The Ridonculous Underdogs (Story 2 of 4 of my Underdog Series)

by The Legendary Dragon Reaper

Hosting the Aftermath of Total Drama World Tour gave Devin and Carrie a good idea of what to expect from reality TV so they decided to give one a try of their own for a change, but with the competition throwing one obstacle after another their way, will their friendship be able to survive? Second story in this series.

12. I Love Ridonc and Roll

"Last time on the Ridonculous Race: Our teams got skewered when we took the race to Beijing China, and though a wise man once said that love conquers all, it would seem that one sided love works just as well. Thanks to their alliance with the Fashion Bloggers the Best Friends came in first for the second time in this race, and while it was sweet that the Rockers tried as hard as they did they ended up totally crashing, but it turned out to be a non elimination round so they lived to fail another day. 12 proud teams remain in the race, and now the time has come for us to send one of them packing because this is… the Ridonculous Race!"

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Don stood at the Chill Zone from the day before along the Great Wall of China "The Chill Zone from the last episode sits atop the Great Wall of China, that makes it today's starting point and the winners from the last episode are the first to grab a tip."

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Devin breathed a sigh of relief "Man after I botched things so bad in Dubai it's good to finally score another win."

"We have the Fashion Bloggers to thank for that though." Carrie pointed out "I mean if it wasn't for them then we might have ended up in the bottom two again. We should really let them go ahead of us today when we reach the Chill Zone."

"That was my plan, an alliance should be fair and today is gonna be their turn. As long as nothing gets screwed up with what's going on between Jen and Geoff."

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Carrie picked up the tip "Fly to Oulu, Finland."

Devin blinked "Finland huh? That's a new one, I don't think we covered that during Total Drama World Tour."

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"It wasn't, and I seriously hate the constant references to Total Drama. Anyway, Finland is a European country home to countless coffee drinkers, cellphone users and the most saunas per capita, which is where our 12 remaining teams are heading, or more specifically to the naked Don Box (much to my chagrin) at the piping hot saunas of the Apena Pele Spa, After all, why bother to suffer in the cold when you can suffer in the heat?"

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"Finland is a paradise." explained Ennui "After all they have 4 months of total darkness, and goth is totally mainstream there." he pulled out his phone and revealed what looked like a guy from the band KISS "Plus this guy ran for office. And won. Several times."

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"Taxi! Taxi! Taxi!" by this point all 12 teams had collected their tips from the Don Box and were attempting to hail cabs. Well, most of them were attempting…

"TAXI!" Spud on the other hand had ripped off his shirt and was waving it around like a madman, and believe it or not it actually worked.

Rock was definitely pumped over this "Alright dude, way to flag! Hurry and get in, first place here we come!"

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"Rock asked me to step up my game on account of how I tank everything." explained Spud "I guess trying to train me with choco oinkies was the last straw for him so now I've gotta step it up on my own."

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"Alright!" Rock held up the peace sign as he hopped into their cab "Now we're on a roll for real, first place here we come!"

"Oh yeah man, right on!" Spud dealt him a fist bump "Hey does anyone out there want a lift or something?"

"...Yeah I should've known it was too good to be true."

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That was when Rock thought of something "Hey now that me and Spud gave all of you guys a lift maybe we can have a rocking alliance or something you know, so who's in?"

"No." was the general chorus.

Spud didn't quite get the hint "Alright, a killer alliance rocking our way to victory! Okay team, just a quick heads up. I'm super gullible, I get distracted super easily and I like cannot say no to a dare to save my life."

"Good to know." Kevin let out a chuckle "Good to know."

"You can be really unnerving sometimes." Gwen pointed out.

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"All 12 teams are on the same flight en route to Finland and thanks to the magnificent power of editing they've now arrived and are en route to the Don Box."

DJ and Geoff were the first team to reach the Don Box by taxi "Yeah man now we're talking, first place!" he grabbed a tip from the Don Box "It's an All In called Finish Spa Day, teams have to sit inside a dry sauna-"

"Awesome!" Geoff whipped off his hat.

"-fully clothed at the highest heat possible for a total of 10 minutes."

"...Not as awesome but okay." Geoff immediately put his shirt and hat back on.

"Dude for real?"

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"Putting Geoff's stripping like a hooker aside, each spa has just enough room for 2 teams and the countdown for 10 minutes doesn't start until both of the teams have crammed inside. After the 10 minutes is up teams must cross the semi frozen river nearby and find the Don Box with their next tip."

