***Recap***
Tyler: I guess it's my turn to do the recap. I didn't see much of what happened but I heard everyone did a Wisp Challenge, Jason got thrown out, and Jeremy got voted off.
***Back to Game***
Everyone had a decent night's sleep as Nate and Lucille were the first two to wake up in the morning. Leigh soon followed as all three of them went to the common area of the Egg Shuttle. "You and me!" Lucille called Nate out. "Crash Fighters tournament now!"
"It's on Lucy!" Lucille facepalmed herself just after sitting on the couch.
"It's Lucille, Nathan."
"It's Nate, Lucy!"
"Ah look, an old bickering couple!" Abby entered the room and noticed Nate and Lucille arguing on the couch. "You two should totally get together."
"Yeah right," Lucille got up from the couch. "You're the reason Jeremy's gone."
"That idiot stoner. Another tragic loss isn't it? Why would you care? He's not even on your team."
"If I recall, our team has yet to lose a challenge or even anyone at all so you lost all of your credibility."
"Oh that one time, I threw it so we could get rid of Marisol."
***Confessional***
Abby: Of course I wouldn't tell the truth to those imbeciles. Marisol needed to go, but she could have been an easy alliance member. Now to check to see what Shawna and Nicholas are up to.
Lucille: I don't trust Abby. Sure Jeremy may have deserved getting his ass hurt last time but Abby throwing a challenge to eliminate Marisol? Something sour's going on there in Sweets Land.
***Back to Game***
Abby left the common area as Tilly entered to talk to Nate. "Hey, can I ask you a question?"
"What is it?"
"Can I borrow Crash Fighters 4?"
"No problem. Just don't overwrite my save and have fun." Nate gave Tilly his game system with the game still inside of it and Tilly left for her room.
On her way to her room, Tilly bumped into Abby who was not happy over something. "What do you want?" Tilly asked, wanting to get into her room.
"Since my level of intelligence is vastly above yours, I'll tell you straight out. Don't hang out with Nate. He is an idiot that supports losers like Jeremy."
"Jeremy? The guy who got voted off? Who is he again?"
"He was the cocky skater guy that hung out with the three Blondmigos, except one of them isn't really a blond. He's also not here, but that's for the better."
"I can hang out with Nate if I want to! You don't have to tell me who can be my friend!"
"Oh I think I can. I can have your team vote you off."
"It's a good thing you're not on my team!"
"You still don't understand idiot. Jeremy was an example of my power. Don't underestimate me."
"Just let me in my room."
"Never. You'll stay out in the hallway until you ally with me."
"ABBY! Stay away from her!" Laura heard what Abby was doing and kicked her in the back. "Don't mess with my roommate!"
"Look at the big brutish white knight come to save the day. All hail your queen." Abby sarcastically said the last part just before leaving. "This isn't over farm girl."
Meanwhile, Madison knocked on Leigh's door. However, Jacob answered. "What?"
"Is Leigh here?"
"He just left. Oh wait, you're the sketchbook girl right?"
"What? No. I'm Madison."
"Who was it then?"
"Maybe you were thinking of Stacy."
"I guess. Do you draw?"
"Not really. If I did, I'd rather draw some pretty flowers than you."
***Confessional***
Jacob: Ooh. I can still feel that burn. Wow, she said no before I could even ask.
***Back to Game***
"Oh well. If you see Stacy, tell her to come here."
"I might."
"Please?" Jacob was starting to beg as Madison walked out of the room just as Leigh came back from his trip to the restroom. "Hi Leigh!"
"Ohayao gozaimasu."
"What?"
"I said 'Good morning' in Japanese."
"Oh ohuh, whatever back."
"You'll get it someday."
"Doumo arigato."
"Here's a tip, Madison. Try saying, 'Doumo arigato gozaimasu.' It's more polite." (Translations: 'Thanks!' and 'Thank you very much.')
"Will do."
"How's Jacob in there?"
"He's kinda lonely. He wants to talk to Stacy."
"I wonder why. Well, I have to work on my fantasy project. Later." Leigh went into his room and closed the door.
Outside the Egg Shuttle, Dustin and Parker felt bummed as they sat in the two lounge chairs. "Wow, dude. Two of our four gone already."
"One kicked out and other voted out. Hey Dusty, want some coffee?"
"I don't drink that stuff."
"What? How do you get your caffeine?
"Soda, bro."
"Soda's really bad for you. So what do you think we'll do today?"
