Disclaimer - All rights belong to Teletoon, Cartoon Network, and the creators of Total Drama. No profit is being made in the making of the fanfiction. This alternate-universe episode of TD contains stunts performed by written teens. As the author writes this, remember that he's sacrificing his free time for this, and free time is expensive to sacrifice these days, almost as pricey as gasoline.

The Kobold Necromancer's Notes - I just want to say, I believe in fairness. If the TD show wants to make or break couples in TDWT, then I believe I should get to too. If they want to focus on their favorites, then so can I. If they want to aggrandize meanness, then I get to aggrandize niceness. So there, nyah nyah nyah!

New poll, involving Rodney's crush! Make your guess!

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Chapter 41 - Felines, Falling, Fluffer, Filthy Flavorings!

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(Maclean Stadium, Arena.)

Vera was up and running, showing footage of the six teams competing as the crowd cheered on their favorites. Chris, Chef Hatchet, and Groucho the Duck were watching with close intent. When the first clues were discovered, Chris let out a laugh and then picked up his bullhorn.

"That's right, folks," he said, loud enough for the whole stadium to hear. "We have clues that are randomly given to our contestants! What could they mean? They are given randomly!"

"Fascinating," Groucho said, rubbing his chin with his wingtips. "It's like a puzzle. And the murderer is the person who is spelt out?"

"The duck speaks the truth," Chris announced. "This is, what I like to call, Total Drama Alphabet!"

"What an interesting but not entirely descriptive name," the duck added. "It makes me think we have twenty-six people at hand."

"Alfred to Zachary," Chef Hatchet said. "That works."

"Doesn't cover all the letters with us. We haven't anyone whose name starts with P. Or F too, do you suppose we know a Frank or a Percy?"

"Will you two shut up?" Chris snapped. "We're not here to talk about letters and people like Alistair from Zack, we're talking about the clues! Stop making my cool names uncool."

Groucho's eye twitched. "How about Paste, Maclean?" he shouted, and then pointed an RPG-7 at the host. "Wanna be made into that? Or Fiery Remains?"

Chris squeaked in terror and then ran, which the duck thought was very silly, considering the range on an RPG-7. Nevertheless, the host escaped with the duck delivering the painful payload. Chef Hatchet chuckled and clapped. "Nice job, soldier, you make an old soldier proud."

"Well, you're making this new soldier uncomfortable when you're dressed in a lady nurse's uniform."

"I'm not giving up until I get my paycheck!"

As Chef Hatchet grumbled and went back to watching the show on Vera, Groucho shook his head. "He really needs a girlfriend," he muttered to himself. "Maybe there's some nurse lady dressed like a man I can interest him? Florence Nightmare-Gale, that's what she'd have to be."

(Janitor's Closet - Mad crazy letterz happen here too!)

Chris Maclean - *panting and straightening his collar* "Well, yeah, ahem. I'm gonna do something about that duck."

Chef Hatchet - "I'm serious about getting my paycheck!" *He reveals his back scratcher.* "I'm not afraid to use this."

Groucho the Duck - "Someone has to keep those two in line, Chris more so. I won't have them overdoing it with those kids! They're good recruits, and going through enough! Thus, if anyone gives my kids a hard time…

*He lifts up his RPG-7 again.* "I'll blow 'em to *censored*, and don't think I won't do it!"

Chris Maclean - "Anyway! You all should know that the following will be brought to you in the sense of Team 1 through 6's interactions in the challenges, not the actual timeline. The reason for this is simple: we want you to be confused on who is winning! So sit back and enjoy them in team numerical order! Now, on with the cat girl costumes!"

(Team 1 (Dirigible) - Anita (L), Zachary, DJ, Rodney, Clive, Belinda. (Clues: A.))

The team was looking at the cat girl costume in the recently opened closet. DJ had just read the note, and now everyone was wondering the important question of who to wear it.

Anita was wincing at the thought of it. Though it was cute, it was highly revealing in that it was nothing but a stretchy tube top, a bikini bottom with a long tail attached, spandex gloves and socks with the kitty pattern, and the cat ears headband. The colors were white and black, all very nice looking but not nice to think about wearing.

That's exactly what Zachary was thinking. "Well, girl," he said, looking over at Anita, "it's all you."

"No," she said. "No way. I am not wearing that!"

"Is this more of that crap that you're too good to do sexy stuff?" he shot back, scoffing at her. "Face it, you're on the show to look super hot, so when the show asks for someone to be sexy, that should be you."

"That's not who I am," Anita shouted back at him. "I am not some supermodel for your centerfold! So stop trying to get me to strip my clothes for you!"

"It's for the contest. Just do it, it's not like you're wearing that much to begin with."

Anita huffed and looked away, seeing DJ was watching them argue. She sighed and said, "What do you think, Deej?"

"Who, me?" DJ asked. "Oh, well, I don't know. If you don't want to, you shouldn't have to."

"Do you want to, man?" Zachary shouted. "Yeah, I'm sure you'd love to wear that skimpy thing!"

"Why don't you?" Anita snapped.

"Because I don't want to wear that little costume, you're crazy if you think I'd-"

"Then why am I obligated to wear it, hmm?"

"You're only on the show for your looks, white girl, get used to it!"

"That's completely uncalled for," DJ protested.

"I'll say," Clive added with an eye roll.

"This is really not nice at all, stop being mean to Anita," Rodney cried out.

Zachary rounded on the boys, frowning. "If one of you wants to wear that cat skank uniform, go ahead! But we all know who really should."

"Is that so?"

They all looked around to see Belinda step out from behind the corner. She was wearing the cat girl costume and swinging the tail around in her hand. As she posed against the wall, she asked, "How do I look?"

"Wow," DJ remarked.

"Meow," Anita said with a smile.

"Aren't you cold?" Rodney asked. "That's so little fabric-"

"I believe that's the point, dear," Belinda said. "You'll find out when you're older why, sweetheart."

"No, I'm pretty sure I know why now," Rodney admitted, digging one of his feet into the ground. "It's pretty on you…"

As everyone laughed over the boy's comments, causing him to blush, Zachary shrugged and said, "Well, that ended nicely. Thanks for doing that since Anita wasn't going to, Belinda."

"It beat the hassle of forcing you to do it too," she said. She then licked her lips and added, "I'm thirsty, anyone got milk?"

(Janitor's Closet - Cat Girl Belinda, meow!)

Belinda - *still wearing the cat costume* "Funny how wearing what is just a stretchy cover for the boobs and a bikini bottom would make one think feel like you're exposed, but I actually feel more wild and free. Guess that's just the cat in me." *She bats her paw at the camera, chuckling.*

Anita - "I really wish I wasn't so adamant about this… I feel like a prude. But you know, maybe if Zachary wasn't on my team telling me to take it off, I would be more willing!"

(Team 2 (Zeppelin) - Tyler (L), Courtney, Ezekiel, Colin, Leshawna, Noah. (Clues: N.))

The six contestants of Team 2 were looking at the cat costume, theirs colored orange and black. Colin was the only one who looked delighted. "Okay, which of the girls is putting that on?" he asked.

"Are you kidding?" Courtney snapped. "Why do one of us have to?"

"Because it's not meant for guys, stupid," he snapped at her. "You really want one of the guys to wear it? Maybe Noah should, I heard he's not a guy, if you know what I mean."

Noah responded with one of his fingers. When Colin started towards him with his fists, Tyler and Ezekiel grabbed him. "No fighting," Tyler exclaimed. "Colin, you calm down!"

"Hey, I'm just saying what we're all thinking," he snapped at them as he struggled to get free. "Do we want to wear that? No, the girls should! Courtney is just being difficult!"

"Oh, I'm being difficult?" she spat out. "From what I've heard, you're nothing but trouble on every team you're on!"

"None of that makes any difference that you won't wear the cat costume!"

"Shut up already," Leshawna said. "I'll wear it."

"What?" was the reply from everyone else.

"Well, if Halle Berry can be a sexy cat woman," Leshawna said, smiling as she took the costume out of the hook and rounded a corner, "than so can I!"

The boys and Courtney exchanged glances, and then Colin scoffed. "Yeah, but Halle Berry isn't the size of a baby whale!"

Leshawna didn't reply to this, but she did smile from the very rough sounds of Colin being shoved around and hit by Tyler and Ezekiel. After a quick change, she stepped out in the skimpy outfit, dangling the tail over her shoulder.

"Well?" she asked as she struck a pose. "How do I look?"

"You look great," Tyler said, winking at her. "Looks good on you!"

"Fine, sister," Noah added.

"You do look quite sexy," Ezekiel said.

"Man," Colin groaned, "say hello to Garfield's fatter sister."

Before any of the boys or Leshawna could react, Courtney stomped over to Colin and slapped him across the face. "Shut the hell up," she shouted. "If you say one more thing like that, I'll make you regret every signing up for this show! Got that?"

Colin, intimidated by her shouting, nodded and then sulked off. Leshawna stared in surprise at Courtney and muttered, "Um, thanks, girl. But I thought you hated me?"

"I don't like to hate people," Courtney said, "except for maybe him. Anyway, you saved me the trouble of having to wear that."

"It's a bit tight across the chest."

"Well, still looks good on you."

(Janitor's Closet - Cat Girl Leshawna, rawr!)

Leshawna - *still in the cat costume* "Yeah, I get people who talk smack about my weight, and I try to avoid smacking back literally. That's why I like Harold, he likes me for who I am. Then again, so did the other boys, makes ya get some faith in humanity again, it does."

Noah - "Leshawna kind of reminds me of my older sister, one of them I mean. She's big too and proud of it, so it's like having her around again. I guess that's why I cannot win an argument with her."

(Team 3 (Blimp) - Xander (L), Geoff, Izzy, Arthur, Lindsay, Sakaki. (Clues: A.))

"A cat girl costume?" Geoff asked. "Wow… that's… kind of like Chris, but not quite."

"Remind me to thank him later," Xander said. "So which of the girls is wearing it?"

Arthur shrugged. "Beats me, but I don't think Sakaki wants to."

Sakaki nodded, then smiled slightly. "Considering she already took it, I can't now."

"What? Who?"

Xander laughed at Arthur's expense. "You have to ask?"

