This chapter is dedicated to my little sister, who not only came up with the idea for today's challenge, but also helped me edit. Thanks, sis!
I still don't own Total Drama.
Still in the game:
Screaming Gophers: Dawn, Alejandro, Dakota, Anne Maria, Noah, Cody, Trent, Zoey, Jo
Killer Bass: Duncan, LeShawna, Geoff, Gwen, Heather, Harold, Beth, Tyler, DJ
Thrashing Bears: Sadie, Cameron, Courtney, Scott, Lightning, Izzy, Brick, Bridgette, Mike
"Last time on Total Drama Island, the drama got even more intense! Mike got a little too close to Gwen for Trent's liking and Courtney forgot what team she was on and actually cheered for Duncan! And Bridgette and Scott mark the start of their relationship as immediately following that one time when Sadie beat the snot out of Scott!" Chris announced in his usual cheerful tone. "Will things get even more tense between our teens? Find out right now on Total Drama Island!"
Cue theme song.
"Wow, a beach challenge!" Heather said with feigned cheer. "It's such a shame that you guys voted off Justin – he's got the perfect body for a swimsuit!"
"Now that's one thing you and I can agree on." LeShawna commented, almost giving Heather a half-smile before she caught herself and turned away from the Queen Bee.
"Yes, such a shame that Justin stopped contributing to the team and was voted out." Alejandro responded coolly.
"Yes, I distinctly remember it was Justin who handed us the win in the last challenge. Shame he couldn't keep the frogs eggs down, isn't it?" Heather taunted, before mocking a realization. "Hold on a moment, wasn't it you who blew chunks all over his own shoes?"
If looks could kill, the one that Alejandro gave Heather at that moment would have been enough to strike her dead ten times over.
"Oh, I just love the smell of tension in the morning!" Chris greeted the teens with a cheerful smile. "Who's ready for today's challenge? Nobody? Excellent!"
"So how do you plan to torture us today?" Noah deadpanned.
"I like to call this one: 'Wave Warriors'!" Chris announced in a very theatrical manner.
"That sounds like a surfing challenge!" Bridgette said enthusiastically, turning to her teammates. "If it is, we've got this one in the bag!"
"Nope, it's not a surfing challenge." Chris said with a shake of his head, before turning toward the lake. "You guys see that big yellow rectangle floating on the lake? Well that's where our next challenge takes place! Two members of each team go up ever round, and the aim of the game is to knock the other team members into the water while not falling in yourself! Now, everyone into a boat! We're heading out!"
"Yo man, do these things tip over a lot?" DJ asked, nudging one of the viking-style longboats with his foot, only to have a large piece of paint chip off the part that he'd touched.
"No, man, you're thinking of Kayaks." Geoff reassured his teammate. "Unless we hit some rough water."
"Water can be rough?" DJ asked cautiously.
"Yeah, sometimes it can get totally radical out there." Geoff replied.
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"When I was eight, my brothers dared me to dive off the high-dive platform at the pool. I was scared, but I jumped. I wasn't gonna let them call me chicken." DJ told the confessional camera. "I landed on my butt – sounds better than a belly-flop, right? Wrong. My trunks went so far up my butt that I had to go to the hospital to get them removed. They invented a new word for what I did – the wedgie-flop. I've been afraid of water ever since."
It took a few moments for the teams to pile into their boats, a few more for Courtney to get out and find life jackets for everyone, and then finally, they were on their way to the yellow rectangular platform in the lake.
"Alright, first up we'll have Zoey and Noah for the Gophers, Duncan and Gwen for the Bass and Lightning and Courtney for the Bears!"
"Well, I'm going to lose. Or die. Perhaps both." Noah said, ever the optimist as he prepared to jump from the boat onto the platform. He was shocked to find his feet sinking under his weight as soon as he landed on the platform. He was further off-balanced when Zoey jumped onto the platform beside him and made their edge sink some more. Quickly, Noah stepped further onto the platform to put some distance between himself and his teammate.
"What is this made of?" Lightning demanded, looking affronted as he found the platform sinking under his weight with every step he took.
"Foam of course!" Chris said with a grin. "It would have been way too easy for you if the platform was solid, don't you think? And it's way funnier this way too!"
"Well at least my death will be in the name of humour." Noah quipped, his voice simply dripping in sarcasm as he gave the host an unamused frown.
