The camera fades to see Tom, who was walking in the cave again. He was forced by Chef to grab his mask he dropped. But he was scared, as he may have dropped it near the bats' nest below.
Nevertheless, he tried to keep his cool. "I can do this… I can do this…" He kept telling himself.
At that moment, he heard a bats' screech, causing him to freak out. Despite that, he continued trekking through the cave to find his mask.
"I can do this… I can do this…" He kept saying, though as he kept saying it, he was thinking otherwise.
Just then, he found bats swarming over the mask. Tom, frightened, inched further and further towards it, trying not to get the bats' attention.
As soon as he got a few inches near the mask, he slowly reached his arm out to grab the mask. When he got it, this alerted the bats overhead and caused them to start screeching and flying around the fashionista, much to his horror.
The fashionista ended up running in circles in the cave, screaming his butt off.
Meanwhile, at the amphitheater, most of the campers were about to watch Ennui and Chelsea, whom they were onstage, awaiting their phobias. Chris was onstage with them too.
*FLASHBACKS*
"I'm afraid of… being forced to… smile." sighed Ennui.
"Soooo… my biggest fear would have to be… dolls." said Chelsea.
*END OF FLASHBACKS*
"Okay. Ennui, I'm gonna have to take a picture of you, and all you need to do is smile for the camera." said Chris.
Ennui let out a shudder.
*CONFESSIONAL: Ennui*
Ennui: I don't even remember the last time I genuinely smiled… It was til I realized there's no reason why I should though…
*END CONFESSIONAL*
Chris took out Kitty's phone, which Emma immediately noticed.
"Is that Kitty's phone?!" she accused.
"So what?" asked Chris, "It's not like she needs it now." He turned to the goth, "Alright, I'm gonna have to have you smile for one selfie, and then that's it." The host turned on the phone's camera, then proceeded to put it on 'selfie mode'.
The host turned to Ennui, "Ready?" he asked.
"No." the goth flatly said.
"Well you better bring me a smile, otherwise you'll contribute nothing for your team!" chuckled Chris.
Ennui looked at Chris for one second, before looking at the rest of his team. Then he took one glance at Chelsea, who had a short smile on her face.
Swallowing his pride and knowing that he has to do something, he had his lips quiver, struggling to put up a smile for the camera. He didn't want to do it, but he had to.
Eventually, for what seemed like an eternity, the goth actually put up a smile…
Albeit, it looked like he was constipated. His eyebrows indicated that Ennui was in pain, and forcing a smile definitely made it look like Ennui was in pain.
But Chris didn't give a crap of what sort. "Alright!" he exclaimed, "Selfie time!" He held up the camera, took a snap, and the camera revealed the picture of Chris holding up a V sign with his arm around Ennui, and Ennui having his constipated smile.
"Okay!" Chris exclaimed, "Great job! The score is now 2-1, Bass!"
Gophers - 1 / Bass - 2
Ennui shuddered, upset that he had to go through it. "I never want to give any forceful emotions again…" he said.
"Okay, moving on we have Chelsea!" Chris walked over to Chelsea, who had her arms folded, "Now, we all know that your biggest fear is dolls, no?"
"I mean, I guess…" groaned Chelsea.
Chris was given a bag from out of frame, taking something from inside the bag.
"What are you doing?" Chelsea asked, nervous.
Chris said nothing, as he revealed that thing from the bag to be a rag doll, one that looks and is dressed exactly like Chelsea!
Chelsea jumped back on her seat. "Oh. My. God…" she said, nervously.
"All you need to do is hold the doll for about-" Chris began, giving the alternative chick the doll, only for her to swat it away and run away in fear.
"Nevermind…" Chris announced, "Looks like Chelsea contributes nothing for her team…"
Some of the Bass groaned, with Harold yelling, "GOSH!"
"Okay, who's next?" Chris asked, pondering who should be next. Then he sees Cody, "Cody, you're up!"
*FLASHBACK*
"Having to defuse a time bomb under pressure…" Cody stated.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
The camera showed a series of garbage cans, tied to a rope, all hooked up with a bunch of wires. There were flies swarming around the cans.
Cody stood in front of it in fear, as Chris stood behind him.
"Alright, Cody." he said, "This garbage bomb's going off in exactly ten minutes. Everything you need to know to defuse it," Chris held up a blueprinted list, "Is on these pneumatic blueprints."
"What?!" Cody cried out in shock, "No way! I can't do this!"
"Then…" Chris chuckled, "I suggest you find a safe place to hide, bruh. Later dude." He started walking off.
"Wait, you're not gonna watch?" Cody asked.
"No way!" said Chris, "That's a live bomb, dude!" He ran off without a word, leaving Cody to defuse it.
Meanwhile, Emma ran in the Mess Hall, only to see Kitty, who was still on her high chair, quivering in fear.
"Wh-what are you doing, Emma?" Kitty asked.
"There's no spiders in here, right?" asked Emma.
"Not that I know of…"
"Good…" sighed Emma.
"But you realize that was Chef in a spider costume." Kitty pointed out earlier, "In no way was that a real spider."
"I know, Kit, it's just… I'm scared…" said Emma, "If I knew we were gonna have our fears presented, I wouldn't have said anything a few days ago…"
"None of us knew either, Emma…" Kitty shook her head, "Though at least you have spiders. I, on the other hand, am gonna get ugly-fied!"
"That's not even a word…" Emma raised an eyebrow in uncertainty.
Just then, Chris walked into the Mess Hall. "Hey, what's up, Emma?" he greeted, "Miss your sister that much, that you wanna go talk to him?"
"Well, uh, I-" Emma stammered, before Chris snatched the make-up box and went over to Kitty.