"Aw yeah let's do this, first place here we come!" DJ prepared to charge first.

Geoff grabbed him by the back of the shirt "Hey hold on a second dude, you mind if we wait for say, I dunno… the Fashion Bloggers?"

"Do I mind? Of course I don't mind, it can't be that long of a wait."

"I knew I could count on you bro."

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DJ let out a sigh "It took almost 2 years but Geoff is finally getting over Bridgette, I don't wanna screw that up and if letting him jeopardize our chance in the race means that he finally moves on then so be it."

"You know I'm standing right here." Geoff pointed out from like 5 feet away "And for the record I got over Bridge ages ago, right now my main goal is Jen- I mean winning."

"Sure it is dude, sure it is."

"Alright man, first place here we come!" the Rockers rushed into one of the dry saunas.

"Now we're in second place."

"Relax bro, it can't be that much longer." this was followed by the Goths following the Rockers into the dry sauna.

"And now we're in third."

"We're still in the top three." and then they got passed by the Adversity Twins, Artists, Ice Dancers and Father & Son passing them.

"And now we're down to 7th place."

"Oh you've gotta be kidding me, where are they?" Geoff looked back just as the Fashion Bloggers and Best Friends showed up "Oh hey guys check it out, the tip said that it's two teams per sauna and- Hey check it out, we're two teams right here."

"You realize me and Carrie are still here right?" Devin pointed out.

"Oh yeah god I'm an idiot, how could I forget about my favorite co hosts from the Total Drama World Tour aftermath show? The two I know would always help a brother out." note how he said the last part through gritted teeth.

"...Oh look the Artists need someone else to go with or they'll be stuck with the Ice Dancers for 10 minutes in the same room. Come on Carrie, let's get moving." and he dragged Carrie away, leaving her blushing all the while as he did.

"A sauna together huh?" Tom nudged Jen slightly "Sound pretty hot if you ask me."

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5 minutes later, in the sauna…

"Oh good god it's hot!" Tom wiped off his glasses and put them back on, but they steamed up again almost immediately "How long has it been."

"About 30 seconds." Jen told him flatly.

Geoff wringed his hat to dry it from his sweat "So then, uh…"

"Too hot to talk, way too hot to talk."

"Yeah okay."

"Nice work." DJ muttered "You're making some serious headway with her and all it cost us was our lead."

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Jen let out a sigh "Sure Geoff is really cute and all and maybe I'm thinking about asking him out but we have a race to deal with and we already have an alliance with Devin and Carrie and I don't plan on messing with that. First we finish the race and then we'll see, but until then this is the last thing I have to say on this matter."

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Jacques on the other hand found himself sweating way worse than the others "Why are ice dancing clothes so well insulated? You know Josee I'm starting to think that your good luck charm thing must be broken."

"Perhaps not." Josee was quick to wave that off "Our main competition at the moment are those weakling twins, it's only a matter of time before the heat destroys them."

"You do know that we hard all that." Jay pointed out "And we're doing just fine."

"...Well this is awkward." Jacques noted.

"You see me and Mickey suffer from a rare condition called temperature dyslexia so neither of us can feel hot or cold, I mean the two of us are gonna own this challenge!" he and Mickey tried to high five, but they missed.

"You guys are new at high fiving aren't you?"

"Pretty much yeah."

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"As the remaining teams pair up and get cooking some take the chance to unwind from the stress of the race while others take the chance to talk about strategy. Or just make some small talk in general."

Gwen was left panting from the heat and the steam "You know it's weird… Cody always tells me… how hot I am… But I don't think… He ever… meant it… Like this…"

"Lame…" Kevin pulled off his shirt and wring it clean of his own sweat.

"Says the guy… who couldn't… come up with… anything…"

"Too hot… I'm a… chill dude…"

"Horrible pun."

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Rock looked up at the clock "30 seconds left, then we've… gotta jet…"

"Oh good…" Spud muttered "This heat is really starting to get to me, I think those two are melting from it too."

"Dude you've gotta chill out a little bit, the two of them are totally not- HOLY CRAP THOSE TWO ARE MELTING!"

Sure enough, Crimson and Ennui shared a look as well as a horrified gasp when they realized that their makeup was melting, and when the timer counted all the way down they took off running "First place!"

