It was the next morning and in the mess hall the 4 members of the new Save-Zoey Alliance looked at eachother as they held their plates and sat themselves with Zoey; they held their breaths getting themselves ready for this intervention. "So good morning Zoey... Listen; we kind of need to talk..." Gwen hesitatingly said as Zoey looked up from her plate and looked at them stoically making them gulp.
"Kind of cool how you toughen it up to take on Lindsay and all but..." Ezekiel started but lost his words as he gulped feeling afraid of the look on Zoey's face.
"Lindsay's gone now so you think you can cool it down with the whole 'soldier' thing now..." Lincoln asked as he lost his words as Zoey looked at him with a glare.
"Do you want me to wimpen out so it would be easier for you to get me kicked out of the competition? If that's the case then forget it because I am in it to win it!" Zoey retorted stomping the ground with her foot and slamming her fist down on the table making them jump as Dawn put a hand on her shoulder.
"No Zoey; we are worried about you, that's all! Your new persona is kind of scaring you and we prefer the nice, supportive Zoey who wanted to make friends here and your Aura..." Dawn tried to assure her but then there was Chris coming up to the two tables.
"You want something Chris? We still have 2 days until the next challenge." Courtney asked raising an eyebrow as they all looked at him and then he started laughing which wasn't a good sign.
"I am sensing a dark evil aura..." Dawn muttered as Chris continued laughing.
"Not anymore; we got so little time left so... From now on challenges are everyday!" Chris explained making their eyes widening.
"What? But I take an extra lap in the morning of challenges to get myself more prepared; I am one down now so I have to go..." Lightning remarked getting to his feet but Chris put up a hand.
"No can do Lightning; the next challenge known as the Wheel of Misfortune is in 5 so hurry with your breakfast and make your way to the theatre." Chris told them as he then left with them to deal with it.
"Rats... I was so sure that we would have time to get Zoey to calm down before the next challenge..." Lincoln muttered as they started getting up.
"We will think of something Lincoln; we will find a way to use our more limited time to save Zoey... I swear on the Earth Mother herself..." Dawn told her boyfriend looking determined.
"Unless you get out first... Not going to lie; the new Zoey is kind of someone to watch out for with how she took on that Brunch no problem..." Courtney warned them with a frown making their eyes widen.
At the theatre the campers were at their seats as they saw Chris with the Wheel of Misfortune and Chef in a hockey's mask. "Here is the deal; you are all going to take turns with the Wheel of Misfortune and whether it lands will determine what type of torture you will have to endure for 10 seconds. You chicken out and you're out; last one standing wins invincibility and this trailer to take home after the end of the competition!" Chris said and showed off the admittingly nice looking trailer.
"So Zoey; as yesterday's winner you will go first..." Chris said as he started spinning the wheel and it went to land. "Oh... Bears boxed in... You will have to stay 10 seconds in this wooden box with Malcolm the bear." Chris remarked as their eyes widened and Chef brought in a huge wooden box.
"You can't make Zoey do this..." Dawn shouted as Zoey nonchalantly got up and mad eher way through the door and the timer went in as they gulped.
"It's going to be Tyler; all over again..." Gwen muttered as they covered their eyes and the 10 second timer went off after some loud fights and animal screams. Then Zoey got out looking the same and they saw Malcolm drag himself out out looking all beat up with patches of fur missing as they all were stunned and Dawn was covering her mouth with her hands.
"Zoey; you didn't bellyache so you will choose who goes next." Chris said as Zoey looked at them closely before going to his chair.
"Lightning. I like him the least." Zoey said simply as Lightning's eyes widened as he got up.
"Really... Well bring it on Chris... I can do anything..." Lightning said confidently as Chris spun the wheel.
"Oh... Can you handle being buried alive for 10 seconds?" Chris asked as Lightning's eyes widened.
"Okay; I don't envy Lightning one bit... Being buried alive is my biggest fear, if I had to do that..." Gwen shuddered in the confessional.
They watched as on the grass Chef had Lightning buried and watched as the timer went down. 10 seconds later Chris dug up Lightning who spat out dirt while covered in it as he gave a thumbs up, but not before screaming about dirt in his ears.
"Okay Ezekiel... Oh; you have to put your hand in a wasp's nest for 10 seconds!" Chris said as Ezekiel gulped as he got his hand out as using a pole Chef put out a wasp's nest and put his hand in for the timer. He kept yelling as he was being stung as the contestants looked away but served his 10 seconds.
"How exactly did they expect us teens to survive all this?" cried Lincoln in the confessional.
Lincoln was put into a huge tank filled with electric eels and screamed as he was stung and got out after serving one more second than his time and was embraced and checked on by his girlfriends.
Gwen had to spend 10 seconds having her nose hairs forcibly picked by Chef but served her time.
Courtney yelled as she was being hit by grumpy snapping turtles sent her way by Chef and his hockey stick as she wa sin front of a goal. She served her time and there was Dawn checking on the turtles to make sure that they were okay.