"That's the spirit!" Chris said with a grin. "Now, the aim of the game is to knock off opposing team members through any means necessary! Whoever is the last one on the platform wins a point for their team, or two points if both team members manage to stay on the platform! Now that you all know the rules - ready? Set! Go!"
The six teens wobbled their way to the centre of the wobbly platform, earning an amused chuckle from the host before the challenge actually began.
"Sha-Lightning strikes!" Lightning said, picking up Noah by the front of his life jacket and easily tossing him into the water.
"Called it." Noah sputtered as he broke the surface of the water, before his body went rigid in the water and his hair suddenly gained a static charge. "BZZZT! BZZZT!"
"Take my hand." Dawn reached over the side of the boat and grabbed Noah's hand to pull him into the Screaming Gophers' boat. Unfortunately, he received another shock and the electricity froze his body and travelled through his hand into Dawn's body, momentarily paralysing the two and locking them together from the electric shock.
And then the electric shock ended and the rest of the team was able to help hoist their drenched teammate into the boat.
Noah glared at the host. "EELS? SERIOUSLY?!"
Chris shrugged. "Eh, we had some left over from the last challenge."
Dawn gasped in horror. "And you let them go in the lake? How could you? Those poor eels, how must they feel? They're so far from their natural habitat!" He pale hands gripped the side of the boat as she glared at the host. "You're an evil, evil man!"
Chris wasn't fazed in the slightest. "Eh, the animal rights groups wanted us to return the eels and the sharks to the wild, so we did."
"So now there are eels and sharks in the lake?" Noah confirmed. "Well that's fun."
"That's what I thought!" Chris said with a grin, ignoring Noah's sarcastic tone completely.
Noah rolled his eyes and turned his attention back to the challenge, where Courtney had just shoved Gwen off the edge of the platform into the lake. As she turned to face her remaining opponents, she found herself face to face with Duncan, who poked her in the forehead with his index finger to off-balance her and send her into the water.
"Nothing personal, princess." Duncan said with a smirk, relishing the look of absolute shock on the brunette's face. However, Duncan's smirk vanished when Courtney flashed him a satisfied grin, and not half a second later, he felt a tug at his chest. It was Duncan's turn to look surprised as he discovered that Courtney had grabbed hold of his life jacket, but not in an attempt to save herself – no, she was pulling him into the water with her. And with a splash, two more campers were out.
It was down to just Lightning and Zoey now, but not for long. Zoey had been successful in avoiding Lightning so far, but as she moved to avoid him once more, he reached out and finally managed to touch her shoulder, just managing to off-balance her enough to send her into the water with a splash.
"Nice one, Lightning!" Sadie cheered, clapping her hands like a child.
"Sha-Lightning!" the jock cheered as he jumped into his team's boat, nearly causing it to overturn.
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"So Sadie likes athletic guys, huh?" Harold asked the confessional camera with an almost thoughtful expression. "I'll just have to show off my mad skillz."
"Wasn't that exciting?" Chris asked the contestants, flashing them all with his million dollar smile. "Point Bears! Alright, let's start round two!"
"I'll go next." Harold volunteered.
"Who to pick, who to pick." Chris tapped his chin with his index finger. "Alright, I got it! Cody and Jo – you're on for the Gophers. Sadie and Cameron are up for the Bears! And who shall represent the Bass. . . . hmmmm."
"I'll go!" Harold repeated, raising his hand as though he was in a classroom and waving it to get the host's attention.
"Tyler and Beth – you're up!"
"Aww, man!" Harold responded, looking down in defeat.
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"Okay, so this is totally terrifying. I've never been in a fight before! And being teamed up with Sadie is so scary, especially after what she did to Scott! But I guess it means she'll be able to take out the other team!"
Chris blew the whistle to signify that the second round had begun, and Tyler charged forward, before slipping on part of the mat that was wet, and colliding with both Jo and his teammate Beth, sending the three of them into the water. Needless to say, Jo was pretty ticked about her fluke elimination, but congratulated Tyler on eliminating some of the competition for her team.
Cody was grappling with Cameron, and seemed as though he was about to overpower him.
"I'll help you, Cam!" Sadie announced as she rushed to aide her teammate, but Cameron squeaked in alarm, before trying to pull free from Cody's grasp and dragging them both into the water.
"Point: Thrashing Bears!" Chris announced, not even trying to mask his bewilderment at the match's winner.
