"Last time on the Ridonculous Race, our teams paid a visit to the creepy crib of Count Dracula in Transylvania and it terrified all of them. Well, almost all of them. The Best Friends and Rockers formed an alliance of darkness and scored second and third place respectively. The Ice Dancers grabbed first place and I think Emma unknowingly caught Noah's heart, yeah like that's gonna end well. The Goths cracked their first smiles while the Fashion Bloggers and the Ultimate Duo nearly cracked under the pressure, the only difference being that the Ultimate Duo got cut from the race. Who will crack under the pressure this week? There's only one way to find out, it's time for the next episode of… the Ridonculous Race!"
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Daybreak came, and the black as night sky shifted to an ominous gray clouding over the lands of Transylvania.
Don stood by the Chill Zone from the day before "Welcome back to yesterday's Chill Zone in Transylvania where yesterday's first place team, the Ice Dancers, are about to grab the first travel tip of the day."
Sure enough, Josee grabbed the tip from the Don Box "Take a donkey cart to the airport in Bucharest and fly to… HAWAII!"
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Don stood outside the airport in said tropical paradise "That's right it's Hawaii, the home of beautiful sunshine, ukuleles and shirts that should only be worn in an ironic fashion. Once the teams land they'll need to find the Don Box with their next tip." he scowled at the sight of the Don Box wearing one of said ironic shirts "Oh yeah that's so hilarious, I'm betting that was wardrobe wasn't it?"
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Owen was in the middle of playing a game of charades with Kitty, much to Emma's clear but ignored annoyance "Oh oh I've got this one, I'm really good at this game! Is it goal posts? No wait, rectangle face! No no no I've got it, a box of candy!" this caused Kitty to facepalm in annoyance "What?"
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Josee let out a scoff "Playing is for weak minded little kids, we on the other hand have to stay focused on the gold at all times."
Jacques nodded "Exactly, to be honest I'm even so focused that I haven't washed my boxers since the race started."
"That's not focused, that's just gross."
"Oh is that right? Well have you ever stopped to think that maybe some people think your lucky rabbit's foot is gross?"
"Hey you leave Bun Bun out of this!"
"Then you leave my lucky gitch out of this!"
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Owen was still trying and failing to guess with charades "Cheesecake?"
Kitty let out a sigh "Click."
"No wait I've got it, exploding cheesecake!"
"Camera, it's camera!" Emma finally exploded at him "She said click, how could you not have gotten that?!" she shot a look at Noah while he was reading a book and ignoring everything "I mean how could you put up with this all day? Hey are you listening? Hey earth to asshole. Hello, anyone in there?"
Noah lifted his head out of his book and pulled out some earplugs "Sorry what was that? I was tuning out everything since we got in the coffin. Anyway don't be hard on the big guy or anything, he can just be a little bit… hungry." he pointed to where Owen was chewing on a small part of the wagon "Just be glad it hasn't gone through the southern exit yet, otherwise we wouldn't still be alive right now." he pulled out a chart out of nowhere "Take a look over here if you will and you'll see the Owen Stink Scale."
"There's a scale?"
"Oh yeah sure. Sushi farts are a 1, onion soup is a 5, spicy burrito farts go all the way to 12 and those bad boys can peel the garnish off of a locker."
"...Good to know." and she just stomped off.
'Yep it's official, I've got my first erection.'
"You okay buddy?" asked Owen.
"I'm fine, just feeling a little bit of something downstairs."
"Do you have to make boom boom?"
"Not that kind of downstairs." this was followed by the cart hitting a rock, causing Josee's lucky rabbit's foot to fall out of her pocket even though nobody noticed.
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Chet plugged his nose in disgust "Oh god this donkey reeks!"
"Oh yeah!" Lorenzo shot him a smirk "Well guess what, he said the same thing about you!"
"A talking donkey? Oh yeah cause that's possible!"
"Well it must possible because you're spewing out crap right now! Oh yeah that's right, call me when you've got a comeback out of your ass!"
"Lorenzo is an ass face, how about that?"
"Oh yeah?! Well Chet is a tool stool!"
"God how old are those two?" Junior muttered.
Dwayne shrugged "Don't mind those two, there are just some people who don't understand how important quality family time is right sporto?"
"Yeah, sure thing dad."
"That's my boy."
Taylor let out a scoff "You know you're so lucky that you get to do this with your dad."
