Chapter 19: Tale of the Talismans
Once more it was Chris McLean's turn to give a recap to the audience.
Chris McLean's Commentary:
Last time on Camp Drama Showdown, it was a chain gang theme for our contestants. Instead of them hunting down prisoners who had become fugitives, they were the ones on the lamb! We brought in old Walker to help us out with the challenge, and his henchmen as well!
Some made it out, others like those of the Chanting Cherokees and the Spinning Six sadly did not. In the end, the ones that dragged on the most had to say hello to the Carriage of Shame. So who'll be voted off today? Find out here on Camp Drama Showdown!
End of Commentary.
A certain Vlad Masters was indeed up late at night, as Duncan left his shift to keep watch on the trio of prisoners in their cells, the corrupt Mayor made a visit with Ember and Young Blood beside him.
"This better be worth it" said Alejandro.
"Get us out of here!" cried Courtney.
"Oh, I can see you three do not enjoy being locked up" said Vlad to the trio in the cell.
"For one thing, the food here stinks ten times more than it does at the mess hall" said Heather.
"Ha, losers!" laughed Young Blood.
Young Blood was then smacked in the head by Ember.
"Hey, what did you do that for?" cried Young Blood.
"We need them" said Ember.
"Well, my hands are being tied by the producers, they're searching for a new organization to help fund the show" continued Vlad, "since Lord Voldemort's Death Eaters and the Dark Lord himself have been vanquished."
"Can't you pardon us?" asked Alejandro to Vlad.
"Yeah, yeah, pardon us!" cried Courtney.
"Like I said, I really would like to pardon you three, but I cannot at the moment" said Vlad, "however, I shall think about it at my private office."
Confessions in the Saloon:
"It's tough being Mayor" said Vlad.
"Man, that still hurts!" cried Young Blood referring to Ember smacking him in the back.
End of Confessions.
As Vlad, along with Ember and Young Blood left, they were unaware that a certain ghost of Cotton Hill was indeed spying on the trio.
"Hmm, sounds like trouble" said Cotton as he noticed the three leave the jail, "hmm, I cannot help that Timmy kid, but there might be some others I could warn them about these three."
As Cotton's ghost went off, after several more hours, it was finally morning again, all the contestants that remained in the game got out of their cabins for an important message from Chris and Blaineley.
"So is it another challenge we're going to face?" asked Sissy.
"Not yet" replied Chris, "I'd like to make an announcement, Danny Fenton will be joining the Chanting Cherokees and also Mushi!"
"Yeah, I can become a contestant!" laughed Mushi.
"But Mushi's on another team!" cried Kuki who didn't want to compete with her sister.
Confessions in the Outhouse:
"Great, that's just super, now Danny can spy on me and Hiro all the time" sighed Danielle who was being a bit sarcastic.
"Time to make sure that Toyman doesn't mess with Danielle" said Danny referring about Hiro.
"It's great that Danny's now in the game" said Jazz.
"I hope anyone of us on Chris' Idea Team, including me can get a shot at it" said Tucker.
End of Confessions.
"I also have an announcement" said Blaineley, "I am having Ember and Young Blood join my Idea Team, since it seems that they are being depleted of members, the producers gave me the green light to go forward with it."
Confessions in the Outhouse:
"Yeah, time to kick this into full gear" laughed Ember referring about Edmund's plot.
"She better not smack me like that again" said Young Blood.
"Ember and Young Blood, great, now I will have to worry about them when they're upgraded to contestants" said Danny.
End of Confessions.
After that announcement, everyone headed to the mess hall, Danny was especially becoming overprotective of Danielle who obviously didn't like it. As Danielle and Hiro sat at their team's table, Danny who was sitting at the Chanting Cherokees table gazed at the two from afar.
"You're being a bit paranoid you know that" said Gaz to Danny.
"Oh come on, he's just looking for Danielle" said Mushi.
"I wouldn't like it if someone did that to me, not that I care to have a boyfriend" said Tak.
"Yeah, me neither, Danny, you should at least respect Danielle's right to privacy" said Libby.
"Look, I've done research on the Toyman trademark, it's not a good one" continued Danny.
"Hey, maybe Toyman is actually a good trademark now with Hiro" said Libby, "ever think about that?"
