Hey, everybody! Leni-the-hedgie actually went and posted a picture of Tails after he goes insane. You can check it out at art/psychotic-tails-130184874. Today's challenge is brought to you by the suggestion of chrisATD1. Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic, Mario, or Total Drama Island.

The next day, the campers awoke to the unpleasant sound of something exploding, which is generally not a good way to wake up. But it did get them to the meeting place in record time.

Chris was waiting for them, grinning as usual, while Metal Sonic was desperately trying to put out the flames in the mess hall, while Metal Knuckles was sobbing next to the prone form of Shadow Android.

"Shadow Android!" Metal Knuckles wailed. "Speak to me! You can't be dead! Speak to me!"

"He'd better not be dead," Metal Sonic murmured darkly. "Because I'm gonna kill him."

"What happened?" Ix asked curiously.

"Oh, Shadow Android made spaghetti but forgot to add water, then he mistook a propane tank for a water tank…and the rest is history," Chris said matter-of-factly.

"That's awful," Sonic said.

"Look at that baby burn to the ground in a blazing trail of fire!" Bean cried, his eyes lighting up in a very disturbing manner.

Every gave Bean worried looks and scurried away from him.

"So, now that we're all here, it's time for today's challenge: You must find and cook your own food."

"And just think, the mess hall just happened to burn down today. What a coincidence," Mephiles said darkly. (How else would he say anything?)

Chris just grinned bigger. "You all have 15 minutes to scavenge whatever you think could be edible from the camp and the surrounding area. After which, you must prepare a meal with what you have gathered and eat it in front of me. After which, I will determine which of you gets immunity tonight. Time starts…now."

*Toilet Cam*

Sonic's POV

"This is too cool. I can finally use those rad skills I got from watching Man vs. Wild!"

Scourge's POV

"This will be easy. I'm an expert in survival situations."

Bean's POV

"I bet that explosion marked 8.5 on the Richter scale!"

Time: 15 minutes remaining…

Sonic rushed into the woods without so much as glancing around the campsite, eager to prove himself a master woodsman.

He saw some moss that looked really gross but by watching episodes of Man vs. Wild he had learned that the grosser something looked, the more protein it had. And the host of the show had assured him that if one got past the gag reflex…it still tasted horrible, but look at all the protein you'd eaten!

Yanking up a huge handful of the unappetizing (and probably poisonous) moss, Sonic rushed off to find other disgusting and protein-filled treats.

Time: 12 minutes remaining…

Mephiles the Dark knew just where to go in order to forage for food. Caution was necessary; if he was caught he'd be in a lot of trouble. But if he pulled it off, the rewards were more than worth it.

Especially if he could get some extra 'loot.'

The Dark switched to his shadow form, sinking under the boards of his target area and resolidifying himself on the other side…of Chris' personal room.

The Dark smirked as well as he could without an actual mouth when he saw that his suspicions were confirmed: While the campers themselves were barely given the essentials to survive with, Chris was in here living like the King of England. The room was lavishly furnished, with a large, king-sized, canopy bed and a crystal vase, and several other nice but unimportant to the plot items.

Mephiles glanced around the room and saw his target: Chris' refrigerator.

Calmly walking over to the fridge, he opened it and his eyes widened as he saw the massive amounts of food it contained. Chris ate better in one meal than the whole continent of Asia ate in one year!

With all that food in there, it was only fair for Chris to share. Sharing was very important, as Mephiles had learned as a young lad. That's why he was constantly on the lookout for people with things he wanted, so he could 'share' it with them.

Mephiles grabbed as much as he could carry and left the room…but not without purposely kicking Chris' vase and watching the priceless item smash into millions of itty bitty priceless pieces.

Time: 8 minutes left.

Scourge had spent a good deal of his life scavenging for food, so he stayed around the camp, where food was sure to be found.

The most logical place to look was around the now-demolished kitchen, because perhaps some food had managed to survive…although Shadow Android might not have.

Scourge cautiously walked to the wreckage, seeing that Metal Sonic was still attempting to put out some brush fires, and that Shadow Android still wasn't moving, and that Metal Knuckles was still pleading with the other robot not to go into the light.

Scourge rolled his eyes and started to look through the rubble for anything still edible. It was slow going, but it was the best bet at finding food.

Suddenly, Shadow Android screamed and bolted up, getting his foot caught on an empty pail, so—still panicking and not knowing why he awoke on the floor or why Metal Knuckles was the first thing he saw—he swung his foot hard and the pail went sailing through the air, where it conked Metal Sonic on the head.

Metal Sonic yelped and the water hose he had went wild, spraying Metal Knuckles in the face and blinding him. Freaking, Metal Knuckles started to run blindly—right into Shadow Android, knocking them both to the ground.

Finally, the worst of it was over, and the two robots laid stunned on the ground, while Metal Sonic yelled at them in computer code, stomped over, and kicked them both several times, then he walked off, still ranting in computer code. Scourge was thankful; it was too early for that kind of talk, in his opinion.

Time: 5 minutes left.

Bean was in a wide field, and he ran around and with his arms thrown wide. "The hills are alive, with the sound of music…" he sang cheerfully.

