Today's challenge was thought up by gh43. Disclaimer: I own nothing.

"Rise and shine, campers!" Chris yelled through his megaphone.

Mephiles muttered from his place in line, "I'm going to going to get Chris. And his little megaphone, too."

"Today's challenge involves Go-Karts and a game of Chicken. But not against each other."

An elderly man in a flight suit came walking up to them and Chris nodded to him. "This is Okinawa Hisashi. He is an elderly Japanese Kamikaze pilot. He'll be driving that."

Everyone turned to see a giant monster truck with huge spikes on the front was sitting in a clearing. Across the other side of the clearing, was the ride the campers would be driving—a 50 cc go kart that looked like it had been put together entirely with duct tape.

"You want us to play chicken with that?" Amy gasped.

"Is it safe?" Sonic asked.

"Of course it is. We tested it with the unpaid interns," Chris replied.

Although nobody could see them, an unearthly scream filled the air and an unpaid intern screamed something like, "My legs are MISSING!"

But of course, the unpaid interns and their problems are not important.

"OK," Chris said, as the campers started to panic. "Who wants to go first?"

*Toilet Cam*

Amy's POV

"There's NO way I'm playing chicken with a Japanese Kamikaze pilot!"

Sonic's POV

"It might not be so bad. After all, he is really old. Maybe he'll mistake a cliff face for my face. It never hurts to visualize."

Metal Sonic's POV

Metal Sonic's metal hull sparked and set the toilet on fire.

Sonic was chuckling to himself nervously as he strapped on a helmet and climbed into a go kart.

Okinawa Hisashi got into the monster truck and revved it up.

Sonic took a deep breath and muttered something under said breath; then he gunned the engine and took off like a shot. The monster truck burned rubber and started right towards him.

The closer the two became, the more nervous Sonic became. Finally, a few meters from the truck, Sonic yanked his wheel and pulled out of the way of the speeding truck.

Sonic stopped his go-kart and took a deep, panicking breath. "That was way too close," he admitted.

Ix took a good look at the cart and the truck, listened to Chris explain what he was supposed to do, and started laughing like a maniac. Then he told Chris he was an idiot and walked away.

Amy gave a weak smile as she took the helmet. She looked at the go-kart, started walking towards it, then she stopped. "I—I can't do it!" She sobbed. "I'm sorry." She cried and ran off.

Scourge did the challenge. He got three feet closer than Sonic had before he veered off. Then he climbed out of the go-kart, rushed up to the now-parked truck, and showed he was holding a switchblade. In front of everyone, Scourge slashed the truck's tires and walked off.

Twenty minutes and a spare change of tires later, a still malfunctioning Metal Sonic was thrown into a go-kart. His sparks ignited the gas inside the gas tank and a huge, superheated, and extremely-good-for-ratings explosion was the result.

Thirty minutes and a spare go-kart later, Tails was given the option of whether or not he would like to participate. The crazed fox kit stared at the go-kart, and his eyes lit up in a way that even Chris would find disturbing. Tails rushed to the go-kart, hopped in, yanked on something, then laughed and rushed off, having never spoken a word.

"So…I take it that's a no, then?" Chris yelled after him.

Mephiles the Dark climbed into the go-kart, spurned the helmet, and floored the accelerator, his evil eyes glinting as he played chicken with the monster truck.

Mephiles the Dark had had no intentions of turning; however, after he floored it, he realized something was wrong with this go-kart: part of the steering wheel was missing, and it was listing to the right. So that's what that crazy fox had run off with.

Unable to control his go-kart, Mephiles swerved wildly and crashed head-first into a tree. The go-kart burst into flames again.

Mephiles fell out of the go-kart, his mind vaguely realizing that he was on fire, and he took off, rushing to the water where he jumped in. He saved his life; however the top part of his quills had been burned to cinders. He looked even more like a freak as usual. He gave a weak moan and passed out.

Espio shook his head. "I refuse to continue participating in such mindless amusement. There is no honor in behaving like a moron, and I will not disgrace myself in such a manner."

Shadow the Hedgehog, with his new go-kart, gave a sly smirk to the monster truck and put the pedal to the metal. He closed in on the truck, showing no signs of turning.

"He's going to kill himself!" Amy shrieked in terror.

"He's going to turn," Sonic contradicted.

Shadow shot past the area where Sonic and Scourge turned and just kept going, the truck looming closer and closer.

"He'll turn," Sonic said, sounding unsure of himself this time.

By now, Shadow and the truck were a mere fifteen feet away from each other.

"He's not going to turn," Sonic muttered in disbelief.

Finally, at the last possible moment, a squeal of brakes could be heard and…the monster truck swerved out of the way and stopped.

The door opened and Okinawa Hisashi stuck his head out of the door. "Are you crazy?" he asked. "You almost ran right into me! Crazy American drivers…" Then he closed the door and zoomed off into the horizon.

Shadow stopped his go-kart and got out matter-of-factly, tossing his helmet to a stunned Sonic and walking off without a word.

"What the?" Sonic turned to Chris. "I thought you said that guy was a Kamikaze pilot!" he yelled.

"Yes. A living Kamikaze pilot," Chris replied.

Everyone's jaw dropped at that stunning, yet quite obvious, explanation.

"Now, since there are only nine of you left, tonight Shadow is the only one with immunity. I'll see the rest of you at the Elimination Campfire," Chris said, walking off.

Mario zoomed into the area on a go-kart, screaming, "I'm-a the best!" Then he drove off into the woods, apparently following the monster truck.

*Toilet Cam*

Amy's POV

"I feel really embarrassed now. But now the only problem is who to vote off?"

Scourge's POV

"I'm at a loss over who to vote off tonight. Tails has gone mad, and Metal Sonic isn't working anymore, and Espio is now refusing to do any of the challenges. They're all liabilities."

Mephiles' POV

"Tails' crazy obsession with technology is the reason I was burnt to a crisp! He set me on FIRE! He's so leaving tonight!"

Ix's POV

"I just write down Sonic's name every time I have to vote somebody off."

At the elimination campfire, Chris once again explained the boring elimination campfire rules. Like we all didn't already know them. Then he picked up a marshmallow. "First marshmallow goes to Mephiles."

"Good," Mephiles replied, taking the marshmallow.

"Amy."

"Yes!" Amy took a marshmallow.

"Scourge."

"Thank goodness," Scourge quickly took a marshmallow.

"Sonic."

"Woo-hoo!" Sonic cheered.

"Ix."

Ix took his marshmallow without a word.

"Espio."

The Ninja sighed loudly and took the offered marshmallow.

"One more marshmallow. Two campers."

The drama was somewhat lost in that the last two campers were Tails and Metal Sonic; Tails was too crazed to remember anything except that he needed technology and Metal Sonic just wasn't aware of anything, period.

"The last marshmallow of the day goes to…Tails."

Chef picked up the non-functioning Metal Sonic and tossed him into the Boat of Losers. Another round of sparks set the boat on fire and both boat and Metal Sonic sunk to the bottom of the river.

Everyone stared in shock at where the boat had been when Mario stumbled out of the bush, looking worse for wear with part of a muffler sticking out of his ear.

He looked at where the sunken boat had been and said, "Boy, am-a I glad I'm-a not on-a that boat-a."

Chef walked by, picked Mario up, and tossed him into the river.

RR, please.