Authors Note:
For this fanfic, I'm going to reply every comment which will help to answer the doubts and make sure everyone understands.
jrgon: While the idea of someone singing popular songs to make good fame, Ezekiel's voice from the show isn't something which would bring attention as fame. He will sing some songs, but just songs related to his own works.
Giltlawyer9000: Thank you so much, I'm doing my best to make sure to update many stories as I can.
Cappage Boy: I will, depending if I have inspiration and time to work on it, because this fanfic is really draining.
BrightNova169: Thank you for liking this fanfic, sadly about the beta reader and editor, I cannot find any of them, since all my friends who does help me to edit usually are having their problems to deal in irl, so I had to do everything by my own. And English is my not first language, so I use grammarly all the time to help me to write the chapters. I hope you understand this, and keep reading the fanfic if you still like it.
ShadowBladeSabre: Trust me, I'm doing my best to develop the characters around, and I think the Killer Bass now having Ezekiel from real life, who knows about all the struggles everyone had and will have⦠He will do his best to make sure that he would make friends with them, and work together as a team. Keep reading to find out how the Killer Bass will become around the first season.
(Outside of the camp)
The party around the hot tube was something that never showed much around the final scene of episode two of Total Drama, Ezekiel always remembered the final scene of the Screaming Gophers cheering among themselves before doing a celebration dance in front of the Killer Bass. In the end, Courtney made a vote to show her competitive side.
Normally people would think the Killer Bass would have done the same thing... But the truth was something surprisingly different. And Ezekiel was the first difference when it came to entering the inside of the hot tube.
"Okay, here I go." Ezekiel slowly went after he placed his foot inside the hot tube, and never did he feel so surprised to feel the warm water hitting him in the middle of the night. From both lives, he wasn't someone who had the luxury of diving himself into furniture like that, a product that usually would be thousands of Dollars. "Ohhhh God, that was sooooo good."
Ezekiel felt the wave of bubbles around his body, and his entire body relaxed, like releasing a pressure that he never thought he had during all these years. And especially on that day.
In the next second, Courtney and Bridgette walked towards the hot tube and one by one they went inside it, and from their reaction, they seemed equally pleased as the farm homeschooled boy.
"Ahhhhhhh." Both Bridgette and Courtney sighed in relief while Ezekiel slowly placed his head towards the water. And the trio enjoyed the good warm water around their bodies, until DJ came next which ended with the giant Jamaican finally getting a well-deserved moment with himself after a full terrible day. "Damn, that's so good."
Ezekiel got out of the water, and gave a satisfied sigh, with all his hair wet from the warm embrace of water around his body, and the relaxing massage the bubbles were doing towards his being.
"Well said DJ. This is the dream." Ezekiel remembered a good series's quotes he watched and he couldn't agree more on saying it. The giant nearby couldn't help but nod his head. "Man, who knew today we would have a hot tube?"
DJ smiled since he remembered that he asked himself about the hot tube over the morning at the start of the show. And now it seemed that everything was so peaceful around, it was a blessing in disguise. The girls remained quiet and enjoyed a good time relaxing over the sound of the hot tube doing their massage. Courtney couldn't help but be happy.
"I'm glad that this nightmare is over, and we have a good time to enjoy this until the end of the show." Courtney smiled as their prize was now being treated as a good bonus.
"Move over." Then a grumpy voice was enough to make the group look at the bulk woman Eva with her swimsuit walking towards angrily at the hot tube.
At the moment Courtney was going to protest, Ezekiel already gave a good space to let her pass.
"Hey Eva, over here." Ezekiel smiled as he pointed at the space in which the bulked woman angrily got inside of the hot tube. But at the moment she felt the warmth of the water and a good massage, the right position of the bulker woman, finally gave a good, well-relaxed hum...
She didn't let out a sigh of relief, but the humming of her tone, as she closed her eyes, was enough for the group to see that she was enjoying herself.
"Hey Eva, thanks again for the help. Can you believe it? We won a perfect win since we didn't have anybody quitting. While it was an accident, a misfortune managed us to win an awesome prize." Ezekiel indeed showed good positive vibes while Courtney glared at the bulker. Ezekiel noticed that and decided to help to make amends. "While I don't think Eva is going to apologize, better we leave this accident in the past and focus on what we did this afternoon. We worked well together."
Courtney frowned...but sighing she accepted that it was the truth, it was a good outcome since nobody quit on the jump. And even if she despised Eva at that moment, the time Eva held the wood for like an hour without complaining was something admirable for someone so committed to winning, just like her.
"I hate to say it, but you are right." Courtney accepted the facts as the way it is, the ends justify the means on that day. "And as a member of this team, I thank you for your cooperation, Eva."
At the moment she said it, the group waited for the reaction of the built weightier woman who seemed to be with her eyes closed and deeply silent. It took 10 seconds, and Courtney was getting frustrated and was ready to discuss with the bodybuilder. But then something surprised them...
"Zzzzz."The anger problemed girl, who seemed to be always mad and ready to break everything, was just sitting on the hot tube... sleeping.
"Oh." Courtney looked surprised, as DJ and Bridgette looked closer at her who seemed to be so serious, even in sleeping, but her body seemed more relaxed.
"Wow, she must have done everything she could today, and now her body finally gave in to all the effort she made today." Bridgette noticed as he could see that for someone constantly using her body to hold the wood, she indeed gave 100% of herself.
"It seems so..." Courtney, from being outraged, actually smiled at that, noticing that everyone did their best on the challenge, and she even giggled from seeing that. "From seeing a fearing beast to acting like a docile sleepy animal, was something new to see."
Ezekiel also noticed Eva did the best she could to help the team win, so he also found it necessary to say.
"Have a well-deserved rest, Eva, you became the MVP of this challenge," Ezekiel said, which made the whole group on the hot tube stare at him surprised.
"MVP, you mean the most valuable player?" DJ asked and Ezekiel smiled in response, while the group seemed uncertain of if that was true.
"Well, I wouldn't agree that Eva was the most important participant in this challenge, but I can't deny that she helped us to win," Courtney said while not agreeing because of her pride, which made Ezekiel have a good idea.
"What about we make 3 MVPs of each challenge, this way we don't say which one was the best, but we can make the other 2 members also the best which would show an appreciation of the team," Ezekiel suggested that that way it wouldn't create jealousy since it was 3 which would be the top, so that way everyone would have the same chance of being the best of the said challenges.
"Well, that's not a bad idea actually, and since you already pointed out that Eva was one of the MVPs we can try to decide with the group which other ones were the most valuable of the challenges today." Courtney nodded her head, since that way, it would show that she also did a good way of pointing at herself, but she didn't want to express herself like that. But also it got her another person in mind. "Like you Ezekiel."
"What? Me?" Ezekiel blinked, He was really surprised by such a statement from the C.I.T. girl who nodded her head, but also the group around nodded in agreement.
"Yeah man, you tried your best to help me to overcome my fear of heights, and it allowed me to Eva push us to the safety zone." DJ pointed out which made not just Ezekiel surprised, but also Bridgette continued.
"You also gave a very good idea into how we should organize ourselves and helped Courtney to plan for how to make the hot tube we are using now." Bridgette also made a good point.
"And to be fair, even when you finished your job, you also wanted to help everyone by carrying water and giving to each of us and supporting us," Courtney concluded which made Ezekiel happy for them thinking so highly of him.
"Wow, I don't know what to say." Ezekiel was touched by the sincerity of his team, and knowing that even if it was a reality show, he could see that one of his most desirable objectives in life was being fulfilled, he was starting to have friends. "I thank this title to everyone, we won together, and because of this, we have this hot tube until the end of the show."
"So now that we have 2 MVPs we have one spot for one more. So who do you guys think we should make the MVP?" Bridgette asked as the entire group started to ponder, but then a voice from behind her surprised everyone.
