Total Drama: Pahkitew's Vengance

by Creaturemaster

Takes place after Pahkitew Island. Welcome to the 7th season of Total Drama! Watch as 14 application created, super powered teens compete in the latest and brutal-est season yet! There will be vomiting! There will be the wetting of pants! There will be epic battles among the meta humans! And there will be the grand prize and of course, Chris! Now with an Aftermath Show! APPS CLOSED

20. The Final Battle(s)

Hello, one and all!

Well, here we are, ladies and gentlemen (and several other unmentioned races of beings out there. I'm looking at you vampires!), at the end. Wow, it feels so long ago. Then again, this story was, what, a year in the making? Yeah, it has been a long time.

I can actually kind of see why SYOC stories don't really do all that well on this site, with a few exceptions that I greatly applaud; you have a limited audience that you know will tune in for nearly every chapter or until their character is booted, your expected to update on a routine schedule, and it eventually somehow gets boring, like you're stuck in a rut. I'll admit, I was actually close a couple times to ending this story just because I didn't think it was very good, compared to my other works.

But I'm glad I stuck to it, because now I can give SYOC stories a better reputation than they have and I'll get a sense of accomplishment for completing another story, bring the number up to three! And of course, there's you guys who have (mostly) stuck with me through thick and thin, reading my updates, giving me feedback (both positive and negative, which is appreciated), and helping me when I'm stuck and don't know how to get out.

So in gratitude to all of you lovely readers, enjoy the final chapter of Total Drama: Pahkitew's Vengeance!

"Last time on Total Drama: Pahkitew's Vengenace!" Chris began his usual recap of the last episode with slightly more enthusiasm than he normally faked. "In a desperate attempt to come up with some hilarious content for our blood thirsty viewers, I put our remaining four contestants through an insane variety of challenges and dares and truths sent our way by none other than their fellow ex-contestants, who had more than enough hate to satisfy our fans until today!" the host concluded as he came to a stop at the end of the dock.

"Today is none other than the season finale of Total Drama: Pahkitew's Vengeance, where our final two will battle it out for a chance to win one million dollars!" Chris declared as a lowly intern presented him with a metal suitcase stocked to the brim with crisp, green dollar bills; the host beamed brightly at the camera as he took a sidestep to his right just as a large, pink tentacle with serrated hooks embedded deep into the rotating suckers rose out of the water and slammed down on the unwitting intern and dock, dragging the helpless assistant down into the depths as Chris caught the suitcase of cash left behind.

"And if I have anything to say about it, it will be our biggest finale yet!" Chris chuckled as he closed the case. "And fortunately, I do. So sit back, relax, and grab some snacks because this is the season finale of Total! Drama! Pahkitew's Vengeance!"

(Theme Song: Why didn't this play at the beginning of the season?)

Dear Mom and Dad, I'm doin' fine,

you guys are on my mind.

The camera swings wildly before regaining its balance as it travels up a stream and past Chris as he relaxes in a lawn chair drinking a smoothie, only to suddenly be yanked up into the air and given a forceful wedgie as Paul fades back into existence with a vengeful smirk on his face; the camera pans past the unfortunate host and travels through the thick forest as several trees suddenly are sucked down into the island's mainframe while others pop back out in new and varying spots, revealing Zelda experimenting with an exposed panel on a large pine tree. The Pink Genius is promptly interrupted as Kiko slaps the screwdriver she's currently working with out of her hand and hands her a crude, watch-like device that is only half built before jerking a thumb back behind her and signaling for her to get back to work.

You asked me what I wanted to be,

And now I think the answer is plain to see,

Alan pops out from a tree above, hanging upside down and wearing crudely made camouflage gear with a pair of disguised binoculars in his hands that he aims and points at Zelda, admiring her face for the briefest of seconds before aiming downwards to stare lovingly at her sizable cleavage, drooling slightly; he's promptly interrupted as a large Pteranodon with a spiked, red collar around its neck swoops down from the skies and effortlessly plucks the scrawny boy out of the tree and soaring up into the air. Moments after reaching a climax, the pterosaur lets Alan go and watches as he falls to his doom, plunging down beforehand and alighting down on top of one of the large cliffs that marks the island and becoming encompassed in a flash of red light to reveal Micheal dusting his hands off as Alan plummets past him, screaming.'

I wanna be famous!

Alan plunges into the lake just offshore, sinking beneath the barrier between sky and water before a large whale surfaces beneath him and regards him for a split second before spouting off a jet of wet air and water from its blowhole and sending Alan flying once more; the massive marine mammal disappears after a few seconds to reveal itself to be a bikini clad Toni wringing her hair out before the water explodes next to her from an invisible force, confusing her greatly until she is splashed from behind by Paul. The two of them then get into a water fight as Mitchell flies by overhead on fiery jet propulsion, steam curling off of his body after occasionally getting splashed.

I wanna live close to the sun,

Mitchell continues flying over the forest absentmindedly until Alan crashes into him from above and sends the two of them sprawling into the dirt, dazed and bruised and only becoming more injured as Reese, with a smoking joy buzzer in hand, runs them over in a panic to get away from a furious Maurananei, who looks as if she had just been in an explosion of some kind. The two of them race along through the island until Chef drives by them in the opposite direction in a jeep, diverting Maurananei's attention towards him while Reese makes his escape, only to slam into a rock that suddenly jutted out of the ground in front of him.

Go pack your bags, 'cause I've already won!

Trey is seen rocking out on stage in front of a wall of massive speakers that would have easily decimated any normal person's eardrums before he is suddenly and abruptly cut off from Mortisha dropping down on him from the rafters overhead, landing on his shoulders with a wild look on her face and riding around on him like a horse much to her amusement; both the musician and creepy girl only pause in their struggle to regard Chef as he hastily rushes past them with Maurananei on his tail and a hungry look on her face.

Everything to prove, nothing in my way, I'll get there one day!

Caroline is sitting on one of the stumps at the bonfire pit surrounded by a vast collection and variety of animals that are listening and seemingly conversing with her as if it were completely normal until Chef came crashing through the trees and brush at a breakneck pace, a terrified look on his face as the forest is effortlessly pushed aside by Maurananei sitting on top of Larry's head; the animals gathered around the bonfire area immediately scatter out of fear, leaving Caroline to tremble and cower beneath the awesome plant's might as it reaches down with a tendril and picks her up off of the ground to place on his head. Maurananei gives her a comforting smile and wraps an arm around her for safety as Larry continues the chase after Chef.

'Cause I wanna be famous!

Tajira is seen locked in an arm wrestling contest with a large, humanoid creature with a pair of gigantic conductors sprouting out of its broad shoulders composed of patchwork skin, a disk with a red and silver jaw marking jutting out of the creature's right pectoral as the two of them struggle to make any ground. Alex is watching intently with a whistle in his mouth and ready to blow, acting as the referee between Tajira and Micheal while Monique sits off to the side blasting her hair with copious amounts of hairspray and filing her nails before she notices the camera trained on her and blasts it with her hairspray in anger at being caught not fully prepared.

Na na na na na na na,

The arm wrestling match is abruptly interrupted as Alan runs screaming by them with an angry Cape buffalo charging after him, Paul hanging onto the animal's horns as he whoops and cheers excitedly while Micheal, Tajira, and Alex stare; Micheal however takes advantage of the distraction and slams Tajira's hand into the stump they are using as a table, swallowing himself in a flash of red light and emerging the victor. In response to this, Tajira decks him across the face, earning a blow of Alex's whistle before she turns to threaten him, too.

Na na na na na na na!

The Cape buffalo races along the docks in its mad chase after Alan, barely even noticing as it slams into Eduardo and tramples him into the dust as it finally corners Alan on the end of the docks where he drops down to his hands and knees to begin praying, begging for forgiveness as Toni paws the ground with a hoof while Paul hangs onto her horns, preparing for the charge; the buffalo surges forward and Alan, panicked, dodges to the left and succeeds in avoiding getting run over as Toni charges past him and falls into the lake with Paul.

I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!

Serphonus appears in a puff of black and green colored smoke with a malicious smile on his face as he leers at the camera, digging into his satchel and pulling out a small chest that just barely fits into his palm; upon opening it, the fiery image of a black demon with jagged teeth and horns flies out of the box for a brief second, dwarfing the witch doctor before he slams the lid shut with a sheepish grin and tucks the box back into his pocket. He then picks up his staff and slams the butt of it into the ground, disappearing in a flash of smoke as Anuok watches from above, situated on a tree branch, with a disapproving look on her face as day swiftly turns into night.

I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!

