"Ooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah!" Duke shouted loudly before suplexing some random Transylvanian man into the dirt. He dusted his hands off after and grinned widely at the camera. "Last time on the Ridukeulous Race: teams got the heck out of Brazil and took off to their next destination: Transylvania! Some of our spooky contestants were in love, though Olive seemed to be the odd one out in that bunch. Oh, yeah, almost forgot, James and Eliott got themselves a penalty because someone went and sent our Bachelorettes on a deathtrap flight! I tell ya, I should've disqualified them right then and there!" The clip of the penalty clock with James and Eliott sitting by it was shown, the younger of the two clearly upset with his "father." "There was a lot of faith being put in our tip grabbers, who had to handle carrying their partners out of the castle in a coffin! Some did pretty well here, but for others…well, let's say that neckbearded weeaboos are just as heavy as you'd imagine!" The next clip was shown, with Richard practically dying as he dragged Andrew in the coffin.

"From then on, it was a contest to see who could please the unpleasable Romanian gymnastics coach! You'd think it would've been a lot tougher than it actually was, but the majority of our teams did well. Mika and Conroy finished up first, but they let the BPQ pass them and reach the chill zone first to try and make Becky trust them! Needless to say, it didn't work out." Becky was seen at the chill zone, dragging Olive away from the Basketball Team, despite her protests. "With what was the closest finish yet, it was hard to tell which team was going to drop out, but the Gamers ended up just not being fast enough to get the job done, and were sent home. They even held hands! So cute. Anyways…" The green screen with the clips playing on it was kicked away by Duke, who was no longer wearing the jacket that he initially had been. "I've got more teams to get rid of, so no more time to waste on missing the old ones! Everyone, this is…the RIDUKEULOUS RACE!"

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"Here we are, still in that dank armpit of Romania known as Transylvania! Yesterday's chill zone is today's starting point, and the winners of the previous leg are just about to collect their first travel tip!" Duke stood next to the dukebox, checking his nails while Becky seethed and pressed the button on the box to get the next tip.
"'Take a donkey cart to Bucharest and hitch a flight to Hawaii.'" Becky rolled her eyes and threw the tip aside, but something suddenly hit her in the back of the head and knocked her over. "Ow! What was tha-"

"I'm sorry, Becks! I got so excited, I had to get geared up for the big trip!" As Becky looked back up at her older sister, she saw that she was now wearing a Hawaiian shirt, a bucket hat, some shorts, a pair of sandals, and she had a full-on surfboard in her arms. "I kinda look like that old dad, don't I?" Olive giggled a bit before her mohawk poofed back up and sent the bucket hat flying off of her head. "Aw, nuts…"

"That's right, Hawaii! It's the place that the Dukester had his first big appearance in, so it does hold a special place in my heart!" Duke showed some pictures of him getting absolutely pummeled in a wrestling ring with tiki torches surrounding the ring. He then tossed the pictures aside and clicked a button on a remote to cue in a slideshow of pictures of Hawaii behind him. "They've got everything you could possibly want in life: tropical fruit, grass skirts, funny dances that I'm apparently not supposed to call funny because it's insensitive, the whole nine yards! Once teams land, they'll just have to go right up to this tropically themed dukebox!" Duke pointed at the dukebox next to him, which was wearing a red Hawaiian shirt.

As the camera cut back in to show the first donkey cart, which was currently being taken by four teams, Becky could be seen sitting in the far back with her arms crossed as she seethed with rage. Next to her, sat Olive, who was having the time of her life playing rock, paper, scissors with Mika…even though she was losing every round. Conroy watched the two playing, and was keeping a tally of each win that everyone was getting. Jacque and Angel were the ones driving the cart, with Honey and Mitsuki sitting at the front, though Mitsuki was quite aggravated with her partner, per usual.

"Do you really have to be doing that everytime we're about to leave a location?" Mitsuki mumbled her words at Honey, who was scooping up some dirt as their cart moved along. Just as she had done in Brazil, she put the dirt into a jar, and made sure to label it.

"I sure do! It's like, a dream of mine to get dirt from everywhere in the world! I can blend them all together to make a super dirt! Pretty cool, isn't it?" Honey smiled at Mitsuki, who groaned, got up, and went to sit next to Becky instead. "Oh…well, we'll talk later, then!"

"I take it your partner doesn't really care for your company, my dear." Angel smirked as she looked back at Honey, who cocked her head at her and stared at her in an inquisitive way. "...Didn't your mother ever teach you not to stare at people like that? It's quite rude."

"Your nose is bigger than the rest of your face! And all red! Is it a pimple? I can pop it for you!" Honey got up to do what she offered, but she immediately had Angel pointing a large stick at her in defense. "Yeesh, defensive, much? You offer to pop a pimple for someone and they're suddenly flailing a giant stick at you. If I had a nickel for everytime that happened, I'd have…a nickel."

"Heh, I think I like this lady," Jacque grinned and looked towards Angel, though she rolled her eyes at him and threw the stick back to the ground. "Oh, don't be so fussy, you should be glad that you've got someone trying to be your friend."

"Friends don't try to pop other friends' noses, Jacque. Stupid gym mat…that thing was as hard as a rock! No wonder those Romanian coaches are always so grumpy." Angel gently rubbed her swollen nose, though she pulled her hand away almost immediately since it stinged so much.

"Whatcha doin' being all mopey and miserable back here, Becky?" Mitsuki scooted right up to her race daughter with a comforting smile on her face, a smile that was entirely ignored by Becky. She took a look at her to see the way she was staring at Olive and Mika, "Hm…oh, I get it! You're jealous that Olive is spending time with a girl that's way hotter than you. Heh, that happens to me all the time with Kotomi."

"...That's not at all why I'm annoyed. Olive isn't supposed to be hanging out with random strangers, more or less random strangers that are wearing matching tracksuits." Becky snarled before starting to shout towards the basketballers, "Go back to the eighties sports movie you came from if you're gonna dress like that, weakbloods!"

"Huh? I thought our outfits were cool!" Mika giggled, but this didn't ease Becky up at all, as she simply kept stewing in her own hatred. "Anyway…what's the tally board at now, senior?"

"Well…" Conroy added another tally to one side of the board before flipping it over to show just how one-sided it is. "It looks like you've got about thirty-eight wins now and Olive has…let me just double check here…yup, zero."

"Aw, rats! I thought I was starting to get better at it…" Olive snapped her fingers before starting to stroke her chin in thought. "Hm…maybe I shouldn't do paper every time…okay! Let's go again! Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!" As she finished the count out, she slammed down a rock on the palm of her hand, with Mika now holding out paper. She stared in disbelief for a second before grabbing at her mohawk and tugging on it. "DARN IT!"

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"We won the last leg of the race, which is whatever, but what's not whatever is that we have to share this cart with those weakbloods…the basketballers." Becky gritted her teeth as she looked over her shoulder to see Mika and Conroy still playing around with Olive. She pinched the bridge of her nose before turning back to face the camera again. "Jacque and Angel just bicker constantly, so they aren't exactly amazing cartmates either. I swear, if it weren't for Mitsuki and Honey, I probably would've killed someone by now."

"Mitsuki, I'm noticing I'm having a really hard time making friends that aren't you. Do you know why everyone is being so standoffish?" Honey pouted with her lip while staring at Mitsuki with puppy dog eyes, but it had no effect, as Mitsuki just pushed her face out of the way with her hand.

"First of all…we're not friends. Second…you're not supposed to be making friends with the other teams. Except for my children. You can be friends with them…" Mitsuki suddenly got right in Honey's face, a piercing gaze shooting from her eyes. "But make no mistake! I'm their mom! Me! Not you! You are just a friend! I'll be damned if I let you take any of my Milfiness away from me!"

"...Y-yes ma'am…"

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"Man, this ass ain't going fast enough…can't we do something to speed things up?" Jacque took a good look around to see what there was to work around the slow moving donkey, but that didn't give much help. He scratched his chin for a moment before grinning. "Oh, I got it! Angel, you're in charge for a second!"

"What- Jacque, please, now's not the time to be fooling around. We don't want the other carts to catch up to us because you got impatient." Angel sighed, with Jacque entirely ignoring her and jumping off of the cart. Since the donkey really wasn't moving too fast, he walked alongside it, getting closer to the back of it.

"Alright, time to get you kickin' into high gear!" With a crack of his knuckles, Jacque pulled his arm back as far as he could before giving the donkey a good slap on the rear. He had expected it to start speeding up, but it did no such thing. Instead, it let out a wail of anguish, and then suddenly bucked Jacque with its powerful back legs. He was sent flying back a bit, one of his teeth now missing from his grin, and inevitably landed in the cart behind them…right in Arnold's lap. "Ugh…"

"...I feel the need to inform you that if a single drop of your poor man's mouth blood stains my pants, there will be a lawsuit sent your way that will squeeze every last penny out of your family's collective savings." Arnold glared down at Jacque, who shrugged and scooted aside to sit between him and Aisling. He started to relax himself, but Aisling suddenly thrust her tarot cards into his face.

"Huh? No, ma'am, I don't fiddle around with any of that voodoo ritual stuff." Jacque seemed pretty firm in his stance, something that brought a grin to Arnold's face.

"I apologize for my previous outburst, it seems you're actually quite the like-minded individual. Aisling, do put those dreadful cards away, would you?" Arnold seemed to be even snarkier than usual, at least until he saw Jacque drawing a card from the deck. "Wha!? But you just-"

"Yeah, I said I wasn't gonna be messing around with that stuff, but then you said I shouldn't, so it made me want to. Gonna sue me for not listening to you?" Arnold puffed up his cheeks and turned away from Jacque, clearly annoyed. "Now…let's see what I got here…the Tower. What's it mean, voodoo lady?"

