Well, another chapter, another dollar.
Haha. I wish I was really getting paid for this.
Just warning ya, things are gonna get a little weird, and you'll know what I'm talking about when you get to it. Just stick with me here, people. It'll make sense after a while ;)
And to Mia's creator… I'm sorry about this chapter xD
Next chapter's a Playa De Losers chapter. We get to see Zack, Owen and whoever gets kicked out today again! :D
Well, read, review and enjoy! :D
"Zoey?" Selena called out as she and Duncan entered the cave, her voice echoing against the cave walls. "Zoey? Stay away from the kitty!"
They wandered farther into the cave and were entirely enveloped in the darkness. "Zoey, get out here right now or else you'll get the butt kicking of a lifetime!"
Despite the darkness, you could still see Selena roll her bright blue eyes. "We're trying to encourage her to come out, Mister Rocket Surgeon!"
"Rocket surgeon?" Duncan repeated, flabbergasted at that statement. "Seriously, how stupid are you?"
"Okay, we need to stop this," Selena firmly told him, narrowing her eyes. "Us fighting is what made Zoey wander off in the first place. We need to put this little dispute aside and find our sister."
"Huh," he mumbled. "I guess you're right… Had to happen sooner or later."
They continued to trek through the cave, calling out for Zoey. As they kept on getting no reply, they were starting to worry, but a little voice finally called out, "Duncan? Selena?"
They saw her big green eyes and sighed in relief. "Zoey, thank goodness you're safe," Selena muttered.
"Yeah, you getting eaten by bears would be kind of hard to explain to Ma when we get back home…" Duncan said in agreement.
"Well, guess we'd better get-" Before she finished, Selena noticed something strange. Zoey's eyes were up far too high for her height. "How'd you get taller?" she asked. "Are you sitting on a rock or something?"
"No… It doesn't feel like a rock."
"… Whatever, let's just go." She grabbed for her hand, but all she grabbed was a handful of short hair, followed by a growl. "Oops, sorry… Has your hair always been this short?"
"This is no time to talk about her latest hairstyle," Duncan told her. "Let's just get out of here. By the sound of that growl, she must be starving…"
"That wasn't my belly," Zoey stated.
"Then what the heck- BAH!" Duncan screamed in shock. His eyes wandered over to look at Selena in disgust. "Selena, I know you miss Zack, but clawing at my butt?" He shook his head. "Even you're not desperate!"
"Uh, Duncan… I'm over here."
"… Oh. I didn't think your fingernails were that sharp… Then who…" Another growl interrupted him. "Wait… There's a flashlight in the Swiss army knife I swiped."
As he dug around in his pocket for it, Selena skeptically asked, "What kind of a pocket knife has a flashlight in it? How would it fit in the handle thingy?"
"Who cares? Do you want light or not?" He finally found it and flipped the small flashlight out. Surprisingly, it produced a huge light. A huge enough light to see that Zoey was sitting on the back of a very irritable grizzly bear, and Selena had a clump of the fur from its head in her hand.
"Uh…" Selena grinned a fake grin, released the bear's fur and patted it on the head a few times. "Nice bear…" It snapped its teeth at her hand, but she luckily drew it back in time.
The camera went to a shot outside the cave, where Selena and Duncan, Zoey tucked under his arm, ran out, screaming their heads off. They were barely ten feet away from the opening when they bumped into another bear. This bear didn't look quite as frightening. It was more irritated, really. Still, that didn't freak the siblings out any less. They screamed even louder and ran to the left, hoping not to run into a third bear.
When they were out of sight, the 'bear' removed its head, revealing that it was only Mia. "I didn't even do anything that time!"
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As Grace and Trent cowered in fear of the foaming raccoon, the latter said, "W-Well… A-At least we had fu-full lives!"
"I'm th-three!" Grace screamed.
"… I never said yours was a long one!" Trent yelled back.
"Wait, look!" Grace pointed up to the raccoon. It, looking a little less scary, started chewing on the ropes of the net with its sharp teeth. "It's helping us! Go, Mister Rabid Raccoon, go!" she cheered.
