"Now let's recall what happened last..." Chris did his now-usual bit of coughing out that black liquid, "...time on our game. I had our prisoners do a little bit of searching around the prison's sewer system to find an annoying raccoon that was making itself home in it... George ended up being the first to fall to the raccoon's wrath, thanks to it being too fast for him to react to. Clover took a bit of a liking to the raccoon and decided to stop anyone who tried to kill it, with her successfully being able to stop Jacque and Davy. But in the end, Deena showed off her pure ruthlessness by biting off the raccoon's head... how cruel of her..." Chris laughed, "Now it's time to see who will fall today..."
Intro Start
The intro started off with a shot of the prison, but instead of cameras popping out, the shot just went to static and cut over to the prison library.
"..." Inside the prison library, Aztaroth was reading a book but was interrupted when a loud crash came from behind him.
"..." The crash was revealed to have come from Romeo, who accidentally knocked over a bookshelf with his strength.
"..." After another static cut, Jade was seen picking up bits of litter in the courtyard, with a guard threatening to hit her if she didn't.
"..." Off in the distance, Picollo was washing off his makeup, suggesting that he didn't wanna wear it here.
"..." With the screen again turning to static, the shot was now of inside the cafeteria where Deena was eating breakfast for the day.
"..." Also in the cafeteria was Edna, who was eating god knows what.
"..." The shot stayed on Deena and Edna for a bit, before suddenly jumping to George who was looking outside from an old watchtower.
"..." George turned around, to see that a grinning Clover was behind him, causing the athlete to jump in surprise.
"..." With yet another static cut, we now got a shot of Relinda desperately trying to call someone on the prison phone, to no avail.
"..." Also in the phone room was Quinn, who had a chart of all the other contestants in her hand.
"..." Suddenly, the screen changed over to Davy and Rival, who were trying to avoid Chris in the main cell block.
"..." Off to the left side of the cellblock, Jacque and Monica were trying to talk, but for some reason couldn't remember their conversation.
"..." Finally, on the right side of the cellblock was Chef and Salem, with the former looking concerned and the latter grinning evilly.
"...There is no escape…" Instead of the final shot of the intro being of the campers around some sort of campfire, it was of a darkened figure with the dullest and deadest eyes ever…
Intro End
Deena sat in her cell and just kept staring at the ceiling, what had happened the other day was still fresh in her mind, and she couldn't even bear looking at anyone else at the moment.
While Deena blankly laid on her cell's bed, Davy suddenly ran over to the cell and banged on the bars with his fist to get Deena's attention, "Ayo earth to Deena! You gonna go eat breakfast or are you just gonna sit here like a weirdo all day?" Davy tried to lighten the mood as Deena didn't respond, "Ok." Davy sighed, "Davy didn't want to go into mushy talking or some other form of crap like that, but you wanna tell Davy what's up? He knows you won the challenge but it couldn't have been that bad right? Davy means, you chose to kill that guy, so why are you so stuck up on it if you wanted to?"
"I didn't." Deena groaned as rolled onto her side, "I don't know what happened... I just felt like I lost all form of control in my body... like someone else was at the wheel for that moment." Deena covered her face, "I was trying to get him out of here."
Davy sighed, "Ok look, I get it," Davy dropped his wild persona, "It's horrible, and it's gonna be on your mind probably for the rest of your life. But now there's not really anything you can do about it, is there? I feel like sitting here doing nothing and being a miserable mess is just more insulting to him. Whether or not you intentionally killed him, you did kill him, so get off your ass and actually try to win this season."
"Wow, how helpful." Deena sarcastically stated in reply.
"Oh it's far from helpful, I know, but it's just the hard truth." Davy shrugged, "Obviously I'm not a fucking therapist. Do you really think I'd be locked up here if that were the case? Get real." Davy laughed, again trying to lighten the mood.
Deena couldn't help but let out a small chuckle in response to Davy, "If I actually try this challenge will you leave me al-" Deena rolled over to face Davy, only to see him bloodied with multiple stab wounds. "What the fuck!?" Deena jumped back and hit her head on the wall.
"What happened!?" Davy asked Deena, with her seeing Davy normally again, "Why'd you just scream?"
"I..." Deena shook her head, "Think it's getting to me... maybe I should focus on the challenge to get my mind off of things... sorry... but could you go somewhere else, I just need more time alone.
"That's... the spirit... Davy guesses?" Davy raised an eyebrow at Deena's sudden outburst, "Davy guesses he'll see you later?" Davy waved goodbye as he prepared to leave.
"Yeah... I'll see you..." Deena waved back as Davy walked out of the cell block. After Davy left the area Deena threw her face into her pillow, "What's wrong with me..." Deena asked herself.
The prisoners were back in the cafeteria yet again for another day of breakfast, though it was pretty much dead silent thanks to what had happened the previous challenge, all for different reasons too. Clover was too busy angrily drawing a picture of Deena getting her head cut off on the table, Davy and Deena weren't back in the cafeteria yet, Jacque was ignoring George, the only person who was trying to start a conversation, Jade and Rival silently sat and ate their breakfast as they tried not to think about what happened, and Relinda sat off in the corner with an upset look on her face.
"Damn I get someone died, but we hardly knew them." George nonchalantly whispered as Jacque glared at him.
"Wow, you're really good at making people feel better, aren't you?" Jacque's eye twitched in annoyance.
George shrugged, "From what you guys told me about Birsha, dude was probably in a shit ton of pain anyways, so it's pretty hard to feel about him getting mercy killed. Besides, I'm looking out for myself here, hard to care about what happened to someone else."
Jacque groaned, "If you're trying to get an alliance out of me like the previous day, you can forget it, like you said, you're looking out for yourself, and I'm not foolish enough to involve myself with a snake like yourself."
