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, after catching the flute she looks 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,"

Miriam runs past the two of them before looking behind her.

"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, Ciara, and Ingrid 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 14: To The End


*After the Party*

This episode starts off with a pair of dark brown eyes slowly which blink after they're seen opening up. These eyes looked around the place and one of the first things which the camera caught was the fact that this person's laying on a wooden floor. Suddenly the pupils in their eyes shrink, it seems like whoever this person was it looked like they realized something which frightened them. Quickly and suddenly, they stood up and turned their head around which revealed their hair which matched the color of their eyes and it was currently being blown by the wind. Eventually the camera zoomed out to finally reveal the person who had gotten very scared of their surroundings and they even stared at the camera.

"Wh-Where am I?" From their words alone it was clear this person had forgotten about their location and the fact they're on a show. This was made more apparent by them backing away from the camera which meant this voice could only belong to the only person known to forget things. Kahlin 'Kyle' Mora suddenly trips over something and this causes him to fall right onto his back.

"HOW DARE YOU INTERRUPT MY SLEEP?!" Chloe Broderick shouts like always and she immediately sits up after feeling someone who's confused trip over her leg. It took all of one second for her to find the person who 'dared to interrupt' her sleep and her eyes narrowed at him. Of course it had to be the one she has had issues with throughout the entire duration of the game and the one guy who beat her with just a baseball.

"S-Sorry! I'M SO LOST RIGHT NOW!" Kyle yells, his eyes were on the girl that held a grudge against him but considering the fact that it sounded like he'd forgotten about where he's at-

"Wait..." Chloe began saying and her eyes stopped narrowing, the camera slowly turned down to focus on her mouth.

"Oh n-no! I've forgotten about th-that!" Kyle begins yelling and the pace of his breathing begins quickening (Episode 13, Part 1).

Her mouth slowly grows a wide grin that goes across her face, knowing her this wasn't a good sign since this smile emitted devious intentions and made it clear that any plan in her mind wasn't a helpful one to him. Chloe slowly got back onto her feet and closed her eyes, her malicious-filled smile starting forming into something more...genuine. Some giggling escaped her mouth doing this and she looked over at Hannah Jordan who is seen lying unconsciously on top of the stage that was apparently present during the party that occurred last night.

"Looks like those lessons will help me out." Chloe thinks in her mind before turning her attention right back at the guy who was normally laid-back. Right now, he was lost like a stray dog and this time he's the person that's confused.

"Hello Kyle! Mind telling me what's the last thing you remembered?" Chloe asks with her eyes closed and her hand out for him to grab. The dark brown-haired baseball player stares at her hand and blinks while the pupils in his eyes begin growing back to normal, but he begins to breathe quickly. But due to his newfound lack of knowledge he grabs her hand and nods at her question.

"L-Last thing I remembered was-" Kyle's temporarily cut off in the middle of his sentence by simply being pulled onto his feet. After blinking a few times and looking at the drummer that helped him onto his feet, he shakes her hand before nodding at her, "Arigato."

"Don't mention it, just continue telling me what you remembered last and you'll be fine." Chloe responds before slowly letting go of his left hand and pulling away. Then she begins slowly rubbing her right hand against her leather jacket she's currently wearing. In contrast to her smile, her thoughts were- 'Unfortunately, you're still weird like always.'

"Anyways, the last thing I remembered was me, Travis, and Lyra all recording to get onto Total Drama since I'd figured it would be fun to join the show. Everything else is a blur and my mind only vaguely remembers somethings, one of which being someone that looks like you." Kyle explains with his head turned to face towards the ground below him, overtime it starts turning to look in front of him.

'Doesn't sound like I'll be able to make up any story I want, but if his memories exclude the exact details of what I've done...' Chloe's thoughts continued scheming and taking in the information she's getting. The more things she is being given to work with, the more her brain devised her plan that's forming inside her mind. Kyle then begins looking around more and it appeared from the lighting of the party building, it was the afternoon, this meant he could look around and eventually his eyes landed on someone else.

"A part of me also remembers her, maybe she could help my memories come back?" Kyle speaks and he points to Miriam Hakimi who's seen sleeping with her legs behind her. He then begins walking over to the girl he's grown to become friends with throughout the course of the competition, but before he's able to reach her his jersey is grabbed. Before he could protest, the baseball player is dragged to stand in front of the punk drummer once again.

"Actually I'm sure I'll be more helpful at restoring your memories, for example: You know that audition tape you've made for Total Drama? Yeah, you got into the show and both of us became friends! Even if there were some...complications along the way." Chloe starts putting her plan into action and she wraps an arm around the neck of her so-called 'friend'.

"Sorry but you're just t-telling me things and honestly I'd much prefer trying to at l-least get my memories back first in order to prevent myself from failing other people." Kyle counters with a look of skepticism on his face. Once again, he attempts to get away and he slides under and out of the drummer's grasp. He tries walking over to Miriam once more who's sleeping with a smile on her face.

"Besides, something's telling me to trust that smile more." Kyle elaborates on his reasoning for making his choice and puts on a slight smile on his face. However he feels a hand tightly grab onto his shoulder and he stops walking and stares intently at the pale hand which is grabbing onto him.

"Are you saying you don't want to be friends with me?~" These words caused him to begin looking down, he takes some time to contemplate the question he's been given. Chloe all the meanwhile tightened her grip on his shoulder and her right eye was twitching which both showed obvious signs that her temper's already reached its limit. The answer to her question would determine what would happen next.

"...Nah, I'll befriend you if you'd like that." Kyle gave his answer to the question before turning around and he faced the girl who was basically just threatening him. His face seemed to lack any hostility and instead he seemed to be relaxed like he normally is. In response to this, Chloe lets go of his shoulder and sighs in relief thanks to his words.

"Excellent! Like I've said, our friendship in this game has had a few ups and downs, but I'm sure we'll remain friends and in fact I will try my best to help you regain your memories! The girl over there is named Miriam, just going to warn you that she's not the best at remaining calm though." Chloe says before redirecting her 'new friend' to look at the girl he has been attempting to get to.

"You mean, they're someone like you?"

"Kahlin Mora, if you'd like to avoid castration then I'd suggest for you to not always point out my issues, okay?~" Chloe requests in the most passive-aggressive toned voice she could currently have.

"Well if you've got any issues then I'll be here for you to vent to. Also just call me Kyle." Kyle casually replies while looking at the person who just threatened to turn him into a different gender. Right now he seems to be turning back to normal but his head turns to face the ground once again. Currently he's still trying to figure out everything that's happened over the past few days.

"Really? Then I'll take you outside because there's MANY things I've got the need to vent about!" Chloe cheerfully comments before grabbing onto his head and she pulls him with her. It appears she's indeed leading them out the door to the party room which the eight other remaining contestants were all still inside. During his pull-along, Kyle rubs the back of his head.

"Why in the world does my head hurt?" He questions, only for him to be completely dragged out of the room before he could even solve the answer to this newfound question, internally he hopes to answer these questions going through his head soon enough.


"Kyle?..." Miriam sits up and she looks around the area, the first thing she caught on about is that her body apparently rested in the middle of the entire room. Her mind had other thoughts on it and one of those were on looking for the baseball friend who seems to be not inside the place along with everyone else. So she stands up and begins looking around at the aftermath of last night's party everyone had after the challenge which mentally drained them all...looks like the previous night physically drained them all.