After a few more nibbles in the right places, there were enough ropes snapped so that the siblings both fell out of the tree, Grace landing on Trent's stomach once they hit the ground.
Trent groaned, only sighing in relief once Grace slid off. "Ugh… You okay?" He asked, eyes shut in pain as he rubbed his head.
"I guess…"
Trent opened his eyes to see that the raccoon was making its way toward her. She extended her hand out toward it. "Grace, don't touch that thing! It's got rabies!"
Grace swiped some of the foam surrounding its mouth on her finger and sniffed it. "I dunno what rabbis smells like, but I don't think it'd smell like whipped cream, would it?"
Trent, looking shocked, crawled toward it. He whipped some of the foam off himself and licked it off his finger. "Hey… This is whipped cream. Why would a raccoon-"
He looked over to find the creature had gone to their backpack and was digging around inside it. When it came back out, it brought a can of whipped cream with it and squirted some more into its little mouth.
"Okay, what would possess Chris to throw a can of whipped cream in there?" Trent asked the camera. "How is that essential to survival at all?"
*T*S*R*
The wolf continued to circle around Marilee, Geoff and Herbie, looking ravenous. Herbie was clinging to Geoff's legs and Marilee and Geoff were tightly hugging each other in fear.
"G-G-Geoff?" Marilee stuttered. "I-I just want you to know, if we don't make it, I'm sorry about all the mean stuff I've said to you and all the awful stuff I've made you do and all those times I made you try on the dresses I made to see if they made people look fat and-"
Geoff interrupted her by crying, "And I'm sorry I spent your lemonade stand money on bubblegum when you were five and accidentally dumped that bowl full of eggnog on you last Christmas and tried to sell you at a garage sale when you were a baby and-"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Marilee yelled, completely forgetting about the wolf for that moment. "You tried to sell me?"
"I-I was four!" Geoff yelled in his own defense. "And Mom caught me before that old lady took you!"
"But still, how could you try to sell your own sister?"
"Well, you weren't very fun when you were one!" Geoff whined. "All you did was cry and poop!"
"That's all you do now, but you don't see me selling you!"
Geoff pouted, looking hurt. "You're mean when you're about to get eaten by a wolf…"
Herbie eyed the wolf in fear and whimpered, "I-It probably ate m-my brother!"
"Then why the Helsinki is it coming back for seconds?" Marilee screamed. Geoff and Herbie looked at her, shocked. Her lips tightened into a frown. "Oh, yeah, like I'm the only one who's thinking it."
"We're all gonna die!" Herbie cried.
Geoff was getting ready to give up all hope of survival, but he remembered something from a while before. "Marilee, it's time to let your secret out!" he exclaimed.
"W-What are you talking about?"
"Use your Spidey powers to save us!" he told her, smiling with faint hope.
"… What are you talking about?"
"I know you're Spiderman!" he said, patting her on the shoulder and grinning proudly. "I figured it out after you used your Spidey Senses to walk with your eyes shut. So go ahead and save us! Shoot a web out of your wrist and take us to safety!"
Marilee stared at him, astonished by his stupidity. "Geoff, I'm not Spiderman!"
Geoff's face dropped. "This day just keeps getting worse and worse!"
Suddenly, Xavier popped out of a nearby bush, riding on the back of a gray wolf identical to the one circling the small group.
"Stanley, no!" Xavier yelled, smacking the first wolf with his stick. "Bad killer wolf!"
Stanley whimpered like a small puppy and walked toward Xavier and the other wolf.
"Uh… Little dude?" Geoff asked, now in Marilee's arms, after he jumped in them Scooby Doo style. "Wh-What's going on?"
"I found these wolves a few minutes ago and have trained them as my own!" he exclaimed, giving the one he was riding a few pats on the head. "Meet Kyle and Stanley!"
"Kyle and Stanley?" Marilee repeated, struggling under Geoff's weight. "What kind of names are those for wolves?"
