Reviews:
1602jaw: Yep, it's silly but that's what makes it fun. As for why Goku and Vegeta weren't in it, this was the perfect opportunity for Frank and Raph to be in as one of them knows wrestling moves and the other loves wrestling. The same thing with Mordecai. Plus, I just couldn't get the whole wrestling scene in the Fry Cook games episode out of my head which is why I picked Spongebob.
Ginrai12: Glad you're enjoying the chapters so far and thanks for the review! For me, as long as the chapter's good, it can be any length. In other words, quality over quantity. I won't drag out a chapter if I don't have to.
Teams:
Fighting Lions: Fred Jones, Shaggy & Scooby, Daphne, Velma, Older Ben, Huey, Goku, Joey, Reimu, Ash, Misty, Richie, Virgil, Ryoma, Ed, Eddy, Dipper,Mabel(And Jerry), Raphael, Leshawna, Brandy, Rally, Ippo, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee and Blake Belladonna as a trio), Yang, Sam, Clover and Alex(The Spies Trio), Lindsay,Luz, Anne, Numbuh 3, 4 and 5(KND Trio), and Marty.
Soaring Phoenixes: Adam and Jake, Hawkeye, Jack, Younger Ben, Rigby, Morty, Spongebob, Lance,Edward Falcon, Mordecai, Mandy and Grim, Billy, Marinette, Dan Mandel, Chris Pearson, Dax, Beast Boy and Cyborg, Heather, Peter Parker, Riley, Rick, Gary, Dan Hibiki, Vicky, Dan Kuso, Sokka, Mac and Bloo,Owen , Vert, Homer, Zoey, Mariah, Bridgette and Geoff, and Vegeta.
Eliminated(by order of elimination with overall placement):
1. Noah(Soaring Phoenixes)-Total Drama(76th)
2. Patrick Star(Soaring Phoenixes)-Spongebob Squarepants(75th)
3. Jake Long(Fighting Lions)- American Dragon, Jake Long(74th)
4. Edd(Fighting Lions)- Ed, Edd n Eddy(73rd)
5. Courtney(Soaring Phoenixes)- Total Drama(72nd)
6. Juniper Lee(Soaring Phoenixes)- Life and Times of Juniper Lee(71st)
7. Azula & Ty Lee(Fighting Lions)- Avatar: The Last Airbender(70th)
8. Squidward(Fighting Lions)-Spongebob Squarepants(69th)
9. Beyal & Jinja(Soaring Phoenixes)- Monsuno(68th)
10. Harold (Soaring Phoenixes) -Total Drama(67th)
11. KO (Fighting Lions)-OK K.O. Let's Be Heroes(66th)
12. Izzy (Fighting Lions)- Total Drama(65th/64th)
13. Frank West (Fighting Lions)- Dead Rising(64th/65th)
"Last time on Total Drama Island Multiverse Edition! The contestants had to throw down in the ring with a wrestling challenge. And it was a double header! Thumb wrestling and Sumo Wrestling, despite some people thinking it was going to be good ol' fashion wrestling."
Footage of the Thumb Wrestling Federation commentators Dick Thompson and Colonel Cossack commentating the thumb wrestling matches along with the contestants sumo wrestling and thumb wrestling was seen.
"Along with it being a double header, it was also a double elimination! Velma said that it was the perfect time to capitalize on this opportunity for her team but it was actually the other way around. The Phoenixes capitalized on it, and knocked out two of the Lions in one challenge! Frank and Izzy!"
Footage of Velma in the confessional saying how this double elimination was an opportunity was shown. Afterwards, footage of Frank and Izzy being eliminated was also shown.
"Can the Phoenixes keep it going and knock out five in a row? Or will the Lions bite back and eliminate one of the Phoenixes? Find out on Total… Drama…. Island! Multiverse Edition!"
Begin TDI: MV(Action Version) Intro
Cameras were seen popping up in different places throughout the abandoned film lot.
"Dear Mom and Dad I'm doing fine."
A camera passes through the lot, going through Chris. It also went past Brandy and Clover, who were wearing red sparkling dresses. It also almost hit Dan Mandel and he was not happy, shaking his fist before it went to the prop thousand foot cliff before going down.
Owen, underwater, farted and it caused the shark to cough and descend.
"You guys are on my mind."
Up above a tightrope, Dan Hibiki was kicked off the rope by Izzy.
"You asked me what I wanted to be and now I think the answer is plain to see."
As Dan Hibki laid on the concrete ground in pain after missing the water that Owen was in, from a distance, Shaggy and Scooby were seen rolling along a cart of food, with one of them including pizza, Peter, in his Spider-Man outfit swung and grabbed a slice.
"I wanna be famous!"
As Mac, Bloo, and Kuki were building sand castles on a beach set, Vicky went out of her way to stomp on them, making Kuki cry. Wally saw what was happening and hit her with his S.L.U.G.G.U.H. She turned in anger, but he hit her in the face, knocking her out and some teeth along with it. Kuki hugged him, causing him to blush.
"I wanna live close to the sun. Well pack your bags 'cause I've already won.""
As Heather was doing her makeup in the confessional, she was suddenly scared by Leshawna and Luz who had fake snakes. After seeing her face they hurried back outside the trailer and laughed.
"Everything to prove nothing in my way, I'll get there one day."
In a boxing ring not too far where the two were laughing, Homer and Ippo were boxing. Homer threw a straight punch but Ippo dodged it easily and hit him with an uppercut and then a straight which knocked him out cold. Ippo, thinking that he overdid it went over to Homer to make sure he was okay.
"'Cause I wanna be famous!"
Frank snapped a picture of the fight as Ippo landed the blow to knock Homer down. But he was forced to duck Sokka's boomerang before he could take another.
"Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na!"
Ippo had to duck as well. Sokka shot Ed an upset look before being hit by said boomerang when it came back.
"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!"
Dax snuck up behind Ed and scared him, wearing a yeti head he found causing him to run around and yell, running over Chris and Chef and knocking down all of the gilded Chris awards he had in his hand hand, making Dax himself laugh, only for him to get trampled by Ed when he ran back.
"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!"
Marty and Vert raced past on skateboards to the Aftermath set, arriving just in time and sat with the others.
As the monitor of Chris smiling as he was about to read something was seen, now standing again, Ed ran into the aftermath set and tripped over the table, hitting the overhead monitor and causing it to sway before it showed static a couple of times and then the Total Drama Island: Multiverse Edition logo as it was still swaying.
End Intro
Today's Challenge Inspirations:
Genre(s): Various
Ben16 was training with Ippo again. Goku was also there. After shadow boxing, they went running and this was for several minutes. While Ippo and Goku were doing fine, Ben16 was starting to get tired.
"Man, you work out like this every day? That's incredible. I feel like we just started and I'm getting tired already." Ben16 said to Ippo.
"Don't worry if you can't keep up with my pace. Just run at your own. It's all about what works for you." Ippo said.
***Confessional***
Ben16(Fighting Lions):
"So you might be wondering why I'm doing this. I want to be able to control my Tenn-Zen form better since it's more of a close combat form. So why not get some training in with someone that plays the sport where it's close ranged?"
***End Confessional***
They ran past Mabel and Adam. She was giving Adam an orange sweater with a lion on it.
"Well, do you like it?" Mabel asked, hands on her face as she asked.
"It's nice. Thanks!" Adam said, not sure how else to react considering that he just got it a few seconds ago.
"Howdy campers! Meet me on the western set for your next challenge partners!" Chris said in a southern accent.
Western Set
Jake caught up with Adam as they were headed to the set.
"Hey Adam, where'd you get the sweater?" Jake asked.
"Oh Mabel made it for me. It's actually pretty comfortable!" Adam said.