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"Okay, that was totally weird. It was almost like Cam jumped in on purpose." Sadie with a frown. After a moment, she shrugged. "Oh well, at least we won!"
"Listen up!" LeShawna commanded her team, leaning towards the middle as DJ and Geoff pulled a drenched Tyler into the boat with them. Their other freshly-soaked teammate, Beth, sat next to Heather, looking attentively to LeShawna as the sister spoke up. "I got a strategy, ya'll."
"Awesome, dude!" Geoff asked with a smile. "What is it?"
"Stay near the centre." LeShawna said simply. "The further you are from the edge, the harder it'll be to get you into the water!"
"And you don't think that maybe that thought already occurred to us?" Duncan asked with a snort of derision. "You try getting up there and following your own advice before you start preaching to the rest of us."
"Well do you have a better idea?" LeShawna asked him, raising an eyebrow.
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"I don't care if I have to make a deal with Heather – next time we lose a challenge, LeShawna is G-O-N-E, gone." Duncan told the confessional.
"My advice is you'd better hope we don't lose this challenge."
"Are you threatening me, white boy?" LeShawna asked with a frown.
"If the shoe fits," Duncan responded, his lip curled back into what could only be described as a snarl.
"How about you show me some respect?!" the loud and proud sister demanded, glaring at the punk.
"You want my respect? You're gonna have to earn it, sister!"
"If this is how you treat Courtney, I can see why she doesn't want anything to do with you."
"Chill, man, this is getting way too heavy." Geoff finally interjected as Duncan opened his mouth to respond. Geoff raised his hands as though to surrender, although to which side of the argument was unclear, trying to diffuse the situation as Duncan and LeShawna glared at one another.
"Well then maybe this'll lighten things up!" LeShawna said, grabbing Duncan by the life jacket and dragging him from his seat and giving him a hard shove over the side of the longboat, sending him into the lake with a splash.
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"It's like LeShawna is trying to get herself kicked off!" Heather said, looking almost gleeful. "Duncan must be almost desperate to be rid of miss bossy boots – I know I am. And I'd be a fool to let an opportunity like this just slip through my fingers."
"Dawn?" Noah's impatient tone broke the blonde free of the trance-like state she'd fallen into. The still-soggy bookworm did not look amused, and the sarcasm in his tone reflected his irritation with the girl seated beside him. "I'm terribly sorry to have interrupted whatever curse you were putting on Chris, but it's your turn."
Dawn looked perplexed. "What curse?"
"You've been glaring daggers at Chris and muttering under your breath since the end of round one – what? You weren't trying to put a curse on him?" Noah raised an eyebrow.
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"I would just like to say that for the record, I do not believe in all that magic mumbo-jumbo," Noah said. "but I figured that in the weird little fairytale world that Dawn lives in, she believed that was putting a curse on Chris."
"I would never put a curse on someone!" Dawn responded, positively horrified. "And although I can see in your aura that you do not mean it, I am very offended that you would suggest such a thing!"
Without another word, Dawn rose and made her way onto the platform, joining teammate Alejandro to face off against Bass members Heather and DJ and Bear members Izzy and Scott.
"Let round three begin!" Chris called once Dawn was on the platform and four of the teens stepped forward to begin the match.
Alejandro suddenly looked very horrified, and put his hand to his mouth in shock. "Is that a rabbit getting eaten by that eagle?!"
"Bunny!" DJ cried out, whirling around to see what Alejandro was looking at.
"My mistake, amigo." Alejandro said apologetically, before giving a fiendish grin and using the planned distraction to push DJ off the foam platform, which was growing slipperier and slipperier with each round.
"Nice one." Heather said with a false smile before shoving Alejandro into the water after DJ. He grabbed onto her wrist and tried to pull her with him, but she slipped out of his grasp just in time, although she was brought to her knees at the very edge of the platform. Sliding away from the sinking edge, she made to stand up, only to find Izzy charging towards her on all fours, snarling like a rabid dog.
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"Well what would you have done?" Heather asked, her arms crossed over her chest as she regarded the confessional camera with a look that resembled superiority. "I don't want rabies or whatever it is that she has."
"Nice of you to join us, mi amore." Alejandro said sweetly as Heather resurfaced beside him, gasping for air.
"Hmph." Heather responded, turning and beginning to swim towards her team's boat. Unfortunately, she hadn't made it two feet when she gasped and halted in her tracks. "I felt something under the water!"
