"Last time", a slightly sad sounding Chris said to the camera as he recapped the previous episode, "The remaining contestants were put through a challenge based off of the second challenge they ever faced on this show, battling the now Mecha Scarface the shark! Katie paired up with Justin despite no longer having any attachment for him, and Cody actually got to meet Duncan's surprisingly friendly side and the two actually started bonding, despite Justin not liking this at all! Courtney had a bit of worse luck though, as she was nearly eaten alive by the robotic shark once, but kept some weapons. Cody and Duncan ended up witnessing the", Chris then sobbed, "Death of", he sobbed once more, "Slenderman at the hands of that evil foul fucking mean as hell soul-less , saving the politician guy and gaining the token, which Duncan surprisingly gave to Cody! In the end, Scarface was defeated and her newborn child orphaned when Courtney, Bridgette, Lindsay, Katie and Justin teamed up against her. Well, mostly Katie and Courtney, as Lindsay got scared off, Bridgette was poisoned quickly and Justin didn't do anything. In the end, Katie was deemed the winner and in a shocking elimination both Duncan and the poisoned Bridgette were voted off and forced off respectively.", Chris then held up a tissue to blow his sobbing nose before finishing, "Who will fall next? Will any romance fix itself? Who will win next? Find the answers to all of these questions and MORE! On TOTAL, DRAMA, ACTION!", following those words the intro sequence once more came in followed by the episode finally opening up as usual.
This episode began in the boy's trailer, and Justin was the only one sleeping inside of the trailer, with Cody sitting awake on the outside, despite it still being dark. Of course, he was unaware that a dark shadow was watching him from a distance, and was getting closer to him as time went on. It noticed he was visibly upset, sitting with his hands up on his face, and even sighing an upset sigh. The shadow however, was anything but upset as it got close enough to speak with him.
"Are you upset, young boy?", the shadow said in a voice that sounded oddly similar to that of a sophisticated demon, still sounding villainous, but at the same time sophisticated as if he was a type of person who held a great deal of power, Cody turned to see from ontop of him two glowing dots of eyes, and the shape of looking right down on him. He could see small drip of blood from the ever-bleeding eyes fall down, some of it looked like Slenderman's black and white blood, even. "You seem quite down, Cody."
"How do you know my name?", Cody asked as he backed up from , who then took his chance to slowly crawl down to face the brunette directly, "Why do you care?"
"Oh come now", said while not grinning for once, "I'm not going to harm you, I just want to speak with you, is all. You can trust me, I can tell that something is not normal with you this morning."
"Well, no it's not, but I wanna know something about you first!."
"Like what?"
"Well, how about where the hell you come from?"
"The Diminsion of fire and hellish demons", bluntly explained, "I personally call it flame core, which some people say is too similar to some video game that personally even I think was going too far in being evil, but personally I say it's just a better use of the name."
"And, what exactly are you?"
"I am something that doesn't need an origin", explained, "I have no beginning, and I have no ending. That's all you and anyone else needs to know. Now, what's wrong with you now? Willing to share since you know a bit more of me now?"
"Well", Cody hesitated to answer, "I've been thinking, about, well, there's the guy I don't know my feelings for, and...I found out he was using me, and I don't know what to do. But, I've been getting some ideas."
"What are your options?"
"Well, Kick his Ass, Talk it out with him, or something else.", Cody replied. It was then that exe came up with his own idea of what Cody could do to 'mend' things between him and Justin.
"I have my own suggestion", then said, "I think you should do a little bit of all of them. Perhaps, lead him on, so to speak. Make him think that you've forgiven him, but then kick his ass at the end, and cause his elimination. I think that would be something you should do."
"I'm not evil enough to do that."
"Well", exe said as he then went to being infront of Cody, "At least think of doing it, it's the least that you should do", the creature then left, dissappearing into the shadow's in-front of Cody, who, startled and left heavily curious, went back into the trailer. Courtney however, was also awake and saw exe and Cody's chat, and she was not happy at all with what she saw, feeling exe was breaking their deal by making one with someone else.
"What was that?!", she said into the necklace once more, which in response had it's red aura surround it once more, "I thought you only had a deal with me?!"
"Relax, Courtney", through voice replied, "I was not making a deal with someone else, all I need is you."
"Well good", a quite relieved Courtney answered, "I was, getting, nevermind."
"Just keep this in mind", said in a reminding tone, "All of my plans will come to fruitition in due time, do not question me, just go along with me, and you will win this season successfuly. Do you got that?"
"Yes", Courtney replied, "Understood."
"Well then", Exe answered back, "You should return to your post, it is likely that Chris will be up soon with your next challenge."
"Right", Courtney answered, letting go of the necklace as the aura left it as well, turning around and going back inside the trailer, only to startle Katie once she opened the door. It didn't take much long a time to realize that Katie was listening through the door before she opened it, and as such she was annoyed with the black haired girl once she realized that, "What the hell are you doing behind the door?"
"Nothing", Katie said with what was actually a lie, as she had heard at least a good portion of Courtney's conversation, "I was just waking up and walking outside to see if Chris was awake", though to be honest most of that was actually truthful.
