It was the night of Greg's elimination. Destiny was still crying over her friend's departure. "Greg would want you to keep going" Bridgette told her. Destiny continued to cry, her tears falling into the water below. "Come on," Bridgette sighed, "Let's go back and join the others." She pulled Destiny off the dock, ripping off a piece of the dock. "Greggy!" Destiny sobbed. "I miss you!" Soon, the duo returned to the campfire area where the rest of the Bass were. "It was a long goodbye," Bridgette explained to Courtney as they sat down.
"What do you guys want?" Courtney asked the Gophers as they walked over to them. "Come by to rub it in?"
"We got some extra dessert from Chef," Zoey explained as Cameron held up a plate of green jelly with a gummy worm inside. "Would you like some?"
"So what? You're just being...nice?"
"Okay," Gwen admitted, "Owen stank up our cabin, and we need some time to air it out." Owen let out a fart. "Man," Lightning complained as he held his nose, "That is sha-nasty!" Cameron passed the plate to Courtney, who backed away. "No!" she exclaimed. "I mean, no thanks. I'm good."
"Why?" Duncan wondered. "You on a diet or something?"
"No! I just don't like green jelly, okay." Cameron then passed the plate to DJ, who suddenly panicked. "Snake!" he shouted as he knocked it away. Scarlett caught the plate before it landed on the ground. "It's a gummy worm, DJ," she informed him.
"Sorry for tripping," DJ apologized. "Snakes just freak me out."
"They're not too bad," Luna told him. "But opossums, now those are scary!"
"You're afraid of opossums?" Gwen asked her.
"How pathetic," Duncan scoffed.
"Not really," Cameron defended. "Opossums have some of the sharpest teeth, sharp enough to do serious damage."
"Indeed," Scarlett agreed as she walked off with the plate. Mike suddenly backed away from her as she got closer to him. "Watch where you're going!" he warned her.
"Sorry," she blandly told him. "I did not see you. Would you like to hold onto this gelatinous confection?"
"No!" Mike suddenly shouted as she passed the plate closer. "I mean, no thank you. I don't want any." He accidentally tripped over his own feet, making Scarlett drop the plate of jelly. It landed on top of his head. "Slick moves, Klutz," Jo taunted.
"Ha ha," Mike sarcastically replied as he wiped the jelly out of his hair.
Confessional: Gwen (Screaming Gophers)
"So suddenly, everyone's having this big share fest by the fire. Like, Dave went on and on about how his mortal fear is getting filthy. Zoey's scared of being covered with bugs. Harold's scared of ninjas. Even Heather admitted she's afraid of sumo wrestlers."
End Confessional
"What's my worst fear?" Gwen told the others. "I guess being buried alive."
"Yeah," Jasmine agreed, "So I might be a bit claustrophobic."
"Walking through a minefield," Lindsay admitted. "In heels."
"Flying, man," Owen said, "That's some crazy stuff."
"After what happened to me in that blimp," Samey agreed, "You wouldn't catch me in the air again."
"I'm scared of hail," Geoff admitted. "It's small, but deadly, dude."
"Being left alone in the woods," Bridgette said.
"Ha!" Shawn scoffed. "How weak."
"Oh," Sky argued, "And your fear of zombies is completely rational! At least I understand some of them, like my fear of the water."
"It's the critters in the water you have to worry about," Scott gulped as he went into a ball. "Like two-legged sharks chasing after you for no reason!"
"A forced performance," Destiny sniffled.
"I'm still a little afraid of the dark," Brick admitted.
"Oh, Captain Whiz needs his night-light?" Jo taunted.
"Everyone is afraid of something," Dawn told her. "For instance, you fear getting beautiful."
"N-no, I don't!" Jo told her, her blushing proving her words wrong. "And anyone that says I do will become mush!"
"It's okay. I don't like wearing fur, because it reminds me of the animals that were harmed making it."
"Being bound to an idiot," Scarlett told the others.
"Lightning HATES to lose!" Lightning declared.
"Being apart from my man," Sierra said as she brought Cody closer to her in a tight hug. As he tried to pry her off of him, the others kept talking about their fears. "I don't like the idea of eating disgusting foods," Alejandro told everyone. "I always strive to keep my body fit and clean of toxins."
"Yes," Ella agreed. "Still, I don't like eating apples. I fear they may be poisonous and that I may fall into a deep slumber!"
"You've read 'Snow White' a few too many times," Topher told her. "I personally can't stand a bad haircut."
"Oh, I change mine!" Lindsay declared. "It's so much scarier than a minefield!"
"Having to defuse a time bomb under pressure," Cody said.
"Do not like dogs," Helga declared.
