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
"Last time on North Pole Showdown," Embarc recapped the events of the previous episode. Flashbacks occurred during the recap. "The teams raced against each other around the snowy lands of the North Pole in snowmobiles. Tess almost costed the Superior Snowstorms to lose immediately the challenge, but thanks to Ben's quick thinking of identifying routes he managed to help his team win first once again. The Sunny Snowflakes came in second, somehow avoiding anything bad happening to them after half the team threw the bazooka they collected to the Gleeful Gingerbreads who crashed."
"The Gingerbreads would have lost the challenge if it weren't for two factors," Embarc continued to narrate. "Factor one, Elodie letting Ketch use the bazooka which was accidentally used on May. Causing Dominic to turn around for the team to rescue her in the snow. Factor two, Brandon coming in clutch for his team and fixing up their damaged snowmobile to reach incredible speeds. In the end, the Shining Stars lost again."
"This led to Ketch being voted out while Dominic became eliminated due to the clauses of the chestnut card he found for him to return."
The flashbacks ended. Embarc showed herself petting a deer's head.
"Which team will rise to the top of this next challenge? Find out now on North Pole Showdown!" Embarc exclaimed.
The deer Embarc petted bit her hand.
"Ouch," Embarc felt slight pain, although her facial expression showed it did not hurt that much.
(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 morning with the Shining Stars waking up from their slumber. All three of them raised their backs from laying on the bed. Elodie sighed to herself which caught the attention of Winnie and May.
"It was either you or Ketch," May told Elodie. "No hard feelings."
"We could have voted for Dominic again," Elodie said as she crossed her arms and looked away from May, putting up a pouting face.
"I wasn't going to vote for the one that was bringing the team to at least a second place victory," May replied, defending her reasoning.
"Still, it stinks we've lost three in a row," Elodie decided to change topic.
"If we lose again I think you two should vote me off," Winnie said to her teammates.
Elodie and May looked at her, both wearing slight frowns.
Confessional - Winnie - Shining Stars
"I don't like being negative, at all. It feels revolting when I get like this, but sadly the truth is this team hasn't been good. Am I to blame? Now that I'm giving it thought… not entirely, but I definitely have to do better. I know my family is watching me, especially my mom, but there are points when I feel like giving up."
End Confessional
Iggy and Tony currently were doing another jog session around the outside of the workshop. Iggy started to walk slowly during a turn and stopped jogging. Tony looked behind while still jogging to see his teammate stop. Tony turned around to walk back to Iggy.
"What's the matter, can't keep up?" Tony asked half-jokingly.
"Pfft, I was jogging a lot more before you decided to join me," Iggy smirked as he took a breather. "Don't think too highly of yourself."
"Still don't want to do that alliance?" Tony changed topic as he was now standing in front of his captain.
"Tony, dude, get if through your head that I'm not doing an alliance with you. We have won three challenges in a row. In fact I won four challenges if we take into account the ice golem one," Iggy once again reminded in a nice tone.
"Come on man, safety in numbers. No one on the team is going to know," Tony assured.
"When our team loses I'll consider it," Iggy replied as he walked away. "Which will be never. So don't talk about it anymore."
Once Iggy left the area Tsu arrived behind Tony. Tony turned around and got scared.
"Dude, what the heck? Could have given me a heart attack," Tony told Tsu annoyed.
"Let's cut to the chase. I've been hearing a lot of negativity from you about your teammates. It will be a shame if they find out how you really feel," Tsu said with a finger on his chin and looking smug at Tony.
"Have you been stalking me?" Tony wondered, not really faze by what Tsu is telling him.
"No, as an average person such as myself I simply heard you talking bad about your teammates. Now I'm blackmailing you to inform me of your team's weaknesses so that I don't tell them that you think they are crazy and losers," Tsu explained nicely.
Tony chuckled a bit. "So that's the game we're playing huh?" He extended his hand for Tsu to shake. "Alright, you got yourself a deal."
"Uh," Tsu did not expect Tony to take this casually. Nevertheless he shook hands with Tony. "Is not really a deal when I'm playing you but okay. Just get me a list of weaknesses tomorrow."
Confessional - Tsu - Sunny Snowflakes
"Man, is not fun when the person you're using doesn't beg to not let it happen. Not even a scared reaction came from him," He looked disappointed in himself. "I'm going to have to do better."
Confessional - Tony - Superior Snowstorms
"If Tsu wants to think he is on top then sure let him have it. The way I see it, as long as he doesn't spill the beans he can sabotage my team all he wants. Not only I'm protected from his possible weird shenanigans, but I also now have dirt on him. Imagine telling his teammates him and I are in an 'alliance'. Ha, that would be fun. But for now, I'll let him play his game."
End Confessionals
"Ji-Soon, I really d-doubt this makes me appear more adult," Nicky said to her teammate, looking at herself in a mirror.
The two contestants were inside their team's room.
