Superior Snowstorms – Iggy, Ben, Tony, Nicky, Tess, Ji-Soon
Sunny Snowflakes – Lucien, Jacque, Tsu, Winter, Letty, Sasha
Gleeful Gingerbreads – Char, Marco, Brandon, Bonnie, Andrea, Aditi
Shining Stars – Ketch, Elodie, May, Winnie
"Last time on North Pole Showdown," Embarc recapped the events of the previous episode. Flashbacks occurred during the recap. "The teams had to face each other in a gold old bakery competition to see which one could make the superior dessert. There were flops along the way. Mostly from Ketch and Tess. However, there were also some shining moments like the Gleeful Gingerbreads working together as a team and Letty leading her team the Sunny Snowflakes to victory. Despite the setback, Iggy managed to get his team a win. While the Shining Stars once again fell short, losing the challenge."
"Every Shining Stars had a fault, but ultimately Paul was sent home for continuing his stealing streak. Not the person I would have chosen but hey everyone has their reasoning."
The flashbacks ended. Embarc is shown on a snowmobile wearing snowmobile goggles, brown gloves, and a beanie that matches her sweater.
"Twenty-two contestants remain, and the teams better hope they have someone who knows how to drive because things are about to get speedy," Embarc said as she put her hands on one of the handlebars of the snowmobile. "Which team will guarantee a victory this episode? Find out now on North Pole Showdown!"
Embarc happily drove the snowmobile rapidly out of camera shot. Then a crash is heard.
"I'm okay!" The hostess assured off-screen.
(Intro Plays)
Three cameras pop up from their hiding spots. One from outside the igloo ceremony, another coming out of an evergreen tree with snow on it, and the last one popped up from a toilet. The camera drone showing footage flew into a window to get out of the bathroom.
Dear Mom and Dad I'm doin' fine,
The camera drone displayed Embarc in her office with papers pasted all over the walls. The papers had pictures of the contestants on them and red arrows all around for Embarc to figure out what kind of ships the hostess could do with the cast.
You guys are on my mind.
Ketch stood next to Embarc and saw the camera drone inside her office. He poked Embarc's shoulder with a finger to let her know. The hostess tried to grab it to remove the footage, but the drone evaded her and went out a window.
You asked me what I wanted to be
The drone caught Tsu hugging his Clover Warrington body pillow in the cold snowy weather. A polar bear took the body pillow from Tsu to hug it for itself.
And now I think the answer is plain to see,
Tsu demanded the polar bear give back his body pillow, but the creature roared at him. Tsu ran away while the polar bear gave chase on two feet. Iggy laughed at Tsu's predicament from a distance. He was then pelted by a snowball at the back of his head.
I wanna be famous.
The culprit who hit Iggy was revealed to be Winter who leaned on a wall of a wooden house. She turned around with a smile and noticed Jacque observing her with his arms crossed and a suspicious look on his face. The camera drone went inside the wooden house.
I wanna live close to the sun,
Elodie showed taking baked cupcakes out of an oven and placing them onto a table. Paul and Andrea sat at the table with the former wanting to swipe cupcakes for himself despite a 'Do Not Touch' sign being next to the sweets. Andrea slapped his hand away.
Go pack your bags, 'cause I've already won,
At the other side of the table, Tess painted some happy little trees on a piece of paper held by an easel while Nicky sat on a wooden chair to play her violin.
Everything to prove, nothing in my way
The two girls were startled by Dominic, Tony, and Brandon breaking a hole in the wall with each of them racing each other on a snowmobile. The camera drone followed them after the three made another hole in a different wall to leave the house.
I'll get there one day.
The three boys crashed into a giant pile of snow. Marco recorded them with a camera nearby while Lucien and May were each sleeping peacefully on a snow angel that someone must have made on the ground.
Cause, I wanna be famous!
Aditi observed penguins waddling next to her outside Santa's workshop with a snowman right by her. Bonnie came out of the snowman which prompted Aditi to run away from her. Bonnie frowned and Char came to pat her shoulder to make her feel better. Which got the redhead to grin.
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na!
Winnabelle excitedly rode on Rudolph the red nose reindeer in the field of reindeer that was fenced. Ben and Letty watched Winnabelle making noise which caused the two to stop reading a book they each had in their hand. The former looked at the pageant disaster with annoyance while the latter dismally sighed.
I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous
Ji-Soon displayed one of her cosplays for Santa's elves on an outdoor wooden stage. Striking poses for delight. One of the elves took a picture of her with the camera's flash on in his hand.
I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous
Santa Claus dragged Sasha by the arm out of his fridge because she started eating his ice cream with a spoon. The contestant held onto a bowl of ice cream as the jolly man brought her outside in the snow with the rest of the cast sitting. The entire cast whistled as the song finished. The camera drone zoomed out to reveal the show's title on a wooden billboard.