"Upright tower…it seems you'll be having some sort of blow dealt to your pride in the coming days. I imagine this is the card that Arnold will end up drawing, but I'll hold onto assumptions for now." Aisling smiled and took her cards back, tucking them into her bra while Jacque rolled his eyes at her.

"Oh, this is just mahvelous…" Karma hung over the side of the donkey cart, her face slightly green as she did. Vanessa gently rubbed her back, trying to ease her up a bit, though it didn't really do much for her. "Sorry, dahling, it's just that…the smell coming from that ass's ass isn't doing much good for my nostrils.

"Heh, ass's ass…funny." Vanessa chuckled a little, but soon shook her head and went back to giving Karma the back rub of a lifetime. "There, there, gurl…just let me ease you up a bit. Keep your eyes on the prize!"

"Eyes on the prize?" Karma slowly glanced up at Vanessa, staring at her for a bit, at least until she blushed in response and pointed over her shoulder.

"Not me, lady! I'm talkin' bout Conroy over there! He ain't too far ahead, so chances that we'll catch up to him are pretty hefty! Oh yeah, I can already feel the glow-up about to happen!" Vanessa continued to stare towards Conroy, though Lyle soon swooped right in front of her, posing like a model…sort of. "Uh…honey, what do you think you're doing all up in my business like that?"

"Isn't it obvious? I'm showing you my posing skills! I totally wanna model for whatever vegan clothing line you guys have got! I've been told I've got quite the butt for it! Look!" Lyle turned around and pointed at his butt, which looked to be pretty firm, though his pants were falling down a bit.

"Honey…please, make yourself decent." Lyle shrugged and pulled his pants up on Vanessa's request. "Did you get a burn or something down there? What was it with that nonsense?"

"Oh, my birthmark? Yeah, so, it totally looks like I got branded or whatever, but it's just a birthmark. Mom said it came from my biological mother." Lyle grinned as he shared his story to Vanessa, "Apparently it runs in her family! Always thought it would be cool if I could run into them one day and tell from the birthmark!"

"Dude, you can't just go around and look at random people's bare butts! You need to be an art student to do that!" Zeke rolled his eyes at Lyle, who sat back down with him. "I think it'd be pretty neat, though. Imagine if we found your biological family somewhere down the line on this trip!"

"Yeah, that'd be neat alright! Doubt it'll happen though!" Lyle started to laugh, and Zeke soon joined in with him. Vanessa and Karma both looked at the two, each a little concerned about the intensity of their laughter.

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"Those nature boys…they're really something strange, ain't they, honey?" Karma nodded while Vanessa shuddered, "They look the same, they act the same, they both have…strange features. Did the taller one tell you about the taste buds on the eyes?"

"He did, dahling…and then he said that I taste like cinnamon raisin bread." Karma tapped her chin and glanced off to the side, "I'm still not entirely sure if that was a compliment or what…"

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"Man…even during the day, Transylvania is still really creepy!" Xavier nervously looked around at the eerie surroundings of the woods that the donkey carts were going through. He and Marty were on the second cart as well, with Sadie and Katie sitting nearby them. "So…hm…oh! You guys wanna try this new pastry I tried making? It's supposed to taste sweeter than chocolate cake, but it uses way less sugar!"

"Sweeter than chocolate cake!? I love chocolate cake!" Katie smiled and scooted towards Xavier, who gladly pulled out the…somehow freshly baked pastry from his hoodie pocket. She took a bite of it, and her eyes went wide almost immediately. "It's so…good…" Tears practically came to her eyes as she kept on eating away at the pastry, with Xavier beaming from the appreciation. "Oh, all these carbs are gonna go right to my hips…but I don't care! The wife would probably appreciate that!"

"You're married!? Aren't you like…eighteen?" Xavier was shocked to say the least, as he was well under the impression that the BFFFLs were the same age as he and Marty were.

"Mmm, nope. Me and Sadie are actually twenty-three. I've been married for half a year now…an amazing half a year!" Katie looked down at the ring on her finger and smiled a bit, which is when an idea suddenly came to mind. "Oh! Xavier…do you think I could convince you to give me some more baked goods to bring home with me? I think she would love them!"

"You'll have to remind me when one of us loses a leg, but sure! I'm all about sharing this stuff with new friends!" As Xavier and Katie continued to chat and enjoy each other's company, Marty glanced off the side of the cart…with Sadie sitting right next to him.

"S-so…Marty…uh…" The BFFFL seemed to be a lot more nervous than she usually was, with her face still bright red as left over flusteredness from the kiss before. "T-thanks again for helping me out during that last leg…really got Sunny off of my back."

"Huh? Oh, yeah, that, no problem-o." Marty chuckled, but he didn't look away from the woods, as he was just soaking in the atmosphere. He then suddenly felt something on his thigh, and he raised an eyebrow, turning to see that Sadie had placed her hand there, but was looking away with her blushing face. "Uh…any particular reason you're-"

"Oh! I'm sorry, that was an accident! I like, sometimes…forget where I'm putting my hands!" Sadie smiled awkwardly and pulled her hand back, though she had no luck in hiding her flustered expression. "Really, really sorry!"

"Uh…right, yeah, cool." As Marty was about to turn away again, he felt her hand back where it was before. "Are you nervous or something?"

"Me? Nervous? Never! No way!" Sadie chuckled nervously and pulled her hand back for a second time. "B-but…I was thinking that maybe Sunny isn't gonna be so easily convinced by that one kiss, so I was gonna ask if you could maybe keep pretending to be my boyfriend until she's gone? Or I'm gone…or you're gone. You know?"

"Huh? Uh…I guess I can do that? Doesn't really matter too much to-" As Marty was speaking, Sadie immediately rushed right next to him and hugged her arms around his side, leaving him entirely confused. "...You're really handsy, you know that?"

"Do you want me to be less handsy?" Sadie frowned slightly, something that left a sour taste in his mouth. He shrugged lightly, and she went back to smiling, not letting go of him at all.

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"I don't really get what's going on with Sadie, but she pretty much hasn't left my side since the last leg was over. Maybe she's just really appreciative of me helping her out? Don't really know, but hey, as long as she's happy, I'm fine with it." Marty looked behind him at the cart to see that Xavier and Katie were still there, feasting on copious amounts of pastries. "I love Xavier's baking as much as the next guy, but that much bread can't be good for you."

"Yeah, I usually get sick after eating three baked goods." Sadie suddenly intruded on the confessional, startling Marty and causing him to stumble back a bit. Luckily, though, she caught him before he fell, and pulled him in for another hug. "Don't worry, bubby, I got you."

"...B-bubby? I don't even Sunny is around right now…" Marty just stared down at Sadie as she nuzzled her head against him, eventually sighing and just letting it be.

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"Ugh…headache…" Logan rubbed her hands against her temple as her head throbbed in tremendous pain, a sight that Evan knew all too well. He kept quiet, though, just minding his own business, as most of everyone in the third cart was. That is, except for Sophie, whose only business she knew how to mind was anyone other than her own. She leaned towards Logan and stared at her, far too close for comfort. "...What do you want, kid?"

"You're hungover! I've seen a ton of people get hungover before, so I know I'm not mistaken!" Sophie beamed and reached back to grab her patch book, flipping through the pages before landing on one. She placed a finger against the page, right on one of the patches that she didn't earn yet. "I still need the Hangover Helper patch, so don't fret! I'll take good care of you!"

"Hungover…? Little girl, I don't let my temple of a body be introduced to such poisons. How else am I supposed to be as stunning as I am?" Logan smiled slightly, though the mere movement of her mouth muscles caused more searing pain in her head. "Agh…it's just a migraine…probably from having to deal with Evan's nonsense this whole time."

"Um…no, pretty sure you're hungover. You're sweating a lot, you have a big headache, and you smell like death." Sophie nodded with a big smile, though seeing Logan's glare wiped the smile off of her face. "No offense, but I'm pretty sure everybody in the cart has been plugging their nose because of it."

"What!? I don't smell that bad!" Logan looked around to see everyone staring at her, each person with an awkward look on their face. "H-how dare you!? I smell just fine, thank you!"

"Look, I already can't speak, I feel like I'm gonna lose my ability to smell if I'm around you without plugging my nose." Lukas signed to Logan, though she hadn't a clue what he was trying to communicate to her. "Ah, I should've figured that you wouldn't know how to use ASL."

"Why is the blonde twink throwing up gang signs at me?" Logan winced again from her headache, though looking at Sunny for an answer.

"Lukas can't talk! Haven't you been paying attention to anyone other than yourself since the race started?" Sunny rolled her eyes at Logan, who rolled her eyes right back at her. She looked up to Lukas with a smile, but he ignored the smile and looked away, leaving her to fall to a frown.

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"Lukas hasn't forgotten about the plane incident with Richard…it's driving me insane! He's just barely speaking with me now because of it! Ugh, I don't even know what to do…apparently 'age is just a number' isn't enough to convince him that he should date me!" Sunny crossed her arms, ignoring the fact that Lukas was glaring at her.

"Maybe if Sunny knew how to respect boundaries better, we wouldn't be having this issue," Lukas signed to the camera, with Sunny trying to get a glimpse of what he was saying. "This isn't the first time that she's done this, but I thought she understood after the last time that I had had enough. I'm seriously reconsidering being her babysitter at this rate."