"You're just in time to witness me ugly-fy your sister!" Chris sang with pure glee.
Emma shook her head, "Again, ugly-fy isn't a word!" she said, annoyed.
"Yeah, don't care." Chris shrugged, "Anyways, here's what's gonna happen, Kitsune. For the next thirty minutes, I'm gonna apply makeup on you. And then after awhile, I'm gonna have to throw you out there and let you see what you've become!"
"I don't feel comfortable doing this…" Kitty shrunk in her seat.
"Well it's either that, or contributing nothing for your team." Chris said, nonchalantly, "Besides, even though your team's still in the lead, there's always the chance of an upset."
Kitty gulped. "Fine… Just put it on me."
"Great!" Chris exclaimed, as he brought out a brush and a makeup kit from the box, and started brushing something white onto the photographer.
The camera showed Emma, who could only watch as her sister was whimpering.
"Don't cry, Kitsune." Chris said offscreen, "It'll make the makeup even worse! Actually on second thought, do that."
Emma rolled her eyes at the camera.
Underground, Jasmine noticed that her five minutes of being buried alive were almost up, with the time winding down to 0:15.
"Okay…" she said, confidently, "I can do this… Just less than fifteen seconds to go… How ya doin' up there, Sammy?" She said through her walkie-talkie, "You ready to get me outta this thing?"
There was no response.
"Sammy?" Jasmine asked through the walkie-talkie again.
Still, no response.
"Hello?" Jasmine said, a little nervous of what's going on.
She was unaware, however, that 'Sammy' was nowhere in sight. Amy had already abandoned her place and had walked somewhere in the forest. Jasmine's pleas were droning as time had already expired.
The camera cuts to Amy, who peered from behind a tree. She had a smirk on her face as she looked at Bridgette, who was still going through her challenge to stay in the forest. It hadn't been six hours… yet. More like one and a quarter hours gone by.
Bridgette was still quivering in fear. But nevertheless, she remained confident that she was gonna do it.
"I can do this…" said Bridgette, "No problem." She let out a nervous chuckle.
Suddenly, she started hearing what sounded like someone was grumbling, something as if they sounded like a woodland folklore creature, sasquatch.
This got the surfer to squeal and flail her arms, only to fall face forward on her log.
Amy let out one more sinister smile towards the surfer, who did not notice at all, and then went behind the tree again.
Meanwhile, Ezekiel and Sam were standing in front of a makeshift haunted house. Both of them were afraid, but Sam was even more scared, knowing that haunted houses were his fear.
*FLASHBACKS*
"If I were to say what my fear would be," Sam said, "It'd be haunted houses. They're some crazy stuff."
"I have a boiler in my basement." said Ezekiel, "Whenever the boiler turns on, it makes that low, rumbling noise that scares me."
*END OF FLASHBACKS*
Sam picked up a sheet of paper in front of him and Ezekiel, which had a piece of writing on it.
"'If you want to complete this challenge,"' he read, "'All you need to do is to go through this haunted house, starting from underneath…"'
Ezekiel's eyes widened. He knew what was going to happen.
"We didn't get your boiler room, Zeke!" Chris announced on the intercom, "But we did something… a little similar to it."
"What's he gonna do, eh?" asked Ezekiel.
"You're asking me?!" Sam exclaimed, "I dunno! Haunted houses are my biggest fear!"
Just then, the side door opens up, and the duo see a staircase that was leading all the way down to the basement.
The duo looked at each other, scared. But nevertheless, they had to go down and complete the challenge for their team.
"After you…" Sam gestured to Ezekiel.
The SFX for the scene started to make some creepy ambience throughout. Ezekiel took his first few steps down, before Sam followed the homeschooler.
The camera showed the basement, which was dark, only having a couple of candles to illuminate the room. There was another note with writing on a table nearby.
Zeke and Sam finally made it to the bottom, where they spotted the note. Sam sauntered over to grab it.
"'For Zeke: Stay here for five minutes. For Sam: Travel through this haunted house for ten minutes."' Sam read the note.
Sam gulped and turned to the homeschooler, who was quivering in fear at being told to stay in the basement for five minutes or contribute nothing for the Bass.
"Well… I guess I'm going…" Sam shrugged, before walking towards a spiraling staircase, leaving Ezekiel alone.
Ezekiel looked around the room. It was all dark, without a light to be illuminated… except for the candles.
Above the house, Sam made it to the foyer of the house.
"Well, that was easy…" he sighed. He started to walk around and explore the house, only to see a skeleton on the welcome rug, startling him. Nevertheless, he kept on walking.
Meanwhile, Chris had just finished applying makeup on Kitty. Emma was right behind him, disapproving of what he did to her sister.
"Alright, Kitty," said Chris, "Looks like you're all dolled up and ready to go!"
"Oh… okay…" Kitty murmured, "What should I do?" Even though she was speaking, the camera did not show her face whatsoever.
"All you need to do is to find a mirror somewhere, and just take one look at yourself." said Chris.
"You don't have one here?" asked Kitty.
"Nope…" Chris shook his head, "If you want, you can check your cabin. I'm pretty sure there's one there…"
"Okay…" Kitty shrugged, and she left to go to the Bass' cabin.
Emma leered at Chris, "What are you doing with her, McLean?" she asked. Chris let out a cheeky smile towards the law school hopeful.
At the Bass' cabin, Benny was given a note that read, "Stare directly at the clown for a complete minute, and you'll earn your team a point". She looked back up at the movie.
"Eleanor," said the actor in the movie, checking behind a big red and white tent, "Looks like there's something behind this tent…"
"Oh s**t…" gulped Benny, knowing this might be where the clown will come next.