George laughed, "You think I want an alliance now? Pssh, as if," George ignored Jacque's insult, "Numbers are quickly dwindling down, my best bet is to just keep to myself at this point. But I do think I'll do something nice for you if you'll return the favor by not voting for me tonig-"
"No." Jacque bluntly replied, "I don't need to be in your debt."
George shrugged, "Oh well, I guess you don't want to know who's gunning to get you out right now." George stated, trying to get a reaction out of Jacque.
Jacque chuckled in response, "You do know I can read minds right? Your brain says there's fuck all for me to worry about and that you're just trying to spread rumors."
"I-" George tensed up as Jacque called his plan out.
"And now it's saying that you want to get me out at all costs." Jacque smirked, "If I were you, I'd play my next move carefully, I'm a betting man, and I'm more than willing to bet that the others will take my word over yours. So if you wanna stay safe, I say shut it." Jacque threatened.
"...Fine." George clenched his fist as he got up and walked away.
Jacque nodded, "That's what I thought."
Confessional: Jacque
"Getting George off my back is definitely going to help me for a bit." Jacque sat with his legs up on the confessional's counter, "But I still need to deal with Rival and Jade's partnership, as well as the fact that Relinda's buddy-buddy with them. I also have to think of who'd I'd take to the final two with me if I actually get lucky enough to make it... Davy and Deena are too experienced... but I don't want to deal with the crazy bitches..." Jacque's eyes widened, "Fuck, George really is the best bet right now."
Confessional Over
Confessional: George
"Dammit!" George slammed his fist on the confessional's wall, "Welp, I'm pretty fucking screwed right now if I can't think of a way to get rid of Jacque... but I can't even think of it because he'll just check my mind... dammit! Ok, George, your best bet is to find a freedom idol and get out that way."
Confessional Over
Relinda sat and just looked down at her food while she was all alone. "Poor guy." Relinda thought to herself, "I... need to know... what happened between him and Deena. Clearly she's very upset about it, seeing as she's been in her cell just laying in her bed. I feel bad for her as well... there's no way she could've just done something like that on her own, Chris must've threatened her to do it or something."
While Relinda was thinking of what happened with Deena and Birsha, Edna suddenly walked over and laid her head on the table, "Edna's sad." Edna whimpered as she looked over at Relinda, "Can waitress lady cheer Edna up?"
"Uh..." Relinda gulped as she glanced over at Edna.
Confessional: Relinda
"It's not that I'm afraid of Edna," Relinda winced, "But moreso that I'm not sure what to say to her... she clearly isn't... normal... and I don't want to accidentally set her off."
Confessional Over
"Why are you sad... Edna?" Relinda asked the dog-like girl.
"Edna's mastaroth is gone now..." Edna gloomfully spoke as she kept her head on the table, "He was so nice to Edna."
"Nice is far from the word I would use." Relinda thought to herself as she spoke, "Well... maybe you gotta find a new... 'mastaroth', or maybe you have to move on and accept that he got out of here."
"Edna hates it when people leave her." Edna complained to Relinda, "First Edna's mom suddenly disappears, then Mastaroth leaves her..."
Relinda immediately realized what Edna meant by her mom disappearing and tensed up, "Well... maybe... you can try thinking of them being here in spirit?" Relinda suggested.
"Spirit?" Edna tilted her head, "The bear from brother King's show?"
"No?" Relinda raised an eyebrow in confusion, "I mean, think of it as this, they're gone, but they're still here in a way, you just can't see them."
"Mastaroth is a ghost!?" Edna jumped up, "Who hurt mastaroth, only Edna can do that!" Edna growled at the air, catching the attention of some of the other prisoners.
"No no..." Relinda calmed Edna down, "I mean... mastaroth's not a ghost but... he's still watching over you... like uh... tv show, I guess?" Relinda tried to explain to Edna, "But... if you want to see your... mastaroth again, then you should use that to push yourself forward... not to hold yourself back."
"Really?" Edna asked, "Edna never thought of doing that!" Edna's mood immediately hit a 180, "Thanks waitress lady!" Edna happily pranced off.
"Uh... you're... welcome?" Relinda blinked twice.
After everyone was back in the cafeteria, Chris suddenly teleported in thanks to Salem, "Why hello there Prisoners..." Chris greeted everyone there, "I hope you had a great breakfast." Chris looked at the prisoners, with some groaning in response, and Jacque rolling his eyes.
"Can you just tell us the challenge already?" George called out, "I just wanna stay safe for the day."
"Of course I can George..." Chris stretched his arms out, "Today's challenge is..." Chris coughed, "Very... simple..." Chris fell to the ground and began to vomit out that black liquid that he had been coughing out earlier.
Salem raised an eyebrow as he leaned over to Chris, "The hell are you doing?" Salem whispered as Chris stopped responding.
"The hell?" Jacque got up and backed away.
"That trick isn't gonna work on Davy, Chris." Davy laughed, "Davy knows you're just trying to see how everyone will react to you being taking out for a bit."
Chris vomited out more of the liquid and fell to the floor, after a minute of him laying on the ground without moving a muscle, the host suddenly shot up, "Where... am I?" Chris looked around and saw Salem staring at him, "Ah!" Chris screamed out and turned to the prisoners, "Help me! This guy's completely nuts! He's working with a monster in the..." Chris suddenly stopped before he could explain further, catching the concern of some of the prisoners, "Sorry about that..." Chris got back up, "Just a little side effect from my power's potency." Chris shrugged off the outburst.
Confessional: Jacque
"What. The. Hell. Was. That." Jacque grabbed his arms.
Confessional Over
Confessional: Jade
"A monster?" Jade bit her thumb nervously, "He's not talking about Birsha is he? More importantly, what just happened!? Is Salem controlling Chris or something!?" Jade questioned.