(Intro Ends)
The episode started in the outside morning with Iggy and Tony jogging around Santa's workshop. They slowly stopped jogging as they made their way near the confessional booth.
"Glad to see at least one person in my team that actually has athleticism and accompanies me," Iggy commented as he dried up the sweat on his forehead with his arm.
"Meh, I put up with you because you ain't a loser or a wackjob on the team," Tony replied as he takes out a toothpick from his toothpick box in his shirt's pocket.
"So, you don't like me?" Iggy wondered as he crossed his arms.
"A bit annoying but compare to my teammates you're the best I got," Tony answered honestly.
"I see, and who are the losers and wackjobs on our team?" Iggy asked.
"Nicky and Ben are obviously the losers while the other two are the wackjobs," Tony said as he turned around to look at a group of elves carrying snowmobiles to somewhere.
"If you're going to talk crap about our team I'll just continue jogging," Iggy bluntly stated.
"Ey, and you don't talk negatively about our team all the time?" Tony countered as he looked back at Iggy. "Since you're in a rush corridore, I'll cut to the chase. Alliance, we vote together. Nothing more, nothing less."
"Pfft, why I should make an alliance with you?" Iggy scoffed at the idea.
"Because idiota, if our team ever loses the majority will vote you off," Tony stated in a snarky tone. "At least with me on your side I can convince someone to not vote you off."
"As if I'll be up for elimination anytime soon. I'm the best player on the team," Iggy boasted proudly and arrogantly. "I carried you all the last challenge and I'll keep doing so. See you at breakfast Tony."
Tony, with a disappointed look watched Iggy jog away.
"My plan worked out better in my head," Tony said to himself before walking out of camera shot.
The confessional outhouse door was heard being opened. The camera panned to the right to see Tsu from the inside the confessional. He took a big whiff of the air.
"I smell an upcoming moment of despair," Tsu spoke and then chuckled sinisterly. Then he smelled the air again. "Wait, no, is the reindeer poop nearby. Bleh!" He got out of the outhouse and shut the door. "Anyway, one should never talk about how they feel about their teammates near the confessional. You never know who is listening. Or dropping a dump."
At the mess hall, waiting for breakfast, Ben was currently reading one of his books while Tess painted on a white canvas with her paintbrush on the table both are at. Curiosity getting the best of him, Ben decided to conversate with his teammate.
"Where did you find that paintbrush?" Ben asked him as he closed his book.
"During one of my traveling trips. I took a train one day and stumbled upon a nice old man who noticed me drawing. He looked very desperate on wanting me to have his paintbrush. I happily took it and I've used it ever since," Tess answered happily as she painted away.
"I see," Ben put his book on the table.
Confessional - Ben - Superior Snowstorms
"I'm not the saboteur type of guy, but that special paintbrush Tess has might cause some issues. Specifically for the team. We didn't lose the last challenge because Ji-soon wanted to taste her cake paint. Having what is considered to be a magical paintbrush is honestly amazing, but if it becomes detrimental, I got to figure out how to get rid of it."
End Confessional
Inside the Superior Snowstorms' room, Ji-Soon held a retractable clothing measure tape in her hand. She stood in front of Nicky with her back turned.
"Are you s-sure this is a good idea?" Nicky asked her teammate, wearing a pink one piece.
"Well I need to know your measurements for the cosplay design I'm going to make you," Ji-Soon answered joyfully as she pulled on the measuring tape to make it longer.
"I was just asking if you have any outfits that would make me look more grown up," Nicky said as she felt weird just being in her bathing suit in the North Pole.
"Oh Nicky, Nicky, Nicky, Nicky," Ji-Soon said in a sing song voice as she turned around to look at the violinist. "Did you forget I am almost one foot taller than you? None of my outfits will fit you well."
"G-good point," Nicky stuttered.
"Great! Now stand still so that I can measure your boobs," Ji-Soon instructed as she wrapped the measuring tape around Nicky's chest.
Nicky blushed, feeling embarrassed.
Confessional - Ji-Soon - Superior Snowstorms
She looked at her notepad with intensity. "Sunlight from My Knight Conservatory might be the best option for Nicky to cosplay as. I'm sure she will love everything about the outfit once I finish it."
End Confessional
Inside the Sunny Snowflakes' room, Jacque was leaning on a wall having his arms crossed, smirking delightfully. He watched Sasha and Winter trying to one up each other on conversating with Letty. All three girls were on Letty's bed.
"Did you two also had to fill out a small Christmas list during applications?" Winter asked Letty and Sasha. "Mine is pretty simple. Just meeting Santa Claus is enough for me. What about you Letty?"
