We have made it to the final eight in the competition! I honestly didn't think my story would last as long.
Thank you guys :)
And I do not own Super Smash Brothers or any of the characters.
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Chris' recap: "Last time on Total Drama Everything, our competitors got the scare of a lifetime when they had to enter the horrible haunted house known as Riftstone Manor in search for a pretty orb. It was quite pretty, if I do say so myself. Still not speaking to each other, Yusei and Lammy both decided to work together, but it was, quoting from Ash, awkward. Also, Bubblegum took Julie under her wing to escape the restless rut our tennis player was trapped in. And heartbroken Dave from Pahkitew crashed the party and tried to crush the love, starting with the duelist and the lamb. Luckily, Lammy kicked butt when she brought out Stardust Dragon to save the duelist, reuniting the dynamic duo and granting Lammy the invincibility. Naturally, this angered Nom Nom, so he pulled off his cruelest stunt yet: switching the votes, keeping himself from getting kicked off, and sending poor Yusei off the island. And now Lammy is out for revenge. How will this recent shocker change the game? And will Nom Nom finally get his? Find out right here! On Total. Drama. Everything!"
*theme song*
Snake thought he could expect anything that could happen on the island by now. Protecting Sam during the snowball challenge, Rarity revealing everything, Deadpool being backstabbed by Nom Nom. Not to mention the fact that in the past two challenges, two members of his alliance were eliminated. All that surprised him, but he was sure there wasn't anything else that couldn't surprise him now.
Except getting a knock on the door of his cabin, and it turned out to be Mandy.
"Get your girlfriend and the lamb," Mandy said. "We need to talk."
Snake ran to the girls' side of the cabin and brought in Sam and Lammy. Lammy had her guitar, which she was busy tuning.
"What is this all about?" Lammy asked Mandy.
"First off," Mandy explained, "I hope you guys know that I had no part in switching the votes the other night. In fact, I voted for Nom Nom myself."
That was a shocker. "Aren't you in his alliance?" Sam asked.
"Yes, but you must understand that I pretty much hate him now. I only joined his alliance for a chance to control the game, but he is getting on my last nerves. That's why I need your help. I need us to work together to eliminate Nom Nom. You help me, and I help you."
"Why would you want to help us?" Snake asked. "And why should we trust you?"
Mandy sighed. "It's no secret that I want you and Sam out. I might as well say it, I hate you guys. But I hate Nom Nom even more. I want him gone."
"Yeah?" Lammy responded, still tuning her guitar. "Get in line."
"Oh, will you stop griping over what happened?" Mandy snapped. "It's over. Yusei is gone. Get over it!"
Lammy glared and was about to walk over to Mandy, guitar ready, when Snake shook his head at her. The lamb glared again at Mandy and sat back down.
"All of us need to work together if we want that koala out of here," Mandy said, returning to the subject. "I am not joining your own alliance. I'm simply working with your alliance. And after he's shot out of that cannon, things return to the way they were before. I will eventually get you guys eliminated, but we take out Nom Nom first. This is the only way. I need all three of you to agree on this."
Sam nodded. "Ok."
Snake considered it. "Alright, I'm in."
Everyone looked at Lammy, who was still fuming. Finally, she said, "I'll do it. But not for you, Mandy. For Yusei." She held up the Stardust Dragon card that Yusei had given to her. "I made a promise to take Nom Nom down, and that's what I'm going to do."
"Then we're all in agreement," Snake said to the group before turning to Mandy. "If you double cross us, if you get any of us eliminated, the deal's off. And we will see to it that you get shot out of that cannon before you even realize what happened. Are we clear?"
"Crystal. I'm going to keep up a ruse and act like I'm still Nom Nom's puppet, but I'll be your eyes and ears. Together, we will eliminate Nom Nom."
To seal the deal, Mandy and Snake shook hands.
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"I hope this was the right move," said Snake.
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Meanwhile, Bubblegum and Julie were in the mess hall, eating breakfast. They were also watching Nom Nom, who had a skip in his step.
"Looks like Yusei's elimination made him happier than I thought," Bubblegum said.
