Topher was sitting back in a seat, just quietly relaxing as he munched on some donuts he found "stupid cohost couldn't even buy these for me…"

He looked at the camera "Not much to say about our last competition, the contestants were forced on cleanup duty, with some people taking to the cleaning better than others"

The camera showed Antoinette, Vinnie, and Bailey having some fun as they doused the blobs, while also showing Veronica and Ellis. They were seriously disgusted by the blobs simply touching them.

"But in the end, thanks to Bobby: the king of blobs and Maxine: queen of terrible plans, the Raccoons were sent to the first elimination ceremony where they said bon voyage to their token blind boy"

It then showed Matt slamming into all the sides of the pipes, yelling in pain.

"But enough about that dweeb, we got today's challenge to look forward to! And believe me, this one is going to be painful!" So stay tuned for 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, Michael and Mimos were 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, as he walked he 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

Up at the top of the dormitory, the Plumbers were all kicking back and relaxing. Their beds were clearly nicer than the Raccoons and their room had a butler walking in and out giving the contestants things they wanted. In one corner Therion and Charlotte had already set their games up and attached to one of the TVs to play as they did on the boat. And like on the boat Charlotte was kind of kicking Therion's ass in each and every game they played.

"I don't know why I keep trying to beat you" He quietly joked.

"I'm sure if you keep trying you'll get somewhere" Charlotte chuckled and shrugged.

"I could try playing one of your games" they hear a voice near them speak up. They both turn to see Jaz lying on one of the beds. She was snapping pictures of herself in different poses to try looking extra cute in her maid outfit.

"I didn't know you were the type to play games" Charlotte held up a controller for her.

"Oh, I'm not" Jaz rolled over to grab the remote "I just assume being a professional gamer is just the easiest way to make it big"

Charlotte frowned at her "what do you mean by easy?"

"Well, you're just touching buttons on your controller" the maid cosplayer shrugged "can't be that hard. Especially when all those greasy guys simp over you for being a girl while playing"

"That part's not too far off" Therion joked, before quieting himself at Charlotte's annoyed look.

"Let's just play the game, then you'll see" the gamer girl challenged.

"Sure, game on" she smirked back at her.

On the other side of the room, Colmillo was bouncing up and down on one of the beds with her arms up in an offensive stance. She was smirking confidently at Marty, who was bouncing on the bed next to her.

"So we're just gonna wrestle?" Marty grinned excitedly.

"Yep, the only rule is no biting" Colmillo nodded as she cracked her knuckles.

"I wouldn't mind removing that rule" Marty grinned "Maybe just avoid kicking or punching too hard"

Colmillo stopped bouncing as high on her bed "Where's the fun then?"

"Ok, ok" the Photographer smiled softly "How about you try out something like a pile driver on me?"

She smirked back at him "Ok, I think I can get behind that" the Luchadora grabbed him suddenly and moved his head closer to her crotch as she jumped into the air and slammed him headfirst into the bed.

Marty groaned softly in pain, before opening his eyes to her crotch and smiling softly to himself. However, before he could enjoy the whole scene Colmillo pulled him into a headlock and then slammed her elbow into his back to really leave a mark.

While Marty was, well, probably enjoying himself Mitzy was sitting on one of the beds while writing down in her notebook. She was back to listening to Maxine's evil plans.

"And thus this next challenge I will simply interfere with all their headsets and win us an automatic victory!" Maxine stated confidently, though her speech stopped slightly watching Colmillo beat up a mostly happy Marty.

"Say art minion, maybe we should form an alliance!" Maxine smirked slightly "with you, me, and Marty we would almost immediately dominate this team!"

Mitzy frowned slightly "I don't know, it might be a little too early to form an alliance or anything. It might put a target on our backs"

"Nonsense, it just means we're more safe!" Maxine smirked.

Mitzy finally relented and shrugged "Fine, sure, we can do an alliance thing just don't make it public will you?"

Maxine just smiled confidently about getting her to give in "Excellent! However, I give no promises to that last part. People must know where they are on this team's pecking order!"

Mitzy just pulled up a book to focus on that over whatever Maxine's thing was. However, that didn't stop the villainess from continuing to discuss her malicious plans for their next challenge. However, she would be interrupted by Charlotte groaning loudly in defeat.

"This game kinda sucks" Jazmine murmured while slouching off the side of her bed.

Confessional: Charlotte

"I don't think I care too much for Jazmine. I mean, Colmillo is probably a bigger handful and Maxine's whole evil thing is a pain too… ok, maybe Jazmine isn't that much of a pain but I'm still not into someone disrespecting my craft"

XXX

Confessional: Jaz

The cosplayer was smiling softly to herself while playing on a handheld device. She smirked slightly as it started saying "high score" over and over again.

XXX

Things weren't nearly as nice as on the top floor on the second floor, but it was still pretty nice. About on the level of a standard hotel with soft beds that were cleaned up and a mint simply resting on all of their pillows after waking up. The Ferrets didn't seem to mind it just being average, however. Or, rather, most of them didn't anyways.

"Ugh, I can't believe how hard these beds are" Veronica wined while covering her head with a pillow.

"They were pretty comfy to me" Tess smiled softly while bouncing up and down slowly on hers.

"Yea, I can't complain. Especially sitting next to this guy" Ellis joked slightly while pointing back at Micahel.

"Don't flirt with me" the origami king murmured while rolling over and petting his small origami pet.

"Right, sorry" Ellis chuckled awkwardly.

Thomas yawned happily as he stretched "Oh, what a good night of sleep" he looked around with an innocent smile "Wait a second, did Dylan ditch us?"

