Topher was standing in the VR world, with Nelly on the outside messing with the VR equipment. In the world, Topher was changing his form to try to look better physically "Oh yea, this was well worth those exec bills"
Before he turned to the camera again he became built like a mountain. He shot the camera a wink and a confident smile "Oh, hello there. I was too busy with stuff but I won't take up too much of your time"
He chuckled softly "Last time on Arcade, our teams found even more reason for why they should go for winning as they saw the first, second, and third-class bedrooms." It quickly shows the Raccoons getting absolutely no sleep at all.
"But that was hardly all of their concern" Topher smirked "Because once they were up and awake they were stuck in to a challenge that, well, frankly looks like it could have been ripped straight out of wipeout"
The scene then cuts to Ellis falling fast first into the ground coated in goo, before Bobby slammed down on top of him. Topher snickered slightly before repeating that scene over and over again.
Topher wiped away a tear "Oh, this season is worth it all!" He chuckled softer "But, with Tess leaving now, the Plumbers have a one-person lead on both teams. Will this number game give them as big of an advantage as you'd think? Can the Raccoons ever win with their dysfunction? And can Veronica actually take a challenge seriously? Find out now on Total Drama Arrrrrcade!"
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
It was early in the morning, and almost all of the contestants were sleeping soundly in their rooms based on their ranking in the last challenge. However, like before he was sleeping in his own building away from all the others. He had all the doors and windows locked tight, with an extra board nailed to the windows to be extra safe.
But the precautions didn't seem to help him at all, as all of the TVs or just screens, in general, were displaying static as he sat in a corner while clutching his knees. He had turned the screens away from him earlier in the night when he was trying to sleep, however, they moved back to face him while he was trying to sleep.
"I hate this place… I hate this place" Mitch whispered over and over to himself as the static started getting a little louder.
This continued on into the morning, as all of the contestants made it to the cafeteria. Mitch included, who simply got his meal and sat down with his team. He currently had bags under his eyes and looked miserable.
"Are you doing ok dude?" Marty awkwardly asked.
"I'm doing great. I'm even at the top of my game! So I wouldn't try poisoning my food because I'll see you doing it!" Mitch snapped upwards and stared directly into Mitch's eyes.
"You look pretty tired" Charlotte cautioned "Did you stay up all night watching a scary movie?"
Mitch rolled his eyes a little "I've seen them all, and what I do at night is absolutely none of your concern"
"It's almost shocking that you have a worse social game than Colmillo" Mitzy joke with a small smile while gesturing to Colmillo trying to arm wrestle an uninterested Therion.
"I don't care what you all think. In fact, I'm sure you're all responsible for the screens in my building flashing all night! I bet you all want to make me sleepy so you can vote me out but I'm doing just fine!" The horror freak stood up and quickly went to sit somewhere else
"So… we're agreed on eliminating him when we lose, right?" Jaz nonchalantly wondered once he was at a different table.
"At this point, he's practically begging us" Maxine shrugged.
"I'd rather we not talk about eliminations until we actually lose" Mitzy frowned "Sure, Mitch can be a little weird he still seems like a fine person"
"That's very reasonable Mitzy" Charlotte smiled softly and nodded.
"You guys really like being boring huh?" Colmillo deadpanned while repeatedly slamming Therion's hand onto the table as he ate some of the goop.
Mitzy and Charlotte just looked at her with blank expressions.
Confessional: Mitzy
"I'm worried about my team" the comic geek admitted "we survived two eliminations but if we all want to eliminate Mitch I'm worried Colmillo is going to pull a Lightning where she's a total idiot but everyone lets her move on because she's strong. I guess maybe I should consider working closer with Maxine and Marty after all"
XXX
At another table, Ellis and Walter were the only two still around. The rest of them had finished their breakfast by now so they were sitting together.
"Hey, Walter, can we talk about something?"
The detective sat up and looked at him "Oh, yea what's up?"
"So, you know our elimination ceremony and who was all in the bottom three?"
Walter nodded "it was… Veronica, Bobby, and Tess right?"
"Yep," Ellis nodded "and do you have an idea why Veronica was at the bottom? I talked to everyone about not voting for her, but I guess some people just didn't listen to me"
Walter tapped the table with his fingers "Oh, uh, that was me yea. I don't think anyone else would vote for her so I took the principled vote"
Ellis looked at him before chuckling softly "you're pretty innocent aren't you?"
"What do you mean by that?" Walter frowned.
"Well, you basically just told me that you ignored my joke" he mused "Some people would be kinda insulted by that"
Walter rubbed the back of his neck "Yea… sorry. Momma always said I was a little bad with social interaction. But I didn't mean to insult you or anything"
Ellis just waved his hand with a smile "don't worry about it. Veronica was safe in the end so I'm just happy honestly"
Walter smiled "You're a cool guy Ellis"
"Yea, I know" he smirked.
While they were together, Veronica and Michael had gone back to their room to find Bobby snoring on his bed with a pile of snack pieces and wrappers.
"Ugh, he smells rancid" Veronica gagged while covering her nose.
"Nothing we can do about it" Michael murmured while grabbing some paper to start doing some origami.
"Nothing?" Veronica smirked slightly "You obviously didn't realize this but you're talking to Veronica right now. I can do anything that I want"
Michael looked at her for one moment before getting up with his paper and walking away.
"Where are you going?" The rich girl frowned.
