Total Drama X: Ultimate Islands!
Episode 36
Part 1: The Cyber Race
It's time for the minor comeback for the Frontiers. A Sonic frontier, if you will, since it had DLC for the challenge of this episode and uh, one of the more notable things about Sonic Frontiers is remembering old mistakes and kind of fixing them.
The ten still in the game will be joined by ten out of the game and together, they're going to have a bad time together depending on the duo's bonds (Which is also kinda important on Frontiers) and memories (Which is key to Frontiers), so why am I talking about the challenge here?
I'd rather not reveal, but this is quite the big challenge and the Girlfriend Squad only got that bit tighter even with losing Joseph Joestar to the fray and Reg did have a great run to his name, since everyone's trying to cut down the former Swordfishes.
Either way, there will be drama.
My goal for having so many characters! I literally thought I could do it, I got inspired by my Ridonculous Race roster which in turn was inspired by The Ultimate Ridonculous Race and I thought I was himothy.
Apparently, I am himothy, even though I'm clearly not himothy]
You guys probably don't get it.
"Last time on TOTAL DRAMA: ULTIMATE ISLANDS, we had a little bit of a shark fest after Dante got targeted for eliminating Pit's girlfriend by him and his new found alliance! Lowain, Sokka, Pit and Joseph were the Girlfriend Squad poised to win the canoe race of sharks and power! And then Bayonetta decided to use her powers and she was immune, but at least Sokka and Pit beat Dante in the race, which counts for something!"
Of course, that was highlighted.
"Lowain may have had some injuries, but his determination to win beat them. Most of them were to his right hand, though, yet he didn't get any votes! It came down to Reg, Dante or Joseph for some reason...and somehow Dante survived due to goodwill, Reg and Joseph being sling-yacht'd out of here! Anyways, we're going from the sharks to the silicon on this episode of TOTAL DRAMA: ULTIMATE ISLANDS!"
Everyone in this season may not have been as miserable as they were in Cruise, because they were actually in pretty decent spirits.
They were more focused on strategizing, since out of 128 contestants including two ladies who arrived partway through the season, they were the last ten or like less than ten percent of the cast.
Especially with the Girlfriend Squad now missing a member and well, Bayonetta being mad overpowered.
"I'm not gonna lie, wasn't expecting Joseph to get hit like that." Lowain said. "But almost all of survived a blindside and uh, sorry that Reg had to go."
"Nah, it's okay, he said that he didn't want us to feel sorry, just for one of us to win this season!" Sokka shouted. "Plus he's got our back."
"True, dude. So...who would you want to go-"
"Bayonetta." Sokka interrupted with an answer, as Pit nodded. "Did you see that stuff!"
"Yeah, of course, let's get on eliminating her pronto! She's second only to Dante and has better strategy than her."
"I'm glad it's unanimous, but it ain't going to be easy."
The trio were smiling in pure strategy, since it had really turned into a Survivor season with some absurd challenge, a parody of Jeff Probst, some freaky island and a weirdo cast...
...Actually, that just sounds like a lot of Survivor fanfics and the newest Total Drama season, but these guys were taking their own time to chill with each other since they were a crew.
Sandy, Uraraka and Squirrel Girl were the group that definitely noticed something about the wildlife, since there was not that much to do and this island was starting to be properly understood to be a bit more friendly than you'd think.
Except when it wasn't...
"You never really see how freaky these plants are until you get a close view of them." Squirrel Girl remarked.
"Must be a whole new genome, for sure." Sandy used her magnifying glass to see the impassable flowers. "How does it even bend space like that?"
"Because it's funny and probably ended up with some weird qualities."
"I don't see nuclear flowers being able to have so much air pressure. This flower ain't that dense, since it ain't got no radiation."
The two proceeded to move off looking at random flowers, as Uraraka carried the mutated squirrels that Doreen respected and she found them ugly cute, respecting their lives.
"It's insane how a waste dump's still growing freaky stuff and yet we're fine." Uraraka said. "It sounds like the type of place where you'd kinda die."
"I guess that's true." Sandy said. "Darn place still gives me the creeps."
The trio were slowly walking through the overgrown madness that laid on the side of the cleanly done path, sure that there was a reason why this island specifically had those flowers and other fucked up plants that would warrant the CIA loving nature all of a sudden.
That being said, they did run into a wholesale Piranha Plant, like the Mario one.
"Okay, I get it now. It's one of those crossover things where stuff spits out of nowhere and puts it into the ground because it's in another dimension!" Squirrel Girl declared. "I'm science Doreen, get ready to science up."
"...Calm down, it's kinda obvious, but I'm still gonna give you credit." Sandy was a little tussled mentally.
"Cool!"
And these three didn't have bigger problems, as at least they weren't staring at each other.
*Uraraka's confessional*
"Everything kind of scares me here, though, that doesn't change. Even if it's weirdly beautiful, I wouldn't really live here." She started with a hint of fear. "But it's still very much a place that I'd take pictures of."
*Confessional cut*
Tanjiro and Nicole were technically watching a trainwreck on double speed, as the witch/angel hunter and the demon hunter got back to doing what they were doing best.
Being stylishly overpowered for no reason at all, since they were going at it with forks and knives that held up way better than you should.
"I need to get a new hobby." Nicole remarked. "Consider that there's a whole lot of stuff to do honestly."
