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How deep is your love.

Last time on The Ridonculous Race there are plenty of fish in the sea, but none as ugly as the ones we saw, a three-way Alliance, the axis of evil, tied for first place while the other three team Alliance headed underground, there the Drama Team ended their Drama and are now only a not so dramatic Drama team.

In the end, I had to say goodbye to my bro team the surfers, the word dude will never sound as sweet to my ears again. Hopefully, this week I get to kick off a team I don't like, stick around it's time for The Ridonculous Race.

Yesterday Chill Zone is today Starting Point, and only 5 teams remain on the race. As Trent and Gwen wait for the beginning of the leg, a familiar face comes to greet them.

"Gwen, I am so glad you guys made it," says Ryan, who was without his shirt, showing his mighty muscles, "sorry about joining the other boat, that was all Steph idea."

"Oh, don't worry, we knew it wasn't you," answers Gwen, Trent frowning at her side, "and I am not complaining, but what happened to your shirt?"

"Hehehe," laughs the big guy, "I got a little heated, so I took it off, no one likes some gross sweaty guy, right?"

"You say it," Gwen chuckles, Trent still looking with contempt at Ryan.

"Well, I have to go back with the axis of evil, good luck!" Ryan replies and then goes to the first position with the Ice Dancers and the Police Cadets.

"I can't believe he took his shirt off like that, we are not on the beach," comments Trent frowning.

"You are not serious, right?" said Gwen, surprised that Trent of all people was criticizing someone for taking off his shirt at a random moment.

The race resumes before Trent had the chance to answer Gwen, the first three teams go out quickly, then the Sisters and finally, the Drama Team, taking their turn at the Don Box.

"Catch a flight to Siberia, once at Tolmachevo Airport you will find your next travel tip, just great another frozen region, I hope it is not as bad as the Yukon."

"Don't be so negative. At least this time, there you will not be singing," Trent comments.

"You are recovering your touch, smartass," answers Gwen, chuckling, before taking their taxi to the airport.

They arrive almost at the end of the boarding time for the flight to Siberia. All the teams are running to catch the trip because the next one is in 8 hours, losing it means to be out of the race. Fortunately, they made it to the plane in the nick of time.


In the plane, the atmosphere is heavy, with 3 teams in a solid alliance, Gwen and Trent were in a disadvantage, so Trent decides to go and ask Kitty and her sister if they are still on an Alliance or not.

"Hi Kitty, how are you?" asks Trent leaning against the top of her seat, with his trademark smile.

"Hi Trent, fine thanks," answers Kitty smiling "You look better than yesterday, does something good happened?" she looks at him with interest.

"You can say that," Trent wink and adds, "now that we are at the top of our game, things will get more interesting."

"So, did you resolve your problems with Gwen?" Kitty shows a grin as Trent blushed.

"I would not say all of them, but we are back to good terms, not wait, better than good," he then lowers his face and almost whispering "but I am here to ask you about something important, our alliance."

Kitty blinked. She wanted to know if they were back together or no, but she decided to ask later, "What about the alliance?" she answered, almost whispering as well.

"Does it exist? yesterday you seemed to be out of it when the Surfer Dudes were eliminated," whispered Trent looking to his sides, "but if you want, we can make it to the final two and leave the axis of evil behind."

Kitty looks toward the floor a little ashamed "I would love it, but my sis doesn't want alliances," she didn't tell him that her sister hoped to make the other alliance go against Trent and Gwen.

"Try to convince her, in Siberia, we will show you we mean business," he then straightens up, and as he goes back to the back adds "think about it."

She waved at him, Emma looking at her, narrowing her eyes, not knowing what they talked about.

"What happened?" asks Gwen looking at Trent with curiosity.

"They are not sure," replies the musician, "but don't count on them in Siberia."

"That's a shame," she then waved at Ryan, and he answers waving at her, the giant then was quickly punched by Stephanie, who knocks him in the ground.

Ryan makes a dimpled smile at his ex-girlfriend, "Sorry, Stephanie, I realize that my weaving to Gwen must have made you pretty uncomfortable," she didn't say or do anything more, confused by his behavior.


The teams arrive at Siberia, Trent and Gwen are the first ones to go out of the plane, running to the Don Box which this time had a white ushanka (a traditional Russian hat).

Gwen smirks, "Look like the race has less budget, this time they only bought the hat," she then reads the travel tip, "ride the ice yachts while wearing your swimsuits to the Kola Borehole where you will find your next travel tip. No way, they must be joking." Gwen looked pretty annoyed with the idea.

"Chill out, Gwen, this will be cool," Trent smiled at his joke and began to call a taxi.

"Trent, don't pursue comedy, you are doing fine with music," she answers snarky, as they go in the taxi.

The teams arrive at the challenge zone, there were 5 wooden changing rooms and 5 ice yacht. The ice yacht is just as the name implies, a sailboat with ice skates to navigate over ice, they are also called iceboats. The problem was changing to their swimming suits at a temperature below -5ºC (23ºF), but it was part of the challenge.