"STOP IIIT!" Another voice catches her attention by screaming very loudly, this scream sounded like it belonged to someone that's currently suffering and is screaming out of agony. Although loud stuff wasn't something she really didn't mind the fact a scream like this had so abruptly came out of nowhere and it contained feelings that were flat out bloodcurdling. Miriam turns around to look over at the source of the sound with her intentions being unknown since there wasn't really a plan in her mind.

"...Evan? Are you having a nightmare?" Miriam questions in her mind once her eyes had seen that the source for the scream that had not failed to catch her attention belonged to the guy she remembers having argued with the previous day. From what they discussed, it didn't seem likely that the guy who claimed killing people in the name of the greater good is the right thing to do would be having such a nightmare, but what does she know? She's just another teenager caught up with a bunch of other teenagers fighting and breaking each other for the chance to win a lot of money. However, this fiery teenager didn't want to just take other people down and so she walked over to Evan Herbert with the intention of helping him out.

"STOP IT RIGHT NOW! THIS CAN'T BE REEEAL!" Evan's shouting only continued and indeed he's sleeping on the floor but tears appeared to be coming out of his closed eyes. His entire body's shaking and moving around very frantically yet this didn't get him anywhere and his hands were trying to grab onto the ground below him but were unable to get a good grip because of what it's made out of. Eventually his eyes shoot open and he sits up almost immediately once this happens, upon waking up he slowly takes his time to catch his breath before noticing that someone is standing right beside him.

"Looks like that wasn't quite the beauty sleep you were hoping for." Miriam awkwardly tries making a joke, however from the lack of response this joke received it sounded like it didn't work out.

"It was all just a dream...that's good to know...it was all just a bad dream that'll never become real, right?" Evan thinks to himself once he turned his attention away from the dancer and started to take in what had been going through his mind as he slept. What in the world his 'dream' had been about isn't something that's very clear to the girl that's trying to think of a way to help him out. For all she knew he'd been probably remembering their argument yesterday and just wanted to not argue with someone for once in this godforsaken game, but she knew that the possibility of that was unlikely.

"Right, how in the world do I cheer someone up? Sure he's someone else gunning for the wi-" Miriam's thoughts on how to deal with the situation come to an immediate stop and she giggled to herself once a realization came to her mind. Connecting the dots became easy for her to do especially when remembering the events which have happened to the officer-in-training over the course of this season. But finding some kind of way to say the right words was tricky for her to do and she closed her eyes to help herself to come up with ideas until, "...What would Kyle do?"

"Sorry if I d-disturbed you, my mind just decided to make me scream for some strange reason." Evan apologizes for possibly disturbing the girl, being a hindrance to other people wasn't a thought that eased his mind.

"Look Evan, if you've got any problems then you can tell me about them, so just tell me your issues and maybe that'll help solve your problems." Miriam attempts to act like the therapist her friend constantly acted like towards her.

"Don't w-worry about me, I'll be fine and besides you should be more focused on winning the game since that's been your goal this entire time hasn't it?" Evan appears to be trying to divert the topic of conversation off of him.

"Obviously I'm here to win the millions and will definitely make sure to win this competition in order to do it, but that doesn't mean I'll just leave everyone in the dust since if there's one thing that Jun has miraculously taught me is that when you only care about yourself, you're destined to never fit in with anyone and considering the people who vogue dance with me I'd hate for them to break away from me." Miriam admits while sitting on the ground and she lets out a sigh once her sentence is finished.

"That explains why you don't want to be alone, but what does that have to do with helping other people?" Evan questions as he continues to face the vogue dancer.

"...Dunno, guess trying to help other people isn't something that can really be explained but it's sorta like an instinct." Miriam admits with her shoulders shrugging, this answer seemed to confuse the teen she's speaking with.

"That sounds extremely flawed, what if you help out the wrong person?"

"I'll simply hunt them down and get my revenge on them for having tricked, bamboozled, and led me astray from what I'd intended to do."

"What if the actions you'll need to do in order to help others out goes against your moral code?"

"As long as it involves bringing someone up and not taking other people down, then there's no problem in doing that 'cause in my eyes since morality is just an excuse for people to label themselves."

"Why would you really just rely on an instinct in order to out other people?"

"Well, do I even need a reason? If you're someone I feel like helping then I'm going to at the very least try helping you out, whether or not the reasons are actually logical doesn't matter to me." Miriam explains before putting her hands on the ground and she straightens her legs out on the floor. Her head is then directed towards the roof of the party house they've been having this discussion in and it looks like more thoughts began running through her mind before a smile appeared on her face.

"Are you sure that you'd like for me to explain my s-situation to you?" Evan asks nervously, truly he seemed very reluctant to inform the girl he's speaking with about his problems. However this response seemed to catch Miriam's attention and she turned her head to look back over at him with a sigh of relief leaving her mouth.

"Of course, even though we had an argument yesterday which you lost, I'm still willing to help you out because you just seem like someone that needs it right about now." Miriam answers with the smile on her face remaining.

"Okay..." Evan gives in to her request and he closes his eyes.

"Obviously his nightmare probably relates to guns and 'killing' Lia yesterday so maybe he's reliving the trauma of committing murder?" Miriam takes a shot for guessing what in the world did Evan have a nightmare about. Although it was obvious what must've been one of the main factors in the dream was indeed the object he's held multiple times since every time she's seen him hold the object, his body always shook and nothing but hesitation clearly went through his body once a gun had always been in his hands. To make matters worse the previous challenge where his shot accidentally killed someone must've traumatized him further, obviously it was all virtual and a fantasy but the emotions he'd felt were real and deeply affected him...and of course, Miriam knew this fact very well and could relate to it especially when it came to Lia's 'death'.

"The first thing that happened in my dream was that a gun had been in my hands once again, but this time around I'd been wearing my police officer clothing and from what it looked like some sort of criminal with red eyes and apparently I'd stumbled into a hostage situation where this criminal demanded for me to not shoot them or else the person they had would be killed. Two options were quite clearly presented in front of me, shoot the criminal and risk taking an actual life and killing someone that had nothing to do with the situation, or let them go and fail everything that my parents have tried standing for and let police officers continue to have a bad name all because I'd been unwilling to sacrifice a few lives to save more lives. Within that thought process my dad's words started to echo through my mind where he'd told me the thing which scared him once he'd applied into becoming a police officer...and that was the question they asked him: Would you pull the trigger no matter who's in front of you, in order to save lives?"

"..." Miriam was absolutely speechless when it came to listening to this story she's being told.

"A-And th-then...a-a body dropped onto the f-floor...a-a-and it w-was...Jackie's...another body d-dropped and it was A-Alex's body...and th-then...my p-parents...a-and L-Lia's..." Evan's tears began flooding out his eyes and now he'd felt the emotions that caused his screaming earlier with the worst part being that Miriam now couldn't blame him for his emotions he'd shown earlier. If she was placed in his position then chances are she would've probably been traumatized by the dream since the dream did get vague but it was probably better that things got less clear as the scene went on considering the implications alone. But at this point she knows that action needs to be taken and that there was some kind of option that she could suggest that has the best chance of helping Evan out.

