Richard was sitting at a normal concert, with everyone around her standing and cheering. In front of him was a group of girls jumping around to the loud music as he just smiled to himself.
"Shhh, I'm enjoying a location for once" Richard whispered while talking to the camera "last time on the Radickulous Race we landed in Finland, where everyone was trapped in burning hot saunas with three other people. And boy did that get awkward"
It shows Tamera screaming and running from the sauna room "And after that, the contestants had to rock out. Even if they didn't quite know what they were doing. But even more surprising than some people passing was the fact that Arnold got his groove back and carried his team to victory"
It then shows Arnold rocking out on a real guitar "but we'll see if he can actually keep up this new streak of his before dragging his partner down again in today's race of the Radickulous Race!" Richard smiled, before putting his hand down on the chair next to him.
Intro plays
After the intro, it shows a scene even before the beginning of the race as Tamera and Hope sat down in a room together away from everyone else. Tamera had a shit-eating grin on her face while Hope looked miserable.
"Well, as we saw yesterday your relationship with Anne is effectively as realistic as Bonnie ever finding love. So let's get to the good part" she rubbed her hands together slowly "I want the juiciest little detail you have in that sad head of yours"
"U-Um… w-well for one thing I-I forgot to change my underwear for a full week…?"
Tamera rolled her eyes "I don't care about your hygiene moron. I want something people would actually tune in for"
Hope fidgeted slightly "Ok… I have one thing you might be… interested in. But I need you to absolutely promise you won't tell Anne. I came to have a good time with her and not make her worry over me the whole time"
Tamera just smirked as she put her hand over her chest "Cross my heart I won't tell your little pal anything about this" Tamera smirked, obviously enjoying this moment.
Hope fidgeted slightly as she looked down. She started slowly wringing her hands together "So… a-a-a-at my current job… sometimes my boss makes r-requests for promotions…"
Tamera sat there silently for a moment as she just stared at Hope, which immediately made the sad girl more anxious.
Tamera slowly glanced away from her "Uh, right, well… I wasn't expecting a major bombshell like that one if I'm honest…"
Hope just fidgeted more "S-Should I-I-I have not said anything?"
Tamera waved her hand "Don't worry about this." she slowly sat up "How about we get into the whole relationship thing with the clown"
Hope nodded slowly "s-sure, that's a good idea"
Confessional: Tamera
Tamera groaned angrily as she leaned forward in her seat. Hope wasn't around, at least from the camera angle "I can't believe she had to drop something like that when we were having a simple talk about me manipulating her. Now I have to help her" she groaned again "This sucks. I wish I just accepted that underwear fact"
XXX
A while after their insightful discussion, Cord and Makenna were the first two to walk up to the new dickbox seeing as they had won the last challenge.
"Wonder where we're going this time" Makenna smiled while grabbing the tip from the box.
"Hopefully somewhere a little warmer." Cord murmured while Makenna looked over the tip.
"Oh, we're going on a safari!" Makenna smiled excitedly "I always wanted to do something like that!"
Richard appeared standing in the middle of the hot savanna sun while wiping his brow "phew is it hot or what!" He chuckled softly "But ignoring my clever lines the contestants must meet me at the Victoria falls, which in fact are the biggest based on water count or something to that effect. Good to see Africa can be the best at something besides famine at least!"
The first seven teams were put on the first flight. Featuring Bandmates, Last Resort, Famers, Turtle School, Toxic Couple, Clowns, and the Disorganized Disaster.
The flight was really just peaceful for all of the contestants. However, Tamera seemed to be on the edge of her seat as they started getting closer.
"Why are you so excited?" Bonnie tilted her head while eating peanuts.
"Because I've got a plan today about getting ahead" she smirked "And starting some new drama all about myself"
"Well, you should sit down then, if everyone sees you on edge they're going to get suspicious right?"
Tamera frowned "Right, fair point" she leaned back to sit down, before glaring slightly at Bonnie, who was now only using one hand to hold her peanuts.
"Move. Your. Hand" the Vixen threatened.
Bonnie smiled as she slowly moved her hand from away her seat "Just wanted to pat the seat for you to sit down" she grinned.
Eventually, the teams all landed down in Africa and ran out of the broken-down airport to find jeeps waiting for them.
"Woah sweet!" Desmond smiled as he jumped onto the first one he could see "This looks like fun"
Ben got in and sat next to him, raising up the windows "in Africa they have many different types of diseases that can be spread by things like mosquitos so we should make sure to avoid bugs as best we can"
"Oh, thanks for the warning" Desmond smiled as he rolled up his own window, however, it kept the opening above them.
As some other teams started taking off Ben stopped Desmond from taking off to put on his belt and then his own, causing his partner to blush faintly.
"Can we take off now?" Desmond whispered.
Ben shook his head as he pulled out a tube of suntan lotion. "Gotta make sure we don't have a terrible sunburn right?"
While the two of them were still making sure of what they needed to do, the teams were driving through the warm Savana. Shiro was driving their jeep as Ninja meditated in the front. She opened her eyes to see some lions snoring and sleeping together.
Ninja couldn't help but stare in excitement "Shiro! Can I try fighting one of these animals? Pretty please?"
Shiro looked at the lions, who just stared back threateningly. "Are you sure you want to?"
Ninja kept nodding her head vigorously.
Shiro just smirked as he moved the steering wheel "can't look bad beating a lion in a fight"
As Ninja and Shiro drove towards them Hannah looked out the side and scowled "white people think they can just do whatever they want when going to someone else's country. It makes me sick!"
"I think Shiro is from Japan actually" Joshua spoke up from the driver's seat.
Hannah was still looking over the side, however after he said that she slowly turned her head to face him. Around her was a dark aura that screamed 'you're dead kid'.
