A Dramatic Ridonculous Race

by The Legendary Dragon Reaper

With Chris McLean rotting in prison, it seems like the era of Total Drama has come to an end. However, numerous contestants flock to other shows, and some find themselves in yet another race around the world, and they'll make some new friends along the way. Some of them may even find love.

14. Down & Outback

(Down & Outback)

Cody Fanatic: Well that line alone should be proof enough that Leshawna is one person that you should never want to get on the wrong side of, but I'm glad you still enjoyed the chapter, so thanks for that. I personally didn't have a problem with Devin going through the seven stages of heartbreak, or how Carrie was going to confess to him, but I still wanted to do something different with the two of them than how things played out between them in canon, and so that led to what you saw in the chapter. I'm not going to say anything about the next elimination, so you and everyone else will just have to wait and see.

OmniIBIBUltraInstinctGodzilla (ch 12): Thanks, I'm glad to see you liked it. That whole story with Lightning was actually a nod to a certain sitcom I love watching. Leshawna may be sassy and impulsive, but she's definitely not stupid. I enjoyed having Junior interact with and react to the Stepbrothers and their fighting, and it's always a treat to show off the Total Drama veterans reuniting. Yeah, the Ice Dancers pretty much brought their karma onto themselves, though to be fair, people on Total Drama have gotten away with a lot worse. Noah and Owen did deserve to have at least one win going for them. Of course I couldn't get rid of any of the other teams just yet, but that's going to change soon.

SuperSonicHeroes: Thanks, I'm glad to see you liked it. Personally I didn't have a problem with the way they handled Devin's breakup with Shelley, as well as his way of coping that came after it, but I do get why some people might have been bothered by it, so I decided to try and do something different. I also thought that Devin choosing Carrie over Shelley would make it a lot more impactful. Yeah, I wanted to add in that nod about the Ice Dancers being in that figure skating show that Chris took part in, but the part about Chris sabotaging them was something that I came up with on my own. I doubt anyone would really disagree with it though, because as you said, it sounds like something he would do. Of course Leshawna doesn't have any problems with getting physical, considering who we're talking about. I always enjoy including those small moments scattered throughout the chapters I put out, like the mention of Jasmine, being one of the few good characters from Pahkitew Island. I'm glad that you share my opinion that Tom Holland is the best live action Spider-Man. I won't spoil anything about what Geoff plans to do, so you'll just have to wait and see.

Frosty Wolf: Geoff is known for a fair number of things, subtlety not being one of them, but yeah, we all love him for it. I'm glad to see you approve of how I handled Devin and Shelley breaking up. I didn't really have a problem with how it was handled in canon, but I did want to do something different.

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"Last time on the Ridonculous Race, our teams were sent to the big house, though not literally in this case, but I wouldn't be surprised if a few of them ended up there later on. No I'm talking about the famous Geelong Maximum Security Prison in Australia, where some friends ended up becoming enemies, and some enemies became friends and somehow even more annoying than they were before. What's more is that with the power of love burning inside of him, the Best Friends won their second leg of the race and Devin won the chance to put a call in to his special lady back home, only to end up dumping her for a lady that he's even more special to him, in the form of Carrie, and I can only imagine how awkward that is for them. It's definitely gonna be fun to watch though. Or really cringeworthy. Well, I guess there's only one way to find out. Anyway, in a battle to not come in last place, the Ice Dancers managed to outmaneuver the Performers, but it turned out to be a non-elimination round. Again. But the big question still remains, which team is going to get dumped this week? There's only one way to find out, and it's to watch the next exciting installment of… the Ridonculous Race!"

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One intro later…

"And here we are again." once the intro had come to an end, Don started off the new episode in front of the first Don Box "We're back in the heart of Australia, and as we've already established numerous times up to this point and will continue to do so for the rest of the race, the team that won the last round will have the privilege of claiming the first travel tip of the day."

Sure enough, it was at this moment that Carrie and Devin came onto the scene, and the former glanced over at where the latter was sulking behind her "Hey here's an idea Devin, maybe if you get the travel tip and start us off it can help take your mind off things."

"What? Oh yeah sure, I guess." Devin just gave a half-hearted shrug as he started walking up to the Don Box.

"Well that's not working as well as I thought it would."

"Trouble in paradise I take it?" Don shot her a raised eyebrow.

"That's one way of putting it. You saw what happened yesterday, Devin dumped Shelly… and he chose me over her. But since then he's been so distant."

"Yeah well, breakups can do that to you. Not that I've ever been dumped." Don paused and took a long look at the camera "Not that I'll ever admit to being dumped either. Anyway speaking on behalf of all the shippers out there that don't want anything to blow this, whatever you do, you have to play it carefully."

"I know that, and I know it's probably horrible that I feel like this but I can't help it, it's really a big relief. Now when he's feeling better I can tell him how I really feel."

"You're not wasting anytime with that. I can tell the fans are gonna be thrilled, morality of the situation be damned."

"...Okay then."

"Got the tip." this was when Devin made his way back over to them "I guess they're going a bit heavier on the alliteration for this one."

"Alright, so what do we have to do-"

"Hey move it already blondie!" this was when Chet and Lorenzo stormed onto the scene "Get the hell moving already, me and my awesome bro got a tip to get and butts to kick!"

"Wait, I thought you guys hated each other."

"That's ancient history now."

"That was yesterday."

"Okay okay fine, we used to hate each other big time, but now the two of us are super bros, and I mean the ultimate supreme addition."

"Oh yeah, and it gets better." Lorenzo gave a wide grin "The two of us even came up with our own theme song! Stepbrothers, stepbrothers, we're the stepbrothers! YEAH!"

"It gets better every time!"

