4:00 PM
Inside the admission room, Chris was talking to the producers about their progress in finding big sponsors, but the news he was getting was far from good, "What do you mean the aftermath wasn't approved?... Even so, we can do a fundraiser again like before, right?... I know they've trashed the studio multiple times, but it's called entertainment!... Fine! But we better find a way to bring back some old favorites in the show! It's gonna bring huge ratings...How are they doing? No one came here yet...It's not a hard challenge…Look I have it totally...What do you mean you're sending people? Hello? HELLO? They hung up!" As he put down his phone, the first contestant arrived to officially be part of the games, "Heather, didn't expect you to come in first."
"Of course, you didn't. Oh, by the way, you might want to cross that Taylor girl out, cause she's not gonna compete at all."
"You sound pretty confident there!"
"Well obviously. You might want to hand me the money right now, considering I'll be the one winning."
"I beg to differ." The voice came from Scarlett, who's just entered the area.
"Excuse me? What do you know? As far as I know, you've been in one season. I know this game like the back of my hand."
"That is correct, you are a veteran on this show, but the problem is you've been on this show for quite some time now, so people know who exactly you are in this show, a manipulative, cold-hearted woman. So the chances you reach the finale...I say is low."
"Then I guess you really don't know the real me, yet! I played my cards right because I do what I can to survive every single challenge, and I can do that again."
"Oh, but that's all trivial to me! This time, you've drawn the wrong cards and I'm the one with the royal flush!"
Confessionals
(Scarlett)
"Just a little taunting to understand her better. She is one of the bigger obstacles in this game after all. With her experience and manipulation, She can ride to the top with her words and actions. But with everyone knowing how she is, this will be so much easier."
(Heather)
"I've seen how that chick works. She was this so-called 'nice girl' who was able to get along with everyone, except for that small purple-headed one. Her one fatal flaw? When annoyed to the max, she'll start threatening fellow contestants and start becoming this evil villain, the one reason she got eliminated. If I can make her break, then for sure she'll be leaving this competition is a snap!"
End Confessionals
While the two were glaring at each other, Lightning came barging in first with Tyler behind him.
"SHA-BAM! AND LIGHTNING SCORES FIRST PLACE!"
"No fair! I was still on the ground when you started running!"
"Excuses, excuses! Lightning still came first!"
"No, Lightning came last." Chris said to the overjoyed jock.
"Um, Chris? Don't you mean third?" Tyler stated.
"I know what I said. Besides, all will be revealed later." Chris then points toward a counter with an old lady waiting for them to submit their admission slips. "Right now, give your slips to the counter over there, and become an OFFICIAL enrollee!"
The scene cuts to the auditorium, where Zoey and Mike entered the auditorium. As soon as they entered they began looking. Zoey looked low while Mike looked high. Both of them are having a harder time than usual as the hugeness of the venue might take them a while to find.
"What about this one?"
Zoey then heard two people having a conversation backstage. She then leaps on stage and finds Jen, holding a purple dress showing it to Shawn.
"Well, what do you think?"
"The neck and arms are too revealing, the skirt's gonna slow you down, and you can't jump high enough." Shawn replied.
"Hmmm, there's no pleasing to this guy's fashion sense."
"Uhm...Excuse me?" Zoey interrupted the fashion show.
Jen then recognized her face, "Oh, you must be Zoey?"
"I am...what are you guys doing?"
"Passing some time, trying on some costumes. I mean look, Shawn's already wearing one."
Zoey didn't realize Shawn was wearing a costume, in fact, he was wearing a giant banana costume.
"I did not agree on wearing the banana outfit!" Shawn said in outrage.
"You got yourself on it, remember?"
5 Minutes Earlier...
While Jen was looking inside a trunk full of props for her slip, Jen accidentally pulled out a zombie mask at the same time Shawn walked near her, causing him to jump and scream, "AHHH! ZOMBIES!" making him stumble onto the rack of clothes, where he somehow fit perfectly on the suit.
Present….
"That's how we found ours. Mine was on the clothing rack, while Shawn's was inside the mask."
"Have you seen mine?" Zoey asked.
"I did. It's by the sewing machine over there, with someone named Katie on it."
"Zoey? Did you find something?" Mike shouted as he entered the backstage, only to find a man in a banana costume. "...*Chuckles*... Nice costume dude, it's super 'ap-peeling'!"
