Happy New Year everybody, and happy birthday ZombieFear101! It's been a little over six years and finally… finally, we are going down the road to the end. Let's do this, shall we? To anyone and everyone who stuck with me, not just the story but me as a person, thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Now sit back, relax… and enjoy.

"Chef, we are screwed!" The camera blazed to life in the corner of a room shining down on the discontent face of Chris McClean as he was venting his frustrations to Chef. They appeared to be in what looked like a trailer, a production trailer with some space for them to sit down, some cameras and equipment, and of course plenty of Total Drama memorabilia. Chef could tell he was in Chris's personal trailer from the over abundance of the gilded Chris awards hung up on every shelf.

"Chris man calm down, it'll be ok." Chef said to the exasperated Chris pulling at his hair.

"No it's not ok Chef! We have lost control of this season, this show, this island! Three days ago we did our little challenge and it was fun but in case you didn't notice, we are waaaay over budget, and we don't even have Carly any more to help us render those incredible worlds of hers, because she just one night POOF, disappears into the night. Turns out Hacker's probably got her which leads into problem number 2, the glitch running around in my little system breaking people's spines and hijacking our challenges! OH and he's been bringing in licensed characters like Bane, Nemesis, and Psycho Mantis, remember him, that WE... DON'T…. OWN! We had a licensing deal for the areas and generic enemies, not the big named villains! We are so screwed, like Chef, after all this time… we are actually going to get sued."

Chef just stared at Chris for the longest time and then actually wiped a beat of sweat off his forehead "Whew, for a second there Chris I thought I lost you and you were actually talking about being worried about Carly and Sonic's well beings."

Chris looked him dead in the eyes like he was insulted "C'mon Chef, you know me better than that."

Chef sat down onto a chair in the trailer and looks up at Chris "So… what are we going to do about this?"

"... I have one solution." Chris then pulls over a laptop "I got Mr. Drama on the phone and after some discussion we have the answer to our money problems. We will still have to stay on a budget and it is under the condition we find and stop this Hacker… but this is how we stay alive."

Chef gasped, his hand going to his mouth in shock as Chris nodded his head solemnly "Yes…. yes it is the only way." A finger went to the laptop screen… and he pressed enter. "It is done…"

…..

Chef pointed up to the corner of the trailer "Has that camera been on this entire time?"

Chris looked up to where he was pointing and saw the red light on the side of the camera indicating that it was indeed on and recording right now "... Sh-"

Xxx

There was a line of static that cut through the screen not indicating a super obvious cut what were you talking about shut up. Chris was now suddenly on the dock with his over the top smile with his porcelain teeth and his makeup that hid the crow's feet slowly creeping up on the man of indeterminate age's worried face. "Last time on Total Drama Gaming."

"The final eight contestants have continued to insert themselves into their gender based alliances, with the Girls Alliance growing stronger and the Guys Alliance trying their hardest not to disintegrate at the seams. As the challenge was announced, the teams were split into two zombie survival squads in a Left 4 Dead themed challenge. Emily and Vincent's friendship was brought back, Everest got herself into Camille's head, Aleks was getting into his own head, and Griffin and Cedric endured a tentative truce. When all was said and done, Emily and Vincent were swallowed by chinook winds whilst Iris rocked on to secure her team a win and another round of invincibility. With only four people to choose from, Vincent made the ultimate sacrifice and forfeited his vote to ensure he went home after all of the drama."

Chris walked to the end of the dock and smiled even wider "With only seven contestants left, now more than ever before, is it anyone's game. Who will continue and have their light shine brighter? And who will be swallowed by the darkness? And most importantly, who will have the strength of heart to survive this next challenge of Total… Drama…. GAMING?!"

Theme song "I Wanna be Famous" starts to play.

The camera starts to move, knocking random gear over.

"Dear Mom and Dad, I'm doing fine."

Camera goes over the cliff and into the water, where we see Seth underwater, when a shark swims at him. He appears scared and punches it, but looks bad afterwards for knocking it out.

"You guys are on my mind."

The shark floats up above the water where you see Emily and Vincent sitting on a boat together with him holding his dog tags close to his chest, and her whispering to them like there were an actual living being, until Emily sees the shark and leaps backward, causing the boat to tip over.

"You asked me what I wanted to be."

The camera then pans over to the woods where Griffin is standing there. A bear appears and growls at him, but Griffin just glares back and the bear starts to run away with Griffin chasing after it. Iris is standing in the distance watching him with dreamy eyes that then turned into an angry glare, and Lisa is leaning up against a tree, staring at them both.

"And I think the answer is plain to see."

The camera zooms over to see Ravana use her hockey stick and send a puck flying into the confessional.

"I wanna be famous."

Stryker sticks his head out and he becomes terrified as he sees Rachel smile at him and run into the confessional with him.

"I wanna live close to the sun."

The camera then moves over to the mess hall where Chef appears to be cooking something while Anthony and Adelle sit near the window that looks into the kitchen. Suddenly, the food jumps out of the pot and attacks Anthony while Adelle watches him, smiling.

"So pack your bags, cause I've already won."

Aleks is sitting at a table, marveling at his own muscles and Benjamin sits on the other side of the table, rolling his eyes at him, not caring.

"Everything to prove, nothing in my way."

Skyler and Bell are sitting at the steps leading to the beach, talking to each other until Lucas runs by, causing them both to stare at him. A flash crosses the screen, as then there was an x mark in shurikens right where Lucas walked by as Skyler was suddenly gone.

"I'll get there one day."

Cedric and Marshall are standing in front of the cabins and Nicole walks up behind them and puts her hands on their shoulders, smiling at them both. Cedric gives her a smug mile, while Marshall glares at her.

"Cause I wanna be famous."

Lexie is sitting against the middle cabin reading a book as the camera goes past her into the cabin where you see Chris and Carly in the chamber room, smiling and gesturing towards the pods.

"Na na na na na, na na na na na, na na na na na."

The camera goes into the virtual world where it originally appears blank then turns into several different gaming worlds around the camera.

"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous."

The camera stops as you see Ethan and Camille standing in the middle of the Virtual World. Camille gets closer and closer to Ethan, ready to kiss him, but he faints before she can.

"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous."

All of the contestants gather around in a circle in the Virtual World and start to whistle to the theme, and Sonic zooms in front of the camera and flashes it a thumbs up before the camera fades out.

Theme Song Ends.

-Guys Cabin-

The beginning shot after the overview of the island area went into the guys cabin, as it zoomed in on Aleks sleeping face, the Russian adonis drooling in his sleep, dreaming sweet dreams of dancing with Sylvan the Cymbal Bear. Both Griffin and Cedric stood over his bed, their arms crossed as they then looked at each other, and then back down at him.

Confessional (Cedric): "Ok so I'm not entirely sure what happened last week but we had a plan, to send home emily. What happened instead? We lost Vincent! There goes any numbers advantage we had, nobody can find the last cheat code, it's not going well for us. I don't know how but we got screwed last week and it's up to me to find out why. It all starts with Aleks, he was adamant about not voting Emily last time, so this time I'm going to make sure to set him straight."

Confessional (Griffin): "I'm actually pretty mad that my plan didn't work. It would have benefitted us, it would've benefitted Everest, it would've made everybody involved happy… except for the people it was supposed to hurt but eh, break a couple eggs.

As they stood over Aleks and waited for him to get up, there was a loud, angry knocking on the door "Griffin, I know you're awake open up!" The sweet, lovely sounds of a certain purple haired girl echoed from outside the cabin as Griffin grumbled, not really wanting to deal with this right now.

Cedric gives a nod "Go see what she wants, if he gets up I'll set him straight." Griffin stared into Cedric's eyes and gives an affirmative grunt before heading outside, the punk strategist thinking to himself about everything that has gone on. Marshall's leaving words to not trust Aleks, and when the chips were down it didn't seem like Aleks was trustworthy and voted against the group. He needed to know exactly what was going on in that strange mind of the one they called Aleksandr.

Griffin exited the cabin to see his ex, her arms crossed and her eyes full of that usual spite however now it was amplified to a much more fiery degree of hatred than when she usually saw Griffin. "... How do you become even more of a dick every time I see you?"

There were not many things in this world that could intimidate Griffin. His repressed past, sharks, clowns maybe, but in this moment, Iris was one of those things, like a memory shark wearing giant clown shoes and a purple Mohawk. "What did I do this time to put you in a bad mood?"

Iris marched up to him and said right to his face "I know what is going on with Aleks." Griffin's eyes widened for just a moment showing that weakness before shrugging and putting a casual smirk on his face.

"So you know… so what?" Griffin backed up and crossed his own arms in a condescending tone. "Back when he was a jerk himself we made a deal. I stop him from getting eliminated behind the scenes as a result of his outright racist behaviour in the beginning, and if we make it to the final ten… he works for me to do the same for me." Griffin gives her a sly grin "That match up with what he told you?"

Iris snarled and walked up to him "Griffin, I get it with me ok? I didn't handle our breakup the best. I get you punishing me, and Lisa, but that scared little kid?!"

Griffin snapped back with the bark of an angry rottweiler "Scared kid?! You saw what he was like in the beginning!"

"WAS!" To Griffin's shock Iris got right up into his face and physically spit in anger "Last night the guy cried to me for an hour about how he's sorry for what he did, and how he is trying to be a good person! People are able to change Griffin, and now I got a Russian hunk crying on my shoulder saying how Vincent being gone is his fault. How Marshall getting eliminated was his fault. How Lexie must be ashamed of him. He may not be the sharpest crayon in the box but the guy has a heart Griffin he changed, why hold him to something he did in his arrogance out of spite?"

Griffin chuckle, the throaty laugh rising out of his chest "Spite? That's all you think I am don't you? Spite. Iris, we had a deal and I am making him honor it." He took a few steps back towards her that fear now gone as the two were inches away from each other face to face "He has to take responsibility for what he did, and I am ensuring that. I saved him, and now he's mine just like he promised. But he doesn't have to worry, I won't have any more use for him now that he's compromi-"

"Don't you dare!" Iris yelled grabbing him by the wrist and actually yanking the six and a half foot man over with surprising ferocity. "You chew everyone up and spit them out, that's how this game has worked for far too long. Anthony,Ethan, Lisa, Marshall, Vincent, all for you… all because of you. This is not your game to control, you are messing with too many people's lives and are only staying in the game because you've been getting lucky." Iris took a deep breath to regain herself and says "This isn't about alliances anymore Griff. Girls and Guys Alliances I don't care, I work with them because they are my friends not because they give me an advantage. This is a competition, we play to win I know that… but god da**it Griffin when does it stop getting personal? When do people stop getting hurt?"

Griffin felt taken aback, he wasn't aware until two minutes ago that Iris, that anybody knew about what he did with Aleks and now it was coming back to be blown up in his face. Iris genuinely shocked him to the core especially since the last challenge when she practically aired all of their dirty laundry all over national TV…. again. How was he to respond to what she just blew into him… only one way as it turned out "... When I win." He glared straight at her as Iris glared straight back into him.

"You know better than anyone what it's like for someone to completely change Griff… the only difference between you and Aleks is that you two swapped places. Now you're the dick who nobody likes." She stares into his eyes and sniffles "... You hurt me, you hurt so many people so badly and sh**... I loved you." Griffin continued to stare at her not letting that emotion reach his face "But now… now more than ever, I will make sure that you go home. You, and that ninja bitch of yours." She refused to bed the one to walk away so she just stared a hole into him.

Iris could see just for a moment, a moment that glint in his eyes of regret, that glint of who he was before the competition got to him… and then it was gone "I'd love to see you try."

There was nothing but silence as the camera watched them stare at each other, holding on that for a solid fifteen seconds as neither of them said a word just glaring, neither backing down, neither wanting to be the one to show weakness by walking away so they just stared and stared until finally the camera cut away."

Confessional (Iris): "Emily spent a large part of last night at that spot where her and Vinny "buried" Axel. Camille was chatting with Everest to my chagrin and then to top it all off Aleks comes to my door late at night and bears his heart to me." She chuckles to herself and shakes her head "I wouldn't be shocked if I was the first person he told, even you guys probably didn't know, he's just a massive softie like that." Iris then turned and stared at the camera and said "But I'm not… this is going to end one way or another. Either I send Griffin and his rebound chick back to the pit they came from, or I go out trying. No more games, no more sappy love songs, no more tears… now it's war."

Confessional (Griffin): Griffin was sitting in the confessional, his head looking directly downwards as he was thinking "... She always was a feisty one." He laughs to himself as if in a nostalgic way "I loved you" was what she said to me. "Loved"... I knew it was there." Griffin then after a moment of reflection scowls "**** this." He then physically grabbed the camera and suddenly it went flying through the ceiling of the confessional and scared two poor robins off the telephone pole and was launched into the woods and bonked a poor bear on the back and he looked very disgruntled about it."

After Griffin left the confessional, Emily was about to go in only to see "Under repairs" on a sign outside as some technicians were installing another camera. She shrugs and pulls a pencil out of her pocket "It's ok Penny, you don't mind being my confessional right?" The pencil obviously made no movement or sound "Excellent!"

Xxx

Whilst Griffin and Iris did their continued feud outside, inside of the Mess Hall Camille and Everest were actually the only two inside eating breakfast as the ninja girl for the first time in a long time had her cloth off of her face, showing her lips and her smile to Camille as the gymnast ate an apple for breakfast and Everest had some…. I think eggs. "And then Bell said "You can have my seat." And so that was how we lost our bus seats to a hobo who turned out to just be some vlogger in a tattered coat and a beard doing a social experiment."

Camille gasped but there was a slight smile there showing the disbelief on her face "Oh my god, what did you do next?"

Everest waved her hand dismissively "Oh we got our seats back of course once I gave him the result most social experiments result in… getting thrown off the bus in a heap." Both girls laughed as the two tough, strong females seemed to have a budding friendship resulting after Everest took the plunge and told her about her having the last cheat code a few days ago.

Camille took a bite out of her outfit and then exclaims "So, if you don't mind, I would like to change the topic to some team strategy."

Everest smiles back and says "Oh not at all, strategy is my favorite topic."

Camille does a small fist bump "Heck yeah you are the best teammate. So, not how I wanted it to go down with Emily but we got what we wanted out of last week. Vincent went home which bless his heart I didn't want to he's one of me and Ethan's best friends but ultimately this is a competition and we need to make sacrifices."

