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.

27. A Million Ways to Lose a Million Dollars

"Last time on the first part of the grand finale of the Ridonculous Race: Our four remaining team found maps and then searched for underwater treasure, a challenge that Josee found pretty much impossible to finish. It came off as another photo finish at the carpet in a close race for first place but in the end the Bromigos pulled ahead of the Best Friends my a narrow margin for the win, but due to certain issues with equipment and team drama the Ice Dancers had to be disqualified from the race, which stopped them even reaching their precious podium. And there was no rest for the weary either as our final three teams raced right on. The big question still remains, who has what it takes to win the grand prize of one million dollars? The only way to find out is to watch right here and right now on the explosive grand finale of… the Ridonculous Race!"

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"We last left you our loyal viewers in the Bahamas, or Nassau to be more specific. The Ice Dancers have been eliminated, god I just love saying that, and our final three teams have received their final travel tips and taken water taxis and now they're all on board the same plane for one final flight to our final destination. That location is New York City, the playground of nature for capitalists wolves and jazz handed stars on Broadway alike, and it happens to be home to 8.4 million people and twice as many rats living in the sewers who happen to be smarter than about 85% of those people. When our three teams land at the famous JFK airport they'll have to find the provided Don Box and collect their next tip. But in the meantime the final three teams have boarded the same plane for one final flight and at this point it really is anyone's game."

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Geoff gave a huge grin "Could we win this race and that sweet mula? At this point I don't see why not."

DJ nodded "Yeah we've definitely got luck on our side, we were luck to get this far as it is up until now but to make it to the finale?"

"Now that's just awesome!" they high fived.

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"Man I can't believe we made it all the way to the finale!" Carrie cheered.

Devin let out a chuckle "How could we not? We've got an awesome team, part of which happens to be you."

"Aw aren't you sweet. But seriously though, it was hard but it really paid off and now we wanna go all the way to the top."

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Ennui, Crimson and Loki didn't seem as enthusiastic, which at this point really wasn't that much of a surprise anymore "We made it to the finale. I'm so excited I think I might even end up peeing myself."

"You just did." Crimson pointed out.

"Oh. Gross." this was met with a chitter from Loki.

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"Our three teams have at last arrived and now it's a race to take the first tip and an early lead by extension."

"Got it!" DJ was the first one to manage to grab a tip "It's an All In challenge and it's called Who's Ready to Face the Traffic?"

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"For this All In challenger our three teams must take one of the ridonculous taxi cabs that we've provided and then drive themselves all the way to to the most famous building in the entirety of New York City, the Empire State Building. Once the teams arrive the three teams will have to climb a measly 86 flights of stairs, which is only about 60% of the stairs that they had to climb in the CN tower from the first part of the race, in order to reach a certain observation deck and then collect their next tip attach to three suitcases that we've provided, which will bring them one step closer to the final Chill Zone and the million dollar prize. Oh and as a fun fact meant to scare the crap out of them, the last team to arrive is pretty much doomed so now all I can do is wish the teams luck."

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"Taxis! Go go go go go go!" so with that in mind, the three teams all made a beeline for the taxis at full speed.

Geoff and DJ were quick to take an early lead "Oh man this is so totally wicked, the Umpire State Building is where that huge gorilla went nuts and abducted that insanely hot old chick back in like the 30's right?"

"Oh boy." DJ let out a sigh "You know I'm starting to realize why you flunked history like three times."

"Hey man history is super important because without it we would be like "Have we met?" and all that junk forever."

"...Your logic and mindset continues to astound me."

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Crimson, Loki and Ennui were driving their way through the streets of New York City, the former reading the map for the directions "Take the next right from here."

"On it." and so Ennui turned their taxi into that road.

"Nice driving."

"I learn from the master."

"You're damn right you do." this was all said with totally emotionless faces like they've always had throughout the entire, and it was followed by another taxi passing them "It's the Best Friends."

"Let's pick up the pace." and so they sped up.

