Towering Terrors- Carter, Dante, Deon, Laurie, Margaret, Maria, Rival 7/10
Ballistic Bellhops- Andrew, Elizabeth, Liz, Phoebe, Regina, Sunny, Qwynn 7/10
The episode starts off with Hayley, who is busy doing…something with a guitar. She touches it, and it makes a sound. This catches her off guard. "Fascinating" she says before noticing the camera. "Oh I'm sorry, music has always fascinated me." She smiles and lets out a nervous bead of sweat before giving the intro. "Last time on Total Drama Hotel Madness, we took a deep dive to the depths of the ocean blue, and to the depths of some of these teens, am I right!" She laughs at her own bad joke. "Anyways, things took a wrong turn for the Bellhops as it seemed everyone on the team was a little on edge, we had infighting, betrayal and some juicy secrets revealed. Meanwhile, things were going just swimmingly for the Terrors as they grew closer as a group with Maria joining the team, and because of that they won the challenge. Also, I caught Franchesco before things got out of hand."
Just then, a murmuring sound can be heard coming from the next room over, causing Hayley to get a little bit uneasy.
"Uhhhhhh…You can just ignore that. Anyways, how will I punish Franchesco and the Bellhops, what beautiful music will these guys make? Will I ever figure out how this thing works?" She motions to the guitar in the air next to her. "All of these important questions and more will be answered on this episode of TOTAL DRAMA HOTEL MADNESS!"
*Theme song plays*
We open up on Chef, who is laying down in his tub playing with his rubber duck toy when suddenly, he gets a phone call.
"Ugh, who could that be?" He starts to get up when he thinks for a moment before saying "Eh, maybe I should just ignore it. Maybe it's not important" and goes back to taking his bath. He's proven wrong though as the ringing persists. "Ugh, alright fine! I'll answer it." He grabs a towel and gets out of the tub. "What?" He answers the phone.
"Chef, is that you?" A familiar face said from the other end.
Chef looks like he's seen a ghost as he answers "Chris? Are you alright?"
"Yeah man, I'm feeling better now. In fact, dy sinuses are mostdly cleared up. I'll be returning to the hodel soon."
"That's good news, but why haven't I seen you in a while?" Chef asks Chris.
"I dunno bro, something happened to my indernet connection, but I'm okay. I'm fine. I'll see ya soon!" Chris hops onto a helicopter "McClean out!" He hangs up.
"Man, I was wondering what happened to him. Glad to hear that he's alright. I'd better go tell Hayley." Chef rushes out the door, only to return a few seconds later. "Right after I get dressed."
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Confessional: Qwynn
He sighs. "Well, it sucks that I lost Tyson, he proved to be the only true friend that I had." He takes a deep breath. "But oh well, I guess I've just got to carry on I. I'm in it to win it." He sheds a tear. "I'd better lay low for a while."
Confessional over
Qwynn was sitting alone eating his lunch very slowly. He sighs.
"What's the point anymore? Everyone knows about my journal now so what's the use?"
"Oh, I can think of one or two good uses." Qwynn jumps as Liz scares him by jumping out from under the table.
"How long were you there?" He regains his composure.
"Oh, at least for a few minutes."
Qwynn just blinks back at her twice before Liz continues.
"Anyway, you're in a rough spot." She points at him, putting her finger on his nose and twisting it.
"Yeah," Qwynn scoots away from her, "tell me something I don't know."
She giggles. "You're funny" she says before getting closer to him. "You see, here's the thing. You want to make it to the merge?"
Qwynn glares at her with a look of disgust. "Of course I want to make it to the merge, I want to win even. That's why you're her, that's why I'm here, that's why we're all here!" He stamps his fist on the table.
"Well what if I told you that I could make sure that happens?"
Qwynn spits out his food. "Are you talking about an alliance?" He asks, shocked.
"It's about time you figured that out, writer boy." Liz bluntly tells Qwynn. "Listen, all I need from you is a little bit of information about the others."
"Well I…" Qwynn backs away from her as he realizes that he's being bribed. "...I'm not sure."
"Well it's okay," Liz stares down at her nails as she casually says "if you don't, you can just ignore me, and you'll probably get eliminated next time we lose. Bottom line, if you want protection, stick with me, but if you don't then it's alright, I mean it's no big deal, for me anyway."
Qwynn gulps before saying "I'll…I'll think about it. Is that okay with you?" He asks her.
"Oh yeah sure," she waves her hand in front of his face, "it's fine. I'll give you time to think about it, though I suggest that you hurry up, there's probably like four more eliminations until the merge. My offer is good until then. That is, if you make it for that long."
"Oh good, that's greeeeeeeeeat!" Qwynn says very nervously.
Liz smiles at Qwynn. "See you during the challenge!" She blows a kiss at him before she disappears.
Qwynn clutches his chest. "Well, that was nerve racking.
Confessional: Liz
"Oh, he'll definitely come back to me. I know he will. It's just a matter of time!"
Confessional over
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"Libby, I'm sorry Qwynn didn't get eliminated, please don't rip up the sweater" Phoebe begs to the mirror in front of her.
"Oh don't worry about it" Libby says, "I'm not mad about it."
Phoebe is shocked by this development. "You…You're not?" She questions.
"Oh no, not at all." Libby says back.
"Seriously?" Phoebe puts her finger over her chin, confused.
"Yes. In fact, why I give you some advice?" Libby says.
"Really?" Phoebe's not quite sure if she can trust Libby.
"Yeah, you need to be less nervous." Libby actually gives Phoebe the advice. "That's kinda why I show up."
"Seriously?" Phoebe asks.
"Yeah, haven't you noticed? I show up the most when you're stressed or nervous, but that's not all, as recently you've been noticing. The truth is that you're a doormat, and if you really want to get rid of me, then you'll have to toughen up."
Just then, Phoebe gets a knock on her door.
"Excuse me." Phoebe says ro the mirror before answering the door to Regina. "Oh, hello."
"Hey there bestie," Regina hugs Phoebe. "How's it going?"
"Um…well, you could say that it's been interesting to say the least."
"Oh, really? Well tell me all about it!" Regina went over to Phoebe's computer and sat down in the chair next to it. Phoebe sighs before sitting down on her bed next to her friend.
"Well you see, Libby has gotten more difficult to control."
"You bet I have!" Libby answers Phoebe, which astounds Regina.
"Oh my," Regina puts her hands on her face. "I guess it has…or she has. I don't know what to say."
"Well actually, she just told me that there's a rhyme to her reason, and maybe a way out." Phoebe responds.
"Oh really?" Regina blinks. "How?"
"Oh, I pop up when she's nervous." Libby says.
"Yeah so maybe if I was less nervous, I could get rid of her."
At this, Libby laughs. "Yeah, that's not going to happen, but I'd like to see you try!"
"You know what, maybe that will work. No, I know that will work! Don't worry, your Auntie Regina is on the case and will help you get rid of that nervousness right away, I guarantee it!"
"That's great, thanks!" Phoebe high fives Regina.
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Confessional: Sunny
She sighs. "Okay, so I feel really bad for Andrew after what happened last time. I've gotta make it up to him but I have no Franchesco for advice so I'm not quite sure what to do. Maybe I should talk to him. No, that won't be enough, I can do better than that. Man, where is Franchesco when you need him?"
Confessional over
Confessional: Andrew
"Man, I gotta say, what happened last time was…nerve racking to say the least. But if it's taught me one thing, it's that I need to go on a diet." He grabs his stomach. "This chub is obviously not going to impress Sunny any time soon, so from now on, I guess I've gotta eat healthier. No more doughnuts and leftover pizza for breakfast anymore. Even though though they are so good together." He sighs before saying "pizza doughnuts" then slapping himself. "No, stop doing that. You CAN do this! It's for Sunny!"
