No review replies today, sorry about that. XD I'll reply to you guys next time! Hope you guys enjoy this anniversary episode though, since Act II has now reached one year!
Day 17, 6:00 AM
Major House Minor House (Frontyard)
The teens all jerked up, groaning in the process as they all heard the loud sounds of cymbals crashing from the outside.
"Contestants!" Chef loudly shouted as he continued to play the cymbals he was carrying with his hand, clashing them against each other with every step he made.
"Ugh, does he ever shut up?" Carter groaned, getting up from his bed and got his clothes from his backpack.
"He probably doesn't." Gordon sighed as he began to quickly change.
"We should definitely hurry up and get dressed, who knows what the hosts are up to this time." Therion stated.
In one of the girls' rooms, they were also startled by the sudden sound of cymbals.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT FUCKING SOUND!" Misha screamed at the top of her lungs.
Vanessa facepalmed. "It's just the hosts trying to wake us up."
May shrugged. "I'd honestly understand them since they never woke us up like this before."
"Let's just hurry up and get dressed." Sami told them.
After about ten minutes, the remaining twelve contestants were now by the theater's lobby.
Beatrice rubbed her eyes as she took a seat by the staircase. "You didn't have to wake us all up like that."
"We can do what we want." Chef bluntly responded. "Besides, you all looked like you didn't mind about it anyway."
"Oh we do mind about it actually. A lot." Pierre scoffed as he crossed his arms.
Brea rolled her eyes. "Yeah, whatever. Thing is, there won't be a challenge today."
"Sweet!" Rival cheered and fist bumped himself, although a look of confusion began to appear on his face. "Wait, why did you guys woke us up like you all were in a hurry, then?"
"Because," Topher began, staring intently at the remaining twelve. "We're filming the anniversary episode."
"Ah, I see. The Musical Impact cast did it last time so I wouldn't be surprised if we would do the same honestly." Ryder remarked.
"Yup." Don nodded. "But we've also added some newer segments to the episode so it wouldn't be as boring as last season's. So if I were you guys, I'd get ready for them."
"Why would I be ready for them when I will never be ready at all?" Colin asked dramatically, which earned a few groans from the more obnoxious cast members, and just some minor reactions from the rest.
"Okay… whatever. Let's just go to Chicago now, the guests are waiting for us over by the Fresh Entertainment building." Brea ordered.
"Huh? What's this Fresh Entertainment building have to do with-"
Chef interrupted Gordon's question with an instant answer. "It's where the eliminated contestants spend their time for now, maggot."
"Oh."
Everyone began to exit the lobby. However, Beatrice saw something on the countertops. It was ELV's notebook, or at least she thought so due to the label of said notebook. She stuffed it in her bag without anyone else knowing, hoping that she would be able to return it back to him by the time they would reach Chicago.
By this rate, everyone boarded on the bus to the island docks, and made their way to the state by a boat. The camera cuts onto the opening theme after a quick reel of the contestants heading for Chicago.
Opening Theme #1*
Dear mom and dad, I'm doing fine
The camera zooms into the dance practice room where Lyle was practicing his ballet. May and Sami were watching him and applauded as he landed on his plié successfully, while Arabelle on the other hand, watched with disgust.
You're always on my mind
The camera leaves the room and heads to the auditorium where we can see Beatrice masterfully playing the piano until Antoinette sits on the keys smirking, causing several off-key notes being played. Ryder sees this and pushes Antoinette off the piano, causing her to land face first to the floor and Ryder and Beatrice high-fived.
You asked me what I wanted to be
The camera zooms under the high-five and next thing we see is that we are in the bedroom of one of the teams' houses, where Janice was writing in her diary. Toxa was standing right behind her, rubbing her hands as if she had a plan. Toxa then turns back, only to find Misha crossing her arms. On the window however, we can see Pierre trying to get a peek of the girls.
And now I think the answer is plain to see
The camera warps to the other house's living room, where we can see Rival and Therion doing their handshake. Mara is then seen in the window waving at them causing Therion to blush but then scowls when he sees Mara taken away by Ulysses. Both boys however, ignored Alec, who served them a plate of cookies, with a shocked expression on his face.
I wanna be famous
The camera zooms into the cookies and warps to the backstage where we can see Carter and Mag arguing, with Nash trying to break them up, by throwing his lasso at them. Lee on the other hand, freaks out as he sees this, and runs away from them instead of telling them something important.
I wanna live close to the sun
We then get a view of the storage room, where Gordon and Vanessa were looking for something. Colin opens the door, scaring the two, but leaves after that with a downed expression.
Go pack your bags, I've already gone far
The camera then warps again to the dressing room, where we see Adala and Zack comforting Sybil, who looked as if she were crying. It then pans onto ELV on the other side of the room, who happens to pass by and (unintentionally) begins to eavesdrop.
Everything to prove, what can you say?
We now go to the cafeteria where we can see Holly, Evan, and Leticia chatting. Arreis and Kimmie have plates of food in their hand but Kimmie accidentally drops the food on Holly, making her mad. Mairead was on the other table, laughing, while Gabe didn't look too pleased.
I'll be there one day
The camera quickly zooms into a small library where Dustin, Oli, and Robert were playing cards. However Maya comes in and slams the table, causing all cards to fall off, getting glares from the three boys.
'Cause I wanna be famous
The scene then swaps to a camera room, where we can see Brea, Blaineley, Chris, and Chef arguing. Don then arrives and stops everyone but is stopped when Enrique starts scolding them.
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na!
The scene switches to the office room where we can see Chris holding a bunch of papers, then leaves his office with a note that says "NO TRESPASSING" in big red letters.
I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous
The first "I wanna be" shows the Sopranos (Janice, Sami, Toxa, Beatrice, Kimmie) against the Tenors (Alec, Colin, Zack, Lyle, Oli). The second "I wanna be" shows the Mezzo-Sopranos (Vanessa, Misha, Adala, May, Mairead) and the Mezzo-Tenors (Gordon, Pierre, Therion, Nash, Robert) shaking hands. The "I wanna be famous" shows the Altos (Arabelle, Antoinette, Mag, Sybil, Arreis) and Basses (Rival, Ryder, Carter, ELV, Gabe) sharing a group hug.
I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous
The fourth "I wanna be" shows the four interns standing there with mixed expressions. The fifth "I wanna be" shows the five judges with different reactions from different performances. In the second "I wanna be famous" shows the five hosts crossing their arms with smirks on their faces.
whistling in tune*
The whole cast can now be seen on the stage, bowing as the audience applauds them loudly. Flowers were being thrown to the stage as the curtain closed, revealing the season's title, "Total Drama Act II: Musical Power" in gold letters. The episode title, "One Year with Musical Power" can be seen written below, in silver letters.
End opening theme*
Total Drama Act II: Musical Power
Special Episode: One Year with Musical Power
Fresh Ent. Building - Achievement Gallery
Some of the guests who were seen in the previous episodes were now present in the Achievement Gallery: Sephiria, Epi, and Godfrey to name them. Epi and Godfrey were currently moving about three to five couches into the room while Sephiria looked as if she was looking for someone.
"Erin is taking longer than I expected." Sephiria commented as she checked her watch from time to time. "Where did she even go?"
"I thought she went to go get the others?" Epi answered. "I mean, they should probably be here right now-"
A weird ringtone of quacking ducks was heard in the room. Godfrey gasped before fishing out his phone from his pocket.
"THAT'S your ringtone?" Sephiria asked him, trying so hard not to laugh.
"Yes. But mind you, ducks are extremely underrated in this story compared to rats." Godfrey retaliated as he opened his phone to look at the message he received. "Oh, looks like they are on the way here by bus."
"Who texted you?" Epi asked as he went over to the latter.
"Don did."
"Ah, cool."
