Dana and Aaron were walking through the dark of night, with Ivy driving a rather large pickup truck of sorts close behind them. In the bed of the truck, there were all of the contestants that were still in the game. Each of them was out cold, presumably just because it was the middle of the night. Every so often, they would take one of the survivors out of the truck's bed to set them down in the heavily forested area of the nature zone, making sure that not one person was too close to another. "Psst! Miss Dana!" Aaron whispered the kind of whisper that you would get out of someone who typically talked too loud. "How vill zey know vat to do if ve are just dumping zem here?"
"I've got that all taken care of, don't you worry 'bout a thing." Dana whispered back to her co-host, pulling a walkie talkie out of her coat pocket and wiggling it around a bit. "There isn't a single square foot of this island that doesn't have a speaker nearby…they'll hear the announcement. Speaking of announcements…I just reminded myself that I've got an intro I'm supposed to be doing! Last time, on Total Drama: Scrap Island, the remaining contestants finally got around to having their first actual challenge since the cooking challenge. It's a good thing, too, because I was certain that we were going to have another hostile takeover after the first two. Yves lied to Buck about Zane's intentions, and Buck revealed that he's been up to some shifty business of his own! Wonder how that's working out for him? Bah, I'm sure we'll find out soon enough. Fridge let Caleb know that Yves didn't want to be his friend, and the deadly alliance of five members has got their eyes set on her now. Zane did try to warn her, although to no avail. Valerie also revealed that she's been carving the mysterious picks and taking pictures of Buck, talk about a weird twist! When we got to the challenge, it was relatively simple: use pieces of scrap to build a sculpture that looks like the image on your team's sign. The Squirrels were a bit astonished to see Buck tearing up the picture after he saw it, and even more astonished when he showed that he had memorized the entire thing. That hillbilly never fails to impress us. On the other end of things, Caleb and Celeste found themselves arguing over how they should make their sculpture, which inevitably ended in them destroying it and losing the challenge for their team. It was a tie in the elimination ceremony, but in the tie breaker challenge, it was just too hard for Celeste to get her hands on that little weasel, and he knocked her out of the mud pit, and the competition! The Dingos have still got a lead of one teammate, but that may not even help them very much in this challenge! Find out what I mean by that on today's intense episode of Total Drama: Scrap Island!"
The camera suddenly flew into the sky, being struck by a massive chunk of debris and knocking it back to the ground, only to be picked up by a cute, blue and silver striped robot with one wheel that it used to move.
"Dear mom and dad, I'm doing fine," the robot pointed the camera at Theodore at a cafeteria table, pounding down energy drinks like a champ, his eyes twitching from the caffeine while Larida looked concerned for his health.
"You guys are on my mind," at a nearby table, Ronnie was arm wrestling Mitchell, winning easily and slamming him straight through the table, causing Celeste to run over and start screaming at the powerhouse.
"You asked me what I wanted to be and I think the answer's plain to see," the robot wheeled its way out of the cafeteria, showing a junkyard with Vernon scribbling something down in silence and Ivy looking over his shoulder to peek at it, until Blaster popped out of one of the garbage piles, scaring him and making his papers fly off into the sky.
"I wanna be famous!" Vernon ran after his papers, leaving Ivy behind in confusion, eventually passing by Margaret and Daniel as they were making out while surrounded by four intense looking mafia thugs, one who spotted the camera and chased after it.
"I wanna live close to the sun," the robot wheeled away from the mafia goon, passing by Zane and Bunny, the latter who was bugging the boy by holding a mic up to his face, which he tried to shove away.
"So pack your bags, cause I've already won," Fridge carried Caleb on his shoulders across from Aaron, who had Dana on his own shoulders, the two up top slapping at each other as the robot passed by.
"Everything to prove, nothing in my way, I'll get there one day," as the robot continued to roll around, it finally made its way out of the junkyard and to the remnants of Cali-Tokyo, where Buck was attempting to profess his love to Yves, who was all flustered by the gesture.
"I wanna be famous!" Nearby, atop a pile of rubble, Brittany was making fun of Valerie, who let out a sigh and pushed her off the pile and onto the ground.
"Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na," near the pile, there were some barrels of toxic waste, which inspired Mitzy, who scribbled something down on a blank sheet while Alice was absolutely appalled by the sight.
"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!" CJ was being chased by a massive and terrifying robot with six legs and two clawed arms, which then noticed the robot with the camera and chased after it, causing it to drop the camera.
"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!" The camera feed cut to the aftermath stage, showing Calvin trying to kiss Max, who, out of embarrassment, belched right in his face.
The two were soon shoved aside by Capone, who rolled his eyes at them, while Sunny, next to him, waved happily to the camera with a huge smile on her face. Maggie popped up between the two of them, an acoustic guitar around her back, hugging them both tightly and snickering while the camera panned out to show the whole cast sitting in the risers, with the little robot sitting next to Caleb, and Franchesco standing off to the side with a glare fixed on Maggie.
It was still quite dark outside, considering that the clock had barely struck one in the morning. Everyone was completely separated and scattered, and there was no means to communicate with one another. Of course, things could only get better from this point…right? Wrong, it started to drizzle, but the drizzle soon turned into a downpour. The suddenness of the rain coming down was enough to wake everybody up, causing a panic when they realized they were in the middle of the forest, with none of the other contestants in sight.
It was then that the loud speakers sparked up, with Dana's voice following in suit. "Good super early morning, survivors! You're probably all freaking out right now, but if I were you, I would try to save my energy, because it's time for a challenge! That's right, a challenge in the middle of the night, while rain is pouring down! You can't always rely on phones to keep in touch with other people when an apocalypse is happening, which is why we made sure to take all the technology off of you guys! We've scattered you all throughout the forest in the nature zone of the island, making sure to keep it difficult to find each other. What's the goal in this? Well, of course, you want to meet back up with your group and get back out into open ground! The team that makes it out into the open first will win the challenge, and be safe from elimination of course. With all that out of the way…your challenge starts…now!"
Dana's voice finally cut from the loud speakers, and a crack of thunder echoed throughout the forest. The sudden loud noise caused Teddy to scream, right before leaping off of the ground and into a tree. He clutched onto one of the tree branches for dear life, scanning the area around him as he did. "Okay, okay, calm down, Teddy Bear! You're stranded in a forest with no way to access any of your channels, it isn't so bad…who am I kidding? This is horrible!" He dropped down from the branch, landing on his feet perfectly. "Come on, think, think! You've done plenty of videos like this on NatureWithTeddy!" He turned to face the camera, a grin stretching across his face. "That's my channel where I keep in touch with my wild side!"
