Has any of you seen the movie 'Atlantis'? I'm pretty sure it's a Disney movie... but anyway, that movie kind of helps with the plot for this chapter.
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"Last time on Total Drama Blainerific...
The teams competed in a nine-mile race that truly tested their wits, strength, stamina, and trust in one another. Delia discovered her inner leader as she took charge of the Killer Barbarians' affairs, while Briana, the self-proclaimed leader of the Screaming Gladiators, was determined to make sure her team won. Calvin, our crazy spiky-haired boy with an obsession for explosives, developed an explosion that would've given the Gladiators the win! But thanks to the laziness and spite of Frances, the Screaming Gladiators came in second the Barbarians. To nobody's surprise, everyone's least favorite character Frances went home! No surprise, really.
How long will Delia's leadership last? Will the Gladiators get over the left-over tension that Frances created? And will anybody survive this episode of...
Total... Drama... Blainerific!
(Theme Song: Go to The Race From Hell for details)
"So..." Zakk began one morning as each contestant, all feeling rather lazy, ate their breakfast of 'The Chef's Special'.
"So what?" Samantha asked. She was a little more talkative now that Frances was gone; that, and she really trusted her teammates right now. Especially a certain one, if ya know what I mean.
"Everyday Blaineley gives us some hint of the challenge. We haven't gotten ours for today," Zakk also added, "Not to mention we haven't had it in a week. The last two challenges were, what? Three days apart?"
Samantha paused to consider this. "That's true. Maybe Blaineley waits for us to find the hint ourselves? In the first one, Angie had to m-mention that Blaineley didn't show them the cabins."
Rosalind joined the conversation, holding her tray of 'food'. "Meh, don't try understanding Blaineley. She lives to surprise us."
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As it turned out, Zakk wasn't the only one suspicious of the lack of challengey activity.
"This is so WEIRD!" Bailey said, pacing on the Dock of Shame. "I just don't get it! Shouldn't SOMETHING have happened today? We haven't had a challenge in forever!"
One might think nobody was listening, but sitting on the edge of the Dock was Chase, listening patiently. After running into Chase (literally), Bailey had invited him to walk with her and wasn't really taking no for an answer.
"What do you think, Chase?" Bailey finally asked him. Chase hurriedly wrote his reply:
Maybe Blaineley is try-
ing to get us off guard.
Or maybe she's worki-
ng on the next challenge.
Bailey nodded. "That might be it! Thanks, Chase! Well, she's not going to catch me off guard!" The girl giggled. Chase smiled with her, for the first time in a while since Frances had his head slammed in the door.
Confessional:
"Chase is a nice guy! I wish he'd talk sometime, though - I want to hear what his voice sounds like! But maybe he just has a good reason for not talking. Yeah, that must be it... But anyway, I wonder why Blaineley hasn't given us a challenge yet? Maybe it's just like Chase said - er, wrote - that she was trying to catch us off guard." She gasps. "I know! I should try and get the team to jog or brain tease themselves or something, in case there's a challenge today! Then we'll be ready just in case!" -Bailey, The Killer Barbarians
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Of course, not everybody was pondering the lack of challenges. Some were quite happy enjoying it and using this time to relax with leisurely activities, such as video games.
And we can all guess, I'm sure, who can be involved when video games are mentioned.
Yes, Richard was laying on his bunk and was quite enthralled in a PSP game. His eyes were even more blood-shot than usual as he had been playing all night, getting about a half-hour of sleep in between battles between the Zagorn King and the Ice Princess.
Right now, he was grinning to himself, happy to be involved in this game. But his eyes were so heavy... just a few minutes of closing his eyes...
Jacky, who was walking to the cabing to grab her toothbrush, heard rather loud snoring from inside. Sneaking her head in, she saw Richard, dead-asleep, with his PSP being held lazily in his hand, almost dangerously.
Jacky's blue-green eyes went wide as the PSP fell from Richard's hand as was about to hit the floor. Luckily (or perhaps unluckily), she leaped forward and grabbed the PSP just before it could smash into tiny pieces.
"Woo! Go Jacky!" She cheered, but hushed herself almost immediately. She pondered putting this back with Richard's bunk, but decided against.
