Topher was standing by himself in the team starting city while trying to avoid stepping on or even touching any black blobs on the ground.
"Welcome, welcome to our season's second episode! Last time not much happened, at least if you're not one of the contestants"
It cuts back to the contestants getting blown up on his large boat "After many of our contestants introduced themselves to each other they had a little helping explosion to get to our island faster. But after that, we got a nice little display of some of our beautiful establishments here"
It cuts to the elimination ceremony and the VR rooms. "And from there they found themselves in the first challenge of the season, where they're all playing the role of clean-up crew! Not too eventful, at least for them now. But let's see if that ends in today's episode of Total Drama Arcade!"
Intro Starts
"Dear Mom and Dad, I'm Doin' Fine," Topher and Nelly stood at the front of the island, with the nurse rapidly measuring Topher's limbs and where his organs should be.
"You guys are on my mind." The camera zoomed past the two hosts to an abandoned-looking city. In the middle of the plaza was a giant pool that the camera dove into. At the bottom, Dylan was trying to pull a chest up to the surface.
"You asked me what I wanted to be And now I think the answer is plain to see," Dylan felt someone tapping her on the shoulder. She turned around, only for Ian to come out of nowhere and swim away with the chest. Bubbles floated up to the surface, where Bobby floated on a raft. Bobby looked nervous about the water.
"I wanna be famous!" On land, Colmillo was holding Mitch in a chokehold as the writer desperately tried tapping out.
"I wanna live close to the sun," in one of the abandoned buildings Camila was waving her hands around mystically over a crystal ball as Marty just stared past it and at her chest. Veronica meanwhile just crossed her arms skeptically.
"Go pack your bags, 'cause I've already won," inside the crystal ball Camila saw Ellis just having a casual friendly conversation with Thomas whose fingers were crossed behind his back.
"Everything to prove, nothing in my way" past the duo, Micheal was sitting on the ground in the middle of nowhere just enjoying some peace until Vinnie fell down on top of him with a beehive in her hands.
"I'll get there one day" past them Matt was using his walking stick to walk around when Vinnie ran past him with the bee nest in her hands while dragging Micheal behind her. Matt fell to the ground as the bees quickly swarmed him.
"Cause I wanna be famous!" back in the abandoned city Mitzy and Tess were lying on the ground, smiling to themselves as they drew a comic. Liz looked down at her work and gave her a thumbs-up before feeling Bailey hug her from behind. Making blood come from her nose. However, Maxine came in and stomped on her paper
"Na na na na na na na na" in one of the buildings Therion and Charlotte playing a game in a room before Charlotte laughed confidently once beating the gamer.
"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous" Walter was looking around the dock to the island, walking right behind him Mimos was doing the exact same. As they walked they could see some footsteps on the ground as he slowly followed them. As he got closer to the camera he flashed a flashlight at the camera.
"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous" The light from the flashlight turned to the moon as it slowly moved down to the cast. Jaz and Antoinette sitting together by the fire. Jaz saw the camera on them and quickly pushed Antoinette out of the way, trying to get the camera to focus on her before the other girl pushed her right back. The other contestants slowly whistled.
Intro Ends
The scene cuts back in to right after the contestants left the VR room. The Plungers went north, the Raccoons went southwest, and the Ferrets went to the southeast.
"Alright, everyone!" Topher announced on the intercom "today's challenge you will all have 45 minutes to finish. Begin now!"
Everyone on the Plumbers looked over at Colmillo, seeing as she was the one who became the team captain. The wrestler just smirked to herself "Glad to see we know who to rely on. We should split up, I can go by myself but the rest of you can decide who goes with who"
"Shouldn't someone go with you?" Therion wondered "It's better to be safe, we did see those blobs move around on their own"
Colmillo frowned at him "Are you questioning how someone like this can handle herself?" She started flexing her bicep with a small smirk on her face.
"Oh no, I'm sure you can handle yourself just fine" Therion smiled softly "I just thought we could clear more ground while working together. Plus, if we finish the whole area we could turn it into a sparring area"
Colmillo slowly started smirking at him "Alright dweeb, you're starting to speak my language now!"
Therion just chuckled before looking at the others "I, uh, doubt she cares so I guess we can all just go wherever we want"
Before anyone else could say anything, La Luchadora was already running off. He sighed slightly before quickly chasing after her.
Confessional: Therion
"It's not necessarily that I want to spend time with Colmillo" Therion started "After our 'match' on the ship I'm just somewhat worried she may not actually clear out her part of our section. Winning the first challenge here would honestly be kinda cool. I want to see what kind of challenges they do if this first one is an indication too" He seemed to start smiling a bit more as he started talking about games.
XXX
"Yea… I'm going off on my own" Mitch deadpanned before quickly walking away. Not turning his back to them "so none of you try chasing after me or you'll get a face full of water" Mitch warned them while pulling his hose up towards them.
This just left Marty, Charlotte, Mitzy, Jaz, and Maxine.
"So… who wants to go with who?" Charlotte put her hands on her hips "We apparently don't have a leader so it's up to us"
Mitzy tapped her chin with her eraser as she looked over the group.
Confessional: Mitzy
"So I already know Maxine has the full intentions of manipulating and being evil. She told me as much" she deadpanned "So now might be a good chance to look over the others to make sure the team is mostly villain-proof. I know Colmillo is being a Lightning right now. But I don't honestly see her getting super far considering she's just openly mean to geeks, when that's most of this team. So, looking over my options I'd rather like to see what Charlotte and Jaz are like before I make my final conclusions on this team"
XXX
"Shall we cooperate together minion?" Maxine walked up to her with a mischievous grin.
"Sorry" Mitzy smiled innocently towards her "I was thinking I should check around with Charlotte and Jaz, to be honest"
The villainess frowned "Why would you team up with them? WIth my villainous plans and your loyalty, we could easily annihilate the other teams!"
"While that sounds just lovely Maxine, I think it's best if we both found more people who we can work with. Can't just stick together all season and expect to do well am I right?"
