Total Drama X: Ultimate Islands!
Episode 35: Sharking With The Boys
Twelve people may remain after that Endless kind of crossover and some of them may have wanted that immunity quite easily, but with Miko finally eliminated and Dante somehow beating Heavy in the elimination ceremony, tensions are high!
Now if Chris had a challenge that involved riding sharks, he could make it go even higher and look at the title of the episode, he has just the thing that no-one needs or wants, but really makes for good episode material.
Besides, Lowain and Pit share the commonality of having their girlfriends eliminated, Miko in the last episode and Yumeko about three episodes ago.
1602jaw: I made sure to consult Norbert a few times for accuracy, so I'm glad that you liked the chapter and I'm glad that you agree that Miko's elimination sucked.
"Last time on Total Drama: Ultimate Islands, our 14 campers hung out with some of the Endless cast including an actual six year old, come on, and they all had a fun time for about an hour before the challenge!"
Pit getting blown up by Yae in the ring was shown.
"Yeah, the Endless guys had a reunion to force our campers to do some crazy challenges for some of them at least and through the kind of pain, Nicole and Uraraka took the dubs and they all had to say goodbye to the Total Drama Endless people from some weird season!"
The weird goodbyes between the contrasting casts were there.
"At the campfire, trying to guess the votes was like trying to find a mini statue in Madrid, because Heavy basically voted himself off due to not having friends or alliances and Miko was on the wrong end of somebody's votes! Pit cried, Lowain swore vengeance and I'm pretty sure that the censors don't like the swearing!"
Everyone was swearing in wholesome fashion, that's not surprising.
"Alright, that was a fun crossover with yet another cast of weirdos and some losers, but there's now better things to talk about like the legendary man-eating sharks that we haven't used that much! Time to change all of that and see who else will eat each other to not get eliminated on TOTAL DRAMA: ULTIMATE ISLANDS!"
"Denji, if you follow my orders to defeat the Gun Devil, then I will gift you the chance of getting a Total Drama Intro and to touch me!"
-Denji dreaming 'bout Makima in some other season after drinking 5 beers and a LSD particle.
Pit and Lowain shared the one thing that all guys related to, getting their girlfriends taken away by a potentially powerful chad-type of person and uh, someone wanted to pull up to apologise.
Dante may have played the game, but Roy really did a number on the fella and redemption arcs are complicated.
"Hey, fellas, what's good with you, but I could tell that nothing's good with you." Dante said, Pit angry and Lowain shrugging.
"Dude, I got a lot of good things like my friends and my honest votes."
"Speaking of votes, hey, that's the time of the year to be honest!" Dante grinned. "You ever thought that you might have caused something crazy to happen by accident."
"Yeah, it happens a lot more than you'd think." Lowain smugly remarked.
While that was happening, Bayonetta walked up like the other three people didn't notice that she wasn't a problem.
"Listen, witch, you're not slick since you can actually be sneaky, but I can see you're listening."
"That's fair, Lowain, but I was not trying to be sneaky. Just saw an interesting conversation."
That was definitely true, as the three dudes were pretty much walking on a wooden path that did have a decent amount of room for walking across the still messed-up island and Bayonetta was in the crossroads peering into a lad's convos.
"...Random question: What would you do if I voted for Miko, hypothetically, not really speaking." Dante asked, almost rhetorically. "Since some people have been saying her name."
"Pit would probably unleash the whole of Palutena's army on you or try to do whatever you did with your probably not hypothetical vote." Lowain answered, having a lot of suspicion.
"What are you guys talking about, since he said hypothetical and I think it means not real, right?" Pit asked, mentally grasping his goodwill.
Dante couldn't even smile anymore, ending up with a grimace of cringe.
"Right?"
Bayonetta wasn't surprised, moreso intrigued why it even happened.
"It happened, right."
"Yeah, I voted for her because the British guy with the crystals told me that it was a wise idea. Plus he did like watching me!" Dante explained, almost annoyed. "I was going to vote for Bayonetta."
Pit was ready to kill, Lowain's surprise face could fit in a Mr. Beast thumbnail and the tallest witch wasn't surprised at Dante chaining one stupid move into another stupid move and they all had one thing to do.
Pit and Lowain were looking at Dante like they saw Coachman, with pure and utter contempt, and the demon hunter was starting to get a little uncomfortable with their looks.
"I shouldn't have announced it, didn't I." He remarked.
"Yeah, you shouldn't have." Pit was rather serious. "I thought you were not being stupid."