"Yeah," Rodney agreed. "Dogs are nasty!"
"I'm not really afraid of anything," Courtney decided.
"Baloney!" Duncan coughed out.
"Oh, really? Well, what exactly is your phobia, Mr. Know-It-All?" Duncan got a nervous look as everyone stared at him. "C-Celine Dion music store standees," he quickly and quietly admitted.
"Ex-squeeze-me?" Cody asked him. "I didn't quite get that."
"Dude, did you say Celine Dion music store standees?" Trent asked him. Duncan just covered his eyes in fear. "Ooh, I love Celine Dion!" Lindsay squealed. "What's a standee?"
"You know," Trent explained, "That cut-out cardboard that stands in the music store."
"Don't say it, dude!" Duncan warned him.
"Kind of like a life-sized but flat Celine."
"So if we had a cardboard standee right now..." Courtney teased.
"Shut it!" Duncan snapped as he covered his ears. "What about you guys?"
"Okay," Trent relented. "Well, I hate mimes. Like a lot." Courtney rolled her eyes. "Alright, Courtney, you're afraid of something," Trent told her. "Spit it out."
"Nope," Courtney replied. "Nothing."
"That's not what she said the other night," Duncan told DJ and Geoff.
"Duncan, did you ever consider that maybe I was just humoring you and your stupid story?"
"Sure, sure, Princess. Whatever floats your boat."
"Shut up!"
"What about you, Mike?" Cameron asked him. "Do you have a phobia?"
"No," Mike answered. "Nothing."
"Really?"
"Go ahead. Try to scare me."
"Okay. If you insist. How about astraphobia, the fear of thunderstorms?" Luna took two garbage can lids and made a loud BANG near Mike's ears. "I don't mind thunderstorms," Mike calmly told Cameron. "It means I can curl up in a soft blanket and enjoy some warm milk as the rain falls down."
"Hmm...how about necrophobia, the fear of dead stuff?" Cameron asked. Luna brought out a skeleton, but Mike only laughed at it. "I enjoy a good horror story," he told her. "That skeleton doesn't scare me."
"Then what about trypanophobia, the fear of needles and injections?" Cameron wondered. Luna held up a needle and crept towards Mike, but he grabbed her hand before she could poke him. "When you get scratched by a feral cat that has a case of rabies," Mike explained, "Needles are actually a bit of a blessing."
"Wow!" Zoey exclaimed. "You must be the bravest one here!"
"Nuh-uh!" Luna protested. "I'll figure out Mikey's fear! I'll make it my mission!" She began to hop around Mike, making Cameron hide behind his back. "I can understand why you're scared of her," Mike told him.
The next morning, everyone was in the dining hall when Chris whistled for their attention. "Your next challenge is a little game I like to call...Phobia Factor!" he announced. "Prepare to face your worst fears!"
"Worse than this?" Leshawna asked as she held up a hairy sausage.
"We're in trouble," Gwen blandly told her.
"Now, for our first victims," Chris began as he pulled out a card, "Heather! Meet us all at the theater. It's...sumo time!" Heather spat out what she was drinking, which landed on Trent. "Gwen," Chris continued, "You, me, the beach. A few tons of sand." Gwen gasped at this. "Wait," Lindsay wondered, "How did they know those were your worst fears?"
"Because we told them," Gwen realized as she face-palmed. Lindsay still looked confused. "At the campfire last night," Cameron explained. The scene flashed back to that night. "What's my worst fear?" Gwen told the others. "I guess being buried alive."
"Wait, they were listening to us?" Lindsay wondered.
"It's a reality show, Einstein," Gwen told her. "They're ALWAYS listening to us."
"That's, like, eavesdropping!"
"Chef Hatchet," Chris continued, "Didn't you have a special order here for Ella and Alejandro here today?" Ella and Alejandro got a nervous look as Chef plated up some fried slop for Alejandro and a bright red apple for Ella. "Um, no thank you, Chef," Ella politely declined. "I...don't exactly like to eat apples." Alejandro shuddered at his plate.
Confessional: Alejandro (Killer Bass)
"I dread eating challenges like this. My body is my temple, and what temple keeper would contaminate this?" He ripped off his shirt and flexed his abs.
End Confessional
Chris and the campers watched as a kiddie pool full of worms. "Zoey's scared of being covered with bugs," Gwen had said in the confessional. Owen fainted at the sight as everyone else looked nervous. Zoey took a breath before diving in. She then resurfaced as the Gophers cheered. "And Zoey sets the bar way up," Chris announced, bringing the score to 1-0 for the Gophers.
