The episode started back up, Chris McLean was standing on the dock of shame. His signature smile was plastered onto his face. He raises his arms up as he speaks, "Last time on Total Drama Island…"
Scenes from the last episode started to play as Chris gave a recap of the first episode. "Twenty-two campers signed up to spend eight weeks at this crummy old summer camp. We met each of them, and were introduced to the wide array of their colorful personalities. Some people formed quick bonds, while others started to butt heads already."
Moments like Anisa and Keesha talking about musical therapy while comforting Celestia, and Tamera and Delanie arguing were shown as he spoke.
"On this episode, the campers will really find out just what they signed up for." Chris said as the camera flashed back to him standing on the dock. "Will someone crumble under the pressure? What friendships will start to form? And who will be the first person to walk down the dock of shame? Find out, right now on Total. Drama. Island!"
After the theme song had finished playing, the scene faded into where we left off last time. All twenty-two of the contestants were now in their swimsuits, standing upon a 1000-ft cliff. Many of them were looking over the side with fear, worry, and in Ranbir's case, excitement.
"Today's challenge is three-fold." Chris said. "Your first task is to jump off this 1000 foot high cliff into the lake."
"How simple." Dustin said sarcastically. He was wearing gray swimming trunks with black music notes embedded into them.
Chris ignored him though, continuing to explain the challenge. "If you look down, you'll see two target areas." The camera did as follows, and showed a large area in the shape of a half-circle up against the cliff with a much smaller circle sitting right in the middle. "The wider area represents the part of the lake we have stocked with man-eating sharks. There's a smaller area, which will be your target area. We're pretty sure that's shark free, but haven't actually checked. Heh heh."
The camera zoomed in showing three shark fins swimming around in the water before cutting back to Anisa and Keesha, both of which looked nervous. Anisa was sporting a bikini with a sheer swim wrapped around her waist. Her bikini top was light blue on the right and white on the left with the bottoms being light blue as well.
Keesha on the other hand wore a yellow bikini with a white flower pattern.
"Wait, did you say sharks?" Anisa asked the host, clearly terrified. "Aren't they supposed to live in the d-deep sea?"
"Probably!" Chris responded. He didn't dwell on her questions though and moved along. "For each member of your team that jumps and actually survives, there will be crates waiting for you down at the beach below. These crates hold supplies you'll need for the second part of the challenge."
"And what will that be?" Christopher inquired. The perfectionist wore blue swim trunks with a gray palm tree etched in the side.
"Building a hot tub!" Chris responded excitedly. "The team that manages to build the better hot tub wins a wicked hot tub party! While the losers must send somebody home. How sad."
"None of you better mess this up." Rhonda said, specifically glancing at Celestia. The wrestler wore a vibrant magenta bikini with purple polka dots.
The med student, who had on a dark purple swim blouse and black shorts, was shaking like a leaf. It was clear she wasn't going to willingly jump.
"Let's see…" Chris muttered to himself. "Killer Bass, you're up first."
Tamera, who was in a skimpy black bikini with a gold ring in the middle of the top, holding the two sides together, and two gold rings on the sides of the bottoms, rolled her eyes at Rhonda. "Thanks for jinxing it, and making us go first."
"Don't blame that on me." Rhonda told her. "Am I going to have to throw you off the cliff like I threw you out of the cabin earlier?"
The HBIC scoffed. "Hell no. In fact, I'll go first! I'll definitely be more memorable going before all of y'all."
With that said, Tamera walked to the edge of the cliff. Before jumping, she looked at the camera and said, "Make sure y'all hoes get my good angle!" Then she jumped off, into the waters below.
Some of the others looked over the edge of the cliff to see if she'd make it. And lucky for Tamera, but maybe not for everyone else, she managed to land right into the safe zone. "How about that bitches?" She exclaimed as a small boat came over to the safe area for the HBIC to get in.
"Am I the only one that was hoping she'd land in the large area?" Delanie, who wore a navy blue bikini, asked aloud. She looked over the edge of the cliff. "Eh, I've done more dangerous stunts for other roles." With that, she was the second one to jump off of the cliff.
Delanie fell right into the safe zone as well, right next to where Tamera was.
"Ah! Bitch what the fuck!?" Tamera yelled. "You could've landed on me!"
"Well why didn't you get on the boat already?" Delanie asked.
"I had to make sure the camera got enough shots of me in the water." The HBIC responded, posing towards the said camera.
"Yeah, well thanks, you ruined my shot!" Delanie snapped. The method actress swam to the boat and got on, leaving Tamera to roll her eyes and follow suit. "Whatever bitch. Cry about it."
Ranbir looked down at Delanie and Tamera with an excited smirk. "That looks like it was a ton of fun!" The Treasure Hunter wore his usual vest, just without the t-shirt, and a pair of army green swim trunks.
From next to him, wearing black swim trunks with pink skulls on them, was Andrew who just rolled his eyes. "Tch, what-ever. This challenge is just lame and stupid."
"Ah stop tryna be all down in the dumps Drew-Drew!" Ranbir told his emo teammate, putting an arm around his shoulder. "Unless you're too chicken." The treasure hunter got a shot-eating grin on his face.
The hypnotist scowled, pushing Ranbir off of him. "Oh shut up you freak! I'm not afraid of something so dumb as jumping off a cliff."
"Great, then let's go!" Ranbir exclaimed, grabbing Andrew's hand and dragging him towards the edge of the cliff.
"Ah- wait, stop!" Andrew yelled. "Get off me weirdo!"
"Adventure!" Ranbir screamed out, jumping off the cliff with Andrew in tow. As they fell, the treasure hunter yelled in excitement while the hypnotist screamed in fear.
They both managed to land in the safe zone, and as they resurfaced, Ranbir was laughing from excitement. "That was awesome!"
"Do that again and I'll kill you!" Andrew yelled angrily.
Ranbir didn't take the threat seriously though.
Confessional Ranbir
The treasure hunter was soaking wet. "Man Andrew is such a whiny person. He needs to lighten up, I mean, that cliff dive was awesome!"
End Confessional
Lucien lazily looked over the cliff. He wore a gray long sleeve fishing shirt with green swimming trunks with a yellow star pattern on them. He sighed. "I'm most likely going to end up as shark food if I jump."
"That's make for a crazy first episode though." said Miriam, who popped up next to him, causing the astronomer to jump a bit. The archer wore a forest green top with thick black lines and matching green swim shorts.
"Perhaps, however, I don't really believe my life is worth high ratings on a reality television show." The lanky guy replied.
"Yeah, but is not jumping worth not getting a hundred-thousand smackaroos, bucko?" Miriam asked.
Lucien let out a yawn before responding. "If I'm dead, the money won't really matter, would it?"
Miriam stood there, just staring blankly ahead. "Nyeh, I dunno how to one up that." She walked to the edge of the cliff. "You win this round buddy." She said before jumping off into the safe zone.
