Richard smiled while looking down at his phone. Currently, he was on Tweeter. He chuckled as he scrolled down, seeing multiple hashtags most likely caused by Hannah trying to cancel him or the show.
"Man, I can't wait for them to cancel me only for me to come back a few weeks later" he snickered before pocketing his phone. He was standing where the last challenge was, in the middle of a field surrounded by giant mountains.
"In our last leg of the race, our final 12 teams made their way to Australia, where they were all imprisoned for totally legit reasons" it shows a guard tackling Piccolo to the ground.
"But some people got worse cells than others. But they made it work" It shows the Toxic Exes and Last Resorts in the cell before Bonnie started kissing Tamera.
"Once they manage to escape from the judicial system, they ran to a junkyard. From there they had to create their mode of transportation across the ocean" it shows the Polar Opposites riding along on their clown wigmobile.
"In the end, we capped the first half of the season off with a double elimination! Those two teams are the Lovers and the Toxic Exes. Naturally, one team left on nicer terms than the other"
It plays both teams' final moments as the Lovers walked arm in arm while the Toxic Exes walked in totally different directions.
"But, while the Exes were cold we're going somewhere much colder in today's episode of… the Radickulous Race!" He smiled at the camera.
Intro Plays
The episode starts at the end of the last challenge as usual. Ben and Desmond were the first to run into the opening.
"Alright… let's hope we can try keeping this lead" Desmond smiled.
"I doubt it but we'll see" Ben murmured while tapping the top of the dickbox.
Ben grabbed the tip and looked over it "The north pole… I don't know why I didn't expect to go there"
Richard was standing by a small plane "In today's challenge everyone will be flying up on this 'lil planes to the north pole"
"A land with endless imagination and characters from all those creepy old Holiday specials." it shows the stop motion Rudolph or Santa.
"They'll be taking these planes to get there for their first leg of the challenge" he gestured to them "But we have something much more important than that"
"We have another special today!" Richard smirked while tapping the top of the first dick box again "That's right, this challenge will also have boomerangs! The last challenge was just so fun we thought, why not?" he chuckled. "They are in use up until the second part of the challenge so you got some time"
The groups quickly started running up and grabbing their tips. Naturally, every team was hoping for the boomerang, but only one team could get it.
That team ended up being the Circus Duo as Piccolo grabbed their tip and found the red boomerang on it.
"Pickle-o!" Monstro blurted out while pointing down at their tip "You got it!"
"Keep it down" the sad clown glared angrily "If everyone knows we have it they're just going to avoid us more than usual. We gotta sneak up on someone"
"Oh, I getcha" Monstro grinned.
Piccolo didn't respond, just following the others in making their way on the planes, going in groups of two based on how they ranked last time around.
On the second plane, the Wilderness Girls were sitting alongside the Polar Opposites.
"This challenge sounds so fun!" Sophie gushed "I never thought I'd get the chance to come all the way to the north pole! I read about it in books but actually going to a place with large polar bears is another thing!"
Bea seemed a bit worried about the polar bear part but still smiled at her granddaughter "I'm glad you're excited" she nodded "But It's going to be cold so make sure to stay warm ok?"
"Don't worry grandma, Ninja taught me a technique to stay warm" she smiled proudly.
"...This technique isn't you peeing yourself is it?"
Sophie and Bea stared at each other for a few moments before the young martial artist shook her head "No, of course not…"
As the two of them stood awkwardly with each other, Anne was giggling softly in amusement as her partner clung to her back and wrapped herself around her.
"What are you doing?" Anne smiled.
"T-t-trying to keep you warm for when we get there" Hope blushed a little.
"Oh that's too sweet" Anne blushed in turn "But I think I'll be fine honestly"
"I'd rather air on the side of caution" she murmured.
Confessional: Hope
Hope was standing on the plane with a worried expression "I-I know Anne wanted to date me… a-a-and I'm above the moon knowing I have someone like Anne w-who cares about me… but I still don't deserve her. Not at all"
She sighed "So I have to do everything to feel worth her attention"
XXX
In a plane following behind theirs, the Bandmates and the Simps both silently sat in different parts of the plane. Going from New Zealand to the north pole was a good long while so it got awkward rather quickly.
"Makenna, it's going to be a long ride, can we at least pretend to not be suspicious of them?" Cord whispered.
"I don't know… they just feel like the obvious suspect you know?"
"I get it" Cord nods before getting up "But at the same time I don't know if those two could really be that malicious"
She gestured to the other side of the plane. Rodney was looking down at his phone, while slowly biting his fingers. Next to him, Adam was silently looking over his shoulder, seeming just as focused as he was.
"See? That looks like a ball of fun" Cord smiled, walking over to them to look over Rodney to watch the video.
Makenna silently watched the group of three. She didn't want to trust the Simps quite yet, but at the same time, she couldn't help herself.
"What are we all watching?" Makenna smiled while getting up.