"My vote is on the princess." Duncan was listening to the entire conversation and to the surprise of everyone, he wanted Courtney to also be MVP. He then explained. "While we have a lot of disadvantages, I saw how relieved you were when someone else offered help and you decided to accept the role as co-leader. You wanted to be a leader but also wanted people to help you out. I won't say that you aren't bossy... but from what I see, you are kinda a leader in training when you want to step down and help others behind the curtains."
"I also vote for Courtney." Ezekiel agreed before even Courtney realized that Duncan provoked her, but also gave his honest opinion on how she helped the team, even working at a terrible start, she still acted like she needed to learn how to be a leader, and she was willing to help, and step down to help the others indeed improved the opinion of the delinquent. Ezekiel knows that she is a very competitive character, but he knows that sometimes Courtney's heart is in the right place... So Ezekiel wants her to remain like that.
Courtney remained quiet, as she was both proud of herself, but also happy from the said compliment... even if was half-hearted and annoying for a delinquent, still, it still made her happy.
"Well, I would have preferred to vote myself as MVP because of my awesome skills." Harold gloated himself, while the entire group of boys rolled his eyes. Even Ezekiel.
"Well, if you mean giving a split while diving in a full water of sharks and hitting crotch first, then yes, it was an amazing skill." Ezekiel decided to say which Harold winced still remembering the pain. Which Ezekiel also added. "Man, I don't know if you want to have kids, but if you keep hitting yourself like that, there is no way you will have one in the future."
DJ and Geoff winced as they couldn't help but agree with the homeschooled boy.
"Or if he is a masochist and he is into that." Duncan decided to also raise another point, which made the entire group of boys stare at Harold in alarm, and the nerd blushed and angry in alarm.
"NO, NO, I'm not a masochist." Harold decided to defend himself. "I wasn't able to protect it, and accidents like that happen all the time."
"Yeah, but I think you should be more aware and protect that part because while you are not MVP today, we know that you can always take the hit, and you have our sympathies," Ezekiel commented that Duncan, Geoff, and DJ lowered their heads as the way to say their prayers towards the fallen soldier who was being beaten without mercy...
"AMEM." The group of boys said it, while Harold stared at them like they were a bunch of crazy people.
"Whatever, when are you guys going to leave?" Harold decided to ask impatiently, but then a groaning from the bulk woman was enough to make him shut down, like the entire group of Killer Bass.
"Shhhhhush." The group on the hot tub shushed the nerd who nodded his head. Courtney gave a glimpse around and saw that everyone wanted to take a turn.
"Maybe we can do change in turns," Courtney suggested that it should be fair to everyone to be able to enjoy the warm hot tube.
"Yeah, but the question we should think of is, should we do it in 30 to 30 minutes or 1 hour to 1 hour?" Ezekiel gave a question that made Courtney think about it and then glanced at the group outside of the hot tube. Which was good enough to make the others look at themselves and come to a decision.
"Well, I wouldn't mind waiting for 1 hour, as long as I would also have 1 hour." Harold accepted, which Duncan just shrugged.
"Yeah, me and Katie would enjoy a very good time enjoying 1 hour." Sadie smiled, as Katie did the same thing. Since everybody would have time to enjoy the hot tub in groups, that would be the perfect opportunity for everyone to have a great time.
"Well but who will go to wake Eva when the one hour is over?" DJ asked which made the entire group look at the female bodybuilder in peace with herself.
"Usually the person who asks this question would be the one who suggested himself," Ezekiel said which made DJ gasp in fear, but Ezekiel raised his hand. "But I think for the sake of our safety and our hot tub... We should not wake her up, and leave her be until she wakes up and decides to leave by herself."
The group looked at each other and seeing that it would be for the best if they did that, they nodded their heads satisfied with the suggestion, and DJ could finally breathe in relief. Now learning that he should be aware of what he is going to ask in the future.
"Well then, by the way, we brought some juice boxes, want to take some?" Geoff was holding a tray with his carefree nature since the entire group was actually with a weight off their shoulders, and the dynamic of the entire group seemed more friendlier than the morning.
After a few rounds of juice box, and a good time relaxing on the hot tube, the silence was comfortable, and the sunset was enough to show that sooner or later, the Screaming Gophers would suffer their first elimination, but from the time the Gophers were voting against themselves. The Killer Bass was enjoying a good time with a good topic on the first day.
"So I have something bothering me during all this morning." Ezekiel decided since everyone was around the Hot Tube, the farm boy decided to be sincere in the way he wanted to know more about his team. "You all guys seemed disappointed to be here on this island in the first place... Didn't you know that we would be in a summer camp reality show?"
"Wait, you know?" DJ asked as he looked at Ezekiel who nodded his head. The entire team of Killer Bass looked at him with his eyes wide open.
"Yeah, it was on the fine print of the contract." Ezekiel shrugged which made the entire group look at him in disbelief. "I mean, heck if you guys have watched my video presentation you guys would be scared of how committed I was when it comes to coming to participate in this show."
"Wait..." Of all the people who interrupted Ezekiel, Courtney was the first who managed to say it. "Does the contract have a fine print?"
"Yes... I mean, if sometimes I have to achieve my dreams, I have to be aware of all the contracts I'm going to sign..." Ezekiel justified which made the entire team tilt their heads, and leaving Ezekiel gave more awareness over the group. "Let me give one example, did you know that if at the end of this season, the winner of the show managed to be a no-winner, we are obligated to participate in season 2 automatically?"
"WAIT WHAT?" The entire group shouted, which made Eva roar in anger while she remained asleep, which made the entire group freeze until the silence was enough to make the female sportist go back to her dreams.
"Shhhhhhh." Ezekiel shushed the entire Killer Bass team, which made them more aware to listen to him. "It was in the fine print of the possibility that if Total Drama Island became a success but at the end of the show we don't have a winner... we would go into season 2 which they are going to create almost immediately while making us participate again."
The silence answered the question of Ezekiel which he facepalmed himself. But it wasn't a surprise for him, since it indeed would cause terrible results and outcomes later, but maybe after warning them now, it would also prepare them for what was going to happen in the future.
"Well so that means that the more time I pass here, it means that I can pass time on probation, so when the possible season 2 is over, that means that I would be out of Juvenile, so that's an advantage for me." Duncan grinned excitedly now knowing that if he wasn't going to win, that meant that he would try to make sure the winner would lose so that meant more time outside of the juvie.
"So that means that independent if we win or not, we would have a second chance in season two and still become famous," Katie asked hopefully which made Ezekiel nod to her, and Sadie was squeaking in happiness, which everyone was so ready to be part of the show.
"Wow, I never thought we would have a possibility like that, was that everything on the contract?" Bridgette asked which made the homeschooled boy nod towards her. "You are the first person who reads the entire contract."
"You must be crazy to even try your chances, even after reading the entire contract," Duncan asked ironically but Ezekiel shrugged.
"I'm a homeschooled boy who never had a life outside of the farm, with a desperation of having friends and finding a way to make my dreams true... Like I said this morning... I'm having the time of my life here." Ezekiel even as he looked more like a kid than a teenager, actually showed a very good perception of himself that made the entire group in silence.
"Sorry to bother asking dude, but you said fulfilling your dreams, but what is the dream you have?" Tyler asked as he approached the hot tube, and Ezekiel smiled at him.
"Well... I'm writing a few book projects... so my dream would be to publish some of them and be recognized as a good writer." Ezekiel smiled as he told the entire group that every single one of them now looked interested in the boy. "Yeah, I even have some chapters on my computer at home, and a few chapters of my projects like Steven Universe, Adventure Time..."Ezekiel gave a good pause but then grinned at the next bomb which would surprise everyone. "Courage the Cowardly dog."
"What?" The entire group said in surprise and unison, which made Ezekiel proud of himself for making the entire group know the first taste of what would be the well-developed story he told them that morning.
