Jacques was shown shaking with his gloved hands, shrieking as a fish jumped up to him and dived back into the water.
Ennui was shown nearby with Loki. He looked at his pet rabbit, asking, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Loki chirped and swam off as Emma resurfaced with a fish in her grasp.
Not too far from them, Josee and Crimson were speaking with each other.
"You know what you need?" Josee asked her.
"Tell me." Crimson remarked.
Josee snatched Emma's fish and threw it at Crimson. "A fish slap!"
She threw the fish at the goth girl, throwing her further into the lake.
"Hey, stop that!" Emma cried out.
Josee laughed at her, as Crimson looked at her narrowly.
"Enough, all of you!" Emma ordered them. "In case it's not clear, the evidence says we're losing!"
The scene swapped to the other boat as the twins handed two fish, one each, to Junior and Dwayne.
"Nice work!" Jay complimented.
"Only one more left!" Mickey and Junior cheered.
Mickey and Jay gave each other a high five.
Josee looked on in shock. "They are co-op-per-rating. I was not born with that gene."
"Look, the evidence is clear that many of us hate each other." Emma remarked.
"They're monsters." Josee argued.
"No, you are." Crimson argued.
"But instead of throwing fish, we need to throw the book at them. We need to be the prosecuting team against the defendants." Emma told them, taking charge. "I propose an alliance until the guilty teams are eliminated. All in favor?"
Ennui meekly nodded as Kitty remained still.
"Fine, truce." Josee offered.
"Very well then." Crimson remarked.
The two shook hands. Josee shivered but forced a smile all the same.
"Now, we need a plan to catch fish or slow down the defense." Emma told them. "The chances of us finding the branded catfish are slim..."
"Sabotage?" Josee suggested.
Emma and Josee went forth, one smirking and the other more determined.
"She's really created an Axis of Darkness…" Kitty whimpered.
"Dark doesn't always mean evil, and light does not always mean good." Ennui told her.
Dwayne was shown in the boat, looking for more catfish as his vision was shown to be blurry.
"Hey, did you see that mega catfish over by the rocks?!" Emma asked as she went by him. .
"Yes, it would take a very impressive man to catch that beast!" Josee added.
Interview; Dwayne
Dwayne was shown facing away from the camera.
"It's perfect; I catch a mega catfish, Junior tells me he's proud and we win the challenge! I am facing the right way, right?"
End Interview
Dwayne approached a shallow end of the lake. "They said 'over by the rocks', so here goes nothing!"
He dived down, his hands unknowingly grabbing on to the end of an alligator (or crocodile) tail, hauling it along.
MacArthur and the twins stood by in the water as Sanders threw a fish upwards, landing perfectly into Junior's hands. He placed the fish on top of the others in the form of a pyramid.
"That's six!" Sanders counted.
"Woohoo!" Junior cheered.
"Hooray!" the twins exclaimed in perfect unison.
Junior stood at the bow, looking at his friends and allies.
"I'll get the judge!" Jay exclaimed.
Jay quickly swam off to get the judge as Dwayne approached the boat.
"Whoo! I found a whopper!" Dwayne declared.
"Add it onto the pile!" Sanders instructed. "One more fish can't hurt."
Dwayne went by, preparing to unload his "fish."
"This superteam is pretty nice. Maybe we can keep it until we make it to the final three?" Jay suggested.
"I'm down," Junior answered.
"Sure." Sanders remarked. "Better than working with those ice-for-brains-jerks as MacArthur calls em."
They all laughed.
"Over here, Sir." Jay directed the local guide. "We have a whole school of fish for you to count! First place here we come!"
Only to find a gator had eaten their fish.
Jay gasped. "Our fish! What happened to our fish?!"
"Yep, I caught a whopper!"
Junior looked at his dad. "Aw man, did you throw an alligator up here?"
"I think it's a crocodile." Sanders corrected.
"Did I?" He facepalmed himself.
Interview; Dwayne
"Oh no. I really messed up this time. Come on, where are they?"
