Total Drama: Elemental Islands

by xmon323

In a bid to bring back the Total Drama Series, Chris has been brought on to host a new season alongside a brand new cast and set of islands. The Twist? Each island represents one of four elements, Fire, Water, Earth or Air. Which of the 18 new campers will come out on top? Find out by reading TOTAL! DRAMA! ELEMENTAL ISLANDS! (10/18)

13. E10 P2: Pain-Ball Brawl (Part 2)

Hello, again people! Time for part 2 of the episode! Hopefully, this isn't overly disappointing or anything, but anyways, hope you enjoy what I have here, which includes the rest of the challenge, post-challenge, elimination and… a bit more after that.

Anyways, It'd be for the best if I don't reveal anything else, so I hope you enjoy part 2!

The camera returns to Bob and Carol chatting on the outskirts of the woods. "And so that's why I added a cape to my costume." Carol explains, "Kind of sucks that I left it at home accidentally, but ah well, I guess they're more style than substance if I'm being honest. Still, they're the cool type of style."

"Wow," Bob admits, "that was a pretty interesting story."

"I have a few good ones in my head," The comic nerd chuckles. "Anyways, there's got to be a reason you got me away from the others, what is it?"

"I wanted to uh… talk with you privately," he awkwardly admits. "I'm not sure about something and uh… well, you and Xavier are the only two people I properly trust here." The giant awkwardly chuckles before his face goes red for a moment. "Xav's still in and we're both out so uh… yeah, now's as good a time as any."

"Alright," Carol nods as the two lean against trees, "What's up?"

"I'm… kinda scared," Bob admits. "I… just feel like it'd be easier if people saw me as the big guy with no emotions, but especially after Nadia forced me into the position to reveal the plushes to everyone. Are they going to… treat me like I'm a loser or a freak? I… guess it's also a little bit that I also don't want to do that anymore. I'm tired of seeing people scared of me but I… don't really know what else I can do. Should I forgive Nadia as well? It's… a lot of questions I don't know the answer to."

Carol pauses, thinking about what to say before admitting. "People say that sort of stuff to me, it hurts a little, I won't pretend it doesn't, but it's… manageable, especially if you have a support structure of friends or people that properly get you. Anyways, I'm a nerd into cosplaying a superhero, what's wrong with being a loser or a freak?"

"I guess…." Bob sighs. Carol sees his face and continues.

"The way I see it, if someone gets pissy at you for liking things that aren't mainstream, well, as long as you aren't a jerk about it like Hannah was, they're the bad guy here, not you." She pauses before continuing.

"There was this girl named at my school named Dinah. Wanted to be my friend and I believed her. We even signed up for that Ridonculous Race show a couple of years back. Turns out she was set up by some of the popular kids and they just wanted to embarrass me by sending someone in to learn my secrets. They promised her she'll be in the group if she did that. Dinah got the popularity she wanted after revealing it… for a month. Then they forgot about her." She shrugs. "Moral of the story, there are gonna be some opportunistic jerks that treat you like trash, but I got up and tried again. Didn't have much confidence, but when I came here, I got friends and… maybe a little more?" The superhero quietly says the last bit before bashfully kicking the dirt.

"So if anyone treats me worse they're just… not my friend. I mean, that feels easy, but still… they might just, not know how to take that information in, and be reacting in a way cause they're caught off guard."

"It still doesn't make it good," Carol shrugs. "Sure, they don't get it. But you're a person, like them, they shouldn't treat you differently just because you're slightly different from them."

"I guess," Bob nods. "Thanks, Carol."

"No worries." She then adds. "As for Nadia, well, things take time, and even though I really haven't spent too much time with her, she's at least somewhat reasonable, she'll probably get you wanting to talk about it later and give you space."

"Oh… alright," Bob nods. "Well uh, thanks for saying that. I'll keep that in mind." Bob then adds. "It's nice when the two of us get to talk alone."

Carol then smiles, her face red, before admitting, "Yeah, I… kinda like these talks we have. It's nice catching up with you."

Bob smiles back, saying, "Same." He then adds. "We should probably… walk back."

"Yeah…" Carol nods before the two walk off.

Confessional:

Bob pauses, deep in thought, before his eyes flash in realisation, "Wait, was she blushing at me? Why?"

Carol's eyes are already wide as she fearfully calls out, "was I blushing at him?"

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Elsewhere, Jemma and Scuba Bear walk along the woods as Jemma seemingly finishes a conversation she was having off-screen. "So yeah, that's why I decided to become a Journalist when I grew up." Scuba Bear nods along to her story. "You're a really good listener," Jemma notes, "Thanks for tha-."

Before she can say anything else, the Journalist is suddenly hit by a bevy of paintballs that knock her to the ground Scuba Bear looks over to see Nadia and Jake high-fiving, with the former yelling "Yes!"

Scuba Bear holds the reporter in its hands as her watch goes from red, to out, causing it to roar into the sky in anguish. Nadia stops aiming at the bear as Jake asks, "Why is it… reacting like that?"

Scuba Bear places Jemma on the ground as Jemma quickly says, "I'm… alright though?" Getting up on her arm. The bear then stands up, slowly growling. It turns around, its eyes turning red before Nadia notes.

"This… doesn't seem good." The bear growls before chasing after the pair, who run away screaming.

"Wait Scuba Bear!" Jemma yells out, "Don't kill them!" Before promptly getting sucked up by a pipe.

Confessional:

"How was I supposed to know Jemma was the 'Robot Bear Whisperer'?" Nadia questions, terrified.

"Well on the one hand it's kind of nice to know I have a giant robotic bear in my corner now," Jemma starts, before she quickly grabs the camera. "On the other hand though, please don't kill Nadia and Jake, Scuba Bear!"

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Lauren and Gary are shown looking through the trees.

"Have you found it yet?" Gary questions.

"Nope," Lauren shakes her head

"Of course," the stage actor frowns before walking off. The fangirl pauses, before looking around the area some more.

This is until she notices a slight glint from up in one of the trees. She pauses, looking around to see that Gary's gone, before attempting to climb up.

…

She fails, sliding down with a frown, causing her to look around, before noticing a stick next to her. Picking it up, she pokes the tree, knocking whatever the glinting is to the ground. Picking it up, Lauren notices it appears to be a golden piece of paper.

"What do we have here?" The Fangirl then begins to read the contents of the paper

High in the air and up in a tree
It appears as if you have discovered me
With a large amount of boasts
Show me to the host
And perhaps you can find what you want to see.

"Wait…" she pauses, "Oh shoot this is a limerick!" She looks over the fourth line. "Show me to the host, eh? Sounds good to me." She then puts the hint in her pocket before pretending to continue to look.

Scuba Bear continues to chase Nadia and Jake before it grabs a bunch of paint and puts it in its mouth, much to the duo's confusion.

"Did it just eat the paint?" Nadia questions. "What the heck?"

The Bear then gets onto all fours and its mouth opens wide. Revealing a Gatling gun inside its mouth, which it uses to blast paint at the pair, successfully hitting both and knocking them to the ground.

Jake quickly gets up before grabbing his friend, pulling her up as well and both continue to sprint off, quickly followed by the Bear.

Elsewhere, Rory walks through the woods, glancing around with a glare on his face. "Xavier? Where'd you go to? I just want to shoot you with paintballs."

"You need to work on your bantering!" Xavier calls out from offscreen. "Say something like, 'I just want to give you a present?' or something like that!"

"You sure that's quippy enough?" Rory responds, annoyed.

"It gets the job done."

"I'll think about it more then."

"Cool! See, that's already better!" Xavier then jumps out of a bush behind Rory and shoots him quickly a couple of times.

"Agh!" Rory yells.

"You thought you had me, didn't you?" Before Rory can properly react, Xavier quickly jumps back into the bushes, running away again. The Jock groans.

Confessional:

"I need a different approach…" Rory admits.

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A few minutes pass before Xavier pops his head out of the bushes. "Rory? Buddy? You there?" He then climbs out, shrugging. "Guess I must have scared him off." He then starts to walk towards the castle. "Time to win the challenge then!"

Katrina slowly starts to move out of the portion of platforms she's hiding in and makes her way back up to the vantage point she was at before. "Okay… so who's left?" She then looks to see Nadia and Jake getting chased by Scuba Bear, causing her eyes to go wide. "Yikes… that doesn't look good." She then shrugs and sits down, continuing to hide.

Confessional:

"One, they're on the other team and Scuba Bear's on mine. Two, do you want to face down an angry bear? Three, they still don't look as tired as I want them to be. It's close, but no dice yet."

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Nadia and Jake continue to run panicked from Scuba Bear, however, the former starts to think while running.

Confessional:

"So there I was, running," Nadia admits. "And I thought, 'y'know what? It's time to use my strongest skill of all.' It isn't speed, it isn't strength, it isn't even aim." She chuckles. "It's my limitless ability to be absolutely done with other people, or in this case, animal's shit."

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"Come on Nadia…" the Hot-Blooded starts to psyche herself up. "Time to be mad, time to be stupid, time to annihilate that Bear!"

"What are you doing?" Jake looks confused at her.

"Something stupid," Nadia admits as she opens her eyes with an enraged expression. She then stops, before turning around quickly.

"Nadia, stop!"