"HIIIIII!" a cheery voice rang out from the hallways, followed by several footsteps. The voice belongs to Erin, who emerged from the halls along with the former Act II contestants.
"What happened here?" Mairead asked as she looked over the room. The trophy cases were covered by white curtains… well, not only the trophy cases but all the walls in particular. Several spotlights and cameras were focused on the couches. Four of them were already lined up horizontally while the other one looked out of place.
"We're fixing this place up before the others get here. Oh, and someone better align that couch with the others, please." Sephiria requested.
"Gotcha." Zack immediately responded as he moved the couch over with the help of Oli. Unfortunately as they settled down the couch, one of its legs landed on Oli's foot.
"OW!" Oli screeched in pain.
"Oh shoot, sorry about that!" Zack quickly apologized and moved it away from him.
"Yeah, you're good." Oli groaned as he wriggled his foot around.
"So…" Kimmie began as she comfortably sat on one of the couches right next to Robert. "Who is coming here today?"
"Most likely the contestants and hosts." Gabe pointed out.
"You're not wrong!" Erin gleefully grinned like her usual self. "And well, maybe some of the interns would be coming too!"
"I don't know about that." Arreis pointed out. "I mean, someone needs to take care of the theater and not pull off an Act I move, right?"
"Yeah, right." Robert replied, shuddering at the memory. "Just don't speak of that ever again, I really don't want to remember that."
"Oh, sorry."
"Ooh, wait… I forgot to say something!" Erin stood up. "It's uh, about the hosts! Brea said that she, Blaineley, Chef, Topher, and Don will be some sort of… bystanders for this special episode. I don't know, that's what Brea told me."
"Oh, okay…" Sephiria nodded. "Seems kinda fishy that she would tell it to only you and not us."
"She texted me though." Erin retaliated.
"Oh, I see." Sephiria nodded again. "What else did she say?"
"Two former contestants from Act I will be hosting this special episode." Erin concluded.
"...What." was all Godfrey could say. "Why can't they host it?"
"Maybe in case if some of the questions were for them, then they would answer them in a formal manner instead of having them host and answer the questions at the same time." Alec answered.
Everyone was left in silence.
"Woooow, I so did not think of that." Arabelle commented with full sarcasm. "But honestly… you know what, whatever."
"So who from Act I is hosting this?" Janice asked.
"You guys will find out preeeeeetty soon." Erin answered as she scrolled through her phone. "The Act I hosts for today had to make a stop at the hospital since a few castmates will fix some… medical issues, per say."
Toxa laughed a bit. "Highly doubt that Clayton would host this one. He already did an aftermath episode with Olivia."
"Yes, but I certainly do not get the fact that you and Clayton are friends when Clayton is a pretty nice person while you are quite the opposite." Lyle commented off from the side.
"Oooo…" Antoinette teased. "Speaking of which, why don't you give ELV's notebook back, Toxa?"
"...Certainly." Toxa mumbled, her eyes and face forming a glare towards Antoinette, then at ELV.
"Wait, YOU have my notebook?" ELV glared back. "Give it back, now."
"Of course." Toxa muttered, fumbling her pockets for the notebook. Later on, she widened her eyes. "Ugh, where is it?"
"You hid it. You still have it. Give it back." ELV commanded.
"Ugh, I swear by the shooting stars of this goddamned Milky Way, I don't have it anymore!" Toxa shouted.
"PARTNERS!" Nash shouted in front of everyone, causing their eyes to dart towards him. "Can we not fight?"
Everyone sat in silence until ELV finally gave up and sighed disappointingly.
"...You win this time, Pexine. But I swear by my mother's grave, I will get that notebook back." ELV pointed a finger towards her, before going back to his seat.
Toxa: "I swear, I don't have it." Toxa said as she pulled out the sockets of her pockets, revealing that nothing was in it. "I must've dropped it somewhere."
"Alright, they're coming." Sephiria announced, checking the hallways every now and then to look for them.
"Who's they?" Alec asked.
"Two of the Act I alumni are hosting, and with some of the cast they fetched in the hospital." She answered.
The door opened and the people who entered were greeted with friendly smiles and waves. Mag waved at everyone before sitting next to Kimmie. Adala limped in, using her crutches as she walked. She gave everyone a friendly smile before sitting next to Mag. Faith and Xavier also went in, with the latter having some bandages on his face.
"What happened to your face?" Arabelle asked Xavier, gesturing to his bandages. What a way to say hello.
"Oh nothing, just a mishap that a certain friend of my friend indirectly caused." Xavier replied coldly, still not having it.
Faith patted Xavier's shoulder. "Chill, we're hosting for today so you shouldn't let out your anger right now. Best to save it for later."
"Fine." Xavier sighed before taking a seat on a nearby stool.
"So…" Gabe turned to both Adala and Mag. "You guys feel better?"
"Definitely." Adala chuckled. "Just need to heal my leg for a few more weeks and I should be able to walk now."
"Same." Mag nodded as well. "My doctor said that I should not dwell on those thoughts and focus on more positive things."
"Well, that's good to hear! Hope you guys recover well." Robert chimed in.
"Thanks." Both Mag and Adala said in unison.
Sephiria was looking towards the door again, and a grin went up on her face. "Hey guys, here they come!"
"Ah, crap. I'm not even ready yet." Alec groaned, scrunching up his nose in the process before sitting back up on the couch.
The top twelve soon came into the room, along with Blaineley, Don, Topher, and Chef. Some of the eliminated contestants went with their friends who were still in the competition and the others were met by the smiles of some of the others.
"Hi guys, good to see you all again!" May grinned happily, having pleased to see her former competition once more. She gestured to both Ryder and Beatrice to sit next to her.
"What's up, everyone." Ryder smiled as well. "Hope you guys are doing great while staying here."
"Yeah, we missed you guys back there." Beatrice added. "Also this place is pretty neat."
"Yeah, this place looks fucking expensive." Misha laughed, not taking her eyes off of the white curtains. She peeked what was behind and widened her eyes as she saw an empty trophy case.
"It's empty." Sami commented, who was just standing next to her.
"That's because no one has achieved anything major yet, duh." Vanessa retorted. Gordon elbowed his girlfriend before the two continued on and sat on a nearby couch.
Colin rolled his eyes. "And probably no one ever will.
"...That's your opinion." Rival sighed before Erin ran up to hug him. With this, Carter stepped back.
"Yeah. I'll leave you two right there." He added.
"Ah, good to see you guys all happy and all." Therion laughed, leaning on a nearby couch.
"Yeah." Pierre slightly nodded, looking all around the room. "Wait-"
"I guess everyone's here?" Xavier interrupted loudly, cueing the cameramen to get ready.
Don counted everyone. "Hold on... why are we missing Brea?"
"She'll be here in a few moments, she said that she had to check up on something. I think." Blaineley informed them.
"Ah, I see." Don nodded in understanding. "So everyone, how have you guys been?"
"Good." Some of the others chorused in unison. Others gave some thumbs-ups while people like Arabelle and Toxa just merely shrugged.
"That's good, how about Mag, Adala, and Xavier? I heard you guys are recovering?" Don added.
"Never better." Mag chuckled.
"Yeah, just a few more weeks and I'll be good to go." Adala grinned.
"My face doesn't hurt that much as last time." Xavier remarked, gesturing to the bandages on his face. "But hey, I can manage. I've been able to do some of our band's activities now."
"Which reminds me," Faith let out a smirk. "You guys, don't forget to stream our music video when it comes out next week! It's called Rising Stars-"
Xavier interrupted her. "Let's… self-promote later. We have a show to run."
"Oops, okay." Faith chuckled. "Anyway, let's start! First with segment number one, the questions!"
Segment #1: Truths and Dares
Xavier opened up an envelope and stuck his hand in it. He grabbed a small piece of folded paper and widened his eyes.
"Who's it from?" Godfrey asked the alumni. "Certainly it must come from a fellow author of the site this season was uploaded on some website."
