Total Drama: Ultimate Islands!
Episode 16: Paintbattle Royale
Part 4: Apex of Paintballs

20 contestants left in the field, a good chunk of them overpowered in most aspects including...

...Storm Shadow, who has won two challenges on his own...

...Cassie Cage, who brings the guns and the kicks to the field...

...Tanya von Degurechaff, the anti-theist child soldier (enough said)...

...and also Mikasa Ackerman, who probably could spin the paint off alone, to say nothing about...learning the gun mod-challenge!

The rest of them could make it all of the way to top 8, avoiding elimination through the surprise moves, good shots, odd teamwork and unorthodox strategies that somehow pulled them this far!

So, there's a lot including the prize of a power vote to vote off someone full stop, it could still be anyone's game!

forgot snake, sorry.

Swooce, man, Noah's already eliminated and Mikasa's...going to do some moves to avoid spoilers!

1602jaw, you might see teamwork happen in the future and I'm also glad you enjoyed Muscle Man's rage...thing.

Memeking, those are just my ideas for the moment, so they could really change for when they come in...in a while really!

CHECKED THE NOW FIXED CHART, BECAUSE I COUNTED IT WRONG IN THE PREVIOUS TWO CHAPTERS, SO PLEASE CHECK!

(74th to 68th): Aisling, Mystique Sonia, Soma, Kasumi, Eva, Kyo and Tanjiro
(67th to 58th): Rock, Clover, Nicole, Ryuko, Darkness, Oikawa, Tiny Tina, Soma, Luigi & Satori Tendo
(57th to 48th): Basil, Lowain, Deadpool, Tiana, Pit, Miko, Legoshi, Scott Pilgrim, Dawn & Yuri
(47th to 40th): Giovanni, Papyrus, Min Min, Muscle Man, Harley Quinn, Piccolo, Coachman, Samurai Jack
(39th to 31st): Squirrel Girl, Leshawna, Ryuko, Khun, Hsien-Ko, JFK, Sammy, Tifa & Catalina
(30th to 26th): Noah, Riku, Nobara, Shego, Michiru & Reg


"Welcome back to Hell on Earth otherwise known as Pahkitew Island, because the twenty three remaining players are just making a mess of this challenge!" Chris announced. "Ain't they, Chef."

"Yeah, you better be paying attention...and not going to sleep!" Chef yelled. "Ten of them 'boutta be safe and the rest are gonna vote off some people!"

The two hosts were back in the booth and this time, it was clearly situated right on the southwestern edge of the island for obvious reasons that had to do with the view and the protection from literally everything the contestants threw at each other.

They could really see...a lot of the island from there, considering they were up on a weird slope that allowed for some strange views.

"My gosh, that is genuinely insane!" Chef shouted. "You saw that shit."

"Of course I did...but the viewers didn't see it yet."


The viewer/reader...missed this, but it was probably not as crazy as Chris had said.

Rapunzel was...surprisingly amazing with the pan and Mikasa was great with the blades and they were clearly deflecting their butts off in the middle of the plateau of few trees and so much space to deal with.

And they were both bad at guns, so...why was it so insane to Chris' eyes?

Pinstripe was practically the opposite...all gun skill, practically no defence to speak of and he was hiding up in a hidden area, having all of the ammo in the world to mix them up.

And oddly, Riley was also there, ready to get serious with his water gun turned paintball gun and it was a true free-for-all in these woods, especially with none of them giving a shit.

"Mikasa, I can handle myself..." Rapunzel the gun. "...besides the gun thing."

"I only don't want you to get eliminated again." Mikasa said. "Nothing more."

"Cool, I'll do that myself."

The two former Crow teammates didn't have a lot of time together and it showed with the two only protecting each other...by getting in their own way, which worked...

...a little bit.

Mostly because Mikasa had finally known how to use the gun and Rapunzel knew how to defend herself against a powerful soldier and occasionally a potoroo with a tommy paintball gun.

As Rapunzel was casually trying to spin around to deal with the pan and sometimes Mikasa was doing some moves to avoid getting her friend out of the game, mostly using some giant-slicing blades to get serious.