"What!? You can't not be my babysitter, you've always been my babysitter!" Sunny looked really angry for a moment, but eventually just started to cry hysterically. "Lukaaaaaaaaaas, you can't just abandon meeeeeeeee!"

"Here we go again."

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"I've never ridden in a donkey cart before, much less been in charge of one! Isn't this so much fun, Virgilio?" Michael smiled at Virgil, who did his best to ignore his partner and just focus on the road ahead. Unfortunately for him, Michael was as persistent as always, and got right up in his business. "Virgilio! We need to communicate! Communication is key!"

"I don't have to speak to you if I don't want to. No means no…or are you like every other man that doesn't understand that basic concept?" Virgil still wouldn't look at Michael, who was now getting annoyed with him. He slunked back over to his own side of the reins, puffing his lip out. "You're pouting like a child because I don't want to talk to you? You really are a typical male."

"I'm starting to sense a whole load of hypocrisy here," Michael mumbled under his breath before turning around to look at the other members of the cart. "Are you all enjoying the ride? We thank you for choosing Mr. Dude's Donkey Cart Service, as we know how many options of donkey carts there are around here."

"You're quite the quirky one, aren't you? Surely a handsome young lad like you would enjoy a piece of hard candy?" Michael opened his mouth to respond, but before he could, Bea thrust a hard, caramel candy into his mouth, smiling sweetly as he had no choice but to suck on it. "Keep up the good driving, and I just may have to give you some more of those!"

"Ha…you should give some of those candies to Logan! She loves it when people treat her like a kid, little guilty pleasure of hers." Evan had leaned in to whisper to Bea, who took note of this and looked Logan's way, but almost immediately looked away.

"Er…I don't know if that's such a good idea. She looks like she's about ready to gut the next person that looks at her." Bea tucked the rest of her candies away again, leaving Evan to sigh and lean back in his seat again. Back in the fourth and final cart, James had taken the reins all by himself, though Ursula was sitting next to him in the front.

"So, James, are you about ready to apologize for that little mix-up yesterday? It really did hurt my feelings when you sent us on that raggedy plane." Ursula raised her finger and tugged her lip down a little bit as she stared at James seductively. "I was so scared…and you weren't there to comfort me."

"Ever heard of self-sufficiency? It's the only thing that matters in this world!" James scowled as he watched the road, cracking the reins a bit to get the donkey moving slightly faster than before. "You trying to rely on me for everything is only making my distaste for you grow. Not to mention the fact that my son hardly knows who he is anymore because of your partner."

"Oh, I'm sure Lady hasn't had that negative of an effect on the boy." Ursula looked back into the cart to see Lady Belle cradling Eliott in her arms, a perverse grin on her face as she ran her hand through his curly hair. "See? It looks to me that he's enjoying himself quite a lot."

"You didn't know a lick about him before the race started. Eli, sport!" James called back to his "son," who slowly glanced over him, clearly not too interested in him. "You spend any time messing with that computer build you were working on lately?"

"Dad, computer crap's for nerds…I'm no nerd, I'm a tough, working boy. Aduh." Eliott rolled his eyes at James and looked back up to Lady Belle. "D-don't worry, I would never mess around with something as silly as a computer build. All I care about is working out and playing rough sports!"

"That's a good little working boy," Lady Belle gently kissed Eliott on the forehead, causing him to fluster up.

"Baka…baka baka baka! You're letting yourself be used by this enormous woman!" Andrew spat off the side of the cart, "A true man would never let such temptations stray him from the true sigma path he was born to walk along." Ironically, the weeaboo frantically grabbed for his phone, opening up his app to see Mitsuki-Chan still pouting. "S-see? I can be a tough guy, too! I really showed him who the alpha is around these parts!"

"You still have no clue what this is about, baka! I'm done waiting for you to figure it out!" Mitsuki-Chan turned fully away from the screen, leaving Andrew's jaw to drop in astonishment.

"N-nani? Are you saying that-"

"I'm saying that we're done, baka! I don't wanna be your waifu anymore! I'm tired of you just using me for your own pleasure, never showing me that you love me, just that you want to do dirty things with me! Baka, baka, ba-ka!" With that, the app forced a shut down, and Andrew dropped his phone down to his lap.

"M-my waifu…she…she left me…" The weeaboo hardly had a clue on what to do, and was left just blankly staring at the woods. "Watashi wa bakadesu…kuso! Kusoooooooo!" As Andrew burst into overly dramatic tears, Richard looked away, a bit embarrassed by the sight.

"Don't be sobbing in front of all the ladies, you man baby…" Richard sighed and turned his attention to Phoebe, who was sitting on the other side of Jamie Lynn, the sole barrier between the two of them. "Oh…again…ruining all my fun, Jamie Lynn. Why don't you go jump in front of the cart, that's where the donkey's supposed to be."

"You…I'm not a donkey, nor do I look like one! If you can't tell, I'm the single most attractive person on this cart!" Jamie Lynn huffed, though Richard just raised an eyebrow at her and gestured to Phoebe. "Please, I get that you have a pathetic little crush on her and all, but you can't seriously think she's more attractive than I…or even the two older women at the front of the cart."

"Believe it or not, personality is just as important to me as tits and ass! So, when someone's got the personality equivalent of a dumpster fire, such as yourself, it tends to make them a little less hot." Richard smugly grinned at Jamie Lynn, who rolled her eyes.

"Mmm…" Phoebe lightly hummed as she thought to herself, an inside view of her brain showing her and Libby chilling on a couch together, watching TV. The show that was playing had Richard set as the prince, with them as the two princesses, both of which he loved equally. "It's so nice that he's always standing up for me when Jamie Lynn is being…well…Jamie Lynn."

"Meh, I still think you should be the one doing that, but I won't complain about him getting a bit closer to me. I mean, just look at that butt! It's so firm!" Libby smirked and made a squeezing motion with her hands after pausing the TV at a moment that had Richard's butt on the screen.

"You know…it's nice to have a time where me and you aren't arguing…kinda makes you think about when we first met, right?" Phoebe looked over at Libby and smiled a bit, but the courtesy wasn't returned.

"Alright, chill time is done, I don't want any of that sentimental crap in here. Toodaloo, bitch." Libby snapped her fingers, and vision in Phoebe's head faded to nothing, as she was brought back to the real world.

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"I first met Libby when I was…I think I was five…maybe six. I was told that the hat would give me confidence, but it seems to have done a bit more than that…" Phoebe looked at her hat in her hands, a neutral expression lining her face. "We were pretty good together at first, but then she just started to hate me…it's made life a little difficult…"

"You know, for a moment, I thought we were gonna be dragging around in the end of the line again, but it ended up being all okay! That strapping host put it all on the same flight this time around…gave James a good chunk of time to regret his past actions with me staring holes into the back of his head on the flight." Lady Belle whistled and twirled a bracelet around her finger.

"And I spent all that time doing nothing but schmoozing! I'm at my wits end with this man! That didn't work, nothing is working, and I want that mon-...his love!" Ursula practically had steam coming off of her forehead as she seethed next to Lady Belle, who was grinning evilly.

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"Like, it was really awesome that we all got to get on the same plane! We're totally in first place right now, eee!" Katie squealed excitedly as she and Sadie ran out of the airport, heading right for the dukebox that was sitting just outside. Not too far back from them, there was the Friendly Duo as well as the Sailor America Fans, each of which lined up to get their tips after Katie went ahead with grabbing hers. "OMG, it's another botch or watch! 'Whoever didn't do gymnastics in Romania has to go diving for wedding rings!'"

"That's right!" The camera cut away to show Duke walking along a pier and flexing his biceps, eventually kissing the left one. "Our jabroni teams are gonna have to dive off of this here pier into the waters below! From there on, they'll have to fetch one of the rings at the bottom…it's really spooky down there, so I sure hope none of them are scared of sea creatures!"

"'Then, swim to the beach at the tip of the bay to meet your partner.' Well, seems easy enough to me!" Xavier smiled and tossed the tip away, starting to run on ahead. Marty began following him, though he was quickly grabbed by Sadie, who insisted on running with him.

"Sadie, is now really the time to-" As he spoke, he saw Sunny viciously glaring at the two of them, and quieted down a bit. "Geez, you really weren't kidding about her being a little demon. That glare was so intense I think it's burned into the back of my head."

"Oh, it can't bad!" Sadie giggled and took a look at the back of Marty's head, in which she noticed an imprint of Sunny's glaring eyes. "Oh, uh…hm…" She tried to laugh it off, with Marty just sighing as they kept on running.

"Come on, Lukas! We've gotta keep our lead!" Sunny started darting off much faster than Lukas was, though he did his best to keep close to her. As he ran, he could feel someone staring at him, a creepy stare that he had felt before. A quick glance over the shoulder showed that it was Richard that was watching him like a hawk. He gulped nervously and kept running, though he put some more distance between him and Sunny.

"Damn creeps…" Richard shook his head, still running and ready to get on with the challenge, but something was off. All around him, he saw plenty of other teams running…all except for one single teammate that was sitting right at the entrance of the airport. His fedora was tipped in front of his eyes as he sat there, trying to hide his sorrow. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me…" With a groan, Richard turned back, running all the way to the entrance and standing over the dilapidated Andrew. "Andrew, dude, get up."

"There's nothing…there's no reason for me to go on anymore…I've lost it all…" Andrew sniffled quietly behind his hat, with Richard still annoyed with him. "You don't get it, baka…you don't get what it's like to have your waifu leave you! She was my everything! And now…she's gone…gone with the wind…"

"Yeah, that's a great sob story and all, but I've got some news for you…SHE ISN'T REAL!" Richard grabbed Andrew by the shoulders and started to violently shake him. "She's a character in an app that you downloaded! Do you think she actually exists in that phone? She's a bunch of ones and zeroes!" The pervert sighed and pulled his hands back, "Listen, I don't wanna sit here and berate you…I love hentai as much as the next dude, but that app isn't worth sobbing over. You could be getting yourself a real babe with real boobs and a real butt!"