"Nope!" Nadia growls, "I'm tired of running!" She then looks at Jake and points towards the trees before loading and aiming her gun at Scuba Bear, proceeding to scream. "VEN A BUSCARME, BOLA DE PELOS CRECIDA!" [1]

Jake stops in his tracks to watch the scene. Scuba Bear also stops in surprise, tilting its head. Nadia growls before shooting the bear several times in the stomach.

Scuba Bear looks downwards, seeing the paint before looking at its now red watch. Several seconds of silence pass before Nadia starts to aim again. This breaks Scuba Bear from its silence, causing it to look at Nadia with a furious expression.

The scene then cuts to Nadia being sent flying and landing on the ground near a tree, grunting. Scuba Bear then begins to shoot her with several shots from its newly refilled gun. As she's grunting in pain, Nadia calls out, "Run Jake! RUUUUUUUUN!" Scuba Bear notices Jake and follows after him.

Noticing some rumbling, Nadia scrambles up a nearby tree, as a tube comes out of the ground to try and get her, however, it fails to have enough force to pull her in. "Mierda, Mierda, Mierda, Mierda!" Nadia calls out panicked, clinging onto the tree for dear life. [1]

Xavier strolls into the castle, commenting, "Wow, that was pretty simple actually." He takes a few steps forward, tentatively looking around.

"Okay… So Susan's out… Lauren's out… Rory's still in. But what about the others?"

Rory then steps out of the shadows, saying, "Hey, how're ya doing?"

"Pretty good," Xavier admits, before pointing his gun at him. "About to get a third person out on the other team, win the challenge, be the MVP, it'll be cool being that guy."

"I bet it would be," Rory admits, shaking his head. "You're gonna have to catch me first though."

Rory then runs off as Xavier chases after him. As they round a corner, the Jock dives down before grabbing something and looking right at Xavier.

"See this?" Rory asks, holding up the item, and revealing another paint explosion detonator. "Grabbed some of the extras in Lauren's bag. Do anything to me and I activate this."

"Again, two lives left buddy." Xavier nods. "You're at one, anyways, these have a timer, I can just blast you and get out of here."

"Which is why I already pressed the button when I dived down," Rory smirks. Xavier's eyes go wide as Rory leaps behind a big rock. Xavier quickly looks down to see a couple of explosives right underneath him.

BOOM!

As the explosion goes off, it rocks the ground around everyone near the biggest platform. From the top raised platform before the castle, Katrina looks up shocked before smirking and climbing up.

Confessional:

"Now's the time, when my plan can come into action," Katrina notes. "I've still got two of my lives left and especially after that everyone should be down, it should be simple to get through the end of the challenge.

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Xavier groans, sitting up and rubbing his head, "What's with me and paint explosions today?" He then realises he isn't holding his paintball gun and says, "Crud! Where is it?" Before looking around frantically.

"Are you looking for this?" Rory questions, picking up Xavier's paintball gun and aiming both at the Method Actor.

"Y-yeah?" Xavier quickly says, "H-how about we make this a fair fight? Give me my one back!"

"How about no?" Rory responds. "I'm not a genius, but I'm not a complete dunce."

"I wasn't saying that at all," Xavier quickly clarifies. "But isn't shooting me while I'm down cheating or something though?"

"Aren't hostage situations cheating too?" Rory responds with an angry expression.

"F-fair point." Xavier then suddenly tries to grab one of the guns but Rory simply uses one of the butts of the gun to hit Xavier in the face, knocking him over again.

Rory stands over Xavier, saying, "As you said before, it's nothing personal, we just need to win the challenge," before he shoots Xavier with both paintball guns.

"Owww," Xavier groans before coming back to his senses, begrudgingly admitting. "Good job using my words against me,"

"Honestly I thought it was a bit much originally," Rory admits, dropping Xavier's gun to scratch the back of his neck in embarrassment.

"Nah dude, you've got the skills to be an action star if the sports stuff doesn't pan out,"

"Wow, thanks bro, I never really thought of that," Rory happily comments, pausing for a moment. This moment is all Katrina needed to shoot him in the back a few times, causing him to stumble forwards.

"Less blabbing, more grabbing," The intern commands, before picking up his gun and trying to hand it to Xavier. "Come on, it's right there."

"I'm out of the challenge though," Xavier admits, holding up his watch.

"Aaaand so am I now," Rory says with a frown, before looking at Xavier, "were you distracting me?"

"Not really, I just admired the line."

"Sweet," Before anything else is said, Two tubes pop out of the ground to grab Xavier and Rory.

All this time, Nadia stayed in the tree, desperately trying to keep her grip, though as we cut back to her, we see that it's started to slip. "¿Por qué tuve que hacer esto?" [1]

"You alright?" Jake asks as he runs over. "I-I think I've lost it."

"Does it look like I'm alright? I feel like I'm being torn in two!"

"You could just… let go?"

"I could, but I want to give you some help still, even if I'm out. I can deal with the pain!"

"You don't have to," Jake adds.

"You've got a robotic bear that wants you dead, I have to at least try to help!"

After saying this, she looks over at Scuba Bear, who turns around, noticing her and Jake in the bushes.

"Look out Jake!" Nadia yells out, "It spotted you! Get out of here before it shoots you!" After she says this, the tube finally pulls her in.

Confessional:

Nadia groans, clutching her stomach, "in the list of things I never thought I'd do, warn a friend about a bear coming to shoot him while clutching onto a tree cause a tube of wind is coming to suck me in…? Is probably number two on that list."

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Nadia quickly lands near the rest of her team, groaning,

"So it's just Jake now," Susan notes. "Go, Jake!"

"You can do it Katrina!" Xavier yells out.

"You too Scuba Bear!" Jemma adds in. "As… as long as you don't kill him." She awkwardly then says, "please don't."

Back with Jake, he turns around quickly, seeing Scuba Bear dashing towards him.

"CRAP!" Jake yells before looking at the castle walls. His face twists into one of realisation as he notices the paint explosives on the wall. "Lauren, you genius!" He yells before quickly starting to climb up the wall.

Scuba Bear quickly swipes at Jake's feet, however, he manages to barely avoid the bear, scrambling to the top.

Looking around, he sees a pile of detonators. Leaping down, he grabs a handful before pressing all of them. He then runs and grabs as many as he can, pressing them all.

Jake then leaps off, before waving at Scuba Bear, "I'm over here!" Jake then leaps into a bush. The Robotic Bear looks around confused but stands near the castle wall

From inside the castle. Katrina looks around, holding the flag in her hand before suddenly, she notices the roof of the castle starting to shake. "What was that?" She asks, worried. More shaking happens, causing her to run for the exit, unfortunately for her, dropping the flag as she does.

Katrina makes it out of the castle, seeing various paint explosions going off. This causes her to go running and leap into a bush, as the castle collapses.

Scuba Bear realises where it's standing and turns around, seeing the castle beginning to explode. Unfortunately for it, it's unable to move away in time for….

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

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Katrina crawls out from the bush she's hiding in, luckily without any paint on her, as she looks ahead to see the castle, reduced to rubble in front of her eyes.

Suddenly, something lands right in front of her, causing her to leap back in surprise. She looks down to see that miraculously, the head of Scuba Bear remained intact and bounces along the ground, before it starts to growl softly, before it shuts down, its eyes fading out.

"The Tigers have dealt with Scuba Bear!" Chris calls over the loudspeaker It's now a one vs one! Jake vs Katrina! Who will win the challenge for their team?" Chris then steps away from the microphone before he says, "Also we're gonna need an evac team for Scuba Bear."

"Okay… Jake's manageable…" Katrina mutters to himself before pausing, realising she missed something important. "OH CRAP THE FLAG!" She then runs off towards the rubble.

Jake tentatively walks towards the rubble, "Okay… just Katrina."

Katrina quickly runs over and starts trying to move the rubble out of the way, near the exit where she dropped the flag initially.

"What are you doing?" Katrina turns around to see Jake aiming a blaster at her. Katrina follows suit.

"I'm so scared."

"I got you before, you should be." Katrina glares at Jake's response. The Former Intern then grips something, pulling out the flag from the rubble.

"AND KATRINA HAS THE FLAG! All she has to do is get out of the rubble and the Frozen Lions win… again!"

"For once, thanks, Chris," Katrina smirks. "Hear that buddy. I have immunity in my hands."

"And I can just get rid of the life you have left, and then get immunity for my team."

"Who's saying I just have one?" Katrina flashes her watch, still having two left, causing Jake's eyes to widen.

Without another word, Jake starts to shoot at Katrina, who leaps away to the side. They then begin to trade shots, avoiding the ones sent their way.

That is until Jake sees Katrina running right at him.

Confessional:

"What is she doing?" Jake gasps.

—-

"Something stupid," Katrina finishes.

Confessional Ends:

Seeing his opponent dashing at him, causes Jake to quickly pull off his bag and put his hand in, grabbing a handful of pellets and throwing it at her.

Confessional:

"Ah… I probably should have seen that coming," Katrina notes. "Still, I've dealt with worse."

Confessional Ends:

Katrina gets hit by the thrown pellets and drops to the ground, spitting the paint out as Jake calls out "YES!"

"Oh no you don't," Katrina snarls before she aims her gun and blasts Jake, with a couple of point-blank shots, knocking him against an upright rock. Katrina then stands back up, pelting Jake with more paintball pellets, making him squirm on the ground with each shot.

