"You're telling me that you've got all these TVs and big screens all over your city, and not one of them is playing any of the Dukester's amazing wrestling matches? I can almost forgive you guys for not watching the Ridukeulous Race, but come on, have some class and decency at least!" Duke snapped at one of the many citizens of Seoul, who really just looked like he was trying to get to work. He was absolutely terrified of the wrestler, but at least he seemed to be leaving him alone now…that was until Duke suddenly grabbed him by the arm and threw him over his shoulder. "Sometimes with these people you really just wanna make sure you show them who's boss before you leave. Anyways…last time on the Ridukeulous Race: our first place team of Michael and Virgil was met with nothing but dismay and sadness when they came to the realization that them getting first place in the prior leg wasn't going to give them a headstart in this one! We packed all the twelve remaining teams onto an experimental bus-plane, courtesy of Starshine Industries, and headed on a field trip to the capital city of South Korea: Seoul!" The contestants were all shown on the bus-plane, with most of them napping or about to nap while in the back, Phoebe was trying to convince Mitsuki and Honey to let her and Jamie Lynn get off of the bus first. "First task when setting foot in Seoul was to make it to the Kumgang Taekwondo dojo…yes, that's the real name of that place, don't laugh! Okay, you can laugh a little bit. Teams were met with their first big hurdle there, as people were getting tossed all over the place, lost because they couldn't keep their eyes on the person who had directions, or, in Katie and Sadie's case, separated from each other!" The next clip that was shown showcased Sadie and Katie when they were trying to fight their way through the crowded streets of Seoul, only for them to be forced apart by all the people around them.
"Once teams started to make it to the dojo, they got their first challenge of the leg: a botch or watch where the botchers had to knock down a ten year old Taekwondo black belt! Those kids were a lot more fierce than they looked, cause man, they made every single one of our teams look like a bunch of untalented jabronis. The Dukester definitely would've done a lot better than they did, that's for sure!" The next clip that played wasn't just one clip, but many clips that were showing contestants getting pummeled by the Taekwondo kids, starting with Helena getting punched in the gut, Mika getting tossed towards the back wall of the room, and Arnold having his arm twisted behind his back. "Mitsuki and Honey cleared the botch or watch first, getting the tip from the dojo Master which led them to their next challenge: an either/or where it was write a manhwa panel and make it to the front page of a webcomic site, or bring a live audience to tears by acting out a scene in a drama show. Most teams picked the manhwa panel, and Mitsuki and Honey were actually able to hold on to their lead pretty good, acing that challenge and heading down to the chill zone…where they were ultimately penalized for one hour due to Mitsuki botching when she should've been watching!" Honey and Mitsuki were seen standing around while staring at their penalty clock, completely nervous as they watched team by team by team make it to the chill zone and finish off the leg. "Luckily for our Race Moms, Sadie and Katie getting separated put them just way too far behind in the whole leg, and they ended up being cut in last place. Goodbye, overly-bedazzled besties, and hello, world! This is…THE RIDUKEULOUS RACE!"
Cue Intro
"Viewers, welcome back to Seoul, where the chill zone from yesterday is gonna be the starting point today!" Duke smirked as he pushed through the crowded Seoul street, his massive body seeming to handle the wave of people around him with little to no issues. He continued to move right on through until he was standing next to the first dukebox, which was right next to the chill zone, where Becky and Olive were standing. Per usual, the singer just looked completely emotionless while the drummer was basically jumping for joy. "I'm standing here with yesterday's winners, Becky and Olive, who are just about to kick off the next leg!"
Confessional - Bloody Prom Queens
"I haven't really been counting, but apparently Olive and I have gotten first place in quite a few of the legs already…really just goes to show how weakblooded the rest of the competition is. They're all getting their asses handed to them by a pair of children." Becky scoffed at the camera before turning her head slightly to see that Olive was holding a large beetle in her hands with a huge, pleading smile on her face. "...No."
"Aw, come on, Becks! Ya gotta let me keep 'im, ya just gotta! I already gave 'im a name and everything, which means, um, that I'm already attached, and if I don't get to keep 'im, then I'm gonna be real dang sad!" As Olive did her best to try and bargain with Becky, the beetle suddenly took off and flew out of her hands, buzzing through the air. She gasped and shot up from her seat to chase after the insect, "Beelzebub, come back here, dangit!"
"Lemme read it, lemme read it this time!" Olive whined while Becky walked over to the first dukebox, pressing the button on the top of it and grabbing the tip from it. "Aw, Becks, you're not being fair to me at all!"
"Olive, if I gave you this tip to read, you'd get stuck on the third word and just hand it right back to me." Becky deadpanned, but Olive was being stubborn, still wanting to read the tip more than anything else. The singer sighed, slowly handing it over to her older sister, who squealed happily as she looked it over. The smile faded quickly from the drummer's face, and she blushed out of embarrassment as she passed it back over to Becky. "...That's what I thought. It looks like we're going to a place called…Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump. What sort of wasteland is Canada to have places named like that?"
"That's what I'm saying, Becky! I went on a big rant about it in the first episode!" Duke was standing in front of a lit up screen that was showing the flag of Canada, which quickly transitioned to show a picture of the valley in question. "Apparently they wanted to name this place Concussion Valley, but the name was already taken, so Buffalo's Getting Their Heads Bashed In Hills was the next best thing…or something like that at least." Duke cleared his throat as he looked behind him, squinting annoyedly at the screen until it changed to show the picture of a lodge.
"We're on our way to what people like to say is the closest thing to Canadian Texas, which is Alberta!" Duke suddenly grabbed the screen and tipped it over, revealing that he was actually standing right in front of the lodge that was just shown. Right behind him, there was another dukebox. "Teams will have to head to the airport in Seoul and book a flight to Left Bridge, Alberta, coming to this spot right here to get their next travel tip."
"Ugh…great…we get to go to a place that's a mockery of the state that we're from…let's just get this over with." Becky groaned as she started trudging on ahead, with Olive skipping along behind her while humming innocently to herself. They were quickly replaced by Conroy and Mika, who grabbed their tip, read it, and followed after the two kids as fast as they could. Becky raised an eyebrow slightly when she saw them right behind her, "...You two couldn't find your own way to the airport?"
"Well, we probably could, but it's best to stick together just so we can talk strategy when we get there! Since we're in an alliance and all," Mika giggled at Becky, who just glared annoyedly before turning her head to refocus on the road. The basketballer sighed as she looked back at Conroy, who shrugged his shoulders, not really sure what to say. She then looked over at Olive, who was currently covering her ears with her hands. "...Uh, Olive, whatcha doing?"
"Watch this!" Olive slowly pulled her hands away from her ears, and the basketballers were greeted to a loud buzzing sound that seemed to be coming from inside of her head. "A fly came by and snuck into my ear earlier, so I done trapped 'im inside my head so I can show 'im to my friend when we get back home! I think I'm gonna name 'im…Asmodeus!"
"The way that your brain functions never ceases to amaze me…" Conroy adjusted his glasses and the four continued to move through the crowd as fast as they could, while Arnold and Aisling were just now leaving the chill zone with their tip.