She walked up behind her partner, only to realize the group was watching cat videos like a cat playing a piano.
I don't know what I was expecting. Makenna deadpanned with an amused smile.
Confessional: Bandmates
"You know what Cord, I think you make a good point" Makenna smiled a bit "I'm letting the locket affect my game too much. I came here to have some fun man!"
Cord smiled, patting her partner on the back "That's what I like to hear. Of course, we'll keep lookin for your locket"
"Let's leave that as a secondary goal" Makenna smiled a bit wider "I'm not ruining the fun this late into the game"
XXX
While everyone was set in planes set in groups of four, the Last Resorts were stuck sitting in a plane by themselves.
Tamera was naturally sitting as far away from Bonnie as possible, however, the pervert wasn't even looking her way. She was just looking down at her phone with her tongue sticking out the side.
Naturally, the vixen had no idea how someone like Bonnie could just ignore the fact they were alone sitting and in such a small setting.
Tamera cleared her throat while looking away from her, however, she only continued to get nothing in response.
"What is so captivating on that phone of yours?" Tamera finally spoke up.
"Hm?" Bonnie looked up at her before chuckling "Oh, sorry. I just took a video of Rodney and Adam in the last challenge so I'm just passing the time"
Tamera looked like she didn't quite know how to respond to that, granted there was definitely some of the usual disgust she felt when around her.
"You're drooling over those simps when I'm right here? And here I assume you at least had taste" Tamera mocked.
Bonnie just shrugged "I gotta make sure to keep a balanced diet. If I perve over the same thing all the time I might get bored of it"
"Wha-" Tamera scoffed "Are you saying you're sick of me? If anything I should be saying I'm sick of you"
"I know you're tired of me" Bonnie shrugged a little before looking back down at her phone and began drooling again.
Tamera rolled her eyes "two can play the ignore game" she murmured before getting on her phone to start ignoring her back.
Eventually, the first plane landed, with the Disorganized Disaster and La Familia running ahead.
"This is an early lead so I don't want you screwing this up" Margaret threatened.
"I won't, you need to relax already" Maria rolled her eyes "We're second what's the worst that could happen?"
Both teams ran to the closest dickbox before snapping up the tip.
Margaret speed read the tip, smirking quickly "Oh yea, botch or watch!"
Richard appeared walking around in the white snow "In today's botch or watch, we're playing ringtoss, quite the excitement isn't it?" he smiled in his warm sweater.
"For this challenge, those who didn't play music in Finland will now be tossing rings at something a bit above the difficulty at a local fair"
He reached into the snow, grabbing a golden ring by a frozen lake "Once you find a ring, you just have to throw it at a narwhal's tusk."
The host threw the ring, landing right on its horn, getting a hole in one. He then walked over to a set of snowmobiles. "From there they can drive to our next dickbox"
He drove to said next dickbox "Just remember, the moment you take your next tip the boomerang becomes ineffective. And I'd recommend not using it on yourself this time either" he chuckled.
Both leading teams moved to the large pond Richard had shown off. "This is practically a child's game" Margaret mused while crouching and looking around in the snow.
"Wonder how long it might take to find one" Ben murmured while scrounging in the snow next to her.
Ben was the first of the two to throw the ring into the water, however, he doesn't get anywhere close to hitting a Narwhal.
"This… might not go as easily as I thought" he murmured.
"I'm sure you can handle it" Desmond smiled "You're easily the more capable of the two of us!"
"If you say so…" he murmured.
Margaret next to him chucked hers as hard as she could, easily overshooting one of the other narwals. It laughed at her before sneaking back underwater.
"Stupid mammal" she growled.
Confessional: La Familia
"I knew before that I despised mammals. But narwhals are slowly making their way up that list" Margaret fumed.
"You know we're mammals too, right?"
Margaret just glared at her partner "Believe me. I know"
XXX
As both of them fail the score, the Wilderness Girls, Opposites, Simps, and Bandmates made their way to the challenge.
"Well this is your challenge Sophie" Bea smiled "Do you think it's legal for me to help you look around?"
"Better to not risk it" the martial artist smiled "I already know where one is anyways" she planted her foot on the ground before kicking a large ring into the air.
"How… did you know it was sitting there?" Bea looked genuinely surprised.
"I didn't. But if it's one thing I've learned from sensei Shiro and Ninja, is that you just gotta go for the cool points"
"I… guess that makes sense" her grandma simply nodded.
Instead of responding, Sophie could hear Rodney slowly rummaging around in the snow. Her eyes widened almost immediately remembering something. So she started walking over, earning the large simp's attention.
"Hey Rodney" she smiled.
"Oh, hello Sophie" he smiled as he stood up "Did you need help looking for a ring?"
"No, I have one already" she showed him her ring "But I actually wanted to give it back to you"
"Oh, I can't take that from you" the redhead waved his hand "I'll find one sooner than later"
"Please Rodney?" She looked up at him pleadingly. "Sensei Shiro told me that every good deed should be rewarded. And I haven't forgotten you helping me back in Hawaii"
Rodney rubbed the back of his neck, before glancing back to Bea watching them "I-I guess I can take that. Thanks Sophie" he smiled while gripping the ring, before giving her a soft pat on the top of the head.
