The episode starts with Don narrating. "Last time on the race around the states, Jay was fed up with Leshawna, and moved in with the ice dancers." "It was then revealed that there was a love triangle between the three of them, and the friendship between the three apparently started in a sauna." "Not knowing wether or not everyone was going to make it out of this alive, Miles revealed to Junior that she has feelings for him." "Tammy went nuts and began babbling a bunch of nonsense, but the goths actually saw some truth to her words." "It looked as though we might have another contestant in the hospital, but Harold continued on despite the pain, to score his first win of the season." "It's a 111 point gap to get into the top 20 in points." "Can Harold carry momentum over from the previous challenge and close that gap?" "Find out on this episode of, the race around the states."
Intro consists of a shorter version of the final countdown.
Junior and Sanders were having a dinner date in an olive garden. "Junior, I want you to be honest with me" said Sanders. "If you never got hospitalized, would you still be going through this much anger?" Junior's eyes began to widen all of a sudden. He really loved his girlfriend, but didn't want to talk about his sister in front of her. He decided not to reveal too much, but still be honest. He told her about something that happened when he was only 6.
**Flashback**
When Junior was in Kindergarten, he was picked on by a fifth grade Duncan. Duncan would constantly break school rules, and he would always force Junior to take the blame. And whenever Junior did something spectacular, Duncan would always take the credit for it. This made Junior the most hated student in school. But one day, Duncan took things way too far. He rudely slammed into Junior as they were walking down the hall, and knocked Junior's hand into the pull station of the fire alarm, setting it off. Duncan immediately took a photograph of Junior's hand in the alarm, and used it to frame him. According to the school, this was actually the one hundredth rule that Junior broke. He ended up getting yelled at by a bunch of school staff members, and the fire department. Things got really interesting late that night. Junior was sitting on a bench just outside of the principals office crying. His father was in the office talking to Principal Matthew.
"I hope you understand how serious this is Mr Santori" said Mr Matthew. "Please sir, it wasn't him, my son would never do something this bad" said Dwayne. "Yes he would, i've been an elementary school principal for 13 years, and I have never seen a student violate 100 school rules" said Mr Matthew. "It doesn't help the fact that he keeps blaming his screw ups, on somebody five grades above him, who happens to be the most well behaved kid in the school." "It is always Duncan's fault, he always takes credit for Junior's achievements" said Dwayne. "You are really irritating me, no parent should encourage behavior this bad" said Mr Matthew. "Obviously he's not going to get in legal trouble and he's only six, but the fire department has to keep this incident in their records." "If it happens again, you and Mrs Santori will be in legal trouble as his guardians." "His record is too bad for me to keep him, Dwayne Santori the second is expelled from this school, starting right now." "Thank you for the talk headmaster, i'll go and take care of my son" said Dwayne. He then stepped out of the office. Junior then began to plead his innocence. "Daddy please, it wasn't my fault, Duncan always"- But his father cut him off. "Son it's alright, it's fine, I believe you, there's no need to explain anything."
Duncan received special awards for services to the school, for apparently catching the supposed culprit. Junior has held a major prejudice against Duncan ever since. To this day, the fire department of Mount Sword Canada, still has Junior pulling the fire alarm in their records.
**End of flashback**
"Oh my God, all of this hate comes from the fact that you were accused for a felony you never committed in the first place" said Sanders. "It's not just Duncan, I can't stand anybody who even considers him a friend, or even a family member" said Junior. "Shortly after the incident happened, 23 students had to see a psychiatrist after being deemed traumatized." "Five of them went nuts and had to be checked into a mental hospital." "I had several angry letters from parents, saying that their kids have been scarred for life." "When Duncan eventually got arrested and sent to juvie, people speculated that my behavior had a bad influence on him." "While I was in the hospital, my old principal wrote to me, congratulating me on how much i've matured since my rule breaking days." "Ten percent of my get well soon cards, were from people who said that they forgave me, saying that I deserved a second chance." "They were basing this off of my good behavior from last season." "The chief of the Mount Sword fire department, said that it was the redemption story of the century." Junior then began crying. "I don't need redemption, I didn't do anything wrong." "That school should have given me special awards, because I caught Duncan in the act." "I'm forced to live with this for the rest of my life." Sanders could clearly tell that Junior was upset. She had now grown a whole lot more appreciation towards him. She walked to the other side of the table, and put her hands on Junior's face. She closed her eyes, and kissed Junior on the lips. Junior's eyes were closed, but tears were still coming out of the closed lids. Still crying, he returned the kiss, and wrapped his arms around Sanders' back.