After Miriam went off the cliff, Lucien just stood there alone for a couple moments before giving a long, drawn out sigh. "I suppose I may as well just go for it." With that, he lazily just walked off of the cliff into the safe zone below.
Miriam, who was already there, gave Lucien a thumbs up when he resurfaced. "Nice."
Back up on top of the cliff, Christopher gave a satisfied smile. "This is good, we're doing well here, and I think we can get a perfect score for this challenge."
"Eh, I don't know about a perfect score." Anthony, who was just wearing some simple light blue boxers, told the perfectionist.
"Well, I expect nothing less than perfection." the Type-A responded. "Any advantage in the game will be helpful."
"Well bud, try telling her that." Anthony pointed to Celestia who was still shaking heavily. Harmonia and Rhonda were observing the med student with two completely different reactions. Rhonda seemed to be aggravated, while Harmonia looked on with her seemingly signature smile. The anthropologist wore a black one-piece with purple frills at the waist, and three fake small purple roses across the chest.
"Oh dear." Christopher muttered to himself. "I guess I better do something about this." He went and started to walk over to Celestia, leaving Anthony alone. The street rat looked over the edge and shrugged. "Eh, who knows, this could be fun." With that, he dove off of the cliff into the safe zone below.
"I see you seem to be a bit scared." Christopher told Celestia once he got closer.
"I-death-c-coming-me–d-d-dead-shark-ch-chomp!" Celestia stuttered out, clearly petrified with fear.
"This is pathetic." Rhonda commented.
"Poor thing is shaking like a leaf." Harmonia said her voice seemingly gave the vibe that she felt bad for the med student, however her body language didn't give any indication. "I don't believe she will be completing the challenge."
"Sorry, but that is not acceptable." Christopher said. He rested a hand onto Celestia's shoulder. "Celestia, please, I know you are scared, but we need you to jump."
The med student shook her head erratically. "N-no! I can't! Death, h-he'll come for me. A-a-and he'll get me. He-he's gonna get me if I do. I'll just b-be a shark's m-meal."
"I promise you'll be fine." Christopher told her. However, it was clear Celestia didn't believe that. Christopher sighed. "We may have to do this by force."
"Oh my!" Harmonia let out a small gasp. "Are you sure that is necessary? I do believe we could afford to have one person keep from jumping."
"I… I just can't accept that." Christopher said. He gave Celestia a sympathetic glance. He felt bad for the girl, but it was a competition. They couldn't pick up any slack.
"Rhonda, would you mind taking Celestia with you as you jump?" Christopher asked.
"You know I don't take kindly to people telling me what to do." Rhonda told him, giving him a glare. However, before long, the glare lightened up. "But I just can't say no to a hottie like yourself."
"Before you start getting the wrong idea, I'm gay." Christopher told her, putting his hands up in front of his chest.
"Damn." Rhonda muttered, looking to the side slightly. "It's always the hot guys." She turned her attention back to Celestia. "Welp, gotta do what fruitcake asked." With that, the wrestler picked up Celestia, and started heading towards the cliff."
"Was the fruitcake necessary?" Christopher asked Harmonia who simply chuckled softly.
Celestia really started to panic now. The frail girl started frantically trying to get out of Rhonda's grasp, however she just didn't have the strength. "N-no! P-p-please! Have mercy!"
However, her cries were ignored as Rhonda hopped off of the cliff with Celestia in her arms.
Rhonda fell and fell, holding Celestia close to her chest. However, Rhonda was also falling face-down. Which could only mean- splash.
Rhonda and Celestia landed right into the safe zone, but Rhonda landed right on top of the med student, causing a lot of pain for the poor girl.
Back up on the cliff, Christopher and some of the Gophers cringed at the sight.
Confessional Christopher
"I have to admit, I feel horrible about forcing Celestia to jump off of the cliff." The type-a said, fiddling with his fingers. "However, I'm very serious about this competition. I cannot have us lose the very first challenge."
End Confessional
"Whoops." Rhonda commented as she resurfaced, Celestia in her arms. "Probably shouldn't have gone for a belly flop."
"Uuuhhh." Celestia groaned, barely with it.
On top of the cliff, Christopher gave a sympathetic look down towards the two girls.
Harmonia was right next to him though, her hand in front of her mouth once again. "My, you really managed to take charge there."
"I had to." Christopher told her. "I feel horrible for doing that to her, but we can't fall behind."
"Yes, I do have to agree with you there." the anthropologist responded. "You really took the situation head on, and did what had to have been done. I believe you are to make an excellent leader for our team."
Christopher smiled at this. "Thank you Harmonia. I plan on leading us to victory."
"And I plan on seeing you do so. Now, shall we?" The elegant women motioned to the side of the cliff.
"Yes, let's win this first challenge!" Christopher said before the two jumped off of the cliff, both landing in the safe zone.
Chris held a clipboard in his hands, but didn't even bother to check it. "Well it seems everyone from the Bass jumped. Gophers, you're going to have everyone jump just to tie it up."
"If we tie it, will everyone get the buggies?" Cherry asked the host. The party gal was in a red two-piece with a white polka-dot pattern on it.
Chris shrugged. "Yeah, why not. It's either that or no one gets them, but I guess I could be nice for the first challenge."
"Rock on." Cherry said simply in response.
"So, who would like to go first?" Keesha asked the team.
However, she was met with silence as Colin, who wore a lavender t-shirt and pink swim trunks with a unicorn on the right leg, looked away awkwardly, trying not to get attention on himself. Next to him, Freddy, who wore a purple bathing suit with a red bow graphic on the left leg, whistled innocently, not wanting to go first either.
"No one? Great." Keesha frowned.
"How about you show us how to do it chocolate mama?" Tanner, who had on dark blue swim trunks, told the soul singer.
"Excuse you!" Hannah yelled in her pastel purple swim shirt and black swim shorts. "Don't you spew your gross racist names towards such a beautiful queen such as Keesha!"
Tanner just scoffed. "Oh please, it was obviously a compliment."
"Yeah, well it certainly didn't feel that way." Keesha spoke up.
The quarterback just scoffed. "Whatever, you're just some loser pansies."
"No, we just won't tolerate your gross behavior!" Hannah yelled, getting in Tanner's face.
"And what are you going to do about it pig? Eat me?" Tanner just smirked, not backing down.
Hannah started to fume as the steam was practically radiating out of her head.
Lester, who was in a full-body pink wetsuit with rubber duck floaties, just giggled to himself. "Hehehe, tension!"
Dustin, who stood next to him just looked on, uncaring.
"Can we please not fight!" Anisa said, getting involved. "There is no need for this."
Tanner just turned away, crossing his arms. His smirk didn't leave his face however. "Not my fault these nerds are so sensitive."
Anisa sent a glare his way, and pointed a stern finger in his direction. "You need to stop! You keep instigating and pushing, which makes things worse."
He just scoffed. "So? Am I just not allowed to say what I feel. I think that's pretty stupid."
