(Taberna Tribe)
The Taberna returned to camp with mixed reactions of the tonight's vote.
"Well, that was… strange." Megan said.
"Man, was tonight crrrrrrazy! We all knew that the votes were going to be scattered but DANG!" Floyd said in awe. "Yuri-Chan got voted out in a 3-2-2-1 vote. As much as I like her, she needed to go."
Mikey brought up the rear with his head down the entire time with his head down.
"Yuri-Chan was my closest friend out here and she got voted out tonight. I don't know what happened. I actually thought for sure that we convinced Roger to keep her." Mikey said looking down. "But instead she is gone."
As he continued to walk with his head down, he felt a hand on his shoulder. Turning his head, he saw Roger looking at him with a concerned look on his face with Larka standing next to him.
"Um, I wanted to apologize for voting out Yuri-Chan." Roger said looking to the side.
Mikey looked stunned by this. "Really?"
"Yes, I knew that she was your friend." Roger frowned.
"My superiors had taught not to let your emotions get the better of you and normally I would tell Mikey to suck it up." Roger said. "However, this is a special kind of battlefield. This is Survivor. I just wanted to show Roger that there were no hard feelings."
"I just felt that Yuri-Chan was a bigger liability than Regina and Kat." The soldier said.
Despite still stunned, Mikey crossed his arms. "How? I already told all of the reasons that Yuri-Chan could be an asset."
"That may be but I just found Regina and Kat more resourceful." Roger said. "Regina could make up for her inexperience with her intelligence and Kat had already proven that she is more capable despite her size."
"I guess…" Mikey said looking down.
"Look, I am sorry but it had to be done. We could do now is move on." Roger said.
Mikey raised an eyebrow. "So you are not mad?"
"For what? Not voting with the tribe?" Roger asked in disbelief. "To be honest, NOBODY voted with the tribe so it would be unfair to blame you."
"Oh, well. That's good to know." Mikey said with a small smile.
"Don't worry, I won't hold anything against you." Roger assured.
"Thank you." Mikey nodded.
"I actually thought Roger would be on my case for moping over Yuri-Chan but he actually comforted me instead." Mikey said in awe. "Heh. Maybe there is more to the military-head we all gave him credit for."
"Now, let's go to bed." Roger instructed.
"All right." Mikey nodded.
With that, the three went to bed. Unknown to the two, Regina was eyeing them with a serious glare on her face.
(Day 12, Robur Tribe)
Bertha walked through camp still miffed last night's votes. As she did so, Barry, Belle and Rinky walked by. Surprisingly, they don't even make eye contact. Except for Barry who noticed Bertha walked by and made his way over.
"Bertha, may I speak with you for a moment?" Barry asked.
"Not now. I am in a bad mood." The dark-skinned scoffed not stopping her walk.
Suddenly, much to Belle and Rinky's shock, Barry roughly grabbed Bertha's wrist. The mall cop winced with wide eyes before looking up at the bear.
"Yes now." Barry said narrowing his eyes.
"Who…" She said before narrowing her eyes. "Who do you think you are! Let go of me!"
"In a minute." He said darkly. "First, you have to answer some questions!"
"Alan got voted out last night. However, due to his injury he was supposed to be voted out unanimously." Barry snarled crossing his arms. "But no, Rinky got TWO votes as opposed to one and I know just the witch who would want to keep Alan."
"Did you cast the hinky vote for Rinky?" The mob boss demanded.
"So what if I did?" Bertha snapped. "You should know by now why I did so!"
"No, I don't considering you never told anyone why you hated Rinky so much!" Barry shot back. "Whatever the reason, it can't be that huge to keep an INJURED player!"
"To say that Bertha's move was messed up was an understatement. Heck, I am one of the people who helped kidnapped Pacman's family and friends and even I am disgusted." Rinky grunted. "Seriously, I did do to Bertha to make her want to vote me off over someone who was obviously hurting?"
"I hate him because he is a weak, useless, annoying, disrespectful pile of manure painted yellow!" Bertha snapped.
"That is NOT a good reason!" Barry growled.
"Yes, also can't you see that Alan was in serious pain?" Rinky demanded.
"He said that he could fight through it if we gave him a chance." Bertha insisted. "I was just wanted to give him a chance!"
"I strongly doubt it." Belle said shaking her head.
"Stop talking like you care for someone else other than yourself!" Barry scolded. "You only said to save Alan because he is willing to do anything to stay in this game! Even have his arms fall off!"
"So what if I did?" Bertha snapped.
"So you admitted it." Barry said softly before shaking his head. "Bertha, didn't you "make" an alliance with me, Alan, Blake and Victoria?"
"Yeah, so?" Bertha asked.
"Wasn't the whole point of that alliance was to get rid of the weak?" Barry asked. "How is an injured man NOT a liability?"
"You don't know that! You don't know if he could still be a bigger asset than Rinky!" Bertha said glaring down at Rinky. "Not like that is saying much."
