A/N: Another update! Yeah here's chapter 4. Thanks for all the reviews guys. Just to warn you, not only is this the longest chapter so far it also has the most stuff in it.

World Tour Halfway Remix

Chapter 4

Tension was high up in first class as the Amazons had themselves an old school stare-down. On one side we have Heather with her arms crossed glaring unpleasantly at Gwen. While on the other Gwen was glaring back just as strongly, perhaps more so and had been for a while now. Sitting right next to her was Courtney who was also glaring slightly at Heather as support for Gwen and rapping her fingers on the armrest.

Blissfully unaware of the whole thing was Cody who was sitting right beside Heather eating a newly baked chocolate chip cookie. "Mhmm! These chocolate chips are still gooey! First class rocks!" He took another big bite and chewed loudly.

It was then that he finally noticed the strained look on Gwen's face. "Want a cookie, Gwen?" He held out a cookie in his open hand. The Goth suddenly looked away from Heather toward the cookie. Deciding she wanted it Gwen reached for the cookie when suddenly Heather knocked it out of Cody's hands.

"Hey!"

"No cookie for her!" Heather told Cody looking cross. "Come with me we need to talk strategy." She grabbed him by the wrist and led him away from the other two girls and sadly his cookies. He watched in horror as the plate fell to the ground and spilled while he watched helplessly. Courtney and Gwen watched them leave.

Once they were out of first class she let go of his wrist. Cody pulled back and rubbed it. "Okay, I'm here. What's the deal?"

Heather composed herself. "We need to talk about who we're going to vote out next elimination."

Cody looked nervous. "But we've been doing really good so far. Ever since Sierra was eliminated we've won both challenges, and we only have to eliminate someone if we lose. So why worry about it right?"

Heather glared; Cody flinched. "I don't intend on our team losing again until merge, but I want to be safe. If we lose again we should know who we're voting off ahead of time. Besides us there's only Courtney and Gwen. So it should be obvious who we'll eliminate next."

"Umm…Courtney?"

"NO! Gwen!" She practically shouted at him. "She's had it out for me since episode one and it's only gotten worse since she found out we're dating. If we don't eliminate her soon she'll definitely find a way to have me kicked off and probably humiliated. You wouldn't want that would you?"

"Of course not!" He reassured her. "But still…isn't there another way? What if we tried to make friends with her? Gwen's reasonable; I'm sure we can work something out."

Heather ignored this completely. "Cody, you don't still have feelings for Gwen do you?"

"What? No! Of course I don't!" Cody tried to convince her. "It's just…hard okay? Voting off friends is hard."

"Well get used to it." Heather answered coldly. "If we want to win this thing you have to look past your friendship with that Goth and help me vote her out." Cody looked like he was going to say something but the queen bee cut him off. "No buts Cody, just do it!" She then turned and walked away.

*Confessional*

Heather: I like Cody a lot, but the boy doesn't have a ruthless bone in his body. I have to wear the pants in this relationship. We'd both be dead if I didn't.

Cody: I didn't lie to Heather. It's true I don't like Gwen that way anymore. But planning her elimination? I'm just not ready for that. Is being in a relationship during a season always this much like an alliance or is it just Heather?

*End Confessional*

Meanwhile in loser class Tyler and Ezekiel were both sitting on the hard seats while Noah paced back and forth. "Alright boys, we're outnumbered three to four." Noah said to his less intellectually inclined teammates. "We need to come up with a plan to beat team Amazon. Any ideas?"

"Umm…" Tyler paused in thought. "We could try to convince Chris to start the merge early?"

"Somehow…I don't think he'll go for that."

"Just leave this one to me, eh." Ezekiel stood up. "The next challenge is all mine! We'll take the win for sure Holmes!"

Noah slapped himself in the face. "I don't know why I even bother to ask…"

*Confessional*

Noah: Why couldn't I have had some semi-intelligent teammates? I guess it's better to have someone dumb but trustworthy like Tyler than someone smart yet evil like Alejandro but still! It looks like it's up to me to come up with something or we're all screwed.