Confessional:
"Should I give it back? Nah! If I put it back in Richard's bunk, he'll drop it, and this time I won't be there to save it! I'll just give it to him later, easy-peezy-hot-and-cheesy!" -Jacky, The Killer Barbarians
But as fate would have it, somebody had left a banana peel on the floor. Just after Jacky had put the PSP in her pocket, and was going to leave the cabin, she tripped over it, pulled a Frances, and rammed her head into the door.
"Ow!" She yelled, losing memory of what had happened five minutes before, and forgetting that she had Richard's PSP. Jacky lifted her head up, and, with a daze, looked around. "What am I doing here...? Oh yeah! Toothbrush!"
And thus, Richard's PSP was with somebody who had no idea she had it.
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Unfortunately, the peace couldn't last.
"Attention, campers! Please report to the Dock of Shame for your next challenge!" Blaineley called over the intercom.
21 Campers At This Smelly Dock Later...
Richard was standing next to Leola and Jaydee, while Blaineley was busy talking about some movie. This would be a good time to go onto the next level on his game...
...when he realized it wasn't in his pocket.
"Huh?" He searched all over, recieving distracted looks from Leola, Jaydee, and Christoph.
"Rich, what is it?" Christoph whispered, so as to not gain the attention of Chef or Blaineley. Or both.
"My PSP! It's gone!" Richard replied in a hushed tone. "I need my games, darn it!"
"Guys, shush." Alan muttered, kind of annoyed.
"Today, your challenge is to track the long lost city of - " Blaineley was interrupted by Jacky, Calvin, and Adam, in that order.
" - Your brain!"
" - Mount Explosives!"
" - Atlantis, duh."
Blaineley took a few good minutes to glare. "You DON'T interrupt the gorgeous, intelligent host while she's talking!"
"Is she talking? I thought I was hearing some cow mooing." Zakk joked to Rosalind, who snickered.
Blaineley huffed. "Very clever, Zachariah." She grinned to herself whilst Zakk was immediately shutted up, making Rosalind chuckle even more to herself.
"The look on your face is priceless, dude." Rosalind snickered.
"Oh, shut up."
"Sure thing... Zachariah."
"As I was saying, Adam was somewhat right. Atlantis, as we all know - I'm pretty sure you all know - is a city people claim existed and is lost out there right now. Whether that's true or not, today you'll be searching for the long lost city of Blainelantis!" Blaineley paused, waiting for applause. (Ha, that rhymed.)
It didn't come.
Confessional:
"Fucking seriously? How much more egotistical could 'mommy dearest' get?" -Zakk, The Screaming Gladiators
"There will be a navigator in your submarines - " Blaineley was interrupted, yet again, by Jaydee.
"If there's a navigator, how will this be too hard?" She asked.
Confessional:
"One probably shouldn't ask that question. It usually leads to bad news." -Lucian, The Screaming Gladiators
Blaineley glared at Jaydee. "I was just about to say, before I was INTERRUPTED, AGAIN, that the navigator is difficult to read. And we put a few, ahem, distractions out in the lake, such as...
Sharks - " An extremeley large, Jaws-like shark swallows a test submarine whole.
" - Electric eels - " A few extremely large electric eels completely fry another test submarine.
" - and bombs!" A bomb blows up the third test submarine, this one sending a dummy inside flying right on the Dock of Shame, its melting head landing near Angie's feet.
"Eep!" Said teenage girl shrieked, stepping back, some melting plastic landing on her converse.
Confessional:
"Case in point." -Lucian, The Screaming Gladiators
"You have been warned! Any supplies you might need - food, water, life jackets, etcetera - have been provided for you."
Bailey raised her hand.
"Yes, there is also a bathroom."
Bailey put down her hand.
"Now... get going!"
The teens proceeded to get into their submarines, braving the shark-eel-and-bomb-infested waters. For better or for worse, they were in.
The Killer Barbarians
"Alright guys, if we hurry and if we focus hard on reading that navigator, we'll own this challenge!" Delia said, once she climbed down the ladder into the submarine. Adam and Christoph were quite enthralled with the controls - this button let them see the water, this button let go of the piloting seat and make it become mobile, this one shot a laser -
"Omigosh! A laser!" Adam said, his eyes bright as though he just entered a candy store.