"Oh trust me, I'm the lucky one. I bet getting to do this with your mom must be pretty awesome too though right?"
"Oh please, as if."
"Why, what's with her?" he failed to notice a dirty look he received from Kelly.
"Look it's not what's wrong with my mom, it's more of a matter of how my daddy and I can do everything better than she can."
"You see, Taylor is more of a daddy's girl all things considered." explained Kelly.
"Well that's a huge duh, daddy and I both have loads in common like we both hate being successful and we both hate avocado."
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At the same time, Devin and Carrie were riding with the Rockers after yesterday "So I've gotta admit guys, yesterday was pretty fun."
Rock nodded "Yeah I know, thanks for helping us with that by the way. I mean for all we know if it wasn't for you we might've gotten eliminated."
"Don't worry about it, it was fun."
"Yeah but now that we've got a head start and maybe we can come in first for once." he started doing a rift with air guitar.
"You never know, we might." Devin leaned over to Carrie, his voice low "I think we should go over our own game plan one more time."
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At the same time, Kevin was talking with Geoff and DJ in their own cart "And that's why I started art school, of course making a sculpture of my professor's human form didn't go so well but I found out she slept with one of the students so that bitch is history. Oh wait hold that thought." he was answered by a fart from their donkey "Yeah that's nice, the stench of manliness."
Geoff burst out laughing "Oh man, going from Dracula's crib to the birthplace of tropical paradise? Man this race is so awesome!"
DJ nodded "Yeah I told you the two of us doing this together was a great idea. We haven't been to Hawaii since the end of the third season of Total Drama."
"...Yeah. Right." Geoff's face fell.
"Oh. That. Right."
"Hey don't worry about it, so what if you were an idiot and Bridgette dumped you?" Kevin was answered by Geoff curling up into a ball anime style but went on anyway "That just means there's someone else out there for you." he gestured to Gwen drawing in her sketchbook "Hence why she and Trent didn't work out and why she and Cody are about to enter a whole new ball game thanks to yours truly."
"What did you do?" asked DJ.
"I screwed with her head in while we were in Brazil until she was willing to admit that she really was in love with Cody, now we've just gotta power through until the end and then she can confess."
"Where is Cody during this anyway?"
"Oh he's with the Drama Brothers on tour doing a couple of night clubs, country clubs and some kind of international reality TV show or something."
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Ennui let out a remorseful sigh "Leaving a dark paradise like Romania is tough as it is, but leaving a dark paradise like Romania to go to a tropical paradise like Hawaii filled with sunshine and happiness?"
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Jen cringed at the smell of their donkey "Oh god that's gross. Why do we have our own again?"
"Says the one if the cart." Tom pointed out dryly "But anyway let's think about this way, now that we have a chance we can rethink our strategy. We almost lost the last leg because of something so stupid like who started our blog."
"Yeah that was super unprofessional of us, I usually don't lose my composure so easily like that."
"We both could've handled that a lot better than we did, but the problem now is our new game plan. What should we do?"
"Well I noticed that the Best Friends and the Rockers were working together in the last challenge, why not give that a try with them too?"
"What, you mean like form an alliance?"
"Sure why not, I mean it's not like either of them are the kind to betray us. Besides, we still have to tell Carrie about who started the blog."
"Us?"
"Oh yeah, totally us."
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"All of the teams are on the same flight to Hawaii and after a 16 hour flight the 13 remaining teams arrive, and as custom in Hawaii teams are greeted with a lovely necklace consisting of local flowers."
Jay and Mickey were quick to run into a problem with this "Oh wow, hi. Those wouldn't happen to be… orchids?!" and they both ran away screaming.
However, the local threw the necklace like a boomerang and ended up hitting him with the thing, resulting in a sneezing fit.
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Emma was quick to shove Owen out of the way from the Don Box before he was able to grab a tip "Move it big guy, this tip is so ours! You might as well go ahead and give up now."
"Oh yeah you're asking for it now, prepare to get Noah all over your butt!" Owen waited a moment for Noah to give some sort of input, but nothing happened "Any second now, he's just thinking for a minute and then he's gonna cut loose!"
"Nope." Noah just gestured for them to take a tip without looking up from his book, but he stole the occasional glance towards her.
Kitty took this chance to take a tip from the Don Box "Looks like it's a botch or watch, whoever didn't do the gymnastics challenge in Romania has to go diving for… wedding rings?"
