Terrible Tengu- Jake, Willow, Donna, Nick, Wyo, Anais

Secret Sphinx- Justin, Sadie, Rhonda, Jackson, Rayna

Blainley was currently wearing a lab coat as she wandered about her 'private' mansion. It looked quite medieval and there was quite a lot of lightning going on outside. When the camera focused in on her she smirked to the camera "Welcome to another spectacular episode of Total Drama Legends. I'm sure you're all wondering what we'll be doing this time around, but you'll just have to wait and see!" she teased.

She casually leaned against a windowsill where a graveyard was plainly in view "But, last time on Legends, we had a look at death. The contestants had to sneak past Anubis with a deep dark secret. Followed by an escape from a monster that brings a warning of tragedy, the Banshee. And it all ended with the contestants climbing a string of twine. Char didn't seem to understand how to share, and this caused the Sphinx to go and send their tubby friend home. Will they cope well without their big friend, or will nothing change? Guess we'll have to find out right about… now!"

Intro plays

"Dear mom and dad, I'm doin' fine" At the front of the Japanese island, Blainley, and Shion were standing next to each other, with them both trying to push the other off-screen. Sugar was standing behind them, trying to bring the dazzle and steal the attention of the hosts. While Blainely was enjoying the camera's attention Jake suddenly popped up, before writing something down in his notes.

"You guys are on my Mind" the camera flew to the middle of a large lake in the middle of the island. on the water, Rhonda and Justin were sitting on a small boat together. It was so small they were stuck leaning against each other.

"You asked me what I wanted to be" Rhonda smirked confidently at him as she leaned towards him, however, the model looked uncomfortable as they both tipped over the side as some bubbles slowly surfaced. Jackson popped his head out of the water before discretely swimming away.

"I wanna be famous" on the nearby beach Vernon was quietly writing music down in a small notebook. He smiled as he seemingly finished before a bald eagle flew down and swooped the note from his hands.

"I wanna live close to the sun" the bald eagle flying through the forest with its catch. On the ground, Nick smiled to himself before writing that down in a bird-watching book.

"Go pack your bags because I've already won!" Lightning was running through the forest with a confident smirk on his face as he tried outpacing Wyonetta who was running right next to him with just as confident a smirk.

"Everything to prove, nothing in my way," the duo sprinted past Char, Jasmine, and Donna sitting together on some fallen trees while eating a small snack on their nature trek.

"I'll get there one day" on the other side of the island Anne Maria was lying down on the sand to get a good tan. As Maria enjoyed the sun, Rayna suddenly popped in next to her to enjoy the tan together while winking.

"Cause I wanna be famous!" On the other side of the beach, Sadie was sitting on some stone steps while fawning over Capone. Willow sat behind her, and looked totally out of place and confused about the fawning.

"Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na!" On the dock Blainley was on earlier, Peter was snapping pictures of where she stood, taking pictures of her footmarks in the sand before sighing miserably.

"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous. I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous" All of the contestants were sitting together, with Anais and Jake sitting across from each other. The shorter girl leaned in with Jake, only to kiss him on the cheek. Jake smiled to himself, before immediately turning away from her to write in his notes again as all of the contestants slowly whistled.

Intro Ends

In the Sphinx's awful shack, they were all sleeping soundly. Jackson slept far and away from the others. He already rather hated everyone else, but now that they eliminated the one guy he kind of liked, he was all the more annoyed.

Outside they could hear the rain dripping, with their not-so-sturdy shack not containing much water. After a while, he could feel drips of the rain sneak through a hole in the roof and drop onto his face.

He quietly growled, clutching his trashbag sheets.

Confessional: Jackson

"Even I'm starting to notice that I'm acting like an edgy baby at this point" he shook his head to get the water out of his hair "Not having Char here leaves me as the odd one out. Even more so than earlier. And at the same time, he was one of the few not getting in someone's pants. Now I'm stuck on Love Island… maybe at this point I should just get myself eliminated and avoid having to get involved in that crap"

XXX

Shifting to the manor, Wyonetta was sleeping soundly in her bed. She was sleeping so peacefully that she hardly noticed her teammates had gotten up and were going somewhere else.

However, that stopped when she could see candles lighting up the building. Glancing out her door, she found they were all sitting in a circle around Nick, who was wearing his usual smile. Though his outfit changed from Boy Scout to something more akin to, well, a dictator.

"I'm so glad all of you could join me, honestly. This is the best team I've ever been on" he reached forward to pet each of their heads one at a time to make them feel more comfortable "That is why, I'm giving you all a special little treat" he declared, holding the idol up in his hand.