"Were you listening in on me?!"
"No", Katie responded, knowing that if she admits the truth to someone like Courtney she could be in heavy trouble, "I was just seeing if Chris was up, I swear."
"Well he's not."
"I can tell that, Courtney."
"What are you two arguing about?", Lindsay said as she was woken up by Courtney and Katie's chat with eachother.
"Nothing now", Courtney answered back to the blonde, "I'm going to get dressed and wait for Chris now personally.", she then turned to Katie, "Katie, you can stay right there if you want, I'm going to be ready for the challenge for myself though.", Courtney then walked away from the two girls. Leaving both of them curious and beginning to become at least a little bit suspicious of her.
"What's going on with Courtney?", Lindsay then asked to Katie.
"I don't know", Katie answered back with a suspicious look upon her face. Sometime later, Chris arrived on the scene along with and Chef Hatchet jhust as the dawn started to show itself. He woke the contestants up with a large horn, and once they were assembled in-front of him, dressed in their normal clothes for once too, they showed surprise in all three of them being dressed in black suits as if they were going to a celebration of mourning of some sort.
"Alright, Castmates", Chris explained, still speaking in his saddened tone of voice that matched his clothing choice and current body language, "I have two very special announcements to talk about to you guys, the first of which being the genre and challenge theme of this episode", before he continued the other part of his sentence however he took a tissue out and blew his nose on it as he continued to speak, "Todays genre and theme will be based of of the ever-classic, ever famous and some would say over-used science fiction or sci-fi genre, but mainly focusing on space exploration for the most part."
"Sweet!", Cody said with a happy tone of voice, "I love Sci-fi movies!"
"Cool", Justin responded with a happy look and a slight wink. He was trying to show he liked what Cody liked, but him speaking just made Cody feel slightly awkward. Despite it, Cody still gave Justin a smile in response, which made him feel a little bit better.
"Yeah yeah", Chris remarked back, "Anyway, with that out of the way, the second announcement is that I won't be the host this episode, and neither will Chef or the good ol' doc."
"Then who will be our host?!", Courtney exclaimed as her question.
"Don't tell me", Cody responded, "It's going to be Veronica!?"
"Hell No!", Chris replied, suddenly breaking from his saddness and suddenly sounding angry or heavily offended, "I would never ever let fucking russian bitch have MY show even just for one single solitary second!"
"Good", Cody replied with a slight sigh of relief, "For a second there I thought she was gonna come back."
"Well she's not!", Chris nearly instantly replied, "Anyway, the person who WILL be hosting the rest of this episode is someone that has appeared before, but is someone who is not Veronica, Myself, Chef OR the good ol' Doctor Pennywise. Who it will be however, is someone that is REALLY special to the world of fame, the world of movies and to straight and bisexual horny men everywhere! It's none other than the famous actress, NOVEMBER KOX!", it was after that introduction that November Kox, the celebrity guest star from the season one finale, appeared randomly from behind Chris and walked up beside him. She smiled at the camera and waved to the castmates, but of course she looked quite different from the last time she appeared. This time her hair was dyed to be black, and was longer than it was, and her eyes were now yellow, possibly due to either being her natural colour or coloured contacts. Her outfit was also different, she had a dark grey turtle neck, but still form-fitting, sweater on her body with a black short skit and a star themed belt on her waist. She had matching heels and stockings on her feet and legs as well. The girls were of course not amused by her sudden return appereance, her rather large breast size and nicely built figure similar to that of a supermodel like Justin made her a prime target for all three of them to quickly, practically instantly, envy heavily. Justin and Cody however, lightly smiled at her appearance, not feeling at all the envy for her that the three remaining women happened to have.
"Hi Guys!", November greeted to the remaining contestants, "It's so awesome to see you again!"
"Yeah", Courtney said in a cynical tone, "Totally awesome.", in response November gave a slightly awkward looking smile in response to Courtney's remark. However, she didn't stay on that subject as she didn't feel like bothering Courtney with such a small issue of voice tone.
"Anyway, I must ask Chris", November said with a curious look on her face as she turned over to speak with Chris, "Why exactly did you ask me to host this episode again?"
"Good Question", Chris replied, his sadness suddenly returning, "You see, since last episode had, very sad turn outs...with Slenderman", he then sobbed, his eyes suddenly shedding plenty of tears, "Was killed. He was eaten and destroyed, and as the one who was his only mortal friend, I must show him the respect he deserves and go to his funeral. I'm taking Chef and Pennywise with me and we're all riding off two other horror icons, and it won't exactly be a happy time."
"Oh", November replied, "Well, I'm sorry for your loss."
"Thank you", Chris said back as he began sobbing into his hands, "Thank you!", he then began sobbing more. Chef had to come up to him and pat him on the back as their ride arrived in the distance.. As he left, November slowly turned to face the cast, the girls of which were giving her visibly judgemental scowls. Afterwards she knew she had to be a level-headed person to be accepted as a host like Chris, so she made sure to put on a smile on her face.
"Alright guys", she opened up with, "Let's go to the space set!", as she walked away, the boys followed her first, only then followed by the girls.