"Of course," Julie added. "He's been after him ever since the snowball fight. And he was willing to switch the votes in order to get what he wanted. Talk about low."
"Looks like he hasn't really hidden his guilt that well."
"How come he didn't get punished for it?"
"No idea."
Nom Nom noticed the girls talking about him. "You ladies talking about how awesome I am?"
Bubblegum and Julie remained silent.
"That's what I thought."
The intercom came on at that moment. "It's finally fixed!" Chris called. "Anyway, meet me at the arena for your next challenge. And get ready to have a smashing time."
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This time, the center of the arena was surrounded by a strange dome. While it seemed to be glass, they could not see through it. Chris entered through another entrance to greet the competitors.
"Welcome back to the arena, final eight," Chris told the group. "This next challenge will be quite interesting, since there are enough people now to do it. Are any of you familiar with the Super Smash Brothers fighting series?"
Everyone raised their hands, but Snake and Ash looked excited..
"I'm in that series myself," said Snake.
"So is Pikachu," Ash added. "Pika!"
"Then you will both like this challenge," Chris continued. "Today, you are all going to be in Super Smash Brothers. Inside that dome is where you will fight. It randomizes a certain arena in the more recent Smash Bros. game. All of you are going to be a certain character in that game. Then you will step into the arena and duke it out. Each time you get hit, your damage percentage goes up. The higher it is, the more chance you have of being blown out of the arena. There are also random items that will be dropped for you to use at your disposal.
"Everyone only gets one life. Once you're completely knocked off the arena, you're out for the round. Whoever lasts longest per round wins seven points. Second place wins six points. And so on and so on, until last place, who gets no points for the round. There will be three rounds for you to earn your points. At the end of those three rounds, the one who has the most points wins invincibility. If there is a tie, a tiebreaker will be held. Should it come to it, I will explain the tiebreaker rules later. Everyone understand?"
The group nodded.
"Good."
Then Chef walked in with a silver bucket filled with different slips of paper. "Everyone except Snake and Ash will come up and draw the name of a playable Smash Bros. character," Chris added. "Only the characters available in Smash Bros. for the 3DS/Wii U are in this bucket. And we mean all that is available, even unlockables and DLC's. Snake, since you're already a Smash Bros. fighter, you will be going in as yourself. Ash, since Pikachu is also a fighter and not Ash, not to mention the Pokemon trainer is not in the latest game, is it ok if he goes out there alone?"
Ash hesitated, then sighed. "Pikachu can do this. I know it."
"Pika!"
"In that case, everyone else can draw their fighters."
Everyone lined up in front of the bucket to draw from the bucket, though a few were grumbling. Bubblegum went first.
"I got Sonic the Hedgehog. Nice."
A few people glanced nervously. She had drawn one of the fastest characters in the game.
Lammy drew next. "Shulk. Cool."
Sam was next. "Greninja. Another Pokemon."
Mandy dug in the bucket for a while before pulling out a name. "I got Princess Peach. That frilly lady who gets kidnapped a lot? Perfect."
Everyone snickered at the thought of Mandy being a damsel in distress.
Julie was excited as she drew. "I drew Link. That will do."
Finally, Nom Nom drew a fighter. "Samus. She's the lady with the awesome battle suit. I'll take it."
"Now that everyone had a character, you may all now enter the dome," Chris announced.
Silently, everyone walked into the dome through the door. For a second, it was all white in there.
"I think everyone should look the part of their fighters," Chris echoed throughout the room.
A second later, six out of the eight looked different. Pikachu and Snake looked the same, but now Bubblegum's dress was colored blue and her hair turned into blue spikes, Lammy was now wearing a red jacket and suit of armor and carrying a sword, Sam looked like a blue ninja frog, Mandy was wearing Peach's pink dress (her hair was also styled the same way), Julie now wore a green tunic and hat with a sword in her back, and Nom Nom was wearing an impressive red/orange battle suit.
"The powers of your characters are now your own for this challenge. Now it's time for a random stage to be chosen."
On the projector, several stages seemed to be spinning, until it stopped on Super Mario Bros. 3D Land. Immediately, the inside of the dome changed into an area in the Mario universe.