"Cool. Think she could make me one of those?" Jake asked.
"I don't know. I guess you'd have to ask." Adam said.
"All right! Hope y'all are ready for a good ol' western quick draw shootout 'cause that's what the first part of y'alls challenge is gonna be." Chris said in an attempted southern drawl as he wore a cowboy hat and had a prop gun in his hand.
"Okay, now try to explain that without the terrible southern impression." Heather said.
Chris frowned after Heather's remark.
***Confessional***
Chris:
"Wow. It's like the original Heather's here. I can definitely see what the others are talking about. And my southern impression isn't that bad! I should know! I'm an actor!
***End Confessional***
"Come on Heather even if it wasn't good it was still pretty easy to understand." Vert said.
"Sorry, but I don't think I asked for your input." Heather said.
"Input? Funny you should say that. How about trying to do something for once." Vert said. His first comment made to Heather was harmless and had no ill-intent, but he wasn't about to let what she said go.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Heather asked.
"Now I see why you don't do much." Marty said.
"What was that?" Heather snapped at Marty said.
"Alright guys, everyone calm down." Sokka said. He goes to Vert. "Look I know what you mean, but give her a chance. Everybody has something to contribute to the team."
"Yeah. You're right. Sorry about that." Vert said.
***Confessional***
Vert(Soaring Phoenixes):
"Look, I get what Jack said. Everybody's great at something. But what exactly has Heather proved to be good in? Say what you want about Courtney or Noah but they seemed pretty smart especially after what I heard during the aftermath. Heather? She's been nothing but attitude since she's been here. And I didn't forget about what she did during the video game challenge. I'm all for winning, but I don't cheat."
***End Confessional***
"As I said earlier, this will be the first part of today's challenge. If you've ever watched movies or finales in TV shows, many of them, especially action movies have this final confrontation or face off. Usually it's between the hero and the villain. Sometimes it's rivals. Sometimes it can even be best friends or other things thrown into the mix. That is the theme for today! A one-on-one best of seven series of showdowns focusing on different movie genres." Chris explained.
"The first one, as we're standing here, is western! The game is simple! It'll be a good old fashion quick draw shootout!" He continued.
"Both participants must take out the other opponent before they do. Like in other western shootouts, you'll be using pistols to do battle with. Chef will be in the middle to tell you when to fire. When he does, draw the gun from the holsters you'll be given as fast as you can and fire! Do not do it before! If you fire before then it'll be considered a fault and your opponent automatically wins. You also have to stand still and be prepared to take the hit. If you try to move to dodge the shot that'll also be considered as an automatic loss. Now, what exactly will they be loaded with? It's not pellets. They've actually been loaded with hot sauce rounds. No, I'm not kidding. I got these condiment guns just for this challenge." Chris said before laughing.
"The match is over when one of you fall to the ground. Now, if the pain gets to be too much, you can also surrender the match. Though you might get called a chicken for doing so. I don't know. And I honestly don't really care. If the first shot doesn't get either of you to fall to the ground, whether it's from pain tolerance or missing, you'll each get closer to each other. And this will continue to happen until one of you falls to the ground or surrenders. Any questions before we start?"
"If we drop our weapon, are we allowed to pick them up?" Rally asked.
"Yeah, you are. But you might not want to do that. It'll make you an easy target if you do." Chris said. "Any more questions?" None were given.
"Okay then! Oh yeah, one more thing! No talking for any reason! If any of you say anything before the game is over, your team automatically loses. I don't want to hear any excuses about anyone's concentration being blown." Chris said as Vert gave Heather a look.
"What are you looking at?" Heather asked Vert.
"Nothin'." Vert said before turning his attention back towards the upcoming challenge.
***Confessional***
Marty(Fighting Lions):
"Got an idea. Put Biff and Heather in a room together, see what happens." He said, making a joke before pausing and thinking about what he said. "Well, actually I don't want to, but I'm sure you get it."
***End Confessional***
"Let's get started! Who will be representing their teams?" Chris asked.
"Marty or Rally? Who's it gonna be?" Joey asked.
"I got the gun challenge last time. Only fair if you got a shot now." Marty said.
Rally nodded. "Thanks."
"This shouldn't even be a discussion. Hawkeye should be in there! In fact, he should already be waiting." Dan Mandel said.
"Dan's right. Hawkeye's our best guy for this." Sokka said.
***Confessional***
Hawkeye(Soaring Phoenixes):
"Looks it's time for me to yet again carry my team to victory. Yeah it's the first game but it's a start right? Gotta start off strong and finish strong."
***End Confessional***
Hawkeye and Rally both got orange hot-sauce pistols from Chris.
"You beat Marty in the last gun challenge. Let's see you do it against me." Rally said.
"Careful what you wish for. You just might get it." Hawkeye said.
"Hawkeye! Rally! Turn and face the opposite direction from each other!" Chef called out as he was wearing a complete yellow western outfit with a black hat unlike Chris who just wore a hat.
Hawkeye and Rally turned.
"Take 30 steps!" Chef instructed.
Both took 30 steps. They knew they hit 30 as there was a white line that both were on that said "30".
"Now, turn and face each other!" Chef instructed.
They both turned.
Rally and Hawkeye stared each other down from a distance. Not a word was said from either.
Chef went from looking at one to the other twice before determining that the two seemed ready.
"FIRE!"
Both hit each other dead on in the face.
Both attempted to refrain from yelling out in pain. Rally put a hand over her eyes, trying anything to try and relieve herself from the pain she was feeling.
Hawkeye kept his eyes closed and stood for several seconds breathing hard.
"10 paces forward!"
They went to where the 20 paces line was were after taking time to somewhat restore their vision.
Chef looked at the two once again to make sure they were ready.
"FIRE!"
Both hit each other in the face again.
This time Rally contain her pain and she cried out in pain from the hot sauce. Hawkeye was grunting in pain and was breathing hard before he couldn't take it.
"AHHH!" Hawkeye howled before shaking his head to try and relieve himself of the pain.
"Go ahead. Take your time. Let it out. I'm sure it definitely hurts." Chris said, grinning.
After several seconds of the two grunting in pain, Hawkeye was the first to say something.
"Okay. Okay, I think I'm good." Hawkeye said.
"Yeah. Let's keep going." Rally said a few seconds later.
Although from how the two looked, they definitely were not "good".
"10 more paces!" Chef said.
They went to the "10" where they stood closer. Not super close, but not as far as they were before either.
Chef looked at the two before determining that they were good enough to go.
"FIRE!"
Hawkeye and Rally shot each other again. They both hit each other in the face again.
"AHHHHHHHHH!" Hawkeye and Rally yelled out before Rally accidentally shot again. And being unable to see, shot Hawkeye in a place that was worse than getting hit in the face.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Hawkeye screamed, even louder which caused everyone to cringe at what happened. Scooby covered his eyes.
***Confessional***
Leshawna(Fighting Lions):
"She really hit him there. She really hit him there!"
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Riley(Soaring Phoenixes):
"Damn. I know that s[censored] gotta hurt. That n[censored] prolly ain't gon' ever have kids after that."
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Rick(Soaring Phoenixes):
"Dear God just call the match already Chris. Who the hell's gonna be able to play after getting hitting in the d[censored] with f[censored]ing hot sauce?"
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Shaggy(Fighting Lions):
"Like that is one place hot sauce is for sure not supposed to go!"
***End Confessional***
"I've gotta call it! And it's not for where that second shot hit Hawkeye! It's because Rally shot a second shot, even if it was an accident. That's a fault! Which means Hawkeye wins!"
Phoenixes: 1
Lions: 0
Hawkeye was still on the ground.
"Uh yeah. Just meet us at the medieval set when you're able." Chris said.
