Right, let's continue! I love this episode. Thanks for reviewing, Ali6132. Best confessional of the season: "Heather, I know you're watching. Call me."

Sierra's new pets were the worst. She had been the same way about the baby condor that had hatched out of her egg on World Tour. But since Cody 1 and Cody 2 had been with Sierra instead of hatching while Heather or someone else was holding the egg, they didn't constantly follow anyone else.

First, they kept attacking Sierra, and she still loved them. The only good thing seemed to be that she didn't hang around the cabins like she had with the hotel the day before, waiting for Cameron to come out so she could go Overly Attached Girlfriend on him.

I didn't hang around the cabins much, either. I was way too busy, and besides, I didn't especially want to see some of the villains. I counted Cameron as a friend, I still loved Alejandro as much as ever, and I'd always liked Gwen. But I still thought Scott was creepy (although he wasn't throwing challenges for the team), and not only was Courtney around, but she and Gwen were starting to become friendly again, the way they had before Duncan came back on World Tour and immediately proceeded to cheat on Courtney with Gwen. Plus, I was a little hurt that Alejandro hadn't told me that he could still walk. I mean, I wasn't going to buy that they'd just started working at the campfire – the reveal at Heather's elimination was planned. He'd said he trusted me with secrets, and then he doesn't tell me that!

Anyway, I needed to warn Zoey about Mal, so I told her about what had happened during the moon challenge, but Chris called us to the location of the next challenge before I could tell her what Duncan had told me.

Sierra brought her pets with her, carrying them in a little basket she'd weaved out of grass. They kept attacking her and each other. "Ow! That's enough, you two!" she said sternly, but squealed when one of them puked all over her face.

Luckily, Duncan pulled Zoey aside as we walked. "Hey, we need to talk." he said. "It's about Mike."

"What about him?" Zoey asked. She looked at me. "You were saying something about him earlier." Then she frowned. "Wait, are you two trying to form an alliance with me while he's in exile?"

"What? No!" Duncan exclaimed.

"Why would we?" I said. "Listen, Zoey, the last thing I want to do is to hurt you or Mike. It's not really about Mike as much as it is about this personality that seems to be cropping up. Hasn't Mike told you? When I talked to him about it, he was really freaked out. And then Duncan told me about how he's met him before..."

Duncan took over. "I knew I knew the guy from somewhere, but I couldn't place it until I heard him whistle!"

"I am so not following you." Zoey said, sounding confused.

"When I was in juvie, so was Mike!" Duncan said.

Zoey giggled, until she saw our faces. "Oh. You're serious? Mike was in juvie?"

"Yeah, only back then, his name was Mal. And I think he liked being locked up. He caused trouble just for the fun of it!"

"So why hasn't Mike recognized you?"

"Probably 'cause I steered way clear of him."

"I don't think that's the reason." I stepped in. "I think Mal's one of Mike's personalities, and it sounds like he was predominantly in control. Mike doesn't seem to remember most of the blue moon challenge, so he probably doesn't recognize Duncan because Mike never met him. Mal met him, but Mal isn't the same person as Mike."

Duncan continued to give Zoey all the details. Finally, she smiled. "Thank you for telling me. You two are so thoughtful and considerate."

"No, we're not!" Duncan defended. I glared at him. "Well, maybe she is, but I'm not. It's just there's only room for one bad boy on this island, and that's me."

I laughed. "Duncan, I keep telling you you haven't lost your edge, and that's true. But be honest, you've never been the most evil person on this show. Heather surpassed you by miles last time you were on this island. And then Courtney got worse at the movie lot. And I think we both know Alejandro is worse than Heather and Courtney combined."

Zoey raised her eyebrows as I said this. "One moment. If he's evil, why are you dating him?"

"Because he's good to me." I replied. "And he's not evil, just strategic. I guess I could say Heather's more evil, but Alejandro's just better at it than she is."

