Guest: Most likely Eva just didn't believe Ezekiel's claim.
It was the same night Justin had been eliminated. The Screaming Gophers were sitting fitfully at the campfire ceremony. They had lost three challenges and three team members.
Cody's stomach growled. "Man, I wish Chris would let us go to the tuck shop every once and a while."
"That'll only happen if we start winning some challenges, people!", said Heather. She was about to go on a rant against her teammates, when the sounds of approaching footsteps silenced her.
"What are you guys doing here?", asked Heather to the approaching Killer Bass.
"Watch it, Heather.", said Courtney. "The only reason we're even here, is because Geoff has a bleeding heart."
Geoff rolled his eyes. "I just thought you guys looked really sad out here, so I convinced everyone to come out here and share."
Heather scoffed. "We don't need your pity."
"Fine, we'll leave, then.", said Duncan, simply. The Bass got up to leave, until...
"Wait. What do you got?", said Heather, desperately.
"We have green jelly, eh?", said Ezekiel, holding up a jelly mold with a single gummy worm in the exact center.
Most of the Gophers were salivating at food tat wasn't absolute crap, though DJ took one look at the mold, and yelled out, "Snake!!!"
He flinched the jelly mold across the pit, ruining it.
Cody walked up to it, and picked up the gummy worm. "Relax, dude, it's just a gummy worm."
"Sorry for trippin'.", apologized DJ. "It's just that snakes freak me out."
"Hey, it's OK, DJ.", said Geoff, putting a hand on the gentle giant's shoulder.
"Yeah, everyone's afraid of something, eh?", said Ezekiel. "Like, I'm afraid of bulls."
"You're afraid of bulls? But I thought you grew up on a farm.", questioned Leshawna.
"I did, eh?", said Zeke. "But... when I was eight my uncle fell into a bull pen at a rodeo and was attacked. I've been afraid of them ever since."
(Gwen): And, just like that, the night turned into some kind of share session. Everyone was telling their biggest fear; even Heather admitted to being afraid of sumo wrestlers.
"I'm claustrophobic, so... being buried alive is way up there.", said Gwen.
"Hailstorms. They're small but deadly, man.", said Geoff.
"Having to walk through a minefield... with high heels.", said Lindsay.
"I hate mimes. They freak me out!", said Trent.
Katie and Sadie were holding onto each other as they said, "Having a bad haircut."
They shivered as one. "Oh, I change my fear to that one.", said Lindsay, cringing.
"Having to defuse a time bomb under pressure.", said Cody.
As the evening wound down, all eyes were on Duncan and Eva. "What are you guys looking at?", said Eva, dangerously.
"C'mon, we all said our biggest fears.", said Heather. "Now, it's your turn."
Duncan and Eva looked at each other nervously, then, with expressions of defeat, said as one...
"Celine... Celine Dion Cardboard Standees..."
"Public... public speaking."
"Um, excuse me, I didn't quite hear that.", said Cody, smirking along with Noah.
"You make fun of me, and it'll be the end of you, dork.", said Duncan.
"Oh, I love Celine Dion!", said Lindsay.
"Oh, please!", said Courtney. "Those are the lamest fears imaginable. I bet you guys made them up."
Eva was in Courtney's face in a second, her fists raised. "Oh, yeah, well what's your biggest fear, princess? I don't remember you saying anything."
"I... I'm...", said Courtney, looking out at the sixteen faces staring at her. "I... I'm actually not afraid of anything."
"Oh, boo!", said Noah.
"It's true. I've never been terrified in my life."
Most of the other campers smirked in disbelief as they got up to head to bed.
As Courtney got up as well, Beth ran up to her, holding the green jelly mold. "Courtney, I noticed you didn't get any, so I'd like to..."
Courtney however was visibly cringing. "No! Um, no thanks, Beth, maybe another time..."
It was morning. After the long night of sharing their biggest fears, most of the campers were visibly still tired at the mess hall.
Chris walked in, a wicked smirk on his face. "Who's ready for challenge numero seis. Be ready for the most terrifying challenge of them all."
A nearby Heather rolled her eyes, and took a long swig from her juice. Chris continued, "Heather, meet me at the amphitheater. It's sumo time!"
Heather sprayed her juice out of her mouth, right in Trent's face.
"Gwen, you, me, a couple hundred piles of sand.", said Chris, causing Gwen to bang her head against the table.
"And Ezekiel, we've got a bull pen set up just for you." Ezekiel quivered.
"Wait, how do they know what our biggest fears are?", said Lindsay.
"Because we told them, genius.", said Gwen, looking up.
Lindsay looked blank.