The thunder cracked again, startling the poor boy yet again. He gulped nervously before looking around to see where he should go. "Now, if I were my team, where would I be? Hm…probably looking for me, right? Ha! That's totally where I would be! So, that means that I should just sit still, right here!" Teddy proudly crossed his arms and closed his eyes, but a lightning bolt suddenly struck the ground, not even five feet away from where he was. "On second thought, maybe I should run and flail my arms like a maniac! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" He started to scream obnoxiously, soon running past a set of bushes and disappearing from sight.
Not too long after Teddy had left the clearing that he was in, somebody else popped into it from behind a tree. This girl was utterly soaked, and the buns that usually sat on top of her head had flopped out of shape. Her hair completely covered her face until she flipped it back, revealing a scowl beneath it. "Dana thinks she can just dump me off in the middle of a thunderstorm, does she? Hmph! This is just like that time that those hooligans from school threw me into the dumpster! Well, I guess I did kinda provoke them by writing some blog posts about them…bah, who cares! I'm gonna find my team and get to the bottom of this mess!" Bunny looked around the whole clearing before pointing to her left side and rushing through the foliage.
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"Dana took my camera! I can't even take pictures of people doing shady things when I find them! What's even the point if I can't do at least that?" Bunny huffed and crossed her arms, pouting like a child would.
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Zane had leaned himself up against a tree, keeping him from getting utterly soaked for the time being. There was low visibility in the area that he was in, thanks to the plentiful amount of trees. They seemed to twist around each other, creating a labyrinth of trunks. He let out a sigh as he looked around, realizing that each path was as twisted as the others available to him at the given moment. "Well, this is just swell…I really can't stand it when it rains like this." He took a step forth from the tree, and the very second that a drop of rain touched his hair, it seemed to pat down and cover his eyes. He sighed again, wiping it to the side so he could see where he was walking. He took the center most path, that being the widest of the three that he saw.
"Can't be too hard to find them…I mean, there's only six of us. The Dingos got a whole nother person to find." He kept walking down the twisted path, his hair getting even more unmanageable with each droplet of water that made contact with it. "We'll just use that to our advantage…right. Now, if only my hair would stop blocking my view." He seemed to glare up at his own hair, as if expecting it to respond or listen to him. "Whatever…ignore the little things and just push on ahead…"
As Zane continued along his trail, there was another contestant who had ended up in the treetops themselves. Caleb felt like the king of the world, being that high up. "Aha, bitches! You all made fun of me for my height, but look at me now! I'm taller than a goddamn giant!" The obnoxious chess player let out a laugh that was equally as pompous as he was. "Nothing can stop me now!" As he finished that very sentence, a bolt of lightning struck the branch that he was standing on, knocking it clean off the tree. He screamed as he began to fall, only to be suddenly caught by a strong pair of arms. He slowly opened his eyes to look up at his savior.
"Hey, Friendleb!" Fridge smiled at the very sight of the boy, "Why are you playing around in the trees up there? It's much better to look for people on the ground, not up in the trees!"
"Fridge? Where did you come from?"
"Oh, well, I was kinda just walking around, and I heard you screaming, so I figured that I could look for you. Then the lightning struck, and you fell out of the tree!" Fridge's eyes teared up and he sniffled a little bit. "Almost like an angel coming down straight from heaven!" The muscular boy shook the saddened look from his face to smile again. "This means we only have…um…a bunch more teammates to find, right?"
"Five, to be precise. It shouldn't be too hard…you can carry me on your shoulders so I can get a good look from up top!" Fridge nodded to Caleb's suggestion, quickly tossing him up onto his shoulders. They towered like no one else could, it was truly a magnificent sight. "Now! Onward, my trusty Fridge! We need to find the rest of our team if we're gonna win this challenge!"
"You got it, Friendleb! Going full steam ahead!" Fridge made a train-like noise before suddenly rushing forth. Almost immediately, Caleb's head was met with a branch, knocking him clean off of his ally's shoulders and back down to the dirt. Fridge quickly turned around to look at Caleb on the ground. "Friendleb? Why are you taking a nap in the dirt?"
"I'm not taking a nap, I'm-...you know, nevermind. Forget the shoulders thing." Caleb jumped up from the ground and shook some of the mud off of his body. "Let's just walk together…if I get any more injuries to my cranium, I'm gonna have some wacky personality split where I talk like an expert hunter or something."
"Again?" Fridge scratched his chin, recalling the time in the nature zone where he had accidentally conked Caleb something fierce on the head.
"Huh? What do you mean by…I'd be better off not asking." Caleb shook his head and started to walk ahead of the athlete. "Come on, let's just get ourselves to work."
"Aye aye, captain!" Fridge saluted the chess player and followed close behind them, leaving the area behind. Only a few seconds later, a bolt of lightning struck the very spot that Caleb had fallen…it was good that they got out of there quickly.
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"Would it kill him to just use his brain a little bit more before he goes and gets me hurt like that?" Caleb held an ice pack against his bruised forehead, glaring at the camera. "He's great as another vote…but I'm starting to think that our alliance is gonna end up being fatal for me."
"This is just like a big game of hide and seek! I was never really good at hide and seek." Fridge shrugged his shoulders, "I guess I was a bit too big to properly fit in any good hiding spots. Oh! I was really good at arm wrestling, though!
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Calvin had himself situated in a good deal of brush, protecting him from most of the rain that was coming down. He scanned his surroundings, trying to make some sense of where exactly he was, but to no avail. This must've been the deeper part of the nature zone, which he never got a good glimpse of the last time he had visited it. "Hm…seperated from my fellow agents and given a mission to find the rest of them?" He grinned before bursting out of the brush, standing proudly in the rain. "This is gonna be my first big mission since the target was captured! Fellow agents, fret not. Agent Watterson is on his way!"
The secret agent fanatic started jogging down one of the paths, laughing proudly and not paying attention to where he was going. It wasn't long before he tripped over something, falling face first into the mud. "Goodness me! This forest is booby trapped!" He pulled himself up and turned to see what it was that he had tripped over. Standing there was a small robot, one that looked as if it was made entirely of scrap parts. It balanced itself on one wheel and stared up at Calvin with its techy, green eyes. "Hm…a robot…a familiar robot! I remember seeing you in the early elimination ceremonies…what are you doing out here, Agent Beep Boop?"