Nicky now wore a red dress with white polka dots all over down to her knees, a black belt tightened to the dress, white boots, and a mushroom hat that matched her dress.
"Nonsense, you look amazing," Ji-Soon told Nicky contently as she stands behind her teammate.
"What happened to that Sunlight cosplay you were making me?" Nicky wondered.
"Oh, that style wouldn't work for you at all," Ji-soon spoke honestly and proceeded to head to the closet.
"I don't… q-quite understand. Looking like a mushroom makes me feel more kid like," Nicky confessed honestly as she looked at Ji-Soon grabbing a sewing kit from the closet.
"Don't worry, I'm sure you will go through your character arc soon," Ji-Soon stated joyfully as she went to put her sewing kit on her bed.
"Excuse me?" Nicky wondered confuse as she kept looking at Ji-Soon.
"You won't feel like a kid as long as you think of yourself as an adult," Ji-Soon answered happily.
Confessional - Nicky - Superior Snowstorms
"My issue is people treating me like a kid, not that I'm acting like one. I appreciate Ji-Soon's help but this cosplay isn't working for me. I guess I could wear it just to make her feel like she's helping. That's nice right?"
End Confessional
Jacque and Lucien were surprisingly making a snowman together outside Santa's workshop.
"You think if we give it a hat it will become alive?" Lucien asked Jacque as he put a carrot on the snowman's head to be the nose.
"Considering what we have seen so far in this place probably," Jacque answered, actually thinking of giving it a try as he formed the snowball head better. "I'm not naming it Frosty though."
"Pretty sure the snowman will name himself," Lucien conversated as he put twigs on the snowball above the head to represent arms.
"Hey boys," Sasha greeted as she and Winter walked towards to their teammates.
"Have either of you seen Letty? We've been looking for her the whole morning," Winter asked Jacque and Lucien.
"Beats me," Jacque shrugged.
Lucien pretended to feel sleepy, closing his eyes occasionally just so that he did not need to answer Winter's question.
"Well, if you find her, tell her that her captain needs to have a conversation with her," Winter instructed.
"And tell her that her dearest teammate Sasha wants to have a nice chat with her," Sasha added.
Sasha and Winter briefly glared at each other before looking back at the boys.
"You can have a nice chat with me you know," Jacque smirked at Sasha. "I'm available any time."
Sasha rolled her eyes. "I'll keep that in mind."
"Glad that you think about me," Jacque continued to smirk.
Sasha turned around and walked away while Winter did the same but using a different route.
"Zanks for helping me out guys," The snowman, using Letty's voice told Lucien and Jacque.
Letty shook her head side to side rapidly to get the snow out from her head.
"That's what teammates are for," Lucien stated.
"Zose two have been trying to hangout with me a lot lately and is getting slightly worrisome," Letty admitted. "I don't want them to keep fighting over me during challenges."
"If my mom was here, she would say it is a gift to have two girls trying to be with you," Lucien said.
"What does zat mean?" Letty asked perplexed.
"Just let them keep fighting over you. If one of them loses a challenge for us we know who to vote for," Jacque went strategical. "Besides both of them are manipulating you anyway."
"You really think that?" Letty raised an eyebrow. "They can't really be trying to befriend me for a vote, can they?"
"I suggest talking with them and figure things out from there," Lucien advised.
"Or just bend to their demands," Jacque did not really care.
Confessional - Lucien - Sunny Snowflakes
"Jacque has a point. Frankly Sasha and Winter trying to get with Letty is putting less of a target on my back because let's face it, I know Winter has wanted to vote me off for a while now. But Sasha seems to be a threat to her too. I'll just wait out and see what happens."
Confessional - Jacque - Sunny Snowflakes
"I'm going to have to talk to Sasha at some point. She's putting herself in an awful position. Not because I care about her, but because she's an extra vote I could use. Yeah, that's the reason," He crossed his arms at the end and smiled proudly.
End Confessionals
"Hey there viewers, is Marco again," Marco saluted at his phone in selfie mode. He was out in the snow. "Today Aditi and Brandon will be showing you how to make a tent."
Marco pressed a button on his phone to disable selfie mode so that the viewers can see Aditi and Brandon from his phone's camera. There were materials in front of both Gleeful Gingerbreads.
"Let's start with Brandon," Marco approached the mechanic. "Is this your first time building a tent?"
"Yeah, but it shouldn't be too hard," Brandon believed. "I have the instructions book so…"
"Done!" Aditi shouted to get Brandon and Marco's attention.
Marco and Brandon's eyes widened, and their jaws dropped at not only seeing Aditi's tent, but a house made out of wood with a chimney. Aditi was currently standing on top of the wooden house she built.
"I had extra time to build this neat house after finishing the tent," Aditi told the boys with an innocent smile on her face.
