A bird was chirping to Dawn, to Dakota's annoyance. "Really?" Dawn gasped while hanging upside-down. "Oh, no!"
"Will you keep it down?" Dakota asked as she covered her ears. She had a pink top, pink shorts, and a pink sleep mask. "If I don't get my beauty sleep, I'll lose it!"
"Yes, because your need for fame is really a depressed cry for love!"
"Who told you that?! My therapist?"
"I see people's auras, and it looks like someone threw up on yours."
"Oh, go eat a worm!" Dakota pulled her pillow over her head. The bird Dawn was chatting to offered her a worm. "Uh, no thanks," Dawn declined. Sky, in a black sleeveless top and plum shorts, walked up to her. "Have you seen Dave by any chance?" she whispered.
"I think he's by the cliff. I think he's trying to recreate his dream a little."
"That guy will end up getting hurt! Thanks, Dawn!" Sky bolted outside and ran towards the cliff. At the cliff, Dave was picking some blue-and-white flowers. "She'll love these," he breathed as he took a whiff.
"Dave!" Sky shouted as she ran up to him. "Be careful up there!"
"Sky! I-I was busy w-with..." Dave hid the flowers behind his back and backed up. Suddenly, his foot slipped off the edge and he began to fall. "DAVE!" Sky cried out as she leapt after him. Dave screamed as he fell towards the water until he suddenly stopped falling. "Huh?" he wondered as he floated above the lake by a couple of feet. He turned his head and saw Sky flying with a pair of purple-and-cream bat wings. "I have something to tell you," she told Dave. After the two returned to solid ground, Sky began to explain herself. "Do you remember when Shawn asked Gwen and me if we were vampires?" she asked Dave.
"Yeah," Dave replied, unsure where this was leading.
"Well...I lied."
"You're actually a vampire?!"
"Yeah...I didn't want to say anything at first because I was afraid people would just see me as a freak." She began to tear up.
"Don't cry, Sky," Dave told her. "I don't think you're a freak. No one here does! I can make sure of that, if you want."
"Really?" Sky hugged Dave tightly. "Thank you! You're a good friend!" Unknown to them, Shawn was watching them and scowling.
Confessional: Shawn (Killer Bass)
"I knew it! I just knew one of those girls at the dock was part of the undead! I have to get rid of her before she drains me dry!"
End Confessional
Over by the Screaming Gophers' cabins, Leshawna was laughing at what Gwen was telling her. "That ant thing was you?!" she chuckled. "Girl, that was something else."
"Sounds like Heather got what she deserves," Samey quietly chuckled as she kept an eye on her sleeping sister.
"It sounds a bit mean!" Ella gasped.
"The girl read my journal out loud," Gwen plainly told her. "Anybody else would want payback."
"But what about poor Echo? She got covered with those ants, too!"
"Echo read a guy's journal out loud."
"But the poor girl was roped into it," Leshawna told Gwen. "Heather probably snatched it from the guys' side. Poor thing." She noticed Zoey was rubbing her pigtails with worry. "You okay, girl?"
"Yeah," Zoey sighed. "But after hearing that someone has a crush on me, it just makes you think." Meanwhile, Brick was jogging in the woods.
Confessional: Brick (Killer Bass)
"As the only soldier with any military training, I've definitely got a winning edge. My biggest competition right now is probably Jo. Yeah, good thing we're on the same team. Like my drill always says, 'Keep your enemies close and your rivals closer.' Wait, I did that wrong. Keep your family close and your enemies at arm's length. No, no, no, hold on..."
End Confessional
Brick continued to jog. Jo was also jogging. A mutant squirrel was munching on a chocolate bar from the roof of one of the cabins and watching the duo, who soon crashed into each other. "Just finished my morning 5k run," Jo told Brick. "You?"
"8k," he replied.
"I mean, I did an 8k warm-up, then 5k at a full sprint."
"My entire run was uphill!"
