This chapter took way too long to write. Anyway, time for yet another chapter of Total Drama Pokémon.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Pokémon. Just the characters/personalities are mine.

Polywag was on the pier sitting next to Absol, watching some of her fellow contestants (Gible and Bagon) swimming.

"You need to get him to talk more often," said Polywag.

"Why me?" responded Absol.

"You're his best friend."

"But he can handle himself."

"Some of the others can't handle him. They find him creepy."

"That's his problem."

"But I'm worried about him."

Absol fell silent after this comment and looked down at the water.

"I suppose I could talk to him," sighed Absol.

"Talk to who?" asked a voice behind the two.

Polywag and Absol turned and saw Dusklops standing behind them.

"Umm, I feel like swimming now," said Polywag.

"Way to leave me without help," snapped Absol. Poly wag shrugged off the comment.

"He's your friend," the water-type said simply before jumping into the water and swimming out to the other contestants. Absol watched her swim out before he turned back to Dusklops.

"Listen Dusklops, I-" Absol started to say when Dusklops cut him off.

"Absol, I don't need you and Polywag worrying about me," said Dusklops. "I can take care of myself."

"I know that," replied Absol sullenly, "but you could try talking to people more often."

"I don't want to force myself onto people," said the ghost-type.

Absol looked back out over the water.

"You're too noble Dusklops."

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"This game is a social game, and Dusklops is currently losing the game," sighed Absol. "He's a swell guy, and I know everybody would like him if he just let himself go."

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Polywag had swam out too where Bagon and Gible were treading water. Currently, the two dragon-types were diving underwater at the same time, and were resurfacing together at the same time.

"What are you doing?" Polywag asked.

"We're trying to see who can hold their breath the longest," said Gible.

"We seem to tie at everything," explained Bagon. "We want to know who the best Pokémon here is."

"Even though it's already known that I'm better," Gible put in.

"Yet everyone says I'm better," replied Bagon.

While the two dragon-types started bickering, Polywag started thinking. Suddenly, she started grinning evilly.

"I have a way to figure out which one of you is the strongest," Polywag told the dragon-types. "Meet me in the Main Lodge in fifteen minutes."

With that Polywag swam away, leaving Bagon and Gible to ponder what she meant.

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"I have no idea what Polywag has planned for us, but I know I will defeat Gible!" declared Bagon.

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Umbreon sat next to Hitmontop and Roserade. He was watching Fearow and Monferno, he were talking in hushed voices.

"I feel like there is something going on between those two," said Umbreon.

Roserade sent Umbreon a questioning look.

"What do you mean?" asked the grass-type.

"Those two have been together almost this entire competition."

"They're good friends," remarked Hitmontop.

"I know, but once I tried to strike up a conversation with them, and they walked off and started talking again."

Roserade paused and looked over toward Monferno and Fearow.

"Okay, let's say they are planning something," started Roserade. "What could they do? They are two guys in a competition of 34."

"What if those two make the final 3, then you're in trouble," retorted Umbreon.

Roserade sighed. "If you want to, you can keep watch over them," she concluded.

Glameow walked up.

"Polywag is having everybody meet up in the Main Lodge. Supposedly Bagon and Gible are going to see who can eat the most of Jirachi's cooking," said the normal-type.

Hitmontop chuckled. "They're torturing themselves," said the fighting-type.

"Yeah, well I was wondering if you guys wanted to come along?" asked Glameow.

"W-we'd love th-that," stuttered Umbreon.

Roserade stared at Umbreon and Glameow leaving.

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"Umbreon amuses me," admitted Roserade. "When it comes to the game, he is very bold, but when it comes to love, he is timid. I've noticed how acts around Glameow, he's totally attracted to her. I just hope she doesn't lead him on."

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Delibird was huddled next to Shuppet in front of the door to the kitchen in the Main Lodge. Shuppet was using her psychic powers to take out the screws that held the door on its hinge.

"Are you sure you're supposed to be doing this?" asked Delibird.

"Of course I'm not supposed to be doing this," said Shuppet. "That's part of the prank. People don't expect it, which makes it funny."