This caused many of the contestants to light up in excitement "That's exactly right. I'm going to be hiding this idol. I felt just awful hiding it from you all, and no leader who trusts his crew would just keep this to use against them"

As he spoke, it was clear he was sad to have done that to his allies "And that is why, I'm hiding it in the mansion. Of course, I'm going to make sure that the other team has no chance of snatching this from us. Any questions?"

His loyal assistants didn't seem to have any questions as they nodded "Wonderful! Donna, can you make sure that they don't try and peek as I work?"

"Señor Sí Señor!" she saluted with a big bright grin before turning to her fellow teammates to stare down at them like a hawk.

Jake, Anais, and Willow glanced at each other before looking back out the window. The big guy had a bit of a smirk on his face "Hey, you guys wanna play in the rain?"

The two girls silently frowned at him, with Willow just shaking her head as she thought about the mud. "If you go out there you're just going to catch yourself a cold" his girlfriend informed him, pushing up non-existent glasses "And if there happens to be a challenge, that would ruin your abilities to help-"

He had already run off into the rain, hoping to be the first one to eat a worm, first to eat mud, and first to get a cold. Oh boy was he going to get it all!

Anais silently groaned, rubbing the bridge of her nose.

Meanwhile, their leader continued to walk away, whistling a little tune. Once he was sure none of them could see his expression he couldn't help but smirk and eye one of the portraits in the hallway. Behind one random portrait he found a little combination lock, and inside was the real thing.

Looking down at the statue in his hand, it was clear to see up close that it was entirely off and not remotely realistic. But the only one who seemed to actually notice was one silly little monkey named Mittens, who was quietly growling at him.

Confessional: Mittens

The little monkey had its arms crossed as it "ooo'd" and "aaa'd" angrily about Nick. Of course, there was no clue what he said in particular, but it was clear he was annoyed.

XXX

Back with the Sphinx, they were all huddled together in the shack. It protected them against very little in the way of the cold or rain so they were just trying to keep warm. The only exception to this was Rhonda, who was not at all bothered by the mud or the rain messing with her hair and outfit.

"She's so reliable" Sadie whispered, using Rayna more like a pillow than anything else. Sitting beside them were Justin and Jackson, who didn't want to get too close and join their awkward snuggle.

"Oh yeah, really reliable" the shipper nodded up at her buddy, before glancing over at Justin and Jackson "Hey, why aren't you two going out and hitting up your girls? You can do a lot more than watching Rhonda work!"

"My girl?" Jackson raised an eyebrow. At the same time, Justin looked like he was turning pale at the implication of her statement.

"Yes your girls!" she snapped "Jeez, it's like you guys are trying to not get a girl while I carry all the weight! You two could be more like Rhonda and Sadie. They're at least constantly pining after each other!"

Sadie blushed at being used as the 'perfect example'. Jackson quietly grumbled before he went over to lie in his bed "Wake me when there's a challenge. Or, even better, hit me over the head with a rock if you feel like it"

Rayna silently glanced between him and a rock, very much contemplating if that would be for the best or if she should at least wait for him to kiss Willow first.

Justin, meanwhile, stared down at her in silence. He was rubbing his chin, not sure how he should judge her now.

Confessional: Justin

"I just don't know how I should respond to Rayna's comment about me going off and flirting with someone else. I mean, obviously being the handsome man that I am, it would be obvious that I'm with someone. But, Sugar did mention that she saw someone sneaking around not too long ago…"

XXX

As it continued to rain, a loud alarm went off "ATTENTION CAMPERS! A HORRIBLE NATURAL DISASTER IS ON THE WAY. RUN TO NATURAL SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!"

Almost immediately the Sphinx started panicking as they ran around wildly to try and find somewhere safe. Jackson was the first to run to safety, going straight for the Tengu mansion.

Willow was more than ready to help him inside when Nick suddenly appeared and shut the door. With a click, the door was locking the Sphinx out.

"N-nick?" She looked up at the team leader, unsure why he would keep them locked out. He smiled nonchalantly at her, taking her hands and holding them tight.

"It's ok. Donna, this is clearly an attempt at a challenge from Blainley. They're going to be okay. Can you say okay for me?"

"O-okay" the explorer quietly nodded "S-should we just go about our business then?"

The boy scout quickly shook his head "You take the others into the basement. I would hate for me to be wrong and all the people I care about are hurt. Especially you Donna. You being hurt because of my own faults would be the worst thing I can imagine" he rested a hand on her cheek, causing her to quickly blush red.

His sweet words were so effective, that she hardly noticed the earlier half of his words about potentially being wrong and having people be hurt. Donna ran off, going to grab all of her contestant mates to help save them.

While she was busy, the boy scout casually walked away, waving tauntingly at the window to the outside as he walked inside and made his way to the basement. Outside that window, Rhonda was fuming at his behavior. It was so bad smoke was puffing out her nose like an angry bull.

"What does he think he's doing!?" She snapped, using her large body to slam against the door.

