Total Drama: Ultimate Islands!
Episode 17: Four's A Squad!
Part 1: The Power of Bonds...or something!

CONGRATS ON GETTING THIS FIC TO 20,000 views and considering this is on , that's...pretty cool! I'm glad you even took a look at it, even if you think it's going to might be the One Piece of Fanfiction.

I can't believe I missed the 69 number, which would have been funny, but 68 contestants is way better for the actual challenge.

Chef's leading the next challenge.

There will be a few cameos from promient KOF characters aside from Kyo and Iori trying to get through the competition and...honestly, the couples haven't gotten enough focus!

The three or four alliances were also going a bit wet and wild the previous round, especially since some of them had lacking performances!

So, Chef decides to turn all of that into a challenge that involves small teams, like, incredibly small teams that would fit into KOF 99, 2000 and 2001. (I don't know why I put a hint into here, you already know what it is!)

And here's the result...I hope you enjoy it! (Still re-editing Episode 16 and adding a few things to Parts 4 and 5)


"Last time on Total Drama, we had a battle royale and things got both really awesome and really weird on Pahkitew Island! Aside from the four contestants came back in the funniest way possible, everyone had no team to cheer for and things got wild-ish!"

"From betrayals to the dumbest moves you've ever seen to big wipeouts and so, so many power players losing their butts to some guy!"

"And there was a lot of some guy destroying the game...specifically Snake, who won the entire thing, to save two and eliminate one! Bayonetta and Cassie also kicked some ass and got the power vote and...Joseph got wrecked by a bear! Hah, fun times!"

"Well, there was five things that needed to be done and they had gotten done! Oikawa, Piccolo and Harley got eliminated through the top three's choices and Riku and Papyrus got eliminated through the rest of the top 25's votes!"

The camera switched from reminicing about the previous episode into the current episode, which was going to be a bit different.

"We've got sixty-eight players, most of which have gotten used to the powers of teamwork, drama and raw endurance! You wanna see which mini-team gets an epic fail, obviously, so let's see who has it today on..."

And the classic zoom-out.

"...TOTAL DRAMA: ULTIMATE ISLANDS!"


I've got one thing to say to you, Chris! As much as the cast is probably chuck full of insane people who belong to an asylum, extra-dimensional characters and other people who don't bring the type of drama that I want, why I am not in!

...

...

This season is desperate need of legal counsel, let you repeat the mistakes of the previous extra-dimensional season!

- Courtney (known betrayer, has sentenced Gwen to a life of not being friends with her and got Duncan arrested by association)


Sol and Dante were lifting a tree back into it's rightful place...even if they were just two people that were a little tired of the bullshit black hole that this season was definitely turning into.

"Man, oh, man, this is genuinely the season of all time." Dante asked. "I'd love it if there wasn't several people after my ass."

"Shut up, people are always going to be after your ass. Especially when you taunt pretty much the most powerful guy on the island." Sol dismissed the white-haired guy.

The tree was back in its rightful place.

"Okay, I'm still gonna do what I'm gonna do."

"Do what? Piss away your own strategy?"

Dante shot a dirty look at Sol Badguy.

"Just try to have a fun time with the rest of the cast, Sol!"

"...There's at least one tenth cast on your butt, so you've gotta do something." Sol sighed, picking up a tree like it was nothing. "But at the same time, I understand kicking back for a bit. Having a thousand guys coming after you isn't easy."

"You do that and I'll do what I said!" Dante just pointed right at Sol. "Have some fun, especially when you've got my back."

"I don't know if I do, but I will not vote for you...even when you embarrass yourself." Sol answered, finally working the tree around.

And then a tree was pulled back into its proper place, as Sol looked quite serious and Dante was really excited for what the day would entail.

"Well, that's over." Sol said. "...Wonder what breakfast is."

"Probably something a bit disgusting!" Dante just spun his wood around. "Eh, Chef's probably having a bad time."