"Good…" Katrina begins, "that should put you down."

"W-wait," Jake says as he stands up. However, Jake stares at his watch as it goes out and he sighs in annoyance.

Katrina walks over and pushes him to the ground, before walking past and snarking, "Buh-bye," while carrying out the flag.

"THE LIONS WIN!" Chris yells out, "Tigers! Your sorry butts are on their way to the next elimination ceremony!" Jake tries to stand up but eventually, lets his body fall back onto the ground, groaning in annoyance. A tube then arrives and grabs Jake, pulling him back to the start as Katrina stares around.

"So…" The intern questions. "Am I gonna be picked up or…?"

"Nope!" Chris calls over the loudspeaker, "You're finding your own way back."

"Oh… great."

"Well that's it for this challenge, see ya!"

"Well, that's one way to end it," Nadia comments awkwardly as everyone starts to walk off.

Jemma suddenly stops, turning her head back to see the head of Scuba Bear being carried on a stretcher. She quickly runs over, saying, "Hey buddy, thanks for keeping me safe." No sound comes out, but she smiles sadly as the bear is pushed away.

Confessional:

"I'm gonna miss the guy, bear, uh…." Jemma admits, thinking about what to call Scuba Bear. "He…? Was a real sweetheart this time…" she then thinks, "To be fair, I was stuck in a net for nearly the entirety of the challenge it was previously around in, so uh… I guess I don't have too many negative experiences with him."

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After that, as everyone starts to walk back to the exit, Lauren looks around quickly before walking over to Chris and whispering. "Hey, can I uh… talk to you for a moment?"

Chris looks confused before saying, "uh, sure I guess, whadda you want?"

"I've… got something for you." Lauren admits, stammering, "sorry, it's really weird talking to you one-on-one."

"I uh… don't accept fanart." Chris turns around to walk away before Lauren quickly sputters out.

"W-wait! It's not fanart!" Lauren calls out, "It's this!" She then gives Chris the limerick she found earlier.

"Huh?" Chris notes, "oh… OH, that." Chris nods. "Well, took you long enough. I didn't expect this thing to get found actually. Still, you did, and you can get the idol if you want… or maybe something else…" he starts to slowly say.

"Nah, I want the idol." Lauren quickly cuts off.

"You didn't even let me say what it was."

"Eh, I just want the safety from an elimination."

"You passed the test then." Chris shrugs. "Get to my tent before the elimination and you'll get it. But like, not right this second."

"Really?"

"Yeah. If you were Sierra or Topher I'd probably lie, but you aren't too annoying, so it's all good."

"That's the best compliment I could have ever received!" Lauren nods, before quickly saying, "thanks Chris!" and running off.

Confessional:

"Okay, she's a little annoying sometimes," Chris admits. "But she brings drama to the show, I'll give her stuff like idols, makes it more fun that way."

Confessional Ends:

As everyone starts to walk off, Bob quickly taps Carol on the shoulder and says, "Can we have a quick chat?"

"Alright?" Carol quietly responds before the two walk away. After going somewhere quiet, Carol asks, "What's wrong?"

"I just want to talk about uh, something before," Bob admits which causes Carol to look worried.

"What is it?" She quickly says.

"You uh… you were pretty red before, so uh, I just want to ask if something was uh… up."

"I uh…" Carol pauses, her face flashing red. "W-wow." She then gulps. "It's just I uh… I have a crush on someone." She then starts to sweat, her face going even redder.

"Oh alright," Bob puts his hands up. "If it's a crush it's not my place to pry into everything with your life, so don't feel like you have to tell me. If you want I think I can… at least try to give some advice if you want. You've been giving me a lot of advice, I need to return the favour somehow, even if I don't know too much about love."

Carol yelps in surprise, before falling over, fainting. Bob instinctively grabs her, pulling her back up as she wakes up.

"Aah!" Carol calls out in surprise as she quickly pulls away.

"What's up?" Bob asks, worried. "Did I do something wrong?"

"You're… you're not gonna want to hear the crush," Carol admits, wide-eyed.

"As long as it isn't for Gary, I'm fine with whoever it is if I'm being honest."

"It's… not him."

"Then it's fine." Bob shrugs before his eyes go wide. "I mean, if you aren't into guys, I don't judge either, don't worry." The giant puts his hands up.

"It's… it's a guy." Carol responds, starting to sweat.

"Again, if you don't want to tell me, then I'm fine," Bob clarifies again, "sorry if I made you stressed." The giant quickly starts to walk off before Carol yelps in surprise.

Confessional:

"It's now or never," Carol looks at the camera with wide eyes, though her voice seems determined.

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"Bob! Wait!" Carol yells, causing the giant to turn around. "It's about you! I, like, like you, I think, maybe." In shock, the giant leans against a tree.

"W-Woah…"

"I'm sorry if you don't see me like this, I don't want us to stop being friends! But I think you're the first guy I actually feel, an uh… love connection to."

Confessional:

"Oh no I said it to him!" Carol seems to have gone back to her stressed mood. "Can I crawl under a rock and just… die, please? I'm a superhero, I'll come back in a year, but if I can get over the embarrassment."

"She's… got a crush on me…?" Bob sits, a thousand-yard stare. "In hindsight how she was acting then made it pretty obvious but uh. Wh-what do I do?"

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"I'm gonna… have to think about it a little," Bob admits.

"It's alright," Carol quickly responds before running off. "Sorry!"

"Wait, Carol!" Bob yells. Before sighing and slowly following after her."

Confessional:

"I don't want to ruin my friendship with him because of THAT!" Carol yells. "Oh no, if anyone saw me running out like that with Bob following after, they'll think Bob did something wrong! Oh no, oh no, oh no," the girl then begins to hyperventilate. "I need a paper bag!" She screams.

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A little later, after everyone makes it back to Base Camp, Lauren walks into the Spa Hotel, just to see Morgan walk over to her, whispering, "Hey."

"Ah, there you are," Lauren nods before they walk into a secluded area of the cabins and Lauren whispers back, "You got it?"

"Yep," The Perfect guy then demands, "but I'm watching them too."

"That's… gonna cost you a bit more," Lauren says without skipping a beat. "If you watch these with me, this alliance is permanent. We may not be working towards the final 2, but Chris did hire you to stir the drama, and I can help you with that. Anyways, look at how badly you've been doing at that?"

Confessional:

"Okay… it's not all about getting the articles I guess," Morgan begins, looking around awkwardly. "Well, it's mostly the articles, but I also want to take out the jerks who voted Myron off. He's the one person who wasn't… completely idiotic here, and he's just… gone! If Lauren isn't a Myron vote, then I'll join her alliance, if she is… well she said it herself. I'll be the first eliminated camper to get someone out while still on the island." He then folds his arms, "It just won't be who she thought…."

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"Give me a cut of the winnings and I'm in." Lauren pauses at Morgan's demand, before saying.

"Eh, sure," with a shrug.

"Fine…" Morgan begins, "Let's do this then."

"Nice doing business with you," the two then shake hands, before they begin to look.

"So…" Morgan awkwardly asks, "Do we have a way to view these? I mean, VHSs? Really?"

"I…Don't know for sure, but a lot of stuff is stored either here, or in that shed near the cabin so there's a solid possibility." Lauren looks through a box in a cupboard and pulls out a VHS reader, "Here's one."

"Wait really?" The perfect guy questions.

"I mean, you clean around here, shouldn't you know?"

"I…" Morgan begins, before thinking. "That's a good point."

Morgan then walks over and grabs a small television, "Okay, here's a TV then. They're gonna be back here at some point, and I doubt you want them to see the votes either."

"Exactamundo," Lauren nods. "So… why don't we take this somewhere else and we can find out who voted who?"

"Deal," Morgan nods.

The two then bring the television to the back corner of the cabin, sticking the VHS in.

"I still think we can both be friends Myron, and part of me thinks I'm too trusting of Susan…. So I guess that means Myron." Carol's vote.

"No hard feelings Lauren, but if we vote for you, it's either an idol flushed, or an easy boot next time." Jake's.

"Bye, bye, Susan. Getting to actually vote her for once feels really good." Lauren's.

"Susan… Need I say more?" Myron's.

"Jake raises a good point. Susan's definitely not getting Rory back, so if we take out Lauren then we either have a flushed idol and Susan's out, or we have a four-person alliance out of six." Nadia's.

"Despite what you did, and despite how I feel about you right now. I just can't bring myself to vote you off… I put a vote on myself…" Rory's.

"Myron's my best bet to get Carol with me. Hopefully, we can either have a split vote or someone else votes with us." Susan's.

As the tape finishes playing, Lauren and Morgan watch the confessionals with mouths agape.

"Hooooly shit," Lauren is the first to mutter something out. "It was Jake and Nadia…."

Confessional:

"Well… this was very interesting," Lauren notes. "Looks like my little idol bluff backfired on me and Susan blabbed to Jake. Ah well, I can fix this."

"Okay…" Morgan begins. "So Lauren didn't vote Myron off. In fact, Myron voted with Lauren." He then pauses before saying, "looks like I was wrong to suspect her."

Confessional Ends:

Morgan looks over at the fangirl angrily, before saying, "We're booting Carol," Morgan simply states. "First taking me out of the duelling challenge, then voting Myron? She's done."