"Wait, so we're just gonna leave him there?" Chris Pearson asked.
"He'll be fine. He might not be able to have children but other than that, he'll be fine. Maybe after a few hours." Dan Mandel said.
Medieval Set
"Your next challenge is jousting! Inspired by movies in the medieval period!" Chris said.
"Now, for this, the goal is simple. Both jousters will get on a horse, lance in hand. As you go towards each other, the objective is to knock your opponent off their horse with the lance. The person that can do this wins a point for their team. However, if both of you miss, you'll circle around to try again. This will repeat until one of you are knocked off. Got it?" Chris said.
Everyone nodded or gave a thumbs up.
"Cool. Now, which two are competing?" Chris asked as Hawkeye came back, still in pain. "You cannot pick Rally or Hawkeye for this one. They don't exactly look to be in any condition to be able to do another challenge right now."
"Come on Lance, I'm confident you can win this one." Sokka said, basically pushing him forward.
"Actually, I can't." Lance said. Sokka suddenly stopped trying to push him.
"Wait, seriously?" Sokka said. "Come on, but your name is Lance! You're awesome at fighting! And you'd need to use a-"
"I think we get it." Mandy said.
"I never rode a horse before." Lance said, shrugging.
"Okay. Well, any other volunteers?" Sokka asked.
"Why don't you go?" Dan Mandel asked.
"Because I've never ridden one of those, duh. Since you're asking, why don't you go?" Sokka asked.
"Does riding on a grizzly bear count?" Dan Mandel asked.
"Well it's not a horse, so no." Chris Pearson said.
"Allow me to give it a try." Jack said.
"Uh, sure! Go ahead!" Sokka said. Jack didn't talk too often, so when he does ask about participating in a challenge, considering what he's been able to do before, Sokka's got no problem in trusting him. "Everyone agrees for Jack right?"
"Hey, if you think you've got it, go for it man!" Geoff said.
"Yeah. I'm sure you could win." Morty said.
"I can do it." Daphne said eagerly to her team.
"You sure?" Weiss asked, about to volunteer herself.
"Of course! I competed in a knight competition in Camelot. Although it was actually just an experience attraction, not the real Camelot. But still, I did great nonetheless." Daphne said.
"Trust her guys. I saw her as Sir Daphne firsthand. She was absolutely incredible!" Fred said. Shaggy and Scooby both nodded in agreement.
"I trust her." Anne said confidently.
"Same here. Let's even this game up!" Leshawna said.
"Thanks guys. I'll be sure to do my best." Daphne said.
***Confessional***
Daphne(Fighting Lions):
"I actually did more than great. Long story short, the gang and I thought we were in Camelot and because Fred was frozen by a witch called Morgan le Fay, I had to take his place and compete in some knightly games. It was all to stop King Arthur from taking the throne. I was able to win against every knight King Arthur recruited all by myself! Again it's a long story, but I didn't tell the others that to be modest."
***End Confessional***
Both Jack and Daphne were wearing knight armor and got on a horse.
Peter hands Jack a lance. "Have you actually done this before?" He asked Jack.
"I have not. But, there is a first time for everything." Jack said.
***Confessional***
Jack(Soaring Phoenixes):
"I was once pursued by Cossacks in the sky on top of robotic flying insects. So in a way, I do have experience. But this will not make things any easier. The Lions believe in Daphne for a reason." Jack said, not underestimating her.
***End Confessional***
"You can do this Sir Daphne." Fred said, handing her a lance. Daphne smiled at him before putting the visor from her helmet over her face.
Both horses went forward. Jack already had the visor from the helmet he was wearing over his face.
They went from a walking start before running towards each other. Both Jack and Daphne held their lances out as many of their respective teammates looked on with a neutral look, anxious, or interested in terms of seeing who would win this matchup. Or a mixture of both.
The first time caused both Jack and Daphne to fall off their horses as they both hit each other with their lances.
"It's a tie! Let's go again!" Chris called out.
They both got back on their horses and circled back around to starting positions.
Like last time, their horses got to a walking start before running. Their lances hit each other again. Daphne almost fell off but was barely able to hang on.
"Like I know I should be confident but with each round, it just makes me even more nervous!" Shaggy said to Ruby.
"If she was able to last three rounds, who's to say she can't last another and outlast Jack?" Ruby said, trying her best to instill some positivity in her teammate.
"Thanks for the help Ruby, but I know exactly what I need that'll calm me down." Shaggy said.
"What is it?" Ruby asked.
"A footlong sandwich! Come on Scoob, let's go get ourselves a sandwich. And once we come back, it'll be a sandwich of victory!" Shaggy said before they both left.
Although when they returned, sandwiches in hand, Daphne was on the ground being helped up by Jack as he was victorious. It went an extra round after they left, totaling four rounds before it was decided.
"Thank you." Daphne said.
"You're welcome. You did well. It was a good match." Jack said.
"Thanks. You too." Daphne said.
***Confessional***
Shaggy(Fighting Lions):
"Man, I said that, but boy could I not be more wrong! But we haven't lost yet! It's first to four!"
***End Confessional***
Phoenixes: 2
Lions: 0
"Alright, now it's time for the next game! To the dance floor!" Chris said.
Awards Theater
The "dance floor" was just the awards theater, with two dance mats and monitors on them.
"Ooh! Are we gonna be playing one of those dancing video games? I love those!" Alex asked.
"Dancing? Can I dance?" Lindsay asked.
"Yes and yes, if that's what your team wants to the second yes." Chris said.
"In this game, you'll be competing in a dance off! You have to outlast your opponent, following the prompts on screen, like a dancing video game as Alex said, and avoiding getting knocked down or disrupted by the tomatoes that'll be launched at you." Chris said.
"If you fall or make miss three moves on the screen, you lose!" Chris said.
"Oh, and by the way, the game gets harder as time goes on, so you'll definitely want to keep on your toes." Chris explained. "Now, if you guys don't have any questions, you can choose who will represent you. If you guys want to use Hawkeye or Rally this time, be my guest, if that's something you want to do."
"Oh yeah! It's time to get on the dance floor!" Dan Hibiki said, giving a thumbs up, already ready to go.
"I can do it!" Zoey and Marinette said.
"Oh, sorry, you can go." Both said simultaneously.
"Okay, who's better?" Ben10 asked.
Dan Hibiki slumped over in defeat.
***Confessional***
Dan Hibiki(Soaring Phoenixes):
Dan Hibiki sighs. "Sometimes, I don't think I'm appreciated for my skills. But, I have to stay supportive for the good of the team!"
***End Confessional***
"Well, I used to take dancing lessons with my father." Marinette said.
"I got dancing lessons too. But it wasn't from my dad. I also learned that there was another My Prerogative other than Britney Spears' one." Zoey said before realizing she was getting off topic. "But I'm getting carried away. You should go!"
"Okay. I'll do my best!" Marinette said.
"Hey, I saw those moves Alex had during that talent challenge. Go get out there girl!" Leshawna said.
"Yeah, you were awesome." Sam said.
"Hey, I've gotta admit, she's definitely got the moves." Richie said.
"Okay! I'll be sure to win it!" Alex said before taking off the yellow hoodie that she was wearing, revealing the black tank top she was wearing underneath along with the yellow sweatpants she was wearing.
***Confessional***
Leshawna(Fighting Lions):
"Yeah I know I've got some dance moves, but you gotta know when to give it up and let your other teammates get involved. And Alex is absolutely rollin' so far. First the rock climbing and then the talent show. Let's make it three in a row baby!"
***End Confessional***
Alex and Marinette step on the left and right pads respectively. They both smiled, letting their dancing do the talking.
