It was the morning of 3 days after the challenge and in the cabin of the Screaming Beavers; the campers were getting up with Lightning hurrying everyone to get up and started to go out and get changed. "Up and at them Beavers; it's challenge day and Lightning doesn't want another losing streak with how the last one ended!" Lightning told them being the one to be up before any of them; except for Dawn as she liked to be up early as well.
"Not really our fault that Tyler got a bit of bad luck last challenge with that bear that got to him." DJ reminded him as Lightning gave a knowing look.
"Unfortunate indeed but I would still like to know why he was out in the middle of the night in the first place. Plus what he wanted to tell us..." Dawn brought up deep in thought and there was Lindsay giving her a smile and a wave as she passed her. "I feel the grey in her aura again; if only I could pinpoint it..." Dawn said to herself as Zoey went and put an arm around her shoulder.
"Come on Dawn; please don't tell me that you are being suspicious of Lindsay again. You have been like this since the last challenge. Do you honestly think that sweet not so smart Lindsay could have intentionally set Tyler up to be attacked by a bear in the middle of the night?" Zoey asked her as Dawn looked in deep in thought.
"I don't know... I don't want to think that someone could do that and Lindsay does seem nice but... I never found greyness when reading someone's aura before; it's as if half of it is an act and the other is... I feel that her parents put her in front of TV soaps to raise her for her but..." Dawn spoke as she got looks from the other teammates about her words.
"Just ignore it Dawn and focus on today's challenge; I am warming up to your quirks but I don't think our teammates are the same but give it time. Besides today's challenge might be fun; you did like being in the trees for the night last one." Zoey told her as she beamed a little.
"Sleeping out in nature like the animal kingdom was extraordinary." Dawn agreed as they left together.
"OMG; Justin was there and he like totally looked my way with his shirt off and with the biggest smile!" Sadie was telling Katie in the Killer Hamsters' cabin.
"OMG; I had the same exactly dream!" Katie said as they squealed at once holding hands as everyone else was getting up and watching this.
"It's like they share a hive mind between their small brains..." Courtney muttered shaking her head at her two teammates.
"Have you seen two friends who are close as they are?" Cody asked Lincoln grumbled as they looked at him.
"Well; my best friend Clyde and I are pretty close and we like a lot of the same things. We even call ourselves Clincoln McBride!" Lincoln explained as they just stared at him. "Yeah... Looking at these two makes me think about if it's what it's like looking at me and Clyde..." Lincoln continued on.
"Well I bet that pretty soon you and I will be as close!" Ezekiel said with a confident smile as Lincoln rolled his eyes as Gwen giggled with a smirk of her own at this.
At the campfire pit the two teams were sitted down as Chris was facing them; "You are here for today's extreme max impact challenge!" Chris said as Ezekiel yelled out in excitement with his teammates looking at him.
"You know; it really does surprise me that you have actually managed to last this long! After your sexist display on the ship coming here; I thought for sure that you were the first one out." Courtney commented with her arms folded.
"Today's challenge is about survival; you are all going hunting!" Chris said bringing out a green paintball gun as Ezekiel jumped out of his seat with a grin and a look of horror on Dawn's face.
"Absolutely not! I detest hunting in all it's forms and I refuse to participate!" Dawn yelled with a glare and her arms folded with Lincoln feeling sorry for her and hoping that this doesn't cause her to get eliminated in this challenge.
"Well it looks like an easy win for us Hamsters aye! I am a natural hunter!" Ezekiel grinned.
"I seemed to remember what happened when you led that hunting expedition on our first night here and what was that you admitted before we got into a net? Oh right; on your audition tape you tried to hunt a moose but caught your mum instead." Gwen brought up as they laughed as Ezekiel looked sheepish at that.
"As hilarious as that audition tape admittingly was; you see this is a paintball gun and this is the ever Paintball Deer Hunt! I will separate you all into deer and hunters and your job will be to hunt down the other team's deer or to hide from the other team's hunters." Chris explained and some relief on the campers who weren't keen on hunting.
"So we are not actually killing any poor creatures?" Dawn asked and she got Chris's paintball gun thrown at her.
"Negatory. Dawn you will be one of the Screaming Beavers' hunters using blue paint along with Zoey & DJ." Chris explained as the ones mentioned got passed paintball guns. "For the Killer Hamsters using orange paint; the hunters will be Ezekiel, Courtney & Sadie!" Chris said passing them the pink paintball guns with Ezekiel being excited about getting his. "You will also be getting these styling glasses and hats!" Chris said showing them the special glasses and hunting hats.
"Here are your antlers, noses and tails for the rest of you as you will be deer!" Chris said showing them off as they blinked.
"Uh nah... Lightning is no deer and Lightning is not wearing that!" Lightning thundered in fury; clearly not amused by the idea only for Chris to put the deer parts on him saying that if he takes them off then his team is toast.
"Can, I swap please? I would be more at home being one of the gentle elegant deer..." Dawn muttered looking uncertainly at her paintball gun as Zoey came up to her with a smile.