Confessional over
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Confessional: Dante
"Yo homie, it's so sweet that I was able to get an alliance with Deon! Well actually, he didn't agree to it, but he sorta did. Y'all know what I'm sayin', right? Anyway, now that I got that part all diggity done, I need to move on to the next step, which is getting evidence about the whole Carter situation, so I can go after him and all that. Then it'll be easier to get him out!" He rubs his hands together.
Confessional over
Dante stands in front of Carter's door, trying to get a better look.
"Eh! Eh!" He grunts as he tries to jump up to see through the peephole. "Ya know, this isn't going to work dawg." He gets down on the ground to see through the little slit on the bottom, but all he can see is just floor. "Come on, he's gotta be in here somewhere dawg!"
Just then, Carter sneaks up on Dante by jumping in front of the other side of the door and spraying where Dante was looking with blue spray paint.
"Get away from my door!" Carter yells as he continues to spray the gangsta's eyes with the paint.
"Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!" Dante yells as he gets up and starts running around in circles. He knocks himself out as he hits Carter's door.
Confessional: Carter
"Ugh, that little gnat has been at my doorstep every day since the last challenge. It's getting rather frustrating." He rubs his eyes. "Good thing I brought this." He holds up the spray paint. "It helps keep my brother out of my room…sometimes."
Confessional over
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Confessional: Margaret
"Okay so I think that it's obvious dat Deon likes me, so I've gotta step up my game, but what ta do? Hmmmm…" she thinks for a second before she says "I know" and opening up her purse to get her beloved stuffed walrus out. "What do ya think Sir Tuskerton, what should mommy do?" "I think you should have a pool party!" Margaret says Sir Tuskerton's voice. "A pool party? Dat's a brilliant idea! He won't be able ta resist all dis in a bikini!"
Confessional over
Margaret knocks on Deon's door.
"Open up!"
Deon opens the door. "Oh hey, Margaret…" he says awkwardly, "...what is it?"
"Team meetin'. Meet me at da swimmin' pool."
Deon raises an eyebrow. "At the swimming pool?"
"Dat's right. Ya gotta problem with dat?" Margaret says intimidatingly.
"Wha…no. It's fine." He answers.
"Good. Meet me dere in ten minutes." She says before stomping down the hallway. Deon watches her leave before he shuts the door.
"Team meeting?" Laurie asks Deon, who was already on his bed.
"Team meeting." He nods.
Cuts to Laurie and Deon going to the pool where all they see is just Margaret in her swimsuit, which was a two piece black bikini. Deon and Laurie were in their swimwear too. Deon was wearing a pair of red swimming trunks while Laurie was wearing a two piece bikini. The top was white while the bottom was pink. Luckily for the couple, Margaret had her back turned to them so she didn't see them together.
"What the heck, Laurie says in a quiet voice, but one that was just loud enough for her boyfriend to hear. "I thought this was a team meeting?"
"I thought so too." Deon says back to her in a hushed tone.
"But why is it just her?"
"I don't know."
"Well," Laurie sighs, "I guess that this is an ambush. Just my luck."
"Hey," Deon puts his hand on her cheek to reassure her, "listen, I'll go over there but if she tries to put the moves on me I'll put her in a headlock."
"Deon, don't do that!"
"Figuratively, my sweetheart." He kisses her on the cheek before saying "Now hide."
"Okay." Laurie goes over to hide by a bush while Deon goes over to Margaret.
"Hey, Margaret…It's just you? Where's the rest of the team?" Deon asks, as if he already doesn't know.
"Da rest of da team?" Margaret plays dumb.
"Yes, wasn't this supposed to be a team meeting?" He asks.
"Oh, did I say dat?" She giggles as she plays with her hair.
"Yes, you did." Deon says bluntly.
"Oh well, dat was my mistake." She leans forward, "I meant dat I wanted ta invite ya here fer a little pool party."
Deon raises an eyebrow. "A little…pool party?"
"Why yes, doesn't dat sound fun?" Margaret leans forward just to whisper "Just ya and me" in his ear.
Deon frowns. "Sorry, but Deon Blade doesn't like being ambushed like this. Deon Blade doesn't like surprises." With that, Deon gets up and leaves, with Margaret staring back at him as he leaves.
Confessional: Margaret
"Hmph." she flips her hair. "So he's playin' hard ta get? Well I'm just gonna have ta force da issue!"
Confessional over
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Confessional: Rival
"So, I think I backed my way into an alliance last time, but I'm not really sure. I mean yes she was being helpful but now I don't know what you call it. You could say that we're friends I guess?" He sighs. "Let's hope I don't blow it. I probably will though." He shakes his head.
Confessional over
Rival was in his room on his guitar when suddenly Maria knocked on the door.
"Yeah I'll be right there." He gets up to answer it. "Oh hey, Maria." He's caught off guard. "It's you.
"Yeah, I just wanted to check on you to see if you're alright."
"Yeah, I'm fine" he says awkwardly.
"Oh, that's…great" she says back just as awkwardly.
"So um…why are you here?" Rival says in an attempt to continue the conversation.
"Oh um, I just wanted to see how you're doing, that's all. I mean, I know that last round was difficult for you." She blinks twice.
"Okay," Rival doesn't know what to say, but he continues on with an "Yeah, it was really tough, since I can't swim and all that." He lets out an awkward chuckle before saying "Um…you want to come in?"
"Um…" she blinks, "sure" she finally says.
"Well then, by all means, come in." Rival invites her into his room, which is quite messy. There are dirty clothes and some leftover burrito wrappers just laying around.
"Wow um…this sure is…something." Maria comments.
"Oh yeah, sorry. I don't really invite people into my room that often for a reason. If you want, we could go somewhere else" he offers.
"No, it's fine. I mean, this is better than where I live." She responds.
"Oh, where do you live?" Rival asks the girl.
Maria gasps. "Oh uh, I mean…" she looks around, desperately looking for something else to talk about when her eyes settle on Rival's axe. "Hey, is that a guitar?"
Rival frowns. "Why yes, it is, but um, what were you…"
"Could you teach me how to play it?" Maria interrupted Rival before he could say anything else.
Rival sighs before saying "sure" and sitting down on his bed and grabbing the guitar. He grabs his pick. "Now, this is a guitar pick, you use it to play the guitar."
"But wait, can't you use your hands?" Maria wonders.
"If you want to hurt your hands, then yes." Rival tells her very bluntly.
"Oh, okay." Maria nods her head. "Go on."
Just then, Chef practically knocks down Rival's door. "Challenge time" he announces.
"Oh well, it looks like we've gotta get going." Maria says.
"Yeah, I guess it is." Rival sighs.
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Andrew and Sunny were on their way to the elevator when they bumped into each other. This being the first time they've seen each other after the incident that was the last challenge.
"Oh um, hi!" Sunny waved her left hand at him nervously.
"Hey." Andrew says just as nervously if not more. "How's it going?"
Sunny puts her hand down. "Oh, it's going…great, and you?"
"Oh you know, I've been hanging around." Andrew tries to look cool by crossing his arms, but because it's Andrew, it just doesn't work and he just ends up looking like a dork.
Sunny covers her mouth as she smiles at this and giggles at him, until his smile starts to fade, then she stops immediately.
"So uh…you need help up?" Andrew offers.
"Sure." Sunny says awkwardly.
"Alright." Andrew gets up then helps her up by grabbing her arm.
"So, nice to see you again." She says upon getting up.
"Yeah, nice to see you too." Andrew scratches his head before saying "We should get going to the challenge."
"Right. So let's get going!" Sunny says very awkwardly.
"You want me to take you there?" Andrew reaches for her hand again.
"Oh no, I'm fine. I know the way." Sunny says.
"Oh" Andrew says dejectedly. "Well, see you there then."
"Yeah totally, see you there." A disappointed Andrew walks off, only turning around to wave at Sunny, to which she waves back with an uncomfortable expression on her face.