"Is it because I voted for Miko who's overpowered?"
"BAYONETTA WAS RIGHT THERE!"
"Eliminating her would suck after that challenge, but you know, Miko has got all season to survive. Plus Bayonetta might not like this challenge."
"I SWEAR ON MY LADY'S NAME, SHE DIDN'T LIKE MANY OF THE CHALLENGES!"
While that bridge was burning right in front of her eyes, Bayonetta and Nicole were taking the time to drink the drinkable tea.
*Bayonetta's confessional*
The witch smiled like she had an evil plan.
"Look, I'm not saying that I wanted to be voted off, I'm saying that he got convinced by a sociopath into thinking that Miko is a good choice. Don't worry, being strategic is pretty hard when you do it for the first time."
*Dante's confessional*
Dante's smile was unnerved, as you could tell.
"I bet Nero and Roy are laughing their butts off, but I could survive today by...winning the challenge since I can do that real easy!" He remarked. "Please tell me that everyone isn't gunning for my butt."
*Confessional cut*
Speaking of everyone else, Uraraka and Tanjiro were starting to become a bit of a common pair to each other's presence since they were previously on the same team.
And it wasn't hard to hear the stupid votes, since Uraraka was one of the votes.
"...I thought that it wouldn't be that serious." She stated, face-down on the table. "I didn't know it was that serious."
"So, you didn't listen to the Roy man?" Nicole said.
"Nope."
"Good, Dante should've ignored him since I'm pretty sure he's being entertained right now."
Uraraka looked up just to get a view of the angriest Pit in the entire season, as Nicole and Tanjiro looked at each other, not willing to give each other an inch of a conversation-
"So, uh, what do you do for a living?" Nicole tried asking.
"I slay demons to make sure that people don't get killed by demons, since everyone deserves to live! Demons should really stop eating people!" Tanjiro shouted.
Nicole was a little taken aback.
"...I'm gonna assume that demons can't do anything else than eat humans."
"Yeah."
Tanjiro stared right at the ground.
"How are you even a cat?"
"My mother and my father are cats, that's it and-"
Uraraka continued to see a little bit too much of an oddly angry Pit, as the obviously awkward conversation was basically ringing in her right ear.
*Uraraka's confessional*
She looked determined.
"Sometimes, you have to deal with an angry angel to win this challenges or something! I fought my classmate a decent time ago in the UA Sports Fest and I taught me a lot...along with my hero work experience and being here for this long."
She tried to keep track of herself.
"Point is: I'm not scared of Pit maybe."
*Confessional cut*
Lowain and Pit were a tight-knit group of anger and Sokka and Joseph weren't surprised by that anger considering you don't just vote off someone's boyfriend, but instead the witch that's OP and did form a secret alliance.
That being said, that was Sokka's thoughts and Joseph was behind the fellas all of the way and these four were currently in a separate room that Bayonetta was previously reading some random book in.
"GIRLFRIEND SQUAD!" Pit shouted.
"Girlfriend squad boys!" Joseph said. "I have a wife, Lowain."
"Girlfriend squad for the win!" Sokka said. "Dante and whoever else voted for Miko, that was a bit of a dick move."
"YES, WE'RE A SQUAD!"
"Listen up, squadlings, we've got to find a way of avenging Miko that doesn't come off as blow-hardy or douchey or any kind of dickish way...like it should be kind of obvious, but I don't really have anything to bring." Lowain explained, taking that bit of knowledge from Yumeko. "Maybe winning the challenge as a pseudo-team, but I don't know how long it's gonna last."
"Uh, hopefully it'll last until Dante gets eliminated, which I don't think he will be for a while. So, let's enjoy being the GIRLFRIEND SQUAD!" Pit shouted. "For however long it lasts."
"FOR AS LONG AS WE ARE HERE!" Joseph cheered the new public alliance.
Bayonetta got up to hopefully get away from the noise into a quieter room, which was the state of Tanjiro, Uraraka and Nicole at the moment and she knew that it wasn't going to get any better outside.
"I'm not one for these animals myself." She started. "They always seem to be unwilling to fight even if they're my kind of opponent."
"I guess so, but that makes it better because they're only very scary from a distance." Uraraka answered with a smile. "But why?"
"You're asking the wrong witch because they are freaky-looking wildlife and that is all I am willing to know."
"That's cool!"