(Confession cam- Love is a good emotion to feel)
Sanders- "Ever since last season ended, bad things have kept happening." "Through everything that's been going on, Junior has had the most trouble accepting this trouble." "I thought his PTSD came from his rabbit attack, but it's actually from being accused of setting off a false fire alarm." "Listen, my feelings for him aren't just some minor crush, I legitimately love him." "I just want everything to go back to normal."
**End confessional**
(Room 16- the ice dancers)
Jay was fast asleep in his sleeping bag. He was thinking about Mickey. He remembered all the times they played chess against each other. Nobody ever won, it was a stalemate every time. "Hey uh Josee, i'll be totally okay with it if the answer is no, because I think I know the reason why you would decline" said Jacques. "What are you trying to ask me?" asked Josee. "Do you want to go out with me?" asked Jacques. "Oh um, i'm sorry but, I only see you as a friend" said Josee. "It's alright, I was prepared for your answer, I know your heart belongs to Jay" said Jacques. Josee immediately froze up. "You don't have to be shy about it, just talk to him" said Jacques. Hazel then flew in threw the window, and began to affectionately nibble Jay's ear. Josee looked down at him, and thought about what Jacques said. Did she have the courage to talk to him?
(Room 18- the vegans)
"When did these feelings for Junior come up?" asked Laurie. "It sorta happened while I was visiting him in the hospital" said Miles. "If he and Sanders were to somehow break up, is he really going to go to you?" asked Laurie. "I don't want them to break up, they seem pretty happy together, but I just can't deny that Junior is attractive" said Miles.
(Room 7- the goths)
Crimson and Ennui had actually asked Don to turn off the cameras in their room. They were going to be performing a ritual, and if something went wrong, they didn't need the audience to watch them die. This is what Don thought was actually going on. "They're just too embarrassed to say that they are sleeping in their underwear." "Of course they wouldn't want the audience to see that." The two goths kept looking through several books, until they finally found one that had the prophecy in it. They read every word of the book, and were horrified at certain parts.
It is rumored that Satan himself shall come to earth, to seek revenge on Jesus Christ. He will take full control over the body of an innocent boy. The boy shall have no control over his actions, and will be forced to inflict harm upon others, against his will. Satan will then use the boy, to kill anybody that truly believes in Jesus. Those that he kills shall not go to heaven, and shall be wrongfully sent to hell. Then a girl with a pure heart will be born, and the first decade of her life will be difficult. That girl's body will be dead, but her soul will transfer to her father. The soul will be transferred again, when his wife gets impregnated. It is transferred one last time, when the mother gives birth to her son. The son shall share the soul with his older sister. The boy will grow up and fight Satan, and he is the only one able to kill him, and free those he has sent to hell. The two souls are unable to leave this world, and move on to the afterlife, until Satan has met his demise.
Everything went white for the goths all of a sudden, and they began to have a type of vision. What they saw next, they could not believe. They don't know how it happened, but they were seeing Junior's memory from the hospital, and they found out about the existence of Sarah Santori.