"I-I'm sure he just, like, forgot to unlock it" Sadie tried to think more positively before the door flung off its handles and collapsed into multiple pieces.

"There, problem solved" Rhonda smiled proudly before heading inside. Sadie couldn't help but swoon at how strong the Wrestler was as she just silently followed after her.

The others quickly followed after them, taking in the warm building "Alright everyone" Justin spoke up "Let's try and find their safe room. Would be awful if something worse happened to my beautiful hair than being rained on"

Just about everyone ignored his comment and just wandered around. The male model silently frowned but started looking as well, with Jackson openly laughing at him as they searched. After some time, they found the door to the safe room. Justin was the first to grab at the door, tugging on it to open when it flung open and slammed into his face "Ow!" he whined, holding his nose miserably.

"Oh, hello" Anais looked at them, just barely leaning out the door "Can I help you?"

"Yeah, we wanna get in your building before this whole place comes down" Jackson explained while trying to open the door, but Anais just slammed it in their face.

"Apologies, but Nick says he doesn't want to let you all in until he's sure it's not a warning" she spoke through the metal door. Though she didn't sound all too apologetic.

"Hey!" Jackson started banging on the door, trying to pry it open with all his strength. But to no effect. It was either locked or Nick had gotten all of them to hold the door shut.

Rayna snickered as she watched Justin kicking his feet while Jackson yelled every bad word in the book at the door "Ametures" she whispered before walking over and knocking on the door "Excuse me, Jake? If you remember, there's a storm going on outside. If you were to… run on outside you would be the first contestant to die in a stor-"

Before she could even finish a Jake-sized hole was left in the safe door with a second one being made in the front door to the mansion "Well, that worked better than I expected" she crawled under the opening and snuck inside.

Looking around, she found all of the Tengu lying on their backs. It looked like they had quite the struggle to stop Jake before he chose to crash through anyway "Nice to see you're all comfy" she mused while taking a seat away from the open door.

"Ah, I was just about to go out and look for you all" Nick whispered with a weak smile.

"Oh we're sure of that" Jackson deadpanned while leading a still whining Justin into the safe room. Nick nervously laughed as more and more of the contestants arrived so everyone but Jake was safe and sound.

The storm raged all night long, creating quite the dangerous effect. Though, at the same time, no one was all too worried about Jake still not being in there. Even Anais was sleeping soundly. So they hardly noticed the rain noises outside had stopped and instead, was the sound of construction.

Upon waking, Jackson was the first to leave the room. Purely to investigate Nick's room and find where he might be hiding his idol. But quickly found there was no sign of his room. Because the entire mansion had disappeared in a matter of a single day.

"That must have been one crazy storm…" he muttered to himself, eyeing the landscape suspiciously "Where did all that debris go?"

"That's a good question" Willow suddenly appeared next to him while rubbing her chin. It was clear she was trying to look like she was thinking. Jackson was thrown off by her appearance at first but slowly nodded.

"Want to actually contribute to my question?" he lightly teased her.

"Ah, well, in that case, it's definitely a challenge" she shrugged, figuring that much was just obvious.

Suddenly, they heard a helicopter from above. Blainley was driving it and carrying some heavy items as well. In the copter's crane, there was a massive pile of wood, cement, and other basic materials for building.

"Hey hey, good morning kiddos! Good to see you all survived the storm" the hostess announced with a grin.

"Hey guys, I'm back!" Jake called, missing a few teeth as he started running back over to the bunker. Of course, the host let go of the junk the moment he got close to it, crushing him instantly.

"Whoops" Blainley giggled innocently "My bad. Why don't you two go get your teammates before I "accidentally" drop some more junk down on you all?"

Jackson and Willow silently glanced at each other. The shorter girl sprinted off, not wanting to be crushed, but he simply stood there and waited to call Blainley's bluff. Blainley and Jackson silently glared at each other until all of the contestants were back together. Jake was the last to join them, slowly crawling his way from the debris.

Blainley and her plane slowly came to a landing, revealing that there was some strange person who was bagged in the back seat "Welcome to another challenge contestants! This one is perhaps not too different to one we've done before. But we added a bit of a twist"

She gestured to the pile of junk, grinning "See, both of your structures were annihilated in that awful, unforeseen storm. A true shame. But! For the first part of the challenge, you'll be making a new fort for your team. Though, I should warn you now, getting the better fort will not give your team any new special advantage"

"Then what's the point?" Rhonda deadpanned.

"Oh dear sweet Rhonda" Nick shook his head "The point is that each team can have a nice bonding time together. That's the most important thing here after all!"

The big bad wrestler silently stared at him before tripping him with her leg, sending him face-first into the muddy ground as he ate shit.

"Thank you Rhonda" their host grinned.