"You created Courage the Cowardly Dog?" DJ became not just scared but also awestruck to have met the story he heard on that morning and the inspiring character he listened about being courageous even as the cowardly he would be, was a story created by the same person who told him that?
"Now that you told, it makes sense." Duncan nodded his head. "Usually I hear many horror stories, not even in my right mind or during my time in Juvenile. I heard about the curse of an Egyptian who would use locusts to kill people... Well done kiddo."
"Oh that's nothing... If I wanted to make you cry in sadness, I would have told the story of Courage the Cowardly Dog and the Tower of Doctor Zalost. I made my dad cry hearing that story, with both happiness and sadness at the same time." Ezekiel smiled since he knew some of the most wholesome and yet some of the saddest episodes of his favorite show, and creating them on paper would still be enough to make people feel heartfelt... he would just need to have the right music and then everything would be perfect.
"Duuuude." Geoff said as he was aware that the girls now seemed interested in hearing something about that since crazy mopping stories were something that girls usually would like, maybe even him sometimes. He isn't going to admit it in front of everyone, but he will remind himself to give it a try to read that story.
"Pfff, pass." Duncan rolled his eyes, not wanting to give a chance to hear any sobbing ridiculous story, even if a part of him would be curious about that.
"Well suit yourselves. For Courage it doesn't need to be a chronological story... unless it is after he meets his most iconic villains, each of them has their uniqueness and I know many would love to be surprised by their appearances." Ezekiel recalled how creative the ideas of Katz, Le Quaq, Fred, The Big Toe, and Cajun Fox were. Heck some of them were even his favorites in childhood.
"That sounds interesting Ezekiel, and did you create other stories as well just to publish?" Bridgette asked as she remembered there were other two kinds of stories that she heard coming from him. "Something about Universe, and Adventure time?"
"Yeah, Steven Universe I'm still working on the chapters and probably I think it will be the first book I want to publish," Ezekiel replied as he understood her confusion, and to be honest with himself, he wanted so much to write all the seasons the same as the cannon, but with some differences trying to avoid some of the failed attempts of episodes which ended in backlash. "I have written 11 chapters so far, and I think that if I time my time right, I can have the whole draft of the book finished by the end of this show."
"Ohhhhhh." Katie and Sadie said in interest, as she was feeling excited to see what the book would be about, but then Ezekiel decided to change the topic.
"Well, while you guys are interested in knowing what I would do with 100 thousand dollars, I'm also interested in knowing what you guys would do with the same money." Ezekiel may have watched the whole characters all the time doing such crazy challenges, and he knew what the 2 of them would do if they managed to win. Owen would throw an awesome party while his mother created a heavy expensive buy for cheese, and Gwen would focus on her studies in college, which would have been a great idea in some cases, but he would have loved to know what would happen with them in the future.
"Well if I win this season, I know I would pay my bail to get out from the juvenile, and if I have some money, I would buy some awesome stuff like a new house for me to have my independence." Duncan smiled proudly since he already had a good idea of what to do with his life.
"Are you for real?" Courtney asked as she looked at him in disbelief. "While I think that's reasonable for you to pay for your bail to get out from the juvenile, a house isn't cheap to afford, you would be out of money so quickly that you would need to find other ways to find money, and possibly end up in juvenile again."
"Oh yeah? So what would you spend the money on the princess?" Duncan said as he smiled at seeing that the nickname he created for her, irked her in ways never imagined.
"First off, stop calling me princess. Second, I would use my money as part of investing in my studies as I would try to pay for my Lawyering School, and I would also make some investments towards a good way to return and make the money work for me." Courtney said that she had plans for how she wanted to win a good part of the money, but she also noticed Ezekiel looked at her. "What?"
"Ohhh, sorry, it's just... I didn't think that you wanted to be a lawyer." Ezekiel confessed which made her narrow her eyes to him. "It's just, we aren't here just for the money, we also wanted to have a part of fame and be famous among the public as well, and to see a contestant who was famous become a lawyer would be like..."
"A 180-degree shift?" Geoff commented which made Ezekiel snap his fingers.
"Yeah, that." Ezekiel smiled as he clearly showed his points towards Courtney and made her realize where he was going.
"You may have a point, but to be a lawyer isn't as simple as you think. Sometimes any publicity would be good publicity, so if I worked on my studies and presented myself as the winner of this show, everyone would know that I would be a successful winner of the show, but also a lawyer, and when people would try to find a lawyer and would hear my name, they would be related that I'm both of them, and I wouldn't need to pay a lot my publishment." Courtney said as she explained her way she could use the fame in her way, which made Ezekiel open his mouth in understanding.
"Oh, so that means that if you win. I know the first person I would call if I got in trouble." Duncan teased, which made the C.U.T off while she rolled her eyes.
"Don't get over your head, when I get the case I'm going for the win, so you better have good money to pay me, because I will not take cheap cases that would end up in failures." Courtney jokingly played which made the others around the group look at her in surprise, maybe it was the free stress from the day or even the hot tube, but Courtney was also more playful with her team, which was also a great time.
The group stayed in silence for a while, until DJ reflected a bit and decided to tell his dream.
"Well, I always have a dream about creating a franchise of restaurants and working together with my momma, her cooking is always divine and she always does her recipes with love." DJ always has been proud of his mom, he always tried to be kind and sincere and he wanted to make himself and his mom successful.
"Really? I think Chef needs to learn a thing or two with your momma." Tyler decided to make such a joke which created a few chuckles around the group.
"I hope he doesn't watch the episode, because if he does then my friend you are screwed when he gets you." Ezekiel knows the full capabilities of a chef, he knows how to cook well, and he is a full military veteran, so he is giving garbage to them for one simple reason... Still, it was so funny to see the jock realize his mistake when his entire face got pale. "Chef is a former military, he has the authority of one... he is doing the hell and heaven military movies strategy... I didn't know it was a real thing here."
"Hell and Heaven?" The group questioned until Duncan realized that since he also watched a lot of movies, even horror movies, he also watched military movies to make fun of those. "Are you saying Chef is making us eat garbage for when it comes to eating any kind of edible food we would be more grateful and enjoy the little piece of paradise we would have before going back to hell?"
Ezekiel nodded his head, which made Duncan slap his head.
"beep, he is good," Duncan confessed as the others understood his explanation of Duncan and realized that yeah, Chef was playing cruel mind games, and he successfully managed to make them understand it. "So every time we have a chance of having good food, we must enjoy it as far as we can... and every time we have the opportunity to eat something we like we are going to act more crazy and would do everything to eat good food again."
"Is that even legal?" Bridgette worried, since the idea of being tortured like that wasn't pleasing, and for her nightmare, Ezekiel landed a nail in her coffin.
"It's on the contract. It says that we have to strive to the limits of our body and mind in trying to achieve our successful prize, so they treat this as a mental challenge since the day we started this." Ezekiel pointed out which made Harold faint from knowing that it would be a nightmare. "So DJ what kind of food your momma treats as her best dish?"
The group tilted their head to the question, but DJ felt a smile coming to his face.
"There is something my mom called the La wakalabomba. It's..." And from the time DJ was talking, he was explaining every single detail on how he and his momma would make such a fried dish which sounded so delicious and yet so...
"Err... DJ not to offend you, this food looks awesome, but don't you think these dishes are so caloric?" Harold, while he could understand the ideas of the good recipes a good person like DJ would make, after hearing a lot of it, Harold would already hear his medic shouting at him for eating too much salt, and spice, and possibly his body would be screaming for shutting down.
"I don't think so, momma recipes are for people to grow up strong and big, just like me." DJ shrugged as he didn't bother to see what was the problem, and before someone would make fun of the idea, Ezekiel decided to also explain a point.
