"Mhm…mhm…so you're saying that these Komodos are a vulnerable species, am I hearing that right? Right, and we killed three of them and kidnapped an infant one in the previous episode? And that makes us liable for a lawsuit that we won't be able to afford? I see, I see, well, thanks for the call and everything, but you're gonna have to prank someone else, because nobody can pull one over on the champ!" Duke had his phone to his ear while he was standing on the Indonesian beach, but he brought it down and suddenly crushed it between his hands, letting the little shards and pieces of it fall to the sand like it was nothing. "Always getting these lawsuit calls and whatnot, it's a load of bologna, if you ask me! Last time on the Ridukeulous Race: racers were about to finally leave the frigid Arctic Circle when we were suddenly interrupted by two mysterious, hooded figures that seemed to be insistent that I wronged them by leaving them behind without actually eliminating them! While I had to look over whatever important documents they gave me, our teams had to deal with them being generally creepy– especially towards the Long Lost Brothers! Mitsuki and Honey started getting more used to each other now that they're actually a couple, and they also discovered their strengths as the impromptu parents of the Bloody Prom Queens. Poor Mitsuki, she's stuck being the strict parent that the kids are always going to blame when something bad happens in their life." While Duke spoke, a replay clip was shown from the prior episode, this one showing Olive and Becky trying to find out when Mitsuki and Honey's wedding would be, only to have their hearts crushed when they were told they would have to wait. "Our destination was Indonesia, a breath of hot and humid, but fresh air and relief from the cold that we were all just stuck with. Upon arrival, teams had to race to the jungle, where they discovered that their first challenge of the leg would be stealing– I mean, borrowing a vial of venom from the local Komodo Dragon population!" The next clip that played showed various teams running through the jungle, all of them trying to get the venom in different ways, with Phoebe hurling a boulder right at one of the lizards, Logan brutalizing one of them after she thought that it ate Ursula, and Conroy dunking on one's head to save Mika from danger.
"Lot's of developments came during that first challenge, with one of our hooded guests chasing after the Long Lost Brothers and trying to kill them, Logan getting her first kiss from Ursula for rescuing her personal belongings from the Komodo that ate her purse, and Flora revealing that she still wasn't all that used to the real world! But most importantly, the alliance between the Basketball Team and the Bloody Prom Queens came to an abrupt halt when Mika revealed that she knew it would lead to her own team's downfall before too long! I'm pretty sure I speak for everyone when I say 'screw those basketball goons, viva la metal babies!'" While Duke continued his rambling, the next clip was shown, this one having the point where Mika and Conroy ended their alliance just after Olive and Becky found Iblis. "Even after that big upset, the teams were both working hard to make it to the carpet of completion in time, although they couldn't manage to beat the Long Lost Brothers, who sped through our carpet searching challenge in no time! With most of the teams having a breeze, there were only two teams being held back…one of them being held back, literally. Marty and Xavier had been stuck in a rut while our mysterious painter friend forced Mr. Deadpans to be a model for her work, and Flora thought she was going to be eaten alive by one of the lizards! Luckily, she was saved by Helena, but unluckily, they didn't have enough time to make it to the chill zone, and were cut from the race once again. And, regretfully, we had to allow our mystery intruders, Kotomi and Zerine, back into the game as a brand new team: the Speedy Recovery! I'm betting they barely last this episode." The host laughed as the clip showing the new team in their first confessional together played, but the clip came to an abrupt halt to reveal Duke still on the beach from before. "But enough about what happened last time, that's old news! And this is…THE RIDUKEULOUS RACE!"
Cue Intro
"Welcome back to the Ridukeulous Race, where me and the racers are all still in Flores, Indonesia! Previous leg winners, Zeke and Lyle, are about to get the first travel tip of the leg, to find out where our super slammin' journey is going to take us next!" Duke was walking along the beach, towards the chill zone from the previous episode, where Zeke and Lyle were both standing. They both seemed eager to get the leg started, as they each had wide smiles stretching along their jaws.
Confessional - Long Lost Brothers
"There's only nine teams left in the race at this point, but I've got some pretty high spirits about our chances! For the most part, the locations that we've gone to have been heavy on the nature, so the challenges have been relatively easy for us to breeze through!" Zeke beamed while Lyle was crouched down next to him, trying to forage some berries from a nearby bush. "There was that Jesse guy that just showed up again, though! He seems to want to get rid of us, but I don't really understand why."
"I think that maybe, or at least probably, he's just bummed out that he came back after our butt hunt was already done! He probably wanted to be a part of that, but I would never ask a kid to show me their butt anyways. This Jesse guy is really weird…" Lyle shuddered at the thought that Kotomi was some sort of odd, reverse pedophile.
Confessional - Speedy Recovery
"MY NAME ISN'T FUCKING JESSE!" Kotomi screamed out at the top of his lungs while his face was bright red, only for Mitsuki to suddenly run on scene and slap him on the cheek. "OW!"
"You're too young to say that word!" Mitsuki puffed, quickly running away while Kotomi rubbed his cheek and Zerine snickered at his misfortune.
"Your sister really seems to be taking the mother role quite seriously…I wonder what will happen when the race is over and those kids have to return to their real mother." Zerine tapped the handle of one of her paintbrushes against her lip while smirking to herself. "I'm sure the scene will be quite dramatic…perhaps good for my inspiration."
"You try to use my sister for your weird paint experiments, and I will end you," Kotomi said sternly, staring deep into Zerine's eyes like he was about to suck her soul out of her body. The artist could only clear her throat awkwardly and turn away from him.
"Tip time, woop woop!" Zeke cheered and slammed his fist down onto the button at the top of the first dukebox to collect his tip and read it, with Lyle standing on his tiptoes to get a glance at what the tip said as well. "'We hope you brought enough money to gamble with, because you guys are headed to the Vegas Strip!' Woah, we're going to Vegas!? We can totally go into crippling debt for no reason there!"
"That's right, jabronis, Las Vegas, Nevada, the city known for all the millions of ways that you can blow your money without even realizing how much money you've been spending! They've also got a lot of shifty women in scandalous outfits that lurk among the streets, so watch out for those!" Duke grinned as he was sitting on a couch with two of the scantily clad women that he had mentioned in his lap. Behind him, there was a picture of the Vegas strip, with casinos and bars alike. "Teams will be traveling by helicopter to the top of this building, here!" The picture behind the host suddenly fell over, covering the screen before revealing Duke standing on top of a hotel with a helicopter access.
"Once here, the teams will have to race down the stairs…" Duke opened the door to the roof access and started to run down the stairs while talking. "...Out to the strip and to the front of this casino, here, where they'll find the next dukebox!" The camera transitioned, suddenly showing the host standing in front of a massive casino that almost looked like it was made of glimmering gold with how many lights were on and shining. "Three helicopters will be taking our contestants in pre-selected batches, each landing five minutes after the last! The first group will be the Long Lost Brothers, the Speedy Recovery, and the Awkward Neighbors! Second grouping is going to be the Bloody Prom Queens, the Friendly Duo, and the Race Moms! And the last helicopter is left with the Basketball Team, the Bachelorettes, and the Vicious Pop Stars!"
"Oh, this is a load of crap! How come our helicopter has to land last? It's not like we were the last team to show up to the chill zone in the last leg!" Logan huffed as her and her five helicopter buddies hopped into their seats and buckled themselves up. The other two helicopters had already taken off, and they were just about to be departing as well. Of course, she was seated in between Ursula and Evan, while on the side opposite from her, Mika, Conroy, and Lady Belle sat. "I believe they're just putting us on the last departure because they know that we're just way better than the rest of the competition, and we would probably win too easily if we were first!"
"Is that why we've been placing consistently low or in the middle ground for so long now? Crazy how that works," Evan grumbled before Logan grabbed a nearby empty soda can and threw it at his face. He groaned in annoyance, and the helicopter started to take off, with loud noises coming as the blades started to whir around. The six riders each had a headset on to speak with each other, "It's only a five minute differential, anyways…it's not like we've got much to worry about."
"The first set of teams will be landing approximately ten minutes before us, so I imagine that will likely be enough time for them to reach the dukebox. This whole scenario has got me wondering if maybe Duke had us split apart in this manner for a particular reason…" Conroy adjusted his glasses while he deliberated to himself. "...I'm just not too sure what that reason could be, though."
"Oh, I wouldn't bother worryin' your pretty workin' boy head over it…the brutish host of this show hardly has a reason for anything he does other than waxing his own chest so it shines when he sweats." Lady Belle's long hair was effectively blowing all over the place from how intense the helicopter blades were, which seemed to be annoying her pretty badly. She reached her hands up to tie her hair into a bun to prevent it from getting everywhere, although it had already whipped Mika all over the face. "Apologies…girl. My hair sometimes has a mind of its own."
"N-no worries! I'd probably be having the same issues right now if it weren't for the fact that my hair was tied up in ponytails! I always tie it up for our practices and games, and it sort of just became a habit to do it all the time!" Mika giggled as she tried to make friendly conversation, but she quickly noticed that Lady Belle wasn't paying attention to her at all. She sighed and slouched forward a bit, which got Conroy to pat her gently on the back.
"Oh, this cabin is far too cramped for the six of us…if only one of us was willing to jump out so I could stretch out my legs a bit more…someone beautiful and charming…" Ursula smiled seductively while she looked down at Logan, who looked about ready to unbuckle herself from her seat, although Evan stretched his arm out over her so she couldn't do that. The black widow glared at the former drunk, who glared right back at her, just as intensely.
Confessional - Vicious Pop Stars
"I don't care if Logan falls in love with someone that wants to get her killed, it's really none of my business. I only care that if she dies, I'm gonna have to find a new partner for my gig…and that's just too much work when I've been doing the same routine with the same person for the past ten or so years." Evan groaned as he rubbed his tired eyes with his hands, glancing behind him to see that Logan was trying to get out of her seat again. "Oh, dammit Logan, sit your ass down!"