"I was here last time someone tried waking him up. I don't want to not be able to feel my face all day"
"Whatever, I don't need you to watch me anyways" She walked into the bathroom with her hands on her hips.
Sometime later, Vanessa walked out of the bathroom with a hose attached to the faucet. She was also holding some soap that she lightly set on top of Bobby's stomach. After making sure it was all set she raised her hose to the slob.
"You can thank me later" she smirked before turning it on at full blast to try hosing him down.
However, the moment the water left her hose, Bobby shot up and used his pile of snacks to block the first wave of water as he moved away.
"What the-" Veronica frowned before trying to chase after him with water, except he only continued to avoid her blasts of water no matter where she aimed.
"Slow down!" Veronica growled as she only turned the hose on further. She had never seen him move as fast as she did, but her surprise only left her open for a surprise attack as Bobby jumped over the water, flying towards the snob with his foot flying first towards her.
The camera cut off from there once his foot was about to hit the rich girl head-on.
A floor above them, the Raccoons were all sitting around in their room just enjoying all the luxuries. Mimos, Ian, Camila, and Antoinette were leaning back in their comfy beds.
"Now this is how we should be treated" Camila smirked while drinking some soft herbal tea "I can truly feel my premonitions become more fruitful than before"
Ian rolled his eyes "Right, now your predictions will be more effective"
"Well, if you don't believe me just ask one of my many enthusiastic success stories" the Psychic sipped the tea while smirking slyly at him.
"Oh, and what were their predictions?" Ian deadpanned "Listen, I respect the grind of trying to get tons of money but you really just have no art to it"
"Actually, she did correctly predict Vinnie winning our last challenge" Liz called from the other side of the room. She was making sure her teammates were doing ok, like giving Bailey her blanket and helping wrap it around herself.
"Oh please anyone could do that" Ian waved his hand.
"You can at least give her a good guess on that one bro" Mimos leaned back with shades on, even though they were inside "Like, did anyone really see Vinnie getting the dub?"
Antoinette frowned slightly at him suddenly taking up that kind of lingo "Can you, like, not talk like that?"
"Why not bruv?" Mimos lowered his shades to look at her.
She just glared back at him "Forget I said anything"
Liz sighed watching them all argue "Can we try getting along, please? We won our first challenge and I would really like to see us have a winning streak" she smiled.
"Oh keep down the idealism" Ian rolled his eyes "You obviously just want to look good so the psychic or the vsco girl will give you a try"
Liz quickly started blushing as she waved her hands "n-n-no nothing like that! While yes I'd happily go down on Antoine-" she just blushed more as she waved her hands faster "Ignore that part too. I just really want to help where I can. You all seem like fine people, and I would hate to have to vote someone off like Matt"
The team just looked at each other, obviously not seeming to buy what she was selling. However, Bailey smiled at her as she rolled around in her blanket "I appreciate your offer to help Liz"
Elizabeth smiled softly "Thank you, Bailey"
"Contestants!" Topher suddenly announced, which could be heard all around the plaza "We've got our next challenge today so I expect you all to show up in the VR room pronto!"
"Ah man another VR challenge?" Ian groaned as he got up "Those challenges really take away some of my skill"
"You had skill?" Camila tilted her head with an amused smirk.
Ian just kicked her leg as the contestants made their way to the VR room, where they could see Topher already had his set on while tapping his foot impatiently.
"Couldn't even wait for us" Dylan deadpanned. Before seeing Veronica had a bruise on her forehead, which made her snicker softly.
"Don't say a thing" Veronica scowled.
"Let's just get in there" Walter walked onto his platform as many others do. The contestants placed their headsets on and all appeared in grassy fields. However, all of them were in completely different areas.
"Hello, contestants!" Topher appeared above them all as his face plastered over where the sky was. "I hope all of you had a filling breakfast because our first challenge of the day is going to be a game I'm sure all of you have heard before!"
Suddenly, from the ground close to the contestants a large slingshot sprouted. It was twice as tall as the tallest contestant. On the other end of each field, there was a large building of wood and some stone.
"I'm sure you've all heard of Annoyed Birds. Got a movie and everything!" Topher announced "Each team will be sending their own flying into the castle owned by those dastardly pigs. Oh, but since the Plumbers have an extra member one of them gets to sit out. Good luck kiddos!" Topher's visage vanished from the sky.
The Plumbers simply looked at each other. Mitch was about to raise his hand when Jaz quickly sat down away from them with a phone "Call me when we finish this part of the challenge" she smiled while snapping some pictures of herself.
"Well, I expected as much" Charlotte deadpanned before looking at her teammates "Which of you all wants to go first?"
Colmillo smashed her fists together "I gotta do it! I mean come on, smashing through a building!? That's asking for me to go ahead!"
"That makes sense" Therion admits "She's the strongest one here, if she can break through the building it'll be easier for the rest of us to take out some of the pigs"
"That makes sense" Charlotte nods as she looked at Colmillo "Go on ahead, we're hoping for a good shot"
"Yea yea I know what we want" the wrestler rolled her eyes before climbing up the slingshot. Once she was nustled into the slingshot, she moved around slightly "Do you guys have to pull on this or-" Colmillo moved up to look down at them, however little did she know she was already set up for being launched, so she barely flew past the group as she skidded along the ground. She didn't stop until she eventually hit the base of the wood building, only making it move slightly.
"Oh, you've got to be kidding me" Mitzy groaned softly while rubbing the bridge of her nose.
