gamergirl101: Brutal indeed.
Nobody245: Glad you liked the chapter, you can be biased if you like since you do have an OC in the story. Also Fergy's arc definitely looks like it's been a really liked moment in the story which I'm glad to hear, also the Scare Factor challenge is a good pick. Lastly, This episode shall answer your remaining questions!
Gucci Mane LaFlare: That's quite a pick.
Sephiria Arks: Ahhh, A Live Reaction review, nice! And since this is the longest one I shall respond to only a few of your points because if I didn't, then this would probably be longer than the opening!
I shall not expose my secrets on how I did the karma stuff. There will indeed be Total Drama Wars happening later on, especially in the chapters after that one, trust me I've got a bit of stuff planned which is more than what I can say for most of this story. Now I'm wondering where the heck you got the information about Twilight and where I can find it on YouTube. I wouldn't say everyone is out for blood since this ain't Twilight but it'll certainly be quite interesting to see how things progress with The K-Shida's from there.
In fact, here's the progress you requested!:
LeeandLie-This Game (English Cover of No Game No Life's Intro)
"Won't hesitate, I know we won't lose our way."
Evan was seen holding a bow and had a pack of arrows strapped onto his back.
"And this road we have chosen's no mistake."
Alex on the other hand, was seen with a camera in his hands.
"Without our pride, nothing is holding us back."
Leo was seen standing behind Sunny who clenched his fists.
"I can see that the way to a victory begins with this paaath!"
Hannah was seen smiling at the camera before frowning a little while looking beside her.
"We Are Maverick."
Chloe and Ingrid both stood behind Jun, but Chloe was glaring at Jun while Ingrid had heart eyes.
"We won't give in until we win This Game."
Miriam was seen smiling while there was fire behind her.
"Though I don't know what tomorrow holds,"
Jared and Lia look ahead of them, Lia's eyes were brown.
"I'll make a bet and play my cards to win, This Game!"
Ciara and Kyle stood by each other, however, Kyle had his hands in his pockets and Ciara was looking at Jared while smirking.
"Unlike the rest, I'll do my best,"
The camera then showed Evan, Alex, Leo, and Sunny, The new K-Shida's.
"And I won't ever lose!"
Before showing the new Losers Team which consisted of Hannah, Chloe, Ingrid, and Jun.
"To give up this chance would be a deadly sin,"
It lastly shows Miriam, Jared, Lia, Ciara, and Kyle in the final team shot, they were The Five Souls.
"So let's bet it aaaall."
Sunny, Jun, and Jared were all seen running away from their respective teams.
"I'll put all my faith in us, so let-"
All of them charged towards one another.
"The Games Begin-"
Sunny, Jun, and Jared all got ready to punch one another.
"We Are Maverick!"
Jun and Jared ducked below Sunny's punch however.
"Shall we begin!? Only the strong will win!"
Evan was seen firing his arrow which Jun was barely able to dodge.
"We'll surpass the challenges it takes to win!"
Jun then kisses the cross he's wearing before Jared was seen pointing over to Lia.
"So put your bet iiiiiin!"
Sunny turns around and he looks over at Lia.
"I'll put all my faith in us, so let-"
Lia was seen beginning to charge towards Sunny, only for a lightning bolt to strike between the two.
"The Games Begiiiiiiin!"
Rival was seen standing in front of everyone while smirking, a silhouette was seen behind Rival before Rival winks at the camera and it turns to black.
Total Drama: Move Along
Episode 10: Love Runs Out
*The K-Shida's*
The door to The K-Shida's cabin was seen, it had a hole in it and a figure was seen standing in the distance through it, they had their hands clenched and punched a tree. The person then pulls their hands away afterwards and the camera decides to zoom towards the person before revealing that it was Sunny Persnisky who looked absolutely livid. His knuckles had scratches and there was even blood coming out of each of his hands which he now looks at. However, this didn't stop him from continuing to let out his anger and he went back to punching the tree in front of him which eventually made the tree tip over and it fell down to his side. Sunny steps out of the way of the tree before it could crush him and he glares at the tree he punched down before shaking off his hands.
"At least I've got even more punching bags nearby..." Sunny states before he stands up and walks over the tree, he looks around the forest he was in and looks at the ten other trees he punched throughout the entire night.
"With Rainy gone I'm going to need to come up with a new strategy because of my selfish sister who didn't care for my game AT ALL!" Sunny hypocritically yells in his mind before he kicks another nearby tree and the kick causes the tree to shake a bit.
"People are such hassles to deal with, unfortunately my sister is one of those people so I'll make sure to exclude her from being one of the main reasons for me winning the show when I rub it in my dad's face." Sunny continues to speak to himself before letting out a sigh. After venting to himself he goes to the twelfth tree which he was planning to punch and he closes his eyes, he didn't seem to be affected by his bloody knuckles at all. Eventually he opened his eyes and clenched his fists once more while glaring at the tree in front of him and he grits his teeth before he began throwing a barrage of punches at it.
"You, on the other hand, Sunny, are just pathetic."
Sunny began remembering the previous day which he uses to fuel his anger and rage which he was unleashing on the tree right in front of him without a care about his own well being.
"Behind you~"
He continued to punch the tree in front of him and he wasn't slowing down at all, yesterday was one of his worse days to him because a number in his alliance was eliminated because of their own doing, he forfeited a battle against a competitor who had previously struck him out in baseball, and now the people who he thought he could easily take out whenever he wanted to was now even in terms of numbers. All of this kept fueling and circling his mind and his punches on the tree began hitting harder and were being thrown more frequently.
"Sometimes your actions can have more consequences on you especially when you do it to another human being."
Suddenly, his fists stopped punching the tree and Sunny blinks after remembering some of the last words which his sister said to him. Slowly afterwards he slowly begins to smile before looking over at the nearby cabin, taking a deep breath in and out while doing this, he then begins walking towards the cabin. Before he reaches the cabin, the camera decides to show the contestants who were inside of it and the contestants who were currently speaking to each other were Alex, Evan, and Leo.
"So we're aware of what Sunny has been doing to you and we're here to help you out with it." Evan immediately explains while smiling.
"Alright you need to be more subtle when you speak sometimes, if you're blunt when speaking then people will be able to easily twist your words...also we're here to help you out with your Sunny problems." Alex says as he looks at Leo with a gentle smile.
"Thanks but, if I can't h-handle him by myself then I'm not even worthy of b-being his la perra-" Leo starts speaking while looking down.
"Estoy hablando inglés, no galimatías." Alex responds which catches Leo's attention and so he looks over at the guy-without-a-stereotype.
"No offense but could you keep this conversation in English so I can tell what you're both saying?" Evan requests Alex, he was scratching the back of his head due to the Spanish they were speaking.
"Alright, whatever you say p-partner." Alex stutters a bit, a light blush appears on his face before he shakes his head and tries getting his mind out of the gutter.
"Honestly I don't want y-you two to be dragged into this situation, after all I can't stand up to master until I'm even w-worthy of doing so." Leo continues to explain and verbally puts himself down.
"Well how about you stop feeling inferior and start trying to become not-weak?" Evan impatiently questions while staring at Leo.
"That'll be easier said than d-done, and you know what master did to us yesterday." Leo points out which causes Evan to frown.
"Eventually I'll be able to get back at him, you can bet on that! However it looks like my words aren't getting through to you so I guess I'll need to speak your language." Evan states.
"Wait, you know-?" Leo began asking.
"Langsam, ich will deinen hals langsam atmen. Lass mich dir dinge ins ohr sagen, damit du dich erinnerst, wenn du nicht bei mir bist." Evan speaks another language.
"..." Alex remains silent before he facepalms while Leo simply started with a look of confusion.
"...What did you just say?" Leo asks while tilting his head, he had no idea what the officer-in-training had just said to him.
"I think it's better if we ask: How do you even know German!?" Alex loudly while looking over at his teammate.
"Looks like communication's much harder than it looks, isn't it?" All of them suddenly heard another voice. Alex adjusts his glasses before looking over at the person who had spoken. Evan blinks and he turns around while clenching his fists, it looks like he was already ready to throw down with the person who was standing by the door which had a hole in it. Leo gulps before he slowly turns his head to look over at the person and all three guys saw that it was Sunny who now had all of their attention.
"Of course you'd think that, especially since the only way you communicate is by using your fists and-WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR KNUCKLES?!" Evan interrupts himself and he notices Sunny's knuckles which had blood dripping onto the floor.
"Oh, 'tis but a scratch." Sunny casually responds while smiling.
"Remind us to tell Rival to get you some bandages, it looks like you're going to need it." Alex says with widened eyes.
"I'm surprised you even care about my health." Sunny comments before he leans against the door.
"Just because we're on opposite sides doesn't mean we have to not care about each other's health, after all we're on the same team and you're hot." Alex blurts out that last part.
"...What?" Leo questions.
"...What?" Evan takes his turn to question what he just heard.
"...What?" Sunny even asks.
"...What?" Alex tries brushing off what he just said.
"Well that aside, I'd actually like to speak with all of you about something." Sunny explains his reasoning for approaching everyone which makes Evan roll his eyes.
"And by that you mean you're here to just speak with Leo to try and get him to continue serving you?" Evan questions before he grits his teeth.
"Hey, at least I can actually speak Spanish." Sunny points out, this makes Evan blink and he looks away so he could mutter away to himself.
"What would you like to sp-speak with us about?" Leo nervously asks, currently he was producing more water than a river in the form of sweat.
"I'd actually like to speak with all of you about my actions as of late since it's clear that I've rubbed most of you the wrong way." Sunny states while pushing himself off the wall and he stood on his two feet.
"Considering the power you had held it only made sense considering the kind of person you are." Alex responds with a straight face.
"Don't act like you know me completely because my sister's words has taught me that perhaps I should treat all you props less as props and more like potential family members that won't backstab me by eliminating themselves." Sunny states, his right eye twitches while he speaks.
"And how do we know that you're telling us the truth and not just telling us stuff to get you out of hot water?" Evan speaks up, turning his head back to Sunny in order to respond to him.
"I'll prove it by helping our team get a win today and to work with you three once the merge comes, after all I haven't earned a single point for our team and the merge is right around the corner so getting as many numbers as possible for then should be our focus." Sunny answers with a good amount of conviction and confidence in his voice like always.
"Alright then, if you're able to help us out and NOT beat up any of us then you can join us, however there's also one more thing you need to do." Alex states, Sunny nods after hearing this.
"Okay, what is it?" Sunny asks while having a look of determination.
"Apologize for everything you did to Leo, if you don't then you're going to be joining your sister when we get the first chance to have you do so." Alex answers with a gleeful smile which gave off a passive aggressive tone.
"...I figured it'd come down to that, so I'll concede because clearly I took Leo for granted and used him more as a punching bag rather than a prop and that was my mistake." Sunny says while closing his eyes.
"At least you're taking baby steps into becoming a better person." Evan comments due to Sunny's comments not being completely nice and it was clear that he at least partially still saw all of them as props.
"Now could you please apologize to Leo for his sake?" Alex requests while pointing to Leo who gulped.
"Okay, Leo-" Sunny began to speak.
*The Losers Team*
Rather than showing what happened after that, the camera cuts to The Losers Team's cabin and it shows Hannah, Chloe, and Ingrid all already haven woken up. Each of them looked like they were waiting for Jun and were all concerned for multiple reasons, one of which being that Jun got badly hurt yesterday but the other reason being how Jun hurt Miriam. Ingrid was completely worried for Jun's health and she had her eyes closed, Chloe crossed her arms since she hated to admit it but she was actually feeling some concern for the spoiled rich boy, all the while Hannah looks at the other two girls before staring at the door...waiting to see if their leader will walk through it.
"Do you two thi-think that he's a-alright?" Ingrid began asking her other teammates.
"Most likely, he may be not-completely-friend-worthy but if he didn't have enough energy to win yesterday's battle for us, he would've lost." Chloe states, Hannah then scoots towards her.
"You're just saying that to keep her hopes up, aren't you?" Hannah asks, immediately seeing straight through the drummer's response.
"Can you blame me?" Chloe answers her question with a question of her own.
"Not one bit, but what do you really think are the chances that Jun comes back?" Hannah quizzes her teammate.
"Even if I did care about him, the chances of him coming back are actually much lower than what I made it sound like." Chloe answers another of Hannah's questions with complete honesty.
"Alright it's obvious a part of you cares for him so what's the reason for this? The fame?" Hannah tries to continue her onslaught of questions.
"N-No! I don't care about him, in fact all he brings is dishonor to his family! And to his cow!" Chloe rudely responds after stuttering at first.
"...Did you really have to reference Mulan out of all things?" Hannah continues her streak of asking questions.
"Well it's a very famous movie, of course I'd reference it, and besides I wouldn't put it past him to own some kind of golden cow." Chloe explains herself.
