jose has apparently picked up on Jessica’s strategy, and he climbs up to get a blue scroll on his next turn as well. Eventually, the ambitiousness of the Silver Snakes comes back to bite them in the backside, as the Red Jaguars get all six of their white scrolls with ten seconds remaining, while the Silver Snakes only have one white scroll and three blue scrolls. Tim climbs up to get his team’s first blue scroll as Jose struggles with yet another blue scroll. Tim manages to bring the blue scroll down just in the nick of time, but time expires before Jose can place his in his team’s basket.
“Okay, that’s it!” Kirk says before he appears onscreen again. “Come over here, that’s it…let’s see how our teams did here.” A spotter brings the baskets over to Kirk, and he begins to count up the scrolls, pulling them out and counting how many points they’re worth at the same time. “Let’s start with the Red Jaguars. They got one, two, three, five, six, seven…eight points. And the Silver Snakes got two, four, six…seven points! The Red Jaguars get the full Pendant…that gives the Red Jaguars a full Pendant; the Silver Snakes have a full Pendant—we’ve got a tie! Bring in the tiebreaker pedestal!”
A spotter wheels in the tiebreaker pedestal, and the teams position themselves behind it. Kirk stands beside them as he begins to explain the rules:
“All right teams, here’s what’s gonna happen. In a moment, Olmec will ask you a question. If you think you know the answer, hit the gong in front of you. You’ll have three seconds, and we must accept your first answer. The first team to ring in and answer correctly will be going inside the Temple in search of the Satin Evening Gown of Emily Dickinson. All clear?” The teams nod in response. “All right—Olmec, what is your final question?”
Olmec begins to ask the final question of the day:
“Is the capital of Massachusetts: Plymouth, Bost—”
The Silver Snakes ring in, cutting Olmec off. “Boston?”
“That…is correct!” Olmec booms.
“The Silver Snakes are goin’ to the Temple!” Kirk exclaims as Jose and Jessica jump up and down in excitement. “Nice job, guys! Red Jaguars, you guys did great, too, and we’re not sending you home empty-handed. We’ve got a great gift for them, and here’s what it is!” They receive a custom-made Legends of the Hidden Temple: Rebirth watch.
As the prize disappears off-screen, Kirk is now seen standing beside the winning team. “Now we’ll see if the Silver Snakes can make it through Olmec’s Temple; retrieve the Satin Evening Gown of Emily Dickinson, right after this!”
The camera pans in on the Temple and zooms in on the Evening Gown in the Jewel Mine before the title appears onscreen, and we fade to a commercial.
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