Teams
Superior Snowstorms – Iggy, Ben, Tony, Nicky, Tess, Ji-Soon, Winnie
Sunny Snowflakes – Lucien, Jacque, Tsu, Letty, Sasha, May
Gleeful Gingerbreads – Char, Marco, Brandon, Bonnie, Andrea, Aditi, Elodie
"Last time on North Pole Showdown," Embarc recapped the events of the previous episode. Flashbacks occurred during the recap. "Due to the Shining Stars losing three challenges in a row, I decided to disband the team. Now Winnie headed to the Superior Snowstorms, May to the Sunny Snowflakes, and Elodie to the Gleeful Gingerbreads. Afterwards, the three teams were tasked to bring back one of Santa's reindeers out in the snow lands to their corresponding stall inside a stable. Winnie and Elodie demonstrated to their respective new team their skills in the challenge. Lucien and May started to bond during the challenge as well as Bonnie and Andrea. Well, sort of."
"In a race back to the stable, the reindeers were attracted to the apple pie Aditi and Elodie made, causing them to follow Aditi into Rudolph's stall. This gave the official win to the Superior Snowstorms. In the end, the Sunny Snowflakes were up for elimination and Winter was voted off. The first ever captain to be eliminated from the game."
The flashbacks ended. Embarc showed herself holding a stuffed teddy bear inside an empty part of Santa's workshop.
"During Christmas time, people are nonstop shopping for toys. However, the contestants won't be presented with just ordinary toys," Embarc said excitedly.
Embarc put the teddy bear down and the teddy bear walked towards an elf nearby. The teddy bear kicked the elf's coconuts, causing the elf to fall onto the floor.
"Yikes, hope that's not an issue," Embarc hoped. "Anyway, which team will claim victory and who will be the next eliminated? Find out now on North Pole Showdown!"
(Intro Plays)
Three cameras pop up from their hiding spots. One from outside the igloo ceremony, another coming out of an evergreen tree with snow on it, and the last one popped up from a toilet. The camera drone showing footage flew into a window to get out of the bathroom.
Dear Mom and Dad I'm doin' fine,
The camera drone displayed Embarc in her office with papers pasted all over the walls. The papers had pictures of the contestants on them and red arrows all around for Embarc to figure out what kind of ships the hostess could do with the cast.
You guys are on my mind.
Ketch stood next to Embarc and saw the camera drone inside her office. He poked Embarc's shoulder with a finger to let her know. The hostess tried to grab it to remove the footage, but the drone evaded her and went out a window.
You asked me what I wanted to be
The drone caught Tsu hugging his Clover Warrington body pillow in the cold snowy weather. A polar bear took the body pillow from Tsu to hug it for itself.
And now I think the answer is plain to see,
Tsu demanded the polar bear give back his body pillow, but the creature roared at him. Tsu ran away while the polar bear gave chase on two feet. Iggy laughed at Tsu's predicament from a distance. He was then pelted by a snowball at the back of his head.
I wanna be famous.
The culprit who hit Iggy was revealed to be Winter who leaned on a wall of a wooden house. She turned around with a smile and noticed Jacque observing her with his arms crossed and a suspicious look on his face. The camera drone went inside the wooden house.
I wanna live close to the sun,
Elodie showed taking baked cupcakes out of an oven and placing them onto a table. Paul and Andrea sat at the table with the former wanting to swipe cupcakes for himself despite a 'Do Not Touch' sign being next to the sweets. Andrea slapped his hand away.
Go pack your bags, 'cause I've already won,
At the other side of the table, Tess painted some happy little trees on a piece of paper held by an easel while Nicky sat on a wooden chair to play her violin.
Everything to prove, nothing in my way
The two girls were startled by Dominic, Tony, and Brandon breaking a hole in the wall with each of them racing each other on a snowmobile. The camera drone followed them after the three made another hole in a different wall to leave the house.
I'll get there one day.
The three boys crashed into a giant pile of snow. Marco recorded them with a camera nearby while Lucien and May were each sleeping peacefully on a snow angel that someone must have made on the ground.
Cause, I wanna be famous!
Aditi observed penguins waddling next to her outside Santa's workshop with a snowman right by her. Bonnie came out of the snowman which prompted Aditi to run away from her. Bonnie frowned and Char came to pat her shoulder to make her feel better. Which got the redhead to grin.
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na!
Winnabelle excitedly rode on Rudolph the red nose reindeer in the field of reindeer that was fenced. Ben and Letty watched Winnabelle making noise which caused the two to stop reading a book they each had in their hand. The former looked at the pageant disaster with annoyance while the latter dismally sighed.
I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous
Ji-Soon displayed one of her cosplays for Santa's elves on an outdoor wooden stage. Striking poses for delight. One of the elves took a picture of her with the camera's flash on in his hand.
I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous
Santa Claus dragged Sasha by the arm out of his fridge because she started eating his ice cream with a spoon. The contestant held onto a bowl of ice cream as the jolly man brought her outside in the snow with the rest of the cast sitting. The entire cast whistled as the song finished. The camera drone zoomed out to reveal the show's title on a wooden billboard.
(Intro Ends)
The episode started at night in the morning outside Santa's workshop. Lucien and May were in their pajamas, sitting on snow next to each other as they watch the beautiful stars in the night sky. In front of them was Lucien's telescope in case either of them wanted to take a closer look at the stars.
"I can perfectly see why you love staying up all night watching stars," May realized. "They all are so pleasing to look at. And is so quiet too. I'm not a fan of loud things."