"I actually completely agree with you on that." Hannah ends her streak of asking questions by agreeing with Chloe.
"Can I join th-this conversation, pl-please?" Ingrid asks, causing her other female teammates to look over at her.
"Of course you can, friend!" Chloe answers with an overly wide smile.
"I can give you acting lessons you know." Hannah remarks, shaking her head while speaking.
"Shut your face!" Chloe shouts before looking back at Ingrid.
"Well, did you t-two know th-?" Ingrid tries to quiz the other girls if they knew another fact of the day.
"Come on and follow me follow with your signs up," Suddenly all three girls heard some music blasting from outside.
"I'm so firin' firin', boy your time's up." They all slowly looked over at the direction of the music.
"Keep on runnin' and runnin' until I catch up." Footsteps were heard slowly approaching the door and the music began getting louder.
"How you dare? How you dare? How you daaare?" The doorknob began to slowly turn, only for it to be swung open by the person who entered the room.
BTS-Mic Drop
"Another trophyyy, my hands carry 'em. Too many that I can't even count 'em. (Mic Drop, Mic Drop.)" The person was seen standing with a bright light shining on them from behind, they wore a kimono which was a mix of light blue and white, and they also wore wooden sandals.
"Bal Bal joshim neone mal mal joshim [Careful of your feet, feet Careful of your words, words.]" But they also had dark brown eyes, was 5'7", was tall and lanky, and they had shoulder-length black hair.
"Somebody stop meee, I'm 'bouta pop off. Too busy you know my body ain't 'enuff. (Mic Drop, Mic Drop.)" It was unmistakable, this person was in fact Jun Kamoshida and he had his signature arrogant smirk on his face while the music was still playing.
"Bal Bal joshim neone mal mal joshim [Careful of your feet, feet Careful of your words, words.]" Jun then steps into the cabin before the light behind him turns off and Tyler Jordan is seen stopping the radio before pulling away the stage light which was used to shine a light on Jun.
"Thou people have gazed thy eyes on the god of Total Drama!" Jun exclaims before laughing after his grand entrance had finished.
*Song Ends*
"I regret any worries I'd ever had for you!" Chloe immediately shouts angrily.
"Called it." Hannah remarks, Chloe simply rolled her eyes at this response.
"Y-You're okay!" Ingrid exclaimed with a smile on her face.
"Of course Jun Kamoshida is okay, a simple fight is too pathetic of a way for him to go out." Jun responds, putting his right hand on his chest while basically bragging.
"Are you referring to yourself in the third person?" Chloe notices.
"Jun's answer to that question should be quite clear." Jun answers which did indeed answer Chloe's question.
"That's a little s-strange, but at l-least you're alright!" Ingrid says, trying to distract from Jun's weird new way of speaking.
"And Jun doesn't care about what the pathetic version of Gwen has to say." Jun brutally states which makes Ingrid's eyes widen.
"Wh-What?...P-Pathetic v-version o-of Gwen?" Ingrid questions, looking down while repeating what was just said to her.
"Jun knows that you heard what he said and so he shall not repeat himself, especially since he no longer has to manipulate you since the angels he wants to have to not be disgusting fallen angel looking ones." Jun continues to verbally beat down Ingrid.
"F-Fallen...A-Angel?...M-Manipulate?..." Ingrid starts curling up into a ball.
"Jun is aware that you did love him, however he simply does not care because he shall vote you out and will take out your friend right afterwards because the power he possesses is more than enough to win him the rest of this game!" Jun shouts, a grin formed on his face.
"Hey! How dare you threaten to eliminate me!?" Chloe stands up and goes straight up to their team leader.
"The answer to that is very complicated yet simple because everything Jun says is gospel, now he commands you to get out of his way or else he will gladly take you out first and make sure the spotlight will be on no one but him! Not even Sunny would be able to outshine or beat Jun up anymore because he is just that damn good!" Jun begins to raise his voice.
"Well...I'll for now make sure you'll be eliminated when I get the chance." Chloe states before she cracks her knuckles.
"...Try me~" Jun simply responds before he pushes Chloe's face and turns around, after doing all this he walks outside and grabs his suitcase which contains all of his clothes. Chloe stumbles back a little after getting pushed by her head, she then glares at their team leader and clenches her fists. Meanwhile, Hannah blinks after watching what had just transpired.
"He really should've worn better clothing for the occasion." Hannah comments before she shivered to herself, she then looked over at Ingrid.
"People die of CVD every thirty seven seconds in the United States. 523 million people got diagnosed with heart diseases of some kind in 2019. The ischemic heart disease had caused 8.9 million deaths in the same year." Ingrid's mind went into facts overload, all the while her head began spinning and she was curled up into a ball.
"Hey Ingrid?" Hannah asks before sitting down by Ingrid and she puts a hand on her shoulder.
"THE AVERAGE B-BELLY BUTTON CAN BE FILLED WITH U-UP TO 67 DIFFERENT SPECIES OF BACTERIA!" Ingrid shouts a random fact before she looks over at who touched her and she blushes in embarrassment.
"You really need to find a new hobby." Hannah responds after giggling.
"S-Sorry...it's just th-that-" Ingrid starts to explain herself.
"It's because of what Jun said to you, isn't it?" Hannah figures it out before Ingrid could even finish her sentence.
"Y-Yeah..." Ingrid answers while looking down once again.
"...How about we just try to get cooking? Chloe can join us!" Hannah insists before she grabs Ingrid's hand and forcefully pulls her onto her feet.
"W-Wait!" Ingrid tries stopping her teammate.
"Hey Chloe! Would you like to learn how to cook?" Hannah ignores her and decides to get Chloe's attention, the punk drummer turns around.
"Well that seems random and-" Chloe began to respond, only for Hannah to move her head and she motions it so Chloe could notice that she had Ingrid with her.
"So, wanna join us?" Hannah asks with an innocent and convincing smile on her face.
"...Sure, as long as it'll get my mind off the worst member of our team." Chloe answers, she then follows Hannah and Ingrid while the two of them begin searching for cooking materials.
"..." Hannah temporarily frowns while a flash of Fergy appears on the screen before it quickly fades away, after quickly remembering him her smile appeared back on her face. Jun was seen re-entering the cabin with his normal clothing and he simply lays down on his bed with his hands behind his head and he stares at the ceiling. After this, he looks at the camera before winking at it while he still has a smirk on his face, soon after this he looks up once again.
*The Five Souls*
Now it was time to show what the final team was up to and the camera filmed the outside of The Five Souls' cabin before Miriam was seen walking up to him. Like Jun before her, she didn't seem to have any of the scratches or wounds on her from the day before and seemed to have somehow fully recovered despite only a day having passed. As she reaches to turn the doorknob she hears a radio get played from behind her.
"They say they can smell your intentions." She turns around and looks at Milo who was currently playing the song.
"...While I didn't ask for that, but I'll take it." Miriam confirms while looking back at Milo who gives her a thumbs up while having a smile that had nervousness written all over it. The music continued to play in the background while they spoke, until they stopped speaking.
"You'll think "How did I get here sitting next to you?"" Unlike Jun, she was wearing her usual clothes and was more focused on getting back to her team rather than make a dramatic return.
"But after all I've said, please don't forget-" She slowly grabs the doorknob and swings it open, having a confident smile on her face while doing this.
twenty one pilots-Heathens
"(All my friends are heathens, take it slow...)" "I'M BACK!" Miriam declares before taking a step into the cabin, the rest of her teams all turned their attention to her after hearing her voice once more.
"(Wait for them to ask you who you know...)" "Miriam!" Lia exclaimed before she ran over to her teammate and she immediately hugged her tightly which Miriam was able to endure.
"All my friends are heathens, take it slooow." "Looks like Jun wasn't able to get rid of ya." Kyle simply says, Lia gets her arms out from around Miriam and lets her and Kahlin high five each other.
"Wait for them to ask you who you knooow." "I may not know you that well, but I'm glad you're back." Ciara confirms while standing in front of Miriam, they nod at each other after hearing Ciara's words.
"Please don't make any suudden moooves," After everyone else had decided to greet Miriam, she looked around and noticed that someone in particular was missing at this very moment, this makes her raise an eyebrow.
"You don't know the half of the abuuuse." "Where's Jared?" Miriam asks the rest of her team, this caused them to all let out a collective sigh.
"All my friends are heathens, take it slooow. (WATCH IT)" The camera focused on Miriam while she looked at the rest of her team with a confused look, only for the screen to suddenly cut to Jared.
"Wait for them to ask you who you knooow. (WATCH IT)" Jared had his hands on a tree nearby which he held onto tight, he then closed his eyes before slamming his head against it.
"Please all my friends are heathens, take it slooow. (WATCH IT)" His head smash caused splinters all over his head but it surprisingly didn't cause too much damage to the tree, he then opened his eyes after doing this.
"Wait for them to ask you who you knooow." He heard footsteps approaching him and began to look over at the direction of the footsteps.
"You really know how to be the best yet worst leader in this game, don't you?" Miriam asks, she was standing alongside Lia, Ciara, and Kyle which causes his eyes to widen.
*Song Ends*
"Y-You're not el-eliminated?" Jared questions while Lia gasped upon seeing the splinters and cuts on his head.
"Of course I wasn't, although you do know that I'm supposed to be the one who was hurt right?" Miriam decided to try and lighten up the mood at first.
"...S-Sorry..." Jared responds, looking down while speaking.
"I tried using my womanly techniques to stop him from getting out of the cabin, but it unfortunately didn't work." Ciara explains, staring at the pessimist with a frown.
"That's not surprising, also has he really been out here since yesterday?" Miriam asks her team while continuing to stare down at the person who's meant to lead them.
"Yeah, he explained to us that you recovering and being cleared to compete is impossible to do overnight with all the pain that Jun had inflicted onto you, he felt very guilty for that since he felt like he could've at least tried helping you." Lia explains the reason for Jared running off and being where he currently is.
"Glad to see someone has no problem keeping track of him for me, honestly I'm not sure how to handle this situation especially since I'd be lying if I said I wasn't annoyed by it." Miriam confirms before she crossed her arms.
"Well it appears that Jared here loves to beat himself down and so yelling at him like you did yesterday wasn't exactly the thing which he needed in order to easily move past his current internal struggle." Kyle explains, out of everyone he was the calmest one like usual.
"To be fair he did deserve some yelling for his attitude, and if it weren't for the fact that his reasoning for being like this right now was partially my fault then I'd yell at him more but he's in luck." Miriam responds, meanwhile Jared began stumbling around.
"J-Jared!" Lia says before running over to Jared and before he fell onto the ground, she was able to catch him and she held his unconscious body in her arms.
"Wait did he actually knock himself out?! He barely did damage to the tree!" Miriam points out, the tree did have some outer barks gone but overall there wasn't a notable amount of damage done to the tree.
"MEDIC!" Ciara decides to call out in the hopes of getting the attention of Tara so she could bring Jared to wherever they healed the contestants.
"Maybe I should've told you all sooner, but we can only call the Medic when we're at the location of the challenge since they need time to set up, so it looks like we're going to need to bring Jared to the challenge in order to help him out." Miriam confirms, she had a look of concern on her face as she spoke.
"You've got to be kidding me! We need to get to the challenge NOW!" Lia demands, pulling out her phone from her pocket and she begins looking to see if there were any texts about it being challenge time.
"Alright, I'll start looking for Rival, he's our next best shot of getting a medic." Miriam states before looking over at Kyle.
"You don't need to run off, you came back from a grueling battle yesterday so I think you should stay, I'll be looking for Rival." Kyle insists before he pats her shoulder and runs off to go find the host while Miriam watches him.
"...Strange." Miriam comments, she then looks behind her and watches Lia drop her phone while holding Jared.
"Even though he's an idiot for what he's done, I need to help out my teammate!" Miriam states in her mind, deciding to ignore what Kyle told her and she turns around. She takes a step forward and prepares to run off to do what Kyle was already doing, Ciara simply giggled a little at this and looked away like she was already expecting Miriam to do this. So, Miriam then steps a step forward, only to stop after they all heard a notification sound go off from Lia's phone.
"Let's get going!" Lia immediately insists.
*Challenge Time*
The K-Shida's were the first team who were seen arriving at the location they were told to go to, they all looked at the host who looked different like he did yesterday. Like the previous day his hair was a darker shade of red and he had a white ahoge on top of it, but this time he had dark green ribbons hanging from each side of his hair. His clothing was also different, he was currently wearing a black coat which had white fur on top of it and a white shirt under it, he was also wearing black pants which went down to his red shoes.
"You look different." Evan decides to be the first person to say something.
"Thanks, I took a lot of time to make this up~" Rival remarks before chuckling.
"I'm surprised no other team is here." Sunny says, looking around while speaking.
"Hehehe, Well let's just say everyone was sent into different directions for this challenge, hopefully it'll be painful for you all." Rival explains, a sadistic smile was on his face while speaking.