"I don't know, Parker. I really don't know."
"I hope it's easy because I'm really tired right now."
"Me too. At least I got some sleep last night."
"Really? I couldn't sleep at all. I was tossing and turning all night worried I would be voted off. It was a bad dream, that if we lost, the gamers would get Jacob, Tilly, and Taylor to vote me off."
"I feel vulnerable now, too. Laura's got me as a target. It's either me or her on our team."
As Dustin and Parker continued their conversation, Stacy went outside to get some fresh air. "Oh hi guys."
"Hey." Parker was the first to greet the singer.
"What do you think we'll do today?"
"That's what Dusty and I were just talking about. Got any ideas?"
"Not really. Maybe we could ride the Ferris Wheel."
"It's nothing special." Dustin interrupted. "Really boring if you ask me. If we're lucky, we'll all get to ride the really exciting Asteroid Coaster."
"That's if we make it that far." Stacy left the two boys and went into the Egg Shuttle, only for her and everyone else inside to be shooed out by Duncan.
"Everyone outside! Zeke needs to talk to Eggman in private."
"Who put you in charge?" Laura asked a little cautiously.
"Zeke did. He's on the phone with Eggman and that's that. Once he's done, we'll go for another challenge."
A few seconds later, Ezekiel walked out with a cup of hot cocoa and spoke to everyone. "'Sup eh? Tyler's got the next challenge ready over at the hover car port.
"Is it one with those aliens again?" Stacy asked in indifference.
"No. We just had one of those. I'll explain it when we get there, eh?"
***Confessional***
Lucille: Does Ezekiel need to add 'eh?' to the end of every sentence? Oh I'm Canadian, eh? I play hockey and watch curling every day, eh? I'm the best actor for Dudley Do-Right eh? Shut up already!
***Back to Game***
The four teams followed Ezekiel and Duncan to the hover car port where Tyler was waiting for them. "Come on in," he said as everyone was getting situated. "Today's challenge is a race. Eggman's helped us set up some floating orange hoops that each of you will be driving one of these cars through." Tyler points to four yellow cars with headlight colors matching those of the teams' colors. "Each team's going to have one driver and the rest of the team will be navigating."
"Will everyone fit in these?" Eliza asked.
"Sure, ask the team with the fatty fat fat fat." Abby interrupted, pointing at Taylor. "Try fitting her and muscle blondie over there."
"Shut up, you fat bitch!" Parker retaliated, with everyone gasping at Abby.
"Oh sorry, 'roids." Abby was obviously being sarcastic.
"Hey you've got Chase on your team! He's much bigger than me! Don't say shit you can regret later!"
"Oh really, now you're the potty mouth too."
Nate interrupted the two of them. "Just stop it, both of you." Nate then whispered something into Parker's ear. "Listen. I think you're a great guy, but have you noticed what Abby's doing?"
Parker just stared off into space.
"She's trolling all of us. Don't fight back. Abby's the kind of girl that loves attention, and the only way she feels she can get it is by putting everyone else down."
"How do you know?"
"I've been on the Internet long enough to know what trolls do. Abby's a troll. She loves to make fun of people and the ones who fight back are the ones who get eliminated."
"So that's why Marisol and Jeremy are gone?"
"Exactly."
"Is your little pow-wow over?" Duncan interrupted the two guys. "Ezekiel told me to warn you not to crash your hover car, since the course is set up right above blue foggy death! Are there any questions?" No one had anything to ask. "Everyone get into your hover cars!"
The contestants entered their vehicles. Chase decided to drive for the Sweets with little to no argument from his teammates. Laura piloted the Starlight Planets' vehicle, Remi drove for the Asteroids and Taylor was the driver for the Game Landers.
"On your mark!" Duncan yelled out, "Get set! GO!" All four hover cars were off but not before crashing into each other.
***Confessional***
Dustin: Ow. Chase needs to learn how to drive.
Chase: Didn't know how to drive these things. Off we go!
***Back to Game***
After the initial crash, everyone straightened out as the teams went through their respective orange hoops one at a time. The hoops made a whoosh sound when the cars went through them, causing the cars to speed up for a second, then slow down. The sudden acceleration was starting to make Parker a little sick, but he held on to his stomach for a while.
In the Tropical Sweets' car, Chase was still learning to drive. Despite this, Abby stayed quiet as Shawna cheered him on. "Go Chase! We can do this! Rah rah roo!"
"You go Chase!" Jonathan also decided to chime in.