Caroline smiles with an excited and nervous expression as she sits comfortably on Micheal's lap in front of the crackling, roaring fire with Maurananei by her side; Larry lowers his head down to her level to receive a warm scratch under his chin as the rest of the cast briefly flinches under the mutant plant's presence before calming down slightly to (mostly) enjoy each others company under the stars. Paul and Toni sit on a log together holding hands while Zelda sits with her back to Alan as he profusely and unsuccessfully tries to apologize as Kiko watches the scene unfold with a devious smirk upon her lips. Anuok regards the scene around her before sighing and gesturing with her hands above her towards a neon sign that blinks to life, spelling out the words "Total Drama: Pahkitew's Vengeance" for everyone to see.

(Whistling in tune)

Serphonus starred intently at the sleeping form of Caroline as she dozed off underneath of a nice, warm blanket on the one of the multiple sofas in the Hangout of Awesomeness; being the final two, they were both granted access to the allusive paradise before they would be competing against each other in the grand finale. To the witch doctor, the flat screen TVs, multiple video game consoles, artery clogging snacks, and cushy beanbag chairs and couches meant nothing to him, merely mild distractions and annoyances that attempted to divert his attention away from his primary goal.

With a sinister chuckle, the witch doctor leaned his staff against the beanbag chair he had set residence up on, fishing around in his seemingly bottomless satchel to pull out a large dagger about twice as big as his hand, the sharpened edge nicked and seemingly gnarled from years of misuse to the point where it appeared to slice the very air into ribbons; the handle was like that of the quill of a feather, the small bristles that made up a bird's plumage fluidly melting into the sharpened blade of the weapon. Serphonus ran his fingers over the blade, smiling wickedly at the reflection that peered back at him before he was interrupted by a slight rustling noise.

Fearing that Caroline was awaking, Serphonus prepared to hastily stow the Dagger of Cuervo back into his satchel when he realized that it was merely half a dozen or so shadows that barely lifted up the garage door of the Hangout of Awesomeness to slip inside and slither across the floor and walls to come to a stop around their temporary master, awaiting orders.

"Soon, my friends." Serphonus smirked as he took notice of a small ant that had managed to slip inside to try and scavenge on the large amount of sugary junk food that was readily available and let it skitter up onto his finger. "Soon, our time will come. U shall have my million dollars and my debt paid off, and you, you shall have what you desire most; and our enemies . . ." the witch doctor seized the moment to catch the ant off guard and crush it effortlessly between his thumb and index finger with a malicious smirk. "Will be crushed like bugs."

A sudden movement caught his attention and the shadow warriors quickly dispersed to slither and hide in the darkest corners of the Hangout as Caroline stirred and slowly woke up; Serphonus stowed the Dagger of Cuervo back into his satchel and faked sleep as the animal whisperer finally woke up with a tired yawn, her head looking more like a gnarled rat's nest than her actual hair.

"Wilson? Are you awake?" she asked softly.

Serphonus didn't reply and merely gave off a loud snore.

Unfortunately, the witch doctor wasn't able to remain this way for long when none other than Chris' infamous air horn; Serphonus jolted out of his false slumber and fell to the floor, landing in a stick puddle of knocked over soda as Caroline yelped with fright and instinctively hid under her blanket, accidentally tangling herself up in the sheet and landing on the witch doctor's back and head, pushing his face even further into the stained carpet.

"Attention final two! Meet me at the bonfire ceremony now!" Chris' voice rang out through the loudspeaker. "Unless, of course, you don't want your one million dollars!"

"The first thing I'm gonna do if I win is make every last second of his life a misery." Serphonus mumbled to himself in the carpet, his voice too muffled for Caroline to hear the threat very well.

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Chris waited impatiently, glancing at the wrist watch strapped to his arm while he tapped his foot to pass the time; for once, the narcissistic was not waiting for his only two contestants to show up late for the challenge he had set up for them, not they were already there standing next to him with slightly confused faces. "C'mon, already! What's taking them so long?" Chris griped.

"Wh-Who are we waiting for?" Caroline wondered, not sure whether or not she should be scared.

"Just a bunch of nuts," Chris replied as a shadow fell over him. "And by nuts, I mean the Peanut Gallery!"

"Can I squish him for calling us peanuts?" Serphonus and Caroline heard Maurananei's voice asked; tilting their heads to look upwards, they saw the ex-criminal sitting on top of her gigantic, mutant plant, Larry's, head with Zelda and Anuok sitting cross legged beside her.

"Unfortunately, I don't think are allowed to." Zelda shook her head. "I've looked over and read and reread our contracts multiple times and there aren't any loopholes that can get us out of this BEEP! or at least let us hurt Chris. We're trapped."

Maurananei pouted and fumed as Anuok scribbled something on her notepad with a pen and handed it to her to read. "I see sweet release in our near futures," Maurananei read over. "You know you could have just said something, right?" she cocked an eyebrow; the mute clairvoyant simply shrugged her shoulders.

"Your refusal to speak is intriguing." Zelda noted.

"You know what else is intriguing?" Maurananei wondered. "Just how the BEEP! did nobody figure out we were being played this whole time?" she grumbled under her breath as Larry lowered his head to the ground to let his master and other two passengers down onto the ground before giving Maurananei an affectionate lick upside her entire body length.

"Hey, watch the language! We haven't even started the challenge yet and people are already swearing!" Chris whined.

Maurananei growled and stalked up to Chris, setting her cold gaze just an inch away from Chris' face. "I'll say anything I want, where I want, whenever I want and nothing your BEEP! BEEP! lawyers and BEEP! rules can-"

"M-Maurananei?" Caroline coughed uncomfortably.

The harsh ex-criminal paused in mid-sentence of her icy ranting and sucked in a deep breath to still her burning nerves before turning to face Caroline with a mildly forced smile on her face; she was still miffed about Chris once again being able to control her to some degree. "Nice to see you again, Cupcake." she pulled Caroline into a warm embrace.

"Y-You, too." Caroline returned the hug with a light blush to her face, her mind still hooked around the little dare her friend had been forced to enact upon her. "D-Did you enjoy your time away from the island?"

"It was nice to get away from this trash heap for a while," Maurananei shrugged. "I missed you, though."

"Anuok is telling me to also tell you that she wasn't the only that missed you." Zelda added, reading over a small note that the silent girl had handed her. The small group had approximately three seconds to react and dive out of the way to safety as something plummeted out of the sky and slammed into the ground next to them all, kicking up a large dust of dirt and dust that slowly dissipated to reveal a roughly human-sized figure; the strange creature was definitely insectoid in appearance with a tough, green exoskeleton had a pointed, durable head with two, sharp horns framing his red eyes. The most noticeable feature of the clearly alien creature, other than its weak looking arms decorated with sharp spines, a set of red, black, and white overalls, and a mouthful of needle-like, was its massive legs that bent forward and back, forming a thin webbing between the joints that looked like it would tear with any movement that was too sudden.

"Darn it! I missed Chris and Serphonus!" the Orthonopterran cursed, stomping a two-clawed foot into the earth in frustration.

"You should know by now that we can't get everything we want," Maurananei scolded Micheal as he scuffed the ground with a foot. "If we did, we'd both have a million dollars, Chris' head on a stake, and me making out with my sweet Cupcake here."

"Excuse me?" the Orthonopterran cocked a horned eyebrow in confusion as Caroline felt her face turn a deep crimson in color.

"Nothing." Maurananei replied, thankful that the thin layer of wet saliva from her loving pet kept her light blush hidden.

"My head on a stake!?" Chris shouted. "What is wrong with you people!?"

"I'd pay to see that." Serphonus smirked.

"At least that's one thing we can agree on." Micheal mumbled under his breath as a blast of red light swallowed him whole as the Animatrix timed out and returned him to his human form; his immediate reaction was to hiss and grab his leg by the knee, giving it a good shake. "Gah! Pins and needles!"

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"Either my voodoo dolls are working, or Micheal can predict the future." Serphonus chuckled wickedly.

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Caroline giggled and wrapped her arms lovingly around Micheal's strong chest as he gave his foot a final thumb against the ground to get the tingling sensation out of his nerves before returning the hug with much enthusiasm, kissing his girlfriend gently on the forehead and smiling proudly at her. "i knew you would make it."

Caroline blushed. "Th-Thanks."

"Ugh, someone gag me." Serphonus grumbled his breath, quickly receiving a crack across the head from Zelda's collapsible bo staff. "What was that for!?"

"Do I even need to say it?" Zelda narrowed her eyes threateningly at the witch doctor.