"Do you r-really mean that?" Leo asks after gulping.
"Of course I do! If Chris enjoys seeing you all in pain then I'm sure it won't be any different for me~" Rival states, pulling a knife out of one of his pockets as he spoke.
"...Is that knife a part of the challenge?" Alex questions, staring at the knife.
"Only if you want it to be, now once I get confirmation from the helpers then I'll gladly begin the challenge for you all!" Rival exclaims before he looks at the knife and throws it towards Alex.
"A-Ah!" Alex shouts before he moves out the way of the knife, it barely misses him and it went into the tree right beside him, this causes the rest of his team to look over at the knife which was thrown.
"What was that for!?" Evan loudly asks after the camera is interrupted by a static which temporarily shows up, it then turns back to Rival and it shows him back to his normal self.
"You must be one hell of a cosplayer to change back to normal that quickly." Sunny comments, Rival rubbed his head before shaking it and he looked at the knife which was stuck in the tree.
"I apologize for whatever I did, and it looks like you're full of things to say as usual Sunny." Rival points out, looking over at the delinquent.
"Thanks for the apology?" Alex responds, he had a puzzled look on his face while responding.
"Of course I've got stuff to say especially since you just threw a knife at our teammate, and you're lucky it wasn't directed towards me because I'd gladly put you down." Sunny says, smiling innocently as he talks back to the host.
"...Don't get ahead of yourself, now let's wait for my fellow helpers to call me." Rival directs before turning around, Sunny grits his teeth at his response but he looks over at Alex. Alex shakes his head which makes Sunny let out a sigh, taking a deep breath in and out after doing this and instead he crosses his arms. The Five Souls and Rival continued to wait where they were until further notice.
The Losers Team were all seen walking to the place they were told to go and they eventually stood on top of a hill, all of them were confused by where the other teams were. Next thing they know, they watched someone walk up to them and they looked down as they approached them, they wore a black fedora which they used to cover their face. They also wore a big brown raincoat which covered all their other clothing they were wearing except for the black tap shoes they wore at the bottom.
"Jun is curious to know who in the blue hell are you." Jun immediately says while the person walks past the group and turns around to face them, they appeared to be 6'0" and they looked up.
"...I am the one who solves all mysteries, the one who knows every secret, the one who isn't afraid of anyone or anything-!" They had the voice of a guy and had brown eyes which were now seen.
"Hey wait a second, didn't you ask me and my band to compose songs for your movie? Because you sound like that guy." Chloe asks, the person grabbed their brown raincoat and chuckled.
"Indeed, I am-!" The guy declared before taking off their fedora and their raincoat which they wore. They were currently wearing jeans and a Police Academy t-shirt, their hair was quite simple as it was just short and brown, his overall body shape was slim and they had a little bit of a mustache. The nametag they wore revealed this guy's name to be, "Frank Bullets!"
"How many times did it take for you to pull off that dramatic reveal?" Hannah asks while smiling a bit.
"I didn't need to practice at all to pull that off, it simply came naturally to me." Frank answers before turning around.
"H-Hey, Why are you tur-turning aro-?" Ingrid tries questioning.
"Little did any of them know that it actually took me one week to finally master that technique, after all, the investigator shouldn't focus on such small details or reveal any significant details about themselves." Frank began speaking to himself loud enough for everyone to hear.
"I'm surprised he was able to convince my band to make songs for the movie he starred in." Chloe says, continuing to be the straight man.
"Well considering the fact that Jun saw your band be the mini-show before Blackpink, he is not surprised." Jun responds while closing his eyes, Chloe's right eye twitches after hearing his comment.
"Pl-Please don't fight each o-other right now." Ingrid pleads while standing between Jun and Chloe.
"Hey Frank!" Hannah tries getting Frank's attention.
"Now if my sidekick Zara was here, then maybe I'd be willing to divulge some information on him and his sister-" Frank continued to speak to himself as if he was the protagonist of this. Hannah sighs after noticing that she was being ignored, she then gets an idea and clears her throat.
"...Red Robins-!" Hannah yells out.
"YUM!" Frank shouts while turning around, it appears that Hannah had finally caught his attention and he noticed the situation which was going on between The Losers Team.
"Jun does not care whether a fight ensues or not, just if Blinding Fire here plans to hit god!" Jun continued to annoy the rest of his team.
"Hey God and his angels! You three better cut it out or else I'll have to kick all of you off the show right here and now!" Frank shouts in an attempt to get the team's attention. This worked successfully and everyone looked over at Frank.
"God shall listen to what you said." Jun says, still speaking third-person but now he was using a different word to describe himself.
"You know because you called me angel, I'll listen to you." Chloe confirms with a slight smile on her face, Ingrid was just blushing now.
"Mind explaining what's going on and where the other teams are?" Hannah tries getting everyone on track to the challenge.
"Oh right, I'll give the signal." Frank states, a stage light was suddenly seen beside him which he turned on and he aimed it towards the sky. He had calmed down The Losers Team so well to the point that not even Chloe was questioning how the stage light suddenly appeared beside him and why he was using it during the day. And then, he turned on the light and the light which shines into the sky was black and it had a yellow 'F' in the middle of it.
"Alright, the Frank signal has been turned on! The Losers Team have arrived at their location!" Rival announces to The K-Shida's after seeing this in the sky, The K-Shida's then looked at the host with confused looks on each of their faces.
"Couldn't they have just texted you the news?" Alex was the only person to question the light in the sky.
"If we didn't allow him to use the Frank signal then he would've sued me for 'Causing Catastrophe'." Rival answers while using air quotes.
"Isn't that only illegal Utah?" Alex points out.
"Yeah and while this island has Canadian Laws on it, more laws can also be added so I had to let him do this." Rival explains before sighing before he thinks to himself, "Also he threatened to take me to jail for my actions in my past, but I ain't going to tell anyone here about that."
The final team were The Five Souls, however Jared was currently being carried in Lia's arms and they rushed over to their destination alongside everyone else on their team. They eventually reached the place they were meant to go which was apparently on the docs, Kyle looked around the place and noticed a hand on the docks which he pointed to. The Five Souls all looked at the direction of the hand and they all saw the person hanging onto the docs slowly climb onto it.
"I already called Tara, she'll be here in thirty seconds." Michael explained after he got onto the docs, he then stands in front of The Five Souls.
"Wait, how'd you-?" Miriam starts questioning the brown-haired genius.
"I know a thing or two about unconscious people, also you all were shouting he was injured while running." Michael answers her question before even asking it in its entirety.
"You must know Tara pretty well to know she'd get here within such a specific amount of time." Ciara comments.
"Let's just say me and her have a history working of working as a duo, now, I'll alert Rival that you're all here after Jared's taken off to be healed...although it's quite inconvenient that this is the second day in a row you all have had a team member being picked up to be healed." Michael responds, pulling a walkie talkie out of his pocket all the meanwhile.
"You're telling us." Kyle remarks before he looks back over at Jared.
"How much seconds are left until Tara arrives!?" Lia loudly asks impatiently.
"None." Michael answers, and right on cue Tara arrived and she stood right behind Lia.
"Alright, Who's the injured contestant this time?" Tara asks while looking around, Lia looks up at her and she turns around before holding out Jared who continued to lay motionless in them.
"Jared is, hopefully you can take care of him for us." Lia says, Tara then looks at her and puts Jared in her arms after having him get handed to her.
"Yes Mam, I'll make sure to try my best!" Tara confirms before looking over at Michael, nonverbally directs her to go off by nodding at her and just like that she runs off with the leader of The Five Souls in her arms.
"Today's challenge is simple, you will be running against all the other teams towards the other side of this island, all members of your team need to reach the finish line in order for your team to have officially finished and so the last team to get all members across the finish line will be eliminated and will be sent into tonight's elimination." Michael wastes no time and he explains the challenge to The Five Souls who were currently at four members.
"What about Jared?" Ciara asks while raising her hand.
"Because he's medically uncleared to compete he will not be participating in the challenge, however it seemed you all lucked out since you've got an even amount of members with all the other teams rather than an extra person like you guys originally had, now there'll be obstacles and vehicles that can be used along the way so you all better hope you can run fast, the race is no holds barred so do whatever you all can in order to get ahead of your opponents...also the challenge is called Forever Running because of course it is." Michael finished explaining the race.
"Alright team, let's win this for Jared!" Ciara cheerily says before the rest of her team nods in agreement.
"Okay, when do we start?" Miriam asks the final question for Michael.
"Once you all hear a gunshot that was designed specifically by me to be heard by everyone across the island, isn't that right Rival?" Michael ends his sentence with a question of his own after he turns on his walkie talkie.
"Yep! Alright then, let the race BEGIN!" Rival was heard exclaiming over the walkie talkie before Michael smiled at The Five Souls.
"...Good luck." He simply says before a gunshot was heard and everyone took off running.
*Forever Running*
The K-Shida's
The K-Shida's began running through the forest from their starting points and for the most part they were doing unsurprisingly well. Sunny, Leo, and Evan all were about the same speed and they looked at each other while starting off the race to a strong start...until they looked behind them and saw that Alex had already fallen onto the ground. This causes all the guys to stop in their tracks and they look at each other.
"W-What should we do now?" Leo asks while looking at his other teammates.
"Go carry him, I'd normally want to leave him behind but we do need him to win so you're going to have to carry him." Sunny answers while staring at Alex, the guy with the glasses slowly got onto his feet but was already panting heavily.
"...This time I actually agree with Sunny's order, but remember that it's your choice if you'd like to listen or not." Evan states while staring at Leo.
"Oh, well I've gotta h-help out my teammates so I'll c-carry him!" Leo responds before he runs over to Alex who was actually a few trees away from them.
"Make sure to not take too long, we're still in the middle of a race!" Sunny shouts, only for his shoulder to be punched.
"Don't rush it, also how about we each take turns carrying Alex in case we each get tired?" Evan suddenly came up with an idea of his own, Leo was seen putting Alex on his back in the background before he starts running.
"Fiiine, but I'll be pissed if we lose." Sunny confirms which made Evan roll his eyes, they all looked ahead of them and continued to run more. Now Leo was behind Sunny and Evan so the two of them slowed down a little while the brawler continued to hold Alex who was seen looking away from him and away from the camera. Next thing they know, they all see a tree which seemed to have fallen down and it was in all of their way.
"Pass Alex over to me!" Sunny directs before he jumps into the air and easily clears the tree before he stops in his tracks and looks at the rest of his team.
"Got i-it!" Leo responds before he spins Alex around in his arms before throwing him towards Sunny's direction and the delinquent was able to catch his teammate in his arms. Evan sighed in relief after seeing this go well and he jumped over the fallen tree next, Leo followed him afterwards and the three of them continued running ahead. Sunny was now holding Alex but he was only looking ahead and was just focused on getting to the other side of the island.
"At least this makes for a decent workout." Sunny comments in his mind, despite holding a person in his arms he was just behind Leo and Evan who both occasionally looked back while they ran.
The Losers Team
Chloe was seen ahead of the rest of her team and she was running down the hill with a determined look on her face. Ingrid and Hannah were multiple feet behind her however and they were trying to control their breaths while running, Ingrid was stumbling and having trouble keeping her balance since she was in heels meanwhile Hannah seemed to just trying to keep up the speed and was taking quick breaths. However, Jun was even behind them and he was able to run but wasn't taking much long strides and was looking at the ground which made him look unsurprisingly dumb.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me." Chloe grumbles while looking behind her, she notices just how behind the rest of her team were and decides to slow down so she could let the rest of her team catch up.
"S-Sorry for being s-so far b-behind." Ingrid apologized, eventually she was able to catch up alongside Hannah.
"Running isn't actually o-our strong suit." Hannah explains, Chloe just rolled her eyes at their statements and saw that Jun had yet to catch up.
"Hurry the hell up! If you're such a god then you shouldn't have any problems catching up to us!" Chloe shouts, after she finishes yelling she looks behind her and blinks upon seeing Jun.
"Work...smarter! Not...harder!" Jun was heard responding while tumbling down the hill at a speed and somehow ended up on his feet, he had finally caught up to the rest of his team who all stared at him.
"If I ever go to heaven then I'll slap god across his face for the amount of luck he's giving you." Chloe responds before she looks ahead, eventually her and the rest of The Losers Team reach the bottom of the hill. Jun was beginning to fall behind everyone once again but he wasn't too far behind Hannah and Ingrid, Chloe was the first one of them to actually see the obstacle which lies ahead them. It was a pit which looked seemingly bottomless, but it luckily looked like it could be jumped over by people who weren't slow.
"Hopefully both Hannah and Ingrid can jump to save their lives." Chloe thinks to herself, she then reaches the pit which she jumps over with relative ease, afterwards she turns out and looks at her teammates.