Tess frowned as she got up and moved to the bed next to hers, which had been Dylan's. When she pulled the sheets she found that the lumps in the bed were just pillows.

"How did she sneak out without anyone noticing?" Walter asked as he got up, getting a bit worried about her now.

"You guys didn't hear it?" Michael turned to look at the others "She woke me up last night screaming 'help me, help me!' did you guys sleep through that whole thing?"

"And you just ignored it?" Walter frowned at him.

The origami king just shrugged a little "I tried waking up Bobby but after that incident, I wasn't going to bother"

"Incident?" Ellis sat up to look at him.

Michael just pointed past his bed and towards the door. They could see the door was lying on the ground with Michael's face imprinted on it.

"Ohh that's rough" Tess murmured.

"We need to find where Bobby and Dylan are pronto!" Walter stood tall.

"Well, I think I know where Dylan went" Thomas pointed towards a broken part of the window with some towels and blankets tied together. Walter looked through the broken window to see Dylan snoring from a few levels below them with the towel tied around her leg.

"Wha- how did that happen?" Ellis frowned while looking down with him.

"Ok, we just need to slowly drag her up slowly" Walter warned while quietly grabbing the top of the rope to slowly pull her up. However, as he started pulling her up the rope snapped, causing her to fall down hard on the ground.

The team looked out the window before awkwardly whistling as they started walking away.

Confessional: Walter

"I know one of the people on my team is a villain, I just know it. Unless Dylan is, like, a sleepwalker or something like that. Actually… maybe that's possible…" he tapped his chin "I just don't know who would do this"

XXX

Confessional: Thomas

The guy just smiled at the camera before pulling out a fake mustache to twirl it with his finger as his smile became more of a smug smirk

XXX

Finally, in the crummy housing, the Raccoons were all pretty upset about having lost and having to sleep in what was about as comfy as sleeping in sleeping bags on the floor.

Camila was rolling around in her bed while groaning softly. "I didn't sleep a wink last night…" she moaned softly as she slowly sat up. Most of the others didn't look much better sleep-wise, however, Camila's hair was up in a mess and her eyes had some bags under them.

"You're looking great today sunshine" Ian smirked as he stretched his arms. He looked pretty relaxed and not even that tired.

Camila glared at him before pulling out a small mirror. Her eyes widened in shock before standing up and quickly walking towards the bathroom "No one disturb me for an hour. My powers simply do not work when my consciousness is somewhere else entirely. I'm sure you all understand that much"

"Yea, make sure to not disturb us while we're cleaning up" Liz got up and warned the others as she tried following Camila into the bathroom, however, the clairvoyant slammed the door in her face.

"Oh, right, I can just go after you" Liz smiled like that didn't bother her.

"I get that you're into her and all but you really need to try going for someone else" Mimos mused while sitting up in his bed.

"When you find a girl as smoking as her we'll talk" she smirked slightly, before looking at Bailey and Vinnie "Oh but no offense to you two. I'd totally lay you two down. Or at least, probably would in your case Vinnie"

"Lay me down?" Vinnie tilted her bear head "Like for a nap? We just got up"

Liz smiled at Vinnie "it's good to make sure you get all the sleep you need Vinnie. If we don't have a challenge today I'm going to expect all of us to take a nap so we can catch up on our sleeping schedule"

"Right, let's pretend that's what you meant" Ian deadpanned before getting up "I'm not waiting for the chubby one to finish doing her makeup, I'm gonna just shower in the ocean"

"Oh, we should go swim in the ocean today!" Vinnie cheered while grabbing Bailey.

The frozen girl whimpered nervously "I-I-I don't think we should do that-" however Vinnie didn't seem to mind her words as she got up and started following behind Ian.

"You two better stay away from me while I'm bathing" Ian angrily warned the two of them.

"Right, yea of course!" Vinnie smiled. While they were discussing their beach vacation they could hear the shower curtain in the bathroom open, before suddenly hearing Camila scream in fright.

"Camila, are you ok?" Liz leaned against the door, to hear what was going on in there before the door suddenly slammed open, hitting Ian's foot hard enough to make him yelp in pain.

"Ah, damn it!" Ian yelled as Camila backed out of the restroom with a towel covering her body.

Liz grinned slightly "what's wrong? Did you need a buddy to help you shower?"

Camila ignored her comment and pointed in there "A homeless man snuck into our bathroom and is sleeping in our tub!"

"You mean another one got in after Ian?" Mimos joked.

"Very funny" Ian glared before walking into the bathroom and towards the tub. He moved the curtains fast, only to find Bobby was sleeping in their tub with chip bags on his belly.

Ian sighed in annoyance "It's just that other guy, Bobby I think"

"Somehow that sounds worse than a homeless guy" Bailey murmured while holding onto the bathroom door so Vinnie couldn't take them both to the beach.

Ian just grabbed the slob and pulled him over his shoulder "your bathroom is clean now" he taunted Camila before walking out with him.

Camila rolled her eyes at him "I'm going to have to clean that tub for an hour before I could even put my feet in it" she started walking into the restroom.

"I'm sure with some elbow grease the two of us could clean that up and then dirty it up again" Liz grinned as she tried following behind her, before she slammed the door shut again, resulting in Bailey letting go and getting dragged away.

Confessional: Camila

"Elizabeth seems to really be giddy at the idea of our souls interlinking, however…" she pulled out a crystal ball and placed it on her lap before closing her eyes while caressing it. "Yes… yes. As I suspected. There's not a chance in any reality of us getting together. Who would have guessed"

XXX

After all of the contestants were up and ready, they all made their way to the breakfast place. A few of them were slowly moving along in the line. Dylan was the last one in line with Marty as they walked up to the food counter. Most of the food on the counter was Asian-themed food, mostly Korean.