"Alberta…I believe I've been there once before on a business trip with my father. It's a place full of people that have no direction in life…ugh, it almost made me sick when I watched a few of them at one of the local bars." Arnold scowled before glancing over to Aisling, who was humming absent-mindedly while holding her crystal ball in her hands. "Oh, it's good that you have that out and ready. I'd like to know where we're going to end up at the end of this leg."
"Ah, right…just give me a moment here…" Aisling looked down at the ball so she could focus on it a bit better. It started to glow back at her, leaving her with a vision before it stopped glowing entirely. "...Mhm, I see, I see. It says that we'll be ending this leg in eleventh place, Arnold."
"ELEVENTH!? That's so low! That's…hang on a second…" Arnold stopped dead in his tracks for a moment, allowing Flora and Helena to run right by the two of them. Aisling looked up at him, a bit confused as to why they stopped before the dread started to settle in and become horrendously clear on his face. "E-eleventh…that's…last place!"
"It is? I thought there were still some more teams…but I suppose that I was wrong." Aisling tapped her lip in thought, shrugging the whole thing off as she started to walk again. "Well, I'm certain that you aren't going to take that laying down."
"You're damn right I'm not! Eleventh place my ass!" Arnold grabbed Aisling by the wrist before he started to sprint like a wild animal that was just let loose from a cage. He zipped right past Flora and Helena, knocking them over in the process, and made it past Becky, Olive, Conroy, and Mika in no time, too. He was going so fast that his feet practically blazed a trail along the ground, leaving flames in his wake.
"...That was…pretty epic," Becky mumbled as she admired the flames in front of her, reaching her hand out to try and touch them before Olive grabbed her, scooping her up off of her feet so she couldn't do that.
Confessional - Psychic and Skeptic
"As if I'm going to let some stupid orb dictate my placement in this race! Eleventh!? That's the placement that a loser would accept, and I'm not a loser! I'm a born winner! Just because of this lousy prediction, me and Aisling are going to be claiming first place! What do you think about that, orb!?" Arnold was effectively hunched over and screaming at the crystal ball, which was right in Aisling's lap. She looked a bit embarrassed of how he was acting, and took the ball out of sight so he wouldn't scream at it anymore.
"...It's almost like you're back to your old self again. I half-expected you to start calling me gypsy when you were screaming." Arnold glared at Aisling, who simply smiled slightly and turned her chin up.
"With the first six of our teams already well on their way to the airport, the remaining five have found that the foot traffic in Seoul is only getting worse and worse, making it much harder for them all to navigate!" In the midst of Duke's narration, the Psychic and Skeptic, Bloody Prom Queens, Basketball Team, Mystical Witches, Vicious Pop Stars, and Long Lost Brothers all could be seen running right for the airport. When he was done talking, though, the sight was replaced with Michael and Virgil, who were trying not to get crushed while they walked through the streets.
"Aye, Virgilio! Is this the world paying me back for all those tweets I made to rub this into the K-Pop Stans' faces yesterday? Ayie!" Michael yelped loudly as someone in the crowd stepped on his foot, walking away without even apologizing or looking at him. He started to hop on his one good foot while holding the other one in his hand and shaking his fist at the pedestrian. "You should really watch where you're going! Ugh, that's it, Virgilio! Do that thing you said you were going to do!"
"You're…giving me permission to start calling people slurs?" Virgil raised an eyebrow at Michael, who just nodded his head without saying anything else. "...Well, now that you're telling me to do it, I kinda don't wanna do it. I think it'd be better if we just made it to the airport without saying anything." The editor snickered to himself while Michael gasped. He started to walk away from him, but soon enough, the YouTuber started to give chase to catch up to him. Further back in the crowd, Phoebe and Jamie Lynn were facing some similar issues with the awful crowd.
"All of you assholes better get out of the way, pronto, me and this twerp got a flight to catch!" Jamie Lynn gritted her teeth as she started throwing elbows into the crowd, using this as a way to push them aside so that she and Phoebe had a better time making it through. As she knocked person after person away from herself, her partner was bowing and apologizing to literally every single person. She glanced behind her shoulder and saw this, immediately glaring at her. "Phoebe, stop playing the part of nice girl, we're gonna fall even more behind!"
"O-oh, I know it doesn't look so amazing being b-b-behind and all, b-b-but all these people are just trying to get to work…w-w-we don't need to hit them." Phoebe murmured weakly while tapping her fingers together, which only caused the glare that she was getting sent towards her to worsen. "A-a-ah! I mean…you're right, I'm a stupid, ungrateful bitch that d-d-doesn't know how lucky she is to have a partner w-w-who is trying to help us get ahead."
"God, you're so pathetic…I bet your parents are really disappointed in you," Jamie Lynn just shook her head at Phoebe, who then immediately started to tear up, her lip quivering while she stared back at her. "...Oh, come on, that is far from the worst thing that I've ever said to you. You don't need to be a big baby about that."
"I-I-I only have my dad c-c-cause my mom died, remember?" Phoebe sniffled while Jamie Lynn just rolled her eyes, obviously getting more annoyed with her.
"Oh, boohoo, cry me a river." The punk girl grabbed her partner by the hair to drag her along with her, leaving Phoebe to occasionally whimper and yelp from being dragged like that.
Confessional - Awkward Neighbors
"That fucking stupid shithead of a whore! I'm gonna…oh, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna…eat her spleen! Wait, no, too cannibalistic…" Libby tapped her chin while she sat alone in the confessional, thinking of good ways for her to get back at Jaime Lynn. "I could…pour boiling milk down her throat! Or stick a fish hook through her thumb! Oho, I am going to have such a fun time making her beg for mercy!" She snickered evilly before looking at the camera and blushing horribly. "N-no! I'm not doing it because I care about Phoebe! I-I just hate Jamie Lynn because she's a bitch, and bitches like her deserve torment!"
"Things take a turn for the worse for the bottom five teams, as when they all start arriving to the airport, they're met with the shocking revelation…" Lady Belle and Ursula were standing in front of the ticket window at the airport while Duke was narrating before it suddenly slammed shut, startling both of them. "...That the plane doesn't have enough room for everybody on it! The first flight with the Bloody Prom Queens, Basketball Team, Psychic and Skeptic, Long Lost Brothers, Mystical Opposites, and Vicious Pop Stars is departing now, but the second flight with the Bachelorettes, Friendly Duo, YouTuber and Editor, Awkward Neighbors, and Race Moms won't be leaving for another half an hour, putting them at an even worse disadvantage than their…already even worse disadvantage!"
Confessional - Race Moms
"I-I can handle being behind in the race just fine and all, but being split up from Olive and Becky is too much! That means that I have to sit and…e-endure the attempts of this succubus all by myself on the flight!" Mitsuki pointed over her shoulder at Honey, who was sipping from a bottle of water before "accidentally" spilling it all over herself.
"Oh, darn! I just got myself all wet!" Honey sighed and leaned down towards Mitsuki, placing a hand on her shoulder and immediately causing her to blush. "Do you got a towel to help me get dry? I don't wanna catch a co-"
"I-I-I'm not gonna have sex with you, vile beast!"