"I'll go f-first!" Hannah tells Ingrid before she runs as quickly as she could, Hannah analyzes the pit and while jumping she grabs onto a branch above it and she swings off the branch after a few sings. The branch eventually breaks and falls down the pit, but Hannah was able to swing off it before she'd fallen down the pit and was able to make it to the other side. After making the jump she turns around and watches while Ingrid closes her eyes.
"R-Random F-Faaaact!" Ingrid shouts as she jumps into the air and tries clearing the pit, it slowly becomes clear that she couldn't jump far enough and that she was going to fall into the pit. However, Chloe thinks fast and was luckily in arms reach and so she reaches her hand in the air which Ingrid notices after opening eyes. She grabbed onto her teammate's hand and Chloe pulled her up, helping Ingrid clear the jump and they both stood on their feet on the other side of the pit.
"Alright Jun, you better not be wasting any-!" Chloe already began yelling for Jun, but she watched the self-proclaimed 'God' simply walk around the pit and he caught up with the rest of his team.
"Jun wants you all to hurry up." Jun says, running off by himself after speaking which causes the rest of his team to run after him, although in Chloe's case it was to catch up and tear him apart.
The Five Souls
Kyle is the person that was currently leading The Five Souls since he was in front of the rest of them, he then slides on the ground like he was trying to reach another base in a baseball game. This seemed to serve the purpose of allowing his other team members to catch up, luckily Miriam and Ciara were able to catch up since they weren't that far behind, Kyle swiftly gets onto his feet and looks behind them. Lia was actually behind them but not by that much and so the three of them decided to continue running ahead.
"Glad to see you're all keeping up well." Kyle says while looking ahead, he started running faster after saying this.
"Well speed in dancing does translate well when it comes to running." Miriam explains before attempting to run faster and catch up with the baseball player.
"For me, I know how to go fast for a very good reason~" Ciara decided to make another dirty joke before winking at the camera, this causes Miriam to run even faster and she caught up with Kyle.
"Is she ever subtle when she flirts with other people?" Miriam questions while looking over at Kyle, who has been on the same team as Ciara this entire game.
"Nope, but luckily those aren't the aspects about her which makes her a pleasant person to be around, hopefully you can see those aspects soon." Kyle answers while smiling a bit, Miriam looks back at Ciara who was seen looking down at a picture.
"Whatcha looking a-at?" Lia's voice was heard, then she caught up with Ciara upon seeing a picture in her hand.
"Oh, it's just a picture of my girlfriend back at home, honestly I've been sort of missing her but I know that now's not the time to be thinking about what's back at home." Ciara answers before putting the picture in her pocket.
"...Actually, you just reminded me of some friends I've got back at home." Lia confirms while giggling a bit.
"Oh really? First time I've ever heard about them." Ciara immediately gets interested in hearing about the youtuber's friends.
"Only Jared knows about them since I explained to him that they help me out with my videos, Imogen helps me keep calm and edits my videos, and Quinn helps me finish up my food." Lia says before laughing a bit.
"Well I'm glad that the two of us have people who helped us stay happy and be who we both are right now...although that makes me wonder about Jared." Ciara suddenly thinks about Jared.
"Actually he hasn't told me that much about his home life since our conversations have usually been about helping me out with my channel or the two of us chatting about whatever is on our minds." Lia explains before she looks down.
"MINE!" Miriam shouts and she tackles Ciara to the ground.
"What the-?!" Lia loudly asks, only for Kyle to tackle her to the ground also, shortly after an explosion from underground goes off near all of them. The dirt and grass spills onto them and a tree is knocked down by the impact of the explosion, however no one seemed to have taken any serious damage. After the explosion cleared, Kyle and Miriam got onto their feet before they each held out their hand and pulled Lia and Ciara respectively back onto their feet.
"Glad to see you noticed the mine soon enough." Miriam says, looking over at the baseball player.
"When you're aware of your surroundings, not even Skin-Walkers can fool you or catch you by surprise." Kyle explains, Lia then looks at the damage of the explosion and sees that it caused a small crater in the ground.
"Thanks for saving me." Lia thanks Kyle, he then nods at her.
"We should probably start running again." Ciara suggests, the rest of her team nod before all of them run on forward in the hopes that they wouldn't get last place.
Sunny continued to hold Alex in his arms and he started to sweat, but he decided to not inform any of the guys ahead of him of this fact. Alex all the while looked ahead and tried to be as useful to his team as he could, if he couldn't run then at least he could use his brain to try and help them out. Leo and Evan were ahead of the two and they both just focused on going forward.
"Wait a second, is that a jeep?" Leo notices and all of them slowly reach a nearby jeep, Leo and Evan slow down after reaching it.
"Looks like it, how about we utilize it to get ahead in the competition?" Evan suggests.
"Wait! The jeep isn't working!" Alex confirms after getting out of Sunny's arms, Sunny starts catching his breath and he stretches out his arms.
"How do you-?" Leo began questioning, however Alex points to below the jeep where there was a spark down at.
"Unfortunately I'm not too experienced with vehicles to the point that I could confidently fix this." Alex explains, this causes Leo to sigh.
"Sorry but I don't know how to fix this thing either." Leo adds on, looking at the ground after speaking.
"Looks like we're running more, Evan, you're carrying Alex next." Sunny directs his team.
"Wait! I think I can actually fix this thing." Evan says before he lays down on his back right by the jeep.
"R-Really?!" Alex loudly asks with widened eyes.
"Yeah...and if you're wondering how I'd know this, let's just say a specific someone used to be good at vehicles." Evan explains before pulling himself below the jeep while the rest of his team watches him. Despite the sparks he sounded like he was doing completely fine, until a shout of pain was heard from below which made Alex and Leo worry. However, Sunny kept watching and slowly began to smile before looking at the jeep.
"Looks like that one-legged girl was more useful than she first looked." Sunny remarks, next thing they know the jeep turns and Evan gets himself out from under it. He looks at Sunny while rubbing his right arm and nods.
"Indeed she was, now who's going to drive us?" Evan asks his team while looking at all of them.
"Honestly I've always wanted to drive a motorcycle, but a jeep will be fine too!" Sunny volunteers himself.
"...Well I'm pretty sure no one else here has gotten any experience driving stuff, so we don't have much of a choice here." Alex says after looking at the rest of his team.
"Okay then, let's go!" Leo declares, a smile starts forming a face after he says this. Evan and Alex chuckled upon seeing him smile, meanwhile Sunny just hops into the jeep and looks at the rest of his team, they joined him inside the vehicle soon after, Alex sitting by Sunny while Evan and Leo got in the back. He then looks at the steering wheel and the petal, however he gets the car ready and gets a wide smile while revving the car up.
"Wait a second, have you driven anything?" Evan suddenly asks, Sunny then looks over at him.
"Nope!" Sunny responds before the jeep shoots forward and launches ahead, however it was going at full speed and was causing all members of The K-Shida's to hold onto the sides of it excluding Sunny. Since there were many bumps, Alex was being whipped around the seat and even hit his head on the front of the jeep. In the back, Evan was currently seen hanging for dear life since the jeep had no doors and now he was outside of it.
"You'd totally get a speeding ticket for this!" Evan shouts before he pulls himself back into the jeep.
"Weeeeee!" Leo cheerfully said, now he was hanging onto the jeep but was smiling despite this and he seemed to be enjoying the ride. Evan scrambles over to him and he grabs his hand before pulling him back into the jeep before looking around the vehicle. However he suddenly begins hearing another noise nearby and the noise gets closer and closer.
"Hey, is it just me or-?" Evan began asking, only for the noise to get close enough and next thing they know, a vehicle rammed into them.
"What's up, fuckers?!" They all heard a female voice shout after their jeep gets rammed into, then the next thing they know they see that it was an armored convertible. This armored convertible was currently being driven by Chloe Broderick of The Losers Team and she currently had a sadistic smile on her face. Jun was sitting down by her and he was the only one in the car who had a seatbelt which prevented him from being thrashed around, meanwhile Hannah and Ingrid were ducking and attempting to stay below their seats.
"Jun greets you all." Jun says to the other team with a calm look on his face.
"N-Nice seeing you again A-Alex!" Hannah nervously shouts while she continues to hold on for dear life.
"Can you please sl-slow down Chloe?! There's a-a officer-in-training next to u-us!" Ingrid announces after she noticed Evan in the jeep they rammed into.
"Sorry but I've got to make sure no one else can beat us!" Chloe shouts after noticing sparks while continuing to keep the armored convertible ran into the jeep.
"Which one of you let Chloe drive the car?!" Evan loudly asks while looking at the other team inside their vehicle. They all point at Chloe who looks around her and sees the rest of her team point at her before she looks back at the jeep.
"They didn't have much time to think." Chloe explains, Sunny then growls before glaring over at the drummer.
"Alex, take the wheel..." Sunny states, taking his hands off the wheel, Alex then looks over at him and adjusts his glasses to look more dramatic.
"Who said you were still the leader?~" Alex remarks before he looks at The Losers Team's vehicle and he grabs onto the sides of the jeep which causes Sunny's eyes to widen. Alex quickly looks around but the speed of the jeep caused his glasses to fall off and so now he couldn't see where he should jump. However, he closes his eyes and takes a deep breath, afterwards he jumps out of the jeep and attempts to jump into the other team's vehicle.
"HOLY CRAP!" Hannah shouts with a look of surprise on her face, Chloe tries pulling away the car but Alex was able to grab onto the door of the vehicle and now he held on as tightly as he could.
"...Jun, take the wheel!" Chloe demands before she lets go of the steering wheel.
"Jun listens to no one but himself." Jun doesn't listen and instead he closes his eyes and begins meditating.
"..." Chloe remains completely quiet, afterwards she grabs her teammate and throws him into the door which Alex was holding onto. This causes the door to fly open and Jun is sent falling out of the car, this also causes Alex to let go of the door and Chloe goes full speed ahead in an attempt to leave the two of them in the dust. Hannah and Ingrid try reaching over to catch the boys but Alex and Jun are left in the dust, they both look over at their teammate afterwards.
"W-Why'd y-you-?" Ingrid began asking.
"They'll live, and besides, no one trash talks my friend." Chloe responds, smiling back at the girls behind her before she looks ahead. Suddenly, she watches the jeep ahead of them flip into the air after accidentally setting off an explosive mine, she then tries stepping on the breaks but the momentum sends the car spinning around. The spin led to them crashing into a nearby tree and the jeep ahead of them landed on its tires but the contestants were now laying on the ground outside of it.
"Ugh...why are there even explosive mines?" Evan asks, getting onto his feet after recovering from what just happened.
"Probably to add some 'unpredictability' to the situation." Leo answers after he too got back onto his feet while Sunny looked over at the two of them.
"Alright then, we may not have our vehicle but we should keep going forward and just hope that Alex will be able to finish before that Jun guy does." Sunny states, Evan looks back but lets out a sigh and he looks back at the current temporary leader.
"Fine." Evan reluctantly listens to him and he looks over at Leo.
"Let's get-!" Leo began confirming, however Chloe was seen grabbing a stick off the ground and she stabbed the brawler's right leg with it, "GAH!"
"MOVE!" Chloe shouts, looking over at Hannah and Ingrid before they ran past her with Hannah covering Ingrid's eyes.
"Remember that Chloe's doing all of this for you." Hannah tries convincing Ingrid so she wouldn't get too caught up with what Chloe was currently doing.
"Sorry boys, but in this game we're-" Chloe starts explaining to The K-Shida's, only for her to get cut off by Sunny who nails a punch right in her face and the punch was strong enough to make her do a backflip and she lands on the ground unconscious.
"People just don't know when to shut up, do they?" Sunny sarcastically asks before turning around, Evan was seen running over to Leo who pulled the stick out of his leg, gripping it after doing so.
"Are you okay?!" Evan questions with a worried look on his face.
"Y-Yeah, I'll be slower but I can manage for now." Leo responds, Sunny shook his head before walking up to him.
"And if you can't?" Sunny takes his turn to ask a question of his own.
"I'm f-fine." Leo insists with a fake smile on his face.
"Your stuttering says otherwise. Evan, you take his left arm and I get his right arm." Sunny responds, Evan then nods and follows his directions. The two of them wrapped each of Leo's arms around each of their necks and they began running with each other, Leo looked at the ground while being literally carried by his teammates. While running, they all heard a loud noise from behind them and before any of them could react-
"THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR WHAT YOU DID!" Miriam shouts while strangling Jun on her motorcycle, however her motorcycle was connected to another one via a chain. The motorcycle in front of hers was Lia, she had Alex sitting behind her on the same motorcycle and the two of them paid no attention to Jun who was currently getting beaten up by Miriam. Their chain was connected to Kyle's motorcycle in front of them who looked over at The K-Shida's while passing them.
"It's a long story." He simply says, despite all the motorcycles being on and them being connected by a chain by their handles, only one of them was truly directing them. It was Ciara's motorcycle who was a bit wobbly with driving the high-speed vehicle especially without a helmet which caused the wind to blur her vision quite significantly. Yet, she was able to navigate pretty well all things considered and her team hadn't crashed yet.
