A/N: So, slight change in plans. It's taking me longer to write the seond part than I thought it would. In two words Knee sprain. So I figure I'll post what I have, this chapter is brunch of disgustingness and no pain, no game. With any luck the next will be search and do not destroy to that's off the chain. Thank you for understanding.

Brunch of disgustingness

Noah was confused. A short while ago Chris had announced that the remaining ten people had reached the merge and the Gopher cabin was now the boys, while the Bass cabin is now the girls. Noah supposed it was due to there being more boys in the Gopher cabin already. Of course there were more girls in the cabin as well... That wasn't what he was confused about.

He was confused because he seemed to be excited. He was a very antisocial person, if anything he should be upset that extra boys were moving into the cabin, or at the very least disgruntled. Yet he was excited and for the life of him he could not put his finger as to why. Maybe he was just happy about making the merge. That didn't feel quite right but he wasn't going to dwell on it.

When DJ entered the cabin one of the first things to happen was the brickhouse blanching at the state of Cody's bed. The tech geek was not the most tidy of people, and there were comic books, candy wrappers, and even a pair of underwear strewn on the other bunk of his bed.

The tech geek spotted his look and looked at the bunk. "I can clear it off if you want to sleep there." He offered.

DJ looked torn, luckily he was saved from having to make a decision by Trent. "No worries you can bunk with me man."

"Thanks." The brickhouse replied with a smile. That was when Noah spotted Tyler in the doorway. He moved his book in front of his face. He wasn't sure why, but he didn't want Tyler to look at him. Unfortunately the moment the jock looked in his direction he beamed.

"Noah man! Isn't this great? Now we can hang out whenever we want, and people can't get mad at us cause' we're on the same team." He exclaimed.

Noah felt the urge to bury his face deeper into his book, but resisted it. He didn't know why he wanted to anyway. "That's nice."

Noah could hear the jocks loping footsteps move towards him, but he tried to pay it no mind, resolutely focusing on his book. It was not long before Tyler entered his peripheral vision. He watched as the other approached his bed. "Can I bunk with you?"

Noah didn't want Tyler to bunk with him, at least that's what he thought this feeling in the pit of his stomach was telling him. All he knew was that being around the jock was making him nervous. He decided to tell Tyler he could ask Cody to clear off his bunk for him. "Do what you want."

"Thanks man." The jock cheerfully replied, Noah nodded, he was worried he'd say something weird again. Seriously, what was wrong with him?

Meanwhile Bridgette was excited to have Gwen and Lashawna move into her cabin. It had been just her and Katie for awhile now and Katie, wasn't really doing much. She'd made it this far because she wasn't that noticeable, and others had made more obvious blunders. Bridgette didn't have a problem with her but she had somehow managed to be closer to two girls on the other team then Katie. It would be nice to have her friends here.

As if on cue Lashawna entered the cabin. "Hey girl how you doing?" The sista said giving her a fist bump.

"I'm doing great, but I'm doing even better with you here." She said with a smile.

"Now that's what I like to hear!" Lasshawna grinned. She looked at Bridgette and brought the surfer close. "Can I lay something down on you? Girl to girl?"

"Of course you can." She replied, curious.

"So lately there's been this kind of tension, between Gwen and Lindsay. She says it's because Lindsay was on Heather's side, but I don't buy it. So I was thinking maybe you'll have more luck than me?" The sista asked.

"I can try, Gwen is really stubborn." She said.

"Don't I know it girl." Lashawna replied.

It was then Gwen and Lindsay entered the cabin. Bridgette immediately noticed the tension Lashawna was talking about. Lindsay was following Gwen, a confused look on her face, while the goth did her best not to look at her. "So you're saying you want to bunk with Lafawnda?"

"Yes." Gwen replied shortly.

"Well was kind of hoping I could bunk with one of you. Since we're all Gopher girls and I know you guys better than the Bass." The blonde said hopefully.

"How well can you possibly know us? You just got Lashawna's name wrong." The goth responded tersely. She walked to the bunk Lashawna was putting her stuff by while Lindsay looked after her in confusion.

"Hey Lindsay you can bunk with me?" the surfer offered.