"Ah…man…" Marty was leaning up against the window in the second plane, sitting next to Xavier who was happily feasting on a loaf of bread that he had made earlier in the day. He breathed onto the glass, fogging it up so he could use his finger to start drawing. At first, it just looked like a whole bunch of smudges in random spots, but when he was finished, it actually started to resemble Sadie…sort of…a little bit. He smiled when he saw his finished creation, but the fog was soon cleared, and he was left with nothing. He drooped down in his seat and sighed, staring up at the ceiling while Xavier glanced over at him.
"...Uh…there, there, buddy. It's gonna be alright…I mean, Sadie and Katie lost, yeah, but that just means that you'll get to see your lady friend after the race is all over!" Xavier smiled brightly to try and cheer his friend up, although it didn't seem to be working so well on him. "P-plus, if we win the money, you'll be able to take her on tons of really nice dates and stuff! You could pull up to her house in a limo and…you know…take her to go see a movie that's projected on the side of a mountain…or something!"
"Yeah…yeah, I guess you're right. I just wish we could've had her around for maybe just a little bit longer, is all…we haven't really talked to or hung out with many of the other teams, so it feels like we've got nobody but each other." Marty slowly pulled himself up to look at the other teams on the plane before pointing at a few of them. "Ursula and Lady Belle are old, Virgil is racist, Michael's annoying, Jamie Lynn's a jerk, Phoebe's unstable, and Honey and Mitsuki…well…" The deadpanner just watched the Race Moms as Honey was trying to lean against Mitsuki in such a way that she was smothering her with her chest. "...They're all over each other."
"Okay, uh, well…it seems like you're being a little too harsh on some of the others here, but…so what if we only have each other? We're best buds, we're supposed to be there for each other through thick and thin so we can overcome all odds!" Xavier reached over and gave Marty a pat on the back, though the latter just slowly deadpanned towards the camera with a frown on his face. "Alright, look, you're gonna be sad for a little bit, but it'll be all fine! If you focus on the race, it should help you keep your mind off of Sadie being gone!"
"You're right, you're right…sorry, I'll try to stay focused, I don't wanna mess up the race for us anymore." Marty forced a small smile onto his face as he pulled himself up in his seat. Xavier smiled right back at him and held out some of the bread, which he took and started to munch on. Meanwhile, just behind the two of them, Lady Belle and Ursula were staring at Mitsuki and Honey from their own seats, with the former glaring beams at the two of them.
Confessional - Bachelorettes
"Now things ain't been so bad for the past few days with that mangy little pervert, she's been keeping her sights mostly on her own partner from the looks of it. Problem is, with less and less teams sticking around now, she's bound to start over with her whole routine of letting her eyes wander all over a canvas that isn't hers to look at." Lady Belle swayed her hips a little bit as she stood, knocking them into Ursula and sending her off of her seat and down to the floor with a groan. "I'd rather cut her out before that happens, and now, I believe we've got a good opportunity to do so! It just…involves seeing what's happenin' when we get off of this plane."
"If you ever…smash your flabby ass…against my head ever again…I'm going to throttle you." Ursula pulled herself up from the ground with a heave; her hair was a clear mess from getting knocked down like that. Lady Belle snickered at her misfortune, holding her hand over her mouth like a snooty schoolgirl. "...I haven't had much luck at all with Arnold paying attention to me, and now he's on a whole different plane. The rich men in this competition are all so pitiful…they wouldn't know hot if it came up to them and smacked them across the face."
"Hmmm…ah! Lil' flight attendant, come here, would you?" Lady Belle started snapping her fingers as she saw a flight attendant passing by, which greatly ignored the worker. Nonetheless, she turned around and walked back over to her with a huge, forced smile on her face. The southerner held up a glass of water with an innocent smile of her own, though the water looked to be a little cloudy. "Would ya mind bringin' this over to my friend in row twenty B, seat three? She looked a lil' thirsty, so I don't want her passin' out from dehydration is all."
"Right, I'll get right on that, ma'am!" The flight attendant took the glass from Lady Belle, still smiling as she walked away from her. When she got out of her line of sight, though, she just ended up dumping the glass onto the floor, glaring before heading back to her seat at the head of the plane and reading some book by an author named Clover Warrington.
"What'd you do to that water, anyways? I can tell that you fiddled with it in one way or another, no water looks that cloudy?" Ursula looked up at Lady Belle with an eyebrow cocked, but she didn't look like she was super invested in what she did.
"Oh, just mixed in a nice lil' bit of rat poison to take care of a perverted rat. It's amazin', the things you can get away with bringing on these flights– they didn't even check my bag!" Lady Belle snickered to herself, still thinking at that time that her plan was working and Mitsuki was about to down a glass full of poisoned water.
"With the second flight still soaring through the air towards Alberta, flight one has already landed! Our contestants are gonna have to drive pick-up trucks to get to the next dukebox, so I'm pretty sure we're going to see a lot of speed limits being ignored!" As Duke narrated, the first plane was landing down in Alberta. The second that it landed, contestants somehow started to pour out of the airport, with Aisling and Arnold being way ahead of the rest of the curve. The businessman was holding Aisling's hand as he pulled her along, although it was significantly less aggressive than he used to be with her. He even pulled her along to the passenger's seat of the pick-up they were getting and opened the door for her.
"You're letting me sit in the passenger seat and open the door for me despite being in this big tizzy about that prediction, that's so sweet of you." Aisling mumbled sarcastically as she got into the seat, with Arnold shutting the door after her before running over to the driver's seat. He started to speed off before any of the other contestants even got in their own trucks. The psychic stared at him as he drove, looking at the face of determination that he was wearing. "I thought you had finally come to accept the predictions as is, but here you are still trying to fight fate."
"Sometimes fate is meant to be changed! I'm not always gonna sit back and let fate have its way with me, I wanna be the type of man that can at least change his own destiny!" Arnold noted as he took a sharp turn with the truck, causing sparks to fly from the wheels and the wheels themselves to screech loudly. "Other times it's…fine to let fate decide what is going to happen, but not always. If fate said that you were going to accidentally drive off a cliff today, would you still get in a car?"
"Yes, I likely would, as my maiden of fate would have so decided it for me." Aisling nodded seriously, with Arnold's jaw dropping as he looked at her.
Confessional - Psychic and Skeptic
"Okay, I have to note to myself that Aisling is a hazard to her own wellbeing and should never be left unattended, no matter the case. Seriously, you could just not drive, and you wouldn't end up driving off the cliff!" Arnold tried to reason with his partner, although she just shrugged her shoulders gently. "Good lord…alright, then, if I ever see you making a prediction that has that result, I'm gonna put you in a straitjacket so you can't even think about actually driving."
"I don't understand why you've got such an odd obsession with how I handle my own fate, but I sincerely don't mind what's decided for me, Arnold." Aisling nodded her head softly, though this only served to agitate Arnold even more.