"At least Alex seems to be alright." Leo comments, Evan and Sunny start running forward even quicker after each of them heard this comment.
"Thanks for helping me out back there." Alex says to Lia with a smile on his face.
"No problem! Even if we're on separate teams, we're still friends like we were before the swap." Lia responds, smiling while speaking.
"...So that's why you like Jared~" Alex decides to tease her a bit.
"S-Shut u-up!" Lia shouts, blushing heavily before deciding to try and hide her face even though they were both on a motorcycle.
"Looks like we're making good progress right now!" Ciara declares...only for her to immediately jinx herself thanks to the chain of motorcycles behind beginning to wobble. She looks behind her to see what's the cause of this but is unable to see it due to the cause of this issue looking like it's coming all the way from the back. Kyle looks back at Alex and Lia so they could do the same, however Alex was still too blind to see anything and so Lia was the only one to look back.
"You're all going down with meeee!" Chloe was seen suddenly swinging off the chain which was between Lia's and Miriam's motorcycles, she then landed on the motorcycle which Lia and Alex was on. Quickly coming up with an idea, she lands on the two of them and uses what little time she has to grab onto the handle and she pulls it as hard as she could. This causes the motorcycle to pull a wheelie, however Kyle already had countered this by unhooking his motorcycle from the chain.
"Well played." Kyle simply responds, thanks to him unhooking his chain this leads to his and Ciara's motorcycles to be unaffected by what was happening with the other motorcycles behind them. Speaking of which, the wheelie which Chloe had pulled caused the motorcycle to be sent flying into the air while the other one zooms past it. However due to this, Miriam's motorcycle is halted by Lia's motorcycle and rather than go forward, both vehicles begin spinning in a circle.
"AHHH!" Miriam, Jun, Chloe, Lia, and Alex all scream in unison, each of them fell off the motorcycles individually which left no one left on them. However after everyone had fallen off, the motorcycles triggered an explosive mine which caused the motorcycles and its chains to blow up and be sent flying into the air. Sunny, Leo, and Evan go up to Alex after they see the madness which had occurred.
"I'll carry Leo, you carry Alex." Sunny tells Evan, Evan then nods before he holds his teammate in his arms. Alex had his eyes closed along with a bunch of scratches all over him due to all the damage he'd taken from what had happened, however the rest of his team didn't have much time to really focus on how hurt he was. Leo had hopped onto Sunny's back and Evan carried Alex in his arms, the two of them ran off afterwards.
"...That...was...a-amazing!" Chloe says with a proud smile on her face after doing what she had just done.
"Ugh...What happened?" Lia was heard asking, then she opens her eyes and looks around before her eyes land on Chloe.
"I-I...happened." Chloe remarks, standing on her feet with a satisfied smile on her face. Lia rolls her eyes, she then notices that The K-Shida's had Alex with them before she too got onto her feet.
"I'm sur-surprised no one else was affected by tha-that." Lia says.
"...Let's just say that your baseball-loving friend was able to evade me once again, but I'll make sure to take him down eventually." Chloe confidently states before turning around and she begins walking forward.
"Clearly that time isn't now, especially since you're forgetting about the fact that all members of your team need to finish in order for your team to complete the race." Lia responds, she looks in the opposite direction of where Chloe was going and she noticed Miriam getting onto her feet while Jun laid unconscious on the ground.
"I'm aware of that, which is why you shouldn't be underestimating me right now." Chloe confirms, stopping in her tracks and turning around to face the youtuber.
"Why is tha-?" Lia began asking, but Chloe had already tackled her onto the ground and she got on her after doing this before unloading a barrage of punches.
"Because! I didn't come this far to lose so easily!" Chloe shouts while continuing to beat her up, however Miriam grabs her from behind and throws her off her teammate.
"Well if you think you're going to win so easily, THINK AGAIN!" Miriam shouts back at the punk drummer, the two of them glare into each other's eyes and get into a stare-off. Both of them waited for the other to make a move while the wind began breezing through them, they both clenched their fists and prepared to mentally prepare themselves to fight each other. They both then began charging at each other and they both prepared to swing their fists at one another.
"JUN CHOMPS YOUR LEG!" Jun abruptly shouts, biting Miriam's right leg while saying these words.
"TAKE THIS!" Lia had also gotten onto her feet and she nails Chloe right in her head by swinging her arm and lands a brutal clothesline that takes the drummer off her feet.
"GAH!" Miriam shouts before stomping on the self-proclaimed god's head and this causes him to stop biting her leg. She then clutches her right leg while Lia runs over to her, all the while Chloe and Jun are recovering from their respective hits.
"Miriam! A-Are you okay?" Lia asks with a look of concern on her face.
"Yeah, just go on without me, I don't want to slow you down." Miriam insists, staring into her teammate's eyes as she spoke and she was currently leaning against a nearby tree.
"B-But-" Lia starts questioning once again.
"We don't have much time here, and besides, Jared would tell you the same thing, wouldn't he?" Miriam decides to cut her off to try and convince her right now to go on ahead.
"..." Lia remains completely silent before letting out a sigh.
"If we want to win this for Jared, then just keep running until you reach the end...got it?" Miriam requests, this causes Lia to nod in agreement and she turns around. Soon after, she runs off and Chloe had gotten back onto her feet before deciding to chase after Lia which meant the two of them would now be racing against each other. Meanwhile, Miriam begins slowly limping forward while Jun opens his eyes and he begins crawling forward due to him currently being too weak to stand up.
Ingrid and Hannah
Hannah and Ingrid were both seen continuing to run. While Ingrid wanted to go back to help out her teammates, since she was told to just run on ahead by Chloe and she felt like she had no choice but to listen. Meanwhile, Hannah continued to run but her reasoning was harder to pinpoint and the best assumptions which could be made for why she's continuing to run is because she was directed to run.
"H-Hey...d-do you think Chloe's o-okay?" Ingrid questions, looking over at the heartthrob.
"I'm not...sure, but...we should just try finishing first and hope that...she'll be able to finish soon." Hannah answers, taking breaths to keep up her current pace for each pause she had.
"I guess y-you're r-right...optimism isn't e-exactly...something I have a-a lot of...th-though." Ingrid confirms, turning her head to look ahead of them.
"I've noticed, now-" Hannah started to respond, but she's instantly cut off by a loud noise.
"FREEZE!" And that loud noise was Evan who appeared to be trying to slow the two girls down.
"H-Huh?!" Ingrid began slowing down, but Hannah grabbed her hand and pulled her forward.
"Don't...pay attention...to them." Hannah states, dragging her teammate along so she wouldn't fall for the other team's trap.
"Told ya that wouldn't work!" Sunny responds to Evan's actions, Sunny was behind Evan and is sweating heavily from carrying Leo.
"It was worth a shot at least!" Evan yells back at his teammate, then Alex's eyes slowly start to open up and he blinks while attempting to look around.
"What's going on?" Alex asks since he still didn't have any glasses on so he couldn't see where they were right now.
"Alex? You're up?" Evan doesn't answer the question and instead asks a question of his own, he now looks down at Alex with widened eyes.
"Yeah, I'm up...Where's Lia?" Alex asks another question in the hopes that the officer-in-training could actually answer this one.
"It depends...is that the youtuber?" Evan tries double checking in order to try and answer the question.
"Yes she is, she's also the one whose eyes can turn redder than the color of police s-sirens." Sunny stutters a bit at the end, he then grabs Leo's legs which were previously being dragged on the ground.
"Well we left her back with the annoyance known as 'Jun Kamoshida', his partner-in-crime: Chloe, and Miriam who was one of the only two people from my previous team remaining in this game who I liked." Evan gives a long-winded and detailed explanation, it appeared that carrying Alex wasn't too hard for him to do now.
"Ah, well it just sounds like there's three members of The Five Souls who are unaccounted-" Alex tries to piece together what he's been informed about.
"Plus Ciara and Kyle drove off on their motorcycles, we're just trying to catch up to them right now." Leo adds onto what has already been said.
"Wait...Where's Jared, then?" Alex asks after noticing one name that he's yet to hear come out any of his teammate's mouths.
"No idea, but we're focused on passing the other two members of The Losers Team's members." Sunny explains, Alex then continues to think to himself so he could comprehend what that meant.
"If Jun and Chloe are behind us, then that means the other members of The Losers Team are Hannah and-" Alex begins saying.
"Ingrid, although it looks like we can pass them." Evan confirms, the camera then shows Evan with Alex in his arms and he starts to pass Hannah and Ingrid.
"They're p-passing...u-us!" Ingrid warns Hannah who looks over at the boys right by them.
"Alright...let's-!" Hannah attempts to come up with a plan.
"WATCH OUT!" Ciara abruptly interrupts her and tries driving her motorcycle to the left, however rather than go off into the intended direction it begins falling down. The motorcycle then slides on the ground with it looking like it's going to crash into Ingrid and Hannah, however Ciara fell off the motorcycle and starts tumbling on the ground. Because her motorcycle was still chained to another one, Kyle had already jumped off his motorcycle and rolled on the ground before looking over and he watches the next series of events. Eventually Ciara had finished tumbling on the ground and her eyes widened after she saw that Kyle's motorcycle was flying towards her. Reacting quickly, she barely just got onto her feet and jumped over it before it could hit her, face planting on the ground afterwards but she was glad that the motorcycle didn't hit her.
"H-Hannah!" Ingrid immediately shouts while looking beside her, deciding to check up on her teammate to see how she was doing before taking any action.
"Get Down!" Hannah yelled, wrapping her arms around the shy goth and she closed her eyes after doing this since she had tackled the two of them onto the ground. Ingrid decided to do the same and both girls just laid on the ground, they had decided to not focus on the motorcycle and both hoped that the vehicles would miss them. The first motorcycle had luckily just narrowly avoided the two of them and instead caused a breeze by the girl's feet's. However they weren't out of the clear yet since the second motorcycle began to go towards the two, however Ingrid opened her eyes after the first one had passed and looked in the direction it went. Unfortunately this meant that she wasn't paying attention to Kyle's motorcycle which was bouncing around more and seemed a lot more lethal than the one before it.
"Watch out!" Kyle raises his voice to warn the girls, Ingrid then gasps at his warning and looks over at the second motorcycle which she only had now just seen and noticed.
"...We're dead." Ingrid thinks to herself upon realizing that she didn't have time to react and so she quickly closes her eyes, hoping that the hit would be painless.
"I'll die before you two will!" Another voice was heard, the camera then cuts to someone else who ran towards the motorcycle flying at the two girls. The person appeared to be currently wearing brown shoes and they jumped into the air after running at full speed. The Losers Team all slowed down and stared at the person who was doing this, Kyle and Ciara also looked at the person in question with widened eyes.
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"J-Jared?!" Hannah suddenly realized who that voice belonged to and she looked in front of her to see that her guess on the person who just spoke was correct. Jared instead, was hit by the motorcycle and this caused him and the vehicle to fly over Ingrid and Hannah, the latter of which was watching in awe. After taking the hit, Jared rolled on the ground for a bit before ending up on his back, meanwhile the motorcycles stopped in their tracks but were broken beyond repair.
"...H-Huh?" Ingrid asks while opening her eyes, she then sees Hannah look behind them with a look of surprise on her face.
"W-W-Why-?" Hannah began to ask while looking over at her former teammate.
"Are you alright?!" Ciara loudly asks, running over to her current teammate alongside Kyle who got ahead of her and he looks down at him.
"...Heh, never thought you'd be the hero type." Kyle chooses to simply joke around with the team leader.
"I'm no h-hero, I just decided that if I wanted to die, going o-out looking cool would be great." Jared remarks which caused Kyle to chuckle.
"You're unbelievable sometimes, but I guess that's why you're the team leader." Kyle responds, putting out his hand which Jared accepts, he then uses his hand to pull him onto his feet.
"I'm sur-surprised you're not upset with m-me for helping out the other team." Jared says, Ciara finally reaching the boys and she hugs him tightly.
"We don't care about that right now, we just care about the fact that you're okay!" Ciara exclaims, the blood which was on Jared's head now seemed to be gone.
"...Th-Thanks." Jared responds, blushing tightly while Ciara does this.
"Welp, we should probably start moving ahead, everyone else can only stare at you in awe for so long." Kyle comments while pointing ahead of them.
"Oh right, because I didn't begin the race with you all I'm not in the challenge which means that I'm not a participant in this race and that I could only help out twice during this to prevent me from getting too involved." Jared gives his teammates a quick rundown.
"Awww, Well hopefully we can have a nice chat once all is said and done!" Ciara optimistically says.
"Indeed, anyways you two can have your turn to speak with him now." Kyle states, looking over at Ingrid and Hannah who were looking at the three of them.
