Later That Day on the Beach
"The competition this afternoon is survival," Cooper announces.
"Each team will be dropped off at a different location on the island," Shawna explains.
"Whichever team makes it back to this beach first wins," Cooper says.
Cooper pulls a string and a pile of backpacks, bags, and things like that fall onto the beach.
"Each contestant may have one pack," Shawna says. "Each pack contains one item that you might find useful out in the jungle. You may not open it until you have reached your drop-off point."
The contestants dive into the pile. After much commotion everyone has a pack and the teams each go into a helicopter. Cooper and Shawna stay on the beach and watch them fly off.
Cooper turns to the camera. "Hidden cameramen will be recording the teams' adventures for those of you at home," he says.
"Good luck to them all," Shawna says. "They are gonna need it."
On The North Side of the Island
Jackie and his team are dropped off deep in the jungle. The helicopter flies away.
"This is so awesome!" Jade exclaims.
"Jade, stay close," Jackie says but she is already racing away through the greenery. Jackie clumsily crashes through the waist-high bushes after her.
"Can we open our packs now?" Tohru asks.
"Pay attention, Tohru! Of course we can open packs now," Uncle says.
Tohru eagerly opens his duffel bag to find an overly large pillow stuffed inside. Jackie's lunchbox contains a bag of Cheetos. Jade's Chinese take-out container has a lighter inside.
"Cool!" Jade says. Jackie takes it from her before she can burn the whole jungle down. He gives her his Cheetos.
Captain Black unzips his fanny pack to reveal a hairbrush. "Yeah, like I need that," he mumbles.
Uncle opens his Go Green reusable shopping bag. Inside is a can of bug spray. "Uncle got the most useful thing," he says proudly. Everyone sprays themselves with the bug spray.
"So...which way to the beach?" Captain Black asks.
Everyone looks around and shrugs. Jackie picks a random way and pretends he knows what he's doing. "This way, I'm pretty sure," he says.
They start hiking through the bushes.
On the East Side of the Island
"I can't believe it!" Drago says as he tries to pull his feet from the mud. "Why did they have to drop us right on the edge of a river!" He slips and goes splashing into the water. "Aargh!"
Fist lifts Drago out of the river and drops him back onto the muddy bank.
"It ain't so bad," Cobra says.
"It is to me!" Drago roars right in Cobra's face.
"Yo, lose the 'tude, dude," Ice says. "Let's just get out of this mud so we can look in our packs."
Finally they all squish out of the mud onto dry ground.
"Let's see what we got in here!" Cobra says, opening his video camera bag. Inside is a compass. "Sweet! This'll help us win fo' sho!"
Ice fist bumps him, then unties his pillow case to look inside. He pulls out a long rope. "Guess this can come in handy."
Fist opens his brown paper lunch bag to find a baggie of celery sticks. They all stare unhappily at it. Ice shrugs. "Well, it's food."
Daolon unties his plastic shopping bag. There is a pack of peanut butter crackers inside.
"Way cooler than celery!" Cobra says.
"Who says I'm going to share them with you," Daolon says.
"Aw, c'mon, chi wiz! We're your team!" Cobra says.
"Yeah, there's, like, six crackers. That means we all can have...two? Wait, one, two, three, four, fi- two and a half?" Ice tries to do math.
"We each get one with one leftover, bro," Cobra corrects him. "So, like, one and one-fifth."
"Right, that's what I meant," Ice says.
Daolon just grumbles.
"Your turn, D," Cobra says.
Drago unzips his too small Dora the Explorer backpack. (He wants so much to rip it into shreds) Inside is a box of tissues. He throws them back in. "Useless."
"You never know, D dude," Ice says.
"Let's find that beach and win this thing already," Drago says. "And get far away from this river."
"Actually..." Cobra says, holding out his compass. "This is sayin' we gotta go across the river."
Drago throws his hands up in frustration. Nothing ever goes right for him.
On the West Side of the Island
Finn smacks at a beetle that is trying to land on his head, then goes back to undoing the drawstrings of his bag. He pulls out a flashlight. "We won't have trouble finding our way in the dark," he says, twirling it. It smacks into his face.