"The drive can't be that far! We'll probably make it there really quick if we get going now!" Mika hopped into the passenger seat of one of the pick-up trucks, with Conroy running around to get in the driver's side. He started to drive off from the airport, though little did he know, Becky and Olive were hitching a ride in the bed of the truck. The two of them were playing cards in the back, it looked like a pretty intense game of Go Fish.
"...Do you…have any sevens?" Becky glanced up from her hand and at Olive to see that she was shaking her head with a big smile on her face. Annoyedly, the singer grabbed another card from the pile and put it into her hand. "Alright, it's your turn now,"
"Okay! Um…" Olive clicked her tongue while she looked over all of her cards before her already present smile grew wider and wider. "I got it! Do you have any sevens?"
"You just said that you didn't have any sevens, you can't just ask for a seven after telling me you had no sevens!" Becky glared as she set her cards down in her lap, but Olive just seemed to be pretty pleased with herself.
"Well, um, I didn't wanna give you my seven, um, because it's mine. So I told you that I, um didn't, uh, have one so I could keep mine and then have yours too, yup!" Olive beamed while literal steam started to come off of Becky's head. Conroy ended up hitting a bump in the road, though, which caused all of the cards to fly out of the back of the truck and into the air. Becky stared at the cards as they flew away, only for Olive to slowly shove a card in front of her face. "I still got my seven!"
"Woah…this is such an interesting change of scenery! I've never even been to Alberta before…or heard of it before! Do you think it's gonna be really magical, Helena?" Flora was sitting in the passenger seat of the truck that Helena was driving, and the two were trailing behind Mika and Conroy while they were driving towards the dukebox location. Helena clicked her tongue as she tried to think about anything notable about the province, but nothing was really coming to mind.
"Well…Alberta is basically like Canadian Texas, I guess, so maybe they have…knock-offs of popular attractions that Texas would have?" Helena shrugged lightly while Flora just kicked her feet happily. As the two continued to drive on ahead, Lyle and Zeke suddenly pulled up alongside them, with Zeke waving while he kept one hand on the wheel. "Oh, look, it's the nature boys! Hey guys!"
"Hey, how's it going!" Zeke called back to the girls while he was driving, blissfully unaware that the cards that Becky and Olive had thrown were flying right towards his own truck. They slapped against the windshield, perfectly blocking his and Lyle's field of vision. "Wah! Get them off, get them off!"
"Use the windshield wipers, Zeke!" Lyle screamed out as he tried to reach over to activate the wipers, but he just ended up turning the left turning blinker on instead. The two continued to scream as they corralled off the side of the road, leaving Flora and Helena to cringe as they drove past the duo.
Confessional - Long Lost Brothers
"See, it's a total cliche for a bunch of birds to fly into your windshield so you end up crashing, but since we're so in touch with nature and all its creatures, there's no way that that would ever happen to us!" Zeke grinned proudly as he declared this, although he and Lyle were both littered with bruises and cuts from them crashing into a tree. Their beat up truck could be seen nearby, it was still barely running at this point.
"It does beg the question, though…since when did playing cards learn how to fly?" Lyle stroked his chin in thought for a moment before accidently touching part of his face that was all bruised up. "Yowch! That smarts!" The shorter brother whimpered in pain before Zeke leaned down towards him to give him a kiss right on the bruise, leaning back right after. "...Oh, yeah, that made it feel better!"
"I can't believe we actually have to travel in one of these stupid trucks, ugh…being in taxis has been bad enough, but a truck? They could've at least given us a nicer model or something, and not this hick-mobile." Logan was only whining over and over again, as she was quite well known for doing when put in these situations that she deemed as gross or improper for someone of her status. She wasn't the one driving, of course, Evan was. He rolled his eyes at her comment before suddenly whipping the steering wheel sharply to the left, and then right back to the center, causing his cousin to fall out of her seat and onto the floor.
"Oops," Evan muttered with a grin on his face as Logan tried to pull herself up from the floor. Her makeup was all smeared all over her face, and her hair was a total mess, the sight of which only served as more amusement for him. "You know, if you just close your eyes and don't think about the kind of vehicle we're in, it might pass by faster. I'll even give you bonus points if you manage to keep your trap shut for the rest of the ride."
"With the first six teams all getting closer and closer to their goal," Duke narrated over the sight of Logan glaring at Evan, which soon transitioned to show the airport from before. "Our second flight with the bottom five teams has just landed, and they'll soon get en route to their destination!" The Bachelorettes, Race Moms, Friendly Duo, YouTuber and Editor, and Awkward Neighbors all poured out through the front doors of the airport, each team taking one of the remaining trucks so they could start driving. "But it looks like Arnold and Aisling are the first team to make it to the dukebox, keeping them in first place!"
"It's about time! That drive couldn't have taken any longer, I swear!" Arnold parked the truck he was driving as crappily as he could possibly manage outside of the bar that was right near the dukebox before he and Aisling hopped out of it and ran over to the dukebox. He pressed the button on the top of it, grabbing the tip from it and holding it up to his face. "It's another all-in. 'Tip your hat, split your jeans, and eat like a cowboy, by all means.' Now…that just sounds absurd!"
"Maybe you just sound absurd, Arnold!" Duke choralled as he was walking through the kitchen inside of the bar while wearing a chef's hat atop his head. "For this all-in, the teams will have to work together to scarf down an entire pot of scorching hot pork n beans! When they manage to get all the way to the bottom of the pot, they'll find their next travel tip!" The host scooped a ladle of pork n beans from the pot and raised it to his lips to eat it, although, about halfway through, he just ended up choking and gagging on it.
"Pork n beans…I must say, I'm unfamiliar with this dish. Have you ever eaten it before, Arnold?" Aisling looked up at her partner as the two of them were standing by a table in the bar. It had one of the pots of pork n beans on it, and it looked to be enough food to feed about eight people. It was so hot that it was bubbling, but for some reason, this didn't seem to really bother either of them, as they were still holding their spoons in their hands and getting ready to dig in.
"Have I ever eaten this filth before? Absolutely not, but I know that the two of us are going to tear through it as fast as we can so we don't end up in eleventh place!" Arnold slammed his fists down on the table before taking a deep breath and shoving his spoon down into the pot, scooping out a hearty portion of pork n beans. He brought it straight to his mouth and, though he was incredibly disgusted by the flavor of the dish, he still continued to shovel more and more into his mouth as fast as he could, while Aisling just shrugged and started to eat with him.
Confessional - Psychic and Skeptic
"I've never seen Arnold eat so fast in our entire time being together on this race…it's honestly a bit terrifying to witness first hand." Aisling glanced over her shoulder at Arnold, who currently had the pot lifted up to his lips as he was just downing as much as he could all in these big gulps. "...I really don't think consuming this much pork n beans is healthy for, well, anyone…but I feel if I tell Arnold that, he's just going to start eating them faster…and then end up in the hospital."