"R-Really?" Hannah and Ingrid ask in unison, the two of them standing on their feet.
"Yes really, anyways let's get going now Ciara." Kyle directs before he runs past the two girls and The Losers Team were seen running after him.
"Good job with whatever you did, Jared!" Alex was heard yelling before being carried off by Evan.
"Sorry what happened by the way, I'll learn how to drive after this show." Ciara quickly apologizes to Ingrid and Hannah, she then looks back at Jared before telling him one more thing, "Sorry to you too for having to do that! I really am!"
"It's alright, I can't drive either." Jared remarks, Ciara then giggled before turning around and she ran forwards right after.
"Y-You helped us?" Ingrid asks with widened eyes.
"Yeah, honestly from what I'd seen I knew I had to step in." Jared confirms.
"What were you thinking?" Hannah asks a question of her own.
"Well after seeing the two motorcycles somehow being chained together, I knew that you both only noticed the one in the front and so the chances of you both dodging the second one which was going towards your direction was unlikely, so I just stepped in, especially since at the speed the motorcycle was accelerating at the both of you-" Jared explains in full-detail what he was thinking.
"Why'd you save us, though?" Hannah clarifies her question from earlier.
"...Well I'm not completely sure because maybe I saved you both since I used to be Hannah's teammate, but maybe there's a deeper reason for doing what I did." Jared answers the question with uncertainty.
"That's not m-much of an answer t-though, but I'm sure that you were t-thinking about how likely you were t-to survive-?" Ingrid starts to ask once more.
"Well the motorcycle wasn't going over 35 miles per hour so luckily the chances of me dying from it were slim, so luckily me being one of the four-thousand deaths each year was statistically not going to happen." Jared answers, looking down in order to think to himself.
"W-Wait, you actually k-know-?" Ingrid starts to ask with a smile slowly appearing.
"How about we get back onto the real topic as to why you helped us, Is there something deep down inside of you that told you to do it?" Hannah asks, trying to get the conversation back onto the topic which interested her the most.
"...Maybe so, anyways, I recommend that the two of you start running ahead so your team doesn't get last." Jared says, this causes both the girls to remember that they were in a challenge.
"R-Right! We need to get going now!" Hannah declares, looking over at her current teammate while saying this.
"A-Alright! Thank you f-for helping us out J-Jared!" Ingrid says, Jared then nods at them before they ran off. Afterwards, Jared hides behind a tree before he falls onto the ground upon feeling a ton of pain surge through his body very suddenly.
The Final Stretch
Kyle and Ciara both continued to run without knowing how much closer they were getting to the finish line, however it didn't seem like they were having too much trouble running. Kyle looked ahead and his primary focus was mainly on his breathing since he was pumping his arms to make sure his legs would get more momentum while increasing his speed. Ciara, on the other hand, looked down and started thinking to herself most likely about what had just happened along with other things on her mind.
"Why a-aren't we going back for our other teammates?" Ciara asks, looking ahead since looking down wasn't the best way to keep her current speed.
"Let's just say that something tells me Miriam would've wanted us to keep going, and besides, the only opponent which worries me is Jun since Chloe's temper could easily be manipulated against her but Jun's will to win is something that we definitely should take note of especially after he battled with Miriam yesterday." Kyle explains, having his eyes look down while speaking.
"No k-kidding, also I'll listen to you a-about what Miriam would've wanted, you always have been the smarter a-and laid-back one, after all." Ciara says, a smile slowly forming on her face.
"Compliments aren't really needed, also we should probably get focused one the race once again considering the fact that we've got some competition." Kyle confirms before looking behind the two of them and he saw that The Losers Team weren't too far behind.
"D-Dammit! How are we going to pass them?!" Sunny angrily asks, he definitely seemed to be putting in a lot of effort just from carrying Leo.
"Perhaps we could try to motivate ourselves to run fast?" Evan suggests the runners then look at Leo who gulps and tries thinking of what to say.
"Uhhh, You wanna be an air-force ranger! You wanna live a life of danger! You don't wanna get ra-!" Leo began chanting the first thing which had come to his mind.
"Alex, you try now!" Evan and Sunny immediately cut off Leo before he could say anything more.
"Close your eyes and try thinking of something that can motivate you to run faster." Alex simply recommends a suggestion for the boys to use to fuel their running. Evan nods and closes his eyes to try and think of something to increase his speed, eventually he imagines something which gets his eyes open and his running speed begins getting faster. Sunny blinks before he growls, closing his eyes and starts to imagine another thing, his eyes open soon after and his speed starts increasing more.
"Wh-Whoa! How'd you know what to tell them?" Leo questions while looking at Alex.
"Sometimes people know how to motivate themselves better than anyone else, they just have to know what's driving them in order to truly know their motivation." Alex explains with a slight smile on his face thanks to the fact that he was able to help out his teammates.
"Don't worry Jackie, I'll make sure to win this for you!" Evan states inside his mind, it was clear that he was imagining about the girl who has been his motivation for winning ever since her elimination.
"I'll make sure to win this race and take another step to win this godforsaken show, I'll use all my combat you taught me! I'll even use what Rainy told me! AND I'LL MAKE SURE TO MAKE MYSELF HAPPY LIKE YOU COULD NEVER!" Sunny motivationally motivates himself internally, suddenly his speed increases drastically and his eyes were laser focused on Kyle and Ciara.
"T-They're catching u-up!" Ciara realizes after she quickly looks over and saw that both Sunny and Evan were getting closer even despite carrying people. The boys began to catch up to her while Kyle just kept a consistent pace and it didn't look like the people they were racing were going to pass him anytime soon. However, he looks behind them and sees how quickly both members of The Losers Team were going.
"All you need to do is focus on the goal, even if you don't reach it when you want to reach it, be glad you attempted to go for it." Kyle gives his teammate some advice, looking ahead once again after speaking and suddenly the finish line was in sight.
"We're almost there." Kyle, Ciara, Evan, and Sunny all think in unison after all of them realized they were nearing the finish.
OneRepublic-Love Runs Out
While the song begins starting up, Kyle noticed that there were a bunch of mines scattered near the finish line which the camera kept cutting too and so he began cautiously stepping over them.
"I'll be your light, your match, your burning sun,"
Ciara had noticed her teammate getting more cautious but she knew the other team were already catching up and so she tried running faster.
"I'll be the bright, and black, that's making you run."
Leo watches this and he looks at Sunny, then back at his bleeding leg.
"And I feel alright, and we'll feel alright,"
"I don't want to be a burden." Leo states to his team which made Sunny roll his eyes.
"'Cause we'll work it out, yeah we'll work it out."
"Well here we-I mean, it's okay." Sunny cuts himself off before he could insult him.
"And I'll be doin' this, if you ever doubt,"
"No, it's not! In fact-!" Leo shouts before grabbing onto the delinquent's shoulders.
"'Til the Love Runs Out, 'til the Love Runs Out."
"Leo!" Evan shouts, looking back at the lionheart brawler with widened eyes.
"I'll be your ghost, your game, your stadium,"
"W-We're almost th-there!" They all heard another voice, Ingrid and Hannah both are now catching up to everyone else.
"I'll be your fifty thousand clapping like one."
"You can do it." Alex and Sunny respond in unison, Leo then nods before pushing himself off of Sunny and he does a backflip before landing on his feet.
"And I feel alright, and I feel alright,"
He grits his teeth at the pain from his right leg, but he is able to jog despite that.
"'Cause I worked it out, yeah I worked it out."
"I'll go down t-" Alex begins saying to Evan.
"I'll be doin' this, if you ever doubt,"
"Actually, you're fine since you're easy to carry and blind." Evan immediately explains.
"'Til the Love Runs Out, 'til the Love Runs Out."
"...Good point." Alex responds, looking down after saying this and Sunny ran past them.
"I got my mind made up, Man, I can't let go."
Sunny passes Ciara and catches up to the guy in first place who he was now head-to-head with, Kyle.
"I'm killing every second 'til it sees my soul."
The two of them looked at each other, Sunny with a grin at the chance to outrace his former teammate, meanwhile Kyle kept a calm look.
"(Ooh!) I'll be running, (Ooh!) I'll be running-!"
Both of them looked forward afterwards, however Sunny noticed an explosive mine nearby and he chuckled.
"'Til the Love Runs Out, 'til the Love Runs Out."
Shortly after this he goes to push down the baseball player, but he slows down and so Sunny starts to stumble his way towards the mine.
"And we'll start a fire, and we'll shut it down,"
Kyle had decided to get a bit of payback at the delinquent by jumping off and he jumped off his back.
"'Til the Love Runs Out, 'til the Love Runs Out."
This caused Sunny to fall onto the ground, managing to barely miss all the triggers for the mines.
"There's a maniac out in front of me."
"Kyle lands in first place for The Five Souls!" Rival announces, Sunny hears this and quickly gets back on his feet.
"Got an angel on my shoulder, and Mephistopheles."
"Dammit!" Sunny growls, he then runs towards the finish line soon afterwards.
"But momma raised me good, momma raised me right."
"Sunny takes second place and he is the first member of The K-Shida's that's made it!" Rival shouts out the next placement.
"Momma said "do what you want, say prayers at night"."
"I need to reach my goooal!" Ciara motivates herself, she then jumps over the mine in front of her and makes it pass the finish line.
"And I'm saying them, cause I'm so devout."
"At least we've got more people that's finished." Evan states, crossing the finish line soon after with Alex in his arms.
"'Til the Love Runs Out, 'til the Loove Runs Out! Yeah."
"Ciara takes third, Evan takes fourth, and Alex takes fifth!" Rival quickly confirms the next placements.
"I got my mind made up and I can't let go."
Leo seemed to not be going quickly and in fact, he is passed by Hannah and Ingrid before he finishes.
"I'm killing every second 'til it sees my soul."
"Hannah takes sixth, Ingrid takes seventh, and Leo takes eighth!" Rival loudly confirms, The K-Shida's had all their members passed the finish line now.
"(Ooh!) I'll be running, (Ooh!) I'll be running-!"
Kyle, Ciara, Hannah, and Ingrid all look back in anticipation to see who was going to win.
"'Til the Love Runs Out, 'til the Love Runs Out."
Lia and Chloe were seen running in the distance.
"And we'll start a fire, and we'll shut it down,"
As they got closer, it became clear that Chloe had passed the youtuber and she had held her lead.
"'Til the Love Runs Out, 'til the Loove Runs Out."
Eventually, the two of them passed the finish line where Lia glared at Chloe a bit.
"Oooh, we all want the same thing."
"Chloe takes ninth and Lia takes tenth! Which means it's down to The Losers Team and The Five Souls!" Rival announces, and right after saying this the final two competitors in the race were seen in the distance.
"Oooh, we all run for something."
"Jun can't wait to beat you once more, you p-peasant." Jun arrogantly speaks with a big smirk on his face.
"Oh for God, for fate,"
"In y-your dreams." Miriam comes up with a response like always, since she was limping she was able to keep a bit of a lead on Jun.
"For love, for hate,"
Jun stops crawling for a bit.
"For gold, and rust,"
He slowly begins grabbing onto the ground.
"For diamonds, and dust."
And eventually used what strength he had to push himself up.
"I'll be our light, your match, your burning sun,"
Miriam looks behind her and sees Jun on his feet while he begins to walk.
"I'll be the bright and black that's making you run..."
The dancer looks ahead of her and begins to limp less, adrenaline slowly starts to overtake her.
"I got my mind made up, Man, I can't let go!"
Jun and Miriam then both start increasing their speeds and both of them start to jog.
"I'm killing every second 'til it sees my soul!"
"You can beat him Miriam!" The Five Souls all cheered for Miriam.
"(Ooh!) I'll be running, (Ooh!) I'll be running-!"
"Jun has already beaten you, though." Jun remarks and he looks over at his racing opponent.
"'Til the Love Runs Out, 'til the Love Runs Out!"
"I-I'll beat y-you!" Miriam shouts and she starts running even faster.
"And we'll start a fire, and we'll shut it down,"
"If you think Jun is going to let you win-" Jun says, despite stumbling a bit he was still running.
"'Til the Love Runs Out, 'til the Loove Runs Out!"
"THEN YOU'RE WRONG!" Jun yells out before he looks ahead of him and starts running even faster.
"I'll be your light, your match, your burning sun,"
The two of them raced against each other, they were both neck and neck with each other with seemingly none of them in the lead right now.
"I'll be the bright and black that's making you run."
Jun then looks over at Miriam who was only focused on making it to the finish line.
"And I feel alright, and we'll feel alright,"
He then grabs her hair and throws the dancer onto the ground.
"'Cause we'll work it out, yeah we'll work it out."
Miriam grunts in pain while it all begins flooding back and she closes her eyes.
"And we'll start a fire, and we'll shut it down!"
Jun chuckles before he looks ahead of him and now is walking towards the finish line with ease.