Blaineley's voice came over the intercom. "I'm not completely heartless, just so you are all aware! In case you see one of your distractions, you can just fire the laser! For bombs, though, make sure you're not too close to it or you'll get blown too!" The intercom cracked and went silent.
Richard, meanwhile, was greatly distressed. "I can't believe I lost it! That cost... okay, I forget how much it cost, but that thing was expensive! Mom and dad will kill me!" He looked sad, humiliated, and pissed off at the same time.
Jacky walked up. "Cheer up, Richie! I'll help you find it later!" She offered. Richard looked like he was about to smile, but then frowned as she said 'later'.
"No! I need it now!"
Jacky frowned as well.
Confessional:
"I wonder where it went?" She is completely oblivious to the PSP sticking out of her back pants pocket. "Maybe it's in his luggage or something." -Jacky, The Killer Barbarians
Delia, though, was pretty happy with the way the team was running. Wolfgang, Bailey and Angie were working the navigator; Christoph and Alan were making breakfast because Blaineley forgot to feed them; Leola and Jaydee were going around from station to station, unable to decide which to stay at permanently; and Richard and Jacky were steering.
All in all, things were going well - why were they heading into a rock?
The Screaming Gladiators
Calvin sat at the main wheel, shooting the laser randomly. Briana huffed in irritation, then yelped as he shot a bomb that was a little too close for comfort to the submarine.
"Eep! Be careful where you aim that!" She said. Looking over at Samantha, she added: "Maybe you should go help Sammy with the navigator. It may be giving her a hard time."
Calvin shrugged and went to assist the Scottish girl, who was, as Briana had said, having a bit of a hard time deciphering the navigator.
"W-what is this supposed to mean?" Samantha said, her voice a little high.
Confessional:
"R-really! This d-doesn't make sense! H-how could xDy7 possibly mean -13 degrees north and 4 degrees west? And then xD78 means -87 degrees south and 54 degrees east?" -Samantha, The Screaming Gladiators
Briana looked around her crew, satisfied. All she had to do was wait for some challenge to show up, then help to destroy it. Besides the ones Calvin had aimlessly destroyed, anyway.
Everyone else already had a job. Rosalind and Emily were busy steering the submarine; Calvin and Samantha were working the navigator; Zakk, Ben, and Lucian were sight-seeing (not really a job, but there wasn't that much to do to begin with); while Bunifa and Chase were taking over the job of firing at the occasional obstacle.
Yes, they would discover 'Blainelantis' soon enough, and show those frickin' Barbarians they could not be messed with!
"Briana, check it!" Zakk suddenly called. "I see some lights down there in that ravine - artificial ones!"
Samantha looked as though a load had been taken off her shoulders.
Confessional:
"Th-thank goodness! If he found it without that n-navigator, then I-I won't go crazy t-trying to unders-stand it!" -Samantha, The Screaming Gladiators
Briana pounded a fist through the air. "Rosalind, Emily! Take us toward the lights and check it out! Bunifa, Chase, get the laser ready in case it's a trap! We'll win this time!"
The Killer Barbarians
"Richard! Jacky! Look out!" Delia shrieked. Richard, who'd been going on a miniature Hulk rage from lack of his PSP, had been ignoring his duties of steering; there was a large rock right in front of them.
Jacky yelped, grabbing the steering wheel and swerving them just in time. Her tiny moment of terror over, she turned to Richard. "Richard! You were supposed to be paying attention!" She scolded, her terror turned to irritation.
Confessional:
"I get that Richard lost his PSP. I get that he wants to know where it went. But if we crashed into that rock, we could've DIED. I want to help, I really do, but he needs to help himself." -Jacky, The Killer Barbarians
*buzz*
"I didn't even want to do the challenge today! But I am sorry. I should've paid better attention... but it's not just the PSP being missing! It's that I don't know HOW it went missing! I was playing it last night, and I fell asleep... it's probably just in the cabin. I'll try better, I swear! I don't want to go home yet because of a - dare I say it - a Frances-like moment!" -Richard, The Killer Barbarians
Richard hung his head. "I'm sorry, Jacky. I-I'll try harder."
Jaydee's heart still pounding, she looked up. "Don't try! Do!"