Behind the counter was a man who was serving the food, though he didn't look too into feeding the contestants. The man was a very skinny to an unhealthy degree. He had very pale skin and his black hair was up in a bowl cut. He was wearing a blue, old-style 1950's American hat, a blue, button-up coat, some blue jeans, and grey slip-on shoes.

"You stupid Americans don't even deserve to be eating food such as this" he grumbled in annoyance.

"American?" Marty raised his eyebrow at him "You know this show is Canadian right?"

"Maple Leaf eaters, snow eaters, same difference!" He got angry enough to start threatening him with a spatula.

Marty and Dylan looked at each other for a moment before looking back at him. "So… uh, what's your name I don't think Topher told us about you" the ballerina worried slightly.

"I'm Insignificant" He states plainly.

"Oh come on you don't have to say that about yourself" Marty joked, waiting for him to tell them his name.

However, the man didn't seem amused by him as he crossed his arm.

"Right… thanks for the food dude" Dylan smiled softly before grabbing her food and pushing ahead with Marty.

All of the contestants sat in their team groups for breakfast, however, all of the Ferrets were sitting away from Bobby so they could actually breathe fresh air. Even Mitch was there, walking in and sitting away from the rest of his team.

"Nice to have you back" Charlotte stated plainly.

"Who is he again?" Jaz genuinely asked while pushing her slop away from herself.

"My name is something none of you have to worry about" the horror fan crossed his arms "I don't want any of you getting all buddy-buddy with me or else I'm going to get stuck helping you and costing myself a limb"

"Well, at least we don't have to worry about who we vote out first" Marty whispered jokingly to Maxine, who snickered in amusement.

"Morning gamers! How did you all sleep?" Topher smiled as he walked inside.

The Raccoons glared at him but the others just shrugged or murmured something positive.

"Great!" He smiled "because we've got ourselves a challenge today and I need you all at the VR room pronto!"

"I've been looking forward to the inevitable VR game" Charlotte grinned.

Therion nodded "I hope this stuff is more up to date, I hear some VR headsets give you headaches if you wear them too long"

"I'll guess that's the least of our concern" Mitzy joked.

The contestants followed Topher back to the virtual reality room as they all slowly got into their machines "and be careful not to drip any liquids or there's a… 40-60 chances you won't be allowed out of the games!"

"Wait what?" Maxine asked nervously. But instead of getting a reaction, they all find themselves in a new world.

All of them looked around, seeing they all looked about the same in this world. "This is pretty cool" Ellis turned his body to look at himself.

"That it is!" Topher grinned as he started floating above them all on a small platform. The host was a lot buffer than he actually was, while to his side Nelly was just a small trollish creature.

"Is your appearance the only reason you made this season part VR?" Ian deadpanned.

"Yep! But that part isn't so important right now. What is important is today's challenge!" No one says anything in response. "Oh come on, are none of you even going to guess?"

Veronica rolled her eyes "I don't think most of the people here play games"

"Yea, there's only two dweebs around here that are into those" Colmillo grabbed Charlotte and Therion, holding them up by their collars.

"Fine, whatever. If you all kept up with the popular trends you would have heard of this game. It was the biggest game after Fortnite and before Among Us"

They just remained quiet, except for Therion who softly hummed the Among Us theme.

"Right, whatever" he sighed in annoyance "We're in Fly Guys today!" Mimos yawned in response to his declaration.

"And for that Mimos, your team is getting a disadvantage" He smirked before tying his arm with Vinnie's.

"Oh, does it have to be here?" The mimicker worried.

"Yep!" he smiled before turning to the others "Anywho, the challenge. In the game Fly Guys, you play large fat beans that have to jump around platforms or fall to your doom. And so, that's what you'll be doing" he grinned. Before anyone could ask a question a stage suddenly appeared before them all. It looked pretty standard like a wipeout game with an incline coated in slime.

"Oh, a race!" Colmillo smirked while rubbing her hands together.

"Yep, a simple, fun, wholesome race for your first leg of the competition. But of course, you're not just gonna be running around" Topher started flying up "Only a handful of your contestants will be able to pass each leg of the race. And for the first team to fully drop out, will be eliminating someone tonight. First-round six of you will be forced to drop out so get ready!"

Many of the contestants started getting worried about this. Specifically, the Ferrets, who were all looking at Bobby who was just smiling to himself.

"No questions? Good! You may all begin….." Nelly shoots into the air "Go!"


The contestants looked at each other for a moment, before they started walking toward the ledge. They could look down to see a pit with pink slime coating the ground. However, luckily there were some small thin platforms forward that just looked like inflated bumpers.

"Ugh, I am not touching any of that" Veronica frowned at the slime.

"I think I might be with beautiful here, that stuff looks kinda… sticky" Ellis murmured while also looking over

"Come on you two, the goo can't be that bad" Walter smiled at them "in this challenge we need as many people as possible to pass!"

Thomas shrugged "we'd probably be fine without them"

"I… don't know if I'd say that" Tess stepped in innocently "I mean, no offense to you two or Bobby but if all three of you drop out of this challenge we're in serious trouble"

"Right… I might have to take one for the team here" Ellis looked at Veronica "You don't have to worry about getting your looks all messed up, that'd be worse than losing" he smiled softly towards her.

"Let's slow down the flirting casanova" Thomas started walking forward, just ignoring the fact Dylan was there as he started walking. Soon after Tess, Walter, and Dylan followed behind him, walking in a slow line behind each other.

