War Games
I own only Bryan.
The last three days had been raining quite hard and the camp had soon turned into a bog for which Bryan was immensely enjoying. He had decided to do something that he thought Izzy might do and had dug a series of trenches around the camp and island but oddly Chris didn't seem upset about it. In fact he seemed to be happy. Now there were a series of four foot trenches and tunnels through out the woods and camp. Heather was mad because of the mud that he had covered the camp in and the fact that several of the smaller trenches had filled with water and become mud holes most of which were between cabins and mess hall. The day of the next challenge saw a light drizzle, Bryan in a slightly better mood and despite having lost the last challenge the others weren't mad at him… well Heather was always mad for some reason but he didn't really care that much. When the Gopher boys woke up that morning they found Bryan missing and several inflated things scattered around the camp and they even saw a few in the woods as the campers wandered through the trenches Bryan had dug. As they passed the biggest of the mud filled trenches Lindsay thought she saw something move in the mud.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" She screamed causing everyone to look at her "There's something in the mud!"
Then they all saw something BIG move in the mud making all of them scream. Then a huge glob of mud hit Heather in the back of the head making her fall flat on her face which made everyone laugh… before wondering who or what threw it when the thing was in front of them… then they saw a log with a rope tied to it and immediately turned to look in the direction of the mud flinger… to see a small plank of wood on a rock with one end muddy and the other with a rope tied to a hole. Then another glob of mud hit Heather in the face thought she had her eyes closed and the campers were starting to panic were starting to panic now, except for Duncan who now was starting to find this amusing and was now beginning to understand what was happening.
He believed that Bryan was behind this since the mud was coming from catapults set next the holes. The he saw a large mud covered figure rise up out of the thick mud and raise its arms over its head. Duncan gave it a small wave which it returned cementing Duncan's suspicions. The 'Mud Monster' snuck up on Heather who had wiped the mud off her face and was cowering in the back of the group. With a roar it fell on her making her shriek and run back to the cabin after she wormed out from under it. As soon as she slammed the door the monster stood up and wiped the mud off its face revealing a smirking Bryan. Everyone laughed before they started to congratulate him on a great prank on Heather when they heard a bugle blow.
"Revelry?" Bryan wondered aloud.
"TEN HUT!" Chef shouted as he lowered the bugle and stepped down from the mess hall deck.
Chef was dressed like a drill sergeant complete with a whistle and drill sergeant hat. Bryan immediately snapped to attention and saluted as Chef walked over.
"ALL RIGHT MAGGOTS GET IN LINE!" He shouted angrily.
After a little grumbling and a roar from Chef they all got in line beside Bryan and Chef proceeded to walk down shouting at them to correct their stature. All of them save Bryan needed correcting.
"CHRIS IS GONE FOR THE DAY SO I'M GOING TO TAKE OVER!" Chef shouted "NOW GET INSIDE AND EAT! YOU HAVE TEN MINUTES TO EAT BEFORE THE CHALLENGE STARTS!"
Bryan immediately dashed inside before hearing Chef scream at them to move. Bryan shoved his food (which surprisingly was pretty good) before going out and standing at attention on the deck. Ten minutes later and only; DJ, Geoff, Bridgette, Beth, Gwen, Trent, Harold, and Duncan were with him. They heard a scuffle followed by the remaining campers being thrown out the door and into the mud followed by Chef.
"FALL OUT BY THE TOTEM POLE." Chef shouted.
"SIR, YES SIR!" Bryan shouted before dashing off.
Everyone met there and watched as Chef paced in front of them.
"Today you are going to have a war game!" Chef said.
"A what?!" Heather snapped.
"OH YEAH THIS CHALLENGE IS IN THE BAG!" Bryan shouted happily before earning a glare from Chef.
"You will be wearing the same hats and glasses from the deer hunt but you will be using laser guns instead of paint ball guns. You will also be wearing special armor that will count a hit when you get hit." Chef stated "The lasers will make a noise when fired and when you are hit you armor will let you know. These suits have several hit zones. These are on the front and back, the forearms and upper arms, the shoulders and the helmet. This challenge will last all day and at the end of it the team with the most points wins and the member with the most points on the losers team will have immunity."
"You also will lose points for friendly fire!" Chef added "When hit you will be stunned for five seconds."
As Chef explained they all were given grey armor and rifle-like weapons. After they were all dressed up and Heather had been yelled at for complaining Chef blew his whistle which made everyone but Bryan jump. They wondered what they were supposed to do until Chef groaned.
"You have ten minutes before the challenge starts so GET MOVING!" He barked.
Nobody saw where Bryan went to.
Ten minutes later the game started and Bryan slowly and cautiously rose out of the dirty water in a trench in the woods he had hid in and started to move forwards.
'This is easy.' Bryan thought as he waded through a trench in the woods.
He was crouched low enough that he couldn't be seen from the ground and only the area over his head was visible. He crept through the muddy water breathing slowly when he saw Duncan hiding behind an inflated obstacle, back towards him looking over it. Bryan calmly raised his weapon and fired once. The rifle made a sound like ZAP and Duncan's armor immediately made a buzzing sound as Bryan ducked quietly under the water.
"Okay who's dead?" Duncan asked angrily.
When he didn't see anyone he shrugged, leapt over the waist high obstacle and stalked off. Bryan raised his head out of the water and saw Duncan had left at which point the calmly climbed out of the trench and ran in a crouch to a bush and leapt into it. At this time he started hearing several ZAP's and Buzzing coming from around the forest. He thought he heard Heather shouting somewhere but ignored it before getting on his belly and crawling under a fallen log. He easily snuck past Courtney, Bridgette, Sadie, and Geoff who had hidden in a circle of sand bags next to the log.
