"B-but Miss Dana-" Aaron squeaked out his meek words as he was forcibly removed from the room he was standing in. He swung around to try and face who had shoved him away, but the door was swiftly slammed in his face, the gust of wind it made causing his hat to fly off. He sighed dejectedly, bending down to pick his hat back up. "If she is in no shape to run zhe challenge, I vill have no choice but to resort to…zhe Avalons."
Aaron rummaged around in his pocket before pulling his phone from it. He scrolled through his contacts for a brief moment before stopping at one with the name "Crazy Rich Guy." Again, he had to sigh, but he still tapped the contact with his thumb. As he called said contact, the buzzing of the phone echoed through the otherwise silent room. "I hope zhis day goes by quickly…I'm not sure I'll be able to handle-"
"What do you want, peon!?" The phone call was answered by a rather snide sounding man, though his nasty greeting was followed by a squeak of pure pain. "Let go of my cheek! I'm sorry, I just like using the word peon!"
"I sense a rather grim future for you and your relationships if you manage to slink back into old behaviors. The prophecy has foretold it." The second voice Aaron heard over the phone was a woman's and, to be frank, even her tone made her sound a bit like a lunatic. There was some mumbling, which was followed by a brief spit of silence before the phone on the other end seemed to be passed along to the second person. "Greetings, child of the ancient glimmer moon, what is it that you need of us?"
"A-ah…I apologize for zhe sudden call out of now-" Aaron was almost immediately cut off by the insane sounding woman.
"I assure you, it wasn't out of nowhere. When I had my morning spirit dew, it bestowed a premonition of this very call upon me. You're going to request we aid you, correct?" Aaron didn't say anything, he just rubbed his temple while muting his phone's microphone and growling angrily in indiscernible German words. "...I sense that you already know we've arrived in your hotel, yes?"
Aaron ended the call right then and there, turning around to see two people standing right before him, a woman and a man. The man was extravagant in his appearance, but somehow less so than the woman that was with him. For starters, he seemed to be of average height for an adult male, but perhaps a bit underweight with how scrawny he was. Nevertheless, he carried himself with some intense swagger that couldn't be matched by just any peasant. His skin was incredibly pale, which dealt with an intense contrast when it came to his pupils, which were black as the night. He had a pair of glasses on, they had round lenses with a gold frame to them. His hair was also black, though it seemed like it had been dyed that way, since it was a much deeper black than what most people had naturally. The style of his hair was quite wavy, but it wasn't very long, just reaching a couple inches off his head and being styled up. Onto his clothing, the far more intense and extravagant part of him. He had a blazer jacket on, one that was primarily black in color, give for some gold tree accents all over the left side of the jacket. He had a white dress shirt on, which was only just visible at the chest area that the blazer didn't cover, and a gold tie done up nicely. His pants were primarily black, just like the blazer, though the right leg had gold leaf accents all over it. Then, there were his designer shoes, which were- you guessed it- primarily black with gold rose accents all over them. Finally, he wore a silver ring on his left ring finger, which he seemed rather proud of, as he kept flashing it in front of his eyes with a smirk on his face. "Well, Aisling, I do have to give it to you…your prediction was right, yet again."
"It's not a prediction, Arnold…it was a premonition, as I have detailed to you before. It's alright, though…the stars shall forgive your minor misconceptions, and thus, so shall I." This Aisling…she was a whole nother level of intense with the attire, but not just that, her very appearance was graced like some being of pure moonlight. She was just slightly shorter than Arnold, but much tanner than he, not to mention that she actually had a good amount of meat on her bones. She had an hourglass body type, but not just any hourglass…an hourglass of fate, the exact type not really meaning anything in this context, but that's how she would put it. Her eyes were as green as shimmering emeralds, pure ones at that. She had auburn hair that was quite beautiful…and long. It was wavy, dropping far down her back, even stretching past her waist. Adorning her forehead was a red gemstone that dropped down from a golden tiara that she was wearing. Her ears had elegant, ruby gemstones dangling from them, the stones seem to be of the highest quality one could attain. Then, there was her gown…her fantastical gown. Words had barely any way to properly describe its elegance, but it was primarily a light blueish color, akin to the marvelous glow of the moon itself. Her left arm was left entirely uncovered, though there was a sheer, billowy sleeve that rested around her right arm. The gown itself dropped down to the floor, almost covering her feet, but just barely missing that mark. It also seemed that at some point in the skirt, it split into another type of fabric, which was a much darker ocean blue tone. There was a good deal of golden jewelry wrapped around the waist of the dress, and it was assuredly sparkly all over. Her shoes were that same ocean blue color, being platform heels that helped her almost reach Arnold's height. Finally, on her left ring finger…there was a silver ring, much akin to his. "Well, Aaron? Shall we commence with the proceeding-"
"I…I just can't vith you two, here so quick and showing me up like zhat…ugh. I need to lay down, I'll fill you in on everyzhing soon enough." Aaron glanced over at the camera, a defeated look on his face. "Last time on Total Drama: Scrap Island…ve did trivia, Dana got depressed because of everyone else beating her, Caleb did zhe best, no shock zhere, Dana seemed to start a new phase, I was forced into a dress, und Calvin was eliminated by vote after losing zhe challenge. Who are zhese strange people? Vhat do zhey vant? Find out, right now, on 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.
Valerie yawned as she got up from her bed, smacking her lips a few times before walking over to the mirror in her plain looking bedroom. She stared at the dark circles around her eyes before inevitably sighing and rubbing her face a bit with her palms. "You're just an ugly, pathetic tub of lard, you know that, don't you? If there was an award for most pathetic sack in the entire world, you would win it in a heartbeat. You just suck so bad, you make everyone else look better by comparison. Except for…" The miserable gritted her teeth as she glanced over at a picture of Brittany that was just conveniently laying on top of her dresser. She opened her mouth to say something else, but she stopped as someone started knocking on her door. "Be right there…"
Valerie groaned as she started shuffling over to the doorway, only to open it and be greeted to the sight of Aisling, that magnificent moonchild from before. She had to double take as she saw the mystical attire she was dressed in, but had to triple take when she noticed that she was holding a deck of cards of some sort. "Hello, sweet seed of the cosmos…may I interest you in a tarot reading?"
"...I don't think I've got anything to lose by letting some creepy, pseudo-Jehovah's witness talk to me about their beliefs. Whatever, sure, why not." Valerie walked back into her room, allowing Aisling to follow her, though the very moment that the mystical creature felt the air in the room, her hair seemed to rise. Valerie glanced over her shoulder at the woman, noticing that she had frozen in the doorway. "What? You knock on my door and ask to do this card thing and now you don't even wanna come in? What kind of fortune teller are you?"