/
Cuts to the familiar scene of everyone in the elevator, Deon, Laurie and Margaret are now back in their regular clothes. As everyone was gathered together, Sunny finally asked Chef the big question. "Where's Franchesco?"
"How should I know?" Chef responds back, slightly annoyed.
Just then, Hayley appears in front of everybody. "Now for this challenge…"
"But what about…"
"He's fine." Hayley answers Sunny, as if she knew exactly what the idol was about to say, then continues on. "Now, the theme of this challenge is something you humans call mu…sic. Am I saying that right?"
Rival and Sunny's ears perk up. "You mean music?" Rival corrected Hayley.
"Yes I'm, that's what I meant. Anyways…"
"Is our next challenge going to be a singing competition?" An excited Sunny interrupted Hayley.
"Finally," Rival pumps his fist, "something I may be good at," he then sighs, "or one that I'll probably get nervous and blow at the last second." He says in a pessimistic tone.
"Sing…ing? What is that?"
Right after Hayley says that, everyone facepalms themselves.
"Anyways, your challenge this time is kind of a weird one if I'm being honest. Your objective is to find a diamond, but first you'll need to find four different clues that will help you in the last stage, where you will find the diamond. These clues are hidden in six other different stages that are based off of some songs that I listened to recently while researching this challenge, three for each team." Hayley says as the elevator door opens up. There waiting for them is just a room with two different doors, one off to the left, and one off to the right.
"Oh, I see." Liz says immediately. "We have to choose which way we're going. In that case, I choose…"
"Ah ah ah," Hayley steps in, much to the annoyance of Liz. "This is the point where I would like to announce something. As you may have noticed, the Bellhops are down a certain bodyguard."
"Finally," Sunny folds her arms, "some answers."
"Yes well, that is I caught him during the last challenge."
All of the contestants' jaws drop at this revelation.
"He's serving his own punishment, but since he helped your team," she points at the Bellhops, "you're getting penalties."
"Wait…penalties?" Liz's eye twitches.
"Oh don't worry about it Liz, you won't be affected. These penalties will be specific to the challenges, and will only affect the members who Franchesco helped the most."
"Oh yes." Liz smirks an evil grin and looks back at Sunny.
"Oh man." Sunny gulps in response.
Meanwhile, Hayley goes on. "Now, I went back through some footage and Sunny, you and Franchesco were separated throughout most of the time on the dinosaur and fantasy floors, so therefore, I won't penalize you for that, however, you will still be getting six penalties for the rest of the challenges before this one."
"Aw man!" Sunny sighs.
"Speaking of the dinosaur and fantasy floors, while Franchesco wasn't with Sunny, he was with Andrew for those challenges. In total, you're getting three penalties."
"There?" Andrew looks at Hayley skeptically, "What did I do to get the third one?"
"Good question, and that brings me to my last set of penalties, the 50's floor."
"Ya mean da race challenge?" Margaret chimes in.
"Yes" Hayley responds before turning her attention back to the Bellhops, "in that challenge, Franchesco kinda took over for your team, and you all agreed to it, except for you Liz and Maria, because you weren't there for most of that challenge and never agreed to it."
"Thank you." Liz says sweetly.
"You're welcome," Hayley responds. Anyway, Phoebe, Regina, and Qwynn each get a penalty for just this challenge, and the one for Andrew, of course."
"Wait, Elizabeth scratched her head, "you said that the penalties were challenge specific?"
"You don't get one, but that's right."
"That's good, but what are the penalties for this challenge?"
"Oh yes, right." Hayley snaps her fingers, just then a bottle of throat spray appears in front of everyone on the Bellhops team except for Elizabeth and Liz. Each bottle then sprays each of the respective team members' mouths before each of them disappear. "There, now you can't talk for the rest of the challenge. Any questions?" Hayley stops for a split second to tease the Bellhops, Liz started to say something, but Hayley cuts her off with a "No, of course not" and a sly giggle before saying "Now, Towering Terrors, since you guys won last time, so Margaret, as the leader, you get to choose which door you want." Hayley discreetly points at the left door, but Margaret doesn't need it.
"Come on guys, let's go through da left door." She motions toward the rest of her teammates.
A concerned Rival asks "But what about…"
"Nonsense, afta da whole bridge debacle, I don't trust second options anymore. Now come on!" The rest of the team follows Margaret after she opens the left door.
Liz turns to Elizabeth and says "I guess we're stuck with the right door."
"Yep." Elizabeth responds.
"Good luck." Hayley says before disappearing.
"Well, let's go." Liz tells the rest of her team.
/
Meanwhile, the Terrors were already at the first leg of their challenge, which was in the middle of what appeared to be the serengeti. Margaret was going back and forth between looking ahead and trying to cop some looks at Deon, which made Laurie very nervous.
Confessional: Laurie
"First I was scared of Margaret finding out about my relationship because she DIDN'T like Deon, and now I'm terrified she'll find out because she DOES like him? I don't even want to think about what she'll do to me!" She gulps, while nervously playing with her hair.
Confessional over
"Yo dawg, this place is hot!" Dante clears the sweat dripping from his face. "Where are we?"
"We're in the serengeti, you idiot!" Carter yells back at him.
"Ugh, I can already tell that their fighting is going to get on my nerves." Rival complained to Maria.
"Don't worry about it," she said, "this challenge is about music, right? Are there any songs you know that take place in the serengeti?"
"Well no, but there is this one song about a sleeping lion."
Just then, Margaret looks up, and acts like she's been paying attention the whole time. "Yes, right. Listen to da musician."
As she says this, something lurks behind them. Standing there…or I guess in this case laying there is a walrus that is completely out of place with the environment that the Terrors are currently in.
Confessional: Hayley
"Yes um, in case you didn't notice, I was urging Margaret to take the door on the left. That was done to insure that the Terrors got their own penalty for Franchesco helping them last challenge. You see, when I was studying for this challenge, I listened to this one band called the Beat-alls. They're this one really famous British band apparently, and anyway, they had this one really strange song about a walrus, and um…yeah. You'll see what I mean. Let's just leave it at that."
Confessional over
"Look, over there!" Laurie points at a pride of lions.
"Well, that was easy, dawg!"
"Don't celebrate just yet," Carter warned Dante, "knowing Chris, we're going to have to fight those lions."
"Oh, I am all over that!" Deon got in his best fighting stance, ready to attack said lions, when suddenly, the walrus from before jumps out in front of the wrestler. "What the huh?" Deon scratches his head.
A shocked Margaret asked "What is a walrus doing in da middle of da serengeti?"
"We'd better proceed with caution." Carter warned the rest of his team.
"I can take it!" Deon has no trouble attacking the walrus, but as soon as he gets close to it, a boatload of sausages, bacon, ham, pulled pork, and other pork related byproducts come shooting out of its mouth, easily stopping Deon in his tracks.
"What in the world?" A confused Laurie scratches her head.
"Ya've gotta be kiddin' me." Margaret facepalms herself.
"Told you." Right after Carter says that, bucket loads of water comes out of the walrus's mouth, which easily washes the Terrors away.
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As that was going on, the Bellhops were about to be in a sticky situation of their own, as they were in what appeared to be downtown London.
"Okay, how's this going to work?" Elizabeth asks Liz.
"Look, there are other ways to communicate besides talking."
Elizabeth raised an eyebrow. "Like what, doing charades?"
"Yeah, or writing, and lucky for us, we happen to have a writer on our team." Liz motions toward Qwynn. "Hint! Hint!"
Qwynn sighs and writes "Fine" down on his notebook and shows it to her.
"That is…actually a good idea. Let's go with that."
Liz taps Qwynn on his arm. "You wouldn't happen to have one of those for everyone else who can't speak, now would you?"
Qwynn writes "No" down on his notebook and shows it to her, causing Liz to raise an eyebrow.
"Are you sure?" She then whispers at him "You know, I could rescind that little offer that I made earlier today."