"It's not the same…Mitsuki-Chan was the perfect woman for me…no, is the perfect woman for me! There's no three dimensional woman that could ever replace her…" Andrew managed to pull himself off of the ground, though he wasn't in good shape. He had tears streaming down his face, so much so that they were actually cleaning some of the crumbs out of his neckbeard. A comically large snot bubble formed and Richard recoiled in disgust.

"Andrew, stop snotting all over the place, that's disgusting." Andrew reluctantly inhaled the snot bubble, but this just made it fly out of his ear instead. "...That's horrifying. Just keep your head in the game, please. I'm gonna sell your katana collection if you blow this for us."

"H-how cruel!" Andrew gasped, but nevertheless, went along running with Richard.

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"I hate having to basically bully Andrew into not being a useless sack but…well, he's being a useless sack! I can't understand how an app could have so much influence on how he's feeling, but it's just plain weird." Richard glanced to the side to see Andrew sadly swiping through his phone. "It's just…pathetic."

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"W-water on my attire? I should think not!" Arnold quickly got down to stripping himself, all the way down to his underwear. He folded his clothes neatly in a pile, setting them aside on the dock and getting ready to dive. "Gypsy, make sure that none of the hooligans from the other teams touch my clothing. If there is so much as a fingerprint on any of those articles, there will be consequences!" Aisling sheepishly nodded at Arnold's request, and he dove right into the water below the pier, leaving her up there alone.

"Hm…" Out of curiosity, Aisling wandered over towards the pile of clothes, leaning down towards them and smelling them. "Oh dear…his scent is of stress and expectations…that's not good at all." As Aisling continued to observe the clothes, she noticed a few bubbles floating to the top of the water and popping, each bubble releasing a sound, which ended up compiling to be Arnold's voice saying "Do not sniff my clothes, Gypsy!" She immediately backed away from the clothes and sat on the pier, a bit frightened by the shouting bubbles. At the same time, Bea came running past her, smiling excitedly.

"Woohoo! Cannonball!" The troop master jumped into the air, though the minute she did, she felt an immense strain on her side. "Agh! My Hip!" Howling in pain, the grandma splashed into the water, with Sophie wandering towards the end of the deck and shaking her head disappointedly.

"That's not even close to proper form, grandma! How are you gonna earn your Cannon Ballsy patch with mistakes like that?" Sophie still shook her head, and turned to Aisling. "Hm…you know, I think you're well deserving of your Meditating Near Folded Laundry patch."

"My spiritual gaze is telling me that there's no such thing." Aisling briefly opened her eyes to see that Sophie was practically frothing at the mouth, and she immediately shut her eyes again. "...My spiritual gaze is now telling me to keep my words to myself." A bit of a ways down the pier, Xavier and Sadie were just now jumping into the waters below.

"You got this Sadie, you show the water that you're totally better than it!" Katie hollered excitedly at the water, with Marty doing similar things nearby.

"Yeah, Xavier! You can do this, no problem!" As he cheered, he suddenly felt that gaze again. He turned around to see Sunny staring right in his face, hardly an inch away from him. "Ah! C-can I help you with something?"

"You're over here cheering for your partner, but you aren't cheering for your 'girlfriend?' Seems a bit sketchy to me!" Sunny started to walk circles around Marty, observing him like a detective at a murder scene. She even pulled out a large magnifying glass to look deeper at his face. "From the sweat drops falling down from your forehead, I would assume that you're hiding something from me! Something sketchy…something super sketchy! Well? You gonna tell me what it is, sketchy man?"

"You sure do like the word 'sketchy,' don't you?" Marty chuckled lightly, but Sunny wasn't amused. "Ah…well, I'm not hiding anything from you. I don't have any reason to hide anything from you. I'm just waiting for Sadiekins to come back up from the water so I can congratulate her with…" Marty started to speak through his gritted teeth, "A b-big smooch on the lips. Yep, we're gonna slobber all over each other's faces."

"Hmmmmm…alright…" Sunny started walking away, giving Marty some room to breath, but the very moment he exhaled, she whipped back into his face and pressed her finger right against his nose. "But I wanna see it happen, the whole thing! You got it, mister?"

"Y-yeah, sure, whatever. We loooooooooooove PDA, so it's no problem if anyone sees." With that confirmation, Sunny smiled innocently and started to gallop away. Marty looked as if he was about to throw up when Katie looked his way.

"See, I told Sadie she shouldn't care about what Sunny thinks, but here we are. Well, at least you get to have the honor of being her smooch toy for the race." Katie giggled, and Marty deadpanned at the camera with a much more saddened, "how did I get in this mess" sort of look. Below the water, there were plenty of divers already getting to work, searching for the wedding rings that Duke had mentioned before. Lukas checked around a bunch of seaweed, but didn't have much luck at all. Sadie dug through some sand, but alas, nothing came to fruition. Xavier tried to bribe some fish with bread, but the bread pretty much dissolved in the water, and the fish just started biting him instead. Then, there was Arnold, who was frantically throttling a turtle about like a madman. Luckily, this worked, as a wedding ring popped out of its shell and floated in front of his face.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh haaaaaaaaaaaa!" Arnold's voice was heavily distorted by the water, but still just as obnoxious as always. He snatched up the ring with a grin, and started to swim back up to shore, proudly holding up the ring when he surfaced. "Gypsy, head to the beach, I got the ring!"

"B-but…your clothes…" Aisling nervously looked at the pile of clothes, to which Arnold groaned and nodded at her. She gently picked them up and started to run with them, and he began to swim through the bay in search of the beach. This left several other teams on the pier, with two new additions just now arriving: the Bloody Prom Queens and the Hottie and Nottie.

"This water…ugh, I can already feel the makeup washing off of my face." Becky groaned and walked to the end of the pier, turning around swiftly and pointing directly at Olive. "If those basketball clowns show up, you'd better not talk with them! We're in the middle of a leg right now, so we don't have the time to waste on chit chat!" Olive weakly nodded, and Becky just let herself fall backwards, sinking into the water. As she descended, she left a ginormous cloud of black and red in the water, presumably the makeup washing off of her face.

"Ugh…t-this is gonna be really annoying." Mitsuki slowly started to walk to the end of the pier, with Olive and Honey watching her closely.

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"If I was an animal, I think I would be pretty close to a cat. I mean, being dropped into water definitely isn't something I'm all too thrilled with…and if you touch me the wrong way, I get a bit…scratchy." Mitsuki stared down at her fingernails, which were jagged and pointy. "Er…yeah."

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"Woohoo! You go get that ring for your bride!" Olive cheered on Mitsuki as she was diving into the water.

"Wait a minute, what did you jus- oogh!" She smacked down hard against the water, painfully sinking into it with a groan while Olive and Honey noticeably cringed. Then along came James and Eliott, with Lady Belle and Ursula not too far behind them.

"Stop following me already, woman! Work for your own money and stop trying to leech off of mine!" James shook his fist angrily before jumping right into the water, doing whatever he could to avoid Ursula.

"I'm not after your money, I'm after your heart, darling!" Ursula blew a kiss towards the man as he sank down, but he luckily pulled out an umbrella just in time to block the kiss, snickering at his brilliance as he went under. Ursula slapped her palm against her face, getting up and grumbling as she walked back from the pier.

"Well, guess that means it;s my turn to get in that water. Try not to miss me too much, little boy…momma's gonna come right back for you." Lady Belle winked at Eliott, who swooned and fell over on the pier. With a giggle, she took her turn jumping into the water, making an enormous splash once she made contact with it. The water shot up and knocked Sophie into the air like one of the geysers back in Iceland.

"W-woah! Guess I can check off both my Shot Into The Air By A Real Geyser and Shot Into The Air By A Big Lady Imitating A Geyser patches! Heheh…my sash is gonna be absolutely packed after this! I might need to go and get me a second sash!" Sophie continued to giggle to herself before eventually falling back down to the pier. Luckily, she landed on something, so her fall was well cushioned. "Huh…I expected to be in a lot of pain after that."

"Owwwwww…" Sunny groaned as Sophie sat on top of her, effectively squished by her crashing down.

"Woops! Guess you probably should've watched where you were walking instead of watching that other team so much, huh?" Sophie went back to giggling, getting up from Sunny and walking back to where she was standing before.

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"Note to self…girl scouts weigh a lot more than you think they would. I guess that's a side effect of all the cookies." Sunny cracked her back back into place, yelping slightly as she did it. "But if Marty thinks this sudden blow is gonna stop me from keeping an eye on him and Sadie, he's got another thing coming! Knowing those schemers, they probably set this up to deter me from my goal here! I'm not crazy, I'm just onto your tricks! I'M NOT CRAZY!" She grabbed a hold of the camera and started throttling it like a madman until it cut out.

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"You've got this Virgilio, woohoo, woohoo!" Michael cheered on Virgil as he jumped into the water, getting a middle finger shown to him in response before the editor disappeared into the bay. "Aye…well, that's better than nothing, I suppose."

"Come on fishy friends, grant me your strength!" Lyle shouted as he flew by Michael, diving into the water and making a pathetic plink as he hit the water. Michael had a hard time not laughing at how silly the splash was, which is when Zeke approached him.