Suddenly, Jen walked towards Mike and handed him a woman's ballet dress. "Your slips inside here."
"*Chuckles* Good thing I 'passé'on that dress! HAHAHAHA!" Shawn retorted.
"A ballet dress?...oh...Svetlana... "
While Jen was looking at more costumes, two more slips, owned by Leshawna and Sugar, fell from the costume rack.
"Yikes! Sugar!" Shawn exclaimed.
"Should we grab them? Maybe give it to them?" Zoey asked while grabbing them.
"I think it's best if we let them be, they might even come here in a while. Just put it on the sewing machine." Mike said.
"I think that's a good idea." Jen said while still rummaging around the rack. "In the meantime, *grabs a clown costume* What do you guys think of this? *grabs a horn in the pocket and honks it*"
3: 49 PM
Somewhere outside near the gym, Rock has been running around in circles trying to find his slip. "Aw man, It's been an hour! I can't seem to find mine anywhere!"
While looking inside a tree hole, Trent came walking to the distressed rocker."Uh, dude? You okay?"
Rock turns and converses with Trent "Oh! Sup man! Too busy to talk right now!"
"Uh...I can see that...Still looking for yours?"
"You know it dude! I've searched inside classrooms, bathrooms, and even the gym! I even found the Daters making out!"
"Have you looked into the music room? I'm sure it must be there." He then pulls his slip out to show the rocker, "I found mine bookmarked inside a music sheet, don't know why there were no instruments inside."
Rock palmed the temple of his head. "Duh! Of course! It's super obvious! Rock equals to rock mu-"
But before he finishes his sentence, he tripped over a rock and fell flat on the ground. As he turned, he saw a roll of paper inside a hole that was hiding under the rock. Trent pulled it out and rolled it which gave him a shock. "Man! look!"
As Trent turned the paper, Rock then realized what it was, "Is that my slip? What's it doing under a rock?" it took him a second to understand the pun, "Oh Haha! Very funny!"
"Come on." Trent pulls Rock up, "let's bring this back to Chris."
Inside the library, Noah and Gwen have been stacking up books trying to find theirs, with Noah flipping each book he can and Gwen looking between the shelves.
"Come on, It has to be here somewhere! The more books I flip, the higher the chance I'll get a papercut!" Noah said before getting a papercut.
"I'm doing my best you know, it's not easy trying to find them."
"*Throws book away* You know what I think? I think that girl set us up."
"Well, why don't we go back and ask her about the specific books our slips are inside."
Meanwhile, Ellody, not minding the two, rummage around the astronomy section of the library, where one book grabbed her attention. "Oooh! 'Everything about Astrophysics by Steven Eagle!'" As soon as she opens it, she finds the one thing Noah and Gwen have been looking for for the past hour, "My slip! I found it!"
Overhearing this, Gwen turns around to Ellody, "What, where?"
"It was inside this astrophysics book!"
As Noah heard this, he remembers how she is super involved with things like space and physics. He started to piece things together and came to a verdict. "Wait, that's it! It's all common sense now! The book we need to find has something to do with us! Something that relates to us individually! If we figure out what the book they've hidden it in-"
"And inside is our ticket for the season!" Gwen completed his sentence.
"Exactly, all we need to do is find out where they put it!"
"But that's easier said than done. She found hers by luck!" Gwen then turns to Ellody hoping to get her help to speed up the search. "Could you help us? We'll need all the help we can get."
"I would...but...It's Steven Eagles!"
"Don't bother, I bet she's super entitled to read that book, that she has no time to help us." Noah said in annoyance.
Angry at his statement, Ellody gave back a retort, "I'll have you know that finding a book created by Steven Eagle is the biggest entitlement a person can have, because one, these books are hard to find in the science community, and two, look at the other books here! 'Decoding Astrophysics' is an elementary level book, 'Disrupting the Fabric of Space and Time' doesn't cover the actuality of time, 'Far and Beyond Coded Reality' is never the case, 'Fleeing the Cosmos' is a fictional...book...wait...
She started to whisper to herself while thinking, "C...D...F...Why aren't there more books that start with E….unless…." Then it hit her, "*Gasp* That's it! Titles! The titles are gonna help us find it!"