The two had their backs to each other, right before splitting apart to do their own thing and that was to say nothing of the players up in the trees.

"You're really about to send a kid outta here? Not happening!"

Riley just pulled out his two handguns.

"I know that your name's Riley, so let the real adult whoop your ass." Pinstripe, of course, had the tommy gun up in his face. "In the trees."

"Nah, let's get real for a second. You're about to get blasted."

Riley jumped down to the ground, as he was basically swinging with two paintball glocks and got ready to get down with Mikasa, who was basically trying to get away from the young kid and Pinstripe...

...quite literally managed to make the move that he was obviously going to do with a shot to the back, as he was getting real tired.

"Yeah, see ya...off this island!" Pinstripe remarked.

"Man, that's some dirty shit!" Riley shouted right back. "I don't care, if we're playing the game...I'm playing the game my way!"

"Kid, this game ain't for you.. And it ain't for the Titan lady-"

Pinstripe was pretty sure that he was about to get swung from the side by a Scout's noscope, but he had one thing going for him...mostly ammo, but also a little bit of intuition.

Rapunzel was ready to get swinging on the mobster potoroo with her trusty frying pan, mostly because it was somehow much harder...and it clearly worked in her own favour.

The potoroo ducked to avoid the predictable pan swing.

Rapunzel's hair decided to untie at the worst time and...tripped herself onto the ground, as the blonde lady was quite literally not eliminated by one move...which of course came from her teammate.

Mikasa swung from the trees...as Pinstripe looked more than prepared to get hit by the Scout and of course, he got kicked in the face rather seriously and soon enough, he was knocked out.

The giant slayer and the princess realised something very obvious, as they were painting the heck out of the potoroo with their lack of gun skill...they sucked at this.

"Can't believe that we made it this far-"

"Okay, so there's...twenty-one left, man, Pinstripe, Riley and Kipo are eliminated from the game!" Chris announced, as the host announced some more eliminations. "Sucks for them."

*Rapunzel's confessional*

The princess was very nervous.

"Okay, so I'm one of the fifteen people that made it all of the way...now all I have to do is beat the ninja guy, the fire princess, the titan slayer...and a bunch of crazy other people."

She was very silent.

"How do I do this, you beat your fake mom before...and uh...this sucks."

*Confessional cut*


As for Yumeko...she was straight out of commission, as Penny quite literally just suddenly painted her face a little bit and realised that this girl was crazy with a single smile.

Even if they were in the mechanical catacombs of Pahkitew, it was surprisingly weird that Kipo was the one that got hit by Yumeko's smile in the middle of the mechanical mess.

"Uh...you're Penny...please defeat this crazy friend of mine!" Kipo shouted, quite literally on the ground.

"I don't think you're friends. And you're definitely insane...black-haired lady!" Penny got locked and loaded, clearly tired of the bullshit.

"What's the point of the insult?" Kipo said. "We're just competing."

"I don't like to deal with crazy ladies." Penny remarked.

While that conversation was happening, Yumeko was in "head-empty" mode behind a wall and just casually hanging out right in front of Kipo, an angry Penny and most importantly, Uraraka, surprised to see another friend down here.

"Hey, whoa, whoa, why is Yumeko just standing there?" Uraraka asked, a bit nervous. "It's like she's down here to win by attrition."

"Gonna be honest, why aren't we shooting?" Penny finally got the gun out. "And why isn't she shooting?"

"Does it matter?"

"Pretty much-"

Uraraka and Penny got started on trying to make it to the top 8, as Yumeko pulled out her own weapon and started doing some crazy stuff with it like shooting at them moving out of the way.

Mostly because it was chock full of ammo and Yumeko looked very interested in actually winning.

The two ladies from the same team dodged the shots, as Sakura came in with a very surprised look, packing heat in the usual fashion and just coming in shooting.

"Hold up, she's going crazy-" Uraraka wanted to say.

"I know, you're not even on my team!" Sakura butted in, as she raised her fist and yelled...

...right before being eliminated.

"What kind of school do you go to?!"

"Oh, that's simple...a school full of the best of Japanese society! And a school full of...unique activities." Yumeko answered Sakura's shout with a smile.

