Apologies if this took longer than expected, finals got me cramming to study last week. Hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 3: I Love You, Grease Pig

In these past few days, it was a restless night for Dave in the tree house; not from the loud snoring from Rodney or the hard cold floor he laid upon. He was thinking about how he would get Scarlett voted off the island before the merge occurred. Just when the sun poked out from the sky, he exited the tree house and stood on top of the deck with the others still sound asleep.

I couldn't sleep at all last night, I was thinking about how I am going to approach Scarlett. She initially manipulated Max into being 'his minion' helping him with his schemes, but they were all Scarlett's doing. I'll just get some fresh air to-

"Good morning Dave."

He quickly turned around, spotting Scarlett who was the first to wake from the girl's side of the tree house; it gave him a spoke. Dave quickly reposed himself to give Scarlett an appropriate greeting, "Oh yes, morning Scarlett. How was your sleep?"

She sighed, "The superfluous lumbar paired with no support on the..." but before she could go on, Dave looked more puzzled than ever to the point she stopped and rephrased her answer, "My back hurts from sleeping on the hardwood."

"Could say the same thing," he responded with a hint of empathy, "So what brings you here so up early?"

"I'm always an early bird," she answered while looking toward him, "An eight-hour sleep is an optimal time to maximize cognitive functions."

It was at that moment Dave was peering into her glance, he saw what appeared to be an innocent girl's face with her smile appearing genuine, but he knew deep down it was all the long con. He shook off his internal thoughts and soon replied, "Sleep is really important, I guess..."

The two can hear another pair of footsteps walking out of the treehouse, it was Sky doing some full body stretches with her arms and legs interrupting the chat, "Morning guys, the rest of the gang are waking up. I'm going foraging for something to eat. Samey and I decided to go in opposite directions to cover more ground. Does anyone want to come?"

He acted briskly as Dave raised a hand, "I'll join you!" accepting Sky's offer.

She didn't want anyone left out, so Sky turned to Scarlett asking, "Well Scarlett, wanna come too? Sounds like you two were chatting."

"N-No, I'm good," declined Scarlett, sheepishly turning her down while adjusting her glasses, "I'll inform our team that you two left to find nourishment. "

Leaving Scarlett to enter the tree house interior, Dave and Sky made their way down to the surface and began trekking for food. Wanting to break the silence within them, Dave came up with an idea to give her some much-needed compliments. "I must say, you were incredible with those gymnastics."

"Why, thank you!" Sky grinned before him, "I always train every day to stay in top form. You weren't bad for dodging that fast one."

"Oh please, that was pure luck..." laughed Dave, "I'm not quite that coordinated at all."

Sky was excited when she came across some fresh blueberries still attached to their stems. She picked a few and tasted one, which delighted her taste buds. "These are delicious. Let's gather some for the team," she quickly got to work roaming the area for berries.

They picked up a handful of berries while keeping a distance away from each other, Dave, on the other hand, tried to use this time to get the know Sky, again. As for team Maskwak, their cabin was still holding strong. Jasmine on the other hand was sleeping on the tree branch above with her left leg tied up on it with a rope. She yawned back awake, untied the rope on her, and plopped down making sure the land beside the cabin. The loud thump prompted Amy to march outside.

"Ugh, what do you want?" she barked just peeking out the front door.

"I was about to search for some food," answered Jasmine, patting down her legs before asking. "Wanna come with? Four hands are better than two?"

But before Amy could answer, she heard the grating voice of Leonard interrupting them. "It was then that our party encountered a vicious umber colossus! Luckily, I had enough mana to banish it with a displacement spell!" boasted the wizard.

"Mr. Wizard, I never understand half of what you say; that's how I know you're smart!" shrieked Sugar while she was enticed by his tale.

Clenching her teeth, Amy answered, "Anywhere Is better than here I guess." while groaning.

Amy reluctantly joined Jasmine in gathering food for the team, searching the local bushes and trees for some grub. Jasmine noticed their frustrated face of Amy as she was struggling to find one thing from the bushes.

