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At the campfire ceremony, the Villains voted Lightning off. Understandable, since he cost them the challenge and could definitely take a level in modesty. Meanwhile, the six of us on our team headed to the spa hotel.

Up in the girls' bedroom, which I shared with the other three, Sierra tucked her Smartphone into her bed, talking to her screen picture of it – a picture of Cody. "There you go, Codybear, all tucked in!" she chirped. "Today was a great day. I made some new friends, and I helped win our first challenge! Oh, you'd be so proud. Sweet dreams!" She kissed the screen, then crawled to the end of the bed and curled up there.

No, really. She was sleeping like a cat or something.

"Weirdo." Courtney muttered.

I jumped into my own bed, pulling up the covers. "'Night, Sierra. 'Night, Zoey. 'Night, Courtney." Although of course, Courtney had her earplugs in and Sierra was already sound asleep, so Zoey was the only one who could actually hear me.

The spa hotel was awesome in every way. The beds were cloud soft. To make a lame pun, my dreams put me on Cloud Nine, and I think the beds had something to do with it. Breakfast was perfect, too, although some people disagreed.

While Cameron exclaimed over the perfection of the hard-boiled eggs and Mike was loving the maple bacon, Courtney scowled at her orange juice, calling to the butler. "I've got a problem. This juice is at least five percent too pulpy."

As she kept whining, I noticed Cameron slipping some food into the pocket of his hoodie. Mike and Zoey were the first to follow suit, and I caught on immediately. They were going to give it to Sam when he got back from Boney Island. I quickly stuffed some food into my pockets, and so did Sierra.

Courtney didn't notice, too busy complaining about her juice. She was instantly given a new glass. "Oh. That was fast." she said, still frowning. "But I'm sure it won't be-" she took a sip, and finally smiled. "Perfect."

But it couldn't last. Chris called to us, as usual, and gave us our next challenge.

Courtney spent the walk from the hotel glaring at Gwen again. I could hear everything.

"Courtney's glaring at me again." Gwen was telling Duncan. "Can't you make her stop?" Courtney looked away whenever Duncan even glanced at her.

He obviously didn't like it, because he answered "Love to, but right now I'm blanking her like she's blanking me, so no can do. But let me know if you catch her looking my way."

I caught up with the former CIT. "Courtney, glaring at Gwen is not going to make her break up with Duncan. They're together. Get over it. You can't seriously say you still miss Duncan? You two have been separated for ages."

Courtney stuck her nose in the air. "Of course I don't miss him! I knew it couldn't last forever. I'm so over him. But with Gwen – I thought we were friends, and then this happens."

I groaned. "You don't think Gwen's paid enough? Come on, look at some of her teammates. She can't trust anyone!"

Courtney glared at me and quickened her pace, leaving me behind.

When we got to Chris, the first thing he did was welcome Sam back.

"Hey, Sam." Zoey greeted him. "How was exile?"

Sam was swaying on his feet and half his shirt was torn off, but he tried to smile. "Aside from the blinding hunger and bear attacks, pretty good actually." He followed this by falling over.

We all ran over to him and gave him our smuggled food. I also got the pleasure of Courtney looking completely awkward and embarrassed when Sierra asked "Courtney, what did you bring Sam?"

"Orange juice that was too pulpy?" I muttered so only Courtney could hear. She blushed and sent a death glare at me. I just laughed. Hey, just because I'm on the Heroes team, it doesn't mean that I can't be mean. Everyone can be mean sometimes. And I'm not talking about penny-pinching. But what was Courtney doing on the Heroic Hamsters, anyway? She was SO not a hero.

The challenge started with two boxes of weapons in the forest, a big one and a small one. The big one had state-of-the-art paintball guns and the small one had slingshots. The team that got there first got to choose, and then we had to pick off everyone on the other team. Oh yeah, and Chris' parole said he's not allowed around paintballs, so we were using leeches instead. The team that survived without every member getting hit by leeches won.

Well, at least we had a numbers advantage. Oh yeah, and Chris gave us a minute's headstart to get to the boxes.

Chef shot a leech in the air to signal our headstart, and all of us started running, although I could hear an "Ow!" from Scott. Ha.

The only problem was Sam. He couldn't run fast, even without how weak he was. Mike and Sierra ran back and each took one of his arms, helping him run with us.

"Move it! Hustle!" Courtney ordered. "Or so help me, you'll never see another sunrise!"

"Can it, Courtney!" I ordered. "Or you'll be the one on Boney Island tonight!"

"Does anyone know where the heart of the forest is, exactly?" Sierra asked as she ran.

"I'll go get a better look." Zoey offered, and wow, talk about skills. She zipped to the treetops in seconds. "Over there!" she called, pointing. We continued to run.