"I apologize, the aura in this room…it's that feeling of static when your leg falls asleep, but on your insides, rather. Omens such as these tend to put me in a rather uncomfortable state…like when I met Arnold's family." Aisling shivered for a brief moment before letting out a breath to relax herself. "Yes…we can begin the reading. Since this room is a bit off putting to the cards and I, we shall do a simple three card reading. The past, the present, the future, in layman's terms."
"Whatever works for you, crazy lady." Valerie sighed as she sat down on her bed, patting on it so that Aisling could sit with her. The mystical woman raised a hand to decline the offer, and refused to even set the three cards down on the bed, as she used her left arm as a platform for them instead. "So, what, I just flip them over?"
"Yes, but you do it in this order, left to right, just as reading a novel." Aisling smiled sweetly as she awaited Valerie to flip the first card, which she did, revealing that the card was the Star, but it was not facing the right way…it was reversed. The fortune teller paused for a brief moment as she stared at the card before looking over to Valerie with a pitiful look on her face. "I…I apologize. Your past had you being discouraged at every step of the way, no matter what achievements you had made. The children of the cosmos have pummeled you until it filled you with an unmatchable insecurity and, because of this, you learned to have no faith in anything…be it others, a deity, or yourself."
"Huh…that's odd, I always thought these tarot readings were just a way to get some money, I never figured you would get anything right." Valerie looked slightly more invested in the reading and she reached for the second card, flipping it over and revealing the Magician card, this one facing the right way, in contrast to how the Star was.
"Oh my…the Magician is quite an interesting deferral from your beginnings on the reversed Star. Somewhere along the way, you manifested a desire…a desire for something that can't be known, but that desire will be met by your own willpower. As this tells us, you have already started to get what it is that you desire, you've begun to create your own, perfect world." Aisling smiled slightly, but given the past card that had been drawn, she felt a bit uncertain about what was to follow.
Valerie flipped the next card over to reveal that it was the Wheel of Fortune, again, facing the right way. Aisling paused again, crinkling her nose before looking back to Valerie, who was raising an eyebrow at her. "The Wheel of Fortune…it's a card that signifies change in cycles, nothing will ever remain the same due to the changes that you're bringing. There is, however, one thing that remains stagnant in this card you've pulled. You will be met with some inevitable fate, be it good or bad. Perhaps that fate could end up leading to you having a better life, perhaps the opposite. Regardless, no matter the changes that you make…you will end up at that same fate." Aisling put the cards back into her deck, shuffling them all up before tucking it back into her gown. "This has been a fascinating reading…I've gleaned a lot about you already."
"If you say so…not sure how I feel about that open-ended climax, but whatever, I don't care enough to let it bother me." Valerie sighed again while Aisling turned to walk back to the doorway. Once she stepped out of the room, she turned to bow slightly as a way to say goodbye before shutting the door tightly.
Confessional
"Those fortune telling weirdos are always something else when you encounter them…you can really never tell what's going on inside the hampster wheel of a mind they have." Valerie spun her finger around while pointing to her head before giggling a little. "Still, it was interesting to hear what those cards said about me…the first two were wholly accurate, so I wonder if the third is right as well. Perhaps I am headed towards some inevitable fate…that being my victory, of course."
Confessional End
Caleb groaned as a rather obnoxious knocking came to his door, something he hadn't dealt with since he was last allied with Fridge. "I'll be right there…" He got up from his bed, but despite already answering the person at the door, they still kept on knocking obnoxiously. "I said I'd be right there, motherfucker! You don't have to keep knocking, goddamn!" The knocking did come to a stop, but only because the door swung wide open with Teddy barging into the room and slamming the door shut behind him. "What the fuck are you doing!?"
"Shhhh!" Teddy glanced at the chess player and held a finger in front of his mouth to shush him up, which only brought redness to Caleb's face. "Something is way wrong with Aaron, man! He's still rich and built like a twig's thinner cousin, but he's acting all scary! I think you bullying Dana last episode has gotten to him!" The owner of the room raised an eyebrow at the YouTuber, clearly not believing a word he was saying. That was when another knocking came to the door, Teddy's face filling with fear. "He's here…"
Caleb rolled his eyes and started moving towards the door, shoving Teddy aside before opening to be met by Arnold, who was staring down at him with a look that could only be described as judgment. "Your outfit is rather bland, you're not dressed for success in the slightest." The rich man waved his finger at the chess player while shaking his head. "We'll have to work on that at some point. Unfortunately, that will have to be later, as you two are due for a challenge!"
"...Who the hell are you?" Caleb knew that this man clearly wasn't Aaron, though the simpleness of Teddy's radiation influenced brain seemed to convince him otherwise. "You're not Aaron, and you're definitely not Dana, so what business do I have following you for a challenge?"
"Aaron should've informed everyone by now, has our sudden arrival really gotten him that incompotent. Tsk tsk…" Arnold reached into his pocket to grab his phone and call Aaron, but the call was immediately dropped, bringing a sour look to the rich man's face.
Soon after the call was dropped, the speakers around the hotel kicked on, being followed by Aaron's voice, which sounded far more miserable than it typically did. "All remaining survivors, ve vill be having a challenge hosted by some special guests to zhe show…hooray. Each of you can head outside to meet your guest hosts, and myself, for furzher instructions." The speakers turned off, and Arnold shot a smug grin to Caleb, who simply shoved him aside and started heading for the stairs. Teddy followed Caleb, glancing back at the mysterious man with suspicion the whole time.
Confessional
"If you asked me, I would tell you that that guy and Aaron were twins or something, you can hardly tell the difference between 'em!" Teddy glanced at the mirror on the confessional walls, staring at his reflection before looking back at the camera. "I dunno, maybe the lightning stuff is just jading my eyes at this point."
"I'm glad I dealt a blow that deep to Dana's pride, it really does leave me with a pretty large feeling of satisfaction. However, I'm not all too enthused about these random people just knocking on my door…Teddy or this other guy, that shit's just annoying." Caleb crinkled his nose while glaring at the camera, eventually shoving his finger at it. "I had enough of people barging in my room from you, Mitzy!"
Confessional End
The final five met outside to see Aaron, Aisling, and Arnold each standing in front of the entrance of the hotel. Aaron stepped in front of the other two, his expression matching the tone of his voice from earlier. "Vell, for starters, ve must give each of you congratulations for making it zhis far into zhe competition. As you may or may not have noticed, zhere are only five of you left." The final five each cheered for themselves, but only for a brief moment, as Aaron went right back to speaking. "But, it's challenge time now, vhich means zhat one more of you vill be leaving tonight!" The cheering turned to silence while the contestants nervously glanced between each other. "For starters…Teddy, Caleb, you two vill be vorking togezher in zhis challenge. Valerie, Bunny, Brittany, zhe same goes for you three. Pair up now and I will get on vith zhe rest of zhe instructions."
Brittany glared at Bunny as she started walking towards her, getting a glare of equal proportions returned to her by the blogger while Valerie quietly meandered to join the group. "Well, well, it looks like we've been put together again, despite how the alliance before ended. I won't have to worry about you trying to sabotage me today, will I? Who am I kidding, that's exactly the type of petty nonsense you would pull."
Bunny sneered at Brittany, "As if I don't have to watch out for my own tushie while you're around me! You're probably thinking about all the ways you can get rid of me right now, aren't you?" The two girls started to growl at each other while Valerie just kept staring at them, weakly smiling as the fighting brought her some enjoyment.
Teddy and Caleb stood next to each other, each looking at each other with expressions that showed their lack of interest. "I'm not too fond of working with you…you're annoying as all hell. You'd better not hold me back during the challenge or it'll be the end of you, you hear me?"
"Psh, why is the oompa loompa saying that I'll be the one holding us back in the challenge?" Teddy taunted the boy before looking over at the girls and tapping his chin. "Aaron, doesn't this put me and Timmy Twerpner at a bit of a disadvantage, since the girls have an extra teammate?"
"Not quite…zhe challenges zhat each team vill be facing are going to be entirely different! I'm aware zhat you boys have met Arnold already, und I'm sure Aisling has already read zhe girls' fortunes, yes?" Aaron looked back at the two guests, both of which nodded. "Zhe boys are going to be facing off against Arnold in zhis challenge, vhile zhe girls vill face off against Aisling. Each challenge is going to be something zhat zhese two excel in, so for zhe girls, you vill have to predict zhe future better zhan Aisling can. Of course, I will be supervising zhe whole time so zhat it is fair. For zhe boys, zhey vill be racing against Arnold to see who can make more money in vhatever scheme he chooses. Immunity will go to zhe whole team if zhey manage to beat zhe guest zhat zhey are paired vith."
"What happens if both teams beat the guests? Does that mean that we all get to move onto the next challenge?" Bunny was the one to ask the question, but the other four mumbled in agreement, as they were all interested to know.
"Yes, Bunny…if both teams are to win zhe respective challenges zhey are given, no one will be able to be eliminated in tonight's challenge. It vorks in zhe same vay zhat no one vill be given immunity if no one vins zhe challenge today." This exception to the typical rules where someone always was given immunity raised a slight fear in each of the contestatns as they looked over at the guests. Aisling politely waved with a soft smile on her face, while Arnold counted a fat wad of cash in his hands. "Boys, zhere is no need for us to supervise you vith Arnold, so you vill just stay here vith him vhile I take zhe girls and Aisling inside to begin zhere challenge. Zhis may take a few hours to get through, but ve vill all meet back out here for zhe finish of it."
Confessional
"I'm not too thrilled about having to work with Bunny, she's always up to some mischief. And my other partner in this…Valerie…just, ugh. Why couldn't I be on the same team as the boys? Teddy may be annoying, but at least he's somewhat tolerable." Brittany sighed and let her head sink down to her hands.
"Brittany and Valerie as my teammates in a fortune telling contest? Those imbeciles probably don't know the first thing about any fortune telling! Maybe I'll luck out and Brittany will turn out to secretly be an astrology girl or something, but I highly doubt it." Bunny started studying a manual that had a bunch of tarot card meanings in it.
"Let's see…on one side of things, I have an annoying blogger that's always getting up in everyone's business so she can get a scoop for her website. One the other side, we have an ungrateful brat that won't accept her fault for losing all of her money that she had before. Hm…looks like a pretty good line up on our team." Valerie smiled lightly as she clasped her hands together and stared dead into the camera. "Can't wait to see which one of us goes home tonight."
"Great, now I have to work with Teddy…I don't think I've seen him do exceptional in a single challenge after we merged. It really makes you wonder how he hasn't gotten himself eliminated yet." Caleb groaned and slammed his head against the wall. "Please, let there be some miracle we pull so we can make it to the next episode…I'm so close to the end now…"
"Me and Caleb working together is like two YouTubers that got into drama coming together to defeat a common enemy. I mean, not that me and Caleb have ever really had any issues, but we don't exactly mesh well. Doesn't take a genius to figure that out." Teddy's hair sparked wildly, causing him to panic slightly before it calmed down a little bit. "...Still not sure how exactly I'm supposed to control my lightning powers, but we'll figure it out soon enough."
Confessional End
The girls got inside with Aaron and Aisling, the former of the two setting the rest of the group up at a table that had three chairs close together on the right side with one chair spaced out more towards the left. Of course, Aisling took the left chair, where she sat down with that smile from before still on her face. This left the other three girls to take the chairs that were close together, something that made them each upset. "Valerie, sit in between me and Bunny, I really don't want that lizard to be close enough to spew her venom at me."
"Wow, never been used as a divider for other people before…I really am moving up in the world, aren't I?" Valerie scoffed before taking the seat furthest to the left, leaving Brittany and Bunny to sit next to each other, despite how much they didn't want to. Aaron stood in the center of the lobby while three curtains behind him were draping over objects that couldn't quite be seen.
"As I previously mentioned, your challenge vill be all about out predicting zhe fortune teller zhat is sitting next to you. You vill have several rounds of fortune telling, predicting, and general magic to get through, and vhichever side vins more rounds vill determine vhether or not you vin immunity. Zhat brings us to round one, vhich is a simple probability guessing game, but mystical prediction can prove quite useful here." Aaron gestured to the curtains behind him, allowing the contestants to get a good look over them. "Zhese curtains vill each drop, but in a specific order zhat is already predetermined. Vork together to come up vith zhe order. Aisling vill announce her answer after you, as-"
"My mind is quite made up already, this is a rather simple expenditure of my connection to the mystic world." Aaron didn't much care for being interrupted by the fortune teller, which she could see from the annoyed look on his face. "My apologies, go on ahead with your explanation"
"Vhatever…contestants, just start thinking about how zhese curtains vill drop. You have one minute to come up vith your answer." Aaron took a step back, allowing the girls to converse while Aisling sat in her seat, humming a soft tune.
"Well, this is simple enough. I say we just guess the reverse order of the curtains, so right, center, left." Bunny pointed at each of the curtains as she mentioned her plan. "There's not a whole lot of options for this, so nothing's wrong with guessing something simple like that."
"That's just what Aaron wants you to think, you're falling for some pretty obvious bait! It's gonna be in a ridiculous order, something like center, left, right! Or center, right, left!" Brittany did the same as Bunny did, pointing out each of the curtains with her finger, though she did so in a way that she was practically shoving her hands in Bunny's face. The blogger gritted her teeth and slapped the mean girl's hands away. "Hey, don't you go slapping at me just because you're being stupid!"
"I think you're both being stupid, if it's any consolation." Valerie rolled her eyes and leaned back in her seat, her attitude getting the other two girls' attention. "The curtains on the left and the right are going to drop at the same time, and the center curtain is going to drop last."
"You have no idea what you're talking about, Aaron said they were going to drop in a certain order, he never said that anything would be dropping at the same time." Bunny stuck her tongue out at Valerie, only getting a shrug back from the edgy girl. "We're saying my answer, I guarantee you it'll be right!"
"Pardon the interruption, but have you all considered tapping into the room's aura to determine this outcome of events? It really does work far better than guessing and arguing." Aisling offered her helpful suggestion to the girls, getting glares back from Brittany and Bunny while Valerie only lazily shifted her glance over to her. "Apologies, I just wanted to offer my advice, not to upset you…"
"Your time is up, girls! Vhat order vill zhe curtains drop?" Aaron took a step back forward, holding a cord in his hand that was connected to each of the curtains. Bunny opened her mouth to say something, though she was immediately stopped by Brittany.
"It's gonna be center, right, left!" Bunny slammed her fist down on the table when Brittany blurted the answer out. "Oh, you won't be mad when my answer is right! Go ahead, Aaron, drop the curtains!"
"The two on the outside will drop first, followed by the curtain on the inside." Aisling uttered her answer, leaving the argumentative girls in a brief silence. Aaron shrugged his shoulders before pulling on the cord, causing curtains to start dropping. First was the two on the outside, followed by the center curtain. Aisling smiled as she saw the result, while Bunny and Brittany were in disbelief.
"Wow, if only someone suggested that answer. That would've been crazy, right guys?" Valerie glared at her teammates, but they elected to ignore her, too embarrassed by the fact that she was right rather than them.
"Vell done, Aisling…you get zhe first round. Vhich means ve get to move onto zhe second round." Aaron stepped aside to show that the curtains on the outside weren't actually blocking anything, while the center curtain was blocking the view of a bird cage that had a pigeon in it. The contestants stared blankly at the creature while Aisling watched it very carefully. Aaron walked over to the cage, opening it and allowing the bird to fly out. Soon enough, the bird was gone from the room, leaving the cage empty. "Second round, using your ability to predict and foretell…vhere has zhis bird landed?" The competing girls' eyes went wide as he asked the question, while Aisling simply smiled.
Confessional
"That bird could really be anywhere in this hotel! Hell, a window might be open upstairs and it could've gotten outside! How are we supposed to be able to find out where that stupid thing went!? This challenge is loaded, I tell you!" Bunny started cursing under her breath in Japanese.
Confessional End
While the girls were struggling inside, Arnold was stroking his chin with a rather egotistical grin on his face. "Let me see here, let me see…what money making method should I use to crush you two in this challenge, hm? A lemonade stand? That's always a slow burner, but employing my effective business tactics is always fun…especially when it's against a child that knows nothing about economics. No one sells lemonade on my block except for me, Timmy!" The rich man seemed to be lost in his own little world of thought while Caleb and Teddy started to converse among themselves.
"Making money faster than this elitist, how are we supposed to do that? Well, I suppose we could do you up in a dress and place you on a corner." Caleb taunted the YouTuber, who immediately blushed and slapped him on the back of the head, delivering a painful shock to him. "Ack! I was just kidding! That guy is the one that gets to pick the damn challenge, anyways, so there is no way he would let us do something like that. Anyways, what do you know about making money?"
"Well, the ad revenue from my many YouTube channels has always gave me a pretty decent check, enough to make a living out of, anyways. I even got my own apartment! Yup, graduated from mom's house not too far back!" Teddy proudly pointed to himself with his thumb, getting a curious look from Arnold who started slithering towards the two boys before standing in front of Teddy. "Ah! Creepy Aaron, what do you want?"
"You were just saying something about your area of expertise, the way that you make all your money. What was it again, ad revenue from YouTube videos?" Teddy nervously nodded his head, and Arnold grinned even wider than before. "Then it's settled! You two will have to outdo me by seeing who can get more money from a YouTube video!"
"What? Why would you wanna go up against us in something that Teddy is phenomenally good at, are you stupid or some shit?" Caleb crossed his arms and raised his eyebrow at the rich man, who shook his head and chuckled.
"What fun is it for me if I pick something that I already excel at? Obviously I'm going to crush you in something that you think you'll have me beat in!" Arnold dug his finger into Teddy's chest, causing the YouTuber to gulp nervously. "Our challenge starts now, kid! Just try not to give up your career when I humiliate you, alright?" The rich man laughed outrageously to himself as he ran off to go get equipment to make his video with, leaving just Teddy and Caleb.
"He's seriously deranged…anyways, what kind of video are we going to make? I don't know the first thing about stuff, so the fate of this challenge really is going to be in…" Caleb looked up at Teddy and let out a rather discouraging sigh. "...Your hands…"
"There's a couple things that we can do, but if you wanna do the thing that I know will give us an advantage, I need to know that you're willing to cast away all your shame!" Caleb was immediately a bit unsure about what Teddy was going on about, but before he could say anything, the YouTuber grabbed him by both of his arms and shook him a little bit. "You need to be willing to do this, Caleb! If you don't, he'll be able to beat us, no doubt!"
"Agh!" Caleb stuttered as he felt Teddy's electric fingertips buzzing his body. "Fine, fine, just stop touching me, that fucking hurts!" Teddy granted this request, letting go of the chess player and allowing him to take a few deep breaths to regain his composure. "Jesus Christ, dude…now just tell me what your idea is so we can get on wi-" He paused as he looked back up to see Teddy holding a red shirt that said "Caleb's Unboxing World" on it in big, blue, bubble letters. "...No fucking way."
"What!? But you just promised that you would cast away all your shame! Please, Caleb, if you don't do this, I don't know if we can beat him! He's a pretty boy, they get millions of views just from existing! Of course, I'm a pretty boy too, but with the radiation?" Teddy pointed to his own face, his eyebrows soon turning into lightning bolts. "I'm a total wreck at the moment, no one wants to see TB like this!"
"First of all, no. Second of all, how did you even manage to get that shirt already? We literally didn't even know we were gonna be doing this until two minutes ago!" Caleb turned away from his teammate and crossed his arms firmly, showing that he was very unwilling to bend in this regard. "We're gonna have to do something else, there is no way I would let you humiliate me like this."
"B-but…if we don't do this…oh my god!" Teddy gasped loudly, causing Caleb to slightly glance over his shoulder to see what was up. The two of them saw Arnold dressed up in rather strange attire, it kind of made him look like a cute idol in a way. "He…he's doing a K-Pop music video! Caleb, we are ruined if you don't do the unboxing video! K-Pop music videos are one of the highest view snatchers, they're too fun to watch!" Caleb turned back around again, still unwavering. Teddy looked towards his teammate in disbelief, "You know if we don't win this challenge that one of us will be up for elimination, right? And you've been in the bottom two too many times to count…I'm not sure you'd survive another one."
Caleb suddenly winced upon hearing this. As much as he hated to admit it, Teddy was right about the bottom two thing. He snapped around and snatched the shirt from the YouTuber's hands. "I'm never going to be able to live this shit down…let's just get this shit over as quickly as we can."
"Actually, that reminds me about one…eensy weensy teeny tiny super important big deal thing." Caleb sighed as Teddy blocked him from moving. "See…you actually can't swear or anything. I know, I know, you swear all the time and anything, but if you slip any curses into the videos, we'll run into…the iron fist of demonetization." Caleb rolled his eyes, clearly not seeing much of a threat by whatever it was that Teddy was on about, so he tried to just head inside to change, but Teddy ran in front of him to block him again. "I'm serious! We get demonetized, we get no ad revenue, simple as that. YouTube has been really cracking down on that."
"Fine, whatever, I don't care. We're still going to make this as quick as possible, so just go and get whatever you need for the video while I get changed." Caleb continued to grumble to himself before storming inside, leaving Teddy to sigh in relief.
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"Yeah, I haven't shown my face on my channels since the radiation made me look like this…I've just been reposting videos from years ago with filters over them and hoping that no one realizes that the videos have been posted before. I mean, I've got thousands, so there's no way anyone remembers every single one, right?" Teddy smiled nervously, electrified sweat dripping down his forehead before falling off of his face and exploding into a zappy bolt on the floor.
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The three girls inside huddled together as they discussed where that bird may have gone, though Aisling was still sitting down as calm as ever. "We have to think about this carefully or we'll lose this round for sure! Does anyone remember if there were any windows upstairs or not? We need to know if the bird may have flown outside." Bunny looked back and forth between Valerie and Brittany, but she was met with blank stares and silence. "Great, no help there at all."
"Please, you don't know about it either, otherwise you wouldn't have asked us." Brittany scoffed at Bunny, who narrowed her eyes at her while Valerie started to smile creepily again. "For the sake of this, let's just assume that the bird is inside, otherwise we would be searching for it in a place that it can just move around constantly in. Any objections there?" The other two girls shook their heads, and Brittany soon slammed her fist down in the palm of her hand. "Perfect…now, there are three floors in the hote-"
"Four." Valerie spoke up from her silence, grabbing their attention again. She paused for a brief moment before continuing, "There's a fourth floor to the building…you're probably thinking of the ground floor, the basement, and the second floor, right? Well, the fourth floor is above the second floor…but we can rule out the possibility of the bird getting there. There's only one way up, and the door has been locked since I discovered it a while back."
"Uh…okay…not sure why you would mention that if it wasn't a possibility to begin with. We could probably also rule out the basement, I'm pretty sure if Jackson saw a bird down there that he'd microwave it and eat it." After Brittany spoke her piece, it left Bunny with a rather curious look on her face. "What? That's what those ugly sewer people do, right?"
"There you go again, making fun of how other people look. Feels nice to be a barbie doll, doesn't it?" Valerie glared at Brittany, who completely ignored her, per usual. "Anyways, that just leaves the ground floor and the second floor. If you were a bird, where would you want to go?"
"It's a cold blooded creature, I would guess it would go where all other cold blooded creatures go. Caleb's room." Brittany leered at Bunny, who snickered playfully until Valerie suddenly snapped her fingers. "Oh, the show's resident quiet kid has a thought!"
"You might be onto something, Bunny. Caleb's got a heater in his room, apparently it gets colder in there than the rest of the building. The bird may have flown up there to get some warmth." Brittany stared at Valerie suspiciously, causing the latter to glance away nervously. "I-I mean, I figured he has a heater in there. It's always really hot when I pass by."
"Alright, girls, may you have your guess for zhe second round ready? I do believe I gave you a good amount of time, no?" Aaron walked over to the girls, causing them all to look up at him nervously while Brittany weakly raised her hand. "Yes?"
"We're willing to bet that the bird is in Caleb's room right now." Brittany mumbled her answer, and Aaron stared at her questioningly before looking over at Aisling, who was still smiling as she lived happily in her own little world. "I'd like to see her get this one right, she doesn't know a thing about the layout of this hotel!"
"I don't need to know the hotel's layout to know that that bird is currently resting in the basement in a grown man's lap. I can sense the aura of the two of them from all the way over here…just another perk of a strong connection with the cosmos." Aisling got up from her seat and started walking over to a door, which the three contestants, and Aaron, were all shocked to see was the door to the basement. She opened the door up and headed down the stairs it led to, coming back up in a short moment while dragging Jackson upstairs with her, revealing that he had the pigeon in his hands. "Here she is…she must've found comfort from his spirit."
"...I have no idea what you're talking about, lady. This bird just flew down into my room and sat itself on my lap." Jackson lifted the bird up to let it fly away, though it merely perched itself on his shoulder, getting a sigh back from him.
"H-hang on a minute! Maybe she planted that bird down there before the challenge started, there's no way that's the same bird!" Bunny objected to the bird's discovery, causing Aaron to start walking over to the security guard. "Yeah, scope out the scene and make sure she isn't making stuff up!"
"I do have zhis bird marked by a little ink blot on her feazher, it's buried in zhere good so zhere's no vay to see it from zhe outside." Aaron started to fumble around in the bird's feathers, looking for the marked one before eventually coming across the ink blot. "Yes…zhis is indeed zhe bird zhat vas in zhe cage not too long ago. Zhe point for zhe second round goes to Aisling." Aisling happily trotted back to her seat while the three dejected contestants hung their heads in shame.
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"Brittany up and talked us out of the right answer for that round with her nasty comment about Jackson…typical Brittany. To be fair, I probably shouldn't have ruled out that possibility, so I guess it's my fault too, just like how everything is." Valerie sighed and leaned against the wall before her cheek slid down like a slug.
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Teddy stood proudly as he looked up and down at the set that he had put together for his little project, with there being a rather large green screen set up behind a table with a cute little chair, clearly meant for a toddler to sit at. There was a present box wrapped up nice and neatly in the center of the table, and a bit of a ways away, there was the camera that was set up perfectly on a tripod. "Not too shabby for the short amount of time I had available…now, where is my little superstar? Caleb? Are you around?"
"I don't want to do this, I look fucking stupid." Caleb could be heard grumbling from behind the green screen, and Teddy peaked underneath to see his feet through the small gap that there was between the screen and the ground.
"Haha, I see the little man's tootsies!" Immediately, Caleb moved so that he couldn't be seen at all, causing Teddy to frown. "Come on, Caleb! It'll only take a couple minutes! After that, you'll be able to take the costume off and go back to being your normal, grumpy, potty-mouthed self! We can totally clutch this dub with your talent and style! You've even got what it takes to be a YouTube sensation!"
"You're just saying that to lull me into a false sense of security. I look so imbecilic right now, I almost broke the mirror when I saw my reflection." Caleb continued to protest, only causing Teddy to get a bit angry, as he soon stormed behind the green screen and, after a brief scuffle that sounded like two stray cats fighting, dragged the chess player out into the open. Caleb was flushed with red from embarrassment, as he had his glasses off, his hair spiked up with some fun gel, that ridiculous shirt on, light blue shorts, and bright blue crocs. "Just kill me, it's a fate far better than this one."