"Delia! I think we've worked out the navigator! We have to go to the left, and we'll find it!" Wolfgang called from his position beside Angie and Bailey.
Delia smiled. "Then let's go! Richard, don't worry about it! You can make up for it and take us where Wolfgang leads us!"
The scene switches to Blaineley, sitting in her own submarine with Chef Hatchet. "So they've made it to Blainelantis! But do they know that the second part of there challenge is lying in wait for them? Find out after the break!"
Some Annoying Commercials Later: Could Switching to Geico Really -
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The Screaming Gladiators
"Yeah! We've made it!" The lights, as the Gladiators had suspected, was indeed Blainelantis. Their lead was short-lived, though, when the Barbarians' submarine showed up not ten minutes later.
"No way! There goes our lead." Zakk muttered.
"W-well, we still got here first." Samantha replied, shrugging.
"True."
Unknowing to them, Emily had wandered off, a little farther from the group. Blainelantis was in an underwater cave, and was surprisingly filled with oxygen.
Studying the water-made swirls on the walls, Emily was taken by surprise as a feminine hand went over her mouth. "Don't scream." The girl with dark green eyes whispered, dragging her off.
The Killer Barbarians
The Killer Barbarians were giddy at their good luck, to use a word the authoress finds rather dumb, until they realized they were second. "Crap!" Wolfgang muttered, "They made it before us!"
Both Teams At The Moment
Then, a third submarine came up. Blaineley's submarine. "Yes, they did, but discovering Blainelantis wasn't the entire challenge!" Blaineley said, exiting her submarine.
The teams were dumbfounded. "W-what?" Rosalind stuttered.
"Yes, Rosalind, there is more to the challenge. Look around your team. Isn't someone missing?" Blaineley grinned as each Gladiator searched amongst themselves.
"Everyone's here - wait, except for Emily!" Briana said.
"Yep! Emily's missing. My intern Lacey has taken her to a location deep somewhere in this city! Barbarians, don't feel left out - as we speak, one of you has disappeared!"
Delia scoffed; unknowingly, just behind her, where Angie was standing, Aurora the intern put her hand over her mouth and dragged her away. "That's ridiculous! I can see everyone right here! There's no way any of us could just disappear!"
Adam and Wolfgang both suddenly said: "Where's Angie?"
"Oh, stop it you two!" Delia scolded. "In any other circumstance that would be funny, but - "
"Delia, turn around. Angie was standing right behind you." Wolfgang pointed out. Delia turned around, and, sure enough, Angie was nowhere to be seen.
"Yes, Delia, Angie's missing, and so is Emily. The second part of your challenge is to discover where Lacey and Aurora had taken the two missing campers before the other team, then make it back to the beach before the other team!" Blaineley said, walking back to her submarine. "Good luck!"
The Killer Barbarians
"Where should we search first?" Wolfgang asked almost the minute Blaineley left. Adam studied him suspiciously.
"Why do you care? All thing's considered, I should've asked first." The prankster said, an eyebrow arched.
Wolfgang flushed. "Erm... she's our teammate and I want us to win! Duh."
Confessional:
"Just so we're clear, I DON'T care about Angie. Erm, at least, not in that... way... Oh, screw this shit." -Wolfgang, The Killer Barbarians
*buzz*
"What, does Wolfgang LIKE Angie? My sister? Oh, God... that would..." -Adam, The Killer Barbarians
The Screaming Gladiators
"We should all head to the center of, er, 'Blainelantis' first. Then we can partner up and search in other directions. Sounds good?" Briana suggested. Nobody disagreed, so everybody went off to the center of the 'city'.
"So long as Blaineley hasn't set up some other obstacle." Calvin muttered.
The Killer Barbarians
"Okay, let's all team together and search the city!" Delia said, clapping her hands together.
"Wait, maybe we should split up - " Leola said, but his thought fell on deaf ears as the team went off.
Confessional:
"I think I said this already... but I think my team really trusts me now! It feels good to be able to lead them! It would be so awesome if Blaineley made us do a captain election and I was voted the captain!" -Delia, The Killer Barbarians
The Screaming Gladiators
The Gladiators made it to the center of the city. It had taken only a week to build it, but it was quite apparent that Blaineley wanted to dazzle them. There were quite a few nice details, and it was quite the sight to behold.