Letty stared at Winter with a force smile, not knowing whether she should be talking about her Christmas list.
"Is obvious she doesn't feel comfortable talking about her list," Sasha told Winter as she put a hand on Letty's shoulder. "My list is traveling around the world. The other two is just books and ice cream."
"Ice cream? You can get that anywhere. Heck the Gleeful Gingerbreads made ice cream last challenge. How come you didn't get some?" Winter wondered.
"Bonnie was hogging it to herself. And I don't deal with people like her," Sasha narrowed her eyes at mentioning the Gleeful Gingerbread. "No matter how good ice cream is."
"...okay," Winter raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Anyway, Letty, as captain of the team I need you to tell me your Christmas list.
"...Is just having my own train set. Asking for more would be greedy," Letty answered after hesitating a bit.
"Hey Letty, want to go and play checkers at the festive hangout lounge?" Jacque asked nonchalantly.
Letty did not answer back, but she does get out of her bed and exits out of the room. Jacque smirked at Winter and Sasha before leaving the room as well.
Confessional - Sasha - Sunny Snowflakes
"Winter using her captain orders is bugging me. We both know by now Letty needs validation and doesn't like disappointing others, but it gets sickening that she can use the captain card just to get Letty to obey her."
End Confessional
The Gleeful Gingerbreads and Shining Stars were now in the mess hall along with Ben and Tess. Gleeful Gingerbreads were at one picnic table while the Shining Stars at another except for Ketch.
"If we lose again we're going to keep the girl squad intact right?" May asked Elodie and Winnie in a low voice.
Winnie and Elodie glanced at each other before looking right back at May.
"We're not losing again," Elodie assured seriously. "I made the exception with Paul because of what he has done during his stay. Stealing cookies from Santa Claus? The other teams were already wary of him but stealing from the guy who owns this place was asking for more trouble."
"Yeah May, can we not dive into strategy talk please?" Winnie asked kindly.
"Sure," May shrugged, showing a joyful expression. "I don't mind at all."
"Here's breakfast team," Ketch arrived with hot dogs on a tray. He put the tray on the table for his teammates. "Hot dogs for all of us!"
As Ketch sat down with the team Winnie contently chowed down on her hotdog.
"Ketch, I've beginning to think you only know how to make fast food meals," Elodie believed.
"That's because fast food is pretty much what I can cook," Ketch admitted.
Confessional - Winnie - Shining Stars
"Am I failing as captain of the team? We lost two in a row and not once I was able to handle the situation. I'm glad Elodie and May are teammates with me and understand, but it does feel like we're shifting the blame on others."
End Confessional
All the remaining contestants were now eating breakfast at the mess hall. Embarc arrived with Dominic by her side. Dominic had a wide grin on his face.
"Good morning contestants!" Embarc greeted. All the contestants were shocked to see Dominic again. "Rest your breakfast because in thirty minutes everyone must be outside to start today's chall… whoa," She paused herself as she noticed the tired expressions from the Gleeful Gingerbreads except Marco and Bonnie. "What happened to you guys?"
"Forget about them why is Dominic back?" Jacque wondered, narrowing his eyes at the racer.
"Nope, I want to hear from the Gleeful Gingerbreads first," Embarc told the shiesty dude.
"Bonnie stayed up all night talking after eating the ice cream we made," Brandon answered Embarc in a tiredly manner.
"I told you to keep an eye on her with it," Andrea scolded Char before she yawned.
"I didn't think she was going to get like that, honest," Char admitted exhausted.
Flashback
At night, Bonnie was on her bed speaking nonstop while the rest of her teammates tried to sleep. All her teammates minus Marco had their respective pillow on their face.
"I've think I've said this, what the pass ten minutes? Or was it five? Anyway you all are incredibly hot," Bonnie told her teammates while scooping some ice cream with a spoon from a jar. "Char is a strong thicc boy, Andrea's elegance brings a shiver to my spine, Brandon can use his hammer on me any day, Aditi is so adorable, and I can be Marco's polo."
Bonnie giggled before eating a scoop of ice cream.
End Flashback
"I had a lot of fun," Bonnie stated happily, seemingly not hyper.
"So she has a sweet problem too," Elodie said quietly to herself, remembering what happened last challenge.
Confessional - Marco - Gleeful Gingerbreads
"I had live streams where I stayed up late playing video games, so I'm kind of already accustomed to not fully sleeping at night."
End Confessional
"Dominic is back because he found the three chestnut symbol card before he was eliminated," Embarc informed.
Dominic showed the card proudly to the contestants. He then chuckled. "Like I said, none of you have seen the last of me," He grinned at his former teammates who gulped frighteningly.
