Disclaimer: I don't Total Drama. If I did World Tour and All Stars would have been sent back to the drawing board.
After setting up the mysterious spell back on the plane, Cedric continued to ride off on his emu. Though he didn't really show it, the heat of the Australian Outback was getting to him, and long trip was starting to bore. He simply laid his head to rest after sometime, and went back into his disguise once the sun began to rise.
Though as he hung upside down on his emu, he noticed an indistinguishable figure closing in on him from the distance. Cedric wasn't very concerned as he merely assumed it was a predator he could scare off with his own dark aura, but he was surprised to learn it was a different kind of predator. Duncan.
"Hey Pipsqueak!" Duncan yelled at who he thought was Cody, charging towards him on his own large bird to pay him back a painful lesson for their previous altercation.
"Looks like Pride has come over for a visit. Too bad we don't have time to chat, eh MacDougal? We'll need to distract him somehow." Cedric told his emu in the same happy tone he always had, though he was still speeding up and away from the incoming danger until he came across what could work as a diversion "I think you just might work."
Cedric made a u-turn towards Duncan and away from his distraction, but while Duncan was confused as to why his target was heading right for him for a brief second, this didn't stop him from taking immediate advantage of the situation "Here comes the pain loser!"
"That's certainly an interesting claim. But is the pain for me or you?" Cedric asked rhetorically as he ducked under his punch and continued in the opposite direction.
Duncan planned to continue his pursuit, but found himself immediately halted when he ran right into a kangaroo which seemed very miffed at the sudden contact. The delinquent wasn't willing to go down without a fight, and started a fist fight with the marsupial. A match that proved to be extremely one sided.
"Why you little twerp; you'll get yours!" Duncan yelled to his enemy who continued to ride off on his emu.
The mad hatter merely chuckled to himself at Duncan's statement, before things took a turn for the strange. Duncan had to run his eyes to make sure that Cody turning his head 180° around wasn't just a hallucination. Then Cedric spoke once again to the trapped delinquent, though his tone had turned icy and silent with his pupils losing their shine.
"Oh really Pride? Well if you ask me I think you're much more in need of some karmic retribution for your…sinful actions as of recent."
With that said, Cedric turned his head back around to normal and rode off into the distance, even whistling the happy tune of Les Toreador. A tune which nearly made Duncan (who was still being beaten up by the kangaroo) piss his pants.
Confessional:
Cedric: "…Now why are you looking at me like I'm an idiot? It's not like anyone else was out there to see me do that. And if he tells anybody he'll just like a loon, which means even more the reason to vote him off! But he's not my target…he could be a valuable card since he fears me so much."
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Duncan: "Somebody saw that right? That was Cedric! I know it, with the head, and the tune, and the accent. His eyes were red! He followed me out here. I don't know how but he did it! He wants revenge on me, I know…Why are you looking at me like I'm crazy! He's the nut job here, not me!*slaps himself* Alright calm down man, there's no way he followed you all the way on this stupid show, let alone Australia. And besides, you could make him pray for mercy. I bet that loser hasn't even even kissed a girl before!"
"Think the scorpions got em'?" Chris asked his larger friend, who was currently next to him carving a didgeridoo.
"5-1 it's the dingoes."
"Ahem, Chris." A sweaty and tired looking Alejandro grabbed the relaxing men's attention as he stood over them "I believe I have arrived first, so that means my team is the victor."
"Incorrect compadre. You have to have all your members cross the finish line for it to be considered a win." Chris explained to the shocked spaniard.
While he was initially very pissed about it at first, Alejandro regained his composure in a matter of seconds and calmly stated "No matter, I only need to wait for two of my teammates to arrive. Not a single one of the Amazons has even shown up yet."
"I wouldn't count your chickens before they hatch Señor Ponytail."
Alejandro gave a small yelp and jump as Cedric suddenly appeared behind him, though unlike the former he didn't sweaty or tired at all "Oh, you startled me there my friend of short stature. I didn't hear you come up here."
"Well I'm good at sneaking around. How do you think I manage to avoid Envy on a daily basis?"
"That's very fascinating Cody. And by fascinating, I mean we don't care." Chris said bluntly before sipping his coffee.
"I don't recall asking for your opinion Mr. McKleenex."
"Hey! It's pronounced McClean!"
"Whatever you say Mr. McToilet
Chris growled for a moment before Heather and Courtney rode up on their emus, panting from exhaustion. When Courtney got close enough to him Alejandro whispered into her ear "I knew the view would be beautiful, but I didn't think it would be like this."
"Oh, you're good!"
Upon seeing this sight Cedric couldn't prevent himself from spewing, as though he could tell from his slight hand movements and heart rate that Alejandro was faking, the mad hatter still hated any show of affection between individuals. His disgust turned to sadistic enjoyment when the kangaroo from earlier tossed Duncan out it's pouch, who was coated in slime.
"Aw man, sick" Duncan reviled before remembering his humiliating loss to the marsupial. In order to remedy his pride, he called back to the kangaroo "You get back here! I didn't hear no bell!"