"This set of questions came from TheUnchartedHollow." Xavier answered him.
"Ah, the guy who watches a lot of documentaries?" Epi answered in realization.
"This is quite funny because if I am not mistaken, Hollow's OC in Act I was Xavier and Xavier himself ended up reading the pen name of his OC creator-"
"Hush!" Sephiria hushed him before he could ramble about his fourth wall breaking any more further.
"I'm sorry, who?" Blaineley asked from the side, having no clue of what in the world were they talking about.
"You don't know him." Faith laughed sheepishly and dismissed the topic as she snatched the paper away from Xavier (much to his slight disappointment) and read it towards the cast. "Okay, first question is for everyone! Who do you think overachieved and underachieved so far this season?"
"Of course I'm the one who underachieved the most, hence I never achieved anything at all." Colin stated in his usual tone (much to the slight annoyance of some).
"Alec for underachieving." Beatrice answered, in a tone that seemed like she was actually telling the truth. "Sorry."
"That's alright." Alec chuckled. "Honestly, I feel like I achieved more in the aftermath with my theories."
May raised an eyebrow. "What do you guys do during the aftermath anyway?"
"Lots of stuff, partner!" Nash cheered gleefully. "We had to say the truth for this one segment and there's a wee tiny gadget that shocks the tarnation out of us if we lie."
"Yeah, we also theorized what will happen to you guys during the competition and we get like, a hundred bucks for every correct theory." Oli added with a wide grin on his face.
"...Ugh, you guys shouldn't have spilled it." Brea groaned as she finally entered the room after what seemed like centuries. "They weren't supposed to know about the aftermath. And don't tell me that you spilled something else to the cast while we're gone. I can really hear you guys yapping about random things in the hallway."
"Oh we kinda spilled it ages ago-" Faith was going to blurt out but Xavier kicked her leg, causing the percussionist to trip on her side. "Hey, what gives!"
"Hmm?" The hosts turned to the two alumni.
"Nothing!" Xavier cleared his throat. "Faith is just being a… being… a whiny bitch, that's all!"
Godfrey stood up and cleared his throat. "If I am not mistaken, Faith purposely revealed something about the end of the season back during the second aftermath episode."
"What?"
"Don't listen to him, he's just crazy." Faith retaliated.
"Hey, for your very useful information Ms. Laverre, crazy is a word that doesn't and WILL NEVER exist in my dictionary even after the day I die!" Godfrey scolded as he crossed his arms.
"Ooh, I like crazy! Can I join? Crazy's my middle name!" Erin cheered and she stepped right between the alumni and Godfrey.
"Erin, hey! Wait no, get back over here!" Rival almost yelled before pulling Erin back to the side of the room with him.
Blaineley facepalmed herself. "Everyone, we barely passed a minute with our aftermath and the hosts are literally the ones who had to start the chaos."
Godfrey stopped himself from talking anymore further before going to his position next to Epi. "With all due respect." He slowly added, before glaring towards Faith.
"Anyway… ahem…" Xavier resumed. "Who overachieved?"
Everyone looked around at each other, and towards everyone else.
"Sorry but," Gordon was the one to speak up. "I would say Therion. I don't know, I feel like he hasn't really failed in anything so far."
"Sounds fair." Therion nodded towards his former teammate.
Crickets were heard chirping in the background.
"No one's gonna add to that? Okay then." Xavier smirked as he read the next question his OC creator sent. "Question number 2: Were you guys surprised by all the relationships that had formed previously?"
"Someone ended up with who?" Mairead widened her eyes, seemingly interested in the answers from the others.
"I know. It's hard to be first boot, isn't it." Toxa teased her.
"Just shut up-"
"For our first pair… we have… the first pair that paired up in this season: Kimmie and Robert!"
"I already saw that coming." ELV shrugged and immediately fell asleep in an instant on the couch he was sitting on.
"ELV has the most expensive reactions in this season, I swear." Kimmie laughed, followed by a few chuckles from others. "No, seriously. He didn't even get shocked with the lie detector two weeks ago."
"Yeah, anyone who's the next one gone, I suggest you don't lie or you're gonna feel like a Pikachu." Arabelle added.
"...Okay. I am just gonna pretend that I didn't even hear that." Xavier said, looking on the next couple on the list that the hosts gave him. "How about… Janice and Lyle?"
"Oh, I was definitely not expecting that one." Arreis pointed out. "Sometimes I feel like that that just came out of nowhere."
"It's either that or they did a lot of things off camera that we didn't know." Zack added, prompting some stares from the others, and both Janice and Lyle getting flustered in the process. "Oh come on, I'm not the only one who's thinking this, right?"
"Maybe." Robert shrugged.
"Alright, thanks for taking your time to answer Zack, because the next couple in this list involves you and Sami." Faith announced.
"What?" Sami quickly raised an eyebrow. "Well, he DID asked me out or something like that, but we're not even close to a thing yet!"
Faith could only chuckle. "Haha tough luck, girl. Because viewers in social media have been gushing about the both of you."
"Oooooooooh…" everyone chorused.
"Eeeeeeeeeeeee~" Erin squealed.
Sami sighed. "I hate scandals."
"But question though, are you guys planning to be a thing?" Gabe asked. "Hey, I am just REALLY curious, that's all."
Zack looked at Gabe, then at Sami.
"I'll think about it." she finally said.
Zack could feel himself screaming internally. She finally said yes, he thought. Which was honestly enough for him to form a smile on his face.
"I hope you're alright in there, Zack." Adala said, looking towards the latter. His face was already forming a grin. "Not gonna lie, you're creeping me out."
"Oh sorry, just excited, that's all." Zack cleared his throat and regained his composure.
Faith shrugged at the reactions they were having. "Well, moving on! Next on our list is… wait for it… Gordon and Vanessa!"
"Oh, nice." Vanessa chuckled (which more sounded like a sarcastic laugh).
"Might've somehow expected that shit to happen." Misha laughed, feeling guilty about the whole ordeal.
"I didn't." Mag commented. "The only way I knew that they were a thing was during that… that secrets challenge." She added, shuddering at the thought.
"Yeah, quick suggestion: no one mentions that challenge again because from what we've watched last night, things were getting pretty messed up." Xavier commented as he ran a hand through his hair. "Anyway, last couple in this list but not the least: May and Ryder!"
Beatrice nearly giggled. "Really happy for them, of course!" She said, nudging May in the process causing the other girl to blush.
"Which reminded me…" Faith began, catching the attention of everyone. "Viewers have been buzzing around with this 'Who will Ryder end up with?' post on Twitter and golly, it is wild."
"Oooo let me see-" Xavier gestured to Faith, the girl giving him her phone in the process so that he could see what she saw as well. "Dang… there were several choices… like, most definitely said May, then followed by Beatrice, then even people like Toxa, Antoinette, and Arreis."
"Huh?" Ryder could only gasp and widen his eyes in surprise. "Wait, since when did I become the hot topic in social media?"
Epi jutted his chin in thought, eventually coming up with an answer. "Hmmm, maybe ever since you talked with Toxa during that camping challenge, talking to Arreis about a certain disturbing scene, and having Antoinette get involved in that said disturbing scene."
Antoinette formed a scowl in her face. "People, for your information, I do NOT have any interest with Ryder whatsoever."
"Me neither. I have no idea how I am involved in it." Arreis said as she had her arms up defensively.
"Same." Toxa added. "I highly prefer Alec over Ryder if I were to be honest."
Alec swallowed a lump on his throat. "Oh no, thank you." He said before shimmying backwards a bit on the couch he was sitting on.
Faith was currently monitoring the episode's live chat as well on YouTube. "Hmm… a lot of people say that we forgot a ship that developed in this season, but I have no idea what it is, judging by this list. Like, I swear. We did everything, right?"