Joshua started sweating nervously "I-I'm sorry for assuming his home country"
"Oh, it wasn't only that" she growled angrily as she grabbed the wheel "I wanted to drive but your sexist mind thought it would be dangerous to let a woman behind the wheel!"
Joshua started sweating nervously "I-I didn't mean it like that, I just like driving around"
Hannah just started shoving against him as she tried to take the steering wheel away from him, though Joshua pushed back as he tried to keep them on the road. However, with Hannah's pure girl power she was able to take control of the wheel while pushing Joshua out of the driver's seat.
However, this just pushed him out of the car as he latched onto the back of the jeep as his ex only continued to drive faster to try losing him, or at least to give him a good scratch of some kind.
Confessional: Hannah
Hannah was still driving in her jeep, though she wasn't really paying attention to the road while she typed on her phone. "Sorry, I was forced to cancel a white cis man from Texas who thought it was ok to speak Spanish incorrectly" she sat her phone down in a cup holder "But Joshua is getting too big for his boots" she stated confidently "And this is a problem. When I met him he was perfectly submissive to me, knowing a woman could top him in and out of the bedroom. But now? It's like he browses 4Chan or something all day every day. It's simply sickening."
Behind her Joshua was still desperately grasping onto the back of the jeep, until Hannah suddenly hit a large swerve, causing Joshua to go flying backward.
XXX
Further back Joe and Deion were waiting for the other plane to land. That plane had taken off but it hadn't landed yet.
"Why are we waiting back here?" Deion complained from the side seat.
On the ground, Joe was whistling while popping some of the tires on the jeeps around them.
"It should be more than obvious old man" Joe rolled his eyes "we're going to pop Margaret's tires so she won't be able to catch up with us!"
Deion just sighed "If I may ask, how will you know which one she will use?"
Joe just smirked at him "that much is simple." he popped the wheels of the jeep closest to the airport "It's going to be this one"
"Should I ask why you think that one is best?"
Joe just smirked "Have you not seen all of the people on the second plane. I know you're likely not too bright but all of the people on that plane is a sub who would just roll over and let her take the first one"
"I'm guessing you didn't watch much of the rocking challenge huh?"
"What about it?" Joe frowned at his partner.
"Oh, nothing" he smirked a little "Can we get going now or what?"
As he asked this the plane carrying the second batch of contestants was landing at the airport "Yea, let's blow this popsicle stand!" Joe hopped into their jeep as they took off.
Once the two of them were totally out of sight the last five contestants came running out of the airport entrance. Margaret and Maria went running to the first jeep, with Margaret effectively having to drag her partner along.
"We need to make up some lost progress that you caused" Margaret threatened Maria as they got in.
"Yes I get it…" the redhead murmured sadly.
"Good" she smirked as she started the engine, however when she tried to drive she wasn't making any progress at all.
"What the- why's our jeep messed up!?" Margaret just got angrier as she tried everything in her power to get the jeep to start moving.
"Nice pick" Arnold taunted as they took off along with the rest of the contestants.
Maria started fidgeting nervously at her boss's anger "w-what do we do now?"
Margaret pulled out her phone with a scowl as she started dialing it "I'll solve this don't you worry your useless head"
As those teams began taking off, a few teams were already making their way to the next dickbox. Those teams in particular being the Circus Duo and the Bandmates. Both teams were simply driving around together in the hot savanna.
"Man, this place is beautiful" Cord smiled while leaning back with her feet kicked up on the dashboard.
"Our circus never went anywhere as interesting as this" Monstro smiled "Usually we only go to places like cities or rural areas right Pickle-o?"
Monstro turned his head to look at his partner, however, his partner was sitting in the back of the jeep holding out a large steak. Running behind their jeep was a pack of hyenas trying desperately to keep up with them.
This group of four eventually made their way to the next dickbox, as they came to a hard stop. "Already made it, that was fast" Makenna smiled as she stood up and got out of her jeep, only seeing the Last Resorts had made it so far.
"I wonder where everyone else is" Cord wondered while getting out with her "Should at least be seven keeping up with us"
Monstro got out after them, turning around to see the hyenas munching on Piccolo's legs "You could have told me we were coming to a stop" the clown grumbled in annoyance.
"Sorry, Pickle-o!" Monstro tried waving the hyenas away, however, they only continued to nibble on his legs.
"Well… at least you have some new friends!"
Piccolo silently looked at the camera without changing his expression.
The bandmates walked up to the Last Resorts, who were reading their tip over. Or Tamera was, Bonnie was just resting her head on her shoulder while glancing down at her chest.
"Oh, this is a challenge just made for me" Tamera smirked confidently while pushing Bonnie away.
"That's so unbelievably worrying" Makenna deadpanned while tapping the top of the dickbox and taking the tip.
The two rockers read through the tip "take a dive on some inflatable rafts and snap a selfie… Oh, that would be perfect for a rock cover! I wish we could've gotten the other two around for this…"
Richard was standing on the ledge of the large Victorian falls "That's right, in today's first part of the challenge the teams will be using these inflatable rafts" he gestures to a large group of them simply lying around "and going down this waterfall. It's one of the biggest in the world in one way or another, but I didn't really care enough to look into that." he held up some old handheld cameras that were yellow "And this is what you'll be snapping a picture with these old things. If you fail to snap a selfie I'm afraid it's back to the top where you'll have to try, try again! Once you have what you need, just follow the river and you'll get to your next dickbox."
The three teams with an early lead were already slowly setting their rafts down into the water and getting in as more teams came running in.
Joe and Deion came running in with their raft while rapidly paddling forward. "We're on track for first place and we already took care of Margaret" Joe smiled confidently.
"You really think you took care of her?" A feminine voice asked.