Much to Courtney and Cedric's amusement the kangaroo approached him one final time, to sock him across the jaw again causing to slip on the slime and fall on his ass again. Setting her plan into action again Heather pulled up Duncan who walked off in a huff, much to Alejandro's distress, which Cedric once again noticed with a smirk.
"What happened to you?" Gwen asked her boyfriend as she rode up.
"Nothing I will ever admit to as long as I live."
"Pride got his ass handed to him by a Roo!" Cedric yelled as loud as he could from where he was standing, specifically towards Gwen.
"Shut it Pipsqueak!"
They were distracted by the sudden arrival of Sierra, who's emu was giving her a massive amount of trouble. It was then Alejandro realized what this meant, and Chris announced it "Looks like Team Amazon takes the first half of the challenge."
"No Tyler! Where is that burro mudo!"
To answer his question Tyler was still closing in on Hanging Rock, though he had lost his emu quite some time ago and was being forced to sprint the rest of the way there "No emu, no problem! I've got this in bAAAAAG!"
Tyler once again tripped over own shoelaces and face planted into the ground. Just when he thought his luck couldn't get any worse, he noticed just what he had landed on. A very angry looking male platypus.
"Sooooooo how you doing out here. Some people say you guys don't do much you know. Heh heh." Tyler tried to quel it's anger before it pounced.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Don't even think about going back for him. You'll just have to wait for him to show, before you can start the challenge. Speaking of which, Team Amazon, get ready to take a long walk off a short cliff. With these bungee cords!"
PART TWO: Teams must take turns bungee jumping off the cliffs of hanging rock, in an attempt to grab one of Australia's finest sheep. Three sheep have Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot's logo tattooed onto their side, while three others have Team Amazon's logo. The first team to find, shear the wool, and find the logo on the correct will win first class for the night, while the losers risk elimination.
"For your ranking in the first half of the challenge, your team will receive and award. Team Me, since you made it here last, you get to have these cheap garden clippers, but since Team Amazon arrived first, they get an actual electronic razor."
"Yes!"
"Yeah!"
"I call them!" Cedric said as he ran up and snatched the razor out of Chef's hand, only for Heather to object.
"Wait a minute who said you get to shear the sheep?"
"I did, just now. Didn't you hear me Sloth?.
"Oh haha, hand over the shears you nerd!" Heather ordered her much shorter teammate, only for him hold the shears just out of her grasp. While this small scuffle occurred, Courtney growled in anger.
Confessional:
Courtney: "How am I supposed to accidentally/on purpose lose like this?!"
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Cedric: "I love cutting into things. Guess being a serial killer was the right career path for me. Or a barber…Nah, I'm no Sweeny Todd."
"I should have the shears! I'm the leader of our team and the quickest!" Heather continued to argue with Cedric, much to his annoyance.
"You lost Rock, Paper, Scissors fair, square, and cut of all the hair Sloth. Get over it. And besides, after what happened two years ago I'd think you'd think never want to be near another razor again. How's your hair growing back again?" Cedric pressed, pulling the just the right cords on her psyche to get her lost in thought and walking away.
Gwen was shocked at what just occurred, and angrily pulled him off to the side "What the heck was that?! We need to get her on our side against Courtney, and you arguing with her like that isn't exactly helping!"
"Now hold it just a second there Metallica, I'm not the one who needs to be on her good side. That would be you, being the ring leader of the operation and all. Besides, I'm not trying to throw challenges like Wrath is, so that puts her in Sloth's main priority."
"Sloth, Wrath, Pride, Envy? What does that even mean?"
"Put the pieces of the puzzle together yourself Metallica. In the meantime you've got some deals to make." Cedric said as he walked off, pointing to Heather from behind with his thumb. Gwen decided to take his advice and walked up to the Queen Bee.
"So Heather, I was wondering."
"I'm not into Duncan!"
"Well that's…reassuring. Anyways Cody and I have been talking about booting off Courtney next time we get the chance and-"
"I'm in." Heather cut her off by automatically agreeing, much to Gwen's shock.
"Okay, then. Nice talk." Gwen said before turning to her other (false) ally who had an equally satisfied look on his face.
"See, what'd I tell ya'"
"Alright, I admit you were right. That was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be."
Meanwhile the remaining members of Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot looked over the horizon for their missing member "You see Tyler anywhere yet?"
"No, unfortunately." Alejandro answered the delinquent as they continued their lookout over the horizon.
It was at that point that Team Amazon began their search in the pile for sheep. Courtney went first, though she came up completely dry with Cedric and Heather suspecting the bad run being done on purpose. Gwen followed after, having much worse luck than her former friend by grabbing onto a cactus Chris had planted there to torture the contestants. They did manage to finally get a sheep however, when Heather went up to bat.
"Take that! No glorified cotton ball's gonna keep me from my million!" Heather claimed as the sheep tried to bite her.
"You can taunt the ewe later Sloth, first we got to shear it!" Just then the much hated song bell came out causing the Amazon's to groan in frustration.
"What? Thought a song would make things go faster! Team I am so frickin' sexy, since you're not doing the challenge right now, your exempt from today's song challenge. Now hit it." Chris ordered as the sound of an electric guitar came out.
