"No, I don't need the tee shirt in a double XL, I told you to just give me a large! Don't argue with the Dukester about what size shirt he wants to buy, he's just gonna rip it off to expose his oily chest anyways!" Duke snarled at a Finnish man that was working a merch stand at the remnants of the music festival, and it took him a few seconds to realize that the camera was rolling. "O-oh! Uh, hey! Last time on the Ridukeulous Race: the remaining teams took off from Beijing to our next destination– Finland! There was still a hefty bit of tension leftover between Olive and Becky from when Becky had screamed at her older sister, and Mitsuki made it clear that she was going all disappointed mother mode on Becky. Kinda looked like Honey was really into that, but I guess I don't know too much about that." The clip of Mitsuki and Honey in the sauna was shown, with Mitsuki looking all stern and motherly while Honey was blushing up a storm. "Our teams had to simmer in some saunas, fully clothed of course, for a whole ten minutes before they were allowed to move on with the race leg. The second part was crossing a frozen lake, though most of our teams turned into ice cubes in the process." Many of the teams were shown jumping right into the river and freezing over, with Arnold and Aisling waiting to cross while Olive and Becky took an easier way through.

"It was then that the teams got to find out what the next part of the leg would be, which happened to be none other than a live performance at the Scene Kid Music Festival! Becky was first in line, but when she had the realization that she ruined the first music festival that her and Olive were going to be at with her being a bit of a nag, well, she couldn't force herself up first! This paved the way for Lady Belle to get mostly naked and rock the worlds of those Finnish Emos!" Lady Belle was shown dancing about on the stage in her provocative attire, with plenty of the crowd members fainting as they saw her. "Bachelorettes stole first place, and Arnold broke Aisling's self esteem in front of the viewing world before Mitsuki finally made Becky go up on the stage. Little girl had some revelation that she needed her sister, and luckily, Olive did come to her aid…but that scored 'em both an hour long penalty. Yikers, am I right?" The next clip was shown, being Duke penalizing Olive and Becky for cheating in the botch or watch. "Things got more and more tense, with more teams getting to go up and finish the race, but when Evan revealed that he had stolen Andrew's phone and tossed it to the crowd, well, things got even worse! Phoebe couldn't perform with Jamie Lynn watching her because she knew she wouldn't be able to call out Libby, and Andrew couldn't perform without knowing his phone was safe! Richard took to the crowd to get the phone, and Andrew himself had a stand-off with Jamie Lynn to stop her from seeing Libby. Unfortunately, the Dweebs suffered for their heroism, and didn't quite make it to the end…Richard did get the tongue-fucking of a lifetime, though." Duke shook his head as he showed the video of Libby making out with Richard on his phone. "But enough about that, because we're going back to…THE RIDUKEULOUS RACE!"

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"Welcome back to yesterday's chill zone…yeesh, those Fins sure know how to party…and how to throw their beer everywhere." Duke sneered as he walked through a mess of empty beer cans and puddles of beer itself on the ground. He came up to the previous chillzone, where he saw Lady Belle and Ursula standing, waiting to get to the first dukebox. "Yesterday's winners were the Babelorettes, which means they'll be kicking off this next leg!"

"Oh, did you hear that, Ursula? The host says we're babes…how precious." Lady Belle lifted her hand to giggle behind it while Ursula took a step towards Duke.

"I suppose keen eyesight is a pretty important thing for a man…looks to me like this one has it." Ursula started to dance her fingers along Duke's chest, causing the host to blush immensely. "Tell me again, Duke, how much was it that you get paid yearly?"

"U-u-umm…wouldn't ya know it, race is about to start, better hop to it before the other teams pass you by!" Duke gulped nervously and ran off, leaving Lady Belle and Ursula to snicker at his sheepishness.

Confessional

"You see, I've decided that, well, I really don't need to be wasting any more of my time on James. Sure, he's absolutely loaded, but oh, so shallow…you've all seen the way he's treated me, haven't you? Calling me a cow…making me sit on the floor of the plane…oh, such a miserable person." Ursula shrugged her shoulders with a devious grin on her face, "Oh, well, he's fine to miss out on all of this…I've got my eyes set on broader horizons at this point."

"There ain't too many rich men floating around in this race, puddin'. Michael's gay, James is a no, and Duke just up and ran from ya like ya had yesterday's supper still painted on your lips." Lady Belle teased Ursula, but the widower hardly seemed phased by the teasing, much unlike the usual. "...Is there some other rich fella I'm forgettin'?"

"Two, actually…one of the two headliners of Ehl Oh Vee Ee, that brickhouse…Evan. And the son of the CEO of Devlar Banking…little Arnold. Am I feeling macho man, or am I feeling twink? Oho, the choices are quite thrilling." Ursula licked her lips evilly at the camera, which even seemed to be starting to tremble.

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"Now then…the tip," Ursula cracked her knuckles and deviously wiggled her fingers before reaching forward to press the button on the dukebox, which quickly provided her with the next tip. She snatched it up and brought it close to her face, reading it with that devilish grin still present. "Go to Helsinki Airport and catch the next flight to…oh dear…Zimbabwe."

"That's right, ladies, Zimbabwe: land of way too many mosquitos and not nearly enough mosquito nets! Ow!" Duke yelped as a mosquito landed on his bicep, taking some blood from him and immediately getting swole beyond comprehension. It flew off while flexing its newly formed muscles. The host slowly looked back to the camera, gulping nervously while scooting off to the side to show a gorgeous waterfall behind him. "O-once they land, they'll have to travel to Victoria Falls, which is way bigger than Niagara Falls! I mean, I don't get the hype of water falling, but have at it, nature lovers."

The Bachelorettes had sped off pretty quickly from the chill zone in search of a taxi, but the other teams behind them didn't lag from them all too much. Of course, they went ahead in order of how they had finished in the last leg, leaving Mitsuki and Honey as the last team to depart from the chill zone. The taller, more developed of the duo looked down at her partner as they came up to the curb, watching her flail her arms to call for a cab.

"Heyyyyy, Mitsuki?" Honey held her hands together behind her back, looking away awkwardly as Mitsuki kind of glanced her way, though it was clear that the bedroom dweller was still mainly focused on getting a cab to stop for them. "Um…so…you know…I was thinking about that song that you were singing on stage during the last leg."

"W-what song!? I-I sang a song about me domming a bunch of buff football players, that's what I remember, so whatever you're about to bring up, well, I can assure you that it didn't happen!" Mitsuki got all red in the face, refusing to look at Honey as she frowned a little bit.

"Oh…yeah, that makes sense, I guess. I'm not always the brightest when it comes to remembering things, so maybe I was just thinking about one of the songs that a different team performed. I can be silly like that sometimes…" Honey sighed and started to lightly wave her hands until a cab finally came for the duo.

Confessional

"So…last leg, I told Mitsuki to just look at me when she was going to perform her song since I always seem to make her upset. I thought it would work pretty well for having to sing a song for a bunch of emos. Weeeeell…she did something else, something a little more…I dunno, romantic?" Honey blushed and twiddled her thumbs, having a hard time even looking at the camera. "I know she's not going to admit that it was a romance song, but a part of me really wishes that she would. W-what can I say? S-she's a cute, little gremlin…and those are kinda just my type."

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"Maaaaarty! Hello, Earth to Marty!" Xavier frantically waved his hand in front of Marty's face as the Friendly Duo stood at the entrance of the airport. The frequent deadpanner was staring off towards the street with a goofy smile fluttering about on his face, making the baker feel, well, a bit off put. "Yeesh, you…you really are obsessed with Sadie, aren't you?"

"Sadie…ah, she's so wonderful, isn't she?" Marty started to deadpan at the camera, but had an even wider smile than before, something that had Xavier cringing at the sight of. "I've never played the romance game before, so being able to do it for the first time in, well, ever…it's amazing."

"Y-yeah, I get that, but you're…you're acting just a wee bit creepy. I think that about half the people driving out in the street think you're staring at them like that." Xavier gestured to an old lady that was sitting on a bench outside, blowing a kiss to Marty. "You see what I mean?"

"I guess, but even still, I can't fight my feelings! They're what's making me act like this, my heart all aflutter and full of joy…ah…oh, look! Here comes Sadie! And, uh…the other one!" Marty started to flail his arms rapidly at one of the inbound taxis, which dumped off Katie and Sadie. The latter of the BFFFLs had a similar look on her face to Marty, while the former just looked generally happy. Xavier had no choice but to deadpan at the camera, looking absolutely disgusted.