Maxine nodded slowly "I see. That's such a good idea I'm surprised I didn't come up with it myself" she smirked before pointing at Marty "You, photographer, you shall be taking my picture when we demolish this challenge!"
Marty looked at her funny as she pointed at him "When did they start accepting children to this show?"
"Wha- child?" Maxine frowned "I am just as old as you!"
"Oh, sorry" Marty chuckled awkwardly "I guess I got caught off guard by how small you are. But sure we can partner up if you want" he smiled.
The small girl just angrily crossed her arms "I'm regretting this plan but I suppose we should get going then"
"Sure thing" Marty smiled before grabbing her hand "Let's get going then, I think this entire place is covered in the stuff"
Maxine smiled slightly "Yes, let us vanquish these disgusting little blobs! If they think they can dominate this island while I'm around they will have another thing coming!"
Mitzy watched them walk away before turning to the other two. Charlotte was already clearing out some of the blobs with her hose while Jaz was sitting down next to a fountain while snapping pictures of herself in cute poses.
"I see she's not going to be much of an asset" Mitzy murmured while eyeing the maid before helping Charlotte clear up some of the gunk around the center of their section.
Meanwhile, down in the southwest, the Raccoons were already split up into their groups. With the team leader, Elizabeth leads her own small pair with Camila.
Camila slowly walked ahead of Liz, spraying some gunk off the walls of one building "I predicted the first challenge would be rather annoying but I chose to not believe it would be this boring" she sighed exaggeratedly. "That is what I get for not believing my own prophecies I suppose"
"Oh, you're psychic?" Liz sounded genuinely surprised by that.
Camila turned around and gave a soft laugh at her question "Oh I should have mentioned it earlier. I am a clairvoyant, my dear, I can see into your future and see events beyond your wildest dreams!" She raised her hands as a random gust of wind picked up behind her.
"Oh, that's… cool" Liz nodded while glancing away "I admit I've never really tried hand reading and those kinds of things. They're just not for me… and no offense but I kinda assume those things are a scam"
Camila smiled as she lightly grabbed the team mom's hand to caress her palm "Many people claim to be psychic, it is truly a plague upon those of us who possess such a gift. But come to me at any time and I'll have a prediction my dear, and I can show you exactly how accurate I am. And it takes but ten dollars to see where your flare lies. I promise those I read for never leave disappointed"
Liz blushed hard at Camila grabbing her hand. As the clairvoyant walked away she couldn't help but shudder excitedly "I'd give her more than ten dollars if that prediction involves us laying down in that bed together"
She slowly started following behind her again, as the blobs all around slowly started moving at the sight of all the contestants around destroying their brethren.
While that small duo walked around, the team's three guys were cleaning things up slowly. The blobs slowly dilated from their water pretty quickly.
"I thought this was going to be a challenge" Ian grumbled "it feels like we're just doing this host's chores"
Mimos shrugged "at least he has some original idea in his head. I pity him honestly"
Matt nearby was just whistling softly to himself as he used his hose on purely open parts of the ground. He was almost entirely missing the target of the challenge "I'm getting it right?"
Ian and Mimos looked at him before just looking at each other "You're doing great champ" Mimos mused.
"Yea, just a real bang-up job" Ian rolled his eyes.
While the boys were taking their time cleaning things up Nelly smiled to herself. She had a syringe in her hand as she slowly grabbed onto one of the blobs around the corner of a building and injected the syringe contents into it.
The blob seemed to jiggle around rapidly as she let it go. Its color seemed to rapidly change from red to green to yellow before rapidly changing around between these three colors. It slowly crawled its way to the trio of guys.
Ian was the first of them to notice the blob as he frowned slightly "What the hell is that?"
Mimos turned towards it with a small frown "I'm not too sure myself" he tapped his chin while standing closer to it.
"What are you two looking at?" Matt frowned while looking in the direction of Mimos's steps.
"Your mother" Ian deadpanned before walking past him "Just keep focusing on the goo in front of you bud"
Matt grumbled slightly as he kept watering different gooless spots on the ground.
Ian and Mimos looked over the blob as Mimos glanced at Ian "So, you wanna soak this thing in water or just throw it into someone else's area?"
Ian smirked slightly "That's some smart thinking right there… but after they latched onto that blob on the Ferrets I don't know how much I want to touch them"
"Good point" Mimos nods before looking around. Nothing around looked like it would really be useful. Mimos then turned to Ian with a confident look as he seemingly changed his attitude "Ah let's just quite this belly akin and get this over with!"
Before Ian could question why he suddenly had a strong southern accent before Mimos just grabbed the blob with his bare hand before chucking it into a pile of blobs in the Plumber territory. Surprisingly it didn't latch onto him.
"What was with the accent?" Ian deadpanned while watching the multi-colored blob start fusing together with multiple other blobs.
Mimos just giggled in amusement, not dropping his southern accent "Don't you worry bout it. We got some blobs to soak up!" He grabbed Ian by the arm before dragging him back towards Matt.
Confessional: Ian
"You know, I thought I was partnering up with some of the more… I don't know, I guess strong members of my team. Well, at least Mimos looked promising compared to the others. Matt I don't see doing anything besides slowing us down all season long. But Mimos is starting to make me think he's genuinely insane" he looked somewhat flabbergasted "I mean, who suddenly just starts talking in a hard southern accent out of nowhere just… because?" He looked confused before shrugging "Oh well, it's not like I invented stealing from crazy people anyways"
XXX
The Ferrets were all sweeping their area in large groups. While most of the team looked to be cooperating rather well, some were making this mission a real pain. In the far back, Veronica and Bobby were effectively slowing them all down.
Bobby was walking at his own pace. He would take a few steps before quickly stopping to take a small snack. He had somehow found some gum lying around on the ground and was smiling to himself as he chewed on it.
Veronica was walking near him, though she had to walk faster than she had hoped to because of how horrible he smelled "Have you ever heard of personal health?" She deadpanned while covering her nose.
