Episode Nine: Slime Pits

Episode Nine! Yay! Thanks for the reviews guys. Obviously there's no correct answer to the Q of the Week since it was asking for an opinion. What do I think you might be wondering (I seriously doubt it)? I kind of have to agree with all of you. Angel has a horrible temper, yet cool at the same time (pun fully intended :P) and Tails should learn more about her. Anyway, thank you! Btw, werewolflover99, this is the challenge you requested. Enjoy and review!

TDU Train, Conductor's Room

"Last time on Total Drama Universe," Chris began. "Contestants revisited the Capitol where they had to endure multiple random challenges, which apparently weren't hard enough. When Jessie dissed Tails after he couldn't withstand ten seconds of Chinese water torture, Angel unleashed her temper on her, then stormed off to the train to check up on Tails. Her boyfriend attacked her yet again, but she was saved when Morgan apparently became a wizard. In the end, it was Jessie who was voted off for abandoning Team X when they needed her the most. But she wasn't the only one who fell off the train, when James took the jump as well. It seems like Team X is running out of competitors, or is one of them still hiding somewhere on the train? Find out right here, right now, on Total…Drama…Universe!"

(Theme Song. F is for friends who…just kidding.)

Loser Class, Team X

Shadow shook his head. "Unbelievable. How could we lose three times in a row and lose five teammates?"

"Well you haven't exactly done that much yourself, you know," Rouge said, crossing her arms.

"What're you talking about?" Shadow snapped. "I won the motorcycle challenge for you guys. Without me you all would've lost horribly."

"You only got that far because Angel's bike blew up," Amy growled. "Not that I'm not thankful for that. The two-faced little witch deserved it. You'll all see that I'm right about her!"

Trip rolled his eyes. "You're just paranoid. Nobody's trying to take Sonic away from you," then, in a quieter voice, "not that you've got him in the first place-"

"What did you say?!" Amy exploded, Piko Piko Hammer in her hands.

"I said that you don't have him in the first place!" Trip shouted. "My Arceus, don't you have any idea how annoying you are?"

Bathroom Confessional

(Trip)
*scoff* "I can't wait for the teams to merge. Then I can get away from these lunatics and show them some basic stuff."

(Amy)
"All the guys on this show are jerks! Except for Sonic. WHY WON'T YOU LIKE ME?!"

(Meowth)
"Without Jessie and James around, I don't know what I'm going to do. They've usually been there so I can blame stuff on them, but now…"

Loser Class, Team X

"Calm down, guys," Mike said, trying to keep the peace. "We're never gonna get out of Loser Class if we don't work together. Ever think that the reason why we keep losing challenges might be that we can't get along?"

Shadow scoffed. "I don't need a team to win these stupid challenges. I can handle them all by myself."

"Well if you're so great at it why don't you win us the next one?" Georgia snapped.

"STOP!" Silver shouted. "That's enough fighting. Don't you understand that the reason why we're getting our butts kicked is that the team is in much better sync than we are?"

"What're you talking about?" Amy asked. "Sonic and Eggman can't be in the same room without fighting, Tails has tried to kill Angel twice in the last two days, Starfire has absolutely no idea what's going on EVER, and Brock has probably proposed to every girl on the team. Please tell me how THAT is in sync."

"Because they can look past all that stuff and still work together," Mike explained. "C'mon guys, don't you think we can try it for once?"

"Hey, I'd be all for it if someone would say my name right once in a while," Stephan said as he leaned up against the wall.

Mike sighed. They were never going to be able to work as a team.

First Class, Team Y

Angel plopped down on the couch next to Zoey and Gwen who were watching season one of Total Drama. Zoey turned and looked at her.

"Someone looks like they're tired," she said.

"I am," Angel said with a sigh. "Do you have any idea what it's like to have your boyfriend be loving and gentle and kind as someone could ever be, then turn and try to kill or hurt you five seconds later?"

"Um, yeah, actually," Zoey replied.

Angel looked up at her. "What do you mean?"

Gwen turned to Zoey. "We're talking about Mike and Mal, right?" she asked.

"Yup," Zoey said with a smile. "Did you watch season five, Angel? Mike had a hidden personality named Mal, and he was one of the most evil players on Total Drama. Mike tried to get rid of him by dropping a rock on himself, but it only made it worse and gave Mal total control. Mal was pretending to be Mike the whole time, and I didn't find out until it was almost too late. But in the end I got my Mike back." She looked down at the necklace she was wearing, which had a picture of Mike engraved in to it.

"So are you suggesting that Tails has multiple personalities?" Angel asked, looking down at the floor. "You think that Sonic would've figured that out by now if he did."

Zoey shook her head. "I'm saying that everything is not what it seems. I don't know what's up with him, but I don't think after everything you've been through he'd leave you just like that."

"True," Angel said with a nod. "Do you think I should go talk to him?"