"Not quite," Lauren says, "love it or hate it, she's a potential ally to me. Anyways, don't you want to cause a little drama here? Sending her home is just gonna unite Rory and Susan against us… alongside possibly everyone else."

Morgan's mind flashes back to earlier, with Chris telling him "So if you come back and test challenges for the season, you can also cause Drama between the members of your former team, how about that?"

"Fine…" Morgan sighs. "But we better target her or Susan soon."

"All in good time my friend," the fangirl smiles, "all in good time." She then stands up. "For now. I have to plan out the elimination. This gave me a lot to think about." She then walks off with a shadow over her face.

Confessional:

"Everyone has a reason to be targeted now," Lauren admits. "And with my new, probably idol, I've got my pick of the lot, even if I'm given the votes to be booted. Honestly, though, I might have to play bigger to get in a good position in the future."

Confessionals End:

Susan walks out of the cabins, sniffing the air, before looking around her. She sees Rory, causing her to gulp, but nods to herself.

Confessional:

"I need to at least try to clear the air." Susan sighs.

Confessional Ends:

The brainiac walks over to her ex, before saying, "Rory? You alright?"

"I… guess."

The pair stay silent for a few moments, "So…."

"What is it?" Rory simply responds.

"I think it's time we… had a proper chat about everything."

Rory looks at her, eyebrow raised before he sighs. "Alright, if you really want to." The two then sit down at a nearby bench.

"What's there to talk about?" Rory questions her.

"A lot," Susan sighs. "Like… what went wrong."

"Finding out you went out with me to get my vote was a pretty major part," the Jock admits cooly.

"Okay no," Susan begins, "By the time we went out, I genuinely did have a thing for you. I was manipulating you for about, two episodes."

"And after I saved you from the bear it turned into actual love, you've mentioned this before. Woe is me for not appreciating how it took Carol and me saving your life for you to go 'wow, I guess I shouldn't manipulate them.' You grew a heart when we were useful to you."

Susan pauses at Rory's confession, unsure of how to respond. "I… won't pretend it wasn't like that, at least a little. It's more complicated though. Rory, even when it was just an alliance I wasn't planning on getting together with you until I grew to like you two. I was just going to be an alliance with you, not a couple. Morgan heard me bragging about the alliance and then rolled with that, and Lauren decided to throw me under the bus to help her spot in the game."

"As you keep saying," Rory sighs.

"I thought we'd be able to have this chat properly," Susan sighs. "You frankly did something stupid to save me in the challenge."

"Now you're calling me stupid?" Rory questions, eyebrow raised. "You're bad at this."

"That's not what I… I worded it badly, alright?"

"Yes… you did." Rory rolls his eyes.

"Look, the point is, I just want to see if things are… able to become cool. Doesn't have to be right now, but can they eventually."

"Look, I talked with Carol before and even though she's somehow forgiven you, it's going to be a lot harder to do that with me." He then sighs. "I… do think it might potentially be possible though, some point down the line.

"And y'know what?" Susan nods. "Even if we don't get back together, I just want to try as friends again. It's as simple as that."

"See, it isn't really simple," Rory admits. "you hurt me, and you keep trying to push the blame off of yourself. No matter what other people did, you're still at least a bit to blame for this, and you can't bring yourself to admit that."

"I admit to it!" Susan defends herself.

"Could have fooled me," Rory responds. "I should bring a stopwatch, see how long it takes for you to blame Lauren or Morgan, anything to not blame yourself."

"They are to blame though!"

"SO ARE YOU!" Rory exasperatedly calls out. "BUT IT'S NEVER ABOUT YOU, IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THEM!" Susan pauses at Rory's yelling before she quietly admits.

"I guess… you are right. I do need to admit I share at least a little bit of the blame here. So without mentioning other names, I'm sorry I treated you like I did."

"One apology isn't going to make up for it," Rory sighs. "but it's a start at least." He then stands up, going to walk away.

"Wait!" Susan calls out before pausing. "I miss back then when we were…."

"Yeah…" Rory admits with a sigh. "I do too." He then sighs. "It's… been interesting talking to you again."

"Again, I'm sorry it all happened," Susan says before Rory stands up, and walks away with a frown. Susan stands up and sighs.

"Bye Rory." She simply says under her breath, before also leaving the scene. Nadia pokes her head from behind the cabins with a raised eyebrow.

Confessional:

"I still think some of those feelings linger," Rory admits. "It's probably why I didn't just leave her to get shot. But I don't want to get played again." He then groans. "Why can't I just get myself to vote her off and be done with it!"

—-

"I'm probably worrying too much," the Hot-Blooded admits. "but Susan seems to be trying to work her magic on Rory. If that is true, we need her gone before she does anything else."

Confessional Ends:

Meanwhile, Bob stands away from the cabins near the trees before putting his hand up to his head, rubbing it in worry while talking to himself. "Come on man, it can't be too hard. Is it mutual with Carol or not?" he sighs.

Xavier then walks over to his friend, asking, "you alright dude?"

"I… don't know if I want to tell anyone this," Bob admits quickly.

"Alright," Xavier nods. "All good then." Xavier then goes to walk away, before Bob calls out.

"Fine if you want to know so much!"

"I didn't even push it though?" Xavier starts to say, but Bob stops him, saying.

"Carol told me she has a crush on me." Xavier's face morphs into one of shock.

Confessional:

"That was out of complete nowhere!" Xavier notes, shocked.

Confessional Ends:

"Do you… feel the same way?" The Method Actor says back.

"I don't know!" Bob yells. "Aside from you, she's the one other person I trust fully here, so I don't want to make her sad, but if we do get together, I don't want to be a shitty boyfriend!"

"I mean, it's really up to you," Xavier says. "Every relationship needs work, trust me, I've failed a couple of them. Do you have… that spark with her?"

"W-well I think I have this… connection to her. She… gets me, and I get her. But I don't know if this is just being well… friends, or if I actually reciprocate those feelings!"

"Well be honest then," Xavier shrugs. "You don't know, she'll be sad, but she can rebound, and if you do realise you feel the same way, you'll probably be able to get together with her anyways."

"I can't just hurt my best friend like that!" Bob's declaration makes Xavier smirk.

"I thought we both shared the best friend thing?"

"It's completely different with you though!" Bob quickly calls out, backpedalling. "I respect you, you and I are friends, we don't have to worry about that!" He then realises what he's saying as he continues, "Carol… and I… are different." Xavier smirks at what his friend just admitted.

"Go on."

"It's… different with Carol. She's… got a different connection. The friendship's there, but I uh… want to keep her happy and safe."

"In a way that you don't for me?"

"Well uh… uh… I mean."

"Come on, keep digging deeper," Xavier jokes to his friend.

"Holy crap I do have a crush on her." Bob's eyes go wide.

"Bingo."

"Thanks for making me realise Xavier, I need to tell her!"

"No worries."

Confessional:

"If acting doesn't work out for me, maybe I should be a love guru," Xavier jokes. "Anyone else wanna set up a relationship, call me up and I'll give advice."

Confessional Ends:

Elsewhere, Jake steps out of the shower, straightening his shirt as Nadia walks over. "Alliance meeting?" She questions.

"Yeah, now seems good."

The scene cuts to the two of them sitting down and chatting. "Okay, so who's the vote tonight?"

"Honestly… I feel like it should be Susan," Nadia admits.

"I mean, I guess, but Lauren's got an idol."

"Who told you about Lauren's idol again?"

"Susan." Jake simply responds.

"So it'd come to reason she'd possibly make this up to trick you?"

"She seemed… really honest about this. If this is wrong, I'd lean more towards Lauren lying than Susan."

Nadia grabs the bridge of her nose. "What are you? President of the Susan protection agency or something?"

"All I'm saying is that someone with an idol is scarier than someone who doesn't have one."

"Even if the non-idoled one voted out an alliance member?"

Jake frowns. "I… do still need to talk to her about that."

"I'm going to be honest here," Nadia admits. "I'm voting Susan tonight no matter what. We're gonna be down to ten people, so it's near the merge, she'll be a bigger threat there. Anyways, if Lauren has the idol, what's stopping her from voting one of us off here and succeeding due to cancelled votes?"

"What's going to stop her later?

"There's a higher chance of us both surviving if we take her out first at the merge, nine or ten people rather than six."

"Okay, that's fair. Still, just taking Susan out like that is going to piss people off. Isn't it safer if we vote out Lauren, and she uses the potential idol to take Susan out? We'll have plausible deniability here."

"I don't trust Lauren enough to not vote one of us out, just to mess with us."

"It'll be a dumb choice though?"

"Dude." Nadia stares at Jake. "You aren't going to change my mind here. I'm sorry, but this might be our last chance to safely knock Susan out of the game, especially since I saw her having a chat with Rory earlier."

Jake, who was taking a mouthful of water as she was saying that, spits it all out. "She was?"

"Yeah, probably trying to work her magic."

"Why didn't you lead with that?"

"Cause I was leading with the proper reasons, I fully admit some of this might be paranoia, but I don't want to take the chance."

"If she gets Rory, and has Carol, it's a three to two vote if Lauren doesn't have that idol. If we lose again."

"It's goodbye to one of us."

