"Last time on the Ridonculous Race: the final four teams hit Argentina. The Fashion Bloggers were targeted by the Ice Dancers, who tried to cheat their way back to the non existent gold but got penalized, which gave the win to the Bromigos. And on another note, thanks to a shocking revelation from a close friend, Devin finally worked up the guts to tell Carrie that he had fallen in love with her, so it's a win on both accounts. The Goths, the Bromigos, the Ice Dancers and the Best Friends. These final four teams have battled it out in 21 different countries and crossed through 111 time zones so far, but now is where the real challenge begins. From this moment onwards it's a non stop race to the finish line, if any of the teams slow down then they WILL get left behind. Welcome to the first part of the grand finale of the most stupendous show in the history of television, suck on it Total Drama and Chris McLean! That'll teach you to steal my girlfriend in college! This is… the Ridonculous Race!"
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As one should come to expect by now, Don stood at the location of the Chill Zone from the day before, now equipped with one final Don Box for the non stop race to the final Chill Zone in New York City "We're back in Argentina where yesterday's winners, the Goths, are about to grab the first travel tip of the day."
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"The final four, how exciting." Ennui noted.
Crimson nodded "I can barely contain my excitement."
"We're practically fountains of joy."
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(But before that we can always use some insanity from Josee, cause who doesn't need that?)
Josee let out a smirk filled with malice "We've taken the gold three times, one for each of those other teams that we're gonna make suffer! It's just laughable, I mean who in the world could possibly stop us from getting the gold that I deserve? The Goths?" she let out a scoff "The Bromigos?" a malicious chuckle "The Best Friends?" she let out a full on psychotic laughter and walked away.
Jacques was left alone, his expression solemn "I knew Josee would be determined to win this by any means necessary but I never thought she would stoop as low as she did as many time as she did. I'm not sure what else there is that I can say but there is one thing clear as day, she's not the same Josee that I grew up with, and I fear that that person may even be gone forever."
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So with Josee's ever decreasing sanity out of the way, Ennui grabbed the tip from the Don Box and read it out loud "We're going to the Bahamas."
"Oh joy." Crimson muttered, her tone laced with dry sarcasm.
"Oh crap."
Loki chittered in agreement.
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"Yep you heard the Goths and the rabbit, we're talking about the Bahamas, which happen to be known for its pirate history, stunning caribbean beaches and unbelievably fluorescent pink flamingos. Our final four teams must take a flight to Nassau and outside the airport they'll find a Don Box dressed like a pirate with their next travel tip."
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Devin leaned back in his seat in their taxi, with Carrie leaning in against his chest "Man things could not be better, now that our feelings for each other are out in the open it's like we're in perfect sync now."
Carrie nodded "No more secrets, no more awkwardness, no more accidentally hurting each other with use of flowers or animals, it's absolute pure bliss. I don't think I've ever felt so at peace in my life."
"I think this is what people call the honeymoon phase, which means that things might get harder down the road so we just have to win this race before that happens, and regardless of the outcome we won't regret a thing."
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"Man this rules, come on bro!" Geoff and DJ bolted into their own taxi "You know yesterday got pretty hectic but when we found out about Carrie and Devin finally hooking up the anger and the tension just kind of melted away."
DJ nodded "Yeah I know, I guess love really will keep us together. It was so beautiful!" and then he randomly broke down sobbing.
Geoff could do little more than awkwardly comfort him "There there dude, you'll find mr or mrs right eventually. It's your call man, I don't judge. Either way let's use that passion today and turn the Bahamas into the Brohamas!"
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Later, at the airport (Note that this was typed in the same fashion with which the french narrator from Spongebob speaks)...
"HEY!" a pissed off Josee stormed up to the clerk at the airport, scaring him into nearly soiling himself "Two tickets to Nassau, now! There are three teams that are gonna be coming and you are gonna put them on a later flight! GOT IT?!"
"Ahem." it turns out that the Best Friends, the Bromigos and the Goths had already gotten their tips "Well well well it looks like it's true, Ice guys do finish last. No offense Jacques." he received a shrug from Jacques and a giggle from Carrie "And as Adam says, Booyah to the Kasha."
"Does he really say that?" asked Jacques.
"Oh yeah he spent our freshman and sophomore years trying to get that started but it only got popular in Jamaica for some reason." they then proceeded to ignore Josee throwing another massive tantrum and got to another serious topic "So what are you gonna do about… you know?"
