Yes, I'm finally up to the second episode before the merge by the time I have posted this chapter! I've also forgotten to thank those who have followed, favourited and reviewed this story. It's honestly an awesome feeling to have anonymous people support you in the internet!
Blaineley stood by the Boot of Shame. "Last time on To-" She commentated, but was suddenly interrupted by the sound of a helicopter above her. It landed right beside her, and Chris McLean exited the vehicle.
"Woah what are you doing?!" Blaineley asked him furiously. "My contract said five episodes!"
"Well too bad, because I too have a contract!" Chris retorted, revealing the papers that allowed him to host the show again. Blaineley snatched it off his hands and scanned through them.
"That's unfair!"
"What was unfair was the producers forcing me to sort out the financial issues." Chris grabbed Blaineley and tossed her into the helicopter. He signalled the pilot to fly off before Blaineley could escape. "Wait...where's Topher? Eh, who cares." Chris ordered an intern to provide him with a script.
"So last time on Total Drama! The contestants were sent deep into the forest to spend a whole night camping. There was some wailing, some arguing and some more drama! In the end the Killer Bass lost for the very first time! Ezekiel was supposed to voted off, were it not for a symbol of immunity that saved him from being sent home. Wait a minute...A symbol of immunity?!"
An intern walked up towards Chris and whispered to him the details. "Oh darn it Blaineley! Ugh. As I was saying, Ezekiel saved himself from elimination, resulting in Sadie getting the Boot of Shame. Who will be the next victim? Find out right here on Total! Drama! Return of Pahkitew!"
Katie continued to cry outside the cave at night so that she wouldn't distract anyone else, unlike her ex-BFFFL. A small squirrel tried to comfort her but her tears kept dripping on its fur. It ran away irritatedly.
"Someone has to help her," Bridgette recommended to the Killer Bass inside the cave.
"I'll go," Courtney volunteered. She went outside and kneeled down beside the wailing Katie.
"With Katie gone, she has no purpose in the competition," Courtney calculated. "As a C.I.T I can make her a more fierce and confident competitor! But not too confident. I can't let her top me."
"Cheer up Katie," Courtney comforted her. "Sadie chose to not be friends with you. She was stubborn and immature. Don't give yourself the blame."
"I know," Katie sniffled. "It's just that I spent almost all my life with her, and now that's she gone, I don't know what to do when I go back home!"
"This could be a little harder than I thought," Courtney continued from her last confessional. "But if I can change Duncan - albeit for a short period of time - I can do the same to her!"
"You can be strong! I'll help guide you through the competition!" Courtney promised her.
"You will?" Katie began to brighten up.
"Of course! Just do what I say and you won't regret it."
"I don't know if I can trust Courtney," Katie thought out loud in the confessional. "Like, she's really good at this game, but I know she's going to use me. "
"Attention everyone!" Chris could be heard from the loudspeaker.
"Oh no, he's back," Heather complained inside the Gopher's treehouse. Most of her teammates nodded in agreement.
"It's me, Chris. Not Blaineley or that Topher kid. Speaking of which, if you know about his whereabouts please notify me." The Gophers glanced at each other nervously. "Anyway, meet up at the elimination platform. Pronto."
The contestants waited where they were told, with only Chef supervising them.
"Uh, where's Chris?" Tyler asked Chef. He replied with a careless shrug. Suddenly Chris appeared behind Tyler with a live chicken in his hands. Tyler turned around and saw his greatest fear once again. He screamed and tried to run away, but stumbled on Chef's extended leg. The host and the cook laughed at Tyler.
Tyler sat on the toilet seat in foetal position and was whimpering.
"As most of you should know by now, today's challenge is to face your own fears once again," Chris announced.
"Wait, Tyler is afraid of chickens?!" Alejandro exclaimed. He covered his mouth so that he couldn't burst out laughing.
"I know, surprised me as well. Anyway, to change things up, out of the eighteen of you, only five of your fears will be chosen, and the competitors that compete depend on the fear!"
"And how exactly do you know our fears?" Noah asked Chris. "Some of us weren't here during that challenge."
"I got into contact with Sierra," Chris replied, shining a grin.
"Great."
"Don't worry Noah!" Chris reassured him as Chef rolled a wooden spinning wheel that had the faces of all the remaining contestants. "This will decide which fears you guys have to perform!" Chris nodded at Chef, prompting him to spin the wheel. After many revolutions, the arrow finally stopped at Eva.
