Episode Fourteen: Got Steak?
Episode 14! Yay! This challenge was thought of by werewolflover99. Please read and review! Thank you :D
TDU, Conductor's Room
"Last time on TDU," Chris began. "Contestants had to go to Las Vegas to compete in a shooting contest, where in a surprising twist, Shadow lost the challenge to Morgan. Meanwhile in the Hospital Car, Tails was yet again trying to kill Angel, and after what must've been a terrible nightmare, he woke up delusional. And then Gwen yelled at me. What horrible torture will these guys have to go through next? How will I get back at the next person who yells at me? Find out right here, right now, on Total…Drama…Universe!"
(Theme Song Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a faithful trip)
Loser Class, Team X
"GAH! It's no use!" Silver shouted as he pounded his fist on the wall. "Why do we keep losing?!"
"Maybe," Georgia began, "it's because we've got people on our team that keep screaming 'GAH! It's no use!' and 'I TOLD YOU MY NAME IS STEVEN!'"
"MY NAME IS STEPHAN!" Stephan shouted. "Honestly, is it really that hard to remember?! Stephan! That's it! It's not even foreign! It's—"
"Yeah, yeah, can it, Steven," Meowth said. "The only thing bothering this Meowth is we keep getting served by the twerps."
"I just can't believe we're losing to people like Ash," Trip said, a hint of anger in his voice.
"Dat's what I meant by twerps," Meowth said bluntly.
"Or people like Angel," Amy snapped.
"Great!" Mike exclaimed. "Now let's channel that energy and use it to win the next challenge!"
"Forget the challenge, I'm going in there to stomp out that little witch now!" Amy exclaimed, hammer in hand. She began heading toward the door to First Class, but was stopped in her tracks when Rouge grabbed her arm.
"Now listen, Pinkie," she began. "Save that energy for the challenge. I just can't stand Loser Class anymore." Amy groaned and said nothing.
Hospital Car, Room 3
Angel was sitting in a chair next to Tails' bed, holding his small hand as Brock carefully placed an oxygen mask over the kit's face to stabilize his breathing. Nurse Joy was buzzing around the room as well, unaware of the looks of infatuation Brock gave her every few seconds. Angel watched her boyfriend's chest rise and fall with every inhale and exhale under the covers of the bed. His blue eyes were opened only half way, just enough so he could look at her. "I'm sorry I shot you in the ear," he said drowsily.
She only shrugged, touching the bandages on her head under her hat. "I've had to deal with worse." She then sighed. "Are you gonna be okay?"
He didn't answer, just closed his eyes. Nurse Joy tapped her on the shoulder. "He was going through some kind of trauma after he shot you," she explained in a whisper. "We wouldn't be surprised if he began having random spasms at any moment. He should get over it in a little bit, but in the meantime…" as if on cue, Tails began thrashing wildly in his bed, screaming in pain, a look of horrible fear on his face. Nurse Joy quickly grabbed one of his arms while Brock grabbed the other to hold him down, then began typing something in to the computer behind him. A pink gas entered a tube and in to the fox's oxygen mask, causing the thrashing to gradually stop as the kit went limp in his bed, the anesthetics taking place.
Brock shifted his gaze from Nurse Joy for one fleeting second and looked at Angel. "Maybe you should get back to First Class. He needs to rest." Angel only nodded and walked out of the room.
Bathroom Confessional
(Angel)
"Why does this have to be happening to Tails of all people? I don't understand…"
Hospital Car
Angel slowly closed the door behind her, only to be pinned against the wall by a familiar blue blur. "What do you think you're doing, Sonic?!" she spat, his tan elbow driving in to her shoulder where she had been stabbed a few days ago.
"I want to know what you've been doing to Tails!" he exclaimed.
She glared at him. "What the hell are you talking about?! You don't seriously think—"
"I do," he said harshly. "Look, normally I wouldn't go and accuse you of something without any proof, but you're always the only one there when he 'attacks' you. And we all know he'd do anything for his little angel—or should I say demon!"
Angel growled. "You know for a fact that I wouldn't do anything to hurt him! If you would remember correctly, I died so he would live!"