Confessional Over
Confessional: Clover
Clover raised an eyebrow and gave an evil grin, "Chris' outburst surely is interesting... perhaps there's more despair to this place than I previously thought..." Clover suddenly leaned forward, "No! I'm not forgiving Deena for her crimes against despair just because there's more! Don't even think about it!"
Confessional Over
"Now where was I?" Chris asked himself before hitting himself on the head, "Right, the challenge today is very simple. Salem, give them their boxes." Chris ordered Salem, who snapped his fingers, causing a bunch of boxes to appear in front of each prisoner."
"What's this for?" Rival asked as he looked at the box.
"Your challenge today is to bring these boxes to Cellblock C, simple right?" Chris asked, "Not exactly, you see, not only will you all start in the basement, but you have to smuggle these boxes past my interns, who will be dressed up as guards. After all, we can't just allow you to sneak contraband into the prison." Chris grinned and shrugged.
"Contraband?" Jacque looked down in the box, "What's so bad that it's banned from here?"
"Nothing, in all honesty," Chris responded, "But for the sake of this challenge, we're going to have to pretend that the boxes you're carrying have something very illegal in them. Anyways, like I was saying, you'll have to bring the boxes to me in the cellblock... but if you're caught by the interns and they find the box on you, Salem over here will bring you back to where you started. You also won't be allowed to just destroy the walls of the prison to make an easy way out... I know you're thinking it... Oh, and to make failing this challenge even worse... I've decided to make this one a little bit different."
"What do you mean?" Jade raised an eyebrow.
"If you lose this challenge, you're eliminated... unless you have an idol of course." Chris cracked his neck, "So I'd recommend actually trying on this one... you can't just get lucky and avoid a vote. Salem... take them away."
"Of course," Salem began to teleport the prisoners to the morgue along with their boxes, beginning the challenge...
Confessional: Jacque
"This challenge will be easy for me, psychic powers and being a natural at fooling the cops? Too easy... but I'll need to make sure someone gets ahead of me and wins." Jacque stated, "Not only will it make them start to get cocky, but it'll also put a target on their back and not mine... maybe helping Deena get first for the third time will make the friendship trio turn on her..."
Confessional Over
Confessional: Deena
"Ok, Deena..." Deena mumbled to herself, "You can do this... just focus on the challenge..."
Confessional Over
Relinda wasted no time rushing out of the morgue to quickly make it to the cellblock where Chris was waiting, with Jacque and Davy following her closely behind. Relinda stopped as soon as she made it out of the morgue to take a quick look around the room to see if any interns were waiting for her. As expected, Relinda noticed two interns whistling around the outside of the laundry room.
"Hmm." Relinda looked out, "How am I gonna get past these guys?" Relinda asked herself as Jacque confidently walked past her and called over to the interns.
"Come on, let me through already." Jacque rolled his eyes as the interns rushed over to check him for the box of contraband. The interns patted Jacque down but couldn't find anything, so they let him through with no issues.
While the interns turned their attention away from Jacque, he let out a smirk as he look up at the ceiling, where he was using his power to make the box slide against the ceiling.
Jacque rushed upstairs were another pair of interns tried and failed to check him for any contraband, but instead of going for first place like most people, Jacque decided to hide out in Cellblock B, so as to not draw too much attention to himself. "Now to wait..." Jacque mumbled to himself as he watched the basement entrance.
Deena walked around the morgue to think of a plan of what to do when Clover suddenly walked over to her, "Oh Deena, you seem to be very down right now." Clover pointed out as Deena sighed.
"I dunno, I can't get what happened at that challenge out of my mind." Deena replied as she buried her face in her arms, "I can hardly focus on the challenge."
"You know, I can't stop thinking about what happened that challenge either.' Clover grinned, "Truly it was a horrible event."
"Yeah..." Deena looked up, "No offense but I really didn't think you had a limit, what with your whole obsession with despair and all..."
"Oh I do have a limit, Deena." Clover shrugged as she got up, "That limit is reached whenever someone takes away my... despair." Clover smirked as Lugosi appeared, catching the attention of Deena.
"What the?" Deena looked up, "What the hell is wrong with you!?" Deena shouted out, getting the other prisoners in the area to look their way.
"Deena?" Davy looked back to see Lugosi beginning to chase after Deena, "Hey!"
"Well, I'll despairfully not see you around Deena!" Clover waved goodbye, "Good luck getting away from my monster!"
Deena was left with too much shock for her to react to the monster, but before Lugosi could reach her, Davy jumped in the way, allowing the monster to tackle him instead.
"Davy!" Deena got up and rushed over to the rocker.
"Oh for the love of..." Clover groaned in annoyance at Davy's act, "Despair." Another Lugosi appeared and immediately chased after Deena. While Deena panicked and ran away from the ink monster, Clover nonchalantly walked past the rest of the prisoners and out into the hallway, giving her a lead.
Davy wrestled around with Lugosi, but its despair was easily taking hold of him, Davy eventually stopped fighting back as Lugosi filled him with pure despair, leaving him barely able to move.
Rival and Jade were about to go over to Davy to help him up when George suddenly pulled Rival by the sleeve, "Hey idiots, remember we're in a challenge here, and we're trying to not be in last!" George reminded the other two as he kicked the door open, "Gonna have to put aside the hero complexes." George laughed as he ran into the execution room to avoid the guards.
"We should follow him." Jade stated, "Even though it's George, we'll be better off as a group."
"Yeah," Rival turned over to Davy, "I just hope he'll be ok."
"Me too." Jade sighed, "But I guess we can't wait around for him right now."
As the duo of Rival and Jade ran after George and past a hiding Relinda, Edna looked down at her box. "Is this another Edna toy?" Edna smacked the box before picking it up with her mouth, "Hmmm... it's a little better than the last Edna toy, it kinda smells like a person!" Edna began to hop up and down through the hallway, before she ended up tripping, causing her to accidentally swallow the box whole.