The young martial artist smiled proudly at her good deed.
Bea smiled softly "Maybe martial arts teach a rather good lesson after all…"
In the background, Ben, Margaret, Anne, and Cord try throwing their rings at a narwhal but all missed their shots.
As they all went back to their searching the last three teams: the Circus Duo, Turtle School, and Last Resorts came running in.
Monstro smiled excitedly, rushing closer to the group of contestants to nab one of the rings. Without even looking for any narwhals he threw the ring as hard as he could at the water.
A narwhal came out right after he threw, resulting in the first land. "Yeaaaaaa!" Monstro raised his hands proudly.
Desmond and the Bandmates happily clapped at getting it on the first try.
The gentle giant smiled softly before waving her hands "Oh no need to praise me. I used to play this all the time at our circus. Pickle-o is way better at that game"
"I just play them because I like taking things from the guy running that game" Piccolo deadpanned.
As they spoke, Sophie managed to follow up his score, getting hers to spin around another's tusk.
"Way to go Sophie!" Bea praised.
Piccolo stared at the two of them celebrating before Monstro grabbed him and started running "we gotta keep this lead!"
Monstro jumped onto one of the snowmobiles before taking off, being followed behind by the Wilderness Girls.
Piccolo watched the two girls chase after him, focusing specifically on Sophie smiling excitedly over their early lead.
Back at the water, Tamera was slowly picking up rings and throwing them at the narwhal, however, she wasn't getting remotely close. Some of them didn't even make it into the water.
She frowned in annoyance, before quickly noticing that Bonnie wasn't making any weird comments. She looked around, before finding where she was.
Rodney was bent over in the snow, trying to grab some more rings in the ground. Bonnie slowly licked her lips as she stood behind him.
"Hey redhead, you're my partner! Stop drooling over everyone standing around" Tamera scowled.
"What? Were you saying something?" Bonnie turned back to her with a purely confused expression.
Confessional: Bonnie
"I don't know why she cares" Bonnie shrugged in the freezing cold "I accept she's not into me. I mean, I don't think I've ever met someone who's taken an interest in me. I am unattractive"
she shrugs a little again "What… was my point again? Oh, right! Rodney. I know in his season he simped anyone who was nice to him. So. Clearly, he and I are going to be in smooch town in no time!"
Confessional: Tamera
"Believe me I hate that goblin more than anyone. But through this whole season, no one ever wants to talk to me anymore. So, if I'm going to get more screen time I have to be around someone. Clearly, I deserve all the attention. But it's better safe than sorry"
XXX
Elsewhere Anne was slowly walking around. Hope was still wrapped around her like a giant blanket.
"I don't want to interrupt Hope, but y-you're kind of being heavy"
Hope frowned almost immediately "a-are you at least warm?"
"Kind of? It might be better if it was like a hug" Anne smiled down at her.
Hope dropped to the ground before hugging her from behind. Anne's face slowly turned a brighter red as she continued to look around.
"I-I'm not in the way now right? Y-you're blushing a lot"
"Oh of course not. You're just like dandruff is all" Anne smiled, excited for her to respond.
"Because I just won't leave you alone?" Hope frowned
"Nope! Because you're always on my mind" she giggled "I'm also blushing because your boobs are pressed against me" she whispered teasingly.
Hope turned bright red as she stepped back "r-right, m-m-my bad"
"I didn't say that was bad" Anne smiled teasingly before reaching down to grab a ring.
"This looks like a ring I would consider giving you in the future" Anne continued to tease, just enjoying how flustered Hope got with each comment.
Anne moved past Hope when she saw one of the narwhals above the water. She actually managed to get a score.
"Oh sweet, third!" Anne cheered before grabbing Hope's hand and running to the snowmobile.
"Hey, hey. Wanna hear a wedding joke?" Anne smiled while getting in front.
"S-sure" Hope smiled while holding onto Anne by her waist.
"My dog ate the wedding ring. The vet said there's a diamond in the ruff"
Hope tried biting her lip before bursting into laughter as they took off.
Ahead of the others, the Circus Duo and the Wilderness Girls made it to the second dickbox.
"Who should we use the tip on Pickle-o?" Monstro looked down at his partner
"I already have an idea" Piccolo pulled himself from Monstro's arm as the Wilderness Girls started walking to the dickbox.
"Not so fast" Piccolo didn't speak any more threateningly or hurriedly than usual. Even keeping his dead frown "I wouldn't grab that tip"
Bea and Sophie turned around with surprised expressions "why would you use that on us?" Bea worried.
"Yea, we didn't do anything to you, and we're as unthreatening as it gets"
"Don't care" Piccolo showed the faintest smile "I just know I hate seeing children being happy"
"Boomerang!" He announced so Richard could hear him.