Gwen and Zoey both nodded before Angel got up and started heading for Tails' room.

First Class, Tails' Room

Tails stared in to the mirror in his room, angry at what he'd just figured out. "Show yourself, you pathetic rag doll!" he shouted. After a few seconds, his reflection disappeared and was replaced by the Tails Doll's.

"My, my, there's no need for such harsh words," the Tails Doll said with a smirk. Tails only growled at it. "Now, what can I do for you?"

"I know you've been using me to try to hurt Angel," he snapped. "She hasn't done anything to you at all! You leave her alone or you'll regret ever begin created!"

"Oh, contraire," the doll said. "I've been using her to hurt you."

"What do you mean?" Tails asked suspiciously.

"It seems that you have great feelings for this Angel girl," the Tails Doll said tauntingly. "I'd say that you'd become very…distressed if something happened to her. And to think that if she died, or got hurt by your hand, you wouldn't be able to live with yourself, would you?"

"If you hurt one hair on her head…" Tails growled. "I'll find a way to get my hands around you and rip you to shreds, got it?!"

The doll shook its head. "It won't be me who hurts her."

Before Tails could respond, he felt a hot searing pain in his chest, causing him to fall to the ground agony. His heart started beating more wildly than ever as his vision faded in and out of focus. He saw the doll in the mirror laughing at him evilly before he passed out.

Angel knocked on the door and entered the room. "Tails? I want to talk to-" she gasped when she saw Tails lying on the floor. She rushed to his side to help him up but stopped when his eyes met hers. They were cold and completely blacked out, impossible to stare at for more than a few seconds. "Tails…"

She was cut off when he slapped her with the back of his hand, causing her to fall to the ground. She stood up and stared at him, a small hint of anger in her voice. "Look, Tails, this is the third time that you've attacked me in the past three days. I'm starting to think that you don't care anymore. Is that the case?"

Tails continued to give her a cold stare without saying anything. Faster than the blink of an eye, he grabbed her shoulder and pinned her against the wall. Angel shook her head and looked down at the floor while still pinned. "Something really is going on with you," she said softly. She looked back up at him. "If you'd just tell me, I could help you. I really could, I swear. But I can't do anything if you act like this…"

Tails growled, then kneed her in the stomach and kicked her in the shin. Tired of letting him strike her, she tackled him to the ground with full force, pinning his arms, legs, and tails. "We both know who's stronger, Tails. And truth be told, it's not me. Why are you trying to do this? I thought you cared. A lot, actually. You even said it yourself. But how can I believe you if you keep trying to hurt me?"

Anger in his dark eyes, he shoved her off and tackled her to the ground. He pulled out the familiar knife and grasped in his hands. He raised it in the air and brought it down hard, just barely missing. Angel rolled out of the way trying to avoid the next attack, but it was too late.

Tails had just stabbed her in the shoulder.

Angel stared at him in disbelief as overwhelming pain came over her, but it wasn't because of her shoulder. Her eyes, filled with fear and sadness, began to water. "How could you?!" she gasped. Tails continued to give her a blank stare, making Angel growl. "Don't just keep staring at me! If you really want to get rid of me, just do it now! You mean everything to me, don't you know that?! If this is really you, and who you are, then I don't want anything to do with you! And without you I'm nothing! NOTHING! So just…just kill me and do it now!" She was gasping for breath now, the loss of blood making her dizzy. "Just do it now…just do it now…" she continued to repeat it until she passed out in a puddle of blood and tears.

"My work here is done…"

Tails regained control of his body and mind as the voice faded away. He looked down at his hand, which held a knife and was covered in a crimson red liquid. His eyes shifted in front of him, where his worst nightmare laid. Angel, her shoulder and sweatshirt covered in blood, was sprawled out in a pool of maroon.

Tails dropped the knife immediately and rushed to her side. "No, no, I couldn't have done this!" He looked back in the mirror and saw his own reflection, but his blue eyes a dark navy color now. The doll would have to wait. He picked up Angel in his arms, then flew as quickly as he could to the Hospital Car. He didn't even hear Chris announce that it was challenge time.

Somewhere in the Universe, Slime Pits

"Welcome to the Slime Pits!" Chris announced to the competitors who were there. They were all in front of a large slime pit that smelled of rotting fish and trash, and was a hundred feet across. The only way to get to the other side were two extremely thin balance beams made of cheap wood.

Bathroom Confessional

(Gwen)
"With every second that passes, I hate Chris even more! Grr, I can't wait to get off this stupid show!"

Slime Pits

Sonic turned to Melaney while Chris was explaining the challenge and how the contestants would have to choose three competitors to get across the balance beam, and whichever three on the same team got to the other side first would win and blah, blah, blah.

"Where're Tails and Angel?" he asked. Melaney only shrugged.