The two men that were plain sure of their skills just were running towards the new mess hall that was both pretty well lit and filled with contestants that were...definitely doing something in the moment, with the duo noticing that the borderline absurd amount of campers getting ruined by...

...squid covered in peanut butter and Soma looked like he sent a message from jail.

"Oh Soma, why is your one so ass? Sorry for swearing!" Pit yelled, as the angel dodged another squid tentacle.

"I'm sorry! I cooked too much and you were in need of good food!" Soma shouted, still with a smile on his face.

"It is not good! It is very bad in fact, so stop it for a second!"

Pit wasn't even half-way through yelling when Miko stopped the whole squid fiasco...with a backflip...and a stop gesture.

"YEAH!" Miko shouted. "Put some Mario mushrooms goddamn!"

Soma looked real interested in...ruining Miko's day, but right before that happened there was a certain bad guy in here and quite literally looked at Soma angrily and managed to make the cook stop.

Dante was just taking a bite out of the squid and questioning one of his life choices on the table.

"Whoa, your squid kills for no reason." Sol informed the cook, ready to come swinging. "So, you better stop or else I'll break your ankles!"

"Yeah, yeah, I'll stop! Just don't break my ankles, you guys!" Soma said. "...Wait, did my squid do that?"

"YES. IT. DID." Sol grumbled loudly, as the bounty hunting man scared Soma.

"...Sorry." Soma said rather quietly. "Anyways, that's over! You guys wanna learn about random stuff!"

Sol, Dante, Pit and Miko realised that they managed to live through the equilvalent of a funny moment, as the cook just went back to normal like it was a comedy special and the downed contestants were still hating the squad.

*Dante's confessional*

The white-haired demon hunter looked really interested.

"Now, this is the kind of stuff I'm going to miss when I leave this island and...probably in a few challenges, because the strategies of this season are...clearly not their best! They ain't showing their best is all I'm saying." Dante remarked.

*Confessional cut*


With the most important alliance in the game...

...they had luckily avoided the squid incident, but in spite of their absurd power and their plan actually working, it still didn't change the slapdash and rather odd nature of the alliance.

Azula was not impressed with Yumeko at all, actually going to find some more members.

Yumeko wasn't thinking being smack dab in the middle of depantsing Muscle Man and Luigi again.

Pinstripe and Coachman were chilling as friends, shooting some rocks with a tommy gun and wondering what the fuck was in that gun to break those rocks.

And they were going to do one thing that will probably backfire in the future...however far it was going to be in these woods, especially with an angry few residing within it.

Iori Yagami was having a fun time hanging out with Kyo in the angriest way possible...cutting wood with their own fire powers and attempting to make a guitar and so far, it went as well as that sentence would have you expected.

Pretty good, actually.

"Heh, you're total shit at this thing." Iori said, borderline tired of Kyo's antics. "How about you concede and say that I am, in fact, the coolest!"

"No, I'm not revoking the right to that claim, because I'm a fucking badass!" Kyo shouted, having more antics than knowing what to do with.

"You were the one who set it up, so stop whining."

"Heh, go whine about it in song form."

Iori's thing looked like a guitar, while Kyo had a massive pile of ashes and right in between them was a very overconfident Azula, preparing her own firepower in the middle of two very angry men.

"Yo, she-devil, the old men are that way!" Kyo shouted at the third fire-wielding teen. "We're in the middle of a diplomatic arguement."

"You're cutting wood in the shape of that instrument. Must be important." Azula smirked.

"Yes, it is! We're proving who is the coolest out of us two." Iori said. "...And Kyo wanted to prove it and wouldn't shut up."

"Well, that is fair."

Azula just had to do into a firebending stance.

"Considering that this is of high importance, I would like to prove my claim to that title."

Kyo and Iori had both started chuckling right after doing the stance and were on full on laughing at the firebender, as Azula still had flames coming out of her finger.

"Sure. Maybe I'll join your alliance if you can beat me!" Iori remarked, still grinning. "But you won't because your alliance's crumbling like my fire."