"...I think you should take yourself out of the game."


Sometime during the conversation going on, two more teenagers seemed to have woken up with the one which the current camera's focusing on being someone that had black eyes and seemed to not really be in the best mood upon waking up. Their eyes looked around the place before they noticed some glasses which they picked up and put on some cracked black square glasses before standing on their feet. With their glasses on, it became clear that this person was the first person taken out of the previous challenge Jared August Monuel.

"What was that screaming about?" Jared asks in his mind, he then looks around the place before noticing that Miriam's walking over to Evan who seemed like he'd just woken up from a nightmare. Although a part of him is curious over what happened, his eyes were able to see something else of note even in spite of the crack in the glasses he's wearing. What really caught his attention was the fact that someone else was awake and staring at the ground. So he does the first action that comes to his recently switched-on brain and he walks over to this person until eventually his eyes are able to identify who the person is.

"Hannah? Are you doing okay?" He asks once he'd reached Hannah, the heartthrob seems to snap out of her thoughts and she looks over at the guy who decided to approach her. To the perfectionist, what could be going through her mind is something that's hard to guess but the only possible conclusion that he could logically come to is that her mind must've been thinking of Fergy. Although what in the world could he exactly do about it without the highly likely chance he could mess things up is something that he's trying to think of a solution to, but maybe he'd need to speak with her first in order to figure things out.

"Yeah, I'm doing alright Jared!" Hannah cheerfully states before standing up and smiling at the guy with absolutely no signs of deep-thinking like she had just been showing moments ago.

"This could be my mind clouding my judgement again but I doubt that." Jared responds before narrowing his eyes, from the looks of this it would appear that currently he's trying to analyze her.

"What makes you think that? Do you think you know me inside out?~" Hannah's voice suddenly has a flirty and sweet tone behind it.

"You're just trying to make me flustered aren't you? If so then I'm pretty sure you forgot I was on the same team as Ciara Yates." Jared confirms himself to have been completely unaffected by the change in voice.

"...And just like always you seem like someone I've got no chance of fooling." Hannah gives up on her act and the smile on her face immediately goes away, she even lets out a sigh of defeat.

"You don't have to flatter-"

"In all fairness, you can't fool me either, since I'm pretty sure you're just speaking with me in order to get your mind off Lia, right?~" A smirk grows onto Hannah's face once these words come out of her mouth.

"..." Jared goes completely quiet and his eyes start looking towards the ground, this basically confirms that what the heartthrob said is completely true.

"Can't blame you in all honesty, when someone you know starts using fighting words then it's quite scary especially since the person we're both talking about is someone who seemed so nice and lovely." Hannah says while her eyes remain focused on the unresponsive contestant.

"Considering how quickly your moods switch I'm pretty sure you'd know a thing or two about people being drastically different from how they normally act, how's it feel like being an upcoming actor for the movie Vince and Alex's movie?" Jared questions by bringing in something that causes the blonde-haired actor.

"Looks like your memory space is much bigger than mine if you're able to remember something that felt like it happened ages ago, but to answer your question it's not something I'm sure will go well with just the three of us." Hannah answers with some giggling exiting from her mouth.

"Lia could probably help you three out, she's used to filming stuffs and-"

"Are you trying to sell your unofficial yandere girlfriend off to us?" Hannah fires off a question of her own with a tilted head.

"Selling other people out for any reason isn't something I'll ever do, since friendships matter much more than any title or money for me..." Jared's eyes looks at the face of Hannah for a split second and he noticed the slight eyebrow raise she had before he looks back at the ground, "My suggestion was just to help you and the others out since I'm not exactly wrong, although I'll admit that it's for me to give myself time to think about the whole situation with Lia."

"I'm surprised you're telling me all this, especially since the last time we met, you found out I'd been lying to the entire team." Hannah states with an eyebrow raised, however it was more noticeable and clear this time around.

"Obviously you weren't proud of it and the fact you grew close to the person you tried framing pretty much taught me that even if you're going to try and be a strategic player, you're still playing the social game alongside it and both of them counteract each other so drastically that it'll lead to you either eliminating me or keeping me in the game, both of which are things I don't mind at this point." Jared explains and finally his eyes came in contact with the girl he's speaking with and stayed on her for more than a split second.

"What? You don't care-?"

"Obviously I'll try winning since there's some friends of mines who'd like to see that happen so they're why I'm still going to win this, that and because I'd like for the situation between me and Lia to be resolved before we're eliminated." Jared interrupts the actor and he turns his head to look over at the girl he's referring to, and then loud snoring is heard coming from the youtuber offscreen.

"...Hey Jared? Would you consider me as one of your friends?" Jared hears the question asked towards him, this causes him to look back over at Hannah who was currently tapping her fingers together and waiting with anticipation to hear what he would answer with. Her eyes were even directed towards the fingers she's pressing against each other and some sweat began slowly going down her face which helped to give off the impression that she's anxious about his answer. All of these motions added together made Jared feel like he absolutely needed to tell her the truth and so he opened his mouth to answer it.

"I-"

"..." Before any other words could be said, the perfectionist's glasses were seen falling onto the ground and the lenses on it cracked even further once it bounced off the ground and landed upside down. Slowly but surely the camera started panning up to show what caused this and the body of the glasses owner had completely frozen up with his right foot now behind him, his arms were even completely tensing up while they were dangling in the air. On the other hand, the young actor's posture is completely different since she's seen... leaning towards him and her hands were intertwined behind her back but that much didn't matter because once the camera eventually reached their heads...

They were seen kissing. Hannah eventually pulled away from it but she did this very slowly and her eyes seemed to oddly have some shock behind them as if she wasn't expecting that. Jared just stood in place and his body's seen shaking very heavily before he falls onto the ground with his eyes remaining completely fixated on the girl who had just kissed him from seemingly nowhere.

"..." The two of them were seen just staying in place for what felt like forever before the heartthrob turns around and runs off without saying anything else. This left the perfectionist on the ground and all he could do was just stay on the ground and try to process the turn of events that conversation had taken, however doing that in itself was a challenge for him. Meanwhile, Hannah's seen outside of the place which the discussion had just taken place in and she leans against the wall before looking up into the skies and letting out a sigh and smiling.

"...Fergy, I'm sorry but you weren't on my mind at all..."

Then, she closed her eyes and her smile slowly went away.

"...Sorry for what I did Jared, but your answer to my question scared me more than I thought..."

Back in the building, another person seemed to have been awake but this person seemed to have their eyes opened, how long they were open for was unknown though. However the person who woke up didn't sit up until the blonde had ran out of the building and instead rubbed her green eyes before looking around the place. Obviously this person could only be Lia who noticed the perfectionist is sitting on the ground and thinking to himself about the events which just transpired, unlike the previous challenge the first thought which came to her mind was for her to help him out and so she stands up before walking over to him.

"Hey-" Before she could finish her sentence, Jared springs onto his feet and tries getting away from her but almost immediately he stumbles to the point of falling onto the ground. He flips himself around and begins looking at the girl he's been very notably close with throughout the duration of this competition.