Ratso unties his black garbage bag. Inside is a flashlight. "Uh, okay. We have two flashlights now."
"Don't laugh," Chow says as he pulls his pink, jewel-encrusted purse from behind his back. Finn snorts. "It was the only thing left, okay?" He opens it up to find a flashlight. Everyone stares at it. Chow shrugs.
Hak Foo unzips his large pull-along suitcase. There is nothing inside. Oh wait, there it is. A flashlight.
"I think we have enough flashlights," Ratso says.
Valmont opens his briefcase to reveal... a flashlight. "Well that's disappointing," he says.
"We can still win," Chow says.
"Yeah, we practically have night vision now," Finn says.
"So which way, do you think?" Ratso asks.
"I think this way," Hak Foo says. He leads his team off into the jungle.
Back on the North Side
"Just back up slowly," Jackie says quietly.
"I think it saw us already," Jade replies.
The leopard leaps down from the tree and starts stalking toward them.
"Should we run?" Captain Black asks. "Maybe we should run."
They run. The leopard chases them.
"Jackie! Bear!" Uncle shouts.
"No Uncle, it is a le-WAAH!" Jackie veers to the left when a bear comes crashing out of the bushes. Tohru smacks it over the head with his pillow before it can bite Jackie.
Uncle sprays the leopard in the face with his bug spray. It stops chasing them to paw at its eyes.
Jade pulls out the bag of Cheetos.
"No Jade! That will only attract the animals!" Jackie says.
"Duh," Jade says. She throws the Cheetos behind her and the bear stops to eat them. They keep running.
Back on the East Side
Fist drags a soaked grumbling Daolon from the water. Daolon's robe just isn't made for crawling across a rope over a river. (His robe isn't made for a lot of things, is it?)
"You can do it, D dawg!" Cobra calls.
Drago is the only one not across yet. He sent everyone else over first to make sure the rope wouldn't break. Drago grabs onto the rope and starts making his way across. The rope breaks. He falls into the river.
"Aarrgurgleblurg!" he tries to roar as he bobs up and down in the water. Fist fishes him out.
"I am never going near another river again in my whole life!" Drago says.
"Um..." Cobra says.
"What!" Drago yells.
"Turns out I was holdin' this thing backwards," Cobra replies, the compass in his hand. "We gotta go that way." He points back across the river and then quickly jumps behind a tree to hide.
Drago angrily breathes fire Cobra's way. "I can't believe it," he says.
"Well, you broke my rope so now we gotta find another way to cross," Ice says. They all start thinking about ways to get back across.
Back on the West Side
"Can't you four keep up," Hak Foo says when the rest of his team finally catches up to him.
"It's hot out here," Ratso complains.
"I'm tired," Chow joins in.
"My shoes got wet," Finn adds.
"Help," Valmont squeaks as he tries desperately to untangle his ponytail from a sticker bush. Half an hour later he is finally free.
"We're making great time," Finn says sarcastically.
Something floats near Ratso's head. "AAH!" he screams, ducking. "Giant flying spider bug thing! Don't let it get me!" He runs around waving his arms like crazy.
"Where!" Chow screams, jumping five feet in the air.
Finn throws himself on the ground and covers his head. Valmont is swatting at the air and spinning in frantic circles.
Hak Foo sighs. "It was a leaf..."
Everyone stops. "Oh," Ratso says.
"Just shut up and follow me," Hak Foo orders. They continue walking.
On the North Side
It is starting to get dark out in the jungle.
"Woo!" Captain Black is out of breath after running away from the bear. He sits on a rock.
"Duck!" Tohru suddenly yells.
Captain Black over dramatically throws himself at the ground. He realizes Tohru wasn't talking to him. Uncle ducks as a giant fly trap plant lunges. Tohru throws his pillow at it. The plant tears it up.
"Run!" Jade shouts.