Which was weird in of itself, as Uraraka and Penny were a little less prepared to come out and shoot, but they did anyway...just trying to mix the gambling addict up with some side-steps.

Whatever Yumeko's experience was in gambling, it must have helped her a bit of a keen eye in these sorts of things...because soon enough, Penny got herself sorted out of the competition.

Not soon enough to avoid getting eliminated, that is, as Uraraka quite literally sprinted in to shoot at Yumeko's back for obvious reasons and actually saved herself from elimination in spectacular fashion.

Uraraka just stood back up...as she was sure that she ended up still in the competition.

"You really did that!" Penny shouted. "Go, there ain't no telling who's going to come out of this place!"

"I will, though why are the lights like this?" Uraraka asked. "Must be Chris again."

"Yep." Penny remarked, as Yumeko practically thumbs it up. "You don't get to say anything!"

"Calm down, let her say...nothing...I guess."

Uraraka was gone...just like that.

"Sakura, Penny and Yumeko are goners, leaving eighteen contestants in this challenge!"

*Yumeko's confessional*

She was not mad...like usual.

"Like I know that I didn't exactly have the skills to get 17th place, but I got the position regardless and Pinstripe didn't do too bad either, so maybe Azula will let me off easy for this one." Yumeko said.

*Azula's confessional*

She was quite surprised for several reasons, though very happy.

"Even in this stage of the competition, there's still people that are hiding their threat status and Sokka...is somehow surviving after being proven as a fluke. This competition is mine, even if Yumeko keeps on barging into nowhere."

*Confessional cut*


Sokka felt like he was getting targeted on all sides, as a deadly team-up between Storm Shadow, who out-skilled him by several tiers alone and Sol Badguy, a man who makes weapons for fun.

But he had ways to get around it, even if one of the remaining players didn't make it, as Iori just stood there seriously in surprise.

"Alright, there's only seventeen people and we've got some of the best players on this side of the aisle! Sokka and Tails included!"

"Oh, come on! He's doing that on purpose!" Sokka shouted.

"What, you've never seen Total Drama before?" Iori asked, covered in paint.

Sokka looked at him seriously, as Iori just gruffly disappeared into the bushes.

The dark-skinned warrior that Tails was definitely in and he also knew that Bayonetta was built differently, so he had faith in his former teammates to not vote him out...if he could survive the gauntlet of two of the best warriors.

He slowly walked on the ground, trying to be stealthy against two people who could quite literally both distract and attack at the same time.

The bushes were just as weird as the rest of the island, since they were partially made of plastic for reasons that only Chris knew and Sokka...quietly moved through them.

Ready to slice open the paintball gun and probably get it all over himself, but it did take a lot more to take down a ninja and a guy with a serious fist, especially with Sokka's gun...actually broken.

And it was like that for six or seven minutes, while something absolutely stupid happened in the background.

"It's actually sixteen now, we're starting to get close to the end! Mai and Rapunzel just got shot by Tanya in hilarious fashion!" Chris announced. "Sokka, Tails and the rest are still in this!"

Sokka could have cared less about the announcement, but unfortunately Mai could be heard in the distance shouting about her gun and that actually distracted him.

"Yeah, I don't care." Sokka remarked...to the empty air besides him.

The bushes were rustling, as the swordsman teen was slowly walking around to make the move that could count for his own team and he knew that opportunity was either going to strike him or he was going to strike it.

He spun around to see the least subtle guy still in the game so far, Sol Badguy, looking unimpressed.

"Screw this, you're going to lose." Sol commented at the sight of Sokka.

"Well, yeah. But you're the one who's losing." Sokka replied with an unconfident smile.

Sol may not have cared that much, but he still pelted an absolute amount of paint towards Sokka, who was trying to dodge and deflect the many paintballs that the slightly customised gun held.

Sokka literally went behind a rock...and then Sol punched at that rock.

"AAAAHHH!" Sokka screamed, sprinting away towards the bushes that would dissipate the paint.

And he was in there, as Sol grumbled once again.

"How many balls was that?!" Sokka tried to whisper, but it came a bit too loud for the mercenary to hear...as the Water Tribe guy had one thing to do.

