Artamis9: I'm glad that my stories can brighten other people's days, honestly that's been my intentions with most of his first-half of the story since I want people to feel happy and to brighten other people's days with these stories, character flaws are also very important to characters so I agree there.
gamergirl101: Jun is back indeed, unfortunately for the rest of the contestants. Although admittingly the BTS song I used was actually decent.
Musical Essence of Runa: Oh, well this is quite the pleasant surprise. Nice to see someone who doesn't have an OC in this story A.K.A. someone from Candela's server who actually decided to randomly binge this story.
Honestly writing Ciara was kind of fun for me to do and although I didn't always write her in a compelling way, at least you enjoyed her when it mattered most...when she was eliminated. I'm not surprised by Fergy being a favorite character of yours but I'm surprised by Jackie being one. Yeeeah, I've definitely been hurting Miriam quite frequently as of late which I didn't notice until it was brought to my attention, she's very tough for dealing with all that for sure! We'll see if any of your theories prove to be true here.
Nobody245: Well I'm happy to announce that this is exactly the second to last episode before the merge begins and so you'll witness the confirmed cast so far on who's making it to the second-half of this season.
The leaders have also indeed started to lose it, although Jared hurt himself more for other people's well-being so while what he did wasn't smart you could see why his team didn't exactly take advantage of this in the moment. I'm REALLY glad you notice the details which goes into the characters and their interactions with one another, honestly the character interactions have always been a primary focus in my stories and it's nice to see you pay attention to the fact that I make sure to have every character have more sides to them than meets the eye. And yeah, I'm definitely planning to finish this story even if it's been a year, but hey, at least we've made it to the halfway point within that year! I'm glad to see you'll keep reading this story even if Evan's eliminated, honestly I am always worried on which characters I'll eliminate since I know there's some people who only read for their OCs and stop reading once they're gone and so I try my best to get them attached to other characters, but still I'm glad to see you'll keep leaving more reviews!
Gucci Mane LaFlare: I'm glad to hear I wrote Ciara well.
Candela Monsoon: You forgot to mention Jared again, that aside I'm glad to see that Ciara grew on you over time, she really was a fun character for me to write. Like with Runa's list, we'll wait and see if your predictions on who'll make it will be correct.
Sephiria Arks: Typing while reading? I call that a "live reaction".
Poor Miriam indeed, although you're probably going to be glad to know that this episode has pumped up the danger in its fights. Jared is definitely struggling in his own way, Jun lives in his own reality, and the Sunny hatred continues.
Like usual, let's get straight into the chapter!
"Well, it was disappointing being eliminated first, but watch out, even only after one day, this island is full of my... surprises." Kennedy's voice is heard speaking while the screen shows her disappearing in a cloud of smoke (Episode 2).
"I hope you do, because he DESERVES elimination at this point!" Li had shouted, he was seen being taken away by the Chain of Shame (Episode 3).
"W-Well, my time here i-is d-done..." Vince confirmed, he too was taken away by the elimination contraption for the season (Episode 4).
"Jackie!" Evan's voice had been heard shouting, reaching out while Jackie was being taken away by the long Chain (Episode 5).
"Well if I had one advice for you...just enjoy your time with him." Brooke had given her advice, however she too had fallen victim to the Chain of Shame (Episode 6).
"Go f*** yourself." Rainy's voice had an echo to it unlike all the other voices, she also had her eyes closed and accepted her elimination with a frown (Episode 7).
'Who could have known that my way to move along in life is by using Neil to help me become the new me would work? Well, I will not change completely, I will be better than who I was before...I will truly become Fergy, I will never be perfect but I can try to be the best me.' Rather than any quotes being heard, Fergy's vote which he wrote to eliminate himself with was shown before it fades to him being dragged into the forest (Episode 8).
"Hey Jared...you were right...I found a way to be happy." Rainy's last thoughts were heard rather than anything she actually said, but just like everyone else who were eliminated and like what she did to Rae, she got eliminated and pulled into the dark forest (Episode 9).
"Michelle...I'm coming home." Lastly, Ciara's voice had been heard and she was dragged by the Chain of Shame after she said goodbye to her team (Episode 10).
"Twenty-one competitors started off the season." Rival confirms, it appeared like a gust of a wind is currently breezing through him.
"Nine of them have been eliminated so far, some of them going out in ways they'd want to." Adrian adds onto what the host had said, walking out from behind a tree to speak.
"Indeed, but in the end everyone came onto this show for the same reason...to win no matter the cost." Rival states towards the camera before looking towards his right and he turns his body to face that direction.
"How much do they want to win? Well this challenge will help us see that because anyone can say that they want it but once we see how physical they'll be when they fight to win, then that's when we see everyone's true colors." Adrian says while looking over at the red-haired guitarist.
"For better or for worse, this'll show us who wants to win the most." Rival responds, closing his eyes after saying this and the wind from earlier seemed to not have been coming from the sky but rather from something right in front of the host.
"Yeah and now I'll go get the rest of the contestants so they can all prepare themselves for what will be the most physical challenge yet." Adrian states, walking away which left Rival to smirk at the camera and he looks at it.
"He ain't wrong about that, because this challenge will be the final one before the merge and so we'd like for everyone to go out with a bang, however in this challenge one person will experience their...Final Reckoning." Rival says before he looks back at the thing in front of him which seemed to be a portal, it appeared that the wind actually came from the portal which had a small vacuum-like suck to it. He then steps through the portal and the next thing the camera sees is a giant colosseum which had a bunch of weapons inside of it, the weapons ranged from a broken toilet tank lid, to a stick that had some electricity surrounding it, and it even had a violin-shaped guitar on the ground. After the camera showed all of this, Rival looked over at a seemingly random spot in the ground with a frown before looking over at three portals which open up and the camera zooms out to show off the giant colosseum.
"Jun shall step through the portal since his team might be going to a place with an audience and so-" An arrogant voice had been heard coming from the portal in the middle of the other two.
"Nope! I'm going in first!" An anxious female voice interrupts his voice, going straight through the portal afterwards and she steps out to introduce herself.
"It's nice to be in front of an audience once again! Now-!" Chloe begins announcing before she opens her eyes and realizes that they weren't exactly in front of an audience.
"Jun does not appreciate you not listening to his gospel words." Jun comments while walking through the portal, the rest of The Losers Team then steps out the portal.
"Th-This place looks in-intimidating." Ingrid nervously comments, checking out the colosseum and she began hiding behind Hannah.
"...You're right to be intimidated by this place, because from the look of things, this won't end well." Hannah responds before her eyes landed on Rival, there were some sweat drops running down her head now.
"Perhaps we should let Leo take the lead for this, just so we can help boost his confidence more?" A voice came from the portal on the far left side of the place, meanwhile the portal behind The Losers Team slowly gets smaller until it's gone.
"I see, we let him lead the way so he can feel more confident about his abilities in the game, even the most minor of things can affect a pawn's feelings after all, especially one that could potentially grow to be a rook." Another voice which had a more obvious speaker to it had been heard responding.
"We already know you probably played chess with your dad a lot but would you mind not referring to people like they're just chess pieces?" The voice of another member of this team had been heard, however one of the members of the team had already stepped through the portal.
"This doesn't look like bullfighting, so that's relieving." Leo observed the place after noticing they weren't in a bull ring.
"Wait you already went through?!" Alex loudly asks after he too went through the portal and looked at his teammate.
"I'd do the same thing if there were any pointless fighting going on, if it's pointless then there's no reason to concern yourself with it after all." Sunny responds, exiting the portal before looking around.
"Let's just take a look around here and see what the challenge could be." Evan comments, immediately noticing that the colosseum had a completely flat ground and that the ground was all dry sand which had small rocks on them.
"From what the co-host told us, it looks like this will be the answer to what Rival wanted to warn us about." Jared's voice was heard coming from the portal on the far right, meanwhile the portal behind The K-Shida's had closed.
"Not sure what will happen, but I'm sure with all of us we should be able to get through it!" Lia sounded optimistic like always and sounded like she tried firing up her team.
"You're way too optimistic for a challenge Rival warned us about, but still our best game plan will be to definitely work with each other so we don't lose once more." Miriam responds to the comments made by her overly-optimistic teammate.
"That doesn't sound like much of a plan, but that just makes it easier for me to get behind." Kyle comments before he was the first member of his team to step through the portal.
"Shame this ain't a baseball stadium." Kyle says the first thing on his mind after identifying the place they're in.
"I doubt they'd bring back the same challenge two times in a single season." Miriam responds after she too stepped through the portal.
"Well I wouldn't mind doing the baseball one again, also I've just now realized the fact that portals exist." Lia abruptly remembers before she looks at the portal.
"Knowing this show and the fact that previous seasons have had stuff like mutated animals, a volcano eruption, a mechanical island, and other stuff makes portals seem like a logical next step." Jared explains while walking through the portal, after this, the portal behind them closes.
"Glad to see Adrian didn't let me down this time, because today's challenge is very important for each and every one of you." Rival begins speaking, this gets everyone's attention and they all look at the host.
"Of course I wouldn't mess up badly, I'm not you." Adrian's voice had been heard coming from a portal which opens up by the host, he then walks through the portal and stands by the host.
"Idiotic comments from an idiotic man aside, Does anyone here know what this challenge is called?" Rival questions, one of the contestants immediately raised their hand to answer it.
"This is...The Final Reckoning, isn't it?" Hannah asks, putting down her hand after asking this question.
"Indeed it is, The Final Reckoning is in fact so important that it's bolded every time we say its name this episode." Rival remarks before slowly looking at the camera once again.
"Fourth wall breaking antics aside, the basic gist of this challenge is that everyone will be in one big fight!" Adrian decides to become the temporary main-host.
"F-F-Fighting?!" Ingrid loudly asks with widened eyes.
"Indeed, however luckily for everyone here you all won't have to fight each other." Rival confirms, this causes a mixed reaction from everyone.
"Who are we supposed to be fighting then?!" Miriam decides to ask, she was clearly upset about not being able to get her revenge on Jun.
"I'll be watching from the sidelines whenever you all need me to help out, just yell out my name and I'll assist you all one time." Adrian randomly says before he starts walking away from everyone. This caused a look of confusion from most of the contestants and Adrian looked back over at Rival before he looked ahead of himself once more and went over to the edge of the colosseum.
"If we're not facing each other or him, then that means-" Alex slowly starts piecing the situation together.
"Yep, you're all going to try and take me out!" Rival announces with a grin on his face.
"You must be very messed up in the head if you think your lightning bolt gimmick is enough to defeat all of us." Sunny remarks, smirking while looking over at the host.
"Maybe I am, but I'm sure you're all going to find this challenge to be tougher than you all assume it to be." Rival responds, taking off his jacket after saying this and he seemed to lack quite a bit of muscle.
"So do we just keep fighting you until you're too weak to continue fighting?" Hannah questions and unlike everyone else she begins walking around the place and looking at the weapons all around it, it's as if she's preparing for the battle already.
"That or you all can pin me until the count of three, but for this battle we're going with the first option." Rival says while looking up at the skies which started to be filled with dark clouds.
"Are there any other rules for this?" Leo asks, knowing that there's usually a bunch of rules when it comes to fights on TV shows.
"Nope, so everyone...HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT!" Rival shouts before he looks over at the remaining twelve contestants for the season, soon enough that number will be dwindled down to eleven. The remaining contestants all looked at each other before each of them looked back at their current opponent who they all needed to defeat. Meanwhile, the skies continued to turn to black while Alex Jones, Chloe Broderick, Evan Herbert, Hannah Jordan, Ingrid Glenmarie, Jun Kamoshida, Jared Monuel, Kahlin Mora, Leon Salvatore, Lia Clemins, Miriam Hakimi, and Sunny Persnisky all looked at Rival Survival and prepared themselves for the final battle before merge.
Linkin Park-Roads Untraveled
"Weep not for roads untraveled."
Evan walks down a random road while wearing a police hat and dragging a prosthetic leg alongside him.
"Weep not for paths left lone."
Alex looks over at his teammate before he opens his mouth to speak.
"'Cause beyond every bend,"
Leo and Sunny run right past Alex and the two of them look ahead with looks of determination on each of their faces.
"Is a long blinding end,"
Oddly enough, Leo is seen holding a piece of crimson hair in his hand while rain began falling all over Sunny.
"It's the worst kind of pain I've known."
Hannah looks over at all of them before looking behind her with some blood on her right hand, plus she has a flute in her left.
*Song Skip*
"Weep not for roads untraveled."
She tosses the flute over to Chloe who had a ton of blood all over her clothes while Ingrid stood beside her and looked behind them.
"Weep not for sights unseen."
Jared is seen walking the opposite direction of everyone else while he had a bunch of scratches and bruises all over him.
"May your love never end,"
Lia's head began shaking very frequently, it was like she tried controlling herself as she tried walking towards Jared.
"And if you need a friend,"
Jun and Miriam run past the two of them before the two of them clash with one another using their shoulders.
"There is a seat here alongside me."
Kyle watches everything all the way from the back before he picks up an acoustic guitar which he carries with him.
"Whoooooooa!"
The road slowly started to crack but no one noticed and instead everyone continued doing their usual stuff with each other, not minding or caring much about the collapsing road below them.