Rinky rolled his eyes at the dark-skinned woman as Belle shook her head in disgust. Barry gave a deep sigh before letting go of Bertha's wrist. The woman gingerly rubbed her wrist.
"You are going home next."
Bertha's eyes widened at Barry. "What? Why?"
"You are kidding, right?" Rinky asked flatly crossing his arms.
"You had demonstrated that you don't care for anyone but yourself and have no remorse for anyone! Even as a mob boss, I find your attitude revolting!" Barry scolded. "We don't need that! We don't need negativity like yours in our tribe!"
Bertha shook her head in disbelief. "But… But you need strength! And I am the second strongest person here!"
"Yeah, on paper." Barry said flatly.
"What is THAT supposed to mean?" Bertha demanded.
"In one way or another, you had messed up in a Challenge." Barry pointed out. "You easily allowed Yuri-Chan and Megan pull you off the pole, your fighting with Rinky caused your boat to easily capsize, your shouting had thrown HERSELF in the water!"
"Because you made me angry!" Bertha snapped.
Barry shook his head. "Admit it, Bertha. For some reason or another, you make situations worse in Challenges. You wanted us to get rid of a liability. Don't worry. We will."
Bertha's jaw dropped as he looked back and forth between Barry, Belle and Rinky who all looked cross at this.
Barry shook his head. "I don't know what I was smoking when we saved her TWICE."
"You are actually voting me out! Instead, of this little mustard-stain!" Bertha grunted. "I… You…"
Surprisingly, she just turned tail and stomped away gritting her teeth. Blake and Victoria watched the whole thing with wide eyes. They then looked at each other with wide eyes.
"Bertha, take some advice from a sniper. If you have a single target you want to get rid of, be SUBLTE about it!" Belle snapped. "Honestly, how is this woman expecting to make merge let alone WIN if she acts like a brutish tool?"
"Half of this tribe are WIMPY! Honestly, they are only going against me because they can't take that I will not vote with them!" Bertha growled. "Now my only hope is to go into a tiebreaker with Rinky to survive!"
(Taberna Tribe)
Regina walked over to a familiar bunch of bushes holding a bunch of bananas. Looking around to make sure that no one was looking, she coughed.
"All right. All clear." She said.
Floyd then poked his head out of the bushes looking relieved. "Oh, thank you!"
With that, he made his way out of the bushes and grabbed the bananas.
"I hope you realize that hard it is to sneak these by." Regina said.
"Hey, you can't just leave me starving to death now would you?" Floyd asked.
"So far Regina had been an awesome ally. We haven't done anything so far other than vote off Yuri-Chan but we are commutating quite well with each other." Floyd smiled. "She brings me food in exchange I tell her secrets."
Regina couldn't help but smile when he saw Floyd starting to chow down. However, she then frowned.
"Floyd?" Regina asked.
"Mm?" Floyd asked with mouth full.
"May I ask you something?" Regina said.
Floyd swallowed the food in her mouth before looking at her. "Sure, what is it?"
"Don't you think that Roger was being cocky last night?" Regina asked.
"Cocky?" Floyd asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, he flat-out said to everyone was coming to him as if he was a precious swing vote." Regina said crossing her arms. "All while chuckling."
"Gee, I never really noticed that." Floyd said.
"Well, I have!" Regina said putting her hands on her hips.
"Most people may have missed the smugness in Roger's comment last night but I didn't." Regina said narrowing her eyes. "For some reason, Roger found all of the chaos and scrambling we been doing entertaining. Only a sadist would find something like that amusing."
"I swear that guy is letting his power over the tribe get to his head." The blonde huffed.
Floyd raised his eyebrow. "I could see your point but don't you think you are overreacting?"
"Of course not! Don't you remember the punishment he gave us after we voted out Nick Boy?" Regina challenged.
"Ugh, don't remind me! I nearly threw up breakfast that day!" Floyd groaned.
"Roger is letting his position of leader get the better of his ego." Regina said. "I don't want someone like that in charge."
"But why didn't you step up when Roger first became leader?" Floyd pointed out.
"Hello? I had other problems to worry about at the time!" Regina scolded. "Who gets to lead was the least of my worries but now it is!"
Floyd's eyes widened. "You're… Not thinking of voting off Roger, are you?"
"No, not really. However, I am definitely knocking him off his pedestal." Regina said putting her finger to her chin.
"How?" Floyd asked.
Regina paused in thought. "I do not know yet. What I do know is I need your help."
"Um, okay?" Floyd asked.
"You are good at spying right?" Regina asked. "I want you to use your spying skills to find out the relationships of the other people in the tribe."
"Um, sure, I can do it. Any particular reason why though?" Floyd asked raising an eyebrow.
"I can't tell you right now because depending on the situation, it may not work at all." Regina said. She then smirked. "But when it DOES work, I am sure that you will be the first to hear about it."
She then turned around and walked off.
"I am leaving. I don't want rumours to spread around." Regina said.
"Um, okay. Bye." Floyd said before taking another bite of his banana."