Confessional

"I have no problem with Marty having a girlfriend or whatever, but I was really kinda hoping that he wouldn't end up like one of those boyfriends that's absolutely obsessed with their girlfriend." Xavier rubbed his temple as he stood on the sidewalk, soon glancing behind him to see Sadie and Marty holding each other's hands and smiling while Katie was trying to get either of their attention. "He's already forgotten all about Katie's existence, so I figure it won't be long before he doesn't remember my name. Oh, Marty, you love drunk fool…"

"I've, like, never seen Sadie ever this head over heels…and usually when she is head over heels she's still perfectly fine with not ignoring me." Katie seemed a bit upset as she sat down, her back propped against the outside airport wall. "She was fine when we were still in our taxi, but the second we got out, it was all 'Marty, Marty, Marty! Smooch, smooch, smooch!' Was I like that when I met Eva? I don't think I was…"

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"Great, can't even try to get a lead, they're shoving all of us on the same plane again…just wonderful." Jamie Lynn grumbled as she came back from the ticket counter inside the airport, thrusting her ticket into the hands of Phoebe, who was silently seated in the waiting area. The obnoxious neighbor was quick to take notice of the exceptionally miserable look on her partner's face, bringing her to groan in annoyance. "Alright, I'll bite, what's got you feeling even more depressed than your usual?"

"Richard…we only just started dating and then Evan had to go and do that terrible thing…I miss Andrew, too…" Phoebe twiddled her fingers in her saddened state, not even bothering to look up at Jamie Lynn. "They were so nice to me throughout the whole race…no one's ever that nice to me…"

"You seriously miss those dweebs? Give me a break, all that they were was an extended headache for me. Besides, this is a competition, we don't need to make any friends, we need to win. Sooner you realize that, the better…but knowing you, you're just gonna dwell on this dweeb thing the entire time." Jamie Lynn turned her back to Phoebe and walked to her own seat, plopping herself down in it and kicking her legs up while she lounged. "All I'm saying is that you being sad about your gross boyfriend being gone better not affect how the rest of the race goes for us."

"R-right…sorry…" Phoebe sighed and balled her head in her legs, the camera panning inside of her head to show that Libby was throwing a total fit, smashing random furniture while Phoebe watched her in silent awkwardness. "...I-I'm upset about it, too, but you really don't have to make a big mess of my head…"

"Shut up! That bitch ain't got no right calling our man gross, she ain't got no right calling him a headache, she ain't got no right telling you to just get over it! Ugh!" Libby shouted as she stomped her feet angrily, with Phoebe still watching her from the sidelines. "I swear, you really should just put me on her! I'll make her regret being such a fuckin' bitch, you'll see!"

"T-that's not a good idea…if I put you on her, one of you is definitely gonna get hurt. Y-you can get hurt, right?" Phoebe sheepishly spoke up to Libby, who glared back at her.

"Sure, sure, I guess she could always do something to my cozy little abode, but she'd have to realize that I've taken over to do that. Remember the first time you put me on? Heh…heheh…man, you were wigging out something fierce!" Libby cackled to herself while Phoebe blushed out of her own embarrassment. "Oh, don't get yourself in a tizzy. For now, I think we should both agree that we need to get Evan taken care of before anything else."

"B-but if we get rid of Evan, we'll have to get rid of Logan…" Phoebe looked down at the ground as Libby cocked an eyebrow at her. "I don't wanna get rid of Logan, she's been really nice to me…and I just lost both Richard and Andrew."

"Don't be a pain, limpy. You can always find new friends…just…uh…oh, what about the nature dinguses? They seem friendly enough, right?" Out in the real world, Phoebe directed her attention to the Conservationists, who were feeding each other veggie chips as they sat criss-cross applesauce on the floor. Libby continued to talk to her in her own mind, "Yeah, just keep close to them in the challenge or whatever, that'll be the best way for them to notice you…probably. You can appear pretty insignificant sometimes."

Confessional

"After our little chat during the music festival, I kinda gave up on asking to see other people's butts. Yeah, my real family is out there somewhere, but Zeke is like a brother to me anyways, so I don't mind just sticking with what I've got already." Lyle wrapped his arm around Zeke and pulled him in for a side hug, the two both smiling excitedly at the camera.

"Besides, if worse comes to worse, I'm sure my family won't have any issue letting him crash in one of the extra hammocks every now and again. We're always down with meeting other nature lovers, so it really shouldn't be any trouble at all." Zeke chuckled before looking down at Lyle nervously. "U-uh, buddy, I think you might be squeezing a bit too rough around me there."

"I know!"

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"Our teams are now well on their way to Africa in search of the next dukebox! Once they land, they'll have to drive a jeep to their destination at the falls. So, uh…good luck to the Prom Babies." Duke snickered to himself as the teams started pouring out through the entrance of the Zimbabwe airport, the Bachelorettes being the first to get to their jeep, which had the next travel tip on the dashboard. Ursula took it while Lady Belle got along with her driving.

"'Head to Victoria Falls where the Zambezi river borders Zimbabwe and Zambia,'" Ursula looked like her tongue was tying itself in knots just from having said that, with Lady Belle laughing at her dazed state. "Oh, keep your chuckling to yourself, you old hag…your tongue would probably crumble to dust by the time you had to say the second Z there. In any case, we're still ahead of all the others for now, and I'd like to keep it that way, so really step on the gas!"

"Don't boss me around, lil lady…I know how to drive and I'm gonna drive the way that I see fit." Lady Belle kept her eyes on the road, only pushing down on the gas slightly harder than before, causing her and Ursula to start speeding off into the distance. Not too far behind them were Arnold and Aisling, who were currently sitting in complete silence in their jeep.

"Gypsy…you haven't consulted your orb yet, have you?" Arnold glanced over at Aisling from the driver's seat, seeing her just sitting there and staring down at her clasped hands, the ball shoved towards the middle of the front seat. "...How are you gonna bring up all your crazy predictions about what's gonna keep us still in the race if you're not touching that thing?"

"Stupid predictions, you mean? That's what you'd typically say, anyhow…" Aisling sighed and turned her attention to the vastness of the savannah that they were passing by. "I'm not going to bother with it anymore…it's obviously all just a big farce, as you've told me so many times already. I'll just allow you to take the reins and do as you wish."

"W-well, let's not be so hasty to give up on the things that we love and adore just because of what somebody else says about them! Adversity is gonna challenge us all the time in life, don't you want to attempt and overcome that adversity?" Aisling glanced back at Arnold with a blank look on her face, making him feel even more like a jerk than he already had before. "Fine, if you're going to just let me be in complete charge, then I want you to predict something on your orb!"

"...That seems like a complete waste of my time, but if you insist, I'll do it." Aisling groaned, reaching her left hand over to the crystal ball to give it a quick pat, clearly not that interested in it. "Yadda yadda, it said something stupid like you were gonna stop paying attention to the road and cost us the second place spot that we're currently holding. See? Obviously wrong…you wouldn't do something so careless."

"As if I would stop paying attention to the road!" Arnold snapped out of habit, only getting more blank stares back from Aisling, who eventually turned her attention back to the passing savannah. He looked ahead of the road to see that it was a pretty straight shot towards the falls, but when he looked back and saw Aisling just sitting there in her diluted misery. With a soft sigh, the prodigy kept his eyes on Aisling and away from the road, letting go of the wheel with one of his hands. "See, the orb really doesn't know anything about anything!"

"Yeah, yeah…I get it…you say that all the time." Aisling sighed while the duo started to veer off of the dirt road and into the grass, easily allowing the "Father and Son?" to pass them by. "...Arnold, James and Eliott just passed us."

"What!? That's ridiculous! How could that even happen, I was focused on the road the entire time!" Arnold gritted his teeth and grabbed back onto the wheel, getting back to taking the leg seriously while Aisling just sighed at him. Ahead of them, though, James was driving his team's jeep while Eliott was peeking out through the side to get a better glimpse of Lady Belle, who was still driving ahead of them.

"Dad, can't you make this thing go any faster? Lady's up there all by herself, I can only imagine how worried she must be that I'm not with her right now!" Eliott started flexing his biceps to try and attract Lady Belle's attention, but she was more focused on actually driving. James, however, wasn't putting forth any effort into making the thing drive faster. "Dad! Faster! Gas! Hit it! What about that isn't clear to you?"

"What's clear to me is that I'm going at the perfect speed for something like this: dangerously slow! Anyone can go dangerously fast, but dangerously slow is much more dangerous! What if someone runs us off the road? I can smell the danger, but even if that happened, I would never wanna sue the company for it! Haha, it would certainly be my own fault!" James beamed, his eyes looking a bit crazy as he kept going at his moderately slow pace.

"Oh, shove it about the company, give me the wheel if you're gonna be useless!" Eliott snapped and grabbed the wheel, fighting for it with James in an attempt to get control of the jeep. "Just let go, you geezer! Your old man eyes might think that you've got this in the bag, but I'm definitely a better driver than you!"

"It's not about being a better driver, it's about living on the edge, sport! Sit down and let go of the wheel!" The two continued to wrestle over the wheel, their jeep shaking back and forth on the road before spinning out of control and crashing into a tree. The airbags came out super delayed, with the duo already flopped down face first on the dashboard.

Confessional

"See, now that's exactly the kind of thing that we needed to happen! We just lived through a dangerous car crash with only minimal injuries!" James chortled loudly, ignoring the fact that his left foot was twisted in such a way that it was facing the completely wrong direction. "Scrapes and bruises could never convince me that I need to waste precious money and time on a lawsuit against a company like this one!"