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"After I didn't scare Skarmory the other day, I decided that I had to get my revenge," said Shuppet. "I will keep pranking him until I succeed."

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Delibird fell silent as he watched Shuppet continue on with her work. Eventually all the screws were taken out. Shuppet picked up the screws with her telekinesis.

"All I need now is a place to hide the evidence."

Shuppet eyed Delibird's red sack. Delibird noticed.

"No way!"

"Come on, I need to hide them somewhere."

"But not there."

Voices sounded outside the lodge, and footsteps were heard.

"Please?" pleaded Shuppet.

Delibird eyed the door nervously.

"Oh alright," said Delibird exasperated.

"Thank you!"

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"I'm not hiding anything," Delibird said quickly. "I just happen to have some personal things in my bag, and they should never be seen."

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Delibird and Shuppet hid among the shadows and listened to the voices outside.

"Hey Shuppet?"

"Yeah?"

"How are you going to get Skarmory to open the door?"

Shuppet blanked for a moment. After a moment's thought Shuppet opened her mouth to respond, when the main door banged open and Jirachi floated in.

"Do they think I'm their slave?" grumbled Jirachi. "I already work hard enough keeping Celebi happy, and now I have to make more slop for them brats."

Jirachi put his hand on the kitchen doorknob, and stopped. He turned back and scanned the lodge.

"I feel like somebody is watching me," mumbled the psychic type. "It's all these damn cameras."

Jirachi turned back toward the kitchen door, and heaved the door open. The door tipped, and fell down on Jirachi thump.

"Oh shit," moaned Delibird.

"Come on, let's get out of here," urged Shuppet.

"Shouldn't we help him?"

"Don't worry, he'll be alright."

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"I felt bad leaving him in there," said Delibird. "But he can handle himself, right?"

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"I am not appreciated here," grumbled Jirachi. "All the hard work I put into setting up challenges and cooking food. And yet all that people care about is pranking me."

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A few minutes past, and eventually the room filled up with the contestants. Polywag was standing up in front of the others, with Bagon and Gible standing on either side of her. In front of each of the dragon-types was a large vat of brown slop.

"In front of each of you is a 3-gallon pot of Jirachi's gruel," Polywag told the two dragon-types. "The Pokémon that can eat it the fastest will be declared the toughest Dragon-type on the island. Do you understand?"

Both Bagon and Gible nodded.

"Good, then on your marks, get set, and GO!"

The dragon-types each started shoveling slop into their mouths as fast as possible.

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Electryke looked green in the face.

"Seeing that was just wrong," moaned the electric-type. "Just thinking about it makes me sick.

Electryke stopped talking and started retching into the toilet.

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Lunatone looked bored.

"Was I interested in the contest, not really. However, I watched because I need to learn everything about my competitors in order to win the game."

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"Is it wrong that I found nothing disgusting about the contest?" asked Hitmontop. "I mean, the gruel isn't that bad."

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Ten minutes passed, and both dragon-types had eaten about three quarters of their slop. Gible leaned forward on the table and let out a moan.

"I can't finish," the land shark said in a quiet voice.

Bagon, however, was still going strong. Many of the surrounding spectators stared in awe as Bagon shoveled down the last couple mouthfuls. Everybody started cheering for Bagon, who slammed his spoon down on the table.

"Beat that Gible!" Bagon shouted gleefully.

Gible grumbled incoherently, his head still on the table.

The main door slammed open, and everyone turned to see Celebi standing inside the doorframe.

"Good morning my favorite contestants, I see you're all in a competitive mood," said the host Pokémon. "That is a good thing, because we have a big race today. Meet me at the docks for an explanation."

Celebi teleported out of the lodge, and the campers all filed out toward the dock.

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"I was really feeling down after the gruel race," admitted Gible. "But after talking to Lunatone, I'm fired up for the challenge. I know I will beat Bagon today."

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Everyone gathered up on the dock in front of Celebi.

"I'm glad you could all make it out here today," started Celebi.

"Cut the formal crap and get on with it," muttered Wigglytuff.