"How cool is that?!" Ash exclaimed from outside the dome.
Once the stage was done forming, everyone got into different battle poses.
"Let's do this!" Chris' voice echoed again. "FIGHT!"
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"I wish someone had drawn Meta Knight as their fighter," said Chris, chuckling.
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At first, people were a little hesitant to attack. Then Nom Nom looked at his blaster and tried to test it out. Unfortunately, the range was a little pathetic.
"What if I used different modes?" He switched to the ice cannon and fired again, aiming at Pikachu. The little mouse dodged.
Then the real fun began.
Lammy started by swinging her sword at Nom Nom, who blocked it. Nom Nom then fired his pea shooter at Julie, who was close enough to be hit. Mandy was focusing now on Pikachu, using her parasol to knock him back while he charged at her. Eventually, Mandy was pushed near Snake.
"Make it look believable," she whispered. Snake shrugged and kicked at her, causing some slight damage (and ruffling the dress, which Mandy didn't mind).
Julie and Lammy were striking at each other with their swords and dodging most of the attacks. "I guess we're working for the same goal," Lammy pointed out.
"Looks like we are," Julie responded, shooting with her bow.
After a moment of fighting, a baseball bat appeared to float down from the "sky". Recognizing it as an item, everyone started scrambling for it, but Nom Nom got to it first. And he immediately set his sights on Pikachu.
"Looks like this will be fun," he said as he swung.
BAM!
The poor little yellow mouse soared out of the arena until he exploded offscreen and was brought back outside the dome.
"I'M GOING TO GET THAT FURRY KOALA BUTT!" Ash yelled.
Chris made the announcement. "Pikachu, defeated!"
"Now that that's done," Nom Nom said, still holding the baseball bat, "who's next?"
In response, Bubblegum started zooming around until she crashed right into the koala, causing a fair amount of damage.
"I've been wanting to do that ever since my elimination," she cackled. "That's what you get when you trick me into quitting."
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"Stupid candy lady," Nom Nom grumbled. "For starters, I was just playing the game. Second, I was gunning for Goku, but I had to save an alliance member from elimination. Is that ok with you?"
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At the Loser Island, the TV by the pool was suddenly run through with a sword when Nom Nom appeared on the screen. The other losers jumped back.
"That's all the thanks you get, you furry jerk!" Deadpool exclaimed.
"Dude!" Mega Man exclaimed. "That's the third TV you've broken this week!"
(Back at the challenge….)
As the match went on, a few people were starting to gang up on Nom Nom. However, he managed to not only fend them off, but he was able to kick Julie and Sam out of the game. Snake was also doing good, as he used a Fire Bar to eliminate Mandy.
Unfortunately, when he turned around, he was suddenly faced with a Charge Shot from Nom Nom.
"Oh perfect," Snake mumbled, as he couldn't dodge.
BAM!
"Snake, defeated!"
However, it was now Nom Nom's turn to be caught off guard. He was still celebrating his victory over Snake when Lammy hit him with a homerun bat and sent him flying away.
"Nom Nom, defeated!"
"That's for Yusei!" Lammy exclaimed.
Then she turned to face Bubblegum. "Just us for the round," she said. "This should be fun."
With that, Bubblegum charged at Lammy, who blocked. However, the princess zoomed around to hit her from behind, sending the lamb skidding. Both of their percentages were now pretty high. Lammy was at 83%, and Bubblegum was at 87%.
Then a Smash Ball floated down. The girls scrambled for it, but Lammy destroyed it first. Immediately, she summoned out two strange guys and trapped Bubblegum in a strange light. Those two guys charged and attacked before Lammy struck the poor princess with a final slash, sending Bubblegum out of the dome.
"Lammy wins the round!"
Lammy jumped up and cheered as the Final Smash wore off. Nom Nom looked ready to explode.
"We're going to take a fifteen minute break before we get to the next round," Chris announced. "In the meantime, let's give the audience a recap of the scores so far."
Current scores:
Lammy: 7
Bubblegum: 6
Nom Nom: 5
Snake: 4
Mandy: 3
Sam: 2
Julie: 1
Ash/Pikachu: 0
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"That was awesome!" Lammy exclaimed.