"You're not going to frighten me, you know, so you can-" Alejandro stopped talking the minute a triangular grey fin pierced the water's surface near Heather, who retreated backwards, away from the predator and right into Alejandro's arms.
As the Gophers and Bass attempted to get close enough to save their teammates from the shark, Izzy sat on the mat, scratching herself behind the ear with her foot. Meanwhile, Scott approached Dawn as though to try and push her into the water, but accidentally stepped in a puddle of water and slipped on the mat, colliding with Izzy and sending both redheads into the water, without Dawn having touched either of them.
"Disappointing match," Chris said sounding disappointed for a moment before he noticed Alejandro and Heather clutching one another as their teams tried to manoeuvre their boats close enough to pick them up. The increasingly sadistic host smiled, and seemed cheered by this new development. "But at least the sharks have arrived! Point Gophers!"
"Round four: Trent and Anne Maria for Gophers, Geoff and Gwen for Bass, Mike and Bridgette for Bears!"
Once the named teens were up on the foam platform, the match began. Anne Maria took one look at her two female opponents and decided that they'd both be easy for her to knock off – they were scrawny and pale and would be easier to push than she would be. With a shrug, she began to approach the one closest to her – Bridgette.
Meanwhile, Gwen and teammate Geoff had managed to claim the middle of the platform and were standing back-to-back in the hopes that they'd be able to avoid being knocked off the platform. The least they could do was try LeShawna's strategy.
Trent glanced at Gwen, disappointed that he had to compete against his crush in this round. If it came down to just the two of them, he'd almost certainly let her win. So Trent leaped at Mike, trying to shove him off the platform instead. Unfortunately for the musician, Mike gasped and sidestepped him with ease, dancing around the mat as though to taunt him.
"Dance with Svetlana!" Mike said with a Russian accent, grabbing Gwen's hand and whirling her around in a quick waltz-type dance before releasing her mid-spin and sending her with a splash into the water.
Trent had used to opportunity to get close enough to Mike to try and shove him off the platform again, but Mike was still too agile.
"You'll have to do better than that to beat Svetlana!" Mike said with a grin as he moved to dodge Trent a second time. Trent whirled around to try again but stepped on a slippery part of the platform and slid past, grabbing a handful of Mike's shirt in the process.
But instead of pulling Mike into the water with him, Mike's shirt ripped off and the brunette teen gasped as Trent hit the water with a splash.
"Eyy, can't get Vito out that easy, ya losa." Mike said, his Russian accent having been replaced by a Jersey one as he ran a hand through his hair to slick it all back.
Anne Maria had paused for a moment to reapply her hairspray and accidentally spraying rival team member, Bridgette, right in the face, sending the blonde into a coughing fit. Meanwhile, Geoff charged at Mike, but instead of Mike getting thrown off the platform by Geoff, Vito took a swing at his opponent and knocked Geoff into the water with a single hit.
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Geoff was raised a steak to the black eye that Mike had given him. "Not cool, dude, not cool."
As Bridgette crawled across the platform, coughing as though she was about to hack up a lung, Anne Maria dropped her can of hairspray, having just witnessed Mike punch Geoff right in the face. "Oh my!"
Once she'd caught her breath, Bridgette got to her feet once more and moved to stand beside teammate Mike. Putting a hand on his shoulder, she offered him a determined smile. "Come on, we've totally got this."
Mike shook off her hand. "Ey-oh, Pasty, if you wanna touch the Vito, you betta make an appointment."
While Bridgette looked both shocked and appalled by Mike's abnormal behaviour, Anne Maria was impressed. "Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout!"
"Mike?" Bridgette asked as she stepped between Anne Maria and 'Vito', snapping her fingers in front of her teammate's face. She wasn't sure how to deal with him when another of his personalities took over.
"Get outta my face, blondie." Mike said, shoving Bridgette to the side with such force that she went over the side of the platform with a splash.
"MIKE?!" Courtney shrieked, enraged. "You're supposed to knock off the OTHER TEAM!"
"Ey-oh, you gonna jump in on your own or is Vito gonna have to make you get wet?" Mike asked, nodding at Anne Maria with a smirk on his face.
Anne Maria put her hands on her hips and raised an eyebrow at Mike, and trying hard not to swoon when he winked at her. "Classy girls like me ain't that easy you know. You gotta work for it if you want a piece of this."