Confessional - Basketball Team
"Now that there are so few teams left in the game, we really have to work on our strategy, as it's been sorely lacking as of late. That can be chalked up to poor assessment of my own part…alliances simply aren't going to cut it for us." Conroy shook his head while whispering so the other teams in the helicopter with him couldn't hear what he was saying. He even had the mic on his headset muted. "The better strategy would be to take other teams out via sabotage…the only problem is figuring out how to sabotage."
"We haven't ever sabotaged anyone before, except when I sorta sabotaged us by tearing up our boomerang back at the prison. I'm thinking, though, the two teams with us might be a good place to start…we have no former attachments to them, and they're kind of…well…" Mika glanced over her shoulder to see that Logan and Evan were shouting at each other while Lady Belle and Ursula were fighting over a makeup mirror. "...Yeah…"
"So…um…has anyone in here been to Vegas before? I heard that it's a really fun city, and you have to go at least once in your life! Maybe they have some cool bakeries, yeah?" Xavier smiled as he tried to start conversation with the others in his flight, which got a facepalm out of Marty. "W-well, I'm pretty sure no one is going to Vegas for the bakeries, they're probably going for…uh…oh, what do they say? Oh, right, hookers and blow!"
"Hey! Don't talk about those things in front of my kids!" Mitsuki snapped as she tried to cover both of Olive and Becky's ears, though with only her two hands, it was sort of impossible for her to block all four ears. After she realized she had snapped, her face lit up with a blush, and she pulled her hands back to nervously cover her face. "S-s-sorry! I didn't mean to yell out of nowhere, I j-just wanna make sure that these two don't get too intrigued by things that they shouldn't even know about at their age."
"Uhhhhh…were you like…their actual mom, or like, are you just pretending? You're doing a pretty convincing job if you actually aren't related at all." Mitsuki continued to blush with a proud little grin on her face from Marty's "praise." The deadpanned rubbed the back of his neck while glancing out the window to see the ocean as they were flying over it. "Pretty weird that they chose a helicopter for this long of a journey, but I guess it's something I can cross off the bucket list."
"Oh, um, I have a bucket list, um, too! I crossed off a bunch of stuff off of it…like, um…get a pet lizard…get a pet that Becky let's me keep…punch someone in the nose…befriend some basketball players…have my heart ripped out of my chest cavity and ripped to shred by my basketball player friends…cry all night because my basketball player friends hate me and don't wanna be friends anymore…yup! Lotsa stuff crossed off of my bucket list!" Olive had a big smile on her face, despite the fact that tears were streaming down her cheeks like waterfalls.
"U-um…Olive…maybe let's not talk about your bucket list while we're on the flight. I don't know if I have enough tissues to clean up the mess you're making…" Honey smiled weakly as she dabbed some tissues on Olive's cheeks, though the tissues immediately got engulfed in flames and turned into ashes in her hands. "Ah! I-I-I thought that Becky was the only one that was able to just randomly light things on fire!?"
"No, the both of us are true hellbloods, so we can both do things that any weakblooded person would find impossible to do. Since we know that you and Mitsuki are also hellblooded, you should be able to do the same things." Becky calmly replied while Iblis sat in her lap, reaching his head up towards hers to start licking her cheek over and over again. She seemed to have gotten perfectly used to the venom at this point, as it wasn't even leaving a red mark on her anymore.
Confessional - Bloody Prom Queens
"Lookie, lookie, I was drawing a picture earlier! It's one of my best ones, ya just gotta take a gander at it!" Olive grinned, tears still covering her face entirely as she held up a piece of paper to reveal her picture. For starters, it was done in hyper realism, unlike all of her other crayon drawings. Secondly, it was a picture of Olive being stretched out by her limbs on a torture device that Mika and Conroy were using. "See? I put, um, a whole lot of detail in this one! It really gets the point across!"
"...Olive is not always amazing with handling her emotions, although I'm not much better myself…" Becky still had Iblis in her lap, and she tried to reach over to pat Olive on the shoulder, but this caused her hand to immediately light on fire. She pulled it back, and her and the lizard just stared at it as it burned. "...Woah…that's pretty cool…"
Confessional - Race Moms
"Oh, I feel just awful seeing Olive so upset about Mika and Conroy ending their alliance…they couldn't have done it to be cruel, right? They were just thinking about the game…" Honey tried to be reasonable while Mitsuki had her arms crossed firmly while she glared dead into the camera.
"I don't care why they did it! They made my baby cry, and that's all I need to know! I'm gonna have to give those two a piece of my mind when I see them next!" Mitsuki exhaled pure smoke from her nostrils, and it almost seemed close enough to be fire, like Becky and Olive could do, but it wasn't quite there. "Agh! I wanna unlock my awesome Becky powers already!"
"I-if it makes you feel any better, I think you're perfectly hot, even without that fire." Honey leaned down to kiss Mitsuki on the cheek, and while this did cause the NEET to blush, it didn't get rid of her angry scowl.
"Man, I really feel like I'm a bird when we're this high up with such an open view and all the wind blowing through our hair!" Zeke chuckled while he watched out through the window, their helicopter happened to be flying over Nevada right at that moment. He could even see some birds that were flying nearby. "Oh, hey, birds! So lovely to see you up-" The nature lover suddenly stopped talking when a bird got too close to the helicopter blades, and feathers soon flew everywhere. His jaw dropped at the sight and his eye twitched.
"Haha! Look at that! This is an omen, I tell you! I come back, and now your precious nature is even getting destroyed…just like how I'm gonna destroy you two!" Kotomi laughed like a hyena, although his taunts were falling upon deaf ears, since Zeke was just staring in shock and awe, still not even sure how he was supposed to respond to the atrocity that just occurred before him. "Uh, nature boy? Are you even listening to me!? You hit me with a taxi, the least you could do is listen when I'm demeaning you!"
"Ohhhhhh Danny Boyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, the pipes the pipes are calling…" Lyle sang while Zeke started to play a set of bagpipes that he pulled out from…somewhere. Kotomi was now the one with his eye twitching as he watched the team completely ignore him and his attempt to be threatening. "From glen to glen, and down the mountainside…" Zerine smirked as she noticed how defeated her partner looked, and she pulled a canvas out to start painting something.
"Heheh…gotta admit, it's pretty damn awesome to be on the first of three flights, despite only placing fifth in the last episode! Guess Duke wanted to make up for our first place start last time being interrupted or something like that!" Jamie Lynn had a big grin on her face while she leaned back in her chair. She didn't seem all too interested in what was going on around her until she noticed Zerine with her canvas. "Heh, what's that all about? You painting me and Phoebe or something?"
"Hm…? Painting you two…I wasn't really planning on it…" Zerine tilted her head slightly while she looked over Jamie Lynn and Phoebe. She shrugged a bit and looked back at the brothers while continuing to paint. "You two aren't invoking any source of…inspiration for my work. I don't expect you to understand what I mean by that, so to put it in simpler terms: the brothers are a much better muse right now."
"T-that makes a lot of sense, people are p-p-pretty much better than me at everything, a-anyways." Phoebe weakly admitted before noticing how annoyed Jamie Lynn looked after listening to Zerine's spiel. "...U-u-um…I could paint you later, if you want. I-I think y-y-you're a good muse, or whatever she said…" The meek girl smiled softly as she noticed her partner perking up from that.
"Bitch, I know you're not trying to cheer her up right now! Absolutely unbelievable! The only thing you should be doing to her right now is throwing her out the window so she ends up like that bird!" Libby snarled inside of Phoebe's head, although the latter just did her best to ignore her and her nagging.
Confessional - Awkward Neighbors
"Meh, I don't really care about being stuck with a bunch of bozos in a helicopter, I just care that we're technically in the lead right now! Besides, since I got Phoebe with me, it isn't like I've got no one to chat with…if I felt like chatting, or whatever." Jamie Lynn snickered a bit, still leaning back in her seat. It seemed that everyone else was too preoccupied with other happenings to even hear what she was saying. "That nerd hasn't been as much of a pain as usual, lately. Honestly, she's kinda been pretty cool. Like when she chucked that big rock at that lizard! Was pretty awesome." The punk girl smirked as she glanced up at Phoebe, who was looking out the window as the helicopter started its descent.
Confessional - Speedy Recovery
"Gah! These brothers just aren't taking me seriously at all! I'm doing everything I can to make them feel fear and regret, but it's like I don't even exist!" Kotomi huffed and crossed his arms, which caused Zerine to start laughing at him. "Oh, what are you laughing about, Picasso?"
"You sound like a girlfriend that wants more attention than she's getting already," Zerine commented snidely before revealing the painting that she had done, which had Zeke and Lyle staring off into the sunset while Kotomi was jumping in the air behind them, screaming and flailing his arms. "Another excellent piece, if I do say so myself."
"The last of our helicopter flights is now landing, letting our three lacking teams finally get started towards the next dukebox, though the teams from the second flight are already out of the hotel, and the teams from the first flight are just about to get their next travel tip!" Duke's voice was booming over the view of the Vicious Pop Stars, Bachelorettes, and Basketball Team getting out of their helicopter, which transitioned to show the Bloody Prom Queens, Race Moms, and Friendly Duo running out through the hotel lobby door. It then transitioned once more, showing the Long Lost Brothers, Speedy Recovery, and Awkward Neighbors running down the strip towards the casino.
"Haha! I haven't even seen any of the other teams getting close yet, this helicopter split thing was a great idea!" Jamie Lynn chanted happily as she and Phoebe led the first grouping of teams, eventually stopping right at the dukebox and smashing the button with her fist to get the next tip. "Haha…ha…huh? Never seen one like this before…'Superteams - All-In: An Obstac-ular Show!' The hell are superteams?"
"Excellent question, Jamie Lynn!" Duke grinned as he stood on top of a massive stage inside of the casino, dressed up in an outfit that a performer in a big band would likely wear. "Superteams are what happens when you take three teams and make them work as one! In this instance, the teams that you rode with in the helicopter will complete your superteam! For the all-in, your teams will all have to work together to put on a show for the guests of the casino! You'll be performing a showtune-esque song, but not just that…you'll also…" The camera slowly panned out, revealing that the stage was actually a full-on obstacle course full of dangerous hurdles, like rings of fire and shark pits.
