Richard was smiling to himself while watching some hula dancers. He smirked even wider seeing one of the dancers wink playfully at him.
"I know where I'm vacating after this season" he whispered to himself before looking at the camera. "Ah, right. Still in the middle of that. Well, last time on the Radickulous race, the Toxic Couple came in first thanks to Hannah's will to win and will to annoy me to no end. However ignoring her as we all should, the Internet Losers were the team that managed to come in last all thanks to one Mafia don and a scared little martial artist"
Richard went back to enjoying the dancing "that's all you need to know, beat it" he glared towards the camera as he started swatting it away.
The cameraman complained in annoyance but started backing away to let him 'enjoy' himself.
Intro plays
With Hannah, and I guess Joshua making it to first place, they got to grab their tip first. Joshua was about to tap the top of the dickbox when Hannah swatted his hand "ladies first Joshua" she scolded before grabbing the tip from the box.
Hannah started reading it "our next tip is in… Dubai!" Hannah actually seemed pretty excited by this.
"Du-what?" Joshua frowned.
"Dubai" Richard repeated "it's what happens when you have city meet desert on the Arabian peninsula. I don't know a lot about what they have there, but I know they have the world's largest skyscraper. At least that's what I hear anyways, we'll cut this out if I got that fact wrong."
Confessional: Toxic Couple
Hannah still seemed pretty excited by their coming location "Dubai, I've wanted to come here for so long it's almost unbearable" she sighed.
Joshua frowned slightly "why do you want to go to Dubai so badly?"
Hannah rolled her eyes "I don't have to explain it to a man like you but I will because I can. Dubai is proof that when other societies are left to do what they want without Western intervention they can be successful if not more so" she crossed her arms "but of course as a white man you don't care"
"N-no, no I agree we shouldn't" Joshua smiled at her "I'm sure that city will be b-beautiful even outside of my western bias"
Hannah glanced around and gave him a small peck on the cheek "good boy"
XXX
From there, the first 6 teams were able to just kick back, and relax. However, it didn't seem like any of the teams in the lead were actually relaxed.
Hannah and Joshua were sitting in first class, enjoying themselves when she noticed Bonnie hitting on Tamera in the back. Her expression turned into a quick smirk as she got up and grabbed Joshua by the arm as she started walking back "h-hey, what are you doing?"
Hannah just ignored him as she smiled at Tamera and Bonnie "excuse us, but we wanted to give you our seats up in first-class" she smiled innocently.
Tamera raised an eyebrow at her "you want to give us your seats? Why?"
Hannah just smiled "well, as a POC in a lesbian relationship I know that your life must be hard and that you need to have the chance to get ahead"
Tamera frowned "Lesbian…?" She glanced back at Bonnie who was fluttering her eyelashes with a lewd grin.
"Yea, sure, whatever you say." she got up, just wanting a more comfortable seat.
Bonnie scampered after her, sitting down in her seat to try getting Tamera to sit on her lap. Which once again got Hope's attention as she frowned softly.
"Why did you give up our seat?" Joshua frowned slightly "the seats were so comfy too"
Hannah scoffed and looked like she was honestly insulted "did you not hear what I said? She's a minority woman with a girlfriend outside of the West. She needs all that we can give her"
"She seemed well off to me…" Joshua murmured.
Hannah shot him a cold stare to immediately silence him.
Further back in the plane Piccolo and Monstro were sitting in front of the Turtle School. Piccolo was looking down with a small smile as he read a newspaper about all the things going on in the world.
However, he couldn't enjoy reading about the orphanage fire as Ninja was starting to quietly kick the back of his seat.
"Will you stop!?" Piccolo turned around and basically screamed at her.
"Sorry" Ninja smiled sweetly "I was just wanting to get your attention"
"For what?" The clown looked uninterested. "Do you want to learn how to make kids cry at birthday parties?"
Ninja shook her head "I wanna learn how you did that bat-fu technique! I've never seen someone fight with animals like that before. Besides that one Russian martial artist who I think was just a bear! I have never seen someone fight with an animal before. Besides this one Russian martial artist, but I'm pretty sure that bear was just another hairy guy"
Piccolo groaned "Fine, sure. I'll teach you how to talk to bats if you let us ahead of you in the race"
"Deal!" Ninja quickly declared.
"What?" Shiro quickly asked as he stopped looking at a flight attendant
Another group on the plane wasn't soaking in the success, Aisling was smiling softly at Arnold as she fed him some peanuts "we're in the front half of the competition, we're doing pretty well right?"
Arnold slouched as he rested his head against the seat in front of him "you're doing pretty well… I'm just here"
"You were carrying us earlier on. If you were carrying us you'd be getting us first every round" Aisling quickly reasoned.
"Eh…" he continued to slouch forward sadly before slowly slouching down onto the floor while making miserable noises.
Aisling sighed "You must really be a Pisces Arnold, seriously" she slowly shook her head.
Arnold just looked at her "what's that supposed to mean?"
His partner perked up slightly "oh well I would love to explain it to you! So you see, star signs are-"
While she started trailing on about star signs it pulled back to Cord and Makenna just eating some trail mix while sitting in relative peace.
Confessional: Bandmates
"It seems like all of these other teams are just arguing over who can be the most dysfunctional" Makenna joked.
"I'm glad I signed up with one of my bandmates, it feels like most of the people on this plane just chose the first person they could find on the streets"
"I think that's actually how the Disaster Duo met" Makenna snickered slightly.