"Fine puffball," snapped Celebi. "Today's challenge is a race."

"No shit Sherlock," Wigglytuff muttered again.

"WOULD YOU SHUT UP!" screeched Celebi. Wigglytuff looked shocked as the others glared at her.

Celebi regained her composure.

"As I was saying, today's challenge is a race. In the race, there are four parts. First, there is a puzzle. The puzzle will reveal which keys the runners must retrieve. Once the runners retrieve the keys, the remaining teammates will canoe out to the second island. There, one of you will run through the island to find a chest. Unlock the chest with your three keys. Retrieve the freed chest and return to the dock to win the challenge."

Totodile raised his hand, and Celebi ignored it.

"You may have 2 Pokémon working on the puzzle, and 3 of you will run for the keys. The remaining members of your team will canoe out, of which only one of you will retrieve the chest."

Totodile raised his hand as high as possible.

"Are there any questions?"

Totodile started jumping up and down, his hand still raised.

"Alright, then chose who will run each leg, and wait for my go."

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"I feel like Celebi is purposefully ignoring us," sighed Totodile. "It really annoys me that we receive no aide, yet we're still expected to compete at our greatest potential."

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Spinarak gathered her team around her.

"Alright, Polywag and Hippotus will do the puzzle. Glameow, Glaceon and Umbreon will run for the key, and Fearow will retrieve the chest."

"Whatever, it's you neck short stuff," muttered Monferno.

Jynx smirked.

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"I like Monferno, he's tough, smart, and funny," said Jynx. "What else could you want in a partner?"

Jynx stopped talking for a moment, looking mortified.

"I meant teammate!"

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The Moltres set up their team with Staravia and Lunatone solving the puzzle; Scyther, Nidorino and Absol running for the keys; and Lucario was set to retrieve the chest.

"Teams ready?" shouted Celebi. Many heads nodded.

"Then GO!"

Polywag and Staravia pulled the cover off of their respective puzzles. Polywag grinned immediately.

"It's a word search. I love these!" exclaimed the water-type.

Despite Polywag's excitement, it was Lunatone who found the first word.

"I found Bulbasaur!" announced the psychic-type. Nidorino nodded and ran off to find his key.

"You look for Bulbasaur," Polywag ordered Hippotus. "I'll find the others."

"Not all the words may be the same on each puzzle," said Celebi. "Make sure you look carefully."

Everybody fell silent as the puzzle solvers resumed looking for their words. Staravia was the next to shout out.

"Oh, I found Chimchar!" said the flying-type. Absol went running off toward his keys.

"What the hell are you two doing?" Fearow shouted at his two teammates.

"Shut-up!" snapped Polywag. "I also found Chimchar."

Umbreon nodded and ran off to find his team's first key. Polywag glanced over at Hippotus, and she noticed that Hippotus was shaking.

"What's wrong?" Polywag asked.

"He scares me," said Hippotus, referring to Fearow.

Polywag nodded in agreement.

"Stop talking and get back to work!" screamed Fearow.

"I said shut up birdbrain," Polywag shouted back. Polywag glanced back toward Hippotus, and noticed another word in front of Hippotus.

"I found Mudkip!" announced Polywag, which sent Glaceon away.

Staravia looked up from her team's puzzle. The other team had caught up to her and Lunatone. Staravia was scanning the puzzle as fast as possible, but she couldn't find the last word. Luckily, Lunatone came through for her.

"The last word is Mudkip!" announced the psychic. Scyther ran off to find his team's final key.

Hippotus started to shake again. She wanted to find the final word, just to keep Fearow from shouting again. Her eyes danced over the puzzle, scanning for any sign of a word. Hippotus nearly screamed when she saw 'Bulb' on the word search.

"I found Bulbasuar you guys!" announced Hippotus. Glaceon rushed off.

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Nidorino was frustrated. He had been out in the wilderness for almost half an hour, yet he couldn't find his key. Nidorino looked around him. The forest was massive. There was no way he could find his key in here. So of course Celebi would hide the keys in here. Nidorino screamed in rage.