"I'm alright with things getting loud," Lucien admitted. "But for these scenarios is best to have it quiet to really enjoy the wonders of space."
"I read a few books about space, the planets, the adventures of leaving Earth," May conversated as she began to feel drowsy.
"I've read books like those too," Lucien smiled. "Reading is quite the fun. Gets the brain pumping."
May let a small giggle. "It sure does," She agreed before yawning. She placed her head on Lucien's arm. "Any type of music you're into?"
"Classical is way to go," Lucien answered. "You know May, I'm glad you pushed through and stayed up this long. Is nice talking to…" He turned his head to his right to see May sleeping peacefully. He smiled bigger and continued to watch the stars.
Now that the sun was up and some contestants were awake, Tony and Iggy were getting ready to jog together as they exited out Santa's Workshop.
"Think you can last longer jogging with me this time?" Iggy asked Tony with a competitive smirk on his face, already getting his jogging movement on.
"Actually, I'm going to have to pass on the jogging today," Tony told Iggy, getting his captain curious.
"Really now? And why will you not be jogging with me today?" Iggy wondered suspiciously.
"Oh, don't start. I just don't feel like jogging that's all," Tony simply said, trying to dismiss any worry.
"Alright, don't be quick to get annoyed," Iggy replied while smiling. "I'll see you at breakfast."
Iggy jogged away, leaving Tony alone. Suddenly, the doors to enter Santa's workshop creaked open.
"Is he gone?" Tsu's voice was heard from the inside of the workshop.
"Yeah, he booked it," Tony answered. "Now hurry up, I rather nobody sees us together."
"Come on," Tsu acted whiny as he opened the doors more to get out into the snow with Tony. "I doubt the castmates here will automatically assume we're teaming up. Well, more like me using you," He chuckled at the end.
"Nah, is because I don't like being near ugly people for too long," Tony joked.
"I have you know I'm fairly average in all my physical departments," Tsu said pridefully and confident, not getting the joke.
"Whatever," Tony takes out a list from his gym shorts pocket and gives it to Tsu. "Here, a few stuffs to know about my teammates. Don't know much about Winnie yet besides being a pageant disaster considering the talent show challenge."
"Thank you very much," Tsu took the list and reenters the workshop.
Confessional - Tony - Superior Snowstorms
"Hey, if the guy wants to sabotage or whatever plans he's scheming up against my teammates I'm all for it. Especially if we start losing, Iggy will finally wake up and make an alliance with me."
End Confessional
Inside the Superior Snowstorms' room, Ben in his pajamas was sitting on his bed reading a book.
"What are you reading Ben?" Winnie asked her teammate as she put on her tiara to finish dressing herself in her pageant outfit.
"Just one of the few science books I brought here with me," Ben stated, hoping Winnie would leave after he answered her.
"Do you happen to have a book about microbiology?" Winnie questioned.
"Uh, yeah," Ben closed his book and looked at Winnie a bit perplexed. "Why do you ask?"
"Oh, is just happens to be one of my favorite subjects that comes from science," Winnie answered happily. "I'm fascinated with biology so anything in that area excites me."
"Well…" Ben pondered to himself about what to say. "I can let you borrow a book of mine to read."
"Awesome, we're reading buddies now," Winnie got more excited.
"I did not agree to that," Ben stated.
Winnie went to Ben and hugged him tightly. "We're going to have so much fun together!"
Confessional - Ben - Superior Snowstorms
"Well, as long as she is quite during reading sessions, I guess it won't be as awful as I would think."
End Confessional
Jacque, Sasha, and Letty were at the mess hall drinking hot chocolate with each other.
"With Winter we're going to need Captain Sasha to be the new team leader," Jacque told the girls, joking around with the name Captain Sasha.
"How quaint," Sasha replied, not finding the joke that amusing. "But to set the record straight I will not be leader of the team. That will be setting up a target on my back."
"You're already a target," Jacque pointed out. "You received votes which means the others, at least two must have voted for you."
"Oh, I'm not worried about that," Sasha spoke calmly and confidently. "With you two aligning with me that's already three votes. If our team ever loses again, I'm sure we convince at least Tsu to not go against any of us."
"What makes you think I'm sidelining with you?" Jacque wondered, raising an eyebrow at the blonde.
"Oh, nothing much," Sasha giggled and then winked at Jacque, causing him to smirk.
As the conversation went on, Letty stared at her hot chocolate, thinking of something that puzzles her.
Confessional - Sasha - Sunny Snowflakes
"I dislike using my looks to get what I want easily. Frankly is rather annoying. Yes, I'm beautiful, too beautiful, and that's what most people and my exes see in me. Not my inward features but the ones right in front of them. However, I do have a feeling that Jacque could be into me which is obviously beneficial. Though he isn't someone that's easily persuaded like others, so I have to be more extra. Which stinks, but I rather feel safe than have him double cross me in the future."
Confessional - Letty - Sunny Snowflakes
"I keep thinking about what Winter told me. Is Sasha really just using me? Or is Winter trying to psyche me out? I'm not sure what to do. I don't think any of my teammates can help out on this."
End Confessionals
The cameras demonstrated the beautiful snow lands of the North Pole. Suddenly a massive explosion erupted, causing tremendous snow to float into the sky and then going back down to the ground.
"That was awesome!" Elodie told Aditi and Brandon, the trio staying inside the tent Aditi built the previous episode. The tent was open so that the three witnessed the explosion.
"Um, I think we should stop with the explosions here Elodie," Brandon suggested.
"Yeah, we don't want to make one so big that it destroys Santa's Workshop," Aditi agreed with the mechanic. "Or us for that matter."