"You just made your biggest mistake, then." Azula then started to do the thing. "...You should've just rejected me."

"Shut up, child! The real adults are...wow...that actually looks...less bad."

Azula seared the guitar shape in a tree and it was looking...rather accurate unlike Iori's oddly crude guitar carving of fire and it was looking like that the Yagami clan was about to have its hand in the Fire Nation's royal family, because the carving ended looking surprisingly good.

Kyo was just looking at the carving masterpiece and then comparing to his rival's somewhat crude guitar carving...before laughing.

Iori's eyes were open and he kept his poker face, as Kyo was laughing at his ass.

"Man, I can't believe you got beaten by a villain!" Kyo was laughing harder. "Geez, talk about being not the coolest...I can't believe you're only the second coolest."

"...That is not an insult. You're the most annoying guy I've met, but you're still cool." Iori just told him, finally done with the stuff. "By the way, gonna strategise."

"Yes, you will finally join the winning side!" Azula exclaimed. "For the record, that title's worthless."

And just like that, Azula and Iori were leaving the situation, as Kyo wasn't willing to relinquish his own title in the middle of the woods.

"Okay, having fun losing to me and my awesome alliance!" Kyo yelled. "It has badasses, the real coolest person and more fire than you can burn a...steak with!"

And the duo wasn't even there anymore.

"Yeah!"

*Kyo's confessional*

The brown-haired hero looked determined.

"For the record, I'm actually planning on joining Dante's alliance of good guy energy because it doesn't have Iori in it and secondly, I am pretty sure that Azula's a lot crazy." Kyo said. "Also, it will have the coolest guy in there."

*Confessional cut*

While Kyo was having a fun time with his new friends that may or may not be in an alliance and the power couple was hanging out like adults would really do, the first additional member of the merged alliance between Azula and Coachman's old ones was walking with a rather pleasant Azula.

"Yo, what's the scoop? What's the deal?" Iori asked, still grinning.

"My alliance is actually much stronger than you think." Azula said. "They will wipe the grin off your face with their presence."

"...I'll see it when I believe it!"

"Then we shall come-"

A viking horn sounded, which was distinctly not the klaxxon.

"-This Chris McLean character is already on the list." Azula's hands started to spark.

"Pretty sure it's not him." Iori said, because Yumeko had the horn and was definitely visible. "It's that weirdo gambling girl that's also in your alliance."

"Oh yeah...it is." Azula's mood suddenly dampened a ton. "Yumeko, of course, got something useless."

"Yeah, she did." Iori stated. "It's like she has no brain going for-"

Yumeko also had another thing and that thing was a another lady that was coming to Azula and said lady was a little bit unsure about the sight of Iori Yagami, but she was definitely in this.

Nicole Watterson was read to come swinging, as Iori was shocked and Azula was impressed.

"You better explain yourself, young missy! How did I end up joining this alliance and more important, how did you make that arguement?!" Nicole asked, charging up her power. "...Forget it, whatever alliance-"

"Azula, meet Nicole! Nicole, you already know Azula! Anyways, she came in here to claim something of hers and she wanted to gamble with me. And of course, she tried to cheat and I ended up catching her out, because it's more fun that way."

Yumeko paused to let Azula compherend how powerful she was in this game.

"And so, I have this horn and Nicole!"

"She knew of my questionable family life back home...which shouldn't really be possible and she convinced that me I'm compensating for my parents' lack of love, which...why did I tell her?" Nicole asked, as Iori was drinking in the situation.

"...Because we're all friends in this weird alliance of compulsive strategy, questionable morals and oh so odd contrasts." Yumeko just summed it up in one second, as the other three knew what she was talking. "Also, this alliance is held together with scotch tape."

"Makes sense." Azula just gave up.

"Yeah, totally." Nicole also conceded.

*Iori's confessional*

He sighed seriously.

"I've made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement-"

*Confessional cut*


And in better news, love was happening in the place and Snake and Samus just got back up from having their fun moment and actually decided to play some strategy once again.