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At the Loser Island, everyone was still waiting for the TV to be replaced.
"This is what happens when you break a perfectly good flat screen TV," Double D snapped at Deadpool.
The mercenary rolled his eyes. "Sorry," he said. "But point out that the guy that was on the screen was the very guy that got me eliminated. Can I not afford to be a little hostile?"
(Back at the game….)
"I should have known she wouldn't go down easily after what happened," Nom Nom grumbled at Mandy. "Lammy is going to be a tougher opponent that I thought."
"I feel sorry for you," Mandy said, sounding like she didn't really care.
Soon after, the break ended, and everyone once again went into the dome. The stages spun around until it landed on Unova Pokemon League.
"PIKA!" Pikachu was full of excitement.
"Round two! FIGHT!"
This time, Pikachu was ready. As soon as the match started, he ran to Lammy and whacked her with his tail. And he wouldn't stop. Poor Lammy just couldn't keep up. Pikachu finally pushed her over the edge, but she managed to hop back up. However, Pikachu just kept going. In the end, he was victorious, and Lammy was blown out of the stage.
"Lammy, defeated!"
Nom Nom simply smirked at the news and started punching Julie. Meanwhile, Sam was battling Bubblegum. The spy threw several shurikens that looked like they were made out of water. Bubblegum dodged and did a Spin Dash, which Sam also dodged.
"Looks like your alliance isn't having a good time lately," Nom Nom said to Snake as he blocked an attack. "Two casualties in a row."
"Yeah, no thanks to you."
"Oh, I just feel so bad. Your gang may revolve around friends to get by, but we're not here to make friends. It's about time you realize that we're all here to win."
With those words, he rolled into Morph Ball and rolled by Snake before transforming back.
Snake barely had time to think before he noticed something beeping under him.
"Oh, come o-"
And poor Snake was blasted offscreen.
"Snake, defeated!"
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"Ugh, I'm going to take him down in this challenge, or so help me, I will strangle him," Snake seethed.
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The match continued in a crazy manner. Pikachu and Julie wound up knocking each other out (Julie was out first after a move from both of them caused knockback to each other) of the game while Nom Nom easily took out Sam. Finally, Bubblegum was able to take out Mandy.
"You and me, princess," Nom Nom said to Bubblegum. "You and me."
"Very well."
Both charged and punched at each other for a moment as everyone watched. Both their percentages were at 90%. Of course, neither were intent on giving up.
In fact, Bubblegum would have won had she not slipped at the wrong time.
But she did slip.
And Nom Nom blasted her out of the dome.
"Nom Nom wins the round!"
Cue the complaints! That's what nearly everyone did. Complain.
"Another fifteen minute break, and we get to the final round. Score recap time!"
Current scores:
Bubblegum: 12
Nom Nom: 10
Mandy: 8
Lammy: 7
Sam: 6
Snake: 5
Ash/Pikachu: 3
Julie: 3
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Once more at the Loser Island, the losers had finally gotten a new TV, only for Deadpool to swear loudly after seeing Nom Nom win the round. Heck, Dante and Shrek had to hold him back before he could destroy the TV again.
"You really need to chill," Dante said.
"Chill? CHILL?! He eliminated me, also eliminated my second best buddy in the competition, (referring to Yusei) and you want me to chill?! Besides, you all hate him too."
Stan watched Deadpool's ranting and raving while eating popcorn. "I love this show. Anyone want popcorn? If you like popcorn, I have a popcorn machine at-"
He was interrupted by everyone saying simultaneously, "OH, SHUT UP!"
(Back at the game….)
"You ever get the feeling that the current losers are having problems of their own?" Chris told Chef, who shrugged.
"Yeah, me neither."
Eventually, the fifteen minute break finally ended, and once everyone was in the dome, the stage spinner chose the Umbran Clock Tower from Bayonetta. The scene became nighttime on a crumbling clock tower.
"Time for the final round. FIGHT!"