Calvin didn't really expect much of an answer from the robot, so he was shocked to see it start using its tiny arms to describe what had happened, along with a series of beeps. "Beep brrt beep boop brrt krsh beep!" It pointed to its own head with one of its clamp-like hands, using the other hand to make a swirly motion.
"Hm…I think I understand! You tried to follow us when we were doing that first challenge out here, is that it?" The robot nodded to Calvin's question, bringing a smile to his face. "After you came here, a little boy with a spear knocked you upside the noggin, and your brain chip shorted out, so you forgot the way back home?" The robot nodded again, causing Calvin to laugh proudly. "Well, you're in luck! I'm trying to find my way back to the rest of my team so we can get back home! I'll bring you with me!" The robot spun around in circles before jumping into the air, its eyes appearing to be happy. "Oh, no need to thank me, I'm just glad to help!"
The pair continued down the path that Calvin was initially walking along, the robot beeping in happy tunes as they strolled along. "Say, you seem to be very friendly…like a little buddy of some sorts. Maybe I should start calling you…Agent Buddy Robot!" Calvin looked down at the robot to see that it was rolling its eyes at him. "You're right, that doesn't really flow off the tongue well. Oh! What about…Agent Robo-Friend!" Still no approval from the robot, who was now shaking its head. "Gah! Names are tough…we need something shorter. Something that flows better. Hm…thinking, thinking…aha! I know what it'll be! Agent BroBot!"
"Beep beep boop beep bop krsh!" The robot bounced happily to the name that was given to it, reaching its tiny clamp hand up to give Calvin a high five.
"Ah, that really does sound much better than those other names. Henceforth, you'll be known as Agent BroBot!" The two continued to trot along the path at hand, both laughing as they eventually disappeared from sight.
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"You know, I started to feel a bit useless, considering that the criminal on the loose had been captured by someone other than myself…and Agent Coil was a real secret agent! What's up with that?" Calvin sighed, looking a bit disappointed before he shook off the disappointment and smiled proudly. "Now that I've got Agent BroBot on my side, I've got a purpose! I've gotta get this guy home safely!"
"Beep krsh beep bwow!" BroBot clapped its little hands together, its eyes still as joyful as before.
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"Ugh! This is just the worst!" Brittany voiced her concern loudly enough to block out the noises of thunder. She was entirely soaked, with her makeup running down her angry face. She had ended up on a hill, which had a good amount of trees surrounding it, so it wasn't even good as a vantage point. "This whole season is just yuck, yuck, and more yuck! Would it kill that little nitwit to give us one challenge that doesn't involve us getting dirty or digging around in garbage!?" She crossed her arms, continuing to scowl as the thunder seemed to boom at her, as if giving her an answer to the question. "Nobody asked you, thunder!"
The thunder boomed again, and Brittany started to shake her fist at the sky, though this caused her to lose her balance, and she slipped down the hill, tumbling all the way to the bottom. When she finally came to a stop, she was quite dazed, and covered from head to toe in mud. She groaned as she slowly came to her feet, soon looking down at herself and recoiling in disgust. "Gah! This is just…vile! Horrible! Nasty!" The snotty rich girl tried to shake as much of the mud off as she could, but to little avail. Realizing that she was pretty much stuck like this, she groaned even louder. "You are in for a world of hurt, Dana!" With those angry words, she stormed off, entering some thick brush.
A brief moment passed from when Brittany had left, and some light snickering could be heard from the top of the hill. The source of the snickering climbed down the hill, careful enough to not slip like the rich girl did. "That obnoxious voice of hers sure makes for a great cover noise." Valerie continued to snicker, looking more amused than she had for quite some time. She glanced over at the camera, soon scowling at it. "What? Don't judge me for pushing her…she deserved it. She's just…the worst." The girl crossed her arms before heading after Brittany, glaring at the camera until she couldn't be seen anymore.
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"Who do I want to get rid of? Well…Brittany, obviously. If I had to pick a least favorite person on the whole island, it's her." Valerie whittled away at a chunk of wood, carving Brittany's head out of it. "Hm? What kind of idiot do you take me for? Why would I waste the idol on her when she makes a big enough fool of herself to get eliminated without my help?"
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There was a stream flowing through the forest, not a super deep one, but one that had enough depth to soak your legs. There was one boy that did find his way there, and he was sitting right on the edge of it. Buck had something clutched in his hands as he sat, something that must've disturbed him greatly. The look on his face was a mix of horror and nervousness. What was in his hands? Well, nothing other than a picture…a picture of Yves sleeping in her bed. "Who's the sicko that's doing this?" His inner voice sounded as freaked out as his face looked. "Does Yves have any enemies at all? Any…enemies…"
Buck paused for a moment, seeming to cause time to stop entirely. The storm could no longer be heard, as all that clouded his mind at the moment was a painful realization. He stood from where he was seated, crumpling up the picture and tossing it into the stream. As he turned to face away from the stream, his expression seemed to shift. There was no longer a look of shock…all there was was an abundance of anger. "To think, I almost thought that he was a cool guy…I couldn't have been more wrong." He started to stomp away from the stream, too angry to even remember to grab his shoes. "Zane…this is the worst mistake yer ever gonna make!"
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Buck sat silently in the confessional, staring dead into the camera with eyes that no one could've ever imagined him showing ever before. All the glee and carefree energy that he once had were nowhere to be found. "Ya mess with me, that's fine…I can take the hit. But…ya mess with her? Ya've officially dug yerself a hole ya can't get out of."
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Mitzy had been stuck in a cave when everyone was first dropped off in the forest, luckily keeping her safe from the rain and lightning. While she sat down on a decent sized rock in the cave, she tried to figure out what her next move would be. "Hm…well, I can't call out to anyone if it's downpouring like this…man! I gotta swoop in to save the day somehow…but how?" She knocked on her forehead a bit as she thought about what to do, eventually snapping her fingers when she thought up an idea. "I got it!"
The comic writer dug into her pockets, pulling out one of the yoyos that she had used to help stop Poseidon from zapping her and Bunny some time ago. They may not be able to hear me through the rain…buuuuuuuut…" She grinned as she let the yoyo slide down its string, causing it to start flashing a bunch of bright colors. "...They should be able to see me!" Mitzy beamed as she stepped out of the cave, spinning and swirling the yoyo around to create a flashy display that anyone would be able to see if they were nearby. "Don't worry, team! Mitzy is gonna save each and every one of you from this villainous storm!"