"It's a reality show, try have cameras on us at all times."
"But, that's like... eavesdropping.", said Lindsay, visibly shocked.
The camera then cut to the first of the so-called 'Phobia Factor' challenges. A large, kiddie swimming pool was being slowly filled with worms by Chef Hatchet.
Most of the campers were looking disgusted by the pool, except, curiously enough, Beth, who's fear she was now facing.
When it came time for her to dive under the worms, she merely shrugged, and jumped in.
She resurfaced a moment later, covered with bugs, but a victor nonetheless.
At the amphitheater, DJ was next in line. The rest of the campers were watching from the stands as DJ approached his 'snake', if it could be called that.
"All you have to do, big guy, is to touch the literal world's smallest snake.", said Chris, pointing at a glass terrarium set up on the stage.
Inside was, indeed, the smallest, cutest snake in existence.
DJ walked up to the tank, hesitated, then cringed visibly. "I... I can't do it!"
"C'mon, DJ, just do it! It's practically a worm!", yelled out Courtney. "If you don't do it, I personally guarantee you'll be off this island if we lose."
Behind her, the other Bass were shaking their heads in disapproval.
DJ gulped, then,with eyes firmly shut, poked a finger into the tank. He brought it out, with the snake curled up on it, and smiled.
On the beach, Gwen was inside a glass coffin, looking more freaked out than ever before.
Trent kneeled beside her. "Don't worry, you only have to stay under for fifteen minutes. There's enough oxygen in there for twenty."
"Hopefully.", said Chris, as he picked up a shovel.
Trent glared at him, as Gwen said, "Goodbye, cruel world!"
The first pile of sand hit the coffin, right on top of her face...
Soon, the hole the coffin was in was successfully filled with sand. Chris patted the sand, making sure it was sturdy, before walking away.
Trent, who had a walkie-talkie, turned it on. "Gwen, do you read me?"
"I... I read you.", Gwen stammered.
Geoff was relaxing on one of the camp's many lawn chairs, when a dark shape appeared in front of him. He sat up, squinting at whatever it was.
It was a small, dark cloud. It thundered, then began pelting Geoff with hail.
Geoff screamed in fright, and began running around the campsite. Chris appeared, piloting the cloud with a remote control. However he received this technology would never be explained.
Geoff ran past Beth, Lindsay, Katie, and Sadie.
"Aw, he's got a little baby cloud following him around.", said Lindsay. "I want one. C'mere cloudy cloudy!"
"Lindsay, Katie, Sadie, that reminds me.", said Chris. "You have an appointment with Chef Hatchet in the mess hall... as well as a couple of shears."
The three of them looked scared, as Beth carefully stepped out of frame.
Cut to Lindsay and the best friends receiving mullet wigs from Chef. They all shuddered.
Back at the amphitheater, Heather was facing a giant sumo wrestler on stage. The sumo lifted both his legs, then charged at the queen bee.
Heather ducked and trembled with fright... unintentionally tripping the wrestler off the stage.
The sumo bounced all the way into the woods.
Duncan was looking uncharacteristically nervous, as he stared down a Celine Dion cardboard cutout.
He tried to keep his eyes off of her, but was having difficulty doing so.
Courtney walked up from behind, looking angry. She stopped however, and put a more pleasant look on her face.
"C'mon, it's just one hug You can do it.", she said, encouragingly.
Duncan looked back at the standee, then raced towards it. He hugged it round the middle, as a close facsimile of one of Dion's songs played in the background.
"You did it! You did it!", said Courtney, as Duncan hugged her as well.
"I did! I guess I did.", said Duncan.
"OK, you can put me down now.", said Courtney, irritable again.
In the restrooms, Harold walked in to take a leak.
Once he had locked the stall door, however, several ninjas clad in black appeared from their hiding places.
Harold heard them from inside the stall, and narrowed his eyes.
He opened the stall door, looking bored at the sight of the ninjas. He then took out several nunchucks, and began spinning them around.
The ninjas backed away nervously. Harold continued to spin his weapons around... until he clobbered himself on the head. He fell backwards into the toilet with an audible plunk.
"And that's why I'm scared of mimes.", said Trent into his radio.
"Wow, that must of been really sad for you.", said Gwen, still under the ground. A dark shape approached Trent, and tapped his shoulder.
He turned around, face to face with a hideous mime.
Trent screamed and ran away, closely followed by the mime.
"Trent! Trent, what's happening!?", said Gwen into the silence.
Cut to a group of the campers standing around Noah and Chris. "Now, our next challenge will be for Noah... however, he didn't reveal his deepest darkest fear last night.", said the latter of the two.
