Right. Part 2. I promise, next episode, Toni will host. Sorry, I don't have any more fun facts about Egypt, but I'll try to put up something for every location, both ones I have visited and ones I haven't. Thanks for reviewing, OmnipotentAbsoluteUIGodzilla, lordgemini, AnonBrowser, iwashere01 and the guest reviewer (I'll think about what to do, but I promise I won't go too far with it).

One of the things set up for the next episode was the carpets in team colours – gold, blue and pink.

Additionally, Chris had told me what the icons for each team would be. Team Victory's gold icon would be a trophy, Team Chris had him grinning in blue, and Team Amazon's fittingly had the female symbol in pink. While he took a break, the contestants were all talking, and the cameras were filming.

"I can't believe Duncan got disqualified, just because he won't sing." Gwen commented. She caught my eye and we exchanged understanding looks. She was almost as close to Duncan as I was.

"Maybe he can't sing." Heather suggested, smirking.

"Oh, he can do anything he sets his mind to!" Courtney said, jumping to his defense at once. Her face softened immediately afterwards. "And now he's stuck on the plane, waiting for a ride home. Poor thing – he must be miserable."

I took a step towards Team Amazon. "I talked to him, Courtney, and he's actually in a good mood now. In fact, from what he told me-" I lowered my voice at this – "he's thinking about going on his own little tour of the world instead of going straight home. You'll see him after the season is over, something that I probably won't."

Courtney and I had never gotten along. In her eyes, I was a scheming little slut with a good dash of sadism (you know, being a McLean and all), and in my eyes, she was a scheming little contestant and a toxic girlfriend to Duncan as well as all too focused on her goals to remember common decency. But I knew that deep down, she cared more about Duncan than she'd admit, and in this case, she actually looked a little happier. "Well, I guess…" she muttered, not looking directly at me.

"Duncan and Courtney fans will be devastated," Sierra told Izzy, "But I think you and Owen have a shot at becoming fave Total Drama couple on my fansite."
"Owen's magic," Izzy said enthusiastically. "When he breathes, his nose whistles the national anthem!" Owen demonstrated immediately.

"Supercute!" Sierra agreed. "But he's no Cody. Did you know Cody slept with a stuffed emu named Jerry until he was…well, okay, he still does."

I giggled, especially when Noah started asking questions. "And you know this how?"

"I called his aunt once. I pretended I was a telemarketer!"

"Ooh, stalkerlicious."

Honestly, even though I had never liked Noah much, I was starting to think he'd soon become meme material or something. This wasn't even the first time he'd made a sarcastic remark worthy of meme culture.

I quickly sidled up to Sierra and whispered "Here's something to put on your fansite – Noah could get cast in a remake of Mean Girls. He go, Glen Coco!"

Sierra giggled and whispered back "I am so quoting you on my fanblog! Let me know if you've got anything else to tell me about Chris too, OK?"

I smiled. "Sure."

Chris called the cast to attention soon after that, letting them know the next challenge was to be a camel race.

"Where are the other camels?" Harold asked, looking around.

"There are no other camels." Chris told him. "It's a camel race, not a camels race."

"And a horse race only has one horse, does it, Chrissy?" I said the words in a muttering tone, but loud enough for the cameras to hear. And the contestants, who all looked a little cross.

Chris pretended to shrug, and then told them the race was to the Nile, and that everyone had to bring their reward to the finish line as well, then gave everyone a minute to strategize.

Team Amazon all got onto their camel, with Izzy on the neck, Courtney and Gwen either side and Heather topping the hump. Cody had to hang onto the back.

Alejandro started organizing his team on top of the goat, getting Tyler and Noah on the goat itself and Sierra and Owen balanced on them.
"Yeah, this is gonna work." Noah deadpanned.

"Have faith, Noah." Alejandro said confidently. "Believe. In us!" And then he took a flying leap, landed on top of the higher two, and suddenly, the precarious positions stopped swaying.

"Whoa, we're perfectly balanced!" Tyler exclaimed.

"Okay, colour me impressed," Noah conceded.