Seeing no point in arguing Cedric started off the ballad.
Shearin' sheep
Don't be a creep
It's the only way we'll fly first keeps
While watching him shear the terrified sheep, Heather took over and pointed at him before switching to Courtney on the last lyric.
Win the game
Don't be so lame
Try to lose this and your face I'll maim!
Courtney then began to sing herself, before stopping to flirt with Alejandro only to meet Heather's steely gaze.
Shear the sheep and with a smile
Make yourself a giant wooly wooly wooly pile
You had your chance and you turned him down
So don't be giving me no cranky frown!
It was by this point the whole team began to sing excluding Sierra, with Cedric doing a small guitar solo off to the side. He was suddenly halted when Sierra suddenly hugged him squealing like a groupie, only for Chef to pull her off. Cediric leered at her for a moment, before resuming.
Shearing sheep instead of you
Cause your little pea brain wouldn't know what to do
I'll find the logo
We'll win again
And I'll be here
Till the world comes to an end
Once he was done secretly stating his intentions through song, the song resumed with the chorus as of normal.
We are shearing sheep
We are shearing sheep
We are shearing
Yeah!
Duncan and Alejandro watched as the song came to an end. Nervous of what was to come next Alejandro spoke to the delinquent next to him "Courtney is coming along but I still haven't gained her trust. And Cody may be becoming more assertive, giving them a reason to vote him off, but I need him to fail at this challenge to make sure they get rid of him."
"Just follow my lead. We'll be able to get both them out in no time."
The Amazons had their focus taken off the challenge for a brief second when they heard an argument amongst the located members of the other team.
"Not cool man!" Duncan said to Alejandro, pushing the latin back with a small shove.
"But she is your ex! And I cannot help how I feel for her!"
"Well you better figure it out, or you're going to be in a whole lot of pain!" Duncan told his parter in crime, before an evil look with him while the girls watched, shocked and confused. Cedric however simply snickered under his breath before resuming the grooming of the animal.
By this point Tyler had finally came up the path, shaking and tired from all the platypus venom in his system with dark circles around his wide, twitching and dialated eyes "Hey guys, are we winning?"
"Tyler you're back!"
"And we're back in the game. Hey Chris, we're going to need some harnesses of here!" Duncan called to the host, who was currently getting ready to sunbathe.
"They're in that pile over there. Good luck figuring out how to work them."
Cedric continued to shear the sheep, ignoring what was going on behind him. After the last tuft of of wool was shaved of sheep's backside he growled in frustration as the tattooed logo was no where to be found. But while Cedric was just a bit irritated, Heather seemed to be absolutely livid.
"Are you kidding me! All that work, and there's no logo?!" Heather exclaimed angrily.
"We'll just have to get another one. And I don't care who gets it, just get it quick." The disguised demon commanded as he shooed off the now naked sheep. Sierra immediately took his order with great enthusiasm, leaping off the cliff while forgetting something very important on the way.
"For Cody!"
"Wait Sierra you forgot your-" Gwen called after her lovesick teammate only for to wince when impact finally came *THUD*"…harness."
"Hey McTowel, we're going to need a couple medics down there. Or rather Envy will!" Cedric called to Chris, who scowled angrily when the mad hatter got his name wrong again before signaling to the interns from his lounge chair. But instead of pulling the broken Sierra from the crater, they instead hauled off a massive pile of sheep.
"That better not have been one of our sheep in that pile!" Heather said with her trademark frown
"Alright, with Envy out of commission I'll need to cover for her." Cedric stoop up before handing the razor to Heather and walking towards the cord "I'm afraid we'll have to alternate shearing duty between the two of us from here on in Sloth."
"Wait a minute! How come she gets the shears? And for that matter who died and put you in charge?" Courtney objected to his lead. He quickly responded to this by turning around after putting on his harness, while continuously walking towards the edge of the cliff.
"First off, I trust you about as much as I trust Nero not to set fires and play country music while it's happening. You'd probably smash them first chance you got. And second, nobody died and put me in charge, but you can fill that role if you think your up to the task." Cedric told her off, before leaping backwards off the ledge.
Alejandro quickly took note of Courtney's newfound distaste for Cody, and decided to further push his plans into motion "It appears Cody has become to big for his britches lately, a threat to your wise and graceful authority. Perhaps you switch your focus from Gwen. After all, the best way to take out a king is to first eliminate the pawn."
"…You may be right. No wait, scratch that, you're definitely right." Courtney agreed to her crush's plan with a menacing tone.
Confessional:
Courtney:" I guess shoving Gwen out the plane without a parachute, could switch to number two on my to-do list. My new number one is snapping that twig."
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Heather: "I really hate to say this, but Alejandro has a point. That pipsqueak is becoming a threat to my leadership with that attitude of his. And in the long run, I could use a basket case, over a bossy know it all. We just got rid of Noah anyways."
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Alejandro: "Hook, line, and sinker. Oh, how much I love it when a plan comes together. Now all I need is Gwen's vote against him, but that can wait until after the challenge."