As Noah looked smug, the other campers looked confused. "Yeah, he did. We all did... didn't we?", said Heather.
"Actually, now that you mention it...", said Harold, scratching his chin.
"So, since we don't have any footage of him fessing up, we had to do a deep dive into Noah's records.", said Chris. "And we found... nothing. Not a thing that points to Noah's biggest fear."
"So that means that Noah... forfeits the challenge!", said Chris. "The Gophers lose a point."
The Gophers all gasped. "Wait, you can't do that!", said Noah.
"Can and just did.", said Chris, smirking deviously. "Unless you'd like to reveal your secret fear now?"
Noah looked suddenly nervous. "Well, um, there's no reason for that...", he trailed off.
"So, instead, Leshawna will have to face her biggest fear.", Chris continued, snapping his fingers.
Leshawna liked to the left to see Chef in a monstrous spider costume. Leshawna trembled, backed away, then ran off, screaming.
A bull leaned down, and ate a blade of grass. The camera panned out to see a wooden paddock with the bull inside.
On the outside, Chris was leaning on the fence next to a terrified Ezekiel. "OK, Zeke, all you have to do is stay in the bull pen for five minutes."
Zeke gulped, then began clambering over the fence. His jeans hitched on a nail, ripping a big hole in them and causing him to fall to the ground.
Duncan, watching from outside, slapped his palm into his face.
Ezekiel began trudging towards the bull, his bright red underwear on show through the hole in his jeans.
Zeke eventually reached the bull, who looked with boredom up at Ezekiel.
Ezekiel reached out, and began stroking the bull's horn. When nothing bad happened, Zeke smiled. He turned to his fellow teammates. "I... I did it!"
Unfortunately, by turning around, he exposed his underwear to the bull.
Seeing red, literally, the bull bucked Ezekiel up into the sky. The Bass watched in horror as Ezekiel flew through the sky, and landed with an audible splash in the lake.
Cody was walking through the forest. He breathed in and out, enjoying the summertime air.
A twig snapped nearby, and Cody looked around. Now a little nervous, Cody walked forward with some trepidation, before a dark figure approached him from behind.
Wham!
Cody woke up, handcuffed to a trash can. Chris was nearby, holding said handcuff's key.
"Chris! What... what's happening?", said Cody, before he noticed the wires attached to the trash can.
A clock timer beeped, and began counting down from ten. "You have ten minutes to diffuse this stink bomb and release yourself.", said Chris. "Good luck."
He began to walk away. Cody, who had begun sweating profusely, said, "Wait, aren't you staying?"
"Nope. That's a live bomb, dude. I'm getting out of here."
And with that, Chris disappeared...
Cut back to Trent running through Wawanawkwa, closely followed by the mime.
Trent stopped to catch his death, as the mime began his invisible box act.
"There isn't a wall there!", said Trent. "Stop being freaky!"
Trent turned to see the dock a little ways away. He tore towards it, ran down the wooden planks, and jumped in the water.
Predictably, the mime followed, but paused at the end of the dock.
"Huh, what's the matter, mime, can't swim?", taunted Trent.
The mime began preparing to dive.
"Wait, wait!", said Trent, desperately. "You... you're makeup will be ruined."
The mime nodded, conceding defeat, and left. Trent whooped and hollered.
Cut to Trent toweling himself off at the beach, walking up to Chris.
Chris was still piloting the cloud around, as Geoff ran past screaming.
"Cool.", said Trent. "Can you bring the cloud in lower and pelt him faster?"
"Dude, you have one sick, twisted mind... Yeah.", said Chris.
Trent scratched his head. "Hey, do you ever feel like you're forgetting something?"
"Sometimes. I usually ignore it until it goes away."
The stink bomb exploded in the distance.
"What was that?", said Trent, shocked.
"My guess is that Cody missed his countdown.", said Chris, chuckling darkly.
Cut to Cody wandering through the woods, covered in trash. 'Hello? Anyone there? Ladies?"
Back with Trent and Chris, Trent slapped his head. "Oh my God, countdown? Gwen!"
Trent was soon digging up Gwen's coffin with his bare hands. When he finally reached it,he sighed with relief.
"Oh, thank God, you're OK.", he said, right as Gwen's radio beaned him on the head.
In the communal bathroom, Lindsay, Katie, and Sadie were standing in front of the mirror.
"OK, it's the end of the day, so we can take these horrible wigs off.", said Katie.
"On three.", said Lindsay, gripping her mullet. "One... two... three!"
They all ripped them off, and Lindsay gasped with shock. "OMG, I forgot how cute you guys are."
"Oh my gosh, you too.", said Sadie.