"How do I know you weren't faking?!" he snapped back. "I've seen you get stabbed, shot, and dropped from three hundred feet in the air. At this point it seems like—"
"STOP IT!" a voice yelled from down the hall. Both hedgehogs turned in its direction to see Melaney standing there. "What the heck is going on here?!" she exclaimed as she stormed up to the two.
"This idiot thinks I'm the reason why Tails is so messed up right now!" Angel snapped, still pinned to the wall.
"This little snitch has something to do with why Tails keeps trying to kill people—"
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Melaney shouted, prying the two away from each other. "What the hell is wrong with the both of you?! You're the same freaking species, the same freaking color—"
Angel scoffed. "Yeah right! At least I don't have cocky stupidity in my genetic code—"
"Well at least I don't have backstabbing traitor in mine!" Sonic shouted back. Furious, Angel's fist met his jaw, knocking him to the ground. He quickly recovered and performed a Homing Attack in to her chest and crushed her in to the wall. She kicked him away with her metal foot, sending him flying across the room and on to the floor.
"Now you listen to me, Sonic the Hedgehog," she whispered angrily, standing over him. "I am many things, but a traitor is not one of them. Especially when it comes to Tails. So you better shut that mouth of yours before I—" he cut her off by using his arm to knock her off her feet, then performed another Homing Attack before landing back on the ground, tasting blood in his mouth from the blow before. She stood up again, kicking him where the sun doesn't shine with her metal boot, then landed multiple ice punches in his stomach while he gasped for air. His fist met her nose with a sickening crack and caused blood to run from her face and on to the floor, adding to the mess of crimson that was already on the wall.
"I SAID THAT'S ENOUGH!" Melaney exploded, separating the two before any more punches could be thrown. "Let's not forget that the both of you are fighting for the exact same person!"
"And that person might lose his sanity because of her!" Sonic growled.
"Oh, and like you don't already drive him insane—"
"WILL YOU TWO SHUT UP?!" Melaney screamed. "Think about it! Would Tails seriously want the both of you fighting each other?!"
"No, but he wouldn't want me hanging around an inconsiderate douchebag!" Angel exclaimed. "I'm done with this!"
"Me too!" Sonic yelled, he then stormed out of the car, leaving the two alone.
"What?!" Angel snapped as Melaney looked at her, then at the direction Sonic had left in.
"I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do now…"
"Well you're not the only one," Angel growled, shoving her spear in to the wall and pulling it out again in anger. "I'm going somewhere that's not…here." She then walked out of the other end of the car, slamming the door behind her.
Bathroom Confessional
(Melaney)
"The alliance is falling apart, and so is my chance of winning the million! Grr…Tails! Why'd you have to pick now to go insane?!"
Hospital Car
Melaney groaned and kicked the wall as Nurse Joy came out of Tails' room. The pink-haired woman gasped at what she saw. There was blood splattered across the wall and on to the floor, covering up what was supposed to be white paint. She put her hands on her hips and looked at the Yoshi. "Someone's going to have to clean this up, you know."
Melaney groaned again. "I know." She headed in to a nearby closet and pulled out a bucket of water and a sponge. The nurse walked away as Joey walked in, the Yoshi growling as she scrubbed at a stain on the wall. "Same freaking species…same freaking color…same freaking fox…"she turned and realized Joey was standing there, staring. "WHAT?!"
Joey flinched, then regained his insulting attitude. "Jeez, everybody's on the edge today! I almost got punched in the face by Sonic when he walked by!"
"Well you wouldn't be the first," she said, referring to the blood that splattered the room. Joey made a face and was about to respond, but was cut off when Chris stormed in to the room.
"It's challenge…what the heck happened in here?"
"Sonic and An—"
"It was a rhetorical question," Chris said bluntly. "It's challenge time!"
New Hampshire, Applebee's
"Um, why are we at an Applebee's?" Cilan asked, looking around the restaurant. There was no one else there except for a few workers and the contestants, who were standing around a booth.
"Maybe it's some sort of eating challenge," Zoey suggested.
"And indeed, it is," Chris said to the contestants. "Today two of you will go where no man, furry, or Pokemon has gone before. Today…" he looked down at the table in the booth, which had two plates covered up with white cloths. He ripped them off. "Two of you will be eating 72 ounce steaks! Or die trying." There was silence in the room until…
"I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!" Red shouted, raising his hand in the air.