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"Trust me, I would like nothing more than to reveal to everyone, especially Caroline, for what that son of a BEEP! really is," Zelda cursed, folding her arms frustratingly across her chest. "But the logical choice is to remain quiet and low for now, if for nothing more than Caroline's safety at the time; if Serphonus knew his cover was blown to his target, he'd striker faster and harsher than he ever intended to."

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"See this, Serphonus?" Micheal growled, clenching his hand tightly and holding up for the camera to see. "It's my fist. And it's got your name on it!"

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"Hate to interrupt your tea party, ladies, but we've got a schedule to keep! My plane leaves in an hour and it takes twenty minutes to get to the airport!" Chris cut in with little patience left. "Where are the rest of you freak shows?"

"They should be along any minute." Zelda replied, reading over another note Anuok had popped her; a low, hollow, moan echoed through the air and they all turned to see the slick hump of a large whale slowly swimming through the lake towards shore with the rest of the remaining cast on its back; Trey and Mortisha were passionately making out, the later more so than the former, and Mitchell was sitting grumpily on one, barnacle covered patch of skin while Reese, Tajira, Monique, and Alan roasted marshmallows over his smoking head. Alex watched them enviously as he kept a trolley with a restrained Kiko strapped to it by two straitjackets, a set of handcuffs, and a face mask that kept the feral woman from biting anyone, from falling over while Eduardo sulked on the far back of the whale, wondering if anyone would bother saving him if he drowned; Paul's firm grip on the back of his pants however, kept him from jumping overboard.

"What took you so long?" Chris frowned as the whale beached herself and let everyone else climb off before focusing on an image in her head; the first thing to change was her thick, blubbery skin as it turned a deep mocha in color, the dozens of barnacles and other parasites that had miraculously accumulated since the transformation disappearing as well while her gigantic, fifty foot, forty ton frame began to shrink and deflate. Her massive bones crunched and snapped loudly as they compressed on themselves and shrank, her skull crunching with a sickening sound as it squashed back inward and shrank to about the size of a basketball; the baleen that lined the upper jaw was slurped back up into the body as small, cube-like teeth pushed back from the jaws and lined her now tiny mouth. The two, large holes that allowed her to breath in her aquatic environment molded together as she was finally allowed to breath through her nose again while her massive tail split in half right down the middle, separating into two, new limbs; the wide flukes on the end of each new leg gained mass and divided into five, fleshy toes as her gigantic bulk shrank down to a size shorter than Paul. The final piece of the transformation was the addition of human-sized clothes on her figure.

"We took a wrong turn, alright?" Toni replied, cracking her back as she did so. "Not like we want to remember this place."

"I do." Eduardo spoke up in a monotone voice. "There's bound to be something here that can put me out of my misery."

"I know, right?" Mortisha smiled gleefully.

"Okay, enough!" Chris roared. "Enough with the death threats, enough with the whining, enough with everything! I have had it up to here with you freaks of nature! No sit down, shut up, and watch as your final two compete for a million dollars so I can get on with my life and vacation and never have to see you freaks again!"

"That's . . . actually something I can agree to." Tajira huffed. "Barring the whole 'freaks of nature' thing, of course."

"The sooner one of them wins, the sooner we can leave." Alan agreed, casting a nervous look at his girlfriend and earning a loving, yet warning glare. "What is this 'big finale challenge' anyways?"

At this, Chris chuckled maliciously, drawing skeptical and unnerved looks from the gathered contestants regardless of whether they were competing or not.

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"A coliseum. Your big, grand, finale challenge is a coliseum." Zelda remarked with a dead panned expression; said fight arena that the pink genius and, quite frankly, everyone else were incredibly unimpressed by seemed to have been hastily constructed over night by whatever garbage, debris, and refuse could be found lying around. Rotting planks of wood jammed into the dirt formed a secure, circular wall around a small pit with old oil drums jammed onto the top of sharpened stakes that had been tied to some of the taller planks, giving the arena the appearance of a gigantic, hungry mouth. A set of bleachers sat off to one side and below a much higher and more grand seating area.

"As if the coliseum idea was bad, this is practically the same place from season four!" Alex protested; Kiko mumbled something incoherent and struggled against her bonds viciously, earning a smack upside the head. "Quiet, you."

"You're all wrong," Chris frowned. "This is the Chris-iseum, 2.0 addition!"

"Yeah, I'm real impressed." Paul scoffed.

"At this point, I don't care if it's impressive for you or the fans back home," Chris shrugged. "We're on a budget, our funds are all but dried thanks to all the destruction you've caused, and I am quickly losing my patience with you lot."

"What be the whole point of this challenge, Chris?" Serphonus asked, leaning on his staff with a smug grin, his wicked smile broadening when he noticed the choking motions Micheal and Maurananei were making behind Caroline's head; he knew they couldn't do anything quite yet, for fear of him enacting his plans sooner than desired, and he was enjoying it all. It didn't matter if they wanted to hurt him after he won and their friend was dead or not. That would be all inconsequential when his friends came to collect his payment.

"Simple, really." Chris chuckled darkly. "Since you all seem so hellbent on causing as much destruction and fighting as much as possible, both Serphonus and Caroline will be duking it out in a fight for million dollar prize!"

Something about this whole thing bothered Caroline. "Uh, C-Chris? Why do you keep calling Wilson 'Serphonus'?" she asked, a little nervous to hear the answer.

The witch doctor chuckled maliciously at the sweet, innocent sounding answer. "Dear child, you must really be blind to not have noticed it before. That, or remarkably stupid."

Caroline gulped at the chilling tone the wangateur used. "Wh-What are y-you talking about?"

"He's an evil witch doctor, Cupcake." Maurananei whispered in her ear.

"And he's been playing us all since day one, too." Micheal growled, socking his fist into his hand. "He's been cheating, sabotaging us all but you for the past few challenges."

"R-Really?" Caroline gulped.

Serphonus grinned wickedly at the innocent girl before him, the innocent girl that, but the time he was done with her, would no longer exist and have no chance of ever existing in another life time again; his friend's would make sure of that. "Dear child, your middle name must be 'gulliable'. I've been hiding right underneath your nose the whole time and you were too stupid to even see it!"

"As much as I love watching the weak get crushed, save it for the arena." Chris interrupted a rude comment Micheal was about to throw back at Serphonus and a fist that Maurananei was going to throw at the witch doctor's face; the narcissistic host didn't seem the slightest bit concerned about the pale shade of Caroline's face as she trembled with fear underneath Micheal and Maurananei.

"Chris, this is insane! You practically sentencing her to death!" Toni exclaimed.

"This is bogus!" Paul agreed.

"I'll take her place." Eduardo droned.

"You, stay out of this!" Trey snarled.

"This can't be legal." Paul added, reading off a note handed to him by Anuok.

"Actually . . . it is," Zelda sighed, earning astonished and enraged looks. "Trust me, I've looked at the contract inside and out for any sort of loophole that could work in our favor, but Chris' lawyers are good; the deal's watertight."

"And so is my victory." Serphonus chuckled sadistically. "Lets get this over with, host-man. I've got a million dollars with my name on it." he smirked, taking extra pleasure in enjoying the fact that quite literally every available hand of the eliminated cast, excluding Eduardo and Caroline, was trying to restrain Maurananei and Micheal from attacking and beating the living tar out of Serphonus. Once the two vengeful ex-competitors had been calmed down enough that Micheal wouldn't try and reach for the Animatrix fixed to his wrist every few seconds and Maurananei wasn't trying to shake a weapon out of Zelda even faster, they moved into the Chris-iseum to find that the deep pit offered shallow trenches, barricades, walls, and fences of sorts to act as hiding spots; this did little to comfort Caroline as she stole a glance at Serphonus and shivered under his cold smile.

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"Good-bye cruel world." Caroline sniffed.

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"Hello, million dollars." Serphonus chuckled.

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"The first part of your challenge will be to scrounge around in this here big ol' pile of garbage for anything that might even be remotely useful in protecting yourself and cutting your opponent down into little, messy bits," Chris explained as he gestured to a massive mound of festering trash and junk, smirking slightly at Caroline's trembling figure before he caught sight of the murderous glare sent his way by Micheal that said he would make his death slow, painful, and brutal. "You'll have fifteen minutes to gather and build everything you need, so be quick!"

"Is that all?" Serphonus scoffed, glancing nonchalantly at his fingernails with boredom.

