Richard was walking on the sand in just a green set of swim trunks. He had a cheesy smile on his face as he walked on screen "last time on the Radickulous Race, our teams in the lead were forced to take a setback… for some reason" on screen it shows Bonnie purposefully popping one of the wheels on the plane
"And from there they were forced to go to Brazil, which was honestly nicer than you'd expect. Once there the teams had to pull their tip from a mitten with some cute cuddly bullet ants" it cuts back to Anne falling face-first into the mitten "and thanks to that section Anne got a face full of ants. All thanks to her partner. And I guess the Losers"
"From there they had to find their tips in the coconut fields, and then make "beautiful" carnival costumes to succeed onto the final part of the race, the hang gliders. Which went well for most of the teams. Most" Richard chuckled as it shows Guy and Blake slamming into the Unbalanced Friendship.
"And thanks to this little issue, the Unbalanced Friendship was going to be sent home, however that challenge was non-elimination!" Richard announced excitedly "will that Friendship be able to last long enough to make that non-elimination mean anything? Will the Last Resorts actually go a challenge without cheating? And will Guy ever drink the respect women juice? Find out in today's episode of… the Radickulous race"
Intro plays
It was a beautiful day outside as Danny and Freddy walked towards the dickbox "man, getting in first place is honestly sweet!" The brawns grinned.
Freddy smiled and nodded as he grabbed the tip "oh yeah, we should totally coast through the rest of the race like this"
He lowered his head to looked down at the tip "well, like always I guess we gotta go get on the next flight at the airport to… oh, it's just Romania"
Richard quickly interrupted him as he appeared in front of the Romanian flag "not just any place in Romania" Richard quickly spoke, "but rather, the home of Dracula himself, Transylvania! A place that I'm told is one of the scariest places on the planet for people over the age of 80"
It cuts back to the duo as they lazily ran onto a bus and grabbed the seats in the front. Danny leaned back with a grin "another first place here we come"
Before Freddy could agree, however, every other team started making their way onto the bus. "Hey! What are you people doing?" The nerd complained.
"You really thought the host was going to let you two get a good head start?" Arnold deadpanned.
"Yea, at most you two just get the nicer seats" Kylie taunted as they all started taking their seats.
Freddy and Danny looked annoyed as they waited for everyone to get seated "this sucks" he murmured.
Confessional: Brains and Brawn
"What's the point of getting first place if everyone else is going to just catch up with us?" Freddy complained with his arms crossed in the unrelated confessional room.
Danny sighed "look man, don't worry about it. He did the same to Hannah. It's probably just to give everyone else a chance"
Freddy didn't look any happier "yea, sure. Whatever. We'll just have to get first place again" he smirked a bit "shouldn't be too hard for the best team still on here"
Freddy and Danny smirked to themselves as they high-fived.
XXX
The bus of every team slowly made its way to the airport. The camera focused on the bus as it stopped before the airport entrance. It was eerily quiet before there was a sudden burst of violence as the bus itself started shaking around violently.
"Help me!" screamed a nervous Sophie, who was soon shot out of the bus and landing face-first onto the ground.
After she was spat out of the bus, the other teams started pushing themselves out of the bus, shoving each other aside. Most specifically Kylie, who was using Laurie as a bat to swing at the others and push them out of the way.
The groups lined up in the airport after getting through the conflict. Kylie and Laurie stood in the front of the lines, with Freddy and Dan near the back "oh of course this happened" Freddy complained as he rubbed his bruise.
Piccolo walked up behind them, sitting in the very back before he looked over at Monstro "hey, dummy. Throw me to the front" he commanded.
"Oh, sure" Monstro shrugged before picking the clown up and tossing him ahead of the long line, crashing through the computer the worker was using.
"Two tickets on the first plane" Piccolo deadpanned, not trying to get his head out of the computer screen.
The woman behind the desk slowly handed him his tickets "thanks" the clown jumped away from her desk, keeping the computer around his neck as he started walking to their flight.
"And with that, our first eight teams will be taking a flight to their first real leg of the race!" Richard announced.
On the first flight: teams Psychics, Circus Duo, Unbalanced Friendship, bandmates, Wilderness Girls, Last Resort, La Familia, and the Simps.
Leaving the second flight to house the Polar Opposites, Lovers, Toxic Couple, Ninja School, Disorganized Disaster, Hall of Famers, Internet Losers, and Brains and Brawn on a thirty-minute delay.
The teams flying on the first plane would soon be landing in the next area, landing at a dark spooky night as the teams ran out.
Dawn and Jaime were the first two to run out of the plane. However, Dawn quickly came to a stop "are you ok?" her friend asked.
Dawn slowly nodded "y-yes, I'm fine… just a very strong, dark energy here" she warned while looking up into the dark sky. She stared towards the large dark castle in the distance with bats flying around. She quietly gulped nervously as the other teams made their way out.
"This place is scary Sophie, so I wouldn't blame you for wanting to stick close" Bea smiled down at her granddaughter. Who looked unimpressed.
"Really grandma? Do you think I believe in vampires? Vampire bats aren't even that bad, really only a problem with rabis" Sophie spoke matter of factly.
"Your grandma is talking about looking out for Europeans" Kylie snarked as she tapped the nearest dickbox.
"Oh, fun… we're running up to the castle" Kylie murmured a little more nervously as she glanced up at the castle.
Richard was standing at the front of the large castle, he was eating some regional food before throwing it over his shoulder "that's right, the teams have to rush up here, and find a room" he chuckled as he walked to the front of the castle "honestly, I can't remember which room they have to get to or how to get there. But that's not really a 'me' problem" he smirked.
Back at the airport, some of the teams were getting cold feet, however many others were diving into different taxis to get up to the castle as fast as possible.
Cord and Makenna were the first two to dive into a taxi, smiling confidently "this challenge is seriously going to be sweet! I can feel it!"
Cord just looked at her "why do you think that?"
"Beeeecccaaauuuuseeee, everyone knows Romanians love rock and roll"
Cord silently raised an eyebrow at her "is that actually true?"
Makenna shrugged with a cheeky grin "I have no idea!"