Yell loudly and run towards the guy who was going to eliminate him...if he didn't have the movement to make the guy actually run out of ammo, doing a few dodges, a lot of deflections and even tripping on the ground.

Just as opportunity was going to strike him, Sokka finally took the time to strike the opportunity with an awkward shot of the paintball gun...actually dropping it in the process.

Just like that, Sokka was eliminating Sol Badguy, who was gesturing to get something.

"Give me a reason why I should give you my gun?" Sol asked, clearly not in the mood.

"Because if we're on the same team, I will not vote you out, no matter how well you play the game!" Sokka declared. "Also how am I going to carry that?"

"Seriously figure it out because my partner's going to eliminate you."

"Oh yeah, Storm Shadow gonna come out and spook my-"

Sokka then saw the ninja just jump down...very much near him.

*Storm Shadow's confessional*

The ninja looked like he had better things to do.

"Either the sword is better than the gun or Sol made a mistake underestimating this teenage fool! Clearly, it's the latter because his stiff-ness betrayed him."

*Confessional cut*

"Now there are fifteen with Sol's elimination and there's only a few more contestants that can be voted for...if they get wrecked, which they will!" Chris announced. "And seriously, it's gonna be funny!"


Dante was just in the cave, waiting for a certain lady to come in and he was just whistling to himself, probably thinking about that motorcycle that was absolutely demon-enhanced.

And at the same time, some other lady was coming in with quite the serious look.

"Snake, these toilet communicators are not bad." Samus said through the walkie talkie.

Snake was actually somewhere else...

...stuck under the mess hall's table, where he clearly wasn't supposed to be at.

"Uh, yeah, yeah. This Dante guy would be a super soldier if he'd joined the military, so be careful around him." Snake whispered. "I'm doing a bit of recon, baby, so...I'll be going."

"What-" Samus wanted to say something, but Snake cut it out.

And while that was happening, she walked right into her elimination.

Stealthily and quickly, she got noscoped by a guy that had his shirt open.

"Hey, Samus! Send a message to Bayonetta, because I'm about to find her out!" Dante had the angriest smile so far. "I swear I don't know what her problem is."

"Great, very interesting." Samus said. "I'm eliminated now, but I'll check for her. You know, the lady that's flying through the back."

Dante quite literally turned to see that-

"And just like that, thirteen are left with Samus taking fourteenth, but she's not the person to be up for elimination! But who's going to get the 'victory battle royale', today?"

The demon hunter actually got a heel to the face while that announcement was happening and obviously, it was time for their personal main event...as they looked at each other.

"Serious question? Why would you even join a guy like that?"

"Because he looked like he could kick some ass, I thought the donkey stuff was just a joke." Dante explained in the most aggressive way.

"Anyways, I'm pretty sure you know. Besides, you look like you want a dance of sorts!"

"Thanks, this challenge was a bit of a joke without some stunts!"

They stood there for a few seconds, observing their crazy powerful enemy and their cocky stance...right before forcing their way to each other, ready to come in swinging.

And they did, as while they were shooting their paintball guns like it was their usual weapons, they both dodged with some serious style...Dante bringing some of the manly slides and backwalking shots towards the witch with an attitude with a smile.

Bayonetta covered the rest of the acrobatics with her own cartwheels, backflips and spins that were obviously done through some of that Witch Time, as she also tried to do some crazy shots within said acrobatics.

To anyone else, it was like they were moving at absurd speeds trying to get each other out of the game...especially with the close quarters that the two of them were hanging up in.

And then they stopped for a second to say a few words.

"You have a son and yet you act like a frat boy." Bayonetta remarked.

"You've got 5 centuries of fun to catch up on, lady!"

Though the words weren't really malicious, they were actually pretty spicy...as it got them back into the fight with the flips, tricks and what not.

Especially since they were in the mid-range and the strategies didn't really change at that range...though Dante was starting to get some shots close to where Bayonetta actually was.

And it was Bayonetta who actually got within an inch of the white-haired demon hunter, seeing it and then just angrily grasping her gun.