"Yeah? Uphill with my eyes shut!"
"I ran backwards, with earplugs!"
"Why earplugs?"
"I don't know!" Jo just gave him a doubtful look before continuing. "Those rats are lucky to have us," she bragged. "And we'll be the ones to carry them to victory!"
Confessional: Jo (Killer Bass)
"I'll carry them to victory! Just being nice so that aptly-named clump of cadet meat will be loyal. But when the time comes..." She broke a stick in half. "Ow! Splinter! You little-"
End Confessional
At the boys' side of the Screaming Gophers' cabin, Mike walked inside to see that everyone was still asleep. "Still asleep?" he quietly wondered. "Guess most of them aren't early birds." He then noticed a peculiar smell. "Where's that coming from?" He followed it to the stacks of suitcases and duffel bags. He rummaged through it and found the source of the pungent smell came from a small black bag. He opened it up to find it full of jars labeled 'Strawberry Shampoo'. He sniffed the bottle. "Smell's coming from here," he muttered. "How can the others not notice this?"
"Not notice what, Mike?" Cameron suddenly asked. Mike whipped around to see Cameron, in a white pajama set, staring at him. "Just looking for something I might've left in here," Mike quickly told him as he hid the black bag behind his back. "Um, if I'm bothering you guys, I can come back later." He quickly left, leaving Cameron confused.
Confessional: Cameron (Screaming Gophers)
"I wonder what Mike was looking for? I could've helped him, if he wanted it."
Confessional: Mike (Screaming Gophers)
"Something tells me that whatever is in these jars..." He held up the black bag. "Isn't exactly 'shampoo'. But why bothering hide it?"
End Confessionals
The loudspeakers roared to life, spooking a seagull with a snake's tail. "Up and at 'em, my morning glories!" Chris announced to the campers, most of them still drowsy."It's time for today's challenge!"
"What?" Lightning complained. "But Lightning hasn't had his DPA yet!"
"Your what?" Gwen asked, confused.
"My Daily Protein Allotment. Duh!"
"And I haven't had enough beauty sleep," Dakota complained while she wore her sunglasses.
"Come on," Sam assured her. "You look- GREAT SONS OF ORION!" Dakota removed her sunglasses, showing baggy, bloodshot eyes.
"You can catch up on your sleep after the challenge," Chris told her. "Right this way to the Bay of Dismay!" Everyone groaned at this. Dakota whipped out her phone and began talking into it. "Hey, it's me," she spoke. "We're going to some bay- HEY!" Chris used a magnet on a fishing line to snatch her phone, along with Sam's GameGuy. "Contraband!" he announced. "Now it's mine. Confiscators keepers! Come on, your humiliation awaits!" The Screaming Gophers were walking down a path, followed by the Killer Bass. "Bay of Dismay?" Zoey wondered. "Sounds like one of those fight locations on Total Warriors 2."
"I didn't know you liked action movies," Mike told her. "Anything else?"
"Well, I love ultimate kickboxing, along with some of those horror movies they made back in the seventies. You should totally watch 'Midnight Screams'. Um, if that's okay with you."
"I've seen it, actually. It was pretty good. But I didn't know you liked gory horror movies." The duo shared a smile.
"I can't believe Gwen put Harold's red ant farm into my bed!" Heather complained. "She is so dead!"
"But you did read Gwen's diary out loud to the entire world," Trent pointed out. He saw Gwen moping ahead. "I'd better check on her." He ran up ahead. "Gee, I hope she's okay," Rodney said. He noticed Mike was deep in thought. "Uh..."
"Sorry," Mike quickly told him. "Didn't mean to alarm you."
"What were you thinking about?"
"Nothing for you to be concerned about."
Confessional: Mike (Screaming Gophers)
"Call me paranoid, but I thought I smelled that same scent when we were walking towards the bay." He took a breath. "Easy, I don't want to jump to any conclusions."