Bobby just smiled innocently at her "I care about my body… Why else would I eat so much?"
Veronica just looked more dumbfounded by him "And, pray tell, is eating everything you see good for your body? I've seen men in Hawaiian shirts who look in better shape than you"
Bobby chuckled while pointing out her figure. However, it took him a good few moments before actually making his point, which made Veronica uncomfortable "You're so scrawny, if you were caught out in a blizzard you'd freeze in no time… I, however… am built to last" the slob grinned to himself while softly slapping his gut.
"I can't believe I got forced onto a tropical island and my company is a walking trash pile" Veronica groaned into her hands.
After a few moments, Ellis leaned back to talk to the two of them "You two doing alright back here?"
Veronica looked at him and shrugged "As good as I could be with a guy like him behind me" she deadpanned while glaring at a smiling Bobby.
"Well it's a shame to hear you haven't enjoyed your time on the island" Ellis smiled softly at her "I'm honestly having a nicer time competing knowing someone as beautiful as you are on my team"
Veronica blushed faintly but smiled back "It's good to see some of the boys here understand just how good I am"
"Oh believe me I've noticed" He grinned at her "Now, how about we try catching up with the others? It would be a disservice to them if they don't have the chance to look at you"
Veronica smirked slightly "It would be unfair to just leave them wanting more wouldn't it?" She started walking a bit faster "Let us catch up with the others before they get desperate"
Ellis smiled softly before following with her. However, this left Bobby all to his own interests. And his stomach was rumbling.
"Oh, man… I wish they didn't wipe out all of my snacks to start…" He glanced around slightly, before seeing a half-eaten donut next to a pile of trash by the alleyway.
Bobby smiled a bit to himself as he slowly started walking after the donut. He reached down to grab it before it was pulled back further into the alleyway. Bobby looked up to see the donut go towards a pile of blobs.
Bobby apparently didn't see any problem with this donut as he simply walked into the blobs and grabbed the donut. Parts of the blob were still attached to it, but he just happily ate through it. "That was good…" he smiled as he licked his fingers.
Before he could walk away to get back with everyone else, the blobs suddenly latched onto his back and pulled him backward.
Back in the Raccoon territory, Antoinette, Vinnie, and Bailey were all walking together through an outer part of the plaza. There was a mountain with a little bit of smoke going out of it.
Bailey was looking longingly at the smoke coming from the top, basically fantasizing about the idea of falling straight down into a volcano. She sighed happily.
"You doing alright gurl?" Antoinette asked while spraying her hose around in totally random directions.
Bailey jumped slightly before turning to her "O-O-Oh, I'm fine. J-just a little cold…" she looked at Antoinette for a moment before extending her hands "C-Can I have a hug?"
Antoinette looked a little surprised "A… hug?" She blushed faintly "I've hugged people before but that's, like, a weird way to go for it" she smiled a bit before pulling the little freezy pop into a hug.
Bailey held onto her tightly as Antoinette just kinda stood there and returned it. They spend a very, very awkward amount of time effectively snuggling before their large furry teammate started walking over to them.
"OMG, you're finally back Vinnie. Think you can take sis over here off my hands?"
"OH, first I wanted to show you two something I found" Vinnie looked at them before pulling out a nozzle for their hoses "I think this is the thing he was talking about! You know, with the special items and all that"
"Yaaaaaas queen!" Antionette cheered while raising a fist in the air "How's it work?"
Vinnie looked at the nozzle. It seemed to extend to the side with two nozzles extending downwards. "Uh…. I don't know?"
"We could test it?" Bailey murmured from Antoinette's chest, which was where she had rested her face to keep warm.
Vinnie grinned excitedly "Oh, oh that sounds fun!" The furry put the nozzle onto her water pack. She grabbed the handles on her pack "So… how do we do this?"
Antoinette and Bailey just shrug, having as much of an idea as her. Vinnie just continued to stand there before suddenly water shot out from her nozzles. She smiled excitedly, expecting to fly high into the sky but at most, she was levitating slightly above the ground.
"This is so cool!" She gushed while floating in different directions.
"I kinda expected something… like, stronger" Antionette murmured while looking at Vinnie floating around excitedly.
The bear slowly stopped floating around and took off the nozzle "Do you two want to try? I was always told sharing is caring"
Antoinette looked at it before shrugging "Ya, sure. I wanna try"
Vinnie handed it to her, and the diva was quick to put it on "Sis, you mind if I take flight?" Antoinette asked politely.
Bailey looked up to her while still holding tight. Antoinette smiled down at her, which got Bailey to pry herself off her and stand by Vinnie. The diva grinned to herself as she grabbed her handles. It soon shot her into the sky, much higher than Vinnie had gotten to.
"This is sick!" She cheered excitedly.
She continued to stay high in the sky thanks to the water propelling her high above. Parts of the water seemed to splatter all around her as she started floating away from them. Bailey was already shaking with the cold before she started panicking at the water landing all around her. She lowered her cap to avoid the water touching her face.
She then suddenly felt two arms wrap around her out of nowhere. She slowly raised her cap to see Vinnie hugging her, with her big bear head looking down at her "I don't know why you're scared about the water but you don't need to worry" she giggled softly.
Bailey nods softly before just holding onto her like a small child holding their favorite mascot character.
"Keep it up gals" Antoinette called as she started flying after a few small sets of blobs moving around.
Vinnie let go of Bailey and nodded "yes ma'am!" She called before going after her. But Bailey made sure to latch onto her source of warmth. Jumping onto the mascot's back to snuggle close and take in her warmth.
In the far north, Colmillo was running past Theroin to try taking out every blob she could before he could get to them.
She sprayed the ground ahead of her in a straight line as a pile of blobs slowly moved around. She smiled confidently before getting down in a sprinter's pose. She then shot herself forward like a bullet to the swarm of blobs.
