(Sweden Sour)
I would like to thank everyone who reviewed, favorited or followed this story since I last updated it.
Ellismskd24: Yeah, I'm not gonna miss her myself.
BigSmokeYeet: Thanks, I'm glad to see you liked it.
Fritz Electroscreech: Yep, I'm as happy that she's gone as you are. Also, I know I've said this before, but saying that she's gonna go insane implies that she isn't already.
Cody Fanatic: Yep, it's a happy day for all us Cody fans. A lot of people wanted me to just make him lash out at her, but that's not really the kind of guy Cody is.
Romeoaifesili: Thanks for understanding. As for Courtney, yeah Alejandro isn't exactly getting the chance to seduce her with his Latin charms. And yeah, I doubt many people will disagree when I say that Tyler is almost always glossed over, and after the whole Gwuncan reveal he didn't really add much to the story. Plus yeah, aside from Owen, DJ probably does have the biggest heart on the show, and on his team without a doubt. Courtney's scenes were something I've been trying to build up to, for the sake giving her some much needed development to her character. I wouldn't say Duncan and Noah are friends. While Duncan does respect Noah now to a certain extent, he did make it clear that Noah hasn't given him a solid reason to trust him as of yet. Yep, Courtney and Gwen are actually becoming friends this time, and a healthy friendship at that. I'm not surprised you enjoyed the ending, and Cody calling Sierra out on her behavior was a part I really enjoyed doing. Now that she's gone, things will start to run a lot smoother on Team Amazon.
OmnipotentUIJudgeOfCharacterOG (ch 5): Yep, now Courtney is through the stages of grief and heartbreak and is moving forward. Like before, DJ told Courtney exactly what she needed to hear. You're not wrong about Total Drama bringing out the worst in a lot of people, and stuff like Harold getting Courtney kicked off, the downfall of Gwent, Leshawna lying about her teammates and badmouthing them, are just a few examples. I wouldn't say Duncan and Noah are really friends either, but yeah Duncan does recognize a threat when he sees one, and Alejandro is definitely a bigger threat than Heather. As for Tyler, let's face it he usually does get the short end of the stick, so I wanted to give him some more time to shine. Sierra going had been a long time coming, but that makes it all the more satisfying. I know it might seem a bit off for her to be so neutral about Cody standing up to her, but the fact that it was him saying it of his own accord did get the message across to her. Plus he got his underwear back. Duncan getting the crap beaten out of him by a kangaroo was something he definitely had coming in canon, but here it was just because it was funny. Noah's part with the dingo, I had to do that with someone, and I thought that Tyler would be too predictable. Yeah, DJ is slowly starting to suspect Alejandro, which is what Noah was hoping for by bringing up the way his teammates got eliminated, by playing them like a bunch of suckers, just like Heather's doing to Lindsay, and how he's doing to Tyler now.
Guest: Oh don't worry, I've got plans for that. You'll see what they think soon enough.
Ultrablud2: Thanks, I'm glad to see you liked it. I know most people don't give Tyler much thought, but I thought he could use a little bit of time to shine. I don't have any plans to have him go to the finale, but I think he'll still have a respectable placement here. As for Ezekiel turning feral, the less said about that the better.
SuperSonicHeroes: Thanks, I'm glad to see you liked it. I thought that Tyler getting a chance to shine was long overdue, especially since he usually gets shafted in fanfiction too. Speaking of which, if you could give me the name of that fic you mentioned where he played a major role, I would really appreciate it. Like I said to Ultrabud2, I don't plan for him to go to the finale, but he'll go a respectable length. Duncan and DJ (along with Geoff is) is one of my favorite friendships in the series, and Noah is standing out a lot more here. As for him being attacked by the dingo, yeah that was pretty funny. Sierra going here was something I had planned from the beginning, and yeah she brought it on herself. I would've liked her a hell of a lot more if it wasn't for her obsession with Cody, but alas, she was dealt a band hand, and now this is the end of her.
GO D. USOPP: Glad to see you enjoyed it. I thought Courtney and Gwen deserved to have a proper reconciliation. Sierra losing it more than she did would've been to easy and predictable, and truth be told, I couldn't see it ending any other way. I knew I would have Cody stand up to her proper, and that got through to her.
Frosty Wolf: Thanks, I'm glad to seeyou liked it. Yeah, Sierra getting kicked off was a long time coming. I totally agree that she crosseed the line way too many times, to the point where I never really liked her. Cody was never anywhere near as bad as that, and I always appreciate when I get to see another Gwody shipper. As for the Total Drama reboot, I haven't really decided on how to feel about that yet. I think it depends on whether or not they bring back the old characters, instead of just showing us a bunch of new ones.
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As always, Chris started off the episode with a recap of the previous one "Last time on Total Drama World Tour: Australia, yet another one of our exciting destinations that will totally amaze you, if it doesn't kill you first. Here, Duncan's ex was still reeling over the breakup, only for none other than one of Duncan's best friends to try and act as the shoulder she could cry on, even after she used him to stick it to none other than Duncan. All the while, Alejandro was hoping to get the chance to stick it to her. You guys feeling your brains hurting yet? Speaking of Alejandro, it turns out he actually managed to turn the pain prone Tyler into one hell of a powerhouse, and that managed to score a win for his team. Also, Duncan ended up getting onto the business end of a kanga-puncha-roo, which was hilarious. And in a super dramatic vote that included Cody at last standing up to her, Sierra ended up taking the Drop of Shame. Only 8 competitors remain, so the question is, which one of them is gonna be the next to get thrown out of a plane? Find out right here and right now on Total! Drama! World Tour!"
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In a rare occurrence, things were actually calm as the Totam Drama Jumbo Jet flew through the skies to its next destination.
Gwen glanced over at a rat scurrying out of a hole before going back to her sketchbook, but then she paused and looked around "Okay, it feels like something is missing."
"I think it's the distinct lack of crazy in the air." this was when Noah made his way into economy class, two bags of chips in hand and his expression dull and deadpan as usual "So you really went through with getting rid of the stalkerlicious queen?"