Xavier took a gander at the live chat as well… before a sudden text from Brea flashed on his screen, causing him to look surprised. He looked towards the hostess seated on the back. She shook her head no, in which he returned with a nod, signalling that he will follow. He nudged Faith and gestured for her to do the same.
"Okay then, let's move on to our third and last question before we head on to the dares!" Faith announced. "Question 3: How many times do you think you were going to die on the show?"
"I'd say about three." Carter quickly took the first answer. "I mean, the horror challenge in the university was really NOT pretty. The next one was definitely the camping one because I legit thought that we were gonna drown due to those poorly built boats. And third, that so-called hide and seek challenge where I was literally trapped under a burning house."
"I… would honestly agree." Colin added. "But I'm probably going to add that part where we had to run away from the robots even though no one cares."
Alec sighed in relief. "Am I glad that I was eliminated early? Hell, yeah."
"Oh please, I literally thought I was done for when those spirits back in the university happened." Janice shuddered as Lyle patted her back. "It was such a nightmare…"
"...Why do I feel like someone is getting sued after this season?" asked Lyle.
"That's probably what you're thinking. Not us." Pierre retorted.
"Well, okay then." Faith cleared her throat. "I guess it's now time for our viewers' favorite part: the dares!"
"Now this is definitely one thing that I'm not looking forward to, to be frank." Rival laughed sheepishly.
"Alright so dare number one is, I dare everyone to play Friday Night Funkin." Xavier announced.
"What the fuck is Friday Night Funkin?" Misha asked.
"It's… hold on." Faith said, quickly typing up something on her phone. "Some kind of arcade game. I think we're gonna have to download it on the PC over there."
Topher sighed. "I don't know. We should probably skip it, I mean we don't have all day."
"Aww…" some of the contestants whined.
"So dare number two?" Faith asked until she received a nod from Don. "Okay then. Dare 2: Lyle, since you got screwed by Toxa, I dare you to shave Toxa's hair. Ooooooh…" Faith smirked as she looked at both Lyle and Toxa's reactions.
"Wait, you're not joking?" Toxa rose up from her seat. "Well then, time for plan B." She added, turning to dash away from the achievement gallery when Epi stopped her.
"Hey, no leaving! Someone stop her or something!" Xavier hollered. Epi dragged Toxa back into her seat.
"Uh, what do we do?" Epi questioned.
Erin grabbed some rope from thin air and tied it on Toxa and onto the chair so that she couldn't get out.
"There!" She finished, dusting her hands off loudly.
Everyone gathered around the chair where Toxa sat as Faith gave Lyle a huge shaver.
"How… how on earth am I supposed to do this?" Lyle asked as he examined the shaver.
"I don't just shave her hair off." Faith shrugged. "I mean, that's what Hallow said anyway."
"I don't think this is a good idea…" Janice said as she tugged Lyle's arm.
"Well, this is the least I could do to get revenge from Toxa anyway, so let's do it." Lyle said, swallowing all of his reservations as he began shaving Toxa's hair off.
"NOOOOOOOO NOT MY BEAUTIFUL INDIGO HAIR, GODDAMMIT!" Toxa swore loudly.
"Shave! Shave! Shave! Shave! Shave!" some of the others chanted.
"THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR RUINING MY FACE WEEKS BEFORE OUR COMEBACK!" Xavier shouted at her, with Faith pulling her bandmate backwards in the process.
It didn't take long as he finally finished, dropping the shaver on the ground.
"Grrrr…" Toxa growled. "Give me a mirror! Now!"
Arabelle, being the girl she is, threw her own hand mirror. Toxa shrieked so loud that glass windows were heard being shattered, with some people screaming in the process.
"Yeah… we're gonna have to clean that up later. ANYWAY, here's dare 3: I dare everyone to try and stack as many cups as possible without them falling." Xavier read.
"Oh this should be easy!" Arabelle laughed, grabbing the first bundle of plastic cups by the drinks area. She opened one pack and began stacking some as much as she could.
"Someone join her or she's going to hog up all the cups!" Topher pointed.
"MEMEMEMEMEME!" Erin ran to the drinks table and did so as well, only for her own cups to fall towards Arabelle's cup tower, causing her cup tower to fall as well.
"UGH YOU FUCKING SHITHEAD-" Arabelle shouted.
"Let's just try again." Gabe told them, and gave each and everyone of them a bundle of plastic cups.
"Hey, just save some until we eat!" Don told them.
"What prize do we get?" Alec asked the hosts as his cup towers reached about thirty cups.
"Nothing." Chef said.
This caused Alec to give up and let his cups fall.
Blaineley watched them all as they stacked their own cups and failed miserably. "You know what, stop it. Put those cups back or all your cups for your drinks are going to get crushed."
As everyone sat back down and left the cups, a projector screen was being displayed in front of the contestants.
"Okay guys." Don rubbed his hands vigorously. "Let's sit back and enjoy the footage of our failures this season!"
"Oh no…" Vanessa murmured.
Segment #2: You're A Failure
Fail #1:
"Hey, I've seen that show, but I'm not really into one of those shitty, fucked up romances. My older sister Martha was a fan though. You were Sabrina in the series, right? Dang, I never thought you looked pretty in real life." Misha smirked as she eyed Sybil. From her long dark brown hair with rose gold tips to her white bell sleeved minidress, she wasn't kidding. "Did you even do the kissing scene with Aidan? I mean, the one who played as Aidan?"
"Um, why'd you ask?" Sybil tilted her head, noticeably uncomfortable with the question.
"Nah, just something out of the fucking blue." Misha shrugs and whistles it all off as she just casually walks away as if nothing happened.
Fail #2:
As Gordon exited, contestant number nine entered without cue. He just practically sashayed in the room and landed on a successful plié right behind the microphone stand.
"It's not even your cue yet, Lyle Ray." Blaineley sneered as she technically introduced him with a comment. Very normal for her, so to speak.
"Very sorry, madame Blaineley. I just flourished that move yesterday…" Lyle apologized sheepishly. "I think I haven't realized that I was wearing white sneakers instead of ballet slippers when performing that plié. My apologies once again."
(Even Lyle went extremely flustered as they watched this scene)
Fail #3:
"Alright, do you want to hear the story of this village?" Topher asked.
"Yes, please." Vanessa said in an extremely sarcastic manner.
"Okay, here goes nothing." Topher chuckled.
"Wait, no, I was just kidding-" Vanessa stammered, earning a few glares from the cast as this could be a potential waste of time.
Fail #4:
"Okay." Don said as he got ready. "You guys ready?"
Everyone else shook their head no, practically scared for their life.
"Three…"
"Two…"
"One…"
"RUN!" Don shouted as he and the contestants made a run for it.
"DIE, YOU SICK BITCH!" Brea shouted as she pulled out a gun, directly aimed it towards Hah, pulled the trigger and shot him directly on the leg, causing him to groan in pain. She tried shooting another bullet, but it ran out. "SHIT! WHO PUTS ONLY ONE BULLET IN A GUN, DAMMIT!?"
(Brea facepalmed herself as she watched, wondering how on earth she forget to add a bullet into her gun)
Fail #5:
Rival turned back and threw his axe, hitting a robot successfully on its head, causing it to topple over.
Therion threw his knife and directly hit a robot's leg, causing it to trip on its feet.
Pierre threw his stick, and greatly missed so bad as he hit a random tree instead.
"Pierre, what the hell!" Mag shouted as the group continued to run.
Fail #6:
Rival had an eyebrow up. "So… this means that… you didn't even know if they made up or not?"
"Nope." Erin shook her head.
"...I knew it." Rival chuckled. "Thanks for giving the readers a cliffhanger."
"A what?"
"...Never mind."
