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Got Venom

Last time on The Ridonculous Race, we saw some serious head games, and headier games, and even headier games literally, and the headiest of all games came when the haters scored the boomerang and used it on themselves, take that yourselves.

But in the end, love was in the air and so was hate, brrr did it just get cold in here, all right we're still in the Arctic, well now it's time to heat things up, this is the Ridonculous Race.

Yesterday Chill Zone is today Starting Point, the teams will start in the order they finished yesterday, Trent and Gwen are already waiting on the 5th place of the 8 remaining teams that are still in the Race.

"Hi, Tre-" the sound of breaking Ice interrupts Gwen, suddenly one of Cessna sink in the freezing water as the ice under it breaks.

"ALL TEAMS THERE IS NO TIME," shouts Don, alarmed by the event with fear on his voice, "HURRY UP, TAKE YOUR TIP AND RUN TOWARD THE CARGO PLANE, DON'T READ JUST RUN!"

The Drama Team doesn't understand what is happening, but they know that when the host is screaming run, you run, all the teams start rushing to the plane while taking the travel tip along the way.

As the Drama Team run, a narwhal breaks the ice some meters away from them, the whale was furious, and after that, another narwhal also emerges, all the teams run toward the plane, being the Ice Dancers the last team to board.

Once aboard, the plane takes off as quickly as it could, before the unicorn whales destroy the runaway, Inside the cargo plane, heavy breathing, all the teams are accounted.

"Wow, that was crazy awesome man, but exactly what was all that?" asks Brody, not quite sure what happened.

"Probably the narwhals were mad because the ring toss challenge," says Gwen, in a snarky tone.

All the teams laughed at the absurd of that idea, then each team began to talk strategy and plan their next steps as they travel to their new destination (unknown for them, Gwen said THE real cause of the narwhal attack.)

"Go into one of the Cargo planes and fly to Flores, Indonesia, then take a taxi that will take you to the village where the next travel tip will be found," reads Gwen to Trent "So we are going to Indonesia."

"At least we will have warmer weather than in the arctic," says Trent smiling.

Gwen rolls her eyes, preferring cold to heat any day, but she didn't want to spoil the musician's positive attitude, so she keeps silent.

After the long flight, the teams arrive at Luam Bajo Komodo Airport and take a taxi toward the western village mentioned on the travel tip.


Taxi confessional: Komodo dragons

(seated at the left side of the taxi Trent is looking nervously out of the window, with wide eyes, sitting on the right side is Gwen, she seems calm, with half-closed eyes and folding her arms).

"Do you think we will find Komodo dragons?" asks Trent with a trembling voice "I heard they are one of the most dangerous species of lizards, and their bite is venomous."

"Probably," says Gwen "Flores is one of the best places to see the dragons, but don't be afraid, it's true they are the largest species of monitor lizard, but its jaws muscles are not as strong as mammals. And even if they bite you, the venom is not mortal if you are only bitten one time, but you will be paralyzed and in immense pain."

"I almost forget you loved lizards. How are Angus and Vampyra?" Trent relaxed a little, forgetting about the Komodo dragons and thinking on Gwen pet lizards.

"They are fine, my brother take care of them while I am out, still I am worried he feeds them dead animals, instead of living ones," she sees straight to the camera and say in a stern voice and glaring "If you are seeing this, you better take good care of my lizards, or you will be part of their next meal."

Trent now looks at her with wide eyes and a nervous smile, and then at the camera, as she keeps glaring.


The taxi arrives and both go down toward the village, there they found the Sisters and the Reality TV Pros, who are just standing in front of the entrance of the village, not approaching the Don Box.

"What are you waiting for? Whooaaa!" began to ask Trent, before seeing an adult Komodo dragon sleeping at the Don Box.

"Well, who wants to be first?" asks Noah in a nervous tone.

At that moment, the Surfer Dudes exits their taxi, Brody looks at the sleeping dragon and have an idea.

"No problem, you just have to make a loud sound, and it will scatter," Brody honks his taxi's horn, after 2 or 3 attempts, the dragon awakens, but instead of scattering, it began to chase the taxi.

"See told ya," tells the Surfer Dude as if it went exactly as planned, then he and Geoff run and take the travel tip.

After the other 3 teams, Gwen and Trent take their travel tip "All in: how to milk your dragon: You must fill a vial of the venomous Komodo drool and deliver it to the local kid to get your next travel tip, try to not get bitten. I really think that some of these challenges are designed by the same producers of Total Drama," said Gwen glaring at the tip.

