*Fanfare* Presenting chappie two of TDP! Apologies for the wait, I know it's been a while…anyways thanks for receiving this so well! :D I'll try a more spaced-out format this time and see how it goes!! Oh and BTW, the next chappie might be slow in coming as well…I've got an Orchestra Pop Music Concert coming up and I'm first chair/concert mistress…ACK! THE PRESSURE!!

*Note- there's one convo between Lily and Mika that might look a little weird, so instead of re-wording the whole thing I just put the translations in parentheses (because Mika is mute)*

Goddess of Power ~ I wasn't planning on any returns, but if an idea comes along where I need some past cast it's possible…slim chance though, sorry. And you're right…looks like Lina will never know now. :O

Paka-Simon-Trevor-Forever ~ Heh, you're name takes a while as well! Call me Lina, and what should I call you?

Hood Star ~ Well in that case, hurry up and enjoy this chapter!! XD

Round Two: Hobby Lobby

Lina grins and starts an introduction. "Howdy y'all!" A foam ball hits her head. "Hey! Meh, fine we'll do it your way. Hi all you viewers out there! This is Total Drama Public, lightning rounds of challenges in public places with random civilians competing for $500! By now you're probably pondering why Chris isn't here, right? Well, Chris is in the manager's office trying to get permission to use the store's numerous security cameras and vacate the area because he said there'd be a 'surprising twist' in today's challenge…he doesn't tell us anything…." Lina tapped her foot. "Aaanyways, let's kick this thing off! I'm going to go into Hobby Lobby for today's contestants!"

After a brief wait, Lina returned with four teens to find a giddy Chris. "Dude, seriously, why'd I have to do your intro?" She growled at the unshaken host.

"My dear Lina, you have no idea what's in store. Now, on to business, who have you brought for us this time?." He asked.

Lina leaned against a chilled out dude wearing an ocean color scheme of ripped jeans, blue top, worn blue high tops, and dark purple sunglasses. "This guy here is Takeru, but let's keep it down to TK. Partying, pranking, anime, and a hate for Britney Spears…the whole package!" Lina snuck in a quick glomp before he could swat her away and moved on.

"This here is Lexi, she's in to fashion quite apparently." Lina said, checking out her pink tank with 'Lexi' on it, jeans, cute pink sandals, and noting the pink eye shadow. Lexi, however didn't seem to notice Lina staring at her as she was distracted by the fabrics section, clothing designs popping up in her head. Lexi tore her attention away from the fabrics. "Hm? Oh you were talking to me…I love TDI, so I expect TDP should be just as great!"

Lina moved over to another guy, getting close, but not quite invading any personal space. "And here is Miguel." He turned to her. "Chica, just call me Joker." "Ooh, if you're Joker can I be your Harley Quinn? Ahehe! Sorry, bad pun!" He gave Lina a side glance and shrugged. "Obviously you're not someone to screw around with! I mean, studs pierced in both ears and tats…you've got a pretty dangerous aura!" She edged away a little, studying his baggy black tee, slightly baggy brownish khaki dickies shorts, and all black vans. "Look, just keep Chris away from me, he pisses me off big time. I've been arrested twice, I'd rather not let there be a third." He shot a dark look at Chris. "Will do." Lina said and latched on to the final contestant of the day.

"Hey Ignaeteos, I'm on television, WHAT NOW?! Oh hey, I'm Blaze." The girl in biker clothing said with energy. Lina grinned. "Nice bandana, lovin' the sun-gold color too! Well, unless you're dense you'd know that this is Blaze! She's a biker, obviously, and she loves circuses! Heck, her theme song is Circus by Britney Spears. Ooh, conflicting interests…" Lina glanced over at TK. "Well, just because I love that song doesn't mean I'm not dangerous…but I'm not gonna explain that." Blaze said, cracking her knuckles.

Chris stepped in, nudging Lina aside. "SO! Now that we all know each other, I think it's about the right time to inform you as to why we're using the store cameras instead of my crew." He leaned back and chuckled to himself.