"M-me?" Eva trembled, grabbing his team's attention.
"Yep!" Chris confirmed. "And according to Sierra, your fear is that you are afraid of asking someone out on a date!" Every contestant began to laugh, embarrassing Eva.
"You would not believe how much I wanted to strangle their necks!" Eva yelled in the confessional, attempting to contain her anger. "Especially Sierra!"
"She's too scared to go out with a boy?" Bridgette laughed in front of the camera. "And I thought Tyler's fear was dumb."
"So because this fear can't actually be done as a team, I want Eva to choose her date partner and two people from the Screaming Gophers to volunteer," Chris explained the challenge. Eva looked at the boys in her team.
"Hm...Geoff and Tyler have a boyfriend," Eva murmured to herself. "Ezekiel is a big no." Ezekiel didn't listen and continued to pick his nose. "Harold not in a million years." Harold's smile turned upside-down. "DJ is alright..." Suddenly she faced Alejandro, who was staring at her confidently. "I choose Alejandro." Alejandro gulped but was jokingly pushed beside her by a snickering DJ and Geoff.
"Good choice!" Chris commented. "Now the Screaming Gophers, choose your couple!" They all looked at each other, wondering who will go with who.
"I'll go!" Lindsay volunteered. "And I choose Tyler!" She pointed at the jock, prompting him to walk towards her.
"Uh, you have to choose someone from your own team," Chris corrected, pushing Tyler away.
"Oh shoot. Then I choose-"
"I want to do it!" Izzy raised her hand up.
"Two girls huh?" Chris asked, giving subtle hints with Chef.
"No, I mean I want to do it with someone else!" Izzy continued, looking for a partner. "Ooo! I choose Noah!"
"What?! Why not Owen?" Noah complained but Izzy already grabbed him. "He was your boyfriend you Brazilian-nut-as-a-brain!"
"I like to mix it up," Izzy explained.
"Looks like we got our couples!" Chris announced. "Now the way this challenge works is that the two couples must act out a scenario where one person asks out the other successfully."
"Can't wait for that," Noah commented sarcastically.
"Shush it! Points are rewarded based on how dramatic and touching it is. We'll also add extra for every kiss that is made. Now, Eva must ask out Alejandro, and Noah has to ask out Izzy."
"To think that the challenges that I hated the most were the ones that were physical," Noah condescended in the confessional. "Now I'm glad I never made it to Total Drama Action."
Eva began by awkwardly walking up to Alejandro. The Spaniard pretended that they were in a school hallway, and that he was just placing books in his locker.
"Uh hi," Eva greeted extremely nervously. Geoff and DJ were in the background mocking her until Bridgette glared at them furiously.
"Oh!" Alejandro turned around and looked surprised. "Eva, I didn't see you. I must say, the sunlight reflects your beautiful personality."
"Heh, yeah." Eva blushed and began to dig her shoe into the ground. "I was just wondering if, you know-"
"You want to go out with me?" Alejandro finished her sentence. "Because, believe me, that is all I could ever dream of!"
"Really?!"
"Absolutely." Alejandro held her hand and kissed it. The contestants began to clap at such an amazing act.
"I am not falling for him!" Eva yelled in the confessional. "I was just caught up in the moment, that's all."
"I give that a nine," Chef judged after he clapped.
"Eh...I give it a five," Chris judged harshly.
"Why?" Alejandro questioned him, curious as to why he received a lower score.
"Because, I said that Eva was supposed to ask you out. Because you helped her do it, I halved the score."
"Whatever." Alejandro and Eva walked away to give Noah and Izzy the space to play their act.
"Now Noah and Izzy, let's see if you can top the average score of seven made by the Bass, which I doubt!" Chris laughed as Noah rolled his eyes. "And action!"
Noah walked towards Izzy, who was miming a person sitting on a chair and using a laptop.
"Hello," Noah waved at Izzy nonchalantly. Instead of replying, she continued to use her invisible laptop. "Uh, hello!" Noah repeated with a louder tone, his hand on his hip and his eyebrows knitted. Izzy faced Noah and smiled.
"Oh sorry! I was just playing Universe of Warfare on my laptop!" Izzy apologised, closing her imaginary laptop. Noah refrained from slapping his forehead.