Confessional: Nick

"Stupid storm ruined all of my plans" he growled, rubbing the dirt off of himself "Specifically, I'm lacking the real idol now! At first I just didn't want those Sphinx inside to increase the odds of them finding my hiding spot, but now I gotta go find it all over again!"

Nick rubbed his brow, trying to calm himself "Whatever. I know what will improve my mood. Where's that creature, Mittens? I wanna see how long he can last under water without breathing"

XXX

Far away from the contestants, Mittens was hanging from a tree like a sloth. The branch looked ready to collapse at any minute but he still held on tight. It was hard to tell due to all the wreckage and damage around, but in one of his mitten-covered hands, he had the true idol.

That poor monkey made weak little noises as it held on tight. Before the branch broke and he was sent tumbling off screen.

Back with the contestants, Blainley was off to the side, drinking some tea as she simply continued to ignore the presence of the bagged person in the back of her copter.

"Alright, team!" Nick declared excitedly "This is more than simple. Donna, Wyonetta, and I will be carrying supplies back while Jake, Anais, and Willow have to put it together into something stable"

"That sounds like an effective plan. I'm sure none of us would be exceptional at the carrying part" Anais nodded in approval.

"I already touched the debris so that's fine by me" Jake stated casually. Leaving Willow to just nod her head in agreement. She wasn't sure she'd be good at something like construction, but she wasn't going to be the one that stood out, no way.

Nick lit up in a proud grin "Great! Anything else someone would like to add before we go and win another challenge?"

"Um, I do actually" Donna raised her hand, frowning for probably the first time in her entire life "Has anyone seen Mittens since the storm?"

"I meant something important" the boy scout deadpanned, patting her on the head. Unlike usual it felt more condescending and uninterested "We can look for your monkey once we've won. You wouldn't want everyone else to be disappointed that you didn't bring your A-game, right?"

"R-right, of course" The explorer was frowning even worse as she quickly went over to the pile to grab more things.

Nick smiled like a proud father before going to join her "Oh, and Wyonetta, if you're not feeling it feel free to take a break and not join in our activities. I know you felt quite inclined to skip our workouts in the morning so it's more than understandable"

Wyonetta silently scowled "You're a bigger jerk than usual today" she muttered before going forward to go and grab some supplies.

On the other side of the field, the Tengu were far more disfunctional. Jackson was doing everything he could to try and drag some pieces from the pile, but he just didn't have any upper body strength. At the same time, his teammates weren't really trying that hard either.

Justin was fixing his nose and looking at the camera, hoping the cameraman would give him a thumbs up. But he just got a shake of the head instead. Rhonda meanwhile was being fanned off by Sadie, seeing as it was quite humid after that horrible storm. And then Rayna was walking around, sniffing the air like a bloodhound.

"What are you doing?" the male model frowned at the shipper "You're acting weirder than usual"

Rayna ignored his comment, just forming a proud smile "Oh it's quite simple. I can smell something absolutely delectable in the air and I need it! And no, it's not the fact love's in the air over there" she gestured to Rhonda, who was openly glaring at her.

"It's so strong… I can almost taste it!" she was drooling a bit. But she still had no idea what that smell was and why it got her so amped up.

"Can we stop talking about romance and help me!?" Jackson snapped, barely dragging a handful of wooden planks back to their base "I mean seriously, why am I the only one remotely trying?"

Rhonda shrugged, leaning back to scratch her back with a tree "It's like she said, we don't get much of a reward for an amazing castle. So it's really not all that much of a concern in my book. And, if we lose, I get to eliminate Rayna so she'll stop making comments about me"

"I'd eliminate you if I could" the poor boy muttered. Though she could easily hear him, and snapped a twig in-between her fingers to instantly shut him up.

As the hostess continued to watch in silence, it was almost amusing to see how the two teams got on. The Tengu moved like a well-oiled machine, with the moment a piece was brought over to the fortress Anais or Jake were quick to glue it to the spot. Of course, Anais was doing a better job at this, like she was just working with legos.

And the three moving objects were quick to drag a piece over as soon as they needed another. Though, Willow was just kind of putting things on a stack and hoping no one would notice how un-sturdy it looked.

While, at the same time, the Sphinx were going with something a bit more simple. Jackson created something like an underground mole tunnel that went around a good bit. By the time he had finished, he collapsed on the grass, panting violently.

"I… hate… all of you"

"Are we really going to have to sleep in dirt?" Sadie whimpered a bit "That s-sounds so nasty…"

Jackson silently glared at her before lightly punching the ground she was standing on, causing the ground under her to collapse into the tunnel. Rhonda couldn't help but glare at Jackson dirtying up her princes- that girly girl for basically no reason. That was until, once again, Rayna was casually grinning her way at her clear annoyance.