"Not quite," Chris chuckled. "Hidden deep within the layers of rotting garbage that I will enjoy watching you root through is a Chris McLain invincibility statue; find it, and you will be able to bring in one of our ex-contestants to help you in the task of crushing your opponent into the dust. Heck, you could even chose to sit back and do nothing but order your lackey around and still win the ultimate prize of one million dollars!" the host exclaimed dramatically as several surprised gasps radiated through the elimated competitors, sharing nervous looks with one another. "So, get crackin', while I sit back in my nice, comfortable chair and enjoy this ice cream cone." Chris smirked as he fell back into a comfy, plush recliner with a large smoothie cup in the cup holder, a bowl of cheesy chips waiting to be snacked on, and the aforementioned chocolate flavored ice cream cone sprinkled with nuts, chocolate sauce, and caramel syrup; a few of the ex-contestants looked at it longingly and briefly wondered whether or not it would be worth it to try and steal it away from Chris with the ever intimidating presence of Chef Hatchet while he stood guard next to his boss and occasionally stole a chip when he suspected Chris wouldn't notice.

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"I-I have to find that idol," Caroline gulped. "My very life depends on it! Oh, why did I sign up for this show?" she sniffed.

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Serphonus tapped his chin in thought. "Hmmm. Originally, I wasn't going to even bother in such demeaning labor, rooting through such disgusting unholy scum with my bare hands; but the thought of forcing Micheal to attack and smite his own, little girl is too much to resist." he grinned maliciously, rubbing his hands together darkly.

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"Zelda, I know I'm probably going to regret this, but what are the odds of Caroline surviving this?" Micheal asked worriedly.

The pink genius bit her lip and did the calculations in her head, biting her lip even further once she was through. "Uh . . . approximately, rough, maybe . . . 19.87 percent."

The wielder of the Animatrix, to say the least, did not like those odds. "And if she finds our little . . . gift?" he whispered in a hushed voice so that only he and Zelda could hear.

"About 45.6 percent." Zelda replied. "And that's if she's lucky enough to know how to use it."

"Know how to use what?"

Both Micheal and Zelda startled and looked behind them to see Maurananei bending low over from her row to listen in on the conversation, her expression expectant and impatient. "I know this is about Caroline. I have to know." she frowned. "She's just as close to me as you, Micheal, and she means just as much to."

Micheal sighed. She was right of course; he had seen all the episodes after his own elimination, his temper wearing thinner and thinner with every confessional that his crafty, witch doctor adversary made to plot and scheme his way to the top, and took great notice in how his girlfriend and Maurananei easily got along with one another. Granted, he was mildly irked and very surprised when they ended up kissing of all things, but he let that slide with little issue. If anything, he and Maurananei were now practically in a joint relationship with Caroline, a thought he wasn't quite sure how he felt about.

"I'm sure you remember that faulty, bootleg, knockoff of an Animatrix that Kiko used earlier in the season to try and win the million dollars early?" Micheal began.

"How could I forget?" Maurananei scoffed.

"Well . . . Micheal gave it back to me to try and fully repair it and make it operational." Zelda added. "Unlike Kiko however, I was allowed as much time as I need to install all the fail safes, firewalls, and necessary software in order to prevent another 'Kiko Incident'. Unfortunately . . . I was a little pressed for time, considering my elimination . . . so there is about a 20 percent chance that it will go wrong."

Maurananei frowned. "It's a chance we'll have to take. She may end up a freak like Micheal, but as long as she's alive, that's all that matters."

Caroline felt her heart hammer in her chest, her pulse racing while sweat dripped down her brow as she sifted through the pile of rotting garbage that piled up to her knees; she normally would have been mildly disgusted, but such a thing was trivial now that her life could very well be on the line. She glanced up worriedly to watch as Serphonus clapped his hands together and mumbled something his breath as his palms glowed a sinister purple in color before a shimmering aura surrounded him and constructed two pairs of wispy, gnarled hands that he plunged into the trash and began to root around in. This only made the animal whisperer dig faster.

"Oh, how am I going to find that statue in time?" she whimpered to herself. "Not to mention some armor and proper weaponry."

The sound of something landing on the garbage above her drew her attention and she looked up to see a seagull sitting there, looking at her curiously; something else that Caroline noticed was that the poor bird had a six pack ring caught tightly around its neck.

"You poor thing!" Caroline gasped, reaching out with her hands for the seagull; the bird squawked and flapped its wings, fluttering out of reach before settling down; the animal whisperer was deterred, knowing that some of her animal friends use to be just as jittery. "It's okay, I promise. I won't hurt you."

The seagull seemed to raise an eyebrow at this. "I-I just want to help you get that garbage off of your neck. It must really hurt." Caroline noted.

The bird, oddly enough, actually deflated at this and nodded in agreement. "I can take that off for you." Caroline promised; the seagull was elated at this and squawked and honked as it hopped within Caroline's reach and held still, not daring to move a muscle as the animal whisper dug her finger nails under the six pack ring and slowly edged it up the bird's neck inch by inch. A couple minutes later, and the death trap that had previously been hooked tightly around the sea gull's neck now lay discarded amongst the rest of the refuse.

"Y-You're welcome!" Caroline smiled as the seagull happily cuddled up to her and affectionately nibbled her neck while chirping. "How can you repay me? Well . . . I-I c-could use some help." she smiled bashfully. "I'm trying to find a statue in this pile of trash, but-"

The animal whisperer was caught off as the seagull flapped out of her grasp and landed on her head before squawking loudly and in a somewhat obnoxious tone; the ex-competitors and Chris all covered their ears from the noise as Caroline watched with curiosity before her expression became elated at the sight of a gigantic flock of seagulls heading towards the arena, descending down from the sky towards the fester pile of trash and immediately setting to work in digging through and sorting the garbage, eating anything they deemed edible.

"Well . . . that's one way to search through garbage." Paul commented at the sheer amount of seagulls that had engulfed the pile of trash, smirking slightly when he noticed that several of the birds had taken to pecking and harassing Serphonus, as well as use him as a toilet if the black and white speckled spots covering him were anything to go by.

"Get off me, you rats with wings!" Serphonus snarled, swiping at the seagulls with one of his ghostly hands while the other three continued to root around and through the garbage.

"Aim for the eyes!" Toni encouraged the birds.

Caroline gave a small smile as she dug through the refuse around her, now more focused on building armor and a maybe even a weapon of sorts now that her new bird friends had the search for the statue covered. After coming across an old tire, a decomposing fish skeleton that a pair of seagulls instantly snapped up and began to fight over, and a soup can with some leftover soup in the bottom, Caroline finally found an old, beaten up washboard and some ropes that could function as a chestplate; she the pieces aside and continued to dig through the garbage, almost instantly coming across a discarded pet carrier with a rusted mace sitting inside. Elated, she picked up the carrier and reached to open the cage, only to suddenly have it explode in her hands!

"What was that!?" Tajira roared.

"Oh, yeah. I may have forgotten to mention the booby traps." Chris remembered innocently. "My bad!"

"Why you little-" Maurananei snarled.

"Shush!" Chris silenced her as Caroline coughed up a small cloud of ash and wiped the soot off of her arms and clothes.

"You might as well just give up now, girly," Serphonus chuckled, having managed to chase away a good portion of the seagulls harassing him. "Looks like anything you try'll just blow up in yer face."

Caroline narrowed her eyes at the witch doctor and sucked in a deep breath before diving headfirst into the festering pool of bacteria-infected trash; once she had gotten past the revolting stench and disgusting texture, she found that it wasn't all too different than swimming through water. Despite the unpleasant, almost liquid-like surface she was swimming through, she wasn't the slightest bit deterred; having taken swimming lessons from a family of friendly river otters. Unfortunately, this did not mean she was able to hold her breath for long, and she soon found herself resurfacing. Fortunately, she had managed to find an old, beat up pot that would function quite well as a helmet; once she was sure that it wasn't going to explode or try to harm her in anyway, she tossed it onto the small pile she had managed to gather.

"That's our girl." Micheal allowed a small smile at the revolted expression on Serphonus' face as he continued to dig through the garbage at a distance.

"And that's the time!" Chris announced. "Stop digging around like the filthy pigs you are and report to me immediately!"

"That's an insult to pigs everywhere." Toni grumbled under her breath.

"I found it!"

A collective collection of gasps and shocked, pitied, and utterly furious expressions crossed the collection of collective metahumans as Serphonus pulled a slime covered, horribly smelling, ghostly hand out of the monumental mountain of debris and garbage; clutched firmly in its grasp was a wooden statue of Chris' head with a rotting banana peel draped over his face.

Confessional

"Who says rabbit feet aren't lucky?" Serphonus grinned as he pulled out not one, but ten small rabbit feet attached to small, golden chains around his neck from within his shirt. "And the best part? I didn't pay a buck for 'em." he added, blowing across the top of his staff with a malicious grin.