"And also, nobody should always go to a restaurant like that to just have all kinds of meals every single day," Ezekiel explained, noticing that was a terrible idea, and how terrible people were for simply ruining DJ's dream because of their stupidity. "If the food is like that, you could eat at least once per month, or once per week. Not like a routine..."
Harold hearing the explanation made him happy, and he could understand the point.
"Yeah, that would make sense, my nutritionist always told me to eat more variants of food, but be aware of my blood pressure, but you are right. Well, count me in when you get your restaurant DJ, I won't be there every day, but once per month I would like to eat what kind of food the Jamaicans can do." Harold liked the idea and was already creating a good bond with friendship, even with the annoying delinquent who was just chuckling.
"Well, if it's too much for you, I just don't understand why people worry about food, it's just food. They can't kill you. Who cares?" Duncan rolled his eyes, while DJ, Geoff, and Tyler seemed chill and nodded their heads with his opinion.
"I wouldn't count on that, Duncan." Courtney as she has been a good student and knows possibly something more than the others she decided to explain. "Sometimes people complain because of the heart failure of their family. Knowing that the probability of people having one sickness would do everything they could to shut down the establishment."
The group looked at Courtney who just seemed to be more aware of what was, and how terrible people would be. Seeing that they were looking at her, she tried to compose herself.
"What? I'm studying to become a lawyer, and I have been reading the news lately, it wouldn't be a surprise on how many places were shut down from little things." Courtney scoffed as she could see her entire team looking weirdly at her.
"Is that true?" DJ asked as he looked concerned for his dreams.
"Well, it may be, but people would always try to find a way to make prejudice into their health," Ezekiel commented which caught the attention of the group. "You can make them sign a contract saying that they are aware of how they can be aware of the risks if they don't have a healthy balanced diet, or what would be the cause if they keep always eating without being aware of their health. And since contracts can prevent many sues happening around. You can learn from this show about how our contracts found a way to bind us into doing whatever Chris wants around this show."
Just by that comment alone, the Killer Basses stared at each other with weird and afraid looks in their eyes.
"When you say that, you make us look like today was..." Bridgette said that she was afraid to answer the rest of her assumptions, but Ezekiel nodded to her, which she was afraid of him doing.
"Like DJ said, probably the first challenge was always the easiest one." Ezekiel pointed out that he could even describe what was written in the contract. "We are into a summer camp of a reality show, and we just jump around a cliff into a river infested with 3 sharks. Who knows what can happen in a few weeks? A dangerous adventure towards crazy and deadly animals? A fight against ourselves? Eating any kind of garbage and toxic things for their entertainment? Yep, everything was on the fine print."
The group didn't know that things would get even worse from that, as the entire group looked horrified, and stared at the boy as if he was a madman.
"How did you know these things?" Sadie gulped as she was hugging tightly at her own best friend and Katie did the same thing in return.
"Well, did you guys watch the last reality show Chris did?" The group nodded at Ezekiel who just decided to drop another bomb. "Even after the person who hurt herself in the head and got immunity over a week, didn't win the reality show. So what makes us think that it was a good idea of us being hurt at all? Or we should hope for the best and be prepared for the worst when the time comes?"
The entire group remained in silence, knowing that it was indeed a hard pill to swallow, knowing that now it's a different type of life by playing the reality show.
But after that, every single one of the group decided to relax and enjoy their party over the hot tube and drink their juice boxes, but now with new thoughts in mind.
"So what about you Bridgette?" Geoff asked the surface of the team about her point of view. "What would you do if you got the 100 grant of money?"
"Well, nothing much. A good part of it I would invest into helping the ONGs of sea creatures protectors. Since a good part of the sea creatures are on the verge of extinction, like sea turtles, sharks, and even the dolphins." Bridgette commented and a good part of the group nodded their heads to agree with the surfist.
"Well, it's very honorable. But adult dolphins get what they deserve. They had it coming." Ezekiel thought to himself, he would never let it go about how bastards the dolphins can be against their species. A lesson that he will never forget from WTF 101. "But I think I should let Bridgette live her dream... I wouldn't like to see one species I spent years helping doing some crazy terrible things like killing their babies. It was messed up. Maybe I should tell them when it comes to eating challenges boys vs girls. If DJ heard the truth about dolphins, he would eat them without thinking twice."
(Confession Courtney)
"And from that point, every single one of us started to share our ideas on what to do with our prize money. From investing in the future like DJ, Ezekiel, and I to people who need the money for a good cause like Duncan wants to pay for parole to be free, Bridggete who wants to help the sea creatures to surprisingly even Tyler who told us that he wants to use the prize money to pay for the Physical ED equipment of a school where is father works. And for people who just want to spend all their money without control. Like Katie and Sadie say both of them would pay for fancy purses and even a sports car... which wouldn't be enough money for them to afford such a thing. And to even Geoff who wants to expand the money into a huge party. Harold said he would use the money to invest in advertising his skills, but I still didn't see anything. So I would like to pay a good money to see what he was indeed capable of doing." Courtney commented politely but also rolled her eyes when she pointed out the idea of the party boy of the team. "It was a good way to learn and develop teamwork in the future. And to be honest, Ezekiel may be right about us trying to enjoy this show to develop our friendships."
"Alright, time is over, now give us some room to have the hot tube." Duncan talked after he went to check what time it was.
"One hour has already? Wow, time flies." DJ commented as he got up and took a towel to clean himself.
"I agreed. But gotta confess I felt lighter after a hard day of work." Courtney confessed as she was the next to get out of the hot tub.
Bridgette and Ezekiel came next as Duncan went inside of the tube, just to enjoy himself, and the groaning of pleasure he had by the whole day, was enough to make him relax and let his body finally take a rest.
"Man, that's life," Duncan said as he saw the reason why Eva was so happy to sleep into the relaxing water massage, he also would have slept if it wasn't for the fact the others were also there.
Harold went next, as he sat nearby Eva. Since she was mostly docile from being asleep in the hot tube, he felt it was safe in that place, but he also loved the rush of danger... that's what he usually said to himself.
Katie and Sadie went together as the duo giggled between themselves. They loved the reward as everything seemed to be so perfect for them, they were now together as they were supposed to be, and the space inside of the hot tube was almost full.
Tyler felt uncomfortable as he got inside and now that the remaining of the team of Killer Bass was inside the hot tube, since nobody would want to wake up Eva, the group tried to enjoy their own time there like their teammates.
And that has been their way to develop their friendship, by talking and enjoying their relaxing on bubbles with hot water.
Until they watched the other team passing by, the Screaming Gophers returning from their first process of elimination and making them come back to their cabins over the shameful defeat day.
Ezekiel glanced, remembering exactly how it ended the first episode of the show. Leshawna who would have done the victory dancing which made Owen and Noah follow her example probably rub salt into the wound of the Killer Bass, and Courtney swore that she would win the entire show. Now it ended completely the opposite. The entire team of Killer Bass watched the Screaming Gophers walk toward their cabins in silence and without the desire to talk to anyone.
Neither of them opened their mouths since they didn't want to make themselves a new target. But also it would keep them in mind that someday, it would be their turn to come back to their cabins in defeat. Which was still a hard pill to swallow, so that in mind, made the most of the night more normal, and their conversation about their lives would be resumed for another hour to exchange places... Until the whole group got tired and decided to get up for their beds... How?
Eva was the first one who just got out of the hot tube, which made most of the members jump from her sudden awakening. Eva by getting up. Her skin was so tangled that her body seemed to be like a retired bodybuilder, but surprisingly for them, she didn't seem to be angry, or stressed. She just got up from the hot tub and calmly looked at the other members of her team on the hot tub.
"I'm going to bed." Just like that, Eva didn't say much, but from the tone of her voice, she looked relaxed and ready to sleep more.
