"You know dreamers, party people like me…consistency ain't such an amazing thing. Sure, it can be nice to have a good sit down every once in a while, but come on now…we all wanna get ourselves movin' and groovin' wherever life might be taking us! Hell, I barely enjoy comin' up and doin' this whole recap every episode, but the pay is nice so I'll keep on it, y'know what I mean?" C.K. snickered to himself as he sat down on his chair. Normally, he had one fire going, but this time, he actually had two. He stared off at both of them, grinning behind his shadowy guise before snapping his fingers. The snap seemed to trigger something in the flames, as each set of flames broke off, now leaving four separate fires in its wake. "Hey, hey…some nights are chilly, and even C.K. needs something to keep himself warm on a cold, cold night…shoutout to Honne for that one! L-l-layust time on Total Drama: Neon City– seemed like Amanda was having some more issues with her boss just being the absolute worst, but this time, she looked to be a bit more keen on fixing that problem. Eli went and complained to his little boyfriend about his new team…it's so nice that they can have each other when they don't have anyone else. Atlas gave Garfield a much more firm warning about staying away from his sister, but the politician didn't seem to mind, not one bit! And Bailey, mmm, that frosty gal was takin' hot doctor Gwendolyn out on a date! Surprised our ice cube didn't melt from the smooch she got! Our partygoers had a challenge in a grand casino, with the only goal in mind being that they had to outwin the other team at every casino game possible. Granted, not everyone was all too good with those types of games…looking at you, Atlas. But still, everyone was putting up a good fight in thisun! Amanda used her capital knowledge of investing and stocks to help her persevere above everybody else…well, that, and she ended up quitting her job, which must've given her some inspiration. Am I forgetting something about our stock market expert…? Oh, how could I forget that she laid her lips upon the eighth wonder of the world: Cherry! That's right, she quit her job, and got right to smoochin' Cherry the second she was done! A bold move from Amanda, and a move that I'm not so sure Cherry was into, as she avoided her for the rest of the day! A-Side won due to Miss Stocks and all that pizazz she was toting around, which brought B-Side to elimination once again! It was a toss-up for who would end up losin', but classic freak, Bec, managed to convince Eliza and her alliance to vote out Atlas! That, and Bec revealed himself as a copycat creep to his 'friend's' face after the rest of his team left the rooftop! Bec…also mentioned he saw some suggestive pictures from Atlas' special lady back home! Man, that Bec is such a creep…but that's just how some people are, I guess!"

The neon moon started scratching itself like a record, eventually spinning wildly out of control while the sound meter around it went wild. A beam of neon light shot down into the ground below, bringing the view past a rooftop that had Chris and Chef standing atop it, as well as the cloaked figure of C.K.. The trio were laughing to themselves as the beam passed them by, and they soon disappeared from sight.

"B-b-break it down, dear mom and dad, I'm doing fine," a car burst from where the beam of light had landed, revealing Atlas driving while Bec was in the passenger seat with him. The duo grinned the same grin at the camera as they passed it by, with another car following behind in their wake.

"The highlife's been on my mind," the second car was veering off the road wildly, being that of Jhin, who was too busy eating a tree branch that she had found to be focused on the road she was driving on. She ended up crashing through the wall of a building, revealing a nightclub full of people.

"You asked me where I wanted to be, and now I'm right here, can't you see?" Leo stood near the now open hole in the wall, his jaw practically dropped to the floor, but he was soon shoved aside to safety as Jhin drove right back through it. He looked to see that Gwendolyn had saved him, and looked about ready to tear him a new one.

"I wanna be famous!" Over at the bar, Cherry was downing a shot of liquor and proudly heading off to the dance floor while Amanda just stared at her own shot glass, turning her nose up at the very scent of it.

"I wanna live away from the sun," the camera panned up from the nightclub to the next floor, which was much more of a lounge that had a couple contestants sitting on couches. Eli had himself posted on one of them, sitting back and covering his ears while Suzie started explaining the entire lore of Among Us to him.

"So pack your bags, 'cause the party's begun!" On one of the other couches, 3V was downing an entire flask of some sort of liquor while Elward watched her in some sort of dumbfounded trance, eventually pulling out his own futuristic looking flask but accidentally pouring his drink all over his one working eye.

"Daylife's no way to live with nothing to gain, it ain't no claim to fame," far back in the corner of the room, Henry and Heath were hiding themselves from everybody else, but Heath's hand slowly raised up with Jean-Paul rattling his wooden jaw, startling the two of them so much so that they got up and ran right into each other, falling to the ground with a joint thud.

"I wanna be famous!" Giselle popped out of a closet from the same corner of the room, wearing a playboy bunny suit and putting on a flashy display, but when she saw that the two boys were unconscious, she fell to her knees and started screaming at the sky.

"Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na!" The next floor up from the lounge seemed to look like a sort of laser tag arena, where Gerald was frantically running away from Morgan, who was firing her laser gun at him. Her shots entirely missed, but one must've struck Allan, as Gerald stopped running and started to cry, holding the invisible friend's body in his arms.

"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!" Marshmallow ecstatically ran right through where the two of them were, flailing her arms and screaming in delight while a confused Edward followed after her, shrugging his shoulders when he looked at the camera.

"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!" At the upper ground of the laser tag arena, Bailey and Eliza were firing at each other, but the lasers stopped coming at Bailey after some time, and she looked up to notice that Eliza had completely passed out on the floor. The cold girl looked at the camera helplessly before tossing her laser gun up into the air. As it came sinking back down, it fell into the neon fire on top of the tallest skyscraper, directly in between Garfield and Zayden, who were having a stand-off while the other contestants sat around them and whistled. Chris, Chef, and C.K. stood over at a podium near the hyperspace tube and snapped in unison for a neon sign to flash on the screen with the words "Total Drama: Neon City."

"Master~! What are you doing with all the wires?" HAILEY's screen was out and ready in Elward's room, while the man himself seemed to be tinkering with that robot husk from before. He was focusing so hard on what he was doing that beads of sweat were dripping down from his forehead, and he was biting his tongue. He seemed to be running cables between the robot and the device in his ear.

"What am I doing? Haha! HAILEY, I'm doing the unthinkable! I've created a robot AI before, but when I did that, I practically built the AI into the robot! Never before have I transferred an AI to a brand new body!" Elward cackled like an evil scientist as he grabbed for another cable, plugging it into the robot and causing the entire body to light up with blue light. At that point, HAILEY's screen started to glitch out. He smirked as he watched the screen glitch, though it looked like this process was causing the AI to actually hurt a bit.

"M-m-master? Th-th- krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrztch- this feels weird! W-what's hap- krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrchts- enning to me!?" HAILEY continued to glitch out for the next few moments, with Elward just watching in silence until, finally, her screen disappeared from sight. The robot body in the room made an odd, binging noise the second that her screen faded from all visibility. "Download complete! HAILEY unit booting up!"

"Yes! This is it, this is what I've been working so hard to accomplish for all this time! HAILEY, welcome to your new body!" Elward cheered excitedly as the robot's face lit up. She had expressions just like HAILEY's face did on the screen, but they seemed…incredibly more fluid than ever before. She could actually blink, for one change. She wasn't saying anything, yet, her lips could move freely. She raised the hands of the robot body up to her face, slowly touching at it, and looked shocked to find that she had some sort of "feeling sensor" in her fingertips. She looked down at herself…at her body…she was sleek and slender, with legs that were detached from her body, but clung together through the use of energy and magnets. She gasped at the sight of her legs, and gently moved her hips from side to side, as if to test the waters.

"M-Master? I feel so...alive! This body...this life running through it...is this how it feels to be a human?" HAILEY looked to be overwhelmed with joy as she tried to take a step forward, but as she still hadn't figured out exactly how the body worked, she ended up stumbling forward. Elward caught her in his arms before she could fall all the way, and she held onto him quite tightly, looking up at his smiling face with a deep blue blush on her metallic cheeks.

"I'd say this is working out even better than I had imagined it to! Which means that…I've earned a break for some hot cocoa! Haha, HAILEY! You stay in the room while I go out for cocoa, I'll give you the rundown on how everything works when I'm back!" Elward grinned as he helped HAILEY move her body over to the bed. He sat her down gently, to which she just smiled up at him.

"Master…you made me such a beautiful body…is this how you've always seen me?" HAILEY blushed much deeper while she began to trace lines across her voluptuous frame. She really seemed to be in love with this new body.