End Confessional
Sam walked over to Dakota. "Sorry about before," he apologized to her. "I was just so taken by your beautiful...nostrils." Dakota gave him an odd look as Sam realized what he had just said.
Confessional: Sam (Killer Bass)
"Nostrils? Nostrils?!"
End Confessional
"Thanks," Dakota cautiously told Sam. "I like your...uh...can I get back to you on that?" Sam could only sigh as Dakota walked off. "Everything okay, dude?" Geoff asked as he walked up.
"I'm just bummed that I didn't hit it off with Dakota," Sam gloomily replied. "Seems that a lot of people are already finding their soulmates. Just look at Dave and Sky hitting it off." He pointed to Sky and Dave, who were chatting in the back. "So," Dave asked, "Are there a lot of perks to being a vampire?"
"Well," Sky explained, "To an extent. All vampires can summon a pair of wings at will. Plus, all vampires are extremely fast and agile."
"But do you have to..." Dave gulped before continuing, "drink blood?"
"No! I happen to be a vegetarian my whole life. Some vampires can be fine with stuff like tomato juice. The only downside is that not drinking blood means it's much easier for me to get sunburned, hence all the sunscreen."
"I have so many more things to ask!"
"Um, I think it might have to wait a bit." Sky nodded to Sam and Geoff, who were now staring at the duo. "Uh, I don't mean to intrude," Sam began, "but it sounded like you guys were talking about vampires."
"Yes?" Sky replied with a pause.
"Cool. Sounds like you could be a fan of those Foretressvania games. Maybe you can check those out after we're finished with this challenge."
"I'll think about it."
Confessional: Sky (Killer Bass)
"I am so lucky to have teammates like Dave and Sam. I wish things could've been smoother back in middle school. When I told a classmate who I was, it only spread like wildfire. Then, everyone looked at me like I was a bug to exterminate. Sixth grade was the worst year of my life!"
End Confessional
Soon, everyone was strapped in two above-the-water platforms by harnesses, with the Bass on the left and the Gophers on the right. "Welcome to the 'Getting to Know You' trivia game challenge!" Chris announced while standing on a separate platform. "Everyone all strapped in nice and snug?"
"Too snug," Scott complained as he tugged on them. "It's cutting into my shoulders!"
"Yeah, children-sized harnesses will do that. I'll be asking our players embarrassing personal questions, and I mean majorly humiliating. If the player I'm talking about hits the poorly-wired buzzer and owns their humiliation before the time runs out, their team gets a point. First team to five wins part one and a distinct advantage in part two. But if no one owns up, this happens!" Chris pressed a button, sending the Screaming Gophers underwater. A legged shark swan up to them. As the Gophers screamed and the shark tried to bite them, they were suddenly pulled up. "There's some kind of two-legged shark monster down there!" Cody cried out.
"You mean Fang?" Chris asked. "Yeah, it turns out toxic waste can mess with stuff underwater, too. Who knew?"
"Better them than us," Scott whispered to Shawn.
"Anywho, if a team gets dunked, their opponents can steal by guessing which dunkee is guilty. Guess right and you get a point. Guess wrong and this happens." Chris pressed the button again, sending the Bass underwater. Fang tied a bib around him and saw the Bass, who screamed at him. Chris surfaced them a second later. "Now that we understand the rules, let's start the game. To the Bass, now listen carefully, who did this on the one and only date they ever had?" A fart noise was heard, making everyone giggle except for Sam, who was blushing badly. "Where did you get that?" he asked before pressing the buzzer, shocking him.
"To the Gophers," Chris continued, "Who got themselves banned from the mall?"
"I did!" Ella announced as she waved her hand.
"The buzzer, Ella!" Cameron warned. She pressed it, shocking her. "A point for the Gophers!" Chris announced. "And the intern that came up with that is so fired. Back to the Bass. Who wet their pants on the first and last day of school?"