Everest nodded her head listening to all of that "Exactly, and you're very strong for being able to make that decision." She puts her hand on Camille's shoulder with a comforting smile as she says "So… now we just need to work together and take out another guy. And since this won't likely be another challenge that we need to have to worry about multiple people being safe, Griffin, Cedric, Aleks, they are all on the table."

Camille nods her head and says "If Griffin is an option we take him out first obviously but if not than Cedric next and…" As the two girls were talking Iris slammed the door open, making her annoyance well known as she went over to the breakfast table and sent a glare so harsh Chef behind the server's area physically ducked behind it to avoid the angry gaze of Iris, a woman on a mission as she walked past Camille and Everest on her way over to a lone table holding just a glass of orange juice.

"Hey Iris!" Camille says in a friendly way as Iris looked over, her glare still reaching her eyes and making Camille flinch and even Everest be on guard. "Want to eat breakfast with us?"

Iris stared at them and then shook her head, "If you want to come over you can Cammy. But leave the ninja hussy where she is." Iris then walked over, her usual overdramatic hip sway now a straight line as she walked not in the mood to show off for the camera. In fact Iris's entire outfit when she came back on screen was different in some way. She sat down and then the camera caught that her hair instead of in her usual pink mohawk was now down and pooling around her face, styled so that half of her head was buzzed bald and the other half was covered with her pink highlighted hair and it slid right next to her eye. The mohawk was gone, the carefreeness taken away to now put on her war face as it appeared Iris was done playing around with Griffin.

Camille and Everest turned to look at each other as Everest moves her head over and smiles "You can go eat with her, it seems she needs a friend right now." When it looked like Camille was going to protest, Everest gently shushed her "No it's ok, I understand we don't have a good history, you go I'll be fine." Camille just smiled and nodded her head and went over to go join her friend. She noticed Iris's Scizor Razor was with her with her blades out glaring at Everest as if acting as some sort of violent bodyguard, but when Camille approached, Iris raised a hand and Razor nodded putting down her pincers.

Camille sat down next to her as Iris glared in the direction of Everest, seeming like she just wasn't exactly there right now. "Hey Iris, is everything ok?" Iris didn't answer immediately, so Camille let out an awkward chuckle "Yeah stupid question… you haven't exactly been talking to us very much lately, is something the matter?"

"You've been playing around with the ninja." She looks in her direction and says "Why ius that Camille? You know how much of a-"

"But she is trying Iris." Camille says in her defense making Iris scoff.

"Yeah sure she is. Trust me Camille I know when people are faking it, I dated a guy who was a tool and put up appearances, but treated me like dirt behind closed doors." She recalls Scarecrow's vision for the entire world to see and then shook her head. "I know when a person has changed. Aleks changed, Griffin changed… the only thing Everest did was grow a personality from Skyler, but she hasn't changed. I didn't really care for her before, but now I can't stand her. And it has nothing to do with her making out with Griffin anymore…. Ok that's a lie it has a lot to do with that." She gives a small chuckle "She's a snake that would bite any one of us if she was given the chance."

Camille frowns "Iris I… I know how you feel about her but she seems to be trying with me I am just giving her a chance. Plus she has some great ideas for the girls' alliance, I think she can help us win this thing."

And then Iris turned over with a slight glare "Cammy you know I love ya, and I want a million bucks, hell it would kick *** to have it but I am not about to turn into someone like her or Griffin to get it. This competition isn't everything, you know that right?"

Camille nods her head and says "Of course I know that I do, but you also know Cedric and Griffin would do whatever it takes to win… it's nice to have friends rather than look for reasons to have enemies."

Iris shakes her head "Yeah I get that, just make sure you judge who are your friends carefully." Iris then sniffles and slowly leans over to give Camille a hug almost out of the blue, so sudden it actually made Camille freeze "Camille I need him gone. This competition gave me so much of an escape and gave me so many great friends like you, Red, Vin, and Lisa… but I just can't take him making life hell here anymore." She sniffled and let her head rest on her shoulder "So I just need to know, I need to know that you have my back. I'm going to take him out and I need to know that I can count on your help and support."

Camille frowns and then leans into the hug, her own eyes tearing up as she says "Iris… you know you can always rely on me. YOu know that you're my best friend always, and I will ALWAYS have your back."

Iris smiled, her head resting on Camille's tanned shoulder as she says "Thank you Cammy… thank you so much I needed to hear that." When the dust settled and the hug was done, Iris recovered herself and took a swig of her orange juice "Because momma's about to go to war… and only me or Griffin is coming back from it."

Camille looked up and then gave a small smile, but that smile didn't reach her eyes. "... That's my girl." In that moment she was both worried for her… and proud of her.

Confessional (Everest): Everest was in the confessional, her cloth still down showing the emotionless features of her mouth not even showing a fragment of a smile she had earlier on "Well I see Iris has taken a turn here… it appears she will be even more of a thorn in my side than I had originally assumed. Yet as she was a member of my former team I promised to eliminate for Skyler, it was eventual that I took her down. And then after her… that only leaves Griffin I believe." That seems to bring a smile to her face "And as they say… save the best for last."

Confessional (Camille): Camille shook her head, her hands going into her hair as she then looked down towards the wood of the outhouse building "Iris…. I knew she was being affected by Griffin but I never thought it would go this far. He has to go, if for her sake more than anyone else's."

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Aleks stretched his arms and let out a yawn, finally waking from his slumber. For the first time in a while he was able to sleep for 10 hours, like his agent says he needs. Eight hours for slumber, two for natural beauty rest, it just made so much sense that way. He had such a good dream of him on stage, playing his favorite instrument, the triangle, in a duet with Sylvan the cymbal bear, his mother and father in the front row cheering him on as roses were tossed onto the stage, one caught in his mouth as he was then dipped backwards by Sylvan so the screen caught all of his masculine beauty. Oh it was magnificent perhaps he should go back to sleep so he could enjoy more of it.

"Hey Aleks!"

"Пожалуйста, не убивай меня." Aleks yelled as his accent slipped through and he went flying backwards off of the bed clad only in his boxer shorts as he ducked for cover fearing he was under attack. However slowly he did rise back up to see it was Cedric staring at him annoyed. "Oh… good morning comrade."

"Good morning Aleks." He then leans forward in his seat "So Aleks… it's about time I get some answers." Aleks began to sweat as Cedric glared "Tell me Aleks, are you comrade… or foe?"

"No I am not an alien!" Aleks screamed out in absolute fear.

"What?" Cedric asked in annoyed confusion "What no not a UFO a foe it means enemy!" HE sighs and puts his hand onto his face "Aleks, can I trust you?"

After talking with Iris and baring out his conscience, and yet still having Everest and Griffin, he gave the most honest response he could think to say "... I hope so."

"... Ok Aleks, just remember… I am genuinely your friend." He thinks about helping him with Benjamin and helping him break away from that caustic friendship he clung to for way too long. Sure it was for his own benefit and he himself used Aleks but there… there was a sense of genuine comradery there. "And if you need anything you come to me ok?"

Aleks stared for a moment before he smiled and nodded his head "Of course comrade, don't worry… I think the worst of it is over now."

Cedric raised an eyebrow at him "The heck does that mean?" Before he could get a solid answer, Aleks's stomach rumbled loudly as he touched it "My tummy wants food! I shall see you later comrade Cedric!"

"No Aleks wait!" But then he just took off as Cedric groaned loudly "Darnit, everyone stop being vague!"

Confessional (Cedric): Cedric had his hand on his chin, unaware of the shadow of the Gengar behind him mimicking his every movement just for the fun of it "Ok so if I understand this correctly… Aleks probably didn't vote for Emily last week… but he probably did vote for Vincent… but he probably didn't do it to be malicious… but he probably still knew it would screw us over….. So I think he's on my side but he may not… There are so many buts to go off of you would think I'm looking at a swimsuit calendar." There was a shadowy chuckle behind him making him turn around but Ginger had already disappeared.

After all of that was done, the loudspeaker finally blared to life "Attention all campers, get your butts over to the pods we have a very special challenge today."

It didn't take them long for them to follow Chris's orders, and when they got to the pod room, they weren't met with Chris directly. No instead standing right there in the pod room before them was a man in a long black trench coat with his face completely concealed. "Contestants, today we are taking a magical journey through mystical realms. Realms that are worlds apart but are connected through doors of light. These realms are separated by darkness, but if you have the heart to reconnect them, you may just be able to see the light within yourselves. For you see, we all have darkness within, and light cannot exist without darkness in our hearts, but-"

"Are you done yet Chris?" Iris says impatiently as the hood was pulled down and Chris popped out with a scowl

"No I am contractually obligated to say the words heart, darkness, and light at least four more times now be quiet." Iris huffs to herself as Chris went to continue, however he just sighs. "Nevermind, the moment is gone. You kids ruin everything." He then regained his smile for the camera and opened his arms wide. "Welcome to the next challenge! As we are down to the final seven, we have a huge announcement to go along with this momentous occasion!"

"You're retiring?" Cedric asked snarkily

"You and Larry finally tied the knot?" Griffin says with a smirk.

"You're making Good Minton 7?! Good Minton Takes the Moon?!" Emily exclaimed excitedly, to which everyone turned to her with a skeptical glance.

Confessional (Emily): "What…. It's a good series filled with drama, suspense, and my favorite star in cinema Rochelle the Racket! Oh she is expensive but she is very good at what she does."

Chris sighs and wipes his face in annoyance "No, no, and coming to a theater near you in Summer next year. No it is much to my enjoyment that we… have actually been picked up. In our time of need, we have now been picked up by one of the greatest companies in the world. Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls, we have been bought….. By DISNEY!"

….

Chris waited for about another ten seconds but there was no audible reaction from the contestants, so he turned with a scowl on his face "Ok really guys? We got bought by Disney, where's the applause? Where's the excitement?!"

Cedric moved his hand in front of him and said, "Well, to be honest, it's not exactly special. Disney owns pretty much everything now."

Aleks nods his head and adds "I already thought they did own everything in the world."

Camille chimes in "Well they will, they are already swallowing many major companies and will cause stagnation in the industry."

Emily says happily "They make really good animated movies though!" To which everyone nodded their heads.

Iris retorts "The live action remakes howeve-"

"OK OK SORRY I TRIED!" Chris said in an angry outburst finally quieting everyone as he then clears his throat before continuing. "Anyway, with that said, I'm sure you can guess which series is going to be represented in this challenge!"

Emily raised her hand happily "Ooooh ooooh I know what it is… It's Avengers! They're getting a game and Disney owns Marvel! I'm so smart."

Chris slowly felt more and more like an aged relic of the past as he points to his cloak "Seriously?"

Emily nods her head quickly without an ounce of sarcasm "Yeah, that's the same cloak Red Sk-"

Cedric stopped her "Whoa whoa spoilers I haven't seen that one yet."

Emily clammed up with a simple "Oh sorry."

Chris deadpanned his excitement all but leaving his body "No it's not Avengers."

Camille claps her hands together "Oh it's gotta be Star Wars Battlefront! I mean that is clearly the Emperor's cloak. I mean he wore it in-"

Cedric once again stepped in with "Guys seriously spoilers, haven't seen that either."

Camille looked over with an incredulous look on her face "You neeeever saw Star Wars?"

Cedric shrugs his shoulders "I just never had the time. I missed on it when I was a child and at this point the internet has spoiled a lot of it for me so I don't see the point."

Griffin added "They are a hallmark of modern culture, they are still worth a watch even now."

Chris slammed his hands down in anger "Oh my GOD how millennial are you people?! I swear way to take a dump on our new owners! I mean seriously do you not even know it's-"

"Kingdom Hearts." Everyone turned to see that of all the people who said that… it was Iris, who just stared at Chris who looked like an angel had just descended down to Earth "... What I had a childhood."

Confessional (Iris): Iris was in the confessional with her boots up on the stand by the camera. "Yeah I have a soft spot for the mighty mouse and his brand. I actually had a PlayStation 2 and when I wasn't practicing ballet to impress or being dolled up, I was playing the classics. I remember having such a huge kid crush on Kairi…. And then I lied and said I had a crush on Sora, to which my dad promptly got angry I didn't have feelings for his selected heir exclusively and fired his Japanese translator Sora Ibushi…. Good times."

Chris wiped a tear out of his eye and said "Thank you, yes today we are tackling the ambitious crossover between lovable Disney and deliverer of large swords and teenage angst everywhere Square Enix to create Kingdom Hearts, a beloved childhood franchise to many that aren't you, you soulless monsters."

Emily had a sudden realization "Ooooh you mean that series. My dad played it but I got censored because it was too violent."

"... It's Disney." Was Chris's response to which he shook his head "Well, today our challenges involve you, our Seven Heroes of Light, traveling across seven worlds with your custom keys that you shall receive once we enter. With those keys, you must find the keyholes scattered across the various worlds of the Disney pantheon. Unlock one keyhole, and you will be transported to the next world, then the next world, rinse and repeat until you unlock the final keyhole and whoever does that wins the challenge and gets immunity."

"That's it? Sounds simple enough." Everest comments however Chris raised his hand.

"Yes it does, however there is a small twist. In the first world there are only actually six keyholes, and each world you progress will have one less so the last person left in a world will be eliminated from the challenge. This continues until we get to the final world with two people of course, and then yes it is that simple. A keyhole can only be opened once, so once it is used, it will be null and void for the rest of the challenge."

It seemed like everyone understood the rules, and when asked if there were any questions, the contestants shook their heads in response ready to get the challenge underway. "Ok then, enjoy your wonderful times in the creator of childhood dreams…. Oh and watch out for Heartless."

"What?"

And then everyone was locked back into their pods and sent into the virtual reality world.

Confessional (Cedric): "You know now that Chris mentions it I do remember a game like this, however, I could never get into it because young me had a really bad TV and everything was so dark that I just could not see anything. I remember Halloweentown now being so dark that I got lost and smacked around by dark blobs… wouldn't be the first time that movie destroyed my childhood."