"Get on with it already!!" Lina shouted at the pompous host.

"Hah, suspense! The challenge of the day is Capture The Flag! Everyone has their own flag, and when two people are left the one with the most flags in their possession is our champion! If your flag is captured you may not steal. However you may either help someone else capture flags, or keep them from getting any!"

"A'ight, simple. The rest of you are going down." Joker smiled, flexing a bit.

"Aha, but it ISN'T that simple, because you see, the crew will be participating too!"

Mika snarled and lunged at Chris, but Steven and Lily quickly intervened.

"Yes you heard right, instead of four players there will be eight! And just to make sure that there's a fair chance for you four, the siblings will not be allowed to capture flags, only protect theirs! Also, since I am aware that there will be an even number of flags in play, there's a ninth flag hidden in the store to prevent a tie!" Chris smirked evilly at the Nekuro siblings.

Lina sighed and fastened an easy-release bright green triangular flag to everyone's belt loops, putting a belt on Mika and Lily so they could wear theirs.

"Now, quit wasting time! You'll get ten minutes before hunting is allowed to set up your game plan, be it crafting weapons or building a defensive fortress or just finding a good ambush site. I'll be monitoring the action from the security room and will alert you via P.A. system when your time is up, Get going!!" He pulled out an air horn and dismissed the teens with a loud blare.

Lina ran to the paint aisle. "Hehehe! I'm gonna play mind games with 'em all! Bwahahaha!" She grabbed a large palette and started opening paints…

Lexi was lounging in the Needlework section. She had brought in a comfy chair and pillows from the Home Accents area and set up plenty of traps. It looked like there were pretty rugs at both ends of the aisle, but the rugs were loaded with sensitive triggers that if stepped on would cause thousands of needles to rain prickly death down on you.

"Well, now that I've got a base, time for some quality time with the fabrics!" She let out a small squee and walked through the nearly impossible to find 'safe path' over the rugs and bee-lined for the vast expanse of fabrics and threads.

Joker was in the crafts section, specifically, the sculpture supplies aisle.

"I guess since I'm up against mainly girls, I can just scare 'em into handing over their flags." He mused aloud while sharpening the end of a large wooden dowel with a sculpture knife.

"Besides, nobody wields a weapon better than I do." He finished his work with the dowel which had become more or less a narrow yet formidable blade.

"Ah, there we go! A devilishly handsome mask for an equally handsome gentleman." Steven smiled at the mask in his hands.

He had been sitting in the party aisle of the crafts section and made a mask with cat ears and slits for his eyes that only covered the top half of his face. The mask was studded with shiny crystal-like gems and had a crest of black and white feathers accenting the top left side.

"Now all I need is to fashion for myself a cape and locate a suitable weapon of the defensive sort. Oh, I'll be ever so debonair!" Steven said happily to himself.

Blaze hummed contently to herself as she rode around the main walkways in her new ride. Instead of running off to make something, she hijacked a motor scooted for disabled people from the front and made a few modifications. She had transformed the awkward, clunky scooter into a terrifying speed machine.

"Haha! Perfect … I've outdone myself!" She stood with her fists on her hips, grinning victoriously.

"Mika, what's the point of all this? Can't we just use our real powers for once?" Lily asked her sister.

"…" ('The time has not come yet.'). Mika continued to work furiously with many different yarns, knitting up something fierce.

"Don't '…' ME! I for one know what I'm doing, and I've become quite frustrated that we've not once been able to cut loose!"

Mika smirked and her shoulders twitched.

"Stop laughing, I know you've been dying for a chance to…don't you hate your body like that?" Lily asked.

Mika stopped for a moment to face Lily. "…!!!" ('You're just jealous that I'm stronger than you!!!' ).The mute answered.

Lily, of course, understood Mika perfectly. " Hey! Am not! …Well, no point in arguing, I'm sorry for complaining to you, Mika." Lily said, talking enough for both of them.

"…"('Why don't you get ready for the game?').