"So, you wanna know what I want to do?" Snake asked.

"Uh huh. Talk about some more war stories." Samus said.

There was a moment of silence for obvious reasons.

"No, just strategise for a second. So...this is going to sound weird, but...how do we win this?"

"Easy, using our military skills to help our teammates or more likely, get ourselves to the top and avoid elimination that way! Anyways, I bet Chris has a challenge for us."

"No-"

And the actual klaxxon was on, just loud enough for everyone to get annoyed at the host.

"Meet Chef at the cave or for two of you, stop blowing up rocks and listen to Chef! I'm doing very important stuff!" Chris announced, as he sighed deep in a spa bath. "Yep...sorting out of the next challenge!"

Snake and Samus just got up, sure that Chris was definitely not doing anything of worthy and went towards the cave that hosted the weirder team on Pahkitew Island.

"Yes, he's definitely not getting his hair done." Snake said.

*Rock's confessional*

The rocker was back in fashion.

"Man, it's was like wooosh for a while, but now it's like a tsh-tsh. Slow waves coming in and you know what, I like we're taking it slow for a second because...I have no idea what I'm doing." Rock said, before coming close. "Don't tell Clover."

Clover was actually knocking outside of the toilet.

"Er, you heard nothing, babe!"

"Okay!" Clover was convinced. "There was not one anywhere else!"

*Confessional cut*

All of the remaining 69 contestants were standing there in the cave in the middle of some rocks that were blasted apart, including the late couple that was clearly in the middle of something.

Not being sure of what the piled up rock dust then was...all of the contestants assumed the most obvious thing.

"So, like, is this part of the challenge?" Clover asked.

"You know Chris...always going for the stupidest-" Rock then got interrupted by a certain dark-skinned Chef.

"That ain't even close to the challenge!" Chef yelled, finally back in his military gear. "Y'all better not get on my nerves, because some of y'all are a sorry excuse of bitches! You want to know what you're up against, maggots?!"

Just like usual, someone smug had to raise their own head and use their mouth to essential curse out military Chef Hatchet.

"Yes, a sorry excuse of a soldier who couldn't even beat an-"

Coachman then ducked before the top of hat got cut off by a knife throw and then fell down.

"Someone like you should keep you ears wide open for this..." Chef then changed his tone from trying to scare the old man back into his usual drill sargeant voice. "...LISTEN UP, this is my challenge and trust me, there ain't no votes, no marshmellows, only eliminations for thje losers! So, y'all better say yes, sir!"

"Yes, sir!" Everyone in the place shouted, besides a few.

"Gonna stand here all day...unless you say..." Chef Hatchet wasn't in the business of waiting.

"YES, SIR!" Litterally no-one ignored his words.

"Thank you, maggots! You know how I'm still alive?! Our unit couldn't understanding the meaning of betrayal, 'cause it was life and death out there in WAR! Meanwhile y'all forgot the meaning of teamwork to make...but y'all better remember the meaning when you make your squads of four! Worst squad gets auto eliminated!"

There was a gasp that came from somewhere...which suddenly silenced herself, as the obvious premise of the challenge came done.

"Y'all got half an hour to sort yourselves into 17 sorry bunches and trust me, there ain't no solos!" Chef Hatchet still yelled, as the chef was genuine enthusiastic. "...YES?"

"YES, SIR!"

"Hold up, why is there uneven numbers-" Tails got blasted into the stratosphere with Chef Hatchet's horn.

Chef did managed to put the fear of the Hatchet into every single one of the contestants and made them understand what was really going on, as they were getting into groups of four.

*Tanya's confessional*

She was excited.

"Finally someone realises the value of teamwork. Like I want to make a close knit alliance of my own and honestly, I think I kinda have it...though they are probably going to go to other groups for obvious reasons. But I've got something of my own." Tanya said.

*Yuri's confessional*

The brown haired girl with the ponytail actually broke a piece of wood.