"...Dad…your foot…is literally backwards right now." Eliott's jaw had dropped as he stared down at James' clearly broken foot, but this only earned him a glare from his "father."

"Oh, sure, go ahead and make fun of me for being disabled, would you? You won't be thinking this is so odd and out of place when you turn thirty and your spine's decided that it would rather be an accordion than a series of bones! Kids these days, never respecting their elders." James got up from his seat to walk away, but immediately fell over, thanks to his messed up foot.

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"Dahling…I don't even know how to go on at this point…our hard work was all for nothing…" Karma sadly slouched in her seat while Vanessa silently drove ahead on the road, looking similarly upset. "I spent hours crafting up the perfect routine to get his skin glowing so he would look like an angel in her eyes, but she just preferred him in his…urk…t-tracksuit."

"Honey, believe you me, I'm not feeling any better than you are right now, but we have to stay positive! It's not about us proving that we know how to do our jobs, it's about us helping Conroy get the confidence to tell that hyperactive shorty how he's feeling about her!" Vanessa tried to pep Karma up, but the makeup artist just slowly looked up at her in her misery.

"...But if we failed our one big glow-up, wouldn't that indicate that we don't know how to do our jobs right?" Vanessa thought about it for a moment, and the two gals started to sob loudly together while they were quickly passed by the Basketball Team, with Mika in the passenger seat looking back at them in confusion.

"Huh…whaddya think is up with them?" Mika looked back at Conroy, who simply shrugged. "Yeah, I don't know either. Oh well, maybe they're just feeling nervous now that there's almost half as many teams as there were on the first day!"

"I guess that could be it, tension from the competition getting to them…I wouldn't have figured either of them to be so easily broken, though. I kinda figured that Mitsuki would've run away screaming before this." Conroy shrugged again, not averting his gaze from the road. He was back in his normal attire, not a single thing from his glow-up remaining on him.

Confessional

"Karma and Vanessa have been pretty upset since the music festival came to a close, but neither Conroy or myself have been able to figure out what's wrong with either of them. Well, we did try to ask, but the one time that we got kind of close they just ran away crying." Mika looked mildly concerned while Conroy just stared at the camera through his shades. "Well, they'll probably be feeling a little better after this leg…probably."

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"Nnngh…" Virgil simmered in the passenger seat of his and Michael's jeep, watching as they passed by several residents of Zimbabwe. It was clear that he wanted to say something, but as far as what it was that he wanted to say, it was unclear. Michael raised an eyebrow at his editor, an almost smug look present on his face.

"Oh, Virgilio? You seem like you're thinking about something rather intense…mind sharing what that is? I'm sure it won't be offensive in any manner at all, right?" Virgil gulped nervously, noticing the awfully smug aura that Michael was giving off almost immediately. The YouTuber leaned closer to his editor, licking his own lips in an extravagant manner. "Go ahead, Virgilio, say exactly what's on your mind! We'd all love to hear it!"

"T-the people of zimbabwe are a bunch of n…n…" Virgil's mouth started trembling before he took in a deep breath and looked back to Micahel, appearing a lot more confident than before. "Nice looking people! I wish I could get my hair to look that pretty…ah, doesn't it just make you feel pitiful? I mean, you're a cis white man in the presence of such beautiful African natives." Virgil shook his head at Michael, who grumbled and went right back to looking at the road.

Confessional

"Virgilio can't be doing all of this on purpose, that's what I've determined from how he's been acting this whole time!" Michael slammed his fist down in the palm of his hand, staring intensely at the camera while Virgil was running around in the background, terrorizing several of the Zimbabwen citizens that he had seen earlier. "I will get him to slip up sooner or later, I just know it!"

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"Look, there's the next dukebox!" Ursula pointed ahead as Lady Belle started bringing their jeep to a slower pace than before. They eventually came to a full stop, both of them hopping out of the vehicle and running over to the dukebox. Ursula pressed the button on the top to get the next travel tip and read it off, "It's an all-in, of course…selfie safari?"

"What, pray tell, is a selfie?" Lady Belle and Ursula looked puzzled as Duke drove up in his own jeep, pulling a camera from the glove box of it.

"For this all-in challenge, our jabroni teams are gonna be taking a total death trip in a raft down the falls! They'll get a hold of these disposable cameras to take an epic selfie while they're going over the falls in these rafts, which definitely will hold and not explode halfway through the fall." Duke jumped into one of the rafts, floating down the river and taking a picture of his screaming face as he went over the falls. He fell down into the water below, taking a few seconds before popping back up with his hair sagging in front of his eyes like a wet mop. "If they miss their shot, well, let's just say they'll have to hope they can handle a pretty hefty climb." Duke snickered, pointing up at the top of the falls again before another raft went over and fell right on his head.

"'Then float downriver to Zambezi National Park, home of the elusive white rhino,'" Logan read along with the travel tip, as many of the teams had finally gathered themselves at the top of the falls at this point, "'...And take a picture of yourselves with the rhino." The camera panned away from the teams to show Duke standing near the next chill zone, which seemed to be in the middle of some village.

"Once our teams have their selfies from both the falls and the rhinos, they'll have to race to the chill zone here in this village! Of course, I'll be inspecting the photos to make sure they're up to par…and they'd better be, or it'll be back to square one!" Duke cracked his knuckles as a devilish grin popped up on his face. "The last team to arrive with their photos really isn't going to like what I'm gonna have to say to them." The camera then panned back to the top of the falls, where many of the teams were peering over the edge to see the water below. Many felt nervous, but a good handful of them weren't put off by it at all.

"Well, someone's gonna have to go first, right?" Arnold smirked as he started walking towards the rafts, though he suddenly paused, slouching down and sighing before slowly turning around to look at Aisling. "...M-maybe we should probably ask the orb if that's a good idea, though."

"I don't know why you care so much about this lately, it just feels like you're really trying to rub it in my face that you were right…" Aisling grumbled as she started to run her fingers along her crystal ball, still not looking much interested, just like before. "...It says that the first team that goes is going to miss their shot. But it's all 'a bunch of mumbo jumbo' anyways."

"Sounds like a good warning to me…we shall go second!" Arnold smirked and crossed his arms proudly, with the other teams looking at him, plenty of them confused by whatever he was trying to achieve by this.

"Well, if those weakbloods are just gonna waste a turn, then I won't mind going first." Becky started heading right for the rafts, while Olive skipped behind her and hummed excitedly. "What are you humming, Olive?"

"Oh! I heard this song playing from Virgil the other day! What were the words…?" Olive tapped her chin before suddenly snapping her fingers, her and her sister climbing into the first raft that they saw. "That's right! It was like, 'Eighteen naked cowbo-'"

"NO!" Becky scrambled to stop Olive from continuing the lyrics, which kept the both of them distracted as their raft drifted towards the edge of the waterfall. They slowly teetered over and fell off, forgetting that they were supposed to get a selfie in the middle of that, and plopping down into the river below. The water bubbled before they both slowly floated up, with Becky glaring back up at the top of the waterfall. "I think it's maybe a good idea to not listen to anything that Virgil is listening to."

"Yeah, that song did get a little weird in the middle…" Olive blushed, and the two girls grabbed their raft and started to paddle to shore with it. Meanwhile, back at the top of the waterfall, Arnold had a grimace across his face.

"...She…was right…" He slowly glanced behind him to see if Aisling had even watched what just happened, but she clearly hadn't paid much attention to it at all, and was just absentmindedly shuffling through her tarot cards. "U-uh…hey! Yeah, I said we're going second, so we can go now!"

"Oh, woohoo, we're doing things the way that you want to do them again, sooooo exciting." Aisling sighed and started walking towards the raft, climbing into it and seeing that Arnold was just standing on the shore and watching her with a blank stare. "...What are you doing now?"

"Well, if you don't wanna go now, when do you wanna go?" Arnold gulped nervously as Aisling glared at him, and he climbed into the raft with her. It was definitely a little bit more cramped than the other ones were, and they were forced to sit practically sandwiched together, though the prodigy was doing everything in his power not to rub against her body. "They couldn't make these things all the same size, could they?"

"Do you have a problem with the raft I picked? Maybe we should just take one you wanna take, right?" Arnold sheepishly looked away and gave their raft a little nudge to get them floating, choosing not to get into this argument any further.

Confessional

"I…do not much care for how I feel right now. Hmph," Arnold glared away from the camera, his arms crossed over his stomach while Aisling was nowhere to be seen. "I don't get it. I meant everything that I said back in that concert, but for some reason, I feel like…not…good! And I hate feeling not good! I'm the peak human, I'm supposed to feel perfect all the time! It gets especially worse whenever I see Aisling…I…don't really like seeing her look…like…sad, or whatever." The prodigy sighed quietly before looking back at the camera, "I'm fully capable of doing the impossible, though! Which means that I'm capable of bringing her smile back! I-it's a trivial task for someone of my calibur!"