"D-Did you see a-anything that j-just happened?" Jared nervously asks the girl standing above him, his eyes try grabbing onto the floor but they're unable to get a grip onto them. Slowly but surely the normal smile which is on the optimist's face begins fading away and her eyes start turning into the color which the pessimist recognizes all too well from the previous times he's seen them. He shakily gets back onto his feet and puts his hands on her shoulders while staring into her eyes with a look of fear in his ones.

"I did see what happened, and honestly I'm tired of her getting in between us!" Red-Eyed Lia declares before she tries walking forward, however the perfectionist keeps himself positioned in front of her.

"Don't h-hurt her! P-Please, just stop getting like this! I haven't seen you act like this that much but seeing you act like this isn't something I'd like so please just stop turning into this...thing!" Jared tries convincing her and his grip on her shoulders strengthen while he continues to try and make sure he doesn't fall over. Luckily for him, the girl stopped in her tracks and blinked a few times before looking right into his soul with her glowing blood-thirsty eyes.

"I've always been this way...I just kept it hidden from my viewers and you just so you all would keep seeing me as the person I've always shown myself to be in front of everyone, but all people have their breaking points and personally I'm tired of seeing man-eaters trying to constantly take someone who I've tried my best to constantly keep in the game against his own wishes and beliefs. And after what happened to you last challenge there's NO WAY IN HELL I'M LETTING ANYONE TAKE YOU AWAY FROM ME!" Red-Eyed Lia explains before she grabs Jared by his shirt and lifts him into the air.

"W-WHY M-ME?! WHAT MADE YOU FALL FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME?!" Jared loudly asks as he struggles to try and get out of her hold.

"Because you're cute, humble, nice, the fact you've helped me out with my videos, and so many other things about you that you don't acknowledge because you don't like to focus on yourself and that's the best yet worst part about you!" Red-Eyed Lia loudly explains before she uses both her arms to slam the guy into the floor. This causes the perfectionist to grit his teeth in pain once he feels his back crash into the cherry wood floor beneath them and the pieces of the wood fly out from below him. His eyes were starting to close but his face was directed towards the girl who he once saw as someone who was completely nice towards everyone and didn't like harming others, was now trying to put him down in order to hurt others and his head slowly turned to his left.

"I-I'm s-sorry..." Jared simply says before his eyes close completely.

"Same her-" Red-Eyed Lia started to respond while a look of sadness started to appear on her face and her red eyes began slowly started to turn green once these words had begun to come out of her mouth...however-

Thud.

She was in fact cut off in the middle of her sentence and the next thing which is caught by the camera is the body of the person whose eyes were once red falling onto the ground and causing the 'thud' noise. Tears started coming out of her closed eyes and these were seen falling onto the ground below her, however she also had a bruise on her left cheek and a tooth right beside her. Once she's seen knocked out, Jared opens his eyes and intentionally looks away from the direction that the knocked out girl had fallen down in.

"Th-Thanks for the help." Jared simply responds to what just happened and the screen shows that Evan and Miriam were unconscious on the ground which explains why they didn't react to anything that just happened. Once this is revealed, the pessimistic perfectionist sits himself up and looks at the person who had helped him out of the situation he'd gotten wrapped up in.

"No problem, friend!" A voice that sounded very loud and boisterous responded to the thanking they'd just received. Sure enough the camera revealed the person to have been Leon Salvatore and Leon's seen holding out his hand for the downed contestant to grab his hand. Jared accepts the hand and lets the brawler pull him onto his feet.

"You can l-leave me by myself now? I'll need some time to try and-" Jared is abruptly cut off in the middle of his sentence by being thrown across the room before he could even move an inch once he got back onto his feet. During this throw his eyes remained on Leon who kept smiling at him and feigned innocence with his facial expressions before Jared crashed through the wall of the building. Once his body goes through the wall it rolls onto the grass outside and now a bunch of scratch marks were seen all over his body.

"JARED!" Hannah yells out once she sees this happened, this interrupts her moment of silence to herself and she runs over to the severely-hurt perfectionist. Jared's hands were seen clutching onto the ground and he slowly tries getting himself back onto his feet but his body collapses and he falls onto the ground once again. Hannah sits down right next to him before she looks around inside the building to see that almost everyone was on the ground with their eyes closed...except for two people and one person who is seen barely conscious.

"J-Jared...N-No..." Lia whispers with her eyes open but only ever-so-slightly and she holds out her right hand towards the general direction which Jared had been knocked out in. But she's stomped right in the back of her head which causes it to be smashed through the floor and this stomp causes her entire body to go limp. Once the foot got itself off her head, the person walked away from her body and left her unconscious.

"If she was actually in her Red Eyes mode, then that would've been far more enjoyable but I think I've found enough entertainment for myself~" Leon thinks in his mind and the smile on his face remains all the while he casually walks around the place with his eyes scanning the area. Looks like most people who should logically be present (so everyone who hasn't been seen leaving the room) were all on the ground, but there was one exception to this rule that seemed to have brought him ever more joy. Soon after he walks out of the building and from the looks of things, it looks like he's planning to find someone which he knows all too well, this much was made clear before the door had been slammed shut.

"...THANKGODIKNOWHOWTOFAKESLEEP! Also, WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!" Alex suddenly yelled out once the other contestant had left the room and he dropped a book onto the ground which had been titled 'Glow Saturn Evangeleon' before it bounces off the ground. From his reaction alone it was easy to tell that he'd pretty much seen everything that just occurred and needed to take some time to himself thinking about what just happened.

"First there's Lia with her red eyes and now there's Leon with a evil smile, and the later just knocked out Miriam and Evan by karate chopping their necks because of course he can do that now! Then he goes and beats the crap out of Lia and Jared right before Lia could knock out her unofficial boyfriend for having kissed Hannah! And I'm pretty much the only person staying out of this but I've gotta get involved in this soon so that means I'll have to try and figure out what to do without getting into that much drama because shows like these already have enough of this stuff going on!" Alex begins pulling his hair from everything he'd witnessed and all the thoughts going through his mind.

"Alex!" Another voice is heard shouting out as footsteps got closer to the guy-with-glasses.

"That voice could only belong to one person who hasn't been knocked out yet, mainly because I've got no idea where Sunny, Chloe, or Kyle or and I'm pretty sure Chloe wouldn't call me by my actual name." Alex swiftly continues to think inside his head instead of just looking at the person who's trying to catch his-

"Alex Jones! Hannah Jordan is trying to speak with you." Hannah clearly wanted to say what just got on her mind quickly, she even waves her hand in front of his face to increase her chances of getting noticed. Luckily for her, Alex did turn to his right in order to look at her with the door that the brawler left through now being on his left.

"Sorry for not answering you sooner, Jared will be able to get up in about ten minutes so he's fine for now, surprisingly enough the walls in this building aren't all that painful to crash through." Alex seems to have immediately known what the heartthrob had been planning to ask him and already had gotten an answer to her question. This caused a sigh of relief to exit out of the blonde actor's mouth.

"Good to hear... Any ideas where everyone else could be?" Hannah questions before she begins pacing around in a small circle.

"Nope, I only woke up once I'd overheard Evan screaming, since that's just about loud enough to wake anyone up." Alex explains with a frown slowly starting to appear on his face.

"Gotcha, What's up with the look on your face? It looks like you're probably thinking of doing something you definitely don't want to do." Hannah guesses once she's seen his expression.