"What now?" Noah and Gwen said in confusion.
"Skimming through every single book of our favorite thing in the world will give us a 0.000001 chance of finding our slips, but I believe that this won't be our case, because me finding a book that begins with the letter E isn't coincidental, it's logical!"
"I'm not following." Gwen said.
"My name is Ellody, it starts with the letter E. in this book section about astrophysics is the only one that also starts with E."
"So you're suggesting that if we find the book that's our favorite topic, and has our first initial, then we'll find our slip inside?" Noah asked.
"Not suggesting, affirming!"
Noah and Gwen looked at each other hoping to understand the woman's so-called "conclusion", but with no other choice, they went with it. "You know... That sounded crazy, it might actually work."
As soon as they listen to Ellody, they instantly find their slips wedged between their books.
Noah's slip was located inside non-fiction. "Not Everything is About Winning: a book on how to win and scheme. Of course it is."
While Gwen found hers in the art section, "'Gore and Art: Inner Desires'? Interestingly weird."
With all three of the slips found, they left the library in an instant. But Ellody went back and grabbed the Steven Eagles book.
4: 16 PM
Back at the gym, the Daters were sitting on the bench continuing making out, however, Ryan pulled out from his lover's lips and talked to her about something. "Hey Steph, don't you think we're forgetting something? Like something important?"
"Oh I'm sure it's nothing important if you forgot." Stephanie said to her boyfriend.
"I guess...but… There has to be a reason why I got this feeling, but I can't put my tongue in it."
"Oh, I know where you can put your tongue on." Stephanie said seductively, trying to give hints to him.
"But I thought you hate tongue in your mouth." Ryan unwittingly said.
"...You can't be that stupid?" Stephanie started to walk away from his boyfriend.
"What did I say?...STEPH! WHAT DID I DO THIS TIME?" Ryan catches up to her.
Back at the dining hall, Owen was done eating all of the snacks and was trying his best to occupy his time. "They're taking their time with those slips… I hope they didn't forget about me…..I'M BORED! HEEEEEEEEEELLPPPPPP!"
And as if on cue, Brody and DJ went inside, conversing about something, "And that's how me and Geoff met."
"Sounds like a painful experience." DJ said.
"Yeah! But I gained a best friend from it!"
"DJ! Brody!" Oh thank goodness you're here!" Owen calls both of their attention.
DJ notices his friend stuck in the dispenser and runs towards him. "Owen? What happened?"
"I got hungry! Also, my slip's inside. I tried reaching for two things at once, but as you can see, *chuckled* I got greedy."
As DJ went and looked to figure out what happened, he saw the obvious reason why, "Well obviously, you ain't put a coin inside."He then pulls out a regular Canadian nickel and inserts it inside the slot "Here let me help."
While DJ was helping Owen, Brody was rummaging around a fruit basket on a table, but found something important.
DJ then pressed the corresponding numbers to push down the bag of chips and the slip was stocked in. "Thanks man!" Owen said as his slip and a chip pack fell onto his stuck hand.
But before DJ acknowledges the thanks, he pulls up his sleeves and cracks his fingers, and positions himself near Owen's arm, "Don't thank me yet! This might hurt!"
As DJ started pulling, Brody called his attention. "Yo' Deej! I found your slip!"
"What? Where?"
"Right here dude! My slip was also here, next to a banana! *pockets banana and slip* Imma need this someday!"
As DJ paid more attention to his slip, he never noticed when Owen got pulled out...which was right about now, causing them to fly towards Brody, making them crash to a table full of napkins.
4:34 PM
Inside another building, Scott and Duncan grabbed their slips inside the detention hall as well, being hidden behind the whiteboard.
"So I ran all around campus just to find out my paper was inside here? What a waste of time." Scott said angrily.
"Hey, as long as you've got it, you're a-okay." Duncan affirms his companion.
"You know where the admission room is?"
"Right this way your courtliness!" Duncan said mockingly.
As soon as they grabbed their papers, they heard chattering coming from inside the IT laboratory. They looked and saw almost all the geeks were inside in one area. B, Cameron, Cody, and Harold seemed to be holding their slips, but got too distracted checking out all the hardware they could grab a hold on.
"Hey! They have an Ultra Core 400 Processor! These things are expensive!" Cody said to the others.