Unbeknownst to her, Kitty was outside their cabin.
"Hold on… I think I…" said the actor, before uncovering the tent and it reveals an old, wrinkly, deformed clown man. It had its eyes crossed, had buck teeth, and looked like it was already crying, as its makeup was already running, when the face it made looked like it was actually smiling. The movie paused at that moment.
Benny let out a scream as she jumped from her seat when she saw the clown.
Just then, the door opens. And Benny whips her head to see a clown who looks exactly like the one in the movie!
"Hi Benny." said the 'clown'.
Benny lets out a blood-curdling scream, "SO SCARY!" she yelled as she got up and threw the 'clown' towards the side, charging out of the cabin in hysteria.
The 'clown' turns to see the side of a mirror in confusion. But that 'clown' turned out to be Kitty, who was polished to look like the clown from the movie Benny was watching.
Kitty let out a scream. "Oh my gosh!" she yelled, "I look so hideous!"
"Let it all sink in, Kitty…" Chris announced on the intercom, "How does this make you feel?"
"I… I dunno!" Kitty cried, "I feel like I- I feel like I… I need to wash up!" She sprints out of her cabin in a hurry.
The camera showed Chris at the Main Hall.
"Well then…" he said, "Now let's update this score…"
Gophers - 1 / Bass - 3
"Bass are leading by two," Chris explained, "But all of that might change… Maybe…"
The camera showed Winston, who was sitting on a log.
*FLASHBACK*
"Lightning always gets me riled up." he pointed out.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
Just then, he notices a dark cloud hovering over him. He looks up in confusion, before the cloud starts creating lightning, shocking the slum boy.
"Aww s**t!" he yelled, as he ran off in a hurry. The cloud was following his every move, however, no matter where he went.
Nearby was Chris, who stood beside a tree, armed with a remote control. It was clear that he was in control of the cloud.
"Man, this is awesome!" he laughed.
Suddenly, he heard an explosion from behind him. "Huh, looks like Cody blew himself up…" he said.
The camera showed Cody, who was covered in trash and felt fatigued. "Boobs…" he muttered, "Is anyone here?" He started walking, but there was a banana peel and a piece of watermelon covering his eyes, along with a couple of splatters of trash nobody could even tell. "Girls? Andie? ANYONE?!"
Winston heard him as he kept running away from the lightning cloud. "You're simpin' again, dawg!" he called out. He turned to Chris, "Yo, Chris! What do I do?!"
"And how long has it been?" Chris looked at his watch to see how long Cody went, "Huh, he went through ten minutes. Did he diffuse the bomb?" He asked the cameraman.
*CUTAWAY*
Cody was seen looking at the wires hooked on the garbage bomb. He was too nervous to even do anything. So much so, that he wasted all of his ten minutes thinking, as the camera fast-forwarded until the bomb went off.
*END OF CUTAWAY*
"DAWG!" Winston was heard as Chris' attention was finally brought to the slum boy.
"Oh yeah, just stay underneath it for five minutes or so." Chris instructed.
"This oughta be worth it!" Winston yelled as the lightning cloud kept following him.
"It will, just stay underneath it for a couple more minutes!" Chris hollered back. Chris went back to sit in his lounging chair, only for something to hit something. "Uh huh…" he said, "There's something I may have forgotten… And normally I'd let it go, but gosh darn it, there has to be something I'm missing!"
He looked at his watch again, and then started thinking of a certain camper still several feet underneath.
"Yikes!" he exclaimed, "How long has it been?!"
Chris picked up a shovel from underneath the lounging chair and made a run for it across the beach. But then he stopped after a couple seconds.
"Can someone help me with something?!" he called out to offscreen, "Anyone who's not performing a challenge yet… or has already gone?"
"I'll go!" Devin volunteered, running towards the host.
Chris shoved another shovel onto Devin. "No time to explain!" he ordered, "We have to get moving!" He and the tech guy ran off.
Meanwhile, outside the bat cave, Chef walked back to the entrance, annoyed that Tom hasn't finished the challenge yet.
Just then, he hears Tom's shrieks, as the fashionista bolts out of the cave in a mad dash, with bite marks all over his face and tears in his clothing. His glasses had a crack on them too.
"H-here…" Tom gave Chef the mask he finally received from the bats' clutches.
"I don't even wanna ask ya what happened in there…" Chef shook his head, "Not gonna… How long were you in there, boi?"
"I dunno…" Tom shook his head, "Long enough to get my face scratched up!"
"I heard ten minutes." Chef nonchalantly shrugged, "I think you conquered your fear quite nicely. You've earned yourself a point. Now let's get you stitched up, pretty boi."
Gophers - 2 / Bass - 3
"Can you help me with my clothes too?" asked Tom.
Chef turned around to Tom, annoyed. "What, you think I was made to repair clothing?!" he questioned.
But Tom looked at Chef, with puppy-dog eyes. After a few seconds of Chef glaring at him and Tom giving him that stare, Chef let out a begrudging sigh, "I'll work on em tonight and give em back to ya tomorrow… Now c'mon, let's get you stitched up!" Tom followed Chef as he walked offscreen.
Meanwhile, Bridgette was still waiting around, hoping her challenge would be over. It was far from it, however.
"Okay, okay, okay…" she said to herself, "Bridge, you can do this. Only…" She looked at her watch, "Four hours and fifteen minutes to go!"
Suddenly, she hears a hawk calling from above.
"Oh, don't even try to freak me out, producer people!" she exclaimed, looking around.
*CONFESSIONAL: Bridgette*
Bridgette: Actually, I'd like to thank the producers for making me face my fear. I'm proud of myself. There's really nothing to be afraid of…
*END CONFESSIONAL*
As Bridgette sat on a log, she started hearing moaning noises. She looked up and gasped at the sight of someone walking towards her.
