S: on a special kind of day in a universe where drowning isn't lethal, several people like Glacier and Charmy, were invited to compete in another game show, but this time it wasn't flood or fact, but it was something completely different, a flooded tower...nobody knew the rules on how to play yet, but the curiosity made these two want to enter the show, even tho Glacier was really scared

L: Cirrus and Lenn were both invited as well, being just as clueless about the rules. They arrive at about the same time as Glacier and Charmy.

Lenn: "Oh, hey you two! Glad to see some more familiar faces here!"

Cirrus: "Did you see the size of that tower from the outside? Pretty impressive..."

S: Charmy - "Yeah! Apparently that tower is flooded with water, maybe we have to swim up as high as we can?"

Glacier - "M-m-maybe, let's hope there's no drowning involved..."

L: Cirrus: "I really doubt it's just swimming, Lenn and I can go way too fast for that to make sense."

Lenn: "If it really is full of water, then I suppose there IS a bit of a risk it might involve drowning in some way... But I'm sure that's not going to be the point of it like it was with Flood or Fact."

S: "I certainly hope not! I don't want any drowning!"

just then, the host of the show comes in, A Blastoise, who smiles at everyone

Blastoise - "Ah, hello hello! Welcome to the Flood Tower! I'm so glad you guys accepted my invitation!"

L: Cirrus: "Good timing on our part then, Lenn and I pretty much just got here!"

Lenn: "With a name like Flood Tower, I just had to find out what this was all about!"

S: Charmy - "Me too!"

Glacier - "S-same over here!"

Blastoise - "Your probably wondering how this game works, lemme explain: Your task is to climb up the flooded tower as high up as you can on one breath of air, but here's the catch... a strong wind system that's hidden will push you down, so you can't really swim, and you actually have to climb the tower using your hands... the prize is earned by how high you can go before you've had enough, or if you drown"

L: Lenn: "Interesting... That'll have to be REALLY strong, if it's gonna be keeping ME from swimming..."

Cirrus: "Especially for me, I think I might be able to overpower it if I try hard enough... You sure it'll be enough to keep us down?"

S: "Oh ho ho, don't worry...the wind system is designed to keep down even the strongest swimmers, you ain't swimming in there"

Glacier - "Oh no, not being able to swim?! That scares me... it's like that's switched body motif over again, ugh!"

Charmy - "I'm a pretty good climber since I have claws that are made for this, so I think I've had a good shot at getting the best prize!"

L: Cirrus: "Then... Ugh, I'm gonna have to WALK..." He already looks a lot less excited for this.

Lenn: "Hm, I still haven't really mastered getting around like that while anthro... At least I've still got a really good breath hold..."

S: "I'm actually a lot more excited about this!"

Glacier - "I'm not...ugh!"

Blastoise - "Heh, well I'll give you guys 2 minutes to prepare yourselfs then it's showtime! People are already waiting!"

the blastoise then heads to the stage to prepare

L: Cirrus: "Right, yeah..." He sighs, before he lowers himself down to stop floating and walk on all fours, seemingly practicing walking as he takes deep breaths.

Lenn does some stretches as he deeply breathes too. "Hope this goes well..."

S: charmy does some stretches too before she takes some deep breathes as well
Charmy - "Hehe!!"

Glacier does a downward dog pose for a stretch as he takes a few calming breathes to relax himself
Glacier - "I'm scared..."

eventually...

Blastoise - "Alright guys come on!"

L: Cirrus: "Right, let's get this over with..." Still a bit grumpy, he heads over to the stage area.

Lenn: "You gonna be okay, Glacier?"

S: Glacier - "I don't know honestly...I'm really freaked out, but I'll try and tough it out... maybe try and stay by my side?" Glacier then walks to the stage area too

Charmy - "Let's go!" charmy does as well

L: Lenn: "At least for now, for sure." He heads out to the stage area, making sure to stay near Glacier.

S: the curtains then open up, and there's a HUGE crowd of people in the audience, the blastoise host walks to the center of it with a beaming smile, the lingering flooded tower sits right behind him and the contestants

Blastoise - "Welcome everyone! To an exciting episode of The Flood Tower!!!"

L: Lenn and Cirrus both wave to the audience with smiles, though Lenn's smile is a bit bigger than Cirrus'.