"One of us is a pants-wetter?" Duncan laughed. Brick's face began to turn red, which Jo noticed. "He who sweats it wets it," she declared. "Team before pride, maggot." Brick reluctantly pressed his buzzer, shocking him. "Fine, it was me!" Most of the Screaming Gophers giggled at this. "Another point for the Bass!" Chris announced.
"Thanks, Brick," Sky told him as he ducked down. "I know that must've been tough."
"To the Gophers," Chris continued, "Which one of you auditioned because their brother dared them to?"
"Gotta admit," Greg commented, "taking someone on a dare like that takes guts."
"Like a liver?" Destiny asked, making Greg sigh. Gwen, blushing a little, finally pressed her buzzer, shocking her. "It...it was me," she sighed.
"It's two-all!" Chris announced. "Back to the Bass. Whose first name is really...Beverly?"
"That's not an embarrassing question!" Leonard spoke up. "Who cares if a girl's real name is Beverly." None of the girls on the Killer Bass moved. B finally pressed the buzzer, shocking him. "Correct!" Chris announced. "Beverly. Bass gets the point, though I would've preferred a verbal response."
"But B never talks," Dawn pointed out. "Just look at his aura." B shrugged.
"Don't care. So, as a quick punishment..." Chris pressed the button, sending the Bass underwater. Fang managed to chomp Scott whole. The Bass went back up a moment later. "Wait for me!" Scott gurgled as he pried open Fang's mouth and swam away.
Confessional: Scott (Killer Bass)
He pulled a tooth out of his butt. "What the-? A shark tooth?"
Confessional: Fang
He looked into a mirror and saw his missing tooth. He growled as he snapped the mirror in half.
End Confessionals
Scott climbed back into his seat. "Thanks for leaving me down there, team," he sneered. "You can win this stupid challenge without me."
"If he's not playing," Anne-Mari decided, "then I'm not, either."
"Uh, since I've already been humiliated, can I go?" Sam asked.
"Guys, settle down!" Sky warned. "I don't like this, either, but we have to keep winning this."
"And this is coming from you?" Shawn shot back.
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"The only good thing about us losing is that we can get rid of ghouls like you!" Shawn managed to shove Sky into the water. "Sky!" Dave exclaimed as he dove in after her. He grabbed the shaken Sky in his hands.
"Anne-Maria does make a point," Echo quickly said. "We should stop before any more secrets are blurted."
"So it's okay for you to read some dude's journal out loud to the entire world, but it's not okay for anything of yours to be revealed?!" Sol snapped back.
"I didn't know! I'm sorry!" She began to cry.
"Host talking here!" Chris told the teams. "I decide when the challenge is over."
"Whatever," Scott decided. "I'm out of here." He tried to move past, but Courtney stopped him. "Not until we win!" she shouted. Dakota was busy dialing a number on her phone. "Hey, it's me!" she talked through it. "Yeah, I'm using my back-up phone." The teams argued among themselves, to Chris's annoyance. "Alright, shut it!" he shouted. "Thanks to that pathetic digression, now we don't have enough time to finish this challenge. Happy?" Nearly everyone cheered or sighed in relief. "Well, you won't be happy for long. Come back after the break for an all-new challenge from which there is no escape."
"Chris," Topher interrupted, "I'd hate to interrupt you while you're going to commercial, but how will we get down?" Chris pressed a button, sending both teams underwater.
(cue commercial)
Both teams were walking down a path. "Thank goodness the challenge ended before Chris could ask me an embarrassing question," Cameron said.
"Let me guess," Heather taunted, "Who needs their diaper changed?"
"I haven't worn a diaper since I was eleven!" This got some giggles from his teammates. "The challenge is over, String Bean," Leshawna told him. "You don't have to keep humiliating yourself."
"No, please," Jasmine chuckled. "Go on. Or does baby need his bottle?"
"I have just enough right to be here as you do," Cameron spoke up. "And I'll prove it in the next challenge. You'll see!"
"You've got some fire, honey!" Leshawna praised him.