Cody, still covered in trash, was walking up to Bridgette, moaning as if he were an undead being, like a zombie.
Bridgette jumped up from her seat and ran like the winds, screaming her ass off as Cody, unaware of what was going on, walked over to the log and tripped.
Meanwhile, Chris and Devin were on the beach, digging Jasmine back from underneath, when they heard Bridgette's screams, and the host immediately assumed what happened.
"Huh, looks like Bridgette failed to earn her team a point." Chris said to himself, "Anywho… let's check on Jazzy…"
Devin had finished digging Jasmine back up, as the Aussie pounced on top of him, hyperventilating and holding on as Devin felt squished.
"She's alright!" Chris exclaimed, "She's alright! And that means the Bass and Gophers get another point, along with Tom facing his fear of bats!"
Gophers - 3 / Bass - 3
Devin set Jasmine off of her gently, "What happened to you, Jasmine?" he asked, "I thought Sammy was in charge of digging you back up."
"I tried calling her, and yet no response!" Jasmine exclaimed, "What the heck happened to her?"
"Well whatever happened," Chris announced, "She was not facing her fear… yet."
Jasmine stood up, angry. "Well, when I find her, I better have a stern talking-to with her." She walked off in a huff, with Devin trailing behind her, confused.
Meanwhile, Duncan was the next camper to face his fear.
*FLASHBACK*
"C-Celine Dion music store standees…" he admitted a few nights ago.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
The backside of a Celine Dion cutout was seen as Devin looked at it, fearfully. Ennui, Chelsea, and Benny, sat nearby to witness, except for Kitty, who, along with her makeup off, stood next to him.
"Well, what do you think?" she elbowed the punk.
The camera showed the bottom of the cutout, before it panned up to show the entirety of Celine Dion. A song of hers could be heard in the background.
"You heard what Chris said, Duncan." she instructed, "One hug, and you earn a point for us!"
"Th-that looks really…" Duncan quivered in fear, "Real man…" He looked at the motionless standee. It looked like Celine Dion, except it was all just cardboard.
"Cardboard's not gonna hurt you!" Benny pointed out, before turning to Chelsea, "It doesn't hurt, right?"
"On what planet?" asked an incredulous alt chick.
"Hey…" Kitty said, "It's okay if you can't do it."
Duncan heard Chelsea loudly coughing, before the punk looked over to see the standee.
"Alright, I'll try…" sighed Duncan, before walking up to the standee.
"I believe you can do this!" Kitty exclaimed, "We all do!"
"Not really…" Harold shook his head.
"Shush…" Kitty leered at the dweeb.
"Okay… okay…" Duncan kept telling himself. He took one moment to inhale.
One more moment passed and he ran over to the standee with his eyes shut. Once he made it to it, he hugged the standee like Celine Dion was actually real! Dion's voice was heard in the background as beautiful, victorious music sounded throughout the scene.
"WOOHOO!" Kitty exclaimed, "You did it, Duncan!" She swung her arm around Duncan and the standee, and she took a selfie.
*SNAP*
"Ha, you're right!" Duncan said to the photographer, as Dion's vocals were heard some more.
3 - Gophers / 4 - Bass
Chris walked up to the Bass as the music, and Dion's vocals, quieted down. "What did I miss?" he asked.
"Duncan did it!" exclaimed Kitty, "He faced his fear of Celine Dion standees!"
"Ah, darn it!" Chris snapped his fingers in frustration, "I missed it!" He breathed a heavy sigh, "Oh well… Looks like you guys have another point on the board." He turned to the cameraman, "Right?"
The cameraman moved the camera up and down to indicate a 'yes'.
*CONFESSIONAL: Kitty*
Kitty: This may be just me, but I think I'm starting to warm up to Duncan. He may be a crook, but… maybe he's just some dude you would get to know… (giggles)
*END CONFESSIONAL*
"Okay then… Now, who are we still missing?" asked Chris as he noticed some Bass missing.
Just then, a shriek could be heard from a distant, as the camera showed the makeshift haunted house. A second later, Sam ran out of the front door with a skeleton riding on his back.
"Ah! Get it off! Get it off!" he yelled as he tried flailing around, getting the skeleton off.
As soon as Sam ran up to the Bass' cabin, Chris simply went up to him, disappointed.
"Ooooh, tough luck, Sam." Chris shook his head, "Looks like you contribute nothing for your team…"
"Can you get this thing off of me?" Sam asked, "It won't stop clinging onto my back, man!"
Ennui stood up from his seat and took the skeleton off of the gamer. But then he inspected what it looked like for a few seconds, and by the look of his face (not really), it looked like he was disgusted.
"This is just a meer Halloween decoration…" he said to Chris.
"Exactly, man." Chris nodded, "What else were you thinking?"
"These facades are just too… fake. It'd be a little more authentic, if you were to get real remains." The goth told him.
Chris and Sam looked at each other and shuddered in disgust. "Well we couldn't." Chris told the goth, "They're illegal." He shook his head some more and walked over to the haunted house.
"Now… let's see how Ezekiel is holding up."
The camera transitioned to Ezekiel, who was still sitting tight in the boiler room. There was a timer that was winding down from thirty seconds… All was quiet…
Then, a low, rumbling sound could be heard from a few yards from the prairie boy, startling him.
The camera shows the compressor of a boiler turning on, its red buttons blinking, and then…
WOOOSH!
Ezekiel recoiled in fear, goosebumps forming. He looked around, hoping that time was about to expire soon. "How much longer, eh?!" he cried out.
At that moment, the buzzer expires.