Nom Nom shot an ice blast at Lammy, who dodged easily and hit the koala with her sword. Mandy went after Julie with her parasol, but Julie blocked. Pikachu was fighting Snake, and Sam was after Bubblegum. However, as Bubblegum dodged several water shurikens, she suddenly became aware of a charging sound behind her. It was Nom Nom and his Charge Beam. And she didn't have time to dodge, and was blasted out of the stage.
"Bubblegum, defeated!"
Nom Nom smirked. "She had done so well during the challenge," he said. "What a shame." Then he continued battling Lammy.
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"Ok, that hurt," Bubblegum said.
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Julie threw a bomb at Mandy, who blocked and then smacked her with her parasol. Julie responded with a sword slash before noticing that there was a hammer behind her, ready to be claimed.
"Jackpot," she said as she grabbed it.
DONKEY KONG HAMMER MUSIC!
First, she defeated Mandy. Then Pikachu. Lammy was whacked away as well. Then Sam. That was when she accidentally let go of the hammer, and Nom Nom grabbed it. And in turn, he knocked Julie out too.
"Julie, defeated!"
Now it was Snake and Nom Nom. Both glared at each other.
"You know I already have this challenge in the bag," Nom Nom said. "Look at my points. No matter what, I'm winning."
"Maybe so," Snake added, "but at least I should get the satisfaction of taking you down!" And he kicked the Final Smash ball that had floated behind him. This gave him a first person view of the stage and the opportunity to shoot down Nom Nom.
Which he did, sending Nom Nom flying.
Thing is, the agent didn't stop there. Even after shooting Nom Nom once, he just kept shooting. Clearly, he wanted the koala to pay more than he did winning. He used his Final Smash to shoot Nom Nom as many times as he could before he finally fell out of the stage.
"Snake is the winner!"
Snake was teleported out of the stage, but there was something different about him. His eyes looked full of fury, and so was the rest of his face. He walked over to Nom Nom and paused for a second. Nom Nom looked confused, but then the reason for Nom Nom's attention towards him hit him in the face.
Literally.
POW!
Nom Nom held his eye in pain. Snake had given him a black eye.
"YOU!" Snake exclaimed. "I'm not going to let you mess with this game anymore. It's time you pay!"
He then punched Nom Nom in the face again, giving him another black eye and knocking him out. And he raised his fist, ready to hit him again.
"SNAKE, NO!"
Sam tackled him, and they rolled away from Nom Nom. "He's had enough," Sam said sharply. "What's gotten into you?"
The sound of Sam's voice snapped Snake out of it, and he shook his head in confusion. "Sam? What happened?"
"Uh, you just knocked Nom Nom into the next century," Sam replied. "That's what happened."
He looked back where Nom Nom was lying. "I did?"
"Don't tell me you can't remember it. What happened to you in that dome?"
Snake shook his head. "Let's worry about it later."
After standing for a few seconds, Chris announced, "On that interesting note, here are the updated scores."
Final Scores:
Nom Nom: 17
Bubblegum: 12
Snake: 11
Lammy: 10
Sam: 10
Mandy: 9
Julie: 8
Ash/Pikachu: 5
"The winner of the challenge is…...Nom Nom!"
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"You have got to be kidding me," said Lammy.
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"There was something up with Snake after that challenge," Sam stated. "I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of this issue."
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And at the Loser Island, someone was just as angry as Snake was.
"NOW can I destroy the TV?" Deadpool asked Dante.
"Considering Nom Nom won, go ahead."
Deadpool responded by kicking the TV clean through and repeatedly stomping on it while swearing colorfully.
"Why did Snake lash out like that?" Yusei asked Maya. "He's not usually the guy to do something like that."
"Even Nom Nom didn't deserve that," Maya replied.
Meanwhile, Connie was sitting near the pool, watching Deadpool destroy the TV again. She really had to admire the way he stabbed it with his twin katanas.
Katanas….swords…...uh oh.
Quickly, Connie ran back inside.
(Back at the game….)
"At least you now have the chance to eliminate Snake," Nom Nom said to Mandy. The koala was holding a large ice pack on his head.
"Of course," Mandy lied. "I look forward to the vote tonight. Snake's toast. Now I need to get something from my cabin."