Tyler: Noah has a point. I got to get my head in the game! I promised Lindsay I was going to win this season for us and I'm not going to let her down! You hear me Lindsay? When I get out of here I'll be a million dollars richer! Whoo!

*End Confessional*

Chris' voice could be heard coming through the loudspeakers throughout the plane. "All competitors please move to the common area to prep for landing." The remaining seven competitors sat around the two tables in the common area as they waited for whatever crazy challenge Chris came up with.

Meanwhile in the cockpit Chris and Chef were preparing to land when a flashing light appeared. Chef kept pushing a button but it didn't go away. "Uh oh…"

"Uh oh funny," Chris asked, "Or uh oh we're all going to die?"

"The landing gear won't come down." Chef explained.

"How does that happen?" Chris freaked.

Cut to a scene of the landing gear unable to go down because alien clone Cody is sleeping right beneath it.

Chris went out to the common area to talk to the contestants. "Today's forecast: clear skies with temperatures of fifty degrees Celsius or say…three hundred degrees Fahrenheit. And today's landing is going to be more of a non landing fly-by."

The host pushed open the only exit to the plane. "Jump, drop and roll!" Tyler and Ezekiel jumped out first followed by Courtney. "Come on let's go!" Chris yelled as Heather, Cody, Gwen, and then finally Noah jumps out of the plane.

Once safely on the ground (after checking none of them were injured beyond a few bruises) Chris went back to his prepared speech. "G-day mates!" He did his best attempt at an Australian accent. "And welcome to Australia!"

"That accent is horrible." Noah commented.

"Shut it!" Chris pointed his index finger at the teen. "I worked hard on this accent. Now before we begin the challenge I've got a little surprise for all of you." As he finishes saying this a helicopter flies overhead behind him.

The teens watch as it landed to their left in the Australian desert. Someone got off the helicopter and trudged towards the contestants and host.

"Duncan!" Courtney couldn't help but cry out.

It was indeed the punk making his way toward them as the helicopter took off behind him. Every one of the contestants watched in surprise as he approached them. He gave a quick wink to Gwen.

"Duncan my man!" Chris smiled. "Glad to see you made it on time."

"Shove it Mclean!" Duncan told the host. "You better make this worth my time."

"Duncan!" Courtney ran over to the punk. "What are you doing here?"

"Chris what's going on?" Noah asked.

"I've decided to bring Duncan back to the game!" Chris announced with a smirk.

"What?" Heather exclaimed. "You can't do that!"

"Actually Heather, I can do that." The host informed her. "Thought you could skip out on your contract huh?" He poked the punk in the chest. "But we finally caught him and brought him back. Now he has to compete."

"That's weird…" Ezekiel scratched his head. "Cause I thought Chris eliminated Duncan for not singing eh."

"He did," Noah bit his lip. "Chris you kicked Duncan out fair and square for not singing. You can't just pretend that never happened and bring him back."

"Yes I can!" he laughed. "And for the record Noah: I have no idea what you're talking about."

"So which one of these two lame teams am I on?" The punk asked.

"You'll be joining team I am so wicked hot!"

Duncan looked over his team of Tyler, Noah and Ezekiel. He frowned. "Well I guess that makes sense." He smirked. "Have one team be all guys and the other all girls."

Cody frowned.

*Confessional*

Cody: I am so tired of all the girl jokes! Sometimes being on team "Amazon" really bites.

Noah: Seriously? Chris doesn't even pretend to care about the rules anymore.

Duncan: Yeah so Chris paid me a thousand bucks to come back on the show and stir up some drama. I figure I'll mess with Courtney and those dweebs a bit and then try to hook up with Gwen. Chris promised to pull some strings for me so it looks like I'll be getting another million dollars once I win. Too easy.

*End Confessional*

"Anyway let's get back to today's challenge." Chris said. "I call it the marathon of death! Part one is an emu race all the way into the Blue Mountains. I'm not saying the trip will be dangerous exactly, but with venomous snakes, killer scorpions and the very real possibility of sunstroke I hope you all have your affairs in order." The teens looked at him like he was crazy. "Whoever reaches Majestic Hanging Rock first will earn a distinct advantage in the second half of the challenge. And yes, I said emu. Bring them in boys!" He called out.