"I must admit, I am getting goosebumps over Regina's new plan. However, I do hope that he isn't going over her head." Floyd said. "Voting off your leader is a big move and if you don't do it carefully, you could wind up with a target on your back the size of Texas."
(Day 13, Robur Tribe)
Bertha walked through camp grumbling over to the events over yesterday. She then noticed Blake and Victoria sitting on a log talking to each other. She then made her way over.
"Hey, gruesome twosome." Bertha said. "We need to talk."
"What a coincidence. We were about to speak to you as well about the current situation." Victoria said.
"Well, at least you are going to redeem yourselves after what happened." Bertha said. "All right. It's okay. The worst that could happen that I'll get stuck into a tiebreaker with Rinky. But I have a feeling that I could easily beat him. Just vote with me and I will forget this will ever happen."
Blake and Victoria looked at each other.
"What? Are you mimes now?" Bertha asked.
Blake and Victoria then got up.
"Bertha…" Victoria said softly.
"There is no easy way to say this…" Blake added.
The two looked at each other before looking back at Bertha before speaking in unison.
"We are voting with Barry's alliance."
Bertha's pupils shrank. "WHAT?"
"The reason we went against Bertha's wishes was because Alan was seriously hurt and he needed proper medical attention as soon as possible." Blake said crossing his arms. "However, when I saw that Bertha and Barry's fight, I was disgusted how much she didn't cared for Alan's injury."
"You had demonstrated that you do not care for anyone but yourself." Blake scolded.
"Oh, and you guys ones to talk." Bertha said crossing her arms.
"We are anti-social, not heartless." Blake countered.
"I still can't believe you actually thought we would go along with your plan, Bertha!" Victoria said in disgust.
"That's because we would have had the freaking MAJORITY!" Bertha growled. "And what do you care about Alan?"
"Enough to not let him get more hurt than he possibly gets." Blake said narrowing his eyes.
"We are ditching you before you bring us down with you." Victoria said shaking her head. "I would say that it is nothing personal but that would be a lie."
Bertha shook her head in disbelief. "But you can't mutiny on ME! We had barely been an alliance for three whole days!"
"Hey, alliances make and break in this game." Victoria shrugged.
"Ugh, I need help to save me from these sissies. Everyone had gone soft and now they are after me." Bertha grumbled. "Looks like winning Immunity is my only hope which may be harder than it looks seeing that RINKY is still in the game."
"Hey, Challenge time!" Belle said walking in with a letter.
Everyone gathered around the sniper.
"What does it say, Belle?" Barry asked.
"It says "Who knows the game of Survivor?"." The woman read.
"Ooh, me I do!" Rinky said excitedly.
"Obviously you don't because…" Bertha started.
"Shut up, Bertha!" Everyone said making the mall cop jump.
"Ah, a classic trivia Challenge. Well, time to show that I am not just a meathead." Barry said punching his fist into his palm. "It depends on the questions of course but we'll see."
(Reward Challenge)
Because both tribes saw who were eliminated last night, Tiny summoned both of them at the same time.
"We now bring in Robur and Taberna." Tiny said. "Alan voted out at Robur's Tribal Council and Yuri-Chan voted out at Taberna's."
Nobody looked surprised.
"Here is your next Challenge. It is a simple trivia Challenge. I will ask you a question and you will answer with either A, B or C. If you get it wrong, you are out." Tiny warned. "The tribe with at least one person left wins Reward. Want to know what you are playing for?"
Everyone nodded.
"Pillow and blankets! Enough for everyone who is left!" Tiny said. Everyone looked happy at this. "Now who is sitting out?"
"I will. I hate trivia Challenges." Mikey said holding up a hand.
"All right. Mikey, take a seat next to me. Everyone else, take a seat on those stools and hold up those cards." Tiny said.
Everyone obliged.
"All right. This Challenge is about to begin." Tiny said. "Which of these contestants did NOT come back to play a season with Redemption Island in it? A. Russell Hantz, B. Richard Hantz or C. Ozzy Lusch?"
Everyone wasted no time holding up their answers. They all held up "B".
"The correct answer is B. You all get it right. Nobody is eliminated." Tiny said.
"Heh. Too easy." Regina said with a small smirk.
"They get harder." Tiny scolded. "Next question, which season has the ultimate underdog alliance? A. Cook Islands, B. Micronesia or C. Samoa?"
Everyone had to think for a moment before they all held their answers. Megan and Bertha held up "C" while the others held up "A".
"The correct answer is A. The Aitu 4 which consisted of Yul, Ozzy, Becky and Sundra." Tiny said. "Bertha and Megan are out."
The two women got up and walked off with Bertha snarling.
"To be the only one other than that dumb blonde to get it wrong…" She grumbled.
"Next question. In Survivor Marquesas, who got eliminated without getting a single vote against them?" Tiny asked. "A. Kathy, B. Neleh or C. Paschal?"
This completely took a lot of people by surprise as they looked at each other. Soon, they all held up their answers. Roger, Larka and Victoria held up A. Kat, Barry and Blake held up B while the rest held up C.