Topher and Lindsay each gave each other a scared look as they sat on some seats. "I personally can't stand a bad haircut," Topher had said that night. Chris brought out two brown wigs that were trimmed badly. Owen took one of the wigs and placed it on his head. He danced around a little before falling over. Chris snatched the wig back and placed them on Topher and Lindsay's heads, making them flinch in fear.
"Flying, man," Owen had said at the campfire, "That's some crazy stuff."
"After what happened to me in that blimp," Samey agreed, "You wouldn't catch me in the air again." The duo were standing in front of a rickety plane. Chef opened the door, making them go wide-eyed. The plane started up once they were inside, and Samey and Owen screamed as the plane rose higher in the air.
"Everyone is afraid of something," Dawn had said to Jo. "For instance, you fear getting beautiful." Jo went wide-eyed as Chris held up a pink dress. "Jo," he explained, "All you have to do is wear this for one hour."
"Wear that girly thing?" Jo scoffed. "No way! Not even a million bucks would make me wear that!" She stormed off. Harold was using the bathroom when he heard a noise. He stepped out of the stall to find three ninjas waiting for him. Suddenly, he pulled out a pair of nunchucks, to their surprise. Harold began swinging them around quickly until they hit him on the head, making him fall into the toilet.
The Gophers were watching Leshawna and Cameron scream and run away from Luna in her spider costume. "Come here, you two!" she called out to them. "Luna the Spider just wants to give you a hug!" She crept over to Mike. "Does Mikey want a hug from Luna the Spider?" she asked him.
"Spiders don't scare me at all, Luna," Mike told her. "But why don't you ask them for a hug?" He pointed to a pair of opossums running up towards Luna. "But opossums, those are scary!" she had said to DJ. Luna screamed as she scurried away from them.
Heather was standing on one side of a stage while a sumo wrestler stood at the other. He charged at her, but she ducked into a ball, making him trip and tumble away. "Heather stood up to the plate," Chris narrated, "Earning her team their second point."
In the woods, Bridgette sat on a log, all alone. "Bridgette began her six hours of solitude in the woods feeling pretty confident," Chris narrated.
"I'm not scared," Bridgette told herself. "Six hours here is nothing." A chipmunk scurried over to her, and she kicked it away in fear.
In the bathrooms, Dave watched in horror as Chris opened up the sewage tank. "You just have to sit in this tank for fifteen minutes," Chris explained to him.
"Fully submerged in THAT?!" Dave exclaimed.
"Don't worry," Sky assured him. "I asked about that, and Chris said you only had to be in to your neck. Besides, I'll time you with this stopwatch. You can do this, Dave!" Dave smiled a bit before he stepped into the tank. "Oh," he moaned. "Has it been fifteen minutes yet?"
"Close," Sky told him as she held up the stopwatch, "Fifteen seconds." At the beach, Chris was burying Gwen and Jasmine in clear boxes. "No!" Jasmine cried out. "I-I can't do this! Let me out!"
"Looks like we have a quitter," Chris commented as he opened up Jasmine's box. She leapt out and ran off in a hurry. Trent leaned over Gwen's box. "There's enough air for an hour," he explained to her. "You only need to do five minutes."
"As long as we decide to dig you up," Chris told her as he resumed burying her.
"Not funny, Chris," Gwen told him. Trent passed her a walkie-talkie. "I'll be listening the whole time," he told her. "Just yell for me if you panic, and I'll come dig you right up."
"Goodbye, cruel world." Trent closed the slot on the box, and more sand was placed on it.
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DJ was standing on the stage as a snake was set up near him. "Snake!" he had screamed. "Sorry for tripping. Snakes just freak me out."
"You can do this, buddy!" Duncan encouraged. DJ flinched as he looked at the small snake in the tank. It blinked at him, making him scream and back away. "It blinked!" he cried out.
"I think he likes you," Brick told him.
"It's the smallest snake ever, DJ!" Courtney told him. "Come on!"
"Yeah," DJ protested, "But it's slimy and scaly. Slithery-"
"We need this point, DJ! Suck it up!" The guys nodded their heads. "What?" Courtney asked them. "We're heading back to Loserville, people." DJ took a breath before he knelt down and let the snake crawl on his finger, earning the Bass their first point. "See?" Courtney told them. "Fear is in the mind."
Sierra was in her cabin, twirling her fingers. "Sierra has to stay away from Cody for two hours to get a point," Chris narrated. "She seems to be easily handling this-"
"CODY!" Sierra bellowed as she stormed out of the cabin. "Where are you?!"
"You're doing great, Dave," Sky told him as she sat nearby.
"Really?" Dave wondered. "So, can I get out now?"
"It's only been six minutes! But don't worry. I'll be here for you all the-"
"Sky!" Chris announced as he pulled her away. "It's time for your challenge!"