Cord just let out a slow sigh.
Makenna didn't pay her any mind as she looked out the window to start snapping pictures of the landscape "no way am I not taking some pics before we go though. Lilith would be so bummed not seeing this place!"
In another taxi on the way up, Kylie had a confident smile on her face "we're already a good way ahead of some of the other teams, and on top of that, we're still close by our new strong allies. This is going to be a cakewalk"
Laurie frowned slightly "d-d-d-do we h-have to work with La Familia? M-Margaret seems r-really mean to her partner"
"Yea, and I'm mean to you. Got a problem with that?" Kylie threatened her, causing Laurie to gulp nervously.
"N-n-no ma'am" Laurie saluted the hardass, who just smirked at her.
"That's what I thought." she leaned back "just because the Losers are behind doesn't mean we can just coast through this part of the race. We're going from last to first!"
She held her hand up to Laurie. She still looked nervous but slowly gave her a high-five back.
Ahead of them, The Circus Duo was the first team to hop into a taxi up to the large castle. They both stepped out and looked around "where do you think we go now?" Monstro asked his tiny friend.
"Inside?" Piccolo deadpanned as he started stepping forward.
The two clowns started walking inside when suddenly a swarm of bats flew at them. Monstro screamed in fear as he tried swatting them away, while Piccolo just let the bats cover him from head to toe.
Eventually, the bats left Monstro alone as he sighed in relief "that was a close one huh?" he smiled, before frowning at his partner not moving as the bats continued to cover his entire body.
"P-Piccolo?" the giant lightly patted his friend on the back only for all the bats to fly away, revealing Piccolo had vanished. "Oh no!" Monstro started running around, calling for his friend in each direction only to get no response.
"Oh that's bad, that's really bad" Monstro started getting nervous. The Simps, Wilderness Girls, and Last Resorts were the next ones to get to the castle, ignoring the giant as he started looking seriously worried.
Eventually, however, the Bandmates came around and saw the panicked man. Makenna frowned to herself as she walked up to him "Hey what's wrong big guy? You look terrible"
He wiped away a tear "H-Have you seen my little clown man?"
Cord and Makenna looked at each other "clown… man?" The quiet rocker tilted her head at him "you mean your partner that stole candy from a child back in France?"
Monstro nods "yea, him"
"Well, we could help you find him!" Makenna grinned.
Monstro perked up as he turned around to face them "you would help me find my little friend?"
"Sure we will" Makenna grinned.
"We will?" Cord frowned slightly.
"Oh come on, we're just going to be looking around in that castle for a while. No harm trying to find a creepy clown while we're at it"
Cord sighed and nodded "fine. But if we find what we're looking for we're moving on"
Makenna just nods with a smile "fine by me. Ready to go ahead big guy?"
Monstro smiled happily "yes! Let's go find him!" He grabbed both rockers by the hand and started dragging them into the castle as fast as he could.
Cord sent Makenna a cold glare as the other rocker chuckled bashfully "I'm sure this won't take long"
In the castle, the teams found multiple paths ahead, all of which were going in their directions. La Familia took a path to the far right, the Wilderness Girls went left, and the Simps just followed their respective crushes.
"Those two like thinking with their lower heads" Tamera deadpanned as she just watched the groups move ahead.
Bonnie shrugged "what's wrong with that?"
Tamera side-eyed her "yea, nothing. Here's the plan goblin, you go down the center and I'll go after one of the other teams"
"Should we really split up?" Bonnie frowned "if one of us finds the next tip we'll just have to wait on the other. Didn't we agree that was a bad idea?"
"We never agreed on that" Tamera scowled at her "besides, if we split up the other can just call for the other and I'm sure we'll meet back up" she shrugged "besides, I can steal some attention if I sabotage another team"
"Ok… but we'll have a reunion hug and kiss right?" Bonnie started getting excited again.
Tamera just looked disgusted as she nodded her head "oh yea, sure" she rolled her eyes "if you can beat me there, sure, celebratory hug"
Bonnie beamed before sprinting down the middle path. The Vixen quietly rolled her eyes "it's a miracle that she can even create thoughts" she started walking down the path behind Adam and La Familia with a small smirk.
To the path on the far left, the Wilderness girls were walking on their own, however, Sophie looked somewhat nervous. It was a long hall with many different portraits and decorations placed around.
"Are you ok dear?" Bea crouched down to get faced to face with her granddaughter.
Sophie nodded slowly "I-It's just that I s-swear I hear someone breathing heavily near us… d-do you hear it?"
Bea raised her head slightly, listening in as she heard some heavy breathing "that's… strange. I assume it's just one of the other teams running this way sweetie, don't worry about it"
"O-ok…" Sophie nervously looked behind herself, the halls were rather dark so she couldn't see anyone as they continued walking.
Further behind them, Rodney sighed weakly, hiding in the dark "love is so hard…" he moped "I don't even know what to say to her… my heart beats so fast when we talk. I can barely think when she's near"
He sighed sadly, however, while he moped he could feel two people walk up to him. Jaime looked at him funny as he looked down at him "so… whatcha doing chief?"
Rodney looked up at the two Psychics and smiled faintly "oh hey there" he smiled "I was just thinking of what to say to Bea"
"Just… talk to her?" Jaime frowned slightly "she's just a nice old lady, you don't have to feel awkward just chatting"
Rodney frowned to himself as he just rested his head against his raised knees. Dawn just stared at him before her eyes widened slightly "Jaime, you and I need to discuss something"
Jaime looked at her strangely but nodded as the two of them walked away. Rodney quietly watched the two discuss something or other, he didn't quite care what it was about as he got up to keep following behind Bea and Sophie.
"Wait, he's what!?" Jaime shouted in shock as Rodney just disappeared into the distance.
Confessional: Psychics
Jaime looked genuinely disgusted as they stood in the dark hallway "why… anyone would date someone who is old enough to have grandchildren! Is beyond me"
Dawn pat his back "do not worry. Rodney's heart is full of love to give, but his passion does not last long. He will likely move on before long"
Jaime crossed his arms "as long as he's not getting in our way I guess he can simp whoever"
Dawn nods "I wouldn't guess you're his type" she mused.