Two interns came forward each dragging a screeching emu. "No saddles, after all it's supposed to be a challenge. Now go!"

At this point the eight contestants each had to catch one of the many emus. Team Amazon did fairly well at this. Heather had little trouble climbing on top of one and neither did Courtney. It took Gwen a few tries but she got one too. Cody had the most trouble; as the shortest member of the team he had to jump the highest to get on top of one.

Team Chris is really hot on the other hand was having a lot more trouble. Noah was having the same problem as Cody while Tyler's clumsiness was preventing him from landing on the emu's back. Duncan got it after a few tries by stepping on one of the emu's feet causing it to stop then jumping on its back.

Though he didn't realize it Ezekiel was having the hardest time. "I got this one eh!" He jumped for one of the emus only for the bird to get out of the way. The home-schooled teen fell down on his chest. "Ouch! Okay let me try again…" This time after he hit the ground the emu walked right on top of him.

*Confessional*

Ezekiel: I don't think I like emus much eh. But I bet they'd taste great if I cooked them up over an open fire…

*End Confessional*

Eventually all of the teens got an emu (even Ezekiel) and rode off into the dangerous Australian wilderness.

They rode the rest of the day until night came when they had to stop and make camp. Gwen and Courtney had been riding near each other all day so they camped together too. The only food they had to eat was a can of beans. As they forced down their less than tasty meal they tried to make conversation.

"I can't believe how long this challenge is taking." Gwen complained.

"I can't believe how bad this food tastes." Courtney said. Both girls shared a laugh. "But your right. Spending the night out here in the desert is ridiculous. Chris is putting us all in danger; it's another lawsuit just waiting to happen."

Gwen rolled her eyes. "You're not going to talk about suing him again are you?"

"Oh no," the CIT shook her head. "I was just saying." A minute passed in silence as they finished eating. Courtney stood up. "I think I need to use the little girl's room. Where would that be?"

Gwen smirked. "Well there's a bush over that way." She pointed west a bit to a bush not too far away.

Courtney sighed. "Well I guess it's far enough away that you won't be able to hear me."

Gwen didn't look as her friend headed over to the bush to relieve herself. What she didn't know was someone else was nearby watching them and had waited for this moment. As Gwen sat there staring at the stars Duncan walked up.

"Beautiful night eh pasty?" The punk sat down right next to her.

"Ah!" Gwen jumped slightly at the teen's sudden appearance. "Oh it's you Duncan. Where'd you come from?"

"Jumpy aren't you? Well I just got here." He lied. "Thought I might catch some shut-eye next to a pretty girl." His arm wrapped around Gwen's shoulder.

The Goth quickly pushed his arm off and shuddered. "Ha ha, good one Duncan. You must be talking about Courtney, your girlfriend, you just missed her. She had to pee, but I'm sure she'll be back soon."

"Well I don't mind if she takes her time." Duncan wiggled his unibrow at Gwen. "If you know what I mean." He scooted closer to her. Gwen just looked confused.

*Confessional*

Gwen: I thought I'd be more excited that Duncan's back, but I'm…not. Is that wrong? I hadn't exactly expected him to start flirting with me like he was Cody. Actually now that I think about it Cody didn't really flirt with me like this. He just fed me some cheesy line and winked. Duncan on the other hand? His hand is a little too close to my butt…

*End Confessional*

A minute later Courtney got back from the bush and saw Duncan was now sitting beside Gwen. "Courtney!" Gwen instantly jumped to her feet. "Look whose here!" She motioned to Duncan.

The punk rolled his eyes. "Duncan you're here!" Courtney walks over to give him a hug but right before she does her hands suddenly pull back. "Oh wait your on the other team." She crossed her arms. "What are you doing here? This is our campsite."

Duncan smirked. "Just thought I'd say hi to my girl."

That lowered a few of Courtney's defenses. "Aww how sweet! Okay I'll give you one hug but then you have to find your own camp!" She quickly wrapped her arms around him and squeezed.

Duncan hugged her back slightly, but his attention was focused on Gwen. He looked right at her and mouthed "I meant you" at the Goth. She suddenly found herself very uncomfortable and started to cough loudly into her hand.