As Arnold and Aisling were busy eating their pork n beans, Mika, Conroy, Becky, and Olive were all finally arriving at the bar. The first team had gotten quite a lead on everyone else with how much Arnold was speeding on the way there, so they were almost finished when no one else had even started. Mika and Conroy hurried over to one of the open tables, while Olive and Becky just slowly walked over to one of their own. Olive climbed up into her seat, grabbing a spoon with a big smile on her face while Becky slowly brought herself up as well, scowling the minute that she saw the pot.
"Pork n beans, Becks! It's just like ma used to make back home! Only I think these pork n beans will taste better!" Olive happily took a scoop of the dish and dumped it into her mouth, chewing down on it slowly before swallowing it down. "Ah, I was wrong! It tastes just as bad as I remember it tasting when we had it before, yup!"
"Pork n beans…is one of the most vile dishes imaginable. I wouldn't even wish the fate of eating an entire pot of it upon the weakest of weakbloods…" Becky slowly moved her spoon into the pot, scooping up a small bit of the dish and sighing while she looked at it. "...If I die while eating pork n beans, my ghost is going to come back to this show and haunt everybody, that is a promise." The singer gulped nervously before she started to eat with her sister, going very noticeably slow with it. It was like she really didn't want to eat it whatsoever. Conroy and Mika, on the other hand, didn't even start eating yet.
"So…what's gonna be our attack plan for these pork n beans, Conroy? It's way more food that we usually eat…" Mika tapped at the food with her spoon, while she tried to figure out just how she was gonna manage to eat the entire pot. Meanwhile, Conroy was just stroking his chin in thought while staring down into the pot, like he was coming up with some sort of plan in his head.
"...Okay, so I think I've got a plan. If we can manage to put our arms in the most perfect windmill motion, we should be able to scoop a spoonful of pork n beans into our mouths every two seconds. If we do that, we have to use the time between scoops to swallow, so the easiest way to eat it all would be to quickly crush it all in our mouths and swallow it in one foul swoop." Conroy nodded his head before looking back at Mika, who looked nervous about the plan. "We've got this, Mika. On three…one…two…three!" On his count, the two of them started to go through with his plan, although they both immediately failed to swallow the beans before the next scoop came to their mouth, causing them to both pour pork n beans all over their faces.
Confessional - Basketball Team
"When you play sports, you'll find that you have to eat a lot more calories in order to sustain your muscle mass and body shape. Eating a lot in one day isn't a foreign challenge to me and Mika…the challenge is consuming so much of one disgusting dish in one sitting." Conroy's stomach growled in a low, somewhat terrifying tone as he mentioned the disgustingness of the dish. Mika was even hunched over by an empty bucket at the back of the bar, emptying the contents of her stomach out into it. "...I fear this may be one of the toughest challenges yet."
"Oh, joy! We made it while there are still only a few teams here! We might be able to get another good placement, just like last time!" Flora cheered as her and Helena sat themselves down at one of the tables, only to hear the sounds of spoons clattering down on a table behind them. They glanced over to see what was up, only to find that Arnold and Aisling had already finished their pot, and the businessman was currently digging around in the empty pot to get the next travel tip.
"Come on, it has to be in here somewhere…aha!" Arnold's eyes lit up as he grabbed onto the tip and pulled it out of the pot, bringing it to his face and reading it closely. "This one is a botch or watch. 'Whoever didn't fight the kid back in Seoul has to ride a mechanical bull.' Mechanical bull?" Arnold and Aisling blinked at each other in confusion and silence while Duke, now sporting a cowboy hat rather than the chef's hat from earlier, walked by them and towards the mechanical bull in question.
"This thing here is the Bull Buster Three Thousand! It's a machine that's known for being even more wild and crazy than an actual bull, though it still isn't enough to keep it from getting pinned by the Dukester!" Duke grinned as he rested his hand on top of the bull, which caused it to suddenly start moving, knocking him back into a nearby bale of hay. "Ugh…the riders will have to keep on the bull's back for a full eight seconds before they can head out the back door…" The host weakly pointed to the door that he was talking about at the back of the restaurant.
"...Down this jagged mountain path…" Duke spoke as the view of the path heading down the hill was shown, having a few twists and turns in it. At the bottom of the path, the host was standing on top of the chill zone. "...To the chill zone here! The last team that makes it might be getting some bad news delivered to them today!"
"Alright, mechanical bull riding…it can't be that hard, right? You're from Ireland, you have tons of crazy things happening there all the time! So riding this bull should be easy for you!" Arnold was standing close by the bull while Aisling was sitting on top of it, wearing a protective helmet. She looked really unsure of the mechanical creature, and just looked back at Arnold with a nervous look on her face. "Hey, you dealt with me dragging you up all those stairs in Ontario, you'll definitely be able to handle this bull!"
"...Interesting choice of experience to put into a pep talk, but I suppose that event was pretty rough…" Aisling looked down at the bull, gulping nervously as she looked it over. She took a look back into the bar, and saw that more and more teams were now showing up, with almost every team there…all except for the Long Lost Brothers. Some of the teams even looked like they were getting pretty close to being finished with their meals, too. "Right…just a mechanical bull…fate would never let my life be ended in such a silly way."
"That's the spirit!" Arnold cheered just before the bull finally turned on and started to flail about rapidly. The entire restaurant could hear Aisling screaming out for dear life as her entire body was thrown all about on top of the bull. The businessman winced at the sight of his partner getting decimated by the mechanical creature, but then, just behind him, he heard the dinging of a timer, and the bull suddenly stopped moving. Aisling was still on its back…at least at that point. She did slowly fall off the side of it, and hit the floor pretty hard. "Ah! Aisling, you did it, you did it!"
"Huh?" Aisling weakly mumbled from the floor before she suddenly felt herself being lifted up in Arnold's arms. She looked up at him while he held her to see a massive, proud smile on his face. That was…before she started to vomit all over him, covering his entire visage with her puke. "...A-apologies…the pork n beans and the mechanical bull don't mix well together at all."
"Ah, nevermind that!" Arnold leaned down towards one of the hay bales nearby to wipe his face on it, getting it as clean as he could before he started booking it towards the back door, grinning wide as ever. "We beat both of the challenges before any of the other teams did, and all that's left is for us to reach the chill zone! There's no way that we'll be going home tonight, haha!"
"I suppose my prediction was wrong…maybe the crystal ball was being disrupted by the busy streets of Seoul. It's usually better to consult fate in a peaceful, quiet place…" Aisling seemed sort of down about this whole situation, though Arnold didn't seem to notice at all.
Confessional - Psychic and Skeptic
"See? See everybody? I'm just a man that knows how to deny fate from just taking me out whenever it wants! Take that, fate!" Arnold raised his fist to the sky while grinning, though for some reason, a bird flew right over his head, only to crap on his hair. He scowled at the camera for a brief moment before taking a deep breath and grinning again. "I could be upset about that, but I just stopped fate! So suck it, fate!"
"Oh, come on, I know you can eat faster than that, you're barely even trying!" Jamie Lynn glared as she sat across from Phoebe, who was struggling immensely with their heaping pot of pork n beans. She had quite the mess on her face just from the few scoops that she had eaten, and she really just looked like she was about to vomit already. "Jesus…every single day you remind me more and more that I made a mistake by bringing you along with me."