"Well, I guess so. What you're planning with that yarn I've no clue, but as for me, I believe I'll play the rogue this time. Stalking the territory with a large weapon in hand as I am so fond of doing. That being said, ta-ta for now." Lily walked away toward the garden décor area with a mischievous glint in her eyes.

"…" ('What an oddball…') Mika said and continued to knit.

Takeru sighed and readjusted his grip on the mirror he was carrying. He stopped, placed the three by three foot mirror down and grabbed a hand mirror from his pocket. He looked into the hand mirror while rotating it around to view all angles above him.

"No hidden flag here… maybe near the registers?" He put the hand mirror back in his pocket and continued.

He mentally congratulated himself on his strategy. He had fitted his sunglasses with small mirrors at varying angles so that even looking straight ahead he could see nearly every angle around him. He had eliminated all blind spots, thus preventing ambushes and giving him a perfect view of everything around him that the others did not have. The large mirror was just an extra precaution, as it acted as a shield and slight camouflage.

The speakers above crackled on. "Contestants! Your ten minutes are up, you may now begin capturing flags!"

The P.A. clicked off and every teen was filled with adrenaline by the thought that they'd have to hunt or be hunted.

Steven stepped jauntily past shelves of Do-It-Yourself models, now fully decked out in his mask and a sparkling silver cape. He had fashioned a handle for his dowel and covered it with silver paint, morphing it into a foil.

"I suppose that I'll locate the hidden flag and act as its guardian…but however will I find it before the others?"

"This is ten percent luck…" A voice like a shadow breezed past his ears.

"Stand and fight!" He whirled around, brandishing his foil.

"What…?" He let out a puff of breath and readjusted his mask, seeing nobody around.

"I must be crazy…" He shrugged it off and continued his search, completely oblivious to how a section of the models distorted slightly before straightening again.

Steven heard faint humming and silently ran toward it. He soon found himself looking down the needlework section facing Lexi. There were mannequins and clothes strewn haphazardly along the length of the aisle.

"Wow! These are fabulous!" Steven squealed to Lexi, fangirling over the all the fashion covering the area. She looked up from her work at Steven.

"Thanks! If you like them so much, why don't you come over here and try a few on?" She managed to say around the pins held between her teeth.

"Well, don't mind if I-- wait, this is a trick isn't it." Steven's foot hovered just centimeters away from the rug Lexi had set.

"Um, no it isn't?" Lexi smiled cutely and tried her hardest to entice Steven to take one more step.

"Forgive me, Lexi, but I cannot believe that." He took a step back and used his foil to flick a pack of needles off the wall onto the rug. The area rang with a sound like a miniature gattling gun as needles showered down on the rug.

"EEEK!" Steven jumped in surprise. He held a hand over his heart to steady himself. "I see… best of luck to you then!" He gave a quick nod to Lexi then fled in minute terror.

Lexi sighed "Hmph, now I have to reset the whole thing!" She put down her current project and got up.

"You're a grade-A nutcase, ya know that? I swear you belong in an asylum or something!" Joker shouted at Mika.

Mika had turned the yarn aisle into a spider web of doom. She was suspended in the heart of the web, held above ground by thousands of strands looped all around her body.

"…" Mika grinned fully, showing Joker her abnormally long canines.

Joker didn't even blink. "You don't scare me, I'm taking you out. Your flag is mine!"

He raised his blade to slash at the first layer of yarn. Mika twitched her left foot and a heavy sewing machine atop the shelves nudged forward by a few millimeters.

Joker froze, he took a long and careful look through the yarn to look at the items on the shelves."¡Dios Mío! Everything in this freaky spider web is rigged to you isn't it?"

Mika nodded carefully, and to prove her point she jerked her head slightly to the right. A large box leaped off the top shelf and smashed into the floor next to Joker. He didn't even flinch, but he backed off quickly.

"You're safe, for now. I'll be back when I think of a way around those trigger lines." He scowled and stormed off down the nearest area past the shelves of D.I.Y. models.

"I dunno what kind of past that freak had, but she's something else. How'd she get herself up in the air with yarn?" He muttered to himself.