They didn't know what hit them as she blasted right through them. Causing them to all go flying in different directions. Though she didn't actually destroy most of the blobs.
Therion saw her fly into the blobs and sent them flying in different directions before running towards her to douse the blobs in water.
"Man I am destroying these little things!" Colmillo gloated while lying on her side on the ground. She rubbed her chest in a braggadocious way.
"Yep, just fantastic work" Therion murmured as he watched the blobs all slowly start to squirm away from them.
He raised his hose up slightly before twirling himself around as fast as humanly possible before firing the hose in every single direction at a rapid pace, easily dousing off the rest of the blobs in the area.
Colmillo stood up slowly "Woah, how are you spinning so fast?" She sounded slightly impressed.
Therion slowly came to a stop while groaning softly "Uh… not a hundred percent sure" he chuckled softly "I just did what the character did in the game…"
"This challenge was based on a game?" Colmillo raised an eyebrow "Ah man, I can't believe I actually had fun in this challenge!" She looked disgusted.
"It's not that bad" he smiled "Games can honestly be pretty fun if you can get into them"
"Whatever you say nerd" Colmillo raised her hands to make a 'w' with her fingers as she spoke.
"Right…" Therion murmured, "How about we just keep taking care of things?"
Colmillo smirked slightly "I think I have a way we could move this along faster and keep it from being too boring…" Therion tilted his head slightly out of curiosity.
Before he knew what was happening La Luchadora had already grabbed the gamer and got into a low stance before flinging him high into the air in a way that would make him spin around, like a football.
Therion groaned weakly as he flew high into the sky, feeling himself get sick at how much and how fast he was spinning. However, he got his nozzle ready before splashing in every single direction. Clearing out a good chunk of the blobs.
As he descended to the ground, Colmillo jumped into the air to catch him in her arms like a baby "Now that's how you score some points. Ready for another round?"
Therion looked sick as he quickly shook his head "I don't know if-" before he could finish she just threw him straight up into the air again.
While mid-air, La Luchador could hear a loud rumbling nearby. She frowned slightly as she looked over at the noise, and immediately saw a giant black piranha plant around the middle of the plaza.
"Oh, that's a promising noise!" She smirked excitedly before running off. After a few moments, Therion landed face-first on the ground.
"Nice catch…" he murmured weakly.
Colmillo was sprinting to the blob, and when she got there she could see how it simply towered over all of them. Mitzy and Charlotte were right next to the blob trying to drench it, however, their water didn't seem to be doing enough. Further behind Jaz was lazily soaking it as well, however, she was more worried about keeping her distance from the thing.
"Out of the way ladies!" She called confidently "I'm going to clear this thing out!"
"What's she doing?" Charlotte worried as she ran past them.
"She's going to save us" Mitzy spoke stoically seeing the wrestler rev up her fist. She had a confident smirk as she leaned backward, raising her leg into the air before stomping down hard and throwing a powerful fist forward.
She punched the blob with a powerful blow, however, it did not seem to damage the beast one bit. It lowered its giant dangerous fangs down and gulped the wrestler whole.
"That's great" Charlotte sighed angrily "And where are Marty and Maxine? Can't they hear it from here?"
"They're probably too busy to help" Jaz murmured while barely paying attention to the threat at hand.
Before getting an answer on what those two misfits were doing, the cameras moved back to the Fighting Ferrets. They were almost all in a pack, with some people being more social than others.
"So you're an artist right?" Dylan smiled at Tess seeing as the challenge wasn't too threatening to them so far.
Tess looked at her and smiled "Oh yea, I love painting things I see as I travel. It's, like, my favorite thing!"
Dylan smiled a bit "That's nice. I've always been passionate about my dancing" she mused.
"Oh, fun!" Tess smiled excitedly "I would love to learn from you!"
Dylan smiled slightly "I mean if you're interested I wouldn't mind."
"Dancing is lame" Dylan heard something whisper in her ear. She quickly looked to where the noise came from but didn't see anyone. While she was distracted Ellis walked closer to Tess with a small smile.
"Ah, you like to travel?" Ellis smiled from next to Veronica "You must leave the boys crying when you travel"
Tess just smiled "Oh well kinda. It gets boring traveling by yourself y'know?"
Ellis looked a little surprised but chuckled "I guess I should expect as much"
Dylan had slowed down to look around herself, only to see Thomas casually walking around her "Oh sorry, did I scare you with my words?"
"Not especially" Dylan chuckled, seemingly not too worried by what he said "I grew up with older brothers, people saying dancing is lame is a wakeup call"
Thomas grinned at her "I suppose that's fair. I just feel bad for those brothers of yours"
"Oh and why's that?" she mused.
"Because by the time this season is over I don't know how likely it is they'll still have a sister to make fun of" He grinned maliciously.
Dylan backed up slightly "I, um, w-wha-"
Thomas suddenly moved closer and patted her on the shoulder "Don't worry about it dear, I was just having a laugh" he giggled "Don't mind me, I just have a hard time not lying to people I want to make friends with."
"That was a hell of a-" before Dylan could finish Thomas was already running off to the others. Causing her to sigh softly in annoyance.
The Ferrets continued to walk around together, still in one large group as a somewhat large group talked together while Michael and Thomas went in their own directions. But as they walked down a street they could suddenly see Bobby just planted onto a wall. Though he was entirely black with small white eyes actually visible below his globby hair.
"There you are!" Walter called out to him before walking towards him "Where have you been? Were you sabotaging the other teams?" The future lawyer questioned.
"Does that idiot not realize Bobby hasn't been with us for a while?" Veronica frowned while crossing her arms.
"Wait, when did we lose him?" Dylan looked around to see the normal Bobby really did just disappear entirely.
"I noticed too" Michael murmured "I just assumed we weren't worried about him…"
"I think you guys are missing the point" Ellis frowned while looking at the Blobby Bobby.
"What are we missing?" Tess tilted her head.
Walter reached toward Bobby to tap his shoulder and get his attention. However, when he touched the blob it just started absorbing his hand.