"Those are awesome names!" Herbie exclaimed, completely ignoring Marilee's statement and running over to Stanley.
"Stanley is yours," he told his brother. He looked over to Geoff and Marilee again and said, "Well, thanks for letting us hang out with you guys, but we gotta go."
"Go? Go where?" Geoff asked, finally hopping out of Marilee's arms.
"We gotta find Izzy," Herbie said as he climbed on Stanley's back and raised his stick in the air like the Excalibur. "We shall find her and return her to the Banana King!"
Xavier raised his sword next to his twin's, making an X. "For the Banana King!"
Marilee rolled her eyes. "Just when I thought you couldn't get any weirder. But if it means you're leaving me alone, bon voyage."
"Oh, that reminds me," Xavier pulled a huge sack from behind his back and tossed it in front of Geoff and Marilee's feet. "That's a thanks for helping us get this far. I found it behind a tree stump and thought you'd like it."
Curiosity consuming her, Marilee bent down and opened the sack, hoping it wasn't full of mushrooms or something. She gasped upon seeing what was inside. It sure wasn't mushrooms.
She pulled a huge clump of cold hard cash out of the bag and stared at it, like she didn't really believe it was there. "H-How much is in here?"
Xavier shrugged. "I can't count past twelve, but my guess is about sixty grand, give or take."
Marilee dropped the money back in the bag, shaking in pure amazement. She ran over to the twins and gave them a huge hug. "I take back every bad thing I've ever said or thought about you two!"
Herbie gasped. "You said bad things about us?"
She realized her flub and stood back up, a big cheesy grin on her face. "Heh heh. No." She waved a hand, shooing them away. "Now go find Izzy and return her to the Kumquat Queen or whatever."
The twins dug their heels into the wolves' sides, making them race off into the sunset, while Marilee and Geoff watched them.
Marilee got on her knees and dug through the sack, looking ecstatic. "Geoff, can you believe this? Th-This is amazing! …Geoff?"
She looked up. Geoff wasn't standing in front of her. Keith was.
"Keith?" Marilee grinned and got up. "What are you doing here? And where's Geoff?"
"I don't know why your brother isn't here, but I know why I am…" He put his arms around her and dipped her back dramatically, looking deep into her bright blue eyes. "I snuck away from my group so I could be with you. I can't stay away from you, Mar. You drive me insane… In a good way."
Marilee wrapped her arms around his neck. "Oh, Keith… That's so romantic!"
He brought her back up and gently took her hand. "Come on, let's go find a nice place for me to massage you beautiful bare feet while you eat ice cream and talk about how awesome you are!"
She grinned at the thought of that, but looked down at her feet and wiggled her exposed toes. "You're probably wondering what happened to my shoes…"
"I can buy you new shoes later," Keith told her, enveloping both of her hands into his.
Marilee shook her head. "Oh, you shouldn't. They're much too expensive…" She looked down at her loot and grinned. "And I sure can afford new boots now…"
"Or you could use that money for something more… special. Like our wedding."
"What are you talking abo-"
She turned around to find Keith on one knee, a velvet box in his hand. He popped it open, revealing the biggest diamond ring Marilee had ever seen.
He looked up hopefully at her and asked, "Marilee Fiona Guadalupe Anderson, will you marry me?"
Marilee gawked at him, truly shocked. "Keith Carlisle, have you gone insane? We're fourteen! We can't get married!"
"Sure we can!" Keith cheerfully exclaimed, shoving the ring on her finger by force. "We can double with your mom and her new fiancé!"
"WHAT?"
Before she knew it, Marilee was standing outside of a church on a happy, sunny day. She looked down to find out she was wearing a poofy white wedding dress and a rhinestone-covered veil. Panicking, she looked down at her finger to find her engagement ring, along with an even huger wedding ring.
Joyous cheers tossed rice filled the air, and Marilee turned to find Geoff, Duke, and Keith next to her in tuxedoes. They were throwing the rice at the couple walking down the stairs of the church, which she found to be the man from the photo she had seen earlier, and her-
"Mom?" Marilee called out.