"Come on Dawn; it's going to be a blast! I have seen commando styled action films like First Blood and does Predator count? This is something that I always wanted to try out..." Zoey told her with a grin.
The Killer Hamsters had gone out into the woods as Lincoln looked at himself in his deer attire; "I feel like my dignity going down dressed like that... I can only imagine what everyone I know back in Royal Woods must think seeing me dressed like this..." Lincoln groaned.
"I bet that I have the people at my school watching and looking at the goth loner dressed like a deer." Gwen told Lincoln assuringly going to give him a pat on the back but their heads ended up getting too close and their antlers ended up getting stuck together.
"We are stuck... What does it mean when deer have their antlers stuck like this?" Lincoln ended up shouting as they tried to entangle it.
"Hey; well this means that you two can stick together and go away and mate..." Cody grinned as their faces ended up becoming red.
"Be fortunate that I can't get close enough to kick you!" Gwen told him scornfully as Cody ran away scared.
"Don't worry Lincoln bro; you two will be safe with me guarding you!" Ezekiel told him gettin gin front of them protectively.
"I am supposed to be assured? The only things I heard about you catching in a hunt so far are people which included us, Cody, Owen and your mother!" Gwen reminded him in a rant.
"Well Ezekiel has a sound strategy; keeping our deer together and having a hunter protect them from if the Screaming Beavers found us." Courtney said as Ezekiel grinned at having an idea praised. "I shall stay here and guard our deer here; Ezekiel you actually showed your stuff catching us all that fish in the last challenge so you might be sound as a hunter! You go out!" Courtney told him and Ezekiel looked reluctant.
Ezekiel then ended up going away as Courtney looked around and realised something "wait a minute... I know that Cody ran off but where are Katie and Sadie?"
Katie and Sadie are in the confessional talking about how they are best female friends for life and even got the chicken pox together.
"Katie; I thought that you said that the hiding spot that you found in the forest was nearby but we have been walking for a while... You don't know where we are; do you?" Sadie asked as Katie and Sadie were walking together.
"No but have you noticed that all trees like look the same?" Katie asked as Sadie groaned.
"I knew that I shouldn't have listened to you!" Sadie said as Katie glared at her; "You're not like the best with directions and not like smart!" Sadie continued on.
"What? At least I know how to drive! If it wasn't for me you would have to walk or take the bus to the mall!" Katie yelled as Sadie glared at her.
"Trip to the beach ring a bell? You drove my mum's car into a snack shack! If it wasn't for me you wouldn't know where the mall is!" Sadie yelled as they continued to argue.
The Screaming Beavers were together as Lightning was still unhappy in his deer attire; "Look at me; this is going to hurt my brand! What team is going to sign me now after I have been on TV looking like this?" Lightning groaned as DJ looked his way.
"Well maybe there's a college team where the mascot is a deer?" DJ asked trying to lighten the mood as Lightning glared at his way with the speaker had Chris' voice telling them that hunting season was on.
"Shush; be very very quiet... I am hunting deer...ah uh... Wow, it's really hard to sound like Elmer Fudd..." Zoey said going out with her paintball gun as DJ went out as Dawn sighed as she went out with her gun.
"All I am saying is that I am supposed to be a deer! I mean why couldn't Lightning be a hunter and me a deer? He wasn't happy being one and i wasn't thrilled to have the gun and I would be more at home with the antlers and the tail." Dawn said in the confessional.
"This is the most mortifying moment of my life..." Gwen groaned with her antler still stuck with Lincoln with Courtney standing guard.
"For me personally... At best it ranks about maybe 17th..." Lincoln said as he got looks from Gwen and Courtney. "You live my life and what has happened to me and what life is like having 10 sisters..." Lincoln explained. "You know that you can help us out of here Courtney?" Lincoln asked as Courtney just stood there.
"I have to stay on guard and I can't let it down for even a second for if a beaver hunter comes here. You will need someone with experience being a..." Courtney said as Lincoln and Gwen groaned.
"Being a CIT." Lincoln and Gwen finished at once as they looked and laughed together as Courtney sighed. Courtney then put out her arm to shield them as soon from the bushes there was DJ sending out paint darts and getting Lincoln on the arm as they tried to move but Courtney went out and started firing at DJ's way to scare him off.
"Wait... No... I don't think that this is allowed... I'm a hunter..." DJ complained only to be running away screaming in terror as Courtney smirked at his direction and then to Lincoln and Gwen's faces which were in awe.
"Okay maybe at least some of Courtney's boasting is warranted..." Gwen admitted in the confessional.
Lightning was just sitting down by a tree looking bored as there was Lindsay; "You know Lightning; I could do with a big strong athlete to protect me if a scary hunter comes and find us now that Tyler is gone..." Lindsay asked Lightning with a sweet smile but Lightning just pushed him back.
"Lightning doesn't care for airhead girl and besides not like any of the Hamsters' hunters are something to be worried... about..." Lightning said as jumping down from the trees was Ezekiel making them blink and they noticed the crazed look in his eye and began running away as he then began firing paintballs at them both.
