"Last time on the Ridonculous Race: Our teams got down and dirty, and when I say dirty I mean DIRTY! A good number of the teams rose to the occasion, but just when she finally managed to get a semi grip on her fear of being buried alive, and by that I mean she got thrown into the hole like she was a human cannonball, Gwen ended up plummeting 7 full miles into the Earth thanks to some sabotage by Josee. Gwen's arm was severely broken and as a result the same went for her and Kevin's chances of winning the million, because they got cut from the race. We're down to the final four teams, now we have to wait and see who will survive on… the Ridonculous Race!"

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Like always, Don stood at the Chill Zone from the day before, now equipped with a new Don Box for the day of racing ahead "Welcome back to Siberia where yesterday's winners, the Best Friends, who are now drowning in their own awkwardness, are about to collect the first travel tip of the day."

Sure enough, Devin took the chance to grab the first tip from the Don Box and quickly read it out loud "It says here that we're going to Darjeeling India." he munched on a piece of cake that he was holding.

"Where did you get the cake?"

"Oh Kevin left us this gigantic piece of that world's largest cake before he and Gwen caught their flight back home."

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"...Well moving on from that, the lovestruck moron spoke the truth. We're going to be heading to Darjeeling India, where the finest teas the world has to offer are grown such as Assam, Nilgiri and a bunch of others that nobody that isn't from India can pronounce. Our four remaining teams must fly to Bagdogra India and then take taxis to the mountains of Darjeeling to find the Don Box with their next travel tips. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go and see if I can get some of that cake."

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"Alright man, India here we come! TAXI!" Geoff suddenly dog piled onto the front of one of the taxis just as the Best Friends had already taken off "We call dibs on this so don't try to make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry!"

"The beavers would beg to differ." DJ pulled him into the cab and shot him a "What the f*ck" sort of look.

"What? Dude we're both in the final four for the first time, every second counts at this stage of the game."

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"For once the party dude is right about something, we're down to the final four and every second does count. Or rather it would if it wasn't for the fact that all four teams are on the same flight, but let's just give him credit where credit is due."

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Devin on the other hand was letting his thoughts drift with the wind in regards to a certain blonde that was in a painful amount of denial about her true feelings 'Alright Devin now's the time for you to do it, this leg of the race you've gotta tell her that you're in love with her. The worst that can happen is that she doesn't feel the same way, as long as she doesn't kick me in the kiwis I'm cool with anything. Hey Carrie listen, there's something that I've gotta tell you."

"What is it?" asked Carrie.

"I love you… tensils. Utensils, yeah that's totally what I meant to say the entire time and nothing else."

"Um… yeah that's cool, I'll be right back." and then she walked away.

Devin just slapped his face "How the hell does Adam made this look so easy? What is it about him that lets him beat the crap out of the son of a diplomat and only like a week later fight off a bunch of cultists, kill an evil monkey god and then save the girl he loves from falling off a cliff to her inevitable death?" he heard a sigh and glanced over to see Jacques sitting where Carrie had once been "You have your own problems too huh?"

"Yep." Jacques muttered "I got tired of listening to Josee and the Goths' rabbit growling at each other in some kind of medieval staring contest."

"Uh huh." Devin glanced back to see Josee and Loki glaring daggers at each other, along with some sort of tiny scoreboard on the side of the plane, along with crowds of random passengers supporting each of them "And how long has that been going on for exactly?"

"About an hour and a half, she was glaring at the Goths and the rabbit started doing it right back to her. I think its eyes literally turned red too."

"And the scoreboard?"

"Crimson and Ennui built it so that they could keep track of who was winning."

"And the audience who I didn't even know were on this plane?"

"The random passengers who currently seem torn between what they refer to as "Loyalty to the Darkness" and admiration for Josee's skill and unwavering ferocity, hench the crowd on each side. In fact she blew on some random fly to keep it from landing on her nose but that caused her to blink which cost her one point, but on the plus side she did gain half of the passengers as her supporters for using the precise amount of force needed to deal with that distraction."

"...Good to know."

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"The plane has at last landed in Bagdogra and now it's a mad dash to grab a taxi and start the race to Darjeeling."

"GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO!" sure enough, the Ice Dancers, the Best Friends, the Goths and the Bromigos all bolted out of the airport and grabbed taxis, and thus the race to Darjeeling was on.

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2 hours and 32 minutes of taxi ride later (I actually looked it up so I know it's accurate)...

"First place here we come!" Josee bolted out of her taxi, with Jacques right behind her, only for the two of them to almost instantly fall to their knees due to the heat "Oh god… too hot… can't move…"

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With another team…

"Man this stuff is not good for the hair." an extremely puffy haired Geoff took off his hat and sniffed his pits "Man it's so hot and sweaty I feel like I could cook rice in my pits which is about how it smells, man is that pungent."

"Please don't tell me anymore dude." DJ wiped some sweat off of his brow, which really didn't do much good.

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With our other two teams…

"Come on, gotta make it…" Devin tried to crawl his way towards the Don Box, only to notice something that made his eyes widen "Huh."

As it turns out, Ennui, Crimson and Loki were all just walking as calmly as they could, not even sweating, the former holding out hands to help Devin and Carrie to their feet "Let me guess, you're wondering how and why we're not sweating and/ or melting like the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz, or that weird Muppets remake version?"

"Uh… pretty much yeah."

"After we re-gothed ourselves back in Finland during the air guitar challenge we made sure that our goth skins as we call them are far more resistant to heat than they were before. All in all it's just a matter of being prepared for anything."

"...Good to know." Devin grabbed two tips and handed one of them to Ennui as he read his out loud "It's an All In called Tea Time, oh please for the love of god let it be iced tea or at least just the ice."

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"You would think that would be nice but no, no iced tea for this challenge. Well maybe at the Chill Zone but that's not the point. Each racer from our four teams must strap one of the baskets that we've provided and fill it to the absolute brim with a massive amount of tea leaves, and once both of their baskets are full each team must bring both of them to the local that we're paying way more than we should to do this, and if she approves of their haul then she'll give them their next tip."

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Geoff was quickly starting to feel the effects of the Indian heat as he wrung his cowboy hat like a sweat covered towel "You'd think that the cowboy hat would help but now, all it does is make the sun beat down on you even harder!"

"Take it easy man, the more you think about it the worse it's gonna get." DJ on the other hand was dealing with the heat rather well, despite having some major sweat stains himself "Just focus on the challenge and try not to think about it."

"You say that like it's easy, god it feels like I'm about to explode inside of that volcano in Hawaii all over again!"

"Hey man take it easy, you remember that animal charity race that massive cooking contest against Gordon Ramsay that you signed me up for for literally no good reason? I almost gave up on it when he blew out one of my eardrums with his constant screaming, but what did you say to me?"

"Take it one step at a time, and then I handed you that pair of ear plugs that allowed you to block him out and made the dude shrink and then melt like the Miss Piggy witch from thar Wizards of Oz remake with the Muppets."

"Exactly, and then I ended up becoming one of the most famous cooks in all of Canada and that got me into that awesome culinary school with Owen, not to mention I'm one of the few that was recognized by Gordon Ramsay. My point is that you didn't let me quit before so I'm not letting you quit now, we'll win this race and we'll do it one leaf at a time."

"That's the right attitude." that was when Josee and Jacques approached them "Listen up you guys, the time to get rid of the Best Friends and the Goths is just about upon us. It would've been the last round if the Artists hadn't had their little accident. Touch break really." she received dirty looks from both Geoff and DJ "What too soon?" and yet she opened the bottoms of their baskets while they weren't looking directly at her.

"Way too soon, and we don't cheat. Period. Go mess with someone else, you'll get penalized for it anyway."

"Well that's fine by me you worthless cowards, that means that the two of you are on my shit list now." she pointed to where their leaves were being blown away, cackling as she triumphantly ran away.

"We hate you so much!"

"She has her reasons, I know this might not help but it's better than nothing." Jacques pulled out a bunch of leaves from his basket.

"Thanks I guess, but why do you put up with that?" Geoff stuck the leaves into his basket and ripped of an entire branch "Why do you put up with all of the stuff that she does and the way that she's treating you? You're better than that dude, we all know it."