(Godfrey laughed, thinking he wasn't the only one breaking the fourth wall this season)
Fail #7:
"What IS this?" were the first words heard in the episode. Chris, Chef, Blaineley, Brea, and Don were seen standing in a circle. The voice heard actually came from Chris as he was trying to get something off the lens of the camera. "Why is there, like, a piece of fucking gum stuck on the camera lens?"
He looked at all the other cameras that the cameramen were holding, and they all had the gum thing stuck on the lens as well.
Brea widened her eyes in anger, snatched one of the cameras, and threw the gum off to the side. "DO NOT TELL ME THAT WE'VE BEEN FILMING TEN FUCKING EPISODES STRAIGHT FOR THIS WHOLE SEASON AND THE ONLY THING OUR AUDIENCES WILL SEE IS A PIECE OF MOTHERFUCKING GUM FROM EVERY SINGLE FUCKING CAMERA!"
The cameraman shuddered. "Uhh… we didn't know that there was a piece of gum stuck on the cameras! Please don't fire us! I swear there wasn't any piece of gum stuck on the camera lens yesterday!"
Brea let out a sigh. "Well if the gum got stuck on the cameras JUST today, then I believe you. Otherwise," she looked up on the sky. "What the hell is that?" She asked, pointing towards a figure falling from the sky.
"The what-" Blaineley looked up on the sky as well, and widened her eyes. "HOLY SHIT, IT'S A METEOR! TAKE COVER!"
The cameramen began screaming and running about, while the hosts hid on the bushes.
Thud.
Lots of smoke can be seen on the screen as several coughs from the hosts and cameramen were heard.
A few seconds later as the smoke cleared up, we got a clear view of the meteor that had fallen down… but it actually wasn't a meteor.
It was a girl.
Blaineley coughed hard. "The fuck are you?"
(Erin had a huge grin plastered on her face as she watched her own intro)
Fail #8:
"Ready…" Don said.
"Get set…" Blaineley followed.
"GO!" Erin cheered.
"ERIN, WAIT NOT YET-" Brea yelled. Luckily, none of the contestants fell for it as they were still at the starting line… well, maybe except for Zack, the tall boy already sprinting off. "Someone stop him." Brea facepalmed.
"Hey Zack, come back!" Sami shouted as she chased after him.
About a minute later, the fandom girl had returned with Zack on the starting line, with Zack's face red from embarrassment.
(Zack's face was still red from embarassment)
Fail #9:
"Hey Erin, can you help me pump this thing?" Brea asked, as she was struggling to pump up her tent.
"Oh sure! How big do you want it to be?" Erin asked, her hands already on the air pump.
"Well… I don't know, maybe make it round-"
Brea was cut off as Erin began pumping her tent. In fact, it grew to be… quite too large, until it popped like a balloon.
"There we go!" Erin smiled, pointing towards the now flat tent.
"Didn't I say it was round?"
"It is round!" Erin nodded. "It's just flat-round."
"Flat… what?" Blaineley asked from the other side as she couldn't control her laughter.
"You know what, lesson learned." Brea sighed. "Never buy an air based tent ever again."
Fail #10:
As the boat continued to move, there was a creaking sound every time Therion and Rival paddled using their oars.
A worried look started to grow on Ryder's face. "I have a bad feeling that this boat won't hold us for much longer."
"You better fucking pray that it would." Misha countered. "I don't want to fall in there!"
"Guys, try not to get worried, okay? I don't want anyone getting paranoid at this." Rival commented. "C'mon Therion, let's try and paddle a bit faster."
"Will do." Therion nodded as the two paddled slightly faster to match their pace with one another.
"Uhm… guys?!" A worried voice was heard from the back, and it was coming from Beatrice who appears to have woken up. "What's that!?"
Mag looked back to where Beatrice was pointing and widened her eyes in horror. There was a crack in the boat, and water was already spilling in gradually. "Holy shit, there's a crack!"
"A crack!?" Rival gasped and looked back.
"Holy fucking shit, I feel bad for saying this but why the hell do I remember ELV every time I hear the word 'crack'?" Misha questioned herself via screaming.
(ELV was now glaring at Misha. She returned him with another glare)
Fail #11:
SPLASH!
Several splashes were heard from the Major team as the boat snapped in half, sending the teens into the water, screaming.
"Quick! Grab onto something! The water is already rushing at this point!" Therion yelled as he, Rival, Mag, Misha, and Arreis grabbed onto one half of the boat.
"FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!" Misha shouted, as her hands accidentally slipped away from the boat, sending her down the surface. Luckily, Mag was quick enough to hoist her back up on the surface. "I TOLD YOU ALL TO PRAY OR ELSE THE BOAT WOULD SINK YET YOU GUYS DECIDED TO IGNORE MY SHIT!" Misha screamed again.
(Misha stopped glaring at ELV and facepalmed)
Fail #12:
An electrical sound was heard as Oli's hand got shocked.
"OW OW OW OW OW!" Oli shrieked, waving his hand so hard that the lie detector yeeted away from his hand and hit Olivia directly on the face causing her to land on the floor (hell even Clayton had to duck since he was right next to her).
"Uh…" Alec cleared his throat. "You guys want me to call Evander and ViVi or something?"
"Please do." Olivia groaned as her forehead began to bruise.
"Sorry!" Oli apologized, getting out of the chair and rushing towards Olivia. Should we call a medic?"
Olivia stood up. "An ice pack would be alright."
"Alright." Oli nodded and jogged out of the gallery to find an ice pack.
"WAIT HE DIDN'T EVEN ANSWERED AGAIN-"
(Oli was seen laughing sheepishly)
Fail #13:
Pierre (Minor): "Shame that we're probably getting that scary looking girl [Jianne]. That Yves chick though looked as hot as Sybil when I first saw her~"
Blaineley came in, smacking the back of his head.
"Ow! Okay, I'm sorry!"
(Everyone was looking at Pierre, who just looked down, embarassed as hell)
Fail #14:
"Minor… your center is a masked dancer. Please, don't be shy to reveal yourself. You have such a strong stage presence that needs to be known."
Everyone in Team Minor did a 180 and extremely grew nervous.
"Uhh…" Arreis stammered and quickly ran in front of Jianne. "She's just… really really really shy so I think it's best to give her some space, right?"
The judges grew suspicious at the sudden movement.
"Yeah, so… maybe we shouldn't…" Zack stammered. "You know, force her to do this?"
Behind Arreis and Zack, the rest of the team were arguing.
"What do we do!?" Pierre whispered.
"Get Jianne out of here?" Colin suggested.
Vanessa rolled her eyes. "No way, things are gonna be obvious."
Sybil widened her eyes. "Make someone else wear the mask!"
At this point, everyone in the team was fighting for the mask as Jianne struggled to keep the mask intact. However, she failed as the mask was sent flying off the stage.
The teens of Team Minor (including Jianne) all looked at each other in horror. Even the judges were extremely surprised at this, as well the Major team, the hosts, and mostly Yves.
(Almost everyone involved in that scene weren't even looking at the screen, while Adala widened her eyes at what happened to her team after her departure)
Fail #15:
The five Major boys, along with Xavier, entered one of the backstage studio rooms. The third placer of Act I sat on the spinning chair right in front of the mirror.
"So…" Xavier began, fumbling his fingers. "Have any of you tried doing a makeover before?"
Lyle shook his head no, and turned to Ryder, who also shook his head no, and turned to Carter, who also shook his head no, and turned to Therion, who also shook his head no, and turned to Rival, who also shook his head no, and turned to… yeah, the wall.
"Ah, I see…"
Fail #16:
Robert was seen in a director's chair, complete with a few umbrellas behind him while trying to get two cameras to work. "Do these even work?"
"Of course they do! I borrowed them from the freaking interns!" Vanessa yelled back with her sarcastic tone.
"Maybe you got clowned and they gave you the broken ones, ma'am." Robert joked, but Vanessa just rolled her eyes.