Confessional (Iris): Iris had her arms crossed still clearly in war mode. "To set the record straight I am not a closet Disney fan alright?! I definitely don't like that kid friendly bull that lies to kids about what it's like to be a princess and that the world is sunshine and rainbows and how everything can be fixed with true love. And I definitely didn't dress up as Ariel for Halloween and own a Hunchback of Notre Dame lunchbox and have several plushies of the servants from Beauty and the Beast and I'm just going to shut up now."

Once arriving in the Virtual World, the contestants saw the landscape transforming around them. However as that was happening the felt something being formed in their hands. They looked down to find a weapon formed in each one of their hands, a weapon with the hilt of a sword and yet the blade was shaped into that of a key, as if some sort of… Keyblade? Nah that would never catch on.

In Camille's hand was a keyblade cloaked in light blue wavy patterns with gymnastic rings banding around and then constricting on the hilt. An emblem of a gold medal was emblazoned where the blade met the hilt and the key was aimed slightly upwards and straightforward with a bit more elasticity like a pole vault, and the key was given a golden sheen.

Camille's Custom Keyblade: The Gold Medal

Aleks's keyblade showed in his hand and it also formed to fit his personality. In his hand the hilt was a red emblazoned color proudly to represent his nationality, whilst there was a cymbal in the middle where the blade met the hilt. The blade segment of it was so clear it could be seen as a type of mirror to reflect Aleks's gorgeous face back at him, to which he smiled and adjusted his hair appropriately.

Aleks's Custom Keyblade: The Red Reflection

Everest's was a cool purple that ran down the hilt with black thorns that went up around it like an overgrown cloak of death and prickly terror. At the tip the two keys of the blade are serrated like a dagger making hers look the most like an actual weapon. She smirked to herself before the loudspeaker blared "Shank anyone and you will be disqualified."

Everest pouted. "Awe."

Everest's Custom Keyblade: The Shadow Rose

Emily's was much more colorful, the hilt and handle yellow and purple with cogs turning on the side as the key was constantly whizzing and spinning mechanically, a handle on it that extended it and switched the blade around like a swiss army knife type contraption.

Emily's Custom Keyblade: The Work in Progress

Cedric's in contrast to Camille's light blue was a dark blue with gray spikes on the handle and hilt that went all the way to the blade itself cast in the same coloration but with the blade having another sharp instrument on the back like the fin of a shark. The pattern when going up to the blade changed to a checkerboard pattern to reflect his logical nature.

Cedric's Custom Keyblade: The Hardcore Thinker

Iris's keyblade came next and hers was loud in color and personality. Her's was a mixture of hot pink and pure black mashing together and creating a sharp dangerous looking blade where electric guitar strings ran down the cool black blade and came out to a lightning bolt styled yellow edge to the blade.

Iris's Custom Keyblade: The Rebel Rocker

And then finally we came to Griffin's keyblade which had the hilt and handle in nothing but black, but then the blade itself had searing flames running up and down it and the blade stuck out with two jagged nails like they were coming from a demon itself.

Griffin's Custom Blade: The Inferno Beckoner

Camille looked over her keyblade and got the happiest smile on her face "Awe…"

Confessional (Camille): Camille was happily bouncing in her seat "So not sure if I ever mentioned this before but I actually had options between going here and going to an Olympic training camp. I am a prospect to go there and be a gymnast someday so this is really special to me."

Aleks looked over his and was continuing to admire his own reflection until he touched the cymbal and much to his delight it clanged together to create that amazing noise and he laughed with childlike wonder.

Everest gave a happy smile to hers however afterwards she pulled her veil back over her mouth since it felt more natural that way.

Emily watched her little machine go to work and smiled happily "Awe I'll call you Kenny, Kenny key… or maybe I should call you some absurd name that isn't really a name outside of anime…"

Cedric just simply said "Rock on." Seeing his custom little blade in his hand.

Iris looked hers over and couldn't help but get a feeling of childlike wonder go through the core of her being as she gave a smile and then turned to Griffin with a thought going through her head.

Finally Griffin just looked sickly satisfied with his watching the flames go.

With the keys now brought into the world it was time for the world itself to transform as the world had finally processed everything into one complete image. The contestants looked around to see the world had completely transformed into a lively bazaar of shops, people, sand, … and more sand and shops. In the distance there was a castle that overlooked the entire city, and they could see a straight road that seemed to lead outside the city towards a vast desert.

World 1: Agrabah

Iris for all the misinformed non-Disney fans out there "Ah I see, we are in Agrabah." This time however pretty much everyone else, familiar with Kingdom Hearts or not, had seen Aladdin, except for Cedric who just seemed to not really have much of a sense of what movies to watch.

Emily herself nearly had fainted from seeing a childhood Disney movie brought to life "Oh look at all the people here! Oh it's so pretty and you can buy so many things and OHMAHGAWD A MONKAH!" She said in the most adorkable child voice seeing a familiar looking monkey with a fez on his head run down the street with a man in a purple jacket chasing after him.

"... We just have to try and ignore that." Said Cedric mostly to himself as he went to go search the streets to actually try and find one of these "keyholes" that Chris was referring to. Exploring a Disney world to him was nice but the chance to win a million was more special than living out children fantasies.

However not of the same mind set were Aleks and Emily, who both exclaimed, "Let's go catch the monkey!" And ran off to go follow the man of the movie in his chase for the small primate.

Camille and Everest both ran off towards the desert at the moment deciding to search the same area to try and cover more ground in less time.

Griffin smirked to himself looking over "Well Iris I guess it's just you and-"

And then suddenly Iris's hot pink key went up and cup checked him square in the jewels. Griffin held his poor, poor manhood as Iris satisfied with herself ran off towards the castle to go check the palace.

Confessional (Griffin): "Why is it always the kiwis?" He says in a voice that made it sound like he swallowed way too much helium "You wanted a war Iris, well it's on." There were snickers of an intern outside "Hey I hear you laughing punk!" Followed immediately by panicked footsteps and terrified screaming.

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Aleks and Emily were following the titular main character until there was a voice calling to them "You." Aleks stopped whilst Emily didn't and continued to run after the monkey. Aleks turned to the side and saw this little shop imbedded into the wall of the bazaar.

"The wall is speaking to me." Aleks said to himself as he slowly walked into the hole in the wall "Oh it is not a wall, it is a shop! How lovely!" He exclaims in his always enthusiastic childlike way. Behind the counter was a very small man wearing a turban selling trinkets. "Oh you have a fancy hat, was it you who called me?"

The small peddler gave a grin and a wiggle of his eyebrows to the Russian adonis "Yes it was I, for I could tell you are not from around here."

Aleks gasped dramatically, his hands going to his face "How could you tell?"

The Middle Eastern man staring straight up at the Russian "... Just call it a hunch." He then flashed him a wide smile, moving his arm in an arc to beckon him towards the various items in the shop. Aleks looked over some very nicely styled pottery, to a snake charming flute, to some lovely (likely knock off) jewelry items that bedazzled in the light shining in from the windows, to finally what appeared to be a dark, black lamp. Aleks looked it over and then vaguely remembers something from the movies "Wait a minute, that's…" He then gasped "A reference, but more importantly…" He turned it over and saw a glowing little keyhole in the back of it "AHA! Sir, I must have this lamp!"

The peddler rubbed his hands together "Oh yes yes yes marvelous choice sir." He scurried over on his little feet "That will be, hmmm… how much do you think it is worth?"

Aleks thought for a moment "Hmmm, well to me it is worth a million dollars for that is what I am fighting for, however…" But the second he opened up his mouth, the peddler's eyes turned to diamonds.

"One million! Yes sir, that is it's price one million dollars! Would you like it wrapped or just put into a bag?!" He could barely contain his excitement. He could afford so many gems, become the richest man in the bazaar, get any woman he pleased, perhaps even the attention of the lovely princess o-ho the possibilities are endless.

"Oh actually…" Aleks rubbed the back of his head awkwardly "I have no money on me at all."

….

…

The peddler in an incredibly hurt and rushing tone of voice stated "Thank you come again." And took the lamp from his hands as Aleks began to sweat. "Oh no…. Um oh look over there a flying wallet!"

The peddler turned and stared at him lamp in hand "How stupid do you think I am?"

Aleks sighed and looked away "No you are right… it is just a bird getting dangerously close to your jade artifacts."

"Oh no you get away!" He turned as he then stared at them "Well there is no bird here." He looked back down at his hands to see the lamp was now gone "HEY!"

Aleks was in the process of charging out of the shop, his arms flailing holding the lamp "SORRY I NEED THIS!"

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Cedric was walking through the back alleys of the bazaar, reaching a stall towards the end of the street with some expensive looking fruit as he looked over them. Huh, so that's what a durian looked like, who knew? He marveled at the fruit before hearing a cry, no not just any cry, an inhuman cry that could only be described as a man making the kind of high pitched scream you only get when you stub your toe and are in constant angry pain. "HELP ME! HEEEEEELP!"

Cedric perked up, his ears pricking up at the sound as he felt his ears twitch in pain unable to stop the ear assault on his senses "I know that sound… it's the sound of a Godfried." He ran towards the sound, bounding towards the high pitched whine.

When he arrived he turned the corner and found the sound of the Godfried, the parrot known as Iago cornered against a wall with two scimitar wielding djinn creatures with black bodies holding him at swordpoint. However, more importantly to him than that was the small indent in the wall behind him, a lock, a lock for his keyblade to fit into. "Save me! You gotta help me you just gotta!" The parrot wailed making Griffin's hands go to his ears.

"Alright fine, fine I will just stop… squawking at me it's annoying." The two djinn heartless turned towards him as he stares and then wields his keyblade "Chaaaaaaaarge!" And then the two ran at each other, their swords ready for an epic clash where only one side would come out the winner in this epic, potentially deadly contest.

So of course the camera immediately cut away to something else.

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"Oh don't worry about Iris, she may come off as incredibly… insensitive and mean and rambunctious to some but I think if she sees you the way I do she will warm up to you." Camille said as she did a somersault over a giant black ball of energy. The two females had hitched a ride on a very nice if mute magic carpet stopping on literally the one building in the entire desert that you could see from Agrabah so of course they thought to go there immediately. Little did they know that when they got to the jaguar headed cave that it came alive and started to attack them.

Little did the kiddy head know that it was going against two certifiably badass women.

"No it's fine, I know I am doing what is best for the alliance, she doesn't have to like me. And besides, I am content with you as my only friend, I accept that not everyone would understand my callousness is actually rooted in self-preservation." Everest does a sick 360 spin move and slashes at an incoming flying heartless as she makes her way towards the head.

"Awe see you're a sweetheart. I mean sometimes you just have to be willing to give people chances, You might not be the best person ever but you mean well. Besides you showing me you had the last cheat code… it was a nice show of trust." Camille slid under a ball of energy coming at her as she then launched her key at the cat wedging it between it's teeth so it couldn't chomp down on her.

"Well I am glad we are kindred spirits. We're both athletic, and we both know what it takes to win competitions like these. I just wish I knew what could be causing her to be so angry." Everest said as she slammed her key down on the jaguar's dome making it let out an angry cat cry.

"Oh it's Griffin getting under her skin as per usual. Ever since Pokemon it's been getting progressively worse and worse between the two." Camille then joined her on top of the Jaguar's head as both women slammed their head down and a beam of light shot out of it as the head thrashed around before finally turning back into a solid cave once more.

The two athletically inclined women smiled to themselves as they rested atop the jaguar's head "... I am aware, again if it helps you can tell her I am only with him for the benefit of us."

Camille shook her head to retort "Oh no I don't think it would. She just has some issues beyond you just dating her boyfriend, like how you were eliminated before and came back, and your previous attitude, she just has some issues that I don't know if I can sort out between you two."

Everest nodded her head looking to the side before her eyes lit up seeing something on the back of the neck of the jaguar entrance "Well would you look at that." Camille looked over and saw it as well, the key lock hanging out right on the back of the entrance as both girls stared at each other.

"... You found it you should go." Camille said initially, but Everest shook her head.

"No I say you should take it friend. I insist." The ninja said back with a hint of generosity to her voice.

Camille didn't want to be a martyr and stared at it "But we don't know if there are any other keyholes in this area. Finders keepers girlfriend."

Everest then approached this from a statistical perspective "Let us put it this way, should it come to either of us losing this challenge, you would be the most at risk of being eliminated. Should a member of the guys alliance win and see you off the table, perhaps they will turn inward since Cedric and Griffin do not like each other. Whereas if you lose they would go straight after you. This way we can keep our cheat code if you win, or if they do go after me or Iris or Emily, then we have our cheat code waiting in the wings to save a member of the Girls Alliance."

Camille didn't think of it like that. Everest had such an analytical mind and to have it work on the spot like that was almost scarily intelligent as she then nodded her head "Alright, I'll see you in the next world alright?"

Everest nodded her head and pulled down her veil to reveal a sickeningly sweet smile. "Yes of course Camille. And please… you can call me Skyler." She says happily as Camille stuck her key in the slot and was transported to the next world.

"... Well wasn't that sweet?" The carpet reappeared above her as Griffin showed up, his dirty boots on the poor magic carpet's bag as it was freaking out a little under his weight.

Everest hopped down from the entranceway and Griffin got down from the carpet, letting it fly off happily. "Mock me if you wish but… she's nice."

Griffin raised an eyebrow "Don't tell me you're going soft on me." The two of them began to walk inside of the open maw into the Cave of Wonders, descending into the darkness.

"No... of course not." Everest said, her eyes turning away when she spoke leaving Griffin rather skeptical.

Confessional (Everest): Everest was fiddling with one of her ninja stars in her hand, playing with it borderly as her cold eyes were looking almost.. Sad. "I am not one for friendship or feelings, I never needed it like Skyler did with Bell. But perhaps… perhaps it isn't such a bad thing to have one I can call partner, one I can actually trust without needing to look over my shoulder." She then swiftly dispatches of the star by embedding it into the wall "I just hope Iris does not insert herself in my way, that could lead to hurt feelings for all involved."

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Cedric was huffing and puffing as the two Djinn had gone away, now nothing but wrappings on the floor as the parrot happily flew over to him "Oh thank you! You saved my life!"

Cedric held his ear from the unbearable onslaught of the parrot's voice "Yeah don't mention it, but couldn't you have just flew out of there?"

….

Iago just kind of dumbly stares forward "Oh yeah, I coulda couldn't I?"