"Wow, it's already this late?" Geoff suddenly stretched himself, he looked in the sky as the entire place was followed by the beauty of the night, filled with stars. "It must be 2 a.m. or something."
"How would you know that?" Tyler said he could also feel tired around the place, but it was so relaxing that he wouldn't mind staying for a few more minutes.
Geoff shrugged in response to the jock who then sniff before both again went back to relax. The remaining Bass relaxed until every single one of them stared towards the sky, which even on the worst first day of many... that victory had a good taste and a good show of the stars around the sky...
"Wow, they are beautiful," Bridgette said as she was awestruck by seeing the beauty of nature. Not noticing that she was near the party boy who just bumped into her. "Ops, sorry."
"That's fine... I have to say, this would beat any show any time... maybe a good party under the stars would be also awesome. Not much light, good music, and everyone having fun by seeing the sky like that."
"Stars, they are shiny. They glitter in the night sky. Like really shiny diamonds. Shining upon the future." Harold whispered to himself as he developed a haiku from observing something like the beauty of nature. But he didn't notice that Ezekiel and Tyler were also listening to him.
"Woah, that's so deep," Tyler commented, surprised, by seeing someone saying something complicated and yet sounding like poetry.
"Man, did you do it on the spot?" Ezekiel watched many shows from his former life and even had good movies that taught him amazing lessons, but seeing Harold saying a Japanese poem on the spot was something that showed another talent Harold had around the show.
"Yep, I like writing haikus, they are a good way to show the wisdom and the philosophical side of each of us." The nerd replied as he sniffed, before once again glancing at the sky. "Sometimes nature itself is the inspiration and the muse for each of us."
Ezekiel remained quiet... as he liked Harold on the show, it was the first time he saw him being more... human, not like he knew, but something he learned from himself now... maybe that's the difference between watching the show and living it.
Neither of them remembered when they went to their beds on their bunks. But after a long period and a lot of adrenaline in their system. It seems that the Killer Bass team went into their peace of dreams, knowing that they would have a few days before the next challenge.
As a good time of the morning, even before the sun rises in the sky. It was clear that the internal clock of some campers was able to hit on that morning. People who passed most of the time waking up before the sun rose was routine of them. Some have the decision to remain in bed and try to sleep for a few more hours, to enjoy their time of freedom without dealing with worries of the future.
But also someone who just woke up, and found that indeed a good time for himself to be alone in the morning.
Ezekiel lived on a farm with his parents, and he learned a lot about waking up a time before the sun rose to the sky. And for that time, the homeschooled boy decided to take something that he would usually do when nobody would be around.
It was one of the heaviest things that he had to carry away from home, but it was something that he knew that he should always have in case he would want time for himself. A good typewriter that he has been using since his mom decided to buy it for a good decoration inside her house. But with time the internet wasn't that very good, and computers were still having problems with a good text program. Ezekiel found that a good classic sometimes was the best thing he could come up with when he wrote his own story.
Knowing that the typing sounds and the dings around the way he would write would disturb the sleep of everyone around him. He decided to carry the same heavy typewriter with him until he was a bit away from both cabins.
And with the time to place himself to sit on the floor, and having the typewriter in front of him, Ezekiel finally could see how silently peaceful the camp was on the said morning.
How the smell of the air, and the nature around was something that he could even enjoy as experience and inspiration for what he was going to write in the future. With solitude a good time for himself, and a good distance to not disturb anyone. Ezekiel placed the paper on his typewriter and now finally could enjoy his time for himself.
"Alright, chapter 12 - Giant Woman." Ezekiel smiled as he recalled one of his favorite episodes of Steven Universe, and how one of his favorite fusions ever made. "Around Beach City, around a great time around the white sand, a good time for a perfect game between strategy and also a good fun of creativity. Pearl and Amethyst are enjoying a good time playing chess while having to deal with one difficult obstacle obstructing their strategies. A water balloon launched by Steven."
As a good time for writing around by himself, Ezekiel was doing his best to remain most of being faithful to the episodes he watched since he recalled from the memories. While he still struggles in some parts of the dialogue, he usually hopes that it was exactly what happened around the actual events happening in the same book he was writing.
At the time Bridgette felt a good time relaxing, the part of her own back was starting to hurt since the bed bunker she was using was making her uncomfortable to sleep, which would take a few days to get used to.
So when she felt that she couldn't take more sleep. She decided to see that it was time for her to look around and see the camping, and possibly see if somehow she would be able to clean a part of the beach. That was the first thing she thought it would put her mind at ease.
At the time she decided to leave, she noticed the sound of a ding which made her ears. It wasn't loud, but she could recognize such a familiar sound from somewhere. So she looked around and then to her surprise she found the same winter green hat of someone who seemed to be having a great time typing on what would possibly be a typewriter which made her look surprised that he was able to bring one with him in the first place.
She slowly approached and tried to be away from his line of vision, since she was trying to not be spotted by what the brown-haired boy was doing at the moment since he was in his zone of writing in the first place. From seeing a few papers on the floor, which surface would guess that it was pages for what would be one of his works? She couldn't help but be curious.
She stealthily went a bit far behind him and decided to be into a nearby tree. And she couldn't help but be surprised by something she didn't expect to witness at that moment.
"Steven got excited as he was above the goat which he named Steven Junior, and seeing that the girls were tempted that maybe it would need time for their fusion... Steven decided to sing the song." Ezekiel felt the buzzer hit and the time he needed to place the paper to write the lyrics of the song. " ~All I wanna do is see you turn into a giant woman. (A giant woman!) All I wanna be is someone who gets to see a giant woman."
Bridgette then looked surprised that Ezekiel started singing the lyrics of a song which she couldn't help but be interested in what was the book he was writing about. She recalled him naming the work Steven something, and now that he was even placing lyrics of a song? And it was indeed creative, now that she was seeing for the first hand the homeschooled boy was singing for himself.
"~All I wanna do is help you turn into a giant woman. (A giant woman!), All I wanna be is someone who gets to see a giant woman." Ezekiel smiled as he kept writing the lyrics and still having a good time imagining what it was exactly like in the show. "Walking around every single part of the tower and the adventure, Steven kept singing to his friends about the idea of them working together. ~Oh, I know it'll be great and I just can't wait! To see the person you are together with. If you give it a chance, you could do a huge dance! Because you are a giant woman."
Bridgette approached more to learn about the song, and she couldn't be helped as the singing was catchy, even if it was something silly and the voice didn't fit right, somehow everyone could sing the song right. She could imagine a kid singing this song and it would be perfect.
"~You might even like being together. And if you don't, it won't be forever. But if it were me, I'd really wanna be a giant woman. (A giant woman!)" Ezekiel smiled as the time he was finishing the song he decided to finish it exactly like the episode went. "~All I wanna do is see you turn into a giant woman. BAHHHHHHHH! As Steven finished singing, he was suddenly interrupted by his adoptive son goat Steven Junior who just wanted to give a climax to the song. Alright, a glass of water break would look nice now."
Stretching himself, Ezekiel decided to organize the pages of his work, before leaving the typewriter on the grass. Bridgette seemed to be content to discover more about the process of creative writing about one of her teammates.
And when she thought she was alone around there, she noticed the sound of someone leaving the bushes, which made the blond surfer look surprised. A person she didn't expect to be awake on that morning. A goth who seemed to be also surprised by spotting someone who was doing the same thing as her. At the time they both looked at each other.
"Err..." Bridgette tried to find the right words in what she was going to call the girl who was being at the same place as her.
"Gwen." The goth girl replied as she noticed that the blond surfer tried to remember her name. "And you are Bridgette."
"Yeah, but I mean I want to ask what are you doing around this morning?" Bridgette even knows that she doesn't remember the name of the other contestant. She was more curious about what she was thinking.
"If you mean watching one of your team members writing something on his typewriter, then yes I was. And it seems so as you." Gwen stated as she pointed at the blond who seemed to scratch her arm and look away.