S: charmy and Glacier both wave and smile as well, with charmy's smile being bigger then glacier's as claps from the audience can be beard

Blastoise - "We've got an exciting one planned for you all today, but first let's introduce our contestants who are gonna be competing!"

the Blastoise host then goes over to Lenn first

"First up we have Lenn, the rather unique dolphin who can change between his anthro and feral forms...how do you feel about this up coming competition?"

L: Lenn: "Well, it's going to be weird not being able to swim, and I haven't exactly done much climbing, since my feral form is my natural one... But I'm fairly confident about this."

S: "I'm sure you'll do fine!"

blastoise then walks to glacier

"Next contestant is Glacier, a glaceon and also an ice type, seems like he's pretty nervous about doing this... do you think you'll be ok?"

Glacier - "I-i-i-i hope so... I'm so nervous!! I don't know if I can do it!"

Blastoise - "Don't worry! You'll do fine! You won't be in any serious danger!"

blastoise then walks to Cirrus

"Next we have Cirrus, an eastern dragon and he's quite rare at that fact, seems like he's pretty grumpy right now, you sure you'll be fine doing this kind of thing?"

L: Cirrus: "I'll be fine, I can handle myself in water. I'm just not too happy about needing to walk instead of flying like normal, I really don't like walking. Haven't done it in a few years."

S: "Ooooh, that's definitely gonna be tough for you"

finally, blastoise walks to charmy

"And last but not least, we have charmy the charmander, a fire type pokemon who's looking eager then ever! Do you think you'll climb up the fastest?"

Charmy - "Of course! I've got mad climbing skills, nobody is gonna beat me!"

Blastoise - "Guess we'll see what happens, now that you've met the contestants we can get started!"

L: Cirrus and Lenn head over to the entrance of the tower, looking up at how far they're going to have to go.

Lenn: "...Even I'm gonna have some trouble holding my breath long enough..."

Cirrus: "...I can probably make it up there."

S: "That tower is pretty tall, your definitely gonna have a hard time in there"

Glacier - "Mama mia! It's so big!! Now I really don't know if I can do it!"

charmy puts on her swim goggles, already ready to go

Charmy - "I love a good challenge!"

L: Cirrus: "Ready to get started, let us in whenever."

Lenn pets Glacier some. "You got this, this won't be that bad."

S: Blastoise - "Good luck contestants!" the blastoise host opens the door to the flood tower, somehow all the water is managing to stay inside, and there's a visible strong current coming down as well

Charmy - "Oh boy! Let's do this!" charmy walks up to the flood tower, getting ready to hop in

Glacier - "Ahhh!!!" Glacier meanwhile backs away from the tower in fear

L: While Cirrus was just about to go in, he stops and looks back at Glacier. "...I don't think we should start until it'll be all of us going in at once."

Lenn: "Yeah, it wouldn't really be fair if someone stayed out for a while..."

S: Charmy - "Oh right, good idea..." despite how excited charmy was, she stayed where she is

Glacier - "Oh dear lord! I don't know about this!"

Blastoise - "Uh oh, it seems like our icy friend is having a hard time going into the tower, I mean I know it's pretty intimating but I promise you it's safe!"

L: Cirrus: "He tends to have issues with game shows like this, even though they're safe." He shrinks to 1% size and lays on Glacier's head, hoping to cheer them up by being silly.

Lenn pets Glacier some. "It's gonna be okay, at worst it's just gonna hurt some..."

S: charmy goes over to pet Glacier too

Charmy - "Yeah! I'll be ok!"

Glacier whimpers, not even cirrus laying on his head is helping him

Glacier - "...get off of me cirrus..."

Blastoise - "Yikes, I see..." the blastoise host comes over to pet Glacier too
"Come on folks help me out, I want Glacier to be brave and conquer the tower with everyone!"

L: Cirrus: "R-right, sorry, thought it'd help..." He floats off their head and goes back to 10% size.

Everyone in the audience starts cheering for Glacier, trying to encourage him!

S: Charmy - "Look at that! Everyone is cheering for you buddy!"

Blastoise - "Exactly! I know you can do this Glacier!"

Glacier - "I-i-i..." he was being shy, still unsure

L: Lenn: "You might even win, like that one Flood or Fact from a while back!"

Cirrus: "Yeah, I've almost never done any climbing in my life, you might do pretty good!"