"Considering the sexual energy going on between them that must have been one strange meet up" Cord smirked slightly at the camera.
Makenna meanwhile just looked confused "sexual energy? What do you mean by that?"
Cord just kept looking at the camera "nothing"
XXX
On the second flight, surprisingly more of the players seemed to just be leaning back and enjoying the ride. Well, except for Joe. Ever since the last leg, he's been keeping an eye on Margaret at a distance.
"She definitely got that fat kid out in the last leg" he whispered to his partner as he very obviously looked at her.
"Well, the kid was kinda annoying. It's not something we should worry about anyways. We're a good way into this race we can't just get distracted"
"Oh shut up you" Joe swatted his head "I've got a much better plan anyways"
Deion rubbed where Joe hit him "oh, and what is that?"
Joe smirked as he sat down "easy, I'll eliminate her and we won't have to worry about her ever again. Especially because I know she's gonna try eliminating big threats such as us."
Deion stared blankly at him "right. Now, hypothetically, what would you do if she knows you got her out?"
Joe smirked "won't happen. Because once I get her out and win it all I'll use the money to get out of debt so she can't touch me" he put his hands behind his head and leaned back "Joe I can't believe how smart you are"
Deion rolled his eyes slightly as the camera panned over to Desmond and Ben who were watching a movie from their seats "dumbass" Ben murmured.
"What was that?" Desmond quickly turned his head.
"Nothing"
Sitting back, Laurie was looking down miserably. She had her hands resting on a foldable tray from the back of the seat in front of her. She looked a little sad but Kylie was having a good time "man I'm still so seriously proud of you. I haven't gotten progress that fast in a good while"
"Please stop s-saying what I did was good" she whispered miserably.
"Fine, fine." she leaned closer "but I'm still proud of you" she whispered before pulling away from her and looking at La Familia that was sitting in front of them.
"It was nice working with you by the way. You slowed down Guy like a real champ" Kylie complimented Margaret.
Margaret smirked slightly "if you wanted I wouldn't mind having you help us further. I think your loud angry attitude would be rather helpful"
Kylie chuckled a bit "I'm too focused on my own pet project" she pointed back at Laurie "but thanks for the offer"
Margaret just nods "alright. But don't be surprised if I take you down"
Kylie smirked "ok but know it'll take a lot to beat me"
"Can't imagine it's that much," Margaret smirked at him.
While the two of them were in a dick-measuring competition Rodney had gotten up from his seat with Adam and started walking to a restroom.
As he walked he felt himself trip on a wrapper someone had just thrown onto the ground. Falling face first before someone grabbed him by the back of his shirt.
"Are you ok?" Maria asked nervously as Rodney slowly started pulling himself up.
Rodney smiled at her as he moved to hold onto her hands. Maria could tell from his eyes that he was beginning to look at her the same way Adam always did "oh no…"
The follow-up plane would have another hour to try catching up with the teams on the first plane so those groups were quick to run to their tip to keep their lead. Thanks to the head start from the Toxic Couple, Tamera and Bonnie were the first two off the plane and to their dickbox.
"Alright, it's an either-or" Tamera read off. "We either have to play tennis or clean windows. Like I would ever do the latter"
Richard was shown standing on the top of a large tower with a racket in his hand. He was swinging it around slowly before twirling it around on his hand "as Tamera said you have two choices. If you choose to play tennis you have to play against a state of the art machine on the top of a giant tower" the camera panned out to show that the platformer Richard was on was towering above the ground.
When it panned back in, it had a professional-looking athlete with Richard's face plastered on him in post. When the robot on the other side of the net shot at him he easily swatted it back "it's as easy as that" his voice dubbed over him.
It then cuts to Richard standing on a platform as an intern used a sponge to clean the windows "and if they chicken out of that, they can just go down to this. To move on they have to clean a whole collum down of this skyscraper. Might take a while though so good luck with that."
As Richard spoke the platform the intern was using suddenly collapsed and flew towards the hard ground below "wow, I can't believe they allow this one!" Richard smiled in surprise.
"So… what do you want to do?" Monstro looked down at his partner.
Piccolo just looked at him "I'm not cleaning a giant building for free. Let's just go ahead and get this part over with"
Ninja just smiled and started chasing after Piccolo excitedly. "Ninja, I don't know if you should be following that clown." He cautioned as he just tried keeping up.
"But he promised to teach me!" She quickly countered.
"No offense but I'm sure that clown's fighting technique would just be throwing sand in someone's face before kicking them in the groin" Shiro frowned in annoyance.
Piccolo turned his head to look at him "if it helps you're not far off. I just skip the sand part, however. Easier just getting right to hurting them"
Hannah scoffed watching them all walked off "I can't believe this. They all think they're just too good for cleaning windows. Talk about entitlement"
"I'm not very strong so doing that sounds fine to me" Joshua smiled a bit "as always your ideas are so much better than mine"
Hannah smiled softly as she patted his head "you're truly becoming the perfect male wife" she smiled proudly.
Joshua frowned slightly but didn't say anything as he started following behind her.
The teams planning to play tennis started going up the stairs, with everyone besides Anne making it up rather easily. When Hope saw that, she slowly moved closer to Tamera, who was having Bonnie carry her in her arms to not have to run.
Hope slowly got closer to her "hey, uh… Tamera? I kind of need to talk…"
Tamera raised an eyebrow at her before raising a hand to make Bonnie stop "yes queen?"