"Well… I'm sure our strategy could be changed" Therion murmured awkwardly.
"I can go next if we want" Marty shrugged "I would hate to see any of your pretty faces getting hurt" he smiled.
"Real charming" Charlotte deadpanned.
While the Plumbers continued to argue Maxine ignored their conversation and slowly climbed up the slingshot.
Confessional: Maxine
"Great things come in small packages" Maxine smiled confidently in the confessional seat "It appears after our first challenge these plebians still haven't come to realize that I am the one leading this team." she groaned with a small smirk as she rubbed her back "It's almost getting tiring carrying this team on my back"
XXX
Maxine got into the slingshot, pulling herself as far back as possible before letting herself go. Maxine went soaring in the air like a missile as she slammed into the wooden walls holding the building up. The building around her started shaking and collapsing with her, as they can hear one pig oinking in pain.
Marty smiled a bit "I'm not surprised Maxine could get us back on track. Let's keep her score going!"
While they had already gotten a pig, the other two teams were still trying their hardest to destroy what was in front of them. The Raccoons were having the most trouble. They had the exact same base building as the Plumbers except for the sides of the building were down or even close to falling down.
At the base of the slingshot Camila, Ian, Antoinette, and Vinnie were the only people who had not yet gone. Vinnie was sitting down while leaning against the base of the slingshot.
"One of you two has to go next" Ian stated plainly while glaring at Antoinette and Camila.
"I'm sorry, but I have already seen into the future. If I go flying into the building and ruin my hair it is very likely that we will lose" Camila spoke like she was genuinely worried for the team "I would hate if we lost because we ignored my prediction"
Ian just silently looked at Antoinette "What about you? Got a dumb excuse?"
"Ya. I don't want to, like, break my face against stone"
Ian rubbed his face "If you try aiming for the wood near the top where it's not as hard, would that make you happy Antoi?"
She nods a little "Oh yea totes"
"Great" Ian sighed as Antoinette moved towards the slingshot, getting on top of it. "Make sure you get a good shot into that thing!" The thief yelled.
"I've got it" the diva rolled her eyes as she leaned very far back. Eventually, she let the sling go as it sent her soaring through the sky…
However, she overshot her shot by a good bit. In fact, she didn't even scrape by the building as she simply soared right over it on accident.
"What are you doing!?" Ian called towards her as she kept flying.
"I just overshot it a bit! And it was Vinnie's fault anyways she was pushing the slingshot to the side by leaning on it!" Antoinette called back before landing on the other side of the building.
Ian glanced toward Vinnie and the slingshot, however, it didn't look much different than it was before.
"I hate all of you…" Ian murmured before just climbing up the slingshot.
"Don't worry dear, the feeling is rather mutual" Camila smirked while looking at her nails.
With how the Raccoons are doing, the Ferrets in comparison didn't look half bad, however, their goal was targeting the stone beams keeping the building up. Ellis, Walter, and Dylan had already flown over and were simply lying down next to the stone. However, the stone didn't seem to have budged all too much.
"Maybe we should try changing the strategy" Thomas mused while leaning against the slingshot.
"Or, we just haven't been using the right ammo" Michael murmured while nodding his head slightly towards Bobby who was just sitting and smiling at the others.
"Oh yea, he's super heavy so he could probably just smash the whole thing" Veronica smirked a bit "But there is one problem…"
Michael and Thomas just silently looked at her, causing her to roll her eyes "He's heavy so we don't know how well he'll even fly"
"Well, we could try helping pull the sling further back to maybe give him a stronger push?" Thomas guessed "Either way we should get the big lard out of the way now so we can throw the rest of ourselves at the wall"
Michael walked closer to Bobby "Can you climb the slingshot on your own?"
Bobby slowly got up after a few moments and trudged towards the slingshot. He tried climbing up it, however, he could barely get up at all before sliding back down pathetically.
"You're really pathetic huh champ?" Thomas taunted, though he was just smiling as he went over and grabbed Bobby to help push him upward. Michael sighed softly before coming over to help pushing Bobby up to the slingshot.
Eventually, the big slob sat at the top of the slingshot. He moved slowly to lean into the rubber sling. But he was really taking his time on this one.
"I have no idea why we didn't just eliminate him last time" Veronica deadpanned.
"I honestly wonder the same thing about why we kept you" Thomas mocked with a smirk, getting a small snicker from Michael.
Before Veronica could say something insulting towards them Bobby pulled back from the slingshot and went soaring towards the building. He extended his arms and legs as he slammed right into the stone at the base of the building.
Back with the trio of Ferrets, they stared in shock as a large explosion went off, sending a strong wind towards them as they had to shield their eyes from the blast.
"W-what the-" Michael stared in shock at the ashey remains of the pig's building.
"Did that guy just have ten pounds of dynamite in his ass crack?" Thomas snickered in amusement, only laughing harder as Veronica covered her mouth to not get sick at the thought.
"Well, uh, contestants one of your teams has won so we'll be getting to your rankings before getting to our second challenge!" Topher announced as all of the contestants suddenly appeared next to each other.
Topher stood in front of them before snapping his fingers. All of the teams could see their differing levels of success. The Plumbers had the upper part of their building down and one pig with x's on his eyes. The Raccoons were a little worse, only having segments of the building down with no pig marked off. And then the Ferrets had a totally destroyed building with 3 pigs with x's on them.
