Last time on Total Drama Island; the teams were given three challenges that tested their trust in each other. Noah trusted Katie and Sadie to betray their team and do a little sabotaging, but it turned out it was Izzy he couldn't trust, who ended up poisoning him by a blowfish. Cody trusted Justin after his fault in the last challenge and was happy to find that he managed to pull through for the sake of the team. Izzy and Cody also both trusted in each other in an unofficial relationship, which is actually going kind of smoothly. The Bass couldn't ultimately trust Geoff in the end though, as he was the one who took the walk down the Dock of Shame. Who will be the next camper to leave the island? Find out right now, on Total, Drama, Island!
The beginning of the day actually started with campers having an unusual relaxing time. They had already eaten their disgusting breakfast, but there had been so sign of Chef or Chris anywhere after that. It was strange, but nice. The campers usually didn't have much time to relax, so they were using it wisely. Well, kind of. Katie and Sadie were busy playing hot or not on the steps of the Bass cabin as they watched the remaining male contestants walk by.
Katie and Sadie Confessional
"After that whole alliance garbage, Sadie came up to me and apologized and now we're totally bff's again!" Katie squealed as she locked hands with Sadie,
"Oh totally. We should never let others get in the way of our true friendship! We don't need Noah or his alliance," Sadie nodded; continuing, "I just wish things weren't so serious between everyone, because like, things are getting feally tense. We're almost halfway done."
"Oh it'll be so sad to say goodbye to everyone." Katie whined.
"I know, but we'll still have each other!"
"Justin is definitely a hot." Sadie sighed happily as she watched him strut extravagantly past the two as he headed for the Gopher cabin.
"Really?" Katie asked, "Because I think DJ's pretty hot looking sometimes." She revealed and began looking in the direction of the male who was busy following a butterfly. Sadie chuckled a little before leaning forward to get a better view of the male her bestie was referring to.
"Sure DJ's nice and everything, but he's not really boyfriend material, you know? He gets scared pretty easily and he's not very brave, like, at all." She explained, but her bestie ignored her.
"I'm gonna go talk to him." Katie stood up and navigated her way to towards the male. When she arrived behind him she tapped him on the shoulder. Apparently she should have approached him from the front because he began freaking out. He whipped around violently and began screaming; pushing whatever it was in front of him to the ground as he had his eyes closed.
"DJ! Calm down!" Katie shouted from the ground, "It's just me, Katie!" DJ stopped his fit and opened his eyes; letting out a breath of relief when it found it only was the girl.
"Sorry 'bout that Katie, I've just been really on the edge lately. I feel like I'm being watched everywhere I go and it's driving me crazy."
"That's because we're on a reality show…" Katie trailed off as she stood up, but DJ just rolled his eyes.
"I know that. I'm talking about something on the island, like an animal or something. I was in the confessional the other day when it started shaking wildly. I thought it was an earthquake until I stepped outside and there was nothing there. I swear something's been watching us."
"It's probably just all the stress from being on this show, it can get to some of us I guess." She tried to explain but DJ just shrugged.
"Anyway, what'd you want to talk to me about?"
"Oh, right," Katie remembered, gathering her thoughts again, "I was wondering if you'd like to come hang out with me later. Just the two of us." She smiled and began nudging his arm as he thought about what to do,
"You're not gonna let Sadie come?" He asked and Katie shook her head,
"Sure Sadie's my best friend and everything, but I want to spend some time with my other friends. Expand my horizons, you know?" DJ nodded, understanding what she meant.
"Sure, whenever you want to hang would be cool." He smiled at her, allowing her to grin in reply and turned to skip back to her bestie. Meanwhile, on the porch of the Gopher cabin, both teams were actually getting along rather well as Bridgette, Cody, Izzy, Justin, and even Eva were playing a round of "Bullshit" with a pack of cards Justin had brought. Izzy slapped down three fives and was immediately called on it by Bridgette, who found out she was indeed lying.
"You're pretty good at this Bridgette." Eva stated as she shuffled through the mountain of cards she had in her hand. After calling bull for five turns straight and finding out everyone was telling the truth, she learned she wasn't very talented at this game.
"Don't worry Eva, you'll get better. I remember the first time I played this game I-" Bridgette continued telling Eva her story while Justin zoned out of things for a second. He recalled how Noah had reacted earlier that morning when he and Beth told him what Sadie had said the previous night. He was actually surprisingly calm and didn't make a huge fuss about anything; just shrugging his shoulders and saying, 'Whatever, we don't need them.' Just as he was lost in thought, he caught Noah signaling for him to come over.