Suddenly, Marco and Brandon were hit with a snowball from the back. They turned around and noticed Andrea waving at them with a big teethy smile. Marco and Brandon smirked at each other and nod, knowing what to do next. Both grabbed snow on the ground with their hands and formed snowballs. Marco logged off his Twitch account and putted his phone away before running with Brandon to throw their snowballs at Andrea. Aditi jumped off the roof of the house she built and landed onto the tent, which trampolined her to dogpile on her teammates. All of them laughed except for Andrea, who was trying not to scream from having physical contact on her.
Nearby but still at a fair distance were Char and Bonnie, with the latter sitting on a tree stump. Bonnie watched Char holding a notepad. Char flipped a page from his notepad.
"So you're first pick is Andrea? Thought you would go with Brandon," Char admitted. "Is it because of the time see accidentally sat on you?"
"Yes, and I'll probably give Brandon a try at some point," Bonnie shrugged. "But right now I'm focus on wooing her. I think it will be easy. One hundred percent positive."
Before Char can give advice, the speakers throughout Santa's workshop turn on.
"Attention teams," Embarc said through the speakers. "Please head to the stables of the reindeer for today's challenge! Including an exciting announcement!"
"Sweet," Bonnie got up from her seat. "Thanks for the advice Char. See you at the challenge."
Char watched Bonnie leave and then looked at his notes on his notepad.
Confessional - Char - Gleeful Gingerbreads
"Hate to break it to Bonnie, but I don't think her and Andrea are compatible. I don't know I just have this gut feeling about it. And I do have a big gut," He chuckled at the end.
End Confessional
The teams and Embarc were at the deer staples of Santa's workshop. The staples were all wooden and had Christmas lights decorated all over.
"Welcome teams to the deer staples," Embarc informed. "This is where Santa's nine reindeer stay at to eat and drink."
"Isn't there supposed to be twelve reindeer?" Marco asked.
"Nope, it is nine," Embarc answered happily. "Nice outfit by the way Nicky."
Nicky gasped happily, thrilled by the compliment.
"You look like a doofus," Tony added, causing Nicky to sigh sadly.
"Today's challenge is quite simple, but first," Embarc raised her hands up in the air. "The Shining Stars will be disbanded!"
"What!?" Elodie and Winnie shouted with shock while May just stands still with her eyes blinking, also perplexed.
"Elodie will go to the Gleeful Gingerbreads, Winnie to the Superior Snowstorms, and May to the Sunny Snowflakes," Embarc informed once she put her hands down.
Confessional - Elodie - Gleeful Gingerbreads
"For a moment I thought Embarc was going to eliminate all three of us."
End Confessional
"Today's challenge is simple. I will be releasing three reindeer, each from their own stable. Each reindeer has been assigned to a team. Whichever team manages to put their assigned reindeer back into their corresponding stable first wins the challenge and gets cookies and milk. Second team to bring their reindeer back into their stable does not face elimination but last place does," Embarc explained.
"Sounds easy enough," Iggy boasted confidence.
"I was hoping one of you will say that," Embarc smirked. "Each reindeer has a one-minute head start to travel around the snow before each team finds the one they are after. Superior Snowstorms, your reindeer is…"
Embarc went to open a stall and out came a small reindeer with a big red shiny nose.
"Rudolph," Embarc finished.
Rudolph happily leaped around in a circle.
"So adorable!" Winnie immediately found fondness in Rudolph who decided to leave the area.
"Sunny Snowflakes, the reindeer you will going after is Comet," Embarc told the team before opening Comet's stall.
Comet was twice as big as Rudoplh and proceeded to gallop out of the scene.
"Lastly, the Gleeful Gingerbreads must retrieve Dasher," Embarc opened Dasher's stall.
Dasher walked out of her stall with confidence. That is until she saw Bonnie waving at her. She immediately dashed away with great speed, surprising the contestants.
"That's one fast reindeer," Brandon commented.
"Good luck everyone," Embarc told the teams. "I'll be waiting for you all here."
Confessional - Winter - Sunny Snowflakes
"If there's one thing to know about Comet, is that she is the strongest and most stubborn of Santa's reindeer. How strong? Well, I hope is just above average for a reindeer's strength."
End Confessional
The Superior Snowstorms arrived to a snowy area where they found Rudolph. Their team's symbol appeared on screen.
"Leave this to me team. This is an easy victory," Iggy told his teammates.
"Knock yourself out dude," Tony replied to Iggy.
Iggy gladly ran to Rudolph. "All I got to do is grab him by the legs and lift him up," The track star said to himself as he stood behind the reindeer from a distance.
"Um, shouldn't we be helping him?" Winnie asked her new teammates.
"I want to see where this goes," Ben answered, holding a book in his hands.
As Iggy jumped at Rudolph, the reindeer turned around and used her red nose to shine a flashing red light to temporarily blind Iggy. Iggy then falls into the snow as he lost concentration. The Superior Snowstorm captain mumbled some words in the snow before standing up.