"It totally gets better every time! And what makes it even more awesome, we put tattoos of each other's faces on our chests with markers, and I mean permanent markers!" the two of them lifted up their shirts (caused Devin to cover Carrie's eyes), revealing both of them having Chet's face on their chests "Hey dude what the hell?"

"I… thought you said that we were gonna do our own faces."

"Okay, the permanent marker might have been a bad idea."

"...Yeah. Anyway, I got the tip." Devin took his hands off of Carrie's eyes and started reading the tip out loud "The challenge is an All In called Bunny Bagging, and honestly I'm not really sure what that means."

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"Yep he read it right, this All In challenge is all about Bunny Bagging. To be more specific, I'm talking about the fluffy little fellas that seem cute at a first glance, but to various farmers that live in Australia, they're nothing but annoying thievin little rodents, and if you saw a certain episode of Total Drama Island, you'd know that they have a roar that puts a hungry grizzy bear to shame and teeth bigger than any shark. I'm also fairly certain that it played a role in inspiring an episode of Generator Rex. Operation Wingman for those of you that didn't guess it. Anyway, the Aussie farmers have put up one fence after another to keep the critters out, but that doesn't do much more than slow them down. As for the challenge, each team is required to collect a total of 10 rabbits in their sack and turn them into the jolly fellow that was kind enough to allow us to use his farm for today's challenge, in order to receive their next travel tip. And as a little added bonus to mark the start of the second half of the race, somewhere hidden on the farm we've taken the liberty of hiding an albino bunny. If a team is able to get their hands on it, then they're able to skip directly ahead to the next challenge. Oh yeah, that's gonna set off some fireworks with a few of the more volatile teams."

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Now with the teams…

"LET'S SAVE THIS FARM!" with Rock making the call, almost all of the teams charged into the fray at the same time, only for them to end up trampling all of the vegetables in the patch in the process, much to the clear dismay of the farmer.

"Hey hold up a second babe, these things oughta be good to use to lure the furry little dudes out into the open." Geoff picked up two of the cabbages that had miraculously managed to avoid being trampled by the others, only to pause and look around when he saw that Bridgette wasn't with him "Babe? Bridge you okay?"

"I'm over here, just keep your voice down." as it turns out, Bridgette was quietly approaching a rabbit munching on a head of lettuce, holding onto a trash can lid and gripping it tightly as if her life depended on it "I don't want to startle it."

"Hey come on babe don't worry so much, you love animals, and these little guys are all totally harmless. They couldn't hurt a fly if they wanted to."

"Me loving animals, yes. The little ones being harmless, definitely not. Don't you remember what happened back on Total Drama Island?"

"You're gonna have to be a lot more specific babe."

"During the treasure hunt challenge."

"Oh yeah I remember that one, I had to go diving into the toilet. It took me like two weeks to get the smell out after that."

"I didn't mind, especially since I got sprayed by a pack of skunks in the next challenge. But I had to get my key from a rabbit, and… I didn't know teeth could get so big or any kind of animal could roar like that."

"Hey come on babe, just because one seriously screwed up bunny was like that doesn't mean the rest of them are gonna be like it. Give the little guy a chance, see what happens."

"...Alright yeah, you do have a point. Thanks babe." Bridgette took a deep breath as she set down her trash can lid and knelt down in front of the rabbit "It's okay little fella, I'm not going to hurt you." she reached for it, only to suddenly roar in her face, causing her to scream in terror and then leap into Geoff's arms.

"Okay babe, as much as I love you hugging me so tight and all, your nails are digging into my arms pretty hard, and I'm pretty sure I'm bleeding."

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Meanwhile, with the main antagonists…

"Alright little one, the sooner we get your in the bag, the sooner we can-" Jacques picked up a rabbit by the ears, only for it to promptly start clawing away ath is face "Josee, could you offer a little help before I end up getting rabies again?!"

"Just take the pills they gave you last time, I'm busy glaring holes into that one." Josee didn't bother looking away from where she and Leshawna were glaring at each other.

"Okay, but why does that take away from you helping with the challenge?"

"Why do you think, that (bleep) had the nerve to Boomerang us in the last challenge?"

"To be fair we used the Boomerang on them as well, and you knocked them off their raft and made them come in last place yesterday."

"It was a non-elimination round!"

"You didn't know that at the time."

"Well I do now, and it's infuriating! Winning isn't enough for me anymore, I need to be the one that takes that brown cow and the Elvis wannabe down!"

"...I still think winning is enough."

"Well guess what, you're WRONG!" the sudden scream was enough to scare Jacques right off his feet.

"Okay, say for the sake of argument that I did agree that you needed to be the one to get them cut from the race. How would you even go about doing that?"

"As a matter of fact, I already have a plan." so with that in mind, Josee promptly made her way over to Ennui "Hey there buddy, how's it going? Quick question, you mind letting me borrow a little bit of your makeup?"

"Don't pretend to be friendly, I find it gross." Ennui shot her an emotionless glance "But I would be willing to let you use my makeup if you tell me where you scored that unitard."

"...Okay then, this is easier than I thought."

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Meanwhile, with the underdog team…

"Alright you little fluffy-eared veggie munchers, just keep doing what you're doing… and now I got ya!" Rock crept towards a group of rabbits in the middle of munching on crops, and once he got close enough he tried to make a grab for one of them, only for his leg to get stuck in a hole, followed by a twist and a loud crack, causing him to scream in pain "(Bleep) My ankle, I needed that thing to walk and junk!"

"Eesh, are you okay dude?" asked Spud.

"Yeah I guess I'm fine, I mean I've got two of them so-" he reached for the bunny again, only to end up getting his other ankle stuck in a different hole and twisting it, earning another scream of pain "Oh come on, again with that?!"