"I still like running around the island and trying to find some weird animals to be friends with! Anyways...I'm trying to draw some pictures." Tanjiro said with only the most innocent smile.
"Oh, right..."
Nicole looked down to see some picture of a sword, drawn poorly in hilarious fashion.
"...That sure is a picture."
"Thank you-"
The table then got bumped in hilarious fashion by Dante flipping on it and yet it didn't break, though the drawing was flipped over with style and the two realised something since neither of them were hurt or even achieved anything.
"We're tied, of course." Bayonetta remarked.
"Sorry for flipping your weird drawing over." Dante apologised easily.
*Dante's confessional*
The demon hunter grinned.
"My bad, man. I wanted a good fight and I was looking for some extra cash from Bayo, so I did it."
*Confessional cut*
With that table being turned over, it was a great time for a new challenge that always takes place bi-daily AKA every two days or so since all of them were not in the mood.
"Okay, campers, I got an extra special challenge and I'm not even kidding about that! There will be pain and virtual helicopters!"
"The hell do you mean virtual helicopters?" Dante asked with intrigue.
"...What else do you think he means?" Bayonetta said.
The ten campers didn't really expect some kind of...stone tablet and throne hybrid that stuck out of the ground and had quite the technological feel to it with the red lines that were luminescent and had flat light and...it had a massive hole on top of the throne-like structure that showed one thing.
It was a portal to some bizarre place.
"Listen up, you guys, I know that I work extra hard for the challenges that you have experienced with your own eyes and there's been a lot of great ones! Some awesome for me, some a little bit awesome for you." Chris announced. "First thing, I'm gonna tell you, you can't die once you step on that thing and second thing, I didn't make a single thing aside from the recreation of that portal!"
...
The ten remaining players were sure of what this challenge was in some fashion.
"To where, though?" Lowain asked. "Like Total Drama Island?"
"Yeah, dude, I wish, though it could be that! Welcome to the portal for Cyber Space or rather, Chris Space since it kinda takes info from...somewhere!"
"Are we going on the internet?" Pit said with excitement.
"No, it's somewhat like the internet except it's real."
"It's VR, right?" Sandy answered with disappointment.
"Do you see any headsets?"
"...What the frick is it, then?" Bayonetta casually asked.
"First off, language! Secondly, it's like if you walk, feel or touch the internet since it takes stuff from everywhere...basically, it creates awesome obstacle courses for me and even pulls stuff from your home worlds."
Everyone took a few seconds to get it, before realising that it was going to be some insane challenge.
"Anyways, you're going to be teamed up with one eliminated contestant each to race each other through Chris Space and you know, first place is safe and last place gets eliminated, no marshmallows needed!"
The campers all clearly gasped when that announcement dropped, since the stakes were right up there and more importantly, that meant that, head or no head, you had to go fast and go hard or you would go rest in a top-tier resort.
Wait a minute-
"We paired you with a loser depending on your friends, enemies or teammates and I worked my magic on that one! Expect some surprises!" Chris boasted, turning on the chair to show a red portal. "Alright, the portal's open, you guys should be on completely different paths!"
"...Please tell me that-" Dante dropped with serious disdain.
"-you've got my girlfriend back!" Lowain screamed in happiness. "Then it would be lit."
"You guys should find out!"
"Time to get l-"
Lowain disappeared into the portal.
"What else are we gonna do, guys?"
Pit said, before disappearing.
"Girlfriend Squad's in here!"
Sokka's gone.
"Ugh, I feel like I'm going to regret this. Just don't be surprised."
Dante stared at Chris.
"I'm not really surprised, but I do need some popcorn."
Dante rolled his eyes, smiled and dived deep into...
CYBER SPACE (Old Redgrave...?, featuring Dante & ?)
The demon hunter had to have a cool entrance, flipping at least five times to land on the ground in his bike without a problem...and it disappeared after he did a power slide towards the floating road.
"Ah, I remember like it was yesterday. Wasn't even that long ago that I stood here for real."
The white-haired middle-aged legend grinned, he was on his way to navigate the long, winding and loop-filled course that his heart could only desire, except he suddenly noticed the sky.
The sky was flatly navy blue turning into night like a gradient skybox, an contradictory fake sun having emitting light towards Dante from possible light years and a bunch of random buildings and other infrastructure in the background and other paths that the other campers were on and were taking aspects from their home worlds...were a long way away.
And then Dante looked forward to seeing elements of an Italian town on the main road, a wooden under structure on the highways and...a weird-ass carnival?
"Okay, maybe it's not him, maybe it has to be someone else. Not him, nope!"
Dante constantly reassured himself, as the demon hunter sprinted onwards.
"Chris probably finds us messing up funny."
The hunter shook his head, as he stopped at the sight of that one man that stood on some wooden version of some random highway, his flat hat, blue scarf, oddly reassuring features marred with an maddening smile obvious to him.
That maddening smile was mutual, though.
"He sure does, Dante, I really agree!"
"Yeah, real funny, let me pass and I won't throw off this place, Coachman."
Somebody was, indeed, getting fucked.
CYBER SPACE (Interstate Something, LA, ft. Wade Wilson & Doreen Green)
Surprisingly, Squirrel Girl and Deadpool were doing real good with what probably was a million empty cars in the middle of a parody of LA traffic at 5pm except every street was a freeway and led into...random shit.
"Hey, hey, I'm back, baby and this time there's only the best traffic. The kind of traffic you'd only experience in Los Angeles and these people even sound like traffic."
me when I try to deadpool.