"All right, I don't know what you did," Iggy told Rudolph who is now a distance away from him. "But nothing is going to keep me away from getting you."
Iggy determinedly ran after Rudolph. Like before, Rudolph used its shining red nose to create red bright light to blind him.
"Ah, my eyes!" Iggy covered his with his hands. "How did…"
Rudolph used her back hooves to kick Iggy in the stomach. This made Iggy clench his stomach and get on his knees.
"You, you," Iggy opened his eyes and glared at Rudolph. "I'm going to…"
Rudolph used its red nose to make bright red light a third time, covering camera view. Once the red light disappeared Iggy was shown inside a trash can trying to get out.
Tony laughed at Iggy's misfortune while Ji-Soon and Winnie went to help Iggy.
"Way to look like an idiot Iggy," Tony called out. "How does it feel to get outmaneuver by a dumb big nose reindeer?" He went back to laughing.
Rudolph heard the insult from Tony and growled aggressively at him. The reindeer began to charge at him. Tess, Nicky, and Ben noticed this as Tony continued to laugh. Tess and Ben quickly left Tony alone to not be in the middle of the carnage that was about to happen. Finally making it, Rudolph bit on Tony's leg hard. This caused Tony to yelp in pain.
"Get it off me!" Tony exclaimed to his teammates.
Ben and Tess simply watched Rudolph beat Tony up off screen as they heard the Brooklyn boss' cries of pain. Ben wondered if he should actually help while Tess got out an easel to begin painting Rudolph attacking Tony.
"This could be my best work yet," Tess told Ben and Nicky happily.
"Are you serious?" Nicky felt dumbfounded.
Confessional - Tony - Superior Snowstorms
He had several scratches and bandages all over his body. "For the record I landed nice wallops on that stupid reindeer."
Rudolph heard this from outside and bashed her head into the confessional to break a wall so that Tony can see her growling face. Tony rapidly started to panic.
End Confessional
The Sunny Snowflakes managed to find Comet in the vast snow land. Their team's symbol appeared on screen.
"Anyone got ideas to bring Comet back to her stall?" Winter asked her team.
"We could tire her out and so that she falls asleep," May recommended.
"I can make some nice relaxing tea," Lucien added.
"Alright, you two head to the kitchen and make the tea," Winter instructed to May and Lucien. "The rest of us will make sure Comet doesn't wonder off from our sight."
Once Lucien and May left, Winter looked at the rest of her team.
"Letty, entertain Comet while May and Lucien bring the tea," Winter commanded.
"Winter," Sasha already showed a disapproving look.
"Captain's orders. Unless you will want to be a distraction. You're already distracting Jacque enough," Winter stated.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Sasha narrowed her eyes at Winter as Jacque fake coughed.
"Letty, hang out with the reindeer now," Winter ordered. "Do not disappointment me."
"Got it," Letty nodded in understanding and headed towards Comet. That is until Sasha stopped her by grabbing her arm.
"Don't be a walking doormat Letty," Sasha said in a nice cheery tone with a big smile. "Don't let her boss you around like that."
"I don't think you realize that we're in a challenge and what the captain says usually goes," Tsu said to Sasha.
"Nah, recently Winter has been giving Letty all the shots lately. Someone else can keep an eye on the deer," Jacque conversated in a relaxing way.
"We all four can keep an eye on Comet then," Winter said to her team in order for cooperation.
Confessional - Tsu - Sunny Snowflakes
"Winter and Sasha's confrontations are getting annoying. What makes Letty so valuable to them? Is not like she is guaranteed she will vote for who she sides with whenever we lose. I know I wouldn't side with them anyway unless it conveniences me."
End Confessional
"Come on, stop avoiding me," Bonnie begged to Dasher who dashed with great speed to avoid her.
All the Gleeful Gingerbreads looked like they ran through the snowy land with how sweaty and tired they were except for Bonnie, Char, and Aditi.
"Why… does… Dasher… keep… avoiding you?" Andrea asked Bonnie as she panted.
"I don't know," Bonnie admitted honestly. "All the animals back in my farm are afraid of me as well except for the sheep."
"Maybe Bonnie should sit this one out if Dasher is just going to keep avoiding her," Elodie suggested.
"Newbie always wants me out of the team, how fun," Bonnie joked.
"Think of it this way, you can spend time with Andrea," Char whispered to her.
Bonnie beamed up with happiness. "Andrea, will you accompany me?" She asked her teammate. "I don't want to be alone while the rest of our team is dealing with the reindeer."
"Well, it depends if the team needs me," Andrea confessed, looking at Bonnie before looking at her teammates. "I have faith that the reindeer can be good to me and follow me back to the stable."
"Nah, is all good Andrea," Char said as he put his elbow on Andrea's shoulder, which made Andrea scoot away. Char did not say anything about this as he continued to talk. "The rest of us can handle Dasher. Besides we got to make sure Bonnie doesn't go snooping for ice cream or any sweets."