"Yeah, so listen, I was just wondering if you would like to go out on a date at a restaurant," Noah casually asked her.
"Oh, no thanks."
"No thanks?!" Noah yelled at her. He faced Chris angrily. "Is that allowed?" He asked Chris.
"Breaking the fourth wall Noah?" Chris shook his head. "Tsk tsk tsk. That's gonna lower your score."
Noah moaned. "Look Izzy I like you a lot so will you please go out with me?!"
"That's all I wanted to hear!" Izzy stood up from her imaginary chair and kissed Noah on the lips. The contestants cheered and whistled.
"Way to go man!" Trent complimented.
"I assure you we are not a couple," Noah guaranteed in the confessional. "One hundred and one percent not!"
"My buddy Noah is finally growing up," Owen cried in the confessional, wiping a tear from his eye. "I'm so proud of him!"
"That's a straight up nine!" Chef clapped.
"I give it a seven for performance, and three for the kiss, so a whopping ten points!" Chris announced. "Giving them an average of nine and a half points overall."
Once Izzy separated from Noah, he first had the face of shock, but switched it with a grin. "Is that part of the act?" Noah asked Izzy just to make sure.
"Uh, duh," Izzy replied, rolling her eyes. "We're just friends, of course."
"The Gophers win the first challenge!" Chris announced. They cheered as the Killer Bass groaned. "But it's not over yet, because we're going straight to the next challenge!" Chef span the wheel again, this time landing on Cody's face.
"Uh oh," Cody gulped.
"Oh man!" Chris exclaimed. "Looks like the teams are going to defuse a time bomb under pressure!"
Around an hour or so Chef placed two bombs in an open field, one with the Bass symbol and the other with the Gophers symbol. A pair of pliers were placed on top of each bomb. Each contestant split up into their designated bombs.
"Each team has five minutes to defuse the bomb," Chris explained the challenge. "The first team to defuse their bomb wins."
"Can you give us a clue?" Lindsay asked Chris.
"Uh sure, you have to cut a wire!" Chris laughed.
"Thank you!" Lindsay appreciated, oblivious with the fact that there were around one hundred wires inside the bomb.
"Begin!" Chris announced as he sprinted away. He pressed a button, beginning the countdown of the bombs. Heather gave the pliers to Cody.
"This is your fear!" Heather scowled at him.
"Give it to someone smart, like Noah!" Cody gave the pliers to the braniac.
"Why am I doing everything," Noah muttered. He observed the wires and the direction they were going. "Yeah, this isn't your everyday engineering lesson."
The Bass were having a harder time since they could not choose someone reliable to defuse the bomb. The pliers kept getting passed between the other members, until it was given to Courtney.
"I am a C.I.T, so I know what I'm doing!" Courtney argued, studying the wires.
"I have an IQ of one hundred and sixty-three, so if anything, I should defuse the bomb," Alejandro retorted.
"Uh, can I do it?" Katie asked politely. Alejandro and Courtney stopped quarrelling and faced Katie.
"Sure, I guess I can give you a go," Courtney accepted, even though she had no faith in her.
"Of course, how could I be so blind to forget about you?" Alejandro charmed as he gave her the pliers. Katie blushed as she received the equipment. She observed the wires for a minute or so before figuring out which one she needs to cut.
"It's three hundred and nineteen," Katie thought out loud.
"Excuse me?" Eva asked her confusingly.
"You know, the floss number?" Katie explained to her team.
"I used to always stitch a lot...with Sadie..." Katie sighed in the confessional. "We even stitched our clothes together..."
Katie nervously placed the tongs between the wire she wanted to cut. There were only ten seconds left, and the Gophers were still having a hard time. Katie finally absorbed the pressure and clipped the wire. To her amazement the bomb's countdown stopped.
"Congratulations Killer Bass!" Chris announced. "You guys have just won the second challenge." The Bass cheered until Noah warned them that their bomb was about to blow up. No one had the time to react. They either crouched, jumped or tried to run away. When the Gopher's bomb hit zero, it exploded into a giant, catastrophic, sound of trumpets.
"Are you freakin' serious?!" Leshawna yelled at Chris.
"What, you thought I was actually going to blow up the island?" Chris retaliated. "Yeah right! But no time to argue because the next challenge will be chosen right after the break!"