Jake pauses, before sighing. "Okay… good point. I'll… probably do the same."

"You sure?"

"Yeah."

"Cool." Nadia nods before walking off. "Then we just need to chill out until elimination then."

"Y-yeah." Jake then stands up before the two walk out. As Nadia walks away, Jake is suddenly grabbed and pulled away.

"Ahh!" Jake calls out in surprise before he is shushed by Susan.

"Shut up, I'm here to tell you why I voted the way I did."

"That'll be good," Jake snarks.

"Yeah, it will be." Susan glares. "Because I had practically no other choice."

"Why?"

"Because one, I was worried Lauren had the idol, two, Myron has constantly put pressure on me since the Morgan and Lauren stuff, and three, Carol insisted to keep Lauren safe."

"I told you Myron was one of the no-go's," Jake responds.

"Well, unfortunately, I wanted to have Carol not hate me anymore. So I had to vote how she wanted, and she said no to Lauren, but accepted Myron. Anyways, he wouldn't have even gone if all three of you voted together. It was two votes across the board barring that one for Rory. Someone from your alliance didn't join in." She then thinks out loud. "I'd wager a bet it was probably Myron voting for me, cause at least Nadia can listen to reason."

"Don't talk about him like that!" Jake glares.

"Considering how he treated me, and how he's just turned against me with barely any evidence, I can speak about him, however I damn well please."

Jake looks annoyed at his teammate before saying. "No, you can't. But whatever, look, Susan, Lauren's the target."

"Really?"

"Yes. And you're going to actually help us out here. I'm going to try and get Nadia, but she's going to be a tough person to convince."

"I'll see if I can convince Carol," Susan nods. Jake nods before walking off. Susan's face drops.

Confessional:

"Ugh, I'm going to have to take Lauren out when I have security," Susan admits. "Maybe when she can send someone like Bob home at the merge or something. Hate to let her stick around, but she's a cockroach that has the chance to turn into a shark after me, and as physically impossible as that analogy is, it works to show her position in the game." She groans. "The only other real choice I have right now is Nadia. Which is going to piss Jake off, but he won't have as much backing at least."

—-

"I shouldn't have said that," Jake groans. "Now I have to decide who I'm telling the truth to!"

Confessional Ends:

A little bit later, Lauren leans against a cabin wall as Susan and a now far calmer Carol leave another room. "So…?" Lauren questions the Superhero. "Who's the big target?"

"Well Susan wants me to vote for Nadia today," Carol admits. Lauren sighs with relief.

"I could swear she wanted me out."

"I know you don't get along, but I think I managed to convince her to hold off on a little bit longer."

"Aww, thanks!" Carol and Lauren smile at each other. "Still, poor Nadia."

"Well uh, I guess, but anyways, Nadia and I aren't as close as you or Susan is to me, so if there's anyone I had to pick… she'd probably be the best one."

"Okay, fair enough." Lauren nods. "I really hope I can stay in until the merge, it'd be really sad if I couldn't even make the merge in my debut season. ."

"Well, As you said before, I'm kinda popular on the team, and I don't want to vote my friends off. Don't worry buddy, I'll protect you as best as I can!"

Lauren hugs Carol, starting to tear up, "thank you,"

A moment later, they separate and walk away. Lauren's face hardens as she wipes the tears away, smirking.

Nadia walks outside, before looking around and noticing Bob, who looks at her quickly before going to walk away.

"Hey, dude, wait up," Nadia calls out.

"What is it?" Bob turns around. He doesn't seem angry, more just, annoyed.

"I just want to say sorry about how the whole thing with Gary played out. I just wanted to stop him from forcing you into another blackmail situation later."

"Look," Bob begins. "Can we just talk about this later? Like, either when the season's over, or when cameras aren't going to be on here?"

"Oh uh… okay, sure," Nadia shrugs.

"I'm… not ready to talk to you about it," Bob sighs. "Especially to you."

"Got it," Nadia nods before turning around. She then quickly says, "Whenever you do feel ready, I'm all ears."

"Sure."

The pair then walk off, before the scene changes again.

Chris stands outside his tent, talking to Chef. "So… you think they're gonna like the twist next episode?"

"They aren't," Chef responds, but he's still smirking. "But we will."

"It's gonna be funny hearing them go-," Chris then notices Lauren walking over to him, causing his eyes to go wide and say. "Oh shoot, quick, shut up, we can't let them find out!"

As Lauren walks over, Chris takes a deep breath before his face changes to a look of boredom as he snarks. "Took you long enough."

"Sorry, had to do a few things."

"Whatever," Chris shrugs, before he hands her an immunity idol, "One idol, coming right up!"

Confessional:

"Okay, so I have the idol now! And Gary doesn't even know!" Lauren chuckles. "I can play a bit harder now without worrying about being booted straight away." She holds the idol in her hands before hugging it joyously. "Obviously I'd prefer to have it going into the merge, so I'm not gonna nuke my game or anything, but I'm solidly in a good spot now!" She then chuckles.

Confessional Ends:

"Anyways, it's nearly time for the elimination, you may as well just hang out here."

"I mean, I'll just follow after you guys," Lauren shrugs. "Doesn't matter much at this point. I'll just be a bit behind."

Chef then walks over and says, "so… the voting confessionals for the last episode went missing."

"Eh, they'll turn up somewhere." Chris shrugs. "Doesn't matter unless we can't get them for editing."

After Chris' comment, the scene swaps to Gary, walking over to the campfire pit out of boredom. The Theatre Kid sighs, shaking his head. "Nope. Nothing here. Where is that stupid immunity idol?" The Theatre Kid then looks over at the podium, seemingly stuck in thought.

Confessional:

Gary sits, pausing for a moment before commenting, "Can I just say, what you saw me doing was a hail mary move… purely because I wanted to test this theory out."

Confessional Ends

Chris and Chef walk over to the campfire pit to light the fire for elimination. When the fire is lit, they look over and see Gary pulling at the podium.

"Uh, dude?" Chris walks over confused, "What are you doing?" Chef quickly runs over and pulls him aside.

"Testing a theory," Gary explains. "Maybe there was an idol in the podium or something." [2]

"The podium?" Chris raises an eyebrow.

"I mean, It's worth a try."

"Dude, the thing's been like, bolted to the ground."

"That wasn't a yes or no. Anyways, I'm talking about if there's anything in it or something."

Chris and Chef pause, looking at each other.

Confessional:

"That's… not that bad of an idea actually," Chef admits.

Confessional Ends:

"Nope," Chris admits before he starts to laugh. "That's wild though dude! I kinda respect the play."

"So can I get an idol or something cause of that respect?"

"Don't push your luck."

"Noted!" Gary does not skip a beat with his response.

"Anyways, you haven't lost the challenge, get out of here, we're about to do the elimination."

Gary quickly runs off, as Chris rolls his eyes, before walking to a megaphone connected to a loudspeaker and calling out, "Electric Tigers! It's time for elimination! Make your way here!"

As Gary walks back towards the cabin, he sees Lauren walking ahead, before saying, "Hey, what's up?"

"Oh, Gary!" Lauren sounds somewhat surprised. "Didn't expect to see you here. I'm good."

"You seem nervous."

"It's just cause I'm going to elimination," Lauren quickly admits.

"You're pretty much safe, why would you need to worry?"

"Oh yeah, 'cause you didn't get nervous when you went to eliminations in general."

"Not really when I knew I was safe. You've got a pariah on your team."

"Oh shut up," Lauren rolls her eyes, before walking off. Gary looks at her with a raised eyebrow but walks off.

Confessional:

"I was caught off-guard by him!" Lauren defends herself, before groaning. "Great, now he's probably suspicious about the idol."

—-

"Lauren was hiding something from me," Gary notes. "I'm gonna figure out what it was."

Confessional Ends:

Elimination Ceremony 9 (Electric Tigers Elimination 5):

The scene changes to the six Tigers all sitting on the stumps, Jake, Nadia and Rory in the back row, and Susan, Carol and Lauren in the front.

"So…" Lauren begins, "Looks like we're back here…"

"Yep," Rory sighs.

"Welcome to your next elimination Tigers!" Chris comments before pausing. He then frowns, before asking the six, "What happened to you guys? You started so well, now you're doing a Team Victory!"

"Yeah, we are," Jake responds, "Third time in a row isn't it?"

"Remember when we were a good team," Nadia snarks. "Y'know, when we didn't come here more than the Lions did?"

"Good times," Lauren adds.

"We can win the next challenge though," Carol comments, nodding determinedly. "We're just going to be tied, we don't have less people. We can win the next challenge and we'll have the majority at the halfway mark if the Lion's try to pull a fast one and make an alliance in the merge."

"Exactly," Susan smiles, Chris, who has let this conversation play out, snickers to himself.

Susan picks up on this and asks, "What?"

"N-nothing," Chris quickly composes himself.

Confessional:

"Cause that isn't suspicious at all…" Susan rolls her eyes. "Doubt he's going to tell us though, so I guess we just have to sit back and watch what it is."

Confessional Ends:

"Okay Tigers, it's time for you all to vote. It'll be a big one. Whoever's out won't be in the final 10 promos."

"Oh no!" Susan mocks, "Not the promos!"

"I know!" Chris states, missing the point, "it must be really sad for you guys!" Everyone looks around confused at Chris taking her seriously.