While the Girlfriend Squad shared in their bond after releasing their anger and realising their good guy traits, Dante tried to find a friend in everyone else that didn't care about that vote and Tanjiro, Uraraka, Nicole and Bayo shared their personal peace in an enclosed space.
Reg, Sandy and Doreen were having a gamer moment-filled morning, out in the trees by sheer coincidence and research.
"Mind telling me, why are you following these mutated squirrels?" Sandy asked. "Aside from the obvious."
"That is a question that requires a quite sophisticated answer and uh, these guys are leading me to their not so humble abode." Doreen, the not-Canadian, explained with some flair. "Apparently, they found a giant cave with trees in there and also sun."
"That's my kind of place for science!"
"Or to cure boredom." Reg said, having his arms a little loose. "Can we go somewhere else?"
"Nope!"
With two squirrels against him and Reg having that bit of curiosity dampened by a deep feeling of danger, the trio decided to make their way through the oddly watchful forest of foreign-ness, the impassible white flowers, the random hill that was there for no fucking reason, the...golf court and Chris blaring a horn in their actual faces.
"Dude, you can't just walk up on my spot without knowing! And I made this challenge more painful because of you and I totally didn't plan this!"
"How much are you going to make me believe you?" Reg asked, somehow tired of the host with most's bullshit.
"I don't know, you're going to see it with your own eyes in half an hour! Meet me at the dockyard, guys!"
"Don't worry, I heard." Sandy answered, beating the ringing ear allegations.
"Hold on, I haven't had a random comment yet-"
Welcome back to the docks and everyone noticed at least one thing about this challenge that took place in a location that was a bit familiar to some of the contestants, since it was a whole bunch of deep water and...
"What's with the sharks?" Doreen asked, being the person with the previous random comment.
"Why the fuck are we riding sharks?" Dante inquired with a smirk.
"What's with the buoys and why do they have spikes?" Sandy asked.
"Why are we asking questions that don't matter that much? What's the challenge, Chris?" Joseph asked, ready to punch the head of the show.
What they were talking about was a whole river that led towards the sea had sharks, churred waters and canoes that were oddly equipped for the treacherous trip to...someplace.
"I'm glad you asked, Joseph! This is the simple, yet painful challenge of racing on the shark highway! A highway of sharks that you must race on with canoes that we tested with our interns that you probably have forgotten about and they have things to say about it." Chris announced. "Axl, you want to say anything!"
The young and spunky reploid that hadn't shown for many episodes, raised his thumbs towards the contestants, the players waving back at the shapeshifting robot.
"Dude, you're a Maverick."
Axl then walked out of there.
"Exactly, this challenge's made of innovation and forward-thinking, because I'm looking forward to seeing this challenge reach the finish line which is quite a distance away, but you should remember where that racetrack was."
Axl then looked right back at the contestants, before Chris pushed him with only his casual hand.
"Obviously only one person can have immunity and the last two to finish the race will be saddled with an extra vote to their name, meaning that it's easier to eliminate them! Man, good stuff!"
Axl sighed, realising that this dude was definitely a villain.
"Time to get to the canoes!"
Reg was a bit nervous in the canoes, considering he was a robot kid and the rest of 'em were comfortable in their ones and obviously, it was not going to be fun for him or anyone.
"Do you think that I could die?" Reg asked Dante.
"I'm gonna be honest, yeah."
"Thought so."
The demon hunter and the abyss robot agreed that they probably would regret this race, though that feeling was not uncommon among the rest of these racers.
"3, 2, 1, GO!"
With that incredibly fast and intentionally off-putting start, the race started with a technically pleasant ride through a downhill slide of a river into McLean's Shark Highway and with that being said, rocks basically made the run distinct from a pleasant challenge.
Bayonetta and Dante had eyes on each other, strafing to avoid the rocks that were in their way and making sure that Pit didn't try to take the lead with his canoe-rowing.
"Sorry for voting your girlfriend off, it wasn't even a good choice."
"You're only saying that because you feel bad!" Pit shouted, not even processing the apology.
"Yeah, because my biggest problem's trying to knock me off!" Dante called out, Bayonetta doing a swing.
The top three were rather even, the rest of 'em minus Uraraka and Tanjiro weren't slouches in any measure.
*Uraraka's confessional*
"If I'm bottom two that means that I'm practically bait for the whatever alliance or the girlfriend squad! I want to have a boyfriend, but, uh..."
She blushed like she was stuck in a furnace.