"Oops!" Edna laughed, "Edna has to stop eating her toys!"
While Edna laughed about her accidentally eating the box, the two interns ran over her after Clover managed to avoid her, as to see if she had the box on her, but their search obviously came up very short. "Yayy! Edna gets to keep going!" Edna immediately got distracted from her goal and ran around the basement instead.
"I..." Davy muttered out as rolled himself on his side, he felt like he constantly had a ton weighing him down onto the ground, but he was still able to barely keep himself moving forward. When Davy made it onto his side, he began to stretch his arms out so he could start crawling forward, "will..." Davy began to move forward ever-so-slowly. "win..."
After what felt like literal hours of crawling, Davy managed to make it to the door, where he reached up and opened it, only for the interns to notice him and immediately rush over to him. "Damn..." Davy mumbled out as the interns lifted him up and checked him for contraband, but he managed to hide the box just well enough before he was filled with despair, allowing him to continue moving forward.
"Go..." Davy told himself as he dragged himself on the floor. Relinda poked out of her hiding spot to see Davy crawling on the ground.
"Davy?" Relinda whispered, "Do you need help? Why are you crawling on the ground?" Relinda asked as Davy shook his head.
"No..." Davy kept going forward, "Time..."
Relinda thought for a moment on what she should do when she suddenly gave Davy a huge boost by lifting him up and bringing him all the way to the staircase to the basement, yeah, she was helping an opponent, but she couldn't help but feel bad for the guy.
"Good luck Davy." Relinda snuck out of her hiding spot to try and also make it to the staircase.
Clover had already made it to the main hallway by the time everyone else had made it to their respective areas, but she was very quickly surrounded by interns.
"Oh no...' Clover grinned, "You caught me... how despair-inducing..." Lugosi immediately rushed out to hit the intern who heard despair first, catching the interns off guard. "Despair, despair, despair." Clover said to the other three interns, causing three more Lugosis to jump out to stop the interns.
"Oh well." Clover shrugged you tried, "But my despair..." Clover's eyes glowed red, "Rules over all..."
As soon as Clover finished that sentence, all four of the interns shot up lifelessly, with their eyes also glowing red like Clover's. All of the interns had ear-to-ear smiles on their faces as they all whispered 'despair' in unison.
"Hmm?" Clover looked at the interns, "Looks like I can do much more than I originally thought." Clover began to laugh easily as she stopped controlling the interns, "I won't need you for now... but I have some ideas on what to do with you later..." Clover chuckled as she skipped over to Cellblock C, making her the first person to complete the challenge.
Jacque watched the scene unfold from the entrance to cellblock B, and covered his mouth as he hid behind the wall. "Fuck, she's got another power now." Jacque then quickly ran out from his spot so he could snag second place, yeah, he could wait a little longer, but was too cautious to take another risk like that.
Confessional: Jacque
"Not only does Clover of all people end up as the first person to win this challenge, but she gets another ability out of it too." Jacque groaned, "This is just perfect."
Confessional Over
"Why are you two following me, exactly?" George asked Rival and Jade in annoyance, "The last thing I want is to get fucked by you of all people."
"We just want to be in a group for the challenge, we'll have a much easier time avoiding guards if there's too many of us for them to keep up with." Jade stated, "Besides, I figured you of all people would be happy to have more people to throw under the bus." Jade rolled her eyes at George.
"Can we not fight?" Rival groaned, "We don't have time for this right now."
"Yeah, what he said." George replied as he looked out into the hallway and saw no guards standing there, just Edna running around in circles.
"Looks like we're safe to go." George stated as he jumped out of the room and ran as fast as he could up the stairs, only for three interns to notice him as soon as he made it. "Crap!" George yelled out as Rival and Jade also made it to the top of the staircase, "Well looks like we're running now!" George nervously laughed as he ran to the cafeteria, due to the kitchen being the closest room he could run off to.
"Come on!" Rival grabbed Jade by the arms while he threw a blast at the interns, "That's not gonna hold them off forever..." Rival stated as George opened the door to the kitchen.
George tried to slam the kitchen door shut on the duo, but Jade quickly formed a crystal gauntlet and used it to hold the door open, "Nice try." Jade glared at George, causing him to cross his arms at her.
"Well great." George stated as Jade blocked the door off, "Looks like we're gonna be stuck in here for a while."
"Maybe we can try waiting for the interns to go away, and then when they leave, we could all try using our powers to get to the ceiling, like Jade making something to stab into the ceiling, George you could swing with your tendrils or poke them into the ceiling, and I could try using my electric wings to fly up there." Rival suggested, "But we still might wanna try doing it when the interns aren't around, who knows what they might have to take us off the ceiling."
"It's worth a shot, not much else we can do here is there?" Jade shrugged.
George quickly looked around the room, completely missing a very obvious method of escaping the area, "What about the storage room connected to the kitchen? Maybe there's something connected to it?" George opened the door to the storage room, only to see a closed shutter, and a bunch of food just sitting in multiple refrigerators. George sighed as he slammed the door shut, "I guess not."
"So we wait." Jade crossed her arms, "Like I said, not much else we can do."
"Shut up." George rolled his eyes.
"Go away already!" Deena yelled at Lugosi as he chased after her, she wanted to make it upstairs, but the problem with going upstairs was that she'd have to stay in a cramped hallway for a moment while she crawled the staircase, and if she wasn't careful enough, she'd basically be done for. Deena ran around in circles in the morgue before she eventually managed to get herself out into the hallway.
Deena ran out and looked over at the closest room she could find, a big metal door with 'do not enter' written in big bold letters, Deena briefly considered entering the room to get away from Lugosi, but decided against it, believing that Lugosi would still catch up with her. Deena decided to just risk it all and booked it up the stairs, not even noticing Davy crawling up each step. As soon as Deena made it up the stairs, she tried to run over to Cellblock C, but Lugosi began to catch up with her, and jumped in front of her to cut her off from the path to the cellblock.