***Confessional***
Alex(Fighting Lions):
"You know, if we weren't on different teams I think Sam, Clover and I would totally be awesome friends with Marinette. But today, she's going down!"
***End Confessional***
Soon, the screens showed a virtual shadow of a person standing still on a screen.
Then, numbers started to show up, each in different colors.
"3"
"2"
"1"
"DANCE!"
The first song that started to play was slow jazz music. The moves were pretty easy at first, if any. Then, it switched to The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky. Tomatoes were launched, but because of the minimal movements that needed to be made, they were pretty easy to avoid.
"Is this supposed to try to get them to dance or put them to sleep?" Rigby commented.
Eventually, it switched from The Nutcracker to Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry.
"This one's a classic." Marty said as it started to play.
As it continued to play, Marty himself couldn't help but follow along.
Go Johnny Go, Go
Go Johnny go, go
Johnny B. Goode
He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track
Oh, the engineers would see him sitting in the shade
Strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made
People passing by they would stop and say
Oh my, but that little country boy could play
Go, go
Go Johnny go, go
Go Johnny go, go
Go Johnny go, go
Go Johnny go, go
Johnny B. Goode
Suddenly, the song changed as tomatoes continued to be launched. So far, neither made any mistakes. Although many of the contestants gave a look at Marty as he continued to go even after the song ended. Marty noticed this.
"Oh." He said after realizing the song ended. "Hey, it's a good song." Marty said.
"Gotta agree with you there." Vert said.
The song changed to Go by Mark Mrdeza.
Tell the doctor
Tell the lawyer
Tell the mailman
Tell your mother
Got to step up
Got to move out
Got to mess up
Got to break out
Got to face it
Got to break it
"Now you guys get to hear one of my personal favorites." Vert said.
Can't fight a battle with your hands in your pocket
Better duck 'cause I'm faster than a rocket
Better be out looking or you never see me comin' for sure
When I hit the ground I hit it running
Go, Go, Go, Go!
The song then changed again to Speed Demon by Michael Jackson.
(Speed demon) Speedin' on the freeway, gotta get a leadway
(Speed demon) Doing it on the highway, gotta have it my way
(Speed demon) Mind is like a compass, I'm stopping at nothing
(Speed demon, he say) Pull over, boy, and get your ticket right
The song changed mid-lyrics again to Lootin in London by RDGLDGRN. (A/N: This is one of the songs that made me love NFS Most Wanted and got me into Gunsmith Carts after finding an edit of the song on Youtube by chance)
Little H.R. in a Minor Threat
With a bad brain, and wants everything
Georgetown Punk, forget what you are
I'm a black cat shreddin' in a U-Haul
Used to be scared of death, I was scared to death
Of being just kept just 'cuz I wore pair of checks
Now I'm makin' real moves 'cuz we started young
Going to rap battles - with guitars and drums
Homie I am from where you need to be
Human rights are sung from the Green in me
I'm a top-notch art kid with rock chops
Yeezy ain't really put me on to no Basquiats
Oh, oh, hooligans coming
Rude boy lootin' in London
Ain't no one f[censored]ing with me
Ain't no one f[censored]ing with me
It changed to My Prerogative by Bobby Brown.
Everybody's talkin' all this stuff about me (Now now)
Why don't they just let me live? (Ooh)
Zoey couldn't help but dance a bit along to the song.
I don't need permission, make my own decisions (Oh!)
That's my prerogative
"Those two are good." Morty said.
"The bigger question is, how long are they gonna last?" Lance said.
"He's right. This is a big change of pace in these songs. Those kids are gonna end up trippin' all over themselves if it keeps going like this." Grim said.
It then changed to Throwdown by Andre 3000(A/N: This is a Class of 3000 song even though he still is the artist)
Clap, clap your hands
Tell your mama, "That man throws down"
Ooh, from Atlanta to Japan
Every land throwdown, oh, yeah
Jump up and touch the sky
Fall, hit the dance floor, oh, yeah
I promise if you give it all you got
Every time they want more
Yeah, more, yeah, more, yeah
We throwdown, we throwdown, hey
We throwdown, we throwdown, hey
We throwdown, we throwdown, hey
We throwdown, we throwdown, hey
We throwdown, we throwdown, hey
We throwdown, we throwdown, hey
We throwdown, we throwdown, hey
We throwdown, we throwdown, throwdown
The song then changed to Firefly by Breaking Benjamin and it was here that both Alex and Marinette made a mistake as it changed to it mid-song similar to many of the other songs.
Bring me your enemies
Lay them before me
And walk away
Walk away
Walk away!
It then changed to Hands by The Ting Tings. But it wasn't that long before it changed to I Like to Move It, although it wasn't the real artist. It somehow got replaced by King Julien performing it himself.
"You sure this is the right one?" Chris asked Chef who only shrugged and started launching more tomatoes.
But that question would quickly be a thing of the past as the song changed again to techno including the Junkie XL remix of Yonderboi - People Always Talk About The Weather. The song changes got even more random afterwards, varying from Stupify by Disturbed to classical music to even the Total Drama theme. The fast and random change of pace proved to be too much for both but it was Marinette that stumbled and fell apart first merely seconds before Alex did.
"And Alex, by a few seconds wins the game for her team!" Chris said.
Alex gave a thumbs up, still discombobulated before gitting hit by a tomato.
"My bad!" Chef said.
"Well, it was bound to happen eventually." Grim said.
"Unfortunately Marinette was the one that folded first." Mandy said.
Phoenixes: 2
Lions: 1
"Alright! Off the dance floor and to the pirate ship!" Chris said.
Shooting Studio
The contestants were standing next to a tub of water.
"This next one is a battle on a plank like a pirate ship! Though in this case, this plank is a board over a tub with a pirate background to recreate it! Your goal is to knock the opponent off the plank by any means necessary!" Chris explained. "So, which one of you scallywags will walk the plank?" Chris asked.
"Allow me." Ryoma said to his team.
"Hey Jack, why not make it two in a row?" Dax asked. Jack nodded.
Both he and Ryoma were on a plank.
"I was going to hand you swords, but it looks like you two already have that covered." Chris said.
"I'm honored to be able to fight against you." Ryoma said, bowing.
"I feel the same." Jack said, also bowing.
"Yeah, yeah, honor, whatever, get to fighting already!" Chris said.
"Any means necessary huh? Ryoma's got the one thing Jack doesn't. That stone. He's in a pinch he can transform. It's basically a cheat code here." Doyle thought.
The two pulled out their swords. Both stepped towards one another. Jack and Ryoma clashed with their swords. Both relented and Jack slashed at him sideways, forcing Ryoma to adjust his body to move slightly backwards. Jack took the opportunity to attack again and advance forward as Ryoma turned to the side.
"Oh man!" Joey said, devastated.
"You might wanna look closer." Doyle said.
"He blocked it!" Vert said.
He turned in anticipation that Jack was going to attack and used the hilt of his long katana to stop the advance and sent Jack back a little as the hilt from his long katana hit him in the stomach. But that was all it would be used for. His honor as a samurai wouldn't allow him to use two against Jack, even if it was a challenge.
But it didn't take long at all for Jack to recover and the battle resumed.
Both dodged an attack at each other. With Ryoma being the one to lose a couple of strands of hair. But both were unbothered. They then continued to strike. Ryoma was the first to jump into the air though Jack followed him to deny his ascent. As they clashed, they went back to the ground and Ryoma was back near the edge. Something that Ryoma was trying to avoid when he jumped.
He looked back at the edge which wasn't too far from where he was.
"If he's going to use that stone, he should probably use it now." Doyle said.
But he didn't. He continued to fight and was able to push back. While he wasn't able to send Jack on the edge, he was able to make some more room for himself.