Confessional: Cameron (Screaming Gophers)
He was sucking his thumb. "Why did I say that?!"
Confessional: Samey (Screaming Gophers)
"Cameron is officially my idol! Being able to speak up for yourself like that? It's just...wow!"
End Confessionals
Trent walked up to Gwen. "Don't talk to me," she snapped at him.
"Are you still mad about the whole diary thing?" Trent asked.
"Gee, you think?!"
"Hey, if you need someone to talk to, I'll be here." Gwen smiled a little before walking off. Meanwhile, Sam was talking to Dakota. "Man," he sighed. "This is the longest I've ever gone without playing a video game. My hands feel so empty."
"Chris is such a jerk," Dakota muttered. She held up her waterlogged phone. "I could've sent, like, 600 texts by now!"
"Wow, we have a lot in common."
"Why would you say something like that to me?"
"No, no! I mean about the tech withdrawal! Trust me, you're nothing like me otherwise."
"Aw, thanks!" Sam smiled a little at this. Meanwhile, Shawn was glaring at Sky, who had a nervous look. "I think if we have to get rid of anyone," he spoke, "it has to be Sky. We can't trust her at all."
"Why not?" Duncan asked.
"Why not? Oh, I don't know...how about the fact that she's a blood-sucking vampire?!"
"That is completely ridiculous!" Courtney argued. "There's no such thing!"
"Are vampires people that eat plants only?" Destiny asked.
"That's a vegetarian," Greg corrected. "Sky, isn't what Shawn saying false?"
"No," Sky finally spoke up.
"Right, and it's complete- wait, did you say...no?"
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you guys at first. I just didn't want to be seen as a freak."
"Besides," Dave backed up, "Sky told me she doesn't eat meat."
"Aren't those vampires like those guys in the Daybreak books?" Sadie asked Katie.
"Yeah," Katie agreed. "And they were so cool!"
"I happen to be a vegetarian, as well," Bridgette told Sky. "Frankly, being a vampire doesn't seem too bad."
"You guys are not serious!" Shawn argued. "She's a menace!"
"Look," Sky told him, "I may be different from everyone else, but I am certainly NOT a menace!"
"You say that now, but when everyone ends up dry as raisins, I'm gonna-" Sky hissed at him, her eyes flashing blood red and her front teeth becoming a small set of fangs. Shawn immediately ran off. "Sorry about that," Sky told her team, her eyes and teeth becoming normal again.
"Didn't know the nice girl had a dark side," Duncan told her.
"You...you guys don't mind who I am?"
"I've had tougher chicks back home. And uglier."
"And your aura shows you have pure intentions," Dawn told her. Sky's expression soften a little.
Confessional: Sky (Killer Bass)
"I must be the luckiest girl here! Even after Shawn blurted about me, everyone's still cool about me. Or they just don't care either way. Still, it's a great thing!"
End Confessional
"Welcome, players!" Chris announced. "Now that you're all here, it's time for part two of today's challenge! The Mad Skills Obstacle Course! The relay race begins with a mad dash from the kick-start." On the course, a big boot was shown first. "Forget coffee. If this baby doesn't get you going, nothing will. Then it's off to the race against time that is the Cannonball Run!" The next obstacle shown was an area with cannonballs at all angles. "Over to my personal fave, Wrecking Ball Alley." The next obstacle shown was a set of spinning wheels with a wrecking ball swinging over them. "Hurts so good!"
"Sounds tricky," Beth gulped. "And painful."
"Very painful," Chris continued. "And moving on, we head to the gangplanks, complete with rapid mutant beavers." The next obstacle shown was a set of gangplanks that had two mutant beavers gnawing at them. "Followed by the bouncy agony of Double Trouble!" The next obstacle shown was four huge, bouncing red balls. "And finally, the Grand Slam, where you'll use ropes to swing into the giant baseball mitt while avoiding those deadly bats. Piece of cake." A bird flew into one of the bats, knocking itself out. "Oh, and as you may remember, I said that the winning team from part one would have a distinct advantage in part two."