"Yep, we voted off Sierra last night 3 to 1. She didn't go without a fight though, she's as strong and stubborn as she is crazy."
"I know that all too well, I was on a team with Izzy."
"So was I back at Wawanakwa. You know you don't seem surprised it was Sierra that got voted off last night."
"She once asked me what it was like to lock lips with Cody's ear, there's gonna be a cold day in hell before I actually miss her." Noah rolled his eyes, then gave a smirk "So you and Cody?"
"Yeah I know, it just sort of happened. I'm still kind of surprised by it myself."
"I'm not, I made 20 bucks off of it." he was met with a raised eyebrow.
"You wanna run that the hell by me again?"
"Owen and I made a bet on who your next boyfriend was gonna be after the whole fiasco with that Elvis reject last season. I bet on Cody, he bet on DJ?" another raised eyebrow "Yeah I don't get it either. Anyway, once Alejandro forced you to reveal it back in Greece, he slipped me a 20 while you were fighting off two crazy chicks."
"You know I'm sitting right here." Courtney pointed out dryly from where she was reading her book a short distance away from them.
"Yeah I know. Anyway, the point is I know what crazy is like. Speaking of loverboy, where is he right now anyway?"
"He went down to the cargo hold, trying to untangle the basket that Sierra weaved out of all of the underwear she stole from him. I would've helped, but… Yeah, enough said."
"Fair enough. So you said cargo hold?"
"Yep. What are you guys doing nerd stuff?"
"You could say that." he pulled out a 20 "Thanks to my winnings from Owen, I bribed one of the interns to hook us up with decent enough internet access to watch a trailer for a new anime movie that came out yesterday."
"What?!" this was when Cody suddenly blitzed onto the scene at comically high speeds, taking the others by surprise "You mean the new Dragon Ball Super movie trailer?"
"Yep."
"Any other details?"
"Apparently there's a time skip involved, and the title was announced: Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero."
"...Let's move." and so he bolted off, with Noah following behind him in his typical nonchalant fashion.
"Okay, so that happened." Gwen shared a glance with Courtney, and then she shrugged "I've learned enough from my little brother to know that nerds stick together."
"And they are not the only ones." this was when Alejandro came out of first class with a few bags and drinks in hand "Sorry to intrude ladies, but I took the liberty of smuggling a few things out of first class for the both of you."
"Thanks." Gwen gave a shrug and accepted a bottle of soda and a bag of chips.
"Courtney, would you care for some?"
"I appreciate the offer, but I'm not really in the mood for-" Courtney cut herself short when she noticed him holding out a chocolate bar to her, which she quickly accepted "Thank you."
"Wait hold on a second." Gwen shot a raised eyebrow at her "There's definitely something wrong about this."
"What do you mean?"
"I thought you said you were lactose intolerant."
"...I did."
"Yeah, last season during the episode with the merge. I saw it from the Aftermath studio, you said were lactose intolerant when you and Lindsay won that trip to the cheese factory." this caused Courtney to cringe, and Alejandro to smirk as he walked away.
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(Confessional- Courtney)
"Okay, so I lied about being lactose intolerant." Courtney let out a sigh as she buried her face in her hands "Yeah, I think it's safe to say that I said and did a lot of things last season that I'm not proud of by any means. I used my legal loopholes to get whatever I wanted and ran over anyone I thought was out to get me. And then there's Duncan… maybe if I hadn't gone so overboard with everything, especially that stupid letter, things might be different now. But there's no point in dwelling on that now. He ended things between us, and to be honest… I can't blame him. I guess the only thing I can really do is, learn from this and move forward."
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(Confessional- Alejandro)
"I will admit that this is more tedious than I had hoped." Alejandro gave a shrug as he held up a cookie in one hand "Courtney isn't particularly being challenging per say, having Duncan be the one to end their relationship has thrown her, but she's not responding to my advances as effectively as I would hope. I suppose I have DJ to thank for that. In any case, this will be a delicate process, but I'm still confident I can gain her trust, and once I have it, this is what I'm going to do with it." he then crushed the cookie in his hand to prove his point.
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Meanwhile, in first class…
"Oh yeah, I could get used to this." at the same time, DJ was joining Dunan in downing a plate of cookies in front of them "First class is incredible."
"Yeah well, might not wanna get too used to it." Duncan grabbed another cookie "If we're as far into the season as I think we are, it's not gonna be like this for much longer."
"What, you think we might lose the next challenge?"
"The chance is always about 50/50 of losing a challenge, but I'm saying that there's a pretty fair chance that McLean is gonna merge the teams not too long from now."
"Well whatever the case, we must work with the situation at hand." Alejandro snuck in between them and grabbed a cookie for himself "If this is our last bout as a team gentlemen, then we should go out with honor and glory, and hold our heads up high." and then he made his way out of first class.
"He sure as hell talks pretty for a guy."
"You do have a point though." DJ took a bite of a cookie "Chris said we have two aftermaths already, so chances are the merge is gonna happen any day now."
"No doubt about it. When that happens, you oughta keep your eyes peeled."
"You talking about Alejandro? I have been sort of keeping an eye on him for awhile, at least long enough to know that he and Heather are kind of… you know."
"You don't say?"
"Well not official, but I did kind of notice a few signs here and there before Heather got kicked off in London. Kind of like what Courtney was feeling for you back at Wawanakwa, only it goes both ways." this caused Duncan to cringe at the mention of Courtney "Sorry."
"Forget it. Anyway, did Noah tell you anything else about Alejandro?"
"Pretty much the same stuff he told you. Stuff like how he isn't what he seems, he's as slippery as an eel, and he's like if Heather was a guy and had social skills. Plus he said Alejandro was the one that got Harold, Bridgette and Leshawna kicked off."
"And?"
"To be honest… I think he might be right. I mostly gave him the benefit of the doubt for helping me out with my animal curse, but after hearing about all of that, I can't just look past it. Plus there's the way he basically sicked Coutney on Gwen back in Greece."
