Author's note: Well, here it comes the newest chapter. And I want you guys to enjoy it as the same way I enjoyed writing it.
MatiasND: Trust me, Trent doesn't realize how messed up he is... and the worst fact is from what you can conclude of this chapter... I hope you will like this chapter.
BrightNova169 : That ship sank so heard that it became like the Titanic. And Trent doesn't realize that now is on pay-per-view and possible future DVDs, he is screwed... But to answer some of your questions, on this chapter I hope it can answer all of them. I hope you like it... Have a nice reading.
Alright, have a nice chapter everyone, and enjoy it. XD
"Last time, in Total Drama Island," Chris smiled as he pointed out the flashbacks of not just the episode prior, but also a few good interesting scenes after the challenge. "The campers were forced to conquer their deepest fears. Not all of them succeeded, but others surprised by taking the courage needed to fight their own traumas. There were betrayals of trust, emotional speeches, and even people dying inside. In the crucial moment, Tyler saw his teammate Courtney hesitating towards a trauma that had been hunting her forever. So he took the courageous moment to sacrifice his chances of winning by saying the forbidden word of the Killer Bass, saving Courtney from dealing with her own trauma by pressure. Showing that he was the roaster of the Killer Bass, hehehe… But he had to deal with the chickens on the way back. Will Killer Bass recover from such a traumatic experience? Will Trent be able to receive forgiveness from the team that wants his head on a spike? Try to find out on this epic show named TOTAL DRAMA ISLAND."
The next night prior the next challenge around the cabins felt a bit more different than the others. Since Harold decided to pass another time with nothing more than a piece of paper and a pen... and waiting for the inspiration to write another haiku...
His fights against the ninjas over the Phobia Factor made him reflect how on a way to describe his personal victory over his own past.
But at the time he tried to reflect on the challenge as a whole... It was very messed up, since now he could see how his friends had to fight not against simple fears... But demons that have been tormenting them since traumatic events. Nobody felt the same after dealing with such a terrible challenge... Well, except for Katie, also felt terrible to see the aftermath of the sadism... But the only good way the team made a good therapy as a whole, was to Prank Trent at the 4 in the morning...
Harold snickered to see the guitar boy, looking ware at them, like he had been paranoid about something that he wasn't aware that it really happened... He would love to tell this story to Leshawna. He bets that she is going to love it...
A good inspiration for him to write a victory haiku for his team... And with a good glance at Geoff who seemed to be walking with...WHAT THE HELL?
"Geoff, what the hell is that?" Harold asked as he looked at the shaped heart arts and crafts on the hat party boy.
"Oh, that?" Geoff said as he looked proudly at his work. He showed to the nerd with glasses who had his eyes wide open. "This is a neat gift I'm planning to surprise Bridgette with..."
"No..." Harold said as he got up. And quickly snatched the objective from Geoff's hand. "No, no, nope, not a chance."
"Hey, what do you mean no?" Geoff said as he could sew Harold taking the object and walked inside of the boys' cabin.
Duncan was lying on the top of the bunk bed, Ezekiel was reading one of the chapters he wrote, for doing a grammar review... DJ was petting his little bunny as a way to make himself enjoy the peaceful night before the stress of the challenge the next day.
Until Harold came inside the cabin, with the object in his hands and an impressive look in his eyes.
"Harold, give me back," Geoff called for him as the group stared at Geoff looking annoyed at Harold who was holding the gift in his hands.
"Not until you destroy this monstrosity. Duncan lighter please." Harold called for Duncan who was just still lying on his bed.
"Have fun," The delinquent said as he took the lighter out of his pocket and passed it to the nerd who was ready to burn the object.
"NO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Geoff shouted as the Killer Bass boys stared at Harold holding the heart object and Geoff even used brutal force to take it from him.
"Alright, alright. What's going on?" DJ asked, seeing how Harold wanted so much to destroy something...
"This." Harold quickly went to DJ and gave the gentle Jamaican the reason for why such a fight... At the time both saw the inscription.
"I hope you think of me whenever you drop loose change into this." DJ gave a slight read... Until his eyes went wide open, and seeing even the details, he cringed... Hard.
"Hey... It's not that bad." Geoff pouted, but from the look on DJ's face, it seemed that it was a bad idea.
"Please tell me that you weren't going to show that to Bridgette," DJ asked as he gave the object to Duncan who had his eyes wide open.
"DUUUUUUDE. I saw some people doing that in juvie. That got them beaten up because of it." Duncan laughed as he could see such a terrible object was even reason to make such a terrible decision.
"I have to agree with them, Geoff... This thing may be an artwork of people who were in first or second grade." DJ commented which once again made the party boy feel depressed from doing that.
Ezekiel got interested and saw that familiar object which was exactly for the... Ohhhhh...
"Let me see." Ezekiel got out of bed to see if was exactly terrible like he remembered from watching the show... it was worse than he remembered"Damn, you didn't cut the photo with only you both, you just ripped the picture. Look, there is even a DJ arm on that... This is creepy."
"Like I said... Burn it." Harold insisted that he took both the object and the lighter. And gave it to Geoff who was staring at it with his lips trembling... "And don't give me that look, this is an offense to love gifts, and deserved to be burned..."
"Alright. I'm doing it." Geoff stared sad, as he took the lighter and immediately burned the gift he was planning to give to the surfer... It took a few minutes for the fire to be controlled since everyone was smashing it until it became dust...and leaving Geoff helpless. "Now what?"
The group remained quiet until Harold cleared his throat.
"Now little grasshopper... If you are going to give a gift to Bridgette. Then you are going to do it the right way. Now let's start with the brainstorm." Harold commented for the first time, not only Ezekiel didn't know the meaning of that word."I mean planning and gathering ideas before you do anything."
"Ohhhhh," Dj, Ezekiel, and Geoff commented as Harold had already papers on his hands.
"Now, tell me what Bridgette likes. And I swear I'm going to use my nunchucks to beat you if you just say that you don't know her at all." Harold said in a warning tone which made Geoff blink and stop... From even answering...
"Err... She likes surfing, and... She is vegetarian, also she likes sea creatures." Geoff commented as the group stared at him with unamused looks. "Also she is very talented..."
"Like a man..." Duncan commented which made the group chuckle from the joke and made the party boy groan from his dismay.
"I know, I know. I screwed up. Can you help?" Geoff asked for help until he got a paper in his hands.
"Sea shells. If you want to do something, then grab all the seashells that you can see..." Harold commanded which made Geoff look weirdly at him.
"Like, right now?" The cowboy hat boy stared the the nerd who seemed serious at that moment.
"Hmmm let's see... Who was the one who managed to hook up with the sexiest girl on the show?" Harold asked loudly, as the group pointed at the nerd who was smirking smugly at Geoff. "You don't need to go fast, you need to do it right. So if you want to do arts and crafts. Then do something with a surfer theme. No photos, no pasta, no hearts... Just a good object that a surfer like Bridgette would love. I'm going to gather the glue. Now, chop, chop."