"Okay, hugs over!" She pushed the two of them apart. "Time for Duncan to leave!"

"Hey!" Courtney looked a little miffed. "What was that about?"

"We need to focus on the challenge." Gwen reminded her friend. "Remember?"

The CIT nodded slowly. "I see your point." She turned to her boyfriend. "Goodbye Duncan."

Duncan walked off looking much less than satisfied.

*Confessional*

Duncan: Well that blows. I expected Gwen to be all over me. She must be playing hard to get. I just got to take it up a notch next time.

*End Confessional*

The next morning Ezekiel was traveling across the barren land trying desperately to keep control over his emu. "Whoa! Come on eh!" He pulled hard on the reins trying to get the emu to go the right direction. "Calm down!" But the animal wasn't listening to Ezekiel and instead began to shake him off.

"Ouch!" Ezekiel landed on his butt in the dirt after the emu threw him off. The bird then ran off into the desert. "What the heck Holmes? Not cool!" He got to his feet and looked around. He began to sprint after the animal but in the hot desert sun he soon became too tired to continue running.

"Not…cool…bird…" He desperately tried to catch his breath as he trudged after it. The bird was now so far away he couldn't even see it. Ezekiel had to take his jacket off as it was soaked with sweat and the heat was overcoming him. Wrapping it around his head for extra protection he continued walking toward Majestic Hanging Rock.

A few hours later Chris and Chef were still waiting for the contestants to show up at the target point. The host checked his watch. "Think the scorpions got em?"

"Five to one it's the dingoes." Chef said.

Just then an emu rode up to their camp carrying Tyler on its back. "Hey Chris! I made it!" The jock yelled out.

"Ah!" Chris and Chef nearly jumped up in surprise. "Finally! That took forever."

"Am I first?" Tyler looked around. "Yes! Team Chris is in first!"

"What?" Everyone turned to see Heather ride up on her emu. "There is no way I just lost to that loser jock!"

"You can both calm down because it doesn't count unless you get your whole team here." Chris informed them. Just then Cody rode up to the camp and parked his emu next to Heather's.

Not long after Courtney and Gwen arrived both looked worn down but not defeated. "Fourth?" Courtney groaned. "I told you we should've started an hour earlier!"

Duncan was right behind them and soon after came Noah. The brainiac didn't look so good. As soon as he entered camp he fell off his emu. "Water…" He gasped. "Need…water…"

Seeing his teammate in this condition Tyler's eyes went wide. "I gotcha bro!" He ran over to Chris's stuff and took a water bottle filled with ice cold filtered water.

"Hey that's mine!" The host whined.

Tyler ignored him and brought the water bottle over to where Noah was lying on the ground. He quickly took the water and drank greedily. When half of the bottle was empty he stopped drinking and took deep breaths. "Thank you…Tyler…" Noah gasped. He soon pulled himself into a sitting position. "I guess you are good for something after all."

Tyler frowned.

*Confessional*

Tyler: The one time I come in first and it doesn't even matter! When's the next time I'm going to win the challenge? Probably never! Where's my respect? Where's my recognition? Where's my ice cold filtered water?

*End Confessional*

Chris walks over to both teams. "And team Amazon takes the lead!"

Duncan puts a hand over his eyes and looks out into the desert. "Where's that homeschooled idiot?"

"Don't even think about going out after Ezekiel team me." Chris warned them. "You'll just have to sit here and wait for him to arrive. Team Amazon get ready to buckle up and take a long walk off a short cliff."

Chris led team Amazon over to the edge of the cliff. "The challenge part two: teams must take turns bungee-jumping off hanging rock and plummeting to the bottom far, far below to try and grab one of our finest sheep. Three of those sheep have Team Chris' logo tattooed on their side. Another three have team Amazon logos under their wool. Not too far from their lethal jaws."

"Lethal jaws?" Tyler looked confused. "I thought we were talking about sheep…"

"First team to catch and sheer one of their own sheep wins first class tickets to next-ville and the losers head to elimination town!" The host finished his explanation. "As the last to arrive team me gets a pair of gardening shears." Chef hands Duncan the gardening shears.

