Episode 2- "My Personal Guardian"
Previously on Survivor,
20 new castaways traveled to the Canary Islands where they began a harrowing 39-day journey of survival in the wild. Two tribes were formed: El Guerrero, the warrior, and La Batalla, the battle.
At La Batalla, the confident DeeDee took charge of the tribe. A friendship was made between Rebecca and Michael. The tribe worked well together to get off on a good start.
At El Guerrero's camp, small rivalries were already beginning. Whanau was put off by Anne Maria's overconfidence and arrogance.
The snobby Chelsea was offended by Willy's lack of manners and sexism.
Edgar began playing hard early on, already searching for the newly announced hidden immunity idol.
The first night at El Guerrero, Chelsea luckily stumbled upon the idol during a late swim.
Things went wrong at La Batalla when Rebecca accidentally destroyed the majority of the shelter with a small error. This put Rebecca in a bad place within the tribe, with DeeDee attacking her, with only Eva and Cassandra sticking up for her.
DeeDee went too far by unknowingly bringing up a tough part of Rebecca's past, turning multiple people against her.
At El Guerrero, Jennifer lectured Willy and Anne Maria for teasing Edgar, while Chelsea rallied together allies to get Willy eliminated as soon as possible.
Brick observed all these conversations from the shelter, giving him multiple options going into the first votes.
The next day at La Batalla, Dawny discovered an idol clue in tree mail.
At the challenge, Jeff revealed that both tribes were going to tribal council, and they were playing for reward. At the start, La Batalla had an early lead, but El Guerrero took the win after Rebecca and DeeDee struggled with the puzzle.
Back at El Guerrero, the three alliances reinforced their plans. Brick joined Edgar and Jamaica with hoping to eliminate Anne Maria, while Whanau appeared to be the swing vote.
At La Batalla, DeeDee and Omaka rallied up voters to eliminate Rebecca. They swayed Yolanda, Dawny and Zachary to flip, while Adam and Michael remained hesitant.
At El Guerrero's tribal council, it was a 3-3-3 tie, but Willy was eliminated when swing vote Whanau opted to eliminate Willy.
At La' Batalla's council, Adam and Michael decided to stick with majority, and Rebecca was voted out in a 7-3 vote.
18 are left, who will be voted out tonight?
El Guerrero: Anne Maria, Brick, Carl, Chelsea, Edgar, Jamaica, Jennifer, Whanau and Yoshi
La Batalla: Adam, Cassandra, Dawny, DeeDee, Eva, Michael, Omaka, Yolanda and Zachary
DAY 4
-El Guerrero-
The tribe had mostly woken up. Carl and Jennifer were still asleep. Whanau, Chelsea and Anne Maria were swimming, and the others were seated around the firepit. The majority of the tribe was still confused about what had happened last night.
At the firepit, Brick, Edgar and Jamaica were talking, while Yoshi tended to the fire.
"I still don't understand. How the hell did Willy get sent home last night?" wondered Edgar. "It just doesn't seem right."
"I don't know man," Brick replied, "I didn't flip. I voted Anne Maria like you said. Never one to abandon ship."
Jamaica nodded.
Yoshi perked up. "Well, um, I heard Chelsea and Carl were leading the whole, y'know, charge to get him out.
"I almost really screwed up there. I had to stop myself from accidentally telling them I was involved in it too. Hopefully they don't come back asking for more information. Especially not from Chelsea."- Yoshi
Edgar shook his head. "It's so weird. On top of that, I got three votes against me and that really frightens me.
Yoshi shrugged. "Not sure who those came from, honestly.
"I mean, it's just, the game just started, and things are getting too chaotic too soon for my liking." Edgar sighed.
"I really don't want to sound like a baby or anything, but man, it's frightening. I haven't really done anything yet, but it feels like there's already a target on my back. I really, really don't like the situation I am."- Edgar
In the shelter, Jennifer was mumbling to herself. "Oh, Edgar, Edgar. He might be onto us."
Carl stirred, blinking his eyes sleepily. "Huh?"
-La Batalla-
At the tribe's campsite, things were pretty mundane. Everyone was either helping find food, tending to the fire, or fishing.
Off in his own area of the beach, Dawny was secretly reading over his hidden immunity idol clue, decoding it.