Geoff nodded his head and left the cabin in a hurry... Which made Ezekiel glance at Harold with his eyebrow raised.
"You didn't need to boast yourself like that. You just hooked up with Leshawna because we insisted to you to go talk to her..." Ezekiel commented and Harold nodded his head.
"Yeah, you all guys did. But also I wanted him to trust me since me and Tyler managed to hook up, oh, and Katie. But I doubt if they saw what Geoff did, they wouldn't try to destroy this child-cursed object." Harold commented as he glanced at the remains of the horror. "If Bridgette saw this, she would shout in horror."
Duncan, Dj, and Ezekiel stared at the floor... And from seeing that gift... They concluded...
"Yeah, you are right. That thing was horrible." The group agreed with the nerd as nobody wanted to support him from making such a terrible mistake.
On the next minute, Bridgette knocked the door and opened it.
"Hey guys, I was hearing some shout from Geoff over here. Is everything alright?" Bridgette asked as she then looked at the black mark on the floor. "What happened?"
"Just Harold Holdiny decided to do a magic trick to Geoff which scared him off..." Before anyone could reply, Duncan snarked as he pointed at Harold who was using the lighter and paper in his hands.
Bridgette raised her eyebrow to the nerd as she wasn't amused by that.
"What?" Harold raised both his arms in alarm. "He said I couldn't do a fireball trick, and I just did... I didn't say it would have worked. But I did it anyway."
"Okay, but please quiet down. Me and the girls are going to sleep soon, so I suggest you all do the same... Tomorrow is a challenging day." Bridgette said as she rolled her eyes and closed the door. "Good night boys."
"Good night." The group said in chorus until they all sighed in relief.
"That was close," Ezekiel said as he jumped to his bed to go back to his reading.
"Tell me about it," Duncan said as he got the lighter back from Harold. And the nerd went back to his bed as well.
At the time Geoff went back to the boy's cabin, his hat was full of all the sea shells that he could bring… But seeing that everyone was sleeping, his body was already tired as well…
"Well, I hope this would be enough." Geoff went to his bed and quickly closed his eyes.
Tomorrow would be a long day for everyone.
(Beach - Tomorrow Morning)
It was now challenge time. All of the Killer Bass and Screaming Gophers were gathered except for Beth who just went to the bathroom before knowing about the challenge.
On the beach were several canoes with half of them being Gopher green and the others Bass red.
"Bass, Gophers, today's challenge is a true summer camp experience." Chris began explaining the challenge of the day to everyone. "A canoe trip. You'll be paddling your canoes across the lake to…Boney Island!"
Chris spoke about this in a spooky tone getting many of the campers to raise an eyebrow.
"When you get there, you must portage your canoes to the other side of the island, which is about a two-hour hike through treacherous, dense jungle," Chris explained the challenge which made not just Ezekiel raises his eyebrows, but Geoff looks at him extremely confused.
"We gotta pour what?" Geoff asked, confused as to what Chris told them to do with their canoes.
"Portage."Chris corrected with Geoff still looking confused due to not knowing what that word meant. As even a fly passed inside the ear around the party boy, just to cross the other side, which made Chris look at him in disbelief. "Dude, walk with your canoe."
Geoff let out an 'Oooh' as Chris blinked at him. As he went on to further explain the details of the challenge.
"When you arrive at the other end of the island, you'll build a rescue fire that will be judged by me. The first team to paddle home and return their canoes to the beach is the winner of invincibility! Move, campers, move!" The campers were about to head to the canoes on the beach only to be stopped by Chris as he explained one last detail. "Oh, wait! One more thing I should mention. Legend has it, if you take anything off the island, you'll be cursed forever!"
Suddenly thunder was heard causing nearly all the campers to flinch as Owen laughed.
"Yeah, haha! A cursed island! Whoo!" However, no one seemed to share Owen's enthusiasm and simply stared silently at the big guy.
"Now, get in your canoes, and let's have some fun!" Chris instructed as the campers actually headed off this time with Owen cheering again.
Just then a toilet flush was heard and suddenly Beth came into the scene and stopped in front of Chris with some toilet paper attached to her shoe.
"What'd I miss?" The braces-wearing girl quickly asked, and Chris immediately refused to explain the whole challenge to just one person.
"Canoes." Chris pointed in the direction of the beach with Beth quickly taking off.
Confession – Cody.
"While I think it would have been a good idea to make a partner with Trent, there is no way I'm going to that now," Cody explained as he made an X with both his arms. "Katie told me Trent is on the line of fire because of the last challenge, and he messed up bad… really bad, really really really bad. Gwen even told me that she would have preferred to stay one night with me instead of trusting him ever again. It kinda hurt a bit, but hey, at least now I have a girlfriend. And the others are happy for me."
At the beach, campers were quickly pairing up such as Cody and Izzy and surprisingly Heather and Owen. Trent was waiting for the other groups to walk by, and at the time Gwen was the first of the Killer Bass to walk down the stairs to the beach when she stopped to see Trent looking up at her with a smile. Gwen narrowed her eyes and stomped way down until she found the foot of the guitarist and with force stomped which made him jump on his feet.
"Ouch," Trent said as Gwen ignored him and went to the red canoe with Courtney who was smiling at her.
Trent looked at Gwen and his expression went down… At the time he was about to walk, he bumped into a pink shirt party boy, who just remained frozen there.
"Oh, sorry," Trent asked, as Geoff did not even give a reply and passed by him. Noticing that nobody from the Killer Bass seemed to be talking to him, he tilted his head. "Did I do something to make everyone mad at me?"
Lindsay looked at what, she was about to say, but Heather immediately placed a hand on her mouth.
"No, no… It's a mystery to even us." Heather replied as Owen tilted his head, and was about to say something but Heather gave a slight elbow which made him flinch a bit. "Why don't you go with Lindsay? She will be with great help."
Trent looked confused, but just shrugged off and followed the suggestion. Heather smiled and went to Lindsay's ear.
"Let him dig even more his grave, he doesn't know how badly he messed up." Heather smiled as she found her next scapegoat in her unfortunate times.
Lindsay gasped.
"He isn't aware of how Zeke got broken from almost dying again?" Lindsay gasped in fear which made Heather tilt her head.
"Dying again?" Heather asked as she raised her eyebrow. "And since when do you call Ezekiel Zeke?"
"Oh, that's because Ta… I mean Tyler always called him that, and I even called him Zeka, Ezake, and he was fine with it. So I think Zeke was fine. But oh yeah Tyler talked to me in his free time and explained that Zeke once was playing hide and seek and suddenly a landslide covered him as a whole, he almost died buried on there." Lindsay explained the details before running to help the guitarist prepare to go on the canoe.
Heather remained quiet… but suddenly her smile went wide open.