"And the way he's interacting with Jockstrap." Duncan jerked a thumb at where Tyler was taking a nap on one of the reclining chairs "He is to Alejandro what Lindsay was to Heather, only he's better at pretending to be nice. You were there, you know what I'm talking about."
"So what, you think we should try and form an alliance with Noah to take him down?"
"Take Alejandro down, yes. Form an alliance with Noah, not so much."
"Really? Why not? It makes sense to me."
"I'll tell you what I told Noah. He gave me plenty of reasons not to trust Alejandro sure, but he hasn't given me a reason to trust him yet."
"He told us about everything he's done this season."
"And left me to get my ass kicked by a kangaroo, which never happened by the way, regardless of what anyone else says."
"Regardless of what anyone says about what?"
"There we go." he patted DJ on the back "The way I see it, whether Alejandro or Noah turn out to be the big bads, you and I better stick together so they can't boot either of us out."
"Because I'm strong and loyal to you?"
"Becuase you're my friend and I actually do give a crap about you, and you're one of the few people on this plane that doesn't annoy the crap out of me."
"Who are the others?"
"Well Gwen for one, at least she's not annoying. And Cody… I gotta be honest, the runt is a lot tougher than I gave him credit for."
"And there's the fact that if you wanna have Gwen stick with you, you're gonna have to get him too."
"Pretty fair chance. Anyone else you have in mind?"
"Nope."
"Not even Courtney?" this caused him to cringe again, and then a pause.
"...Whatever, it's not like she's that big a deal anyway."
"Oh really?" DJ crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, really."
"Don't kid yourself, you're not fooling me."
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"Duncan I'm your friend, I know when you're feeling beat up inside, even if you'd never let yourself admit. You miss her don't you?" he was met with silence "Look man, I know that when it comes to Courtney, things have never been easy, but that doesn't mean you wanna just give up on it."
"So what, you think I'm supposed to crawl back to her and beg her to take me back? I ended it with her for a reason."
"I know, but hear me out on this. My momma told me a saying once: If you love something, you have to set it free. If it comes back to you, then it's yours. If it doesn't, then it never was. You did the first part already by setting Courtney free, now the question remains: Is she gonna come back to you?"
"...You seriously think I love Courtney?"
"Well don't you?"
Duncan said nothing, he just broke away from DJ and walked out of first class in silence.
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A few more hours went by, and the plane landed at its next destination. Well, more like landed and started sliding out of control on the frozen surface.
After that, Chris gathered all of the remaining contestants outside and greeted them with his own version of a Swedish accent "Velcome to Schveden!"
"Where the hell are those jackets you ordered for us in the Yukon?" asked Gwen.
"Hey I'll have you know that I worked pretty hard on that accent, it would've been a lot nicer if one of you would comment on it."
"We would've if we gave a damn." Noah told him dryly.
"Sweden? Hello?" he was met with silence, and so he let out a groan "Fine, I'll be back in a few minutes." and so he walked off.
"Well it could be worse, at least this time I'm not getting catapulted through the air by a 300 pound bag of farts and fun." Noah paused, then let out a sigh "I miss Owen."
"Don't we all." Duncan shivered slightly, then glanced over at DJ "I'm guessing you've been to places like this before?"
"Only Germany and the Yukon, and neither of them really ended well." DJ told him.
"How so?"
"My old team lost in both of those places, they were where Bridgette and Leshawna got kicked off." he noticed Alejandro glancing over towards him as he said this "I didn't even wanna be here back then because of that stupid animal curse. I'm just glad that's over." the glance subsided, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and he shared a subtle look with Duncan, one that wasn't unnonticed by Noah.
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(Confessional)
"Looks like DJ is finally coming around to the eel." Noah frowned in thought "On one hand, that's a good thing for me, because that means he'll vote with me against him. On the other hand, I still don't have any sort of guarantee that Duncan will follow him. I'm gonna have to work this one carefully."
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Back with the main plot…
"Alright guys, I've got good news." Chris and Chef made their way back over to the group.
"You're gonna tell us how old you really are?" Noah guessed dryly, causing him and Cody to share a fist bump.
"No. The jackets are here." this was met with various cheers "In the next six to eight weeks." this was met with various groans.
"...Yeah that figures."
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(Confessional)
"Yep, that's Noah for you." Cody let out a sigh "He's got more than enough guts to talk back to people like Duncan and Heather, and even Alejandro now. But at the same time, he never really knows when to cut his losses with the snark. Still though, it's great to have someone I can talk to about geek stuff, like anime. Maybe I could get Gwen into that stuff too. It might sound kind of stupid, but me and Noah are kind of some of those people that believes that anime is the core of the world, and the people that say they don't like anime… well they're Heather."
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Back with the challenge…
"Alright guys, take a look around." Chris gestured to two piles of building material "Before each of your teams is a mysterious pile of I-Builda tools and pieces, and for your first challenge you'll have to use allen keys, wooden sledgehammers and your own wits to turn your piles of stuff into whatever the heck they're supposed to be when they're properly assembled."
"A simple matter for us." Alejandro glanced over at his team and gave a smirk "This challenge will be a piece of pie."
"You mean a piece of cake." Noah told him dryly.
"I believe it's pie."
"No he's right, it's a piece of cake." DJ told him, causing Alejandro to frown slightly "I'm just trying to be accurate."
"Yeah, can we get back to me now?" Chris asked dryly "Anyway, the instructions for building these things were accidentally shredded when I put them through a shredder. In any case, the first team that's able to correctly assemble whatever their pile is supposed to be, is going to earn a big advantage in the second part of the challenge, so get to it!" and that prompted the teams to scatter to their respective piles.
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First up, Team Amazon…
"Let's see…" Courtney frowned in thought as she looked around the pile of material "Maybe if we lay out the pieces, we'll be able to figure out what they're supposed to make."
"We don't have time for that." Gwen grabbed an allen key "We've got three to their five, if we're gonna do this we've gotta figure out a plan fast."
"But how can we figure it out if we don't even know what we're building."
"We can't waste time laying them out because of that."
"But we-" Courtney paused, then took a breath to calm herself down "Do you have any ideas on what to do then?"