"Oh yeah totally, she's gonna have to run around in that hot sun for a while if she even wants to catch up!"
"That's pretty rude"
"Oh, why would you care?" Joe turned to the raft next to them to see he was talking to an angry Margaret.
"Because I'd say we're at war now" Margaret smirked while pulling out a pin from her pocket to pop their raft as hers quickly started floating past them.
Joe splashed around in the water as he finally reemerged from the water "how did she manage to catch up with us!?"
Deion surfaced soon after him "She probably got a ride with those guys" he deadpanned while pointing at a large black van that quickly started driving away.
"Ah, cheaters!"
Deion simply rolled his eyes "let's just get another raft before the other teams start catching up" as he says this Joshua and Hannah started slowly floating past them.
"You make sure that white man doesn't boss you around Deion! Your ideas are just as valuable as his!" Hannah cheered while raising her fist in solidarity.
"What's she talking about?" Joe frowned.
Deion shrugged as he started swimming upstream "I think it's best to just not worry about it"
While they were swimming back, the leading five teams only got closer to the edge. "If we die, I want you to know I love you Tamera" Bonnie tried hugging Tamera, who simply pushed her back as she always did as they got closer to the ledge.
"Trust me I know"
With that, the first five teams all fell down the side of the waterfall in quick succession. Tamera and Bonnie fell down with Tamera snapping the picture while Bonnie was trying to kiss her on the cheek, the Bandmates were just cheering on their way down while doing the rocking out hand gesture, Monstro's has him cheering while Piccolo tried positioning his fall to land on some spikey rocks, La Familia had both of them not looking too bothered by the fall, and the Toxic Couple were simply screaming in fear while clutching each other.
"Man, that was fun!" Bonnie smiled as she reemerged from the water, however, her raft wasn't anywhere in sight. The same went for her favorite chocolate momma Tamera.
"T-Tamera?" Bonnie started getting more nervous as she looked around. She looked at a rocky platform above the water, seeing a lion yawn while licking its lips with a big satisfied smile.
"No!" Bonnie practically screamed in fear, though it was quickly silenced by all of the other contestants landing in the water around her.
The team that landed the furthest from Bonnie was the Bandmates. Both of them had fallen off their raft, but it was right next to them so they could easily pull themselves back up not long after landing.
"That is exactly why I signed up for this season!" Makenna grinned.
Cord smiled as she spat out some of the water "Yea that was pretty rockin"
They both slowly pulled themselves onto their raft and looked towards the river's path. Eventually, the rest of their competition came floating around, except for a Bonnie-less Tamera who was simply leaning back to relax.
"Hope she knows she needs a partner to get to the end" Makenna mused.
"I'm sure she doesn't care at this point" Cord shrugged. The green-haired bandmate looked toward her partner, before noticing that her necklace was now missing.
"Oh, Makenna, did you put your locket in your pocket so you wouldn't lose it?"
She stared at her partner for a moment "No… it's right here" she said while trying to clutch her necklace, only to not feel anything.
"No, I had this just a second ago" she started rapidly grabbing all over her neck and torso but didn't find it at all. "I must have lost it back at the waterfall, we have to go back!"
Cord looked at her partner before sighing softly "Let's just hope we can find it. It's a lot of water so hopefully it won't take us too long" they both started paddling back as the other three teams and Tamera just continued on.
Confessional: Tamera
The vixen just smiled while twirling the locket around on her finger "I'm happy I saw those two falling near me with that pendant just flying around her neck" she mused before stopping it to open it and look inside "I would understand putting something of value into something like this, but why would you just put your own ugly picture into this?"
She shows the inside of the locket, which was of a girl that looked like Makenna but without the dyed hair and with different makeup. "Whatever, she'll panic all this challenge and get herself out. Which is of course all for the sake of Hope's dumb little love quest" she smirked, but quickly tried to hide her amusement.
XXX
Back up in the savanna, Bea and Sophie were well behind all of the others, with Bea naturally taking the driver's seat. As they drove they would soon find Ninja and Shiro driving at a similar speed as a pack of lions sitting in the back with similar shades to what Shiro had been wearing.
Sophie leaned over the side of the car while staring at the lions "How did you two find such a large pack of Panthera Leo and get them to sit back like that?"
"Oh, are you talking about the lions?" Shiro smirked while pointing back to them "Ninja wanted to try fighting wild animals and after barely beating them she just had to take them as pets"
Ninja gave a thumbs up, she had some claw marks all over her body along with some bruises, and when she gave a smile, Sophie could see she was missing a tooth.
Bea flinched seeing Ninja in such a beat-up state, before looking down at Sophie who had a genuine sparkle in her eyes.
"While these cats are pretty cool, they don't match up to the cougar sitting in your driver's seat" Shiro smirked while lowering his shades to look at Bea.
"Well… thank you, Shiro. That's very… nice?"
"My pleasure" he smirked.
Confessional: Bea
"I don't want to be that daunting grandmother who is constantly worried about her granddaughter, to a degree that it makes the relationship distant… but those two are really starting to make me worried now. I was willing to let her do karate or whichever martial art she was interested in, but if she ends up like Ninja I might prefer her being a bookworm…"
XXX
At the water above the pitfall, more teams were making their progress forward like the others as the Disaster Duo, Opposites, Lovers, and Simps all slowly moving forward with their rafts.
All of them were getting into their rafts while getting their cameras ready. They went off the side, with the Ben going over with a purely blank expression as Desmond put bunny ears on him, Hope held on tight to Anne with a faint blush, Arnold just smiled confidently as he snapped the picture, obviously not being scared of the fall. And then lastly the Simps went over with Rodney screaming like a little girl.
Once these teams were down below, they could see Bonnie and the Bandmates looking over the entire area.