"That we have no idea what that thing is or what it did to Bobby" Ellis panicked slightly.
From corners multiple different Bobbys came from different buildings, trying to grasp hold of them. Dylan and Thomas were the only two who were quick enough to blast the blobs going for them with their hoses. The others however weren't as lucky as they all latched onto them and quickly started enveloping around them.
Dylan and Thomas could hear a shrill girly scream as they look at them, seeing it was Ellis trying to get out of the blobs "Get me out of this disgusting thing!"
Veronica wasn't taking it much better as she looked like she was in shock from anything Bobby relating touching her hair. the Bobby's started dragging them away, leaving just the two of them.
"That was… terrifying" Dylan murmured in shock after they were all gone.
Thomas shrugged "well, could've been worse. We can guess who we should eliminate and if we save them we can get nice bonus points"
Dylan fidgeted slightly "You think we should… chase right after them?" She chuckled awkwardly "I, uh, well…" she tapped her fingers together "that might be dangerous"
"Yea, but I've got your back" Thomas smiled innocently at her.
Dylan just frowned more "Knowing that doesn't especially help me"
"Well, if I save them they're going to question what was more important than their safety" Thomas smirked challengingly at her "Sound like a good idea now?"
"I didn't want to abandon them or anything" Dylan frowned as she raised her hands defensively "I just need to get myself caught up. This is a little early to have something so… serious"
Thomas just smiled encouragingly at her "Come on man, let's just get going. If this gets too dangerous you can run off and cry while I handle it"
Dylan frowned slightly at him "Don't rub it in just lead the way"
Thomas just smiled innocently before skipping after the blobs, not seeming all too bothered by what had happened.
Confessional: Dylan
Dylan looked slightly annoyed, trying to get something out but failing to. She closed her eyes, breathing in softly before suddenly just doing an interpretive dance in front of the confessional camera. It focuses on her for a few moments before she eventually stopped "I hope that got my point across"
XXX
In the Raccoon territory, Liz and Camila seemed to be handling everything without much issue. In fact, it seemed like their whole territory had gone without a hitch. Antoinette and the girls at this point had cleared out most of the outskirts by now and were just taking turns using the water jetpack. Though Bailey looked like she was close to passing out the moment she left the ground.
Meanwhile, Ian and Mimos cleared out the middle of the plaza, while the other side dealt with the more serious threat of a giant monster that didn't seem to be getting any smaller. Oh, but of course, Matt was helping in his own way. At this point, Mimos and Ian were just sitting back and watching the Plumbers get curb stomped.
"Things are going rather well" Liz smiled while standing near the plaza fountain.
Camila nodded before starting to walk away from her.
"Wait where are you going?" The team mom quickly asked before following after her.
"Well, unless you haven't noticed all of our teammates have already thrown in the towel for the day. I would rather not be the only one working through the whole challenge"
"Well, would you mind if I join whatever it is you're going to do then?" She smiled a bit at her, trying to not have her eyes wander.
Camila grinned knowingly at her "Oh, I see. You want to get your prediction handed to you wouldn't you?"
Elizabeth chuckled slightly "Yes, yes that! That's why I wanted to hang out exactly"
She smirked a bit "Shall you hand over the ten dollars then?"
"Oh, right" Liz reached into her pocket, however, she soon found that there wasn't anything in her pocket. She immediately frowned, reaching into her other pocket. She pulled both out to show she didn't have any money on her "My bad…" she chuckled softly "I, uh, must have left my money in my other pants. But I could pay you back"
Liz smiled as she looked up but immediately noticed that Camila was gone without a trace. Elizabeth sighed sadly before slapping her forehead "Screwed that one up
"Sure did," Matt says while walking past her, "Ian and Mimos say they don't "see" me being helpful so I'm just gonna go check out our rooming. But yea, pun unintended I don't think I've ever seen a worse strikeout" he deadpanned as he walked past her.
She frowned before sighing softly "yea, fair enough" she murmured before seeing Matt thud loudly into a wall ahead of her.
Confessional: Liz
"So…" she tapped her legs awkwardly "As you can probably tell I kinda sorta have a problem when I'm around really pretty women. And Camila is hot. I mean Wowza. It's almost impossible for me to even talk to her without thinking about what I'd rather be doing with her"
Confessional: Matt
Matt looked a bit unamused. Though it was hard to tell because he wasn't even looking at the camera. "I feel like ever since I got put on this team they haven't taken me seriously. I mean, at least Ian and Mimos just totally ignored me or just treated me like a joke. But hey, at least they're not treating me like an actual child" he shrugged slightly. "I'll just show them up in our next challenge.
XXX
Walter could feel his eyes slowly open as he tried rubbing his eyes, however, he couldn't move his arms at all "What the-" he looked around nervously. He could see Ellis, Tess Veronica, and Michael were all stuck onto the ceiling with the goo holding them up. They seemed to have woken up before him.
"Looks like he's still alive" Michael commented.
"Looks like you win that bet" Veronica deadpanned towards Tess. Which seemed to make the artist smile a good bit.
"What's happening?" Walter started to panic.
"The blobs captured us and brought us to this building" Ellis tried to state calmly, but he obviously looked terrified by the blobs touching his hair and skin.
"Why would they do that?" The lawyer frowned. However, as he asked this they could see some blobs move in from outside. They opened the door to let in sunlight, which illuminated the room to show Bobby snoring in the middle of a swamp of blobs.
"What the hell?" Walter looked surprised by Bobby just sleeping peacefully as the blobs tried keeping him comfy.
"I think he's their king" Michael murmured "either way they won't let us go"
"Well, why not?" Walter frowned.
"Because they think we're going to take him away from him" Ellis shuddered
"I don't know why they think we care that much" Veronica shuddered "seriously, I'd rather they take him at this point"
Ellis's eyes widened slightly "Maybe we could work with that actually…" he grinned a little "Hey blobs, you guys want to keep your big lug right?"