He pointed to a corner where Lindsay was standing next to. The blonde was whining at someone around the corner, "C'mon, why do you get dibs, Bizzy? That blue and white fur pattern would have matched my eyes so well!"

Izzy didn't answer, she just leapt out. With the skimpy costume on her body, she squatted down on all fours and purred. With a playful meow, she pounced on Xander, and licked his face.

"Ack! Okay, haha, Izzy," the rebel said, waving his hands about but making no effort to get the almost-naked redhead off of him. "That's a good cat impression, very nice!"

"Makes me miss my cats," Sakaki admitted.

"I still think I should have worn it," Lindsay muttered, as Izzy finally got off of Xander and immediately pounced Geoff. "I think it would do well for my chances at a modeling career if they see me wear costumes."

"Aren't you worried about how much that costume exposes?"

"Not really, it's more covering than my favorite bikinis." She sighed, watching Izzy nuzzle Geoff's face until the party guy eventually pushed her off of him. "The tail is kind of silly, but I'm sure I could make it work."

"I could never wear that little," Sakaki admitted. "It'd make me feel so… exposed."

"It's just skin," Lindsay replied with a smile to the moe girl. Izzy had recovered and was now on Arthur. "Daddy says if you don't show the boys what you got, you won't get anything in return."

"I… don't think I like that saying."

"Ow! Ow ow, Izzy," Arthur was shouting. "No biting!"

"See, Sakaki, my dad says that I must make sure to get the boys' attention," Lindsay explained, "and I like it, but he tells me if I don't, I won't ever get a husband who'll take care of me."

Sakaki really wanted to debate that, but there were two problems. One was that she was too shy to debate a point with someone like that, and two was that Izzy was off Arthur and set her sights on her. Sakaki only had a second to hold up her hands and scream as Izzy pounced…

(Janitor's Closet - Cat Girl Izzy, mew!)

Izzy - *She is still in the cat girl costume, now sitting down and licking her thigh in a quick cat bath.* "Believe it or not… this isn't the first time I've dressed like a cat. First time I actually got to pounce people without them threatening to call the police… or the pound."

Lindsay - "Sakaki seemed really confused about my dad's advice. See, I need to attract men, because he says, I'll need caring after I move out. When I asked about college, he laughed; I guess it's too expensive, even for him."

Sakaki - "I really miss my cats now. They don't pin me to the ground when they're happy to see me."

(Team 4 (Airship) - Harold (L), Bridgette, Justin, Valerie, Heather, Alejandro. (Clues: R.))

"If you think I'm putting that on, you're crazy," Valerie said.

"Ditto," Heather added.

"Oh, but it would be nice on you, considering how little you normally wear."

"I could say the same for you, but I don't think they come in your hip size."

"Or in your bust size!"

"Enough," Bridgette shouted, "Both of you!"

She glared between Valerie and Heather. "Stop being so… so…"

Harold chuckled and looked at her. "Catty?"

"Yeah, I was trying to avoid to use that word."

Alejandro chuckled too. "I see you're quite the peace keeper, Bridgette."

Bridgette felt herself blush again as the handsome, young man complimented her. "Well, I try!"

Harold glanced at Alejandro, and then said, "Well, what are we going to do?"

"We cannot force the ladies to wear what they do not want," Alejandro said. "We could not call ourselves gentlemen if we insisted."

"True," Harold said.

"Though I must say," he said as he faced Bridgette again, "seeing you in that costume would be overwhelming, I would think."

Bridgette giggled and blushed some more, trying to steady herself as she stammered out a thanks. Valerie raised her hand and said, "If it'll make you happy, handsome, I'll wear it!"

"So happy to shed your clothes for a man?" Heather remarked.

"You would know, you've done it more than me, I'll bet."

Harold stormed over to them. "Didn't Bridgette tell you to stop? Gosh!"

"Have her wear the darn costume," Valerie snapped. "I have a political career to think of."

"Bridgette can wear it, I say," Heather replied. "Or Justin."

"No way," Justin said. The male model was sitting in a chair away from the others, looking down and upset and all sorts of other not good moods. "I'm not interested."

"You're the model," Harold declared. "Can't you just put your handsome powers to the test?"

"Don't wanna, Harold."

Harold face-palmed, then looked at Bridgette. She looked very nervous but mentally debating if she should or not. When she glanced at Alejandro, who winked at her, she seemed to be coming to a decision real quickly. Thus Harold came to one really fast.

"Man," he said as he yanked the costume from the closet and hurried off. "I cannot believe I'm doing this!"

"Harold?" Alejandro called out. "Where are you going, leader?"

A minute after Harold held himself up in a small room, he came out wearing the costume. As well as the yellow and orange tube top around his chest and the bikini bottom with a cup (which was included in case a boy was gonna wear it), Harold was also sporting a very upset frown. "Don't say a word," he growled. "I know I look-"

He was cut off when everyone burst out laughing at him. Letting out a frustrated moan, he looked at Bridgette, who had her hand over her mouth and was trying very hard but failing not to giggle.

"E tu, Bridgette?" he asked.

"I… I cannot help it," she squeaked out. "You look so… so…"

"Go ahead, say it," Harold cried out. "You've seen me naked, dressed as a girl, and all sorts of other things, I can take whatever you call me!"

"… Cute!"

"There, feel better now?" Harold asked. "Now let's get back into the contest… wait, what?"

Alejandro narrowed his eyes at Harold, tapping his fingers on his hips.

(Janitor's Closet - Cat Boy Harold, purrs!)

Harold - *still wearing the cat costume* "I'm comfortable enough with my body to not feel bad wearing this, I just expect people to make fun of me. Never been told I look cute before… gosh. She's so nice, Bridgette."

Alejandro - "Harold just blew my plans on getting Bridgette in that costume. If she wore that, she would have been putty in my hands. Well, maybe just a little more so, she still will be."

Valerie - "Have I mentioned how much I hate Heather? Stupid, former queen bee who thinks she's better because she had a change of heart."

Heather - "Have I mentioned how much I hate Valerie? Bratty, political-obsessed whacko who thinks she's better because she is supposedly independent."

(Team 5 (Balloon) - Mandy (L), Alfred, Cody, Sebastian, Carol, Sierra. (Clues: A.))

"So who gets to wear that crazy get-up?" Sebastian asked, jerking his thumb at the white and red costume.

"I'll wear it if Cody wants me too," Sierra said. "Cody, want me to wear it?"

"I think Cody," Mandy said, glaring at the fan girl, "would like very much if you let go of him."

"Silly Mandy, you obviously don't know Cody if you don't think he likes girls holding onto him."

"Yes, but enough to cut off circulation?"

Sierra blinked, then looked at Cody's face, which was turning blue. She let go, and he gasped for air. "Oh thank you, Mandy," he coughed and hacked, breathing hard to recover. "Thank you so much."

"Thank Cthulhu, though he'll still kill us all after you survived this."

"This is sweet and all," Carol said, "what with the hugging and suffocation, but who's wearing the outfit?"

"What outfit?" Cody asked.

Carol pointed at the closet. "That out… fit…"

The cat girl costume was gone, and everyone looked around to see where it had gone. Sierra then asked an equally important question, "Hey, where's Alfred?"

Then the door of a nearby room swung open, and Alfred leapt out, wearing the cat costume, the ears on top of his hat. "Meow meow meow," he declared, swinging his paw hands around. "It's time for the meow mix remix!"

"What are you doing?" Sebastian declared. "You actually want to wear that?"

"It's fun!"

"I really thought a girl was gonna wear that," Cody muttered.

"Yeah, or Cody," Sierra said. "He would have made it look good!"

"And I don't? Mandy disagrees."

"What? How do you know that?"

Alfred pointed at Mandy, who was staring wide-eyed at Alfred, and covering her mouth and nose with her hands. An arousal nosebleed from the cultist stained her fingers, and she wiped them off on Cody's shirt. "Yes, well, just the shock, really," she said. "Not bad, that's all."

"Hands off my Cody," Sierra exclaimed as she grabbed Cody again. "Err, I mean, my friend. Yeah… don't wipe blood on him!"

Alfred chuckled. "Now let's get busy on the challenge, people!"

He thrust his hips, and Mandy had a sudden nosebleed spurt from watching the movement. "Gah," she cried out, grabbing her nose, "don't do that, I didn't bring a handkerchief with me!"

(Janitor's Closet - Cat Boy Alfred, mrwar!)

Alfred - *still in his costume, spinning the tail in his hands* "I'm a very impulsive guy. If I think something would be fun to do, I do it! How many other guys can brag about being dressed in a skimpy cat costume on international TV? I'm proud to be different."

Carol - "Man, if Mandy doesn't want that man candy of manliness in kitty clothing, I'm gonna make him mine." *She grins and licks her lips.*

Sierra - "Oh, that Alfred. That's gotta be the third time he's dressed skimpy around others. The first two were quite interesting, one even got in the news! I'd love to tell more, but you can see more in the blogs!"

(Team 6 (Floaty Thingy) - Sadie (L), Eva, Yoshi, Gwen, Crystal, Chico. (Clues: A.))

The members of the last team were all looking at the cat girl costume, colored black and red, and then exchanged glances.

"No," Gwen said.

"No way," Eva growled.

"Heck no," Sadie shouted.

"Don't bloody think so," Crystal muttered.

"Oh, I suppose you think you can make me wear it?" Yoshi snapped. "You've all got another think coming!"

"You'd be surprised," Eva said, approaching him, "what I can do to make people rethink."

"I don't fear you," he said. "And you think I'm going to wear that? No boy would or should ever wear that!"

"And so the girls have to?"

"I highly doubt Chris Maclean put a cat girl costume in this challenge and expected the boys to wear it for the viewing millions!"

"He's got a point there," Crystal said, "I would expect some kind of male stripper outfit instead if he wanted that."

"Has anyone forgotten that we're all teenagers?" Gwen snapped. "I am not parading about in something that's as revealing as my underwear!"

"Neither am I," Eva said, and poked Yoshi in the chest. "So you're wearing it, sword boy."

"Why don't you make me, Eva?" he shot back, clenching his fists.

"Oh please don't fight," Sadie pleaded.

Crystal swallowed nervously as she looked between Eva and Yoshi. "Looks unavoidable now, Sadie hon."

"hey u all, luke at mee!"