"Well, I think it's pretty clear who won in this one" Topher mused as he pointed towards the Ferrets "Well done Fighters, you're getting an advantage in the next segment!"
"There's even more?" Veronica whined.
The host just smirked "Yep, but don't you worry, your team gets an advantage. So take what you can get"
With another snap, all of the contestants were now in an expansive city. However, they were much smaller than they usually were. In fact, they were hardly the size of a small cat.
"Woah, you're even smaller than usual!" Colmillo smirked at Maxine, who just glared back at her.
"It's hard to imagine your brain getting smaller" Maxine hissed back, though Colmillo didn't seem to care about her words.
"That's right, you're all tiny today. Because this segment we're playing Katamari!" Topher announced with a smile, just getting quiet, confused looks from everyone. "Right, of course, none of you would understand the classic ones. So, to put it simply, you all have to roll a ball around and try collecting as many things to your ball as possible before the time runs out. The team with the smallest ball by weight will be sending someone home today!"
"Oh this could be fun" Ellis smiled "what's our big advantage here?"
"Glad you asked Ellis" from the sky, three different balls dropped down. All of them were double their sizes. However, the Ferret ball was somewhat bigger than the others, and already had some objects attached to it. Things like a bit of dirt, some rolled-up paper trash, and some pieces of plastic.
"Does all of this have to be trash?" Ellis murmured somewhat nervously.
"First stuff we could find to attach to it" Topher shrugged "I can always take back your advantage if you wanted"
Thomas slapped him on the back of the head "No we'll be fine taking this". Ellis just quietly glared at him.
"Glad to hear it Thomas" the host smirked as a timer appeared above the city "You all have five minutes to grow and become more powerful. So I would recommend getting on it… now!" He announced before disappearing.
The three teams looked at each other, before immediately splitting away from each other and going in different directions. The Raccoons immediately started making their way to the park, where some normal-sized people were walking around.
"Are we sure this is a good place to start? I'm not sure w-what these people might do" Bailey murmured nervously.
"I'm sure it's, like, a good place. Where there's gorls and boys around there's gotta be trash" Antoinette smiled confidently at the idea.
Confessional: Antoinette
"So, like, after failing a bit in the first challenge I gotta make some new plans right? I mean, if everyone else failed there and is being useless here even a bad idea won't be, like, target worthy"
XXX
While they went for a park, the Plumbers went right to a small garden. Therion seemed to be leading them around, finding good pieces of objects lying around.
"Have you played this game before?" Therion smiled at Charlotte as they lead the team around.
Charlotte shrugged "I'm more into competitive games. This one looks a little too child-friendly for me"
"I do remember playing it with some kids while I was babysitting them" Maxine butted in "The game's pretty fun"
"Oh, I didn't know you babysat" Marty smiled at her "I'm guessing the kids love having you over huh?"
"I made those children fear my authority!" Maxine smiled mischievously "If they so much as misbehave thrice they're sent to bed with no ice cream. That's how evil controls those of lesser mind!"
Marty smirked a bit "So if they behave they get ice cream?"
"And an hour of video games. I'm evil but that doesn't mean I'm a lunatic"
"Right of course"
As the group continued to push the ball forward at a slow pace, Colmillo started slowing down behind them while silently staring at their slow progress "Is that dumb game always this slow?"
"Well, not really" Therion shook his head "But I guess they didn't want us to get to the level of taking on the whole city with our ball"
Colmillo just cracked her knuckles "Yea, we're not waiting around for this to get big" she ran towards the ball before jumping past them all and landing on the top of it.
"Colmillo, what are you doin-" Charlotte was interrupted by the wrestler as she started running atop the ball to start collecting objects much faster.
"I guess that works out pretty well" Therion mused with a small smile.
"As long as it works" Charlotte murmured.
"Oh good, we're just gonna rely on her" Jaz smiled before sitting down "Let's go Colmillo" she gave her a thumbs up while sitting down.
The wrestler continued to roll around, grabbing up more objects until she was around the size of a flowerpot. However, the bigger her ball was getting the harder it was to control.
"Are you doing ok up there?" Therion cautioned.
"Just fine!" Colmillo grinned before rolling closer to them.
"S-Should we worry about her coming this way?" Marty worried nervously. Especially as she only got closer to them.
"I knew Colmillo was going to be the one that kills us all" Mitch worried as he quickly started running away. As Colmillo's ball of doom started running towards them all.
Marty picked up Maxine as he ran away. Maxine blushed faintly before he tossed her up to a safe platform as Colmillo wrapped him into the ball.
Eventually, she had them all besides Maxine, who glared at Colmillo "what are you doing you buffoon!?"
"Easy" the wrestler smirked "If you're all a part of the ball it'll weigh way more! Sure, none of you are very muscular but still!"
Maxine just stared blankly at her as Colmillo started rolling away to pick up more objects.
The ferrets were still the team with a lead thanks to their larger ball. Everyone besides Bobby was managing to push the ball around on a beach as they collected some crabs in their ball.
Bobby was trying to keep up with them but just couldn't as they tried collecting as much junk as they possibly could.
"Ugh, this challenge sucks" Veronica whined before stopping her pushing of the ball "my nail is gonna crack at this rate…"
"Oh for the love of god Veronica focus on the challenge!" Thomas complained angrily "I swear I want to drown you like my dad drowns rats"
Michael stared blankly at him "You had me in the first half I can't lie…"
"Yes, we have no need to threaten each other just because we're having a hard time" Walter frowned at Thomas "Especially in such a… unnecessarily aggressive way"
"I was just joking" Thomas smiled as he pulled back and raised his hands defensively.
