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Victor's POV

"My girlfriend left me." I blew into my harmonica "Cause I made out with a weird bald chick."

"HEY" Heather glared.

"I mean it's the truth." I stopped playing a bluesy tune.

"Well why don't you knock it off and play something about the sate state our stomachs will be in now that DJ is gone." She suggested.

"The foods just…gosh." Harold sighed.

"I wish my boyfriend was here, he's a great cook." Beth commented.

"Boyfriend?"

"Yeah did I not mention my boyfriend, he's the best, my boyfriend." She sighed "What's with the looks, didn't I mention my boyfriend before?"

We all were giving her the most questioning look possible.

"When did you two meet?" Leshawna asked.

"Between Seasons." She explained.

"That was like not even a week." Katie pointed out.

"I know we met at the orthodontist." Beth said with a smile "He was getting his braces off like me, at first I wasn't into him but after the braces came off…"

She pulled out a picture of a guy with a sharp jawline and the looks of a male model.

"OFFT!" I coughed on my drink a bit.

Confessional

"Yeah no."

"Hello amigos." Chris came in "Who's ready for todays exciting challenge?"

"What could the torture be this time?" Duncan said.

"Oh, don't worry today's gonna be a disaster, you know like in a disaster movie." Chris laughed "Volcanos, Tsunamis, Earthquakes, you know that stuff."

"Destruction." I sighed "Oh dear."

We headed across the lot to the first challenge, an earthquake simulator where we had to get to the top and not get maimed.

"First team to the top wins, best two out of three gets the reward." Chris explained "Take your places!"

"This should be a cinch." Heather laughed "The dweeb squad has nothing on our athletic ability."

"I'm more focused on surviving." I said stepping up.

"GO!"

The first part of the contest, a tire ring step was easy, after that when the machine turned on and the floor started moving was when things got tough.

The monkey bars only made it harder when Chef started throwing assorted junk at us.

"I think we lost the plot, what does this have to do with an earthquake?" I hissed swinging forward.

"HAIL STORM!" Chris laughed firing golf balls at us from a gatling gun machine.

"OW!" Katie hissed "Where did you even get that!"

"HMPH!" I pulled myself up the final wall "WAH!"

I ducked my head back down when a potted plant was flung our way.

"It never stops." Harold groaned.

"Just get over here!" Duncan ripped him off the top of the wall.

"GAH!" We finished rolling over the wall as Owen took a shot in the mouth and shattered most of his teeth and jaw.

"Ouf." I hissed.

"You gonna help him?" Leshawna asked.

"Yeah in a bit once we get all the shots." Chris said "In other news Owen won the challenge for the Grips!"

"We got to the top first-you know what never mind why even bother." I sighed.

"Serious injury trumps all." Chris shrugged

"You just make things up as you go!" Heather yelled.

"I'd rather not say." He laughed "While we cart Owen to the hospital how about the next phase of the challenge? You're escaping a sub! Since the Grips one the first phase they get this handy piece of paper!"

Once inside the alarms blared and the subs we were in started to fill with water.

"It's freezing." Heather hissed "And I can barely see."

"Look flashlights." Duncan opened a box "Let's get to work."

"Any ideas, there are about a dozen valves and turn locks." I said looking around "This one is different."

I kicked the manhole on the floor.

"Anyone know how to pick a lock." Heather asked.

"I nominate the delinquent." I pointed at Duncan.

"Do I look like I've broken into any subs lately?" he sighed.

"I don't know maybe." I shrugged.

"I went to Picky Steve's Lock Picking Camp." Harold said "I can do it."

"Sometimes you do have mad skills." Leshawna laughed.

"The water is rising string bean." Duncan pushed Harold down "Get to work."

"Hmm." The tall boy dunked under the water only to surface soon after "I can't do it, I need more time, I'd need gills to stay down long enough."

"Alright fine we float up to the top with the water and pry open the upper hatch." Duncan said.

The plan seemed sound so we waited for the water to rise another foot or so and then unscrewed the hatch, only for fire to blast out.

"Okay that's a no." I gulped.

"We're gonna die, aren't we?!" Leshawna yelled.

"No reason to cry I'll save us." Harold said.

"Leshawna never cries!" the girl snapped.

"I recall weeping during the medical challenge for the reward." I noted.

"I…"

"You're a big fat liar!" Duncan yelled "A shame!"

"You fake cried to get a reward!" Heather said.

"No cool…I mean I didn't want it but still." I glared.

"Hey now let's not forget who's always there to listen to our problems." Harold said.

"Shut up Harold." We all snapped.

Confessional

"I don't like being lied to." I glared "I do the lying and manipulating around here Leshawna."

I dragged my thumb across my neck "Get ready to get gone."

"Wait I remembered something." Harold reached into his pocket "My straws! I can make a snorkel!"

He dove back down with the use of his straw snorkel and managed to unlock the hatch shortly before the room filled to the brim, allowing us to escape and win.

"Now then lets see what the Gaffers won." Chris smiled "An all expenses paid trip to British Columbia, staying at a luxurious inn on a volcano and to get there an 8 day hike-"

"No thanks!" Duncan yelled.

"I will also pass, how about like…snacks?" I shrugged.

"Alright suit yourselves." Chris shrugged.

LATER

"Hmm." I sat on the steps to the guys trailer and sipped on a soda bottle "So…"

"Yeah about her." Duncan looked across.

"The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned." Heather said.

"Glad too see we're all on the same page, I would have suggested it anyway before she got in the way, we probably can't swing Harold but the three of us are enough votes." I looked up and dangled the bottle between my fingers "Next time we lose, Leshawna gets iced."

"To the other matter…" Heather looked down "With your breakup we don't have our inside on the other team anymore."

"Don't worry about that." I took another sip "There's no one on that team that can get in our way, aside from each other the rest of the players in this game are the chumpiest of chumps."

AN

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