XXX
Meanwhile, down the other path, Margaret was walking ahead of Maria and Adam. Margaret was slowly getting more and more tired of their chatting as Adam would say something about her appearance and then she'd giggle or say something annoying like that. Like those other teams, they were simply walking through a large hallway, with statues and paintings that seemed to follow them with their eyes.
"Your glasses look good on you" Adam praised "they make your eyes so nice to stare into all day long"
Maria smiled bashfully "w-why thank you. I'm s-sure they'd look better on you"
Adam chuckled a bit "nothing could look better when it's on you~"
Maria giggled softly before Margaret angrily turned around "are you two going to keep flirting this whole race!?"
"What's your problem?" Adam frowned at her "we were just talking"
"You two are always flirting! It's getting totally unbearable!" Margaret loudly complained, echoing in the vast halls "I mean seriously, did you have to follow us?"
Adam frowned to himself "I-I'm sorry for annoying you" he rubbed the back of his neck "I'll… go for a different path then" he looked down before he started walking away and into one of the random rooms, closing the door behind him.
"Why did you do that?" Maria hissed towards her partner.
"What do you mean? You were obviously getting distracted by him when you should know the stakes of this race" Margaret struck a threatening tone.
Maria whimpered slightly "you don't get it" she glanced around before leaning closer to her boss to whisper "if he crushes hard enough on me, he might be willing to take the fall for us." she smiled "we basically have an easy way out of any elimination. As long as we stick close to him he'll just roll over and eliminate himself!"
Margaret smirked slightly "I see, I see. I underestimated your scheming abilities" she mused "but we can just meet back up with him another time, we have the lead and I'm not losing it over your scheme" Margaret started running ahead. Maria just nodded as she started chasing after her.
Not far behind them, Tamera just smirked to herself as she leaned against the back of a grandfather clock "what a clever plan. I should have thought of it myself" she smirked "I wonder if he'd like to hear that too"
She shrugged to herself before walking slowly behind them before taking the door Adam had, only for the floor that was there before to not be there anymore as she came crashing down into the ground. Her screams were unheard as a loud thud came not long after.
As the teams continued looking for their way to the end it cut to the second plane carrying the Brains and Brawn, Turtle School, Polar Opposites, Lovers, Hall of Famers, Toxic Couple, Disorganized Disaster, and the Internet Losers on it.
"And as the teams continue to look for their route to the needed room the other half of the contestants will be on their way! Now it's time to see if the first eight team's head start will be enough to keep them from getting out!"
On the plane, Joe and Deion were both snoring on the plane. Joe had drool dripping down his chin as Guy and Blake were throwing pretzels back at them. Eventually, Guy managed to throw one back into Deion's mouth.
"Ha, easy score" he grinned.
Not far from them, Desmond was making sure Ben would be as comfortable as possible. He was wrapped up in a warm blanket, he had a video playing in front of him that was attached to the back of a seat, and Desmond was cutting off the crust on his sandwich "anything else you need bud?" He smiled.
Ben looked down at the blanket and video "...no?"
Desmond just smiled as he sat the sandwich in one of his hands "just don't worry if you need something I'm right here"
"I got that…" Ben murmured as he bit into his sandwich "thanks… I guess"
Desmond just beamed with a smile "no problem"
"And they made our team the lovers" Arnold deadpanned while watching their interaction.
Aisling smiled as she moved closer to him "I think what he's doing is nice, Arnie." the nickname almost immediately made her partner groan in annoyance.
she smirked slightly "he might even be better at helping his partner"
Arnold's eye twitched slightly "you really think he's a better partner?" He smiled menacingly towards her.
"Yea," she said innocently.
Arnold stood up and cracked his knuckles "well if you think so we can test that" he smirked before walking away from her.
Aisling smiled, just sitting back in her seat before Arnold came right back and covered her head to toe in blankets. "Comfy now?" He taunted while taking a bite out of a granola bar the flight attendances were handing out.
"Yea… much better" Aisling muffled.
As the slower teams started making their way in, the Bandmates walked down the middle hallway with Monstro following closely behind them. Makenna was still snapping pictures of anything that looked cryptic or disturbing just to be safe.
"So, Monstro, what kinda music are you into?" Makenna smiled at her.
Monstro just smiled at her "I do love the circus music they play back where Piccolo and I work!"
"Circus music… does that count as a genre?" Makenna frowned slightly.
Cord shrugged "I'm sure it counts for someone"
As they walked they slowly bumped into Bonnie staring at a large portrait. It was of a woman in an old-timey dress with no straps holding it up. She was just staring at the top of the woman's dress with a lewd grin.
"Oh, that's that ginger who works with the mean girl right?" Makenna turned to the other two.
"I think so" Cord nods "so not really our problem"
Makenna frowned "oh come on Cord, we can at least see what she's looking at"
"I think I know what she's looking at" she deadpanned.
Her partner, however, just ignored her as she walked up to Bonnie, looking where she was with a small frown "what are you doin'?"
Bonnie smiled "boobies"
Makenna just looked more confused as she glanced back to Monstro and Cord. Cord just looked annoyed while Monstro shrugged.
"Oh, wait, I get it" Makenna grinned, "you think there's a switch or something behind the painting right? You saw a bump?"
Bonnie didn't respond, just continuing to stare.
"Yea, that's it" Makenna decided as she started forcing her hands against the painting, feeling around for anything that was off. Monstro soon did the same, rubbing around everywhere before suddenly the giant heard a click
"oh, I think we got something" he smiled, only for the painting to flip around, sending them all flying downwards.
The group of four would eventually land in a large room with multiple doors and holes leading to it. Lying all around were many different coffins.
"Did… we make it where we need to go?" Cord frowned as she slowly got up.
Makenna smirked at Cord "see? I told you that redhead was looking for something specific"
Cord just sighed and rolled her eyes "right…"
The group soon noticed in the middle of the room was a dickbox just standing there. The bandmates grinned at each other before jumping towards the dick box, with Makenna tapping the top and pulling out the tip "first place alright!"
