I am not a huge fan of superhero movies. Too close to action for me to really enjoy much about them, and I was just never really into superheroes, even when I was little. My closest thing was the original Powerpuff Girls episodes, and even then, the movie was pretty lackluster (by the way, I don't own it, because Toni mentions it in this episode). This challenge, though...well, I like how they had to get creative before anything else. Thanks for reviewing, lordgemini, WhatTheHeck23, iwashere01 and AnonBrowser.

The visit to the cheese factory was actually pretty fun. It wasn't just for cheddar or parmesan. It was just about every cheese we could think of. On the way, Lindsay even suggested we try to name all the cheeses we could think of. Actually, it was quite nice to spend time with just Lindsay and no one else. I had only really gotten to know her with Beth, and I didn't know if she'd be the same by herself. Turns out, she was a little more talkative, but still very sweet and friendly. She had a little bit of an annoying streak in her naivety and lack of intelligence, but I didn't hold it against her. We had fun.

Of course, we brought back a few samples for the other girls to try, but we also had to take several showers to get the cheesy stench off us. It wasn't like the stink bombs, but it was still pretty overwhelming. The girls wouldn't even let us in the trailer until we'd taken a few showers. Even then, the cheese we'd brought back stank enough for everyone else. It was just lucky that I was able to also give my clothes a rinse in the shower and hang it over my bunk to dry overnight, so that wouldn't smell like cheese either.

When we were first woken up the next morning, though, we didn't have enough time to put our clothes on straight off. We all heard the screams, so everyone showed up in their nightclothes. I was quite glad that I was wearing pyjamas that were decent, but not so glad that they were blue and pink (the girls hadn't said anything, but I was absolutely sure Duncan would tease me about it later).

Chef was dressed up as a woman, hanging there. Before our eyes, dressed as Batman, Chris swooped into view on a rope. Well, he managed to get hold of Chef, but then the rope broke and dumped both of them on the ground.

"I knew that bungy wouldn't hold!" Chris said furiously. "That's what happens when production cheaps out! And now my hair's all messed up!"

"Um, Chrissy Wayne, any chance you can tell us why you needed to wake us up early just to introduce the genre?" I said snarkily. My eyes were barely awake, but my mouth was in optimal working order.

"When!" I! Feel! Like! It!" Chris snapped back, smoothing down his hair with each word. "And now," he said, smiling again, "I feel like it! Today's challenges are inspired by the superhero flick!"

Apparently the reason he woke us up early is because "crime never sleeps" and because superheroes could be called upon at any time. According to him, superheroes didn't need everything normal people like us did.

"Actually," Harold pointed out, "Most superheroes are mere mortals." He started prattling on about some comic book hero.

"Harold's right." I added. "There's even that cartoon about those three little superpowered girls, you know, that one you love. They save the town from an assortment of villains and monsters, but they also attend kindergarten, do homework, they have games and activities they like, they need to be looked after and they sometimes find it all a struggle to do all that and save the world."

"How would you like it if those three little girls to fry your eyes out with their lasers?" Chris countered. "I didn't think so." (Joke was on him, I only knew that old school show because he used to watch it when he was a teenager).

I did, however, listen to Chris listing off the superhero movies things. Superheroes have superpowers, save people, and wear spandex tights (and so would we, apparently).

"Maybe you two can use that stench as your superpower," Courtney teased Lindsay and I, "Gorgonzola girls!"

I was really starting to get annoyed at Courtney, and the fact that I wasn't properly awake yet didn't help. "At least I have one. What's yours, the ability to believe something despite concrete evidence against it?"

As it was, our first challenge was actually kind of fun. We had to make up a superhero persona for ourselves, including a Spandex costume (embellished by whatever we wanted from a pile of junk), a name, and a superpower. We'd be judged on originality, how good our superpower was, and how cool our name was. Chef, or "Pythonicus", and his cat sidekick Dander Boy would try to sabotage us at every turn.

Well, okay. That I could do. I snatched up a bright purple roll and measured myself for a dress and leggings. I even made a ribbon to tie my hair into a ponytail. I managed to make those and put them on without issue, but my superpower was harder. Probably because Chef managed to push a whole lot of the junk on me while I was looking for things. He didn't quite bury me, but it did take me a while to get out. However, I did find a hand mirror that looked like an old one of Justin's, and some little round glasses.I tested the two's burning abilities and light, and found it was actually pretty effective. I even found a teeny tiny flashlight so it would work at night.

Not everyone did as well as I did. We each had to present ourselves to Chris, along with Chef, and Beth went first. She was wearing planks of wood on her arms and legs, but that was it.

"State your name and superpower." Chris said in a bored voice.

Beth mumbled something no one could hear.

"You're a superhero – act like one!"

Beth raised her voice immediately. "I am Lumber Woman! And I can talk to plants!"

"You're serious?" Chris said incredulously. "What do you talk about, the best brand of fertilizer? That's worth a whole three points."

Justin had clearly copied Beth. He was wearing branches instead of wood planks. "I am Timber Man!" he declared. "And my superpower is..." He threw something at Chris.
"Seriously? Wood chips?"