"There's nothing good around here!" the stinginess of Amy radiated from her voice, "Samey would never let me starve if she was the one finding food for me!"

Jasmine was compelled to pause her food search and kindly interjected, "Excuse me, but could you please show a bit more compassion towards your fellow sister?"

Unfortunately, things turned sour when Amy retorted. "Why would I? She's on the other team anyways, it's on her if she gets voted off!" before rummaging through a random bush with edible-looking berries on them, "Hey! Here's some grub!"

Walking towards the bush Amy had found, it took no longer than a second glance for Jasmine to question the unusual placement of the bush, "Hmm... What's a Chinese Mulberry bush doing in this part of the world?"

Examining the foreign bush was cut short as Amy and Jasmine hear the screams of a person yelling, "NO! DON'T TOUCH THAT!"

"Huh?! Who was that?!" cried Amy, a tad shaken up from the loud voice.

"Don't know, let's check it out!"

The two girls ran over to the location of the scream, and they were a bit surprised to see Dave grabbing hold of Sky's right wrist as her fingers were inches away from a green fruit on a bush. Sky looked shocked seeing Dave's composure go off, "H-Hey! You don't have to be so picky all of a sudden." she spoke in a started tone.

"Hang on there," Jasmine walked over to the two on team Kinosewak and observed the fruit, "Isn't that the"

"Manchineel fruit!" Just then, the group raised their beads to the branches of the trees spotting Shawn above who answered in Jasmine's stead. "The Spanish refer to it As 'manzanilla de la muerte.' a-k-a the little apple of death."

One big maneuver and Shawn jumped off the tree branch to fall planted his feet down on the ground, grabbing ahold of his pouch full of berries in hand. As for Jasmine, she was very impressed by his knowledge and stunt, "He's right. It wouldn't have killed you, but you would've made your mouth blister something awful."

"First lesson in survival; know your flora. If you do come into contact with poisonous plants, soak the affected area with water and rub it with sand; The swelling should go away," warned Shawn while demonstrating the procedure with hand gestures.

"Thanks, you practically saved my life," Sky was sincerely grateful for Dave's fast action as she thanked him.

Dave felt a bit embarrassed when Sky complimented him. "I'm just glad I caught you in time," he said, releasing Sky's wrist with care. "Otherwise, we would be at a serious disadvantage on the next challenge."

"Ugh! There's no way I'm touching another thing on this island!" whined Amy, averting her hands away from the bushes.

But Shawn was quick to reassure him, "No worries, I've gathered enough for our team right here." he brought out a massive sack of his stash.

"Woah! You hit the jackpot." Praised Sky, glancing at his sack of berries.

After Sky came Jasmine, who was baffled by the number of berries in one bag, "Huh, nice score. You're quite the outdoorsman."

Shawn intensely responded with a few fast air punches exclaiming, "Gotta know stuff if you wanna survive a zombie apocalypse."

Zombies aside, Sky was curious to pick on others' privacy, "Right, but what were you doing up in that tree?" she asked.

"That's where I'm sleeping. No shuffler can get you from up there," answered Shawn, feeling on edge with his tone.

*Confessionals*

Jasmine: Not only is the guy cute, but he's also kinda hilarious. Zombies.

"Campers!" reverberated Chris' voice within the loudspeakers posted above the trees, "The only good thing about this morning is that it's gonna get worse...for you! Hehehehehe. There's a path heading into the forest. Follow it to today's hurt-tacular challenge!"

Shawn and the rest of team Maskwak hurried back to their shelter to share the food with the rest of their teammates while Sky and Dave did the same thing. The next challenge was about to commence and Sky wanted everyone to be energized for the moment. As team Kinosewak were walking through the path of the forest, they couldn't be so pleased with the goodies they delivered.

"If it weren't for Dave's fast hands, I would've been seriously in trouble," praised Sky, giving her praise to Dave once more as she took the lead walking on the pathway.

"Glad you got berries, Sky." Topher said with a grin, eyes focused on eating the berries, "All the antioxidants give my skin that healthy, camera-worthy glow."