"...UHHHHHHH-"
*Confessional cut*
The twelve quickly moved through the rocks section regardless and noticed that they were about to take on the most rapid...rapids that the series kinda had yet and there were more important things to discuss.
"Chris, how do you even raise an island for a whole season?" Axl almost jokingly asked.
"The same way that I managed to get 128 people into this one! Pure production magic and a whole lot of creativity." Chris told him. "And geology!"
"...You don't look like the geology type."
"Don't worry, I pay those guys."
Speaking of more important things, Dante and Pit were fighting each other on the canoes and were ridiculously suited for it, even if Bayonetta was clearly in the lead with her powers.
"...I can't believe I'm winning as a spectator."
Bayonetta looked back at the boys slapping each other on the water.
"Could be much worse with angels, you know."
The main event was as you expected.
"It makes me mad how much we're in sync with each other!" Pit shouted, pushing away from a rock towards Dante.
"I know, that's why I'm sorry for making that vote towards Miko because of the guy."
"...Come on, just own it."
"I don't know."
By the way, these two were swerving perfectly around each and every rock, which even Bayonetta couldn't even do with one bump and fourth place bumped their way to catch up to the feuding friends.
"Yeah, baby, I'm supporting my fellow Dante haters!" Lowain shouted, before vomiting for a second. "Oh, that hurts."
Lowain and Uraraka were fourth and fifth and bizarrely unsuited to being up there, finally dealing with the curvier rapids that were starting to turn towards the ocean of sharks.
Nicole, Doreen and Sandy were real close to each other, more focused on trying to get past the slightly disoriented and extremely aware duo that were finally landing in the churred-up waters that the top three were really hanging out in.
At this point, you'd have to be dumb or in the middle of something to not notice that the sharks were looking interested and very rideable, as Bayonetta noticed.
*Chris' confessional*
Chris shrugged.
"Look at some point, I wanted these guys to ride the sharks because it was really cool and then some interns got a test ride on them and now they're in the hospital."
He sighed.
"Something told me that it was for the best, but Dante riding a shark shouldn't be more than an image in my head."
*Squirrel Girl's fourth-wall breaking confessional*
She looked displeased.
"I'm gonna be honest, I'm way less surprised that Chris wanted us to ride the sharks and we somehow had to deal with them. Unless I got some Shark Girl, that's not happening!"
*Confessional cut*
Nine out of the twelve players were being real careful with the sharks in the inner bay on the backside of Boney Island, since...in Total Drama, sharks reduce your life expectancy by a substantial amount and everyone wanted to live.
"Oh, everyone's circling our butts." Pit said. "As expected."
"I don't even think sharks like that, which means that Chris has to be some kind of scientist." Sandy stated. "Or commissioned some science fella!"
"Does that matter, though?"
The two of them were racing against each other rather slowly, Pit having one hand on a random weapon and the other hand rowing and Sandy not willing to chop on sharks.
Sharks that were giving them some predatory glares and looking for some actual food, though other players weren't more intimidated by the sharks than of each other.
Old habits may die hard, but newly formed rivalries would probably die harder, since they were both quite good at riding boats.
"You're not as good as me on the water!" Dante shouted.
"You did say it to my face, I'll give you that." Bayonetta remarked.
The two overpowered protagonists were having a great time trying to outsmart the sharks that were blocking them in coordinated fashion, the duo trying to find their way to push through and still fight each other.
Bayonetta essentially pushed through two entirely different sharks with her canoe tanking the damage and the witch literally smiling at seeing a friend in first place, while Dante tried to do a wheelie on a shark with a canoe.
It went really well, literally getting his canoe to flip over several times thanks to sheer momentum and badass-ery and somehow, he got fourth place thanks to some keen eyes.
"It's not a good time to be eaten by sharks, these guys are sure of that and oh man, I can't believe that Nicole and Uraraka are the top two again!"
"Of course it's like that." Dante huffed, seeing Pit go up on him. "Crap-"
Pit sped on ahead of him, as Dante saw a shark that was chasing up on him and he had quite the smirk.
"Easy fish."
These two were kind of racing, making sure to avoid the barriers on the outer water that had wires on them and they both figured out something.
*Pit's confessional*
He didn't look surprised, but he did look like he was trying to be mad.
"Something tells me that the sharks just got shocked a lot or he got some mean sharks and that makes more sense than Chris going into making meaner sharks!" He talked to his lady.
"Come on, he definitely did a little bit of that if Boney Island shows anything and he would be the type to make meaner sharks." Palutena argued honestly.