"It wasn't funny in any way" Walter let go as well to look fully at Thomas "And honestly, I'm pretty sure you've been a serious issue for this team. I'm honestly pretty sure you're the one who's been harassing Dylan too"
Thomas shrugged "could've been anyone. Bobby beat up Michael while we were all sleeping so he might've done the same thing to Dylan"
Ellis also pulled off the ball, smiling softly at the two "Let's not argue guys. We have all evening after we win to work on that right?"
While the majority of the team was talking, Michael and Dylan kept moving the ball and collecting shells, however, their ball was slowly starting to roll down the incline of the beach and towards the water.
"Uh, guys?" Michael called nervously as they only got closer and closer to the water. However, the others didn't even look that way as they kept arguing.
"Guys!" Dylan yelled this time as they tried pulling the ball back. They were about to careen into the water when suddenly the ball entirely stopped. Michael and Dylan looked around the ball to see Bobby just smiling as the ball stuck to the front of his body.
"Oh, thanks Bobby" Dylan smiled, which got a thumbs up from the slob.
"Let's get this ball back up to the others" Michael sighed in relief while trying to move the ball around. However, as they started trying to move the ball a large seagull flew down and suddenly picked up the ball. It specifically looked like it was targeting the clams on the ball but seeing as they were stuck it just had to take the whole thing.
Michael, Dylan, and Bobby held onto the ball as the seagull kept a hold of them.
"Do you think our team noticed the ball is missing?" Michael deadpanned.
Dylan glanced back to see Veronica filing her nails while the other three were still arguing.
"Nope"
Back with the Raccoons, they were slowly getting bigger and bigger without finding any serious issues. Mimos glanced upwards and could see they were down to the last minute already "man this totally flew by!"
Camila groaned softly while slowly shaking her head over and over again.
"What's your problem?" The mimic frowned at her.
"You totally just jinxed us…" Camila cautioned.
"Jinxed?" Ian frowned "seriously?"
"Believe me it happens more than one would suspect"
As they talked, they could suddenly hear a very loud bark from nowhere. The team turned around to see a large dog bounding towards them.
"Oh my god!" Antoinette stared in shock as she immediately dove out of the way with all of the others. Except for Vinnie who just had her arms extended.
"It's just like Clifford without the red!" The innocent girl extended her arms wide for the big ol hug.
"V-Vinnie, move out of the way!" Bailey warned nervously. However, the furry didn't respond to her yell.
Bailey looked towards the dog to see it getting closer and closer. Bailey ran towards Vinnie and dived on her to push her out of the dog's way as it happily picked up their ball.
Bailey sighed in relief, though she looked better seeing as she was as white as a ghost.
"Aw, we missed the puppy" the girl spoke somewhat disappointedly.
"We have to get that ball back!" Ian yelled angrily as he chased after the dog.
It was currently throwing the ball around in the air, seeing it as a simple toy. However every time it caught the ball again parts of it simply fell off. Ian and Mimos ran towards the dog, but with how much larger it was than them they didn't have a prayer for getting their ball back.
"Does anyone here, like, know how to make a dog stop?" the diva worried.
"Oh, oh" Vinnie nodded excitedly "I used to have a pet, we need a dog whistle!"
"That's a wonderful suggestion Vinnie" Liz smiled while placing her hand on her shoulder "But I don't think we're big enough to actually blow a whistle"
"It's w-worth a try" Bailey murmured.
"What do we all say then?" Liz turned towards the others, only to see Camila watching in amusement as Ian and Mimos tried climbing up the side of the dog.
Liz sighed softly "Ok, we need to hurry and find one fast before those two get themselves hurt. Let's hope we even have enough time" she worried while glancing up at the clock.
"No, wait, I have an idea!" Vinnie raised her paws "we just have to whistle! Some dogs respond to that!"
"Well… that's a lot quicker than running around looking for a whistle and not finding any" Liz murmured.
Antoinette was quietly listening in on their conversation as she raised her fingers to her lips and whistled as loud as she could.
The dog turned around and looked at the small group of girls. It smiled excitedly while running towards them with drool slowly pooling and dripping out of its mouth.
Antoinette's eyes widened in realization as everyone besides Vinnie quickly moved to the side as it stopped right in front of her.
"Doggy!" Vinnie cheered before quickly hugging the dog's leg.
Antoinette looked nervously at the big dog "Can you, like, drop our ball please?"
The dog barked loudly before dropping the ball on top of her, coating her in saliva while crushing her.
"Ewwwwww" Antoinette whined while pushing the large ball off herself slowly. "I can't believe I listened to that bear's advice!" She desperately tried wiping all of the salivae off herself.
"The big pupper didn't know what he was doing" Vinnie continued to gush over the adorable dog as she continued to snuggle with its leg.
"Good work Antoinette" Mimos smiled as he slowly slid down the side of its leg "A woman with brains and beauty like you makes it unfair for anyone else" he spoke with a Spanish accent.
"Uh… thanks" Antoinette nodded awkwardly "Glad you liked my idea" she smiled.
"Yes, she did exceptionally" Ian deadpanned as he came down after Mimos before grabbing the ball "But I'd rather celebrate her genius after we're sure we're not going home"
Ian rolled the ball closer to the others, seeing that it was still coated in saliva. Mimos, Vinnie, and Bailey reluctantly grab onto the ball but the other two looked more hesitant.