It was still equal at this point and it did not help when Tails just wanted to take a peek inside the cave of new rivalries, infinite acrobatics

"Bayo, you've gotta-" Tails took a peek and immediately got shot. "-never mind, I just wanted to say that Cassie's fighting Azula!"

The both of them stopped for a second again.

"That is incredible, but I don't really care that much." Bayonetta told the two-tailed fox.

"Yeah, now let us do the dirty duel!" Dante remarked.

Tails just flabbergasted at the duo.

*Tails' confessional*

"What kind of world-ending bond do they have to essentially ignore the best soldier on our former team and quite literally the product of imperialism. Then again, they had the coolest fight I ever-"

The two-tailed fox had a realisation.

"-Oh, it's that, isn't it."

*Confessional cut*


Terry and Joseph were...actually having an oddly-relaxing time, as while they were previously on practically opposite teams, the not so contentious nature of both teams meant that they could work together.

And right now, they were trying to avoid Scuba Bear, hiding behind the bushes.

"So, important question? What the hell is that?" Joseph asked.

"Uh, it's a robot bear. Pretty crazy, ain't it?" Terry said.

"Yeah, but we've got better tricks than it." Joseph, of course, was spinning his clackers.

"...Those are clackers." Terry was prepared to go toe to toe with it. "Scuba Bear, this is not Pahkitew Island no more!"

Terry quite literally jumped out of the bush to go toe to toe with the actually dripped out bear, who was starting to question his life choices and it was gun to gun.

"I don't know why you're so mad over me." Terry asked. "Must be because I'm about to take a victory royale."

Scuba Bear just looked tired of the terrible puns, as he just shot Terry in the arm...even when he was doing the Burn Knuckle, which burned the paint right off.

But like in real life, Scuba Bear was not scared.

He did not fear.

He just straight up shot Terry once the move actually ended.

"...Fuck, there's always next time." Terry remarked.

"And Terry becomes the 13th placing bear fighter, so there's 12 contestants!" Chris announced, as Joseph was carefully trying to lead the bear into a situation.

He threw the clackers at speed, spinning it right into a cave and it still smashed into a wall and he had a cheeky smile on his face with the bear just chasing the high-speed clackers.

"Damn, how did you even throw that?" Terry asked, stuck outside of the game.

"Hamon power kinda does crazy things when you want to." Joseph remarked. "I'll honour your legacy."

"Dude, I've got a kid!" Terry remarked, as Joseph was about to corner a robot bear.

In the cave, Scuba Bear realised that it was just clackers that cracked a wall and he was...kinda scared for what was about to happen next, as Joseph Joestar of the Joestar family...

...stepped into the cave and did a pose.

"Yeah, I don't care what kind of bear you are! You don't underestimate me and my...tricks!" Joseph just spun two pairs of clackers, while he declared that. "Seriously, why are you a robot?"

Joseph then pulled out his paintball gun, as the cave was a bit dark and he started blasted with impunity, every single one of the shots hitting their mark, as Scuba Bear started to run into Joseph's space.

And luckily, he had one more tool.

His Hamon-covered hands...

...were under Scuba Bear's body, as he got blasted on the ground and then got stuck one more.

"WHOA, WHOA, Chef, are you seeing this?" Chris got a little excited.

"Yeah, Chris, it's a bear? Bears do that all of the time and 'cause of that, American pretty boy with an British accent gets 12th!" Chef shouted, as Chris was a little bit shocked.

"Yeah, but we've got one more player until we reach the top 10, and it's not looking for someone!"


Uraraka was trying to defend herself using the rocks that were accidentally protecting her from the onslaught of paint bullets from Tanya, Azula and Cassie Cage at the same time...for the moment.

"What the heck, I thought we were teammates!" Uraraka's rocks still floated.

"We were and now I'm not tethered to a failing team." Tanya shouted. "Plus I have the sniper rifle."

"Oh no, I broke my promise!" Uraraka shouted, as she dropped one rock and got hit with three bullets. "...That's what I get for forgetting."

*Uraraka's confessional*

Uraraka looked like she was about to get sent to Gitmo.

"Before I came on here, I promised that I wouldn't use my Quirk recklessly. And I did by accident." Uraraka said. "Because of my own teammate."