Soon, the three females were walking outside the cabin.
Katie and Sadie walked towards their cabin, only to pass Ezekiel heading the other direction. Ezekiel stopped, seemed to think, then followed the best friends.
"Hey, Sadie!", said Ezekiel, catching up.
"What, you're going to say how shocked you are that a girl managed to face her fear?", said Sadie, snidely. She and her friend snickered.
"No, I was just going to say you did a great job on the challenge.", said Ezekiel, walking away.
"Um, thanks?", called back Sadie.
"What was that about?", said Katie.
Sadie shrugged. "Dunno..."
Katie continued on, but Sadie looked back at Zeke with a confused look on her face.
Cut to all the campers standing in the main area of the camp, with Chris, Eva, and Courtney in the middle.
"And we've saved the best for last.", said Chris. "Eva and Courtney are the last to face their fears for the Killer Bass!"
"Excuse me, Chris, how can I face my fears if I don't have one?", said Courtney, next to a very nervous and sweaty Eva.
"You forget, Courtney, we see everything.", said Chris, as Chef wheeled in a TV set.
The TV came on, revealing the scene of Courtney cringing at the jelly mold from last night.
As the scene later on loop on the TV, Chris said, "So, once we're done with Eva's speech, we ca get to your challenge involving green jelly."
Courtney hacked in her mouth, then turned her green face to Chris. "And if we don't, we'll lose the challenge, right?"
"Actually, if you do the math, since the Bass has more competitors than us, you only need one win to tip the balance.", said Cody, typing on a calculator. "You don't actually need both of them to perform."
Cody looked smug at his computations... until he noticed most of the Gophers glaring at him. "Um, technically speaking...", said Cody, now nervous.
"So, only one of us has to go?", said Courtney, a wicked smile on her face. "Then, I nominate Eva!"
She pushed the jockette towards Chris. "So, how about it, Eva?", said Chris.
Eva gulped.
At the amphitheater, the curtains were drawn back to show Eva on stage with a pile of notes in her hands.
"I... I, uh... I mean...", said Eva.
"Just imagine everyone naked, Eva!", yelled out Harold.
Eva blinked her eyes, now seeing everyone with their private parts pixelated.
This didn't seem to help, as Eva was still cold sweating.
Then, she saw Courtney. A smug Courtney, just waiting for her to finally fail...
Eva looked determined now, and plowed on through her speech.
After it was done, Courtney was the only Bass who looked sour, as everyone else ran up to congratulate Eva.
Meanwhile, the Gophers glared at Cody once again in the stands. "Just... just being thorough with the scoring system...", said Cody, now with a cold sweat identical to Eva's.
Later that night, at the campfire ceremony, Noah, Cody, and Leshawna were the last Gophers to receive a marshmallow.
"You lot were the only ones to not complete you challenges. Cody, you were also the one who made things a lot easier for the other team.", said Chris, as the geek lowered his head in shame.
"The penultimate marshmallow goes to... Noah!"
Noah trudged past a shocked looking Leshawna, as Cody began rocking in his chair, his fingers crossed and saying a silent prayer to whatever god he worshipped.
"The final marshmallow goes to...
...
... Cody!"
"What, are you serious!?", said Cody, gasping in delight, as Leshawna, Gwen, and Trent all gasped.
"Yeah, I know, even I was surprised by that. And I'm the host!", said Chris, as he gave Cody the last marshmallow.
Cut to Gwen and Trent making their goodbyes to Leshawna on the dock of shame.
Soon, the sister with 'tude was on the boat of losers, heading away from Camp Wawanawkwa for good.
As Gwen and Trent waved goodbye, Noah stepped out of the shadows near the dock.
He stared for a moment, then began to trudge back to the Gophers' cabin. He was, however, stopped by Heather.
"All right, I helped save your geeky little friend, now you have to uphold your end of the bargain."
Noah stared in dry unamusement at the queen bee, then put out his hand. Heather shook it.
Teams
Screaming Gophers: Beth, Gwen, Lindsay, Heather, Trent, Noah, and Cody
Killer Bass: DJ, Geoff, Duncan, Harold, Katie, Sadie, Ezekiel, Eva, and Courtney
Eliminated: Owen, Izzy, Tyler, Bridgette, Justin, and Leshawna
Votes
Leshawna (5)
Cody (3)
Dun, dun, dun!!!
Noah and Heather in a secret alliance!?
Egor1580: You were correct in your assumption that Leshawna would be the next one out.
Naturally, I had to make up a lot of the fears for a good portion of the surviving contestants. Katie was easy, while Ezekiel was a little harder to nail down. Tell me how well I succeeded in the reviews.