"Hey, uh, guys, I've got to go." He excused quickly, "Split my cards up to each other, I won't be back." The group nodded and took Justin's cards, sending them to one another as the attractive male made his way over to Noah.
"What is it?" He asked as he approached.
"It's Heather." Noah stated bluntly, "You've been spending a lot of time with her recently according to Beth. I thought you left your alliance with her for mine." He squinted his eyes to stare at the taller male for any signs of a reaction to being caught, but Justin played it cool and just shrugged,
"We're on the same team, I don't know." He explained lamely as he fumbled with his hands. Noah just stared at him for a few seconds before deciding his answer was good enough for now,
"Just get ready for today's challenge, I don't want to lose."
"Yeah, sure." Justin agreed; sounding a bit nervous. Almost on cue, the loud speaker in the center of the camp began going off. Everyone expected it to be Chris, but were surprised when a different voice came on,
"Listen up you little cockroaches!" Chef boomed over the intercom, "I want all campers to report to the Dock of Shame at nineteen-hundred hours." The teenagers remained still until Chef started talking again, "That means now soldiers! NOW!" He repeated even louder; sending the contestants into a mass confusion as all of them began sprinting toward the dock.
Justin Confessional
"Darn it Beth! Just as I was hoping to keep this whole alliance thing a secret until one of them inevitably got voted off." Justin stared at the camera for a few seconds before resuming, "What? You don't honestly think our team's going to make it the whole time with either of those two still in the game? I swear one of them is going home soon. Just, uh, don't show them this."
Beth Confessional
"I feel bad about watching my former lover go around and do stuff, but Noah asked me to. I can't really go against him or anything. Besides, he's taking me to the finals. I don't really mind watching Justin take a shower either, he's just so…uhgg." Beth moaned romantically in an extremely creepy stalker way.
Chef stared down the campers on the dock as they stood in a line. He had exchanged his usual cook outfit and was now wearing a ranger hat, sunglasses, and green cargo pants with a tank top. As he walked down through the group, he grew increasingly grumpy, "You maggots call this proper formation? Line up and stand at attention! Feet together!" He snapped, using his metallic stick to whack Cody's legs to each other, "Arms down!" Chef yelled again, this time smacking Heather's arms so she would uncross them from her chest, "Eyes forward and pay attention to me." Everyone did as they were told and followed his instructions, not wanting to incur his wrath. Just as Chef was about to begin speaking, Beth unfortunately sneezed, causing Chef to turn and face the small girl, "What was that soldier?! I didn't hear you!" Chef boomed, eyes locked with the females; although hers were trembling with fear.
"Oh, um, no, I just sneezed." She squeaked. Chef turned away from the girl in response to this and stopped in front of the group of campers so they could hear him.
"Now, today's challenge will not be an easy one. In fact, I do not expect everyone to survive without some kind of substantial injury. My orders are to make sure that all the babies in front of me drop out of my boot camp except one. The last one standing wins immunity for their team."
"Um, where's Chris? Did he suffer from some life-threatening illness or something?" Bridgette asked seriously, still confused as to why Chef was put in charge, but he just ignored her in favor of continuing with his explanation of the days challenge,
"Rule number one, today, you will address me as Master Chief, do you understand that?"
"Yes Master Chief." The group uttered in sync.
"You will sleep when I tell you to sleep, you will eat when I tell you to eat, and you will do what I tell you to do when I tell you." Chef moved over in front of DJ and began screaming again,
"Do I make myself clear?!"
"Y-Yeah dude, uh, I-I mean, Master Chief." DJ corrected not so swiftly, but Chef took it and continued with the rules,
"Rule number two. When you are ready to quit like the baby you truly are, you are to walk to the end of the dock and ring the bell. Which brings me to rule number three, we need to have at least one quitter by the end of the first day. That day will not end until someone has dropped out." Chef stopped, turning to stand in front of the group once more before shouting,
"What are ya'll waiting for? Get down to the beach front right now!" The group began screaming a started sprinting towards the beach as Chef had said, rushing right past him.
DJ Confessional
"Who decided it was a good idea to put him in charge? I can handle Chris and his torture, but Chef is just so loud and demanding and scary. If he gets in my face again I just might wet myself, I can't handle that kind of confrontation. It's not like I don't have a backbone, it's that I'm scared of it breaking, that's all."
"Listen here," Chef began again, this time with two canoes that looked similar to the ones used in the previous challenge and the teenagers in front of him on the sandy beach, "Each team must hold a canoe over their heads. I catch you taking both of your hands off the canoe and you will be eliminated. And no one eats lunch until someone drops out." Chef snickered dastardly, "Canoes up!" He ordered; watching the teams come over and raise their canoes together.