"...Be avoiding certain death in this chaotic obstacle course! You can't break from the song, or you'll have to start back at the beginning! Not only that, but your teams can't move on from the challenge until each of the six members has made it through the course!" Duke cackled as he started to expertly dance his way through the obstacle course, narrowly avoiding certain death time and time again. "Once your superteam has finished the all-in, you'll be able to pick up your next travel tip from this backstage dukebox, at which point you will go back to your normal teams!"
"W-we have to work together with the other two teams…?" Phoebe and Jamie Lynn both glanced over their shoulders at the Long Lost Brothers and Speedy Recovery, who were all looking at the travel tips and scratching their heads in thought. The meek girl sighed slightly as she looked back at her punk partner, who started to grumble in annoyance. "U-um…well…we should be able to still do it just fine! S-since we're on the team, y-you'll probably carry us."
"Heh, are you sucking up for a reason?" Jamie Lynn smirked, and Phoebe's smile sank into nervousness before she patted her on the shoulder. "Reeeeeelax, I'm just teasing ya. We just need to make sure that those four bozos don't go and screw it up for us, but we should be fine. As far as showtunes go, though, I don't have the faintest idea of what to do." The punk girl scratched her chin as she thought about what to do. "You got anything?"
"Um…well…there is one that might work…b-but we need one of the boys to lead for us…" Once again, the two women glanced behind them, but this time, they found that Zeke and Lyle were both standing right there, each of them grinning from ear to ear. "...Y-yep…we should be able to do it just fine…"
Confessional - Awkward Neighbors
"A-ah…th-this is a really embarrassing outfit to be wearing." Phoebe was blushing immensely as she sat next to Jamie Lynn. Both of them were dressed somewhat provocatively, with fishnet leggings, black, heeled boots, black tuxedo jackets with white blouses and red bow ties, and black tophats. "...B-b-but…um…R-Richard, if you're watching, a-and you maybe think I look good in this, I-I could hold onto it…"
"You're seriously thinking about Richard right now? Well, guess that makes sense enough…" Jamie Lynn smirked before suddenly leaning towards Phoebe and scooping her up in her arms, propping her over her shoulder so that her butt was facing the camera. The meek girl squeaked and blushed immediately as she was held there. "Yo, dweeb, check out your girlfriend and her fishnets! Pretty snappy, right?"
"J-Jamie Lynn!"
"We have to all work together, do we? Oh, I'll show them working together, I'm great at playing teammate!" Kotomi snickered while thinking to himself as he, Zeke, and Lyle headed backstage inside of the casino. When they got back there, they could see that the women were already dressed and ready to go for the challenge, which left the boys with addressing their own outfits.
"So, Jesse, me and Zeke are gonna go pick out our tuxes if you want us to help you out! Little guys like you usually wanna wear something too big and too baggy, so we can make sure you get something that fits right!" Lyle smiled as he looked down at Kotomi, who blinked slowly at him.
"I don't need your damn help picking out a tuxedo for myself! And my name isn't Jesse, you freaks!" The young boy jumped into the air and started to scream and flail his arms like a complete goblin until Zeke and Lyle finally hurried away from him to get dressed. He panted a bit from exerting all of that energy before grinning and looking over at a prop closet that was in the corner of the room. "Now, let's just take a look and see-"
"What are you doing?" Zerine suddenly appeared right behind Kotomi, scaring the life right out of him and almost causing him to faint on the spot. He turned around to face her, and was a bit stunned by her outfit, which was matching Jamie Lynn and Phoebe's. "...Please, don't ask. It wasn't my choice to wear this, Jamie Lynn insisted upon it for all three of us."
"Looks like something my sister's girlfriend would wear with how revealing it is…bah, that isn't important! Duke said this all-in has a really dangerous obstacle course in it, so naturally, I figure that there should be some extra bits and pieces left back here!" Kotomi grinned and turned back around to the prop closet, pulling it open and allowing tons of dangerous objects like spikes, traps, ropes– you name it. His grin only grew wider and wider as he grabbed for a few of the items and started to carry them out towards the stage. "Those brothers are expecting danger, but they definitely aren't expecting…uh…super danger! I'll just put some additions on the course, and they'll be sure to get themselves injured to the point of being ejected from the race!"
"You can be such a gremlin sometimes…but as long as you don't end up falling for your own traps, then fine." Zerine coldly noted while Kotomi was running off, "Oh, and when you're done, tell me where you're setting this stuff up…so I don't end up falling for it either." The young boy barely nodded his head and just kept on running off towards the stage. Meanwhile, the teams from the third helicopter were still running down the stairs to get out of the hotel.
"O-oh…this is so exhausting…Evan, carry me! I don't want to strain my feet by running down all these stairs!" Logan barked orders at her cousin, who sighed, and reluctantly scooped her up into his arms, knowing that not doing anything at all would just result in more of her whining. She smirked egotistically as she was held up, but the smirk fled from her expression when she realized that Ursula was still left running down the stairs in her heels. "Hm…nope, that just isn't going to do! You! Basketball boy!" She snapped her fingers at Conroy, who was stunned that someone would even do that to him in the first place. "That's right, I'm talking to you! Ursula's feet must be tired from all this running, so you should carry her, since Evan is already carrying me!"
"Uh…I don't know if that…" Conroy started to voice his concern about having to carry Ursula, and at that moment, both Logan and the black widow shot glares at him. He gulped nervously, and looked behind him at Mika, who was scowling from the request. "I really don't-" He turned around again, only for Ursula to just very suddenly jump up at him, which caused him to instinctively move his arms to hold her so she wouldn't end up falling. "U-uh…"
"Hmph…well, it's not like it's the coziest set of arms that I've been carried in, but it will do. Thanks for getting this boy to do this for me, Logan~!" Ursula shot a flirtatious gaze at Logan, whose face turned bright red while steam started to pour out of her ears. Conroy sighed as quietly as he could, looking back at Mika to see that her scowl was even worse than before.
Confessional - Basketball Team
"Y-you know, it wasn't my idea to-" Conroy tried to reason with Mika, who suddenly shushed him by pressing her finger against his lips.
"We mentioned sabotage as a safe route to secure our placement as the race continues, and now I firmly believe that one of these two teams is the right team to target first! Making my boyfriend carry your baggage…the nerve!" Mika seemed more upset than she had ever been before, which really didn't mean much, considering she was usually happy and chipper. "Lady Belle is the most threatening of the four, so starting with the Bachelorettes could be problematic…but Evan and Logan spend most of their time arguing with each other. They'd never notice a sabotage going their way."
"Olive is gonna hate us for even thinking about sabotage…" Conroy looked slightly down as he adjusted his glasses.
"Well, we wouldn't ever be sabotaging Olive or Becky! That's a line that I just won't cross, even if we aren't working with them anymore!" Mika nodded, looking slightly less upset in an angry way, but more in a sad way.
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Please take your seats and shut your face holes, as the Dukester sets the stage for your first act of entertainment tonight!" Duke was standing at the front of the stage before the audience, all of which were murmuring. The murmuring stopped, though, as the wrestler suddenly grabbed a flamethrower from behind his back and aimed it at all of them. "Yeah, that's what I thought! From the studio that never existed in the first place, Lyle, Zeke, Kotomi, Zerine, Jamie Lynn, and Phoebe present to you…the Greatest Show!" The host took a sudden bow with his flamethrower and jumped off the stage, which let the spotlights shine at the start of the obstacle course. There, Jamie Lynne, Phoebe, and Zerine could be seen, while Lyle and Kotomi weren't too far from them, both wearing full on tuxedos that made them look penguiny in color. The only one missing from the scene was Zeke, in fact.
"Wo-o-o-o-oah!" The five performers sang out in unison, each turning around to reveal their outfits to the whole crowd. The note was loud, and everything was suddenly silent after that, at least until Lyle suddenly let out a lion-like roar, which was loud enough to shake the crowd. It was at that moment that canes suddenly dropped down to the five, and they each caught them to twirl them a bit before jumping onto the first platform of the obstacle course, which led to a rope swing over the aforementioned shark pit. "Wo-o-o-o-oah!" It was another loud note that the five sang together before going silent, and finally, from the ceiling, Zeke came flying, landing perfectly on the platform…right next to a bear trap. Kotomi glared slightly when he noticed that the nature lover dodge the trap, but didn't say anything to warrant attention.
"Ladies and gents, this is the moment you've waited for…you've been searching through the dark, your sweat soaking through the floor." Zeke sang softly at first, taking his role as the lead singer of this showtune. He used his own cane to activate the bear trap, which he flung away into the distance just as its jaws clamped shut. Then, one by one, starting with him, then Lyle, Jamie Lynn, Phoebe, Kotomi, and Zerine finally, they all swung over the shark pit, landing safely on the platform on the other side. "And buried in your bones there's an ache that you can't ignore, taking your breath, stealing your mind, and all that was real is left behind." The six performers looked ahead at the next obstacle, with Phoebe gulping nervously as she realized it was a balance beam that had large mallets swinging in towards the center and clashing together.
"Don't fight it, it's coming for you, running at ya! It's only this moment, don't care what comes after! Your fever dream, can't you see it getting closer! Just surrender 'cause you feel the feeling taking over!" Zeke slowly started to lead the way across the balance beam, using his cane to swat away the mallets as they came towards him. One mallet in particular had a giant spike glued to it, but when he swatted at it, it fell right off. Kotomi watched as the spike fell down to the ground below, and deadpanned at the camera miserably. "It's fire, it's freedom, it's flooding open! It's a preacher in the pulpit and your blind devotion! There's something breaking at the brick of every wall, it's holding! All that you know…" This time, the last one in the line was Phoebe, and she looked like she was just about to get hit by one of the mallets, and froze like a deer in headlights. Luckily for her, though, Jamie Lynn grabbed her by the blouse and pulled her through the last bit of the balance beam, helping her just barely dodge her demise. "So, tell me, do you wanna go?"