"But-" Sky protested as she was dragged off. She noticed Dawn struggling to remove a fur coat. "Keep an eye on Dave, Dawn," Sky told her as she passed her the stopwatch. Dawn finally got the fur coat off as she sat down next to where Dave was at. "How much longer will this be?" Dave moaned.
"Another eight minutes," Dawn told him as she glanced at the stopwatch. "I wonder how the others are faring." Some of the others weren't doing so well. Rodney and Helga were cowering at some dogs in a pen. Scott was running away from Fang while Shawn ran away from some interns dressed as zombies. Alejandro was sitting in front of a plate of slop Chef made, but he could only puke at it. Meanwhile, Lightning was making a fit after losing a game of basketball to Chef. "This game is sha-rigged!" he told him. "Lightning should've won that game!"
"Please restrain from too much movement," Scarlett, who was tied to Lightning's back, told him. "If we are to accomplish this task Chris set for us, we must endure this trial for a set length of time."
"Uh, what was that? Speak right, girlie!" Scarlett's eye twitched some. Soon, she was dragging Lightning behind her. "Chris!" she shouted as she kept walking. "Undo this rope!"
Back in the bathrooms, the timer in Dawn's hand had reached fifteen minutes. "You did it, Dave!" she told him. "You lasted the whole fifteen minutes!" Dave jumped out of the sewage tank and bolted out of the door.
Confessional: Dave (Killer Bass)
"The only reason I endured that was because I wanted Sky to see I was brave." He shuddered. "I still don't feel clean, even after two showers!"
End Confessional
Chris led Sky over to the cliff. "All you have to do is jump off this cliff and land in the water," he explained to her. Sky shuddered as she looked down at the water below. "S-s-so much water," she shuddered in fright. She noticed Mike had walked up next to her. "What are you doing here?" she asked with some suspicion.
"Just checking how everyone's doing," Mike replied.
"Don't tell me you're mocking the rest of us just because you claim you're fearless."
"I didn't say- wait, did I hear Dave calling out for help?"
"Dave?"
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was him. Don't believe me, you can look for yourself." Sky looked down the cliff to see Dave in the water below. "Oh, my gosh!" she cried out. "DAVE!" She dove off the cliff and landed right next to Dave. "I got you!" she told him as she carried him over her head.
"Hey!" Dave protested. "I'm trying to wash off this awful sewage stink! Hang on. Why in the world are you in the water? You're scared to death of it!"
"Because I tricked her into jumping!" Mike shouted from the top of the cliff. "Hang on; I'm coming down." He jumped off and dove into the water next to them. "And if my math's right," he explained to Sky and Dave, "You guys should be one point ahead of the Gophers."
"Won't your team be upset if they find out about you helping us?" Dave asked him.
"Are you going to tell them I helped?" Mike noticed a shark fin swimming by him and picked it up, revealing Luna underneath it. "You're not scaring me with that shark disguise," he told her. "And you can scratch off heights, as well."
"I'm not giving up just yet, Mikey!" Luna declared. "I'll find your phobia!" She dove back into the water.
On the beach, Trent was sitting near the buried Gwen. The timer showed she only had three minutes left. "You still alive in there?" Trent asked Gwen through the walkie-talkie. "Only three more minutes."
"And then you'll dig me up, right?" Gwen nervously replied.
"Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere. I promise."
"I need some kind of distraction. Tell me a story. Um, why do you hate mimes so much?"
"My mom took me to this carnival once when I was four so I could see the elephants," Trent told her as he stood up. "I was stoked."
"Yeah?" Gwen wondered.
"I was so busy watching them that I lost her for a minute. I called out, but when I turned, all I could see was this horrible white face with black lips pretending to be me! I screamed and tried to run, but every time I turned around, he was there doing this creepy fake run-and-scream routine." Someone tapped Trent on the shoulder. He turned to see a mime behind him. He screamed and ran off, dropping the walkie-talkie. "Trent?" Gwen wondered when it went silent. Trent kept running from the mime as the others looked on. "Just talk to him, bro," Chris told him through a megaphone. "Okay, we've got two minutes until Gwen's done. Cody and Destiny, you're up."
"Having to diffuse a time bomb under pressure," Cody had said that night. Soon, Cody was in front of a trash bomb in the woods. "Alright, Cody," Chris told him, "This garbage bomb's going off in exactly ten minutes. Everything you need to know to diffuse it is on these schematic blueprints." He tossed the blueprints to Cody.
"What?" Cody gasped. "No way! I can't do this!"
"Then I suggest you find a safe place to hide, brah. Later, dude."
"Wait. You're not gonna watch?"