"This is too easy." Eva grunted with her hands firmly gripped on the canoe.
"I can barely reach the canoe, lower it guys!" Beth moaned as she stood on her toes to even touch the boat. In an attempt to compensate for her short height, the team bent their knees to lower the raft so Beth could actually grab it despite Heather's complaints.
"When our knees give out from being crouched like this and we lose, we can all thank you Beth." Heather sneered, making Beth feel bad and hang her head. The whole group remained still for about an hour in silence after Heather's words, as they were too focused on their own actions rather than what everyone else was doing. Everyone was focused on the same thing though, their arms. Well, almost everyone. Eva only had one hand on the canoe as she focused on lifting a weight with the other.
"Dang girl, don't you feel any stress?" Chef asked, astonished by Eva's actions.
"No, why would I?" She responded blandly, continuing to pump iron.
Bridgette Confessional
"I don't know how Eva does it. She has the durability of three grown men and the strength of four. I look up to her in that aspect, she sure doesn't quit easily. If Eva has the power to stick it out through this challenge, I do too. Losing all feeling in my arms is only one obstacle in my way! I just wish I could open doors." She mentioned, using her foot to try and kick the confessional door open with no luck.
Chef let the subject drop and watched the group for about two more hours and their shaky arms until speaking up again,
"Come on you sissies, it's only been three hours." Chef taunted, prompting the campers to release their raft.
"I guess they miss lunch today then." Chris smiled, approaching the teenagers from seemingly out of nowhere.
"Maybe they just weren't hungry enough." Chef decided, grabbing a few large rocks and placing them a top both of the canoes to increase the amount of weight they were carrying.
"Oh Chris, what a relief, I thought you were dead. Did you come to take over the challenge?" Bridgette asked optimistically, hoping the host would save them from this torture.
"Nope, just here to watch all the fun," Chris snickered, "Keep doing what you're doing, don't mind me."
"Any of you ready to quit now?"
"I don't think I can do this anymore." Justin moaned, his lifeless arms releasing the canoe and drooping to his side. "I can't even feel my arms." He groaned, slowly strolling over through the sand and toward the quitting bell.
"Looks like we have our first quitter." Chef announced, everyone turning their heads to watch the teenage male.
"Don't do it Justin!" Beth called, "You can't afford to quit now!"
"I have to; my gorgeous body can't take this punishment anymore. My arms make me more money then this show ever will." Justin made it to the bell and limply swung his body so his hand would slap the bell with his limited movement in it. The bell chimed and the Gopher team felt their arms become weak with defeat and proceeded to drop the canoe on themselves; the Bass happily chucking the watercraft to the side off of their heads. Chef approached him from behind, putting a comforting hand on his shoulder,
"Don't worry soldier, you have nothing to be ashamed about."
"Really?" Justin questioned confidently.
"Except being a little wimp baby that let your team down. You're to go with Chris to the loser area where all of the other drop outs will be heading when they quit. The rest of you, head to the mess hall for your grub. I think you'll really like it." He sneered, the rest of the campers exchanging worried glances.
The campers now stood in the mess hall with a pile of garbage cans in front of them and Chef in front of the door.
"You've got ten minutes to eat before we resume your training into the night." The contestants groaned but stopped after looking around the room and finding nothing edible.
"Hey, where's the food?" Noah asked, fearing the answer was what he thought it was.
"You're looking right at it." Chef laughed, watching Noah walk up and pull a lid off of one of the cans. He jumped back and gagged,
"Ugh, you don't expect us to eat that do you? Isn't that in some kind of violation of our contracts? We have to be fed proper meals."
"Are you kidding me? When you're in the army, you take what food you can get. I remember having to eat dirt one-" Chef stopped when Noah chimed in again,
"Alright," Noah interrupted, not wanting to hear the rest of the story, "I get it. Whatever, I'm not eating this." He feigned, dropping his tray.
"Me neither, I'd rather starve then eat this crap." Heather agreed, also tossing her tray on the ground.
"Are you guys sure?" Beth asked, heading over to a garbage can and sticking her head in; pulling out a half eaten banana. "It's not that bad." Heather covered her mouth to prevent herself from barfing and Katie gagged slightly.
"This stuff is so gross, I can't eat this; I'll barf all over the place."
"You sure?" DJ asked, offering the girl the best item he could find in the garbage can; a still whole slightly unwrapped granola bar, "You might not get another chance to eat knowing Chef. Keep up your strength right?" Katie took a second to contemplate her choice before happily accepting the bar.