"Set me down" the HBIC demanded as Bonnie did so "what do you need with me then?"
"H-how do you get…" she glanced at Bonnie "her to be so into you?"
Tamera frowned slightly "you want dating advice… Did I hear that right?"
Hope nodded "I-I want to know how I can make myself appealing and not just garbage Anne would throw on the street every week"
Tamera looked appalled "you're into that clown?"
The depressed girl blushed softly before nodding her head "y-yes…"
"Well, if you want her to be into you there's only one way I can see that working" the vixen smirked.
"H-how? I-I need to know!"
She just kept smirking as she ran her hands up her figure "you have to be more like me. I'm confident, hot, and most importantly, and I can't stress this enough, more like me"
Hope nodded slowly "h-how… can I be more like you?"
"How about this, if you can help me with this challenge I'll take you shopping. I can turn trash like you into something that no man or woman could resist."
"So you could make me more attractive" Bonnie smiled at her.
"I can fix Hope but I'm not a miracle worker. Best case scenario I can make you like the sun so no one wants to look directly at you instead of staring at you like a car crash" Tamera spoke with venom coming out of each word.
Bonnie just continued to smile at her, like she wasn't just mocked as always. Tamera just rolled her eyes before turning back to Hope "so, is it a deal?"
Hope nodded slowly "s-sure, I can try. T-Thank you so much for the help"
Tamera smirked as she took her hand to shake it "Great. Now expect me to call in a favor later after we fix you up"
Hope looked a little nervous "O-Oh, ok sure. A-As long as you're sure it will work"
Tamera nods "oh I know it will" she snapped her finger as Bonnie picked her back up and started running up the stairs.
Not much longer Anne started slowly catching up with Hope "s-sorry I'm falling behind… my feet fell asleep on the plane. And I haven't had the time to wake them up" she gestured down to her legs that she had covered in blankets and drew sleepy eyes on the top of her foot.
Hope was about to let out a giggle before looking back at Tamera. She could see Bonnie staring down at her chest as she purposefully took large steps forward. Hope bit her lower lip before turning back to Anne "you slowed us down b-because of s-some joke?" Hope forced a frown "let's just keep going"
Anne frowned to herself as Hope started running ahead to catch up with the others.
Confessional: Anne
"What was that?" Anne frowned, she actually looked a little sad "Am I really losing my touch with my jokes? She didn't laugh on the ride to the last challenge either, I'm… a little worried-" She was starting to look a bit nervous "no, that was probably just a bad joke. I'm sure my next one will get her rolling on the floor!"
XXX
Confessional: Hope
"Oh, that joke was adorable" Hope held her cheeks as she blushed "it was so hard to not laugh at that. But if Tamera's hard to get works it works. If we get together when we get home we can just sit together… laughing together by the fire" she kept blushing as her smile became softer and more peaceful.
XXX
The Bandmates were the first two to make it to the top of the building as they looked at the balls machine staring at them. Makenna slowly got closer and looked down the side to see how long a fall would be "oh, this is going to be so fun!"
Cord just grabbed one of the rackets and started swinging it slowly to warm herself up "this could be fun" she smiled slightly.
Makenna grinned at her partner "see? This game is going to be a blast!" She grabbed her own racket as she turned to the machine.
Both girls got themselves ready for the machine to start up, but before they knew it two tennis balls were shot at them and knocked the rackets out of their hands.
"What the-"
"Heck!?" Makenna and Cord were shocked by the sudden force. Before shooting three extra shots at them, pushing them away from the tennis court.
"Who's- next?" The robot asked in a monotone robotic voice while shifting its aim at all the contestants that had made it to the top of the building.
"Arnold and I can handle thi-" before Aisling could finish her declaration the robot turned its aim to them and knocked Arnold on his ass after shooting him right between the eyes.
"Never mind…" Aisling murmured.
Meanwhile, down the sides of the building, some teams were choosing to avoid the dangerous balls and were using their sponges on the building windows. Hannah and Joshua were further down on the cleaning, while further up the Psychics, Wilderness, and the Simps were trying to catch up with them.
The Wilderness Girls were right next to the Simps as Rodney looked down "hey... Adam? Do you mind if I do something real quick?"
He looked over at his partner, seeing how sad he looked, and sighed slightly "you're going through another breakup again aren't you?"
Rodney whimpered like a sad puppy as he nodded his head "y-yes… Bea and I were a perfect couple… but I just don't think it was working out"
Adam smiled slightly "sorry bud, I think your age gap was a bit too much anyways. You should date girls closer to your age range"
Rodney just smiled nervously at him "o-oh, yea, I found my soulmate that's much closer to my age"
Adam nodded as he kept cleaning the window "Just let Bea down easy big guy"
Rodney nodded "I will" he smiled before turning over to Bea who was mostly ignoring their conversation while wiping the upper parts of the window that Sophie couldn't reach.
"B-Bea?" Rodney whispered nervously.
The old lady turned to look at him "oh, yes Rodney? What can I help you with?"
"I-I'm sorry" The farmer murmured, "b-but l-l-like roses everything sets one day and I enjoyed time together, and the stars shined so bright!" He whimpered sadly "I-I'll still help with the kids but I'm sorry! The wedding's off!"
The big guy teared up before pulling on his team's pulley to send them further down and away from the Wilderness girls.
Bea frowned a little watching him ride down the side of the building "did I accidentally tune out him talking about an invitation to a wedding?"