"The correct answer is C. Paschal got eliminated by the dreaded Purple Rock even though the other two choices Kathy and Neleh voted against each other." Tiny said. "Everyone but Regina, Floyd, Rinky and Belle are out!"
The eliminated players got up and walked off leaving the remaining contestants looking at each other.
"I knew that I was a goner the second I heard the word Marquesas." Barry said shaking his head.
"Next question. In what season has a male player surviving a large female alliance and winning?" Tiny asked. "Was it A. Guatemela, B. Panama or C. Vanuatu?"
The two pairs looked at each other before holding up their answers. Belle and Floyd held up A while Rinky and Regina held up C.
"The correct answer is C. Belle and Floyd got it wrong so they are out." Tiny said. "Which leaves Rinky for Robur and Regina for Taberna."
"Hang in there, Reg." Floyd offered.
"Try to keep a cool head, Rinky." Belle offered.
As Belle and Floyd walked off, both Rinky and Regina looked at each other knowing that Reward was riding on their shoulders.
"All right. Possible for Reward." Tiny said. "Which of these contestants of Fiji is prone to injuring themselves? Was it A. Boo, B. Gary or C. Lisi?"
The two people looked at each other before revealing their answers. One held up A while the other held up B.
"Regina had selected A while Rinky had selected B." Tiny said. "While Gary WAS taken out of the game for medical issues, the correct answer is A. TABERNA WINS REWARD!"
Regina cheered as she jumped in the air as everyone cheered her on while the Robur tribe looked disappointed.
(Later)
"Congratulations on winning Reward, Taberna. Your pillows and blankets will be waiting for you back at camp." Tiny smiled. He then turned to Robur. "As for you, Robur. It was close but I got nothing for you. You may head back to camp."
(Taberna Tribe)
Roger, Mikey and Larka were putting away the blankets and pillows in the shelter with everyone else looking at them with smiles.
"We had won the Reward tonight and it felt so great! Especially since it was so close as well!" Kat smiled. "A Reward is always sweeter when you barely clutched it from the jaws of defeat."
"Okay, seeing that they are seven of us, we need to sort out how we share it." Megan said.
"And I assume that you already have a good idea?" Roger asked rolling his eyes.
"Of course!" Megan smiled. "All right! Three of you will scoot over to each side while I lie down comfortably in the middle with most of the pillows!"
"Yeahhhhh…. No." Roger said sharply. "You will share the blankets and pillows with everyone else as normal!"
"What? Do you know how long I went without a bed for myself!" Megan asked.
"The same time as all of us." Roger countered. "So unless you want to help, shut up!"
"H-How dare you!" Megan demanded. "I…"
Regina then suddenly grabbed Megan's hand.
"Hey, Megan… Why don't you and me get out of these guys' hair, okay?" Regina said sheepishly.
With that, she dragged Megan off causing a sigh of relief from Roger.
"My hero." Roger said with a small smile.
Meanwhile, Regina had dragged Megan onto the beach a good distance away from the shelter.
"Why did you drag me away? I was about to give Roger a piece of my mind!" Megan demanded.
"I know. That is exactly why I wanted to talk to you alone." Regina reassured.
Megan blinked twice. "What?"
Regina gave a small sigh. "Floyd and I need your help knocking Roger out of power."
"Yeah, I actually tried to avoid the option as much as possible but there is no way around it. Megan is the best person to ask to help me take down Roger." Regina sighed. "Sure, he has reasonable motives for making her life miserable but she hates him the most."
"Really?" Megan asked with sparkling eyes.
"Yeah, I find him that he is getting too big for his boots and need a major blow to his ego." Regina agreed.
"Oh my gosh! You think so too! I thought I was the only one!" Megan said excitedly. "This is great! We could rally everyone to vote off Roger and…"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, girl." Regina said stopping Megan's rant. "We haven't decided if we wanted to get rid of Roger yet. Just dethrone."
Megan's arms slumped at this. "Oh… Well, I guess that is okay, too. At least it will show him to know his place around me."
Regina chuckled nervously at this. "Um, right… However, you need to do me a single favour."
"Does it involve hard work?" Megan asked.
"No. In fact, it involves you staying out of the way most of the time." Regina said.
"Oh, goody!" Megan smiled clapping her hands together. "Then, do go on!"
"Good, now I just want you to keep this alliance a secret. When the time comes to vote for someone, we WILL come to you and tell you." Regina said.
"That's all?" Megan smiled. "I could assure you that I could easily do this favour. Regina, I think this is the beginning of one of those peasant/princess friendships. With me as the princess, of course!"
The bespectacled girl chuckled before rolling her eyes.
"FINALLY! I actually thought I was the only person out here who thought that Roger is annoying! I am more than happy to join Regina's little alliance!" Megan smirked. "Besides, it is about time that someone asks me to grace my presence onto their alliance!"
"Say, where IS Floyd, anyway?" Megan asked. "You say that he is aligned with you and yet he is not here."
"Don't worry, he is doing a special job." Regina said with a smirk.
Meanwhile, Roger, Mikey and Larka had finished putting down the blankets and pillows and sat at the fire pit while talking to each other.