"You always monologue like that when we aren't around?" A voice spoke from behind the superhero fanatic, who screamed and jumped back a bit. Mitzy turned around to see Margaret, who was leaning up against the cave.
"You! How did you…I mean, I was just in there and…where did you come from?"
"Eh, I move in silence…guess it's just my 'super power.'" Margaret grinned as she mocked her teammate, whose own mouth curled into a small frown. "Bah, don't get so defensive over a teensy, little comment like that. It's just like Caleb when you point out how short he is."
"Right…but that's bullying! Even though Caleb can be a jerk, it's still not nice to bully!" Mitzy crossed her arms and shook her head at the mobster, who rolled her eyes back at her. "All villains can come back from the dark side, but prodding and poking at them isn't going to help anyone!"
"...Are you a kindergartener? Seriously, you sound like you're a five year old with an overactive imagination." Margaret stopped leaning against the cave to walk over to Mitzy, patting her on the head tauntingly. "Look, that's a pretty cool thought you got, that everybody can be good or whatever crap you're saying, but it ain't how life works. Bad people are just gonna be bad…that's all there is to it."
The mobster started to walk on ahead, leaving Mitzy behind. The comic artist tapped her chin for a second before another thought came to mind. "How can you say that when you're a prime example of that ideology?"
"'Scuse you?" Margaret turned back to face her teammate, a scowl forming on her face.
"Well, you're a super shady mafia lady, right? But you've done a whole lotta good!" Mitzy's words only seemed to annoy Margaret, who walked a bit closer to her.
"What makes you say that? I don't do good or bad…I do what I do and that's all there is to it. The work I do for the family is strictly business."
"But it's evil to someone who sees it from the outside! That's why you guys are called crime lords and gangsters! But I know you've done good…I watched the prequel!" Margaret cocked an eyebrow at Mitzy, curious to see where she was going with. "You know, I saw how worried you were about Blaster when that Jay guy was running amok…that's a good thing! And you can't say it was just business, since Blaster isn't one of your goons."
"Hey, watch it with who you're calling goons. Only I call my boys goons."
"...Right, sorry. But it wasn't just that! When Daniel's mech got hijacked, you rushed over to make sure that he was okay! You've done plenty of good…and I don't think you're done doing good just yet! There's a heck of a lot more to come! But it just makes me wonder…why are you working alongside Caleb?"
Margaret had to pause to think about the question. In truth, she wasn't even sure why she was on his side. "...Power by vote, maybe? The twerp's got a whole squadron of people…pretty much guaranteed elimination for anyone who votes against us."
"But doesn't it make you upset to see how he uses that voting power? He goes after the sweetest people just because he knows he can! I know you don't spite everyone like he does…"
Margaret paused again, still not sure how to answer the question. She shook her head before turning away from her teammate again. "...Let's get to finding the others…shouldn't take too long." Mitzy stood back for a moment, just watching Margaret walk away before finally following after her.
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"I know that everybody has got some good in them, deep down there somewhere. If we can find the good in everyone here…well, that'll be difficult…" Mitzy looked down at the ground for a brief moment before snapping up and bearing a look of a determined hero. "But no task is too daunting for me!"
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Yves was crawling along the ground, with several trees above her that had fallen and made the path impossible to cross without going underneath it. She sighed as she crawled, trying to ignore the fact that she was covered in mud, and that her elbows were starting to ache from all the weight that was being held up by them. "Just find the rest of the team and get the hell out of the forest…seems easy enough to me." Thunder crackled in the distance as she finally made it past the fallen trees. She slowly stood up, using the tree that was now behind her to wipe some of the mud off from her arms.
"There's Buck, Teddy, Valerie, Brittany…and Zane." Yves paused for a moment before shaking her head. "Just work on finding them for now…no need to overthink everything he's doing." She started to press onward down her path, though she felt as if something was off. She stopped walking after a while, glancing around at her surroundings. "...Hello?" She called out into the night, hoping she would get some sort of answer, though nothing came back. It felt like she was being watched by at least two people. After looking all around her and failing to find anyone, she shook her head again, continuing down her path.
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"I sure hope Buck's okay…I can only imagine that he's out here in the cold, completely exhausted, pushing himself to his limits again…" Yves had a nervous look on her face while she mumbled to herself. "He'll be fine…right? He's gonna be fine?"
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Vernon sat himself on top of a rock, using a tree overhead to mostly block out the rain. He tapped at his chin while he thought about what his next move should be. To be quite honest, he hadn't moved very much since the start of the challenge. The rock he was sitting on…well, even that wasn't more than five feet from where he had started. "What's the point in wandering aimlessly…? I mean, wouldn't it make sense to sit still if the rest of the team is looking already? Don't wanna get us more spread out than we already are…"
Of course, to his benefit, some rustling sparked up in the distance. He cupped his hand around his ear to listen to the noise a bit better and discern which direction it was coming from. "Hm…must be from…over there!" Vernon jumped up from the rock, pushing through some bushes to get closer to the noise. As he cleared the brush, he noticed two figures in the distance, those being Calvin and BroBot. "Calvin? What's he doing with that little robot?" He stopped to ponder for a moment before shaking his head and remembering that the task was to group up. He ran as fast as he could towards the pair.
"So, Agent BroBot…how long has it been since you got stuck in this forest? Had to have been almost a month, if not more time than that!" Calvin looked down at the robot for an answer, only to see that it had turned around and was staring at something with curiosity in its little eyes. "Hm? What's that, little agent? You see something cool?" He looked back to see Vernon barreling towards them like a maniac in some psycho horror movie. "Agent Ford!? Slow down or you're going to-"
"I can't stop running!" Vernon succumbed to the momentum of his feet, soon crashing into Calvin and Brobot, tumbling along with them a good bit of distance. The two boys groaned, and the robot let out a series of weakened beeping noises. "Ow…sorry, I just started going so fast that I couldn't stop." The songwriter was the first to get to his feet, soon offering his hand to Calvin, who gladly took it. He then tried to help BroBot off the ground, but the robot glared at him, beeping angrily and rising up on its own. "Yeesh…I don't think your robot friend really likes me."
"Huh? Agent BroBot?" Calvin looked over at his companion, who continued to make a bunch of disgruntled noises. "Ah, well, he just thinks that running someone over is a pretty rude greeting. I'm sure he'll get over it at some point." Calvin pulled Vernon in close to whisper, so that BroBot couldn't hear what he was saying. "He's had a really rough time…been lost in that forest for ages. He's got Robo-Dementia! Can't remember a darn thing about how to get home."