"That's not-"
"I mean I think you people are just so jealous of my greatness that your jealousy is pinning you against me." He continued.
Chris just watched the trainwreck, clearly entertained by everything going on.
"You-that's not- ugh." Aggravated tears came to the musical therapist's eyes. "I cannot accept your immaturity."
"Nice going, you made her cry you oaf!" Hannah yelled.
"Uhm, I think I'll just go first since that… kinda seems to be a problem." Ashe said, walking towards the edge of the cliff. The dork wore purple swim trunks with a gray floral pattern on them.
"Not my fault she's a little sensitive baby." Tanner said as a small splash could barely be heard off screen.
"Can we please just stop this!" Keesha yelled. "I don't appreciate what you said to me, however this argument is going nowhere."
Hannah turned to the soul singer. "But he-"
"Oh my god, just shut up." Dustin said, stepping in. "Who cares, get over yourself. You're all being annoying and it's not helping our team at all."
Of course hearing this from a white male like Dustin didn't go over well with Hannah. "Don't you go mansplaining to me!"
"Hannah, please." Keesha said, putting a hand on the blogger's shoulder.
Having a strong, brave woman of color like Keesha step up, made Hannah shut up. "Fine. You are right. Let's just try and focus on the challenge then."
"Whatever." Tanner said.
"Well it's good to see we're clearly bonding well." Colin said sarcastically.
"I don't think now is the time for sarcasm mate." Cherry told him.
The geek awkwardly rubbed his arm. "Ah, you're probably right."
"So let's do this!" Rosalina, who was in a pink swimming top and bottoms with a purple bathing suit skirt wrap, exclaimed. She ran to the edge of the cliff and jumped off excitedly.
"Alright, we got the ball rolling now!" Freddy said. "It's party time!" The FNAF fan ran and jumped off of the cliff as well into the safe zone.
"This is good." Keesha said, seeing that her team was finally getting somewhere.. She turned towards Anisa as Tanner dove off the cliff as well into the water. "How are you feeling Anisa?"
Anisa, who was slightly humming to herself to keep herself calm, stopped and sent a smile towards the soul singer. "I'm feeling better. I just don't like when people instigate like that."
"I understand. He was being an… ass, for a lack of a better word." Keesha responded.
The therapist giggled. "He admittedly was." She looked towards the edge of the cliff. "I'll admit, I'm a bit scared. Would you mind jumping with me?"
The tall girl smiled. "Of course." She took Anisa's hand, and the two went to the edge of the cliff. "You ready?"
After a couple deep breaths, the chubby girl smiled and giggled slightly. "I think so."
"Then, shall we?"
The two jumped off of the cliff into the water below. The camera focused on the safe zone where they both landed.
They resurfaced quickly, and Anisa giggled. "That actually was pretty fun!"
Keesha smiled at this. "It was, wasn't it?"
"Yeah, yeah, just hurry up and get on the boat." Tanner said, interrupting them.
Anisa pursed her lips, while Keesha gave him a look. "Please don't start anything again."
"Relax, me and these nerds just want to get back to shore," Tanner said, motioning to Rosalina and Freddy who frowned, "and we can't till you get on the boat."
"Okay, give us a moment." Keesha told him, swimming to the boat.
Anisa followed suit.
Confessional Anisa
The musical therapist gave the confessional camera a disappointed frown. "That Tanner is really not a nice person. I don't foresee myself getting along with him at all."
End Confessional
Back on top of the hill, Chris took a quick count of the jumpers. "Welp, we have five jumpers so far, and no chickens. Will that change?"
Despite the overall success of everyone's jump so far, there were still some gophers who seemed a bit nervous like Hannah, Colin, and especially Lester.
"I think it'll be nice to just get it over with guys." Cherry said. "The more you wait, the more your anxiety will build." She walked to the edge of the cliff and turned to her teammates one last time. "See you all on the flip side."
With that, the plump girl jump off the cliff. Going down, she had a small smirk plastered on her face, clearly enjoying the fall. She landed in the safe zone with a splash. When she resurfaced, she still had the smirk on her face. "Rad."
Colin looked over the edge nervously, still thinking it over.
He let out a sigh. "Well, I'm going to die eventually, may as well make it today."
He jumped off of the cliff, screaming during the fall down. He soon landed in the water. As he resurfaced, he spit some water out of his mouth and smiled slightly. "Okay, that wasn't as bad as I thought."
"Yo, quick over here!" Cherry called out to the geek from the boat.
The pink-haired geek raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"
Just then, a shark fin started to circle him. He hadn't landed in the safe zone. Colin just stared deadpan into the camera. "This is why I don't believe in optimism." Then, he started to swim as fast as he could towards the boat screaming. Right as he left his spot in the water, the shark leapt out and tried to chomp on him, however it missed.
Some of the nicer people on shore from both teams were calling out to him, hoping that he'd make it.
"C'mon, hurry!" Cherry called out as well.
Colin clearly wasn't in great shape, already appearing to be tired from swimming. "I'm… trying…" He panted.
The shark fin appeared above water again, and started swimming towards the chubby guy. It was quickly gaining on him.
"Colin, watch out behind you!" Freddy called out from shore.
Colin didn't even attempt to look back, knowing that if he did, the shark would catch up to him. This was the right move as he reached the boat, where Cherry reached down and helped him just as the shark leapt out of the water again. However it wasn't able to reach its target, and it swam again, annoyed.
On the boat, Colin panted heavily. "Th…thanks…"
"Don't mention it." Cherry told him, patting the geek's back.
"That sure was a close call, heh heh." Chris chuckled. He turned towards the last three gophers. "So who's next?"
This certainly didn't help Hannah or Lester want to jump.
"This is inhumane!" Hannah said. "You white men and your sadistic pleasure of watching people almost die!"
"I mean you do have the choice to not jump." Chris told her. "But then, you'll have to wear this chicken hat." He raised up said hat, and started to 'bawk' at the blogger.
Despite Chris mocking her, Hannah was still considering taking the chicken hat.
Dustin just scoffed. "You're really going to let a straight white guy tease you like that?"
"Wh-wha?" Hannah turned to Dustin, caught slightly off guard.
"Imagine how that'd look to the people watching." Dustin told her. "I mean, seeing a strong woman like you chicken out won't be a good look for the people of the show. It could reinforce bad stereotypes or whatever."
Hannah looked ahead, thinking about this for a couple moments.
"I… I'd hate to agree with a degenerate male like you, but you have a point. I cannot allow my blog followers nor the audience see me be so weak!" Hannah said. "I won't let society's wrongful stereotypes of women being weaker prevail!"
Hannah made a running start towards the edge of the cliff and jumped off. She screamed going down, but she landed in the safe zone, causing a huge splash.
She resurfaced, and raised her fist in the air. "Take that society! Women are not scared little weaklings! We are strong and independent and can do whatever filthy men can do!"
"You sure showed everyone." Colin snarked.
"Quite you!" Hannah snapped.
Back on top of the cliff, Dustin looked down.