"Yeah, I know, you're trying your best. That doesn't stop you from driving with your keyboard!"
eh, fair point.
"Oh yeah, it's time for the most random crossovers!" Squirrel Girl shouted. "I was born in the traffic and my squirrels are...beating the traffic literally."
The cars were being turned into nothing with a few squirrel bites and well-
"No way, this is actually pretty trippy. It's like a new frontier of trippy!"
-Wade and Doreen saw the springs that led to a platform, seeing that this was indeed at one point, a Sonic thing and they went for it, squirrels making sure to be hanging with the wall-breaking duo, Deadpool and Squirrel Girl
CYBER SPACE (Skyfarer's Tower, Yumeko & Lowain)
Yumeko and Lowain were kissing.
Anyways, that's all of the time for those kisses, since they both looked at each other with some smug looks, seeing each other after a week of not being together and being real awkward.
"I dunno if I was ready yet for that kiss, babe." Lowain admitted.
"Come on, you did take a gamble on it." Yumeko remarked with a grin.
The couple were about to do some gacha casino stuff, which considering the way that Lowain's home game was monetized, was practically redundant except this place was literally floating islands of a mixed casino, school and expo place that wouldn't look out of place in Edo Japan...and looked out of placed from the weird mixes of modern Tokyo and your typical fantasy beach.
"What do you think we're gonna do?" Yumeko said.
"I don't have a clue, babe, but it's about to lit."
*Deadpool's confessional*
The merc with a mouth used it with impunity-
"Serious question, how do you get your way into the roster 'cause, uh, I'm looking for something important for an actual friend. Like, I don't mind not being in since my older mes kicked all of the butt that was needed, but someone else who needs it."
oh shit, who is it?
"...Crap, I forgot him, but I want a rematch!"
no
"Awww, but I'm not like those other Deadpools!"
*Confessional cut*
CYBER SPACE (Shadowmore Suburbs, Nicole Watterson & David "Solid" Snake)
Nicole and Snake realised that they were in some kind hilarious sneaking situation, as they arrived in a place that was pretty much Elmore but with guns and random places strewn around in the sky and like random soldiers that were pretty much annoying simulations.
"You had a moment of hesitation there." Solid Snake noticed, seeing the soldiers spin around his gun.
"Snake, you are seeing this town, right? This town where you would consider your every step is my home town except with guns." Nicole stated. "This now just got incredibly hard."
"I don't think it ever was easy."
These two were running around like it was a Sonic game, which their path reflected with the loops, random ramps and those classic spring, though they were not the fastest.
CYBER SPACE (Mugen Junction, Tanjiro & Samurai Jack)
Tanjiro and Samurai Jack were real fast, passing by another Japanese house that somehow made a good platform for a great jump that they both could...and the strange combination of their skill made it a bit too obvious how good their challenge was.
"You are fast." Jack answered with slight surprise. "But I see some robots."
"I don't think they're demons, but we can't pass them." Tanjiro stated. "...Are they real, though?"
"I don't think so."
The twin samurai (sort of) were speeding up to the robots, who stood there awkwardly with their very bad sword stances and Samurai Jack then swung on them without that much mercy, the robots bowling up as Tanjiro looked saddened.
*Tanjiro's confessional*
He was genuine, by the way.
"Wow, it's honestly terrible that these robots didn't stand a chance. Their friends will remember them and the stuff that they did...even if they're not real."
*Confessional cut*
The samurai and the slayer cut through the absurd amount of Eggman's virtual robots, since they were coming out of nowhere near infinitely without trouble and it didn't even chip the sword...meaning that these guys were already a decent way through the course.
CYBER SPACE (Old Redgrave-)
Considering that they both hate each other, what else would happen with each other with their lack of pragmatism (one was a demon hunter with only attitude and the other was a child trafficker that turns 'em into donkey), it was pretty surprising that they got to move even once.
They even move a notable amount, though they were quiet as mouses...before they notice the big corkscrew loop that Dante could go through easily.
"Goddamn, you never notice how much weight you need to lose." Dante remarked. "...What can you do other than being a asshole, which must come to you naturally!"
Coachman laughed.
"You bloody plonker, I don't know what you think that I could even do here!"
"The same way that you managed to last before the merge, pure bullshit."
"You are lucky that your powers are what keeping you in the game, you...motherless man!"
Dante's brow furrowed, as Coachman finally smirked and it was like a dam broke, as the demon hunter decided to do something that was pretty obvious, carrying the old man in his hands quite easily to do one thing.
Run with a stupid amount of speed, which was what he was doing for half of the screwy sections and through this cockscrew loop that Dante didn't give a shit about.
Problem was...
...neither of them stuck the landing and uh, Chris wasn't lying about the no death thing, but there was one consequence.
*Dante's confessional*
He felt different.
"My life just got crazier, since we both shared the experience of death...and didn't die. Is this some kind of VR challenge or are we in some guy's computer, 'cause I don't want to answer."
*Confessional cut*
Anyways, they're both fighting.
So...
CYBER SPACE (Bikini Emerald Zone, Tails & Sandy)
Tails and Sandy were doing very normal things, considering that the squirrel could see that the two-tailed fox had experience with going through loops, ramps and what not.
"It feels wrong to not have my suit on." Sandy casually remarked. "And be mashed up with your first place."