Behind Ellis was slowly following behind as every other contestant was already making progress getting past. Bobby slowly realized what the challenge was as he started following behind the pretty boy. However he was walking a bit too fast for Ellis, basically walking right behind him.

"Slow down man" Ellis looked back nervously "I don't want to get my hair all messed up" he worried.

When he looked around he could see that Bobby just kind of ignored him as he kept walking forward. Ellis tried to push him back to give himself some space, but instead of pushing Bobby back they both just fell down to the goo below.

Ellis groaned while lying face first in the goo. He tried to pull himself up, but as he did so Bobby landed hard on his back, pushing him back into the goo.

Confessional: Ellis

Ellis was trying to keep his cool with a disgusted expression. "I know the games are fake and all, but I still totally felt the goo in my hair. Just as much as feeling Bobby's gross ooze pooling onto my back. The feeling is honestly almost as bad as knowing he was on me…" he shuddered a little.

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While he was having trouble, the Plumbers were taking a pretty quick lead, with Colmillo sprinting ahead of everyone else. Though Jazmine was slowly crawling on the inflated platforms to not fall off and into the goo.

"We're taking a good lead" Charlotte grinned before turning back to Jaz "Do you need help getting across?"

She just shrugged "I'll get there eventually"

Charlotte shook her head "this game is a team activity so I'm coming to get you" she started going back "the rest of you guys can move on" she tells the others, who were already gone except for Therion.

"Sure thing" he nods before following the others.

Charlotte was a bit annoyed by them all having left before she finished but she turned around to Jaz and grabbed her by the arm, though she just tried moving her arm away from her.

"Don't mess with my balance, if I fall all people will see me for is getting covered in ooze"

Charlotte just rolled her eyes before grabbing her and hoisting her over her shoulder "let's just get going"

"Woah, you're way stronger than you look" Jaz admitted.

"I'm just used to carrying dead weight" she teased before chasing after the others.

In this second leg of the race, there were a few spinning beams that looked about as thick as Colmillo's leg. Which is indeed thick.

"Oh, I know what this one is like" Therion stepped forward as the spinning beam started going around. While Colmillo simply ran past he curled up into a small ball.

While some people looked at him weird the beam slammed into his back, sending him flying above and past Colmillo.

"Hey get back here!" the wrestler yelled before immediately chasing after him.

Maxine saw his attempt and immediately smirked "Oh, I was just about to do that myself!" The villainess grinned before following the exact same thing, however, due to her being much smaller she almost immediately went flying high into the sky and off into the pit.

"Maxine!" Marty yelled in surprise before looking over the side. When looking down he couldn't see her "Ah man, I knew I should have stopped her" he slapped his forehead.

"Well, now you can go look with her" Ian mocked while walking over and shoving him down into the pit.

"Later dude!" the thief mockingly waved down to him before walking after all of the others.

Confessional: Marty

"Man, if that Ian guy wasn't a stud in his own right I'd be pretty upset about that one" Marty grumbled crossing his arms "But besides that, I think Max is a bit too willing to just go face first into any challenge she can get to. It's nice and all to see, but at this rate, I'm a bit worried she's going to get herself killed by the time we get to the merge" Marty stopped to think "I just don't really have any ideas on how to stop her 'creative' ideas"

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Since most of the teams had made their way through the final stretch was fully in sight. It was a simple incline, however, the twist was that the incline was covered in goo and had moving beams going left to right.

Therion was already a good way ahead, climbing up by just holding onto the sides of the incline. Colmillo however was just going straight for the top, pushing right past the beams as she slowly started catching up to Therion.

"Ugh, this is going to be such a long challenge" Antoinette groaned weakly as she just sat down.

"Don't rest now maggot we have to win this challenge!" The mimicker quickly turned into a hardass as he looked at the gal.

"Like, since when were you the bossy type?" She just raised an eyebrow at him from the ground.

"I'm not the bossy type I'm the winning type. So get moving!"

Antoinette looked slightly annoyed but didn't say anything as she just kept sitting. However, Liz, Camila, Vinnie, and Bailey were all starting to make their way up noticing that Charlotte and Jaz had made their way back to their teams and were making their way up.

"Get up" he threatened.

"OMG, I came here to like, not get yelled at all the time. When you change that tone we can totes talk"

While their talking was going nowhere fast, the first people were making their way to the top of the incline. With that first winner being Therion.

"Alright, that went better than I expected" he smiled.

However, he didn't get to enjoy this small moment as his wrestler teammate came up, leaving a trail of destroyed beams.

"Hey, nice lead for us so far amirite?" Therion smiled as he raised his hand towards her for a high-five.

Colmillo just glared at him before high-fiving him. However, she quickly grabbed his hand and started bending it.

"You think you can just beat me in a challenge and get away with it tonto?" She glared down at him.

"I was just trying to help us win" he murmured, before slowly pushing her arm back until they were basically just holding hands at that point "Sorry for trying to be encouraging" he didn't sound annoyed by her threatening him or even upset. Just pretty plain.

Confessional: Colmillo

"That little nerd really thinks he can one-up me in a physical challenge!" She was so upset she knocked a dent into one of the walls of the confessional "Let's see how he handles the next few parts of this challenge" she smirked confidently.

XXX

After them, more and more of the three teams started trickling in as Mimos kept trying to motivate Antoinette to get up in his mean bossy way.

"Are those two still at it?" Camila glared while looking down the incline. She could see Jaz was slowly making her way to the top while they were at the bottom "Pardon me teammates but you're falling behind rather fast!"

The two of them looked up to see Jaz trying her hardest to not trip and get covered in goo. Which seemed to be more of her goal than actually making it.

"This is what happens when you don't listen to me sass for brains" Mimos groaned before turning to start running.