"Eh, I figured you would like a body like that instead of something like Alroy's! Like I said, I'll be back in a little bit to go over the details on the commands and everything!" Elward waved to HAILEY and began walking towards the door while snickering to himself. He wasn't really paying attention to what he was doing, and just nonchalantly opened the door and stepped out into the hallway. He shut the door behind him, but before he could turn to walk down the hall, a bag was suddenly dropped over his head, and he was dragged off by a shadowy figure.


Confessional - HAILEY

"Now, I understand that humans move their legs by contracting muscles and bending at the knee, but these legs…there aren't any muscles in them. There are knee joints, but they're more like metallic orbs that roll…I have so much to learn…" HAILEY was running her hands up and down her own thighs while sitting on the bed. She was trying to see if there was maybe some button or something to help her move the legs, but it wasn't really so. She moved her hands to her inner thighs at some point, rubbing upwards, only for her eyes to shoot open wide. "S-s-sensation overload! Mammamia!"


Elward had been the first person up in the night, and his kidnapping was pretty swift…but the others were just now starting to wake. Jhin and Bailey were the next two to get out of bed, with the ice cube rubbing her eyes while Jhin happily strode out into the hallway while only wearing an oversized tee shirt. The second she got out there, she was met with the same fate as Elward, with a bag being thrown right over her head and her being dragged away. Bailey gasped, and ran out to go see where she went, but the exact same happened as well to her. One by one, each and every contestant was swiftly kidnapped by these shadowy figures, none of them even being able to make out any face or anything.

"W-who the fuck thinks they can just up and lay their hands up on me, huh!? Oh, bitch, you're just askin' to have your damn teeth knocked out your mouth!" Morgan was putting up quite a fight against her kidnapper, slamming her fists against his back while she was thrown over his shoulder. He seemed to just get annoyed by this, and chucked her into the bed of a massive pickup truck. "This is some prank shit or something, isn't it, frosted tips!? Oh, I'm gonna kick your fuckin' ass!"

"Think again, cheer captain," Garfield murmured from underneath his own bag. He, much like all the others, couldn't see a thing…that, and his wrists were bound by ropes. Morgan's hadn't been, but the second she started to get up and tried to escape, her arms were grabbed and tied up, just like the rest. All fourteen of the contestants were crammed into the bed of that truck, with most of them panicking, outside of the incredibly calm Garfield, at least.

"O-o-oh god…we're all gonna die now, aren't we!? I don't wanna die, I haven't even had my first kiss yet!" Leo whined from under the bag on his head and started to thrash back and forth. He swayed around obnoxiously until his head was suddenly caught stuck in something. He pulled back hard, having to gasp for air when he was finally in the clear. "W-what was that!?"

"Maybe ask next time before you introduce yourself to my chest, alright love?" Cherry commented in a dry tone while scooting a little bit away from Leo. The truck suddenly started up, and soon enough, it was driving off from where it was parked. The sudden start caused a few people to tumble over in the truck bed, with Edward dang near flying right out from how fast they were going. Luckily, he was caught by something…well, more like he flew into something.

"Shite…something to hold us down would've been quite nice…" Edward groaned while using his barely movable hands to feel around at whatever it was that stopped him from flying out into the road. "...Oh, Eli…many thanks."

"How could you tell that was me? I could've been anyone that you just flew into." Eli looked down at his own lap, despite the fact that he couldn't actually see anything. Which means that he definitely couldn't see Edward grabbing at him, only to squeeze the sides of his gut, as if to answer his question. "Oh, you are such an asshole, you know that?"

"Hey, hey, guys! Let's all just relax, okay? No need for us to stress out here, especially when we're all still together! If we think rationally…maybe we're getting taken to some super secret frat party!" Bec grinned underneath his bag, leaning back against the side of the truck bed. The truck then hit a bump in the road, the bump being so bad that it caused Bec to fly right off the side. He could hear a few of his co-contestants gasping and screaming after he flew out. He rolled around on the street for a little bit, the bag on his head ripping off and the ropes between his wrists tearing down the middle. Of course, he was a bit frazzled, but he could see that the truck wasn't stopping for him…in fact, it kept on going on ahead.

"Aye aye…definitely gonna be feeling that one in the morning! Heh, though, Beth might think the scars and bruises are sexy." Bec slowly stood up from the ground, running his hand through his hair while taking a few steps forward. "Now…if there's one thing I have to do…it's get my team and the other team safe!" He slammed his fist down into the palm of his hand, grinning from ear to ear. "I'll probably need some sort of weapon to defend myself with, right? Hmmmm…got it!" He reached down at the ground, only to lift his right arm up to show that he had grabbed a dead opossum by the tail and was flailing it around like a pair of nunchucks. "Perfect weapon!"


Confessional - Bec

"I may not be the best at…you know, actually fighting people, but I'm muscular enough to appear threatening if I swing some random item around like I mean business, heheh!" Bec smirked and continued to flail his opossum around while sitting in his car, only for it to suddenly wake up from its fake death and hiss at him before pouncing at his face and scratching and biting all over him. "Agh! Not the face! My girl really likes my face!"

"Man, I thought Bec had a few screws loose before, but now, I'm just certain that his mind is completely and totally numb! I mean, you and I both know about opossums playin' dead and all…just common knowledge."


Much like how everyone had been kidnapped by these mysterious assailants one by one, they were also being dropped off from the truck one by one. Each of them set down and freed in different locations, with no indication of where they were or what was going on. Leo happened to be the very last one that was unbound from the truck, although they still drove off after they left him in the middle of a dark alleyway. He gently rubbed his wrists where he had been bound, wincing slightly as they still felt a bit sore. Looking around, he couldn't really see much of anything, except for the neon lights that were coming from the streets.

"W-where did everybody go…? What's going on here?" Leo whimpered as he started to walk out of the alleyway. As he got further out towards the street, he could see that the neon he saw before was only coming from the front of one building, and flickering in and out of sight. Before long, it vanished entirely, and he was left with nothing but darkness. He shuddered horribly once that little light was gone from him, and quickly pulled out his phone. His phone background was a cute picture of him with two girls, likely his friends. He turned on his flashlight and began slowly walking down the cracked sidewalk.

"Z-Zayden? Cherry? Amanda? Anybody!? Oh, please don't tell me I'm all alone in this...n-nightmare land…" Leo could hear the echo of his voice coming back to him from the darkness, which only added to his already well amped up uneasiness. He gulped nervously and walked to the front of a building that had a sign reading "HOTEL." He knocked on the door a few times, but got no answer in response. However, he could hear what sounded like the crackle of a loud speaker in the distance. "...H-huh? Is that…?"

"How's it going, everybody? You like the kidnapping we just pulled off? Yeah, not the first time, and probably not the last that I'll have Chef throw bags over your guys' heads!" Chris' voice boomed out from the speaker as loud as it ever sounded. Eliza glanced up at the nearest speaker that she had found in the Chinatown District, which was on the outside of some karaoke studio.

"This can't seriously be a challenge, can it…? Kidnapping all of us and tossing us out into the streets like this…it's crazy! Then again…Chris isn't exactly the most stable in the mind…" Eliza sighed while she sat down at the bench outside of the studio. The streets were crowded as always, but she didn't seem to be too bothered by having all the people around. Although, she was noticeably very tired, and yawned a bit while stretching her arms out above her.

"Well, now that you've all come to, I can share some important news with you! As of right now...Team A-Side and Team B-Side...are no more!" Chris couldn't stop himself from cackling after he announced the split up of the teams. 3V scratched at the top of her head with one hand while also taking a swig from a beer bottle she had found just outside one of the casinos in the Golden District.

"The teams are breaking up, eh…? This seems like it's a little bit early to be doing something like that…" 3V scowled as she tasted the alcohol from her bottle. She threw it down onto the ground, watching as the glass shattered and the liquid spread all over the sidewalk. "Blech! This isn't beer, this just tastes like watered down piss! Do you people have any taste buds or are you all just messing around!?" She shook her metal fist at the casino, with plenty of passersby staring at her like she was quite insane.

"Yes, yes, I know, you certainly weren't expecting something crazy like this so early in the game, but me and Chef just thought it would be hilarious to do it! Most merges come much later and all, but hey, we're always up for a change of pace here!" Chris finally stopped laughing and let out a little sigh while Zayden was adjusting the cone on his head. He had been thrown into a dumpster in the Gourmet District, which he was able to identify from the massive amounts of food waste just tossed away.

"There's like, an entire pie in here…why are people just throwing this stuff out?" Zayden shrugged and grabbed the pie, which very clearly had mold spores growing all over it. He took a bite, with his eyes immediately widening from the horrible flavor. He quickly spit it out and started to wipe off his tongue with his hands, hoping that that would at least do something to get rid of the taste, though it didn't end up helping him in the slightest.

