The majority of the campers sat in a circle, discussing the current situation. Surrounding them was a ring of iPods, cell phones, and other lighted electronic devices, due to the fact that it was ten at night, and all the electricity in the train just happened to stop working. Despite the somewhat impressive setup, most campers didn't have a clue what they were going to do.

"No rules, no Warren, no nothing! What on Earth is this challenge for?" Kenny groaned. A couple others muttered in agreement.

"No rules?" Rosetta repeated. "We've got all the proof we need. Mysterious disappearances, a supposedly 'frightening' environment…were you not listening to a word I said? This is a survival challenge."

"That might be true," Ashlynn said cautiously. "But we still don't know how they're hunting us down. I definitely think those two girls and that other boy are in it though." Leti let out a squeak at the mention of the staff.

"They scared me!" She cried. "One kept talking about bazookas, and the other threw a bell at Chris! The boy was okay though. He was nice."

"I didn't think so," Hunter muttered, whose face in all rights, could've been a green jealous shade.

"Hey," Raphael said slowly. "Where are Rachel, Alice, Thomas, and Laura?"

"I uh…" Jade frowned, looking around along with him. "I told them to head over here."

"Great," Kevin sighed. A drunken Doerenda was still clinging to his arm. "Four more disappearances, can this get any worse?" Riley covered his ears.

"Dude, don't jinx us!"

However, Rachel, Alice, Thomas, and Laura were not gone. Jade, in a hurry, had simply shouted at each of their doors to head over there, without actually checking to see if they were in. And, unfortunately, they were not in. So, where were they?

Well…

Thomas had been pacing in the kitchen, trying to work up the courage to talk to Rachel. None of his Bass friends had been much help (Riley laughed at him, Allister didn't have any advice, and Kevin seemed to always be hanging out with Doerenda now, who had no problem talking to anyone…at all.)

"I could just go up and say hi…" he sighed, still pacing around the kitchen. As he had for the past hour and a half, completely unaware of everything going on around him. Even when the lights went off, he didn't seem to notice a thing! "But then what would I say? This is so difficult, man!"

"What's so difficult?" A new voice piped. Turning around, Thomas saw his major crush, Rachel. Immediately he yelped, tripped, and landed in a pile of pots and pans. Rachel flinched at the crashing noise.

"Yikes," she mumbled, helping Thomas up. "I'm not that scary, am I?" Thomas shook his head.

"No way, girl! You couldn't be scary even if you wanted to be," he said, smiling. Rachel smiled back.

"Is that supposed to be an insult?" She teased.

"I wasn't aiming for one," Thomas said quickly, then blushed and rubbed the back of his head. "So uh, what're you doing here?" Rachel winked.

"Well, I guess you haven't noticed Mr. Pacey, but the train has stopped and electricity's out. I don't know where everybody is, but I haven't looked very hard. I kinda crashed and had a major nap when we first got here, if you know what I mean." She laughed. Thomas laughed too.

"It's so easy to talk to her," Thomas thought. "Effortless. She's just so…nice." Their friendship moment was ruined by Alice though. Because as always, people on this show seem to love ruining anything close to emotional.

"COWABUNGA!" Alice shouted, gliding through the kitchen on…roller skates? "Coming through!" She grinned, and stuck her tongue out. It was just then that Rachel and Thomas saw who was chasing her. Laura.

"Give that back, you Aussie freak!" She screamed, grabbing a frying pan off the counter and waving it over her head. "Those are expensive, you…you…" Laura seemed to be at a loss for insults.

"Brownnoser?" Alice guessed, referring to Laura's earlier insult that day and eyeing the angry blonde foolishly. "Well you can kiss this brownnoser's--" Before Alice could finish that (inappropriate) sentence however, the door slammed shut, making all four occupants of the kitchen flinch. Laura and Alice seemed to only just realize that Thomas and Rachel were just a few feet away from them.

Alice roller-skated over to them and high-fived them both. Then, she skated over to the door and tried opening it. It didn't budge.