"So Roger, what kind of martial arts can you do?" Mikey asked.
The soldier raised an eyebrow at this. "I don't know think I should reveal that to a civilian."
"Aw, come on! The people in my node are not shy to tell me what they fight with!" Mikey whined.
"That's because your node is a fighting game." Roger countered. "You mostly fight for the thrill on it. On the battlefield is entirely different."
"Larka, please tell Roger to stop being a scrooge." Mikey whined.
"All people have secrets. Mikey should respect that." The Ronso said shooting down Mikey's attempts.
"Aw, you guys are killjoys!" The teenager said hanging his head.
"Maybe Mikey just annoying." Larka said with a smirk. "Mikey ever thought of that."
The dark-skinned man winced. "To be snarked by Larka of all people. Ouch."
Roger chuckled at this.
"Larka liked Roger and Mikey. Both are formidable warriors. Larka enjoys both company." Larka said. "Larka still think Mikey is weird boy, however."
The three continued to talk unaware that a certain someone was hiding in the bushes spying on them.
(Robur Tribe)
"We lost the Reward today which stinks because I was freezing in the nights out here!" Belle growled. "But what is more irritating is that I can't really find a scapegoat to rant about because it was nobody's fault."
Blake and Victoria walked through the jungle with the latter looking steamed.
"I can't believe it! I simply can't believe it! We were this close!" Victoria growled.
"Hey, calm down. We will get another shot at Challenge that involves brain power." Blake said.
"No, it is not that, it is just I really wanted those pillows and blankets!" Victoria said. "I don't think I could last one more night in the freezing cold."
"Really? I don't mind it that much." Blake shrugged.
"That's because you are wearing a coat, long pants and boots." Victoria said rolling her eyes.
Blake actually chuckled at this. "All right, truth. Then again, I AM from Norway. I guess I am just used to the cold."
"Lucky son-of-a-gun." Victoria muttered. She then looked down. "Um, Blake?"
"Hm?" The dark-haired man said.
"Do you think we did the right thing betraying Bertha?" Victoria asked.
"Don't get me wrong, Bertha DID deserved that but I was wondering if we let our emotions get the best of us that time." Victoria frowned. "After she goes, Barry's alliance will go after me and Blake."
"I mean, yes, we couldn't afford to trust her but maybe we are betraying her too soon." The dark-skinned woman said.
"Mainly because we would be stuck in a 3-2 minority if she leaves next?" Blake asked.
"Yeah… I think we just stuck our feet in our mouths." Victoria frowned.
"I dunno. Even if we stay with Bertha only to betray her when we get a majority, everyone will be mad at us." Blake pointed out. "One of the primary reasons Stinky didn't tried to force a tiebreaker to save Karen was because everyone would get mad at him."
Victoria raised an eyebrow. "That's actually a good point. Trying to keep a player who tried to keep an injured one would get a lot of hate."
"Besides, we just need to convince Belle." Blake said.
"Belle, why her?" Victoria asked.
"I noticed that while Barry and Rinky like her, they would rather sell her out to safe each other." Blake said. "We just need to show her that."
"Yeah, but her fate will be the same with us." Victoria argued.
"Then, we just have to convince her that after Bertha is gone, the biggest threat and the biggest liability of the tribe will be in her alliance." Blake pointed out. "I don't know when we would finally get rid of Bertha but we have those excuses ready."
Victoria paused in thought before smiling. "A long-shot but otherwise not a bad plan. Wow, you are really getting into this."
Blake merely shrugged. "What can I say? I want to stay in the game."
"After seeing Alan wishing to keep playing this game even at the cost of his own health, I decided that despite I been forced to come here, I should at least try to make it to Day 39." Blake said. "I just don't want to sit around while Alan's desperate efforts had gone to waste."
"So what do we do now?" The dark-clad man asked.
"Nothing we CAN do now. Just sit back and vote off Bertha as normal." Victoria said. "Until then, we avoid her like the plague."
Blake couldn't help but smirk. "Don't worry, I had been trying to do that ever since I found out we were on the same tribe."
The two then laughed.
(Day 14, Taberna Tribe)
Regina, Floyd and Megan had all gathered around in front of the shelter.
"Floyd, say hello to our new alliance member." Regina said.
"Hello." Megan smiled with a wave.
"Charmed." Floyd said flatly not looking pleased.
"As much as I crossed my fingers, I knew for a fact that there was no avoiding of inviting MEGAN our alliance seeing that she hates Roger." Floyd said rolling his eyes. "Even though Roger has every right to give her a hard time."
"All right, status report." Regina asked. "How do the relationships look?"
"Well, I saw Roger bonding with Larka and Mikey and they seemed to enjoy each other's company." Floyd said before frowning. "Which means they would not only be against this but would do everything in their power to make sure this backfire big time on us."
"And Kat?" Regina asked.
"I don't really know. As far as I saw, her chemistry with Roger neutral." Floyd said scratching his head.
Regina put her finger to her chin. "Neutral is better than nothing. That confirms it. She is our next alliance member."