"...My reasons are personal okay? Just please try to respect that." and so he rushed off.

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Don was waiting at the check in point for the first challenge with the local, and he glanced over at the doorway "We've only got three more rounds in the race after this, how long are you going to keep making these little impromptu appearances?"

"You don't have to worry about that." that was when Adam appeared on the scene, having donned his Hurricane Gauntlets, his Wind Stormer boots, his Dragon's Cloak and his Starlight Armor, with Ascalon having been strapped to his side "This is the last one, I promise. I already agreed that I wouldn't screw with the race and I've done enough leisurely chat, this one is all business."

"What are you gonna do?"

"Tell Devin the truth about something that I should've told him about six years ago, I'm gonna head to the Chill Zone so that I can meet him there but just don't tell him about me showing up before then." and then he suddenly disappeared before he could get a reply.

"...Wait is it that time again? Oh shit!" and then Don started narrating the race again "All four of our remaining teams are scrambling to be the first to finish the first challenge, who is it going to be? Whose drive and determination clearly match those of our surprise guest who blew up plane on reality TV and will use it to launch themselves into first place ahead of all of the other teams by-" he was cut off when the Ice Dancers appeared before him, much to his dismay "Oh come on why does it have to be you guys again, why can't you just go and get eliminated already?"

"Oh please." Josee let out a loud scoff "In your dreams."

"Yes I do dream about it, it's the only thing that lets me stomach the thought that you two are still in the race after everything you specifically have done. Anyway the local is right there so let her count your leaves and then you'll get your tip."

"Fine, it's all there anyway." so Josee handed their baskets to the local and received their next travel tip as a result "It's a poorly done rhyme, something about us having to get sent reeling on the Darjeeling."

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"We're referring to the Darjeeling Express, the cars on this train are known for alternating between people, animal, people, animal and so on. Each of these teams will be assigned to one of the passenger cars based on the order in which they arrive at the checkpoint for the first challenge. But this is where things get rather complicated, before the train reaches the station where the Chill Zone is located each team will have to fight their way through the train all the way to the front car in order to exit the train."

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"As the Best Friends and the Goths turn in their tea leaves and receive their travel tips, our resident Bromigos Geoff and DJ are lagging far behind the rest of them.'"

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Devin breathed out a sigh "Okay we've got a fight on our hands but we still have a shot, all we have to do is work with the Goths and we've got a shot at this."

Carrie nodded, looking a little bit forlorn "Yeah…"

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Don seemed rather put out when he saw Geoff and DJ arrive with their baskets, but still holding an entire branch of tea leaves "No offense guys but I'm pretty sure that the leaves are supposed to be in the basket."

"Fine then." DJ grabbed the branch and shoved the leaves directly into the basket, his expression being that which showed that he was tired of that bullshit.

"Yeah okay that's good enough for me and not just because I'm incredibly intimidated by your size and your look that says that you're done with this crap."

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"The train has now departed from the station with the Ice Dancers being in the front car, which is followed by the Best Friends, the Goths and the Bromigos."

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"Attention racers in cars 2-5, you are free to begin the process of making your way up to the first cabin… now!"

"Well I suppose there's nothing we can do for now." Jacques leaned back in his seat and pulled out a book from within his uniform "There really isn't anything we can do at the moment now is there? All we can do is try and beat the other teams to the Chill Zone once the train arrives at the station."

"Yeah I guess we could do that, or we could try my plan." Josee stomped her way towards the second car "We can bury those creepy Goths and all of the other rejects along with them!" she gestured to the coupling between "After all they can't get to the car if the other cars aren't attached to it!"

"...Is this one of those plans where you come up with the plan but I'm the one who has to actually do your plan?"

"Yep."

"That's what I thought."

"You got a problem with that?"

"Do you honestly care?"

"Not even a little bit."

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Carrie and Devin made their way to the entrance of the animal car in front of them "Okay let's be sure to stay focused, we only have one car to get through. We can do this as long as we stick together."

"Actually Carrie, maybe we should hang back for a second." Devin shut both doors to both of the train cars, leaving them outside "While you and I are still alone out here there's something really important that I have to say."