Confessional Hannah
She huffed. "Hmp, It irks me to admit it, but that white male did help give me the courage. He's safe from being canceled. For now." She glared towards the camera. "It's only a matter of time before he does something completely unforgivable. All straight, white males do at some point."
End Confessional
Confessional Dustin
He rolled his eyes. "My team is unbearable, however they're pretty stupid for the most part. So getting them to do stuff seems like it won't be too hard. We can't afford to lose this first challenge, that's for sure."
End Confessional
Now that Hannah had jumped, Dustin made his way to the edge of the cliff. "You better jump." He said to Lester, who gulped. With that, the musician also jumped off the cliff into the safe zone below.
"And then there was one." Chris smirked.
"O-oh no…" Lester whimpered. "Why did I wait to go last!?"
"Eh, it's not that bad dude." Chris told him. "Now you have everyone watching you, anticipating you failing or succeeding."
The loser's lip quivered.
"But hey, no pressure." Chris told him, which made Lester feel a bit better. "Actually, no, scratch that. There's a lot of pressure."
Lester's lip went back to quivering.
Down below, some of the others were watching in anticipation, wondering what Lester was going to do.
Confessional Tanner
The quarterback let out an annoyed groan. "The stupid loser is going to completely ruin this for us. I'm going to make sure the little prissy bitch regrets it if he doesn't jump."
End Confessional
Confessional Anthony
"I'm admittedly feeling pretty confident. No offense to that Lester kid, but I don't really think he's going to jump."
End Confessional
Confessional Ashe
"I'm really nervous. We really need Lester to jump to at least tie with the Bass. I really hope he goes for it."
End Confessional
"I-I-I'm gonna d-die!" The Opportunist whimpered. "B-but I can't let my team down!"
He puffed up his chest.
Delanie's eyes widened. "He's gonna do it."
"Yes! Let's go Lester!" Freddy cheered.
"You got this!" Keesha called up to him.
Receiving the words of encouragement from his teammates pushed Lester to start running towards the edge of the cliff.
"This isn't good." Christopher muttered to himself.
"I can do it!" Lester exclaimed, leaping off the cliff. Things seemed to go in slow motion as he did. Multiple of the contestants' eyes widened in shock, while some of the gophers started to cheer.
Lester was going and going over the cliff, about ready to make his decent and be the hero his team needs.
But all of a sudden things went back to normal, and Lester ended up clinging to the edge of the cliff. "I can't do it!" He cried out. Tears started to fall as Lester cried like a pathetic baby.
"Tch, typical of a nerd." Tanner said, annoyed.
Chris took out a megaphone. "Welp, I think it's pretty clear that the Bass are the winners of the first challenge!" Chris said, causing the Killer Bass to start cheering.
"Damn it…" Keesha cursed.
Confessional Keesha
"Well this doesn't bode well for us." The soul singer said, her legs crossed over one another. "However, we're not out of the running yet. We still have the second part of the challenge to fulfill"
End Confessional
The camera flashed to the Bass. They were all back in their normal outfits and they were gifted carts for them to put the crates on. The Bass were currently pulling the carts with two people per cart. Some of them, like Ranbir, Tamera, Christopher, Miriam, and Celestia were singing cheerfully.
"Thirty-nine bottles of beer on the wall, thirty-nine bottles of beer! If one of those bottles should happen to fall, thirty-eight bottles of beer on the wall."
Pulling a crate together was Christopher and Anthony. The street rat noticed the Type-A singing cheerfully, and gave an amused smirk.
"You're sure in a good mood." Anthony told him.
"Of course." Christopher responded. "I mean we did just win the first part of the challenge with a perfect record. That's something to be happy about in my book."
Anthony chuckled. "Yeah, you have a point. We couldn't have done it without you leading and helping make sure everyone jumped."
The perfectionist blushed slightly. "Oh, well it's what needed to be done. I couldn't let us lose the very first challenge."
"You're right." The runaway said. "I do have to say you were a bit harsh with forcing Celestia to jump though. She clearly wasn't okay with that."
Christopher looked over to said med student. He sent a guilty look her way, which went unnoticed. "I know. I do admittedly feel bad about it, however it needed to happen."
Anthony shrugged. "I guess. I'd just be a bit careful. You don't want to rub people the wrong way."
"Thank you, but I don't think that is much of a concern." Christopher said. "The team needs a leader, one that won't back down. If I'm too soft then it'll only lead to disaster."
"I'm just tryna look out for you dude." Anthony said. "I don't want to see someone that's so nice to look at leave too soon." He sent a quick wink Christopher's way, making him blush once more.
"Oh, uh, thanks. You as well." The Type-A responded.
This interaction didn't go unnoticed by Rhonda, who was pulling her cart by herself.
Confessional Rhonda
"Damn, another one bites the dust." The wrestler said. "I hope there's at least one of the hot people here that likes women. Mama needs her lovin'."
End Confessional
Over with the Gophers, they didn't have the luxury of the carts, so a majority of them were pushing their crates.
Ashe and Lester were working together to try and push one, however it was proving to be very difficult for them.
"Oh come on nerds, stop being useless and push!" Tanner said. The quarterback was carrying two of the crates by himself.
"We're trying." Lester let out weakly.
"Tch, you're such a waste of space." Tanner said. "First you don't jump, and now you can't even push a crate with help."
Tears started to appear on Lester's face. "You're so mean!" He cried out.
"Really, again?" Anisa scolded.
"Can we please not start this again?" Keesha said, exasperated.
"We're way behind." Tanner told her. "And they're not even helping!"
"They're trying." Keesha told him. "And berating them won't make things better."
Tanner just rolled his eyes. "Fine. I'm going ahead, I'll meet you losers at the camp."
Taking his two crates, the quarterback started to walk ahead.
Keesha just sighed.
From her crate with Colin, Rosalina started giggling.
"Do I even want to know?" The geek said.
"Those guys would be the hottest yaoi pairing." Rosalina said. "Just picture the big, strong football player absolutely dominating the tiny, weakling with his gigantic co-"
"Okay, I regret saying anything." Colin interrupted her.
Rosalina just giggled as the scene flashed back to the Bass.
Miriam and Ranbir were another two that were pulling a cart together.
"Nyeh, I thought the challenges were gonna be cool." Miriam said. "But they're just kinda basic. I mean, building a hot tub? That's it?"
"Yeah, but jumping off the cliff was pretty fun!" Ranbir told her.
"I guess, but It coulda been cooler." The archer replied, bringing her scarf to cover more of her face.
"I don't know, that was a pretty good height to jump from." The treasure hunter said. "I've jump from higher, and just falling for so long can get boring.
Miriam's eyes started to sparkle. "You jumped from higher stuff?"
"Yeah!" Ranbir told her, giving her a bright smile and giving a thumbs up. "I go to a whole lot of different places to find some really cool stuff, and part of the job is having to do dangerous things like that."