They all tilted their forms towards the pretty boy. "Well, we're not too worried about losing the guy or anything. If you let us go and follow us somewhere else we'll let you guys keep him for as long as you want"
They all moved Bobby slowly as they went towards him to hear what he had to say. "Sound fair to you guys?"
The blobs holding them up slowly wrapped down to the others, joining in the followers of Bobby.
"I think that means they're up for it" Veronica sighed in relief "Two disgusting creatures are finally out of our hair"
"We can't just let them take Bobby!" Walter quickly countered as he landed on the ground "He's our teammate"
The blobs quickly looked at him as Michael and Veronica quickly tried shutting him up with their hands "Don't worry you fellows. Just follow me and we'll have the perfect place for you guys!"
Walter frowned as Ellis started leading them somewhere else. "We shouldn't be sending them off"
"Oh don't be such a baby" Veronica scowled at him "We're behind the other teams I bet, I mean we've been stuck this whole time. I don't want to be here but since I'm here now I refuse to go home first"
Micahel just shrugged in return.
"Fine." Walter murmured "But when the challenge is over we have to save Bobby from their clutches"
"No promises" Veronica flipped her hair as she walked out of the building. Being followed by a simply tired-looking Micahel.
Near the edges of the North, Maxine and Mitch were walking around. Mitch was quietly kicking a rock around while splashing goo every now and then as Maxine stared down threateningly at some of the blobs.
"You will all listen to my evil plans or else you will all be punished severely" Maxine smirked "Do you all understand?"
The blobs just sat there on the ground, not moving at all "Did you not hear me?" She threatened before showing off another hose at them. The blobs looked threatened by her before quickly jumping at her and latching onto her small body, almost already absorbing her entirely.
Marty wasn't paying too much attention to her shtick before seeing her flailing around frantically trying to pull them off. His eyes widened in shock before he grabbed his hose and soaked her from head to toe, making all the blobs slowly dissipate.
"You can't just let them get that close to you" Marty chastised "Plus I don't think they have the brainpower to comprehend what you're saying"
"Whatever, evil doesn't have to waste her time on such brainless creatures!" Maxine slowly pulled herself up with an annoyed look "new minion!" She pointed at Marty.
"Yes, master?" Marty asked pretty nonchalantly.
Maxine smirked slightly at that "Ah, so you know your role well then!"
He just shrugged "I'm no stranger to being a sub"
The villainess blushed slightly at that comment "Well, uh, uh… what was I saying?"
Marty shrugged "Gonna say something about being evil?"
"Right! That insufferable host said there were parts around the perimeter or something like that. Find it and bring it to me!"
The Photographer just saluted her "yes ma'am, master ma'am"
He started walking away from her, seemingly following her orders. She just smiled proudly with her eyes closed at how well this whole thing was actually going for her.
"Found it"
"You- you found what?" Maxine's eyes shot right back open as Marty showed her a propeller that looked like it matched their backpacks. "Give me that minion!" She swiped it away from him before taking off her pack.
"Now, how shall we test such a machine" she murmured after attaching it.
As she spoke they could hear a loud rumbling close to the center of their area "sounds like that's worth a try" Marty mused.
Maxine nods as she quickly put her pack back on "photographer, escort me to a high position so I may fire upon him with my diabolical new invention!"
"You didn't make that, but sure" Marty picked her up in his arm before setting her on his back for a piggyback ride "hold on tight, wouldn't want you falling off" he grinned towards her before he started climbing up the side of a building.
She just wrapped her arms around his neck as best she could as to avoid falling. They soon got to the top of one very large building to see everyone else besides Mitch trying to take down the monsters.
"Ah man, I'm a bit bummed we're not in there. I could totally score some lady brownie points saving them" Marty sighed.
"Don't you worry" Maxine grinned as she aimed her hose towards the creature "I'm going to annihilate this thing!"
"You don't know how to work that thing right?" Marty tilted his head at her "How do you know it'll destroy that thing?"
"I know because anything I do is bound to lead to endless misery and destruction!" She cackled maniacally before starting her pack up.
Marty cautiously took a step away from her as the water in her pack started to fizzle. She started shaking slightly because of how strong the pack's rev up was but before she could even think about stopping what she was doing she was sent flying at the giant monster like a rocket.
Because of how teeny tiny she was she flew high up in the air, earning the piranha plant's attention almost entirely because of how loud she was screaming.
It opened its mouth wide, looking amused by her attempt as she flew straight into his waiting jaws. It devoured her like Colmillo without any problem, even if the force of Maxine pushed her closer to the center of the three areas. It seemed to like its little meal either way. Before suddenly, its head started expanding like it were full of water.
Therion, Mitzy, Jaz, and Charlotte were still trying to hose it down as water started seeping from its mouth. It looked to be getting rather weak. Charlotte was the first one to notice its wobbly state as she called to the others "we need to hit it in one spot, if we can push it into one of the other areas it'll be their problem!"
The other three nodded, moving to the side to shoot their water at the same spot on its body, pushing it slowly but surely towards the Raccoon area. Mimos and Ian were relaxing in their spot just enjoying the other team's efforts. Before seeing the giant monster falling toward them. "Uh, Ian?"
Ian raised his head to see the monster falling towards them as he shot upwards "Ah crap!" They both got their hoses out to try pushing it back and towards the Ferrets, however with only two of them they didn't have nearly enough strength to push against it.
"Ah man, where's our team!?" Mimos groaned in annoyance as their efforts did nothing. Before their teammates could come in to help them a beam of water shot out of its mouth, giving it its final push into Raccoon territory.
Ian and Mimos tried shooting the monster off their territory still, however as they tried it again their hoses just turned off "The round is over!" Topher announced loudly over the speakers. "For your final results, everyone returns to the center of the plaza!"
Ian and Mimos sigh in defeat as the majority of the Plumbers cheered.