"What is it?"

"Carrie… I…" they locked eyes and he moved in, only for the moment to be shattered when a goat rammed him in the crotch, sending him crashing straight through the door to the second car, leaving him in a high pitched world of pain "Ow… You know I thought I might get hit in the kiwis at some point but the goat was a surprise."

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Geoff and DJ found themselves faced with a dilemma in the form of having to go through the chicken car "Well man I hope you like chickens?"

"Well it's now or never, what do you say we go on three?" DJ told him.

"Sounds good to me, let's do this. 1… 2… 3!" they high fived and charged head first into the chicken car, only for the two of them to crash head first through the wall of said car approximately 17.382 seconds later and landed in the bushes head first "Ow… man, who knew chickens could turn out to be so tough."

"I think I swallowed one of them."

"Better that than letting it peck your eyes out like something out of Family Guy. Or Robot Chicken."

"I guess. So what do we do now?"

"Start hitchhiking I guess."

"...Yeah okay." and so the two idiots then proceeded to start hitchhiking their way towards the train station.

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Ennui, Crimson and Loki made their way into the animal car between the second car and the third car, and they found a bull waiting for them "You wanna go through it or do we go over across the roof of the car?"

"...Roof of the car." was all Crimson said, which was followed by Loki chittering in agreement and pointing.

"Whatever." the three of them made their way up to the roof of the car and started making their way across it.

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Devin was still on the ground of the train car, writing in agony "Pain… so much pain… You will never know how bad this is…"

Carrie looked out at the goat that was holding up a "F*ck You" sign pointed at Devin, and then nervously looked down at him "Okay so do you think you're ready to give it another try and get into the second car?"

"Um… not not just yet… Do you hear thumping?"

"I think it's coming from outside." she helped Devin to his feet and led him out of the train car, only to find the source of the noise "Ennui! Crimson!"

Sure enough, it was Ennui and the rest of the Goth team making their way across the roof of the train cars "Hey, you guys okay?"

"No not really, we kind of ran into a problem. Devin took a goat to the crotch, you think we could follow you guys?"

"Sure let's all die, you need some help getting up here?"

"That'd be nice."

"Fine." so Ennui floated down in a Twilight style fashion (I have never seen Twilight so I'm just guessing), slung Devin over his shoulder, and then floated back up to the roof of the car.

"Thanks!"

Crimson then proceeded to help Carrie to the roof of the train car "So how are you and the moron doing with-" she was cut off when Carrie started weeping "So bad then?"

"Devin hardly talks to me anymore, and even when he does it's just about the race or some creepy awkward small talk, and I know that I said back in Vegas that I was over him for good but… BUT I STILL LOVE HIM!" and she broke down in tears.

'...Yeah this is gonna be fun. Note to self, don't let Ennui be friendly with anymore contestants lest we get dragged into it.'

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"Oh for god's sake, enough with your whining about getting a hemorrhoid!" finally losing her patience with Jacque failing to unhook the train, Josee just pulled on the lever sitting directly next to her, unhooking the two cars "Okay now let's go already, leave these suckers to their inevitable elimination!" and so she stomped off.

Jacques on the other hand had stayed behind "For the record this was her idea and I want no part in it, but if it helps you might be able to jump."

"Fine." and so Ennui proceeded to jump onto the roof of that train car, with Crimson and Loki managing to do the same.

Carrie managed to do it, though she had to be pulled back onto the roof when she nearly lost her balance "Devin come on, it's now or never!"

"O-Okay, I can do this!" so Devin leapt forward as far as he could, only for him to narrowly miss it and end up hurting his crotch on the coupling, causing him to squeal from the pure pain and agony.

"Devin!"

"Not again…" and with the squeak high pitched voice completing the picture, he fell forward with his tongue sticking out of his mouth (think about Po from Kung Fu Panda after Mantis accidentally tweaked his facial nerve).

"Hang on a second." Jacques helped Devin to his feet and slapped him a few times to get him back to his senses "Listen I've been hearing about your dilemma and you have to just tell her that-"

"JACQUES WHAT IN THE NAME OF HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?! NO SOCIALIZING WITH THE ENEMY!" without bothering to listen to his protests, Josee yanked him inside and shut the door, and then she locked it just to piss the others off.