The humans turned to see that Chico had put the costume on himself or at least tried. The top was worn around his shoulder, one of the legs of the bottom was big enough for his torso, and was wearing the tattered remains of the gloves and socks on his limbs. The cat ears were barely able to stay balanced on his little head.

"i iz a lolcat," Chico cheered, waving his paws around. "rawr, gibbe cheezburger, wantz naptime! i hates googies, an feer teh basement kitteh!"

The humans all blinked, and then Yoshi chuckled. "Well," he said, "that solved itself nicely."

(Janitor's Closet - Cat Raccoon Chico, WTH?)

Chico - *barely wearing the costume, it's all tatters now* "lolz, i will hav 2 keep theez clothez fur teh memoorees! i live en rum 10, an i keep all my stuff dere! i wundur if Seebass'shun an Tylur no dat."

Gwen - "I can honestly say that seeing that raccoon wear and shred that stupid, skimpy costume, it really made my day. Him and that duck, they're cool animals, more civilized than some of the contestants. And Chris, definitely him."

(Team 1 (Dirigible) - Anita (L), Zachary, DJ, Rodney, Clive, Belinda. (Clues: A, and a blank.)

"I'm telling you, it's blank," Clive said to Zachary, who yanked the paper from the emo's hand. "There's no clue on it."

"This is bull," Zachary shouted. "What's a blank paper? That's not a clue, that's a diss!"

"Maybe that's a way of them saying the name is shorter than seven letters?" Rodney suggested.

Zachary looked at the prodigy, then snapped his fingers. "Yeah, that's right! My name and Belinda is seven, and everyone else is less… but the only one with an A in their name is Anita! We have our murderer!"

"What?" Anita said, looking surprised. When Zachary walked towards the iPud, she called out, "Wait, we cannot guess just yet-"

Too late. Zachary pushed the portrait on the suspect list, and then hit Yes when an electronic message asked him if he were sure. A very loud buzzer went off, and red lights flashed. A recorded voice of Chris Maclean singing played. "Wrong wrong wrong wrong! Wrong wrong wrong wrong! You're wro-ooooong! You're wro-ooooong! You're wro-ooooong!"

"Way to go," Clive grumbled as Zachary looked rather upset. "We just lost one of our guesses."

"Hey, it was the kid's idea!"

"Huh?" Rodney said, then looked upset. "I… I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-"

"Honey, do not apologize," Anita said, patting Rodney's head. "It's not your fault, you didn't make the choice to randomly guess."

"Well, what do you care, Clive?" Zachary shouted. "You're emo, you don't want to win-"

"Do you ever accept responsibility?" DJ asked, crossing his arms in frustration.

Before the argument could continue, Rodney had wandered off and noticed a metal box, one that was closed when first entered, was open now. He looked inside, and noticed a bunch of cords and a note was in the box.

"Hey everyone," he called out to them, waving the note. "The next challenge!"

"Oh? What is it, sweetie?" Anita asked him as they all approached. "What's that say?"

"It says, 'The third challenge for another clue is a Bungee Jump. A remote in this box will open the window above said box. There is a small platform out there, for you to jump off; after you have put on the harness with the bungee cord, ha ha. You are to have two -separate- members of your team jump from the blimp, and then when the bouncing stomps, haul him or her back in. After two people bungee, you will receive your next clue, and the next challenge.' Wow."

"Wow indeed," Belinda said, looking out the window. "That is quite a daring feat… and cats like heights, I might have to do this."

"Fine by me," Zachary said. "You ain't making a black man jump, that's just wrong."

"Oh shut up," Anita muttered. "Who wants to actually jump?"

"Me," Clive said, raising his hand. "I don't worry about falling to my death."

"You're going to put the harness on first, right?" Rodney asked.

"Oh yeah, I guess I will. Now who else will join me?"

"I will," DJ said, stepping up.

"Oh DJ, you don't have to," Anita said. "I know you don't like to do scary stuff-"

"I have to do this," DJ said. "To prove I'm brave, to prove myself to others! I swore I will not be a coward this season!"

"No one will think any ill of you if you don't want to, hon," Belinda said.

"Thanks, but I want to do this," DJ said. "I'll do it in the name of…"

"MOMMY-IIIIIEEEEAAAAAAYYYEEAAAAAAAAH!"

Those inside the blimp winced as DJ's scream of terror could be heard the whole way down, the whole way back up, down again, up again, and down and up in a really interesting scream of terror that sounded like, "YIIII-YEEE-YAAAA-WAAAH-HOOOWAH-BLAAA-GAAAH!"

"Gee, it wasn't that bad when I did it," Clive said, smoothing out his hair where the wind had whipped it out of place. "Maybe I should have gone twice."

"No, that was against the rules," Belinda said. "Poor Deej, I think he really needs to remember he doesn't have to prove anything."

"Yeah right, you all forced a brother to jump," Zachary scoffed. "Bunch of jerks."

"Well, why didn't you jump?" Clive remarked.

"Because I didn't wanna."

(Janitor's Closet - Hey ma, look at Deej bungees!)

DJ - *shaking at the memory* "And people do that for fun? Why? Man, I don't think I want to prove I'm brave anymore!"

Clive - "The bungee jumping felt like some kind of emotional stretching, something I've felt. Plummeting down in hopes of splattering, then being pulled back up, then shooting back down only to be hoisted back up again. It's quite poetic, but a little pathetic too."

(Team 2 (Zeppelin) - Tyler (L), Courtney, Ezekiel, Colin, Leshawna, Noah. (Clues: N, and a -.))

The paper that only consisted of a "-" confused all of the members of Team 2, but they carried on to the next challenge.

"Oh wow, bungee jumping?" Tyler said after Ezekiel read the note out loud. "I've always wanted to do that! Can I be one of the two?"

"Fine by me," Noah said. "Risk your life by having your head hit the ground like an overripe cantaloupe, if that's what thrills you."

"Yep, and it's awesome," he said, pumping his fist. "Zeke man, wanna jump me?"

"Soo'ry, but no," Ezekiel said with a shrug. "I doo'nt like stunts like this, they scare me, eh."

"I'm not going to do it, either," Courtney said. "I'm with Ezekiel, I don't like risking my life like that."

Noah shook his head, and said, "I want an open-casket at my funeral, thank you."

Leshawna opened her mouth, but Colin cut her off. "Why not let Leshawna jump?" he asked. "After all, cats land on their feet. But then again, with you, you'd probably land on your stomach!"

He laughed out loud, and then was seized by Tyler and Courtney. As Ezekiel opened the window, the two forcefully strapped the bully into the harness, and then threw him out the window. All of them smiled at hearing at his plummeting screams.

"Thank you, you guys," Leshawna said. "Saved me the trouble of having to do it."

"No problem," Tyler said, dusting his hands. "So far, this blimp ride has been nice. Chris Maclean is dead, we have a girl in a hot costume, and now I get to bungee jump. Are all blimp rides this fun?"

"Doubtful," Courtney said.

After the bungee cord stopped bouncing, they hauled Colin up, where he cursed and swore and was ignored entirely. Tyler then strapped himself in, then leapt out with a thrilled cry. Laughing as he plummeted and the cord stretched, he cheered as he came soaring back up.

However, he had jumped out at an unfortunate angle, and the recoil sent him straight up into the base of the zeppelin's cabin. Hitting the cabin's metal bottom with his head, he spent the rest of the ride in quiet. As they hauled him up, he was moaning and lolling his head.

"Tyler," Ezekiel cried out and shook his shoulders. He had freaked ever since he heard the painful-sounding thump against the floor. "Tyler! What happened? Are you okay?"

"I went falling down," Tyler said, his voice a goofy slur, "and den I went bouncing back up… and den I hit my widdle head and got a boo-boo!"

He burst out laughing. "Boo-boo on the noggin! My naw'gin! I ish Canadian, woot!"

"He sounds like the raccoon," Colin commented.

(Janitor's Closet - Hey ma, look at me head injury!)

Colin - "It's always fun to see other people get hurt. HAW HAW HAW!"

Tyler - *with bandages around his head* "Man, I really wish that these things would stop happening to me. Sports aren't fun when you get hurt a lot… but then again, I guess that applies to everything."

(Team 3 (Blimp) - Xander (L), Geoff, Izzy, Arthur, Lindsay, Sakaki. (Clues: A, and zzy.))

" 'zzy'?" Geoff said when he looked at the clue that was printed out. "That's gotta be Izzy!"

"Me?" Izzy asked as she popped her hips from side to side, swinging her tail around as she shimmied in her skimpy cat costume. "Do I look like the kind of person who would kill someone?"

"Yes," they all replied at the same time.

"Well, we just lucked out," Geoff said with a laugh. "We got the one clue that tells us who it is."

"I doubt Chip McGleam would make it that obvious," Lindsay said. "I mean, Izzy would be rather obvious, wouldn't she?"

"I am a lover, not a killer," Izzy declared. "Watch!"

She grabbed Xander's face, and pulled him in for a long kiss. As the rebel struggled to stop it but was unable to push her away, Geoff's eye twitched. "Well, see, we just lucked out. Now no more kissing, we gotta… gotta…"

"Greg, are you okay?" Lindsay asked, approaching him. "Does kissing upset you? I thought you and Brenda kissed a lot-"

"Bridgette," Geoff exclaimed, startling them (and allowing Xander to stop the kiss with Izzy). "I cannot let her down! I gotta do this!"

Lindsay tried to stop Geoff, but he quickly entered the decision for Izzy in the iPud. The buzzer and red lights went off, and then Chris's message of, "Wrong wrong wrong wrong! Wrong wrong wrong wrong! You're wro-ooooong! You're wro-ooooong! You're wro-ooooong," echoed around the blimp.

"Well, that wasn't right, I'm guessing," Sakaki said nervously.

"Why?" Geoff wailed, clutching his hat. "Why can't I catch a break?"

"Poor baby," Izzy cooed. "Here, let Izzy make you feel better."

She tackled him and started kissing him, cooing things like, "There there, you'll get over the surfer girl!"

Arthur sighed as he watched. "Why not me instead?" he muttered.

"What was that, Argus?" Lindsay asked him.

"I said, um, what's the next challenge?"

Lindsay nodded, then noticed the box near the window open. She pulled out the note and read it out loud to the others, as Geoff managed to get Izzy off him.