Sophie shook her head "I don't think you should worry about it"
Bea rubbed her chin "maybe he's going through a bad breakup back home? I don't exactly know what would upset a boy his age"
Sophie shrugged "when the round's over maybe we can do something nice to lift his spirit"
Bea smiled down at Sophie "if you didn't already have your good idea sash you would have just won it"
Sophie smirked slightly "I could have six of those by now"
Dawn and Jaime were nearby them, just making slow progress. Jaime smiled softly at Dawn as he raised his finger, to her surprise the rag he was using just floated around, rubbing against the window effortlessly.
"That is perfect Jaime" Dawn smiled softly "I knew you could use your powers more efficiently if you just kept at it"
Jaime smiled softly "why thank you, Dawn. I didn't have faith in myself… so it's nice knowing someone thought I could do it"
"Of course" Dawn smiled softly "though I do feel a dark energy coming from above us…" she glanced up at the other contestants.
Jaime frowned "What do you think it is?"
The moon-child shrugged "it could be anything really. Many of the teams left in this game have something wrong with them"
Jaime quietly looked up to the tennis court, wondering what it could be.
Up on the tennis course, Joe was up next, smirking to himself as he stood in front of Margaret and raised his racket right where her head was.
The machine fired itself up before shooking a shot at Joe, however, the Famer just dodged right out of the way as the ball nailed Margaret in the head "ah damn it!"
"Oh, sorry" Joe smiled innocently "I guess in my old age I'm not as quick to the ball as I thought" he winked at his partner, who just rubbed the bridge of his nose slowly.
Before Margaret could respond to Joe two more tennis balls shot at her, one hitting her in the stomach and the other hitting her in the leg, making her fall on the ground.
"My bad again!" Joe apologized with a smirk. Before dropping the racket on the ground.
Ben and Desmond were up next in the line, and Ben was showing the faintest bit of nervousness. Desmond however smiled encouragingly at him "don't worry Benny, I know you can handle this no problem!"
Ben nodded slowly "strength isn't my forte… but I'll see what I can do"
Ben grabbed the tennis racket that Joe dropped. Ben got into a crouched-down form, slowly moving the racket back and forth "ok… a little more weight to it, but if I hit the ball at the right angle…"
Before he could do any more calculation the tennis machine shot a strong ball at the bookworm's upper thigh. "Ben!" Desmond shouted in surprise as he ran up to his partner.
He could cupped Ben's head while looking down at him, seeing him groan slightly in pain "yea… I should've seen that one coming"
Desmond frowned at his partner, before hearing the machine revving itself up for another shot. "So can one of us go ahead now or-"
As one of the other contestants spoke Desmond got up and grabbed the racket. Many of the other contestants just watched in amusement, expecting him to get knocked down like his partner as the machine shot a fastball at him. Desmond glared angrily before slamming the racket against the ball, sending it flying back at it as it slams hard into its side, leaving a large dent.
"Woah, that little guy really knew how to smash!" Monstro looked impressed.
Desmond ignored their surprise as he helped Ben up "let's get this leg of the race over with" he murmured while slowly walking off with him.
"I'm next!" Anne grinned as she jumped up and grabbed the racket "if it's already damaged, the shots should be way easier now!"
However, the machine that looked like it was beginning to short circuit just spun around rapidly before shooting multiple balls as hard as it could at Anne's head, sending her face-first onto the ground behind the group.
"Great" Margaret groaned in annoyance.
Desmond and Ben got to the bottom of the large building and tapped a Dickbox that was sitting on the side of the road. Desmond was still helping his partner walk, however, Ben was slowly handling himself on his own. "Alright, let's see where we're off to now"
He raised the tip up to his head "Oh hey, we just have to race to the chill zone!"
The scene was quick to cut to Richard standing in a large mall while just awkwardly glancing around "Here's just a chill zone… at the mall" Richard shrugged slightly "not much to say, just make it here and you're safe"
As Richard spoke two women walked past him dressed from head to toe. Causing the perverted host to sigh softly in annoyance "I hate this place"
Desmond and Ben simply started running to the chill zone, making it before it looked like anyone else was even catching up.
"Disaster, congratulations guys, you finally got first place again" Richard smiled at the two.
Desmond smiled proudly, hugging Ben's arm excitedly. However, the bookworm only gave a small nod and smile of appreciation.
However, they didn't have long to enjoy their moment before the Unbalanced Friendship came running in.
"How'd you two catch up so fast?" The host frowned slightly.
"Well…" Laurie murmured before it cut back to the top of the building.
"Come batter batter, swing!" Kylie called with a mocking grin in the flashback. "you can't hit shit Laurie, my grandma could hit harder than you!"
Laurie whimpered slightly as the ball shot right past her, barely being close to hitting her.
"Come on Laurie you're better than that!" Kylie chastised.
Laurie growled softly, lowering her head angrily as the machine fired itself up again and shot at her. Laurie didn't raise her head as she moved her hips and swung at the ball, sending it flying past the machine.
Back in the presence, Laurie blushed bashfully "I-It was kind of luck"
Kylie snickered and rolled her eyes "nothing lucky about it, my partner is just kicking ass and taking names!"
Laurie blushed faintly as she fidgeted with her hands.
"Yea yea whatever" Richard just took a step to the side "you guys are first and second enjoy sitting back and relaxing while waiting for the others"
The two teams smiled as they started walking into the mall proper.
Back at the giant tower, many teams were putting their game faces on.