Samantha walked up to one small building. "I-I can't believe that something like this took so little to - " Her statement was interrupted because as she was feeling the 'stone' of the building, it fell over. And it was made out of cardboard.
"Go figure." Bunifa muttered. "Blaineley's too cheap to make real buildings."
"...Except for all of her giant statues. Those are legitamite enough." Lucian commented, feeling a gigantic statue of the hostess herself.
"Again, go figure."
"Okay guys, we need to get Emily soon. So let's partner up and look around. Chase, you can go with Calvin - " Chase looked somewhat nervously at Calvin, who was busy poking at a small bomb in his pocket, " - Ben, how about Bunifa Latifa Halifa Sharifa Karifa- " The two shrugged, sharing a glance, " - Zakk, Samantha - " Both teenagers grinned, this being uncharacteristic for Samantha, while a light blush was unnormal for Zakk, " - And I'll go with Rosalind and Lucian. Let's go, guys! We're the Screaming Gladiators, and together we can do this!"
Everyone cheered, excluding Chase, and set off with their partner.
The Killer Barbarians
The Barbarians had decided to look first in an actual building. One that wasn't made of cheap cardboard.
"I wonder how Blaineley managed to make an entire underground city in one week." Bailey wondered aloud. "I mean, making cities can takes months, years! So how...?"
Blaineley, in her submarine, smirked. "I have connections."
But soon, the team found themselves with the classic decision; the left or the right corridor.
"Well, uh... right?" Richard said weakly. Jaydee looked thoughtful for a moment.
"Why don't we just split up? Half of us goes right and the other left? Then we meet back in the main room if we didn't find her." Jaydee suggested. Nobody could really disagree with that.
"Sounds good to me." Said Christoph cheerfully. So Richard, Jacky, Delia, Leola, and Christoph went the right corridor, while Wolfgang, Adam, Jaydee, Bailey, and Alan went to the left.
The Screaming Gladiators: Zakk and Samantha
Samantha and Zakk were walking through one enexplored part of the city, occasionally asking the other of something. It was only about ten minutes into their foray when Zakk asked something rather 'juicy', though.
"So, uh... wanna go out sometime?" He said without really thinking.
"W-what?" Samantha sputtered, taken by surprise. Zakk internally yelled at himself.
"No, uh, I didn't mean it like that! Uh, I mean... we should just hang out sometime and, uh, get to know each other." He quickly covered up.
Samantha lightly blushed before responding. "Y-yeah. Why not?" She said, smiling sweetly.
Both of them were rather happy after that.
Confessional:
"Yes! I asked out a girl and she didn't slap me!" He brings a fist downward before quickly covering up, "But, uh, as friends, y'know. But not that I wouldn't mind being more... than... that... Man, I'm getting all tongue-twisted. That's so not like me. I just can't help it... when I'm around her?" -Zakk, The Screaming Gladiators
*buzz*
"It's j-just a friend thing... but I-I'll enjoy it..." -Samantha, The Screaming Gladiators
"The Screaming Gladiators: Chase and Calvin
"So Chase, why don't you talk that much?" Calvin asked, attempting to make conversation. Chase quickly wrote his reply:
Bad experience when
I was a little kid
I just don't like to
talk.
Calvin nodded. "Oh... well, you should still talk, even a little. Come on! Say 'Calvin'!"
Chase chose to ignore him.
The Screaming Gladiators: Ben and Bunifa Latifa Halifa Sharifa Karifa
"So Ben, what do ya like to do for fun?" Bunifa asked.
"Play instruments, jogging. What about you?" Ben shrugged.
"Yelling, flirting." Bunifa laughed. Ben chuckled at this as well.
There was silence for a few minutes. "You should talk to the team more often. You should open up; it'd be nice." Bunifa commented.
"And I think you're not as scary as you make yourself out to be." Ben replied.
"I'm not scary. I'm fierce!" Bunifa joked.
"Oh, definitely." Ben chuckled.
The Screaming Gladiators: Lucian, Briana, and Rosalind
"Let's think. Where is Blaineley most likely to stick someone?" Lucian said, the small trio stopping to think of where to look.
