Here we are with the second to last challenge! Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic, Total Drama Island, or Shadow and Mephiles' cool moves.
"It's the second-to-last day here at Total Sonic Island," Chris told the cameras. "And the remaining contestants are eager to start the day and participate in the second-to-last challenge."
The camera zoomed into the mess-tent, which had been hastily constructed after the mess hall broke down.
"You! Cooking guy!" Scourge grabbed Metal Knuckles by his throat and brought him close. "I haven't eaten more than four times since this stupid camp opened! Get me some food, and make it edible!"
"Oh, picky, picky," Metal Knuckles muttered, reaching into a bucket with his bare…err…claws…and scooping up a handful of something that looked like pre-chewed dog food, and flinging it on Scourge's plate. "And I suppose you want ketchup?" Metal Knuckles asked sarcastically.
Scourge glared at him and smeared his 'food' in the peeved robot's face. "Jerk," Scourge muttered, walking off.
"I know I am, but what are you?" Metal Knuckles called after him. Shadow Android sighed and face-palmed himself.
"That's not the way that saying goes," he said.
After the trio refused to eat breakfast, Chris called them into the clearing. "Today's challenge is a Super Hero showdown. Mephiles, you're the superhero. Shadow, you're the supervillain. And Scourge, you're the unfortunate victim that screams his head of and hopes the hero will rescue him in time. Any questions?"
Shadow raised his hands. "You're running out of ideas, aren't you?" he asked.
"That's for me to know," Chris replied. "Now, Shadow, you must kidnap Scourge and rush into the woods to 'do him in,' Mephiles, you must wait five minutes and then rush into the woods to find him. When you do, you must try to defeat him and save the hostage. Shadow, you try to stop him so the hostage will die. And Scourge, you just sit there and scream like a hostage. And the whole thing will be timed, you will have 20 minutes to complete your objective, Mephiles and Shadow, from the time Mephiles enter the woods, otherwise you lose."
Scourge's eyes suddenly went wide. "You…you mean to win, Shadow actually has to bump me off?"
Chris just grinned at him, while Shadow turned cool, crimson eyes on a suddenly very worried Scourge.
"You…you wouldn't do that…" Scourge whimpered. "You're the good guy!"
"Am I?" Shadow asked creepily, calmly walking towards Scourge.
"I…MEPHILES, HELP!" Scourge screamed as he and Shadow disappeared into the woods. After waiting for the appropriate time, Mephiles took off after them.
Ten minutes into the competition, Mephiles stumbled into a clearing to see that Shadow had finally caught Scourge and tied him to a tree. The ebony black anti-hero was waiting for Mephiles calmly.
"I've been waiting for you," Shadow said simply.
"That will be a mistake that will cost you your life," Mephiles replied.
"HEY! I'M IN MORTAL PERIL OVER HERE!" Scourge screamed, like a good panicking hostage.
Shadow smirked. "It's not my life that will be lost," he taunted.
"WOULD YOU TWO LOSERS QUIT WITH THE CHEESY TAUNTING AND HELP ME OUT ALREADY!" Scourge screamed.
"Shut up," Mephiles snapped. "We're busy."
Shadow took this momentary distraction to charge up his Chaos Spears and throw them at Mephiles. The Dark instantly preformed a move straight out of the Matrix and jumped between them.
"Not bad," Shadow said, somewhat impressed.
Mephiles smirked, and his body went crystalline. "I haven't even gotten warmed up yet," he replied, a massive sphere of black energy forming in his hands, which he threw at Shadow.
Shadow somersaulted out of the way, but the spheres followed him. Shadow grimaced and continued dodging while Mephiles laughed a very un-heroic laugh, and finally, Shadow realized how to use the spheres to his advantage.
Shadow jumped in front of Scourge, then at the last second, he jumped out of the way. Scourge shrieked a horrifying shriek as the energy spheres smacked him square in the chest.
"HEY!" Scourge screamed, in massive pain. "MEPHILES, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ON MY SIDE!"
"Stay out of my way," Mephiles replied, already focusing on Shadow, who spindashed him. Mephiles went to his shadow form and Shadow went right through him. The ebony hedgehog twisted in mid-air and landed gracefully on his feet.