A voice like darkness answered from nowhere "Twenty percent skill…"

"Who's there?!" Joker turned and swung his blade in a powerful arc to hit his attacker, but his blade only whistled through air. "Ha ha, crazy girl must be affectin me or somethin."

Lily lurked around the large portrait frames. "Come here, my pretties…I'll force you to your knees!" She suddenly cackled.

She gripped a large metallic war hammer that she'd carved from a huge marble statue. It had captivated her as soon as she rounded the corner into the garden décor, it called out to her and in a trance she'd chiseled out a beautifully deadly war hammer. In her effort to make a gorgeous weapon, she'd also embossed some silver leaf on it.

She turned to the sounds of a motor. WHAM! Lily was thrown three feet in the air and landed hard on her back.

"Too bad I had to pretty much run over you, but I'll be taking your flag now." Blaze sprang off her uber-scooter and rapidly approached Lily's body.

"Heh, way too easy." Blaze reached out and snatched up Lily's flag.

"…Ah, but you underestimate me, Blaze." Lily rolled to the side and lifted her war hammer like it was a balloon. "Do not make the same mistake again!"

Lily swung, but at he last moment changed the hammer's course and connected a glancing swipe to Blaze's right leg.

"Augh!" Blaze fell to the floor, clutching her bruised leg. "Maxwell?" She asked, half delirious from the pain.

"I use a Silver Hammer, and I wield it masterfully." Lily said, and retreated to find a place to nurse her own wound.

Blaze limped over to the uber-scooter and hoisted herself on. Driving around a few shelves she parked near a bunch of model kits."What kind of innocent looking girl carves a war hammer out of marble in ten minutes?"

A sound like a silhouette echoed in the empty space "Fifteen percent concentrated power of will…"

"What the??" Blaze swiveled around in her seat hearing somebody, but seeing nobody. She shivered slightly and drove on.

TK was standing on register three to get a higher vantage point. He slowly combed the store for any trace of bright green.

"It looks like…it's in the glass bead cabinet! Aw crap, and there's Steven like a guard dog. Great." He sighed and hopped down.

"Hey! Ocean boy!" TK dropped down and held up his mirror. CLANG! The mirror deflected a direct blow from Joker's blade.

"What the heck? You're gonna seriously damage me with that thing!" TK kept shielding himself from Joker's onslaught.

"Whatev. You know what I want."

"Wait!" TK yelled over the noise of wood striking glass. "Let's make a deal!"

Joker lowered his arm slightly, staring hard at TK. "Well? You've got one minute before I take your flag."

"What if we capture everyone's flags except each others, that way the competition is taken care of and the hidden flag will be between just you and me." Joker looked thoughtful and for a second TK thought he would say no.

"Deal, on one condition. The first person you attack has to be that demented Mika chick. Yarn aisle, be prepared for a challenge." Joker turned on his heel and jogged off.

TK sighed and looked at his mirror. "Cracked…one more swing and it'd have been toast." He took a quick look around with the mirrors in his sunglasses and walked steadily over to the yarn aisle.

"Geez!" He took a step back in surprise. Mika was still suspended like some apocalyptic marionette in the midst of the deadly web.

Mika growled, sensing TK approach the web. She flexed her left ring finger and sent a flurry of knitting needles at TK. Another sound like a gattling gun and then a hideous shatter as the metal needles obliterated the mirror in TK's hands, exploding into shining glass shards. He grit his teeth as he pulled a few slivers out of his palms."Chill out, you made your point. Nobody gets your flag unless they disarm you."

Mika grinned, sensing a formidable challenger in TK. TK took a long breath and look at the sea of reflection around him. A spark of genius lit up his features and he dropped to the floor, collecting all the shards he could carry.

Mika growled lightly, twitching various parts of her body to carefully slide forward the heaviest objects on the top of the shelves close to the edge. Even though her web was nearly foolproof, she had one final maneuver in her arsenal: a kamikaze avalanche. She grinned spitefully to herself, if TK managed to breach the outer tangle of yarn she would bury herself in craft supplies…and he would go down with her.