"Bungee jumping from a blimp?" Sakaki asked aloud. "Is that safe?"

"I'm sure Chip wouldn't ask us to do it if it wasn't safe," Lindsay assured her.

"It's jumping from a blimp one way or another, Lindsay," Xander said. "Sorry, but there is some danger in it."

"Well, then, who should go?"

Xander pointed at the window. Izzy was already in the harness and leaping, cackling like a mad woman. He smiled and added, "Need you ask?"

"Gotta love that redhead when she's on your team," Arthur said. "She'll do everything you don't want to."

"I'm not sure I want to be on the same team as her," Sakaki muttered.

When the bungee was done, the team hauled Izzy back into the blimp, in which she cried out how much fun she had, and jumped again. The others all exchanged glances, and then Xander chuckled. "I'm after her, should we ever get her off it."

(Janitor's Closet - Hey ma, look at Izzy bungee easily!)

Geoff - *crying* "Bridgette! Bridgette baby, I cannot take this! I pushed in a wrong answer for ya, baby! Please, why can't I just tell you what's been bothering me? Waaah-hah-haaaaa!"

Xander - "I needed to keep Izzy away from me during the game, because I'm still interested in Crystal, despite that she doesn't return much of the affection. The thing is… that Izzy girl is an awesome kisser. Man, I always did love blondes, didn't know redheads could be so red hot!"

(Team 4 (Airship) - Harold (L), Bridgette, Justin, Valerie, Heather, Alejandro. (Clues: R and I.))

"All we have so far is an R and an I," Bridgette said. "I don't think that's enough."

"That does limit it to two people," Heather said. "Valerie and Bridgette, only two names with I and R."

"But it could also be a message," Harold pointed out. "Like some kind of code, not the name in itself."

Valerie scoffed and looked away. "I'm not really going to take you seriously when you're dressed like that."

"It's only because most of you wouldn't, gosh!"

Harold almost tore the paper with the clue, until Bridgette pat his shoulder. "It's okay, we appreciate the effort, Harold. Now, let's get going on the challenge."

As they looked around to see where it could be, Alejandro approached Bridgette again. "I was right, you are a peacekeeper. That's very appealing!"

Bridgette laughed and tucked her hair behind her ear. "Well, thanks but… Alejandro, I should let you know, I, you know, kind of have a boyfriend."

"'Kind of'?" he repeated, smiling. "What, you mean you do, or is it just starting?"

"No, no! It's been going on for some time… it's just… I don't-"

Heather elbowed in the conversation. "Bridgette, they found the next challenge, and are looking for volunteers." She pointed at the box where all the others were gathered. "Might want to see if you will do it."

Bridgette sighed and headed over, but when Alejandro started to follow her, Heather grabbed him. "Now what are you up to?" she demanded.

"Pardon?"

"You've been flirting with her nonstop," Heather snapped. "You keep focusing on her! Are you up to something?"

"I'm just interested in the lady! What's the matter with that? Are you a little jealous?"

"As if!" She looked away and crossed her arms. "I'm not interested in men like you."

"From all I've heard about you, Heather, I would think you were more my type."

"You know nothing about me," she said, though a faint blush appeared on her face. "I'm not like what people say."

"I don't listen to people, I learn for myself. And trust me when I say, I think you and I have more in common than you think."

Heather growled as she glared at him, hunching up more as he continued to smile slyly at him. His handsome features, especially said smile, were very distracting, until Bridgette ran over to them.

"Guys, please, I need your help," she cried out. "Valerie and Justin refuse to do the bungee jump, so Harold said he would, and I cannot convince him otherwise!"

"Someone needs to do it," Heather said with a scoff.

"But he could hurt, and wearing that, he could get wind burns, or… or something."

"Calm down, señorita," Alejandro said, patting her shoulder. "Let us talk to him."

Harold was getting Valerie's help in putting on the harness when the others approached. He looked at them, and said, "Someone has to do it, I might as well."

"I really hope you don't lose that thong in the process," Heather said.

"Please Harold, you don't have to be the one to jump," Alejandro pleaded, walking towards the window. "Here, allow…"

He suddenly became dizzy, and fell back, caught by Valerie and Bridgette. "Oh my head," he moaned. "I… I guess my fear of heights just kicked in."

"You poor thing," Valerie cooed. "You must sit down, we couldn't ask you to do this."

Bridgette helped Alejandro sit down too, and then went back to Harold. "Wait," she called out. "I'll… I'll do it!" They all looked at her, and she added, "Sure, no problem. Nothing to be scared about, just a leap of faith off of a blimp with only a cord keeping me alive, no sweat. Not like I haven't done something like that before."

Harold stared at her for a second, then smiled. "But Bridgette, we need two people to bungee, and that just leaves you and me."

The surfer girl was silent as she realizes that too, then smiled and shrugged. "So be it, I guess."

(Janitor's Closet - Hey ma, look at me bungle bungee!)

Bridgette - "That bungee experience was terrifying! But… kind of fun too. Okay, a lot of fun! Sometimes, I wonder if being a tomboy is going to make my lifespan half as long."

Alejandro - "Suckers. I just had to feign fainting, and they helped me sit down. Sympathy card, play that all the time to nice people like Bridgette, they eat it up." *He laughs and claps.* "What chumps, they make this so much fun."

(Team 5 (Balloon) - Mandy (L), Alfred, Cody, Sebastian, Carol, Sierra. (Clues: A and E.)

"Well, we have two vowels now," Sebastian said as he looked at both clues. "A and E. Sounds like some kind of channel on TV, I don't watch cable that much. So, now we have to bungee jump to get the next clue, right?"

"Right," Sierra said.

"So who wants to do that-"

"BONZAI," Alfred replied.

Sebastian watched the gonzo, wearing the harness, leap from the blimp. He couldn't help but smile and say, "Should have seen that coming."

"Me next," Carol shouted, leaping up and down. "Me next! I so call dibs!"

Sierra chuckled and looked over at Sebastian. "Ever feel like the only sane man left?"

"Sometimes."

"Yeah, I feel that way too. Now I must cuddle my Cody as we wait for them to bungee jump more."

She immediately darted off to Cody and clung to him, snuggling and cuddling and all that stuff that would be cute if Cody had an okay time breathing. He wheezed and asked in a strained voice, "Carol, could I have your place instead?"

"No way," Carol and Sierra insisted.

Mandy rolled her eyes. "You foolish mortals are so… foolish in your foolishness. Quit waisting time on foolish things like trying to glomp your favorite star!"

Sierra scoffed and spared an arm to point at Mandy. "You know, I wouldn't say that if I were you. Everyone knows you have it bad for Alfred."

The cultist's face turned red, and she squeaked out, "Do not discuss that in the presence of others, mortal fan girl!"

"I so can! I'm a shipper! I ship everyone I want, and thus, I am going to let everyone know how much you two like each other! You both used to make out in the Janitor's Closet!"

Mandy was now cherry red, while Sierra chuckled victoriously. Carol and Sebastian looked quite amused, while Cody still looked half-strangled. The fan girl wasn't done with her ranting though. "And Sebastian, you've gotta be more forward with Sakaki, she's too shy to respond on her own! Carol, you need to find yourself a boy who loves active girls like you, and there's still a few available. Cody, forget Eva and Anita, and come with me to a magical place with ponies and rainbows!"

"What's this place now?"

Alfred, who had pulled himself up to the blimp, was now squatting on the platform, looking at the others. He grinned and tilted his hat up as he looked Sierra. "Is it Candy Land? Is that the next challenge or something, Mandy? Mandy, why you blushing? Did you tell them we've made out in the Janitor's Closet before?"

(Janitor's Closet - Thanks for the shout-out, you guys! :) )

Sierra - "Truth be told, I like Eva and Anita. They're both cool, and Eva is like a challenge for me, hard to find new info but wonderful to get it! Still, there's only one girl who's gonna get Cody, and it ain't not me!"

Cody - "Beth told me once that I had a lot of fan girls online, and since I never logged on about TD, I guess I never knew. Are they all like Sierra?" *He shivers at the thought.*

Mandy - "Why did they have to bring up the whole 'making out in the closet' thing? That only happened once! … Well, twice… okay, three times! But that was it, and it's not something I'm going to do more, because I'm destined to be Cthulhu's leading agent! That's what I'm here for!"

*She pauses, then sighs in defeat.* "Okay okay, four times."

(Team 6 (Floaty Thingy) - Sadie (L), Eva, Yoshi, Gwen, Crystal, Chico. (Clues: A, and x2.))

"What's this? A 'times two' sign?" Yoshi asked as he looked at the paper. "That doesn't make much sense."

"Maybe the name has two A's?" Gwen suggested. "No wait, none of our names do."

"I do love a challenging mystery," Crystal said. "So what is next?"

The team discovered the box with the harnesses, bungee cords, and the note. After Chico read the note out loud (and then Gwen took it and read it so people actually understood what it said), everyone exchanged looks.

"I'll do it," Eva said.

"I think I'll do it too," Yoshi said.

"Well, I'm first!"

"Like hell, move over!"

"Why you!"

As the two grabbed each other's clothes, Sadie wedged herself between them, shouting, "No fighting! I'm leader, and I decree no fighting!"

Her wedging in-between had knocked over Eva, who glared up at her for a second before sighing in defeat. "Well, if you insist."

"Shall I just go then?" Yoshi asked.

"Sure, and then," Sadie said as she helped hook up Yoshi, "I will go after you."

"What?" everyone else asked, caught off-guard by this.

"I need to do this, guys," Sadie exclaimed. "Everyone thinks I'm Katie's useless friend, that I cannot survive without her! Well, it's time for me to prove I can do stuff on my own, just like she did!"

As Yoshi jumped, the others talked to Sadie. "Are you sure?" Gwen asked. "Look, no one's going to think ill of you, Eva's perfectly willing."

"As leader, a member of the team," she replied with pride, "and as a girl on a mission, I will do it."

"can i comes 2?" Chico asked, raising his paw and waving it for attention.

"There's not really a way for me to take you, little one."

"aww, froofie! well, u haz best uf lucks!"

Sadie stood on the small platform, looking down at the ground that looked so, so far away. She clenched the harness on her, and then turned to look back at her teammates. "I've seriously *censored* changed my mind!"