"...Well that sucks." Devin climbed up to the roof and found Ennui, Crimson and Loki all glaring at him in their usual stoic way that they save for the Ice Dancers "Josee locked the door and now there's no way for us to get inside. What about Carrie, where is she?"

"Can't you pick the lock or something?" asked Ennui.

"I don't know how to pick a lock."

"Adam never taught you how to do that?"

"No he said that he didn't want me to do anything illegal or get suckered into something illegal or- Wait how do you know Adam?"

"Australia."

"Oh yeah right. Anyway what's Carrie doing, is she okay?"

"Do you really care?"

"What kind of question is that? She's my best friend, of course I care!"

"And yet you've been neglecting her ever since what happened in Las Vegas, when you nearly fed her to a pack of brain damaged tigers."

"That… That was an accident!"

"Regardless of that point, you make it seem like you don't care."

"What are you talking about? I do care!"

"That's not what she thinks, at least Crimson and I show that we care about each other."

"Well I do care okay? I'm… I'M IN LOVE WITH HER!" this was met with raised eyebrows from the Goths.

"...Oh you can't be serious. Loki, sic him." so with Ennui giving the command, Loki suddenly latched onto Devin's shirt and slapping him repeatedly (think what Ted did to John during the Motel fight scene in the first Ted movie).

"Ow ow ow ow ow! What the heck was that for?"

"Because you're a moron." Ennui gripped Devin on his shoulder and pointed at Carrie "What I mean is that- (insert incredibly long rant that was drowned out by the train whistle)- with you you dolt. Come on Crimson, let's go try to get the door open." and he walked away with Crimson and Loki.

Devin was left incredibly stunned, but then his face suddenly lit up with the biggest smile he had shown on reality TV since he and Carrie had hosted the aftermath for Total Drama World Tour over a year ago "Carrie is in love with me and she always has been? Oh man this is great, all I have to do is tell her that I love her and then boom, the relationship is a go. That's a moment that we're going to remember for the rest of our lives. Adam you clever bastard, you knew this the entire time didn't you?" and so with his confidence restored he made his way over towards where Carrie was standing on the edge of the roof "Hey Carrie!"

Slowly, Carrie turned to face him "Hey!"

"Hey listen I was gonna wait for this since it didn't seem like the right time but…"

"Wait, what for what?"

"Carrie… I-" he was cut off by the train blowing smoke all over them "Oh come on, you've gotta be kidding me!"

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By this point DJ and Geoff were making their way along the railroad path after the train, panting and gasping for air "The other teams must've gone over the cars instead of through them, that's actually a pretty good idea."

"How can you tell that?" asked Geoff.

"Because I know those guys don't have the moxy to get past a pack of angry and probably rabid chickens like those."

"...Oh yeah. But what if all of the teams did that, what if that means that you and I are in last place?"

"With no way to catch up after the chicken fiasco we'd be toast."

"And now I want toast, curse you my obsession with carbs- Hey cool a bull." Geoff's short attention span saved them by drawing his attention to a nearby bull "Hey DJ are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"I hope not."

"I'm thinking that we should ride the bull to the train station and hopefully not come in last or at least come in last in style."

"...Oh good, I have no idea what you to think of your mindset."

"Well enough of that bro, let's just go."

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By this point, Devin finally managed to get all of the black smoke out of his lungs "Okay you know what, maybe right here and right now isn't exactly the best time or place to say what I need to say."

"Please just tell me already, I can take whatever this is that you have to say." Carrie told him, her tone sounding rather desperate.

"Okay, here goes… Carrie, in the last three days I've told you that I love unibrows and that I love utensils. Those were both lies, I just said them because I was too scared to say what I needed to say."

"Okay…?"

"The thing, or rather the person, that I really and truly love is-" he was cut off when he train hit a bump and it sent him flying off of the train and into a nearby bush with a very loud and noticeable thud.

"DEVIN!"

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Adam and Don both shared a look and cringed "Oh man you can tell that that's gonna be the most popular epic fail of the year on YouTube."