"You're probably just too weak," Laura growled, pushing her away and trying to open the door with reasonable force. Still nothing. "Well that's just great! I'm stuck here with you!" She pointed a finger towards Alice. Shifting her gaze over to Thomas and Rachel, she shrugged. "I don't know much about you guys, so whatever."

"The point is," Rachel interrupted. "How are we gonna get out of here, and who did it?"

"I smell a challenge," Alice hummed.

"Escape from the kitchen?" Thomas chuckled, raising an eyebrow.

"Or rather," Laura snapped. "Escape from this godforsaken train. No electricity! I can't use my straightener!" Alice pretended to faint.

"The horror!" She gasped. Thomas and Rachel exchanged glances, and seemed to practically read each other's mind. Alice was usually such an optimist, why was she so sarcastic? Either Laura was bringing the worst out of Alice, or Alice had been spending too much time with Rosetta. A few minutes ticked by awkwardly, until Rachel broke the silence.

"This…is boring!" Rachel exclaimed. "Are you serious? We're stuck in a kitchen till someone rescues us? Can we please have something a little more exciting than this?" Rachel wasn't expecting an answer, but she got one anyways.

"Your wish is my command…" an eerie voice replied, echoing through the walls. The campers didn't see it, but while the 'eerie' voice was talking, Krm was opening a trap door, revealing a large circular hole in the middle of the room.

"If you wish to escape…" the voice continued. "Would you…take the plunge for it? Risk whatever may lie at the bottom?" Laura rolled her eyes.

"This is ridiculous and cheesy!" She shouted. "Chris, Chef, stupid maids…whoever the heck it is, give it a rest! We know this is a challenge, so stop trying to freak us out! Totally pathetic!" The mysterious voice chuckled.

"Whatever you say Laura, whatever you say…" then, the hole in the floor began to grow (although it was Krm, who was just still just making the trap door opening larger.) Insane laughter came from the recesses of the abyss.

"Okay," Rachel said quickly. "If this is a challenge, I doubt this we're supposed to go in there!" The other three nodded. Thomas suddenly hit his face with his palm.

"This is the very last cart, isn't it?" Thomas sighed. Once again, there were nods from the other three. "So there really is no other escape. Unless…" he squinted, staring at the other side. "Is there an emergency door on the other side?"

"Only way to find out is to jump!" Alice shouted, and then zoomed towards the other side of the cart with her roller skates. She took a wild jump and made it to the other side. The other three attempted to do the same, but without the roller skates, they pretty much failed.

Laura, Thomas, and Rachel seemed to be spiraling towards the hole with no hope, but Alice made a blind grab and managed to grab Laura's braid.

"Well dang," Alice sighed. "I didn't want to get you!"

"Oh bite me," Laura hissed. They both winced together as they heard Thomas's and Rachel's screams from the hole.

"They'll be okay…" Alice whispered. "This is just a challenge, they'll be okay." Laura seemed less concerned with their safety and more ecstatic over the fact that there was an emergency door. The two girls pushed it open, and found Vanessa waiting for them, smirking and leaning against the railing casually.

"'Stupid maids' huh?" Vanessa repeated. She pushed them lightly, which was enough to have them topple through the doorway into the hole.

"Oops." Vanessa said innocently.

Laura and Alice each let out a long yell, expecting to be falling for a long, long time, but in reality the fall was barely even a second. They landed in a cramped space like a tunnel. They army crawled through the pitch-dark space, which appeared to be used for trunk space, until they noticed a tall ladder with a light coming from the top of it.

After climbing to the top, they saw a small room that was dimly lighted. Rachel and Thomas sat in a corner along with Kendrick. Chris and Chef were both in chairs, checking out some cameras on the contestants and other random controls. Krm was missing; apparently she had run off to catch some more contestants. Warren however, was lying on the floor, fast asleep. Apparently, Krm and Vanessa had grabbed him while he was asleep to stir panic among the campers.