"Now, it's probably pretty important to mention that there is definitely going to be a challenge now that all of you are separated from each other, and I think we've come up with the best possible one! You guys have all been dropped off into four separate districts: Gourmet, Golden, Chinatown, and, if you were incredibly unlucky, Nightmare! Within each of these four districts, there is a branch of the Family Nightclub business!" While Chris continued to explain himself, Amanda was taking some deep breaths and flipping her coin in her hand.

"T-they can't just grab me like that…how could they grab me like that? This is terrible, this is awful, I don't like this…" Amanda was managing to calm down a little bit, but being alone wasn't really doing her any favors. Like 3V, she had been dropped off in the Golden District, albeit she was outside of an art gallery. The city was so massive, so even being in the same district, they were incredibly far from each other.

"Your goal is to go out and find these nightclubs! But, only the first person to enter the club will win and get a very special reward at the end of the challenge! We'll have four winners and ten losers in this challenge, so you really gotta make sure you're giving it your all! And since you have no markers from your cars, and the clubs aren't listed on any maps, you're gonna just have to look around as best as you can! It's a shame, there was a contestant that was born and raised in the city, but you guys up and eliminated him really early on!" Chris was back to laughing like before, sounding much more maniacal at this point. "Ah, man, I do love sharing these little tidbits with you all! Well, best of luck to you guys…me and Chef are gonna kick back and watch the party!" The host's voice then cut out from all the speakers around the city, leaving the contestants by themselves once again. Jhin cracked her neck from side to side while opening her eyes wide to see all of her surroundings. She was in the Gourmet District, she could tell that much, but mainly because she was sniffing the delicious smelling air.

"I smell…pork belly…braised beef…short ribs…it's like someone is preparing a feast for me!" She grinned from ear to ear, showing all of her sharp teeth while she started to walk right in the middle of the street like a bouncy cartoon character. "Find a club? Ha! As if I'm gonna even worry about looking for some stupid club! I'm gonna go out and look for my sexy ice cube before anything else! She's probably freaking out right now, I already know it! Don't worry, frosty bitch, Jhin's coming to rescue you!"


Confessional - Jhin

"Bailey is one of those worrywarts that I always hated back when I was still allowed in public schools, the only difference is that she's really hot!" Jhin was sitting on the sidewalk, using her foot to scratch at her ear while looking around at her surroundings. There were people walking around, but none of them were Bailey, so she really didn't care too much about them. "Well, that, and…I can't explain it, but it's like she makes me feel…what's that feeling that people love so much? Like I'm safe at home! The voices get really quiet when I'm around her…and I enjoy that feeling!"

Confessional - Edward

"Being separated from our teams…it's…well, I can't say I've got any complaints about this situation. I've been stressing out a fair bit after Eli left, so I see this as quite a good adjustment, actually." Edward actually managed to smile slightly while he set his hands down on his knees. It wasn't too clear where he was…it was fairly dark, after all. "Though, I really do need to find that chap…I've got some information to share with him that I think he might like to see."

Confessional - Morgan

"These bitches just grabbed all up on my goods and threw me into the back of a truck!? Nuh uh, no way, this bitch ain't playin' that game! I'm not fuckin' around playin' this damn challenge, fuck that shit! Imma find Chris and Chef and beat the damn shit outta them!" Morgan was cracking each of her knuckles individually as she prepared to lay down the beatdown of a lifetime on the hosts for kidnapping her like that.


"Good grief, more of this nonsense crap already? And I ended up getting dropped off in the one district without any damn light in it…typical…" Garfield rubbed the back of his neck as he started to walk the streets of the Nightmare District. Unlike Leo, he wasn't scared about the lack of light or anything like that…in fact, he seemed to be pretty relaxed, all things considered. The buildings seemed to all be boarded up, both the windows and the doors. He took his time to look at each of the buildings, scoffing at them.

"People really don't seem to want any visitors in this part of town, eh? Can't say I'd wanna show my face if my place looked like as much of a dump as these slums do…" Garfield just sighed and leaned back while walking, both of his arms behind his head. He continued to look between each of the buildings, trying to see if he could find the sign to the nightclub that Chris was talking about. Of course, it wasn't going to be that easy, but as he continued walking, he noticed something…rather odd about one building in particular.

"Hm…? Isn't that…" As Garfield narrowed his eyes at the building, he could see that his eyes in fact weren't deceiving him. On that one building, there was a masquerade mask spray painted onto the door. Despite having been completely cool and chill before, he could feel his pulse start to rise and he stumbled back a few steps. "T-that mask…it's just like the other ones I've seen around town, but…" Looking even closer, he noticed that the paint was dripping down…it was clearly fresh.

"Jesus, man…if I didn't know any better, I'd think someone was stalking me. Hey, but…having a stalker would be pretty good for drumming up sympathy points when I'm trying to get into office, haha!" Garfield was starting to relax again, and he took another step back, only to feel himself bump into something behind him. He felt his heart skip a beat…the surface that he had bumped into wasn't like a building or a car or anything. No, he could feel the warmth coming off of it…warmth from some sort of animal. He slowly glanced behind him, only to see that there was a person there…one wearing a masquerade mask on his face.

"SHIT!" Garfield cried out before he began to sprint as fast as his legs could carry him. He had always put up a front about being a fight person when it came to fight or flight response, but it was clear to see that was a ruse. "T-this is the shit I get for digging too deep! I must've stumbled onto the dark web at some point and I've got some assassin trying to rip my beautiful face off! Shit, shit, shit!" He glanced back while he ran, seeing that the figure seemed to be gone after all.

"L-looks like I've gotten away from him after all! Haha, score for Garf-" In the middle of his sentence, since he wasn't paying any attention to where he was running, he ended up slamming face first into a wall. He groaned in pain while he fell to the ground, rubbing his nose, which was now sore and bleeding. He turned around and leaned back against the wall, being out of energy from all the running and the slamming into the wall. There, amidst the darkness, he could see that the figure ended up finding him…and was now backing him against a wall with nowhere to run.


Confessional - Garfield

"A-a-alright everybody, Dr. S. Quatch here with one last message before I inevitably get killed from this maniac that's chasing me! Wendigos are real and they live in each of your basements, don't go downstairs at night or they'll eat you! Werewolves come out during heavy rainstorms, the moonlight thing is just a myth! Vampires actually live in the sun, it's the dark that they have to hide from, and they'll chase you during the day! Beware of your surroundings, everything is out to get you!" Garfield's voice got more and more panicked as the figure got closer and closer to him before the camera feed eventually cut out.


"AGH!" Elward slammed his foot hard right into a crate that was sitting outside of one of the buildings in the Chinatown District. Of course, he wasn't strong enough to actually kick through the wood or anything, but he tried his best at least. It ended up just hurting his own foot, and he grabbed it and started to hop around on one foot. "Stupid Chris, stupid box, stupid everything! They had to go and do this nonsense just after I put HAILEY into her new body, of course they did!"

"Hey!" A woman popped her head out from the building that he was standing outside of. She was about to yell at him more, but she suddenly seemed to be really transfixed by his…well, his hair. "Those…perfect blond streaks…so golden and beautiful…is this the man of my dreams…?" Her skin was incredibly pale…her eyes pink, her hair nearly white and spiky like a sea urchin…she was also quite, well, thicc, for lack of a better word. Elward looked her way with a little scowl on his face, being annoyed by her suddenly yelling at him. "...My apologies for yelling so suddenly…why are you kicking that crate? It can't feel pain."

"Ehhhhhhh!? No shit, of course it can't feel pain, you cougar! It's just a dumb crate! And I'm angry, that's why I'm kicking it! Stupid woman, can't you pick things up based on context clues, yeesh!" Elward continued right on with his crate kicking, although it didn't do him any good. It really just managed to hurt his foot even more. The woman slowly walked towards him, her wide hips swaying from side to side. When she got to him, she grabbed him by the shoulders, rubbing them gently. "H-huh…?"

"You're upset and angry…poor thing…it's a good thing you're here. I run this massage parlor that you're standing outside of…I'd be happy to relieve some of your stress if you come inside." She smiled softly, a smile that managed to get a blush out of Elward. He could only nod his head to answer her, as her aura was just too intoxicating. She slowly began to lead him inside of the building, which had the name "Hellen's Massage Parlor" on the front of it. After he had gone inside with her, the camera panned off into the street to show that Bailey was watching from the sidewalk on the other side.