"Where it's covered in all the colored lights? Where the runaways are running the night? Impossible comes true, it's taking over you, oh, this is the greatest show!" Now all six of the racers were singing together as they danced across the next platform, which led to six cannons, one for each of them to use. One by one, they climbed into their cannons, with Kotomi grinning as he watched Lyle and Zeke jumping into two cannons that were hooked up to TNT. "We light it up, we won't come down and the sun can't stop us now! Watching it come true, it's taking over you, oh, this is the greatest show!" The cannons started to fire one by one, starting with Phoebe, then Jamie Lynn, Zerine, and Kotomi, who was looking behind him as he sailed through the air, hoping that the brothers would blow up, only for the cannons to shoot them way ahead into the course instead. He internally groaned while he and the other three sailed through flaming hoops that were behind held up over a bed of spikes underneath. Luckily, they all managed to make it through just fine.
"Cause everything you want is right in front of you and you see the impossible is coming true and the walls can't stop us now, yeah!" The only two performers that were singing now were Phoebe and Jamie Lynn, who led the way across the fourth and final platform, with Kotomi and Zerine following behind them and Lyle and Zeke waiting at the finish line. Just at the end of the platform, they could see the final trap that was waiting for them, which was a puzzle-like floor that had a variety of colored platforms. At the end of it, there was a row of dart-launchers. The first step Jamie Lynn took onto the floor fired out a dart towards her, but she slid to the side just in time to dodge. At that point, she noticed that the blue platforms on the floor were buttons to activate the darts, while the red ones were the actual floor. She did a ballerina-like dance along the red platforms with her teammates following in her footsteps, until they all finally met Zeke and Lyle on the other side.
"This is the greatest show!" All six members of the super team choraled together one last time before striking a pose and smiling out at the crowd, who all started to confusedly clap in response.
"Hell yeah! The crowd loved us, and from the looks of things…" Jamie Lynn glanced around her at the other five racers, grinning when she saw that each of them was still in perfect shape. "...None of us are dead or injured, so I take it that means we get to move on!"
Confessional - Speedy Recovery
"You have got to be kidding me! I extra booby trapped the entire course, and those brothers just…Looney Tunes'd their way out of death! This is just completely unfair!" Kotomi was breathing heavily through his nostrils while repeatedly slamming his fists down against his thighs, like a true child throwing a tantrum. At that point, Zerine turned a canvas that she had been painting on around to reveal that it had a portrait of Kotomi dressed as a sad clown on it. "I'm not a clown!"
"Alright, alright, gimme that next tip!" Jamie Lynn rushed ahead of the other five to get to the next dukebox, pressing the button on top to get the tip from it just as the others were catching up to her. "'Botch or Watch: It's Rigged, I Tell Ya!' Does that mean that this is gonna-"
"It does indeed, Jamie Lynn!" Duke was further into the casino, sitting down at a slot machine. "This botch or watch will require the botcher to, using Ridukeulous Bucks, gamble their lives away! You only have to win one game at a slot machine to be able to get through the challenge, but every machine has been rigged against you! Everytime you fail, the slot machine will-" The host pulled the lever of the slot machine, which resulted in it landing on a cherry, another cherry, and then a diamond before a boxing glove shot out of it and punched him right in the face. "Augh! It'll do that!" He groaned as he pulled himself back up and weakly walked back over to a different slot machine.
"Another fun catch: one of the machines is rigged so the player always wins! Use that one, and you'll be in the clear, but there's no way to tell you got the right one unless you spin and it lands on triple faces of the Dukester!" Duke pulled the lever on this slot machine, and it ended up on three of his faces, just as he said it would. "Once they complete the challenge, it'll be a short run out the front of the building and down the strip until…" The camera suddenly panned all the way outside, a good ways away from the casino to reveal Duke now standing on the chill zone. "...They reach the chill zone here! Last team to make it might as well count nine as their unlucky number!"
"With our leading three teams already having cleared the superteam challenge and moving on to the botch or watch…" As Duke spoke, the view of Lyle, Jamie Lynn, and Kotomi all running to separate slot machines was shown. "The third set of teams is only just now reaching the casino, and the second set of teams is backstage, preparing for their big musical number! Oh, I hope they're ready too, because the obstacle course on the stage isn't going to be anything like the last one!"
"Xavier, Marty! Are you two really clowning around right now when we've only got a minute left before we have to go on stage? At least get into costume or something!" Mitsuki snapped at the two boys that were backstage with her, Honey, Becky, and Olive. The moms were each dressed in something akin to a wedding dress, only both of them were black in color. Not only that, but it looked like Becky had…really gone all out in doing their makeup to make them look as emo as she possibly could. "If you screw this up for me and my babies, it's gonna be the end for you!"
"Y-yes, ma'am!" Xavier saluted before scampering off to the changing room while holding a full black tuxedo set…literally every part of the set was black in color. Marty sighed and followed after him with his own tuxedo in hand. As they walked away, Mitsuki was scowling with her arms crossed over her chest.
"...Y-you really are giving off the mommy energy right now," Honey commented through a choked voice, having a hard time even speaking considering how hard her heart was pounding inside of her chest. Mitsuki glanced back at her, grinned, and stuck her tongue out before the camera panned further into the room, where Olive and Becky were sitting together. Both of them actually had outfits with color on them, believe it or not. They had a full-body covering red gown with orange trim at the bottom of the sleeves and skirt, orange headpieces, black stockings, red dress shoes, and each one had a massive witch's broom.
"So…Olive…you're sure you're okay to lead the one part of the song? I checked the lyrics, and it seems to me like you might be using it as…uh…a personal venting situation type of thing." Becky legitimately felt awkward as she watched her older sister hum innocently, tears still cascading down her cheeks like no tomorrow. "...I'm…also a bit worried that you might cry a whole tripping hazard onto the obstacle course. Iblis is even basking in a kiddie pool full of your tears right now." She gestured to the pool in the corner of the room, where Iblis was sitting and letting his scales soak.
"Me? Oh, I'm just nandy dandy, Beckerooni! I ain't using the song to vent or nothing, what's venting? Sounds suspicious to me!" Olive looked over at Becky just to start howling in laughter, which actually seemed to frighten the singer a bit. At that point, a timer went off in the room, and the other four already started to head out onto the stage, leaving just the two of them behind. "Well, would you look at that! Seems like it's, um, time for us to, um, head on out there, yup! This'll be…so much fun!"
Confessional - Bloody Prom Queens
"...Olive is legitimately broken right now, and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do to fix her up. It seems fruitless to even talk to Mika and Conroy…well, not like I have a chance to actually do that, since they're behind us at the moment." Becky thought to herself while remaining as the only person still backstage. She took a glance over her shoulder to see the other five were waiting for her while Duke was just starting to announce their act. "...Well, I better get out there now…"
As the audience waited for the next act to start, they were left in complete darkness, with no sound even playing throughout the entire casino…until a drum riff started to play. With each drum that was struck, a spotlight shone down on one of the superteam's members, starting with Honey, then Mitsuki, Marty, Xavier, Olive, and finally, Becky. Each of them was snapping their fingers along with the drums, and the sisters started to twirl their brooms while the other four played as the back-up dancers, swaying their hips from side-to-side and bobbing their heads to fit the jazzy tune.
"Who's the girl next door, living in the haunted mansion?" Marty and Xavier started to sing while Becky and Olive got off to start the obstacle course for the group, finding that the first platform led to an obstacle that looked like a massive cauldron full of bubbling green ooze. The two of them shrugged at the sight and climbed onto the rim, starting to dance around it to not fall in.
"You better learn my name because it's Be-cky!" Becky sang out proudly while she continued to dance along the rim, eventually reaching the next platform with ease.
"She knows the darkest spells, and she brews the meanest potions!" Marty and Xavier were back to singing as they hopped onto the cauldron, with Xavier almost tumbling over and falling in until Mitsuki grabbed him by the collar of his tux to stop him from falling. He was thankful, but when he looked up and saw the stern glare the NEET was shooting at him, he kinda wished that he had just ended up falling in after all.
"You might be the ingredient I seek!" Becky smirked while she looked over the crowd, each audience member quivering in fear from the gaze as the other five slowly inched their way over to the second platform, where they were met with the next part of the obstacle course. This part was similar with the witchy theme, as it was a small glass room full of black cats, all of which were already staring at the racers and waiting for them to join them in the room. Mitsuki, Becky, and Olive all thought it was really cute, though Honey and Xavier were both shuddering in fear while Marty deadpanned at the crowd.
"Eye of newt, I cast a hex on you! Grandma's wig, this will make you big! Kitten spit, soon your pants won't fit!" Becky was now joined by Mitsuki and Honey in singing this part as the three of them started to twirl into the room. Some of the cats started to hiss at the obviously fearful Honey, but a quick death stare from Mitsuki prevented them from attacking, at least for the time being. The three led the way, with the other three following close behind them. Olive was so depressed that she didn't even seem interested in petting the strange cats! As Becky burst out the other side of the glass box, she started to wave her broom at the audience.
"PANTALONES GIGANTICUS!" Becky "cast her hex" on the crowd, but it just ended up causing a bucket of slime to pour out on her head. She scowled slightly as she looked over at Marty, who was the one in charge of dumping the slime on her. "...Oh no…not again…" While Becky shook the slime off of her body, Olive moved ahead of her to walk over to the next deadly part of the obstacle course, which was a large spider web that was stretching out far. Underneath the web, there was a black widow of improbable portions, rubbing two of its legs together like it was just itching to get its next meal. The drummer sighed while still smiling and crying, and took the first step onto the web.