"Laura! Alice!" Chris greeted, spinning around in his chair. "Glad you could make it. Sadly, you are no longer in the challenge. If you wouldn't mind, go over and stand by Kendrick over there, and scream into the mic he's holding. The sound will echo through the whole train, so that should help with the freaking-out deal." Alice was bewildered.

"Where are we?" She asked. Chris grinned.

"It's…kinda like a secret lair. An attic on top of one of the carts, basically. Not the biggest room, but if it was, it would've been noticed. And that's no fun." Laura rolled her eyes.

"So, I'd be correct in guessing," she started sarcastically. "That the campers are gonna be 'captured' by you guys or scared all the way up to here, till someone wins? That's a stupid challenge." Kendrick snorted.

"You just think it's stupid because you lost," he muttered.

"Score, dude! Score!" Chris whooped, going over to high-five Kendrick.

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As soon as the remaining sixteen campers heard Rachel and Thomas's screams, soon followed by Laura and Alice's screams (in reality they were just taking turns with the mic!) several wailed, some groaned and slumped in their seats, and Rosetta just stood up and grinned wickedly.

"Think you can make me scream?" She boasted to no one in particular. "Try me! I dare you!"

"She's just asking for it," John complained. When Rosetta didn't get an answer, she snarled, and stomped her foot.

"If this is supposed to be freaking us out, is this the best you've got? A missing camper? A few screams? Heck, we can get that at breakfast!" Still, no answer.

"I agree with Rosetta," Effie slurred, apparently having taken much, much more of the punch. "I am not scared of these…of these…people who…do stuff…the scary stuff." She hiccupped, and passed out on the floor, snoring peacefully.

"Whoo! Anarchy!" Doerenda shouted, before passing out as well.

"Good job," Joel remarked sarcastically. "You got the drunks to side with you." The useless squabble continued on like that for a while until…

"Hey guys?" Leti whimpered. "What's that on the wall?" There, on one of the walls written in big red letters…Come and Join Us

Confession Cam: Is there a missing body we should know about?

"What?" Krm laughed. "It's glow in the dark pen. It only shows up when it's really dark. The lights went out, and the pen is now showing. It's not my fault if they think it's…" she gave an evil grin towards the camera. "blood."

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"Okay, this is going nowhere!" Charity shouted, trying to ignore the frightening message on the wall. "We've got to…try to exit the train?" She tried to sound confident, but her last sentence ended on a squeak, due to the fact that a table was flying in the air towards her head! She screamed, and threw herself to the floor. The table smashed into the wall and went into pieces.

Confession Cam: Nothing personal, just business

"Simple magnetism," Chris told the audience. "I love my job."

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The next few seconds were in silence, before nearly half the campers ran, scrambling and screaming. The only ones left in the circle were Jade, Rosetta, Ashlynn, Riley, Raphael, Joel, Kevin, and the still-asleep Effie and Doerenda. To freak out the rest of the campers, a rock was thrown through the window in the cart, and screeching wind blew through the train.

The seven of them (Effie and Doerenda weren't exactly able to help) were able to patch up the window with…duct tape.

"Duct tape: From solving mechanical problems to repairing haunted trains," Riley chuckled as he began putting the last piece on.

"Charming," Joel said impatiently, "but what are we supposed to do now?"

"What if we start sort of a…rescue team?" Raphael, to the surprise of the others, was the one to speak up. "Without separating, of course. That will get us caught." All the others grinned.

"That's actually a really, really good plan," Kevin admitted, giving Raphael a congratulatory punch on the arm. This actually hurt Raphael, because Kevin was just as strong as Doerenda. Raphael rubbed his arm and gave Kevin a weak smile. His gaze then slipped over to Ashlynn, who smiled at him approvingly.

"Alright then," Rosetta announced. "Looks like we're rescuing seven unlucky campers!" Just then though, Leti's scream went over the intercom!

"Make that six…" Jade muttered.

Leti, in reality, had been lured to the 'secret lair' by Kendrick. Kendrick had used a shiny rock to get her attention.