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Out with the others, Celebi smirked as she heard an angry scream come from the forest.

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Umbreon was walking through the forest with Glaceon and Umbreon. After he found out his key, Umbreon had waited for his teammates to arrive at the edge of the forest. Umbreon figured that Celebi would have hid the keys. So if all three of them worked together, Umbreon figured they would find the keys faster.

Nidorino's angry yell sounded through the forest.

"What was that?" Glameow asked nervously.

"That was a honey badger, fighting a cobra," Glaceon said matter-of-factly.

"Good for you Glaceon," said Umbreon.

"Remember bro, honey badger doesn't care," Glaceon said in a serious voice.

"Bro?" Glameow asked, confused.

"Let's find our keys," Umbreon said quickly.

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Glameow looked upset.

"I feel like Umbreon is hiding something from me," the catlike Pokémon said. "I want him to be able to trust me, but he seems to keep some things distant."

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Scyther was wandering though the forest. He had helped Absol find his key and had just found Nidorino's key.

"Nidorino! Where the hell are you!"

"Right behind you," said a hoarse voice, which caused Scyther to jump.

"Don't do that," hissed the bug-type.

"Gee, I'm sorry that I shouted myself hoarse," snapped Nidorino.

"I'm not," replied Scyther. "If it keeps you quiet, it makes me happy."

"If you're just going to insult me, then I'll be going to find my key."

"I have your key idiot."

Scyther chucked the key at Nidorino, which bounced off of Nidorino's forehead. Nidorino picked up the key and stormed away angrily.

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The Articuno trio had found two of their three keys. Glaceon was running through the trees looking for the final key, while Glameow and Umbreon walked behind talking.

"Why do you want to know?"

"I want you to trust me."

"Can we discuss this later? Let's finish the challenge first."

Umbreon walked off toward Glaceon. Glameow stared as he walked off.

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"I don't want people to know that Glaceon is my half sister," Umbreon said. "If others found out, they would target us."

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Glaceon stopped running right as Umbreon arrived behind her.

"I found the final key!" Glaceon shouted over her shoulder, into Umbreon's face.

Umbreon covered his ears.

"There's no reason to shout," the dark-type grumbled. "Let's get back to the others."

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Back with the two teams, the Articunos were looking nervous. Nidorino and Absol had both come back with their keys for the Moltres. They were one key from leaving in the canoes.

Suddenly, Scyther came dashing out of the forest, causing the Moltres to erupt in cheers, and the Articunos to groan. Scyther handed off the key, and rushed to their keys.

As the Moltres pushed the canoes into the water, they heard loud cheering from the Articunos. Lucario looked back, and saw Glameow, Umbreon and Glaceon running from the forest.

"Everybody into the canoe!" shouted the fighting-type.

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"I've never seen Lucario like this," said Wigglytuff, awe-struck. "It was very… admirable."

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Both teams were rowing in their canoes, but the Articunos were much more proficient with their rowing, because of Hitmontop's leadership.

"Row! Row! Row!" Hitmontop shouted in a rhythmic beat.

The Articunos steadily gained on the Moltres, until they had pulled up next to the Moltres.

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"In the heat of the moment, the only thing I had on my mind was beating Bagon," said Gible.

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"HEY BAGON!"

Bagon looked over toward the Moltres canoe, and he saw Gible standing on the edge of their canoe. Gible was holding his canoe paddle like a baseball bat.

Gible swung with all his might, and was pleased when he felt it make contact. Both teams watched as the paddle hit Bagon in the face, knocking him off his canoe. However while he was falling, Bagon reached out to grab hold of something to keep himself on the canoe, and he grabbed Spinarak, pulling her into the water.

"Everybody row!" shouted Lucario.

The Moltres rushed off as the Articunos paddled back toward their fallen teammates.

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Lunatone was smirking.

"I saw what happened from the shore. Everything that I planned is working in perfection. This game really is too easy."

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Lunatone was watching the canoes with Staravia. Staravia gasped when Bagon and Hippotus fell into the water.