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With the ten teams that were in the lead all hopping into rafts and getting ready to go down the waterfall, the Bloody Prom Queens on their second try with it this time, the final three teams finally pulled up to the next dukebox. There were only two jeeps, though, those being the ones that belonged to the BFFFLs and the Friendly Duo. Xavier had offered a lift to James and Eliott, who had obviously totalled their jeep when they crashed into the tree before.

"Y-you guys are sure you're okay, right? That crash looked…pretty bad." Xavier was the first to step out of either vehicle, heading around to the backdoor to open it for James, who just fell flat on his face instead of climbing out. Eliott rolled his eyes and got out after his "dad," stepping all over his back. "O-oh. That's kind of a weird way to treat your dad, but everyone's families are different, right?"

"Yeah, family, whatever, thanks for the lift and all. Dad, stop being so lazy and get off the ground, would you?" Eliott snapped at James, whose body twitched slightly as he continued to take his little dirt nap, clearly not paying attention to what his son was saying to him. The son just rolled his eyes and continued over to the dukebox, grabbing the next tip and reading it slowly, his jaw dropping as he read the whole thing. "Oh, great going, dad! We have to go back to our car!"

"Peh? Why?" James slowly rose from the ground, his spine crackling like a firecracker as he did, which grossed out Xavier to no end. He marched over to his son to see what the big deal was, only for the boy to fork the tip over to his hands. He took it with a shrug, giving it a lookover. "Something something waterfall…something something raft…something something selfie…something something camera in the glove box…CAMERA IN THE GLOVE BOX!?"

"CAMERA IN THE GLOVE BOX!" The "Father and Son?" could only exchange equally worried looks before they started running off at full speed back towards the way they came from, leaving Xavier to watch them slowly disappear from his sight.

"...Huh…maybe we shouldn't have given them a ride. Well, we know what we have to do for this next challenge, so let's get right to it, right Marty?" Xavier smiled as he glanced back into his team's jeep, seeing that Marty wasn't actually in there. "Marty?" He took a look around the area, seeing that nobody was there aside from him, and a nervous looking Katie. "Hey, Katie, have you seen Marty anywhere? He just kinda went missing."

"W-waterfall…" Katie slowly raised her hand to point at the waterfall, conviincing Xavier to look out towards it, finding that Marty and Sadie were currently sharing a raft and floating downstream, without either of their teammates. The baker could only blankly stare at the sight for a few moments, before inevitably looking back at Katie.

"...Alright…so…I guess we go over the waterfall together, then?"

"The tip said that you get sent back to the start if you mess up either of the shots, though. So, like, doesn't taking a selfie with someone that's not on your team count as messing up the shot?" Xavier had to pause and think about it before groaning and suddenly grabbing Katie by the arm, running towards the waterfall in his grasp. "X-Xavier, what are you doing!?"

"We just have to catch them before they go over! If we take two selfies with all four of us, it should be just fine!" Xavier huffed and puffed as he kept on running, not losing sight of Marty and Sadie's raft, not even for a second. He had gotten fairly close to it, deciding now was as good a time as any to try and jump onto it, but he messed up the jump horribly, causing him and Katie both to splash into the water and go under.

"Hm? Did you, like, hear something?" Sadie tilted her head at Marty, who just shrugged his shoulders back at her. The couple kept floating towards the edge of the waterfall while Xavier slowly poked his head back up from the water, looking annoyed as ever. Katie eventually joined him, staring at the back of his head quietly.

"...I don't think that work-"

"I KNOW IT DIDN'T WORK!"

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"Alright, I am officially annoyed with Marty's shenanigans! It's one thing to ignore me, but to ignore the rules of a challenge in the race and just go on ahead to hang out with your girlfriend? That's just…obnoxious! He is not getting any victory cookies if we survive this leg, I can tell you that much!" Xavier huffed and crossed his arms while Katie just stared at him, sitting next to him, rather than Marty.

"...M-maybe, you should, like, talk to him about it, or something. That seems like the best way to handle it to me." Katie smiled innocently, though that smile faded when Xavier turned his head to show the angry expression on his face. "G-geez…sorry…"

"Wait, no, I didn't mean to– ugh!" Katie sniffled and turned away from Xavier, who looked really regretful of looking at her like that. "I'm sorry, I'm just really heated right now! W-would a cupcake make you feel better?"

"...Is it soggy from us landing in the river?"

"...Mayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyybe…"

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"Going over a waterfall, oh heavens, what a treacherous thing." Lady Belle let out an exaggerated sigh as she fanned herself off while Ursula played around with the camera in her hands. The two were a decent ways ahead of most of the other teams heading towards the fall, but still pretty far behind Arnold and Aisling. "Say, do you think that old coot'll break his neck when he goes down the fall? I can't have my working boy being all miserable about his dad dyin' and whatnot."

"I said it before, but I could really care less about what happens to James at this point. I've got my eyes set on that one right there." Ursula grinned as she pointed ahead at Arnold, who was sandwiched up against Aisling still. "Surely he has money to spare…and he's scrawny enough that I could take care of him pretty easily."

"You ever think we get too loose with how we talk on national television? Might come back to bite us in the kiesters later on or something like that." Lady Belle's fan really wasn't working much in her favor in the Zimbabwe heat, and she ended up just chucking it into the water out of her own annoyance.

"Yeah, I think you're getting to loose with how you talk. Who uses the word kiester nowadays? You're not seventy…are you?" Ursula had to skeptically look over Lady Belle, who glared back at her. "Hey, I don't know how many wrinkles you're trying to hide under all that makeup you put on."

"I ain't used anything more than eyeshadow, lipstick, and mascara in a solid twenty years. I'm still in my young thirties, I'll have you know!" Lady Belle flaunted her chest a bit while Ursula just rolled her eyes and kept staring at Arnold. "Least I didn't get plastic surgery to make myself look like a teenager. Oh, and just lettin' ya know, it didn't work. You still look like a hag."

"Somehow, that really doesn't bother me that much, coming from you. …Ugh, can't this thing go any faster? How am I supposed to woo that twink if he's so far ahead of us?" Ursula crossed her arms and sat back in their raft, glancing to the side as Mitsuki and Honey floated nearby them. She stared at them, noticing the depraved stare in the pervert's eyes. "...Why are you looking at us like that?"

"H-h-huh? M-me? N-no, I would never ever look at anybody in any way like what you're suggesting ever. I wasn't staring at your b-b-big globes…n-n-not at all!" Mitsuki's nose started bleeding as she continued to stare. Ursula didn't seem to care all too much, but Lady Belle looked just about ready to rip her little head off of her shoulders. That was until Honey moved her body so she was blocking Mitsuki's view. "Eh? What are you doing?"

"Me? Oh, nothing! Just…I wanted to sit here! It's a much better spot for…soaking up the sun? Look, I'm getting all sweaty!" Honey smiled awkwardly as she shook her body a bit, her chest bouncing around in front of Mitsuki's eyes. The little perv had immediately forgotten about the MILFs as she refocused on her own partner, her tongue flopping out of her mouth while she panted like a dog.

"Y-y-you're right, you are really sweaty…" Mitsuki suddenly got really quiet and looked away from Honey as she twiddled her thumbs like a dummy. "Y-you could probably use me as a towel if you wanted." The mega lesbians started drifting away from the MILFs, both of which looked entirely unnerved.

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"I think I'm gonna be sick…" Ursula gagged before she glanced over to see Lady Belle already vomiting all over the place. "Richard and Andrew were nasty little things, and I guess their nastiness was enough to make us ignore Mitsuki and her bimbo. Blech…how disgusting…"

"I fucking hate women, goddammit…" Lady Belle could only squeak those words out before she went right back to vomiting like before, with Ursula deadpanning at the camera.

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"Evan! You baboon!" Logan bonked a stick against Evan's head as the two of them floated in their raft, though the brickhouse didn't really seem too bothered by it. After all, the stick was only about half the size of her forearm, so it was practically just a twig. "You still haven't told me what you were doing with the dweeb's phone yesterday!"

"Huh? Oh, you're still on that? I figured that you would stop caring soon enough, since, you know, they're dweebs. You hate dweebs." Evan rolled his eyes and turned around to look out towards the waterfall, seeing Jamie Lynn and Phoebe a short distance ahead of them. He and Jamie Lynn made eye contact as they floated, each of them smirking a bit before they stopped looking each other's way.

"What was that just now? Don't tell me that I just saw you smiling at…" Logan gagged a bit before she could even try to say the name, "Jamie Lynn!" Evan cocked an eyebrow at his cousin, whose face started to get red as she got more and more heated. "Jamie Lynn is…a menace! There, I said it! Sure, she's already one of those dreadful women that thinks they're better than me because they're taller than me, but she also is rather nasty to that girl twink that I adopted."

"...Adopted? Girl twink? What the hell are you talking about?" Evan looked somewhat disgusted by what Logan was rambling about, "You…actually went out and made friends with another woman? And I presume when you say girl twink…" Evan scanned the area a bit, his eyes picking out three possible options. "Alright, it's either Mitsuki, Katie, or Phoebe, and since Jamie Lynn doesn't waste her time talking to that sticky pervert or the twin from another mother…ew, gross."