"No way! That's a live bomb, dude!" Chris then ran off.
"A forced performance," Destiny sniffled last night. Destiny was on the stage in front of a microphone. "Just sing one song, and you're done," Chris explained to her as the rest of the Bass and Mike watched on.
"But-but I don't wanna," Destiny sniffled.
"Just imagine you're performing for Greg," Brick suggested to her. This only made her burst into tears. "Greggy!" she cried out. "Oh, how I miss you!"
"She's acting like he died or something," Dave whispered to Sky.
"Hey, Destiny," Mike spoke up, "You must really be hurting right now." Destiny nodded her head yes. "So, why don't you express how you feel." She blinked back her tears as she got closer to the microphone and began to softly play on her guitar. "I'm bleeding out," she sang, "So if the last thing that I do...is bring you down, I'll bleed out for you. So I bare my skin and I count my sins and I close my eyes and I take it in. I'm bleeding out. I'm bleeding out for you. For you." The beat began to quicken a little as she continued. "When the day has come...that I've lost my way around. And the seasons stop...and hide beneath the ground. When the sky turns gray...and everything is screaming. I will reach inside just to find my heart is beating. Oh, you tell me to hold on. Oh, you tell me to hold on. But innocence is gone, and what was right is wrong. Cause I'm bleeding out! So if the last thing that I do is bring you down, I'll bleed out for you. So I bare my skin and I count my sins and I close my eyes and I take it in. I'm bleeding out! I'm bleeding out for you. For you." As Destiny finished, she wiped away a tear and looked at her teammates, who all went teary-eyed. "Destiny scores the Killer Bass their fourth point," Chris announced as he wiped away a tear. The Bass gave her an enormous hug while Mike only smiled from the stands. "Such a performance," Luna told him. "Slithers thinks so, too."
"Who's Slithers?" Mike asked her. A huge snake began slithering around him. "Huge snake!" DJ cried out when he saw it, and some of the Bass backed away from it. Mike simply smirked as the snake went around him. "I'm not frightened by snakes," he told Luna, "Not even the venomous ones."
"Really?" Jo wondered, doubtful. "How come?"
"Ever heard of the fable of the fox and the lion?"
"One of a collection of Aesop's," Harold explained. "It goes like this: 'The first time a Fox saw a Lion, he was so terrified that he almost died of fright. When he saw him again, he was still afraid but hid his fear. But when the Fox met the Lion the third time, he was so brave he began to talk to him as though they were old friends.'"
"We didn't need to hear that, Nerdy!" Jo lashed at him.
"But it gets the idea across, does it not?" Mike asked her as he coiled the snake around his arm. "Familiarity breeds content. The more often you see something that you fear, the less scary it eventually becomes."
"Pretty smart advice coming from you," Courtney scoffed. "Hey, I thought you said you weren't good with animals."
"I'm usually not. But since the snake isn't bothering me, I'm not bothering it. Luna, want it back?" Mike tried to pass it to Luna. "I'll figure your fear out soon, Mikey," she told him as she snatched the snake by the neck and skipped away.
Trent was still running from the mime when he caught up to him. He tried to run away but the mime kept following him. He skid to a stop and the mime imitated being at a wall. "There's no wall there, man!" Trent told him. "Stop being creepy!" The mime just kept imitating. Trent looked around and saw the dock.
"Well, what exactly is your phobia?" Courtney asked Duncan.
"Celine Dion music store standees," he quickly and quietly admitted. Soon, Duncan was standing near a standee. "She's pretty," Courtney told him, "She's nice."
"Just one hug and you're done," Chris told him.
"That looks really...real, man," Duncan nervously told Courtney.
"It's just cardboard," Brick told him. "You can do it!"
"Hey," Courtney assured Duncan, "It's okay if you can't do it." Duncan took a look at the standee and let out a breath. Courtney took his hand. "Alright, I'll try," he told her.
"You can do this," she told him.
"Okay." Duncan ran over and gave the standee a hug, earning his team another point. "Whoo-hoo!" Courtney cheered as she ran over and gave him a hug. "Duncan, you're awesome!"
"I did it!" he exclaimed. Courtney's eyes widened as she pulled away her hug as her teammates went over to Duncan and cheered for him.
