"Officers, I swear, I've never seen that man in my entire life, much less have I choke slammed him from the top of the Burj Al Arab. He probably recognizes the Dukester from TV and just wanted to squeeze some money out of me with a lawsuit." Duke nodded and crossed his arms as he was questioned by a pair of Dubain police officers, with the homeless man from the previous episode standing behind them. They nodded back at him, and quickly took the man away, leaving Duke all by himself. "Talk about weird, right? Anyways…last time on the Ridukeulous Race: Hawaii was our old news destination of the day, so we found a new one in Dubai! Two planes took off on the seventeen hour flight, with plenty of happenings along the way, like Lyle trying to score some GILF booty, Phoebe trying to hide her true self from Richard and Jamie Lynn, and Jacque finding out maybe a bit more than he should have about another contestant!" The clips played in suit, starting with Lyle getting hurled into the pile by Bea, moving onto Phoebe taking off her hat when Jamie Lynn was looking at her, and finally Jacque reading that news article from Louisiana. "Their first travel tip took them to the Burj Al Arab, where they discovered what challenge they would be moving onto next, an either-or with playing tennis or window wiping! Teams split about half and half, but none seemed to be having any easy time…except for Lyle and Zeke, that is!" The next clip that was shown was of Lyle and Zeke being carried down the hotel by their bird army.

"Arnold and Aisling were certain they would be able to get first, but that just wasn't happening, thanks to the mystical nature boys. Too bad for Aisling, that man is just never gonna respect her." Duke "tsked" while the clip of Arnold ignoring Aisling at the chill zone was shown. "Mitsuki showed Honey just how wonderful of a mom she is to Olive and Becky, Richard was based towards Jamie Lynn for the millionth time, and Andrew whipped out another anime move that he hasn't shown before! Oh, did I mention that it looks like our fake love between Sadie and Marty looks like its quickly turning to a reality? Just kiss already, you guys did it before!" Duke groaned, and the clip of Sadie and Marty staring at each other with goo-goo eyes was shown, with Xavier and Katie both smirking at their respective partners. "Things got intense when Lady Belle decided that Jacque knew too much, and she and Ursula did whatever they could to hold the duo up from beating their tennis challenge. Angel put up a good slander fight against the Louisiana MILF, but not good enough, as her insults only angered her enough to inadvertently bring injury to herself…again. The Rivals were cut from the race, but didn't cut ties, as they knew they could still get more usefulness out of each other." The scene of Jacque and Angel leaving was briefly shown before Duke tore the screen apart, per usual. He was back in the Gold Souk, just by the previous chill zone. "But it's time to say Buh-Bye to Duh-Bai! Where will we go next? Find out here on…THE RIDUKEULOUS RACE!"

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"As much as I love all the gold…and all the random people that I can chokeslam with absolutely zero consequences…it has come time for us to head out of Dubai!" Duke sighed as he draped a solid gold wrestling belt over his left shoulder, standing just outside of the previous chill zone, where Lyle and Zeke were anxiously waiting for the race to start. "Zeke, Lyle, you two won in the last episode, so you'll be kicking off this leg…now!" Zeke was quick to grab the first tip from the dukebox that was mere steps away.

"Says that we're gonna find our next tip in the famous Bird's Nest Stadium…i-is that like a real bird's nest?" Zeke's eyes lit up, as well as Lyle's, but the duo was shoved aside by Duke pushing in a giant postcard that showed the stadium.

"No, my animal-loving friends, this isn't a real bird's nest. This stadium is located in Beijing, China, which is only a hop, skip, and a plane ride away from Dubai!" Duke was now standing in front of the stadium, giving a glare to any passerby that dared to try and enter the stadium. "I could only get it blocked off from public use for so long, so you guys had better get here quick. If you don't, the Dukester might just have to cut you from the race entirely!"

"Our first seven finishing teams from the last leg have already grabbed their tips, fetched their cabs, and booked their flight to Beijing!" As Duke spoke, taxis carrying the Conservationists, the Psychic and Skeptic, the Wilderness Girls, the "Father and Son?," the Hottie and Nottie, the Bloody Prom Queens, and the YouTuber and Editor were seen emptying the lot out at the airport, where they hurried onto the first flight. "But as for the bottom eight teams, well, they'll be stuck on flight two, which gives them an extra hour to think about how they're probably gonna lose!" The camera panned into the second airplane, eventually landing upon Lady Belle and Ursula, who were sitting near the very back of the cabin.

"Such a damn shame, being stuck away from James for this long…I've hardly gotten to attempt talking some sense into him in quite some time now." Ursula sighed and started to apply some more bloody red lipstick from her purse. After she was done, she smacked her lips together and pulled them apart with a popping noise, causing Lady Belle to wince. "Doesn't it bother you at all? Not being around…oh, I've already forgotten his name…Element?"

"Eliott? My little working boy?" Lady Belle chuckled to herself and shook her head at her partner, "Ursula, darling, you know there ain't nothing more for me to do with that lil' thing. I've got him under my thumb already…and I figure he'll just come marching right over to my place the second the race is over and done with. It's a good thing, too…I need someone that can tend to all the busted fixtures."

"I just want my rich man to fall into my lap like Eliott has done for you, is that so much to ask?" Ursula slammed her head against the seat in front of her, only to jump up in astonishment when she felt something touching her back. She looked around to see Sophie there, a grin on her face.

"Oh, I was just trying to get my Surprise Backrub patch! You were the only one I saw that didn't have their back slammed against their seat, so it had to be you!" Sophie snickered and jumped down from the seat, landing in the middle of the aisle and smiling at the Bachelorettes, both of which had twitching eyes as they looked at her.

"Little girl, shouldn't you be on the first flight with your grandmother right now?" Ursula tried to remain calm, but it was easy to see that she was about to blow her lid, with her face getting redder by the second.

"Psh, grandma will be fine without me for the flight! I needed to get a few more patches, one of them just so happens to be Scaring My Family By Disappearing patch. Tried it on my mom, but she knew all my best hiding places!" Sophie snapped her fingers disappointedly, "But, oh well, I'm definitely getting it now!"

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"That little runt is alway showin' up out of nowhere and bothering the life out of us! Can't mind our own business, can't sleep without keeping eye peeled, hell, she showed up in my shower one time offering to wash me for her 'Mutual Back Washing' patch! I'm half sure that that ain't even a real patch," Lady Belled huffed and crossed her arms while Ursula started filing her nails to more of a sharp point than before. "Then again, I wouldn't know a lick about those patches…you'd sooner catch me bowing down to a man than joining a summer camp with only…ugh…girls."

"Yes, yes, we get it, you hate women," Ursula checked out her nails while she belittled her partner, who was now left grumbling at her. "I can't say I care much for that child, either. At least with Olive and Becky, they'll leave you be. With Sophie, it's more like a game of, 'I'll leave, but I'll be back in twenty minutes.' I can't stand nosy brats…always trying to be a part of whatever it is you're doing."

"So, really cool thing just happened, but you can't tell anyone about it, not a peep!" Sophie looked around to see if people were watching her before fetching a small vial that was tucked underneath her sash. As she held it up, there was a deep red liquid sloshing around within it. "I was just…peeking around through some luggage, and I ended up spotting this in Ursula's purse! You could say that I stole it, but I wouldn't go that far. I need to get my Blood Transfusion patch! Just gotta figure out what blood type this is…but don't worry, I'm always prepared!" The little scout reached down and picked up a blood testing kit from the floor, smiling as she held it proudly for the camera to see.

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"Like, Sadie, I know you're all shy and everything, but I'm just saying, like…look at him! He's just sitting there, smiling every single time he looks over here!" Katie looked back from the seat she was in to get a glimpse at Marty, who kept sneaking looks at Sadie, always ending up smiling and looking away really quickly. "Yeah, he's sooooo into you! Are you positive you don't wanna just ask him?"

"Yup, I'm pretty sure…especially when Xavier is over there! It's embarrassing enough to talk about your feelings to someone that you like, but to do it in front of their best friend, too?" Sadie shook her head really fast, with Katie lightly sighing at her. "Maybe I'd consider it if the two were ever separated, but you'd also have to not be there…do you think you can handle that?"

"Y-you don't want me there to cheer you on? But…if I don't cheer you on, that's…Sadie, that's not fair!" Katie pouted while Sadie tried to look away from her, but she immediately jumped back into her field of vision. "You were there when I told Eva about my feelings, I have to be there when you tell Marty about yours!"

"Well, I just don't think I'd be able to with other people around…I know you can usually do this emotional-feely stuff in front of everyone with no issue, but I just, like, can't!" Sadie sighed and drooped down for a bit before looking back up at her friend. "Thinking about people being around like that just makes me feel like I'm gonna barf!"

"Okay…I see how it is…" Katie lightly sniffled and climbed back into her seat, "You are my best friend in the whole world, and I'm gonna accept what you're saying to me, but I want you to know that I still want nothing more than to be there for that moment. I swear, only to cheer you on!"

"Yeah, I know," Sadie forced a smile on her face, and the two hugged while she glanced back towards Marty.

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"Sadie and I always have each other's best interests in mind, so we don't mess around when it comes to one of us finding happiness! I'll keep my nose out of Sadie confessing her feelings if she wants, but it just feels so…oh, I can't even think about it!" Katie started sobbing loudly, flopping her face down against Sadie's shoulder.

"Uh…there…there?" Sadie looked around helplessly, really not sure why her friend was crying so much.

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"Bum…bum…bum…" Logan sat next to Evan, groggily tapping her head against the glass of the window as she hummed her little tune. With each "bum," the scowl on Evan's face worsened, even with him trying to bury himself in a magazine. "Bum…ba-bum…buuuum…" It got to be a bit too much for him to handle, and he ripped the magazine right in half, breathing heavily. "...Someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning it seems. What's a lout like you got to be so cranky about?"

"I think, I just…really need to take a walk. This plane is a lot more cramped than the other's we've been on…maybe I've got some slight claustrophobia. Yes, that must be it." Evan groaned and got up from his seat, looking back at Logan, who slowly shifted her weak gaze back to him. "I'll just be taking a walk down the cabin, you stay right here and just keep drinking your water." Logan opened her mouth to speak, but all that came out was a small belch, which just irritated Evan even more. He grumbled and walked back a bit, eventually stopping by the seats with Phoebe and Jamie Lynn in them.

"Could you be quiet for five seconds about your anxiety meds? You just get more and more annoying with each day!" Jamie Lynn barked at Phoebe, per usual, bringing a frown to the girl's face. "Oh, I'm sorry, did that upset you? How about you go sit with someone else if I've upset you that much, then?" Phoebe whimpered and got up from her seat, walking on ahead and leaving Jamie Lynn alone. The still seated neighbor noticed Evan chuckling from the aisle and shot him a glare. "Any particular reason you're staring at me and laughing like you've got a crush?"

