Richard was standing under a streetlight in the Transylvanian city. He had a trench coat on and anyone walking around would assume that he was about to stab someone. "Hey there folks and welcome back to another episode of the Radickulous Race!" he extended his arms before looking down "ah, wondering why I'm dressed like this? Well, if people are afraid you'll stab them, the local Romanians might leave me alone" he joked.

"But anyway, last time on the race we landed here in the Dracula capital of the world Transylvania! Once here the teams had to find their way to their next tip in a large medieval castle. Where some contestants had to use their head to get through" it shows Shiro grabbing at the large painting.

"And once they managed to do that, the teams moved ahead with their partner trapped in a coffin. The other partner had to carry it to their open graves. With varying results." it showed Arnold barely moving Aisling while Monstro was just carrying his over his shoulder.

"And, in the end, the teams had to race through a gymnasium, where they had to impress the professional. It looked like the Circus Duo was down and out, but Piccolo used his new friends to drag everyone back. In the end, getting the Brains and Brawn eliminated. Will Piccolo manage to continue doing well? I doubt it, guy's got a pain magnet tattoo on his back at this point. But you can still find out if that happens in today's leg of the… Radickulous Race!"

Intro plays

Makenna and Cord were slowly walking to the dickbox with Makenna looking much more confident.

"Second first-place ranking, I'm pumped!" Makenna cheered.

Cord nods slightly "we have gotten pretty lucky. Though I won't be confident until we know we're a good bit ahead"

Makenna just nodded as she tapped the button on the box, pulling out the tip and moving it closer so her partner can read the tip with her. Both gasped, with Makenna's coming off as much more excited "we're going to Hawaii!" Cord spirit's seemed to raise almost immediately at that news.

Richard's voice come over them as it showed the Hawaiian state flag over some stereotypical Hawaiian souvenirs like a grass skirt and a picture of Richard joining in on a game of limbo.

"Yes, the tropical islands of Hawaii. Or, what I like to look at as half of America's freak states. Sure, they have beautiful beaches and lovely women, but wait a hundred years and you'll be saying the same thing about Nebraska" he cleared his throat before appearing at an airport "but enough of that ranting, teams will fly here and will have to tap this festively themed Dickbox" He walked towards a Dickbox with a Hawaiian shirt on it, along with a grass skirt.

It cuts back to the contestants, where the Bandmates had to sit on the front, watching the donkeys slowly trudge along while keeping the wagon going. On this first wagon, they also had the Last Resorts and Internet Losers sitting in the back.

"And that's why a woman shouldn't be president" Guy finished with a proud smile.

Tamera and Bonnie just silently stared at him "so… do you think you were maybe talking to the wrong crowd there big guy?" Bonnie genuinely wondered.

Guy shrugged "well, I just like to make sure all women know that they just shouldn't try when there's always a guy who can do better than them"

"You're right, I don't think I've seen a woman as wide as you" Tamera taunted.

Guy rolled his eyes "You women always go down to such catty insults to bring down someone who's better than you"

Tamera glared more at him "you're really going to die alone aren't you"

"Yea, and when you die all you'll have is that purple goblin sitting next to her" Guy smirked back at her.

Blake chuckled "based as always" he smirked "You'Re ReaLy GoiNg tO dIe AlOne" he mocked while smiling wide.

"Are you four going to fight this whole time?" Cord turned around angrily.

Guy just turned towards her "hey, focus on the road lady, you know how bad women are with driving."

"If you don't stop with your comments I'll turn this right back around!" Makenna threatened the group.

"Fine, jeez. I'll stop" Guy rolled his eyes as he leaned back to relax.

Blake chuckled "you got talked down to by a lady"

Guy glared at him "oh yea? Well-"

Before Guy could even finish what he was about to say the four girls threw the Losers off the wagon and onto the muddy ground.

"Hey, you can't ditch us!" Guy yelled in anger.

"Can and did" Tamera taunted with a satisfied smirk. She raised her fist up to bump it with Makenna.

Meanwhile, further back on the second wagon, the Psychics were upfront as La Familia and the Famers sit in the back. While Jaime was just leaning back to enjoy nature as he rubbed the temple of his head, trying to deal with the massive headache he was dealing with.

Dawn meanwhile was whispering to the donkeys with a soft tone "don't worry Mr. and Mrs. donkeys. Take your time, we'll be there in no time and you will have your time to rest" she smiled.