"Don't say I didn't warn you, gorgeous." Mike said with a shrug before giving Anne Maria a hard shove, not expecting the tanned girl to grab his wrist and swing him around, tossing him into the water instead.
"Nothing personal, Vito baby!" Anne Maria said, holding up her hand in a victory pose.
After the display on the platform, Trent glanced at his best friend, sitting beside him at the end of their team's longboat and raised an eyebrow at her. "Is it just me, or was Mike a whole lot nicer yesterday?"
Zoey nodded. "Yeah, and he's starting to seem like a real player. I mean – he's been practically drooling over Gwen for the past three days, and now he's flirting with Anne Maria!"
"I know you were upset because of the whole thing, but I think that you just got a lucky break. He seems like trouble." Trent said with a nod, and after a moment, Zoey nodded in agreement.
"Don't worry, I'm over him." Zoey said with a sigh that didn't convince her musician friend. "Really. There are plenty of great guys out there."
"Probably even here on the island." Trent said with a shrug. "We'll find you someone, don't worry."
"You make it sound as though I'm desperate." Zoey said in a tone that sounded almost amused before she sighed and leaned forward, resting her face in her hands. "Maybe I am. I'm just a sad, lonely, pathetic girl who's desperate for any guy who'll take her."
"Hey now, that's not true. You're not pathetic. And I'm your friend, so you're not allowed to be sad or lonely. You've just got a lot going on and you need to take your mind off it."
Zoey gave him a half smile. "You're a really sweet guy, Trent, Gwen's lucky to have you."
At this, Trent's face darkened and he fell silent for a moment before responding with in a hushed tone. "Yeah, I guess."
"Things not going so well?" the redhead asked with a frown.
"I don't know. I thought she was into me, but I have no idea what's going on with this whole Mike thing." Trent shrugged.
Zoey rested her head on Trent's shoulder. "Looks like both our love lives are pretty messed up right now."
"Looks like." Trent said with a frustrated sigh.
"It'll work out eventually." Zoey assured her friend, although she sounded as though who she was really trying to convince was herself. "Probably."
"Final round!" Chris announced with a wide grin. "Dakota and Jo! Courtney and Brick! LeShawna and . . . Harold!"
"YES!" Harold cheered, leaping to his feet and nearly tipping over the Bass team's longboat in the process.
"Careful stringbean!" LeShawna warned the boy as she sat down to wait for the boat to steady itself again. After a few moments, it was steady enough for the campers to make their way onto the platform for the next round.
Courtney was speaking to Brick in hushed tones, while the cadet just nodded in agreement as their longboat pulled up to the platform. Brick got out first, then offered a hand to Courtney to help her onto the platform.
"Thank you, Brick! You're such a gentleman!" Courtney said with a smile.
"Glad to have been of service, ma'am." Brick said, giving her a salute before moving to take his position on the platform.
Once Chris blew the whistle, Harold charged forward, karate-chopping the air in front of him, pausing near the middle of the mat to add in a few karate kicks. While Harold had paused, Courtney and Brick had laid claim to the true middle of the platform and were standing back-to-back, ready to engage any enemy that tried to attack them.
Dakota didn't seem very interested in the challenge at all, and was just standing in one place, focusing on her phone and only her phone. Jo took one look at her teammate, rolled her eyes and made her way forward to challenge her rivals.
"Just what are you doing, white boy?" LeShawna asked Harold, raising an eyebrow as the dork karate chopped the air once more.
"I'm showing off my mad skillz!" Harold answered. "Gotta impress the ladies!"
"If you wanna impress the ladies, hows about you try and help me win this thing so that we don't have to send anyone else home tonight?" LeShawna said.
Harold paused a moment, before his hands fell to his side and he nodded. "Okay."
"If both of us can stay on the platform, we'll get two points, then it'll be a three-way tie and we'll have to do a tiebreaker."
Courtney linked both of her elbows with Brick's as they stood back-to-back in the middle of the platform. Courtney gave a determined look and lifted her legs up as Brick swung her around so she could deliver a double flying kick to Jo, who was on the attack.
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"See, this is why I like Brick. He respects authority and follows orders! He's probably one of the nicest people I've met here." Courtney said before she paused to wring out her hair. "Not like some of the other idiots I've met. I could even see us going to the final two together."