"Huh, that's weird I thought they would be well ahead of us by now" Adam scratched the back of his head.
"Why are you gals still here?" Rodney asked politely to the rockers.
"We're just looking for something" Cord waved away his question "Nothing you need to worry about"
"Are you sure?" The Farmer boy smiled "Adam and I are just fine helping you out"
Makenna suddenly surfaced from the water and looked at the two of them "We're looking for a purple locket. Any chance you two are good swimmers or good at looking underwater?"
"We could do that, right Adam?" Rodney smiled while elbowing his partner in the arm.
Adam shrugged "I'm not a terrible swimmer, so sure I guess we can help. But we probably shouldn't take too long doing this"
"Are you sure you want to trust them finding it?" Cord whispered to her partner.
"That's better than being stuck here by ourselves making no progress" Makenna whispered back while smiling at the two Simps.
"This is gonna be our rebound phase Adam" Rodney smiled at his partner, though Adam just looked annoyed at him.
"Let's just focus on helping them ok? They're nice people"
"Of course" Rodney just smiled, not getting that he was upset.
Further back the Opposites and the Disorganized Disaster were looking up to Bonnie, who was slowly climbing the mountain with an exhausted expression.
"What'cha doing up there… Bonnie was it?" Desmond called loudly.
"I can't find Tamera so I'm going to look for her up here!" Bonnie called back "If you find her ahead call her back for me If you don't find her don't say anything!" the perv murmured the second part more nervously.
Anne looked at her and giggled slightly while turning to Hope "Hey, Why is jumping from great heights the most influential way to die? Because you make an impact!" She joked with a giggle.
Hope giggled softly before looking back at Bonnie "D-Do you think Tamera is ok? I couldn't hear all that Bonnie was saying but i-it sounded concerning"
"I'm sure she's fine" Anne smiled "I doubt they'd do this challenge without testing it. We can just go to the next leg and tell her partner that she's a good way behind"
Hope nods "t-that's a good-" she shook her head slightly thinking of Tamera and her advice "About time you had a good idea going your way. Was beginning to be worried only I had that…"
Anne frowned slightly "Sorry…?"
"Just get rowing" Hope leaned back to try relaxing, but also so Anne couldn't see her miserable expression.
With that, the camera shifted forward to the leading teams, who had finally made it to the end of their next dickbox as they jumped out of their rafts and ran up to it "Alright, that last one wasn't so bad, so this one is going to be terrible" Joshua worried while holding his tip.
"Don't mansplain to me about something I can guess on my own" Hannah scowled before taking the tip "Take a selfie with a wild rhino. Hmm, not quite a fan of this challenge's theme. People on social media take pictures of themselves to make others feel insecure about their appearance."
"Well, usually those have filters to change your appearance. These are as old as it gets" Joshua shrugged while holding up his camera.
"Yea, so stop whining all the time" Margaret complained.
Hannah just glared at the two of them, but since a fellow woman took Joshua's side she chose to just not argue.
While they were arguing however Monstro had the time to read more of the tip "Super teams?" He asked in confusion.
Richard was standing around the middle of the savanna looking at a large rhino with one of the small old cameras. "In this challenge, we decided we'd try changing up the dynamics. As for this challenge, you will be snapping pictures with the local wildlife." he snuck up on the rhino before snapping a picture with it while it was snacking on some grass.
"However, it's not just you and your partner that have to snap a picture. To get the point you have to snap a selfie with a member from another team, in what would be called a super team. You can choose whoever you partner up with, but I'd be careful with who you're stuck with for the rest of the day!"
The rhino suddenly started puffing angrily at him, causing the host to gulp nervously.
Monstro frowned slightly "So… who wants to partner up?" He smiled warmly at the others.
"I think I'll be waiting on someone else" Margaret crossed her arms.
Hannah just crossed her arms angrily towards the clowns "Like I'm going to partner up with two white men. Especially since Piccolo is the whitest man I've ever seen" she pointed accusatory towards him.
Piccolo simply stared back with a deadpan expression as he glanced down at his white makeup.
"Oh whatever, I'll go with you two" Tamera rolled her eyes "I want to get through this whole challenge already. It's way too hot"
"Are you sure you don't want to wait on your partner?" Monstro politely asked.
She just smiled in amusement "I'd rather not wait for her, she would only make the challenge a lot longer"
"Great!" Monstro smiled proudly as he grabbed Piccolo and Tamera before dragging them towards a large pack of rhinos.
Hannah turned back to Margaret with a smile "I'm sorry you'd be strapped down with Joshua being around with me but we should partner up"
Margaret looked at Hannah "Yea, while that sounds wonderful you seem like a clear target for any carnivores running around with how much fat you've got on you. But I'll consider the proposal" she smirked.
Before Hannah could scream at the mafia boss the Famers slowly came in on a new inflatable raft. Both of them were soaking wet as they crawled onto the dry land. Joe smirked as he ran to the dickbox and grabbed the tip.
"Top five, let's go!"
"Sports man, I'm partnering up with you. Got it?" Margaret smirked at him.
Joe simply smirked back at her "Sure thing doll. Would just hate for someone like you to get hurt here in the middle of nowhere"
Margaret's smirk turned angrier "Oh, I wish I could say the same"
Deion and Maria silently watched the two's back and forth. The black Hall of Famer turned to Maria with a small smile "Sorry about my partner, just getting ahead of him doing something stupid"
Maria chuckled slightly "I'll have to apologize as well. The boss can be rather… difficult for just about anyone she meets"
"Guess we both drew the small straw" Deion mused.
"Don't make this issue bigger than it already is" Margaret threatened angrily "Just get that camera ready" she turned back to Joe "I think I know where we could snap a pretty good picture too"
"Lead the way" Joe smiled innocently.