"Huh…I w-wonder what Elward is doing in there?" Bailey shivered as she watched…she was dressed even lighter than she had been recently, now with no sweater at all. She had on a blue tee shirt, a black, leather jacket, and black, form fitting skinny jeans. It looked nice on her, but she was definitely freezing dressed like that. She continued to watch for a moment before finally starting to cross the street.

"That lady…s-s-something seemed pretty off about her, but I can't put my finger on it…" Bailey looked up at the sign of the building, but nothing seemed to be off about that at all. Even the pictures on the windows just seemed to be various signs offering great deals and different types of massages. She shrugged her shoulders and walked towards the door, grabbing the handle in her hand to start twisting it open. "It can't hurt just to step inside and look…even if this is sort of d-derailing me from the challenge…" The ice cube stepped right on inside of the building without a second thought…and the door seemed to shut behind her on its own.


Confessional - Elward

"See, it's about time things went well for me!" Elward grinned from ear to ear. He was fully shirtless, showing the many explosion scars that he had all over his body. Hellen, the owner, was standing behind him and prepping up some warm, moist towels for the massage. They were in one of the massage rooms, and he was seated on the table. "Cougar Hellen, you're just the best! I still can't believe I'm getting this free massage!"

"Anything for a sweet, blond boy like you…" Hellen mumbled softly, almost too quiet to be heard. Elward kinda heard what she said, but just shrugged his shoulders and chose to ignore how odd it was.


"Dark, isn't it…I can't say I much care for that…" Edward was another one of those that had been dumped off in the Nightmare District, but again, he just didn't seem to be scared of it in the slightest. In fact, he looked at everything around him like it was…all too familiar to him in every way. The buildings he spent the most time looking at were run down apartments that had their windows completely blown out and shattered. There were glass shards down on the ground around the buildings, it was clear to see that nobody cared about upkeep at all.

"Looks like home…feels like home…" Edward started to fidget as he walked along the street, trying to forget about what he had seen. But as he kept walking, he noticed that there was a shattered bottle of liquor on the ground right outside of a doorway. The doorway had the hinges busted up, and was being held on by just one of the busted hinges. He couldn't help but stop and stare at the sight, his eyes seeming lost in what he was seeing as words played over and over in his head.

"You've burnt supper again you useless hag! I work these long days and come home to burnt pot pie, can't you do anything right!?"

"I-I'm sorry, honey, I could've sworn I had set the oven to the right temperature! P-please, I'll fix it, I'll make it again, I'll do it right this time!"

"I'm already home! What good is it if you try again when I'm already here expecting my supper! You wanna play these games with me, I'll show you what happens when you screw up like this!"

"A-ah!" Edward heard nothing but ringing in his ears as he fell down to his knees, his hands pressing down on the ground and accidentally cut one of his palms on a shard of glass. He seemed to ignore the pain though, as the voices in his head were getting to him a lot more than that possibly could. He quickly dug into his pocket, grabbing for his pen so he could start writing something onto his neck, anything so he could distract himself from the voices, but it wasn't working out so well.

"Hey…hey…hey!" Aside from the ringing, the miserable chap could hear the distant voice of someone calling out to him. He had no idea who it was, but he was quickly falling back to just hearing the ringing. That was until somebody grabbed him by the shoulders and started to shake him to get his attention. Slowly but surely, he started to come back to reality, looking up to see that Eli was the one that grabbed him, and was still shaking him. "Dude, what are you doing just laying on the ground out here!?"

"Eli…" Edward mumbled while staring up at his friend. All he could do was stare in silence before suddenly wrapping his arms around his waist and hugging him really tightly. Eli just looked entirely confused from the suddenness of the hug, and wasn't really trying to actively return it or anything, but he still let him hug him, nonetheless. "Thank goodness you're here, chum…I seem to have fallen in with my own thoughts for a moment there…"

"Yeah, I'd say…and you cut your hand and are currently getting your blood all over my jacket so, y'know, that's pretty cool of you to do that." Eli deadpanned as Edward finally pulled himself back from the hug, looking down at his own bleeding hand. "Ugh, gross, man…there's gotta be some sort of doctor or something around here that can patch that up, though." Eli looked all around the two of them, but it was pretty hard to tell what was what with how dark everything was. "...Maybe we should just start walking and hope we find something that can help…"


Confessional - Eli

"I swear, this dude is totally helpless when I'm not around him…but it sure is better to have an ally than a whole squad of people against me." Eli had taken his jacket off, since it was a mess from Edward's cut. In place of it, he just had a purple tee shirt on. "But this Nightmare District…sure is pretty freaky. Can't say I'm gonna wanna return here anytime soon, but oh well…I'm sure Chris is going to make us at some point."

Confessional - Edward

"I'm sure glad that I managed to find Eli in the midst of all this…chaos. I can't much stand sights like these…the broken bottles…the beaten windows…all of it makes me feel rather queasy." Edward shuddered while looking around him at the buildings of the Nightmare District once again. It wasn't a pleasant sight for anyone, but it seemed that it in particular was terrible for him. "Just dreadful, this place is…having someone to hold was quite nice, though."


"Alright…I've gotta make a reminder for myself to not just eat any more random dumpster food…I can still feel my stomach bubbling…" Zayden groaned while he started to walk away from the dumpster that he had been shoved into by his kidnappers. He saw that the part of the city he was in was only fairly busy…it seemed like most people weren't really out for a bite to eat at this point. While he walked, he was suddenly passed by someone running on all fours like some sort of crazy person. "H-hey, watch it!"

"Icccccccccccccccccccccccce cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuube! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare yoooooooooooooooou?" Jhin continued to run, not paying any attention at all to the fact that she almost just ran Zayden over. He just stared at her as she disappeared into the busy street, but the second she was gone and out of sight, he noticed something else that caught his eye…that being Cherry, who was strutting down the sidewalk and keeping an eye out for the nightclub they were all looking for.

"Oh, Cherry! This'll be a lot easier than I thought it was going to be after all!" Zayden quickly ran over to where Cherry was, and the party gal could recognize the clacking of his high heels anywhere. She glanced his way, groaning a bit at the sight of him. "Yooooooo, Cherry!" He waved both of his hands high in the air to get her attention, but she just tried to ignore him and keep walking on. Soon enough, though, he had come right up upon her, and walked alongside her. "Boy, am I glad to see you! I'm not great with directions, so I'm glad I've got-"

"I'm sorry, love, but hadn't you heard the announcement Chris made about the challenge?" Zayden just blinked slowly at Cherry like the words she was saying didn't exactly click inside of his head. She sighed and rolled her eyes before beginning to walk a bit faster, albeit not fast enough to fully ditch him. "No more A-Side, no more B-Side…I'm trying to win this challenge for my pretty self, and helping you out isn't going to benefit me at all."

"Uh…huh…well…but…ah! See, if we find the nightclub together, then you can go into it first! And then we can go look for another one for ourselves after that, since I'm sure you know exactly where to look! You're basically a radar for clubs and parties!" Cherry smirked a little from the compliment, and even did a little hair flip. "So, naturally, it won't take very long to look for two of the clubs!"

"I like the way you think…but I'm not so sure…I mean, with the teams gone, do I really get any benefit from helping you? At the end of the day, you're just another contestant that I'll have to do away with before long." Cherry tapped his nose with her finger before continuing to walk on like nobody's business. Zayden rubbed his nose right where she had touched it, but wasn't going to give up that easily as he ran right back up to her.

"Well, I could be in an alliance with you! You know, two heads is better than one! We could guarantee ourselves to get a lot further that way!" Cherry was starting to feel a little bit annoyed at this point, she never was a fan of people as persistent as this guy. She stopped walking to turn around, pressing her finger right in the center of Zayden's chest. "You sure do love poking people, don't you? Reminds me of one of those boney fingered nuns."

"You keep your Family Guy references in that pencil skirt of yours, as well as your offers of an alliance. I've seen you perform and, quite frankly, if I allied with you, it wouldn't do any good for myself. Now, why don't you run along and go looking for the club on your own? Although, at this point, I've got doubts that you'll even come close to one at all." Cherry snickered and waved at Zayden as she began walking yet again.

"Well…okay…if that's how you're gonna be, I guess I won't need to be persistent about it anymore, then." Zayden sighed to himself and slumped down a bit while walking towards a small building just nearby them. "You can go on ahead, I'm just gonna sit around here for a bit." Cherry rolled her eyes and gave the man one last glance, only to find that he was currently walking into a building that had a sign reading "Family Nightclub." The sign was one of those on an electric display, and the name changed after he first set foot in it, now reading, "Morgan Family Nightclub." Loud air horns blared all around the building, and Cherry and Zayden both looked around feverishly, half expecting Chris to pop up from out of nowhere.