"Well no, but… Ah screw it, Cody what do you think?"
"Let's see…" Cody frowned in thought as he knelt down to examine the materials.
"Okay fine, give him a minute."
"Are you sure he can figure this out?" asked Courtney.
"Oh yeah. Cody might not have biceps the size of a watermelon like DJ, but he's definitely not stupid. He'll figure it out in no time."
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Meanwhile, with Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot…
"Whatever it is, it's gonna be big and apparently have a dragon on it." Noah looked down at the pile of materials in front of him, then over at Team Amazon "Anybody else wanna see a girl fight right about now?"
"No way man, those things are a lot scarier than you think." DJ told him "I remember this one time back at Wawanakwa when me and Owen were waiting for the bathroom, and we could both hear Heather and Leshawna fighting in there. It was kind of fun at first, but it got real nasty real fast."
"That bad huh?"
"So bad that having to pee didn't really matter anymore."
"Ouch."
"Oh yeah." DJ gave a simple nod, then found himself being pulled aside by Duncan "I'm not kidding about that, Owen and I told you about that before."
"Yeah I know, but that's not what this is about." Duncan rolled his eyes and jerked a thumb over to where Alejandro was watching the other team "Going back to what I was saying on the plane, I'm not fond of Noah, but he was definitely right about Alejandro."
"So we help vote him off the next time we lose?"
"That's my plan for now, but whatever the case I say you and I stick together. Are you with me on this?"
"You know it brother." the two of them fist bumped, and they they noticed Cody quickly starting to build something from his team's pile "You think they figured it out?"
"Either that or Cody's got some stupid and crazy idea he's working with." Noah told them dryly, earning a few looks "Cody's a lot of things but he's not stupid, he wouldn't be going with an idea that pops into his head if he didn't think he could make it work."
"And that means that we have to pick up the pace men." Alejandro glazed over at them, then turned back to the pile "I wonder, if this is supposed to be a hull then…"
"Oh man, take a look at this." Tyler held up one of the pieces "Maybe I've been around Owen too long, because this thing looks a lot like a whale rib! Oh god, Chris didn't kill a bunch of whales to make these did he?!"
"Tyler… you incredibly stupid genius!"
"A compliment and an insult at the same time." Noah commented dryly "Truly, you've mastered the craft of mocking people without them realizing it."
"That is what my people refer to as a compli-sult, but thank you. Duncan, get the sledgehammer and bring it over here. Tyler, DJ, you two start to move the materials. Noah-"
"Not so fast, we need to get some privacy for this." Noah promptly grabbed a few planks and a canvas from the pile "You guys get started with building, I'll take care of that."
"Very well then. Come on men, to victory and beyond!" he was met with a few odd looks "What, did I say something strange!"
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(Confessional)
"I don't trust or like really anyone, and Alejandro even less than most." Noah said dryly "And if there are few thing I learned during all of the crap in London, it's that nowhere is safe on this dumpster fire of a show, and letting him know how I feel about him does nothing but put a giant target on my back, and now he's gonna be gunning for me in our next elimination. I can't keep it buddy buddy with him anymore, and since he's got Tyler under his thumb, I'm gonna have to put some work in on DJ before he does, and earn some points with Duncan. May the best man win you greasy eel."
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Meanwhile, with Team Amazon…
"This is the last piece!" Cody grabbed a piece of wood and hastily hammered it into place, his eyes blazing with passion and determination "And done!"
"This oughta be interesting." Chris made his way over to the team "Alright Team Amazon, what have you got for us?"
"Behold, this is my masterpiece!" Cody leapt to the ground and showed off his creating with pride evident in his eyes "So what do you think?" he was met with a few blank stares for a moment, until…
"...Okay I give up, what the hell are we looking at?" Gwen broke the silence.
"You mean you can't guess? Oh right, you two haven't seen anime. Hey Noah, you care to do the honors?"
"For what?" Noah poked his head out from behind the canvas, and his expression turned even more dull than usual at the sight of Cody's creation "You actually made a replica of Goku from Dragon Ball. Of course you did." this earned more than a few WTF looks "The sad thing is it's still not as hollow as the real deal."
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(Confessional- Cody)
"Okay, not my most subtle or eloquent move." Cody let out a chuckle "And I might have Dragon Ball on the brain ever since Noah and I watched the new trailer, but can you blame me? Plus it was either make a giant Goku head or a replica of Gwen's head, and the last thing I wanted was to freak her out, especially now. Besides, everything ends up referencing Dragon Ball one way or another at some point, so I'm kind of surprised they didn't do it sooner, especially when we were in Japan. Serious missed opportunity there, I mean come on!"
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Back with the challenge…
"Seriously?" Gwen glanced up at the Goku head, then at Cody, her expression dull "That's what you went with?"
"Um… yeah?" Cody gave a nervous shrug "What, no good?"
"...Well it could be worse." she breathed a sigh "I know my little brother is probably gonna go crazy over this."
"Really?"
"Oh yeah, I catch him binging anime like I do horror flicks. The good ones anyway. Plus it could be a lot worse, at least you didn't make some giant bust of my head or anything."
"Well the thought did cross my mind, but I didn't wanna freak you out or anything."
"I wouldn't say it would freak me out, but yeah, I'm not into giant romantic gestures or anything like that. Still though, nice work with taking the initiative." she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek, causing him to blush.
"I guess there are a couple of perks."
"Yeah okay, this is a half hour show remember?" Chris suddenly popped up in between the two of them, followed by a familiar chime ringing through the air "Time for a song, both teams better be ready for this."
"Listen amigo, and listen well." Alejandro glanced down at Tyler "As you sing, you must make sure not to mention that we're building a boat."
"We're building a boat?!" Tyler blurted out in his typical fashion, drawing a few gasps from the other team.
"...Yep, you really should've seen that coming." Noah glanced over at Alejandro and shot him a smirk as he moved the canvas away to reveal their boat, and then the song started.
Cody: "They're way ahead, so we've got to go!"
Courtney: "We've got to build something to sail, something we can row-ow!"