At the dock, Trent looked before running to the end of the dock and jumping in. The mime followed but didn't jump. "What's the matter, mime?" Trent taunted. "Can't swim?" The mime took a breath and was about to dive in. "Stop! Uh, your makeup will run." The mime nodded before sulking away. "Take that, you makeup-wearing freak!" Trent told him. Chris clapped at this. "Nicely played, Trent," he told him. "Unfortunately, I don't things are going quite so smoothly with our friend Geoff." Geoff reclined in a beach chair. "I'm scared of hail," he said last night. "It's small but deadly, dude." A storm cloud controlled by Chris covered up the sun before it poured down hail. Geoff screamed and tried to run away, but the cloud kept following him. "That cloud is following him," Lindsay pointed out to Heather, Sierra and Leshawna. "It's like his own baby cloud. I want one, too! Here, cloudy-cloud!" Trent, still soaking wet, watched Chris control the cloud with a remote control. "Can you make the cloud go lower and pelt him harder?" he asked him.
"You are one sick dude," Chris told him, "But yeah." The cloud pelted Geoff with more hail. "Hey," Trent asked Chris, "Do you ever feel like you've forgotten something?"
"Sometimes," Chris replied. "I usually ignore it and the feeling goes away. Watch this. I'm gonna bury him in hail."
"Bury! Oh, no! Gwen!" Trent ran off to where Gwen was buried at. "What about Gwen?" Destiny called out as he ran past her. Ella was sitting on a stump at the campfire. "I don't like eating apples," she said last night. "I fear they may be poisonous and I that I may fall into a deep slumber!" She let out a gasp when she saw Mike hand her a bright red apple. "No, thank you," she politely told him as she turned her head away. "I'm not hungry right now."
"Just one bite, Ella," Mike told her. "Come on. We're falling behind, and we need this point."
"I'm sorry, Michael, but I'm too scared!" Ella began to tear up. Mike sighed. "Please, Ella," he asked her. "If not for you, then for your team. For your friends. For..." He gulped. "Your prince." Ella's eyes lit up at the word 'prince'. "Okay!" she told him as she held the apple in her hands. She slowly took a bite. "Delicious! Thank you, Michael!" As she gave him a hug, Mike smiled a little, but a glance at Zoey, who was walking by and saw the scene, wiped his smile off. "Fudge," he muttered under his breath.
"Hey, Mikey!" Luna called out as she hopped over. "Surprise!" She tossed a handful of dirt and bugs at him and Ella. "Not scary, Luna," Mike told her as he pulled off a worm from his hair.
"How are you so brave?" Ella asked him.
"Like I told the Bass, familiarity breeds content. But I'll admit there is something that I could never get over, no matter how hard I try."
"So you are scared of something!" Luna exclaimed. "And I'm gonna figure it out! Prepare for a fright fest, Mikey!" She giggled as she hopped away.
In the woods, Bridgette was walking around. "Okay, okay, okay," she told herself. "Bridge, you can do this. Only..." She glanced at her watch. "Four hours and fifteen minutes to go." A crow cawed. "Don't even bother trying to freak me out, producer people!" An explosion suddenly rang out. "What in the name of Guns 'N' Roses was that?!" Destiny cried out as she, Trent and Chris dug.
"If I had to guess," Chris answered, "I'd say Cody just blew himself up." Cody was now covered in trash. "Oops," he said. He began walking around, blinded by the trash in his eyes. "Is anyone here? Girls? Ladies? ANYONE?!"
Trent kept digging until he reached Gwen's box. "Gwen!" he exclaimed. "You did it!" Gwen just tossed the walkie-talkie at his face, but it didn't faze him. "She's alright!" Chris announced. "She's alright!"
The plane with Owen and Samey landed, and the two raced out and kissed the ground. "We did it!" Samey cried out. "We did it!"
Confessional: Bridgette (Killer Bass)
"Actually, I'd like to thank the producers for making me face my fear. I'm proud of myself. There's really nothing to be afraid of."
End Confessional
Bridgette saw the trash-covered Cody and ran away as she screamed in fright. "Cody?" Cameron wondered as he and Mike walked up to him. "Here, let me help you out." He wiped the trash away from Cody's eyes. "Thanks," he told him.
"BOO!" Luna, dressed up like a dentist, shouted from behind Cody. "It's Luna, your friendly neighborhood psycho-dentist! Let me rip out those pearly whites!" She held up a huge pair of pliers, making Cameron and Cody cower behind Mike. "Pulling teeth?" Mike wondered, unfazed. "You're starting to grasp at strings, Luna. A trip to the dentist doesn't scare me at all." Luna let out a shriek as she ripped off her dentist outfit. "That is IT!" she screamed. "No more Nice Luna! I'm getting my shortcut!" She stormed off. "Sol was right about her," Cameron commented once she was out of sight. "She's completely crazy!"
"That's what concerns me," Mike told him. "Without any reasoning holding her back, Luna's capable of nearly anything. Who knows what she might do?"
In the bathroom, Topher and Lindsay were looking at their reflections in the mirror. "We did it!" Lindsay exclaimed. "We made it through the whole day! Are you ready?" Topher nodded yes. "One, two, three!" They yanked their wigs off. "I totally forgot how good you looked!" Lindsay told Topher.