"Nah, I had worse than this...I was stuck in the Starfall Islands for a while as a cyber thing." Tails stated. "And now, I'm gonna do what Sonic did."
"You mean, break outta here."
"Yep, time to get out of cyberspace!"
The two were running rather casually.
"Ya mean, the internet?"
"It might as well be the internet, though it's much weirder than that."
Sandy shut up for a second, as Tails was downtrodden at the potential lack of the explanation and well, they were both thinking about it.
"Don't worry, I haven't got the chance to study it, so we're good." Tails chuckled.
Anyways, it was time for the obstacle of the day, since these two were currently having a smooth ride being in a certain position and in the Chris Space, having a smooth rides means that you're going to get something to gain trauma.
2 minutes later...
"THE HECK WERE YOU DOIN' IN CENTRAL CITY!"
"Yeah, people really couldn't tell Shadow from Sonic, but I thought it was over!"
...a bunch of virtual military helicopters were shooting indiscriminately, basically shooting to send the duo back to the beginning and these two had techniques up the butt.
"Ya got a magnet?" Sandy casually asked, hiding behind a coral house.
"Why, this place is electric-"
Those helicopters then stopped in the middle of the air, leaving the duo to do one thing.
*Tails' confessional*
The tailed fox had tussled fur.
"Wow, he was not joking about those floating helicopters, but he was wrong about them not shooting."
*Confessional cut*
Speaking of Cyber Space, there was still a whole bunch of people that were not properly accounted for...on screen.
CYBER SPACE (Noatun & New New York, Sol & Bayonetta)
Sol and Bayonetta knew that they weren't going to like each other at first, since they are both people that tend to punch their problems away and well, uh, they did just that.
"I can see why you don't like Dante." Sol remarked.
"He is what you would call, a douche. Still not a bad man, but he is quite the goofy man." Bayonetta answered.
The two were going through the old-school skyscrapers (which were only possible in the far future) that somewhat blended in with the old-school Italian-style houses and obviously, there was no-one there due to the limitations of Cyber Space.
Or it was because of the angels that teamed up with bikers.
"...What the fuck is this?" Sol said. "Some kind of movie?"
"Angels teaming up with bikers and I think we're the stars of this movie."
Sol somehow regained his full power, as Bayonetta ran into towards the angels that were going into the main square that were an obvious combination of old-school Italy and the steamiest of steampunks.
*Sol's confessional*
"Man, Dante really needs to take care of his mental health, because Chris is definitely trying to fuck that stuff up." He scoffed at the host.
*Chris' reply
"Don't worry, Dante did get his mental heath fixed free of charge after the challenge, we just don't show it because it's...a process...of privacy! And plus, this challenge's awesome!"
*Confessional cut*
Sol and Bayo were really interested in claiming the bounty of not being last place, judging by the fact that Bayonetta slid into one of the angel's face and threw a few serious punches to it...and then a few strong kicks to said angel who finally disappeared into static.
She then dodged another angel's attacks with that classic Witch Time, shot it accurately in the face and then hit a few times, smashing it with an aerial combo and sending it up real quick.
Meanwhile Sol Badguy realised that these bikers hit quite a bit harder than they really should, the bounty hunter doing his usual biz and hitting more than a few combos that work well with his game's style.
"You guys don't go easy this time around." Sol remarked with a stoic face.
Sol was slinging a "guy from Alabama" with a fiery punch and a notably strong kick to the face and then he disappeared into static.
CYBER SPACE (Hinobi's Skyworld, Pit & Miko)
Pit and Miko decided that it would be weird to have a kiss, since the two of them had circumstances that were very different in temrs of their life and also because they were immediately fighting monsters that Miko obviously knew...
...and tried to hide.
"Oh my gosh, that's the vampire guy with terrible taste in fashion!" She declared. "Uh, how do we beat him?"
"I don't know this guy, though. Beating him up always works." Pit quipped. "And he really does look like a combo of that green-haired lady and buff vampire guy."
"Obviously, so let's kill him!"
It wasn't working that well, but they were both playing Kid Icarus in 2D, so they had bigger problems than dealing with that one vampire that Miko got in her Glitch Tech suit.
That being said, the duo was blasting through the thing, since they were slaying monsters that Pit could easily remember like random Aurums befitting of the virtual space and jumping without that much trouble.
These two even did a strong super jump together, landed and Pit even did a trickshot.
*Miko's confessional*
The purple-haired gamer was excited.
"I don't want Pit to be mad at Dante 'cause I had to go sometime! Plus he's a total cool guy, like he had the guts to even eliminate me, so I'm with him...after Pit!"
*Confessional cut*
These two were actually gaming...
CYBER SPACE (Old Redgrave City, Dante & Coachman)
...unlike these two, who have gotten through the corkscrew loop onto the first checkpoint and they saw the floating pieces of civilisation that was strewn around the somewhat linear obstacle course that was definitely designed for Dante.
"Alright, now that's over..."
Dante turned to his worst enemy, who had this unsettled look despite the smile.
"...uh, what's your problem?"
"The problem is that I do not have one, especially something you can solve!" Coachman shouted.
"Great, man! You better keep up."
Dante then started running at a regular speed, as Coachman tried running as fast as he could...before the running speed difference became apparent ten seconds in, and so Dante came back to do the one thing that carried through the loop.
"Do you want to win by my own hand?" Dante had to brag, as Coachman was already bridal carried.