"Just do it," Eva shouted.

"I had no idea she swore like that," Crystal said.

Sadie whimpered, turned back to look at the very, very, very long drop, and very quickly turned back. "I can't! … But I must! I won't… but I will! I shan't… but I-"

Eva pushed her off the side. Her screams were heard as she plummeted, and the fitness girl turned back to her team. "What?" she asked. "She never would have gone without that."

"I wasn't gonna say anything," Gwen said.

(Janitor's Closet - Hey ma, look at me… well, you know by now.)

Sadie - "You know, I don't like being pushed from a blimp with only a bungee cord protecting me from plummeting to my death! Honestly… you'd think there's be a law against pushing people out of flying vehicles! Or… something! Anything! I'm still shaken, darn it!"

Crystal - "So, since when did Sadie swear? I guess when you have to bloody jump from a blimp with nothing but a cord to keep you in one piece, you start to use language that's a bit stronger than normal."

Eva - "There will always be a part of me that'll be a bit blunt. Okay, a little more than a bit. Lot more. Entirely. More so than others. On second thought, I think that's me in general. Got a problem with that?"

(Team 1 (Dirigible) - Anita (L), Zachary, DJ, Rodney, Clive, Belinda. (Clues: A, and two blanks. Two guesses left.))

"Another blank?" Clive asked as Anita showed him their latest clue. "Two blanks and an A. Starting to look more like Hangman than a name."

Anita shrugged. "Really beats me, hon. Maybe we just need to keep working on this, instead of try to take another stab at a guess."

She looked and glared at Zachary as she said this, to which he shrugged and muttered, "Hey, you're the one not being cooperative, girl."

The bombshell scoffed and looked away, then her eye caught something: a table that hadn't been there beforehand. It had come out from a secret panel in the wall, and on it were bags and bags of marshmallows, as well as a note.

Clive reached the table first, and read the note out loud. "For your fourth challenge within the challenge, you are to stuff your mouth full of twenty marshmallows. You are on camera, and when you fit twenty in, you'll see one of the three green lights on the table light up. Thus, three people must twenty-stuff marshmallows at the same time, to get your next clue."

"Screw that," Zachary declared. "There's no way I'm stuffing my mouth with that many!"

"It's big enough," Anita muttered, and she glared right back at him when scowled at her.

Belinda twirled her cat tail in her hand casually as she watched the argument. "Seems like Chris wants to keep marshmallows in the series one way or another. So, shall I?"

"You don't have that big of a mouth," Anita said. "Well, I'm willing to do it… Zachary, make one remark, and I'll shove those marshmallows down your throat.

He called her something that he calls everyone, to which she rolled her eyes. She looked down at DJ, who was curled up against the wall and shivering in fear. Rodney was sitting next to him, patting his knee in comfort. "How's he doing, Rodney?"

"Still not responsive. I'm trying to get him to talk, but he keeps asking for his mother."

"We shouldn't have let him do the bungee jump, poor guy. Well, that leaves myself, Zachary, and Clive."

"Me?" Clive asked, then looked at the others: little Rodney, petrified DJ, and cat girl Belinda. "Oh well, guess that makes sense."

"Yes, stuff your face with white treats, white boy," Zachary cracked. "Maybe then you'll actually be sweet-"

He was interrupted when Anita shoved a handful of marshmallows into Zachary's open, yapping mouth. He coughed but managed to keep them in, growling at her as she said, "That's six, fit fourteen more."

"Ah ooo uhrr hah tahwuntee?" Zachary asked.

"Yes, of course, it's really basic addition."

The three then continued to shove marshmallows into their mouth, Anita having the hardest time when she almost choked and spat out several, then had to shove saliva-coated marshmallows back in her mouth. Rodney let out a giggling "Ew," at this, and she pretended to shove some up her nose, making him howl in laughter.

Eventually, the three fit twenty in (sixty altogether, basic multiplication), and the three lights were lit. Three relieved, muffled sighs were heard, then three very loud spitting sounds. Clive wiped his mouth and said, "Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever wash away the shame of this show."

"Maybe, maybe not," Anita said, then popped a marshmallow in her mouth and chewed. "But hey, free marshmallows are always a nice thing."

(Janitor's Closet - What treat do you find in the swamp? A marshmallow!)

Zachary - "Gotta say, now I'm glad to get trophies instead of marshmallows. I still got the taste of those treats on my tonsils, or whatever that area in the back of your mouth is. The uvula? That always did sound dirty." *He snorts and laughs.*

Rodney - "DJ is really set on being a better man, I think he's trying to impress someone. Wow, he might have a crush too! I just hope it's not the same girl, or we'd have to compete for her heart. I wonder what Gil would tell me to do?"

(Team 2 (Zeppelin) - Tyler (L), Courtney, Ezekiel, Colin, Leshawna, Noah. (Clues: N, and two -.))

"Two hyphens now," Noah said as he looked at the next clue. "Or is it a minus? Or maybe it's an underscore; hell, I wouldn't put it past Chris to give us a leet-speak clue."

"You're reading a lot into it, sugar," Leshawna said, glancing out the window of the blimp. "So, what's our next challenge?"

"Right here," Courtney said as the table came from the hidden panel. The team gather around as she read the instructions out loud. "Oh really now? Stuffing your face with marshmallows? Is that all?"

"Could be worse, Courtney, real worse," Leshawna said, swinging her tail around. "So, who wants to do it?"

Colin barked out laughing. "Oh please, like you don't want to? Go ahead and stuff your fat face, you fat-"

Leshawna seized him by the throat, her furry glove squeezing the Adam's apple. Before Colin could taste cider, she grabbed a handful of marshmallows and shoved them in. She continued to stuff Colin's stupid face until Courtney grabbed her shoulder, shouting, "Wait, wait, that's enough!"

"You think he doesn't deserve it? Every time he opens his mouth, something foul comes out!"

"No, I just mean he has over forty in his mouth now."

Colin's pained, muffled moan seemed to confirm this too, and Leshawna let go of him. "Okay then. Don't spit those out, or kitty will scratch you good. Got it, punk?" He gave a shallow nod, and she chuckled. "Good. Now who else shall do the marshmallow thing?"

Tyler was laying on the ground, staring up at the ceiling and giggling. "Why can't we shee da front of our eyes?" he asked stupidly, groping his face all over except for near his eyes. "I mean, it is like a shcreen or shome'theen, hee hee!"

"I think Tyler's still feeling under the weather from the bloo' to the head, eh," Ezekiel said.

"Don't look at me," Noah said, shaking his head. "My jaw refuses to open wide, which is why I'm cynical."

"What?" the prairie boy said, looking over at him. "That doesn't made sense."

Noah mumbled, "Maybe not to you…"

"What?"

"Cynics don't like opening their mouths much."

Leshawna and Courtney exchanged glances. "Why not just us?" Courtney asked, shrugging. "It's not so bad of a challenge."

"Sounds fine, hon."

They clinked a marshmallow together in toast, then began to stuff their face.

(Janitor's Closet - What's a treat from outer space? A Martian-mallow!)

Courtney - "Once I was talking to Bridgette, and asked her why people don't seem to like my leadership. She gave me a pretty honest answer that I have to do the challenges more often, because I tend to avoid them when I can. So I guess it's time to dive in… seems to be working so far. Who'd've thought mingling with people would make them like you?"

Ezekiel - "Courtney and Leshawna were getting along joo'st fine in the blimp challenge. That's nice, considering I thought they'd hate each other to the end of time, eh. It's like when two ladies of strength meet, you'd think they'd always fight, eh." *He chuckles and then sighs.* "Oh, it's so funny hoo' different I see the wurld befur the shoo', and noo', eh."

(Team 3 (Blimp) - Xander (L), Geoff, Izzy, Arthur, Lindsay, Sakaki. (Clues: A, zzy, and "N I." Two guesses left.))

"I don't get this," Arthur said as he looked at their latest hint. "It's an N, a space, then an I. Doesn't make any sense."

"I agree," Izzy purred as she snuggled against him, smooching his ear and pawing his chest. "And confusion makes me a randy kitty… even I'm not sure why!"

"Izzy, it's very… ah!… hard to concentrate… when you're licking in my ear."

"Uhhf… shud Ah stawp?"

"Oh no, please continue."

Geoff took the hint from Arthur, and looked at it. "Okay, I think I got it," he said. "It's Lindsay! She has an I, N and A in her name! Chris just didn't capitalize them right because she gets names wrong all the time."

"That is so not true, Greg," Lindsay declared, stomping her foot. When Sakaki shook her head at her friend, Lindsay whimpered and asked, "Is it George? Jimmy? Jeffrey?"

"Close, but that doesn't matter," Geoff said. "The 'zzy' clue was a red fish, or whatever that is! It's Lindsay! Here, I'll go enter that in the iPud!"

"No," Xander shouted as Geoff headed over to the device. "Don't you dare, you don't know if-"

He was cut off when the buzzer went off again, and Chris's song of wrong played again. Everyone face-palmed as Geoff whimpered. "Um… whoops?"

"Yeah, good one, lover boy," Xander said, dragging Geoff away from the device. "Honestly, stop being so uncharacteristic because you're having problems with Bridgette. You two will get over it."

"If not, she's blond, handsome," Izzy called out to him. "That's your type, right?"

"I'm blond too," Lindsay said over Geoff's pained wail. "Does you want me too, Xerxes? That's so sweet, but I have a boyfriend."

"We're digressing here," Arthur said, pausing to bask in Izzy's continued snuggle. "What's the next challenge?"

When the table was revealed and the instructions read off, they all exchanged glances. "So," Xander said, "who is going to stuff their face with marshmallows?"

"Duh yuu uhun ee oo ahsk?" Izzy grunted through the mouthful of marshmallows. She tucked a marshmallow into her skimpy, stretchy, kitty top, and muttered, "Aav ath wun err eh'urr!"

"Ah'm oo'ing iss urr ooo, Bri'jit," Geoff sobbed as he continued to stuff his face. "Ah ish Ah culd tah'k ooo uuu a'hen!"

Arthur cleaned his ear as he said to Xander, "Ever wonder why people try to talk when their mouth is full?"

"I'm not sure, dude. Now, you or me for the marshmallows?"