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"And the race has begun with the teams taking off, some of them moving fast but others not so much."

Jay and Mickey exited the dry sauna "Bye you guys, have a nice race!" and they took off just as the Ice Dancers passed out in the snow.

Kitty doused herself in a bucket of what looked like water "Oh thank god, I didn't know dry saunas had water."

"That's because they don't." Noah told her very very slowly.

"What do you mean?"

"You see that's not water… that's Owen's sweat."

"...What?"

Sure enough, Owen was sweating by the bucket fulls "Yeah, one of my many many nicknames in high school regarding my weight was the Sweat Volcano."

Kitty didn't need to hear anymore before she ran out screaming as the timer sounded, allowing them to leave.

"Need cold!" Owen shoved Noah and Emma out of the way and took off running as fast as he could, him and Kitty running over Jacques along the way.

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By this point the Goths had reached the semi frozen river "There's the semi frozen river."

"NEED CLEAN!" Kitty accidentally shoved the Goths into the river as she herself jumped in and started scrubbing herself "So unclean, so unclean…"

"Need the cold!" DJ and Owen both leapt into the water and ended up literally frozen solid.

Jen cringed "Okay that looks way too cold, plus this top is super sensitive."

"Oh come on it's not that bad, I've done way worse. Check it. CANNONBALL!" Geoff leapt into the semi frozen water "S-See? Oh wait I've got it, just hop across on the chunks of ice and you should be good to go."

"Fair enough I guess." so Jen started hopping across the floating ice platforms, with Tom (who wasn't keen on being ignored during the conversation but held his tongue) followed not far behind.

Emma cringed as she watched Owen float around in a blanket of icy water "Okay that looks way too cold for anyone."

"No it's fine, check it out." Noah promptly leapt into the water and began freezing "S-See?"

"Are you okay?"

"By normal standards? No. By the standards of someone who's suffered through more than one season of Total Drama? Yep. Anyway go ahead and ride Owen, he's a big guy so I'm sure he can take it."

"Are you sure? Doesn't that count as some form of abusing your partner?"

"You call it abuse, I call it payback for years of bone crushing hugs that literally almost crushed my spine. Seriously, the doctors said that one more and my spine could be damaged beyond repair if he hugs me too many more times.

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Mickey and Jay were the first ones to reach the Don Box on the other side of the river and collect a top "Head to downtown Oulu and get ready to air out your rock on. I hope you're not allergic to rocks."

"I probably am." Jay ended up pulling out a list "Seriously though, I should go ahead and check my records.

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Not long after that, Ennui and Crimson emerged from the semi frozen river un-gothed due to their makeup being washed off, and they screamed when they saw each other, as well as when they saw themselves "My face, my face is so… not pale!"

"Don't look at me, I'm a hideous monster of daylight!"

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Ennui now sported a bag over his head, with Crimson doing the same "We've only been dating for about 3 years so it's only natural we've never seen each other un-gothed before."

Crimson nodded "I feel like a dead body that washed up on the shore but in a bad way. A really bad way."

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By this point Rock and Spud had reached the semi frozen river "Okay get a grip Spud, and let's do this!"

However, Kevin had other plans "Hey Spud check this out, you see that baby seal over there? I totally dare you to kiss it."

"Oh god no, no no no! Come on bro focus, you can't listen to-"

"Triple. Dog. Dare." and that was the end of the very brief struggle.

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"There's this one lesson that I've learned over and over again." Spud commented "And that is that if something sounds like a bad idea, looks like a bad idea and requires a high level dare to do it then it's gonna be CRAZY!"

"And a really bad idea in general." Rock pointed out.

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"Oh come on dude." Spud made his way over to the baby seal "He's just this cute little guy, for all we know he probably kisses people all the-" he was cut off by the seal chomping into the top of his head.

"Okay, did not see that coming." Gwen noted.

"Huh. Killer baby seal. Well it's got my stamp of approval." Kevin took off swimming across the river, with Gwen right behind him.

Rock cringed "Delayed pain reaction over in 3… 2… 1…"

"PAIN!" Spud started running around screaming in pain.

"Yep it's official, we're screwed."

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Downtown Oulu was bustling with a huge stage and goths. Lots and lots of goths.

Geoff and DJ stepped out of their cab and looked around "Alright this looks awesome, I wonder who's playing?"