"Man I don't get it, what gives with all the rabbit holes around here?" Spud glanced over and saw the dull look Rock was giving him "What?"

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Meanwhile, with other struggling teams…

"Come on little dude, just get in my grip already! Sha-bam!" Lightning made multiple attempts to grab one particularly elusive rabbit, and he finally managed to grab it with his teeth "Yes, now that makes two! Hey little buddy, where's the sack?" he almost immediately received his answer in the form of Cameron crashing into his face and then hitting the ground with a thud "Hey what gives, I thought you were watching the sack."

"I was, but unfortunately our precious cargo seemed to disagree." Cameron let out a groan as he pulled himself to his feet "I tried to hold it down, but it overpowered me."

"It was one rabbit."

"And it was a surprisingly vicious one. It started shaking me around violently after sinking its teeth into my antecubital fossa."

"...Your what?"

"Essentially my forearm."

"Oh. Well we got two now, so you try and-" Lightning cut himself short as he glanced across the patch and noticed a rather confusing sight "Okay, what in the hell is the goth guy doing over there?"

As it turns out, Ennui was having to deal with the unexpected plight of a dozen rabbits cuddling up to him on different parts of his body, much to his charging "Crimson, it's happening again. I need you to get the jaws of death."

"Wait, aren't they supposed to be the jaws of life?"

"Not in this case." Crimson suddenly popped up in front of Cameron and Lightning and pulled out a set of jaws of life, or death as the case may be "The sound of death is akin to honey to our ears."

"So why do you have those things?"

"Cute and fluffy animals have always loved Ennui. It's adorable."

"Oh. Cool."

"We hate adorable, to us it's akin to nails grinding against a chalkboard."

"...Oh." Cameron shared a look with Lightning, then glanced over at Crimson "In that case, I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors. Ennui hold still, this will hurt, and not in a good way."

"It's unnecessary, I can removed them from my person myself, as much as their affection continues to revolt me. Just get the bag ready."

"Right." Crimson readied the bag as Ennui began ripping the bunnies off of him.

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Meanwhile, with the new bromance…

"Come on, come on.. Wait I see it, over there in the bush!" Chet and Lorenzo halted their search for rabbits when the former took notice of something poking out of a nearby bush "Grab it before it hops away into the sunset!"

"You got it bro, this things ass is grass and I'm gonna mow it!" Lorenzo rushed onto the bush and grabbed hold of the creature… only to find that it was a kangaroo "Uh… huh. Hey dude, does this thing look like what I think it looks like?"

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is."

"Okay then, you're the smart one right? I don't know about you bro, but I've never seen a rabbit like this before. You think this might be the albino?"

"Well I wouldn't wanna look dumb, so yeah I totally think this is the albino thing. But I figured albino meant it had to be white."

"Maybe it's backwards stuff because we're in Australia."

"...Yeah okay, that makes sense."

"Cool, so let's stuff it in the sack and-" Lorenzo was cut off by the kangaroo kicking him straight back into a tree, and then stomping down on his back over and over again "Ow ow ow, for the love of god make it stop! There can't be anything more painful than this!"

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And now for something even more painful…

"Okay, so does this hurt?" Spud, in his misguided attempts to help Rock with his ankle, ended up moving it the wrong way, causing him to scream in pain "I think that's a yes. Okay, so how about this one?" he moved it again, earning an even louder scream "That's another yes. Oh wait I think I know what the problem is, I don't have any idea what the hell I'm doing. Hey look there's a rabbit, I'm gonna catch it like a Pokemon!" and then he suddenly took off running and chasing after a bunny.

"...Yeah okay, I'm not sure this is gonna work." Rock let out a sigh as he glanced over at the camera "So the thing is that I'm like the front man of our band, and Spud is a lot more like the soda machine they bring in at the last second at the concert venue. If he's gonna step up and do right by the team then he's gotta do it right now, and not touch my legs again. Seriously, I've already got arthritis running in the family, I don't need the dude turning me into Christopher Reeves. That felt like it was in poor taste."

"Hey little guy check this out, it tastes really good." Spud had resorted to trying to tempt a bunny to come to him by taking a bite of a head of lettuce "Huh. You know what, that's actually pretty good."

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Meanwhile, with another duo…

"Okay, finding them is the hard part." Trent glanced over at a large group of rabbits munching on the surrounding vegetables "Now how do we get them to hold still long enough to get ten of them in a sack?"

"Just stand back skinny white boy, I've got this one in the bag." so Leshawna promptly made her way over to the group of rabbits "Alright you little (bleep), get down on the ground and hold still or I'm gonna TEAR OUT YOUR (Bleep) AND SHOVE THEM RIGHT UP YOUR (insert a stream of a ridiculous amount of cursing that left the bunnies frozen in terror, and Trent staring wide-eyed in shock) SO THEN YOU'LL HAVE TO (Bleep) SIDEWAYS!"

"...Well there's a pretty good chance that's gonna haunt me for the rest of my life. Along with a lot of other things."

"Quick whining and get the sack ready, we've got ourselves a race to win."

"That will more than likely haunt me for a long time as well." Jacques poked his head out from behind a tree, then glanced over at Josee "I still don't understand the logic of your plan. How is giving up one of our rabbits meant to sabotage them?"

"Just stand back and watch the master at work, and then you'll find out." Josee snatched a rabbit out of their sack and proceeded to cover it in white powder, then threw it out towards where the other teams were gathering their rabbits "There, now they'll think it's the albino and go chase it down, leaving us free to grab their rabbits and the gold. It's fool proof, as in proof that they're both nothing but a bunch of worthless fools."

"Hey Leshawna, check that out over there." Trent was the first one to notice the fake albino near them "Isn't that supposed to be the albino?"