*Confessional cut*

"It is." Tanya just cocked her paint sniper rifle. "Now, I'm in the top 10."

"And I'm getting further ahead than the top 10!" Cassie pulled out her guns, as she was looking at Azula. "Where's your mom?"

"...I DO NOT HAVE A MOTHER!" Azula actually managed to shoot Tanya. "Cassie Cage, your run will be over soon."

"Hard to believe when you've got military training." Cassie remarked.

"Uraraka's in 11th place, which means she's not in the top ten anymore! And just like that, the nine remaining players are safe! Tanya got tenth, so she's safe too!" Chris announced.

And that was when their fight continued and Tanya's temporary truce ended.

Azula and Cassie Cage were not getting off each other's case, having started the fight 15 minutes ago and they were not letting up on each other for the obvious reason.

The power of first, second and third place couldn't really be stated...as Chris really didn't do that and there was a defeat in between all of the mess, as Tanya wasn't surprised by her defeat.

"Do it for being against imperialism." Tanya whispered. "...ironically."

"Wait...what do you mean...ironically?" Uraraka nervously asked, kinda sure of what it was.

Cassie had quite a few guns on her person and she was using them to try and get the former princess, doing a little bit of shooting' towards the fighting with fire teenager...and the deadly kicks.

And that same determination to crush anyone who has wronged her through her defeat or through beating her in a challenge one time, was coming through with her fire powered kicks.

Cassie Cage may have defeated a god and had a cool combination of traits, but against one mentally ill teenager...that was not happening, even if Azula barely knew how to use a gun.

"You know I don't have to care about Sokka anymore!" Cassie shouted.

"Me winning this competition will be worth it!" Azula declared, as she was throwing fire at this point. "And then I will bring the Fire Nation back to its former glory!"

The firebending prodigy came swinging quite literally on the trees, since they were roughly the same where Sokka was almost down for the count against Storm Shadow.

"Okay, if I win, I want to solve whatever you've got and deal with it!"

Cassie came down with a strong shot, which Azula burned it up once again and it was like the standoff was still happening.

*Azula's confessional*

The firebender was in quite the mood.

"I can see that whatever Sokka said to that girl, it's obviously a bunch of lies he wove in her mind. Regardless, in spite of my lack of gun skills, she will not make it past me and Sokka will lose." Azula said, holding back in the anger.

*Confessional cut*

Sokka sprinted like he was about to die...

...which wasn't too far off from what Storm Shadow was doing with the paintball shots and jumping from tree to tree.

The Water Tribe warrior actually managed to dodge all of them, but he knew he couldn't really dodge them forever and he managed to run into the battle from a paragraph ago.

He quite literally got on Cassie's back, leading the two of them to get back to back and immediately, things got a lot funnier with Storm Shadow and Azula in the same area.

Mostly because they started fighting each other and accidentally let Sokka take a breather.

"Okay, so either way, one of us is safe right?" Sokka asked. "You know, we're good."

"We are good, but you know, if Azula does survive, I'm not going to let you do that." Cassie answered, very blunt. "If Storm Shadow survives, you're toast-"

"-Yeah, you don't think I know that. Anyways, Azula's gotta lose!"

"Pretty much, but there's no teams." Cassie said.

The two of them were slowly backing away from each other with their guns with not that much ammo, but they weren't really hating each other or liking each other, just sure of some strategic play.

As for the other two, it was almost like a blood bath for some...unexpected reasons, as Azula got hit by a very hard to see trap laid by someone and it was clearly not intended to work that way.

Of course, she was not the only one to get taken advantage of...as Azula got right back up and Storm Shadow just jumped down to...get eliminated through the most obvious means.

"Can't believe that you went on a wall." Azula remarked. "Now for the obvious problem."

"You will regret that boast, obviously-" Storm Shadow actually got cut off.

"And I will intend to make good on that promise to prove that you're worthy of the alliance!"

Azula actually got back up to the ground and immediately, the reality of the situation hit her clothes...and with Sokka smiling in her face, the gun actually aimed right and her chances were practically none.

"Bye, Azula! See you..in...jail, yeah!" Sokka stumbled over being in the top 4.