"This was totes your fault!" Antoinette quickly countered before she started climbing after him. Both of them had some trouble not slipping up the climb, but Mimos managed to get a lead on her.

One of the moving objects slowly moved around to get in the way of Antoinette, but Mimos used it to push himself up ahead. Managed to get to the finish line at the same time Jazmine managed it.

Mimos sighed in relief "I knew I could make it"

Antoinette just glared up at him as suddenly she disappeared into a white light.

"Well well looks like we got our group for the second section! And to remind you all of your losses, the Ferrets lost Bobby, Veronica, and Ellis. The Raccoons lost their MVP, Antoinette. And then the Plumbers lost Maxine and Marty. It'll suck to be them when you get voting!" Topher announced "And sweet moves eliminating one of your teammates Mimos old boy. That was tight!"

"Don't say it like that please" Bailey murmured with a hint of green to her usually pale skin.

"And thanks for the reminder of what we were all seeing" Ian rolled his eyes.

"Whatever." Topher sighed "I shouldn't be hip. Ever" he rolled his eyes as the scene changed to a new area. They were now in what looked like a simple green cube in the sky. There were parts of the ground that were parts of the land that stuck out from the ground and had spinning surfaces, while other parts were small tunnels in the ground. Some slopes also lead up to the top spinning parts.

"For this challenge half of you will be what would be called infected" Topher snapped his fingers, causing half of the contestants to suddenly have a purple aura around them. Colmillo, Mimos, Charlotte, Walter, Michael, Dylan, Tess, and Camila were the infected. Leaving Thomas, Mitch, Therion, Jaz, Vinnie, Bailey, Ian, Mitzy, and Liz as the uninfected.

"In this game, you're effectively playing tag. All those who remain with the purple cloud at the end of the round are automatically eliminated. So you definitely don't want to be infected for long!"

And with that, Topher flew above them as a timer of 4 minutes appeared around the map. All of the infected turned towards the non-infected with predatory intent. All of them looked worried, with Mitch being the first one to start running away.

"I didn't say go yet!" Topher yelled as some people started chasing others. "Ah whatever, just go ahead!" The timers started going down.

Therion was the first one to climb up a slope and onto one of the spinning parts. He looked down to see most of the others were just running around in random directions but didn't see any of the infected coming his way.

However, he could hear someone climbing up a slope. He looked back to see Colmillo, making him relax slightly "Oh, it's just you"

just you Colmillo. Find anyone who you can give that infection off to?"

Instead of getting a response, the wrestler cracked her knuckles with a mischievous smirk.

"Of course" he murmured with a small sigh as he stood up "I don't suppose you'll leave a teammate alone because we're supposed to work together?"

"It ain't looking that way" she smirked before lunging towards him.

Meanwhile, Jazmine was just lying on the ground texting to someone with a small smirk. Walter was quick to notice her simply lying on the ground "excuse me Jaz, and I do sincerely apologize but would you be ok if I gave you my jinx?"

She just silently looked up at him "I'd rather not"

"Oh, sorry for asking then" Walter smiled before he started walking away.

Mimos watched Walter innocently walking away from an easy catch and shrugged. Not like he was going to let up on an easy catch. He slowly snuck his way towards her, moving closer from behind.

When he was close enough he reached to grab her, however, when his hand got close she raised the back of her phone close to his face. a sudden bright flash blinded him as he recoiled backward.

He groaned softly while rubbing his eyes. When he got his vision back he couldn't tell where Jaz went.

Confessional: Mimos

He was still rubbing his eyes a bit "that really stung. Like, even after the game was over I think I can still feel my retinas on fire" he murmured, "I don't know why I assumed the VR challenges would be easier on the body…"

XXX

At this point, everyone was frantically running around either trying to get away from someone else or just hiding. Mitch was one of the contestants who was just hiding, as he sat in the trails in the ground by hiding in a secret spot inside the ground he had found.

"Of course, the host wouldn't tell us about a hidden part of the ground" he murmured in annoyance. Though he was honestly more than fine with having a nice little hiding spot in the ground.

He leaned back, though he was far from relaxed as he kept his ears on high alert to the noises going on outside. However, his focus on the sounds outside left him completely distracted from the walls around him. Parts of the walls started turning to static, replacing the brown ground color.

Mitch jolted at the sudden change in his surroundings, standing up and looking around nervously "I-I knew it! This game is supposed to kill us isn't it!?"

The static continued to play before dangerous-looking purple eyes slowly formed in the static voids. Nothing else formed aside from those eyes, however, he could feel that the eyes were slowly moving towards him.

He started hyperventilating as he clutched his chest, backing away from the moving in walls. He turned around and tried desperately to go back out the door he had found, however, it seemed to have shut itself.

"O-oh god" he looked back to the moving in walls, only to see that the room had seemingly gone back to normal. Not even a sign anything had happened.

"Wha-what?" Mitch frowned while looking back around the room. However, behind him, someone reached through the door and grabbed him from behind.

The horror enthusiast jumped in shock, turning around to see Michael sticking his head through his hidden door "sorry, uh, guy. I heard you freaking out so I had to give it a go"

Before Mitch could respond the origami king started running away from that spot. Though Mitch didn't chase after him, just sighing and sitting down to try catching his breath.

"I shouldn't have joined this competition…"

At this point, only a handful of time was left. Tess had been stuck with her infection almost the entire round. She didn't mind so much, just treating this as a basic game of tag until she saw Ian just casually standing around next to the ledge without any infection.

"Oh, you're totally gonna get tagged!" Tess smiled before running over to him. Ian looked up from the ground and side-eyed her before just casually turning to look at her.