"Well uh," Ashlynn shouted, trying to rally the others. "Let's go save those campers!" They all began running through the carts, yelling various missing campers' names. Unfortunately, they forget the asleep drunks, Effie and Doerenda, who were pulled off by Krm, and carried into the secret lair, sleeping like babies.

Meanwhile…

Charity was hunched underneath a desk, shaking and holding her head with fright. She wasn't completely sure where she was, she had been just running as fast as she could. Her head was throbbing.

Allister, not too far away, was wandering aimlessly. He had run after Charity originally, and then lost her in the crowd of scrambling campers.

"How hard can it be to find her…?" He mumbled, shaking his head with a sigh. "It's a train for Christ's sake…" It was then he noticed the Goth hunched over, frightened, shaking, and not noticing the loner in front of her. Allister paused for a moment, took three steps backward, and picked up a blanket on a different shelf. Then, he wrapped it around the Charity's shaking body, and crouched down beside her silently.

Neither of them said anything. They didn't need to. Charity smiled, and closed her eyes, her head leaning against Allister's shoulder. Vanessa just then walked in front of them; both of them didn't seem to notice her, if they did, they paid no attention to her.

"I hate to ruin a cute moment like this…" Vanessa sighed, holding a button. She pushed it, and the floor underneath Charity and Allister began to disappear. Charity attempted to stand up and run away, but she hit her head on the desk, and fell in Allister's lap as they both fell into the tunnel, which led to the 'secret lair' and well…you get the point.

Going back to the 'rescue brigade'…

Allister and Charity's screams sent a shock through their system.

"Well crap!" Jade shouted. "There goes another two!"

"This is a waste of time," Joel criticized. "Why are we looking for all these guys? Some of them aren't even on our team!"

"Because," Raphael replied, "the more campers we have, the longer all of us can last."

"Wait a minute…" Kevin said slowly. "Did we forget Effie and Doerenda?" The other campers looked around and groaned.

"The only reason we haven't heard their screams is because they're out cold," Riley mumbled. Kevin became frantic.

"I've gotta find her! I mean them!" Without waiting for consent, Kevin ran back where the circle had been, only to find a smug-looking Krm there, holding a bazooka in her hands. Kevin went without a fight, and in less then a few minutes, the other heard his (staged) scream as well.

"This is going nowhere!" Rosetta grumbled. They had run back over to the circle, but Kevin was already gone. "Who's even left?"

"Well…" Raphael paused for a moment, thinking. "There are us who make six, John, Kenny, and Hunter. Nine all together." Ashlynn frowned thoughtfully.

"Now, where could the other three be…?" She murmured.

"GYAAAH!" Hunter screamed, running past them with a totally scared face. "OUT OF THE WAY!"

"There's part of your answer," Riley remarked.

"OY! Get back here so we can regroup!" Jade shouted, running after him and not realizing the fact that she was separating herself from the group. As soon as those two were out of sight from the others, both of them were caught in a very classic manner; trapped in a net. They were carried off by an apologetic Kendrick.

"Well," Joel chuckled. "We won't be seeing those two suckers again."

After a while, the five of the group actually found one of the campers. Kenny was in a closet, teeth chattering.

"They got John!" Kenny blurted out quickly before anyone could ask him anything. They all sighed.

"So we're the last," Ashlynn said softly.

"Indeed you are!" The eerie voice came back on, albeit with a slightly irritated tone. "But are you prepared?"

"Prepared for what?" Joel asked. Then, to their surprise, the response was no longer the creepy voice, it was now just Chris.

"Why, ready for the toughest, roughest, man hunter there is! On land, in water, on a train, you love to hate him, he's big, he's mean…he's Chef!" Chris shouted.

Confession Cam: It was starting to get old, either way

"Okay, so we kinda ditched the haunted train theme…" Chris admitted. "But Chef is scary enough, so it's a win-win situation!"