Qwynn sighs and writes "Fine" down then he reaches into his pockets and pulls out four more notebooks and some pencils and hands them over to the girl who was blackmailing him.
Liz turns back to her team. "So, now that that's out of the way, does anyone have any ideas on how to find this clue?"
"I don't know." Elizabeth says as she shrugs her shoulders.
"Anyone else?" Liz says to the rest of her teammates.
Everyone else just shrugs their shoulders.
"Great, we're probably going to lose again because of these stupid penalties!"
"Calm down." Elizabeth tried to comfort Liz before saying "You've got me on your team!"
Liz glares over at Elizabeth, clearly unamused. "Not funny!"
"Uh, Liz…"
"What? You want to tell me something else that isn't funny?"
"No." Elizabeth points right behind Liz. She turns around to see the ten foot tall werewolf that was standing right there.
"Run!" Elizabeth and the rest of the Bellhops started to run away, but not Liz, no. She stands up and fights. She throws a glue bomb at it, but the werewolf catches it with its claw, to which it squeezes, causing it to explode all over the poor creature.
"Hah, I knew that would work!" Right after Liz says that, she and the rest of her team are surrounded by similar looking werewolves, and the one that was trapped breaks free. Qwynn writes something down in his notebook then shows it to Liz. With an annoyed look on her face, she turns to him and says "Now that's just rude!"
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Meanwhile, the Terrors had escaped into a cave, with Carter being the last one there.
"Did we escape dat crazy walrus?" Margaret asks Carter upon the latter's arrival.
"I think so." Carter looks back. "I don't see it anymore."
"Good." Margaret says before turning to the rest of her team. "Now, does anyone know what's goin' on with dis stupid challenge?"
Maria encourages Rival to speak up, to which he does so. "Actually, the challenge is about music, right?"
"Supposedly." Margaret answered back.
"Well there was this one song about a sleeping lion. Maybe that's where we'll find the first clue."
"Dat actually makes sense." Margaret pats Rival on the back. "Good job, now where do we find dis sleeping lion?"
"Oh," Rival pauses for a second before continuing with "that I actually don't know. I just remember that there was a song about a sleeping lion." He reiterates.
Margaret facepalms herself. "Well dat's just great. Whaddare we supposed ta do?"
"Well," Laurie said, "we could go look for a sleeping lion."
"Out dere?" Margaret looked at Laurie like she was crazy. "With dat thing out dere waitin' for us? Ya gotta be kiddin' me?"
"Why don't we send Deon out there?" Laurie suggested. "I'm sure he could handle it."
"No!" Margaret snapped back at her right after Laurie said that. "But I do like da idea of sendin' someone out dere. Someone like you!" Carter's face brightens up as soon as Margaret points at Dante.
"Yo homie did you see that thing? I mean…not that I'm scared or anything…"
"Good," Margaret grabs Dante's hand, "now go out dere and distract dat thing."
"Yo homie," Dante begs as he's being dragged out of the cave by Margaret. "Why don't we have a rap battle for it?"
Margaret glares back at Dante with the most serious face she can make. "Do I look like I wanna do dat?"
Confessional: Carter
He's giggling as he says "Man, getting rid of that little twerp might be easier than I originally thought." He claps as he laughs some more. "Maybe I won't need my computer for this!" He hits the table in front of him with the side of his fist as he continues laughing like a hyena.
Confessional over
Margaret throws Dante out of the cave. "Now hold on a minute!" The gangsta says as he lands on his backside.
"You distract dat thing fer us, got it?" Margaret yells back at Dante.
"But I…" before Dante can say anything else, he sees the walrus right there next to him. He immediately runs away while screaming.
Margaret looks out the cave entrance. "Okay, I think da coast is clear."
"Where are we supposed to find this thing again?" Laurie asks Margaret.
"I dunno, but I'm sure we could find it if we just spread out." She says before Carter whispers in her ear.
"Or we could do this the easy way if you let me borrow that phone of yours again."
Margaret glares at Carter and takes a deep breath before responding. "Oh, okay fine, but tell no one, yagoddit?"
"Yes ma'am." He takes the phone from her. Carter easily hacks into the hotel's main frame and gets a blueprint of the floor which shows him the location of the first clue with a red dot. "Okay, according to this it's that way." Carter points to his left and Margaret's right.
"We're goin' dat way!" Margaret says as she points in the same direction.
/
Confessional: Sunny
She opens her mouth, not expecting anything to come out. "It just feels so awkward being around Andrew for the first time since what happened last time. Wait, I can talk? Huh, that's strange. Guess the penalty doesn't apply in confessionals."
Confessional over
Confessional: Andrew
He opens his mouth, again not expecting anything to come out. "I've made a decision. I'm going to just try to remain calm and work with Sunny. I may not forgive her for what happened last time, but I don't want to be the reason why my team loses. So I'm just going to suck it up and do my best to not make things awkward between us. Wait, I can talk? Huh, that's cool. Anyways, part of me still wants to impress her, but I just…I don't know. I'm very conflicted about my feelings right now."
Confessional over
The Bellhops are still surrounded by werewolves, still terrified, and still don't know what to do.
"Well what do you suggest that we do now, Ms. Genius?" Elizabeth said in a very sarcastic manner.
"Well, I could try this…" Liz throws one of her stink bombs out to the crowd of werewolves, but because they're part dog, they actually like stench so they all go near it to sniff. Liz just stands there dumbfounded, saying after a while "I…knew that would work."
Elizabeth rolls her eyes. "Of course you did."
"Look, let's just get out of here." The rest of the team agrees with Liz and follows her away from the crowd of werewolves.
"Okay, glad that's over with." Elizabeth turns to Liz. "What are we going to do now?"
"Well we're supposed to look for a clue, right?" Everyone else nods. "Well it's gotta be in here somewhere."
The rest of the Bellhops facepalm themselves.
"That's it, that's your suggestion?" Elizabeth folds her arms.
As she says this, Sunny sees one of the werewolves go into a place called "Trader Joe's." She points this out to Andrew.
"Ugh!" Liz groans. "Look, I may be smart, but I don't know the first thing about music. Especially not whatever the heck this is supposed to be! What do you suggest?"
"Well, we could split up." Elizabeth suggests.
Liz glares back at Elizabeth, annoyed. "And let these things pick us off one by one?
"Like you've got anything better!" Elizabeth huffed.
Just then, Sunny handed Liz a note that said "Let's regroup." Liz looks up. "But where?" She asks before Andrew hands her another note that just has an arrow pointing to the same place Sunny pointed out earlier. "Okay then."
They head into the bar, where they are then are seen arguing about what to do next.
"No, that's a horrible suggestion!" Liz yells at Elizabeth.
Just then, Qwynn hands her a note that says "This from the girl who knows nothing about music?"
Liz turns to Qwynn and says "Will you just shut it?"
Qwynn hands her another note that just says "Already on it."
Liz's face turns red with anger, but before she can say anything, a waitress interrupts her. "Excuse me miss, and what will we be having today?"
"Oh, I don't know, what do you guys want?" She says, forgetting for a split second that most of her teammates can't talk. They all stare at her, confused. "Oh yeah, riiiiiiiight. We'll just have…"
Before Liz can finish, Sunny taps her on the shoulder, and shows her something.
"What? No, I'm not in the mood for Chinese." Sunny balls up her fist in front of Liz's face. She sighs. "Alright," she turns back to the waitress. "We'll have the beef chow mein. Anyone object?" The rest of the team shrugs their shoulders.
"Alright then, I'll get that for you." The waitress writes something down before leaving.
"So as I was saying," Liz continues. "Actually…she scratches her chin. "What was I saying?"
"Here's your order miss." A waiter puts the chow mein down on the table.
"Wow, that was fast!"
"This isn't real, we can prepare it as fast as we want."
Liz blinks twice as the waiter leaves. "Okay then, everyone dig in."
Instead of doing that, Sunny just puts her hands in the chow mein.