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"Shot through the heart, and you're to blame! Darling you give love a bad name!" yeah by this point Geoff and DJ were both karaoking to You Give Love A Bad Name by Bon Jovi. No it wasn't because they were sure of themselves, the former is just an idiot and who doesn't love music by Bon Jovi "We're halfway there bro, we've just gotta keep on going straight and then we're-" and then they hit a patch of oil in the road sending them spinning around in a crazy frenzy, which allowed the Best Friends to pass them.

"So that's happening, Carrie and Devin have take the lead and now the Bromigos are about to take out a good majority of 81st and 3rd."

And then the taxi crashed into a light post, and Geoff pulled himself out of it and towards a nearby trash can and then proceeded to puke his guts out "Oh god, when the heck did I have any sushi? No wait I think that's the sheep head and eyeballs from Iceland. Hey DJ how are you holding up?"

"I'm alright." DJ spat out a piece of his air bag "The taxi on the other hand is toast, what are we gonna do now?"

"Well there's a subway entrance over there."

"Dude the subway is always a nightmare and unless we wanna see Maury Povich everywhere we turn like in How I Met Your Mother-"

"You guys look like some idiots who could use a lift." a new voice got their attention.

The two of them whipped around and then they nearly freaked "What the- Duncan?"

Sure enough, standing before them was Total Drama's favorite juvenile delinquent Duncan in all of his glory, along with a large grey car "Sup guys, been awhile."

"What the heck are you doing man?"

"What do you think, I'm driving an Uber. You think renting an apartment in New York City is cheap? I figured that I might as well pick up a few fares from whatever suckers need a ride and can pay for it."

"Okay… But listen man we don't have a lot of time to talk, we're kind of in a race and our cab just got totalled."

"Why do you think I stopped for you two schmucks when I saw you crash? As long as you can pay me for it I'll give you guys a lift to wherever you've gotta go."

"...Well in that case." they bolted into the car "Book it dude, to the Empire State Building and at full speed!"

"Remember that I do this for money friends or not!" and so the three of them took off for the Empire State Building in Duncan's Uber.

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Ennui, Crimson and Loki were driving towards the Empire State Building when the former suddenly slammed on the brakes, his look one of pure horror "Oh no."

"What is it?" asked Crimson.

"The one thing that even we fear aside from cute and fluffy animals. Crimson… we're in… a New York City Traffic Jam."

"Oh the horror."

"Oh the humanity."

Loki looked between them, his thoughts speaking for all of the viewers of the race 'What the f*ck?'

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Devin and Carrie found themselves stuck in a similar predicament, just further back in the same jam, much to their dismay "Well this just plain sucks, now what are we supposed to do?"

"Let's just try to think of this from a more positive perspective." Carrie told him "At least if we're stuck in a traffic jam like this then the other teams have to be too right?"

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At the same time, Geoff and DJ were still riding with Duncan towards the Empire State Building in his Uber "You know this is a lot cleaner than I expected, now I'm starting to think we won't even get mugged."

"I try not to let my car be like every single subway in this city." Duncan told them flatly "Just be ready to jump out like a couple of brain dead cannonballs guys, the Empire State Building is gonna be up in a few minutes."

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By now Devin was really beginning to lose his patience "Okay now this is getting to the point where it's just totally ridiculous!"

"Hang on a second, let me try something." Carrie poked her head out the window of their taxi and started making sounds like a police siren, which cleared the way in the street so that they could move forward.

"Where the heck did you learn to do that?"

"I've actually been practicing since that talent show in 10th grade just in case we'd need my impressions, I guess rehearsing it to clips of Joey from Full House has finally paid off! That's just one of the things I did during this race that I'd never thought I'd be able to do."

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Elsewhere, with our trio of morons…

Duncan pulled up next to the Empire State Building and pulled over to let Geoff and DJ out of the car "Alright guys here it is, Empire State Building. So are you guys gonna go ahead and pay up or do I have to be your chauffeur again later?"