Unfortunately, neither Brick nor Courtney were expecting Jo to grab onto Courtney's legs, and give them a good tug, off-balancing Brick and causing him to fall backwards.
"Too easy, maggot!" Jo taunted, pulling Courtney's legs to tow the brunette closer to the edge of the platform, and bringing a still-linked Brick along as a bonus. As Jo dragged Courtney to the edge and pushed her over the side, the brunette tried to let go of her teammate.
"Brick, you have to win this without me!" Courtney said, releasing the cadet, but he turned and grabbed her wrist as she clung to the side of the foam platform.
"With all due respect, ma'am, I was taught never to leave a man behind." Brick said.
"Oh good, that makes things much easier." Jo said as she reached down and grabbed hold of Brick's other arm, intending to shove him in as well. Unfortunately for Jo, her plan went awry when the entire platform shook and both Jo and Brick ended up joining Courtney in the water. Nearby, Dakota stumbled off the edge just as she began posing for pictures for the paparazzi who had just arrived on the scene, thanks to her invite.
LeShawna and Harold had jumped, landing in unison in the centre of the foam platform, using their combined weight to make a wave underneath the platform and shake off their opponents.
"Score one for us, baby!" LeShawna said, turning to Harold and giving him a high five.
Chris frowned. "That was kind of anti-climactic, and now we have a three-way tie."
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"You know, I never noticed it before, but LeShawna is pretty hot. Maybe even hotter than Sadie!" Harold told the confessional camera.
"This one should be fun!" Chris announced. "LeShawna and Tyler versus Sadie and Scott versus Noah and Dawn!"
"Words cannot fully express my joy." Noah deadpanned. "I'm so lucky - the gods must be smiling down upon me today."
"YEAH!" Tyler cheered, jumping onto the platform. As was typical of Tyler, he landed on a puddle which caused him to slip and faceplant on the foam platform.
"For our tiebreaker, this is an instant death round! First team to lose both their members is sending someone home tonight! On your marks! Get set! Go!"
LeShawna tried to re-use her previous strategy, but this time her opponents were ready for her and all seemed to have the same idea – fall forward and crawl away from the edges. Her own teammate, Tyler, was the only one affected by LeShawna's jumping, and fell onto his back the first time she tried it.
Frowning that her 'foolproof' strategy had failed, LeShawna abandoned her attempts to off-balance her opponents and knelt on the mat so that she'd have a lower centre of gravity and therefore more stability when she took Sadie on.
"How's it going, fairy princess?" Scott sneered at the pale blonde, ready to pretend like he was going to engage her in battle.
Someone tapped Scott on the shoulder. "What? Are you afraid of taking on someone your own size?"
"Tyler is perfectly capable of taking himself out." Scott retorted.
"HEY!" Tyler cried out indignantly, charging over to engage Scott in battle, but tripping over his own feet in the process and falling off the platform instead.
Noah rolled his eyes before diving at Scott, attacking him in a manner which could only be described as flailing. Scott was able to hold him off easily, and snorted in derision at the other boy's manner of attack. "Where on earth did you learn to fight, kitten?"
Noah glanced over at Dawn with an annoyed look. "Are you going to watch or are you going to help me?"
"Sorry!" Dawn said, hurrying to join the kerfuffle between Noah and Scott.
Of course, Dawn was not violent unless absolutely necessary, and Scott had never given her any reason to use physical force on him, and so much to Noah's ire, Dawn's method of attack was tickling.
"You're not serious!" Noah said with an annoyed groan as Dawn took to tickling his opponent. Even more to Noah's annoyance, as well as to his surprise, Dawn's method actually seemed to be pretty effective. Scott gave Noah a hard accidental kick in the thigh when he fought his knees up to protect his ticklish tummy.
"Ugh, charlie horse!" Noah grunted as he fell to his side, clutching the part of his leg that Scott had kicked. He glared at the ginger-haired redneck as he tried to roll away from his attacker and fell off the side of the platform.
Dawn returned to her teammates side and knelt down next to him. "Are you alright?"
"Do I look alright to you?" Noah snapped, rolling his eyes.
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"Noah and Dawn beat Scott. Noah. Dawn. Beat. Scott" Courtney told the confessional, absolutely fuming. She paused a moment to take a deep breath. "They beat him way too easily, it was almost like-" Courtney's eyes narrowed suspiciously. "It was almost like he let them win. It seems I might need to keep a closer eye on my teammates."