"And as the first to arrive team Amazon gets this advantage: a battery operated sheep shear!"

"Yes!" Heather, Cody and Courtney cheered as Chef handed Gwen the electric razor.

Meanwhile Noah was looking out into the desert for the one member of their team who had not made it yet. Tyler walked up behind him. "Any sign of him?"

"No." Noah sighed. "What a brilliant time for home-school to get himself lost!"

"I wish I could go look for him!" Tyler clenched his hands into fists. "What if some dingoes got him?"

"They'd probably think he was one of them." Noah smirked. "Also they'd go for the emu first."

"Alright team Amazon; times a wasting!" Chris said impatiently forcing them to start the challenge.

Courtney tied the rope to her leg and made sure it was tight. "Here goes…" She gulped. Ignoring her fear she leapt off the ledge. She screamed the whole way down. When she did get to the bottom she barely reached for a sheep but only managed to touch one before the rope pulled her all the way back up and onto her butt.

Courtney shivered in fear at the experience. "That…is so wrong!" But Chris and Chef only laughed.

"My turn," Cody said strapping the rope to his leg.

"Good luck Cody!" Heather called out encouragement. Courtney just rolled her eyes.

"I wouldn't expect too much Heather. It's harder than it looks."

Without a word Cody leaps off the cliff. He does scream going down but a few seconds later he comes up carrying a sheep in his arms. Both Chris and Chef looked surprised at this. "The Code-man delivers!" The tech geek raises his arms in victory before looking at the sheep. "You can call me the wolf."

Heather smirks at Courtney. "Harder than it looks is it?"

"Well I…uhh…"

Heather hurries over to Cody and gives him a quick kiss on the cheek. "Nice going Cody, now move over so I can sheer it!" Her boyfriend holds down the sheep as Heather shaves off its wool as quick as she can. Unfortunately this sheep was tattoo-less. "Crap! Stupid sheep!"

As Gwen watched this spectacle Duncan snuck up behind her. "No tattoo huh?" He asked her. Gwen shrugged. "That's a shame. But I've got a tattoo or two myself. Maybe you'd like to see them?" He asked winking.

Gwen quickly took a step back and away from Duncan. "Uhh no thanks Duncan. I think it's my turn to jump."

She hurried over to Cody and Heather. "Give me the harness!" Without waiting for a reply she took it out of Cody's hands.

A look of frustration crossed Duncan's face before he was distracted by Tyler. "Look its Zeke!"

All eyes turned to the desert where they spotted Ezekiel walking toward them. His emu was nowhere to be found and he looked delirious. Stumbling into camp he fell face first into the dirt. "Zeke!" Noah, Tyler and Cody quickly ran over to their friend and helped him to his feet.

"Are you alright?" Cody asked him.

"Emu…where's the emu?" Ezekiel asked. "I gotta eat him…"

"He's delirious…" Noah stated. "I think…"

Duncan turned to Chris. "We can start now right?" The host nodded. "Yes! Hey you two!" He called out to Tyler and Noah. "Forget about home-school and come do the challenge!"

All three boys glared at Duncan. "Just ignore him." Cody told the other two. All three of them carried Ezekiel over to the shade and gave him what was left of Noah's water.

"We should do the challenge without him." Tyler said. Noah nodded.

Gwen jumped next and brought up a sheep. Duncan went while they were shearing and got his own sheep. Unfortunately neither had a tattoo. Noah went after that but accidentally brought up a cactus instead. As Heather made the next jump Noah pulled the stickers out of his skin.

A few more jumps later as Team Chris was shearing another sheep Tyler had a thought. "Hey Noah, wouldn't it be a lot faster if we just used your lightsaber?"

"My lightsaber?" Noah raised an eyebrow at the jock. "Tyler we're supposed to be shearing the sheep, not cutting them in half."

"I know that, but I thought you could use it like a razor. Then we'd get done much faster!"

"I don't have that kind of skill." Noah admitted. "I'd just end up burning off a layer of its skin along with the tattoo."