Jack blocked an overhead slice and let go to dodge the slice and counter, forcing Ryoma to sway back and doge the attack. But whislt swaying, Ryoma attacked back himself and kept Jack on his toes, sending him near the edge too. Jack was pushed back a little more. He seemed to have been about to be knocked off as he looked over but he turned the tables and jumped, attacking with his sword while flipping in the air to avoid Ryoma from attacking back. The pressure after Jack was back on the ground forced Ryoma on the ground, his head over the plank.
"Why isn't he using that stone?" Wally asked.
"That's what I wanna know." Leshawna said.
"It's a matter of pride. That's why he's not using it. He's thinking that if he can't beat him without the stone, then he's not good enough." Vegeta thought.
He used all of his willpower to try to get back up. But as sooon as he did, Jack overpowered him and Ryoma fell into the water.
"And that's it! Looks like Ryoma's been feed to the sharks!" Chris said causing Lindsay, Ruby, Luz and Weiss to gasp. "Not actual sharks! Trust me, there are no sharks in there! But regardless, the Phoenixes still win!" Chris said.
Ryoma and Jack came out and bowed once again.
"That was a good fight." Jack said.
"Agreed. You're an incredible warrior." Ryoma said.
"Ryoma! Once you dry up, follow us to the Boxing Ring!" Chris said.
"You could have used that stone! What the heck were you thinking?" Wally said to Ryoma who was already disappointed that he lost. But to see Wally along with Leshawna and some others disappointed at the loss, he felt worse. He silently left to dry himself off.
Phoemixes: 3
Lions: 1
Boxing Ring
"Welcome to the boxing ring folks!" Chris said.
"Isn't this just the wrestling ring?" Weiss asked.
"Yes. Yes it is. We don't exactly have all the money in the world to spend." Chris said.
"Well it didn't seem that way when you were paying all of those guests to appear on the show." Dan Mandel said.
"That's different. Without them, the challenges wouldn't be as entertaining." Chris said. "As I was saying, this challenge will be a boxing challenge. One on one of course. The first person to score a knockdown wins!" Chris said.
***Confessional***
Ippo(Fighting Lions):
"Now's my chance to help even things up. I won't lose."
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Edward Falcon(Soaring Phoenixes):
"I would imagine they're picking Ippo in this fight. I hope so, because I want to see his skills in the ring."
***End Confessional***
And that he would, both Ippo and Falcon, both with experience in the sport were chosen by their respective teams.
Both were in different corners, already changed into boxing attire. While Ippo wore his traditional Makunouchi Family Fishing Boat boxing shorts, shorts that he always wore to his matches after they were designed just for him with a footprint on the front and the name of said company in japanese on the backside of the shorts, Falcon wore red boxer shorts. Regardless, Clover, Heather and Vicky definitely seemed to be a fan of the shirtless fighters. A microphone lowered for Chris to grab.
"In the left corner-er-er! The Featherweight Champion of Japan! Currently holding an official boxing record of 13-1, Ippo Makunouchi!" Chris called out as Ippo looked on and hopped a little on both feet to get his adrenaline going.
"And in the right corner-er-er! The pilot from the 19th century that's also a boxer, Edward Falcon!" Falcon had a confident grin, eager to get started.
Both of them stepped forward to the middle of the ring.
"Alright you two! I want a good clean fight! But don't be afraid to clobber each other! Or else this'll be boring! Also, like any boxing match you'll need gloves." Chris said handing them said gloves.
"All right, let's do-" Falcon said before noticing the gloves.
"Uh Chris, I don't think these are boxing gloves." Ippo said, noticing that the gloves were made out of cardboard.
"Of course they are! They're gloves! Made out of cardboard boxes!" Chris said.
"Yeah, real funny Chris." Falcon said sarcastically.
"Same rules apply! Score a knockdown, score a point or your team!" Chris said as they put on the gloves.
"Ready? Box!" Chris called out.
"All right, let's see what you've got!" Falcon said, being the aggressor as Ippo played his traditional peek-a-boo style of fighting.
"What's he doing? Why isn't he fighting back?" Reimu asked.
"He's playin' his game." Joey said.
"Huh?" Reimu asked, looking over at Joey confused as to what he meant by that.
"He's waitin' for the perfect time to strike. Falcon may be the aggressor, but if he keeps throwing punches and missing, he's gonna use all of his energy eventually. And when he does, it's game over." Joey said.
Though Falcon didn't do that. He wised up and stopped attacking. Ryoma came back to watch the fight.
"I've gotta find a way to get through his defenses. I keep throwing punches out like that and I'm gonna get tired out." Falcon thought.
Ippo stood still. "He's stopped. I want to go in, but I don't want to risk it. I have a feeling he's planning something." Ippo thought.
"They go from attacking to just standing still. What the heck is going on?" Sokka asked.
"It's all a chess match. Now let's see who will make the right move." Vegeta thought.
Falcon goes in and goes for the exact area that Ippo left unguarded which was his body but feints the attack. He then goes upwards and feints again before actually striking him in the face.
"A double feint. A nice move." Ippo thought, getting back into his peek-a-boo stance.
"I landed a clean hit. I'm tempted to go in, but I should probably take a page out of Ryoma's book for once and be patient." Falcon said.
As he said that, Ippo took a page out of Falcon's own book and suddenly advanced, dashing forward.
"What?" Falcon said, surprised.
"No way!" Falcon said, determined to stop him and attempted to hit him and stop his advance, which didn't work as he swayed to dodge the attempted strike. Everything seemed to be moving in slow motion. As Falcon looked on just having the feeling that he missed the punch as he was throwing it out, Ippo closed in and using his footwork hit him square in the face.
He then wasted no time in advancing again and landed another hit, this time the two actually traded blows, something that Ippo didn't expect which caused him to lurch back further than if he would have at least thought there may have been a chance that he would have tried to attack back. While Falcon was hit in the face again, Ippo was hit in the body.
Both were able to eventually shake off the damage.
"Man. One more hit like that and I probably would have been done for." Falcon said.
"Darn. All I needed was one more hit and I would have gotten him. And I think he knows it too." Ippo thought as he looks at Falcon's expression. "So my surprise aggression didn't work. The question now is what he's going to do to respond."
"One thing I can say is I can see why he's the champion back where he's from. But I don't think he's going to try something like that again. He's probably too scared of me countering. But I don't exactly have any leverage for an attack either." Falcon thought. "I got it! I've got to make him aggressive again. Then, use that against him and knock him out. But how?"
A couple more seconds passed.
"Hey Ippo!" Falcon called out.
"Huh?" Ippo said low, wondering what Falcon could possibly want while keeping his guard up.
"I've never met your family but I can definitely see where you get your weakness from!" Falcon taunted.
Many of the other contestants had confused looks on their faces, Ryoma the most.
"What's this guy think he's doin' trying to taunt Ippo?" Joey asked.
"He's trying to taunt me. But it's not going to work. I know those punches affected him. No matter what he says." Ippo thought, keeping his guard up.
"Yeah I said it! Your family's weak!" Falcon said.
"What's Falcon doing? I've never known him to be like this." Ryoma thought. He then put a hand on his chin, thinking. "Unless..."
"Must be nice knowing that your team has a weak little guy on it like yourself!" Falcon said before grinning. But it didn't seem to be having any effect.
"It's no wonder why you've barely competed in any of the challenges since we got here. What kind of a coach teaches you? I'd hate to see how your parents are." Heather added.
"You're one to talk about challenges." Vert thought.
"What is she doing?" Falcon thought.
Ippo was silent for several seconds. Before he suddenly advanced.
"It looks like it worked though. I'll apologize for everything I said and for this punch later Ippo." Falcon said before going for the counter to Ippo's advance.