"Congratulations, Ezekiel!" Chris exclaimed on the intercom, "You've surpassed five minutes of being in the boiler room!"
3 - Gophers / 5 - Bass
The camera showed Chris. "The Bass are leading by two points! But the Gophers have a chance at an upset! They only need their three contestants to win it!"
"YO!" Winston's voice was heard, as the camera turned to him standing underneath the lightning cloud, "How much longer do I have?!"
Chris looked at his watch as a clock showed the camera to be 4:25. "You're more than halfway down, man! Just keep being idle underneath that cloud and you'll win it!"
"Hope so…" he groaned, as another lightning struck near him, startling him.
"Now who haven't we gone over?" He looked around and saw 'Sammy' and Monica, both of whom were minding their own businesses. The camera showed Chris, who had a witty smirk on his face.
He took out a walkie-talkie, "Chef, take one of them, I'll take the other?" he said.
The camera showed Chris and Monica, both of whom were inside the Gopher Girls' cabin. "Okay, so here's what you're gonna do…" he started instructing her.
"Oh crap…" the emo muttered under her breath.
*FLASHBACK*
"It'd be being naked in public." said Monica.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
"All you're gonna do is take your clothes off and stand out there for about… I dunno… one minute?" Chris suggested.
Monica shrunk in her seat.
Chris pulled the blinds on the windows, "I'm not gonna have anyone see you in there," Then he started towards the door, "And I definitely don't want to see you taking your clothes off either."
"Would you think I would look… fat?!" Monica quivered.
Chris deadpanned the emo. "Nope." he shook his head, "You have ten minutes to get out there and start the challenge. If you don't get out there when ten minutes is up, you don't earn a point." He opened the door, "Oh, and don't worry about the cameras. They'll censor you being naked, dig?" He closed the door, leaving the emo all alone to think about what she should do.
In the Gopher Boys' room next door, Chef stood with 'Sammy'.
"Cheerio," the muscular chef announced, "We have a visitor for ya…" He gestures to a tall dirty blonde young man with a five o'clock shadow, wearing an exterminator suit.
"Hello there…" he said with a smirk.
"S-S-S-Saxon…" 'Sammy' said.
*FLASHBACK*
"Oh, he's my cousin that I can't stand… He's seven years older than me, he has this crappy goal to make my life miserable as possible. He's my biggest fear, next to wasps!"
*END OF FLASHBACK*
"I ain't gonna say what you gotta do," Chef said to the cheerleader, "So I'll let him do the talking. Bye." He opened the door and walked off.
After the door shut, the man, Saxon, smirked menacingly at the cheerleader. "Amanda…" he said, "Nice to see you again…"
"Uh, hello, idiot?" Amy asked, "Amy's not here, it's Samey."
"I was in the military for quite some time, Amy." Saxon chortled, "I know which twin I spot the difference. Looks like your makeup is starting to melt…"
The camera showed the sweating cheerleader, whose makeup was starting to reveal her beauty mark.
"Now…" said Saxon, "I was told of your challenge… Simple as that…" He took out a glass jar. In it was a yellow jacket with big wings.
Before Amy knew it, Saxon unscrewed the lid and the jacket started flying out.
The camera showed Amy, who was reacting to it flying around the cabin. Amy's arms had goosebumps from the sound of the buzzing.
"And Amy," Saxon said again, tossing a fly swatter towards her. "Think fast!"
Amy was armed with the fly swatter now, and she looked over to see the wasp flying towards the window, landing on it. It was at that moment she knew what Saxon (and Chris and Chef) wanted her to do to confront her phobia. Or both her phobias.
*CONFESSIONAL: Amy*
Amy: If I knew Saxon was gonna be here, I would've buried myself alive! He's a maniac! He's an exterminator who shows off his dead animal collection, it's like, GAG ME! He also works at my favorite ice cream shack, and when I go there, he reminds me of all the bugs he's collected… UGH! In my opinion, he's WORSE than Samey!
*END CONFESSIONAL*
For a few seconds, nothing happened. Amy looked at the wasp as it stood idle on the window. She had to kill that wasp to complete her challenge. But she was wondering to herself…
Why is Saxon here? She thought.
Just then, she heard more buzzing, and Amy, realizing it wasn't the wasp that was still on the window, turns around and sees another wasp flying around the ceiling.
"What the…" Amy said in shock, "Did you release another one?!"
"Yup." said Saxon, "Oh, silly me. Forgot to mention this… For every minute you keep a wasp alive, I release another one."
Amy gulped. She was now conflicted with trying not to get stung, or complete the challenge. She looked at the second wasp as it joined the first on the window.
Meanwhile in the room next door, Monica was sitting on her bed, contemplating…
"I can't do this…" she shook her head, "I can't do this… I can't…" She looked like she was about to cry again.
She turned and saw the clock counting down… It read 7:30, which meant that she was a quarter away from having to go outside, naked. Failing to do so will result in her not earning her team a point.
Monica let out a heavy sigh. She closed her eyes, and then she slowly took her arms all the way to her sweatshirt, taking it off…
The camera split into another scene, with Amy staring at the wasps on the window, before she hears another wasp flying over her, scaring her. This, inadvertently, causes her to slam her hand on the door, causing the wasps to react too unkindly. Amy is seen flailing her arms as Saxon watches with a smirk.
Monica, in the first scene, is seen looking in the mirror, only wearing her blue-striped shirt and pants. With a heavy sigh, she starts to take her shirt off…
In the other scene, because Amy did not kill any of the three wasps, Saxon had released a couple more. He wore his helmet just for safekeeping. The wasps flying around only freaked Amy out some more.