Meanwhile, Harold was staring in awe as Sadie and LeShawna engaged in the most epic battle he'd ever seen, and he couldn't take his eyes off of them, not even to blink. It was glorious and he couldn't help imagining a situation in which the fight was not caused by a challenge, but because they both wanted to date him.
And in his little fantasy world, they were both dressed up as Princess Leia.
He could have watched them fight forever and he'd never have grown bored of it, but alas, it was not fated to last all of eternity and as soon as LeShawna managed to push Sadie off of her, she used her feet to push her opponent over the edge of the platform.
"Now that was the kind of match I was hoping for! That'll get high ratings for sure!" Chris said in a tone of pure glee. "Gophers win today's challenge for having the most campers still standing at the end of the match, and with both players out, the Bears are on the chopping block tonight! Sadie and Lightning have immunity from tonight's elimination because they were the last campers standing in the rounds that they won! I'll see you losers tonight!"
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"Some religions and cultures believe that everything happens for a reason." Harold informed the confessional camera as he pushed his glasses higher up on his nose. "For example, LeShawna winning today's battle against Sadie could be a sign that LeShawna is better for me than Sadie." Harold paused a moment to consider this option. "And who am I to ignore the fates' design?"
"Awww, he's so cute." Zoey swooned, her hands clasped in front of her chest as she observed Bunny resting contentedly in DJ's arms. "Can I pet him?"
"Sure." DJ nodded, and the redhead stepped closer to gently stroke the little grey rabbit between the ears.
"He's really lucky to have you to look after him."
"Thanks." DJ said with a nod. "I'm going up to the dining hall to see if I can get a carrot for him – do you want to tag along?"
"Sure! I was going to go up there for supper soon anyway." Zoey nodded, falling into step beside the boy with the bunny.
When they reached the cafeteria, DJ pulled open the door with his free hand. "Ladies first."
"You're such a gentleman!" Zoey said with a smile as she stepped into the camp's cafeteria.
DJ only shrugged. "Mama taught me how to properly treat a lady, that's all."
"Oh, there you are!" Beth lisped as she entered the dining hall and made her way over to DJ and Zoey. "I was started to worry that something had happened to Bunny!"
"Nah, he's all good. He's just making some new friends." DJ glanced from Beth to Zoey with a smile.
Beth nodded. "He's probably ready for his supper – c'mon, I saved him some of my vegetables!"
Zoey flashed a smile at Beth before glancing at DJ. "I'll catch you later?"
"Yeah, sounds good." DJ said with a nod before the three teens moved away to sit with their own teams.
Confessional
"Okay, so almost all the guys back home are gorgeous jerks. All the jocks race their cars down main street every Friday night, and they're all so full of themselves." Zoey told the confessional camera. "I thought Mike was different, and maybe I was wrong about Mike, but there are other cute guys that actually are nice. I mean, Trent is a nice guy and he's attractive – but we're just friends. And DJ is so sweet, gorgeous, and whata gentleman!"
"Welcome, Bears, to yet another elimination ceremony! You guys are here a lot, aren't you?" Chris said with a smirk, prompting Courtney to glance sideways at Scott. Chris held up the first marshmallow. "The first marshmallows of the night go to Lightning and Sadie, the only members of their team to win immunity in today's challenge!"
Sadie sighed with relief as she caught her marshmallow, glancing over at teammate Bridgette, who was glaring daggers at her. She was almost certain that if she hadn't managed to get immunity in today's challenge, Bridgette would have had the rest of the team vote her out.
"Sha-duh." Lightning said as he caught his marshmallow.
"Next person who's safe is . . . ." Chris began, pausing for dramatic effect as his eyes roved over the remaining contestants, who seemed to be collectively holding their breaths. "Scott."
Sadie sighed inwardly and rolled her eyes as the ginger-haired boy rose and moved to claim his marshmallow.
"Bridgette." The surfer sighed with relief as her name was called and she hurried to stand beside her 'boyfriend', Scott. Chris grabbed another marshmallow. "Courtney. Mike. And Izzy!"
"Boom! Boom!" Izzy said as she stood up and sprinted towards Chris to grab her marshmallow.
"Cameron and Brick, you're our bottom two tonight." Chris said. "One of you will receive a marshmallow while they other will have to leave the island forever, and cannot return, ever."