The two enemies glared at each other as they slowly walked away with their partners silently following.
Hannah groaned slightly in annoyance "We just have to wait now?"
Joshua shrugged slightly "I doubt it'll take too long for someone else to get here"
"Of course, a degenerate man like you thinks that things will just drop when you want them to don't you?"
Joshua sighed softly in annoyance "Do you have to keep making those kinds of comments?"
"Why do you ask? Does it make you realize how you're always in the wrong?" Hannah smirked slightly, feeling like she had totally got a winning hand in the argument.
"That's not what I'm say-"
"Shut up!" Hannah yelled while looking away from him.
"W-what?" He flinched at her yelling.
Hannah pointed, showing the Disorganized Disasters, Polar Opposites, and Lovers slowly trickling onto land.
"Ah man, we really have started falling behind" Arnold grumbled while running to the dickbox.
However, he wasn't the one Hannah was focusing on. She smiled and ran towards Hope and Anne, who were slowly walking behind the other two groups.
"Thank Allah you two have come!"
Anne smiled at Hannah's excitement "I haven't had someone be this excited to talk to me since I dyed my hair silver!"
"Was that a joke?" Joshua asked politely.
"Are you acting like a woman can't be funny!?" Hannah slapped him hard on the back "women can be just as funny as men, if not funnier!"
"T-then why didn't you laugh?" Joshua murmured angrily.
"Because I was distracted by your misogyny"
Anne and Hope silently watched the Disorganized Disaster and Lovers partnering up before moving on to the challenge.
"We missed our shot" Anne murmured, getting a small snicker from Hope.
"So, are you two queens ready to go snap some pictures?" Hannah asked with a surprisingly sweet smile.
"Uh… sure" Hope murmured "b-but have you seen Tamera?"
"Oh, yea we saw her" Joshua nodded.
"That's good" Hope sighed in relief.
"Why are you worried about her? I didn't even know you two were close"
"Because sisters have to stick together Joshua!" Hannah slapped his back again before moving her fists toward Hope and Anne "black power ladies"
"Yea…" Anne awkwardly bumped her fist, but Hope just stood there with a very awkward expression.
Joshua picked up his camera and decided to simply take one for the team "let's go snap a nice picture of us all, ok?"
"Don't rush us, Joshua!"
"Sounds fine to me" Anne smiled as Hope and her walked past Hannah.
"As long as the queens want it" Hannah grumbled while following them.
Back at the waterfall, the Wilderness Girls and the Turtle School made their way to the second leg of the race.
"Well… we're in last place, but that just means now we have more of a challenge for getting to first place!" Ninja smiled excitedly.
"Oh, do you have a speed technique?" Sophie smiled just as excitedly.
"We can show you this technique once we land down in the water young grasshopper" Shiro bowed slightly as they started grabbing their inflatable rafts.
As the two teams were about to get into the water, a pale hand grabbed onto the top of the mountain with a loud groan. The two teams looked over to see Bonnie desperately pulling herself up onto the top "Finally… made it!" she groaned before collapsing.
"That must have been a hard climb" Bea worried while crouching over Bonnie, trying to fan her to cool her off while covering her in shade.
Bonnie slowly opened her eyes to see a tan woman crouching above her as she raised her hands to silently push against her chest "You're… saggier than I remembered Tammy…" Bonnie murmured weakly.
Bea's entire face turned bright red as she slapped Bonnie across the face and quickly backed away from her.
"A woman after my own heart" Shiro smiled softly as Ninja and he started getting into their raft.
"Let's just move along please" Bea murmured with a deep blush as she started moving after the other team.
After the slap Bonnie slowly stirred and sat up, seeing the two teams slowly going over the ledge "Wait! Have either of you four seen Tamera?"
All four simply shook their heads toward her "If you lost her you should just go to the next stage of the mission. With our Wilderness Girls whenever you get lost you have to go to your next destination!" Sophie spoke in her usual book-worm way.
"I guess if you all haven't seen her… she must be down there!" Bonnie forced a smile, even if it looked completely fake, before just diving off the side of the cliff.
"I hope you don't turn into that when you hit puberty" Bea murmured before both teams went over the side.
While going over the side Ninja and Shiro both sat in a mediation pose while the Bea was panicking as Shiro tried to look as calm as the other two martial artists, but failing.
Eventually, the Wilderness Girls landed on their raft in the water. Behind them, the Turtle Schoolers landed flat on two protruded rocks. Ninja held her hands up, catching her raft easily in her hands. Shiro turned slightly before flipping high into the air and landing on top of the raft.
"See you around Sophie!" Ninja smiled at the little martial artist before running away like the water was solid ground.
"She's too cool" Sophie murmured while watching her run "That goes against literally every book I've ever read"
"I'm sure you'll have that chance when we land sweetie" Bea smiled while rowing after them. In the distance, they could see Bonnie swimming like a professional in the Olympics. Her eyes were also practically bugging out of her head.
As they were rowing away Adam stuck his head out of the water at the same time as Cord. They could both see that they were now finding themselves in last place.
Adam looked at the green-haired rocker as he started pulling himself out of the water "Sorry you two but I think Rodney and I have spent way too long on this. We should get going"
"I get it" Cord nodded while swimming towards her raft "I think at this point it would be better for us to simply wait for after the challenge to look around for the locket"
Makenna and Rodney soon surfaced after them.
"We're going bud" Adam called to Rodney.
"Yea, we can keep looking later, Makenna. Maybe someone on the crew will look for this" Cord tried encouraging.
Makenna frowned while looking down at the water "If you say so…" she slowly pulled herself up.
"Sorry we couldn't help too much" Rodney apologized while plopping onto his raft with Adam.