A time-lapse then occurs, with the contestants going off to vote and returning, leading to the group being back at elimination, watching Chris read the votes.

"You've all cast your votes. Someone will be going home tonight. As for who it is? Well, I have five hotdogs on this plate, and six of you. One of you is gonna take the fireworks and leave!"

The six Tigers all look at Chris bored before Chris rolls his eyes and says, "Okay, tough crowd. Let's see, I've got a hotdog for Rory, a hotdog for Jake and a hotdog for Carol." All three stand up and walk over, grabbing one each. "We're down to three contestants, all of you having at least one vote against you.

Confessional:

"Game's getting harder," Lauren states seriously, "It's a given that I'm gonna get votes…" She then smiles, "I'm not scared though."

"Great…" Nadia sighs, "First time I've gotten votes…" But she shrugs, "Had to happen at some point."

"Obviously," Susan shrugs, "Look I'm just assuming I'm getting votes at each elimination from this point on."

Confessional Ends:

"With one vote against you, the next one safe is… Lauren." The Fangirl jumps up before running over and snatching her marshmallow. Susan and Nadia glance at each other. Jake's eyes go wide.

"One of you got two votes… The other got three…."

"What?" Jake says under his breath.

"Okay girls, you're our bottom two!" Chris yells, "Nadia! Susan! You're both threats, but it's time to figure out which threat is going to be given the final slot in the final ten! Tonight's boot, with three votes against her, is…

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Nadia!"

As Susan quickly runs up and grabs her hotdog, Nadia stands up, no reaction on her face.

"Nadia?" Jake questions, his mouth agape. "How though?" Susan's expression narrows slightly.

Confessional:

"I genuinely am sorry Jake." Susan glares at the camera. "But I am playing for a million bucks as much as I'm playing to get Carol and Rory to like me again."

"But… how?" Jake questions. "Susan should have gone home. I mean, Lauren or Rory should have voted Susan with me and Nadia." He then yells into the camera, "WHAT HAPPENED!"

Confessional Ends:

Nadia closes her eyes, her breathing getting heavier, "You know what?" She says, barely contained rage. After a couple of the Tigers brace for what she'll say, she sighs, and opens her eyes, disgustedly saying, "¡Olvida esto! None of you are worth me yelling at you." [1]

"Nadia…" Jake begins as he steps forward, saddened. The Hot Blooded points at his chest and says,

"Jake. Come with me."

"O-okay," Jake says, as he follows after her.

"She… didn't react as much as I thought she would," Rory admits.

"I expected more screaming," Lauren adds.

As Nadia walks down the docks, Jake quickly runs after her, as he meets up with Nadia, the hot-blooded comments. "There you are, okay, let's talk."

Before Nadia even gets a chance to start speaking, Jake begins to hyperventilate. "I'm so sorry Nadia, I voted with you, and I told Susan that the target was Lauren, but she must have seen through me or someth-."

"Jake," Nadia starts, "JAKE! Listen to me."

"W-what?" he looks up scared.

"You better win this thing," Nadia says through a glare.

"Wait, you aren't mad at me?" Jake asks, confused.

"You? No, why would I be? I trust you that you did vote Susan. As a whole though? Yeah, I'm pissed. The thing is, I'm channelling this anger into advice, so you better listen before I stop feeling like channelling it."

"O-okay," Jake slows his breathing.

"You aren't done for… You have allies and you're not at the bottom of even this team's totem pole. Make the merge, and team up with Xavier and Bob. Jemma and Katrina seem reasonable too, hell, you can even team up with Lauren if you make the merge with her, she's probably desperate for allies."

"Okay…" Jake starts to try and calm himself down, "What else?"

"Take one of them out ASAP, preferably Susan but if you can't get the votes you can settle for Carol or even Rory. Try to get a second one out right after too. You can let the third survive a while if you want, boot them at around final five or so."

"I know this," The leader admits.

"Yeah, but what you don't know is how to keep a clear head. Make sure you have that, and you're golden. Don't jump into impulsive situations just because you messed up once. You did that when you voted yourself off at our first elimination ceremony for a simple mistake. Throw all that impulsiveness in the bin, you can't afford to make those mistakes from here on out."

"W-well," Jake starts, "I don't know if I can."

"It's the only way you're getting to the end of the game. So you need to learn it fast. Take the time to think things through." Jake pauses, before Nadia sighs and says, "Look man, I'm only saying this to help you, but take a deep breath."

Jake does as he is told, still looking pained, before opening them and nodding. While he still looks upset, he forces a smile onto his face, "alright…"

"Now knock 'em dead!" Nadia smirks at him, before she sighs, "You better do so at least."

"I'll try."

"And we're running out of time here," Chris complains as he walks over. "Get ready to say goodbye Nadia."

"Anyways, I feel like I'm missing something?" Nadia says as Chef ties her to the fireworks, "Oh yeah… YOU ALL SUCK!" She then turns back to Jake and says, "Except for you, you're fine."

"Thanks?" Jake responds.

"Anyways," Chris comments with a shrug. "You took your shot, and missed it, and now you're the one getting shot in the end! Get it? Like the paintball guns."

"Duh," Nadia rolls her eyes, "Just get me out of here already,"

"If you say so," Chris shrugs before pushing the button.

"Wait, I didn't think you'd do it this EARLYYYYYYYYYYY!" Nadia screams as she's shot away.

"Alright," Chris shrugs, before pushing past Jake, knocking him into the water, "Out of the way. I've got a meeting to wait for." Landing in the water seems to break Jake out of his stupor and his eyes go wide.

Confessional:

"Nadia's advice is true," Jake begins, "I've… not been playing as hard as I could be, and I'm gonna try to change that."

Confessional Ends:

Jake walks back over to the Tigers and sighs, before saying, "Look, I'm gonna… I'm gonna turn in early."

"Have a good sleep," Susan nods at him, before giving him a quick glare.

Confessional:

"He's either an idiot or a liar," Susan notes. "Seriously, one vote went to Lauren that entire elimination, and it wasn't me or Carol. I'm starting to think he voted for me."

Confessional Ends:

"Hey Jake, wait a sec!" Carol calls out, causing everyone to look at her as she puts her hand out. "Before we all go… to the Electric Tigers, and not coming back to elimination tomorrow," Susan, Rory and Lauren all step forward and put their hands on the pile as Jake watches on.

"You in, Jake?" Lauren questions, before the leader sighs.

"Yeah, sure," before he walks over and joins in.

"1," Carol begins to count, "2, 3!"

"The Electric Tigers!" The five then start to leave, except for Jake, who stays behind temporarily before leaving for the confessional.

Confessional:

"Voting off Nadia was a low move," Jake states, glaring. "Albeit, telling Susan to vote for Lauren and then betraying her is a low move as well. But it was to avoid Nadia getting votes, and look how much good that did. Maybe it would have been for the best letting Susan go the last episode."

Confessional Ends:

Jake exits the confessional to see Lauren standing near him. "What do you want?" he asks.

"Look, at this point, Susan and Carol are a scary pair, and if they can get Rory, that's game over. I'm fully aware of this, but maybe if the two of us can team up, then we might have a chance for us to both survive if we lose again."

"Brilliant deduction," The leader sarcastically responds, "but there's one issue, we're only two, and they're three."

"Well yes… But let's just say that if we can convince at least one of them to join us, then we're golden, and I know exactly who, and how."

Jake frowns before thinking about what Nadia said to him before.

"Hell, you can even team up with Lauren if you make the merge with her, she's probably desperate for allies."

"Fine, I'll bite."

"Sweet, thanks for trusting me!" Lauren smiles back.

"Oh, believe me, I don't trust you," The leader adds, "But you do raise a good point about threats, so fine."

"I'll take it," The fangirl nods with a smile before putting her hand out, Jake completes the handshake.

"So what's this plan you have?" Jake asks,

"All in good time my friend, we have to wait for tomorrow to do it."

Confessional:

Jake shakes his head. "I hate to say this, but she's right. Total Drama is a competition and I need to start playing with my mind, not my heart. You can't win Total Drama unless you do at least a couple of immoral things… Except for Owen, I guess, but that was season one, people weren't certain about strategies that could work." He looks downwards with a frown, "I still feel bad helping her out though."

"I have an ally again," Lauren nods, "It's tentative, but Jake's smart enough to realise the position he's in and how he's basically only safe with me. I did some thinking and I've got a plan, even with the potential of Susan getting her trio back."

Confessional Ends:

Carol walks back towards the cabins with a smile before she meets up with Bob, quickly saying, "Oh! Uh, hey!"

"Good to see you're still in," Bob smiles at her. "I've been trying to get you for a while actually."

"Wow, really!" Carol smiles, before getting flustered. W-well, G-good to see you're… safe… too?" She pauses, "Wow, I didn't think that through, did I?"

"It's alright, really." Bob turns to his friend. "I… think I have my answer for before though."

"Today was a bit weird!" Carol quickly starts to speak very fast. "I'm sorry I told you that and put you on the spot like that! I don't want us to stop being friends 'cause I was dumb, Please, let's not let it get awkward!"

"Yes," Bob quickly says while Carol goes to take a breath.

"I knew you'd answer like that!" Carol bemoans, "please can we still be…," The comic reader pauses, realising what Bob's actually said. "Wait, did you just say yes?"

