Chapter 53

Mortal Komedy

As the cheers died down, and Ted finally stopped yelling, Chef's face became stern once more and he began explaining the final test.

"Your final test....is to fight each other...." Chef was cut off by yet another one of Ted's jokes.

"IN MORTAL KOMBAT!" Ted joked in such a deep voice you couldn't tell if it was him. Chef glared at Ted, who smiled nervously, "Continue..."

"As I was saying, you will be fighting in a tournament style. The first round, and then the two winners of those two fights will advance onto the final round." Chef began. Ted looked around and thought about the strengths and weaknesses of everyone.

"The brackets will be formed as follow; whoever won the second test and one volunteer from the first test BESIDES the loser will fight each other." Chef stated, reading off a script. Ted looked at Lindsay with fearful eyes, knowing that either he or Jenny would completely ahnnilate her in a fight. As Chef acknowledged Lindsay as the winner of the second test, Ted pushed Courtney up front.

"Um, I volunteer..." Ted whispered, trying to imitate Courtney's voice to make Chef choose Courtney.

"Alright then. It'll be Courtney against Idiot #1, and Jenny versus Idiot #2." Chef announced. Ted started snickering.

"What are you laughing about?" Courtney asked. Ted finally burst out laughing.

"He called you two idiots......" Ted said while trying to hold back laughter. This time, Courtney, Jenny, AND Chef sighed.

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The stage was set, literally. A whole dojo appearing building was set up just for the challenge. Chef, with a huge mallet, smacked it against a gong, which rang loudly through the island (Which sounded like the Taco Bell commercials to Ted), and Chef threw two bamboo sticks to Lindsay and Courtney.

"Begin!" Chef Hatchet called. Courtney made the first move, who slashed her stick like a sword at Lindsay, who somehow blocked the blow and began to battle back. As Ted and Jenny stared in awe, Courtney seemingly regained control, and she started landing blow by blow with the stick, until Lindsay's stick snapped in half. As Lindsay just realized her stick was broken in half, Courtney pinned Lindsay to the wall, and Chef rang the gong again.

"The winner is Courtney! Jenny and Ted, you're up next!" Chef yelled. As Ted and Lindsay walked by each other, Ted winked confidentally at Lindsay, who gazed confused at Ted's back.

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As Chef rang the gong, Ted burst quickly, as he slammed his stick into Jenny's head. Jenny quickly recovered, and slashed her stick into Ted's side. Ted fought back, and clashed the stick with Jenny's. Both Ted and Jenny locked sticks for about 10 seconds, until both of them smacked them into theirs sides. Ted, in a dirty move, grabbed Jenny's pigtail booster, and swung her like a yo-yo and threw her into the large gong, which fell on top of here after impact. As Ted walked over to finish the job, Jenny burst out and pinned Ted to the ground.

"Any last words before I make a fool of you and your dorky girlfriend?" Jenny asked as she faced Ted nose to nose. Ted's mind then went into anger explosion, and Ted stabbed Jenny in the eye with the stick, and then pinned her to the ground.

"Ted wins the match!" Chef announced. Jenny groaned and walked over to where Lindsay was standing.

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Both Courtney and Ted were staring each other down. Both were enemies and wanted to beat each other, but Chef then said something that changed everything.

"Whoever loses will be automatically sent to the Dock of Shame....." Chef announced right as he rang the gong. Before Courtney could ask, "What?", Ted fought Courtney into a wall and confined her to that area. Courtney, in a attempt to fight back, started jabbing at Ted's stick. Every stab was blocked by wood, until Courtney made contact into Ted's neck, which shot him sky high into the air.

"Hm, I guess I won...." Courtney concluded quietly. Suddenly, Courtney glanced over to her stick with wide eyes and saw Ted balancing himself on her stick with his finger.

"Looking for someone, m'lady?" Ted said with a smirk. Ted then spun his stick into a wind turbine-like propeller and it tore Courtney's stick into pieces. Ted then pinned Courtney to the ground.

"Ted wins the challenge and.....Courtney is going home!" Chris said as he appeared seemingly out of nowhere.

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As Courtney was walking down the dock, Ted ran down to her and got her attention.

"What do you want?" Courtney asked obnoxiously. Ted cleared his throat and sighed.

"Look, I known we've both hated each other since th beginning of the show, and I think we have much more in common then we think we do. So, I was wondering if we could put this all behind us and start over." Ted explained. As Ted explained, Courtney's feelings toward Ted began to soften, and Courtney actuall felt.....like accepting Ted.

"So, how about it?" Ted asked, holding out his hand. Instead of shaking hands, both Courtney and Ted hugged into each other and began kissing. As soon as they finished, it was quite obvious they were both finally capable to accept each other.

"Sure...why not...." Courtney whispered to Ted and Ted walked away. Ted smiled as he walked back to his remainin castmates.

"Ah, don't ya love teen.....robot love?" Chris asked sarcastically.

"Ted....you're one lucky bachelor...." Ted muttered to himself with a smirk.

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A/N: And now, it's down to 3 CAMPERS!

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