"Say what now?" Leshawna glanced over at the rabbit, paused and took a few sniffs, and then just gave a shrug "Nah, that ain't the thing."

"What makes you say that?"

"It's just a rabbit covered in some kind of powder. I know what that powder is too, Gwen uses the stuff all the time."

"Oh yeah, Cody mentioned something about that. Leave it alone then?"

"That's my call, and besides we've already got our ten anyway. Let's just find the farmer and get our tip already, the sooner we do that the sooner we win, and the sooner I can rub it in the face of that skinny white (bleep)."

"You really oughta tone down the cursing, I'm pretty sure that our contracts said that they could sue us for overdoing it."

"Oh come on, they sensor everything on shows like this."

"Not the point I'm trying to make here." and so they went on their way to find the farmar, only to stop when they found Jacques hiding in a bush "What are you doing?"

"Oh nothing, just waiting for Josee to finish her tantrum." he pointed to where Josee was in the middle of screaming and throwing many sharp objects off screen.

"Let me guess, she used some kind of makeup to make a fake albino bunny because she thought one of us, not naming any names, would be impulsive enough to chase it down so she would be able to sabotage us and steal our rabbits, and now she's losing it because she knows that we were smart enough to not fall for her scheme?"

"Um… maybe. How did you surmise that for a reason?"

"It's like people keep forgetting, I might be the chill guy who likes playing guitar, but I still get straight A's."

"Oh. Impressive. I wonder if any of the other teams will notice it."

"Well if I had to guess…"

"I've got this one little buddy, the Ultimate Duo's got this one in the bag!" Lightning suddenly dove after the fake albino bunny, with Cameron helplessly clinging onto his back in a failed attempt to stop him.

"I think that answers your question. Anyway we've got a farmer to find, so good luck with that and… her." and so the Performers promptly went on their way in search of the farmer.

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Meanwhile, with another duo dealing with drama (sorry for the alliteration)…

"There we go, that's two more of them." Carrie gently grabbed two rabbits while they were in the middle of munching on vegetables "Hey homie we've got two more, how many does that make now?"

"Huh? Oh yeah, that's good." Devin just gave a dull shrug as he opened the bag and let her put the rabbits in, then just started wandering away "Come on."

"Devin, are you-"

"Can we just… I just wanna get this over with, okay?" and so he wandered off in search of more rabbits.

"...I feel like this could be going better."

"Trust me, I've felt that way too often since this whole thing started." this was when Trent came up next to Carrie with a bag slung over his shoulder.

"Being in the race?"

"Being on reality TV in general, starting with Total Drama. And being paired with certain people that can be a little bit… nightmare inducing. Anyway moving on from the stuff that's gonna make me wake up in a cold sweat for the next few years, how have things been going on your end?"

"Honestly, they could be better."

"Your buddy not doing so well?"

"He called his girlfriend after we won the race yesterday, it ended with them breaking up. Truth be told she always treated him like dirt and I'm honestly glad that it's over between them, but I hate seeing him like this… I just want him to go back to being his old self."

"Becuase you're worried about him or because you want to finally get the chance to tell him how you feel?"

"Um… what are you talking about?" she started blushing and looked away.

"You don't have to hide it, Bridgette and Leshawna talk and they told me everything. Trust me, I get it. So going back to my question. Is it because you're worried about him or because you want to finally get the chance to tell him how you feel?"

"Well… would it be horrible if I said yes?"

"I don't know about that, but I wouldn't say that I blame you for it, because I do get where you'd be coming from. But there is one thing I should tell you." Trent breathed a long sigh "You did watch Total Drama back when it was still on right?"

"Yeah of course, my sister was the Aftermath host."

"Just had to be sure. You remember how things were after me and Gwen broke up? All the girls that were swooning over me and swarming around me?"

"Yeah?"

"If I'm gonna be totally honest… I freaking hated it. Seriously, those girls were like vultures that were fighting over every part of me they could get their hands on. As said as I was about getting dumped like that, I did kind of like the sense of freedom that I came with it, but thanks to them I couldn't even enjoy it."

"Oh… I'm sorry, I had no idea."

"I didn't really tell a lot of people about that aside from the Drama Brothers, and a few of the others. But the point I'm trying to make is that I know how you feel about Devin, I get that you had to wait for a long time to tell him how you feel, and that you're sick of waiting. But he needs some time to himself, and he deserves it. Granted no one likes to be alone all the time, especially after they go through a bad breakup, but speaking from personal experience, but those are the kind of moments where we figure out who we really are… and what it is we really want out of life. I think he deserves that. Don't you?" Trent was met with silence, and so he settled for idly patting Carrie on the shoulder "Just think about what I said okay?"

"...Okay."

"Awesome. Well I'd better go track down Leshawna before she tries to run someone over with a tractor, she's done it before and I don't doubt that she'd do it again, and we've gotta track down the farmer and turn in our rabbits anyway. See ya." and so Trent slung his sack back over his shoulder and went on his way, leaving Carrie alone with her thoughts.

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Meanwhile, with the albino chasers…

"Now!" Lorenzo and Chet were still fixated on the kangaroo (still believing the other thought it was the albino rabbit), and they eventually managed to get it from behind and get their sack over its head "Yeah now that's what I'm talking about, the Stepbrothers for the win! I think we gotta do the song!" he was immediately met with the kangaroo hopping around and slamming the two of them into the ground over and over again "Okay okay, if you don't like the song then just say so or rant about in a comment on YouTube like a normal person!" it was then that a farmer came close to hitting them with his tractor, only to stop at the last second, and then the Stepbrothers were once again dragged away by the kangaroo.

