Author's note:
Here again with the newest chapter of Reality Colides. I hope you guys like it. Now to reply the reviews:
MatiasND : Well the explanation of what happened between the two versions of Ezekiel, will be explained later. So until there you don't need to be bothered because it's not that relevante.
Metal Face: I have a few ideas about who is going to end up with Ezekiel, I'm still trying to figure out how is going to be the other characters around the homeschooled boy. Bridgette, I'm trying to make her has a sister role for him, like Courtney, but lets see how the future will goes?
Wolfang21 I'm glad you liked it, because it really sucked to create a whole interlude day without having the cannon episodes to help.
reapercrone thanks for enjoying the idea, I think we should give some characters a good shine.
Blagoj Pejov1 thank you for enjoying it.
BrightNova169 thanks for giving me the advice to change it for T version, I thought I put that rate but I was wrong. And trust me, Ezekiel is most of the time when he compares part of the show with the cannon, it was more like an internal dialogue with his mind, so most of people wouldn't get it.
And trust me, you are going to enjoy this chapter. And also... Ezekiel is a boy who watched Total Drama, Adventure Time and Steven Universe most of the time on his life... Heather planning to destroy his work on the show? She is going to get more frustrated if she tries that, because you know the person who knows the knowledge from outside can do when they want to annoys someone from the show lol.
But hey. I hope you have fun with this chapter, as a much I did.
NOW GO READ THIS CHAPTER GUYS.
"Last time on Total Drama Island." The camera turns on to show Chris standing on the dock going over a review happening on the show on the last episode. "22 campers arrived and learned they'll spend the next eight weeks at crusty old summer camp. The campers were faced with their first challenge, jumping off a cliff into shark-infested waters. And while one of the teams with a little hesitation managed to do a perfect victory, a member of the other team was forced to wear the dreaded chicken hat and with that gave the advantage to the other group. Friendships and alliances were made, and Noah learned that he should be careful with his own words because by being sabotaged by his own team, managed to bring the safety of Beth and with that laid the foundations of her loyalty to the woman who made him leave the show. And with that learning that being the smartest boy without good teamwork would make him bye-bye on the dock of shame. Who will be voted off this week in the most dramatic campfire ceremony yet? Find out tonight on Total. Drama. Island!"
To say Ezekiel passed most of his mornings waking up early just to keep writing the next chapters of his works would be an understatement. He liked the good nature and the natural light appearing around the sky, and the good silence of him being alone early to enjoy his time, and also find inspiration around the camp.
It became something he liked to do every single morning. And his typewriting was a good way to pass the time.
*tec, tec, tec, tec, ding*
Ezekiel moved the bar of the typewriting to go back to its place and keep writing... And by the time he kept writing, he heard some steps approaching him...
It was Chris Mclaine wearing buffy shorts and a good airhorn, and looking ready for what would be a good run for his life—a good marathon, which made Ezekiel understand what was coming next.
"Morning Chris," Ezekiel commented, as he remained focused on typing his work. "What time is it?"
*tec, tec, tec, tec, ding*
"Morning Zeke, we are almost 7 in the morning." Chris smiled evilly as he was already pointing his airhorn in the air, and with that, the airhorn went off, which immediately Ezekiel flinched as he could see the chaos the episode would start.
"Wow, already starting the call this early? Does that mean the challenge will happen soon?" The homeschooled boy asked as the evil show host nodded his head to him. "Why do I feel that I'm going to have a good disadvantage from it?"
"That my boy Ezekiel would be telling, but you are right." Chris acted mysterious for not revealing which kind of challenge the campers would suffer, but Ezekiel woke up earlier than he should, meaning that he was already at a disadvantage in the challenge where he would need to be awake all the time.
"Well, sucks to be me." Ezekiel sighed and lamented, which Chris chuckled from his little interaction.
"DO YOU THINK I HAVE FACE OF A FARMGIRL?" There was a shout from the Screaming Gopher cabin which made both Ezekiel and Chris stare at the window where was Leshawna grumpy for being awake at that time.
Chris stared at Ezekiel who just raised his finger, then let it drop.
"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that." Ezekiel even if he was a farm boy, raised and homeschooled inside of a farm, decided to not be offended by such a remark. "I'm going to place my typewriter on my cabin and then I will be back here.
"Sure do that Zeke." Chris smiled as it was a good scene to have seen on camera, the television will love how a farm boy now is going to be aware of the offensive dark-skinned girl who couldn't control her mouth.
At the time Ezekiel was about to take his typewriter with him, the group of campers were already getting out from the cabins and were already forming a group around the host. So he ignored the stares of the group as he finally managed to place his typewriter and then he found 2 of his backpacks nearby...
"Hmm... that's an idea." Ezekiel mused as he decided to put his plan in motion. "It's going to be difficult, and this would also be a disadvantage in the late game, but this plan is going to be my ace on the sleeve."
At the time he got out, his back was feeling the good weight of a full backpack while in front of him, there was the light of an empty backpack. By being with the other contestants. Neither of them seemed to be happy to wake up that early to see the host in such a cheerful mood. He even saw Eva bopping her head with her MP3 which was something that she kept as her most treasured object.
And here he was to see one iconic scene of Cody not knowing what was inside of his damn mind to try to touch something that wasn't his. And Eva glanced at Cody slowly approaching her MP3, she didn't try to bite him and growled... no... it was different.