"Ew, what are you doing?" Elizabeth asks, disgusted.
"Yeah, that's gross." Liz tries to pull her hands out of the dish, but Sunny keeps digging until she finds a slip of paper.
"Huh, what's that?" Liz scratches her head, Sunny just gives her the slip of paper. "What the…"
"I think she wants you to read it." Elizabeth tells Liz.
"Oh, alright." She lifts it up and reads aloud "You can't always get what you want" "Huh, what's that supposed to mean?"
Just then, Liz and the Bellhops are teleported to another location, one where they are surrounded by fire.
"Um, what just happened?"
"I don't know, but we'd better get going!" Liz rushes off, trying to avoid the fire. Soon everyone else follows suit.
/
Meanwhile, the Terrors' map led them to some place that they did not expect. Surrounded by plenty of bones in what seemed to be a graveyard, they were thoroughly confused.
"This is bad…to the BONE!" Rival jokes, but everyone else just ignores him.
"Um, are you sure that this is the right place?" A cowering Laurie, who was standing behind her boyfriend, asked the de facto team leader, Margaret.
"It betta be. Carter!" She yells for the tech genius.
"According to this, the hint is somewhere in the area." Carter shrugs.
Margaret rubs her forehead. "So I guess when dey said dat da lion sleeps tanight, dey meant dat da lion sleeps tanight."
Rival hums. "Maybe the hint is in a lion skeleton?" He suggests.
Margaret sighs. "Well, I haven't got anything betta. Let's split up!"
"I'll go with Deon!" Laurie claims the wrestler.
"No no," Margaret pushes her away. "I'll go wid Deon." Margaret grabs his arm.
"Girls please, no need to fight over the best man!" Deon retorts.
"Actually, he's right." Carter says to all three of them. "There's seven of us. Why don't you three go with each other."
"But but…" Laurie panics. "We're missing one, aren't we?"
"3…2…1…" Carter counts down right before a screaming Dante lands right next to him.
"That was so not cool homie!" Dante says as he gets up. He looked as if a cartoon bomb exploded in front of him and his hat was partially on fire.
"I'll go with Maria and Dante can go with Rival." The Terrors split up. We start off with the love triangle.
"So, Deon, do you like pizza?" Margaret flirts with him.
"Of course," Deon responds, as he looks away from the gangster, to which Margaret frowns.
"Um…I like pizza too." Laurie says weakly.
"Shaddup!" Margaret commands her.
Confessional: Margaret
"Ooh! I dunno what's goin on, but I'm startin' ta think he's avoidin' me fer some reason. Hmmmm…" she strokes her chin, "but what could dat reason be?"
Confessional over
Confessional: Deon
"Yeah I'm definitely on to Margaret. I know that she's trying to flirt with me, but I've already got a girlfriend, so no way! I'm just going to have to ignore her advances. Relax, I'm Deon Blade, I'm used to having ladies crawling all over me, I can handle one girl trying to win me over" he said very confidently.
Confessional over
Confessional: Laurie
She sighs nervously. "Look, I sure hope Deon knows what he's doing. He's the first boyfriend that I ever had and he's already being stolen?" She rubs her forehead. "That figures with my luck!"
Confessional over
"Man," Laurie cowers in fear, "this place is creepy."
"Don't worry," Deon said to Laurie, which was overheard by Margaret, "I'll protect you!"
Margaret points her finger at Deon. "Ya betta!"
Just as Margaret says that, a rumbling sound can be heard coming from the ground underneath them.
"Um, what's that?" Laurie shakes her knees.
"I don't know, but I've got this!" As Deon flexes, some of the animal skeletons around them start to stand up.
"Well, I've gotta admit, I didn't see dat coming." As Margaret and the rest of the group runs away, the scene shifts to Rival and Dante.
"Ugh, I can't believe the day I'm having, dawg!"
"I guess that you could say that it's bad…no wait, I already made that joke."
Dante facepalms himself. "Not helping, dawg!"
Just as Dante says that, the same thing from before happens. Now they have several giraffe skeletons and a few tiger skeletons surrounding them.
"Yep, that just about figures, dawg." As they run away, the scene shifts to Carter and Maria.
"Um…" Maria stutters, "Why did you want to be paired up with me?"
"Because, I have a message for you." Carter says bluntly.
"Okay." Maria gulps. "I'm listening."
"Look," Carter tilts his head towards her. "If you thought that the other team was rough, then you haven't seen anything yet."
"Oh," you can see the nervousness in Maria's face as she says that, "really?"
"Yes, now don't do anything stupid while you're here, you've got it?"
Maria gulps. "Got it!"
Confessional: Carter
"And the seed of fear has been planted!"
Confessional over
Confessional: Maria
She's shaking. "Jeez, and I thought it was bad on the other team. Just when things were starting to get better, Carter blindsides me with that! Yipe!" She yelps.
Confessional over
"Hmmmmm, according to this it says that we're really close."
"Um…where did you get that?"
"Shut it!"
Just then, you guessed it, some animal skeletons started coming to life right in front of them. Maria promptly has a panic attack. Carter looks around surveys the lion skeletons and notices one that hasn't come to life.
"Over there!" Carter points to his right. "There's your sleeping lion!"
"But, how do we get over there?" Maria looks to her side and sees Carter already gone, leaving her with the skeletons as they surround her. She gulps. "Um…nice kitties" Maria says before running away.
As that happens, Carter heads for the one that isn't moving, but some of the other skeletons catch up with him. One of them grabs him by the leg.
"Oh well" Carter says before taking his broken laptop out of his pocket and using it to bash the head of the skeleton, but it's no use, as more swarm him. "Well, this isn't going according to plan."
"You think?" Maria yells at him. Just then, like a flash of light in the sky, the walrus appears out of nowhere. "I think things just went from bad to worse!"
The walrus promptly barfs eggs all over everything. In the aftermath, Carter pops up to finally get the clue out of the lion skeleton and reads it. "You can't always get what you want." And just like that, the Terrors are teleported to what looks to be downtown Chicago.
"Yo, this place is sweet dawg!"
"Run!" Laurie yells as she sees a grenade heading right towards them. The Terrors head her warning and they get away just as it goes off.
/
"Okay, how are we supposed to get out of this?" Elizabeth says as the fire surrounds her and her team.
"I don't know, but…" just then, they're all pelted with hair.
Elizabeth spits some of the hair out. "Where did that come from?"
"I don't know, but I think I know where this fire came from!" Liz points at some suns which are apparently heading right towards them.
The Bellhops just barely avoid them, but are met with more things being thrown down upon them, in the form of Chinese food, stingrays, seafood, doughnuts, and baseballs. Qwynn holds up a piece of paper that says "This is ridiculous!"
"What does this have to do with music?" Liz exclaims as she and her team are pelted by more random things and the fire closes in on them.
Just then, Sunny holds up a note that just says "Look over there, a room!"
"Where?" Liz responds.
Sunny adds "behind you" on to the note.
Once into the room, they find a shopping cart, a machine of some sort, a car, an old timey television, Korean food, and a picture of someone with an hourglass figure, porcelain pale white skin, curly long blonde hair that reached to her mid back, and was wearing a pink crop to, jean shorts, and black shoes.
"Okay everyone…" the Bellhops just ignore Liz and they all do their own thing.
Phoebe is immediately drawn to the machine. She presses the button on it and it immediately just shoots pennies in her face. Regina is confused by the television. She presses a button and it turns on, which surprises her, so she hits it with her purse, which only knocks it down and breaks it. Others are doing other things as Andrew is already at the table with the food, he has his hand over the kimchi when suddenly he slaps himself. He then decides to go over to Sunny who's just staring at the picture. He writes down "What are you doing?"
"Well, this one seems to be inspired by a song called we didn't start the fire." Sunny writes.
"Oh yeah, I heard that song in my history class once" he wrote.
"Yeah, I don't remember the chorus though."