To hide her trail, she pointed in the direction of Jackson and burst out into a clearly false laughter. Rayna clicked her tongue and shook her head, too disappointed for words.

"Alright contestants! That's enough!" their host declared "I think things are more prepared for the big real challenge"

Her contestants all rushed over, quite curious to hear what any of that was for. Of course, in the back of most of their heads, they knew there was a chance that the building was for nothing and was totally unrelated.

"Well then, contestants. We're doing a rather simple story here today, one I'm sure you've all heard of! See, today you're going to be playing war! And not just for fun, you have a prize at stake!"

Blainley walked back and pulled the bag off the tied-up person in the back of her helicopter, revealing Anne Maria dressed in a big poofy red dress.

"Bout time you finally let me out. I'm going to get bag head cause of youse!" the Jersey reject growled, shaking her hair a bit to try and get it back into its natural shape.

Rayna's eyes widened almost instantly before shooting over and grabbing Anne Maria in a hug "Awoooooga! It was so sweet of you to go and bring her back just for me host lady!"

Blainley silently grabbed Rayna by the head and slowly dragged her away from the Jersey girl "Yea, no, not for you. See, today's theme is Troy! For simplicity's sake, the basic story of the myth is that-"

"Helen of Troy was taken because he chose Aphrodite over Hera and Eris and gave her to the Prince of Troy. And then the Greeks fought them for her"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaactually" Anais barged in "The competition was between Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena. Eris was the one who created the game in the first place to spite them"

Jake froze in place, taking a few moments to make sure he had just heard her right. First she was the best at putting the house together, now she knows more about myths than him. That… would not stand. The poor short girl hardly noticed his new death glare, as she was far too proud of herself for knowing more about some useless knowledge than someone else.

"Yea, yea we get it. The nerd couple is super nerdy. Now, for which one of the two teams is going to get the fair maiden first, that is just as simple! Seeing as the story starts with the maiden being stolen, the Tengu will start off with her"

Blainley grabbed their ex-contestant and flung her into Nick's arms "Ah, thank you for this ma'am" he gave her a small bow.

"Don't mention it" Blainley waved them off "You've got a minute to prepare her in your base before the Sphinx can come and try to take their woman back. So I'd use that time well" in her hand was a timer, which she used to set a timer for one hour.

"You heard the hostess team, let us make our new guest quite comfy!" he dragged her along, with Donna helping him along.

Rayna silently frowned as she was taken away "W-we've got to get her back this instant!"

"Jeez, relax" Justin frowned at her "It's not like it's the end of the world if it takes some time to get her back"

"It IS the end of the world. If I can rescue her, she'll feel like repaying me. Just like Blainely did when I saved her" she declared firmly, just getting annoyed looks by most of her teammates.

Inside the Tengu base, Wyonetta was put on Maria duty as she kicked and flailed around "I am already not having fun with this" she deadpanned.

"Please, Wyo, try and be nice to our new guest" he pat Maria on the head "Apologies for being forced back into this competition. But I promise we shall treat you quite well"

She just rolled her eyes, not caring one bit what that fruity little boy scout had to say to her "Glad you understand. Now go and take her upstairs a bit. They'll have quite the long run to catch up with you and your strength Wyo!"

"Don't try and be nice to be" she glared before going up the stairs of their fortress. Jake watched her go up, noticing that the building goes up quite a good bit. A little bastard grin formed on his face before he placed his hand on Anais's shoulder, gripping a bit too firmly.

"Seeing as we won't be great at holding off a fight, why don't you and I go up the fortress and make sure everything is nice and stable? We can fix things as they're getting destroyed if they're throwing hard things over at us"

"That is a good point Jake" she firmly nodded to his head before going up the stairs with him, trailing a good bit behind Wyonetta. This left Nick, Donna, and Willow right at the bottom.

"Remember team, try your absolute best! So long as you're trying, that's all that matters to me" Nick encouraged them, getting some small smiles from his team "Now, let's try and weld this door shut" he smiled while pulling out some welding tools.

Outside, the Sphinx were preparing themselves, with Rayna down in a sprinting start. She had to make sure she was ready to go when that timer went off. Blainely slowly counted down the "3, 2, 1" before a loud alarm went off, letting the Sphinx go to hunt their princess.

Rayna sprinted through the castle's front door, not remotely bothered by how well-barricaded it was. She didn't even bother to mess with the three Tengu on the ground floor, she had a mission to accomplish.

"Hey, stop her!" Nick called, already making his way to the stairs when Rhonda suddenly walked into the room with a smirk.

"I wouldn't be going anywhere dweeb" she casually raised her fist and punched the side of the wall, causing massive cracks to start forming "I'm sure none of you three would want to have your home come crashing down again"

Willow panicked, not wanting to see any of her teammates become pancakes with the place coming down. She grabbed some of the glue and got right to work, fixing as fast as possible.

