Chapter 24: Rattlesnake Search
It was finally Chris McLean's turn to give a recap to the audience.
Chris McLean's Commentary:
Last time on Camp Drama Showdown, two newcomers were to join the Silver Spurs, Buford and Baljeet! Which was strange because I intended to have Candace and Jeremy in their place, whatever, anyway things worked out great anyway.
Buford showed off what he could do in the mine shaft race by being the master of the switches and dooming four teams to never be able to cross the finish line. While the surviving teams managed to make it and receive immunity with the Silver Spurs. In the end, it was another quad elimination round, where Hoogie, Billy, Jack and Mister Mittens all were voted off! So what kind of tricks does Buford have up his sleeve? Find out here on Camp Drama Showdown!
End of Commentary.
Another late night for the remaining contestants, a certain Riley Freeman was up with his brother Huey trying to convince him to help spy on Ember and Young Blood.
"Listen, those two are up to no good" said Riley.
"Who told you that, that ghost Cotton?" asked Huey.
"Yeah, he ran into them" said Riley.
"I'd see it when I believe it" said Huey.
"I'm getting the others to have a little stakeout" continued Riley.
"Whatever" said Huey.
But as Riley was doing that, Ember along with Young Blood were typically going to cause trouble as they were carrying several crates of rattlesnakes.
"These snakes creep me out" said Young Blood.
"Hey, they won't hurt us, because we're already ghosts, you shouldn't fear them" said Ember.
"Yeah, I know that, but the way they rattle that rattle" said Young Blood, "it still creeps me out."
"Whatever" said Ember as they opened up the crates, "time for these rattlesnakes to start owning the town."
"What about these crates of rats and prairie dogs?" asked Young Blood, "Shouldn't we let them out too so that the rattlesnakes can spread out in search of their pray?"
"That would make sense" said Ember as she then prompted to do just that.
After letting out all the rats and the prairie dogs from their crates, Young Blood cringed as one of the rattlesnakes was able to find its meal on targeting a poor rat.
Confessions in the Outhouse:
"Man, the things that I do to please Vlad and Ember" said Young Blood to which Young Blood screamed as a rattlesnake surprised him on camera.
"Worth it" laughed Ember.
End of Confessions.
As the contestants started to wakeup as morning came, everyone was surprised and shocked, Nazz came out screaming from her team's cabin as rats and prairie dogs had occupied it.
Confessions in the Outhouse:
"Yuck, yuck, yuck!" cried Nazz as she couldn't get the rat feeling off of her.
"This one's kind of cute" said June as she was holding up a prairie dog to the camera.
"Wish I can keep it as a pet" said Ray Ray who also was holding a prairie dog.
End of Confessions.
"Great just what we need" said Colonel Barnes as he noticed the bunch of rodents were swarming around.
"Well, they did our job for us" laughed Chef referring to the rodent wakeup call for the contestants.
"What's with all of these prairie dogs and rats?" cried Cindy as she was well aware of the infestation.
"We'll have an emergency meeting with Chris and Blaineley pretty soon" continued Chef.
"I've never seen anything like this before" said Hank as he continued to gather the prairie dogs up with John Redcorn doing the same with the rats.
"I'm surprised they don't have a major predator here" said John Redcorn.
"And just what might that be?" asked Libby.
"Well, for starters, snakes like to eat these little critters, also hawks and other animals" continued Hank.
Indeed, Chris and Blaineley did come to the scene with their new advisers not being happy with the infestation either.
"Just what kind of reality show are you two running here?" asked M. Bison.
"Yeah" added Juri.
"Hey, relax, we're on it" continued Chris.
"Snakes!" cried DJ who came running out screaming for his life as some rattlesnakes were following him to which he hid behind M. Bison like a coward.
"And there's their main predators" laughed Chris.
"Alright Chris, just what the heck is going on?" roared Cindy to Chris.
"Hmm, I think I got a good challenge for them" said Blaineley, "why not have the contestants gather up the snakes?"