"'Til the Love Runs Out! 'Til the Love Runs Out!"
Right as he takes his final step towards crossing the finish line and getting another win against his rival-.
"'Til the Looove Runs Ouuut."
Jared had jumped towards Jun and he tackled him to the ground away from the finish line.
*Song Ends*
"...W-What?" Jun asks with widened eyes, next thing he knows he falls onto his back and lays down after getting tackled by the leader of The Five Souls.
"M-Miriam! GO!" Jared shouts, Miriam's eyes then shoot open upon hearing the familiar voice and she looks over at the finish line to see that Jared had tackled Jun down. This made her smile a bit and she slowly got on her feet, noticing that Jun wasn't unconscious but he was too shocked and is now too deep in his thoughts to really do anything to stop his opponent. Jared then glares down at Jun before slowly standing on his feet.
"B-But...I-I'm g-god, everything goes how I want it t-to." Jun says before Jared rolls his eyes.
"If you truly were god, then tell me...How's it feel to go through pain like I did when you didn't do jack shit about?" Jared cryptically asks, he takes a deep breath after saying that.
"Harsh." Miriam remarks, she continued to walk towards the finish line and she giggled a little at what her team leader said.
"Guess I rubbed off on you, then." Jared jokes around which caused the dancer to laugh a bit.
"True, although you recovered quickly from your wounds compared to me." Miriam points out.
"Apparently the damage done to me wasn't that bad, also wow I've been explaining a lot of-" Jared says.
Click.
Suddenly, Miriam freezes up and Jared's eyes widened upon hearing the sound. The two of them slowly looked down and Miriam saw that she had accidentally stepped on one of the underground explosive mines. Both of them slowly looked at each other while Jun snapped out of his trance and saw this happen before he chuckles and winks at Miriam.
BOOM!
The underground mine then blows up and the explosion sends Miriam flying away from the finish line, her back crashes into a tree and she collapses onto the ground after the tree had stopped her fall. However, Jared flew into the air because of mine going off and his eyes were closed because of the explosion, he eventually started falling back to the ground while being completely unconscious. Luckily for him, Lia's eyes turned red and she caught him before he could take any more damage than the one he's already suffered.
"Jun finished in eleventh place! The Five Souls are going into elimination!" Rival announces, this caused everyone else to look over at Jun who had gotten on his feet and stood past the finish line.
"Not surprising, after all, Jun is GOD!" Jun yells out before he begins laughing.
"Nah we just made sure the explosive minds would just knock out people rather than kill them, although it's going to take a bit for Jared and Miriam to recover." Rival explains before he watches Kyle and Ciara run over to Miriam who was unconscious like Jared.
"Still, everything worked out in Jun's favor and in the end he won against the peasant once again." Jun states before chuckling to himself, he then walked over to the rest of his team but Hannah and Ingrid were staring at Jared.
"..." Hannah had a look of surprise on her face at what just happened, she then slowly started walking to her former team leader.
"He'll be okay, trust me." Chloe says to Ingrid, putting a hand on her shoulder and Ingrid looks at her.
"A-Alright, thanks for the r-reassurance." Ingrid responds and she smiled a bit at her friend.
"Why'd he have to take most of the spotlight?" Chloe asks in her mind, quickly looking over at Jared before looking back at the goth with a smile which seemed to be more genuine than it was at the beginning of the season.
"How does he look, Lia?" Hannah asks after she'd reached the two, Lia's eyes had turned back to normal now.
"If Rival's words are any indication, he shouldn't be too hurt, but..." Lia says she then lifts his hair and sees that there was still a cut on it with some blood coming out of it.
"H-How'd he get that?!" Hannah loudly questions with widened eyes after seeing this.
"Earlier he was beating himself up for not doing anything to help out Miriam yesterday, so we had him sent down to be medically healed which was why he wasn't in the race, however, it looks like before the healing process was completely over he had decided to get involved with the race and so it looks like he had stopped himself from being healed just so he could help us out..." Lia answers, placing him on the ground after the explanation and she cradles his head.
"He must've been thinking that if he didn't help out then he'd get eliminated or something like that." Hannah responds, smiling a little.
"Jared really is easy to figure out and you've just proved that, but one thing I've yet to figure out about him is what happened to him and what does all the stuff he says mean?" Lia asks, trying to think of an answer to her own question.
"If I had to guess from experience, something must've happened between him and his parents which led him into becoming who he is right now but what it is exactly, I have no idea, but make sure to take care of the guy, I'm not a fan of seeing him hurt." Hannah responds, looking at the YouTuber.
"I'll make sure to try my best!" Lia exclaims and she nods at her, Hannah then turns around and goes over to the rest of her team.
The K-Shida's
"Hey knife-thrower, do you have any glasses for Alex?" Evan asks the host in the hopes that he had glasses for their teammate.
"That's a random request, luckily I've got the thing you need for that random request." Rival responds, pulling a pair of glasses out of his pocket and he hands it over to Evan.
"Thanks, hope you continue to have a nice life out of prison." Evan says before turning around and he walks away while Rival stares at him from behind and looks away shortly after.
"I'm sorry for b-being such a-" Leo already is apologizing to his team.
"Now you know why we told you to stop treating him like complete crap?" Alex asks Sunny after being handed a new pair of glasses.
"Yeah this is just sad to watch." Sunny agrees with their new team leader.
"It's okay Leo, you did good considering what happened to you...speaking of which-" Alex starts speaking, he then turns around but Tara had already arrived.
"I already heard, anyways I'll now take Leo to have his right leg be healed!" Tara confirms before picking up Leo, she then runs off with him soon afterwards and surprisingly enough she didn't seem to have too much trouble with carrying him.
"Oh come on!" Sunny shouts out of anger after seeing that.
"Life can work in many mysterious ways." Alex comments while he and Evan pat both of Sunny's shoulders.
"...What did my sister see in you two?" Sunny questions before looking down and shaking his head.
The Losers Team
"Jun believes him and his team should be taking their leave." Jun continues speaking in third person, the rest of his team groaned after hearing this.
"Apologies but you spea-speaking third person sounds weird..." Ingrid says after gulping.
"Jun's team must get used to Jun speaking the perspective most fitting of a god like him." Jun directly indirectly responds to what Ingrid had said.
"If you keep this attitude up then we'll gladly vote you off once mere comes!" Chloe yells out of anger like always.
"Yeah you really need help holding in your anger, so would you like to learn how to be a good actor?" Hannah abruptly asks the punk drummer.
"That'll be easier said than done but I'll gladly take some lessons from you." Chloe answers.
"And Ingrid could help teach us how to cook." Hannah suggests while looking over at the shy goth.
"R-Really?!" Ingrid asks with a smile on her face, Jun simply watched all of them interact with each other before looking away.
"Jun shalln't waste time speaking with his teammates since his focus is on winning the game for the sake of his family name which has only gotten bigger since he's become godly." Jun states with confidence like always, shortly after saying this he walks off with a smile on his face before the rest of his team walked off towards his direction speaking with each other.
The Five Souls
The K-Shida's were seen walking away in the background shortly after The Losers Team did which only left the team which were going into tonight's elimination, The Five Souls. Miriam's eyes were seen slowly opening and she blinked before looking around the place, she noticed that Kyle and Ciara were right next to her and that everyone else was gone. She slowly tries remembering what happens and conveniently enough one person came to mind which made her slowly begin to sit up.
"Take it easy, Jared's alright all things considered." Kyle answered her question before she could say anything.
"How do you k-know all these things so easily?" Miriam asks a different question which just now came to her mind.
"Once you've heard a lot of stuffs from enough people, you notice a pattern with most of them." Kyle cryptically answers her question, but knowing him she knew that was the best answer he was going to give.
"Wait, There's other people like me?" Ciara takes her turn in asking a question.
"No you're just easy to figure out." Kyle confirms which makes Ciara blink.
"...I'll take that as a compliment!" Ciara exclaimed, deciding to not think of his words negatively.
"What h-happened?" Miriam questions while rubbing her head.
"You accidentally stepped on an explosive mine and so that led to use losing the race because Jun lucked out once again, while he's clearly not a god it's clear to see that he's got quite the amount of luck on his side." Kyle explains, this makes Miriam growl and clench her fist.
"Dammit, I'll make sure to get the better of him someday and wipe that smug look off his stupid face." Miriam states.
"Well you know what they say, luck can only get you so far before you have to need to use your skills." Ciara attempts to make things sound better.
"True but I'm hoping that his luck comes to an end sooner rather than later." Miriam says before Kyle looks over at Lia and Jared.
"How about we divert this topic off of him and focus on the topic which we should be more concerned with, the person we will vote out at tonight's elimination." Kyle confirms before he looks back at his two teammates.
"Right, I'll help you stand up Miriam." Ciara volunteers, she then puts out her hand for her teammate to accept.
"Nah I'll try taking care of myself, considering I lost the challenge for us I should at least try being less of a burden." Miriam answers, afterwards she slowly begins using a nearby tree to help her stand on her feet once again. The three of them walked over to the duo who had been with each other for the entire game and the two players who seemed the closest out of all of them. Lia stared down at their team leader with a worried look and she even began to get tears in her eyes while seeing the position he's in.
"You didn't need to go this far Jared, sure you didn't contribute to the challenge but you were hurt...honestly I'm not sure if you did what you did because of your dumb pessimistic mind or other more selfless reasons, but you better not do this again." Lia says before wiping the tears in her eyes.
"Hey Lia, I know this might be bad timing but I think we should all start discussing who we are going to eliminate, if we get over it now then we'll know what our plan is going into tonight's elimination and who we're going to vote out." Kyle is the one who decides to inform Lia, she then looks over at them before looking back down at Jared.
"...Okay, who's next?" Lia asks, facing her teammates once again.
*Elimination Ceremony*
*After the Votes*
For the third episode in a row, the camera had cut to everyone after all of them had entered their votes. Jared is the last person who exited the Confessional Room after he made his vote, there were bandages all over him and even had a white one wrapped around his forehead to prevent him from bleeding from there like it did earlier. Miriam is seen wearing some bandages of her own on her body, with most of them being by her legs due to those spots being where she had the most damage done to her during the race. After Jared made the final vote he used his glasses, which had a small crack on each frame, to look around and he saw that the rest of his team didn't look too stressed out which led to him letting out a sigh. Soon after he had sat down Rival nods at everyone and looks back over at the Confessional Room.
"I'll go read the votes." Rival confirms like always, he then walked on over to where everyone had casted their votes and the wind began picking up after he said these words. Before entering the room, he looked around to see if there were any signs of people tampering with the voting and it looked like nothing had been rigged in any way. Shortly after coming to this conclusion he entered the stall and picked up the voting box, he then carried it over to his nearby podium and placed it down in front of The Five Souls.
"I'm not sure which direction my team will vote in considering they didn't tell me much before elimination, usually that's a good sign that you're getting sent home since people don't want you to know about your elimination beforehand in order to have a better chance of the person being unable to find a way to turn the tables against them, but I honestly can't blame them since even when I had tried to helped I messed things up." Jared thinks to himself, looking at the ground while getting deep into his thoughts.
*Flashback Begins*
Jared's eyes slowly opened and he slowly but surely, when he opened his eyes he'd seen a sunset right in front of him which caused him to blink a few times while feeling a breeze. He slowly starts to regain his senses and he feels his head against something, he decides to use his sight in order to see what exactly his head was against. Immediately he recognized what he was leaning against and where he was, he'd been sitting at the porch for the cabin where his team stayed in and right now he was leaning his head against the shoulder of one of the people who lived inside his cabin aside from himself.
"Ciara?" Jared questions, looking at the girl who he looked at with a look of confusion.
"Hey Jared...glad to see you're awake~" Ciara says, turning her head to look over at the team leader.
"...You didn't do anything to me while I was unconscious, did you?" Jared quickly checks, this causes Ciara to burst out laughing.
"Hahahahaha! Of course I didn't, I prefer working for my great nights rather than have them get handed to me, and besides I would've gone to jail if I'd even attempted that." Ciara responds before staring back at the sunset once more.
"Figures, Where's everyone else?" Jared asks, he used his eyes to look around the cabin and he noticed that Miriam, Kyle, and Lia were all getting ready to go into tonight's elimination.
"Looks like you figured out the answer to your own question, now despite your injuries according to Tara, you'll be back to full strength by tomorrow and honestly I'm glad to hear it." Ciara says with a big smile on her face, Jared looks at her after hearing this.
"You're making it sound like I'll have a chance of getting through tonight's elimination." Jared responds, joining the guitarist in looking at the sunset which made his usual straight face go away and instead a slight smile appeared.
"Well maybe you will, Maybe you won't, I ain't going to tell you~" Ciara jokingly remarks, looking back at the team leader while speaking.
"...Yep, you're a tease." Jared says in response before chuckling, Ciara smiled even more after seeing this.