Gwen: "It doesn't have to be a boat!"
All of Team Amazon: "Oh why did we build that face?"
Alejandro, DJ and Duncan: "It's almost ready to set sail!"
Tyler: "Just hammering in the final nail!"
Noah: "We really did this fast!"
All of Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot: "Soon we'll be back in first class, because they built that face!"
All of Team Amazon: "We built that face!"
All of Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot: "We're gonna take first place!"
All of Team Amazon: "Because we built that face!"
Courtney: "Aaaa-eee-yeah-eee-yeah!"
Courtney and Gwen: "We built that face!"
Cody: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
"Not too shabby boys." Chris made his way over to DJ and the rest of his team and handed them a large sack "Looks like Team Me Be Hot takes the lead, and I've gotta admit that she's one heck of a beauty. Anyway, in that bag is the reward you guys are gonna get for finishing first."
"So what are we looking at?" Noah opened up the bag, only for him and the others to be less than impressed by what they found "A bag of rocks. You used up the show's budget on another bust of your face didn't you?"
"Nope. For your information former assistant, I only used half the show's budget on a bust of my gorgeous face. Now then, drag your ship until you reach open water, and then sail to the North until you find Chef to receive your next instructions."
"Oh joy, another water challenge."
"We do what we must to secure victory!" Alejandro suddenly ripped his shirt off "I'll pull from the bow!"
"And you're gonna do it with your shirt off?"
"Questions are for later, actions are for now! Push like the wind!" and so he rushed off and tied himself to the front of the boat, and subsequently started pulling, with Duncan and DJ pushing the boat from behind.
"Well that happened."
"He sure does talk pretty for a guy." Duncan muttered dryly.
"I've had to put up with it for a full season, you haven't seen anything yet."
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Meanwhile, with Team Amazon…
"He sure as hell talks pretty for a guy." Gwen raised an eyebrow as she watched Alejandro pull his team's boat from the bow "And did he have to take his shirt off?"
"I doubt Heather is gonna be complaining when she sees this." Courtney pointed out dryly as she glanced back at the Goku head "But we have other problems to deal with."
"You have any ideas on how to fix it?"
"Well I do have one. If this monkey man head Cody built is hollow…"
"That's too easy." Cody muttered.
"Then maybe we can just cut off the top of it and ride in it like a makeshift boat."
"...Off with the monkey head it is. I'll grab the saw."
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Meanwhile, with team men…
"Come on, come on…" by this point, Duncan, DJ and Tyler were all pushing the boat from the stern, though they were making little progress, and the former glanced back to see Noah going through some leftover debris and tools "Why the hell are you not pushing?"
"Because I have the muscle tone of a paper clip." Noah told him dryly "Not exactly gonna be the greatest contribution to our grand efforts."
"Right, because sitting around with your hands on your ass is gonna get the job done. You don't see any of us doing that, hell even Alejandro is taking the initiative and pulling the boat all by himself."
"...So that's how you wanna play it? Fine." Noah promptly made his way over to the pile of tools and grabbed a sledgehammer.
"What the hell are you doing?"
"I'm giving you what you wanted, me taking the initiative. Izzy, eat your heart out." and so he subsequently slammed the sledgehammer into the ice multiple times, causing the ice to crack at a very alarming rate.
"The ice is cracking!" Chris took the chance to sign off "Has Noah finally gone off the deep end and decided to kill us all? Stick around to find out, right here on Total! Drama! World Tour! Now get the hell out of the way, every host for himself!" and so he took off running.
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(Confessional)
"Great, first Sierra and now Noah." Gwen muttered dryly "It's official, Izzy has been replaced twice over now."
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The cracks continued to spread along the ice.
"We're out of time, get in the freaking anime head!" Gwen grabbed Cody by the collar and dragged him into the boat, with Courtney swiftling climbing in herself right as the ice gave out from beneath them "And it floats, I guess it was hollow enough after all."
"Noah's not wrong though, it's still not as hollow as the real thing." Cody let out a chuckle "I mean seriously, if you knew the first thing about Dragon Ball, you'd know that saying his head is hollow is about as much of an understatement as saying that Chris has an ego that's even bigger than all of Wawanakwa."
"Yes yes, very interesting and all that." Courtney rolled her eyes "I just have one question for the one that's so knowledgable of anime."
"And that is?"
"How the hell do I steer this thing?! Seriously, it's as aerodynamic as DJ is cutthroat!"
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Meanwhile, with Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot…
"Get the HFIL in the boat already!" DJ threw Duncan and Tyler into the boat before jumping in himself "Noah come on man!"
"Forgive me for not running like a freaking jackrabbit!" Noah threw away the sledgehammer and ran over to the boat, where he was hoisted into it by DJ right before the ice beneath them finally gave out, allowing them to start sailing. Once thye were, Noah glanced up at him "Okay I've gotta say it. HFIL, seriously?"
"What? I don't like cursing. But seriously, quick thinking with using the hammer to break the ice so we can start sailing."
"Credit where it's due bookworm, way to take some initiative." Duncan gave a smirk "Not too shabby."
"Yes Noah, I must agree with our amigos here." Alejandro gave a forced grin "You truly are proving yourself to be quite the MVP."
"Right, because you know how to kiss up to a guy and mock him at the same time." Noah noted dryly "Like how Tyler helped us figure out this was supposed to be a boat. What was it that you called him again?"
"I… I don't remember."
"Oh I do, you called him an incredibly stupid genius. Wait to shower him with praise." Noah shot a glance over at DJ as he said this.
"It was little more than a bad joke, we can't all be as humorous as Tyler, or DJ for that matter. I have to say, in recent times you've both proven yourselves to be the MVPs of our team."
"I am?" Tyler shared a look with DJ, and then they both gave a shrug "I never really thought about that sort of thing, I just wanna do my part for the team and all."
"And humble as well, you two truly are admirable characters."
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(Confessional)
"I never said that being subtle is one of my strong points." Noah gave a shrug "If this doesn't get the point across to DJ and Duncan that Alejandro is trash, I don't know what will. Lucky for me I'm dealing with them and not someone like Lindsay. Who's probably watching this right now from the Aftermath. Yeah, I'm probably gonna pay for this later."