Confession – Heather
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I can't believe it, I have a meat shield, I have a meat shield." Heather laughed happily as she almost felt like she won the lottery. "There is no way in hell that the fish heads will forgive Trent for doing something like that. I have to applaud you, Trent… You really sank your chances of being with the girl you like. And you made the whole team as your enemy. You made them hate you more than hate me. So you have my gratitude… Don't mind me to use you as my shield, would you? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA."
Izzy was fine, she was happy to know the day for her trump card to be used… now she would need to make the whole team of Screaming Gophers lose the challenge, and look for how the Killer Bass were concentrated… it wouldn't need much, she saw the red canoe a few meters away, with the familiar green hat boy, who now was on his back the bow she made by hand, and there was a quiver which had some possible arrows for in case they would need weapons.
Cody was sitting behind her, so she decided to have a bit of fun with him.
"Follow my lead, did you know that I have some indigenous blood in my veins? Including the tribe can convoke me at any moment." Izzy decided to tell a bit of her story, which made Cody try to move the canoe but couldn't do it right.
"Err, awesome Izzy, but, can you help me to carry this?" Cody asked which Izzy looked at she wasn't even carried, and by shrugging her arms, she went down to help the geek who seemed a bit too weak to carry even a canoe. "Thanks,"
"Not problem, my face palled friend." Izzy gave a mock salute which made Cody start using the canoe with her.
Harold and Katie went down the stairs while Duncan was waiting for both of them.
"Hey, there is one canoe that would need three people. Would you mind if I partner with you both?" Duncan asked Harold and Katie looked at each other, and both smiling and nodding, the delinquent was already with the ride he was going to receive. "Great."
Bridgette watched the groups moving to make partners and noticed Geoff was still in silence and staring at Geoff in the distance.
"Geoff, are you okay?" Bridgette asked, which made the party boy get out of his trance.
"What?" Geoff asked, and the surfer looked at him with a bit of concern.
"You were staring at the Screaming Gopher's side for a while," Bridgette asked, which made him blink, and sigh.
"Oh, sorry… it's because I got bumped into someone I didn't want to see his face for a while." Geoff commented as he tried to regain his composure. "Hey, would you like to be my partner?"
"Sure. I was going to ask you that." Bridgette smiled as the duo walked towards their canoe, and Geoff was feeling something itching on his hair… But he just ignored it.
At the time DJ got down, he noticed Ezekiel was placing his arrows and even his bow above the canoe.
"Err… Zeke, do you think it's really necessary to bring your bow and arrows?" DJ tilted his head, which made the Killer Bass team who were on their canoes also have a look at Ezekiel trying to move the canoe.
"In an island named Boney Island?" Ezekiel answered that question with another question, and the Jamaican had to pause for a second… before he realized that Ezekiel was right.
"Do you think you have enough arrows?" DJ asked in worry, to which Ezekiel simply shrugged.
"I don't know. I carried until my quiver was full. So I hope that's enough." Ezekiel gave the only answer that he could come up with.
DJ seemed to be a bit skittish as he tapped the canoe with his foot Ezekiel grabbed a life jacket out of the aquatic vehicle for both of them.
"Yo, man. Do canoes flip over a lot?" DJ quickly asked as that was something he wanted to know before getting into this thing.
"No, I think those were kayaks," Ezekiel told DJ making the brick house breathe a sigh of relief as he caught the life jacket Ezekiel threw to him. "Why?"
"It's because I have a bad story with water before," DJ replied as he prepared to be with Ezekiel who seemed surprised.
"Well, we just got launched from a cliff in a safe zone infested of sharks. So I think it would be difficult to top that." Ezekiel shrugged as he pointed out something that DJ remembered. "And we both survived… so I think it wouldn't be that bad if we just got some splashes. After everything he has been put through… Anything he has done in the past was easy peasy."
"Yeah, you have a good point." DJ nodded his head and got enough courage to go inside the canoe. "Okay, let's get going."
"That's the spirit." The homeschooled boy smiled, as both started to paddle away from the beach…
Geoff and Bridgette prepared themselves to leave, as did everyone from the groups as well. Heather was carried by Owen who seemed to be in a hurry, even though he slammed her body on the canoe before pulling it to put in sail.
DJ held onto the canoe tightly as he was gaining balance to stay at the canoe and finally be comfortable. Ezekiel gave him an Oar as the duo seemed to be happy and in perfect balance with the canoe.
"We already passed with difficulties DJ, so relax. We are going to be fine." Ezekiel smiled as he placed both his bow and quiver tied to his back and ready for in case they would need it.
"If this canoe's a-rockin', don't come a-knockin'!" The two watched as the canoe Owen and Heather were in pass by them…only for Heather to get sick of Owen antics and smack the back of his head with an oar. "Ow, that smarts!"
Soon enough, everyone was in their canoes and was in either pairs of two or three. Chris was on the beach and aiming a gun into the air. "On your marks…" Chris counted down as he put his thumb on the trigger. "Get set…"
"HEY CHRIS." Suddenly a voice shouted which made the host of the show, stop.
"What?" Chris called as Ezekiel pointed to the sky where his gun was aiming.
"Isn't it better for you to look in the direction where you are aiming your gun?" Ezekiel called which made Chris narrow his eyes at him.
"For you know Ezekiel, I'm a specialized expert in shooting things, and I'm sure that the…" Chris was reprimanded until he looked above him, and his eyes suddenly blinked… Until he found out that something was flying around the direction of his gun… "I would have missed that bird… pff yeah, if I hurt that hawk I know PETA would come to my ass… now, where I was anyway. Oh yeah."
*BANG!*
Chris changed the direction of his gun and immediately shot in the opposite way of the hawk, but still scaring the poor animal away.
"Paddle!" Chris shot his gun to signal the start of the challenge and all the teams quickly started paddling their canoes in the direction Chris instructed. And at the time he was alone, he gave a deep sigh in relief. "That was close. That would have made some awful lawsuits."
As the teams were paddling, many of them passed the time with conversation. Cody was hearing every single story coming from Izzy who seemed so energetic about it.
"And that's how I became the leader of the Infantile squad when I was at the military summer camp at 10 years old. Needlessly to say Chef's Hatchet was really mad at me when that happened." Izzy explained as she was laughing while Cody was covering his crotch.
"So you not just knew Chef's Hatchet before, but you and 4 other children were trained by him as well? And you kicked his balls?" Cody asked as he was with a mixture of surprise, disbelief, and awe from Izzy managing to do crazy stunts like that.
"Yep. That's why every time he sees me in the Main Lodge, he is always protecting his lower regions because he never knows when I will attack him there again. Ahhh, good times." Izzy sighed with happy memories, while Cody couldn't help but have one question in mind.
"You served in the army as a child and you have been on there until the show?" Cody asked as he felt pity for her. "Where were your parents?"
"Oh…" Izzy's smile suddenly froze, as she cleared her throat. But a bit uncomfortable... "Well, my mom was also part of the squad from Chef's Hatchet, so while one time they had a little fight, they stopped talking with each other for years… I think was because of the fact he shot her in the chest in a sparing match… and she is still angry at him."