Samey on the other hand tried to get his attention, saying, "We've helped too, isn't that right Rodney?"

"Well, uh, I guess so..." the farm boy answered with a hint of anxiety in his words when Samey mentioned his name. He seemed to be avoiding glances at Samey for the duration of their short trip

Over at team Maswaks line, Max's sinister-sounding voice spoke out, with his eyes bulging slightly, "I have created something so diabolical. So evil. So-"

"Clam up, campers! Pick up the pace!" the loudspeakers with Chris' voice halted him from continuing forward.

"Yes, sir!" answered Max in a light and soft tone.

Oh boy, this challenge. I hope my new team can stay on this win streak.

The remaining 13 campers stood beside each other in an orderly line with Chris as their focal point. He stood next to a large flat-screen television with a media console below. He soon began explaining today's challenge, "Welcome victims, to the oof-stacle relay race of hilarious hurts!"

"Great name. Total props, Chris." Topher said pointing back to Chris with a finger.

"Thank you, Topher." the host accepted his compliment before proceeding, "Now, each player takes on a different oof-stacle, starting with...The greased log over a thorny bog! That gets you to a smooth zip line over the ravine for the next player. Then a quick and painful journey through the greastacular tubercular. Next up are the grease tires and then a pass-off to the greasy wheelbarrow race. And the last lucky player climbs a rope up the greased wall. Or tries to and falls which is way funnier. Hehehehehe."

If I must, I need to play along for the audience to not too suspicious in front of the cameras

While the rest of the campers witnessed a preview of the whole obstacle course from the television screen, Dave had his teeth chattering at the clips on the screen, "That's a lot of grease. It's very greasy. Like, all of it. Greasy."

Chris was grinning for most of the time when he continued, "Yep. Now, I was going to have you pass a relay baton, but we couldn't find any."

"What are you making us use instead? Oh ho ho! This is gonna be so good!" questioned Topher, as he was pumping himself up for the challenge while rubbing his two hands together. But that expression went away when he heard a squeal of a boar.

When Chris turned his head toward his left side, he spotted Chef irritatingly yanking on two feisty-looking boars, "You'll be using greased wild, not so many batons as ba-cons."

Topher was compelled to playfully laugh at Chris' joke, "Ha-ha-ha! Good one, Chris."

"Thank you, Topher." Chris once gained thanks to him at the same time walking over to the starting line, "First team across the finish line with their boar wins!"

"But, there are only six obstacles and we're a team of seven!" interrupted Scarlett, as she pointed out a significant discrepancy.

Chris took her clever notion and comprised, "Then two of you will have to double up on one section of the race. Now decide who's on what oof-stacle 'cause the race is about to start!"

During the planning phase of the challenge, Rodney on team Kinosewak showed no hesitation to pick out his partner in a swift, "I'll be with Samey! No wait! I meant to say I will partner up with Samey...no that's not..."

"You want to be partners for the obstacle race?" Samey turned around to see Rodney nervously requesting her to be paired up, "Sure, let's give it our all big guy!"

"R-Really?" He is squeamish, rocking his head to Samey's face.

*Confessionals*

Rodney: I never felt this way before about anyone! When I was with Samey collecting berries, she praised me for getting a load of fruits from a tall tree. What Samey and I have is special. I plan to remain faithful to Samey and no one else!

It was then Dave carefully examined Rodney's lovestruck face with Samey just right beside him, he shrugged it off in the meantime. He recalled what happened in the previous timeline; it was Rodney's weak-willed heart that caused him to fall in love with too many girls and it cost him an early send-off.

Based on the events so far, he seemed to only have eyes for Samey. Well. whatever happens to him, I don't care; he's not my priority.

"So I can go first, Topher is second, Rodney and Samey third, Scarlett on tires, Dave on the wheelbarrow, and Ella will take the wall," Sky laid out a plan with confidence in her voice. "Go! Go! Hop to it!"

The seven members of team Kinosewak agreed in unison and they all ran to their positions in the oof-stacle course. As for team Maskwak, they were currently discussing their order.