"Well, well, I hardly expected anybody to win the challenge this early on, but I sure do love surprises like this! One of our four winners has been decided…Zayden, congratulations!" Zayden blushed as he heard Chris's voice coming out of the speakers before it cut out once again.

"Gee, I wasn't even paying attention to the sign on this building…it's completely empty, I fully expected there to be some loud noises or people in it at least! Funny how that works, huh, Cherry?" Zayden chuckled awkwardly while he stared at Cherry, who was glaring at him with both of her arms crossed over her chest.


Confessional - Cherry

"I perhaps should've been keeping my eyes a bit more peeled than that…but in my defense, there definitely should be people in a nightclub! Especially in a city like this, why on Earth would any club just be fully empty?" Cherry groaned while she sat down on the sidewalk. Zayden was still standing outside of the nightclub, only he happened to be twerking at mach speeds at that moment. The party gal just groaned louder when she saw what he was doing. "That's not how to properly shake your arse!"


"Alright…a nightclub in Chinatown…can't be too hard to identify…it should stick out like a sore thumb." Eliza scratched her chin in thought while she walked around the market streets of the Chinatown District. With the amount of people that were out and about, it was quite difficult to actually pay attention to where she was going. "Hm…I could try asking one of the locals, they'll probably know exactly where to go!" Eliza started to run up to a local man, but the second he saw her, he darted off as fast as he possibly could, like he was afraid of her or something.

"H-huh? That was kinda rude…oh well, maybe I should just ask somebody else for help." Eliza shrugged it off, and just tried to go speak to a woman instead…only the woman in question ran away just like the man before. At this point, it was starting to get a little agitating. "Okay, come on, I'm not that terrifying…fires are terrifying, robots are terrifying, pizza delivery girls aren't terrifying!" The pizza girl groaned as more and more people started to sprint away from her at full force. "WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH ALL OF YOU PEOPLE!?"

"Iccccccccccccccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuubeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Eliza froze in place as she heard a voice calling from behind her. She slowly turned around to see Jhin was running around like an animal still, and at this point, was barreling towards her at full force. The pizza girl screamed out in fear, but before she could even bother trying to run away or anything, she was tackled to the ground by her former teammate, who was grinning as wide as ever. "Hellllllllllllloooooooo, Pizza Pie!"

"J-J-Jhin! W-what are you doing? Get off of me!" Eliza tried to wriggle herself free from underneath Jhin, but despite how small the psychotic woman was, the pizza girl just couldn't seem to shake her off at all. Jhin leaned down closer to her, pressing her nose right up against Eliza's. "O-okay, I know you're a weirdo and all, but this is definitely too much, even for you."

"Ehhhhh? Enough whining and complaining about getting tackled, you're acting like a big ol' baby about something pretty normal! Now, I need your advice!" Jhin sat back a bit so she was sitting right in Eliza's lap while looking around from building to building, trying to find one thing in particular. "I seem to have misplaced a sexy ice cube, and I just have to find her before she melts into a puddle! You know how those ice cubes are, am I right or am I right?"

"Y-you're talking about Bailey, right? I didn't see her earlier…so I'm not too sure where she might be…" Eliza weakly muttered and Jhin leaned up really close to her face again, glaring as intensely as she possibly could. "A-ah! B-but, that means that she's definitely not around this area! I've been walking around for a good bit now, so I feel like I would've seen her by now! H-honest, that's all I know!"

"Good girl!" Jhin gave Eliza a pat right on the head and suddenly pounced up from her lap, getting back onto all fours so she could begin her prowl once more. Eliza adjusted her hat, which had been messed up from being knocked down like that. She watched as Jhin ran off into the streets, sniffing the air every few seconds to keep on Bailey's trail no matter what.

"Geez, Jhin really is a total lunatic, isn't she…?" Eliza slowly stood up from the ground, cracking her back to relieve some of the soreness from hitting the ground. She returned to her search for the nightclub, but as she walked, she wasn't really finding anything too useful.


Confessional - Eliza

"This challenge is a good bit aggravating, I have to admit…I feel like things would've gone better with the locals if it weren't for Jhin being…well, Jhin, but not much I could've done about that, is there?" Eliza groaned and held her head in her hands while she sat herself down on another bench that she found on the side of the road. "I just wish there was something I could look for that would make the challenge…I don't know, a little bit easier, you know?" She stared at the camera for a moment with a confused look on her face before looking behind her. Her bench was right outside of a building that had the sign "Family Nightclub" on it. "...Well, what do you make of that?" She got up from the bench and quickly ran inside, with the sign changing to read "Fox Family Nightclub."


"Attention everybody, the second of the four nightclubs has been found by Eliza! The Gourmet District and the Chinatown District are now both claimed, with only the Nightmare District and the Golden district having their clubs still available for the claiming!" 3V rubbed an empty beer bottle against her cheek while she stared up at one of the speakers in the streets of the Golden District. She was pretty annoyed by Chris's voice, considering he orchestrated this whole mess, and so, she threw her bottle right at the speaker to break it.

"Haha, take that, nerd! 3V one, Chris's stupid boombox zero!" 3V did a little victory dance in place, even windmilling with her prosthetic arms before one of them came loose and flew right off of her body, hitting something in the distance and knocking it over. "Ah, man, you've gotta be kidding me! That better not have gotten damaged by whatever that object was!" She ran off to go check on her arm, only to find that it was laying on top of Morgan, who had a large bump on her head from getting hit by the arm.

"Ugh…what happened…?" Morgan groaned and started to rub her forehead, feeling at the bump and hissing in pain from how bad it hurt. 3V didn't seem to be interested in her at all, as she simply grabbed her arm back and started to put it back where it belonged. The cheerleader sat up and looked at the drunkard, gritting her teeth when she saw what she was doing. "Y-you toasty bitch, did you just throw your whole ass arm at my head!?"

"I would prefer to argue that your head is an oversized magnet that ripped my arm off of my body, thank you very much." 3V blew a raspberry at Morgan, who gasped from the gesture. The drunkard finally got her arm back on right, and was bending it around to make sure that it still worked perfectly after the whole incident. It seemed fine enough to her, so, with a smile, she began to march on off like nobody's business.

"Hey! Bitch! I know you ain't think you're gettin' out of this that easily, nuh uh! You get your ass back here and take care of the mess you've made!" Morgan snapped her fingers at 3V, like she was calling a dog over. The drunkard grumbled under her breath and turned around to look down at the pissed off cheerleader, who had both of her hands on her hips as she angrily stared up at her.

"Look, I'm sorry for hitting you in your big, dumb head or whatever, but also, I don't really care about you or how your head feels in the first place, so you can just suck my ass and get on with your day!" Morgan blushed from the wording at the end of that statement, something that 3V didn't seem to understand entirely. "Eh? Why are you looking so red like that? I told you to suck my ass, that was supposed to be an insult!"

"You dumbass, it's supposed to be kiss my ass, not suck my ass! Suck my ass is something you'd tell to someone as a sexual taunt!" 3V stared right at Morgan in complete silence before letting out a full belch right in her face. Morgan's eyes shot wide open, and she pinched her nose to try and avoid smelling her beer breath as much as she could. "W-what in the actual fuck is wrong with you!?"

"More like what is wrong with you? You keep talking on and on, did you go to Yapping Academy or something?" Morgan gasped at the insult, and 3V just began to walk away again. Only this time, the cheerleader wasn't going to just let her walk away like that. She got up from the ground as fast as she could and jumped up onto 3V's back, holding onto her as tight as she could. "...What are you doing now, Yappy Yap?"

"You hit me in the head! I can't just walk around like this, so now you're gonna have to carry me! It's only fair!" Morgan puffed while 3V just grumbled again and started to accept her fate. She really didn't wanna argue with her anymore, so she just began to walk while still carrying her on her back.


Confessional - Morgan

"Y'all bitches just ain't thinkin' outside the box like I am! You just have to find yourself some dumbass to boss around, and you can get through a challenge like this with complete ease! It really is just that simple!" Morgan grinned proudly while 3V groaned in annoyance, still carrying around like a child on her back. "Move faster, toasty bitch! I wanna find that nightclub tonight!"

Confessional - 3V

"This loud yapper on my back is pretty annoying, but I feel like she would just yap even more if I wasn't carrying her around. I'd throw her into oncoming traffic, but I'm so wasted, I'd probably accidentally jump in with her." 3V deadpanned at the camera while Morgan pounded her fist down on the top of her head.