Tess lept forward with an excited grin as she tagged him on the shoulders "Well done. Just well done"

The artist smiled at him as she moved her hand back "You think so?"

"Oh yeah totally, fantastic work. I hope we get to go against each other in the final round"

"Ooo, ooo same!" Tess grinned "but you should get rid of that infection if you want to get to the next round."

"Don't worry about that. I've been watching her this entire round" he pointed towards Dylan who was simply hiding between two slopes.

"Oh, well she's on my team but if you say so"

Ian ignored her and rolled his eyes as he started running over to Dylan, looking like he was going to kick the ballerina like a football.

And with that, mere seconds were still left in the challenge. Liz looked around to make sure her team was still doing alright, and she could see that at least a handful was still around. But, Camila was just sitting on the ground talking to an infected Vinnie about a prediction.

"What are you two doing?" She quickly jumped towards the two of them.

"For twenty dollars Camila told me she could share her good fortunes!" Vinnie turned to the team mom and smiled.

"I gave her a good deal" the psychic smiled at her "and for your future, I can see a path towards total respect and appreciation through your own hard work"

Vinnie seemed to sit up and beam at that prediction "Does that really say it?"

She just nods with a smile "The orb practically fires out a strong wind of success"

Confessional: Liz

"I mean, while I still don't believe the whole psychic thing but if all of her predictions are making our teammates feel more confident I don't think I can mind it."

XXX

Confessional: Camila

She smiled as she held up a five and a 20. "This season couldn't be going better. And with how that bear girl is, I wouldn't be surprised if she kept coming until she's wiped out her whole banking account. Or at least her father's" she smirked.

XXX

While the three stood there, Vinnie looked at Liz before patting her on her shoulder, giving the team leader her infection as the alarm went off.

"Wha- why did you do that?" Elizabeth frowned at the bear.

"Because Camila told me we're going to succeed!" She raised her hands excitedly "We can't lose now!"

Liz just silently frowned at Camila who just shrugged while pocketing the 20.

"And that's all we'll need for most of you losers today!" Topher announced as Liz and Camila both suddenly vanish in a bright light.

Vinnie just looked back to see Topher slowly descending "let's see who we've got left for our next and final challenge"

Slowly they all trickled in. Those that were left were Colmillo, Charlotte, Jaz, Michael, Tess, Thomas, Vinnie, Ian, and Mimos.

"Looks like each team still has a shot at winning this whole thing" Topher mused. "I don't expect some of you to do so hot" he looked specifically at Michael who just rolled his eyes.

"Anyways" he clapped his hands with a small smirk "we're going on to our last section of the challenge!"

With no fanfare, they suddenly appeared on a platform high above the water. It was a simple platform above a sea of purple goo. On the sides, they had rails that go a foot above the platform to keep them from falling off the far sides.

"This one's pretty simple. Don't get knocked off before everyone on one team is gone and then you're safe" Topher was about to disappear before Vinnie raised her hand like a child in a classroom.

"Wait, I have a question!"

Topher sighed "what?"

"What's the challenge?" She tilted her head.

"I assumed we'd just be shoving each other off" Colmillo smirked at Michael who just groaned softly.

"Well, maybe if you were patient you would see what this challenge is" he grumbled before pressing a button. Suddenly, a wall of panels came up from under their platform with only one section of the platform not having an impending panel going its way. It was going slow enough so most of them made it over without much issue, however, Vinnie's large costume gave her some trouble.

"There, do we all get it now?" Topher asked while glaring at the cast.

All of the contestants nod their heads, except for Vinnie who seemed to just be spacing off. Topher glared specifically at her as Michael lightly elbowed her side, making her immediately nod her head again.

"Great…" he murmured "Let's just get through this challenge then. I wanna get to the juicy part" and with that, the host disappeared.

All of the contestants turned back towards the challenge as more boards began to come up. Like before they were all able to get through this segment rather easily. However, they were beginning to slowly speed up as the openings in the boards swapped from side to side, making the contestants have to sprint back and forth.

However, not even two swaps in Jaz just sighed and sat down "forget this" she groaned before just lying down and waiting for the inevitable board to come around and simply push her off.

Charlotte slapped her forehead.

Confessional: Charlotte

"This is the second time in one challenge she acted like a drain on this team. I like to believe everyone on this team can carry themselves, but if she keeps acting like this I will feel no pity having to cut her out" the gamer girl crossed her arms with a scowl on her face.

XXX

From there, things only continued to be getting faster as the opening suddenly formed around the middle. They all rushed towards the middle, however, Mimos and Ian smirked at each other as they ran over before tripping Michael on the ground. The quiet kid groaned as he slammed hard on the ground before getting swept off.

"Wow they're really taking this seriously" Tess mused to Thomas.

"No kidding" he chuckled "just means we have to take it seriously back"

"Wha-?" Tess tried asking before Thomas simply ran up to Colmillo to try taking out the biggest threat left in the challenge. However, the wrestler just smirked at him as she grabbed him with both arms in a tight hug, before she jumped onto her back and shot Thomas off the stage with the inertia.

"That was a good move Colmillo" Charlotte smirked while avoiding an extended part of the wall as they all got stuck in the middle.

"Trust me I know" the wrestler simply smirked as she got back up with a jump.

The walls slowly got thinner around them, effectively forcing everyone to stay as close as possible.

Confessional: Mimos

"Looking over who we have left in this competition I think Ian and I are just gonna have to go for the easy wins" Mimos sat back and shrugged slightly "I want to take out those Plumbers and all but Colmillo and Charlotte are basically their strongest players. No way I can take that on. But, I have… a genius idea" he smiled confidently to the camera.