"Whatever." The pianist huffed, before slamming the camera hard a few times with her hand until the screen went on. "HOLY CRAP, I ACTUALLY MADE IT WORK-"
(Robert chuckled as Vanessa facepalmed again)
Fail #17:
"Why are y'all scared?" Toxa chuckled. "We're barely a freaking inch away from the entrance."
"Easy for you to say if you're a horror fan, you rainbow." Pierre retorted as he started shivering, but managed to come up with a stupid insult towards Toxa's multicolored hair.
The group then kept on tiptoeing away from the entrance, but Toxa was there casually walking in front of all of them.
Pierre kept on shivering in fright as he began to sing a song to cheer himself up. "Rainbows are purple… rainbows are green…"
Misha and Mag were raising an eyebrow at his song as they glanced at each other in pure confusion.
"Rainbows are yellow… and that's the color of…"
Everyone stopped walking and began staring at Pierre as if he were an idiot.
"...pee…"
Rival suddenly burst out into laughter about how terrible the song came out.
"That was honestly a good one!" Robert then smacked the redhead's head. "Ow!"
(And… Rival was still laughing to this scene up until this day)
Fail #18:
"Probably just an intern." Arreis answered plainly. "Why would this be a challenge then?"
"You've got a point, partner." Nash nodded. "But we have one way to find out…"
"Wait Nash, what are you gonna do-"
Before May was even answered, Nash sauntered his way up to the wandering clown, his lasso in hand.
"PREPARE TO FACE MY LASSO, PARTNER!" Nash shouted as he began lassoing, much to the surprise of the others.
"Oh no… I think this is gonna be some kind of choking attempt-" Beatrice sighed.
"YEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAW!" Nash yelled as his rope flew towards the clown and secured its neck. The clown screamed and flailed about causing him to go rowdy.
"This is not gonna end well…" May sighed.
The clown went crazy, and as it did, Nash accidentally let go of his lasso.
"Uh-oh." Nash yelped as the clown raged at him, thus capturing him, taking him away from the halls.
(Nash was not even looking at the screen)
Fail #19:
Vanessa followed Colin in the hallways and gasped a little as she accidentally bumped into something. It was smooth in the bottom, but gradually going up it turned… leafy?
"Whoops, sorry plant." Vanessa apologized.
"You're seriously apologizing to a plant?" Colin eyed her.
"What? Can't help it."
(At this point, Vamessa wasn't even watching anymore)
Fail #20:
"No one." He lied. The lie detector shocked him, but he didn't move an inch, astonishing the teens.
"WHOA! He didn't feel that!?" Sal asked, his eyes widening.
"That is insane!" Samuel shouted.
"It literally just feels like someone giving you a high five." ELV shrugged before going out of his seat.
"Let me try! Lemme lemme lemme-" Samuel said as he immediately placed and strapped his hand on the lie detector. "Come on guys, throw me a question!"
"This is definitely not gonna end good, I can feel it." Xavier facepalmed as some of the others begin to laugh.
"Wait, don't even start to-" Evander was gonna say but was cut off by Faith.
"Do you think Kim is hot?" Faith blurted out her question, prompting ooh's from the teens, as well as Kim blushing intensely. Faith however, decided to add more than just that. "Because you know, you stare at her chest a lot-"
"Fuck no!" Samuel answered quickly before getting shocked as he recoiled his hand immediately in pain. The others started dying of laughter. "AAAH! YOU SAID IT FEELS LIKE SOMEONE GIVING YOU A HIGH FIVE!" He yelled towards ELV, who started laughing as well. The guitarist then began shaking his shocked hand vigorously.
"NO, I DIDN'T!" ELV yelled back.
(ELV smirked at his own victory)
Fail #21:
Sephiria grabbed her fork with one hand, stabbing it onto the fish and used her knife to cut it with her other hand. She then brought her fork to her mouth, chewing the fish.
Brea on the other hand, stirred her soup with a spoon and scooped up a spoonful of soup, plopping it to her mouth.
"Hmm, it's al-"
The hostess was cut off by the sound of spitting (or hurling) and a chewed fish landing on her lap. Brea shrieked as she stood up, trying to get the fish off her lap.
"HOLY SHIT, SEPH!"
(Sephiria almost laughed along with Brea as they remembered the scene)
Fail #22:
As the team kept on walking, they saw an old beggar in the street, fumbling in the cardboard he was sitting on.
"Hey, that person seems nice. Should we go ask him?" May nudged Ryder. The boy scratched his head for a bit before approaching the said beggar.
"Um, excuse me, but… do you know where the nearest grocery store is in this city?" Ryder asked in the most polite way possible.
The teens glanced at each other nervously, then turned their attention back to the old beggar. The beggar growled a bit and went berserk for a few seconds before throwing up at them causing the teens to jerk back, with most of the puke hitting Antoinette.
"Uh… gee, thanks!" Ryder said awkwardly and the teens made a mad dash out of his sight.
Antoinette began fuming as now she was covered in filth.
"UGH, THAT FUCKING BASTARD!" the diva yelled. "WHEN WE GET BACK, I AM SO GOING TO TAKE A THREE-DAY SHOWER!"
(Antoinette sighed, wondering why this scene was included)
Fail #23:
"Are we there yet?" Arreis asked.
"No." Antoinette rolled her eyes, wiping the nasty puke off of her face with a towel that she surprisingly brought along with her.
"Are we there yet?" Arreis asked.
"I just said no." Antoinette answered back.
"Oh okay." Arreis looked down before chiming in once more. "Are we there yet?"
At this rate, Ryder, May, and Beatrice were laughing a bit in the background.
"No! The actual fuck!? I already told you 'no' twice and you-"
"Are we there yet?" Arreis asked.
Colin and Nash both facepalmed simultaneously, as Antoinette began doing the sign of the cross with a huge scowl on her vomited face.
"JESUSPLEASEHAVEMERCYONMEANDSAVEMYPOORSOULFROMTHEEVIL DOINGSOFARREISSMITH. AMEN." Antoinette pleaded (or shouted) so fast to the skies above her, which almost seemed like she was rapping.
"DID SOMEONE SAY JESUS!?" yelled a random teen from across the street.
(Arreis smirked from the side as they watched her gig)
Fail #24:
"There's this," Toxa stated, chucking out some seasoning packets to the table. "This," she went on, throwing a pack of butter along with the seasoning packets. "And this." She added, tossing a frozen commercialized fish fillet on the countertop, landing with an icy thud.
Misha's eyes widened at the large, frozen fish fillet. "Well… like my mom once said, you always gotta buy the freshest fishes for your bitches."
Everyone stared at her as if she said the weirdest (and somehow relevant) quote in the world.
"Um… what?" Robert went.
And the best one yet… Fail #25:
"Hey guys, how's the soup coming along?" Toxa asked.
Mag was stirring the soup on a small pot on low heat. "Pretty good."
Pierre on the other hand was opening up a packet of herbs. "Are we gonna put this in?"
"Yup." Mag nodded. Pierre complied, putting some herbs on the soup to make it taste different. "Hey, Rival. Are we still going to, you know, change the consistency a bit?"
"I think?" Rival answered with another question. "Ask Mag."
"Yeah, do it." Mag nodded.
Rival got a small plate, and grabbed a spoonful of cornstarch from the bag. He mixed it as well with a few water.
"Uh… is it supposed to look like this?" Rival asked the two, showing the cornstarch and water mixture.
"Yeah, put it in." Pierre nodded.
"No, it needs a few more water." Mag retaliated.
"Mag, it clearly looks alright! If you put in a few more water, the soup will be even more… soupy!" Pierre shot back, having trouble thinking of what to say.
"You idiot, cornstarch is way starchier than flour. Of course you need water!" Mag got into his face.
"It's the other way around, Mag!" Pierre fired, snatching the plate Rival was holding, and approached the pot. "I'll show you-"
"No, give it back!" Mag shouted, grabbing the plate. Both of them were now fighting over the mixture.