Chris shrugged as Red sat down in front of one of the steaks. "It's your funeral, dude. Team Y?"
"Maybe Sonic should do it," Angel growled. "Shove something in that big mouth of his."
"Put a sock in it," Sonic snarled back. "And while you're at it, why don't you—"
"Oh, for God's sake, I'll do it!" Duncan exclaimed, sitting down in front of the other steak.
"Okay," Chris said, putting a timer in front of them. "You've got three hours. GO!"
Hospital Car, Room 3
"Get up!" the voice in his head growled. Tails only groaned, unable to move, or even think for that matter, due to the heavy anesthetics he had been put on. He had three more spasms in the hour before, each one causing Brock and Nurse Joy to try to calm him down. He was too drowsy to listen even to the Tails Doll.
"I told you to get up!" the voice snarled. Tails was jolted in to awareness when the hot searing pain of burning flesh entered his chest again, making him sit up shakily. The memories from the dream came flooding back to him—Sonic and Angel lying dead at the doll's hand, his tails unattached and squirming on the prison floor, and the cuts and stabs wounds that were left on his body after the demon had tortured him. His breath became extremely ragged as the horrible images came back to mind as he rolled off of the bed and on to the floor.
His body began involuntarily twitching again as the doll continued to mess with his mind, showing him images that even the most amazing writers couldn't put in to words. He began thrashing again, kicking one of the wooden tables next to his bed. A needle rolled off and landed right in his arm. No, it can't be…
Adrenaline.
He continued to thrash back and forth, more violently this time, as more images flashed in his mind, like a snapshots, each one more disturbing than the last. It felt like his heart was being ripped out of his chest, then repeatedly being shoved in to his mouth and down his throat. The doll tsked. "You can't possibly be that weak," it said. Tails only made a choking noise, raising his hand to his throat, gasping for oxygen. "We've only just begun." His body then began shaking and twitching faster than ever, sending him in to a convulsion. His muscles contracted and relaxed as quickly as possible, causing the shaking to become even worse with every second that passed by. He gagged and choked for a few more minutes, then eventually blacked out.
New Hampshire, Applebee's
"I am so SICK of you blaming everything on me!" Angel screamed, her face burning bright red with anger. "If I've told you once I've told you a thousand times, I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!"
"Lies, lies, lies," Sonic said, waggling a finger. "Why don't you just admit that this is all your fault?!"
"Because it's not!" she hissed. "My God, you drive me insane!"
"You're preaching to the choir, sister," Eggman mumbled under his breath. Then, in a louder voice, "What exactly is it that you're fighting about now?"
"They're both idiots and he's blaming her for messing up Tails," Melaney said.
"You know what, Angel?! SCREW YOU!" Sonic yelled, then stormed out of the restaurant and back to the train.
Bathroom Confessional
(Sonic)
"She's probably been using him this whole time! Why won't she just admit it?! And what about Tails?! Poor little guy, getting his hopes up just so she'll ditch him later…it'll be lights out for her if she even threatens to leave him."
(Angel)
"Stubborn headed ego maniac! Of course I'm not doing anything to Tails! Are these people BLIND?! Do they not see how much I care for him?! Seriously, why can't they see it?!"
Hospital Car, Room 3
Sonic stood in front of the door to the room, taking in a deep breath to calm down, then knocked on the door. "Tails?" he asked, opening the door slowly. He gasped when he saw it; the fox was sprawled out on the floor, face up, his eyes closed. He quickly rushed to his friend's side, shaking his shoulders. "Tails! Wake up, buddy!"
Tails' eyes flew open, staring blankly at the ceiling, his pupils and irises blacked out. He stood up robotically and stared down at Sonic, pulling a knife out from behind him.
Sonic stood up and stared at him. "Tails? What're you doing?!"
The fox said nothing and slowly approached him, squeezing the knife firmly in his hand. Soon the hedgehog was backed up against a wall, a knife held at his throat, making him choke. "Buddy…you don't want to do this…"
Tails only growled, then kicked his friend in the stomach. Sonic crumpled to the ground in a heap, looking up at him with disappointment and confusion in his eyes. The fox raised the knife above his head, ready to stab, but was stopped when a light blue blur tackled him to the ground. Sonic stood up in surprise. "Angel?!"