"WHAT?" Cody shouted as it was enough to make Izzy zip his mouth.
"Shhhhhh, it's a touchy subject for both my mom and Chef… After that, I got transferred to an RCMP summer camp for a few months before I left there and went to high school." Izzy commented as she shrugged off the rest of the story. "I think high school was way worse than the military… Trust me, being a team leader is more brutal than actually learning how to use weapons."
And with that, Cody whimpered and started to regret asking those questions.
Around the time Trent was looking and seeing Courtney and Gwen talking happily with each other, he tilted his head as he couldn't understand the reason why everyone from the Killer Bass seemed to be avoiding seeing him at all… Even after the nightmare he had, he was feeling a bit paranoid when it came to them being in silence. They would need only the makeup and the group would be the mimes from his nightmare.
In the next second, he was surprised to see Lindsay resting on his lap.
"Hey, would you mind if I take a tan in here, right?" Lindsay asked as Trent gave a good smile.
"Oh babe, I wouldn't mind at all." Trent smiled as he gave place for the blonde bombshell, but the tone of the voice made Beth Grit her teeth angrily.
Confession – Beth.
"Are you kidding me?" Beth said as she narrowed her eyes. And looked at the camera. "That boy literally made the girl who had a crush on him buried alive and he forgot to take her out. And now that he is getting the silent treatment, he just goes for a girl who has a boyfriend? Tyler do me a favor and punch on his face when he gets eliminated next."
"Can you believe the audacity of him?" Gwen commented as she started paddling which described everything that happened from the time she was walking downstairs. "I mean, he smiles, fine do whatever you want. But he didn't even go to talk to Geoff nor Ezekiel and say that he was sorry for what happened."
Courtney remained quiet as she understood why Gwen was venting herself to her. Trent didn't seem apologetic for what happened to them, so it was clear that Gwen was mad... hell, Duncan and DJ, and even Tyler wanted to beat the crap out of Trent for what happened. And God forbid if she and Bridgette and even Eva would have done to him for doing something so stupid. Maybe that's why Ezekiel didn't trust him in the first place.
"Well, Ezekiel wanted us to be the ones to take you both out... Can you imagine if we had trusted him to take you both? How long it would have taken?" Courtney had to agree with the goth... that was messed up on so many levels.
"There were times I was counting how long it would have been... DJ got us out in 12 minutes... I don't know if Trent would have made us wait 20 or even half an hour... And that scared me... because 5 minutes was already chilling, 12 minutes was a nightmare... if was 20 minutes or even 30..." Gwen commented that Courtney remained quiet... knowing that the girl was still feeling terrible for it... "I think I'm still a bit broken when it comes about to think of that... I don't know how Ezekiel did it."
Courtney remained quiet, but then she glanced at the homeschooled boy who seemed to have a great conversation with DJ, that even DJ was playfully placing both his hands on his ears and trying to stop Ezekiel.
"It's dr Gerbil's world. It's dr Gerbil's world." Ezekiel was laughing as DJ wanted to beat himself with his Oar.
"SHUT UP, I GOT IT," DJ shouted annoyed as both started to laugh at the idea...
Courtney smiled to see the duo happy and making fun of the trip.
"It's because Ezekiel found some good friends who would be willing to take his back... He feared to die alone, but I think after he got on this show. He never felt alone anymore. That's why we are here to help him. Because we are his friends. His true friends." Courtney emphased which brought attention to Gwen who hummed an understanding. "And gotta confess, if Bridgette and Eva wouldn't have vouched for you... I wouldn't have trusted you. But for seeing how much you passed with Zeke... You belong with us."
"Thanks." Gwen smiled as Courtney seemed to be a great leader to help the team with their problems. "Now, can you tell me what is between you and Duncan?"
"WHAT." That was the shout that made all the campers jump in surprise from their canoes. And a good talk Gwen would like to tease Courtney in the future.
Geoff and Bridgette seemed to be fine going across the water, as the duo seemed to be comfortable in silence. But suddenly Bridgette tilted her head.
"Hey Geoff, can I ask you something?" Bridgette decided the conversation.
"Sure, what's up?" Geoff smiled as he felt nice to have a conversation with his partner who was still confused about one thing.
"Yesterday, I heard some noises about you and the boys talking, and when I got there. I saw a mark of burn on the floor, Did something happen?" Bridgette asked which Geoff realized about the talk he had with the boys in the morning.
"Oh, if you are talking about the failed magic trick Harold pulled out, trust me, don't believe in them when they said I ran away… I went to the beach to some water to extinguish the fire." Geoff commented as he took his hat off.
…
That comment alone made Bridgette raise her eyebrow…
"Wouldn't have been better if you went near the bathrooms to take the water?" Bridgette asked which made Geoff stop… and then his head went down.
"The plan sounded better in my head," Geoff replied which made Bridgette laugh from the bad idea the party boy had… And the laugh was enough to make Geoff smile.
The surfer gave a glance at the hat and noticed there was something inside.
"Hey, what's inside of the hat?" Bridgette commented, as she quickly took his hate, and gave a slight glance… And then when she found what it was she couldn't help but smile happily. "Oh, it's a murex seashell."
Geoff's eyes went wide open as he glanced at the big seashell which was itching on his head for a while. And looking at the reaction of the girl nearby him, it seemed he found something that the surfer liked.
"Do you like seashells?" Geoff asked as he could see Bridgette smiling at him.
"Yeah, my cousin was the one who got me to enjoy surfing, so we spent most of our childhood looking for seashells. He got a massive collection, and he showed some you could hear the entire ocean." Bridgette commented as Geoff seemed to be nodding from the way she described her story with seashells. And her intelligence of how to treat them well.
"Harold, you are the best." Geoff thought as he promised himself that he would give a high five to the nerd at the time they would finish the challenge.
In the canoe Cody and Izzy were currently in, Cody learned so many stories about Izzy that he was in the process of filtering, some stories sounded too stupid to be true… and others were too absurd that they actually could be true. He was debating if the camera or even the microphones were recording or even cutting the moments where Izzy would bear most of the watchers in some time… But he was there, listening… Because he was starting to think… that Izzy wasn't the person most of the guys were thinking at the start of the show… She seemed crazy, but every move she made was calculated for some objective, and from the stories… he started to make a careful look at Izzy who was still smiling like she was planning something. But to disguise that, he did his best to share a few stories of himself.
"And then they have an arrow pointed to my face, Duncan acting like a crazy dog, Courtney with the desire to rip my parts, and even Harold who was promising to break my neck," Cody told the time he went to pick Katie and the reaction was to see Izzy laughing so hard that her legs went up.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA, So you pissed your pants? I bet you pissed your pants." Izzy laughed as she wanted to tease the boy who was blushing in shame.
"Oh come on… it was a freaking bear… and you were authentic, you and the real bear made me not control my bladder." Cody pouted which made Izzy snicker from her fun.