"Any questions?" Chris asked. For once, nobody raised their hand. "All right! You have five minutes to choose your teams! Go!"

Team X gathered in one corner while Team Y gathered in another. "All right," Knuckles said. "So-"

Chris cut them all off. "And one more thing. Today's challenge is going to be very special. Not only does the losing team have to lose a player and bunk in Loser Class, they'll also receive a HUGE burden. And I mean HUGE."

Sonic smirked. "Big deal," he said cockily. "We've already got Eggman, how much more huge can you get?"

Eggman glared at him. "Don't you have anything better to do than make fun of me?!"

"Nope," Sonic said. He turned to the rest of his teammates. "So who's going to be our three?"

Morgan was fiddling with her wand in her hand. "Maybe-" she was interrupted when a spark of energy released from the stick, bouncing around before finally hitting Melaney. The Yoshi fell to the ground as a white light surrounded Team Y. Everyone stared at her as she stood up.

"What?" Melaney asked.

"Um…" Morgan took a tiny mirror out of her pocket. Melaney looked at it and realized why they were staring. She now had light brown hair and glasses, and was wearing jeans and a bright orange sweatshirt. She was a human.

"What the heck?!" Melaney exclaimed, dropping the mirror. She glared at Morgan, the two of them almost the same height now. "What did you do?!"

"How am I supposed to know?!" Morgan exclaimed, looking down at her wand. "I just found out that I'm a wizard yesterday!"

"We can fix it later," Brock said quickly. "Right now we need to figure out who's going to do the challenge!"

"I'll do it," Sonic offered. "Now who else?"

"I will," Blaze said, standing next to him.

"Me as well!" Starfire said happily.

"So that's our three," Ash said, grinning. "Now to fix the Melaney problem…"

"Perhaps it would be most helpful if we turned the wand backwards," Starfire said.

"Nah, it would just hit Morgan," Ash said. "We've already had enough people turned in to humans today."

"HEY!" Morgan exclaimed.

The others ignored her. Duncan shrugged. "We'll figure it out later." The others agreed absentmindedly.

Slime Pits, Team X

"So who do we want to use?" Amy asked the others.

"I'll do it," Shadow said, crossing his arms. "I'll prove to you pathetic people that I can win these challenges all by myself."

Rouge rolled her eyes. "I'll do it. To prove to Shadow that he's not as great as he thinks he is."

"Mind your own business, bat," Shadow growled. "Who's going to be the other one? Not that I would need help, of course."

"Me!" Bianca exclaimed happily. "This'll be so much fun!"

"But Bianca, you've got terrible balance," Trip pointed out. "Wouldn't it be smarter for someone else to give it a try?"

Bianca shook her head confidently. "I've got this! You can count on me!"

Hospital Car

Gwen and Zoey were walking in the Hospital Car, wanting to check up on Angel and Tails. Zoey sighed. "If something happened to those two I'd feel really bad. We were the ones who agreed that Angel should go talk to him."

Gwen nodded as she opened the door to Hospital Car 2 and the two went inside. The two of them were shocked at what they saw. Angel was unconscious in the bed, her arm wrapped in a cast and her shoulder covered with blood-soaked medical bandages, the same arm that she had broken in the challenge at Chilly Castle. Tails was sitting in a chair in the corner, hugging his legs to his chest and resting his chin on his knees. There were tears of regret and disbelief in his eyes. Gwen walked over and sat next to him. "You okay?"

Tails shook his head. "Of course not! Look at what I did to her! I feel so horrible…" Gwen was about to respond but stopped when Angel stirred in her bed. The others watched as she slowly opened her eyes. "Angel…" Tails began. "I'm so sorry-"

Ninetales, who had been hiding in another corner of the room, flattened its ears against its head. It narrowed its red gleaming eyes and growled angrily at Tails as it slowly approached him, fangs bared and ready to pounce.

"Ninetales, stop," Angel said weakly. It gave her a questioning look, then backed away with its eyes still locked on Tails. Angel turned to the two-tailed fox. "Tails, I don't understand. Why would you do something like that? I know there has to be a reason."

Tails shook his head. "I-I can't tell you." He looked down at the floor, unable to look at the disappointment in her eyes. "I'm so, so, sorry. I still can't believe I did it." He looked up at her. "You want to break up with me now, don't you?"

Angel was silent for a moment as she watched him nervously fidgeted with one of his tails. She then shook her head. "No."

"What?" Gwen asked in quiet disbelief.

"That's so sweet…" Zoey said dreamily.

"You don't?" Tails asked in disbelief.

"No, I don't," Angel said. "I'll admit, it does scare me that you would try to hurt me like that. But in the same breath, I can't put an end to us. I wouldn't be able to live with myself…or without you." She looked in to his darker than usual eyes. "I really want us to go back to the way things were before all this happened. If you can figure out what's up with you and put a stop to it, everything will be just fine."