"Well yeah, I was more trying to look around here, but Ezekiel seemed to be writing another of his works," Bridgette commented as she saw the look on Gwen's face. "He wants to use the prize money to publish his work."
"Well, I'm surprised," Gwen commented in a tone that the surfist didn't know if she was being honest or sarcastic. "He seemed to be very expressive in doing his chapter of Steven Universe."
"Yeah, that's the name." Bridgette snapped her fingers now that she remembered the name of the work until she looked in the face of the goth before she coughed in her hand and allowed Gwen to talk. "Please, continue. How far he went?"
"Well, he just talked about the characters until now, Pearl, Amethyst, Garnet, and the one who seems the main character Steven." Gween started to tell the most basic info of how the chapter started, and the possible mission to take the battles of earth and the sky. "To be honest Pearl looks like a prickly and uptight girl, while Amethyst looks like a rebellious teenage girl. I still don't know much about Garnet and it seems that she is not going to appear until the end, but Steven is like... a kid of 7 years old."
"Wow, you got all of this in just the explanation of this chapter?" Bridgette asked as she could see the look of a bit of shame towards the goth girl.
"Well, it's not like I have anything better to do today, I had my bed broken yesterday, and I couldn't sleep well, so I was here trying to relax, and the loud narrating and typing from the kid has me intrigued. Also, I was bored." Gwen shrugged, and she had to confess that it was nice to have some entertainment. "Yesterday was insufferable, so having something to distract me was a good thing to adapt around here."
Bridgette looked at Gwen, and she couldn't help but smile sheepishly as the reason why she kept listening while writing the chapter was because she was curious about how Ezekiel did his work.
"Well, I was having a problem with sleeping, so I wanted to try to clean the beach a bit, so seeing Zeke doing his work alone got me curious, since yesterday he told us one of the stories he told us yesterday, he said he wanted to publish this story in a book, and now that I listening to him to sing, it got me hooked to know what the book it will be about." Bridgette had to confess, that the story of Courage the Cowardly Dog can be nice but something she wouldn't want to read anytime soon, but seeing Ezekiel also telling that he has other works. It made her think that if in the future Ezekiel published some of his works, she would be interested in reading if the book was good.
"So you also are curious about Opal," Gwen asked as she could see the confusion on the surfer's face after mentioning the name. "The giant woman."
"Oh, that's her name? Wow, all their names are after a type of crystal..." Bridgette commented that she was surprised to see the pattern.
"More like gems, but they named their team as Crystal Gems, so yeah." Gwen agreed with the blond bombshell, and they were about to talk more until suddenly they heard footsteps and decided to hide.
"Alright, let's come back to the action." Ezekiel cracked his fingers, as he decided to keep writing his work, not knowing that he was being watched all the time.
What usually took a few more minutes later became one hour.
"And Steven was finally there, waiting for exactly that moment when Pearl and Amethyst were ready to fuse..." Ezekiel was writing his chapter when suddenly he started to see the door being opened from the Screaming Gophers' side, which made Ezekiel stop his work. And give a sigh and a stretch of his arms. "Well, I think it was the right time to stop."
Gween and Bridgette were listening closely for the moment they were curious about, the fusion of two gems to become Opal, and how it would fit their imaginations. Just for them to get dragged to reality to see them being unable to listen to the rest.
"OH CO...Hmmmmm" Bridgette was about to shout her disbelief, but Gwen quickly placed her hand over the surfboard's mouth. They both tried to hide away from the unaware homeschooled boy who seemed to be walking towards the duo of campers.
And from seeing the person getting out was the guitarist from the boy's side Trent, who was followed by the geekster Cody. The girls now know that they will have to wait for another opportunity to know what will happen next.
"Hey dude, how long have you been awake? Do you need some help with carrying that?" Trent asked curiously, as he could see the rival team member carrying a typewriter at that moment.
"Nah, I'm fine. eh," Ezekiel shrugged as he was already used to the weight of his typewriter. But smiled at the gentle way Trent tried to help someone stranger. "But thanks for the offer anyway."
"Wow, I never thought I would see one of these. Why are you holding a typewriter dude?" Cody asked as he pressed some keys over the writing machine, and the sound was indeed addicting as well. When the bell was heard, Cody was really happy to hear such noise. "Awesome."
"Yep, it is. It's from my family. I use it to write to pass the time. I always wake up early so since I have nothing to do, I just write something to pass the time." Ezekiel explained, as the duo seemed great, just like the first season... well, even if they had a few flaws. But still, they were great guys... well are, since the future didn't happen yet.
"Awesome. What do you usually write dude?" Trent smiled as he followed Ezekiel as he headed towards the cabin of the Killer Bass.
"Well, I have some work, usually I work in a bit of fiction. But my friends on the Killer Bass all know one of my projects... I can tell you later. I need to place this inside quietly, I don't want to wake up the others." Ezekiel warned the duo of boys as he slowly tip-toed inside, leaving the boys alone, but okay with the hat boy walking inside the cabin.
Cody slowly turned around and saw the duo of girls Bridgette and Gwen walking towards their cabins, and while their faces looked nothing more than frustration, but still ignored the warnings and decided to pose and tried to be chill.
"Hey babes, did you girls sleep well? Because I think I'm UGHHHH WOA." Cody pointed both his hands like two guns, as he tried to see if his hook-up line would go well but he was interrupted as the duo of girls took both his shoulders, and working together, they launched him away from the cabin. "AHHHHHHHH."
And just like that Cody found himself eating dust once more.
Trent saw the look of anger from both girls and decided to take a step back. Which made both girls walk away from the cabins and go around to explore the communal bathroom together.
"So, close..." Bridgette mumbled as she knew that now she would have to wait until Ezekiel told her when the chapter was done so that she could read from the beginning. "I'm still curious about what kind of dance it would be."
"Well, I don't feel this frustrated since I was watching the ending of my favorite movie, and my young brother gave me the spoiler in the middle of the cinema," Gwen sighed, which made Bridgette look at her in sympathy.
"Oof, sorry your brother had to destroy the movie for you." The surfist commented, but she was surprised that the goth girl was shaking her head.
"No that's fine, I was frustrated that the ending of the movie was horrible, so my brother saved my time. Worst ending ever. But still, I was frustrated by the expectation I had to wait until my brother told me the ending." Gwen accepted that she now was in the same way as she felt from that time. "I just hope to not be disappointed."
"With Ezekiel? Nah, I think he will nail it. Since you were listening from the beginning, what did you think so far?" The surfer asked as they decided to keep developing the great friendship between rival teams.
At the side of the boys. Trent was aware that those girls were red flags, and it was a terrible idea to have any kind of interaction between them at that moment.
"Ugh..." Cody groaned as he felt his face bruised, and he even spat some dirt away from his tongue.
Trent was about to help his comrade when he heard the door opening. Finding Ezekiel getting out of his cabin with careful walking.
"Alright, I think I'm ready to go." Ezekiel smiled at Screaming Gopher members until he looked at Cody who was still having difficulty getting up. "What happened?"
"I don't know. It was just two girls who looked frustrated, and Cody greeted them... but they looked really angry. So they launched him." Trent gave a summary to Ezekiel, who seemed to be even more intrigued.
"I just don't know what happened. I just said if they have slept well I was going to try a hookup line." Cody scratched the back of his head as he cleaned up the dust of his face.
"You should let it flow naturally dude," Trent explained as he could see that the girls at that moment didn't seem interested. "Also the girls looked very angry this morning. So good advice, if you see a girl with that face, the best thing you should do is give her a good space."
Ezekiel placed the finger on his chin as he tried to imagine who would be the duo who seemed to be angry towards the geekster Cody... while the first obvious answer would be Gwen, what intrigued him would be the second person who seemed angry at that moment.