Rival winced at the sight and immediately tried to break them up. "Just give it to me! I'll fix it!"
Mag, Pierre, and Rival continued fighting for the cornstarch mixture, much to the attention of the others.
"RIVAL, WATCH OUT! YOU'RE ABOUT TO PUSH THE FLOUR AND THE CORNSTARCH OFF THE TABLE!" Robert shouted frantically.
Too late. Rival's back hits both the flour bag and the cornstarch bag, sending it spiraling to the floor.
"AH, SHIT-"
BOOP.
(Everyone involved in that team glanced at each other)
Vanessa heaved a sigh as soon as the highlight reel ended.
"Ugh you know what? Next time when we do something like this, I swear, I'll try not to cause an epic fail again."
Misha laughed playfully in contrast to Vanessa. "Oh please, we're just a few steps away from being queens of epic fails."
"Yeah, well at least you never apologize to a plant." Vanessa rolled her eyes.
"Shhhhh!" Brea shushed the two girls. Everyone else just sat on the floor, listening like a bunch of kids you see in a kindergarten class. "Yeah, just try and not make this boring like the anniversary episode from last season."
Arreis rolled her eyes. "Oh please, the anniversary last season was fun! We tortured Sal and made him eat ghost peppers and we just ended up having fun on the beach."
A bemused smirk was growing on Brea's lips. "Oh wait, speaking of peppers-"
Some of the contestants groaned (featuring Arabelle's whining from the back) while others were somehow excited.
"Someone's going to-"
"Yes." Brea quickly answered, interrupting Zack in the process. "With the help of Rosa Dela Rosa and some of the other staff, and maybe the other guests, we managed to gather some things that... miiiiiight cause quite the chaos."
"Like what?" Therion raised an eyebrow, a slight nervous expression growing in his face.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we now introduce to you... a box of 30 Carolina Reapers, one for each of you." Brea cackled.
"Oh crud." Mag hissed.
Each of the contestants were given a single Carolina Reaper, one of the hottest peppers in the world… along with a bottle of water of course. Almost everyone gulped as they received one, not wanting to know what would happen to them if they let their taste buds brush against this… thing.
"Is there an ambulance here?" Epi whispered to Erin who was standing next to him.
"Absolutely!"
"Why would you call an ambulance here?" Godfrey raised an eyebrow.
Sephiria could only laugh at Godfrey's reaction. "Silly, not everyone can survive the hotness of the Carolina Reaper."
"So someone can die?"
Erin, Epi, and Sephiria looked at Godfrey for five good seconds before shrugging simultaneously.
"Maybe."
"Ahhh." Godfrey nodded in affirmation, jutting a finger on his chin a few seconds after. "This is a story after all so anything is possible."
Brea sighed as she faced the guests. "Guys, no more Barbie quotes, okay?"
The guests snickered at each other before Epi gave the hosts a thumbs up.
"Hehe, very well then!" Topher almost shouted, looking at all the contestants with a Carolina Reaper on their hands. "You may drink your bottle of water, but if you do so, you won't be able to get a chance to win the prize!"
Segment #3: Chili Challenge
"Fuck prizes, I ain't eating this shit." Misha spat as she threw her Carolina Reaper towards a nearby trash can, which indeed went inside the trash can.
"Nice shot!" Alec praised.
"Yeah, so… everyone except for Misha since she's disqualified… START!" Faith shouted.
"Wait like right now?" Sami asked.
"Yes, right now." Faith gave the fandom girl a devious smirk.
Sami used her tongue to slightly taste the pepper at it, and almost gagged at the taste.
"No thank you." She said as she quickly downed her water bottle.
"Alright, Sami and Misha are out. Sami kinda quit and Misha… well… threw hers away." Xavier shrugged.
Misha flipped her hair. "Hey, I ain't risking my life to some chili shit, okay?"
Meanwhile, everyone else was looking cautiously at their own pepper.
And there's ELV in the back once more, who literally just ate his as if it were a piece of candy. He quickly swallowed it, and as he did so, everyone was staring at him.
"What?" He asked. "As if it was spicy enough."
Mairead laughed as she took a sip from her water bottle.
"Hey, you didn't even ate yours yet, Mairead." Xavier pointed out.
"...Oh." she simply said. "But… I honestly wasn't planning to eat it anyway."
"Partners, y'all suck at this." Nash commented as he took a bite of his pepper. His face went instantly red and he tried to open his water bottle. "TARNATION, THAT IS SPICY-"
"It is? If so, I am not gonna be eating this." Vanessa called out. She ripped the pepper in half, immediately feeling the hotness on her fingers. "Ah shit!"
"I DON'T CARE! I WANT MY HAIR BACK!" Toxa yelled, squeezing, throwing her pepper towards Faith in the process.
"AHHHH IT HIT MY EYE!" Faith shouted as she could already feel her eye burning. She grabbed Toxa's water bottle, spilled some water on her face and quickly flushed her eyes. "YOU ARE SO GOING TO PAY FOR THIS IF I GO BLIND THANKS TO YOU!"
"Uhh can I quit?" Beatrice asked.
"Same her. I'm good." May chimed in as well.
"Nash is right, you guys really suck at this." Cater said as he ate his pepper and drank some water after.
"Hey you suck at this too!" Ryder pointed at him.
"What?"
"You weren't supposed to drink your water."
"Oh well… the prize isn't important, right?" Carter shrugged.
"What if the prize is immunity, though?" Colin jutted his chin, not even trying to eat his own pepper.
"Maybe the prize for us is that we're getting back in the competition." Oli said. He pretended to drop his pepper into his mouth, but he secretly dropped it to the side.
"Hey Oli, you're cheating!" Adala pointed out.
"SHHHH!" Oli shushed her.
"HEY EVERYBODY! OLI IS CHEATING!" Alec revealed to everyone.
"...He can do better than that." Arabelle scoffed. She wasn't even trying to eat hers either.
Gabe was dipping his on the water bottle.
"What on earth are you doing?" Robert asked his friend.
"I'm putting it on the water so that the spiciness will wear off."
"Okay?"
"How spicy is it anyway?" Antoinette asked herself.
Zack immediately plunged one into his mouth, completely cool with it, just like ELV did. "Try it."
Antoinette heaved a sigh as she slid it into her mouth. She spit it on the floor afterwards, her face as red as a tomato. "NO, I HATE THIS! URGH! WHERE'S MY WATER!"
"I lost mine. Guess I don't have to do it." Pierre smirked
"...Who's suggestion was this?" Therion gagged, tossing his pepper off to the side. "This person must be really sadistic-"
"What if I said it was me?" Epi asked his OC, wiggling his eyebrows in the process.
"...Oh… Well, are you going to eat it, Rival?" The gamer asked.
"Maybe." Rival said as he was supposed to stuff his pepper into his pocket, but Erin grabbed it and immediately downed it. "Erin! That's spicy!"
"Aww, but I want to-" Erin suddenly stopped. "I WANT WATER-" She screamed, running off to the room to find water.
"Hey what happened to Mag, did she pass out or are my eyes failing me?" Faith asked, her eyes were bloodshot red as if she took drugs.
"I don't know, she was just fine like five seconds ago! Then she ate it!" Zack panicked.
Don sighed. "Godfrey, please tell me that the ambulance is still there."
"There's an ambulance?" Kimmie's eyes lightened up, as if she wanted to go with them.
"Yeah, it is. Someone volunteer and get Mag into the ambulance or something." Brea sighed. "And to think that someone's here to see her anyway."
Gordon dropped his pepper. "I'll help her!"
"Uh… me too!" Lyle did the same. The two of them merely just trying to escape the challenge as they helped Mag onto the ambulance. "HEY WAIT WHAT ABOUT ARREIS OVER THERE?"