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"Like Kitty said, in this challenge teams have to dive into the most popular wedding bay in all of Hawaii and retrieve one of the rings we've placed along the bottom and then swim to the beach at the tip of the bay in order to meet their partner and find the Don Box with their next instructions."
Josee screeched to a halt outside of the airport "Wait a minute, something doesn't feel right." she reached around and quickly found out what the problem was "Oh no, I lost Bunbun! Where's Bunbun?!"
"Easy Josee, it's okay." Jacques tried to calm her down "We don't need any luck rabbit's foot or anything, like you told me about my underpants it's nothing but a pointless superstition and it doesn't mean anything."
"Alright then, if you're so confident then why don't you go ahead and take off your lucky gitch?"
"...Oh look there's the Don Box, let's go." and he rushed off.
"Yeah that's what I thought!"
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One by one the teams made their way to the wedding bay, with the Ice Dancers and the Rockers being the first ones to hit the water.
Emma was trying to convince Kitty to dive into the water "You don't have to be scared Kitty, I know you can do it."
"I don't know, it looks pretty deep." Kitty pointed out.
"Just pretend it's like the pool at Nana's condo, only with a lot less old people floating around in the water. You ready? Okay go!" she shoved Kitty into the water.
"Are you kidding me?! You shoved me!"
"It was just a push to encourage you and besides you're fine, now go get one of those rings so we can come in first for a change!"
As this went on, Carrie wrapped her arms around Devin "Okay wish me luck."
"You don't need luck, you're gonna rock this." Devin encouraged her.
Carre was left blushing dreamily as she dove off of the dock… only to crash onto a large rock in the middle of the bay as a result, resulting in a crashing noise that made everyone cringe at the sound.
"Ouch. Oh well. CANNONBALL!" Kevin dove in full force, with a terrified DJ doing the same not long after.
That was when Jacques rose up from the water with one of the rings "Victory is at last within our grasp, Josee let's get moving!"
"See you on the beach losers!" and so Josee promptly took off for the beach.
This was when Jen and Tom arrived at the bay, much to Jen's horror "Oh god I have to get my hair wet? Tom you know how I feel about that!"
Tom was quick to try and calm her down "Deep breaths Jen, deep breaths. Keep in mind that we almost lost the last around and we need to do better, besides this is for the blog okay?"
"Yeah… Yeah you're right, for the blog." so she gracefully dove into the bay below them.
What nobody else realized was that this drew Geoff's attention and he ended up getting a dreamy look in his eye "Woah…"
Kelly cringed as she watched Taylor stretch "Not to rush you or anything sweetie but isn't this the part where you should be in the water right now?"
Taylor let out a scoff "Oh just chill out mamacita, I still have like a billion swim medals on my wall back home don't I? Daddy had to reinforce the wall in my room so that it could hold up all of them and you yourself said that my swim coach told you told mom that I was the best student that he had ever seen."
"Actually sweetie-"
"EVER." she dove down and face planted onto the surface of the water, resulting in her sinking to the bottom.
Kelly cringed even further as she received various looks "I might have exaggerated what her swim coach said just a little bit."
"ACHOO!" Jay let out a loud sneeze "You know I had always suspected that my orchid allergy was fairly acute."
"You don't think there are any jellyfish do you?" asked Mickey.
"It doesn't really matter if there are, you know you're immune to their stings."
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Josee was running her way down the beach at full speed "Perfect, we're in first place even without Bun Bun! Maybe Jacques is right after all, maybe I don't need a good luck charm anymore." that was when she noticed something in front of her: a small lava rock shaped like a trophy "It's so light, and it's so warm! The energy, it's beautiful!" she failed to notice a fishing line hook onto her uniform "Come with me and be a champion my new Rock Rock, we've got a race to win!"
"Wait!" that was when a Hawaiian local (holding the fishing pole binding her) suddenly stopped her "You cannot take a lava rock as a souvenir!"
"You have a whole volcano of these things, just chill out old man would ya?!" and so she took off, taking the lava rock with her, failing to notice the dark clouds looming over her.
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"As the Ice Dancers widen their first place lead in a very ominous fashion, the rest of the teams are still searching for their wedding rings in the bay and coming up short as a result."