DJ pulled a tip out from the Don Box as the other teams started to arrive "By the looks of it I'd say it's us, the tip says we've got a Botch or Watch. Teams have to battle it out in the national sport of Finland- air guitar."

"...Are you serious? Is this for real?"

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"Oh this is for very real. In this botch or watch, whoever didn't pull their team's rickshaw in Beijing must perform an air guitar solo in front of a live audience of goths who have no lives of their own. Performances will be judged by the applause meter above the stage and the key is to get it all the way to the red zone, get the crowd into a maximum frenzy with your rad moves and then teams can rock on over towards the Chill Zone backstage. Bottom out and they have to go to the back of the line to try try again. The last team to complete the challenge could be cut from the race."

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Kitty immediately started rehearsing backstage "So how am I looking?"

"How you're looking is like a complete lunatic." Emma told her flatly "But I'm pretty sure that's what we're going for, so keep it up."

"Rock and roll!"

"POWER SLIDE!" Kevin tried to do a power slide across the stage, ramming through the Sisters, the Bromigos and the Stepbrothers all at once "How did I do?"

"You looked totally ridiculous." Gwen told him flatly.

"No I think you meant that I looked ridonculous." he received glared from everyone present, and I mean EVERYONE.

"...Are you kidding me?"

"I'll just go ahead and show myself out."

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Noah let out a groan of sheer frustration "The one single time we could've used Owen's talent for being a buffoon to our advantage and it's wasted by a stupid botch or watch, and what's worse is that I'm the one that usually avoids parties and now I have to rock out in front of thousands of goths! Air guitar is basically all of the lameness of being a musician and all of the lameness of jumping around like a jackass."

Owen nodded "Yeah I know, this one had Owen written all over it!"

"Don't worry by very chubby friend, this time around I'm gonna channel my inner Owen. So yeah, we're probably screwed." they fist bumped.

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"Yeah come on, give me some love!" Geoff was the first one out on the stage, only to find pretty much everyone else, including Jen, watching.

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"Well this could be going better." DJ noted.

Geoff cringed "Yeah here's the thing, it's a lot harder than you think to dance like no one's watching when someone is actually watching."

"Hey come on dude, I was just trying to be supportive." he received a look "Oh you mean Jen, right. Hey come on man, I don't think she'll mind this that much."

"I hope you're right." he took off his hat and handed it to DJ "Hold my hat for me bro, I'm going in."

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Geoff ended up tripping on a stray wire connected to a tree of amps, resulting in him being crushed underneath them "Oh come on! Why are these things even here?! This is air guitar, you don't need speakers!" this was followed by the applause meter buzzing.

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"I love who you are in the inside." Ennui muttered "But I just don't have the strength to look at you on the outside."

Crimson nodded "I know, looking at your perky nose makes me want to vomit. I just can't stand it."

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Don actually stopped the Goths from entering the stage "I'm sorry but only contestants on the Ridonculous Race are allowed."

"But it's us." Ennui told him "I'm Ennui and this is Crimson."

"There's no way that's for real because I'm not even remotely creeped out."

"But we have a camera crew with us." Crimson pointed out.

"...Fine, I guess that checks out then.

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So yeah overall Geoff botched it big time "Well that could've gone better but I'm not giving up."

"I don't know about this man." DJ muttered "Your crush on Jen pretty much got you crushed big time."

"Easy bro it's fine, I mean sure we're at the back of the line but the good news is that we're still in the top three." he looked over and realized that literally every other team was there, with the exception of the Rockers "4, 5, 6… Oh crap."

"Looks like I'm up, wish me luck you guys." Micke started to make his way out onto the stage.

"Hey watch out for the tree of speakers little dude, they tend to fall."

"Tree? Fall?!"

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"When Mickey was 10 he got a part in the school play." explained Jay "He was a tree but when the music started he tripped over his own roots somehow and took out the set. The whole thing came crashing down and landed right on top of him."

Mickey nodded "You never forget what happens with your first concussion, it's all of the ones that come after that become a blur."

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"One by one the teams are trying, and failing miserably, to complete this botch or watch to the point where it's disastrous. It seems like no one can air out their rock on. Did that make sense? I got a new script guy after Brazil and he's still on a trial basis. Anyway even when they get a groove on they end up tripping over it, either that or they just lack that special something that they need. Is anyone going to pass this challenge? I mean come on, this is seriously pathetic."

Devin and Carrie were surprised to see Crimson un-gothed "Crimson? Wow, your skin is just so… flesh colored."