"I think I'm fine" Camila smiled softly.
"You'll be fine when you start working!" Ian threatened before looking at the other two.
Antoinette looked at the saliva and smiled similarly to Camila "I should rest my mental capacity after coming up with that idea and all…"
Liz sighed slightly "Yeah, I'll help sure"
Ian continued to glare at the other two before Mimos stepped in "Ian, mi amigo. If those two fine women want to spend their time relaxing that's more than fine. They're deserving of some rest" he winked towards the two of them, though they didn't seem to react at all.
"Fine" Ian grumbled angrily before pushing the ball forward "let's just finish this one"
Confessional: Liz
"I had no idea Mimos was a flirt" Liz smiled slightly "As long as we don't get eyes for the same girl or anything this could be pretty fun. I mean, I always wanted to have a friend who was just as into talking about this as I. And getting closer with everyone on the team is my big goal so that's a nice little bonus"
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Back near the beach, the three kidnapped Ferrets were sitting together. They were hiding next to the ball as the bird fed her babies on the other side.
"Ok, we need a solution and fast" Michael worried while looking at how hungry the birds were.
"Maybe we could try waiting and hope the momma bird doesn't come back to feed us to them" Dylan murmured, though she didn't look too stressed over the birds as she leaned back to relax.
"What if the birds just try eating us on their own?"
Dylan just smiled as she looked at him "it's just VR so at most we'll feel the excruciating pain of being ripped apart before being fine"
While the two of them continued to talk to each other, the chicks only got closer to them as they snuck towards them on the other side of the ball.
They looked around to see Bobby just smiling while sitting by himself. The three chicks looked at each other before one of them suddenly grabbed Bobby by the top of his head and started dragging him away.
"Bobby!" Micael and Dylan called as the birds quickly moved away from them and grouped up in a circle.
Both of his teammates ran from behind the ball and towards the group of birds as fast as they possibly could.
However, as they reached the birds they all suddenly collapsed onto the nest face up. The two contestants looked towards Bobby, who was still sitting around as if nothing happened.
"Bobby, are you ok?" Dylan got closer before taking a small sniff and backing away almost immediately.
"What? Why wouldn't I be fine?" Bobby smiled as he slowly sat up.
"Well… good work Bobby" Michael nodded softly before turning back around to grab their ball.
The slob just smiled and nodded as he looked at Dylan "Hey, uh, Dylan?"
She just looked at him "Yea, my name's Dylan. Did you need something?"
"When do you think our challenge is gonna start?"
As the time above them slowly ticked down the teams were doing all they could to try getting any last pieces into their large balls.
For the Plumbers, Colmillo was running on the top of their ball as it stands about the same size as a dog as Maxine ran alongside her trying to just keep up with her. Though, the wrestler just took this as a challenge and kept running around faster.
For the Raccoons meanwhile, they were still trying to recollect all of their pieces. However, the drool from the dog seemed to only make the pieces harder to stick back on.
And then finally the three Ferrets were simply making one quick last move by attaching the baby birds and parts of the nest to their ball.
Before long, the alarm above the city went off, causing everyone to be warped back to an open space without their balls. This includes all of the people Colmillo had absorbed into her ball to make it bigger.
"Oh, you're all back" Colmillo looked at her teammates, who all had messed up hair and attire "Guess my idea didn't work, who would've guessed"
This didn't make any of her teammates any happier as they continued to scowl. With the exception of Therion who still looked as calm as always.
"I at least know I won't be the first person going home" Jaz grumbled while pulling out her phone to try fixing her hair and shirt.
"You're an awful team player Colmillo" was all Charlotte said while glaring daggers at her.
"What? I know you guys couldn't see it or anything but our ball is absolutely the biggest!"
"That's now what we care about" Marty murmured.
"Alright settle down everyone!" Topher announced, "we're getting to the important part now, the measuring of the balls!" Topher waited for someone to snicker but didn't get a thing "No? Ok then"
"We're not children" Ellis rolled his eyes.
Topher just silently glared at him before three different scales suddenly appeared in front of them. "Let's just get to finding our big losers"
Suddenly, on the scales, all of their balls drop down on top of them. The Raccoon ball was still missing some parts they had on it earlier, but it was still of decent size. The Ferrets were also of decent size as it appeared on the other side of the Plumber's ball. It had the whole nest in it along with the three baby birds.
"When did we get birds?" Walter tilted his head.
"Oh, yea, I did that while you guys were distracted" Thomas smiled and shrugged.
"Bullshit, I was literally watching you the whole time" Veronica glared.
"Looking my way the whole time huh?" Thomas smirked "Good to see you have some tastes, I wouldn't want you getting stuck with some loser that started with an E or something. What a lame letter"
At this point, both Veronica and Ellis were glaring at him. And this whole time Dylan and Michael were silently standing away from them to not get caught in their arguing again.
But, the big one was the Plumbers, which effectively dwarfed the other two. It had just about everything in it. Slowly, the three different balls dropped down into their scales. On the scale listing, all of the numbers slowly span as they got larger and larger.
When they were all settled down they could see the results. Or at least everyone besides the Plumbers, as their scale, simply shattered under the weight.
Topher clicked his tongue looking at the final weights "Well… wasn't expecting that one. But the Plumbers win first place once again!"
Colmillo cheered proudly, as the others looked as annoyed as before. Some even looked upset they wouldn't be voting out one of their members.