"He really is mastering the way of the fish…diving into the water and not making that much of a sound." Zeke sniffled a little bit, soon wiping a single tear from his eye, "He's doing me real proud, that guy…real proud. I'm sorry, I think I just…" The conservationist started to full on sob at that point, grabbing a hold of Michael and blowing his nose on his shoulder.

"Uh…t-there there?" Michael gently patted Zeke on the back while looking to the other teams for help, though it seemed his pleas were being well ignored. Down underneath the water, there were still plenty of teams searching for the rings, with Lyle now joining that bunch. He puffed up his cheeks a good deal, blubbering like a fish as he swam around. He eventually noticed some oddly pink rocks floating ahead, and smirked, thinking those would be a perfect place to hide the rings. He started to swim towards them, but when he reached and grabbed on to move it, it suddenly moved on its own, and it was revealed to him that it was actually part of Becky's hair. She spun around and faced him, her face completely clear of all makeup.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Lyle howled like a horrified toddler as he saw the cryptic sight of Becky without her makeup on, immediately letting go of her hair and paddling away as fast as he could. She sighed and shook her head before lifting her hand up to show that she had one of the rings already. Soon after, she started swimming back to the surface, coming up and holding the ring up high.

"Olive, I got the ring, start heading to the beach!" Becky shouted up to her older sister and started to paddle in the direction of the beach.

"You got it, Becks! I'll just-" As Olive turned around, she saw that Mika and Conroy were just now heading onto the pier. They both saw her and waved, and she got ready to wave back, but then remembered Becky threatening her before. Sadly, she sunk her head down and started to run off the pier, passing by the Basketball Team without saying a word.

"Huh? That was strange…she didn't even say hi." Mika frowned as her and Conroy approached the end of the pier, staring back at Olive as she ran away from them.

"Yeah…if I had to give my expert opinion on it, I'd say that Becky has a lot more influence on her than we initially thought. She might even be scared to defy her sister, from what I'm seeing." Conroy started to do some stretches at the end of the pier, cracking his neck somewhere in that mix. "Well…we can catch up with her later. For now, let's just stay focused and work on the challenge at hand, okay?"

"Yeah…okay!" Miks perked back up to her regular smiling self, but as she turned around to look at her partner, all she saw was the flash of Karma tackling him straight into the water. "W-what just-"

"Don't you go worrying about a thing, honey, nuh uh." Vanessa patted Mika on the head gently, smiling down at the water, "Karma's just got some advice to be giving your partner there."

"Advice…underwater?" Mika stared at Vanessa, entirely dumbfounded, but the fashionista didn't respond, as she was much more invested with doing a little cheerleader dance while she watched the two underwater.

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"One second, I'm standing on the pier, getting ready to dive, the next second, I've suddenly been tackled by the mall's makeup department." Conroy wiped some smudged makeup off of his tracksuit, though it just ended up on his hands. "How are people supposed to get this stuff off? It's sticking to me like glue."

"I don't know, I don't really wear makeup! I always get worried that I'll end up sweating it off during our practices anyways." Mika snickered and reached into her tracksuit pocket, pulling out a napkin that she wiped the makeup off of Conroy with. "There we go!"

"Thanks…" Conroy adjusted his glasses and tried to hide the fact that he was blushing, which Mika just shrugged to and ignored, thinking that's what he would have wanted her to do.

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"Ugh…Evan, hurry up and get in the water already! I wanna get this challenge over with so I can get some beauty sleep." Logan was still clutching her head with her throbbing migraine practically running her through the ringer. Evan looked far more smug than he did before, grinning as he dove into the water. Of course, Logan didn't notice the grin, she was all too focused on her own pain. She started to breathe really heavily, the sound of which she heard echoing throughout her head. "Why does it hurt…so much?" She started to stumble around on the dock, and just as she was about to fall into the water from a missed step, someone reached out and grabbed her, preventing her from falling. "Huh…?"

"Y-you looked like you were gonna fall, I'm sorry…" Phoebe squeaked in her typical nervous tone as she pulled Logan back onto the pier, making sure that she was standing upright before letting her go. The pop star blankly stared at the panicky girl, trying to process what had just happened, but having no time, as Jamie Lynn soon shoved Phoebe on the back and sent her right off the edge of the pier and into the water.

"Would you at least try to focus a bit? You're so annoying with every single challenge!" Jamie Lynn groaned loudly, eventually noticing that Logan was staring at her now. "What do you want, ya munchkin?" Logan just kept staring in silence before shoving Jamie Lynn back off the other side of the pier, knocking her into the water, just as she had done to Phoebe.

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"Make no mistake, that schizoid isn't getting a sliver of friendship or companionship out of me…I simply did that as my height was being mocked." Logan grumbled and clenched her fist tightly, so tightly that it started to turn purple. "Those tall mongrels think they can talk down to me because I'm short, do they? I'll show them all! I'll feed them to my pet boar! His name is Rufus, and he is quite illegal in the States, but I have my workarounds!" Logan smirked as she held up a large stack of hundred dollar bills.

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"Let me show you how to go and do a botch or watch without busting your own nose, Angel! It'd probably do you some good to watch closely…or maybe it's too late for that." Jacque snickered and jumped off the edge of the pier, but before he fell into the water, Mitsuki surfaced with her fist high in the air, a ring held in it. Jacque ended up landing face first on her fist, sinking into the water after.

"Well done, Jacque! You sure showed me!" Angel started laughing it off, with Mitsuki just confusedly looking around.

"Uh…never knew that guys would want to kiss my knuckles like that before. M-maybe something on the face would've been better…" Mitsuki shook her head rapidly and showed the ring to Honey, who was aloof, on the dock. "Honey! Honeeeeeeeeeeeey! HEY, HONEY!"

"Yes, dear!" Honey suddenly snapped to attention, with Mitsuki narrowing her eyes at her and blushing. "Oh, you got the ring! Woohoo, that means we get to have a beach party!" Beach party, beach party, beach party!" She continued to chant the same two words over and over again as she ran away from the pier, and Mitsuki sighed, soon starting her swimming journey towards the beach. Finally, Richard and Andrew arrived, much later than all the other teams.

"Great…everybody else is already in the thick of it. Andrew, go on and get in the water already!" Andrew sighed and approached the end of the dock, cursing in Japanese a bit before slowly teetering into the water. The very second that he came in contact with the bay, an enormous amount of water burst up into the air, splashing each of the watchers that were still on the pier. Most eyes turned to Richard, annoyed that it was his partner that did it. "Oh, don't you guys look at me like that! If you were so worried about getting wet, you shouldn't have joined a race with me in it in the first place!" That snide comment got a shoe thrown at Richard, courtesy of Ursula. "Urgh…can I at least keep the shoe?"

"You're a vile creature, you know that?" Ursula spat on Richard as she walked by to collect her shoe, only noticing that he was grinning after that. "...Ew."

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"Look, if you were the one getting spit on by a MILF, you wouldn't be judging me so much, that's all I'm saying." Richard had a black eye from the shoe hitting him in the face, but otherwise looked fine, at least until another shoe hit him in the back of the head, this time being one of Vanessa's. "Okay, guys, the shoe thing was kind of a joke. I'm not as much of a foot guy as you may think." He tried to laugh it off, but he was suddenly swarmed by an armada of shoes being thrown at him until he was covered in a pile of shoes. "Mmph…"

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"With most of our teams still searching for their wedding rings, our first placers, the Psychic and Skeptic, are just reaching the beach, and the second dukebox!" Duke chanted as Arnold finally crawled out of the bay, shaking the water off of himself like a wet dog. Aisling extended his clothes towards him, but he quickly backed away from them.

"Are you insane? I just got out of the water! If I were to put my clothes back on now, they'd just get all wet! We'll have to wait until we're done with the race so I can dry off properly." Arnold shook his head at Aisling and slammed his hand down on the button to the dukebox, grabbing the tip from it the second it came out. "Oh, just wonderful…another all-in."

"You got that right, Arnold! Yowch!" Duke hollered in pain as the duo looked ahead to see him dashing across an extensive path of hot coals, trying to keep his feet from melting. "This all-in, owwww! This all-in is a Hawaiian wedding ritual! The groom's gotta walk across a path of hot calls while wearing a wreath of maile and carrying their bride, who must wear a grass skirt! Yowza! They need to be extra careful, though, because the second either of these ceremonial pieces catches fire from the heat, they'll have no choice but to start it all over again! Once they're done, it's a simple race to the chill zone!" When the host finally finished walking the path of coals, he collapsed in the sand, right in front of Aisling and Arnold. "S-somebody get the Dukester an ice pack…maybe two…"

Back underwater, there were still a good deal of teams searching for the rings, with not much of anyone having any luck at this point. Evan dug around in a little burrow he found, though his eyes suddenly widened and he pulled his hand out to see that a sharp-toothed fish was biting onto his hand. He started to scream as he ran through the water, knocking plenty of rocks over and revealing a couple of rings that were scattered about. Seeing the opportunity that was presented to them, Lady Belle, Virgil, and James swooped in to grab some of the rings, surfacing pretty soon after they did.

"Agh! Damn water, trying to drown me…Ursula! Beach! I got a ring!" Lady Belle hollered to Ursula, who nodded and started running while Eliott longily stared at his lady, who was now swimming in big strides off in the direction of the beach.

"Eli! Sport! Get your head out of the gutter, it's time to finish up this challenge!" James did eventually manage to get Eliott to snap out of his trance, but the boy could only sigh and start running, hoping to catch up to Lady Belle somewhere down the line there. Virgil shook his head in disappointment.