"I'm a slave to my spellbook and yes, it's true– I don't have as many friends as you!" Olive was finally the one singing while she carefully moved along the spider web, avoiding staying in place for long enough to get stuck on the webbing. Things seemed to be going fine for her, and the other five started to go on with her, but she was slowly coming to a stop while on the web. "But I think you're nice and maybe we…could…be…maybe we could…maybe…" Becky watched in shock as her sister suddenly just gave up in the middle of singing and laid down on top of the spider web, allowing the black widow to crawl near her, although it pretty quickly lit ablaze. The audience gasped as the certain suddenly pulled closed and Duke stepped out in front of it.
"Apologies, folks! Looks like our superteam is having some technical difficulties! They'll be back to perform in a little bit, after our next team gives it a go!" The host grinned as the crowd murmured about what had just happened.
Confessional - Race Moms
"Oh no, our poor Olive…she was doing so good all the way up until that last part!" Honey leaned against Mitsuki and sighed very softly, "Though…at least she didn't get bit by that spider. Things definitely could have turned out worse– I'm pretty sure spiders like that have a really bad bite!"
"It…it was a black widow, Honey. They have more than just a really bad bite." Mitsuki looked up at Honey, who was just blinking at her like she had legitimately no clue what she was saying. "...You know, you're not the sharpest tool in the shed sometimes." The excavator slumped down slightly, looking absolutely devastated to have been told that. "...H-hey, don't get all sad about it. If anything, I just think your b-blonde moments are really cute."
Confessional - Friendly Duo
"Man, we were really getting so close to getting to the end of the obstacle course on the first try until Olive just…gave up. Makes me feel…like she really needs a cupcake or something!" Xavier was clenching his fists as he stared intensely at Marty, who rolled his eyes and looked away from him. "Marty, come ahhhhhhhhhhhhhn! You gotta just let me help her out, she really looked bummed out and you know how much I hate it when someone is bummed out and I can't help them!"
"Even if I was going to allow you to bypass my 'no giving sweets to the other teams' rule, I don't think you would actually be able to give anything to Becky or Olive. Mitsuki would probably think you're trying to poison them and then rip your head right off of your neck." Marty snickered a bit, but then Mitsuki suddenly leaned on screen and started to glare at him. "H-hey! Get out of our confessional!"
"Hm…Duke said these machines would sock us in the gut if we messed up with 'em, right? Seems to me like the smart thing to do would be to let the bozo bros and the outgoing patients have a few go's before I even give it a shot." Jamie Lynn smirked while she and Phoebe stood in the middle of the casino game floor, watching as Kotomi and Lyle each scrambled around to see which machines they should use first. "Heh, no way am I just gonna let myself get socked when I can let the goons do the work for me."
"T-t-that is a pretty smart idea…e-especially since it looks like the second performance didn't finish, we have a safe lead right now." Phoebe rubbed her arm while glancing back at the performing stage. The first thing she noticed was that the obstacle course that was just up was being packed up and put away to be replaced with a different obstacle course. Also, behind the curtains, she could see Conroy and Mika looking ahead, like they were trying to see what was up with the second challenge. "...The third big team is about to go up for a shot, I think."
"Eh, not like that really matters. They can go ahead with their performance, I just wanna narrow down our selection of machines. Looks like our former 'partners' are giving the machines a shot right now." Jamie Lynn nudged Phoebe with her elbow, and pointed over at Kotomi, who was grinning confidently while Zerine stood behind him and watched him in silence.
"Yeah, yeah, you see, it's all about the wrist movement, you see? I saw on TV that you just gotta pull the lever while twisting your wrist, and it'll always end up being a winning spin! Watch and learn, Zerine!" Kotomi beamed before pulling down on the lever while twisting his wrist, just like he had mentioned doing. He watched the slots spin and spin until they finally started to slow, with the first one landing on a dollar sign, the second on cherries, and the third on a gold bar. He was barely able to even frown before the boxing glove suddenly shot out of the machine at him. Since he was so small compared to the others, he was effectively hit in the face by the glove, which sent him flying into another machine. When he hit that machine, it accidentally caused the lever to pull, and the slots ended on a diamond, a dollar sign, and another diamond. Once again, he was punched by a boxing glove, this one socking him in the back of the head and knocking him flat to the floor.
"...Note to self: when playing on slot machines, never twist your wrist when you go to pull the lever." Zerine couldn't help but snicker as Kotomi groaned on the floor and clutched his stomach like he was about to vomit…even though he didn't get hit in the stomach at all.
"Come on, come on, gimme a winner!" Lyle crossed his fingers after he pulled the lever to his own slot machine, a little ways away from where Kotomi and Zerine were to start. He was so hopeful, but his hopes were quickly incinerated by the harsh flames of reality, as he ended up with cherries, a dollar sign, and a gold bar. Like Kotomi, he didn't have much time to react before the boxing glove struck him right in the chest. "Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyye! Oh…if only I adapted to having a tough exoskeleton to protect me from things like this…"
"Stay strong, Lyle! Think about the mighty crocodile! They keep going no matter what happens to them, even if another crocodile mistakes their leg for food and death rolls it off!" Zeke patted Lyle on the back, encouraging him to give the slot machine another go, but this time, it ended up with a gold bar, another gold bar, and a diamond. Since he was slouched from trying to recover from the first punch, this second punch uppercut him right in the jaw, knocking him off of his chair. "Eesh…uh…okay, maybe imagine the ferocious hippo instead of the mighty crocodile!"
Confessional - Awkward Neighbors
"See? Just like that, we know three of the slot machines aren't the one that's always gonna end with a win! It's almost too easy to come up with solid game plans for these challenges!" Jamie Lynn swiped her nose with her thumb, a smile stretching along her face. "It also helps that we're flying under the radar of most of the other teams! And since we don't have the most amazing placement record, no one would suspect us to be worth sabotaging or nothin'! Imma go get some popcorn, you want some?"
"N-no thank you," Phoebe shook her head, and Jamie Lynn got up to head off into the casino to get her snack. "...It really is so nice having her being in a good mood all of the sudden. I know that I can't really undo all of the things that Libby caused for her, but if I can at least be her f-friend…well…now that I think about it, there is at least one thing I can try to do. R-Richard, I know you're probably watching this…s-so, can you do me a favor? I need…"
"Alrighty, folks! While we're waiting for that second group of teams to get their act together, we've got our third group here to fill in the gap!" Duke was back up on the stage, standing in front of an obstacle course that looked like it was prison-themed. The vague outlines of the Basketball Team, Vicious Pop Stars, and Bachelorettes could be seen in the darkness. "Ladies and gentlemen, performing the Cell Block Tango, we have Mika, Logan, Ursula, Lady Belle, Conroy, and Evan!" The crowd started to awkwardly clap as Duke stepped away from the stage, leaving the music to start playing. It was a lot softer and more subtle than the other two songs before, and when the lights came on, everyone could see that the performers were dressed in orange prison jumpsuits.
"Pop," Ursula was the first of the group to sing a word, raising her head with a twitching eye.
"Six," Lady Belle snarled after her partner, nodding her head slightly.
"Squish," Mika cracked her knuckles one by one as she joined in the ominous singing with the others.
"Uh-uh," Conroy shook his head from side to side when he finally joined in.
"Cicero," Logan hissed as the fifth person to sing, raising her hands to show they were covered in some reddish paint.
"Lipschitz," Evan held up a portrait of a woman with a red X across the center of it, and the six performers started to stride towards the first platform of the obstacle course, each snapping their fingers.
"Pop."
"Six."
"Squish."
"Uh-uh."
"Cicero."
"Lipschitz." After Evan repeated his line, the music finally started to play like the others, being a loud and snappy tune with lots of trombone in it. Not only that, but the singers started to move and snap their fingers faster.
"Pop!"
"Six!"
"Squish!"
"Uh-uh!"
"Cicero!"
"Lipschitz!"
"HE HAD IT COMIN'!" The six finally sang in unison, with Ursula leading the way to the first obstacle, which looked almost like a playing field that would be found outside of a prison. There, guards were standing at the end, firing bean bag shots over the field. "He had it comin'! He only had himself to blame! If you'd have been there, if you'd have seen it I betcha you would have done the same!"
"You know how people have these little habits that get you down?" Ursula started to look towards the crowd as she got down on the ground and started to crawl across the field, with the bean bag shots flying over her without coming close to hitting her. Logan blushed as she followed after her, doing her best to look anywhere other than up her skirt. Lady Belle was so large, however, that each bean bag came really close to hitting her massive body while she crawled. "Like, Bernie! Bernie, he liked to chew gum– no, not chew, pop. So I came home this one day and I'm really irritated, and I'm looking for a little bit o' sympathy. And there's Bernie, lyin' on the couch, drinkin' a beer and chewin'– no, not chewin', poppin'. So, I said to him, I said 'You pop that gum one more time…' and he , I took the shotgun off the wall and I fired two warning shots…into his head." A wicked grin crawled across Ursula's face as she pulled herself off of the ground on the second platform, with the others following after her. Lady Belle was now taking lead of the group, cracking her neck while staring at the audience.
"I met Ezekiel Young from Salt Lake City about two years ago," Lady Belle noted coldly while walking ahead on the second platform. The prisoners could see that the second obstacle involved climbing over a wire fence that had bits of barbed wire scattered all over it. She quickly got to climbing it, using her large wingspan to reach over most of the barbed wire and avoiding getting hurt. "And he told me he was single and we hit it off right away, so we started living together. He'd go to work, he'd come home, I'd fix him a drink, we'd have dinner…and then I found out. 'Single,' he told me, single, my ass! Not only was he married, oh no, he had six wives– one of those Mormons, you know? So, that night when he came home from work, I fixed him his drink as usual…you know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic!" The devil woman burst out into hyena-like laughter as Mika climbed ahead of her to now take her place as the leading lady.
"Carving up a chicken for dinner, minding my own business," Mika rolled her eyes as she reached the top of the fence, hurdling over it and sticking the perfect landing onto the next platform, which had a little cushion padding for them all to land on. She was followed by the rest of her superteam, which mostly landed fine, give for Evan, who stumbled a bit and almost teetered back into the fence. "In storms my husband Wilbur in a jealous rage. 'You been screwin' the milkman,' he says! He was crazy! And he kept on screamin', 'You been screwin' the milkman!' And then he ran into my knife…he ran into my knife ten times!" The basketball girl shrugged her shoulders with an innocent smile on her face, and Conroy passed right by her to lead the way across the third platform to the third obstacle.