He pulled out an eye dropper and put a drop in each eye. He blinked and soon his eyes were restored.
"Huh. Guess I didn't put in enough earlier. Oops…"
End Interview
"I swear, we had the fish." Jay insisted. "You don't believe me?"
The local nodded.
Jay and Mickey moaned in dismay.
MacArthur growled. "Oh no, I am not losing this challenge because of one stupid crocodile!"
She leapt onto the boat and punched the gator in the gut, wrestling it until she got the creature into a chokehold.
Mickey, Jay and Junior seemed concerned but Sanders… surprisingly smirked.
"Come on MacArthur! Show that gator who's boss!" Sanders ordered.
Interview; Cadets
"One of the rare instances that her tough as nails demeanor is appreciated. You'd be surprised at some of the things I've seen her do on the clock." Sanders remarked.
End Interview
MacArthur kept choke-holding the gator and forced him to cough up the six fish before she threw the gator back into the water. The large reptile swam away rapidly in a whimper.
"There! That's six catfish, now give us the tip!"
The man, both nauseated and fearful, handed her the tip.
"It's an all in. 'Get Lost and Found Underground'?" MacArthur read.
A montage began as Don showed off the second part of the challenge.
"For this all in, teams must take taxis to these wartime tunnels. Somewhere down here, they'll find a Don Box with directions to the chill zone. But they better take care, because the tunnels are riddled with traps, dead ends and more than a few spiders."
The three teams of the Axis of Light speed off, cheering all the way.
"Gosh dang it!" Emma cursed.
"I cooperated and sabotaged for nothing?!" Josee exclaimed, losing her cool.
"Isn't sabotage contempt of court?" Kitty meekly asked.
Her question was ignored as Jacques cried out. "The branded catfish, I see it!"
Loki was swimming after a fish, the Branded Catfish.
"Someone come over!" as he pointed to it.
The rabbit tried to bite at the fish to scare it, and it worked, the catfish coming directly onto Jacques's gloved hand. He screamed in terror, "Ah ah ahhhhh! Get it off of me!"
He smacked it against the side of the boat without luck and then threw the fish into the air. The branded fish spun around and landed into the boat.
"Yes! Hello Zip-It Ticket!" Emma cheered.
Emma and Josee smirked, while the Goths slightly lifted their arms in cheer. But for some reason, Kitty was not happy.
Interview; Goths
The Goths were shown in the interview room with Loki on Ennui's lap.
"I will admit, this is one of the rare occasions that calls for a little cheer. Even if we had to work with the Ice Dancers, they did get the fish into the boat."
Crimson looked at her boyfriend. "You're as clever as you are handsome, my dark knight. I love you."
"I love you too, my dark angel."
"You've also done us well, Loki."
Loki happily chirped.
End Interview
A three part-split screen was shown;
In the top center, Emma's hand grabbed the ticket from the guide.
In the bottom left, the Axis of Darkness was shown sailing on the boat. Jacques looked at his hands, feeling violated. Josee and Emma smirked as they stood in the center, likely thinking of how the other teams would fall. Crimson held Loki in her arms as Ennui gave him pets to reward him. In the back of the boat, Kitty was sorrowful as she was nervous.
In the bottom right, the entrance to the cave was shown as the Axis of Light approached it.
"While the Axis of Darkness takes their Zip-It Ticket and cruises straight to the chill zone, the other three teams arrive at the underground tunnels to start the second challenge." Don narrated.
The scene focused on the teams looking in.
"Oh, this place gives me the creeps!" Mickey whined.
"Let's get this over with." Jay declared as the three teams went forward.
Only to find themselves at a crossroads.
"Uh oh…" Junior groaned.
The three teams all had different expressions. Mickey quietly whimpered while Jay tried to be brave, Father and Son were nervous while the Cadets were not afraid at all.
"Well, I guess this is where we part ways. Good luck…" Dwayne wished them.
"Wait. What's our superteam plan?" Mickey asked.