"Sorry dude, got a white rabbit to catch and a race to win!" this was when Lightning suddenly swooped down into the tractor, knocking the farmer off in the process, and then he went back to chasing the fake albino bunny "That's it you little white rat, your days of wrecking dude's crops are as over as Y2K! You ain't wrecking these places like you wrecked my mom's garden! I ain't gonna let history repeat itself!" he continued the chase by busting through the fence and plowing straight into the fields of gains, only to be forced to screech to a halt to avoid running straight into a gas tank, which he only gave a light tap "Oh that's a relief, for a second there I thought it was gonna-" and then it went up in a powerful explosion, the force of which was enough to send him hurtling clear across the area until he crash landed on the dock of a lake, left in a smoking heap as a result "Aw crapbaskets… I hoping that this time I wasn't gonna get blown up or almost die for some stupid reason. What's next, I get trampled by a kangaroo?" he received his answer in the form of the Stepbrothers and the kangaroo crashing into him, and then the dock giving out from their combined weight, sending the four of them plummeting into the water below.

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Meanwhile, with the other former Total Drama contestants…

"Alright babe that's all of them, we've got 10 rabbits." Geoff held up their bag in triumph, only for their joy to be cut short by the sound of a loud explosion, then a crash, then another crash, and then a loud splash "Eesh, sounds pretty hardcore."

"Geoff look out!" Bridgette yanked Geoff out of the way just in time for Cameron to crash into the dirt next to them in a heap "Are you okay?"

"I don't believe anything to be broken…" Cameron let out a pained groan as he was yanked back onto his feet "But it's Lightning, he's in trouble. We became separated when he went off to find the albino bunny, but then there was that gas explosion and I was blown away, and now I believe he's crashed into the lake!"

"Don't worry I can help, I've gone through first aid training. I can help. Geoff let's go, and make sure to keep the bunnies tied up in the sack."

"You got it babe, now let's roll!" so Geoff slung the bag over his shoulder, with Cameron being placed up there as well, and then the three of them took off running.

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Meanwhile, with another struggling team…

"Come on, come ON!" Rock tried to pounce at a rabbit, only for it to slip out of his grasp, and then he shot a glare up at where Spud was just staring blankly "For the love of (bleep) dude, catch the damn thing already?"

"Wait, what are we doing again? Oh right, I got it!" and so Spud started chasing the rabbit all across the field.

"Oh yeah it's official, we're about as royally (bleep) as the guys who thought Teen Titans Go was a good idea."

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Meanwhile, with the frontrunners…

"Alright, that's one challenge down, so onto the next." Trent and Leshawna handed their bag of rabbits to the farmer and promptly received their next travel tip "Okay, it says that we have to glide asunder from the great Down Under. I'm guessing that's an Australian thing."

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"Yep Trent is right about that, we're going with some Australian terminology in honor of the one place in the world that's both a continent and its own country. Once they finish Bunny Bagging and receive their travel tips from the farmer, teams will have to take one of the gliders that we've provided and fly away from Australia until they reach the Chill Zone, which just so happens to be located at the aspiring mountains. And just to be safe, I checked and made sure that the teams would know that there's a New Zealand. You can't blame for that, a good number of them aren't that bright. Anyway, as has been proven to be the status quo by now, the last team to arrive at the Chill Zone may be cut from the race."

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"As the Performers hurtle their way into first place, more and more teams are making progress in bagging their bunnies in the first challenge. Some are more unique than others, though not all of them are particularly successful."

Sure enough, Lorenzo and Chet dragged their soaking wet forms out of the lake and exchanged a series of simultaneous resigned looks as they face-planted into the dirt "You know, I'm starting to think it might be time for us to give that albino a rest."

"That's a pretty good call man." Chet let out a groan "It's not like we wanna hurt the big guy or nothing."

"Totally, I mean they're probably endangered. Why else would we have never seen any of those things before?"

"Got it, so I guess we gotta go back to the regular bunnies." Chet pulled himself to his feet, but then something caught his eye in a nearby bush "Hey dude check it out, that thing in the bushes has non-albino ears!"

"Don't just stand there bro, grab the thing!"

"I'm on it!" and so the two of them rushed over to the bush and grabbed the creature by the ears, only to find that it was a baby kangaroo… and then the big one showed up again "Oh hey… Is this little guy yours? There there nice rabbit, we don't wany any trouble." and so they gently handed the baby kangaroo back to the mother… only to be thanked by the kangaroo kicking both of them into a nearby rock "Ow…"

"Dude?"

"Yeah?"

"I… hate… albinos."

"Yeah… me too…"

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Meanwhile, with some of the more successful teams…

"Take these horrible things away from us." Ennui and Crimson handed their bag of rabbits to the farmer and received their travel tip, and then they started walking away "Very rarely am I as sure of anything as I am right now, but I never want to see those fluffy balls of lame again."

"They are a bit thought provoking though." Crimson pointed out.

"How so?"

"I mean the thought that something so disgustingly cute destroy a whole continent."

"It is strange I will admit. Those things are like a plague, a happy and hopping wave that spread nothing but famine and death… Huh." he looked back and saw a dark-colored rabbit poking its head out of their sack, and his gaze softened slightly.

All the while, Noah and Owen were watching the scene unfold form the sidelines, and the former couldn't resist adding some snark to the scene "On the one hand, it's still a way better love story than Twilight, not that it says much. On the other hand, there goes second place and we've only gotten two rabbits, and that's only because of your noxious fumes."

"Um, you might wanna count again little buddy." Owen opened up the bag to reveal several more baby rabbit "I think that counts."

"...Yeah good enough for me, now let's move!"

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Meanwhile, with one of the less successful teams…

"Come on little buddy, I totally got ya!" Spud was still chasing after one particularly elusive rabbit, but this quickly came to a halt when he stepped on a rake and it hit him in the face, sending him crashing to the ground… and on top of another bunny underneath him "Okay, that was totally bogus all over my face. But yeah, I totally caught one of them!"