Jaime groaned slightly "Dawn… what are you doing?" he weakly raised his head to look at her.

Dawn smiled "making sure they both feel at peace and don't feel stressed" she leaned back to turn towards him "but are you ok? You worried me last night" he rested a hand on his knee.

Jaime blushed faintly "thanks, I'm fine though. Just went a little too hard yesterday"

Dawn nods "it's my duty to make sure all of mother nature's children are safe. Even people" she smiled before turning back to the donkeys.

Behind them, Joe had seemingly stared at Margaret the entire time, causing the mafia don to glare back "see something you like gramps?"

Joe chuckled and shrugged "oh nothing. I must just be thinking of something. You just really remind me of someone"

Margaret frowned more "I see."

"For his sake, I'd hope not" Maria murmured.

Margaret slapped the back of her head "I don't think I've seen any old men like you outside of my family, but I'm sure I'll recognize who you are sooner or later. But right now I'm going to nap" she murmured, leaning back while lowering her hat over her face.

Joe continued to look at her, thinking of why she was recognizable to him before he suddenly gasped in fear.

Instead of seeing more of his reaction, the cameras cut further back to our third of five wagons. The Simps were upfront while the Toxic Couple and Disorganized Disaster sitting in the back. Joshua was looking down at his arm and swatted a large bug. He was keeping his head down in the hopes that Hannah wouldn't get mad at him or the other guys in the back.

After a while, he was starting to get nervous. Usually, his girlfriend would have commented on their skin tone by now, but she has been suspiciously quiet. He glanced over and saw that her eyes were still open and she was blinking, so either it was some strange stroke or she's in shock.

"H-Hannah?" He whispered nervously.

"What Joshua?" She almost immediately turned to him with an annoyed look.

"S-s-sorry. You… just seemed more at peace than usual" he murmured nervously "a-are you ok?"

Hannah waved her hand dismissively, as she moved his head to look over at Desmond and Ben. Desmond was lightly massaging his back before lightly kissing Ben's forehead.

"Oh" Joshua stared slightly "oh, that makes a lot more sense"

Confessional: Toxic Couple

Hannah had a small smile "it's so nice seeing young, gay love flowering in front of your eyes. It reminds me why I do what I do"

Joshua smiled "I-I'm glad we got to watch it" he leaned a little closer to side hug her "reminds me of when we first started going out"

Hannah sighed and rolled her eyes "you're not as bad as those sick Simps. But I wish you were at least bi"

Joshua frowned slightly "I-I thought y-you said you'd stop hoping for that"

Hannah just shrugged at the camera "a girl can choose to dream whatever she wants. You can't control my dreams"

"I would n-never" Joshua smiled "I j-just hope to be in them"

"You are, sometimes"

Joshua just quietly frowned at the camera.

XXX

From there was the second to last wagon. In front, Anne and Hope were sitting right next to each other as the Unbalanced Friendship and Clowns awkwardly sat in the back.

Hope glanced at Anne, who was just humming to herself with her usual wide grin. All the bites on her face had subsided and she looked as healthy as ever. Hope continued to make quick glances towards Anne with a nervous look.

She didn't know if she should make a move while everything is so quiet, or if she should just let things be. "I-I'm sorry if I smell bad" Hope murmured after sniffing the air.

"Oh please, you smell like a beautiful forest. And trust me I know what I'm talking about. I once got body spray shot into my mouth and I had an axe-scent for awhile" she laughed obnoxiously.

Hope giggled softly "that's funny…" she smiled softly before hearing her phone go off in her pocket. Her smile almost immediately vanished as she slowly pulled out her phone. She started sweating slightly before turning away from Anne.

Anne frowned slightly as she tried glancing over her shoulder "Whatcha doing there Hope?"

"s-sorry I got a message f-from my boss, it'll just take a few seconds here"

Anne just kept trying to peer over her shoulder, getting a good look at her messages to get a glimpse of an image Hope had sent him. However, she was quick to turn her phone off once Anne got a look "d-do you really need to pry?"

Anne just smiled innocently "I was just curious" she giggled softly "s-say what's the difference between a skillet and a person who asks celebrities invasive questions?"

Hope just stared blankly at her as the comedian backed out of her personal space "what?"

"One's a frying pan, the other's a prying fan!" Anne giggled, expecting Hope to laugh with her but getting no response. This caused the comedian frown in return as they silently went back to looking at the rode before Hope pulled her phone back out.