Her mom, wearing the same dress and veil as she was, turned to her daughter and smiled. "Hi, honey! Congratulations on the marriage!" She tossed her light blonde hair over her shoulder and linked arms with her husband. "My new hubby and I will both be so happy! And we can have fifty kids and make you baby-sit them all every Saturday night instead of going out with your friends or your new husband!"
Marilee looked between the two newlyweds, almost in a panic. "No… NO!" She dropped her bouquet of white lilies, gripping her head. "This can't be happening!"
Keith jumped out in front of her, but he was no longer dressed in his tuxedo. He was dressed as Robin, the Boy Wonder. "Hopping halibuts, Spiderman! It's the Spider Signal!" He dramatically pointed to a huge spider-shaped light in the sky and looked back at her expectantly.
"What the he-" She looked down again to see that she was now dressed in Spiderman's blue and red jumpsuit, complete with face mask. "WHAT THE [CENSORED]?"
"There's no time to waste!" Keith, or rather Robin, yelled, grabbing her wrist. "To the Spider Mobile!"
"NO!" Marilee, I mean Spiderman, yanked on his cape, making him fall to the ground. "This makes no sense! We're too young to be husband and wife, my mom just met this guy she just…" She shuddered and mumbled, "married… And this junk you're talking about is all Batman stuff, not Spiderman!"
Keith the Boy Wonder frowned at her and snapped his fingers. A butler showed up in an instant. "Alfred, take her to the Spider Mobile. We've got to stop the Joker now and SpiderMar is not cooperating!"
Alfred gave a curt nod, threw Marilee on his shoulder and raced off.
"No!" Marilee yelled, pounding on his back with her fists as hard as she could. "No, no, no!"
"Mar? You okay?"
"No… No…"
"Sis? You awake yet?"
"Huh… Geoff?" Marilee opened her eyes. She was no longer a blushing bride, or an arachnid-themed superhero. She was back in the forest, being carried around by her brother via piggyback. "What? What's going on?" she groggily asked.
Geoff turned his head to check on her and grinned. "Oh, cool, you finally woke up." He let her down and she struggled to stay standing. A sudden pain struck her head and she rubbed her temples in pain. "You must have hit your head pretty hard. You were out for a while."
"Out?" Marilee stared at him in disbelief. "You mean… I've been unconscious? For how long?"
"Since you ran into that tree," he told her. "I'm just glad you woke up. I would have felt bad if I had killed you or something," he admitted with a chuckle.
Marilee still stared at him in disbelief. "So… Herbie and Xavier didn't ride into the sunset on wolves to find Izzy and return her to the Banana King?"
"Uh… No."
"And they didn't give us a sack full of money?"
"… Nope."
"Keith didn't propose to me?"
"He better not have!"
"Mom isn't marrying that slime ball she just met?"
"What? Of course not!" He paused momentarily to think it over. "Well… At least not yet, I guess."
"Not yet?" Marilee snapped. "She shouldn't marry him at all!"
Geoff softened. "Mar…"
"No, really, what does she know about this guy?" she asked. "Does he have any kids? Any grandkids? A soundproof basement where nobody can hear him molesting orphans?"
Geoff sighed, wrapping a brotherly arm around her shoulder. "Today's been a bad day for both of us…" He looked to see what a mess she was, with her shoeless feet and the large bump on her forehead, and muttered, "Your's was worse than mine, I guess…"
Marilee sighed and looked to the side, noticing that two certain people were missing. "Hey, where'd the munchkins go?" she asked.
Geoff put his arm down so he could properly shrug. "Beats me. They ran off a little bit after you got knocked out."
As if on cue, the redheaded twins ran toward the two, wielding huge water guns. As soon as they were in decent shooting distance, they aimed and dosed Marilee with two huge blasts of water. Tossing their pistols to the side, they looked up at the sopping blonde, noticing that her eyes were open. "Yay!" Xavier exclaimed, high-fiving Herbie. "We woke her up!"