"Nice job, dumbass." Cassie remarked. "Anyways, give me back my gun."

"Yeah...I'm safe anyways, so outside of some miracle, I'll take my win!" Sokka bragged, as the obvious happened to his own face.

"Good one...I've got your back regardless." Cassie got some fire in her face.

As Sokka was a little faster on the uptake, the blonde soldier just took the burn on her stride, as she didn't really get burnt at all and there were only four left in the game.

Azula and Sokka were having a bit of a fight, as Cassie was wondering...when the fuck was Chris going to mess with them?

"With a few more eliminations, we will reach the top three and to actually get them all together, we've got something familiar!" Chris was genuinely excited to show this. "The elusive and awesome mechanical bear."

"It's not elusive, I've seen Pahkitew-" Cassie was immediately up in the bear's face. "-Are you really going to carry me to the point of battle?"

The bear just pointed to its back, as it laid down on the ground, as all of the eliminated contestants just saw this.

"...This isn't the stupidest thing I've done today!" Cassie actually had a bit of a smile.


Dante and Bayonetta just took a breather, as it had been ten minutes, a shit ton of cool moves had been done in that time and somehow thanks to the sheer coolness of the demon hunter and the witch...

...no hits were counted and they weren't tired at all.

But they did manage to do one thing...apparently, as they were still mad at each other.

Outrun the bears that were attempting to carry them towards the centre zone.

"Have at us, you guys!" Dante shouted. "Take Bayonetta if you want to not bear meat."

"Okay, that's fine." Bayonetta remarked. "Dante's got some cheeky opinions about bears."

*Heavy's confessional*

Heavy was in the confessional with a bear.

"I like guy, I like being at top, but I do not like doing nothing for hour!" Heavy shouted. "Time to take the win!"

*Confessional cut*

Cassie, Snake, Dante, Bayonetta, Heavy and Mikasa were all liking the change of pace in this not so compact, yet potentially awesome area of the top players.

The Brickhouse McLean Ruin, practically a fake hospital/gulag that somehow got subsumed into Pahkitew's general structure and all of them were waiting for the obvious.

"Guys, this challenge is taking forever and a day, so there's a lot of space to get familiar with and just in case-"

The doors were locked up.

"-Yeah, you have to get serious about this and not run away for an hour!"

"Fuck, I'm really in the gulag!" Cassie yelled, hopefully not being heard.

The horn was definitely being heard at this very moment, as the final six were doing what they were doing best...very different things that did help to show the other people where they were.

Cassie knew that she was not out, as long as Mikasa wasn't swinging around, everything was good in her part of the area...even if everyone had more ammo than knew what to do with it.

Besides Heavy, because he was splatting all over the competition.

As in she was finally in his sights and he was not in the mood to lose.

"No apology!" Heavy yelled, as he sent Cassie out of the challenge. "...Haha, INCOMING!"

It was practically a war cry, as everyone besides Dante and Bayonetta...was clearly ready to see Heavy go down for one more shot...and as expected, some stealth won in the end.

Solid Snake had the paint bombs and Heavy had one stuck on his back and didn't really feel it.

He kept on walking forward and kept moving towards his enemies that had the power of looking on his back and ignoring him.

And of course, Heavy got hit.

"Oooh, Cassie and Heavy got sixth and fifth, not in the top three!" Chris announced. "The top three can eliminate anyone with one word!"

"Geez, you guys should have listened to the song or something!" Dante shouted this, as...

...he slid out of the way of Bayonetta's paint bullets.

And right into another lady's view.

Mikasa was hanging on top of an operating table and damn it, she was moving differently on top of it and in the end, hit Dante with surprising accuracy and looked quite surprised.

"Okay, Dante's not in the top three!" Chris said. "Who out of Bayonetta, Snake and Mikasa will get the chance to save two people?!"

"One man can't have all that power!" Dante shouted, not really in a bad mood. "...Bayonetta, you better lose-"

"Shut up, small dumb man! She will not lose!" Heavy quite literally got up in his face.

Mikasa was still riding the operating table and she backflipped off it like she was also another Umbran Witch, but unlike the real ones, she took a long time to get up.