Lindsay brightened. "Thanks! Um…"

"Bridgette." She filled in.

"Yeah, thanks Bridgette." The blonde smiled.

Having helped Lindsay she approached Gwen. "We need to talk."

Gwen sighed, "Fine." The two exited the cabin Gwen looking anywhere but at Bridgette. "So, what do you want?"

"What's going on between you and LIndsay?" She asked getting straight to the point.

"Not much, just some leftover baggage from Heather." The goth replied.
"It seems like more than that." She said, giving her a look.

"Well, it isn't." Gwen scoffed, looking away.

"Look me in the eyes and say that. If you can do it I'll leave you alone." Bridgette replied.

The goth struggled but eventually managed to look just left of her eyes. "It's nothing more than that."

Bridgette raised an eyebrow and Gwen finally broke. "Okay, it's a little more than that. See lately Trent's been hanging around Lindsay, a lot."

Instantly Bridgette understood. "Look Gwen, you know she's not doing this on purpose right?"

The goth sighed. "Yes, I do."

"And you know it's Trent's choice who he dates right?" She asked.

"Yeah, it's just hard, because I really like him, and he seemed to really like me, but lately he's been drifting towards Lindsay. And they seem way more fitting for each other, and-" Gwen rambled. Bridgette stopped her there.

"Look if Trent does choose Lindsay, it won't be because you aren't fitting. Trent doesn't care about that kind of thing. If he chooses Lindsay it'll be because of who she is, not who you are not. Okay?" Gwen nodded. "Can you try to be less confronting to her?" She nodded again. "Good."

Later it was revealed that today's challenge was to eat a bunch of disgusting things, and that no one would be sent home as the challenge was for reward. At first Noah wasn't going to try but then Chris mentioned antibiotics. He would like to know he wasn't disease ridden.

The first dish was meatballs, but as Cody was digging into one Chris said they were bovine testicles. That got Cody to spit his meat out real quick. Noah wasn't too into the idea of eating balls either, but he figured if this was the first course things would only get worse from here. So he began to nibble his way through the first meatball.

"Dude! Do you know what your eating?!" Tyler exclaimed as the other boys looked at him.

"Yes, I'm trying not to think about it." He deadpanned, continuing to gnaw through his ball.

Tyler started to nibble on his too. "For the team!" He proclaimed, though he was going at an even slower rate than Noah. Eventually all the girls had eaten at least one meatball, except Bridgette.

"I'm a vegetarian!" She insisted, as the girls glared at her. Seeing she was in trouble Cody moved to help.

"Hey I know you don't want to eat meat, but if you don't eat Chris and Chef will just throw the meat out. Isn't that worse than eating it?" He said. Bridgette reluctantly ate a meatball.

"Great Cody, I ate bull testicles for nothing!" Noah yelled.

"Come on, we were never going to finish anyway." The geek shrugged.

The next dish was pizza with live grasshoppers in tangy jellyfish sauce and live anchovies. The girls were horrified, but the guys didn't have much trouble. After eating balls Tyler was up for anything, Noah knew all the ingredients were edible, DJ stomached it, and Cody actually seemed to enjoy the jellyfish sauce. Meanwhile Gwen ate her piece, while Bridgette taught Katie and Lindsay meditation to make them eat theirs. That left Lashawna and Trent. The latter insisted they hold him down and force feed him, to which they obliged.

With the score at 1-1 the next dish was earthworms and snail slime with hairballs. The boys managed to eat it by covering their eyes and plugging their noses. So they took that round. The dish after was bunions soup with hangnails. Noah outright refused to eat it as it was a health hazard. Meanwhile the girls used a funnel and tied them.

The next few dishes were won by no one. First was Chef's ABC gum, then skunk juice, a flip flop with a face, and garbage stew. They finally reached the last dish, dolphin weiners. Bridgette refused to eat it, as did DJ and while Noah tried to convince him otherwise he wasn't going to force anything, since he had refused to the soup earlier. Chris forced a tiebreaker, with that being blended roaches. Tyler was chosen by the boys, and Lashawna by the girls. Somehow Tyler won, earning the boys a cruise.