Don nodded "Yep, especially if they don't make it before the Ice Dancers' penalty expires when they do get here."

"And the train is coming now." this was followed by what was left of the train arriving at the station, with the Goths, Carrie and the Ice Dancers arriving along with it.

"Homie hang on, I'm coming!" Carrie took off running in the opposite direction just as the Goths continued making their way across the rooftop of the train.

"First place, Ice Dancers rule and everyone else is a worthless loser!" Josee bolted off of the train and towards the Chill Zone, with a reluctant Jacques following quietly behind her.

Don was quick to address the two of them "Ice Dancers the two of you are in first place, or rather you will be if none of the other teams make it to the Chill Zone in the next hour. The two of you have a one hour penalty, and I cannot even begin to describe how happy I am to say that to the two of you."

"WHAT?! What the hell did we do?"

"You're kidding right? Did you seriously think that I wouldn't notice that the rest of the train is missing?"

"...Oh. That."

"Oh crap." Jacques muttered.

"Well it's not like it matters, the other teams are miles away so there's no chance of-" she was cut off when the Goths.

"You were saying? Anyway first place goes to the Goths."

"Yay." their joy was as dry as ever.

"That makes for horrible television you know."

"Yeah we know."

"Just checking."

Josee let out a scream of frustration "What do you have against us? What am I too talented, too attractive, too all of the above?"

"No no and god no, you're too sadistic, dishonorable, you have no integrity or shame, the list goes on really."

"I'm not gonna stand here and listen to this, come on Jacques let's-" she whipped around to storm off, only to see that Jacques was gone "WHERE THE HELL IS JACQUES?!"

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At the same time, Carrie had found Devin limping his way along the path "Devin you're alive, oh thank god!"

"I just hurt my ankle, it's not that bad-" Devin was promptly cut off when Geoff and DJ trampled over him on top of their bull, granted it was unintentional but still, he got trampled pretty badly, much to the horror of Carrie "Okay that on the other hand…"

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Don took the chance to count off DJ and Geoff once the two of them had arrived at the Chill Zone in style "And it looks like our resident Bromigos take second place, which leaves only the Best Friends and the Ice Dancers with still about half of your penalty remaining. Tell me something missy, how are you feeling about your chances right now?"

"I've never felt better." Josee tried to play it off by acting increasingly smug, but her nervousness was showing through fairly easily.

"You realize that even if your penalty expires you can't be counted off unless both team members are present right?" this was met with a scream of pure frustration.

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Devin opened his eyes and tried to contain the passion radiating in his eyes 'So this is what it felt like for Adam to find his golden goddess.'

Sure enough, it was Carrie looking over him with eyes laced with concern and a gentle sense of compassion "Are you okay Devin, is there anything broken?"

"Uh… no I don't think so-" he was suddenly hoisted onto his feet.

"Good now come on, we've gotta get to the carpet."

"No need to rush, let me help." that was when Jacques suddenly appeared on the scene and grabbed onto Devin and slung his arm over his shoulder "This is what I believe that you would refer to as my B, let me make this right at least this once. Besides if you would be so kind Mademoiselle, I wish to have a word with Devin in private. You go on ahead, I will be along with him in a mere moment."

"...Alright I guess, just be careful with him okay?" and so she went on ahead, albeit with clear reluctance.

With that in mind, Jacques turned to Devin "So do you plan to tell her about your feelings for her or not?"

Devin let out a bitter sounding snort "Don't you think I've tried man? I've been trying to for days but something keeps getting in the way literally every single time, whether it be me getting nervous or me hurting myself or something else interrupting me but it's like the universe just doesn't want me to do it."

"Or maybe it's just your own self doubt. I've been there myself loads of times but doubting everything is like a poison, you have to have faith that she will return your feelings. You have to have the faith in yourself that I couldn't have in myself, or in Josee."

"That's something else I've been dying to know. Why do you let Josee push you around like that? You're better than that Jacques, we all know you are."

"...It's not something I'm proud of by any means but I have a promise to keep and I'd rather die than break it."

"To who?"