Makenna then looked over to a sad Monstro "hey… sorry we couldn't help with your clown friend… but I promised Cord I'd be serious after we got the tip"
The giant smiled and waved his hand "don't worry I'll find him! He tried hiding so our circus would forget him and move on. But I found him!"
Cord slowly nodded before looking towards the tip "what's it say?" She asked.
Makenna slowly read about the tip "oh man…"
Richard was standing in the middle of a large graveyard, standing next to a large wooden coffin "for their next leg of the race, the partner that grabbed the tip will have to drag their partner in a coffin until they get to this very spot"
He extended his arm to show he was standing in front of two deep graves that were dug open with headstones at the end.
He shoved the coffin down into the grave, causing it to crack open "after that, you should get your tip"
A machete was suddenly shoved towards the host, with a tip pierced on it. Richard jumped in fear, landing on his back in the grave "and there's our tip…" he groaned weakly.
Makenna sighed in annoyance "alright, let's do this Cord" she turned to her partner, seeing her already crossing her arms in one of the open coffins.
"Ready when you are"
Makenna groaned slightly as she shut the coffin door to her. Makenna grunted as she started trying to push her partner. Though it was taking a lot to make any progress.
The two would soon leave Bonnie and Monstro to their own devices, as Monstro started looking for where his partner could be while Bonnie was looking up at some of the holes in the ceiling.
While Monstro continued to look around, one of the coffins flung open. Piccolo slowly raised himself out of the coffin, like a vampire. On his shoulder perched two different vampire bats. "I'm right here peanut brian" Piccolo insulted his partner.
Monstro turned towards him with a wide grin before hugging him tight "I was so worried about you there! We're ahead so we should get going quick!"
Monstro went over and tapped the dick box as the tip came out, however before he could grab the tip Piccolo snatched it. "I'm not sure you can actually read, so let me handle this"
Piccolo read the tip with his usual annoyed expression as his eyes slowly widened "of course" he sighed before slamming his head down on the top of the dick box.
As Piccolo began to try shoving Monstro's giant coffin, Bonnie was still waiting for Tamera to eventually show up. She was just sitting down on the ground while waiting for her partner.
Bonnie could then hear someone's yells and licked her lips, rubbing her hands together "oh yea, here it comes here it comes!"
However, instead of it being Tamera that falls directly on Bonnie it was Adam. "Well, I can work with this too" Bonnie shrugged with a smirk.
Adam groaned weakly "where am I?" He sat up and looked around in confusion, before noticing the dick box in the middle of the room "oh sweet!"
He got up, not minding Bonnie as he just walked over "ah, wait, I gotta wait on Rodney…" he groaned "we shouldn't have split up like that" he sighed softly as he sat on a coffin "I guess I just have to wait then"
Bonnie grumbled slightly before turning towards him with a cheeky grin "well you could always wait on my la-" before she could finish her statement Tamera came crashing down on top of her. Lying face to face as Tamera grunted.
"You're seriously here?" The HBIC complained seeing Bonnie and how close they were.
"Yea, been waiting for a good while" she grinned while hugging Tamera close "we're ahead of the other teams so we can just snuggle here on the ground for a while" the redhead winked at her.
Her partner just chose to ignore her once she noticed Adam. She tried getting up but Bonnie still latched onto her. She sighed as she just tried walking while dragging Bonnie.
"Hey there, Adam right?" Tamera smiled innocently at him.
"Oh, yea that's me" he smiled a bit "can I help you with something?"
"Oh, nothing" Tamera waved her hand "I was just hoping to chat after hearing so much about you from Maria"
Adam perked up slightly "she was talking about me after I left?" He smiled a bit excitedly "what did she say?"
Tamera chuckled "oh, nothing. Another time I'd love to get to talk more about it" she turned, almost immediately losing her kind attitude "goblin! Go and grab out tip"
Bonnie stood up and saluted before going to grab the tip and read it.
Tamera grinned back at Adam "yea, she's totally into you. So into you, she can't wait for the chance to see you out of the competition"
"Wha-" Adam frowned, but before he could finish Bonnie slammed a coffin shut around Tamera.
"Hey, I wasn't really listening to your conversation but if you need a shoulder to cry with… and then some I'm free" Bonnie flirted with the Simps before running out with Tamera's coffin under her shoulder.
"She's… a lot stronger than she looks" the simp murmured in shock.
Confessional: Adam
He scratched the back of his head "I don't get why Tamera would say something like that to me. I mean, I know she can be rude, that's basically the one thing she's done all season but still. Trying to ruin my relationship with Maria is a big cold, right?"
XXX
Confessional: Last Resorts
"So why did you tell him that?" Bonnie genuinely asked.
Tamera shrugged "spilling the tea is easily the fastest way to more screentime." she smirked "plus either way, if he believes me or not, it'll be him or La Familia that gets themselves into serious trouble"
Bonnie smiled "Oh, you're just so smart!" Bonnie tried kissing her before the vixen pushed her head back with her hand "oh come on! Best way to get attention is by having a romantic arc!"
Tamera looked towards the camera "I'd rather die than get attention for that"
XXX
Danny and Freddy were walking on their own as they walked through the castle. Freddy was seriously slowing the two down as he examined some of the armor sets "I admit, I didn't expect to see a castle with these kinds of decorations" he mused, lightly tapping parts of it "yea, that feels totally genuine" he grinned.
"Come on man, we were on the second flight we don't have the time to get distracted over you nerding out" Danny tapped his foot impatiently.
"Oh relax, this place is a big maze, and I'm smarter than half of the guys here" he smirked confidently "I could get us to the next location in a matter of moments"
Danny just groaned softly "yea, whatever you say, man"
Freddy continued to examine the set of armor before it suddenly started moving, it slowly raised its hands to pull out its sword and threaten him "Ooga Booga!" It laughed maniacally.
Freddy felt his soul leave his body as he jumped into Danny's arms "run! Run!" He yelled towards his partner, who quickly started sprinting away.
Once the two were gone the suit of armor laughed to itself "did you get that?" He chuckled.