"I agree," Topher replied. "I almost forgot how handsome I looked, too." Over by a dark cliff, Chris and the teams were watching as Brick stood in the mouth. "Alright, gang," Chris announced, "This is the ninth inning. Brick, for your challenge, you need to stay in this dark cave for three minutes." Brick froze, terror on his face.
Confessional: Brick (Killer Bass)
"In the mine, I managed to beat my fear of the dark, but after getting trapped in that dark box underground, it came back to me like a freight train."
End Confessional
"Come on, Brick," Courtney told him, "This is the last challenge. Quit being such a girl. We need this or we're going to lose."
"But if you do the math," Cameron told her as he used a calculator, "You can't possibly win. The score is nine to five."
"Not necessarily," Chris corrected. "We've got two more challenges set up."
"Who?" Courtney wondered. "It can't be me. But I didn't-"
"Didn't have to. We're always watching you and your reactions."
"No!" Courtney cried out when the green jelly was passed to her. "I mean, no thanks. I'm good."
"I just don't like green jelly, okay."
"I knew it!" Lindsay exclaimed. "Didn't I tell you guys they were eavesdropping?"
"Oh, who cares?" Courtney told her. "It's not going to make a difference."
"Let's make this interesting," Chris told the teams. "If you can complete the challenge, you will automatically win for your team."
"That's not fair!" Brick protested.
"This is our one chance at victory, and you want to toss it away?!" Jo argued.
"A dishonest win is not a win. You of all people know that too well."
"I've just thought of something," Destiny cut in. "Chris said there was two challenges left, right? So, if Courtney's one of them, who does the second one go to?"
"The second one goes to Mike," Chris explained.
"Me?" Mike wondered. "I didn't say anything last night, and you all saw that I didn't react to anything. You can't have a challenge for me!"
"Are you sure?" Luna suddenly asked him.
"Oh, what are you going to pull on me? Birds? Bears? Public speaking?"
"Nuh-uh. I overheard Ella talking to her prince-"
"Please don't bring that up," Zoey asked her as she looked away from Mike.
"And I was thinking," Luna continued, "What prince would Mikey be without his suit of armor?" She pulled out a shiny suit of armor from behind her back. Mike's eyes widened at the sight. "I don't like getting dressed up," he told her as he began to back away. Luna grabbed one of legs with a vine. "Wasn't a suggestion," she told him. She dragged him off into the boys' side of the Gopher cabin. "I can see why you're scared of Luna," Samey whispered to Cameron.
A moment later, Chef was stirring a pool of green jelly beneath a diving platform while everyone else watched. Courtney just went wide-eyed. "You're afraid of jelly?" Duncan scoffed.
"Shut up!" Courtney snapped back. "Only the...green kind. It's like sugary, jiggly snot!"
"You can face your fear and dive straight into this pool of jelly," Chris told her, "Or let your team lose yet another challenge."
"I don't see any point trying," Scarlett told him. "If Mike completes the challenge he was assigned, our team automatically wins, regardless if Courtney jumps or not." Luna's scream suddenly cut in as she flew by and crash-landed in front of everyone. "Wow!" she exclaimed with joy as she pulled the armor off of her. "That was INCREDIBLE! Seeing his eyes light up with fear was one of a kind! SO worth the cracked skull!" She soon passed out. "What is she talking about?" Samey wondered.
"We'd better go check on Mike," Zoey told her. The duo ran back to the cabin and opened the door, and their eyes widened in shock at what they saw. "Goodbye automatic victory," Samey spoke up.
"And hello medical tent," Zoey finished as Sky popped her head inside.
"Scarlett has a point," Cody told the Bass. "Mike probably completed his challenge already. He's the bravest one out of us."
"Think again!" Sky told them as she skid to a stop. "Mister Brave just chickened out. I saw it myself. We still have a shot at this, guys!" Courtney sighed as she began to climb the ladder. "This is insane," she told everyone. "I could seriously die doing this."
"Oh, that is just cruel!" Gwen commented. "It's probably warm by now. Warm, green jelly...snotty, bouncy..." She shuddered. "You're not going to make me quit!" Courtney told her.
"That's it!" Duncan told her. "Keep climbing!"
"She's just trying to psych you out," Bridgette told her as Courtney continued to climb. She looked down at the pool of jelly with worry. "Like you said, Courtney," Duncan told her, "It's okay if you can't do it!"
"It is?" Bridgette pointed out. "But we'll lose!"