Briana was about to reply when an intercom went off. "Here's a hint for everybody searching for Emily! She's within me!" Blaineley went on about Angie, but the three weren't listening.
"'Within her?' Unless Blaineley's raping her or something, I can't think of where 'within her' is." Rosalind said.
"This is perfect! I'll figure this out in no time!" Lucian commented.
Confessional:
"I, if I might 'toot my own horn', am a great detective! I do this stuff on a daily basis! But this doesn't make sense!" -Lucian, The Screaming Gladiators
"Wait... 'within her'? Obviously, it can't be inside the real Blaineley... so maybe it's a fake Blaineley that they stuck Emily in!" Lucian said, eyes wide. He turned to the biggest statue in the 'city.' "And that means that she might be in here!"
Briana pressed an ear against the base of the statue, listening for any trace of life inside the stone. Lucian rapped his hand against the stone; it was hollow, like Frances's head.
"Hello?" Came a voice within the stone. Rosalind's eyes went wide. "Get me out of here!"
"Emily? Is that you?" Rosalind asked.
"Y-yeah, it's me. Listen, there's a switch on B-Blaineley's toe... if you p-press it, a door will open!" Lucian wasted no time at all in searching on the stone toes of Blaineley for a button. And sure enough, a small door opened and Emily stumbled out.
"Yeah! We did it!" Rosalind cheered. "Now we've just got to get the rest of the team!"
Briana was deadpanned. "Aw, crap! I should've told them to meet up in the center of the city or something!"
The four were silent for a few minutes.
"...Well, let's get looking."
The Killer Barbarians: The Right Corridor
"Here's a hint for everybody searching for Emily! She's within me! And for those searching for Angie - don't be a material person! Go for the cheaper designs!" Blaineley said over an intercom.
Leola raised an eyebrow. "What kind of a hint is that?" She asked.
"Well, think! If it's somewhere in the city, it has to be wherever there isn't much effort put in." Delia said.
"Where hasn't Blaineley not really tried?" Said Jacky sarcastically.
Richard sighed. "It's obvious she didn't really try with the buildings?"
The half-team stood still. Then they ran. "Let's go!" Christoph said.
The Killer Barbarians: The Left Corridor
"That's a dumb hint." Said Jaydee, her eyebrow arched at the 'complete uselessness' of it.
"Hey, it's better than nothing! I wanna find my sister!" Adam retorted.
"Guys, calm down - " Alan tried to interrupt.
"But Jaydee is right. It isn't much." Bailey intervened.
"Well, maybe the other half of the team has figured out the answer." Wolfgang said. "We stand a better chance if we all work it together."
And so the other half of the Barbarians went in search of the other half.
All of the Killer Barbarians
Outside the building, Jaydee's half found Richard's half. "What do you guys think about the hint?" Wolfgang asked.
"Richard said that Blaineley didn't put much effort into the buildings, so we're checking there. Hopefully, the Gladiators haven't found Emily yet." Christoph explained.
"Then let's take a look around." Jaydee muttered.
Brief TIme Skip
"What... what other fake buildings are there?" Alan gasped, hugging his sides as they ran from practically the other side of the 'city'.
"J-just this one." Bailey panted, leaning against a fake building. Unfortunately for her, but fortunately for the team, the building collapsed under her weight and fell over. Alan was able to grab her before she fell, but couldn't stop grinning pervertedly.
"You alright, sweetie?" He asked in a 'coaxing' voice.
"Yeah, I'm fine." She said, too tired to get ticked at the 'ladies' man'.
"Hey, check it! There's a trap door under the board!" Underneath the pole that had held up the fake building, there was indeed a trap door as Leola had pointed out.
"Angie! Are you there?" Adam called, pressing his ear to the wood.
"Yeah, it's me! Just pick the lock!" The teenage girl called back. Adam happily complied, picking the lock quite successfully. Angie stumbled out, shaking from her time in there, Adam immediately hugging her tightly.
"Angie! Are you okay?" He asked as Angie returned the hug.
"I'm fine, little bro. Let's hurry back to the submarine, now, before the other team does!" Angie chuckled, Adam reluctantly letting go of her.
"I could've picked the lock too." Wolfgang grumbled, but nobody listened as they were too busy racing back to their submarine.