Chef brought the wheel again in front of the contestants. He spun it and the arrow landed on Owen's face. "And it looks like we're going with Owen's fear. Too bad he conquered his fear of flying; I would have loved the challenge. Instead, we're going to take his next fear, which is aliens!"
"Ever since we went to Area 51 I've always been scared of aliens," Owen confessed in front of the camera. "I don't want that terrible haircut again!"
Chris took the contestants to the stadium, which was already filled with around ten aliens. Owen burped his breakfast in fear.
"How did you get them?" He asked.
"I got connections, remember?" Chris answered. "Anyway, the challenge is that each team will go in individually and defeat all the aliens in five minutes or less. Whichever team defeats the most aliens, or defeats them the fastest wins the challenge. First up is the Killer Bass!" He prompted them to go inside.
"Don't we get a weapon or something?" Tyler begged. Chris shook his head cheekily. Once they were inside, Chris locked the doors from the outside and began the stopwatch. He and the Gophers watched from the outside.
"Spread out!" Eva ordered her team. One alien was able to lock onto Courtney's face, electroshocking her. Ezekiel was able to dodge most of them and squashed two of the aliens due to his ability to cling on the walls. One alien was able to spit out electric projectiles, paralysing the mutant. Geoff and Bridgette tried to manoeuvre through the aliens but were eventually taken out by the ranged one. Tyler took down a tiny alien using his head, but another five swarmed him, knocking him out.
Katie, Alejandro, Eva, Harold and DJ were the only ones left inside when the five minute mark passed, signalising them to leave. The aliens froze from their positions, allowing the contestant to leave, with each of them dragging one of their teammates with them.
"You only took down three aliens," Chris criticised the team. "That's pretty bad. Gophers you're up!" The team went inside, with Owen needing support from Izzy and Noah. Chris locked the doors, and began the stopwatch. The aliens that were killed were resurrected back into full life forms.
Owen screamed and flailed around, accidentally pushing Noah towards an alien, electroshocking him. Heather used her shoe to fight off the aliens, successfully defeating two of them. Owen banged into a wall, unintentionally squashing an alien, leaving green goo on the glass. Izzy jumped around crazily until the ranged alien zapped her with a ball of electricity. Trent was also about to be hit with a ball of electricity, were it not for Cody jumping in front of him and taking the damage. Leshawna and Lindsay were attacked directly by three of the aliens, causing them to lose consciousness. Heather was surrounded by the aliens. As a last resort she threw her shoe towards the ranged alien, causing it to disintegrate. She was finally attacked, seconds before the challenge ended. When the five minute mark was reached, Owen and Trent were the only ones that escaped safely. Everyone else were dragged outside a few minutes later.
"Honourable mention to Cody for saving my butt," Trent grinned in the confessional. "Still though, he didn't have to jump in front of me to take a ball of electricity."
"With four aliens defeated, the Gophers win this challenge by only a margin!" Chris announced. Owen and Trent high-fived one another as everyone else was still unconscious. "I guess everyone can take five to recover," Chris mercifully offered to them as he walked away with Chef to have lunch.
Once they were awake, Heather, Cody and Trent sat with each other.
"So guys, who will be the next voted off?" Heather asked the other two.
"I don't know," Cody replied. "Hopefully we win so that we don't think about it."
"Come on! Isn't there someone in the team you truly want out?"
"Uh, the only person we would want to be eliminated right now is you, Heather," Trent answered.
"Looks like I lost Trent and Cody's trust," Heather stated in the confessional. "I'll get it back somehow!"
Eva sat beside Bridgette and Geoff, who were in the middle of making out. Bridgette noticed the muscular woman and quickly pushed Geoff out of the way.
"Sorry!" She apologised. "Was I making everything awkward?"
"Well, yeah, kind of," Eva replied truthfully. "But I'm used to it."
"By the way Eva, is it alright if I ask you why you're scared of asking dudes out?" Geoff questioned. "Just, don't hurt me when you answer."
"It's not really the fear of asking guys out, it's the fear that I'll be rejected if I do." Eva did not strain a muscle, to the couple's surprise.
"Well if you ever need helping asking someone out, say Alejandro, then we can help you!" Geoff promised. Now Eva began to tighten her fists.
"I. Do. Not. Like him." Eva growled between each word. Geoff nodded his head in fear, whereas Bridgette glared at her.