"But is so much fun!" Elodie said happily as she got out of the tent.
Brandon and Aditi also exited out of the tent.
"Yes, we understand but we don't want to make Santa mad, do we?" Brandon told the pastry gal.
"Oh, uh, yeah, don't want to be in his naughty list, right?" Aditi helped Brandon try to convince Elodie to stop.
"Hmm," Elodie pondered.
"You're seriously thinking about this?" Brandon deadpanned.
"Of course not," Elodie assured. "I want to be a good girl after all."
Brandon and Aditi smiled at her and then at each other.
Elsewhere nearby, Char was shown walking around.
"Everything okay Marco?" Char asked his teammate, walking to the streamer sitting on a sofa made out of snow.
"No," Marco said poutingly. He had his elbow on his leg with his hand on his cheek as he stared at the snow down on the ground.
"Is it about your phone getting destroyed?" Char asked.
"Yeah," Marco nodded.
Char went to sit with Macro to talk but the snow collapses once he sat.
"Sorry," The Gleeful Gingerbread captain apologized.
"Don't worry about it," Macro replied as he got up.
"Marco, how long have you been streaming?" Char asked, still sitting on the snow.
"A few months after I turned fifteen," Marco answered, watching some penguins waddle around far away.
"Have you ever taken a break from streaming?" Char wondered as he finally decided to stand up.
"I've streamed all day every day," Marco commented. "Even a little bit here while we are not in challenges. I will go to the festive lounge to stream some video games."
"Marco," Char put a hand on the streamer's shoulder. "Don't take this the wrong way, but maybe you should take this a sign to take a break from streaming."
"What? But my viewers," Marco looked at Char as if his captain is deranged. "I can't let my viewers down. They need to know I exist."
"And that's okay. You don't want anyone to think you abandoned streaming, but you need to take some time off for yourself dude. Otherwise, you're going to affect your health," Char mentioned. "Weren't you trying not to stream often here?"
"I was, but I had to keep streaming," Marco answered, starting to twitch a bit.
"How about this? I'll let you borrow my phone so that you can stream, but give it back to me tonight, understood?" Char proposed as he took out his phone.
"Deal," Marco happily grabbed the phone and went away to get his streaming on.
"I'm hoping I made the right choice," Char said to himself.
"Char!" Bonnie called out from off screen.
"Speaking of making right choices," Char said to the audience.
Bonnie ran to her captain.
"I've been giving Andrea a bunch of signals. What should I do?" Bonnie asked Char.
The speakers around the workshop turned on.
"Attention teams, meet me at the toy shoppe inside the workshop in an hour after breakfast," Embarc announced. "That is all."
Confessional - Char - Gleeful Gingerbreads
"I need to figure out a way to talk to Bonnie without any interruptions. Hopefully during the challenge there's a possibility."
End Confessional
"Welcome teams to the Toy Shoppe!" Embarc greeted, showing off the grandiose room.
The room was a wide large area with many shelves full of toys in boxes and out of boxes. Each team's symbol appeared on screen.
"Today's challenge is finding your team's color key hidden inside one of these toys," Embarc explained. "Red for Superior Snowstorms, blue for Sunny Snowflakes, and green for Gleeful Gingerbreads. Whichever team opens the treasure chest at the end of the room with their color key wins the challenge. Any questions?"
"How is the team that has to send someone home determined?" Jacque asked.
"That's the fun part Jacque. The winning team gets to choose which other team face elimination tonight," Embarc declared.
Many contestants made a shocking nervous face while others smirked with delight as dramatic music intensified.
"This is going to be boring," Iggy told everybody overconfidently. "Getting a key from inside a toy? Easiest challenge yet."
Embarc giggled mischievously, causing those who were smirking except for Iggy to get petrified.
"I don't fe-feel safe anymore," Nicky stuttered.
"You're never safe with me," Embarc joked to mess with the contestants. "Now," She started to walk to the entrance doors. "I'll be on my way watching you all have fun in the challenge."
The hostess opened the doors and then turned around to look at the contestants.
"Oh, and the toys here tend to get quirky around this time of day," Embarc warned the teams before exiting the room and shutting the doors.
Confessional - Brandon - Gleeful Gingerbreads
"Honestly, Embarc can be terrifying at times. At least she isn't Chris though. Although I hope being the host of this show doesn't make her go insane like him," He worried at the end.
End Confessional
"Alright team," Iggy immediately began to take control of the Superior Snowstorms. He began to march his way deeper into the toy shoppe. "Let's search…"
Iggy stopped in his tracks once he saw a stuffy pink teddy bear with a cupcake shape on its white tummy looking at him happily. The stuff animal also stood on two paws.
"Hi there, I'm Sprinkles Snug Muffins," The teddy bear presented itself in a squeaky high cute voice. "Come play with me!"
Winnie, Tess, and Elodie ran forward and got behind Iggy to admire the teddy bear's cuteness.
"Awe!" The three girls said at the same time.
"Is so precious!" Elodie exclaimed.
"Sorry stuff ball," Iggy told Sprinkles Snug Muffins. "But I got to find my key's team."
As Iggy walked away, Sprinkles Snug Muffins turned around with a sweet yet creepy smile.
"I wasn't asking," Sprinkles Snug Muffins told Iggy before jumping onto his head.
"Hey!" Iggy did not find this funny. "Get out of my head," He demanded. He grabbed Sprinkles Snug Muffins and narrowed his eyes at the stuff bear.
"Come play with us," Sprinkles Snug Muffins said more sinisterly as the stuff bear turned its head around in a one hundred eighty degrees angle.