"Yeah," Bob smiles back. "I… want to give this a try. I thought about it for a bit, and I want to go out with you."

Carol stares, wide-eyed, saying, "R-really?"

"Really…."

"I'm… I'm not used to… this sort of thing though?" Carol looks worried, but Bob says back

"Neither am I to be honest. Maybe we can figure out how to do a relationship out together though?" Carol's smile comes back as she jumps up and hugs Bob.

"Yes! I-I wanna go out with you!"

"I'm so happy you thought the same way," Bob admits before they both go in for a kiss, a few seconds later they split apart.

Carol sputters out, "That was great…." Her eyes then go wide as she realises, "should we uh, reveal this to everyone?"

"Do you want to?"

"Well, if we're in a public relationship then… that'll make us a threat, and you're already the strongest guy here so all eyes are gonna be on you. I wanna stay with you as long as I can… maybe we should keep it a secret for a bit? Reveal it after the game? Maybe if we're the final two?"

"So nobody's gonna know?" Bob awkwardly chuckles, "I uh… kinda told Xavier about you revealing the crush, he uh… helped me realise my actual feelings."

Carol pauses to think for a moment, before quickly saying. "Well, how about we just tell our friends, but tell them to keep it secret?"

"That feels a lot better," Bob admits, "but are you sure you want to go out with me?"

"I should be the one asking you," Carol chuckles. "Do you want to lose street credit by dating the weird girl?"

"I'm fine losing a bit of it. If they try to mess with you I'll just throw them in a dumpster." Carol chuckles but Bob says, "I really will if you want."

"You… don't have to," Carol says with an awkward smile. The pair stare into each other's eyes as they hold hands. Bob then turns to his new girlfriend and says, "If we're gonna be secret… then I think we have to go back to our cabins."

"Yeah," Carol sighs, "We'll spend time together tomorrow though, alright?"

"Of course." Bob smiles before the pair start to walk away.

As they start to walk off, Carol's eyes light up before she questions, "One more thing?"

"Sure," Bob smiles.

"If we ever lose the spark or something, and we end up breaking up… can we still be friends? I don't want us to get all awkward and stuff."

"I wouldn't have it any other way," Bob admits, before the two wave at each other and walk off with smiles.

Meanwhile, at Air Island, Katrina walks around, calling out, "Seriously… where is everyone? This… this is messed up!"

The scene next changes to Lauren laying in bed, frowning to herself.

Confessional:

"Hmm so Carol and Susan voted for Nadia, but who was the third vote?" The Fangirl asks. "I mean, maybe Rory, but still, it's a puzzler." Her face then changes, as she quietly says, "Well… would be." She then leans into the camera and whispers, "If I didn't know who did it already..." She then leans back and says, "Well…" her face darkens and she swaps to a serious frown. "You're looking at her right now."

Confessional Ends:

"Goodnight everyone," Lauren says, a devilish smirk on her face. The camera then zooms out to Chris, watching the scene from a screen.

"Ooh, things are heating up now!" He smirks. "We're down to ten people! Who will be leaving next? When will we have the merge? Potentially find out on the next, exciting episode of! TOTAL! DRAMA! ELEMENTAL ISLANDS!"

Chef then walks over with a phone and says, "It's for you."

"Oh, thanks, dude!" Chris smiles at his co-host. He then puts it up to his ear and starts saying, "Yeah? Alright? Cool! I'll be there soon!"

"What's it about?"

"They're ready for my meeting!" Chris smirks, "time to impress them!"

"You're a lot more confident than you were this morning," Chef notes.

"That's cause I didn't figure out it was going to be completely fine."

"Whatever you say, Chris…" Chef mutters before the scene fades out.

…

Sometime later, Chris and Chef walk into the network building, Chris with a smirk, Chef with a frown.

"You're not gonna have a good time there," Chef responds with an eye roll.

"It's just one meeting," Chris says to Chef with a sense of bravado, though his voice does sound slightly worried, "How bad could it be?"

"You do know that you never say something like that, right?" Chef adds, "You're just asking for something bad to happen."

"Well, it's not. And y'know what? I'm probably gonna get a raise."

"A raise after someone nearly died… sure dude."

"He didn't, did he? And it's gonna bring in big viewership!"

Chef facepalms. "You do you."

The receptionist then says, "Chris McLean, it's your 8 PM."

"Wish me luck, Chef!" Chris smirks,

"You'll need it," Chef responds as Chris walks away.

Chris walks into a dark room, asking, "Hey, what's with you guys turning out the lights?"

"We uh… forgot to. Can you turn them on for us?"

"Sure," Chris turns the lights on, revealing a group of producers in front of him. They all appear to be staring daggers at the host. Don stands in the corner of the room with a smirk on his face.

"Good, now that that's dealt with…" One producer begins, before yelling out, "MCLEAN! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?"

"Hey, nobody's dead, nobody's maimed," Chris responds coolly, "It's all good,"

"No thanks to you!" Another producer says in response. "Do you think we want to put up with any more lawsuits after what happened with that feral kid's parents? Or that guy you left on Pahkitew Island? Or hell, even Mr Milton's daughter!"

"You settled out of court with each of them, didn't you? It wasn't more than like, 25 million at most, and that's just cause Mr Milton was annoying about it. Zeke's family only got like, 2 million, right?"

"That isn't the point Chris."

"Also, two million is still a lot! That's like, double your prize money" Don calls out.

"Do you honestly think these actions are good?"

"I'm going to assume you want me to say no," Chris says, glaring.

"Correct," the female producer says, rolling her eyes.

"Well, okay, let me put it this way then. What do the fans want?" Chris glares, "They want Drama, and they want it to not be scripted. Total Drama does that. What do you want? A safety rail around everything so someone doesn't trip over and hurt themselves?"

"I mean, if it stops people from dying, it's preferable to the bad press!" One of the male producers asks.

"That kid that nearly drowned? He was fine wasn't he?" Chris slams his hands on the desk, "And wanna know the best part?"

"Do tell," Another producer says, glaring right at Chris.

Chris pauses, thinking of what to say next, "He didn't die. And he signed a contract stopping him from suing for damages. So we can use this for good TV! If he had actually died, It'd be more of an issue, but what's the problem, he lived."

The producers pause and look at Chris with shocked looks on their faces.

"So the court case we'd experience due to loss of life is worth showing on TV? Imagine the bad press we'd receive."

"As I said, it's not an issue, he's still alive."

The producer's pause, before they begin talking amongst themselves.

Chris turns to Don and asks, "Boom, how was that!" Chris can only see Don chuckling to himself, causing him to raise an eyebrow. "What are you so happy about?"

"Just wait for it," Don smirks back.

"We've made our decision," One producer starts before a second begins speaking.

"We really expected more of you McLean, and I think we can all agree here that even if it's long overdue, after this season…

…

you're relieved of duties as host," Chris's face drops as he gains a deer-in-headlights expression. "Donovan will be taking over full hosting duties in future seasons."

"B-but this is Total Drama! You can't do Total Drama without me!"

"Oh, we certainly can. And we will. We own the copyright, you don't."

"And if I may say," Don says from the side, "I think I'll enjoy being the host."

"You can't do this to me!" [3]

"Don't worry, you still have the rest of the season, at least you have one last hoorah as host."

"What about Chef? Are you just going to fire him too?"

"What? No, his job's fine, he's gruff but he isn't insane like you are."

Chris watches on, shock on his face, "No… No, no, no, no, no, no, no," Don walks over and pats Chris on the shoulder.

"I would say nothing personal," Don then chuckles to himself, "but we both know that isn't true."

"Now get out of here!" The producer yells to Chris, causing him to walk out with a frown.

The scene cuts to Chef sitting on a chair, looking around at several other people, before he nudges someone and says, "So uh… I'm the Chef from Total Drama…"

"Okay, who cares?" They question.

"Well uh… I dunno, I do 'cause I'm that guy but uh," the guy Chef is talking to looks down at a brochure he is holding. Chef pauses before sitting back, tapping his fingers together. "Come on Chris, hurry up," he mutters.

Chris then walks out with a thousand-yard stare. Chef, noticing his face, walks over and mutters, "Looks like that went well."

"They… They fired me…" Chef looks genuinely surprised at this before Chris flings himself into hugging a surprised Chef.

"Uh… It's, alright?" Before pausing a moment, "Did they fire me too?"

"No, you still have the job," Chris admits, causing Chef to sigh with relief, before realising what he just did and saying.

"Uh… Sorry man."

"What am I going to do without this? I'm not going back to narrating 'Barry the Boat'. Do you know how mind-numbing dealing with reading that garbage to a bunch of snot-nosed brats is?"

"Can't say I do," Chef admits.

"Well, it is! It's awful!"

The scene next cuts to the two in a helicopter going back to the islands as Chris says, "I need to get my job back! How can I though?"

"I mean, it looks like the producers are pretty set on firing you," Chef shrugs, "I don't think you can do anything. Not unless you had different producers."

"That's it!" Chris calls out, happily, "I'll get NEW producers!"

"And how the heck are you going to get new producers?" Chris pauses, before frowning.

"I… don't know…." The host realises, frowning.

"I don't think you're getting out of this one." Chris jumps up in anger at Chef's comment.