Team Victory couldn't ride on their stick, however. Harold nearly took someone's eye out waving it around, and DJ took it off him. I went over to them, suggesting "Why don't you let someone really responsible hang onto the stick? Don't forget, you need to have it with you to win. At least it won't tire and go off-course when you don't want it to. Remember, Chris said each reward has its advantages?" (I was reaching here – I had no idea what use the stick was).

Leshawna took charge. "Okay. DJ, you hang onto the stick for now, just so no one gets hurt."

Chris finally told them that the Nile was big, blue and they couldn't miss it. "Or I guess you can, then you'll die. Probably get eaten by the local scarab beetles. It's mating season and they get all…kill-y when they're in heat."

I knew what Chris was about to do, and started praying the contestants wouldn't say anything about how they were glad there weren't-

"I'm glad there aren't any out here! Those things are nasty!" Oh, thanks a lot, Leshawna, you just jinxed yourself even worse.
"I'll tell them you said so!" Chris said cheerfully, tipping a whole urn of scarabs onto the sandy ground. Of course, it was just an excuse for another song. The campers had to try and sing a whole song about wanting the scarabs to ignore them in favour of falling in love and procreating. In fact, it worked so well that I actually started singing along with them, just softly.

"It's lovin' time…scarab mating season, it's lovin' time…"

The contestants did have to make a quick getaway when Ezekiel brought the scarab's wrath upon him just by saying "Seasonal, eh? No, wait!" The scarabs snapped out of it and everyone made a quick getaway.

Me? I went with Chris and Chef to wait at the other side of the Nile.

"I could fire you for that horse race remark, you know." Chris snapped at me. "Consider this your warning. I'm not going to mess with you while you're hosting. And while you're at it, you know you can grow up and stop calling me Chrissy in front of everyone else."

"Why not, Chrissy?" I replied. "Oh yeah, because we're family and I'm allowed to tease family. You know I love you, and that's why I call you Chrissy. And you'll always be Chrissy to me. Just be happy the media never calls you that. The contestants haven't started doing it, either."

Chris couldn't argue with that, but I quickly added to placate him "And I won't bother you while you're hosting again, promise. I know you're the senior host here. Just don't bother me about not torturing the contestants and we'll get along fine.

There was a second part to the challenge, by the way. The teams had to build a basket boat out of reeds like Moses to get to the other side of the Nile. Team Chris arrived first, and Sierra was weaving the reeds like a pro.

Chris did go over to the other side on a powerboat when we heard some kind of thing going on when Team Amazon arrived.

"What was that about?" I asked when Chris returned.
"Izzy and Sierra just swapped teams." he replied. "Alejandro wanted to ask me if I was going to let them, and I decided to allow it."

"And this isn't just because Sierra has been sucking up to you all this time?" I asked slyly. After all, I could guess that she wanted to be on the same team as Cody, and Izzy wouldn't have stopped to think that Cody might not want Sierra back.

"Point is, I allowed it." Chris said shortly.

Team Victory was last to the shore, but they had their boat done pretty quickly. Team Amazon had trouble getting their camel onto the boat, but once they did, everyone was ready to set off. They actually had ANOTHER reprise to sing because Chris didn't think the challenge was hard enough, but…well, whatevs. This time they were begging the Nile crocodiles (second deadliest crocs after saltwater ones) to leave them alone.

Team Amazon got across first.

"Congrats!" Chris announced. "You're alive. And as long as you all brought your rewards across the finish line, there will be no elimination tonight."

Cheers all around. At least, until Ezekiel spoke up. "I lost the stick."

I didn't even bother going to the elimination room that night. Chris went over the Drop of Shame, the parachute and the peanut bags with me, and I didn't really want to see Duncan leaving anyway. There was no point in seeing Zeke go too.

So instead, I was sitting in First Class with Team Amazon, chatting with Gwen. And Courtney, who joined us and was actually being pleasant. Not fake, like she had last season, but seeming to enjoy the evening. I still preferred Gwen, but it was nice to finally have Courtney not being at my throat.

But will that last? Find out next time!