Guy walked over with a grin "Oh yea, I already put that on Reddit"
Blake frowned slightly "I told you to send that to me so I could put it on ifunny. How am I going to get likes if they think I'm ripping off your account?"
"Oh you'll get over it" Guy waved dismissively "next internet sensation you'll get the chance"
Blake nods slightly "fine… but you have to help me out of this… I don't know how I got in here, to begin with"
Further ahead, and at the next tip came Margaret and Maria. "Ugh, we finally found it" Margaret smirked a bit as she went to tap the top of the dick box.
However before she could grab it Joe shouldered the mafioso, pushing her aside with a smirk "hope you had a good fall" he taunted before grabbing the tip.
Before the Famer could read the tip Margaret got up and did the same to him "sorry, didn't see you there" the mafioso then grabbed her tip, still being smug as she read it before sighing in annoyance "of course"
Margaret purposefully steps onto Joe's back before shoving Maria into a coffin "you better not squirm or I'm going to make sure your next grave is shallower" she threatened before flipping Maria over and over again.
Joe grunted weakly as he slowly raised himself back up "what a lovely lady…" he snarked as Deion pat him on the back.
"Don't take it personally, you hit her first" his friend consoled.
"Just get in your coffin before I throw your coffin around like a football" Joe growled.
Confessional: Hall of Famers
Joe rubbed his back with a frown "I've never been beaten by a girl before, but with that rude attitude and name she's really starting to ring a bell"
Deion shrugged slightly "you're over twice her age and live on a different continent. I don't know how you could recognize her"
Joe nods his head "usually I'd make fun of you for what you said… but you might be right about this" he chuckled "maybe she was just a fan of mine that I bumped into before"
"Hope she wasn't disappointed" Deion smirked to himself.
"What was that?"
"Nothing," Deion smiled innocently.
XXX
Out at the graveyard, Makenna was making very slow progress as she kept slowly pushing her partner's coffin. However, even with her progress the Last Resorts, La Familia, and Famers were making good progress. Joe pushed past the small girl before throwing the coffin down into the hole "oh yea! Who's an old man now!?" He smirked before crotch chopping the air.
While he was celebrating a machete suddenly appeared with the tip, causing the retired jock to jump back in shock, landing back on his partner.
Deion slowly raised himself out of the hoke and quietly grabbed the tip "thanks, sir…" he chuckled softly as the creepy old man started trudging away slowly.
"So what's next?" Joe asked as he slowly raised himself up "and I think a ghost just went through me… there's ectoplasm all over… my pants" he chuckled.
Deion rolled his eyes before reading the tip "oh, this shouldn't be too bad. As long as my metal knee still works" he deadpanned.
Richard stood in the middle of a large gymnasium, he was standing on a long mat as he raised his hands up and breathed in slowly. He then ran forward and jumped off a springboard and onto a balancing beam. He delicately walked along the balancing board before jumping on the board. Once the jump was over he simply flipped in the air again as he landed in a perfect pose. Multiple people came out while cheering him as they handed him a bouquet "oh thank you, thank you!" Richard smiled as he waved his hands.
He looked back to the camera and realized he was still hosting this "oh, uh, in this botch or watch one of the players do that elegant gymnastic performance and get a thumbs up from this local to get to the chill zone"
He pointed over to the local, who was wiping a tear away after he finished clapping.
Back at the graveyard, more and more teams were making their way through the second phase of the race. Some, faster than others. Monstro was running around basically in circles as he tried finding where he was supposed to be going with Piccolo.
"Where… is that open grave? I can't find it!"
Inside the coffin, Piccolo just had his eyes shut with his arms crossed. He had small bat bites on his neck. He then suddenly opened his eyes "if you're wondering about the bites, they died after draining some of my blood. That will teach them" he spoke threateningly as he moved his hands to his hair to comb it down into a hairstyle more similar to that of Dracula.
Further away from them, Arnold was grunting weakly while trying to push Aisling's coffin as fast as possible. However, with his noodle arms, he couldn't move more than a few feet a minute. "Are you doing alright Arny?"
"Don't… call me that" he panted as he kept trying "you're… heavier than you look"
"Dude, you don't say that about a girl," Kylie said from inside her coffin.
Arnold just raised an eyebrow at the Unbalanced Friendship "didn't the loud, annoying, ugly girl pull out the tip?"
Kylie slammed against the door to her coffin obviously pissed off at his comment. Laurie whimpered slightly "she… said I should do it so I can get stronger"
Arnold nods as Laurie started pushing past him "that makes sense, Kylie really has been adding on weight" Arnold taunted again, smirking at the sound of Kylie slamming against the wall of the coffin again.
"At least my partner can actually move me! You might be the weakest guy still in this game!" Kylie taunted back as Laurie started pushing out of earshot.
Arnold heard her talking and frowned softly, lowering his head before putting his all into pushing Aisling only to get no progress once again.
"I'm at least ahead of some of the other teams" he murmured in annoyance as he glanced over his shoulder. At the very least he hadn't seen the Brains and Brawn, the Simps, Psychics, or Turtle School yet.
"Pardon me!" Rodney yelled while running past Arnold. The rich kid just sighed in annoyance as he pulled himself back up.
While he was dusting himself off Jaime slowly walked past him, the coffin carrying Dawn levitated off the ground as Jaime held his hands to his head. Some blood was going down his nose as he just tried to keep moving.
"I'll just keep to myself now" Arnold mentally sighed in defeat.
Next to those two teams was Hope and Anne's coffin. The girl was somehow managing to push faster than the other two, but everyone once in a while she would stop. "I'm sorry Anne, I'm just too weak, I'm not making any progress. We'd be going so much faster if you were pushing"
"Please Hope, if you were in a movie you'd totally be the strong female lead, and I have a heroine addiction" she giggled at her own joke.
Hope blushed hard on her joke, just happy Anne couldn't see her reaction. However, the joke did make her smile as she started pushing harder and more continuously.
Further ahead, Guy just threw his gut ahead to push Blake down into the pit "nice"
In the grave next to him, Laurie groaned weakly before using her final strength to shove Kylie down into the pit. "Finally… made it" she smiled.