"Ah man," they both groaned in annoyance.
Before either of them could get back on their snowmobile, Richard swiftly came up to them "Sorry to only come around now but I think this challenge should have a little extra special" he smiled.
"You can't just make a new rule now" Bea turned to him "that's not fair at all"
"Life's not fair granny. It's a botch or watch so Sophie's now going to be watching you botch"
The Wilderness Duo decided this wasn't worth arguing over, so they simply got back on their snowmobile and started driving back from whence they came.
"Did we have to use it on them?" Monstro grimaced.
"Oh they'll be fine" Piccolo shrugged "It's not like that challenge was even hard"
Before the clown could go and grab the tip to the second leg of the challenge, Anne and Hope jumped in to snatch it. "Alright first place!" Anne smirked,
Anne raised the tip high in the air as she struck a victory pose. Leaving Hope to try desperately to read the tip from behind.
"An igloo, that sounds nice" Hope smiled.
Richard was back once again, standing around in the snow "In our second leg of the race, the contestants will be using this fancy little saw" he raised a saw you'd see used cutting logs of wood.
He leaned down, cutting a large square from the icy ground. He pulled it out and then placed it onto a mostly complete igloo.
"Basically as simple as that. Make an igloo and when you get approval from this local" he gestured to a short woman in a parka, who gave him a thumbs up "You can go to the chill zone"
It cuts to the chill zone but the host doesn't appear with it. Only shows a giant snowman with two large snowballs placed on its chest.
It cuts back to Richard smiling flirtatiously at the Inuit lady "It gets pretty cold up here… once the challenge is over do you wanna maybe go back to my place and warm-up?"
The local started getting nervous, however she was quickly saved by a large slab of ice slamming into the back of the host's head.
Back at the ring toss, Ben was still trying his hardest to score some rings after checking for wind speed and direction of course. That didn't help his shit aim however as he missed every shot.
Desmond smiled encouragingly at his partner, rooting for him as well as he could. However, near him, he could hear someone else only landing shots into the water.
He turned around to see Margaret groaning loudly in annoyance as she kept tossing them wildly in the water.
He noticed Maria wasn't near her, before hearing Adam and her giggling together.
"Figured" he mused before walking over to Margaret with a warm smile "Hey, do you have a moment?"
"What do you want?" Margaret scowled.
"I just wanted to talk" Desmond smiled "I know in the last challenge things got a bit… rough. So I was hoping to maybe apologize for anything the two of us may have done to you"
The mafioso silently raised an eyebrow at him "It's a competition. I went after you because you're an opponent. There's nothing personal about this"
"Ah, that's fair" Desmond murmured "But can I at least ask that you avoid being so violent? At least toward Ben. if you gotta break one of our legs at least let it be mine"
Her expression slowly turned to one of faint disgust "I see… you're the masochistic type huh?"
His face lit up in a blush "I-I didn't mean it anything like that I-"
"Desmond" Ben called in his usual monotone. Desmond turned to see that his partner had already gotten onto one of the snowmobiles.
"Oh, coming Ben" Desmond smiled as he started running over to him, only to be tripped. Falling face-first into the snow.
He turned around slowly to see Margaret crouching over him with a dead-serious expression "You were trying to distract me so you and your friend could get a head start on me. Right?"
"No, I didn't have that kind of-" Margaret put a finger to his lips.
"Listen. I don't care if you keep trying to excuse what you did. But know this. People who mess with me don't live to tell the tale. I went easy on that fat ass earlier in the competition but I'll be more than happy to bring out the big guns now"
Desmond silently started sweating as he snuck away from her, getting onto the snowmobile with his partner.
"L-let's get going" he whispered quickly.
Ben silently stared at Margaret, watching her throw rings into the water while continuing to get no luck "Ok" he nodded before driving away.
As they took off, the Wilderness Girls were making their way back.
Bea looked at the crowd of people still around.
At the water Cord was turned away from the narwhal with her arms crossed, one of the narwhals was leaning up and out of the water, looking like it really wanted her to throw the ring at him.
"You had your chance" the rocker shook her head "Sorry but not happening"
It softly nudged its tusk against the side of her leg.
"Oh fine" she sighed softly "I guess I can use the ring" she smiled before softly placing the ring on its tusk. Making it a very happy boy.
"Thanks for the help" she lightly patted its head before running away.
"Ok, we're not that far behind" Bea smiled seeing they still had four other contestants to race against "We're not out of this yet!"
The duo quickly ran back to the water, where the gilf got down on the ground to start trying to scoop up any rings.
Tamera could see that her team was falling behind and that her partner was still totally ignoring her.
"This game sucks!" She whined miserably while throwing her ring over her shoulder.
She looked back to the ring, still annoyed before realizing that the ring finally caught one of the narwhals.
"Oh, well, I knew I'd get this before long. It's practically a children's game" she smiled confidently while sauntering over to their snowmobile.