"Okay, okay, my bad… but it was really funny. I was like Roar, and you were like AHHHH my bladder. I'm pissing myself. HAHAHAHAHAHA." Izzy laughed as Cody pouted at her.
"You're mean," Cody said playfully and Izzy giggled to herself.
"Alright, alright, sorry for scaring the piss of you. But it will be funny to see the episode in a few years." Izzy said optimistically which made Cody facepalm with his oar and even hurt himself with and make Izzy laugh even louder. "AHAHAHAHAHAHA."
"Rar, rar, rar. Okay, you had your fun." Cody said as he rolled his eyes, and suddenly noticed the mist crossing around… "Hey, did this were here before?"
"Nope," Izzy said gleefully. As she could see from the mist and pointed the direction with her oar. "On that direction is the Boney Island. So, not touchy things mister touchy."
"OH COME ON, I'M STOPPING DOING THAT," Cody said in an outburst that made many campers stare at him, which made Izzy laugh even harder. Making rolls his eyes, and gives a quick smile. "Alright, let's go crazy military junior."
The group saw Cody just ignoring them and Izzy being well, Izzy. The group went back to their own decisions.
"It's the leader of Infatile unity." Izzy corrected as she smiled with to have someone to share her stories and lies, and still being a good ear… "Paddle."
"Yes Ma'am," Cody said as both paddled in the direction of the island.
And within a few minutes, all the other canoes soon reached the shore of the cursed island.
"Okay. Did you see that skull?" Izzy excitedly said the only camper not to be frightened by Boney Island one bit. "How cool is that?! It's like this place is haunted or something!"
Just then the sounds of some vicious creatures were heard coming from within the jungle of the island making most of the camper's flinch. Courtney nodded to Gwen who seemed to have the same thoughts as her.
"Let's just get this over with," Gwen commented which made both teams quickly get to work.
Everyone who shared a canoe picked up the canoe they were sharing and quickly took off into the jungle in the direction Chris pointed out to them on the map this morning. The scenery seemed to only get darker and grimmer as they ran forward. There were skulls all over the place either on the ground or staked on spears. Many trees seemed to be bitten down with the stumps having large teeth marks on them.
Just then, halting the progress of both the Bass and Gophers, was a large tree falling right in front of them. Everyone flinched and looked around to see what caused this and a few spotted shaking bushes and some large glowing eyes peeking out.
"I think I saw something," Cody whispered as the shaking bushes got more violent. Something finally then emerged from the bushes and everyone was treated to what looked like beavers…but were the size of bears and had tusks on them. "Monster…beavers!"
Everyone screamed in terror as the monster beavers all looked at them with rather…hungry expressions.
Confession - Chris
"A remnant of the Pleistocene Era, the woolly beaver is a day-active rodent indigenous to Boney Island," Chris explained what the deal was with those monster beavers. "Oh yeah, and they're meat eaters."
At the time that happened, it was the time the Killer Bass team went from one direction while the Screaming Gophers went into the other direction. And the time it was the time for them to run.
(Killer Bass)
The group started to run in panic, while DJ was holding the canoe by itself, and Ezekiel was running for his life. But by taking the new bow he got from Izzy, he knew it was the time to do something.
"Guys, go ahead," Ezekiel said as he took his bow and arrow and prepared to do some instant shots.
The group stared at the homeschooled boy who decided to take the arrow and already placed it to his compound bow and quickly decided to aim and one of the beavers, who was staring angrily and hungrily at him…
"Okay, if we take something from the island we would be cursed… so if we kill something from this island, would we be double cursed?" Ezekiel didn't shoot as the thought passed on his mind… And seeing the animals were in his direction. He decided to see if there was something… anything… And by some miracle, he found, a big wasp nest… And knowing that one arrow wouldn't do anything… He proceeded to take 6 arrows from his quiver and do something while the animals were approaching his group. Aiming to not pierce the wasp nest. But to make a huge shake on the tree which would be enough for a provocation.
*deep breath*
*aim*
*THUMB**THUMB**THUMB**THUMB**THUMB**THUMB*
And with that, 6 arrows penetrated the tree nearby the next, and the shake was so much that it was enough to make the wasps furious and with that get out from the said nest…
"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES NOW.* Ezekiel's first part of the plan was done right, but now he provoked an animal that would hunt down anyone who just messed with their nest. Ezekiel decided to hide the arrows inside of his blouse, as the monster beavers noticed the buzzing sound of their most dangerous enemy.
*BZZZZZZ* BZZZZ* *BZZZ*
Confession - Chris
"Eletricvital Wasps, a native creature which produces amazing honey, trust me, they produce honey, and they are some of the most lethal creatures around Boney Island. Someone who provokes them is the one who wants to have a date with the death." Chris explained what the deal was with those monster wasps, creatures that not even the beavers would dare to mess with... "Oh yeah, and they're also meat eaters."
The Killer Bass ran as if their lives depended on it… Since they heard Ezekiel decide to provoke a nest of wasps, it was a success that even the beavers quickly went to both fight and run away from such terrible creatures.
It was a distraction, and they didn't want to be the target of the said wasps, so they quickly ran away.
And the Screaming Gophers didn't have weapons to protect themselves, they resorted to running away from the beavers that tried to attack them. A bear who was enjoying itself a good scratch on its back in a tree was humming happily until it found a bunch of teenagers running away from the native animals of Boney Island…
The bear stopped to process if he saw things, so it took his glasses to place on its eyes, to see if that was true to see humans going around the island after what would be years.
They then thought they got them to leave them alone when they walked into a small pond that had a bunch of rather large nests surrounding them…
"No way out," Owen said as he felt despair appearing for the first time, and looking at the beavers approaching, it seemed that the end was coming sooner than they expected. But by some miracle, the beavers stopped following them… And turned their backs to the Screaming Gophers, they finally would have time to sigh in relief.
"Look, they are going away." Trent smiled as he felt relieved…
But Owen also had a question that would be perfectly used at that moment.
"Hey, would someone over here have an extra underwear to share?" Owen commented as he smiled sheepishly at the group who seemed to laugh at his joke, but then he shook his head. "No, it's serious… Hahaha."
And then with a nervous fart… Owen committed a terrible mistake… By waking up a bunch of prehistoric geese to start chasing them.
"OKAY, IT'S FOR SURE THAT I'M GOING TO NEED UNDERWEAR," Owen shouted as the group ran back in the direction of the beavers, but now this time they were being followed by the prehistoric birds.
The bear who was with its glasses to make sure if the humans were real, finally had the time to see them once again… Blinking in disbelief… the same bear decided to break it and go back to it's scratching once again.
Cody noticed they needed to do something, so suddenly an idea came to his mind.
"Wait a second," Luckily for them, Cody was the one to save them as he brought a loaf of bread with him. "Found it."
"Ohhh, where did you get that Cody?" Izzy commented as she found it interesting the geek boy had something to be prepared for in the haunted forest.