Then rather than look into a memory, they ended up seeing inside somebody's thoughts at the present time. They saw a brown haired boy wearing blue pants, a green hoodie, and a blue toque. "You have served me quit well homeschool" said an evil voice. "I never wanted to serve you eh, I was goo'ing to turn my life around" said the boy in the toque. "You really should stop resisting, you can never get rid of me" said the voice. "You ruined my life eh, I was goo'ing to redeem myself going into season 3, but then you shoo'ed up and turned me into an overconfident jackass eh" said the boy. "I don't deny it, ever since the day before world tour, all of your actions were against your will" said the voice. "Nobody recognizes me a regular human being because of you, they doo'n't know it's not my fault I went feral eh" said the boy. "I'm never goo'ing to accomplish my dream, i'll never get a gold medal for winning at archery in the olympics eh." "You shall not fear, once all the Jesus believers are suffering, those who pray to the Devil will receive an award better than heaven" said the voice. "And you Ezekiel, shall receive the greatest prize of all."
The Goths were now back in the real world. "Oh God, it wasn't living in a radioactive jet plane, Ezekiel was being controlled by the literal devil this whole time" said Ennui. "This means that his actions from episode 1 of World tour onward, were against his will, he's been controlled by Satan this whole time" said Crimson. "The reason why Junior has been so upset, he thought his sister was gone, when in reality her soul is inside him" said Ennui. "We finally understand what's going on, Junior is the one destined to kill Satan, and free the God believers from heaven" said Crimson. "And it's literally impossible for him to die, until he's done the deed" said Ennui. "We can't stall this, we have to tell Junior" said Crimson. "No, we can't, it's too dangerous" said Ennui. "Satan has probably already forced Ezekiel to murder more christians then we think" said Crimson. "If he knows that his sister is technically not dead, it will make him happy." "No, it will scare him" said Ennui. "How do we casually tell him that he is the only one to murder the literal fucking devil?" "Then there is the factor of Ezekiel, he's probably the main victim, in all of this." "How does Junior kill Satan, without harming Ezekiel?" "You have a point there, Ezekiel has been innocent this whole time, he doesn't deserve to die" said Crimson. "I think I know what we have to do" said Ennui. "For the time being, we don't tell anybody what we know, especially Junior." "Once we figure out a way to extract Satan from Ezekiel's body, then we tell him what he has to do." Crimson nodded her head, the plan was now in motion. But one question remained, why did Sarah say she would be waiting in heaven, if she was already sealed inside of him?
Before everyone got on the bus next morning, they wait to wait for Harold to be checked over by a doctor. Due to the hard hit he took in the previous challenge, they needed to make sure Harold didn't have a concussion. It took about 5 minutes for Harold to be cleared to compete.
Everyone then got on the bus, and they stopped in the city of Nashville. "We are in Nashville Tennessee, also known as music city" said Don. "This challenge is going to test your lyric powers, as it is a song writing competition." "Whoever has the best lyrics at the end of one hour, will be the winner."
The thirty six contestants were then led into a classroom. They all took their seats, and had dividers put between them. There were 5 interns on both sides of the room, to make sure there was no cheating. A timer then started, and everyone began writing. It seemed as though not very many of them really knew how to write anything original. Every single one of them were just writing cheap parody's of already existing piece of work. At the end of the hour, the ultimate victory went to Harold. He wrote a parody of ridin dirty called drivin angry. Gerry got second, Crimson got third, Jay got fourth, Laurie got fifth, Leonard got sixth, Ryan got seventh, Chet got eighth, Kitty got Ninth, Noah got tenth, Jen got eleventh, Stephanie got twelfth, Taylor got thirteenth, Owen got fourteenth, Sanders got fifteenth, Mary got sixteenth, Pete got seventeenth, Rock got eighteenth, Leshawna got nineteenth, Kelly got twentieth, Ellody got twenty first, Spud got twenty second, Miles got twenty third, Ennui got twenty fourth, Lorenzo got twenty fifth, Dwayne got twenty sixth, Carrie got twenty seventh, Tom got twenty eighth, Jacques got twenty ninth, MacArthur got thirtieth, Junior got thirty first, Josee got thirty second, Emma got thirty third, Geoff got thirty fourth, Brody got thirty fifth, and Tammy got thirty sixth.