"Sugar should take the last section," suggested Shawn turning his glance toward her. "Back on her farm, she plays with greased pigs all the time.

"Normally, I would agree that I'm the best," Sugar obliged by his choice, but she quickly made other plans, "But shake your heads, guys, we have a wizard on our team!"

With a clear expression of annoyance, Amy suggested, "Can we leave fiction aside for a sec? Jasmine here obviously has skills, she should take the last-"

"Two words: Whizz-ard!"

Sugar fiercely growled back at Amy, frightening her. "Okay, Jasmine can be first, if that's alright with her."

"I don't mind at all," Jasmine found no issues with Amy's plan whatsoever, "If anything, having a strong start is better than a strong last."

"Then I'll make sure I conjure up a spell to grant us victory!" cried Leonard with his wand waving at his hand.

"Okay, teams. Take your place!" Chris called out to the other contestants to finish prepping.

She was quick to summarize the plan as Jasmine threw it together, "Alrighty, I'll take the beginning, Shawn can take second, Sugar can go third, Amy will take on the tires, Max can take the wheelbarrow, and we'll end it with Leonard! Let's go fellas!"

The starting line had Jasmine and Sky beside each other holding tight on the leashes attached to the boars; Sky's boar was looking fierce with it ready to charge and Jasmine's looking expressionless.

Chris prepared to begin the challenge while lying back on a lounge chair next to Chef. "Ready...set..."

With the sound of a blowhorn by Chris, Sky's boar immediately went rogue and ran off without her hands on the leash, "Whoa! Hey! Get back here!" she chased after it.

On the other hand, Jasmine's boar showed no signs of movement as it laid down its bottom and stared off to the distance, "Not exactly a feisty one, aren't ya?"

While Sky was chasing after her boar, Jasmine picked up her boar with her arms frightening it, and slowly made her way to the greasy logs balancing herself.

The camera jump cuts to Max and Dave standing idly near the wheelbarrows, with Max sinisterly crafting something behind the camera's gaze. Within a few seconds, he was holding up his invention with one hand and basking in its completion. "Behold...My triumph! Isn't it so diabolically terrific?!"

Oh great, I'm stuck in the wheelbarrow still. Well, time to pass some time.

"What is it exactly?" Dave asked, with a hint of hesitation in his tone.

"It's a helmet of evil, obviously!" answered Max, continuing to explain his invention, "This contraption will turn any animal into an evil companion! Allow me to demonstrate, come hitter bunny!"

Max slowly approached a wandering bunny just a few feet away from the wheelbarrow, he said his 'signature' evil catchphrase and placed the helmet on the bunny, "Oooo... Look how diabolical it's becoming! Isn't it terrifying?"

"S-Sure..." cringed Dave.

*Confessionals*

Max: I made it with parts from one of Chris' security cameras and an underwear elastic! But unfortunately, it doesn't work yet.

Back to the starting line with Sky, she was struggling to push the boar through the slope of the log covered in slippery grease. It didn't help as she kept sliding down the slope putting her body weight on the boars behind grunting, "Woah! Wait up piggy! Get...up there..."

The boar let out a pungent fart so loud, it caused Sky to visibly vomit with her cheeks inflating. But she remained strong and held back vomiting. From the second post, Topher was seeing her from the distance making commentary just like Chris would, "A point-blank blast gave to Sky! Will she be able to use her gymnastics on this part of the race?"

"Rrrrr-ahhhh!"

With one final push, the boar was thrust forward through the greasy log's length. As Sky leaped into the air, she skillfully landed on the boar's back and effortlessly flipped over to the other side of the log. Raising her hands triumphantly, she celebrated her successful landing while the boar slid past her, coming to a stop next to Topher, who was donning the ziplining gear.

"And she lands a perfect 10 across the board!" Topher exclaimed enthusiastically with his charismatic host voice. "Now, let's see how Jasmine tackles the slippery log!"

Sky grew frustrated as Topher insisted on watching the other team. "We don't have time for that! We need to focus on winning the challenge!"