"Oh, no, it's nothing like that…I just found it a bit funny that we seem to have some similar problems. You've got an annoying teammate that does nothing, I've got an annoying teammate that does nothing, quite the coincidence, isn't it?" Evan reached his hand out towards Jamie Lynn, who sneered at it. "We haven't formally met, but it's Evan, member of Ehl Oh Vee Ee."

"Jamie Lynn, member of the committee that didn't ask," Jamie Lynn stuck her tongue out at Evan before looking out through her window. "Hang on a minute…hey, you're partners with that short bitch that shoved me into the water in Hawaii!"

"Yes, she's just dreadful, isn't she?" Evan shook his head and shrugged his shoulders, "If I had a choice in the matter, she wouldn't have been my teammate in this race…and I might've picked a better singer to be in the band. Glad to see you can't stand her either."

"Well…yeah, she's kinda the worst. Except maybe not as bad as my partner!" Jamie Lynn gestured to Phoebe, who was stumbling around through the plane aisle, trying not to fall over on the other passengers. "I mean, have you seen her?"

"Believe me, I've seen more than enough of her…not to mention heard more than enough of her. Always screaming and shouting about voices in her head, it's really pathetic, truly." Evan shook his head while he watched Phoebe further down the cabin. He turned back to Jamie Lynn soon after and pointed to the now open seat next to her. "May I?"

"Eh…knock yourself out, I guess." Jamie Lynn shrugged, and Evan gladly took the seat, leaning back in it and staring up at the ceiling.

"Nice to be sitting next to someone that won't disturb whatever I'm doing with her god awful humming." Jamie Lynn snickered a bit at Evan's insult, "Seriously! All this 'bum bum bum' and 'la dee da,' it drives me up a wall!"

"Heh, I'd imagine…say, you're not that bad, Evan…I've been looking for someone to openly talk shit about the nuisances in this game with."

"Are you suggesting some sort of duet? Or, I guess, a better way to put it would be an alliance?" Evan got an opportunistic grin on his face, Jamie Lynn soon coming to match that. "We both hate our teammates, but if we remain in the game…well, we might just be unstoppable. It's just a matter of having control over the useless parts of our teams."

"Hey, shouldn't be that difficult if we've got the two of us to do it. It'll be a pleasure to do business with you, Evan." As the duo grinned at each other, they finally shook hands, signifying the deadly duo that they had just come to form.

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"Of course, I know that I can keep Logan on a leash on my own just fine, but having a bit of added security never hurts anybody." Evan leaned up against the restroom door near the back of the plane cabin. "Jamie Lynn's at least got enough of a brain to see the stupidity in everyone around her, so it was better her than anyone else. Maybe the Bachelorettes, but they just give me the creeps. The taller one kept calling me a working boy and the short one kept complimenting my net worth, so…I'd like to stay a good distance from them."

"Is there anything I actually get out of an alliance? Well, maybe a new partner if Duke lets us switch our teams up." Jamie Lynn glared as she watched Phoebe finally fall into someone's seat. "Evan's definitely putting in a lot more work in this race than Phoebe is…and he doesn't pull sneaky moves to help other teams stay in the game. Who knows? Maybe, with the two of us together, we could ensure that the Dweebs don't last. Oh, I do hate those dweebs."

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"S-sorry…" Phoebe mumbled as she started to pull herself up from the seat that she had fallen in, soon discovering that it was the seat next to Logan. The hungover woman blankly stared at the sudden intruder, trying to make sense of her. "O-oh, you…you were the one that pushed Jamie Lynn in the water, weren't you?"

"Jamie Lynn…Jamie Lynn…tell me, sea urchin, is Jamie Lynn the bitch with the red highlights?" Phoebe softly nodded her head at Logan, getting a smirk back from her. "Then yes, I absolutely shoved her into the water. She had no business talking down to me the way she was, so I made sure she got put in her place. Don't tell me you're here to pick up where she left off? I'll throw you right out the emergency exit if you are!"

"N-no…I would never talk down to anyone, more or less you…I mean, you're so successful and pretty and powerful…" Phoebe gushed, causing Logan's smirk to inflate quite a bit.

"Well, I don't like to toot my own horn, but…oh, who am I kidding, I love tooting my own horn! Yes, yes, I'm all of those things and more!" Logan started to chuckle before a shooting pain suddenly went into her frontal lobe, making her lean forward and hiss as she rubbed her hands against her forehead. "My goodness, these headaches are just getting worse and worse…"

"H-headaches…? I have some headache meds in my bag, but…" Phoebe glanced back at where Jamie Lynn and Evan were sitting, shuddering a bit. "My partner doesn't want me to grab them during the flight…says it makes it hard for her to pay attention to 'literally anything else.'"

"And you just let her push you around like that? That's just silly, she's just a pushover…and easy to push over, at that." Logan snickered at her own pun and started to stand up from her seat. "Why don't we just take a walk over there and get them whether she likes it or not? It's called 'showing a bitch who's boss.'"

"Y-you sure about that?"

"Well, I'm not so sure that you won't faint once we get over there, but that's just because you're kind of spineless. But if you've got me around, maybe you'll be able to share in some of my confidence…better be grateful, I don't just help anyone. You're doing me a small favor with these meds, I'm doing you a huge favor by taking you to get them." Phoebe nodded nervously and stood up with Logan, the two marching down the aisle towards Jamie Lynn and Evan. "Evan? What are you doing over here?"

"Hm? Just…taking a quick respite from my little walk, is all. Legs got too tired to carry me all the way back to our seats, so I just stopped here." Evan shrugged while Jamie Lynn glared at the women that were standing in the aisle.

"Better you annoy that one than me, I suppose. Alright, sea urchin! Lift me up!" Logan commanded Phoebe, who tensed up a whole lot and wasn't sure what to do. She glanced back at her and groaned in a drawn out manner, "Yes, you can touch me…but only this once!"

"O-okay…" Phoebe gulped and started to hoist Logan up from the ground so she could poke around in the overhead storage, with Jamie Lynn continuing to glare all the while.

"Let's see here…anxiety meds…stomach meds…muscle reliever…birth control? Oh, you dirty sea urchin!" Logan laughed while Phoebe blushed and Richard slowly poked his head up from one of the nearby seats. "Ah, here we are, headache medicine! You can set me down now, sea urchin!" Phoebe did as she was told, almost immediately scurrying away and covering her face while Logan downed some of the pills. "Huh, wonder what's got her all flustered."

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"I-I…they just…" Phoebe's eyes kept bouncing around anywhere except at the camera, with her blush completely spread along her face. "T-they just make me feel safer…I d-don't think I need them for any practical reason…"

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"With our second flight still an hour behind, the first flight has landed, and its passengers have taken the first shuttle to head to the stadium! Well, all but one of its passengers!" As Duke spoke, an inside view of the airport was shown, with Bea running rampant and throttling everybody that she could get her hands on.

"Where's my granddaughter, you fiends!? You better not have taken her prisoner, whatever crimes she may or may not have done are all for the sake of patches, I can promise you that!" Bea continued to throttle this one random man in a suit until two security guards ran over to her, tasers armed and ready. She spun around to look at them, a frenzied look on her face. "You two! Did you kidnap my granddaughter!?" As she started approaching the two, they fired off their tasers, but she ducked under them, causing the man that she was just throttling to get the brunt of the tasing. "No one kidnaps my granddaughter and gets away with it! Hiyah!" Bea hollered out a war cry as she ran towards the guards, karate chopping at them in a flurry.

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"I've never been so panicked in my entire life! What'll happen if I have to tell my daughter that I misplaced her daughter in some country far, far away from where we live!? Oh, I can't bear to think about it!" Bea sobbed as she repeatedly punched one of the security guards in the face. "Sophieeeeeeeeeeeee! Where are youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!?"

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"Ah, home, sweet home." Virgil took a deep breath of the air through the open window of the shuttle bus, almost immediately gagging out a cloud of smog and shutting the window again. "Sigh…what I would be a cloud of smog that flies into random cishets' lungs and poisons them from the inside." He sighed and glanced over at Michael, whose eye was twitching as he stared at him. "Don't you know not to stare at people with your oppressing male gaze, Michael?"

"Don't you know how to not be so…so…terrible!?" Michael threw his arms up in exasperation while Virgil just glared at him. After a few seconds, the YouTuber got up from his seat and stormed off, leaving Virgil by himself again. The boy watched him go far away from him before slowly glancing towards the camera with a grin.

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"Ah, I sure do love messin' with that homo…seeing him rage over this definitely makes poisoning myself with Hannah's vlogs worth it!" Virgil snickered and held up his phone to the camera, showing a video of the aforementioned woman on a tirade about straight men. "She makes me sick to my stomach, that piglet, but I have to bear with it for now. It teaches Michael not to fuck with my bonuses for a few snide comments here or there."

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"For the love of…I can't believe my own eyes and ears!" Michael grunted and sat himself down in between Zeke and Lyle, both of which were confused by the sudden intrusion. "You think you know a guy, and he suddenly turns into the most unbearable person in the world! He's almost as bad as those obnoxious vegans are! You two understand what I mean, right?"

"Um…I'm actually a vegan-" Zeke spoke up, and Michael suddenly stood again and let out another horrid shout.

"Every single person around me is just dreadful! Gah!" The YouTuber stormed off again, leaving the Conservationists to themselves once more.

"Darn, I didn't get the chance to ask him to show us his butt." Lyle snapped his fingers disappointedly while Zeke lightly patted him on the back. "You know, China's got a lot of people in it, which means plenty of butts to be looking at. Maybe we'll find something out here?"

"Uh…" Zeke looked Lyle up and down for a moment before glancing away awkwardly, "I gotta be honest, I don't think you've got any Chinese in you."

"Really? Would've fooled me," Lyle shrugged and looked at the window to use it as a mirror. "I think I look perfectly Chinese!"

"I think maybe you should just stop talking for now, buddy," Zeke pointed ahead at Virgil, who was angrily staring back at the two of them.

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"So we've checked off quite a few people from our list…at least of the people in the race." Lyle held up a chart with faces of the remaining racers, showing "x"s drawn over the faces of Andrew, Arnold, Duke, and James. "Well…okay, maybe not that many, but four butts is still a good amount. It was just a little weird that Arnold took it as a challenge and made me show him my butt in return."

"Yeah, not sure what that was all about…especially that part where he was gloating and shaking his fanny when he walked away." Zeke shrugged and glanced up at the front of the bus, where Arnold was still shaking his rear end and dancing about while Aisling quietly watched him. "Guess the guy's just really proud of his butt or something."

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The bus eventually came to a stop just in front of the stadium, with the next dukebox sitting right in front of it. The six teams that were onboard poured out quickly, Arnold and Aisling taking the lead of the group, per usual. They all ran up to the dukebox, each team taking one of the tips and reading over them.