Elodie gulped at the mention of sweets.
"Well," Andrea gave it some thought. "Alright, I'll keep an eye on Bonnie."
Bonnie went to hug Char as appreciation. Then she went to grab Andrea's hand and took her away from the team.
"Alright, listen up," Char called for the teammates left around him. "Ideas to bring Dasher back to her stall?"
"Animal handling isn't quite my expertise," Brandon admitted, feeling a bit sad he cannot really help the team like last challenge.
"I'm sure the smell of one of my pastries will bring Dasher back to stall in no time," Elodie spoke proudly.
"Apples with a strong sweet scent attracts deer," Aditi added brightly. "One time during an exploration trip in Canada I packed apples for myself and during one morning I found a deer eating them outside my tent."
"An apple pie could work out great," Char recommended. "You two can go make it while we boys keep Dasher occupied," He told Aditi and Elodie.
"How?" Elodie wondered.
"Guys check it out I'm recording Dasher on my twitch channel," Marco informed his teammates, using his phone for footage. "Oh look, she spotted the us. And now she is running at the camera. Isn't that cool?"
"Uh, Marco, I don't think she likes your phone," Brandon mentioned, feeling concern.
"Nonsense," Marco denied. "She probably just wants…"
Dasher tackled Marco with her antlers, knocking the streamer onto the snowy ground. Dasher then jumped onto Marco's body in fury and decided to stomp on him continuously.
"Ah! Ow! Gah! Why does this hurt so much?" Marco exclaimed in pain.
Aditi and Elodie immediately backed away while Char and Brandon started thinking of figuring out a way to get Dasher off Marco.
Confessional - Marco - Gleeful Gingerbreads
He had several bruises on his body as he trembled with fear. "Nature is scary."
End Confessional
"Somebody get this reindeer off me already!" Tony pleaded to his teammates as Rudolph continued to stomp and bite him.
Iggy was now out of the trash can thanks to Winnie and Ji-soon. All three of them along Tess, Ben, and Nicky were simply watching Rudolph beat up Tony.
"We need to do something. He could get seriously hurt," Winnie said worryingly to her teammates.
"Maybe your violin playing will calm Rudolph down," Tess suggested to Nicky.
"O-okay," Nicky stuttered a bit before taking out her violin and began to play it.
After a few seconds of hearing Nicky's music, Rudolph stopped mauling Tony and walked over to the violinist.
"Thank goodness is working," Ben stated.
Now in front of Nicky, Rudolph payed more attention to her cosplay. It looked so much like a real mushroom to Rudolph that the reindeer gave a large bite to the mushroom hat, including Nicky's hair.
"My cosplay!" Ji-Soon shrieked in horror.
"My hair!" Nicky exclaimed frighteningly.
Ji-Soon and Ben rapidly went to pull Nicky away from Rudolph, but the reindeer's biting grip was giving them both trouble. Iggy and Tess decided to get behind Rudolph and pull her away from Nicky. Like their teammates, they were also struggling. Winnie watched concerningly, trying to figure out what to do in this situation while Tony stayed laying on the snow in pain.
At the kitchen station of Santa's workshop, Lucien boiled tea while May watched. Although May looked like she wanted to sleep with her eyes constantly blinking. She even yawned, causing Lucien to yawn as well.
"Get it to together," Lucien said nicely to May. "If you fall asleep I fall asleep. That will end badly for both of us."
"Sorry," May apologized and then yawned again. "Recently I've been more sleepy than daydreaming as of late. Maybe I'm home sick who knows. Why are you so tired?"
"Watching the stars and northern lights last night," Lucien answered. "I've always had a fascination with them since young."
"Maybe I can watch with you sometime," May hoped.
"You sure about that?" Lucien asked as he noticed bubbles coming from tea in the pot he is using. He turned off the stove.
"A little star gazing wouldn't hurt," May answered with a small smile.
While Lucien and May were getting ready to finish preparing their tea, Elodie and Aditi stood next to an oven to see their apple pie baking.
"You didn't put any explosives in the pie, did you? I had a conversation with Andrea about how you used explosives on an ice golem," Aditi asked, sounding a bit worried.
"Is just a normal apple pie. I haven't done too much exploding recently," Elodie responded charmingly. "None of the challenges as of now haven't been needed for it yet and I don't want to just cause explosions for the sake of it. Although that would be fun."
"Easy there explosivo," Aditi said calmly before chuckling.
"What's your thoughts on the boys by the way of our team?" Elodie asked. "Anyone one of them interest you?" She nudged Aditi's shoulder a bit.
"What do you mean by interest?" Aditi wondered.
"Oh you know, if they're a type, wonderful, exceptional, hot," Elodie explained. "You get the idea right?"
"Not at all," Aditi admitted sincerely while giving a perplex look.
Confessional - Elodie - Gleeful Gingerbreads
She appeared dumbfounded. "Either she's playing hard to get or she truly doesn't understand romance."