"Cool." Miriam drone on. Her voice still sounded flat, but a hint of excitement could be heard. "You gotta take me with you."
"I don't know, it's super dangerous for people who aren't experienced."
"Nyeh, I can handle myself." The magenta-haired girl said. "I'm rough and tumble, and I know how to survive in the wilderness on my own."
"Then I think you'd be a natural!" Ranbir exclaimed.
Confessional Miriam
"Nyeh, I didn't think I'd find someone who does cool stuff like that." Miriam said. "I wanna be a treasure hunter too! Not just a regular hunter!" Once again, even though her voice sounded flat and monotone, some excitement could be heard.
End Confessional
The Bass continued walking, however Tamera and Delanie, who for some reason were pulling a cart together, both pointed ahead and exclaimed. "There's the camp!"
They sent each other a glare. "Shut up, I saw it first. Really bitch?" They said at the exact same time.
"Do you two share a brain cell or something?" Andrew snarked, rolling his eyes at the two.
Delanie scoffed. "Of course not, clearly Tamera is just copying my schtick."
The HBIC was appalled at this accusation. "Excuse you bitch, nuh uh! I'm the original, get that through your thick skull! I am the Head Bitch in Charge, I don't need to copy other people."
Delanie just flipped her bob back and turned the other cheek. "If that's what you want to believe, copycat.
Tamera seemingly seethed with anger as Lucien spoke up. "Can we just focus on getting these supplies to the camp? It is barely 500 feet away."
"Whatever."
"She started it." The two mumbled.
"Thank you Lucien." Christopher said. "Now let us get our crates there and build a hot tub."
Confessional Tamera
"I don't know what the bitch is thinking saying I'm copying her. I am the HBIC, not to mention I was here before she was." Tamera said, raising her arms dramatically. "I don't know what kind of drugs she's on to think she can talk about me like that, but I think the bitch needs to get checked. Because having someone on drugs like that is not safe, and she should be disqualified immediately."
End Confessional
Tensions between the Gophers were still high. Even though Tanner had gone ahead, the air was still thick.
Keesha had gone ahead next to Dustin to talk. "Hello."
"What?" Dustin responded coldly.
The soul singer ignored the musician's cold tone. "Well I would just like to thank you for butting in earlier during that whole argument that went down on the cliff."
The brunette raised an eyebrow. "That? I was only being honest. It was a stupid argument and I was tired of hearing it."
"True, but you did really help de-escalate it though." Keesha told him. "Even if I wasn't a fan of your wording, you got the point across and it helped the team out."
"Uh, sure." Dustin wasn't fully sure how to take this so he just went with the flow.
"We don't really have a set leader, however it's good to have some people who will just tell it like it is to help keep us on the right track." Keesha continued. "I think you'll be a great asset to us."
"Thanks." Dustin responded.
"Of course."
Over with Lester and Ashe, they were slowly, but surely moving their crate along.
Lester was a bit fidgety though, which Ashe took notice of.
"Um, sorry, but are you okay?" Ashe asked.
And the water works started. "N-no!" Lester whined. "I really am just a weak link and I let the team down. I'm going to be eliminated for sure!"
Ashe looked away awkwardly, trying to figure out how to respond.
"Uhm, well maybe you'll be fine?" Ashe told him, however he didn't sound too sure of his words.
"I'm n-not though!" Lester cried out. "I… I can't help that I was s-so scared."
"Maybe people will empathize with you?" Ashe suggested. "I mean it was really scary up there… But, uh, also, there's a lot of drama on our team so far… so maybe that will overshadow you not jumping?"
The nerd sniffled. "R-really?"
Ashe tried to give a hopeful smile. "Yeah! I mean it was pretty big. I don't even think people noticed me jump off the cliff, heh. Or maybe not..." The spectator rubbed the back of his head awkwardly. Though he went right back to pushing the crate immediately after.
Lester thought for a moment. That's true, he didn't even remember seeing… whatever his name is jump.
"M-maybe you're right." Lester responded, wiping the tears from his face. "T-thank you…"
Ashe smiled at him. "Of course!"
The scene then flashed back to the Bass. They had reached the campsite, and were currently trying to open their crates. How were they doing this might you ask? Well, they were currently pulling on ropes using their mouths.
Chris appeared on the screen, walking by. "Remember, you can only use your teeth to open the crate." The camera zoomed in on the host's face. "I came up with that one."
The view switched to Rhonda, who was opening one all by herself. "I got it." She called out, giving one last tug to the rope, causing the crate to burst open.
"Wonderful job Rhonda!" Christopher told the wrestler. "Would you mind maybe helping some of the others open the crates? I think I shall have Lucien, Celestia, and I start building."
"Sure, whatever." Rhonda shrugged. She walked over to go help some of the others as Christopher waved over Celestia and Lucien.
The two went up to the Type-A.
"U-um, yeah?" Celestia asked meekly, twiddling with her fingers.
"I wanted to ask you two to help start the construction of the hot tub with me." Christopher said. "I think it would be a better task than having you two try to open the crates."
Lucien nodded. "Sounds fine to me." He said.
"I don't know if I'll be able to help much." Celestia muttered.
"Eh, any help is good help." Lucien said.
"Okay… I'll try." The albino responded.
Just then, Tanner made his way to the campsite. He tossed the two crates he carried on the ground.
"And once again, I'm proving that I'm the best man on my team." He said arrogantly.
"Whatever helps you sleep at night dude." Chris said, approaching the quarterback. "But you can get a head start on opening the crates. You just have to do it with your teeth."
"A'ight, bet." Tanner boasted, getting to work right as the scene flashed back to the other gophers.
"Ugh, this is… so much work." Hannah groaned, looking worn out.
Colin agreed, also looking tired. "Tell me about it."
"We're almost there !" Freddy told them optimistically. "Just keep at it."
"I don't… need… your validation." Hannah panted before falling over from fatigue.
"Teammate down!" Rosalina gasped dramatically.
"Thank you… for being… gender-neutral." Hannah told the fujoshi through deep breaths before face planting back into the sand.
"Great, just what we need." Dustin complained. "It's not like we're already far behind or anything."
"She can't help it." Freddy told him.
"Why don't we just wait a couple moments for her to catch her breath?" Anisa asked.
Cherry raised an eyebrow. "And put us even further behind the Bass?"
"She can't really go on without a break though." Keesha said.
"Um, excuse me," Ashe spoke up, "but maybe Hannah and someone else could stay behind so she can catch her breath while the rest of us continue on so we don't get even further behind." The dork waited a couple moments before retracting. "Or maybe not, that wasn't a good idea anyway."
"No, I think it's a good idea." Freddy said.
"So who's staying with her?" Dustin asked.
"Me, please!" Colin volunteered. "I need a break too."
"I'll stay with them." Freddy said. "Maybe then, having three people pushing will help us catch up a little faster."
"Sounds good." Cherry said. "Then let the rest of us get going, shall we?"
"Okie dokie!" Rosalina exclaimed, going back to pushing her crate.