"Oh, just wonderful, another all-in," Arnold sighed and shook his head at Aisling, who looked down at her crystal ball nervously, only getting another sigh out of him. "'Fly over the bird's nest and tandem jump through the donut hole to get your next tip.' Well, is your crystal ball going to let you do this, gypsy?"

"I-it says it should be fine…" Aisling whimpered and the camera transitioned to show a small cargo plane flying somewhat low around the stadium. The teams looked on at the bird's nest to see the hoop in the top of it. "J-just…jumping through that hoop there…the ball foretold me a ninety-five percent survival rate, so I don't think there's anything to worry about."

"There you go again about your ball– I don't care if it's a zero percent chance of survival, we would've been doing it anyways!" Arnold sighed and leaned up next to Mitsuki at one of the inner plane walls. "Sometimes you drive me insane, gypsy! And by sometimes, I mean all the time!"

"A…a boy is right next to me…and he's practically touching my arm with his arm! Oh, I just gotta say something, I've got to make him notice me!" Mitsuki shakily raised her finger and tapped Arnold on the arm, getting his attention. However, the second he was looking at her, all of the minimal confidence that she had flushed right down the toilet, leaving her just staring at him and breathing out through her mouth. "Dammit, Mitsuki! He's looking right at you, he's practically begging you to just make out with him already! You have to say something! Wait…he's doing something!"

"Here," Arnold grumbled and reached into his pocket, pulling out a mint and shoving it right into Mitsuki's mouth, causing her to gag a bit. "Your breath indicates that you've been sucking on your own pit sweat. Pro tip: maybe don't do that…it's unbecoming." The rich boy moved back over to his partner, leaving Mitsuki to be stared at by Honey, who was next to her.

"Hm?" Honey bent down to Mitsuki and moved her nose right up to her mouth, taking a few whiffs of her breath. "I don't know what he's talking about, your breath isn't that bad."

"G-get your nose out of my mouth!" Mitsuki snarled at Honey, who backed off and giggled while Olive held up a heart shape with her hands at the two.

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"J-just because I've gotten more used to Honey's ridiculous antics doesn't mean that I enjoy them at all…I just tolerate them for the sake of my babies." Mitsuki confidently nodded her head while Honey leaned down towards her with a grin.

"You mean, our babies!" Mitsuki glared back at Honey, who kept grinning at her. "You've heard the both of them call me their race mom, too, so I think you should just accept it already."

"I'd sooner accept an invitation to dinner from you than that!" Mitsuki thought she sounded pretty intimidating, but Honey just looked plain confused.

"And I thought your hygiene was bad, gypsy!" Arnold had a clothespin pinched over his nose while he waved off the lingering scent of Mitsuki's breath. "Guess you are good for something: not being Mitsuki."

"...Thank…you?" Aisling, much like Honey, just looked confused by her partner's words.

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The door to the plane finally opened as the plane itself got much closer to the stadium. At this point, each of the teams had donned their shared parachutes, and were standing at the exit door, just staring down at the donut hole. Arnold rubbed his hands together and licked his lips, as he was certainly the closest to the exit door with Aisling strapped to his back, but before he could jump, he was shoved aside by James, who had Eliott strapped to his back.

"Come on, sport! We can keep the gap between us and those Bachelorettes pretty wide if we're the first ones to jump!" James eagerly jumped right out of the door, with Eliott groaning loudly. "Oh, don't be such a sour puss, that woman has gotta be at least twice your age, my boy!"

"Yeah, she's a cougar, hello? You seriously know nothing about what us young guys are looking for, dad." Eliott groaned again and finally pulled the cord on their parachute, with Arnold fuming as he watched them from above.

"Those…those imbeciles! I was going to be the first to jump out of the plane until they swooped in and took the spot that was rightfully mine!" Arnold got back up and ready to jump when he felt some resistance from Aisling tugging him back from the door. "Gypsy!? What on Earth do you think you're doing?"

"L-look out the door…" Aisling pointed and Arnold looked back ahead, noticing that a billowing gust of wind suddenly whooshed through the air, carrying the "Father and Son?" away from the donut hole and making them slam down against the dirt outside of the stadium. Arnold just stared in disbelief for a second while Aisling sighed in relief. "I wouldn't have pulled you back if there was no reason for it, Arnold."

"Whatever! A broken clock is right two times a day, as they say!" Without further ado, Arnold jumped out through the door, with the other four teams behind him following in suit. Aisling pulled their cord pretty quickly, and as things stood, it looked like they were going to be the first team to make it into the stadium, until they saw Becky and Olive just falling through the sky like a comet on fire. "What is that!? Gypsy, light me on fire so we can do that!"

'"I don't…I don't think you'd survive if I did that." Arnold glared at his partner and the two kept slowly descending while the Bloody Prom Queens crashed against the stadium's grass, lighting a wide area ablaze before the flame was quickly put out by a gust of wind.

"Oh, Becks, that was so much fun! Can we do it again? Can we? Can we!?" Olive pleaded with her younger sister, who sighed and unlatched herself from the parachute. "Aw, come on! You gotta admit that it was at least a little bit fun! Man…" As she gave up on pleading with her sister, Arnold and Aisling landed near them. After them came Virgil and Michael, the YouTuber landing face down in the dirt with his editor sitting on top of him. Then, billowing down gently, like paper airplanes, came the Conservationists, who had more of their international bird friends on their shoulders that quickly flew away after.

"U-um…Mitsuki, I think that you should maybe pull the cord already, the ground's getting pretty close…" Honey gulped as her and Mitsuki flew through the air at intense speeds. "Mitsuki?"

"Huh?" Mitsuki was hardly paying attention to her partner, as she was busy sniffing her hair since she was latched to her back. "Cord? Oh, right, we're falling through the-" She was cut off, as the two landed in the stadium, hard against the grass, sending chunks of dirt everywhere. "...Air…" After the fact, she finally pulled the cord, and the parachute set off behind them while Honey weakly collected some of the discarded dirt in one of her jars.

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"Okay, sometimes I get a little bit distracted by random things, but doesn't everyone?" Mitsuki rolled her eyes at the camera as she swiped some chunks of dirt out of her hair.

"You were sniffing the back of my head…" Honey put some bandages on the scratches that she had gotten from the crash, with Mitsuki's eyes widening and a blush flushing her cheeks.

"N-no I wasn't! You're a pervert, thinking I would do something like that! For shame, Honey, for shame!"

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"Oh, come on, she's gotta be around here somewhere!" Bea was still scouring the airport, ignoring the fact that she had an army of security guards chasing her around. She eventually happened upon the gate that the second flight had just docked in, noticing Sophie strolling out of it while whistling nonchalantly. "S-Sophie! You had me worried sick!" In a flurry, the grandmother rushed to her granddaughter's side, scooping her up in a big hug before swinging her fist back into the chin of an oncoming security guard.

"S-sorry, grandma! I was working on some more of my patches, I'm sure you understand!" Sophie smiled widely, with Bea sighing and starting to carry her out of the airport. At the same time, the Bachelorettes walked out of the gate, Ursula having a worried look on her face as she dug her hand around in her purse.

"It's gotta be in here somewhere, I can't imagine I left it back in Dubai…" As Ursula continued to dig around, Lady Belle noticed that Sophie had the vial of blood from before lightly poking out from behind her patch sash as she was being carried away by Bea. She nudged Ursula on the shoulder to get her attention and pointed dead ahead. "Hm? What are you…oh, she did not take that from me…" The woman took a deep inhale, her left eye twitching as she did. "Lady, you think you'll be able to hold me back from strangling that child?"

"Can I? Easily, puddin'. I think it would be more interesting if I just let you get your hands on her, though." Lady Belle snickered before Ursula shot a menacing glare at her, "Ugh, fine, I won't let ya kill the little runt."

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"T-that vial is…very near and dear to my heart…it simply won't do to have some child stealing it from me, not at all." Ursula cracked her knuckles repeatedly, cracking every single knuckle on every single finger several times over while Lady Belle watched with a pleased smirk on her face. "I'll be taking it back the second that I can…I only worry that I might go a bit overboard."

"Relax, I'm sure you won't do anything too drastic…well, I'm half-sure you won't, at least." Lady Belle snickered again before looking a little worried. "Ma'am, you're gonna crack your fingers right off your hands if you keep doing that." Ursula didn't stop cracking, even with Lady Belle's warning, "Whatever, don't come crying to me when you ain't got no more digits, sweetie."

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"Urgh…that wind was certainly dangerous, but not dangerous enough to deter me from going again, haha!" James shot up from the ground, pulling Eliott up with him as the next shuttle stopped by the stadium, dumping out the rest of the teams, each of which were running for the dukebox. "Oh, just wonderful, those Bachelorettes caught up to us…just when I thought this day couldn't get any…" As he spoke, Ursula ran right past him, not even paying him a passing glance. "...Worse?"

"What was that, dad? Was that the sound of you being upset that Ursula wasn't swooning over you just now that I heard?" Eliott brought his hand up to his ear with a grin stretching across his cheeks, though this was quickly slapped away by the back of James's hand. "Ah! Dude, not cool! I'm totally calling CPS on you!"

"You're in your twenties, sport. CPS officially stopped caring about you a few years ago." Eliott groaned and the two started to book it back to the plane while Conroy and Mika were the last to make it off of the shuttle, Conroy currently batting his eyelashes…which were considerably more volumized than ever before.

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"I'm really not sure what sort of basketball player would ever want or need these spunky lashes, regardless of getting a glow-up or not. I mean, they don't give any strategic advantage whatsoever! In fact, they just make me see lashes unless I fully peel my eyes." Conroy opened his eyes as wide as he could, the lashes still somewhat blocking his view. "Thanks, Karma, really helpful."

"I think she just wanted to make you look like a pretty boy, senior! At least, you look like a pretty boy to me!" Mika giggled while Conroy blushed.

"...The lashes will stay."

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"Oh, sweet, the next dukebox!" Olive excitedly ran over to the dukebox, while Becky and the other teams trailing behind her while she pressed the button on it and grabbed the tip. "Oop, it's another all-in! Two of 'em back to back, that's crazy!"

"And this all-in has got a twist to it!" The camera transitioned to show Duke walking up to a street vendor, surrounded by a ton of crates with random ingredients shoved into them and a deep fryer that was just next to the vendor. "Our racers wanna get their next tip? Well, they're gonna have to each work to impress this vendor with their cooking and eating skills! One teammate will compile ingredients from this market and deep fry them on a skewer, while the other teammate must eat whatever they end up being served! I'd like to see how Zeke and Lyle handle this one!" Duke chuckled and walked away as the leading five teams wandered into the market, with Zeke nervously looking around at the crates with all the animals in them.