Kevin ended up finding an electric eel and got electrocuted as a result 'Ow…'
"Who knows, some of them may even end up dead. Who will end up surviving?"
Jen and Taylor were both wrestling over a ring they found and began clinging to each other in terror as a shark approached them, before Taylor whacked the shark on the nose and sent it on its way.
However, this is gave Jen a chance to make it back up to shore, leaving Taylor to scream in a blinding fury.
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Almost immediately, Jen resurfaced with the ring "Found one, hurry to the beach Tom and I'll meet you there in a few minutes!"
"You go girl now let's go!" Tom quickly made a beeline for the beach.
Carrie rose up with a ring of her own not long after "I've got one!"
"Alright way to go Carrie, you're amazing!" Devin cheered.
Carrie blushed and let out a quiet squeal.
However, Jen heard this since she wasn't too far away "Did you just squeal?"
"What? Uh no, I think it might have been a dolphin or something?" she started to swim off.
Jen was hot on her trail "OMG, you're in love with him aren't you? And don't even try to deny it, I've got a super sixth sense about these things."
"...Okay you got me, I'm in love with Devin and I have been for years. But the problem with that is that we've been friends for so long and he already has a girlfriend as it is so can you please not say anything? Please?"
"Don't worry, I promise I won't tell a secret that isn't mine to tell. But that being said, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't either. Oh and by the way, before I forget Tom and I both started our blog." and she went on ahead.
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At the same time, Devin caught up to Tom as they ran along the beach "Hey man, you got a second?"
"Sure, you know I was actually hoping to talk to you about something." Told told him "Jen and I were wondering if-"
"You wanted to form an alliance with us?"
"Yeah how did you know?"
"Carrie and I have been thinking about forming an alliance with a team after the first few challenges or so and I've had my eye on you guys for a while, you're strong and fast and determined and you understand and cooperate with each other."
"You've really thought this out."
"Not really, my buddy Adam made out a game plan for me and Carrie before going on a road trip."
"Oh. Well I'd have to run it by Jen but I think it's a good idea."
"Great, I look forward to it."
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"As more teams continue to find rings and or make their way to the shore, our first place Ice Dancers say aloha to the first challenge and aloha to the second challenge. It's funny because aloha means both hello and goodbye."
"Perfect, we still have the lead and take a look at this!" Josee held up the lava rock "I picked up a new good luck charm from the beach, it's a lava rock."
"Yes!" Jacques cheered "Nothing can stop us now!"
"Our second gold is within our grasp and it's going to stay that way!" Josee quickly snagged a tip from the Don Box "Looks like we're doing an all in, in this hawaiian wedding ritual teams must walk on- Oh boy."
"Fire!" Don was walking on a trail of hot coals a few feet away "Technically coals but you get the idea. In this challenge the brides have to wear a grass skirt and the grooms have to wear a wreath of mahi lei as they carry their brides across this path of hot coals." he quickly felt the pain getting to him "It's a test of strength and honor and if any part of it catches on fire including the grass skirt then it's back to the start!" he ran off of the coals and onto the beach as the skirt and wreath caught on fire and disintegrated.
"Are you okay?" asked Jacques.
"I'm good. Anyway, once the teams reach the end untoasted it's a race to the Chill Zone where we have a special surprise waiting for them after the race is over for the day. As always, the last team to arrive may be cut from the race. And that's just great, now I've gotta take foot modeling off of my resume!"
"Oh tell me about it, try getting frostbite all the way up to the knees. It's not fun."
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By this point, more and more teams had either found or were struggling to find the wedding rings in the bay.
Noah, however, managed to grab two near each other 'Well with a guy like Owen who eats as much as he does, a little bit of extra cash can always come in handy.'
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Taylor burst up from beneath the water in the bay "Nothing!"
Noah came up with two rings, one on each finger "I've got two of these bad boys, meet me on the shore Owen!"
"Hey give me one of those!"
"Gee, let me think about giving a gold ring that I rightfully found to some flat chested spoiled little daddy's girl? Let me think about it… Nope!" and he swam off, leaving Taylor seething in rage 'Eat your heart out Leshawna.'
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Owen was running down the beach at full speed "Come on Noah we're almost there, let's score first place!"
"Chillax chubby buddy, I've got this-" Noah paused when he suddenly found something pulling him down into the water "Something's got me! Shark! SHARK!" and he was dragged down underwater.