He quickly assessed his surrounding before devising a simple plan to get some easy points for his team before grabbing a rock and stealthily crawling out from under the log. He quietly climbed a nearby tree next to a deep puddle that seemed like a seasonal pond so he would have an escape route since there was a trench near it that was filled with mud and surrounded by cattails which he could use to sneak out of the pond and into the trench. He managed to get on a thick branch that had a view of the four Bass but shielded him from view. He set the large rock next to him so he could throw it away as a distraction when he rolled off the branch into the pond. He took a slow breath and aimed at Geoff. He exhaled before firing and quickly fired a shot at Bridgette, Sadie, and Courtney before throwing a rock to the trench he had crawled out of before rolling off the branch into the pond.
"Where did those shots come from?" Courtney asked after recovering.
"I don't know!" Geoff responded as Bryan snuck towards the camp.
Bryan continued his guerilla tactics for several hours racking up several points by the time the sun started to set. He had heard several announcements from Chef stating which team was in the lead but he didn't listen half the time. He was currently under the mess hall waiting for Harold and DJ to come out from behind their cabin when he saw Duncan, Courtney, Geoff, and Bridgette ran out of the forest which startled Harold and DJ. Now all of them were out in the open and he fired a shot at all of them before crawling backwards out from under the Mess and dashing back into the woods. He hadn't seen any of his teammates but he had heard Heather cursing every so often and Owen shouting in excitement. He wondered who was winning and cursed at himself when he ignored the updates from Chef when he heard the intercom come on again.
"Hello campers!" Chris shouted "I'm back and I see you're all having fun… wait where's Bryan?"
Bryan smirked when he heard Chef say he hadn't seen him since the challenge began but suspected he was behind several hits that seemed to come out of nowhere. Bryan then saw Duncan wander out from around a tree. The two of them stared at each other for a second before Duncan raised his weapon at which point Bryan ducked behind a tree.
"Hey guys I found Bryan over here!" Duncan shouted.
Bryan took off at a dead run as he heard several people chasing him and every so often he heard a zap but they kept missing. He finally escaped their line of sight after three minutes and ducked into a mud hole near camp using a hollow reed to breathe. He waited for six minutes before he risked peeking out from the mud and saw that everyone was heading towards the camp. He ducked back under and pulled himself slowly towards the Mess Hall where they had been heading. When he got there he poked his head out and saw the Bass were all there and none of them were facing him. He ducked down again and waited a second before acting.
"BONZAI!" He shouted as he leapt out of the mud and tried to fire at the Bass… but his gun didn't make any noise like it should of.
He growled and hit it a few times before he saw his team was there and Chris was watching in amusement from under an umbrella.
"Bryan, dude the challenge is over." Chris said.
"Dang, well who won?" Bryan asked as he went to stand with his team.
"I was just about to announce." Chris said with a smile "The winners with seventy-nine points are the Killer Bass!"
The Bass cheered and the Gophers groaned.
"Duncan had the most points on the Bass team having twenty points. While Bridgette had the lowest at one point. Chris said happily "The winner on the Screaming Gophers is Bryan with one hundred-twenty points!"
"Wait if he had one hundred-twenty points how did we lose!" Heather snapped.
"Well you started shooting at Gwen who started shooting at you. If you hadn't you would have had one hundred ninety-nine points." Chris said with his usual smirk.
Bryan slapped his forehead and shook his head in disgust.
"Okay Gophers I'll be seeing you at the campfire tonight!" Chris said happily as the bass left.
"Hey Master Chief sir? Do I get a medal?" Bryan asked excitedly.
"What for?!" Chef barked.
"For scoring the most points, not getting shot once… and for not being an idiot sir." Bryan explained slowly.
"NO NOW GET OUT OF MY FACE!" Chef shouted.
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(Confession Cam)
Bryan: It was because of Heather that we lost! She's gone!
Heather: I can't believe our losing streak was Beth's fault! She's going home!
Beth: I didn't know it wasth cursthed!
Gwen: As much as I would love to vote Heather off Beth cursed us!
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At the campfire it had come down to either Heather or Beth.
"Well its down to the last marshmallow… someone is going to the dock of shame." Chris said "And the final marshmallow goes to
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Heather caught the marshmallow and smiled as she ate it.
An hour later
Heather was just about to head off to bed when someone blocked her from opening the cabin.
"Hey what's the big idea?!" She snapped.
"Well for one… you are an evil conniving bitch… and second I don't foresee you winning this game." Bryan growled.
"Yeah I doubt that Random Boy. You are all losers who don't deserve to win the money." Heather replied snootily.
"Well neither do you. Let me make one thing clear… the only one here who doesn't deserve to win is you." Bryans aid calmly "And since it was never my intention to win the game since the money isn't all that important, I will make it my goal to insure YOU don't get it."
He then turned, hopped over the railing of the cabin porch, and walked into the woods.
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Those remaining:
Killer Bass: Duncan, Harold, Courtney, DJ, Sadie, Geoff, Bridgette.
Screaming Gophers: Gwen, Trent, Bryan, Owen, Heather, Leshawna, Lindsay.
Voted off: Ezekiel, Noah, Eva, Justin, Katie, Tyler, Brianna, Izzy, Cody, Beth.