"Ooo, marshmallows," Lindsay cooed. "I love marshmallows!"

She immediately began to stuff her mouth with the fluffy treats, and the boys exchanged surprised looks. "Gotta admire her spirit for the competition," the biker said.

"She's not doing it for the contest," Sakaki said to him, nervously tapping her fingers together. "She didn't listen when we read the rules, she's just putting them in her mouth and forgetting to chew."

Arthur blinked, and smirked. "Dibs on hugging her when she chokes. I mean, the Heimlich, of course."

(Janitor's Closet - What's a calm treat? A marsh-mellow!)

Izzy - "Izzy truly enjoys being a flirt and feeling up the boys! I think I can get away with it when I'm wearing a sexy cat girl outfit, but I don't know if I should when dressed normally. I will either need to quell my hormones, or make it a norm to wear cat girl uniforms in public!"

Arthur - "How do I love this show, let me count the ways: Izzy, Izzy's tongue, Izzy's hands, Izzy's lips, Lindsay's hips, Lindsay's stomach, Lindsay's grateful hug when you save her with the Heimlich, and thus Lindsay's boobs against my chest."

*He grins wickedly and shrugs.* "What? I may be a cad, but I'm an honest cad. It's not like I'm the only guy that has a thing for girls even if they might be taken."

(Team 4 (Airship) - Harold (L), Bridgette, Justin, Valerie, Heather, Alejandro. (Clues: R, I, D.))

"R, I, and D, all in Bridgette's name and no one else's," Harold said to Alejandro, as the other four members of the team were all discussing if they should use one of their guesses. "What do you think?"

"I think it's likely, but I wouldn't put it past our host to trick us," Alejandro said, shrugging his shoulders. "We should carry on, if you're okay with that."

The handsome Hispanic rubbed his chin, and then smiled at Harold. "What do you think of Bridgette?"

"Oh, she's a good friend of mine," the nerd replied as he looked at the surfer girl. "She's the Bethany Hamilton of our show."

When Alejandro stared at him, Harold added, "You know, the soul surfer? The famous, one-armed surfer girl? There's a bunch of books and a movie about her!"

"Sorry, leader, I'm not following you," Alejandro admitted. "All I know is, she has stolen my heart."

Harold bristled a little. "Look, Alejandro, I know you're kind of new, but Bridgette's taken."

"Seems to me things aren't working out for her. And I know enough of the show to know you, of all people, go the distance for infatuation."

Harold blushed slightly, and nodded in defeat. Alejandro went to talk to Bridgette, but was snagged by Valerie and Heather, who wanted to chat him up more as they pretended to ask for his opinion on the third clue. Justin wasn't talking to anyone, so Harold went to talk to Bridgette. She immediately began giggling upon seeing him.

"I cannot help it," she apologized amid her laughter. "You just look so cute!"

"Normally, I'd take that compliment without pause, but-"

Bridgette laughed harder, and held up one of his hands, wearing the paw-like glove. "Paws," she added, and then laughed more.

Harold sighed, but couldn't help but smile at her laughter. When she calmed down a little, he said, "Look, in all serious, my dear Bridgette, I think you should watch out for Alejandro."

"What?" she asked, her laughter dying down. "What do you mean? He's so nice."

"Yes, but I don't think I trust him."

"I thought you liked him too, you were talking to him a lot at the start."

"That's true too, but," he stopped to sigh in frustration, and said, "I just don't think he has the best of intentions. Just watch yourself, okay?"

"Harold, you know I can take care of myself, and I'd never cheat on Geoff."

"I wouldn't think you would. I just think he should treat our Bethany Hamilton with more respect." When she looked at him, puzzled, he said, "She's the soul surfer! I thought you of all people would-"

"No no, I know who she is."

When Valerie called the team over to the newly arrived table with the marshmallows, Harold missed it when Bridgette put her hand over her heart with a big smile on her face. Alejandro was by her side in a second, and she was smiling at him again. Heather read the note for the new challenge out loud, and then looked over at her team.

"So who's going to do this disgusting challenge?"

"Seems fitting for you," Valerie said with fake sincerity. "After all, you do have a talent for opening your mouth."

"Coming from someone who could make a living at it."

"I bet you'd stuff your face full long before I could."

"You're on, Pink Politician!"

As Valerie and Heather began to aggressively stuff their face, the others exchanged glances. "Well, then," Bridgette said, "who else wants to?"

"Not me," Justin grumbled. The others looked at him annoyed, but he shrugged and walked away, saying, "Get Alejandro to do it, since he's just so much better."

Bridgette sighed, then looked at Alejandro and Harold. "Well, I did something like this with my friends back home," she admitted with a sly smile, "so I might as well try!"

She raised a marshmallow at them, and said, "To two of the most handsome men I've met aside from my boyfriend!"

(Janitor's Closet - How are a bunch of marshmallows and good romance novels alike? Just enough fluff!)

Bridgette - "I love Geoff, and I mean it when I say I wouldn't cheat on him, even if he's being incredibly distant. Alejandro's a sweetheart, I'm pretty sure Harold's wrong…" *She pauses and then swoons as she thinks back.* "The Bethany Hamilton of the show… that's probably one of the sweetest things anyone's ever said about me."

Justin - "What's the point of being on a stupid show if they bring in other man candy to replace you? I… need to take up something to get attention again! Maybe… juggling?"

Chef Hatchet - *staring angrily at the floor* "Why is there a bunch of broken eggs all over the floor here!"

Justin - *crestfallen* "Juggling ain't gonna work…"

(Team 5 (Balloon) - Mandy (L), Alfred, Cody, Sebastian, Carol, Sierra. (Clues: A, E, S.))

"I don't see why you all want to wait on the guessing," Mandy said, crossing her arms in a huff. "We have three letters, and those letters only appear in Sebastian's and Sierra's names. We guess twice, and even if we're wrong, we have one more guess!"

"Your argument would be more convincing in strength," Sebastian pointed out, "if you weren't distracted and watching Alfred."

Mandy flinched, but did not tear her eyes away from kitty costume-wearing Alfred. "He's more enticing than a mortal should be," she shouted in frustration, as Alfred laughed and did a little dance for her.

"Hehe, isn't love grand?" Sierra said, squeezing Cody in her arms and making him wince in pain from her strength. "It makes you just want to squeal!"

She let out a fan girl squeal, which hurt everyone's ears (and the ears of people on the other blimps, it was that loud). Carol was rubbing her ears when she said, "And this'll give me plenty of motivation not to get voted off, so I don't go deaf."

Sierra giggled and then asked, "What's the next challenge? I'm eager to prove my worth to Cody!"

"He might be more able to see if you stopped hugging him like a boa constrictor," Mandy said. "I may be distracted, but I can hear your arm muscles squeezing his poor sides!"

When the table and marshmallows were revealed, Sebastian read the instructions out loud to the others. Alfred was already stuff his face before Sebastian was done, and he offered Mandy one.

"Cthulhuists are not tempted by the sweets of mortals," she grumbled. "They do not revel in pleasures of flesh and food, as they know it is sin and greed… and… and… oh hells, gimme one."

Cody was also stuffing his face, giggling happily as he was enjoying a mouthful of sugary treats (and being away from Sierra, who couldn't hold him when he discovered there were marshmallows). His fan girl was watching in giggling delight, and she said to the others, "Cody does love his sugar!"

"I see that, yeah," Carol said. "Think that gives him a sweet kiss?"

"Ooo, I hadn't thought of that! Yay!"

"Don't encourage her," Cody shouted in desperation, accidentally spitting out the majority of marshmallows in his mouth. Before he could pick them up, Sierra was already collecting them.

"Yay, I can now shove the marshmallows that Cody has salivated on into my mouth," she declared. "Oh, bliss!"

"And just when you think the blimp ride cannot get any weirder," Mandy grumbled.

"Are you sure you're allowed to do that, Sierra?" Sebastian asked. "You are a guest, Chris might not approve of you doing the challenges."

"Oh don't worry, I don't mind helping my new friends," she replied as she gathered up all of Cody's marshmallows. "Besides, if Chris makes things difficult for you, I'll tell everyone he was in Fame Town."

"That flash-in-the-pan boy band?" Mandy exclaimed.

(Janitor's Closet - What's a Chris Maclean treat? A hosted marshmallow!)

Mandy - "BUA HA HA HAAAAA!"

Carol - "Hee hee ah ha ha ha hee hee!"

Sebastian - "My my. Looks like someone really wanted to be famous. Na na na-na-ni-nah… HA HA!"

Chris Maclean - *His eye is twitching.* "I am gonna kill that girl."

Sierra - "Did I forget the cameras were watching the marshmallow stuff fest? Oopsie-daisy. Oh well, I'm sure Chris has fond memories of his past!" *She puts up a copy of Fame Town's only CD on the shelf.*

Groucho the Duck - *sees the copy of the CD* "GAH HA HA HAAAAAH! Loser!"

(Team 6 (Floaty Thingy) - Sadie (L), Eva, Yoshi, Gwen, Crystal, Chico. (Clues: A, N, and x2.))

"These clues sure aren't helpful," Eva muttered as she looked at the latest. "What we have is an N, along with the A and the x2. Doesn't even come close any of our names."

"Guess that's Chris's way of making the game take longer," Crystal said. "Though we're a bright bunch of birds."

Yoshi raised an eyebrow at her. "Oh, and a bloke. And a cutie-pie raccoon," she said as she scooped up Chico and hugged him. "Never knew you guys were so cuddly!"

"lolz i iz gettin hugz," Chico cheered. "i wuv dis blimp ryde!"

"That's sweet and all," Gwen said, "but let's get on with the next challenge, before the other teams solve the mystery of Chris's wonderful murder."

The table was revealed and the instructions read, but it didn't take long for Chico to start cramming them into his mouth. "dis iz nuttin," he said, his language not hindered by a mouthful of marshmallows, "i wunce bet Groucho i cud fit a couple baseballs en mah mouf!"

"Did you?" Gwen asked.

"yep! wun me a cuple buks, an wun of his favoreet rocket lawnchurs!"

"Oh dear. Please use it on something deserving, like Chris's car." The goth girl turned to the others and asked, "So, who else wants to stuff their face?"