"Oh my god, Noah! Somebody help him, god it's times like this I wish that I was born as a merman!"
Lucky for him, that was when Noah rose back up with Mickey holding onto him "What the hell?"
Mickey let out a whimper "Please tell me you're a ring."
"Oh man and I was gonna sell this one for cash and use it to cover Owen's food bill, the big guy isn't cheap you know." and yet Noah handed over the ring to him regardless "Here, go ahead and take it."
Owen was left mortified by this "Noah… He must be dying!"
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Noah let out a scoff as he dried himself off on the beach "Look it's not like I've gone soft or lost my old ways ever since I lost out on the million during Total Drama World Tour, it's just that I'm not as greedy as I used to be. Besides it's not like I'm gonna do anything underhanded or lose it just because I lost, that was stuff that people like Heather, Alejandro or Justin. I've got something they don't, I have good friends. Besides sure I've been a little bit distracted lately by everything that's happened with Emma but it's not some whole thing where I turn into some kind of love struck puppy or anything, if I'm gonna win her over then I'm gonna do it one step at time. That my fans and fellow geeks, and various others I couldn't give less of a damn about, is the Noah plan."
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Josee was trying to guide Jacques across the trail of hot coals towards victory "That's it, nice and easy Jacques. Just like in the Olympics it's nothing but one ginormous mind game."
"You know this challenge really isn't that bad." Jacques commented.
"That's right, you're just walking along a white sandy beach. There are no coals."
Unfortunately, this caused Jacques to freeze as his skirt caught on fire "Oh no… I forgot about the coals!" so he tossed Josee onto the sand and rushed off towards the water in order to soak his grass skirt.
DJ was trying to keep Geoff calm and cool as he was carried over the trail of hot coals "You mentioned that time you went paddle boarding off of Tofino and you forgot to put on your wetsuit."
Geoff let out a chuckle "Yeah, yeah that was so cold. Alright keep it coming dude, we're about halfway there."
"Oh and what about the time you took me snowboarding in the Yukon and your tongue froze to that flagpole, or when you dumped that bucket of ice water down your pants because Duncan dared you to."
"Oh man that was painful, but at the same time it was hilarious." they reached the end of the trail of hot coals.
"Yeah we did it, we're in first place my Bromigo!"
"Come on, let's head over to the Chill Zone!"
"And then I can stick some ice water down my pants!"
"...Yeah, anyway let's go before the Ice Dancers catch up." and they took off towards the Chill Zone.
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By this point, the Best Friends, Fashion Bloggers, Artists, Sisters and Reality TV Pros were getting ready to take their first cracks at the hot coals challenge.
Carrie made her way over to Jen "Hey Jen do you think you could help me tie this?"
"Oh yeah sure, just hold still." Jen spun Carrie around and began tying her skirt "So what are you thinking?"
"Do you really think I should say something to Devin?"
"Of course I do, after all life is short and he's pretty cute. And besides you never know, he might end up feeling the same way that you do." and she walked off, leaving Carrie to her thoughts.
With that said, Jen made her way over to Tom "So did you talk to Devin about forming an alliance?"
Tom nodded "Yep and he's on board, the only problem here is that these leaves don't go with my shirt."
"Well let's get moving then." so she leapt into his arms and they started their way down the path of hot coals.
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At the same time, Kitty made her way over to Owen "Hey check it out, we're both grooms. This is so cool!"
"Not for me, I'm about to marry a dead guy." Owen told her.
"What are you talking about?"
"Just take a look at him!" he pointed at Noah "He's drooling all of his book, he's smiling like a me, he's acting sincere and less sarcastic than he usually does! He has to be sick!"
"No that's not it, he just likes my sister."
"But he's all awkward and stupid and… Oh. Oh!"
"Yeah I've been watching Total Drama for years and if someone can get Noah to stop being sarcastic then that means his crush is serious."
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Kelly cringed as she watched Taylor doggy paddle her way towards the beach "She's a lot faster when she's using a water board."
"No she's not." Kevin popped up in front of her, startling her and earning a look "What? I'm just telling it like it is."
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By this point, the next wave of teams had reached the shore and were preparing the next challenge, in which they were putting on their wreaths or grass skirts.
"Yeah no." Kevin shoved away the grass skirt Gwen was holding away from him "I don't skirt, you put that thing on me and I will skin you alive."
"You know somehow I knew you were going to say that." Gwen commented dryly.