"No hard feelings, Mika, okay? This'll prolly hurt you way more than me!" He said to her through the yarn.

He raised his arm back and forcefully threw dozens of mirror fragments into the web. Mika deadpanned, the sharp projectiles would pierce her as well as slice through the trigger yarn holding her up. TK watched frozen to the spot, unable to help as Mika's face twisted into an anguished roar. The shards of glass cut her and severed many vital strands of yarn, Mika fell and the contents of the aisle collapsed on her.

"Hang on dudette!!" TK shook off the shock and dove at the pile, scrabbling away items until finally unearthing the unconscious Mika from underneath it all. He pulled her free and lay her down on a nest of fallen yarn.

He took the flag from her belt and turned to leave, but turned back when he heard a soft sigh. 'Good game.' Mika's crooked grin seemed to say. TK nodded and hurried away from the wreckage.

Mika lay there regaining her senses when she sensed a familiar aura. She wriggled around until she had her head poking out into the back aisle. She turned to face down the aisle and directed her focus at the shelves of Do-It-Yourself models. Though she had no sight in reality, she could always see that which others could not. Against the gray matter was a subtle, swirling aura.

"I had the fortune of facing a worthy opponent." Her thoughts projected in her mind.

A voice seemed to seep out of the shadows from the shelves. "Five percent pleasure…"

Joker was on his back, carefully picking needles out of his skin.

"You know, some people pay good money to get acupuncture. You got yours free." Lexi giggled at Joker, who looked rather like a hedgehog.

"I wasn't gonna hurt you, but you force me. You really do." He grimaced and yanked out a handful from his calf.

Lexi hastily put away her fabrics and got out a few large decorative metal wire spheres. "You'd better not cross those rugs Joker!" She threatened, lining the spheres up in a line across the aisle.

"Oh, and what are you gonna do about it? I'm not scared of anything you can do." He retorted, extracting the last needle from his flesh and getting on his feet. In a flash he had his carved wood blade out and was charging at Lexi.

"Well, I warned you." Lexi cheerily shrugged and took a step back. She made a short lunge forward and kicked the first sphere.

Joker dodged sharply to the right as the metal wire object went whooshing past his head."Crap, woman! Needles AND a killer leg?" He barked at her.

Lexi positioned herself for another kick. "I'm not just a fashion pro, my other love is soccer!" She shot her foot forward, twisting her ankle ever so slightly.

That slight twist gave the sphere a wicked spin and it flew in a curved arc catching Joker square in the chest. "Unf! That tickled…that all you got?"

Lexi's face was tense in concentration as she kicked the remaining three spheres in aimed, quick succession. All three scored direct hits, but Joker continued his advance. He rushed her with his blade, pinning her hands with the blade and taking her flag.

"See ya." He laughed and strode off. As soon as he was out of sight he went back to the one area with the least person traffic: the shelves of models. When he arrived he immediately shuddered and patted down every pin-pricked inch of his skin, his hands becoming littered with tiny speckles of blood.

"That…hurt…"

His shadow seemed to answer him. "Fifty percent pain…"

"Oh great, there's that creepy voice again. What are you trying to pull, Chris?!"

"Honestly, this time it's not me!" Chris huffed indignantly and crossed his arms.

"Maybe those model kits are haunted, who knows? Come to think of it…" He scanned over all 36 surveillance screens quickly, a frown growing on his face.

"Where's Lina? I don't think I've seen her this whole time since the hunting started…"

Blaze was careful not to be spotted by the others. From what she saw, so far Lexi, Mika, and Lily had been eliminated. Her strategy had changed from direct conflicts to stealing flags when there were only two others left. So far, it seemed to be working, everyone else was getting tired fighting except for her and Steven, who was mysteriously standing in front of an rode past the ruins of the yarn aisle and was about to turn the corner, but suddenly heard voices. She shut off the uber-scooter or a moment to listen.

"So, I trashed Mika like I said." TK told Joker.

Joker nodded. "And I got Lexi. So now there's only Steven and Blaze to worry about."