The other Gophers, with the exception of Hannah, Colin, and Freddy, followed suit. They started pushing their crates again, getting a move on.
The scene flashed again to the Bass. They had gotten most of their crates opened and were making some progress on the construction of their hot tub.
Christopher made his way to the people searching through the opened crates. "What have you guys found?"
Harmonia, who was leaning over the side of the crate stood up straight, and showcased her findings. "It appears this crate had the water heater in it, as well as a pool liner."
Anthony popped out of the crate. "Yep, and I got wood." He said, sending a quick wink Christopher's way.
The perfectionist was slightly flustered by this. "Oh, well, that is great news. We're already close to finishing the base."
"Sweet." Anthony responded.
Harmonia nodded her head in approval. "My, we certainly are making substantial progress already. And the Gophers, outside of just the one, haven't even arrived."
However, the anthropologist spoke too soon as the rest of the Gophers, sans Hannah, Colin, and Freddy, made their way to the campground.
"We made it!" Rosalina cheered excitedly.
"Took you weaklings long enough." Tanner sneered. "I already have my crates open."
"We made it as fast as we could." Cherry told him.
"Gophers… seems like you're missing a few rodents." Chris said, walking up to them.
"Yeah, Hannah and Colin needed a breather and Freddy stayed with them." Anisa explained.
Tanner scoffed. "Of course two of the lard asses are lazing around."
Anisa scowled. "Don't start mister!"
"It's fine." Keesha said, not wanting another fight. "We can start opening the crates and building, they'll be here soon."
"Fine, but we need to hurry, we're already behind." Tanner said. "We have to open the crates with our teeth, so some of the pansies better just start looking at what I opened already."
"Good plan." Cherry said. The party gal turned to Ashe and Lester. "Would you two mind looking through the supplies to see what we have?"
"Oh, uh, sure." Ashe said. "I don't think I'll be of much help, but I'll try."
Lester nodded. "Y-yeah, I'll help."
"Oh, let me help too." Anisa said. "I'm not very strong, so I'll be better with them."
"Sounds like we have a plan!" Rosalina said, bouncing on her feet. "Let's get these crates open!"
The scene then flashed once again to the trio of Gophers. Freddy stood up. "Are you both ready to get going? I don't think we have that much left to push."
"Yeah, I think I'm fine." Colin told him, getting up.
"I suppose." Hannah huffed, getting up as well.
They started to push the crate, and with the three of them, they were making good progress.
Of course, Hannah couldn't just let the silence be there. "Y'know I think it is absolutely inconsiderate of Chris to not be more accommodating to people of our stature with these challenges." She told Colin.
"Uh, I guess. I'm not really surprised though, I kinda expected more physical stuff to take place." The geek responded.
"Well I am going to give him a piece of my mind when I get the chance." The blogger said. "It is not fair to us plus size people."
"I mean Cherry and Rosalina seemed fine." Freddy shrugged.
This wasn't the correct thing to say though. Hannah snapped her head over in Freddy's direction and delivered a scalding glare. "Excuse you!" Hannah spat. "I don't expect someone like you to understand."
"I mean he's got a point, I guess." Colin added. "Rosalina is filled with energy, and Cherry seems like she just is full of stamina. I'm just a lazy bitch who does nothing but play video games. Not exactly the pinnacle of athleticism."
Freddy's eyes lit up. "Ooooh, what kinda stuff you play?"
"Uh, I don't know, I guess just a little of whatever." Colin replied awkwardly.
"Do you play Five Nights at Freddy's?" The brunette asked excitedly.
"Yeah." Colin replied awkwardly. "Just a wild guess, but I assume you do too."
"Hecks yeah I do!" Freddy exclaimed. "I know everything there is to know about FNAF! The characters, the mechanics, the lore, the-"
"Excuse you!" Hannah interrupted. "How dare you go off onto a tangent completely separate from what I was discussing." The blogger scoffed. "Typical of straight white men."
"What about me screams 'straight?'" Colin snarked.
Freddy blushed slightly.
Hannah gasped dramatically. "Oh-my-gosh! I am so sorry!" she apologized. "That was terrible of me for just assuming! I need to be better."
"You're… fine?" Colin told her, not really knowing how to react.
"Oh thank you! I certainly don't deserve your forgiveness, however I appreciate it." The blogger said. "But moving on, what's it like being a male with other males, is it as hot as it is in my manga?"
Now Colin blushed as he started to stammer. "I-uh-um… I-"
"Hey, we made it!" Freddy said.
Hannah turned her attention from Colin to ahead, and saw that Freddy was right. "Oh, how wonderful! I was getting tired again. Let's go so I can give Chris a piece of my mind!"
She started to push the crate with even more force than she had been using before, which caught the guys off guard. But they shook it off and helped her push. Colin was still clearly uncomfortable, but Freddy gave him a reassuring smile.
Colin returned it, thankful that Freddy interrupted the conversation before it got even more awkward. Just as the trio reached the camp grounds, Tanner was the first to speak.
"Took you losers long enough."
Hannah wasn't going to take this lying down, of course. "Don't be so disrespectful you degenerate!" She got in his face and pointed an accusing finger at him. "Some people need time to recuperate from pushing heavy objects for an extended period of time."
"Well if you weren't such a lazy fatass, you wouldn't have to sit your lazy ass down." Tanner shot back.
Hannah's face became red. "I will not tolerate that fatphobic talk! Do you want to be canceled?!"
"Can we not start this again, oh my god." Dustin groaned.
"Dustin is right, we're far behind the other team, and we cannot afford to waste anymore time." Keesha said. "Let's focus on opening these crates first, then we'll go from there."
"Aye aye captain!" Rosalina saluted the soul singer, and got to work on opening a crate on her own. Within seconds, the hyper girl managed to get the crate open.
Noticing this, Cherry smirked. "We may not be out of the race just yet."
The scene flashed back to the Bass with Christopher, Lucien, and Celestia working on their hot tub.
They were making pretty good progress so far, however Christopher seemed to be a bit troubled.
"Um, Celestia?"
The albino girl looked up. "Yeah?"
"I would like to apologize for having Rhonda force you off of the cliff." The perfectionist told her. "I may have went too far with that, however I was not wanting to allow our team to fumble at all."
Celestia was caught off guard by this. "O-oh. It's…" She hesitated for a moment. "Okay."
Lucien took notice of this.
Christopher's shoulders relaxed and he smiled. "I'm pleased to hear that." He told her. "I'm just trying to do what is best for our team. It may just be the first challenge, however I expect nothing less than perfection from everyone here."
Just then, Rhonda made her way over. "Got the last crate open butter buns." She told Chrisopher.
The perfectionist gave her an awkward look at the nickname. "Uh, right. I'll be right over." He turned to Lucien and Celestia. "I'll be right back, I'm sure you two can handle this for a bit."
"O-ok!" Celestia muttered while Lucien just nodded.