On another front…
"I can't wear the skirt, no way!" Junior protested firmly "Every single kid at my school is gonna see this!"
"Yeah but if I wear it pal then you're gonna have to carry me over hot coals." Dwayne pointed out "Besides I doubt any of the kids at school won't make such a big deal out of it."
"Dad, my classmate Larry Finkle spent all of last year getting shoved into the girls locker room just because his name rhymes with tinkle." he shoved away the grass skirt and put on the wreath of leaves "Let's do this."
Dwayne let out a snicker "Tinkle."
"I heard that!"
He cringed "Oh boy."
A third end…
"How's it look man?" Rock put on his grass skirt like it was a wig.
"Alright dude you're killing it!" Spud gave him a thumbs up and took Rock on his shoulders as he started to make his way.
"Yeah, top 3 here we come!"
"Wait, we're in the top 3?"
"You bet we are?"
"...Alright, we're killing it!" he sniffed the air "Hey do you smell barbecue or something?"
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Devin finished stretching in front of the trail of hot coals "Alright I'm ready, Geoff and DJ are already done but we can still get second place."
"Yeah, we are so gonna win this and-" Carrie suddenly found herself lifted into Devin's arms, causing her to blush "Oh. Wow. Yep, us. So winning…" she leaned into his chest and blushed even further.
"Get ready homie, it's time for me to walk the walk." so Devin started making his way across the trail of hot coals as Tom and Jen rushed back with their grass skirt on fire.
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Don sat at the Chill Zone sipping on a coconut "Man this is nice, maybe I should've made the Ridonculous Race revolve around Hawaii instead."
"Yes, we did it!" Geoff and DJ suddenly rushed onto the Carpet of Completion.
"Geoff, DJ, congratulations. You guys are the winners for today's leg of the race and you'll receive a reward during tomorrow's leg of the race."
"YES! This is awesome!" Geoff and DJ started hugging "I love you man, I swear I'd marry you all over again!"
"See, this is why I love weddings."
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"Okay, here goes! Podium here we come!" now carrying Jacques in her arms, Josee made a mad dash across the hot coals and easily passed Carrie and Devin until his skirt caught on fire again, forcing them back to the start.
It wasn't long before Devin and Carrie finally reached the end of the path "Okay, now that that's finally done with let's get to the Chill Zone."
"Hey guys!" Rock waved to them from Spud's shoulders "Sorry but we're gonna have to pass you guys this time, see I've got a secret weapon!"
"And what's that?"
"You'll find out in 3… 2… 1…"
"...PAIN!" now feeling the searing pain of the hot coals, Spud took off full speed for the Chill Zone.
Devin and Carrie shared a look "Wow, just wow."
"Hey Best Friends!" that was when Josee and Jacques came bolting down the path over the hot coals "Move it or lose it!"
"Oh man, run homie!" so they took off running towards the Chill Zone.
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"PAIN!" Spud ground to a halt as he threw Rock off of his shoulders and raced back towards the water.
"...Well that happened." Don pointed out "Anyway nicely done Rockers, you guys have arrived in second place."
"We're almost there, just a little bit further!" the Best Friends and Ice Dancers came into view and raced towards the Chill Zone, but Jacques tripped on a rock which allowed the Best Friends to pass them.
"Carrie and Devin congrats, you guys are in third." then he addressed the Ice Dancers once they arrived "Jacques and Josee you guys are in third."
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"NOOO! No medal is the worst medal, it's the road to failure!" Josee broke down in tears before proceeding to throw a massive tantrum.
Jacques just shrugged "What are you going to do?"
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Ennui gestured to Crimson coloring her grass skirt black "She only wears black, even if it's grass it has to be black grass."
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One by one the teams started to make their way to the Chill Zone, with Don counting them off as they arrived, starting with the Fashion Bloggers.
"5th place!"
The Reality TV Pros.
"6th place!"
The Sisters.
"7th place."
The Artists.
"8th place."
Father & Son.
"9th place."
The Stepbrothers.
"10th place."
The Adversity Twins.
"11th for you guys."
The Goths in a very disturbing image.
"12th place."
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Hours passed, and the sun began to fade.
Taylor FINALLY reached the shore and was now being carried by Kelly across the hot coals "No way in hell I'm walking on hot coals, do you have any idea how much my gel pettie costs?"