"Dominic, head back to your team the Shining Stars," Embarc instructed.
"What? You must be joking. Back to them? To those who eliminated me in the first place?" Dominic became baffled.
"If you ever read the card you would know that upon returning to the game you are required to head back to your original team," Embarc informed sweetly. "Speaking of card," She swiftly snatched the chestnut card Dominic had. "I'll take this," She tore the card in half.
Dominic sighed with annoyance before heading back to the Shining Stars and sitting with them.
"If it makes you feel better, I didn't vote for you during your elimination," May told Dominic, appearing drowsy.
This made Dominic smile.
"Alright teams," Embarc excitedly continued to talk, showing off a big smile. "Today's challenge is pretty much the reason why Dominic decided to come back so soon, but I won't reveal until you all are outside."
"Which you all are now thanks to the power of editing," Embarc told and then chuckled.
Four snowmobiles were next to Embarc. All of them had the same size in length and also six seats. The difference were the colors of each snowmobile. From left to right consisted of red, blue, green, and yellow.
The contestants observed the snowmobiles with curiosity, especially Dominic who smirked upon seeing them.
"Today's challenge is a racing one," Embarc revealed. "Each team will assign a driver, a mapper, a flagger, and weapon carriers."
"Weapon carriers?" Winnie shivered nervously at the thought.
"Mappers?" Aditi got excited.
Lucien yawned. "Flaggers?"
"That's right!" Embarc confirmed. She took out four maps scrolled up from the pockets of her brown short shorts. Each scrolled map had a rubber band around it to keep it sealed. "The challenge is simple. Get on your team's color snowmobile and race. Each map shows you all the routes of the race. Follow the route until making it to the finish line," She explained as she tossed a map to each captain.
Iggy, Winter, and Char confidently caught their map with one hand while Winnie used two.
"During the race, each team must stop at certain areas to collect a flag of their team's color," Embarc kept explaining. "Those areas also have weapons that can help slow down another team. The goal is to make it to the finish line first. However, flags will play in…" Her phone started to ring in her pants pocket. She grabbed her phone and answered it. "Hello? Oh! I see, thank you Niu," Embarc hanged up. "Change of plans. No collecting flags. Just following the route and using weapons to slow down enemy vehicles. Simple right?"
"What kind of weapons are we talking about?" Andrea asked, not too fond of using them.
"You all will find out when you arrive to the areas," Embarc happily answered. "Now go!"
The four teams quickly headed to their respective snowmobile.
"I'm driving," Iggy quickly told his team the Superior Snowstorms. "Who here has a good sense of direction?"
"I once cosplayed as Zara Croft from Tomb Looter," Ji-Soon stated contently. "Had to study a lot of…"
"Tess, your stereotype is the travelling artist, right?" Iggy interrupted the cosplayer. "You can use the map."
"I tend to go where the wind takes me," Tess confessed happily.
"What does that even mean?" Iggy wondered perplexed.
While the Superior Snowstorms tried to figure out who will be holding the map, the Shining Stars still have not settled who will be driving.
"I do not understand your desperation Jones of driving our snowmobile when I am way more qualified," Dominic told his captain. "I literally came back this soon to race against the others."
"Because I want to prove myself to the team that I'm not holding them back," Winnie answered, feeling determined.
"You can prove yourself by telling me which paths to take while I drive," Dominic said before getting into the driver's seat of the yellow snowmobile. "Now everyone hop on, I do not want to be in last place in what I am good at."
Winnie obeyed with a slight frown as she jumped into the seat behind Dominic. Elodie sat behind Winnie, Ketch sat behind Elodie, and May sat behind Ketch to daydream.
"You know taking charge is what got you kicked off in the first place, right?" Elodie reminded Dominic.
"And yet Winnie is still here despite proving to not be a valuable asset to the team," Dominic stated as he turned the ignition on the vehicle. "Yes, making Winnie participate in the talent show despite her requests not to was an error and I apologize, but trust me all when I say if we want to at least get third place this challenge I have to be in charge."
"Works for me," Ketch understood. "How fast you going to…"
Dominic rapidly put his hands on the snowmobile's handles and hit the throttle hard, making the vehicle go fast.
"Gooooooooooo?" Ketch's voice is heard as the Shining Stars left the scene.
With the Gleeful Gingerbreads, Marco got in the driver seat quickly.
"Hey, dude, can I take it for a spin?" Brandon asked politely with tired eyes. "I don't know much about snowmobiles, but I've driven plenty of cars."
"Sorry dude but can't do that. Everyone who didn't get sleep last night will be taking the weapon department seats," Marco replied before starting the snowmobile. "Char, give Bonnie the map. She will be telling me the routes to take."