Dawn was sitting in a chair humming happily as she was wearing headphones with her eyes closed; "Come on Dawn, you served your 10 seconds and it has been a minute and a half..." Chris told her glaring as Chef grabbed the headphones in as Dawn wrestled it back.
"Please; at least let me finish the song..." Dawn pleaded.
"That 'torture' was listening to new age music which is terrible and only the biggest weirdos like that junk... I knew we had that ready for the Wheel of Misfortune when we got the campers all sorted but I am going to be honest... When we put in that hippie chick; I thought that she would be an early elimination with her teammates being too creeped out by her to put up with her for long and I didn't expect her to last... I certainly didn't expect her to end up with that 'torture'." Chris explained in the confessional with his arms folded and sighed.
Ezekiel was screaming as he was wearing a vest made out of bees and ended up didn't last his 10 seconds.
Gwen looked at a bowl of animal spit she was to put her hair in but backed out.
Lincoln had a towel dipped in swamp water over his head but ended up throwing it off at 8 seconds.
There was a huge pool of jelly that Courtney was supposed to spend her 10 seconds in but couldn't even get in.
Lightning had his mouth full but ended up spitting out the spiked tennis balls he was supposed to keep in his mouth for 10 seconds.
Zoey actually yawned as she had her arms covered in leeches as the contestants were open mouthed.
"Dawn... This is a rare endangered wooly beaver native to Boney Island; you are to hug it for 10 seconds..." Chris muttered reading off as their eyes widened as they saw the scary looking giant beaver with the eliminated campers in pillory.
"Dawn; I know that you are the animal girl but I don't think that even you..." Gwen muttered but Dawn happily ran to it and embraced it for the 10 seconds and even patted it's head before going to her seat as they took this in.
"My girlfriends are amazing..." Lincoln muttered as Gwen managed to giggle as Dawn shot him a smile.
"Okay Dawn, Zoey... A tiebreaking challenge where you both must endure this torture until someone backs out." Chris said as he spun the Wheel of Misfortune one last time and laughed evilly as they all gulped.
He then showed them a large tank filled with a brown covered liquid; "We have been collecting water from the septic tank since you all have arrived; you have to be emerged in here until..." Chris explained as they all gulped but Dawn shook her head.
"I can't do it! Zoey you win! Hope you enjoy the trailer..." Dawn screamed out as Chris allowed the campers to get out of the pillory. Lincoln checked on Dawn as she smiled at them.
"Hey nice performance there Zoey... But heads up... Cool that you are able to take on these twisted challenges but a lot of people here prefer the old you and do you want to lose the friends that you made here?" Gwen asked going up to Zoey with a smile and left but Zoey looked on and then to Dawn and sighed before resuming her stoic face.
"I don't care if this ended up becoming anticlimactic; I have seen how much Owen had eaten before he was eliminated and the sounds coming from the bathroom when he was in there and the smell... It was like everything I thought that pollution smelled like mixed into one..." Dawn defended herself in the confessional.
At the campfire pit there were the 7 contestants with all but Ezekiel and Lightning with marshmallows; "The final marshmallow goes to... Ezekiel!" Chris said tossing Ezekiel his marshmallow as Lighting put his head down as they were perplexed by how the confident competitive athlete was taking this.
"Oh my your aura... You are afraid of how disappointed your father will be..." Dawn muttered going to put her hand on his shoulder but Lightning put his head up high and got up.
"Will make it up to him by getting another sports trophy at school... But I get it; you had a chance to vote out the strongest opponent and you took it... Sound strategy... I can respect that. Still Lightning made it this far and be warned if you are to compete against me some other time. Plus you white haired American" Lightning said as he got up and pointed to Lincoln who was shocked. "my eternal rival from the two of us last standing in the food fight... Thou we will not make it to the final 2 as I hoped; you were a most worthy foe and I hope to settle our historic rivalry some other point. Until destiny brings our paths to cross again." Lightning said and pounded his chest as a symbol of respect as Lincoln looked confused but did the same as Lightning headed to the Dock of Shame.
"I completely forgot about him declaring Lincoln his rival..." Gwen told the others.
"Honestly when deciding who to vote off; I didn't want any of our alliance to leave and so it was between Lightning and Courtney and when I started to wonder, it was an easy choice. Courtney and I really worked well together in that race and bonded well during the trip. Plus in that same race; I remembered how Lightning treated Gwen when she had to be his partner. I realised that I should pay him back for his treatment of one of my girlfriends!" Lincoln said in the confessional.
"Lightning was one of the big threats to watch out for remaining besides Zoey and if their Save-Zoey Alliance has a chance of getting Zoey to back down from being the soldier type who has been dominating these challenges then can I really risk breaking anyone off from that?" Courtney said in the confessional.
"See you in the morning Zoey and hope we can talk soon..." Dawn told Zoey as she was entering the trailer and Zoey just gave her a look as Dawn sighed. Zoey looked through the window and spotted Lincoln being given goodnight kisses from his girlfriends before they went to their cabins. Zoey gave a small smile and sighed.
"Well I did say in my audition tape that my biggest fear was being voted off by a jock; no chance of that happening now." Zoey smirked in the confessional but sighed.