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One semi-long sailing trip later…
It didn't take very long before Noah and the rest of the team reached a small dock, where they found Chef waiting for them with a viking helmet in hand "This better not be another dancing challenge."
"Nope, you gotta pick a captain for your team." Chef told him "Gotta do that before you can move onto the next part of the challenge."
"Okay then, so-"
"DJ should be our captain." Alejandro suddenly blurted out.
"I was just gonna say that."
"Perhaps you were, but you did not. I said it first."
"Yeah well, calling that first has about as much validation going for it as being first in the comment section on YouTube."
"We get it guys, you love DJ, it's a beautiful thing." Chris told them dryly "Plus he's more or less filled Owen's role on the team as the big guy that nobody can hate."
"Better than than the fat guy that farts all the time." Chef rolled his eyes as he handed the viking helmet to DJ.
"You know DJ, if this were a Valentine's Day dance then you'd have one hell of a difficult choice to make, but lucky for you, it's some good old-fashioned war!" Chris motioned for Chef to bring in a cannon that he loaded onto their ship "Yeah, this one is gonna be fun."
"So that's what these are for…" Duncan glanced down at the bag of rocks, then shared a look with Noah and Alejandro "That means the bag of rocks are supposed to be flints."
"Bingo dingoes! Dammit, I should've said that last week in Australia. And for you to fire out of the cannon, a plate of Chef's famous Swedish meatballs!"
"Makes sense, anything Chef cooks could kill a man." Duncan was forced to dodge a meatball being thrown at him.
"In order to win the challenge and travel first class, you'll have to do one of two things: One, you have to sail North to capture the red flag way over yonder. Two, you have to use your meatballs to sink the other team's ship. Good luck Captain DJ." and so he sent the team sailing away to complete the challenge, and once they were gone Chris glanced over at Chef "So what do you think, he gonna do it?"
"I doubt it." Chef let out a snort "Dough boy doesn't have what it takes to command respect like a leader."
"Well I guess we'll have to wait and see."
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Meanwhile, with Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot…
"So, I guess that means I'm the team captain right now." DJ glanced between the rest of the team and let out a nervous chuckle "Sorry, I'm not really good at commanding respect and that sort of thing."
"Think nothing of it sir." Alejandro forced a friendly smile "Just do what you believe to be best and we shall follow your lead."
"Well if you say so, then I think we should just go ahead and get the flag. That way nobody will get hurt and we don't have to waste time with a fight. Don't fire unless we have to."
"Aye aye captain!" Tyler was quick to salute him.
"Um, dude? That's pirates, not vikings."
"Oh. I gotta go back and watch One Piece again."
"Yeah sure, if you've got thousands of hours to spare." Noah pointed out dryly, earning a few odd looks.
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(Confessional)
"On one hand, I would have been the best choice for captain." Alejandro gave a shrug "On the other hand, Noah is becoming more active in trying to secure allies against me, so I'll need to stay behind the scenes and focus on building some loyalty. I'll have to secure DJ's trust to the best of my ability, and then focus on winning over Duncan. Hopefully the worst that can happen is that I have to face him in a tiebreaker, and I can best him with ease. All I have to do now is work behind the scenes and lay in wait like a cocodrilo. A devilishly handsome cocodrilo."
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Meanwhile, with Team Amazon…
"So bottom line, we have to pick someone to lead us." Gwen glanced at Chef, then glanced back towards Courtney, before turning to Cody "What was it you say to this, crapbaskets?" she was met with a nod "Just checking."
"I think Cody should be our captain." Courtney told them, earning a series of jaw dropped looks from the others "What? He did manage to figure out something to build. Granted it wasn't what it was supposed to be, but better than nothing right?" she was met with more stunned silence from the others "Anyway, we need matches in order to light the cannon."
"I'm sure you'll think of something, so see ya." Chris gave a smirk and waved at them.
"Okay, let's go already." Courtney made her way back into the boat, with Cody and Gwen both following her, allowing them to start sailing after the other team "Great, at this rate we're not gonna be able to catch up with them. Just look at how far away they are."
"Well it's not like that's the only choice we have." Cody pointed out.
"What do you mean?"
"Don't forget that Chris said we have to do one of two things to win. One of them is to capture the flag, and the other one is… to sink their ship."
"Yeah I know that, but…" Courtney paused as she glanced over at the other ship, or to be more specific, at Duncan "But we don't have anything to light the cannon with."
"Actually, I have two ideas for that."
"And those would be?"
"The entire head is made of wood, so that means we can use it to light the canon. Either that or we can catapult it, like this." he pulled out a piece of wood and propped it up against the side of the cannon "One of you get the meatball ready!"
"Right here." Gwen placed the meatball on one side of the plank "So who's gonna launch the thing?"
"Leave that one to me!" Cody jumped onto the other end of the plank and catapulted the meatball through the air towards the other ship.
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Meanwhile, with the actual ship…
"Get the hell down!" Duncan and the rest ducked for cover as the meatball hurled towards their ship and ended up knocking the dragon head off the front "First strike? Oh there is no way in hell I'm not paying them back for this!"
"I… I guess we don't have a choice." DJ let out a sigh "Go ahead and fire, but make sure that it doesn't hit anyone."
"As you wish amigo- I mean captain." Alejandro gave a simple nod as he loaded a meatball into the cannon, used the rocks to light it, and then he fired.
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Meanwhile, with the Goku head…
"They're firing back, get the hell down!" Gwen motioned for everyone to back away as the meatball struck the Goku head right on the nose.
"Oh come on, I worked hard on that!" thinking quick, Cody grabbed a meatball and loaded it into the cannon, then grabbed a set of sticks nearby and used them to light the cannon and fire the meatball "Seriously, do you know how hard it was to get the hair so spiky?" he was met with a few dull looks from Courtney and Gwen "What?"
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Meanwhile, on the actual ship…
"INCOMING!" DJ threw the others to the ground as the meatball left a hole in the hull of their ship, the impact causing his hat to fall off and into the water "You guys okay?"