"You're kidding right?" asked Jimmy.
"Nope, actually a rattlesnake is perfect for a Western theme!" continued Chris, "While I'll leave the staff take care of cleaning up the rodents, you can take care of rounding up the snakes, the team that has the most snakes wins immunity!"
"Just what the heck are we going to catch the snakes with?" asked Danielle.
"You figure that one out" laughed Chris.
The infestation of snakes was just as bad as their rodent pray counterparts whom were mostly everywhere. Thanks to Ember and Young Blood, they caused quite a bit of chaos for the contestants. Rose decided to use her alliance to help Teams Raging Bulls, Wild Stallions, the Blazing Saddles, her team the Spinning Six and also the Racing Rangers.
"Alright, I think we should do this cleanup by the book" continued Rose.
"Since when did you become in charge of this operation?" asked Mandy who wasn't happy with Rose taking charge, "I got my own methods in getting these snakes for my team."
"But Mandy" said Cleveland Jr., "she just wants to make things easier for all of us."
"Listen pal, I don't care if you like that girl Trixie on the Spinning Six, I am NOT going to let someone else tell me what to do" said Mandy.
"Fine, I'll let your team go" said Rose, "but if your team doesn't win, I hope they remember who to vote off."
As Mandy forced her teammates to go her way, Cleveland Jr. wasn't the only one not happy about this but also Danielle and Hiro.
Confessions in the Saloon:
"If she thinks of using this poor little guy as bait, I'm not doing it" said Danielle as she held up a prairie dog to the camera.
"Man, that Mandy is being so unfair" said Hiro, "how the heck can Billy stand her?"
"I was just offering advice for her" said Cleveland Jr.
"NO ONE tells me what to do, got it?" asked Mandy to the camera.
End of Confessions.
Rose indeed had everything worked out, Marc along with Jake brought a large dumpster they borrowed from the Saloon.
"We can put the snakes in here" said Jake.
"Do we have to touch them?" asked Nazz who hated snakes as much as she hated rats.
"Yeah" added Molly who still wasn't over her fear of snakes either.
"Oh come on, it's so easy!" said Rose.
Rose had borrowed a piece of meat from the Saloon and had provided a trap for the snake, the snake took the meat and unleashed the trap to which the snake was then dumped into the dumpster where the lid was then closed. Nazz still wasn't sure about it and neither Molly, both the Raging Bulls and the Racing Rangers were assigned to one area by Rose to find snakes. A certain Paco, however was busy meeting up with Chef who also wanted to help his team and himself.
"Listen" said Chef, "I've heard your problems with that Jade girl in liking that Nick guy from the Wild Stallions."
"You think I can win her back?" asked Paco.
"Not sure, but if you give me a good chunk of the reward money, that will be enough for her to come back to you" said Chef.
Confessions in the Outhouse:
"An alliance with Chef, sounds risky, but anything that'd get Jade to like me and dump that jerk is worth it" said Paco.
"Works every time" laughed Chef.
End of Confessions.
Chef indeed decided to help out Paco and his team, he was well prepared to scare the snakes into the trap with his knowledge of cooking snakes in a recipe.
"I got a plan that'd help your team win" said Chef to Paco, "just lead me to where the snakes are."
As Paco and his team found a group of snakes that were slivering about, Nazz was pretty much afraid of the snakes and Dukey who could catch one snake couldn't catch them all. Ray Ray was afraid of June's strength was going to hurt the snakes. Chef then surprised the snakes with a large knife and a recipe book on how to cook snakes.
"You snakes would taste just as good as chicken!" laughed Chef to which the snakes spotted the book and ran off to the dumpster that Rose had setup.
Confessions in the Outhouse:
"That was kind of mean, but probably worth it" said June.
"And I had thoughts that June's strength might do harm, but this is emotional harm to the snakes" said Ray Ray.
End of Confessions.
As for the Raging Bulls whom were in the same area, Johnny who was trying to grab a snake by the tail was trying to get Molly to help him.