All the castmates felt a sense of dread as tense music arose. Suddenly a bunch of other stuff teddy bears, each of various colors huddled around Iggy.
"What is going on?" Iggy glared at Sprinkles Snug Muffins.
Sprinkles Snug Muffins responded by slapping Iggy in the face. Then the other stuff teddy bears began kicking Iggy's legs, causing the track start to fall on his knees and let go of Sprinkles Snug Muffins.
"Why do these soft toys hurt so much?" Iggy wondered in pain as Sprinkles Snug Muffins landed safely onto the ground with a squeaky sound.
The rest of the contestants watched the teddy bears and Sprinkles Snug Muffins carry Iggy to some area in the toy shoppe.
"Well, I'm heading off to find the key," Ben stated to his teammates and proceeded to walk to one of the toy aisles.
"I'll go rescue our captain," Tony informed before quickly running to catch up with the teddy bears.
Tess and Nicky decided to follow Ben while Winnie followed Tony. Meanwhile Ji-Soon went her own path across the toy shoppe.
"Alright captain," Jacque said to Sasha. "Got any bright ideas in that great mind of yours?" He tapped the side of his chin with a finger as he put on a confident smile.
"We'll split up into groups of two to cover more ground," Sasha stated.
"Tsu already went on his own," Lucien pointed out drowsily.
Sasha looked at her right and witnessed Tsu running into one of the aisles.
"Just go at it alone Jacque. I'll take Letty while Lucien and May take a different path," Sasha commanded.
Confessional - Sasha - Sunny Snowflakes
"I do not want to be captain of this team longer than I need to. I must convince one of the boys to take charge. Preferably not to be Lucien."
End Confessional
"I'll take Bonnie and Andrea with me," Char informed the Gleeful Gingerbreads. "Marco, Brandon, and Aditi will be the other group of three."
"Wait, am I going alone?" Elodie asked Char.
"Yep," Char nodded. "See if you can find any fireworks or laying around in the toy shoppe."
Elodie's eyes glistened, and she rapidly became excited. In just a second, she dashed into the aisles of the toy shoppe.
"Was that to get rid of her?" Aditi asked Char.
"No, is to make sure none of us get hit by the crossfire if she does manage to find something that could blow up," Char replied nicely. "Now come on, we have a key to find."
Confessional - Andrea - Gleeful Gingerbreads
"I sense evilness amongst these toys. Which is strange."
End Confessional
"If I were a key in a toy shoppe, where would I be?" Ji-Soon wondered to herself, walking through an aisle full of dolls, ponies, and doll houses.
Ji-Soon stopped walking as soon as she saw a shelf full of dolls of various Total Drama contestants, including herself.
"I'm pretty sure I didn't allow the making of dolls of me in my contract," Ji-Soon believed as she grabbed a box with the doll version of her inside. "Then again I didn't pay attention to my contract anyway."
All of a sudden, Ji-Soon heard a door open out of nowhere. She walked further down the aisle and looking to her left was a doll house on the floor. The doll house was three times the cosplaying queen's size. The doll house had pinks and whites all over it. Lastly, the doll house's door was open.
"Oh my, this must be for a family of like, two or something," Ji-Soon figured.
Ji-Soon entered the large doll house and viewed the inside. Like outside, everything turned out to be pink and white. Inside were a table, some chairs, teacups, and stairs to a second floor.
"This is pretty nice," Ji-Soon admitted as she looked around.
The cosplayer heard the door of the doll house shut. She quickly turned around and ran to the door to open it but somehow it was locked. After failing to twist and open, she banged on the door repeatedly with her hands.
"Hello? Hello?" Ji-Soon shouted once she stopped banging. "Is someone there? Can anyone help me?"
"Alone in a toy shoppe," Jacque commented to himself as he walked down an aisle full of toy cars big and small, even ones the size of a hand's palm. "Reminds me of the times I stole some trading cards and a basketball for myself."
The camera shot showed Jacque's shoes as he made his way out of the aisle until he stopped in his tracks hearing the sound of tires moving. He turned around and saw nothing behind him. However, he kept hearing the sounds of tires. Even the sound of a car making a quick turn.
"Something ain't right," Jacque said, narrowing his eyes as the sound of tires grew more and more.
The burst of speed from a monster truck up to the height of Jacque's knees came storming down the toy car aisle at a rapid pace.
"What in the he…" Jacque immediately jumped over the monster truck toy so that it did not crash into him.
Once Jacque landed on his feet, he turned around to see the toy monster truck spin around and glare at him. Two more monster truck toys then came behind the one that attacked Jacque.
"Looks like this is going to be more fun than I thought," Jacque smirked.
"You never played with toys before? Not even action figures?" Brandon asked Aditi as he, his teammate, and his other teammate Marco were heading down to an aisle of the toy shoppe full of clay-dohs on shelves.
"Before I ran off to go on adventures with Uncle Reed, the orphanage I was in did have toys, but I never paid much attention to them," Aditi explained.
"You were missing out then. Toys are amazing!" Marco beamed as he streamed his channel on Char's phone. "Especially the collectable ones that you keep in a box to stay in mint condition. Those are great!"
"I'm sure keeping a toy in a box isn't considered fun," Aditi believed with a perplexed look on her face.
"Also, Marco, you should pay more attention to what's ahead of you," Brandon advised.
"What makes you say that?" Marco asked before tripping on a barrel filled with clay-doys inside. He made sure to keep his arm up as he fell to not accidentally break Char's phone.