"We're fine dude, but you lost your viking hat!" Tyler pointed to where it was floating a short distance away from the boat "Your captaincy is on the line bro!"
"Forget about the hat, we've got bigger stuff to worry about right now!"
"But dude-"
"Enough squabbling you two!" Alejandro snapped, clearing running out of patience "The last thing we need right now is petty squabbles, we have a challenge to win!"
"Hey watch what you're saying Al, you're talking to the captain remember?" Tyler jerked a thumb over at DJ.
"This boat has no hat, and therefore has no captain! Now come gentlemen, we have a giant monkey man head to sink! And yes, I realize how ridiculous this sounds out loud."
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Meanwhile, on the monkey man head…
"Okay, I've just gotta load this thing in and take out the mast." Gwen was about to load the last meatball into the cannon, only to stop when she noticed the meatball hurtling towards them "Oh crap."
"We've got incoming, get down!" Cody suddenly rushed in front of Gwen and pushed her out of the way of the meatball, only to end up taking it to his leg as a result, leaving him sprawled out on the ground and leaving the meatball to ricochet off his leg and into the water.
"Cody!" Gwen was quick to rush over to his side, cringing as she saw blood pouring from one of his legs "What the hell you were thinking?!"
"Honestly… I wasn't thinking…" Cody let out a bitter chuckle "But I guess… when you care about someone… you'll do anything for them… no matter how stupid or reckless… it might turn out to be, right…?" he winced from the pain and had to force himself not to scream.
"...You're freaking unbelievable, you know that?" Gwen just cradled his head as she held him close to her "Forget the challenge, we've gotta take care of your leg."
"Don't worry, I do have some first aid training remember?" Courtney shifted Cody over to her and pulled out a first aid kit.
"Where were you keeping that?"
"Somewhere off screen, just finish the challenge."
"Right." Gwen took one last look at Cody and received a pained but reassuring smile, and that was enough to prompt her to grab a plank of wood and rip in in half, load the meatball into the cannon, and fire it towards the other team's ship.
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Meanwhile, on the actual ship…
"Ay dios mio…" Alejandro and the others watched in disbelief as the Goku head continued to advance forward "How is that thing still afloat?"
"It doesn't matter, we're bringing that thing down one way or another." DJ loaded their last meatball into the cannon and grabbed a few rocks, until…
"Incoming!" Noah grabbed DJ by the waist and yanked him to the ground as the other team's third meatball flew overhead "You good?"
"Yeah man, thanks for the save."
"Forget it, just let me handle this one." Noah grabbed a few rocks and used them to light their cannon and fire the meatball… which ended up taking our their ship's mast, causing it to come to a halt.
"...What arrr the odds?" Duncan was met with a few dull looks.
"Seriously?"
"What? Pirates are cooler than vikings, I stand by that claim."
"Sorry about this guys, but you're going down like a pack of suckers!" Gwen shot a smirk at them as the Goku head passed by, and then she went back to looking over Cody.
"Well that could've gone better."
"For a number of reasons." Alejandro took his chance to stir up some trouble "Obvious the mask was not secured properly, and I blame Noah's lack of involvement for that."
"Oh yeah, because my muscular physique would've made such a difference." Noah's tone was laced with sarcasm.
"It's your lack of involvement in general. Myself, DJ, Duncan and Tyler were working hard on building this boat, and what did you contribute to it? A tarp, nothing more."
"...You wanna see a contribution? Fine." Noah flipped the cannon towards the direction of Team Amazon's Goku head "Someone get the flints ready."
"In case you forgot, we don't have any meatballs left."
"Nope, we've got a miniature torpedo." Noah promptly loaded himself into the cannon "I can see it now, Izzy crying tears of pride over how stupidly insane this is gonna turn out to be in the next few minutes."
"I don't know…" Tyler hesitantly grabbed a few rocks from the bag "I mean, are you really sure about this Noah?"
"Just get the rocks ready and fire!"
"If you say so." and so Tyler used the rocks to light the cannon, sending Noah hurtling through the air at full speed "Huh, so this is what it's like to watch someone else do something really stupid, dangerous and awesome.
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Meanwhile, with Team Amazon…
"There's the flag, it's right over there!" by this point, Gwen and the others were merely a few inches away from the flag, but she glanced back to see Courtney and Cody both staring at something "What?"
"That." Courtney simply pointed to where Noah was being fired out of a cannon and hurtling towards them, screaming in terror all the while.
"...Oh. Well only one option now." so with a breath, she dove into the wate and grabbed hold of the flag a split second before Noah burst face first through the Goku head, before crashing into a nearby iceberg, causing him to let out a pained moan.
"Well that happened." this was Chris rode over to Noah on top of a jet ski "You know, when they say that a captain goes down with his ship, that usually means his own ship, but whatever works right? But you did it a few seconds too late anyway, Gwen was able to grab the flag first, so that means that Team Amazon wins!" this was met with cheers from Team Amazon, and a series of groans from Noah and the rest of his team "Yeah I'll see you guys at elimination later. Now if you'll excuse me, we've gotta get Cody to the infirmary before I get my butt sued off."
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A few hours went by, and the plane was flying through the skies once more.
Noah made his way into the infirmary and found Cody sitting on one of the beds, his leg now wrapped in a cast "So to sum up, you threw yourself into the line of fire for a girl and busted your leg on a meatball?"
"It sounds a lot more heroic with context." Cody let out a chuckle, then winced from the pain in his leg "But the agonizing pain would beg to differ."
"I never would've guessed, and yes I'm being sarcastic. Anyway I don't have a lot of time, so I'm gonna make this short."
"Attention all losers, it's time for you to report to the elimination area. One of you is about to get thrown out of a plane."
"And now I have even less time." Noah glanced towards the exit, then leaned towards Cody, his voice low "In case I get voted off tonight, whatever happens, watch out for Alejandro. He's not what you think he is. Make sure to warn the rest of your team too."
"Um… okay then." Cody raised an eyebrow "I kind of figured since he's a strong player and all, but what makes you so sure you're gonna get voted off?"