"Yeah you might wanna wait out here bro, and take my advice and watch out for falling gorilla poop." and then Geoff rushed inside, with DJ following right behind him without being able to utter a single word.

"...My mind is just totally blown at his mindset."

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"The Bromigos Geoff and DJ are the first to arrive at the Empire State Building and begin the climb up the 86 flights of stairs, but they may not have the place to themselves or their lead for very long since the other teams are getting sick of the traffic jams."

Ennui glanced back when they heard the sounds of sirens in the distance "Did someone get into a fist fight over a hot dog again?"

"Nope, it's just Carrie and Devin." Crimson pointed to Carrie and Devin as they rolled right past them "We'd better follow them, that will probably be the fastest way out of this jam and to the Empire State Building."

"Right." and so the two of them, along with Loki, took off after the Best Friends through the traffic, and the race to the Empire State Building continued on like it had before, as if nothing had happened.

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By this point, Geoff and DJ had finished the long climb up the stairs and reached the observation deck "Oh thank god we finally made it."

"And there's three briefcases, we've gotta be the first team here!" DJ picked up the tip off of the first suitcase "Okay now we've gotta take this briefcase and the tip, all of that is spelled in all caps, to the midpoint Chill Zone in Central Park!"

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"Yeah that's right, you heard the first half of the idiot duo! Our three teams will have to race all the way to the midpoint Chill Zone in Central Park and then hand me their tips in order to continue on to the next challenges with their suitcases in hand as well. But they had better hurry because if they're the last team to arrive then that means that they're done, they'll be cut from the race. Man whoever that happens to is going to lose it, we're gonna need some extra cameras in order to catch that epic footage."

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"Alright man, Central Park here we come!" Geoff and DJ took off down the stairs from the observation deck, their eyes and hearts filled with determination to win the race and the million dollar prize.

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Devin and Carrie pulled up in their taxi outside of the Empire State Building "I don't see any other taxis here, that means that we've gotta be in first place!" and so they bolted into the building.

"Hey guys how's it going? Can't talk, we've got a race to win!" Geoff and DJ suddenly bolted past them in the opposite direction.

"...No time to process their gigantic lead, let's just hurry up the stairs before the Goths show up and we fall into last place!" and so despite that surprise, Devin and Carrie continued onwards as they began their climb up the 86 flights of stairs.

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"Come on Duncan we can't afford to waste anytime, to Central Park and step on it like your life depends on it!" Geoff and DJ literally jumped into the Uber.

"You realize that you both still have to pay me after this is over right?" and yet Duncan took off regardless.

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Ennui, Loki and Crimson rushed into the Empire State Building and began the climb up the stairs themselves "Geoff and DJ are pretty far ahead of us, it'll be hard to catch up to them if we manage to beat Carrie and Devin to the Chill Zone."

"You say that like you're not sure we can win." Crimson pointed out.

"Do we need to? We have Loki, we have each other, we outlasted the Ice Dancers and we found more survivors like us. What else do we need from this race?"

"Fair point, but do you want to go down without a fight?"

"Of course not, we'll be sure to give Carrie and Devin a workout and make sure that they really earn that million.

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Devin quickly picked up the suitcase and the tip "Midpoint Chill Zone in Central Park, come on let's move it before the Goths get here!" and so he and Carrie took off back down the stairs just as the Goths showed up.

Ennui picked up the suitcase and the tip "Last team to arrive is cut from the race. They'll definitely need that workout."

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"I'm not kidding about getting paid for that you guys!" Duncan pulled up to the road near Central Park.

"No worries dude, we can see Don from here. We'll pay you back later." and so Geoff and DJ made a beeline for the midpoint Chill Zone.

Don was quick to take their tip and confirm their placement "Geoff and DJ well done, the two of you are the first team to arrive at the midpoint!"

"DUDE!" Geoff pulled him into a tight bone crushing hug.

"Too tight… can't breathe…"

"Oh sorry man." he let go "So what do we do now?"