Char smiled at Bonnie and gave her the map.
"Sweet, I get to partly carry the team," Bonnie said joyfully. She watched her teammates sit on the other seats of the snowmobile and realized she will be in front of them. "And I can't look behind any of them except Marco, great," She slightly pouted.
Confessional - Marco - Gleeful Gingerbreads
"Is not like in real life, but with my experience in driving snowmobiles in videogames it should be easy to ride a real one, right? Right?" He appeared to be unsure and concern.
End Confessional
"Everyone get in we're falling behind," Winter said to the Sunny Snowflakes, standing next to the blue snowmobile as she viewed the Gleeful Gingerbreads and Superior Snowstorms leaving the area.
"Is it a good idea to let you drive?" Sasha questioned Winter.
"You are totally correct Sasha. You will be a much better driver than me," Winter smirked. "I'll handle the map."
Sasha rolled her eyes and headed to the driver's seat. The rest of the Sunny Snowflakes got in the snowmobile.
Thanks to Dominic going full throttle, the Shining Stars arrived at the first weapon stopping route. That being a gingerbread house that is a full-size house. Dominic slowed down the snowmobile and put it to a stop. The group noticed two bazookas on the ground in front of the gingerbread's house.
"Those look like Chef's bazooka cannons he used," May noticed. "I bet it has either giant meatballs or giant snowballs in them."
"Excellent!" Dominic cheered. "Ketch and Elodie, grab a bazooka quickly."
"Uh, my aim isn't that great," Ketch admitted as he rubbed the back of head with his hand.
Elodie happily got out of her seat to grab one of the bazookas and gets back into her seat.
"Come on Ketch get the other bazooka," Dominic demanded as he looked at Ketch. "The Gleeful Gingerbreads are coming nearby."
"I don't think he should. Shooting snowballs or meatballs at others is dreadful," Winnie spoke, frightened by the idea.
"Just pointing this out but we could have had a farther lead if you didn't stop for the weapons," May told Dominic.
"Whatever Sleeping Beauty," Dominic went full throttle again on the snowmobile to leave the area.
The Gleeful Gingerbreads were getting close to the gingerbread house.
"I see a bazooka at the gingerbread house up ahead," Brandon pointed out to his team.
"Should I stop?" Marco asked his teammates.
"Yeah, we need to use what Embarc gives us," Bonnie answered as she briefly looked away from the map.
"No, no violence. We'll finish the race without hurting others," Andrea disagreed with the plan.
"If we stop now we'll be more behind the Shining Stars," Char pointed out.
"Alright, I'll keep driving," Marco passed the gingerbread house.
Confessional - Bonnie - Gleeful Gingerbreads
"So many ball jokes I could have made if we took the bazooka, oh well."
End Confessional
"Hey, I see something silver," Lucien pointed at the leftover bazooka in front of the gingerbread house.
"Must be a weapon Embarc was talking about," Sasha noted.
"Keep driving to the bazooka and Jacque will grab it," Winter instructed Sasha.
"I rather not get trigger happy," Jacque said, deciding not to grab the bazooka.
"I can grab the bazooka," Tsu offered. "Although my aim is pretty average."
"Good enough for me," Winter accepted. "Mush Sasha, mush!"
"I am not a dog," Sasha narrowed her eyes and gripped the handles of the snowmobile tighter.
"If we get first place I will get you ice cream," Winter mocked.
Sasha drove faster with anger near the bazooka and Tsu reached out to grab it.
"Success!" Tsu smiled wickedly.
Confessional - Sasha - Sunny Snowflakes
She had her arms crossed with her eyes still narrowed. "She is quite lucky I'm the one driving."
End Confessional
"I just realized something," Jacque commented to his team. "Weren't the Superior Snowstorms in front of us? I see the Gleeful Gingerbreads in the distance but not them."
"They probably got lost," Lucien replied drowsy.
"Take a left," Tess told Iggy, viewing the map in her hands.
Iggy took a left turn as he handled his team's snowmobile well.
"We're lost," Ben told his teammates defeatedly.
"Is because Tess has the map upside down," Tony said as he looked at the map.
"What!?" Iggy stopped the snowmobile instantly, accidentally sending Nicky out of the vehicle and into the snow.
"I'll get her," Ji-Soon got out of her seat to rescue Nicky.
Iggy snatched the map away from Tess with a glare.
"How come you didn't say anything? Did you know the map was upside down? Are you trying to self-sabotage? Are you working for the enemy?" Iggy questioned Tess, clearly fed up with her.
"Iggy dear, is not about the destination," Tess put her arm around Iggy's neck. "Is about the journey."