To her right, Shiro was looking around in the snow like an old man who had just lost his glasses. He smiled as he reached into the snow and grabbed a large ring "Oh, finally!"
He reached over the water, smiling proudly as the ring lay in wait. Before he knew it the narwhal came out from the water and scored the ring for him.
Almost everyone else still there looked surprised by his feat before clapping.
Confessional: Turtle School
"I had no idea that was going to happen" Shiro smiled "I just don't have to tell anyone else that" he smirked.
XXX
Shiro was getting ready to run away when he noticed Ninja silently looking at the WIlderness Girls. Bea had found a ring but barely even got it into the water.
"Shouldn't we help them sensei?" Ninja turned around, hoping for her sensei to give her the go-ahead.
"No Ninja" he shook his head before pointing at Bea moving her hands around in every inch of the thick snow. "She does not need our help"
"What do you mean?" She frowned "She can't find it and if she keeps being so slow the others might get ahead"
Shiro silently shook his head before he continued walking "Some people need to do things on their own Ninja. Helping would only make things worse for her"
Ninja silently followed behind her sensei "You always know best so if you say so sensei"
Before they got onto the snowmobile Shiro ran back to Bea and gave her a quick pat on the rear "I know you'll do great! So good game already. You can do anything you put that beautiful mind to" he continued to praise her before running back to the snowmobile Ninja was starting up.
Bea had a deep blush as she took a deep breath and sighed, before continuing her search in the snow.
Further in the competition, some of our players were making some decent progress. The Polar Opposites and Circus Duo were slowly building up their igloos. Though the Circus Duo was making much more progress compared to the Polar Opposites, almost entirely because of how fast Monstro was going.
The Last Resorts and the Bandmates finally managed to land, quickly getting off and rushing to the challenge.
Tamera smirked slightly as they set up right next to the Bandmates. "Bonnie" she whispered after getting close "I need you to stay working. I'll be back to help in a moment"
"What are you doing?" Bonnie looked up to her, but she was already walking away from her by the time she looked up. "Right…" she sighed slightly before getting to cutting up the ice.
Tamera sauntered confidently to the Bandmates, smiling condescendingly "How are you two doing this fine, freezing day"
They both silently looked up at her before continuing to work in tandem "What do you want Tamera?" Makenna finally asked.
"Quite the response" she deadpanned before going back to a smile "But I just came over to chat is all. Have you found that locket you were looking for?"
Makenna and Cord stopped what they were doing to immediately look at her. Tamera just smiled coyly, like she had no idea what she said was wrong.
"How do you know about the locket" Cord frowned.
"Oh, I just heard it through the grapevine" she shrugged with a small smirk "But I think I have seen it around somewhere before… just hard to put my finger on it"
"Please Tamera, you have to tell me where it is" Makenna moved from the igloo to plead with the vixen "It means so much to me, please"
"How much does it mean to you… exactly" Tamera smirked at her.
"I'll do anything"
She laughed, clearly trying to annoy them with how smug she sounded "I can't believe how quick it was to make you putty in my hands"
"Just tell me what you want me to do" the rocker scowled.
"Just help Bonnie get through the challenge" she waved "Oh, and Cord" she looks to the other rocker "You will work just fine as my seat to relax for the rest of the challenge. I've been running around far too long now"
Cord frowned and was clearly about to say something before Makenna stood in front of her "FIne, ok. So where is the locket?"
"I'll tell you when I'm satisfied" the vixen stated flatly.
Makenna sighed before walking over to Bonnie, taking the cubes of ice she had made and placing them into the igloo's foundation.
Tamera turned around, smirking slightly at Cord "I believe you still have to do part of your deal still"
Cord silently moved down to her hands and knees. "Thank you" Tamera smiled before taking her seat on her back and leaning back on what they had done of their igloo.
"I think I could get used to this"
Confessional: Bandmates
"I don't know why we're doing this" Cord grumbled with a faint blush.
"She's the first real lead we've had, but thank you for helping me with this" Makenna smiled slightly at her friend.
"Of course, I'm going to help you. Like I'll help you beat up Tamera if she's lying about having your locket"
"She would do that" Makenna sighed "But she would also be the type to keep it for blackmail. So we can only do so much now"
XXX
Back at the narwhals, the only two still stuck around were the Simps and the Wilderness Girls.
"Come on Rodney, you can do it bud!" Adam cheered his friend on.
"I'm trying" Rodney whined as he fidgeted with the ring "my hands are terrible at this precision stuff"
Once he fully had the ring in his hand he threw it as hard as he could, denting the narwhal's tusk. It glared at him before quickly submerging again.
"Sorry!"
Bea breathed in and out slowly "I can do this… I can do this…"
She slowly moved her hand back and forth, before tossing the ring into the water. She missed yet another narwhal as her ring skidded on the water's surface.
Bea groaned in defeat, sitting down on the ground "I'm done… we lose"
"What do you mean?" Her granddaughter rushed to her side with a small frown "We're not even last place yet!"