"I was planning to ask Katie for a romantic picnic while both our teams were doing the fire challenge," Cody commented as the group stared at him in disbelief. "Okay, It's a bad idea since this place is trying to kill us all, but come on, a boy has to try."
"Well, I would love to have a romantic dinner here," Izzy said as she smiled widely, and the group stared at her like she was insane. Except for Owen and Cody who seemed to know that she was telling the truth, and Cody knew about her military background.
"Of course, you do, you crazy girl," Heather said as she rolled her eyes, and Cody threw the bread to the floor for the prehistoric birds which got them to leave them alone.
At the time they went to the splitting pathway, the Killer Bass found that the sound of the wasps, could not be heard anymore, and the whole team could sigh in relief.
"Phew, that was close," Ezekiel commented as he stared at everyone looking at him. "What?"
"Dude, are you insane? You not just risked yourself, but you made a whole nest of wasps go crazy in our direction." Duncan commented as he looked not just annoyed, but showing a bit of worry in his voice.
"I know, I know. But I had to risk it. It was the only way to make the beavers leave us alone. So for me, it was best to make both animals clash with each other and let nature go it's course than actually trying to kill and be cursed forever." Ezekiel said as he himself was giving deep breaths. "It was crazy that we survived. So let's focus on winning this challenge and go back to the camp. Pronto."
"Okay, but don't you dare to do something crazy like that again," Courtney ordered and Ezekiel rolled his eyes. "I mean it. Your safety is also important, so let's survive together."
"Alright, alright, now which side should we go?" Ezekiel said, as he tried to recall from the episode, which one would be the safest to go.
"I think we should go for the left." Courtney pointed as Gwen felt the pressure, over the canoe. "Ops, sorry."
"Well, I think the right one would be the best." Gwen pointed in the direction of the right way, and Geoff and Bridgette decided to agree.
"Yeah, I think it's the best to risk on the right," Geoff asked, and Ezekiel decided to nod his head. And the Killer Bass once again went in the direction of their instincts.
The Screaming Gopher followed the trace of Killer Bass until they found the pathway the Bass chose to go on the right, and Trent decided to tell the group to go to the left.
Things seemed to be going well for them as there was nothing in their way to disturb them. At least until Trent suddenly started to lower into the ground.
"Whoa. Guys, uh, don't wanna panic here, but I'm shrinking!" Trent yelled to everyone as they all looked to see where Trent ended up. A pool of quicksand.
Confession – Trent
"Right. How am I supposed to know what quicksand looks like?" Trent questioned with a frown. He raised his arms in disbelief. "It looks just like sand."
Confession - Chris
"Hahahaha! Can you believe they fell for that?!" Chris started laughing hard at the fact that Trent actually ended up getting into the quicksand. "Haha, I set it up, but I didn't think anyone would walk into it! Haha, that's just great! Ahahahahaha!"
"Uh-oh…" Trent let out as everyone gasped as they watched the guitarist sink further down into the sand.
"Trent's stuck!" Lindsay screamed as she and Beth set the canoe she, Beth, and Trent were carrying as she went after Trent. "I'm coming, Trent!"
"No don't!" But Trent's words were in vain as Lindsay soon found herself sinking in the quicksand right next to Trent.
"I'm stuck too!" Lindsay gasped as she looked at her sinking body. "I so didn't see that coming."
Everyone quickly looked around to see if there was anything they could do. Just then Cody spotted something as he let go of the canoe he and Izzy were carrying, with they both set it down on the ground as Cody ran off. Everyone watched as Cody climbed up a tree grabbed onto a vine and used it to swing down to the quicksand pit to try and grab Trent's hand…only to miss and slam right into a tree.
Luckily the vine came back over the pit with Trent quickly grabbing it and climbing himself and Lindsay out and landing safely on solid ground. Everyone cheered as Cody, who was in a bit of a daze, walked over to the now-safe Trent and Lindsay.
"Whoa. Hey, thanks, bro." Trent held up his hand for Cody to high five only for the still dazed Cody to miss. "You're a lifesaver."
Cody then shook his head to get his senses back and asked Trent. "I am?"
Lindsay then came in and hugged Cody. "My hero!" The dumb blond happily said before letting go of Cody. "Where did you learn to do that?"
"You know, I watch a lot of movies," Cody explained making Lindsay giggle a little bit.
Confession – Cody
"I know that Katie said to be aware of how Trent will receive a lot of backlash from what happened at the last challenge. But I couldn't let both of my teammates die." Cody defended himself as he drew a line when he knew that even the Killer Bass wouldn't be so cruel. "I mean, I hope they are not going to get angry when they find out that I saved him, and he may want to talk to me more."
The Killer Bass were all making good progress with their hike. The woolly beavers continued leading them to where they needed to go and they were able to avoid most obstacles in their path. For example, not ending up in any quicksand. And with Ezekiel going in front of the DJ, he could see something strange around.
"Guys, let's try to avoid the plants with thorns around here, we don't know if they can be poisonous or not. So be ready to say if you just…" Ezekiel was pointing out until one scene that he expected to see in the show happens once again.
"AAAHHHH!" Suddenly Geoff was screaming in pain as he fell to the floor. "My leg! I'm down! I'm down! Oh, it's so unfair! Why did this have to happen now? Oh! Why? Why?!"
"End up like him," Ezekiel commented as he sighed in disbelief.
"Geoff!" Bridgette called out in concern as she went to check on him.
"What the problem dude? Got a thorn on the leg?" Ezekiel asked Geoff who was nodding his head at his friend.
"I can't feel my leg dude!" Geoff yelled as he tried shaking his leg around to wake it up only to be met with pain. "Never! I can feel it hurt! Hurting so much."
"Okay, so you are only feeling pain but also numbness in the entire region of it. Does anyone know how to take venom from the system?" Harold asked as Bridgette looked and noticed that there was one thing that she should do.
"I know," Bridgette commented as she took the shirt of the party boy.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Geoff said as he shouted in pain, but then he felt the thorn being taken away. "AHHHHHHHHHHHH."
And what Bridgette did was the procedure of taking the venom of the plant by sucking out and spitting on the floor.
The Killer Bass remained away as they looked disgusted at what the surfer was doing until she took Geoff's shirt, and a water bottle, and used it as a way to clean the injury and made an improvised bandage with the pink shirt.
"Okay, this is the best we can do for a few hours. When we get to the camp we should check if you need medicine for that." Bridgette commented as he looked at the little thorn and quickly launched back to the plants.
"Ahhhh," Geoff sighed in relief, as the pain finally got away. But still, a part of his leg felt numb from the terrible torture. "Thanks Bridge… you are a lifesaver."
"Thanks… I learned that from my friends who like to defend the rights of the animals, we learned to use that in case of one of us would get bitten by a venomous python."Bridgette commented proudly as Geoff seemed to be getting up with his leg.
"Okay, I can't feel my leg. But the pain is going away. So I think I still can go." Geoff commented and Gwen rolled her eyes.