"Yeah, thanks DJ. I can't wait for us to hang out later," Katie finished, about to walk away when she remembered something, "Oh, and don't let Chef scare you. He might seem big and scary but he can't really do any harm. Remember, it's all for a hundred thousand dollars." She calmed, hoping DJ could forget about his fear of the scary looking cook. Meanwhile, Duncan rummaged through a trash can looking for something remotely edible. He kicked the bin when he found nothing he could eat and heard a small laugh come from behind him. Turning; he spotted Noah standing confidently in front of him.
"I'm surprised you haven't even tried to defy Chef. Isn't that what your all about, breaking the rules and stuff?" Noah asked uninterestingly. Duncan laughed a little bit and shoved his hands in his pockets to avoid fumbling with them,
"Yeah, well, I actually thought I'd try to keep my defiance at a minimum today. I'm not in the mood today."
"Duncan's gone soft?" Noah exclaimed quietly so not everyone heard him, "I never thought I'd see the day."
"I'm just trying to get through this challenge and avoid any confrontation. Listen, don't tell anyone I said this or anything, but I'm sort of homesick and I don't feel too well. Even if my parents ship me off to juvy almost every day, I still miss them. I'd appreciate it if you could keep quiet about it." Noah actually took a step back from surprise at the sudden honesty and nodded,
"Sure, I guess I can do that." Noah paused to stare at Duncan for a second before speaking again, "Thanks for telling me, though I guess you had to tell someone." Duncan's cheeks uncharacteristically turned pink as he watched the smaller male walk away from the garbage cans, rejoining his team.
"What the heck was that?" Eva questioned; approaching the male who instantly snapped out of the daze he was in.
"Nothing," He responded fiercely, "What do you care?"
"I can appreciate you and the little playmate getting along, but you're going soft. Let's face it though, if you want to win this competition, you have to be tough. Not some little homesick puppy stopping their bully act every time they miss their little pet cat or whatever. Besides, your ferocity has been lacking lately."
"What the hell does that mean? I have not gone soft!" Duncan screamed; happy no one turned to see what he had yelled about.
"Really?" Eva asked skeptically, "Then prove how much of an animal you really are during the next set of training exercises we're gonna go through."
"Fine, whatever." He scoffed, turning away and letting Eva walk away.
DJ Confessional
"I knew I had to trust Katie on this, she knows what she's talking about. She's always given me great advice in the past too. Chef can't hurt me unless I let him. At least, I hope anyway."
Duncan Confessional
"As rude and loud as Eva is, I think she's right. I can't let my stupid feelings get in the way of the game. I also can't take pity on the other team just because Noah's on it, we have to beat them. I'll show Eva how tough I am. You better believe it's gonna get ugly."
Before the campers knew it, they were thrown back outside and were now standing back on the shore of the beach front. Chef had brought along a handheld stereo with him and had set it down on a small wooden table that had randomly been placed there. After placing the stereo down, he turned around and walked up to a somewhat large wooden stage of sorts that had also sort of randomly appeared there and proceeded to shout,
"Listen up you little babies! Your next challenge is to dance."
"Really, that's all?" DJ asked, interrupting Chef, "Well that's not so hard…" He trailed off when Chef began screaming his head off again,
"You think this is gonna' be easy? I assure you you're sadly mistaken. You will be following every single dance step I perform exactly as I do it. If I see one step out of place or you stop dancing, you'll be eliminated, have I made myself clear?" The campers all nodded in unison, satisfying Chef as he walked over to the stereo and pressed the play button on the machine. Running back up to the stage, he began doing a pelvic thrust type of dance move. The campers just stood still and stared up at him with wide eyes; mostly in disgust from their current sight. They were snapped out of their gaze when Chef snapped,
"Get dancing you weaklings!" All at once, the campers lined up in three rows and began copying the angry cook's moves exactly. He eventually stopped the pelvic thrust and kicked up his pace; throwing in several other moves along with the one he was just doing. The whole group was now doing a type of dance that closely resembled Thriller by Michael Jackson; even the music was similar.
"How much longer are we going to this?" Heather moaned as she shook her legs in the same fashion as Chef.
"Getting tired? Don't worry, as soon as one of you babies drops out it'll be over," He snickered, causing the campers to groan.
"Nice moves Duncan." Eva taunted and slightly gagged as she watched Duncan shake his butt back and forth in her face.
"Just showing how fierce I am." He rolled his eyes and stomped his foot several times; mimicking Chef.
"Oh yeah, this is really intense," She commented sarcastically, "Maybe next we'll get to wear tutu's and masquerade around the camp." Duncan gave a small 'hmph' and continued watching Chef as Eva craned her neck away from the male and over to Bridgette, who was beside her, "Is this lame or what?"