"Whoooooooa!"
Portals began opening up on the road and suddenly the Chain of Shame came out of one of them.
"Whooooooo-Whooooooo-Whooooooo-Whoooooooa!"
Kyle looks behind him and notices the Chain of Shame while flashes of Kennedy, Li, Vince, Jackie, Brooke, Rae, Fergy, Rainy, and Ciara quickly show on the screen.
"Whooooa-Whoooooa!"
The baseball player moved out the way of the chain and it began attempting to clamp itself around everyone one by one.
"Whooooooo-Whooooooo-Whooooooo-Whoooooooa!"
Jared noticed the cracks in the road, but he was too late to warn everyone about it before the road finally fell apart and the remaining twelve contestants started falling down where the road used to be.
"Whooooa-Whoooooa!"
The Chain of Shame went down and the screen quickly turns black while the contraption is heard clamping itself around a contestant's neck. After the sound is heard, it slowly begins showing the title card-
Total Drama: Move Along
Episode 11: The Reckoning
"I'll go take him down for what he did in the first challenge!" Chloe declares without giving anyone else a chance to respond, she immediately starts running towards the host after saying this.
"C-Chloe! W-Wait for u-us!" Ingrid tries convincing her friend otherwise, but Chloe continues running and she picks up a flute whilst going towards her intended target.
"Never take the spotlight away from me!" Chloe shouts before she jumps in the air and swings the flute down at Rival. She slowly begins imagining Rival turning into Fergy and since her flute was above her she tries using her leg to kick her opponent if she missed. However he slides out of the way before her hit with the flute could connect and the punk drummer stumbles a bit upon landing on the ground.
"Sorry but I'm not like Fergy." Rival states, Chloe then looks over at him and throws the flute at him.
"Well, you're going to be knocked out like he was!" Chloe remarked, immediately charging at the guitarist once more after saying her remark.
"Thanks for the weapon." Rival simply comments after he catches the flute and he throws it right back at the drummer. She's able to move her head right out the way and the flute barely misses her face which causes her eyes to get more narrow and she starts running faster. Swiftly she pulls some sticks out of her pockets and attempts to hit him in the face with her left hand, he uses both hands to grab her wrist and stop her from doing this.
"Gotcha!" Chloe thinks to herself before swinging her right arm and tries stabbing his stomach.
"WAPOW!" Rival shouts while kicking Chloe in her stomach and the kick sends her flying away from him and she rolls on the ground due to the impact of it. She grips her mid-section after getting kicked but she stares at her current opponent, this motivates her enough to get onto her feet. But, Rival walked over to the sticks she dropped on the ground before stepping on both of them and they broke into tiny pieces.
"Hey, I'm pretty sure you're going to need some he-!" Kyle begins shouting while keeping his mellow posture.
"NO! This is my chance to redeem my losses against you, and I'll do it by KICKING HIS A-!" Chloe starts loudly declaring, looking at Kyle while pointing at Rival before she looks back at her opponent. Next thing she knows, he's jumping into the air and quickly delivers a kick to her face and he does this too quickly for her to react. The kick sends her flying through the air and even does a few flips before rolling towards the wall of the colosseum, which is where she stopped thanks to the wall in the fighting arena.
"Who's next?" Rival asks after doing a backflip and he lands on the ground afterwards, looking at the rest of the contestants with a smile on his face. After asking the question, he decides to taunt everyone by gently dusting off his shoulders and he soon begins stretching out. However, Chloe punches the ground and she gets on her foot before once again charging to her opponent but this time he had his back turned to her.
"I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOUUU!" Chloe had loudly given away her position and ruined her chance of catching her opponent by surprise. Rival chuckled and he kept his back turned to the drummer even while she ran closer and closer to him, he even closed his eyes and impatiently started tapping her foot. Chloe then jumps towards him, but she is caught by a kick in the face from Rival as he did a backflip in the air.
"Pele Kick!" Rival shouts, after he finishes the move he lands on all fours and the kick had caused Chloe to crash into the ground. Her eyes closed soon after this happened and she clutched her head, there already had been a scratch mark on her head and she began rolling away in order to recover from the damage already done to her. Rival got onto his feet once again and he looked around at everyone else to see who was going to go at him this time.
"Of course she wouldn't be good enough to win the battle, however it appears that it's time for Jun to show off how amazing he truly is." Jun says, slowly walking towards Rival while smirking at him.
"Halt God! How about I give you some electric powers deserving of such a being?~" Rival asks, this causes Jun to stop walking and he picks up some nearby shades on the ground before putting them on.
"God is listening." Jun says while everyone else simply watched and waited in anticipation to see what was going to happen next, especially Miriam. Rival raised his right arm into the air and some thunder came from the sky, luckily for Chloe she had been too hurt to be scared of the thunder going on in the clouds. Unluckily for Jun, he just stood there and slowly started looking towards the sky while slowly moving his shades so he could get a clear view of the cloudy skies.
"Well God, let's see if you'll enjoy being struck down~" Rival states before bringing down his right hand and in a blink of an eye, a lightning bolt comes out of the clouds. It then strikes Jun and causes him to violently shake with electricity now surrounding him and he is currently too shaken to say anything. He slowly looked over at the host before collapsing on the ground and twitching due to the fact that the electricity was still shocking him.
"THANK YOU!" Miriam cheered while smiling more than she ever did this season.
"We're going to have our work cut out for us." Kyle confirms with a baseball in his hand, he then uses his right arm and throws it at their opponent. Rival catches the baseball and it keeps spinning in his hand, he grits his teeth since it has hurt him and so he throws it right back at the baseball player. Kyle moved out the way of the baseball before watching Rival shake his right hand.
"Let's all charge in!" Alex loudly says before looking over at The Five Souls, four of which were actually present since one of their members had gone home.
"Oh right! I should've mentioned that this challenge is a free-for-all and that the person who knocks me out, will decide the person who will be eliminated!" Rival decided to just now tell everyone else about something he should've told all of them earlier.
"I'll go knock him out right-!" Sunny started declaring, but Evan grabs his shoulders and pulls him back towards them.
"Hey! We need to all work together to take him out!" Evan loudly states before Sunny groans and crosses his arms.
"Fine, What's the attack plan?" Sunny asks, Evan lets him go and he goes up to the-guy-with-no-stereotype.
"That's what we got to ask the other-" Alex starts explaining, but he's cut off by a familiar sound.
Click.
"...Son of a-" Alex began speaking, closing his eyes after hearing this sound and immediately preparing himself for what's going to happen next. Leo and Sunny already had started to run away while Evan tries running towards his teammate, but he's unable to reach his friend in time.
BOOM!
The explosion goes off underground and it sends Alex crashing into the wall of The Final Reckoning and he causes a massive dent in it before falling onto the ground. Sunny and Leo had just been able to move out of the way of the explosion, but some of the rocks had fallen onto them and they did get dirty due to the aftermath of the explosion. Evan had reduced the amount of damage the underground mine had done to him by putting his arms in front of his face and he slowly removed them.
"Aleeex!" Evan shouts after seeing what happened to his former teammate, he then lands on his feet alongside Sunny and Leo.
"I-I don't think he's g-getting up from that." Leo comments before slowly looking at the ground.
"Knowing him, yeah he ain't getting up from an explosion like that, so it looks like it's just down to us." Sunny confirms before looking over at the two other contestants beside him.
"Are you two okay?" Lia is seen asking after her, Miriam, Kyle, and Jared reached the three contestants.
"I take it that I'm the one excluded from the question?" Sunny automatically identifies who her question was for.
"Well considering what you've done, it's the least she can do." Kyle responds, staring into the eyes of his former teammate.
"Look, I know there's some tension between some of us but let's try focusing on taking down Rival!" Miriam tries getting everyone back on track.
"She's right, we can't bicker right now and instead we should all try taking down our common enemy at this very moment!" Leo says, raising his voice, this caused everyone to look at him.
"That sounds like a good idea, so I'll try my best to come up with the perfect execution." Jared promises everyone else around him, Sunny raises an eyebrow but reluctantly nods.
"Okay then, got any ideas right now?" Sunny asks the pessimistic perfectionist while Hannah and Ingrid ran up to them.
"Luckily I've had some time to think up some plans so the best one I've got is to have the none-fighters like me, Lia, Ingrid, and Hannah try to help out in the battle by being distractions, meanwhile Kyle and Evan can attack from afar, which leaves you, Miriam, and Leo with dealing with Rival in hand-to-hand combat." Jared explains, everyone else looked at each other.
"Sounds like a good plan, let's hurry up and execute it before Rival gets too impatient." Hannah responds, pointing at the host while he impatiently taps his foot even more.
"Come oooon!" Rival taunts everyone before each of them nodded and got into the roles which Jared had assigned to each of them. Kyle and Evan had both run away from their target, Kyle picks up the baseball from earlier while Evan slowly picks up a gun nearby which he shakily begins lifting up. Meanwhile, Sunny, Miriam, and Leo all were running towards the red-haired opponent and Sunny had reached him first.
"I've been waiting a long time to do THIS!" Sunny shouts before he attempts to punch the host, but he moves his head out of the way before kicking him between the legs. This causes him to stop his punch and he tightly grabs onto Rival's shoulders, whimpering in pain after having this happen to him.
"Keep waiting~" Rival remarks, however Sunny then tightens his grip onto the guitarist's shoulders and headbutts him before moving out of the way. This headbutt causes Rival to stumble away and he is suddenly struck in the face with a punch by the lionheart brawler. After being nailed with this punch, Rival is sent flying through the air and after falling near the ground, he is met with a kick to the back.
"Make a pun out of this!" Miriam shouts, Rival is sent rolling on the ground and he grabs his back before getting right back onto his feet. Before he could do anything, he's hit in the stomach by a baseball which had been thrown by Kyle and the impact causes him to actually be sent into the wall of the colosseum. Slowly but surely every hit which was being landed on him was actually affecting him.
"L-Looks like I've gotten in o-over my h-head." Rival comments before standing on his two feet once more, however he is now notably more wiggly in his movements. Evan looks at the gun in his hand once again and still shakes while holding it, but he looks over at Rival and slowly begins raising his gun and starts to look at it. It appeared to have been a pistol, specifically a Beretta 92FS and he closes his eyes.
"In order to be an officer, I need to help out no matter what!" Evan convinces himself in his mind before opening his eyes once again and he fires the pistol. A bullet came flying out of it and the bullet was a 9mm one, despite it being shot from a relatively far distance it was able to reach its intended target. This bullet goes through Rival's left shoulder and he immediately feels the pain of the shot.
"AGH! T-THAT H-HURTS!" Rival shouts in pain, he looks over at the area which the bullet had gone through, the bullet had stopped in the wall of the colosseum. Sunny quickly takes advantage of this and he goes up to the host before pummeling him with a bunch of punches to his face and he holds him up by his shirt. Punch after punch, Rival's eyes had started to close more and more and his teeth even started flying out of his mouth.
"NEVER! STOP! UNTIL! HE'S! DOWN!" Sunny shouted in between punches and showed no signs of stopping, this aggression caused everyone to look on with regret about what they were doing.
"Hey Sunny, maybe you might want to calm down now-" Leo tries to convince the delinquent to calm down, but he ignored him completely and even slammed the red-haired guitarist against the wall.
"G-GAH!" Rival shouts in pain before he starts coughing, he then glares at the person who is currently beating him up. His mouth began leaking blood out of it, even his body seemed to be completely limp but his head is still somehow moving around despite it being the main target of the punches. Before he could do anything else he is punched in the face once again and the punch causes his head to crash into the wall.
"Where's that cocky guy who thought he could take on all of us?! Where's that guy who kept being biased against me and acted like he could beat me up?! Where's that guy that would've actually provided a challenge for us?!" Sunny decides to verbally put down Rival before he lifts him into the air and slams him into the ground.
"U-Ugh..." Rival groans after taking quite the beating already, Adrian watches all of this go down and keeps a straight face since it seems like he is expecting something to happen. But everyone else simply watched the beatdown happening in front of their eyes and Sunny once again had lifted up the host by his shirt. He stares at all the pain he's inflicted on him before looking at the ground, but he quickly looks at his opponent's face once again.
"You look like you've got a sister, so I wonder what's she would think of you right now~" Sunny taunts him before clenching his right fist and he pulls it back. Rival's eye color changes from red and turns into a more lifeless color...grey. Right as Sunny goes to punch his stomach, his punch goes straight through his stomach but his eyes widened since he didn't feel like he's punching anything, so he looks down and sees that Rival's stomach was...glitching?
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Suddenly, Rival's appearance completely changes and his hair suddenly begins turning into a darker shade of itself and an white ahoge is seen right on top of his hair. There were green ribbons hanging off each side of his hair, plus he wore a jacket once again but it wasn't the same black leather one he wore earlier. Instead his clothing consisted of a black coat which had white fur on top of it, a white shirt under that, and black pants which went down to his red shoes.
"W-What a-are y-you?" Sunny asks after seeing Rival change into someone completely different.
"...You'll see~" He responds before glitching through Sunny and this makes him stop completely to comprehend what's just happened.
"I-I have so m-many q-questions!" Sunny loudly says, not noticing Rival picks up a nearby broken-in-half toilet tank lid which he swings down at his head.