"Shut up you two! I'm trying to focus here!" Chase sped ahead of the Starlight Planets' hover car as Laura felt the wave of the speeding hover car.
"Did you guys feel that?" Laura asked her team as they struggled to hang on. "Brace yourselves!" Laura sped up her car as they descended into another orange hoop. "Whoa! Everyone okay?" The rest of the Starlight Planets nodded their heads to affirm their safety.
The Game Landers were way ahead of the competition as Nate and Lucille bickered orders over each other. Taylor took it all in without saying anything herself. All she cared about was driving the hover car, which was a daunting task in itself. Their car sped through the orange hoops as they swerved left and right, hoping not to crash and fall in the seemingly bottomless pit below them.
The other teams were catching up, and the Tropical Sweets were in a part of the track with tall yellow buildings on the left hand side, and nothing but thick blue fog below them. They sped up in time to catch the Game Landers. Chase was focused, and without thinking of what Abby did to Jeremy earlier, he decided to gun it and crashed into the Game Landers' car. The impact worked out well enough to cause the Game Landers to stop dead in their tracks and fall down the pit, seemingly killing all six of them. The Sweets' car also took damage, but was still able to fly, so they continued the race despite the Starlight Planets passing them during that crash.
***Confessional***
Shawna: Chase! How could you? How could you! You're worse than Abby!
Nicholas: F**k you Chase.
***Back to Game***
The Aquarium Asteroids were way behind everyone else and had no hope of catching up. They spent most of their time just cruising until Troy noticed something in the distance. "Hey a shortcut to your left!" Remi took Troy's advice and drove the car further left to find a rainbow-shaped hoop. The car sped through it and blasted off further down the track, enough for the Starlight Planets to notice.
"Hey! They're cheating!" Leigh pointed to the Asteroids' hover car as they were entering a seemingly safer area below. Everyone in the hover car noticed the Marketplace road below them. Dustin even saw a couple of Egg Pawns, but didn't tell anyone about them.
"It's not like they're the only ones cheating." Madison added. "The Sweets crashed into the Game Landers."
"Really? I must have been doing my hair." Eliza was looking into her pocket mirror, continuing to curl her own hair. She continued listening to Madison tell the story of the Tropical Sweets crashing into the Game Landers.
***Confessional***
Eliza: Oh wow. Didn't know Chase would do that. Gotta keep an eye on him. Hope he gets eliminated.
***Back to Game***
The Aquarium Asteroids were still in the lead as they went through the last orange hoop. Within seconds, they claimed victory. "Asteroids win!" Ezekiel was the first to congratulate them. The Starlight Planets came in with a fairly decent second place victory, but instead of being content about it, Laura decided to call the team out.
"The Asteroids cheated. They cut the course!"
"Patience, Laura." Ezekiel tried to explain. "They managed to find the secret rainbow hoop that contains orange in it. Therefore, it's legit, eh?"
"WHAT?" The Starlight Planets were still in shock, but at least they had an explanation.
"Asteroids all get 50 rings a piece. Gotta save the bigger rewards for later in the show."
"50 rings?" Troy protested.
"Okay, I'll just give your team's rings to Tyler, eh?" Ezekiel handed over 250 rings to Tyler, who gladly accepted them.
"Way to go, Troy." Remi shook his head in disgust.
***Confessional***
Ezekiel: Now Tyler can buy that fondue pot he always wanted. It even works outside the kitchen, eh?
Troy: I wanted those rings so bad, but Zeke took them away! But he needs to come up with better prizes.
***Back to Game***
"Wait!" Madison interrupted the whole thing. "Zeke! The Sweets killed the Game Landers! I saw it!"
"No they didn't. Yes they crashed and fell down the pit, but…" As Zeke continued talking a small hover car piloted by Duncan arrived and landed on the street. The doors opened, and all six Game Landers exited. Most of them were okay, but Parker was about to puke all over the place. "Duncan, get Parker to the bathroom." Duncan took Parker to the nearest restroom as the other Game Landers talked about their near-death experience.
"When Chase crashed into us," Nate said in a quiet voice, "I thought we were going to die."
"Nate here cried." Lucille interrupted the moment.
"I did not! Stop making stuff up, Lucy!"
Lucille glared at Nate, "Ugh." Lucille directed her attention back to Madison. "Nathan here really wanted to cry. Taylor didn't say anything as usual, and Tilly screamed until the cows came home."
"What about Jacob?" Eliza asked.