"T-t-the doctors told me that I have a quarter of the stomach capacity that a-a-an average adult woman has, so it's hard for me to do things like eating lots of food in one sitting…I-I'm sorry, I know I'm so useless…" Phoebe had just gotten so used to apologizing to Jamie Lynn, even though she really hated her. It was just something that seemed to be second nature to her at this point. As she and her partner tried to get back to eating, they noticed that another team was just now finishing up their bowl. "People are done eating already…?"
"Looks like Flora and Helena really like pork n beans…tch, I should've guessed that some fat chick like Helena would do well in this type of challenge." Jamie Lynn scoffed while she shoveled another scoop of pork n beans into her mouth, watching closely while Flora and Helena started to run over to the mechanical bull.
"That was a lot of pork n beans…my tummy is feeling really weird after eating it all!" Flora felt her stomach grumbling at her as she was putting on her helmet and climbing up onto the mechanical bull. She had a hard time getting up there on her own, but Helena helped her get up the rest of the way. "Whew! Thanks, Helly!"
"H-Helly? That's an…interesting nickname." Helena blushed from the nickname, which got a little smirk out of Flora. She shook her head to try and refocus on what was going on around her. "Ah, right, the bull riding…I watched when Aisling was on this thing before. It moved super chaotically, so the only way to make sure that you don't get thrown off is if you hold on really tight. I think you'll do a good job, though."
"Oh, don't even worry about it! I've got a plan of my own, just you watch!" Flora beamed with excitement, and the bull finally started to flail around wildly, just like it did with Aisling. Helena grew more and more nervous as she saw how fast the thing was moving, that was until she noticed how much more excited Flora looked. "Woohooooooo! Look at me, everyone! I'm riding a magical dragon! This great beast is no match for me, the number one dragon tamer in all the land!"
"She's fantasizing…to make the challenge easier for her…" Helena mumbled to herself as she watched Flora make short work of the challenge, with a growing blush on her cheeks. "...So…cute…" In what seemed like no time, Flora was all done with the bull ride, and she hopped off of it with a huge smile on her face. She proudly trotted over to her girlfriend, giving her an adorable eskimo kiss before grabbing her by the hand and leading her out through the back door.
Confessional - Mystical Witches
"I never would have thought in a million years to just…imagine that I was doing something else to make it easier to beat the challenge…that was actually really clever, Flora." Helena was still blushing as she looked up at Flora, who was proudly flipping her hair and taking little bows to a crowd that wasn't even there.
"I may not be much of an ideas person, but I still have something good in the ol' noggin' every once in a while! Me and you probably have the wildest imagination out of everyone that's still here, so that's an advantage that we've got over everybody!" Flora tossed some glitter into the air, which rained down on her, some of it getting in her eyes. Helena gasped at the sight, but Flora seemed entirely unbothered by this. "See, a normal person would feel a burning sensation from having glitter in their eyes, but for me, I just imagine that it's giving me special glitter vision!"
"Now, that was probably the longest detour we've ever had to take!" Lyle chuckled as he and Zeke finally entered the bar, both of them still horribly beaten up from earlier when they had careened into that tree. Once they got inside, they saw that there were a lot of teams that were already done eating their pork n beans…with only one team aside from themselves that still had to eat the meal, that being Olive and Becky. Olive's little tummy was all chubby from how much she had eaten, she didn't look like she could have another bite…while Becky was still loosely scraping into the bull, looking somehow more sick than everyone else. "Yikes! We're way far behind, Zeke!"
"You said it…and it's gonna take us an even longer time to eat the pork n beans than everyone else, I bet." Zeke groaned as he and Lyle started to walk towards their table, which was just across from where Becky and Olive were sitting. The two of them each grabbed the spoons that were provided for them, with the younger brother looking into the pot and recoiling in disgust. "O-okay…so…you eat the pork and I'll eat all the beans."
"You got it, Zeke! It's a good thing that I love eating pork, anyways!" Lyle grinned widely before noticing the look of disgust that was being shot his way from Zeke. "Er…or…you know, I hate eating pork, but if I must, I'll regretfully do it!" The two started to work on separating the pork from the beans while Olive weakly tried to raise her spoon up to get another bite of her own pot.
"Ohhhhh…Becks…I dunno if I ever wanna see another bit of pork n beans in my entire life…I feel like my tummy is just about to kersplode all over the place…" Olive took her scoop from the pot, which was still half full, and brought it to her face, reluctantly pouring it into her mouth. "You don't think Mitsuki and Honey make pork n beans, right? I wanna actually eat good food when we go to their wedding…"
"...I don't think that they'll be making the food for their own wedding, either way…but I doubt that they'll serve something so…filthy…disgusting…terrible…" Becky had a scoop full of pork n beans in front of her face, but for some reason, she seemed really reluctant to actually eat it. She tapped it against her own lips, but she couldn't force herself to actually put it in her mouth. "...I really don't feel very good about this challenge, Olive."
"Eh…?" Olive looked over at her sister to see that she actually had a really nervous, worried expression all over her face. Somehow, this immediately clicked with her, like she realized exactly what was wrong with her. "Oh! Um…welp, you already had like two scoops of it, so, um, you technically participated in the all-in, so, um, that means, um, I can just eat the rest! Y-yup…" The drummer suddenly reached out to snatch the spoon from her sister, using both spoons to scoop twice as much pork n beans into her mouth, even though she was clearly sick of it already. Becky just looked at her as she gorged herself, looking pretty miserable about the whole sight.
"Ayyyyyyyyye! Virgilio, help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Michael cried out like an obnoxious little girl as he was suddenly thrown off of the mechanical bull, his entire body flying through a hole in the roof before coming back down through the same hole and landing in one of the hay bales nearby. Virgil walked over to his partner with an amused smirk on his face, leaning down to listen to him groaning and moaning in pain.
"I guess it's true what they say about you gays: there's only one type of bull that you can safely ride." Virgil's smirk grew even wider as he saw Michael lifting his hand up to flip him off. Meanwhile, since they had failed, there was another team now going to give their best shot at the bull ride.
"Oh, now see, this is just an absurd hillbilly sport! Why would anyone ever actually want to ride a mechanical bull for fun? I feel like I'm losing brain cells just by sitting on one of these things." Logan griped when she got up onto the mechanical bull, with Evan just rolling his eyes at her. Just before she was about to start, her cousin noticed that there was a switch on the back, which could actually amp up the power. With a huge grin on his face, he flipped it up to the max power when Logan wasn't looking.
"I'd hold on really tight if I were you," Evan noted while still grinning. Logan looked over at him, looking like she was about to say something to him, although she didn't actually get the chance to get any words out before the bull started shaking violently all over the place. It was much worse than ever before, and just the sight seemed to be a full blur. No one could actually tell if Logan was still on the bull until it finally came to a full stop, revealing that she was shivering while clutching onto it as tightly as she could possibly manage. Evan reached out to flick the switch back to normal before grabbing Logan in one hand. "I'm actually surprised you managed to survive that thing."