Carrie nodded "Yeah and I love your hair."

Crimson reeled back a little bit "You're throwing a lot of positive emotions my way and I don't know what to do with that."

"Crimson it's okay, this is just what the world is for us now." Ennui told her "But I think I know what to do about it."

"You do?"

"Yeah. We're quitting." and so they left.

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Several on stage failures later…

After god only knows how many failures, Rock and Spud finally reached the stage "Hey guys how's it going, we haven't lost yet have we?"

"No but I have faith." Josee snarked out.

"But this is air guitar right? Man that's sweet, I can totally do that no sweat!" he started to literally rock out.

However, Junior soon put that on hold "Actually you can't, you were supposed to pull the rickshaw in China so it's the big guy's turn."

"Wait you mean Spud? But he needs time to recover from some kind of seal venom or whatever, he's gonna botch it!"

"Yeah and we're all gonna watch it." Josee promptly shoved him out on stage.

"Oh this is gonna be bad." this was followed by the crowd beginning to boo as Spud just stood there doing nothing.

"Oh man this is so over!"

However, that was when Spud suddenly roared into life "YEAH!" and he suddenly started rocking out, earning cheers from the audience and pushing the meter up one notch at a time until it was nearly in the red.

"Oh man all this time I was all worried about Spud being all nuts and stuff and never using his brain, but then I realized that that's what makes him so awesome!"

"Yo Rock it's time for the grand finale, light me up!"

"You got it dude!" so Rock promptly tossed Spud a lighter.

Using the lighter, Spud farted across the crowd that spread like a green flame of death, sending the meter all the way to the max, taking all of the other contestants by surprise.

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Owen let out a groan "You mean we're actually ALLOWED to fart?! Oh man I would've owned this challenge!"

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Don confirmed the shocking outcome as the Rockers made their way to the Chill Zone "And so we have the winners of this round, the Rockers take first place and I'm just as shocked as the rest of you. There isn't a soul in all of Finland who isn't filled with joy right now, well that is except for the Goths. Apparently they quit before the Rockers showed up."

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The streets of Finland were contrastingly quiet.

Crimson and Ennui were departing by cab "I wish it didn't have to end this way. Both our goth hood and the race I mean."

Ennui nodded "Yeah I know, as amazing as it was in Iceland and in Transylvania, it ends in our motherland."

"Yeah."

"But maybe it doesn't have to end this way, maybe we could try and accept each other for who we are." they took off their paper bags and locked eyes, until he noticed some super goth clothes in a nearby store "Woah. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Oh yeah."

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"With the example set by the Rockers fresh in their minds teams are amping up their performances with some seriously rocking results, and one by one they're starting to rock their way over to the Chill Zone."

Don counted the teams off as they arrived, starting with the Fashion Bloggers "Second place!"

The Best Friends.

"Third place!"

The Artists.

"Fourth place!"

Father & Son.

"Fifth place." then he addressed the Ice Dancers "Jacques and Josee, you guys have come in sixth place."

"Sixth again?!" and then Josee started sobbing.

"Yep, sixth comes after fifth. The numbers are sequential."

Then Jacques noticed something "Wait what happened to the Goths? Did they finish already?"

"Oh them, no they quit."

"So then a team has already been sent home…"

"So I decided to make today into a double elimination round, it was either that or cancel this entire episode since without a double elimination we wouldn't have enough footage for an entire episode. Now move aside." he shoved them out of the way just as more teams started to arrive at the Chill Zone after completing the challenge, starting with the Reality TV Pros "Seventh place."

The Sisters.

"8th place."

The Stepbrothers.

"9th."

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"One by one almost all of the teams have already reached the Chill Zone so now the race to not come in last has come down to the final two teams. The question remains, which pair will be rocked out of this race?"

Geoff was, for the umpteenth time, rocked off of the stage, and like every other time he was covered in rotten tomatoes "Well that's just rude!"

"How the heck did we go from first place to last place?" asked DJ, only to be silenced by a look from Geoff "Oh. Right. Well on the bright side, the Goths aren't even here."

Geoff let out a gasp and pointed to the entrance to the stage, leaving DJ and the Adversity Twins horrified at what they saw.

As it turns out, the Goths had made their triumphant return, now turned into what I dub as Super Goths "Step aside. We're here to rock."