"Well now that you're in the true final leg of the race you have to take your suitcase with you for this challenge. That final Don Box over there will give you the tip with the instructions that you need for it. That's all I can tell you both now, all I can do is wish you the best of luck. And maybe pay your uber buddy."

"Thanks man, come on DJ let's go!" and so Geoff rushed over to the Don Box and pulled out the tip to their final challenge "It's another All In challenge called Buoys Will Be Buoys, and god it's painful how true that is."

"So what do we have to do?" asked DJ.

"We've got head over to some boat house and rent one of the boats and then use it to search among the buoys in the middle of the pond for the one with the correct combination that will unlock our briefcase." the two of them took off running in the opposite direction of Don and the Chill Zone.

"So there's some kind of boat house, first we've gotta find some kind of map that can point us in the right direction."

"You really think they'd put a map up in a place like this?"

"Absolutely, they always put maps up in huge cities like this. It's just one of the facts of life that my momma taught me."

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Don watched as two different taxis pulled up simultaneously in front of Central Park "The Best Friends and the Goths "Looks like we've got another close one coming, who is going to move on and face the Bromigos in the final two? It's coming down to the last second and it looks like it's going to be…"

"FOR TRUE LOVE!" Devin dove onto the Carpet of Completion, with Carrie following less than a second afterwards.

"And the Best Friends take second place, which means that they'll be moving onto the finale with the Bromigos!" then he addressed the Goths as they ran up to the Chill Zone "Well well well… Crimson, Ennui and yes even you Loki, you're the last to arrive. I thought I would be saying this on day one though to be honest you guys kind of started to grow on me after Mexico, but here it is. You've been cut from the competition. Do you have anything left to say before you depart?"

Ennui and Crimson shared a look and turned back to Don "We just want to thank you for the opportunity to take part in this race, it was… enjoyable for the most part. And we would like to thank the rest of our fellow competitors, and know that we will be rooting for Carrie and Devin, our fellow survivors, to win this race. They deserve it more than anyone."

"Huh. Well that was actually pretty moving, so uh…"

"Departure monologue, we know." Crimson looked up at the grey and cloudy sky "You know I'm glad we at least got the chance to go to Transylvania."

Ennui nodded "And Finland and Iceland, those were pretty epic. So what do we do from here on out?"

"We could always go back to Vegas I guess, if we need the money."

"At least we got to see the Ice Dancers lose."

"Now if only we get to see Carrie and Devin win, goths or no goths survivors have to stick together."

"Agreed." and then they disappeared down the path.

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"Now the Goths are out of the picture and the Best Friends are about to move onto the next challenge. But the Bromigos already have such a substantial lead over them, will they be able to catch up in time?"

Devin and Carrie were actually sitting on a park bench "So this is it, we're really in the final two now."

Carrie nodded "Yeah I know, I just feel bad for the Goths though. They raced so hard and they're such a good team, not to mention they did help us out a couple of times."

"And that right there is why we're going to win this for them, and for Adam and the Fashion Bloggers and pretty much everyone else we already said before."

"...Come on then, we've got a race to win."

"I love it when you get that fire in your eyes, now let's get going."

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Geoff and DJ were looking over a map located in Central Park "Okay so we know where the boat house is and we're just waiting to give Carrie and Devin a fair chance to catch up. That sound about right?"

DJ nodded "That's right, and I think I can see them coming right about now so we'd better get moving."

"Right! Bromigos for the win!" and so the two of them charged onwards towards the boat house, with Carrie and Devin not far behind them.

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"The Bromigos and the Best Friends are now neck and neck as they finally hit the water and start the search for their respective buoys that feature the combinations to their own specific suitcases. Inside of those suitcases awaits their final golden colored tips containing a map with directions to the final Chill Zone of the race, where I myself and the other 16 teams who were previously eliminated are waiting in anticipation. Whoever gets here first will be the winner of our grand prize: One! Million! DOLLARS!"

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Rock was trying not to lose his shit "Oh man dude this is so heavy it's insane, one of the teams is about to win it all!"