"Augh!" Deena ran back towards the entrance hallway, her new plan was just to bring Lugosi behind her, but that was proving to be harder than she thought it would be. Deena made it over to the hallway, with Lugosi slowly following behind, but instead of jumping in front of her again, Lugosi waited for Deena to turn around in an attempt to catch her off guard, with Deena barely able to dodge a swipe from the ink monster. Deena then noticed the nearby Cellblock A and got an idea...
After she finally got bored of running around the basement floor doing nothing, Edna finally remembered what she was supposed to do here. "Oops!" Edna laughed, "Edna has to go to Chris!" Edna ran up the stairs and past Davy, who was barely making it up each step.
Edna hummed to herself as she ran on all fours towards Cellblock C, with the despair-filled Davy slowly but surely following behind by crawling on the ground.
"Oh?" Edna turned around to see Davy crawling behind her, "Edna's always wanted a person as a chew toy!" Edna bit into Davy's jumpsuit, "But first Edna's gotta go visit Chris!" Edna dragged Davy across the floor of the prison with her to where Chris was waiting.
"Davy and Edna... where are your boxes?" Chris asked the two, with Davy slowly managing to pull the box out from his jumpsuit's shoe. "Well that makes Davy, but what about you Edna? Where did you put your box?"
"Box?" Edna tilted her head, only for her to cough up the box and spit it out onto the floor, "Oh hey! Edna's chewtoy!"
"...right." Chris stared at Edna with disgust, "Congratulations, you two are safe."
Edna cheered for herself while Davy just barely managed to give out a thumbs up in response.
After a very very very long wait, it was finally time for the trio's plan of using the ceiling as an escape method, but it all went horribly wrong as soon as it started. Jade kneeled down to the ground and began to form a ladder that could take herself up to the ceiling, but right as she started to do that, two interns noticed them and shouted for more interns to show up.
"Crap." George muttered out as he prepared to fight the interns off, "Hurry this up Jade!" George yelled at Jade.
"Hold on, this isn't easy!" Jade groaned out as she formed more and more crystals.
George shot a warning shot with his tendrils at the interns, "You guys can stay back!" George shouted at the interns, only for them to reveal their own powers, like shooting shots of ice. George dodged the blast, causing it to hit the wall.
"Fuck." George grabbed Rival and Jade and pulled them into the kitchen, "We gotta get out of here!" George slammed the door shut and used his tendrils to throw as much as he physically could in the path of the interns, just to be sure that nobody was getting in the room.
The interns pounded on the doors while the three took a moment to collect themselves.
"Damn it!" Rival punched the wall of the Kitchen as Jade tried to calm him down, "It's like every time we try to do something, the guards show up and take away our only chance of getting past this!" Rival complained.
"We'll figure something out eventually, Rival, but lashing out isn't gonna help any of us." Jade held Rival's arm as he sat down on the floor, "The cellblock isn't all that far from here, we just need to make a distraction to stop them..."
"Yeah,' George crossed his arms and rolled his eyes as he set his box on the counter, "Relax already, stop being a baby."
"You're not helping George." Jade glared at the quarterback.
Rival sighed, "I'm sorry Jade, but I think this is as far as I'm gonna make it..." Rival softly spoke, "We're stuck here keeping the guards out, and the only way we're gonna make it is if you guys sneak out through the door while I let them catch me." Rival explained, "Once I'm caught that'll be it, there's no way I'm gonna be able to make it this far again..."
"Come on Rival," Jade tugged on his arm, "We can try using a diversion and sneak past them and lock them in here, that's a much safer bet!"
"It won't matter." Rival looked down, "I'm safe for what? Another few days until I fuck the next challenge up and go home? I'm just dead weight right now, you gotta drop me now."
"Hey Rival." George called out to the guitarist to get his attention, "Come over here I gotta tell you something."
Rival sighed as he got up and walked over to George, "What do you w-" Rival was cut off by George punching him to the floor, catching the surprise of Jade.
"Fuck you!" George shouted at Rival, "You face hardship like once per challenge and then just decide 'oh no gotta give up on everything now!'," George scoffed, "You're pathetic as all hell man, you act like you're the only person here to be in a bad situation! Do you think I want to go back to jail, when I was arrested for something I know for a damn fact I never did? Hell no! But, hey, I bet if I told you that I'm actually an innocent person here, you wouldn't believe me because of how I act. Well, guess what Rival? At least I don't hide the fact that I'm an asshole! You only call Chris out for things if it affects people you like or yourself! Tell me right now, would you actually care if someone like Clover, Aztaroth, or even myself for that matter was the one getting cheated out?"
Rival tried to respond but was yet again cut off by George.
"Obviously you wouldn't because we all 'deserve' it!" George yelled, "You're just gonna ride the high horse, but if you actually cared about injustices done here, you would've made a scene the moment that Chris made us fight each other like a bunch of gladiators! But no, you still fought anyways and were damn good at it, seeing as you made it to the third round. You acted like you regretted fighting Romeo after he was sent away, but did you really? I saw what you did to him, fucking frying the inside of his body and shit, you didn't even say sorry about it!" George rolled his eyes and turned over to face Jade, "And don't even get me started on you in the fights! You said fuck all when they were announced and didn't even try to act like it was a bad thing. You two may act like you're good people, but in reality, you're as much of a prick as the rest of us are."
"I am trying to be a good person!" Jade yelled back, "I'm trying so hard to think of a way to get everyone out of here! I wish I could go back to before Romeo was eliminated and do something to save him, but I couldn't do anything! You act as if standing up to Chris is this easy task, he has a demon on his side!"