"They have youth and strength. Even if we get ahead of them those two will easily push past us in the next phase" Bea lowered her head "I just need to accept that I'm going to be replaced"
"Replaced?" Sophie looked to Bea before hugging her right side "Why do you think you'd get replaced?"
"I know the Wilderness Girls have been thinking about replacing me for a while now… I'm sure this run has only proved that to them"
Sophie sat down next to her "I don't know why you think that. We outlasted a bunch of young teams! Hell, the first team was young and scrappy and we outdid them"
"Language young lady" Bea looked down at her, before smiling a little "You do have a good point though. We have lasted a while haven't we?"
"Yea!" Sophie smiled "ninth out of twenty is a great placement!"
Bea stood up again, getting a wave of confidence to wash over her.
"Wooo!" before she could use her new confidence to good use Rodney finally ringed one of the narwhals. "We finally got it!"
"Way to go dude" Adam walked up to his partner, who was standing by the edge of the water. Both bros high-fived each other.
"We still haven't lost yet" Sophie encouraged with an uplifting smile.
"You're right. We're not out yet" Bea smiled, reaching into the snow to grab another ring before chucking it at one of the narwhals that had just raised above the water.
She threw it as hard as she could, managing to land it on its horns "We're back it in!" Bea cheered proudly, leaning down to bring Sophie into a tight hug.
"Oh shoot, we better hurry dude" Adam was about to start running for the snowmobiles when the part of the ice they were standing on suddenly broke off from the rest of the land.
"Well… that complicates things" Adam murmured as they drifted further into the lake.
Sophie and Bea ran past the two of them to their snowmobiles "Sorry you two, if we weren't in last place we'd be sure to go and rescue you"
"No worries!' Rodney smiled and waved as the two of them took off "Call me!" He yelled right after.
Adam sighed slightly in annoyance "We gotta find a way out of this or we're definitely going to lose"
"We could try swimming" Rodney suggested.
"I think if we swam in this water we'd die almost immediately…" Adam rubbed his chin "But I guess we could maybe give it a quick try-"
Before he could make a solid plan Rodney pushed him straight into the water. The simp shot back out of the water as a large ice cube.
"Oh…" the farmer chuckled nervously as he hoisted Adam back out of the water and onto their iceboat "Sorry…"
Adam silently glared at him in his ice prison when they both suddenly felt something push against their platform. Rodney turned around to see one of the narwhals pushing them from behind.
"Oh, thanks Mr. Narwhal!" Rodney smiled as he started pushing them "We'll catch up in no time!"
Cutting back to the igloo segment, Desmond and Ben were done with their igloo.
"Judge lady!" Desmond waved his hands in the air, hoping to garner her attention. But while he was flailing Margaret slowly snuck behind the two. She pulled a lighter from her pocket before raising it up to their igloo.
The local slowly walked up to the group, looking at their work. She smiled, getting ready to give them a thumbs-up before it all suddenly melted onto the ground.
The local frowned and gave the two a thumbs down, causing them to sigh in disappointment.
Elsewhere, many of the contestants were making quick and successful progress. Ninja and Shiro were both standing at a blank location with nothing around it. Shiro turned to his student, giving her a slow nod.
Ninja slowly raised her sword. She smirked confidently before bringing her sword down six times. The ice stood still before every piece between the cuts cracked off into large ice blocks.
Shiro shot forward, picking every piece up in his arms before running to a slid part of the ground.
He moved in quick succession to place all of the blocks in a circle. In mere moments he had a very stable-looking igloo set on the ground.
"Well done Ninja" Shiro complimented "These are some clean cuts"
"Thank you sensei" Ninja bowed her head.
The local walked closer to the two, looking up at their igloo. Ninja and Shiro waited in silence for a moment before she gave them an enthusiastic thumbs up.
"Sweet" Shiro smiled confidently before running to the chill zone with Ninja quickly following behind.
The local smiled watching the two of them run away. However, this was quickly distracted by a large snowball hitting the back of her head.
She turned around quickly, seeing Piccolo waiting expectantly in front of his own igloo. "Well? Is it good enough?"
She frowned at them, obviously not wanting to give them any points. She eventually had to relent, giving them a thumbs up. But it was clear she wasn't happy about it.
"Let's go!" Monstro cheered before running past the native. Piccolo ran after him, purposefully shoving the local down into the snow with a small smile.
The two Circus freaks could see the Turtle School duo running as fast as they could to the chill zone. Behind Richard, he still had the snowman with a snow chest.
"Here comes our first two teams!" Richard announced excitedly.
The two teams continued to run, eventually reaching the chill zone.
"Ninja, Shiro. You're first place! Congratulations"
Both martial artists cheered proudly, before getting pushed aside by Monstro and Piccolo.
"Clowns, you're second" he sounded much less excited for them.
Piccolo silently frowned, as he usually looked.
"At least a little excitement would be nice" Richard frowned.