"No-"
Dante already proved that he had all that speed, strength and the willingness to embarrass his enemies with ease, but not in that way...and he started to notice something weird.
Though it was ridiculous easy to tell, especially when they stopped at a old timey Italian town square that was basically every downtown in California and Coachman slugged Dante in the face.
"For your own sake, you better hope that there are demons here." Dante stated, touching a- "I did find a checkpoint, so we're not gonna be sent back."
"Yes...where are are the demons that you always fight?" Coachman stated. "Sounds the type of business that I get to punish bad people in."
Dante wasn't even listening, as he was too busy taking in the fucked up landscape and also realised that somebody must have asked the demons to have a siesta or something, because they came in immediately.
They were coming out of all sides and half of them were demon donkeys that looked suspicious to everyone else, but Dante, Basil and maybe Pinstripe Potoroo
"Oh look, the consequences of my actions have come to roost or something." Coachman off-handedly said. "Finally, you all have paid your price already and I'm looking to pay more!"
Dante rolled his eyes, as he pulled out his weapons, as Coachman had a knife and a whip.
"Let's get this done before something stupid happens." Dante sighs.
*Dante's confessional*
"Goddamn, even slaying demons doesn't even sound fun when it's with your worst enemy. Especially since he can actually slay." He remarked with a lot of attitude. "That's crazy."
*Confessional cut*
Coachman finally got a little taste of what Dante did every time a new game came out or rather, every time the demons felt like partying it up on the surface and he swung his whip every which way, using the knife to send the demons back to hell. (Don't ask how that works, he doesn't even know.)
Of course, the big guy of Devil May Cry himself was doing all of the heavy lifting and combo-bringing since he has been doing this for a little while.
"Damn, my life's like a video game!"
okay, stop.
CYBER SPACE (Skyfarer's Tower, Lowain & Yumeko)
Lowain was in the middle of something, clearly playing a game of poker that there was a blonde woman that looked like she wanted to be in here as much as he did.
Anyways, Mary Saotome was a blonde teenage girl with hair that split into two ponytails, she did wear Yumeko's uniform and she was mad.
"Listen, I don't want to be here as much as you, so use your head!" Mary shouted.
"Brah, stop shouting at me, pretty lady. I'm trying to keep my eyes peeled for real." Lowain said, using his own eyes. "I'm pretty sure everyone's cheating."
"Chris loves cheaters for some reason, though." Mary answered, as Lowain laid down his last card...and it was a good one. "Uh, that's nothing!"
"As a fellow bro, I can kinda tell when you're down and out, bruh."
Mary laid down a...weak card, as Lowain finally beat her with "skill."
"Congratulations, you made it. Though I'm pretty sure that Yumeko helped you."
"Wahey!"
Mary angrily sighed.
"See ya, Mary!"
Lowain was a bit exhausted, but he took a deep breath, as Yumeko clapped at her boyfriend's peformance.
"Alright, one floor down, ten more to go." Lowain said. "This place is wack, babe! Like you wouldn't believe how wack it is."
"Come on, that's practically half the fun!" Yumeko shouted. "I'm sure that this place will have more fun challenges."
"You and me have different definitions of fun, but I'm still having a good time, babe!"
And they were now up on the second floor, since the first floor was just a room with seats for Mary, Yumeko, Lowain and a hundred of some floating uniforms that no-one wanted to mention, lest questions about how Cyber Space works comes up.
Second floor was...someone that Lowain wanted to see.
"Ayo, welcome to the Cyber Space, it's crazy in here, captain." Lowain shouted. "Sorry, you got dragged into all this."
A kid that didn't look that much older than Lowain wearing a blue hoodie, brown trousers, armoured boots and random bits of armour covering the important areas.
"It's okay, Lowain, though why do you have so much darkness around you?" Gran said.
"Dunno, blame the gacha guys. Either way I don't want to throwdown with ya, captain!" Lowain got incredibly nervous.
"Yeah, it's not that. But there is one question for Miss Jabami-"
Sudden a small floating "dragon" came out of nowhere and glared right at Lowain and Yumeko.
"How do you have a girlfriend and why does she look shady?!" The red lizard shouted. "What have you been doing, Lowain!"
"Uh, getting a babe, partying hard, using my head and proving that I wasn't eliminatef first." Lowain said. "Where's Lyria-"
"Yeah, you're not fooling me, even if we're in some weird place!"
"Vyrm, man, it's called Cyber Space and it's still freaky to me. And this is Yumeko, she's got smarts and a gambling love!" Lowain shouted. "Uh, where's Lyria and what's the challenge, captain?"
Vyrm was ready to shout, despite the fact that Gran didn't want that stuff.
"The challenge is to make you and your girlfriend cook for a lot of people including her friends and our friends, simple as that!" Vyrm shouted.
"Say sorry, Vyrm to Miss Jabami." Gran said. "But that's indeed the challenge and I think everyone's over there waiting for their food."
"Say less, captain, we're about to cook this challenge on the first try!" Lowain shouted, as Yumeko stepped to say something. "Anyways, I'm gonna be in the kitchen."
Lowain ran towards what definitely was the kitchen, as Yumeko skalked up to the now suspicious duo.
"Oh, you must be Gran and Vyrm! You two are...something interesting, so I definitely have a love for gambling."
"Wow, that's...something." Gran answered nervously. "I think I'm going to join the rest of the people in here."
"That's okay, gambling is scary when you get down to it."