"To… Josee's mother. Josee and I were partners in dancing ever since we were children, around the same age that you and Carrie were when you met actually. Competing meant nothing to us, we loved the sport and that was enough for the both of us. Her mother saw differently, when we entered high school she pushed Josee endlessly until any love inside of her was gone and she became, as I'm sure everyone will say, a gold hungry monster with a heart as black as the night itself. I hated that woman with every fiber of my being, but I hated the thought of losing Josee far more so I bared with it for years. But then her mother became sick with an illness for which there was no cure, and during her last moments she begged me to look after Josee and make sure she was happy. Those were her last words."

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Don looked up at the penalty timer and down smugly at Josee "Looks like we have a minute left to go until we reach the end of your penalty and here come Devin and Jacques are two stragglers, pump your legs to victory my friend!"

Sure enough, Jacques was still dragging Devin towards the Chill Zone while finishing up his story about Josee "I never even wanted to win this stupid race, all I wanted was to get my friend back. But now I doubt if I can ever get her back, she may be gone forever and there's nothing I can do about it."

Devin let out a sigh "Jacques… my friend Adam always said that even when you're shrouded in darkness, as long as you have faith you can find your way to where you wanna go. If there's one thing that I've learned to believe from him it's to believe in people, and I choose to believe in you."

"...You know your friend really does seem like a good guy, you must be proud of him."

"More than you could ever know." the two of them finally reached the Chill Zone and Devin was the first one to reach it when he fell forward.

Don made the call just as the buzzer sounded "And the the Best Friends take third place, and just as your penalty ends too. Ice Dancers you're in last place, sending you home… as much as I would love to it's something that I just can't do because the producers are forcing me to make this a non elimination round. You guys are safe. For now."

"...This means war." Josee was disturbingly calm and gave pretty much everyone present a cut throat gesture before storming off.

Devin just rolled over and let out a groan "Yay, top three twice in a row but with pretty much every bone in my body broken."

"Just call this one a hollow victory." Adam knelt down in front of him "But a win is a win so I say take it."

"Hey Adam, what's the occasion this time?"

"Not just any occasion, this is the occasion. Devin my friend, the time has come for me to do something that I should've done six years ago."

"...You mean-"

"I've been going through a lot of stuff over the course of the past few weeks, and I've done even more thinking. You've known about my scars longer than almost everyone else in my life and you know about how hard it used to be for me to trust people, yet you're remained patient with me and you've respected my privacy and my fragile trust in people. You know that I wasn't ready to tell you so you've been waiting patiently, and you have been for nearly 6 long years. But now the time, I finally have the courage and the confidence I need to tell you the whole story about the demon that plagues me. Come on, let's do this in private so that Don can sign off of the show." he helped Devin to his feet and slowly walked away.

"Nice kid, too bad he seems like his heart is full of so much pain." despite having these musings of his, Don took the chance to sign off "But the question still remains, which of our four teams will be able to survive the next set of challenges? There's only one way for you to find out and that is to keep on watching… the Ridonculous Race!"

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(Bonus clip- The moment that I've been waiting to write out, the lead up for this entire story)

30 minutes had passed.

Adam had sat down with Devin somewhere along the path of the train tracks and, with a lot of courage, he finally managed to tell Devin everything that happened between him, Mike and Mal, as well as everything that had happened with his Cosmic Elemental powers, his armor, telling the truth to Bridgette and Alejandro, meeting various characters throughout the 10 dimensions such as the Ninja Turtles, Ben 10, the kung fu masters from the Valley of Peace (which was more of a Cody thing), meeting Sir George and being mentored by him, fighting Metallum for the first time, awakening his self-dubbed Cosmic Knight form, and even fighting Animus alongside three of the seven Dragon Slayers from the Fairy Tail dimension "And that's about everything that I've been through up to this point."

Devin sat in a stunned silence for a good few minutes, and after taking a few more minutes to process what he had been told he finally found his voice again "Adam… all this time you've been dealing with this on your own? For as long as we've known you? I knew whatever it was was bad but I never thought it would be something as insane as this."