"Mit kersek, en itt?" Conroy began to speak in a wholy different language, which seemed to confuse his teammates as well as the audience, who all knew not a single word of what he was saying. "Azt mondjok, hogy a hires lakóm lefogta a ferjemet…en meg Lecsaptam a fejet…de nem igaz…en artatlan vagyok nem tudom…mert mondja Uncle Sam hogy en tettem probaltam a rendorsegen megmayarazni de nem ertettek meg!"
"Yeah, but did you do it?" Ursula asked with her eyebrow raised.
"...Uh-uh! Not guilty!" Conroy replied with an exasperated sigh, leaving Logan to step ahead as she was faced with the third obstacle in the course, this one looking like prison showers. There was water pouring down from certain ceiling tiles, and it was built like a maze. From the mass amount of steam coming from the water, everyone could tell it was going to be scalding hot if it touched them at all.
"My sister, Veronica and I had this double act and my husband, Charlie, traveled round with us," Logan started, swaying her hips from side to side while she marched right into the showers, taking advantage of her incredibly small stature to make it through the maze of water spouts without getting soaked. "Now, for the last number in our act, we did these twenty acrobatic tricks in a row. One, two, three, four, five, splits, spread eagles, back flips, flip flops, one right after the other! So this one night before the show, we're down at the Hotel Cicero– the three of us, boozin', havin' a few laughs and we ran out of ice so I go out to get some. I come back, open the door and there's Veronica and Charlie doing number seventeen– the spread eagle. Well, I was in such a state of shock– I completely blacked out, I can't remember a thing! It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands…I even knew they were dead!" Lady Belle was once again at a disadvantage, since her big body basically poked out into the water without her even trying. Still, she walked through carefully with the others, and they managed to get through it just fine in the end. Now on the fourth platform, which was before the final obstacle, Evan finally stepped forward, tossing away the painting of the woman from before.
"I loved Ally Lipschitz more than I can possibly say," Evan scoffed and headed out to the last obstacle, this time being a bunch of laser grids that were moving towards the group of racers. Only, they weren't actually lasers…they were tasers. Bumping into one would surely be lights out for anybody, so the pop star and his followers were careful to step over, crawl under, and slip past all of the tasers. "He was a real artistic guy– sensitive, a painter, but he was always trying to find himself. He'd go out every night looking for himself and on the way he found Ruth, Gladys, Rosemary, and Irving! I guess you could say we broke up because of artistic differences. He saw himself as alive…and I saw him dead!"
"They had it comin', they had it comin', they had it comin' all along!" The six performers started to sing with each other once more as they made it through the last of the tasers, stepping out onto the far end of the stage, each pointing out towards the crowd. "'Cause if they used us and they abused us! How could you tell us that we were wrong!?" They drew an X over the crowd and stomped hard on the floor, with the lights shutting off shortly after to signal the finish of their act. The crowd was left in a bit of awkward shock, much like they were at the end of the first act, but they still clapped for the group of six, who moved through the darkness to claim their next travel tip.
Confessional - Bachelorettes
"You know, there really was just something about that song that felt…hm…I suppose soothing. Did you notice that at all, Lady?" Ursula smirked as she looked up at Lady Belle, who groaned and rolled her eyes at her. "I guess not everybody gets the same type of enjoyment out of one song, huh? …Either that, or my partner here is just clearly uncultured and wouldn't know good music if it fired two warning shots into her head! Get it? Because in the-"
"WE GET IT, YA TART!" Lady Belle snapped at Ursula, shouting so loud that it seemed to shake the entire confessional.
Confessional - Vicious Pop Stars
"E-Evan, you better not have been sneaking looks up Ursula's skirt while she was crawling on the ground in that first obstacle!" Logan jabbed her index finger into her partner's chest over and over again, being quite incessant with her nagging. Her cheeks were bright red with a blush, and she had a nosebleed that was slowly dripping onto the floor. "It's rude to stare at a woman in such ways, especially when you're so obviously not in her league."
"Oh, I wasn't looking up your damn girlfriend's skirt! Yeesh, if I knew you were going to be this annoying about your little crush I would've done something to make sure she actually did get eaten by a komodo in the last leg." Evan glared at his cousin, who simply slapped him across the face, leaving a red hand mark on his cheek.
"Olive?" Honey was poking her head around backstage while the rest of the second set of teams was getting ready to go up on the stage again. Her and Olive were the only ones missing from that group, as she found the drummer sitting on a bench and kicking her feet back and forth nonchalantly. "Hey, Olive…you know, your sister is really worried about you right now. Um, well, not just her, but Mitsu and I too…" Olive didn't respond at all to her, she just continued to kick her feet while Honey walked over to sit down right next to her. "I'm sure Mika and Conroy didn't mean to hurt your feelings…it's just that a million dollars is a lot of money, everyone wants it."
"That just means that they would forget about us being friends for money." Olive grumbled, sounding a lot more like Becky than her normal self. "And if they would do it, then I'm pretty sure other people would do the same. I don't care 'bout the money at all, why does it matter so much?"
"Well…um…you know, some people really need that money for their life. You never know, maybe Mika is homeless or Conroy needs to get some big surgery!" Honey smiled down at Olive, trying to calm her down a little bit, but it was fairly obvious that it wasn't doing much good. "You and Becky said you wanted the money to kickstart your band! Everyone's got a reason for-"
"Would you wanna stop being around me for the money?" Olive asked while she stared down at the floor, her tears dropping from her cheeks and falling to the floor, each one landing with a little sizzle.
"Oh…Olive, no…definitely not! And Mika and Conroy don't want to stop being around you, I promise you that. It's just hard to see that right now." Honey could see that her chat with Olive wasn't working, as the drummer was starting to full on sob at this point. "Oh, baby…come here," The excavator opened her arms wide for Olive to jump right in them. She wrapped her up in a big hug and let her cry on her shoulder, doing her best to ignore that it felt like fire was raining down on her shoulder. "It'll take some time, but I know you'll understand soon enough. You just let all the tears out, and let me know when you're ready to keep going…okay?"
"O-o-okay…" Olive continued to sob on Honey's shoulder, while Mitsuki and Becky were both peeking around the corner to see what was going on with them. Meanwhile, back out on the casino floor, there were still no teams that had managed to get the jackpot they needed to move on with the challenge, although Kotomi and Lyle did sustain a whole bunch of injuries in the process of trying to.
"Ugh…I can't feel…anything inside of my body…other than my bladder…which is fuller than an elephant's bladder…" Lyle groaned in pain as he slowly started to trudge over to one of the other slot machines in the casino. Zeke was walking alongside him, basically trying to make sure that he wouldn't end up falling on the ground or something from how hurt he was from getting punched by that boxing glove so many times. "Zeke, if I die because of boxing glove related injuries, I want you to scatter my ashes at the peak of Mount Everest…you can do that for me, right?"
"Oh, Lyle, of course I could do that for you! I'll even let myself freeze at the top, so a symbol of my brotherly passion would be left at the top of that mountain for the rest of eternity!" Zeke wiped a single tear from his eye as Lyle trudged onto the seat of the slot machine that he had chosen. "Lyle, you've got this! The cockroach is the luckiest of all animals, it could easily survive an apocalypse! …And crawl inside of a slot machine to change the outcome, but that's beside the point! Channel your inner cockroach, Lyle! Channel it!"
"I'm channeling it! I'm channeling the cockroach as best as I can!" Lyle shouted out proudly as he raised his fist high into the air, declaring that he wasn't going to let this challenge be the death of him. He let his fist fall down onto the lever of the slot machine, and he gave it a good pull, letting the slots spin. They were spinning at such high speeds, it was clearly impossible to tell what it was going to land on. Lyle's teeth were chattering intensely as he waited for it to come to a stop, and finally, it looked like it was. With one last spin, each of the slots stopped at the same time, revealing the three Duke faces. No boxing glove shot out to sock Lyle in the chest, and he raised his arms victoriously. "I did it! I beat the challenge! Oh, this is so…" With those last words, the nature lover fell out of his seat and onto the floor, completely knocked out from his previous injuries.
"Ah…uh…you know, I'll let you rest for a few minutes, then we can go!" Zeke squatted down on the floor next to Lyle, moving around him in circles like he was trying to protect him from predators.
"Looks like waiting really paid off! We get to breeze through this challenge without even getting hit once!" Jamie Lynn grinned widely as she ran towards the slot machine that Lyle had just used, walking right over both of the Long Lost Brothers and stepping on them on the way to the seat. She gave the lever the slightest tug, and the machine spun for a little bit, but much less than it did on the first spin. Lo and behold, it ended with the same result, of the three faces of Duke, and she spun around in the chair with her arms crossed and a smug look on her face. "Thanks for your contribution to my success, nature boys! I'll remember this when I reach the chill zone! Come on, Phoebe!"
"R-roger!" Phoebe saluted her partner, and the two of them started off from the slot machines to head outside of the casino. "D-do you think the brothers are gonna be mad about you stepping on them like that? I don't know i-if they've ever been mad at anyone before, but I would hate to be the first team to feel that wrath."
"Psh, nah, there's no way that they're gonna have a problem with it…they could always be those weird types of sex perverts that like getting stepped on by badass women." Jamie Lynn smirked as she glanced over her shoulder at the brothers, only to find that they were both taking a little nap in a pile on the floor. "...Okay, or they just ended up falling asleep on the floor…in the middle of a really busy casino. I will never understand the people in this competition, I swear…"
"M-me neither, but that plan of yours sure was really smart. I don't wanna be a suck up or anything, b-but making it through without getting hit and all was really impressive." Phoebe smiled at Jamie Lynn, who smiled back at her as the two went outside, running up the strip to head towards the chill zone. They could see it in the distance, with Duke standing on top of it and waiting while still in his tuxedo. "T-the chill zone is so close, and there aren't even any teams done with the challenge besides us! T-this is awesome!"