"Me, Kasumi, Mai and Sakura! We're a strong enough team on our own, so...you know...I got the plan running! No Riley's allowed on our group!"


The 69 contestants were clearly outside of the cave and immediately, some units were fully formed thanks to the bonds of the

Tails and Reg obviously were one half of Unit 2 and the other half arrived quite quickly, being supremely confident.

"Sammy and Tifa? You two would do well in our unit!" Tails told the two of them. "Yeah and just like that, Unit 2's complete!"

"Woo-hoo! We're clear to make it!" Sammy declared.

Squad 1 was really obvious.

"The boys are back in town!" Satori shouted. "OOOH!"

Satori, Muscle Man, Dante and JFK were definitely the first squad.

Squad 3 was also pretty obvious, as Yuri, Mai, Kasumi and Sakura were all in the same squad for obvious reasons, which stunned the rest of the Short Girls voting block.

"What the, I thought you didn't like Sakura!" Penny shouted.

"I did not like here, but I now like her. End of story." Yuri crossed her arms, as Sakura affirmed with a nod.

"...Never mind, I've got a better team player." Penny said.

"And I don't need her." Yuri said. "Even if she's really underrated."

Squad 4 consisted of Penny Proud, Mystique Sonia, Tiana and Ochako Uraraka, a solid group of young ladies.

Riley, however, found a better squad for his type of game, as Giovanni and Shego had some new faces to pick.

"Aw, sign me up! We're 'bout to stack some paper!"

"...Wait." Giovanni didn't even figure out what Riley was doing.

"Means money, nigga."

"...Oh! A real villain then stacks all of the paper!"

Shego just went with it, as...she could care less along with Nobara.

And Squad 5 was complete and so were actually a few more squads that didn't really need to be mentioned for obvious reasons.

In Squad 6, Khun, Sokka, Heavy and Cassie were keeping it strategic together, considering that Lowain had joined another squad.

In Squad 9, memes were abound with Lowain, Joseph, Deadpool and Kyo all fired up to make terrible jokes.

"Shut up, writer! Give us some time to show we're not all memes!" Deadpool shouted.

"I don't care why you've got the ability to pull the camera toward us, but thanks." Joseph thanked the crazy merc.

In Squad 11, Tanjiro and Samurai Jack was having to deal with Scott Pilgrim and his arrogance.

*Tanjiros' confessional*

"Is it weird that I don't think Scott is that bad of a person. He's clearly trying his best to compete in here." Tanjiro said. "...Even if he's a bit big headed."

*Confessional cut*

Squad 15 consisted of the unassuming and incredibly powerful squad of Ryuko, Min Min, Michiru and Kipo, all smiling.

"Now, this...this is overpowered!" Kipo declared.

"...I hate that it's true." Ryuko mentioned.

Squad 17 managed to pull two of the couples together with Rock, Clover, Miko and Pit making up the members.

"Uh, you can be the leader!" Miko quickly said.

"Yeah, you could've just...told me that?" Clover asked a little suspiciously.

Squad 17 was...a bit weird in that it almost all consisted of girls who had parent problems and someone that could easily connect with them on some level.

"I can sense that all three of you share a questionable relationship with one of your parents." Dawn just managed to avoid three swipes. "Well, don't worry, I won't do that again."

"I know you won't 'cause you're a coward!" Catalina yelled at Dawn.

Squad 7 may have had Yumeko and Azula stuck within the same squad, but it also had Mikasa and Darkness...which was practically the same dynamic on the Crows.

"We came here to win and I'm pretty sure that a overprivileged princess doesn't deserve the money." Mikasa answered.

"You might be right, but I am currently in prison away from my privileges, so I do deserve the money." Azula stated.

And Squad 8 was...a little weird, as expected of hobbling together three guys that didn't necessary like the team-up, but...was think of the competition.

"Whoa, whoa, isn't he the ninja guy that wins all of the challenge?" Luigi asked, still shaking.