"Lady Palutena, that actually makes a ton of sense."
"Doesn't exactly mean he would make meaner sharks, he is not that type of host even if he made accidental science experiments in the process."
"...I don't know but I'm going with that meaner sharks thing because he's doing sciency stuff now! Anyways, I'm going to try and deal with Dante."
"Okay, you do that, Pit!"
At least, he and his lady had a friendly conversation, even if Chris could be a scientist by accident.
*Confessional cut*
With that long segment out of the way, there was definitely a shark chasing someone who consistently could out-row him and he was back for blood.
"Okay, two-legged shark, don't try me!" Sokka shouted in a panic, seeing Fang again. "I've gone around my world and saved it!"
Fang just laughed, as Sokka sped on his way to being fifth thanks to Dante, Nicole and Bayo being mad OP and Uraraka plain getting lucky.
"AHHHHH!"
Sokka sped away and he noticed he wasn't rowing a single way, leading him to one conclusion.
"I doubt that's Appa."
He got completely thrown by a shark and his boat was flying right into an advantageous position that Uraraka rowed in with and immediately, the new top two looked at each other ahead of the wide section.
"Uraraka, that isn't Appa!"
Uraraka saw a shark that was speeding right towards them, since they had one thing in common...being on a canoe that was a bit tougher than the rest and now rowing pretty fast.
*Sokka's confessional*
He was mad about Fang's fast comeback.
"Being down on the South Pole and having explored the world, I can say that aside from the serpent from the Serpent's Pass, I haven't really seen water predators this vicious with my eyes before this Total Drama competition! I'm officially tired of seeing them now, though!"
*Confessional cut*
With the top two moving into an entirely different section of water courses with a tight turn or two, Nicole, Dante and Bayo decided that it was a good time to get the hell out of the "shark zone" and into an weird enclosed bay that had a few sharks, but nothing super serious.
As serious as a bay with three sharks would be in Total Drama.
"Wow, those two really are good with their rowing." Nicole had to say.
"Good, because I'm 'bouta beat them!" Dante boasted.
The trio were going oar-to-oar into the tightening of the water course with the floating barriers doing something to the way that these three were rowing, seeing some sharks swim underwater.
"Hold on, they got Fang to get themselves ahead!" Nicole said.
"Pretty sure it's the other way around." Dante remarked.
Bayonetta had better things to focus on, rowing with precision and...witch powers into third place quite easily.
*Bayonetta's confessional*
She was thinking of the future.
"Even if I'm definitely able to take the win, I'm not a lady of the boat and carrying a canoe on the water would...be my type of thing. Unfortunately, the canoe's too fucking long. Another challenging challenge, obviously."
She smirked.
"I wouldn't willingly do those, but it should be obvious."
*Confessional cut*
The top three was somewhat solid with Sokka finally taking the lead, Uraraka still gunning for second and Bayonetta being in third looking for the gold during the final section with the two tight turns.
"NOT FANG!"
Sokka turned around on that final turn with ease and had Fang chasing him for revenge.
"I'd like to fight later, Fang, I have bigger problems." Sokka said, seeing Uraraka and Bayonetta at the back.
"The sharks are feasting on half of the campers that suck, while these three aren't showing any fear with Fang on their butts! I'm glad that I brought him back!" Chris shouted, on the finish line in the sand that wasn't there yesterday. "I'm not surprised that the super witch's got the lead!"
Bayonetta only had raw effort and being stupid overpowered, which countered literally everything that Sokka and Uraraka could put out with their oars.
Also, she was in the air and landed on the finish line.
"Bayonetta wins because she's too damn OP! Also, Sokka and Uraraka are still getting bitten by Fang...and Dante & Pit are still fighting each other!"
"Another win for me, hooray." Bayonetta remarked.
"HOORAY! I should have won that." Sokka complained. "At least I got second and stopped Dante."
Uraraka awkwardly arrived in third, as the two continued to-
"I'm going to be honest, you're not stopping him anytime soon."
"Okay, I haven't seen you trying to stop him! More importantly, we're the public and honest Girlfriend Squad that's kinda like some other alliance." Sokka stated.
"Uraraka gets third-"
Pit used his wings to boost himself further with great swings (from that one game of the olympics) and Dante, even with his absurd abilities and stats, wasn't a better rower than Pit...and also he swung at Fang.
"-Pit gets fourth and Dante gets fifth!"
*Pit's and Sokka's confessional*
Somehow, they both fit in there.