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"Here's the deal campers…" Chris chuckled. "In five seconds Chef is gonna burst through that door, with a paint gun that's gonna make it feel like a rock's been chucked at you if you get hit by it. Last one to get hit wins it for the team."

"What happened to the haunted train theme?!" Riley shouted.

"We're running out of air time," Chris replied. He laughed quickly, before Chef finally burst through the door, wielding a humongous paint ball gun!

"Don't scra--" Raphael was about to warn 'Don't scramble!' but was cut off as each camper began to run away, out of range from Chef's shot. Just when it looked like Raphael was gonna get nailed, a red ball hit him in the side of his head, making him fall over and not get hit.

"What the--" Raphael yelped, rubbing the bump on his head.

"Sorry!" Ashlynn shouted.

Confession Cam: Questions unanswered

Raphael blinked, his eye twitching a little bit.

"I know I'm not up to par on what is socially 'in', but since when do girls carry around dodge balls with them?!"

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Unfortunately, while Ashlynn had been throwing the ball, Chef's aim went to her, and Ashlynn's throwing arm was hit. Raphael scrambled to get up, but was hit in the back.

Confession Cam: At least she didn't mean to!

"Whoops," Ashlynn breathed, as she twiddled her thumbs. "I really screwed up. Raphael got hit by both me and Chef, not to mention I just tried to help out someone from the other team! My team's gonna murder me if they find out!"

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Meanwhile, Riley and Kenny were trying to open the only other working exit door, which seemed to be locked, but that was no surprise there. The boys saw Vanessa from the window on the other side, and they banged on the door and shouted for her to let them out. Vanessa cupped a hand around her ear and mouthed 'I can't hear you!' The boys shouted louder, and Vanessa shrugged and walked away, pretending she couldn't hear them. All the shouting got Chef's attention, and both boys were nailed in the back.

So, all that was left was the unlucky duo, Joel and Rosetta! Not together at the moment. Rosetta was leaning against a corner of a cart, breathing heavily, and wondering where everybody was…Joel, however…well…

"Love lifts us up where we belooooooooong! Where eagles fly, on a mountain highhhhh!" Rosetta had to pinch herself, because she could've sworn she just heard Joel singing…from on top of the roof. She climbed out a window, balancing precariously on the windowsill, and climbed up to the roof of the train.

"When a maaaaan looooooooooooooves a wooooman!" Joel's really bad and loud singing of some classic love songs continued until Rosetta stomped over to him and shook him by the shoulders.

"What are you doing?!" She snapped. "Do you want to have Chef find you?!" Joel grinned.

"'Fraid he already did." Rosetta turned around to where Joel was pointing. Unfortunately, he wasn't joking. Chef was there loading his paint ball gun.

"You can give up if you want," he offered. "But I'd sure have much more fun if you didn't! What'll it be, ya punks?!" Joel was more then happy to give up this ridiculous chase, but Rosetta spoke up faster then he did.

"Nah," She replied casually. Chef shrugged.

"Your choice," he growled, before pressing the trigger.

"Think fast, Chef!" Rosetta taunted, grabbing Joel by the collar, and hurling him towards the massive fellow. Joel took the shot, and bowled over Chef in the process. Quickly, Joel got off of Chef.

"Hmmph," Chef grunted, glaring at Rosetta. "You win. Bass win. Again." Everybody on the roof jumped when Chris's head popped out of the train's roof from a latch. Looking down, they saw the place where most of the campers had been hidden.

"Congratulations!" Chris said cheerfully. "You won the challenge, Rosetta! It's about time, because you seriously screwed up the other two." Rosetta glared at him. Even when Chris seems like he's complementing you, there's always an insult layered in there somewhere.

"Let's get this baby on the road, and head back to the island!" Chris shouted, before ducking back down.

"So it was all a big circle route?" Rosetta exclaimed irritably.

"Pretty much!" Chris's voice came from inside the train.