"Gross!? She is not gross! She is…tolerable!" Logan huffed as she sat back down in the raft, giving another whap of the stick across Evan's cheek, leaving a little cut there. The bigger popstar glared at his cousin, who seemed all too pleased with herself. "She thinks she's worse than everybody else, which means she acknowledges that I'm far superior, so she is welcome to be in my posse."

"I think I prefer when you're just being a total bitch to everybody," Evan groaned and turned around again, resting his forearms on the raft while Logan continued attacking him with her stick, doing little to no damage. Not too far away, Michael and Virgil were floating together, with a bunch of dirt all over Virgil's face.

"...Virgilio, why is that all there? That doesn't seem very tolerant to me," Michael had a smirk on his face while Virgil loosely glared at him.

"I tripped before we got on the raft, did you not see that happen? Or do you only pay attention to people you can oppress with your male gaze?" Michael's smirk faded away as he rolled his eyes and stopped paying attention to Virgil, yet again. This gave the racist editor the chance to stare back towards the start of the river, where there were a good deal of civilians glaring at him. He mouthed the words "ooga booga," and their glares got even more intense.

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"Zimbabwe is like the prime spot for me to just fly off the handle in…it's almost got me thinking that I should really stop worrying about punking Michael just so I can have more fun while I'm here." Virgil grinned at his own awfulness as he started cleaning the dirt off of his face with a damp rag. "But alas, I think I'm gonna keep this charade up until we're all done with the race. I think it's helping to keep him motivated or something, so we might just win that money."

"My cousin is a total moron…who in their right mind would want to talk to Jamie Lynn? She reeks of sour fish, I wonder why?" Logan pointed down at her own crotch with one hand while waving her other hand in front of her nose. "She's got more boils on her skin than I can count on my hands! Her teeth are all brown because she brushes them with tar! I watched her chase after a raccoon one night and eat it raw! Sure, maybe I'm exaggerating all of that, but that's what she seems like to me! Complete menace. Phoebe's basically my adopted daughter, so I won't tolerate her bullying her."

"H-h-hey, b-being the adopted MILF is supposed to be my thing…" Mitsuki whimpered as she slowly rose from the ground, only for Logan to smack her in the back of the head. "Eep!"

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"Well…it looks like the fall is coming up right about now. Would you like to be the one taking the picture, then?" Arnold held the camera in his hands, slowly moving it so he was holding it out towards Aisling. She blankly stared at him for a moment, entirely confused by what he was trying to achieve with this before she just rolled her eyes and took it from him. "I'm sure you'll…" He forced a large, over-the-top smile onto his face, though his eyes made it look like he was about to cry, "...Take a great picture."

"...Oh, do force yourself to compliment me harder, would you? You might just shit yourself if you go any harder," she snarked back at him, looking away while she aimed the camera and he gasped.

"H-hey! Y-you're not supposed to say words like that, you're supposed to be the cute, innocent one!" Aisling glared at him and he hushed himself up, the two of them teetering over the fall. She did take a picture of them alright, though it was anything but amazing. Arnold looked as guilty as an accidental murderer while Aisling seemed to be just pissed off. Nonetheless, the picture was taken, and they plopped into the river before hurriedly swimming to the shore. Back up top, more teams were getting to the edge of the waterfall. First came Honey and Mitsuki, with Mitsuki taking a picture that seemed to put a lot of focus on her partner's chest. Then, there were the Bachelorettes. Ursula snapped the picture for two of them, it ended up just looking like a picture that a forty year old mother would upload to their FaceNovel account. The next up in the long line of people, though, were Zeke and Lyle, with Lyle holding the camera while Zeke hummed a tune that had plenty of birds coming to rest upon his head to hear.

"Ohhhhh, I'm so excited to get down there and see all the rhinos! It would be nice if we could bring one of them with us as a third teammate, but I don't think Duke would allow that…" Lyle sighed as he fiddled with the camera, though Zeke gave him a pat on the back, which seemed to get him all chipper again. "I guess just being able to meet all these unique animals while traveling the world is more than enough, though."

"Yeah, I'd say I definitely got way more out of this than I thought I was going to. Now, it's just about winning this thing so we can build our own sanctuary for those endangered species that need it most! We're almost at the halfway mark, so it shouldn't be that much more now." Zeke stretched his shoulders out a bit before taking a look behind him to see how close the fall was. "Welp! Guess it's just about time to snap that pic, then!" He threw his arm around Lyle's shoulder, pulling him in for a bro hug while holding up a peace sign. The shorter conservationist beamed, having no issue taking the picture as they fell. After he did, he moved the camera out of his face to find something that brought a look of shock right to his face.

"Z-Z-Zeke? Are you seeing what I'm seeing right now?" Lyle shakily pointed up towards the top of the fall, convincing Zeke to look up and see what it was. The latter of the two gasped before they splashed into the water below, going under it pretty quickly. They eventually popped back up, just as another raft splashed next to them. The two glanced between each other nervously, watching bubbles float to the top of the water, before something disgustingly pink poked out.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooah! Fancy meeting all of you guys here!" Flora splashed her arms excitedly as she finally floated back up all the way, holding a massive, pink magic wand in her hands. She giggled before tapping it against their noses, "I honestly thought the race was all over and done with already! Say, where'd Helena land? She was just with me…" The pink-wearing queen looked around before Helena finally resurfaced, gasping loudly and coughing up a good deal of water. "Oh! There you are, silly!"

"I think I swallowed a fish…" Helena's eyes widened, and with one more cough, a fish flew out of her mouth, slapping both Lyle and Zeke in the face. The Conservationists were still a bit too shocked by the sudden appearance of the girls to even notice the fish hitting them, their jaws dropped and all. "Oh…h-hello, there…"

"...Aren't you guys gonna say hi back? All this staring with your mouths open like that is making me feel really awkward!" Flora giggled some more, using her wand to lift both of their jaws back up to close their mouths, but, alas, they fell right open again. She frowned at them before snapping her fingers and diving back under the water, coming back with some seaweed. In a flurry of hand motions that could hardly be seen, she tied them around their heads to make sure that their jaws would shut. "There, that's better! Oh! You guys can be our seaweed monster companions!"

"I-I don't know if anyone would actually want to be a seaweed monster, Flora." Helena couldn't help but blush at Flora's silly idea. "B-but…it is nice to see some familiar faces. I hope we didn't startle you too much…"

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"Oh! After the race ended for us, well, we had a whole bunch of stuff to talk about! Helena was telling me all the ways of the world, and she figured the best way to really help me face my fears of it would be to take me on a magical adventure!" Flora wiggled her wand around, dropping sparkly glitter all over the place. Helena tried to flick some of it off of herself, but it seemed to be of no use.

"Well, it's more just a regular adventure…but then again…everything is magical when you're with me." Helena grabbed Flora's hand and held it tightly, causing Pinky to turn the same color as her attire. "It's been doing wonders for my inspiration, as well. I've been thinking that this might be the best way to finally get my big break with the screenplays I try writing."

"Those producer people are all a bunch of big dumb dumbs, anyways! Your stuff is always really good, they just don't like good things!" Flora crossed her arms and huffed while Helena sheepishly smiled at the camera.

"...It's like seeing a ghost…only the ghost is covered in sparkly glitter…and she covers you in sparkly glitter, and then there is just glitter everywhere." Lyle hardly knew what to say as Zeke was trying to pick the glitter out of his hair like he was his chimp mother.

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"Ohhhhhh, dahling! I just can't…I can't take this failure of a life anymore!" Karma groaned and rolled about in her raft while Vanessa slouched against the side of it, sighing while staring at the waterfall that was coming up pretty close to them. "W-we need to find someone else to help, quick! I don't know if I'll be able to go on if I didn't successfully help somebody before leaving the race!"

"I know, I know…but who even do we help? Everyone is already so gorgeous, even without us, honey." Karma groaned even louder while Vanessa tried to look around at the rest of the teams, only for a small smile to crawl onto her face. "You know…maybe it's not such a bad thing that we don't have anybody to help. It just means that they've all got that sexy confidence, already."

"...Yeah…yeah, I know…I just feel like a failure, still…" Karma sighed before Vanessa scooped her up and sat her down next to her.

"Well, we can always just continue to help style each other out in the meantime, yeah? Someone's gonna need our help eventually, and it wouldn't do no dang good if we were bumming around when that time came!" Vanessa was back to bobbing her head from side to side, with Karma, slowly starting to join her in smiling.

"You're…right, dahling. Besides, self-doubt and sadness is such an unbecoming color on us. We look so much better in shining confidence!" Karma blinked, re-opening her eyes to show that her typical twinkle was back again. "It's a grand thing we have each other here, otherwise this might've turned out so much differently! Now…since we have a challenge to be doing…I suppose it's time to say 'cheese?'"

"Oh, yeah, baby!" Vanessa grinned, and the two gals struck a swanky pose before Karma snapped the picture of them going over the fall. Of course, Karma landed on her back in the water, so her makeup didn't get ruined at all. Vanessa, however, had no problem with going under, and came back up looking as proud of herself as ever.