But everyone except Sierra (whose pets were attacking an intern) was way ahead by that time. The three of us had to rush.

We had to go to a boxing ring, and according to Chris, this was a mix of two Season 1 challenges, the No Pain No Game (ten-second torture methods, which Izzy loved, but Leshawna won) with a little bit of Phobia Factor.

"Not hungry." Courtney stated flatly.

Mike was brought back just before Chris explained it to us, and I looked him over for signs of Mal. He walked up to Zoey and said "Man, are you a sight for sore eyes." He talked like Mike, and his hair was just as always, but his eyes were a little like an insomniac's...though maybe he just hadn't slept on Boney Island. I couldn't be sure.

Basically, we had a thing called the Wheel of Misfortune. One of us would go into the boxing ring, and to win a point for our team, we had to last two minutes in there with whatever the wheel landed on. The team that got three points first won. Oh, and Zoey's reward for the last challenge was that she didn't have to fight anything, and we got a free point.

Scott went up first, and he got...Fang. Oh yeah, did I mention that the attack Scott suffered from Fang left him with a crippling horror of sharks? When he saw Fang, he just...froze. He had to be dragged into the ring, and lasted only seconds. He was half unconscious after a few hits, and only stayed awake long enough to see Courtney yelling at him, his only reply being "I likes you, purty lady."

"Heroes' turn." Chris said. "Come on up, Sierra!"

"Wait a second!" I said. "Sierra needs to watch the Codys. They're painful, but they make her happy. I'll go for her!" I didn't always like Sierra, but I cared about her. Hey, travelling the world with someone does that to you.

Chris shrugged. "Fine. It's your funeral."

I spun, and the wheel stopped on...oh, no. Freaking. Way.

When I was on World Tour, I'd thought about the one serious boyfriend I'd ever had beforehand, who'd screwed me over. To this day, he was a nightmare to me, especially since in my senior year, he'd decided to start asking me creepy questions regarding my relationship from Alejandro. According to him, our relationship had failed because I didn't "put out". Excuse me, I'm allowed to choose when and if I want to get to that stage, and I am glad I hadn't. Anyway, he kept asking me stuff like what made Alejandro better than him, and had I cashed in my V-card with him, and if I hadn't, would I if he'd asked. I was very relieved our makeout session in the cargo hold hadn't been filmed, but anyway, I don't know if I would have.

That stupid ex, who was called Pete, by the way, was also a semi-skilled judo master. I'd let him use me as practice a couple times while we were still together and he wasn't a total jerk. But his silhouette was what the spinner had stopped at.

"Why, hello, Amethyst." he smirked.

"Call me that again and you die!" I yelled at him.

"Oh, but you let your other boyfriend call you that. So before I knock you down, tell me, how many girls has he actually slept with during this show, other than you? The blonde surfer chick, that angry black girl and the uptight bitch over there?" he pointed at Courtney. "Oh yeah, and the Asian chick – so you don't mind sharing with others? In that case, why were you so upset when you found out I was-"

I tried to punch Pete in the face with the gloves, but he blocked me easily. I was down within a minute.

Courtney scowled. "You used to date that guy?" she hissed at me. "And for the record, the furthest I ever went with Alejandro was a kiss on the lips, and nothing more."

"He used to be nicer, and I believe you." I muttered. "Besides, he's history. Next time we see each other, I will kill him for insulting Bridgette, Leshawna, you, Heather and I at the same time!" I didn't like Courtney, but Pete wasn't getting away with what he said about her, or any of the other girls.

The next two fights were both losses to the teams, but it was becoming apparent that there was no point in spinning the wheel. I mean, seriously, Sierra was sent up next, and she had to fight the Codys' mom. She lost, and the mom took off with her kids. However, this was bad news for Cameron. She'd told him earlier that she wanted to break up with him to take care of her pets, but when she lost, she said "Forget what I said. I could never break up with you, Camody." She giggled. "I can't wait for the teams to merge. Then we can be Team Cam-sierra-ody!"