"Do you think they'll be alright?" she asked Lunatone.

"I'm not worried about them," replied Lunatone.

"What do you mean?"

"They have their teammates to help them, just like you have teammates to help you."

Staravia gave Lunatone a questioning look.

"You've been sad the past couple days," said the psychic-type quietly.

"Is it that obvious?" asked Staravia.

Lunatone nodded.

"I've just had a couple hard weeks," Staravia said simply, avoiding the subject.

"Just remember, I'm here to listen."

Staravia nodded.

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"Lunatone really is a nice guy," said Staravia. "I mean, he really seems to care about how I feel."

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The Moltres had arrived at the second island, and Lucario rushed off to grab their chest. Snover watched as the Articunos paddled closer to the island.

"Oh, I hope Lucario hurries," moaned the grass-type.

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The trees were flying by as Lucario rushed toward his chest. He found it quickly, thank to the path that had been marked for him. Lucario unlocked the three locks easily, put when he pulled on the chest, it barely moved.

"Oh crap," said Lucario.

With a great heave, the fighting-type lifted the chest on his shoulders, and started to walk off, slowly, back toward his teammates.

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The Articunos arrived on the island, and Fearow flew off to find his team's chest, as Lucario walked out of the forest and heaved his chest into his team's canoe. The Articunos watched as the Moltres paddled into the distance.

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Fearow was flying as fast as possible. Fearow knew his team was behind, and he could be the hero for his team. Fearow found the chest fairly quick, and the first two locks came apart with ease. But when Fearow went to open the third lock, he found that the key did not fit. Fearow wrestled with the lock for a couple more minutes, but the lock wouldn't open.

"No! They got the wrong key!"

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Polywag was bored, so she decided to go back to the word search puzzle. As she scanned the puzzle, she found the word Treeko. Polywag glanced at the Bulbasaur that Hippotus had circled. Instead of 'Bulbasaur', Hippotus had circled 'Bulbasuar'.

"Crap, we grabbed the wrong key."

Suddenly, cheering erupted down on the beach, and Celebi's magnified voice sounded out.

"The Moltres are the winners! Articunos, you guys can come back, and I will see you at the Campfire Ceremony tonight."

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Hitmontop walked up to Fearow who was still struggling to unlock the chest. Fearow saw Hitmontop approaching.

"The stupid thing won't unlock," Fearow said, frustrated.

"It doesn't matter now, we lost the challenge."

Fearow sighed, that meant they would vote out somebody again.

"Which key was it?" asked Hitmontop, trying to break the silence.

"The Bulbasaur key."

Hitmontop's eyes widened.

"That's the only key that Hippotus found," the fighting-type said thoughtfully.

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Lucario opened the chest that his team won. What he saw disappointed him. However, when Mareep saw it, she started screaming."

"CANDY! I LOVE CANDY!"

Everyone stared at the electric-type as she started wolfing down various sweets.

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Polywag knew what she had to do. As her team arrived back at the island, Polywag got Hitmontop's attention and brought him away from the others.

"Hippotus' key was wrong," Polywag confided to Hitmontop.

"I already knew," said the fighting-type.

"Well I didn't know until after you guys had left."

"So what?"

"I don't want to be kicked off because of somebody else's mistake," Polywag said strongly.

"I'll talk to the others, and we'll vote how we want."

Polywag nodded and watched Hitmontop walk away.

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Spinarak was fuming. She had pulled Hippotus off to the side, and told Hippotus to vote out Bagon. That guy was not going to get away with pulling her into out of the canoe and into the water.

Currently, Spinarak was marching through the campground, looking for others to join her in voting out Bagon. Spinarak walked up toward the cabins when she heard Fearow's voice from the guy's cabin.

"I feel that we should vote her out!"

"But why? Everybody else is voting out Hippotus."

That must have been Monferno.

"She has control over all of the first evolutions, and she didn't help us in today's challenge. If anything, she hindered us."

Spinarak gasped, they must have been talking about her.

"Listen, Jynx said to vote out Hippotus like everyone else. She wants to keep our alliance under wraps."