George grinned, "Oh I'm well aware that standing up is pretty much impossible, but my point was never just standing up to Chris, it was actually acting like you cared about everyone else here. You say that you're trying to think of a way to get us out of here, but what are you gonna do when Clover and Edna escape with you? You'll probably just knock them out and send them back to prison because of what they're like. You just wanna be seen as the hero for the moment, the person that everyone can look up to and act like is some sort of saint sent straight down from heaven itself! You're delusional, there's no way any of us are just gonna escape out of here like Picollo did, that was very clearly a fluke and you know it."
"I..." Jade stopped herself, "No. I'm trying to do the right thing because I'm a good person! I don't care about the 'fame' from escaping here! I just want everyone to get out of here together... I want to go up to Chris so much and just beat him up for everything he's done to us, regardless of the consequences, but I know that isn't going to work, that'll just get all of us in trouble for something I did!"
"And here you go again, trying to make yourself look like a better person than the rest of us," George rolled his eyes, "I guarantee if you find one of the idols you'll immediately just use it on yourself, Rival, or Relinda. I know for a fact you don't give two fucks about anyone else, you wanna know why? You have done fuck all to comfort Deena these last few days, after finding out who Birsha actually was from Jacque and hearing how fucking awful it'd actually be for someone to kill him, you sure didn't seem to actually care about the person who did kill him. I don't give a shit about any of you guys here, but at least I could tell that Deena's been fucking depressed or something after killing him..." George sighed in annoyance as he noticed something on the ceiling.
"What do you know anyways!" Jade retorted, "You hate everyone here, anyways! You just wanna make me and Rival feel horrible so you can get an advantage."
"You know, normally that'd be the case." George spoke as he shot a tendril at an out-of-place vent cover in the kitchen and ripped it open, "But I'll be nice just this once just to see if you're still gonna ride the high horse." George smirked, "I bet you didn't expect the asshole of the group to be the one to show you the way out."
"I..." Jade groaned in anger as she grabbed Rival, "Let's just go."
All three of them made sure they had their boxes as they snuck into the vents, keeping them in the game for now...
Confessional: Jade
"George is such a jerk..." Jade clenched her fist before sighing, "He's just cherry picking things to make me and Rival seem worse!"
Confessional Over
Confessional: George
"Obviously Jade didn't fall for that big speech, but there's no way that Rival isn't super fucked in the head right now." George smirked, "I've set the piece up to fall."
Confessional Over
Confessional: Rival
Rival sighed as he huddled in the confessional, "...maybe George was right about me... maybe I am being too miserable... but... what was that he said about not committing a crime?" Rival asked.
Confessional Over
Relinda hummed to herself as she walked through the main hallway of the prison, "I just need to keep myself calm and collected..." Relinda told herself, she was in last place, but that wouldn't matter so long as she could get to the cellblock without being noticed.
"Hey!" An intern shouted from the basement entrance at Relinda, "What do you have over there?" The intern shouted as he ran up the stairs and towards Relinda.
"Uh oh!" Relinda used her telekinesis to push herself towards the gym, not wanting to use her powers on the interns. After Relinda made it into the gym, she quickly used her powers to shove multiple weight sets in front of the doors, keeping her locked in the gym. After a long while of pounding, the interns pretended to give up to see if Relinda would come out... but Relinda wasn't falling for it.
"Nice try, but I'm not that foolish..." Relinda sighed in relief as she looked around the room for another exit out of the room. Relinda looked around the room, but she appeared to have trapped herself in the gym...
"Come on... there's gotta be a way out somewhere..." Relinda panicked as she searched every corner of the room... coming up short each time she checked somewhere. "Wait..." Relinda noticed a small window on the wall of the gym, one that peeked into the next-door rec center. "That's it!" Relinda thought in relief as she ran over to the window and hit it open, now the only problem was squeezing through the window...
"Ok..." Relinda stretched as she lightly shoved her box into her pocket and prepared to climb through the window, it was pretty small, but if she tried hard enough, she would barely be able to just barely squeeze herself through the gap. Relinda grabbed onto the window's ledge and began to crawl through it, after she started she very slowly and carefully and shoved her upper torso through the hole, but when she began to finish crawling through the window the box in her pocket hit the edge and fell to the floor... causing it to crack open.
"What was that!?" Relinda pushed herself out of the hole and looked back, seeing her broken box on the floor... with something spilled underneath it? "What the?" Relinda tilted her head and looked down at the mess, "I thought Chris said this was empty..." Relinda leaned down to see what exactly had spilled out onto the floor. Relinda moved the box out of the way to see whatever it was, with the cause of the mess being... a pile of dust?
"Oh... maybe it was empty." Relinda shrugged it off, "I guess I was expecting something more..." Relinda stopped when a thought went through her mind of what this was. "Wait..." Relinda teared up as her mind began to race, "Birsha died earlier... but... how did they... dispose of him?" Relinda began to cry as she looked at the gray powder on the floor, "No... they..." Relinda fell to the floor in despair when she had figured it all out... the contraband was Birsha...
"Move it, slowpokes!" George yelled at the duo following him in the air vents, "You guys really gotta pick up the pace, you know that?"
"Right." Rival nodded, "S-sorry... I've been a little preoccupied. Just... thinking about something..."
"Well ignore whatever it is." George rolled his eyes as he reached a dead end, well, not really a dead end as the vents just made a turn vertically. "Alright, you two. I'm gonna leave a little rope for you to follow me to the finish, whether you want to or not is up to you, I don't really give a shit." George shrugged as he shot a vine straight up to use as a rope, allowing him to climb the turn.
"You can go on without us." Jade glared, "I gotta talk to Rival."
"Suit yourself." George climbed up the rope, leaving the duo behind.
Jade waited for George's movements to stop echoing through the vents as she turned over to Rival, "Hey, Rival, you can't listen to what George said about us, he's just trying to throw us off our game so he can send us to jail."