"You're damn right it's awesome! Looks like you're feeling a bit of a thrill rush for the first time ever, dork!" Jamie Lynn snickered as her and Phoebe glided into the chill zone, each taking a deep breath when they finally stopped running.
"Awkward Neighbors, you girls are the lucky first place for this leg of the race! Got any plans for the rest of the night? Maybe going right back to the casino to gamble some more?" Duke grinned at the two of them while rubbing his hands together deviously like he was the one that was gonna get the payout if they gambled their lives away.
"Hell no! We're going off to the hotel and passing right out! We gotta make sure we're both well rested for the next leg, obviously!" Jamie Lynn proudly exclaimed as she threw her arm over Phoebe's shoulders before starting to walk off with her.
Confessional - Awkward Neighbors
"We're totally in it to win it now, the feeling of getting first place just feels way too good to accept doing poorly again!" Jamie Lynn was still on her high from the first place that her and Phoebe had gotten. "And, I mean, just think about all the stuff we could do if we ended up getting the money! Possibilities are endless, and junk! Hell, we could probably visit some actual interesting countries with that money! Er…I mean…nah, I meant what I said! This race needs to have some better locales!"
"The race for first place is all done now, with the Awkward Neighbors showing Las Vegas that they meant business! Show business, that is!" Duke chuckled as the camera slowly panned back into the casino to reveal Kotomi being socked in the face by yet another boxing glove while Zerine rolled her eyes and sighing. At the same time, the teams from the third performance were just making their way out to the gaming floor, while the second group was going up on stage again. "Though Lyle and Zeke are done with the challenge, they're still taking their little nap on the floor together, and three more of our teams are just about to get started with the second challenge."
"Alright, I took a look at Jamie Lynn and Phoebe before they left the building. They watched Lyle spin at this slot machine before going to it themselves, which leads me to believe that this one might be the one that's always a winner." Conroy adjusted his glasses as he walked over Lyle and Zeke to stand next to the rigged machine. "If the hunch is right, we'll be clearing the challenge before most of the other teams have."
"Good observation skills, Conroy! Now, that does just leave one order of business…" Mika glanced around the room before finding where Logan and Evan were, which was right next to Ursula and Lady Belle, to no shock at all.
Confessional - Basketball Team
"I was serious before when I mentioned sabotaging Logan and Evan! No one makes my Conroy do their bidding like that…anyways, Logan is the botcher in this challenge!" Mika cracked her neck with an excited smile on her face. "From what I know about Logan, there's one simple way to get her to avoid something…and that's to tell her you want her to do it! It's like reverse psychology, only it's just her being snappy and angry for no reason."
"Hey, hey, Logan!" Mika hurried over to the other two teams from her former superteam, getting an annoyed glance shot her way from Logan while Evan, Ursula, and Lady Belle were still looking at all of the machines, like they were trying to figure out which one to go to. "Hey, yeah, um, so…oh, right! I came over here to tell you that I found out which one of the machines always ends with a win!" The basketballer proudly pointed over to the machine that Conroy was standing right next to. "That one right there! You spin it, and you'll be guaranteed a win!"
"...I'm sorry, girl thing, do you think I'm an idiot? I'm not going to fall for the most obvious, pitiful attempt of sabotage, that would just be ridiculous." Logan turned her nose up at Mika before strutting off to one of the other slot machines, confidently pulling the lever…which resulted in cherries, a gold bar, and a diamond. The boxing glove shot out of the machine and hit her right in the face, which really just startled her more than anything. "Oh, this challenge is ridiculous!"
"Welp, good luck, Logan!" Mika nodded before skipping away proudly back to Conroy, who was sitting down at the slot machine. "Pretty impressive that she seems to just ignore pain when she's angry, I can't lie! How's it going, Conroy?" The senior player was in complete silence as he stared at the lever to the slot machine, eventually giving it a pull. It spun for a while, and he just stared at the slots through his glasses, watching as they all ended on a picture of Duke's face.
"...It's going as anticipated. Like I expected, this was the rigged machine, so we're all done here. Did you go over to Logan and tell her about it?" Conroy raised an eyebrow at Mika, who just nodded her head feverishly as he got up from his seat. The two of them started a brisk jog out of the building together. "Granted, they still have the chance of getting a lucky draw from one of the other machines, but this will at least keep them off of the machine we were using."
"Zzzz…zzzz…yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn!" Zeke stretched his arms out as he pulled himself off of Lyle very slowly, smacking his lips while he stood. His other brother woke up shortly after him, shaking his head a bit just to get some energy into his system. "You know, for a casino floor, it wasn't that bad of a napping place, but I'm pretty sure that it would've been more comfortable to just sleep on a rock outside or something. Anyways, nap time is over, which means it's time to get to that chill zone!"
"I can't feel anything in my chest, I'm pretty sure that the boxing gloves in those machines effectively destroyed all my nerves in that area." Lyle rubbed his own chest with his hands, trying to test out his theory. He gave himself a pinch and let out a loud yelp while pulling his hands away. "Uh, nope…still got the nerves there…" Zeke laughed at his brother, and the two ran off after the Basketball Team to head outside. Meanwhile, the second set of teams was still up on the stage, with Marty pouring more goo all over Becky.
"Oh no…not agaiiiiiiiiiiiiiin…" Becky whined in her sing song voice, watching as Olive stepped ahead of her to go back to the spider web trap from before. The only thing that was missing was the black widow from before, as it had been burnt to a crisp. The singer took a deep breath, just hoping that her older sister might have been feeling a little better after her talk with Honey.
"I'm a…stupid little girl and I don't got no friends…nope…" The drummer sighed and immediately collapsed in a pile on top of the spider web, with Becky, Marty, and Xavier all immediately facepalming at the sight.
Confessional - Bloody Prom Queens
"I don't know what to do to get past this part now…Olive obviously is in no shape to go on with the challenge, but the leg will go on forever if we don't finish the challenge. If she doesn't do anything at all, we'll get penalized at the end of the leg. Which…leaves me with one thing that I can say to her that…might work…but it's…" Becky frowned as she thought about it, and looked behind her to see what was going on in the casino. "...I think I'm gonna have to…"
"Yo, Olive!" Becky ran up to her sister as the rest of the superteam was on their way back to the start of the obstacle course. The drummer just sighed and stared at her feet, not even bothering to look at her younger sister. "I was just thinking about it, since I saw how upset you are and…Mika and Conroy…those guys are just a pair of assholes if you ask me."
"...Honey said they aren't trying to be mean…" Olive weakly replied, though she did look back up at Becky finally.
"Yeah, well, Honey is only right…most of the time. This time, she was wrong, because those two are the most pathetic, spineless pair of weakbloods that I've ever met in my life. And you've seen the people that we know, there are plenty of weakbloods in that group. They really built up a friendship with you just to crush it before your eyes? Probably an attempt to get us to give up so they could win the race. I say to hell with that, we should just start showing them up even more than before! That's what they deserve for what they did to you." Becky was frowning ever so slightly as she spoke, but Olive was a little too confused and upset to notice it at all.
"They deserve that…?" Olive murmured, watching as Becky slowly nodded her head at her. The drummer glanced over at Honey, who was smiling and waving to her, and then looked back at her sister, giving her a nod of her own. "Yeah…yeah…they, they, um, totally deserve that! We need to crush 'um up nice and good so they know not to play with, um, our emotions, yup!"
"E-exactly right…now…let's finish this leg, okay?" The sisters nodded at each other, and quickly headed back to join the others at the start of the obstacle course just before their musical number began again.
Confessional - Bloody Prom Queens
"I can't believe I just lied to Olive about all of that stuff…I feel almost as bad as I felt after I insulted her back in China." Becky grumbled with her arms crossed, "But if that's what it takes to get this challenge over and done with…well…fine. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get a real nasty scolding from Mitsuki about this when she finds out…"
"Man, sure is taking a long time for the other teams to reach the chill zone…the Dukester is actually getting bored!" Duke groaned as he stared back at the casino, only to find that the Basketball Team and the Long Lost Brothers were now running out of it and towards him on the carpet of completion, both running as fast as they could. Well, the brothers weren't going as fast as they could…but as fast as they could while Lyle was injured at least. "Nevermind, we got two more teams on the way! And…Basketball Team, second place! Long Lost Brothers, third!" Lyle immediately collapsed after he reached the chill zone, getting a snicker out of Duke. "Three teams are done with the leg, leaving six back in the casino! The race is starting to heat up again!"
"U-um…Logan, dear~?" Ursula watched as Logan was repeatedly pulling the lever on one slot machine as fast as she could, getting loss after loss while the boxing glove kept popping out and punching her right in the face. Despite the fact that she was covered in bruises and her makeup was all smudged, she seemed to be ignoring the pain pretty well. "...I think that maybe it may be a good idea to slow it down on the lever pulling. You know, so you don't die before you can write me in your wi-...so you don't die. Maybe try a different machine, too."
"Oh, nonsense, Ursula! I'm not the type to get discouraged by a few failures on a silly machine like this, I'll be just fine to keep going! Besides, by not wandering from machine to machine, I'm saving myself a lot of time." Logan smirked just as the boxing glove came to hit her in the jaw again, though even that couldn't knock the smirk off of her face.
"Heheheh, this has got to be the most fulfilling sight that I have ever seen in my life!" Evan couldn't help himself as he clutched his stomach and fell down to the floor, howling like a hyena with his laughter. Logan ignored him, as she always did, and just continued to pull on that lever over and over again.
"Oh, Ursula, would ya stop wasting time watching Logan and just get to spinnin'? You ain't even tried a single machine yet, and we don't got as much of a buffer as we did before." Lady Belle snarled at Ursula, who responded by rolling her eyes at her.