"The what now?" Sanders asked.
"Our superteam plan? We agreed…" Jay began.
"The fishing challenge is over. Now it's a real race to find the Don Box and not get chopped." MacArthur began.
"We should split up and whoever finds the team alerts the others with a signal." Mickey suggested. "Maybe a bird? Caw-caw, caw-caw!"
"Well, that seems like a plan. Let's go!"
The Twins ran into one of the tunnels.
"But…" Sanders started to say, only for Father and Son to take the middle tunnel.
Sanders and MacArthur took the path on the right.
A split screen showed the Twins on the top left, the Cadets on the top right and Father and Son at the bottom. The scene gradually shifted to the chill zone as Don narrated and congratulated the winning superteam.
"As the Cadets consider abandoning their allies, the Axis of Darkness is in a three way tie for first. Congratulations."
"Axis of Darkness. How fitting." Ennui commented.
"I can't believe I'm saying this, but I believe we should keep the Axis of Darkness together until the final three." Emma suggested. "Have we reached a verdict?"
"I believe we have Your Honor." Josee began. "We'll keep this alliance to bring the other teams down. Any objections?"
Kitty gulped, but ultimately remained silent.
"Case closed." Emma stated.
Interview; Goths
"They're going to betray us," Crimson told the audience as she held Loki. "It's not a matter of if, but when."
"Hopefully the Sisters take out the Ice Dancers." Ennui dared to hope.
New Interview; Ice Dancers
"Of course this isn't a real alliance." Jacques told the audience. "We're just playing the Sisters and Goths. We'll trick them into thinking we're on their side, and when the time is right..."
"We shove them into the freezing water!" Josee finished.
New Interview; Sisters
Emma glared at the camera with determination. Kitty tried not to squirm or speak, but grew anxious and restless as she took out her hair ties and fidgeted with her hair.
"The Ice Dancers can't be trusted. They're as slippery as ice." Emma warned her sister. "We need to be prepared for…" She looked at her sister. "Are you paying attention?!"
"Oh, yes, definitely!"
Emma raised an eyebrow, not completely believing her younger sister.
End Interviews
A montage began of the teams searching through the mines. The Twins were shown running, only to find a large spider and even larger spider web. The twins screamed before bolting it. The Cadets looked at a skull and exchanged glances. The Twins ran through another cave crossroads, only for Jay to stumble upon a trap. His left shoe hit a small square, triggering a large boulder to come rolling towards them.
"Run!"
The twins ran for their lives back the way they came.
Dwayne accidentally ran into a cave structure, to Junior's concern.
The Cadets heard a growling in the distance as MacArthur got out her taser, shocking a large beast.
Dwayne and Junior realized that they had exited the cave, but didn't find the Don Box. They promptly ran back inside.
The montage ended as the family members ran into a wall.
"Aw man. It's a dead end." Junior lamented.
"You sure? This rock doesn't look quite as dense as the others…" Dwayne observed.
Dwayne ran into the wall again… And again…
Rocks crumbled and the cave shook from above.
"You still think leaving the other teams behind is a good idea?" Sanders questioned.
"We need to win. "
"They end up stuck down here! That would be the equivalent of…"
She screamed as a spiked pit opened up beneath her feet.
"Barbara!"
"MacArthur, help!" Sanders pleaded.
The scene switched to near total darkness. Two identical eye pairs were seen in the shadows.
"Oh, who turned out the lights? I hate the dark." Jay moaned. "Ah, wait, I think I have some matches."
The older brother lit a match, only to find he was covered head to toe in spiders.
"Spiders!"
"Ahh!"
Jay dropped the match, leaving them in darkness once more. Rolling sounds were heard as Mickey lit a match and then lit a torch, illuminating the entire room of the cave.
"Spiders are gone…" he chirped out.
Jay sighed in relief, got up and soon they hit a small entrance.
"Uh… you go first. I trust your lead."
Mickey obliged his brother's directions. Jay followed.