"WATCH OUT!" Leo loudly warns the delinquent, this immediately gets his focus back on the battle and he rolled out the way right before the lid could hit him. After almost getting hit, Sunny gets back onto his feet but notices Kyle and Evan look over at him. They basically signaled him to get out of the way and so he ran away from his opponent.
"Gotta aim for the head." Kyle thinks to himself before taking a step forward and he goes to throw the baseball, however he suddenly is caught off guard by a hand which wraps itself around his neck.
"Strike~" He heard the voice say before he's lifted into the air and slammed into the ground and the impact of the slam caused a crater which was twice his size. The slam also had caused Kyle's eyes to close and he fell unconscious while Rival stood up after slamming him into the ground the way he did. Evan jumps in reaction to this, he then goes to aim his gun right at Rival in an attempt to get him down, however he suddenly feels a hand wrapped around his wrist.
"I don't think so!" Evan shouts before pulling his wrist out of his opponent's grip and the gun is sent flying into the air. But Rival quickly jumped off the officer-in-training and he jumps into the air and grabs the gun before looking down and he aims the gun directly for his head. A gasp escaped Evan's mouth and he was able to move out the way before the bullet could land it's shot, however it had graced his cheek and caused a big cut on it.
"Impressive, you avoided your death for now~" Rival says after landing on the ground, but Evan picked up a bow nearby which had a pack of arrows nearby it. Rival aims his gun at his intended target before immediately firing the bullet which Evan spins out of the way of before it could hit him once again, he then jumps into the air while continuing to spin. He pulls the arrow backwards in an attempt to make his next shot unpredictable.
"Ready, Aim, FIRE!" Evan shouts in his mind before releasing the bow and the arrow flies towards it's target at an impressively fast pace to the point that fire has started to surround it. Reacting quickly to this like he's been doing this entire time, Rival jumps over the arrow but he also grabs it while in the air before spinning around in the air. A wide smile appeared in his face before the fire on the arrow intensified and he threw the arrow right back in the direction it had come from.
"Ready, Aim, FIRE!" Rival shouts with a sadistically wide smile on his face, due to the fact that he'd just landed back on the ground and how quickly his own attack had been turned against him, Evan couldn't counter this. This leads to the arrow hitting its target and he falls onto his back afterwards with the camera obscuring where exactly the arrow had hit him. Suddenly the host feels someone grab his feet and he looks down at the person who had done this.
"H-How DARE you h-hurt E-Evan?!" It was Alex, he slowly started getting onto his feet and his pain from earlier slowly began to subside. Slowly but surely he started getting back on his feet despite the explosion from earlier and Rival simply laughed at him before grabbing him by his hair, getting him back onto his feet completely in the process. Another thing to note was that Alex's glasses had cracks on them.
"And what makes you think that you can avenge him?~ The power of friendship?~" Rival asks before laughing right at his opponent.
"Y-You assume too much." Alex simply responds, he then kicks Rival right in his groins and the hit causes the host to let go of him. After dropping the person he'd underestimated, he's met with a punch to the stomach by Leo who lifts him into the air after connecting with this punch.
"GAH!" Rival shouts in pain before Miriam is seen jumping into the air and she delivers a kick to his face which sends the host falling back to the ground and he rolled on the ground. Leo then sighs in relief before looking over at the fiery dancer who had safely landed on the ground.
"Word of advice: NEVER forget about m-!" Miriam began speaking while looking down at the seemingly knocked out host.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
A vehicle is heard behind the dancer and she turns around to look at the oncoming vehicle, but she really had no time to react to it. Immediately her body brutally clashed with the vehicle in question, it was a red Koenigsegg Agera R and luckily it hadn't been going at its full speed but it still had been going pretty quickly. Her body slides over the car and her back goes against the window of it while it still gets driven and her eyes closed due to this. Eventually her body rolled off the car and lay motionless on the ground after rolling a bit before the car had eventually stopped in its tracks. Leo's eyes completely widened upon seeing someone get run over right in front of him and he sees Rival exiting the car with the same different look he still had.
"Shame that my need for speed was limited inside this place." Rival jokingly says, completely ignoring what he had just done and not really minding it at all.
"Y-You're i-insane! YOU JUST RAN OVER A PERSON!" Leo shouts, this causes Rival to laugh even more and red swirls begin to form in his eyes somehow.
"I don't care, because let's just say I'm a little...TWISTED~" Twisted Rival vaguely explains while the other him which had been seen getting knocked out had glitched out of existence.
"Sunny!" Jared calls out, and right on cue Sunny runs towards the host with a black steel chair in his hand which he tries hitting the host with. But his swings go through the intended target due to him glitching through the attack once more before his body reforms after Sunny had completely gone through him. The delinquent tries swinging the chair behind him, but his attempt is caught.
"Nice try~" Twisted Rival comments, however Sunny lets go of the chair and lets himself fall onto the ground which catches the host off-guard for a bit. However, this small window of opening allowed Leo to run towards their opponent and he tackles him to the ground which caused him to let go of the chair and it falls right by the two of them. Leo immediately goes to punch the newly-sadistic host.
SLAP!
But his attempt is stopped by a slap across his face and Leo completely freezes up due to this slap which made him start shaking up. Twisted Rival raises an eyebrow upon realizing something, he then chuckles before rolling out of the brawler's grasp and he stands on his feet with a confident smile on his face, his teeth had even turned sharp and completely inhuman. Despite only a slap being delivered to him, Leo is already shaking and looking down at the ground.
"That's right, I forgot just HOW WEAK YOU REALLY ARE!" Twisted Rival shouts, walking away before starting to charge towards his newfound target.
"TAKE THIS!" Sunny yells out and he slams the steel chair from earlier against the host and the chair immediately breaks into a bunch of pieces. However, the hit launched Twisted Rival through the air once more and he crashed into the wall of the colosseum before falling onto the ground, his eyes were open but it was clear that this attack had affected him. He drops the remaining pieces of the chair in his hand before looking over at Leo who continues to stare at the ground.
"I-I'm w-weak." Leo had whispered to himself, this caused Sunny to groan and he picked up the brawler by his shirt before turning his head to look at him.
"HEY! I GET IT THAT YOU'RE UPSET ABOUT BEING WEAK! BUT NOW'S THE TIME TO PROVE OTHERWISE GODDAMMIT!" Sunny started to shout at him, Leo's eyes widened and it appears that he's listening to him.
"S-Sunny?" Leo asks.
"THE ONLY REASON I HAD TREATED YOU THE WAY I DID WAS IN THE HOPES THAT YOU COULD LIVE UP TO YOUR POTENTIAL! Clearly that backfired since I did enjoy feeling superior a too much, BUT THAT MEANS YOU CAN NOW PROVE THAT YOU CAN LIVE UP TO YOUR POTENTIAL! I DIDN'T GET WHERE I AM NOW BY PUTTING MYSELF DOWN, I WAS TAUGHT BY A FORCEFUL MAN THAT IF YOU WANT TO PROVE YOURSELF THEN YOU BETTER DO SOMETHING!" Sunny continued to passionately yell at his former victim.
"B-But-" Leo tries responding, however he's cut off by a mirror which shatters on his face upon impact. He automatically gets knocked out from this and falls onto the ground unconscious while Sunny watches with some glass shards in him, he quickly pulls them out before staring at the person who caused this. It was Rival and he didn't seem to mind the glass shards stabbed into his body.
"You should've given him a pep-talk long before today ever came, now look at what happened to him...man, if only your sister were here she'd make things much easier for you, after all she's just one of the many pawns to you isn't she?~" Twisted Rival takes some verbal revenge for earlier and he decides to taunt Sunny using the other Persnisky sibling.
"DON'T YOU EVER ASSUME STUFFS ABOUT WHAT I THINK ABOUT MY SISTER!" Sunny shouts, walking up to his opponent with a look of determination and he uses a knife on the ground to cut off his ponytail so it can't be used against him in battle.
"How about you show me why, then?~" Twisted Rival remarks before he's able to dodge the first stab attempt from his opponent, but Sunny goes for a headbutt right afterwards. It's quickly blocked thanks to Twisted Rival grabbing his head and pushing it away from him, this causes the delinquent to stumble away but he keeps his focus on the battle between them. He jumps towards him once more and this time decides to go for a big swing attempt which misses.
"Looks like I'll need to try even harder to get him down." Sunny tries strategizing a plan of attack in his mind, he then moves his upper body away before Twisted Rival could connect with his knee while charging at him. He goes to stab his opponent from behind after he'd miss his attack, but like always the host had a response to this and he picks up some of the sand out of the ground before throwing it in the delinquent's face. Despite being blinded, Sunny held onto his knife and stood his ground.
"D-Damn you for that! Now I'll make sure that you're not escaping this unharmed!" Sunny shouts before slowly opening his eyes even though they were already completely red and weren't ready to be open yet. However, this allowed him to watch Twisted Rival run towards him and he slid on the ground in the hopes to take him off his feet. Luckily for Sunny, his eyes were open enough to see this and so he jumped over right on time and he turned around after jumping over his opponent's attack.
"Looks like I should've used my only clone on you~" Twisted Rival continues to speak, his voice made it sound like he had been enjoying every second of the fighting. He landed on his feet all the while his opponent's eyes slowly started to come back more and more and eventually the sand's effect had finally worn off. But while the delinquent tried getting his eyesight completely back, Twisted Rival had picked up a baseball bat which had a barbed wire wrapped around it.
"Perfect, now he looks like a murderous bastard for sure." Sunny thinks to himself at the visual, he tries looking around for a weapon to use but none of them were near him. Seemingly out of options, he looked back at the host and instead put his arms up and focused specifically on the baseball bat like he had a plan in his mind on what to do about it. This time rather than waiting, Twisted Rival began running towards him and he prepared to swing the bat.
"HOPE YOU'RE READY TO SWALLOW THIS BAT!" Twisted Rival shouts before swinging it at his target, but the person who he intended to hit with it had caught the bat using his hands. Sunny grits his teeth in pain before ripping the baseball bat out of his opponent's hands and he throws it away before closing his fists despite all the pain he's already done to them. Immediately he swings a punch, but it's caught by Twisted Rival who stared at it afterwards before staring into the delinquent's eyes.
"G-Go to h-hell..." Sunny simply says before spitting onto the host's face and he smiled after doing this. Twisted Rival closed his eyes before using his left hand to wipe the spit off his face and he began tightening his grip on the delinquent's left which had been weakened thanks to the damage it had taken to get the baseball bat out of his hand. But even despite not having a weapon with him, the dark red-haired fighter slowly starts crushing his opponent's hand until-
SNAP!
"AHHHHH!" Sunny shouts in pain before his sadistic opponent lets go of his right hand and he falls onto the ground. He clutched his left hand using his right one and continued to scream in pain, he laid face down on the ground and looked like he was trying his very best to hold back his tears. It was obvious that he was too hurt to fight back and he began rolling away which basically took him out of the battle.
"Crap! Sunny was one of our best chances of taking him down since I expected his cruel ways to help him out there, and now that the people who were supposed to battle Rival hand-to-hand have been run over or stabbed through the heart, we're running out of options!" Jared confirms in his mind, slowly, the host then turns his head to look over at the perfectionist.
"Six down, Six more to go~" Twisted Rival confirms with a wide grin, this causes Jared to have a look of confusion on his face.
"Sunny, Miriam, and Leo are down, but he also took out the long-ranged attackers of Evan and Kyle, and before that he took down Jun and Chloe but that would make seven people, which could only mean..." Jared starts putting the pieces together and he looks over at the side of The Final Reckoning and sees that Chloe had gotten onto her feet.
"S-Still A-Alive!" Chloe declares after getting onto her feet and staring down the host once again.
"W-Wait, Ch-Chloe! We've gotta w-work with e-everyone left!" Ingrid tries warning her friend, she looks over at her in response to this.
"..." Chloe remained silent before she looked around the place and noticed that Jun was currently twitching on the ground. Kyle is unconscious inside of a crater. Evan had finished pulling something out of him but fell unconscious once more after doing this. Miriam and Leo are both unconscious far away from each other with glass surrounding their bodies. Lastly she saw that Sunny is quietly screaming in pain while holding onto his right hand with his eyes closed, it looked like he is currently trying to hold back his tears.
"Chl-Chloe?" Ingrid asks once more, the drummer looked back over at her ally before sighing.
"I'll join up with you all!" Chloe reluctantly yells out before she walks over to the only contestants left standing. After reaching everyone else, she noticed that the only people left standing were the ones who didn't seem to have a scratch on them which made it obvious none of them had come into contact with their target yet. Although there was only one exception to this and it was Alex who had stood behind everyone and observed the battle after serving his role as a temporary distraction, unfortunately it didn't work out like he planned it out and so he is devising a new plan in his mind.
"From what he's said earlier, he could only make one clone of his new-self, his lightning ability is really effective but it takes about ten seconds for him to use to attack people, but oddly enough he seems to be glitching which makes no sense and I don't get how that allows him to phase through attacks." Alex had been trying to make sense of all of this in his mind, but he couldn't comprehend how exactly any of this is possible.