"Uh, sure, you two have fun in the kitchen."
*Gran & Lyria's confessional*
By the way, Lyria was a blue-haired girl seemingly around Gran's age with extremely long hair and a white dress with a big necklace that controlled something.
"I told that Yumeko was scary." Lyria stated. "I heard that she did take this Azula person in this competition."
"Uh-huh, but Lowain having a girlfriend's good for me since he's not drunk all of the time!" Vyrm said. "And he'll stop teaching Lyria those words."
"Lessgo?" Lyria said. "What does that mean?"
"I'm pretty sure that it's just let's go. Lowain still has the dark element sort of, but I'm pretty sure Yumeko is just dark at this point...something tells me that he's going to have some trouble." Gran said.
The three guest somehow fit into a special confessional.
*Confessional cut*
CYBER SPACE (Interstate Something, Squirrel Girl & Deadpool)
"You have no idea what's going on today at the hotel!" Wade declared, stepping on empty cars.
"What's going on over there?" Doreen stated.
"Okay, so we're betting on which villain is going to show up and I gave a whole bunch of names 'cause Cyber Space is like a server that you could walk in!" Deadpool shouted. "Subway's probably too busy trying to cram in characters."
"That's probably true, there's going to be some familiar guys that Chris is gonna shove in there! Like this Spot guy."
"Yeah, he's gonna lose in twelve seconds!"
"Bet!"
Deadpool basically teleported to throw down a car that was set to drop on The Spot.
"Okay, guys, really funny, you know I was really involved with a certain-"
That car did, indeed, drop on the spot.
"-this ain't funny! It's as funny as this traffic!"
"True, but you're destined to suck." Deadpool said. "Unless a movie comes out where you're the villain."
The Spot was laughing, as Doreen studied this man's lack of face.
"Yeah, real funny, what you're gonna say it's a two parter next?!"
"Of course it, my D-list villain."
The Spot straight up had an evil laugh.
"Geez, you two think you're funny."
Deadpool and Doreen ran away from there, sensing that if they stayed any longer that they might end in a situation with a bunch of Spider-People that didn't want to see them, so they kept on running along the traffic down the interstate of baddies.
"Do you think, like, Galactus is gonna show up since he's your friend."
"Of course, he is, he looks super cool, he is super cool with maybe only me. Don't know about you, though?"
"Don't worry about it, he survived a bad Fantastic Four movie and...uh...he's still in comics! We're both on TV, we're both kicking butt and we're in this together..."
Squirrel Girl just listened to her squirrels that were warning her of something ahead, since Deadpool was talking about some random Marvel stuff that was probably good.
That didn't matter since it started to turn into an actual platforming section that were particularly suited to the two of them and also, mini-Sentinels were just strewn here and there and they both stopped.
"That's what I'm talking about, give me the challenges that require a little bit of that magic! Squirrel Girl, do you believe in magic!"
She readied herself, shaking her tail feathers.
"I already did!"
These two jumped into the great big Sonic Adventure 2-esque stage without that much fear and a little bit of power-up considering this was Cyber Space where your enemies are a bit weaker than usual.
CYBER SPACE (Uraraka & Mystique Sonia, U.A. Fractured)
"Hold on, this place is beautiful and weird! Mostly weird!"
Mystique Sonia could easily notice the fact that it was a modern city mixed with only the most Chinese of traditional castle AKA it was literally Beijing with a whole lot of super heroes.
Or it would be, but from the moment go, it was apparent that they were going to have to platform their way to the end with a whole bunch of random animal robots that had extra superpowers on them.
"Yeah, you took the thoughts out of my mouth!" Uraraka shouted.
The two friends finally squealed together for one last time, as they both saw something looming.
"So, how about Deku." Mystique Sonia had to drop the question. "Since he's-"
"...Uh...how about this place?"
Even Uraraka's interruption was plain awkward, strongly blushing at this moment.
"Let's just go and figure out how to beat the place!" Uraraka sort of continued.
"That I'm fine with!"
The two woman did a run of force understanding that this was going to be hilariously wacky and they already went through a spring to land on a platform.
*Mystique Sonia's confessional*
"So, there's just springs that take you places petty far? I don't know how people don't just willingly jump on and land on some random balcony. Is Tails' world always like that?!"
*Confessional cut*
CYBER SPACE (Sokka & Leshawna, Total Drama: Ba Sing Se)
"Don't hold me back on this, I don't like this place." Sokka stated.
"For your sake, I won't, I bet I'm going to see some things that I don't like." Leshawna said.
They were definitely in Ba Sing Se, no modern areas, no random stray projectiles coming out of nowhere, just a bunch of Earthbenders working on a fake season of Total Drama and clearly, they knew what was going down.
"Nah, this is Wawanakwa, you're not gonna have a good time here." Leshawna could sense the Island throwback from the general...vibe.
"Even if I did, I'm pretty sure I'm seeing some familiar faces that I don't like." Sokka said.
Sokka could recognise that uniform one of the random interns that had Earthbending powers, which was shown by the guy pushing a rock.
"Like the Dai Li here! Long story short: secret police doing bad stuff."
"Yeah, I know...is there a Chris here?"
The duo were trying to keep watch on whoever was in the place like any other version of the Cyber Space, since they were plainly autonomous and actually had no faces to them.
Which Sokka got to verify with a single boomerang swing that went right through one of the Dai Li's agent's ducking robotic face and he ran just to get the boomerang into another alleyway, Leshawna plainly sure that he was going to get caught.