Poor Cam! But it was the Villains' turn again. This time, Alejandro went up.

"I hope he gets Heather." Courtney muttered to Gwen, who chuckled. The spinner stopped on a silhouette of...another Alejandro? Whatever it was, it seemed to shock him.

"No!" he gasped. "It can't be!"

The opponent that appeared looked like Alejandro, but was clearly not quite the same. For one thing, he was most definitely older, and slightly taller. His hair was lighter, too, but his skin tone and eyes were pretty much the same as Alejandro's. They even wore the same style clothes, the only difference being the colour of their shirts. Alejandro's was a deep red, while this guy's was blue. To be honest, he was probably slightly better-looking, and that was saying a lot, considering that Alejandro was possibly the hottest guy I'd ever seen in my life before now.

"Jose." Alejandro said, his voice low and dangerous.

A memory of the World Tour finale came back. "Jose always has to win! Always! He lives to make me miserable! He punches me in the arm and calls me Al, just because I hate it!" Of course. Jose was Alejandro's older brother. No wonder they looked alike.

"Buenos dias, Al." Jose greeted his younger brother, before the fight. To be honest, it started off as looking like yet another loss for the Villains.

Jose screwed it up for himself when he remarked that "Your technique is almost as embarrassing as the way your girlfriend that's not here, with the unattractive personality, burned you on national television!"

Suddenly, Alejandro punched him with surprising force. "That's for calling me Al!" He did it again. "That's for always hogging the bathroom mirror, and replacing my soap with a urinal cake!" Okay, I really did not need to hear that. But seriously, was these boys' obsession with looking perfect a family thing, or was it a Spanish thing?

"And this," Alejandro finished, getting ready for the final punch, "Is for calling any aspect of Heather unattractive!" And yeah, he won the first point for his team.

"And now we all know how Alejandro really feels about Heather!" Chris announced.

Even though he'd evened up the score between us, I smiled at Alejandro. "Impressive win." I said. "And defense of Heather. We will both need to talk to her afterwards."

He put his hand on my shoulder. "I would've done the same if he'd insulted you, mi amor. But this is a challenge, so we can't talk right now."

I nodded, although I felt a bit hurt. I shouldn't have – I knew he always put the competition first.

Mike volunteered to go next, just as Cameron pointed out the game was rigged. "Sierra fights Cody Jr's mom, Scott fights Fang, Amee fights her ex-boyfriend, Alejandro fights his big brother...the odds are too astronomical for this to be random!"

Which was why Mike didn't get what he was afraid of, but rather what Cameron was most afraid of.

The thing was, Cameron used to have arachnophobia. He didn't any more, but he was scared of what he'd faced in the last season, a mix of insanity and spiders. And she was here now!

"Greetings, spider food!" she said, dressed in a giant spider costume.

I hadn't seen Izzy since the finale of World Tour, but I'd seen her cameo in the fourth season. She'd sent me a long and incoherent email after I messaged her about it. Still, even though she was fighting a team member, it was nice to see her again. Even if Cameron's worst fear was an eight-legged Izzy.

"Hey, Iz!" I called. Izzy grinned and waved one of her spiders' legs at me.

When Mike stood up, Izzy sniffed and remarked on his scent. "Like a honeycomb wrapped in rotten ham. Good on the inside, poison on the outside!"

That was weird. Was Izzy on to something? That would mean the real Mike was trapped inside himself, while the personality in control was most definitely not Mike. And if the personality was pretending to be Mike, it could only be...Mal.

At that moment, Izzy said something else weird. "Question: Who's 'Mal'?" What was Izzy seeing?

Zoey and Duncan gasped at the same time as me. Finally, I smiled. "I think we're right." I sighed. "Izzy may be insane, but if it's something like this, she knows what she's talking about."

As it was, Mike/Mal won.

"See, that's what I'm talking about." Duncan said to Zoey and I.