Marilee stood still for a while, angrily staring into space. She let herself drip for a few more seconds before saying, though gritted teeth, "Thank you, boys. That was exactly what I needed…"
Herbie grinned cheekily. "You're welcome!"
Marilee crossed her arms and Geoff could easily tell she was angry. "Juice box?" he asked.
She rung some water out of her hair and sighed. "Make it a double."
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Dragging her bear head on the grassy ground, Mia waddled toward the production campgrounds. She figured she had scared enough people for one day. It was at least enough to get Chris off her case.
She heard some rustling leaves, but immediately dismissed it. "Probably a stupid squirrel or something," she muttered, continuing to walk.
Before she had even walked two feet, a green and red blur jumped in front of her. "AH!" She flinched back. "What the… Psycho hose beast? Is that you?"
Izzy stood up from her crouching position, an devilish smirk on her lips. "Yep, that's me. And I believe that bear suit is mine."
Mia raised an eyebrow. "You want this smelly thing? You can have it. I'm sick of wearing it. It's like walking around in a movie theater. There's crap in the feet of it…"
Izzy gasped. "No! Not Izzy's cheese puffs!"
"You're worried about your stupid cheesy carbs?" Mia barked. "What about my shoes? They're probably covered in that cheese dust stuff! They'll be orange forever!"
Izzy's eye twitched. She was pretty sure she couldn't get any angrier than she was now. "You murdered my cheese puffs… You won't get away with that."
Mia shook her paws, mocking fear. "Ooooh, I'm so scared! What are you gonna do? Beat me up? Go ahead! I dare you!"
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A few minutes later, Mia, free of her bear suit, was in the medical tent. She was hooked up to a few fancy monitors and was on life support, with a few noticeable bruises on her body.
"Wow," Chris muttered, standing to the side of her cot. "I didn't think even you would do something this… awesome!"
Izzy was standing next to him, only looking completely satisfied with herself. She was dressed in her bear suit, sans the head, and was munching on what was left of her cheese puffs. She shrugged and, with her mouth full, said, "She was asking for it. Literally, she asked for it." She swallowed and added, "I would have let her off the hook or bonked her with a coconut or something if she hadn't dared me to do it. Everybody knows I can't resist a dare."
Chris shrugged. "Well, looks like I'm short one intern. Oh well." He looked at his watch and headed toward the tent opening. "Guess we'd better get to the finishing point. They should be there soon…" He looked back over at Izzy. "Hey, where are Tweedledum and Tweedledumber?"
Izzy blinked, not realizing who he meant. "Oh, you mean Herbie and Xavier? Oh, I left them all alone to fend for themselves in the dangerous woods," she casually told him.
Chris looked unfazed by this, but was still curious enough to ask, "Don't you think your team will be peeved about that?"
Izzy waddled over to the exit and said, "Naaaah, I left them nearby some other teammates of ours. I think it was Marilee. It sure sounded like her scream."
"… And you don't think she'll be peeved about that?"
Izzy waved a claw nonchalantly. "Oh, she's an understanding person. I'm sure she had an absolutely delightful time with them!"
Chris stared at her for a second, then burst out laughing.
Izzy giggled along with him. "Ha ha, I know! I almost had myself going there for a second!" After she calmed down, she added, "But that cuckoo cake needs to learn how to relax! I'm sure my little bros will loosen her up!"
"Herbie and Xavier are soooo much fun!" Izzy exclaimed, still wearing her bear suit. "One time, we went to the carnival and we played that game where you knock the milk bottles down and we couldn't do it with that dinky little ball, so Xavier threw Herbie at them and the little guy knocked all of those sinister bottles down!" Izzy giggled and said, "The guy running the booth was so scared, he let us take as many prizes from the top shelf as we wanted!" She laughed for a while, finally sighing, "Yeah… I bet Marilee's all loosey goosey now!"