Ninja was the next to stand up to the challenge, holding her racket up as she stood up straight. She had her eyes closed in a calm expression. The machine began to rapidly fire multiple balls at her before Ninja opened her eyes with a determined look as a flash of light blinded everyone in her vicinity.
When everyone could see her again, no one had seen her hit anything as the robot had multiple ball imprints into its form. The droid short-circuited slightly as Ninja turned her back to it with a small smile.
"Ready to move on sensei?" Ninja smiled while bowing slightly towards him.
Shiro smiled and bowed back "I am as ready as you are Ninja-san"
Ninja didn't wait another second before grabbing her master under her shoulder and jumped off the side of the roof. She smiled excitedly again as she started running straight down the windows, not showing any effects from the gravity.
"Ninja, be more careful!" Shiro looked like he was about to pass out from the excitement, seeing as he's an ancient old man.
"Sorry Master" Ninja quickly apologized as she ran down to the bottom of the tower, stepping off the wall and looking around to make sure where she was. Shiro was totally pale in her arms.
Shiro slowly dropped out of her arms "It's… fine" he chuckled softly.
Ninja and Shiro smiled at each other and began walking away before seeing Dawn and Jaime looking annoyed at them. "What?" Ninja asked innocently.
Jaime just pointed behind her.
Ninja slowly turned around and saw that she had left dirt tracks all along with the windows that they effectively just finished.
"Ah… our bad" Shiro chuckled awkwardly as he started slowly sneaking away from their annoyed looks. Ninja glanced at him before slowly following after him.
Jaime and Dawn sighed before going right back onto the platform, bringing themselves back up slowly to clean their way to the top.
Back at the top, more and more teams were easily managing to get through the challenge. After Ninja had simply destroyed the machine, even a small child could push through this leg of the race.
In a row of people, they started swatting the tennis balls without any real effort. Cord, Joe, and Anne all easily swatted the balls with their rackets, before Piccolo came forward and just headbutt the ball away.
While the Opposites, Bandmates, and Clowns just started moving on to the chill zone, Joe stuck around with a mischievous smirk on his face. Maria went up to the machine, getting ready to swing at the machine's ball. However, as it came out Joe threw the racket over his shoulder as hard as he could, causing Maria to slouch forward in pain as the ball flew past her.
Margaret turned to glare at Joe, but the All-Star Player was already running back down the stairs.
Further ahead, Ninja and Shiro were parkoring over the street objects, apparently feeling the need to show off more and more.
However, as they jumped around they could see Sophie and Bea just speed walking right behind them.
Shiro immediately stopped jumped around as he hung from a light post like a bat, with Ninja holding onto the side of it like a sloth "why are we stopping master?"
Shiro just continued to hang from the light post, staring down at Bea's chest from his perfect angle "uh, trying to see if that small girl…. Still wants to join our dojo. Yes, that"
Ninja lit up slightly "Oh, we should totally talk to her about it again! I would love to have a Lil baby training partner"
Shiro nodded, still just staring at Bea's chest as she stood under the two of them "What are you doing?" Bea asked hesitantly.
Shiro didn't respond, just dropping down in the hopes of landing face-first in her chest, however, the gilf simply sidestepped him.
Shiro chuckled weakly on the ground as he raised himself up "I… was just parkoring around and lost my footing"
"Right…" Bea frowned slightly at him "Well we were going to continue to the finish line if you two didn't need anything"
"Actually" Ninja slowly slid down the lamppost "we wanted to talk to Sophie about the ninja way of life"
Bea just continued to look skeptical, however, Sophie looked somewhat excited as she wrang her fingers together.
"Can I? Can I? Can I?" Sophie bounced up and down excitedly.
Bea sighed softly "fine, but after the race is over"
"Fine by us" Shiro smiled innocently, just staring at Bea's rear at this point.
The old lady just rolled her eyes at his behavior before grabbing Sophie by the arm and running to the finish line.
Shiro watched Bea running from behind before looking at Ninja "wanna beat them there?"
Ninja just smiled and nodded "I want to show Lil Sophie what we can do!"
Shiro just smirked before throwing a smoke bomb on the ground as they disappeared.
At the finish line, Bea and Sophie came running in as Richard casually checked out some of the items lying around "Ah, Wilderness Girls. I'm not used to you two actually doing well. But you're safe and in fourth" he smiled.
"Fourth?" Bea frowned slightly "who got ahead of us?"
Richard just pointed past them to Ninja and Shiro, who were both in mediational poses.
"They're fast…" Bea murmured, honestly a little impressed by them.
Confessional: Turtle School
Shiro had a smile on his face "more and more of the teams are getting dropped out, so the challenges should only be getting harder and harder right?"
Ninja just nodded, though it was hard to tell if she was following his train of thought.
"And if challenges just keep getting harder, we'll just have more and more times to show what our school teaches and how effective it could really be"
"Right!" Ninja smiled and nodded.
However, before Ninja could say anything else Shiro smirked at the camera "For those who are invested in the training at the Turtle School training spa, please contact us at 1-999-Rock-999-Roll. We promise to have you whipped into shape seemingly impossible for those of the human race. And if we fail, well, you can get a free date with our other student Ibuki"
Ninja smiled a bit at the camera, picking up on his salesman pitch "that's a bargain right there honestly"
XXX
On the way to the chill zone, Makenna and Cord found themselves running side by side with Monstro, who was carrying Piccolo on his shoulders. However, he was so high up he hit some signs on accident, though he didn't look bothered by it.
