Twenty-Eight Below

**Season 2, Episode 33**

This is the thirty-third episode of Total Pokémon Action. The teams are given five dogs to take up the mountain and find Kyurem while answering a couple riddles along the way. While one team suffers outside influence and sabotage, the other team reaches a boiling point. All of this happened on a certain castmate's birthday.

The movie of the day is Eight Below. Each team will be assigned 5 dog pokemon and they have to take them up the mountain, answer two riddles correctly, then find Kyurem to win the challenge. Team Cresselia is assigned Lillipup, Electrike, Riolu, Houndour, and Furfrou. Team Darkrai is assigned Yamper, Poochyena, Rockruff, Growlithe, and Snubbull. On Team Cresselia, Bellossom claims to have a great sense of direction which nobody believes, but they're so defeated that they let her do her thing. On Team Darkrai, Absol takes a leadership role as usual, but Porygon-Z steps up to say he'll solve the riddles. Gastrodon and Sudowoodo snapped back at Bisharp and Vespiquen who were calling them names. Girafarig tries to calm them down saying it's not worth it and Arbok agrees. However, Girafarig then tried to shake him off and Arbok found it rude. Arbok then admitted to planting the seed in Gastrodon and Sudowoodo what Bisharp and Vespiquen were saying about them so that a big blow up would happen. At this point, Pachirisu and Bellossom stepped in to steer the team back to the challenge and Bisharp shut them down which Delcatty didn't like. Mismagius expressed her disappointment in Pachirisu specifically because she sided with Arbok knowing how slimy he plays. Then, Pachirisu gets mad because she actually was eliminated and isn't out for revenge. They're still in the game. Gorebyss confessed that she's eating it all up. Then, Delcatty gets emotional and Vespiquen asks if they have backbones. Sudowoodo threatened to get violent, but Zoroark stepped in and shut them all up so they can get back to the challenge. Which they do. They answer a riddle from a Lapras and Zoroark reassured them that they really can do it. They reluctantly agreed to get along and then Zoroark revealed that it was her birthday. Porygon-Z answers the riddle from Mamoswine to stick it to Purugly who doubted him. Walking away, Banette noticed something in the trees, but everyone ignored him. Gliscor and Houndoom bond over Absol. Flareon and Jolteon came out of the trees that Banette was watching. Team Cresselia answered their second riddle from Abomasnow and they were starting to feel like they could actually win it. The dog pokémon ran away from Team Darkrai and Glaceon went after them. They said they ran because they smelled cats and that's when Espeon and Umbreon caused an avalanche. That's when the rest of Team Darkrai was confronted by Flareon and Jolteon. Floatzel, Houndoom, and Ninetales got away. From Glaceon, Floatzel and Ninetales knew that the eeveelutions were up to no good again. So, they and Houndoom came to Glaceon's rescue as she was cornered by Espeon and Umbreon so they couldn't win the challenge and it would be easy to blame Glaceon. The twins got scared off and the four came back to get rid of Flareon and Jolteon. Team Cresselia found the avalanche caused by the twins in their way, so Bellossom blew it up to clear the path. Team Darkrai quickly answered Walrein's riddle to try and get back in the race. That's when Dewgong looked below and noticed Team Cresselia was way ahead. Before they could even try to catch up, Team Cresselia made it to Kyurem and won their first challenge which was super awkward considering their blow up during the challenge. Team Darkrai raced down the mountain, Carnivine tripped and rolled down the mountain. As they expected, they were informed that they lost.

Team Cresselia celebrated their first win even though they all had different explanations for how they won and why they had been on a losing streak. Carnivine, Dewgong, Houndoom, and Milotic had an alliance meeting to decide that they need to go after a duo. Milotic suggested Absol and Gliscor, but Houndoom wasn't cool with it. Milotic issued a team meeting with everyone but Absol and Gliscor. It left people, specifically Houndoom, uneasy, but they all agreed. To be fair to Gliscor, Houndoom filled him in on the plan to vote Absol which he wasn't down for. So, they wanted to split the vote but stay true to the plan to split up a duo. Persian and Purugly also spilled the beans to Absol and they agreed to target the eeveelutions. Their pick to target was Glaceon because she is still a mystery and would be easier to get out than Leafeon because of his connections. Absol tried to pull Ninetales, Floatzel, and Porygon-Z into the plan to vote Glaceon. Ninetales didn't feel right doing it after getting to know Glaceon, so they decided to throw their votes on Leafeon. Shaymin overheard that and got very upset. At the awards ceremony, it came down to sibling duo Glaceon and Leafeon. But, a sad goodbye is said to Glaceon. She is okay with it because she did what she came to do, but Milotic felt betrayed that the vote was flipped. After the limo drives off, Flareon and Jolteon realized that what they were doing wasn't cool because they just got their sister eliminated. So, they left the lot and left Espeon and Umbreon all alone.