"The girlfriend squad is real...even if half of the guys are a little bit, uh, eaten by sharks." Sokka remarked.
And they could even crouch.
"GIRLFRIEND SQUAD!"
*Confessional cut*
Nicole arrived in sixth and Joseph with his ability to row...got seventh easily, seeing his fellow friends smile over something obvious.
"Random question: who beat Dante?" Joseph smugly inquired. "Since he isn't super happy."
"Me, Sokka, Uraraka and Bayonetta won. This alliance is doing pretty solid!" Pit almost screamed.
"Nice..." Joseph questioned with vexation. "...who are we voting off?"
"Not really Dante since he has been forgiven and plus, I could beat him quite easily." Pit answered.
Dante and at this point, Sandy, who arrived in eighth place, looked confused.
"Oh my god, then what was that for?" Joseph said.
"Revenge, simple as that and I found out that I don't like taking revenge, so I'm not going to vote for him." Pit said. "Plus, uh, there's other options."
"Nicole, Joseph and Sandy get sixth, seventh and eighth respectively without a single shark bite! At least it scared them." Chris announced. "And holy moly, those last four are really fighting sharks!"
Tanjiro, Reg, Lowain and Doreen didn't have trouble using their boats as weapons, especially since all but one of them had experience with water before.
It was more so that the time-honoured fight of man against shark was happening once again with some unsuited people for the job, even if Reg was more focused on getting 9th place through unusual means.
"Please let go of me, Fang!" Reg complained. "I'm mostly metal, do you even eat metal!"
Reg was one hell of a wild ride and the shark with a mind decided that even he wanted to help his kid...by flinging him towards the finish line with some serious injuries.
"Stop or I'll shoot you!"
Fang decided that he didn't want to be sushi, so he let go at an opportune time and ended up making Reg skip several times in the ocean with extra momentum and metal arm recoil.
Reg landed in the sand face down, although his canoe made it.
"Damn, that is mighty convenient!" Sandy remarked.
"You shouldn't say when you saw what Fang did." Reg answered grumpily. "And I think it went back for a fight."
Doreen then kicked Fang in the face underwater and well...
"Or not."
If there was one thing apparent, that was the fact that Squirrel Girl got torn up and her canoe was surprisingly fine in spite of the shark bite that it was holding off at the moment.
"As someone who moved to the Great Lakes from Cali, it sucks to be eaten by sharks that have been tortured!" Squirrel Girl certainly squealed. "Anyways, why are you so mad?"
The shark let go, as the superhero teen saw that it left.
"Alright, suit yourself."
"And of course, Reg and Squirrel Girl get 9th and 10th respectively, as the last two are trying to deal with the whole shark squad! Or Lowain is, anyway."
Reg and Squirrel Girl literally saw Tanjiro do some other type of business with his special breathing, going incredibly fast on the straight-aways and then literally speeding his way to the finish line, even if the shark that was on him was just as fast as the demon slayer.
"Alright, alright, Tanjiro, you're not last place, just 11th. It does mean that you're going to have one vote in the campfire!"
Tanjiro was a bit mad.
"AHHHHHHHHH!"
A little perturbed.
"Why would you make things that are like demons?"
Miffed, even.
"Just so that you can enjoy it because you're like a demon!"
Everybody, even Chris, wasn't expecting that outburst of rage, the host stopped smiling.
"...No, it's because I wanted you to have a crazy challenge to challenge you. Yep, definitely didn't enjoy it."
Tanjiro then calmed down instantly, having taken the time to take a breather.
"And I have to get Lowain out of the water or else I'm getting sued."
"Oh, I'm sorry, Christopher. I thought you were enjoying this or something." Tanjiro apologised awkwardly. "Please accept my humble apologies."
Everybody aside from Chris realised that it really went from 0 to 100 back to 0 with Tanjiro, since he was a nice boy from the countryside slaying only the craziest demons.
*Reg's confessional*
The robot kid was...surprised not in a good way.
"I know he's got a lot of optimism, but why would he accept Chris' words especially when he didn't apologise." Reg said. "Chris didn't even stop smiling or even stop saying stuff about getting sued, which must be powerful."
*Uraraka's confessional*
The brown-haired hero was enraged.
"If Chris had a Quirk, he would be in Tartarus by now and that place is a supervillain prison. He's just one step away from a supervillain at this point and something tells me that he might have some power."
And then she realised, her face slowly getting more mortified.