End Confessional
"Why are we back in our team's room?" Andrea asked Bonnie as she standed in the center of the bedroom.
"Just wanted you to get comfortable," Bonnie answered joyfully as she sat on her bed. She tapped her bed to signal Andrea to sit next to her.
Andrea instead went to sit on her own bed.
"Is there a reason in particular as to why you want to spend time with me?" Andrea pondered.
"Oh that's easy. To get to know each other better," Bonnie answered as she tried to pose seductively, but appeared awkward in doing so.
Andrea let out a small chuckle. "Team bonding is an aspect in shows like these."
"Exactly," Bonnie agreed. "So what do you want to do? I can think of many things we can do."
"Well…" Andrea thought of an idea.
"Guys this isn't working," Winnie told her teammates who were still struggling to pull Rudolph and Nicky away from each other. Her team did not pay attention to her so she finally decided to put matters into her own hands.
The pageant disaster ran to Rudolph and began to pet the reindeer gently. This calmed Rudolph so much that she let go of Nicky's mushroom hat. Ji-Soon quickly removed the hat from Nicky to examine it while Nicky was just happy to be out of that situation. Iggy and Tess stopped pulling on Rudolph's legs and backed away. All the Superior Snowstorms minus Tony watched Winnie continuing to pet and tame Rudolph.
"Think you can bring Rudolph back to the stable?" Ben asked Winnie.
"You bet," Winnie guaranteed with a big sweet smile on her face. "I'm raised in a farm and all the animals there love me to no agree. Except for sheep. They are afraid of me for some reason."
"S-someone is going to have to carry Tony though," Nicky mentioned.
"Who?" Tony suddenly woke up and quickly stood up from the ground. "What did you say about me?"
Confessional - Ben - Superior Snowstorms
"And just like that Winnie got onto the team's good side."
End Confessional
"Glad you two can make it back," Winter smiled at May and Lucien arriving to the team once. "Jacque has been entertaining Comet with basketball."
Jacque is shown dribbling a ball in front of Comet who watched the ball bounce up and down. Comet then stole the ball from Jacque and makes a dunk into a basket from seemingly out of nowhere.
"I'll admit I thought you two were going to fall asleep and not come back here," Sasha revealed. "But I'm glad you two proved me wrong."
"The tea is quite warm so it should not be a problem to feed Comet the tea," Lucien mentioned, holding the cup of tea in his hands.
"Question is who's going to feed her the tea?" May wondered.
"Letty," Winter responded. "Letty will do it," She looked at Sasha. "And before you open your big mouth she's the only one besides Jacque who won't get nervous to serve Comet tea."
"Personally I wouldn't care if I do it as long as it makes things faster," Lucien offered.
"I'm not risking you suddenly falling asleep and spilling the tea considering what happened at the talent show challenge," Winter denied any chances. "Letty, go."
Letty quietly grabbed the warm tea from Lucien and walked towards Jacque and Comet, the latter dribbling the ball with her hoove. Comet stopped dribbling once she witnessed Letty coming to her with the tea. Letty pointed at her own mouth and opened it, indicating for Comet to do the same. Comet followed along and opened her mouth. Letty then poured the tea for Comet to drink.
After Comet finished her tea, she immediately dropped to snow and began to sleep.
"Wow, that's one powerful tea," Winter observed.
"Is a tea my mom makes to knock herself out after… dealing with her job at night," Lucien hesitated to reveal.
"You got to show me how to make that tea," Tsu said to Lucien.
"I'll think about it," Lucien spoke cautiously.
"Who's going to carry the deer?" May asked the group.
"Hmm," Sasha pondered a bit. "Jacque, would you…"
"I'm already on it," Jacque lifted up Comet with his hands and arms. "If I break my back I'm suing you all."
Elodie and Aditi arrived to their team with the latter carrying the apple pie.
"We're here," Elodie called out to her new teammates. "Is Marco okay?"
"Well…" Char was unsure how to respond to that as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Look for yourself," Brandon pointed at Marco.
Marco, on his knees cried for his broken phone while Dasher growled at the electronic device.
"What did I do to deserve this?" Marco wondered.
Catching the smell from the apples of the pie, Dasher stared at Aditi with hunger. Dasher licked her lips and started to dash at Aditi.
"Run Aditi! Run to the stable!" Char informed as captain. "The rest of us will catch up!"
Aditi rapidly nodded and headed back to the stable with Dasher chasing her.
Confessional - Marco
He stared sadly at his broken phone, which he is holding. "Man, how am I supposed to keep up with my viewers now? The algorithm is going to gutter me."
End Confessional
"When you said you were going to draw me like a piece of art this isn't what I had in mind," Bonnie stated to Andrea, posing for the elegant angel while standing on an apple box.
"What else you thought I meant by that?" Andrea questioned as she got ready to draw Bonnie on a white canvas attached to an easel.