"Huh…well, looks like the gals are done being depressed!" Mika giggled as she stood up in the raft, the only reason that she was somewhat eye level with the much taller Conroy. The camera was in her hands, which she didn't seem to mind. "Oh, oh, here it comes! Make your best selfie face, senior!" Conroy cocked an eyebrow at Mika in confusion, and the teetered off the edge of the fall, his sunglasses flying off of his face right when she snapped the picture. "Woah! Your eyes look really pr-" They splashed into the water below before she could finish what she was saying, though they both came back to the surface soon enough.

"What were you saying just now?" Conroy asked Mika as he swam around in search of his glasses, only for her to end up having them in her hands.

"Just that you have really pretty eyes!" Mika beamed and slapped the sunglasses back onto Conroy's face, getting a blush out of him before the team started to swim to shore. Of course, then came more of the other teams, with Michael taking a picture of him and Virgil that showcased that he was still pretty peeved with his editor's current appearance. Then came the Awkward Neighbors, where Jamie Lynn put herself in charge of the selfie due to a lack of trust towards Phoebe, who looked miserable in the picture. After them were the Vicious Pop Stars, Logan's picture mostly just showcased her…with Evan's head barely in the corner of it. And finally, the Bloody Prom Queens got to go their second time, with Becky actually taking a picture of them this time around. This just left the mismatched Friendly Duo and BFFFLs in the river above.

"You know…floating down towards a waterfall together in a dinky raft like this…it's so romantic." Marty sighed as he held Sadie's hands while staring deep into her eyes. The giggly girl had a soft and cute expression on her face as she stared back at him, gently rubbing her dainty fingers on his tense hands. "I can't imagine wanting to spend this moment with anybody else."

"Me either…I feel like we're forgetting something, though." Sadie glanced around at the rest of the river to see if she could figure out what it was, but didn't end up finding anything. "Well, it must just be my imagination. Usually when I think I'm forgetting something, I hear some squealing noise that reminds me what it is."

"Huh, weird…well, we'd better take our picture, yeah? We're about to go over!" The couple smushed themselves together, with Sadie flashing a peace sign to the camera while Marty kissed her on the cheek. They ended up plopping into the water below, and when they resurfaced, they heard the screams of another duo from above. They watched as Xavier and Katie fell into Marty and Sadie's raft, which had them groaning from the initial slam. "Oh…hey, Xavi."

"Maaaaaaaaaarty…you were supposed to take the picture with me, you dunce…" Xavier groaned once more before slowly crawling out of the raft and tumbling into the water, with Katie shakily pulling herself up to a sitting position in the raft.

"Sadie, like, what gives? You and I are BFFFLs! That means we have to take our picture together, challenge or no challenge!" Katie had big puppy dog eyes on her face while her lip quivered, and all Sadie could do was awkwardly smile back at her. "You're not…even a little bit sorry about leaving me behind?"

"W-well, since Marty and I are dating and all, I just thought it would make sense if we took the picture together. Like, we could take a second picture, with you and me!" Sadie tried to cheer Katie up, but this comment just seemed to annoy her.

"We have to take a second picture regardless! The first picture was supposed to be you and me! The challenge is taking selfies with your teammate! Not your boyfriend!" Katie crossed her arms and leaned back in the raft while Xavier popped back up from the water, looking equally as annoyed as she was. The two gave their teammates a staredown, both of which just shared that same awkward smile.

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"Alright, alright, maybe we are a teensy tiny bit obsessed, but my experience with romance is quite literally nothing! I've never dated anyone before or any of that, so I thought this stuff was all pretty normal! Besides," Marty smirked as he glanced up and down at Sadie, who blushed a red apple coloring. "With a girlfriend this hot, can you blame me?"

"O-oh, Marty…" Sadie fawned before slowly looking back to the camera, "A-as far as things for myself go, I've practice-kissed Katie a whole bunch, but that doesn't count! Oh, and I guess I did get to see her and Eva together a whole bunch…hmmmmm…"

"Y-y-y-you and Katie kissed each other?" Sadie simply nodded to Marty's question, and the head-over-heels boy slowly fell backwards and onto the ground.

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"Come on, that car wreck has to be somewhere nearby! Dangit, dad, this is all your fault!" Eliott glared at James, who grunted as the two of them continued to run around in search of their jeep while the Zimbabwe heat beat down on them at unbearable levels. "W-when we're done with this leg, I am so making you sleep on the floor in the hotel room! In fact, I should've been making you sleep on the floor to begin with!"

"Now, now, sport, is that any way to be talking to your old man? I didn't raise you to take that kind of tone with me." James loosely glared at Eliott, who suddenly skidded to a halt, which convinced the geezer to come to a stop with him.

"You didn't raise me to take that tone with you? You didn't raise me at all, old man!" Eliott gritted his teeth as he jabbed his pointer finger at James's chest. "You said that you were gonna pay me for tagging along with you in this race, but every time I ask you when the check's gonna come, you say the company's still compiling the cash! I know it isn't that hard to just give me that money, you've probably got it on you right now!"

"Eli! Sport…there are cameras all around us." James whispered as he pointed behind him, trying to not look suspicious, but just looking even more suspicious.

"I don't care that there are cameras, I don't care about this job! I'm done with being a stupid intern for your stupid production company! And you know what else? I'm gonna tell everybody that the owner of the company is running in his own race! Let's see how highly everyone thinks of you after that!" Eliott leaned back, crossing his arms proudly while James' jaw dropped.

"Y-you…BAHAHAHAHA!" James suddenly slapped his own knee, laughing like a hyena while Eliott just stared at him out of his own suspicion. "That's a good one, sport! 'Owner of the company,' pfft! Could you imagine if that was actually a thing that's happening here? Ah, nice to see you get your sense of humor from your old man! Now, come on, we gotta go find our camera!" The old man gave the younger boy a pat on the cheek before starting to run off again, leaving behind Eliott, who was entirely flabbergasted.

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"I…I don't even know what I'm supposed to do now. I mean, there's no way anyone believed him brushing that off as a joke, right? Whatever, doesn't matter, I'm done trying. I've been carrying that old bastard throughout this whole race, and for what? Nothing!" Eliott sighed and leaned back against a tree while James ran around in the background. "Well, at least I met Lady Belle while I was here, yeah? I'll probably only put in any effort so that I can keep seeing her."

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"Rhinos…selfies with rhinos…alright, well, this seems as good a time as any to ask– what does the orb say we should do here?" Arnold was initially staring out into the field of rhinos, but he turned to face Aisling, wondering what she had to say about this situation. She rolled her eyes at him and started to rub her hand along the crystal ball, getting a faint glow back from it before she sighed. "Well? It's gotta have some good advice, right?"

"Only advice that you would say is idiotic to listen to," Aisling glared, making Arnold feeling immensely more guilty. "There's a rhino that's got a cracked horn…that's the one we'll have the best luck taking a selfie with. Any other rhino is going to shove its horn straight up your rear end…on second thought, maybe we should go to a different rhino."

"N-no, I think the one with the cracked horn definitely sounds like the best bet. The orb said so, after all." Arnold gulped nervously, taking Aisling by the hand as the two went off in search of the rhino with the cracked horn. Meanwhile, Lyle and Zeke were huddled up with Flora and Helena, standing near the center of the field. There were rhinos aplenty, it was just a matter of picking which one to take a selfie with at this point.

"Alright, the first thing's first…we're gonna need to grab the attention of one of those rhinos! But, we have to do it in a calming, friendly way that lets it know that we aren't its enemies!" Zeke slammed his fist down into the palm of his hand before taking a look behind him to see all the rhinos. "Let's see…does anybody have any berries or anything? Rhinos enjoy berries when they can get them, but they're not too common in this part of Zimbabwe…"

"Uh…I think I have some raisins in my rucksack!" Lyle got down to his knees, retrieving a small rucksack from his shorts and starting to rummage around within it in search of the raisins that he mentioned. Zeke, of course, was keeping his eyes on the rhinos, with Helena watching in silence and Flora tapping her magic wand against her forehead.

"Hm…oh! My wand kinda smells like strawberries, perhaps that would be some help! Let me just try swinging it around a bit!" Flora giggled as she raised her wand up into the air, flailing it around while Lyle and Zeke gasped, suddenly twisting around to look at her.

"NO, DON'T!" The two boys shouted in unison, but it was far too late, as one of the rhinos caught wind of the wand. Seeing its bright, pink cortex…the rhino just felt like it was being challenged by the inanimate object. It huffed through its nostrils, soon stampeding towards the four people at full speed. Each of them screamed, but none were in more danger than Zeke, who was directly in the rhino's path. It scooped him up by the shorts with its horn, continuing to run with him in tow.

"W-wait, Zeke, I'm coming!" Lyle hurriedly grabbed onto the rhino's tail just in time before it was out of reach. The Conservationists were sent screaming on their joyride, while Flora and Helena watched them, the latter seeming more nervous while the former was just excited.