"P-please…anybody…I'm scared…" Leo whimpered while he continued to roam the streets of the Nightmare District. Despite the fact that it was the smallest district, those streets just seemed to be never ending. His eyes reflected his nervousness perfectly, and he was getting so scared and lost that he ended up tripping. Those sidewalks were so messed up, it really was only a matter of time before they ended up tripping somebody. The poor femboy squeaked when he hit the ground…it looked like he actually twisted his ankle from it.

"O-ow! Owwwww…" Leo sniffled as tears started to form in his frightened eyes. He held onto his leg and looked down at his ankle, which was definitely twisted after all. He tried to get up, but the second he put any pressure down on his foot, it caused him to fall right back over from the tremendous pain. "OW!" That was the loudest his voice had ever been, that squeak right there. It just hurt so bad…he didn't want to even try getting up again. "T-this is the worst…"

"Hey, someone there?" Leo gasped as he heard the voice of somebody else coming his way. He looked around, shining his flashlight every which way to get a good view of whatever was coming his way. After a little bit, he could see that it was none other than Bec, who no longer had his opossum with him. He did still have plenty of scratches on his face from it, though. Not only that, but he was smiling big and wide…it was unclear if that smile was soothing or frightening to Leo.

"...B…Bec?" Leo wasn't so sure if he had gotten the copycat's name right, considering that the two of them had hardly even seen each other during the run of the competition thus far. He was a little weirded out by him at first, but as he got closer, he realized that it was better to see him than nobody at all. "U-um…hi…" The femboy was still sniffling, as that pain in his ankle wasn't ending any time soon.

"Haha, no need to cry, buddy! I'm here to help you out! That's what a good leader does, even for people not on his team!" It did sound like something that Atlas would say, and Leo seemed to at least appreciate Bec's words. The copycat looked at Leo's ankle, frowning a bit as he saw it. "Man, you took a pretty bad hit with that, huh? Well, don't you worry about it! I'll make sure I get you to safety! Here!" Without any warning at all, Bec scooped Leo right up off of the ground and into his arms, holding him in a bridal carry.

"B-Bec, this is…!" Leo's face flushed full red as he was held up like a little princess. Bec just looked down at him and continued to smile while he began running off with him, heading back towards the way he came from. "R…romantic! Oh…I'm being carried like we just got married…it's been my life dream to be held up like this! I-I feel so…wonderful!" Bec looked a bit confused as he looked down at the femboy, who was rubbing his own cheeks and mumbling a bunch of incoherent nonsense to him.


Confessional - Bec

"Ah…yeah, Leo's definitely a little bit weird, but hey, I'm just happy that I managed to find somebody! I always love helping people out, no matter how strange they are! You catching this, Bethy?" Bec blew a kiss to the camera while he continued to run, but the moment that Leo heard him mention a woman's name, he immediately frowned.

Confessional - Leo

"I'm a consolation prize…a second option in case things don't work out…what's the point of even being alive if I'm doomed to a fate like this…?" Leo just sulked while being carried around, looking like he forgot about the pain of his ankle, as the only pain he could focus on at all now was the pain of not being someone's number one pick.


"Family Nightclub…Family Nightclub…I need to find the Family Nightclub…I also need to find Cherry to see what her answer was to my date offer…" Amanda chattered to herself as she looked around the Golden District. She was getting closer and closer to the casino that the challenge from the previous episode had taken place in. She had some fond memories of the building, and smiled to herself while she looked out at it.

"That was the building that I…kissed Cherry in. Her lips taste just like her name…ahhhh…Cherry…" Amanda giggled like a little idiot as she instinctively started to walk towards the casino's front entrance. She was just about to pull the door open to go inside, but at that point, she remembered that she was supposed to be looking for the nightclub from before. "Ah! No, Amanda! I need to find the Family Nightclub…and think about kissing Cherry after I find it! Right on her lips…her soft…pillowy lips…" The stock market expert started to drool a little as she thought about Cherry more and more.

"...Maybe…I can spend a little bit of time inside of the casino…to relive that moment." Amanda smiled innocently and ended up pulling the door open after all, stepping right inside of the casino and onto the carpet. It was just as busy as it was before, if not a bit more busy on this night. She looked around all over, trying to remember where it was exactly that she had kissed Cherry. "I think it was over…there!" She noticed one spot in particular that stood out to her, and marched off towards it, standing exactly in place where she was before.

"Yes…yes, this was exactly the spot that I was in before! I was right here when I kissed Cherry…I kissed Cherry on her perfect lips…" Amanda bit her lip gently at the thought, but soon all of the excitement seemed to flee her and she scowled. "...It's not the same! Nope, I need Cherry to come here pronto so I can kiss her again!" She crossed her arms and stood still, with plenty of casino goers looking at her like she was entirely insane.

"All these people are staring at me like I'm doing something wrong…clearly they've never kissed someone as hot and perfect as Cherry if they think I'm doing something wrong! I'm gonna find that nightclub, and then I'm gonna find Cherry! When I find Cherry, I'm gonna take her out here, and I'm gonna kiss her again! That's exactly what I'm gonna do!" Amanda proudly declared her intentions for Cherry before she began walking out of the casino yet again.


Confessional - Amanda

"Cherry is the best person I have ever met in my entire life…she makes me feel like I'm the queen of the world, and she's my…other queen of the world." Amanda was smirking to herself as she walked down the street and flipped her coin as she always did. "I hope that I make her feel the same way…it would make me feel even better if I make her feel the same way. Then we could kiss all the time, and I would never ever have to forget how her lips taste."


"D-don't hurt me! I'll…I'll kick your ass! Yeah, I'll kick your ass!" Garfield stood up from ground, holding both of his fists up to defend himself from the mysterious, masked man that was standing before him. The man stopped moving towards him, and was standing utterly still. He was average height…and quite physically fit. He had a build that many people would fawn over, and seemed to be wearing some sort of superhero suit, only it was entirely black with some silver lining. It had the letters "MM" over the chest. His hair was blond and messy, and his lips were formed in a…calm smile.

"Mr. Quatch...long time no see, isn't it? You can lower your guard, I'm not going to hurt you. In fact, I have a proposition for you." The man stepped a little bit closer, just so Garfield could get a better glimpse of him…which is when it started to click. The eyes behind the mask…the facial features…he knew this man! That's right, he knew him from somewhere…but where did he know him from. As he lowered his fists down to his sides, it started to come to him.

"...You have got to be shitting me…Henry!?" Garfield's jaw dropped as he saw the man's smile turn into more of a smirk. Henry exuded nothing but complete and utter confidence as he stood before his former teammate. "I don't…I don't get it! Last time I saw you, you were just some twerpy twink that didn't even know how to talk to people! I don't even know how you managed to get on the show in the first place."

"Sorta helps when the setting is a city that you were born and raised in…" Henry shook his head while shrugging his shoulders at the same time. "You're going to want some sort of explanation as to why I've been trying to get your attention, aren't you? It's just like in one of those superhero movies with any masked anti-hero…my old friend, Arin, would be squealing over a sight like this." He turned away from Garfield and held his hands behind his back while staring out of the alleyway, back at the run-down streets of the Nightmare District.

"Neon City's a good place…it's full of good people…and I'm sure you know that in your line of work, we come to find some…not so good people who want to take advantage of those that are too weak to stand up for themselves." While Henry spoke, Garfield was mocking him behind his back by fake talking with his hand. "It took a lot to dig up the article about our energy crisis…but I got that to you. Mayor's covered his tracks pretty well, but I'm a bit smarter than he remembers me to be."

"Let me guess, you two know-" Garfield was immediately cut off by Henry turning around with a nailgun in his hand, both of his eyes bugging out like a crazy person's.

"I'm speaking, do not interrupt me! No manners, no manners at all!" Garfield slowly backed down, not wanting this to escalate any further than it already had at that point. "Ahem…yes, we know each other…everyone who was born in the Nightmare District knows each other well…you know, we used to be called the Dream District? Was a note on the people here always seeking to follow their dreams…" Henry lowered his nailgun and slowly looked down at his feet.

"...Unfortunately for us, his dream brought us all into this nightmare…he got his spot in office, and we all suffered so he could do something memorable." Henry stared down for a minute before smiling again and looking back at Garfield with excitement abundant in his eyes. "But you…you're going to help me! Not only that, but I'm going to help you! I've seen you at work…I know what you can do! You're capable of leading hundreds with your way of speaking! I can take down the mayor…and- and you can take his place! You can solve our energy crisis!"

"You're telling me that you've been…tracking me down and trying to get me to come to you…so you can have me be elected mayor of your city? And all I gotta do is help you get rid of some schmuck and help you with some…I'm sorry, I never got the full details on the energy crisis, care to explain?" Garfield smirked while stepping a bit closer to Henry, who was twitching where he stood. "This guy is a lunatic! He's gonna start off my political career without me having to even lift a finger!"