Geoff was the only one who didn't get the hint "Oh there you guys are, you won't believe this super cute preppy couple who said they were you!"

"...Good to know, now stand back or you'll die." Ennui made his way out onto the stage, flames blasting on one side, then on the other side, and with one single stroke of air guitar the stage nearly exploded with flames, sending the crowd into a frenzy and exploding the meter all the way to the max.

Geoff and DJ shared a look of "Wow. Just… wow."

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"I've never felt closer to Crimson than I do right now." Ennui commented.

Crimson nodded "I can't believe that we almost gave up on each other, it's the blackness deep down in our souls that really counts and not some superficial idea of appearances mattering."

"That was beautiful, that was really beautiful."

"I know."

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By this point the Goths had made their way over to the Chill Zone "That went well."

"Yeah well good for you." Don muttered "I'll be having nightmares about it, so does this mean that you're not quitting?"

"Not anymore, now we don't have a need to."

"Oh. Well so much for the double elimination then."

"Okay let's go." then he noticed Josee and Jacques with the hawaiian lava rock "Woah, is that a hawaiian lava rock?"

"What of it?" asked Josee.

"That's totally hardcore, those things cast a shroud of darkness upon all who plunder them from their sacred land. Can we have it?"

"...Say what now?"

Jacques was understandably pissed "You mean your good luck charm has been cursing us all this time? Oh well done Josee, well done indeed!"

"Thanks for telling us, how do we break the curse?"

Ennui shrugged "You just have to toss it, anywhere in Hawaii."

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Mickey was rocking back and forth, particularly freaked out "I can't go out there, I'll end up knocking the whole city down!"

"It's okay Mickey, you can do this." Jay assured him "I know the school play was a disaster but despite everything that went wrong, and I mean really really wrong, you were the best tree out there."

"You think so?"

"Yeah everyone said so, you're a complete natural."

"Well then… let's rock and roll!"

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Tom led Jen back onto the stage "I'm telling you, all you have to do is tell him that you think air guitar is a turn on or something and he'll do a better job of it."

"I can't do that, then he'll know that I like him." Jen protested "Then it'll screw up our alliance with Carrie and Devin and then they'll break it off and then we'll lose the race!"

"Don't you think you're blowing that a little bit out of proportion?"

Jen said nothing, she just pointed to where Emma was ranting about Noah in a very loud manner over at the Chill Zone.

"Okay fair enough."

"Look Geoff is going to be fine, it's not like Mickey is gonna finish it before him."

"MOVE IT!" quite to the contrary, Mickey was pumped up and ready to rock "Time for me to get my air on!" and he made his way over towards the stage.

"...Yeah okay maybe I should do something." so she went up to Jen just before he went out onto the stage "Mickey hey, how's it going? I've gotta say it's pretty impressive that you're doing this, it's really brave of you."

"Thanks Jen, that really means a lot."

"So just call this my way of saying good luck." she gripped him by the shoulders and kissed him on the cheek "So yeah, go for it." and she made her way backstage.

Tom raised an eyebrow "What was that?"

"You know about my Kiss of Subjugation."

"You mean that thing where you kiss someone and turn them into a pile of goo unable to move, think or breath within a span of 10 seconds? Wow that's harsh."

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The scene on the stage was about to turn into a total disaster.

"Okay come on Mickey, you can do this…" at least that was what Mickey wanted to believe, truth be told he only lasted about 3 seconds before he started blushing. And 3 more seconds before he started sweating. And then 4 more seconds before he passed out with a dopey smile on his face.

"Mickey come on, get ahold of yourself!" Jay rushed out on stage and ended up dragging him off stage in an amusing yet very embarrassing manner, causing the meter to go all the way back to the bottom.

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"The kiss of death is something that Jen has had since we were kids." explained Tom "You see whenever she kisses a guy he turns into a pile of goo within 10 seconds. 3 seconds for blushing, 3 seconds for sweating and 4 seconds after that they pass out."

Jen nodded "I've used it to get a lot of jerks to leave me alone. And I mean A LOT."

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DJ cringed as he watched the scene with the Adversity Twins "Well that happened. Geoff come on, I need you to focus dude. For all we know this might be our last chance, if you're gonna do this then you've gotta do it now."

"But I can't!" Geoff protested "At least not if Jen is watching-" he was cut off by a smack upside the head by DJ, much to his surprise "What the hell dude?!"