"Now" Topher continued "We will have to see who our second-place team is!" He turned around and looked at the two pieces of data.
He slowly turned around and looked at the last two teams silently. He smirked at them before pointing at the Raccoons "And it looks like you're our first double loser of the season!"
The raccoons had looked excited by him pointing at them, before immediately deflating in defeat as the Ferrets cheered.
Topher chuckled a bit "I'll see you Randomized Raccoons later. I want to see what kinda conflict you could all bring when given some free time"
Confessional: Mimos
The mimicker was simply leaning back and forth in his seat "Truthfully I don't know who I could vote for. But, since I'm not likely to be on the chopping block I think I'll be fine waiting for someone to convince my vote. If no one does, eh, I'll vote Liz. She's most definitely not going to be impressed by my crippling Spanish charm"
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Confessional: Camila
"While losing was a shame I had anticipated this coming well before the second challenge had even begun" the psychic had her eyes closed and her hands clasped together "But, luckily, I had planned ahead for this day. Letting one of our teammates stay around will only spell doom and gloom for everyone else. And I cannot let that happen"
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It was after the challenge and everyone was free to go where they wanted to go. And it was now slowly getting into the evening as the sunset off in the distance. Liz was slowly walking back from the showers, since the losers' room just didn't have any showers.
She hadn't dressed up all too much as she walked down the hallway with a towel wrapped around her head and around her torso. She was whistling softly with a small smile "that shower was so worth it" she whispered to herself.
As she got to their shared room she could see Camila leaning against the entrance to their room. Liz smiled a bit seeing her "Oh, what's up are you waiting for someone?"
Camila smiled seeing her as she sauntered toward her "Yes my dear, I was actually waiting for you actually"
Liz blushed a little watching her walk like that "Oh, y-y-you wanted to talk to me? What about?" She grinned.
"I had… a terrible premonition Liz. It was simple gruesome" the psychic clasped her hands around Liz's as she brought their hands up.
"W-what was that prediction?" The team mom moved her face slightly closer to her crush's.
"I… had a prediction that if we were to keep Antoinette on this team we will only face further doom and failure. I fear if we do not manage to eliminate her now she will… only further get in the way of what may happen" Camila moved Elizabeth's hand to have it caress her own cheek.
Liz shuddered slightly "I-I suppose I c-c-c-could consider it. S-She seemed nice to me though"
Camila shook her head "She blamed Vinnie for her own failures twice in this very challenge. I can't say that sounds all too nice to me. But what do I know?"
Liz frowned slightly "I… guess that makes sense. I-I can vote with you if you want"
Camila smiled "Great. But… I need you for something else right now~"
Liz immediately shot up with a much wider grin "yes, I'll happily go down on you!"
Camila faintly blushed as she shook her head "Uh, no my dear. I was hoping you could help convince the other two girls on our team. Vinnie and Bailey. You seemed to have gotten along with them, and I see them as the only chance we may succeed"
Liz tried to contain her disappointment at this "Oh, sure" she nods "We can… talk with them"
"Thanks, Liz, you're one of the good ones" Camila smiled while softly caressing her cheek "I see many good things in your future"
She smiled softly "thanks"
"No need to say thanks it's a simple fact" Camila smiled while grabbing her hand to help find one of the other girls. Naturally swaying her hips slowly to mesmerize Liz and keep her invested in this deal. So much so that Elizabeth didn't even consider stopping to change.
On the other side of the room door, Ian was listening in by placing his ear against the wall. He smirked slightly as he stood back up "Well well, looks like our other little scam artist has a scheme of her own going on"
"Bruh" Antoinette shook her head "I should've guessed." she smirked slightly "I guess the four of us are going to have to fight over Bailey and Vinnie for a win here huh?"
Ian smirked a bit "I can handle Mimos. You were hanging around with them in the first challenge so I'm sure they'll happily listen to you"
Antoinette nodded as she walked out of the room with a confident smile on her face.
At another part of the plaza, Bailey and Vinnie were both sitting together. Bailey was on Vinnie's lap while hugging her as Vinnie simply chose to spend some time looking around the rest of the plaza.
As she walked, Antoinette casually walked up to the two "Hey gals"
"Oh, hey Anti!" Vinnie smiled and waved at her for Bailey and her "Are you exploring too?"
She quietly shook her head "I was just lookin for you two" she smiled "I was hoping to talk to you about the vote"
Bailey turned her head slightly "A-Are you offering an alliance?"
"Maybe" she smiled at the freezy-pop "I just thought you should know Ian, Mimos, and I were thinking about voting out Camila. Her scamming people has, like, totally gotten annoying right?"
Vinnie tapped her chin with her paw in thought, before Camila and Liz suddenly appeared, with Camila still taking the lead.
"Interesting proposal, but I was actually wishing to discuss the vote with the two of you as well" Camila smiled.
Bailey raised her head to look between the three, she was obviously getting a bit nervous at the idea of having to pick between the two of them. Vinnie however didn't seem to be getting what was going on at all.
"I predicted this earlier with Liz. In the chance we were to not eliminate Antoinette I believe that our fate as a team is doomed. We will become nothing more than the new team Victory" Camila warned.
"Omg, do you really think someone would believe that?" Antoinette frowned at her "'clairvoyants' don't exist gurl"
"You would say that" the psychic whipped her hair.