"Well that's too bad. Maybe we could—

But Tyler was interrupted as a few feet away Heather yelled out "Yes!" Her teammates cheered with her. "Hey Chris, we found the tattoo!"

"Looks like team Amazon wins!" Chris announced.

Heather looked over at the other team and smirked. "Sorry boys; I guess it's just not your day."

"Just great." Duncan crossed his arms. "This team blows."

Both teams got back in the plane and were now flying to their next destination. Team Chris was in loser class again. Ezekiel had recently come to. "You okay bro?" Tyler asked him.

"Wha…?" Ezekiel looked around. "What's going on eh?"

"You lost us the challenge that's what!" Duncan blamed the homeschooled kid.

"You fainted after the first challenge." Noah explained. "We lost, and now we're back in loser class."

"Ah I'm sorry everyone!" Zeke hung his head. "I was so confident we could win that challenge and then I go and blew it!"

"Yeah, and now you're going home!" Duncan told him.

*Confessional*

Noah: We'll see about that Duncan.

*End Confessional*

Duncan walks out of loser class and looks for Gwen. He finds her in the confessional complaining about something. "Hey pasty," he steps inside. "I was wondering if—

"No." Gwen interrupts him. She can tell by the look on his face he's confused. "Whatever you were going to say the answer is no. I don't know why you've been hitting on me Duncan, but it's got to stop."

"What? Why?"

"Because Courtney and I have become really good friends recently and I don't want to ruin that. Courtney is your girlfriend; don't you know how she would feel if she knew about this?"

Duncan shrugged. "But…I thought you were into me."

"I…was," Gwen admitted. "I admit I was for a while, but I'm not anymore. I'm not sure what changed; if it was Courtney or something else but I don't feel that way about you anymore. I don't want there to be any more confusion between us so let's just be friends okay?"

"Are you serious?" Duncan groaned. "You did not just give me the 'let's be friends' speech. You know what? Fine. This is way more trouble than its worth and you're obviously not going to change your mind so I'll just leave."

The punk pushes the door open and leaves the small bathroom confessional. However once he does not walk back to loser class but instead turns back to Gwen. "Just one thing. Who beat me?"

"What?" Gwen asked not understanding.

"I'm asking who you like now instead of me."

Gwen shrugged uncomfortably. "No one. I'm not into anyone right now."

Duncan gave a disbelieving laugh. "Yeah right. I can tell you're into some other jerk now. It's all over your face. Who is it?"

"It's nobody! Just get out!" Gwen yelled as she grabbed the door and pulled it shut. She sat back down and took a deep breath. "What a jerk. I'm not into anybody…right?" For some reason the thought made her feel very uncomfortable. "Who could I be into anyway? There are so few boys left it would have to be…" Suddenly someone's face appeared in her mind and it wouldn't go away.

An hour later the four remaining members of team Chris is really hot were gathered in the elimination room. Ezekiel and Tyler were sitting on one row while Duncan and Noah sat on the row beneath them. Chris stood at his podium to start the elimination. "It's been a tough day for many of you, but one of you is about to have the worst day of all. Ezekiel, you were last to arrive and did nothing in the second challenge. Noah, you drank my water and pulled up a cactus instead of a sheep. And Tyler…well I guess there's nothing specific." He shrugged.

"So let's just get right to it then shall we?" He looked down at the votes he had at his podium. "It looks like we've got three votes for Ezekiel and one for Duncan. That means Zeke, you are gone."

Ezekiel lowered his head in shame. "Aww man…"

"Hey wait!" Tyler stood up. "That can't be right. I voted for Duncan, not for Zeke!"

"So did I." Noah agreed.

"Nope! You're both mistaken." Chris told them. "Duncan stays, Zeke goes."

"Whoa Chris," Chef walked on over toward the host. "What are you doing man?"

"I'm getting rid of that homeschooled kid once and for all Chef." Chris answered. "What does it look like?"

"You can't just rig the votes!" Chef told the host.

Chris crossed his arms over his chest. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

"I saw the elimination tapes." The older man said. "I know everyone except Duncan voted for Duncan. You have to eliminate Duncan."

"I don't have to do anything!" Chris slammed his fist onto the podium. "It's my show, so it's my rules. If they don't like it—too bad!" Just then a cell phone started to ring.