"Ah…I see…makes sense that he would be easy to upset." The robot heard what Vernon had said, seeming to gasp before shaking its little clamp hand at him angrily. "Okay, I'm sorry! Geez…never thought that I would be getting yelled at by a robot, but here we are."
"Here you are, indeed." The two boys, as well as the robot, leapt out of fright from hearing a fourth voice enter the conversation. They slowly turned around to see Dana and Aaron, sitting in the back of the pickup truck, where Ivy was still sitting in the driver's seat. "You've found your way out of the forest, but you seem to be missing…let me see here…about five people."
"We didn't even know we were near the exit of the forest…Agent Ford just ran into us, we tumbled like a cartoon character caught in a scuffle, and now we're here!" Calvin rubbed the back of his head before smiling awkwardly. "Not the ideal way to finish a mission, but at least it made for a pretty grand entrance!"
"Ja…I suppose zat you could say zat." Aaron seemed to be avoiding eye contact with Vernon, confusing Dana a bit. Oddly enough, Vernon refused to look at Aaron, bringing the same confusion to Calvin. "Ahem, in any case, it's up to you vezher or not you vish to go back looking for zhe ozher members of your team. Of course, if zhey don't make it out on time…zhey may blame you two for not finding zhem."
"Beep boop bop krsh beep boowop bebow!" BroBot seemed to bounce up and down as it recognized the hosts. It started to roll towards them, but about halfway there, it came to a sudden stop. It turned around to see Calvin, who was saluting it proudly. Its eyes were saddened for a brief moment, but soon replaced with joy as it rolled back towards Calvin. "Beep boodoo boop bop beewow!"
"What's that, Agent BroBot? You say you wanna tag along for more of my missions?" Calvin tapped his chin for a moment before shrugging his shoulders. "I think that's a great idea! I've been meaning to get myself a new partner in crime! I'd say you fit the role just perfectly!" The robot squealed in delight, soon leaping up to hug Calvin with its stubby, little arms. "I'm excited to be your partner, too!"
"...This is the cutest thing I have ever seen in my life." Dana sniffled before wiping away some tears with a tissue.
"Ja…truly an amazing sight." Aaron sniffled as well, grabbing his own tissue and sneezing into it rather loudly and obnoxiously.
Vernon, meanwhile, had scuttled off to the front of the truck, right up next to the driver's side door. He looked up to see Ivy dancing around, almost as if she was jamming out. He lightly knocked upon the window, getting her attention. She rolled it down, allowing some rather loud rock music to burst out before she turned the volume down. "Heh, sorry about that…guess I kinda forgot how loud it was."
Vernon's ears were ringing from that slight burst of sound, "If that's normal listening volume to you, I'd suggest getting a doctor to check your ears." The two chuckled at the joke briefly before each of them sighed. "...You mind if I hop in the truck and listen into it with you?"
"Huh? Nah, of course I don't mind!" Ivy popped open the passenger side door, allowing Vernon to get in the truck with her. She rolled the window back up and leaned back in her seat, only turning it up a little bit. "There…that should be good for your sensitive baby ears."
"Hey, don't make fun of my ears!" Vernon covered his ears with his hands, an offended look on his face. "They're sensitive!" Ivy looked dumbfounded for a second before bursting out into laughter. Of course, it didn't take long for Vernon to start laughing at the joke. When the two of them finally stopped laughing, they looked back at each other, each with smiles on their faces. They started to lean towards each other…
…Before someone started obnoxiously knocking on the door. Vernon looked out of his window to see Calvin and BroBot waiting there. He rolled it down just enough to talk out of. "Did you need something?"
"Agent Ford! Agent Mayer says that we aren't really done with the challenge until we find the rest of the agents that are still out there." Calvin saluted the boy while BroBot glared at him. "I'd suggest we mark our pathway with these! Go on, show him, Agent BroBot!" He looked down to his robot friend, who reluctantly pressed a button on its chest frame, causing a slot to open up and reveal bits of white chalk. "It should be easy to see these, since they're so bright! Come on, Agents!"
Calvin and BroBot started to head back to the forest, only causing Vernon to sigh. He looked back over to Ivy, seeing that she was still smiling. "I uh…gotta go help them with that, I guess. B-but…I was having fun here while it lasted."
"Yeah, me too. Don't worry though…we can always pick it up another time!" Vernon smiled back at the rocker before hopping out of the truck and running after his teammates.
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Ivy let out a sweet-sounding sigh, holding her cheeks with her hands while smiling to herself. She then suddenly opened her eyes to see the camera had a good view of her. "Uh…I was just thinking about…um…cheese? Yeah! Gouda! I really like cheese." She blushed and smiled even wider than before. "Especially the cute kinds of cheese…"
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Teddy kept on running fearfully through the forest, with thunder booming and lightning cracking all around him. His face looked like one that would be slapped right onto a clickbait video, only he didn't have his phone to record the experience. "How am I supposed to be streaming this dangerous and totally view-catching experience of me outrunning a storm, Dana!? I need answers!"
"You're telling me!" Bunny rushed alongside the boy, scaring him, since she kinda showed up out of nowhere. "I can't get any good posts for my blog without my camera!"
"Oh, give me a break, you two!" Brittany, still mostly coated in mud, had caught up to the two of them. "You're complaining about not having your phone and camera? Talk about a bunch of snotty brats!"
"That's ironic…coming from you, I mean." Valerie was shadowing the group, once again, startling the lot of them. "...Hiiiiii Teddy Bear."
"Ack! Evil witch!" Teddy glared back at her with the most hateful eyes that he could muster up. "You made Alice mad at me with that little stunt you pulled, you know that?" The streamer pointed to his bleach blonde hair. "I even got rid of all the hair dye to impress her, but you went and ruined it!"
"Gee, Teddy…that sure is a funny way to say that you love me." Valerie giggled to herself, clearly missing the point of just how angry he was with her. "Who needs that tree hugger, anyways?"
"How cute…the ogre has a crush on the overgrown baby." Brittany chuckled as she looked between the two of them, only earning herself a nasty look from Valerie. "You know, maybe you'll turn into a princess if you two kiss!"
"Oh, trust me! That didn't change anything about her except for the fact that I despise her even more now!" Teddy turned back to face ahead of himself, refusing so much as to look back at Valerie. "If I wasn't so afraid of being canceled, I would've socked you one good for that!"