TK shook his head. "Actually, Lina's still in…but where she is I have absolutely NO clue."

Joker waved his blade dismissively. "You've got an all-around view, I'm sure you'll spot her sneaking around somewhere."

TK nodded his agreement and took a quick check around just in case.

Blaze muffled a grunt as she quickly pushed her uber-scooter back a few feet to avoid TK's super-sight.

"Well, you get Blaze's flags, cuz I think she's captured Lily's already. Keep an eye out for Lina for me. If you get two flags from Blaze, I'll need the flag from Lina. I'm gonna go take care of Steven now." Joker delivered their game plan and walked off.

TK sighed. "Great, why couldn't HE have taken Blaze? I swear it was her that made those wicked track marks around the portrait area." He turned and started off in the opposite direction of Blaze.

'Now's my chance!' Blaze thought and silently mounted her ride.

She carefully drove out into the open and was about to high-tail it to the yarn aisle ruins to ask Mika to team up with her when something bonked the back of her head. "Owwch!" She looked behind her and saw a cracked hand mirror.

"I see you." TK called out eerily. Blaze worked the throttle and sped off with TK in hot pursuit.

She was doing fine and even widening the gap between them when she made the misfortune of driving through the frames and mirrors area. Blood pounded in her ears as small mirrors and frames flew past her.

"NOOO!!" Blaze looked ahead and saw that TK didn't miss because he had lousy aim, he was knocking over larger frames up ahead to make a road block. The uber-scooter bucked when it hit the frames. Blaze was pitched forward luckily not sustaining any injury, but her modified vehicle skidded and bounced across the floor and smashed into the rack of paints. TK grabbed a large five by five frame and trapped Blaze under it. Blaze struggled but the frame kept her from getting any farther than three inches off the ground. TK calmly reached around and took Blaze's flags.

"Thanks a ton, Blaze. Oh, and if you happen to see Lina, tell me." He said and walked off to see how Joker was doing.

"You shall never win if this is your approach." Steven was posed in an offensive stance six feet across from teens had their weapons held at the ready.

"Fool, how am I supposed to take you seriously in that gay getup? It's not Halloween!" Joker stifled a laugh and did his best to look intimidating despite the fact Steven was making him want to break down into manly giggles.

Steven smiled and poised his foil for a strike. "Well, for one thing, I AM gay. And I am quite aware that Halloween isn't until October, I'm just eccentric. I mean, have you even MET my sisters? I'm the most sane out of us."

Joker got over his giggles and was actually serious now. "Prove it, sissy boy!"

He ran at Steven and extended his blade forward to stab Steven, but Steven was ready. Steven flicked his foil out and flung the wooden blade out of Joker's fist, then using his agility managed to whack Joker five times in various places before he could counter.

"You would've done well to actually consider my outfit. It's obvious that you didn't guess that I am a master fencer."

"Oh, like those guys that dress up in white padded armor and wear wire mesh masks? And the things you use are those whippy little needle-like swords?" Joker retrieved his blade.

"Correct. You need a longer weapon to get past me." Steven took up a defensive stance this time.

Joker just shook his head and smirked. "No need, I can still beat you down." Joker was formulating a plan of attack that Steven wouldn't be able to counter. He rushed Steven again, this time swinging his blade hard at the tip of Steven's fast approaching foil. CRACK! A few inches were instantly cut from the tip of the fencer's foil.

"My word! I'd forgotten that it was only wood!" Steven gasped and looked at his clipped weapon.

Joker grinned and charged again, again, again. Each time clipping a few more inches off until Steven's foil was nothing but a stub. "I told you. You may have fancy skills, but my blade was sharp enough to cut your fencer-thing down to size." Joker shoved his blade through a belt loop and forcefully tackled Steven to the ground, rolling him up in his own cape and taking his flag.

Joker stood up and came face to face with a slice of bright green. He grinned. "Looks like you did the work of finding the hidden flag for me!" He opened the glass bead case and plucked out the hidden flag.

The speakers overhead clicked on.