Confessional: Maxine
She had a confident smirk on her face "I think I can say I just set myself at the top of my team's food chain. I wouldn't be shocked if we won and they all started bowing below me! It's the least they could do"
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The teams all made their way back to the middle of the plaza. Colmillo and Maxine were out of the giant monster and still covered in goo, while most of the Ferrets weren't much better off. Strangely, Dylan was covered in trash rather than the goo. many of the Raccoons came back and couldn't help but show their shock at the giant monster in their territory.
"What happened?" Bailey whispered nervously.
"Those dumb Plumbers" Ian grumbled.
"So you just let them push it into our territory?" Camila smirked slightly at him "My, my. My cards were right once again"
"Your cards?" Ian deadpanned.
"Yes, during our break they told me you would ruin our chances, and as always they knew what they were talking about" Camila mused with a soft tone.
"Oh shut up hippo hips" Ian glared "I don't need you complaining to me right now"
"Hippo hips?" Camila scoffed with an amused smirk "You sure know how to charm a woman don't you?"
"Can we not argue?" Liz stepped in with a small frown "we don't even know if we've lost"
"That's right!" Topher stepped forward as a large screen appeared in front of them. "You don't know if you lost. But you did" Topher smirked before turning the screen on to show an ariel view of the plazas. While the Ferrets and the Plumbers had small amounts of blobs splintered around, the Raccoons had the large goo monster and a wave of blobs with a small Bobby symbol on top of them.
"So yea, Raccoons are our first big losers and will have to decide amongst themselves who they felt screwed up the most. Might be hard when all of you stopped trying halfway through the challenge" the host mocked.
The team sighed angrily in defeat. The other teams however looked pretty happy for themselves.
"Hey, how'd you get trash all over you?" Walter whispered to his ballerina teammate before everyone started to disperse.
She glanced away from him and towards Thomas before clearing her throat "Oh, uh, I just got lost and tripped into a pile of trash. That's all"
Walter frowned slightly, especially looking over at a grinning Tomas, but chose to let her go and not argue over this.
"Now, you can all go ahead and discuss how things should go" Topher grinned "At the top of your dormitory will be the Plumbers, at the second level we have the Ferrets, and then Raccoons, I don't think I have to explain where you are"
All the Raccoons just sighed even more. With the sighing Bobby finally woke up after sleeping through the whole challenge "Oh, did we win?" He yawned slightly.
His teammates looked at him but didn't say anything since he managed to move all the goo away thanks to his sleeping.
"We did yep!" Tess smiled as she extended her hand towards him, which he happily high-fived back.
After their small celebration, the contestants started making their way back to their dormitories, however, Maxine had her arms crossed.
"Am I not going to be praised for my ingenious scheme that made the Raccoons lose!?" she angrily asked, which immediately got all of the Raccoons to angrily look at her.
"You did amazing Maxy," Marty says, picking her up and putting her onto his shoulders. "Couldn't have done it better myself"
Maxine couldn't help blushing a little as she smirked "I suppose your adoration will suffice for now. But if the rest of you don't learn swiftly you will feel the full might of my EVILLL" she cackled maniacally as the rest of her team mostly just ignored her.
"where were you?" Mitzy whispered skeptically to Mitch.
Mitch just shrugged "Doing the challenge?"
"Guessing you didn't hear the large stomps on the ground then?"
The horror enthusiast just shrugged again "If you want to run headfirst towards a giant monster be my guest. I kind of prefer not dying"
"No one was going to die" Mitzy frowned at him "Are you really that paranoid?"
"Call it realism and I'll say yes. That's also why I'm going to be sleeping far away from the rest of you" while they went in he just started walking to a different building.
Up in their third classroom, they could see it looked totally unkempt. Vinnie smiled as she sat down in her seat, just enjoying the fact that she can bounce up and down on it. Ian meanwhile just sat back and enjoyed the bedding.
"Bruh, that went so bad" Antoinette sighed miserably, avoiding sitting on her bed.
"It wasn't that bad" Matt shrugged as he laid down on his bed. However, as he rested a swarm of cockroaches crawled out of the bed. "Don't tell me what that was" the blind boy murmured with a small frown as they crawl around him.
"I mean, we lost because of some girl in a gray cloak. Which is, like, totally out of style. That's a true bruh moment" Antoinette disagreed.
"I think we did pretty well" Vinnie smiled "And momma always said you can't change what's already done"
"That's a good point Vinnie" the team mom smiled "But we still have to eliminate someone. So, as the team leader, I must ask. is there… anyone who wants to say something about who should go?" Liz murmured nervously. "It's good to get everything out so we can at least try making arguments"
"No way am I giving away who I'm voting for" Mimos deadpanned while spraying his bed with pesticide.
"Yea, if I say I'm voting for one of our many losers they're just going to vote for me" Ian smirked "Plus being unpredictable is more fun"
Camila chuckled "I did not expect a consensus on this anyhow. Though I already know who will be going home. So I wish that person in particular good luck"
"Oh, who's that?" Ian crossed his arms skeptically.
"If I were to share that might change the vote. And I wouldn't give out a free prediction when no one on this team has what it takes to be given a deal"
Liz lowered her head slightly.
"Let's not argue until someone goes home" Mimos stepped in "There'll be plenty of time for this then I can guarantee that much"
Confessional: Bailey
She was quietly shivering as she looked down in the confessional "L-L-Lost the first challenge. I-I hope they don't choose to vote for me. I-I mean, I'm small, weak, a-a-and constantly cold. E-Even though they didn't mention me I-I'm a little scared they were j-just trying to be nice"
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The group of contestants made it back to the elimination location Topher had shown off prior that day. The Ferrets were all sitting together on different chairs. Topher smiled down at the group with a smirk.
"So, losing first and finding yourselves in quite the comfy homes. How are you all feeling?" He looked over them all, getting mostly unamused responses.
"Tough crowd, tough crowd. Well, either way, you can all go cast your votes. But, when you vote, remember that whoever goes home will be gone and will never return. Forever"
"Wonder how much longer forever will last under this guy" Ian murmured sarcastically.