Chef realized it was his and pulled it out of his pocket. "What do you want?" A brief pause passed. "Oh sorry Mr. producer sir. What's that? You want to talk to Chris? Yes sir." He passed the cell phone over to the host.

Chris puts the phone up to his ear. "Hello? What? Unfair eliminations? Contract breaches? Suspended? No I won't give the phone back to Chef!"

"Give me that pretty boy." Chef takes the phone out of Chris' hands and shoves him back. He listens for a minute while the person on the other end talks. "Really? Alright, I understand. Yes, thank you." He then hung up the phone.

"Will one of you two geniuses tell us what's going on?" Noah demanded.

"Chris has been suspended for repeatedly changing the rules to suit his own needs." Chef explained. "Along with wasting a ton of the budget for this season. With no time to find a replacement I'll be host for the remainder of the season!"

"What? Seriously?" Duncan asked.

"For real?" Ezekiel said surprised.

"NO! This is not happening!" Chris exclaimed.

Chef nodded. "Oh it's real alright. And that means that Duncan, you have just been eliminated." He shoved a parachute into the punk's hands. "Have a nice fall."

Duncan looked from the parachute to Chef. "Seriously?"

"Seriously." Chef answered before pushing him out of the plane. They could hear him scream on the way down. "You're next pretty boy." He shoved another parachute into the former host's arms.

"You can't do this to me Chef! You can't! You'd be nothing without me! Nothing!" He continued to rant and scream as Chef picked him and threw him out of the plane.

Noah, Tyler and Ezekiel all clapped. "So…I'm not eliminated?" Zeke asked.

"NOT THIS TIME!" Chef shouted at him. "But don't think I'll go easy on you!"

"Yes sir!" Ezekiel gave a quick salute.

"I'll go tell team Amazon." Tyler said running out of the elimination room.

"You do that," Chef said rubbing his hands together. "You do that." He turned back to the camera. "Wait…how did that idiot say it again? Oh yes. So join us next time on another bla bla episode of Total Drama World Tour!" he glanced over at Ezekiel. "Did I do it right?" Zeke just shrugged.

An hour after the elimination ceremony was over Gwen was waiting in the back of the plane. It was pretty dark as the only light came from a small light bulb hanging loosely from the ceiling. After a few minutes had passed Cody showed up looking confused.

"Gwen?" he approached her. "You wanted to talk to me?"

"Yes," she nodded. "I have to get something important off my chest." Gwen took a deep breath to try to relax herself. "The truth is I was pretty angry when I learned you were going out with Heather."

Cody frowned. "You didn't call me out here just to complain about Heather did you?"

"No," Gwen shook her head. "Let me finish. When I heard you two were going out I thought she was just using you. I thought I was just angry because I hate her so much and I want her eliminated. But that wasn't my only reason. I realized I was worried about you. I was worried she'd hurt you, and that I didn't want that to happen."

"I'm glad." Cody interrupted. "I'm glad to know you do care about me. Sometimes it's hard to tell if we're friends or not Gwen."

"You don't understand." Gwen shook her head again. "I don't think of us as friends. I was jealous of Heather. The truth is for some strange reason I can't stop thinking about you."

"Gwen…what are you saying?"

"I'm saying I like you Cody, and I know you've always liked me." Gwen said. "Listen, I'm not telling you to cheat on Heather. Break up with her and then I promise we can be together."

As one could imagine Cody looked very conflicted to hear this. He had liked Gwen for the longest time, but he had gotten over those feelings. He was going out with Heather now. He liked her now…right?

Gwen could see the confliction in Cody's eyes. She knew despite being a little perverted that Cody was a moral person who would never view this as an easy decision. So she decided to make it a little easier for him. "I'm serious Cody. Let me prove it to you…" The Goth bent down a little and leaned forward to kiss him. The tech geek saw her lips come close to him and the desire to kiss her back was overwhelming. He started to lean forward when a thought crossed his mind.

I like Heather don't I?