"But there was no winner!" Zoey pointed out.
"Yeah. Don't remind me. The losing team was gonna wear snazzy specs while competing. But since we never actually finished the competition, I've decided that everybody has to wear them." Chef handed them a box filled with glasses resembling Harold's. "What's with the grandpa glasses?" Jo complained. "We won't be able to see anything wearing these!"
"Dork-tacular goggles won't make part two easy or attractive, but it can be done. In theory. Get your six best players into position! First up at the kick-start, it's Lightning against Anne-Maria. Then, it's Dawn versus Ella versus the cannonballs. Scott faces Rodney in Wrecking Ball Alley. B is up against Helga at the gangplank. Sam and Sierra will battle Double Trouble. And Dakota will fight Cameron in the Grand Slam. First team to finish wins the whole sha-bang, and the other team loses a member tonight. Since it's a relay race, you'll need something to pass."
"Our mascots?" Topher suggested. "Man, that would be so cool!"
"You're close, Topher. You'll be passing the animals on each team's totem from a previous challenge. Oh, intern!" An intern brought two crates over, with growling coming from inside them. "The Killer Bass will be passing a toxic rat, and the Screaming Gophers will be passing a mutant maggot." The intern gave Anne-Maria and Lightning their animals to pass. "It's a what?" Anne-Maria wondered.
"And...go!" Chris blew his air horn. The big boot kicked Lightning ahead. "And Lightning gets the boot!" Chris narrated. Anne-Maria hopped ahead. "Anne-Maria takes the early lead." She passed the rat to Dawn. "Here!" she told her. "Yeah, I got it going on." As Anne-Maria walked off, she fell off the platform. Lightning charged ahead and passed the maggot to Ella. "Go, girl!" he told her.
"Hello, little maggot," Ella told it, making it giggle. "Want something to pass the time with?"
"Rats still have the lead!" Chris announced as Dawn ran ahead. She stopped when she saw all the cannons. "Or not."
"Anybody wanna swap?" Dawn asked. The rat squeaked to her. "What's that? Duck now?" She ducked at the cannonball, which hit Lightning in the face. "Sha-bam," he moaned before passing out. Chris and Chef watched this from the monitor and laughed. "So funny!" Chris chuckled. He then heard Ella humming and stopped. "What's that noise?" he wondered as he turned to the monitor. Ella was singing and dancing with the maggot. "We're right where we belong!" she sang. "With a squirm and a song! We are moving right along to the-" A horn interrupted her and spooked the maggot in her hands. "You scared him!" she scolded.
"There's no singing required, Ella!" Chris shouted. "None!" Dawn passed the rat to Scott. "Wow, we're in the lead?" he quietly wondered. "Great. Nice and slow, all the way to last place." He slowly walked on the wheels. "Right, little guy?" The rat bit him on the chin, making him scream. The wrecking ball flung him all the way to B.
"That mean man gave Mister Oozer a dreadful fright!" Ella told Rodney as she passed the shaken maggot. "Best of luck to both of you!"
"Okay, Ella," Rodney sighed romantically. "Uh, I mean, girlfriend, me!"
"Hurry up, glupyy mal'chik!" Helga shouted to him.
"For Helga!" He quickly ran to the wheels. Meanwhile, Scott was petting the rat while B was waiting for him to pass it. "Who's my good freak?" Scott gushed. "Who's my good, little freak? There, there, little guy. Uncle Scotty kept you safe and sound." He noticed B making a motion to pass the rat. "Oh. Do you want this? Why didn't you say so, Beverly?!" B just grabbed the rat and placed it in the pocket of his jacket. After he hopped onto one of the gangplanks, the mutant beavers chewed through it, sending B down to them.