"Right, good thinking Willow!" Nick encouraged her before running over "I apologize, and hate the very idea of harming a woman, but I must ask you to leave!" he reached his arms forward and tried to use his speed as momentum to push her out. However, the moment he made contact his arms bent the wrong way like he just tried punching solid steel.

Nick cried in pain, dropping onto his knees instantly. Donna was about to come over and help him when she was suddenly dragged under the ground. Below, in the trenches, Jackson had grabbed the explorer by her legs and dragged her down so she would have trouble catching up. She violently kicked her feet to get him off, which repeatedly got him right in the face.

"Well, we're stuck" Donna frowned a bit, knowing Jackson just wasn't going to let her go.

Further up, Wyonetta had entered one of the main rooms in the building. She set her down on a bed, facing the window "Now, before the two of us are stuck together. We don't have to make any small talk right?" Anne Maria silently glared at the jock, which got a sigh of relief out of her "Great. I had absolutely no interest in hearing anything you had to say"

Wyo moved to sit in a chair not too far from her bed, just looking out the window "Get the most boring job. Because of course, I do"

While she was getting comfortable, she could hear loud bangs and footsteps making their way towards her "What in the…" she got up and moved towards the door, wondering what it could possibly be. Looking down, she could see Rayna was still going a mile a minute sprinting up the stairs.

"Oh" she whispered to herself and quickly shut and locked the door, pressing herself against it to keep her from slamming the door open with her speed and strength. But that just wasn't enough. Rayna shot through like a rocket, causing the door to slam down on Wyonetta like a cartoon.

While rushing through, she grabbed Anne Maria in the bridal carry and launched right out the window "Are you crazy or somethin!?" the Jersey girl panicked before holding onto the shipper as tight as possible, not wanting to be dropped to her death.

"Don't worry, I prepared for every possible outcome!" she declared, before flying straight for a trampoline that was being set up. Sadie and Justin were the only two over there, with both of them just kind of hoping they actually set it up right.

When the two women came landing, they bounced up and down repeatedly. Of course Rayna made sure to be under Maria with each bounce until they were finally set.

"Ugh, you better hope you didn't ruin my hair!" Maria snapped while sitting up, applying layer after layer of hair-spray to herself to make sure it stayed in its strong form.

"Could I maybe interest you in joining our humble abode?" Rayna requested with a small smile, still lying blissfully. She gestured off to the side, where there was just a hole in the ground.

"Uh, yeah, not a chance! That looks absolutely horrid! And nothing is going to change my mind on that!" she crossed her arms firmly.

Sadie silently watched the interaction, before she remembered her own little goal. She had to be a girlboss just like Rhonda! So, she grabbed the Jersey girl by her arm and dragged her along before just shoving her into the hole without asking "We need to protect you so, um, d-don't make me ask twice about you being with us!"

Before Anne Maria could argue with her any further, she grabbed Rayna and pushed her in as well "Make sure she doesn't try breaking, um, out. Yeah!"

"Aye aye captain!" Rayna saluted.

Confessional: Rayna

"What a perfect little challenge! I get to spend time with Anne Maria, play spin the bottle with Anne Maria, seven minutes in heaven with Anne Maria. It's like this challenge was made for me!"

XXX

Back at the castle, the Tengu were in for quite a hard time. Nick was now just trying to get past Rhonda, but she was an indestructible wall. But the others were managing to make their way around these little challenges. Namely, Donna decided to stop trying to break out of the ground and was now digging into their tunnels.

"I'm not giving up yet!" she proudly proclaimed before finally getting deep enough to be face-to-face with Jackson, who had bruises all over his face.

"Uh, hi" he miserably smiled before quickly turning around and crawling away. Donna chased after him, but when she reached the spot, she found multiple different paths and no idea which one he went through.

"Guys!' she called back "I might need some help tracking Jackson!"

"I-I'm sure I won't help much, but coming!" she shouted before rushing down after Donna, with Nick chasing after.

"Hey! Where do you three think you're going!?" Rhonda snapped, trying to grab Nick and pull him back but she was just too slow. He ducked into the hole as she tripped and slammed head-first into it. Those holes weren't nearly large enough for her frame, resulting in her instantly getting stuck "Oh, well, isn't that hilarious?" she snapped, desperately trying to get out. The more her attempts failed, the more pissed she got.

Wyonetta slid down the stair's rail, before noticing Rhonda stuck in the hole. She couldn't help but burst into laughter walking bye "Hey, miss caked up, mind telling me where all the action went?"

"Like I would tell you!" She muffled, shaking violently "let me out of here and I might just not break your skull!"

"You might do that by sitting on me" she mocked, kicking some dirt onto her "I was right to not see you as much of a rival after Lightning left"

Wyonetta casually walked away, finding that funnier than actually finding their team.