He threw a punch, but it was half-hearted to allow him to adjust and attack in wherever Ippo was planning on dodging to. Both hit each other again. This time, the roles were reversed. Falcon hit him in the face, while Ippo hit him in the body. Though Ippo in an incredible fashion, recovered from the hit as if he was never hit at all.
Ippo lost it after his mother, his coach and his father were insulted
"DON'T YOU TALK ABOUT MY FAMILY OR MY COACH!" Ippo yelled before hitting him again. And again. And again. After the fifth hit, Falcon looked as if he was almost out of it but wasn't willing to quit. He just couldn't recover fast enough to respond. He was hit square in the jaw. Ippo then swayed back and forth over and over again, increasing speed.
"What's he doing?" Sam asked.
"Holy s[censored]." Rick said, eyes widened.
"Oh man, I know exactly what he's about to do. He's about to do the Dempsey Roll." Joey said. In any other case, he'd be in awe at the fact that he gets to watch Ippo perform one of his strongest attacks in person and up close. But in this case, he had horror in his eyes.
"Dempsey Roll?" Dipper asked.
"That's one of if not his strongest move." Joey said.
"Falcon already looks out of it." Huey commented. "Chris stop the fight!" Huey called out.
"No can do. Falcon's still good to go." Chris said as Falcon, his burning passion for competition and fighting fueling him on, allowed him to hit Ippo with an uppercut to the jaw, timing it perfectly to interrupt Ippo's swaying.
"Is that all you've got?" Ippo said, unaffected.
"No way!" Falcon said before being throwing more punches. But this time, Ippo refused to be interrupted again as he swayed, increasing his speed. He hit Falcon with a hook that seemingly knocked him out of it. But he wasn't done yet. He continued hammering away on the punches even as Falcon's instincts put up his fist to protect his face. None of it mattered. Hook after hook. Over and over again until his guard was broken and was hit over and over again.
"Chris! He's done! Stop the fight!" Joey called out.
Eventually, Chris got the hint and the bell was rung.
"All right! That's it! The Lions win!" Chris called out. But Ippo didn't seem to hear. Or he might not have cared.
Phoenixes: 3
Lions: 2
"Ippo! Dude, didn't you hear me?" Chris asked.
"Ippo that's enough!" Joey said, getting into the ring, stopping him just as he was about to perform a liver blow. Ippo tried to push him out of the way.
Fred pulled him back. And so did Raph.
"Hey! Hey! The fight's over Ippo, you got him!" Fred said. Ippo tried to go forward.
"Easy there Ippo, ya not gettin' outta this! So just breathe!" Raph said. Ippo stopped struggling and slumped over, regaining his senses. From how his eyes were before he regained his senses, he seemed to have been in a trance.
He looked over and saw Falcon crumpled up on the ground.
"Oh man. What did I do?" Ippo said, trying to get free. Fred, seeing that he was okay, let him go.
"I'm... I'm so sorry." Ippo said, going over to him.
Cyborg went up to check on him.
He looked on his wrist as he checked his pulse. "He's got a pulse. He's alright."
The Lions and the Phoenixes all breathed a sigh of relief.
"I don't blame you." Joey said. "I blame her." He said, pointing to Heather.
"What? How is it my fault?" Heather asked.
"You were the one that added on to this. Falcon didn't even take it that far. But you talked about his parents! His coach!" Joey said.
"Whatever. Falcon was just doing a strategy to try and win. How can you blame anyone for that? He didn't cheat." Heather said.
"Is that what you got from all of this? That he didn't cheat?" Luz asked in disbelief that she would even say something like that after what happened to Falcon.
"Chef, get something to bring Falcon back to the trailer." Chris called out.
***Confessional***
Ippo(Fighting Lions):
"I feel terrible. Even if Heather and Falcon did taunt me, I shouldn't have lost control like that. That's no excuse. If Joey wasn't there to stop that liver blow things could have been a lot worse."
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Ryoma(Fighting Lions):
"I expected a response out of Ippo for what they said, but not one like this. I'm just glad it didn't get any worse than it already did."
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Vegeta(Soaring Phoenixes):
"It's one thing to taunt your opponent. But it's another to insult someone's family like that. I should know. Heather went too far. And Falcon was the one that paid for it."
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Dipper(Fighting Lions):
"What did I tell you? Heather is a jerk. And now one of her teammates was hurt and that's what she has to say about it? Trust me when I tell you I won't feel anything when she's out of here."
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Leshawna(Fighting Lions):
"Heather done took it too far now. Talkin' about his parents like that." She then performed the prayer hands gesture. "Please, please, please let me go up against her on a future challenge. I will be sure to hand her her behind on a silver platter! For Falcon and for Ippo."
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Riley(Soaring Phoenixes):
"Damn. Heather f[censored]ed up. There's just some people you just don't talk s[censored] to. I guess Ippo's one of those people."
***End Confessional***
Falcon was unconscious, lying in bed on one of the trailers.
"Guys, I'm not gonna make you finish this challenge if you don't want to right now for obvious reasons. If you'd like, we can postpone it and do it another time. Or you can finish it now. It's all up to you." Chris said as they were all outside of the trailers. Though Ippo was sitting by himself.
Ippo heard them talking and then went over to where they were. "Just go on and finish the challenge without me." Ippo said.
"Don't say that just for us Ippo." Daphne said.
"No. I'm serious. I should have had better self control. Why should you guys suffer for my poor judgement?" Ippo said. "Go on and finish the challenge." Ippo said.
"It's all up to you guys." Chris said.
"Guys, huddle up!" Leshawna called out to the Lions.
"I say we go ahead and finish this challenge. I wanna beat the snot out of Heather for what she did, and I'm sure you guys want to too. So what do you say?" Leshawna asked.
"Let's do it." Luz said.
"Numbuh 5's down for it." Abby said.
"Numbuh what now?" Marty asked.
"Nothing. Just know that I'm all for it." Abby said.
"Heather's a jerk. And I'm in full support of embarrassing jerks." Dipper said.
Jerry pointed at her before pointing downward.
"I couldn't agree more. Hey, I kinda like this guy." Wally said.
They got out of the huddle after the decision was made to continue from the Lions. "We're cool with finishing the game! What about y'all?" Leshawna asked the Lions.
"We're all for it." Dax answered.
"All right then. Follow me to the next set!" Chris said.
Dojo Set
"It is here, that you will test your martial arts skills! Chops, punches, kicks, and even judo are allowed here! But no abilities! The first to score a knockdown and get them in a hold for 3 seconds wins!" Chris said.
"I've got this!" Dan Hibiki said. "Now it's time for the Saikyo Master to shine!" He said, smiling.
"I think I should-" Lance said before Vert said something.
"Let him go. I think he's got this." Vert said.
Lance raised an eyebrow before going with it.
Vegeta said nothing and let it happen. So did Sokka. And Mandy.
"Don't mess this up." Vicky said.
"I'm a master martial artist! Whoever's on the other side doesn't stand a chance!" Dan Hibiki said confidently.
While it was originally going to be Daphne or Goku going, Raph stepped in. "Yo Daphne! Goku! I got this." He said.
***Confessional***
Raph(Fighting Lions):
"Combine what happened with wrestling yesterday and now what happened today, I definitely got some steam to let off. And what way to do it than this game."
***End Confessional***
"Come on!" Dan Hibiki said before getting into a fighting stance. Raph and Dan circled around each other. Raph threw out the first punch, but Dan rolled under it and grabbed his arm. Which might have been the end already. If he could actually throw him. When he tried to grab his arm and lift him over his head. He just couldn't.
"What's... going on?" Dan said, trying to get him over his head but couldn't.