"How are you doing big guy? Been a little bit since we caught up" Makenna smiled at him.
Monstro smiled down at her "Oh, I'm doing great! Pickleo and I have been getting along swell as always!"
"Well that's good" she grinned a bit "Uh, any chance you want to give Cord and I a ride to the chill zone?"
The giant raised his eyebrow at her "Why would you want a ride?"
"Thought it could be fun" Makenna shrugged.
"And I wanna see what it's like to feel as tall as you" Cord mused as the two teams slowed down.
Monstro smiled before looking at his partner "Sorry Pickleo, I wanna help our friends"
Piccolo just shrugged "You smelled worse than me anyways" he turned ahead before just falling face-first onto the ground below.
Monstro then just turned to the other two, getting down on his knees to make him around the same size as the two of them. They both slowly tried climbing onto his shoulders, which surprisingly could hold both of them.
"Now this is a good view!" Makenna grinned while looking around and seeing herself being almost as tall as some of the trees around the city.
Cord just looked down at the people and smiled softly at how small they were in comparison to her as Monstro went right back to running for the finish line.
After those two had made it in, the group that easily passed the tennis challenge had moved on "Opposites, you're fifth. Famers, you're sixth. And the Bandmates and Circus Duo are seventh and eighth respectively" He announced to the groups as they all came in.
"And with all those teams in, we're already halfway to leaving this god-forsaken place" Richard announced excitedly as it cut back to the contestants at the top of the building.
"H-Hannah, are you sure I can't swing this time? I promise I won't screw up and miss" Joshua pleaded to his girlfriend.
"I can handle this Joshua" Hannah glared at her boyfriend "Do you think I can't handle things on my own? Do you think that just because I'm plus-sized I need a man to do things for me?"
Joshua frowned a bit "Do you always have to make a point about me being a white man? I'm more than that…"
"I have to make sure you remember the privilege you have" Hannah glared at him "don't forget that you have things nicer than most people in the world"
Joshua frowned slightly "that doesn't mean you always have to make me feel bad about it…" He whispered to himself.
Hannah looked at him, a dark aura surrounded her as she glared at him, for the Resorts, La Familia, and the Lovers all they saw was a large dark energy surrounding her.
"I-I'm sorry" Joshua let out a small whimper as she continued to glare at him "I-I shouldn't have said that"
Hannah just stepped forward to get up in his face "If you think that you can talk to me like that just because you're a man and that you shouldn't feel bad every moment of the day, you and I have no reason to be together! I knew you would slip up one day and let your toxic masculinity take over and I refuse to be seen with someone like that!"
Joshua whimpered softly. He looked like he was honestly pretty close to crying before he just ran down the stairs and away from her.
"Just be happy I haven't canceled you for your behavior!" Hannah threatened loudly and angrily as he left her sight.
Hannah turned around to the other contestants, sending them her own glare. However, most of them didn't seem bothered by her yelling like normal people. Only Bonnie looked a bit upset by what she did while the others were just focusing on something else.
"Glad none of us are going to have a problem" Hannah murmured, obviously still angry as she walked up to the tennis court. The machine fired a ball at her, but she didn't even give a reaction as she simply hit the ball straight back at the machine, making it circle to the side and closer to the edge.
"Stupid show" Hannah growled angrily as she started walking off.
"What a baby" Margaret rolled her eyes before walking up to the court. She just stood there as it shot at her, not even moving her racket she managed to hit it back over the other side.
"Great, let's get this race over with" Margaret grabbed Maria and started running off, just leaving two teams to talk up the other to go ahead.
"Come on Arnie! You can do this part of the race!" Aisling tried cheering him up "we're playing Tennis, that's like, the rich person's sport you've gotta be good at this!"
"Yea, so I can just make myself look worse on national tv…" Arnold groaned pathetically as he slouched on the ground.
Aisling sighed "can you at least try? Pretty please? I know you can do it! At the start of the season, you basically carried us come on"
Arnold just groaned "fineeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, when I get up I'll try and hit the ball…" The rich kid tried pulling himself up, before just dropping back onto the ground with a sad groan.
To the other side of the ceiling, Tamera was just hanging out near the ledge, getting a good view of the contestants who were on the squeegee part of the challenge. Dawn and Jaime were still slowly making their way back up the side of the building, while Rodney and Adam looked like they were almost done.
"So… can we go now and move on?" Bonnie innocently asked while holding the racket.
Tamera stared at her and rolled her eyes "of course you don't see this opportunity. You just can't see what's in front of you besides a hot body"
"What am I missing?" Bonnie tilted her head.
"Just wait" Tamera rolled her eyes before snatching the racket from her.
"Well ok…" Bonnie frowned slightly "should we maybe just kiss and hug while waiting for the other team to go?"
Tamera just stared blankly at her before putting headphones into her ears "if you need to do something you can keep ruining the Psychics windows"
"Oh, yes ma'am!" Bonnie quickly nodded before running away to do god knows what.
Down on the ground, Hannah was running ahead of Joshua, who was really just slowly walking with his head down. After Joshua left La Familia was quickly running out of the building as well.
As La Familia got to the dickbox, Rodney and Adam came running soon after them "Hey Maria" Adam smiled a bit "been a little bit since we talked last time how are you doing?"
Maria turned around and smiled awkwardly "Oh, I'm fine" she chuckled a little.