"I can smell colors…" Logan groaned while Evan started to run off with her in his hand, allowing another team to get their shot on the bull.
"Not t-the first thing I would've imagined riding, b-but I guess it's fine…" Mitsuki seemed pretty disappointed when she was climbing onto the bull, and Honey was just giggling at her dirty comment. "C-crap…I saw how crazy this thing was with all the other teams. There's just no way I'm gonna survive on this thing! W-would hot dudes think it's attractive for a girl to be good at bull riding? They totally would, right? Maybe Honey would think it's hot…" The NEET gasped as that last thought popped into her head. "GET OUT OF MY HEAD GAY THOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUGHTS!" She couldn't fully finish speaking before the bull started throttling her about like a ragdoll, with Honey watching nervously.
"Oh boy…I hope she's okay…" Honey continued to watch until the bull finally came to a full stop, showing that Mitsuki's eyes were basically rolling around in her head with how badly she had been thrown around. She ended up jumping off of the ride, teetering back and forth as she started walking over to Honey, only to stumble forward into her arms…with her face practically sinking right into her chest. The excavator's face got all red almost immediately, but she didn't shove her away. "U-um…there, there, it's all over now…let's get to the chill zone, Mitsu…"
"I think my brain just split in half…" Mitsuki groaned, but didn't bother pulling her face away from Honey's chest, even as the two were walking over to the back door. When they went through it, Lady Belle and Ursula were watching them, with the former scowling in silence.
Confessional - Bachelorettes
"Y'know, I'm starting to think that that flight attendant didn't give Mitsuki the poison that I told her to earlier. I would've figured she would've at least been vomiting her guts out at this point!" Lady Belle grumbled with her arms crossed over her chest, leaving Ursula to snicker at her. "Oh, don't you even laugh at me, you hag! Not like anything you're trying to do is actually working out for the best!"
"It's not my fault that every single rich man in this entire competition wouldn't know what hot is if it came up to them and stabbed them in the chest." Ursula shrugged, smirking slightly at the thought of stabbing Arnold and James in the chest. "I almost fear that I might have to turn to seducing…ugh…rich women…"
"With more and more teams finishing the mechanical bull ride, there still hasn't been a first team to reach the chill zone…but it looks like Arnold and Aisling are about to claim that honor right about now!" Duke was watching the path heading down towards where he was on the chill zone, where he saw Arnold running with Aisling still in his arms. Flora and Helena were still running down the hill, with Evan, Logan, Mitsuki, and Honey all much closer to the top of the path. "Any second now…here they come…and…!"
"Haha!" Arnold grinned as he got in closer to the chill zone, being only about ten feet away from it now. He kept running and running, until suddenly, he stopped right in place…about a foot away from it. Duke was just looking at him with the most confused expression that he could possibly muster, which was being matched by Aisling. "The chill zone is right here, is it? And what do you know…me and Aisling are right here as well! Funny how things like that work out."
"...Are you gonna step in it, or are you just going to gloat?" Aisling narrowed her eyes at Arnold as she climbed out of his arms, walking the remaining way into the zone on her own and leaving him outside of it. He still wasn't budging, though. In fact, he ended up just sitting on the ground right outside the zone, only succeeding in confusing his partner even more. "...Uh…okay, I give up. What are you doing?"
"Oh, me? Well…hm…I don't have any idea in the slightest, really! I just thought, you know, it's a really nice day out and everything, but something was missing…and that's when it hit me!" Arnold started to laugh a weird, almost forced sounding laughter. Aisling's look of confusion quickly changed into worry as she saw him acting downright crazy like this. "So many days ago, you asked me to do a tarot reading with you! And I've been trying to get more in touch with all your spiritual stuff, but for some reason, I just haven't done that yet! Well, now, I must insist that we proceed with that."
"...Okay, well, we can proceed with that after you get your butt on the chill zone. We are literally one step away from being in first place, and I know how much you loooooooooove being in first." Aisling stepped off the chill zone to go and grab Arnold by the arm, but he was sitting down pretty firmly, preventing her from moving him.
"Come now, Aisling! There's no time like the present, I don't want to delay the reading any more than I already have!" Arnold just smiled innocently as he looked up at Aisling, who sighed and slowly sat down across from him, allowing Flora and Helena to run past the two of them and right into the chill zone.
"Well…uh…pretty shocking turn of events there, but Flora, Helena, looks like you two are the first team fully in the chill zone! So…congrats?" Duke was still completely confused, even when he was congratulating the first place team.
"Oh, yippee! We got first place, Helena! Isn't that just wonderful?" Flora wrapped Helena up in a big hug, lifting her off the ground while hugging her to carry her off the chill zone. This made room for Evan and Logan to take their place, though they were almost immediately shoved aside by Mitsuki and Honey.
"Vicious Pop Stars get second, and the Race Moms secure third place! Meanwhile…Arnold has clearly lost his damn mind!" Duke shrugged his shoulders and just tried to grin as the camera panned back up to the bar, showing that more and more teams were finishing the bull ride, with Olive and Becky finally finishing their pot of pork n beans while Lyle and Zeke were still working on theirs.
"Ugh…Becks…I really don't know if I'm gonna be able to ride this bull thingy…my tummy is just so full…I'm definitely gonna go blamo if I get on that thing…" Olive nervously looked up at the mechanical bull while Becky helped her walk over to it.
"I don't think any mechanical bull is a match for you…I mean, you're my sister, which automatically means that you're way cooler than this mechanical bull could ever even dream of being." Becky smiled gently while Olive did her best to climb onto the bull, still looking nervous as ever. "You're gonna show that bull who's boss, and then…it'll probably combust into flames with how awesome you are."
"Ya really think so? Oh, Becks, that's like the nicest thing you ever said to-" Before she got the rest of her words out, Olive was suddenly launched off the mechanical bull, flying straight through the wall of the building and landing in the parking lot outside. Becky winced at the sight and ran to try and help Olive out.
Confessional - Bloody Prom Queens
"It really feels bad to see Olive in such rough shape…especially when it was basically my fault that she ended up like this, too." Becky frowned at the camera while Olive was standing over a bucket, preparing to puke at any given second. "...I…if we actually manage to make it through this challenge, I'm gonna have to actually let her keep whatever animal she wants next. I already know that I'm going to regret saying that…"
"With the last team finally managing to eat the rest of their pork n beans…" Duke spoke over the view of Lyle and Zeke finally slamming down their spoons on their table, running away from it and leaving the empty bowl of pork n beans behind. "Only two teams still have to finish the bull riding! More and more teams are showing up at the end of the leg, too!" The camera panned back to the chill zone, showing the teams running up to join Duke where he was standing.
"Bachelorettes, you guys are in fourth place! Basketball Team shoots and scores fifth! Awkward Neighbors, sixth! YouTuber and Editor, seventh! And Friendly Duo, eighth!" The five teams that had just made it to the chill zone each cheered for themselves when they made it, although Lady Belle still looked annoyed to see that Mitsuki was completely unharmed. "And Arnold and Aisling…you guys are still just goofing around! There's only three teams that haven't finished yet, you know that, right?"