"Look, I know that this is a touching moment, but we should be ahead of the Screaming Gophers, so let's end this challenge and go back to the camp," Gwen commented as she rolled her eyes, and Courtney nodded her head.
"Yeah, Duncan. I think it's time for you to stop slacking around and go help Bridgette to carry the canoe since you have been making less effort than anyone." Courtney raised her eyebrow and Duncan realized that he got busted.
"Dammit," Duncan snapped his fingers from seeing his plan didn't work, and now he had to help the man of one leg work. "Fine. Let's just finish this."
Confession - Geoff
"I didn't know if I was gonna make it," Geoff said which was followed by a sharp inhale. "It was touch-and-go. But Bridgette really managed to save my skin on there. She is awesome."
Confession – Bridgette
"I've seen surfers get eaten by sharks before, but this?" Bridgette said with a look of horror on her face. "This was horrifying! Thank God I learned from my friends how to treat venom bytes and how to take it from the system. Who knows what would happen if was a lethal dose?"
Confessional – Ezekiel
"And that's why you shouldn't be near to thorns of unknown plants around a haunted island. You never know what it can do to you. People say it would be a simple splinter. Maybe, but ever heard about little mosquitoes whose bite could be so lethal that you need to go to the hospital?" Ezekiel commented as he pointed to a fact. "That's why you should be wary of little things, you never know that that a little spider could kill a man… And Geoff needs to learn to wear pants when he is in the middle of the forest."
Confessional - DJ
"The man just...kept going!" DJ said with the utmost respect for Geoff. "Using only a leg or not, the dude's got heart."
Killer Bass managed to go to the safety location, and a few minutes before the Screaming Gophers came. The team seemed to be happy as they had one good trick on their sleeve.
At the time the Screaming Gophers got there, the Killer Bass team was already with a fire growing up.
With Chris monitoring them from a helicopter up above, the two teams were quick to try and get a big enough fire going. On the Gopher's side, Heather was rubbing two sticks together to try and get a fire going while Leshawna was banging rocks together. While Killer Bass was with their fire almost permitted by Chris.
How'd they do that so quickly?" Heather looked as if she couldn't believe how fast the team was working. Until Duncan silently answered Heather's question by pulling out and igniting a lighter he had with a smirk on his face.
"No rule against carrying lighters," Chris said as the camera went over to him in his helicopter. "Edge, Killer Bass."
It didn't take long until the whole group of Screaming Gophers were looking for more wood to make their fire stronger, and Beth was walking around the area between the bushes. There was something that made her eyes sparkle. Something that she never seen before. A Tiki statue carved in stone, something that impressed her… She wanted to have it as a lucky charm… without knowing the consequences of bringing such a forbidden item with her.
Cody was having a good time with Katie as both seemed to be talking, and even Cody who was drinking a good soda can he brought from his pants… Katie looked at him weirdly, and she couldn't help but roll her eyes, as he tried to look cool, but was still the same dorky that she liked to pass the time on the beach.
"Hey, Cody." And then a voice made Katie cringe, and frown upon the boy who seemed to be chilling about. "I want to once again thank you for saving my life."
Katie paused, and then gave a slight glance to Cody who was smiling sheepishly at him… But she smiled and kissed his cheek, before leaving the place, and not even looking at the guitarist who was looking confused.
Cody watched how the cold shoulder she gave to Trent was almost like placing ice on their underwear because damn, he shrives from seeing the cold glare Katie was giving to Trent at that moment.
"Hey, Trent. No problem." Cody decided to be polite, and saw Trent giving a look on Gwen from a far distance… and with a soda can in his hand, he couldn't help but sigh. "Dude, can I be honest with you?"
"Yeah sure man," Trent commented as smiled positively, Cody had to be the bringer of bad news.
"I know that you may have feelings for Gwen… Trust me, I do…" Cody commented as he placed a hand on his chest. "And I even confessed that I had at the time we started the show. But you also gave me a tip to not keep insisting and act naturally as myself… But bro, you messed up…"
"What do you mean?" Trent said as he raised both his eyebrows.
"You left someone who almost died in a landslide to suffer PTSD in the Phobia Challenge… And everyone from the Killer Bass hates you." Cody went real to his talk as he made Trent look at him confused.
"What do you mean? Gwen didn't seem to have suffered that bad, and they took her out before I could manage." Trent said as he raised both his arms to defend himself.
"Dude… You have to know… that…" Cody was about to say that it wasn't Gwen who suffered the most, but at the time he was going to say that, they both heard Heather clearing her throat towards the due.
"Are you both happy in your little boys' club? Good, because if you both didn't see, we are in the middle of the challenge." Heather wanted to interrupt both boys, because she knew that she needed someone that she could use as a meat shield, and the geek boy seemed to want to spill the beans, and she didn't want that.
On the Killer Bass side, the whole group gathered the much wood as possible, that even was needed. Geoff little by little felt that his leg could be used to try to help… But he needed to keep jumping like a bunny to make sure that he would be fast enough to help them all… Even if he had to fall and get up with the help of DJ and Duncan sometimes.
At the time Courtney looked, she felt a bit disappointed with it…
"I don't think that would be big enough," Courtney commented DJ was about to command the Killer Bass to bring more wood, but suddenly a voice came nearby.
"No, that's enough." Ezekiel's voice came when the group came to see the homeschooled boy bringing something like a tiny orange ball with him.
"What do you mean we have enough?" Gwen commented as Ezekiel took that little ball with him and decided to explain.
"I saw Izzy preparing something like that… And I have a feeling in my gut that this would cause a lot of fire. It's made of tree sap and sand. So let's give it a try." Ezekiel said at the same time, as Izzy was smiling wide open to him. "STAY BACK, FIRE IN THE HOLE."
At the time Ezekiel placed the little ball on the firepit, everyone from the Killer Bass jumped away, which made an explosion the size of a little house, and made Chris stare in surprise at the fire that remained on the Killer Bass' Side.
"Very well done Killer Bass, but if you want to come to copy me… you need to learn from a professional like me." Izzy giggled maniacally as she also gave instructions to her team. "STAY BACK EVERYONE, THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG."
At the time the Screaming Gophers saw the explosion from the Killer Bass and saw that Izzy had a ball even bigger than the version of Ezekiel, the group didn't think twice, they ran away from the giggling maniac pyromaniac Izzy.
Izzy launched the ball on the Screaming Gophers firepit… and it was like a nuclear explosion, the fire was enough to make Chris almost get hit by the helicopter.
"Woo-hoo-hooo." Chris enjoyed seeing both explosions and the good fires around the rescue… But he still needed to say who was the winner… "We have our fire-building winner… Point for Screaming Gopher."
At the time the explosion finished, Heather couldn't help but ask Izzy.
"Where did you learn to do that?" Heather asked the girl soot-covered girl who was still smiling widely.