"Yeah. Devin you understand better than anyone else alive just how fragile my trust in people has been for so long, you know better than any of them why I couldn't bring myself to tell you the truth about Mal. That and the fact that if I had gotten the two of you involved then you could've been killed, I already lost my parents and Carlos so if anything happened to you two because of me then I'd never be able to forgive myself. I'd be right back where I had started when we first met."

"You think Carrie and I don't feel the same way? Adam you're always rushing off on these crazy adventures without a second thought and every time I see you walk out of my sight I always get the feeling that you might not come back, every time you walk away I could lose one of my best friends. I'm not gonna pretend I understand the magnitude of your pain but I do know this, if you're gonna take this guy down and save your friend then you have a better chance of pulling it off with some help, with someone watching your back. Just don't forget, you're not alone anymore and you never will be again. I'll make sure of it if no one else does."

"...Thanks Devin, that means a lot more to be than you'll ever know." the two of them shared a brother-like hug "You know I learned a lot of stuff over the past few months and I realize all of that now. But think of this for a minute, if I had the guts to tell you my deepest darkest secret then it shouldn't be that hard for you to tell Carrie how you feel right?"

"Huh. Leave it to you to put a twist on stuff like this."

"It's both a blessing and a curse." Adam stood up "Well I should get going, I've got one more adventure to go on before I fight Metallum for one final battle. But I guarantee you this, by the time you and Carrie are a couple and get back home with your winnings the entire universe will be a much safer place."

"Of that I have no doubt."

"But seriously, I expect you to win so don't let my hopes be in vain. Until we meet again… my king." and with that, Adam disappeared in a flash of electricity.

"Until we meet again Sir Cosmic Knight… my truest friend." with no more business to deal with there, Devin quietly took his leave.

A/N:

And with this chapter we begin the wrap up of Adam's story arc in this fic, now all that's left is for him and the others to fight the final battle. I was going to have Adam tell Devin and Carrie the truth about Mal after the race in Australia but I decided that would be too soon, so I pushed it back to here. It's also going to have an impact on Devin's confession to Carrie.

Also, I like to think of this chapter as a way of celebrating. I just got through my first semester of college with a 3.06 GPA! Celebration time! For the next month and a half I have all the free time that I want to write as much as I want, and during that time I plan to finish the Ridonculous Underdogs and maybe even finish my Cosmic Underdog story, which will pave the path for the fourth and final story in my Total Drama series, An Underdog's Destiny.

Geoff's line about making him angry, aside from it being an Incredible Hulk reference, is also a reference to TDI episode 20, Wawanakwa Gone Wild. Like I said, I'm keeping with the early Total Drama references so that I don't lose sight of the smaller details of the show.

The little thing between Josee and Loki on the plane is based on a Naruto fanfic I found a while back, I just thought it would be funny and it ups the word count a little bit. It's called Glaring Problems, in case you wanna check it out.

Also, in regards to the Goths revealing Carrie's feelings for Devin to him, the scene with Loki grabbing Devin by the shirt and slapping him repeatedly is actually a reference to the Seth MacFarlane movie Ted. Plus the thought of the Goths being matchmakers is something that I find absolutely hilarious.

This chapter showed another side to Jacques, one I've been waiting to unveil for awhile. Like I said, he's the good cop and Josee is the bad cop, but I needed to give him a reason for going along with the things that Josee's done up to this point. Seriously though, if you look closely then you'll see that Josee is the only one who's done anything bad to the other teams in this fic.

Just so you know, I'm putting my Cosmic Underdog story on hold for the time being until I finish the actual Ridonculous Underdogs story. Now that Devin has been told the truth about Mal the tie ins to the timeline of the two stories isn't really necessary anymore, so I'm gonna go ahead and wrap this story up before I get back to that one.

Rankings:

Goths: 1st

Bromigos: 2nd

Best Friends: 3rd

Ice Dancers: 4th

Elimination:

Artists: 5th

Fashion Bloggers: 6th

Reality TV Pros: 7th

Sisters: 8th

Rockers: 9th

Father & Son: 10th

Stepbrothers: 11th

Adversity Twins: 12th

Mother & Daughter: 13th

Ultimate Duo: 14th

Vegans: 15th

Geniuses: 16th

Tennis Rivals: 17th

LARPers: 18th