Rodney ran on the wheel as fast as he could. He hopped onto the wrecking ball as it swung over him. "Yahoo!" he cried out as he jumped off towards Helga, eventually landing on his groin. "My biscuits!" he squeaked out. The guys watching down below winced at this while Helga could only shake her head.
Meanwhile, B was making something out of the mud. A moment later, he finished, revealing a female beaver statue that caught the mutant beavers' attention. B slipped away as the beavers hugged the statues. "And in a surprisingly touching move, B extends the Bass's lead!" Chris announced.
"Come on!" Scott muttered in annoyance. Helga grabbed Rodney and the maggot and ran on the gangplanks. Just then, the mud statue the beavers held fell apart, angering them. They soon gnawed on the gangplank Helga was on, making her and Rodney fall.
"Go, B!" Sam cheered as B passed the rat to him. He ran towards Double Trouble and bobbed up and down. "Dakota, take it!" Sam shouted once he gotten close. Dakota was admiring herself in the mirror and turned a second too late, missing Sam and the rat. "Okay, ready!" she said with open arms. The rat Sam had ran away. "No!" he cried out. "Come back!" He chased after it.
Helga quickly passed Rodney and the maggot to Sierra. "Relay!" Helga cried out.
"You only had to hand me the maggot," Sierra told her. "You can take Rodney back." She ran off, leaving Helga and Rodney to be dragged back by the beavers. Sierra quickly hopped on the bobbing balls.
Confessional: Sierra (Screaming Gophers)
"I happen to have a lot of practice with stuff like this. When I was trying to get some more info on Sky, I had to hop in the tree branches so I can keep up with her flying! FYI, she happens to be a vampire, and her cool vampire power is, like, glowing in the dark. Mainly, her wings glow, but-"
"Hello!" Sol shouted from outside. "Don't take too long in there! Other people have to use it, too!"
"Alright, alright. TTYL!"
End Confessional
"Your maggot, Cameron!" Sierra told him as she passed it to him.
"Here!" Sam told Dakota as he handed the rat to her.
"Ew!" Dakota moaned. "Can you at least wipe it off?"
"Yes!" Cameron cheered as he ran ahead. "I've never felt so alive!" He stopped at the Grand Slam. "I'm a dead man." Meanwhile, Helga and Rodney were being held by the mutant beavers. "Let me go!" Helga told them as she tried to break free from their grasp. They only licked their lips as they squirted ketchup in her eyes. "Ahh! Helga not food! Let go!" She blindly began to swing her fists and legs, kicking the beavers in the groin. "You saved us!" Rodney told her. Helga continued to blindly fight. "Helga, it's over-" She managed to kick Rodney in the groin. "Not again!" he squeaked out as he fell over.
"What did Ginger Boy say?" Helga asked as she wiped her eyes. She noticed the beavers and Rodney down on the ground. "Bednyaga!" she breathed out. "Helga relay Ginger Boy out of here!" She carried Rodney away.
Dakota ran up to the ropes of the Grand Slam. "Well, Dakota fans," she told the camera as she grabbed a rope, "here goes nothing!" She swung towards the glove, but she barely missed it and splashed into the mud. She shrieked when she saw how dirty she was. Cameron tried to swing but got knocked into one of the bats.
Dakota walked up to the platform again when she heard the paparazzi. "Dakota! Over here!" one of them called out from a hot-air balloon. "Smile for us."
"Finally!" Dakota breathed. "Hi! You're just in time for my, uh, mud bath!" She began to pose for the cameras. "No," Sam told her. "Ignore them and swing! SWING!"
Cameron ran up to try again. "Velocity times mass times wind speed..." he calculated. The maggot bit him on the hand, making him scream and tumble into the rope, knocking him into the bats before landing in the glove. "The Screaming Gophers win!" Chris announced. "To the Gophers, the spoils. McLean-brand soap, shampoo and conditioner guaranteed to wash off the stink."
"Stink!" Lightning moaned.