Cedric let out a heavy, tired sigh already as he walked up to the hole in the wall "Well it was nice meeting you."

"You too pal!" The parrot exclaimed getting ready to fly off.

"Oh and by the way, I hope you're ready to only be known as the guy who does this specific voice and nothing else funny." Cedric remarked as he plugged in his key.

"Huh?" Iago asked as Cedric just waved to the parrot on his way out.

Xxx

"AHHHHHH! OOOF!" Cedric yelled as he suddenly fell face first down into a giant ball pit, the big balls going flying out of the pit as he looked around and saw Camille's hair sticking out of the ball pit as well.

"Mind telling me where the hell we are?" Cedric asked rubbing his head as Suddenly Camille popped out and Cedric screamed "HOLY CLICHES!"

Camille stared at him, her arms and legs now wrapped in plastic and looking fantastic. With hair you could brush and take her anywhere. And her pink top and blue jean shorts Camille stared at her with the artificially beautiful face of a barbie doll. "... Before you comment, you don't look too good yourself."

Going back over to Cedric, his body had now completely turned yellow and was bending very awkwardly at his elbows and he realized he couldn't move his legs very well… and it was then that he discovered he wasn't made of legos, no that would be so much better, no instead he was one of those yellow men that went with the lego box sets as he screamed. "What happened to us?!"

Camille sighs and said "Pixar happened Cedric… Pixar happened."

World 2: The Toy Box

"You two look amazing!" Aleks yelled out, well the voice of Aleks as he slowly huddled over, his body now completely green and a helmet covered his head as he smiled goofily in the body of a toy soldier.

Cedric stared at him and commented "Ok question, how are you both a stereotypical army man… and yet still so much more handsome than a normal man could ever hope to be?"

Aleks just gave a happy smile as he looked in the reflection of his Keyblade as the three toys then went their separate ways and began to look around Galactic Toys.

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Meanwhile back in Agrabah, Iris ran up to the palace and saw quite the sight. In the palace grounds, a small man wearing a Sultan's outfit was there with a large man with a squiggly moustache in a long black robe, and then finally of course was a woman in a light blue robed outfit and gorgeous tanned skin.

"I am telling you my sultan, it is far less than ideal for you to need to go out on a stroll. Especially with your…" He hesitated as the plump man looked up at him "Physi-, err… abundance in personality." He said treading carefully.

The Sultan gave a boisterous laugh "Oh no no my daughter is to become queen someday, and therefore she wishes to get to know her kingdom, isn't that right dear?" The Sultan says to Jasmine, who just sighs and gives a soft nod of her head daydreaming.

It was even better that past them, on the gates to the palace entrance, was one of the six keyholes, three already used and now only three left.

"... Welp time to fulfill a childhood fantasy of mine." Iris cracked her knuckles and ran out, the sultan seeing her as she approached.

"Well aren't you a… different citizen." The Sultan commented making a strange face as Jafar scoffed.

"And pray tell what is a street rat like you doing approaching the Royal Palace." Jafar says with a sense of entitlement as Iris then ran up and hip checked him, knocking him down on his butt.

"What is the meaning of-" Jasmine started before Iris gripped her by the cheeks and smirked.

"Jasmine… I've been wanting to do this since I first hit puberty." And then she leaned forward and…

Confessional (Chris): "..." Chris was in the booth on the verge of tears "Goodbye Disney… we knew you well."

Iris then ran past the furious sultan and Jafar calling for their guards as she waves a punk goodbye to them, blowing a kiss to Jasmine before inserting her key and warped away.

The Sultan turned to his rather dazed daughter "Are you alright Jasmine?"

Jasmine looked back with a small little dazed smile to her "Well… I can say the walk wasn't boring that is for sure."

Confessional (Iris): "Lisa babe, sorry but I had to do that you have no idea how many lipstick smears I have on a Princess Jasmine poster thaaaaaat my maid owns because I am not a closet Disney fan!" A watch on Iris's wrist went off and began to sing "Up where they walk, up where they run, up where they play all day in the-" She suddenly slams her wrist into the side of the confessional, a blush creeping up onto her face.

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"No get back here monkey!" Emily yelled as Apu turned and stuck his tongue out at her before climbing up the windows on the building away from her as Emily comically hit the wall and she fell backwards onto her butt, her glasses flying off of her face. "Oh, where did you go 20-20?" She said to herself as suddenly a blurry image walked in front of her and extended a hand out with another blurry object in it

"I believe these belong to you." She slowly reached her hand up to take them, and when she looked up, she saw a young man, his tanned skin partially glowing in the sun with his purple jacket only partially covering his chest "You should watch where you're going, pretty easy to get bumped into in the bazaar."

Emily felt herself feel a mixture of emotions here. Embarrassment at the situation, ecstasy at meeting Alaadin and well…. Attraction at meeting Aladdin like this. "Now then, did I hear you needed Apu's hat? Oh he does love that hat but I think I know where he's taking it, he usually goes up to our little hideout on the other end of the Bazaar, want me to take you there?"

"... Hi I'm Emily meet to nice you." She said with a small hiccup both feeling the heat get to her head and well… Aladdin.

He chuckled and slowly helped her up to her feet "I will take that as a yes."

Confessional (Emily): Emily was in the confessional with her eyes in the shape of hearts "I met a prince… oh oh don't take it the wrong way I didn't fall for him I just got caught up in the moment with his incredibly nice personality and… charming smile and…." Her glasses began to fog up.

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The camera then showed a brief montage of Camille, Cedric, Aleks, and Iris searching the Toy Box.

Camille wandered around a store with a set of toys that resembled large dinosaur creatures as she was acrobatically flipping and cartwheeling around them, even launching herself over them and landing a perfect somersault onto her feet before doing a pose with her arms in the air as if waiting for the judges to score her upon entry… and then a tail smacked her sending her flying into a nearby vent.

Cedric found himself inside of a giant arcade area as he rubbed his hand to his chin, looking over the various arcade platforms and thought about where to go. "Excuse me, do you have the low down on the top spots here?"

Looking over to him was a green dinosaur toy with a big smile mashing down on a button "Oh not now, I'm about to finally get the high score and meet Yozora!" He exclaimed with such genuine enthusiasm.

"... Any tips for me at all?" Cedric asked with exasperation.

Rex looked back over "Get good scrub."

Confessional (Cedric): Cedric looked like he was in deep thought pondering about something "Scrublord… now that's something I haven't heard in years… You know what,I'm bringing that back."

Aleks meanwhile was running scared, his army man legs hobbling awkwardly up and down and up and down as he ran away screaming… from a roomba slowly coming after him whilst just trying to clean the floor.

Iris looked down at herself, her body very bulky with a chest plate that extended but no not for obvious reasons, wearing an emblazoned hot pink chassis helmet and had wings extend out the back, resembling a Gobot/transformer. "Oh sweet! Alright let's kick it!" She went to transform and then her body molded perfectly… into a tiny trash can "... Oh ha ha."

Back to Camille the camera went as she climbed up the spikes of the large dinosaur action figure hybrid and launched off of it onto a shelf where she saw at the top an airplane mobile whizzed around the shop. She jumped off of the ledge and then climbed on top of it to see that on a large display behind a figure of the space villain Zerg was a keyhole. She timed her jump and spiraled herself through the air, mid jump having her keyblade swipe at a nearby bat shaped heartless, and then landed with the grace of a ballerina. She then kicked the figure down, as it barreled down the void of the shop down to the floor below she swore she could hear "Nooooooooooooooooooo!" On his way down, although she was likely imagining it She then stuck her key in and got warped into the next world.

Aleks continued to run around the bottom floor, his arms flailing in exasperation as the roomba was about to swallow the poor helpless adonis inside to never be seen from again. But right before it could suck him in, he felt a chain reach down from behind as he was pulled up by a plastic hand "No man gets left behind soldier!" He looked up and beamed when he saw an army man, a Sarge if you will hoisting him up along a long chain of army men pulling him up a gumball machine.

"You have saved me comrade!" The sarge eyed him, the american toy wondering if this traitor was made in another country. However, he was accepting of all nationalities, whether they be made in China, or Korea or Japan… or somewhere else.

"I have seen too many men succumb to the menace of the floor scrubber. State your name and rank!" The Sarge barked out with authority as Aleks couldn't help but salute to him.

"Sir I am Aleksander Cameron Nikilov of the Sylvan Cymbal Bear Fan Club and four time Award Winning Male Model sir!" Aleks said as straight as well, an army man as he posed there and Sarge nodded his head "Authorized for standby private."

The Sarge then looked up to a man on the nub of the gumball machine "How is it looking out there lieutenant?!"

The army man up top had his hands down a set of tiny binoculars "Sir there are multiple cleaners in the bottom level sir!"

Sarge looked down "Sweet mary mother of Hasbro." Seeing the sweepers everywhere "They are infesting, we have no choice… drop it."

The soldier nodded solemnly as they prepared their secret weapon. "Once we do this, there is no going back, the face of war changes forever." They had prepared a slingshot and in it, fifteen army men held back a giant water balloon.

Aleks looked around awkwardly as this war was escalating as he noticed up on top near the nub of the machine was a keyhole "Aha! I found my way out!" He began to climb up as Sarge turned.

"Soldier, where do you think you are going in our hour of need?"

Aleks looked to him and said "I am sorry but I am needed elsewhere, the challenge beckons and I need to get to my friends."

Sarge stares at him with his unblinking eyes "As long as you are doing it for the right reasons soldier, we'll clean up here. Fight on recruit." To say they saluted each other as a sign of respect was appropriate, but also trivial considering Aleks's left arm was stuck in a forced salute as in his right hand he plunged the key in and left the world.

Confessional (Aleks): Aleks was looking down at his hands "... The right reasons huh? I… I can do that. I will do that! For Sarge! Oh and for all my human comrades of course."

Two minutes later, as Cedric was furiously pressing the buttons on a claw machine, the Iris bot walked up to him completely soaked inside her plastic frame. Cedric stared with surprise "What happened to you?"

Iris said dryly whilst spitting out some water "I was at ground zero. War happened Cedric, and war never changes."

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Back at Agrabah, Griffin and Everest made their way through the Cave of Wonders. A few images go through showing Everest somersaulting over some traps whilst Griffin powered through the pain and made it to the treasure vault. In it, they saw treasure beyond their wildest dreams, gems and gold and antique relics. "Oh my god Everest we are rich!" Griffin exclaimed as he went to walk in but Everest stopped him with a sigh.

"Griffin they are obviously not real, it's from the movie." She said with no emotion as Griffin tried hard not so show how deflated he truly felt right now "Oh yeah, yeah I totally knew that."

Confessional (Griffin): "... Freakin low blow right there."

Everest rolls her eyes making her way through the room until her eyes scanned a podium straight in the center, and on it, a single golden lamp in contrast to the black one Aleks took earlier. This one had a pure golden sheen, like a relic of the past that stood out above the rest. "... How much you want to bet our keyhole is there?"

Griffin made his way over and checked the back of it "Yup, that's a keyhole alright." He saw it glistening on the back of it just waiting to be opened. "So how do you want to do this. Do you want to fight over it? Maybe bicker back and forth for about twenty minutes until one of us finally gives or…"

"You go." Everest says as Griffin gives her a look of suspicion and disbelief.

"What's the plan here?" He asked her bluntly.

Everest sat herself down on a throne and propped her feet up. "Simple, I always have my insurance policy, and Camille with me ensures that no matter what I will stay in the game as long as you can corral back in Aleks. If you don't win immunity, you will be eliminated on the spot almost certainly and I will be short a partner in the male alliance. Simply put, it is in my best interest to sit this challenge out."

Griffin stares at her and almost felt actual, genuine anger towards her "Everest, you realize this is a competition you have to try and win right?! Like I am not just going to bust my butt off while you…-"

And then suddenly the ninja lunged forward, her mouth latching onto Griffin's as she began to make out with the bigger thug, her eyes lighting up as that intense glare became a firm plead in her eyes as she then slowly got down, her hand touching his to make his key aim at the lamp "Trust me on this one, I know what I am doing."

Griffin in a small semi-trance with Everest's almost nymph like effect just nodded his head and slowly the beam shot out and collided with the keyhole, sending him into the Toy Box with the others.

Everest leaned back just biding her time and thinking about the next move whilst unbeknownst to her… the lamp began to rumble in its place.

Confessional (Everest): "I am not throwing challenges just for the sake of being lazy. No, me losing ultimately has no consequence. After all I have my insurance card." She holds up a cheat code and smiles to herself. "And with that knowledge only handed out sparsely to Camille, I am ensured another week of survival minimum. The chips will fall as they may, and I will save my strength for the larger battles ahead."

As she reclined back to enjoy a nice time of solitude she then heard a magical whizz near her head as she jumped back doing a somersault and landed on her feet with her blade ready as appearing before her was a blue plume of smoke that shook and twisted until it finally formed a giant, blue skinned mass of a person with a tuft of black hair going back down his neck.

"Gooooood mooooooorning age appropriate audienceeeeees!" The large Genie stretched as he made his way out and then made a jerking motion forward as he held his neck "Wow, 80,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck." He says to look down to see Everest below him completely unamused.

"Oh so you must be the lucky girl who rubbed my lamp, you know I'd say I'm the lucky one here but you're a few millenia out of my age range. I'd say I'd wait for you but I don't think we have that kind of time!" He made a motion like he was about to laugh but she just stood there tapping her foot "Yeesh tough crowd."

She rolled her eyes and then shook her head, "I didn't summon you, you can go back into your lamp you just came out too early."

Genie made an overly dramatic motion towards his heart as he then feigned backwards his hand to his head "Oh not my master you say? What a shame, and here I thought we could wish you up a brand new personality!" He then formed several clones around her that went "ooooooh" like his own personal hype men. Even then she still didn't flinch. The Genie then suddenly put on a kilt and grew an orange beard "Oh a feisty lass to crack aint'cha? Don't worry, I'll get ya yet!"

Everest stared at him with her arms crossed not showing any signs of being phased and yet this was…. Amusing in a way. "What are you doing?"

Genie floated around her and put a hand on her shoulder "Just want you to crack a smile kid I mean come on, a smile hasn't killed anyone, well not since the middle ages since they called that witchcraft, or has that not happened yet? What year is it? Who's President?"