[CONFESSIONAL]
Courtney - "What do I think of this turn of events? Personally, I don't hate November Kox, even though she is only being put on this show by the producers because she is seen as an international sex symbol and most only really care about her looks, I'm sure she's a kind woman. I woman I don't have very much respect for, but still, she's lucky I'm not wrestling in mud with her, I'd be way worse than LeShawna ever could to her."
[SECOND CONFESSIONAL]
Justin - "Ah, November Kox. A person who could quite easily match my looks, but is of the opposite sex. Of course, my heart belongs to someone else, but you still get what I'm saying. I still still must admire the, most of the time, fairer sex."
[THIRD CONFESSIONAL]
Katie - "I honestly could care less about Kox temporarily hosting the show, what I mainly care about is whatever Courtney seems to be up to with that necklace of hers. I don't think she was allowed to buy that thing while competing, she just seemed to randomly get it without any chance to actually buy and pay for it."
[CONFESSIONALS END]
Following these confessionals, everyone was inside a part of a set that, similar to those used for the previous episode and the second episode, was for the most part closed in and made of actual metal. Except this one was a large cylinder structure made to go only in one direction and stopping at the end with what looked like a finish line. Everyone was dressed normally though, and November know had small index cards with the challenges and things to say written on them, while the others stood infront of him. Taking advantage of November having to look through the index cards to find out what she was supposed to say, Cody thought a bit about what both Duncan and later exe said to him, and with a sigh he tapped Justin on the shoulder, who eagerly turned around. Cody then spoke to Justin in slight whispers, not wanting to distract the others or November.
"Justin, I think I wanna talk with you", Cody said to him in whisper.
"About what, Cody?", Justin whispered back.
"I want to try to give you one more chance."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"Great!", Justin replied, "I promise you, I will prove myself to you that I will not ever even think about doing anything like that to you ever again!"
"Well, we'll see", Cody answered back, "Basically, our alliance can still go on", he then had a more firm tone, as if he was almost channeling Heather or Duncan as he whispered the next line, "This is only a chance, you still have to prove yourself to me."
"That is great Cody!", Justin responded, "I will not let you down!"
"You'd better not."
"Ugh", Courtney whispered as she rolled her eyes, then began speaking to her necklace again, "I don't think this is working! They are still doing good relationship-wise!"
"Don't worry, Courtney", exe answered back, his aura covering the neclace as such, "I have this all under control, you just need to trust me."
"Well, fine", Courtney whispered back, "I will, even though I don't want to."
"Good", exe then finished, the aura turning off just as Katie turned her head, seeing the very end of their conversation. This reminded her of the earlier moment, and knowing having a second person helping would help greatly, she went over to Lindsay and tapping on the blonde girl's shoulder to get her attention. Amazingly, November still had not found the index card that she actually needed at that moment.
"Lindsay, I need your help!", Katie whispered to Lindsay, who was curious now.
"With what?"
"With watching Courtney! I think she is up to something that is, well, needing some observation on her!"
"Like what?"
"Like staying close to her and watching her to see what she's up to. Finding out what's going on with her might be crutial for anyone, including us, to actually last longer in this game!"
"Ohhh", Lindsay responded, "Okay!"
"Are you in then?"
"Sure!", Lindsay said with a smile on her face.
"Okay."
[CONFESSIONAL]
Katie - "Yes I am aware that Lindsay isn't exactly the most intelligent person left in the game that I can make an alliance with, Cody would be a much better choice, but I just think that, to keep eyes on Courtney, Lindsay is the most ideal choice because she wouldn't pose as much a threat to Courtney if Courtney saw her nearby."
[CONFESSIONAL ENDS]
"Okay! I've finally found it!", November just then announced, having found the index card she was looking for, "Okay so today's challenge is none other than the Anti-Gravity race!", upon hearing that the remaining contestants seemed curious and somewhat concerned about this challenge's name, "Basically, you all will be put through this chamber right here, and once it's all closed up the gravity will be turned off, with your objective being to reach the end before the other, without the gravity!"
"That's not that difficult at all", Cody then pointed out with a smile on his face, "Well, it doesn't sound like it is."
"Well, according to this card", November said back, looking back down at her card, "The token will also be in the race, except the deal is that if it passes the finish line before someone catches it or without anyone holding onto it, it is no longer able to be caught or used for the episode. However, if anyone manages to catch it and keep it at the finish line, you are the only one allowed to hold on to it for the rest of the episode."
"Sounds good", Courtney responded with a determined look to her face. Justin looked back at her with a similar face as his own response.
"In all honesty", November then said, "This probably will be the easiest challenge of this day, but, hey, the token will at least add some tension to you guys I guess. However, there are still supposed to be two other challenges today, so I'm going to go over to the back end of this race track and activate the zero gravity so we can begin the race, okay? Okay.", November then did as she promised and walked over to the other end of the racetrack as promised. Soon enough, she turned on the Anti-Gravity, and with a loud engiene-like noise, the doors of the race-track chamber were shut closed and November along with the contestants soon found themselves lifting up off of the ground. Many of them, Lindsay especially, were amazed as they were lifted straight off of the ground and were soon floating in mid-air.