The Screaming Gladiators
The entire team reunited, the Gladiators ran like crazy toward their submarine. The Killer Barbarians could be seen back in the distance, struggling to catch up.
Blaineley stood waiting for them. "Alright campers, head back to the beach! And be quick about it!"
Time Skip: The Screaming Gladiators
"Guys, it says we're about three miles away from the beach and two miles underwater!" Zakk called from the navigator.
"Then hit the accelerator! Calvin, can you pick in some more fuel through that section over there? Thanks!" Briana instructed as Calvin went over to the fuel tank.
Briana grinned as her team went to work. Not only were they in the lead, but she also knew something that would drive the Killer Barbarians crazy...
Richard's PSP.
While Blaineley had been telling them the challenge in the underwater cave, the brown-haired girl saw it sticking out of Jacky's pocket and immediately knew it must've been Richard's.
Grinning to herself, she had pickpocketed the PSP and kept it for herself. Now their team had an advantage over the Barbarians.
The Killer Barbarians
Jacky was frantically steering the submarine when, suddenly, the memories of what happened that morning came rushing back at her, quite like that shark just up ahead.
"Richard," She called, "I have your PSP!"
Richard perked up immediately, then jogged over to Jacky. "How'd you get it - nevermind. I'm sorry I was so mad at you earlier, Jacky." He said, happier than he'd been all morning.
Jacky was grinning, mouth-to-ear, as she reached into her pockets... and it wasn't there. "What...?" She whispered, her smile turning upside-down. "I-It's not here! I don't get it!" She looked up at Richard, her frantic look turning back to a weak smile.
Unfortunately, he took it the wrong way.
"Jacky! You lied to me?" He whispered, looking hurt.
"No! See - "
"I should've known! People like you are ALWAYS pulling these pranks at school! 'Oh hey, Richie's a dork, so we'll steal his precious gaming consoles'! Well, no thanks, Jacky!" He stormed off, hurt and angry.
"I swear, I had it!" Jacky called after him desperately.
She was so unhappy that the entire team was delayed on their way back. And they came in second.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
"Well, well, well Barbarians. You're facing elimination tonight!" Blaineley said cheerfully, each contestant bundled up in towels.
"Dammit!" Said Jaydee angrily. "It's Richard and Jacky's fault! Richard was mad at Jacky, and she got all upset!" She said, pointing the finger at Richard.
Richard scoffed. "That's not true! She knew my PSP was missing, then she decided to lie about it and say that she had it!" He said, pointing the finger at Jacky.
"I swear I had it!" Jacky said miserably. The entire team glared at her...
The Elimination Ceremony
"Tonight, I would do lemonade, but seeing as you're all still adjusting to the upper temperature - and not in a good way, evidently - you get hot chocolate!" Blaineley said, as the Killer Barbarians stood at the Elimination Bonfire. Like last Elimination, the opposing team had been invited to watch.
"The first hot chocolate goes to...
Christoph...
Leola...
Alan...
Wolfgang...
Angie...
Adam...
Jaydee...
Delia...
Bailey..."
The final two were Jacky and Richard. Richard glared angrily at Jacky while Jacky flinched under his glare. Blaineley held the tantalizing cup of cocoa in her hand...
"...Richard."
Richard stood up and grabbed his cocoa. Jacky looked at the ground sadly. "Jackaline Smith, it's time for you to leave Total Drama Blainerific.
Jacky dejectedly walked towards the Boat of Losers. "You could've avoided this, Jacky, if you'd just told the truth." Richard gloated, happy to see her gone. "You shouldn't have lied about my PSP!"
Briana took this moment to speak up. "Your PSP, Richard?" She asked, getting down from the bleachers and running towards him. "I found it! It was in Jacky's pocket earlier, and she dropped it! I meant to give it back to her, but then we had to look for Emily and..." She didn't go on as Richard, mouth wide open, took back the PSP.
"Wait... we voted out Jacky for nothing? She was telling the truth?" Richard looked back to the Dock, but Jacky was already sailing away. "Oh crap... what did I just do?"
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Hope you liked that chapter! Happy (late) Thanksgiving! And a happy birthday to my dad today!
~AerisSerris