"What are…" Iggy stared at Tess bewildered. "Ben, take the map and don't complain," He ordered, passing the map to the bookworm.
Ben shrugged and took the map. He rotated the map to actually examine the racing route.
"Hmm, there seems to be some possible shortcuts that could help us get to the finish line faster," Ben informed his team.
"Good," Iggy smiled, believing there is hope to win the challenge.
Ji-Soon brought Nicky back to the snowmobile and put her in her seat.
"You need a car seat to keep yourself on the ride?" Tony joked in a mocking tone to Nicky.
"Very funny Tony," Nicky said sarcastically.
"I can paint a tunnel for us to enter that leads us to the finish line," Tess offered, taking out her paintbrush. "Or boosters for the snowmobile."
"No, you have done enough for today," Iggy said to Tess. "Just stay seated."
Heading to the next weapon area, the Shining Stars were in first while the Gleeful Gingerbreads were not far behind. The Sunny Snowflakes were catching up thanks to Sasha speeding up the snowmobile.
"We got company," Ketch warned Dominic.
"What do you want me to do? I'm driving. Shoot them in the face," Dominic told his team as he kept his eyes on the road.
"Oh dear, that's awful," Winnie said worryingly for those possibly getting hit.
"Better them than us," Elodie turned around and put her knees on her seat as she aimed at the Gleeful Gingerbreads. "Ketch and May, I need you both to duck to get a clear shot."
Ketch and May do as told and duck. Elodie fired her bazooka and a giant snowball came out from the weapon, heading towards Marco's face.
Marco reacted quickly and drove his team's snowmobile to the right.
"That snowball was big," Andrea noticed.
The huge snowball stayed in the air heading to the Sunny Snowflakes. Sasha immediately ducked before the snowball could hit her and instead the snowball hit Winter's face. Jacque and Sasha chuckled.
"Two can play at that game," Winter spoke, getting competitive. "Tsu, take them out."
"But you, Letty, and Sasha are in the way," Tsu mentioned as he tried to get clear shot on the Gleeful Gingerbreads.
"Just aim well the best you can," Winter replied.
Tsu fired a huge snowball from his bazooka which almost hit Brandon in the face if not for Marco dodging another snowball from Elodie.
"Never thought I'll say we'll be in the middle of a snowball sandwich," Brandon told his team as he looked at the Sunny Snowflakes.
"Maybe we should have gotten the bazooka," Aditi mentioned. "Not to use it, but for the other team not to have it."
"Too late for that," Char said, hoping Marco can keep dodging the snowballs coming at them.
An idea came into Tsu's head. He smirked delightfully.
"Jacque and Lucien, I need you two to help me throw the bazooka at the Gleeful Gingerbreads," Tsu kindly told. "Goal is to get it to land in front of them."
"I'm game," Jacque accepted.
Lucien raised an eyebrow at this. "Excuse me?" He immediately questioned the idea.
"Ignore him I'll help out," Winter told Tsu as she gave the map to Letty who takes it.
Winter, Jacque, and Tsu threw the bazooka as hard as they could. Like Tsu planned, the bazooka landed in front of the Gleeful Gingerbreads at a distance. Marco gasped and tried to stop his team's snowmobile by stepping on the vehicle's breaks, but he was going too fast to fully stop.
The Gleeful Gingerbreads screamed in horror knowing they will crash, with Bonnie hugging Andrea tightly in the process. The team's snowmobile flipped into the air as soon as it went over the bazooka on the ground. Each Gleeful Gingerbread quickly got out their seat and safely landed in the snow. Now, the Sunny Snowflakes passed them.
The Gleeful Gingerbreads' snowmobile flipped around until crashing into a large boulder.
Confessional - Lucien - Sunny Snowflakes
He had a terrified expression before it turned into a monotone one. "You're quite the strange one Tsu. Compared to the others on the team you seem to be the more unpredictable one."
End Confessional
"Is everyone alright?" Char asked his team, already standing.
Aditi and Marco popped up from the snow, both of them rubbing their own forehead as they groan. Andrea on the other hand accidentally sat on Bonnie's face.
"Um, thanks for breaking my fall," Andrea expressed gratitude towards Bonnie.
Bonnie gave Andrea a thumbs up. Andrea then got off Bonnie to help her teammate out.
"You okay?" Andrea asked Bonnie worryingly.
"Oh, I am more than okay," Bonnie assured, grinning bubbly.
Brandon got himself up from the snow and removed snow from his face with his hands. Then he took off his cap to dump more snow onto the ground. He looked in front and saw his team's snowmobile damaged from the crash, leaning on the large boulder.
"Looks like I got some work to do," Brandon put his cap on backwards like it was before. Then he took out a wrench from seemingly nowhere and went to fix the snowmobile.