"I… I don't have a clue to be honest." the two of them sat down a fair distance away from the others while they went to get pretzels "I can't just up and abandon her or not only will I be breaking my promise to her mother, but I would be abandoning my dearest friend. But if I don't do anything then I might lose her forever."
"Hey remember what I said, sometimes all you can do is have faith that you're making the right decision."
"I hope I can, I really really do. Oh and by the way, congratulations on your wonderful success yesterday."
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"All four teams are now on the same flight to Nassau and once that flight lands the non stop race to the finish line is about to begin, from this point onwards every single move that they make will be critical."
"GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO!" once the flight landed, Devin and Carrie were the first team to hit the Don Box "Looks like we've got ourselves another All In."
"Aw." Carrie leaned into his embrace "I love it when we get to do things together."
"You and me both beautiful." he read the tip "Arr matey, this way be treasure maps. God it's like the time Adam dragged me to that Pirates of the Caribbean cosplay party." this was followed by a bolt of lightning striking the ground in front of them and spelling out words, which he then read out loud "That was your idea jackass. Okay fine it was, but what's the challenge?"
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"Now we get to get a glimpse of the pirate museum of Nassau, our four teams will travel to said location by ridonculous taxi and search the museum's grand display of petty theft for one of the four provided Ridonculous Race treasure maps that we've hidden somewhere in the display for them to find just like a good old fashioned treasure hunt. Once they find a map they must change into their swimsuits and then travel by jet ski to the coast of Abaco Island where they'll find a normally dressed Don Box with their next tip as well as equipment that they'll need in order to complete the next challenge."
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"Go go go go!" without bothering to waste any more time than they already had, each of the four teams bolted into taxis and took off, with the Best Friends in the lead, followed by the Bromigos, the Goths, and the Ice Dancers.
Despite being in the bottom two, Jacques and Josee remained calm under the pressure, at least for the most part "It's times like this that being an athlete really does benefit, it grants us the unique ability to stay calm under pressure." this was followed by the Goths passing them in their taxi.
And then Josee started to lose her shit "There go the Goths and now we're in last place, I won't accept this! Would it kill you to hurry, we're in a race! You need to drive this thing faster you hear me?! FASTER!" this was followed by the cab driver ignoring her by turning up some samba music.
"You know I'm actually surprised that it doesn't happen more often!"
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Geoff and DJ were the first team to arrive at the museum "You know it's kind of weird, why the heck would they have a whole museum just for fictional dudes?"
"What the heck are you talking about dude?" asked DJ "Pirates are totally real, or at least they were hundreds of years ago."
"Then why do we never see pirates outside of One Piece?"
"...I can't begin to fathom your mindset."
"You say that like anyone can." and then they rushed inside just as the other teams began to arrive.
"Yeah it's go time, Eiichiro Oda (the guy who created One Piece) eat your heart out you magnificent bastard!" Devin and Carrie were the next team to rush in.
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"This oughta be like a piece of momma's cake!" DJ and Geoff rushed into the grand display of petty theft, only to find a huge number of maps covering the area "Oh come on you've gotta be kidding me!"
"You search on the left side and I'll search on the right!"
"Got it!" and so the two of the split up.
"Let's do this!" Devin and Carrie rushed into the display and started separately searching for maps.
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Ennui and Crimson made their way towards the opening of the museum "Okay let's get this over with so we can get out of this sunshine covered island of hell."
"GET OUT OF MY WAY!" Josee shoved them out of her way as she bolted into the pirate museum.
"Ow. You suck."
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"Oh come on, I so do not suck." Josee protested "I'm little more than a dedicated competitor who has no intention of stopping at anything when it comes to winning any type of competition and I'm a hell of a lot more than willing to ruin the lives of anyone and everyone who dares to get in my way."
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By this point, three of the four teams had started searching for the hidden ridonculous treasure maps.
Ennui, Crimson and Loki quickly rushed into the display room "Split up and search for one of the maps." and so the three of them split up and joined the search.
Carrie suddenly managed to pull one out from behind a picture "Got one!"
"Yes!" Devin grabbed her by the waist and pulled her into a quick yet heated kiss "First place here we come, so long suckers!" and so the two of them took off out the door.
Geoff let out a laugh as he pulled his face out of the cannon, his face now black "Yeah he called you guys suckers. Wait… Hey!"