"Hold your horses, Reg." Floyd said. "We don't even know what she will think of this move."
"Well, we'll just ask her and explain that Roger needed to be dethroned." The blonde shrugged.
"I guess that IS all we can." Floyd frowned crossing his arms.
"All right. We got a concrete alliance of three. We just need one more for the majority. However, we don't know which Kat stands." Regina frowned. "While she is nice and friendly to everyone, I don't think she has any actual allies."
Suddenly, they noticed Kat walk in with a letter.
"Oh, speaking of the devil…" Regina said. "Treemail, Kat?"
"That's right." The feline nodded. "Everyone please gather around."
Everyone obliged.
"Sweet, what does it say?" Mikey smirked.
"It says… "How good at you at playing catch?"." Kat read.
"All right! This sounds like a fun Challenge!" Mikey said rubbing his hands together.
"Speak for yourself." Regina spat.
"Catch is what the commoners play with a dirty old baseball, right?" Megan frowned. "In that case, I am glad that I am sitting out of this Challenge. I don't want to wear a filthy old baseball glove."
(Immunity Challenge)
Both tribes made their way onto their respective mats.
"Welcome to your next Challenge, Survivors." Tiny smiled. "Take a look."
Everyone looked to see two large slingshots. Also, they noticed a series of nets on the ground.
"Here is your next Challenge. Two of your tribemates will take turns shooting a ball from a giant slingshot into the air. Everyone with nets will try to catch it. If a tribemate catches a ball launched by their fellow tribemate, they score a point. However, if someone from the opposing tribe catches it, they would not score a point. We will alternate between launchers. First tribe to score three points win Immunity. Now, Taberna, you have one extra member, who are you sitting out?"
"I will!" Megan sang.
"All right, Megan, take a seat with me." Tiny said. "Everyone else, I'll give you a minute to strategize."
(Later)
Regina & Kat and Belle & Rinky stood at their slingshots while the others waited patiently with nets ready to catch.
"All right, for Immunity." Tiny said. "Robur, you won the coin toss so you can go first."
Belle nodded before pulling the slingshot back and sent it flying through the air. Everyone immediately gripped their nets and ran around trying to catch the ball.
Barry then did a sliding catch towards the ball. He caught it in his net.
"Barry has got it! Robur scores 1-0!" Tiny shouted.
"Heh. Pretty swift for a big guy." Victoria mused.
"Hey, I know that I am big and somewhat slugging so I had to literally throw my weight around." Barry said.
"Okay, next is Taberna." Tiny said.
Regina nodded before pulling the slingshot back. Gritting her teeth, the blonde released sending it up into the air. Everyone dashed towards it. It looked like it was going to be close.
Mikey then did a jumping catch and easily caught it.
"Mikey has got it! We are tied at 1-1!" Tiny yelled.
"Nice one, Mikey." Roger complimented.
"Nothing to it." The boxer smirked.
"Okay, it is Robur's turn again." Tiny said.
Rinky smirked as he readied the slingshot. Knowing that he was small, he had to use every ounce of power in his launch. He then released it. Everyone ran towards the ball.
However, Rinky overdid it with his shot and it soared over the catchers. The ball landed without anyone catching it.
"Um, nobody got it… We are still tied at 1-1." Tiny said.
Bertha slapped her forehead before glaring at the guilty party. "Nice going, squirt!"
"Sorry, I overshoot!" Rinky countered
"Taberna is up at bat again." Tiny said.
Kat took a deep gulp before readying her shot. Knowing that she could easily overshoot it like Rinky did, she made her careful with her shot power. She then launched.
The catchers rushed towards the ball. However, Larka and Bertha were the frontrunners by far. Bertha eyed the Ronso suspiciously knowing that she was her chance to show the tribe how much of an asset she was. She then did a flying tackle towards Larka.
However, the blue-furred feline had seen the attack from a mile away and gracefully leaped over Bertha allowing her to fall onto the ground. She then easily caught the ball.
"Um, Larka got it. Taberna leads at 2-1." Tiny said scratching his head. "If Taberna catches their next ball, they win Immunity."
Barry, Blake and Victoria all blinked twice at this.
"Um, what was that?" Victoria asked.
"Shut up!" Bertha snapped getting back up.
Tiny shook his head. "Robur is up."
Belle sneered before readying her slingshot. She refused to lose two Challenges twice in a row. She then let her slingshot rip and fly through the air.
Everyone ran towards it. However, it had seemed to overshoot most of the contestants. Victoria on the other hand was in range and ran towards the ball. With a big leap, she caught it.
"Victoria got it! We are now tied 2-all!" Tiny said. "Whoever gets this next point wins!"
"Nice one." Blake said helping Victoria up.
"Thanks." The dark-skinned woman said.
"Taberna is up." Tiny said.
Regina narrowed her eyes knowing how close this was. Pulling the slingshot back, she launched it into the air in hopes someone would catch it.
The ball soared through the air as everyone scampered to try and catch it. However, it started to fall towards Floyd. The photographer smirked before readying his net.