S: Charmy - "I mean, I'm a pretty good climber, I'm probably the best one out of all of us"

Glacier - "I've never had to climb either... I'm gonna do so bad! And I don't want to drown!"

Blastoise - "You don't have to drown! If at any point your uncomfortable you'll be able to exit the tower at any time"

L: Lenn: "Exactly, yeah! This is the only water game show I've seen where you can back out of it if you're about to drown!"

Cirrus: "I mean, I wouldn't do that, but that's me. No one here's going to think any less of you if you have to give up!"

S: Charmy - "Yeah!"

Glacier - "I guess that's true, this show is different from flood or fact..."

Blastoise - "Exactly, come on my beautiful audience, keep cheering Glacier on!"

L: The audience keeps cheering for Glacier.

Lenn: "Well, there won't be any harm in at least trying this out, right? I don't know if you'll LIKE it, but maybe it's not as bad as you're thinking."

Cirrus: "Yep, if you hate it, you can just leave, and you'll have at least tried."

S: Glacier sighs
"Alright alright... I'll do it"

Charmy and Blastoise - "Alright!!! Good on you Glacier! Jinx! Haha!"

L: Cirrus: "Nice, let's get started!"

Lenn: "I'll be seeing you guys at the top!"

S: Charmy - "No, I'll be seeing YOU at the top! Hahaha!"

Glacier - "Heh heh..."

Blastoise - "Well go on then my contestants! I wish you all the best of luck!"

L: Cirrus and Lenn both quickly take a few deep breaths, before holding one and jumping into the water. Lenn tries to swim and Cirrus tries to float, both of them finding that neither is going to happen, before they start to run along the bottom to begin working their way up.

S: Charmy - "Come on Glacier! We can't let them beat us!" charmy takes a deep breath and holds it before she jumps into the water too, immediately starting to scale the tower with her claws

Glacier turns around back to the audience, and when he sees them still cheering he smiles, before taking a huge breath and going in too, running along the bottom as the current tries to keep them down

the blastoise host shuts the door and turns on a monitor so everyone can see better

Blastoise - "Our contestants are finally in, let's see how this goes shall we?"

L: Lenn and Cirrus are both doing their best to climb up. They're each having some trouble, not being used to it, but they're getting along. Cirrus also goes to his full size during this, figuring that there's no reason to hold back, and him being bigger is helping him climb faster.

S: charmy is currently in the lead as she's the highest out of everyone so far, able to stay perfectly relaxed and not let too many bubbles loose

meanwhile Glacier was getting spooked since he's all by himself, Lenn promise he'll stick close to him and he ain't keeping that promise, he's sitting in last so far

Blastoise - "Wow charmy is doing fantastic so far! She's not even fazed by the current! Lenn and Cirrus seem to be doing fine too, and glacier...he's barely even moving up the tower with how scared he is, at that point he might drown..."

L: After a little bit longer, Lenn's eyes go wide as he remembers his promise. Carefully, he makes his way back down to where Glacier is. "I'm so sorry, I completely forgot I said I'd stay with you!"

Cirrus pauses for a moment to look down at the two, before continuing upward.

S: Glacier - "Thblanks ablot lenn..."

Charmy - "Hablha!!! Sublckers!!!" charmy keeps climbing up, not even low on breathe

Blastoise - "Never would have guessed a fire type would be so good at water stuff... anyways, lenn looks like he's now back to Glacier to hopefully help him out, I'm honestly rooting for Glacier myself"

L: Lenn: "Try to just take it fairly casually, Glacier, it's not like you only get a prize if you get all the way to the top."

S: "Lenn is correct, the prize is based on how high you can climb! Don't give up already Glacier!"

Glacier - "I sbluppose yblour riblght...I'm soblrry..." Glacier frowns and then starts to make his way back up the tower

meanwhile, charmy is so high up that the currents are at their strongest ever, now he's starting to struggle just a little

L: Not too far below now, Cirrus is starting to catch up with Charmy. "Noblt abls stblronblg abls Ibl ablm, hbluh?" He smirks up at her, seemingly not that affected by the current.

