AN: Note to the reviewers, the reason the mean characters are gone is because you vote them off. The fill-in votes I put in have no effect on the overall results. Enough people voted for Jake and Seeiah to be eliminated without my help. One of them may return later, or maybe not.
Regardless, I have plans for a villain. I'm trying to make it hidden. What fun is there in an obvious villain if a subtle one is much better? Anyway, I may have to put reviewer voting on hold. I'll give you guys one last chance. Contestants, try not to vote for the obvious bad guy, but stay in character.
Chapter 3—Tonight on Capitol Hill***Recap***
Chris: Last time on TDAT, Boston! Place of history and boats! Our contestants took part in a tea party challenge by throwing various supplies overboard! After throwing several weights overboard, Team Liberty won the first challenge. Team Freedom had to vote someone off. It was down to Xander and Seeiah, but since Seeiah was causing conflict, she was eliminated. Maybe I've got to intervene, since I've got nothing but nice contestants now. Anyway, the next episode starts right now!
***Back to Game***
***Unknown Location***
"They'll all pay." An unknown person was silhouetted in a shadow. "Now, GO!" the mysterious person pushed a button, and something was released in the shadows. "Ha ha! How dare they vote me off! They must learn to fear my power!" The figure went back into the obscure shadows.
***Back on the Plane***
"Who keeps voting for me?" Logan thought to himself. "At least that bald girl's gone. I've got to find out who this guy or girl is and show him up! Wait. Violence isn't the answer." Logan went to sleep with the others.
***Confessional***
The lights are out.
Unknown Person: As long as I keep voting Logan, no one will catch me! Logan? Weird name. Never liked it.
***Back to Game***
Meanwhile, in the girls' quarters, Michelle felt devastated. "I liked my ramp idea. Why didn't it work?"
"To be honest, it wasn't that bad. Just poor timing." Samantha answered.
"Whatever. We need to get some sleep." Roxanne interrupted. All the girls went to sleep.
Later that night, two people were in a dark part of the plane. They seemed to be talking about something. "You're friends with everyone, right?" one of them asked.
"Uh yeah." The other responded.
"OK. Since everyone votes off the obvious drama starters, how would you like to work for me for a while?"
"I dunno. I don't want to cause drama."
"Well, this show needs it. Since you're the most liked person, I need you to cause fights, maybe 'play the villain.' Something like that, huh?"
"What's in it for me?"
"I'll make sure you don't get voted off."
"OK then."
"Deal. Now get back to sleep."
The next morning, everyone woke up as the plane was still in mid-flight. During the flight, it felt as if Chef flew the plane in circles just so the contestants can sleep on the plane instead of a destination. Chris woke up and left his quarters to head to the lounge where Jasper was staring into a blank TV screen. "Weird." Chris said to Jasper. No response as usual from him.
Nothing was said as Chris went to the contestants' quarters to wake everyone else up. When he got there, he used a foghorn to wake up the sleeping contestants. Roxanne was the first to react. "It's six a.m. Can't I get some sleep?"
Holly added another statement. "We're not farmers here."
"Hey!" Logan interrupted Holly.
"Most of us aren't farmers." Holly continued.
Chris started to explain what was going on. "Get dressed, get some breakfast, and I'll tell you about our next destination!"
In the guys' quarters. Everyone prepared to take a shower for the morning. Lucas and Jasper raced to take a shower first. "Me first, zombie!" Lucas pushed Jasper to the ground and got first dibs on the shower. Josh helped him up, while Jasper didn't say anything back, but he was a little grateful.
"Don't I get a thank you?" Josh asked. Jasper nodded his head yes. "Shy type? Anyway. I'll protect you. Try and stay away from Lucas. He's bad news."
Jasper seemed puzzled. "He's got a criminal record you know. He loves to get into fights. I'm surprised he hasn't got into one yet here."
Jasper nodded. "Do you talk at all?" Josh continued.
"Yeah." Jasper said his first words on the plane, although it felt like a whisper.
By this time, Lucas got out of the shower, and pulled on Jasper's towel, exposing him to the other males. Everyone except Jasper and Josh laughed for a moment. "Get it back on, weirdo!" Lucas yelled as Jasper wrapped his towel around himself again.
***Confessional***
Elijah: Jasper talks? Let the pigs fly! Fly piggies fly!
Josh: Come on, Jasper! Stand up for yourself! Don't let Lucas prank you.
Lucas: Score one for me! With a complete zombie on our team, who won't say anything, I can do whatever I want to him! With the girls mad at Josh, they won't vote me off.
***Back to Game***
"You've got to stand up for yourself." Josh told his new friend. "Show him who's boss. Try and hit me. I want to see what you're made of." Jasper tried to hit Josh, but he barely felt anything. "Come on. You can hit harder than that. I'm not weak. I can take a hit." The two of them continued talking as the line for taking a shower got smaller.