"Uh, Deku won't see this, right?"
*Confessional cut*
Lowain got himself up, a little bit tired, but his hand was a little bit...cut up.
"I'm totally still in this, but I do need medic, man. Is the medic here?"
"Yep...doesn't look that serious, but you do have a vote on your name!"
"Yo, man, I'm not worried about that, I escaped with my everything intact. Could've ended up like Cody." Lowain shouted. "Alright, squad, it's gonna get complicated, since who won."
"Bayo won, obviously." Dante shrugged. "...I'm going to the forest."
"Sweet, you do that, I've got someone else in my mind."
"Not surprised that you read my mind."
Thanks to Bayonetta being immune, everyone that was left in the game had to do some strategy work and unsurprisingly, Lowain had some choice votes that his alliance didn't like as much.
"Come on, bros, we might have to vote out Reg, even if it mean he goes home to his hellhole and really nice friends!" Lowain shouted. "I don't think Dante's getting eliminated."
"We actually could eliminate him right then and there, why not, man?" Joseph questioned him.
"Dante's out in the forest, what do you think he's trying to do?" Sokka asked right back with urgency.
"Uh, fight some monster."
"Obviously, he's trying to get an idol. If we get this wrong, one of us could be sent home."
Lowain and Sokka sat together, as Joseph and Pit were on the same bed with one thought.
"How about Nicole, because she has been in at least two alliances before and seen both of those go down without getting many scratches. And plus, she's a mean player at these challenges and probably could win the entire season!" Joseph argued calmly.
The two dudes from another core alliance of the Swordfishes were considering the thought and he had one thing to do.
"Uh-"
"Don't worry, I know what you're going to say next." Joseph remarked with a smile, as Lowain shrugged.
The time was now right.
"IT'S NOT RAD TO VOTE SOMEONE WHO'S ACTUALLY PLAYING THE GAME OUT!"
Joseph saw Lowain's shock.
"Yeah, I know, but she's playing too good if that makes sense. Reg's not that bad at this thing and plus, I like him as a guy." Joseph answered, before someone else opened a window.
That man was Dante and lo and behold.
"Hey, guys, I heard that you thought I was getting one and you guys gave me a good idea! Thanks for the head hint." Dante shouted. "Anyways, be real careful."
"Haha, we will!" Sokka said.
*Lowain's confessional*
The blonde cook (that isn't Sanji) was relaxing with his taped up right hand.
"...Something tells me that if half of us vote for Reg and Nicole, I'm pretty sure that Reg's going to be sent home 'cuz the ladies might be gunning for him or like a whole bunch of stray votes gets sent to him."
*Confessional cut*
The other people had less controversial options, considering that at least a few of them watched Survivor and clearly wanted to vote out someone that was strong.
"Joseph, what's up with him?" Reg asked. "He's a nice guy."
"Nice enough to not notice that his Hamon can do anything that he wants, I mean look at him when he's doing great in challenges. He literally breathes his way to victory!" Sandy explained. "More importantly, he's a bit of a dick."
"Why not Nicole?"
Sandy was taken aback, as Reg looked at him.
"Uh, because she's got some kind of alliance maybe and she ain't playing against me. Joseph's the strongest in the Girlfriend Squad easily and Nicole has...qualities."
Reg wasn't that serious.
"Right."
Tanjiro had the most neutral expression.
"I don't want to vote out anyone because you guys are all nice people except for the safe witch, but Joseph is...a bit too strong or something." Tanjiro stated. "Dante's becoming a good guy, as well."
"I'd never thought you would back me up."
"We both have breathing techniques and he's pretty cool, but something tells me that...he might be voted off today and some people think he's crazy strong. And I respect Nicole!"
Reg considered his thoughts, as someone else was spying outside with her squirrels ready to do the one thing.
"This feeling that people are going to vote me off is still in the back of my mind, though." Reg finally spoke.
"...Can't say you're wrong."
*Doreen AKA Squirrel Girl's confessional*
"I may be one of those people that's voting off Joseph because he's a meme master and pretty cool to be with, but that's outside of the competition and in this competition, I don't want to be on the end of his memes or get my butt checked by him specifically. Once I get a boyfriend, he can check my butt anytime, though."
*Confessional cut*
Twelve campers, ten marshmallows and a lot of empty stumps that represented the friends that got eliminated along the way and at least a third of said campers were aware of their status.
"You know, I would say that I want this campfire to be super drawn out, but it's obvious who got the votes! Not nearly as obvious about who's going to be eliminated since these votes are kind of close!"