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Still screaming as hard as ever, Selena, Duncan and Zoey, still tucked under Duncan's arm, dashed as fast as they could away from the bear. It didn't even bother to follow them, but they were too scared to notice or care. Besides, the bear that they didn't even know was Mia could have very well followed them.
They were suddenly in an extremely open field. Too open to be considered woods anymore.
Duncan screeched to a halt, dropping Zoey as he did. "Wait… Is this it?"
Selena wasn't looking where she was going and crashed into his back, falling down next to Zoey. "I think so… Looks like it."
Unexpectedly, Chris popped out from behind a tree and blew a party horn. "Congratulations, Caliver family! You are the first ones to make it to the finishing point! You've won for your whole team!"
"Seriously?" Selena asked, excited. "Yay!" She picked up Zoey, who was still shaken up by the almost bear attack and being dropped, and gave her a big hug.
Marilee, Geoff and the twins ran in a few seconds later, their spirits dropping when they saw members of the opposite team there before them. "What? Noooo!" Marilee whined, stomping her bare foot. "I can't believe this!"
"Woo hoo!" Izzy jumped out from behind a tree, waddling over to her teammates and brothers. "You guys made it out alive!"
"IZZY!" Herbie and Xavier simultaneously exclaimed, jumping on her to give her a bear hug. Literally. "You found your bear costume!"
"What?" Marilee stormed over to the red head and asked, "You dumped those guys on us so you could go on some little adventure to find your stupid bear suit?"
"Yeah!" Izzy said, letting the boys down. "So did you have fun?"
Marilee just stared at her before shaking her head and walking back to her original spot to mope. She didn't even have enough energy left to properly chew her out.
Courtney gripped her head, eyes shut tight in irritation. "An entire afternoon of listening to Candace gossip with some girls named Phoebe and Monica," she grumbled. "I'm surprised I kept my cool all afternoon…" She sheepishly grinned and added, "Well, not all afternoon, I guess… I started screaming about an hour before we got back… The others must have drown me out…" She frowned, remembering something. "The worst part was that Cody and Keith were actually getting…" She buried her face in her hands and shook her head. "I… I can't even say it."
"Wait, so Demi isn't speaking to Cora?" Cody asked Candace, shocked. The cheerleader nodded and Keith gasped.
"But she's the one who stole Cora's boyfriend!" the skater exclaimed, flabbergasted.
"I know, right?" Candace sighed, bringing the cell phone back up to her ear. "Wait… OMG!" She put her hand over the phone and told the boys. "Monica just heard that Lilly and Oliver are together!"
"… Wait, who's Lilly and Oliver?" Keith asked. "Is Lilly the one who got the tongue piercing?"
"And Oliver's the one who's on drugs, right?" Cody asked.
"No, you're thinking of Rachel and Jerry," Candace told him. "I was talking about Lilly and Oliver from Hannah Montana. Monica just found out they're going out now." She rolled her eyes and giggled. "I mean, who doesn't know that by now?"
"Oh, thank you!" Courtney heaved as they finally made their way into the field. She had had enough of the Killer Cs for one day.
Candace looked over at Courtney's stressed face, feeling guilty. "I'm sorry, Courtney. I guess we all got a little excited and sort of ignored you. You know, you were welcome to join in on the conversation."
Courtney rolled her eyes, walking away. "And gossip about people I don't even know? No thanks." She looked to see that Duncan and his sisters looked awfully happy. "Yes, the Killer Bears won!"
Cody and Candace let out cries of joy, but Keith looked sad. "Aw, man… If only we had made it here a little bit earlier…"
Courtney looked over at him and raised an eyebrow. "Even if we did, you still would have lost. It's three to one."
He looked at the others and realized they were all on the other team. "Huh. Chris did a pretty crappy job picking out teams for this thing, huh?"
The three nodded. That was something they could all agree on.
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After the remaining campers had returned and waited for Jovie's laxatives to wear off, the Rabid Wolves headed to the campgrounds to find out who would be voted off to never return.