Cedric came up a few moments, with something in his grasp. But like Gwen before him he grabbed a cactus instead, though this one had a detail unlike the last. It was on fire.
"I wonder how much cacti is down there anyways?" Cedric nonchalantly picked the thorns out of his skin, before a small flame burst on the shoulder of his clothes.
While he didn't really seem to notice or care, everyone else saw the growing flame. Tyler who was currently hooking himself up to the cable quickly brought it up to the oblivious murderer "Ummm dude, you do realize your on fire right?.
"Hm really?" Cedric asked before looking at his shoulder and noticing the fire. However, he didn't seem to be very startled by this. If anything he seemed rather uncaring and even had a smile grow across his face "Well what do you know it appears I am on fire. Go figure."
At that very moment, the fire burst in size, completely engulfing him, though he still had that same happy expression on his face. Everyone else was most definitely not amused, especially Tyler who ran over to the oblivious Chef Hatchet. Once the situation was explained to the cook, he simply walked away to get the fire extinguisher, and came back to spray him down with it.
Despite the pounds of chemical foam covering his body, Cedric still appeared completely unaffected mood wise. This changed moments later when he turned over to his shocked team "Metallica you're up next. And if you don't feel wool let it go immediately. I'm sick of all this cacti."
"Got it." Gwen quickly and shortly replied, before bungee jumping off the cliff.
Cedric wiped some of the extinguisher foam off his body, before a snoring sound met his ears. He turned around to see a dozing Chris, who was looking slightly burned with some unopened sunblock in his hand. When Cedric saw this a mischievous grin grew across his face.
Confessional:
Cedric: "Heheheheh…oh tire revanj dous"
While Cedric was resuming a less life threatening scheme, Alejandro was rousing his troops "Now is our time to grab victory from the jaws of defeat. Rise up men. No defeat, no surrender!"
"Sir yes sir!" Tyler replied before jumping off the cliff and grabbing something. But once the cord pulled him back up he saw that what he grabbed was not a sheep, but a very miffed looking dingo "Oh man."
As the angry dog attacked Tyler, Gwen came back up with her catch. Though this time, it was actually a sheep. Heather charged towards the sheep to cut off its wool, while Courtney stayed behind only to hear Alejandro from behind "I've been thinking about the future."
"You have?"
"Yes. Tomorrow, and the day after, and even the day after that."
"I already know what the future is." Courtney said deadpan before Alejandro resumed his flirting.
"Not when it comes to me." When he said this Courtney grew a faint blush on her face, before turning her attention who was currently sobbing his eyes out. This caused Courtney's flustered smile to turn into a satisfied smirk, but only because she didn't know the circumstances surrounding it.
Confessional:
Duncan: "I've always been able to fake sadness since I was a kid. Watch and learn! *resumes crying* Oh ms, was that your grandmother's vase?*grins into the camera*"
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Cedric: "…I've seen better acting from Tommy Wiseau. But to be fair I can tell when people lie to me."
Gwen heard Duncan's fake crying and turned around with a scowl, as she couldn't tell that the bawling was all an act. Heather grabbed her irritated rival's attention by saying "Gwen we've got a challenge to win remember?"
"Say's he was over her. What is his deal." Gwen clenched her teeth, while furiously shearing the sheep only to find the worse case scenario once again "Crap, no logo!"
Heather immediately went for another sheep, hooking herself up and jumping for a catch. Noticing Heather was gone once he was done with his revenge, Cedric decided to further his hold "Well that was fun, so how's tricks with you Metallica?"
Seeing her own opportunity to get back at Duncan, Gwen changed her tone of voice to a depressed one "Maybe you were right. Duncan can be a real jerk sometimes."
"Well derp-a-herr Metallica he's got a rap sheet that's longer than either of my bodies. But you do seem a bit down in the dumps. Anything I can do to help" Cedric asked, before realizing he let one thing slip. Thankfully she didn't seem to notice and continued.
"Can you make the pain go away?"
"If by pain, you mean Wrath than consider her gone. But only because she's throwing our challenges for Greed." Cedric explained his motives, much to Gwen's surprise.
"Wait, what?!"
"I'm not going to act like what you did was a good thing. You hurt a friend badly and all you care about is saving your own ass. You really are a terrible person you know. I'll help you for now Lust, but the moment Wrath gets shoved out that door you're on your own. I'm afraid you dug your own grave."
Confessional:
Gwen: I've got an ally in Cody and Heather now, but is it really worth it. I know now that both of them will leave me for dead once Courtney's gone, and…part of me think's Cody's right."
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Cedric: "Hey I'm a relatively honest guy. I know I'm scum and I'm damn proud too. But when people who do evil walk around all high and mighty like there the good guy in the situation, they need to be brought down a few pegs."
"Oh Alejandro."
"Please allow me to assist you with today's challenge." Alejandro continued to manipulate the starry eyed girl.
"No you can't help me win. Your so silly! I won't allow it!" Courtney denied is offer and walked off, but to her irritation Alejandro continued.
"But if I do not help you in this task you are sure to lose!"