"Oh, I do love being able to help people!" Flora giggled innocently while Helena sighed and placed her palm gently on her own face.

"L-Lyle! Take the selfie and then undo my belt! It's the only wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!" Zeke continued to scream while Lyle nodded, though the former obviously couldn't see the nod. Lyle started climbing up to the front of the rhino, the camera in his hand when he got right up near its head. He hung onto it like a sloth to a branch, taking a picture that showcased himself, the rhino's annoyed face, and Zeke. Then, of course, he undid his partner's belt and jumped off the rhino, with his partner falling off soon enough.

"Zeke! Are you okay?" Lyle rushed over to where Zeke was laying on the ground, only to stop in his tracks and just stared at him. The taller conservationist groaned and slowly pulled himself up from the dirt, turning around to face the shorter one.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Whew…was definitely not expecting anything like that happening today." Zeke tried to laugh it off, but it was pretty clear that he was still in pain from the crash landing. Either way, he ended up seeing Lyle's expression of amazement, which replaced all his other thoughts with wonder. "Uh…what're you looking at me like that for?"

"B-butt…" Lyle gestured to Zeke's rear end, and the taller boy could see that a hole had been torn in his underwear by the horn of the rhino. He blushed faintly, but when he saw the spot where the hole was, he noticed something odd…a mark of sorts.

"Hand on a minute…L-Lyle! Take your pants off!" Lyle didn't even think for a second before ripping his shorts off and chucking them into the distance. The two each took turns spinning around and staring at the other's butt, right at the marks they had, which looked phenomenally similar…in fact, they were exactly the same. "D…do you know what this means?"

"I think I do…"

"...WE'RE BROTHERS!" The two boys shouted excitedly before Lyle leapt into Zeke's arms, and they hugged each other with their butts still hanging out. Flora and Helena watched from where they stood, both of them looking just confused at what was going on with them.

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"You know, maybe we should've thought about this when people kept asking if we were related…but, shoot! I don't care about all that before, I'm just so excited right now!" Lyle bounced up and down in his seat before turning to face Zeke, each of them grinning from ear to ear. "Hug me, bro!"

"You got it, bro!" The two hugged each other again, clearly more excited than they could put into words.

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"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh! I'm not gonna waste my time trying to wrangle some stupid rhino." Jamie Lynn crossed her arms while she stood with Phoebe near the center of the field. "Why don't you just go out there and try to wrestle one up? Worst case scenario, it doesn't kill you."

"T-then what would be the best case scenario?" Phoebe whimpered as she looked to her partner for answers, only getting an evil smile back from her. "O-oh…right…it kills me…" The awfully skinny girl sighed and slouched forward, heading out towards one of the rhinos in the field. "H-here, rhino…come take a picture with me and Jamie Lynn…" She tried to call the rhino over, but instead of rampaging towards her, it just huffed and started walking away. "O-oh, I know…why would you want to take a picture with a useless bitch like me?"

"Phoebe, can you stop being pathetic for like, five seconds? That is literally all I ask of you. See, this is why we got rid of Richard– you just don't know how to behave." Phoebe's eye twitched a little bit at the comment, but she didn't say anything, as she just kept chasing after the rhino from before. Somewhat nearby, Virgil was standing nonchalantly with a horde of rhinos standing around him, each of the beasts seeming really calm.

"Ehhh? Oh, piss off, you stupid animals! I only need one of you for this challenge!" Virgil hissed, but for some reason, this only seemed to entice more of them to come to him. "A-ah! Go away! I said I only need one! I'm not into rhino orgies!"

"Virgilio, are you alright in there?" Michael stood on the outside of the ring of rhinos, grinning as he watched his partner get swarmed by the creatures. He couldn't really hear anything from Virgil other than a few screams, causing him to chuckle a bit on his own. Behind his back, he was holding a tiny glass bottle with some liquid in it. The bottle was labeled "Rhino Aphrodisiac."

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"Alright, I admit, I did think it would be a little funny if I put some rhino hormones on Virgilio's hoodie…and it wasn't a little funny…it was a lot of funny!" Michael burst out into a cackling laugh, slapping his own knee in the middle of it. "Hey, he would do the same thing to me! I'm just trying to convince him to give it up with this performance of his! I want regular Virgil back more than anything!"

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"Alright…cracked horn…cracked horn…that's gotta be around here somewhere, right?" Arnold glanced around at all the rhinos, searching for that very specific one, but not really having any luck with it. He did, however, notice that a lot of teams were starting to find their own rhinos, or at least chasing after some to try to get their selfies with them. Evan knocked one out with his brute strength, and all of he, Logan, Jamie Lynn, and Phoebe were standing around it, though Phoebe seemed like she had just gotten yelled at again for being useless. "Ugh…it seems the others aren't having these types of issues."

"Hm, maybe it's because all of the rhinos think you smell like a prick, so they're staying far away." Aisling deadpanned while Arnold went back to staying quiet, though the two suddenly felt the ground quaking around them. They slowly turned around to see a massive rhino with a cracked horn standing there, staring them down intensely.

"...I-i-is that the rhino with the cracked horn that your orb mentioned?" Arnold swallowed a lump in his throat, feeling the beady eyes of the rhino piercing his very being. "Maybe we should t-t-try our luck with a different one…" Suddenly, Aisling started reaching her hand out towards the rhino, causing some panic for the rich boy. "A-Aisling, have you lost it? That rhino doesn't want to be your friend!"

"Shhh…he's just nervous…" Aisling didn't hesitate to place her hand upon the rhino's snout, gently caressing it, trying her best to make it feel welcomed and wanted. This seemed to do the trick enough, as its expression softened up, and it didn't look nearly as horrific as before. Arnold felt puzzled as he stared in awe, not at the rhino, but at Aisling. He slowly moved right up next to her, glancing at the Rhino nervously before looking back at her, still in awe. "See? Just nervous."

"...T-that's…impressive…" Arnold felt the genuine compliment leaving his lips, and Aisling even smirked to herself as she received it. She rested her head on the rhino's snout, grabbing for the camera from her bosom and snapping a selfie that showed her, the rhino, and a little bit of Arnold in the background.

"Well, we've got our picture. Thank you, kind creature." Aisling gave the rhino a kiss on the snout before sending it off. She turned to look at Arnold after, her smirk from before getting more smug as she saw the awed expression on his face. "Arnold, that look is so different on you. Perhaps you've caught something?"

"Y-yeah…I mean, no…uh…let's just get our pictures to the chill zone." Arnold gulped once again, though he wasn't the one to lead the team this time, as Aisling took the first step with a giggle. They ended up walking past the Bachelorettes on their way to the chill zone. Ursula was scanning the area to find a rhino while Lady Belle was cracking her knuckles.

"This challenge is so disgusting…rhinos are far too smelly for me to want to be anywhere near one, much less take a selfie with one. Though, I suppose it can't be much different than being around you." Ursula smirked at Lady Belle, who chose to ignore her snide comment as she finally finished cracking her knuckles. "Oh? What are you doing now?"

"Gettin' ready to wrangle me a rhino, of course! I may not be from cowboy land, but I've seen enough movies to know how to handle a nasty critter when you need it to sit still for you…just watch!" Lady Belle grinned widely as a rhino started to run by, but she grabbed it by the tail before it had the chance to flee. She held onto that tail, planting her feet firmly into the ground for leverage while Ursula watched her. "Oh, don't just stand there and watch, you idiot! Take the dang picture!" Ursula rolled her eyes and ran around to the front of the rhino, snapping the selfie before Lady Belle let it stampede off into the distance. "There! I'd say that worked well enough!"

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"Yes, yes, I do love me a lil' working boy and all, but let's be entirely honest here…ain't nobody packing more muscle than myself! I ain't a dainty lil' flower, I got a whole lot of bite to me!" Lady Belle blew a kiss to the camera before flexing her biceps, an annoyed Ursula just staring at her while she sat next to her.

"You look like a man when you do that," Ursula smirked as she watched the smile flee from Lady Belle's face.

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"Let's see…yup, that's a waterfall selfie if I've ever seen one…hohoh, looks like you two really had a rough time with that rhino, eh? Doesn't matter, though! Conservationists, you two are first! Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry…the company let us know two teams are getting name changes! So I should've said, ahem, Long Lost Brothers, you're first!" Duke clapped for Zeke and Lyle, who excitedly hugged each other yet again before wobbling off of the chill zone, leaving Duke there with Flora and Helena. "Now then…what the hell are you two doing back here? You lost a while ago."

"Oh, well, we just sort of dropped in, we weren't trying to intrude or anything. A funny coincidence, we'll call it." Helena chuckled lightly before taking Flora's hand in her own, "But we really should be leaving now, we have a flight to catch fairly shortly."

"Wait…so…you don't wanna join the race again? You'd rather go do whatever it was you were doing before?" Duke seemed a bit puzzled, while Flora and Helena just exchanged a confused glance between each other. "...Well, too bad! I'm the Dukester, and what I say goes! And I say you guys are coming back! And it has nothing to do with the hate mail we got for you two leaving the first time!"