And got her hair messed up.

"Well, this is the power that I don't want to have, but I'm going to use it responsibly." Mikasa answered. "Snake's guaranteed to lose-"

"Shut up!" Heavy had to interrupt the sentence again.

Snake was trying to figure something out, as he didn't really have a lot of paint bombs, the bullets were...weirdly slow for Bayonetta and in hilarious fashion, she had no reason to camp at all.

As Bayonetta was strutting towards the super soldier, Snake was trying to pull out whatever he could and the tension in between the lady and the man was thick.

The witch came in with a quick Witch Time to figure what Snake was going to pull out and he figured that...it was time to bring in the bazooka that was badly hidden behind his back.

And it was more of a question of which bullet went first.

The big one or the small one.

Or...none at all, because Bayonetta cartwheeled and Snake...actually then took the shot, even if she was a lot faster than him and thanks to the stance.

Snake just got smashed into a trolley, while the witch just got hit and moved about a few inches, as the doors were finally re-opened.

"DAMN, Snake really wanted to show that witch what's good! And what is good indeed because Snake wins first place and both prizes! Oh and witch lady also gets second!"

"Yeah, that's right! Take the loss Bayonetta, I guess I'll be seeing you another day!" Dante shouted. "I'm going to go back to my friends for real."

"That is quite great, I don't hate friends. I just don't brag about placing lower than a nice lady." Bayonetta remarked with a grin.

"Wow, nice is a massive stretch!" Dante started to get serious. "You're very much up in your own butt."

"OH!" Snake just yelled.

"That's a shame, I'm really learning from an expert."

"What!"

Dante and Bayonetta started to glare at each other and this time, they were doing it for real with their still functional paintball guns and they were ready to fire at this point.

Snake was just getting carried by a bunch of people.

Heavy was trying to not break hands with his handshakes and break morale with his laugh.

Mikasa was still riding on an operating trolley out of the fake hospital.

And most importantly...Cassie Cage stood in between them at the worst time, as there was a whole barrage of paint going between the two stylish good guys, her and Mikasa's trolley.

The paint was really spreading.

"Okay, I know that this is getting a little bit too long! So, I'm going to cut it off there! Today's eliminations are going to be...a little bit wild! With the fate of three people in three other peoples' hands, find out who's going home after the break!" Chris announced, as the paint fighting was still going on.


PART 5 IS ACTUALLY BACK THIS TIME, DUE TO...the craziness of dealing with this many characters and somehow figuring out an not-so-weird elimination option!

Also, five contestants will be goners, just to restore balance to the world.

(73rd to 67th): Aisling, Mystique Sonia, Soma, Kasumi, Eva, Kyo and Tanjiro
(66th to 58th): Rock, Clover, Nicole, Ryuko, Darkness, Oikawa, Tiny Tina, Luigi & Satori Tendo
(57th to 48th): Basil, Lowain, Deadpool, Tiana, Pit, Miko, Legoshi, Scott Pilgrim, Dawn & Yuri
(47th to 40th): Giovanni, Papyrus, Min Min, Muscle Man, Harley Quinn, Piccolo, Coachman, Samurai Jack
(39th to 31st): Squirrel Girl, Leshawna, Ryuko, Khun, Hsien-Ko, JFK, Sammy, Tifa & Catalina
(30th to 25th): Noah, Riku, Nobara, Shego, Michiru & Reg

-From this point on, they can vote and coincidentally, are eliminated in this chapter-

(24th to 21st): Riley Freeman, Pinstripe, Kipo Oak & Penny Proud
(20th to 16th): Sakura Kuragano, Yumeko, Iori Yagami, Mai Shiranui & Sol Badguy
(15th to 11th): Samus, Tails, Terry Bogard, Joseph Joestar & Ochako Uraraka

-From this point, all of the following contestants are safe and the top three have some perks to them!-

10th: Tanya Degurechaff
9th: Storm Shadow
8th: Azula
7th: Sokka
6th: Cassie Cage
5th: Heavy
4th: Dante
3rd: Mikasa (power vote)
2nd: Solid Snake (power vote)
1st: Bayonetta (power vote & saving two people)