"Yes, because I PAID FOR IT." Kelly got out through gritted teeth."
"Don't whine so much mom, just be quiet and listen to the leader."
"And why do you think you're the leader?"
"Hello, because I'm the one with leader in training certification. You're welcome."
"Leader in training certification that I paid for!"
"Like I said, you're welcome."
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Devin watched this with Carrie from afar "Wow, that's… a thing I guess. Those two are quite the team."
Carrie nodded uncertainly "Uh huh. You know Devin, I'm so glad that you and I are here together and-"
"I know what you mean, I am too. It's so amazing that I'm here with you and not Shelley, to be honest she and I would probably turn out to be just like them like ⅔ of the time. But as for you and me? That would never happen because that's what perfect about being best friends, no worries about relationships and stuff and we know we can always count on each other no matter what." he caught her in a quick hug.
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Don was waiting for Kelly and Taylor when they finally arrived at the Chill Zone as the sun began to set "Kelly and Taylor I'm sorry but you're the last team to arrive." this was met with a scream of frustration from Taylor "Sending the two of you home… is what I would do if it wasn't for the fact that this is a non elimination round! The two of you are still in the race, for now that is."
Kelly breathed a sigh of relief "Well honey it wasn't pretty but I guess we got a lucky break on that one-"
"You need to step your game up mother, for serious." Taylor caught her off.
"We're a team Taylor, we're in this together."
"Look I know you aren't used to winning at everything like I am but maybe you need to follow my example more because-"
"You've never won anything in your life Taylor, never!" Kelly finally lost her temper "Not one race, not one medal, NOTHING!"
"Wait what?! My room is full of all of my trophies and medals!"
"Because your dad bought a trophy store before you were born, I mean what kind of trophies come in the mail to begin with? And guess who paid your coaches to lie? Yep that's right, daddy did!"
"Beauty pageants, I won beauty pageants! There's no way to fake those!"
Kelly let out a smug chuckle "Well guess what honey, when you have enough money there's a way to fake everything!"
Taylor let out a horrified gasp.
"The coals were hot, but that was cold." Don looked over to where the other teams were standing and noticed Kevin holding up a score card "7/10? Everybody's a critic. Well anyway, I promised you guys a special reward for today and here it is." he pressed a button as smoke covered the Chill Zone and a stage rose up from beneath the Carpet of Completion "Ladies and gentlemen, and the Ice Dancers, give it up for our special guests and entertainers for tonight's traditional luau, the Drama Brothers!"
Gwen's jaw dropped to the ground "No… freaking… way…"
Sure enough, with the stage rose Cody, Justin, Harold and Trent ready for a performance, Cody being in the front "Are you ready for the show?!"
Don took this chance to sign off of the episode "Be sure to come back next time for more heartwarming action right here on… the Ridonculous Race!"
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(Exclusive Scene 1)
Nightfall came, and the Ridonculous Race luau was still in swing with everyone partying like it was hot.
Emma sat on the beach skipping one rock after another 'Why did I have to let that bastard Jake get to me so badly, I mean it's been 3 years for crying out loud.'
"Is this seat taken?"
Emma looked back and frowned when she saw Noah sit next to her "Even if I said yes you'd probably just ignore me."
"Yeah that's true." he leaned back onto the warm sand.
"What do you want?"
"Actually… I wanted to apologize. For what I said back in Iceland I mean. I was totally out of line."
"...Don't worry about it. You might have gotten under my skin with what you said but the truth is that you weren't very far from the truth. I mean maybe I haven't treated Kitty with the respect she deserves but she is my little sister so of course I'm-"
"Gonna treat her like a major pain. Trust me, as the youngest of 9 siblings I know better than anyone what that's like."
"Wait, are you serious?"
"I'm not one to make jokes. At all. Truth be told that's what kept me from making many friends in high school, well that and the fact that everyone was either an idiotic jock, a girl obsessed freakout or a complete jackass. Usually all of the above."
"Uh huh. So what about the big guy then, Owen I think his name was."
"Well we first met during the first season on Total Drama, we were on the same team but I was kicked off before we ever got to the point where we could consider each other friends. I didn't qualify for season 2 but as for season 3, well I dunno. We travelled through some pyramids in Egypt, we fought some mummies and wound up on the same team, so I figured what the hell and the like. At first he was just a guy to who I could express my frustrations but over time it got to me more than that. I guess it was when we were in London that I really started to consider him a real friend. Around that time I was collaborating with a guy named Adam on one of the other teams to get rid of one of my teammates, a dream machine and diablo by the name of Alejandro. He knew I was onto him and conspired with the others on my team to get rid of me but Owen, the big guy quit in my place so I could stay in the game."