"Hey, Duke, man! Can you please keep your trap shut? I'm trying to go through this intense psychic procedure with Aisling, and you yapping your gap every few seconds is making it difficult for me to focus." Arnold glared at Duke, who glared right back at him and crossed his arms. "Now then, when I draw my card, I am supposed to show you first, right? Or do I look at it myself and then give it to you to look at?"
"...You…just flip a card over and that's that. It takes a full three seconds to do…maybe thirty if you want me to explain what the card means." Aisling watched Arnold closely as he looked over the deck of tarot cards, which were spread out in a line, all of them face down so that neither of them could see them.
"Fascinating…truly fascinating…I would be crazy to not want the full experience, so you're going to have to explain what my card means when I reveal it!" Arnold chucked and moved his hand forward, waving it back and forth over the deck while trying to figure out which card to pick. He looked like he was about to pick one, but then pulled his hand back again.
"...I really don't think that you have to worry about being crazy right now, you're already pretty crazy." Aisling spoke softly while she kept watching him closely, waiting impatiently for him to just get this over with already. Meanwhile, back in the bar, Lyle was hanging onto the mechanical bull like a human sloth while Zeke was watching from the sideline with an amused smile. Olive, though, was currently laying in a huge heap of hay, groaning loudly in pain.
"H-hey, you know…you don't have to do it if you can't do it, Olive. I won't think any less of you, especially after you pretty much handled the entire all-in all by yourself." Becky looked even sadder than she did before, she hardly even noticed that Lyle and Zeke finished the bull riding and were now leaving the bar. "...We made it pretty far, so…I still think it's pretty good if we stop here."
"Nuh uh, no can do, nosiree!" Olive suddenly shot up to her feet when Becky was talking like that, somehow appearing a lot more energetic and happy than she was just a few seconds ago. The singer looked at her older sister in complete confusion, wondering how she managed to get herself back into good shape like that. "This robo-bull ain't no challenge for Olive, here! I could easily ride a real bull, so I'm gonna make sure that this phony bull knows its place!" The drummer hopped back up onto the bull, looking as determined as she possibly could when it started to buck around. She was holding on pretty tight while it throttled her about, with Becky just watching in pure silence and amazement, all the way until it was finally done moving…and Olive was still on it.
"...Woah…I don't know what you just did to get through that like that, but I'm…impressed. Let's go on, then." Becky had a weird way of showing her amazement for her sister, but Olive smiled, knowing exactly how she felt. The singer started to run off, going through the back door on her own. Once she got out there, Olive immediately fell to her knees and groaned again, obviously still in the same pain that she was before.
Confessional - Bloody Prom Queens
"...Yeah, I know that it probably was a pretty dumb thing to do, goin' and ridin' that bull after I ate all that food, but I had to do it!" Olive slammed her fists down on her thighs with that determined look on her face again. "Usually, Becky is always the one being cool and amazing to me…but I'm the older sister! That means that I gotta do something cool every now and then so she's got someone good to look up to! So…whenever I impress her like that, it always makes any pain I could ever possibly feel go away!"
"Zeke and Lyle, you guys cut it pretty close, but you've got yourselves ninth place! I honestly thought you'd be going tonight after seeing how bad that crash was, but I also didn't expect Arnold to suddenly go off the deep end!" Duke congratulated Lyle and Zeke as they were the ninth team to make it to the chill zone. All the while, Arnold was still hesitating to actually pick a card from the deck, leaving Aisling to sigh while she was watching him. At the same time, Olive finally ran out the back door of the bar, and she and Becky started to head down towards the chill zone.
"We've only got two teams left that are trying to reach the chill zone! Well…at least one of them is trying to reach the chill zone! The suspense…well, it's not really suspenseful at all, I guess! But if this were suspenseful, the suspense would be killing me!" Duke watched Becky and Olive while they were running down to the chill zone, with the other teams that had finished the leg already standing aside and watching along with him. To no shock, Arnold and Aisling didn't even get up from the ground, even as Olive and Becky zipped by them and hopped into the chill zone. "And the Bloody Prom Babies snag tenth place, meaning that Arnold and Aisling are cut from the race!"
"Huh? We…lost…?" Arnold looked up from the cards strewn out before him and Aisling, with this odd, almost emotionless look on his face. "...I see…no matter how hard I tried to deny it, it looks like my fate was still sealed in the end…eleventh place…"
"...Uh…yeah?" Aisling perked up slightly when she heard that the two of them lost, looking almost happy about that fact.
"Well…I was pretty sure that my prediction was going to be wrong in the end, but fate would never lie to me! I should've known better than to question her, she is honest to all her disciples!" Aisling seemed happier than she had been in a long time as she spoke with a cheery tone in her voice. The clip of her being dragged up the stairs back in Ontario was playing as she spoke. "Sorry that you couldn't deny your fate, Arnold, but I hope that you've learned a thing or two about spiritual connections, like you wanted to!"
"Indeed…it was so foolish of me to even try to fight our destiny. All of your predictions came to be while we were working together. I could have saved a lot of energy by just not trying in this last leg!" Arnold burst out into laughter after he said that, obviously not meaning that part of his statement. The next clip of theirs that was shown had them in their prison cell, with both of them in the middle of the seance. "This is probably just…karma, right? Since I was so terrible to you all this time."
"Well, I suppose you could call it karma…but even if you were pretty awful to me sometimes, I still had a good time in the race. I got to meet a lot of interesting people along the way, and I did so many tarot readings! It was one of the most amazing experiences that I've ever been a part of!" Aisling giggled excitedly while the next clip was shown, this one having her dragging Arnold through the crowded streets of Seoul. Suddenly, she remembered something, and let out a huge gasp. "Ah! I was so focused on us losing, I forgot to finish the reading!"
"Oh, that? No worries, I ended up grabbing one of the cards while you were collecting them from the ground. Let me see…I have it on me somewhere…" Arnold started to rummage around in his pockets while he and Aisling were walking off into the distance, before he finally retrieved his card and held it out for Aisling to grab it from him. "As you know, I don't know anything about all this stuff, so I don't know if this is good or not."
"This…yes, Arnold. This is quite good," Aisling nodded her head before she threw the card up into the air, allowing the wind to carry it away. It continued to flutter in the breeze before it ended up pressing up against the camera, revealing that it was none other than the card: The Lovers.
22nd: The Rivalry Twins - Maya and Jeremy
21st: The Idol Queen In-Waiting - Sua
20th: The Cool Guys - Evander and Kurt
N/A: The Mouse - Cheese
19th: The Dynamic Gamers - Colin and Freddy
18th: The Sailor America Fans - Lukas and Sunny
17th: The Reality Show Rivals - Jacque and Angel
16th: The Wilderness Girls - Sophie and Bea
15th: The Dweebs - Andrew and Richard
14th: The "Father and Son?" - James and Eliott
13th: The Glow-Up Gals - Vanessa and Karma
12th: The BFFFLs - Sadie and Katie
11th: The Psychic and Skeptic - Aisling and Arnold