"Ok look, this is dreamy and all, but losing is kind of what I'm going for here. How else am I going to get Gwen and Cody out?" Courtney explained to the now surprised Latino.
Though he was shocked by this explanation he quickly regained cover and said suavely "It would be me honor to help you achieve that noble goal."
Confessional:
Alejandro: "She trusts me?! She wants to lose?! And she wants one of my targets out?! Talk about a best case scenario. What a woman!"
"I'll be right back guys." Duncan said confidently as he jumped off the cliff and easily grabbed a sheep.
"Man, he may be a dick and all but he sure is good at this." Tyler said in awe.
"Indeed he is Tyler. Indeed he is."
After the small exchange between Tyler and Alejandro Ducnan brought over the sheep for shearing, only for Cedric to suddenly run by "Alright I'm up next. Oy Pride, mind tossing me that cord?"
Duncan then had an idea. He knew that if Cody had lost the challenge that day, it would further their plans of getting him eliminated. Not to mention it was the perfect way to get back at him for earlier. But then he remembered what had previously transpired between them earlier. Everything pointed to a dangerous shadow of his past. He quickly banished the thoughts however, and against his gut, went through with the plan anyways.
"Think fast!" Duncan said as he tossed the dingo at Cedric, sending him flying off the edge with a rage filled scream. Normally he would have just scared the dingo off with his aura, but had no time to react and was to close to the edge.
In order to prevent the delay, Heather and Gwen began pulling up the rope to get Cedric untied from the dingo, while Courtney just stood there smiling. But while that was occurring Alejandro cut a certain spot on their sheep's wool to reveal the logo "Behold victory is ours."
"Nooooooooo!" Heather cried as she and Gwen finally managed to pull them up and get Cedric untied. Once the dingo finally sensed his black aura, it ran away into the outback, yelping like a frightened little puppy.
"And Team I am so Smokin' hot wins!" Chris said as he stood up from his lounge chair, not noticing what had happened to him. When the other teams saw what had happened though, they all began snickering trying to hold in their laughter.
While Chris wasn't aware of this he had been badly burned by the Australian sun, making him appear very red. One part of him was normal however as it had been written on in sunscreen. And the funny part was what had been written on his chest.
I like to wear women's clothing, and have a small weiner
"Hey what's so funny?" Chris irritatedly asked before a chuckling Chef whispered into his ear, causing his eyes to go wide. He looked down onto his chest to see the embarrassing message and screamed before running off "Where's my shirt!"
"I love it when vengeance comes together." Cedric said as he dusted himself off, only to see Courtney pointing at him and doing a cutthroat sign. Cedric merely laughed to himself a bit and stuck his tongue out at the CIT, who responded with a gasp. Gwen watched this silent exchange of taunts with confusion.
Confessional:
Gwen:"What's got them so angry with each other?"
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Alejandro: "And thus another one drops. Sorry Cody, but that will teach you obstruct the victory of your superiors."
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Cedric: "Oh how cute. He actually think's he has me beat. But I'll tell you what Greed, no one beats the Mad Hatter when it comes to playing cards. And while he may have a full boat, but I still have four of a kind waiting for us back on the plane. And their all jokers. I hope you'll enjoy the defeat that will soon be running down your face like the blood of a pig."
It only took them about two hours to get back to the plane, as Chef had flown it up to the rock after they had all rode off the previous day. Currently the members of Team Amazon were being spoken to by an irritated Chris, though his anger was mostly directed towards Cody, while Team Chris watched with Alejandro and Duncan smugly watching Cedric, while Tyler was simply too relieved to have won to worry about anything else.
"Since this is your first actual vote, I would normally give you the deets on how it works, but since you've gone through a false elimination before that's not necessary. Now if you excuse me I'll be in my hot tub of aloe for ten minutes, since a certain loser is forcing me to wash off my tan!"
"Don't flatter yourself McChowder, it's a sunburn that covers 90% of your body." Cedric stopped his game of solitaire to quip.
"Keep it up and I expel you Demon Eyes!" Chris told him while walking away to his quarters.
"You take that back!" A bandaged Sierra angrily got up from her seat only for one of her injuries to end up aggravated. While that was occurring Duncan approached Alejandro and whispered to him discreetly.
"So either Courtney or Cedric, I mean Cedry, I mean Cody is going home tonight's right Al?"
"Relax bromigo, the way things are going it would take a miracle for either one of them to stay in the game any longer." Alejandro reassured calmly before a bloodcurdling scream came from the lounge.
"That sounded like Chris. Come on!" Tyler stood up from his relaxed position and ran to the lounge with everyone else following.
When they arrived in the lounge it was quite the disaster area reminiscent of a wild animal attack. The hot tub had been dismantled, smashed to pieces, and turned upside down, the oven had been ripped from its pipe, and the grand piano was jammed into the ceiling. The only thing in the room that appeared to be intact was the camera controls and the room's cameras itself.
And in the middle of the carnage was a sobbing Chris, with Chef comforting his distressed friend "It's ok man, we can get another lounge."
"I don't want another one." Chris bawled before blowing his nose into a wad of Puffs.