"I never thought I'd meet two clowns who are less funny and smell worse than me" Piccolo murmured while rolling his eyes after Anne's axe joke.

Kylie shrugged "let them laugh and all that crap, they'll just get themselves out one way or another"

Laurie frowned as she lowered her head "I wish my partner was as nice as they are to each other"

Kylie turned towards her "what was that?"

Laurie whimpered quietly as she kept her head down "n-nothing" she murmured miserably.

"I wish I could do that to my partner" Piccolo deadpanned as he watched Monstro try grabbing a squirrel from one of the trees.

"Sorry, what was that Pickle-o?" Monstro turned around in confusion.

"Nothing… nothing at all" Piccolo murmured as he debated shoving a stick in his eye.

And then, finally, in the wagon in the far back sat the Lovers, Turtle School, and the Wilderness Girls. None of the contestants on that wagon seemed to be talking, as most of them were disappointed with how things had gone last time.

Ninja was one of the only ones in a positive spirit, looking out into the forests as she continually raised her hands up and down like how Piccolo had last challenged.

"Ninja-san, what are you doing?" Shiro asked while sitting up.

"I'm trying to do what that scary clown did" she smiled as she kept going "he summoned those bats from thin air, I could make a whole new vampire-fighting style with that!"

Shiro chuckled softly "It's good to see my student is always trying to learn new techniques. You make me so proud sometimes"

Sophie seemed curious by their conversation as she scooted closer "what are you talking about with techniques?"

Ninja seemed to only get more excited hearing her ask "well, as a ninja I'm always making new techniques. I already made one while we were on the run"

Sophie tilted her head "ninja? I know that's your name but I don't think those exist anymore"

"Our school is full of students such as Ninja here" Shiro smiled as he handed her a card.

Sophie nods slightly as she looked down at the card "I'll… think about it. I never earned a ninja badge!" She seemed excited again.

Ninja and Shiro just smiled at her, especially Shiro who was hoping for the chance to get a young new student to train into a total warrior!

Soon enough, the first planes were landing down in Hawaii. The people on the first wagon were quick to run ahead and push each other out of the way. Makenna was the first to get to the tip, tapping the top only for Tamera to shove her away "thanks for the tip"

Guy then came out of nowhere and shoved her over with his large body "no, thank you" he smirked as he looked down at the tip. "A botch or watch, those who didn't do gymnastics back in Transylvania now have to swim for rings. Hm, I guess he expects the girls to do better here"

Richard was standing on a large dock, before diving under the water. Eventually, he came back up with a ring on his ring finger "what he said is right, ignoring the bias part of it. You just have to find one ring and then can move onto the next leg of the race!"

Back with the contestants, the first few contestants were running to the water.

Bonnie stood over the edge, before turning back to Tamera with a flirty grin "do you think I could get a kiss for good luck?" Bonnie licked her lips slowly.

"I'll do you one better" Tamera glared before shoving her down into the water.

Guy started stretching his legs with a confident smirk "just wait ladies, I'm gonna blow you out of the water"

"How are you going to do that?" Margaret taunted as she got ready to jump in "by literally blowing all of the water out with your fat ass?"

"That's a good one!" Joe quickly complemented with a cheesy grin.

Margaret turned back to him with a raised eyebrow "what's so funny?"

"N-nothing!" Joe chuckled nervously.

"Joe, dude, are you going to jump in?" Deion asked with his arms crossed.

"Dude, don't ruin this for me!" He whispered back threateningly.

Confessional: Hall of Famers

Deion frowned at his partner "why are you trying so hard to make friends with a little girl?"

Joe rolled his eyes "if you listened to my stories you should know that I owe a lot of money to the mafia. And I realized she's absolutely in charge of one big Italian based one"

Deion just frowned more "so you think by playing nice she'll just… forget you owe her money?"

Joe smiled and nodded.

"You make it really hard for me to root for you" his partner deadpanned.

XXX

Back in the challenge, many different contestants were now swimming around in the water looking for any rings that might be at the bottom of the river.

Kylie and Laurie were the last two teams to come running in. Kylie started stretching slightly while glaring at Laurie "since you failed in our last challenge I'll have to carry us back to the lead!" She declared before going diving down.

"Good luck…" Laurie murmured quietly.

In the water, Sophie was doggy-paddling around, desperately trying to swim as fast as she could before Piccolo swam towards it and easily snatched it. When he saw Sophie swimming closer he just kicked her in the face before swimming up with a smug grin.