"Ah, I spent a summer training with the reserves," Izzy explained as she got up to her feet, and decided to give even more details. "Yeah, I got into some trouble there and, like, blew up a kitchen by accident, which is why the RCMP is, like all over my ass. I am so totally AWOL."
The Killer Bass stared at Ezekiel who was still cleaning the residues of the sap over his hands.
"Yep, such a little thing can be very lethal. At least we managed to finish this challenge. Now let's go." Ezekiel said as the Killer Bass got their canoes and decided to go back to their race.
Noticing that the whole Killer Bass would need something to make themselves faster, and from the look of their own team, some felt that they wouldn't have a chance to run away against the group…
"We need a new plan to make us go faster…" Courtney commented as the team was preparing themselves to paddle until a new voice called their attention.
"You guys could get someone to swim behind the boats and push them." Suddenly Izzy, someone from the opposing team, spoke up to the Bass. "I did that once for this huge like, sixty-foot yacht; the whole crew had to flutter kick for like, eight days to get to shore. And like, four of us got eaten by sharks. I didn't, hehe, not me. But it was really insane. Okay, later!"
Cody realized something was wrong until Izzy looked at him and gave a little wink, which made him realize what she was doing… She was trying to make the team lose on purpose.
"That might work!" Geoff, now able to stand up on his own, said with a smile on his face. If someone strong enough could swim fast enough, they might just be able to barely make it in first.
"We need someone big enough to push all the canoes back." Bridgette put a hand to her chin in thought before she smiled as she looked at the Bass's brick house. "DJ, you're the only one who's strong enough."
DJ remained calm, as he looked at the whole group, who was preparing themselves to have their canoes united, and with all the things his entire team did with him… And all the challenges they were put through together.
"I can do this." Everyone looked to DJ as he spoke in a completely serious tone. "I have to."
Confession – DJ
"It was all up to me. Once I had a bad story related to me jumping in the water which caused me to suffer humiliation and even a name after that event… But for the time I was on this show, I survived through a cliff to a zone with sharks, then got into a marathon to still be awake, and then a hardcore dodgeball game, then a talent show, and then surviving in the forest for a whole day, and finally going against my deepest fear..." DJ said to the audience at home with a determined look on his face. "I needed to swim like a Killer Bass should and no wedgie flop was going to stand in my way. We are going to win this challenge. Or my name is James Mcnelson… and it isn't"
"That is one…brave man," Geoff said while pointing at DJ. The party dude's respect for the Brickhouse was at an all-time high at seeing DJ willing to put his fears aside to help his team once again.
As it turned out, this was probably faster than using oars. All of the Killer Bass canoes were stacked onto each other with all of the team riding on the top of the stack with DJ pushing them forward. And with the oars on each side, both Killer Bass helped DJ even further by combining all their efforts to make DJ go even faster as they all paddle together…
"COME ON, COME ON," DJ screamed as he was using all the strength he had in his legs. And with that, he pushed them so fast they were easily catching up to the Screaming Gophers. They didn't just catch up. They passed them! All the Bass were cheering DJ's name.
Although DJ seemed to not know how to stop when they reached the beach, they proceeded to fly off a rock like a ramp, fly over Chris, and crash on the other side of the beach. But hey, they were still the first team on the beach! "The Bass are the winners!" Chris announced leading to the Bass all cheering for the victory.
When the Gophers reached the beach, most were quick to glare at Izzy. The one who advised the Bass that allowed them to win. Cody looked at Izzy in concern… as he saw a plan she was doing at that moment… But he couldn't ask why, since she was giving a knowing smirk, and a giggle like it was similar to what she was asking to hold a secret.
Campfire - That night
Night had fallen on the camp. Once again, it was time for the ever-tense bonfire ceremony where tonight the 7th camper would be leaving Total Drama Island. Forever.
"And now, the always anxiety-inducing marshmallow ceremony," Chris announced while holding a plate of eight marshmallows. "When I call your name, come and get a marshmallow. Beth. Trent. Cody." The three campers smiled and went to go get their marshmallows with Trent and Cody pressing their marshmallows against the others as if to toast with them. "Owen. Heather."
And with that, there were two campers yet only one marshmallow. Izzy and Lindsay.
"One last marshmallow," Chris said with a grin as he tossed the marshmallow up and down in his hand. "The person who doesn't get this marshmallow will walk off the Dock of Shame and take a ride on the Boat of Losers. Who's it gonna be?"
But before Chris could name the camper that was staying, a helicopter was heard and everyone looked up to indeed see one flying above them with a searchlight shining down from it and onto Izzy. "Izzy!" A voice called out from within the helicopter. "We know you are down there! You are under arrest!"
At the time Cody heard such words, his eyes went wide open, and stared at Izzy who winked at him. From all the stories and even her sabotage… she knew the military would have come to find her… And now she was planning her escape.
"Well, it was good while it lasted. See ya!" Izzy said before standing up and pointing up at the helicopter. "YOU'LL NEVER GET ME ALIVE!"
Everyone then watched as Izzy laughed manically as she quickly ran away, the helicopter in hot pursuit of her.
"Well. That wraps that up." Chris said as everyone watched the scene with shocked looks. "Night everyone."
At the time the groups went back to their cabins, Geoff proceeded to find a good sedative to help him go to sleep, as tomorrow his leg would feel better... The last thing he did was to give High Five to everyone in the boy's cabin... Since their challenge, everyone did their best, and Harold deserved the high five to help over Bridgette.
Bridgette went to her bed... and smiled to see the Sea Shell Geoff gave to her... it was something that reminded her good childhood with her cousin, and it was good to listen to the sound of the ocean from the sea shells. She smiled as the days of camping seemed to be getting better and better.
Cody reflected on all the stories Izzy has told him about... And he couldn't help but wonder which one of them was actually true... and he was too afraid to ask Chef if he indeed shot Izzy's mom, which still seemed a touchy subject for both of them... But also seeing Owen a bit depressed to not see the crazy girl around him... The big boy seemed to have a crush on the chaotic girl, which Cody doesn't blame him...But he is not sure if Izzy sees Owen the same way he sees her...
So by shrugging off, Cody decided to ignore and think the whole day wasn't ready... it was best to guard her secrets since she seemed to trust him. His team seems to be getting smaller and smaller... And by glancing at Trent... he isn't sure if reality is going to hit the guitarist in the face if he isn't aware of how angry the rival team is with him... And yet, Cody decided to go to sleep and have nice dreams with Katie.
Ezekiel placed both his bow and quiver on the corner of his bed... and looked at the ceiling as he was thinking about the same thing...
Izzy must be on the Playa del losers now... And seemed to be having fun in her chaotic way until the merge happened. By closing his eyes... Ezekiel knew that the Screaming Gophers were now cursed as Beth was hiding her Tiki in her bag, an unlucky amulet that she would think was to attract luck.
And with that... another night of heavy sleep from exhaustion to all the campers just happened. With their prayers, the next challenge wouldn't be harder...
Poor little souls.