The girls' quarters were not much quieter with an even longer and slower line. "Come on, Tonia. We don't have all day!" Leilene yelled as Tonia was taking an extra long shower.
"Some of us have to use the shower too!" Holly added.
"Just wait your turn! I need to go first! That seawater was really dirty!" Roxanne interrupted Holly as she cut her place in line.
***Confessional***
Holly: Rocky's tearing us apart! She didn't need to cut in front of me. I really need to shower, and Tonia taking forever is not helping. Why did Team Freedom get to use the showers first? And why did Chris only put one shower in here?
Roxanne: The sooner Tonia gets out, the sooner I get in.
***Back to Game***
After everyone showered, they got dressed and entered the lounge where Chris was waiting for them. "Why is there only one shower for six of us?" Leilene asked.
"And there are seven guys!" Logan added.
"Budget cuts, man. Gotta cut somewhere." Chris answered.
"For your own lavish hot tub? I saw that last year. Get over yourself, you narcissist." Lucas chimed in.
"That's it!" Chris yelled out. "Lucas, if you interrupt me one more time, you're out of here."
"Just go with it." Michelle added. "We all know Chris puts himself before us."
"I know. Anyway, out next stop is Washington D.C. The national capital of America!"
"We knew that." Holly answered.
"Now you know it more. Chef and I are going to push all of you off the plane into the National Mall. Bring a parachute. You'll need it." All thirteen contestants quickly got parachutes and jumped off the plane into the city.
"I feel like singing a song!" Michelle yelled out as everyone was falling.
"DON'T!" Everyone else yelled out. All of the parachutes opened and everyone landed safely, Chris included. The two teams approached the United States Capitol where Chris started to explain the challenge. "Today's challenge is a mock Presidential election!"
"Huh?" Leilene asked.
"Each team will pick one person to run for 'office.' I will give each team some poster paper and supplies for a podium that each team has to build. The poster must have a portrait of your candidate. The team will help provide a campaign while the candidate provides a speech, then the American people will vote for a President."
"Worst idea for a challenge ever." Michelle replied.
"Any better ideas?" Lucas added.
"Shush." Chris got everyone back on track. "I was going to say, 'and by American People, I mean myself and Chef here."
"You guys are Canadian. You've got to be a US citizen to vote!" Michelle interrupted.
"I think not. Anyway, pick a contestant to be your candidate and go!"
***Team Freedom***
"I think Dakota here should be our President." Logan said.
"Uh, sure." Dakota replied.
"I second that." Samantha added.
"Cool. Let's get started."
"I'm calling captain of the campaign." Michelle got up and started barking orders. "Dakota and Logan can build a podium for the speech, while the rest of us make a poster! Chris gave us some markers and poster paper! Let's go!"
"Who made you boss?" Samantha asked.
"We need a good strong leader, and I felt like I blew it last week."
***Confessional***
Michelle: I need to do this! Our team needs me, and I can't lose!
***Back to Game***
"If we lose. You're going home." Xander added.
***Team Liberty***
There was a lot of arguing over who should be president. "I want to do it!" Lucas yelled out.
"No me!" Holly answered.
"Why don't I do it?" Josh was the third to volunteer.
At one point everyone except Jasper wanted to be the candidate. Josh had an idea. "I know. Why don't we let him decide?" Josh pointed to Jasper.
"What? You kidding?" Lucas was in shock. "He'll just stare into space." He changed his tone and focus to Jasper, who was sitting on a stone bench. "Come on, you've got to nominate me."
"Don't influence him, purple haired guy." Josh interrupted.
"Don't you dare mock my purple hair! Now you're going to get it, you horny wannabe Casanova!"
Josh and Lucas started to fight. Holly and Tonia jumped into the fray seconds later. The fighting continued until Jasper pointed to the last person anyone expected. He pointed to Leilene. The fighting slowly stopped as everyone involved in it saw Jasper point to Leilene. "Leilene? Why?" Josh asked.
No response as usual. Josh continued. "Jazz, you've got to speak up. You can't be a mindless drone all your life. How else are you going to get laid?"
"Like you're going to get laid anytime soon." Lucas snickered.
"What was that? It's on again!" Lucas and Josh got into another long fistfight. This time, Chef Hatchet broke up the fight.
"Both of you, out of the challenge!" Chef yelled out sternly as he pulled Lucas in one hand and Josh in the other.
"Chill out, dude." Lucas started to whimper being pulled by Chef.
"You're just a bully. You two are going to cool off for a while." Chef pulled the two boys to a shady spot next to the Capitol.
***Team Freedom***
"We need to color all the posters!" Michelle exclaimed at the rest of the team.
"What color?" Xander asked.
"Red. Remember! We're Team Freedom!" Elijah answered with joy.