"It's not like we can't find out who did this. Probably just some loony Australian fans, or Ezekiel, or-"
"Someone who snuck back in the dead of night, to destroy Chris' lounge out of spite." Cedric claimed causing everyone in the the room to stop dead silent.
"…That's a suspicious claim. Sounds like someone knows more than we do about this." Heather said with distrust in her voice. Though her claims were true, Cedric easily refuted them with a false alibi.
"Do I look like I'm strong enough to do all this damage? Besides I got my revenge on McUncle later than this could have been done, and I'm not going to take revenge on someone twice. Talk to Vandal Pride about his wrecking fetish." The Mad Hatter pointed to Duncan who looked offended at the accusation.
"Please loser, as if I'd be dumb enough to do this while leaving the cameras intact!"
"That's it!" Chris' mood did a full 180 as he stood triumphantly and pranced towards the cameras, taking out the roll of film inside the casing "The film should show who wrecked my beautiful things!"
"I think Chris has gone even more off his rocker." Alejandro whispered into Tyler's ear, who responded with a chuckle before the humorous mood was shattered when Chris approached them with a look of fury they've never seen on the host before.
"You…you…YOU DID THIS! I OFFER YOU A FREE SPOT ON MY SHOW, WITHOUT AN AUDITION I MAY ADD, AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME!" Chris screamed into Alejandro's face, who looked like a deer in headlights, a very confused deer in headlights.
"Wait a minute, you tore up this place Al?" Tyler asked, sounding very betrayed.
"But that can't be right, it must have been Duncan! Alejandro would never-"
"The proof is in the pudding. Or should I say this roll of film! I should have known you'd do something like this after you got all those people sent home!" Chris showed off the images printed onto the slides, clearly revealing the arch villain's presence. Though something definitely seemed off, as he was just standing there still as a statue amongst the still occurring carnage.
"You what?!" Tyler once again asked in even more shock.
"I can't believe it." Heather droned just as surprised as everyone else at the incident, but not at the fact he'd been manipulating behind the scenes.
"Well…maybe they deserved it!" Courtney tried to reason with the rest of the cast and herself.
Cedric quickly rebuffed the statement in order to sink his rival deeper "He got rid of Bridgette. And Gluttony. Gluttony! The only bad thing about him is his hygiene, and that's a given."
"Please mi amigos. Let me expl-"
Just when the sweating and frozen Alejandro thought the situation couldn't get any worse, Chris made a livid announcement while handing out sets of passports and stamps "Remember how Team Me won the challenge a couple hours ago. Well, that win is now revoked. Team Amazon will be staying in first class again, while you guys face elimination. In fact the vote is right now!"
"Well this is an easy one." Duncan said as he swiftly set his vote against the wall before stamping the one with Alejandro's face on it. Tyler on the other hand seemed much more conflicted, something which Alejandro took advantage of by voting for Duncan and begging to the jock.
"Tyler, you have to believe me I've been set up. I would never do such a thing!"
"Don't listen to him, he's nothing but a filthy liar! He tricked all of us for the past two weeks, you can't just let him off the hook. There will be a million other opportunities to get rid of Pride." Cedric intervened much to anger of Alejandro and the further confusion of Tyler.
"You have to trust me!"
"He's lying! Stamp his passport now! Everyone else who's trusted him at all has been sent home!"
"Please Tyler, I've never done anything to betray you or anyone else." Alejandro lied, getting more and more desperate to save his hide by the second.
"Harold, Bridgette, Leshawna, DJ, Izzy, Owen. Lindsay."
The last name he spoke was the final nail in Alejandro's coffin as Tyler with a look of absolute rage, stamped down onto the passport sealing his fate. Alejandro's face briefly flashed with bafflement of how this could have happened before he saw Cody's smirking face. He knew in that instant who had been the one responsible. But it didn't matter now.
The one responsible for so many eliminations this season had finally been eliminated.
"Tyler, Duncan here's your marshmallows. And here's your parachute. Now get out of my plane and out my life!" Chris ordered the spaniard as he shoved the parachute into his arms "But to prove I'm forgiving and not angry at all, I'll allow youth pick your guide to the drop of shame."
"I'll chose Cody." Alejandro decided while glaring at the disguised witch doctor, much to the surprise of the other Amazons.
"What?"
"What?!"
"What?"
"What?!"
"I can't say I'm surprised by this development, see you girls in first class." Cedric said as he followed the defeated Arch Villain out the lounge to the exit row.
Once they had left, the others slowly began leaving to their respective locations. But on the way out Duncan noticed a suspicious line hidden beneath some of the rubble. He approached the line and moved the cover out of the way, only for his jaw to drop with fear and shock. It was the same scrawl from the murder of the intern. His suspicions peaked he slowly followed them over to the exit row.
It took them a matter of minutes to arrive at exit row. Alejandro thought he heard someone following them on the way down, but he dismissed it as he was to focused on the revenge he would get on the scrawny weakling when they made. They walked through the door, with the first thing that drew their eyes being the drop door in the front.
"Such a shame you had to be set up like that. I figured we could team up when the merge finally came." Cedric egged on the enraged Latino about what could have been in his game. His response to this was to pull out a spanish switchblade he kept in the pocket of his red shirt "Oooo that looks scary. Whatcha pull that toy out for Greed?"