"Touch it, and you die." Eva simply said that with her arms crossed, which made the geek stop in the middle act and a step away from her. "Good."
"What?" Ezekiel noticed that it was different from that time since he clearly could swear that Eva was... calmer than she should.
"Morning! Hope you slept well!" Chris smiled cheerfully as he could see the annoyed faces of the whole campers staring at him. Forming a lineup.
"Hi. Chris." Heather treated the host as if she seemed to not be affected by having a bad time sleeping. She seemed completely fine for the challenge that they were going to do that morning. "You looked buff in those shorts."
"I know." Chris smiled as he winked and pointed at her. And he was ready to explain the challenge of the day. "I hope you're all ready because your next challenge begins in exactly... one minute."
Chris looked at his watch to explain it would need one minute to start the challenge and was enough to take the attention of all the campers, especially the ones who seemed to be still sleepy.
"Oh, excuse me." Owen raised his hand to get the host's attention. "I don't know if that's enough time to eat breakfast."
"Oh, you'll get breakfast, Owen," Chris told the big guy but still having the iconic sadistic smile that Chris always has when he wants to screw everyone over. "Right after you complete your twenty-kilometer run around the lake!"
At the time Chris said that most of the campers looked unamused. Especially Eva who was with her arms crossed.
"So you want us to run twenty kilometers before eating anything?" Eva scoffed angrily as he could see the smiling face of Chris, which made her tight her fist but with a calm deep breath, she let it go... "You're enjoying us suffering, aren't you?"
"A little bit." Chris smiled as he looked at the clock. " You have 40 seconds."
Ezekiel stared at the scene, and blinked, not once, not twice... but something inside of his mind clicked...
"Something is different... Eva, didn't go berserk?" Ezekiel thought as he wanted to see what was going on.
CONFESSIONAL - COURTNEY
"Okay, Chris already making us run around just for later we eat the crappy food like every day? I don't think that's enough motivation. But I don't know why, but I could have sworn that Eva would have been throwing a fit." Courtney commented as she clearly remembered the events happening since the first day. "Since the first day, Eva has been controlling her temper better. As long as you don't interrupt her time in the hot tub, or touch her MP3. She is a mature girl as long you don't do those things. I don't know but I think I wouldn't have liked to deal with her if we haven't the hot tub."
"Okay, runners!" Chris called them out as the group of campers Gophers and Bass were lined up ready to start their long run. "On your marks...get set...go!"
When Chris said the word the whole group of campers already started the competition of the day, with each of them keeping up their own pace. It didn't take long until the good sun would give the campers a powerful heat, making it difficult for them to keep running.
But some campers like Sadie, Katie, Gwen and Harold. preferred to walk instead of run since it would be better to not waste their energy on such stupid things.
"Is there still a long way to go?" Harold wondered aloud, but after seeing a good group of campers running nearby them.
"Is there a way for you to shut your mouth?" Gwen decided to answer the question with another one. Which made the nerd close his mouth and decide to keep quiet around the run.
Heather, preferred to remain walking as she could see some other campers far away from her.
CONFESSIONAL - HEATHER
"I don't run," Heather confessed. But then she gave another point. "And there is no way in hell that I would run with heels."
Heather walked annoyed until she heard the loud sound of a dog licking the water, and when she looked around her eyes went wide open from seeing such a bizarre scene.
Owen was on his fours, licking the water of the puddle she was walking in.
"I *lick* can't *lick* take a breath *lick* must be a sickness condition," Owen said as he was trying to remain strong but the tiredness was enough to win and make him facedown with arms wide open on the puddle.
"Yeah, it's called Gluttonous fattiticuous, go treat yourself." Heather placed both her hands on her hips as she pointed out the absurdity the fat guy was suffering at that moment. While Leshawna was already on her limit near the tree.
"And what is your excuse, your crazy brat, skinny without the sense of humor... huf huf..." Leshawna was trying to insult the Korean girl but then the heat was too much for her as she started to pause and then stop insulting. "Whoa, I'm too tired to argue at this moment."
And on that time, Chris using his little motorcycle and a megaphone was going to add salt to their injuries.
"COME ON GUYS, SPEED UP, IF YOU DON'T MANAGE TO GET ON BREAKFAST IN TIME, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO EAT IT." Chris sang as he quickly passed from most of the campers while leaving Heather even angrier.
"UGH, I hate this guy so much." Heather tightened her fists and she managed to pass the puddle, by using the fat boy Owen as her path, and she didn't even look at the suffering boy who was being used as a stepstone for her.
(Main Lodge)
It didn't take so long until most of the members of Screaming Goophers, and Killer Bass managed to find themselves in.
"Thank God is over," Courtney said as she with Geoff, DJ, and Tyler placed themselves nearby somewhere to sit.
"I can't believe they managed to make us run around this challenge before eating something," Eva said as she was already with her feet on the table.
"Eva? Whe...how..." Courtney said as she was confused about seeing the bodybuilder already enjoying a bit of her rest on the main lodge.
"Passed you when you were looking around at the stupid Chris driving his stupid motorcycle" Eva grumped as she was still angry about the host doing that humiliation on them, but she held herself together. "I'm going to take a long time on the hot tube after this."
"Hmm, do you mind if I also go? I'm already tired of this challenge." Courtney asked as she couldn't help but agree with the bodybuilder, a gal who knows that if they have an advantage to rely on, they would use and abuse such an advantage.
"Suit yourself," