Topher sighed happily as he sat in his office "Final eleven and my hosting couldn't be any better! But it should be the final ten…" he murmured before snapping his fingers.
"Significant! Asian slave kid, I need you now!"
The host waited for Insignificant, but the little asian boy never came "Ugh, ok, Lana! Get in here!"
She came running as fast as she could, sweating slightly "Y-yes sir?"
"I need you to watch the first merge challenge and tell me how things go. I can't get past her merging the teams…" he shuddered "So I need you to tell me if I missed much. Oh, and find Insignificant! I haven't seen him since we got the AI working again"
"Y-yes sir" Lana saluted before running away.
Topher sighed happily again as he got comfy, before looking at the camera "You know what happened last time. Mitch escaped his AI girlfriend, so everyone else eliminated Colmillo's hubby. Let's see how things go for those two in today's episode of Total. Drama. Arcade!"
Intro Starts
"Dear Mom and Dad, I'm Doin' Fine," Topher and Nelly stood at the front of the island, with the nurse rapidly measuring Topher's limbs and where his organs should be.
"You guys are on my mind." The camera zoomed past the two hosts to an abandoned-looking city. In the middle of the plaza was a giant pool that the camera dove into. At the bottom, Dylan was trying to pull a chest up to the surface.
"You asked me what I wanted to be And now I think the answer is plain to see," Dylan felt someone tapping her on the shoulder. She turned around, only for Ian to come out of nowhere and swim away with the chest. Bubbles floated up to the surface, where Bobby floated on a raft. Bobby looked nervous about the water.
"I wanna be famous!" Colmillo was holding Mitch in a chokehold on land as the writer desperately tried tapping out.
"I wanna live close to the sun," in one of the abandoned buildings Camila was waving her hands around mystically over a crystal ball as Marty just stared past it and at her chest. Veronica meanwhile just crossed her arms skeptically.
"Go pack your bags, 'cause I've already won," inside the crystal ball Camila saw Ellis having a casual friendly conversation with Thomas whose fingers were crossed behind his back.
"Everything to prove, nothing in my way" past the duo, Michael and Mimos were sitting on the ground in the middle of nowhere just enjoying some peace until Vinnie fell down on top of him with a beehive in her hands.
"I'll get there one day" past them Matt was using his walking stick to walk around when Vinnie ran past him with the bee nest in her hands while dragging Micheal behind her. Matt fell to the ground as the bees quickly swarmed him.
"Cause I wanna be famous!" back in the abandoned city Mitzy and Tess were lying on the ground, smiling to themselves as they drew a comic. Liz looked down at her work and gave her a thumbs-up before feeling Bailey hug her from behind. Making blood come from her nose. However, Maxine came in and stomped on her paper
"Na na na na na na na na" in one of the buildings Therion and Charlotte are playing a game in a room before Charlotte laughed confidently once beating the gamer. That was before another character suddenly beat both of them. They turned to see Asuka easily beat her while looking away from the screen.
"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous" Walter was looking around the dock to the island, as he walked he could see some footsteps on the ground as he slowly followed them. As he got closer to the camera he flashed a flashlight at the camera.
"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous" The light from the flashlight turned to the moon as it slowly moved down to the cast. Jaz and Antoinette were sitting together by the fire. Jaz saw the camera on them and quickly pushed Antoinette out of the way, trying to get the camera to focus on her before the other girl pushed her right back. The other contestants slowly whistled
Intro Ends
The scene began with Mitch sleeping in his bed well into the night. However, he hadn't had a wink of sleep as he laid there. He slowly glanced to the balcony, seeing a muscular figure barely illuminated by the moon as she stared at him.
Mitch whimpered, watching the figure stand on his balcony. She didn't move, but even if so, he was still beyond terrified as she stared directly at him.
Confessional: Colmillo
She had a fierce glare on her face "Am I messing with that little dweeb? Yea, very much so! Does he deserve it? Absolutely! If he didn't win immunity Therion would still be here and he would be gone. Win-Win! But nooooooooooooo, his "girlfriend" bailed him out! Well, he won't stay lucky forever"
Confessional: Mitch
Mitch shuddered as he held himself "C-Colmillo is going to drive me mad…er than I usually am. It's unbearable! I was told to vote for him by Bobby, this is not my fault! He better put up his end of the deal where I won't be murdered for the vote…"
XXX
At morning's dawn, Vinnie woke up and slowly pulled herself out of her room. That's when she saw Mitzy and Walter were both standing around and waiting patiently.
"What are you two doing so early in the morning?" Vinnie smiled slightly as she rubbed her eyes "I hope you weren't waiting on me"
Mitzy was just frowning at her "Actually, we were waiting on Bobby. He purposefully worked with the antagonists and we must speak with him over this"
"Yea, it was a little annoying he didn't vote with us, but it's just Bobby. He got messed with by them, simple as that"
"Or he's purposefully working with them" Mitzy pointed out "He specifically told Mitch who to vote for last time. If he just felt bad for Veronica, I don't think he would have gone that far out of the way"
Vinnie frowned a bit "I guess that's kind of true. But I still don't think he would've voted for Therion if it weren't for them"
"Vinnie" Mitzy frowned deeper "The people who hide their villanous intent are the worst. People like Colmillo and Veronica aren't as dangerous because they're openly evil. If Bobby is faking his innocence, he's gone over half a season without even showing a glimpse of his real attitude!"
Walter just nodded "I believe in innocence until proven guilty. But, at the same time, Mitzy makes a valid argument"
Vinnie sighed a little "I get some people in the game are still bad guys but do we have to focus all our attention on that? Eliminating Bobby would just remove a potential swing vote. Instead we should be voting for Liz. It's the same reason Camila and Veronica voted for Therion, there's not a chance the other two will work together without their big momma"
Mitzy glared slightly "Are you really going to be fine with a hidden evil getting away with whatever he wants just because your evil is already eliminated?
"What- that's not what I was getting at at all" Vinnie frowned a bit "I just think we should focus on being strategic…"
The Comic Artist still seemed disappointed in her "We can handle anything Bobby related for now. We'll meet back up before the challenge"
Vinnie just sighed a bit "Fine, fine. Whatever. You two can focus on stuff that just isn't important"
With that, she walked away, leaving the two of them to continue their wait. "I'm starting to worry she's being manipulated herself… She used to be just as anti-villain as us, and now she just seems less into it" Mitzy murmured worriedly.
"W-well, the merge is pretty serious. I can get the strategy point" Walter rubbed his neck "But I'm still all behind eliminating these villains!"
"Thank you" Mitzy smiled a bit at him.
On the other side of the door, Bobby was silently leaning against it with his usual innocent smile. From his expression it was hard to see if he actually listened in on them or was daydreaming.
At the ground level, the three girls were quietly keeping their heads down low. They were currently at the plaza's bar-themed building, though it didn't actually have alcohole, just Lana handing out apple juice or water.
"You really think Topher would leave any advantages just lying around?" Veronica frowned at Camila.
"Even if there's nothing I'd rather avoid being front and center for Colmillo's unbridled rage" Liz murmured nervously.
Camila just smirked "I'm not all too worried at that muscle-head. She's effectively at the bottom of the social latter. Her and the Hazbin Hotel stan"
Veronica just raised an eyebrow at Camila, who rolled her eyes "It's a sting at her swearing being funny. Thank you so dearly for ruining my joke"
"Funny coming from the one that's clearly watched that series" Veronica happily taunted in return.
Liz smiled, just happy their arguing was at least marginally more polite. As they continued their argument, Mitch suddenly came running in as fast as he could before diving through the boy's bathroom.
"M-Mitch?" Liz frowned before getting up "I'll be back in a moment. I have to make sure he's ok"
Veronica and Camila just nodded as Liz walked to the bathroom, not caring if it's only for guys. At the same time Lana was going into the back room to get some more supplies.
"Looks like it's just the two of us then…" Veronica stated matter-of-factly.
Camila silently nodded, taking a quick sip of her crystal-clean water. When she set her water down they both turned to each other before suddenly kissing each other like they had the morning prior.
Confessional: Camila and Veronica
The two girls were sitting side-by-side in the confessional with their own, separate, smug smirks. "I'm a bit surprised we're keeping this going. But at the same time it's not going bad at all" Veronica smirked.
Camila nodded "Veronica matches my interest of staying on top all the time, and she's also stacked with cash. She's effectively a whole package"
Veronica smirked a bit "Same goes back to you"
XXX
While they were distracted kissing still, Bobby silently walked into the bar at a slow pace. When he walked inside it seemed like he hadn't even noticed the two of them kissing as he simply sniffed the air before walking to the bathroom Mitch had run into.
"Hope Colmillo doesn't find Mitch here" Bobby smiled as he went into the other room, causing the two mean girls to immediately stop with widened eyes.
This left just two contestants more or less out and unaccounted for. Marty and Asuka were both sitting well out into the forests just enjoying nature. Or at least Marty was, snapping multiple photos of birds or trees.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, nature's soooooooooooooooooooooo boring!" Asuka groaned, rolling around all over the forest floor.
Marty just chuckled a bit "Come on Asuka, you're the type who should be able to make fun wherever you are. Unless you're… not very creative"
"I'm Asuka, of course I'm fucking creative!" she suddenly stood up with a determined expression "Just you wait!"
Her companion just smiled and snapped photos around them "Call me in an hour if you manage to come up with something"
Asuka puffed out her cheeks, showing she was brimming with an annoyed attitude. But when he didn't give her any attention she just went and ran out to the forests.
"Hope she doesn't miss out on the challenge" Marty mused, going back to his photographer job.
She walked through the forests, finding many of the landmarks from the Slenderman challenge. However none of these interested her in the slightest. Until she saw a little midget… thing crawling around the island with a determined expression.
"Woah, that's new!" Asuka smiled, bouncing over to the midget "What are you doing here!?" she suddenly screamed right in her face.
"Ah, darn it!" the midget whined, covering her ears "That's too loud!" she turned to glared directly at Asuka.
The small girl had dyed pink hair and was wearing a gray trenchcoat. "Are you apart of the challenge?"
"No, I'm not" she frowned "I'm here to seek revenge on my elimination! Are you a new intern or something?"
"Oh! You used to be a competitor? Fun, I am one now! Which one were you?"
She silently stared at her "I'm Maxine… since when were you here?"
"Just the merge" Asuka grinned "But don't worry, I won't tell the hosts you're around here. Not like I'm supposed to be here either"
"You broke into the season?" Maxine perked up and grabbed her shoulders "How'd you do that!?"
Asuka shrugged "Nelly was hosting and I guess she didn't care"
Maxine slowly nodded "Well… ok. If you don't mind then I'm going to get back to what I was doing"
"Have at it" Asuka smiled. Maxine silently started sneaking away, before noticing that Asuka was following right behind her. Instead of asking what she was doing, Maxine just sighed as she went about her business.
Confessional: Maxine
The little villain smirked "Oh, it's great to finally be back in the bright lights of television's villany!" she laughed boisterously "Unlike that rocker I'm not here to compete. I simply plan to seek the ultimate revenge on those who have eliminated me! Ohhhhhhhh, they shall pay!"
XXX
After some time, every contestant was standing near a screen of some kind. "Hello contestants!" Monica's pixelated image appeared on said screens "As usual, we've got a challenge coming up. And once again we'll be in VR, so don't keep us waiting" she winked before disappearing off their screens.
The contestants made it to the usual VR room, with Topher almost immediately setting them all up without explaining a bit of their challenge.
That's when they all spawned into what looks like a desert with backpacks with a weapon attached. "The fact Topher wouldn't tell us our challenge first is concerning" Mitch murmured.
"The fact I'm not bruising you right now is concerning" Colmillo growled.
Monica suddenly appeared before them "Don't worry! I'm here to save him some time by explaining the story here!"
"I'm sure we'll be glad to hear it" Mitch smiled a little at her, before quickly shutting up at some glares.
"You better not have any favoritism for the nerd" Veronica frowned "Or else I'm suing this thing"
"I promise I will only favorite Mitch in private. But I also expect you all to not lay a hand on him unless you want problems in the challenge" a dark red aura surrounded Monica.
"Only one of us wants to even lay a finger on that creature" Camila taunted.
"And it would be wrong to harm Mitch over a quick, singular mistake" Mitzy stated firmly, glaring at a bored Colmillo.
"Ok…" Monica's expression softened until it was a bright smile "This episode will be similar to Ape Escape but a little different. In here, you'll have to capture special slimes. All of which are ranked in rarity"
She gestured to a sign with multiple slimes. The lowest on the list was a pink slime, followed by a magma slime, cat slime, rock slime, a glowing slime, and finally a slime that looked like a mosaic.
"Once your tanks are full, you can deliver them to your bases!" Monica then gestured to multiple separate bases "But that's all I am able to say at the time. But believe me, there's going to be more after this. So… good luck!"
With that, the AI poofed away.
"I… guess we should just begin then?" Marty smiled a bit, before all the serious contestants zoomed past him. Just leaving him with Asuka and Mitch.
Marty just smiled a bit at Asuka before looking at Mitch "Won't you want to win immunity so Colmillo won't target you?"
Mitch just laughed a bit "Monica is clearly hiding something. I have no intention of being the first to find out what that would be"
"You're such a fucking baby" Asuka rolled her eyes before just jogging after the others with Marty.
Down at the base, in an area that looks like a desert canyon, the contestants found multiple of the slimes Monica had told them about.
Colmillo, Mitzy, and Bobby were the quickest to snatch up some slimes but everyone else was on it by the time the slowpokes caught up.
"We'll miss out on all the slimes at this rate" Marty grumbled.
Asuka just nodded a bit before smirking when she saw the outskirts of a jungle "I think there's funner places to get to…"
Without asking she suddenly started dragging Marty away from the desert themed zone.
The rest of the contestants didn't even notice them leave as they tried clearing out the area. The only one not using their vacuum was Bobby, who just had the blobs jumping and attaching to his body. He looked to be gaining the most the fastest.
"Hey, Bobby, I need to borrow a few of these" Colmillo smiled naturally, but before he could even give her the go-ahead she raised her vacuum to absorb the slimes.
However, before she could absorb any of them Bobby put his finger to the suction. "Sorry Colmillo… but my boys want to see my place" he smiled before flinging her over his shoulder.
"Let's get you all home" Bobby smiled as he slowly followed the others, who were running as fast as they could.
Mitzy, Walter, and Vinnie all set their slimes in their own separate containers. Vinnie was the one who gained the most of them out of their usual group.
"So, do we have any actual plans today?" Vinnie whispered "I don't think we have a shot beating Colmillo or Bobby by just grabbing what we can get our hands on"
"Well, we could always put all of our slobs together!" Walter smiled a bit.
Mitzy smiled "That's a good idea Walter. Who thinks they'll need it most then?"
"You can just take it Mitz" Vinnie shrugged a bit as she started taking her slimes out and putting it into her pin, now being the largest of them all with their combination.
"So, off to the ocean setting then?" Walter grinned.
"Sounds good to me" the Comic Artist swiftly nodded, running alongside him, until they noticed Vinnie wasn't following them "You coming?"
The Bear Enthusiast just smiled back at them "Don't worry about me. I'm just going to guard our set. Wouldn't want anyone stealing from us right?"
"Oooooooo, that's clever" Walter smiled "Thanks Vinnie, we'll be back before long!"
They waved goodbye to Vinnie, who returned the gesture as she silently eyed the other sets. Colmillo and Bobby were both slowly filling theirs, though they weren't growing by much.
Confessional: Vinnie
She leaned back in her seat with her arms crossed "I would hate to do anything evil, or whatever Mitzy thinks is evil, but it still wouldn't be a bad idea to maybe take some of the other slimes. I mean, none of the others have the people to guard their collection… ignoring the mean girls. And even then I haven't seen them for a good while now"
Vinnie scratched her neck "It's the final eleven, so clearly a lot of us are still left, but I gotta focus on getting to the end! Even if it's a bit morally gray to dark, I'm sure everyone would understand the situation"
XXX
The contestants continued their journey around this massive setting. The only team exploring a mountainous area would be the trio of girls Camila, Veronica, and Liz.
"So, this is where the ball said to go?" Liz glanced at Camila, not seeing any slimes just out in the open.
Veronica snickered "Guess it was wrong once again, huh?"
"Shut your mouth before I make you" Camila growled, Veronica just smirked even wider at the treat.
Liz nervously chuckled "Hey, um, ladies. Instead of all the arguing we should focus on the challenge. Or we can start hitting on me, both would be acceptable for the challenge"
Camila faintly blushed "Yea, let's focus on the challenge. The… robot showed us a rock slime that is worth a good few points"
"If only they were actually here"
Liz just smiled at them "Let's just look around a bit. Won't accomplish anything just standing around after all!" Liz started walking ahead of them, making sure she was ahead of them in case any danger suddenly appeared.
They looked around the majority of the area, not finding anything of note. That was until Mitch suddenly came around.
"Hey buddy" his former 'mom' walked up to him "Sorry, but there's no slimes here. It was kind of a waste of time coming here"
Mitch just stared at her before sighing a bit "You guys helped me in the last elimination so you guys can get something nice"
Liz just tilted her head as Mitch walked past her and toward a set of rocks. He pulled out his vacuum and started sucking, and to his surprise he actually managed to swoop multiple rock slimes from the ground.
"They were just hiding from you guys. I would do the exact same, or wait until your guard down so I could impale you while you were looking away. Both valid strategies really"
"A-ah…" Liz smiled awkwardly "Thanks for the help Mitch"
He just nodded back at her "Just don't follow where I go" he threatened before slowly backed away from her and to a nearby incline.
"Will do…" she nodded before noticing Camila and Veronica coming back "Hey girls, our boy Mitch found a good lead on how to grab the slimes"
"You found something?" Camila sounded surprised as they walked closer, going past a few sets of rocks.
Liz swiftly nodded "Yea, they're just hiding. We simply need to try absorbing rocks and see if slimes come from it"
"Of course we chose the annoying area" Veronica rolled her eyes.
As they spoke, the rock slimes suddenly appeared from the ground they stepped over. These slimes glanced at the group of women before jumping at them.
None of them could react in time, with the slimes piercing the two attractive women with their sharp stoney hides. Veronica and Camila screamed in pain before collapsing on the ground.
Liz's eyes opened in shock, before growling angrily at the slimes. They looked ready to jump her now, but they were quickly caught by her vacuum. "Bastards…" she growled.
She looked down to her companions, finding they were totally blacked out. "I hope they won't be feeling this once they're out…" Liz whimpered, picking them up and trying to carry them both in her arms as softly as possible.
On her journey back she tried moving as fast as she could. On the way Colmillo noticed Liz carrying the two of them before scooping up multiple slimes.
"You three better hurry up if you want any chance of beating me now!"
Liz seemingly ignored her, just continuing to walk as fast as she could to their bases. This just infuriated the wrestler, who jumped right in front of her "Hold on there! Pay attention to how I'm beating you, I'm showing you that you'll regret eliminating Therion!"
"Can you punch my clock after these two are at least away from the wild slimes?" Liz glared up at her.
"Oh come on, put up a little challenge! You're my enemies now, you can't be this weak!" Colmillo was practically foaming at the mouth.
The Mother just ignored the wrestler again before walking away. Finally reaching the bases to put the two of them down on the ground.
Once they were rested she sat down criss cross "If you want me to be challenging, tell me you beat up Mitch or try to fight someone else. You'll see a real challenge then!" Liz threatened with a deep scowl.
Colmillo just smirked "Guess we'll see how things go then…"
Confessional: Liz
"Sometimes I wish there was just more of me around. For one, I can't make sure everyone is ok. I have to watch those two to make sure nothing else comes to them. But at the same time Marty could be eaten by the cat slimes, or maybe Walter is eaten by a fire slime. Second reason is just that there's more of me to go around ofr all the girls still in the game"
Liz smirked as she started wiggling her eyebrows.
Confessional: Colmillo
"Liz really pisses me off. She's always more focused on helping others and at the same time voted for the coolest guy still competing in this game! The worst part is that she's clearly strong but she just doesn't do anything with that!"
XXX
In the massive jungle setting, Marty and Asuka were simply walking around at a leisure pace. Well, Marty was, Asuka was just flinging from vine to vine.
"Careful up there, we don't know where the slimes might be" Marty called up to the Rocker, who just ignored as she started flinging herself in spirals.
"I'll be fine!" Asuka cackled confidently, landing on one of the branches. Well below she could see a giant gray cat slime "Oh, that'll get big points!"
Marty followed her line of sight and moved closer, finding the slime happily bouncing around with a peaceful smile.
"Oh, that probably is!" He grinned.
The Photographer tried to suck the creature up, but it just got stuck on his vacuum. It turned to Marty with its still simple smile.
He was about to back away from the slime before it suddenly widened its mouth like a python. Marty whimpered as it bit down on his upper body, looking ready to slurp it all down.
"Hey let him go you bastard!" Asuka screamed before jumping down on top of the slime, causing Marty to suddenly be shot out.
The slime let out a small and weak growl of pain "Yea, not fun when something strong is kicking your shit in huh?"
Asuka bounced off the slime, landing next to Marty "You okay dude?"
"Kind of…" *Marty smirked up at her* "Better with this view though"
"Get your head out of the fucking gutter" Asuka rolled her eyes as she pulled him up "Now watch how a real woman sucks!"
"With pleasure" Marty saluted.
Asuka went over to the slime and stomped on it again, basically trying to force it into the vacuum. However this wasn't actually working.
"Just work damnit!" She whined, just getting more violent.
While she was distracted, multiple other cat slimes started bouncing towards them. They surrounded Marty and Asuka almost immediately.
"Um… Suka?" Marty looked nervous.
"I'm busy!" Asuka ignored him, still going through her attempt "I'll get it in there in no time!"
The cat slimes we're about to eat Asuka when they suddenly stopped right before her. That's when multiple chicken started to fall from the sky.
Marty just looked confused as they floated down to the massive slimes. Almost immediately they ignored Asuka and started bouncing around to try catching those chicken in their mouths.
They chewed the roosters up, smiling proudly. That's when they all started vibrating like crazy and suddenly, they all popped into much smaller versions of themself.
"Oh, hey, that's useful" Marty smiled, getting ready to suck them up when Mitzy and Walter dropped in and absorbed the slimes.
"Sorry Mart" Mitzy smiled "Should've tried studying these slimes a bit more before just jumping in"
Asuka scowled "Hey, those were our catches!"
"You only really drawed them here" Walter pointed out "But we could share"
"If" Mitzy cut him off "You were to help us vote for Colmillo or Bobby today"
"Not interested" Asuka scowled.
Mitzy just smiled and shrugged "Oh well, I'm sure the two of you can handle being around by yourselves then"
"I'm sure we'll be fine" Marty waved her off "But thanks for saving us. We definitely would've lost if those things ate us"
"Not a problem!" Walter beamed before they started running to try finding more slimes.
Once they were gone Marty turned to Asuka, who was still glaring at the direction they went to "Hey, no need to be upset. We can get a bunch more outself"
"Right… that's what I'm upset about"
Confessional: Asuka
"I don't want to come off as petty to Marty or anything, but Colmillo's not the only one who's still upset at some of these guys for eliminating Therion. I barely even got to fucking torment him before he left! So yea, Colmillo's a little extreme but I can't say I'm not annoyed with most of them"
XXX
In the last of the major zones, Bobby was walking around with a dull expression on his face. Multiple lava magmas were attached to him and were clearly burning his flesh, but he just didn't care at all. "This should be enough" Bobby's muffled voice cheered.
He was about to walk back to the bases when the slimes suddenly bounced away from him "Hey, guys, where are you going?"
Bobby scratched his ass in confusion when he suddenly heard something sloushing his way. He turned around and found a small black blob that looked like tar. It had a dopey smile and any slime near it quickly bounced away.
"What are you?" Bobby collapsed on his stomach to be face-to-face with the blob "You're a cute little fella"
The blob smiled up at him, giggling in a demonic tone. "Really cute" he chuckled before picking it up and putting it on his shoulder "I bet you're worth a mondo amount of points!"
It just spat out a slosh of black gunk as it tried to respond.
Meanwhile, at the bases, Liz was still treating Camila and Veronica who were out cold. "I swear you weren't this easy to knock out in purson" she grumbled.
As she was crouched down, Vinnie walked up to them "What's up with them?"
"They're out cold because they got attacked" Liz murmured "So I'm protecting them. Did you need something?" she looked up to flash the other girl a smile.
"Oh, no" Vinnie shook his head "It's just that they're clearly faking it"
Liz stared at her for a moment "What? Why would they do that?"
Vinnie just shrugged before lightly tapping both of them with a light kick "Why don't you ask them?"
Camila slowly opened her eyes to frown at her "You just had to come around here didn't you?"
"Was hoping we'd get to keep more of the challenge off" Veronica grumbled.
Liz frowned at the two of them "You had me worried sick, why did you go and pretend you were practically dead like that!?"
"We were just feeling lazy" Veronica admitted "This challenge sounded like a lot of running around"
"And you wouldn't allow us to just sit around if we chose to" Camila continued.
This didn't calm Liz, who was just more annoyed. Vinnie could see the drama was forming and slowly walked away from them. This formed a small smirk on Camila and Veronica's faces.
"I can't believe you two had me worried sick just because you were lazy…" Liz growled lowly "But fine, I'll go out and get some slimes. You two can just be lazing about then"
"Toodles" Veronica waved a bit.
The Mom just sighed before trudging away.
Camila smirked to Veronica "Now we can do our own plan"
Confessional: Vinnie
"I… regret walking that way" Vinnie murmured "It felt like I basically just caused a breakup. Granted, better to be honest. And at that, breaking up their alliance might make our alliance getting to the final three easier."
She shook her head a bit "Talking about eliminating villains and ruining their chances, maybe I have been around Mitzy too much"
XXX
Now that Liz was gone, Camila and Veronica slowly got up and sneaked away from the spot "We don't need Liz to easily win this challenge" Camila smirked, sucking up the slimes that were in Colmillo's cage.
"Yea, when she sees that we won with our plan she'll probably be simping us even harder if anything!" Veronica smirked.
"I know, we're almost too clever?" someone behind them spoke.
Veronica and Camila just smirked to themselves before noticing someone was behind them. They both turned around slowly to see Colmillo scowling down at them.
"You don't have your gal pal here to protect you" Colmillo licked her lips "So who wants to lose their spine now?"
The duo glanced at each other, before Camila suddenly tossed sand at the Wrestler's eyes.
"Ah, bastard!" Colmillo whined, rubbing her eyes as they started running. "I'm going to rip your eyes out of your sockets!"
Colmillo started chasing after the two villainesses. On the sidelines, Vinnie silently glanced at them before looking to Bobby's unguarded collection.
"He won't notice just a little borowing" Vinnie smiled bashfully before crawling over.
She put her vacuum to his collection, sucking up ten, before adding on another five and then another. Eventually she had most of his slimes as Bobby walked into the scene with the tar on his shoulder.
He stood behind her, just staring at his shrinking collection until it was totally gone.
"Maybe… took more than I planned" Vinnie admitted.
The Bear Enthusiast stood up and turned around, facing a calmly smiling Bobby.
"Hey, uh, Bobby… I know how this looks but-"
"Oh don't worry about it" Bobby smiled at her "I'm not too worried about winning immunity"
Vinnie stared at him for a moment "Oh, thanks…" she frowned "A-are you sure you don't want these back?"
Bobby shook his head "I don't mind"
He looked to his shoulder and grabbed the tar "You can have him too"
"Thanks" Vinnie bowed in appreciate before sucking the tar up "I'll see you around Bobby"
The Slob just smiled and nodded as she walked away. He slowly backed away from her as she put the absorbed slimes into Mitzy's container.
To her surprise, the slimes that came out all looked exactly like the tar "Oh… are these bonus points or something?"
In the sky, Monica's face suddenly appeared "Looks like one of you has found 'the Tar'! And the one who did, well, you better start regretting it!"
Vinnie whimpered as she looked to the Tars. They were all staring at the other slimes, that were hiding away from it.
"Because…. The Tar are a disease. Whenever they're around slimes, they will turn them into more tar. And tar aint worth nothing!"
"Oh no!" Vinnie panicked, rapidly moved her vacuum to try absorbing the tar back out of her containter. She managed to pull out the tar, but they dragged the normal slimes out with them.
"No, no, no" She tried to stop the machine but it just kept absorbing. Eventually no slimes were left inside their container.
Vinnie glanced around, finding Colmillo was giving both villainesses wet willies while Bobby was just entirely gone.
"I can still fix this…!" The Bear Enthusiast smiled before noticing her alliance mates coming her way.
They waved, sending her into a brand new panic. "Has anyone tried taking our stuff?" Walter asked curiously.
"And why did you suck up all our slimes…?" Mitzy squinted her eyes at her.
Vinnie chuckled as she raised her vacuum "Ah, well, I was just making sure the majority of our slimes wouldn't be in there so no one could steal them"
"Oh, clever!" Walter beamed "It's like hiding all your money in the vault"
"Yes, exactly that" Vinnie firmly nodded "I'll put them back in before the challenge is over"
"Well… ok" Mitzy silently slipped her vacuum into their container, releasing multiple gray cat slimes in at once. That's when she noticed the slimes still in there were hiding in the corner.
At the same time Vinnie's vacuum was slowly starting to turn a black tone.
Confessional: Mitzy
"Vinnie was being suspicious this morning, but also hiding our slimes from us is just as suspicious. I just wonder what she's doing with it…"
Mitzy started rubbing her chin rapidly, glaring slightly as she tried her hardest to think.
XXX
The challenge continued from there, with all the contestants scrounging around, trying to find more slimes. Liz now ignored Camila and Veronica's explanation of their scheme as she just focused on grabbing more and more slimes.
With Bobby's slimes mostly gone, Colmillo was now the one easily carrying the challenge. But, surprisingly, Mitch was catching up with her.
"You're really speeding through the challenge" Marty grinned at Mitch "You might end up being the challenge dominator"
Mitch started at him for a moment before quickly taking out most of his slimes and giving them to Marty "There, fixed"
The Photographer just chuckled a bit "Gee thanks"
"Fucking lucky" Asuka groaned seeing Marty just happen into first place.
"Guess I'm just too socially gifted" Marty smirked confidently, before Asuka started to try taking more of his slimes. Naturally he tried to stop her, causing a light-hearted fight to break out between them.
Walter and Mitzy could see that they were beginning to seriously fall behind as they looked at Vinnie. "Alright, I think the challenge is winding down Vinnie. Can we have our slimes back now?"
The two stared expectantly, but Vinnie just looked more nervous, as her entire vacuum was pitch black now "I-I think we still have some time now… I mean Asuka and Marty are fighting over theirs still!"
Mitzy silently crossed her arms before stepping forward "Vinnie, to me it sounds like you're trying to hide something. Would that be a correct guess?"
"O-of course not!" Vinnie shot up "I'm just trying to be careful"
At this point the Comic Artist was just glaring at her now "Shoot what's in your vacuum out right this instance young lady"
"N-no thanks" Vinnie murmured, taking a step backward.
This wasn't enough for Mitzy, who jumped at her and started up the vacuum. Before Vinnie could turn it back off all the Tars were flung out in multiple directions.
"W-where did those come from?" Walter jumped to Mitzy's pen, trying to protect it from the Tar.
The other contestants weren't as prepared for all the tar now being released as they jumped all around, before noticing the normal slime in the other containers.
They cackled evily while jumping into all the other containers, squeezing their way in to start infecting them all rapidly. The ones not going into the containers just latched onto people, either biting them or trying to enter their body through their lips.
"Are those the tar?" Mitzy frowned "And why were you holding onto so many of them!?"
Vinne let out a small whine "Bobby gave it to me and I thought he was just being nice!"
"What? I told you earlier today we can't trust Bobby and you just did that anyways!?" Mitzy frowned at her "Did you not learn your lesson last time you worked with a villain?"
"It's not like you didn't work with a villain either" Vinnie frowned back "You were working with someone who constantly gloated about being a villain. Bobby hasn't purposefully done anything wrong all season, so of course I was going to trust him!"
"Oh, he hasn't done anything wrong has he? That last note on Camila's back didn't come from nowhere, he got Mitch's vote for Therion last time without anything to gain, and now he sabotaged us by giving us that tar. Even if all of those were mistakes he's still clearly up to something!"
"G-guys, we really shouldn't be worrying so much" Walter panicked as tars started covering him from head to toe.
"Quiet, Walter" Mitzy grumbled, not turning to him "Vinnie, clearly you aren't concerned about real villany, so you're out of the alliance!"
Vinnie looked surprised but just frowned "Fine, I don't care about cooperating with you two anyways. I'm just fine going through the rest of the game without you two. But good luck getting anyone out without a third vote"
"We still have Marty!" the artist pointed out.
"Are you kidding? He clearly likes hanging out with Asuka more than he does with you"
"Well, I'm sure Bailey's having more fun with the eliminated contestants than you!" Mitzy snapped back, causing Vinnie's eyes to widen in surprise.
Mitzy's frown softened slightly at the realization of what she said "Ah- Vinnie- I didn't mean it like that. It's just that you weren't listening and-"
"I don't care Mitzy" Vinnie murmured sadly.
As they spoke, the tar seemed to start ignoring them as they all collided together to form Topher "Well, contestants, I'd say your time is more than up!"
"Wait, can't we have another minute?" Colmillo pleaded "We got totally screwed at the last second!"
"Well that's all your fault for not guarding your containers." Topher rocked back and forth on the spot as he looked between the containers. Almost all of them were either empty or filled with tar.
The only exception to this would be Mitzy's, that still had a decent few slimes hiding in the corner thanks to Walter's protection.
"I think the winner here is obvious then. Mitzy, congratulations, you're today's winner!"
The artist looked slightly surprised at this announcement "Well, um, thanks. I didn't think I'd win any of these challenges"
"You shouldn't have" Asuka grumbled. Just about everyone was glaring at their group, knowing they were the cause of the Tar.
"S-sorry guys…" Walter apologized, bowing his head.
Colmillo just smirked "That won't help you guys tonight"
"Now, now children" Topher raised his hands "No need to start mauling each other. You've all got an hour before the elimination ceremony, so you can all abuse each other there"
As he finished his speech, they were all ripped out of their VR machinery "See you all at the ceremony then!" he waved, already halfway out the door before dipping out.
"I think we'll all be fine without a big community discussion on votes" Veronica smirked "I mean, it should be obvious"
"Quite so" Camila nodded "I won't even need my crystal ball for it"
No one really responded to them as they all walked away, even surprisingly including Liz.
"Tough crowd" Veronica murmured. Surprisingly, she had a small sad frown watching Liz leave them again.
"We may need to try keeping our heads down low" Camila suggested "Colmillo may still vote for us, but if we act calm they may focus down on Mitzy's group"
"Clever plan as always" Veronica smirked.
Confessional: Liz
"I swear, it's so hard giving those two the cold shoulder. But their trying to steal from Colmillo was uncalled for. She's still trying to get over the loss of her boyfriend, I can't fully relate but I know I would be upset if they messed with me too"
She glanced off screen "How I know they did that? Please. I've been around those two all season. I know full well they weren't just being lazy, they don't like to get dirty or anything but they are also the type to like winning more than anything"
XXX
Liz simply went to the cafeteria, choosing to eat some dinner as Bobby slid in and sat across from her. She was half way through a chicken leg when he sat down.
"Oh, hey Blobby" she muffled "Do you need something?"
"I just thought you might be lonely" Bobby smiled "Since you kind of had a breakup and all that. I hate seeing someone else get down!"
"Break…up?" Liz frowned slightly "What do you mean by that? I haven't really been dating anyone"
"I assumed you were dating Camila and Veronica" he admitted with a dumb smile "My mistake."
Liz just smiled softly "It's fine, how are you doing Bobby?"
"I'm fine. It's been really hard not talking about when Camila and Veronica made out this morning" he smiled and shrugged, not noticing Liz's shocked expression.
"Do you know what we're eating now?" Bobby rubbed his belly excitedly "I'm starvin!"
Instead of getting a response, blood splurted out of Liz's nose before she passed out on the floor.
"Liz…?" Bobby glanced down at her.
The scene would cut to the elimination ceremony. At this point, the main three squads were practically broken up as they all sat around, just waiting for this to get over with now.
Topher smiled, leaning against the podium as he watched them.
"Are we going to get to the vote?" Colmillo deadpanned.
"Sorry, I'm just enjoying the moment. But sure, we can get to it" Topher snickered.
Confessional: Mitzy
"I… feel awful for fighting Vinnie. But I tried to warn her and she just didn't listen. But either way, I'm not voting for her. She's not the major threat here"
Mitzy stamped Bobby's picture.
Confessional: Asuka
Asuka was listening to loud music, which was seemingly upping her mood "Ah, that challenge was fuckin' annoying with those two hero addicts showing us up and then sabotaging the rest of us. But I'm in a damn good mood now with this music and knowing I'm not out today!"
She smirked before stamping Vinnie's face.
XXX
"Alright, as you all know, if you're voted by your peers you're out and will lose all chances of winning the grand million. So better start crossing your fingers!"
Most of the contestants didn't seem too apprehensive "Ugh, fine. Marty, you're our first safe contestant!"
Marty lit up as he caught his marshmallow "ooooooooo, thanks" he popped it into his mouth and smirked over to Asuka "Not as sweet as you but not bad either"
Asuka smirked a bit as she rolled her eyes.
"Also safe we have Veronica, Camila, Colmillo, Asuka, Mitzy, and Walter!"
They all catched theirs, with Mitzy being the least relieved considering she was already safe "And this leaves us with just a few last options. Oh, right, you're also safe Liz"
The Mother sighed in relief as she stuck it straight into her mouth.
"Anways, Mitch, some people are still pissed at you for getting Therion eliminated last time" Mitch silently glanced at Colmillo, who just growled at him.
"Vinnie, you kind of caused the Tar to eat at everyone's slime as well, and then Bobby, some people are just starting to not like you so much"
Bobby just smiled and shrugged as Vinnie looked down sadly. "But, the one going home tonight will be…
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Vinnie, sorry, but you're out" he threw the last marshmallows to Bobby and Mitch, who offered it to Vinnie with an apologetic smile.
"No thanks" Vinnie whispered softly. He just shrugged and devoured it in one gulp like a pelican.
"Anything left you want to declare Vinnie?"
She shook her head slowly "Not really… all I have to say is that I wish I never ended up coming here. Everyone I've tried befriending ends up hating me before long"
"Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sad!" Topher rolled his eyes before pulling a lever and sending Vinnie up a tube.
"S-sorry" Mitzy waved her goodbye after she was already long gone.
Besides Walter none of the remaining mergers seemed down about Vinnie's departure "So. Final 10, for some of you I'm sure that's a surprise to hear!"
Asuka just smirked "Seemed a bit obvious I'd make it this far"
"Right… anyways, prepare for things to get grueling from this point on! Loyalties will be challenged, and as some people are forced into a corner their true colors might pop out. So prepare for just about anything!"
"Thanks… for the heads up" Marty murmured in confusion.
"Yea, I think we got that already" Veronica deadpanned.
"Quiet!" Topher hissed "Just go back to your rooms if you're going to be like this! Mitzy, you're going to take Walter into first class so I'm just not even going to ask who"
"Ooo, good!" Walter smiled at Mitzy, who returned it as they all started walking away.
Topher sighed as he shook his head "kids…"
As he was getting over his tantrum, two ninjas seemingly appeared out of nowhere behind him. "I can't wait for the next challenge so I can mutilate them further" he chuckled.
The ninjas leaned closer before suddenly grabbing him by his mouth to keep him from speaking as well as grabbing his arms. Topher squirmed in their grasp before they were suddenly pulled up and out of the room by a few cords.
Once Topher was gone, the elimination ceremony room remained quiet for the rest of the night.
AN: And there goes Vinnie, she's a character that's bounced around a good bit, but I've almost always had her as planned somewhere in the merge. But I thought now would be a fine point, since she's probably one of the female mergers that I just didn't have as much going on for. But hey, merging in such a bad cast really aint bad.
Votes:
Mitch- Colmillo
Bobby- Mitzyx2, Walter
Vinnie- Vinnie, Bobby, Mitch, Veronica, Camila, Liz, Marty, Asuka
24th: Matt—-15th: Jaz
23rd: Tess—-14th: Ellis
22nd: Antoinette—-13th Ian
21st: Charlotte—-12th Therion
20th: Thomas—-11th Vinnie
19th: Michael
18th: Dylan
17th: Maxine
16th: Bailey
Mergees (10): Walter, Mitzy, Asuka, Bobby, Marty, Colmillo, Liz, Camila, Mitch, Veronica