"Hahaha, great moves so far, competitors!" Chris's obnoxious voice sounded all over the store."Man, this stuff is gonna make some awesome television! The current standings are three people left! Joker and TK tied for the win with four flags each, and Lina who has somehow managed to elude everyone this entire challenge with one flag! Looks like it's sudden death time, the winner is whoever finds and captures Lina's flag! Chris, out."

And all was silent again.

The fallen competitors were currently hiding out near the registers, hatching a devious plot of their own.

"So, Chris said that we could help or hurt the remaining contestants, right?" Lexi asked.

Mika nodded. "…" Lily saw the confused looks on Lexi's and Blaze's faces, so she translated.

"Mika says that we should team up and help Lina because it's fun."

"It's 'fun', that's IT?" Blaze questioned Mika, crossing her arms and staring unblinkingly at the blind mute.

Mika nodded once.

"Eh, works for me. Does anyone know where the heck she IS anyway?"

Mika nodded again, "…, …!"

And Lily translated once again. "Ooh, she's a genius! Come in close guys, we don't want ANYONE outside this group to hear this!"

Whispering, giggling, and gasps followed.

"So THAT'S why nobody could find her!" Lexi said, her jaw dropping slightly.

Blaze rubbed her head in relief. "Good things it was just Lina, cuz for a while I thought I was going crazy!"

"Now that her whereabouts have been established, what do we do about Joker and TK?" Steven interjected.

"Good question…let's think…." Lily said, then all were quiet, each concocting their own 'operation: help Lina'.

TK took a deep breath. "Easy now…there, that's good." He was perched atop a high shelf near the center of the store. "Just gotta sit, wait, and watch."

He cleared a comfortable area for himself and sat, facing ahead, but seeing all.

Joker muttered a long, rapid string of Spanish under his breath. He figured that Lina must be hiding and he should flush her out. He equipped himself with a paint sprayer filled with water.

"C'mon, Lina, you're only making it harder for yourself when I find you." He methodically snaked through the aisles, spraying water everywhere with enough space for a skinny girl to hide.

"Um…dangit what'd she say to me earlier…oh yeah! Lina! If you surrender now you can be my Harley Quinn! I feel really stupid to be shouting this…" Joker facepalmed. He walked into the back aisle and shot water at a clump of suspicious looking feather boas. His back was turned to the shelves of models as he soaked the mass of fluff in an attempt to find Lina.

"Lina…Lina…why the heck should I go through all this trouble anyways? I'm just gonna forget you later anyways."

A voice out of the gloom seemed to reply. "And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!"

Joker went stiff. "That's it! No more creepy voices! No more haunted shelf!" He sprayed the entire shelf down with a torrent of water.

"Daaaaang…" His eyes went wide, was reality melting? The models seemed to melt.

"Eep…looks like the jig is up…" When more of the models melted away, all that was left was a soaked and half-covered-in-paint Lina.

Joker shouted in surprise "WHAT. THE. F-"

"Freeeaky! Painting her entire body to blend in perfectly with her surroundings? Even I wasn't expecting that!!!" Chris was hysterical, laughing so hard he cried. "That is SO bada-"

"Aha!" TK exclaimed. "So THAT'S her trick!" He spotted Lina running from Joker, paint flying off her like rain. He scrambled down from the shelf and gave chase.

"They found her! Quick!" Lexi and Mika ran to the paints while Steven, Lily, and Blaze made a mad dash to intercept Joker and TK.

"You freak! You were playin with all of us this whole time! You were tryin to psych us out and make us think we were goin loco!" Joker roared at her.

"Sure, but'cha gotta admit, it was totally raddie!" Lina shouted behind her to Joker.

TK skidded out from around a corner and Lina veered sharply left to avoid capture. "Yeah, I guess it was pretty impressive." TK yelled after her.

"FORE!!" SMACK!! TK went flipping high through the air. Luckily, Steven caught him before he went headfirst into the ground.

"Hole in one!" Lily and Blaze high-fived each other on the newly repaired uber-scooter.

"AHAHAAA!!" Chris was really crying now. "I--I just GOTTA get an instant slo-mo replay on that!"