"...You know that was stupid." Leshawna commented to herself. "As long as one of us gets to the end of this thing, I don't care."
Sokka rolled right back to her side of the alleyway, sure that he was being looked at by robotic eyes.
"Uh, that's going to be hard, these guys are those robot things. That means they're metalbenders by default." Sokka explained. "These guys are stronger than ever!"
"Yeah, I could tell you that. So, how do we do it?" Leshawna asked, seeing that she would be messed up without Sokka's help.
These two were slowly sneaking through the place avoiding the Dai Li robots that weren't down for any of Chris' contestants, sure one of one thing that was really obvious.
"Okay, so everyone's getting started real quick! Some of these are plain gold, some are comedy gold and others aren't really gold, but the race's about to get real or...has gotten real in the case of some!" Chris announced. "All you have to do is get to the portal and then you guys race each other together in one final run to finish!"
Sokka and Leshawna were plainly stunned.
"That's not what I wanted to say, dudes! Computer's a real menace when it comes to the obstacle courses, so you should see some loops, springs and whatnot! If you were in the middle of something, that sucks for you campers."
These two were definitely in the middle of something interesting, having a whole bunch of Dai Li surrounding them.
*Leshawna's confessional*
"At least he eased up on the torture, but he still managed to get on my nerves in new ways!"
She thought about it for a second.
"Damn, he's good."
*Confessional cut*
There was a whole bunch of characters that were obviously replaced by a fuck ton of Eggman's robots that were getting their butts handed by Leshawna, of all people.
Literally, too.
"I'm tired of these damn robots!" Leshawna shouted.
"Yeah, they sort of bend the earth as well." Sokka said. "Wait-"
Even the robots had enough comedic timing, as the boomerang came back to Sokka quite quickly, Leshawna ended punching a robot and they both managed to get together in the earth.
Even if the rocks were not that high and these two cleared the heights and he sliced the head off those robots and Leshawna finished off the robot that she punched.
"Geez, it really disrespected the Dai Li!" Sokka shouted, running towards the second level of the fake city.
"The hell did the Dai Li did to you?" Leshawna answered.
"A lot and we have bigger problems." Sokka tersely said. "...These guys again?"
Yeah, it was more of these fake Dai Li, who used their Earthbending powers in surprisingly stupid ways, the two of them jumping over rocks.
*Sokka's confessional*
He was plain smirking.
"No way would they survive against Toph! These machines don't even talk, never mind hold a candle against my man, The Boulder and Toph would send these guys packing! But I'm still scared for some reason. No idea why!"
*Confessional cut*
(CS - Shadowmore Downtown, Nicole & Snake, Probably 6th)
These two were definitely making their way through the somewhat sneaky platforming town, the random weird-looking soldiers that would have fit in Elmore, and they were making substantial progress in spite of Chris' announcement.
Actually, especially because of the announcement from Chris, it was much easier for her this time around, since they were on top of a massive building.
"I haven't seen any one of the guys in a single minute. Chris accidentally helped us." Snake stated, as Nicole opened her mouth. "Yeah, it was a total accident."
"I was going to say that-"
Someone was ringing in the Codec phone, though.
"-Who's calling?"
"Your family."
The two of them hid in the middle of a random empty crate to take the call from...a certain Darwin, as Richard was asleep in the living room basking in the sun.
"Hello, kids, I haven't seen you in two months! How are you guys doing?"
"Uh, we were watching you on that Total Drama thingy and then some guy slipped us a number. Actually, he was just the mailman, but he was confused as us and so we called it! Also, the TV's stuck." Darwin stated.
"That's nice...or something. Wait, what do you mean stuck?"
"Richard's on top of the remote." Darwin said through slightly crackly audio.
"Oh."
Nicole understood the literal gravity of the situation, as Darwin pulled the remote out from under the butt and Anais took the codec phone.
"Never mind, we got the remote. So, uh, there's been a lot happening, mom and more importantly, all of the soldiers guys on the TV have been coming from you and that cute guy." Darwin explained. "And uh, Gumball's...doing stuff!"
"Oh...what kind of stuff." Nicole said, trying to not get Darwin's mood down.
"The, uh, I gotta go, everyone's looking at you!" Darwin suddenly shut down.
Darwin may have been wrong, but sometimes being wrong helps people escape their crates and avoid a whole bum rush of...people? robots? faceless things willing to catch them.
"I wonder if the hard cost's bringing this Cyber Space to here." Snake stated. "You don't just get a whole portal down here without a lot of money."
"He's also the one that got this season together, so he probably has ways."
Snake thought about it, as he was moving in his own box.
"Fair point."
These two were sure of their safe way, taking off the box to realise something obvious that the three soldiers that were hanging out in front of them without faces, freaking everyone out.
*Snake's confessional*
He took in a breather, unimpressed.
"I can't believe that it was that obvious." Snake stated. "What do they see that I don't."
*Confessional cut*
(CS - Skyfarer's Tower, Yumeko & Lowain, Probably 8th)
The duo (and two random cooks) were clearly cooking for the invisible men, Mary and Lowain's captain trio and they were clearly not overwhelmed with dealing with one challenge at all, even if the robots were not eating.
"Babe, is the food even real at this point? Or are we cooking a fantasy?" Lowain shouted, before grabbing an egg. "Yeah, it's realio-dealio."