"Let me out of here!" Rhonda roared, kicking around violently to the same pathetic result.

Under the ground, Rayna and Anne Maria we're actually getting along quite well. The Shipper was being allowed to touch Maria's feet, to do her nails of course. But is there a greater win than that?

"At least one of you knew class if it were to bite your butt" she snarked. She was basically given a little throne in Rayna's room.

"I could certainly like you do that if you felt like it!" Rayna lit up in a big grin.

"Don't push your luck, shortie" she glared down at her "You'll be lucky to even do my finger nails"

"That's certainly a new goal!" The shipper proclaimed, before they suddenly heard someone crawling into her little base. Looking over they found Willow, who instantly froze in place.

The three girls silently stared at each other. Willow nervously chuckled once she realized playing dead wasn't going to get her out of this situation "I'll… see you two around"

Before she could escape that little encounter, someone else entered through the hole she took. Though, lucky foe her, it was an ally. A large rock was thrown, knocking Rayna out almost instantly.

"What in the hell do you two think you're doin!?" Anne Maria snapped "My pedicure aint even close to done!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah" Nick snapped at her "Willow, carry the "princess" for me, I'll lead us out of this little tunnel"

Willow stared at him for a moment. She wanted to ask why he threw that rock, but his expression told her to just make things easier and follow along. So she grabbed Anne Maria, ignoring her complaints, and followed along.

"Thank you Willow. I know you're always the one I can rely on most. I hope you always remember how much I trust you to do well. Everyone else is too happy to write you off, but I know better" Even if he was praising her, she couldn't help but feel intimidated by her words.

Moving through the tunnels, they found they were, well, lost. It was hard to understand which place was going where, since there were no actual signs of that. But Nick kept leading her along like the leader he was.

That was until Willow heard something behind them. Looking around, she realized Jackson was behind them. Using the little strength that Twink had, it caused the ground to cave in on itself. Willow turned around to him, panicking as Anne Maria just looked entirely uninterested.

"Hand her over Willow. I can't take a loss on my team. They're absolutely going to vote me out!" he sounded more like he was pleading than trying to threaten her into sharing.

She just stared at him before nodding, and casually moving Anne Maria towards him. He was so taken aback by her actually handing the princess over that he didn't know how to react "D-don't worry about it" Willow whispered "M-my team kind of h-hates each other. If we l-lose it's going to be Anais, Nick, or Wyo"

"Good… point" he mumbled, nodding his head a little before he dragged the princess off in another direction and into a different tunnel.

Confessional: Willow

"O-one of the few benefits of being dead weight, n-no one's going to t-think you're throwing if you do slightly worse than usual" she weakly laughed "B-but seriously. I c-can see that Jackson won't last if his team loses. It's m-m-my responsibility as his one friend still here to make sure that doesn't happen! And if I go, well, I-I-I was surprised I even got this far"

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Well above the tunnels, which just about every contestant was running around in, Jake and Anais were looking down from the very top of their tower. Anais in particular was leaning over the side with a small frown "What's happened to all of the pinheads running around fighting each other?"

Jake smirked to himself, reaching his hands up as he stood behind Anais. Oh, this was going to be great. Even if she survived that crash, there was a very solid chance she would go into a coma or at least experience brain damage. So one way or another, he's going to win.

She glanced over her shoulder at him "Do you think we should go back down or something? We've been rather out of all the action downstairs"

"After you!" he cheered before suddenly pushing her as hard as he could, not caring if it was clear as day what he was doing. She hardly had the time to react as she was flung off the side and started plummeting like a comet. Her body didn't take too long to reach the ground, at least, as she created a massive crater. This action caused all of the underground tunnels to fall under their own weight. Though, in the process, this caused Jake's castle to come crashing down. But he didn't panic one bit. The large boy just smiled at the camera, like he was going down with his ship and had no regrets about it.

As the dust settled, Blainley's alarm went off with a loud blair "And we're done!" she declared, walking through the debris "Now… who has our dear old Princess in their grasp?"

It was rather hard to see with all the destroyed nature around, but she eventually found what she was looking for. Well away from the others was Anne Maria lying in the dirt with a miserable groan. But, the one contestant touching her was none other than Anais, who had crash-landed right onto her poofy hair. Which seemed to have really shoved her back in the wrong direction.

"And the Tengu won once again!" she declared, getting a handful of weak groans of victory from her weakened teammates.

The only Tengus not looking like they were on deaths door were Wyonetta and Donna, who actually looked just fine overall "Psh, it was just some dirt. How did it wipe you all out that bad?" she rolled her eyes while wiping some dirt from her shoulder.