Still racing through the snow, Elodie kept blasting large snowballs at the Sunny Snowflakes.
"Keep it up Jane," Dominic encouraged as he maneuvered around large rocks along the way.
Sasha continued to duck to avoid the snowballs coming her way.
"I would appreciate if you dodged them instead of just ducking," Winter told her teammate, snow covering her eyes and forehead.
"Apologies, I'll try to now dodge them," Sasha replied with sincerity in her voice.
"Yeah, you're totally bluffing about that," Winter stated.
Both the Shining Stars and Sunny Snowflakes passed a pond of cold freezing ice where two polar bears were chilling eating sundaes.
"We passed the third area," Winnie informed her team, looking at the map that shows exactly the same thing the group saw at the pond. "We're almost to the finish line!"
The Shining Stars started to cheer victorious. However, their hopes of winning were cut short due to the Superior Snowstorms coming up in front of them.
"What? How did you all get in front of us?" Dominic asked the Superior Snowstorms.
"We took a few shortcuts," Tony casually answered after he turned around to talk with Dominic.
"There are shortcuts on the map?" Ketch was surprised by this.
"Who knew," Winnie shrugged.
"Elodie, shoot them," Dominic commanded as continued to drive the team's snowmobile.
"On it," Elodie turned around to face forward and try to get good aim at the Superior Snowstorms.
"She's turning around," Lucien pointed out to his team.
"The Superior Snowstorms must be ahead of them," Winter assumed.
"Or they just gave up on trying to shoot us down," Jacque added.
"Hey Elodie, can I take a shot at using the bazooka?" Ketch kindly asked the pastry gal.
"Huh? I thought you didn't feel like shooting," Elodie believed.
"One try, please," Ketch pleaded.
"Sure," Elodie smiled. "Go ahead big guy," She gave the bazooka to Ketch.
Ketch aimed at the rear of the Superior Snowstorms' snowmobile. He closed his right and took out his tongue as he focused on a clear shot.
"Target acquired," Ketch pulled the trigger from the bazooka and fired. He noticed that nothing came out to hit the Superior Snowstorms. "Hmm, I think this bazooka got jammed.
"Ketch, you had the bazooka aiming backwards and accidentally shot May out of the snowmobile," Elodie informed.
"Oh, oops," Ketch really did not know what else to say.
"May is out of the snowmobile?" Winnie gasped and then looked behind to see May laying on the snow. The distance between them was getting farther and farther. "Dominic, we need to rescue May."
"I'm sure she will make peace with any ice golem around," Dominic assured.
"Dominic, she is our teammate," Winnie pleaded for him to turn around, growing concern.
"I need that first place Jones," Dominic refused to go. "I cannot…"
"We don't know if Embarc will penalize us for not having the full team at the finish line," Winnie interrupted. "Please we need to go back for May."
"... very well," Dominic finally gave in. He turned the snowmobile around and went to rescue May.
This led to the Sunny Snowflakes passing them.
Confessional - Winnie - Shining Stars
"Man, Dominic is prideful when it comes to racing. Almost leaving behind a teammate to get first place? I know none of us can freeze to death thanks to whatever Embarc gave us but is just so wrong he will prioritize winning like that."
End Confessional
"Fixed," Brandon said as he closed the hood to the snow mobile. "This baby should be working better than ever," He said to his team as he turned around to look at them. He had his wrench in his hand while the other hand was empty. He tapped on the hood twice and let out a chuckle.
"I don't like to be the negative type, but I don't think we're going to win," Marco admitted.
"I'm hoping we get at least third but that doesn't seem like an option either," Aditi felt like hope was loss.
"It doesn't matter if we come in first, second, or third. The important thing is that we don't come in last," Andrea told her team. "I have complete faith that none of us will be facing elimination tonight. And if you all have faith on us not coming last, nothing can stop us from achieving our goal."
"She has a point," Char agreed. "Plus Brandon fixed up the snowmobile. Did you make it faster somehow?" He asked the mechanic.
"Guess we will have to find out," Brandon smiled as he spun his wrench around.
All Gleeful Gingerbreads got back in their snowmobile. Marco gripped the vehicle's handles and pressed down hard the throttle with his foot. In a flash they zoomed away.
Back where May laid on the snowy ground Ketch, Elodie, and Winnie went to pick her up. All three of them were now carrying her to their team's snowmobile.
"It looks like she is sleeping," Ketch noted.
"Or you knocked her out so hard she's unconscious," Elodie thought.
"I'll like to think she is sleeping," Winnie decided.
All of sudden the Shining Stars saw the Gleeful Gingerbreads zoom pass them. This angered Dominic.