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"And with that, Serphonus can now pick one lucky contestant to help him crush the pathetic girl under his mighty fist!" Chris exclaimed happily before rock suddenly struck him in the jaw and sent him stumbling back in his chair; Chef took this moment to greedily wolf down the rest of the cheesy chips while Maurananei searched around for another rock to sling at Chris with Micheal's sock.

"Oh, dear, how to pick?" Serphonus tapped his chin in mock thought; the mundunugu grinned darkly and leveled his clawed staff at the crowd of eliminated contestants, slowly spinning it around in the air as the contestants all started to glow a frightening orange in color as most of them yelled and screamed with surprise and fought to try and get back down to the ground.

"Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, catch a voodoo lord by the toe," Serphonus recited in an almost childish manner as he moved the end of the staff from contestant to contestant in rhythm to his little rhyme. "If he screeches, let him go; eeny, meeny, miny moe. My master picks the very best one and you are . . . it."

"And things just got interesting!" Chris announced as all of the unselected ex-competitors were roughly dropped to the ground, the single remaining one being pulled out from the stands and dropped into the pit in front of Serphonus and Caroline; Chris snapped his fingers, and Chef Hatchet jumped over the side of the viewing platform, tackling the unlucky contestant to the dirt and roughly fitting a metal collar around his neck.

"You ready to fight, boy?" Serphonus grinned, kneeling down to cup Micheal's chin in his hand.

"Drop. Dead." Micheal snarled, spitting in the witch doctor's face.

"I don't like you tone." Serphonus seemed to pout, standing back up as Chef climbed off of Micheal and handed the mundunugu a remote control before quickly jogging back out of the arena; there was no way he was going to get into the resulting fight if he could help it.

"I'm not fighting for you." Micheal glowered.

"I'm afraid you don't have a choice in the matter." Serphonus acted disappointed before he clicked the bitton on the remote and watched with a cruel smile as the wielder of the Animatrix screamed in agony while his body lit up like a Christmas tree for a few, satisfying seconds before dying down. "Any time you disobey me, that little collar of yours will give you a quick reminder of who's in charge around here."

"Normally, I hate having someone stealing my lines. This time, I'll let it slide." Chris sighed happily, reclining back in chair before he received another rock to the face from Maurananei. "Let the games begin!" he groaned, rubbing the sore spot.

"With pleasure." Serphonus grinned darkly as he turned around and leveled his staff at Caroline as she struggled to get her makeshift armor on its proper place and fired off a concentrated beam of raw energy and dark magic that slammed the animal whisper square in the chest and blasted her back. "Now change." he demanded as he turned to Micheal, hovering a thumb over the button.

"Go jump off a- AAAAAAAHHHHH!"Micheal howled as he was shocked once more; with no other choice, he hesitantly reached for the Animatrix and activated it, slamming down on the activation button and swallowing himself in a flash of red light that warped and twisted his genetic code into something new. Micheal felt his body elongate and pinch into multiple spots, becoming segmented as he stretched out father and farther until he was a good thirty feet long; his arms bent in two more places as they hardened into insect-like legs before loudly splitting into four, extra pairs as random, curved spikes sprouted all along his back. His legs wrapped around each other and quickly fused into a tail that ended with a pincer-like growth while his face bulged outwards into a toothy beak with row after row after row of sharp fangs that ran all the way down his throat and to his corrosive stomach. A thick red, spiked collar materialized around his thick neck as his eyes divided into an extra pair and his armored skin turned a light orange with mottled, brown spots, completing the transformation.

Caroline groaned and sat up, rubbing her protected head before she caught sight of the massive Golpgusanus that had previously been her boyfriend towering over her, a low growl escaping its hooked beak while it gave her an apologetic look.

"Attack." Serphonus commanded.

The Golpgusanus gave off a horrible screech as it plunged its head downwards at Caroline, missing her as she instinctively rolled to the side and watched in fear as the gigantic, worm-like predator effortlessly burrowed into the earth's crust and disappeared from sight; she bit her lip nervously as she looked for any sign that would tell her where her adversary was while she attempted to feel any possible vibrations through her feet. The ground beneath her began to tremble and quake and she quickly jumped to the left just as the Golpgusanus exploded out of the earth and reared high into the air, opening its mouth and firing off globs of corrosive acid from its gullet. Caroline jogged furiously to dive behind one of the protect barriers that the arena offered as the blobs of acid followed her and pelted relentlessly against the wall, eating away at it while Caroline cowered on the ground in a tight ball.

"Not good enough," Serphonus frowned as he leveled the remote control at the gigantic predator and pressed the button. "Change."

The Golpgusanus screeched horrible as it was simultaneously electrocuted and encompassed in a flash of blood red light. His bones began to thicken, growing larger and larger as muscle and tissue packed and piled themselves heavily on his frame, so heavily in fact that it forced him to drop down on all fours just to support his hulking weight. His back bloated and expanded into a large hump of stiff and powerful muscle just behind the head as his fingers were slurped back up into his hand, leaving only his nails that hardened and enlarged into a thick, tough, hoof; his legs were short and stocky compared to the rest of his growing body as his skull bulged outwards into a rough box shape that pushed his nasal area out into a large bump. Upon this bump, Micheal could feel millions upon millions of tiny strands of small hairs called keratin weave and wind themselves together, packing tighter and tighter until they had formed a a large, curved horn on the front of his face and a smaller, knobbier horn just behind it as his face pushed into a squared form with thick lips and large, flaring nostrils. His ears rotated to either side of his head as his ears moved like liquid steel to the top of his head; it was almost ironic how as his eyesight worsened and worsened to the point where all he could see was blurry shapes, his sense of smell and hearing increased dramatically as a large, spiked collar wrapped around his thick neck, completing the transformation.

"I sure hope Caroline knows how to bull fight." Alan gulped.

"Technically, it is a Ceratotherium simum, a White Rhinoceros." Zelda corrected him as the large, bulky animal snorted and peered around the arena, as if searching for something.

"Your massive intellect never ceases to impress me." Alan complimented her, scooting a little closer to his girlfriend on the bench.

"That has to be the smartest thing you've ever said." Zelda smirked as she pulled a dagger out of her pocket and absentmindedly twirled around her fingers. "Is there something else you'd like to say, too?"

"Are you still mad about the whole 'getting Maurananei and Caroline to kiss' thing?" Alan guessed, oblivious to the way the ex-criminal was blushing slightly.

"Miffed is more like it." Zelda shrugged; the rhinoceros in the pit below snorted and set its sights on a barrier, lowering its head and pawing the ground angrily before charging forward like a run away trunk. Caroline had but seconds to dive out of the way as the rhino plowed clean through the wooden wall and reduced it to wooden splinters. Fortunately for her, rhinoceroses were not known for being agile, allowing Caroline to relentlessly dodge and avoid the heavy animal's charging with almost little effort, much to Serphonus' annoyance. "All I really want is an apology."

"Well, you could have just said that instead of chucking throwing knives at me every fifteen minutes." Alan grumbled.

"You have your ways of dealing with things, I have mine." Zelda replied. "Besides, I rewarded you with a nice time in the hot tub, didn't I?"

"If anything, it was me rewarding you," Alan smirked as the pink genius blushed slightly, earning knowing looks from Paul and Toni, Trey and Mortisha, and even Maurananei. "I'm sorry I wrote that dare." he apologized, wrapping an arm around Zelda's shoulders.

"That's all I wanted to hear." Zelda smiled, leaning close to him and giving him a quick peck on the lips before returning her attention to the fight down below; Alan meanwhile, fainted in his seat next to her.

"Micheal! Please, stop!" Caroline begged as she narrowly avoided getting skewered on the rhino's horn.

"Child, he couldn't stop if he wants to!" Serphonus scoffed with a dark grin on his lips as he absentmindedly leaned on his staff without care or worry. "Anytime he tries to refuse, alls I gotta do is push this button; the shock increases the quicker I press the button. The more he protests, the more I push, and the more I push, the closer he'll come to death with the voltage increased."

"Why are you doing this!?" Caroline begged to know as she rolled across the dirt and scrambled to her feet as Micheal came charging back at her and missed by a hair.

"Dear, child, I have debts to pay and places to be, and you are my ticket to freedom." Serphonus smirked. "Your soul, it's pure, girly. Far too pure to be wasted on living." he chuckled. "Oh, and by the way? Look out behind you."

Caroline had approximately two seconds to react before she was slammed into from behind by Micheal, the back of her shirt catching on the tip of her horn and trapping her there as the hulking animal continued to surge forward straight towards the rotting wall of the arena; Caroline braced herself for impact as the rhinoceros crashed right through the barrier and out into the woods, leaving a furious Serphonus in the dust behind.