Taking the lead in the race, Topher charged ahead while Jasmine faced the challenge of balancing herself on the slippery log with a boar on her back, from her side of the obstacle. Despite her best efforts, she stumbled halfway through and fell face-first onto the log, landing on a thorny bottom.

Chris and Chef visibly felt the pain from Jasmine seeing the replay on the television screen, "Ooooo...that's gotta sting...but Jasmine still got her boar to the end of the log!" Chris witnessed the events on screen.

"You did your best Jasmine!" yelled Shawn, looking for the safety of his fellow teammate, only to be approached by the boar and grabbing its leash on time, "You'll survive the apocalypse in no t- Whoa!"

"Blimey..." moaned Jasmine in agonizing pain from the thorns on her body.

Noticing she fell to the thorny bog, Sky began asking, "Oh-my-gosh, are you alright!?"

"I'm fine!" answered Jasmine, "Nothing that an outdoorsman like me can handle.."

Shawn was then running with the boar on his back to the next leg of the race passing Topher doing the same at a slower pace. "See, little guy? To survive this game you gotta use your head." but he was startled to find the boar on his back gnawing on his helmet as he screamed in pain, "Ow! Oww! I said 'head' not brains! Ahhhhhh!"

Running frantically, Shawn was wailing his arms around causing him to miss the zipline and jumped off the cliffside. He later landed in the body of water below the cliff. However, the boar seemed to have slid across the zipline and through the other side.

"It looks like the gorgeous player, Topher, is learning from Shawn's mistakes." boasted Topher as he carefully attached his harness to the zipline and glided down gracefully, "Dude, Chris, I am lovin' this challenge. you must have been up all night planning this one. 'Cause you kinda looked like you were."

From the television screen, Chris overheard Topher's remark as he turned to Chef asking, "Do I look tired?"

After Chef responded with a playful whistle as he averted his gaze from Chris, Sugar was embracing the boar coming from the zipline with her arms wide open. "Come on, pig, come to momma!"

The fast trajectory of the boar trampled her as she landed on her back a couple of feet off her original standing position. Seconds later, Topher landed flawlessly in front of Rodney and Samey, "And awesome Topher completes his part of the challenge."

Before pressing on, Sugar was 'comforting' the boar with her hug, "What a sweet little piggy! Who's a greasy little piggy?" she cooed before grasping onto the boar's head down.

However, Topher, now in front of the camera, went ahead and spoke out to the audience, "So, which pork will place first? Find out after the break, here on total-"

"Excuse me Topher!"

It was Chris' voice coming from the left-hand side of the camera frame that startled Topher, "Oh! So sorry Chris, I didn't mean to intru-"

"Leave it!" Chris waved his hand to step back to the background, continuing his hosting duty.

Over to Sugar, she was carelessly pampering the boar from her grasp, "Momma loves you! Yes, she does, baby-boo!"

*Confessionals*

Sugar: Grannie always said, you gotta love the fight out of a pig before you take it out on the town.

One small peck on the boar's cheek seemed to have calmed down as its face began deadpanning. "There, that's better!"

Sugar took off towards the greastacular tubercular. She immediately caught up with Rodney and Samey with Rodeny lifting the boar as she zipped past them and through the entrance of the tube rushing through it like a knife on butter.

"Woah, she's fast," said Rodney, looking dumbfounded.

"You carry the boar, I'll guide us through the tube maze!" ordered Samey, huffing each breath as she ran beside Rodney.

As Rodney was obliged by her commands, they were a bit in a bind traversing through the dark maze of the tubes. In the next stretch, where Scarlett and Amy reside, they were waiting patiently for one of their teammates to exit the lines.

"Come on Sugar! Hurry it up!" Amy shouted from within the tube to echo through the maze. She then was met with the ravaging beast that was Sugar charging out of the tube and in front of Amy, "Great, now give that pig to me! "

But Sugar digresses, "No! I'm keeping her...or him!" peeking at the undercarriage of the boar, "Her-or-him! Is mine forever!"