"I should've known my plan wasn't perfect, however with everyone left standing relying on me, I must at least try coming up with a good plan to take this so-called 'person' down, Chloe's the only person here who is good with hand-to-hand but her temper gets the better of her more often than not which Kyle exploited and he's unconscious so we don't have anyone to beat him up. I'm too weak to put up a good fight against anyone, Alex got blown up earlier, Ingrid is too much of a pacifist to really hurt anyone, I've yet to see Lia display anything physically that would allow me to force her to battle, which means only Hannah's the person we can rely on." Jared also attempts to use his brains to figure out a way to win this, he then looks over at the heartthrob.
"Sorry, but I'm not sure what to do either except to call for some help from a specific someone." Hannah states before she turns around, Jared blinks before he looks in the same direction as her and the two of them had their eyes on the co-host. Lia's ears twitched and she immediately spotted the two of them looking behind which led to her also looking in the same direction.
"Why are we looking at the co-host?" Lia questions the two of them since she hadn't been paying attention to their conversation.
"My sister has a crush on Rival, so she told me some stuff about him like how Adrian here has an...interesting relationship with him." Hannah explains, Jared then nods at her explanation since it sounded logical.
"Wasn't he just supposed to physically help us in battle?" Chloe asks, she had overheard the three's conversation since she was standing right by them.
"All he said was that he'd assist us just once in this battle, he didn't specify how he'd assist us." Alex points out which made Chloe frown and cross her arms.
"If you say so..." Chloe responds, Hannah then raises her hand.
"ADRIAN GREY!" Hannah shouts, this causes Twisted Rival's eyes to widen and he starts charging towards the group after hearing them.
"I'll try holding him off!" Alex immediately springs into action in an attempt to help out everyone else.
"I'm going to join in also!" Lia exclaims, chasing after her former Loser Team teammate.
"None of you better count me out!" Chloe yells out, she follows the other two and the three of them all charge at their target at once.
"You all better be careful!" Jared shouts in the hopes that none of them gets seriously hurt, he then turns back around and notices Adrian deciding to walk up to him, Hannah, and Ingrid.
"I'm not sure how his glitching ability works but I'm going to need to figure it out right now!" Alex thinks to himself before he notices a tape dispenser on the ground which he picks up while running. He swings down the dispenser, but he's easily dispatched by a simple side step and he's tripped onto the ground since his running position was poor and his strength is still severely lacking. After getting easily taken out and dropping the tape dispenser on the ground, Alex tries getting back onto his feet only for Twisted Rival to jump onto his head and he kicks it down into the ground.
"BWAH!" Alex shouted, but his voice was cut off after his head was stomped into the ground. Twisted Rival then steps away from him after seeing his head stuck in the ground now, he then looks over and sees Chloe passing Lia and she jumps off Alex's back without much remorse shown for the guy. She goes to punch down the host, but he slides back before the hit could connect and this causes her to stumble upon landing on her feet.
"I'll make sure to keep my mouth shut this time!" Chloe states in her mind, completely disregarding the fact that she used another person to get some airtime. After thinking this to herself, she started rushing the host by unloading a series of punches directed for his head which he dodged by simply moving out the way of these punches. He grabs her right arm and sweeps her legs out from below her which only makes it easier for him to throw her over him like he does so.
"FUUUUUUU-!" Chloe yells out before she's slammed into the ground on her back and this causes a crater below her. She grits her teeth and rolls away while clutching her back after getting slammed into the ground so hard and so she takes some time to recover. After dealing with her, Twisted Rival looked behind him and watched Lia run up to him with a look of determination on her face.
"Come at me!" Twisted Rival shouts, Lia picks up a camera nearby and she points it at her opponent's face before she takes a picture of it.
"Okay, I don't know what I was expecting." Lia thinks to herself, she looks back over at Twisted Rival who chuckled before he takes a step forward.
"You know what, I think I'm going to do something special for you~" Twisted Rival states, he continues walking towards the youtuber's direction as she tries coming up with a plan.
"Can you please rephrase that?" Lia remarks after realizing how wrong those words had sounded.
"Never thought you'd be the dirty mind type, but then again you were made by the same person who created Ciara Yates." Twisted Rival says before winking at the camera, breaking the fourth wall once again.
"Were you trying to break the fourth wall? If so then it doesn't work since we're on a reality TV show and we actually exi-" Lia started to point out, but she's cut off by the dark red-haired host wrapping his hands around her neck.
"Hey Jared! How about you stop being a coward and help your girlfriend here?!" Twisted Rival shouts, he then looks over at Lia who he starts to strangle using more and more pressure.
"L-LIA!" Jared shouts upon noticing what is going on in front of his eyes.
"Yeah, just stand there and yell her name rather than stop me right now from strangling her until she's unconscious! Kyahahahaha!" The host sarcastically responds before laughing and smiling, Lia's eyes start closing after enough pressure is applied.
"SCREW YOUUU!" Jared yells before he begins charging at his opponent which left Hannah and Ingrid by themselves as they waited for Adrian to get over to them.
"Excellent~" Twisted Rival remarks, he then drops Lia onto the ground and watches the pessimistic perfectionist run up to him.
"I may not have a plan! But I ain't letting just going to stand and watch Lia get hurt like that!" Jared declares inside his mind, he then noticed a piece of glass on the ground. One of them seemed big enough for him to grab and it looked like the left and right sides of it weren't sharp enough to hurt him too much but it's front and back were indeed sharp. Deciding to bring a weapon to a fight, he picks up the piece of glass along the way using his right hand and starts forming a strategy of attack inside of his mind.
"Looks like you-" Twisted Rival is about to comment, until he notices Jared giving the glass a quick kiss.
"I saw someone else do this, perhaps it could help me out right now!" Jared explains inside his mind to explain the confusion, he then looks back over at his opponent.
"Are going to make a glass out of yourself." Twisted Rival finishes his joke and he grabs the perfectionist's right wrist quite easily.
"Jokes on you, I knew you were going to do that!" Jared states in his mind, he then lightly tosses the glass from his right hand and he grabs it using his left hand. He then attempts to swiftly stab his opponent wherever but a knee comes rising up and it knocks the piece of glass out of his hand. The glass goes flying into the air and Jared watches it land away from the two of them before blinking and slowly looking over at the host who had a wide smile on his face.
"This'll be fun~" Twisted Rival states, his voice suddenly becoming deeper and sounding indescribably inhuman once more.
"...Meep." Jared says before his words are followed up by a headbutt, his opponent lets go of his wrist and Jared is sent flying through the air. He rolls on the ground upon impact like pretty much everyone else has, Rival looks away from him without much hesitation and his attention is now directed towards someone else. This someone else was Lia who had her eyes open enough to watch what just happened.
"J-Jared..." Lia says quietly to herself before she looks down at the ground and her head begins to creepily twitch. Soon afterwards, she closed her eyes and slowly stood up on her two feet, meanwhile Jared had been able to survive the blow he took luckily enough and he started slowly getting on his feet afterwards. He slowly looks over at Lia who had her eyes closed.
"What's s-she doing?" Jared questions in his mind.
"You just fucked up." Red-Eyed Lia states while opening her eyes, her eyes are now red and she clenched her fists. Jared's eyes widened upon seeing this and remained in complete silence upon seeing this, he began stumbling backwards before looking down and beginning to think to himself. There were many questions going through his mind to the point he didn't notice a radio behind him which he accidentally tripped over.
NateWantsToBattle-Monster Inside
*Guitar and Drums instrumentals*
The camera cuts away to Twisted Rival and Red-Eyed Lia running at each other, the two of them staring into each other's eyes. There appeared to be a smile on the main target's face like he wanted this to happen. Meanwhile, the pissed off one of the two of them had a serious look on her face and looked completely ready to rip apart her opponent and take out all her rage on him for hurting Jared the way he did.
"And now I'm scaaared-!"
Right as the two of them made contact with each other, Red-Eyed Lia immediately tries grabbing Twisted Rival's head.
"To even open my mouth,"
Her grab lands and she throws him away from her using his head.
"Because there's something deep inside of me you don't know about."
Despite flying right above the ground, Twisted Rival puts his hands in his pockets before stomping his feet into the ground and stops in his tracks immediately.
"And I wiiish-!"
Before he could do anything else, Red-Eyed Lia picks up the Beretta 92FS before dropping it.
"There was a way you could see,"
There's another gun nearby which she picks up in her arms and she smiled before staring over at her opponent, the gun she has is a Nkm wz.38 FK.
"If I could show maybe I'd know if I'm a man or a beast."
Rather than using a gun to fire however, she easily throws it towards Twisted Rival's direction and it lands on the trigger for the underground mine in front of him and it blows up immediately.
"Just take one look in my eyees,"
However she watches her opponent jump through the explosion which caused his clothes to be torn up quite a bit, his right eye had closed but the satisfied smile on his face remained.
"You'd see right through my disguiise,"
He rolls on the ground upon landing on it and he stands on his feet once he's able to do so.
"She says that when I'm nearbyy,"
But, he's once again on the offense thanks to Red-Eyed Lia who kicks his stomach.
"That she can feel my every mooove!"
She lands her kick before deciding to repeat it once again and she kicks Twisted Rival in the stomach once again.
"When I fell aparrt,"
These kicks cause him to grab his stomach in pain which his opponent takes advantage of by grabbing him by his ahoge.
"Yeah, something changed in my hearrt,"
Red-Eyed Lia lifts him into the air using his ahoge and lets go of it before grabbing his right leg in the air using both her hands.
"As you can tell from these scarrs,"
Twisted Rival's eyes widened but luckily for him, he had a pocket knife which comes flying out his pocket and into his hands, quickly pressing the button to bring the blade out.
"I'm not the man that you knew before!"
He kicks her hands off his legs before swinging it down in an attempt to stab his opponent.
"I found somethiiing that makes me feel alive!"
Unluckily for him, Red-Eyed Lia had already seen the knife and moved out of the way.
"Yet somehow dead inside!"
Swiftly, she picks up a cleavage knife and prepares for the two of them to have a knife battle.
"It makes me feel, It makes me numb at once!"
The two of them paused and stare at each other, both of them start circling each other and making plans on what to do in their messed-up minds.
"It makes no seeense yet it still helps me see!"
Twisted Rival chuckled and this caused Red-Eyed Lia to charge at him without a second thought.
"So am I soon to be,"
Despite her swinging down her cleavage at a fast speed, Twisted Rival had countered this by ducking and slashing her left leg.
"The Monster that I despise!?"
"Ohohoho!" Red-Eyed Lia says, giggling a bit after feeling the slash and she looks behind her.
*Song Stops*
"You may have the size, but you don't have the speed~" Twisted Rival taunts her rather than take the chance to take advantage of the fact that he could've caught his opponent by surprise. It seemed his smile now had more to it than just his sadism, it had a significant amount of smugness behind it which is further established by him laughing at his own joke. Red-Eyed Lia swings her giant knife behind her on her right side and uses her right leg to help her remain standing up since she looked to take advantage of her opponent's own arrogance.
*Song Resumes*
"She think she's miiine,"
Twisted Rival is able to just barely dodge the knife but he feels a gust of wind come from it due to the speed it's swung at.
"She must be out of her miind,"
Swiftly after missing her slash, Red-Eyed Lia tosses the knife into the air before going for an uppercut using her right hand.
"I said, "Get back" but she wants more,"
Not lacking in any speed, Twisted Rival moved to the side of the uppercut before grabbing her left hand.
"Now her body's o-on the flooor!"
Suddenly, he's thrown into the air and crashes into the ground before being able to do anything else.
"I've got this thing in my hearrrt,"
His eye widened at this, soon after he sees a foot which stomps his head and causes a crater below it.
"I have to hiiide,"
Red-Eyed Lia smirks to herself before grabbing him by his hair and starts dragging him.
"It's eating at me from the insiide!"
Twisted Rival thinks fast once again and he catches the cleavage knife from the air.
"Just take one look in my eyees,"
Next thing the enraged Lia knows, she feels a sharp pain in her chest after turning her head to look at the person she's dragging.
"You'd see right through my disguiise,"
She grits her teeth and lets go of the sadistic dark red-head.
"She says that when I'm nearbyy,"
"ADRIAN!" Twisted Rival shouts before ducking.
"That she can feel my every mooove! (FEEL MY EVERY MOOOVE!)"
Red-Eyed Lia's hit in the face with a kick to the face and the kick caused a tooth to be sent flying out her mouth.
"When I fell aparrt,"
The camera pulled out and showed that Adrian had jumped off Twisted Rival in order to nail his kick.
"Yeah, something changed in my hearrt,"
This roundhouse kick sends Red-Eyed Lia flying across the place and she even crashes through The Final Reckoning's wall, she falls onto the back and it's revealed that outside of the place is a desert which she's now in.
"As you can tell from these scarrs,"
Even despite this, she slowly stood on her feet while continuing to feel the pain in her chest.
"I'm not the man that you knew before!"
But she slowly grabs the thing that's causing this pain and rips it out her chest.
"I found somethiiing that makes me feel alive!"
She looked at what was the cause and saw that the source was the same cleavage knife from earlier.
"Yet somehow dead inside!"
Because it'd hurt to pull the object out, Red-Eyed Lia started stumbling and she dropped the knife but somehow remained on her feet.