"B-but we really should-"

"Woohoo!" Flora jumped up and down excitedly, giving Helena no choice but to accept defeat. "This is gonna be so much fun! To think, our first day back would be filled with so much magic! Oh, and butts!"

"Say what now?" Duke was a bit curious to hear what Flora meant by the butt comment, but she didn't elaborate, as she happily teetered away with Helena in tow. Back at the top of the waterfall, Marty and Xavier had finally gotten a raft together, while Katie and Sadie were in their own. Much like before, the forgotten teammates seemed pretty peeved, while the lovebirds tried to play it off and act all innocent. As far as things went for James and Eliott, they had finally retrieved their camera from the car wreck, just before it had the chance to explode. They were en route back to the waterfall, but still, a good distance remained.

"We've got our first place safety spot claimed already, with a shocking return right after them, but there are still twelve teams trying to make it to the end here! For the sake of the BFFFLs, the Friendly Duo, and the 'Father and Son?,' they'd better hope one of our other team screws things up badly!" Duke grinned as more teams came pouring into the chill zone, "Alright! YouTuber and Editor, second place! Psychic and Skeptic, third! Awkward Neighbors, fourth! Vicious Pop Stars, fifth! And Bachelorettes, sixth! Not too shabby!"

"You really think this is going to work, senior?" Mika cocked her head at Conroy, who was wearing fake rhino horns on his head while trying to attract the attention of one of the rhinos. "I think you look a little silly, but not really convincing as a real rhino or anything."

"Well, it's better than what Mitsuki and Honey are doing, isn't it?" Conroy gestured to the team he mentioned, showing that Honey was running away and flailing her arms while Mitsuki was being trampled by several rhinos. It seemed like they were really taking their sweet time stepping on her, not worried about her safety. Though, things weren't so bad, as Becky started to angrily stomp in the direction of the beasts, steam pouring off of her head. She scared them enough to stop flattening the little perv, and her adopted race daughter scooped her up off the ground and brought her back to Honey. "Hm…looks like they might get ahead of us if we aren't careful."

"Nonsense, dahlings! You can feel free to come take your selfies with us! I can guarantee it'll be a smash hit with that host!" The Basketball Team glanced over when they heard Karma's voice calling, instantly finding that she and Vanessa had glamified one of the rhinos, which seemed to just be nervous from having makeup and fancy clothes tossed onto it.

"Mhm, honey! Even if one of you trampled on our little hearts, we wouldn't evah want your chances of winning this race trampled if we can do somethin' bout it!" Conroy and Mika shrugged before hurrying over to join the gals and take their selfies.

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"M-Mitsuki…are you okay?" Honey looked nervous as she watched Mitsuki wobble back and forth where she stood.

"I taste colors and I hear light…" Mitsuki suddenly barfed on her own feet before flopping face first into Honey's chest. The dirt lover blushed, but just gave her a gentle pat on the back of the head to try and comfort her.

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"Basketball Team, you guys are pulling in for our seventh place spot! Glow-Up Gals, swinging in at eighth and looking as stylish as ever! Bloody Prom Queens, no shock that you guys made it in, but…Olive, did you not try to befriend one of the rhinos? This is so off brand for you…" Duke frowned as he looked at Olive, who seemed even more fierce than Becky, for a change.

"Ain't no stupid critter that tries to smush Mitsuki gonna ever get a chance of being my friend! I tell ya what, I'd better scoop them rhinos up and dump 'em into a fryer for what they did!" Becky chuckled at her older sister's not so intimidating insult, and the two girls moved off of the chill zone, allowing Honey to carry Mitsuki into it.

"Aha! Hottie and Nottie! Tenth place…but since you're here, I guess I should let you know that your name's being changed. Apparently, some little girls complained to the producers about one of their moms being called a 'nottie,' so we had no choice but to change it up. From now on, your new name is…the Race Moms!" Duke tossed a bunch of glitter onto Honey and Mitsuki, which instantly made Mitsuki sneeze up a massive glob of snot, right onto his face. "...Please get off of my chill zone."

"W-wow, Mitsuki, you really have a powerful nose…I-I'm not sure that really works as a compliment, now that I say it out loud." Honey blushed out of her own embarrassment while Mitsuki looked up at her with a dopey grin.

"Y-y-you have a powerful lips, hueha!" Mitsuki was clearly out of it from being trampled, as she started making some kissing gestures to the air. Honey got all flustered and ended up handing her off to Olive, who just giggled at her.

"Mitsuki, you're actin' all funny!" Mitsuki noticed the change in who was carrying her and suddenly frowned, but ended up smiling again anyways as she saw Olive smiling at her.

"Ten of our twelve spots of safety have been claimed, and the race to not be in last is really getting close, oh yeah! It looks like Eliott and James are finally going down the waterfall while Katie, Sadie, Marty, and Xavier are all trying to get those rhinos to take a selfie with them! Ooooo, it's getting juicy!" Duke rubbed his hands together and licked his lips while he watched James and Eliott pull themselves out of the river.

"Ah! Sport, look, we're getting pretty close with the other two teams that are left, we just need to take a picture with a rhino and that'll be that!" James picked up his pace as much as he could, running off towards one of the rhinos while Eliott sighed and slowly trailed behind him.

"Ohhhh, come on, rhinos! You can't be doing this to us, we're so close to the finish!" Sadie pouted and stomped her feet, doing her best to ignore the intense stare she was getting from Katie, who was behind her. The rhinos were pretty much all running away from the four of them, leaving them with none to take a selfie with. "H-how are we gonna get this selfie if they don't wanna come over here?"

"Hm…well, you know, I might have a way to get them over here…" Xavier spoke up from the stress and silence, getting both Marty and Sadie to look over at him in wonder. "Buuuuut! I'm only going to do it if you two promise to stop obsessing over each other like highschool sweethearts! I didn't wanna say it, but it's just…gross."

"Well said, Xavier," Katie grumbled and nodded her head.

"B-but Xavier!" Marty pleaded with his friend, who just glared at him again. Alas, he turned to face Sadie, and, with a solemn nod of their heads, they agreed to the terms of this contract.

"Good. Now…no living creature can resist…" Xavier rummaged around in his hoodie pocket before retrieving a singular cupcake, which looked light and fluffy enough to sink into. The other three would've been lying if they said they didn't want to eat it right then and there, but that wasn't so much an option, as the baker tossed it towards a rhino, which almost immediately started grazing on it. "There! All we gotta do is get our selfie!"

"So two of you can take the last safe spot and the other two can get eliminated? I agree! HAHA!" James chortled obnoxiously as he and Eliott rode on the back of a rhino, headed right for the chill zone. Unfortunately for them, however, it bucked them off and towards a cabin, causing them to crash through a wall.

"It's getting really close here, folks! Which team is gonna make it to the finish line next? Oh! I see them coming…we have…the Friendly Duo in eleventh and the BFFFLs in twelfth!" Duke cheered loudly as the two teams practically collapsed into the chill zone from running so quickly. James and Eliott pulled themselves out of the wreckage of that cabin, slowly wobbling over towards the chill zone to find that Duke was shaking his head at them. "James, my man, still not sure why you wanted to be on your own show. But you and Eliott, the NOT Father and Son…you're out!"

"Well…that was really a colossal waste of my time. Duke wouldn't even let me see Lady at the end of the leg, so what was even the point of getting to the chill zone at all?" Eliott sighed as the clip of him saving James and Ursula on the beach back in the Mediterranean from the shark that Lady Belle had chucked at them was shown.

"Oh, there you go again, on and on about that dreadful woman. She's a real hag, you know that, right? You could probably find someone your age that's far more attractive. What about that Maya girl, huh? She was a hottie!" James chuckled to himself, the next clip playing while he spoke. This one showed the moment when he called in a friend to stall the Bachelorettes on their trip to Transylvania.

"Huh? Why do you even care? We went over it already, you're not my actual dad…and you're not my boss, either. Remember? I quit!" Eliott huffed while the clip of him drawing James like a superhero back in France was shown, along with James seeing it and feeling overjoyed.

"Maybe not, maybe not, but even still, I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a good time on this race with you…'sport.' I'll just send your payment in the mail…that's probably the best way to go about it." James rested his head against his arms, leaning back while he and Eliott walked towards the sunset. "And, you know, if you ever change your mind about quitting, I could probably work in a better position for you. I know your talents pretty well and all."

"...Yeah, whatever, old man…I'll think about it, or something…"

22nd: The Rivalry Twins - Maya and Jeremy

21st: The Dual Artists - Zerine and Sua

20th: The Cool Guys - Evander and Kurt

N/A: The Mouse - Cheese

19th: The Dynamic Gamers - Colin and Freddy

18th: The Sailor America Fans: Lukas and Sunny

17th: The Reality Show Rivals: Jacque and Angel

16th: The Wilderness Girls: Sophie and Bea

15th: The Dweebs: Andrew and Richard

14th: The "Father and Son?": James and Eliott