"You'll be just fine, I don't see what's the big issue." Teddy had his hands over his mouth, as he could barely stop himself from laughing like a maniac, which Caleb immediately noticed, and stepped on his foot because of it. "Yowch! Look, you do this, and we'll be in the clear for the elimination ceremony. Five minutes, that's all we're gonna need."
"It better be…I can feel myself getting more and more depressed by the second." Caleb moved over to the table, where he sat down in the chair and looked towards the camera, noticing something that hadn't been there before. "W-what the fuck is that?"
"Hm? What's what?" Teddy looked all around, not seeing what Caleb was so offended by no matter where he looked. "I think the embarrassment is getting to your head, cause I don't see anything particularly strange."
"That, on the board right there!" Caleb pointed ahead at a dry erase board that had been set up next to the camera, which Teddy turned to glance at.
"Oh, that! That's your script for the video! I figured you would need some help to give the video some extra oomph, so I went and prepped this up for ya! Don't worry, you follow this script, and we'll be in the clear!" Teddy smiled a huge smile to Caleb, whose face grew redder and redder as Arnold started walking towards them, dusting his hands off with that grin on his face.
"Well, kids, I hope you guys have got something crazy up your sleeves, because my video is going to top the trending page, just you wait!" Arnold snickered to himself before glancing over at Caleb and looking him up and down. "Nice outfit, rugrat." The rich man started to laugh more obnoxiously as he walked away from the two, causing the red to fade from Caleb's face as it was replaced by a determined look.
"Caleb?" Teddy was a bit shocked to see the chess player suddenly change like that.
"He wants to go and put me down like that, fine by me! I don't care how I look, me and you are gonna make sure that our video outdoes his twelve times over! Teddy, start rolling the camera!" Teddy's smile grew even wider as he rushed over to the camera, starting the recording while Caleb swapped his expression for that of an innocent toddler. "Hi everybody! Welcome to Caleb's Unboxing World!" Teddy reached into his pocket for a remote, pressing a button on it that played a soundbyte that was a few fireworks going off.
"We got a really special box in that d-...daddy wrapped up really nice for me! I'm super excited to open it!" Caleb clapped his hands feverishly before stopping and licking his lips. "I wonder what it's gonna be? I hope it's a toy airplane! I wanna make it fly over my neighbor's pool!"
"Well, you'll just have to open it up and find out, sport!" Caleb did his best not to wince when Teddy said that, as he soon reached for the ribbon on top of the box and pulled it, causing the box to collapse and reveal a train toy with a smiling face at the front of the train. Caleb immediately knew what this was, but he couldn't break character.
"Woooooooooooow! It's a Tompa the Tank Engine toy! Choo choo!" Caleb smiled as he looked at the script, flinching ever so slightly as he read the next bit. Teddy clasped his hands together and got down on his knees to beg. "Well, this train is gonna go on a big fun adventure! Choo choo!" Caleb place the train down on the table, smiling a big, dumb smile while he raced it all around an imaginary track. "Oh no! Watch out for the scary tunnel!" He hesitated a good bit, but eventually guided the train into his mouth and giggled through his voice being obstructed. "Teehee! Ths tunnel i real dar an scawy!"
Caleb spit the train back out onto the table and clapped while he giggled like a toddler, perfectly in touch with the part he was playing. "Well, this has been a really fun episode! I'll see you all next time on Caleb's Unboxing World!" The chess player waved to the camera until Teddy finally turned it off. He immediately got up from the seat and ripped the shirt off of himself, soon tossing it aside while kicking the crocs away as far as he could. He patted his hair down as well, but it seemed to immediately stick back up. "If we don't win this challenge, I'm going to murder you, you know that, right?"
"Don't you worry, this is an absolute gem! We should definitely outrank Mr. Moneybags, no matter how good his K-Pop video is!" Teddy grabbed the camera and whipped out his laptop to start editing the video.
"For your sake, I hope so." Caleb continued to grumble as he started walking to head inside so he could fix himself up.
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"That was the most utterly humiliating thing I've ever had to do in my entire life! If we don't get the payoff we need with this video, I'm gonna carve Teddy's bones up to make some new chess pieces." Caleb held the train toy from before in his hand. Soon, he squeezed down on it, crushing it into pieces and dropping them on the floor. "You've been warned, YouTuber!"
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"Alright, I have asked you zhe question for round nine not to long ago, surely you girls have come up vith your answer, right?" Aaron stood by the contestants at their end of the table, a bit worried as he saw that they all looked absolutely miserable. Each and everyone of them was flopped down in their seats so that their faces were buried in their arms, which were resting on the table. "I vasn't aware zhat zhis round vould be so stressful…it vas a pretty simple question."
"Sure, you say that, but the answer is going to turn out to be something insane that we'd never be able to see coming." Brittany grumbled through her arms, as she didn't raise her head at all. "'Vhat's zhe next zhing to come through zhe main entrance?' I don't know, the damn tooth fairy or something!"
"On round nine and we still haven't gotten a single one of the points…how many rounds can there be? How has she not beat us already?" Bunny slightly glanced up at Aaron to see him counting out on his fingers. "You don't even know how many rounds are left, do you!?"
"S-sure I do! I just…seem to have misplaced zhat information for zhe time being. Tell you vhat: if you girls manage to guess zhis round right, you'll get enough points to tie up with Aisling, sound fair?" The girls groaned, still not too enthused by the challenge as a whole. Aaron sighed and moved over to Aisling, who was sitting there and smiling as sweetly and innocently as ever. "Vell? Vhat is your guess for zhis round?"
"It's not a guess, it's a proper prediction of the future. The next thing to come through the main entrance will be…a nearly naked toddler." Aaron was skeptical of this, and he turned to face the main entrance to see Caleb pushing the door open. Sure enough, the boy was still shirtless and shoeless, only wearing the light blue shorts that he had on before. He grumbled to himself as he stormed upstairs to get to his room. "I'm not even sure how you managed to get a toddler on this island, but nevertheless, there he is, as the cosmos had told me."
"You're right…aye…alright, round nine's point goes to Aisling." The contestants groaned, not bothering to look up from the table still. "At zhis point, for zhe girls' sanity, I zhink ve shall call it. You three didn't vin zhe challenge, so each of you vill be up for elimination in tonight's ceremony."
"Whatever…as long as that torture is over, I don't care." Valerie got up from her seat and started sluggishly moving to go upstairs, soon being followed by Brittany and Bunny, both of which were moving just as slowly and miserably as she was. Aaron glanced back over to Aisling, who just smiled sweetly like before and waved to him.
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"That was literal hell to go through, I can't imagine the boys had to do anything that terrible…" Brittany sighed and slouched down before the door slammed open and Caleb pointed at his gelled up hair with a look of fury on his face. She glanced over and, as soon as she saw him, she burst out into laughter.