"No it's something else..." Rival replied as Jade tried to cheer him up, "While George was telling us about... everything... I noticed two things... like for starters... am I really too miserable whenever I'm here? Be honest with me Jade, do I spend too much time being a mess whenever it's time to do something?"
"I..." Jade was about to lie when Rival cut her off.
Rival gave a look that was slightly angry, "You'll be hurting me more if you just lie to me! Just tell me the truth! I don't care how hurtful it ends up being!"
Jade winced as she prepared to tell Rival, "Yes... you do act miserable too much..."
"I knew it." Rival slumped over, "...But that just leads me to the second point..." Rival got back up, "George mentioned that he 'knew for a fact he's innocent', does that mean... some people here aren't actual criminals like us?"
Jade shook her head, "He had to have been lying to make himself look bette-"
"If that's the case, then why was Monica put in here? Why was someone like Relinda sent here?" Rival asked, "I can tell you why... I figured it out. This competition is complete bullshit!" Rival slammed his fist on the vent wall, causing a loud crash to echo throughout it, "Some of us might be actual criminals... but when you actually think it over... there's just no way that all of us can be criminals, right?" Rival asked, "He... he just kidnapped people..."
Jade had a very queasy look on her face as Rival explained.
"Jade? Is something wrong?" Rival shook Jade to get her attention.
"I... no... there's no way he did that..." Jade shook her head, "I thought everyone here was arrested for some reason or another... like how I... stole a... diamond?" Jade's eyes widened in realization, "Wait... I never took a diamond... I did steal from people... I'd steal things that would be less questionable to pawn off... and then I'd give the money to local shelters... Was... I innocent this whole time?"
"Holy shit." Rival's face became angrier, "That bastard." Rival muttered, "Who knows how many other people here were innocent of their crimes? He's been using innocent people for his own gain? All so he could torment us?"
Jade laughed as Rival figured it out, "Clever boy."
"What the?" Rival jumped back as Jade spoke, "Jade?"
"It was pretty easy to pretend to be Jade for a bit." Jade shrugged, "But yeah, congratulations for you Rival, you figured out the big twist, nobody here is actually a real criminal, you're all innocent of your crimes."
"What? Who... who are you!?" Rival grabbed Jade by the throat, "What did you do to Jade, you bastard!?"
"Oh, you'll never know who I am Rival." Jade laughed as she tilted her head, "And besides... this conversation is over. I can't have you going around and remembering what happened, now can I?"
"Over... what do you mea-" Rival shook his head, only to see Jade was trying to shake him awake, "Ah! What happened!? Where am I?" Rival looked around rapidly.
"You were doing it again!" Jade frantically told Rival as she stopped shaking him, "You just stopped responding to everything I was saying! Just like you did the other day!"
"I... did? I thought we were in the kitchen still?" Rival rubbed his head, "When did we get here?"
"You don't remember? George tried to make us feel horrible about ourselves. He seemed to really get you too, that's why I wanted to talk to you." Jade replied.
"I don't..." Rival shook his head, "Let's just finish the challenge first, we can talk about this later."
"Yeah..." Jade agreed... "The cellblock won't be too far from here..."
George hit the vent open to see himself right next to a very big drop into cellblock B. Underneath him, two interns were talking to each other about why they were even waiting in the wrong cellblock since nobody was gonna go in there.
"Try this out for size," George smirked as he shot a tendril at the cell bars nearby the interns, which caught their attention.
"What the?" The first intern spoke as he looked over to see where the tendril landed, "Come check this out." The intern motioned over at the bars. As soon as the first intern turned his back to the other intern, George prepared to strike. Using his tendrils as a sort of bungee cord, George leapt down to the intern and covered his mouth with tendrils to muffle him. As soon as the bungee sent the two back up to the vent, George grabbed onto the vent and used his tendrils to keep the intern suspended at the ceiling.
"Hey." The other intern turned around to see nobody there, "Where did you-" The intern was cut off by George jumping down on the bungee and knocking him out with a hit from the tendrils.
"That'll teach you." George smirked as he got off the bungee and ran out of the cell block. George pulled the box out of his pocket and rushed over to Cellblock C, where Chris was still waiting. "Take it!" George yelled out as he made it to Chris and gave him the box, making him another safe person during the challenge.
Deena ran into Cellblock A and ran over to the cell that was furthest away from her. As soon as she made it to the cell, she managed to fit her foot onto one of the bars, which allowed her to lift herself into the air. As soon as Lugosi caught up with her, Deena used her extra height to leap over Lugosi, giving her a little bit of a chance against the monster.
Deena began to run out of the cellblock, with Lugosi still following her closely. Not too long after Deena jumped over Lugosi, she managed to make it out to the main entrance's hallway.
"Dammit! Get away from me!" Deena yelled at Lugosi as he chased her through the halls of the prison. Deena was now at the area where the three cellblocks split off, but it was very clear that she was gonna have to go really fast if she wanted to make it to Chris before the rest of the remaining four did.
While Deena was chased by Lugosi, Rival and Jade had caught up to where George had left the vent, but the tendril he had used as a bungee cord had now fallen to the floor.
"Ok." Jade began to form a ladder with her crystals but was stopped by Rival.
Rival shook his head, "I can do this." Rival formed his electric wings and grabbed Jade, using the wings to safely take the two of them to the ground.
"Alright, let's hurry up!" Jade rushed Rival, only for the guitarist to fly up and grab the intern George had stuck to the ceiling.
"Wouldn't want this guy to fall." Rival nervously chuckled before nodding, "Alright let's go!"
Rival grabbed Jade by the shoulders and used his wings to give them a huge boost of speed. The duo easily zoomed through the halls, not noticing Deena who was still being followed by Lugosi. "Come on..." Rival gave a slight grin as they reached Cellblock C, "Got it!" Rival shouted out as he threw Jade ahead of him so she could get immunity first in the case of everyone else being done with the race.