"Come on man, do you think that Jen wants to date a quitter?"

"I don't know, maybe…"

"Of course she doesn't, who does? Look man, you and Duncan are like brothers to me and doing this race with you has been the most fun I've had in a really long time. From Total Drama Island to now the three of us have been like THIS. You helped me get over my fear of water, I helped you with Bridgette, and everything else after that. There isn't anyone else I'd rather do this race with, but if we fail now then it's gonna be over for us and for you and Jen, is that really what you want?"

"Jeez dude, I… I don't know what to say."

"You don't need to say anything, but right now you've gotta stop thinking about being some girls hero and… and be my hero, okay?"

"...I get what you're saying dude." Geoff slowly grabbed his cowboy hat and put in on, adjusting it slightly "I won't let you down." and with a deep breath he made his way out onto the stage 'I have to do this, for my bro. Come on Geoff, just pull back and let er rip!' and with another deep breath he started rocking out like it was hot, purple flames dancing across the stage until the crowd was sent into a maximum frenzy "YEAH!"

"Yeah dude!" DJ lifted Geoff up onto his shoulders "The Bromigos are back!"

"And they're better than ever!"

"Wow." Jen muttered "Don't tell anybody about this but I think Geoff just got me to like air guitar."

"The same with us all." Don made his way onto the stage "Nice work guys, but I'm afraid I'm gonna have to give you a 20 minute penalty."

"What? Why?" asked Geoff.

"Because this was a botch or watch and DJ was supposed to do this one."

"Oh. Oh crap."

"I wouldn't worry about that." Tom whispered "See the effects of Jen's Kiss of Subjugation don't wear off for about a half hour."

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20 minutes later…

Don made the call "Geoff and DJ your penalty has expired, you guys are in 10th place. If it's any consolation though that did look awesome."

"WICKED!" Geoff and DJ high fived.

"I love bromances."

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"You know dude, it really is good to have you back." DJ noted.

Geoff nodded "Yeah I know what you mean, I can't believe my crush on Jen almost got us kicked out of the race. Woah man, I am so done with that."

"Oh yeah- What?!"

"Relax man, I was just joking."

"Oh. Good."

"Yep. Seriously though, I'm taking a serious breather from that for awhile."

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Don approached the Adversity Twins backstage, his expression solemn "Twins, you raced hard and you managed to overcome a lot of issues that no one has ever heard of. But I'm sorry, you're out."

"We gathered that." Jay told him flatly "You know we didn't win but I think we should be proud of ourselves. Our doctor said that we would last a week. Our physiotherapist said we would last a day. Our gym teacher just laughed and laughed in our faces."

Mickey nodded "Yeah but we showed all of them, I think the two of us have come a really long way since- SPIDER!" they started running and screaming until they crashed into each other and passed out.

Don took this moment to sign off from the episode "7 teams are out of the race but 11 still remain, the real question is who is going to make it all the way? The only way to find out is to tune in next time for more of… the Ridonculous Race!"

A/N:

This chapter has been freshly rewritten, I originally got rid of the Goths because, to be blunt, they were insanely boring and yet people still love them. However, the backlash of getting rid of them (along with a number of other factors) turned out to be much stronger than I had anticipated, so I decided to add them back into the story. I still have to find a way to not screw over the Rockers like in canon, but just to be clear there will NOT be a double elimination round.

I gave the Nemma scenes involving Noah making an ass out of himself to Geoff because that seemed more in character for him than for Noah. That and I altered the scene about Mickey getting screwed over because I found the original too cringeworthy to write out. As for the penalty that the Bromigos got, that since this was a botch or watch it was supposed to be DJ doing this but I didn't realize that until I was almost done with the chapter overall, so I had to improvise. Sorry about that.

From this point on until their elimination, I'll try and have the Rockers place higher from here on out since they're kind of the underdogs too in this race. Seriously, they're by far the most underrated team in the entire race.

Rankings:

Rockers: 1st

Fashion Bloggers: 2nd

Best Friends: 3rd

Artists: 4th

Father & Son: 5th

Ice Dancers: 6th

Sisters: 7th

Reality TV Pros: 8th

Goths: 9th

Bromigos: 10th

Elimination:

Adversity Twins: 12th

Mother & Daughter: 13th

Ultimate Duo: 14th

Vegans: 15th

Geniuses: 16th

Tennis Rivals: 17th

LARPers: 18th