"U-uh…vendor lady…? Are there any vegan options in this market?" Zeke nervously asked the woman at the stand, who just glared at him and pointed to a sign that had some words on it. "'No food that isn't alive or wasn't alive at some point.' G-good to know…"

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"See, Lyle's much more into the circle of life and the food chain than I am…I don't care if we can eat animals, I just won't do it." Zeke shuddered while Lyle roughly scratched the back of his head.

"Well…if you aren't gonna eat the skewer, I think that means that you're gonna have to cook it." As Lyle brought up the rules of the all-in, Zeke's eyes went wide and he started to whimper. "Oh boy…something tells me this is gonna be quite the tough leg for us to get through."

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"Alright, Michael, since we both know that you're just gonna butcher the culture if you try to put together the skewer, I'll be the one doing the cooking. Rest assured, you can trust me to put together something delicious." Virgil smirked proudly before glancing back at Michael with a wary eye, "Unless, of course, you're scared to eat some proper Chinese cuisine? That would be pretty bigoted and intolerant of you, Michael."

"Ha! Haha! You think I won't eat it? Jokes on you, I'll eat whatever you put in front of me!" Michael crossed his arms while Virgil walked away from him, rubbing his hands together and snickering maniacally. The YouTuber watched as Olive walked up to the vendor, looking all innocent as usual.

"Um, vendor? Um, my sister, um, she said that she, um, wanted to know if we, um, had to deep fry the food or if she could just eat it raw, yup!" The vendor looked a bit disgusted as she glanced over at Becky, who was grinning as she held a handful of scorpions and spiders up near her face. Drool was practically dripping down from her lips until the vendor finally shook her head. "Aw, darn! Guess we gotta deep fry it, Becks!"

"Psh…and I thought that this was going to be fun for a second…what a shame." Becky sighed and passed the arachnids back over to Olive, who looked absolutely terrified to even be holding them in the first place.

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"I don't necessarily wanna have to deep fry all these little critters, but I definitely don't wanna be the one eatin' em, neither." Olive gagged as she looked down at the creatures crawling around in her arms while Becky grabbed one of the scorpions and bit the stinger right off. "B-Becky!"

"Don't judge me, it tastes just fine." Becky grinned, scorpion blood all over her teeth, the sight of which had Olive gagging even worse. "Oh, you are such a wuss sometimes."

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"And…finally! It's about time that we touched down in this stadium!" James chuckled and unlatched himself from the parachute, which caused Eliott to flop down against the ground, back first. "Oh, sport, don't be lazing about now!"

"I'm not lazing about, I'm quite busy, actually." Eliott pointed up, getting his "dad" to look up and see that he was staring up through the bottom of Lady Belle's sundress, which was billowing in the heavy winds. "See? Really bus- AH!" The "son" was suddenly trampled by Bea and Sophie, who headed right for the dukebox rather than apologizing to him.

"See, that's what you get for being a horny little tramp." James smiled self-righteously and yanked Eliott up from the ground, pulling him along with him to the dukebox.

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"We may have had somewhat of a slow start, thanks to a little someone sneaking onto the other plane, but that doesn't mean that we can't catch up to the racers in the lead!" Bea grinned while Sophie proudly paced one of her new patches on her sash. "Sophie, dear, what patch is that? It doesn't look familiar at all…in fact, the material on it doesn't even look like it's official."

"U-uh…what are you on about, grandma? Did you consult the manual? This patch is right in one of the back pages! You're just getting a little paranoid! That's all!" Sophie nervously chuckled while Bea stared down at her in suspicion.

"Sophie…are you hiding something from me? You know I don't let anything get past me…I have eyes like a hawk." Bea closed one eye and opened the other as wide as she could, staring deep into Sophie's soul.

"N-no grandma, I would never ever hide anything from you!" Sophie continued to chuckle, that chuckle sounding more and more nervous by the second.

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"Oh, dahling, I really am glad that we brought our own parachutes for occasions like this one! I can't imagine having to rely on some potato sack looking chute…" Karma shook her head as her and Vanessa started falling through the sky and down towards the stadium. Their parachute was indeed much different from the rest that had been given to the other contestants, being purple in color and bedazzled with rhinestones that spelled out "Glow-Up" along the top of it. When they finally landed, they were very careful to tuck it back into its pack and not get it dirty.

"It helps that the fabric is a lot more aerodynamic than your standard passenger chute, too. Just a shame we couldn't make one for our lovely couple-to-be." Vanessa shook her head while she looked up at Conroy and Mika from the ground, the duo getting all wrapped up in the strings of their chute. "Honey, that boy can be such a klutz for someone that's supposed to be calculating his every move."

"You've got that right…oh well, at least getting him to sit still isn't really that much of a challenge. Putting those lash extensions on him was easier than most of my standard clientele…not even a wiggle, just blank staring. The man didn't even blink!" Karma pointed at her own eyes, which she held open as long as she could before they forced themselves shut. Oddly, when she closed them, the color of her eyeshadow shifted from purple to blue, quite literally in the blink of an eye.

"How…how did you do that?" Vanessa stared at Karma, who blinked again and her eyeshadow suddenly changed to a bright pink, scaring her even more. "Ah!"

"The powers of anime know no bounds, and it seems that your partner-san is quite proficient in shapeshifting jutsus!" Andrew and Richard came crashing down near the two girls, leaving a quake where they landed, mainly thanks to Andrew's own weight. "Sorry to crash in like this, ladies, but it just wouldn't do for the MC to be falling so far behind in the race, would it now?"

"There you go again, insisting you're the one that's the main character." Richard shook his head and unlatched himself from Andrew's back to dust himself off. "We all know that I'm the real MC, haven't you seen the way that I've got a total babe falling for me every second?"

"I would argue that Phoebe has more MC priority than you, as she's the one with the crazy hair, but whatever you say, Richard-San." Andrew looked back at the gals and took a quick bow before them. "We'll be taking our leave now, fashionistas. And watch out, you've got something coming in overhead." With his arms flailing behind his back, Andrew took off, and Richard followed after him. Karma and Vanessa confusedly looked between each other until Marty and Xavier landed on top of them, knocking them both down.

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"Hm…I guess that maybe I don't really know that much about how to control the direction of a parachute." Xavier rubbed his rear, which was a bit sore from landing on top of Karma. "Well, it was really nice of Karma and Vanessa to cushion our fall like that, anyways."

"Yeah, I don't really think they cushioned the fall by choice." Marty deadpanned at the camera for a brief moment before looking around in the air, his eyes peeled. "I'm just hoping that Katie and Sadie land alright…and nothing too rough, like what we just had."

"Oh, of course you're hoping for that, buddy!" Xavier giggled and nudged his blushing partner with his elbow before they, much like Karma and Vanessa, were landed on by Katie and Sadie, who looked downright confused by what just happened.

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Back in the market, a good deal of teams were either starting to eat, or putting together their skewers. Becky looked at her skewer, which had just been deep fried, and sighed at the sight of it, really wishing that it were raw instead of fried. Nonetheless, she still started eating it, which got her some more disgusted gags from Olive, who was trying her best not to barf. Aisling had put together a skewer for Arnold, looking to be quite nervous about it, but he ate away at it without even making a face…for a solid two second before he started vomiting all over her moccasins.

"Oh, dear…I did say that you should've just let me pick the ingredients instead of telling me which ones to skewer…" Aisling sighed and started to wipe off her footwear while Arnold glared at her and got quickly back to eating. Nearby, Virgil was snickering as he started to skewer the fattest, ugliest looking of each of the animals in the crates, eagerly grinning at Michael every time he shot him a glance. Mitsuki sat in the middle of the spider crate, wrapped up entirely in webbing while Honey tried her best to free her from the webs' clutches. From the first group, this only left Zeke and Lyle, who were having a bit of trouble.

"Oh, I…I just can't do it! Oh, I can't skewer these poor animals, it'll just break my heart!" Zeke started to sob while Lyle worriedly watched him. His partner opened his mouth to say something, but Sophie suddenly brushed past them, bumping Zeke in such a way that made his skewer stick through several different critters in one swift motion. He lifted the skewer up in horror, almost immediately fainting with it flying out of his hands and landing in the deep fryer. Lyle took the chance to fetch it from the fryer and start eating it, looking disgusted the entire time.

"Come on, grandma! Everyone from the first group is still here, so it's practically like we didn't lose out on any time at all!" Sophie eagerly grabbed her skewer and readied it as she hovered over a crate that was full of spiders, not paying any mind to which kind of spiders that they were. "Alright…oh, this one looks perfect for this!" With a quick poke, Sophie skewered up a spider, holding it up proudly. "Guess I better get my Spider Skewering patch, now, huh?"

"Um…Sophie, dear, I'm not so sure that that spider is one that we're supposed to eat. It sort of looks like-" Bea tried to voice her concerns, but Sophie quickly shut her down and brushed past her, as she had done to the Conservationists before.

"Quit your worrying, grandma! You know I've got my Spider Identifying patch, there's nothing wrong with this one!" Sophie giggled and Bea nervously followed after her. Off to the side, Ursula was hiding behind the very same crate, coloring in the red hourglass on the backs of some black widow spiders with a permanent marker.

"Identify this, you little thief. Heh…heheh…mwahahahaha!" Ursula's laugh got more and more maniacal while Lady Belle shook her head at her. "Oh, don't you look at me like that, you would be doing the same thing if you had a genius plan like this!"

"I thought you said you didn't wanna kill anyone, Ursula." Lady Belle continued to judge her partner, who rolled her eyes.

"I'm not doing anything wrong at all, Lady, and I'm a bit offended that you're insinuating that I am! Sophie's the one choosing to feed her grandmother that spider, it's not like I'm forcing them to!" Ursula watched as Duke started walking towards them with a penalty clock, but he suddenly stopped as he heard what she had said.

"You're…you're right, actually. And I hate that you're right!" Duke sadly tucked his penalty clock behind his back for a second before grinning and bringing it back out, slamming it on the ground with a twenty minute timer to it. "Buuuuut you still did add foreign ingredients to the market, which is definitely worth giving out a penalty!"

"Oh, you…you're just evil, you know that?" Ursula glared at Duke, who stared back at her with the most annoyed looking expression he could muster up. "Alright, ditto, I suppose."

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"Leave it to you to score us a penalty for something so ridiculous…I'm sure you could've just replaced that vial with another one, but nooooo, you've gotta poison the granny!" Lady Belle slapped Ursula on the back of the head, getting an irritated glare shot back to her.

"Would you like it if someone swooped in and just took one of your working boys from your manor? No? I didn't think so." Ursula rubbed the back of her head, "Besides…the spider would need to inject its poison to really do any damage to the woman. It's dead, so…no real chance of that. She may have quite the swollen throat and queasy stomach, however!"

"...I can't fathom why you would even have a need to know about what eating a black widow is like." Lady Belle shuddered as she watched Ursula eskimo kiss another black widow. "Sometimes I think you're more psychotic than I am."

