Chapter 3
The sun rose bright and early on the third day. After a nice rest for all the contestants, they were off on their way to the first immunity challenge of the season.
All players participate in the immunity challenge. The winning team simply receives the privilege of keeping all their members for another couple of days. The losing team isn't so lucky, however, and must go to Tribal Council that night and vote off one of their own tribemates.
The castaways all began to show up to the site of the challenge, one by one. Excited looks were exchanged between some of the players, while looks of determination took the others. Notably, a look of admiration fell between Flynn and Rapunzel. Before them was a beautiful beach overlooking the ocean, with a breathtaking sunrise appearing in the horizon. However, the view was quickly blocked by Mickey Mouse standing on a high platform. "Ho ho!" he squealed, "Are you all ready for today's immunity challenge?" Shouts of excitement arose from the contestants. "Now that's what I like to hear!" Mickey replied. "In today's challenge, you'll split up into groups. First, four players from each tribe will swim out to a large buoy attached to ropes underwater. You must swim down and untie the ropes holding down the buoy, and then swim it back to the shore. On the beach, two players from each tribe must use the ten keys from their tribe's buoy to unlock their tribe's chest. Only three keys will fit in the locks on the chest, though, so work quickly, ho ho! Inside your chest, you'll find puzzle pieces, which must be assembled by the remaining members of your tribe to win the challenge. Losing tribe goes to Tribal Council tonight and has to vote off a player. Everybody got that?" A few people scratched their heads. "Good!" Mickey exclaimed.
After a few minutes of pre-game strategy, the castaways assembled at their starting places. For Bote, the swimmers were Ariel, Hercules, Flynn, and Mulan. For Quru, the swimmers were Aladdin, Alice, Rapunzel, and Jasmine. Kuzco and Pooh were handling the keys for Bote, while Chicken and Tigger were doing it for Quru. The rest of the players were all taking care of the puzzle.
"Is everybody ready?" the mouse announced. Nods of approval came from the competitors. "Ready, set, ho ho, go!"
Immediately, the players took off towards the water, pushing their enemies aside to get there first. As Ariel jumped into the deep water, her legs disappeared to be replaced by her mermaid tail. Aladdin and Rapunzel were stopped in awe, staring at it, before being pushed along by their teammate, Jasmine.
At the front of the pack was Flynn and Ariel, quickly followed by their Bote tribemates. They were the first to arrive at their respective buoy, about half a minute before their opposition. With a look of command from Mulan, Ariel and Hercules dove down into the ocean in reach of the knots tying the buoy down. They returned to the surface quickly, after having no trouble with the ropes at all. The group then began to pull the buoy back to shore.
Meanwhile, the Quru players were waiting at their buoy for Alice, who was being steadily dragged along by Rapunzel. Jasmine glared at Alice with impatience, but she finally swam up, gasping for breath. The knots were then untied by Aladdin, who handled them all with ease in only two trips underwater. At this point, the Bote tribe's buoy was halfway to the beach, but Quru was about to give chase.
After their tribemates reached the shore, Kuzco and Pooh approached the buoy and began to grab keys from its side. Mulan turned to face Quru's players, but they were only halfway back to the beach. In effort to carry as many keys as he could, Kuzco dropped a key into a receding wave.
Kuzco cried out in agony. "This can't be happening to me!" He gave his other keys to Pooh, who was going back to the chest, before diving down to retrieve the key he dropped. On the way over to their chest, Pooh unknowingly dropped two keys in the sand.
As this occurred, Jasmine and Rapunzel were almost back to the beach with buoy, while Aladdin followed closely behind with Alice on his back. Tigger hopped out into the water to greet them, then rapidly dashed back to the chest with six keys in his hands. He placed the first key into a lock, and it clicked open.
On the other side of the beach, Pooh continued to fumble around with the keys, not having any luck with either lock. He looked over to the other tribe to see they already had two of their three locks open. Kuzco, exhausted, ran up to Pooh, having retrieved his key from the water. However, even it didn't fit in any of the locks. Ursula glared at the two with pure rage.
Finally, Chicken Little inserted the Quru tribe's final key into the last lock, opening their chest. Agent Jumba quickly ran over to grab the bag of puzzle pieces and bring it back to his team.
Pooh eventually noticed the keys he had dropped earlier scattered around in the sand. He picked up one close to him and inserted it into a lock, clicking it open. Kuzco did the same for the second lock. But there was still one remaining, and the numbskulls had tried every key they could find. Behind them, they heard Ariel screaming in anger. "You didn't get all the keys from the buoy!" Kuzco was too tired to run at this point, so Pooh clumsily jogged back to where the buoy was parked by the ocean.
Just as Pooh reached the final key, a shout was heard from Mickey as Li Chang placed the final puzzle piece. "Quru wins!" The tribe formed a huge huddle and cried in excitement, with Jasmine smacking Aladdin on the buttox. "Congratulations, you won't be voting anyone out tonight, ho ho!" Smiles were huge across the whole team's faces, although the same couldn't be said for Bote. Ursula looked like she was on bath salts and wanted to eat Kuzco's face. "Bote, I'm sorry, but one of you will be leaving the island tonight. Go back to your camp, and meet me at Tribal Council tonight." The Quru tribe ran off cheering, as all of Bote looked at each other disappointedly, most notably the four that didn't get a chance to compete in the challenge. As the castaways walked off towards their camp, music played into a commercial.