"Yeah, he may not be...here, but I'm pretty sure we've got an advantage." Legoshi said. "But he would probably kick our butts if we were lazy...or something."

"Okay." Luigi still shook.

"Yeah." Legoshi was also a bit scared.

*Storm Shadow's confessional*

The ninja looked like he scoffed for real.

"As much as this challenge displeases me and does not meld with my training, I have gotten used to this a while ago...even if my teammates are weak."

*Confessional cut*

Somehow at this point (which was twelve minutes into the half-hour break), 14 out of the 17 spots were filled and the rest were in various states of unchecked vibes, unsurprisingly repellant or indecisive...in spite of the really-well made decisions.

People didn't exactly forget donkey lettuce.

"Well...where's the teammates?" Coachman asked. "Actually, it's surprisingly obvious. No-one would want to team up with donkey lettuce man, except for one..."

"Stop dropping anime lines, it makes youse look a fool." Pinstripe said in the most deadpan tone he could muster.

"No, seriously, he is coming up to my face." Coachman said. "Sol Badguy AKA Fredrick, how is your day."

"Shit. And I don't think it's going to less shit." Sol answered, quite in deep in hating the old man.

"Ah...Well I think that you never know how a day turns out especially when I'm around." Coachman's grin got quite wide and...ridiculous.

Sol and Pinstripe were back together and they weren't sure why their leader was still...not sane.


Squad 12 was all Team Terry with Iori, Bayonetta & Basil taking up the rest of the team and they weren't that excited...just elated to be in such an unusual team up.

Squad 14 was the entire rest of the Swordfishes including Nicole, but not including Leshawna weirdly, as they were standing with confidence and sure that they weren't excited for what was going to happen next.

Leshawna was with Dawn, Catalina and Aisling on Squad 18 and they were going off about it.

And Squad 10 was practically the weirdest dream team you could've pulled together with Snake and Samus obviously being paired up for reasons and Hsien-Ko and Rapunzel teaming up to ensure an extended stay on the island.

*Rapunzel's confessional*

She was quite serious.

"First reason: I quite literally got eliminated in the first episode and sometimes, you have to bring all of your skills to go all of the way. Second reason: I just wanted to see some of my friends up in the gold team that are still in this and third reason:...They really do look cute together!" She said, keeping things suprisingly serious.

*Confessional cut*

Squad 16 was a total mismatch, as though the sarcastic genius had one decent pick, the other two were...not decent picks in the slightest.

Soma was practically a crackhead with a cooking degree and Tiny Tina was also a crackhead, but this time she was an explosions expert.

"Yo, let's blow it up!" Tiny Tina yelled.

"No, we are not." Noah dully stated. "We've got bigger problems."

"Like not blowing the competition up! Let's solve that shit."

"...Heh, I like your thinking." Eva just joined up.

"What thinking?" Noah seriously questioned Tina's...think tank.

And while that was happening, Squirrel Girl was having a bit of a moment...in the best terms that I could muster up, as while Nicole had an alliance to deal with and was forced to get into Squad 13, which was now complete.

She realised one thing.

All of the squads had four people and they were complete and she realised that she had a only one choice and it was a powerful one.

*Squirrel Girl's confessional*

She looked like she was about to debate the president.

"I have now come to a executive decision about picking my squad to carry me and my butt towards the next challenge and it was hard and it took me a long while." She told the audience. "...No, it wasn't, but JFK wanted to bang me for some reason and I could care less, because I chose...the hero guys!"

*Confessional cut*

"Let's go, you guys! I know a few guys with swords!" Squirrel Girl declared.

"Wait, why did you take so long to make your decision?" Samurai Jack asked.

"Instinct and a squirrel."

"..." Samurai Jack was flabbergasted.

"That's actually a pretty solid idea." Tanjiro added to the conversation. "Besides, EVERYONE'S IN HERE!"

"I don't care! You guys have your sorry bunches set up?!" Chef just let them stand there in awe. "...You better get in a canoe for your first challenge...because the drop's going to suck!"