"M-maybe we shouldn't argue and just make our cases for the two of the-"
"Shut up Liz!" Antoinette and Camila yelled before she could finish.
"Ok…"
Vinnie raised her paw as she looked at the three arguing girls "Bailey and I will decide on who we should vote for later. I just wanna spend some time looking for honey to share with Bailey if you don't mind"
The two girls looked toward each other.
"But you can keep following us and help slow down the bees!"
"Ok… I relent. You two can settle on who you want to vote" Camila moved to let the duo move along.
Antoinette did the same with her arms crossed "I hope you both know who's a real friend"
Vinnie just nodded softly before walking past the both of them with Bailey still holding onto her like a baby "t-t-that was smooth" Bailey murmured.
"I just don't like watching people argue" Vinnie smiled.
The Raccoons soon found themselves at the elimination ceremony. In the front were Ian, Mimos, Antoinette, and Bailey. Behind them from left to right were Liz, Vinnie, and Camila. With a spare seat next to the clairvoyant.
"Well looks like you all had plenty to talk strategy" Topher deadpanned while looking at Bailey who was covered in bee stings.
"L-let's not talk about it…"
The host simply shrugged "you had an almost ok showing today so make sure you all vote wisely"
Confessional: Mimos
"Señor Ian wanted to eliminate Camila. I know he has a hatred for that woman and I must admit her hold on Liz may be a threat. My pappy taught me it's wiser to go for the head of a threat than their heart. So better to take her down now" he smirked, not caring that his Spanish accent turned southern halfway through.
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Confessional: Bailey
"E-even after all that time to think I don't know who to v-vote for" she murmured nervously as she looked over the two photos.
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Topher smiled while looking at the votes "Well well you guys sure are spicy huh?" He mused "Since you all already lost before you know the rules, and so do I" He joked, just getting annoyed looks.
"Whatever, you guys could take a lesson from Thomas. But Vinnie, Bailey. You're both safe" he tossed them both marshmallows, which they happily took.
"Also safe is Mimos and Liz" Mimos caught his in the air and shoved it into his mouth with a smirk as Liz let hers land on her lap while looking nervous at the remaining members of her team who still weren't safe.
"And, not too surprising but you're also safe Ian" he threw underhanded to the thief, who happily caught his marshmallow.
"This leaves us with only two drama queens left" Topher smirked at Antoinette and Camila "Antoinette, Camila claims that her visions have you destroying the team from within. But Camila, some people view your predictions as a scam" he smirked as both girls rolled their eyes.
"But, only one of you is going home tonight" he tossed the marshmallow up and down in the air "and that contestant going home is….
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Antoinette seemed pretty relaxed as she leaned back. Camila seemed just as calm with her eyes closed and her hands resting on her lap.
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"Antoinette, I'm sorry but you're out girl"
"What!?" She seemed genuinely shocked at being eliminated "You guys actually believed she could see the future? That's, like, the dumbest thing I've ever heard!"
Camila just smiled as Topher tossed her a marshmallow "Dumb or not your teammates believe it. So you're out of here"
"I-" before Antoinette could talk more smack Topher had already sent her flying up into the green pipe.
"Huh, would've assumed you'd let her get into a big rant" Mimos mused.
Topher shrugged "If I were to let every Tom, Dick, and Stanley rant we wouldn't be eliminating anyone. But you're all safe. If you're lucky, there's a chance some of you will make the merge!"
The Raccoons just quietly got up and walked from the elimination ceremony. They were already getting used to Topher making fun of them.
However, the last two to start leaving were Ian and Camila. Ian looked beyond pissed as he walked, behind him however Camila was walking peacefully.
"You know Ian, after running circles around you all evening I feel like you deserve a small premonition" the psychic smirked slightly.
"I don't want your prediction" he scowled.
"Oh, don't worry first one's free" she smirked slightly bigger as she took his hand and closed his eyes. He kept trying to pull away from her grasp as she read his palm.
"Oh… it's just as I feared" she looked up to him with a much smugger smile "next time we lose it appears you're the likeliest candidate for going home. Who would have guessed?"
She started walking around him, she only continued to rub in her small victory over him as she walked with pure confidence "And I know it was free doll, but no refunds"
Topher sat in his recording studio watching this scene play on a large tv. He smirked as he paused it as Ian started picking up something to throw at her.
"Ah, finally forming some rivals. I was worried these kids were just going to do their challenges and not sabotage each other" he chuckled "Glad I don't have to release plan B and C. Yet"
As he sat around Nelly came over and gave him a smoothie "Thanks Chef"
Nelly glared at him "Fine, thanks Nurse" as she walked away Topher looked at the camera "So, once again the Plumbers managed to avoid another elimination, while the Raccoons have already had to cut off two of their members. Will the Plumbers keep this winning streak going? Will Ian one-up Camila? And will the Ferrets ever become stable? Find out next time on Total Drama Arcade!"
AN: And so we finished chapter three, thanks to Runa for giving me, Antoinette. She's a genuinely great character but her role was just easier to fill with other people. She also had a pretty fun way of speaking. Not many OCs who go "OMG" or anything like that so that's fun even if I feel I didn't utilize that too much. But I hope people enjoyed this chapter, Katamari was a fun game so I'm glad someone on the discord suggested it it was pretty fun.
Votes:
Antoinette- Camila, Liz, Bailey, Vinnie
Camila- Antoinette, Mimos, Ian
Elimination order
24th- Matt
23rd- Tess
22nd- Antoinette