"What evil spirit possess me to choose a bikini as my swimsuit?" exclaimed Gwen, going out wearing a black bikini and sandals.

"Gwen, don't think about the cold, and you will be fine," says Trent folding his arms, dressed with red swimming shorts and flip flops.

The team was the first to go in the ice yacht, Trent navigates, and Gwen controls the direction of the sail, the iceboat run pretty fast, but they were not as good sailing on it as they hope.

"I thought you were a master of driving anything," Gwen teased Trent, winking an eye.

"I said I could drive anything with wheels," he put his chest out, before shivering.

The Sisters and the Haters began to close the gap with them, when our team accidentally run over something.

"I don't know what we hit, but it's slowing us," shouts Trent, trying to keep control of the yacht.

"You will not believe it," Gwen's eyes went wide because they hit a bigfoot with a fishing rod, the one was hooked to the yacht. They were dragging the poor creature across the ice like an ice skater.

Trent doesn't lose his cool seeing the yeti, he makes some quick movements with the ice yacht until the bigfoot was thrown into the air. As they struggle, the Sisters overtake them, both girls were wearing bikinis as Gwen, but red in color instead of black.

"It looks like I was not the only one possessed by evil spirits," adds Gwen with a grin on her face.

"Gwen, you can joke later, help me with the sail, we need to speed up again," Trent shouts, trying to catch some wind steering the ice yacht but to no avail. The Haters yacht close behind them.


In the Sister boats, they were going smoothly, Emma was steering the ship and Kitty helping.

"Oh Yeah!, 1st place, now let's block the Haters so Trent and Gwen can pass them," tells Kitty to her sister, folding her arms and shivering but smiling.

"Why would we risk doing that? Asks Emma coldly, with a stern tone on her voice.

"Because we are in an alliance, and maybe we would need their help later," explains Kitty raising her eyebrows, not believing her sister's behavior.

"Trent and Gwen are in actual danger right now?" asks Emma again, in the same tone.

"No well,"

"Are they in last place?" Emma continued with her questions.

"No, but,"

"Are they in risk of being eliminated?" Emma didn't give her sister time to elaborate on their answers.

"But we make a deal,"

"Yes or no," insist Emma.

"No," Kitty answer with resignation.

"Then they are fine," Emma smiled as she wins the argument.

"I hate when you lawyer me," Kitty throws a disdainful look at her sister.

"I am super good at it, aren't I?" says Emma smiling as their iceboat speed up to the next Don box.


Meanwhile, the Drama Team was neck to neck in the race with the Haters.

"Ryan, charge at them," orders Stephanie.

"Steph, I don't think it's a good idea," says Ryan, not looking at her face.

"Why can't you do what I tell you at the moment I tell you," she replies angrier and in a higher tone, almost screaming.

Ryan shrug, "whatever you say Stephanie," Ryan directs their ice yacht and charges Trent's boat side to side, almost throwing Gwen into the ice.

"Sorry, Gwen," shouts Ryan visibly concerned by all this charging idea.

"Don't talk to her," shouts Stephanie.

"Are you crazy, musclehead?" Trent shouts angrily, charging against the Haters boat.

"Trent, don't fall in their game," shouts Gwen.

But Gwen preach to deaf ears, as Trent continues to charge at the Haters boat, and Ryan, forced by Stephanie continue to charge in response, in the end, both teams fall in 3rd place, the Ice Dancers overtaking them.

"Trent, ignore them, we should be more into the race and less in some petty boat battle," shouts Gwen, frowning.

"But-" before Trent could say his argument, his eyes go wide as he saw a giant hole in the ice some meters in front of them

"HOLE!" screams Ryan and Trent at the same time, trying to steer the iceboats out of the way, while Gwen and Stephanie scream in terror, luckily, both boats go out of the way and crash against the changing rooms that were built at the side of the next challenge zone.

After recovering from the crash almost unscathed, both teams go into the changing rooms to change into their winter clothes, and moves toward the next Don Box.


"Why our thermal bodysuits are black again?" Trent asks while putting his winter cap, his face red, after hit it against a changing room during the crash.

"Oh, don't worry Trent, you look good in black," replies Gwen with the travel tip on her hand "The next challenge is Who is ready to go deep?: one of the teammates must lower their harness wielding partner all the way down the Kola Superdeep Borehole, where many balls are laying, once you have one your partner would crank you up and together race to the Chill Zone."

"Ok, you go down, and I lower you," Gwen proposes as she offers the harness to Trent.

"Are you sure? It requires a lot of upper body strength to lower and raise someone into the hole. And we know I have more upper body strength than you," says Trent looking into her eyes.

"Yes, but is a 7 miles hole into the underground, and you know I love dark, but not dark and crampier places," she replies, her eyes widen as she bites her lower lip.

"Gwen, listen to me, you will be ok, it's not the same as being buried alive, so relax, I will lower and raise you as fast as I can," Trent looks into her eyes with a small smile that makes her feel comfortable.

"Ok, you win, but if I die, I promise I will reincarnate as your daughter and make your life a living hell during my teenage years," she answers snarky and put the harness and the helmet.