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Carrie let out a chuckle "Yeah I know I shouldn't approve of behavior like that but I'm gonna be honest, hearing him say that felt really good."
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"The Best Friends have leapt up from fourth place to first place, and from the looks of things I would say that the Goths aren't far behind them."
Sure enough, Ennui glanced over to see Loki pull out a map from one of the hiding places "Good job Loki now come on, let's go." and so the three members of their team made a quick beeline out of the room.
"Oh come on, I feel as pissed off as Benson from Regular Show in pretty much every single episode that he's in!" Geoff's cries went ignored.
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"The Best Friends and the Goths are already headed into the second challenge but the question still remains, will the Ice Dancers and the Goths be able to catch up in time to make any sort of significant difference?"
"There's the island!" Devin and Carrie reached the island and picked up the first tip from the Don Box "Oh boy we've got a Random Botch called Dive to Survive. Yeah that sounds promising. Whoever is holding this tip-"
"Oh thank god." Carrie muttered.
"Carrie!"
"Sorry!"
"Anyway now I apparently have to search for sunken treasure like in that episode of Fairy Tail Zero, only I probably won't find an ancient civilization underwater that I'll end up destroying like they did."
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"In this challenge, which is beyond dangerous by the way, the teammates who pulled the tip from the Don Box must navigate a series of underwater tunnels in search of gold doubloons armed only with their ridonculous maps, a single flashlight and a small tank of oxygen. If they take too long to complete this challenge then they'll run out of air and you kind of need that stuff in order to live, so they'll have to find the cavern in the tunnels, grab one of the provided bags of gold coins and then swim back up to the pier, race their jet skis back to the shore, get back into their normal clothes and then run along to beach to the first midpoint Chill Zone of our two part grand finale. Three of the four teams will race on but the last team to arrive may never be able to look at a beach again without crying. No wait that sounds too mean, but anyway they'll be cut from the race with no exceptions."
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Geoff was beginning to lose patience "Oh come on, this is taking forever! You know what screw doing it logically, I'm doing this MCU style!" and then to prove his point he lifted up a gigantic barrel, only for it to reveal a ridonculous map on the bottom "Yes!"
"You feel better now?" asked DJ.
"A lot actually thanks, now let's get-"
"Nope!" Josee prepared to snatch it, only for her to have the barrel dropped on her head "What the hell?!"
"Hands off chica!" Geoff grabbed the map, with Josee doing the same from the other side which resulted in a tug of war "I said drop it!"
"Dude let the map go." DJ told him.
"Hey there's no way I'm gonna let Heather on ice skates-" he let it go, sending her flying into a wall "Oh. Nice work dude, no wonder we usually follow your lead." and so the two of them grabbed the map and took off.
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"Geoff and DJ our Bromigos leap into third place but the question still remains, will they be able to hold it?"
"Back it up dude, it's go time! Jen this one is for you babe!" Geoff took charge of driving the jet ski, sending them hurtling across the coast of the Bahamas to the island.
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"As the Ice Dancers finally find their map and hustle to get out of last place, Carrie is the first contestant to get into the water and make her way towards the tunnels with Devin on the com link."
Sure enough, Carrie was still on the island and glanced over to see Ennui, Crimson and Loki all arrive, still in their normal clothes "You know the tip said that we all had to get into our swimsuits."
"These are our swimsuits, we swim as we are." Ennui told him.
"...Okay then. Hey Devin the Goths just showed up, how are you holding up down there? Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine, okay I think the tunnel entrance is right- Oh wow, it looks like your sister after pilates or Adam before he's had his morning coffee. I'm not sure I can do this."
"Of course you can do this Devin, you're one of the strongest and kindest people that I've ever known. I believe in you and you believe in almost everyone that you meet, and it's why I fell in love with you. Oh and you might wanna hurry, Ennui is coming and he's sinking like he's the devil from some horror movie or Nosferatu."
"You mean the guy from the Spongebob episode?"
"And now the Ice Dancers are here."
"Oh crap, gotta sign off for now."
Sure enough, Josee pulled out the tip and was almost instantly horrified by what she had been reading "I-I have to swim in… tunnels and… caves?! I'm not a fan of small spaces Jacques and you know that!"
Jacques thought back to the incidents in Australia and in Siberia "Yeah I'm pretty sure that they already know." he stuck the diver's helmet on her and strapped the oxygen tank to it "You can do this right Josee?"