"Your son is such a cishet, basically claiming that independent woman with his oppressing gaze. You should be ashamed of him." Virgil quickly covered his own mouth, entirely embarrassed that he suddenly blurted that out, and began swimming away as fast as he could.

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"I seem to recall that that Virgil kid was a lot different at the start of the race, always screaming profanities and slurs at everybody…dunno what's changed him up all the sudden, but I can't say I enjoy him any more or less than I did before." James groaned and looked over at Eliott, to see that he was still in his love trance, staring at a picture of Lady Belle on his phone. "You hear that, sport? I don't like all these sudden changes! It's like you're a whole different person."

"You hardly knew anything about me before, don't go on about how you miss the old times when there weren't any old times between us, geezer." Eliott got up in a huff and stormed off from the beach sands, leaving his "father" behind.

"Don't you run off from me, young man! Hey! Listen to me when I'm talking to you!" James continued to shout after Eliott for a moment, but eventually shook his head and looked at the camera with a dim grin. "Kids these days, am I right?"

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"Are you sure you don't want me to just encourage you a little bit?" Aisling raised a finger to her chin as she looked down at Arnold, who was currently carrying her as he walked along the path of coals, entirely ignoring the searing sensation on his feet.

"Are you kidding me? Any encouragement from you would likely make things worse for us! You're going to say something about the fates trying to push me forward, and then I'm gonna suddenly combust for not pulling a card from your silly deck." Arnold scoffed at Aisling's offer, causing her to sigh a bit. "Besides, I don't need any encouragement when we've already finished walking the coals. See?"

"We…did?" Aisling looked down in disbelief to see that they were back onto the beach sands, with Arnold's feet a bit burnt on the bottoms. He dropped her to the ground and dusted his hands off. "That was…actually quite impressive. I never expected you to finish that so quickly."

"You can accomplish great things when you're not fiddling around with Blasbro toys all day." Arnold gestured to the tarot card deck and the crystal ball, which made Aisling frown. "Now's not the time to be upset, we're well in the lead at this point, let's just head to the chill zone!"

"Yeah…" Aisling sighed and got up from the sand as Arnold began running off on his own, yet again. "Let's just…do what you want to do…again…"

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"Being partners with Arnold is…wonderful." Aisling softly sighed and gently rubbed her hands on the surface of her crystal ball. "Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I was chosen to come along with him for the race…it's just that…well, I wish he would take me a bit more seriously. I'm not incapable…I think I'm more than capable…" The ball faintly started to glow as she rubbed it, communicating to her as it had done many times in the past. "You're saying that I should just give it time…how much humiliation do I have to withstand before we come to an understanding? Oh…this test is a great one, but I'll endure it…"

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"Um…Becks, I think that…um…yeah, you should probably be the one that walks on the coals. Y-you're the one that loves her fire and brimstone, anyways!" Olive nervously nodded at Becky, who growled back at her and tossed her wreath on herself. She thrust the grass skirt to her older sister's hands. "Oh, thank goodness…I was getting really worried that you were gonna make me do the walking! Such a classic you move, making me think something when it's actually the opposite!"

"Just…put the skirt on already." Becky snapped at Olive, who gulped and tossed the skirt on as fast as she could. She scooped her up off the ground soon after, starting to walk across the coals without even a hint of pain or anguish in her ferocious eyes. Soon after they departed, Honey and Mitsuki approached the starting line, with Mitsuki wearing the grass skirt and Honey wearing the wreath.

"Alright, let's just get some ground rules down before you go and do something stupid." Mitsuki got up in Honey's face, being way more aggressive than she usually was. "You have to carry me across the coals, but that's it! The second that we finish, put me down, and we will run all the way to the end. And whatever you do, don't touch me with-"

"Don't worry about a thing, Mitsuki, I can handle it just fine!" Honey giggled and picke Mitsuki up, holding her really close to her chest. For some reason, this particular thing got Mitsuki really trying to squeeze her way out of her grasp, which started annoying Honey. "Mitsuki, I can't focus on walking the coals if you keep fighting back against me! Hold still!" With a grunt, Honey pulled Mitsuki right back in, nuzzled her face into her chest. The very second that happened, Mitsuki shot out of her arms, hissing like a wild animal and scratching Honey up all over the place. "Ah! Bad Mitsuki, bad!" Honey started running away from Mitsuki, who didn't stop scratching her until she jumped into the water. The cold sensation of the water was enough to bring her back from her feral trance.

"Huh…? You! You didn't let me finish saying what I was gonna say! Don't touch me with those…those…things!" Mitsuki angrily pointed at Honey's chest, though her partner, who was all scratched up, just wobbled forward and sank down into the water. "Great…just great…" As she started to forcibly drag her partner out of the water, there were more teams just now arriving at the beach, a good deal of them actually.

"We've got more than half of our teams already on the beach now, but the race for first is already well over, as here comes our Psychic and Skeptic!" Duke stood on the chill zone and greeted Aisling and Arnold as they ran onto the chill zone, the latter grinning widely at his success. "You guys got a pretty close first place, but it's still first place, nonetheless."

"Close? What do you mean by close?" Arnold turned around to see Becky standing right behind him with Olive still in her arms. He was startled, but he didn't scream as many other contestants did when they found that creepy girl popping up out of nowhere. "Urk…somehow, I think she's less terrifying with the makeup on. Well, let's go celebrate our victory, Gypsy! Drinks are on me tonight!"

"Oh…well…that's actually very sweet of you…" Aisling smiled at Arnold, soon reaching for the tarot deck in her bra, though he already walked away from her, leaving a check on the ground that had an amount of one hundred dollars on it. There was a sticky note on the back of the check that read, "Get yourself whatever." "...Right…I shouldn't have thought that we'd go celebrate as a team…" She sighed and took the check with her as she left the chill zone, leaving just Duke with Olive and Becky.

"Bloody Prom Queens, you guys are second place this time around. And Becky, please, do us all a favor and go put your makeup on again…seeing you like that is just horrifying." Duke shuddered while Becky walked past him, glaring the whole time. "At this point, we've got every team on the beach…every team except for our Dweebs, who are still looking around for the wedding ring!"

"Andrew, dude, we're way far behind everybody else, you gotta hurry up!" Richard shouted from the pier, pacing back and forth nervously as he waited for Andrew to surface. Eventually, he did come up from the water, belly first. He looked like a small island as he floated there, with a wedding ring sticking into his belly button. "Aw, sweet! And also…really gross. Doesn't matter, let's get to the beach while we still can!" Richard took off running as quick as he could, though Andreew just started to weakly back paddle along with him.

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"See, even if Andrew is moping about, he can still kind of be useful! I mean, it hasn't been too long since the last of the other team's left the pier, so we're not horribly far behind!" Richard chuckled and nudged Andrew with his elbow, but he got no response out of his partner. "Guy…come on, you've gotta be a bit more enthusiastic than that. We can still do this!"

"I'm not Guy…not all overweight men with neckbeards are the same, baka…" Andrew sighed as Richard was just confused by the reference. "It doesn't matter if I'm enthusiastic about the challenge or not…I just want my Mitsuki-Chan back…but that's never going to happen. Oh, how did I let myself stoop so low! Using her to fulfill my desires? I'm a fool!"

"...Yeah, kinda. Relationships gotta be fifty-fifty, even I know that!" Richard chuckled some more, but again, didn't get the response he was hoping for. "Who knows…maybe she just wants you to learn some sort of lesson? I'm sure she'll come around eventually." The pervert glanced at the camera and shook his head to show that he was just flubbing that up.

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"A-alright…let's try this again…" Honey wobbled back and forth as she started to carry Mitsuki along the coals, doing a pretty good job at first with it. Mitsuki watched her very carefully as she wobbled, doing all that she could to keep herself away from her chest.

"There you go…j-just keep walking and we'll be to the end in no time…" Mitsuki glanced down at the coals, noticing that Honey's feet were definitely getting cooked something fierce. "Yeesh…I'm so glad I'm not doing this."

"It's so hot…I can barely think straight." Honey groaned and accidentally wobbled forward a bit too much, thrusting her chest back into Mitsuki's face. "O-oh no…" Just as she had feared, this spiraled Mitsuki into yet another hissing fit, and she started to scratch at Honey to break free from the evil clutches of her breasts. "S-stop scratching me! How are we supposed to- MITSUKI YOU'RE ON FIRE!" Of course, the currently ablaze maniac didn't really register what Honey said, as she just kept scratching at her. Nevertheless, her partner mustered up all of her strength to carry her back to the water to put out the fire…and her frenzy.

"Again…really?" Mitsuki sighed and pulled herself out of the water, shaking some of it off, "This bimbo really is eager to smother me with her enormous melons…tch. I'm not about that, lady! I like guys! Not beautiful, voluptuous…adorably dumb…purple-haired…beauties…" Mitsuki found her regular trance state mixing up a bit, as she was unknowingly smiling with glistening eyes at Honey.

"Uh…Mitsuki? There's a bunch of other teams already going…so…shouldn't we get back to it?" Honey's words had no effect on Mitsuki, who was still stuck in this trance state. She started waving her hand in front of her face, but again, nothing came of it. Eventually, she gave her partner a hug, making sure to pull her face close to her chest on purpose.

"Huh…?" Mitsuki looked and saw where she currently had her face wedged, taking a deep breath before pulling her face back from Honey. "Why are we wasting time? Go and carry me across the coals already, dummy!"

"D-dummy!? I'm not the dummy, you're the dummy!" Honey blushed and furrowed her brow at Mitsuki, who crossed her arms in protest. "Y-you're the one who kept freaking out when we were walking across, so tell me how exactly I'm the dummy that's wasting our time."