"Of course you'd figure out that much, anyways we'll have to find some kind of way to deal with Leon since voting him out might not do much since he can probably just beat up the producers and it seems that taking him to court won't do much either, and that'll only make him more pissed off at us which means we will have to find some kind of way to calm down." Alex starts to assess the situation regarding the brawler.

"If that's the case then does that mean we'll have to decide to work with Leon or go against him in order to try and attempt to calm him down?" Hannah asks with an emotionless look on her face all of a sudden.

"Sounds like it...or maybe, we can avoid making that choice!" Alex seems to have just now come up with an idea, he turns around and starts running towards the door of the building.

"Where are you going?!" Hannah attempts to question him, however the door is heard shutting before the answer to her question could be heard. Once this happens her eyes close and she turns around before opening her eyes and directing them towards one of the people on the ground. Oddly enough the person she'd chosen to look at is Evan Herbert and once she reaches him she takes a knee besides his unconscious body.

"If sides are being chosen, it looks like yours has already been decided."

*Flashback Begins*

Almost everyone was seen on the ground with smiles on their faces, there was a disco ball hanging from the ceiling, a stage where anyone could dance on or sing karaoke, and there was a table that had a bowl of punch with some packs of cheeseballs beside it. Currently the only people who seemed to be left standing from not partying themselves to sleep were Hannah (who's just outside the building trying to play a song using a tablet connected to some speakers inside the building that's meant to provide music for the place), Evan (who's drinking some of the punch with a red cup), and Leon (who's just standing in a dark corner of the room). However, Leon comes out of his corner and starts walking over to the officer-in-training while the heartthrob just continues to search for a song. From the looks of things it looks like these events are taking place from the previous night.

"Hey Evan...let's talk~" Hannah suddenly heard the voice of the lionheart brawler, however it didn't sound loud like it normally did and it sounded like there was a devious tone behind it.

"Oh, Leon. I definitely don't mind speaking with you, especially since last night's challenge ended very roughly for the both of us." Evan states before he shudders upon remembering the events which had taken place only a few hours ago.

"You're not wrong about that, only following Jun's perspective for the rest of the challenge after you die was definitely the cruelest thing to grant us." Leon agrees with what's been spoken to him, his voice still remained surprisingly quiet all the while.

"No kidding, also it sounds like you've gotten over your yelling problem so great jo-!" Evan started to cheerily respond, but for some odd reason he'd stop speaking in the middle of his sentence. Hannah raised an eyebrow since a part of her began wondering what in the world would cause him to stop speaking in the middle of his sentence. So she tries figuring this out by crawling over to the closest window and she stands up to look through it, during this the tablet autoplays the next song which is heard playing inside the building.

Ben Platt-Waving Through A Window [From Dear Evan Hansen]

"I've learned to slam on the break, Before I even turn the key."

Evan is seen holding a gun in his hand now and his entire body immediately starts shaking.

"Before I make the mistake. Before I leave with the worst of me."

"You want to be an officer, don't you?~" Leon asks with some giggling escaping his mouth.

"Give them no reason to stare."

"Even if kids would pick on you for it." Leon states while wrapping an arm around Evan's neck.

"No slipping up if you slip away."

"Even if they'd hate you for it." Leon adds onto his words before he pulls the charging handle on the revolver.

"So I've got nothing to share, no I've got nothing to say-aay."

"Even if you'd be chastised because of police officers' bad reputation where you live." Evan starts breathing in and out very quickly.

"Step out, Step out of the sun if you keep getting burned."

"Even if you'd be outcasted and burnt by everyone else." Leon's words start to oddly go along with the song.

"Step out, Step out of the sun because you've learned, Because you've leeearned."

"In fact, you distanced yourself from others at school because of it!~" Leon excitedly exclaims with nothing but joy in his voice.

"On the outside, always looking in, Will I-"

"Y-Yeah...I-I d-did." Evan, on the other hand, seemed to be getting overwhelmed with everything being told to him.

"Ever be more than I've always been?"

"Well then, save everyone here~" Leon says with a smirk now on his face.

"'Cause I'm tap, tap, tappin' on the glass."

This person then grabs onto Evan's hand in order to press the gun against his chest.

"I'm Wavin' Through A Window, I-"

"W-What?!" Evan shouts with his eyes widening.

"Try to speak, but nobody can hear, so I-"

"Shoot me." Leon casually says before his smirk goes away.

"Wait around for an answer to appear-"

Now there was nothing but an emotionless look on his face while he stared into Evan's eyes.

"While I'm watch, watch, watchin' people pass."

"Shoot me if you want to save everyone here." Leon confirms in a completely serious tone.

"I'm Wavin' Through A Windooow."

"S-Shoot y-you?! I-I-I-!" Evan continues to panic at the situation going on right now.

"Can anybody see? Is anybody Waviiin'-"

"Too late~" Leon's wide smile appears on his face.

"Back at me?"

The next thing seen is Evan falling onto the ground while Leon catches the gun which the officer-in-training had dropped during his fall.

*Cuts Off*

"You took too long in making your decision, hesitation like that will only end in the people around you being killed because if you're not willing to do anything for the greater good then that'll lead to you and the people close to you biting the dust sooner rather than later...so make sure to make your next decision by the time we meet next time because it's quite simple: You can either work with me or against me." Leon speaks to the now unconscious contestant before he opens up the bullets for the revolver to show that it actually had no bullets inside of it. So he just throws it inside of the bowl of punch before the brawler simply walks all the way back into his corner with his hands inside his pockets. Hannah gulps once she'd seen all of this go down and she crawls away from the window not long after.

*Flashback Ends*

"Sorry Evan, but for the sake of my game I'll have to let you deal with your situation alone." Hannah confirms before she walks back on over to the perfectionist who's still unconscious outside of the building.


*The Woods*

"Thank god that piece of crap wannabe-god was eliminated yesterday, it looks like Miriam's going to be a tough opponent in the competition but I'm sure I'll be able to defeat her anyways but she does have my respect for that battle yesterday. Speaking of which, I hope Leo will get out of his crappy mindset I've got him into since he's got the best chance of fighting me and maybe...just maybe, it'll show my sister to not be scared of me." Sunny is currently getting lost in his thoughts while he walks around the woods. However his walk was interrupted by some footsteps which were getting closer to him which he didn't notice or pay attention to until-

"You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this~" Sunny heard a voice behind him and he stopped in his tracks all the while the camera focused on his eyes. His eyes start to narrow and he begins clenching his teeth, in his mind the person to whom this voice belonged to is someone that he is aware he shouldn't mess around with. From the words he was hearing, this person appears to hold some kind of grudge against him and so he begins turning to look at the person who has chosen to challenge him.

"Honestly I'm not in the fighting mood, my mind is currently on other-" Sunny cuts himself off after his eyes gazed upon the person he originally wanted to dismiss without causing much havoc. But his mouth slowly began to form a smile, for some reason he looked to be happy with the person standing in front of him and he laughed a little bit while his eyes widened. Some words came out his mouth once he'd been able to regain his composure however.

"Looks like all my effort placed into you wasn't worthless, BECAUSE YOU'VE UNLOCKED YOUR POTENTIAL AT LONG LAST!"