"I don't know what you're tryin' to pull, but I'm not gonna entertain it!" Raph said before hitting him with several punches before kicking him back into the wall, knocking him out.
From how Dan's tongue was sticking out and how he was looking, he wasn't going to be getting up from that right now.
"Well, it wasn't a hold but that's close enough! The Lions win!" Chris said which caused the Lions to cheer.
"That idiot lost!" Vicky yelled in frustration.
Phoenixes: 3
Lions: 3
***Confessional***
Vicky(Soaring Phoenixes):
"If we lose, he's out of here!"
***End Confessional***
Antarctica Set
"Your challenge is to survive the cold! And the winds on this boat! The first one to either surrender or get knocked off their boat loses!" Chris said.
"I'll finish it." Heather said.
"Fine. Do as you please." Vegeta said.
"Hey, Weiss would be perfect for this challenge!" Lindsay said.
"Just because my semblance involves ice doesn't mean I want to do this. But I suppose I can do it." Weiss said.
Both got on their own small boats.
"Ready? I hope you are!" Chris said before Chef turns on the air conditioner. Everything was easy for the first several seconds. Then it started to get colder. And after about a minute, he turned on a large box fan next to simulate the wind and add on to the cold.
Both were starting to feel the effects off them. And seconds later, the boat started to move.
Both began to blow into their hands and try to find any way to keep warm. And as time passed, it got colder and colder.
"Chris, how cold is this going to get?" Lindsay asked, concerned for Weiss.
"As cold for as it needs to get until one of them are either knocked off or give up." Chris said.
"So you mean you don't know?!" Ruby asked.
"Again, whatever it takes for the game to end." Chris said.
"So if both of them freeze to death does the game just go on forever?" Dan Mandel asked.
"Freeze to death? I think the game would end before it would come to that Dan." Chris Pearson said.
"You clearly haven't seen what people will do for the smallest amount of money, let alone $300,000." Dan Mandel said.
"Never thought of that. We'll see." Chris McLean answered.
Minutes passed and neither were willing to quit even though both were shivering through their teeth and struggling to stay on the boat.
"Just give up! No one will hate you for it!" Chris Pearson called out.
"I will!" Dan Mandel said.
"Dan, you hate everyone." Chris Pearson said.
"Not true. I don't hate you." Dan Mandel said to Chris Pearson.
"Aww." Mabel said.
"Mabel that means Dan probably hates you if that's true." Dipper said.
"He doesn't hate me. Do you Dan?" Mabel asked.
"Have you done anything to wrong me or get on my list?" Dan Mandel asked.
"I don't think soo." Mabel said.
Dan Mandel pulls out his list and goes down it.
"Wow. You actually have a list for the people that have done something against you?" Luz asked, surprised.
"Yes. Wouldn't you?" Dan Mandel asked.
"Um, no?" Luz said.
"Looks like you're not on the list Mabel. So, I guess not. I don't dislike you Mabel." Dan Mandel said.
"So that means you like me! Yes!" Mabel said.
"No, I said I don't dislike you. There's a difference." Dan Mandel said.
"There actually isn't." Dipper said.
"Well, it's a start." Mabel said, giving a thumbs up.
"I... get... out!" Weiss said before being unable to speak anymore from the cold.
"I'll take that as a surrender! The Phoenixes win! Which means they win the game!" Chris said.
Heather couldn't even brag to anyone as she was frozen and couldn't say anything. She then fell in the water.
Chef got her out.
"We'll thaw her out. In the meantime, we'll see you in the elimination ceremony tonight." Chris said.
***Confessional***
Chef:
"Thaw her out? I'll get to it. Eventually. I think we can all agree it was time for that girl to zip it."
***End Confessional***
***Confessional***
Leshawna(Fighting Lions):
"I was hoping we could win to shut Heather up and maybe get her eliminated. But this is close enough."
***End Confessional***
Raph went to talk to Ippo as he was still sitting by himself. Joey offered to come along but Raph insisted that he talks to him alone as he can relate to how Ippo was feeling.
"Hey, you alright?" Raph asked.
"Not really. I still feel terrible for what I did. I got mad. And hurt Falcon. Only good thing out of this is that it wasn't anything worse." Ippo said.
"You lost control. Ya made a mistake. I get it." Raph said.
"But you're a ninja. I'm sure you and your brothers always stay calm." Ippo said.
"That's actually not true. There's been several times my brothers and I have lost control. And most of those times goes to me.
Raph began to tell him about the time when he almost killed Mikey.
*Flashback to TMNT 2003 Episode 4 Meet Casey Jones*
Raph and Mikey were training in the lair.
Mikey dodges a punch from Raph and backflips.
"You think you're better than me? Do you!?" Raph said, running at him.
"No, you're just too cocky!" Mikey said, holding him back from his leaping attack before tossing him. "Raph!"
Raph crashed into a table.
"Winner and still champion, Michelangelo!" Mikey said, raising his hands triumphantly as he walked away.
Raph picked up a metal bar from the table he crashed into.
"No. No!" Raph said as he got up.
Donnie, Splinter and Leo all looked alarmed as Raph did this.
"You... youuuuu!" Raph said, getting angrier before jumping at Mikey and knocking him down. Mikey turned but he was too late. He was already on the ground.
"Raph! Wait!" Mikey said, shielding himself as he knew what was about to happen next. "Wait!" Mikey repeated.
But Raph didn't listen. He was too angry too listen or care. All he knew was that he was about to hurt Mikey. He growled in anger and was about to hit him before he was stopped by Leo.
"Raphael! Have you lost your mind!?" Leo said, holding the arm that Raph had the pipe in back.
"You okay Mikey?" Donnie asked, tending to his brother before turning to Raph. "What were you thinking Raph?"
Raph was breathing hard, regaining control and realizing the big mistake he was about to make over something as trivial as a training match.
"I... Leo... Mikey I..." Raph said, holding his head.
"Ah my son, so angry. Rage is a monster that will destroy you from within." Splinter told him. "Raphael, a true warrior finds balance in all things."
"Master Splinter I... I... I gotta get some air." Raph said before running out.
*End Flashback*
"So how did you fix it?" Ippo asked. "Your anger? How did you deal with it?"
"To tell ya the truth, I never really did fix my anger. It's a part of who I am. But what I was able to do is get better control of it." Raph answered. "Ya wanna know somethin' about me?" Raph asked.
"Uh, sure." Ippo said.
"One of the fears I had was my rage consumin' me. I was afraid that if it did, I'd be nothing more than the guys we faced off against like the Shredder. The guy was so angry. So bent on destroyin' us, he was willin' to destroy himself and the multiverse to do it!" Raph said.
"Are you serious?" Ippo said, eyes widened that someone would be willing to go that far to take out someone they hated.
"Yeah. He was the one that lost the most though as he was the only one to not make it out alive." Raph said.
"Unbelievable." Ippo said before looking up. "It's just... the reason why I got into boxing was to get stronger."
"Really now?" Raph asked.
"Yeah. I was bullied. One of them, Umezawa, he insulted my mom." Ippo said.
Flashback to Hajime no Ippo Episode 1
Ippo was on the ground, mouth bloodied after being beaten up by Umezawa and his group of delinquents.
"Well if you reek this much from that funky fishing boat, your mother must REALLY stink!" Umezawa said.
End Flashback
"I tried to get up. I was mad. I wanted to do something. But what? I couldn't fight back. I got up only to get beaten back down again. And that's when I met Mr. Takamura. He happened to be passing by and saw the whole thing. He stopped it. They ran off but I couldn't even up. In fact, I became unconscious." Ippo said.
"When I woke up I was in a gym. The Kamogawa gym to be exact. Mr. Takamura took me back there until I came to. I still remember what he said to me after I thanked him."