Bonnie opened her mouth to say what is on her mind but decided against it. Instead, she thought of an idea and grinned.
"Make sure not to move too much," Andrea advised as she started to draw with paint and brushes.
Once Andrea took a glance at Bonnie and then went back focusing on her drawing, Bonnie removed her shoes. Andrea glanced at Bonnie once more, looking confuse, but did not pay too much attention. So, Andrea went back to looking at her canvas. At Andrea's third glance at Bonnie, she noticed her teammate only wearing a purple bra and panties.
"Bonnie!? What are you doing!?" Andrea was completely caught off guard seeing the ginger like that.
"Giving you a piece of art that's what," Bonnie smirked. "Like what you see?"
"Put on your clothes back on this instance," Andrea ordered.
Bonnie slightly frowned before grabbing her clothes on the floor.
Confessional - Andrea - Gleeful Gingerbreads
"What was Bonnie trying to do? No purpose in taking off your clothes."
End Confessional
"Here they come," Embarc observed with binoculars at the Sunny Snowflakes, Superior Snowstorms, and Aditi running to the stable. "Wonder where is the rest of the Gleeful Gingerbreads."
A quick scene change demonstrated Brandon and Char dragging Marco back to the stable.
As the Superior Snowstorms and Sunny Snowflakes along with Aditi hurried to the stable, Rudolph and Comet smelled the scent of the apple pie. This caused Comet to wake up and jump off of Jacque to run after the pie. Jacque then fell onto the snowy ground after losing balance. Rudolph ran after the pie as well. At this point, the three reindeer were chasing behind Aditi.
Once she made it into the stable Aditi rapidly turned to her left to enter Rudolph's stall. There she turned around to see the hungry eyes of the three reindeer.
"Um, hi," Aditi waved nervously.
The three reindeer jumped at Aditi who quickly dropped the apple pie and dodged them. Now with the pie on the floor the reindeer got to eat such a delicious treat. Aditi got out of the stall and closed it just as the other teams came inside the stable.
"Hey, you brought our reindeer here," Iggy told Aditi, not sure how to feel about what just happened.
"Since Aditi brought all the reindeer into one stall, does that mean the Gleeful Gingerbreads win?" Winter asked Embarc.
"Well…" Embarc put her hands on her hips and gazed at the stall with Comet, Rudolph, and Dasher.
"Since Rudolph is the only one in her stall, that technically means the Superior Snowstorms win," Embarc concluded.
The Superior Snowstorms cheered except for Nicky who simply smiled and Tess hugged her.
"And considering Aditi was the only to bring her reindeer first inside the stable, her team the Gleeful Gingerbreads get second place," Embarc announced joyfully.
Aditi sighed with relief. For a moment she thought she messed up the win for her team. Well, she did, however she is fine getting second.
Embarc noticed the Sunny Snowflakes were about to protest but the hostess immediately responded.
"I don't want to here it. You seven are heading to the igloo ceremony tonight," Embarc said seriously. "No debates about it."
Confessional - Winter - Sunny Snowflakes
"Welp, time to plot a way for Sasha to get eliminated."
Confessional - Sasha - Sunny Snowflakes
"The moment has finally arrived to sent Winter packing."
End Confessionals
Jacque and Tony were playing hoops at the basketball arcade games in the festive lounge room, Jacque felt a tap in his shoulder and turned around while holding a basketball. He gazed at Sasha's beauty as the blonde smirked at him. Jacque smirked back.
Winter managed to find Tsu, Lucien, and May drinking tea together at a table in the mess hall. She approached the three with a friendly smile. Lucien gave a deadpanned stare, May seemed happy, and Tsu put on a mischevious grin.
Letty started fixing up the snowman Lucien and Jacque were building in the morning until Winter and Sasha approached her.
"May I help you two?" Letty asked as she slowly removed her hands from the snowman's head.
"Just wanted to establish that due to captain's orders you will be voting off Sasha tonight," Winter answered, getting right to the point.
Winter and Letty thought Sasha was going to argue with her, but Sasha remained quiet a bit. She went to Letty and gave her teammate a hug.
"I'm not going to tell you to vote off Winter," Sasha said to Letty kindly. "You can vote for whoever you want Letty. Is your choice. I don't know much about you but think to yourself this question. Are you truly happy being ordered around without giving a say?"
Sasha stopped hugging Letty and proceeded to leave the area. Letty pondered to herself about what Sasha spoke to her.
"So she's excepting defeat like that. A surprise to be sure," Winter said contently. "But I'm not complaining. Don't disappoint your captain Letty," She reminded as she turned around to walk away.
"...I'm voting for you," Letty told quietly, not looking at her teammate.
Winter stopped walking. "Care to repeat that?" She gave off a demanding tone.
"I said I'm voting for you," Letty repeated, still looking at the snow on the ground.
"You're an idiot," Winter said after turning around to see the vacant virtuoso. "You actually think Sasha cares about your needs? She's just using you as an extra vote. She's just like Celeste."