"I'm not, this is more of a contingency plan than anything else."
"You don't think you're gonna win?"
"I never said that. Winning a million bucks would be pretty nice, but right now I have one main goal I want to focus on: Making sure Alejandro loses. Oh, and one other thing." he pulled out a tablet and placed it on Cody's lap "I talked to one of the interns and he hooked us up, now when either of us are in first class we can binge anime until our eyes bleed."
"Nice!" the two of them fist bumped.
"Anyway I've gotta go either get rid of an eel or get dropped out of a plane. You'll find out which one in about a half hour." Noah gave Cody a simple wave and made his way out of the infirmary.
"Huh. Well that happened."
"That and a lot of other stuff." this was when Gwen made her way into the infirmary and sat next to Cody's bed "So… how are you feeling?"
"Well aside from the burning pain in my leg and having an itch I can't scratch, it's not that bad actually. It still beats the time I got mauled by a bear back at Wawanakwa."
"Yeah, I remember that… I just wish you didn't end up wrecking your leg like that."
"You can't seriously be thinking about blaming yourself."
"I do feel kind of responsible for seeing you get hurt like that."
"Well don't, it's not like you threw me in front of you like a meat shield. I wouldn't have done it if I didn't think you were worth it."
"Yeah, you would say something like that." Gwen let out a sigh and gave a small smile "Still, you threw yourself in front of a freaking cannonball for me. That's honestly one of the nicest things anyone's ever done for me." she cupped his face and pulled him in for a kiss, which lasted a moment before she broke away "I talked to one of the interns, Steve I think his name was, and he said you're gonna have to stay in here for at least the next day or two."
"Oh. Well it could be worse. I could be in a full body cast again."
"I just wish you weren't gonna be stuck here bored out of your skull."
"Actually, here's the funny thing about that." Cody held up the tablet in his lap "Noah was in here a minute ago and apparently he totally hooked me up, so now I can watch all sorts of anime and stuff when I'm in first class."
"Okay, so that's one problem solved."
"Big time. Hey why don't you watch with me. You never know, you might like it." he turned on the tablet to reveal the first anime of his choice "Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, easily the best of the best, and there's a pretty fair chance it will ruin your expectations of all other anime forever."
"...Fine, I'll stick around with you for one episode. What's the worst that can happen?" she sat back in the chair as the first episode started rolling.
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(Confessional- After several hours of binging Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood)
"Oh… my… shit…" Gwen's jaw was dropped and her eyes bulged out of her head "Well I just got my first taste of anime, and I have to say… It was awesome. No wonder he raves about that stuff. Maybe I should give this stuff more thought. Right now he's setting up for this cartoon he used to watch when he was a kid, I think he called it Avatar: the Last Airbender. I wonder how that one is gonna turn out."
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Now back to present time, with the elimination ceremony…
The time for the elimination ceremony had come, and all of the members of Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot had gathered in the elimination room.
DJ glanced between the various members, then turned to Duncan, his voice low "So do you think we should help vote off Alejandro or not?"
"Well…" Duncan gave a shrug "I had my doubts about Noah, but it turns out he's got a lot more guts than I gave him credit for. I counted him out, but he really stepped up and showed me what he's capable of."
"So?"
"I say we help him vote off Alejandro, and beyond that… I actually wouldn't be against forming an alliance with him."
"Fair enough." the two of them fist bumped and looked over at the others, which caused Noah to smirk, Alejandro to scowl and Tyler to grow increasingly nervous.
"Well guys, here we are again." this was when Chris made his way into the room "Yet again we find ourselves in the elimination room. This is where one of you will be tossed into the darkness to plummet out of my life, and quite possibly to the end of your own. And if this wasn't a reward challenge, that would be happening tonight. Psyche! There isn't gonna be a vote tonight. That means all of you are safe, at least for the time being." this earned a few sighs of relief, as well as a few groans of annoyance "Yep, you got that right. As we speak, Team Amazon is in the middle of enjoying their reward, which just so happens to be Swedish massages being performed by a genuine registered massage therapist." he was met with five simultaneous groans, and then he took the opportunity to sign off "Which raises the question: What other kinds of therapists do you think our competitors will need before the season comes to an end? Be sure to tune in next time to find out, right here on Total! Drama! World Tour!"
A/N:
Now we come to the Sweden challenge. Again, this is a chapter that's not quite as eventful as the last one (or as satisfying, given who was eliminated), but as was the case with Area 51, I wasn't quite ready to get rid of any of them just yet, and it does serve as buildup for what's coming in the next episode, and for interactions between certain characters. On the plus side, that means that everyone still in the game at this point is going to make it to the merge.
So instead of making a replica of Gwen's head, Cody made a homate to Goku from Dragon Ball, in the form of a giant wooden head that was slightly less hollow than the real thing. Let's face it, everything ends up referencing Dragon Ball at one point or another, and frankly I'm surprised we never say anything like that in the original show.
This chapter brings us closer to the climax of two important arcs taking place in this fic: The rivalry between Alejandro and Noah, and the drama between Duncan and Courtney. In regards to the first of which, Duncan and DJ have finally decided to work with Noah to get rid of Alejandro, which probably would've happened if this wasn't a reward challenge. As for the second one: Even though he dumped her for being so overbearing, controlling and trying to change him, Duncan obviously still has feelings for Courtney, and DJ is trying to get him to admit it. As for how that turns out, you're just gonna have to wait and see.
Hey just throwing this out there, if you guys don't mind then I could use some input for an idea I have. If I were to make a Ridonculous Race fic with Leshawna being part of it, who would you want her to be partnered with? I do have a story I'm in the middle of planning, but I'm unsure of who to partner with, so I'm open to any suggestions you guys have.
Remaining competitors:
Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot: Alejandro, DJ, Duncan, Noah, Tyler
Team Amazon: Cody, Courtney, Gwen
Elimination order:
Duncan (returns)
Ezekiel
Harold
Bridgette
Leshawna
Lindsay
Izzy
Heather
Owen
Sierra