"Ugh, this is so awkward" Rodney murmured louder than he expected.
Adam frowned slightly at Rodney "What's awkward about this? I'm just talking with Maria"
"You didn't know?" Rodney frowned, obviously looking distraught "Maria and I are dating…"
"Wha-" Adam spluttered in surprise "dating? Since when? You just broke up with Bea!"
Rodney stepped back nervously "I'm sorry Adam, I didn't want to cuck you, honest. You just w-weren't making a move and the heart wants what it wants"
Adam just looked annoyed, turning to see if Maria would turn down what he said but La Familia was long gone.
"I really can't believe you Rodney" Adam frowned at his partner "I've tried everything to be supportive of you and your crushes but you turn around and did that to me?"
"I'm really sorry Adam. I could always help you get with another girl" The giant simp tried apologizing before Adam turned away from him.
"I don't even know why I'm getting annoyed with this, it's not like you're dating her or anything"
It was Rodney's turn to frown now "What do you mean we're not dating?"
Adam turned around, he looked genuinely tired of Rodney at this point "I'm going to be painfully honest here Rodney, so I'm just going to say sorry now. But, you've never had an actual girlfriend in your whole life I'm pretty sure. Just because you say you're dating some lady doesn't mean you and her are actually together. You just fall for a girl, pretend you're in a relationship, and then split up because you found another girl to simp for. Even if someone did like you, I'm pretty sure your nature would totally turn them off"
Rodney frowned more sadly "B-But at the start of the race Margaret and I-"
"Yea, that definitely didn't happen" Adam shook his head "I hate having to break this to you man, but I think it's been long enough for you to find out about this."
Rodney lowered his head sadly, just nodding slightly before tapping the dickbox and reading the tip "l-let's finish this leg of the race"
Adam frowned sadly but nodded "yea, let's just go ahead with that" he murmured before racing to the chill zone.
At the mall, Hannah and Joshua were the first of these groups to make it to the chill zone. Hannah had an annoyed look as she turned away from her ex, while Joshua just looked miserable.
"Woah, what happened to you two?" The host wondered.
"Bigotry happened" the hero of minorities growled.
Richard just nods slowly "well, you're both ninth so enjoy waiting together" He smiled in amusement as they passed him.
"Oh, and expect a new name when we get to the next leg!" Richard called as La Familia and the Simps came in next "Familia, tenth. Simps, you're eleventh. Meaning we only have so many contestants left before we're outta here!"
Confessional: La Familia
"Oh this is perfect" Margaret mused with a smirk "Both of those stupid Simps are simping you, it'll be even easier to get them out if we need them gone"
Maria chuckled softly "Yea, that's great. Can't wait"
Margaret eyed her "this was your plan, can have a little more energy in it actually being remotely worthwhile"
Maria shrugged "Sorry if I'm not in an excited mood." she stays quiet for a moment "Rodney simping me means I have to change my whole idea around. We should keep them around a little longer before I can decide how this will affect us"
Margaret glared at her "if we're in the bottom two with them you better have your 'calculations' through then"
"O-Of course I'll have them ready in no time" she chuckled nervously.
XXX
Back at the top of the building, Tamera was starting to get impatient watching Arnold whine and slouch further on the ground.
"Is your man child going to go up and swing any time soon!?" The Vixen yelled while tapping her foot on the ground.
"Shut up" Aisling frowned "he just needs to take his time and he can take this down"
"Oh by being a pathetic man child? Somehow he seems more unbearable to have around than my red devil"
To her side, Bonnie was pouring a bucket of bird feces on the windows the Psychics were working on. Giving Tamera a thumbs up that she swiftly ignored.
Aisling frowned as she slowly pulled Arnold up "alright bud… how about I just help you with swinging?"
Arnold just groaned sadly while being held. Aisling carried him to the tennis court, holding him up with her arms as she grabbed onto his arms to try guiding his hands "Come on Arny, you can do this. Fate is smiling upon us!"
Arnold just sighed sadly as the tennis machine fired a shot at them. The rich boy sighed as he slowly swung at the ball with Aisling's help. They managed to hit the ball back at the machine, softly bouncing to a stop.
"Alright! Well done Arnie!" Aisling complimented him, letting go of his arms to hug him. However, he just sighed in annoyance as he rested his head on her shoulder.
Aisling just helped pull him along as Tamera came up to the tennis court with a sly grin. She took an angle from the machine so it would face away from the squeegee team.
"Let's hurry this along before I start to get bored" the HBIC smirked challengingly.
The machine seemed to take her challenge seriously as it started revving itself up more than it had for the last few. It shot as hard as it physically could at this point towards the woman, who just smirked as she shot it back at the side of its metallic build.
A large clatter was heard for those still around the building. Tamera smirked as the turret started colliding off the side of the court, falling down to Dawn and Jaime who were still cleaning.
"What the-" Jaime started before getting a ball to the mouth and falling backward.
Tamera smirked as she grabbed the back of Bonnie's sweater "alright those two are out, now let's get going!"
"Should we help them though?" Bonnie frowned before picking her up in the bridal carry.
"No, of course not" her partner frowned "the whole plan was to get them out because they're magic and always do well, thus stealing our attention"
Bonnie nods slowly "Ah, well I'm sure they won't be too upset about this" she chuckled as she tried to not think about it while going down the stairs.
While the two of them were running down the stairs, Dawn was frantically looking around on the platform. The machine never slowed down as it just kept firing balls at her and Jaime, who could only manage to dodge a handful of them.