"The clue has just been mentioning turtles. So it has to be somewhere in the water. I'm getting visions of a...cluster of rocks, hidden somewhere. I think it's approximately ten feet off of shore..maybe ten to fifteen feet deep. I feel like it might be directly north of our water well. I think I might be able to find it."- Dawny
Dawny walked to the water well, then straight to shore. He was pretty much out of sight of the others. He swam out about the same distance he guessed.
"I think it's down here…" he muttered to himself.
He took a deep breath then plunged down…
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About 30 seconds passed and Dawny was nowhere to be seen, and hadn't submerged. A cameraman approached his spot, ready to call for help.
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Dawny submerged, gasping for air. Yet, he had a huge grin on his face. He held up a wrapped object.
"I think I got it," he chuckled, "and, to convince the others I was actually on fishing duty…" He held up a fish, desperately flapping to get away. "I got this.
"I wasn't worried about drowning. My grandma, she passed away a few years ago. I do a lot of dumb things, but ever since she died, I've just felt something, like, a spirit, watching over me. I believe my grandma's spirit is my personal guardian."- Dawny
Dawny walked back to shore, tucked the idol in the back pocket of his shorts, and headed back to camp with the fish.
DAY 5
-La Batalla-
DeeDee and Omaka were sitting in the shelter, talking about the game.
"I'm getting really sick of this. All these people refusing to work. This shelter is horrible. It needs to be bigger and better, I say." DeeDee muttered.
Omaka rolled her eyes a bit. "DeeDee, we didn't come out here to make a dream shelter. We came out here to play a game. I came out here to win."
DeeDee sighed. "Pff, who needs the game? Winner only gets like four hundred thousand, with all the taxes. I make ten times that with a little project."
"(sighs) I liked DeeDee at first. It's just, now, she's really, really getting on my nerves. She claims she didn't come here to play the game at all, just to build a stupid mini house out here. DeeDee doesn't need the money. Some of us do. I'm trying to win this money, because I want to get my fiance and I in a better place than we are now. I don't get a ton of money from dancing, it's more of a passion. I don't know if I can tolerate DeeDee much longer."- Omaka
Omaka bit her tongue. "Well, we should still try our best. I'm feeling like we might be on the bottom now. No offense, but I think people are annoyed with your temper, and they associate me with you."
DeeDee scoffed. "What? What temper? It's called leadership. You are unbelievable, woman."
"Are you sure? I mean, I understand the position you're in back at home, but-"
DeeDee interrupted. "You don't talk about my work life. If I had someone like you in my staff, you'd be fired. I really don't want to talk to you if you're gonna be so jealous of me."
Omaka spoke shrilly. "What? No, DeeDee, I'm not jealous. I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying your attitude is concerning me."
DeeDee shook her head and waved her hand. "Bye bye. Please don't talk to me. I'd like you to come back when you get some common sense."
Meanwhile, Dawny was off in the water, swimming with Adam and Zachary.
Dawny blinked his eyes rapidly, catching Adam's attention.
"Hey, what's up? Something wrong?" Adam asked Dawny.
Dawny shook his head. "No, no. Just..something's changed. I feel like Omaka and DeeDee might not be as, allied, I guess, as before. Something's shifted. DeeDee's all alone.
Zachary raised his eyebrows. "How do you know that?"
"I just feel it. I can almost, sense, if you will, an aura." Dawny shrugged. "I dunno. I'm a strange guy sometimes.
Adam smirked. "Well, if DeeDee's isolated now, that's a good chance to vote her off. I've had enough of that $ #!%.
Dawny nodded.
"Say," Zachary spoke up, "you two seem like ideal members to form a trio with. So, what do you think?
Adam grinned. "For sure. Trust me, I'd be loyal to the end."
Dawny thought for a moment. "I'll tell you what. You spread the word to get DeeDee out, and you have yourself a done deal."
Zachary smiled. "Great."
The three shook hands.
"Dawny's definitely a handy guy to have around. I just have a good feeling that he'll be someone good to keep nearby. I don't have an alliance yet. So I figured, why the heck not?"- Zachary
-CHALLENGE-
Both tribes entered the challenge area.
"Ready for the reward challenge?"
Everyone nodded.
"For today's challenge, each tribe will choose one person to be their caller. Four other members of the tribe will be blindfolded. The caller will instruct one pair of blindfolded tribe members to go out into the field and collect four items: a hay bale, a bowl, a disc, and a stick. Every time they get an item, they must bring it back and the other two blindfolded tribe members will hoist it to the top of their tribe's tower using a pulley. Once they have collected all four items, the caller will send them back out for a tribe flag. The first tribe to get their flag to the caller wins. Wanna know what you're playing for?"