Around half an hour later the host and the cook returned with the wheel. All of the contestants recovered by then.
"We are back!" Chris announced. "So let's go back with the challenges! Chef, spin the wheel!" Chef did as he was told. This time the arrow pointed at Geoff.
"Aw man," Geoff moaned.
"Geoff, your biggest fear is hail," Chris reminded him. "So this challenge will be simple: the last team to survive this hailstorm wins." Chris wielded his infamous remote control and clouds quickly formed above them. Hail began to precipitate from the sky, pelting the contestants and narrowly avoiding the host. Geoff and Ezekiel immediately left the unnatural weather phenomenon.
"I'm sorry guys!" Geoff apologised, while Ezekiel whimpered.
As seconds passed the hailstorm gradually shrinked down. The clouds moved away from Heather, Trent and Cody. They tried to enter the hailstorm again, but Chef stopped them. "Once you step outside, you can't return," He told the eliminated Gophers.
A giant block of hail landed on Harold's head, causing him to leave the hailstorm. Next was Tyler, who slipped on a puddle and ended up outside. Noah was next to leave after a similar situation to that of Harold's. All of the contestants except for Bridgette and Leshawna were eliminated as the hailstorm was only big enough for two people.
"Sister, just because your skinny doesn't mean you' gonna win this," Leshawna joked to Bridgette.
"Hey-" Bridgette replied by pointing her finger at Leshawna, but accidentally poked her eye. She stepped away from the hailstorm, eliminating herself. "Oh my god I'm so sorry!"
"The Killer Bass wins! It's a tie!" Chris commentated as Bridgette helped Leshawna up. "Spin the wheel one more time Chef!" Chef completed his orders and the arrow pointed at Ezekiel.
"Oho Ezekiel!" Chris laughed. The homeschooler looked very worried. "Cannot believe it landed on you! According to Sierra, based on past activities, you're biggest fear is volcanoes!" Ezekiel gulped and tried to run away but Alejandro chased him and tackled him. Ezekiel hissed but Alejandro calmed him down.
"Shh...it's alright," Alejandro comforted Ezekiel. "We will go through this, don't you worry."
"Anyway, the next challenge is a tightrope challenge! Each team must choose four players to cross from one side of the volcano to another. The only exception is Ezekiel, who must do the challenge!"
"There's only one thing wrong with challenge," Katie told Chris.
"There's no volcano around here!" Eva yelled.
"Nice job stating the obvious," Chris retorted, "Besides, you guys always underestimate me!" He pressed a button on his remote control and the floor began to shake vigorously. The land rose up high until they ended up around the same height as the highest cliff. The contestants went from flat ground to the summit of a volcano in less than a minute. In fact, the crater was already boiling with magma. "I was hoping to use this in the finale, but this is way more fun! The teams have only a minute to decide who will walk on the tightrope as the interns connect them."
After the minute has passed (and the casualty of three interns), Chris asked the teams who will dare attempt this challenge.
"It will be Ezekiel, Eva, DJ and I," Alejandro listed.
"It's Izzy, Lindsay, Trent and I," Heather added afterwards.
"Great! Eva, DJ, Izzy and Lindsay, you must all go to the other side of the volcano now," Chris ordered them. Lindsay sighed and began to go on the tightrope. "Woah stop Lindsay! You're going there by helicopter!" Chris pointed at the vehicle piloted by Chef.
"Oh, whoopsies," Lindsay shrugged, unaware that she almost died. The four contestants flew to the other side, while the other four waited nervously where they were. Finally, the challenge was set up. Chris was still on the helicopter, flying above the centre of the tightropes.
"When I say start, Alejandro and Trent must race each other to the other side," Chris explained. "There they must tag Eva and Izzy, respectively. They must run the opposite way, and tag Ezekiel and Heather at the end. Those two run and tag DJ and Lindsay. Finally the two must race each other back here. First one back wins immunity for their team."
Alejandro and Trent stood right behind the tightropes. "No funny business Alejandro," Trent warned the Spaniard.
"I don't need to," Alejandro boasted.
"On your marks," Chris counted down. "Get set. Go!"
Alejandro began to jog majestically on the tightrope while Trent carefully took his time.
"Hurry up Trent!" Heather demanded from him.