Then, using his video game prowess to the fullest, Shadow reached down and grabbed an RPG that just happened to be lying next to him, took aim and…shot them right Scourge.
Scourge gave an award-winning scream and Mephiles sighed. He powered up his Dark Chaos Lance and shot it right into the rocket. The two exploded on impact, making a very pretty display.
Shadow took Mephiles' distraction and ran to Mephiles, sliding into him and knocking him off his feet.
Without hesitating, Mephiles swept his legs out and knocked Shadow down, and then the two grabbed each other and started to wrestle back and forth.
Suddenly, Metal Knuckles was right there, blowing his air horn in their ears.
"OW!" Shadow and Mephiles cried as one, jumping up and getting ready to maul Metal Knuckles. Chris was there to stop them, however.
"The twenty minutes are up," Chris said. "And the winner is Scourge, as he is the only one to finish his objective. So, Scourge, who are you kicking off the island?"
Scourge looked at the two powerful beings and gulped. He would probably die no matter who he picked, as the furious loser would kill him dead. Unless…
"The first person who gets over here and unties me stays!"
Chris and Metal Knuckles, knowing full well what this meant, quickly vacated the area as Shadow and Mephiles glared at each other, each daring the other to make a break to untie Scourge.
Shadow rushed for Scourge first, and Mephiles quickly created two misshapen clones of himself, who intercepted Shadow and attacked him while Mephiles calmly walked over to Scourge.
Shadow saw him, however, and ducking under a blow, he grabbed one Mephiles clone and tossed it into the other, then he pulled out his trusty .9 mm handgun and shot Mephiles in the head.
Mephiles showed no damage, because if you played the Sonic game with him in it, you remember he stood still at Wave Ocean and let Omega shoot him multiple times. However, the shot caused him to pause, which gave Shadow enough time to spin dash him again.
The two tussled with each other again and eventually rolled over a cliff. (It just so happened to be the same cliff used in the jumping challenge on Total Drama Island, if you recall.)
Scourge sighed in discouragement. "Oh, great. Now I'll never get untied," he said.
In an instant, Mephiles' shadowy form appeared at the top of the cliff, and he morphed back to his second form, while Shadow himself appeared in what was obviously the aftermath of a Chaos Control.
The two looked at each other, silently agreeing to a race, and then they took off.
Almost instantly, Mephiles cheated by creating two more warped clones of himself, who tackled Shadow and made sure he couldn't go for his gun this time.
While Shadow was thus engaged, Mephiles calmly reached over and sliced Scourge's rope, silently declaring himself to be the winner of this little match.
Scourge sighed and brushed pieces of ruined rope off of his body. "Sorry, Shadow," he said apologetically. "Mephiles won. I guess you're the one who's leaving the island."
"That won't be necessary," Chris replied, as the Boat of Losers docked. "Shadow's not going anywhere, because he's part of the final challenge."
All three of them gave Chris blank looks. The looks changed into bewilderment as Amy, Knuckles, Silver, Vector, Sonic (Still in his werehog form, unfortunately) Eggman, Black Doom, Ix, Bean, Tails (with several small technological items attached to a belt buckle for sanity security) Ix, Metal Sonic (who had been fished out of the river and fixed), and Fang.
"You see before you all the losers of Total Sonic Island. Uh, Shadow…take your place," Chris ordered.
Shadow sighed and went to stand with the other losers.
"As I was saying, these losers are very unhappy at having being kicked off, and they sort of resent you two for still being here," Chris said. "But you are going to have to change their minds if you want to win. Each loser will create a small challenge for you, and will write the name of the one who impresses him/her the most during it. The person who has the most pieces of paper with his name on it at the end of the last challenge will win the 100,000 ring grand prize. The other will be the last loser of Total Sonic Island. Have fun."
With that, Chris walked away, and Scourge and Mephiles looked over to the 13 angry losers who were glaring at them, or worse—giving them wicked, 'wait until I get you' smiles. Scourge gulped nervously and Mephiles looked slightly unnerved.
This last challenge was not going to be very much fun for them.
Who is going to win? What could the losers have in store for them? You'll have to stay tuned to find out! RR, please.