"Probably Heather, I wouldn't be surprised if Heather already made Gwen and Leshawna enemies this quickly." Ezekiel thought as he could see the duo having a huge discussion and then proceed to almost beat the crap out of each other, and when Cody tried to see if he could have any luck with any of them, they both teamed up to make him eat the dust... literally. "If from all my experience watching the first season was... Heather would make sure that everyone is angry with her."
That was the most logical answer, however, he had no idea that his theory was wrong all the time.
(Main Lodge)
The breakfast happening around the main lodge once again showed that the Chef didn't care about the opinions of the campers, since what he said was true, what they were going to eat, was it... some kind of a combination of porridge with beans and even a little cracker to make sure there would be at least some crunchy texture.
Needless to say, nobody was satisfied with each such bad breakfast in the morning, but the decision was to simply accept eating Chef's food, or starve to death. Which was so tempting at that moment.
After eating, the groups finally had the time to enjoy their time looking around the camp and even the island.
Ezekiel, Tyler, and Harold decided to walk around the camp.
"And that's how I managed to break 4 bones over my leg." Tyler finished his story, and at the same time, both Ezekiel and Harold looked at the jock in disbelief.
"Are you telling me that you simply broke your leg just because you went to the bank?" Harold didn't know how such a thing was possible, but someone must be very unlucky to manage to do something crazy like that.
"I mean, no offense Tyler, you looked clumsy, but to manage to fall 10 floors of stairs just because you went to take a coffee in the waiting line? I think that's a whole new level of clumsiness." Ezekiel agreed with Harold as they both heard Tyler laugh from their reaction.
"Yeah, I think it's something genetic, my grandpa and my mother had the same clumsiness. And somehow we always ended up escalating incidents like that to us. But I think that's how we got so strong towards the pain." Tyler even labeled as clumsy, he always found positivity around the time he lived, so he found a good way to describe his positive energy and get ready for the next time when something like that happens again. "And that's not even the craziest one that happened to my family. I'm still trying to figure out how my grandpa managed to take down 3 airplanes while he was being in the bathroom inside of one."
"Really?" Both Harold and Ezekiel commented as they found themselves even more interested in hearing the crazy things happening around that family.
"Yeah, from what I remember, he just took a WOAHHHH." Tyler was happy to explain the story until he fell towards a hole which made the duo jump away from him. And when they saw Tyler hitting one floor, just for them to roll towards the next floor, and then in sequence it was for the next 5 floors. Every single time Tyler feels, both Harold and Ezekiel cringed from imagining the pain the jock must be suffering at that moment. The silence was there for a few seconds until they finally heard a response. "I'm okay, but guys you must check this out, there is a cave over here..."
(Outside Camp)
"Ahhhh, another day on this hot tube, man I'm never going to get tired of this." Geoff stretched his arms, as he felt the good and relaxing vibes over the massage he was receiving from the same object the whole team built.
"You said it man." DJ also was enjoying the good time, as the duo seemed to pass around and get a good time to talk over the team. Until the duo suddenly saw Katie and Sadie running towards them.
"Guys, you gotta see this. Tyler fell into a cave and they are calling everyone from the Killer Bass to come quickly." Katie said as she looked animated, which made both the hat party boy, and the good Jamaican boy stare at each other, and follow their curiosity.
"What about the others?" Geoff asked as he followed the girls...
"They are already there, now let's go," Sadie commented as the group followed her and Katie towards the holes covered with branches and leaves, without thinking twice, the chubby camper took the branches carefully and the leaves, while making the hole be shown to the group. "From what they said, it must be here."
Katie was the first to carefully go down there, by jumping the lower levels, then next it came Sadie who was struggling to not hurt herself from the fall, as next went DJ and Geoff who did their best to make sure that they would land without hitting their face.
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By the time the quarter managed to walk around the cave, they finally got to see the whole group waiting for them, as the view of the cave itself showed a good space and had a natural beauty that most of the caves would have, without any animals to disturb them.
"Oh great, you all are here," Courtney commented as she finally clapped her hands to take the attention of the others around. "Alright everyone, it seems that Chris was serious when he said the crew placed a camera around every single corner of the island because there is a camera on that angle as well. So that means that this place is alright for us to be here."
"Yeah, but the point is, why are we here anyway princess?" Duncan rolled his eyes, as he took his trusted knife, and decided to clean his fingernails with it.
"I'm already going there, and stop calling me that." Courtney rolled her eyes, as she was getting annoyed from the same banter with Duncan over and over again. "From the time we were eating yesterday, it seems that our conversation can be heard from the other team. So we needed to have a place on our own to debate future team strategies, or even find a way to be away from the island, and just have time for ourselves around the island."
"So this place is the spot we are going to use for that?" Tyler commented as he was still stretching his body since he was still sore from failing over the hole. "Well, I'm glad to help, but aren't you a bit excessive when it comes to it?"
"Aaaaand Done," Ezekiel said as he finally placed the last nail with a hammer, which made the group then look towards him and Harrold who seemed to be placing the flag of Killer Bass, and ignoring their conversation. "What do you think of Harrold?"
"Awesome, I couldn't find a better place to do it." The nerd smiled proudly as he could see the cave now belonged to the Killer Bass, placed in the center of the wall. "I got an awesome name for this place."
"Hey, are you guys listening?" Courtney called the attention of both of them, which made both Ezekiel and Harold nod their heads towards her. Before finishing their final touches.
"I hereby nominate this place to the Aquarium." Harold by placing his hand on his chest, declared as he placed the final nail towards the center of the flag, which he accidentally hit his tomb with the hammer. "OUCH."
"Seriously? The aquarium." Eva commented as she walked near the duo, which both of them stiffened, but after looking behind their backs, Eva's usual scorn was replaced by an unamused face.
"Oh hey Eva, wow, you look... calm today?" Ezekiel asked as he never thought to see the usual bodybuilder girl looking unamused but like someone far more tolerable in the morning.
"Had a good night of sleep. Now, I want to know what the point of us being around here is, anyway." Eva asked, but the fact that she wasn't using her angry tone, but a more relaxed tone, made Ezekiel the first hand see that peaceful. "Also a good hot tube massage was anything I like in the mornings, so I had a refresh before doing my exercises."
"Ohhh," Both Ezekiel and Harold commented, as the duo seemed to be happy to see what would be the angriest member of their group more tolerable, it was something that Ezekiel never thought to see in the whole show.
"Well, since we are the Killer Bass, I think having our place called the aquarium just for us to hang out would be the best name for the place." Harold felt proud as he commented on the strategy and then pointed out what he was thinking.
"So more like a secret base then," Ezekiel confirmed the idea of the nerd who seemed to smile widely with the idea.
"Well, this place has a lot of space... and the silence is very welcoming. If I do my workout here with my mp3, I think I would enjoy passing the time around here." Eva seemed to be interested in the idea, which made both of them look surprised.
"Well, nice to know that you are already warming up to the idea of this being our base Eva, but we still need to discuss a few more details." Courtney, already annoyed at being ignored by the group, decided to approach and talk directly with the boys. So she decided to take both boys by her arms, and dragged them both to the center circle of the group, before taking the lead of the conversation once again. "Well, alright team, let's start developing future strategies to make sure we win the next challenge."
Courtney was happy that now that everything was happening, and since they found a good plan to finally talk as a team, she was ready to take the leadership...
"Okay, hold on. Who decided to put you as a leader of this team?" Duncan as the batter of her existence once again decided to be against her decision to take the leadership. "While I appreciate you helping yesterday princess, you still didn't show you what you have to take the lead of this team."
"Oh, so who do you think would be the best to lead the team then?" Courtney already was feeling annoyed for the delinquent being against everything she proposed, she asked as she crossed her arms.