Zoey was looking through the bushes being stealthy but stopped and looked confused as there was Katie and Sadie continuing to argue with eachother. "...You are just jealous that I am prettier than you!" Katie yelled at Sadie and turned around with her arms folded as Sadie was in shock. "Yeah; everyone knows that! Katie said as Sadie angrily started firing her with the paintgun. Katie angrily grabbed it from her and began firing at her as it continued with the scruffle.
Zoey blinked but just shrugged as she then leapt in and began firing at them both.
Cody was trying to find somewhere to hide and found blueberries but then noticed a bear coming his way and looked afraid. "Malcolm stop that right now! You already were being cruel to Tyler; attacking him like that when there was no need! Say you are sorry now you big bully!" shouted a voice and there was Dawn coming up to the bear looking sternly as the bear looked down and grumbled something and left with Dawn looking confused.
"Well... He is not going to bother you anymore Cody..." Dawn said managing to help Cody up as he was in awe.
"Wow Dawn... I am in shock... I thought for a second I was going to be like Tyler there... Funny how a hunter on the other team saved me when I am a deer..." Cody said gratefully as Dawn smiled. She then looked to her gun and hesitatingly fired at Cody and then ended up continuing to fire at him as she started chasing after him giggling with Cody screaming in terror. Funny enough more terror than when he was about to be targeted by Malcolm the bear.
"You know; this actually really is fun!" Dawn giggled to herself.
"...They say that it's the nice ones that you have to worry about and they were right..." Cody muttered in shock covered in paint in the confessional holding his legs.
"Alright campers; times up! Come and tally up the points!" Chris said through the speakers as the campers soon ended up coming to the campfire pit. The Screaming Beavers blinked as they saw that Katie and Sadie were covered in blue and orange paint and Ezekiel saw that the paint covered Lightning was giving him an evil look and so he looked sheepish in response.
"That was the worst fight I was ever in... I am sorry Sadie for saying that I was prettier than you!" cried Katie embracing Sadie.
"I am sorry that I called you an idiot!" Sadie cried embracing her back.
"That's cute and all but they are both covered in both paint... Who found them..." DJ wondered as Zoey smiled his way and stood up to take a bow.
"You were right Zoey; that was fun!" Dawn said giving a friendly wave to Cody who was scared to even face her.
"Alright campers; I see the deer are mostly covered in paint but while Lincoln and Gwen barely have any... I have to give it to the Screaming Beavers as at least they didn't get covered in their own paint or turned on their own team!" Chris said as the Hamsters looked disappointed and the Beavers all were excited.
"Things once again make sense in Lightning's world!" Lightning cheered as Katie and Sadie looked nervous as they got their teammates to look their way.
"Yeah... Someone to vote off and it's just a hard question of which one?" Lincoln sighed in the confessional.
At the pit later at night the Killer Hamsters were seated with Katie and Sadie nervously holding onto eachother; "The votes have been cast and the camper that doesn't receive a marshmallow must immediately walk the Dock of Shame, board the Boat of Losers and they can't come back ever! So... Lincoln, Gwen, Courtney, Ezekiel, Cody..." Chris said tossing them the marshmallows with Katie and Sadie dreading it.
"The final marshmallow goes to... Sadie!" Chris said as Sadie missed catching it.
"No! I can't do this! I have never been anywhere without her! I will die if we are not together!" cried Sadie with their teammates looking at them in sadness and pity.
"Sadie; listen to me... You can do this; you are strong, beautiful and smarter than me and the funnest girl I know! Do it for both of us!" Katie assured her.
At the Dock of Shame; Sadie was kneeling down holding onto Katie's hand as she was on the Boat of Losers and started crying after her until the Boat started going off with them both shouting how much that they miss eachother.
At the Screaming Beavers' cabin the teammates were getting ready for bed; "You have to admit that the challenge was more fun than what you thought it would be just like I said! I heard what you said... Dawn?" Zoey told Dawn who had her head down and jumped.
"Sorry Zoey... It's just that I found Cody after Malcolm was trying to get to him like he had done to Tyler... He mumbled an apology but said that he found Tyler and before he noticed that Malcolm was there; he said that he had to warn me, Gwen and Lincoln about Lindsay..." Dawn said as Zoey blinked.
"Come on Dawn; are you actually going to listen to the bear that attacked Tyler like that and was going to do the same to Cody? You said it yourself that he was a bully. You are just being paranoid about sweet old less than smart Lindsay. It's just stretching that's just going to give you a headache if you persist in it." Zoey whispered to Dawn assuringly as she still didn't look convinced.
"Tell you what; I will keep an eye out on her as well and if you want something to take your mind off this suspicion... Could you imagine if you were a deer and Lincoln saw you in your fluffy tail and and antlers?" Zoey asked smirking as Dawn was now red in the cheeks.
So different challenge and yet similar circumstances still got Sadie out of the contest.