"Oh, uh, yeah," Bridgette huffed in between hops as she was now jumping along with everyone else, "But, I uh, don't think we're going to stop anytime soon. I won't as long as you don't, okay?" She vowed, Eva nodding in approval.
"You can bet I won't be out for a while."
Just as Chef promised, several hours went by as the group continued dancing without a break. Almost everyone; with the exception of Eva, had now slowed their movement and motion as they followed Chef. Sloppy, slow, out of place, and poorly timed were all words that could be used to describe their current activity. Angry and annoyed, Heather stopped dancing and walked up to the table; pounding her foot into the small stereo and knocking it off the table and smashing into pieces on the ground.
"Is that a quitter I see?" Chef commented as he stopped dancing; the campers collapsing in relief.
"Yes, I am done with this whole lame challenge." Heather turned to stare at the remaining members of her team, "Win this dumb boot camp challenge and you'll earn my respect, it's the least you can do."
"What is she talking about?" Beth whispered as she leaned over to Noah who just shrugged his shoulders and shook his head.
"Now that we have a drop out, I want all of you to report to the mess hall in five minutes for your first challenge in night training."
"Are you kidding me?" Duncan snapped, "Now we have to go through night training? Is this some kind of joke? Listen Chef dude, I need my sleep."
"Duncan, what are you doing?" Katie asked as she tried to calm the male.
"Yeah man, just take a deep breath." DJ added in as Chef pushed past him to face the green haired teenager.
"You'll sleep when I tell you to sleep, is that clear?" He boomed. Duncan took a moment to glance at his team giving him concerned looks and sighed, uttering,
"Yes Master Cheif, I'll follow your orders."
"Good, now all of you get out of my sight!" The campers scattered away, leaving just Duncan and Eva. Eva approached him and commented,
"Good job keeping calm."
"Showing how fierce I am. I think you need to take your own advice scary woman, you're constantly raging at everything. Take a chill pill."
"For your next challenge, you will complete a three-hundred word essay about how much you love me," Chef explained with the two teams situated at the tables in front of him, "Anyone who falls asleep or fails to complete the challenge will be eliminated." The word rolled off his tongue as he began handing out the pieces of paper and pencils the campers were to use in their essay. With those words, the campers began writing down every thought about Chef they had and twisting it so they actually had something pleasant to say about him. Eva however, was writing exactly how she felt about Chef with excruciating details; even commenting on his ingrown toenail she somehow found out he had.
"Are you sure you should be doing that?" Bridgette whispered as she leaned over and read the tough girl's paper.
"Relax, it's not like I'm breaking the rules or anything." Eva feigned, finishing up her essay, "I'm just twisting them to fix my needs." Bridgette gave her friend a concerned look before mumbling back,
"I sure hope you know what you're doing."
Eva Confessional
"It's about time someone stuck it to Chef. Duncan's too much of a softie now to even talk back. Well I'm about to show him how a real pro handles it. I get why Bridgette's concerned, but she shouldn't be. I'm the one who got Geoff voted off after all, my plan's pretty solid."
"Pencils down!" Were the words that echoed through the room while the sounds of pencils being dropped sounded past the echo.
"Ugh, I can't feel my arms." Katie moaned as she slapped her arms up on the table to let them rest.
"You don't have to time to be sore soldier! Your next training sessions begins in a few minutes!" Chef explained as he grabbed the girls paper off of the table after already collecting the ones from the Gopher table. As he made his way around the table, he stopped upon reaching Eva and reading her essay silently.
"Is there a problem?" She asked sardonically.
"This is not what I asked you to write man-woman."
"That paper is exactly three-hundred words and it's about you. As far as I see it, I've done what I was supposed to."
"Well thanks to your little act right here, you're out!"
"What? You can't do that to me!" Eva screamed, standing up from her seat in defiance.
"Take your teammate with you, she's out too!" Chef snapped, pointing to Sadie as she had fallen asleep and motioned for the two to get out. Eva lifted the limp girl's body over her head and strutted over to the door; kicking it out and storming off with Sadie's body to the loser area Chris had mentioned earlier.
"Oh Eva, I warned her…" Bridgette complained as her friend left the room.
"Gophers, get that crazy chick out of here too, she's out." Chef ordered, referring to Izzy as she had also fallen victim to the boredom of writing an essay. "Now for the rest of you! Prepare yourself for an obstacle course that will test your endurance, mind, and stamina. Get out now and report back here in five minutes!"
Bridgette Confessional
"Eva! Our strongest teammate is gone! How are we going to win now? Her and I were supposed to stick together and not drop out. I don't know if I can do this without some kind of support or anything. This is going to be really tough, wow."