No pain, no game

The next challenge brought about the return of Eva and Courtney. Obviously nothing Chris said meant anything. Regardless the next challenge was a game of torture, also known as say uncle. If you didn't last ten seconds, or backed down you lost. One thing Noah had noticed was that Eva was gunning for Bridgette and Katie. That wasn't good.

Challenge one:turtle puck shots, Tyler somehow manged to endure that, much to Noah's surprise. He was impressed. Next marshmallow waxing with LIndsey, she made it. Honestly with how much pain girls were willing to put themselves through to look good he wasn't surprised.

Lindsay was allowed to pick who went next, and with Eva whispering into her ear, she chose Katie with the barrel of leeches. Unfortunately this proved too much for the raven haired girl, who only made it 9 seconds.

He was next with a woodpecker and wood shorts. He didn't even flinch. It would take a woodpecker far longer than ten seconds to peck through wood that thick. After that was Gwen getting a nose hair plucked, followed by DJ with a boa constrictor. He didn't make it.

The wheel landed on a shirt of bees, and Bridgette moved to do it when Cody, the idiot he was, volunteered to do it for her. He survived and was allowed to choose the next victim, who would have to survive ten seconds in a crate with the Sasquatchanakwa.

"I choose Eva" The geek said with a smirk. Noah facepalmed, yes antagonize the iron woman with anger issues, that was smart.

Obviously Eva survived and Cody was eliminated. Trent failed to jump over skunks, Gwen couldn't listen to ten seconds of new age music, not that he blamed her, Lindsay refused to have her hair cut with a chainsaw, and Bridgette couldn't eat a gallon of ice cream without brain freeze.

Courtney got shocked by eels for ten seconds and chose Tyler for the poison ivy spa treatment. Tyler moved to do so when He whispered at him. "I wouldn't do that, your skin could be inflamed for days."

"In-what?" the jock whispered back.

"Swollen, red and itchy. You won't be doing much." Tyler took his advice.

In the end it was down to Lashawna and Eva. Lashawna had to last ten seconds on a log roll with a bear. She made 9 seconds and no more. so Eva was declared the winner. At the campfire ceremony Chris revealed they were out of marshmallows and he was going to show the confessionals.

(Confessionals)

Gwen: Okay so we can't vote off Eva, in which case I'll vote Courtney she doesn't deserve to be here.

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Courtney: So Lashawna, Gwen and Bridgette, are all really close. Which makes them dangerous. Since Lashawna lasted the longest I'll vote her out.

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Trent: Noah asked me to vote out Lashawna, and I agree she's a threat, but she's friends with Gwen, so I'll vote for Katie. She's probably safer away from Eva.

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Lashawna: Ya'll know I'm voting for Courtney. Me and my homegirls. Bridgette and Gwen, we all agree she's a piece of work.

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Katie: Courtney said if I vote for Lashawna she'll make sure I'm not voted out. So I vote for Lashawna.

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DJ: Man I don't wanna be mean, but Katie, you'll be safer if you leave now. Bridgette has people who got her back, you don't, so sorry I gotta vote for you.

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Eva: The others won't vote for me if they're smart. I vote for Lashawna, she nearly made me lose.

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Bridgette: Courtney, I have to vote for you. You've changed since we last saw each other. You're a lot more vindictive. I'm worried about you.

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Cody: I know my vote won't count, but I vote for Eva. She's treating Bridgette horribly and Bridgette doesn't deserve it. She's the sweetest girl I know. So yeah this won't count but I'm taking a stand.

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Tyler: So Noah said voting for Lashawna would be, stata, strata-, strategically sound? I think I'm saying that right, anyway he's like super smart so I'm going to vote for Lashawna.

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Lindsay: Okay so like Cortana asked me to vote Lafawnda out, but we're gopher girls, I don't wanna vote her out so I'm gonna vote for Cortana instead.

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Noah: Gwen, Lashawna, and Bridgette are all close. That could be problematic late game so I'm gonna try to nip it in the bud, and as Lashawna clearly showed, she's the strongest of the three. So I'm voting for her. Nothing personal.

Static

And with that Lashawna was voted out and Eva had another target.