"Don't worry about it" Makenna murmured "I'm just glad you were willing to help me"
Rodney just smiled softly before paddling forward "that went well" he whispered to his partner.
"I don't know how you think that" he deadpanned.
Back with the photographers, Arnold was practically chasing down a large rhinoceros. It didn't look like it wanted to be taken a picture of at all, but Arnold wasn't exactly asking it.
Running behind Arnold and the rhino was Ben, who ran stonefaced with the camera up and ready. Leaving Aisling and Desmond to watch over their partners.
"It's so nice having Arnold back" Aisling smiled softly.
Desmond smiled "yea, he seems a lot more interesting when he's not depressed."
Aisling smiled while looking at him before gasping slightly.
"D-did I say something?" Desmond worried.
"Sorry, sorry. I was just so surprised to see your aura. Your chi screams that you care greatly for your partner. I don't think I even have that strong of an aura"
He smiled slightly "that's pretty interesting. And yea, I do really care about Ben. He's my best friend after all!"
"Oh, that's not the aura you seem to have" Aisling smirked knowingly "are you going to make a move?"
Desmond blushed a little as he rubbed his arm "I… don't know. He's kind of hard to read on how he feels towards people"
Aisling nods before suddenly pulling out her tarot cards "How about we find out then?"
"Well… I have wanted to try that for a while now" he smiled before reaching to grab one of her cards.
He looked at it to see a 10 of Pentacle. "What's this one mean?" He showed it to her.
Aisling squealed excitedly "oh you got a good one! It means that your relationship will be stable. That's very lucky"
"Oh. That is kind of nice to hear" he smiled a bit looking at the card before she took it back.
"We can do this again sometime and see if fate stays on your side" she smiled back at him.
"Hey, we got it" Ben quietly called towards them. They both turned around to see Ben with his camera as Arnold kept the rhino down by holding it by its horn and pushing it down.
"Let's hurry this along" the rich boy grunted while trying to hold on.
"Coming!" Desmond called before running to the side of the rhino for a photo to be snapped. Ben leaned forward slightly before snapping the pic.
"And that's first place for us" Arnold smirked before looking at Aisling "Hop on"
Aisling smiled before hopping on behind Arnold and wrapping her arms around him "good luck with your love life Desmond!" Aisling waved as the two of them took off.
Ben lowered his camera before giving Desmond a slightly curious look.
"Don't worry about it" he chuckled softly "let's just try catching up with them"
Ben looked at him before shrugging slightly and running alongside him.
In another part of the expansive savanna, Tamera was walking slowly behind Piccolo and Monstro.
"Ugh, it's so hot out here. It's totally unbearable" she leaned back while resting her arm on her forehead. She was very clearly overreacting to get the camera's attention.
"I can walk behind you to cover you in shade," Monstro suggested with a wide smile.
The vixen however scoffed at his suggestion "and have you hide my figure from the camera? Not happening"
"Your figure?" The big lug seemed to only be confused "why do you care about that being noticed?"
Tamera smirked while looking him up and down. Specifically looking at his dumb-looking hair "Yea, I can see why you wouldn't care about that"
"Oh, uh, thanks?" Monstro smiled, assuming she was complimenting him.
Piccolo looked away from the two, not being amused by their conversation as he saw a large rhino looking directly at him. The clown glared back as he grabbed the camera. The large mammal started lowering its head, getting ready to run at him.
"Monstro, I need you to get ready" he whispered.
"Hm?" Monstro turned around to look at the rhino before smiling "Oh, I get it! You want me to lift him up and down right?"
Piccolo turned around to glare at his partner "I just want you to stop it when it gets closer-"
As he was speaking the rhino ran at him, and once he finished his line the rhino rammed into his back and started taking off with him.
"Wait up! I didn't understand what the plan was!" Monstro called before sprinting after him.
Tamera just snickered in amusement as she started walking after them.
At the start of this stage, the last four teams were finally making their way into the savanna. The Simps partnered with the Bandmates since they were getting along prior. Leaving the Wilderness Girls to stay stuck with the Turtle School. Though Sophie seemed pretty excited by this.
"This is going to be fun, after that lion I bet you two could capture anything no problem!" Sophie gushed.
Ninja and Shiro smiled at her excitement "Maybe we can catch one and then you can try it out" Ninja suggested.
"Uh, maybe we should wait on that" Bea stepped in "She's still a trainee. I don't think you should put too much on her yet"
"Right, grandmother knows best, we can handle this and we can get right back into the upper half of the competition" Shiro smiled "just try to not get that beautiful bum of yours hurt" He smirked a bit before running off with Ninja.
Confessional: Bea
"Back when I was younger I don't remember everyone hitting on old women. I appreciate knowing that I still look good for my age, but it is a little embarrassing" she murmured with a small blush.
XXX
At the other end of the savanna, Richard was sitting in a cabana with the red chill zone lying right in front of him.
He smiled while relaxing "This heat isn't as bad as I was expecting" he mused. He was leaning back with his eyes closed. However, in the distance, he could hear some very loud footsteps approaching.
"What's that?" Richard slowly opened his eyes slowly to see a rhino huffing in his face. His eyes bulged as he leaned back, falling on his ass as he looked up to see the Lovers looking down at him.
"Oh, it's just you two. Congrats Lovers, you're first place!"
Arnold grinned as he hopped off the rhino "Good to be back at the top"
"Just take your pet with you" Arnold murmured, which immediately got an annoyed look from the rhino.
"Fine, fine" Arnold grabbed its ear to pull it aside as Aisling just smiled and followed behind him. Richard started dusting himself off when Ben and Desmond suddenly appeared in the chill zone.