"I do. In order to find this clue, we might need to find a way to fight the fire, if that's what you're getting at." He hands her the note.
"Okay, but how?" She wrote back.
"Well, this is a hotel, so shouldn't it have a sprinkler system?"
Just then, they both get hit by coins after Phoebe was messing around with the machine, getting their attention. It's then when Sunny gets an idea.
She then writes down "Phoebe, aim that thing at the ceiling!"
Phoebe nods then does so, after a few seconds, it triggers the sprinklers, which spray water everywhere.
Liz spits some water out. "What was that for?"
Sunny just rushes past her and opens the door to see that the fire is now gone. She surveys the scene to find the clue right back where they started.
Confessional: Sunny
She opens up the piece of paper. "But if you try sometimes." "Huh, I wonder what that means." And just like that, she's teleported out of the confessional.
Confessional over
This time they're teleported to a strawberry field.
"Why am I still wet?" Some water from Liz's hair drips on to one of the strawberries. As soon as it touches it, it explodes, sending the Bellhops clear into the sky.
/
Meanwhile, the Terrors have found a good place to hide in an alleyway.
"Will somebody please tell me what's going on?" A frightened Laurie yells aloud.
"Shaddup!" Margaret yells at her. "Dis is nuttin! Now I don't need ya crying here in da middle of da challenge, dis is war! Yagoddit?"
Laurie gulps. "Yes ma'am!"
"Good." She then turns to Rival. "Hey," Margaret grabs him by the collar, "ya know yer music, what song is dis world based afta?"
"Well, I don't know yet," he responds as Margaret has his fist pointed towards him. "I need more information first."
"Fine!" She puts him down. "Ya!" She points at Laurie. "Ya go out there and get more information fer 'im. Yagoddit?"
"Me?" Laurie backs away from her. "Why do I have to do it?"
"Yeah, why can't it be the perfect man?"
"Because," she glances over at Deon. "Dis job is just too big and tough fer ya, unless ya were to go with me."
Deon sighs. "Pass."
Confessional: Margaret
"Dangit!" She breaks the wooden plunger handle that she was holding. "I've gotta impress him somehow. I've gotta get dat note fer myself!"
Confessional over
"Me! Me! I wanna go dawg!"
Margaret just ignores Dante, walking past him as he tries to get her attention. "Okay, why don't we just do it as a team?"
"I'm fine with that." Deon agrees.
The rest of the team nods their heads.
"Okay den, we go on my orda. 3…2…1…" they all jump out at the same time.
"Hey you jabronies, out of my way!" Dwight in a vintage gangster costume yells at them as he drives his car on the same street that the Terrors are on.
"Who do ya think ya are?" Margaret yells at him.
"Me? I'm Deroy Brown, now outta my way before I run you bozos over!" Dwight honks his horn at them.
"Pssst," Rival whispers in Margaret's ear, "I know what song this place is designed after now."
She just ignores Rival and heads straight towards Dwight. Grabbing "Now ya listen here, ya think ya can mess with me?"
"Heh," he sneers at her. After that he turns off his car and gets out to face her, all 6'4 of him. "You think you stand a chance against me?"
Margaret rolls her neck, which makes some popping sounds. "I eat guys bigger dan ya fer breakfast!"
"Bring it!" It cuts to the rest of the Terrors watching as they fight. After a few seconds, it cuts back to Margaret, who clearly won the fight.
"Now gimme da clue!" She says as she clutches him by the neck.
"Clue?" He looks at her, confused. "I don't have any clue."
"I don't believe ya!"
"Look, you can check my pockets." He pulls out his pockets, nothing is there.
"I think he's clean." Rival whispers in her ear.
"Den where is it?"
"Follow me."
It cuts to a pool hall. Rival points at a nice looking woman there. "I think she has what we're looking for."
Margaret has no qualms about jumping up on the table that she's sitting in front of and grabbing her by the dress. "Gimme da clue!"
"Clue? I don't know what you're talking about."
"I don't believe ya!" Margaret snapped back at her, but there's no time to dwell on that as a man sees Margaret arguing with her.
"Hey, what are you doing?" He yells at her.
An enraged Margaret turns to him. "Ya have da clue, don't ya?" She waves her finger at him.
"You want it? Well you'll have to fight me for it!" To which Margaret does, and wins, again.
"Now gimme dat clue!" She yells in his face.
"Here!" Shaking, he reaches into his pocket and gives it to her. "Just leave me alone!"
She swipes the paper away from him.
"Yo dawg, you better hurry up, because here comes company!" Dante points out the walrus heading right towards them.
"But if ya try sometimes." After that, the Terrors were teleported to the final world, which appeared to be a wrestling ring. There to greet them is a familiar face.
"Sasha!" Deon yells out. They both run towards each other and greet one another with a friendly hug. "Hey girl, you wouldn't happen to know anything about a clue, would you?" Sasha shakes her head as if to say no.
/
The Bellhops all land on a patch of ground. Because of cartoon logic, they aren't hurt too badly.
"Well, at least I'm dry." Liz got up.
"What is this place?" Phoebe wrote as she got up.
"There's only one song I know that mentions a strawberry field." Sunny writes down on her notepad and shows it to Phoebe.
"Well, what is it about?" She writes.
"Follow me." Sunny gestures toward her, Regina, Andrew, and Qwynn.
Confessional: Sunny
The four aforementioned Bellhops are in the confessional along with Sunny. "Okay, so apparently we can talk while we're here."
"We can?" Regina says.
"Oh thank goodness." Andrew says aloud, acting like he doesn't already know that.
"Okay so the song is called Strawberry Fields Forever."
"Oh great, we're going to be stuck here forever!" Phoebe panicked.
"There there," Regina calmed her.
"Relax," Sunny tells the group. "Now just as a warning, nothing you see in here will be real."
"How's that supposed to make me feel better?" Phoebe responds.
"I'm going to be honest, I don't know, because the only other lyrics are nothing to get hung about."
Qwynn gets up. "Look if it helps, I'll use my rings to do whatever I can to help you guys out."
"That's a good start, but we need something to help us figure out this riddle, and fast." Sunny sighs.
Phoebe bursts out into tears.
"Look, could you guys give me a moment to comfort her?" The rest of the group nods and everyone except for Phoebe and Regina leave the confessional.
"Now what's the matter?"
"I'm worried about this challenge, I'm worried that Libby will take over at any moment…"
"Here here, now listen up. Remember what we said earlier about not being nervous?"
"Yeah." Phoebe wipes the tears from her face with her sleeve.
"Well that's just it, we're going to do whatever it takes to win this challenge and make sure that mean old Libby doesn't show up!"
"Really?"
"Yes! We can do this! We WILL do this!" Regina smiles.
Confessional over
"What was that all about?" Liz asks as they all got back from the confessional.
Sunny handed Liz a note and she read it. "Long story short, nothing here is real." Liz looks up and says "How's that supposed to help?"
In response, Sunny just shrugs her shoulders.
"Well that's just great!" Liz exclaims. What are we supposed to do?" Liz says as she stomps around. Eventually she steps on a strawberry, which launches her clear into the sky.
Elizabeth looks over at the group. "Do you want to continue on without her?" She asks them.
They all hold up signs that basically say the same thing, "yes."
"Alright then, what's the plan?"
Everyone else points behind Elizabeth.
"What?" Elizabeth turns around to see the giant blue monster that was behind her. It had to be at least 10 feet tall and had fangs like that of a vampire and claws that looked like they were from a bear. It roared loudly at her, so she started to back away as she winces. "Ahhhh! J…Just remember, it's not real!" As soon as she said that, it disappeared completely as more appeared out of nowhere.
The non-speaking Bellhops each look at each other and nod. They each write down words like "fake," "not real," and "imposter" down on their notebooks, then after a montage of them all vanquishing the creatures, they got to one that was four times the size of all the others they had just faced.