Letty heard Winter's tone turning more frustrated and hurt. She rose her head to look at Winter.
"Who?" Letty asked.
"She's not your friend! She will never be your friend! She will backstab you! Crush you into the dirt! Make you a social outcast!" Winter burst out, on the verge of crying.
Not knowing how to process the situation, Letty ran away.
At the igloo ceremony, each Sunny Snowflake sat on a stump. In the front row were Sasha, Letty, Winter, and May. In the back Jacque, Tsu, and Lucien sat. Their team's symbol appeared on screen. Embarc stood near the campfire holding six candy canes in her hands.
"Sunny Snowflakes, congrats on arriving to your first igloo ceremony," Embarc told the team happily, despite the team not looking chipper at all except for May. "Tough crowd. Anyway, in case any of you forgot here's a recap at what happens at the igloo ceremony. Every team member must write down a member's name on a piece of a paper to cast a vote. The person with the most amount of votes is eliminated and does not receive a minty fresh candy cane that I have in my hand. Now, without further ado time to vote!"
Splitting into seven screens, the audience saw each Sunny Snowflake casting their vote at the same time.
"And the contestants that received no votes are Jacque, Lucien, May, Letty, and Tsu," Embarc announced, tossing each contestant a candy cane after she said their name. "Which leaves Winter and Sasha in the bottom two. Not that surprising."
Sasha radiated confidence on her staying while Winter showed tense nerves across her face and body.
"Ladies," Embarc spoke, enjoying the different reactions from both. "The final candy cane goes to…"
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"Sasha," Embarc finished and tosses the last candy cane to Sasha who catched it.
"What!?" Winter felt dumbfounded while getting outrageous.
"I'm not one to gloat, but good riddance," Sasha said with relief.
"This is stupid!" Winter told Embarc as she got up from her stump. "No matter if Letty voted for me or not Sasha will still have the majority of votes."
"That's not what I read," Embarc said, not showing any fear. "You got four votes and Sasha got three."
Winter turned around to glare at Lucien, May, and Tsu. "Which one of you voted for me!? I'm not leaving until I found out the truth!" She exclaimed at the three.
"Should have seen this coming," Embarc told the viewers. She took out a phone from her brown short shorts and began to call someone.
"Who was it?" Winter demanded.
Lucien, May, and Tsu did not really know how to respond.
"Ho, ho, ho," Santa Claus' voice echoed through the igloo.
Winter turned around and started to tear up while the other contestants gasped at seeing Santa Claus.
"Ever since Dominic's first elimination I have Santa on speed dial," Embarc revealed. "Santa will take you to the chimney of shame Winter."
"At least I get one thing on my Christmas list," Winter said happily, smiling widely. She turned around again to see what were her teammates. "I actually did try to befriend you Letty. Even Lucien, but I… couldn't do it. But hear my warning all of you. Trust no one on this team."
Santa grabbed Winter's hand and took her out of the igloo.
"Get some rest Sunny Snowflakes," Embarc advised. "Try not to come back here again."
"You can count on that," Jacque assured.
Confessional - Sasha - Sunny Snowflakes
"Analyzing what Embarc said about the votes, I didn't take into account the possible idea of Lucien and May voting for me. Considering Winter and Lucien didn't show any signs of friendship, I have to be more observant going forward. Still, Winter getting eliminated requires a celebration."
Confessional - Tsu - Sunny Snowflakes
"Ah Winter, keeping you would have been the correct play, but it would not have been the most satisfying one. The smell of hopelessness on her face, her rage of denial, her burst of anger, all of it felt so good to watch. Would have been better if Santa didn't show up, but beggars can't be choosers. Watch out though, I'm just getting started," He grinned wickedly at the end.
End Confessionals
Santa patted Winter's head once the distant animator was sitting on the edge of the chimney of shame.
"I feel like I'm going to get coal for this Christmas," Winter said to Santa, feeling regret for how she played the game.
"There's still plenty of months left in the year Winter," Santa reminded. "The important thing is to take care of yourself."
Winter nodded. "Thanks for seeing me Santa," After saying that she slid down into the chimney of shame.
Embarc, approaching the chimney of shame began to sign off the episode. "Down to the top twenty contestants. And things are only going to get harder from here. Will the Superior Snowstorms continue to their winstreak? Or will the Gleeful Gingerbreads or Sunny Snowflakes finally get their first win? Find out next time on North Pole Showdown!"
Teams
Superior Snowstorms – Iggy, Ben, Tony, Nicky, Tess, Ji-Soon, Winnie
Sunny Snowflakes – Lucien, Jacque, Tsu, Letty, Sasha, May
Gleeful Gingerbreads – Char, Marco, Brandon, Bonnie, Andrea, Aditi, Elodie
Placements
24th - Paul
23rd - Ketch
22nd - Dominic
21st - Winter