"Jeez, you people are fast. But you're second" he threw his thumb over his shoulder "Go enjoy some r&r, I don't want to babysit today"
Ben and Desmond glanced at each other for a moment before walking away. Richard sighed softly as he sat back down, before quickly glancing around to make sure no one else was coming in soon.
He smiled as he snapped his finger, getting a smoothie from his intern before trying to rest again. However, the moment he closed his eyes he could hear more steps coming toward him.
He groaned loudly as he opened his eyes, seeing the Turtle School and Wilderness Girls had already made it "Wha- you four just got to this leg!"
"We were just that fast" Shiro smiled while showing Richard a picture of all four with a smiling rhino.
"Well, you have the picture. Fourth and third for the both of you!"
With how far behind all of them had been earlier, Bea seemed to almost immediately relax at this announcement as the other three cheered.
"Now get moving so the next set of teams can come and ruin my vacation" Richard murmured.
"Vacation? We're not even halfway through the season" Bea frowned at him.
"Just let me have this. It's been hard doing this and getting talked to by HR every time I make a passing flirt at an intern or contestant"
Bea silently shook her head while walking away with Sophie and the others.
"Stupid boomer" the host grumbled.
Back in the savanna, La Familia was simply walking around with the Famers. Their current location was far from everyone else and down in a canyon.
"What are we doing down here?" Deion looked around "it's pretty but I haven't really seen any rhinos around here"
"My men told me that there were likely a bunch of rhinos in the area so it's worth giving it a try" Margaret shrugged.
"Oh, I get it" Joe smirked "you're gonna get your men to take us out while we're far away from everyone. Well don't think you'll get the jump on us as easily as the fat kid"
"Please, what kind of barbarian do you think I am?" Margaret rolled her eyes before looking away from them "I… may need to go to the bathroom, however"
"That's so obviously suspicious" Joe glared "you're not running off anywhere! Deion, follow her"
"I'm not watching a girl pee" his partner deadpanned.
Joe groaned "fine. But your partner isn't going with you"
"Fine by me." Margaret shrugged "I don't her watching me go anyhow" the Mafia boss started walking up the side of the cliff. Once she made it to the top she walked out of sight before pulling out her phone.
"Are you three in position?" She whispered to them.
"Yes Comare, we're ready" On the other end were two grown strong men dressed up like hyenas. In front of them was a pack of rhinos silently eating the grass.
"All ready down here too" a man in a black suit was crouching further in the valley.
"Alright, let's get this going then" Margaret smirked before hanging up.
She crouched down to glance over the side of the cliff. At the bottom, the three others were all simply standing around doing some small talk. Margaret glanced at the route they took to enter the canyon to see her men getting closer to the rhinos before shooting off into the air.
The group in the canyon turned around to see a swarm of rhinos suddenly running towards them from above the incline. Margaret silently smirked as the group of three started running, and try as they might Joe and Deion simply couldn't go long before busting a hip or breaking some other old person bone. The rhinos just ran into them, pushing them forward in the wave of rhinos.
Margaret smiled while snapping a picture of them "this one's going in my collection" she mused while getting up.
Further ahead, Maria was barely keeping ahead of the rhinos, but was getting tired fast. She quietly turned around to see one getting close to skewering her. However, at the last second, a masculine arm reached down and grabbed her. She is quickly thrown above the stampede and next to the well-dressed man.
"Having fun competing so far?" He smirked at her.
"Not in the slightest" she spoke softly and slowly from the near-death experience.
Like La Familia, most super teams were already done or getting close to done. Hannah was sweating profusely as the other four on her super team were walking ahead of her.
"Oh, oh" Anne smiled excitedly "What is the most popular game to play in Africa, Joshua?"
"The hunger games" Anne shot him finger pistols.
Joshua gave her a small chuckle, mostly out of courtesy. However, loud footsteps marched towards them as a dark aura formed behind them.
"You can't make that kind of joke!" Hannah yelled angrily at Anne "You can't make jokes like that at the expense of those who have less than you! That's insensitive!"
Anne whimpered slightly turning back to Hannah "S-Sorry, I-I just wanted to make a joke that fit the location… y'know?"
"There's plenty of hilarious jokes about Africa that don't make fun of them for being oppressed! Your humor only feeds into the oppression you're living in!"
"I-I won't make a joke like that. I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to upset you or anything"
Hannah put her hand on the obviously worried Anne "Don't worry, I don't blame you. I already know a man like Joshua would be forcing his disgusting sense of humor onto you" she angrily side-eyed Joshua.
Joshua and Hope silently glared at Hannah as Anne just smiled slightly at the appreciation.
Confessional: Hannah
"I always hate meeting POC's who don't see the problem with their oppression. It's honestly heartbreaking to know someone like Anne is making jokes like that. She's only feeding into the oppression. I'm happy I met her before she turned herself into an Aunty Anne"
XXX
Back with Richard near the end of the savanna, he was patiently waiting for everyone else to show up. Coming in the fastest were the Clowns and Tamera, who seemed to have gotten their photos the quickest.
Tamera started speed walking past a bush, that started rustling almost immediately after she ran past it. Tamera continued slowly until suddenly something pounced on her from behind.
"What the hell!?" Tamera turned her head around to see Bonnie hugging her tight with a very tanned face.
"Oh, I've been so worried about you all day!" Bonnie groaned softly while nuzzling up against her "I was really starting to think that lion ate you but I'm so grateful you're ok!"
"Get off me you gross freak" Tamera growled while trying to push her off.
Bonnie just held her tighter "Were you looking for me? I'm sure you must've been worried about where I was right?"
As they were speaking the Toxic Couple and the Opposites ran past them. Causing Tamera to just get more annoyed with the perverted ginger.