"I can't do it," Courtney decided. "I'm coming down!" The Bass lowered their head in defeat while the Gophers cheered. "There you have it," Chris announced as Courtney climbed down the ladder. "Gophers win invincibility this week. Again."
Confessional: Courtney (Killer Bass)
"I'm so embarrassed. How could I be so weak? I deserve to go home!" She shook her head. "Okay, stop it! You're pathetic. Show some confidence, Courtney." She began to cry until she slapped herself.
End Confessional
Owen and Rodney sat in the pool of green jelly. "You're right, Gwen," Owen told her. "It is warm."
"Like a bubble bath," Rodney agreed. "Don't you think so, Helga? Uh, Helga?"
"Cannonball!" Helga cried out as she jumped from the diving platform and landed in the jelly. "Do not know why Bass Girl did not dive," she told the boys. "It pretty fun!"
That night, the Killer Bass were at the campfire ceremony. Two marshmallows were left on the plate. "There are only two marshmallows left on this plate," Chris told Brick, Courtney and Bridgette. "The three of you did not complete your challenges today. One of you is going home tonight and cannot return. Ever. The next name I'm gonna call call..." Courtney, Bridgette and Brick looked nervous. "..."
"...Bridgette." Bridgette collected one of the marshmallows. Courtney and Brick looked at each other. "The final marshmallow of the night goes to...Courtney," Chris announced. Courtney smiled while Brick looked surprised. "Why?" he wondered. "Why me?"
"You tried to throw away our one chance at winning!" Dave told him.
"So long, Soggy McGee," Jo teased. Brick just held his head down as he walked off.
Confessional: Brick (Killer Bass)
"Am I sad that I lost? A little. But at least I stood by my code, and that's more important than any money."
End Confessional
Brick was about to go on the Boat of Losers. "Wait!" Destiny called out. She, Bridgette, Geoff, Dawn and DJ saluted him, which he returned. "Sorry you had to go," Geoff told him. "You were a pretty cool dude here."
"Thanks," Brick told him. "Just do me a favor, guys."
"What's that?" Destiny asked him.
"Kick Jo's butt for me." Brick stepped on the Boat of Losers before it sped off. Brick sat down when he noticed a bunch of chickens around him. "I get it," he said to no one in particular. "I'm a chicken, so you're sending me off with other chickens. Funny."
At the cabins, Mike was scratching at his bandages around his body. "Scratching will only make it worse," Topher told him.
"What happened to you?" Samey asked as she and Zoey walked inside.
"You know that Sky's scared of the water because she almost drowned once?" Mike told them as he continued to scratch. "And that Scott's scared of Fang because he almost ate him? Well, I have a reason of being nervous around that armor Luna had."
"Really?" Zoey asked. "Why?"
"It's not the armor itself; it's the metal it's made out of. It gives me a severe allergic reaction." He pulled off a part of his bandage, showing a large red blemish. "And no matter how hard I try, I can't build a resistance to it."
"That's the reason you wouldn't wear that armor? I guess I could understand why."
"Please," Topher scoffed as he walked outside. "After today, there's nothing you could say to me that would scare me."
"Tommy!" Lindsay called out as she stuck her head out the window. "Helga wants you to do her makeup!" Topher screamed as he ran off in a hurry. "No!" he shouted. "NO!"
"So much for Mister Brave," Samey muttered.
So, here's another chapter! First, I'll cover the elimination. I know you're disappointed that Brick was booted, as am I, but I couldn't see a plot for him in this story without it being forced, so he was cut here. At least he left on a little bit on a high note.
Next, the phobias. I had a little trouble covering some, but I think it worked out pretty well for me, like Dawn's fear of wearing fur because she thinks it's cruel to the animals, Alejandro's fear of eating disgusting foods, and Scarlett's fear of being bound to an idiot. (That was a pretty funny moment to write.) And I've gotten a PM about Luna's fear, and to be honest, I based it on my own phobia. (Yes, I have no problem with spiders, but opossums just plain scare me.)
Speaking of Luna, did you like her role here in how she tried to figure out Mike's fear?
The next challenge will test if everyone has stomachs of steel. Until next time, this is Dnsparce519 saying enjoy a have a happy New Year!
P.S. The song Destiny was singing was 'Bleeding Out' by Imagine Dragons.
60) Ezekiel
59) Eva
58) Noah
57) Staci
56) Justin
55) Dakota
54) B
53/52) Katie/Sadie
51) Sol
50) Sugar
49) Phoebe (SC)
48) Tyler
47) Amy (SC)
46) Izzy
45) Leonard
44) Beth
43) Austin
42) Echo (SC)
41) Beardo
40) Max
39) Anne-Maria (SC)
38/37) Dakota (again)/Sam
36) Greg
35) Brick