"Don't play dumb you perra! You're the only other person who was any knowledge of how that camera software works! I don't know how you got back there so fast or how you had enough strength to do that much damage. But I do know you set me up!"
"Great induction Greed. It's almost as if you didn't make it this far with your shitty plans by pure luck."
In response Alejandro lunged at him with the knife, intending to beat the tar out of him, but it was quickly dodged and ended with Cedric simply sitting down onto the wooden bleachers and spreading out his cards. Now Alejandro was angrily swinging at him with his fists.
"Hold still you geek!"
After a few more punches, Cedric stopped toying with the spaniard by biting into his arm as hard as he could. Alejandro let out a scream of pain and rage, before Cedric loosened up enough to let him go. Alejandro screamed once again upon seeing the deep gash left behind before noticing a bright red light coming from in front of him.
He looked up to see what it was to see that an entirely different person was there. The only thing that was the same was his piercing red irises "Wait, who are you? What happened to Cody?"
"You mean Beanpole? I transmuted his soul into a potato battery yesterday morning. I'm the guy who' seen locked up in his head for the past 6 years. Name's Cedric, Cedric von Túfeice. But a smart guy like you already knows how I am. 'Specially after what I did to poor sap with the camera."
"Wait, I thought Frederick de Luna did that?!"
"Oh, don't you mean the one that never existed! I just screwed with the fax machine sending my profile, and put a new face on the soldier I hacked up. Amazing what you can do with a touch of voodoo isn't it?" Cedric said while juggling a fireball in his hands before dissipating it with a snap.
Alejandro now knew that he couldn't just manipulate or dominate this man. He wouldn't be afraid to kill him despite his cheerful demeanor, and would probably prefer it if he did. Without thinking he charged the serial killer with his knife in hand, upper cutting him and knocking his top hat off. He then socked across the face a few times, the last of which displaced his jaw, before stabbing him in the neck several times and rolling off.
While he panted from the adrenaline of the kill for a second, he smiled as he had just saved his own hide. This smile dropped instantly when a rising laughter came from the corpse, and it sat back up with the wound in his neck healing and gently placing the top hat back on his head. Only his jaw seemed unaffected.
"That was a pretty smart move charging me before I could fight back. Except for one thing." Cedric said before cracking his jaw back into place. It was then his eyes completely their shine, and his voice dropped his pleasent happy tone, to a cold and ruthless one. "I'm immortal."
The cornered spaniard watched in horror as Cedric stood up with a sadistic sharp toothed grin and took off the of his cane to reveal a long blade "I was originally just going to let you accept your defeat and leave, but I'm afraid you've knocked off my hat. So it's only fair I knock you off too."
Now into full slaughter mode, Cedric pounced up and began stabbing Alejandro in the chest and stomach and biting his face as he screamed though he didn't hit any vital points. He wanted to drag it out for as long as possible. The terrified and maimed Latin magnates to push him for a brief second and ran towards the door. He violently banged on it once he realized it was locked, only for the killer to grab him by the wrist and throw him down the ground, cracking his skull.
"Come on now Greed, down in hell the greedy are supposed to push heavy things. So go on, push the floor with that pretty face of yours. Push the floor! PUSH IT! PUSH IT! PUSH IT! PUSH IT! HAHAHAHAHAHHAWHAWHAWHAWHAWHAW"Cedric screamed as he violently and repeatedly slammed the bleeding, beaten and weeping Alejandro against the floor.
"Ayudan! *cough**wheeze* Alguien poor que me ayude!"
"Don't even think about it pride. Whenever I slip into this skin no one will here anything outside the room I'm in!"
"What in hell's name are you?!"
Cedric stopped once he heard the comment before snickering for a moment and answering with multiple demonic voice going off at the same time as his "Yes, exactly!"
He then turned Alejandro on his back and began clawing at his face like a wild animal. By the time he was done you could the muscles and even a bit of the bone in the X-shaped gash left on his face. Just when Alejandro thought it couldn't get any worse, Cedric pulled a small shaker with orange powder and literally poured salt into the wound causing him to scream in even more agony then before.
The deranged murderer then backed off for a mere second and made a pulling motion with his hand. Though nothing was in that hand shadows constricted around his victim, pulling him into an upright position. He gingerly aligned his fists with his jaw and the top of his head, before slamming down and shattering his jawbone and teeth.
"Youth a monther. I canth't beliefth youth'd do all thigh jutht to win a thupid game." Alejnadro shamed him through his lisp, though it didn't seem to affect him much.
"Humans have always been such foolish beasts. The sins I commit in this game are not for lust, pride, greed, or revenge. No, I'm beyond such things. Everything I do is simply because I'm an evil bastard who finds it fun. Seeing you animals run around like this is simply amusing to me. I create chaos amongst your kind. Why should I feel bad about killing you and your kind. To me, it's no different then chickens in a slaughterhouse." Cedric said coldly as he slipped on the talisman into a glove, which once again sprayed red lightning.