"It makes me feel, It makes me numb at once!"
In the distance of her eyesight, she notices a figure walking closer and closer to her while dragging something with them.
"It makes no seeense yet it still helps me see!"
In a blink of an eye, the figure glitches in front of Red-Eyed Lia and reveals itself to be Twisted Rival.
"So am I soon to be,"
"Game Over~" He states, a wide sadistic and smug smirk is seen on his face once more.
"The Monster that I despise!?"
Due to her weakened state, Red-Eyed Lia couldn't do much but she tries punching her target.
*Song Skip*
"The Monster that I despise?!"
Before her punch could connect, Twisted Rival is grabbed by someone from behind.
"(Monster that I despise!)"
He turns around and immediately uses his pocket knife to stab them in the stomach, Red-Eyed Lia's eyes widened upon seeing who he did this to.
*Song Ends*
"J-Jared?" Lia asks, her eyes turning back to their natural color. Twisted Rival then pulls the knife out and moves out the way, Jared's body collapses onto the ground in front of the two of them due to this. She falls onto her knees upon seeing him unconscious on the ground and she cradles his body in her arms while tears start to form in her eyes.
"Why do I keep missing the vital spots?!" Twisted Rival says, sounding annoyed at the fact that he didn't actually inflict more pain on the pessimistic perfectionist. He then looks over at Lia who held onto the person who she cared for the deepest out of anyone else.
"I-I'm...I-I'M SORRY JARED!" Lia shouts before her tears fell down her cheeks and started getting all over her friend's unconscious body.
"He'll live, Why the hell are you-?" Twisted Rival started questioning, it seemed that he couldn't emotionally understand the situation presented right in front of him.
"I'M SORRY I COULDN'T PROTECT YOU!" Lia yelled even louder with her eyes closed, it's clear that it didn't matter whether or not Jared was going to die or not, it mattered that she couldn't stop him from getting hurt. She felt horrible about herself and is quite clearly both sad and angry about the fact that she'd been unable to protect the person she deeply cared about and potentially loved. But, Red-Eyed Lia wasn't coming out because even despite feeling anger since the only person she's angry at at this moment, is herself.
"..." Twisted Rival stared at the two in complete silence and he looks down, dropping the pocket knife in his hand and he sees some dust fly past his line of sight. For only just a second, he glitched back to his normal look and briefly tears were seen in his eyes but this didn't last for long. He glitches back to his twisted-looking self and decides to simply leave Lia and Jared by themselves while putting on a fake smile.
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"W-Why'd you h-help h-him?!" Ingrid asks, Adrian is seen walking back over to her and Hannah after playing his role in the fight.
"He agreed that in exchange for all of you receiving help from me however way you all want, he'd get physical help from me if he'd ever needed me to do anything for him, as much as I don't like the guy it sounded like a good way to even things up between you all." Adrian explains himself without much emotion on display.
"That does seem to make a lot of logical sense but I'm surprised he'd let you out of all people to help him out." Hannah responds, leaning against the colosseum's wall since the three of them were there.
"Whether he likes me or not, he knows that I'm a fighter who can do some serious damage." Adrian continues to give an explanation of things for the two contestants.
"Unfortunately it sounds like he's still got a decently functioning brain inside his messed-up head." Hannah remarks before she looks over and notices that Twisted Rival had gone out of the area.
"Yeah well, I definitely didn't expect to see him being this sadistic during the battle and considering that he needed my help in order to defeat Lia's Angry-Mode, he's fighting dirty which is unexpected considering the circumstances." Adrian confirms while looking around at all the unconscious contestants.
"C-Circumstances?" Ingrid asks, she appears to be puzzled by the words of the co-host and so he turns around to face her.
"He only fights this dirty if he's fighting me, yes me and the host have fought a few times but that's besides the point considering that this clearly isn't how Rival normally is." Adrian confirms.
"W-What's he u-usually like?" Ingrid continued to ask questions, albeit nervously.
"I think you should figure that one out for yourself but one thing to note about Rival is that, he's a glitch, this new him which you're all witnessing is one of the side effects of being a glitch, whenever his form changes like this the glitchy part of him randomly amplified parts of his personality traits to the extreme and I'm going to assume that this form of his is an extreme version of his murderous and sadistic ways which is only rivaled by a time in his past when he did some...fucked up stuff. But he's going to be here soon so Hannah can explain the story to you all another time, point is that this Rival is different because it increases some of his personality traits from before but that just means all his other feelings are still deep within him, you just have to somehow make him feel those feelings in order for him to revert to his normal self considering that it's the easiest way to defeat him considering how beaten-up he was before the change." Adrian gives the girls the complete explanation for the situation and how to win the battle.
"...W-Wow, that was a lot to take in." Another voice is heard coming from behind Adrian, the co-host and the last two contestants looked over at the person who said these words.
"C-Chloe!" Ingrid exclaims with a smile on her face, she then runs over to her friends and hugs her tightly.
"Thanks for the hug but we should be focusing on the problem at hand." Chloe says, standing on her feet and not returning the hug which caused Ingrid to let go.
"O-Oh, r-right!" Ingrid responds after getting her arms out from around her friend.
"I'm going to leave the rest to the rest of you, after all, you two have someone who's got some useful information." Adrian confirms, pointing at Hannah who nods at him.
"A-Alright t-then, Hannah, What's th-the plan if you don't m-mind me a-asking?" Ingrid asks one more question, this time it was directed towards the heartthrob while the co-host walks away.
"Hey Ingrid? Remember our conversation about my sister?" Hannah decides to answer the question with a question.
"The o-one about Kaylee?" Ingrid returns the favor by asking a question of her own, Chloe then waves at the camera since she's seen standing by Ingrid.
"Just a heads up but 'Glitchy' Rival's on his way to us." Chloe points out, looking back and noticing Twisted Rival re-enter The Final Reckoning by walking through the hole in the wall made earlier.
"Looks like the only targets left to take down are Ingrid and Hannah-" Twisted Rival starts observing everyone who was unconscious, he then groans upon noticing that Chloe had gotten back up once more, "And that Chloe girl because of course she's not down yet."
"Well knocking her out is definitely harder than taking her off her feet." He suddenly heard another voice besides him and he looked over to see who was standing beside him.
"You do make a valid point there Kahlin, especially since I've yet to seriously hurt her." Twisted Rival remarks, confirming that the person who he's nonchalantly speaking with is Kyle.
"That's something I've definitely picked up on, also here's a random fact-of-the-day-" Kyle starts speaking casually with the person who slammed him into the ground earlier.
"Apologies but Ingrid's already got enough of those so you don't need to tell me any of them." Twisted Rival cuts him off and points out, going along with the conversation.
"Excellent, it sounds like you picked up on my hint on what I saw in my dream." Kyle completely ignores what the opponent says to him.
"Would you be alright with getting back to our battle from before?" Twisted Rival says, his feet began tapping very quickly on the ground and he now had his hands on his hips.
"The battle from earlier did give me my dream which is very much related to the situation-" Kyle begins pondering how he should answer the question he's been given.
"Should've known you were too confusing to interact that much with." Twisted Rival responds before he pulls a taser gun out of his coat and he aims it at Kyle.
"...How'd I get here and why do I only remember a dream I had earlier?" Kyle asks after pausing a bit, he then looks over at Twisted Rival who looked at him with a look of confusion on his face.
"Maybe I could help you remember, especially since shock therapy can be very effective." Twisted Rival remarks before firing the taser gun and it violently shocks Kyle. He lets go of the gun afterwards and begins walking away from the baseball player, he looks over at where he remembered seeing his three original targets. Rather than seeing all of them, he sees Ingrid standing there while sweating a bit.
"I-I could po-possibly die?" Ingrid says in the most unconvincing way she could speak.
"You say something so true so unsurely." Twisted Rival comments, clenching his fists and getting closer to his target.
"E-Eeep! W-Would you l-like to play g-guitar with me?" Ingrid tries speaking, it looked like she was trying to be someone else the host would know about.
"You don't even play the guitar, you're more of a cooker than anything else." Twisted Rival points out, whatever Ingrid was trying to do it didn't seem to be working at all.
"A-AH!" Ingrid begins screaming out of fear, she starts walking back and shaking heavily due to how close Twisted Rival is getting close to her.
"Just because you're a goth doesn't mean you're able to mimic Kaylee Jordan, so unfortunately the advice given from her sister to you shows how much she knows her." Twisted Rival explains, he then picks up a dodgeball on the ground since just about anything can be on the ground.
"U-Um...I-I'm s-sorry!" Ingrid shouts before tripping on her heels and she falls onto the ground on her back.
"..." Twisted Rival remains silent upon seeing this and he looks at the dodgeball in his hand before throwing it away, he starts glitching a bit before he shakes his head. Unfortunately he remained in his current form while Ingrid began crawling away on the ground and she looked over at the left side of the stadium where she saw Chloe run towards their target. She looks back over at the host afterwards and watches what happened next.
"Time to invent a new path for me to win!" Chloe shouts with a bright smile on her face, this caused Twisted Rival to glitch out even more. However he turns his attention to her and swings his hand in an attempt to punch the drummer before she could do or say anything else to him. The drummer smirks to herself before putting her right hand in front of her.
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!
"Haha! You just got pranked!" Chloe exclaims before pulling her right hand away and it revealed that a whoopie cushion had been on it, this had caused the loud noise.
"What was that supposed to-?" Twisted Rival began to question.
"F*** youuu, o-o-oooh, that's what." Chloe says, pressing a button which censors her swearing and melts soon after it's used for its purpose. Twisted Rival's eye widened and he started glitching more before he's kicked in the stomach and pushed away by the drummer. Despite all his glitching, he's able to stay in his current form even though his normal self temporarily appeared for a second.
"L-Looks like you're much more clever than I expected, which is saying a lot considering how hot-headed you normally are, but that won't matter for much longer since-!" Twisted Rival starts shouting loudly.
"I'm going to lose this season, aren't I?" He heard another voice from behind him which cut off his monologue, he slowly turned around upon hearing the voice which sounded familiar to him. He glitches out of his twisted self and he looks completely normal once more after seeing the person standing behind him. It was Hannah Jordan who looked down and was seemingly very much sad.
"...K-Kay." Rival whispered to himself upon turning normal, Hannah then looked over at him before looking back over at Chloe and Ingrid. Ingrid had finally gotten back onto her feet but she is seen being completely unsure on what to do next since it was obvious that she's normally not the kind of person to throw-down. However, Chloe is completely different and she picks up a shard of glass on the ground which seemed to have belonged to the car that had run over Miriam earlier.
"TAKE THIIIS!" Chloe yells at the top of her lungs while charging at her opponent with a big smile on her face.
"Thanks for the heads up!" Rival exclaims before he turns around and swiftly dispatches Chloe by smacking the glass out of her hand. Right after doing this, due to Chloe being too much in a state of shock to react he takes advantage of this by grabbing her left arm and he begins swinging her around. Eventually he jumps into the air and throws Chloe down at the ground but he aimed her directly towards Hannah and so she fell onto the heartthrob.
"AGH!" Chloe and Hannah grunts, the force of the throw caused another crater beneath the two of them and they laid there which made Ingrid gasp. She slowly looked over at Rival who landed on the ground and let out a sigh at what he did.
"I'm glad you three got me back to normal, but fights aren't fun if you just throw 'em!" Rival exclaims before chuckling to himself.
"...Good~" He heard another voice once more and so he turned to the direction of the voice, this time the voice had sounded like it belonged to a guy. His eyes landed upon the person who spoke and he saw that the voice had belonged to Sunny Persnisky. The delinquent's hand still seemed broken but he'd finally gotten back onto his feet in spite of the pain and he looked absolutely livid.
"God would like to join too." Jun also speaks up, he's then seen slowly standing on his feet and the electricity which surrounded him earlier had finally disappeared. The smirk normally on his face is completely gone and he stares into the eyes of his opponent before clenching his fists. Sunny and Jun looked at each other before sighing and the two of them looked over at their common enemy.
"Should've known that you'd be the one-percent who wouldn't be affected that much by the lightning bolt like everyone else would," Rival begins explaining how Jun is standing on his feet despite being struck by lightning before he turns his attention towards Sunny, "Although I'm not surprised you'd still be standing, so if the two of you want to fight...come at me."
LeeandLie-This Game (English Cover of No Game No Life's Intro)
While the song's heard starting up with some piano and guitar in the background due to the radio playing another song once again, the camera focused on the condition of the three fighters. Sunny seemed the most beaten up out of the three since he's bleeding from his hands and his right one is clearly not in the right position it's meant to be in, although aside from his hands the rest of his body had some scratches here and there. Jun, on the other hand, is shaking due to the effects of the lightning bolt he foolishly took earlier and he has scratches all over his body but nothing seemed hurt like Sunny's body seemed to be. Rival still has a missing tooth but it seemed to be half-grown back and the hole in his left shoulder had been healed up, although his face had a good amount of bruises and scratches on it. After each of them have built enough eternal energy, Jun, Sunny, and Rival all run towards each other.
"I never wanted to beee,"
Sunny and Rival reached each other first and the delinquent took a swing at him.
"Another gear in that corrupted world's machine."
The red-haired glitch pushes the left punch out of the way while gritting his teeth.