"NO! I'LL… I'LL FIGURE SOMETHING OUT!"

"Well, you're gonna have to figure it out quickly then."

"I know Chef…" Chris sighs, "I know that..." After a few moments, his eyes shoot open in realisation, though his face frowns, "I… think I might know who could help…."

"Who?" Chef asks.

Without saying anything, Chris pulls out his phone and scrolls through the contacts to the B section. "She better actually help me out…."

Chef looks over surprised before the helicopter flies away and out of view of everyone.

Meanwhile, Katrina then arrives back at Base Camp, saying, "That took way longer than it should have…" she then looks around, seeing it's the dead of night and calls out, "Uh… is anyone still awake?" Nobody answers her as she says, "Well… this sucks…." She then walks towards her cabin as the episode fades to black.

Voting Confessionals:

Carol: "Nadia sounds like an alright target. It's not Lauren, and I get to keep Susan happy. I feel kinda bad 'cause we just became alright, but she's my best bet right now."

Jake: "Look Susan, I like you, I really do. But you're a threat. I'm really sorry about sending you to vote off Lauren, but if it's good for the games of Nadia and I… I have to do it."

Lauren: "You probably aren't gonna expect this," the Fangirl starts with a smirk, "But I'm voting for Nadia. I highly doubt Rory's gonna vote for Nadia. However, this lets me vote Nadia with Susan, which gets Jake scared… From there it's just a simple gaslighting job to make him think Rory did so and I have a solid ally for the rest of the pre-merge at least."

Nadia: "Lauren is one person, Susan has the potential for three. While the potential for an idol is bad, Susan is a worse threat right now. No hard feelings Susan."

Rory: "I… Don't know. I guess Lauren? Today's been… Weird." He then sighs, "I don't know."

Susan: "Still playing it safe with Lauren and that idol… I'm just not willing to take that risk. No hard feelings Nadia."

Bonus Clip:

Richard and Myron stand around, with the latter asking, "So I'm here to see the next person out?"

"Yeah, pretty much," Richard adds.

"Do you even know who's been booted?" The nerd questions.

"No. It's as much of a surprise to me as it is to you."

Suddenly, Megan comes running over. "We're not just not gonna hang out now," she says.

"Good to see you too." Myron smirks back, before joking, "are you gonna play a trumpet solo or something?"

"Oh I hope I'm not that obvious," she says back before she pulls out a triangle and dings on it once.

"Good to see you're enthusiastic," Richard mutters before the fireworks suddenly land in front of the three of them. Both of the friends react in surprise while Richard looks dully.

"I've been here a few times, and I still can't get used to that thing," The Band Geek admits.

Yeah, being on the other side of it… I can see why," Myron adds. Without another word, Richard walks around the corner.

"Oh… you got booted…" a twinge of sadness in his voice. "That is pretty sad."

"Okay if you're just going to be sarcastic then just shut up!" Nadia's voice calls out, causing Myron and Megan to run around the corner.

"I'm not even being sarcastic," Richard drawls out.

"Aww, darn, you're out too?" Myron groans, "I was going for you and everything."

"Yeah whatever," Nadia groans as she's untied. "I'm not even in the top half either, hell, not even the top ten."

She then looks around and annoyedly asks, "So we're at a resort?"

"Yeah, pretty much," Megan nods.

"Am I able to call home?"

"Well yeah,"

"Good, 'cause I'm checking on my familia," she states simply. [1]

"Well before you do so," Richard begins, "I want to ask you a few questions."

"Sure, why not."

"What do you think went wrong?" he begins.

Nadia sighs before she admits, "I should have coordinated the votes better in both this and the last episode. I slipped there and that's all the chance they needed to boot both me and Myron."

"Who is the contestant to watch out for?" Richard next asks.

"Is that even a question? Susan. She's part of a not guaranteed, but very much possible three-person group at the final five for the team. I don't know how Jake's going to deal with her group, but he has to at this point, by hook or by crook."

"Very well. Finally, who do you want to win and who do you think has the best chance to win?"

"Obviously, I want Jake to win, we've literally been allies since day one, and even if he's an overly emotional idiot sometimes…" she pauses before saying, "I'm not innocent of that issue either."

"And the other one?"

"Well, here's the thing. I'm not sure who has the best chance. People are probably gonna notice the three-person group and try to take that out at the merge, and then the physical and social threats after that like Bob and Jake…. So I'm gonna have to go with someone like Lauren if she can hold out until the merge. She's probably smart enough to play the other contestants against each other, so if she can keep the eyes off of her then it's a pretty simple path to the finale against an easy opponent like Gary."

"Wow, that's… that's a full-on setting out of the game."

"Duh… I'm not just gonna give a boring one-word answer. I want to give an actual reason for why I think the way I do."

"Okay, fair enough," Richard shrugs, "You can go now if you want."

"Cool, I'm out of here then." Nadia then walks away.

"Well…" Myron begins, walking over, "I didn't even get to say much."

"Yeah, that happens sometimes," Megan comments, "At least it wasn't one of the times when everyone turned up."

"Really? That happens?"

"It's reasonably often surprisingly… Hannah's the one that doesn't turn up mostly usually."

"Alfred does?"

"Dude's not that bad when you get to know him."

"Yeah I'll have to be the judge of that," Myron jokes.

"Ha," Megan chuckles.

"So, I believe that's it," Richard says.

"Oh, sweet!" Myron says, "I'm out of here then."

"See ya, Richard," Megan adds.

The duo then turn around and start to walk off.

"Well… that's all…" Richard starts, "Who will be joining the group next time? Who will win overall…? Well. Find out on the next episode of Total Drama Elemental Islands."

Electric Tigers: Carol, Jake, Lauren, Nadia(Eliminated), Rory, Susan

Frozen Lions: Bob, Gary, Jemma, Katrina, Xavier

1st – 10th: ?

11th: Nadia (The Hot Blooded)

12th: Myron (The Ungifted Nerd)

13th: Tegan (The Complainer)

14th: Morgan (The Perfect Guy) (Though he isn't off the islands)

15th: Megan (The Quiet Band Girl)

16th: Hannah (The Jerky Contrarian)

17th: Richard (The Incredible Bore)

18th: Alfred (The Influential Rich Kid)

And so we're down to the final 10! Bob, Carol, Gary, Jake, Jemma, Katrina, Lauren, Rory, Susan and Xavier! Was it the final 10 you expected? I remember asking some of my friends that started reading this fic what they expected for the elimination order and it certainly wasn't for them.

Nadia's elimination was because everyone else was more important for the plot. While she was working on her position in the game, I needed the other 10 around for longer. I'm kind of surprised how much mileage I got out of her in the last 2 episodes though, she popped off way more than I expected to. Still, I basically completely rewrote the ending of the chapter over a day of editing funny enough, her elimination didn't make sense and came out of nowhere in the first draft, but pretty much everything with her post-challenge was added in this draft.

Speaking of which. If there was any episode so far that was saved in the editing, I'd say this one is certainly up there. There were several points in the initial draft where I went "you know what? I'll just fix it while I'm editing." Is it smart to push this all onto future me editing this who is currently typing this paragraph? Nope! But honestly, it helped get the chapter out faster, so it was a slight trade-off.

So… the third and final ship of the season, Carol x Bob (Cob? Barol?) is here and uh… funny thing, I didn't have this initially planned. They were going to go from rivals to friends, but lovers? That was actually decided while I was writing episode 3, and their initial rivalry scenes. I thought randomly "Hey wouldn't it be funny if they were a couple!" and then realised "Hang on a sec, this could work." Eventually, I decided to do it. Funny how things go, but that's why I do loose plans for my stories, so I can add stuff I think works well if I think of it.

As for the ship itself in the story. I guess it could feel a little fast-paced for them to get together, but honestly, I wanted to show one of them sort of starting on a whim, and honestly, it's kind of ironic and funny to me that two of the more socially awkward people in the cast got together pretty easily when the more social characters had to go through a lot of hoops and drama to do so.

Up next is the second lot of Audition tapes! So you'll be able to see Morgan, Tegan, Myron and Nadia's tapes soon enough. Then after that is episode 11! Hype! I will not promise anything about the release date, because if I do, it's not going to happen that fast. It's going to be much, much slower if I give an estimated release date lol. But still, see you when I get the next episode out!

[1]: Nadia's Spanish translations (According to DeepL Translator at least, sorry if they don't match up.)

"VEN A BUSCARME, BOLA DE PELOS CRECIDA!" = "COME AND GET ME, YOU OVERGROWN FUR BALL!"

"mierda mierda mierda mierda!" = "Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit!" (To be fair I was initially translating crap)

"¿Por qué tuve que hacer esto?" = "Why did I have to do this?"

"¡Olvida esto!" = Forget this!

"Familia" = Family

[2]: For people that didn't know, this happened in a survivor season… I'll admit I haven't seen that season, but still, the fact that it did happen was pretty based. I genuinely have nothing but respect for the dude that did it.

[3]: Part of me wanted to have Chris also say "You know how much I sacrificed!" here, but unfortunately I didn't, so rip the full reference lol.

Anyways, thank you all for reading this episode, whether you just read this part, both parts, or are a returning reader from previous episodes, I'm happy that this fic has fans, so thank you for reading this! I'll see you all for the next episode.