"Thanks for helping me achieve my potential~ Because now I can once again show the world why I'm the Hero of Spain~"

"That's absolutely excellent to hear, looks like you're not weak like you were before, that'll make the two of us working together even better!"

"...Oh, You think I'm working with someone pathetic like you?~"

"Huh?" Sunny's smile begins slowly going away and his eyes begin narrowing once again. The person he's seen speaking with is Leon Salvatore who is seen standing right in front of him now. Leon was smiling, but... it looked like the face of an Oni as Leon's sharp teeth were showing and his eyes... his eyes looked quite... cold and dull, but they were showing immense anger and malice... his voice was dripping with sadism and anticipation for what his next course of action will be.

"I'll thank you for being one of the reasons for me achieving my potential... however that doesn't meant I'll listen to you, after all the two of us are on this show to win it and unfortunately for you, you don't exactly fit in with my plans and unlike before I'm not going to let you simply beat me up because you're a insecure and pitiful human who only picks on others because neither your dad, mom, cousins, or stupid sister taught you that beating down others is a prick move. But with what I've already done and will do in this game, I suppose I won't be much better than you~" Leon explains before he begins slowly making his way over to the person who had abused him throughout most of the pre-merge.

"SHUT UP! JUST BECAUSE YOU'VE GOTTEN STRONGER DOESN'T MAKE ME-!" Sunny screams at the top of his lungs as he lunges forward to try and attack the person standing in his way. During this, Leon simply got into an MMA stance in response to this, specifically he went with the Counter Strike Style. Seeing this, Sunny stops talking and chooses to instead jump into the air to try and land a kick on the brawler's head.

"At least you're not hesitating~" Leon is heard responding, before the delinquent could respond his leg feels a hand wrap around his right ankle which makes him clench his teeth again. He tries using his other leg to stomp on the head of Salvatore but he's thrown through the air before being able to do this.

"DIDN'T I TELL YOU TO SHUT UP ALREADY!?" Sunny angrily asks after he landed back on his feet. Instead of doing the exact same thing, he rips two branches from the tree to his right and he begins running at the monster which he's trying to prove himself against, he wasn't using Bastons but these were the best things he got. This monster simply kept the smile he's had on his face this entire time.

"Would you like for me to get serious?~" Leon simply asks, this time he gets into a different MMA stance which is the Muay Thai Style (somewhat). His opponent simply raises his left arm above him before swinging it down, but the brawler uses his right hand to grab his wrist to prevent this. Sunny then tries to quickly use the branch to poke Leon's left eye-

CRACK!

"Because I will finish you off." Leon states with his smile going away for a single moment, his face temporarily had nothing but seriousness and pure-hatred behind it... from his narrowed eyes which were laser-focused on the person in front of them which made him look like a predator scouting their prey... that wasn't all since his mouth formed a frown and he begins grinding his teeth against each other. The camera finally cuts to the person that this monster has just turned into their victim and shows that his left hand has gone entirely limp and isn't moving around at all, the stick he'd tried using as a weapon then fell onto the ground. Sunny's pupils had completely shrunk and he slowly looks over at his left hand, before he could process what's happened he's pulled in by The Lionheart Brawler.

"H-"

"Shut up~" Leon says before his wide smile and malice-filled eyes return when he speaks these words, then he grabs onto Sunny's left shoulder using one hand. Without hesitation he uses his other hand to karate chop his shoulder.

CRACK!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" Sunny's entire left arm goes limp.

"Don't worry about it, you'll be healed up before the challenge. Besides this is all my thanks for making me believe that I'd always been the most pathetic person who couldn't fight, but let's just say I've have my breaking point and from this moment onward I'll show you just how weak you are because Chloe helped me realize that people like you will just continue to beat me down, so now I'll be beating everyone in this competition in anyway I see fit and I will make sure to show you just how outclassed you are by someone like me!" Leon declares before pushing the head of his opponent who stumbles away.

"I-I..."

"You'll what?~" The Monsterheart Brawler questions with a condescending toned voice, however Sunny simply walks up to him very slowly before looking up and into his eyes.

"I'LL GET MY REVENGE ON YOU! WINNING THIS SHOW WILL HELP ME MOVE FORWARD IN LIFE AND I WON'T LET SOMEONE LIKE YOU STOP ME FROM ACHIEVING THE CHANCE TO GET OUT OF MY CURRENT LIFE! YOU MAY LOOK DOWN ON ME NOW BUT WHAT I'VE DONE BEFORE WON'T EVEN COMPARE TO ALL THE SHIT I'LL PUT YOU THROUGH! IN FACT I'LL START OFF MY REVENGE BY TAKING YOU DOWN RIGHT-!"

CRACK!

"Pathetic."

"DAMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!" Sunny once again screams once his right arm's seen having been completely folded into the direction they weren't supposed to be. Once this finished, the delinquent's eyes begin to actually start tearing up at the pain both his arms are feeling and his inability to move of them in order to defend himself against what was going to happen next. Currently his entire body's shaking in pain and although he is still standing, the tears in his eyes and the fact he couldn't use his arms pretty much showed the brawler all he needed to.

"Now...more of my revenge will be hitting you soon enough~" Leon ends off his absolute dismantling of the ironically-named guy by turning around and he starts walking away from him with a satisfied smile on his face. Unfortunately enough, he stops walking and his eyes look behind him to glare at the teen with a look in his eyes that contains disgust towards him for all the things he's done to him and you could tell from this alone that one thing was for sure...he wasn't done yet. Even with the tears in his eyes, Sunny could see the look in his enemy's eyes and it slowly began to dawn on him just how screwed he was and just how badly things were going to end for him.

"...Is this what he felt?" Sunny thinks to himself while everything slows down around him and he watches the punch go towards him. Next thing he knew, a punch had been delivered directly into his face which sent him flying off the ground. This punch sent him through multiple trees which all fell down around the two contestants. After his back had taken most of the force of breaking trees, the body of the delinquent rolled on the ground and his body had gone completely limp with his eyes now being closed. Not much longer later someone else is heard running towards the area which the assault had basically taken place in and the person is revealed to be Tara who wastes no time picking Sunny off the ground and she places him on a stretcher she'd brought with her.

"What was the purpose of attacking all the contestants?" Tara chooses to question Leon.

"I just wanted to see if anyone could provide me with any entertainment." Leon answers her without any hesitation, then he turns around and begins walking away from the scene.

"That's so simple-minded, anyways Chris wanted me to inform you and the others that there's not going to be a challenge or elimination tonight." Tara confirms before she begins rolling the stretcher away but her head remains looking towards the brawler.

"Fantastic~" Leon says which causes the conversation between the two of them to end while they continue to walk towards opposite directions.

"..." Alex remains completely silent as he steps out from behind one of the trees, his eyes behind his glasses start observing the area and he turns his head to look at the cause of the multiple trees which had fallen. All that he could do right now is just think to himself and his thoughts were,

"How are we going to turn you back into normal?"