"All my life felt like a dreeeam,"
The non-ponytailed opponent uses this as momentum and he starts spinning.
"I was never who I really wanted me to be!"
He attempts to back fist the other fighter using his numb right hand.
"But then god shattered that dream's cage,"
Rival moved his head out of the way, only for him to get caught in a full-nelson.
"And rose me up to a new stage,"
He looks behind him and sees that Jun had finally caught up to them.
"Cut it away like a sharp knife,"
"Surpri-!" Jun began stating, but Rival ducked his head and Sunny nails Jun's face with a punch.
"No! No! No Game No Life!"
This causes the self-proclaimed 'God' to let go of his opponent, Sunny didn't seem too upset over this and he simply chuckled.
"Now suddenly there's a new twist,"
Deciding to keep his eye on the target after Jun falls onto the ground, the black-haired fighter then turns around.
"A reason to really exist,"
Rival notices a musket on the ground nearby and he starts running for it.
"I wanna breathe in the fame,"
He's taken off his feet by a foot sweep by the Eskrima-using fighter.
"As this whole new world cheers my naaame!?
After landing on his back, Rival looks up and notices Sunny picking up a single baston nearby.
"I'll never leave it to fate."
Letting out a sigh, Rival jumps back onto his feet before being hit in the head due to his opponent throwing it at him.
"And when I see a chance, I'll pave the way."
Quickly following up on this, Sunny delivers a side kick towards his opponent's shin.
"I'll call checkmate, this is the time to break through,"
"Agh!" Rival shouts in pain before clutching the part of his which was kicked.
"So I'll rewrite the story and finally change all ruuules!"
Sunny chuckles, approaching his opponent but he's stopped by a sudden increase of pain in his left arm. He quickly turns around to see that Jun had caused this pain using a pencil and he smirks at the person he's supposed to be working with.
"We Are Maverick."
"You shouldn't have-" Jun began explaining, but he's cut off by a right hook which knocks him to the ground once again.
"We won't give in until we win This Game."
The delinquent throws the baston into the air before ripping the pencil out of his arms.
"Though I don't know what tomorrow holds,"
Remember about their opponent, he turns around to see where his target is.
"I'll make a bet and play my cards to win This Gaaame!"
Suddenly he realizes it's too late since Rival rolled his way over to the musket nearby which he aims at his opponent.
"Unlike the rest, I'll do my best,"
Sunny growls before catching his baston out of the air before his opponent finally decides to fire off his bullets at him.
"And I won't ever lose!"
Using all his effort, the delinquent swats away the first bullet and is able to dodge another bullet which didn't seem too close to his legs, but he decided to dodge it anyway.
"To give up this chance would be a deadly sin,"
He stares at his opponent while panting heavily before charging at him once more.
"So let's bet it aaaall."
While singing down his single baston, Rival blocks the attack by using his left arm to hold the musket and keep his opponent at bay.
"I'll put all my faith in us, so let-"
Meanwhile another gun is seen in his other hand and it was a flintlock which he tries reloading, until he realizes he doesn't have the materials to reload the said-gun.
"The Games Begiiiiin!"
Swiftly he swings the bullet up at his opponent and hits him from his chin, the hit causes Sunny to just barely hold onto his weapon while stumbling back. Taking advantage of this, his red-haired opponent smacks him across his face using the musket in his other hand and this causes the gun to break in half due to the impact of it. Sunny falls onto the ground but quickly tries getting onto his feet before Jun walks towards the two of them.
"There's a darkness in our hearrrts,"
"God thanks you for avenging him." Jun says, continuing to speak in third person.
"And it's stronger than any foe that we've fought by far."
"However he must also take his revenge on you, so-" Jun continues speaking and he even closes his eyes, smiling like he had complete confidence in his own abilities.
"But as long as we belieeeve,"
Before finishing his sentence, he steps on something in the ground and it's shown to be a knife which flies up into his hand, he catches it by its handle.
"Then I know there's no chance that we'll ever taste defeat!"
"It's time to strike back against this atheist!" Jun shouts before charging at his opponent.
"Don't trade a fraction of your pride,"
He starts slashing away in an attempt to catch his opponent with one of them.
"Just cause you want an easy life,"
His wide slashes and premature announcement of his attacks allowed his opponent to dodge each strike.
"Don't fall for those beautiful lies,"
"Do you feel lucky punk?" Rival spits out a movie reference in the middle of the battle to try and see how it feels to speak in the middle of a battle.
"No! No! No sense, No Life!"
This experiment leads to him receiving a cut on his left shoulder due to his inability to dodge it before it could hit him.
"We've gotta block out the voices,"
He clutches his shoulder in pain before glaring at the person who had caused this pain, Jun Kamoshida.
"That drag us down like a poison,"
The self-proclaimed god simply laughed a bit.
"And we will put in their place,"
"God'll give you a chance." Jun confirms before backing away a bit.
"A voice as pure and bright as day!"
"But remember, he won't give you any other." Jun finishes speaking once more.
"I know it's not a mistake, that we rise up to fight and challenge fate."
While speaking, Rival had already found another weapon and he picked up a mysterious object from off the ground.
"We'll dominate even if we lose this turn,"
He squeezes the object in his hand before he stares over at his arrogant opponent.
"I would bet everything in the end that our victory's assuuured!"
"You know what, God's tired of waiting, let's continue this!" Jun declares before charging at his opponent once more.
"We are Maverick!"
Rival looks at the quarter in his hand which he decides to put in his pocket.
"Logic within, we don't need it to win."
The 'King Bee' attempted to stab his opponent's stomach, but the red-haired fighter moved out the way.
"This world's no match - it can't hold us back,"
But he doesn't stop and instead swings the knife towards the direction of his opponent even if he's currently stumbling towards a different direction.
"Don't have to wait for our adventure to begiiin!"
This time, the knife cuts Rival's shirt and he sighs in relief that it wasn't worse, only for him to be abruptly stabbed right in his left shoulder.
"Never the fools, we make the rules,"
"AGH!" Rival screams in pain before staring at Jun who had a grin on his face.
"Walking the path we choose."
Rather than pulling away, he decided to deepen the knife and didn't seem to care about his opponent's health at all.
"Never taking orders from a single soul,"
"Whatever It Takes~" Jun simply explains that essentially, he's just doing whatever he deems necessary in order to win the season and clearly doesn't care for anyone else's well-being.
"Cause that's not our styyyyle!"
"Alright then, I'll d-do the s-same th-thing!" Rival shouts before holding onto the knife and he kicks the self-proclaimed self-proclaimer away from him.
"And together we will forge ahead down this new rooooooooooad!"
"H-He-!" Jun starts to loudly respond, but he's too caught up in the moment to dodge the oncoming Koenigsegg Agera R which rams into him. Once again the car hadn't gone full speed but Jun's body lays on top of the car after it collides with him. Eventually the car crashes into the wall of The Final Reckoning and this causes the delusional teen's body to crash through the wall and out of the colosseum.
*Song Stops*
"G-Grrr." Rival groans in pain before he grabs his left shoulder and decides to keep the knife inside of it since he's completely aware how painful pulling it out would be. But he remembers that there's someone else who he still has to battle and so he turns his attention towards the only person left standing in front of his path. Sunny Persnisky gets onto his feet and walks up to the host with an emotionless expression on his face.
"Something my dad taught me is that fighting smarter is the best choice to make, although I'm pretty sure it's only the fighting stuff he taught me are the only things worth remembering." Sunny begins explaining, he picks up a long and sharp sword from off the ground while speaking.
"Hey, at least y-you've got a d-dad." Rival complains, he looks over at the knife in his shoulder and he knew that his opponent was going to take advantage of it.
"Not everyone has loving and caring parents you know, although I guess my dad is one of the people who motivates me in a way." Sunny says, deciding to speak with his current target before their battle would commence.
"...Is he wh-why you d-do all this?" Rival asks, sounding like he finally realized the motivation of the delinquent.
"Honestly, old habits you've been taught for all your life can be quite hard to shake off but it's the only way in which I've been trained so my ruthlessness and harshness on others is just how I was raised to be." Sunny confirms before looking at the sword in his hand, he uses this sword as a mirror and he looks at himself using it.
"S-Sounds like you k-know what y-you're doing is wrong...s-so why aren't you ch-changing?" Rival asks while he's seen in the background doing something painful to himself which causes him to scream in pain. However, Sunny keeps a blank face expression and doesn't seem like he's got any emotions at what was happening beside him.
"I am, by winning this competition and winning the million in order to change my life and become someone who I want to be." Sunny says, looking away from his sword and he looks back at the person he's tasked with taking down.
"W-Why are you tel-telling me all this?" Rival asks, panting heavily and he holds a knife in his hands which obviously had some blood on it.
"Because my sister taught me one thing, if you hide everything about you, or in her case her emotions after her 'best friend' got eliminated, then it'll just grow until it's more self-destructive than a drinking habit and so this is just to prevent me from destroying myself before the game proceeds further. That and because, well you're not going to be around much longer so it's not like anyone remaining in this game will know of my reasoning." Sunny finishes his explanation, he then points his sword at the person he's going to clash with.
"...A-Alright t-then, guess that's all the explaining you needed to do?" Rival asks, he's currently shaking heavily due to the pain his body is feeling.
"Yes it was, now this time at least you don't have your crazy-self to turn into, and so I'll dedicate the victory to my sister who I DO care for, thank you very much." Sunny responds, sounding aggressive at the end of his sentence.
"Just because I'm beaten down doesn't mean you can defeat me so easily, I've had some stamina training a few days before and so I'm not going to give in very easily!" Rival shouts out.
"Unfortunately I know what you're talking about and I've just gotta say that she slept with me too, so that's not really much of an advantage for you. Also the fact that you used your engineering skills earlier to set the car to conveniently ram into Jun at a perfect time is something you probably picked up on from watching footage of Evan's 'not-girlfriend' I remember seeing." Sunny points out.
"...L-Let's j-just f-fight!" Rival tries directing the conversation towards a different direction.
"If you want to speed up your demise, then I don't mind doing so." Sunny responds before charging towards his opponent.
*Song Resumes*
"Won't hesitate, I know we won't lose our way."
Wasting no time, the delinquent tries stabbing his opponent right off the bat.
"And this road we have chosen's no mistake."
His opponent dodges the sword before grabbing onto it using his left arm and he shoves it to the ground.
"Without our pride, nothing is holding us back."
After doing this he jumps on the sword and kicks the seemingly last person who could fight against him right in his face.
"I can see that the way to a victory begins with this paaath!"
The kick sends the sword flying out of the delinquent's hands and he rolls on the ground.
"We Are Maverick."
Eventually he gets onto his feet and swings a punch at Rival who charges at him, he uses his left hand to do so.
"We won't give in until we win This Game."
Both of their punches connect with one another and this causes a shockwave which sends them both flying.
"Though I don't know what tomorrow holds,"
They both rolled away from one another before getting onto their respective two feet once more.
"I'll make a bet and play my cards to win This Gaaame!"
Sunny felt his left hand start to get numb but he shakes his head and tries ignoring the pain he felt throughout his body.
"Unlike the reeest, I'll do my beeest,"
Rival stumbles after getting back onto his feet, however he shakes his head and tries to simply not acknowledge the pain he feels right now.
"And I won't ever lose!"
Both of them charged at each other and Sunny goes to swing a punch using his left hand once more.
"To give up this chance would be a deadly sin,"
The red-haired host ducks below the punch before smirking up at his black-haired opponent while Sunny slowly looks down at him.
"So let's bet it aaaall."
"And...GOTCHA!" Rival shouts at the top of his lungs, he delivers an uppercut with as much force as he could deliver right now.
"I'll put all my faith in us, so let-"
Sunny falls onto his knees upon impact and his eyes barely remain open, upon landing on the ground Rival sighed in relief.
"The Games Begin-"
He then starts charging towards his opponent in the hopes of finishing him off-
"We Are Maverick!"
"GAAAAAAH!" Rival suddenly screams in pain, suddenly he's shocked by a taster sniper which had been fired by someone.
"Shall we begin!? Only the strong will win!"
"...P-Perfect." Jared whispers to himself with a slight smile on his face and he's revealed to be the person who had fired the sniper taster.
"We'll surpass the challenges it takes to win!"
He collapses onto the ground afterwards and Lia holds him in her arms once more.
"So put your bet iiiiin!"
Sunny's eyes are open enough to witness all this and so he musters all the strength left inside of his body to stand onto his feet.
"I'll put all my faith in us, so let-"
"Game Over!" Sunny shouts before charging at Rival at full speed and he prepares to punch him right in his face.
"The Games Begiiiiiiiiiin!"
Before his punch could connect, a lightning bolt strikes right in front of him and it lands directly on the person he'd been attempting to punch. However due to the impact of the strike, Sunny is taken off his feet and falls onto the ground where he went completely unconscious not longer after. Once the lightning finished striking, another one strikes nearby and Rival's seen limping where the second bolt had struck.
*Song Ends*
"That s-should be e-everyone-" Rival starts saying.
"H-Heeeey." He hears another voice nearby which makes him groan.
"Looks like I s-shouldn't have u-underestimated a fellow instrument pl-player." Rival immediately recognizes the voice since he's heard it enough times to know who it belongs to.