"I'll handle this. I was totally man enough to accept my death."
"You're kidding." Lucille. "You cried more than my one year old niece."
Jacob didn't say anything, but felt a little shame from the truth. Everyone watched as the Tropical Sweets arrived at the finish line with their hover car looking completely beaten down by the elements.
"What happened to you guys?" Madison asked.
"Chase went a little psycho." Jonathan answered.
"What? He was f**king nuts!" Nicholas interrupted.
Ezekiel went up to Chase to demand an apology. "Chase, What I heard from the rest of the contestants is enough information for me to kick you out of the game. I'll give you five seconds to say why you almost killed an entire team."
"I'm sorry Ezekiel." Chase was calm, and he spoke from his heart. "I was too focused on the game, and I didn't realize how violent I could be. Here's my bracelet. My park ticket's in the shuttle." Chase took off his yellow team bracelet and handed it to Zeke, only to have it returned to him. "But why?"
"Your apology was almost enough for me to change my mind, eh? I want you to go to each Game Lander and apologize individually to them."
Chase took Ezekiel's charge and went up to each of the Game Landers to apologize sincerely. Everyone on the team accepted his apology. "I'm glad all of you are alive." Chase gave each person on the team a hug, including Parker who was still a little drowsy, but came back from the bathroom well enough to participate in the competition.
"Chase, you can stay. Go back to your team." Chase went back to the Tropical Sweets. "Since the Game Landers didn't finish the race, they still have to vote someone off. Come back in three hours to make your decision."
Everyone walked off and went back into the Egg Shuttle to clean up and rest. The shuttle was quiet as everyone was either thinking or sleeping in their rooms. Ezekiel, Tyler, and Duncan were in their quarters discussing what to do next. "We're doing that challenge first, eh? Eggman wants you two to catch some Red and Orange Wisps for me."
"We caught your Cyan Wisps last time!"
"The producers are paying you guys to do it. You want to keep your jobs, eh?"
"Yes, but there aren't any Orange Wisps here in Tropical Resort."
"That's why we're going to Sweet Mountain in the morning. Now, I have an elimination to run."
Once again, it was time to vote off somebody. The Game Landers went to the elimination area at the Main Stage where Ezekiel was waiting for them. "Okay. Each of you gets a red park ticket and you have to vote someone off. The confessional is right behind me and you have to say who you vote for. If you're ready, go right ahead and cast your vote, eh?"
***Confessional***
Nate: I know you seem like a nice person, but I'm going to have to vote for you, Taylor.
Taylor: …
Lucille: Foam boy's getting on my nerves. I'd vote for Nate, but he has more class than that guy.
Jacob: I hope I'm safe. I don't see why anyone would vote for me.
Parker: Tough decision. Nate or Taylor? I guess I'll flip a coin.
Tilly: I'm sorry, girl. You're really nice, but you cost us the challenge. No offense.
***Back to Game***
Ezekiel gathered the votes and came back to the elimination area. "Okay guys, I'll read them. First up is Taylor. Another one for Taylor." Taylor felt a little nervous, but she didn't show it very well. "Parker has a vote, eh?"
"Huh?" Parker was half asleep.
"Too tired to get coffee, eh?"
"Oh? Was I supposed to stay awake for this?"
"It's an elimination ceremony sleepyhead." Lucille chided the party guy.
Ezekiel tried to read the next vote. "Uh, I can't read this one, eh? It's all scribbled up. Anyone recognize it?" Ezekiel revealed the vote to the Game Landers, none of which could decipher it.
Parker was the only one who recognized it. "Oh, that's uh mine bro." He said, being clearly tired and wanting to take a nap. "It's for Nate, bro." Parker fell over and almost landed in the center of the elimination area.
"Are we just going to leave him there?" Lucille asked, wanting him to go home.
"He'll wake up. I'll just read the last two votes. Speaking of sleepyheads, here's another vote for Parker." At this point in the elimination, Parker started snoring while fast asleep on the floor. "Last vote…Taylor. Please bring me your bracelet and park ticket."
Taylor got up without stepping on Parker and handed Ezekiel her red bracelet. He added it to the tower and stamped her park ticket as VOID. Taylor left without saying a word to her team. "Wait a minute." Lucille noticed something wrong with the tower. "Where's Jason's bracelet? Isn't he out of the game?"
"We never got it, eh?"
"You mean he still has it?"
"Ask Duncan. He kicked him out."