The scene transitioned to them coming to the end of the cave.
"There it is, the Don Box!"
A feminine scream from above was heard.
"Uh oh… that doesn't sound good." Jay remarked.
Back above, Sanders was hanging on to avoid falling into a spike from down below. MacArthur soon pulled her up, only to have them both topple backwards, Sanders landing on her partner.
"I've got your back. I'll always protect you or my name isn't Diane MacArthur."
"Um… actually it isn't. Remember the confessions in Indonesia?"
MacArthur sighed. "Don't remind me."
Dwayne stumbled onto the scene. "Oh, I'm not interrupting anything am I?"
Sanders got up and soon MacArthur did as well. "You're fine."
"Dad, are you crazy?!" Junior asked, slipping through the hole in the wall his father created.
"Caw caw! Caw caw!" Jay cried out from afar.
"It's the signal! They found the Don Box!" Junior cheered.
"Caw caw! Caw caw!"
The other teams arrived at the same cave entrance Jay and Mickey went through moments ago.
"Thanks for not leaving us behind." Junior smiled.
"Don't sweat it. We know you all would have done the same."
Sanders and MacArthur exchanged looks away from the others.
Soon Jay, Sanders and Junior all got their tips from the Don Box in rapid succession.
"A map to the chill zone. Axis of Light, roll out!" Jay said.
The three teams raced to the Chill Zone, all exiting the cave.
"It's a foot race to the Chill Zone, I can't wait to see who's it gonna be!" Don exclaimed.
The teams were shown running forward… until the first 'light team' arrived.
"Fourth place to the Cadets!"
"Yes!" Sanders cheered.
MacArthur echoed that sentiment. "Alright!"
And not long thereafter…
"Fifth place for the Adversity Twins! You live to race another day!"
"Whew. We did it…"
"But that means…"
Interview; Adversity Twins
"The problem with alliances… and sometimes friendships… is that they don't last forever." Jay told the audience.
"As much as we want to win, we don't want to be alone either…" Mickey told them. "Just how lonely is it at the top?"
End Interview
Dwayne was shown to be exhausted, his son trudging him along.
"Well, it's over." Junior announced.
"Hey, why the long faces? You're not eliminated yet." Don told them.
They gasped in awe, hoping for the best as they reached the carpet.
"Now you're eliminated."
Junior asked, "What?"
Dwayne moaned. "Aw…"
"You see what I did there? That's TV fishing!" He performed fishing gestures. "Give you some line a little hope and then yanked it away. It's gonna look great. All this explaining will be edited out. Cool huh?"
Junior frowned. "That's just mean."
"Some people just don't get show business."
Don walked away as the Twins came up to them.
"I'm sorry this alliance didn't work out." Mickey apologized.
"It's alright. It was good while it lasted." Junior offered them.
"Good luck out there, little guys." Dwayne wished them.
"Thanks. Same to you both!" Jay wished in return.
Mickey gave a thumbs up.
Don was now shown standing by a two faced sculpture embedded in a temple wall. "Who will survive the next set of challenges? Keep watching- the Ridonculous Race!"
Dwayne and Junior thought about their time on the show; from trying to get a tired, stubborn camel in the Moroccan desert to move as other teams passed them, Junior finishing the Icelandic telephone challenge after covering his dad's mouth, their reunion hug in Zimbabwe, Junior carrying his dad across hot coals in Hawaii, building an igloo in the arctic circle, riding dune buggies outside of Vegas, and catfishing with Axis of Light.
"Aw, I can't be too upset. The race has changed Junior and me for the better. My son's coming home a man."
"You right there dad! You know, sometimes I thought you hardly cared about me, but this race proves that you did all along."
The scene switched to the present.
"You wanna go home and binge watch the Total Drama Island series?" Dwayne offered.
"Only if we laugh until soda squirts out of your nose!" Junior counter-offered.
"Of course we can, son!"
Dwayne put his arm around his sun as the camera panned to the setting sun.