"You're g-goddamn right about that." Chloe declares after getting back onto her feet once more.
"W-WAIT!" Rival and Chloe overheard another voice nearby, the two of them looked over at who had said these and saw that it was Ingrid.
"F-Friend?" Chloe asks, currently she sounded genuine with her words.
"M-Maybe you t-two d-don't need to fight, it-it just seems like a har-harsh thing to inflict on o-others." Ingrid tries settling things between them peacefully.
"Sometimes it's the only th-thing you can do." Rival responds before looking back over at the drummer standing across him.
"Both o-of you are cl-clearly hurt though, Why continue t-to hurt yourselves e-even m-more?" Ingrid questions, still trying to be the voice of reason in this situation.
"Because it doesn't m-matter how hurt you get-" Rival begins responding to the shy goth's question.
"It matters if you're a-able to push yourself to become something more than the other p-person." Chloe finishes the sentence and she returns the stare towards the guitarist.
"Why does e-everything have to be a com-competition? Can't w-we all just-?" Ingrid tries her very best to not let things get out of hand.
"I'm sorry but we're on TOTAL DRAMA, did you expect this to not b-be a competition? This show is made to test how far people are willing to go to gain recognition and a lot of money, unfortunately that sometimes comes at the cost of other people but that's just how life works." Rival points out, an aura began forming around him.
"B-But...B-But that doesn't give you an e-excuse to purposely hurt others just because e-everyone else is like that!" Ingrid shouts back, raising her voice for once which caused Chloe's eyes to widen.
"Well in this world, you either put other people down or you put down yourself and trust me when I say that there's no one on the face of this damn planet I hate more than ME! I'm taking things easy on all of you if anything!" Rival continues to shout out of rage even more and the aura around him begins taking a form.
"This is my chance!" Chloe thinks to herself and she charges at her opponent, due to the distraction her friend had inadvertently caused she's able to successfully tackle the person she wants to beat up. Ingrid gasps upon seeing this and she tries running up to the two of them in time but like before she trips on her heels and falls onto the ground. However, Chloe's focus is currently towards a goal she desperately is trying to execute and that goal is to take out the red-haired guitarist.
"N-No one gets to u-upstage me!" Chloe starts shouting and she grabs the host by his neck and starts strangling him. She violently begins thrashing his head around in an attempt to make him fall unconscious even faster, she even goes so far to the point of pulling his head off the ground only to slam it back down onto the dry sand below them. Despite her best efforts however, the red-haired guitarist pokes her eyes and this causes her to let go of him.
"A-Ah! My eyes!" Chloe shouts in her mind, she tries regaining her eyesight quickly but is unable to do this in time. This leads to the person she had just tried to strangle to flip them over and he gets on top of her, he pins her to the ground using his right hand and he begins decking her in the face with a bunch of punches.
"YOU'RE! NOT! GOING! TO! BEAT! ME! IN! YOUR! PATHETIC! LIFE!" Rival shouts with each punch, he doesn't hold back at all and just continues unloading his punches without any signs of mercy in his eyes. Currently he's too enraged to think logically and the only thing going through his mind is to deliver payback on the girl who had tried making him fall unconscious in a way that makes him suffer.
"AH! Ah! ah! Ah. ah. a-" Chloe groans of pain start getting more and more silent after every punch delivered to her, eventually her eyes begin to close and some of her teeth blast out her mouth. Despite the punches slowing down eventually, she still felt the most pain she'd ever felt due to the fact that these punches still packed a lot of damage behind them. Clearly the person who's punching her didn't seem to care if she was unconscious or not.
"STOP THAT!" Ingrid screams at the top of her lungs, tears fell down her cheeks and she seemed to be crying at the sight right in front of her. Her yelling had caught the attention of the person who'd been brutally beating up her friend and he looked at her before slowly realizing what he'd done. Rival looks at the blood on his fist before he unclenched them and looks at the ground.
"Beat me up..." Ingrid heard a whisper come from someone and her teary eyes looked over at the direction of where the voice came from. This voice had come from right in front of her and the person who said these words slowly stood up on his feet in a slow manner, despite his stumbling he still remained on his feet.
"W-What?" Ingrid asks while beginning to back away once more.
"I said...beat me up." Rival clarifies and he looks at her with a completely serious expression on his face.
"W-Why w-would I-I-?" Ingrid starts asking another question, but like always she's cut off.
"Because I mercilessly beat up your friend and everyone else you've met, you don't want the same thing to happen to you too, do you?" Rival answers her question before asking one question of his own, he stares into her eyes with a clear look of regret on his face.
"N-No, but why w-would I b-beat up someone who's already b-been beaten down, that w-would make me like...them." Ingrid points out, looking at the ground after she finishes her sentence.
"...Alright then, I guess I'm going to need to FORCE you to give me what I deserve." Rival states before looking back over at Chloe and he picks her up by her hair.
"CHLOE!" Ingrid shouts upon seeing this, she stops backing away and simply starts shaking in fear.
"..." Chloe remained completely silent due to her being unconscious at the moment and so she's unable to say anything despite her current predicament. Internally, her friend is currently freaking out in her mind at the sight in front of her since she knows what could happen to her friend and the implications alone were deeply concerning.
"I'll hurt your friend even more if you don't do anything and start accepting that sometimes the only way to deal with situations is by realizing you HAVE to fight sometimes and get physical!" Rival shouts, holding up the unconscious body of the drummer right in front of him.
"D-Don't h-hurt m-my f-friend!" Ingrid tries begging him to stop what he's currently doing.
"MAKE ME!" Rival yells out once again, he drops the punk drummer's body on her back, clenching his right hand into a fist once again and preparing to unload a bunch of punches once more. The clouds in the sky darken even more which caused the sunlight to be nearly covered completely which made the area around all of them appear even darker than they were before. This drastic weather change caused some drops of rain to fall from the sky to make the already tense moment even more so.
"I-I'M N-NOT G-GOING T-TO!" Ingrid tries insisting, even despite how dire the situation seemed she tries holding out for a possibility she wouldn't resort to violence. However, it didn't seem to change anything at all and her attempts to try and keep her pacifism all seemed futile since her trying her very best to not hurt someone seemed to be worsening the situation. But it was clear from what she's already said that there's a deeper reason why she's so reluctant to fight.
"YOU BETTER OR ELSE I'LL KEEP ON PUNCHING HER!" Rival continues to try and get the girl to break her pacifism, however even though he seemed hell-bent on making her do this, his face told a different expression. Tears ran down his cheeks and it was obvious to anyone with open eyes that he's not proud of what he's doing but something inside of him is making him feel like this is the only thing he can do. Whatever is making him do this is something that couldn't simply be explained but rather could be figured out.
"S-SOMEONE PL-PLEASE!" Ingrid continues to beg for someone to help her out right now before she takes a look around The Final Reckoning which made the reality of the situation slowly set in. Alex Jones' head is stuck in the ground and he seemed completely motionless. Evan Herbert is laying on the ground with his eyes closed alongside an arrow which seemed to have had a serious effect on him due to where it was fired into. Hannah Jordan had the least amount of pain inflicted onto her but she is seen lying unconscious inside a crater due to her breaking the fall of a specific someone. Jun Kamoshida lays outside of the arena everyone is inside and is laying down by the car which had ram him to that place. Jared Monuel is seen in the arms of Lia Clemins who kept sobbing onto him while holding his unconscious close to her after she failed to protect him like she'd wanted to and despite the fact that her best friend isn't going to die, she's still upset at herself over what happened and the sniper which had been fired is seen right by the two of them. Kahlin Mora twitched on the ground after getting electrocuted by a taser gun which is seen near him but it seemed to have used up it's only shot it had. Leon Salvatore and Miriam Hakimi are both laying down with glasses surrounding them even though the two of them weren't near each other and the glass they'd been surrounded by were completely different types. Lastly, Sunny Persnisky lays unconscious by a crater in front of him that had been caused by the same lightning bolt which had put him in this position but like everyone else he'd been incapacitated by this battle that's at it's climax.
"There's no one here to help you because you can't be there to protect the ones you love all the time, sometimes they have to just stay where they are and witness people they care for get hurt WHICH IS WHY I'M DOING THE SAME THING TO YOU!" Rival loudly claims, pulling his fist back and preparing to continue pummeling Chloe Broderick.
"P-Please...s-someone..." Ingrid whispers to herself, her fists slowly beginning to clench and she begins realizing that this is the only way she could save the person she cares for.
"SAVE THE PERSON YOU CARE FOR! KNOCK ME OUT AND MAKE ME PAY!" Rival demands before he stands up and begins to oddly smile at what he's experiencing going down in front of him.
"I-I'M S-SORRY!" Ingrid shouts into the sky and she looks up at it, after finally accepting the decision laid out in front of her she makes a decision. She looks in front of her and starts charging at the host with her fists clenched and ready to knock him out like he'd been forcing her into doing so this entire time. Rival walks away from Chloe's unconscious body and starts running towards the shy goth.
"COME ONNNN!" Rival yells out what he'd shouted earlier, deciding to motivate her as much as he could and his request is soon granted.
"HAAAAAAAAAA!" Ingrid screams as loudly as she could and she puts all her effort into her first punch she's probably ever thrown in her life. Luckily for her the punch landed right on target and surprisingly enough there had been blue fire surrounding her during this punch which she didn't even seem to notice. Fire aside, she applies all her pressure into the punch until...
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"G-Good j-job." Rival thinks to himself before he flies in the air a bit before landing on his back and his eyes slowly close after the tears have been punched out of them. All the sadness inside of him from what he's done slowly vanishes after getting the punch he believed that he deserved considering everything he had done to everyone. It's only after what feels like an eternity however, is when he finally lands on his back and he lands on the ground.
"Ingrid Glenmarie has won this challenge!" Adrian announces with a slight smile on his face, despite the clouds not changing formation at all the raindrops coming down from them had stopped. Ingrid pants heavily after landing her punch and the blue fire surrounding her had completely disappeared not long after it'd appear. Slowly, she begins processing what she'd just heard and she quickly wipes the tears from her eyes.
"That f-felt a-awful..." Ingrid comments, not sounding at all pleased at the fact that she basically won the last challenge before the merge. This can be mainly attributed to the fact that her intentionally knocking someone out even though they'd been badly hurt earlier even if that had been the entire point of the challenge.
"I-It's o-okay." She heard a whisper come from the ground, she looks over at who said these words and she sees that Rival's eyes were open enough to see her. Unlike before, he had a bright smile on his face and seemed to be completely relieved that this challenge had finally reached its conclusion.
"A-Are you s-sure? I'm genuinely s-sorry for knocking you o-out the way I did..." Ingrid explains, looking at the ground but away from the person she had beaten to win this challenge.
"M-Meh, I kinda h-had it coming, and besides n-now you can stand u-up for yourself!" Rival points out, this causes Ingrid's eyes to widen and she turns her attention back to the guitarist.
"H-Huh?" Ingrid asks, sounding surprised and less sad upon hearing these words.
"From what I'd b-been seeing, your l-lack of confidence and shyness w-were your biggest flaws since that a-allowed others to walk all over you. However, now you can have con-confidence in your fighting abilities and you can take pri-pride in knowing that you had knocked me out, sure I already f-fought everyone else but at least you know you can throw one hell of a p-punch." Rival starts explaining, this causes Ingrid to look at herself and she begins smiling.
"Y-Yeah...I'm actually able to throw a punch!" Ingrid cheerfully says and she began jumping out of joy, this caused Rival to laugh a bit.
"Hahaha, you're damn right you can, you even saved your friend which means you were able to protect someone you care for which means you're a good friend to have and that you're a good person overall!" Rival continues to motivate the now cheery goth.
"T-Thanks for the com-compliments but I-I need to help out m-my friend now." Ingrid responds, she started to blush due to the compliments she had been receiving.
"Go ahead, I'll just be relaxing her and slowly letting the pain set in until-" Rival cuts himself off by closing his eyes and falling unconscious once more. Ingrid laughed a bit at this before she looked over at Chloe and walked over to her friend while the drummer's eyes slowly opened up and she looked over at her savior. The punk drummer slowly begins remembering what had happened and slowly begins smiling.
"Looks like you're the hero of the day, great job bestie!" Chloe cheerfully says before looking at her 'bestie' offering a hand to help her stand up.
"Don't flatter me too much, you were part of the reason I'd been able to actually use one fighting move." Ingrid confirms, her friend then accepts her hand and she pulls her onto her feet. She turns her attention towards the only person she had seen conscious who was Lia, the youtuber had apparently cried herself to sleep in the midst of everything. A part of her felt bad for her and felt like she should really comfort her.
"At least you know when I deserve some credit, although I'd say that you deserve most of it...thanks for saving me Ingrid." Chloe thanks her friend with the biggest and most genuine smile she's had yet.
"Well friends are meant to be there for each other!" Ingrid exclaims, unlike before she no longer had been stuttering and she's glad that she has taken her first step to improving herself.
"Congrats on winning the challenge Ingrid, here's your reward." Adrian says while walking over to the pair of friends, both of them watched him lightly throw a knife over to them. Ingrid gulps before being able to catch the knife, although she fumbled it in her hands due to a mix of surprise and nervousness. After catching the knife in her hand she looks over at the co-host who had begun to walk away.