She walked away from the dock and hurried to the forest, where Snake, Sam, and Lammy were.
"He's after you, Snake," Mandy said.
Snake nodded. "I can only blame myself for it," he said. "I don't know what came over me back there."
"Neither can we," Lammy added. "You seemed calm when you unleashed your Final Smash, but then your face was filled with fury when you exited the dome."
"We'll worry about it later," Sam stated. "Right now, we need to decide who to eliminate. Nom Nom's immune, and after today, it's them or Snake."
Mandy then said, "I may have an idea."
"Name it."
"Bubblegum," Mandy continued. "She came in second during the challenge. I didn't even think she was that skilled. Plus, she's the only true genius left in the game. She's a major threat, and this may be our only chance."
Snake sighed. "I don't know. She's also really nice, and I have nothing against her."
"Niceness also makes her a threat," Mandy said. "Besides, Julie may be athletic, but she'll just be kicked off eventually. Same with Ash. And believe me on this. They may vote for me, but I will absolutely not have the majority of votes this time around. And if they don't vote for me, they will vote for you. As bad as Nom Nom is, everyone knows that even he didn't deserve to get beaten up today."
The group was silent as Mandy spoke. "I'm going to tell you this honestly," Mandy finished. "If Bubblegum doesn't take that cannon shot out of the game, you will, Snake."
Snake simply sighed. "Ok."
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Everyone was silent as they sat by the bonfire, waiting for Chris to start the ceremony.
"After an interesting challenge, it is time to say goodbye to one of the final eight. Let's get this show on the road.
"Nom Nom."
"Ash."
"Lammy."
"Julie."
"Sam."
"And Mandy."
That left both Snake and Bubblegum. Bubblegum sat straight, trying to be brave, while Snake's face was expressionless. Sam crossed her fingers, hoping for Snake to be safe but expecting the worst.
"Two competitors waiting for judgment, one marshmallow to be given. Snake, you have been a power player and a threat since the beginning of the game, amassing a your own force against Nom Nom. And your anger episode today wasn't your best moment. Even I admit you went a little far. And Bubblegum, you're a returning survivor, surprisingly athletic, and one of the smartest people left in this game. That package adds up to someone you wouldn't want to face in the finale. Either way, I must admit that it was a close vote. Time to see whom that vote favored.
"The final marshmallow goes to….."
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"...Snake."
Sam let out a sigh of relief while Snake claimed his marshmallow. Bubblegum was shocked, but she took it well.
"I don't know why I'm surprised," she said. "I admit the whole threat thing. But I knew the votes were pretty divided. It should have been a tie, right?"
"Actually," Chris added, "it was a vote of 4-3-1."
Bubblegum continued, "Then who didn't vote for either of us?"
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"As much as I didn't like Snake raging like that," Julie stated, "I hate Nom Nom more. And since he was safe, Mandy was my only option."
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The princess was loaded once more into the cannon. "I should let everyone know that the cannon shot is a little unpleasant," she said. "Fair warning for everyone who gets shot out of this thing in the future."
"Whatever," Chris said as he pressed the button, sending Bubblegum flying into the air.
(Later….)
Snake was sitting at the beach, thinking. Throughout his entire career as a soldier and spy, he had never lashed out at anyone as he did with Nom Nom. Shooting at him multiple times during the Final Smash, then beating him senseless. Something overcame him. Anger. Hatred. He lost himself in fury back there.
"Still thinking about earlier?" Sam said from behind him. Snake looked to see her worried face as she sat next to him.
"Everyone's right," Snake said. "Even Nom Nom doesn't deserve it. It could have been a combination of things. Deadpool getting stabbed in the back, Toph being made fun of for not watching the show, Nom Nom switching the votes to eliminate Yusei. That was two alliance members in a row. When I formed the alliance, I promised you and the rest that I would protect you all from Nom Nom. I admit that Nom Nom didn't really do anything to Toph besides make fun of her, but he eliminated Yusei. I promised him, Nom Nom's biggest target, that I wouldn't let that koala get him. I failed. It's my fault he's gone. It's my fault they're both gone. And I recall that we had promised to keep Deadpool safe. I failed at that, too."