"Something tells me that we might have to gamble with this challenge because it's clearly that we're not exactly moving on ahead and...I'm not great at cooking." Yumeko admitted. "So, what-"
"I can't cook for my captain?"
Yumeko took a decent amount of time observing the odd kitchen, seeing the other two NPC cooks do their thing pretty good and shipping out those personalised dishes with some kind of ease.
"...No, you can, but something's wrong with this place."
"Cool...I'm roasting, boiling and broiling American food, baby! Anyways, I know, but gotta cook for my cap."
"But I'm not even leaving, just...I have this feeling-"
These two may have wanted to say some more, but the screechy robot trying to generate an Dirty South accent got their attention with an incredible amount of attention.
"HEY, I LIKE INC-STANT SERVICE BECAUSE YOU'VE BOTH BEEN TRYING TO GET OUT HERE FOR TWENTY MINUTES AND BLESS YOUR HEART, YOU'RE ANNOYING!"
These two accidentally figured out something, but then-
"ANYWAY, THAT WAS SOME DARN GREAT FOOD FROM A BUNCH OF NO GOOD STRATEGIESIERS!"
-ow, man.
*Lowain's confessional*
The blonde boy was suddenly vexed.
"Hold on, these customers keep on coming like they're coming from nowhere and they talk constantly about trying to get out of the kitchen or something. I mean, the Captain, Vyrm, Lyria and Yumeko's girl friend haven't ordered, it's just the faceless robots apparently."
*Confessional cut*
(CS - Mugen Junction, Tanjiro & Samurai Jack)
These two definitely shared in the facts that most of their relatives were dead, their one woman was in some weird-ass state (or not, depending on your opinion of Season 5), their sword cuts for good and they were absolutely steamrolling the stage.
Not the enemies, but the stage, since they were clearly in first place, since their watches were actually checking their position.
"We're in first place! That means immunity, which is cool." Tanjiro stated.
"Yes, but I don't think whoever's at the end of it will go down easily." Samurai Jack said, using his few words wisely.
The two of them were carefully jumping together, combining Jack's ability to have ridiculous jumps and Tanjiro's general speed being stupid high, acting like Sonic's boost.
Guess what's with the boosts, the duo running through the robots with strong swipes that were only strong enough to cut down robots quite easily and thanks to them being Eggman's robots, though Tanjiro wasn't exactly used to using his sword so much.
Though, his sword stayed unchipped to cut down all of those Egg-bots, he was wondering about one single thing, since the enemy's name was on all of the robots.
"Who's Eggman?" Tanjiro asked. "I heard he might be a bad guy."
"I...can't help you there."
The twin Japanese swordsmen then ran with only a power that they could both bring and they even managed to blast through a whole loop that had them both screaming.
Clearly, they were both extending their lead with pure skill.
(CS - Old Redgrave City, Dante & Coachman)
The demon hunter held his own against demons, that much was expected and honestly, he was honestly carrying the fight against the variety of demons that were serving to get slaughtered without blood.
The more surprising thing was Coachman, who was doing decently with only a steeled whip and a knife and mainly his own presence, kicking away yet another demon with some kind of ease.
"How do you do this kind of thing?" Coachman asked, slightly haggard.
"You hunt, end of story!" Dante shouted. "If you're wondering, I do this real easy."
"Yes, I'd be rather tired if you didn't."
These two were soon done covered with nothing grit (Dante) or an incredible amount of sweat (Coachman) once they got done with the fight, Dante had one thing to say.
"For someone who says they only do carnival business, you seem to do a whole lot of killing pretty well...doesn't fit very well with owning an amusement park on an island." Dante casually remarked.
"Eh heh, it comes with the territory of having a lot of criminals around my area." Coachman explained (read: casually lied). "And this place isn't real, anyways, why are you so worried?"
Since they both somewhat knew the truth and obviously not wanting to get kicked from the show (since there's really no evidence and Chris doesn't care for reasons), they both decided one thing.
"Just wondering how long I have to tolerate you." Dante casually said.
"Hopefully not much longer and you know..." Coachman's quite sadistic grin. "..for someone who has supposed cut ties with me, I can't believe-"
"Dude, are you gonna make me lose and look like a dumbass."
Coachman was plainly mad at him.
"...I absolutely will, so you will-"
Once again, Dante was on the Elise train, since he bitterly carried his worst enemy for one reason like a dead man.
*Dante's confessional*
He was unimpressed.
"You never think how heavy someone until you carry them on your back! Of course he wants me to lose and I bet he wakes up extra early because I made him lose. Funny how life works when you're a piece of shit!"
*Confessional cut*
"Okay, with that start of the race and the sheer craziness we've got for you today, I can't just do it in one part! There's literally too much to fit into that one part
I'm sorry to leave you guys on a clifhanger, since it ha been very apparent that writing this challenge has been a bit of a major troublemaker and I got a little self-indulgent in wasting you guys' time.
In Sonic Frontiers, Cyber Space was just a bunch of stages suited to Sonic and since it now has scanned every contestant in this season, each stage should still be platforming-focused, though suited to each pair of players.
Hopefully, I got that across without coming off as long-winded. (Like in the beginning)
maybe current leaderboard thingy?:
1st - Tanjiro Kamado & Samurai Jack
2nd - Deadpool & Squirrel Girl
3rd - Tails & Sandy
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Part 2 coming soon without a problem!