"Wait, you two kissed?" Brittany cocked an eyebrow as she continued to run, a small grin forming on her face. "Gross…though I guess both of you being nasty makes you the perfect couple."
"Man, this is so not fair!" Bunny whined as she trailed behind the rest of the group. "I got a good angle here as an observer, but I don't have any means to capture all this juicy drama." Her eyes seemed to blaze with fire, the fiery passion to slander the people around her, that is. She clenched her fist before uttering her next few words in an almost demonic voice, "Dana will pay!"
The mismatched group of four continued to run, with the three members of the Squirrels bickering violently. Bunny, in her fury, lost sight of them, soon trailing off through some bushes and colliding into a tree. She fell back onto the ground, groaning in pain as she looked up at the sky. Though woozy, she was able to make out two figures looking down at her, though she was unsure who they were. "Bunny…Bunnnnny…BUNNY!" Bunny leapt up and screamed a fearful noise, getting in position to karate chop her attackers…until she realized that they were just Margaret and Mitzy.
"Oh…it's just you two. Teehee!" Bunny dropped her fighting stance, smiling innocently at the two of them. "Man, I almost messed you guys up there! Let a girl know if you're going to surprise her like that."
"Awfully funny to say that we surprised you when you're the one who just rammed into this tree out of nowhere." Margaret crossed her arms, clearly unamused with Bunny and her ego, per usual. "In any case…it's probably good that you did that. We've got three of us all gathered together…finding the other four can't be difficult."
"Can't be difficult, indeed!" A boy's voice called out through some brush, soon revealing its owner to be Calvin, who walked up to the girls with BroBot and Vernon trailing close behind them. "Agents Diablo, Wakeman, and Yoshihiru, glad to see you're all doing…somewhat well."
"I'm just happy that we haven't had any big arguments…yet." Mitzy glanced over at Bunny, who waved to her, maintaining her innocent guise. "Ah, but anyways…we've got…well, five out of seven right here!" The comic artist had a pleasant look on her face as she looked over her teammates. "And this just leaves…well…oh…right. Caleb and Fridge…"
"I'm sure they're probably together already," Vernon rubbed the back of his neck, looking down at the ground as he mumbled. "The little dude would never go anywhere without his henchman by his side."
"You're right…the question isn't 'where are each of those two?' It's 'what mischief are they getting up to?'" Mitzy and the others paused in thought.
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"Man, I really didn't expect to run into my team while I was chasing after those Squirrely whirlies!" Bunny giggled behind her palm, "Guess the passion for the press directs me wherever I need to go in the direst of situations!"
"I'm almost positive that Caleb wouldn't miss a chance to screw someone over…especially when it comes to a challenge where everyone is separated, like this one." Mitzy kept thinking to herself, trying to imagine what exactly the twerp had gotten up to. "To find a villain, you have to think like a villain…" She knocked on her forehead for a brief moment before coming up empty and shrugging her shoulders.
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Yves continued to walk along the path she had chosen, eventually seeing it fork into two different paths. On one end, there was a path which seemed to be entirely covered with bushes. It seemed to be quite dangerous, at least at a glance. The other path looked a bit more open, but the openness of it only brought uncertainty to her mind. "...It can't be the obvious answer, that just wouldn't make any sense. It has to be the one that looks more threatening."
With confidence, Yves turned down the path with the bushes, forcing her way through them as best as she could. There was still something off about her path, though…that being the endless feeling that there were eyes watching her at every turn. She would glance over her shoulder every so often to try and see what exactly was happening, only to find nothing with each and every glance. "I must just be paranoid…heck, I'm even talking to myself in the middle of a forest." The girl giggled to herself as she continued down the path, starting to find some hilarity in the rather unnerving situation that she was stuck in. "Hey, forest people! I bet you won't say something like…'Teddy is a simp!'"
Yves cupped her hand around her ear to humor herself, hearing nothing at all, outside of the storm, that is. She laughed even louder than before, no longer dealing with this paranoia that was looming over her. "Oh! I definitely know you won't say 'Brittany is a spoiled brat!'" She listened for an answer, though still, there was nothing. She continued to giggle before sighing at the end of her laugh. "Okay, okay, last one…if you're actually there, say 'Caleb is a little shrimp!'" She cupped her hand to her ear again, sure that she wouldn't hea-
"I most certainly am not!" A voice piped up, soon followed by a flash of lightning that illuminated the path in front of her for a moment. Sure enough, Caleb was standing there, his arms crossed as he stared her down. "You sound like you've gone insane…talking to yourself and laughing like a maniac." He leaned forward a bit, a cheesy grin on his face. "Aw, is someone going delirious from the storm?"
Yves didn't answer the question, as she was more in shock of him just suddenly showing up than anything else at the given moment. "Oh, come on…don't get all quiet on me, now! You were just talking louder than I've ever heard you talk before…bah, whatever." Caleb waved her off, clearly unamused with how silent she was being. "Here I am, just trying to be your friend and share in the laughs with you…oh, that's right." Caleb chuckled to himself a bit before putting a horrifyingly innocent smile on his face. "You don't do friends, isn't that right?"
Something heavy laid itself upon Yves' shoulder, causing her to freeze up in fear. She glanced up to see Fridge, smiling down at her with one hand waving and the other hand sitting upon her shoulder. "I was so sad when you didn't wanna be friends, so Friendleb told me I should try giving you a present! He gave me this one because…uh…oh! It was super special, made just for you!"
"W-what are you talking about?" Yves was barely able to speak among the fear, and her voice cracked a decent bit. She looked all around, though she didn't seem to find what it was that Fridge was talking about.
"Fridge, why don't you come back over here…we both wanna see how happy she is when she opens her present, don't we?" Caleb's terrifying ploy of innocence worked far to well, and the friendly giant had no idea that anything about this scenario was wrong. He nodded back to the much shorter boy, happily running over to him and standing right next to him. "Maybe you'll reconsider our offer…I mean, if you make it to the next challenge! Adios, Yves!"
The soft-spoken girl looked back at her shoulder to see a little stone spider sitting upon it. It didn't move at all, but its eyes seemed to glow red. She carefully started to move her hand towards it, but it was no use. The eyes beamed with a bright flash, and the idol soon opened up, a jet stream of sticky webs wrapping her up and sticking her to the ground. It was a tight, cocoon like prison…one which covered her all the way up to her mouth.
"Woah, sticky string!" Fridge clapped his hands loudly, still thinking that this was all fun and games. "I never got to play with it much…I used to break the cans open whenever I grabbed them!"