After Christopher followed Rhonda to the newly opened crate, Lucien spoke up while hammering a nail into one of the boards. "You seemed somewhat hesitant when talking to Christopher."
Behind her mask, Celestia's cheeks flushed. "E-excuse me?"
"Well, I wasn't on the cliff, so I'm unsure of what happened, however Christopher said he had Rhonda force you to jump." Lucien said. "You told him it was okay, but you hesitated to say that. Perhaps you're actually bothered by it?"
"N-no, it's fine!" Celestia tried to reassure, however her voice slightly wavered. "I was being a useless team member, and I needed the push."
Lucien just sighed. "If you say so." Celestia helped aligned another board as Lucien started to hammer that one as well. "Just speak up for yourself if you actually have a problem."
"It's fine." Celestia told him, just trying to brush off the conversation.
The astronomer clearly didn't believe her, however he dropped the subject. Just then, Christopher returned. "Alright! We have all of the crates open, so I believe it's time to get this show on the road!"
The scene then flashed as a montage started of the two teams building their respective hot tubs.
Ranbir and Delanie lift up a wooden plank to put it along the wall of the hot tub. They put it in place as Christopher hammers it in.
Tanner and Hannah both reach for the same hammer, which of course starts an argument between the two. They both pick up the hammer and start to fight over it. However the hammer slips out of their grip, and flies and hits Lester, who was being a big help with the hot tub by putting the wood together, in the back of the head. This caused the nerd to faceplant into the ground. Hannah and Tanner awkwardly glance at each other before whistling innocently and walking away.
Andrew fills a bucket full of water, then passes it to Harmonia, who then passes it to Tamera, who then passes it to Anthony, and finally it ends in the hands of Delanie, who then pours the water into the hot tub. The bucket is then passed down the line going the other direction to repeat the process.
Colin is seen picking up a wood plank. After he does so, he noticed Rosalina on a jack hammer. Where she got this, who knows. But she then starts bouncing all over, and heading in his direction. The geek drops the plank and runs the other way, clearly terrified.
Rhonda and Miriam put the water heater onto the hot tub while Lucien hammers it in. Once the deed is done, the two girls high five.
Finally a shot is shown of Anisa sheepishly putting some duct tape onto the side of the Gophers' hot tub where a leak sprung. Upon further glance, the hot tub was clearly not well crafted, and looked as though it would fall apart any second.
And with that, the montage ends as both hot tubs are completed. One clearly looks put together a lot better than the other.
Chris first goes to the Bass' hot tub. He inspects it, and dips his finger in the water. "Hm… The water is a bit too warm, but other than that, this is an awesome hot tub!"
The Bass, sans Christopher, all get hopeful looks.
"Did I really set the temperature too high?" The perfectionist mumbled to himself. "Oh, I may have just screwed this up…"
Chris then goes over to the Gophers' hot tub. Floating on top of the water is a seagull with a soda ring on its neck. "Well this sure is… an interesting design."
"Uh, yeah, we took some… creative liberties with it." Anisa told the host.
Chris went and tapped the wall of the hot tub gently, and the whole thing fell apart.
"Mood." Colin commented.
Keesha just put her head in her hands.
"Well, I think it's pretty obvious who the winners are." Chris said. He paused for dramatic effect, but the answer was obvious. "The Killer Bass!"
The winning team all cheered at their first victory. Except for Christopher who just breathed a sigh of relief.
"Bass, you are safe from elimination tonight." Chris explained. "And you get to rock this hot tub for the rest of the summer as a sweet bonus!"
"Awe yeah, mama's going to enjoy that." Rhonda smirked.
The host turned towards the Gophers. "As for you guys… What can I say? It sucks to be you guys right now. I'll see your butts at the bonfire tonight."
The Gopher just looked down dejectedly as the scene then flashed to everyone in the mess hall.
The Bass were enjoying themselves, and chatting happily about their win. However things were awkward and tense with the Gophers.
"So… what now?" Freddy asked awkwardly.
Dustin shrugged. "I guess we may as well talk about the elimination tonight."
"Well, I think it's pretty obvious it should be the weak loser, or the screechy whale." Tanner said, motioning to Lester and Hannah respectively.
Lester got tears in his eyes while Hannah, of course, bucked up to the quarterback. "Don't you refer to me in that fatphobic way!" Hannah screeched. "Besides I have no reason to be eliminated, I helped during each part of the challenge."
"Yeah, but you're an annoying hoe." Tanner said off handedly.
Record Screech
Everyone at the Gophers tabled gasped in shock. The Bass similarly stopped what they were doing, and looking in shock.
The camera crew even looked horrified at the scene.
The scene cut to some random guy with dark skin and a short black afro, who was wearing a long sleeved black shirt with the words 'Flexing and Finessing' on the front with orange cargo shorts, and red reebok shoes. He was currently trying to sell his shitty mix tape to some random lady when all of a sudden a chill went up his spine.
He looked around, on edge for a moment. "Yo, I feel a disturbance." Right after, the lady just smacked him with her purse and walked away.
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The scene then went back to the Gophers, who still had the surprised faces.
However, Colin was the first to break. "Wait, why did we all collectively gasp? He's said worse already."
Rosalina just shrugged happily as everyone went back to what they were doing. "I dunno, it just seemed right."
Really, the only person with an actual problem with what Tanner said was Hannah. "Don't you use that misogynistic word towards me! I will cancel you, and all of your hellspawn for generations!"
Tanner rolled his eyes. "I don't care."
"Why don't we eliminate you then!" The blogger suggested angrily. "You've caused more trouble than I have, and you're a misogynistic, homophobic, fatphobic jackass!"
"I agree." Anisa spoke up. "He's been really mean this whole time, and it's causing problems."
"But on the flip side, he's a huge asset to us." Cherry spoke up. "He helped in the challenge as well, and we could use the muscle."
"I'm sorry, but I don't know if that's enough for me to want to keep him." The musical therapist said.
Tanner just groaned. "Ugh, you're such a pansy."
Freddy glared. "You're not helping your case. You better be careful or you could end up in a springlock suit buddy."
Dustin then spoke up, trying to be the voice of reason. "I think it's better to just focus on who didn't jump, and that was Lester."
Hearing his name be brought back into the conversation, the opportunist let the tears fall. "I-I'm sorry! I r-really tried t-to make up by h-h-helping with the ho-ot tub!"
"He was a big help in the hot tub part until he got knocked out." Keesha spoke up.
Lester stopped crying, however the tears didn't leave his eyes. "Yeah… besides, I wasn't the only one who didn't jump. Ashe didn't either!"
Ashe's eyes widened. "W-what!? I did jump though, I was the first one to!"
"I didn't see it." Lester said, twiddling his fingers. "Did anyone else?"
No one spoke up.
"And he didn't help much in the hot tub part either." Lester pointed out. "He wasn't in the montage."
"That's not fair, I did help!" Ashe yelled.
Lester flinched, the tears starting to fall again. "W-why are you yelling?"