"Oh, and I can float." added Justin. "And make fire as long as I've got matches. And I don't get too close to the flame. Ouch."

"Lame." Chris replied. "Two points."

Harold fared quite a bit better. He was wearing a cream and red outfit with a chest inginia. "I'm Captain Alberta!" You see, Duncan's latest prank on him had involved sticking messy burritos into his pockets, and he'd eaten them for breakfast. That left him with gas he could actually control. Really terrible gas. And it actually worked. It travelled right to Chef, who fell over backwards, screaming that it burned.

"Impressive." Chris admitted. "Gross, but impressive. Now that Owen's gone, someone's gotta carry the fiery torch, and extra points for keeping it Canadian. Seven points for Captain Alberta!"

I came next. "I am Her Dorkness!" I declared. "The brightest nerd of Canada. Literally, that is." I added, taking off my glasses, aiming the lit flashlight and aiming it into the glasses, followed by the mirror which aimed it at Chris.

"Seriously, turn that thing off!" Chris yelled almost instantly. I obediently did so and tucked the flashlight away.

"Okay, that's effective, but I have to dock you for basing everything else on lack of coolness. Five points, Dork Girl!"

I shrugged and walked off. Duncan didn't do any better than Justin. All he'd done was glue a fake eye to his forehead and claim it allowed him to see into the future as the All-Seeing Eye. The fact that he saw Harold experiencing pain and then punched him wasn't enough for more than two points.

Courtney got the best mark so far as the Human Cricket. She was wearing a brown bodysuit (well, with sleeves and pants, but still clingy) and antennae, and had put some iron boards on her legs to "chirp" as her superpower. Chris gave her eight points after the chirping not only made Dander Boy screech and book it off the lot entirely, but also reduced Chris to begging her to stop.

Leshawna got seven points, too, just by throwing a water bomb at Chris after declaring herself Super Aqua Chick.

Lindsay was last, walking on with shorts that barely covered anything, a gold and red top and red boots, all that looked like a brighter, lighter version of the American flag. Her name made everything clear. "I'm Wonder Woman!"

"Wonder Woman already exists!" Courtney was quick to point out. "And she doesn't even look like that!"

"Lindsay's recreating her." I told her. "It's the same costume, just in lighter colours." I didn't add that Lindsay's costume and name lacked originality completely. I had a feeling Lindsay had unintentionally just managed to do what I should have done – played to my cousin's favourite superhero growing up.

Chris had a look on his face that made me think the same thing I had about the furkinis. "I'm liking the costume." he said, looking at Lindsay a bit too fondly. "What's your superpower?"

"Duh, I wonder a lot." Lindsay replied. "Oh, and I have an invisible jet right here! Or did I leave it over there?"

Lindsay won because, as I mentioned, Chris used to love Wonder Woman. While it was unfair and Courtney complained, I actually didn't even care because her winning meant Courtney didn't. She'd been in the lead until that moment, and it was getting a bit worrying, what she might do if she won immunity. No matter how many lawyers Courtney threatened, she couldn't actually stop Lindsay from winning. In the end, all she could do was smirk at Lindsay and say "You may have won the first round, but let's see who comes out on top!"

Lindsay immediately gave a huge dramatic gasp and exclaimed "Courtney just stepped on my invisible jet!"

Chris followed up with "Courtney, minus two points for stepping on Lindsay's jet."

Courtney spluttered as Harold asked "Can I have a ride?"

"Sure!" Lindsay smiled. "Who wants a ride in my invisible jet?"

"I do!" I called out, along with everyone except Courtney. Even Chris said it. Honestly, it was worth it just to see the lemon sucker face Courtney was making.

Our second challenge, Chris said, would test our superpowers. It was more an obstacle course. We had to jump over a building with a trampoline's help, catch a potato sack dropped from a building (meant to be a falling woman), and then cross power lines while Chef threw bowling balls at us as a "meteor shower". So it was something I might be able to win at. Lindsay had ten seconds off her time, but even so.

I made a quick trip to the confessional while "Wonder Woman" was taking her turn. "I don't know how good Courtney is at these, but I'm a little worried." I admitted. "At least I'm wearing leggings and my dress is pretty small, but she has the perfect outfit for movement, apart from those antennae. I know she's athletic, and she beat me at wrestling, but...point is, I need to win. I doubt anyone else can beat her."

Lindsay, not surprisingly, did terribly and didn't even finish the power lines, ending up on a mattress placed below (there were several below the power lines). Harold, though, went second and did a surprisingly good job. He even used his "wind" to push him a little higher to get over the building. He did waste time by playing the hero with the potato sack/woman, stopping to say to it "There you go, ma'am. All in a day's work for Captain Alberta!" But that was about the only thing he did wrong.

But he even landed on his feet at the end of the power lines! Chris grinned at him ."Never thought I'd say this, but nice work, Captain Alberta. Made good time too. Could have done without the change in weather patterns, though."