It was nightfall and the bonfire ceremony was almost over. All of the teammates had received their marshmallows except for two.
"Izzy, Marilee. This is the final marshmallow of the night." Chris held up the marshmallow, both girls eyes right on it. "One of you will leave and you won't be coming back."
"If Izzy hadn't abandoned Herbie and Xavier, they never would have found Geoff and me," Marilee told the camera, arms crossed in a huff. "And if they never found us, then they wouldn't have held us back for so long at first and we could have won. I was thinking about voting one of those half-pints out…" She sighed and shook her head. "But as annoying as they are and as much as I hate to admit it… They're sweet kids. It wasn't their fault. It was irresponsible of Izzy to leave them in the first place. It's for the best…"
"Marilee's a bit too frazzled to be on this island," Izzy stated, batting at a strand of her curly hair, almost in a trance by it. "That's why I voted her off. It's nothing personal, I just think she needs to chillax at the good old Playa De Losers! If any place could make that stress ball happy, it's that place! I'm doing her a favor!"
Herbie and Xavier, in the Confession Can together, gave each other a nod and Xavier said, "Since we like everybody on our team, we just voted off Chris."
"Maybe it'll work!" Herbie exclaimed with enthusiasm.
"Marilee, I looked over the footage, and I gotta say… You are a bad luck magnet!" Chris chucked and added, "I can't even list all the terrible stuff that happened to you today!"
Marilee didn't look angry like she usually would have. Instead, she just looked tired. "Chris, please. Just get on with it. I've had pretty much all I can take today. Let us know who's leaving so I can go to bed as soon as possible."
"And between you and me," Marilee whispered, hand on the side of her mouth, "All those juices were starting to catch up to me and I needed to hit the washrooms pronto."
Chris stared at, not expecting such a reaction from her. "Oh." He glanced at the other campers, then back at the two girls. "Uh, okay. The final marshmallow goes to…
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He tossed it to her and it hit her square in the forehead, landing in her lap. She eyed it, then looked up at him. "Seriously?"
"Marilee told me what Izzy did," Keith told the camera. "And she didn't even tell me so I could help her get revenge on her by voting her off or anything. She was too drained to even try. Marilee's my girlfriend and stuff now, so I gotta vote you off, Izzy. Nothing personal."
"Sorry, Iz," LeShawna apologized, one foot rested on the toilet paper roll holder of Confession Can. "It ain't right to leave your own brothers in the woods to fend for themselves."
"Izzy's nice enough and all," Jovie began, rubbing her aching stomach, "but you gotta admit, girlfriend's too crazy to be much help to the team. And she's a danger to the wildlife around here, with her crazy antics. Sorry, girl."
Chris pointed to the Dock of Shame and said, "Time to go, Izzy." His eyes narrowed and he added, "No funny business. No being chased off by the RCMP, no disappearing in a puff of smoke and no… Just get on the stupid boat!"
Izzy turned to her peers and took a dramatic bow. "Farwell, Wolfies! This is the last time you'll see Izzy for a long, long, long time!"
"You'll probably just be brought back in a few weeks," DJ pointed out.
Izzy shrugged. "Meh, long time, a week or so. Doesn't make that much difference when you're me."
She raced toward the Boat of Losers, where Chef was waiting behind the wheel for her. The redhead lifted the chef high above her head, as much as he struggled and yelled, and tossed him back onto the dock. "Get away from that wheel, crazy girl!" he barked.
She cackled like a mad man and turned to look at her teammates one last time. "Adios, muchachos!" The boat zipped away from the dock, right as Chef was about to jump back on, resulting in him landing in the lake.
The kids and Chris stared at Izzy and her getaway boat until it became a mere speck.
"… I can kiss that boat goodbye," Chris mumbled, frowning at the thought of how much a new boat would cost.
The contestants only nodded in shocked silence.
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Marilee and Geoff were hanging out on the steps of the rarely filmed laundry cabin, thinking about their mother and her new beau. Marilee was thinking of going to bed, like she had told Chris she was going to… But every time she thought of that man, she couldn't even think about sleep, let alone do it.