"Youth can'th do thitt to me! I'm the greatetht villain thith thow hath ever theen!" Alejandro raved on in fear.
Cedric only chucked for second before simply saying "Well I'm here to relieve you of your duties. And take. Your. Post. Now say good night Gracie!"
"Demonio! Thálvame de este demonio!" Alejandro cried out in one last desperate attempt, before the red lightning shot out at his face causing a blue smoke like substance to trail down the shocks. Eventually the trail ran out, and formed into a small blue ball in Cedric's hand. He looked at Alejandro to see that with an exception of an X-shaped scar left from his assualt, his injuries were healed. But his eyes were dull and his heart stopped beating.
The only thing Cedric had to now was breath in the ball up his nose. Once nothing remained he automatically regained his happy attitude while wiping the blood off his shoe and his hands "Oh man, it's been quite sometime since I've had a soul that deviant. It was like eating ambrosia! Or French fries! Let's face it their pretty much the same thing. Hey you, shadow demon on the right, can you get rid of that guy? His body will live without its soul for like a month, and we don't anyone finding him."
Cedric watched as his loa loaded Alejandro's hollow body was loaded out the Drop of Shame, though it was slow like a weight being leveled down by a rope. It was then he heard a small shuffling from behind the door.
That shuffling was Duncan, who had seen the entire thing.
"Cedric's on the plane."
Confessional:
Duncan: "I knew he seemed familiar. Back when I was a lowly punk in juvie, he worked for the guy running the place. But back then his name was Cedric. And he's really bad news."
"Cedric is on the plane. Cedric is on the plane. I'm right! I'm right!I-" Ducnan said excitedly to himself before turning back to the window of the door and seeing Cedric with an excited smile pressing his face against the door "I am so dead!"
Duncan then made a mad dash down the hall in a desperate attempt to escape and warn the others, only to find the path was now blocked by a locked iron door "Oh come on?! You had to pick now to replace that curtain with a door?"
He immediately stopped his thrashing on the door when he felt a cold sword held up against his neck. The terrified delinquent looked down to see Cedric had his knife half unsheathed and pressed up against the front of his neck "It's been awhile since I've seen your cowardly little ass in full regalia. Tell me, have you seen Mikey any since?"
"No, this is the first I've heard of either of you psychos in years and-Wait a minute, did you just call me a coward?" Duncan asked angrily before Cedric threw him on his backside. When he opened his eyes back up he found the tip of Cedric's blade pressed up against his nose.
"Yeah pretty much. Whatcha gonna do about it?"
Duncan then froze up before asking in a choked up voice "Aaare you gonna eat me or something?"
"…Oh gross no, that's disgusting! I'm evil, not uncivilized! The only part of the human body I eat is the soul. And I can get that just by loping off your heard."
"You can't kill me, We're on camera right now!"
"Haven't you seen Blair Witch Project Pride? Demons can screw with camera footage. Not like I'd dirty my hands with your pathetic blood anyways." Cedric said he put his sword back into a cane.
"Keep insulting me like that and I'll show you how much tougher I've gotten since you cut me last you pipsqueak possessing nut job!"
When Cedric heard his last claim he began openly laughing his ass off, much to Duncan's confusion and anger "You strong are kidding me. You're practically the very definition of a pathetic wimp. You openly pick on the weak and those who can't defend themselves. But when you come across someone you can't best, you'd do anything to avoid getting axed off! The only difference between you and I is that I'm no coward. And the whole asexual demon thing."
"Please, I have my standards. I'm nothing like you or Mal." Duncan continued the argument only for Cedric to grow amuch angrier expression and hold the sword up much closer to his neck.
"BARK LIKE A DOG!"
"What?"
"BARK LIKE A DOG OR I'LL DECAPITATE YOU IN A MILLISECOND PRIDE!"
The terrified punk instantly followed the angry demon's command, barking and howling in a desperate attempt to save his life. He was both surprised and enraged when Cedric's frightening scowl turned into a smirk and a tape from a nearby camera dropped into his already held out hand. His anger only became greater when he saw that it's light was red.
"How humiliating. It would be such a shame for Lust and Envy to see how pathetic you really are. And by shame, I mean it would be the best possible retribution for your adulterous ways." Cedric mocked the disgraced Duncan who got up and charged him only to be slapped right back down.
"You really don't get it Duncan. With this tape in my hands your mine. Your team is mine! Your game is mine! Your life. Is. Mine. Now get some rest. The flight to Sweden will take quite some time you know." Cedric said as he slipped back into his disguise and down the corridor.
This left Duncan, with his pride severely damaged alone and on his knees in the hallway "I'm not like him. I'm not like him. I'm not like him. I'm not like him…"
(A/N): I was way to kind to that bastard in the original. This time around I'm giving him the beating he deserves! But aside from that, to whoever actually reads this story, I just wanted to let you know this one's going on a small break as I switch hands back to my other story, Ninja of Santoryu for a bit.
Follow, favorite, and review or else Cedric will sneak into your room at night…And give you a pumpkin filled with trick or treat candy.
Cedric: "All of it's black licorice!"
See you next time!
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