Sophie whimpered slightly, looking towards another ring before Shiro shot past her like a rocket, spinning around rapidly as he shot up like a rocket.

Sophie just stared in awe as she thought about the card he gave her. However, she didn't have much time to think further as she quickly swam to the top to get some air.

"I got it!" Piccolo yelled up to Monstro. While he was above water, his white face paint was starting to slowly slide off his face.

The partners waiting for their teammates could see Piccolo's face in all its glory as they started getting sick looking at it.

"H-how can he look worse than usual?" Deion looked shocked.

Ninja covered her scarf to not throw up in it.

Piccolo silently glanced at the camera with his usual annoyed expression "I'll see you at the shore Monstro" he quietly murmured before he started swimming away.

Under the water meanwhile, Arnold was falling far behind everyone else. He honestly looked like he was more after drowning than anything else. Anne noticed this however and was quick to swim over to him.

She had a wide smile on her face as she swam closer to a large clam under the water. She opened it up and stuck her hand inside of it before it quickly clamped down on her. She let out a noiseless scream of pain before quickly looking over at Arnold.

He didn't seem remotely amused by her joke, rather he just went down to the bottom of the river and laid down.

Confessional: Anne

"So, it seems Hope isn't the only one around here who could use some serious cheering up. I mean, Arnold is the worst case of some need for Punny humor I've seen"

She pulled out a notebook and started writing down words on it without making a noise. "Arnold't you glad I didn't say, Arnie? Yea, he might like that" she smiled a bit as she kept writing down more and more as she flipped from page to page.

XXX

Still in the water, Sophie was desperately trying to swim around, still not making much progress in any direction.

Rodney on the other hand was easily swimming through the water with his strong muscles as he grabbed a ring on the ground. He was about to swim to the top before he saw Sophie still struggling.

He looked down at the ring before slowly swimming over to the small girl. Sophie looked up at him, wondering what he was doing as he simply handed her one of the rings.

The girl scout looked surprised but quickly smiled at him as she started swimming up to the surface. Rodney just smiled to himself before looking for another ring. He looked to the side and saw Jaime and Joshua getting squeezed by a large squid, while Desmond was just looking for any ring that would be good enough for Ben to gaze upon.

Rodney just quietly frowned, before realizing he hadn't seen Guy or Margaret for most of this leg of the race 'that can't be good' he murmured 'she took our breakup so bad she's already lowered her standards that far…'

Not far from them Cord was just silently swimming around in the water before noticing a giant shark staring her down in front of a key. Cord didn't look too scared of the shark as she simply started swimming towards the key.

The shark moved to meet her on the way to the key as it tried to bite down on her. The camera shifted to the surface, where bubbles were starting to form where they fought.

Eventually, the unconscious shark floated to the surface as Cord swam up "got it" she nonchalantly raised her key to show Makenna.

"Rockin!" Makenna raised her fists in the air "let's hurry to a quick lead!" She declared before racing towards the coast.

Next to the quiet rocker on the surface, Bonnie raised above the water with her ring "hey, Tamera! I got our ring!" when she looked towards Tamera she can see she was more focused on watching Maria and Adam flirt with each other.

She grumbled quietly to herself before whistling "Tamera, I got it!"

Tamera was just choosing to enjoy her peace without having Bonnie annoy her the entire time. However, Bonnie continued to just yell towards her "Bonnie! Just go to the beach I'll meet you later!"

"Ok, I'll see you there~" Bonnie batted her eyelashes before swimming away.

Hope watched this whole interaction with a slightly surprised look on her face, before silently thinking to herself.

Further ahead in the race, Ninja and Shiro made it to the next dick box. "That first part wasn't so bad… so this one should be even easier" Shiro smirked as he tapped the top.

The tip came out as Shiro grabbed it and started reading it "one of the partners will have to carry the other over a pile of burning coals…" Shiro looked at Ninja "I hope you trained your feet back at the dojo" Shiro deadpanned.

Richard smiled as he had a grass skirt on him "teams will be taking part in Hawaiian marriage traditions. On each team, one player will have to play the groom and carry their partner across these hot coals"

Richard grunted in pain as he started walking on the coals "hot, hot, hot" he whimpered as part of the skirt caught fire "if they don't make it all the way or part of you catches fire you start over!"

Richard started running frantically to get off the coals.

Shiro frowned as he put on the skirt "once again I despise my height" the old man murmured in annoyance.