"Woah… this is the finale?" Spud lit up like a Christmas tree "We're in the finale?!" and he started rifting for the wrong reason while hugging Rock to the point where he was unintentionally crushing him.

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"The Best Friends and the Bromigos?" Pete let out a scoff, his tone laced with sarcasm "Oh wow what a miracle, what an exciting finale. Yeah right, that'll just put me to sleep."

"So what's the deal with the guy in the cowboy hat, he's a surfer right?" asked Gerry "What kind is he again, the outdoorsy kind or the computer kind?"

"What does it matter, they both suck!" and the two old schmucks burst out laughing.

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Gwen leaned back and gave a simple shrug "I'm cool with either team winning, I'm just happy the Ice Dancers are finally out of the race."

Kevin nodded "Tell me about it, bitch had to go down. If only she could've gone down at the hands of a certified psychopath."

"...I'm tempted to high five that but my conscience is telling me not to. With you it could be either really cool or really stupid."

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Kelly shot a glance over at Taylor "Oh sweetie are you sad that we weren't able to make it to the finale?"

"What are you kidding?" Taylor let out a scoff "Not a chance in hell, I'm just glad that we got out before we had to do anything super disgusting like eat worms or crap. Oh even worse than that, if we had to share a sauna, that's just wrong."

"Oh that's my girl."

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Josee let out a scoff "This finale is just absolutely terrible! Where's the talent? Where's the passion? I'm giving both of these teams a 0 and they know damn well why."

"Ahem." Jacques shot a glare at her.

"Alright fine. I'll give the Bromigos a 4 and the Best Friends a 6 but that's as high as I'm willing to go."

"Well I give the Bromigos a 7 and the Best Friends a 9, and they all know why."

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Carrie and Devin continued rowing their way across the lake in search of their designated team buoy, only for them to hear a crunching noise "Hey Devin do you hear something? It sounds like some kind of biting noise."

"Yeah it sounds like Adam on taco night-" Devin let out a yelp of pain when a snapping turtle bit down on his arm "Huh." but he just threw it off "Well I guess it's called Turtle Pond for a reason right?"

"How are you not hurt by that?" Carrie was gawking at him.

"Oh did I forget to mention?" he pulled out something from his sleeves "Metal shin guards that I got from Adam before we left."

"Huh. Nice."

"I know right? Hey I see the buoy over there."

"You see any numbers on it?"

"Hold on let me check." he checked it out "No I don't see any, does that mean that we picked the wrong one or what?"

"I don't know."

"Here's one!" Geoff on the other hand picked up a buou clear out of the water, revealing a snapping turtle hiding on the bottom as well as the combination "3, 4, 1! Give that one a shot dude!"

DJ checked it out, only to end up coming up short "Nope."

"Dammit, well let's check out the next buoy."

"Alright we've gotta check the bottoms of the buoys for the combinations. Let's do this and let's make sure that we get this right." Devin told her.

"Right, got it." and so Carrie picked up a buoy and tried the combination "Nope it's not this one."

"Dammit, well let's keep on looking."

"The search for the combination to gain access to the final travel tip of the entire race is finally on and with it the gloves come off, at this point it's still anyone's game. That is, until this happens…"

"1, 1, 7!" Carrie tried out this combination in their suitcase and it snapped open, revealing a golden colored tip inside "Yes it finally worked, hello map to the Chill Zone and hello million dollar prize!"

"Yes!" and then Devin accidentally dropped the buoy he was holding through their boat, causing it to start sinking "Uh… please don't say anything about this."

"No time for that it goes without saying, we've just gotta paddle our way to shore before this thing sinks!" and so the two of them started paddling towards the shore.

Geoff was visibly distressed by this turn of events "Oh man that's it, it's game over! We're so screwed!"

"Hey come on dude, I don't need you quitting on me now." DJ told him "We've still got a shot at catching up, just see for yourself." he picked up a buoy and put in the combination "4, 0, 9. Yes we've got it, now let's get going! Like my momma always said, it ain't over until it's over! Now come on and paddle dude, paddle like the wind!"