"Believe me I'm excited!" Monstro smiled "I don't think we've ever done this well before!"
"Glad someone here appreciates my host" Richard smiled proudly.
Piccolo ignored their conversation, silently walking past the two of them with the Turtle School. He walked up to Richard's snowwoman before suddenly jumping at it.
The small clown snapped both of its twig arms, smash both of the lower snowballs, and then bit off its nose. Letting the head drop to Richard's feet.
"What are you doing!?" The host panicked.
Piccolo ignored him, walking away from the destroyed snowwoman.
Richard dropped to his knees, looking down before arching his back and raising his fists to the sky "Eilleeeeeeeeeeen!"
Back at the igloos, the Wilderness Girls finally made it to the second part of the challenge. Not wasting any time as they got to work.
"If we move fast enough, we should at least be over halfway through this before the SImps manage to make it"
As Bea spoke, Rodney and Adam finally landed at the second task, running to the competition.
"And there they are…" Sophie murmured while watching them run to an open spot in the area.
"Just focus on the challenge" Bea leaned down to start cutting the ice as fast as she could.
Elsewhere on the icy ground, Anne and Hope were almost done. Neither of them have any physical strength to speak of had slowed them down severely, but they were getting it done.
"It was…" Anne grunted making another cube in the ice "Ice of Richard to give us these saws to cut through the ice" she smiled weakly.
"Do you want to swap positions?" Hope worriedly crouched down.
"No way" she chuckled "I gotta get a strong bod to impress my lady"
Hope blushed a little before trying to take the saw from her "S-Seriously Anne, you don't look like you're doing very well."
"Oh… well if you think it'll be best" Anne smiled before rolling away from the cutting to the igloo. Hope started making quick work of the ice.
Anne smiled as she took the ice blocks and started stacking them up "You know if this house falls apart, we could at least ig-loo it back together"
Hope giggled softly as she kept focusing on the ice.
Meanwhile, Makenna groaned softly, placing the last of the ice blocks on Tamera's icy igloo.
"There… done!"
Tamera walked up to the igloo, smiling at the sight "You did a good job. Really impressive stuff"
"Where's my locket?" Makenna quickly moved up to her.
"Ah ah ah" Tamera wagged her finger in her face "I didn't say you would get it after this one itsy bitsy task"
"I could easily destroy your igloo now if you want to play hardball" the rocker moved back to raise her fist above the igloo she made.
"I wouldn't do that" Tamera smirked before the locket out of her pocket "Unless you want me to do the same to this"
Makenna and Cord stood there, silently looking at Tamera.
"You actually have it?" Cord sounded genuinely surprised.
"Of course, I do" Tamera smirked before walking closer "So, shall we continue this little deal of ours Makenna?"
The rocker silently moved away from the igloo, walking over to Cord.
"Good" Tamera smirked before slipping the locket between her cleavage. "You two should get to work though, you're going to start falling behind" she taunted.
Bonnie was casually looking away from the scene, trying to call the local over. When she came over, she looked over the igloo and smiled. Giving them a large thumbs up.
"There we go" Tamera smirked before quickly moving ahead.
As she ran, however, she noticed that Bonnie wasn't even standing by her side anymore "Where-"
She looked to the side to see Bonnie lying belly down on the ground. She had her chin resting on her palms as she walked him work. She was specifically staring at his muscular torso, which pressed against the warm winter attire.
Small bits of drool rolled down Bonnie's cheek as Tamera came over "We're in the middle of the challenge. Don't stare at the competition!"
Tamera grabbed Bonnie by the ear like a disappointed grandma as she started walking away "Wait! At least let me try to flirt a little with him! I didn't even ask if we can share the same pants for waaaaaaaarmth!"
Rodney silently watched her walk away, before turning to Adam "She's kinda weird isn't she?"
"Sure is" Adam murmured, not even looking his way.
Margaret could see Tamera moving ahead and quickly snapped her fingers together "Local lady, hurry this along please!"
She slowly trudged over to the two of them. She smiled, getting ready to give a thumbs up when it suddenly collapsed in on itself.
The local frowned and slowly shook her head.
"How-" Margaret glared at Maria "Did you sabotage us and not put this up right?"
"Why would I do that?" Maria asked flatly "I quite literally gain nothing from doing that"
"Well if you didn't who did?" Margaret crossed her arms angrily. She looked around the others, before suddenly noticing Ben walking up to their igloo and putting the last piece on the top.
Margaret slowly started turning red in anger as the local came around to give them approval.
Desmond smiled proudly, pulling Ben into a hug which Ben somewhat returned. Before they took off after the Last Resorts, Ben silently turned to look back at Margaret.
"I'm going to murder them" she whispered while clutching her fist.
At the chill zone, Richard was standing by his lonesome. He was slowly rebuilding his snowman when both teams made it. He continued to silently ignore them until the vixen angrily cleared her throat.