However, Barry's net came out of nowhere and caught it.
"Barry has caught Taberna's ball. Void." Tiny said. "It is still tied 2-all."
"Hey!" Floyd growled.
Barry merely chuckled. "Sorry, youngster."
"Next is Robur!" Tiny said.
Rinky gave a determined look knowing that he gets this right, he could make up for the earlier bad shot. Pulling the slingshot back, he flung it into the air.
Everyone scampered around trying to catch it. However, it headed over towards Blake. Mikey's eyes widened knowing that there was way no catch the ball away from him in time. So he did the next best thing. A flying tackle. Blake reached out for the ball.
Only to be knocked to the ground by Mikey. Everyone winced at this. Mikey seeing that the job was done slowly got up. Blake slowly got up groaning.
He then held up his net to reveal the ball inside.
"Blake got it!" Tiny yelled. "ROBUR WINS IMMUNITY!"
The Robur tribe cheered up Blake as he was helped onto his feet up Barry.
(Later)
"Congratulations, Robur! You had won Immunity guaranteering another shot in this game." Tiny smiled before turning to Taberna. "As for Taberna, you got a date with me at Tribal Council where one of you will go home. You may head back to camp.
(Taberna Tribe)
"Dang… So close. Victory was right in the palm of our hands and it slipped through our fingers." Mikey sighed. "To be fair, I am more upset about losing than who is going to go tonight but anyone with eyes could see who is going."
Everyone but Megan gathered around in a circle.
"I think that this needs no discussion but I think we all know who needs to go." Roger said.
"Duh!" Mikey said.
"Yeah, we all know it should be Megan." Floyd nodded.
Everyone slowly agreed.
Roger gave a small smirk. "Good. I don't see any reason to continue this discussion. You have the night off."
Everyone nodded before going their separate ways.
"I sure hope you enjoy your little vacation, princess because you had overstayed your welcome and we are finishing the job once and for all." Roger smirked. "The best part is that nobody had any other reason to vote off another player."
"Let's vote off another player who is obviously not me!" Megan sang as she and her new alliance walked.
"K." Regina smirked. "But first, we have to make sure that Kat is on-board with us."
"Right. Incidentally, who ARE we voting against?" Floyd asked. "If Kat is the last potential ally of our alliance, that means the stronger players would be in the minority?"
"Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do about it." Regina frowned. "It is just bad luck that the physical assets are the targets. Anyway, I say we vote off Mikey."
"Voting off the weakest of the strong?" Floyd asked.
"More or less." Regina shrugged. She then noticed someone. "Ah, there she is!"
"Our plan is convince Kat to join us and vote off Mikey. However, I know that Kat has no bad blood for any of the stronger players." Regina explained. "Which means if we want her on our side, we need to make an offer she cannot refuse."
Kat's eyes bugged out. "WHAT?"
Regina sighed. "Just as I say. We need your help to vote out Mikey."
"Why? He is a strong player!" Kat yelled. "And helps lots around camp!"
"It is more than a vote against Roger's ego than Mikey himself." Regina shrugged.
Kat blinked twice at this. "Um, what?"
"I find that Roger is getting too big for his army boots." Regina said putting her hands on her hips. "He is far too comfortable with his position as leader."
"Reallu?" Kat asked.
"Yeah, remember what he said before it was time to vote at the last Tribal Council?" Floyd asked. "He was happy that we were so dependent on him, it was sickeningly smug."
"You think so?" Kat asked raising an eyebrow.
"I know so." Regina nodded. "Listen, Kat. We need your vote, please."
Kat raised an eyebrow. "I don't know. The reason I went with the girls to vote off Nick Boy was because… he's Nick Boy but we may lose a stronger player."
"But if you go with Roger, he may vote you out next." Regina said. "At least with us you have a majority."
Kat raised an eyebrow at this. "You really mean that even after I tried to vote you out?"
"Hey, if you were feeling like I was then you were desperate." Regina shrugged.
Kat's ears dropped. "All right, just give me time to think about it."
"Thank you…" Regina said.
"Wow… The last time I was on the chopping block and now I am the swing vote." Kat said looking to the side. "I could stay with Roger and vote off our biggest liability or I could switch to Regina and Floyd and gain a majority alliance. Both sides have their pros and cons so I should choose wisely."
(Tribal Council)
The seven people made their way to Tribal Council where Tiny was waiting for them.
"Welcome to Tribal Council, Taberna." Tiny said. "Take a seat."
Everyone obliged.
"Now, Roger, who was the swing vote that sent Yuri-Chan home." Tiny said. "Why?"
"I just felt that Regina and Kat had more opportunities to being assets than Yuri-Chan." The camouflage-clad man shrugged.
"Mikey, from do you feel about this?" Tiny asked.
"I guess I somewhat sees Roger's reason. I was just a little ticked off at the time." The boxer frowned. "Always sucks when you are trying to save someone and fail."
"That it does. Floyd, does the last Tribal Council affect the tribe greatly?" Tiny asked.