Several clay-doys from inside the barrel fell out onto the floor. The lids opened from each container and the different colors of clay-dohs crawled to each other. Aditi and Brandon ran to help Marco get back up by grabbing their teammate's arms and lifting him. Marco put his feet on the ground.
"Thanks you two," Marco expressed gratitude as Brandon and Aditi stopped holding his arms.
"You need to come up with a schedule here whenever you're going to stream," Brandon suggested.
"Especially considering when we're in challenges," Aditi added.
"Yeah, I'm going to have to fix that," Marco agreed with both. "Also, there's a clay-doh monster behind us."
"What!?" Brandon and Aditi exclaimed at the same time.
The Gleeful Gingerbreads trio turned around to see a humanoid clay-doh monster with big hands, eyes, a mouth, and no feet staring at them.
"I had Char's phone on selfie mode so that's why I noticed," Marco told his teammates joyfully, showing off Char's phone.
The clay-doh monster began to step forward at the three contestants.
"Relax I got this," Brandon assured confidently. He took out his trusty wrench and threw it at the clay-doh monster's head, knocking the monster down onto the floor.
"Impressive," Marco commented while Aditi clapped triumphantly.
Sadly, victory did not last long. The clay-doh monster got up and the wrench slowly went inside the clay, being consumed.
"That's not good," Brandon noted.
The clay-doh monster started to charge at the three. With quick thinking, Marco put Char's phone in camera flash mode and took a picture of the clay monster. The monster covered its eyes after being temporarily blinded.
"Sweet, it worked!" Marco fist bumped happily in the air.
"Now is not the time to celebrate," Brandon said to Marco as he grabbed his arm.
"Yeah, we need to ditch this thing," Aditi agreed with the mechanic.
The three Gleeful Gingerbreads got a small head start because the clay monster already recovered from the flash and chased after them.
Confessional - Marco - Gleeful Gingerbreads
"Pretty risky to go up and flash that clay monster but hey it worked out. And if it didn't, it would be embarrassing yeah, although it would have certainly been a good clip."
Confessional - Aditi - Gleeful Gingerbreads
"I was hoping for something adventurous since the ice golem challenge. I love being chased. The adrenaline gets me pumped up so good. Although I do prefer at most times just learning more about nature and cultures. Is why I don't go on so many trips with Setsuna. No offense girl but lots of your explorations are dangerous."
Confessional - Brandon - Gleeful Gingerbreads
"I swear if I were Buck that clay monster would have been knocked out by just the wrench. Does the guy have super strength or something?"
End Confessionals
"Why did you two follow me?" Ben asked emotionless as he, Tess, and Nicky passed an aisle full of board games on shelves.
"I want to spend time with Nicky," Tess answered, causing Nicky to slightly blush. "Plus, you can also use some companionship."
"I don't need companionship," Ben stated as the three kept walking around the top shoppe. "The goal is to find our team's red key and open a treasure chest at the end to win the challenge."
"Come on, turn that frown upside down buddy," Tess said as she skipped forward to be in front of Ben. Then she turned around and stopped herself so that Ben and Nicky can also stop walking. "We are in a toy shoppe! Let's have some fun!"
"I'll have fun when my team wins the challenge," Ben spoke unamused and proceeded to continue walking.
"So uncaring," Nicky whispered quietly to Tess.
"Nah, all he needs is fun in the sun," Tess said contently. "But we'll play along with him for now," She whispered this time to Nicky.
Nicky nodded and then decided to try and talk with Ben. "So uh, Ben, do-do you know where we can find our key here?" She asked the bookworm.
"Considering this is a toy shoppe there's probably a section full of toys for toddlers. That's where I'm betting at least one key is in," Ben informed.
"Is there a reason why you don't hang out with any of us?" Tess wondered.
"I like to be alone," Ben stated.
Confessional - Tess - Superior Snowstorms
"With the way he's acting, I wouldn't be surprised if Ben gets eliminated first from the team if we ever lose."
End Confessional
Sasha and Letty were walking in an aisle full of sport equipment for little kids.
"Remember to stay focus Letty," Sasha said to her teammate in a matter-of-fact tone. "Can't be distracted by the toys here. Although it shouldn't be so hard to do that."
"Right, right," Letty understood as she looked around with Sasha.
"Are you avoiding looking at me?" Sasha asked Letty.
"You said to stay focus and not be distracted," Letty answered quickly as the two ladies entered an aisle full of toy trains. She stopped walking as soon as she saw a huge model train set in the aisle.
"Wait, what do you mean by that?" Sasha wondered perplexed. She stopped walking once she noticed Letty not tagging along with her. "Letty?"
Sasha turned around to see Letty playing with the toy model train set contently with a big smile on her face.
"Letty, this is not the time to playing with trains," Sasha said as she approached the vacant virtuoso. "Letty, are you listening to me?"
Letty continued to play with the train model while watching the toy trains move around on the rails.
"I'll just, find the team's key by myself," Sasha spoke before turning around and leaving Letty alone.
Confessional - Letty - Sunny Snowflakes
"The model train set resembled close to the one my father has. Is has been a while since I've played with it. It is a safe place."
End Confessional
"Still no fireworks around," Elodie said to herself as she stood in the center of an aisle full of action figures on the shelves. "I'm beginning to think there isn't any here in the shoppe. Guess I should be looking for my team's key."
Elodie noticed several action figures out of boxes jumping down from the shelves and landing onto the floor.
"Uh, may I help you all?" Elodie asked, staring at the action figures confused.
The action figures took out toy pistols to aim at the pastry gal. This made Elodie smirk and take out several cupcakes from underneath her beret.
"This is going to be fun," Elodie said before throwing a cupcake at an action figure.