Sam sat in silence.
"And during the challenge, he defeated me during the first two rounds. I was determined not to let him defeat me again. He had pretty much already won the challenge, but I was determined to not lose to him again. So when I got that Final Smash, I snapped. I snapped and I never felt more angry in my entire life. If you hadn't tackled me, I probably might have sent Nom Nom to the hospital. Maybe even killed him. I had my knife with me. I could have stabbed him."
For the first time since he could remember, tears started forming in his eyes. "I should have taken the cannon tonight. Not Bubblegum."
He was about to say more when Sam grabbed his face and kissed him. Once they broke apart, Snake looked surprised.
"You don't beat yourself up about what happened," Sam said softly, in that voice that Snake had fallen for. "In Deadpool's case, we all just forgot that Nom Nom had that freebie. There is no way you could have stopped it from happening. Next, Nom Nom is a jerk who really shouldn't have said all those mean things to Toph. And there is absolutely no way any of us could have foreseen Nom Nom pulling a stunt like switching the votes. Deadpool, Toph, Yusei, none of those three people blame you for what happened to them.
"As for what happened today, I understand why you did it. But anger is something that we can't use or we lose ourselves. We'll find a way to eliminate Nom Nom somehow, and we're not going to use hatred to do that. You don't have to be so hard on yourself for everything that has happened since the merge started, and you certainly don't have to be hard on yourself for what happened today."
Snake smiled. "Thanks, Sam."
"What would you do without me?"
However, as they continued to sit on the beach, Snake had a feeling that his anger episode today was only the beginning.
(Meanwhile…)
A couple of the losers watched and waited near the painted red and white giant pillow. Finally, they heard Bubblegum screaming (they had learned about what happened at the elimination because of yet another replacement TV).
"Incoming," Toph said. Two seconds later, Bubblegum landed on the pillow.
"Nice to see you back here again," Zelda said, helping the fellow princess get off the pillow.
Bubblegum nodded. "Has anyone taken over my room?"
"Actually," Superman stated, "since the merge, we've had to start rooming people together. Your room is still there, but you'll have to share with Connie now."
"Figures," Bubblegum said as she claimed her luggage (which was always delivered to the Loser Island after an elimination) and went inside to where her room was.
She expected to find Connie and greet her warmly, but when she opened the door, there was no Connie in sight.
"Connie? Are you hiding or something? Ok, very funny."
Still no Connie. Finally, Bubblegum caught sight of a piece of paper on the desk. She snatched it up and read it.
Going to the camp.
Something I must do.
-Connie
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Thanks to sdgeek2003 for the Smash Bros challenge idea. Whoo!
In a surprising twist, Snake and his crew sadly give Bubblegum the boot for the second time. Yeah, that was a bit of a bummer. I bet a few of you thought Snake was going to be eliminated. Nope.
Speaking of Snake, he really dodged a bullet this time around. Like I said once before, Nom Nom is a scumbag. Still, even he didn't deserve to get beaten up like that. I can also understand why he blames himself for the past several eliminations, but he still shouldn't blame himself for any of them. And believe me, Snake's anger problems aren't finished yet.
And leave it to Sam to talk some sense into her man.
And Mandy is now an unofficial member of Snake's alliance, determined to help them eliminate Nom Nom. Interesting.
I hope you all like the parts with some of the past losers. I'm not going to do a chapter that focuses solely on that group, but they all will continue to make appearances as the rest of the season continues.
And one of the losers, Connie, is out on a mission. There is a clue as to what that mission is, but if you can't figure it out, all will be revealed soon.
With that done, I have thought of something a little fun.
I have recently come up with the idea of each competitor, whether they're still competing or already eliminated, having their own theme songs. I would love some ideas on what song fits each competitor. No, they do not have to be the same songs as the singing challenges. And no, those from TV shows don't have to have their personal theme song as the theme song to their show. I would also like if there were theme songs for SamxSnake and YuseixLammy.
On that note, remember to read and review, fav and follow, send PM's, send in good-luck messages, and that whole theme song thing. And I'll see you all next time.
TheMasterKat out!