"You look great in it!" Ninja smiled proudly.

"Just carry me" Shiro murmured as he jumped into her arms.

Before Ninja could even step onto the hot coals, Monstro started running past them "Scuse us" The giant apologized as he just kept jogging across the coals.

They made good progress, but before long, Monstro's clothing was catching fire and spreading fast on his body. Piccolo looked down to see the fire but just didn't feel the need to say anything.

By the time Monstro had gotten over the coals, his entire body was seemingly on fire, which was when he finally noticed and went sprinting towards the ocean to douse the fire.

"Well, it's a good thing I'm fire-proof," Ninja boasted excitedly.

"Since when?" Shiro started to sound slightly more nervous.

"I trained to be immune to fire, like when someone becomes immune to poison they ingest more poison!" Ninja smiled as she started running on the coals "so my skin has to be too hard for the fire to spread on me!" She continued running off-screen, but before long she came running back with fire all over her body as she dove into the water face first.

"Was a good effort," her master murmured while sitting next to her.

Back in the water, Desmond had finally found the ring that he thought would be good enough for Ben. So, he started swimming up to the surface. However, when he got to the surface he realized that basically, every other team had already moved on. The only ones still standing around and waiting are Ben, Laurie, Blake, and Maria.

"Ah man, I'm sorry Ben!" Desmond apologized sadly "I spent way too long trying to get that ring, I should've just grabbed the first one"

Ben shook his head "it's fine" he murmured "just good to get it over with" he started walking ahead "we just need to catch up with the others"

Desmond smiled and quickly nodded "Right, I'll see you there!" he quickly started swimming ahead.

While Ben started walking away, Laurie was just tapping her fingers together anxiously, wondering why Kylie was taking so long.

"I'm WoRiEd fOr mY ParTnER" Blake mocked her with a wide smug grin on his face.

"C-can you stop p-p-please?" Laurie frowned, looking a little annoyed by his behavior.

"CaN YoU sToP pLeaSe?" Blake just continued to mock her while moving his arms like a chicken flapping its wings.

Laurie frowned in annoyance at Blake, as he just continued to shout annoying dead memes at her.

Confessional: Laurie

"I-I don't get it… I-I-I helped them from getting e-eliminated… and all they've d-done is h-harass me in return" Laurie looked like she was about to cry. Before wiping her eyes.

"N-no, no. K-Kylie would y-yell at me if I got emotional during this…" Laurie sniffled slightly, trying to find the positive of this race so far "I-I'm strong… strong!" She was trying her hardest to convince herself, but even then it didn't look like it was working.

Before the confessional could go off she whimpered quietly to herself

XXX

Ahead of them, many groups were getting ready to go onto the next leg of the race.

"So…" Joshua started with a small smile on his face "c-can I c-carry you over? Please? I know you're much s-stronger than me but I just want to have the chance… before we maybe get married one day" The skinny boy had a growing blush on his face thinking about that day.

Hannah rolled her eyes on him as she shoved the skirt over her shoulder. "Don't we need that skirt to complete the challenge?" Joshua frowned in confusion.

"The grass skirt is a horrific stereotype for the Hawaiian people, and even if it wasn't wearing that would be like wearing a sombrero on Cinco De Mayo!" the feminist grabbed Joshua, slinging him over her shoulders as she started walking along the hot coals "And another thing, don't assume I want to marry a white straight man like you. Assumptions like that are exactly what sick men like you do so women can't make a decision. If you can't start watching what you say we're going to have some trouble"

Joshua didn't seem upset about his situation, however, just smiling to himself as Hannah started effortlessly walking on the coals. Even if she insulted him he was still being held by his dominant girlfriend in her arms. He's kind of learned to just take any positives he can find with Hannah affection-wise. As Hannah walked it seemed like the coals were too scared to light her clothing on fire or burn her feet as she made it to the other end of the path.

"W-well done Hannah" Joshua smiled proudly for his girlfriend.

"Yea, of course, I did well. A strong woman is used to carrying men on their backs" Hannah rolled her eyes, before running to the chill zone.

When they got there, they saw Richard standing on what effectively looked like a throne while drinking a smoothie "oh, Toxic Couple, congrats. You're first"

Hannah raised an eyebrow at him "you're not going to make a mocking statement?"

Richard shrugged "I know you two will get eliminated in a few races so why expend my annoyance towards you?"