The action figure hit shrugged to the others. That action figure then exploded into pieces.
"I'm not trapped here with you all. You're all trapped here with me," Elodie grinned and then cackled as she tossed more explosive cupcakes at the action figures.
"This day just got weirder," Tony commented, sitting on his knees behind a kid size plastic slide as he watched Sprinkles Snug Muffins and the other stuff teddy bears tie Iggy in rope.
"Yeah, tell me about it," Winnie agreed with Tony, also sitting on her knees behind a different kid size plastic slide.
"Let the sacrifice commence," Sprinkles Snug Muffins said to the stuff teddy bears who already made a campfire in the store.
Tony and Winnie watched several teddy bears lift up Iggy to carry him to the campfire to burn him.
"What are we supposed to do?" Winnie asked Tony, scared and terrified. "They're about to burn Iggy alive."
"You're seriously asking me that?" Tony replied dumfounded and with disbelief. "They're stuff animals. We ripe them apart."
"What!?" Winnie shouted in a panicking way.
Tony quickly ran to the stuff teddy bears with a battle cry. He grabbed one stuff animal and ripped its head off. Iggy, Winnie, and all the teddy bears watched the stuffings from the ripped stuff animal poor out from the inside.
"Quick, tie him down now!" Sprinkles Snug Muffins ordered her teddy bears.
Winnie and Iggy watched as Tony kicked and ripped the teddy bears' body parts. Whether it be from the legs, arms, or head Tony kept on ripping and ripping.
Confessional - Winnie - Superior Snowstorms
"I'm going to need therapy after this," She commented right before vomiting.
End Confessional
"Come on Lucien, you can't fall asleep now," May told the drowsy astronomer as she proceeded to drag him by his legs through an aisle full of fluffy pillows for kids.
"I'm doing my best May," Lucien said after he yawned. "But I stayed up so long during the night that I…" At that moment he fell asleep.
May sighed. She let go of Lucien's legs so that she could grab a pillow from one of the shelves and put the pillow under Lucien's head.
"Got to admit you look kind of cute all tired and sleepy," May confessed, a hint of her face blushing red a bit. "Maybe…"
May grabbed another pillow and proceeded to daydream next to Lucien, forgetting about the challenge and just wanting to be with her teammate.
"Kind of figured the keys would be here," Char said to Bonnie and Andrea as the three Gleeful Gingerbreads gazed at their team's key on a shelf.
Their team's key like Embarc informed was green with their team's symbol on it. Next to the key were the other two keys that belonged to each other team. In fact, the whole shelf has toy keys all over.
"I guess Embarc didn't feel like hiding them," Andrea believed.
As Bonnie grabbed her team's key from the self, Tsu watched from afar behind a shelf.
"Here you go Andrea, the key to my heart," Bonnie said to the elegant angel as she presented the team's key.
"I'm not interested in having a thing with you Bonnie," Andrea stated.
Char faked cough to get the two girls' his attention. "Now, now, let's focus on the challenge," Char suggested.
Char took a quick glance at the other two keys and noticed the key for the Sunny Snowflakes is missing. He looked behind to see Tsu running away with the Sunny Snowflakes key.
"We got to go," Char grabbed his team key from Bonnie and proceed to run to the end of the store.
Bonnie frowned and simply began walking while Andrea tried to keep up with Char.
Confessional - Bonnie - Gleeful Gingerbreads
"Is not the first time I've been told that by someone hot," She said sadly. "Most likely not the last either."
End Confessional
"I guess is not too bad being trapped in a doll house," Ji-Soon said to herself, sitting on the floor with her doll in her hands. "A bit tight with the leg room but I can wait until the challenge is over for Embarc or my teammates to rescue me. I just hope my team doesn't think I stopped focusing on the challenge."
"Do you talk to yourself often?" A voice said that sounded like Ji-Soon's but a bit higher pitched.
"Huh? Who said that?" Ji-Soon looked around the inside the dollhouse. "Am I going crazy?"
"Down here silly," The voice told the cosplaying queen.
Ji-Soon looked down at the doll inside the box she was holding.
"Hi there," The Ji-Soon doll presented herself and waved at the real Ji-Soon. "Looks like you need some help. Just open the box and I'll happily open the door from the outside."
"You're not going to go evil on me, are you?" Ji-Soon questioned. "World domination perhaps?"
"I'm based on you so there's no need to worry about that," The Ji-Soon doll assured.
"Well then, what could possibly go wrong?" Ji-Soon asked rhetorically before ripping the top of the box.
The doll Ji-Soon climbed out of the box, jump onto the floor to land, ran to an open window of the doll house and exited. The real Ji-Soon heard the knob from the doll house twisting and rapidly the doll version of her opened it. The real Ji-Soon got out of the doll house and hugged to the doll version of her.
"My hero!" Ji-Soon exclaimed contently. She put the Ji-soon doll on the floor.
"Glad to be of assistance," The Ji-Soon doll replied just as happily.
All of sudden a cupcake landed on the Ji-Soon doll and the cupcake explodes after a second, destroying the doll in the process. The real Ji-Soon doll gasped in horror and her mouth stayed open.
"Whoops, looks like I forgot one action figure," Elodie believed as she approached Ji-Soon. "Don't worry, I saved you."
Elodie patted Ji-Soon on the head while Ji-Soon stared at the broken pieces of her doll.
Confessional - Ji-Soon - Superior Snowstorms
Her mouth was still open as well as the shock that had not left. Her right eye twitched in pain.