"I'm sorry that I'm not a circus freak!" Trent yelled back. By the time Alejandro tagged Eva, Trent was only three quarters across.
"Gotta go, guitar boy," Eva teased Trent when she ran past him. Finally Trent was able to tag Izzy, and she sped her way across the tightrope. She ended up on the other side a few seconds before Eva. They both tagged Heather and Ezekiel simultaneously. Heather and Ezekiel shared looks of fear before they stepped on the tightrope.
"So, Ezekiel, why are you scared of volcanoes?" Heather asked Ezekiel nervously, even though the answer was obvious. Ezekiel pointed at the magma then at himself. "Ah, so you fell inside?" Ezekiel nodded his head as he walked in fright.
"Hurry up!" Chris yelled on his megaphone from the helicopter. "No chitchat or else I'm sending the fire-resistant sharks!"
Heather and Ezekiel quickly reached the end of the tightrope and tagged Lindsay and DJ respectively. "Oh no," DJ commented as he looked down. He absorbed his fear and began to walk the tightrope. Lindsay wouldn't move once.
"Lindsay go!" Heather ordered from the blonde.
"You can do it Lindsay!" Tyler yelled from the other side of the summit.
"O-Okay then," Lindsay gave in. She stepped on the tightrope and raced to the end with DJ. There were only a few metres left, and DJ and Lindsay were side-by-side.
"Hurry up DJ," Courtney muttered under her breath. Suddenly Lindsay slipped from the tightrope and plunged into the volcano. The contestants gasped and would have seen Lindsay burnt to a crisp, were it not for DJ stopping and grabbing Lindsay's leg.
"Aw!" Chris exclaimed from the helicopter. "She didn't fall in!" DJ placed Lindsay on his back and walked the rest of the tightrope. Chris pressed a button on his remote and the land began to sink and the magma withered away. In less than a minute the land returned to normal and the four contestants from the opposite side ran towards the rest. The helicopter landed beside the contestants, and Chef and Chris walked out. "I am happy to announce that the Killer Bass won!" Chris told them. "Because Lindsay technically never finished the tightrope challenge."
The Bass cheered and the Gophers groaned, as per usual. As thanks for saving her, Lindsay kissed DJ on the cheek.
Chris welcomed the Screaming Gophers in the evening during the elimination ceremony. "Man, you guys are having a bad time!" Chris laughed. The team just stared at Chris. "Oh cheer up, at least most of your fears weren't chosen. Anyway, it's voting time!"
Leshawna crossed a photo of Noah. "You're going home tonight!" She commented.
Cody was stuck between voting off Heather or Lindsay. He had both of their photos on each of his hands.
Trent immediately crossed a photo of Heather and walked out of the confessional causally.
Owen crossed a photo of Heather, but signs of regret appeared on his face.
"The votes have been counted!" Chris announced.
"And Cody, Trent, Owen, Noah, Izzy and Leshawna are safe!" Chris threw the marshmallows at them simultaneously.
"Heather, guess nobody likes you still! And Lindsay, you lost the final challenge." Chris picked up the final marshmallow and held it between his fingers. He twisted it, trying to add more tension.
"This marshmallow goes to...Heather!" Chris flung the symbol of immunity towards Heather. "Sorry Lindsay, the Boot of Shame awaits you!"
"Wait!" Lindsay interrupted. "I got the golden marshmallow!"
"Yeah, but you ate it!" Heather argued.
"It should count still, right?"
"Well Blaineley is responsible for that," Chris explained. "And because she's not here, I get to make the rules! And I want you out."
"Oh shucks!" Lindsay cursed. Chef grabbed her and led her to the giant boot. Chris laughed menacingly as Lindsay was kicked off the island.
Meanwhile all the Screaming Gophers slept inside the treehouse as they can all fit now. The Killer Bass slept happily in their giant cave. Chris watched this through a series of cameras underground. "Ten Bass and seven Gophers remain!" Chris commentated. "Who will be getting their booty booted off next? Find out next time on Total! Drama! Return of Pahkitew!"
I would like to point out that I'm not much of a shipper, so don't expect new relationships or anything like that, aside from the canon ones. Not saying it's inevitable, but highly not happening. Just added the kiss for a bit more surprise in the story. :)
Lindsay: There is honestly nothing much to say about Lindsay. She just got eliminated, that's all. Nothing more, nothing less.