***Confessional***
Lucille: Oh my god. By this logic, he's still in the game. Brace yourselves everyone. All hell's going to break loose.
Nate: Duncan did what? Granted Jason needed to go, but Duncan didn't void his ticket?
***Back to Game***
"So you're saying he's still here?"
"He's out of the game guys. Unless something weird happens, my tower of bracelets will only have 23 on it."
"Whatever."
"We need to go to the Egg Shuttle." Ezekiel ended the ceremony as everyone followed him back to the Egg Shuttle. The host called everyone else back into the shuttle soon afterwards. "Okay guys, we're done here. We're going to a new venue!" Everyone that wasn't already in the shuttle entered just before the main hatch shut. Moments later, the hover pads lifted off the floor.
"Ooh! We're flying now! Hell yeah!" Nicholas commented while standing next to Leigh. "Hey, look out the window here."
"What a view! Sad to see us go. Where do you think we'll go next?"
"Where's your map?"
"Right here." Leigh took his park map out of his pants pocket and took a look at it. He crossed out Tropical Resort and examined the map more closely to find a 1 near the venue's picture.
"Hey! There's a 2 here!" Nicholas pointed to the Sweet Mountain on Leigh's map.
"Maybe that's next!"
Nate entered the viewing room to see what was going on. "Miss the shopping already?"
"I didn't really go." Leigh answered. "It looks like we're going to Sweet Mountain next."
"They had a bookstore." Nicholas added. "I saw Eliza picking up a romance book there."
"Suits her best, but she's so picky."
"You're kidding right? I should have stopped by. I need the next German volume for my collection."
"Leigh, you could just buy it online."
"Sorry Nate. I prefer a hard copy."
"Whatever. I'm going to bed. See you two in the morning." Nate left the viewing room, leaving Leigh and Nicholas to continue sightseeing.
In the dining area, Eliza and Madison were playing cards. "Hey! Can't it be a little less shaky around here?" Eliza drew a card from the deck.
"My drink's gonna fall!" Madison reached out for her drink just before it could spill onto the Egg Shuttle floor.
"Nice save! It's your turn."
"Got any 3's?"
"Go fish." Madison drew a card. "Got any 5's?"
"Oh snap! Here's three of them."
"Great! Got my first book!" Eliza took the 5's from Madison and placed them on the table after the Egg Shuttle restabilized itself. The two girls continued to play their card game for about another thirty minutes before going to bed.
In Ezekiel's quarters, he was getting ready to go to bed. Tyler and Duncan were also in the room setting up the sleeping bags they recently bought. Tyler asked Zeke a quick question. "How'd the elimination go?"
"Lucille's onto us."
"He's not coming back you know."
"But he still has his bracelet. We need all 24 of them."
"We can use 23."
"Eggman said 24."
"If he needs all 24, he can get Jason's himself!"
"Besides," Duncan added. "He's in Eggman's hands now. We can talk about this later. I need some sleep!"
Ezekiel went up to the camera and signed off the show. "Okay. Stay tuned for Sweet Mountain next time." Once he was done, he turned off the light and went to sleep.
In the control room, Dr. Eggman was preparing for his main scheme alongside his two robot henchmen Orbot and Cubot. Cubot was the first to speak. "Them cowboys and cowgirls are leaving the resort, sheriff."
"Who changed your chip? Who set it to cowboy?" Eggman kicked Cubot, causing his speech to change.
"My good sir, we need to go on with that masterful plan of yours."
"A little better. Now the cannon's almost ready to fire. That prairie boy wasn't who I had in mind for my first test subject, but with Chris McLean gone, he'll have to do. Orbot! Cubot! Are my plans for the prototype cannon done yet?"
"Of course they are boss. You can build it anytime." Orbot affirmed the status of the cannon prototype.
"Good. Once they head into Starlight Carnival, those pesky Total Drama contestants won't know what hit them!" Eggman started to cackle so loudly, he fell onto the floor in hysterical laughter.
***Final Words***
Taylor: (Simply stands in front of the camera without saying anything)
***End of Episode***
AN: Current Standings
Tropical Sweets: Abby, Chase, Jonathan, Nicholas, Shawna
Starlight Planets: Dustin, Eliza, Laura, Leigh, Madison
Aquarium Asteroids: Gigi, Mimi, Remi, Stacy, Troy
Game Landers: Jacob, Lucille, Nate, Parker, Tilly
Eliminated so far: Marisol, Jason, Jeremy, Taylor