"Why isn't this damn remote working!?" the witch doctor cursed as he furiously punched the button.

"Yeah, the range is a little short on it." Chris shrugged.

"But that means they're disqualified, right? They left the arena!" Serphonus exclaimed.

"Technically, Chris didn't say she couldn't." Zelda smirked with a devious smile.

"Thems the rules." Chris agreed.

Well . . . Micheal! He's cheating! He's disobeying an order!" Serphonus snarled.

"Actually, rhino's are not known for their eyesight. And considering how light Caroline is and how strong a White Rhinoceros is, he probably doesn't even register that she's there at all; he'll just keep on running until he gets tired or until he times out." Zelda explained.

"So I have to go after him?" Serphonus frowned.

"Yep!" Chris grinned.

"Memo to me, memo to me: maim you after my meeting." Serphonus growled, glancing at the satchel across his shoulder as he began to follow his minion's trail; thankfully, his bulky, rhinoceros form made it quite a simple task to do.

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Caroline groaned as she was roughly thrown to the floor, her shirt finally tearing and letting her drop to the ground as the White Rhinoceros skidded to a stop and snorted, tossing its head and flicking its ears to shoo away a buzzing fly while it cautiously approached the animal whisperer and offered her his horn to let her climb to her feet. "Thanks." she coughed. "B-But why did you bring me here?" she wondered, taking off her chestplate and helmet; the Animatrix timed out seconds later and returned Micheal to his human form.

"You okay?" he asked, ignoring Caroline's question for the moment as he cracked his back.

"I-I'm f-f-fine." Caroline sniffed, glancing at the multiple scrapes, bruises, cuts, and splinters she had suffered while being used as a battering ram.

"Sorry about that. Rhino eyes are exactly the best in the world." Micheal apologized as he bent down to inspect the wounds. "I wouldn't worry about those, though. The Animatrix'll fix it up right quick."

Caroline blinked, simultaneously adjusting her eyes to the darkness while giving an appearance of confusion at her boyfriend's words. "Wh-What are you talking about?" she asked.

"This." Micheal replied as he pushed aside a heavy rock to reveal a foot deep hole underneath that he reached aside and fished around in before pulling something out; Caroline gasped as her eyes focused on an object that was shaped like a thick arm band made of black and gray rubber with a purple, toothed maw symbol at the center of a watch face in the middle of the band with four tubes snaking up to it. The animal whisperer trembled as Micheal approached her and held the faulty Animatrix out to her, as if he wanted her to take it.

"I understand that you're scared and believe me, I thought this was a bad idea, too." Micheal sighed, stooping down to talk to her better. "But if you ever want a chance of surviving this challenge, you're gonna need some serious fire power."

"B-But . . . don't you remember-"

"Remember how Kiko tricked Zelda into making this and trying to steal the million dollars while burning down half the island in the process?" Micheal finished. "I do. Which is why I asked Zelda to help me repair it and install all the proper safety measures to ensure it never happens again; this Animatrix can be synced with mine, allowing me to unlock any transformations that may be locked on yours, as well as lock you or anybody else out should something go wrong."

"B-But . . ."

"I know you're scared." Micheal sighed. "But this is your best chance. I know you don't want to die, I don't want to die, Maurananei doesn't want you to die, nobody wants you to die. We all love and care for you greatly and we'd all miss you if you taken from us . . . especially by a BEEP! like Serphonus."

Caroline gulped and glanced nervously between the crude device in her boyfriend's hands and the warm look on his face that promised safety and security. "Y-You . . . you promise n-nothing will go wrong?"

"Promise." Micheal nodded. "And if something does go wrong, I'll fix it."

Caroline gulped and sucked in a deep breath, cautiously reaching out for the prototype Animatrix that waited for her; she gave off a startled scream when the device suddenly trembled and split vertically along the arm band and lunged at her like a hungry mouth, clamping tightly around her left wrist and hugging her wrist tightly. "AHH! Get it off me! Get off!" she screamed as she waved her arm around wildly.

"Calm down! Calm down!" Micheal soothed her. "Trust me, the Animatrix did that to me too my first try. All it's doing is reading over your DNA so it can lock in on it and only activate and listen to your touch; another fail safe."

"I-If you say so." Caroline sucked in a breath to calm her jittery nerves. The Animatrix beeped and buzzed softly, glowing a bright, friendly purple in color, as if it were gently beckoning her to touch it; Caroline obliged and pressed two of four, glowing purple buttons positioned in a ring around the watch face, watching as it pushed up out from the device like a piston and flashed a black silhouette of a familiar, four-armed being. After receiving an encouraging look from Micheal, Caroline pushed the activation button with a single finger and watched as a blast of purple light engulfed her. Her skinny figure suddenly swelled in size and bulk as hundreds of muscles piled themselves on top of each other, sending her growing form upwards until she was more than twice the size of Micheal, her slim shoulders still dwarfing his own; her fingers snapped and pulsed as thick veins popped out of her now purple skin, sending alien blood through her as her organs sloshed and oozed around inside of her, forming a second heart as another pair of eyes appeared above her own and turned a solid yellow in color. Caroline's mousy brown hair turned a deep, raven black in color as her arms and legs became lean and powerful, her stomach and chest muscles hardening like solid iron until a loud crunching sound ripped through the air and a second pair of just as muscled arms ripped out from under her original pair. The arms were nothing more than flesh and bone until tough, purple skin crawled over and covered it while her toes melted together into a pair of firm claws; black leotard with a purple stripe down the middle and a belt of the same color with the Animatrix at its center appeared on her, ending the transformation.

"AAAAAAAA-AAAAAHHHH!" the female Nisilaha screamed with fright, stumbling back as she flailed her four, muscled arms around in a panicked frenzy. "What just happened!? Why do I have four arms!? And why are you so small!?" Caroline panicked, grabbing Micheal by his shoulders with four of her arms and finding that she could now effortlessly lift him off of the ground as if he were a newborn baby.

"Caroline . . . can't breath!" Micheal choked; Caroline apologized and set Micheal back down on the ground, bending over so it would be easier to talk to him; it was almost amusing how a human boy was comforting a four-armed extraterrestrial that easily dwarfed him in size and strength. "Caroline, you're perfectly fine. You're just a Nisilaha now."

"I . . . I guess you're right," Caroline marveled as she clenched and unclenched her four hands in experimentation. "I-It . . . it doesn't hurt."

"Exactly." Micheal nodded. "Now all you need to know for the basics is that you have roughly a fifteen minute window before the Animatrix times out and that every time you initiate the Quick-Change feature by slapping the Animatrix while still transformed, the battery time gets shorter and shorter. You'll usually be able to transform again after a time out, but sometimes it gets stuck in Recharge Mode."

"How long does that last?" Caroline wondered.

"It varies." Micheal shrugged. "Now most form's abilities you'll be able to use instinctively, but some require a little more control and skill. You should be fine in this form, though." he added, raping a knuckle on her iron tough stomach and making the female Nisilaha giggle in response. "You gonna be okay?"

The Nisilaha nodded. "Th-Thank you. I-I don't know where I would be without you, Maurananei, or everyone else . . ."

Micheal waved it off. "Ah, don't worry about- AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" the wielder of the Animatrix howled as he collapsed to the floor of the cave and convulsed violently as electricity coursed through his body; knowing that Serphonus was close, Micheal activated his own Animatrix and swallowed himself in a flash of blood red light that warped and changed his DNA into something new. His skeleton crunched and snapped loudly as his arms quickly lost muscle mass and were reduced to thin, limp noodles that slithered back up into his body as his shoulders squished together and melded with his thickening neck; his legs wrapped around each other and fused into a stiff, muscled tail so that Micheal's body was now essentially a tube. His jaws widened and lost all their teeth as they were slurped back into his skull with a loud cracking nose while his eyes rotated apart and became beady in appearance. A thin sheen of slime covered his skin as muscles packed themselves tightly around his skeleton, thin fins lining his tail and back as a set of gills opened up behind his neck and the spiked collar that formed there, completing the transformation.

Caroline was slightly stunned at the transformation but recognized the animal immediately from a trip to the aquarium she had taken with her girl scout troop; the marine museum had many exhibits housing hundreds upon thousands of species of fish and other aquatic life form the world's rivers and oceans, but perhaps the one she had spent the most time with was an electric eel in the Amazon tank, a large exhibit with a glass tunnel that allowed the visitors to walk through and underneath the water amongst the fish. She had ignored the odds stares other visitors had given her after her troop had moved on when she was caught talking to the electric eel, who was actually a good comedian in Caroline's book and loved to tell electricity jokes, the fish's somewhat goofy looking appearance forever burned into her mind.