Flashback to Hajime no Ippo Episode 1
"That's enough, you're all bandaged and awake now so just run on home." Takamura said.
"Huh?" Ippo said, confused.
"I absolutely detest the bullies in town who prey and pick on the weak, but what really bothers me is people like you who just let it happen and don't fight back." Takamura said.
End Flashback
"Ya mean that goofball from the Aftermath said that?" Raph asked.
"Yep." Ippo said, nodding. "He let me have at it with the sandbag to take out my frustration on a picture of Umezawa he drew on it. A horribly drawn one might I add." Ippo said. "I punched it pretty hard and Takamura gave me some tapes to look at of Mike Tyson. I was really inspired. I thought that boxing was the way that I'd get strong and stop something like that from happening again. It's a long story, and a long journey of work. No one, not even Mr. Takamura himself really believed in me in the beginning. But I worked and trained hard. But even with that. And even with being the champion of my weight class back in Japan, I still haven't found the answer to my question yet: What does it mean to be strong?"
"Are ya serious!? Ya won thirteen matches! Thirteen! And ya lost only one! And ya still don't know what it means to be strong?" Raph asked.
"Not yet." Ippo answered.
"Unbelievable." Raph said.
"When they said what they said about my parents and my coach. I just couldn't let them get away with it." Ippo looks at his hand. "This time I had the strength to do something about it. And I was going to use it. Though in this case, I took it too far."
"Well if there's two good things that came out of this, it's this: One, this is the chance for ya to get some control of that anger. Two: This'll teach Heather and anybody else not to talk about the people ya care about." Raph said, smiling. "If you're parents and your coach are watchin' you compete so far, they're probably proud of ya for makin' it this far." Raph said.
Ippo had a sad look on his face as he looked forward. "Yeah. My mom and the Chief at least."
Raph realized what he meant by that when he left out his father. "Oh man. I'm sorry."
"It's alright. You didn't know." Ippo said.
"You're not the only one that feels that way you know. A lot of people do about their parents." Rally said, showing up.
"Rally?" Ippo said. She sits down next to the right of Ippo as Raph sat to the left of him.
"That's why I got into the bounty hunting business. To find my father. He left when I was young to go find the people that killed my mom. But since then, he's never come back." Rally said.
"Wait, you're a bounty hunter!?" Raph and Ippo asked surprised.
"Yeah what gives? I thought you ran a gun shop!" Raph said.
"Well yeah I do. That's my day job. As for the bounty hunting thing, I kinda got carried away about revealing that." Rally said before closing her eyes, smiling. "But I guess the cat's out of the bag now."
"Anyways, the shop belonged to my dad. Before I ran it when he left. That's why I love guns and cars so much. Because of him. Even though it wasn't always that way. My mom and I had their disagreements about what I should do." Rally said.
"Find your rhythm, breath and pulse... fire in the spaces between, and you can't miss!" Her father told her during one of the times the two were practing shooting.
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"I will not have that girl growing up to be like you, as a writer or a shooter!"Her mother said as she was arguing with her dad about her practicing shooting.
She sighed. "But enough about that. I didn't come here to talk about me. Just know that it's alright. We're here for you Ippo." Rally said.
"Thanks. I appreciate you guys." Ippo said before getting up and smiling. "But I think I'd rather be alone right now. I'm gonna go take a run." He said before going to go run.
"Well, guess we've got to make a decision tonight." Rally said.
"Yeah." Raph said, not really trying to think about it but knowing that he's got no choice but to.
As the two parted ways, Rally saw Lance standing under a tree, hands in his pockets, near the craft services tent.
She had a stray thought about whether he was listening or not but walked away, thinking more about the elimination tonight. Eventually, he walked off himself.
TDI Elimination Theme Plays
"Alright. I'm not going to keep you guys here as I'm sure you all want to get some rest after today." Chris said.
"So lets get the votes in and make this quick." Chris said.
Everyone casted their votes on their devices.
"Alright the votes are in, great!" Chris said.
"The following are safe!"
"Marty!"
"Anne!"
"Luz!"
"Lindsay!"
"Clover!"
"Sam!"
"Yang!"
"Blake!"
"Ruby!"
"Brandy!"
"Leshawna!"
"Raph!"
"Mabel!"
"Jerry!"
"Dipper!"
"Eddy!"
"Ed!"
"Virgil!"
"Richie!"
"Misty!"
"Ash!"
"Reimu!"
"Goku!"
"Ippo!"
"Thank you." Ippo said before staring at his award as it glistened.
"Huey!"
"Ben!"
"Velma!"
"Shaggy!"
"Scooby!"
"Fred!"
"Kuki!"
"Wally!"
"Daphne! Ryoma! Weiss! Rally! You're the last four! One of you will be going home tonight! Question is, who?"
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"Rally! You're safe!"
"All right!" Rally said, getting an award.
"Excuse me Mr. McLean." Ippo said.
"That's still weird when you say that dude. But what's up?" Chris said.
"I q-"
"I quit." Another voice said.
Everyone looked to see the source of the voice. It was Ryoma. And many of them were shocked to hear the samurai say this.
"You sure dude? Once you leave, that's it. You'll be missing out on $300,000 man." Chris said.
"Yeah. I never came here for the money anyways." Ryoma said before getting ready to leave.
"But Ryoma, you can't quit!" Ippo said as he went down the walk of shame.
Ryoma stopped and turned to face him. "This is my decision Ippo. You can't stop me." Ryoma said before walking away.
"But you're one of our strongest guys here. You can't go!" Ruby said as he continued to walk.
"Ryoma, I just want to know. Why?" Leshawna called out.
"I lost. It's that simple." Ryoma said, refusing to explain any further. "Now if you'll excuse me, I must be going now. Good luck to the rest of you. And I wish Falcon a speedy recovery if he hasn't awoken already." He went into the lame-o-sine with any other words.
"I'm done here. Go ahead." He said to the driver before it drove off.
Everyone looked shocked.
"Wow. Unbelievable. I'm shocked. I really am." Chris said before turning to Chef. "Did you see that coming?"
"Nope." Chef said.
"Well, it looks like the rest of you are safe. For now. Go ahead and relax and/or get some shut eye." Chris said.
***Confessional***
Leshawna(Fighting Lions):
"If I have to be honest here, I voted for Ryoma. I just didn't understand why he didn't use that stone. But I really wanted to know why he decided to quit. For all we know he might have not been the one going home. He was one of our strongest members! A samurai that can transform and gain superpowers? That's a big help for the challenges."
***End Confessional***
"And in a shocking turn of events, Ryoma, the 19th century samurai is the first contestant to voluntarily quit the season and is eliminated! How much this hurts the team remains to be seen. But in other news, this is the fifth member in the row that the Lions have lost. And it only gets tougher from here. And I mean real tough. The special guests that will be coming here for the next 3 days are not gonna take it easy on them. Who are they? And what do they have in store for the contestants? Find out next time on Total... Drama... Island! Multiverse Edition!" Chris said.
And there's the chapter! Wanted to get this out sooner but I just couldn't find the scenes that I wanted to quote from the Gunmsith Cats manga. I also made some other changes to which challenge I wanted for this episode and ultimately decided to move the originally intended challenge to another episode, which will be revealed soon.
See you all on the next chapter!
Movie/Genre Inspirations for each game:
Shootout: Western, John Wick 4 Final Duel Scene
Boxing: Sports
Antartica Game: Natural Disaster Movies
Plank Fight: Pirate
Dance Game: Dancing Games, Music and Dance Movies
Jousting: Medieval, Scooby Doo: the Sword and the Scoob
Martial Arts: Martial Arts Genre