"Huh? Oh," Richard sighed "Last Resorts are third. Disaster is fourth. Opposites are fifth…. Only… three more spots left" he sighed.
Confessional: Last Resorts
"I don't know what that little dweeb's problem is" Tamera rolled her eyes. They were still standing in the snow.
"Yea…" Bonnie slowly nodded while looking away from her, using binoculars.
Tamera glared down at the redhead "Ok, maybe I am getting annoyed…" she snatched the binoculars from her, looking into them to see Bonnie had been staring at Rodney. "Yea, annoyed"
Confessional: DD
"Did you feel like someone was staring daggers into our backs back there?" Desmond casually asked his partner.
Ben simply shrugged nonchalantly "Even if you did, I'm sure it was from a team that doesn't matter. So I wouldn't worry about it"
Desmond frowned slightly "I… I guess if you say so. I just hope we can avoid making too many enemies. We don't even have the best track record when people ignore us"
"I think that would have happened either way" Ben shrugged again.
XXX
Back at the challenge, while there were only five teams left many were at different levels of finished. The Simps, while being the last team were well ahead of the others at this point. Meanwhile, the Bandmates and La Familia were just now getting started or redoing theirs.
Bea and Sophie looked at the others, going as fast as they could seeing most of the others were pulling ahead.
"M-my arm feels like it's going to fall off" the granny groaned.
"Do you want to swap then?"
"No" Bea quickly denied "I can handle this just fine"
"If you say so…" she murmured.
"Alright, we're almost done!" Rodney smiled as Adam started putting the last of the igloo on.
"Hey, lady. We're good" Adam smiled while waiting for her to come over.
She smiled on her way to them but was interrupted by Margaret picking her up like a bad dog "You're looking at ours first lady"
The Inuit silently looked up to the Mafioso as she set her down right at their now finished igloo "What do you think?"
She slowly rubbed her chin, before smiling and giving her a thumbs up.
"Ugh, finally" Margaret grabbed Maria and started running away.
"See you at the chill zone" Adam smiled while waving at Maria. She waved back with a small smile as the local walked closer.
Rodney tapped his fingers, nervously waiting for the result.
She then suddenly smiled and gave the thumbs up.
The large farm boy sighed in relief before starting to run alongside Adam. Leaving just two people left to continue their work.
"We gotta hurry" Makenna worried, moving the ice cubes as fast as she possibly could.
"I'm going as fast as I can" Cord kept cutting through the ice.
The Wilderness Girls were speeding as fast as they were. Both groups were managing to stay in line with each other. So when one was done the other was done almost directly after.
"DONE!" Makenna and Bea yelled.
The local smiled, going to the Wilderness Girls first. Both girls stood on edge, waiting for the final declaration. She gave them both a thumbs up.
Bea didn't wait a moment, grabbing her grandaughter by the arm to start running to the chill zone.
"Hurry hurry hurry hurry" Makenna jumped rapidly in the same spot as the local walked over. She smiled and gave them a pretty quick thumbs up.
The rockers didn't have the chance to celebrate, instead running for the chill zone.
While the Wilderness Girls had a head start, they were much less physically fit in comparison to the Bandmates.
Bea and Sophie ran with all their might, but as hard as they ran, the Bandmates still managed to slowly overtake them. Being the first ones to make it to the red carpet.
Richard smiled as his snowwoman was fully set up again "Bandmates, you're eighth place. Congrats"
"Oh thank god" Makenna sighed in relief.
Once they were out of the way, Bea and Sophie slowly walked closer. Clearly disappointed with how they had done.
"Well, girls. I'm sorry to say, but you're in last place. So you're out"
"We know" Bea sighed disappointedly.
Richard frowned slightly, before smiling encouragingly "Hey, you guys got 9th. That's pretty impressive considering it all started with 20"
Bea smiled a little at the host trying to encourage them "Thanks…"
The scene began to show the time the Wilderness Girls spent in the competition. "That was a good run" Bea spoke a bit more proudly.
"For sure. It was so nice getting to travel around the world and seeing so many sights."
"And now we will start talking to your mother about the idea of you going into the martial arts" Bea teased as they started walking through the snowy tundra.
"I'm sure she'll agree" Sophie tapped her fingers together "With your approval likely…"
Bea smiled as she pulled her closer while walking "No promises there"
"W-what if I talk to the scoutmasters about how capable you still are?"
"Won't change anything" Bea smirked a little "Like you said I proved how capable I am in my old age already"
Sophie silently crossed her arms in a pout as Bea lightly giggled in amusement.
AN: Not quite the longest chapter there is, but I at least hope it didn't feel too short. I feel I put a decent bit into the challenge at the very least. Thanks to Redline for the Wilderness Girls, I know they got a bit of a downgraded ranking-wise from the original order. I just haven't had all too much to do with them since Rodney stopped simping Bea lol. But I enjoyed them, the gilf jokes were naturally my cup of tea so they were fun. But I'll see you all next time, in the Komodo Dragons challenge. Which should be pretty exciting.