"Oh, the drop from gettling eliminated? I bet it's not going to suck!" Squirrel Girl declared.

"...Uh, don't say that." Tanjiro whispered to Squirrel Girl.

Chef then laughed, as the co-host with the brutal sunglasses knew that the drop actually sucked and so the relationsation that if the host doesn't actually interrupt you for some reason...it's going to be crazy.

"You'll wish it was that..."


And indeed, all 17 canoes were a little cramped for real estate on the edge of a waterfall and they were in such an area that was known for the natural trees, robot fauna and the giant fucking drop that the contestants weren't...currently being pushed towards.

"Uh, remember when I said the drop wouldn't suck?" Squirrel Girl asked the other members of the crew.

"Of course, that was a paragraph ago." Deadpool said. "It was funny-"

"It was not, Deadpool!" Squirrel Girl shouted. "Even if every one of us would probably survive the waterfall drop."

"Dang, you better get to reading this thing."

"I can't, but I'd like to."

Sammy, Tifa, Tails and Reg were just focused on the insane drop that was...not there yet.

100 meters to the bottom of the somewhat real lake from the unactivated waterfall was where the squads that didn't pay attention were going to fall to.

"Listen up, campers! Your first challenge is to keep your canoes from falling into that lake and it shouldn't be that hard!" Chef shouted with a megaphone. "Some of you honestly scare with how much you're not scared!"

"Come on, give us a challenge. This is piss easy!" Dante exclaimed.

"Bro, shut up...Chef's talking." Muscle Man went for a quick disrespectful slap.

"The last two squads, teams or whatever still on top of the waterfall ain't eliminated!" Chef saw the sign to go and indeed, the water was go. "Move, move or you'll lose! Hahahaha."

The 17 squads weren't really fighting for their lives...for real, but fighting for their place in the competition and of course, there was more than a few overachievers.

Mostly because...Sakura was doing overtime.

"Will that chick make it or break it?" Chef announced. "You'll find out when this show comes back from the break! You better be there!"


To be continued in the second part of the four-man group challenge, where the fighting comes from Chef really putting these guys through the metaphorical wringer through more of his challenges and more of the military stuff!

Even if the special guest is a little apphrensive about it.

Squad 1/Boys of the Town: Dante, Muscle Man, Satori Tendou & JFK

Squad 2/Double Up: Tifa, Sammy, Tails & Reg

Squad 3/Queen of Fighters: Yuri, Sakura, Mai & Kasumi

Squad 4/Short Girl Squad: Uraraka, Tiana, Penny & Mystique Sonia

Squad 5/Paper Stackers United: Giovanni, Riley, Shego & Nobara

Squad 6/Revived Swordfishes: Sokka, Heavy, Khun & Cassie

Squad 7/Antagonistic Friends: Azula, Mikasa, Yumeko & Darkness

Squad 8/The Soft & Strong: Storm Shadow, Luigi, Legoshi & Tanya

Squad 9/Meme House: Deadpool, Lowain, Joseph & Kyo

Squad 10/Comeback Machine: Snake, Samus, Hsien-Ko & Rapunzel

Squad 11/Swordmeisters: Samurai Jack, Tanjiro, Squirrel Girl & Scott Pilgrim

Squad 12/Team Bogard: Terry Bogard, Iori, Bayonetta & Basil

Squad 13/Bad-ish Blood: Coachman, Pinstripe Potoroo, Sol Badguy & Nicole

Squad 14/Young, Dumb & Woke: Kipo Oak, Ryuko, Min Min & Michiru Tamegori

Squad 15/Leftover Squad: Noah, Eva, Tiny Tina & Soma

Squad 16/Love's Weapon: Clover, Rock, Miko Kubota & Pit

Squad 17/Passionate Punchers: Dawn, Catalina, Aisling & Leshawna

68 CONTESTANTS, BABY! Seriously, I need to have a counting guy or something, because my numbers are off and my methodology is kinda questionable.