"W-well, maybe if you weren't smothering me with your b-b-b…your chest, we wouldn't be having this issue!" Honey gasped and turned away from Mitsuki, "Oh, now you're gonna pout because I pointed out the obvious issue here."

"'Obvious issue?' The only thing obvious about it is how you were obviously pretending like you weren't enjoying yourself!" Honey smirked smugly as she glanced back at Mitsuki, who was taken aback. "That's right, I said it! Nobody just goes all hissy and fussy unless they really wanna show you that they don't like something so you would never suspect that they actually do like it."

"Y-you take it back! I would never ever like anything about your gorgeous melons!" Mitsuki pointed an aggressive finger at Honey, hardly realizing what she had said until she saw her partner's smirk getting even more smug. "You…stop reflecting your gay thoughts onto me! I've never had a gay thought once in my life, never ever!"

"So you won't complain when I carry you across the coals, then?" Mitsuki huffed in response, jumping up into Honey's arms and refusing to look at her. "Good! And I'm sorry for yelling at you!"

"Shut up and just do the challenge already." Honey shrugged and started carrying Mitsuki back towards the coals, which already had two more of the teams walking along them already.

"You hardly had to do a thing in this challenge, you skank." Lady Belle glared down at Ursula as she carried her across the coals, gritting her teeth with each step that she took. "I hope the next one is just one long botch or watch that you have to do all on your own. My figure needs a good break from all this nonsense."

"Oh, would you stop your whining already? You're way too large for me to carry, anyways! Maybe if you weren't eating so much garbage southern food, you'd be slim, like me." Ursula giggled until Lady Belle suddenly thrust a fistful of sand into her mouth to shut her up.

"Ha! How's that for garbage southern food, you nasty hag?" With Lady Belle now laughing hysterically at Ursula practically throwing up chunks and clusters of sand grains all over the beach, it didn't take long for her to forget about the heat from the coals. She managed to get to the chill zone next, dumping her partner off with a smirk.

"Bachelorettes, big improvement from the last time around! You guys are in third place!" Duke clapped as the two older women broke out into a cat fight, full of hissing and slapping. "Man, they don't show that kind of catfight on the WWL! Oh, and lookie here! It seems that we've got our fourth place team, the YouTuber and Editor! W-what!? Michael, you're carrying Virgil!?"

"I was annoyed with it, too…as if I want him to be rubbing his man germs off on me." Virgil glared at Michael before realizing what he said and gasping loudly. "AH! I mean…I meant his gay germs! Yucky gay cooties! Super duper gay! Blech, blech! I can feel myself burning in Hell already! Oh, eternal damnation, why!?"

"Aye, Virgilio…that just sounds so forced. It isn't the same…" Michael sighed and carried Virgil away from the chill zone.

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"We decided not to wait around for the boys this time around…spent too much time helping them out only to get sent flying around on that rust bucket during the last leg." Lady Belle fanned herself off while Ursula frantically tried to wash the sand out of her mouth with a nearby water fountain. "At this point, I think my teammate should just set her sights on one of the other gentlemen still in the race. He's clearly not interested in what you've got to offer."

"You shut up! There's no man that can resist my delicious curves…I'm truly an angel on Earth!" Ursula smiled innocently at the camera, but both her and Lady Belle started laughing about that comment. The laughing eventually turned into much more of a hysterical, evil cackle. This continued until Ursula started to hack up a bunch of sand again. "Ugh…remind me to get you back for this one, bitch."

"Please, Virgilio, I am begging you, just call me a slur or something," Michael got down on his knees and pleaded to Virgil, who just nervously looked around for some escape route.

"U-uh…bartender! Yeah, I think I need an angel shot!" Virgil ran off to the bar as quick as he could, with Michael shooting up from the ground and gasping.

"Virgilio, resorting to jokes that you could only find on ClikClok!? That is so unlike you!"

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"All these marriage ceremonies going on and plenty of marital problems to make it all the more interesting! That's right, if you thought that we were already through with it all, you ain't seen nothing yet! Check out this horribly matched couple!" With Duke's announcement, there came the feed of Sunny and Lukas.

"So, I think, you know, since I'm way smaller than you are, it just makes sense that I be your bride and you be the groom!" Sunny smiled as she started putting on her grass skirt, with Lukas wincing a bit. "No, you can't get mad at me for that one, that's what the challenge is!"

"I'm not mad at you for saying that, I'm mad at you for trying to switch your shirt out and just wear a coconut bra!" Lukas angrily signed at Sunny, who crossed her arms in defiance.

"Well, I have to be all beautified for my husband on our wedding day, obviously!" Sunny did her best to protest, but Lukas just slapped his palm against his face, getting more annoyed with her. "I don't see what's the big idea, anyways! Unless…you're just upset because you wanna go and date that Sadie chick! Haha! I knew it!"

"What!? I don't wanna date Sadie, I'm just kinda friends with her! When did you even get that idea in your head!?"

"Well, she tried to convince me that you guys weren't lusting all over each other, but I saw right through it! I told Marty, her so-called boyfriend, to kiss her after she got her wedding ring, but he was nowhere to be found! See? Saw right through 'em!" Sunny crossed her arms confidently, but glared at Sadie and Marty, who were trying to ignore her vulture-like stares.

"Do you think that maybe, just maybe, the reason that they didn't do that is because they don't wanna make out in front of a child?" Lukas was getting even more annoyed than before, his hands shaking a bit as he signed back at Sunny.

"I'm not just some child, I'm a full blown woman! Your woman, nonetheless! And I gotta be honest, I don't really appreciate all this yelling you're doing!" Sunny huffed as Lukas just raised an eyebrow at her. "Okay, maybe not yelling, but you know what I meant by that! You're signing at me like I just kicked your mother in the coochie!"

"Sunny! Language!"

"Don't you 'language' me! I'm old enough to say coochie! Coochie, coochie, coochie!" Sunny continued to shout out the same word until Lukas placed his hand over her mouth to shut her up. "Lukas, I am your soon-to-be wife, and what I say is just as important as what you sign, so stop trying to silence me!"

"You're not saying anything, you're just shouting 'coochie' over and over again! If your parents heard you right now, they would be furious with you! And furious with me for letting you do that!"

"Well, my parents aren't here, are they? It's just you and me, so there's no need to beat around the love bush and pretend that you don't want this!" Sunny tried to do a seductively little dance, but she kind of just looked like a twig flailing in the wind.

"I don't want to date a child, no! That's just wrong on so many levels, and I'm getting really irritated at this point! How many times do I have to tell you no? A hundred? A thousand? A million!?" Lukas and Sunny glared at each other while the bulk of the other teams on the beach started to awkwardly shuffle away across the coals, though the Dweebs still hadn't arrived.

"Hottie and Nottie, you guys made it to fifth place, despite all that horrible arguing and…minor domestic abuse." Duke side-eyed Mitsuki, who rolled her eyes at him and climbed out of Honey's arms. "Who knew that everyone was going to be so pressed about a marriage challenge? I did, that's who! Conservationists, you guys are chillin' in sixth place! Didn't expect Lyle to be the bride in this case, but I guess I really didn't expect either of you to be the bride."

"I had to step up to the plate, harnessing the power of all of those volcano-dwelling denizens of the animal kingdom!" Zeke lifted up each of his feet, one at a time, to show that neither of them were even burnt from the coals that they had walked across. "Lyle already did his part back in the bay, so it was only fair."

"Y-you don't know the things I saw down there, man…it was terrifying!" Lyle was hyperventilating for a brief moment, but he seemed to calm down and climb out of Zeke's arms. When he looked on ahead, he saw the makeupless Becky staring at him from the bar. "AHHHHHHH! DEMON FISH! EVERYBODY RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" Lyle started flailing his arms around while he ran, though Duke stuck his arm out and clotheslined him to get him to stop.

"Riiiiiiight…anyways…more teams! Wilderness Girls, seventh place! Friendly Duo, eighth! And BFFFLs, ninth!" Duke congratulated the next three teams, with Bea practically collapsing on the chill zone in front of everybody. "Uh oh! GILF down! We need a medic in here, stat!"

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"This old bum hip is really starting to bother me…Sophie, is there any patch in there for removing your own hip?" At Bea's request, Sophie started to look through the book, resisting the urge to grab her pencil and start scribbling in the next patch that she had thought up.

"Mm…nope! Guess the only removal type patch is for removing your own appendix! Sorry, grandma!" Sophie smiled sweetly and put the patch book away, with Bea just groaning in pain.

"I'm not sure how much more of Sunny's nonsense I can take…with her trying to force me and Sadie to kiss in front of her multiple times. That's a weird request, even if we were actually dating!" Marty let out an exasperated sigh while Xavier patted him on the shoulder. "Hey, Xavi? Would you mind making those cookies tonight? I think I'm gonna need 'em after this day I've had."

"You got it, Marty! I'll make those cookies so good that you'll have your socks blown right off!" Xavier grinned and reached into his hoodie pockets to get his oven mitts before heading off towards the nearby snack shack.

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"Silly Lukas, you know I'm not just gonna take no as an answer from you! I've been waiting forever for an opportunity to win you over, and I'm not gonna let it be ruined just because you don't want people to call you a pedophile!" Sunny used air quotes when she said that last word, "It's not being a pedo if it's true love! And that's what we have between us! Truuuuuuuuue love!"

"Sunny, you are a child, I'm an adult, the only thing true between us is that we're true fans of the same anime!" Lukas started reluctantly putting the wreath on his neck with one hand, using the other to sign back at Sunny.