"I had one as well." Harold said.
"You did?"
"Yeah, I used half of my Drama Brother money to buy one. Sadly, I spilled some milk on it."
"But check this one!" Cameron called for the others' attention. "Their internet servers can connect to any place in the world."
"Can't a VPN do that?" Harold asked.
"Sure, but the servers are owned by the providers by themselves, so no extra payment is needed."
"If that's the case, I bet we can download exclusive games from other countries."
As Duncan and Scott hid behind the door, the former instantly made fun of them. "Look. It's a dweeb town."
Scott sees an opportunity, one that he thinks will get him a strong "Those dweebs are some of the strongest contestants."
"*Chuckles* Come on! They can't be that great!"
"Really? I heard that those two, from your season, were cunning and smart."
"Harold and Cody? They've been lucky in the past. And Cameron? He may be a genius, but man, you can swat him away like a mosquito."
"But have you met him? That guy is a giant wall. You may not know this, but that dude right there is smart enough to make anything out of nothing, and athletic enough to jump 6 feet from the ground."
Duncan was having a hard time believing this,"...You're bluffing."
"If you're not gonna take my word for it, then how about we just slow them down. If we don't, they might be able to take the competition by storm."
As Duncan was thinking about what he should do, Scott was obviously ecstatic that he fell for his tricks.
Confessionals
(Scott)
"I know what you're thinking, and the answer is yes! I'm back to my old plan! Manipulating other contestants to make sure they'll vote off anyone I make them think is a threat in this competition. Inside that room, I just want one person gone, and that's Beverly. He may not talk, but he can obviously destroy my plans in a snap. But obviously, I'm not doing the dirty work."
End Confessionals
With the others preoccupied with the computers, the door slammed. "Hey! The door slammed!" Cody said.
All four of them got up and checked on the door. Harold started to push the door, but to no avail, as his skinny arms are no use. He tried calling for someone on the other side if there was anyone out, "Hello?...Hello?" but no one answered.
However, both Duncan and Scott were behind the tightly shut door, as Duncan was the one who barricaded the door with a chair and a mop. "You better be right about this." he said to his partner in crime.
"Awww, what's wrong? Going soft on us again? I thought you're a bad boy."
"I AM! Why do you think I was in prison!"
"Because you're a criminal, that's why. Just like my Uncle Joey...I should write him."
As soon as Scott walked away, Duncan started to contemplate his past behavior, something nobody would expect him to do. "I'm just bad...I'm the baddest guy to grace this show...I-I'm not a criminal…..am I?"
4: 46 PM
Duncan and Scott soon arrived at the admission room and gave their slips to the registration counter. Chris then came towards the duo and congratulated them. "Duncan, Scott, didn't expect both of you to find your slips, but nevertheless, you did it. Please join the others by the side."
Chris pointed out the contestants that have arrived and submitted theirs who were Lightning, Heather, Scarlett, Tyler, Sky, Jacques, Dawn, Jo, Eva, Mike, Zoey, Jen, Shawn, Jasmine, Izzy, Sanders, Brick, Rock, and Trent. Scott moved towards the others, but Duncan went towards the entrance, "Yeah, later. Where's the bathroom? I've been dying to take a sh-"
Before he could finish his sentence, the doors open to reveal Gwen and Noah, arriving at the same moment. This caused an awkward conversation between both of them, with one feeling disgust, and the other uncomfortable.
"Hey...Gwen..."
"Hello...Duncan..."
Noah, between the both of them, as always, finds a way to make a sarcastic remark. "Do the two heartbroken couples want to make out? Cause I can step way over there, where I can't see any of it."
"As much as you want to see that, I-I'd rather be on a toilet right now, dropping out a huge de-"
Again, before Duncan finished another sentence, he bumped into Ellody, who was too focused on reading her book, making him annoyed, "Oof! Watch it, four-eyes!"
"Apologies. I did not see you standing there." She said as she adjusted her glasses.
"Well maybe if you pay attention more or have those glasses fixed, you'd see better, jeez." He said as he left the room.
As soon as he left, Noah scanned the room to find his other teammates, but none were seen. "Looks like the others aren't here yet. I better find them."
But on cue, the door came flying open, smashing Noah on the face, making him unconscious. DJ, Owen, and Brody cheered as they entered the room, pumping their arms and screaming to the top of their lungs.