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Ten Gophers sat at the campfire, each of them feeling miserable after being either being captured or being hit with a paint ball. Along with Chris were Kendrick, Krm, and Vanessa. Warren had woken up finally, but he had been given no explanation, so he was rather confused.

"Gophers, another loss?" Chris sighed. "How shameful."

Confession Cam: A road trip like no other

"That place seriously sucked," Hunter growled, but his expression softened quickly. "I had real trouble voting someone off. Warren had bad luck, they just happened to capture him while he was asleep! Totally not fair. But, when it came down to it…" He looked down, ashamed.

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"Raphael. Allister. Charity. John. Kenny. Effie. Hunter. Leti." The eight of them grabbed their marshmallows with a relieved expression and sat down. The left campers were Warren and Joel.

"Campers…" Chris mused. "One of you ran into a lot of bad timing here, and the other was quite frankly, annoying. But who survives? Gophers, the one going home tonight is…

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Just then, Warren fell asleep. Again.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Chris complained.

"Here," Vanessa sighed, throwing the marshmallow to Joel. "you survived. Congrats, I guess. Although from what I here you're a total jerk."

"Gee thanks," Joel said sarcastically as he stood up and went to the other campers.

"What just happened?!" Charity shouted.

Confession Cam: Sadly, this happens more than you think.

Kenny, like Hunter, seemed ashamed of himself.

"Joel called almost all of us over to talk to him before the campfire ceremony. He told us to vote for Warren and not him, because he survived much longer then all of us, which proved that he deserved to stay longer, that he was a stronger contestant…" he grimaced. "We had to leave out Charity in that meeting, because I guess they became buddies last challenge…" He waved half-heartedly.

"Sorry bro. Joel had a point."

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An asleep Warren was thrown onto the Boat of Losers, and then driven to the Playa de Losers. Chef threw him on the dock, and then he finally woke up. He looked around, bewildered, until he saw Leo in the Jacuzzi.

"Hey!" Leo greeted, waving cheerfully. "They voted you off, huh?"

"I guess…" Warren said slowly. "I honestly do not remember a thing that just happened. Honestly. Whole day's a blur." Leo paused, frowning.

"That really makes no sense, what, did you faint or something?" He asked. Warren scratched his head.

"I think I was asleep," he mumbled. Leo whistled.

"Sucks to be you man," he chuckled.

"Right," Warren mumbled sleepily, before he passed out again, falling in the Jacuzzi.

"Dude, you're alive right?" Leo mumbled, poking the unconscious Warren. "Great. This dude's gonna be sleeping all the time and Satine is…" Leo glanced at the camera.

"Oh right," he laughed, addressing the audience. "You guys don't know yet. Well, sorry, I can't tell ya. You'll have to stay tuned."

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As soon as Ashlynn saw the remaining nine Bass heading for bed, she ran over, intent on seeing if Raphael made it through the cut. She ran as fast as she could, but by the time she got here, everyone had left. Sighing, she sat down. Her eye caught something black near the campfire. Picking it up, she frowned. It was a wallet. It looked familiar though, she was pretty sure it was the one that Joel carried around with him. Just to make sure, she opened the wallet and checked the ID.

Her eyes widened as soon as she read it.

"No way…" she whispered.

(A.N.) Oh dear GOD it's finally DONE! Those who got little screen time last chapter got tons this chapter, there were a few more couple moments, and Rosetta scored a very…odd win. I really hope you guys like it. I'm sorry if it was confusing.

And I bet you're wondering what was up with the paintball thing right? Well, I just needed something to speed things up, Chef seemed like someone who'd be more than happy to oblige, and then the paint ball thing I just kinda decided randomly, although I think Sonowa mentioned something to me about this relating to the Paint Ball Deer Hunt. I dunno. I'm sleepy. Don't bother trying to get actual reliable info out of me.

And I'm taking a break out of trick questions just for this chapter. Like I said, I'm tired darn it.

However…I still have one thing to say.

VOTE!

Oh yeah, just in case you're interested...the next chapter will involve animals, and Doerenda and Effie will be havin' a blast.