"Oooooh!", Lindsay said at the feeling of no gravity, "This is so much fun and cool! We're like, floating in mid-air!"
"Lindsay!", Katie whispered to the blonde, pointing over to Courtney, "Remember the goal!"
"Oh!", Lindsay whispered back, "Right!"
"Don't worry", Justin whispered to Cody, "I'll be right next to you the best that I can.", in response Cody had a light smile on his face.
"Okay!", November announced, holding on to a lever as she was on the other end of the race chamber, "I'm about to start the race! So, on your mark, get set, GO!", with that the race began. The token itself came out as well, being fired out of a cannon at fast speed from behind the final five, except once it was a short distance from them it began slowing down rather quickly. Needless to say, Courtney was the first to jump right for it, with Katie and Lindsay very close behind her. However, Courtney had an issue, due to the zero-gravity enviornment, her body would touch the token, preventing her from catching it as it float away from her.
"Ugh!", Courtney growled angrily, "Why can't I hold on to this stupid thing?!"
"So what are we looking for?", Lindsay said to Katie as she and the other girl were using other objects to help keep up with Courtney, such as random beanie-bag chairs, small soda cans, rubber poles and the sort, "With Courtney?"
"Just anything suspicious."
"Oh, okay...like what?"
"Anything", Katie explained, "Mainly revolving around her necklace."
"Got it!", as Katie and Lindsay followed Courtney to look for evidence of Katie's suspicion that Lindsay didn't know anything about, Justin and Cody were doing the same tactic of getting around as Katie and Lindsay were, except they surprisingly weren't going for the token at all. Instead, they were having a more casual race towards the goal line. Not only that, but Cody actually seemed to enjoy Justin's company, at least a little bit.
"So Cody, why don't you want to go for the token?", Justin asked with a highly curious tone to his voice.
"Because", Cody answered, turning backwards to face Justin while still going in the right direction, "The girls are doing that, and I don't know about you, but I don't really feel like getting in-between determined ladies and what they are determined to have, ya know? heheh."
"Well, I wouldn't mind it", Justin replied with a smirk on his face, "Most women are easily wooed by my charming good looks. I mean, look what I managed to do during the first season's ending."
"Yeah, I know", Cody answered back, "So, are those good looks all you have?"
"Well, they are my best quality."
"But, are they you're only quality that you think you have?"
"Well, perhaps not", Justin answered, "But when you're a model, all that really matters most is your looks."
"Are you modeling right now?"
"Well, No."
"Well then", Cody said, "Is looks you're only good quality? I mean, since you were using me, I don't honestly know if you were being real or not, so I'm curious, what have other people said about you? And I don't mean the girls who just want you for your looks."
"Well, I don't know if there are any that you speak of."
"So looks are you're only real quality?"
"Well, look at you!", Justin then said upon noticing what Cody was doing, "What qualities do you think you have."
"Well, I've heard I'm a nice guy from some people", Cody replied, "But a bit of a weakling and a geek, and I don't mean to sound conceded but I personally think I'm pretty hot too."
"No offense", Justin replied, "But you're not all that hot, cute, but not hot."
"What?!"
"But", Justin said with a smile, knowing he could be recovering from what he just said, "Everything else about you, is true, especially you being a nice guy. I must admit, I really did come to like you eventually."
"Oh", Cody replied, though he was still confused how to feel after what Justin first said to him, "Well, let's just try to win now."
"Yes", Justin replied, "Let's."
[CONFESSIONAL]
Justin - "I hope I said the right things, I'm worried this might be my last chance to mend things between me and Cody! One of us could be eliminated in any episode at this point!"
[CONFESSIONAL ENDS]
Back with the girls, Courtney was still desperately trying to grab onto the token, not at all noticing Katie, Lindsay or Justin & Cody in their plans. Even though was alerting her on her PDA, she was still focusing on the token. Mainly because of the powers in the game it actually posessed. However, eventually Courtney knocked into the token in a way that it flew behind her, eventually getting right into Katie's hands, which of course angered Courtney greatly upon seeing.
"Hey!", Courtney snapped at Katie, "That's mine!"
"Actually", Katie replied, "It's not, it's none of ours until we cross the finish line."
"Well", Courtney answered, "Then I can take it back!", without any further words Courtney pounced right onto Katie by launching from a random sofa. Katie tried to doge, but Courtney still managed to grab onto her legs, and in her own defense not only did Katie drop the token, but she also grabbed onto Courtney's hair and pulled it as hard as she could, Courtney let herself be pulled off, but soon went straight into scratching Katie as Katie turned to punching and kicking at the brunette Courtney. Lindsay however remained just watching with a concerned expression on her face, neither one of the three even paying attention to the token, which due to the force of their fight and due to Katie and Courtney rolling in a ball thus hitting the thing, it ended up flying towards the finish line. Lindsay eventually noticed this and gasped a bit, trying to pounce onto the token, but this in the end caused it to pass the goal line.