"You're just saying that because someone else on another team likes you" said Danny.
But as the Chanting Cherokees were having their own problem, Wally was still bringing down the Raging Bulls, this time he pushed Molly right down as she then fell flat on her face right in her food made by Chef.
Confessions in the Outhouse:
"Yuck, yuck, yuck!" cried Molly who was still getting the food off of her, "That Wally's going to pay for this!"
"What's his deal?" cried Sissy who witnessed the scene.
"That is sadly going too far" said Johnny.
End of Confessions.
As Molly continued to clean herself up a bit, Sissy decided to have a private talk with Molly, girl to girl.
"Listen" said Sissy as she helped clean up Molly, "let's band together against Wally for good."
"How the heck are we going to do that?" asked Molly who finally finished cleaning herself up.
"We'll lose the next challenge on purpose, by making the others think Wally is the one who is delaying everyone to victory" continued Sissy.
"Sounds like a plan to me" said Molly.
Things were just as bad for the Spinning Six and the Wild Stallions which Cree was trying to pin the Wild Stallions to use peer pressure against Jake to ensure he wouldn't defend his girlfriend that much.
"Come on, Rose is a nice girl" said Jake.
"Nice, nice?" cried Cree, "Listen to me pal, you're girlfriend is making alliances with members of other teams, and I DO NOT LIKE IT!"
"Alright, enough" said Nick who felt to defend Jake since he himself as well was in a relationship with another member of another team.
"So, you want in on the defense of Rose, fine!" said Cree to both Nick and Jake to which she turned to Eddy, Double D, Rachel and Chris Griffin, "What do you four have to say about these two traitors?"
"Hey, you should follow my plan in turning Rose's team against her, not destroying ours" said Rachel.
Confessions in the Saloon:
"Man, what's her problem?" cried Chris Griffin referring to Cree.
"Cree is such a witch!" said Rose who was overhearing Cree's whining and wailing about her.
"There must be a way for me to exploit it, but, ah ha!" laughed Eddy who hatched up an idea.
"Calculations of our team surviving with Cree fighting with Rose is not good, not good, not good!" cried Double D as he was indeed doing the calculations on camera with a calculator in hand.
"Ed feels someone needs a hug here" said Ed who could overhear the Wild Stallions getting ruined by Cree.
End of Confessions.
Ed indeed was about to do just that to hug Cree.
"Someone needs a hug, a hug always does something good for Ed" said Ed as he was about to lay one on Cree.
"Come any closer and I'll give you a knuckle sandwich!" roared Cree.
Kevin along with Ben who had changed into Humongosaur managed to stop Cree from getting into a fight with Ed. After that intense moment was defused for the time being, everyone headed out to the town square where Jade's two uncles, Jackie and Uncle were there waiting along with Tohru alongside with Chris and Blaineley.
"So what's today's challenge?" asked Nick.
"A simple scavenger hunt!" laughed Chris, "Each team will go look for a talisman that has the picture of me or Blaineley."
"The team or teams that have the most talismans in their inventory when the challenge" said Blaineley.
"Yes, it took a lot of work for us to spread the talismans around" said Jackie.
"Yes, and Jackie here has experience of finding talismans" said Uncle.
Colonel Barnes who joined on the scene carried a gun filled with blanks, where he then fired into the air signaling the start of the challenge.
"Thank you Colonel" said Chris as everyone headed off.
"Don't mention it" said Colonel Barnes.
The Racing Rangers were indeed on a role, as Jade along with June, Ray Ray, Dukey and Mister Mittens were collecting the talismans left and right as they were finding them all over the place.
"How many are there?" cried June as she couldn't believe they had to use a bag to carry them all.
"Hey Nazz" said Paco who was trying to flirt with Nazz as he managed to grab a talisman in a hard to reach area, "are you impressed with my skills?"
"Er, not really" said Nazz.
Confessions in the Outhouse:
"Man, I just cannot get it with the ladies!" cried Paco who really wanted to flirt with them to get Jade jealous.
"That Paco sure strikes out" laughed Nick who was watching Paco's poor attemps.
End of Confessions.
But Paco wasn't the only one who was trying to impress a girl, Riley who although wasn't in the game as a contestant knew where Jackie and Uncle had placed the talismans. The Blazing Saddles were on a slow start, and Riley figured out he could help the team Megan was on.