"Do you think we should talk about the alliance with Owen and Noah right now?" said Trent looking at the Reality TV pros who are with the Sisters.

"Let's wait until the end of the challenge to tell them our decision, let's focus right now on milking dragons," said Gwen, still not sure about the alliance.

"Well, it will be hard and dangerous, any idea?" asks Trent looking at his partner.

"If lizards are exposed to cold temperatures, they became slower and clumsier," says Gwen rubbing her chin, "but we don't have any means to cool them that quickly."

"Well, maybe I can try singing to them, music soothes savage beasts," as he said this, he walked toward a Komodo dragon and began to sing with potent and tuneful voice.

"No Trent wait-" but Gwen was too late, as Trent come close to the giant lizard with his vial in hand while singing, the beast began to chase him. Trent screams and runs away as fast as he can.

The Komodo dragon was catching up with the musician, Trent could feel the reptile launching bites at his legs, failing by inches, so in a moment of panic, he jumps few meters into a tree, grabbing into the trunk and climbing, sitting in a high branch. The Komodo try to climb but it's too heavy, so after a few tries, it gives up and leaves.

"Trent, are you okay!?" shouts Gwen scared, as Trent climbs down the tree.

"Yes, thanks, everyone's a critic," he says, still sweating after the chase.

"No, monitor lizards are almost deaf, they don't hear your melody, they only hear it as noise," she explains, looking at the Komodo from afar, "and it's clear they don't like noise."

"Well, time for Plan B," Trent recovers his composure "as I was sitting on that branch, I had an idea, but we need a rope."

Trent explains his idea to Gwen, and the team goes to the village and get a long rope and a pair of flip-flops. He takes off his sneakers and ties one of them with the rope, wearing the flip flops instead.


"Sometimes you have some strange ideas," Gwen tells him, smiling and searching for a Komodo dragon.

"I will take that as a compliment," replies Trent, following the goth.

"But I don't understand why you always have to take a piece of your clothes to enact those ideas," she adds, both of them chuckling.

After a while the team found a dragon alone near a tree, Trent throws the sneaker over a branch, and using the rope, lower the shoe until it touches the head of the lizard.

"Are you sure this will work?" whispers Gwen, as Trent began to raise and lower the sneaker multiple times, until the upset Dragon bit it, chewing it a little and tearing it apart, Trent raise half of the sneaker while the Dragon keep chewing the other half.

"See, it worked," said Trent enthusiastically "easier than expected, and it only cost my favorite sneakers," he winks at Gwen and carefully puts the wet piece of sneaker near the vial.

"You know, that was a great idea," Gwen praises him, as she collects the saliva into the vial, once it's full, the team runs toward the local kid.

The kid was an Indonesian with a tanned complexion, black hair of medium-length up his neck, wearing a yellow tank top, beige shorts, and flip-flops. After examining the vial, he gives them the travel tip.

"All in: Prepare to meet your loom:" Gwen rolls her eyes and continues reading, "On the massive mountains of rugs you have to find one of the 8 Ridonculous rugs and take it to the Chill Zone. *Sigh* It will surely be a huge amount of rugs," Gwen shakes her head.

"Come on Gwen, How ma-" and as Trent was about to end his sentence, they found the mountains of rugs, there were at least 6 mountains of at least 4-meter tall, finding 8 rugs in those pile was like looking a needle in a haystack.

"Nothing, I was saying nothing, forget it," Trent says and begins to search for the Ridonculous rug.


"I will look in this mound, you look the next one," Gwen then goes to look on a pile farther away.

The Drama Team is examining and discarding rug after rug, Gwen is in the top of her pile, while Trent is looking at the base, then both hear another team shout of happiness.

"We found one," Josee was celebrating as the Goths began to run toward the Chill Zone, which means that 2 of the 8 rugs were already found. But that was not their only problem.

Trent distracted by this, take out a rug that was keeping the mound together, and before he could react, he was buried by several falling rugs.

"Trent!" screams Gwen as she runs toward the buried musician, removing rug after rug.

"Trent, where are you?" asks Gwen worried, throwing rugs one after another, unexpectedly she feels something touch her ankle, she screams and jumps backward, seeing a hand in the floor.

"Don't scare me like that!" she says, taking his hand and pulling him out of the pile of rugs "And I mean being buried alive in rugs, you can always scare me if it's to tell me you are ok."

"Please mom 5 more minutes," answers Trent, his eyes spinning and unfocused. At his feet, there was a Ridonculous rug.