"Yep, and here's your reward" Guy smirked before just shoving Laurie in after Kylie. He hunched over to laugh at his hilarious joke "Oh, I'm too clever sometimes. Anyways where's our tip?"
A guy popped up behind him with the tip on his machete like before. Guy however didn't seem too scared by this knife as he just snapped a picture of him "oh, that's perfect for r/spoopy" he mused.
The man just continued to wave the tip in front of him until Kylie just snatched it from her pit "yes, thank you, sir"
He just nods before throwing Guy's tip at his face.
Confessional: Unbalanced Friendship
"I cannot believe you just let those two stick around!" Kylie groaned "it's like they don't care about winning and just want to put us down!"
Laurie nodded meekly, she was about to say something before Kylie just immediately cut her off "I still can't believe you just let them push you down like that, seriously grow a pair already Laurie. You're not gonna get your dad off your back helping sexists"
Laurie sadly nodded while lowering her head.
XXX
While more and more teams were making progress to the final phase, the camera moved forward to a large gymnasium like the one Richard had displayed earlier.
Cord and Makenna came in and looked around "alright! We are first!" The social rocker fist pumped.
"Good luck Makenna" Cord gave her a small thumbs up.
Makenna smirked "I'll handle that just fine. I've rocked out on a thinner board than that" she smiled smugly.
"Don't get too confident" Cord frowned "we have a lead, and I kind of want to keep it"
"Excuse me girls" Tamera shoved Makenna aside with a confident grin "I'll show you two how we do this kind of thing"
Makenna glared at her "if you wanna go be my guest, it'll be fun to see that smug smile on your face get wiped off"
Tamera just smirked at her "Oh don't be jealous just because I'm going to blow you out of the water sweetie" she strut to the starting point, slowly lowering herself to a running start.
"You go, girl!" Bonnie cheered from right behind her, looking towards her butt thanks to her stance.
Tamera then started running forward, jumping into the air while doing a flip as she landed on the balancing board. Her leg slipped slightly off the board, but kept moving forward. She walked slow and elegantly before jumping off the board, only to slip and fall backward when she got off the board.
The local frowned and shook his head while giving her a thumbs down. Tamera scowled as she heard Cord and Makenna laughing behind her.
"Ugh, why's the ground so wet?" the vixen complained. "That's obviously why I fell down there. Nothing more" Tamera tried getting up again only to trip and fall forward.
Tamera growled as she slowly raised her head, she looked forward, seeing Bonnie drooling right in front of her.
"What are you doing?" Her voice oozed a threatening tone.
"I came running this way to see your… boobas bounce when you jumped in the air" the ginger wiped the drool from her lips "good try though!"
Tamera smirked slightly as she got up "don't worry Bonnie, it was an innocent mistake" she got up and moved away from the mat "please go ahead, I'm excited to see how you do" Tamera smirked.
Makenna looked skeptically at her but wanted to just get through this leg of the race. She ran forward and jumped off the springboard, beginning her walk along the balancing board.
Tamera smirked to herself before looking over at Bonnie. She sent her a flirtatious wink before lowering her shirt slightly to show more skin.
Bonnie grinned perversely as she started drooling on the floor again. Makenna jumped forward and landed on the mat, only for her to faceplant over the water.
Tamera laughed mockingly at her "nice landing. Better luck next time"
Makenna glared up at her as she slowly tried getting up, only for the mat being too moist as she fell back down.
After both girls had failed their first try, a montage began to play of Makenna, Tamera, Dawn, and Blake easily getting through the last leg of the race, getting a thumbs up from the judge.
Tamera and Makenna sent each other a dirty look before they went into a quick sprint.
The Psychics started running after them, with Jaime still looking rather tired from earlier.
"Jaime, I do not wish to push you too hard, but I fear I may need your help again" Dawn looked nervous to even be asking him of this "the Last Resorts, Tamera in particular needs to not come in first. I fear her need to get everyone's attention will not lead her anywhere good"
Jaime grunted weakly "I, uh, can try?" He smiled nervously. "You predicted the same for Dakota so sounds f-fair"
Jaime brought his hands to his temple, whimpering softly as his head contorted slightly. Further ahead, Tamera was smiling smugly as she ran ahead of the two Bandmates.
"Nice try ladies but it's hard to beat perfection" she taunted smugly, only to go face-first into a large branch. Falling backward with a loud thud.
"Well done, Jaime" Dawn complimented her partner as she kept running, only to notice that Jaime was down on the ground with blood pouring out of his nose.
"I'm sorry Jaime" the moonchild apologized while picking him up and slinging his arm over her shoulder.
The four different teams came running to the chill zone, with the Bandmates being in first.
"Congratulations girls" Richard smiled "you two are first"
Coming in after them, was the Last Resorts, then Internet Losers, and then finally came the Psychics.
"2nd, 3rd, and 4th" Richard grinned as they all came jogging or walking in "while our leading teams in the next leg are safe, a majority of the teams still have a race going before last! Because two non-eliminations in a row isn't happening people!"
Back in the castle, there were still two teams trying to find their next leg. While Ninja was running around frantically looking for something her master Shiro was just drooling over the same portrait Bonnie had stared at earlier.
"Master, I've looked all over I can't find the route to the next room!" Ninja panicked "I'm starting to think that we're falling behind!"
Shiro turned to her with a calm expression "don't worry Ninja-san, your master is always here to find a way to solve a problem" he smiled as he leaned against the painting. Suddenly, it swung around and threw them down into the coffin room.
"You did it, master!" Ninja grinned towards him.
"Well, I told you I could solve it" he smiled like he totally planned that. He started getting up "let's just take that tip and-"
While he was talking Freddy and Danny came crashing down next to the dick box. Freddy groaned as he laid on top of his partner.
Freddy raised his head and looked at the box, then at the Turtle School. Shiro's energy darkened as he jolted towards the box, reaching for the red button at the same time. They both tapped the top at the same time but Shiro grabbed the tip first "ha, gotcha" he smirked before he started reading.
"Oh, whatever" Freddy rolled his eyes before taking the other tip. As both of the guys read the tips, they facepalmed themselves.