"Hey Jared...I'm sorry." Ciara states before standing up and he stares at her, his small smile already going away.
"I take it you're not going to clarify that?" Jared asks while watching his teammate walk into the cabin, he then sighs and looks back at the sunset before shaking his head. A slight smile grew on his face once more and he looked down at his legs, after doing this he slowly stood up onto his two feet and gave the sun one last look before he closed his eyes and looked down. "Looks like my time on this island is coming to an end...but at least my time here was good all things considered."
*Flashback Ends*
After the flashback had ended, Jared opened up his eyes and looked like he had accepted the possibility that now he would be voted off.
"Two of the voting-cancelling objects have been found so far, one of them had already been played but another could possibly be among you all and could be played right now if you think it's the right time to do it." Rival explains before looking at all the members of The Five Souls.
"..." Everyone was completely silent but unlike the previous times most of them seemed quiet for reasons that were unclear but could be deciphered. Miriam seemed completely calm and she simply looked over at the rest of her team with no real hostility radiating from her. Kyle is currently relaxed like always and he looked back at Miriam before giving her a thumbs up, he then looked over at another member of their team. Ciara smiled a little before looking back over at the baseball player before nodding at him, she looked over at the final person who seemed to know where everyone was voting. Lia just had her eyes on Jared the entire time and her eyes looked at the ground a little after staring at him long enough. Jared quickly looked around and saw this, he looked ahead of him and decided to remain completely silent like the rest of his team.
"Last chance..." Rival states, The Five Souls continued to remain completely quiet and all of them waited to see if any one of them currently had the object which could swing the direction of the votes.
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"Alright, time to read the votes." Rival announces without raising his voice. After saying this he reached into the box but it appeared like everyone already had an idea of what was going to happen tonight and who was going out, which people had the right idea and which people had the wrong ideas were going to be tested by this. The host reached into the box and began scrambling the votes inside of it before he eventually grabbed one of the votes and slowly pulled it out.
"First vote..." Rival began saying while looking at everyone else with a slight frown on his face.
"Tonight might be the first time the votes are unanimous." Jared thinks to herself while looking down.
"Ciara." Jared suddenly heard another name that wasn't his own, this caused his eyes to widen and he looked over at the host with a look of shock on his face.
"H-Huh?!" Jared asks out of confusion, he then looks over at his team after hearing about the fact that one of them had voted for Ciara Yates.
"Now you know why I like to tease others~" Ciara remarks before the leader looks at her.
"Second vote...Ciara." Rival revealed the next vote almost instantly, unlike the previous times he seemed to be getting straight to the point and Jared looked over at the host once again.
"W-W-Why?!" Jared loudly asks, he looked completely puzzled by his team's decision and suddenly he felt a hand lightly hold onto his shoulder. He then turns around and looks to see that it was Ciara who had done this and she smiled at him.
"Hey Jared...I'm sorry for not telling you this sooner." Ciara finally clarifies what she meant by what she said to him.
"Third and final vote, Ciara." Rival confirms behind Jared, the leader blinks before staring at the rest of his team.
"I-I thought you all were going to-" Jared tries responding to what had just happened.
"Vote you off? As if I'd ever let that happen and not tell you about it!" Lia proudly says, this makes Jared blink while staring at her, he then looks over at Kyle.
"You may think lowly of yourself and believe that you're a poor leader, but we all care about you more than you could ever imagine, even Miriam does have a soft spot for you." Kyle remarks before looking over at Miriam.
"Your attempt to try and help me defeat Jun may have backfired, but the fact alone that you went out of your way to protect me after what happened yesterday and how you did it despite still being hurt is something I appreciate...thank you." Miriam explains, looking away after speaking. Jared's head then turns to look at the last person he'd yet to hear from.
"Who'd you-?" Jared starts asking.
"The remaining two votes belonged to Ciara and Jared respectively." Rival answers his question immediately.
"Y-You KNEW a-about t-this?!" Jared loudly asks while looking over at Ciara.
"Jared, I may have not known you for long and while you don't hold the same place in my heart like Michelle does, you're probably one of the best people on this island alongside Kyle, so seeing either of you two go home doesn't sound right to me." Ciara explains herself with a smile.
"What have I ever done for you though?" Jared asks another question, he sounded like he was in complete disbelief by what he was hearing.
"Well you were fun to speak with which was definitely a relief considering the leader of the previous team I was in was Sunny, actually everyone were fun to hang out with and honestly that's all I'd ever needed to make a song which could potentially help me get closer to becoming my idol. That and because let's just say that me and Lia had a little debate on which of us should take the elimination for you." Ciara confirms before looking over at the YouTuber.
"Y-Yeah, I volunteered to get eliminated first but Ciara convinced all of us to vote her out instead." Lia adds onto what the Perverted Musician had said to the Pessimistic Perfectionist.
"W-Wow...all of you really care for me that much?" Jared asks before looking at his entire team.
"Yep, and besides, considering that the only things I had done today were just nearly run over two girls and end up in third place without doing much beyond that." Ciara recaps everything she had done.
"...T-Thanks everyone..." Jared responds, looking down and he sounded like he started to tear up.
"No problem, leader." Ciara says before she stands up from her stump along with the rest of her team who she looked over at.
"Honestly I don't know you all that well, although you seem like a good girl with a bad mouth, but at least you're an honest person and that's something which I can respect to an extent." Miriam gives her teammate her honest final words.
"Thank you for being selfless and I hope that when you get home that you and your girlfriend will have fun creating your new song!" Lia exclaims with a smile like always.
"It's sad seeing you go home after the two of us had been friends for so long, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over this because it was your wish and since you wanted it so much for someone else, granting it was the only thing I could do, although considering what we've been through it was fun watching and talking with you Ciara." Kyle responds while giving the guitarist a thumbs up.
"Hey, her goodbye ain't going to be complete until you say yours." Miriam remarks while looking over at Jared, he then wipes the tears from his eyes and slowly stands on his feet.
"Well it looks like my mind got in the way once again, I'm sorry for thinking you all were going to vote me out and for being unable to win us the challenge, but the biggest thing I'm sorry for is that you had to get eliminated all because of me, you're a good person and now I can see why your girlfriend loves you, it's because you're very caring about your friends, your awful flirting makes talking with you admittingly fun, and most of all: You're genuinely nice towards others and I'm glad to have been a teammate of yours. Thank you, Ciara." Jared states with a smile, deciding to send off Ciara with a sight rarely seen from him.
"...Well you shouldn't thank me yet~" Ciara decided to respond, this causes Jared to raise an eyebrow.
"Are you not going to elaborate on that ei-?" Jared starts asking, however he's cut off by Ciara who had kissed his cheek.
"Consider that your reward for everything you've done~" Ciara says to him before giggling to herself and she walks away from her team afterwards. Lia's eyes slowly started to turn red but she was able to prevent them from turning completely. Miriam rolled her eyes after seeing this happen, and Kyle had widened eyes while watching Ciara walk off.
"U-Uhhh." Jared now was at a complete loss for words before he fell onto the ground soon after.
"I'd say you definitely went out with a bang, albeit not the same type you'd usually think of." Rival comments before chuckling a little while watching Ciara walk up to him.
"You're right about that, but honestly I'm glad that everything went so smoothly today considering how brutal these eliminations can get." Ciara comments, watching the rest of her team as they all went to their leader.
"No kidding, I wonder if you've learned anything from this experience though." Rival responds before looking back over at the female musician.
"Maybe I did, Maybe I didn't, that's for you to figure out~" Ciara jokes around once again, this causes the two of them to laugh softly in unison.
"Hahaha, You're definitely quite the person, hopefully you continue to be who you are right now." Rival says before taking a step back.
"I will, now you can send me out of this game!" Ciara exclaims, Rival then nods before the Chain of Shame comes flying out of the forest. The collar of it then clamps itself shut around Ciara's neck but she simply looked down at the pink locket she had on her and closed his eyes while gripping it. Right before she's pulled away into the forest she is able to think of her final words while holding her locket, "Michelle...I'm coming home."
After thinking this, she was lifted off the ground and dragged through the forest with ease by the long chain which had dragged her recklessly around the forest. Despite this she was able to not crash into any trees but she was still dragged into the darkness of the night peacefully considering the situation she had found herself in. Once the chain disappeared with Ciara, The Five Souls who were now down to four members all looked at each other and Jared had finally regained his consciousness once again.
"I really need to toughen up." Jared says, which his team agrees with and they all nod.
"Hopefully all of you will be prepared for what's going to happen tomorrow, because each of you is going to need all the time you all can have to be ready for what will happen." Rival decides to warn The Five Sous.
"What's going to happen tomorrow?" Miriam asks for her team.
"...You'll see~" Rival doesn't answer her question and instead he walks off while Adrian watches everyone in the background.
"He's not wrong about the preparation so, I wish you all the best of luck." Adrian adds onto what the host had said and he walked away from them soon afterwards.
"Looks like we will all have our work cut out for us tomorrow." Kyle confirms to the rest of his team.
"Indeed we will, but I'm sure we will succeed with whatever challenge they throw at us!" Lia declares for the rest of her team.
"You're so naïve." Miriam points out which makes Lia giggle a little.
"..." Jared looks down and begins thinking about the warning he and his team were given, currently he tried figuring out what kind of challenge could possibly be worth warning them about. But eventually he stood up and looked at the remaining members of his team who looked over at him, he simply nodded at them and they returned the favor. The Five Souls start walking back to their cabin soon after and rather than the usual outro being played, the picture from the very beginning of the season descends slowly onto the ground.
The camera focuses on the picture which had everyone on it: Jun, Miriam, Chloe, Kennedy, Jackie, Evan, Ingrid, Jared, Vince, Lia, Hannah, Alex, Fergy, Brooke, Leo, Kyle, Li, Sunny, Rainy, Rae, and Ciara. The picture had gone into the fire however and slowly began to burn before a torch with Ciara's name on it was seen being thrown into the fire, making it even bigger. Eventually the picture had turned into nothing but ashes and the camera transitions to the title card by slowly having the fire form the words-
Total Drama: Move Along
Remaining Contestants:
The K-Shida's: Sunny, Leo, Alex and Evan.
The Losers Team: Jun, Ingrid, Chloe, and Hannah.
The Five Souls: Jared, Lia, Kyle, and Miriam.
Eliminated Contestants:
Eliminated: Kennedy (1st), Li (2nd), Vince (3rd), Jackie (4th), Brooke (5th), Rae (6th), Fergy (7th), Rainy (8th), and Ciara (9th).
Elimination Preventing Objects:
The Hidden Safety Necklace: Played by Fergy
The Hidden Invincibility Statue: ?
The Hidden Immunity Idol: ?
After over a month of waiting, I've finally posted the next chapter which took much longer than I expected but I hope it was worth the wait, so I hope you all enjoy this 23K+ words long chapter/episode. Now I shall apologize to Gucci Mane LaFlare for eliminating Ciara Yates, even though I did enjoy writing her thanks to her purvey nature and the fact that she was genuinely a good person which actually made me sort of want to keep her around until the merge since while she was never going to win she always felt like she had a good position in the game with not being seen as much of a threat or too weak. However the main reason for her elimination is because it makes sense in the story's context and it actually works thematically considering that the last two eliminated characters were Fergy and Rainy who both went out the way they wanted and did it for selfless reasons, so having Ciara do the same made sense and this was one of the better ways I could eliminate her. In fact this fit so well that it changed my original plan to have Jun Kamoshida get eliminated since while this is Total Drama fanfiction and needs to be unpredictable at times to keep readers guessing, this is a story first and foremost and so making this the best story it can be is my true goal which is why I chose to eliminate Ciara, and besides, sometimes the best way to be unpredictable is by being predictable at times.
Obviously people have been guessing Ciara's elimination for a while now so I hope you all enjoyed it in one way or another, For me this is probably tied with Fergy's elimination for my most favorite elimination and I personally really liked it but I'd like to hear your takes also.
Here's the link to my Discord Server: discord . gg / MJ8qF9v (Without the spaces, of course) The server is called "Time, Fire, and War"
Now this episode's challenge was a running challenge which was inevitable to happen considering the fact that I've always had one in my previous stories and so having it here was going to be a guaranteed, I also mixed in a little vehicle action to make things temporarily more exciting considering the fact that there were a lot of talking, but hopefully that didn't take away too much from the challenge itself.
Now, here's my Question of the Day!:
(For the people with OCs): If you've been reading all of this, What has made you wanna keep reading my story?
(For the people without OCs): Do you think you have an idea on what kind of challenge Rival could be warning The Five Souls about?
This has officially been my first chapter of 2021! It definitely took a while but this season's almost halfway done so thank you all for sticking with me so far! Also this story is officially one year old...boy has time passed so quickly but not quickly enough, now I wish you all a great year and hope that you all will be able to make the best of the year even if it's bad! Once again, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and now I'll end it with the two words I always use-
PEACE OUT!