Everyone nodded.
"A fishing kit, with a rod, bait, fishing line, and other helpful tools. Alright, let's get started.
El Guerrero
Caller: Jamaica
Retrievers: Chelsea & Whanau
Pulley: Brick & Jennifer
La Batalla
Caller: DeeDee
Retrievers: Adam & Cassandra
Pulley: Dawny & Michael
Everyone got situated.
"Survivors ready? Go!"
At the very start it was evident that DeeDee's voice was overpowering Jamaica's. Adam and Cassandra quickly got to the hay bale, while Chelsea and Whanau stumbled around, unable to fully understand Jamaica's directions.
Adam and Cassandra returned with the hay bale. Adam placed it on the pulley, and Dawny and Michael efficiently hauled the hay bale up to DeeDee.
Chelsea and Whanau continued to wander around, until Whanau tripped over the hay bale, then picked it up and headed back. Near the pulley, the two ran into a barrel, knocking each other over.
Adam and Cassandra retrieved the bowl and headed back. At the same time, Brick and Jennifer hoisted up the hay bale to Jamaica.
Chelsea quickly found the bowl, and she and Whanau headed back. They were started to get a little more even with La Batalla, as the bowl fell off aforementioned tribe's pulley, landing next to Michael.
Chelsea and Whanau placed their bowl on the pulley, and Brick, Jennifer, Dawny and Michael got the bowls up to their caller at the same time, leaving the tribes neck and neck.
Both blindfolded pairs headed back out. Chelsea and Whanau immediately halted when Chelsea tripped over a log, while Adam and Cassandra soon retrieved the disc for La Batalla. By the time Dawny and Michael got it up to DeeDee, Chelsea and Whanau were still struggling to find the disc.
Adam and Cassandra passed Chelsea and Whanau, who were completely lost, as Jamaica was being completely drowned out by the loud DeeDee. Cassandra grabbed the stick for La Batalla, which was sent up to DeeDee just seconds later.
El Guerrero was falling out of the challenge, with only 2 items, while La Batalla only needed to get their tribe flag.
Soon, the challenge came to an end, as Dawny and Michael sent the tribe flag up to DeeDee.
"LA BATALLA WINS REWARD!"
La Batalla hugged and cheered.
"Congratulations, La Batalla. You managed to pull ahead during a neck and neck challenge. Here's your fishing kit, put it to good use. I'll see you all tomorrow at the immunity challenge."
DAY 5
-El Guerrero-
Anne Maria, Jennifer and Chelsea were out at the water well, discussing things.
"I can't believe I did so bad at the challenge." Chelsea muttered. "Usually I'm actually pretty decent at this stuff. My first chance to prove myself and I failed."
Jennifer rubbed her back. "It's okay. It's not all on you. Me and Brick were messing up too."
"Eh, from what I saw, it was Whanau messing up the whole time. So we didn't win. So what? We can provide for ourselves anyway." Anne Maria chanted.
"Yeah, but that doesn't change that we lost. I just don't like losing, because I'm not supposed to lose." Chelsea claimed.
"Oh dear. It looks like we have a diva on our hands. Chelsea already was irking me a bit with her remarks about Willy, and this is just confirming my suspicions."- Jennifer
"You know what they say, you win some, you lose some. That's life for you." Anne Maria replied.
"I wouldn't be so smart-acting if I were you." Chelsea retorted.
"Smart-acting? (laughs) I'm not the smartest chick back home, but I have a good enough education to know what's grammatically correct and what's not. Chelsea clearly doesn't, as she has everything handed to her on a silver platter, so she doesn't need to work."- Anne Maria
"Okay." Anne Maria shook her head, while Jennifer grinned a little to herself.
Over near the shelter, Edgar, Jamaica and Brick were conversing.
Brick shook his head. "Wow, man. It's just unbelievable. I never expected to make it out here. I'm still in shock."
Edgar nodded. "It's a gift to be here, for sure."
Jamaica glanced down. "I would've quit if I didn't have you guys. I'm so homesick. Hopefully the further on the game goes, the better I feel.
Edgar smiled. "Yep, I miss my friends and family too, but they're what inspired me to come out here."
"And we'll never abandon you. Never leave a cadet behind." Brick swore.
"'Never leave a cadet behind.' I'll have to remember that." Jamaica remarked.