Duncan Confessional
"Eva's gone now, so there's nothing to prove. That sure was short; I didn't think it'd be so easy. Still, I better show the other members of my team how great I am at completing challenges."
Beth Confessional
"Oh my gosh, this is like the dodge ball game all over again! Our strongest players are being eliminated and it'll be all up to me to come and rescue the team from a loss! I never thought I'd make it this far in a sports competition let alone something as ruthless as Chef's boot camp. I can totally stick this out if I focus my mindset on winning and not Justin's totally hot body! I swear, he just gets more adorable the more I look at him. I know we're supposed to be friends and all, but he's just so cute."
Following Chef's instructions, the remaining campers now found themselves in front of a wooden, clearly hand-made obstacle course covered in mud.
"You will all run this course until you can all complete it in less than one minute. Once completed, you are to report back to your cabins and get some shut eye," Chef explained, stepping up to come face to face with Duncan, "Am I making myself clear?"
"Of course Master Chief, your orders are always so precise." He responded smugly.
"Kissing up to the coach? That's lame man." DJ commented only to be hushed by Katie.
"Quit your talking and get going!" Chef interrupted, causing the campers to scatter amongst themselves and start the course. It consisted of four seemingly basic but incredibly challenging obstacles. A giant wooden wall, an army crawl under two swinging axes, a jump through a tire ring, and a rope swing across a puddle of mud from one platform to another. The Gophers, with only Cody, Beth, and Noah and the Bass, with only Katie, DJ, Bridgette, and Duncan were pretty much doing the worst run of an obstacle course Chef had ever seen. Everyone was either putting no effort into it or were failing unintentionally, with the exception of Duncan, who was now on his fifth lap through the course while everyone else was still on their first. DJ had fallen over his first attempt to jump the wall, which resulted in him landing right on his face.
"Oh my gosh, are you okay?!" Katie shouted as she rushed over to him.
"Worry about yourself cadet! This is war!" Chef scolded but Katie just shook her head,
"In war, you have to look out for you comrades. You can't just leave them behind, no matter how tough things get."
"Are you defying me?" He snapped, eyes popping.
"To help out my friend, yes." She glared back. Chef stared at her for a few seconds with the same expression before loosening it and nodding his head at the girl,
"Good attitude to have soldier! You never, ever leave a man behind."
"Try telling that to this rag tag team." Noah sarcastically commented as he strolled by the group and into the tire jump.
"Come on DJ, get on up." Katie stated, offering a hand to DJ to help the boy up. Shaking the mud off of his head, he gratefully accepted the hand and hopped back in with the others to try and complete this obstacle course. Duncan picked up his pace to stay ahead of everyone; knocking into both Cody on the Gophers and his own teammate Bridgette and rushing past them.
"Watch where you're going soldier!" Chef responded to Duncan's actions loudly, "It's not a race!"
"What are you doing?" Noah asked as Duncan crawled next to him under the axes swinging dangerously close to his head.
"Just proving how tough I am, that's all. This little obstacle course is perfect for showing my stuff."
"Stuff?" Noah questioned, but Duncan crawled away faster than he could talk and turned his head away to avoid the mud the punk had kicked up. As Noah attempted to move again, he found himself stuck in the mud and unable to budge; slowly sinking in. "Perfect." He complained as he struggled to move. Ahead of him on the rope swing, Beth had leapt forward to grab a rope, only to have it snatched away by Duncan and falling head first into the huge puddle of mud placed between the two platforms.
"Hey, that was mine!" She commented from the mud pit. Duncan shrugged it off and ran the loop back to the front of the course again, eager to run it again.
"I've seen enough! You are out!" Chef ordered at Duncan, much to his disbelief.
"Are you kidding me? You're kidding me right?" Duncan stopped running and instead walked up to come face to face with Chef. "I've followed all of these stupid ass rules to the core and now you're kicking me out because I got a little rough?"
"No, I'm kicking you out because you intentionally harassed your fellow soldiers. Take a note from twin number one over there; she stopped to help out her teammate." Chef surprisingly complimented; Duncan turning to Katie to see her wave happily. The teenage male scoffed and walked away, muttering,
"You'll get it for this."
"Now, the rest of you can quit running the course! You're time is up. Go to bed and get some shut eye, I'll expect you in front of the mess hall at six o' clock sharp for your final boot camp challenge! Don't be late or you will be eliminated!" He warned, trailing off into the woods.
"DJ, did you hear? We made it to the end of boot camp!" Katie exclaimed. "It's almost over, we almost won!"
"Yeah!" DJ copied her enthusiasm and exchanged a high-five with the girl. "Hey, I just realized something. We hung out pretty much all day today right? I guess this was kind of like our date."