"Well, what we need is someone who knows the ins and outs of playing the rules. So that's how I came. I can lead this team easily." Duncan grinned, but as Harold was about to be against it, he received a glare from Duncan who made him cower and step back. "And also, a good intimidation helps to make the team on the trails when they decide to do something stupid."
"Guys, I think would be the best if..." Bridgette tried to intervene but was interrupted by both the delinquent and C.I.T. arguing with himself.
"You? Ha, don't make me laugh. I prefer to die than be led by you." Courtney said as she approached the delinquent.
"Guys, maybe you should stop." Tyler tried to interrupt but was kicked in the nuts by Courtney who seemed to want blood so much from the delinquent.
"Oh, that can be arranged." Duncan narrowed his eyes as he was ready to strangle the girl for being annoying since the first day.
"STOP. STOP ALRIGHT?" The duo suddenly froze when they could see that it was the homeschooled boy who was shouting and making both of them stop. As the rest of Killer Bass seemed unaware of what to do, it made Ezekiel already know how much the drama would go, and it was the second day of the show, and not the second episode. "This team doesn't need a leader, don't you guys see? While a leader would be a good idea to help... What is the point of a leader without actually having the full cooperation of his team? Don't you guys see how well we did yesterday? We need to work as a team, and not individually."
Courtney glared at Duncan, and the feeling could be said the same for the delinquent, but then both of them looked at the hat boy with one thought in their mind.
"So what do you propose?" Both Courtney and Duncan asked Ezekiel who finally sighed.
"Since both of you want to take leadership, why don't you both have a council of three?" Ezekiel asked which made both of them blink before waiting for him to continue. "Since Courtney wants to take responsibility, she can represent the girl's cabin, while Duncan can take responsibility for the boy's cabin. Now, it may sound crazy, but for the third person, you would need someone to be the voice of reason and make both of you work together and maintain the focus on one thing. Working together as a whole."
The duo looked at each other, as the whole cave was in silence, which made the whole group of Killer Bass stare at the homeschooled boy, who seemed to be satisfied to make the fight not happen, so he closed his eyes to appreciate the silence for a second...
"You." Both Duncan and Courtney commented without waiting for a second, which made Ezekiel stare at them incredulously.
"Are you crazy? Being between you both every time you discuss is not healthy, there is no way I w..." Ezekiel was just there to help the group, he didn't think of himself as a leader, especially having a lot of responsibilities dealing with the total drama show, he just wanted to participate and enjoy his time making friends.
"Sorry shrimp, but you offered the idea, so who offers it, it means that it's suggesting himself. Juvenile's rules." Duncan said as he was pleased to see the face of Ezekiel looking at him pale.
"Are you crazy? For being a council we would also need to elaborate meetings and discuss teams every single time, I would like to end..." Ezekiel tried to come up with excuses to make himself not worth it, especially about all the work the trio would have to come up with to deal with such gameplans... but seeing the face of Courtney smiling evilly didn't assure him at all.
"That's also a great idea Zeke, I will be glad to suggest a schedule, and that way we can work together." Courtney went for the kill as she also looked at the whole team who seemed to be interested in knowing how it would go. "I make a motion for Ezekiel to be also a third party for the council to decide the plans and rules of the team. Who is in favor?"
Ezekiel noticed the group smiling and he simply shook his head, almost begging for them to...
"AYE." Geoff, Eva, Bridgette, Harold, DJ, Katie, Sadie, Tyler, and even Duncan shouted with glee which made Courtney cough her hand and be professional.
"Who is the opposite?" Courtney had to be fair when it comes to decisions like that, and seeing the homeschooled boy affronted made her day.
"YOU GUYS SUCK," Ezekiel shouted, which the whole team took as a good victory for them.
(Screaming Goophers Boy's cabin)
"WOOHOOOOOO." Owen smiled as he clapped at Trent who just managed to finish giving his last chord on the guitar. "You rocked Trent."
"If you say such a big guy." Trent smiled, happy that he could be passing a good day relaxing after their defeat from the day before.
As the duo managed to continue to pass the time to relax, suddenly they heard someone being launched from the door which made both Owen and Trent cringe from that. A geekster who seemed to have his face on the floor of the boy's cabin.
"Are you okay Cody?" Owen quickly went near the little geek who was still with his head spinning.
"I'm alright, I just got surprised to know that Lindsay has a really strong throw." Cody tried to joke, but he winced in pain as his face seemed to be fully bruised.
"Bro, you need to stop trying to make the girls throw things at you." Trent decided to step in, for the sake of helping the boy who was still doing his tries on the girls.
"I just don't know what I am doing wrong, I'm training hook-up lines, trying to be cool, and even sniffed their hair just once." Cody lamented, but suddenly he noticed that both boys were looking weirdly at him. "What?"
"Dude, I know I'm not a romance expert, but even I know that it's creepy when someone goes sniffing the hair of someone... especially if it doesn't have food in it." Owen was the first one to explain that the attitude of the geek was wrong.
"Yeah Cody, I think you should stop trying to be... what was the word again?" Trent tried to find a polite way to not call Cody a stalker which could be a terrible way to view the poor boy who was trying to look for affection.
"Intrusive?" Owen doesn't even know where he took that word from, but he remembered the time his mom tried to tell him not to be too intrusive into the neighbor's fridge.
"Yeah, that one." Trent snapped his fingers as he was pleased to know that he did it in a way not to make Cody look bad or feel bad for himself. "Listen to me Cody, to make the girls interested in you, you should be yourself. And not try to go after them all the time, you must let things happen naturally. Trust me Cody, the moment you show your true self, and let things happen naturally, you will find the right girl, who will be interested in you."
"Do you think so?" Cody asked as he gave himself high hopes, before sighing and deciding to go to his bed. "Man, I'm just making a fool of myself. I tried to go after the girls of Killer Bass cabin, but it seemed that the place was empty."
"Really?" Owen asked as he noticed from the outside, there wasn't even a slightest signal of the opposite team. "Now that you said it, I can't see anyone from the other cabin."
"Do you think something happened to them?" Trent asked, as he saw something else missing, what would be the winning prize from the challenge of the day prior? "Hey, did you notice that their hot tubes were also missing?"
"Really?" Both Cody and Owen asked if they could see something missing too. Which made the trio of Screaming Gophers wonder. "Where did they all go?"
(Aquarium of Killer Bass)
"ALRIGHT, CAREFUL, CAREFUL," Eva commanded as the whole group of Killer Bass seemed to be working together to stop another floor with the awfully heavy hot tube it seemed to be needing the whole team working together, and having Eva and DJ as the main pillars of strength to make sure that it wouldn't hit hard on the floor, and possibly breaking it.
"My hand is numb, I can't feel it," Harold shouted as he was feeling his strength diminishing, but he then felt a kick on his but, which made him go straight.
"Keep holding, or I will make sure you will not feel anything under your belt." Duncan narrowed his eyes, as he was sweating from how heavy the prize was, needless to say that he now understood why the carriages helped them to carry the crates, and with the crates to share the weight because it was too heavy for them.
"Almost there," Courtney instructed until the whole team managed to land the prize they worked so hard to build, and with that, everyone smiled as it was untouched. "Alright, perfect."
"WOHOOOOO." Geoff was the first person who decided to jump inside of the hot tube, to make sure that everything was nice. And from the warm water, he finally could once again enjoy the massage he needed in the morning. "Man, nothing better than this prize."
"Give me some space." Eva also was the next to get inside of the hot tube, and with that, she felt the relaxing bubbles around her body, leaving her happy to have another relaxing method to do after a good workout.
And with that, the Killer Bass found their favorite spot from the show... Which they would need a lot from for the rest of the season. It was a good first day of relaxing...
Until the next challenge comes up in 2 days. Ezekiel looked outside of the cave, thinking how brutal Wakemarathon would be... and he hoped to be ready for whatever was coming next.