"Help me get this snake!" cried Johnny.
"There's no way I'm touching it!" said Molly.
"Just get the snake!" said Abigail as she caught one herself in a trap.
Molly indeed sadly refused to which Sissy had to help out Johnny with the snake. The Raging Bulls indeed were on the losing streak, but not as much as the Blazing Saddles nor the Blinding Bandits were.
"We're getting nowhere fast" said Danielle, "Rose's alliance is taking most of the snakes!"
"Listen, we're going to find more snakes" said Mandy.
"Found the last one" laughed Danny as he took the snake while he was invisible, "the snake won't hurt me while I'm like this!"
"Hey, that snake's floating!" said Twister who was unaware of Danny was the one holding the snake.
Twister wanted to try to get the snake for his team, but the snake ended up biting poor Twister.
"Quick, call help!" cried Reggie.
Help indeed arrived as Justin a Total Drama alumni member ended up getting medical qualifications to help Twister with first aid. Finally the challenge was over, and it was quite the obvious the Spinning Six got the most snakes with other teams in Rose's alliance also receiving immunity.
"Wow, that's team work" said Chris, "this place is nearly spotless, although I could keep one of these snakes as a pet."
"I wonder who didn't make it" said Blaineley.
"It seems the Blazing Saddles and the Blinding Bandits" said Chris, "even Ben with all of his alien powers couldn't be compared to the teamwork that Rose and her alliance did. So yeah, I'll be seeing those two teams at the camp fire."
It was about a few hours later that the Blazing Saddles and the Blinding Bandits found themselves at the camp fire ceremony. The contestants who didn't receive a golden wrapped chocolate horseshoe for the Blazing Saddles were Mandy and Danielle, for the Blinding Bandits it were Twister and Ben.
"Mandy, you could have gotten your team immunity if you gone along with Rose and her multi-team alliance" continued Chris, "Danielle, you added more tension with Mandy along with your boy Hiro and also your friend Cleveland Jr."
"Twister you got bitten by a snake" said Blaineley, "Ben, you didn't improvise with your alien powers."
"Last golden wrapped chocolate horseshoe for the night goes to" said both Chris and Blaineley as they were waiting for the dramatic pause, "Danielle and Ben."
"Bye, bye Mandy" laughed Troy as he watched the ceremony.
Mandy then ended up slugging poor Troy before Chef along with Colonel Barnes subdued her to take her onto the Carriage of Shame with Twister still injured stepping onto the Carriage of Shame as well.
"About time you came" said Grim as he started the Carriage of Shame heading into the sunset.
Confessions in the Saloon:
"Aw, there is nothing more to have another celebration" laughed Troy who had his party hat back on celebrating Mandy being voted off, "now just how to get revenge on June and that robot girl is sadly for another day."
End of Confessions.
But as the Carriage of Shame was heading off, the camera switched to the Mayor's mansion where Riley was spying on Ember and Young Blood with a recording device planted in the Mayor's office.
"Man, that was so easy!" laughed Young Blood, "We should be the ones determining the challenges!"
"You got that right kid" said Ember, "putting Buford onto the Silver Spurs was an easy task. I wonder what we can get out of Troy now that Mandy is gone."
Riley who had the recording with him played it to Huey, Jazmine, Bobby and Joseph who listened to the recording.
Confessions in the Outhouse:
"Those two are going down" said Riley.
"I don't believe it!" cried Bobby.
"Man, I hope my dad isn't involved with them!" cried Joseph.
"This is going to be fun" said Huey.
"Let's see how they like it" said Jazmine
End of Confessions.
Chris who was reviewing the confessions and also the security footage of Ember and Young Blood was quite impressed.
"Well now, isn't this quite the obvious? Sounds like Ember and Young Blood were unofficially promoting a challenge for our contestants that got Mandy voted off!" said Chris, "Will Troy make an alliance with the two like Buford? And will Riley and the others find a way to stop this unholy dastardly alliance? Find out next time here on Camp Drama Showdown!"