DAY 6
-La Batalla-
DeeDee and Yolanda stood out on a rock in the water, fishing. Michael swam by, trying to assist, but his offers were being ignored by DeeDee.
"I told you, Michael, we don't need any help. Yolanda and I can do this ourselves." DeeDee grumbled.
"Are you sure? I would really like to help." Michael pleaded.
"You sexist pig. You act like we are weak. Women are obviously superior." DeeDee voiced. Yolanda widened her eyes.
"I'm all for equal rights. I support feminism, but not when the advocates act like DeeDee. I believe that both men and women are equal, but DeeDee is clearly not on the same page as most of America. I don't like people who say one gender is superior, and I'm starting to not like DeeDee."- Yolanda
"Whatever." Michael shrugged, and swam away."
"That wasn't really necessary." Yolanda told DeeDee.
DeeDee rolled her eyes. "You're one of them too. God, you middle class people have your beliefs all over the place."
Yolanda gasped. "Excuse me? I'm an accountant."
"Those pesky accountants. I've alway had a hatred for the financial industry. Always ripping me off." DeeDee scowled.
"You know what? I think you're incredibly rude, and I'm not gonna take this." Yolanda jumped into the water and swam back to shore.
DeeDee chuckled. "They're all so stubborn to change their ways."
At the shelter, Dawny, Adam, Cassandra, Eva, Zachary and now Michael were planning.
"So, I say this. We throw the challenge today. Vote off DeeDee. Then we try our best to make it to a switch or something." Adam led the conversation.
Eva and Cassandra agreed to the plan, Dawny and Zachary silently nodded, already knowing these plans, but Michael spoke up.
"What's to keep us from voting her off once we genuinely lose?" Michael asked. "Why can't we try to win, and then just vote her off once we lose?"
"If we wait longer, DeeDee might get her hands on an idol. That's not safe. We need to get rid of her now."
Michael shrugged. "I guess so."
"Michael was hesitant about the plans at first, but eventually agreed. It concerns me a bit, but hopefully all will go right."- Dawny
-CHALLENGE-
Both tribes arrived at the challenge area.
"Ready for today's immunity challenge?"
Everyone nodded.
"Well, at last, you will be playing for immunity, so, you're gonna want this."
Jeff pulled a cover off a stand to reveal an immunity idol in the shape of a bird.
"Tribal immunity. This keeps your tribe safe from tribal council, ensuring another three days in this game. Alright, so for today's challenge, six tribe members will run out to an area of trees to retrieve twelve different bird-shaped totem pieces. Once you have all twelve pieces, three other tribe members will build a totem. First tribe to finish their totem wins immunity. Let's get started."
El Guerrero
Retrievers: Anne Maria, Brick, Chelsea, Edgar, Jamaica, and Yoshi
Totem: Carl, Jennifer and Whanau
La Batalla
Retrievers: Adam, Cassandra, DeeDee, Eva, Michael and Omaka
Totem: Dawny, Yolanda and Zachary
Everyone got situated.
"Survivors ready? Go!"
The twelve retrievers rushed to the trees. Most of La Batalla was moving slow, while El Guerrero was ahead. Dawny was seen whispering something over to Yolanda.
Anne Maria, Edgar, and Yoshi soon retrieved the first three pieces for El Guerrero, while DeeDee had the first one for La Batalla. El Guerrero had a noticeable lead, as intended by the majority of La Batalla.
Brick and Jamaica retrieved pieces for El Guerrero, bringing them up to five. DeeDee ran out with another piece for La Batalla, Michael slowly trotting behind her.
Chelsea got another piece for El Guerrero, giving them a total of six, while La Batalla was still at three. Anne Maria and Brick soon brought back two more pieces for El Guerrero. DeeDee could be heard shouting at her other tribe members, telling them to go faster as she brought out La Batalla's fourth piece.
El Guerrero soon reached ten pieces when Edgar and Jamaica brought back another two pieces for El Guerrero, while Cassandra brought back another piece for La Batalla, with Chelsea getting another for El Guerrero. El Guerrero had eleven pieces, while La Batalla had six.
DeeDee and Eva soon brought back two more pieces for La Batalla, while Carl took the final piece for El Guerrero from Brick, then joined Jennifer and Whanau in solving the totem puzzle.
DeeDee and Adam brought out two more pieces, making La Batalla's total ten.
Carl led El Guerrero in the puzzle, while Jennifer and Whanau placed the pieces, at the moment, they had three pieces in.