"Woohoo! This is TOTALLY the right room!" Owen screamed.
"And after, what, busting through 12 rooms, we got the right one." DJ said.
"Well, it seems the party-goers are in the game." Chris said as he walked up to them. "Question is, do you have them?"
"You bet dude!" Brody said as he pulled his paper up.
Owen as well pulled out his, and DJ...didn't pull out what he thinks is his slip. As soon as he showed it to Chris, he shrieked in surprise because the thing he was holding...
"DJ...That's a napkin." Chris pointed out.
"But if this is a napkin, then where's my slip?!" DJ said in terror.
A Few Minutes Earlier...
As soon as they got Owen out from the vending machine, the DJ's slip Brody was holding, got jumbled with the napkins. With his eyes closed from the crash, DJ unwittingly grabbed a piece of napkin thinking it was the slip. As they got up, Owen unknowingly kicked the paper with his sole underneath the vending machine, and all three of them left the cafeteria.
Present…
"I must have left it back in the cafeteria. I gotta get it back!"
As DJ ran back to the cafeteria, Brody went up and asked Chris something important. "Yo Chris-dude! I got some papers to give! You don't mind, do you?"
"You mean paper?" Chris asked in confusion about his vocabulary.
"Nah man! Paperssssss! Found some coming here!"
4: 58 PM
Inside the other main building, Anne Maria and Alejandro were opening the trophy case which had both of theirs inside it.
"Are ya almost done?" Anne Maria asked.
"Patience chica, you can't rush the art of picklocking." Alejandro said while fiddling with the lock.
With a final click, the lock to the glass unlocked, and the glass doors open wide. Anne Maria tugged on Alejandro's shirt to call his attention and pointed at her slip that was inside one of the trophies, "Grab that one for me please."
"Certainly." As soon as he gave him her slip, he turned his attention to his inside a different trophy, "And now to grab my-" Suddenly, he went inside the trophy case and got locked inside, with his body squished between the glass and the trophies, unable to move any parts of his body except for his neck. He turns to call for the one person who can help him. "Anne Maria, it seems I'm stuck."
"Sorry hot stuff, but I gotta get that dough!" Turns out, Anne Maria shoved her partner inside the case.
"¿Señora? Are you... betraying me?" Alejandro said in shock.
"Seems that way. I guess you didn't expect that huh, Spaniard?"
Confessionals
(Anne Maria)
"Look, as much as I want a hot guy with me, I'd rather do the double crossin' here. And besides, I've seen what that guy can do, makin' all the chick do his dirty work for him, fallin' for his charms and looks, but Anne Maria ain't a sucker for those types of guys. Besides, I can get as many hotties as I can with the money I get."
End Confessionals
"Oh, you'll regret double-crossing Alejandro Burromuerto! This I swear!"
"What? I can't hear you over the glass." Anne Maria said pretending she couldn't hear the Spanish Heartthrob. She then walked away from him.
Meanwhile, back at the IT lab, B was trying his best to push through the door, but to no avail. He turned to his stranded companions and gave them a shrug.
"This is just great, how are we gonna get out of here?" Cody said.
"There must be some way to get out." Cameron then started to think while looking up, but something caught his attention. "Look, a vent! Maybe we can crawl up the vent and sneak out to open the door from the other side."
"Good plan! But it obviously has to be two people because our weak arms can't pull the door by ourselves." Harold said while staring at the other's arm, "Well, except for B of course."
"I think it's best if I went inside 'cause my small frame can fit through." Cameron volunteered.
B positioned himself under the vents, and soon Cody stood upon his shoulders, then Harold on Cody's, and finally, Cameron, opening and entering the vents.
"Now head to the hallway, and drop down from there." Cody
"Yeah, one problem...The vent doesn't move to the side." True enough, the vent only has two ways, north and south, where the hallway was west from where they were. "I have to go farther from here...but that might take a while." Cameron said while the echoes from the long vents voiced across the dim areas.
"Hold on! I'm coming! You might get lost!" Harold jumped up and followed in, "I have a good sense of direction. Now let's go forward!"
With the two going farther and farther away, the two remaining will be waiting in silence for them to come back until Cody broke the silence with a question, "….so….you play 'Battlefront?'"