"What are you talking about?!" Amy fumed up as her teammate refused to let go of the boar, "We got a challenge to win!"

"Well, go find another boar to cuddle with!" Sugar replied with her growl as she comforted her boar.

During Amy and Sugar's back-to-back fuss about claiming the boar, Rodney, and Samey came out of the tubes covered in filthy grease and hurrying towards Scarlett.

"Exemplary work you two," praised Scarlett, grabbing hold of some pecans in her possession, "I'll take it from here!"

One by one, she placed one pecan after another to form a trail through the tires. The boar was soon drawn to them following and eating each one. "Ooh! Looks like Scarlett's inner animal trainer has come out!" Chris on the loudspeakers echoed.

Amy turned around to see the girl laying out the trail of pecans for the boar to follow, "Hey! That's cheating! She can't do that!"

While skimming through a slip of paper, Chris placed his reading glasses while replying on the mic, "Well, nothing in the rules saying she couldn't do that...so..."

*Confessionals*

Scarlett: Pigs love pecans maybe they know pecans delay the progression of age-related motor neuron degeneration.

Amy: What the hell is going on?! The time I'm willing to do stuff for the team, I hit a roadblock and cannot lose against a team with Samey in it!

Alright, Dave, your part of the oof-stacle course is coming. You've got your germaphobe tendencies in control after months of therapy.

Scarlett soon finished her leg of the race while throwing down a bunch of pecans into Dave's wheelbarrow. The boar immediately hopped on board and began munching on them.

"It's all yours Dave!" she cheered them on, but turning around to see Max with his mind control helmet in possession piqued her interest, "Wow, an interesting piece of ingenuity. May I perchance get a-"

"-Hey, Scarlett!" called out Dave as she turned over to him, "Don't help out the other team!"

"O-Oh, sorry..."

"Marvelling at my genius is truly a mighty feat for me." Max spoke highly of himself, "If only my team would hurry up and get my test subject here!"

Damn, that was close. Now that Max's mind helmet won't be able to work, I can glide through my part of the challenge. Not that it matters, since Sugar's still persistent on keeping the boar.

He grabbed ahold of the handles of the wheelbarrow and charged through the greasy surface with the boar still enjoying the rest of the pecans. He let out a series of screams, "Aauuggggh! Better safe than sorry, better safe than sorry!"

Returning to Amy and Sugar, it took nearly 10 minutes of continuous fighting to pressure the pageant star into getting the boar to finish the race, "How can you seriously be arguing about this DURING A CHALLENGE!"

Sugar let out a groan in defeat, "Oh fine! Let Miss complains-a lot get what she wants!" passing on the boar to Amy.

"Dave on team Kinosewak is making his way through the second to last part of the oof-stacle course!" screeched the loudspeakers of Chris' voice. "Amy on team Maskwak is far behind, it would take a miracle for them to catch up!"

After traversing halfway, to the oof-stacle, Dave reminded himself that Ella was the last one waiting for him on the last stretch of the race. He had no clue how Ella would approach climbing the wall with the boar. But then it hit him...

Oh no, Ella is probably going to sing her way to the finish line. Chris was so fed up with her breaking into song. I'll make sure she gets the message.

As Dave, greased up as ever, made his way through the greasy surface, he briskly went to where Ella was standing and gently tossed the boar out of the wheelbarrow.

"Way to go, Dave!" Ella cheerfully exclaimed as she praised Dave, "Now let me give you all a spectacular finish to our..."

"Hold on, Ella," he stopped her from continuing with her sentence to get her attention. "I don't think a song would be the right place for this."

"Hmm? Why not?" Ella could only scratch her chin at his suggestion, "Do you not like my singing?"

"Of course, I like your singing; It's just that Chris made it clear he doesn't want any singing this season." Dave quickly came up with something, "If you started singing, you'll probably be in trouble."

Ella could only look so bummed, sighing, "Oh I see...I will do my best to keep my precious harmony in check!"

She graciously welcomed the hungry boar in open hands as she carried it on her back, reacting to the heaviness of the animal slowly making her way to the greasy wall.