"So how far did you get?"
"Do you not watch Total Drama?"
"Never seen a single episode, I probably wouldn't even have known it existed if Kitty would shut up about it."
"Right, anyway thanks to that and me working with Adam and his team against Alejandro I managed to luck my way into the final three. I lost in the race to Hawaii though, so I lost out on the million bucks. But we're off track, thanks to all of that I see Owen as more of a brother than I do my own brothers."
"Wow, that's actually pretty touching."
"Yeah I get that way more than it should be possible. So what's the shtick with you and Kitty anyway?"
Emma let out a sigh "I was only three when my mom had Kitty and to be brutally honest the minute she learned to talk she wouldn't shut up. She just kept going and going, you'd think she would've run out of air but she just kept going. But over time I learned to bare with her and we started bonding, but when I started college I stopped talking to her and started acting like she wasn't even there and I guess that ever since the race started she's been trying to recreate our bond but… Well you know the rest."
"Yep. But think of it this way. Life is like a maze, you don't know which twist or turn will take you to where you wanna go but each new turn gives you something new whether it be good or bad. What matters is how you take it in the long run."
"Huh. Yeah I guess that makes sense."
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(Exclusive Clip 2)
Gwen sat on another end of the beach, drawing in her sketchbook, only to hear footsteps behind her, much to her annoyance "For the last time Kevin I don't wanna hear it, you know what I'm gonna say don't you?"
"Knowing him he probably won't, but I hope I do."
Gwen's head snapped up and whipped around "Cody…"
Sure enough, Cody sat beside her on the sand "So you liked the performance?"
"Yeah, at least now someone other than you and Trent can sing."
"I thought you said Harold's beatboxing doesn't count as singing."
"Well people can change right?" she caught him in a tight hug "I really did miss you Cody."
"I missed you too Gwen, but you really don't have to worry about me. It's only been about 2 or so weeks."
"Yeah." a brief pause "You remember what you said to me after you won Total Drama World Tour right?"
"Of course I do, I told you that I love you."
"Yeah, but I couldn't say it back then and yet you were still so patient with me over it. You've said it to me too many times to count over the past year, but all that time I was never able to return the favor." she let out a sigh "Cody I said that I wasn't sure but now I am, and after spending 2 weeks listening to Kevin drain my sanity it eventually drove me to the point where I realized something." she hugged him tightly "Cody… I love you. I really and truly love you."
Cody was stunned for a moment, but he returned the hug after a mere moment "Gwen… you have no idea how long I've been waiting to hear that."
"About a year and a half or so?"
"Something like that." he let out a sigh 'She's really mine, and I'm never going to let her go no matter what.'
A/N:
Sorry if this took longer than they usually do, I've been working on my first original story. Well it features some Inuyasha characters and takes place in sort of a what if scenario but I think that counts, anyway I'll try and balance this along with my other fics as much as I can.
I consider the Best Friends and Fashion Bloggers to be two of the few truly sane teams in the race and I thought it would be cool for them to work together, and as you may have noticed I gave Kitty's interactions with Carrie to Jen to further emphasize this point.
Why did I have the Rockers come in the top 3 twice in a row? I figured why not, they're way underrated.
I figured this was the best time to introduce Cody into the story, what with hyping up Gwen's future confession since the race started and all, hence the reason for that exclusive clip at the end and for a proper introduction between Noah and Emma. I was gonna wait until the next time I feature Adam and Alejandro in the story but I figured it was best to do it in the tropical paradise known as Hawaii.
Rankings:
Bromigos: 1st
Rockers: 2nd
Best Friends: 3rd
Ice Dancers: 4th
Fashion Bloggers: 5th
Reality TV Pros: 6th
Sisters: 7th
Artists: 8th
Father & Son: 9th
Stepbrothers: 10th
Adversity Twins: 11th
Goths: 12th
Mother & Daughter: 13th
Elimination:
Ultimate Duo: 14th
Vegans: 15th
Geniuses: 16th
Tennis Rivals: 17th
LARPers: 18th