The whole group of La Batalla came out when DeeDee and Eva found the last pieces for La Batalla. Suddenly, Eva realized she had 'accidentally' dropped her piece back in the trees, and rushed back to find it while DeeDee grumbled.
Whanau and Jennifer were only needing to place four more pieces on their puzzle, and were quickly approaching the finish…
Eva was running back to La Batalla, with the final piece, with DeeDee screaming at her…
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... but it was to no avail as Whanau placed the final piece on the totem.
"EL GUERRERO WINS IMMUNITY!"
El Guerrero hugged and cheered, as DeeDee rolled her eyes in disgust.
"Congratulations El Guerrero, you managed to win the first immunity challenge in an absolute blowout. Here's the idol, enjoy the night off."
El Guerrero headed back to camp.
"As for you, La Batalla, nothing but a date with me at tribal council. Grab your stuff, head back to camp. I'll see you tonight."
-La Batalla-
Back at camp, DeeDee was fuming.
"What the hell was that all about? Can't you people do anything? For once? I mean, lord, you're all so slow, and clumsy, and dumb! Get it together! I'm sick of this tribe! At least try!" DeeDee screeched.
Eva rolled her eyes. "Okay."
"You don't get to talk!" DeeDee continued. "You failed us! You're useless, you little waste of space!" Her voice gradually got higher-pitched.
Yolanda sighed. "DeeDee, just calm down."
"No, I will not calm down!" She hissed. "I don't care. Let's go! Right now! Get your damn torches! We're going to tribal council now! Nothing to talk about! Let's go!"
Soon, the tribe was headed to tribal council, with DeeDee storming ahead of the rest of the pack.
-TRIBAL COUNCIL-
La Batalla arrived at tribal council mid-sunset. Jeff looked surprised as the group sat down.
"Um, wow. Uh, Omaka, mind telling me why you're all here so early?"
"Well," Omaka replied, "DeeDee had a little meltdown after the challenge, and insisted on coming here now, because I think we all know what's gonna happen."
DeeDee scoffed. "Yeah, Eva's going home for screwing us up in the challenge.
Eva and Yolanda raised their eyebrows, while Dawny tried to stop himself from laughing."
"Dawny, care to explain?"
"Well, Jeff, to make a long story short, DeeDee's been getting on all of our nerves since Day 1. She finally lost it after six days of waiting to explode."
Yolanda, has DeeDee's temper made tribe life different?"
She nodded. "Oh, definitely. It's really tense, uncomfortable, and there's a lot of shouting."
"DeeDee, what do you think about this?"
She shook her head. "I'm not going to say anything."
"Ok… well, it is time to vote. Cassandra, you're up."
DeeDee votes. "I don't ! #$%&* know." (Eva)
Dawny votes. "Burn, witch, burn." (DeeDee)
Adam votes. "Please, please, just leave." (DeeDee)
Omaka votes. "Sorry." (?)
"I'll go tally the votes."
Jeff returns with the urn.
"If anyone has the Hidden Immunity Idol and would like to play it, now is the time to do so."
No one does anything.
"Once the votes are read, the decision is final. Person voted out will be asked to leave the tribal council area immediately. I'll read the votes."
First vote...DeeDee. One vote DeeDee.
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Eva. One vote Eva, one vote DeeDee. (Eva shrugs.)
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DeeDee. Two votes DeeDee, one vote Eva. (DeeDee rolls her eyes.)
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DeeDee. Three votes DeeDee, one vote Eva. (Zachary smirks while Dawny chuckles to himself.)
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DeeDee. Four votes DeeDee, one vote Eva. (Most of the tribe is grinning.)
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Third person voted out of Survivor: Canaries, DeeDee. That's five, that's enough, you need to bring me your torch.
DeeDee grabbed her torch and bag, and walked up to Jeff.
"DeeDee, the tribe has spoken."
Her torch was snuffed.
"Time for you to go."
DeeDee stormed out of tribal council.
"Well, it seems like that was quite the easy vote, and this tribe is pretty united right now. We'll have to see what happens next. Grab your stuff, head back to camp. Good night."
"Un! #$%&* believable. I hate this tribe, I hate this game and I hate my country. America is screwed. Nothing's right with this world, and everything's gone south. I'm over it."- DeeDee
VOTE
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DeeDee: Cassandra, Yolanda, Eva, Dawny, Zachary, Adam, Michael and Omaka
Eva: DeeDee
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