Confessional: Turtle School
Ninja smiled at Shiro, looking confident "sensei, I can't wait for you to show off your physical abilities! I haven't seen you lift anything since my first day where you flung that column all around!"
Shiro chuckled nervously "oh, it's been a while but I'm sure I could handle it fine. I mean, I'm still a master of martial arts. How hard could this be?"
XXX
Speaking of old people who can't do anything, Bea was next up for the Gymnasium. She was cautiously getting ready as she took in a deep breath.
"Can you hurry this along?" Ben asked while crossing his arms "some of us want to try while we're still young"
"We don't need your agism. So stop with your microaggressions before I have to cancel you on everything I have." she turned back to Bea "Take as long as you find necessary dear" Hannah smiled while softly patting her back.
Bea smiled slightly "well thank you. I appreciate the friendliness."
Hannah smiled "us women have to work together, so don't worry about it"
Ben didn't say another word as he just quietly frowned towards Hannah. Desmond however looked more than angry enough for the both of them.
Bea started running forward, jumping onto the springboard before trying to land on the balance beam, however her ankle gave out as she collapsed on the ground.
All of the contestants flinched as she landed hard on the ground.
"Well, I don't know what I was expecting from some old lady" Margaret shrugged to herself before pushing Maria to go next.
"That sure wasn't funny" Anne murmured while glancing at her.
"I don't think she was joking," Hope whispered.
The rest of the contestants continued to chatter about her age or her total wipeout.
Bea frowned slightly as she got up and just walked back to the group "so embarrassing…" she whispered to herself.
Sophie frowned slightly while looking up at her, not really sure why her grandma was so upset about one failure.
While Sophie looked at her grandma, she was watching Maria who effortlessly walked along the balancing board and landed almost perfectly at the end. The local smiled and gave her a thumbs up.
Maria smiled happily as she nodded towards the local "thank you" she said before running off with her partner.
Bea looked over to her and frowned slightly as she rubbed her arm. While she was distracted the line continued on with Ben, Deion, and Adam going up next with all of them managing to do passable jobs.
Rodney awkwardly tapped Bea on the shoulder with a small smile as those three guys went ahead "hey, uh, don't feel too down" he smiled at her "everyone makes mistakes, and if I were your age I'd be grateful to be as in shape as you"
Bea smiled slightly "well thank you, Rodney, that's rather sweet of you"
Rodney smiled "yea… anytime" he grinned, leaning towards her for a kiss.
"Hey, Rodney!" Adam called, causing Rodney to lean back and open his eyes to look at his partner "I passed let's keep going bud!"
Rodney sighed in defeat "right, well, see you around Bea. Just remember I think you're great" he smiled as he ran off.
Bea chuckled softly "what a nice kid"
Sophie just nods "yea… really friendly" she had no clue what Rodney was doing but for some reason, it even felt wrong to her.
A black screen appeared as Richard's voice came on "and in 5th place, we have La Familia, followed by the Famers and Simps at 6th and 7th, and then the Disorganized Disaster and Toxic couple rounding out the first half of our remaining contestants!"
While a few teams are left to finish the final leg of the race, some teams were still trying to get past the earlier phases. Freddy was slowly shoving his coffin forward, while Shiro was slowly dragging Ninja's coffin over his shoulders.
Arnold lowered his head, he seemed to have lost almost all of his bravado as he weakly shoved Aisling down into the open grave "finally… I could actually do something" he lowered his head before falling face-first into the same coffin as Aisling.
Monstro was randomly running nearby when he heard the loud thud of the Lovers, and he couldn't help but look into what that was "hello?" He innocently asked as he leaned over a nearby grave.
He quickly saw the open graves and smiled happily "we found them!" He cheered while sprinting over. While he was running however he tripped and came crashing down on top of the Lovers, who were just about to crawl out of their grave.
All four of them groaned weakly as the grave keeper just tossed their tips down to them.
Meanwhile, another montage began to play of the teams still needing to pass the gymnastic part of the challenge. Laurie was up next and was quick to jump off the springboard and walked past the balance board like it was no issue at all. She then landed in a perfect pose.
The professional smiled and gave her a thumbs-up, however, Kylie was standing next to him and swatted his hand away. The local glared at her as the hardass gave her partner a thumbs down.
"Does that count?" Laurie nervously asked, with the local just begrudgingly nodding. Giving Kylie a satisfied smile.
After her came Hope, he even managed to blow Laurie out of the water as she elegantly pranced across the balance beam and flipped twice in the air while clutching her knees before landing with her hands high in the air. The judge smiled and clapped as he gave her a thumbs up. Anne giggled before giving Hope a tight hug with a smile.
Bea went up once again, only to trip while running to the springboard and slamming her head against it. She groaned weakly as Laurie jumped over her and onto the springboard, doing her whole routine again with an even better landing at the end.
The judge looked over to Kylie, who looked at her partner skeptically, but finally relented and gave her a thumbs up.
Laurie sighed in relief as the two of them started running ahead.
As Bea slowly got herself up, the last four teams were now making their way into the gymnasium.
Richard's voice came over the scene in a tone that made it obvious that he was smirking "with the Opposites in 11th and the Friendship in 12th, you gotta wonder which of our last five losers will be the biggest loser!"
The Lovers were the next two to do the gymnastic challenge. Aisling smiled lovingly to her partner "wish me luck Arny~"
Arnold just looked down dejectedly "you'd do better than I would…" he murmured.
Aisling and most of the other contestants just looked at him weirdly. "A-are you alright Arny?" The psychic asked nervously.
"As fine as someone useless like I could be" Arnold murmured.
"Oh great, there's another clown" Piccolo rolled his eyes before shoving Aisling "go break a leg, or your neck at least already!"
Aisling glared at the short clown but sighed softly as she ran up to the springboard and began walking on the board. She then landed solidly on the ground next to it, getting a thumbs up from the professional.
"Alright Arny, let's go!" Aisling turned to her partner, who was still looking pathetic over in the corner.
She sighed in silent annoyance as she grabbed him by the arm and started running away with him.