"Alright dude, way to fall like a bro!" Rock crawled his way over to Spud and pumped a fist in triumph "Now we just gotta get nine more and we're golden! And now that I hear it out loud, I'm getting that we're pretty much screwed."

"The hell with that, check out the snake!" he tossed the bunny aside and gestured to where a snake sat nearby, with numerous large bulges in its stomach.

"Hey Earth to Spud, in case you forgot, we're supposed to be catching rabbits so we can stuff them in our giant sack!"

"What the hell are you talking about dude? Just take a look, we've already got all the ones that we need right here. You know better than anyone how many snakes I've owned since I was a teenager, so I'm a pro at guessing what's in all kinds of bulges. I can tell if it swallowed my cell phone or a bike or the neighbor's cat."

"Yeah I know, and my sister's puppy at one point. Stuff like this is why I keep saying that you shouldn't let your snake out of the house."

"Well whatever, I'll get the snake and you rip that sucker open!" so Spud grabbed hold of the snake and locked and loaded the thing "Let's do this!"

"You got it man!" Rock opened up the bag and allowed Spud to shoot every rabbit in the snake's gut right into it "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1! Holy mother of (bleep) dude, you just pulled this off single-handed!"

"Oh hell yeah, we're still in this thing!"

"We still gotta jet though, we don't wanna come in last or anything."

"Hey come on dude, what's the harm in doing a victory riff?" and then he started rocking out, using the snake like a guitar in the process.

"...Yeah okay why not, might as well enjoy it while we've got it." and then Rock started to rock out as well.

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Meanwhile, with the victims of sabotage…

"Okay…" Lightning pulled himself out of the lake and spat out some water, as well as pulling a fish out of his shirt "Not gonna lie, that could've gone a lot better."

"Lightning!" this was when Cameron came rushing onto the scene, Bridgette and Geoff right by his side "Why did you just rush off without me? I wasn't able to curtail the rabbits we had in our bag and they all escaped."

"Sorry about that little buddy, but I totally made up for it! I nabbed us the albino, Brains & Brawn for the win again!" Lightning held up the bunny in triumph… only for the makeup to have been washed off "What the-?!"

"It's a fake!"

"Wait, you mean it was a faking?" Geoff shook his head in disapproval "Seriously, you think you know a bunny and then they go and do something like this. I gotta guess how DJ would feel if he saw a bunny pull a stunt like that."

"Appreciate the sentiment sweetie, but it's kind of misplaced." Bridgette idly patted Geoff on his cheek "The bunny isn't the one who did this, but with that being said, I do have a fair idea as to who it was."

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Meanwhile, with the frontrunners…

"And here they come now." Don was quick to greet the first batch of teams as they arrived at the Chill Zone "Congratulations to the Performers, you've arrived in first place, and the Ice Dancers are in a close second."

"...Hold that thought." Josee suppressed her eye twitch and walked off-screen without another word.

"Wait, what's she gonna-"

"You may want to brace yourself." Jacques immediately crouched down and motioned for the others to do the same right before they were bombarded with loud screeching and numerous big and sharp objects being flung around them "You grow up with someone like her and you learn how to be prepared for anything."

"Huh. Fair enough."

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"The race for first place has come to an end, and now it's a race to come in anything other than last place. To that end, as more and more teams turn in their bunnies and receive their travel tips from the farmer, some take the chance to talk strategy and work out their game plans. Or in the case of one certain team, introduce their newest unofficial member. Seriously, at no point did I ever think someone could make a rabbit scary. I was wrong."

"We chose to call him Loki." Ennui held up the dark-furred bunny that they had picked up from their sack, only now he was gothed out "He's a part of our team now. He shares the same name as the dark norse god because he's known to destroy lives."

"Also because we like Tom Hiddleston and think the MCU is awesome." Crimson added.

"That too. It's also because he's super low-key, which works out great for us." Ennui was met with a low growl from Loki "Case and point."

"Yep, that's gonna haunt me for awhile, and probably a good number of viewers too."

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Meanwhile, with one of the straggler teams…

"Come on, come on you albino son of a-" Chet's attempts to box the kangaroo into submission were quickly cut short when he got kicked into a tree, to which he let out a series of groans of pain "You know, it's times like this a part of me really misses having someone to blame for all the stupid crap we deal with on this show."

"Maybe it's some kind of sign." Lorenzo gave a shrug "Who knows, the two of us might be allergic to albinos."

"Oh yeah maybe you're right, I mean there's no way in hell that a bunny could get the better of us like that." Chet's relief was cut short when he saw a small white creature with red eyes jump onto his stomach "Oh my god, what the hell is that thing?!"

"Holy mother of crapbaskets, I think it's some kind of giant maggot!"

"Oh god don't let it eat out my organs! Get it off me! GET IT OFF ME!"

"Hey guys." this was when one of the cameramen drew their attention "You realize that thing is the actual albino bunny, so that means you can head straight to the next challenge. You just gotta bring that thing to the farmer first so you can get your tip."

"Really? Cool, that works for me."

"...You do realize you're not moving right?" Lorenzo pointed out.

"Yeah, I was actually thinking that maybe we oughta lie here for a few minutes, at least until he's done eating off me gut. I just don't want him to try and eat my innards out or something."

"Oh yeah, good call."

"...So did you hear that Stranger Things is getting a fifth season?"

"Oh yeah, that's gonna be epic."

"Totally."

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Like these ones for example." Don wasted no time in counting off the teams that arrived at the Chill Zone, starting with the Goths "Third place."

Father & Son.

"Fourth place!"

The Sisters.

"Fifth place!"