"Maybe we should just call her," Marilee sighed, lowering her head and propping it up with her arm. "If she's going to be dating this guy, we should at least know more about him."
"I guess you're right," Geoff agreed with a nod. "Heck, we don't even know the dude's name."
Marilee was about to ask Geoff to lend her his cell phone, but they saw someone approaching, so they stopped talking.
"Oh, it's just What's-His-Face," Marilee silently sighed in relief.
"Trent," Geoff reminded her, then stood up to give his buddy a fist bump. "Hey, man." He noticed the small laundry basket tucked under his free arm and asked, "What's up with the clothes, dude? Who does laundry when it's, like, midnight?"
Trent shrugged, then said, "Grace and I got our clothes kind of dirty during the challenge. I figured I should wash our clothes now before the dirt and raccoon drool stains set in."
Geoff and Marilee both blinked, kind of freaked out by that last part.
Trent shook his head and muttered, "You don't wanna know." He headed inside the cabin and Geoff followed him.
"At least you're capable of doing laundry," Marilee told him, getting up and going inside with the guys. She jerked a thumb toward Geoff and added, "I've been washing this bozo's shorts for the past two weeks."
Trent chuckled and said, "When you live with a workaholic dad and a three year old, you have to learn how to do this kind of stuff if you want clean clothes..." He headed over to a washer and started tossing clothes into the open door, while the other two leaned against the unused dryers. Just as he got to Grace's orange short-sleeved sweater, he noticed something sticking out of the pocket. "Huh…" After pulling the item out and looking at it, his brows scrunched in confusion.
"What's that?" Marilee asked, walking over to him.
Trent dropped his sister's sweater into the washer and started, "It's-"
The blonde snatched it from him before he could finish. After looking at it for a second, she rolled her eyes and muttered, "Oh, this thing. I must have dropped it."
Trent blinked in confusion. "What? Why'd you have it?"
"Our mom sent it to us," she explained, referring to herself and Geoff. "It's a picture of her stupid new boyfriend. I don't know why Grace would want it, though…"
Looking like he was in a state of shock, Trent whispered, "I think I do…"
"We think he's loaded, though," Geoff added, walking over to the two. "He looks like he would be."
"Isn't he a total slime ball?" Marilee asked with a laugh, handing the picture back to Trent to look at. "Honestly, I don't know what my mother sees in that guy…"
Trent looked back down at the picture, double-checking to make sure it was the right guy, then looked back up at the blondes. He held the picture up and pointed at the man in it. "This loaded slime ball… He's…."
Marilee raised an eyebrow. "He's… What?"
"He's… He's my dad."
Silence. Nobody had any idea what to say.
The siblings' eyes widened, their mouths scrunched into freaked out frowns. Geoff looked more shocked than anything, but Marilee almost looked… angry.
Her hand suddenly launched itself into Geoff's shorts pocket, digging around for something. Ignoring Geoff's whiny "Heeeey!" she took his cell phone and started dialing. There was a click and a faint, feminine hello.
"MOOOOM!" she screamed into the device, storming out of the building and slamming the door behind her.
Geoff and Trent stared at the door, like they were half-expecting her to come back. They heard her yell a faint "What have you done?" and looked at each other.
The party boy sheepishly grinned at the musician and said, "Maybe she's calling her to tell her how excited she is that he's your old man…"
Geoff sighed and shook his head. "At least she's back to her old self…"
Geoff, Duke and Marilee's mom and Trent and Grace's dad? Together? Whoa, didn't see that one coming :O
Well… I did. Cuz I wrote it.
But there will be more of that. If you don't like the idea of that… Tough tomatoes.
Votes:
DJ: Izzy
Geoff: Izzy
Herbie: Chris
Izzy: Marilee
Jovie: Izzy
Keith: Izzy
LeShawna: Izzy
Marilee: Izzy
Xavier: Chris
Izzy: 6
Chris: 2
Marilee: 1