"Absolutely, of course I can. Unless you want to, please for the love of god tell me that you want to!"
"No I can't Josee, you know that." this was met with a scream of frustration "Yes that's it, that's the way Josee. Use your anger and turn it into strength."
"Yes, yes that's perfect. All I have to do is channel my anger and use it to sabotage the rest of the teams!"
"Oh for god's sake enough with the sabotage, a penalty nearly got us sent home in India and yesterday in Argentina!"
"But it didn't did it? You know something Jacques you're way too soft, my mother was right when she said that you didn't have the heart of a lion like I do-"
"THAT IS IT!" Jacques finally lost his temper, taking Josee by surprise, as well as Carrie and even earning raised eyebrows from the Goths "I have had it!"
"What's up your butt?"
"You that's what! I've had to spend years watching you become some horrible monster and I was helpless to do anything to stop it!"
"Well it's not like you tried to stop me from reaching the gold that I'm entitled to!"
"Because it was your mother's dying wish! I promised her on her deathbed that I would look after you and I've gone through hell trying to keep that promise, but I never would've even tried if it meant that I had to see my best friend for my entire life since I was four become such a horrible monster! I've sacrificed everything up to this point to see that you're happy but the you that I grew up with is clearly gone forever so you know what, maybe I should give up even trying."
"What are you saying Jacques?"
"I'm saying that I'm done with the race and I'm done with ice dancing, I don't even want to go pro with you anymore."
"What?!"
"There are things that I want to do with my life that don't involve trying to crush anything and everything that stands in my path like I'm a villain from anime!"
"And you're telling me this now?"
"Well now I'm done with it! So you know what, I don't care anymore! Do whatever you want, cheat your way to the top, hurt anyone that you like but it doesn't matter to me anymore because I give up on you. So just go!" and he shoved her into the water, receiving wide eyed stares from the Bromigos and Carrie, as well as raised eyebrows from Loki and Crimson "Oh come on, she would've done the same." this was followed by Josee screaming into his mic at the top of her lungs, causing everyone to cringe.
"Well we know her mic works." Crimson noted, with Loki nodding in agreement just as Geoff and DJ showed up on the scene.
"Oh trust me, that's nothing compared to what she's capable of when she's really mad. I know from experience."
"Yeah about that, are you sure that that was the right choice?" asked Carrie.
"Well it was the choice that I made.
"I guess but…"
"Hey Carrie what was that?"
"That was just Josee freaking out, I'm kind of worried about Jacques though."
"I'll see if I can talk to him later, but for now we've gotta focus on the challenge."
"Alright I guess so."
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"Three out of the four teams have made it into the water but only two of those three teams have made it into the tunnels."
Josee sank down until she was in front of the entrance to the tunnel and was met with dead silence from her com "Oh yeah no need to offer unwanted emotional support or anything, just let me whimper in peace like I'm all alone in the world!"
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"MOMMA!" DJ leapt into the tunnel with his diver's helmet and a single tank of oxygen backing him up in a certain sense.
Jacques on the other hand was just sitting in a rather bizarre way, as in he was sitting in a lounge chair reading a book and eating a sandwich (and for How I Met Your Mother fans, I mean an actual sandwich) without a care in the world "You know I wonder what would happen in someone wrote a sequel to the Great Gatsby."
"Shut the hell up you worthless sack of meat, I don't take orders from traitors who would dare to abandon me! Oh god I can't breathe! Oh god my oxygen tank is down to 60%!" and cue the blood curdling scream.
"Oh crud."
"I feel your pain." Geoff muttered.
"Oh trust me you have no idea. How is DJ doing?"
"He's in third place right now, he just made it into the tunnels."
"Oh, good for him."
"HELL NO!" and cue the blood curdling scream from Josee "There is absolutely no way I'm letting that happen!" and insert the terrified whimper from her trying to force herself to get into the tunnels.
"Yeah this is gonna be fun." Jacques took another bite of his sandwich.
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"The botchers from all four teams, some of them moving a little bit slower than the rest of the lot of them."
Josee was slowly inching her way through the tunnels, trying and failing to stop her clearly bad claustrophobia from getting to her "I can't do it… I can't…" she saw a fish in front of her and pretty much exploded "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!" and that scared it off which allowed her to give herself a pep talk "No wake up Josee, you have to get a grip. Don't forget what mama said, you're a winner and winners never lose and they definitely never quit over something like this! Are you a quitter? You're PATHETIC! If mama could see you now then she would be rolling over in her grave! DO YOU HEAR ME?!"