*Time Skip*

Some time later, almost all the contestants were seen walking through the same area where there's still the fallen trees except for Sunny who was most likely still getting healed up and Leon. Evan's eyes were covered by his hair and out of everyone there he seemed to be walking the slowest since there's a good distance between him and the person in front of him, he even stumbled a bit here and there. Alex is the second-to-last person however this seemed intentional on his part since his eyes are focused on everyone around him and he seemed to slow down in order to allow his stumbling friend to catch up to him, compared to everyone else he seemed quite analytical. Lia looked away from the camera and a frown appeared to be on her face, unlike normal it seemed like she was trying to keep her distance away from Jared. Hannah seemed to have taken the role of being right by the perfectionist, but the two of them looked away from each other and neither of them were smiling either. Miriam had been in front of all of them and there was a look of confusion on her face due to the fact that she looks like she's got any idea on what's going on and the duo in front of her wasn't helping her confusion.

"Since when were Kyle and Chloe a duo? And why didn't Kahlin recognize me? I'm not one to stress out over other people but if his memories legitimately got erased that badly then it'll be awful for my game and mental state since he's my number one." Miriam wasn't feeling quiet and down like all the people behind her seemed to be feeling. Neither were the people in front of her, Chloe and Kyle who just spoke with each other very casually.

"Why's everyone seem to be sad behind us?" Kyle questions once he'd finished turning his head to look at everyone behind them.

"Don't worry about them, this game's going to have an individual winner so worrying too much about other people is pointless to do." Chloe answers his question by completely avoiding it.

"That sounds very cutthroat, also there's some Japanese writing on the trees around us." Kyle points out while literally pointing out words on the trees which seemed to have been carved out to make Katakana letters on some of the fallen trees.

"I assume you're going to tell me what they mean if you're pointing them out?" Chloe takes a guess upon noticing the Katakana also.

"Pretty much, they roughly translate into: Chloe-san, stay over here until I get here." Kyle becomes a translator for the time being.

"When'd you even learn to read Chinese?" Chloe questions while an eyebrow of her had been raised.

"There's actually quite a few Japanese urban legends, like the Yuurei and the Oni, so I've decided to learn some Japanese for the sake of further researching those things." Kyle explains quite casually.

"Alright then, I'll stay behind as you and everyone else go back to the cabin but make sure not to do anything behind my back, got it?" Chloe requests while staring into the baseballer's eyes.

"Don't worry, since we're such good friends you should know I'm not one to backstab others so you can trust me on that." Kyle responds, he continues to walk away and everyone else continues heading towards the direction he's currently in. Everyone eventually were out of sight and Chloe takes the time to lean against one of the trees that weren't on the ground and she impatiently taps her feet onto the ground. Currently her mood wasn't exactly the most relaxed and so she's hoping for the person that decided to hold her back to arrive soon or else she's going to lose it.

"Hello there...Chloe Broderick." A voice greets the contestant. This voice belonged to a girl that had red hair and her voice sounded quieter than other people's voices but it could still be heard quite clearly thanks to the quality of the microphones being used.

"Oh, aren't you one of Chris's unpaid interns which he treats like crap, right?" Chloe questions and she turns to her left to look at the person speaking with her, looks like she vaguely remembered the girl.

"Actually, I'm here because my contract wouldn't allow me to leave this show unless I appeared or competed on three seasons, so it was either this or go through hell again and the same remains the same for most of the others so that's why we're here. But in all our 'intern' eyes we're not interns but instead we're just people he works with in order to save ourselves from forcing ourselves to compete on one more season for this show, so you could say we see ourselves as paid workers...also my name is Yuki Miyamoto." Yuki explains while closing her eyes.

"So you've competed on this show before? Guess that explains why you and all the other interns seem to have had past connections with Chris and why none of you seem familiar to me." Chloe comments, clearly she didn't do too much research on the show before coming onto it. However a different question then entered her mind which she wasted no time asking, "Wait why wouldn't you want to take a third chance at winning so much money and becoming famous? You'd be an idiot if you don't want either of those things."

"Ever heard of a song called 'Ichiban no Takaramono'?" Yuki seems to completely avoid answering the question and she opens her eyes while looking at the night sky with a sad look on her face.

"No I haven't, also that doesn't answer my question!" Chloe starts to get immediately fed up with the girl she's having this conversation with.

"The song is completely in Japanese, however it's about someone speaking about what is their most precious treasure to them...and the bond they've built with someone is what they hold dearest to their heart because of all the time the two people have spent together, grown close with each other, and have been there for each other when they needed each other the most. Now that I think about it, maybe the reason why I've always pushed myself away from other people and why I got what I'd wanted the entire time at the expense of what could've been my most precious treasure...was because I didn't know how important something it was until it was gone." Yuki's voice sounded completely monotone and she did nothing but blink and continued to look up.

"Don't get why other people would be something that's so precious to you, in fact it sounds like you achieved your goal of winning a season of this show already so why are you upset that other people were affected along the way? This is all just a game of wits and besides, that means you had the spotlight all to yourself for beating everyone else in the competition so really that's the best thing that could've happened to you."

"...When I stabbed that knife right into Kaylee Jordan's back without really thinking things through and instead putting my goal in front of other people, that moment hurt me far more than I'd ever expected since it was in that moment I realized...she lost one of her most precious treasures, and now she's only got one left and it's that goddamn suicidal redhead...but seeing him comfort her when I left Kay completely shattered..." Yuki's voice trails off before she sniffs her nose.

"Well whether you like it or not, you're aware that the two of us both betrayed our own 'friends' in a game where betrayal should be expected and one that's at its most competitive when people do everything in order to achieve the goals they've got in their minds, it sounds like you misunderstood your goal but there's a difference between us and it's that I'm aware of my goals and will make sure to become so famous that my brother will be forgotten in the near future." Chloe confirms with a smile on her face, one thing was made clear by this point and it was that the intern and contestant both took their respective betrayals in different directions.

"Honestly you're probably right about that, however whether it was the goal I've truly wanted or not doesn't matter since it's the decision I've made and so I'll have to live by it since we're both people who have betrayed others although you do seem far less remorseful about it." Yuki admits with a sigh, her eyes then look around the forest both of them were speaking in, "And also you don't seem to respect the silence of nature."

"No idea what the hell the forest has to do with this conversation, it's just a background for our discussion that people are only ever worried about because it's useful for building all the stuff we need. Actually why did you even want to speak with me?!" Chloe yells out this last part, at this point of the conversation she seemed to be getting confused and frustrated with how the chat is going.

"I just wanted to speak with a fellow villain, I've made decisions based on impulses before so I guess you could say this is another of those times that's the case." Yuki answers her question before she turns her back to the other girl who's been known to backstab other people inside the game.

"Sounds convenient but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt since you took the time out of your day to speak with me so I'll allow you to walk away...but if the two of us ever meet again then you should know that my patience will be far shorter than your height." Chloe states to the girl that is six inches smaller than her in terms of height.

"...Burn." Yuki simply states as she turns her head to glare at the drummer, she then looks forward and walks off into the darkness of the forest without feeling the need to say anything else. Now that the conversation had wrapped up, Chloe yawned before she turned around and decided to run towards everyone else who had walked ahead of her. However, the red-haired female intern is seen walking past someone with black hair, the only thing which could be clearly seen is a coin that gets tossed into the air before it's caught by the person who seemed to have listened in on the conversation which had taken place.