"You all just need a bit more moling experience!" Donna quickly agreed with Wyo "Everyone knows when the cave is-a shakin, you go a scratchin!"

Blainley entirely ignored them as she focused in on the other contestants "And for the rest of you. Have fun meeting me at the elimination ceremony again again Sphinxes!"

Confessional: Rayna

"Kind of stinks that we lost, but, at the same time I did basically go on a date with Maria so it evens out a bit in my mind. But I'm gonna have to vote for Jackson. He never finished his romance arc or anything, but it feels like he's never going to get there"

Confessional: Jackson

"I think it's obvious who I'm voting" he checked off Rayna "Less romance here the better"

Confessional: Justin

"Who to choose, who to choose" the male model tapped his pen to his cheek "I'm still not sure if Rayna knows about me and Sugar. And now's a pretty clear time for me to take care of Jackson. But then again I'm not interested in being found out. Especially if people found out we… kissed" he visibly gagged "Can't believe someone was worse than Rhonda as an admirer"

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Blainley smiled down on the contestants, who were all still quite dirty and annoyed. Rayna was at least lucky enough to have the Princess sitting on her lap.

"You're all looking adorable. Like you were a bunch of kids who played around in the mud for fun. But let's talk about something not so fun. Who gets to stay for another day!"

"Rhonda, Sadie, and Justin. You all are able to fight another day!" she declared, throwing them some marshmallows that they were quick to enjoy.

"That just leaves Jackson and Rayna. Both of you aren't exactly popular with your fellow contestants, and both of you failed to keep your hands on the prize. Pretty easy to guess why either of you would go"

"Yea, just get on with it we get it already" Jackson snapped, crossing his arms. It looked like he was a true baby who got yelled at by the teacher.

"Seems like baby's going to cry that he's going home" she snickered "Anyways, the last one of you who gets to stay and will compete for another day will be…

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Jackson! You're safe for another day baby boy" she chucked a marshmallow at him, surprising everyone around them.

"Dang" Rayna frowned to herself before immediately shrugging "Oh well"

"Y-you're not upset?" Sadie nervously frowned "I-I-I really didn't want to vote for you. B-but, um, you did lose Maria first on our team…" she tapped her fingers together nervously.

"Bah, it's fine" Rayna shrugged while getting up "I'm just happy today's the day I get to go, since I'm preeeeeeeeeeeeeetty sure she gets to leave with me. Is that right miss host lady?"

Blainley looked like she was barely paying attention, glancing off to the side while messing with her nails "Yea, sure, doesn't matter to me at all. So long as you're both out of here"

"Yessssss" Rayna pumped her fist "Oh, I almost forgot I had to do something before I left!" she walked over to Sadie and gave her a hug, causing the big woman to blush a bit but quickly returned the hug "Have fun with your new girlfriend" she whispered before suddenly grabbing Sadie and Rhonda's faces to make them kiss like dolls.

The two women felt their eyes jolt open in pure shock before Rayna skipped away "See you guys, it's been really fun!" she proudly declared before being dragged by some interns off to a boat. Anne Maria was dragged along after, still quite infuriated by all the mud she had gotten all over herself.

"Have fun!" Justin called, waving her goodbye with a small smirk. Rhonda and Sadie were still too surprised to wave her off, while Jackson was quietly snickering at their reaction.

"Glad you all chose to make the right choice" the edgy boy noted while getting up "And I'm excited to never speak with any of you again once we reach the merge" he mused while casually walking away.

"Guess I know why the two of you haven't been interested in me as much as of late" Justin also teased them on the way out, as both girls looked anywhere but at the other.

Later into the night, Anais was wheeled back to her teammates, who just had to use a cave again seeing as every other base they formed was long gone. She was in a near full body cast and looked quite miserable.

"It's nice to have you back again Anais" the boy scout grinned at her "We were certainly worried about you. Just try and take a rest, and if you need to tell us something important, we'll try and hear you"

Over in a corner, Jake was quietly smirking at her, making it more than clear he had intentions of messing with her much more than he already had. Anais's eyes widened as she tried to muffle out what happened. And for some strange reason, Nick just smiled.

"That's sweet of you Anais. I hope you know, as your leader, I think you're a wonderful follower. Now, let's all get some rest yes? We have another challenge tomorrow so it's good to get ahead of that now!"

His teammates were quick to do as he told, lying down to get ready and well-rested for the night. Anais could only continue to make little muffled cries for help as Jake made a slit of the neck gesture at her.

AN: And there goes Rayna. I'm sure I've said it before but with this cast it's really quite hard to eliminate anyone. They're all really quite likable, and Rayna has easily been one of the most fun to do. She let me be a bit more perverse and mess with the characters. Plus, she was unbelievably based. The others just have more in the way of plot with each other, and now that Rhonda and Sadie have swapped spit… her mission is accomplished.