"What's this?! Ella already has the boar in the last stretch of the game!" commented Chris, "Team Maskwak is still behind one leg! This doesn't bode well for them!"

"Ugh! Come on you undercook bacon!" snarled Amy, lugging the boar with her arms as she traversed through the greasy tires. She tripped on the second to last tire near the finish as she let go of the boar which ran towards Max's direction, "Hey! Get ready to catch that pig!"

"Oh? It seems to be the opportune moment to test out my evil invention!" a sinister cackle came from Max, preparing to place the helmet on the boar, "Time to ev-"

But he somehow miscalculated the speed of the boar and got trampled by it; although he fell backward onto the wheelbarrow, he somehow caught the leash with pure luck.

"Agghh! I can't see-!" Now being pulled by the boar, Max was clambering to reposition himself causing him to toss his helmet into the air and it shattered coming into contact with the ground. It rendered it completely useless, still upside down in an uncomfortable position.

Chris was commentating on the play-by-play displayed on the television. "Max swoops by with the most bizarre and effective strategy I've ever seen. Ella is making her way to the top of the greased wall!"

On the last leg of the course and bounded by the rope, Ella climbed her way halfway through the rope ladder, struggling to get a hold of the board as well as maintain her balance.

"Keep going, Ella! I know you can do it!" Dave from the surface shouted to her, in hopes to hear his cheer.

"A-Alright!" she staggered, slowly before making her way further.

After the humiliating plunder, Max let go of the boar's leash to slow down his movement. Stumbling out of the wheelbarrow to stand up, realizing that his 'genius' invention was destroyed.

*Confessionals*

Max: That was rather embarrassing, but an evil genius always bounces back! Vengeance will be mine!

After his setback, Max reluctantly went after the boar to deliver it to Leonard, who was standing idly in front of the final part of the challenge.

"Stop you rambunctious beast and heed my words!" Leonard raised his wand in front of him. "I shall cast upon you-"

"Enough with your insufferable roleplay and climb the wall with that pig!" ordered Max, attempting to get him to participate.

"Your yelling made me lose focus on my levitating spell!" whined Leonard, clearing up his throat to repeat, "As I was saying...let the"

"And down we go, my little friend!" Ella was relieved that her hard-working efforts paid off as she climbed to the top of the wall and made it down gently to ground level. She made sure the pig wasn't harmed or startled along the way.

"This just in: Wizard beat by Princess! I guess not all princesses need saving?" chuckled Chris on that last bit, moving onwards to declare the winning team, "Team Pimapotew Kinosewak win!"

"Tonight's winner's meal is provided by Jimmy's beaks 'n feet!" Chris unveiled the winning prize with his left hand directing to Chef holding a bucket of the food, "' Our chickens walk the walk, talk the talk, then we put 'em in the fryer.' Now that's evil!"

Luck was on Sky's side as she perfectly caught the bucket of chicken beaks and feat as the rest of the team scurried off to enjoy their winning meal with countless cheers on the sidelines. It left the rest of team Maskwak sulking in their defeat. Walking back to the treehouse, the rest of team Kinoseawak were all giddy in their second victory. Dave was in the middle of the group right beside Scarlett, "That was pretty clever using pecans to attract the pig. They do love them." he gave his remarks.

Scarlett overheard him, "You knew that too, Dave?"

"Of course, just something I've picked up..." he replied.

"Well kudos to you all of you for doing an amazing job of teamwork!" cheered Sky, holding the bucket of fried delicacies with both of her hands.

Samey on the other hand walked beside Rodney, continuing the praising, "You did such a great job carrying that pig while in those dark tubes."

"Yes, I was! I'd do anything to make you happy!" Rodney blurted out, seemingly having no control over his words.

*Confessionals*

Rodney: STupid Rodney, you can't even talk to your girlfriend correctly without creeping her out!

Another night of surviving a gruesome challenge, this time, I'm on the right team. Leonard still seems to be the likely one out, but I don't know; Sugar did fight with Amy trying to hand the pig to her. Maybe I should see this one out just to make sure.