"Just go vote" Topher sighed in annoyance.
Confessional: Mimos
He tapped her chin "It's kinda hard to say who contributed the least if I'm honest… but I think the contestant I can work the least with would be Matt. Ian and I are on the same wavelength, those three girls who dicked around all challenges are likely to be easily manipulated, and Camila would be an easy out with how much she's constantly fighting with Ian. So yea, I think I've got a safe bet here"
Confessional: Ian
Ian just looked at the camera before repeatedly stamping Camila's photo "Not a shocking vote but it's a fair one"
Confessional: Matt
"So, out of the team a lot of them are annoying in their own way, but from what I've gathered one of the contestants is literally in a bear costume. So I don't feel too bad voting for her. I don't even know why someone would go and compete like that" Matt had a picture of all the contestants on his desk while just kind of stamping wherever he could "I think I got her at least"
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All of the contestants were brought back together and sat down. Topher brought the votes up to his face "Well then, how about we get right to the voting then?"
None of the contestants say anything to him as he simply tapped his papers "Well then. To start congratulations Bailey and Liz you're both safe"
Bailey smiled softly as she caught her marshmallow, while Liz just caught hers in her mouth with a small smirk.
"Antoinette, you're also safe, so you go gorl!" He threw the marshmallow at her, which she caught with one hand in a confident pose before eating it.
"And for your team's men, Mimos and Ian are both safe" Ian raised his hand to try snatching his marshmallow from the air but missed as it simply bounced off his forehead. Mimos raised his hand like him before it bounced off his head just like Ian's.
"Well then, that leaves us with our last few contestants who have received at least one vote" Topher spoke slowly as he looked over the last three. Camila simply leaned back, very relaxed and confident. Vinnie was sitting down, twiddling with her paws. It was hard to really tell what she was even thinking as she softly hummed a little tune. Then there was Matt, who just looked annoyed being in the bottom three.
"Camila. You're also safe. You get to scam another day" the host tossed a marshmallow at her, which she caught with her eyes shut.
"Your definition of 'scam' must be rather loose good sir" Camila murmured while eating her well-deserved marshmallow.
"Yea, yea whatever. Now, Vinnie. Your whole costume thing is kinda weird, and let's be honest, there's not a whole lot a girl in a bear suit can do that someone else can't do. Meanwhile, Matt, you're kinda in here for the same reason as her. You're blind, and in a competition like this, not being able to see is a serious disadvantage"
"Being blind shouldn't be the main reason to vote someone out" he murmured angrily.
"In this game, it might as well be. It's why Chris never accepted a handicapped contestant. It gets kinda sad after a while. But enough about how much more progressive I am, let's get down to brass text. One of you is going home tonight and will never return. And that contestant will be…"
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"Matt. Sorry man but you're out" Behind Topher three screens lit up and rolled through the team members' faces before landing all three on Matt.
The host threw Vinnie her marshmallow, which she happily raised to her bear face "I would've preferred honey but thanks!"
"What!?" Matt stood up angrily "why would you guys eliminate me!?"
"Sorry man" Mimos was the only one to speak up "but considering a chunk of the season is in VR and you can't see it'd be kind of hard to really work around you"
"You guys didn't even give me a chance I could've done so much for the team!" Matt quickly countered, he was pretty pissed.
No one else said anything to him. They either didn't want him exploding at them or just accepted they voted how they did.
"Whatever. Can you just send me home already?" Matt turned towards where Topher was.
"Sure thing bud. You've earned it" the host smiled before pulling a lever to have a green tube come out from the ceiling. Matt didn't see it coming as it quickly sucked him upwards. He screamed in surprise before that quickly became pain as he slammed into multiple hard turns in the pipe.
"Well, the rest of you are safe. For tonight. So I'd recommend getting some sleep. Because in our next challenge, things are only going to be harder for some of you."
The ferrets frowned softly before getting up to leave. However, as they were halfway through Topher called to them "Oh, and expect the heater to be removed for voting off our representation contestant so early!"
Bailey whimpered softly as they left the room. As the team walked out of the elimination ceremony, they could hear loud music going on from the top of their dormitory. The Ferrets lowered their head, either being ashamed or annoyed as they just silently went to their crummy run-down room.
Mimos was however the last one of the contestants to get to the building as he stared up to their party "They think they're so great don't they?" He murmured while clutching his fists. "All of them are just so talented. Well, let's see how talented they are when I start getting to work" he glared slightly at the camera before quietly walking inside.
Topher was sitting back in a room he didn't show off to the others. He was eating some popcorn while watching Mimos "Huh, here I was thinking that guy was just gonna be a weirdo. Now he's the best kind of weirdo, an evil one" he chuckled softly.
He turned around to look at Nelly "did you want any snacks? I got a bunch in the pantry"
Nelly turned around to face him, she had her face stuffed and some red stuff around her lips "No thanks. I got some jelly donuts on the way"
Topher sighed "Ah what? You got donuts without me!? Ok, you lose your payment for today's work"
Nelly glared slightly at him as she pulled out a scalpel. Topher started sweating slightly "Ok, you only get cut half of your pay"
Nelly didn't look remotely appreciative of that deal but nodded slowly. Topher sighed softly in relief before wiping his brow.
"Well, uh, anyways… that was our contestants' first challenge. And as we saw, most of the teams had their dead weight, with Matt being the first of that dead weight to go. But who will go next time? Will Mimos follow up on his threat? And will I get tried for crimes against humanity for my cohost? Find out next time on Total Drama Arcade!"
AN: And so we finished our full intro to Arcade. Some players still haven't gotten too much in the way of screen time but I'm hoping in these next two chapters to potentially solve any further issues on people not having much of note. I also have to thank Matt for sending Matt, I legitimately did love the guy and he was really fun to write but as stated I don't think he would have worked too well with how there are some challenges that are VR. But if I do another season with this cast I would definitely try giving him a much more fair shake.
Order: 24th- Matt