"Hurry up already we're falling behind," Dominic ordered his teammates who quickly sat back in the snowmobile, with Ketch putting May back in her seat.
Dominic quickly got to driving to try and catch up with the other team.
At the finish line, which was really just a red line with Embarc held a black and white checkerboard flag in her hand to the side.
"How am I going to convince the producers to let me have a mistletoe challenge?" Embarc wondered to herself.
The Superior Snowstorms passed the finish line and then came the Sunny Snowflakes.
"It shouldn't be too hard to do that. After all Chris has done something similar in season two," Embarc continued to talk to herself.
The Gleeful Gingerbreads were the next to cross the finish line while the Shining Stars came in last.
"I'll think about that challenge another day, time to host," Embarc jogged to the four teams.
All the drivers from each team stopped their respective vehicle. Each contestant got out of their seat.
"Congrats Superior Snowstorms for winning today's challenge," Embarc informed the teams.
The Superior Snowstorms cheered happily except for Ben, although he was smiling.
"Shining Stars, you five haven't been that bright since being in a team," Embarc told the five Shining Stars. "Tonight will be the third igloo ceremony in a row."
Confessional - Iggy - Superior Snowstorms
"So Ben isn't as useless as I thought he would be. He earned a bit more respect from me."
End Confessional
At the igloo ceremony, each Shining Star sat on a stump once again for the third time in a row. Their team's symbol appeared on screen.
May grabbed Elodie's arm since the two were sitting next to each other.
"Is either girl group or no group," May warned before releasing her teammate's arm.
Elodie looked at Ketch who smiled at her. She smiled back and when Ketch decided to look elsewhere, she put on a conflicting face.
"I don't really need to explain how the voting works to you five anymore," Embarc spoke happily to the Shining Stars. "Everyone here knows what to do."
Confessional - Dominic - Shining Stars
"To think that I will be losing in the show again," Dominic commented with a defeated expression. His voice also had a sad tone. "Came here to pay off those speeding tickets but all I did was fumble the bag twice. What was I thinking coming back during the racing challenge? I should have played it safe. I should have listened to my friends. Well, my previous friends."
He composed himself after sighing. "May told me to vote for Ketch so I'll do just that. Maybe I can still stay in the game after all."
Confessional - Ketch - Shining Stars
"Dominic has to get out of here. He's not going to be good for the team. So I'm voting for him."
Confessional - Elodie - Shining Stars
She held a piece of paper in one hand while a pen in another nervously. She expressed confliction again on who shall she vote for.
End Confessionals
"Alright, you all voted for who you want gone from your team. Those who received no votes and will get a candy cane are Winnie, Elodie, and May. Congrats again ladies," Embarc tossed a candy cane to each safe Shining Star.
"Women, am I right?" Dominic joked to Ketch, who did not understand his humor.
"The final candy cane goes to…" Embarc stared at Dominic and Ketch with a gleeful intense smirk as dramatic music played.
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"No one!" Embarc announced, surprising the Shining Stars.
"I get to stay?" Dominic stood up from his stump with hopeful glory.
"Not at all," Embarc answered contently, crushing Dominic's hope. "Ketch is eliminated first because he got the most votes. But you are eliminated as well Dominic because in the chestnut card, if the team you reunite loses on your first day back then you're hereby eliminated during the igloo ceremony."
"I should have really read that card," Dominic regretted.
"Ketch and Dominic, to the Chimney of Shame," Embarc instructed.
Ketch stood up from his stump with a frown. He turned around to look at the Shining Star girls.
"Sorry I've messed up these recent two challenges," Ketch apologized. "But I still had fun hanging out with you all."
"Take care Ketch," Winnie waved goodbye.
"We will miss you," Elodie forced a smile, hiding her sadness.
May was off daydreaming.
Ketch entered the Chimney of Shame first and then Dominic. Embarc watched close by with her hands on her hips.
"I'm going to miss that hot dog guy," Embarc admitted. "And I guess Dominic too," She shrugged. Then she giggled. "Nah I'm kidding, I'm going to miss everyone who gets eliminated. Speaking of eliminations," She faced a camera in front of her. "Three down," She held up three fingers. "Twenty to go. Who will be the next contestant voted out? Find out next time on North Pole Showdown!"
The episode faded to black.
Teams
Superior Snowstorms – Iggy, Ben, Tony, Nicky, Tess, Ji-Soon
Sunny Snowflakes – Lucien, Jacque, Tsu, Winter, Letty, Sasha
Gleeful Gingerbreads – Char, Marco, Brandon, Bonnie, Andrea, Aditi
Shining Stars – Elodie, May, Winnie
Placements
24th - Paul
23rd - Ketch
22nd - Dominic