"Oh No!", Lindsay said, trying to catch the token despite it going over the line, thus meaning she crossed the finish line as the first human to do. Katie and Courtney continued their fight, Katie eventually punching Courtney in the face before Courtney grabbed her by the hair and the two swung all the way to the other side of the chamber before their fight then moved to the ceiling. Soon after Lindsay crossed, Justin and Cody noticed how close they were to it, and Justin decided to improve his relationship with Cody, that he had to push Cody on the back as soon as he noticed the vicinity Cody was to the goal line.
"Justin?!", Cody replied as Justin pushed him quite hard towards the goal line, however once he passed it, he actually smiled at Justin's actions, Justin arriving passed it shortly after he pushed Cody, "Oh...thanks."
"I didn't want to see you lose", Justin answered with a smile, looking right into Cody's eyes kindly.
"That's, that's very nice of you", Cody replied, looking right back into Justin's eyes as well. Shortly after Justin, Cody and Lindsay were done with the race did Courtney notice this, and she did get angry.
"I am NOT losing this challenge!", she said in an enraged tone before kicking Katie to launch off of her. Luckily she was close enough to it so that she crossed the finish line and left Katie behind. Immediately after Courtney passed the finish line the anti-gravity system was turned off, putting Justin, Cody and Lindsay back on their feet, while Katie and Courtney fell to the ground for not being in a standing position. November then walked to the others with a smile on her face and actually clapping in applause to them.
[CONFESSIONAL]
Courtney - "So I didn't get the token. Oh well, at least I didn't fail the damn challenge!"
[CONFESSIONAL ENDS]
"Alright, castmates!", November exclaimed to the final five as an announcement, "The challenge is now over, and it is now time to decide who will participate in the next part of this episode! Katie, since you are the only one who didn't cross the line, the index cards specifically say that it is you that is not going to be competiting in the second challenge of the episode!", In response to hearing that, Katie sighed, disappointed that now only Lindsay was going to be keeping an eye on Courtney. "Now, behind this wall", Kox said as she pressed a button that lowered the wall in-front of them all to reveal a large maze-like passageway with many branching paths, many deadly traps and weapons in it, and a small room at the end with a Marvin the Martian (A Loony toons character that has a red shirt, a green spartan helmet and skirt, red and black tennis shoes and an all black, pitch black, body with two white eyes and no visible mouth or anything) plush toy on a simple stand. "Is the second challenge's location!"
"A maze?", Courtney responded upon seeing the massive maze, "What do mazes have to do with Science Fiction?"
"Very little I think", November answered, "However this challenge has at least something to do with it, as your goal is to compete with this place's very own Artificial Intelligence system in search of the martian plushie at the end of this maze."
"We're hunting for a toy?", Cody replied upon hearing those words, "Of an Alien?"
"Yes", November replied, "Something so harmless, yet, has a very harmful pathway of getting to it. Which is why whoever wins this challenge not only gets immunity from elimination later, but also gets to keep the toy if they so choose!"
"So I'm guessing we're going through the maze?", Cody then asked, a slightly concerned look on his face, given what she had just said about it after all.
"Yes, you will actually!", November quickly said in response to Cody's question, "You four will be going through a very trecherous and difficult maze controlled by a real A.I. system! Fire will be spewed at you, rocks and chunks of earth will be thrown at you, spikes, pillars, steam everything of the sort will be used to try and harm you and prevent you from getting the plushie at the end! The best way to win is to try and stick to paths that seem to have the least amount of challenging parts in it, but beware that EVERY path has at least ONE trap on it, and that some will even branch off into others! After all, this is a maze!"
"Yes, I understand what a maze is!", Courtney said as she finally then checked her PDA. Only then did she get a rather important text message from , saying 'Justin and Cody might be mending their relationship, I have taken over the A.I. the Kox chick speaks of, so you must either win this challenge or mess with the two if you want to win this. I will only be holding them off at least temporarily. Understood?', Courtney texted back 'got it', before putting her PDA back in her pocket.
"Okay then", November replied, trying to look unfazed by Courtney's rudeness to her, "So then, you may now work on choosing your pathways, the maze, is started!", once she announced that, Justin, Cody and Courtney immediately walked into the maze's paths, however Katie pulled Lindsay back by her arm to briefly speak with her.
"Lindsay!", Katie said in a whisper, "Remember the plan?"
"Yes!", Lindsay responded with a nod, "Keep a close eye on Courtney!"
"Good!", Katie said back, "Now be sure to follow her!"
"Got it!", Lindsay was then let go by Katie, and as Katie directed she went right down the path that Courtney had gone, while Katie stood near November Kox in what was basically the only safe area of the entire maze.
[CONFESSIONAL]
Courtney - "Personally, I don't care about a stupid plushie toy, so when I win I'll just let one of the others have it and keep my immunity."
[CONFESSIONAL ENDS]
"So, Cody", Justin said as he and Cody went down a surprisingly empty pathway down the middle, "Do you want to talk while we do this?"
"We're that now, aren't we?"
"Yes, but I mean, about us...and each-other."
"Well, what about that?"
"Well, perhaps I can learn more about your, home-life?", Justin explained, "I think, it's only fair."
"Well, if you gotta know", Cody replied with a sigh, "I don't really see my parents all that much, now they are nice and very cool, but I just don't see them all that much because of them being busy with their jobs."