"That's a great story, Fridge!" Caleb looked up to the boy with a bright smile on his face, one most deceptive. "Maybe you can tell me more about it while we look for the rest of our team?"
"Huh? But, what about-"
"We'll just give her some alone time to enjoy her present!" Caleb giggled and the two soon turned around to walk further down the path. The brainiac only glanced back just before the two of them left Yves' field of vision. He stuck his tongue out at her, taunting her before completely disappearing from her sight.
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"All that's left now is to wait for her team to find her…well after my team wins the challenge, I mean." Caleb snickered, all too pleased with the devilish plan that he had pulled off. "Surely, she'll be eliminated for letting herself get caught. I know my alliance would boot anyone foolish enough to stumble into a trap like that."
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"Dang rain in this dang storm…chalk this up there on the list of things that really grind my gears." Zane continued to grumble to himself as he walked along his path, trying his best to keep his hair out of his eyes. "I mean, this is just fantastic. I can't even see where I'm going without looking like a doofus." He sighed before finally taking a deep breath. "Okay, Zane, just relax…you're tired, soaked, and you have no idea where you are. You may be a little out of your element, but that's okay. Just keep calm…that's the best move, at this point."
The strategist grabbed his hair with one hand, pulling it back and holding it down against his head so that it wouldn't continue to get in the way of things. Before him, there were two paths…one that was littered with bushes and brush, and one that was completely clear. He tapped his chin for a moment as he thought about which path to take. "...I mean, that route is so suspiciously clear…yeah, no thank you." He turned towards the path with the bushes, chuckling to himself as he started to push through them. "As if I'd let myself get caught out that…easily…"
Zane saw the oddest thing in front of him…what appeared to be a cocoon, of sorts. He cocked an eyebrow at it, not entirely sure where it came from. He looked around, grabbing a big stick from the ground and clutching it tightly as he started to circle the cocoon, keeping some good distance between it and him. "Alright, what kind of wacky, radioactive bug dropped this thing around here?" As he finally circled around to the front of the cocoon, he saw Yves' startled face, and he froze up for a moment. He thought back, as far back as he could, recalling something that Aaron had told the group. "'Ve figured it may be fun to have sabotage idols in our own season. Ze first is ze spider idol...it's probably the most fun. You put it on, under, or attached to something and, ven someone tries to move zat something, it vill explode into a spider veb, getting your poor victim stuck in place.'"
Zane shook his head, soon rushing over to his teammate. "Hang on just a second here, I can get you out of this mess. Uh…let me just…uh…" He frantically looked around for something to break the webbing, eventually remembering that he had picked up the stick. He tried to pry the web off, but the stick only got stuck. "Geez, what is in this crap? I'll find something else, something that can work. It'll just-"
The thunder cracked loudly, seemingly even louder than any of the thunder from before. The noise startled the two, and they both flinched where they were. When Yves opened her eyes again, they widened as if she saw something in the distance. Zane noticed the look on her face and soon turned to see what it was. A flash of lightning, shining on the path to show one other member of their team…none other than the utterly sleep deprived Buck. "Buck! Good thing you're here, you can give me a hand!" The strategist chuckled a bit, mainly out of relief from another one of his teammates showing up, though, as Buck started to approach the two of them, his relief started to diminish. "Buck…? You don't look so good…what's-"
"Go…" Buck refused to look at Zane as he walked right past him and straight to Yves.
"Huh? Go…?" Zane chuckled again, unsure of what his teammate meant by this. "Wouldn't you want me to stick around so we can-"
"Go!" Buck snapped, turning towards his teammate suddenly and violently. Zane backed up a bit, startled by the suddenness of it all. "Just…go…" The strategist didn't bother to argue, soon turning around to walk away from the couple, leaving them alone. Buck reached into his pocket, grabbing a screwdriver from it and using the tip to cut the webbing open, freeing Yves, who stumbled and fell into his arms. "There, I got ya…I got ya…he can't do anything to ya anymore."
Yves opened her mouth to say something, but the words just wouldn't come out. "What the hell? You can tell him…you can tell him that it was Caleb, not Zane." Her thoughts were loud and prominent in her own head, but completely silent upon Buck's ears. "Why aren't you telling him? Just tell him!" Still, nothing came out of her mouth. She started to tear up, her tears dropping onto his shoulders.
"Yves?" Buck looked down at her, seeing the saddened expression that she was wearing.
"...I love you." Those were the only words she managed to spit out before Buck hugged her even tighter than before.
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"What is wrong with me!?" Yves kicked the wall in the confessional, opening a good sized hole in it. She took a few deep breaths before falling down to her knees. "...What am I doing?"
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Dana and Aaron kept on waiting for the contestants to arrive on scene, since Calvin and Vernon had retreated into the forest, there really wasn't much movement out there. Suddenly, a rustling came from the brush, peaking the interest of the two hosts. One by one, contestants started to pour out into sight…Caleb, Fridge, Mitzy, Margaret, Bunny, Vernon, and Calvin, with BroBot close behind, of course. "Hold on a moment…you managed to find each of your teammates already?" Dana seemed to be a bit astonished by the sudden arrival of the team. "I half expected the Squirrels to at least get one of their contestants out here, but I guess not. Well, in that case-"
"I am not a mud monster, dweeb! I'm the girl that's gonna single handedly bring your reputation down into the dirt!" Brittany could be heard screaming within the forest, soon coming out into sight with Teddy and Valerie.
"Well, duh! Why wouldn't a mud monster try to bring my rep down into the dirt?" Teddy knocked on his forehead as if that was supposed to be common knowledge. "It's your home turf!"
"Don't call Teddy a dweeb, you rotten brat." Valerie hissed at Brittany, who mainly ignored the nasty comment to fume at Teddy. The streamer, however, did actually turn to face her, a vicious look prominent on his face.
"Don't you act like you're innocent, you…you…homewrecker!" He crossed his arms and turned his head to the side, refusing to look Valerie in the eyes. The girl in question, however, was too deep in love to notice how angry he was.
"...So, as I was saying before you three showed up out of nowhere," Dana piped up, just loud enough to get the attention of the three. "Since all of the Dingos got here first, that means that-"
"They win the challenge, and the Squirrels have to eliminate a teammate tonight." Zane stumbled out from the bushes, dusting himself off after he did. "Figures…not much we could've done in a challenge that had nothing to do with strategy."