"...Not tonight. No, definitely not tonight. I've already told you a lot…that's all you need to know to agree to my terms." Henry shook his head at Garfield, who simply frowned at him in response. "Y-you agree tonight and…I'll also show you where the nightclub is! I know this place like the back of my hand, and I heard Chris mention it over the speakers! We- we can meet later, and then…I can explain more! So…what do you say?"

"Pretty sure you're gonna shoot me with that nail gun if I even think about saying no." Garfield glanced down at the nail gun, which Henry quickly hid behind his back with a big grin to try and prove his innocence. "...But hell, this seems like it's helping me way more than it's helping you, so why not? I'll give you a hand, and I'll help the city…it's what an honest politician, like myself, does!"

"I-I knew you were going to agree! I knew it, I just knew it! Aha…ahahahaha!" Henry covered his mouth after he started to cackle like a maniac, something that Garfield just found mildly amusing. The two shook hands, with Garfield noticing that Henry's grip was incredibly strong. He just tried to ignore the fact that it was hurting his hand a bit…he was a little too lost in thought to really notice it.

"What a damn moron this guy is…I seriously can't believe he's going to make this whole thing this easy on me! First, I get put into office in this little city…and badaboom, I'll be in the oval office in no time!" Garfield could hear a somewhat menacing tune playing in his own head as he and Henry both started to walk out of the alley together. He even chuckled to himself when the tune started to get louder and louder.

"Fellas, you heard it right…Garfield is getting the opportunity of a lifetime here, and there ain't no way he's gonna turn that down! But it makes you wonder…is he capable of actually holding up his half of the deal? He's a pretty sleazy man…" C.K. snickered as the scenery around Garfield slowly started to shift until he was in a mayoral office, just like he wanted. He had a glass of whiskey in one hand, and was swirling it around while Henry was standing on top of the building, looking down at the streets below.

"If you heard the sound of getting paid, would you know the price of what it takes? Would you do the right thing?" Henry sang softly to himself before leaping off of the building and disappearing into the crowd of the city. Garfield watched from the window of his office, just smirking to himself while he set his glass down onto his desk.

"BEHAVE! Never said, never said, never said you could question me!" Garfield stood from his desk, grabbing a nearby intern by the collar of his shirt and shouting right into his face. Behind him, there was a crowd of reporters, each gasping from his actions until he turned back with a grin on his face. "Oh, won't you look the other way? I'd never see it'd be easy, but at least you'd be doing the right thing!"

"Go find yourself before you recommend somebody else, or if you're capable then have some self control!" Henry was pushing past everyone in the crowd on the streets, trying to ignore them all as best as he possibly could. He was a man on a mission, and his mission wasn't going to come to a stop for anyone in his way. "I'll fly you out, but you're the one who's got to run the mile! Show me you're capable!"

"So when I hear the sound of getting paid, you bet I know the price of what it takes! You only exist here to make me rich! It's your turn to do the right thing…come and do the right thing!" Garfield was no longer in the mayoral office…he was now inside of the oval office itself, having a full group of supporters waiting outside for him to give his next big speech. Meanwhile, Henry had gotten himself back to the Nightmare District, and was staring at the only building in the area that didn't have a single scratch on it.

"You started trembling at the thought of losing power and it's that feeling that you got that lets you lie about the cost…" The edge of Henry's mouth twitched as he busted the door wide open and held his nail gun tightly in his grasp. "If you decided we will not live…was it 'cause we were too expensive!?"

"I've found myself so I can recommend somebody else! I know I'm capable, no need for self control! You flew me out, but I'm the one who ran a hundred miles! I know I'm capable!" Once again, the scenery around Garfield changed, and it was no longer the oval office…he was standing atop a throne with plenty of people bowing down around him. He was the one, the only king of the world.

"If you heard the sound of getting paid, would you know the price of what it takes? Oh, if we existed just to make you rich, would you do the right thing? Would you do the right thing!?" Henry stormed into the bedroom of the building he was in, only to find that there was nobody in it at all. He slammed his fist against the wall, and started to fire his nails into everything in the room. "Money's in your mouth, spit it out now! Look me in the eye and say you ain't about to cash out!" With a swift turn, Henry aimed his nail gun right at the camera, firing a single nail into it and cutting the whole view to static.


Confessional - Garfield

"Heheheh…" Garfield was wearing a fur jacket and a big pair of shades that had gold and gems embedded into them. "Oh, don't mind me, I was just splurging a little bit since I know I'm about to get the best raise of my lifetime! I'm gonna have my office walls made of solid gold…and get shoes of solid gold, too, so that I can make my little sheeple lick to keep clean! Man, I'm just too good!"

Confessional - Henry

"I'm…I know…I'm putting a lot of faith in someone I barely know…but I have no choice. How could someone…agh!" Henry slammed his head against a wall a few times, pulling back to reveal that he had no cuts or bruises, but the wall was fully dented up. "...It's a touchy subject for me…but I'm doing all that I can to make things right!"

"I honestly never would've guessed this guy was the one sending out those masks all over town…guess he was pretty good at hiding himself!"


"Alright…there." Eli had just finished wrapping up Edward's hand with some bandages that he was lucky enough to find in a car that had crashed into a pole on the street. Edward looked down at his hand with a small smile before looking back up at Eli, who just looked away so as not to get embarrassed or anything. "You said you had something to show me, right? Get on with it so we can get back to our challenge."

"Right…I did mention that, I suppose. Just one moment here, I'll be able to show you everything…" Edward nodded his head and stepped back a few feet. He stared at Eli all the while before he slowly began to pull his shirt off, which he dropped to the ground. Eli immediately covered his eyes with his hands, blushing deeply from Edward's actions.

"D-dude! I don't know what the hell you're doing, but you better not be trying to get naked in front of me or anything!" Eli kept his face covered up with his hands, and Edward just stared at him in silence, his head tilted slightly.

"...Getting naked? No, no…I wouldn't do anything like that…I just run out of room sometimes on my arms…my torso acts as extra space to write on. I promise you, it will please you to look at what I've written." Eli slowly moved his hands away from his face to take a look at his friend, who was absolutely covered in his written scribbles. Not only that, but he was incredibly thin and boney from the looks of things…a sight that just made Eli frown. Still, he stepped closer to start reading what he had written on his chest…only for his eyes to light up, and a smirk to slowly rise on his lips.


"Ohhhhh….that's nice…man, Miss Hellen! You really know how to make a man's back feel brand new again!" Elward groaned delightfully as Hellen was massaging his aching back. She had a smile on her face as she worked, enjoying every second of this blond boy's presence. She was starting to get a bit lower on his back…meanwhile, Bailey was walking around in the main room of the parlor. She looked at all of the pictures on the walls and frowned, having noticed that they were all…weird love shrines to Elward.

"...W-what the hell is this place…? Hellllloooooo? Ellllllward? Are you in here somewhereeeeee?" Bailey called out from the room, a sound that Hellen immediately heard from where she was working. She gasped softly, glancing back at the door to the massage room for a brief moment before looking back down at the man on top of the table.

"...Mister Blond Elward…would you mind waiting just a moment? It seems I have another guest…I'll have to put her in the queue so she doesn't leave." Hellen got a nod back from Elward, and she smiled as she headed for the door, grabbing something on her way out. As she walked out of the room, she shut the door behind her and looked at Bailey, who had just looked her way after hearing the noise of the door closing. "...Welcome to Hellen's Massage Parlor…how may I help you?"

"O-oh! Hello! Um…yes, right…I was just looking for somebody that I knew…I saw him walk into here, and I needed to remind him that we were supposed to go to-" Bailey's sentence was cut short, as Hellen suddenly threw a cleaver dead at her. Luckily, the ice cube was able to move in time, and the cleaver stuck into the wooden wall behind her. "W-what the hell, lady!?"

"You…you're trying to take my blond prince from me…no…no, I'm not letting this happen to me again…" Hellen reached behind her back, grabbing another cleaver from out of nowhere as she started to walk towards Bailey, clutching it so tight in her grip that the palm of her hand started to crack and bleed. "...You're going to leave now…either going out the front door, or down my garbage disposal…the choice is yours."

"Y-y-you're crazy!" Bailey screamed out before the other cleaver was chucked at her. It missed her by about a foot, but was still frightening nonetheless. Hellen kept pulling these cleavers from out of nowhere, throwing them at the ice cube and effectively backing her into a corner, leaving her with nowhere to run. "Y-you can't just threaten to kill me, I haven't even done anything."