Hannah growled angrily but didn't say anything towards him "you're going to get canceled on everything I have when this is over"

Richard just laughed mockingly "right, I hear canceling people lasts about… a week or so"

Joshua just sighed, knowing this conversation was going to go on for a while.

Back at the start of the coals, Desmond and Ben were both silently looking at the grass skirt "so… do you want to get carried across, or do you want to carry me?" Desmond awkwardly asked.

Ben tapped his chin "I'm not really strong…" he started feeling Desmond's bicep "well, you're not very strong either but out of the two of us I'd guess you're the one with the better chance" while Desmond was embarrassed by his words Ben didn't seem to mean anything by it as he sounded as stoically as always.

Not far from them Rodney and Adam were having the same argument "are you sure I have to wear the skirt?" Adam rubbed his neck.

"Well, yea!" Rodney quickly nodded "your girl isn't here yet, but what if my lady saw me in a dress?" The ginger discretely pointed back towards Bea.

Adam sighed slightly as he grabbed the green skirt "fine, fine. I'm sure Maria would say I look cute in a dress anyways"

"That sounds likely to me," Rodney smiled at him.

Adam frowned "I'll stop you right there. You're not fantasizing about me being a girl again. I told you that that dream is weird"

Rodney just chuckled a bit "I.… wasn't"

Adam looked at him skeptically "right. Sure"

While the Disasters and Simps were getting their outfits on, the Polar Opposites and Last Resorts were slowly walking on the coals. Anne was nonchalantly carrying Hope, humming weakly to try ignoring the burning hot coals on the ground.

Hope looked at her "I should've carried you, no one would be upset if trash like me caught fire"

"No, no" Anne quickly disagreed with her "that would be awful for everyone to see. If you were on fire I'd be totally Hope-less" she giggled, before groaning in pain.

Hope giggled softly before looking ahead. She could see Bonnie pinching Tamera's rear with a lewd grin, and even with Tamera bonking her on the head she kept talking about how hot her partner was.

Confessional: Hope

"I don't get it" Hope frowned standing next to the coals "that Bonnie girl is just… got constant lust for Tamera. Even when she openly says she hates her. I don't get it… but I have to find out how she does that!"

Hope suddenly started looking a bit more determined "if I can find out how she keeps Bonnie around her finger… maybe I could find a way to even get halfway to being worth Anne's attention…"

XXX

Eventually, those two teams reach the other end "Resorts, second. Opposites, 3rd"

Back at the water, Laurie was starting to lose her mind. Maria and Margaret had already moved on and so she was really just stuck listening to Blake.

Kylie eventually, raised above the water "hey, I finally got our ring!" She called up "race you to the coast!" Kylie smirked before rapidly swimming away.

Laurie sighed in relief and was about to start running after her when Blake tripped her with a mocking laugh "oh, sorry there. My leg fell asleep"

Laurie just laid on the ground, not moving at all. Blake tilted his head slightly "what? Is baby going to cry?"

Before he could respond, Laurie suddenly shot up from the ground and punched Blake hard in the gut, before bringing his head down to knee him in the nose in two swift moves of rage.

Blake dropped to the ground with a weak thud. Laurie slowly loses her angry expression and quickly becomes worried seeing Blake lying on the ground unconsciously "B-Blake?"

He didn't move at all. Laurie dropped onto the ground, feeling his pulse. She sighed in relief, before quickly standing up and looking around. She didn't see anyone around so just chose to start sprinting after Kylie.

Back towards the groups moving on the coals, Aisling was awkwardly looking at the miserable Arnold. She really didn't know what was wrong with him but at the same time, she knew she had to do something to boost his spirits again. "Hey Arny, do you wanna care me over the coals? You can show everyone how amazing you are at fighting pain"

"I'm good…" Arnold slouched forward before dropping down onto the ground.

Aisling sighed "when we finish this leg of the race I'm making sure you get a good healing crystal after this. I miss when you were obnoxious knowing that you were better than everyone else at everything"

Arnold just shrugged lazily as Aisling put the skirt on him and then picked him up.

Next to them, Makenna and Cord were already deciding on who should carry who as Makenna fashioned a crazy rocker wig on her head with the skirt that she was supposed to wear.

Cord smiled a bit as she gave her a thumbs up "nice"

Meanwhile, on the coals, Desmond had a wide smile on his face as he started carrying a bored-looking Ben over the hot coals. Ben could see that his partner was starting to flinch in pain "Desmond, the best way to ignore extreme heat is to think of the exact opposite. What is the coldest thing you can think of?"