"Oh we're hearing it we just don't want to." Geoff's voice sounded through the com link "Hey can someone disconnect her mic or at least mute it so we don't have to hear this? No I'm totally serious, I think one of my eardrums started bleeding."
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Carrie glanced over at Jacques "This is getting kind of out of hand, don't you think you should try to calm her down a little bit?"
"What are you kidding?" Jacques let out a scoff "I've taken this kind of cram from that she beast for fourteen years, as far as I'm concerned it's about time she got a taste of her own medicine. I dare Mary Poppins to try and give her as many spoonfuls of sugar as she needs to get that stuff down."
"...Was that reference really necessary?"
"Not in the least."
"Just checking."
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By this point Devin had reached the innermost part of the cavern "Alright Carrie I'm inside the main part of the cavern and I think I see something gold- Yeah there they are, I found the sunken treasure!"
"Alright way to go Devin, now meet me back up here so we can get to the Chill Zone! But be careful okay?"
"Come on Carrie when have you ever known me not to be careful?" and then he got started by an angel fish which swallowed his flashlight, which led to him getting dragged around "Hey un swallow my flashlight and give it back, I've got a beautiful girlfriend and a million bucks waiting for me up top!" and yet despite that awkward revelation he still got dragged away by the angel fish.
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"With Devin stuck between a rock and a glowing fish, the Best Friends are quickly falling out of first place."
DJ on the other hand had just made his way into the cavern "Alright so far so good, come on man you've got this."
"Hey DJ how are you holding up?"
"I already made it to the cavern dude, now I just gotta find the treasure." he looked around until he saw the chest and grabbed a sack of coins "I've got them!"
"Way to go dude, now we're totally in second place! Hey do you see Devin down there anywhere? I think Carrie's about to freak out."
"Hang on a second, I'm gonna look around for the guy a little bit before I come back up to meet you." DJ looked around through a few caves until he noticed something "Okay I've got some good news and I've got some bad news. The good news is I found Devin."
"What's the bad news?"
"He's wedged in there pretty tight. Hold on a minute, I'm gonna give him a hand."
Devin glanced back as far as he could, which wasn't really very much "DJ what the heck are you doing here?"
"I'm gonna help you get out of here."
"Dude you really don't have to-"
"Devin if you stay down here for too long then you could die, and then how could I explain something like that to Adam after he trusted me enough to tell me his darkest secret." so without any more arguments DJ got to work, and with a few great tugs he managed to get Devin out of the hole that he had been stuck in.
"Thanks man, I really do owe you one."
"No problem now come on, let's go see who can win this race." and so the two of them quickly swam off.
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"Now that Devin is out of his tight squeeze between a rock and, well, a rock, he and DJ are able to rise up to the occasion."
"Alright first one back bro, you rule!" Geoff hopped onto the jetski and he and DJ made a mad dash for the Chill Zone.
"Don't ever scare me like that again!" Carrie pulled Devin into an angry yet heated kiss, earning a thumbs up from Loki for some reason, and then pulled him onto their jet ski as she took the controls and they took off.
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At the same time, Josee finally made her way into the cavern "Okay you did it Josee, now you're in the cavern. Now to find the- Okay there it is." she snatched up a bag of sunken treasure from within the chest "And just like that Josee takes her entitled gold, no thanks to a certain traitor whose name shall not be mentioned. As if there was ever any doubt." and then shit hit the fan when she noticed something very bad "My oxygen is down to 2%! No… air! No Josee you've gotta get a grip, no one's coming to help you so you've gotta find a way to save yourself. You've gotta… look for an air pocket! Yes I see it!" she swam up as fast as she could and entered the air pocket "Okay I'm in so… what the hell do I do now? Hello? Anybody? Oh crap."
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Don was quick to address the Bromigos along with the Best Friends when they arrived at the first midpoint Chill Zone "Geoff and DJ congratulations you're in first place, Carrie and Devin you two are in second place so well done to all of you." he dodged a hug attempt by Geoff "Hey I'm all for you guys but as the host I have to remain impartial, anyway here are your next tips." he handed them their next tips.