In the other scene, Monica's backside was only seen, and her boots and socks were off. Shakingly, her hands started reaching down to her gray skirt.
Before Monica would pull her skirt down, the other scene with Amy became the focus scene, as the mean cheerleader was seen hiding underneath a bed. Saxon walked over to where she was and released yet another wasp, where it flew underneath the bed and landed on Amy's cheek.
"Huh…" said Saxon as he peered over to see it, "It must've noticed the scent of your makeup…"
"What?!" Amy quivered.
"Somehow, your makeup has some kind of oil that attracts it…" Saxon pointed out.
Amy scooted out of the bed, the wasp clinging onto her cheek. "No! No!" she yelled, "Get away! Get off!" She slapped her cheek as she scooted away, unaware that she was about to hit a metal container.
This concerned Saxon. "Uh, Amanda, I would watch where you're going if I were you!" he called out to her.
"Don't tell me what to do!" she argued, before she stumbled and fell on the floor, causing the container to spill out.
"NOOO!" yelled Saxon.
Amy looked up and saw at least a hundred wasps hovering over her. The swarm immediately descended onto Amy, as she started screaming.
Saxon shook his head as he took out a vacuum, putting the container back on. "Note to self: Next time, take just fifteen wasps with you…" he said to himself, "Not the entire colony."
Amy fell on the floor, hitting every body part on the floor as the wasps started stinging her.
"Alright, I'll take care of this…" Saxon told her cousin, as he powered up the vacuum and started sucking up wasps everywhere.
Outside, Chris, along with the rest of the contestants, stood outside the Gophers' cabin.
"Okay!" he announced, "We're waiting for one of these ladies to complete their challenge…"
"Chris?" Winston asked the host, "I'm done?"
Chris looked at his watch, before looking back at the slum boy. "Yep. And you get another point for your team!"
Gophers - 4 / Bass - 5
The Gophers cheered just as one of the doors was heard banging.
"I wonder who that might be?" Chris said, intrigued.
The door opens, revealing 'Sammy', her face swollen and her neck and limbs filled with wasp stings.
"Samey!" Chris said, "I take it your challenge didn't end up the way you thought it would end up to be?"
"I need the clinic!" yelled 'Sammy', her face all red, "I need the-" She fell down in front of her team, stunning everyone.
"Aw crap, she okay?!" Winston asked.
"Hold on!" Jasmine announced, "I can check her… I do know a lot about medicine…" She looked at the cheerleader's body.
"Oh my…" she said under her breath, "You must've gotten too many stings… What did you do to piss them off?"
"I dunno!" 'Sammy' yelled at the Aussie, "HELP ME ALREADY!"
Meanwhile, the other door opened, and Monica, whom her head was focused on, as she had no clothes on the rest of her body, walked over. "Uhh, okay, I'm all naked…" she announced, but nobody could hear her. They were all too busy checking on 'Sammy'.
Jasmine, along with Chef, inspected her state. A few seconds later, Jasmine noticed a certain flesh-colored spot on her cheek.
"What the?" Jasmine said, squinting, "Is this new?"
"What do you mean 'this is new'?" 'Sammy' questioned.
"You have a flesh-colored spot on the side of your cheek…" Jasmine pointed out, "What's all that about?"
"I got stung nearly to death, idiot!" 'Sammy' hollered, "And you're concerned about a yucky little spot?!" Then she spat on Jasmine's vest.
Jasmine gasped when she did that, to which she scowled at the cheerleader. A second passed and Jasmine placed her hand onto the cheerleader's cheek, rubbing it excessively, much to her discomfort.
"What are ya doing, girl?" Chef asked the Aussie.
Jasmine turned her head up to Chef, glaring at him hard. Then she took her hand off of Sammy, or should I say… AMY! Everyone on the sidelines gasped, now knowing all this time it wasn't Sammy who stayed with them all this time, but her evil sister Amy!
"I don't believe this!" Jasmine said in anger, standing up, "It was you all this time! AMY!"
"Like, you don't need to yell it…" Amy grumbled, her cheeks covering her mouth.
"Shut up…" Chris said in shock, "You played your sister this whole time?! Holy crap, that's AWESOME!"
"Awesome?!" Tom cried out in anger, "Are you crazy?! She impersonated her sister and tricked us into thinking she was Sammy!"
"Yeah, that's so twisted, bruh!" Winston agreed, "She oughta get her b****ss whooped like no tomorrow!"
"You knew this was gonna happen when she and Sammy joined, didn't you?" Jasmine questioned the host, her hands on her hips.
"Kinda…" Chris shrugged.
There were a few minutes of silence, before someone spoke up.
"Aren't you gonna do it?" asked Jasmine.
"Do what?" asked a nonchalant Chris.
"Aren't you gonna disqualify her?" Jasmine pointed out, "She impersonated her sister!"
"Y'know, it's the funniest thing, you might laugh at it. Maybe not…" said Chris, "I would get her out of the game, but y'know, it really doesn't matter. I never said who was out that night…"
*FLASHBACK*
"You!" Chris pointed to Amy, who had her face covered up.
"I couldn't really tell which sister was which, to be honest, since they kinda looked the same. If I said 'Samey', then that'd mean both sisters would come up and get the marshmallow. So in the end, I chose one out of random." Chris' voice was heard.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
"You really are messed up in the head, McLean!" said Emma.
"Should've known this was gonna happen…" Devin shook his head, guiltily.
As everyone was focused on the mean twin's facade of the good twin exposed, they did not notice someone right behind them.
"Uh…" Monica was heard clearing her throat.
"Not now, Monica!" Jasmine told her.
Ennui turned around and saw Monica. The camera showed the back of her head as Ennui stared at her a long time.