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Teddy tapped away at the keys on his laptop ferociously, trying to finish up with his video editing while Caleb finally made it back outside. The chess player walked over to him just as he was done. "And…upload. Okay! We've got the video up, the ad revenue should be kicking in soon enough!"
"That's great…from what I hear, the girls lost their part of the challenge, so if anyone's going to be immune, it'll be us. Hm?" Caleb narrowed his eyes at the video on the screen before his face went red with embarrassment again. "C-Caleb takes Tompa on a trip to Choo Choo Lagoon!? What kind of fucking title is that!?"
"Ahem…the title is, 'Caleb takes Tompa on a trip to Choo Choo Lagoon (GONE ADORABLE/NOT CLICKBAIT)!' These are the types of titles you need to use to rack in the views." Teddy pointed down to the section that showed the video stats, revealing just how fast the views were racking up which brought a look of disbelief to Caleb's face. "I told you that this was a surefire way to make sure we beat that guy! Here, let's check out the trending page!" Teddy clicked the link to the trending page, and the two boys waited for it to load, only for them to be filled with despair when they saw that Arnold's K-Pop video was at the top.
"I did tell you I was going to reach the top of the trending page, didn't I?" Arnold popped up from out of nowhere, back in his suit from before. He chuckled to himself while the two boys looked up to him. "Not only have you managed to lose to me in something that you thought you were an icon at, but you managed to sacrifice Caleb's miniscule amount of pride along the way. Hm?" Arnold's phone buzzed in his pocket, and he soon pulled it out to see a notification from YouTube. "Would you look at that! A notification to tell me just how much ad revenue I made from this video already! Let's read it aloud together, shall we?"
Arnold held his phone out so that the two boys could see his screen, and he soon cleared his throat. "Let's see here. 'Dear BossAvalon, Your recent video has become a major viewing success, which is why we feel the need to inform you that we translated the lyrics and found that one of the lines translates to, "This shit will top the charts!" Needless to say, we can't allow such filth to be earning good money from our company, so we have decided to fully demonetize your video. You will receive no ad revenue from this. Thank You, Team YouTube.'"
There was a brief moment of silence from all parties while they let the news of the notification sink in. Caleb and Teddy looked up to see Arnold's face had lost all color and he looked like he had no emotion whatsoever. They looked back to each other, remaining silent for a moment before leaping up from the ground and hollering in joy. "We beat him! We beat him! We won that motherfucking immunity!" Caleb landed back down on the ground and started dancing like a victorious little champ when Teddy ran off to the side and came back with a large bucket, which he dumped the contents of all over him. "Gah! Teddy, what the fuck was that!?"
"Huh? Oh, it was gatorade!" Teddy smiled before he leaned forward and sniffed Caleb. "...I think." There was another brief pause before Caleb noticed that there was a robot farmer milking a robot cow into a similar bucket not too far away. He looked back at Teddy, only to find that the YouTuber was already running away for dear life.
Confessional
"We did it…I don't know how, but me and Teddy managed to win this challenge! Maybe I was wrong to doubt him because…and don't tell him that I said this, but, there was no way we would've won the challenge if it wasn't for his knowledge of this stuff." Caleb sighed, a bit embarrassed to be offering any praise to the YouTuber. "Seriously, the guy knows his shit when it comes to internet fame and all that. Even if it was incredibly embarrassing."
"I'm actually immune for once! I think this is the first time I've been immune in the entire merge of this season…I really can't believe it!" Teddy got up and started doing one of the dances from Blortnite to symbolize his victory. "Of course, I didn't doubt it, even for a second!"
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The final five met back at the Colosseum of Shame, with Teddy and Caleb standing over by the podium where Aaron was. The two boys each smirked proudly as they were handed the first two bags of rations, which they promptly dug into and enjoyed while Aaron held a platter with only two more bags of rations on it. Outside of this, Aisling and Arnold were standing in front of the Trampoline of Losers, and Brittany, Valerie, and Bunny were each seated in the benches, all of them staring down at their feet in shame. "Arnold, Aisling…zhank you again for helping us out vith zhis challenge. Miss Dana just isn't herself right now."
"It was really no trouble at all…it's fun to get away from the business every now and then, even though I do enjoy helping Arnold out as much as I can." Aisling playfully pinched Arnold's cheek and he waved her hand away, grumbling and glancing off to the side before she leaned up and kissed him on the same cheek that she was just pinching, causing him to blush intensely. "I know you're upset about losing to the boys, but you know a job well done when you see one, yes?"
"Yes, yes, I do…" Arnold sighed and looked over to Teddy and Caleb. "You two did pretty good today…I mean, you outmoneyed me! If there is one thing I'm the best at, it's outmoneying other people! I suppose that being back on the show reignited that overly competitive spirit of mine. I made a fool of myself as a result. Good job, gentlemen." The two boys looked between each other before looking back to Arnold and smiling.
"Now, we do have to get going…I predict that us failing to return soon will lead to a drastic plummet in your stock value." Arnold snapped to attention, soon grabbing his wife by the hand and waving to everybody with a worried look on his face.
"Well, it was great to see everyone, but time is money and I can't be losing out on any more money than I already have! See you all later, good luck with the show!" The two jumped together onto the trampoline, which soon bounced them far, far away from the colosseum, leaving just the co-host with the five contestants.
"Vell…I am a bit glad to have zhose two out of my hair now. Zhey are quite zhe crazy ones, vouldn't you all agree?" Aaron cleared his throat before holding his platter up high. "Now, zhe girls have lost zhe challenge today, vhile zhe boys von, so zhat means zhat zhe boys are completely safe from zhe cold touch of elimination. Zhe girls…however…one of you vill not be receiving a bag of rations, and zhat one will have to take zhe Trampoline of Losers out of zhe Colosseum of Shame to be eliminated from zhe game und to never return!"
The girls each slowly looked up to Aaron, all of them looking just as miserable as they were before they got to the colosseum. "Each of you received at least one vote tonight, so zhis elimination ceremony is a razher close one, I'm sure you can imagine. Anywho, zhe first bag of rations I have here vill be going to…Valerie." Aaron tossed out the bag to the contestant, which shocked both Brittany and Bunny, as they hardly expected to be in the bottom two.
"Heh…nice." Valerie got up from her seat and moved over to join the two boys that were already safe, making sure she got nice and close up to Teddy, who tried to zap her to ward her off, but the zap seemed to have no effect, as she just smiled up at him with love in her eyes. Caleb looked a bit nervous upon seeing Brittany in the bottom two…she was his only ally left, after all.
"Now…Brittany…Bunny…zhe two of you both share a mutual hate for each ozher, one vhich seems to revolve entirely around Caleb. Because of zhis, you've managed to each get a unique following of hate from different contestants. Zhat is vhy, zhis final bag of rations goes to…" Brittany crossed her fingers and started hoping for the best while Bunny began to bite down on her fingernails.