"You WOULD think that after we went through a semi-skewered vote but once you get over the whole "What a relief" phase, everything seems all right." The young man said.
"Is Floyd right, Regina?" Tiny asked.
"Mostly. The only one who seemed to be unaffected is Roger." The teenaged girl said.
"Well, I WAS the only one who actually saw what was coming." Roger shrugged.
Regina rolled her eyes at this.
"Megan, how is life outside of your home-life?" Tiny asked.
"I must say, things have not really gone my way." The aristocrat frowned. "The Challenges are too hard, the weather is bipolar and whenever I tell to get somebody to fetch me something, Roger snaps at me."
"Larka, is this true?" Tiny asked.
"True. But Roger merely telling Megan to do stuff on her own." Larka said. "Megan too dependent on others."
"But I thought this was a game where teamwork is everything." Megan scoffed. "You are supposed to help your tribemates and stuff!"
"That may be true but there is no "I" in team." Roger said.
Megan crossed her arms. "Um… Since when spelling and grammar went into this?"
"Ugh… You are hopeless!" Roger said rolling his eyes.
"Hahaha…" Tiny said nervously. "Kat, how do you think this vote will go?"
"Well, it will go where the majority wants." The white cat said with a shrug.
"If you say so…" Tiny said. "All right. It is time to vote. Regina, you are up."
The young woman nodded before stomping over to the voting table knowing exactly to vote for. "Nothing personal but Roger desperately needs to be knocked from the top." She said holding up "Mikey" to the camera.
Roger actually hummed a jovial tune as he walked over into the voting area with a small smile. "11 days too long." He said holding up "Megan" to the camera.
Megan proudly made her way. She then grabbed the pen trying her best not to accidentally write on herself. "I don't really dislike you but Roger needs to learn his place. Sorry." She said holding up "Mikey" to the camera.
Floyd crossed his arms as he made his way over to the table. After thinking three times about the vote, he sighed and wrote down a name.
Mikey jogged over to the voting area. He wasted no time writing down a name. "Okay, seriously, if you allow yourself to be blindsided tonight, you need a reality check." He said holding up "Megan" to the camera.
Larka casually walked over to the table. She merely voted down a name, put it in the urn and walked off.
Kat crossed her arms in thought as she made her way over. Knowing that tonight's vote counted on her, she bounded up the steps and took a deep breath writing down a name.
She then bounded back. Tiny then got up.
"I'll get the votes."
Most of the contestants waited eagerly for Tiny to return.
"I'll read them out. Whoever gets voted out needs to leave the Tribal Council area immediately."
"First vote, Megan."
Megan grunted as she crossed her arms.
"Second vote, Megan. Two votes, Megan."
Megan glared at Roger who merely smiled at her.
"Third vote, Mikey. Two votes, Megan. One vote, Mikey."
Mikey raised an eyebrow at this.
"Fourth vote, Megan. Three votes, Megan. One vote, Mikey."
Roger smiled getting ready for what Tiny was about to say next.
"Fifth vote, Mikey. Three votes, Megan. Two votes, Mikey."
Roger, Larka and Mikey's eyes bugged out in horror.
"Sixth vote, Mikey. Three votes, Megan. Three votes, Mikey. One vote left."
"Dude, are you serious?" Mikey asked holding his head in disbelief.
"Sixth person voted out of Survivor…"
Everyone waited nervously.
"…Is Mikey."
Roger and Larka looked absolutely thunderstruck while Regina and Megan smirked in victory.
"Mikey, you need to bring me your torch."
The dark-skinned man sat in shock before slowly getting up with a freak sigh. "This is messed up on so many levels…"
He then grabbed his torch and stalked over to Tiny putting his torch in front of him.
"Mikey, the tribe has spoken." Tiny said putting his snuffer over the torch extinguishing it. "You may now go."
"I hope the next Challenge is a real physical one!" Mikey shouted back before storming away.
Tiny watched him leave before turning to the others. "So once again, you chose to save someone who is considered by most of the tribe to be the biggest liability over a more stronger player. I don't know why but for your sakes, I hope it doesn't affect you too much. You may head back to camp."
Everyone gathered their torches and walked off. Roger brought up the rear still stunned by the vote. Not only Megan survived again but Mikey, a strong, hard-working, determined man got voted off instead. Why?
"This sucks! I don't know what those guys were smoking when they cast the votes but they need me! I am one of the strongest players!" Mikey said burying his head in his hands. "The worst part about being voted out is there will be no more Challenges for me. And I was having so much fun too…"
VOTING
Mikey: Floyd, Kat, Megan, Regina.
Megan: Larka, Mikey, Roger.
And Mikey goes out of the competition. Mikey was a fun character to write for because he was mostly focused on the Challenges rather than the strategy. However, that was also his downfall because he would have no part in the main story so I had to boot him out here.
NOTE: Mikey was ANOTHER character from my scrapped Total Drama Island idea. Just like Yuri-Chan, he had more depth and personality in that idea but I'm afraid I found no way into this story unfortunately. Just a shame…