(Confession cam- I can't write music)
Harold- "Just got back to back victories." "Only problem is that i'm still 100 points out of the top 20." "I just need to keep up the momentum, I can still make the chase."
Junior- "I'm in trouble, i'm 19 points out of the wild card position." "I gotta step up my game."
Emma- "I have fallen back to the wild card spot, at least Noah is still leading the points."
**End confessional**
The podium ceremony was now happening. Crimson was standing on the third place pedestal, Gerry was on the second place pedestal, and Harold was on the winners pedestal. "Harold, you just won yourself the 2010 edition, of the Pokemon trading card game" said Don. "We have completed ten challenges, meaning we are one fifth of the way through the season, and a quarter of the way to the chase." "So far, we've had seven different winners." "Unfortunately, we've also lost two friends along the way." "I counted three, Lindsay stayed for one challenge and left" said Owen. "Ah, I see what you mean" said Don. "Hopefully we don't lose any more, on the next episode of, the race around the states."
Point standings
First place: Noah, 283 points, 1 win
Second place: Owen, 269 points
Third place: Chet, 261 points
Fourth place: Crimson, 261 points
Fifth place: Ryan, 252 points
Sixth place: Laurie, 246 points, 1 win
Seventh place: Leonard, 242 points
Eighth place: Tammy, 236 points
Ninth place: Kitty, 233 points
Tenth place: Brody, 227 points, 2 wins
Eleventh place: Sanders, 223 points
Twelfth place: Emma 219 points, 1 win
Thirteenth place: Lorenzo, 218 points
Fourteenth place: Kelly, 213 points
Fifteenth place: Taylor, 211 points
Sixteenth place: Geoff, 200 points
Seventeenth place: Ennui, 199 points
Eighteenth place: Jacques, 193 points, 1 win
Nineteenth place: MacArthur, 187 points
Twentieth place: Jen, 192 points
Twenty first place: Stephanie, 178 points
Twenty second place: Junior, 173 points, 2 wins
Twenty third place: Mary, 171 points
Twenty fourth place: Miles, 160 points
Twenty fifth place: Pete, 155 points
Twenty sixth place: Jay, 157 points
Twenty seventh place: Rock, 141 points
Twenty eighth place: Devin, 114 points
Twenty ninth place: Spud, 114 points
Thirtieth place: Leshawna, 113 points
Thirty first place: Tom, 97 points
Thirty second place: Ellody, 89 points
Thirty third place: Gerry, 93 points
Thirty fourth place: Harold, 92 points, 2 wins
Thirty fifth place: Mickey, 86 points
Thirty sixth place: Josee, 50 points
Thirty seventh place: Carrie, 46 points
Thirty eighth place: Dwayne, 36 points
Thirty ninth place: Lindsay, 18 points
Authors note: Please do not send me angry reviews, stating that I was too lazy to write songs for the challenge. I'm not lazy, i'm just terrible at coming up with lyrics. My specialty is writing out the plot, I am not a songwriter. I have trouble writing one song, do you seriously expect me to do 36?
The Stuff that happened with Crimson and Ennui, is another one of those scenes where the readers know what is going on, but the audience is not having any idea. This plot point, makes this story a whole lot darker. This is no longer just about the competition. Let's be real, who thought Ezekiel was going to play a major role in this story? My personal head canon for how he turned feral, is something I actually think the real life writers should incorporate in a future season. Teletoon shows have already pushed realism boundaries, why not go the full mile and incorporate the freaking devil? Also if this show had any realism at all, Ezekiel wouldn't have gone feral, he would have died. You can't hide in a deathtrap disguised as a plane for several weeks, and live to tell the tale.
As always if you have an idea for a challenge in an upcoming state or a prize for a future challenge winner, feel free to let me know in a review.
Thank you for reading and please have a great day.