Night time arrived at Pahkitew, and it was another miserable night for team Maskwak, and the boar, on each seat staring silently. Chef walked into the frame of the camera to deliver the five marshmallows on a plate as Chris humiliatingly said, "Hey, why so glum? It is the second time you're here. Let's see who you all blame for your collective failure."

*Confessionals*

Amy: There's someone here that overstayed their welcome.

Max: Must we think about this decision?!

Jasmine: It's pretty obvious who's going...

Sugar: Definitely not the wizard.

"Excuse me, Chris." Chef broke his silence, pointing a point behind him to reveal another person.

"Dave, what brings you here?" asked Chris feeling anxious, "Did those feet and beaks contain salmonella or something? If you're going to sue, sue the ones who made them, NOT ME!"

"No worries Chris, I'm just here...spectating..." he roughly explained, "You can ignore me and do your thing."

"Alrighty then," the host turned the other way to continue the ceremony, "Jasmine, Shawn, Amy, and Max, you're safe from elimination. Which leaves Sugar the pig hugger and Leonard the wizard. "

As the four accepted their marshmallows, it left Sugar and Leonard concerned about being the only two without a marshmallow. They each waited for Chris to announce the loser, "And the irritating oddball going home tonight is..."

"Wobbledy-woo, wobbledy-wee, don't pick me! Don't pick me! Don't pick me!" interrupted Leonard, trying to 'cast' a spell to turn the votes in his favor.

Clenching his teeth, Chris grunted, "As much as I don't care about this wizard stuff, the votes don't lie. Sorry to say this Sugar, but you've been voted off!"

That shocking outcome made Dave flabbergasted, he was expecting Leonard to get the boot. Recalling the previous timeline where Sugar fell jealous of Ella's singing which made the pig fall to her arms. She then went on seeking revenge on the princess and got her eliminated by breaking Chris' no singing rule. But now, Ella was on the other team, so those events never happened. As Chris tossed the final marshmallow to Leonard, it left a terrible reaction to Sugar specifically.

"What in Betsie's name!" shrieked the pageant queen from her seat, "Wh-why me?! I wasn't the one who messed up their magic spell!"

Shawn gave her a definite answer, munching on his marshmallow, "Hate to break it to you, but there was no way Leonard could've caught up with Ella since you were clinging onto that pig!"

"But that pig wa-"

"It wasn't yours, to begin with!" Amy snarled at her, "Wizard aside, you wasted our precious time!"

On the verge of tearing up, Sugar came to Leonard for aid, begging, "C-Come one wizard! Use one of your timey-wimey backwardsy spells!"

"Magic boots and armpit smell, bring forth a time reversal spell!" rasped Leonard, trying to change fate with his spell.

After an awkward silence, Chris ordered Chef to pick up Sugar and lift her to the cannon of shame. She cried in a vicious fit of sadness with tears running down her face and her arms trying to break free of Chef's hold. "No! Don't take my precious baby away from me you monster! I'll MISS HIM-OR-HER!"

As the rest of the team saw her in this vulnerable state, Amy could care less about it and turned her gaze elsewhere. Spotting Dave with his arms crossed and a grin, she could make up what he murmured to himself, "Sugar's out of the game, saves me the trouble at least."

Those ominous words he spoke of could only add to Amy's skepticism. What did he mean by 'saves him the trouble?' was this part of his plan to get Sugar out early? How could it be? And what made him want to watch the elimination ceremony in the first place? She tried to ignore his words, but it lingered in her mind. After a rigorous effort loading Sugar into the cannon of shame, Chris pushed the button and it launched her sky high. The rest of the team Maskwak and Dave returned to their shelters shortly after and Chris was preparing to end the episode with a closeup of himself in the camera.

"It's so sad to separate Sugar and her best piggy pal..." Chris Sarcastacially shed a few tears, before bouncing back, "But hey, at least team Maskwak has bacon in the morning! Heeehehee, Who's next in the boom boom machine? Only time will tell on Total Drama Pahkitew Island!"