Tails nodded. "Okay. I'll do my best." He took a step closer to her, but stopped when she flinched back. He sighed. "Maybe I should just go." He turned to the door and walked out slowly, his usually constant moving tails were now limp and unmoving from sadness.

Bathroom Confessional

(Gwen)
"I'm surprised Angel didn't break it off with Tails. If someone hurt me like that, I don't think I would be able to stay with them. She must really have a lot of faith in him…"

(Zoey)
"I can't believe those two stayed together! That's so sweet how even after all that they still don't break up. So romantic…"

TDU Train, Hospital Car

Phineas and Ferb were hidden behind a plant in the hallway of the Hospital Car, watching Tails as he sadly walked away from the room. Phineas smiled. "That doll knows what it's doing, Ferb. Just look at him. Pathetic and depressed as the day is long." Ferb shrugged, which mildly upset Phineas. "What?"

"Don't you think we're taking this a bit far?" Ferb asked.

"Of course not!" Phineas snapped. "Remember bro, he killed the both of us. I'm not ready to let that go so easily."

Slime Pits

The contestants were now ready to start the challenge. Rouge, Shadow, and Bianca were standing in front of one wooden balance beam while Sonic, Blaze, and Starfire were in front of the other. "Ready?" Chris asked. "GO!"

Rouge and Shadow took off running, since Chris had banned flight. Bianca tried to hurry after them, almost falling in to the murky water and garbage that laid below. "You can do it Bianca!" Cilan cheered from the other side along with the other contestants that weren't competing.

"Yeah, you can do it!" Stephan shouted.

"Thanks Cilan!" Bianca said as she waved. "Thanks Steven!"

"And she still can't get my name right…" Stephan groaned.

Rouge was right behind Shadow as the two carefully went over a large bubble of water and trash. "You know, if you're so great, why don't you just run? It would be much easier than this."

"Hmph," Shadow said. "I don't need to take advice from you."

Rouge shrugged. "Just a suggestion."

Shadow rolled his eyes and sped up a bit, still careful to avoid falling in to the slime. Bianca was still far behind her teammates. "Wait!" she exclaimed. She then took a misstep and fell in to the garbage below. "EWW!" she shrieked.

Bathroom Confessional

(Trip)
"I told them it was a bad idea to pick her as one of the people, but nobody listens to me."

Slime Pits

"And Bianca has fallen in to the…whatever it is," Chris announced as Bianca climbed out of the slime.

"I'm not going down that easily!" Bianca declared. She ran back over to the balance beam and started over again. Meanwhile Sonic, Blaze, and Starfire were crossing the pit, and doing it rather well.

"Too easy!" Sonic exclaimed as he reached the half-way point of the balance beam.

"Don't get too cocky, Sonic," Blaze said calmly. She jumped in to the air and landed in front of him. "That's what could be your downfall if Eggman ever gets his act in gear." Eggman rolled his eyes and said nothing.

"Relax," Sonic said. It was his turn to jump over her. "I know what I'm doing." Just as he said that, he slipped and fell in to the slime. He came up to the surface coughing and clinging to a bag of trash. "Dang it." He was about to climb out when Chris announced something that caused Team Y to groan.

"And all three competitors on Team X have crossed the finish line!" Chris exclaimed.

"Yes!" Bianca yelled. She then tripped over her own feet, knocking Ash in to the slime.

Ash spit out garbage as he reemerged as well. "Oh, come on!"

Elimination Room

Team Y was gathered in the Elimination Room, everyone except Angel of course. Melaney was still a human, trying to get Morgan to fix it. Surprisingly, the only ones left without cupcakes were Vector and Starfire.

"All right," Chris said. "This is the last cupcake. Starfire, you're on the chopping block because you lost the challenge. Vector, I'm guessing you're here because you haven't done an awful lot lately." Chris sighed. "Anyway, the last cupcake goes to…Starfire." Starfire caught the cupcake joyfully. "Okay," Chris said quickly, throwing the plate behind him. "My favorite show's on in ten, so let's make this quick." Chef chucked Vector out the train as Chris turned to Team Y. "Okay, so at the beginning of the challenge I said that the loser will be getting a HUGE burden. Well…"

Chef then entered the room carrying a small red fox, none other than Joey. He dumped him in front of the Y's.

"You guys get Joey!" Chris said over cheerfully. The Y's groaned as he turned to the camera. "Who will win? What will happen to Angel and Tails? Find out next time on Total…Drama…Universe!"

Episode Nine's done! Yay! Sorry it took so long, I've been really busy with the stupid spelling bees and stuff (which I won, yippee.) Anyway, please review and stuff! And make sure to check out my bio on my profile and check out the links and junk! So Q of the Week: In the arena, what was the Pokemon that tried to hypnotize Tails before Sheldon saved him? Answer in the review! Thanks so much!