The tape rewound and played in slow motion the hilarious hit-n-run. Blaze got TK in her sights and sped up to pass him. As they passed TK, Lily swung her silver war hammer straight into the backs of his knees at a curving upward angle, like golf. The force and direction of momentum of the swing sent TK soaring.

"Oh gosh, this is definitely going in the archives!" Chris barely managed to set the screens back to normal around all his laughing.

Steven took TK to the fabrics and wrapped him up, adding a ribbon as a finishing touch. "There. You keep out of trouble now, 'kay?" He patted TK's shoulder. And ran back to assist his sister.

"Guys! Am I ever glad to see you!" Lina saw Lexi and Mika up ahead, paint and brushes at the grinned at Mika. Lexi couldn't figure it out, but somehow the blind mute managed to teach her a crash course on body painting and optical illusions.

"Three minutes! That's all you got!" Steven cried and took a flying leap at Joker, pulling him down.

"Oh, you're in for a world of pain now!" Joker momentarily put the chase on hold as he grappled with Steven, who had returned to his normal attire. Lina sprinted to Mika and Lexi, panting hard.

"Okay, try to keep still now, this might tickle…a LOT." Lexi told Lina and then began painting on her with Mika.

"Girls!" Stevens call alerted the three to Joker's approach. "And…done! Get going Lina!" Lexi said and gave Lina a starting shove.

Lina caught her reflection in a mirror as she ran. Her body was covered in an erratic coat of black and white target-like rings, except the rings didn't overlap, their outlines merged and continued on. Joker suddenly came running out from the corner ahead of her.

"Gotcha!" He made a grab at her, but missed by a few inches." What the? I thought I had you!" He looked puzzled, but shook it off and ran after her.

"Lina! The trick is constant movement! Whatever you do, don't stay still!" Lexi yelled to Lina.

"Yeah! Wiggle around and stuff!" Blaze called out to her.

Lina's eyes lit up in understanding, the black and white design would distort her outline and screw with perception. They had painted an optical illusion on her.

Steven walked up beside his two blind sisters. "I made a deal with Chris."

"…!!?!"

"No Mika, I didn't sell him my soul. I convinced him that playing some music to get Lina moving to a beat would give Joker an even harder time getting his hands on her." And on cue, the speakers started blaring out a fantastic techno pulse.

"aw yeh! Thas ma JAM!" Lina whooped and synced her movements with the beat.

"Chris! You're dead when this is over, hear me? DEAD!" Joker screamed in rage. He made many attempts to grab Lina, but kept missing. Lina just danced and sang, completely in her element.

"I wanna be your illusion,

be your illusion

To make you happy tonight

Enjoy this trip with me

I wanna be your emotion,

be your emotion

Why don't you turn off the light

Imagine how we could be living"

Joker gave a frustrated grunt. "Fine, you wanna play? You're gonna get burned." He grabbed two paint cans and opened them. He aimed and tossed the cans high in the air, giving them a little spin so paint showered everywhere.

"Ack! Cover blown again!" Lina looked at her green and silver splotched body despairingly.

"UNF!!" Joker sprinted forward and knocked Lina back with a full powered tackle.

"Finally…I got you flag. I win." Joker grinned in satisfied pleasure and held Lina's paint covered flag above his head.

"Congratulations on the big win Joker, you're like a mega-predator!" Chris said. Coming out from the security office.

Joker whipped out a blade, a real one this time." I'm keeping my promise Chris. You. Are. Dead."

"GYAAAH!" Chris shrieked and locked himself in the security office.

The speakers clicked on. "Anyways, Joker, you're today's winner and you get the cash." Five one hundred dollar bills slid out from under the door.

Joker picked them up. "Thanks, man." He said, and left.

"Well," Lina said "I guess that wraps things up! Great game today y'all. And to the viewers, stay tuned for the next exciting challenge on Total Drama Public!!!"

Songs:

~Remember the Name by Fort Minor

~Illusion by Benny Benassi

~Maxwell's Silver Hammer by The Beatles