While Gwen prepares, Ryan also came to the hole entrance, dressing with the harness and the helmet.

"Hey, glad to risk my life in a silly challenge again with you, Ryan," says Gwen with a smirk, fist-bumping the big guy.

"Hehehe you said it," Ryan answers, as both Stephanie and Trent glared at them, Trent's eyes sparkling greener than ever.

As they began to descend into the 7 miles hole, Josee of the Ice Dancers finish the challenge, and they claim the first place. Still, Gwen was more focused on herself than the other teams, as their claustrophobia made her stressed and nervous. Next time she should be more careful with Trent's sweet smile, which makes her agree to go down the hole.

Being heavier, Ryan reaches the bottom first, found his ball, and begins to rise again.

"Good Luck down there," Ryan tells Gwen as he raises to the surface.

"Thanks, see you at the Chill Zone," replies Gwen as she gets to the bottom.

The chamber was more like a cave than a man-made construction, the walls were covered with stones in their natural state, Gwen breath nervously, being underground was uncomfortable for her, so she hurries up using the light in her helmet and found a ball.

Gwen sigh relieved, but before she could tell Trent to raise her, something suddenly came from behind her, grabbing her and making a horrible high pitched sound.

Gwen screams in terror, her face paler than normal, "Don't touch me," she yells, throwing kicks at the monster, which falls to the ground before any kick reaches it.

"Please, calm down. It's me, Kitty," the young Asian girl shouts from the ground, looking as scared as Gwen, "I need your help."

"Why the heck you approach with your helmet's light off?" asks Gwen, still heavy breathing.

"That Josee broke my light and stole my ball," responds Kitty, looking angry toward the surface, "Can you help me find another one?" Kitty looked at the goth with an expression full of hope.

"Let me think about it," replies Gwen with a smirk on her face, and looking down at her, Kitty felt a shiver go down her spine.

Gwen then makes a full smile "Sure, we are an alliance after all," Gwen gulps, she then takes off her helmet and hands it to Kitty, "But I would be cursing you all the way out," Gwen winks trying to hide her fear.

"Thanks, Gwen," answers Kitty exchanging helmets, "Hear that Emma, because we are an alliance," Kitty then turns on the light of Gwen's helmet and goes to find another ball.

"Ok, my bad, we should have helped them back then, I'm sorry," said Emma to her sister on the radio, as she rolls her eyes.

Trent began to pull Gwen as fast as he could, as the goth tried in vain to keep calm.

"Trent, I hope this alliance idea bears fruits because right now, I think it is your worst idea ever, especially now that I am in a narrow and dark place," Gwen said nervously.

"You are almost out, don't worry," Trent tries to comfort her.

"I hate to be negative, but the hole is becoming narrower now, maybe it's collapsing, so please, Trent hurry up!" her voice was higher and louder, her breathing audible.

"The tunnel is ok, concentrate on my voice, breath in, breath out, I am doing my best to raise you, you do the same to stay calm," Trent insists, pulling the lever to raise her as quickly as he could.

Gwen keeps quiet, Trent only hears her breathing, the grinding sound of her teeth and an occasional sob in on his headphone, that was worst than the pleas she was yelling earlier.

At Last, Gwen arrives at the surface, she was shuddering, her mascara running on her cheeks and her eyes unfocused, but she was holding the ball with both hands as if her life depends on it.

Trent hugs her, putting her head against his shoulder, "You're alright, don't worry, you were the bravest down there," but she keeps standing there, unresponsive, so Trent holds her in his arms and runs to the Chill Zone.

"Drama Team, you are third place," Gwen wince as she hears their team name, blushing when she notices Trent holding her like a princess.

"Trent, thanks, I'm alright now," said Gwen smiling, both blushing as he let her down.


The stage ends with the sisters in 4th, and the Police Cadets in 5th, Sanders, the kinder of the two cadets broke her arm during the challenge, but as it was a non-elimination round, so all teams are still on the race.

Gwen and Trent go with the Sisters and talk about the alliance. After being sure they were still on an alliance, the 2 teams agree to only help each other in exceptional situations, which could end with one of the teams eliminated or at a clear disadvantage.

Trent went to his room after the dinner, he looked fine, but was confused, when Ryan charge his iceboat, it was more an accident for sailing too close, but when he saw the big guy talking with Gwen, his blood boil, and he wanted to take him out of the race. He was getting jealous again, and now it was worse because he and Gwen aren't even dating, so, Why does he care?

Trent knew the answer, but he didn't want to admit it, not so close to the final stage, with only 4 more teams to defeat, if he makes the wrong move, it means losing everything, so the musician takes a deep breath and go to sleep, but in his dreams, Trent found the same green-eyed monster he was becoming.


Russia is over, and now Gwen is free from her devils, but Trent still have one to beat, we hope it doesn't hinder them in the race

This episode was harder to write, it has so many things happening, I ended it without writing any confessional and still was a big chapter. Even then I love the result, I try to keep the spirit of the original while using Trent and Gwen at their fullest, and I hope it worked, but that is to you, dear reader, to decide.

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

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