"Fake!" Elizabeth shouts out but it doesn't work, and it grabs her with one of its big ugly hands.
"What do we do?" Phoebe wrote down and showed it to Sunny.
"I'm not sure." Sunny wrote back.
"Hey, don't those strawberries explode if you touch them?" Regina wrote down and showed it to Phoebe.
"Genius!" Phoebe then stepped carefully around the strawberries and proceeded to kick its toe to get the monster's attention. She then silently taunts it which gets its attention. She then runs in between two rows of strawberries, making it chase after her. As soon as it touches the strawberries with its foot, it explodes into big, blue goo.
"Incoming!" Elizabeth exclaims as she falls from the sky. Andrew, Qwynn, and Regina all catch her before she hits the ground.
But that's not all, as Phoebe has the final goo covered clue in her hands. She goes over to Elizabeth and makes her read it.
"You might find"
Just then, the Bellhops, including Liz, are teleported to the final round, which is a beautiful lake. At the dock there seems to be a woman standing there.
"Are you guys kidding me? You found the final clue without me?" Liz yells at the rest of her teammates. Just then, the woman at the dock turns around and belts out a demonic scream at them which would hurt anyone's ears, so obviously the Bellhops cover theirs.
/
"So like, whaddare we supposed ta do here?" Margaret asked as she and the rest of the Terrors were standing in an empty boxing ring with a tiger.
"Maybe we're supposed to fight something?" Deon suggested. Just then, the walrus gets into the ring with everyone, frightening most.
"Let's get out of here!" Laurie makes a break for it.
Sasha the tiger tries to fight it, but it hits her with a car tire. Deon of course rushes to her aid.
"Are you okay girl?" She licks him, so he smiles and pets her before turning to the walrus. "Alright, that's it!" Deon attempts to avenge her, but it hits him with a mountain of t-shirts and eggs. "What the…"
"Come on," Margaret grabs Deon and drags him along with the rest of the team as Sasha joins them.
Confessional: Margaret
"What?" She stares at the confessional camera like it's crazy. "I've gotta protect precious cargo!"
Confessional over
They get outside and it's raining, but they notice something a bit different…
"Why is da rain purple?"
Dante looks up. "Yo dawg, why is the sky purple?"
Everyone looks up at the sky and can easily see that it looks strange, like the world is coming to an end.
"What do we do?" Laurie says as the walrus catches up to them.
"I don't know dawg, but we'd better think of something fast!" Just then, the walrus knocks Dante down with a nightstick, which makes Carter laugh. The rain clears around him for a moment until he stops.
"Oh man, that was funny!" Carter claps his hands.
"Hey, did everyone else see that?" Laurie turns around to see Margaret just staring at Deon and she rolls her eyes. She then goes over to Rival and whispers "We have to get everyone to laugh" in his ear.
"On it!" Rival gets in front of everyone and starts to tell a joke, but as soon as he does, the walrus clobbers him with diamond rings, water, and for some reason, custard.
"That's just great." Laurie facepalms herself.
The walrus turned to Margaret, who had her back turned to it. It looks at her then shoots a fish which bounces off her butt.
"Hey, what's da big idea?" She turns to see the walrus.
Everyone laughs at her.
"Hey, why are ya all laughin' at me?"
The walrus buries her with fish, causing everyone to laugh even harder, which clears up the sky. When they're all done, Laurie notices a message spelled out in the sky in diamonds, so she reads it.
"You might find"
And with that, the Terrors along with Sasha are teleported to the final stage.
/
When the Terrors get there, they immediately cover their ears from the screaming lady, but not Sasha, who attacked the old hag. She pounced on it, and easily overpowered it. After Sasha attacked the hag, a bright light shines in the middle of the lake. Out of the water comes a big, bright, shining ruby.
Dante turns to the rest of his team and says "Yo dawg, that must be that diamond that the computer lady was talking about!"
"No, don't! We're looking for a diamond, not a ruby!" It's too late, despite Rival's pleas Dante was already after the ruby. He jumps off the dock and goes to grab the ruby when suddenly, it disappears. "Ahhhhhhhh" He screams as he lands in the water when Regina notices something. She tapped Phoebe on the shoulder and pointed at a light in the sky that was pointing to an area beside the dock where Dante had just jumped off. The two girls go to that spot and reach into the water and pull out the diamond. Excited, they took it to their team.
As they're celebrating, Elizabeth notices some words engraved on the diamond, so she reads them. "You get what you need."
Just then, Hayley appears in front of the Bellhops to announce that they won. "And the Bellhops win!"
Sunny holds up a sign that says "What about our voices?"
"Oh yeah, riiiiiiiight." Hayley snaps her fingers and some throat spray appears in front of the non-speaking Bellhops, and sprays each of them in the mouth. "Okay, you can talk now." Hayley says before she and the throat spray disappears.
"Hey, can we talk?" Andrew says to Sunny.
"Sure" she says.
"Listen, about what happened last time…"
"Yeah, I apologize for that."
"You see that's the thing. I don't know if I can forgive you for that. At least, not yet I suppose."
Sunny looks at him, shocked. "But things between us during this challenge weren't awkward, in fact, you helped me with part of it."
"Yeah," he scratches his head, "that was because I didn't want to let the team down again. I almost did back in the comedy challenge, and I didn't want that to be me again. I'll still work with you because we're on the same team, but you've got to earn back my trust before we can be friends again. Part of me wants to forgive you, heck, part of me still wants to impress you, but I just…I don't know where I'm going with this but just, please leave me alone for a while."
Sunny sighs. "It's okay. I completely understand. I was a bit of a jerk back there and I know that I made a dumb decision, but I respect your wishes."
"That's good, because we're through here." Andrew leaves Sunny alone to ponder her own thoughts.
Confessional: Qwynn
"After some consideration, I've decided to not join an alliance with Liz. It seems that she doesn't have as much control over this team as she thinks. I think right now my best play is just to lay low and trust my instincts. The merge will be coming up sooner rather than later, so maybe I could make some new allies then, but until then I'm going to remain under the radar."
Confessional over
Confessional: Liz
She has her arms folded and is clearly annoyed. "So it seems I've lost control of this team, well that's just great. Looks like I've gotta do something to wrestle it back, and I think I know just what to do." She smiles evilly.
Confessional over
/
Before the elimination ceremony, Deon and Laurie were talking about who to vote for.
"I just, I don't know." Laurie puts her head down. "You know who Margaret wants us to vote for."
"I know, but I just don't feel comfortable doing it."
"That's the thing, I don't either. I wish there was another option."
Just then, Dante butted his way into the conversation. "Yo homie, what's going on, dawgs?"
"Dante…" Deon said awkwardly.
"Yeah…we were…just talking about you." Laurie said just as awkwardly.
"That's good dawg," Dante said, not realizing the gravity of the situation. "Anyways, you should totally vote for Carter, I saw him typing again earlier today and I definitely know that he caused that one chick Cheori's elimination dawg."
Laurie raised an eyebrow. "What, seriously?"
Deon grabbed Dante by the collar. "You better not be lying, or else I'm going to put you in a chokehold!" He exclaimed.
"No, seriously dawg, I know. Every time I saw him typing or noticed him doing something suspicious, we lost, homie. First the Frankenstein challenge, then the fantasy challenge, and now here today dawg!"
"Hmmmm…" Deon puts Dante down before turning to Laurie. "I don't know, what do you think?"
"Hmmm…" Laurie strokes her chin. "I mean we've got no physical proof, but it seems plausible. I mean it is Total Drama after all, and crazier things have happened."
"Sweet, I'll go try to convince Rival and Maria!" Dante leaves as quickly as he came. Deon and Laurie both stare at each other quizzically.
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At the same time, Rival and Maria were doing the same thing as Deon and Laurie.
"I don't know what we should do." Maria sighed.