Thus she was not alarmed when the electric eel at her feet sucked in a breath through its mouth and started to thrash and slither about on the floor as it generated thousands of volts of electricity through its specially evolved muscles, firing it off into the shock collar around its neck and shorting it out within moments; sensing what her boyfriend was getting at, Caroline stooped down and picked the slippery fish in two of her arms before grabbing the smoking remains of the shock collar in her other two hands and easily ripping it off. "You're a genius!" she smiled, kissing the eel on the forehead.

"Ah-HA! So this is where yer hiding!" Serphonus exclaimed as he came to a stop at the mouth of the cave and immediately took note of the ten-foot tall alien standing the darkness with a highly conductive fish in its hands. "What the-" he started until Caroline gave a sudden scream and chucked the electric eel at his head, smirking triumphantly when Micheal let lose a powerful shock that sent the witch doctor reeling. With Serphonus down, the Nisilaha charged forward and grabbed the electric eel by the tail as she fled back towards the Chris-iseum.

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"We're now forty minutes into the challenge, and our two contestants have yet to reappear once more," Chris narrated quietly. "Which raises a pertinent question . . . WHAT IS TAKING SO LONG!?" he roared loudly, shaking Alan out of his sleep; the rest of the contestants passed the time waiting to see the fate of their final two by either talking with one each other rather awkwardly, making out, playing rock-paper-scissors, playing with the playing cards Maurananei had smuggled in, or scratching out an image in the bleacher seats with one of Zelda's weapons.

"Contrary to their leg size, rhinos can run quite fast." Zelda replied without looking up. "Maybe Micheal ran far, far away or something."

"Whatever," Chris huffed. "If none of them are back within one minute, none of them get the million!"

"It's like dealing with a BEEP! man-child." Maurananei grumbled under her breath as she laid down her hand after drawing a hidden ace out from her sleeve and won the game she was playing between Tajira, Paul, Toni, and Eduardo (who didn't actually seem to be trying to play).

"At least we weren't playing strip poker." Paul sighed as Maurananei happily collected the limited winnings of a few dollars they had pitched in.

"Did someone say 'strip poker'?" Alan perked immediately before Zelda absentmindedly whipping out her collapsible bo staff and smacking him over the head without looking up from the carving of Spot she had been carving into the bleacher. "Thanks, babe. I needed that." he winced as he rubbed his skull.

"You're welcome."

"So when do you think they'll be back?" Monique wondered as she filed her nails absentmindedly.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAA-AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

"My guess is now!" Alex exclaimed, pointing upwards at a small, four-armed figure that was quickly growing larger and larger as it fell from the sky before crash landing into the ground below in an explosion of earth and dust; everyone but Eduardo climbed to their feet to see a female, purple-skinned Nisilaha come crawling out of the hole with Micheal in his human form on her shoulders, a somewhat pained look on his face.

"Might want to work on that landing." he told the four-armed alien.

"N-Noted." Caroline agreed.

"Okay, what the BEEP! is going on here!?" Paul exclaimed.

"Simple, really. I fully repaired the faulty Animatrix Kiko had me build and gave it to Caroline." Zelda explained with a shrug of her shoulders. "With Micheal's permission, of course."

"Good. Just wanted to be sure." Paul huffed.

"But wait," Toni tapped her chin in thought. "If they're here, where's Serphonus?"

"I'd like to know that, too. Because I, for one, am getting bored!" Chris whined.

The air suddenly got hot as a low buzzing noise filled the air, making everyone's hair standing on end as a crackling, purple, singularity of light appeared in the middle of the air in the center of the pit, growing bigger and bigger until it finally collapsed with a loud, thunderous bang! that blasted Caroline and Micheal back as Serphonus instantaneously appeared before their very eyes, his own eyes crackling with dark, purple energy as he levitated above the ground. "I am done with these tiresome games!" Serphonus hissed in a dark, echoing voice that didn't belong to him while he pulled a glowing, green dagger that looked like the feather of a crow from his satchel. "By the Dagger of Cuervo, it is time for you to die!" he roared, leveling his staff at Caroline before rushing at her from the air.

"NO!" Maurananei and Micheal yelled simultaneously as the former jumped out of the stands and into the pit while the later tapped his Animatrix and slammed a hand down on the core as he rushed at Serphonus, his DNA shifting and changing as he ran. His wrists bloated to the size of basketballs as his fingers cracked and hardened, turning into large, black claws as the blubber from his hands traveled up the length of his arms, expanding and growing and swelling to massive proportions on his shoulders; his belly suddenly exploded outwards and it would have been funny had the situation not been so dire. His legs crunched and cracked heavily as they became shorter than before while his toes become bony and sharp, now black claws to support his growing weight on as his skin began to solidify in certain areas, piling up into layers on his shoulders, back, thighs, and wrists; durable, red armor that could withstand the most corrosive of acids and lava now covered him protectively as his skin paled to a chrome white, the top half of him turning a pitch black. His neck ground and snapped loudly as his head was compressed into his shoulders, his mouth widening to fit the appropriately over his wide face as his eyes moved farther apart. The final part of the transformation was the addition of the Animatrix on his chest and the sudden flexibility of his spinal cord.

The Boulgira roared and curled up into a tight ball, its back, arm, shoulder, and leg plating fusing together to form a tough, durable, red ball of destruction that rolled quickly across the ground at Serphonus, quickly intercepting the witch doctor as he drove the Dagger of Cuervo downwards onto the spherical alien's shell; the dagger, as sharp as it was, only managed to poke a microscopic dot into the Boulgira's thick armor before Serphonus was slammed into from the side by Maurananei, the two of them tumbling and rolling across the ground before coming to a stop with Maurananei on top.

Before she could start to relentlessly punch him however, the unholy blade the mundunugu had wielded seconds before sparkled and cracked with electricity, levitating a few feet off of the ground as a dangerous amount of energy shot out and into it, the sky darkening as the winds howled and roared; thunder rolled heavily over head as a bolt of lightening snaked out from the dark clouds and struck the Dagger of Cuervo, the light building up within it rising to such a level that the weapon simply exploded into hundreds of tiny, metal shards.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Serphonus wailed before Maurananei slugged him in the jaw; the moment the ex-criminal decked him across the face, it was like a switch had been flipped. One moment the cast had been watching in stunned silence, the next the vast majority of them were hopping and leaping and charging out of the bleachers to rush en mass and stampede towards Serphonus with multiple weapons of choice raised and ready to do damage; Zelda emptied an entire armory's worth of weapons out to everyone, giving Paul a pair of hunting knives, Alan her collapsible bo staff and a some shurkiens, Alex a katana blade, Reese a pair of sai, and arming herself with a pair of nunchucks; Anuok pulled out her own pair of daggers as Toni morphed into a sleek Bengal Tiger, Trey wielded his guitar like a club as Mortisha's nails suddenly grew to a long and wicked size that drew odd looks from everyone else for mere seconds before they all descended onto Serphonus with Micheal and Caroline following suit.

Caroline gave a loud war cry as she tore Serphonus out from under Maurananei and tossed him sky high into the air, slamming a hand down on the Animatrix on her waist and swallowing herself in a flash of purple light, now a gigantic, heavy plated Ankylosaurus that turned around and swung her clubbed tail, smashing it into the witch doctor and sending him flying low across the ground; Micheal grunted as he uncurled himself and slammed his belly into him, bouncing him back as Maurananei stooped down and launched Anuok into the air, allowing her to plunge her daggers deep into Serphonus' thighs and dragging them down to his ankles. Toni let out a earth-shattering roar and pounced on the helpless witch doctor in mid air, tackling him to the ground where Alan then proceeded to whack him over the head with his bo staff as Paul stabbed hi knuves deep into Serphonus' shoulders.

"This is payback for everything you've ever done to us all!" Tajira growled, socking her fist into her open hand.

Serphonus promptly spat in her face, wincing slightly at the blood that dripped from his wounds as the entire available cast crowded around him in tight circle, ready to beat the ever living tar out of him; the witch doctor actually felt weakened and afraid, especially when he saw Reese of all people pick up his discarded staff and break it over his knee out of anger. The mundunugu sucked in a deep breath and prepared for the pain that would undoubtedly followed when he noticed something particular about the clouds overhead, taking note how they started to turn a sickly green in color, swirling and spinning like a hurricane overhead with a large, purple eye at the center.