"How long have you been like that?" he asked, flatly.
"A minute or so, I guess…" sighed Monica.
Chelsea was the next to turn around. Her eyes went wide-eyed for a few seconds, before she turned back around. "I'm not gonna ask…" she said, shaking her head, "No way…"
Chris looked up, "What's going on?" he asked. But then he regretted it when he saw Monica. "Oh my boxers! How long were you out there?"
Everyone else turned and saw her. Some of them looked away, while others had their eyes on Chris.
"One minute…" said Monica, the back of her head shown again, "Why?"
"Good." he said, "You earned a point for your team, got it?"
Gophers - 5 / Bass - 5
"Now, go change back into your clothes!" he told the emo.
"Got it…" said Monica, who ran back into the Girl's room.
Just then, Saxon walked out of the Boys' room, wearing his exterminator suit. "Chris, I don't want to bother, but I might need to fumigate the whole cabin here." he reported, "I may have brought an entire colony here."
"Yeah yeah, sure." said Chris, "Just do what you need to do. Let us know when you're done, kay?" As the exterminator left, Chris turned to the rest of the campers. "Alright! Seems here we're at a tie now… So I bet you're asking… How do we break this tie?"
Everyone looked at each other, confused.
"Luckily, I've thought of something. This is what I want to call: Sudden Death. For this round, we will be taking turns on who will face their fears… again! I'm going to use two randomizer wheels, one for each team." He gestures two wheels; one red (featuring Bridgette, Chelsea, Sam, and Benny), one green (Cody, Amy, and Emma).
"We start on one team by random… If the needle lands on one of the contestants," Chris said as he walked over to the duo wheels, "Then they will have a turn to face their fears. If they fail, we move on to the next team, where they have a chance to steal. If they fail, we go back to the first team, where they have another chance. However, if one person succeeds in facing their fear, their team wins the challenge, and the other team has to face the pressure of eliminating one of their own!"
"Now, let's start with the Killer Bass…" He put his hand on the wheel and spun it. Eventually, the needle landed on Bridgette.
"Hoh boy…" sighed the surfer girl.
The camera showed Bridgette all alone in the woods again.
"Okay…" she said to herself, shaking while pacing back and forth, "Just stay at least twenty minutes in the woods… alone… Without anyone here… And you'll win for your team… I can do this… I can do this…"
Just then, she starts hearing a bird calling. She looked up at the sky to see a giant vulture, descending onto the surfer girl.
In a panic, Bridgette runs away from it, screaming, before the vulture lands on a branch nearby, not even noticing Bridgette at all.
The camera cuts back to Chris, who stood beside the Gophers' wheel.
"Okay, so Bridgette definitely did not make it, so I guess we'll move on to the Gophers next." He turned around and started spinning the wheel. Eventually, the needle lands on Emma.
"Oh crap…" Emma mumbled.
The camera cuts to later, in front of a fenced area. Emma was clutching onto Chris' legs.
"Okay, so all you have to do, Emma, is you need to stand in that pen full of tarantulas." The camera zoomed out to reveal said pen of tarantulas. "All you need to do is stay there for five whole minutes. One step out and you lose, got it?"
Emma would not budge from Chris.
"Emma?" Chris asked the law school hopeful, "You can't hang onto me forever."
"You can do it, Emma!" Tom encouraged her.
"We got your back!" Devin agreed.
"You just got to believe!" Jasmine cheered.
Emma still wouldn't leave Chris' legs. The camera showed the Bass nearby, with Kitty understandably feeling bad for her sister.
*CONFESSIONAL: Kitty*
Kitty: I know I'm on the other team from my sister, but if there's anyone that can help build her confidence, it can be me. I know she's more headstrong, but I'm sure she'll appreciate my help.
*END CONFESSIONAL*
Kitty walked over to Emma, who was still clutching on Chris' legs. Chris kept trying to pry the older sister off, but she still wouldn't budge.
"Can you get off me, please?" Chris asked her, annoyed.
"Absolutely not!" Emma argued, "I do NOT want to go in that thing!"
Chris sighed, "Well, if I can't help you, then maybe your sister can…"
"Emma?" Kitty got her sister's attention, "I just wanna say… I don't blame you for being scared…"
Emma clutched onto Chris' legs tighter, making the host yelp.
"I know, you don't like spiders." Kitty said, but Emma started whining, "Scratch that, you hate spiders! No no no, you loathe them!"
Emma stopped whining, but she still couldn't get off of Chris' legs.
Kitty stepped down to Emma's level. "I get it… You're scared. And I'll be honest, I was scared when I faced my fear… Only, yours is spiders, and mine's being ugly… I know, it's scary at first… But you can do this. I know you can!"
Emma looked up to her smiling sister, before she turned towards the tarantula pen.
Slowly but surely, she got off of Chris' legs, crawling over there underneath the fence. Just then, she sees a tarantula crawling on top of it, frightening her, making her squirm back to Chris' legs.
"Seriously?" Chris deadpanned.
"Sorry… Lost my cool for a second…" Emma said.
"Hey," Kitty stepped down again, "If anything happens, just know that I'll be there for you. I'm your sister, and I want to be there for you… even if we're on separate teams."
Emma looked up to her sister again, before nodding. She turned back to the tarantula pen, before she started crawling towards it slowly. As soon as she made it underneath the fence, a clock started up, indicating her five minutes had begun.
"Good luck out there, Emma!" encouraged Devin.
"Give it your best shot, hon!" Winston agreed.
"You got this, man." Monica waved.
Emma crawled all the way to the middle of the pen, with the tarantulas turning to watch her. The law school hopeful stopped and sat in front of them, staring at them.