"Look, I'm probably voting for Dante. I don't really believe his crackpot theories and he cost us the challenge today. All my hard work and musical knowledge went down the drain!" Rival shook his fist angrily like an old man who wanted kids to get off his lawn.
"I know, but…wait, crackpot theories?" Maria stared at him confused. "What do you mean crackpot theories?"
"Oh yeah, that's right." He rubs the back of his head. "You weren't there for that. You see, back during the fantasy challenge, Dante had these silly theories about Carter. I don't remember all of the details, but basically he said Carter caused something to happen, I don't know. I'm sorry. Like I said, I don't have a perfect memory."
Just then, Carter went to see the two. "Greetings." He said politely.
"Carter…" Maria stares at him somewhat nervously. He just smiles back.
"We were…"
"You were probably just talking about me," Carter finished Rival's sentence for him, "and you were probably also talking about Dante too, am I correct?"
"Well actually, yes." Rival replied.
"Yeah well, don't believe anything you hear from him."
Rival and Maria just stare back at him awkwardly.
"You want me to tell you why?"
They both silently nod their heads.
"Well, that little creep has been trying to get me out, and I have proof." Carter has a CD which he puts into the computer in Rival's room. It shows video footage of the scene from earlier today where Dante was trying to sneak into his room as well as some other attempts from the last couple days.
"What is he doing?" Maria looked shocked.
"I don't know, but it can't be anything good, wouldn't you say?"
"Why yes, I would!" Rival says back, which causes Carter to smile.
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Confessional: Carter
He laughs. "That little twerp is going down!"
Confessional over
Confessional: Dante
"Yo dawg, that dude is going down dawg!"
Confessional over
Confessional: Maria
"I still don't know if this is the right choice, but I'll have two people after my head if I don't do this, so…"
Confessional over
Confessional: Laurie
"I mean it seems like the logical choice, right? Also I don't want to see Dante go. The friendship between him and Deon is just too funny!" She giggles.
Confessional over
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At the elimination ceremony, everyone was feeling a bit disappointed, but none more so than Margaret.
"I can't believe we let dat one slip away!" The mafia queen yelled at the rest of her team.
"Yeah, that was rather disappointing, wasn't it," Rival sighs, "but I guess I deserve it."
Just then, Hayley appears in front of everyone in her usual spot on the wall. "Sorry I'm late everyone, but I had some last second business I needed to attend to. Anywho, Rival, you almost won your team the game today, so you get the first card of the night."
"Seriously?" Rival acts surprised.
"Just shut up and take it." Chef says as he tosses Rival his card.
"Sweet!" Rival exclaims as he clutches his card. "At least I did something right!" Maria giggles at this.
"Moving on," Hayley focuses on the rest of the team. "Deon, you certainly proved your worth during part of the challenge today, so here's your card."
"Thanks." Deon flexes as he catches his card. Laurie giggles and Margaret swoons at this.
"Laurie, you too."
"Huh?" Laurie turns toward Hayley as the card hits her in the face. "Ouch, hey! That hit my nose."
"Ya shoulda been paying attention." Margaret tells Laurie.
"Speaking of, Margaret, here's your card!"
"Thank ya!" Margaret says as she catches her card with relative ease, at least compared to Laurie.
Maria starts to get more nervous as she realizes that she still doesn't have a card yet. "Um…where is mine?"
"Relax Maria," Hayley reassures her, "I was just about to get to you. Chef tosses Maria the next card.
"Phew." Maria wipes the sweat from her forehead as she caught her card.
Hayley then focuses on Carter and Dante. "Now, you two are the last ones here who haven't gotten a card. That is because you two are the bottom two."
Carter glances over at Dante, who gives Carter a throat slashing gesture as soon as he makes eye contact. Carter just laughs at this and shrugs it off as he turns his focus back to Hayley, who continues on.
"Now Dante, you're here because you basically blew the challenge for your team and were virtually no help today."
"Yo homie, it wasn't my fault!" Dante pleads his case. "It was all his fault, dawg!" Dante points at Carter.
"And that's why you're here today, Carter. Because Dante blames you for it all. Gee, I wonder why?" She says rhetorically, to which Carter smiles smugly back at her. "But anyways, whatever the reason, the final card of the night goes to…"
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"As much as it pains me to say it," Hayley whispers to herself, "Carter" she announces.
"Yo man, you've gotta be kidding homie, this ain't right! This can't be happening!"
Deon sighs. "Well, I'm going to miss you, bud."
"Hey, you called me bud?" An excited Dante questions Deon.
"Yeah well…" Deon tugs at his shirt. "Don't make a big deal out of it, I mean I am Deon Blade after all." Laurie giggles at this, while Margaret couldn't care less.
"Look, aren't we goin' ta get on with dis?" Margaret folds her arms.
"Actually homie, if you don't mind, I'd like to stay, so I can hang out with my new best buddy, Deon here!" Deon tries to hide his face, which makes Laurie laugh even more.
"Oh come on, Deon. Just embrace it for once." Laurie says to him.
Deon just sighs back in response.
Laurie then turns to Hayley. "Come on, isn't there any way we could make this happen?"
"Well," Chef turns to Hayley, "he could be an intern."
"Err," Hayley groans at the prospect. "Oh fine." She gives in.
"Yo homie, that would be sweet dawg!" Dante agrees.
"Yes!" Laurie cheers, to which Margaret grows suspicious of.
Deon hides his face in embarrassment as the camera pans to Hayley, who gives the outro, as per usual.
"Well well, wasn't that the um…happy ending." She then whispers, "Not really what I had in mind, or was comfortable with," before she continues. "What will happen next time? Will I have to stick my head in a freezer just to freeze my ears off so that I don't have to listen to that idiot si…uh sing…song…songing? Oh, whatever the word for it is. You know what I mean. Anyways, what will happen once a certain other idiot returns?" She winks. "Find out next time on TOTAL DRAMA HOTEL MADNESS!"
Votes
Dante 4- Carter, Margaret, Maria, Rival
Carter 3- Dante, Deon, Laurie
Songs referenced:
"The Day The Music Died" by Don McClean, it was the title pun for the name of the episode.
"Magical Mystery Tour" by The Beatles, it was the title pun for the name of the minisode.
"Lion Sleeps Tonight" by Solomon Linda, popularized by The Tokens
"I Am The Walrus" by The Beatles
"Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon
"We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel
"Bad Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce
"Strawberry Fields Forever" by The Beatles
"Yellow Submarine" the movie, not the song, by The Beatles
"Eye Of The Tiger" by Survivor
"Purple Rain" by Prince
"Party like it's 1999" by Prince
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by The Beatles, but Elton John made the better version
"Goodbye Ruby Tuesday" by The Rolling Stones
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones
AN: This was the point where the eliminations were going to start to get harder for me. I was actually considering 4 different options for who should go here, but after I sat down and really thought about it, I figured that Dante had the weakest reason to stay. I just knew that he would be the next to go the next time the Terrors lost with everything I had set up after episode 6. I realize that this means there's 8 girls and 5 guys left, but I just really felt that considering all my other options, Dante made the most sense to go here. I know how some of you guys really like him, but Carter (Grape Escape) gave him to me just to be fodder. He and I had no idea how popular he would be, so I tried to keep around for as long as I could, but I just didn't want him to overstay his welcome. Although I will admit that I do like the dynamic between him and Deon to at least keep him on as an intern. That being said, I have an announcement to make. I've got a full cast for Twilight Zone put together so I'm no longer accepting applications for that unless you've got one that you're still finishing. I will post the final cast list in the coming days, although for those of you on discord, you already know everyone in the cast, so for those of you who aren't on discord who are wondering if your character got in, message me in pm's please. Lastly, yes I did get permission from GirlPower54 to have her character, Melaine, cameo in this episode. You see the song "We Didn't Start The Fire" mentions Marilyn Monroe, and she kind of resembles her in looks and she kind of reminds me of her so…yeah, lol. That being said, thanks for reading this episode and Daring out!
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