XXX

"Woah Tess, what's that!?" Mimos pointed in a different direction.

"What!?" Tess sounded excited by his excitement as she turned around to see what he was pointing at. Mimos looked genuinely shocked to have tricked her before just pushing her into an oncoming wall, sending her careening into the sea of goo.

"One down" he smiled at Ian.

Ian smirked before turning towards Michael, however, before the thief could even do anything though the wrestler came running up to him and just picked him up by his legs and swung him around rapidly before throwing him off.

"Colmillo, why did you do that?" Charlotte quickly ran up to her partner "We're supposed to let the gameplay out and not cheat others out of it!"

The taller girl just looked at her "what's fun about that? We're already going to win!"

"Did you not notice the two other guys still in the game who are more threatening?" She frowned at the wrestler.

Colmillo smirked "that's the point" she cracked her knuckles while looking at the two Raccoons.

Ian just got in a defensive stance before Mimos cracked his kneck "let's sha-go!" He smiled confidently before running at his opponent.

Confessional: Charlotte

She just looked annoyed in her confessional seat "I can't believe how much she just doesn't want to cooperate with anyone. I just can't stand it. On my e-sport team, I expect some strong and efficient cooperation but she just refuses to work with anyone. Therion seems like the nicest guy in this competition and she just throws him around. But, at least she won't be lasting much longer."

XXX

In the distance, Topher was silently watching Colmillo fight with Mimos and Ian, who just weren't handling her nearly as well "yea… I'm getting bored with this one" he turns to Nelly "wanna wrap this up?"

She quietly nodded "watching them live is getting boring anyways"

"Don't say that when the cameras are on us" he warned before pressing another button. Suddenly a new wall appeared in front of them that had absolutely no openings. However, they were all focused on the fight to see it coming as they all got pushed off and into the water.

As they touched the goo ocean they suddenly shoot awake as the VR outfits came off.

"Who won?" Charlotte immediately asked Nelly who was just staring silently at her as she held her VR helmet.

"The Raccoons"

"What!?" Colmillo ripped her helmet off and glared at the cohost "How is that possible I took them down with me!"

"Not all of them" Topher smiled before pointing at Vinnie, who still had her VR helmet on.

"Wait, where was she?" Charlotte asked as Topher pointed above himself. There was a large tv screen to show what was happening in the VR world, and currently, Vinnie was sitting on the elevated sides of the platform while kicking her feet.

"Told you" Camila smirked slightly before nudging Liz, who just smiled and nodded. Even if it looked forced.

"You sure got that down. Can't take that away from you" Liz chuckled.

Topher turned to the Ferrets with a small smirk "I know you all saw what happened so you're all free to join me whenever you want for your elimination ceremony!"

The team sighed in annoyance and began to walk away. Topher was about to walk away with them when suddenly someone pulled on the host's shirt. He turned around with an annoyed expression to see Bailey quietly looking up at him "whatcha want freezy pop? You're safe"

"A-are you going to let Vinnie out of the game?" she points back to Vinnie who was just happily rocking back and forth.

Topher shrugged "if we force her out of the game she'll die so would be best to wait for her to be done"

"She'll die!?" Bailey looked terrified as she shook more than usual.

Topher just shrugged again "I mean probably. We haven't really tested it yet. But you people are free to use those games as long as you want so it's not my problem. Wake her up or not do whatever" he started walking away.

Bailey nervously looked between Vinnie and the rest of her team simply walking away before she silently walked towards Vinnie and sat down to make sure nothing happened while she was playing.

Confessional: Ellis

"It's really hard to stay positive. I mean, I know I was one of the first people to get out but I feel like more people caused problems" he frowned in annoyance as he held out his hand "Bobby fell on me and just didn't do anything besides that, Walter isn't really doing much, and Tess got out so easily by a trick a child would fall for. It's a really hard decision. But what I do know is that I can't let Veronica get eliminated for not participating"

XXX

While the contestants were by themselves Ellis was quick to go talking with the others. Specifically meeting up with Walter and Dylan when they were by themselves.

"So what did you need?" Dylan frowned while cautiously sitting down on one of the beds.

"I was hoping we could all talk about who we're voting" Ellis spoke cautiously while looking at both of them "I want to make sure that at the very least we aren't voting for Veronica"

"Why wouldn't we?" Walter frowned "she's always being mean and acting like she's above everything. I don't trust anyone who thinks they're too good for goo"

Dylan nodded "ignoring the weird bit about goo she does seem like she'll be a hamper in the future."

"Please guys, I promise I could get the best out of Veronica by the time we lose again. I know she has a lot of potential in her and I would hate for us to lose such an asset"

"This strategy stuff is as lame as I was expecting" Dylan murmured while rubbing her neck "but if not Veronica who do you want to go?"

"I don't know, Bobby?"

"Oh do we have to?" Dylan frowned "he's so laid back it's kinda nice to see in a game like this. Plus he doesn't smell nearly as bad as he looks"

"Such high praise" Ellis joked "but I don't care who you guys vote for. As long as you can promise not to vote Veronica"

They both eventually relented and nodded "alright sure" Walter relented.

"Great" he smiled as he got up "I'll see you two at the elimination ceremony. And I really do appreciate it"

Dylan just got up and casually walked out of the room. Ellis was about to do the same when Walter quietly grabbed him by the arm.

"Need something man?" Ellis glanced at him.

"Why do you care so much about Veronica staying? Lots of people on this team have potential so why care about hers specifically?"

Ellis looked at him before smirking slightly "I have a type" he joked.

Soon after, the whole team found themselves at the aftermath ceremony. From left to right in the back row, it was Bobby, Thomas, Ellis, and Veronica. Then, in front of them were Dylan, Michael, Tess, and Walter.