"You got it dude, it ain't over till the fat lady sings!" they started paddling towards the shore like the wind.

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"Despite having a sinking boat the Best Friends Devin and Carrie are able to make it to shore a full minute ahead of Geoff and DJ, but our resident Bromigos clearly have no intention of giving up without a fight."

"Come on come on, we've gotta move!" Devin and Carrie were running down the path at full speed towards the Chill Zone, and they glanced back to see how far away their opponents were at the moment.

As it turns out, Geoff and DJ weren't very far behind "I can see Devin and Carrie from here, we can do this!"

"Yeah but I can see the Chill Zone too." DJ pointed out "If we're gonna do this then we've gotta pick up the pace."

"I feel you man, we've gotta crank up the turbo boost!"

"...You mean go faster right and not that you're about to fart?"

"No I totally mean we've gotta go faster."

"Okay good because the last thing we need right now is a repeat of burrito night."

"Is your mom still mad about that?"

"I'm not allowed to use your name in the house anymore after that."

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Don was still waiting at the location of the final Chill Zone with all of the 16 teams that been previously eliminated "It's the last dash to the final Chill Zone, after racing through 21 different countries and multiple different challenges, it all comes down to this. Devin and Carrie the more than Best Friends, or Geoff and DJ the greatest bromance in reality TV history. Which of these two teams will come out on top and win our grand prize of one million dollars?"

Devin & Carrie and Geoff & DJ were now running towards the Chill Zone neck and neck, now running on fumes with almost all of the teams watching in nail biting anticipation as the two teams closed in on the Carpet of Completion, with one team making it just a few seconds before the other one did.

"And the Best Friends win it, all one million dollars!"

"YES YES YES YES! WE DID IT!" Devin spun Carrie around in a tight huh and pulled her into a heated kiss.

DJ on the other hand just pulled Geoff into a bro hug "I love you man."

"I love you too dude."

"And with that it looks like everyone is happy regardless of the outcome of the race." Don noted.

"We're not, or at least I'm not!" Josee pointed out.

"For the last time, I don't care! No one cares!"

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DJ let out a sigh "You know 18 teams started this race and we made it all the way to the final two so that's pretty good right?"

Geoff nodded "Yeah plus we got to face some major adversity and we fought our way through it and we learned a lot."

"Adversity?"

"I know terms. Anyway I learned that sometimes when life throws you a bone and rips it away from you that just means that there's something just as good waiting for you down the road, like my new girlfriend Jen."

"Yeah I'm glad you could finally move on, it's been what two years since you and Bridgette broke up?"

"Yep and you saw my hard drive."

"Oh yeah I did, and I thought John from the Ted movies had it bad."

"Plus I learned that you can be pretty forgiving of me being an idiot and that your pain threshold is way higher than I first figured."

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"You know to be honest, I'm a little bit surprised that we actually won the race all things considered." Carrie commented.

Devin blinked "Why would you be surprised by that? You and I make one hell of a great team with out without this completely insane race. Everyone else became partners for this race but we're already an amazing team. Besides winning the money is awesome and we both had a ton of fun along the way. Dodging geysers, doing a magic show on a real Las Vegas style stage, seeing all kinds of amazing things."

"Yeah that's true, but we both won something even more important than all of that. Our undying love for each other."

"That's also true, but still we both had a blast."

"Yeah we did, and now all that's left is to see where the future takes us. I know Adam is gonna be thrilled."

"Oh yeah I've already got an idea of what he's gonna do."

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Having lined up all 18 teams for one final group shot as he signed off of the final episode of the race, Don watched as Carrie and Devin started throwing all of their money on the ground, his tone incredibly dry "Yes throw all of your money on the ground, very smart. Anyway that's all for now ladies and gentlemen, we hope all of you enjoyed our incredible 26 part race around the world. Be sure to keep an eye out for more of… the Ridonculous Race!"