Suddenly a multitude of memories and images crossed his mind. He saw himself standing next to Heather with the rest of the Amazons, sitting next to each other eating dinner on the plane, competing in a challenge together, kissing in the confessional, and finally an image of Heather falling asleep on his shoulder. He lifted her head up and saw a brief smile on her face…

"NO!" Cody pushed Gwen backwards. "No. I'm sorry Gwen, but I can't. Part of me may still like you, but that part is nothing compared to what I feel for Heather. I'm with her and she makes me happy. That's just something you'll have to accept."

"I…I…" Gwen look taken back. She really wasn't sure what to say. "I…can't say I understand why anyone would feel that way for her." She shuddered. "But I guess I understand what you're saying. No. Well I guess it's only fair for the amount of times I rejected you." She said slightly bitter. "Just…forget I ever asked okay?"

"Gwen wait!" Cody stopped her before she could leave. "There's something I have to give you. Wait here please." He ran off and came back a minute later with his backpack. Opening the front he pulled out her black bra. "Here, this is yours."

Gwen looked at the bra in his outstretched hand. She held her hand out to take it but then pushed it back toward Cody. "You can keep it. I don't need it."

"No," he insisted. "You should have it back. It wouldn't be right for me to keep it any longer."

Gwen grabbed the bra and stuffed it back in Cody's backpack. "I want you to hold onto it. Keep it for me Cody." Then she started to walk back to first class.

But she didn't go far before noticing a pair of slightly slanted eyes watching her from the shadows. Heather stepped out of the shadows with her arms crossed and stared at Gwen. Suddenly feeling afraid Gwen made a run for it back to first class but Heather didn't follow.

Cody stopped as he saw his girlfriend standing there. "Heather. Did you…hear that?"

The queen bee didn't answer. Instead she walked over, bent down to Cody's height and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Every word," she whispered into his ear. Pulling her head back she was now face to face with him. Before he could ask another question Heather locked lips with her boyfriend and held him in a warm moist kiss. She held the kiss for a good minute before pulling back.

"What was that for?" Cody asked once he regained the ability to speak.

"For being a good boyfriend."

"So…I'm not in trouble?"

Heather smirked. "Maybe a little. You still have Gwen's bra don't you?"

Cody gulped. "S-She wouldn't take it back."

"Well that's a problem isn't it?" She said playfully. "After all I can't let you have some girl's undergarments when you don't even have any of mine. But lucky for you, I am incredibly smart. So close your eyes." Her long fingers pushed his eyelids down slowly.

Thinking it was better not to ask Cody closed his eyes. He wasn't completely sure what Heather was doing but he could hear her shuffling around slightly. Then he felt her shove something soft into his right hand.

"You can open your eyes now." Heather told him. "Now you have something from me equal to what Gwen gave you…or more." After opening his eyes Cody unfolded the item she had shoved into his hand. It was a pair of red lace panties.

"Whoa…" Cody's face went bright red. "Are these…?"

"You can keep them." Heather let him know. "Just don't let anyone else see them alright?" Cody nodded. "Seriously, I'll kick your nerd ass if you do."

"Got it." Cody put them in a safe place in his backpack.

"Listen I have to go…freshen up, but stay right here. I'll be back soon." Heather said. Cody bought it and waited there as Heather headed back to the rest of the plane. She passed by the bathroom and headed over to first class. Courtney was asleep but Gwen was still up.

She stood up as soon as Heather walked in. "Heather listen I—

"No you listen to me Gwen." The queen bee interrupted. She pointed her index finger at the Goth and walked toward her until Gwen's back was to the wall. The hostility was clear in her voice. "I saw you back there and I knew what you were going to do. I could've stopped it, but I knew Cody would reject you. I had a good laugh watching you humiliate yourself in front of him."

"But let me make something clear: if you ever try that again, if you ever get close to him or even think of trying to kiss him again I will destroy you. Do you understand?"

"Y-Yes…" Gwen held her breath.

"Good," Heather pulled away from Gwen. She then turned around and smirked. "Now I'm going to go make out with my boyfriend. Make sure you don't disturb us…"

Once Heather had left Gwen sat back down and sighed. "This sucks…"

A/N: Reviews are appreciated. Also next chapter might not be up as fast as the others.