"And thanks for interrupting me…jerk." Dana stuck her tongue out at Zane while Aaron lightly patted her on the head. It wasn't long before Yves and Buck arrived to the scene, though there was so much chaos between the celebration of the Dingos and the fighting between half of their own team. It didn't take a genius to figure out that the challenge was lost for them, but the boy still had an intense look on his face…one most unbecoming of him. Zane could hardly look at him, knowing that all of Buck's anger was aimed straight at him.
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"I should've known not to try and help Yves in the forest…guess no good deed really goes unpunished, right?" Zane chuckled a bit as he slicked his hair back. "Can't even blame Buck…must've looked super shady to him. Well, I guess we'll have to see what happens here, right?"
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The six remaining members of the Squirrels ended up back at Colosseum of Shame, the air around them still as tense as ever. In fact, there was only one single member of the team that didn't seem upset in any way, shape, or form. Zane sat in the middle of the group, a smile on his face. Buck hugged Yves close to his side, making sure to glare as intensely as he could toward the boy with the cheery demeanor. Yves herself was utterly silent and motionless, staring down at the ground as she dealt with the guilt of all that she had done. Then, there were the other three…the more chaotic half of the group. Brittany had washed herself off for the most part, though she was still muddied a bit. Her anger was directed at Teddy, who was simmering with rage while Valerie smiled at him, making sure to give the middle finger to her rich girl teammate.
Dana and Aaron stood at the podium, only five bags of rations on the platter that they typically had. Seeing a number so small…it couldn't have felt good for the team. They were about to be down two members…yet again. "Vell, Squirrels, you definitely tried your best during zis challenge, but it vans't enough, compared to Calvin and his smart thinking vith zhe bits of chalk!" Aaron chuckled lightly, soon stopping when he realised how tense everything was. "A-ah…very vell, let us commence zhe proceedings. You have all put in your votes, ja? One teammate racked up more zan anyone else, and zat teammate must leave zhe island, via zhe Trampoline of Losers. Ve vill pass out rations to zose who are safe from elimination. Let us start vith zhe contestant zat got no votes…Buck!"
Aaron tossed the first bag of rations out to the hillbilly, who caught them with his free arm, making sure not to let go of Yves, even for a moment. He had nothing to say, but this shocked no one, since he was so livid at the moment. "Everybody else on zhe team got at least one vote…in fact, zhe contestant zat got zhe most votes only did so by one! Zhe next contestant zat is safe…is Valerie!"
"Of course…I can't be eliminated." Valerie snickered as she caught her rations, soon turning back to face Teddy with her lovey dovey smile. "My love for Teddy is keeping me in the game."
"Oh, would you stop with that crap? There is nothing between us! Got it? Nothing!" Teddy furrowed his brow and slouched in his seat, continuing to mumble and grumble to himself.
"Next on our list here…Zeodore!" Aaron tossed out the third bag of rations, though the streamer was so irritated that he wasn't paying attention, and it struck him right in the cranium.
"Haha! You deserved that, loser!" Brittany laughed while Teddy rubbed his forehead, soon getting a bag of rations slapping her in the head much harder, though this was Valerie's bag, of course. "Ow! Oh, you are asking for it, you-"
"Brittany, you are also safe from zhe clutches of elimination." Aaron threw the fourth bag to the rich girl, who gasped as she caught it.
"I'd like to thank the academy for keeping me in the game…that's gonna be in my speech when I end up winning this season!" Brittany cackled like a maniac, only for Valerie to slap her across the face with her own rations again.
This all left Zane and Yves without rations, coming as some shock to the strategist, but it didn't break his smile. He sat proudly, while his opponent, the girl who single handedly turned one of his own teammates on him, was in shambles. "Zane…Yves…zere is only one final bag of rations to give out tonight. You both played a very good game, but ve do have to give one of you a big goodbye here. Zhe final bag of rations goes to…"
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"...Yves!" Aaron tossed the final bag to the girl, though it was caught by Buck, since she barely moved from her spot. "Zane, I'm sorry to say it, but you have been eliminated."
It was then that the smile he wore so proudly finally left Zane's face, a dull, displeased look replacing it. He stood from his seat, turning to look over at Yves and Buck, the latter of which was still glaring at him. "That's how it ends, is it? …Alright then. You've made it very clear to me what kind of game it is that you two are playing. Fine by me." He then turned back to the trampoline, taking a few steps towards it before stopping. "I suppose you can color me a bit surprised…I was sure that we would work as a great team. I'm sorry that you two played the wrong game."
Valerie scuttled over to Zane's side, tapping his shoulder and getting his attention. "It's kinda gonna blow without you around…since you kinda taught me everything I know, and all that. Don't worry, though! I'll put everything you taught me to good use…very good use." Her words sounded a bit malicious, but Zane didn't question it…he didn't need to. He sighed before leaping forth onto the trampoline, soon bouncing far, far away.
One by one, the contestants and the host started to leave the Colosseum, heading back to the hotel to get as much rest as they possibly could. The events of the challenge surely didn't make anybody less exhausted than before, but they finally had some down time. Eventually, only two contestants remained in the arena, those being Buck and Yves. "Well…come on, I'll take ya back to yer room and all that. Maybe we can both sleep good, now that he's gone, right?"
"...Buck?" Yves slowly looked up at the boy, who was smiling down at her as if nothing had happened. "...I really need to tell you something. Like…something really important."
"Sure thing! Ya know ya can tell me anything!" He wouldn't drop the smile, of course. He strived to be as comforting as he could, knowing that she had been through a lot in this one night alone. "So, what is it?"
"About…Zane…well," Yves gulped nervously, trying to formulate the words. "He…didn't actually ever do anything to me…" She slowly looked up to see Buck's face. The smile sat there for a moment, but it wasn't long before the look dimmed, and he drained of color.
"...What?"
Author's Notes:
*The Squirrels lose yet another member due Caleb's sabotage. It's such a shame that Yves couldn't tell Buck the truth before watching Zane bounce away into the distance…something tells me that the strategist is gonna have a few words for her the next time they cross paths. Well, for both of their sakes, let's hope they end up on different teams next season.
*Votes: Zane - Buck, Yves; Yves - Zane; Theodore - Brittany; Valerie - Theodore; Brittany - Valerie
*Placements: No Placement - Chris; 22nd - Daniel; 21st - Larida; 20th - Mitchell; 19th - Alice; 18th - Blaster; 17th - Max; 16th - CJ; 15th - Ronnie; 14th - Celeste; 13th - Zane