"I still think it should be green." Xander interrupted.
"Paint the border green and you are out of here!" Michelle. "Come on people! We need a good poster of Dakota!"
"I'll start drawing him." Samantha got out some pens and started drawing her love interest.
Meanwhile, Dakota and Logan worked on the podium for the speech. "Hammer?" Dakota asked his friend. Logan handed him a hammer, which he used to hammer some nails into the side of the podium, but he ended up hitting his own finger instead. "Ow!"
"Are you hurt?" Logan asked.
"No I'm fine, but something's bothering me."
"Huh?"
"I heard two people talking last night. Sounded like an alliance."
"Why are you telling me this?"
"I don't know. Maybe they want to vote us off."
"Why? The only people that wanted us gone were Michelle and Seeiah, and Seeiah's gone."
"Wait. Someone keeps voting for you."
"That's right! I've got to find out! Who else is there? It's got to be a guy." Logan thought about it for a while. "I've got it! Elijah and Xander! They want us gone!"
Dakota didn't say anything, and both of them continued to work on the podium.
Two hours later, Team Freedom finished their poster. Michelle and Samantha worked together to nail it to the podium.
***Confessional***
Samantha: We did great! Now Dakota has to write his speech and we have this challenge in the bag!
Dakota: I don't feel like writing a speech. Too much work.
***Back to Game***
***Team Liberty***
With Jasper the only guy left, the girls made him build their team's podium by himself while they colored the poster of Leilene. "Use blue!" Tonia yelled out.
"Why?" Roxanne answered.
"It's our team color. Holly, can you start on Leilene's portrait?" Holly started drawing Leilene as best as she could. Leilene and Tonia helped out. The team had a lot to time to catch up in order to surpass Team Freedom, who just finished their podium. Jasper worked as fast as he could building his team's podium, and after a half-hour of hammering nails, he was finished.
***Everyone***
At nightfall, Chris called everyone to the Capitol Steps where he had each team place their podium. "Team Freedom, you're first. Why should we vote for your candidate?"
Dakota got up and started his speech, or his lack of since he didn't write one.
Good evening America. My name is Dakota O'Riley, and I believe I can be a good President. If I lower taxes for everyone, and lower the drinking age to 16, I'm certain people will vote for me. There will be rocking parties every Friday night, with some of the best bands. Vote for me, Dakota O'Riley. Thank you.
"OK then." Chris said as everyone applauded. "Team Liberty?" Leilene got up to deliver her speech.
My name is Leilene Son. I am from California, and I am the best candidate for President. Here's why…Now that I've listed my strengths, you can clearly see why I am the best candidate. Thank you, and remember to vote for Leilene Son.
Everyone who was still awake after the one hour speech applauded. Chris took the microphone and declared the winner. "Team Liberty wins again!"
"What?" Everyone was shocked. "Leilene's speech was boring!" Michelle blared out.
"No, Michelle." Chris responded. "It was Presidential. Elections are boring. You said it yourself. Now let's get onto the bus to our next destination?"
"Bus?" Logan asked as everyone was shocked.
"Yes, Logan, a bus. Our next location is within easy driving distance. We'll be there by morning, except for whomever your team votes off."
***Confessional***
Logan: Where's the plane? Aren't we going to get back in there? We're not going back to D.C. are we?
Elijah: Wow a bus ride! Wonder where we're going now!
***Back to Game***
Everyone got onto a tour bus headed north. Team Freedom had to vote off another person. "We've got to win!" Samantha exclaimed. "Who are we going to vote off?"
"Either Elijah or Xander." Logan responded. "One of them's voting for me, and I've got to stop them!"
"How do you know it's one of them?"
"Dakota told me he heard of an alliance being formed while we guys were sleeping. Did you hear anyone talking?"
"No? I was fast asleep. All the girls were. None of us heard anything."
Elijah interrupted. "Logan, I heard two people talking last night, too. Don't blame me. I didn't vote you off. It could have been two people on the other team. Don't worry about it."
"But someone is voting for me! It happened in New York, and it happened in Boston!"
All of a sudden, Chris yelled out, "Team Freedom! To the back of the bus! Time to vote someone off!" Team Freedom all complied, and went to the back of the bus where Chris was waiting.
AN: Voting time! Team Freedom needs to vote someone off. Votes will be tallied in either three days or after everyone has voted. (Whichever comes first.) You can still review the story, but your vote must be sent via PM, or it won't count.
If you do not vote, I will vote on behalf of your character.
Teams:
Team Freedom: Elijah, Logan, Dakota, Xander, Samantha, Michelle,
Team Liberty: Jasper, Lucas, Josh, Tonia, Holly, Leilene, Roxanne
Eliminated so Far: Jane, Jake, Seeiah
Note 2: In the reviews, try to guess who the mysterious figures are.