"Because you're lying, I did jump, and I did help. I think." Ashe let his insecurity get the better of him.
"You think?" Dustin asked.
Ashe tried to backtrack. "N-no, I mean I really did, I just say that a lot."
"You don't seem very sure." Dustin noted.
Ashe just looked completely hopeless.
Tanner shrugged. "I don't care which deadweight nerd we get rid of. As long as it's one of them."
Anisa, Freddy, and Hannah glared at the jock.
"Don't think you're in the clear buddy!" Hannah spat.
"Alright, enough!" Keesha yelled, causing everyone to look at the soul singer. "This is just causing more unneeded friction between us. Discussing the vote clearly wasn't the right move. I say, we just drop it, and let things fall the way they fall."
"Fine."
"Whatever." Hannah and Tanner huffed.
Ashe however was still in complete shock over what just happened.
Confessional Ashe
"I…" He was still dumbfounded. "What happened? I thought Lester and I were getting along!" He deflated. "Maybe I'm just that annoying he lied to get rid of me… I don't want to go yet though."
End Confessional
The scene then flashed to later that night. Chris was with the Gophers at the bonfire pit. A fire was roaring, and the team of 11 sat on each of the log stumps while the host stood at the oil barrel, facing them.
Things are still very much tense between the team. Hannah and Tanner are glaring at each other, Ashe isn't looking anyone in the eye, Lester appears to be nervous, and Dustin just seems done with the whole team.
"Screaming Gophers, at camp marshmallows represent a tasty treat that friends enjoy by the campfire. But here, they represent life." A sharp tune played as Chris explained. This got Freddy and Colin to give each other a nervous glance.
"You have all cast your votes and made your decisions." Chris said. "There are only ten marshmallows on this plate. When I call your name, come up and claim your marshmallow. The camper who does not receive a marshmallow tonight must immediately return to the Dock of Shame to catch the Boat of Losers. That means you're out of the contest and you can't come back... Ever."
Anisa gulped, also starting to feel nervous.
"So, shall we begin?" Chris asked, smirking at the tension he was causing.
Confessional Hannah
"That stupid sexist pig can consider himself good as gone." Hannah said as a matter-of-factly. "I already know he's got votes coming his way. Serves him right!"
End Confessional
Confessional Cherry
She sat back, pretty chill in the confessional. She clearly wasn't nervous about the elimination ceremony. "It was a tough call, but as much friction as he causes, Tanner is a huge asset to us. Besides, I may need someone to fool around with here." She sends a wink to the camera.
End Confessional
Confessional Keesha
"This was a very tough decision." she told the confessional camera. "One one hand, Tanner has caused a lot of drama on the team, but he's also a huge asset." Keesha reasoned. "Then Lester and Ashe didn't jump, but they don't seem as physically capable. It's a tough decision."
End Confessional
"So…" Chris said, getting things back on track. "The very first marshmallow goes to…Anisa."
The musical therapist gave a sigh of relief. She stood up, and gratefully went to go get her marshmallow.
"Also safe is Freddy." The gamer jumped up excitedly. "Alright! Survived night one baby!"
"Rosalina." The fujoshi squealed and happily got her mushroom.
"Keesha… Cherry… Dustin." The three got up as their names were called.
"Colin." The geek's eyes widened in shock for a moment before he got up to retrieve his marshmallow. Freddy gave him a bright smile, which he meekly returned.
Chris smirked at the last four. They all received at least one vote. "The next person safe is… Lester."
Lester dramatically sighed in relief. "Th-thank you all!" He cried out as he got his marshmallow.
"Hannah." The blogger sent a cocky smirk towards Tanner. The quarterback returned it with a scowl.
"Campers, this is the final marshmallow of the night." Chris said as the background music started to become tense.
Ashe looked absolutely terrified, while Tanner on the other hand was annoyed.
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"Ha! Take that, nerd!" He taunted Ashe before going to get his marshmallow. Freddy and Anisa sent a glare his way.
"What!?" Hannah yelled. "You kept this pig over the other guy!?"
Keesha and Rosalina looked away awkwardly.
"Well, well I guess you're going to get to deal with me for a bit more." Tanner smirked, eating his marshmallow.
Hannah just stormed off, clearly fuming.
Chris then walked up to Ashe. "Sorry, uh… guy. But dock of shame is thataway." Chris pointed behind him.
Ashe's lip quivered as he got up, and wordlessly walked towards the dock. He looked back at everyone to see if any of them were waving, but they weren't paying him any mind. The dork just sighed sadly before walking down the dock and getting onto the boat, which was driven by Chef Hatchet.
"As for the rest of you, you're safe… for now." Chris told them. "Now go back to the cabin and get some rest."
The scene then flashed to the Bass having a small hot tub party. Miriam, Lucien, Andrew, Delanie, and Anthony were chilling in the hot tub while Chrisopher, Celestia, and Harmonia stood nearby.
Anthony stood up. "Here's a toast to the Killer Bass."
"The Killer Bass!" the others cheered.
There was some music playing, and Rhonda went up and started to dance. "Go Bass, go Bass!"
Tamera and Ranbir ran up to join her and started cheering with the wrestler. "Go Bass, go Bass!"
Just then, the Gophers had made their way back to the campsite. Many of them were feeling down or irritated, seeing the Bass celebrate their win. Lester was the last one to walk by, and as he did, he sent a devious smirk towards the camera before continuing back to his cabin.
And with that, the scene faded to black.
Reasoning: Ah, there were so many different contenders for the first boot. I think I had about 8 people potentially leaving here. Even ones you'd probably not expect. However I eventually landed on Ashe. I love mah boi, but I think him going first would be the best for what I got planned. Originally, I did plan for Ashe to go all the way to 5th place. His storyline would've been a mix of Sherwood's original storyline from TSI and pretty much Garry from Carnival Calamity, however there were too many people who had potential to merge. I didn't want to waste a space. So here he lands.
Votes:
Anisa: Tanner
Ashe: Lester
Cherry: Ashe
Colin: Tanner
Dustin: Ashe
Freddy: Tanner
Hannah: Tanner
Keesha: Ashe
Lester: Ashe
Rosalina: Ashe
Tanner: Hannah
Ashe: 5 votes
Tanner: 4 votes
Hannah: 1 vote
Lester: 1 vote
And with that, we're one man down! Of course, as always my plans and elimination order changed so many times while writing lmao. And things just kinda happened on the spot that I didn't plan for. But y'know, I think that's the fun part about my writing. Not even I know what's gonna happen XD. But yeah, now that I got these first two episodes out, I'm going to head back and work on the next Towering Fortress chapter. This story actually really helped me out a ton with what I'm going to do there, so I'm actually excited to get back into it! Of course, as always if you have an OC here, please tell me how I did with them! I want to make sure I'm doing a good job with them and I'm not just butchering their character. If there's anything that needs to be changed, I'll try fixing it in the next chapter! But until then, I hope you have a fabulous day! Ta taa! ~MG