Desmond sighed and closed his eyes. He thought of himself standing in a large frozen tundra, with nothing but his swim trunks as he tried his hardest to stay warm.

However, while he was freezing he opened his eyes in his fantasy to see Ben smiling at him with a blanket. Before the kid knew what was happening Ben was holding him tight while wrapping him up in a blanket.

"Ah man, even my cold fantasy is hot!" Desmond complained loudly before his attire caught fire and he had to run back to the ocean to douse himself off.

On accident, he dropped Ben face-first into the sand next to the water.

"Oh… that's better" Desmond sighed in relief. He looked back to see if Ben was alright. However, when looking back he could just see that instead of being stoic Ben was obviously annoyed with his partner.

"Right, uh, my bad" he chuckled nervously before trying to get the sand out of the bookworm's hair.

Further ahead, a few teams were making it over the coals "Circus Duo, you're fourth. Turtle School is fifth. Sixth are those Lovers, and seventh is our Bandmates!" He declared from his throne.

Joe and Deion were walking over the coals, with Joe being held up by his 'friend'. However, he was still looking around as he was carried.

"Dude, it's hard enough carrying you- oo- on these coals without you squirming around the whole time!" Deion complained.

"Oh shut up, I'm trying to see if Margaret has made it yet" Joe bonked his head "either she's drowned or she might stay in. Either way, I win"

"You shouldn't wait in anticipation for a girl to drown" Deion deadpanned

"I'll listen to your morals when I don't have to pay her back" he bonked his head again. However, as he kept looking over Deion's shoulder. Near the water, he could see Maria waiting by the coast, only for Margaret to slowly walk from the water like the terminator. She had an angry look of determination as she tossed a bit of seaweed out of her hair.

"Oh shoot, this is when you hurry up Deionny boy" Joe started slapping his cheeks to make his partner go faster.

"Slapping me isn't going to make me go faster dude, stop it"

"I'll stop when we're over the coals"

Right next to them Adam seemed to be relaxed, just enjoying being carried over the coals without much of a threat. He looked over Rodney to see La Familia had made it "oh good. I was really worried they were going to get themselves eliminated"

Rodney frowned slightly at Adam "a-are" he grunted from the coals "going to ask Maria out anytime soon?"

"Well, yea of course" Adam chuckled "I wasn't really expecting that question"

Rodney shrugged as he gripped Adam to not grunt louder "I-I was just wondering. Bea and I have a wonderful relationship already, and I was just getting to know my future grandaughter in law so that was nice"

Adam just nods "Right… that. Well, I think you're right at least about me asking her out. She's just so beautiful I was kinda, well, nervous that she might say no"

Rodney scoffed "oh please who would turn you down? If I was a woman I'd totally date you!"

Adam chuckled a bit "yea thanks bud. Definitely makes me feel good"

The two of them stop off of the coals "Famers you're eighth, the Simps are ninth"

"Woo" Rodney cheered before dropping Adam on the ground.

"Wilderness girls, you're tenth"

Bea sighed in relief as she softly put Sophie on the ground before collapsing on the ground "why would anyone do something like that for fun?... I don't get young people"

Rodney just crouched to help her up "well you did great either way" he smiled.

Bea smiled back "well thank you, Rodney. I'm… going to go find somewhere soft to lay" she started slowly moving away as Rodney just smiled to where she was going.

Confessional: Simps

Rodney had hearts in his eyes "I never had a girlfriend this long before… I really do think there's a connection here!" He cheered.

Adam just smiled awkwardly as he pats his back "yea, you go for your dream man… I owe you that much encouragement"

Rodney snapped his fingers "I should get a ring! She would love a wedding ring wouldn't she?"

Adam started getting more nervous "wait… what are we talking about now?"

Rodney just kept smiling "well it's obvious. We're both totally in love with each other. I need to get her a ring so we can just live happily together!"

"Rodney, I hate to ruin your mood but that's just an aw-" Before Adam could finish Rodney was already running to the jewelry store as Adam drooped in his seat.

XXX

From there, there were only a few contestants that had to make their way across the coals. The Psychics, La Familia, Unbalanced Friendship, and the Disaster Duo in that order. Dawn, Margaret, Kylie, and Ben were all carrying the weight for their teams now. Even as Dawn was falling behind the others.