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"Done already…I don't understand how everyone else can be struggling so much with this, that was delicious…except for the deep fried taste." Becky sighed as the vendor approached her and passed along the next travel tip, while Olive was slowly starting to collect herself again. "Alright, it's a botch or watch…whoever didn't dive in Hawaii…"

"...Will have to pull their teammate by rickshaw all the way to the Great Wall of China!" The camera panned over and showed Duke sitting in a rickshaw while flipping a piece of paper around in his hands. He turned it around to show the camera that it was an old map of sorts, with a big red x on it. "From there, it's just a race to the chill zone, which is hidden somewhere on the wall! All they've got to help them out is this map, so let's hope they don't go and screw it up by going the wrong way! Seriously, that's the kind of detour they can't afford to make!" Back at the vendor's stand, Becky was climbing into one of the rickshaws that was set up nearby.

"You think you're gonna be able to do this alright, right? I seem to remember you complaining the last time we had a challenge where you had to carry me around." Becky glared at the back of Olive's head as she was heading to the front of the rickshaw and picking up the bar. "What was it again? Oh, right…you didn't wanna be all alone in the creepy castle."

"I-it was a creepy castle, it ain't my fault that it was creepy!" Olive blushed and started to tug the rickshaw along, though clearly struggling with the weight of it a good bit.

"Come on, Olive, the damn thing's got wheels, you can't seriously be telling me that you can't handle pulling this when you did the coffin fine before." Becky continued to glare at her sister, who was starting to get even slower with her tugging.

"You're not being very encouraging…you're just yellin' at me a whole bunch and it isn't makin' me feel very good or nothin'." Olive looked back at Becky with a little frown on her face, the frown getting even bigger when she saw how angry Becky looked. "Becks, don't look at me like that, I hate it when you look at me like that…"

"And I hate it when you don't pay attention to what we're supposed to be doing so you can go off and make friends with Hubert and the Goober Gang." Becky gestured back to the vendor's stand, where Mika and Conroy were just now arriving and getting their things together for their challenge.

"N-neither of them are named Hubert…and I don't think they're in any gang at all. They're Mika and Conroy, and they're super nice to me." Olive tried to bring a smile back to her face, but as Becky's glare stayed strong, she found herself unable to do it. "I don't get it, why is it so bad that I've got some friends that you don't like? You don't have to approve of everything I do…"

"As if I approve of anything that you do to begin with. I give you specific rules so you don't go and get yourself into trouble, and you can't even manage to follow those! Need I remind you about the last time you tried to befriend some strangers?" Becky dug into her back pocket and pulled out a picture of Olive waving to her from the back window of a van that had "Free Candy" written on the side of it.

"B-but, these ones aren't like those ones! These ones didn't even offer me candy!" Olive tried her best to argue, but as usual, it was pretty pointless.

"Oh, you think you know the difference between those two people? Olive, you don't even know the difference between notes on a page! That's why we've got you playing the caveman instrument that takes no talent! You can't sing, you can't scream, you can't play guitar, bass, keyboard, hell, you can't even play the damn triangle, and a triangle has only four or five whole notes in its range!" Olive's expression went bleak with each word that Becky spat at her as she just stared back. "So, no, I don't think you know the difference between strangers, because you don't know anything."

"...O…kay…" Olive looked away from Becky, bowing her head and just started pulling on the rickshaw as hard as she could, dragging it much faster than before.

"It's about time you actually got your head in the game," Becky rolled her eyes and leaned back.

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Olive sat in the corner of a closet, nothing but the sounds of muffled sobs coming from her.

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"Alright, Gypsy, burf…" Arnold clutched his gut as he stumbled into the back of one of the rickshaws, his face green with nausea. "...Y-your turn to botch…try not to futz it up, yeah? I'm gonna…oh, I hate to say this, but I'm gonna take a nap…"

"You got it, Arnold. I'll hum a melodic tune to make your sleep more peaceful." Aisling began to pull the rickshaw along at a good pace, humming her soft tune. It sailed right to Arnold's ears like a beautiful lullaby, and soon enough, he drifted right off to sleep. He started to snore ever-so quietly, and Aisling couldn't help but steal a glance at him, during which she saw him nuzzled up against a cushion that he had found in the rickshaw. "Oh…that's actually kind of cute."

"Zzz…I'm not…cute…zzz…Gypsy…" Aisling lightly chuckled as Arnold spoke to her in his sleep, and the two continued off into the distance, with Lyle slapping an unconscious Zeke in the face in front of their rickshaw.

"Zeke! Wake! Up! Or! We! Aren't! Gonna! Find! My! Family!" With each word came a slap across a different cheek, though nothing seemed to have an effect on Zeke, who was still wholly mortified from what he had done. "Ugh…alright, how about this then! Zeke! Wake! Up! Or! We! Have! To! Kill! More! Animals!"

"MORE ANIMALS!? N-no!" Zeke shot up from his slumber, conking his head on the top of the rickshaw before falling back down and groaning. "I didn't expect the ceiling to be so low…sorry…was I asleep?"

"You were, but it's all good! We're the third team to beat that challenge, no matter how terrible it was! If we can keep at it, we might be able to stick in the lead for a while! Now, you gotta pull this rickshaw for us!" Zeke rubbed his head while Lyle climbed into the rickshaw. He slowly meandered over to the reigns of the vehicle, taking them in his hands and starting to advance towards the great wall. Meanwhile, Virgil was finally presenting his god awful looking skewer to Michael.

"The absolute finest in Chinese street food, right here for you!" Virgil snickered as Michael stared at the skewer with a cold gaze. "What's the matter, Michael? Don't care for it? Am I gonna have to post some cancel-worthy photos of you being disgusted with the culture?" He was all too pleased with his devious plan, but the smirk was wiped right off of his face when Michael downed the entire skewer in one foul bite. "B-but…how…?"

"Guess I just love to appreciate local culture! Mm-mm, sooooo tasty!" Michael licked each of his fingers and ran on ahead to the rickshaws while Virgil grimaced.

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"...That wasn't supposed to go like that…well, I guess it does make sense that the gay guy could put that whole skewer in his mouth with no issues." Virgil suddenly glared at the camera and crossed his arms, "Don't you whiny bitches even start with that complaining, that was funny and you fucking know it."

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"Xavier, I know you know your way around a kitchen and everything, but I gotta admit, I don't think I trust this skewer too much." Marty gulped nervously as part of the spider on his skewer suddenly twitched. "I mean…it's still moving. That's gotta be a bad sign, right?"

"Look, I did try to put my love and magic into it, but you can only go so far when you're deep frying bugs for someone to eat." Xavier patted Marty on the shoulder with an encouraging smile. "You've totally got this, though! I believe in you!"

"Yeah…thanks, I guess." Marty sighed and leaned back a bit, his back accidentally knocking into someone. "Oh, sorr– oh, hey, Sadie!" His eyes lit up as he realized he bumped into Sadie, who was now looking back at him with her usually twinkling eyes. She had her own skewer in her hand, looking just as disgusted by it as Marty was by his. "Looks like you and I both got the short end of the stick in this one, didn't we?"

"Yeah…I mean, it's deep fried, and that usually makes things taste, like, a little bit better, right?" Sadie giggled nervously as she watched her skewer twitch, the very same time that Marty's was starting to twitch again. "Not exactly the best meal to share, but maybe it'll be a bit easier if we do it at the same time?"

"You know, that's not such a bad idea…I bet you're just full of great ideas in general, though." Sadie giggled from Marty's compliment, and the two tapped their skewers together. "Bottoms up, right?"

"R-right!" The duo took a deep breath before finally taking the first bite from their skewers, both immediately puking on each other while Xavier and Katie stood next to each other and watched.

"Such a romantic moment, don't you think?" Katie nudged Xavier with her elbow and chuckled, "I remember the first time the I puked on my wife!"

"...You know, I've been waiting for just the right occasion to do this, and I think this is it." Xavier slowly deadpanned towards the camera, but broke out into uncontrollable laughter in the middle of his stare. "I-I'm sorry, I don't know how Marty can keep a straight face when he does that!" Some ways away from where Marty and Sadie were puking, Logan and Phoebe were approaching the stands with their skewers, ready to start picking up some of the ingredients until Evan and Jamie Lynn came up to them with skewers that already had some deep fried critters on them.

"Evan!? Why did you go and do that, you were supposed to be the one eating this!" Logan fumed while Evan shrugged his shoulders, trying to make himself look a bit embarrassed.

"I guess I'm so dumb that I just up and forgot about that! Sorrrrrrry!" Evan sheepishly handed the skewer over to Logan, who snatched it with a foul look on her face.

"As for you, I don't even know what you were thinking with trying to make the skewer, you know I would never feed myself anything like that." Jamie Lynn glared at Phoebe and forced the skewer into her hands. "Eat up, and make it snappy, or I'll knock you out!"

"Y-yup, I'll be quick about it…" Phoebe took in a deep breath and chomped down on her skewer as quickly as she could to ignore the horrible taste of the creatures that were on it. After she had finished, her face went green. "G-gotta puke!" She darted behind the vendor stand just as quickly, leaving Jamie Lynn to roll her eyes and wait for her return. Behind the stand, Phoebe put her hat on just before the flood gates opened, bringing out Libby. "Oh, no you don't, vomit! You get your candy ass back in my stomach or I'm gonna make you regret coming out in the first place!" As the fiend commanded, the puke settled back down into her stomach, and she took a big sigh. "Fuckin' Jamie Lynn always being such a goddamn bitch."

"I…agree?" Libby snapped around to see Richard and Andrew behind her, the weeaboo downing his skewer while somehow still maintaining a shocked expression on his face.

"Phoebe-San…these words, coming from you…they're just so…oh, dear." Andrew shook his head, trying to wipe the shock off of his face, but having no luck.

"U-uh…j-just a little temper tantrum! Y-you know, on top of all my mental issues, I sometimes get a little cranky!" Libby laughed awkwardly until Richard flicked her hat off of her head, watching as her face shuddered into a whole new expression. "U-um…"

"So…are you like…from the Mask, or something?" Richard scoffed and picked the hat back up, slapping it back on Phoebe's head and watching her expression twist again.

"I ain't from that shitty comic book, comic books are for dweebs! Uh…no offense…I mean…a-ah! I don't know what you're talking about!" Libby went back to laughing in her awkward state while Richard just stared at her and smiled.

"Dunno what's up with you and your magic hat, but it's high key kinda kinky." Libby blushed and smirked confidently at Richard, "Buuuuut you've kinda been lying to me a whole bunch with it…any reason for that?"

"W-well…that's actually…ugh…" Libby pulled the hat back down from her head, turning back to Phoebe, who clutched it in her hands nervously. "It's stupid…it's like a curse, or something. That hat just inflates my ego and I basically turn into a whole different person…"

"Sounds kinds dumb, but I'm still on board with it. Kinda wish it was a sexier hat, though. Oh, like a beret. Berets are totally hot." Richard snickered and tried to imagine the hat as a beret, but was having a bit of trouble. "Baseball cap just makes me think of dads in a supermarket…not the most attractive thing. Oh, right, sidetracked, you were in the middle of telling me why you've been lying to me."