But Jackie cannot run for another fly trap has latched onto his head. He is flailing all over the place trying to get out. Captain Black whips out his one and only weapon: the hairbrush. He whacks at the plant as hard as he can over and over again. It lets go of Jackie's head but grabs onto Captain Black's arm.
Uncle tries spraying it with his bug spray. He gets dragged away by a leafy tendril. Jackie unleashes his lighter on it. Well, he tries. After about ten clicks where it doesn't work he gives up and just punches it. It releases its victims.
"Run!" Jackie exclaims.
They all run.
On the East Side
Everyone is finally back across the river.
"Okay, we have literally gotten nowhere," Drago says. "Which way now?"
Drago hovers menacingly over Cobra's shoulder as he looks at his compass. Cobra points. "That way."
"It better be that way," Drago growls. He shoves through them all and heads that way. The others follow.
After a bit of walking they arrive in a large grove of wildflowers. Cobra checks his compass. "Straight through there." They keep going.
"Achoo!" Ice sneezes out fire. "Achoo!"
The fire grazes Daolon and almost sets him on fire. "Watch where you sneeze!" Daolon shouts at him. Ice just snorts and sniffles in response.
A minute later: "Achoo! AchOO!" Ice has a fiery sneezing fit.
"Can't you stop that?" Drago asks, annoyed.
"Nah dawg, I'm allergic," Ice says.
"Well, just..."
"Achoo!"
"...just be-"
"Achoo!"
"...careful where you-"
Ah... AH!"
"Careful where you aim-"
"CHOOO!"
"Oh my gosh shut up!" Drago shouts, throwing his tissue box at Ice's face.
"Achoo!" Ice sneezes onto the tissue box as it hits him in the face. It falls to the ground in flames and the flowers catch fire.
"Forest fire!" Cobra yells.
They all run.
On the West Side
Three and a half minutes after the leaf incident they are resting again because certain people can't handle the long trek. (Hak Foo wants you to know he is not one of those people) It is really dark now.
"Do you think there are leopards in this jungle?" Chow asks, flicking his flashlight back and forth in the bushes.
"Or bears?" Finn adds in a shaky voice.
"Or giant man-eating venus fly traps?" Ratso says. Everyone stares at Ratso. He shrugs.
They hear a rustle.
"What was that!" Chow screams. The Enforcers' all turn their flashlights onto the noise.
Valmont suddenly finds himself blinded by flashlights and tumbles backward off his rock...into a giant spider web. He struggles to get out but it's too sticky and he just makes it worse. "Help!" he calls.
Everyone grabs onto him and tries to pull him out. Fifteen minutes later they finally manage to get him free from the spider web.
Ratso sits back down on a rock. "I know why we're so tired," he says. "We have to keep rescuing Valmont."
"It was only twice," Valmont says.
"You're not very good at these games," Finn says to him.
"Yeah, you barely helped in volleyball," Chow says.
"You let a coconut get the best of you in skateboarding," Hak Foo adds.
"And you got your hair so tangles in stickers that we almost didn't get you out," Ratso says. "Who does that?"
"Will you get off my case!" Valmont exclaims.
"Oh, sorry," Ratso says, standing up off Valmont's briefcase.
Valmont picks it up. "Let's just go."
There is another rustle. The Enforcers' all panic and shine their flashlights right on Valmont again.
Valmont shields his eyes. "Would you quit that!"
"Uh, don't look behind you, Big V. Just run," Finn says.
Valmont looks behind himself, of course. He's face to face with a giant spider. "AAAAH!" he screams.
They all run. After only thirty seconds of running from a spider that isn't even chasing them they arrive onto the beach.
"It was right here that whole time!?" Hak Foo exclaims.
"Does this mean we win?" Ratso asks excitedly.
They shine their flashlights down the beach where Cooper and Shawna are congratulating Jackie and his team for winning. A particularly angry looking Drago is also there with his team.
"Nah, we lost," Finn says. "Again."
"All the teams have made it out of the jungle," Shawna announces.
"We only lost one third of it to forest fire," Cooper says.
"Go rest up for tomorrow's competition," Shawna tells the contestants.
The teams go.