Tamera turned around to look directly into her eyes "I wasn't worried about you at all. In fact, I was hoping that lion in the waterfall would eat you alive so I could pay someone else to compete. Because at this point I'd rather take some homeless man over you! He'd be just as unattractive as you, but at the very least he might know about personal space"
Bonnie frowned slightly as she leaned off of her "That's not very nice to say to your life partner Tammy"
"We're not life partners" she glared while getting up and dusting herself off "We're just partners in this competition. And then after that. We'll never talk again"
Bonnie frowned sadly as Tamera started walking away from her. "I thought you brought me along because you liked me…" Bonnie murmured quietly before she got up to follow her to the chill zone, where Richard smiled as he did for most of the contestants.
"Bonnie, Tamera. You're both 8th, congrats on not even being at the bottom of the challenge"
"Whatever" Tamera simply started walking away.
Bonnie quietly stood in the chill zone while looking down at the ground.
"Hey, freakazoid" Richard frowned at her "More teams are coming in, move it along will ya?"
Bonnie silently walked past Richard, giving the host a small smirk "Ah, now I'm feeling better. But let's see how comfortable our last four teams are gonna be knowing last place is becoming more and more of a probability"
Only a handful of contestants were left running around. The Bandmates and the Simps had both already snapped a picture so were both running as fast as they could to get to the goal. With Rodney and Adam pretty easily sprinting past the two girls.
Closer to the canyon, La Familia was however taking its time.
"Are you sure we shouldn't go running after those other two?" Maria worried slightly.
"You just want to keep up because your precious boo is gonna run off with a cuter girl" Margaret rolled her eyes "we'll be safe one way or another so who really cares?"
"Why are you so not worried about getting a higher rank? You were pushing me to hell and back last time!"
"Because I'm in charge and I'm in a good mood" Margaret turned to her and glared threateningly "Unless you have a problem with my good mood"
"N-no ma'am" Maria murmured while silently watching Adam and Rodney smile at Makenna in an encouraging way.
Margaret looked her way and rolled her eyes "You seriously need to not worry about guys. Adam's a simp, anyone could do better than that"
"I don't have a thing for him" Maria almost immediately denied.
"Whatever" she rolled her eyes.
In the distance, they could soon hear a soft announcement for 9th and 10th place. However, that quickly gets overtaken by the sound of some very loud stomping coming up behind them.
Margaret quickly turned around, seeing Joe with a smirk on his face and no shirt on anymore. He stared directly at Margaret while riding on the back of a giant black rhinoceros.
"Hey, thanks for the speed boost. I really just have to thank you in some way…" he went into a thinking pose as he continued to ride on its back "oh, I got it! I'll take you out of the competition. Permanently"
He cackled maniacally as Margaret and Maria almost immediately started sprinting as fast as they could to get away from him. Joe just laughed in amusement, obviously not pushing his rhino to go as fast as it could to mess with them.
Joe looked up to see the chill zone was getting very close at this point. "Alright Bessie, now's the time" He smirked as it nodded.
The rhino sped closer to the two Familosos. It bucked its large horn at the two of them, missing Margaret as it pierced Maria's shirt and started pulling her into the air. While it was distracted Margaret pulled herself under the beast to hold on and get out of the way of its horn.
"Ah, caught you both" he grinned while the rhino kept running towards the chill zone. He made sure to direct it in random directions toward the zone to have Margaret's head scraped up by any decent-sized rocks on the ground.
"I'm going to kill this man" Margaret growled internally.
Eventually, Joe had enough amusement from this and went straight for the chill. He tapped his rhino on the side to have her stop before jumping into the chill zone.
"And the Famers are safe" Joe announced triumphantly.
Richard frowned slightly at the old man "First of all, that's my job. And secondly, you know one of the main rules is coming to the chill zone with your partner right?"
Joe frowned slightly "I thought he was right behind me"
Richard shrugged while putting his finger to his earpiece "yea? I assumed so" he rolled his eyes slightly "Deion is still down in the valley. So sorry, not sorry about that"
Joe scowled in annoyance as Margaret and Maria sprinted onto the chill zone "And La Familia is 11th! Congrats ladies" Richard wiggled his eyebrows at Margaret, who simply ignored him.
"You're going to pay in more than money" Margaret threatened Joe before quietly walking away with Maria silently following in a different direction.
"We'll be getting Deion to the best closest hospital for his injuries. So, 50-50 chance he isn't going to make it but we'll see. You can finish up your last moment's bit, I'm going somewhere with air conditioning"
"Well, we almost got halfway but that's not exactly encouraging" Joe murmured angrily. "I was so close but Deoin dragged me down like the waste he is!"
It shows his time on the show, mostly him berating Deion in one way or another.
"But it's fine, Deion promised he'd help pay me out of debt later for me doing some work on his property so that's something" Joe shrugged while standing in the middle of the African savanna.
"Sucks his hospital is so far away though" He groaned.
As he walked, however, a large black van drove towards him and stopped. The back door opened to show a group of black-suited men staring angrily at him.
"Ah… right" he sighed "Let's get this over with" he started moving towards them, before suddenly grabbing a large rock and chucking it at the driver's head to knock him out before quickly sprinting away. The men in the car quickly got out to try chasing after him.
"Now I really wish I was still in!"
AN: And so we are getting very close to the midway point. Which is pretty exciting. We're really getting down there in the people and getting close to the finale. If I remember right I only have about 8 chapters left for this puppy. But anyhow, thanks to Daring for giving me the Famers, as some remember they were the planned antagonists for the original draft, but I just didn't feel like they should go that far when I just generally had more fun with our other two antagonists, Tamera and Bonnie. But still, they were good for some humor now and then. The next challenge is going to basically be a mash of the two Australia episodes so get ready for that one.