"Richard-San is right to be confused…you showed him your oppai!" Andrew got a wide, perverted smile for a second. "That basically means that you two are already dating! I remember when I had a girlfriend that showed me her oppai…aye…forgive me, Mitsuki-Chan."

"I w-wasn't lying to you because I wanted to lie to you…okay, well…maybe a little bit just because I didn't want you to like Libby more than me…everyone always does…except for Jamie Lynn." Phoebe looked back up at Richard, practically in tears. "She only brought me along cause she wants to beat the snot out of Libby or something…if she knew I had the hat with me, she'd definitely do something horrible to me!"

"Back to the part where you were worried about me not liking you more than the…uh…hat? It's…it's a hat. Hats are nice and all, and this one may be kinda kinky, but that doesn't mean it's better than you. Truthfully, I think I'm a little hurt that you would think I'm so cold to do something like that. Oh, boohoohoo, woe is me!" Richard put on some fake sobs while Phoebe just watched him, feeling absolutely ashamed of herself. "Phoebe, lady…I'm teasing ya. I get it, I come off as a total skeez sometimes, but I promise you, I like you for you. And maybe a little bit for just how hot you are, but that's beside the point!"

"Y-you do…?" Phoebe wiped some of her tears away when Richard nodded back at her, Andrew turning away and tipping his fedora with a grin.

"Couldn't tell ya what it is, but there's just somethin' about you that keeps me coming back for more. Heck, I'm a total pervert, and I've been ignoring the fact that your teammate is stacked just cause she treats you like crap. So…yeah, I like you. Just think of your funky hat thing as an added bonus, or something." Richard shrugged, and he and Andrew started to walk past Phoebe. "Don't worry, we won't tell Jamie Lynn or nothin'. Not that she'll even let us get a word in about anything when we try to-"

Phoebe didn't let Richard get away from her, as she grabbed him by the wrist, pulled him back over to her, took a deep breath, and smacked her lips against Richard's. Andrew's fedora blew right off of his head in a fountain of steam before falling back down onto his face and covering him so he couldn't see what was happening. Richard was just stunned as Phoebe pulled away from him, gasping like she had just come up for air from underwater.

"D-did I do that right? Please tell me I did that right, I don't know if-" Phoebe was interrupted by Richard pulling her face back to his and kissing her a bit less painfully than what she had just done before pulling away and smirking at her.

"It's more of something like that, you were kinda just headbutting me." Phoebe was the stunned one at this point, and for the very first time, Richard couldn't focus his stare on her like usual, as he was just looking away with a blush on his face.

"PHOEBE, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING BACK THERE!?" Jamie Lynn called out for Phoebe, who snapped out of her stunned state and blushed at Richard again.

"I…I gotta go b-but…that…I liked…um…yeah!" Her blush got deeper and redder as she ran away from Richard, who fist bumped Andrew.

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"T-totally scored a babe, totally knew that was gonna happen, yup, I'm that confident." Again, Richard couldn't maintain his eye contact with the camera, but his eyes did happen upon Andrew, who looked to be a bit upset. "Andrew? It's such a joyous occasion, what's got you so upset?"

"Gomen, Richard-San…I'm happy for you, I am…but seeing you with Phoebe has reminded me of my times with Mitsuki-Chan." Andrew sniffled, but wiped his tears and smiled back at his partner. "I'm happy for you, Richard-San…I'm truly happy for you."

"D-don't cry, man…I mean, it's not gonna make me cry or anything, it's just kinda weird seeing you crying from those big eyes of yours." Richard glanced away from Andrew, who soon burst out into full on sobs. "Aye…"

"You better share him with me, I want some of that lip action!" Libby stomped her feet as she stood alone in front of the camera. "I know, it looks like I'm delusional, but I swear, this argument is getting really intense! Well…it's less of an argument than it is just me yelling at her while she cuddles her metaphorical pillow in our head, but you get the point! I'm a queen, I deserve a good smoochin'!"

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"Ha, these skewers think they're dangerous or something with their scorpions and spiders and all that yuck? What a silly joke!" James beamed as he ate away at the skewer Eliott had prepared for him, his eyes watering almost immediately. "Oh, it's…urf…it's so delicious…I-I can't believe there are actually people out here that would sue the show for endangerment because of something silly like one of these skewers! S-so scrumptious, so delicious!"

"Yeah, you look like you're just having a ball over there, dad. Gotta say, I'm a bit more interested in why our lovely ladies are sitting there with a timeout." Eliott watched as Lady Belle and Ursula aggressively filed their nails in unison. James looked over and scoffed, holding back his barf. "Let me guess, you're gonna say something like, 'Why would I care about that?'"

"You're darn right that's what I was gonna do, and I'm a bit upset that you wouldn't let me actually do it!" James sighed and started to run towards the rickshaws, passing by Ursula and Lady Belle on the way and tipping his bucket hat at them. "So sad to see you two stuck so far behind again, but then again, it's really not haha! Haha– oof!" James slammed crotch first into a nearby rock, crying out in agony as he slid down it.

"Sorry, ladies, my dad's just kinda the worst, like, all of the time." Eliott blew a kiss to Lady Belle, who winked back at him. "I-I'm sure you guys'll get to the chill zone soon enough, though, right?"

"Oh, don't go worrying about us, little workin' boy…we'll be just fine." Lady Belle smiled her sweet smile, and Eliott was back on his way with his "father." "Ah…another five minutes before we can even make the skewer…still think that your minor inconvenience trap was worth it?"

"She's an old lady, they will have a freak out if someone looks at them the wrong way, I'm sure that she won't be going anywhere until she can figure out what's got her throat so itchy." Ursula narrowed her eyes as she watched Bea, who was finally being presented with her skewer from Sophie.

"Alright, grandma, eat it up! A whole bunch of teams have already went on ahead, so we can't stop here!" Sophie beamed while Bea skeptically stared at the skewer in her hands, taking note of the particularly different looking spider that was on it.

"Alright, alright, I'll eat it…buuuuut before I do, are you sure there's something that you're not telling me? Anything at all?" Bea looked down at Sophie with an unconvinced look as the granddaughter plastered herself with a big, toothy smile.

"Grandma, you know I would never ever lie to you, even about the silliest little thing! That's a Wilderness Girl promise, you can count on that!" Sophie crossed her arms and closed her eyes, confidently smiling in the midst of her own lie. When she opened her eyes again, she saw Bea crumbled up on the ground, blue in the face with an empty skewer next to her. "Troop Master, you know there's no Pretending To Be Dead In China patch…at least not yet." Sophie shook her head at Bea, who didn't even move from where she was. "Troop Master, that's enough, I just told you the patch isn't real."

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"My Troop Master can be over dramatic sometimes, just because of her age and all that, but that's to be expected." Sophie shook her head while she still stared down at Bea, not impressed by how she was just laying there. "Troop Master, how can you expect to get your Won The Ridukeulous Race patch if you stop in China?" She rolled her eyes and looked back at the camera, "Grandparents, right?"

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"You nasty spiders, let Mitsuki go so she can give me that skewer already! Bad, bad!" Honey continued to fight against the webs until she finally broke them open with the use of her spade, revealing that Mitsuki had a skewer full of spiders and spider eggs on it. "Oh, you're alright! That's a relief!"

"Shouldn't you be more relieved that I got my skewer full already? I don't see what my well-being has to do with you." Mitsuki scoffed and climbed out of the spider crate, heading for the deep fryer while her partner walked after her.

"Well, we're the Race Moms! Our kids would probably be very upset if anything bad happened to either of us! Plus, I've been traveling the world with you, so I consider us to be pretty close!" Honey lightly ruffled Mitsuki's hair, getting a blush out of her before her hands were inevitably slapped away. "You know, someday you're not gonna smack or scratch me everytime I touch you."

"In your dreams. Here, eat your spider stick." Mitsuki sighed and thrust the skewer towards Honey, who nodded and took it from her. She looked away, not wanting to watch her eat it, "Oh, this is just awful…that disgusting thing is gonna make all of her perfect teeth so gross looking. Hang on, perfect teeth? Brain, that's not even a good gay thought, you can give me something better than that! Like, it might hurt her stomach, and I might have to sit by her bed and feed her soup and kiss her forehead and– yup, that's more of what I was looking for! I-I mean, not looking for! Go back to the teeth thing!" Mitsuki thrashed her head back and forth in annoyance until the empty skewer was thrust in her face.

"Done!" Honey smiled at Mitsuki, who was relieved to see that her teeth still looked perfectly normal, despite the nastiness of the skewer. "Thanks for trying to make it not as disgusting as all the ones that the others were eating, Mitsuki!"

"Huh? I just grabbed a bunch of random stuff, what do you mean by that?" Honey pointed to the small bottle of seasoning that Mitsuki unknowingly had in her own hand. "H-huh!? I didn't do this! You're crazy, this just…appeared out of nowhere!" With yet another blush, Mitsuki chucked the bottle of seasoning far away, starting to run for the rickshaws after.

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"Man, I like Mitsuki, she's a good teammate." Honey wrapped herself up in a big hug and rocked from side to side before looking at the camera, a little embarrassed. "Um…t-that's just what I think about all my teammates! That I wanna give 'em a big hug for being such a good teammate!" She slowly raised her finger to her chin and looked down at the dirt, "Unless I…hmm…this is too confusing to think about right now, gotta focus on the challenge!" She grinned before running after Mitsuki.

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"And, would you take a look at that! The first team to arrive is none other than the Bloody Prom Queens! Girls, congratulations on being the only team that consistently places really well." Duke held up a thumbs up as Olive and Becky came to a halt on the chill zone, both staring up at him.

"Well, I guess it makes sense, since we had the lead to begin with. Nice footwork, Olive," Becky looked over to see that Olive was just walking away from the chill zone, completely ignoring her. "Olive? What's gotten into you?" Again, her sister didn't answer her, just walking away and leaving her alone with Duke. "Wonder what's got her all angry."

"Oh, I could never begin to even guess what it may be," Duke shrugged his shoulders before moving past Becky to stare off into the distance as Aisling was carrying Arnold behind her as fast as she could run. "Looks like our second place team is already almost here! But…wait a minute…coming up behind them…is that…it is! Oh, they're moving so fast! In second place, we have none other than…Michael and Virgil!"

"L-let go of my arm, cishet! Can't you see how hard you're tugging me!?" Virgil groaned as Michael had just ran as quick as his legs could carry him, dragging him behind him quite aggressively. "Ugh, what's the matter with you!?"