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"While the Stepbrothers take a breather after getting a stroke of luck in that challenge, more and more of the other teams are taking off towards New Zealand, and most of them either have reached or are close to reaching the Carpet of Completion to be counted off. Two other teams however, are stuck lagging a fair bit behind the rest of them."

"This is proving to be fairly problematic." Cameron watched as Geoff and Bridgette handed their rabbits to the farmer and received their tip "Evidently we have to move faster or we're more than likely going to be eliminated."

"But doesn't that mean we cant get any of them we want now?" Lightning pointed out.

"True, but that doesn't hold a great deal of significance if we don't have enough time to catch all of them. At this rate I'm not sure if we have an adequat solution to this conundrum."

"Huh… you know what, I think I have an idea."

"What sort of idea?"

"The kind that's gonna save our hides."

"...I'm not entirely certain how to feel about this."

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5 minutes later…

"I'm still not entirely certain about this." Cameron watched as Lightning tied dozens of carrots to numerous parts of his body "Are you sure you wish to go through with this?"

"Hey I'm the one that screwed us over with the albino bunny thing, so I wanna be the one to fix it. Alright you little rats with fur, come at me!" so Lightning charged at the rabbits, and they all pounced at him in a matter of seconds. Once that was done, he waddled his way over towards the farmer, the rabbits still latching onto him and biting at him "Hey so- ow- We got all the bunnies so- ow- Can we get the tip?"

"Thank you." Cameron received the tip from the farmer, allowing the two of them to take off running towards the provided gliders "You know, I believe it would be prudent if we were to get you checked for rabies once the race is over."

"That's the stuff where you start foaming at the mouth right?"

"Essentially yes."

"...Yeah, we might have a problem."

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Meanwhile, with one of the other teams…

"Okay I think I can see the Chill Zone, just let me take it down and-" Noah was cut short by the sound of a loud far, and then a cloud of gas filling the plane, leaving him gasping for air in clear agony "Oh god… it burns…"

"Wasn't me." Owen just leaned back in his seat with a satisfied grin, only for it to falter when he noticed the dirty look that Noah was giving him "What?"

"This isn't the first time I've said this and I doubt it's going to be the last, I despise every single thing that comes out of you."

"Hey come on little buddy, you know that when I hold those things in I end up getting all sweaty and stuff, and then it just gets even worse."

"...You know you're making it really hard to resist the urge to throw myself out of this glider just to get away from the stink."

"What, you mean that doesn't happen to you?"

"I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen to any other being on this (bleep) planet or- Oh god it got in my mouth!" and then their glider started spiralling out of control… which led to their glider crashing into the Best Friends, sending all four of them spiralling out of control and hurtling towards the ground.

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Meanwhile, with another straggler team…

"Holy crap man, all the clouds totally look like stuff!" by this point, the Rockers were gliding their way towards the Chill Zone, and Spud was taking the time to look at the clouds as they passed them by "That one to the left looks like a vanilla milkshake, and that one on the right is totally a marshmallow!"

"Dude look out, there's a mountain!" Rock pointed to where the two of them were hurtling towards a mountain in front of them.

"What the hell have you been smoking dude, none of them look like a-"

"Do something dammit, we're about to-" and then they crashed into the side of the mountain, but thanks to the power of cartoon logic, neither of them were hurt.

"...MOUNTAIN!" and then Spud started freaking out a few seconds later.

"Yeah that figures. You know on the one hand, it's cool that we're still alive. On the other hand, why the hell did I think it was a good idea to let Spud fly the plane?"

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Meanwhile, with the crash victims…

"Oh man, my head…" Carrie let out a groan as Devin helped her out of the wreckage, only to recoil at the stench "What stinks so bad?"

"I'll give you one guess." Noah jerked a thumb over to where Owen was whislitng innocently and looking away from the rest of them "Anyway the Chill Zone isn't that far from here, so if you don't wanna get sent home you might wanna shut up and get moving."

"...Oh yeah, good point." and so the two teams took off running.

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At the Chill Zone…

"And here comes the rest of them." Don was quick to greet the remaining teams as they reached the Chill Zone, starting with the Reality TV Pros "Seventh place!"

The Best Friends came not long after."

"Eighth place!"

And finally there was Brains & Brawn, the latter covered in numerous bite marks.

"Ninth place, and somebody get him to a medic." Don motioned for Lightning to be taken away by medics "That leaves only the Stepbrothers and the Rockers."

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"Now all of the other teams have reached the Chill Zone, and one member of a team is about to be checked over for rabies. As a result, the final two teams have really started to feel just how much pressure they're under right now."

"Oh man that's totally a loadoff." Chet breathed a heavy sigh of relief as he and Lorenzo made their way towards the Chill Zone in their glider "I'm so glad that we caught that albino and got the hell away from that bigger and darker and angrier albino with the two heads."

"Yeah but we've got nothing to worry about now, nothing but peaceful-" Lorenzo glanced out at the exterior of the glider… only to find the pissed off kangaroo riding on one of the wings "OH FOR THE LOVE OF (bleep) YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!"

"Shake it off man, shake it the hell off!"

"Don't tell me that man, you're the one flying this thing!" their argument was promptly cut short when the kangaroo ripped one of the glider's wings off, sending them spiralling down towards the ground below "Yeah it's official, I (bleep) HATE ALBINOS!"

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Meanwhile, with the other last place team…

"Hey check it out dude, we totally made it!" Spud climbed up onto a ride along the side of the mountain and got a good look at the Chill Zone… which was at least a few miles away "Well, we almost made it anyway."

"Dammit Spud it's no use, this ain't gonna work!" Rock on the other hand was trying to get himself out of his seat in the glider, with little success "I can't figure out how to get this stupid thing off of me. Forget it man, you might as well just go on without me."