I nodded. "Yep, I think that's Mal up there."

We still didn't win. Next up for the Villains was Cameron against several mutant Gophers. He lost. And Duncan lost us another point when he was given the bird who made him cry when he stole the egg in the Fun Zone.

I knew Duncan really wanted to prove himself. He talked big the whole time he was in the ring, but he eventually gave up. "Seriously? How am I supposed to fight something so helpless and weak?"

It was the Villains' turn again. "I'll go." Courtney and Gwen said at the same time. Both giggled and then said "No, seriously, I'll go." They giggled again. Which might've been why Chris put them both in the ring to fight each other.

At first, they refused, but then Chris started putting up all these clips of Duncan and Gwen locking lips from Sierra's Gwuncan blog. Courtney's face became murderous.

"Courtney, remember, we're past this!" Gwen tried to remind her. "We're friends again!"

"I guess I'm not as over it as I thought!" Courtney replied tightly. She held up her fist. "Sorry, Gwen, this is going to hurt you more than it hurts me!" She tried to get in a punch. "That's for kissing my boyfriend!"

Gwen fought back. "That's for him not being your boyfriend when he kissed me!"

Duncan seemed pretty happy to have them fighting over him, even though neither cared about him any more.

"Okay, time's up!" Chris called after a while.

"WE'RE NOT DONE!" the girls yelled back.

Gwen punched Courtney again. "I only came back on the show to make things right with you!"

Courtney punched her back. "I never really missed Duncan, but I really missed you!"

Both girls fell to their knees. "So, friends?"

"Totes. Friends forever." They hugged, making Zoey, Sierra and I 'awww'.

And Chris was so touched by Courtney and Gwen's friendship that he gave them both a point, giving the Villains the win "for putting a little warmth in my otherwise cold heart".

Duncan, Zoey and I were still a little concerned about Mike/Mal. Duncan was thinking Mal might be the real original personality, while Zoey didn't want to believe it.

"I don't think Mal's the original personality," I said, "But whoever was up there with Izzy...that wasn't Mike. Izzy even said – good on the inside, poison on the outside. And he has dark circles around his eyes – Duncan, didn't you say that Mal had those?"

Duncan nodded.

I sighed. "Zoey, I know you want to believe it's Mike. It's understandable, I can tell how much you love him. But somehow, I'm never sure whether I'm talking to Mike or Mal at the moment, no matter what he says."

At the campfire ceremony, Chris told us that the Villains' were choosing who to flush, and we were choosing who to exile, instead of the other way around.

The Villains conferred.

"We've decided," Gwen began,

"Reluctantly," Cameron interjected, "Very reluctantly,"

"To eliminate," Gwen paused. "...Sierra."

I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Me?" Sierra squeaked. "But why?"

"You have a real Cody back home who needs you...for some reason." Cameron told her. "Now run, Sierra, run to him!"

"You mean swim." Chris said. "But before that, Heroes, who's going to exile?"

As a matter of fact, we all knew who deserved to be on Boney Island. My own feelings aside, he'd fooled everyone on the island for episodes and the last elimination had been pretty harsh. We all said the name together.

"Alejandro!"

Sierra cried the whole time she waited to be flushed.

"Sorry again!" called Gwen. "Say hi to Cody for me!"

"And make more of those Gwuncan videos!" added Duncan. Gwen shot a glare at him. "What?"

Chris flushed, Sierra screaming an "I'm coming, Cody!"

It was weird, going back to the loser cabins and sharing the girls' side of the cabin with just Zoey. "I'm gonna miss Sierra." I sighed. "Weird. I couldn't stand her when I first met her, but now I kind of like her."

Zoey nodded. "I understand. Sierra was sometimes a little annoying, but she was nice."

I didn't really want to say anything more about Mal for now, and Zoey obviously didn't want to either, so we both just said goodnight.

I hope the next chapter to be up soon. The merge approaches! Please review and tell me what you thought of Amee's boxing match.