"Well done, Trent, you found it!" exclaims Gwen with a big smile, rolling up the rug and lifting it.

"Thanks, I will accept the nomination," Trent replies, standing up but staggering as he walks away from the carpet's mound.

"I know I will sound just like you, but don't worry Trent, all will be fine, only follow me to the Chill Zone," Gwen takes his hand and walks to the Chill Zone, with the rug in her other arm.

As they walk toward the carpet of completion, other teams begin to pass them, when they step on it, Don announces their placement "Gwen and Trent, you are 5th".

"Well, at least we are still on the race," tells the goth to her teammate.

"Justin, we are not hiring a pedicurist for the band entourage, take care

yourself of your feet," said Trent still dizzy after the hit.

"Let's put some ice on your head," said Gwen, smirking.


A moment later, Trent was better, sitting with an ice pack in his head, with Gwen at his side. She told him all about the accident and how he was a little disoriented after it.

"Sorry about worrying you, that was a pretty fool mistake," Trent says with a little bump in his forehead.

"Don't worry, accidents happen," Gwen says, trying to comfort him, "and it could be worst, at least you were not bitten by a Komodo dragon," she adds in a more snarky tone.

As they talk, Geoff and Brody enter the rest zone, when they see the Drama Team, Geoff goes to greet them.

"Hey man, nasty bump you have there, are you ok?" Geoff asks Trent.

"Yes, thanks for asking," Trent smiles "We end fifth, do you know if the stage is over?"

"We ended 7th," says Geoff smiling, "but good Owen was eliminated, poor dude."

"What?" Trent and Gwen say at the same time, shocked.

"Yes, they are still in the rugs mountain, but soon they will be asked to leave," Gwen and Trent were running at the rug mountain before Geoff could end his sentence.

Emma was hugging Noah in a pile of carpets, while Owen was standing with his left eye pretty irritated and swollen, and his other eye looking teary.

"Hey hello, guys," greet them Owen, smiling, "hehe, sorry, but we will not form that Gopher alliance after all," he tries to put a strong fort, but some tears run from his irritated eye.

"Owen, you did great," replies Gwen smiling.

"It's a shame, man, but after we win this, I still owe you a buffet," says Trent making a fist bump with Owen.

"Oh you are so kind, I love you guys," Owen hugs both almost crushing them.

Trent began to turn blue, as Gwen began to tap the party guy's arm "Owen, you are crushing us-"

"Hehe, sorry," Owen apologizes as he releases them.

"Owen time to go," says Noah, who already said farewell to Emma.

"You don't look too disappointed," said Gwen.

"Even after I lose the race, I still win, so there is no way I would be disappointed," he answers with a smug smile, "but if the Sisters lose, I would be cheering for you."

"Only if the Sisters lose? Never knew you had a kind side," replies Gwen with a snarky tone.

"Love changes everyone," he walks away with Owen, "Good luck."

As they go, Trent and Gwen return to the rest zone.


"I will miss them," says Trent in a sad tone, "right now, I feel more determined to win than ever."

Gwen shrugs, "If we can win, it will be fine, but remember, only one team can win."

"You think we cannot win?" Trent asks her in a more serious tone, his mouth in a straight line.

"Of course, I think we can win," answers Gwen nonchalantly, "but if we lose, I will not be disappointed, we have done great work until now."

They change the subject, eat dinner together, and part ways for the rest of the day.

Trent goes to his room, his bump is better, but still hurts a little, but that was not what keep him worried.

He had a thorn in his side, something that had bothered him for some days, but he couldn't put the finger on it, and today he knew what exactly was the problem. At last, he knows how to put out the thorn, but he has some doubts, as removing it may cost him everything, but if he wants to move on, he needs to do it.

In the end, he did not rush the situation, better get some rest, and tomorrow he will make his decision. But there is not much room to wait after he makes this realization, even then, he decides to run from this truth just a bit longer.


Indonesia is over, and now Trent had taken a decision, what will it be? You will need to wait before you find out.

A big apology to all my readers and Owen that wanted to see Gopher alliance, but I still need to create some more development for Trent and Gwen, I hope it doesn't disappoint you too much.

The episode is a little tricky because the best friends almost don't appear on it, so I have to improvise a lot, even then it was one of my favorite Trent's challenge.

Teams eliminated: the Larpers, Tennis rivals, Geniuses, Vegetarians, fashion bloggers, Mother and daughter, Adversity twins, Step Brothers, Rockers, Father and Son, Reality TV Pros.

As always, thanks for reading and I hope you like it.