Eva and Yoshi glared at each other, then the warrior shrugged and said, "Well, I can try. But I'm not exactly sure how much I can fit in my mouth."

"Wimp," Eva declared, and immediately began shoving the fluffy treats into her mouth. "See? Naw tho arr, ith ee?"

Yoshi raised an eyebrow, and said, "I hope Cody falls for Anita."

"Ah wuh kuh oo un ur eep!"

"Charming."

As Yoshi continued to taunt Eva, Sadie approached the table. "Okay, I know this is stereotypical, me being a little overweight and all," she said, "but I know I can do this."

"Don't have to if you don't want to, Sadie," Crystal pointed out.

"But I want to! I want our team to win! After all, if I'm going to be interesting enough to catch Zachary's attention, I have to get into the challenges more!"

As she pushed marshmallows into her mouth, Crystal and Gwen exchanged glances. "Do you think," Crystal asked her, "that Zachary is good enough?"

"That jerk keeps calls me 'white girl,' and not in a good way like Leshawna does when she's joking around. I swear he's making fun of me and trying to be a victim at the same time."

"Bloody hell. Think there's a nice guy deep down?"

"What, like with Duncan or him?" Gwen asked, pointing briefly at Yoshi. "Darned if I know, and I don't really care, to be honest."

"Sorry, love, but I'm a shipper, it's my business to find out."

Gwen chuckled and shook her head. "Well, I would normally make a wise crack, but since you've been so helpful with Trent, myself, and Leshawna, I guess I can forgive your intrusive romantics."

"I'm bloody incurable."

(Janitor's Closet - What's a nutcase treat called? Fluffernutter!)

Yoshi - "I don't mean to start feuds with people, things just happened with Eva… and Zachary… and Colin, and Chef Hatchet, and quite a few of people at school. Okay, so I have a bit of a temper, but I'm not violent normally. But I guess no one's going to believe me…"

*He sees the Fame Town CD on the shelf, and recognizes Chris.* "Oh my… AH HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA!" *He falls down laughing.* "That's priceless! For a clearance item! Har har ha ha ha haaa!"

Chico the Raccoon - "LOLZ! EPIC LOLZ! LOL LOL ROFL ROFLMAO!"

(Maclean Stadium, Arena.)

Chris Maclean was watching the contestants on Vera like everyone else, and the only one not amused since Sierra's announcement. "I'm gonna fire that girl, and get someone more professional! I sure hope Chef Hatchet is handling the calls all right, I think he met some of them during the auditions."

Chef was far away from Chris, talking in hushed, anxious tones. "No, trust me, Jessica, you don't want this job," he whispered quickly. "He's an awful boss and the pay, if you ever get it, sucks! It's worse than that stupid group at school that rejected you! Oh hang on, I got someone else on line two."

He pressed a button on his cell phone and immediately said, "Janet! Listen, you're way too nice for this show, and I don't want to see a blue hair on your head injured by this stupid man! The other day, this guy got stabbed with a prop that looked like a giant purple toothpick, and they gave him a couple band-aids! You can do better at the academy!" [1]

Chris glanced over at Chef, unable to hear what he was saying, but suspicious. "Well, whatever, everyone will forget it soon enough, I'm popular enough nowadays for people to not care about stuff that won't even make it on You Tube."

Chef managed to overhear this, and then went to line three on his phone. "Joe! Remember that coffee table book I have of the bustiest animé girls? It's yours if you do a little favor… remember that recording I smuggled to you for a laugh? If you upload that to You Tube, I will kiss your bald head!" [2]

The audience almost drowned out Chef's conversation as the teams finished up the marshmallow stuff one after the other, and received their next clue. If they were confused beforehand, they were really stumped now.

Team 1 received a paper that had "Arr" on it. As they tried to think of what that could mean, Rodney, Belinda, and Anita began doing pirate imitations.

Team 2 got yet another "-" and that was starting to worry Ezekiel. "What if they were supposed to put actual letters on those papers, and furgot to do that, eh?" he asked the others. "Maybe we should joo'st guess?"

Team 3 received a "x2" of their own. When Geoff went to try another name, Xander and Izzy had to tackle him; only Izzy stayed on Geoff until Sakaki had to pull her off and beg Izzy to calm down just a little, offering her milk (and then remembered she wasn't dealing with a real cat).

Team 4 were stumped when they saw the next letter was L. With R, I, and D, there was no longer anyone's whose name fit the four letters. Defeated for the time being, they pondered their next move as Heather and Valerie glared each other down.

Team 5 got another A, and thus they decided that Sebastian must be the killer, since his name only fit the letters. When Mandy went to enter the guess into the iPud, Alfred remembered something and tried to stop her, but she entered it in and received the "Wrong" buzzer. Alfred sighed and said Sebastian's name was too long for seven letters.

Team 6 received a C, adding to their confusion of who the heck was their killer. Eva and Yoshi began accusing the other of murdering fake Chris, and Yoshi pointed out that if he was the murderer, he would have sword wounds ("Duh!").

Each team learned from a note printed underneath the iPud on each of their blimps. Somewhere on each blimp was an intern standing next to a large pot of coffee. They were to drink four mugs of coffee, any or all members could complete the challenge; if they spat out too much coffee, their team could be immediately eliminated.

The problem with the coffee was that every pot of coffee was strained through one of Owen's used socks.

After everyone's heavy shivering, shuddering, and gagging, the six teams all decided to split up around their blimps. It seemed to be the only way to find the intern with the revolting pot of coffee in a timely fashion. We'll just show you the really interesting clips, as most people aren't so interesting when walking and thinking (and it's really hard for some, Lindsay bumped into a wall twice doing it).

(Team 1 (Dirigible) - Anita (L), Zachary, DJ, Rodney, Clive, Belinda. (Clues: A, Arr, and two blanks. Two guesses left.))

As the team was broken up, Rodney was walking with DJ, holding the big guy's hand as he was still in a terrified daze. When he finally snapped out of it, he flinched and looked around in a small panic. "What? Who? Where? Ground coming up to meet me… oh! Blimp, challenge, bungee jump… wait, where am I? Oh, hello Rodney."

"Feel better?"

DJ shook his head, and then sighed. "Oh yeah, feel much better now. I never want to jump from a blimp again; luckily, I don't think I'll have to. I doubt Chris would have blimps again."

After Rodney explained the next challenge, they carried on at a faster pace. DJ talked about his mom for a while, and then Rodney asked the kind of question that almost required a question in return.

"DJ, when you like a girl, how do you tell her?"

"Oh? Who is it?"

"Not telling yet!"

"Okay then, lover boy," DJ teased him. "But I don't know if I'm an expert on this."

"Well, I heard you had a girlfriend, so what should I do?"

"My advice? Just get into a conversation with her, and then tell her you like her, and would be interested in seeing more of her."

"Oh good! I cannot wait to try! I'll do it after this challenge!"

The two continued to talk until they came upon the intern with the coffee pot next to him. Then they both swallowed their fears and tried a bit of the coffee, strained through Owen's sock.

Anita was next to find the intern, and saw DJ and Rodney lying on the ground, moaning in sick discomfort. She bit her bottom lip, managed to down a mug before joining them in overpowered disgust. Eventually after some time, Zachary, Clive, and Belinda arrived, and all of them drank as much as they could.

"I could really use my mother right now," DJ muttered. "And a bunch of antacids, and mouthwash, and a comfortable bed to nap for a couple days afterwards."

"Hate Chris," Anita moaned, "hate Owen, hate coffee now. Please… kill me."

(Team 2 (Zeppelin) - Tyler (L), Courtney, Ezekiel, Colin, Leshawna, Noah. (Clues: N, and three -.))

"There's something I don't get," Courtney said to Leshawna. They had gone off together, with Ezekiel caring for dazed Tyler, and Colin and Noah alone.

"What's that, hon?"

"I thought for sure you hated me still."

"Thought the same about you."

"You haven't let off me since this season started, you tormented me on the train, and you also have been harsh on Duncan any time he's around. But today… you seem all right."

Leshawna sighed, trying to correct her cat costume without embarrassing herself. "Well, hon, it's mostly because I've decided to bury the hatchet. With all that's going on, I'm tired of arguing. If you can try not to argue with me or my friends, I think I can try not being so hard on you anymore."

Courtney looked quite surprised, then, to Leshawna's surprise, she smiled. "I really hope we can. I did think you were a great competitor in the first season, and… I'm… I'm… s… so…"

"Try a little harder, hon."

The CIT hissed in air, and exhaled out the word, "Sorry."

"Not bad. Sorry I was so cruel to you too."

As they rounded a corner, they spotted the intern with the coffee pot. Courtney, hoping to get away from the slightly awkward conversation, blitzed over and started guzzle down a mug. She spit-took it out, whimpered, and collapsed. Leshawna raised an eyebrow, and then sniffed the coffee; she nearly heaved just from the smell.

As much as she tried, she couldn't bring herself to do more than sip. Ezekiel, almost carrying Tyler, came along and managed to drink two mugs before he collapsed. Tyler drank the third when he saw his friend doing it ("Coffee, it'sh nature'sh liquid!"), and then fainted completely.

Noah and then finally Colin arrived. The egghead sniffed the coffee, exchanged glances with Leshawna, and then nodded. He held Colin, and Leshawna forced him to drink the fourth mug.

(Team 3 (Blimp) - Xander (L), Geoff, Izzy, Arthur, Lindsay, Sakaki. (Clues: A, zzy, x2, and "N I." One guesses left.))

"I… I like it," Izzy exclaimed, then guzzled down the rest of the mug. "Oh… it brings back memories… some happy, some sad… Owen was a nice guy… with many peculiar odors…"

She spat out a toe hair that had strained into the coffee, and continued, "But it was fun while it lasted! I hope he found some nice girl. Now back to the coffee… it's tangy but bitter! Sweet!"

She guzzled down the fourth mug necessary, and was starting to pour herself a fifth when Sakaki grasped her wrists. "No, please! Izzy, you're making the rest of us sick just watching you drink it!"

The redhead in a cat costume looked at her teammates, all lying down or slumped against the wall, nauseated from trying or just watching her. Izzy blinked, and then sighed in regret. "It's gonna be hard to persuade any of you to kiss me now, isn't it? C'mon, this coffee has put me in the mood even more!"