Time is up!

"OK, campers, stop foraging," Chris ordered. "And cook a meal with the things you have gathered.

Metal Sonic, considerably calmer, leaned over and whispered something in Chris' ear.

"And cook it raw," Chris continued, "Because all the cooking implements are out of order."

Everyone looked over to where Metal Knuckles was trying to gather up a bunch of soot and burnt metal, which he shaped in a way that it was easily determined that the mess used to be the stove. Metal Knuckles carefully removed his hands, and the rubble fell back to the ground in a shapeless mass.

Chris cleared his throat to call attention back to him, where it rightfully belonged. "You have five minutes starting now."

Five Minutes Later…

Everyone showed up with their raw culinary creations, and Chris watched as they tried a bite of their food.

Shadow went first, he had found some nuts and berries, a safe (albeit boring) breakfast that he ate with no troubles.

Ix brought in a bowl of earthworms from the earthworm colony he'd found previously, and he ate them all to the obvious disgust of the group.

Except to comment, "You're still not getting the money," Chris showed no reaction.

Mephiles went next, presenting a five-course meal, plus a desert. Chris recognized the food as the pilfered items from his fridge and instantly disqualified Mephiles, as well as present him with a bill for the priceless vase. (Betcha didn't know there was a price for a priceless vase, did you?)

Bean was next in line, and he, oddly enough, presented Chris with a blowtorch. Luckily, Shadow tackled him before he could impress Chris with his flame eating skills.

Scourge had found a semi-edible hot dog and two pieces of bread, and he gobbled them down with no problems whatsoever.

That left Sonic, who showed up with a rather…impressive little load of items, besides the moss. He had two grubs, a piece of tree bark, and a large round…thing…that looked like animal dung.

"Behold! My protein-rich breakfast," Sonic bragged, picking up the moss, covering it with a large layer of the dung-like substance, and taking a big bite.

Sonic instantly vomited, started convulsing, and his eyes rolled to the back of his head. He passed out, his left foot twitching wildly.

Metal Sonic checked Sonic's pulse and announced that it was strong, if not a bit irregular.

Chris grinned and said, "Sonic wins!"

"WHAT!" Everyone cried. (Except Sonic, who was still in a post-poison coma.)

"But he almost killed himself!" Mephiles protested.

"What, are you letting him win because you like him best?" Scourge asked.

"Yes," Chris said with no shame whatsoever. "I'll see the rest of you at elimination campfire."

That night…

"You all know the rules," Chris said, finally admitting that they did, in fact, know them. "First name called is…Shadow."

Shadow took the first marshmallow.

"Scourge."

Scourge grabbed a marshmallow.

"Mephiles."

Mephiles also took a marshmallow.

"And now there's only two campers left: Ix and Bean. And according to the voters…"

Ix held his breath as Chris let him sweat. Bean held his hands out and started making shadow puppets with them.

"You're BOTH eliminated!"

Ix's jaw hit the floor. "Are you serious? They voted us both off?"

"Yep!"

Bean jumped up, grabbed Ix, and tossed him into the Boat of Losers, jumping in after him and yelling, "COWABUNGA!"

"AUGH!" Ix screamed as Bean landed on his lower back.

Meanwhile, Mario was unable to get to the island today because Bowser had decided to kidnap Peach, and he and Luigi had to go save her.

But even during a battle to the finish, Mario had that grand prize on his mind, and for the first time in his life, he actually called a TIMEOUT during a battle to the finish.

Bowser was so surprised that he stopped attacking. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"I gotta finish-a this challenge-a," Mario explained, looking for something edible. His gaze fell on a mushroom growing by the wayside, and he plucked it and popped it into his mouth, much to the horror of his nemesis—and his baby brother.

"Mario! What-a I tell you about-a eating-a mushrooms?" Luigi shrieked, grabbing his hat. "You know-a you're allergic!"

Mario's body began to swell bigger and bigger, and finally he got so big he fell, landing on his stomach. As he happened to be at the top of a hill, he started rolling towards a terrified Bowser and Luigi. (Start humming Indiana Jones music now, if you please.)

"Mario!" Luigi yelled. "You're a-gonna squish-a us flat-a now!"

"Crud, not again!" Bowser yelled.

Although they ran valiantly, Mario was soon spinning faster than they were running, and he eventually rolled over them, and the two of them got embedded in his rolling mounds of swelled-up stomach.

"I CAN'T FEEL MY LEGS!" Bowser screamed.

Luigi looked up and noticed a pair of car keys. "Hey, I've-a been lookin' for-a that," he mused. "Now I can-a stop taking-a those warp-a pipes-a."

Finally, after nearly an eternity of rolling, Mario finally came to a halt. Toad paramedics rushed to the scene, looked at the embedded Bowser and Luigi, and tsked, tsked.

"Mario ate another mushroom," one of the paramedics said. "Go set up the Jaws of Life."

Mario shuddered visibly. "Not again-a," he whimpered.

NOTE: LAST CALL FOR CHALLENGE IDEAS! I have room for one (1) more challenge idea. If you have any ideas, now's the time to tell me about it. After this final idea, I will no longer be accepting ideas for challenges. RR, please.