"Date?" Katie laughed, "Right, a date." She laughed again, DJ also smiling. "Well, I'll see you tomorrow. Let's do our best to win for our team!"
"Hey, get a room you two!" Noah called from across the beach as Cody and Beth followed him back to their cabin.
"Ha, come on, we should go." Katie beamed. DJ nodded and skipped along behind the girl as they made their way back to the cabin.
DJ Confessional
"I don't think anyone knows this yet, but I really dig Katie. She's funny and cool and she's always stood up for me; helped me become a braver person. She's a really great person. I might even have a little crush on her, but don't tell her I said anything."
As the remaining six members headed back for the cabin, the six drop-outs all stood on the porches of those cabins anxiously; waiting for their teammate's arrival.
"Welcome back you guys!" Sadie greeted as her team stepped up to the doors of the two rooms and quickly closed them as they stepped inside. "Maybe they're tired?" Sadie proposed as Eva shrugged and followed after Bridgette and Katie inside the cabin. Meanwhile, the remaining Gopher campers exchanged smiles and high-fives with those who had dropped out.
"You guys are sure to smoke them tomorrow!" Justin encouraged while Heather just filed her nails,
"Yeah, you guys better win this. Oh, and Beth, try not to fail too hard tomorrow." Heather teased, "I know how hard it must be for someone of your skills to keep up with everyone else."
"No, I can keep up with everyone just fine. I can help our team with this challenge too, I've lasted longer than you! You're just seeking some attention from someone and guess what; you're not getting it from me." Beth stomped much to everyone's surprise.
"Whatever you little rodent, you're about to be flattened like road kill." Heather threatened as she sliced a finger along her neck and stormed inside her cabin.
"Harsh?" Justin asked and watched the rest of his team ignore him and walk into their cabins. "Was it something I said?"
Beth Confessional
"Why does Heather hate me so much? It's like she wants to torture all of us and make our lives miserable but it's like she tries to go out of her way to make me feel bad. I think it's because she's an attention whore but you didn't hear it from me."
It was officially six o' clock that morning and the campers were already being thrown into their final challenge; not even having a chance to eat whatever gross breakfast had been prepared for them. Chef had dragged everyone from both teams into the forest and then made the six remaining campers climb up one of the tallest trees there and grab one of the two tree branches with their legs; telling them to hang upside as long as they possibly could.
"Is this safe? I'm sure there's some kind of legal action or something that could be filed here." Bridgette stated but Chef just laughed,
"You want to win that hundred thousand dollars? Then shut your trap."
"Er, yes Grand Master Chief."
"What you are experiencing now is an ancient form of torture. Soon all of the blood will be rushing to your. You will experience dizzyness, fainting, and even possible death, so dropout before that happens." The campers remained upside for about fifteen minutes without movement, letting their lifeless bodies dangle off of the two tree branches. There wasn't much movement until Cody suddenly dropped lifelessly to the ground below, head snapping upright upon the landing. Duncan snickered from across the ground,
"Don't you just it when that happens?" Receiving a few angry glares for the comment.
"That's it; I'm not risking my life or possibly my spine for this challenge." Noah stated, forfeiting his position on the tree and dropping out; carefully letting go of the tree so nothing bad would happen to him when he landed.
"Damn, we're about to lose." Heather scorned quietly. She grabbed Justin's arm and whispered in his ear, "Follow me." She commanded and pulled him into the nearby bushes behind the large tree the campers were on.
"What are we doing Heather?" Justin asked, but Heather just shushed him.
"We're about to ensure our team's victory. Grab some rocks and then I'll show you." Heather ordered. Justin did as he was told and collected four or five medium sized rocks that probably wouldn't do permanent damage if you threw it. Probably.
"Now watch this." Heather tossed one of the rocks right at Katie's back, causing the girl to yelp in pain and fall straight out of the tree.
"Katie are you okay?!" Sadie screeched; standing with the rest of the drop-outs.
"Weak man, that's weak." Duncan commented again, this time getting a nod from Eva and then turning to glare at Katie for letting go for no good reason.
"Something hit my back I swear! It felt like a jagged rock or something…" She trailed off; looking around for the source of whatever it was that had hit her. Almost instantly, Heather chucked another rock at the Bass team, this time hitting Bridgette in the back. She flinched, but didn't release her hold.
"Master Chief, there's someone hurling rocks at us. I think the Gophers are cheating." Bridgette deduced bluntly and out in the open. Chef looked around at the Gopher team and noticed two of their members were in fact missing.