"You are annoying." Everest says to him as the Genie's eyes nearly boggled out of his skull.

"Me, the all powerful Genie annoying. Honey I would say you've never had a friend like me, but I don't think you've ever had friends." The Genie then stretched the sides of his face to form an exaggerated smile "You see dear, a smile, at least that's the common term for the upside-down frown, is a common way to show happiness or satisfaction. You look like the type to hide your emotions but that's just stupid."

Everest glared vividly "And why is that? It gives me an edge?"

"Word to the wise kid… it doesn't" Genie crossed his legs and floated above her "No I was a young one like yourself once, only ten… thousand years old at the time and I thought I had the world at my fingertips. Next thing I know I bleached my hair and started picking fights with pharaohs and BOOM entombed!" He waved his fingers "Now I just made that story up but you… you got time kid to make something of yourself. You can be a winner and a friend, hiding your face with that little bandage there won't change that."

Everest continued to glare but she slowly nodded her head "You have… given me some things to think about."

The Genie smiled and said "Ayye there ya go kid, now if you'll excuse me I need to go back in that cramped lamp in time for the movie to start." He waved to her "Until next time, O killjoy, my killjoy." And then he faded back inside of the lamp, Everest standing there and then once the coast was clear… she laughed.

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Cedric bashed his hands on the glass over and over again in frustration as the claw machine missed another toy. It wouldn't have been so bad except there was a toy that looked to be a prospector like toy with a white haired old timey look to him and he had a keyhole on the back of his neck. "This thing is rigged! I swear I don't understand it at all. It's completely bogus!"

Iris walked up next to him and smiles "May I have a shot at it?" Cedric rolls his eyes and waves her over to it "Oh sure go right ahead, but I am telling you it doesn't… what are you doing?" He noticed that instead of going straight for the prospector, she went over to a nearby green toy with an antenna sticking out of it's head. "You really don't have a childhood do you?"

Upon picking up the alien toy, the toy was perfectly caught in its grasp, or more so it held on to the side of the claw and was picked up along with it "The claaaaaaaw delivers a new master. What do you need woman of great skill?"

Iris pointed towards the pile at the prospector "Hey can you get that one for me?"

The alien nodded his head "Woooow yes master." The claw then descended with it's arms opened wide once again exclaiming "The claaaaaaw."

Cedric stared in complete shock "... You know I really should pop in a Disney movie now and again."

Iris hopped down and reached into the little prize slot and picked up the prospector to put her key into it "Beauty and the Beast, the Little Mermaid, Toy Story, start there and watch the rest if you like them.. Or so I hear." She then warped away before that got too awkward.

Cedric glared at the inanimate prospector doll left on the ground. "Stupid doll."

The prospector suddenly jumped up and waved his pickaxe "That's Stinky Pete to you."

Cedric then shrieked and ran away with his arms flailing in complete terror."

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In the next world, Iris felt herself land in something wet. Well no not just wet, more like completely submerged in a pool of water. At this point Iris's eyes widened almost completely in horror as she said "Oh no it's not."

"Welcome comrade!" Aleks swam past her, his tail flailing in the water as he was now completely shirtless, his six pac showed off in the glistening wait what was that about a tail. She did a double take and indeed where Aleks's legs were instead was a long bright red tail that went down like a snake making the Russian heartthrob into an equally attractive Russian merman. Iris had to hold in her drool for a moment to look down and see that she herself had now sprouted a tail that was a deep purple and complimented her figure now only in her bra that had been modeled into squid skulls "Oh my god….. Freakin awesome!" She exclaimed doing a backflip in the water swimming up and down and doing a 360 "I always wanted to be a mermaid I look so hot ahahaha!" She exclaimed with all the giddiness of a school girl as she then watched Aleks look back at her with a smile "... Ah screw it I love this so much."

Confessional (Iris): She was so happy flipping through her phone "I love being rich sometimes, it lets me get the top of the line phones meaning their waterproof meaning I got MERMAID SELFIES!" She let out a surprisingly feminine squeal before coughing into her hand "No, no no no Iris game face game face… EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKK!"

World 3: Atlantica

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Finally in the toy box Cedric ran out back to the central area, only to hear over the loudspeaker from Chris "Attention all shoppers, there are no more keyholes in the Toy Box please move along!"

"Oh no no no no no there has to be one around here somewhere, please tell me I didn't…" HE saw almost as a guiding light the ray of sunshine beam from the outside leading to a suburb and more importantly… a certain open window that was just screaming a searchable area. "SCORE!" He beamed towards the entrance of the store and ran out to begin the long trek over there.

As he made his way down the road on his tiny stubby little Lego legs he saw ride alongside him was a skateboard, and on top of that skateboard was a large Stuffed animal that looked like a silverback gorilla, with gray fur and a black belly that had a "try me" on it that likely would lead to a cute monkey shriek. On its head to indicate who it was, was the long black hair of a certain Griffin Becker.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me!" Griffin gave him a mock salute as he rode past him, zooming along the way however as they made their approach Griffin's skateboard suddenly slammed into a large shadow creature with a little silver hat surrounded by several smaller knight like creatures. "... Oh so there is fighting in this challenge I thought it was just pure exploration. Neat!"

Griffin lifted up his keyblade to clash with the large body, dealing a blow to its chest and sending it flying back however two of the knights near him began to slash at him flailing their arms around like a cyclone. Griffin held up his inferno keyblade to block it and spin whack them away, and whilst that was happening Cedric tried to sneak up beside them and make his way to the house however several small shadows grabbed at his ankles and began to submerge into the ground. With his position compromised, Cedric reached up and cast down a small fireball from his keyblade because oh yeah magic was a thing in this universe as he then jumped back landing shoulder to shoulder to Griffin.

The large body began to bang its fists onto its chest and a shadow aura grew around it as it slid along the ground at Griffin and Cedric, the two nodding to each other and charged as behind them the knights and shadows backed them up. As the two clashed….

The action cut away again with an ad of Chris and Chef standing in front of Disney World to remind you this is the happiest place on Earth and nothing bad or violent ever happens here ever there is nothing but light and heart to ward away the darkness.

After that, not at all awkward cut it came back to Griffin and Cedric standing over the falling shadows and breathing heavily. The two gave a respectful nod as they then looked up at the window high above the ground. "Well, that's something we didn't think about." Griffin stated as he stared up at the window. "Any bright ideas?"

Cedric replied snarkily "Bright ideas? Griffin in case you haven't noticed that is a second story window, and we… are… TOYS!"

Griffin looked over to him and shook his head "You are a sad, strange little man."

As they contemplated their options, they heard a very cheery female voice "Hey guys up here!" They saw when they looked up was a girl made almost entirely out of pipe cleaners and little paperclips, like something a five year old would make out of boredom during class as she waved down, her hair a red pipe cleaner going down her back.

"... Emily?" Griffin asked unsure if he was correct but she smiled and nodded "Yup that's me! Need a lift?!"

She then began to lower over the side a sentient dog toy who happily smiled as it extended down revealing it's slinky like body and extended its paws to give the two toys a lift back up into the room.

When they got into the room they saw a very cleaned up room honestly however there were some toys strewn around on the floor including a pink dressed shepard, a cowboy action figure, a spaceman, a piggy bank, and a Mr. Potato head (I can't even be coy about that one that's just what the toy is called.)

"These guys are cool!" Slinky yells back as the toys began to rise up from their inanimate state and began to interact with each other. Emily looks to them and smiles as Cedric asked "Hey so.. Why help us? I thought we were on opposite sides?"

Emily nods her head cutely "Oh we are, but here in the Toy Box we are all friends and look out for one another and we all look so darn cute!" She claps her hands together and they ended up becoming tied accidentally "Awe darnit."

Griffin raised an eyebrow and nodded his head uninterested "Yeah sure, so anyway you see a keyhole around here?"

Cedric scoffed "Griffin she isn't just going to-"

"One under the bed and one on the bucket of toy soldiers up top." She said without any hesitation just a smile.

Cedric just responded with an incredulous "Seriously?"

Emily nodded her head quickly threatening to undo her string like body. "Mmmhmmm! I didn't really get to play with too many toys when I was a kid so I want to play with them for as long as I want! Plus they can talk! Also I got to ride piggyback on Aladdin's back as he parkoured and chased a monkey so that was really fun! I am having a great day."

Cedric motioned with a simple wave as Griffin headed for the toy soldier bucket "You… you realize you can go home if you lose right?"

She was already making her way down to the cowboy "You got a friend in me…. Do do do do do, you got a friend in me." Cedric shrugged and made his way under the bed

Emily continued to sing to herself while shaking her head happily "Everything's so simple when you're a toy, even if you wish your arms weren't so doughy. This song doesn't rhyme and isn't very good, but I'm ok because I'm happy as a clam oh you got a friend in-"

Confessional (Emily): "I learned from my toy friends that everything is so much simpler when you take the time to spend it with those you care about. Everyone is fighting and they boys and girls are split but me, I just want to spend some time with my friends and have fun. Sometimes I think life can be just that simple even if everyone else wants to make it just that much harder."

Another montage time.

Aleks and Iris were swimming around the bottom near some sea trenches that opened up into some crossroads as they went off into two different directions. Aleks found himself put into a small little grotto with human trinkets such as a music box, a destroyed statue of some prince who was definitely cool than you remember him being and actually a pretty chill guy, and some funny little trinkets. "You know…. I am so moved by this little stash of items that I could just… I could just sing about it!"

The melody began to quiet down into a soft ballad as Aleks looked around and began to swim his little lithe merman body around the alcove. He began to hum as his strong Russian voice bounced beautifully off of the alcove walls as he had the voice of a strong low baritone singer.

"Look at these things, aren't they cool?

While I swim around in this little pool?

You may look at me and say "Wow… he's got a really good looking face!"

"For look at my abs, these are prizes untold." Aleks then proceeded to flex to show off to the camera for no apparent reason.

"How many wonders can one cave and one body hold?

"Looking at me you'd think sure… he's got everything."

Chris decided to let him rock out for a bit and come back to this later because this was totally not footage he could use as filler if they weren;t reaching a standard episode length.

Meanwhile Camille jumped up into the air, the sun feeling so cool on her and her yellow scaly tail as she breached the surface of the water and the sun basked on her as she stared out into the boundless ocean. So many lovely possibilities, such a nice view and a pleasant oc- THAT FISH HAS A KEYHOLE GET EM! She bounded towards this tiny little yellow flounder, whose name just so happened to be Flounder as she swam towards him quickly and the little fish screamed and ran away as fast as his fins could carry him.

"No I'm friendly I swear! I just want to jam this key into your back in a friendly way!"

"I have six pacs and cheek bones aplenty!"

I've got comrades and fans galore!

You want pearly whites?" He opened his mouth "I've got twenty." He showed a smile that flashed the camera and made an audible "ding" noise.

"But who cares… no big deal.

I have moooore!"

Cutting back away from Aleks we now came to Griffin who was swimming towards a sunken ship. As he swam towards it he saw that on the bow of the ship was a glowing keyhole… and in between him and that keyhole, was a realistic shark. Griffin and his jet black tail approached the ship as the shark sniffed the sea water and then turned to face Griffin. The shark with no hesitation made its way towards the sinister merman and bared its fangs. Griffin gripped his keyblade and prepared it for a strike, this being an epic battle of the bruisers and a test of strength between man and beast. The distance was closed and then…

Griffin leaned forward and used his keyblade to bap it on the nose. The shark recoiled and stared at Griffin and then skittered away whimpering, its senses completely shot.

Griffin smirked happily to himself and then blew on his keyblade "Well what do you know, shark week did teach me something."

"I want to be… where the fishies are!

I want to see… want to see them swimming." He proceeded to make a fishy face towards the camera.

Jetting around on those… what are they called… ?" He genuinely had to think for a moment "Oh yeah, fins."

Legs can't let you swim that far. You get tired and you can't be swimming and swooping!

Swimming around in the… what's that word again… oh it's reef!

"OOOOOOOOOHHHHHH!"

It then cut to Iris in her skull bikini staring down the palace hall, as in it was the king who was sitting upon a throne. And upon his crown, the crown on this titan of a king… was a keyhole. Iris sighed to herself "Oh Chris that's just cruel." She cracked her knuckles and began to swim over, Triton's attention being caught as he was on guard.

"Oh and just who might you be? You don't appear to be dressed to have a counsel with the king. And I don't believe you are friends with any of my daughters." Triton looked her over as Iris's tail swung back and forth happily as she was also looking him over.

"You know Mr. King of the sea, you are the second ruler I have seen today and might I say you are much more of a looker than the screen gives you credit for, and you were a hunk in that movie too."

"What?"

"What?"

There was an awkward silence

"... I'm going to steal your crown now…"

"Down where they swim, down where they roam!"

Showed an image of Camille playfully smacking Flounder with her tale making him spin like a helicopter as she then apologetically kissed his cheek and placed the key on his back.

"Down where they stay all day in the seafoaaaam!"

Another image of Griffin slamming his key into the bow of the ship.

"Whipping around free, wishing I could remain to be…"

A final image of Iris having tridents thrown at her by guardsmen as she swam away with the crown hurriedly and then slammed her key down into it.

"PART OF THIIIIIIIIS WOOOOOORRRRLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDD-, oh look a keyhole!" He turned the music box over and place it in taking the final spot of this area.

Xxx

, oh look a keyhole!" He turned the music box over and place it in taking the final spot of this area.

This left poor Cedric as the final man of the area as he was scratching the back of his head "Alright I've searched every nook, cranny, eel, rock, algae, fish, everything in this kingdom and I think I can make it official… I'm in the wrong spot."

"Actually you are in the right spot, perfect timing." Cedric heard a perfect, melodious voice as he turned around to see a mermaid with a green tail and perfect porcelain skin swim towards him, her tail moving so gracefully and her seashell bra covering everything beautifully as her red hair flowed behind her. The sea complimented her in such a lovely way as Cedric's eyes turned into hearts seeing this mermaid go into his immediate range, her within arms range of him as he swore he was in love at first sight.

Cedric nodded his head in a near dumbfounded way "Yes I am right where I need to be."

The little mermaid herself smiled so prettily "Yes you are….. We needed another backup singer! Hit it Sebastian!"