End Confessional
Jacque took sharp turns as he ran from three toy monster trucks across the toy shoppe. At one moment he looked behind to see if they were behind him, but they are no longer there.
"Phew," Jacque said joyfully.
Jacque accidentally bummed into Sasha since he did not look where he was going.
"Guess we can't be separated too long," Jacque cracked a joke while he rubbed his forehead.
"I wouldn't have been lost in this shoppe if it wasn't for Letty checking out the trains," Sasha stated as she too rubbed her forehead.
"Let me help you out there little lady," Jacque continued to joke as he got up from floor to assist Sasha.
"I have you know I'm clearly taller than you," Sasha replied as she raised her arm for Jacque to grab it.
"Eh, not by that much," Jacque smirked as he pulled Sasha up to get standing. "Also, I need some help to get rid of…"
The three toy monster trucks came driving down towards the two Sunny Snowflakes.
"Those," Jacque finished his sentence.
While still holding hands, Sasha got in front of Jacque with a determined look at the toy monster trucks. Once the toys got close enough, Sasha simply kicked them. The three monster trucks landed on their sides and could not move anymore.
"Was it really that hard to take care of those?" Sasha questioned Jacque.
"No, but considering I get to hold hands with you I consider it worth it," Jacque kept showing his cheeky smirk at Sasha.
Sasha rapidly let go of Jacque's hand and proceeded to walk away.
"Let's just find our key," Sasha told her teammate after getting out of camera sight.
"I see water guns up ahead," Brandon informed Aditi and Marco as the three Gleeful Gingerbreads headed into an aisle full of water guns as they kept being chased by the clay monster.
"What if there is no water in them?" Marco asked as each contestant grabbed a water gun.
"We try to find a bathroom here," Aditi answered.
Once the clay monster went into the aisle, Marco and Brandon swiftly pulled the trigger on the water guns. Water came out of both guns, spraying the clay monster and making it become smaller.
"Help us out Aditi," Brandon told the wanderer.
"I… um," Aditi hesitated to pull the trigger on the water gun.
"Is getting closer Aditi we need more water," Marco pleaded.
Aditi pulled the trigger on the water gun to spray the clay monster while closing her eyes and looking away. The clay monster shrunk more and more until it was entirely a lifeless pool of clay. Marco and Brandon tossed their water guns to the side. After that they proceeded to high five each other.
"Is it over?" Aditi asked as she shivered anxiously.
"Uh yeah it is," Marco responded as he and Brandon turned to look at Aditi.
"You can drop the water gun now," Brandon told Aditi nicely.
Aditi dropped the water gun onto the floor, took a deep breath, and breathed out.
"Alright, let's go get that key," Marco said determinedly.
"Please, don't do this to me," Sprinkles Snug Muffins pleaded to Tony and Iggy, the latter no longer tied up.
Iggy and Tony cornered Sprinkles Snug Muffins to a wall.
"I'm too cute to die!" Sprinkles Snug Muffins exclaimed in horror.
Winnie began to cry as she heard Iggy and Tony tearing up the Sprinkles Snug Muffins into pieces off-screen.
"Is horrible, so horrible," Winnie cried out before passing out.
After finishing off the last teddy bear Tony and Iggy passed the mountain of ripped stuff animal pieces to check on Winnie.
"Think we should help her?" Tony asked his captain.
"We have a challenge to finish she's fine," Iggy assured.
Tony watched Iggy jog away. He ultimately decided to follow him after slightly hesitating.
Confessional - Tony - Superior Snowstorms
"Feel kind of bad for abandoning Winnie like that. Hope she doesn't develop a grudge over me leaving her like that."
End Confessional
"Almost… there," Char panted as he ran towards the treasure chest on a pedestal at the end of the shoppe. "Why does this place feel much longer than when I was chasing that reindeer?"
"Out of the way Char, I'm taking the win," Tsu told Char as he rode on a different toy monster truck with his feet on it.
Char sprinted back into action and kept running to the treasure chest. Tsu gained closer to Char, but the toy did not have enough speed to pass the big gentleman. So, Tsu tackled Char onto the ground and then jumped off Char to get to the treasure chest.
"Thanks for the help," Tsu glorified as he was in the air.
Tsu landed on his feet in front of the treasure chest. Then he used his team's key to open the chest.
"And just like that, victory is mine," Tsu boasted to Char as Andrea and Bonnie arrived too late.
"Yep, figured it would be here," Ben said to Tess and Nicky as he grabbed his team's red key at the toy key aisle. "Now we just have to…"
"Attention teams," Embarc said through the speakers of the toy shoppe. "The challenge is officially over. Tsu won for the Sunny Snowflakes!"
"What? Did it actually take us that long to find this blasted key?" Ben spoke, showing some frustration.
"You did have to use the ba-bathroom that one time," Nicky stuttered a bit.
Confessional - Iggy - Superior Snowstorms
"Man, if it weren't for those stupid teddy bears, I would have gotten the key easily to win the challenge. I just hope those Sunny Snowflakes don't pick my team because I don't want to deal with the reality I might be targeted."
End Confessional
Embarc, Sunny Snowflakes, Superior Snowstorms, and Gleeful Gingerbreads were outside the entrance of the toy shoppe.
"Good to see everyone in one piece," Embarc said to the three teams with a big smile. "Did everybody have fun in the toy shoppe?"
"No," Several contestants answered with deadpanned expressions.
"Good!" Embarc responded positively brighter. "Now, decision making time. Since Tsu won the challenge for his team, the Sunny Snowflakes get to decide which team should face elimination."
The Sunny Snowflakes huddled together to make a decision.
"Ten seconds left," Embarc informed nicely.