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The camera view transitioned to reveal Brittany and Bunny in a boxing ring that was floating in the air above the trampoline of shame. In the one corner in the back right, Brittany stood, wearing an outfit that was mainly assembled from high tech robotic parts, making her look like a true scavenger of the badlands. She had pink boxing gloves on her hands, those which looked pretty powerful. In the corner opposite of her, Bunny stood, looking like an actual robotic rabbit with the strange armor that she had gathered. Her boxing gloves were a sky blue color, contrasting those that her opponent was wearing. Aaron stood on a floating platform above the two of them, holding a microphone in his hands while a floating bench nearby had Caleb, Teddy, and Valerie seated together.
"Velcome, to zhe Regaloboxing arena of zhe skies! Up here, zhere vill be our tiebreaker challenge, a true Regaloboxing matchup! Bunny und Brittany vill have to duke it out to see who's the true Regaloboxer by scoring a TKO on zhere opponent! Whoever loses vill be dropped down to zhe trampoline and hastily eliminated from zhe game!" Aaron's platform floated off to the side of the ring so that he was floating near the three safe contestants.
"You got this, Brittany! Show that bitch who's boss!" Caleb shouted out to his ally, who gulped nervously as she started making her way to the center of the ring.
"Bunny, make sure that ungrateful Brittany learns her place, why don't you." Conversely, Valerie was cheering Bunny on, if only because her hatred for Brittany was that strong. Aaron held a bell up in his hands, smacking it with a small mallet and letting it ring out as the girls had both reached the center. They bumped their gloves together for a second before jumping back a few paces to get some distance.
"There's no way I'm gonna let you beat me, Bunny! You should've stayed with the alliance when you had the chance, because you're totally done fo-" Brittany kept trying to smack talk, but she was struck in the gut by Bunny's strong right hook, which sent her flying into the ropes before she fell down to the ring floor.
"Und Bunny has scored zhe first of zhe three knockdowns needed for her to vin zhe challenge! Let's see how Brittany comes back from zhis!" Aaron's announcement caused Caleb even more worry than before, as he now grabbed onto the edge of his seat.
"Brittany can't lose to Bunny, she just got lucky with that first knockdown! There's no way that she'll be able to beat her." Caleb mumbled to himself before cupping his hands around his mouth. "Brittany, don't let her surprise you like that! She's gonna play dirty, you have to play just as dirty as she will!"
"Ugh…you jerk, I wasn't finished talking, you can't just knock me down out of nowhere like that!" Brittany struggled to pull herself back up to her feet, but when she was up, she cracked her neck and got back into a fighting stance. "No more playing around, you're going down now!"
"Ha! You say that, but you won't be able to catch this hopping Bunny!" Bunny snickered as she literally started to quickly hop towards Brittany, her feet helping her shift her position with every few seconds. She swung another jab at Brittany, but the mean girl used her arms to grab Bunny by the forearm before slamming her down on the ring. "Grabs!? That can't be legal!"
"Unfortunately for you, anyzhing is legal in Regaloboxing! Brittany scores her first knockdown, tying zhings up for zhe two boxers!" Caleb got up from his seat to cheer after Aaron's announcement.
"Now that's what I'm fucking talking about!" The boy got so lost in his cheering that he started to wobble forward, almost falling off of the platform before Teddy snagged him by the collar of his shirt and sat him back down. "...T-thanks."
"Hey, don't mention it. I'm just glad you aren't murdering me, like you said you would!" The YouTuber chuckled while Caleb rolled his eyes, and Bunny kept laying on the ground, her face down.
"Oh, please, that one little slam couldn't have hurt you that much. You're probably waiting for me to offer to help you up so you can uppercut me or something. Well, that just ain't gonna happen!" Brittany raised her chin to Bunny, but the latter then wrapped her arms around Brittany's calf and pulled her down to the ground.
"Amazing! Bunny has pulled anozher trick out on Brittany, bringing her knockdown total up to two! She only needs one more for her immunity to be secured, vill she be able to do it? Or vill Brittany make a sudden comeback?" Aaron's announcement made Caleb feel uneasy again, and the two girls got up from the ground and faced each other with fury in their eyes.
"I've had it with you, Bunny! Your meddling, your scheming, you were supposed to meddle and scheme with us, but you let a little contingency plan get in the way of that!" Brittany shouted at the blogger, who rolled her eyes as she started to hop around again.
"You were Caleb's favorite! He picked favorite's in the alliance, the rest of us were expendable! You and I could've been a way better power duo than you and him, but you stuck by his side no matter what! You're going down here, and then he's gonna go down!" Bunny let out a war cry before charging straight at Brittany. She let a punch fly forward, but when Brittany attempted to grab her arm, as she had done before, Bunny leapt off of the ring floor, flying over her opponent before landing behind her and punching her in the middle of the back, knocking her down to the ring floor. Caleb stood from his seat with shock filling his eyes while Brittany struggled to try and get up.
Aaron grabbed his bell from his little platform, slamming the mallet on it to ring it three times. "Ding ding! Ve have a vinner for zhe tiebreaker challenge! Bunny moves on to zhe final four vhile Brittany…has been eliminated!" Brittany opened her mouth to try and say something, but before she could, the ring floor directly below her opened up, causing her to fall through before landing on the trampoline below and bouncing far away from the colosseum. Caleb watched in shock as he last ally flew away, while Valerie grinned an eerie grin. The chess player looked back at the ring to see Bunny pointing at him with her boxing glove, an intense glare beaming from her eyes. "Zhere you have it, zhe challenge is over and done vith! Bunny, Caleb, Teddy, und Valerie vill be moving onto zhe final four of zhe competition! Ve have so much going on, it's crazy to zhink about what may happen next! Vill Bunny outvit Caleb? Vill Caleb outvit Bunny? Vill Miss Dana recover from zhis odd state she is in to return to hosting zhe show? Zhe only way to find out is…next time on Total…Drama…Scrap Island!"
Author's Notes:
*We're down to just four more contestants: Caleb, Teddy, Bunny, and Valerie! Who would've thought we would end up with these wackos as the final four at the start of the merge? Brittany was fun to have around, but of her and Caleb, she definitely had a little less going for her. She was initially going to be eliminated in the beach episode, but I decided to extend her plot a bit to give her some more screen time, since she didn't get a good amount in MM.
*Votes: Brittany - Bunny, Valerie; Bunny - Caleb, Brittany (Votes Negated Due to Tiebreaker Win); Valerie - Teddy
*Placements: No Placement - Chris, Ivy; 22nd - Daniel; 21st - Larida; 20th - Mitchell; 19th - Alice; 18th - Blaster; 17th - Max; 16th - CJ; 15th - Ronnie; 14th - Celeste; 13th - Zane; 12th - Buck; 11th - Margaret; 10th - Vernon; 9th - Mitzy; 8th - Yves; 7th - Fridge; 6th - Calvin; 5th - Brittany