"You're trying to take my prince, that's all the reason I need to chop you up into little, bite sized pieces. I'm no fool…I know exactly the types of things little sluts like you do to keep good women like me from having their man…" Bailey just quivered in fear as Hellen raised one of her cleavers up into the air. She was just about to bring it down onto her, when the front door suddenly flew wide open. Hellen's attention immediately shifted to the doorway, where Jhin was standing, her head and neck twitching while she stared back at her.

"...That's…my sexy ice cube! You don't chop up an ice cube, you put it in your mouth and suck on it! Are you braindead or something!?" Jhin growled as she suddenly charged towards Hellen and tackled her right through one of the walls of the building. Bailey gasped in full relief as she ran to the room that Hellen came from, finding Elward sitting on the table looking confused as he ever could possibly be.

"Huh? Bailey? What the hell are you doing here? Oh, let me guess, you saw Miss Hellen working her hand magic on my back and decided that you wanted in on that action! Hehe, can't blame you one bit, no ma'am!" Elward grinned from ear to ear, but Bailey fully ignored what he said and picked him up in her arms. "H-hey! Put me back down! My session isn't over, and my back is still sore!"

"Y-you're an idiot, this woman is literally insane!" Elward deadpanned as he heard that from Bailey, who blushed as she realized the irony of her statement. Still, she just kept on running with Elward in her arms, running out the front door and shouting back to Jhin. "Jhin, come on, let's get the hell out of here!"

"You got it babe!" Jhin grinned as she got up from the ground, dusting her hands off to reveal that she had hogtied Hellen on the floor and put a piece of duct tape over her mouth. The masseuse was writhing around, trying to break free, but it obviously wasn't working. "Let that serve as a lesson to not ever put your dirty cleavers near my ice cube ever again! Pbblt!" She blew a raspberry at the woman before running outside to meet up with Bailey, who had set Elward down on the ground and immediately jumped into Jhin's arms. As the two women hugged, they could hear the noise of the speakers coming on once again.

"Everybody, listen up!" They could all immediately recognize Chris's voice from anywhere, although, who would have a hard time recognizing a voice like his? "As of right now…the nightclub in the Nightmare District has been found by Garfield…and the nightclub in the Golden District has been found by Amanda! The challenge is over, and our four winners have been declared! Everybody, meet up back on the roof of the hotel! You're in for a fun surprise!"


Confessional - Bailey

"That…was a lot of excitement in one night…but…" Bailey stared down at her hands, spreading her fingers and closing them back again. An excited smile slowly formed before she looked back up at the camera. "...It was exhilarating! I've…I've never felt more alive in my life! I…I wanna do that again! Well, maybe not that exactly, but something like that! Oh, it was so awesome…I feel like I could take on the fucking world!"

Confessional - Elward

"Gr…" Elward gritted his teeth while he crossed his arms and pouted like a little baby man. He only had his towel on from the parlor, so he was still shirtless and all. "...I'm gonna go back to that parlor and get my damn massage sooner or later! That Hellen lady is an absolute goddess at her craft!"


As everyone had gotten back to the hotel, they could all see the disheveled state that everyone else was in. Leo was still distraught, but his ankle had at least been fixed up well by Gwendolyn, who was standing behind him and glaring down at him. Edward had his shirt back on, but Eli, who was next to him, had the biggest smirk imaginable on his face. Elward was grumbling annoyedly to himself while both Eliza and 3V sat around him, each just staring at him like he was crazy. Bailey had Jhin sitting in her lap, and the two were nuzzling their noses together, each smiling from the adventure they had tonight. Amanda was sitting next to Cherry, who just seemed to be…mildly uncomfortable around her. Garfield was whistling while he checked out his own hair in a gold-rimmed mirror, with Zayden sitting next to him and raising a confused brow at him. Morgan was holding an ice pack on her own forehead, while feeling a little weirded out by how close Bec was to her. This left just Chris and Chef at the podium together, but everyone could notice something out of place…the Hyperspace Tube of Losers wasn't on.

"Alright, maggots, have you had enough excitement for one night!? Well, we sure hope not, cause we've got one more exciting event in store for you!" Chef grinned as he stepped a bit closer to the neon bonfire. All the contestants were now staring his way, each looking puzzled in their own ways. "Garfield…Amanda…Eliza…Zayden! You four have won the challenge today…which means…" Chris suddenly stepped forward to join his co-host, blowing a loud tune on a trumpet.

"You guys are our new team captains!" The four collectively gasped at the revelation…gasping even louder at the fact that four neon banners were displaying in the night sky behind the hosts. One had Garfield's face…that was on a dark blue background. Another had Zayden's, being on a purple background. Then, there was Eliza's, which was on a turquoise background. This left Amanda's banner, which was on a very fitting red background. "And your first order as team captains…is to pick who's going to be on your team! Amanda, girl, you're up first! Pick two people to be on your team!"

"Hm…hm…?" Amanda stood up from her seat and looked at the contestants around her, mainly appearing a little confused by this whole thing. "...Well…I have to have Cherry on my team…but…for another teammate?" She just looked around at everyone else, not really sure what she was supposed to do. She moved her finger between a bunch of choices before suddenly stopping while she was pointing at Bailey. "...Bailey will be my other teammate."

"...huh…? Wait a minute, does that mean…I'm not gonna be on the same team as Jhin anymore!?" Bailey and Jhin both gasped together while Amanda shrugged and glanced at Cherry, who was trying to hide her face in her fluffy jacket.

"Alright, the Redevon Family will consist of Amanda, Cherry, and Bailey! For our next team…Eliza, you take two people to have on your team as well!" Chef pointed at Eliza, who just smiled at the prompt she was given.

"Oh, well, this is just too easy to pick…I'll take Elward and 3V as the rest of my team…I think we shall all work quite well together." She chuckled a bit, with both of her teammates just sighing in unison.

"The Fox Family will have Eliza, 3V, and Elward, then!" Chris grinned and then pointed over at Zayden. "Zayden, conehead, go ahead and pick two people for your team as well!"

"Oh, well, naturally I'm gonna pick Leo and…what the heck? I'll take Jhin, too! She's got some spunk about her that I just gotta know more about!" Zayden smiled delightfully, with Leo gasping.

"I'm…s-someone's first pick…? I really am?" Leo's eyes started to well up with tears, but this was cut short as Jhin suddenly hopped into his lap and grinned at him. "A-ah!"

"Hello, new teammate! We're going to be the best of friends!" Jhin cackled menacingly, with Leo looking over to Zayden for help. The conehead could only shrug, as he wasn't really sure what he was supposed to do about that either.

"Morgan Family has got Zayden, Leo, and Jhin on it! Garfield, you can go ahead and pick another two contestants for your own team!" Chef looked at Garfield, who glanced at the scraps that he had been left with.

"Well…Morgan is the only sensible choice in this bunch…" Bec immediately frowned as he heard Garfield saying that, with his eye twitching slightly. "...Edward and Eli are totally lame, so I guess I'll snag Bec. Not like he can possibly be any worse than those buffoons."

"Which means that the Quatch Family will be…Garfield, Morgan, and Bec! But you're right, that does leave us with two stragglers…eh…guess Edward can join the Quatch Family and Eli can join the Fox Family!" Chris grinned, expecting a fun reaction out of both of the boys from this.

"Oh, Chris, that is probably the best idea you have ever had!" Eli smirked as he moved over to join the rest of his team, with Edward softly chuckling as he went ahead and joined his own.

"...Huh…well…I kinda expected more of an upset reaction from that, but…whatever, I guess." Chris scuffed the ground with his shoe before looking up at the camera. "I guess…we'll have to see if anything fun and exciting happens with our new teams…next time, on Total Drama: Neon City!"


C.K. Swing Songs: Grievance Pay - The Home Team

Votes: N/A


22nd: Henry Yates, the Socially Awkward Kid

21st: Gwendolyn Linelife, the Harsh Doctor

20th: Heath Alghieri, the Puppet Master

19th: Giselle Gingersnap, the Wannabe MILF

18th: Suzie Venta, the Reference Queen

17th: Marshmallow Fulloff, the Connoisseur of Sweets

16th: Gerald Piscurr, Mr. Talks to Himself (and Allan Heiver, the Imaginary? Friend)

15th: Atlas McCarthy, the World's Big Brother

Fox Family: Eli, Eliza, Elward, 3V

Morgan Family: Jhin, Leo, Zayden

Quatch Family: Bec, Edward, Garfield, Morgan

Redevon Family: Amanda, Bailey, Cherry