"What's th-this knife for?" Ingrid asks, sounding a bit nervous to what the purpose of the knife is.
"You use it to stab the person you want out of the game, this time around we've got someone else who'll heal up everyone around here so they will all survive even if you give any of 'em one more stab." Adrian gives the two one last exposition before looking over at Rival who opened his eyes once again.
"That was s-some nice t-training, wasn't it?~" Rival asks with a smirk on his face, Adrian chuckles and rolls his eyes at the temporary host's attitude before a portal opens up in front of him.
"Glad to see you never changed, Rival." Adrian simply says before he quickly looks back at Ingrid and Chloe before he walks through the portal and disappears after doing so due to the portal closing.
"I-I mean, I can p-punch people but stabbing seems a bit t-too excessive." Ingrid points out, sweating a bit and looking at the knife she's holding in her hand.
"I'll use it then, you're obviously the less violent one out of the two of us, so I think it'd be better for you to just let me take out a certain someone with this knife." Chloe says before she slowly turns her attention towards Jun.
"...O-Okay, if you insist." Ingrid agrees before handing over the knife towards her friend. Chloe then begins walking away from her friend with the knife she's going to use to eliminate someone in her hand. However, the camera focuses on Ingrid who looked over at Jared who she's able to just barely see in the distance.
"Hey Jared, I'll be able to pay you back for saving me, in fact I'll be also to win this game for Fergy since I'll make sure him saving me wasn't for nothing!" Ingrid thinks to herself inside her mind, she decides that there's a few things left in the game she needs to do.
"Honestly it's nice to see you act like this, although there are clearly still some areas of yourself you still need to improve upon." Rival points out, this causes Ingrid to nervously chuckle.
"T-True, although I'm thankful for you helping me become like this...although it did come at the expense of everyone else here." Ingrid says before sweating a bit.
"Well I guess the reason why I wanted things to end up like this is because you remind me of someone I know...that and because you were the only person left standing." The host nonchalantly gives what could be his last interaction with the cast.
"Yeah, I guess I inherited some of Jun's luck too, anyways hopefully my friend will be alright after today, after all Chloe-"
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"..." Ingrid suddenly goes completely silent and the pupils in her eyes shrink significantly to the point they're tiny dots in her eyes which had many emotions behind them. She slowly looks down to see what made her like this and a weak gasp escapes her mouth upon seeing the object which had caused her to get so silent so quickly. Upon realizing who caused this, tears began flooding her eyes once again and she looked behind at the person who had caused her to cry like this.
"NO ONE gets to upstage me." A familiar voice says from behind her, if the moment hadn't physically and emotionally hurt her enough already, hearing these words had made things worse for her. Now she knew that without a hint of doubt who the person that made her go completely silent and unable to speak. Now she knew for sure what was happening to her and what this meant.
"..." However, she couldn't say a single word and could only remain in silence at what has happened to her and the reality of the situation had begun sinking into her. There were many questions going through her mind but none of them were any she could ask right now due to the situation at hand and instead all she could do was nothing. Eventually the cause of all her current pain and sadness is pulled away and she collapses onto the ground which she's unable to reduce the impact of at all and instead she falls down, feeling nothing but numbness now.
Linkin Park-Roads Untraveled
"Weep not for roads untraveled."
Chloe Broderick is seen standing above Ingrid's unconscious body, she held the knife in her hand but it now had some blood on it.
"Weep not for paths left lone."
Rather than say anything else, she drops the knife before bending down to look over into the shocked and saddened eyes of the person she had called her 'bestie'.
"'Cause beyond every bend,"
Chloe blinked while staring into the eyes of the person she's just betrayed without much emotion on display.
"Is a long blinding end,"
Instead of saying a single word, she gets back onto her feet and begins walking away from Ingrid who laid motionless on the ground.
"It's the worst kind of pain I've known."
There were many questions going through Ingrid's mind, however she couldn't ask any of them due to how much pain she has just been delivered. This pain coursing through her entire body eventually causes her to pass out on the ground and her eyes slowly close, even with this being the case tears kept pouring out her eyes. Afterwards, the clouds began to pour down rain and this time there were a lot of them which began drenching everyone on the ground.
"Give up your heart left broken."
Rival had watched this happen and he looks up at Chloe upon watching what she's just done.
"And let that mistake pass on."
He glares into her eyes and she notices him looking at her, so she turns her head to face the temporary host.
"'Cause the love that you lost,"
Chloe then rolls her eyes and steps over him without showing much care over what had just happened.
"Wasn't worth what it'd cost,"
The punk drummer looked around the place and smiled once she saw that everyone else had been unconscious and didn't see what she's just done to the person she's just betrayed with no remorse.
"And in time you'll be glad it's gooone."
A portal opens up in front of her and she steps through it, the rain pouring down even harder on everyone after she leaves.
"Whooo-Whooooooa."
"I-I don't want to s-say...because it'd make me look weaker t-than I already am...especially compared to you." Ingrid does not answer the question, Chloe then chuckled and smiled.
"Why thank you, you're such a sweet girl for saying that!" Chloe says with a big smile. She then noticed Ingrid looking down and Chloe shook her head, "But I do think that you're gonna need to stop being down on yourself..." Chloe's smile slowly went away (Episode 3).
"Whooo-Whooooooa."
"F-From what I know 48 p-performers have d-died onstage," Ingrid responds and she began sweating, Chloe then blinks before rolling her eyes.
"That's definitely concerning, but as long as I've got my friends with me, I don't think I'll be dying any time soon!" Chloe exclaimed with a smile that was clearly forced, she was staring at Ingrid while saying this (Episode 4).
"Whooooooo-Whooooooo-Whooooooo-Whoooooooa."
"D-Did you k-know that Raymond Johnson Chapman w-was the only person to die b-by a injury he g-got from a b-baseball in MLB?" Ingrid asks to respond to Chloe, once again dropping her random fact of the day.
"And you know this, how?" Chloe decides to ask her a question.
"...Uhhhh." Ingrid began thinking to herself after hearing this and she was unable to answer it, but Chloe simply sighed afterwards.
"Have you been talking with Kahlin?" Chloe questions before Ingrid shook her head.
"N-No! I've never even s-spoke with h-him before." Ingrid is able to answer this question from Chloe.
"Good...because, I'd be more concerned for you than I already am." Chloe remarks before grabbing Ingrid's hand and she pulls her onto her feet (Episode 5, Part 2).
"Whooooa-Whoooooa."
"I-I don't want to s-speak i-ill on a-anyone...Did you know-?" Ingrid was gonna ask, but then she felt Chloe grab her wrist.
"...I...don't...care...just tell me...Why don't you like being called Grimmy? Grimmy." Chloe questions with a very wide smile, Ingrid gulps and her eyes widened while staring at Chloe (Episode 6).
*Instrumental*
"Wow! I should really let you cook more often!" Chloe exclaims before she grabbed some steak and began chewing it apart like an animal.
"T-Thank y-you." Ingrid responds while smiling at the punk drummer (Episode 7).
"How the hell am I supposed to know!? Also, you're kinda talking too much so can you please try and play the flute?" Chloe impatiently asks a question right back at Ingrid.
"O-Okay." Ingrid says before she holds the flute up to her mouth before she blows into it (Episode 8).
"Whooooooo-Whooooooo-Whooooooo-Whoooooooa."
"How about we talk about Ingrid?" Jun decides to move the conversation along.
"Don't get too comfortable with Ingrid she's my...friend, after all!" Chloe loudly declares while Jun closes his eyes (Episode 9).
"Whooooa-Whoooooa!"
"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 (Episode 10).
"Weep not for roads untraveled."
After the series of flashbacks had ended, someone else had been seen slowly getting up and Rival slowly looked over at the person in question who had started to get on their feet.
"Weep not for sights unseen."
He silently gasps to himself and sees that the person who stood on her feet had been Hannah Jordan, all the pain she seemed to have been feeling earlier now seemed to have vanished.
"May your love never end,"
Slowly she looks around and stares at Ingrid's unconscious body on the ground, she lets out a sigh before deciding to walk up to him.
"And if you need a friend,"
Hannah kneels down and whispers something into her ear.
"There is a seat here alongside me."
"I'm sorry..." Hannah simply whispers before she stands back on her feet and stares at the portal which Chloe had gone through.
"Whooo-Whooooooa!"
"Bad people have a reason for being who they are, it doesn't excuse their actions but sometimes people are awful just so they can avoid the feeling of loneliness." Hannah's voice echoes while she continues walking towards the portal right in front of her.
"Whooo-Whooooooa!"
"Well I guess that it's only natural you'd be curious about Kaylee, you and her are quite similar so of course you'd want to know more about her." Hannah's voice is heard, the camera shows Ingrid's body on the ground which hadn't moved a little bit.
"Whooooooo-Whooooooo-Whooooooo-Whoooooooa!"
"I really do think you're a sweet person and me voting out either your crush or your best friend would just make me feel awful." Fergy's voice is heard, Hannah smiled to herself upon remembering the voice of the person who had sacrificed his own position in the game in order to keep her in it. However the words he said hadn't been directed towards her and instead were for someone else.
"Whooooa-Whoooooa!"
The heartthrob stares into the portal once more and she looks around the place one more time before her eyes landed upon the host.
"Whooooooo-Whooooooo-Whooooooo-Whoooooooa!"
She said nothing else, deciding to instead look away and look at the ground before she steps through the portal which closed shortly after. The camera shows Ingrid on the ground before another portal had opened up.
"Whooooa-Whoooooa!"
The Chain of Shame came out of it before it quickly snatched itself around her neck and pulled her straight through the portal before the screen slowly fades to black.
Total Drama: Move Along
Remaining Contestants:
The Final Eleven: Alex Jones, Chloe Broderick, Evan Herbert, Hannah Jordan, Jun Kamoshida, Jared Monuel, Kahlin Mora, Leon Salvatore, Lia Clemins, Miriam Hakimi, and Sunny Persnisky.
Eliminated Contestants:
Eliminated: Kennedy (1st), Li (2nd), Vince (3rd), Jackie (4th), Brooke (5th), Rae (6th), Fergy (7th), Rainy (8th), Ciara (9th), and Ingrid (10th).
Elimination Preventing Objects:
The Hidden Safety Necklace: Played by Fergy
The Hidden Invincibility Statue: ?
The Hidden Immunity Idol: ?
Rather than taking over a month to make another chapter, I've decided to make another one within the same month to apologize for taking such a while updating the last chapter, in fact this one is also 23K+ words so there's that. The apologizing train rolls on with Sanjiandserea for eliminating her OC: Ingrid Glenmarie, and I double apologize for having this be the most brutal elimination thus far unlike the previous three eliminations. Unlike last episode's elimination, this one had been planned for a while now and the reason for me eliminating Ingrid at this point is because I had a feeling this one would be the most surprising one thus far, but also because her kindness backfiring on her and her getting eliminated by someone she genuinely considered to be a "friend" seemed to be something that had always had a high chance of happening in my eyes and so having it happen here seemed like the best move for me to make so it could break the tradition of the post-swap eliminations being mainly heartwarming and nice mini-endings for the characters who got eliminated. Plus now that we're halfway through the competition, I needed something really exciting to happen so people could look forward towards the next half of the season and unfortunately for Ingrid she was a part of this plan, just not in the way she'd like to be.
Now her elimination has thematic purpose in this plot since it shows that not everyone can be trusted inside a game like Total Drama and it also shows that sometimes when people start to grow and Move Along to become better people, others will take away their chance to grow more and will knock them down without caring much for the person's well-being and unfortunately I can't say much more beyond this due to potential spoilers but there's a thematic and logical reason which'll play out more in the Reunion.
Like always, here's the link to my Discord Server: discord . gg / MJ8qF9v (Just take away the spaces) and the server's name is "Time, Fire, and War"
This episode has essentially been a fighting episode from the very beginning to the end, and yes there'll be more challenges which will rival the chaos seen in this episode so now you all know just how brutal and over-the-top this story will get, anyways I did sort of notice that The Final Reckoning had a bunch of stuffs on the ground while writing the chapter so I just ran with it throughout the entire thing to the point even I'll admit it was ridiculous, but hey I go by the "Rule of Cool" so I simply went along with it.
Here's the Questions of the Day!:
(For Everyone): Are you looking forward to what's next to come in this story?
Now I hope I'd been able to end the pre-merge phase of the game off with the biggest bang in all of your eyes, I'm a little nervous that perhaps I used Rival too much in here but that's why I had been focusing on having his appearance serve a role in this story since there's a point to his presence in the story and so I hope that's been made clear enough. There's one special announcement I'll make for the next chapter however:
IT'S AFTERMATH TIME!
That's right! The next chapter will be an Aftermath so you can all send in your questions for the eliminated contestants to answer, I'll accept questions through Discord, Fanfic PMs, or even from the Reviews! So I can't wait to see the questions you all come up with and I hope you all look forward to seeing the eliminated contestants once more! Anyways there's only one more chapter left before the merge officially begins and so there's no other way to end this second-to-last chapter before we're officially halfway through the story aside from the words-
PEACE OUT!