As for the rest of us...well, Leshawna had to try trampolining twice because she didn't make it over the set the first time. Beth did, but she tumbled over it. Then she tripped over a potato sack, because Duncan had tossed his over his shoulder. Justin got caught in the power lines and fell after being electrocuted, while Duncan was hit by a bowling ball, but managed to swing himself back up. Courtney glided over the set walls, ran gracefully to catch the potato sack, and somersaulted across the power lines. Now that was just showing off!

As for me? I got over the wall okay, tucked in a ball, almost missed the potato sack since the glasses irritated my vision but managed to grab onto a corner of it before it hit the ground, and made it across the power lines without getting hit, although there were more close calls. So I did about as well as Harold. In fact, I lost to him by five seconds.

But he didn't win. "While Captain Alberta did a surprisingly good job, even incorporating his, uh, superpower," Chris said, "The winner of the second challenges and immunity is...the Human Cricket, with thirty seconds!"

"Yes!" Courtney exclaimed, beginning to "chirp" with the iron again and making everyone block their ears.

"Don't make me change my mind, Courtney!" Chris yelled, and she thankfully stopped.

We all went to shower. I carefully folded up my Her Dorkness outfit to take home and took my bathrobe. The other girls were already talking about who to vote off.

"I say we take out Duncan." Beth said. "He's super strong and as much as Courtney would hate to admit it, it'd probably kill her."

"Kill two jerks with one stone?" Leshawna agreed. "I like it."

Okay, now was the time to tell them. "Um, sorry, but I can't vote for Duncan." I murmured, knowing I was blushing. "I kind of promised not to."

The girls looked at me suspiciously. "You're in a secret alliance?" Lindsay said, looking shocked.

"Not exactly." I told them. "At least, I don't call it an alliance when we're not helping each other through challenges. I just promised Duncan we'd always vote together. And you three don't have to look at me like a secret alliance is such a terrible thing. Lindsay, Beth, you two were in one once, even if you both left it in the end. And Leshawna, you don't have any room to talk, not after you kept trying to rope Harold and Duncan into one."

"Only cause you said no." Leshawna said defensively. But Beth and Lindsay were nodding, and they didn't look at me like I'd betrayed them.

"I swear, I'll do anything else to bring Courtney down." I swore. "Just not sending Duncan home. And if you do succeed, that's okay, I won't hold it against you. As long as you don't hold it against me if I end up sending one of you home. Or, I guess," I tried not to show I cared, 'If you voted for me."

"I don't think that's on the cards for tonight, Toni." Beth said, looking me straight in the eye. "At least, for us. You might want to think about it, though, because I'm sure Courtney will want to get rid of you."

When I went to find Duncan after getting dressed back in my usual clothes, he told me that he'd talked to Courtney already and warned her that the girls wouldn't keep her for long, and that she needed to convince Harold to vote with us and Justin. She'd tried to convince him to turf me instead, so Beth had been right. But since I was still an extra vote, Duncan had refused to vote me off, or tell Justin to do it. Courtney knew she was the only one who'd vote for me, and I knew she would wait for another time to do that, when she had a chance of it working.

"So who are we going for?" I asked quietly.

"I reckon Leshawna's the biggest threat." Duncan answered. "That's why I asked Courtney to talk to Harold."

I shrugged. "Fine. I told her it was up to her to show me I could trust her again, and although I think I can trust her from now on, I don't really mind sending her home. Nothing personal."

As it was, whatever Courtney said to Harold can't have worked. I was sort of glad despite the vote for Duncan, especially when I saw that she was still in her superhero costume at the ceremony, like she was rubbing her win in our faces (I suspect that was the whole point). It was over quickly, though. We had six Gilded Chris statues given out immediately. It was just Leshawna and Duncan left, and since I had a good idea of who voted for who, it meant Harold had to have voted Duncan. Well, okay, maybe Courtney or Justin switched, but I doubted that.

"Time for a tiebreaker!" Chris announced. "The winning challenge today tested your superpowers. Now, we're really going to test your superpowers. Super Aqua Chick and the All-Seeing Eye, each of you need to prove your superpower is the best!"

Well, that was over straight away. Harold was the only one who'd even used his superpower in the challenge, and we all knew that Duncan's self-fulfilling prophecies were nothing against Leshawna's water bombs.

Duncan began his walk to the Lame-o-sine, when Courtney suddenly called out "Wait!" She ran to the red carpet and said something to Duncan very quietly. Whatever it was, he must have liked it, because he grinned and hugged her. They even kissed.

I wanted to say my own goodbye to Duncan, but under the circumstances, it probably wasn't a good idea. I just waved and called out "See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya!"

And with that, my best friend in the game was gone. But the show was far from over.

With the game being the same characters for a while, it was time to throw a real curveball. One canon finalist is gone! What with Toni's friendship with Duncan, I'm sure you didn't think he'd leave so soon. But sometimes, the game just works that way and I feel like this was where Duncan should have gone in canon. If you're wondering, I do think Harold decided not to betray Leshawna this time around, which saved her here. Justin could have switched, but I think we all know that Courtney would never vote for Duncan.