After Aisling had finished her task, Danny was next and he did a passable job, but he was almost immediately blown out of the water by none other than Ninja right after.
The girl jumped onto the springboard, diving high into the air. While flying high she spun around and then did a barrel roll before finally landing on the board with a perfect landing. While on the board she did a quick cartwheel across the line, not getting remotely close to falling off the side until she jumped off the end of the board with her hands before landing down on the mats, hands first. She smiled while striking a pose with her legs going straight in the air.
The judge's eyes bulged in surprise before rapidly clapping "well done well done!" He spoke for the first time with a thick Eastern European accent. He gave her two big thumbs up.
Ninja blushed faintly as she quietly bowed in appreciation to the local. Shiro grabbed her by the arm and just started running "yea, she's great" he chuckled as he kept running, going a little faster to make sure the professional wouldn't try making her a pro gymnast.
After her came Monstro, who was quick to run and jump on the springboard, only to get himself caught up in the ceiling.
"I think that means it's your turn" Sophie frowned slightly.
Bea gulped slightly "we're behind… but not too far behind. I can do this" she smiled determinedly.
Sophie smiled proudly "yes you can!" She raised her fists up confidently.
Bea nodded in determination, getting into a running stance before the springboard. "Fail, screw up" Piccolo started lazily chanting as she got up to start running.
The old lady jumped off the springboard and onto the balancing board. This time she actually managed to land solidly on top of it as she tried to carefully walk along the board. When she got to the end, she took a moment to prepare herself before taking a long jump off and sticking the landing. She nervously looked towards the professional, who just looked skeptical, before finally shrugging and giving her a thumbs up.
The scout leader sighed in relief as Sophie gave her a big hug "let's get going, Monstro can try as much as he wants and I don't think he's going to keep failing that part of the race"
Confessional: Wilderness Girls
Bea had a slightly confident smile on her face "I honestly wasn't quite sure if I was going to be able to do something that would be passable for a professional… but I'm not going to complain" she chuckled slightly "Hannah and Rodney were right, I could and did do it!" she taps her chin before smiling a bit wider "after this season our Wilderness Girls should make them some cookies as a sign of thanks"
Sophie smiled at her "I'm happy to see your new confident attitude. I was concerned on the plane ride home I'd have to get out the reverse psychology book so you wouldn't get down and out"
Bea frowned at her "not funny"
Sophie smiled a bit while looking off-screen "right, that wasn't funny. I should consider your thoughts before saying things"
Bea frowned slightly, before looking where her granddaughter was. She looked unimpressed as she got up and went off-screen. When she came back she was holding up another book on psychology "I have to find where you're hiding all these"
"I'll never tell" Sophie smiled mischievously.
XXX
Monstro eventually finished the last challenge as they raced out of the gymnasium. Piccolo was sitting on his partner's shoulder as he looked towards the expansive forest outside of town, with the chill zone being within arms reach of both Danny and Ninja. Not far behind them was Arnold being dragged by Aisling and the Wilderness Girls.
Piccolo frowned slightly as he raised his hands up in the air. From the forests, multiple bats flew high into the air and flew towards the contestants who had still not made it to the chill zone, pushing the Turtle Schoolers and Brains and Brawn back as the swarm started flying faster than they can swat away.
Some bats closer to the Lovers and Wilderness Girls flew out and started pestering the two teams, slowing them down terribly as the Circus Duo ran past them all and got to the chill zone "we made it!" Monstro cheered.
Richard looked at the two skeptically, before looking past them to see the four teams running around swatting away bats are just being carried away by them.
"Uh… congratulations you two" Richard chuckled nervously "you're twelfth"
Monstro cheered even louder as his clown partner turned back to the bats. This was a sign for the bats as they all immediately started leaving the teams alone.
"What was that?" Shiro frowned as he landed on his face after the bats left him alone. He glanced towards Ninja to see her staring in awe at the clown.
"Ninja? Are you ok?" Her sensei asked nervously.
"I… must learn how he did that!" The ninja gushed before getting up and running towards him.
"That's not good… and she could do so much better than a clown" Shiro got up to catch up with her.
The rest of the teams were quick to get up themselves as they started running as fast as they could to get there. However, the Turtle School was easily faster than the others "thirteenth, Turtle School! Two spots left kiddos!"
The Lovers and Wilderness Girls kept running for the goal, with Danny managing to keep ahead of the others, only for him to look back and see Freddy groaning weakly on the ground with pale skin. He looked like he lost a third of his blood.
"Dude, hurry up!" Danny yelled at him.
"Sorry… I think I uh…" he groaned before dropping his head down on the ground. Danny groaned as he went running back to his partner to help him up.
While he was getting his partner, the Lovers and Wilderness Girls came running through the finish line "Lovers, 14th. And Scouts, 15th!" He smiled at the two teams, who sighed in relief. Except for Arnold.
Once those teams had walked off, Danny slowly walked forward with Freddy over his shoulders.
"Brains, Brawn. I'm sure I don't have to tell you what's up" Richard frowned at the two.
Danny sighed "yea, I know. We're out…"
Richard nods "yea, sorry dudes. You were both pretty cool dudes while it lasted if that helps" the host shrugged slightly "I'll let you two say your piece" he started walking off.
"Well, that was a bummer" Danny sighed "we didn't go first and all, but it's a bummer we didn't even get halfway through"
Freddy lightly grunted in the background as many of their scenes played "yea, it was honestly just cool getting to be on tv" he sounded a little less upset.
The two of them were soon shown walking away in the dark streets of Transylvania, Freddy was slowly starting to look better "well, while we're still out of the country we could have some fun" the nerdy one grinned.
Danny smirked back "hey, when in Rome. We didn't the race but hey, some people here might still be impressed"
As the two continued to walk they fist-bumped each other. Before Freddy collapsed face first.
"Well, maybe first we should get you to a hospital" Danny murmured.
AN: not too much to say about this chapter lol, I just really enjoyed writing this one. The elimination might have been a bit unfair or the chapters haven't focused too much on certain contestants, but still just had fun writing it lol. We are making some good progress in this fic though so that's cool.