"That's sort of similar to me", Justin replied, "Though granted, it was more of my job that makes me not see my parents, or much other people for that matter. You know how it is, right?"
"Actually", Cody answered with a slight smile growing, "I kinda can."
"Does this mean we have something in common?"
"I, I think so", after Cody and Justin smiled at each-other as they both walked down the pathway, completely aware that they likely were going to run into a few traps along the way to the plush toy. Meanwhile, however, Courtney was up to something completely different. Courtney had eventually come across a small circular room inside the path she had taken, and was using this stop to hold up her necklace, this time though the aura generated a holograph of , only this time his black nose was gone, replaced by nothing, and his eyes were still red except no longer bleeding and had bigger pupils that while still red were now reptilian instead of just dots. These differences but Courtney off a bit, but didn't question that it was the same demonic entity that she was speaking with.
"So, you are the A.I. of this place?", Courtney asked, in which exe replied with a voice more deeper and masculine, but still retaining a level of class. The voice was similar to the one he initially spoke to Courtney with, rather than the one he used to speak with Cody. However, it also had a bit of that voice in it as well, it was a mixture of his deeper voice and his classy voice.
"Yes, I am", exe replied, his gloves now gone, though his biege hands actually looking just like them, but more crystal-like for some reason, once more making Courtney curious. His spikes were also looking more rocky, cracked and similar to the hands as well. "It was incredibly easy to take possession of the program, too."
"Can I ask one thing?"
"Of course."
"What's going on with your body and stuff?"
"Oh", exe replied, looking at hands, "This form of mine is almost done with it's use, basically, my Metamorphosis is almost complete."
"Wait, so you're in a weaker state than you would be?"
"No, I'm not", exe answered, "Let's just say, I was knocked into a weaker state earlier than this, so I merely had to locate a cocoon to reconstruct this form. Be aware, I am still the same being wo condemned all of Atlantis to eternal misery."
"Atlantis?", Courtney replied, "What do you mean? That place isn't real!"
"It was", exe answered with a grin, "I gave it's people the charming looks and powers of seduction that they used, and their King and Queen the highest level of diplomacy and influence that not even britian could compete with, but those two forgot their end of the deal, so I had their queen turned into that of a sea slug, while her king was turned into coral with every passing year after I burned his city with my blue flames, and took all of his people as the slaves of my realm, including his daughters.", in respone to this story, Courtney looked on with a shocked and concerned look to her face, she could see in exe's eyes and know that he was telling the truth, infact, she could actually see the visuals of this happening in his eyes.
"Oh...my", was all Courtney could say in response to this story.
"Just keep that in mind if you decide to betray me", exe replied, "I hope you do not."
"Believe me", Courtney said back in a more calm tone, "I'm not like Heather, I wouldn't even dream of it."
"Excellent", exe replied, "I must admit Courtney, you do seem like someone I should have contacted earlier."
"That's because I likely am", Courtney proudly replied, actually flattered that he had said that. She didn't know why, but he did have some level of charm in him, whether it be the level of class in his voice, they fact that he had so much power over the dark realm, or that he was practically the only one around the film lot even treating her with any level of respect she couldn't name it. However, she still knew that he will punish her greatly, like he did Atlantis and it's mer-people, if she were to betray him. However, both of them were unaware that Lindsay was nearby, or at least Courtney wasn't. Luckily for Courtney, Lindsay had only just arrived on the scene and had not heard any of their prior conversation. Nonetheless, when she saw the holographic exe in-front of Courtney she gasped, alerting exe and Courtney to her presence, however Exe saw first and with a snap of his fingers he sent a wall of blue fire out of seemingly nowhere to prevent him and Courtney from being seen, before then bringing seemingly random crystals down from the ceiling in an attempt to pelt Lindsay. Lindsay saw these and once three fell down getting closer and closer to her, she looked up and saw a massive crystal forming, which worried her greatly.
"Heheh, hi, Mister Crystal!", she said to the giant diamond, "How are you doing today?", in response the crystal broke from where it was, which instantly sent Lindsay running away in a pathway to the side of where she was standing. This however sent her on one of the most dangerous paths, as soon she came across now activated pistons that went up and down, except now below them was a giant pool if spike-like diamonds that would surely hurt to fall into. Not only that, but now a massive wave of blue fire was coming right towards her from the back, not wanted to be burned to a crisp she made a leap of faith and made through both pistons just barely, before continuing to run as she saw the fire was still coming towards her. She ran as fast as she could in her heeled boots, soon she was almost crushed by an up moving wall, but she jumped across it in time, only to then be trapped by another one in-front of her and the original in back of her. She sighed in relief though, upon hearing the blue flames being stopped by the one behind her, however she became worried again, realizing she was standing on a very thin path of wood over spiky diamonds,and also another problem arised, "Um...host people?...I think I have to pee."
[CONFESSIONAL]
Courtney - "Lindsay should've known better."