A/N:

And with this, the race comes to an end. I knew from the beginning that I was going to have the Best Friends win this race since they were always one of my two favorite teams, the other being the Surfers, which is the main reason why I let Geoff get to the finals along with DJ. Besides I figured that both of them deserved to at least get to the finals at least once right?

I mentioned in the prologue to this story that Duncan and Courtney had moved to New York so I figured why not give at least Duncan in order to bring back the ultimate Killer Bass trio (Duncan, DJ and Geoff). I actually got the idea to give Duncan a cameo from this Total Drama World Tour fic Candy For Your Thoughts and while I was trying to devise how to make him appear without it seeming too forced I was watching an episode of Fuller House from season 3, so I figured why not have Duncan be an Uber driver.

Now then, since this is the end of the race, let me just explain a few things regarding my choices for each team and a few other things:

Cameron and Lightning, the Ultimate Duo: I'm just gonna flat out say what I bet many of you agree on, I absolutely despise the Daters. They're the most annoying team out there and I did NOT want to have to write them out, so I decided to substitute them using Cameron and Lightning. Plus I always hated that there weren't any second generation Total Drama contestants in the race when they had three from the first generation (Owen, Noah and Geoff) and even one from the third generation (Leonard), so I thought it was a missed opportunity.

Gwen and Kevin, the Artists: I'm going to level with all of you, I get that the whole good cop bad cop thing made the Police Cadets insanely popular with the fan base but they just got on my nerves after a while so I decided to cut them out and replace them with my second original team. I didn't want to have to put Gwen into All Stars for the sake of not rehashing all of the Gwen style torture porn from that season, so I decided to put her in here with Kevin, my own OC who I had later claimed to be Bridgette's cousin. That's partly because I thought it would be fun and partly because it was a reference to Ben 10.

Bromigos: Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against Brody from the Surfers, in fact he and Geoff are one of my two favorite teams as I previously stated earlier. But on the other hand I saw a video made by Noahh on YouTube (Top 10 Missed Opportunities in Total Drama) and #9 on the list was to have Geoff and DJ as a Ridonculous Race team. I thought that was really cool but they missed out on that so I decided to add that in this fic, and besides both of these characters are awesome and they deserve to make it to the finals at least once. I loved the three way bromance between these two and Duncan back in season one, hence why I gave Duncan a couple of quick cameo in this chapter.

Goths: I know a lot of people love the Goths, and after looking back on them, I can understand why. They're a strong team, they have a stable and understanding relationship (which is more than can be said for the likes of Heather & Alejandro), and they're pretty funny. I decided to cut them out early for the sake of giving the Rockers more screen time (or page time) in this fic but I think that's one of the things that seriously hurt this fic. Plus cutting out the plot points of the Goths turned it into a major rehash of a Ridonculous Race fic that I found on Deviantart so I wrote them back in and cut the Rockers out earlier than I wanted to.

Geoff x Jen: After breaking up Geoff and Bridgette for the sake of pairing her with Adam in the Rise of an Underdog I had no idea what I was gonna do with Geoff going forward. But after reading a few various fics about the Ridonculous Race (most notably Ridonculous Race Underdogs by Animation Adventures and The Ridonculous Race: Reimagined by Lord of the Sloths), I figured why not have him paired up with Jen from the Fashion Bloggers. Hell that wasn't even my original intention, I originally planned to pair her up with DJ and have Geoff act as the wingman, but in the end I decided that this was a better pairup.

Adam's character arc: Adam is the main focus of my entire Underdog/ Total Drama series and his character arc during and after the events of the race are featured in my other fic The Cosmic Underdog. I know that putting in as many original/ non race chapters as I did might have put off some people so I decided to cut them out and make a whole new story out of them centered around Adam and Alejandro and others that appear later on like Cody, Bridgette and Mike.

Also, I'd like to give a little bit of a shout out to Nicky Haugh for sticking through me with this entire story despite all of the original content, the mistakes and the constant revisions. Thank you for that, truly.

Winners: Best Friends, 1st

Elimination:

Bromigos: 2nd, runners up

Goths: 3rd

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