*Elimination Ceremony*

Chris McLean stands right beside the campfire where most of the Eliminations of this season have taken place before he looks over at the last ten remaining torches which haven't been burnt by the fire. They each had the names of the last contestants in the competition: Alex, Chloe, Evan, Hannah, Jared, Kyle, Lia, Leon, Miriam and Sunny. His eyes were currently on the name which was third-to-last and he sighs once he'd remembered what hassle that name had brought to the competition just today alone.

"We really need to put a rule against violence outside of competitions, although we probably don't since it's good for increasing the drama between people." Chris looks at the camera and he speaks into it before letting out a chuckle. His sadistic smile appears on his face but he then hears someone walking towards him and so he turns to look over at the person. Sunny is the person walking over to him and the delinquent is currently looking towards the ground and his arms seemed to be limp since they were swinging around with each step he took.

"H-H-He...b-beat m-me...u-up..." Sunny could barely be heard whispering to himself, from the looks of things it looked like the beatdown he'd gotten earlier was still affecting him mentally. All of the pain that had been dealt to him earlier was something he wasn't used to and the fact he was severely beaten down like he had done to other people this past season is something he doesn't look like he'll forget soon. From the punch delivered to his face, to having both his arms rendered completely useless during the beatdown, and the fact that no matter what he said Leon always had the last word all completely clouded his mind and thoughts.

"Admittingly it was very difficult for us to heal you to the point we had to rely on someone outside the game to help out with getting you ready before tomorrow comes because Leon really did a number on you. Luckily you're all healed up but I'm curious as to what you're planning to do from here on out now that you were completely humbled by the contestant you broke yet didn't know how to fix~" Chris started to tease the person standing in front of him.

"You were the first child to walk and talk, you were also the first one to always cause trouble." An old-female's voice is heard speaking.

"I-I-I..."

"Don't give me that crap! You don't even care that Rainy's gone now, you're not going through ANY hard times! Hell, I'm pretty sure you're just intentionally trying to piss me off by telling me this!" Misty Persnisky's voice is heard next.

"I-I-I'll..."

"You're not allowed to speak with anyone else except your own family until your training is over, now, make sure to remember what I've taught you because in the real world you're only to get beaten up so your best option to retaliate...is to fight back." One more voice is heard.

"...I'll destroy him..." Sunny slowly turns his head to look up and he stares at the host.

"W-What?" Chris seemed to have been caught off-guard by this response and he took a few steps back.

"I'll do everything in my power to win this game, and I'll make sure to tear down Leon Salvatore's plans, body, and mind in order to do it because although he thinks he started a fight, he just started a war with someone who's got nothing to lose but everything to gain." Sunny confirms with a smile slowly appearing on his face.

"You should know that if you lose yourself in the game and focus on nothing but winning...then what your sister has always thought of you will become true." Chris points out once he seems to have calmed down.

"I-If we're going on this s-show then please promise me one thing...that you w-won't completely become a m-monster?" Rainy's voice is heard asking ever-so-nervously.

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"...What sister?" Sunny simply asks, this simple response causes Chris to grow a smile of his own at the words that he's just heard come out of his mouth. Finally, someone here is willing to do anything to win the game, and this someone wasn't some fool who believed they were untouchable, they were someone who knew the lengths they'd truly have to go in order to defeat another top player...however there could be a completely different reason he's smiling. Whatever the reason was, he began letting out a sadistic laugh since it looks like things would only improve in his eyes.

"Hahaha! I'll be keeping a close eye on you, Sunny Persnisky." Chris states after his laughing had started to calm down, right now he was absolutely invested in the events that he's just seen transpired.

"Destiny might've given me a role which involved me learning the ways of the underworld and leading my family through it, but the life I'm looking for goes completely against that. The life I'm looking for is far above all of that and I'll be making sure to lead only myself into the future that I want, against the future that fate tried bestowing upon me, and with the future that'll end with me being happy and satisfied with something else that isn't just fighting my stupid father thought would help me get over my grief. Now I wish that Rival guy was here, because from what I've heard about him it sounds like he can relate to the pain of suffering through something that you've never had much control over, and honestly I'm sure he would be someone I'd actually enjoy speaking with." Sunny gives a long speech which sounds like he's not talking to anyone and that the host of this show isn't standing behind him, because in his eyes there wasn't anyone else nearby. After finishing his speech he walks off into the darkness and it seemed like he showed no signs of fear of being in it, and eventually the delinquent is no longer able to be seen by the camera.

Total Drama: Move Along


Remaining Contestants:

The Final Ten: Alex Jones, Chloe Broderick, Evan Herbert, Hannah Jordan, Jared Monuel, Kahlin Mora, Lia Clemins, Leon Salvatore, Miriam Hakimi, and Sunny Persnisky.

Eliminated Contestants:

Kennedy (1st), Li (2nd), Vince (3rd), Jackie (4th), Brooke (5th), Rae (6th), Fergy (7th), Rainy (8th), Ciara (9th), Ingrid (10th), and Jun (11th).

Elimination Preventing Objects:

The Hidden Safety Necklace: Played by Fergy

The Hidden Invincibility Statue: ? (Fake Played by Jun)

The Hidden Immunity Idol: ?

And there's the first and probably only non-elimination episode for the competition parts of the season, now this chapter did not reach 20K+ words like my previous ones did although that might be a trend from here on out specifically due to the number of contestants shrinking so word lengths will definitely vary going forward. Also this is one of the Author's Notes where I don't have to apologize to a creator for eliminating their characters so there's that, but that aside this chapter is definitely here to set up the second-half of the season since the previous one definitely ended phase one of the story so this chapter is meant to set up things that'll definitely be important going forward. The reason for this one having no eliminations is because I want to introduce potential storylines for every characters before eliminating any of them since it could maybe change of your guesses, and because it just felt right to me story-wise.

This chapter also came out four months after the previous one so sorry for the long wait with it, it was just tricky to write since my ideas for this chapter were more vague and I had less direction with this one so trying to place everything together was definitely quite a challenge, and also because I've just been making sure to not force myself into writing this story since I'd constantly do that before. Hopefully this chapter was worth the long wait even if it was one of the shorter ones for this season. Fun fact, I'm reposting my Total Drama stories onto AO3 mainly due to the whole situation which had happened with another writer (Candela Monsoon A.K.A. Yerimnity) just in case the same things happen to my stories on this site.

Speaking of sites, I'll link my Discord server site right now!: discord . gg / MJ8qF9v (Just take away the spaces).

Now it's time for the Questions of the Day!:

(For those with OCs): What do you think of your OCs' chances of making it to the end now?

(For those without OCs): Did this chapter shake up any of your predictions for the future?

I'll also note one more thing...yes I placed in "Waving Through A Window" here because there's a movie called Dear Evan Hansen which will have this song in it, and if you don't know it's adapting the Broadway Musical of the same name and I absolutely love it, so yeah you could count that as advertisement even if the scene it was placed in was quite something. Also I plan to not do anymore Review Responses since they can be quite repetitive for me to respond to with me repeating myself and it also adds more words to the Author's Note than I think this section really deserves. I'll make sure to respond to things mentioned in reviews, it's just that it won't have it's own dedicated section anymore.

For example: Thank you to Nobody245, Yerimnity, gamergirl101, Epifanio Therion, Sephiria Arks, and Runami for all leaving reviews on my previous episodes!

Anyways, I hope this chapter was worth the wait and-!

PEACE OUT!