"Well well well. First elimination ceremony. Anyone scared?" Topher taunted.

"Not laughing" Michael murmured, which immediately got Thomas to laugh obnoxiously behind them.

"Thank you, Thomas. And for that you get the first marshmallow of the night" he smiled before tossing it to Thomas, who ate it with a shit-eating grin.

"I thought it was funny," Tess smiled innocently.

"Nice try Tess, but our next safe contestant is Michael. He held on long enough and it seems his teammates appreciated that"

Michael smiled softly as he caught the marshmallow. "And congrats to Dylan, Ellis, and Walter. You guys were so inoffensive you also didn't get any votes"

The three smiled as they caught their marshmallows, except for Dylan's which flew over her head. She turned around to try grabbing the marshmallow only to see Thomas had caught it and was more than happy to hand it to her.

The ballerina looked skeptical but slowly ate the marshmallow, finding nothing wrong with it.

"That leaves us with our final three" Topher pointed at them each individually "Bobby, you're generally totally disgusting and you've done absolutely nothing so far besides lie around and sleep"

Bobby didn't respond, just smiling. "Veronica, you didn't even try with this challenge quite honestly. So I can't blame them for considering you"

"They're just jealous" Veronica shrugged.

"And Tess, you basically threw the last-"

"Guilty as charged" Bobby responded with a small smile to Topher's earlier statement

Topher silently glared at him before clearing his throat "and Tess, well, you basically threw that last part of the challenge falling for Mimos like that"

Tess chuckled bashfully while rubbing the back of her neck "I was worried I was going to miss something cool"

"But luckily for two of you, only one of you is going home today. So the team will still have two nusincess!" He joked, only getting more laughter from Thomas.

"But, the one going home tonight is….

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"Tess. Sorry, but you're out"

The artist frowned slightly "ah man, already?" She looked somewhat bummed before pretty quickly getting over it "oh well, playing VR was super fun at least!"

Dylan smiled a bit at her not getting upset "I'm glad you're not too upset at us voting you out. I hope we get a nicer chance to hang out" she raised her fist up to her.

Teas just smiled back "oh yea totally! If we ever meet again it'll be totally fun!" She fist-bumped her.

"Don't be surprised if you do meet them again" Topher mused.

"What do you mean by that?" Thomas leaned forward "she's never coming back that's the rule right?"

"Why spoil the fun? All I can tell you is that Tess is going to hate what we have in store" he snickered.

Tess started looking a bit more nervous about being eliminated now "uh. Any chance I could be an intern…?"

"Alright got two of those so nope!" Topher pressed a button, so before Tess could even think of running she was sucked up a tube. "Ah, glad I could get some entertainment out of that elimination" he chuckled.

"Glad that's over with, I never cared for her" Thomas shrugged with a small smile.


After the Ferrets were done with their elimination ceremony they all went back to their hotel rooms, however, this time they were forced to use the lowest class rooms.

Almost all of the contestants were in their rooms to rest and relax except for two. Back in the VR room, Vinnie was still standing around with her headset still on after it had gotten dark outside. But eventually, she pulled her set off her head.

She could see that everyone else was more or less gone and she was left in the darkroom as the VR screen turned off. "I guess I missed bedtime" she was about to walk away before almost tripping over something on the ground.

She looked down and saw Bailey wrapped up in a blanket like a cocoon. Vinnie didn't display any emotion, mostly because of the whole costume thing as she picked up Bailey in her arms and started quietly walking back to their hotel rooms.

AN: So, another chapter done and out of the way. This one was probably less exciting than the last one, at least in premise but a YTer I like played Fall Guys again recently for some reason and it reminded me that it existed. So I gave it a try. Admittedly don't know how it worked out in the end, might have been too early for a challenge like this but oh well. Thank you Dan for giving me Tess, I honestly really like her in general. I just had other characters I wanted to focus on. Though, I have to admit part of it was memeing with having her go first in RR only to be the second out in this season lol.

But, I wanted to try something new here with something I remember from an old syoc that was my first submitted to. And with that, I'm gonna try little responses to reviews. Which is only partly a way to get to 10k.


Clyde: I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter and the dynamic, I think it's normal for syoc writers to say but I always enjoy working on dynamics. I'm also glad you enjoy how Mimos has been done so far, his gimmick is pretty fun. I'm also glad you joined the furry cult with Vinnie

Alex: I mentioned this one in DM already but yea, Maxine is basically a situation like Caleb where she's just child-sized but is actually close in age to everyone else competing. People just like making midgets, and I don't blame them. After Caleb, I'd want to do the same thing.

Nobody: I hope this chapter was better with showing off some people. At the very least I feel like I've gotten most of their personalities out there by now.

Gem: As always good general rundown of the chapter Gem, always nice to see your review. I'm also glad to hear you enjoyed Maxine-Marty's interaction along with Mimos in general.

Gucci: I'm glad you like how I've done Liz so far. After how much you liked Phoebi I have to make sure I live up to a standard lol.

Aya: I'm glad you enjoyed how Ellis was. And I'll take your points with Ellis into consideration. Also, so weird everyone thinks Camila is a scam artist. All she's doing is predicting events for a fair payment.

Maniacal Lady: As I've stated above I'm glad to hear you enjoy your characters so much. Bobby has been really fun to write in general even if he comes off as clear fodder. I'm also glad to see you have some favorites so far, especially good tastes with that PS.

Votes:

Tess- Michael, Bobby, Thomas, Dylan

Bobby- Veronica, Ellis

Veronica- Walter

Eliminated:

24th- Matt

23rd- Tess