"What? You didn't want a gay man holding your hand for a stroll along the Great Wall? That sounds pretty intolerant of you!" Michael grinned while Virgil glared back at him, but the two were soon knocked aside by Aisling, who gently placed Arnold down on the chill zone.

"Psychic and Skeptic, you guys are in third." Duke crossed his arms and grinned as Arnold shot up from the nap he was taking on the ground.

"T-third!? Oh, I knew I shouldn't have taken that nap, you went and botched everything, Gypsy! Ugh, just perfect!" Aisling pouted while Arnold continued to shout about her failure.

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"I'm trying so hard, how is it never enough for him? What's so bad about three out of fifteen? I think it's pretty good." Aisling rubbed her temple with one hand and her crystal ball with the other hand, listening to it as it hummed back to her. "I know, you keep telling me that everytime. Not that I would doubt your judgment, but when does the relief finally come? Outlook not so clear…I knew you would say that."

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"Pinch your nose, honey! Pinch it!" Vanessa cheered on Karma as she did as she was told, pinching her nose before biting into the skewer. The awful taste still had her vomiting, regardless of the nose pinching, and the vomit splashed all over Vanessa's outfit. "Oh, nuh uh! I'm gonna have to do up a whole new outfit and I don't have my kit with me at the moment. Oh, but you're okay, right?"

"I'm just mahvelous, dahling…" Karma gagged as she ate her way through the rest of her skewer, and the duo ran together past the Wilderness Girls to go get their next tip. "Bea's been laying on the ground for quite some time now…do you think that may be some cause for worry, dahling?"

"Normally, I'd say yes, but Sophie seems like she knows what it's all about, so I didn't wanna interfere with 'official Wilderness Girl business.'" Vanessa and Karma shrugged, looking back to see that Sophie was drawing an outline of Bea in the dirt with a stick, but in not paying attention, they ended up bumping into Conroy and Mika, who were at the rickshaws with them. "Oh, heyheyhey!"

"Oh, hey you two," Conroy rubbed the back of his head, fluttering his phenomenal lashes on a total accident. Mika giggled as she watched him, and Karma held a big thumbs up to him. "It feels like there are caterpillars eating at my eyelids right now."

"That just means that they're nice and snug on you! Oh…wait a minute…" Karma reached up and grabbed a caterpillar from Conroy's eyelid, flicking it away and smiling. "G-guess it must've snuck onto you when you guys were still getting your skewer together, heheh…"

"In less gross news, we're botching and watching! Vanessa, would you like to pull your rickshaw along my side?" Mika playfully nudged Vanessa before noticing the vomit all over her dress, "O-oh…okay, maybe we stay a little bit apart cause you…you kinda smell…really bad."

"I understand, honey, I understand." Vanessa nodded and ran ahead with Karma, taking her right to one of the four remaining rickshaws. "Sooner we finish the race, the sooner I get to fix up my dress, honey! Let's go!"

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"This is probably for the best, anyways, as it gives Mika and Conroy some more alone time together! Honey, thanks for puking on me! Can't believe I'm saying that!" Vanessa had a look of disbelief on her face as Karma lightly dabbed at her dress with a rag. "Gurl, gotta be honest with you, I don't think that's doing much."

"Maybe not, dahling, but a little grime removed is better than no grime removed, right?" Vanessa shrugged at Karma's question, getting a sigh back from her. She tossed the rag aside and walked off screen.

"I-I appreciate it, though!"

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"Oh, great Wilderness Girl spirits, wake this sleeping Troop Master from her slumber, bring her back to me!" Sophie dinged a cowbell with a mallet while standing over Bea in a whole gown setup, the Bachelorettes just staring at her from where they were timed out. "Grandma, this has gone on for long enough!" She got annoyed and tossed the gown off, being right back in her regular attire soon after. "I don't know what patch you're going for at this point, but it's just annoying!"

"Aaaaand…it looks like our penalty is well over now!" Ursula chuckled and stood up, kicking away the zeroed out clock and cracking her neck. "Lady, be a dear and prepare me a skewer? I'd like to go collect something that was taken from me, if you don't mind."

"Look at you, stepping up to the plate and taking one for the team!" Lady Belle chuckled as she started to gather up assorted critters from the crates. "My, I might actually start to like you! Or at least might've if you weren't such a skank, but that's how the cookie crumbles, I guess!" She hummed a pleasant tune while walking through the market, with Ursula walking over to Sophie and crouching down next to her.

"Oh, dear…what have we here? It seems your grandmother didn't do so well with the market food, now did she?" Ursula shook her head at Sophie, who just raised an eyebrow at her.

"Psh, my grandma did fine! She's just…trying to get another patch or something! Just like I was back on the plane!" Sophie seemed confident, but seeing Ursula staring at her so empathetically made her rethink that confidence.

"There, now, Sophie…you can't ignore the fact that your grandmother's not right. Blue in the face, collapsed on the ground…looks like an awful nasty lot of food poisoning, to me. You know, it can be really dangerous for the elderly." Ursula shook her head once more and stood up, "It must be so tough to have to sit through this, isn't it?"

"B-but…she's fine! She's just acting! She'll be up at any moment and there won't be anything to worry about!" While Sophie spoke with Ursula, plenty of teams were rickshawing through the forest nearby in search of the stairs to the great wall, with Mitsuki being pulled along by Honey at incredulous speeds.

"W-woah, there! Honey, you're gonna give me motion sickness if you keep going that fast!" At Mitsuki's request, Honey started slowing down a bit, allowing the rickshaw's passenger to get a few breaths in and relax herself. "I get it, you've got legs for days and you wanna show them off, but throttling me in some beat down wagon definitely isn't the way to do it."

"Oh, sorry, Mitsuki! I just really wanted to catch up to Olive and Becky! Feels like we fell really far behind them in the challenge, and I'm just getting worried." Honey kept on going, though she noticed that her partner had gone a bit more quiet than usual. "Mitsuki?" As she turned her head around, she noticed that Mitsuki had a sick biker helmet on, some crazy goggles, and some apocalyptic jacket with a plethora of spikes all over it.

"Kick this thing into maximum overdrive, I need to go see my babies, pronto!" Honey nodded, giggling just a little bit as she took off running like a racehorse, breezing past James and Eliott on the way.

"Hey! Slow down, you maniacs!" James shook his fist angrily at the girls before shaking his head and turning his attention back to the book he was reading and letting out a loud, old man laugh. "Ah, Dad Jokes for Dummies, you sure do know how to crack a fella up!"

"Could you read anything else? Literally anything else? You're just being pathetic with that book." Eliott complained, and was quickly bonked on the back of the head by the thick book. "Hey, watch it, geezer!"

"Don't call your father a geezer, I raised you better than that!" James shook his head at Eliott, who groaned loudly and just kept running.

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"Honey is actually right about something this time…that being that I need to find my babies! I'm electing to ignore you acting like you're also their mother just because of how dire this situation is, but that doesn't mean it's allowed!" Mitsuki thrust a finger in Honey's face aggressively, just getting a cute laugh back from her. "Don't you try to seduce me, woman, I'm warning you!"

"All he does nowadays is read books about how to be a good father, but not in the father figure type way…in the 'grilling, fishing, mowing the lawn, and cracking bad jokes' type of way." Eliott glanced over his shoulder to see James reading another book that was quite similar to the one that he was just reading. "That book there? It's the fifth in that series! How can anyone get any entertainment out of those!?"

"Oh, no son of mine is gonna be touching my thermostat, I can tell you that much!" James yelled to the book as he read along, with Eliott facepalming.

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"Well, I guess if you don't want to accept the facts, that's alright, but it's just that…this could've been avoided, you know?" Ursula sweetly smiled and tilted her head to the side while Sophie watched her nervously. "I hear really bad things happen to those that steal things that don't belong to them…guess karma just wanted to punish you by having your grandmother keel over."

"S-steal? I didn't steal anything!" Sophie got more and more nervous, clutching the vial behind her sash and trying to hide it. "I-I just…I…"

"Stole? Yes, yes, I know…you're just a child! You see something, you want it, you take it! I've been there, we've alllll been there!" Ursula giggled and reached her hand out towards Sophie, her palm wide open and waiting. "Maybe it's too late, or maybe it's not…you could always try returning what you stole! Who knows? Maybe it'll bring your grandma back from her vegetative state!"

"But I…my patch…" Sophie looked down at her hand and then to Bea, then back again. She did this for a bit before anxiously pulling the vial out and handing it back to Ursula, who was quite chipper to see it was all still there and in one piece.

"Oh, that's wonderful, Sophie! You chose to do the right thing! I'm sure your grandma will be just fine!" Ursula was suddenly handed her skewer from Lady Belle, all of which she downed in a matter of seconds without a single flinch. "Or she won't be! Far be it from me to actually care about that! But toodaloo!"

"See ya, lil' missy." Lady Belle and Ursula turned away from the Wilderness Girls, walking off and leaving Sophie to worriedly look over Bea and start to shake her.

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"Lil rat got what was coming to her, I'd say." Lady Belle grinned at Ursula, "I think you handled that quite nicely in the end."

"Oh, where was all of this support back when we got penalized? Seriously, Lady, your falsities don't amuse me." Ursula got up and trotted away from Lady Belle, who just shrugged.

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"Hey! Hey, Phoebe! What are you doing back there!? What's that stupid smile for!?" Jamie Lynn growled back at Phoebe while pulling her rickshaw, as she noticed her twiddling her thumbs and smiling like an idiot. She tracked her eyes to see that she was staring ahead at Richard, who was staring back at her, yet perfectly managing to pull Andrew along with no issues. "Oh, lord, here we go again with your gross, little romance. Haven't you had enough of that dweeb already?"

"N-nope…" Phoebe couldn't help but giggle like a dunce in her flustered state, getting a severely annoyed groan from Jamie Lynn.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd think the two of you went and did the nasty when I wasn't looking! …You didn't do that, right?" Jamie Lynn looked worried for a second while a nearby Logan laughed obnoxiously. "Oh, great, the midget's starting up again."

"Ohohohoho! How wonderful it is to see you so upset about the silliest things!" Logan pulled up alongside Jamie Lynn, ignoring the fact that Evan was making murderous gestures behind her back. "So what if her and that pervert did it behind your back? She's young, dumb, and now, probably full of-"

"Logan!" Evan shouted from behind her, but when she glared at him, he got quiet. "...M-maybe just don't say what you were going to say just now."

"Oh, you're such a baby, Evan. You and Jamie Lynn here are just perfect for each other, always whining about every little thing." Logan sighed, but soon started to sniff the air as if she was alerted by something. "...Say, does anyone else get the scent of burning rubber coming through here?"

"You know, now that you mention it, I think I'm picking up on that. Sure it's not just your own B.O.?" Jamie Lynn smirked at Logan, who rolled her eyes.

"...coooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMING THROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUGH!" The girls looked behind just in time to see Honey pulling her rickshaw fast enough to send sparks flying all across the forest while Mitsuki stood on top of the thing and pointed ahead like a pirate.