"Let me go check this out." Chef began walking toward the spot Heather and Justin were currently squatting in. Heather bit her tongue and leaned over to Justin, mouthing the words, 'Follow my lead.' Just as Chef peered his head over the bushes where the two teens were, Heather rushed forward and locked lips with Justin, much to both his and the cook's surprise. A little bit shocked, Chef stumbled back out to the other campers.
"Did you catch them cheating?" Bridgette asked curiously.
"I caught them doing something alright." He confessed, still a little unsure of what had just happened.
"Were they kissing? Heather was kissing my man?!" Beth yelled as more blood rushed to her head, "I knew there was a reason I didn't like her!"
"I'm not your man!" Justin called randomly from the bushes as the two then proceeded to step forward out of the shrubs and rejoin the drop-outs of their team. Everyone stared at them a bit awkwardly until Heather stared back menacingly, causing everyone else to turn back to Beth, Bridgette, and DJ who were still hanging from the tree. They wouldn't be there for long anyway. Bridgette decided to quit to get the pain the rock had caused on her back checked out, which just left DJ and Beth.
"DJ, you can do this! You made it to the end; you're really brave!" Katie called from below, making DJ smile.
"Thanks Katie, I rea-" Was all DJ could say, because it turned out talking was a really bad idea for him. All of the blood that had rushed to his head had started a massive headache the minute he spoke and he couldn't focus on anything anymore. Within a few seconds, DJ fell to the ground; his limp body hitting the earth with a thud.
"The Gophers have won the challenge!" Chef chanted from his position on a patch of grass as Beth released her hold on the branch and jumped to the ground; her team coming over to her and hoisting her on their shoulders.
"I hope you know what I did for you." Heather muttered, checking her nails for any dirt. Beth just ignored the rude female and allowed her team to run off with her on their shoulders.
"Nice work soldier! I'd go to war with you any day Beth! Any day…" He trailed off, lost in thought. Collecting himself, he turned to face the defeated Bass team and talk, "You guys are the losers. It's time to vote someone off."
"I only have five marshmallows on this plate." Chris began as he usually did, "And these marshmallows represent the campers that will continue to be…campers, on this show. You've all cast your votes in the confession cam; if I do not call your name, you must immediately go down to the Dock of Shame, catch the Boat of Losers, and go home. You also can't come back, ever." Chris cut the crap tonight and just got right to the name calling, uttering the first name;
"Eva." The athletic female smirked and strutted up to Chris to grab her marshmallow.
"DJ."
"Yeah, thanks you guys!" He exclaimed and rushed forward to claim his snack.
"Bridgette." Bridgette smiled and snatched her marshmallow off of Chris' tray; exchanging a fist-bump with Eva.
"Sadie." Sadie gulped and nervously walked forward for her marshmallow, staring down at Katie who hadn't gotten one yet. Katie winked at Sadie confidently, somehow knowing she wouldn't be eliminated.
"Duncan, Katie, this is the final marshmallow of the evening. It goes to..." The host trailed off, pausing for suspense. After staring back and forth at each for a few weird seconds and Chris applying more hairspray to his hair, he finally uttered the name,
"Duncan." Duncan sprang up and grabbed the last marshmallow, much to the disbelief of his team.
"You guys voted me off?" Katie asked in shock.
"What were you guys thinking! Katie's like the best member of our team!" Sadie cried, rushing over to hug her best friend.
"This is messed up yo." DJ frowned.
"I guess that's just the way the dice fall. Sorry sweetie, it's time to go." Duncan rushed, hoping they could get this whole ceremony over with.
"I'm gonna miss you guys! Sadie, win this game!" Katie cried and shared a hug with both DJ and Sadie before sadly walking down the Dock of Shame; with everyone on her team except Duncan waving goodbye.
"Enjoy your safety while it lasts, you're all safe for another challenge." Chris uttered, stepping away from the bonfire pit and off into the shadows.
Sadie Confessional
"What the heck happened? There is no way our team would vote off Katie, she's like too perfect and stuff! Poor DJ, he told me about his feelings for her. My bestie's gone!"
DJ Confessional
"There's a rotten fish in the air if you get what I'm sayin'. Katie helped me get over my fear of Chef, heck, I was the final person in the challenge thanks to her. Girl didn't deserve to get voted off like that."
Duncan Confessional
"Listen you guys, I didn't want to have to eliminate Katie. Let's face it though, it was me or her. I had to pull that old trick used for Courtney's elimination, but it all worked out in the end for me anyway. Maybe next time I won't be unfairly kicked out of boot-camps."
Elimination Count; Leshawna, Harold, Tyler, Lindsay, Owen, Ezekiel, Gwen, Trent, Courtney, Geoff, Katie