[CONFESSIONAL ENDS]
Meanwhile, Justin and Cody were just starting to get to the more challenging end of their pathway. Just as they thought they had the easy path, they had come across a massive wall of electricity, constantly coming on for a few seconds before going off, and they had only noticed that right after the electricity was a large thin walkway with normal spikes underneath and large pistons along the wall ready to squash them, and at the end of that was a large room with multiple lasers that could burn them, followed by a room with holes that spit out red fire in a random order. Needless to say, the two both gulped at seeing this. Justin then looked at Cody with a concerned look on his face, not wanting Cody to be horribly injured by going through so many dangerous obstacles that were likely to kill him by the end.
"Heheh", Cody responded, "Well, I'll go first, I, I don't want you to get hurt."
"Neither do I", Justin said, grabbing Cody by one of his shoulders, "Which is why I want you to go first, but with this", Justin then removed his necklace which had a small symbol resembling a not with two other longer knots on it and handed it to Cody, which made Cody highly confused.
"It's just a necklace?"
"It's my lucky necklace", Justin explained, "Ever since I first got it, I've had incredibly good luck, and since I don't want you to get hurt during this and likely die, I'm giving it to you, I'll go to, to make sure you don't get hurt that badly, so you're cuteness will be harmed."
"You realize you would get hurt when you cross, right?"
"To be honest", Justin answered back, "I care more for you and your looks, than I do mine right now."
"Oh", Cody said with a smile, hardly believing Justin was being so kind, but he did believe it at the same time. He had at this moment, officially forgiven Justin for what he said so much earlier in this season, "Well then, when do we start?"
"I would say, now!", Justin said as soon as the electricity was off. Cody instantly followed what Justin said, running at his full speed through the electricity, and then sliding on his belly to get through all of the pistons, that each went down as he passed through them, and for the lasers he had to use careful placement of his feet, but he still hopped through them quickly, as once he got there he could see the plushie up ahead, beyond the fire holes. Once he made it to those though, he jumped across them as they went off, and of course with everyone he jumped off that was another one that went on. After the fire holes, he was right in the room with the plushie in it, sitting on a stand, just after a minor set of stairs. Needless to say, Cody's smile was large and happy as soon as he saw that he had made it to the room first.
"Justin! I made it!", Cody cheered loudly, thinking he won the challenge, "I made it first! That necklace totally helped me win!", it was then that he opened his eyes, only to then notice that Justin was in the room too, only on the ground, and had suffered all the things that Cody had managed to avoid. His hair was messed up from the electricity, all ruined and facing upwards, both legs and his left arm were twisted, fractured and likely broken from the pistons, the lasers left visible holes in his clothes and slight red burns where they touched his skin, and the fire had left most of his skin completely scorched and black. Basically, he was definitely not at his best. As Cody looked back at Justin, who was just now noticing where he was, and then back at the plushie which now had exe standing right next to it, gesturing Cody to just pick it up, he thought over what Justin had just done for him. He thought of how selfish Justin used to seem earlier in this competition, and how that contradicted how he treated Cody through this most recent act, and also recently. He then thought about what exe seemed to be, how evil he appeared to be, but also how powerful he was likely to be, and with one thought he decided what he was going to do. Just as Courtney went into the room, Cody ran over to Justin, wanting to be by his side instead of winning the challenge. Courtney paused a little seeing exe was there, but with his grin at Cody helping Justin instead of winning the challenge, she then realized the true reason he was speaking with Cody earlier. Justin however, noticed Courtney going for the plushie, and wanted to warn Cody of this.
"C-cody...the...challenge.", Justin said weakly, the best he could given his injuries.
"I don't care", Cody answered back, "I don't want to see you, or anyone, hurt like this and me just be a bystander."
"So...are we...okay?", Justin asked, smiling at Cody's burst of generousity.
"Yes, we're okay", Cody answered back, "Except, I'm still just, too wondering about if we were a couple", Cody then answered, worrying Justin greatly, "I think we should, at least for now, remain Friends...with Benefits...if you know what I mean...heheh. I hope, you're okay with that.", Justin was relieved at the with benefits part Cody mentioned. This basically told him that he still had mended things with Cody, and while he's not Cody's boyfriend, he still has a big enough chance to eventually become that should someone else not butt in.
"I am", Justin said with a smile. Cody then gave Justin a small light hug, by this time exe had disappeared after nodding to Courtney, who then ran up and grabbed the plusie, it making a squeaking sound as she held up to the sky proudly. Cody and Justin both looked over at her as this happened, both just looking blankly at her victory.
"I WIN!", Courtney cried out happily, then looking over to Justin and Cody with a menacing look to her face. At least, she was looking at Justin like that anyway. Just after that, all of the traps within the maze shut off, and November walked into the room applauding the winner of the challenge, completely opposite of what Chris would be doing of course.
"Congrats, Courtney!", November announced, "You win the challenge! And also the plush toy and immunity!"
"Oh, Cody, you can have the plush toy", Courtney then said as she threw the Marvin toy at Cody, it once more squeaking once he caught it in his hands, "I only care about the immunity from the elimination ceremony."
"Okay then", the still smiling November answered back, "Well, if you guys will just follow me, we'll go on to the elimination ceremony!", after those words, the challenge was basically over.