"Yeah, that's implied by the definition of forever." Courtney commented under her breath, rolling her eyes at the host.
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"Cameron."
"Oh thank goodness!" Cameron said with a sigh of relief as he ran to grab his marshmallow.
Courtney sighed and walked up to the cadet to salute him. "We'll miss having you on the team."
"I'll miss being on the team." Brick said with a nod, saluting the brunette in return.
The Votes:
"If only Sadie weren't immune, we'd be able to rid ourselves of that bully and be done with it!" Bridgette said, clearly frustrated about being unable to vote for the camper of her choice. "But Scott thinks we should vote for Brick tonight, and I'm inclined to agree with him. Besides, Brick is the reason we lost the last round. If he'd just let Courtney go like she told him, he might have won and then we wouldn't be sending someone home tonight!"
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"I think Scott is throwing challenges. I don't know why, but I'm going to find out. That is, I'm going to be keeping a much closer eye on him if he isn't eliminated tonight." Courtney said.
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"Sadie scares me, so if she didn't have immunity tonight, I'd be voting for her." Cameron confessed. "So I guess I'll be voting with Bridgette and Mike tonight – I vote for Brick."
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"So my alliance has totally fallen apart." Sadie lamented. "I couldn't find Cam anywhere when I wanted to talk to him about who we're going to vote for tonight. Either way, I'm voting for Scott – that jerk needs to go home already!"
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"Lightning votes for Brick. What a sha-loser!" Lightning said.
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"Okay, so my initial plan to get Sadie eliminated has to be postponed. No matter, she'll be on her way home soon enough; she can't win immunity every time we lose a challenge." Scott said. "In the meantime, we need to get rid of Brick. We'll be fine without a strong player like Brick anyway."
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Izzy was standing on her head in the confessional. "If I stand on my head, I can touch my eyeball with my tongue!" She announced, before attempting – and failing – to demonstrate said talent. "I tried to show Cameron my tongue-to-eyeball trick earlier but he screamed and ran away - it was really adorable! Izzy likes to chase!" Izzy fell forward, momentarily falling out of view of the camera. A second later, a head popped back up, and Izzy got close to the camera. "Oh, and I vote for Courtney! She yelled at me for chewing on one of her shoes this morning."
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"I vote for Mike. That soldier was not a team player in today's challenge!" Brick told the confessional camera. "And he has such poor sportsmanship, I mean – was it really necessary to punch Geoff in the face and push Bridgette off the platform because she was 'in his face'?"
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"I vote for Brick." Mike said with a sigh. "It really sucks that we have to keep voting off really cool people."
Eliminated so far:
36th: Katie
35th: Staci
34th: Sierra
33rd: Sam
32nd: Eva
31st: Owen
30th: B
29th: Lindsay & Ezekiel
28th: Justin
27th: Brick
Still in the Game:
Screaming Gophers: Dawn, Alejandro, Dakota, Anne Maria, Noah, Cody, Trent, Zoey, Jo
Killer Bass: Duncan, LeShawna, Geoff, Gwen, Heather, Harold, Beth, Tyler, DJ
Thrashing Bears: Sadie, Cameron, Courtney, Scott, Lightning, Izzy, Bridgette, Mike
Knifez: Well Mike's isn't intentionally trying to steal Gwen away from Trent. He was misinformed and nobody's realized it yet.
Helmet 798: Thank you so much for that suggestion! As you can see, I'm definitely using that idea!
Shiny: Yeah, this story has definitely caused me to develop a soft spot for the Wonder Twins, with Sadie being my favourite of the two.
M-H1996: Yes, I do eventually intend to do sequel rewrites of Action and World Tour. Already have half of the plots figured out in my head too. I don't know if I'll do any more rewrites after that, but we'll see when we get there. Hopefully I make it there. Haha, Zoey was only saved by Heather's targeting Justin to make Alejandro jealous. Also, a bunch of other Gopher campers failed to face their fears too.
The Guests: Sorry darlings, but I can't save our mixed up lovebirds quite yet! Don't fret, good things will eventually happen for them, although whether it'll happen in chapter 12 or not until I write get a sequel, I cannot say. But don't lose hope, they'll come through it in the end - they've just gotta go through some hard times to get there. And remember, everything happens for a reason.
So tell me – who are you hoping wins this rewritten season? I'm genuinely curious to know!
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