"Oh, you mean Sailor America? The same anime that I pretended to like just so you would think that we have similar interests so I would be more dateable?" Lukas silently gasped in shock, with Sunny smugly smiling at him, "That's right, I never liked that show! I just watched it so you would have another reason to date me!"

"Sunny, you were six when we started watching that show, you can't seriously be trying to tell me that you've been having these…disgusting, creepy thoughts about me since all the way back then!" Sunny nodded, with Lukas absolutely astonished by this revelation.

"My love is not disgusting and creepy, by the way! It's like, the best present a girl could ever give to the guy she likes! Just accept the fact that we're soulmates already!" Lukas grumbled and crossed his arms, refusing to sign back at his partner. "Oh, don't start with that! You uncross those arms and talk to me or I'm not gonna give you a victory kiss after we finish this leg!" Lukas glared at Sunny as she glared back at him.

"'Father and Son?,' you guys are safe at tenth place. Maybe try a bit better next time…and let the one with the muscle actually do the physical labor in the challenge." Duke leered at James, who was panting as he dropped Eliott to the chill zone. He landed right next to Bea, who was still laying there and wallowing in her hip pain. "Ah, and here comes eleventh place, our Awkward Neighbors!"

"I-I wanted to wait for Richard…I didn't see him on the beach yet…" Phoebe sniffled a bit as Jamie Lynn finally let go of her, dropping her on the top of the pile of people that was starting to form on the ground. "What if he needs my help? I can't help him all the way from over here…"

"Newsflash, numbnuts, you're not supposed to help him anyways!" Jamie Lynn groaned and tried her best to shake the water out of her hair. "And I can't believe you got that grumpy dwarf on your side, too! Damn bitch pushed me into the water because of you being so pathetic!"

"Ladies, I am absolutely loving this chat you're having, but I need you all to clear the chill zone for the other teams, please." Duke smiled cheesily at Jamie Lynn, who elbowed him in the gut before walking on ahead. Phoebe nervously got up and stood near the side of the chill zone, anxiously waiting for Richard to show up while Eliott shot off of the ground and ran off in search of Lady Belle. This all just left Bea laying on the ground. "Not gonna get up? Alright, don't say I didn't warn you when you get trampled…these bottom-placers tend to be a bit aggressive." Bea groaned and started reaching her hand forth to tug herself through the sand, slowly crawling out of the chill zone.

"Basketball Team, you guys are twelfth! Yeesh, Conroy…you're looking…like you're glistening, my man." Duke admired Conroy, as his face was now perfectly shiny. The basketballer looked a bit embarrassed from the attention, while Mika giggled at him. "Glow-Up Gals, thirteenth."

"I did my best work to make him, mwah, gorgeous, dahling!" Karma smiled at Conroy before thrusting several bottles into his hands. "Remember to use each of these every single day, and the ones marked with the sun and moon stickers get used respectively in the morning or at night! No sticker means use it both in the morning and at night! Do not skip a treatment, or so help me, I will do a deep clean on your face so deep that the germs in your cheekbones won't even exist anymore!"

"Y-yes, ma'am…" Conroy backed up nervously as Karma and Vanessa proudly strutted by them. He thought he was in the clear, but Vanessa quickly ran his way and grabbed him by the collar of his jacket.

"And don't think you're done with us yet, honey! You get to deal with me next, and I promise, you won't be disappointed with what I've got for you!" With a smile and a pat on the head, Vanessa left Conroy alone, leaving him stunned and Mika confused.

"Senior, what was that all about?" She cocked her head at her senior in question.

"I…I have no idea…" Completely confused, the Basketball Team walked away from the chill zone, leaving Duke there by himself, give for Phoebe standing nearby the side of it.

"Reality Show Rivals, you're in fourteenth! Jacque, maybe try not to take a blow to the face from Mitsuki's fist next time. Seriously, that's just embarrassing…she's so puny…and weak." Jacque grumbled at Duke and brushed past him while Angel snickered behind her hand. "And that leaves our Vicious Pop Stars at our fifteenth place spot! Evan, go take Logan to get some more coffee, would you?"

"I hate coffee, ughhhh…" Logan groaned and slowly stumbled away from the chill zone, with Evan sighing and following after her.

"That just leaves two teams in the bottom two!" Duke grinned at Phoebe, who startled to tremble in fear where she was standing. "That's right, Phoebe! Richard is in the bottom two! He might lose here, you know!" Somehow, just the thought of that was enough for Phoebe to pass out, and she fell down to the sand. "Huh…didn't expect that, but neat!"

"So what are you gonna do, just ignore me for the rest of the race? Communication is key, especially between blooming couples like us, Lukas!" Lukas glared down at Sunny as he started to carry her across the coals, with Richard back on the beach still.

"Andrew, come on, man! There's only one other team, let's get a move on!" Andrew helplessly floated in the water, eventually hovering onto the beach, though not really making much of an effort to get up. "You wanna just go and ignore me, huh? You know, you seriously deserve to have your waifu dump you if this is how you're gonna act! Why would anyone, even if they're an imaginary two dimensional woman, want to date a pathetic, useless, fat sack!?"

"Y-you…" Andrew slowly glanced up at Richard, tears streaming down his face once more. "Your wounds strike deep within my very being, Richard…kuso…I've been such a fool, haven't I…" With a cheeky grin and a tip of his fedora, Andrew got up from the sand, staring dead ahead at the path of coals. He took notice of the grass skirt and the wreath, snatching the wreath up and donning it while placing the skirt on Richard's head. "Ikuzo, Richard-San!"

"That's more like it, yeesh!" Richard groaned as Andrew picked him up off of the ground, and the duo made a dash towards the coals, where Sunny and Lukas were still far ahead.

"Fine, don't communicate with me, I'll just put my status on all my social media as 'it's complicated!' Let's see how you like it when we've got all our friends and family wondering what's gone wrong with us!" Sunny stuck her tongue out at Lukas, who just ignored her and kept walking. Meanwhile, Andrew and Richard were starting to gain on them, albeit still quite far behind.

"Kuso! Richard-San, they're so far ahead of us! How are we to stay in it with them that far ahead!?" Andrew looked down at Richard in question, only seeing the Pervert knocking against his own head as he tried to think of some solution.

"Ah! I've got it!" Richard started taking in a deep breath, a deeper breath than he had ever taken in his whole life. Andrew started to sweat in all the wrong places, fearing for what was to come, when Richard finally let out a bellowing howl. "EVERYBODY, LOOK! THAT PEDOPHILE IS PERFORMING A MARRIAGE RITUAL WITH A CHILD!"

"Huh?" Sunny looked back to see the Dweebs and glared at them. "Ignore them, Lukas, we're almost done with this challenge! Lukas?" As she looked back up at her partner, she saw him looking incredibly nervous. Every set of eyes in the area seemed to be on him at this point, just making him more and more nervous. "Lukas, focus on the challenge! Ignore the haters, they just don't understand our love!" Sunny's words didn't seem to do the trick, as Lukas nervously tumbled back onto the coals, both his pants and his wreath lighting ablaze. "LUKAS! FIRE! I MEAN YOU WERE ALREADY HOT, BUT STIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILL!" Sunny's voice trailed off as Lukas hurriedly ran back to the water with her, allowing the Dweebs to squeeze by them and make it to the chill zone.

"Dweebs! Congratulations! You're our second biggest losers of the night in sixteenth place!" Duke congratulated the Dweebs, both of which immediately collapsed from exhaustion, with Richard flopping down right near Phoebe. She opened her eyes slightly and, upon seeing him, scooted closer to him and hugged him.

"D-does that mean that…?" Marty came back towards the chill zone, looking a little relieved, but the relief only grew when Duke nodded at him.

"The Sailor America Fans are out!"

"Ugh…I can't believe we had such a big fight on international television…it's okay though, I still love you, Lukas!" Sunny giggled lightly as the clip of Lukas protecting her and Sophie from Kurt back in Toronto played on the screen.

"Sunny…you really need to stop it with that already…I think you need a break from me as your sitter." Lukas signed back at Sunny while the clip of the two on the plane when Richard suddenly came and insulted him played.

"W-what? Lukas, no! You can't not be my sitter, that's literally the only thing I ever look forward to! You can't just leave me! That's not fair! That's not…i-it's not…w-wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" As Sunny started crying, the clip of her watching Marty make out with Sadie in Transylvania started to play.

"Sunny, please…you need to learn a little more about boundaries, okay? It's not okay to just go and declare people your boyfriend, husband, or soulmate…especially when they're uncomfortable with it." Lukas knelt down next to Sunny on the beach and wiped her tears with his jacket sleeve.

"B-But I love you!"

"I love you too, kiddo…just not like that. It's not going to be the end of the world, though…I promise." Lukas smiled at Sunny, and she started to smile a little back at him, still sniffling.

"I-if you promise, I guess that means it's true…okay…" Sunny giggled a little, but suddenly looked really embarrassed. "I…didn't mean all that…about Sailor America. I just…was getting heated in the moment."

"Hey, don't sweat it…when you cool off a bit, we can go back to watching whatever show you wanna watch. Besides…I hear that your parents might be planning to bring us a new buddy to watch with…but you didn't hear that from me." Lukas winked at the camera and got up from his knees, the two walking off together as the screen faded to black.

22nd: The Rivalry Twins - Maya and Jeremy

21st: The Dual Artists - Zerine and Sua

20th: The Cool Guys - Evander and Kurt

19th: The Mystical Opposites - Flora and Helena

N/A: The Mouse - Cheese

18th: The Dynamic Gamers - Colin and Freddy

17th: The Sailor America Fans: Lukas and Sunny