"Friends!" Serphonus smirked with relief when the clouds parted to reveal a massive, demonic skull with fiery eyes, jagged teeth, and a pair of sharp horns surrounded by a large council and collection of human and animal skulls; his relieved expression however turned into one of concern when the skulls started to whisper amongst themselves, glancing at him every now and then and briefly regarding the ring of metahumans that surrounded him with slight interest before returning back to their conversation.

'I'm not sure I like where this is going." Paul frowned as he watched the demonic skulls overhead.

"That makes two of us." Micheal rumbled.

The Ankylosaurus bellowed in agreement as both her own and Micheal's Animatrixes timed out in blasts of purple and red light.

"Four." Maurananei glared, balling her hands into fists as if she were ready to actually fight the demonic creatures looking down upon them from overhead.

"I think it's safe to say that we all don't like it one bit." Tajira snarled.

"On the bright side, though, I don't think they're happy with ol' Serphonus!" Mortisha grinned wildly as the head skull unhinged its jaws and opened them wide; Serphonus immediately began to scream in fear and agony as dozens of pitch, black figures oozed and slithered across the ground and wrapped themselves around his arms and legs, painfully tearing out Paul's daggers as they suddenly leaped into the sky, dragging the screaming witch doctor with him.

"No! No! Not now! Now isn't a good time!" Serphonus howled. "Please! No! I have more plans to repay, you promise! I just need more time!" he pleaded before turning to the eliminated contestants. "Please, ya gotta help me! I didn't mean for any of this to happen! It was all a joke! Ya gotta help me!"

Micheal marched to the front of the group with Maurananei and Caroline following after, stern looks on the former two's faces. "I don't know, guys. Should we help him?"

"I dunno." Maurananei shrugged. "I seem to remember him trying to kill us all on multiple occasions."

"Caroline?" the two of them prompted the animal whisperer; gulping nervously, Caroline looked between the pleading, begging expression on Serphonus' face as he dug his hands into the dirt, struggling to gain any ground against the demons that held him captive, and the cold, angered expressions of her friends and now family. This vile creature, this horrendous excuse for a human being had heartlessly tried to not only kill her to pay for his sins and debts, but also the people she had grown close to over the past few weeks, the people she had grown to call a family when her own family hardly bothered to deal with her. Oddly enough, Caroline felt no sympathy or remorse for him.

"Go rot in BEEP!" she gulped before sucking in a brave breath and raising up her foot to stomp down on Serphonus' fingers; the witch doctor howled in brief pain before the voodoo demons pulled him into the air, slithering and sliding back into the head skull's cavernous mouth and dragging Serphonus with them as his screams were cut off by the sharp clack of the skull's teeth clanging shut.

"Today . . . a debt has been repaid," the skull hissed. "And today . . . a pure soul has been stained."

With that being said, the skulls were enveloped by the thundering clouds overhead as lightening tore the sky in two before vanishing in a earth-rattling bang that seemed to vibrate the very air; utter silence followed as everybody simply stared at the spot where Serphonus had once been and had been taken from their world. Not that anybody cared right now.

"So . . . you being the only one left and all . . . that makes you the winner, right?" Maurananei broke the silence.

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As far as finale's went, this one was by far the strangest and most climactic Chris had seen in a long while. Sure, season five had ended up with the island sinking to the bottom of the lake, season four had resulted in his beautiful, radioactive island being taken away from him and having himself shoved into jail, and season three had even involved a live, active volcano, but having one of the contestants seemingly killed and abducted voodoo lords after getting the ever living tar beaten out of him was definitely a first.

"And so," he cleared his throat. "It was with great reluctance, pleasure, and fear that I declare Caroline the winner of Total Drama: Pahkitew's Vengeance!" Chris announced proudly, trying not to appear afraid as Maurananei, Toni, Zelda, Alan, Paul, and quite literally every other contestant but Micheal threatened him from behind his back as he presented Caroline with the open, metal suitcase containing one million dollars.

"I-I . . . I feel faint . . ." Caroline rubbed her temples as Micheal helped steady her.

"Easy there. After what we've been through, we all need a good break." he said with a smile. "Looks like you'll end up becoming a hero after all."

"Yes, yes, she won. Great. Now take the million dollars and go already." Chris huffed, closing the case and handing it to Caroline, who promptly dropped it on Chris' foot under the sheer weight of the case and money; while the host held his throbbing toes, Micheal took the case for her.

"So what are you gonna do with the money?" Reese asked.

"Massive mansion?" Monique guessed.

"Yachts?" Alan suggested.

"Animal conservation?" Toni tried.

"Donating it to the scientific community?" Zelda wondered.

"Burn it knowing that it's meaningless?" Eduardo droned.

"Hoard it all and gather more and more money until you're the richest person in the world!?" Mortisha cackled madly.

"I think someone had too much swamp coffee this morning." Trey smirked.

"Aw, you know me so well, Barney!" Mortisha gushed, hugging her boyfriend tightly.

"It's all up to you, Cupcake." Maurananei folded her arms over her chest before relenting against Larry's pitiful whimpering and scratching her pet happily underneath his chin. "You're money, you're choice. Either way, after we get off this dump, you, me, and your boyfriend are going to have a little chat with your parents, Cupcake. And maybe your girl scout troop while we're at it."

Caroline blushed lightly. "I . . . I'm not sure what to do with the money. I n-never thought I would get this th-this far."

"Well, how about we focus on other things for now," Micheal suggested. "Wielding the ultimate weapon on your wrist, your responsibilities to the world, sitting back and relaxing and forgetting about all that-"

"Getting off my island while the goings good." Chris interrupted. "Now go!" he jerked a thumb towards the docks; Toni sighed and dived into the water, focusing on an image in her head as the changes began. Her body began to expand, making her into a fifty foot giant human that all but dwarfed everyone on the dock as her back rose up out of the water and threatened to dose them all in a sizable wave; her face pushed outwards into a long, triangular snout as her mouth broadened and widened and her eyes moved down and to opposite sides of heads until they seemed to be in separate zip codes. Toni's ears and every strand of hair on her head vanished as her fingers melted together into long, bumpy paddes longer than her original form was tall while her legs wounded themselves around each other and her feet flattened, turning into giant, triangular flukes. Layers of fat and blubber piled up underneath of her wrinkling skin and muscles, her nose vanishing entirely as two openings opened up in the back of her neck and sucked in a breath of wet air while a small dorsal fin (at least, compared to her) formed on her back. Toni's teeth disappeared and were replaced by thick, brush-like baleen as her tongue filled his mouth and her vocal cords became nonexistent, completing the transformation.

"All aboard who's going aboard!" Reese announced as the majority of the cast and Larry climbed onto Toni's back.

"H-Hey, Micheal?" Caroline spoke up before both she and Micheal could climb onto the whale's back.

"Yes?" Micheal asked.

"Thanks. For everything." Caroline smiled, standing up on her tip toes to kiss Micheal full on the lips with a fierce blush to her face; with that being said, they climbed on after their friends and hung on as Toni pumped her tail and swam out onto the lake, leaving Pahkitew Island behind.

"Hey, Mitchell? Paul?" Maurananei asked after they were a good distance away.

"Yeah?" she now had both of their attentions.

"Did you do what I asked?"

"Yep. Managed to sneak away before everything turned sour." Mitchell grinned.

"There something I'm missing here?" Micheal wondered.

Maurananei didn't reply at first and merely held up a hand that quickly counted from five fingers to four. Three. Two. One.

BOOM!

Everyone turned around to watch as Pahkitew Island, true to its translation, promptly exploded in a massive, fiery mushroom cloud visible for miles on end, sending bits of metal paneling and wood splinters high into the sky; out of the many pieces of debris and junk that were raining down on the lake like hail in an ice storm, Chris and Chef screamed as they plummeted from the sky, flailing their arms and legs as they fell faster and faster until they miraculously landed (painfully) on Toni's back with a loud, sickening smack! that drew an uncomfortable grunt from the humpbacked whale.

"And with that, I'm Chris McLain!" the host declared deliriously. "Thanks for tuning into Total! Drama! Pahkitew's Vengeance!"

"I know I got my vengeance." Maurananei smirked.

And there we go!

Wow. I can't believe it. Th-This . . . this is almost unheard of! A complete SYOC story on this site! Stop the madness! Stop the presses! Stop time itself, it actually happened!

Regardless, I'm glad that I managed to complete this series and I hope that I can do the same for my next. That's right, I made a sequel to this! And this time, I'm not doing it alone: I'm doing it with the lovely Jeptwin! So stick around, while I recover, recuperate, and edit, for the first chapter of my next Total Drama story: Total Drama: Take 2!

As always, comment, review, suggest, and request down below!

Hasta Luego!