DJ took the chance to read it out loud while Geoff took a chance to recover "Now we've gotta take the water taxis to the airport and fly to New York City! Come on you guys let's get moving, we've got a race to win!" and so the four of them took off in the direction of the water taxis, only one thing on their minds.
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"With two of our teams already on their way to the airport, the other two are still anxious to get to the Chill Zone."
Crimson glanced over at Jacques "You can get divers to get her out but if you do then you'll get cut from the race."
"Fine by me." Jacques just turned the page in his book.
"Ennui where are you right now?"
"Right here." Ennui suddenly popped up with a sack of doubloons and shot a quick glance over towards Jacques "Don't forget what Devin said, you don't give up on people."
"And why should I bother?" asked Jacques.
"Because if she dies down there and comes back from hell to haunt you then you'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that it was your fault. Could you really be able to confront her mother knowing that?" and so the two of them took off.
"...I can't believe that I'm doing this." so Jacques put down his sandwich and his book and picked up his mic "Josee listen to me very carefully."
"You can't tell me what to do you traitor, you yourself said that I'm on my own now! Those were your exact words!"
"Just listen to me! Look the tip said that we can send in a diver to help you get out but if we do then we'll get cut from the race."
"Oh you just love to quit don't you?"
"You can think whatever you want and curse me out to your heart's content but your life is more important to me than this race."
"Oh great." the sarcasm in her tone melted away with what she said next "Did you really make that promise to my mother?"
"Yes, look I think it goes without saying that your mother and I hated each other but the woman told me with her dying breath to take care of you. It was fine until what happened last year at the Olympics, which was honestly my fault to begin with. I think that was when I really started to lose any sense of the real you in there, so I signed us up for this race in some hope of getting you back. But now I'm rambling, the point that I'm trying to make is here is… It doesn't matter what you think of me, your life is more important to me than this race.
"...Just send the stupid diver in before the lack of air ends up getting to me and I realize just what the hell I'm doing. You've got about 3 minutes before that happens… mon ami."
"That's all that I needed to hear."
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"Now that one team is out of the picture it would seem that everything is set for the end of this part of our grand finale."
Don was quick to address the Goths once they arrived at the mid point Chill Zone "Goths well done, you're in third place and here's your next tip. And I think it goes without saying but this means that the Ice Dancers are cut from the competition. Man I wish I could've said that way sooner."
"At least give Jacques credit where it's due." Ennui told him.
"Oh believe me I will, and if it's any consolation to them I think he did the right thing. Good people can just make some pretty poor choices in life."
"Yeah." and then the three of them rushed off for the water taxis.
Don took the chance to sign off of the episode "Now the Ice Dancers are out and I bet a lot of you are jumping for joy, but don't forget that they left of their own free will instead of just losing out. Anyway three teams remain, and now the Best Friends, the Goths and the Bromigos are heading to the final location of the season. But the question still remains, which of those three teams will win it all? There's only one way to find out and that is for you to tune in next time and watch the final installment of the greatest adventure on television since the host of Total Drama got arrested, which you know as… the Ridonculous Race!"
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Jacques let out a sigh as he watched a diver pull Josee back up to the surface "I wish that I could leave with my head held high and say that I'm proud of the things that we did but, as ashamed as I am, I do not have such a right."
"We took fourth place, of all the humiliations we didn't even make the podium." Josee got onto the back of their jet ski "And combine that with the way that we behave, maybe we didn't deserve to be champions."
"But maybe we can learn from this, maybe we can try to be better people."
"And by we you mean me right?"
"...I can neither confirm nor deny."
"That's what I thought." and then they rode their jet ski off into the sunset to see what future awaited them…
A/N:
Happy New Year people, first chapter of 2019! I finished all of my other stuff for the end of 2018 so fast that I had time to finish this early, along with the finale and an epilogue, which will wrap up the Ridonculous Race portion of this story.
So yeah, Jacques had enough and pulled himself and Josee out of the race, leaving them to rank fourth. I figured that wraps up his character arc nicely. Now the Best Friends, the Goths and the Bromigos are all in the final three.
I always was curious about the diver option that they constantly mention but I never was able to find a fic that used it.
Let's be real for a minute, the Ice Dancers should've been eliminated here instead of in New York. They did not deserve to go to the finale after what they did to the Police Cadets.
Rankings:
Bromigos: 1st
Best Friends: 2nd
Goths: 3rd
Elimination:
Ice Dancers: 4th
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