Angel ignored him and wrestled Tails to the ground, avoiding his attempts to stab her. She grabbed the knife out of his hand, then flung it across the room. "Calm down," she said in a soothing voice, almost a whisper. "Everything's fine…just relax…" His squirming eventually slowed down as she stroked the side of his face and his breathing became more stable, each breath deeper than the last. "See?" she asked soothingly. "No need to get upset…" After a few seconds, his eyes slowly closed as he fell in to a deep sleep.
Sonic cleared his throat. "Angel, that was—"
"Don't even talk to me," she snapped, picking Tails up and placing him back on to the bed. She walked up to him, her spear pointing at his face. "You said it was my fault, and it's not. I told you, and I told you again, but you wouldn't listen to me. You thought I was a traitor. You…you actually thought I would hurt him! Ugh, I can't believe how stupid you are!"
"Well you can't exactly blame me!" Sonic snapped, his quills bristling in anger. "After all that crap you did in Team Pla—"
"Don't even say the name of that horrid place," she growled. "People change. I did. I learned how to move on, how to care and watch out for someone other than myself." She pointed to Tails. "And you can't say that he's not living proof of that."
"Well—"
Tails stirred in his bed, turning to his side. "Mmmm…please don't fight…" he mumbled in his sleep, then turned over again and said nothing more.
Angel glared at Sonic. "We'll pick this up later." She left the room without another word.
New Hampshire, Applebee's
"Go, Duncan, go!" Misty cheered. He and Red were neck and neck, both only having a few bites left.
"I can't…" Duncan mumbled through a mouthful of steak. "I'm gonna be sick…" he then grabbed Georgia's backpack on the floor and puked in to it, causing the rest of the contestants to back away in disgust. "Here you go…" he said weakly, handing the bag to her.
"Thanks," she said sarcastically. "I wasn't going to use it at all."
"C'mon, Red, you can do it!" Bianca cheered. After a few seconds the hedgehog had eaten the last of the steak, a grin on his face.
"I did it!" he exclaimed. "I won the challenge!" The X's started to cheer, but stopped when Chris interrupted.
"Wait," the host said, holding out a hand. "It's been exactly three hours and twenty-one minutes since you've started eating the steaks."
"So?" Red asked, finishing off the last of Duncan's food.
"So neither of the teams win the challenge!" Chris said with an evil grin.
"What?!" Ash exclaimed.
"That's right!" Chris announced. "Everyone, head to the Elimination Room. Both teams are sending someone home."
Bathroom Confessional
(Melaney)
"I could vote off so many people right now! I could vote off Sonic or Angel for fighting, Duncan for losing the challenge, or Joey for just being himself!"
(Sonic)
"So pretty much this entire time I've been trying to get Egghead thrown off, but I wouldn't mind seeing Angel getting pushed out of a train right now…"
(Amy)
"I kind of want to get rid of Rouge because she can be a real annoyance sometimes, but Georgia's bag is really stinking up the place. And on top of that I can't vote off Angel because she's on the other team.
Elimination Room
All of the contestants were in the Elimination Room, four people without cupcakes, who happened to be Red, Georgia, Duncan, and Angel. "Contestants," Chris began. "These…are the final two cupcakes. Whoever doesn't get a cupcake must take the Jump of—"
"We get it," Morgan groaned. "Just give them the cupcakes already!"
"All right, all right," Chris said in an annoyed tone. "And the last two go to…Red and Angel."
"What?!" Georgia and Duncan exclaimed. "But you can't—" they were cut off when Chef grabbed them and threw both off the train.
Chris turned to the camera. "That's another two gone—"
"Wait!" Ash said. "Who gets First Class then?"
"Nobody, you both lost," Chris said with a glare. "And don't interrupt my recap again." He turned back to the camera. "Ahem. That's another two contestants gone. Who will win next? Who will go farther off the edge than they already are? Find out next time on Total…Drama…Universe!"
Episode 14's done! Yay! And now we're up to 60,000 words! Woo! Anyway, be sure to check out my new story Abandoned on my profile. It's a one-shot about how Sonic and Tails met, but I might add on to it if more people ask for it. Please leave reviews! So for Q of the Week: Pick one contestant on the show, and tell me if they won, how you think they would spend the million? Thanks so much! See you later!