Thirty seconds later, one of the tarantulas crawls over to inspect her, crawling onto her left leg.
"I can do this… I can do this…" Emma kept talking to herself.
As the seconds kept passing, more tarantulas started crawling onto Emma, until she was completely covered with tarantulas.
Underneath, Emma's heart was beating, and it looked like she was shaking with all the tarantulas on top of her.
"Keep it up, Emma." Chris told her, "You're halfway there!"
Emma, from underneath the tarantulas, looked at her sister, who gave her a reassuring smile and nod.
The clock kept winding down as Emma was motionless, only the tarantulas swarming on top of her as she sat.
2:03…
1:35…
0:54…
0:10…
Eventually, the clock winds down to the final seconds of Emma's challenge. Eventually…
RRRRGH!
"Emma, congratulations!" Chris announced to her, "You survived five minutes of being in the tarantula pen!"
Chef walks over to the law school hopeful, still buried underneath tarantulas, before effortlessly fishing her out with his bare hands.
Emma was relieved, "Alright!"
Gophers - 6 / Bass - 5 - Gophers Win!
"And the Screaming Gophers win the challenge!" Chris announced.
The Gophers are seen cheering, with Kitty, on the sidelines, happy for her sister.
*CONFESSIONALS: Emma & Amy*
Emma: I never thought that I would survive five minutes of being covered in tarantulas, but I'm glad that I did it! Though, I'm not glad that Amy's still here… I just want to lay low for a little while, and just try not to get into her crosshairs.
Amy: People will forget about me impersonating Samey real soon. All I need to do is just play along. If they want to have at it with me, I'll go in for the kill!
*END CONFESSIONALS*
Just then, Saxon walks on screen to meet the teams and Chris. "Looks like you guys are having fun, eh?" he asked, "Well I have news to tell you, I've just gotten rid of all the wasps in the Gophers' cabin!"
The Gophers cheered when they heard that.
"Great job, Saxon." Chris commended, "You'll be getting a huge pay by the end of the week." Then he turns to the Killer Bass. "Bass, you know what to do for tonight, kay?"
The next scene cuts to nighttime, showing a panorama of Wawanakwa, the bonfire lit up. The camera zooms in on said bonfire.
The camera shows three marshmallows left on the plate. Chris stood by as Ezekiel, Ennui, Kitty, Duncan, and Harold received theirs. This left Benny, Bridgette, Sam, and Chelsea.
"There are only three marshmallows left on this plate." he announced, "The four of you did not complete your challenges today. One of you is going home tonight and cannot return. Ever. One of you did not receive a vote. That person is…"
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"Benny."
The ballerina sighed as she went up to claim her marshmallow.
"The next name I'm gonna call… Is…"
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"Sam."
The game junkie hopped up and claimed his marshmallow.
This left Bridgette and Chelsea, both of whom were anticipating the result.
"And the final marshmallow of the night goes to…"
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"Chelsea."
The alternative chick sighs a relief and walks up to claim her marshmallow.
This left Bridgette downtrodden. With a heavy sigh, she stands up from her log, "Well darn it…" she cursed, before she faced her teammates, "I'm sorry I let you guys down… Really…"
"You'll get it next time, Bridge." Harold encouraged her, the surfer giving a small smile.
"Good luck, you guys." Bridgette said, before walking off to the Dock of Shame.
As soon as Bridgette was gone, Chris turned to the remaining Bass. "You're all safe… For tonight." he said to them.
Down at the Dock of Shame, Bridgette walked on the Boat of Losers, just as sad, somber music started to play. The boat started, and less than five seconds later, it left the island.
Bridgette took one last look at the island before it started to disappear from fog. She turned back to the camera.
"I guess I had it coming." she said, sniffling, "I just wished I was better than what happened earlier today…" She looked down and stared at the floor, upset over being eliminated.
Suddenly, she hears a hawk cry from above, startling her.
She glared at the camera, "Very funny, producer people… Very funny…"
The camera showed the Boat of Losers motoring away, as it zooms out. The screen starts to fade to black, ending the episode.
Screaming Gophers - Emma, Tom, Cody, Amy, Jasmine, Monica, Devin, & Winston
Killer Bass - Kitty, Ezekiel, Benny, Duncan, Harold, Sam, Ennui, & Chelsea
Eliminated -
Last - Dave
21st - Sammy
20th - Ellody
19th - Justin
18th - Andie
17th - Bridgette
Alright! That wraps up Phobia Factor! I'll be honest, it was a hectic episode to write, as the episode is mostly centered around the challenge, not much story.
You'll notice that there were a bunch of errors back in the original episode, like characters facing their fears (Harold facing his fear of ninjas but knocking himself out, negating a point, or unclear reasons why characters didn't earn their team a point (Cody facing his fear of defusing a time bomb). I'm hoping that these clear-ups and reasons will make this episode at the very least a little more sense.
Amy is finally caught out, and this time, everyone else knows! How will she do now that the target is on her back? Is she planning something else? How long until she's finally out of this game?
Kitty may be starting to warm up to Duncan! Does this indicate something in the horizon?
Now for elimination. As I've mentioned up above, this was a whole lot to write. Originally, I had something for Bridgette, but then it fell through once I started garnering more ideas; not just for this season, but potentially for the future. I don't really plan ahead, but there were ideas I was engaging with, I just wanted to keep them. Unfortunately, this meant I had to sacrifice Bridgette, as I didn't have anything planned for her for this season. I'm sure I'm gonna get some backlash for this, but as I've mentioned, the future can still be bright for people like her!
As always, remember to read, review, or follow for more! Who do you think is likely to leave next? Find out in the next chapter! And hopefully when I have time for it, it won't be too hectic to write. Until next time!