"Need...Dakota..." murmured Sam as we ran. "She can carry me around like a Gameguy."

"That makes sense, since-" Cameron began.

"You are a real life Gameguy!" he and Sierra said together. I giggled. Maybe it would be a good idea to hang out with Sierra and Cameron. Without Cody around, Sierra was a bit more focused, and I'd always liked Cameron on the fourth season. Of course, they weren't like my friends in the other season, Izzy and Noah, but hey, they did have the insanity (Sierra) and the smarts (both).

"The big one! Go for the big one!" Courtney called out as we reached the boxes. But before we could do it, the villains showed up, jumping in front of the box, so we had to take the slingshots and buckets of leeches.

Heather blew a raspberry at us as Duncan laughed. "Suckers!"

We each grabbed either a slingshot or a bucket of leeches.

"Awww, cute!" Sierra exclaimed, pulling out a bucket. "I think I'll call you...Codys." Wow, what a shocker.

"Of course the Villains get machine guns!" Courtney whined. "We'll never beat them with these puny slingshots!"

"Sure we can!" Cameron said.

"If we're stealthy and score first!" he and Sierra chorused again, high fiving.

"Ugh, nerd love." Courtney muttered. "If you kiss in front of me, I will throw up."

"Oh, don't worry, we're just friends." Cameron assured her. "Right, Sierra?"

Sierra smiled at first, and then stared. A weird look came over her face. "Sierra?" Cameron asked. "Is something wrong?"

I waved a hand in front of her face. "Sierra? Sierra!"

Finally, our purple-haired teammate snapped out of it and smiled at Cameron. "Um, nope! Nothing's wrong, Code – Cameron. All good!" she said, giggling nervously.

"What happened?" I whispered to her.

"I don't know!" she whispered back. "I thought he was Cody for a minute. They're very similar, don't you think?"

I frowned. Cody and Cameron, similar? They were both a bit geeky and shrimpy, but that was all. Maybe it was just because Cameron had a lot in common with Sierra.

Zoey found a cave, and suggested that Sam rested in there, since he wasn't really going to be too helpful after his night on Boney Island.

"Should someone stay to guard him?" Mike asked.

"I'll do it!" Courtney volunteered. "I owe him for not bringing him some breakfast."

"We need to find the villains before they find us." Zoey said as we walked out.

"We should split up." I suggested. "That way, we'll be harder to find."

"Also, stealthy forest manouvers?" Mike said. "Looks like a job for Svetlana!"
"Ooh, goodie!" Sierra squealed. "She's my favourite!"

Mike took a breath, but he didn't get that seized-up look he got when he became one of his personalities.

"Svetlana?" Cameron asked. "Is that you?"

Mike let go of his breath. I could tell it was him, even before he said "Nah. Still me."

I frowned. Even though I'd seen Mike give his personalities a beatdown in the fourth season, he still had them there.

"That's weird." I said. "Didn't you have problems with finding Manitoba yesterday? I think something must've happened when Scott accidentally hit you with his shovel."

Mike shrugged, looking crestfallen.

As it was, the villains were all together when we first found them. Zoey fired the first leech, and it worked.

Alejandro cried out as the leech hit him. "I'm hit!"

"Sorry – but not totally!" Zoey called. I had to run myself to dodge the leeches the Villains started firing, but I did hear Scott scream again as Jo accidentally hit him, meaning it was 2-0 to us.

I was only a little way away, but I heard when Heather gave a shriek as Mike got her.

I simply ran ahead of the villains with Sierra, so they would come to us.

Well, I was right – Duncan and Gwen did, and I heard them discussing whether Gwen's attempts to talk to Courtney had been intentionally to hurt her or not. "Do you think I've been attacking Courtney on purpose too?"

"Pretty much, yeah." Duncan answered.

Gwen looked hurt. "You really think I could be that vengeful? You don't know me at all."

Sierra and I both shot at the same time. I missed, and Sierra accidentally got herself. "It feels just like Cody's kiss!" she gushed, before falling over.

Cameron popped up from further over, and aimed at Gwen. And then...Duncan jumped in front of Gwen, taking the leech.

Sierra was still distracted by Cameron's shot. "Great shot, Cody!" she called.

Cameron frowned. "Uh...did you just call me..."

"Sierra, that's Cameron!" I reminded her. "Cody isn't here, remember?" As this happened, Gwen fired, hitting Cameron several times. While that happened, I flung one of my own leeches at her with my slingshot. This time, the leech nearly glanced over her head, but latched onto a lock of her blue-streaked hair.