The campers sat carefully.
"Bayonetta got immunity from the challenge, obviously. Sokka and Uraraka have got no votes to their names and Lowain is safe despite having shark troubles!"
"Squad, we're still going strong!" Lowain proclaimed. "...But someone in the squad might get their butt sent home."
"Don't you have an idol?" Sokka said. "I mean Dante has one, right?"
"And I won't use it." Dante remarked.
The Girlfriend Squad realised that Lowain would be right, since Nicole's reputation was positive enough.
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"Tanjiro's safe and also, Pit, Dante and Sandy also don't have any votes!"
Reg's sense of dread only deepened.
"Tanjiro may have an extra vote, but everyone remaining has at least two votes to their name!"
Nicole and Dante looked at each other.
"But Doreen has only the two votes."
Reg realised that he was up a bad creek, as Nicole looked at Joseph with some hesitation and Doreen smiled.
"One of you also has two votes and the other two both have four to their name! Which one will it be?"
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"You guys are gonna find out..."
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Bayonetta was looking rather smug.
While Uraraka was actually panicking inside.
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"...right now, because..."
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Sokka and Pit stared at each other.
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Tanjiro looked at Reg with an apologetic look and the robot kid had a very certain look.
"...Nicole's surviving with those two votes! Say goodbye to Reg and Joseph, both with four votes!" Chris announced. "Do you two have any last words?"
"...You know what, I wanted to vote myself out for a second there, but then I realised that I didn't want to vote myself off. I respect all of you guys who voted for me because everyone here's pretty good people, still, even Bayonetta and it kinda makes sense!" Reg told the campers. "So, I'm not really mad about being voted off because I proved Tails and myself that I could make it even here!"
"That's sweet, dude, unfortunately, I don't care that much! Joseph, you got any salt!"
"Could've done better, but I'm pretty sure I would've gotten eliminated sooner or later, strategy's crazy, none of you are messing around anymore! I just hope that Dante and Bayo doesn't win because of their powers!" Joseph complimented the rest of the cast. "All of you are badass and my squad even moreso."
Chris was perturbed.
"Campers, let's just send these two on their way!"
All of the now remaining Swordfishes, aside from Bayonetta, had to wave to their respectable teammates and Pit was there to support him.
"It sucks that the squad's down one guy, but keep it up!" Joseph cheered them on.
"You've got our word, fellow girlfriend-haver!" Lowain shouted right back, as Dante looked at him with serious respect from a distance. "We'll beat Dante."
"Haha, you try that, Girlfriend Squad!" Dante screamed from that distance.
As for Reg, Nicole looked at him.
"Look, I want you to have some of the money once I win because it sounds-" Nicole sympathised.
"No, it's fine! It sucks that I couldn't go further, but I made more friends here, played a good game and I've already got friends in the Abyss. You try your best to win for me?"
"That's all I want to do at this point! Where's your par...ents."
And the sling-yacht took off, the non-eliminated campers making their way off the dock and the camera obviously switched back to the host with the most marshmellows.
"No-one started hating each other this episode, aside from Dante getting some hate and someone even almost cried in the process! That kinda sucks, so look forward to more hating on TOTAL DRAMA: ULTIMATE ISLANDS!"
There sure would be more hating.
To be continued in Episode 36, where with ten people remaining, these guys go into the next frontier of Sonic games and they may not be superstars or heroes, but they all will get a friend or a foe to help them through the long and wild race!
Unsurprisingly, the challenge isn't that complicated and yet so much more, since the contestants have to deal with the forces of momentum, gravity, being a friend, being a hater and military drones like the enemies of America, baby!
(Sidenote: I don't live in America, so I'm legally obligated to make fun of it due to being from the UK)
For Reg, someone that wasn't in today's squad had to go and plus, the Swordfishes make up more than half of the cast in the game! Dude's already quite strong in the first season of Made In Abyss and well, he hasn't made that many friends here, but just enough to miss this season!
In contrast, Joseph made a lot of friends, was in the squad and weirdly enough, too powerful to stay on at the moment! Dante literally played him for a fiddle, since his name and Joseph's were floating around and needless to say, they both respect each other! Besides, I even did the memes a few times (like in the way the first time he did that was done), so he got a great one for someone that was added last minute!
Either way, Reg and Joseph sharing 11th is quite fine and next time, the ten remaining players will have to deal with another Sonic-based challenge.