"W-what do we do?" Jaime whimpered before another one hits him in the chin.
Dawn looked around nervously before the machine suddenly shot a tennis ball at their lever. Part of the platform lowered, causing them to both desperately hold on as the machine dropped to the ground below, smashing into multiple different pieces.
Near the machine, Bonnie and Tamera walked out and got to the dickbox, with Tamera shooting them a smug grin before running off to the chill zone.
"D-Dawn, I hope you have ideas!" Jaime whimpered nervously, looking at the ground one moment before getting even clingier.
Dawn looked around quickly, trying to come up with a good plan before seeing some birds resting on the edges of the large buildings. "Jaime, do you trust me at all?"
Jaime looked up at her "o-of course I do! I kinda have to right now too"
Dawn breathed in slowly, before letting go of the handrail. Jaime started panicking, holding the moonchild close as they quickly started descending. However, before long Jaime could feel their descent slow down. He opened his eyes and looked up, just seeing a large pack of pigeons had held onto them, flapping their wings as fast as they could to keep them from splattering on the ground.
"Oh, thank you Dawn" Jaime sighed in relief. However, he didn't let her go until they reached solid ground.
"Don't thank me yet Jaime" Dawn frowned softly as she gestured to how some of the windows were still covered in bird poo.
Jaime sighed slightly "I don't think we can clean some of those without our platform"
One of the birds landed on her finger as it tweeted at her "I see… Jaime, they say they can clean up the windows for us while we continue the race"
Jaime smiled "great! They weren't very far ahead we might be able to catch up with them!"
Dawn quickly nods as the birds flew up to clean the windows they grabbed their tip and started sprinting in the direction after the Last Resorts.
Tamera and Bonnie were well ahead of them as they ran into the mall, going straight for the chill zone as they dove for it. They both landed on it with confident smiles.
"Resorts, good job making it here. Thirty-minute penalty"
"What?" Tamera stood back up "what do we have a penalty for?"
Richard just looked blankly at her "you're really asking? Well, even if we act like you destroying the machine was an accident your partner still soiled the windows for the Psychics so just take your wait"
Tamera looked annoyed as she stood to the side of the chill zone while glaring at Bonnie.
"Sorry…" Bonnie murmured.
Tamera didn't even consider looking her way, if she could find a way to avoid Bonnie with an excuse she was going to go ahead with it.
After a few moments, Aisling came in while dragging Arnold "I really have to wonder how the two of you keep staying in" Richard mushed "but you're twelfth"
"Thank goodness" Aisling sighed before dragging him past the zone.
It took a good amount of time, but before long Richard could see Dawn and Jaime come running into the mall, jumping at the chill zone with excited smiles.
"We made it!" Jaime cheered.
Dawn smiled happily "we're safe…"
Bonnie whined sadly, slouching forward in defeat as Tamera just crossed her arms in anger. Bonnie turned up to Tamera before quickly hugging her "please kiss me Tamera, I need to know what your lips feel like before I'm sent back to the ranch!"
"Ew, I don't want to know what those disgusting things feel like!" Tamera growled, "If I don't want to kiss you while in the lead and getting screen time I'm not going to kiss you after we just lost!"
"Well, I didn't say that" Richard deadpanned.
"W…What?" Jaime frowned sadly "w-what do you mean by that?"
"You didn't finish your leg of the challenge before running off. That's a solid 30-minute penalty" Richard frowned.
"So…" Bonnie smiled "we won?"
"Not really" Richard chuckled "you're in the back of the race, but you're at the very least safe now"
Bonnie just hugged Tamera again, however, the vixen didn't look as annoyed as she started walking past with a smug smile to the two Psychics.
"What a way to get out…" Dawn frowned sadly.
Richard just shrugged "you two always kicked the game's ass so I'm not going to be too upset seeing you two off. Dawn, you can call me, however"
Dawn just glared at him before the two of them started walking away.
"Eh, her loss" Richard shrugged.
"So… that was a sad way to go" Jaime started as it showed their time together on the show.
"Mother Earth will have to be helped in some other way I suppose" Dawn sounded much sadder than him.
"There's plenty of ways we could help her" Jaime tried cheering her up "after doing well this season I'm sure you can hold a for nature. It'd be impossible to not trust you with a "
Dawn smiled, as the camera showed them walking together in the mall. "That's a good idea Jaime, but I'm sorry we didn't accomplish your goal"
Jaime just smiled as he waved his hand "don't worry about it, I honestly improved more with my powers than I anticipated"
Dawn smiled at him "looks like this season turned out better than my last one. That almost makes the whole experience worth it"
"Too bad the Resorts got us out. I hope they get that karma thing you always talk about" Jaime grumbled.
Dawn closed her eyes, slowly opening them with a small mischievous grin "I'm almost sure Tamera will face a karma that would almost be worse than death for her don't you worry about that Jaime"
He smirked back at her "alright. I'm happy then. How about we head home now?"
"Fine by me" Dawn smiled, wrapping an arm around his as they started walking away.
AN: And another one is over with! With this version's Goths out already we've got the story MVP's down and out. I had a lot of fun in this chapter, as we finally got to the big story moment for the Toxic Couple along with setting up a few other small arcs and Dawn's prediction. In fact, I had so much fun with this one expect a potential mini to come around after this. That's about all I have to talk about, however, so I hope everyone looks forward to the halfway point getting closer and closer.