Cedric turned on a dime to see a crab holding a maestro stick as suddenly around him the sea became alive with seahorses, clams, anemones, and bubbles "...Excuse me."

And then his eardrums were never the same again "Swim this way, we'll dance and we'll play. Now it's very easy come on in just take a chance and shake a fin."

Cedric's hands went to his ears as he screamed in agony. In the distance, a purple skinned woman with the body of an octopus and a spire of white haired watched as her two pet eels wrapped around her as she said almost pitifully "Oh that poor, unfortunate soul."

Confessional (Chris): Chris came into the confessional holding what appeared to be a CD set "Now in stores, enjoy the lovely sounds of Total Drama Gaming, whereas you can hear such lovely tracks as "Part of this World" and "Broke My Heart" and…. That's about it. All from your favorite contestants with further tracks being downloadable once we come up with a new song to rip o-, I mean creat. Order now for $39.99, separate processing and handling fees may apply."

Xxx

The next world arrived all four of the contestants still in the challenge all arrived at almost the exact same time. They all found themselves at what appeared to be a small little field, with a carrot patch to the right and a house directly in front of them, a small little bridge to separate the two areas with a minor stream in the middle.

World 4: The 100 Acre Wood

Iris felt a small twinge of her childhood come into play as the others stared in mild confusion "We… we're at rabbit's house… where is that little bear?! He taught me how to love and to enjoy the simple things!"

Griffin just watched her begin to nerd out over these Disney characters and rolled his eyes "God she is still so hot and I like her but… I feel embarrassed I once dated her, anyone else feel that way?"

Camille shook her head "No she's still way out of your league and you suck for ever thinking otherwise."

Griffin "... Ouch, my pride."

Aleks "THAT IS A LARGE PUMPKIN!" He ran over to the giant pumpkin patch on the other side as they all saw a rabbit make his way into the center of the field.

"Now I am unsure who you people are but please don't get in my vegetables. You are welcome to stay just don't touch anything." The rabbit said reasonably so of course…. Aleks immediately stepped on a carrot. "..." His eye twitches.

As the four contestants explored this rather confined area Griffin and Aleks searched near the giant pumpkin whilst Camille and Iris went more towards the house and river.

Aleks and Griffin marveled at the size of the pumpkin as a gopher popped up next to them "Now sssssshee here ssssshonny, thissssh issssh Rabbit'sssh prized pumpkin. You better be careful not to mess with it."

Griffin with all the gentleness of a truck barreling into a roadblock at mach 8 "Is that a speech impediment or are you doing this on purpose?"

Iris yelled in the distance "Griffin if you could not take a sledgehammer to my childhood I would appreciate it thanks!"

Griffin rolled his eyes as suddenly coming into view was a bouncing tiger "Hello everyone I'm Togger, that's TI double guh rrr, and what's your names?"

Aleks clapped his hands happily "I a Aleks amusing tiger creature!"

Griffin pouts and then says with mock enthusiasm "I am Griffin, that's GI double f in, the fs stand for-"

"Finish that sentence and this key will go in your hole!" Iris said as Griffin grumbled as Tigger looked up at the pumpkin. "Ooooh that is a big pumpkin, it's such a high target for bouncin. I like to see if I can hit that little shining thing up top with my high bounces!" Tigger says to which both guys had their eyes light up.

"A keyhole!" They both exclaimed as Aleks approached Tigger himself. "Teach me… teach me how to bounce."

Griffin crossed his arms and watched "Well this should be interesting."

Meanwhile on the other side of the stream the two girls were having a moment searching around Rabbit's house. "So Cammy been meaning to ask, you and Ethan still going strong? I mean with all this talk of Everest and me being a bit feisty lately it's easy to see how I can come of as well, kind of a b****."

Camille smiles and says "Oh no I get it Iris you've just always been a momma bear and I get that, it's really quite charming in a lot of ways. Yes we are going strong no need to worry."

Iris nodded her head "That's good I just… I just can't see why you would trust Everest in any way shape or form." Camille frowned and let out a minor sigh hearing her brought up again "I mean she has been nothing but a callous monster to us."

"To you is what you mean." Camille said which… actually kind of hurt. "And you antagonize her just as bad look, I shouldn;t have to keep explaining this. Look I know you can't seem to stand anything to do with her, or Griffin and I get Griffin but maybe just ease up on her. She hasn't done anything to hurt me or lose my trust personally so just please try to be cool."

Iris however didn't seem satisfied with that answer and pressed on "No I want to know, what has she done that proves to you she is a trusted friend?"

"Iris…" Camille said beginning to get a bit irritated.

"Camille give me an answer please I just-"

"Because she values me and the girls' alliance so much that she showed me her cheat code ok?! She has been saving it in case one of us goes home and we can use it to take control once and for all! You see, she does care!"

Iris stared at Camille and suddenly it all just seemed to make sense, her eyes focused and she slowly nodded her head, the gears turning inside of her head as she forced a smile to her face "Camille that puts a lot of things into perspective, thank you so much."

Confessional (Camille): Camille sighs putting her head in her hands "Look I get it, I really do Iris has a vendetta against Griffin and it translates to everything around him, and trust me I know if I were in her situation I would be gunning for him too but Everest hasn't done anything to make me think she means ill to me or the rest of the girls. And until that day comes I want to try and give her the benefit of the doubt… is that so wrong?"

Confessional (Iris): Iris stared directly into the camera, her arms crossed in a firm glare aimed directly at it and peering into the audience "So that's her game…. I see how this is all coming together now. Everest… I got your number now."

Camille nodded her head and split off to go search the river. As Camille investigated the stream she saw a golden hue underneath the bridge as she gasped and went to get it but saw in the way was what appeared to be a type of stuffed donkey who was just lying there solemnly. "Hey iuh… you ok?"

He sighed heavily, "Don't worry… I'm fine…." He said in a voice that was the epitome of "I'm not fine."

Immediately seeing the connection to a certain man she loved, Camille leaned forward and gave the donkey a big old hug to his back and smiled hard "Awe chin up little guy, you gotta start rooting for yourself before life goes your way." She said that so earnestly before putting him down and moving over under the bridge as the donkey gave a rare look… a smile.

"Root for myself… I can sure try…" As he said that he noticed his tail had come off and was floating past him on the water, making another sigh escape his mouth as he slowly like a tortoise began to chase after it.

During this, Iris pondered something to herself before hearing a THUNK sound "Oh bother." A rather deflated voice said in a humdrum tone as Iris felt her spirits immediately perk up "Pooh Bear is that you?!"

"Oh hello…" A muffled voice said as Iris turned to see Pooh perfectly wedged in Rabbit's window with his head inside and his posterior outside.

Iris giddily jumped in her spot up and down seeing this cute little bear stuck up close and personal brought so many childhood memories flooding back into her as she was ready to ask him so many questions and was about to let loose the dam until… oh no.

She saw on the bear's yellow rump… was a glowing mark.

She muttered under her breath "Chris you sicko…" Before taking a breath and aiming her key with a saddened look of utter betrayal on her face she raised it and prepared her strike and stayed frozen for the better part of about five minutes "I'm sorry Pooh… I love you." And then finally she took the plunge.

Confessional (Iris): "You know… I wasn't even the one who was hurt and I feel violated… seriously Chris?"

Confessional (Chris): Chris was sitting on the seat holding his sides from laughing so hard "Ahahahaha oh my she actually pffft she actually, oh that was priceless I am so proud of that one… ahahahahaha!"

Whilst that happened on the other side, Griffin watched as Aleks was jumping in place trying to follow the example of his jumping mentor Tigger "Alright bounce… bounce high bounce far!" I can do this!" The entire world went into slow motion as Aleks ran towards the pumpkin, preparing himself to jump as high and as far as he could.

Tigger watched on as Aleks got all the momentum in the world and bent his knees before jumping straight up getting more than enough height as he saw the keyhole, all he had to do was aim and…

Then gravity set in and Aleks went face first into the pumpkin, breaking through the pumpkin face first as Griffin cringed and walked towards him poking him with his foot.

"You alright there Aleks?" He asked as the pumpkin just rolled over sending him back down to the floor.

"I taste the pumpkin, I am one with the pumpkin… I have swallowed many seeds.." Aleks said in a dazed clearly being overwhelmed by the sense of pure pumpkin as Griffin shrugged and put his key to the hole on the pumpkin and warped his way out of this.

Rabbit walked his way up to Tigger and tapped his foot whilst crossing his arms "I hope you plan on helping me clean this up."

Tigger sweat for a second before he hopped up onto his tail "Sorry Rabbit, but bouncing and avoinding responsibilty are what Tiggers do best!" As he then suddenly jumped away with a cry of "Ooohooohoohoohoooo!"

Rabbit's hand went to his face with a heavy sigh "Of course it is."

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Griffin and Iris arrived in the next world almost immediately at the same time, the two having an awkward pause as they stared at one another before a noise behind them made them both turn. They both got into a combat stance only to see Camille there, completely weather worn and covered in nothing but white frost and snow. It almost kicked in immediately that they saw themselves on top of a snowy mountain as the wind howled around them. Behind them a steep slope went further down the mountain, whilst in front of them a giant crystalized ice palace towered over them like a monolith spire.

For this one only, Iris didn't seem to freak out over it "Oh… Frozen… cool."

World 5: Arendale.

Confessional (Iris): "Look I liked Frozen fine and Elsa was hot but… man you ever know when people tell you something is the greatest thing ever and it just burrows in your ears to the point where you can just never let it go?" It took her a second to notice what she just said and then felt intensely angry about it "I hate myself."

Iris looked at her with genuine concern and walked over "Camille what happened? I swear you were here for maybe only fifteen minutes."

Camille shuddered both within the cold and in pure molten anger "I have, and you want to know what happened?!"

A flashback came to Camille showing up in Arendale for the first time and turning to see the ICe Palace "Wow it's so pretty!" Almost immediately she saw a keyhole actually sign on the palace itself, the doors to the palace having a large keyhole in the dead center.. She smiled and was about to make her way over until a giant footstep came up behind her. She turned around and saw lumbering over her was a giant ice golem that roared right into her face and then gripped her by the waist "Oh no wait wait wait what are you doing?"

"Go away." It said simply and almost politely as it then casually tossed her over the edge of the mountain sending her careening down into the snow bank below.

Another flashback showed Camille climbing up the snowy mountain only for the wind to howl and a blizzard kick up right in her face and send her tumbling back down.

She made it about to the top the third trek but then the ground for no reason at this point other than it could just gave out from under her and made her go all the way back down.

Camille now stood there with almost her entire body covered in snow as she stares, cold, tired, hungry, beaten, but still staring intently at that keyhole. "I will… get that keyhole."

Griffin chuckled seeing her "Hey Camille you… you look like a snowman. Hey, hey Iris, you wanna build a snow-"

"You finish that sentence, you die." Iris said as that just made Griffin laugh harder as he then turned around and saw the keyhole at the palace as well, and noticed the giant frost golem guarding it like a hawk and eyed it having an idea that was just so crazy… it might actually work.

"Did somebody say snowman?!" As the two girls turned they saw a tiny little snowman beneath them enter the frame scuttling along with a dopey smile on his face.

Iris herself couldn't happen but have the tiniest smile on her face seeing the little snowman "Hi Olaf, it's nice to meet you."

Olaf gasped and pointed to himself "You know my name?! How wonderful! You know there aren't that many snowmen named Olaf so I am so honored!"

It was a complete role reversal at the moment as Iris was having a blast and Camille was just so unamused right now staring at this little snowman in front of them "Ooh ooh you two look cold, how are you not freezing right now?"

Camille "I am."

Iris in her fishnet outfit "Oh no I am surprisingly content, maybe just because I am so naturally hot." She smirked and licked her finger before touching her hip and making a sizzling sound.

Confessional (Iris): "And I just flirted with a snowman. Should I consider this my life low point or just keep going and seeing if I can do worse in the future?"

As they were having this conversation they suddenly heard Griffin scream as he grabbed his keyblade and then launched it like a javelin sending it flying forward and slamming into the wall of the palace after whizzing past Marshmallow, the golem completely stunned as the keyhole lit up from the impact and Griffin smirked giving a mock salute to the ladies before teleporting off.

Camille stared wide eyed before her hands balled into fists "It was THAT simple!?" She then reared back and shrieked in pure annoyance as up above them the mountain began to shake as her scream caused an avalanche to slide down the mountain as she opened her eyes to see this and swore under he breath "You gotta be fu-"

Olaf looked at it and his eyes widened himself "Hehe, I'm in danger."

And then the avalanche hit all three of them as they went tumbling down the cliffside into the bank again.

Camille and Iris both landed on the snow bank as Camille saw Olaf there as well, the carrot on his face now on the ground and on the other side of it that was previously imbedded into the snow on his face was now exposing a keyhole, probably something about the creature having a heart or something she didn't care about right now as she began to crawl on her elbows towards it. "I… will not lose… to this… stupid mountain!"

"Watch out fer mah butt!" Olaf yelled out in warning as Camille could only offer out a "Huh?" before her head was firmly smacked down into the snow bank comically as Olaf's plump pale posterior smacked her down as Iris got up and flinched feeling that one herself. She picked up the carrot feeling bad but said as a courtesy "Cammy this sucks but uh, I'm going to move on now alright?"

Camille responded with her face still in the snow "Oh yeah sure go ahead, I don't want to be a bother."

"Oh well then thanks." Iris stuck in her keyblade and made her way to the final world with Griffin.

She finally looked up to see Olaf's detached head staring back into hers "Soooo… want to hear my 100 fun facts about snow?!"

Camille sighed and then slammed her face back into the white fluff below.

Confessional (Chris): "You know, I was kind of hoping Arendale got more time. Maybe this is a lesson that relying on something just because it was really popular at the time won't always lead to something satisfyiiiii- ahaha I couldn't even get through that with a straight face. No you milk that franchise until it's run dry baby!"

Xxx

The final world came. It was time, as the final two emerged in the center of a massive arena. Around them, two giant statues were set as a monument to the legendary hero himself, Hercules. In the stands, hundreds of people lined the rows to watch the clash between the two chosen gladiators in the final round.

As they were getting ready for their squared off match, heck they didn't even know they would be doing so yet as the Gods picked their chosen champions "So which one are you going with?" Asked a female wearing a purple dress over her as the legendary Hercules looked over his odds.