"Congratulations you two..." Chris cracked his neck, "You're both safe." Chris collected the duo's boxes.
"Oh thank god!" Jade hugged Rival as he reached the ground, "I was really nervous about you there."
Rival gave a slight shrug in response, "I figured I should do something to make up for my... incidents I guess."
Confessional: Jade
"I already knew that as soon as I find a freedom idol I'm gonna use it on someone else, but with how Rival's been recently, I think it's best for his sake that I get him out of here with one."
Confessional Over
Deena had caught up with the two as Lugosi inched closer and closer to her. After a short while of running, the two made it to Cellblock C, though, Deena wasn't even sure if she was safe yet.
"Come on..." Deena ran as fast as she possibly could as Lugosi followed after her. Deena kept up the pace until suddenly...
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...Deena made it to the finish line... making her the final person safe today.
"Congratulations Deena..." As Deena made it to him while holding her box, Chris told the delinquent, "You live to fight another day..." Chris smirked as Deena glared at him in anger.
"I..." Deena was about to say something, but she was cut off by Lugosi finally catching up with her and incapacitating her... except... Lugosi's effect wasn't working on her this time... "Get off of me!" Deena threw the monster away, which caused it to disappear.
"Well, I'll leave you to play with your ghostly friend... I have to go tell our loser today that they're going back to jail..." Chris shrugged as he tapped Salem on the shoulder, "Salem." Chris ordered, causing the demon to teleport the two away.
"Fuck you." Deena's eye twitched as she walked out of the cell block.
Relinda stared at the pile on the floor as Chris and Salem entered the room, "Well Relinda I'm sorry to tell this to you... but you've been eliminated..." Chris looked down at what Relinda was staring at, "Too busy getting distracted I see..." Chris mocked the waitress.
Relinda didn't reply, she just kept staring at the pile on the floor... it was the only thing she could focus on...
"Oh come on already Relinda... we haven't all day." Chris began to speak with annoyance, due to not getting any form of a reaction out of Relinda.
A look of pure hatred suddenly appeared on Relinda's face when she suddenly shot up and grabbed Chris by the throat and lifted him up into the air with her psychic powers. "You..." Relinda began to tear up, "You're a complete monster! What is wrong with you!?"
"I'd make your next move very carefully Relinda..." Salem threatened as his eyes began to glow, "I can assure you... I'm faster than your little parlor trick."
"No..." Chris choked out, "Let her speak her mind... this is interesting..."
Tears fell down Relinda's face, "Ever since we got here... almost everything you've done to us is just another form of torture... first you make us fight each other for your amusement... then you send Monica away for nothing, then you make us kill an innocent person... and now you're making us... carry their ashes for you!? You're the definition of a horrible person..." Relinda tried to keep a calm tone but you could tell she was trying not to fall over and cry, "I don't know how someone as completely horrid as you is allowed to be in this world... and why karma hasn't bitten you so hard by now... If someone asked me to list a single thing that makes a good person I'd reply by telling them that I couldn't think of anything... that's how awful you are!"
Chris grinned as Relinda kept him suspended in the air, "And now you have your chance to end it all... what's stopping you Relinda? I am indeed as horrid as you say, so why don't you just snap my neck right now and kill me? Are you too cowardly to do something as simple as that?"
"Cowardly!?" Relinda tossed Chris into the wall, "No! I'm not gonna kill you because unlike you, I actually have a heart... I'm not like you in any way, so why would I even bother killing you? What would I even gain from it? Feeling like I've won? I hate to break it to you Chris... but I already won..."
Chris smiled as Relinda pulled him forward, "Do tell me how you think that."
Relinda gained a somewhat calm look on her face, "Because I don't fear you or going back to jail anymore... fear's been what you're living off of, hasn't it? So how does it feel to know that someone here is looking you dead in the eyes right now and telling you straight to your face that you're a cruel person? That I don't fear you or Salem enough to let go of you? It has to be tearing you up on the inside at this very moment... well guess what Chris?" Relinda let Chris fall to the floor and held her arms up in the air, "I'd rather be in jail right now than ever see you again. Take me away." Relinda ordered Salem.
Salem cracked his neck as he approached Relinda, "It's no fun when they don't kick and scream." Salem complained as he took the waitress back to prison, leaving Chris alone in the Kitchen storage room.
"Hmm." Chris got up and dusted himself off, "Quite an interesting last stand for her I'll admit. But she won't last more than five days back in j-" Chris suddenly fell to the ground and began to cough out a lot of the black liquid he had been coughing up over the last few days, "I..." Chris spat out more of the liquid, before it eventually ended up being too much for him and he fell to the ground... passing out...
Unlawgust episode three baby! Not really much else to say here lmao so onto the elim we go!
Reasoning for Elimination:
Relinda was definitely one of the best characters morally, but that ultimately ended up being her downfall due to the fact that she'd have the strongest reaction out of anyone here after finding out the episode's twist for what's in the box. Fun fact: Relinda was originally planned to find a freedom idol, but I scrapped the idea.
Remaining Prisoners: Bella/Edna, Clover, Davy, Deena, George, Jacque, Jade, Rival
Elimination Order:
14th ~ Romeo Darnell McFarland - The Toxic Farmer (BigBadBrad)
13th ~ Quinn Potter - The Pyromaniac Matchmaker (GirlPower54)
12th ~ Giuseppe "Picollo" Bilancia - The Clown (lordgemini) [ESCAPED]
11th ~ Monica Rosette Lee - Little Miss Perfect (xxPrincsxx)
10th ~ Matthew Matthews 'Aztaroth' - The Underground Gambler (MorbidGinger) [FREED]
9th ~ Relinda Temple - The Clumsy Waitress (BaseballCapClyde)