[CONFESSIONAL]
Justin - Is now in a wheelchair, and a mostly full body cast with both legs put up and only one arm free from bandages, and his mouth and eyes being about the only parts of his face not covered in bandages, "So I basically now have my looks ruined thanks to this show, and Cody is only my friend with benefits now.", he then sighed, "Well, at least it's something, I guess. Hopefully in a later season, or after this show, I can get further with Cody."
[CONFESSIONAL ENDS]
Following that confessional the gilded Chris ceremony played as normal. Despite November technically hosting this episode, and this episode alone, it was still clips of Chris that played regardless before November was shown standing behind the podium in-front of all the remaining five contestants, with Justin looking just as he did in his above confessional. As Chris did, November had everyone handed out voting machines, only this time they had already voted, and she had just recieved the answers as to who everyone voted for. November, like Chris, was of course the first to speak.
"Alright, so all the votes have now come in!", she announced to the final five, "Now, with these results, I will read out the votes to everyone, and hand out these gilded Chris chocolate statues to all of those that are safe!"
"Those were chocolate the whole time?!", Cody, with the plushie from earlier on his lap, replied to that statement, his eyes wide in surprise at finding out the gilded chris statues had chocolate in them the entire time.
"Yes, they were", November said in response before she continued with those safe, "Anyway, I will now go over all those safe now, obviously Courtney is safe since she won the challenge!", she then tossed the first gilded Chris right over to Courtney, who caught it with a smile on her face, "Followed by Katie and Cody, both of you got pretty low amounts of votes tonight!", she then threw the second and third gilded Chris statues at the two, who both caught them just as Courtney did. It was then that Cody became slightly worried, seeing that Justin was now in the bottom two. Justin was also worried, as Courtney was very happy. Lindsay seemed to be oblivious. "So, Justin, Lindsay, you two are now in the bottom two! As such, this last gilded Chris will be the only thing protecting you from elimination, should one of you two even get it! And of course, the one that gets it is...", just like Chris, November had a dramatic pause before she revealed the last person safe from elimination, during which Courtney became angry at the waiting, Lindsay stopped being oblivious and looked worried, Katie watched blankly, and Cody and Justin were also worried, until, "Lindsay!", with that November tossed Lindsay the gilded Chris, much to Justin and Cody's dismay.
"Yay!", Lindsay cheered happily, standing up before the gilded Chris hit her in the head and knocked her out. Cody however, was less happy at these results.
"Wait! Hold on!", Cody called out, still holding the plushie but letting the statue fall to the ground, "I...I'll go instead of Justin!", in response everyone gasped, with the exception of Courtney who instead just pouted.
"What?", November responded, "But why?"
"Because", Cody replied, "I...I just think he should stay just a bit longer than me...and...I owe it to him for helping me in the challenge...when he didn't have to at all.", in response Lindsay got up, and couldn't help but think this was cute.
"Awwwww!", Lindsay said as this was unfolding, "That's so sweet!"
"Well", November answered, "I don't see anything about this in my index cards, so I'll just say...okay. Of course, this means that you will be riding in the lame-o-same instead of him obviously, so...yeah."
"I know", Cody answered, then turning to Justin, "Bye Justin", he said as he gave Justin one last hug, "I hope you get well soon", with those words he began walking off, leaving Justin, who now had his mouth covered, just looking back in shock at what Cody had just done. He watched Cody walk down the red carpet, and then get into the lame-o-shame which then drove off with him inside it. Justin waved by to Cody with his good hand, as Katie and Lindsay also did so without really saying anything like he was. Courtney, however, just pouted. She was upset that Justin was once more going to be in the game for at least one more episode. As for November, with Chris still not returned, she was the one who was focused on, still standing on the stage, for the episode's outro rather than the true host of the show.
"So, we've had some pretty interesting and shocking twists this episode!", she started, "Not to mention a shocking and unexpected elimination! We've had some serious injuries, some amazing conflict, and then some I think! Will the next episode have all of that? Well, I won't be here by then so I can't really anything, but I'm sure Chris would say it would! So anyway, stay tuned to see Chris next episode on TOTAL, DRAMA, ACTION!", it was those words that the episode faded out and the credits at least began.
[LAME-O-SHAME]
Cody - Has the plush toy on his lap, "So I lost, heheh. At least I got pretty dang far! I thought I was gonna go shortly after Heather did, heheh. Or before she went like last time, but oh well. I'm not mad, at least I made some new friends this time around, and I have this toy!", he then held the plush to the camera, "It will definitely make either a good home for Conker if I ever find him again and turn it into a small backpack, or maybe a good addition with Jerr-Um...nevermind...backpack...yeah...that's what this thing can be...heheh."
[LAME-O-SHAME ENDS]
Elimination Recap:
Owen & Beth, Gwen, Harold, (Owen Returns) Heather, Trent, LeShawna, (Courtney debuts) DJ (Izzy Swaps teams), Izzy, (Teams Merge), Owen, (Bridgette Debuts) , Duncan & Bridgette, Cody
Please Read and Review
This Episode is aired in memory of Slenderman, who tragically lost his life in the previous episode.