The Sunny Snowflakes broke up the huddle after a few seconds.
"We decided that we will be sending the Gleeful Gingerbreads to elimination," Lucien revealed.
This surprised both the Gleeful Gingerbreads and Superior Snowstorms.
"Well, I didn't see that coming," Embarc admitted, just as shocked. "But hey, first time for everything. Gleeful Gingerbreads, I'll see you all at the igloo ceremony tonight."
Confessional - Iggy - Superior Snowstorms
"Dang, I honestly thought the Sunny Snowflakes would pick my team. Guess they know not to mess with us, especially me," He showed smugness at the end.
Confessional - Sasha - Sunny Snowflakes
"Judging by the behaviors I have analyzed through all contestants; the Gleeful Gingerbreads are less likely to exact revenge on my team rather than the Superior Snowstorms. What I mean by that is if my team selected the Superior Snowstorms, there would be a likely chance my team would become a target towards them."
End Confessionals
Inside the mess hall, Bonnie sat alone at a table sadly while Brandon, Aditi, and Elodie where together at a different table at the other side of the mess hall. The Gleeful Gingerbreads' symbol appeared on screen.
"She's been real quite ever since the challenge finished," Elodie mentioned to Aditi and Brandon.
"I wondered what happened to her," Brandon pondered.
"Do you think she's in a mood to be asked?" Aditi asked her teammates.
"Nah, I wouldn't get on her bad side," Tsu said, arriving towards the three. He sat next to Elodie before continuing to talk. "If you want the reason why she's like that I got you covered."
"Well, we're all ears," Aditi spoke, ready to listen.
"While I was competing in the challenge, I heard a conversation between Bonnie and Andrea. Bonnie asked Andrea out and Andrea proceeded to insult her on how ugly she looks and how stupid she is to think they will get together," Tsu explained while sprinkling his lies.
"That doesn't sound like Andrea," Elodie believed, rather confused on the reveal like Brandon and Aditi.
"You three don't have to believe me. I'm just simply saying what I saw and heard," Tsu continued to lie. "But honestly I wouldn't want to keep the one who could have just said no instead of being insensitive."
Aditi, Elodie, and Brandon looked at each other. Each was unsure whether to believe Tsu or not.
At the igloo ceremony, the Gleeful Gingerbreads were all sitting on stumps. The guys each sat on a stump in the back while the girls did the same in the front. Embarc stood near the campfire, holding six candy canes in her hands.
"Gleeful Gingerbreads, welcome to your first igloo ceremony," Embarc greeted contently. "I won't pester you all that much because frankly nobody is really to blame for losing today's challenge. Well, I can think of two choices, but I won't tell none of you to make things more intense. Happy voting!"
Confessional - Char - Gleeful Gingerbreads
"I don't know who to vote for on my team because everyone is chill and great. Honestly, I would rather vote for myself. Now thinking about it I could have moved to the side before Tsu tackled me. Oh well, won't let that bring me down."
Confessional - Marco - Gleeful Gingerbreads
"Is hard to vote for someone on the team when you get along with them pretty well. Guess I'll vote for myself since I don't have anything against anyone."
End Confessionals
"Well, this is interesting," Embarc said to the team as she read all the votes in one hand. She put the vote papers in her short shorts' pocket. "For a moment I thought each of you voted for yourselves but that's not the case. Anyways, the candy canes go to…"
All Gleeful Gingerbreads watched the candy canes in Embarc's hands with anticipation.
"Aditi, Brandon, and Elodie with no votes," Embarc informed as she tossed a candy cane to each of them.
"The next two contestants safe are Char and Marco," Embarc tossed candy canes to the boys. "Which leaves Bonnie and Andrea in the bottom two."
Both girls were surprised to hear themselves be mentioned in the bottom two.
"The final candy cane goes to…"
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"Bonnie," Embarc tossed the last candy cane to the farmer.
Bonnie caught the candy cane, smiling a little bit knowing that she was safe. Andrea on the other hand frowned.
"That's… disappointing," Andrea spoke as she stood up from the stump she sat on.
"Andrea, the chimney of shame awaits," Embarc pointed to where the elegant angel needed to go.
Andrea sighed before walking away. Brandon, Aditi, and Elodie wondered if they did the right thing. Bonnie waved goodbye to Andrea while Char and Marco were sad to see her go.
"I thought the team and I were getting along just fine despite not talking that much," Andrea conversated with Embarc as the two headed to the Chimney of Shame. "Is unclear what I did wrong."
"You'll find out eventually," Embarc replied. "Not about what you did wrong but who orchestrated your elimination in the first place."
"Wait, what?" Andrea wondered as she got into the chimney.
"No time to explain, I have to finish the episode," Embarc said kindly. "Have a safe trip!"
Andrea smiled a bit and rolled her eyes before sliding down the chimney.
"Nineteen contestants remain!" Embarc announced as she looked at a camera to end the episode. "Will Tsu continue his crafty ways while potential romances bloom in the Sunny Snowflakes? How will the loss of Andrea affect the Gleeful Gingerbreads' performance? And will the Superior Snowstorms ever lose a member? Find out on the next episode of North Pole Showdown!"
Teams
Superior Snowstorms – Iggy, Ben, Tony, Nicky, Tess, Ji-Soon, Winnie
Sunny Snowflakes – Lucien, Jacque, Tsu, Letty, Sasha, May
Gleeful Gingerbreads – Char, Marco, Brandon, Bonnie, Aditi, Elodie
Placements
24th- Paul
23rd- Ketch
22nd- Dominic
21st- Winter
20th- Andrea