Yeah, as you've guessed, I wasn't a great shot, so I felt pretty proud that I'd hit Gwen. I was good at aiming when I was kicking something, like in soccer, but slingshots weren't my area of expertise. I was pretty glad that Mike and Zoey were both on our team. They were really good at it.

Anyway, we were winning. The only Villain not hit was Jo. From Chris' announcements, only Sierra and Cameron were hit – so no one had found Sam and Courtney yet.

I decided to go back to the cave and hid behind a rock, just in case a villain came by. Sadly, when Jo did appear, the leech I shot only flew right past her. She didn't even notice it.

I heard some words from the cave, but I didn't know what was happening. Finally, Zoey came up, and when I warned her, she nodded and went in. Well, she was a better shot than me.

I watched as Jo spotted Zoey and ducked the leech. "Nice try, apology breath." Jo smirked as she tried to fire her gun. "It's jammed!"

"Nice try...mean nickname-giver!" Zoey retorted. Not the best comeback, but hey, at least she was honest! Eventually, Jo just threw the leeches in her gun at us. Zoey ducked and grabbed one to shoot back, but one of them hit me on the cheek.

"Ow!" I exclaimed, pulling at it.

Jo started laughing. "Not the target I was aiming for, but whatever!"

But it wasn't over for us. Zoey aimed expertly and hit Jo, winning the challenge. "Not sorry!"

"This just in!" Chris' voice called. "With a final score of six points to four, the Heroes win! Although some of them didn't behave all that heroically...Courtney!"

I looked back to see Sam covered in leeches and Courtney hiding behind him. "My survival instinct kicked in!" she said defensively. "Anyone would have done the same!" Zoey frowned at her.

I scowled too, informing her "Anyone would have shielded him! Like Duncan did for Gwen. If you two were still dating, he'd probably have done the same for you!"

It was nice to sit in the peanut gallery again that night, not having to worry about being eliminated, although there were some weird things happening. Sam was a bit depressed, because after getting his bags, he'd found his Gameguy broken.

"Who would do such a thing?" Sierra, who was sitting next to me, asked.

Mike was on the other side of me. "I know, right? It's so totally unexplainable!" He looked very nervous, so much that I couldn't help wondering if he'd done it. But it made no sense. The Mike I knew would never do that to Sam, and nor would any of his personalities. Maybe Mike had seen something happen...I'd have to ask him later.

Sierra was acting more and more strangely. This time, she discussed with Cameron who was going. "My money's on Jo."

"Unless she can convince them..." began Cameron.

"To cut Heather!" they said in unison.

That's when it got weird. "Oh, Cody, we really do think alike!" gushed Sierra.

"Yeah," Cameron said, "Except, I'm Cameron, not Cody."

Sierra obviously wasn't seeing what everyone else was. "Oh, Cody, don't be silly! Who wants a foot rub?" Cameron screamed.

I quickly stood up and pulled Sierra away. "Uh, Sierra, why don't we swap seats? I think you might be making Cameron freak out just a little bit." Luckily, I caught her off guard and managed to separate her from Cameron.

"Thanks, Amee." Cameron said gratefully.

"No problem." I shrugged. "I've been on a season with Sierra. She'll probably come to her senses...I hope."

Cameron volunteered for exile on Boney Island that night, saying he wanted to go, even though Chris obviously thought we should make Courtney go.

Sierra was right. Jo took the Flush of Shame. "What?" she exclaimed. "Are you all nuts?"

But before she was flushed, Chris had another announcement. "Today, one villain acted more like a hero, and one hero acted more like a villain. So, pack your bags and switch your teams..."

He didn't pause, but I wasn't sure who was switching, so it felt like ages before he said it.

"...Courtney and Duncan!"

I had to hide a smile. Courtney was leaving our team? Awesome!

"I don't wanna be a villain!" Courtney whined.

"And I don't wanna be a lame-o hero!" added Duncan. But Chris wasn't relenting.

Duncan gave a sigh, kissed Gwen on the cheek and walked over. Before passing Courtney, he smirked and said "At least now you have to stop blanking me and admit I exist."

"Yeah. You exist." Courtney admitted. "So what?"

"I...I think I liked the blanking better."

Gwen immediately went to welcome Courtney to her team (well, no one else was going to), but accidentally (again) knocked a bucket of leeches over, right onto Courtney's head. Huh, she kept saying she wasn't doing it on purpose, but maybe, just maybe, she was? Or maybe subconsciously, she did want to hurt Courtney, so she didn't know that she was doing it on purpose.

Oh well, who cared. At least I wouldn't have to live with Courtney for a bit, even if she did make it to the merge. And hey, one less girl meant that now only had to share a room with Sierra (annoying, but at least she didn't whine) and Zoey (perfect roommate).

We'll head back to the spa hotel now. Please review!