"Wait, she passed out too?" Topher facepalmed. "This… th- WHAT KIND OF EPISODE IS THIS?"
Blaineley almost laughed. "I almost forgot that you were here, Topher!"
This made Topher facepalm as Don and Chef both carried Arreis as well to the ambulance.
"Epi, this is the worst challenge ever." Sephiria laughed, playfully smacking Epi's back in the process.
"Thanks- ow!" Epi yelped in pain.
Blaineley: "You know what, I'm fast-forwarding this. This is taking way too long."
As Blaineley said, the episode was fast-forwarded due to the length of the duration it was taking up. Everyone spent the rest of the episode just partying and forgetting any negative happenings of the season.
Around two hours later, we can see that all of the contestants (including Erin) all falling asleep in several areas of the achievement gallery. The room looked like an absolute mess. There were bottles of drinks like milk (which was spilled all over the floor), juices, sodas, and even a few alcoholic drinks. The food however, was neatly packed back into their containers. The couches were no longer on their positions as the cast slept on them. There were bits of Carolina Reapers everywhere. There was also a pile of Toxa's shaved indigo hair just by the drinks area.
"Wow." Godfrey laughed. "This place looks like it got hit by an earthquake."
Don ran back into the room. "Hey, Mag and Arreis are already in their rooms so they should be fine for the night- whoa."
"Should we end the episode here, then?" Topher asked. "I hardly did anything today." He then looked towards the puddle of milk just next to Kimmie and Robert and almost gagged, his face showing a completely disgusted and grimaced expression. "Good god, someone help me get my mind out of the gutter and end this episode so that we could clean this up."
"Yeah I think we should." Chef nodded. "Faith, Xavier, outro."
"Got it." Xavier groaned. "God, I feel like I'm having a headache and I didn't even drink beer."
"Same…" Faith sighed. "All I drank was the Sprite. Unlike ELV who nearly chugged all the vodka… eww…"
"Anyway, everyone…" Xavier yawned. "Hope you guys liked this chaotic anniversary episode… this has been Xavier Hallady-"
"And Faith Laverre." Faith added before the two said in unison. "Signing off! Good night everyone!"
"Happy Act II anniversary!" Brea, Blaineley, Don, Chef, and Topher all cheered in unison before the screen fades to black. Once it did so, the hosts, guests, and the alumni duo began to clean up and take the contestants back to their rooms for the night.
End special episode.
Day 18, 5:15 AM
Fresh Ent. - Lobby
After all the mayhem that happened the previous night, everyone gathered up at the lobby, still in their normal messed up clothes from last night, with others looking groggily towards the hosts.
"Ugh, what's the big idea with waking us up this early, like hello! I need my beauty sleep!" Arabelle ranted loudly, taking a seat by the staircase.
"There's an announcement that should be made." Don stated as he stood up in front of everyone. "One is that despite Chris' presence in this episode, he will still not be hosting for the rest of the season."
"I know that!" Chris shouted off from the back, to which most contestants didn't mind him anyway. (Save for Mag who gave him an angry scoff)
"What are you doing here?" She stood up with a death glare.
"As if you're my daughter." Chris rolled his eyes towards Mag, deciding not to add onto it more. (Though he really wanted to)
"You-"
"Ahem!" Brea cleared her throat from the front so that everyone would fix back their attention towards the hosts standing in front of them. "Two contestants who were previously eliminated will come back. And I suggest you all keep your arguments to yourselves."
Indistinct chatter was now heard amongst the contestants.
Don got out a piece of paper, taking a deep breath before reading it. "Alright now, returning back to the game are…"
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"...Lyle and Antoinette." Don finally announced after what seemed like forever.
Lyle almost fell out of his seat, while Antoinette had an expression of pure disbelief. The rest of the contestants all had mixed expressions as well.
"Doubt it." Antoinette rolled her eyes. "The judges eliminated me. There's no way they would bring me back. Besides, I haven't even been interviewed for the aftermath."
"Well, it just looks like you're not going to the aftermath anytime soon, then." Blaineley let out a chuckle.
"Wait, but why us though? I thought those who are unfairly eliminated won't be able to return?" Lyle asked.
Brea shook her head. "Not today. Now, for the remaining fourteen, go pack up and fix yourselves up because we're heading back to the theater in about thirty minutes, so that's six o'clock sharp."
No one moved an inch.
"Uh, hello! I said go pack up, right?"
At this rate, everyone stood up at the same time and rushed out of the lobby to pack up.
"Oh great. Thank god nobody mentioned something." Brea sighed in relief.
"Mentioned what?" Chris asked her.
"Get out." Brea yelled at him. The former host just rolled his eyes and left the building, not even bothering to come back.
"So… nobody mentioned what?" Topher asked, jutting a hand on his chin in curiosity.
"Fine… just… don't let anyone know." She told the other hosts and explained what she was talking about and where she went yesterday before the episode.
Yesterday...
Brea entered a hospital room about half an hour before the anniversary episode started. She stepped into the room, there were about two nurses present. There was also someone on the hospital bed, though it was unclear to see who it was due to the covers, and the angle of the camera.
"So… how is she? Does she know yet?"
One of the nurses cleared her throat. "She… hasn't woken up ever since the operation. Her vital signs are becoming stable now, so she would hopefully be awake by later."
"Ah, I see." Brea nodded. "So… how will you tell her then? The fact that… you know? I mean, I am really going to get sued by her parents by getting her into this situation. Really, I wasn't expecting this but honestly, if that challenge hadn't been a secret spilling challenge, then she would still have the child."
"Well either way, Ms. Delamonca, her child wouldn't still be able to survive from what we've examined… it looks actually as if Ms. Van Tropé would have an extremely difficult time bearing a child due to her health." explained the other nurse.
"Oh... well, guess that explains everything." Brea sighed. "I'm just going to have to be prepared for… several negative reactions regarding this matter. But anyway, thanks a lot for the information. I've already told her… ex-boyfriend about this matter and to not mention anything regarding this topic, as well as the other staff members so as to not bring up any scandals… hopefully."
"Very well, we will let you know though as soon as possible if she's awake."
"Okay, thanks."
Brea (Host): "Hoo wow. I am so screwed. Sybil will literally go insane when she finds out that she lost her baby during that… operation or whatever she had back there. Faith and Xavier literally almost mentioned Sybil because of that live chat on YouTube but thankfully they didn't say a word. Hopefully Pierre doesn't say anything about this though because he is taking it extremely hard on him. Like, he almost didn't want to talk to anyone at all. Oh well… if this doesn't pull off though, I guess I may just have to terminate my contract and stop hosting mid-Act III."
Beatrice (merged): "I feel like I'm forgetting something. I mean, we're already close to the island by now and I have everything with me…" A notebook suddenly falls out from her pocket. "Oh crap… I forgot about ELV's notebook. I forgot to give it back to him!"
CAST FOR THIS EPISODE:
SPECIAL HOSTS: Faith, Xavier
MAIN HOSTS: Brea, Blaineley, Don, Topher, Chef, Chris
GUESTS: Sephiria, Epi, Godfrey, Erin
REMAINING MERGED CONTESTANTS: Beatrice, Carter, Colin, Gordon, May, Misha, Pierre, Rival, Ryder, Sami, Therion, Vanessa
RETURNED TO THE GAME: Antoinette, Lyle
ELIMINATED FROM ACT II: Mairead, ELV, Kimmie, Alec, Janice, Nash, Oli, Arabelle, Gabe, Adala, Zack, Toxa, Robert, Arreis, Sybil, Mag
Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed this! Thanks to everyone who suggested some segments, and thanks also to TheUnchartedHollow for the questions/dares, as well as Epifanio Therion and Sephiria Arks for suggesting the chili challenge!
Next time: Something horrible is going to happen…
But anyway, I'll be seeing you guys next time!
-Candela