"We do not need your help" said Megan who had only found a few talismans.
"Hey, I know where all the talismans are, even the ones that the Racing Rangers didn't get" said Riley.
"Why are you helping us?" asked Mandy to Riley.
"Your Mandy right, you don't like to lose, right?" asked Riley.
"Come to think about it, no" replied Mandy.
"So let me help you find your talismans" continued Riley.
"Alright, you, Billy, Zim keep watch to make sure no one spots Riley helping us" said Mandy to Billy and Zim.
Confessions in the Saloon:
"Zim does not take orders!" cried Zim.
"I found a piece of chocolate!" laughed Billy who then tried to chew on a fake talisman that had Chris' picture on it to which his teeth broke trying to bit on it.
"Even though it's nice that Riley's helping me, I do not want to win this way" said Megan.
End of Confessions.
Riley indeed did help gather most of the fake talismans for the Blazing Saddles, but Riley knew in order for the Blazing Saddles to get a special reward they had to out do the Racing Rangers, there was one talisman that was put on the roof of the Saloon by Jackie. Riley climbed up the roof, and managed to find the talisman, before heading back down.
"There, that should be enough" said Riley to Mandy.
"Thanks" said Mandy as she sped off with her team.
As for the other teams, the Silver Spurs brought in only a few talismans, while the Chanting Cherokees also brought the same amount as the Silver Spurs, likewise it was the same for the Blinding Bandits in spite of Ben using various aliens to help out with the search. The Wild Stallions were going nowhere thanks to Cree getting herself nearly in a fight with Rose and members of the Spinning Six. As for the Racing Bulls, Molly and Sissy who pretended to went out and search for talismans found nothing while Wally continued to make rants about the girls behind their backs with poor Abigail and Kuki putting up with it.
"Wow, the Blazing Saddles and the Racing Rangers!" laughed Chris as he examined the talismans of the Blazing Saddles, he noticed one of the fake talismans had bite marks on it, "Hey, whose been eating this?"
"I thought it was wrapped in chocolate" said Billy.
"I think it's time that the Raging Bulls and the Wild Stallions sent someone home, right?" asked Blaineley.
"Yeah, I'll be seeing them at the camp fire" laughed Chris.
It was finally the final moment for Wally, he along with Hoogie were the only ones who didn't receive a golden wrapped chocolate horseshoe along with Cree and Nick. Jade who felt it might be poor Nick's turn decided to watch the elimination ceremony from afar for one last possible goodbye.
"Wally, Wally, Wally, Wally, Wally" said Chris, "you are having trouble with the ladies. Hoogie, you also have been causing tension with your team too."
"Cree, Cree, Cree" laughed Blaineley, "I admire you going after Rose, but your execution sadly needs work, Nick, you got in Cree's way in trying to use peer pressure against Jake."
"Hey, I got a girlfriend on another team too you know" said Nick.
"Last golden wrapped chocolate horseshoe for the day goes to" said both Chris and Blaineley as each were waiting for the dramatic pause, "Hoogie and Nick!"
"Bye, bye Cree, I'll send Rose what just happen" laughed Jake as Cree was heading out.
Before Jake could laugh at Cree even longer, Cree ended up smacking poor Jake to which Colonel Barnes along with Chef, Hank Hill and John Redcorn had to subdue her.
"Let me go!" cried Cree as she was being taken onto the Carriage of Shame as Wally followed her on to which she was forced onto the Carriage of Shame, "This isn't over!"
"Hey, when it's over, it's over" said Grim who started the Carriage of Shame heading out.
But as the scene changed from that of a sunset of the Carriage of Shame, a certain ghost of Cotton Hill was investigating Vlad Masters in his mansion, he was meeting up with Vicky, Eustace and Dale.
"You called Mayor?" asked Dale.
"Yes" said Vlad, "everything is going to plan accordingly, we just need for our friend to join us in the game soon."
"Then we can high tail and get the heck out of here, right?" asked Vicky.
"Depends, if you double cross your partner in crime" said Vlad referring to Edmund.
Cotton soon headed out of the meeting area undetected by Vlad.
"Oh, I better find someone I can warn this about" said Cotton as he headed out.