"Oh, fine, you want me to play this stupid game, I'll play this stupid game! Eeenie meenie minie moe…this one!" Ursula stepped forward and grabbed the lever of the nearest slot machine, pulling down on it so hard that the lever ended up just snapping off entirely. She tossed the broken lever down to the floor and crossed her arms as she watched the slots spin like crazy, really going out of control until the machine suddenly exploded, with a good bit of it falling apart right there. The slots were somehow left intact, with each one landing on a gold bar. "Ha…haha! I guess my luck precedes me!"
"And I really wanted to watch ya get socked in the jaw, too…" Lady Belle whined, and the two women started to walk away from the slot machines.
"Ohhhhh, Logan~! I'll be waiting for you at the finish line, m'kay~? You better show up to give me a big hug when you're done~!" Ursula blew a kiss to Logan, who reached her hand out to catch the invisible kiss faster than any sharpshooter could even draw their revolver.
"Y-yes, quite! I'll be sure to show up when I'm all done here!" Logan slapped the kiss onto her own face just as Ursula and Lady Belle left the building. "Now then…where was-"
"Yes! F-finally!" Logan glanced over her shoulder to see that Kotomi was standing on top of the chair in front of one of the slot machines, both his arms raised up high into the air. The slots each displayed a diamond on them, "No more stupid slot machines, no more stupid botch or watch! Let's get to the chill zone, Zerine!"
"Understood," Zerine nodded and ran off, leaving Kotomi standing there, frozen in that pose. Seconds later, she came walking back to him, smirking slightly. "...You can't move any part of your body, can you?"
"No, no I cannot," Kotomi grumbled quietly, with Zerine snickering as she reached out to pick him up off of the seat and carry him with her.
Confessional - Vicious Pop Stars
"Yeah, see, Evan would never be able to land a woman as hot and charming as my Ursula…and even if he could, he wouldn't be able to handle her. She's just way too much for him to even work with…I believe they call it a whole lot of woman." Logan was smirking, but her face was pretty swollen, so it was really hard to tell what expression she was making by looking at her.
"...You could literally be held up at gunpoint, and you would still have that cocky attitude of yours, I can't believe you." Evan rolled his eyes at his cousin and leaned away, with a smirk of his own appearing on his face. "Actually, I totally can believe you."
"OH NO, NOT AGAIN…" Becky was a lot louder as she sang her line for the third time, with more slime being dumped into her hair, courtesy of Marty. At this point, she looked just about ready to rip his heart out through his chest, but she was holding back for the sake of the challenge. Again, Olive stepped ahead of her and started to twirl her broom as she walked onto the spiderweb, although she seemed to be a lot more peppy like her usual self this time. Mitsuki and Honey noticed this immediately, and both glanced at each other with a little smile, just happy to see her in a good mood once again.
"I'm a slave to my spellbook, and yes, it's true– I don't have as many friends as you," Olive sang loudly and proudly this time around, dancing along that spiderweb and giving it the business like it was just any other floor. The other five members of her superteam jumped onto the web with her, following in her footsteps and movements so they wouldn't end up getting stuck. "But I think you're nice and maybe we could be friends…AND IF YOU SAY NO, YOU'RE TOAST!" The drummer stuck her tongue out at the audience and did a front flip off of the spiderweb, landing perfectly on the final platform after the booby trap.
"Now, just remember this, when you see her on the street!" Marty and Xavier sang together once again when they reached the end of the course, with Honey and Mitsuki following right after them. All five of the racers on the last platform gestured to Becky, who jumped onto her broom in such a way that made it look like she was flying through the air.
"I'm the coolest girl you'll ever meet!" Becky forced herself to grin as she landed on the final platform, and the spotlights went out, leaving the crowd with that last image of her grinning as they started to applaud the performance. "Finally…alright, Olive, let's see what this second challenge is about! Oh, and Marty?" The singer glanced back at the deadpanner with death in her eyes, "I'm going to murder you if you even so much as look at my hair ever again. I'm going to be cleaning slime out of it for weeks now."
"R-right, sorry about that…" Marty weakly mumbled as Becky, Olive, Honey, and Mitsuki ran off ahead.
Confessional - Friendly Duo
"T-that whole thing was her idea, why is she getting upset with me for doing what she told me to do?" Marty looked to Xavier for answers, but the baker just shrugged his shoulders, not knowing what to tell him. "Ugh…at least we don't have to be on their team anymore…working with them was an absolute nightmare."
"I'm telling you, if I was just able to give Olive, like, a cookie or something, we would've been done with this challenge on the second attempt! Xavier's fresh baked cookies always solve every problem! And I could've just given one to Mitsuki, too, so she wouldn't try to eat my soul for getting too close to her children!" Xavier was holding up a tray of freshly baked cookies, which were letting their aroma fill the room. "...I'm pretty sure it would've worked, at least!"
"Bachelorettes, fourth place, and the Speedy Recovery takes fifth! Only three more safe spots left, but all the teams are finally playing around on the slot machines, it could be anyone's game!" Duke grinned before the view of him was covered with four separate camera views, one of each team that was playing around with the slot machines. Logan was still going strong on the slot machine that she had picked at the start of the second challenge. Mitsuki's hand was shaking nervously as she reached out towards one of the slot machines' lever, just hoping it wouldn't screw up and end up punching her. Xavier was taking a few deep breaths to pump himself up, but he was taking too long, and Marty socked him in the back of the head, causing his head to smack against the lever and get it going. Olive, on the other hand, was just grinning as went to pull a lever, but then switched the slot machine was at last second to pull a different lever instead. Each slot machine was shown spinning at the same time, all of them going wildly until they finally stopped, one with all cherries, one with all dollar signs, one with all diamonds, and one with all Duke faces.
"Woah, whaddya know? Looks like we have a four way tie, as the last four teams have all finished the second challenge at the same time! It's down to who can run the fastest to the chill zone at this point! And it's gonna be…" The cameras panned away from the machines to show Logan, Olive, Xavier, and Mitsuki all grinning before running off from their machines and heading for the exit door with their partners.
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"...Bloody Prom Queens, eighth place! Logan, Evan, you guys are, oh, it physically pains me to say this, Logan, but…you're out!" Duke wiped a single tear from his eye as Logan and Evan were the last two racers to land on the chill zone, with Logan's face filling with as much shock as she could physically muster with her bruised up face. "Evan, I don't feel bad saying that to you. Everybody hates you." Evan scowled at Duke, who just ignored him and walked right away from him.
"W-we lost!? Evan, you…you idiot! This is obviously your fault, you should've carried me instead of letting me run to the chill zone while I was obviously injured! You're the worst partner that anyone could-" Logan suddenly stopped shouting when she felt someone's finger tapping against her shoulder. She spun around at hyper speed, with her bruised up face somehow managing to heal itself in that split second, just so she could look like her regular hot, girlboss self when she was faced with Ursula. "Oh, hey, Ursula! Looks like I lost, or something like that…really doesn't matter, I make the prize money that this show offers in one concert. A million is chump change, really."
"Oh, it does make me feel all hot inside to hear you say that~!" Ursula was internally screaming as she said that, but she kept her cool, thinking about how much money she would get with this ploy of hers. "Since you're leaving and all, I thought it would only be fair if I gave you that hug I was-" Without any warning, Logan jumped up from the ground, latching onto Ursula's lips like one of those face suckers from those horror films. The black widow twitched as the pop star effectively frenched the absolute shit out of her, with Lady Belle hunched over in laughter while she stood past the chill zone.
"Well, Evan, you went and caused us to lose the race…I knew that I should've brought my mother instead of you! Yeah, that's right, my mother in her urn would've been a more useful partner than you were this entire race!" Logan hissed at Evan while they walked, and the clip of Evan poisoning Logan's mineral water with alcohol was shown. "At least she wouldn't have laughed at me when I was obviously doing my best to make sure that we made it through that last challenge!"
"You really think that it was my fault that we lost the race, Logan? You literally just stood at the same slot machine, letting yourself get punched in the face over and over again. You don't think that it was maybe your fault that we ended up losing?" Evan glared at his older cousin, who shrugged her shoulders and just kept walking as the next clip played, this one showing Logan befriending Phoebe when Evan and Jamie Lynn were allying with each other. "Yeah, of course you aren't gonna accept any blame for this."
"Hey, I at least didn't let myself fall into that sabotage that Mika was trying to pull on us! She really thought that she could just tell me that one of the machines was the rigged one! Ha, that was just so foolish, and an obvious ploy at stalling me so we would've done even worse!" Logan snidely remarked, with a questioning look flashing onto Evan's face before the last clip played, this one showing the duo back in Indonesia when Logan was murdering that Komodo that she thought ate Ursula. "I'm just too genius sometimes!"
"Mika told you which machine was the right one…and you didn't even humor her and go check it out!? Logan, you are just so…ugh, you make me so unbelievably angry sometimes! I just…I…AGH!" Evan suddenly ran away from Logan before a loud sound of shattering was heard in the distance. This was followed by lots of swallowing noises, and shortly after, Evan was teetering back over to his cousin, giggling like an idiot with an empty bottle of whiskey in one of his hands. "Aw…man…we lost, Logan! We tried our best though, didn't we? You did really good!"
"...Oh great…you're drinking again…"
23nd: The Rivalry Twins - Maya and Jeremy
22st: The Idol Queen In-Waiting - Sua
21th: The Cool Guys - Evander and Kurt
N/A: The Mouse - Cheese
20th: The Dynamic Gamers - Colin and Freddy
19th: The Sailor America Fans - Lukas and Sunny
18th: The Reality Show Rivals - Jacque and Angel
17th: The Wilderness Girls - Sophie and Bea
16th: The Dweebs - Andrew and Richard
15th: The "Father and Son?" - James and Eliott
14th: The Glow-Up Gals - Vanessa and Karma
13th: The BFFFLs - Sadie and Katie
12th: The Psychic and Skeptic - Aisling and Arnold
11th: The YouTuber and Editor - Michael and Virgil
10th: The Mystical Witches - Flora and Helena
9th: The Vicious Pop Stars - Evan and Logan