"Bass, see you at the elimination ceremony." The Killer Bass moaned. "Come on, guys," Sam assured them. "Winning isn't everything." Jo chased after him.
"Oh," Chris continued, "And as for Dakota's annoying entourage...Chef?" Chef flung a pebble at the balloon, making it pop and blow away. "Um, rude!" Dakota told him. At the Bass's cabin, Scott was talking to the others. "Alright, guys," he told them, "Dakota's gotta go. She's only in it for the photo op."
"Oh, hang on, guys," Sam told them. "I mean, sure, she's easily distracted, but she's also a tenth-level hottie! Not that that's important or anything. Let's give her a chance."
"A great darkness is surrounding Dakota," Dawn ominously warned. "If she stays on the island, disaster will befall her!"
"You're all losers in my book," Jo muttered. At the bonfire ceremony, all the Killer Bass were seated, with Sugar, Harold, Austin, Shawn, Katie, Sadie, Tyler, Jo, Brick, Beardo, Destiny, Greg and Phoebe in the back row and Dawn, DJ, Luna, Duncan, Scott, Bridgette, Geoff, Sam, Dakota, B, Sky, Dave, Alejandro, Anne-Maria and Courtney in the front. "You all cast your votes and made your decision. The following people can claim a marshmallow. Dave...Katie and Sadie...Brick...Dawn...Greg...Destiny...Courtney...Tyler... Austin...DJ...Scott...Anne-Maria...Geoff...Sugar...Bridgette...Harold...Phoebe...Beardo...Alejandro...Jo...Duncan...Luna...Shawn...Sam...and Sky. Which leaves Dakota and Bev."
"What?" Dakota gasped as she filed her nails.
"And tonight's loser is..." Dakota nervously filed her nails while B looked nervous. "Dakota!" Chris announced.
"No!" she cried out as B collected the last marshmallow. "I didn't get my spin-off series yet! No!" She ran off as Chef chased her. Sam could only look and sigh.
Confessional: Sam (Killer Bass)
"Man, I can't believe Dakota's gone. I was ready to repeatedly ask her out and get turned down all season." He sighed.
Confessional: Dakota (Killer Bass)
"So unfair!"
End Confessionals
Chef had caught Dakota and dragged her back to the bonfire area. "Time for you to leave, Dakota," Chris told her.
"No!" she protested. "I am so not going on the Boat of Losers!"
"Oh, you're not riding that. A certain someone damaged it." Luna giggled as she held up a wrench. "Until the boat is fixed, I came up with something else." At the dock, a huge catapult was set up, with Dakota in the seat. "Behold! The Hurl of Shame! Patent pending. Any final words, Dakota?"
"Um, yeah!" she told him. "First of all-" She was flung off before she could continue. "It was a rhetorical question," Chris said. Back at the cabins, Sam was laying in his bed moaning. "It's not that bad, dude," Geoff assured him. "Maybe you two can go out after the show is done."
"I just wish Dakota was still here, though," Sam moaned. "I felt like we just...connect." Outside, Mike was twirling with one of the jars while the small black bag hung on a nearby branch. "Just what is this stuff doing in the guys' cabin?" he wondered. He opened the jar, but was surprised to see a small thermos inside. He pulled it out when he noticed the liquid inside. "Sweet Sirius," Mike breathed out.
It took a bit, but I finally got this chapter out. And I know I'm sticking to some canon boots, but I will change that soon. How soon, I can't say exactly.
I set up a plot point with that bag of jars. Bet that last scene was a bit of a cliffhanger! It'll be a pivotal point that will surprise you later.
Sky came clean with her being a vampire here, and everyone seems cool with it or didn't care. Everyone except Shawn, that is. Will this cause problems later? You'll just have to wait and find out.
The next episode will be from season four, episode three. And a small notice I'll address now is that I might shuffle the order of the challenges so it'll be easier to work with. Thought it would be a wise idea to point that out now. Until next time, this is Dunsparce519 saying enjoy and have a good day!