Spinarak decided to run off. She had business to take care of.

"I'm still voting for Polywag," said Fearow. "I feel like she's up to something. She threw Hippotus under the bus, even though she was as much to blame as Hippotus was."

"Fine, you be an idiot!" shouted Monferno before he stomped out of the cabin.

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Electryke was resting with Totodile and Numel. Totodile and Numel were both chewing on candy, and were receiving a couple glares from Electryke.

"I'm sorry you guys lost today," said Totodile.

"Don't be," sighed Electryke. "Personally, I'm glad to be voting out some of these people on my team."

"What do you mean?" asked Numel.

"I like your team more than mine," said Electryke. "You guys are really cool. I wish I had been chosen to be on your team."

"Oh, I wish you were on my team too," Numel said in a small voice.

Electryke didn't notice, but Totodile stared at Numel, who gave him a sheepish smile.

"The most annoying person on my team is Spinarak," grumbled Electryke. "What she really needs is a good kick up the butt."

Totodile watched thoughtfully as Electryke walked off toward the campfire pit.

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Night had fallen, and the Articunos were gathered in front of Celebi at the Campfire Ceremony.

"Well Articunos, you are back here with me," started Celebi. "Am I surprised? Not really. You guys were terrible in the challenge today. What happened?"

"I think everybody had some sort of fault today fault," said Hitmontop.

"Really?" asked Celebi.

Everybody remained silent. Celebi smirked.

"I thought so. How are you guys going to vote tonight?"

"We're voting on the person who hurt us the most in today's challenge," said Umbreon.

"Who might that be?" asked Celebi.

Umbreon smirked.

"You'll find out after the vote."

Celebi sighed, and motioned for the voting to start.

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Electryke stared at the camera.

"Sorry, but you are the weakest link."

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Jynx smirked at the camera.

"My vote won't mean anything, but hopefully it will wake up a certain somebody."

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"I know what you're up to Polywag," Fearow said forcefully at the camera. "The others may not believe me, but I don't care."

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"As I call your name, come grab your Pokeblock," said Celebi. "Glaceon, Monferno, and Roserade are all safe."

Roserade and Monferno high-fived as the three got up.

"Hitmontop, Electryke, and Umbreon, you are all safe."

The three nodded and got up.

"Glameow, Jynx and Spinarak, you are safe."

Spinarak let out a loud sigh as she got up to get her Pokeblock.

"Bagon, Shuppet, and Snover are safe."

Polywag's eyes widened in surprise, she was in the final three.

"All three of you received votes, but Polywag received only one vote, so she is safe."

Polywag sighed in relief, while Fearow widened his eyes in surprise.

"The Pokémon next eliminated from Total Drama Pokémon is…. Hippotus!"

Fearow sighed in relief, while Hippotus sadly nodded.

"Hippotus, you have to go and retrieve your belongings and go. I'm sorry."

Hippotus nodded and walked off with Spinarak.

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Hippotus wiped away a tear.

"I know today's loss was my fault, and I wasn't performing that well in the other challenges. I don't blame my teammates at all for voting me out.

I want Spinarak to win; she was my closest friend out here. But if anyone wins, I will be happy."

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The Articunos watched as Spinarak walked to the docks with Hippotus.

"That's all for tonight Articunos," Celebi said, breaking the silence. "I suggest you start playing better, or I will see you again soon."

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Spinarak stopped at the dock and watched Hippotus get on her boat. Spinarak waved as she watched Hippotus sail away.

Suddenly, Spinarak felt a sharp pain on her butt, and she heard somebody run away, cackling.

"What the hell was that for," muttered Spinarak.

A/N: Hippotus is gone. And I'm not all that sad about it. Originally, I had her going far being Spinarak's lackey, but I changed that when I felt she would have been too much like Charmeleom (from Dark Amphithere's story).

Anyway, could you please review. There are a lot of you out the, I know you're out there. A simple "cool" would be appreciated. XD

Next time, alliances form, alliances fight, and somebody does something really stupid.

Hippotus: "Do you mind reviewing for me? It'll make me so happy!"