"GREAT WALL, DEAD AHEAD!" Mitsuki let out a banshee's holler and slammed her fists repeatedly against her chest like a gorilla, the two breezing past both the Awkward Neighbors and the Vicious Pop Stars with ease, even overtaking the Dweebs with how fast they were going.

"Huh…that was pretty cool." Richard smirked at the Hottie and Nottie for a moment before shaking his head and looking back at Phoebe again. "Now, where was I?"

"Richard-San, I must commend your impeccable sense of direction…not even paying attention to the road ahead, yet we're still advancing in great strides. You're a powerful warrior, no doubt about that." Andrew nodded at Richard, but the man completely ignored everything that was just said to him as he kept staring. "...A powerful warrior that requires tremendous amounts of focus to be able to do what he does, no less! Ganbatte, Richard-San, ganbatte!"

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"If Richard-San is able to stare at Phoebe and simply carry me behind him as if I was as light as a feather, imagine what he could do if I actually was as light as a feather! My, we might actually be moving as fast as those two crazed drivers were!" Andrew chuckled for a moment before scratching his neckbeard in thought. "I wonder what their motivation was…"

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"It's a good thing we managed to sneak past most of the teams that got here on the first flight! I mean, look at us! The chill zone is practically right in front of us!" Marty huffed as he ran, with all of Xavier, Katie, and Sadie running along with him. His stomach gurgled and he clasped his hands over it, letting out a pained moan. "Oh…all this running after dragging that rickshaw is really doing a number on me, though."

"Tell me about it…I didn't even drag the rickshaw, but I still feel like I'm about to explode! N-not in a gross way, just…I was…you know…" Sadie got all embarrassed and looked away from Marty while Xavier and Katie smirked between themselves. "But yeah! Chill zone! Right there!"

"Just gotta keep running a bit longer and-"

"WHERE ARE MY BABIES!?" Mitsuki's warrior cry came through the air like a loose thunderbolt, garnering all of the attention of the four that were nearing the chill zone. Much like Jamie Lynn and Logan before them, they looked back, only to see her now being the one dragging Honey behind her. Honey wasn't even running with her, just flailing behind her like a kite in the wind with how fast she was going. The two ran right into and past the chill zone in no time, Duke's pants ripping off from the sheer wind force.

"Wow! Talk about power! The Hottie and Nottie are in fourth place…bringing it in all the way from the back!" Duke clapped his hands feverishly until some nagging noise started to sound off in the air around me. "Oh…don't tell me…"

"Ca-caw! Ca-caw!" Lyle was the only one of the Conservationists to be chanting their bird cry, but the birds understood nonetheless, and placed both him and the disheartened Zeke on the chill zone before Marty, Xavier, Sadie, or Katie could reach it. "Aha! Knew that our bird friends would come in handy! Thank you, friends! Ca-caw!"

"You know, I would love to penalize you for something, but I'm not sure what exactly to penalize you for, as I remember seeing you guys do the rickshaw and start running on the Great Wall!" Duke just looked annoyed as he looked at the nervously smiling Lyle. "When did the birds even come in!?"

"Oh, well…craziest thing happened. We were totally going back towards the entrance by accident, and then Mitsuki and Honey steamrolled us! We flew right off the wall! The birds heard my call and scooped us up before we suffered a horrible falling death, haha!" Lyle chuckled and started to help Zeke up off of the ground.

"Alright…I'm only letting you guys roll with this cause it's kinda cool, but this is the last time you can use 'outside help!' Fifth place! Friendly Duo, you guys are sixth, BFFFLs, seventh!" Duke sighed and looked around for the scraps of his pants, but couldn't seem to find them. Meanwhile, much further ahead on the wall, Mitsuki had finally come to a complete stop, with Duke's pants plastered on her face..

"Babies!? Babies, where are you!?" Annoyed, she pulled the pants off of her face to see Becky staring at her, though Honey and Olive were nowhere to be found. "Oh, Becky! I was worried sick! You're alright?"

"I'm fine, I'm always fine." Becky grumbled while Mitsuki wrapped her up in a big hug. "Olive stormed off and Honey went after her, don't know why, don't care why."

"What? Where'd they go?" Mitsuki pulled back from the hug to see the annoyed look she was getting from Becky. "Becky, you know you can tell me about whatever happened."

"I'm aware." Becky looked at her feet for a moment before sighing and looking back up, "I kinda…said that she was useless and stupid…in a much harsher way than that."

"B-Becky!?"

"Don't get upset with me, she was dragging us down! She wasn't listening to me! I'm just looking out for her and she doesn't want that, so I got a little upset, big deal. I could've called her a weakblood, she would've hated that more." Becky scoffed while Mitsuki crossed her arms. "What are you doing that for?"

"You go apologize to your sister right now." Becky chuckled for a moment, but stopped when she saw the stern, motherly look on Mitsuki's face. "I'm serious. Now."

"Ugh, I don't wanna do that, she's just gonna misbehave again! She can be pissy about it for as long as she wants, I don't care!"

"Fine…then you're gonna have to deal with whatever happens on your own. Olive might not wanna talk to you for quite some time…she's sensitive."

"Like you know my sister better than I do! She'll be just fine, and I'll be just fine waiting for her to stop being so grouchy!" Becky turned away from Mitsuki and started to walk, eventually glancing back to still see that disappointed stare. "...Tch…I don't like it when she looks at me like that. Makes me feel like…not good, whatever it is."

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"Oh, it's gonna be okay, Olive! I'm sure Becky didn't mean to say any of those things about you!" Honey hugged Olive and gently rubbed her back with her hands, just letting her sniffle and sob into her shoulder. "I think that the drums probably take a whole lot of skill to master! And you're probably the best darn drummer out there!"

"T-the drums are just the caveman instrument…anyone can play 'em…" Olive sobbed some more, and Honey couldn't help but just feel awful for her.

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"G-grandma, please! I don't wanna play around anymore, I'm getting worried!" Sophie continued to shake Bea, who wasn't moving. She looked like she was about to cry, but did her best to hold it in. "O-oh, I didn't want anything this bad to happen, I just wanted us to have fun and get some new patches! Grandma, please!" The tears started coming, as Bea still didn't move a muscle. "I-I'm sorry for lyin' to you, grandma! I'm sorry for making up all those patches! I'm sorry for stealing from Ursula's purse! I've been a bad Wilderness Girl!"

"And I…" Bea rose from the ground like a zombie from the dead, her face full of color again as she smirked down at her granddaughter. "...Think I'm well deserving of my Playing Dead To Teach My Granddaughter A Lesson patch!" Sophie stared up at her in utter disbelief, not even finding what words she should say. "Sophie, dear, did you really think that skewer would've done me in? My brain's not that old, I can still tell what's gonna kill me if I eat it."

"B-but you…I was…you just…"

"Sophie, I get it, the patches are alluring, and really plenty of fun to collect, but making new ones? You can't think you're the first scout to have tried that!" Bea chuckled while Sophie blushed and stared down at her feet. "Why, I think I did the exact same thing when I was your age! Only back then, the troop masters would punish us with a paddlin' to the behind. Yeesh, just thinking about it brings back the pain." She shuddered and got down to one knee, placing her hand on Sophie's shoulder. "But sticking behind in that other airplane was too far! What would've happened if you missed that flight? Who would've gotten you?"

"I-I would've used my Navigation patch to help me find my way home?" Sophie nervously looked back to Bea, who narrowed her eyes at her. "I…probably would've cried for my grandma until I couldn't cry no more."

"There's nothing wrong with having some fun with the patches…nothing at all. But there's something wrong with making me worry about you like that. And with the stealing…aye, I'm just glad that you gave back what you took at the end. I didn't see what it was, but I can't imagine Ursula was too happy to find it missing."

"I know, grandma…I'm sorry." Sophie still looked ashamed of herself, but Bea scooped her up in a big hug before placing her on top of her shoulders.

"Well, we're really far behind, but we may as well try to stick in it, right? I ate that skewer so long ago at this point, I'm not even feeling the itching in my throat anymore!" Bea chuckled, and Sophie eventually started chuckling with her, the two booking it for the rickshaws.

Confessional

"I did a lot of silly things to my poor grandma, her heart might've burst because of me!" Sophie shook her head before the camera. "But I'll take whatever punishment I'm dished for my mistakes with a smile! On my scout's honor, I deserve that much!"

"Good to hear that you'll be fine leading the Mini Wilderness Girls for two weeks when we get back home, then!" Bea snickered while Sophie's eyes went wide.

"B-but grandma! They're babies! They just poop and cry and throw poop and cry some more!" Bea grinned at Sophie, who sighed and nodded her head. "I…I did say anything."

Confessional End

"Alright folks, this leg has dragged on long enough, bring it along!" Duke hollered as more exhausted teams started to reach the chill zone, "Eighth, we have the Dweebs! Ninth, our Awkward Neighbors! Tenth, the one and only Vicious Pop Stars! Eleventh, 'Father and Son?!' Twelfth, Glow-Up Gals…that really need one of them to hit the showers…oh, and thirteenth, the Basketball Nerds! It's always the very front or the very back with you guys, I swear." Duke shook his head, and the teams moved it along, with the fourteenth team taking their place. "Bachelorettes, you outlasted your penalty and still made it all the way to the end…you're safe." Ursula and Lady Belle snickered and moved along, leaving Duke to look for the Wilderness Girls, who weren't even remotely nearby.

"Alright, I'm not waiting here any longer! Wilderness Girls! You guys are out! You hear me!? You better, cause I'm not gonna say it anymore! Just pack it up and walk home!" Duke cupped his hands around his mouth as he shouted, and the Wilderness Girls, who were just now parking their rickshaw at the bottom of the stairs that led up to the wall, managed to hear the faint call of his voice.

"Well…I guess that settles that, then!" Bea climbed out of the rickshaw and patted Sophie on the back.

"I really don't wanna be going home, in part due to my date with diaper duty, but also somewhat due to all the fun I was having around the world with you, grandma!" Sophie shouted excitedly as the clip of her screaming and running away from the darkness in the ice caves was shown.

"Oh, yes, I had a lot of fun as well…except for the several hip injuries that I sustained along the way…and the almost heart attack that you just gave me today." Bea let out a sigh while the clip of her spraining her hip while diving in Hawaii was shown.

"Y-yeah…still, very sorry about that! What did you even do when you were waiting for me?" As Sophie asked, the clip of Bea fighting off the armada of security guards from earlier was playing. "...Oh…so that's what you did. I would've loved to practice some of my moves out on those guys!"

"Maybe next time, deary…maybe next time." Bea patted Sophie on the back, and the two were seen walking towards the sunset, away from the Great Wall.

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

16th: The Reality Show Rivals: Jacque and Angel

15th: The Wilderness Girls: Sophie and Bea