S: Charmy - "Grrrr!!! Gblet oublt of thble wably!" charmy uses her feet to sort of shove cirrus down lower and she keeps climbing up, her face now fully red from the effort

L: "Hbl-hbley!" Cirrus momentarily struggles to keep from losing his grip, before he continues upward, this time trying not to be under Charmy so she won't be able to do that again. He's not blushing at all just yet, but he's likely not that far off.

S: "Na na na na na!!!" charmy keeps climbing up higher

meanwhile, thanks to lenn's help, Glacier was making some good progress on the tower, however his face is fully red, about to turn slightly blue, and he's getting nervous

L: Lenn is blushing some as well, just not as much, as he occasionally boosts Glacier up some. "Hang in there... We're making good progess."

S: Glacier - "I doblnt knblow hblow lonblger I cblan gblo..."

Blastoise - "This competition is getting intense, charmy is still ahead and seems like she may be the first person to ever reach the top of the tower! But her face is turning a little blue, can she do it?? Cirrus is in 2nd and seems to be tracking down Charmy, while lenn and Glacier are making some nice progress themselves"

L: Hearing that whoever gets to the top in this would be the first ever, Cirrus gets even more determined to get there first, speeding up his climbing. "Noblt leblttiblng yoblu wibln thblis, Chblarmbly!"

Lenn: "Wish I could give you some of my air, Glacier, but there just isn't anywhere I could do that..."

S: Glacier - "M-mayble I shblould sbltop... bublt I doblnt wanblna be thble fiblrst onble oublt..."

Charmy - "Oblh nblo yblou doblnt!" charmy manages to stomp down on cirrus again, pushing him back even further and gets a burst of energy towards the top of the tower, where the current is the strongest

L: Lenn looks over at the nearest exit... "...Whenever you feel like you have to leave, I'll leave first. Or, maybe we'll get lucky and one of those two will give up."

Cirrus growls as he's pushed down again, beginning to climb back up. Despite staying close to the wall and trying to minimize how much the current can push him, he's being noticeably slowed by it now.

S: charmy was soooo close to the top, but the current is threatening to push her back

Glacier - "O-ok...lblets keblep gbloing...f-fblor nblow..."

L: As Cirrus catches up with Charmy again, this time he reaches up to try to grab Charmy and pull her back down! "Coblme hblere!"

S: Charmy - "Nblo! Stblay bablck!" she kicks cirrus back down again hard and with one last effort she manages to reach the top of the tower!
"I dblid iblt!!! Mmmm!" she covers her mouth, her face fully blue

Soon, Glacier couldn't take it anymore and covers his own mouth

Glacier - "Alriblght...thblats enblough foblr me!"

L: Not long after Charmy gets up there, Cirrus reaches the top as well, only now beginning to blush. "Fiblne, Ibl gubless yoblu wibln..."

Lenn: "You sure, Glacier? We're not that far from the top..."

S: "I dblont wblanna riblsk drblowning..."

charmy immediately goes to the nearest exit

Blastoise - "Well, charmy was the first one to ever reach the top, next to Cirrus...impressive!"

L: Lenn nods, and heads into the exit nearest him and Glacier, so that Glacier technically won't be the first to give up.

Cirrus follows Charmy to the exit at the top.

S: relieved he's not the first one out, Glacier also heads into the exit too, everyone comes out of the tower and catches their breath

Blastoise - "Well done everyone! I'm proud of each of you! Especially you Glacier!"

Glacier - "Hah...hah...thanks..."

L: Cirrus immediately starts floating again the second the current's not on him any more, changing back to 10% size as well. "For having been so scared at the start, you did do pretty well!"

Lenn: "Yeah, you could've done a lot worse!"

S: Blastoise - "Well nobody drowned heh, anyways since charmy and Cirrus went to the top, they get the best prizes, with charmy getting the most top prize for being the first one to reach up there, and lenn and Glacier will get some good prizes too for their efforts"

Charmy - "Awesome!"

Glacier - "Cool"

L: Lenn: "Well, better than nothing!"

Cirrus: "At least I'm in second..."

S: Blastoise - "Come on back, I'll show you your prizes"

Charmy and Glacier - "Ok!"

L: Lenn: "Alright, let's see what we got!"

Cirrus: "Hope there isn't too big a difference between what Charmy and I get..."

S: Blastoise - "Oh don't worry, you'll be fine"

and so, all 4 of them get some pretty cool prizes, Glacier was especially happy for doing this