"What? Like hell that's gonna happen man. It's like your mom is always saying, if there's anyone out there that's gonna get you killed, then it's sure as hell gonna be me!" in a surprising burst of strength, he ripped Rock out of his seat and hoisted him over his shoulders "We're gonna get the hell off this rock, or we're gonna DIE TRYING!" and then they heard a loud rumbling sound as the ground began shaking.

"...Aw crapbaskets."

"Yeah, I think I'm gonna go ahead and say my bad now, cause this definitely gonna suck worse than that time at Anime Evolution in Vancouver." and then the two of them got buried in the following avalanche of snow.

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Meanwhile, with the other straggler team…

"There it is… I can see the Chill Zone…" Chet and Lorenzo climbed their way out from within the wreck of their glider and saw the Chill Zone a short distance away "We're almost there… It's just a little bit further…"

"I don't think… I've got the strength in me… to make it there…" but then Lorenzo looked back at the sound of a groaning noise behind them, and the two of them looked back to see the pissed off kangaroo burst out from the wreckage, along with its baby in its pouch.

"...You got the strength in you now?"

"Oh yeah. RUN LIKE HELL!" and so the two of them took off running in the direction of the Chill Zone, with the kangaroo hot on their heels.

"And it all comes down to this." Don watched the chase unfolding from his place standing at the Chill Zone "The second to last team is coming in like ther's no tomorrow… and with a really angry-looking kangaroo following them, so the jury's still out on how that's gonna go. Either way, it looks like it's all over for the Rockers unless- What the (bleep)?!" and then the lot of them got buried under the avalanche of snow.

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Fortunatley, once the avalanche had subsided, it didn't take long before the two semi-frozen teams had been pulled out of the snow.

"Well Rockers, Stepbrothers, I have to give it to the four of you." Don was quick to address them as he came back onto the scene "This was by far the closest race that we've ever had, so the judges are really going to have to go over this one extra carefully. Or they would if it wasn't for the fact that we don't have judges. So to make a long story short, there's a pretty fair chance that this is going to take a little while." and so he pulled out an ipad and started watching the footage of the race from right before the avalance struck.

"Hey dude?" Lorenzo took the chance to look over at Chet "I just want to let you know that if we end up losing, I'm gonna be a gigantic asshole about it."

"Yeah join the club dude, that was already my plan." Chet gave a smirk, and then the two of them shared a fist bump.

"Achoo!" Spud let out a sneeze, then glanced over at Rock "Wait I don't get it, what the heck are we waiting for?"

"He's about to tell us who lost." Rock told him.

"Say what?!"

"Yeah, I don't know what's gonna happen dude."

"Racers." this was when Don drew their attention "After ample reviewing of the footage and a lot of careful consideration, I've reached a decision. The Rockers…"

"Aw crapbaskets."

"The Rockers… were not the last team to get here here! They've arrived in tenth place! The Stepbrothers were the last team to reach the Chill Zone, and that means they've been cut from the race!"

"YES! WE DID IT!" Rock wasted no time hollering in triumph "We totally did it, and it's all thanks to my kickass buddy Spud!"

"Woah…" Spud glanced over at Rock with his typical dull expression "I never did anything that I actually meant to before. This totally rules!"

"Totally, and now there's nothing stopping us from going all the way to the end! I say it's time for a victory riff!" and then the two of them started rocking out.

Chet and Lorenzo on the other hand, they were less than graceful about handling their loss as they were escorted away from the Chill Zone "This whole thing is a load of crap, we sure as hell didn't lose that race! Stop playing that farewell footage and junk and rubbing our faces in that crap that didn't happen!"

"Yeah you got that right, we're not reminiscing and you can't make us!" Lorenzo let out a loud snarl "This whole show is a giant steaming pile! You know what, we're gonna go ahead and make our own race show and it's gonna be like ten times better than this one!"

"And you know what'll make it even better, they're all gonna be ninjas!"

"And they're gonna get sent to fireworks factories in space!"

"Oh hells to the yes, you're so my bro!"

"You're so my bro, now come over here and hut it out with me man!"

"Totally, now hug me brotha!" and then the two of them started hugging it out Drake and Josh style as they were tossed away by security into the sunset.

A/N:

Well here we are guys, finally starting off the second half of the story, and we've already got another elimination underway. Yeah, I knew that the Stepbrothers were not going to last long once they stopped hating each other, but at least this time there wasn't a double elimination. I will admit that the Rockers getting kicked off the way they did felt like a bit of a copout, so I decided to do them some justice. One of my reviewers actually predicted that I wouldn't get rid of them like that, so I tip my hat to them, or I would if I was wearing one.

On another note, I couldn't resist making a reference to Total Drama Island, which is another obvious contender for best season by the way. To be more specific, episode 16, Search and Do Not Destroy. For those of you that don't remember, Bridgette had to get a key from a rabbit, only to run into certain… complications when she tried to get past the rabbit.

As far as new interactions go, the biggest one is between Trent and Carrie. I've already established that Devin isn't going through the Seven Stages of Hearbreak, but that doesn't mean he's going to be over his breakup in the blink of an eye, which is something that Carrie now understands, with Trent giving her some guidance in that regard. Given how his relationship with Gwen ended, I think of all people would be able to understand how Devin feels at the moment.

Rankings:

Performers- 1st

Ice Dancers- 2nd

Goths- 3rd

Father & Son- 4th

Sisters- 5th

Surfers- 6th

Reality TV Pros- 7th

Best Friends- 8th

Brains & Brawn- 9th

Rockers- 10th

Elimination order:

Stepbrothers- 11th

Adversity Twins- 12th

Mother & Daughter- 13th

Fashion Bloggers- 14th

Vegans - 15th

Geniuses - 16th

Tennis Rivals 17th

LARPers - 18th