Eventually, the first three came running off the coals and to the chill zone where Richard was starting to get impatient "Disaster, you're tenth" even as the Friendship and La Familia reached the chill zone he didn't say anything.

Dawn eventually caught up with the group with a frown "are we out?" She worried.

Richard chuckled and shook his head "nope, you guys are actually eleventh"

Jaime looked confused "really? We're safe?"

"Yea, that's what I said" he threw his thumb over his shoulder "just go join the others while I talk with these two"

Jaime and Dawn looked at each other but took his advice and started walking past him. Richard just looked at the two groups once they were gone and shook his head "gotta say, real disappointed with how this one turned out"

He pointed at Laurie "while what you did was an accident that's still giving you a penalty." he then pointed at Margaret "and you took it was further than them, but, you're also hot so you're taking the same penalty. But so help me, if you try pulling this whole thing again I will not be afraid of disqualifying you…"

Richard smirked a bit "but I will be willing to be paid off if need be"

Margaret stuck her tongue out "I would rather get eliminated than that, creep show." Richard could feel the venom from her voice.

"Yea, yea" Richard just rolled his eyes "you both have an hour-long penalty so you better get comfy"

Margaret just shrugged before taking a seat to get comfortable. Maria chose to sit down, but a good way away from her.

As they started waiting, Kylie slowly turned towards "so… wanna share what you were doing while I was swimming around then?"

Laurie fidgeted nervously "I-I-I'm really really sorry" she whimpered "B-Blake j-just kept talking a-and he tripped me…"

"I'm not looking for an excuse" Kylie put her hands on her hips "what did you do?"

"I-I k-knocked him… out. But I'm really sorry! I-I didn't mean to punch h-him that hard" Laurie looked like she was about to cry again.

She looked up to Kylie, expecting her to be mad only for Kylie to give her an encouraging smile "Laurie, I've been waiting for you to punch someone's lights out since we started this race! Took you long enough"

Laurie frowned slightly "w-what?"

"I told you I came here just to get your fighting spirit out and now look at you! Knocked his block off" The hardass smiled smugly "even if we go home I'll be happy knowing you finally have that spark going on inside you"

Laurie smiled slightly "t-thanks… b-but I still really feel bad about punching him… especially because I still haven't seen either of them in a while"

Kylie shrugged "they'll get here sooner or later. Hopefully later at least"

The two teams continued to wait for a while. The two teams moved around as the recording started to speed up.

Richard sighed in annoyance after an hour had gone by "alright you're both safe then." he seemed surprisingly annoyed at girls being safe in his race.

"Who gets a higher spot?" Kylie frowned.

Richard waved his hand "it was the Familia I guess" he shrugged "you four can join the others. I have to wait until all of the teams have made it…"

The two teams just walked past him and went to their housing for the evening.

Richard however was left waiting by the chill zone for hours as it slowly became evening. Richard sighed in annoyance, glancing over his shoulder to see a pretty young woman doing a hula dance around some fire.

"Oh come onnnnn" Richard whined in annoyance "how are those two still taking this long!?"

While he was looking away he could hear some water sizzling on the hot coals. He quickly turned back around and saw Blake and Guy slowly coming closer. Guy had cement shoes on as he slowly walked closer. The shoes made walking on the coals a non-issue. Blake meanwhile just had a bruise on his head and looked more or less fine.

"Ugh, you two finally got here! What took you so long?" Richard frowned at the two of them.

"I got jumped by a group of Italians" Guy glared at the host as he dropped Blake on the ground "I was as fast as I could be"

"Yea, I gave them an hour punishment don't worry about it" Richard then started slowly walking away from them "you're both out either way though so if you could get your whole outro thing over with. I gotta go native for a bit"

Blake and Guy just frowned watching him walk away.

"Well, it's good to say we at least outlasted a few women before the bias against us men came into full effect" Guy started as it started showing off their time on the race.

"Those women probably just eliminated us because they were worried we'd be too threatening for them" Blake spoke confidently "I guess all women are just intimidated by our superior forms"

Guy chuckled a bit "I can't wait to gloat about this for karma on Reddit. Who says Redditors can't do things? I kicked ass!"

Blake chuckled as it shows the two of them walking on the Hawaiian beach "we should totally go kick in a little girl's sandcastle!"

Guy snickered as he raised his hand up for Blake "You always read my mind"

Blake smiled as he high-fived him as they both ran towards a crowded beach with their mischievous grins.