Geoff groaned and looked away. "Let me guess wrong again, just we don't have to do this any more!"

(Team 4 (Airship) - Harold (L), Bridgette, Justin, Valerie, Heather, Alejandro. (Clues: R, I, D, L.))

"Scum and caffeine, that what you take normally?"

"Filtered with Owen's sock, I think it represents how many feet you've kissed to get where you are."

"Better than how many butts you had to kiss!"

"Why don't you-"

"Enough, both of you," Harold exclaimed. "Heather, Valerie, just drink some coffee! It cannot possibly be more bitter than you two!"

As Heather and Valerie exchanged one more glare as they clinked their mugs together, Alejandro and Bridgette rounded the corner. Harold was rather upset to see how much Bridgette was blushing as she continued to talk to the handsome teen. He sighed, then turned to see the two bickering girls were now lying on the ground, moaning in agony.

"They finished a mug each," the intern told Harold, "before they both collapsed."

"It'll stop them from cat fighting like idiots," the nerd replied. "Honestly-"

He stopped when Bridgette batted his tail, and repeated, "Cat fighting, eh?"

Justin came by, and refused to drink any, worried about how his face would wrinkle up from the gag reflex. "Why don't you ask Alejandro to do it?"

"Sorry, my friends, but coffee does not agree with me at all," Alejandro admitted, regretfully frowning. "But we mustn't let our lovely Bridgette swallow such foul brew."

Harold nodded as Bridgette giggled, and he added, "Indeed. Now for my mad, coffee guzzling skills!"

He slammed down two mugs, one after the other, belched, and then fainted in-between Valerie and Heather. "Call an ambulance," he wailed, gripping his hair and his cat ears, "or… maybe… a vet."

(Janitor's Closet - Why hasn't anyone asked for cream yet?)

Alejandro - *sipping from a coffee mug* "Such gullible losers. I just spared my tender stomach the pain, and let that scrawny nerd take the blow; he's so trying to watch over that girl. Chris Maclean, consider the affair a given, he's going to blow it bad. I love my work."

Chris Maclean - "I love Alejandro's work too! Don't you all just love a guy who makes drama from such expendable contestants?" *He laughs, then scowls as a message is shown next to the camera.* "No, I don't care that Bridgette won last season! Don't contradict me… wait, I'm arguing with the camera! It's almost like I'm becoming one of them, the contestants! Argh!"

(Team 5 (Balloon) - Mandy (L), Alfred, Cody, Sebastian, Carol, Sierra. (Clues: Two A, E, S. Two guesses left.))

"Wish I hadn't guessed Sebastian back there," Mandy said to Alfred as they walked around the blimp. She was staring out the windows as they walked by. "Foolish mortal impulse of mine."

"We all get those," Alfred said, patting her shoulder.

"Thanks, I… wait, was that a come on?"

"Wasn't meant to be, but if you want to interpret it as such, you can."

"Why must you continue to tempt me, you mortal gonzo? I'm supposed to be an agent of the Old Ones, a contestant in a reality contest, and an independent woman who has no need for a man!"

"My friend Keith used to say, you cannot always get what you need, so aim for what you want."

Mandy sighed heavily and covered her face with her hand, and she looked at Alfred between her fingers. "Do you really like me? I'm not just a conquest on your list, mortal player?"

"I'm not that kind of guy," he said, beaming at her. "I am interested in a girl who has creativity, intellect, and awesome t-"

He was interrupted when Mandy grabbed his shirt and pulled him in to kiss him heatedly. After a few seconds of hot making out, Alfred managed to pull away and say, "For the record, I was gonna say 'awesome talents,' real-"

She interrupted him and pulled him in for more kissing, which Cody and Sierra walked into. The fan girl giggled and squeezed Cody in her arms some more. "Isn't that exciting?" she asked him. "Making out on a blimp, what's more romantic than that?"

"Breathing, for one," Cody gasped out, prying himself away from her and then running. He almost knocked over Mandy and Alfred, who stopped kissing long enough to dodge Sierra chasing after him. When they went around the corner after him, they found the intern, someone very familiar to them, and the coffee pot.

"So it's really foul and gives you bad breath, making someone not force you into a kiss?" Cody was asking Billy.

"I think so, but why do you ask…"

Cody immediately began guzzling the coffee, and Sierra whispered to Mandy, "My, he's a good sport, doing so much for the team. Though he should do some kissing like you two were."

"What, with me?" Mandy asked, not quite getting it. "I may be in a romantic mood before of this foolish blimp, but I'm not that randy! You might be thinking of Izzy-"

She was interrupted this time around by a loud gasp. Sebastian and Carol had come around the other way, and the latter had just seen who the intern was. Alfred and Mandy winced, and he whispered to her, "Think she's gonna lose it?"

"Mortals usually do, but yeah, I think so."

Carol went through a series of facial features: surprise, joy, anger, sorrow, surprise again, and then, oddly enough, hungry. She managed to shove all this aside, and ask, very neutrally, "Hello, Billy, how are you?"

"Oh, I'm… doing fine."

"How's Emily?"

"She's fine, thanks."

"Listen, I'm sorry I made such a fuss last time I saw you. I can be professional about this."

"It's okay, Carol, you're really nice and-"

"And I'm not gonna let my emotions get the best of me again," she exclaimed, startling everyone. "I won't let my awesome talents slip again! I'll guzzle the hell out of that coffee!"

She poured a mug full and began drinking it down, pumping her fist with her free hand.

"Wait, Carol," Cody said amid his pained gagging, "I already drank four mugs!"

"Not… gonna… slip… again," she gurgled, yucky coffee pouring down the sides of her mouth.

(Team 6 (Floaty Thingy) - Sadie (L), Eva, Yoshi, Gwen, Crystal, Chico. (Clues: A, N, C, x2.))

"You cannot make this poor thing drink coffee," Crystal shouted, holding Chico close to her. "That's cruelty to animals!"

"It lives and sleeps in trash," Eva shouted back. "I've seen it eating leftovers from the sink and trash in the stadium cafeteria! Why is it that he can't drink bad coffee?"

Chico looked around as he hugged close to Crystal, trying to find an excuse. Then he thought of something, and pretended to slump in Crystal's arms. "um, oh noes, i haz fainted! i kinnot drink teh coffee!"

"Nice try, Stripy," Eva snarled.

"Oh, don't be so mean! Look, if you do a mug, I'll do one!"

"Crystal, no offense, but why do I have to bargain for your favor?"

"Have you forgotten that I'm the bloody matchmaker on this show? And you might want my help?"

"ladiez, ladiez, no fightin', dere iz plentee of hugz an such 2 make thingz nysir!"

Eva took a deep breath, and shook her head. "Okay, but you owe me for this, Crystal." She grabbed a mug, filled it up, and then slammed it down in one go. The fitness buff, who once lifted a car over her head, gagged and whimpered, chucking the mug and shattering it as she spat and choked.

"Hey, careful with the mugs," the intern pleaded, "Mr. Maclean might make us pay for those!"

Crystal sniffed the coffee, and then coughed in disgust before managing half a mug. The others all showed up, and each tried to drink some. Sadie finished the half mug and then collapsed. Gwen drank a mug before running off to throw up. Yoshi managed to finish the deal with a fourth mug, then, after spitting and hacking for a minute, went to go find the groaning goth girl.

"Someone kill me," Gwen whined as Yoshi helped her walk back to the others. "You know, this… kind of feels like a real murder mystery."

"How's that, dear?" Crystal asked.

"Because the detective has to work hard, suffer, and take lumps, just to find out who was the one nice enough to murder the jerk ass who caused so much suffering."

"Especially ironic since our victim is the one who made this challenge."

"Indeed. Now where's the damn clue?"

The intern shrugged. "Sorry, not on me. It's probably being printed back at the iPud!"

"Oh, all that walking around for one stupid challenge," she spat out. "Fine! Let's get this over with!"

As they walked back to where the challenge started, Chico looked up and whispered, "does i haff 2 fayke faintin stillz?"

"No, not anymore, chap," Crystal whispered to him. "Now, let's catch us a killer!"

(Janitor's Closet - Can coffee's caffeine crush Chico's cheezburgers?)

Chef Hatchet - "Wimps. I actually had to brew that coffee. I swear, I puked part of my digestive track after that! And speaking of revolting, I don't have my paycheck yet…"

*He reveals he has his back scratcher with him, and to add to this terror, he also holds up a razor.* "I'll start shaving my legs, then work my way up. Please, send your concerns to Chris Maclean, and GET ME MAH PAYCHECK, FOO'!"

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So what is the fifth clue for each of our teams? Will any of them be able to solve their mystery then?

Who will get first and get the blimp ride prize? Who will be the last two teams?

And seriously, get Chef Hatchet his paycheck, foo's. He will not rest, and either will we if he keeps up this nightmare fuel!

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Team 1 (Dirigible) - Anita (L), Zachary, DJ, Rodney, Clive, Belinda. (Clues: A, Arr, and two blanks. Two guesses left.)

Team 2 (Zeppelin) - Tyler (L), Courtney, Ezekiel, Colin, Leshawna, Noah. (Clues: N, and three -.)

Team 3 (Blimp) - Xander (L), Geoff, Izzy, Arthur, Lindsay, Sakaki. (Clues: A, zzy, x2, and "N I." One guesses left.)

Team 4 (Airship) - Harold (L), Bridgette, Justin, Valerie, Heather, Alejandro. (Clues: R, I, D, L.)

Team 5 (Balloon) - Mandy (L), Alfred, Cody, Sebastian, Carol, Sierra. (Clues: Two A, E, S. Two guesses left.)

Team 6 (Floaty Thingy) - Sadie (L), Eva, Yoshi, Gwen, Crystal, Chico. (Clues: A, N, C, x2.)

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Janitor Closet's Decorations to Date - Fame Town's CD on the shelf.

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[1] - Jessica and Janet are characters from Lord Akiyama's story of Total Drama Academy: Year One. Jessica manages the students/contestants, and Janet is one of the most popular and sweetest girls there is. Both might be interested in getting to co-host, unless they were warned. Go read Akiyama's stories!

[2] - Joe is a character from TDI Charlie Brown's story of Total Drama Madness, an artist who loves his busty models in his artwork. Now go read TDI CB's stories, you blockheads!

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