"I think we should go with da one with da funny hair." Next to him, a Satyr spoke with an accent akin to the closest humanity would ever get to a sentient meatball.

Hercules looked over with his hands on his hips "Oh yeah, why's that?"

As they were watching the crowd, Iris was realizing this was about to come to blows and was bending over to do some stretches "I just got a good feeling ya know?"

On the other side, a blue and red goblin creature were talking amongst themselves as a blue haired flame man, the immortal Hades watched with interest as the punk was getting ready to brawl "Oh he's got a bad attitude I want that one as my champ gimme gimme gimme."

The two realized they were being pushed to opposite sides of the arena. Iris drew her electric guitar styled one, whilst Griffin drew his straight from the depths of the Underworld itself. Hades and Hercules leaned forward in their seats to watch these new but strong competitors go at it.

Who had the stronger heart?

Final World: Olympus Coliseum

The trumpet was sounded as the two began to clash, meeting in the center as their blades slammed into one another, sparks colliding and flying from the impact as they stared a hole in one another yet again. The last time they went one on one in an arena like this, Griffin was the winner sending his Hitmonchan to deal the final heart wrenching blow. And now the roles were reversed.

This time Iris was on offense, pushing the advance and going for a spinning keyblade strike, her having the speed advantage from her years of various training in the regal arts whilst Griffin stuck to his power and bulk, putting his blade up to deflect the blows when they came as Iris was sending volleys of shots his way before then rolling forward and using her legs to reach out and clip Griffin's ankle, tripping him slightly and making him stumble back as she then did a standing dropkick to send him flying back and stumble before losing balance and falling onto his back.

The ungraceful giant lumbered back up with a visible wince as Iris grinned getting the one up early. Griffin then seeing something Cedric did earlier summoned a fireball from his keyblade. Iris had to react quickly and spin out of the way, but it gave Griffin the opening to close the distance and press the advantage with a leaping slam of his keyblade downwats. Iris attempted to block it but the force knocked the keyblade out of her hands as it fell to the floor below her. She bent down to reach for it but Griffin grabbed her by the waist and wrenched her back, giving her a side suplex and slamming her shoulder first down. Iris let out a cry and attempted to roll back to gain her footing with her own momentum but Griffin wisely spiked his keyblade into the sand in front of her, spitting it up and sending it into her face blinding her temporarily so he could run in and grip her by the neck trying to do a running chokeslam. However the nimbleness of Iris flipped out of it, rolling over his harm and gripping his head before spiking him down into the turf below. Griffin recoiled holding his neck as Iris held her shoulder, the damage being done to both parties as the grabbed their keyblades back off the ground and began to circle one another, their faces contorted in mixtures of anguish and determination.

"You still got game Iris! And here I was thinking hiding behind an alliance would dull those senses." Griffin taunted as Iris just laughed.

"Nah Griff, unlike you I don't pick a fight whenever possible, I just bring it when it matters." She then stopped her pacing and squared up. "I'm sick of you winning Griff, I'm sick of all of this… I meant when I said I was taking you out or going out trying."

Griffin stared into her face and that was when he truly realized it. It had been stewing for a while but he realized he could not recover from what he had done. A tiny part of him was hoping maybe he could change, maybe he could get her ba…. No no that's impossible. Griffin got his blade up and snarled "Fine then… let's settle this, once and for all."

And then the two charged once again, their blades set to meet in the middle once again however this time Griffin went for a savage overhead slash. Iris moved to the side with a graceful sidestep and cast a wind spell to force him to lose balance and then did a slash that actually caught him and ripped part of his shirt as he grimaced and then Iris planted the heel of her boot into his chest and kicked him back before going for a follow up slash. Griffin however caught it by lifting his keyblade up to catch hers and then yanked with his superior strength, pulling her in so that he could lift her up and attempt to slam her back down but she wrapped her legs around his neck and went to flip backwards and take him with her. She succeeded and sent him spinning onto his back as he was breathing heavily and running on fumes here.

"Come on get up!" Hades yelled at Griffin.

"Yeah show him how a true hero does it!" Hercules called out to Iris.

Iris then ran for the finishing blow, going for a running slash but Griffin pulled out a savage move, gripping his keyblade and launching it directly into her legs aiming for her shins. Iris managed to duck over but Griffin smirked as mid throw, he called it back to his hand with his open palm so the second she landed on her feet the keyblade came back and swept her legs out from behind, making her land on her back and cry out as Griffin then moved on top of her and pushed down on her shoulders pinning her to the mat. He smirked looming over her "It's over Iris, as always… me coming out on top."

Iris then quickly whipped her hair out of her face and flashed a smirk "Those who don't learn from history, are doomed to repeat it!" Iris yelled as she went to raise her boot and nail it into Griffin's kiwiws…

But he raised his knee and blocked it firmly surprising her. Griffin then had his knee on top of hers as she cried out in pain, her body bending as he snarled competitively "That's my line." Finally after being pinned to the mat, the ref was forced to call it when Iris after a minute of agonizing screaming and thrashing could not force herself back up to her feet. It was over, as Griffin yet again rose up and raised his hand in victory.

The referee handed Griffin the championship cup, and more importantly, the immunity for the challenge.

Hades raised his hand in a victorious howl "Wooo I won, I won…. Wait why am I celebrating, this was just a mock match right?"

Hercules flexed as he walks over to Hades "Yup pretty much, but I admit, you got the better of me this time. When the games come around, I doubt it will be the same."

Hades quickly says "Losersayswhat?"

Hercules turned to him "What?"

"HAHA!" And then Hades disappeared into a plume of smoke, taking his victory and leaving just like we know he would.

And with the battle concluded, Chris pulled them out of their pods and their worlds, it was time for everyone to reconnect their hearts to their home kingdom.. Reality. (Ok I reached for that one I know.)

As the dust settled, above them a lone silver wing came out into the screen as a blade then raised into view, a chilling voice voicing his thoughts on the match "... Hmph, not bad… but to free myself from this darkness in my heart… only he will give me solace." And then he turned away and left the view with that cryptic message.

Confessional (Griffin): Griffin rolled his neck around on his shoulders, feeling the effects of that battle but he still had a smile on his face "I won… wow I won, I really did but… it feels really hollow like…" He looks into the camera "... I got this pit in my stomach like maybe I messed up, like… I did what I wanted Iris hates me, she can't stand to be near me I wanted that so… I should be happy right?" Griffin closes his eyes and thinks on this "... Maybe I should say something to her when I get the chance."

Confessional (Iris): Iris was in the confessional just beating her hands on the wood "Every…. $%^#&! Time! I am so… AAAARARRRRRREEEAGH!" She panted hard, just trying to regain her breath and calm down "You know what… I had a good day. Griffin beat me and that sucks but I met a bunch of childhood icons, I got to live out a fantasy I have been harboring for years, I got to the final two… and if I can't get the big fish… I'll settle for the smaller catch."

On their way back from the pods, Iris pulled Emily aside and looked at her "Hey Red, you trust me right?"

Emily shuddered a bit not liking this "Yes but… please tell me this isn't leading into another one of your "talks."

Iris shook her head quickly, not really kidding around at the moment. "Look, just listen alright… vote for Everest tonight."

Emily had a worried expression on her face "But she's so scary, and Camille likes her."

Iris let out a discontent growl "Camille… Camille is too nice for her own good and I like that about her but you don't need to worry about that alright? Just vote for Everest, I'll take care of it alright?"

"...Alright Iris, I trust you."

Confessional (Emily): Emily was in the confessional twiddling her thumbs nervously "I don't know what is going on right now, but I do know that Iris can be very scary when she wants to be."

Confessional (Iris): "I see you ninja, trying to play the field and set yourself up in a winning position. Clever, real clever. Might've just worked out if it wasn't for a little flexible birdy who told me your secret." Iris stares intently into the camera "Don't screw with a woman on a mission."

Inside of the guys cabin, Cedric, Griffin, and Aleks all awaited for the time of the fateful hour of the Bonfire Ceremony. Griffin laid back on the bed, his immunity ensuring him another challenge passing him by whilst Cedric was freaking out at the fact that the girls had them outvoted easily. "Oh this is freaking game over man, I am so screwed! You know they are going to go for me you just know it!"

Griffin shrugged his shoulders and said simply "Probably." To which Cedric just glared at him "Hey we might have a temporary truce but that doesn't mean I'm blind."

Cedric let out an enraged yell and smacked his hand on the bed frame… which he instantly regretted holding his hand in pain "Dangit Aleks! This is why we had to vote out Emily!"

Aleks looked at him with his lower lip extended sadly "But she is a comrade."

Cedric angrily said "I'm your comrade too Aleks!"

Aleks whimpered "Yes but you are a scary comrade."

Cedric took a deep inhale to try and calm himself down "Look Aleks, I'm not mad alright? I know you made some very… very crucial mistakes here but they came from a good place."

Aleks felt the smile return to his face as his eyes widened like a puppy's. "Really?!"

Cedric held his arms up in exasperation "Yeah sure what's a million dollars to a kind heart I mean it's not like that could've bought me a house, a new car, gotten me into any college I wanted, ensured I never had to go to college because screw that noise, no no that means nothing to a true, kind friend like you." He felt his eye twitch as Aleks then ran up and gave him a hug.

"Thank you comrade Cedric, you are a true pal! If you go home tonight, you shall live on in my memory forever!" Cedric continued to stare ahead, his right eye continuing to twitch.

"Yup ... anytime Aleks." And then once the hug was over he sat down, held a pillow to his face, and screamed into it at the top of his lungs.

Aleks looked down and smiled "I know where you're going with this Cedric." He turned and hopped up onto his bunk bed and curled himself into a blanket "Nighty night."

Confessional (Cedric): Cedric was in there, his face contorted into a creep smile that just stared into the soul of the camera "No no it's fine. As the leader of the guys alliance I should have seen this coming where we get outnumbered and get picked off one by one. No it's completely fine that Aleks screwed us over because of his huge heart. No it's fine I never needed one million ****** dollars, whatever gave you that idea I needed that kind of money. I'm not FURIOUS RIGHT NOW!" Cedric then proceeded to scream into the camera and then compose himself "... That was a happy scream, because I'm just so happy to be alive."

Xxx

"Ok so we have the plan right? Eliminate Cedric next." Camille said so simply as she went inside the girls cabin, Everest giving her a thumbs up and a pretty genuine smile as the girl went to go try and defrost herself from basically being a snowman for about an hour straight. Everest was trying out that whole "smile" thing, it felt… nice. Like to physically show someone you enjoyed their company and she was beginning to unironically enjoy her. Perhaps they could actually be considered friends...

Meanwhile right outside the Girls cabin, Iris emerged from the side to almost make Everest jump in surprise. "Hey Samurai Snatch, we need to talk." Iris began to walk towards her as Everest met her gaze, the two women beginning to glare at one another. "Couldn't help but notice you weren't in the other worlds… not like you to go out first. Oh wait or is it? Because all I hear you say is how threatening you are yet I have never seen you win a challenge. Guess no matter how much you train you can't escape Skyler's average body."

Everest stared at her eyes looked only slightly annoyed "Is this what we have reverted to? Grade school insults? I would say you disappoint me but that would be me saying I ever expected more from you."

Iris didn't glare any more, just letting out a small chuckle "Cute, listen this isn't just me coming to gripe at you, what are you trying to do with Griffin and Camile and all of this?" Before Everest could even open her mouth Iris responded to her own question "And before you bs me just know that I know you and Griffin don't actually like each other ok? And I know you only talk to Camille because it fits into your little scheme of playing double agent."

Everest took a deep breath and said "You are correct… on one statement." She clarified by continuing "I do not actually have feelings for Griffin, that was purely to have an agent in the male alliance… but I have developed a sort of kinship with Camille."

"Bull." Iris interrupted but Everest kept talking "No it isn't. She and I actually have similar mindsets, about winning, the only difference is that she does not want to win at any cost, she wants to retain some level of dignity. So if I do something… unsavory in the name of victory, I would leave her out of it. My ultimate goal would be to take her to the final two with me, for I have no qualms with her."

"Take her to the final two listen to yourself. You don't even deserve to be in the final seven, being handed a spot back." Everest dashed towards her and then suddenly they were face to face.

"What is your problem with me?" And then the two girls were grappling, Iris putting her hand on the ninja's hip and trying to gain an advantage and put her into a waistlock as then she flipped out of it and landed on her feet several feet away, ending the little skirmish before it could truly begin.

"My problem is that you don't even get halfway, come back, start pretending to date Griffin, Lucas just happens to get eliminated right after you come in. I know your endgame you ninja **** and I am not just going to let you sit here and take us out one by one. You do not get to win this when I have worked my fine *** off every day for the past two months to get here." Iris glared at her defiantly as Everest removed her veil, curling it up into a ball and tossing it into the ground so Everest could see her black colored lips curl into a smirk, a confident, arrogant smirk.

"Try and stop me."

The loudspeaker blared to life "Campers, bonfire ceremony in tee minus five minutes!"

Iris had her fists clenched for another round as she growled and then walked past the bush on her way to leave, unclenching her fists and letting something fall out as she left in a huff towards the bonfire pit.

Confessional (Iris): "..." She silently stared at the camera before her lips curled into a satisfied smirk "Game over… bitch."

Confessional (Everest): She let out a chuckle, a self-satisfied chuckle "Cute, trying to take me on, but my secret weapon here ...-" Her face suddenly fell as she reached back into her pocket and realized… it wasn't there "W-what, where is my…. IIIIIIIIRRRRRRIIIIISSSS!" She suddenly beamed out of the outhouse and ran for the bonfire like a bolt of lightning.

She ran to write outside of the embers' golden glows, the men and Emily situated on their logs and Chris getting ready. Iris was whistling to herself as Everest suddenly grabbed onto her shorts and began to search her body "Where is it?!"

"Where's what?" Iris responded with an innocent smirk to her voice as Everest realized those booty shorts Iris wore… they had absolutely no pockets. Nowhere to hide it, meaning that it wasn't on her body at all. There was nowhere on her top and no pockets on her bottom, and she didn't have time to stick it in her shoe or hide it anywhere complicated. "Should've dressed to impress Everest." Iris then leans forward and gave her a kiss on the cheek, a metaphorical and literal kiss of death "Enjoy failure for a second time… Skyler."

As Iris went to the bonfire feeling so satisfied with herself, Everest stared at her retreating form, so completely and utterly enraged her body began to tremble as she realized she had been outsmarted, she had been beaten, Iris had won. She had been bested by this punk, and there was absolutely nothing she could do to stop it right now, for she was out of time.

Xxx

"Oh crap I'm late!" Camille exclaimed as she finally came out of the cabin, her makeup running a bit as she was still trying to get snow out of her boot from Arendale. The gymnast was hurrying past as she wanted to make it to the bonfire but on her way past the cabin she noticed a glint. A small glint in the bush next to the cabin as she walked over "Huh… how did this get here?"

Xxx

The bonfire ceremony had now started, Chris standing before them as all seven of the remaining contestants were left sitting on their logs. The votes had been cast and now it was just down to Chris reading the names of the lucky six who survived another challenge.

Aleks was lazily sitting on a log, tired from his nap and smiling goofily. Griffin had his arms crossed not really listening right now. Emily had a nervous glint in her eyes looking towards Iris, who looked like she was queen of the world right now. Meanwhile Cedric and Everest both looked like they were about to pee their pants, Everest for the first time looked like an absolutely nervous wreck, her teeth nearly biting into her lip in nervous anger. And then finally there was Camille, who hustled her way over and sat down on the remaining log. "Campers, there are only six controllers on this stand, and seven of you. When I call your name, come up and collect your controller. If you don't get one, you walk down the dock of shame, catch the boat of losers, and you go home. And you can't come back… eveeeer."

"Some only get one chance to do that, you should be proud." Iris taunted to which Everest seethed so hard you could almost see foam come from her mouth.

Confessional (Cedric): "I had no idea who to vote for. I conspired with Griffin and threw in a vote for Camille to try and get her out but I dunno even if Alerks does throw in her vote for her it's still four vs three at the end of the day, it all comes down to Everest…. Let's hope for a miracle."

Confessional (Griffin): Griffin shrugs his shoulders "I voted for Camille, why not try and keep this alliance thing going since Aleks is apparently not a factor anymore. I mean I can get him back but that's only if Iris isn't around and what are the odds of that happening am I right?"

Confessional (Aleks): Aleks nervously slides his ballot into the box "Please comrade Iris, get them out of here… I am trusting you."

Confessional (Emily): "I would say I'm sorry Everest, but Iris can be scarier and I… really don't like you."

Confessional (Iris): Iris was swaying back and forth with her hands in the air "Nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey, one down! Nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey, Griffin's next! Screw you both!"

Confessional (Everest): Everest's chest was rising and falling fast, her eyes were about to pop out of her skull as she was currently freaking out "It's not just that SHE of all people beat me, it's not just that I will lose TWICE… it's that she saw right through me. I do like Camille but given the chance, I would betray her… I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. And now she's bested me… well played, you punk loser." She let out a loud shriek of defeat that could curdle the blood of a normal man.

Confessional (Camille): She had a big smile on her face, "Don't worry girls, momma Camille is now watching all of our backs. Girl power!"

Chris read the first name off "Emily." The glasses wearing redhead let out a huge sigh of relief after being in the hot seat last week as she took her controller.

"Aleks" The Russian adonis got up and despite his yawn happily walked over and joined Emily at the safe side of the bonfire ceremony.

"Griffin" Griffin shrugs accepting his spot by just walking over as Aleks and Emily moved away from him.

"Iris" Iris held both her hands up and smirked, giving a fake guffaw as if she was so shocked and excited to be safe and walked over with a self satisfied smirk and a return to her confident hip sway.

"... Camille" Camille let out a "woot!" as she jumped up and did a victory cartwheel over to her friends and the other boys as Emily smiled with her though she did look back to Everest with a worried expression.

"Campers, we are down to two. One of you will stay…"

The camera went to Cedric, whose mohawk was down slightly with all the sweat packed into it.

"And one will go."

It then went to Everest who was staring with intense anger at the spot where Iris was as the camera dramatically moved between the two of them to build tension.

….

….

….

"Cedric." Cedric jumped up and howled in victory "WOOOOOOOOOOOO- I am so sorry." He says looking over to Everest with that small part of him still liking her.

Everest glares and then slowly it began to dawn on her the defeat she suffered as she stood up and was about to say something as Iris was celebrating in her spot. "I-"

"No wait!" Chris, Iris, Everest, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked over Camille "Everest isn't going home. She had something and she lost it, so it isn't fair."

And with that, Everest's face lifted back up… and Iris's eyes widened in pure shock and horror. "Camille, what in the hell are you doing?"

Camille reached into her pocket… and pulled out the remaining cheat code. "I told you Iris, that she had this just in case one of us would go home. I found it in a bush, she must have dropped it. So, I am going to use it right now to save her."

"CAMILLE YOU MORON!" Iris yelled pulling at her hair as Everest beamed happily, walking over to Camille and giving her a hug.

"Thank you so much my friend, you are a well and true patron saint." Everest smiled pulling in Camille close to stare at Iris over her shoulder as Camille smiled back.

"Awe you're welcome Skyler." She then pulled away and turned to Chris "Now with that done, Cedric, you can go-"

"Actually." Chris raised his voice "Hold on here, you said it was her cheat code and you used it to save her spot." Chris smiled to himself. "So actually, it would be her who decides who goes home, not you. He points to Everest as the violet ninja girl stares ahead.

Camille confidently continue "Ok well still, Cedric you-"

"Can stay." Everest cut in as her eyes glared forward and Camille looked over with shock.

"But Skyler, we had a plan." Camille said as she walked towards Iris "I thought we said that Iris and you just had differences we can work on that."

Everest glared a hole in her, those emotionless eyes lighting up in sadistic pleasure "Plans change Camille… plans change."

Iris glared back in defiance, not giving her the satisfaction as her face was red with righteous anger "What was it you said to me… oh yes. "You don't deserve to be here." She leaned forward and says in a cold almost melodious voice "Pack your bags… so you can experience failure yourself, punk." She enjoyed every single word, backing up to watch and bask in her elimination as Emily, Aleks, and Camille all stared in complete and utter shock, Camille especially looked horrified at this semi betrayal that she allowed to happen. Everest just walked past her back to the cabin, getting her take of the spoils and walking away to enjoy the view from her own solitary spot away from the ceremony. She didn't say a single word as Camille's eyes followed the heartless woman away.

Confessional (Cedric): "Wow ... losing to Griffin and then getting eliminated by Everest… that is like a double whammy from hell…. Damn."

Confessional (Griffin): "..." He just stared at the camera, no anger, no happiness, no nothing as he just sat there, his chest rising and falling hard as he realized that Iris was now just… gone. "..." He got up and left, on his way out slamming the door shut as hard as he could behind him.

Emily was the first to give Iris a hug and say her goodbyes "Iris… I'll miss you."

"I'll miss ya too Red." She gives her a big ol' sister hug "You stay strong and go get em alright?" She ruffles her hair making Emily laugh and tear up all at the same time.

"Oh comrade Iris!" Aleks wailed as he ran over and nearly knocked her down as he wrapped her into a giant bear hug. Iris held herself upright however and even used some strength to hold Aleks up off the ground to set him down "There there Boris I got ya, hey you hang tough and don't let mean ol' Griffin boss you around alright?"

Aleks wiped a wayward tear from his face and nodded.

Iris moved past him to Cedric who nodded his head to her "You rocked pretty hard girl, I respect that."

Iris smiled and nodded back "That'll do pig… that'll do."

Iris then saw Camille who looked like she was about to break down into tears "Iris I'm so-"

Iris shushed her as she shook her head "Don't… just don't Cammy. You got a good heart. A horrible sense of character but you have a good heart." Iris tried to laugh as she said "I mean you have to with me as a friend."

Camille looked back at her and said "I didn't know… I really"

"It's fine Cammy." Iris rolled her eyes "Ok well it's not you cost me a shot at a million dollars but ultimately I'll be fine and like I said, not completely your fault she's a cold hearted bitch. Like yeah I am ticked off at you right now but it'll pass. Alright give me some sugar." She leaned in and gave Camille a hug as she then whispered intensely "And don't you let them get away with what they did… both of them." Iris pulled away as Camille nodded her head making a promise to her.

Finally, she came face to face with the man himself. Griffin looked down at her as she reached the dock of shame, getting there to the end and looking up at him with her usual fiery expression "So… this is it."

Iris nodded her head back at him "Yup, kind of anticlimactic huh?"

Griffin rolls his eyes and says "Yeah not going to lie was kind of hoping it would be us two in the finals. Didn't imagine you'd just go out like this. At least I should've done it."

Iris shrugged her shoulders giving a light chuckle "Yeah you took everything else from me why not do that too huh? Hey she did you a favor, I would've destroyed you when the time came, you know how scary I can get."

Griffin rubbed the back of his head awkwardly "Ain't that the truth?"

They had a small awkward laugh as Griffin says "... Is it weird that I'm gonna miss ya?"

Iris quickly nodded her head "Yes it is Griff because I won't miss you."

Griffin sighs "Always difficult… and here I was hoping maybe this would be the part you said that you finally came to like me again."

"No no that's not right at all." She retorted quickly.

"Ok maybe you don't like me but you at least respect me."

"No no not even close."

Griffin chuckles "Defiant to the end huh?" He paused for a second wanting to say something to her. If he didn't say it now he never would. "Iris I…"

Iris then cracked her knuckles, shutting him up and not letting him get his closure. If she was going out, it wasn't to the beat of his drum or to give him any satisfaction… this was her moment, not his. "That's not defiant Griff… this is." And then suddenly she lunged onto Griffin, and knocked the big man down as the cameras cut away from it.

"YOU **** ******* ****** ******. I AM GOING TO GO **** YOUR MOTHER AND ***** * ***** ** *** ** *** *** SHE'LL BEG FOR ME TO **** *** ***. I HOPE YOU ******* *** YOU ***** ****** *********"

Chris got a phone call and solemnly answered it just watching this happen "Yes this is Chris… uh huh…. Yup ok got it. Have a good one."

"LICK MY ******* AND ******* ********** ********** ****** WITH A TRUMPET AND A FISH ******"

Chris looked over to Chef "So Disney cut us."

Chef nodded his head "Yup? Wanna go get some canned food because that's all we can afford?"

"Yup."

The two adult men walked off whilst the other six contestants watched the carnage.

"******* EAT A FLAMING ******** YOU **** ******"

"SHE IS BITING MEEEEE!"

Aleks jumps in front of the camera "Join us next week for Gaming… Drama…. TOTAL! …. Dangit!"

"**** THIS SHOW!"

Confessional (Everest): Everest appeared with a face of pure bliss, her eyes closed as a smile enveloped her entire being "I was going to play nice… I was going to be just a little more beneficial to Camille's inner circle, and maybe just once think of myself rather than the grand challenge. Be Skyler rather than be Everest… but then I remembered who I am… a winner." She then stared directly at the camera with that same euphoric smile she gave Iris right before her elimination "And winners, don't show weakness."

Confessional (Camille): Camille stared down at the balled up rag that Everest had thrown away, casually tossing her mask away in favor of a more direct look to toy with her victims emotions so they knew exactly what was going through her mind now. She was now enjoying herself. Camille took the veil of Everest, the already balled up and ruined cloth that she covered her face, and used it to cover the camera. After an indeterminate amount of time when the camera came back on, they noticed Camille's hair was different, her straight brown hair now cute shorter and her hair tied into a warrior braid like a Celtic warrior of old, and part of her hair raised up and spiky like a semi-mohawk with her hair bordering around it in mini braid patterns to accent the new look as one to reckon with "Everest, Griffin… I doubted her, but you made it clear that we cannot ignore you whatsoever. I hope it was worth it… because we're in the end game now…. Mother $*#!# s"

Xxxx

Meanwhile, after the show aired, in the Virtual World

In a large white room, around what appeared to be a giant conference table, thirteen individuals stood around the table and cast their shadows on the wall behind them. It was difficult to pinpoint exactly who they were, but it was possible to determine their shapes and builds using the shadows.

"Is everybody here?" The man in front said with a large trench coat over his body, his body itself constantly changing as if it was glitching.

"Si, I am ready to make the change." A large man with bulging biceps and a mask said.

"..." The sound of a drill spinning came on as a giant dome was shown and a bulky suit.

"Haaaaar, S.T.A.R.S!" A man in a big trenchcoat and several scars on his face lurched over them and lets be honest you know who this is.

"Indeed, and if I can read your minds… the real fun will begin soon. "The shadow of a thin man in a gas mask appeared.

"Oh yes of course, and they will never even see it coming." A man in a suit and a mask said waving a small dagger near his face.

"..." The next one was silent but also wore a huge suit with long dangly limbs to his side.

The next shadows made whizzing noises as it's head and body began to spasm almost uncontrollably.

"I suppose it can't be helped, working with people of such lesser skill." The next shadow had a flowing set of hair that went down their entire form alongside their long coat, coming from their side also was a gigantic thin sword that swarfed even them in size.

" ︎ ︎⧫︎ ◆︎⬧︎ ︎□︎■︎ ︎◆︎ ︎⧫︎ □︎◆︎❒︎ ︎⌧︎◻︎ ︎❒︎ ︎❍︎ ︎■︎⧫︎? ﾸﾎ ︎ ︎❍︎ ︎ ︎⧫︎ ︎❒︎❍︎ ︎■︎ ︎ ︎ ⧫︎□︎ ︎❒︎ ︎ ︎⧫︎ ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎■︎ ︎ ︎? ﾸﾎ " A figure with a large oval like head and a long trench coat appeared with a twisted smile on it's face.

"Tell me, why have you brought us all here… unless you too desire a heart." A large man with a full black overcoat appeared, his hair billowing behind him as he stood tall over many of the smaller ones in the room.

The one in the beginning spoke "Simple… a change in order is coming my friend."

A spiky figure appeared with his hair going behind his head and his thin legs down to his big shoes "Unnh, you won't get away with this."

"Oh my dear hedgehog, that's where you're wrong." The final figure approached, a man with a large jacket, a bald head… and a long, shaggy moustache.

"Oh no, not you."

"I usually like to work alone but well, you know what they say….

The more the merrier."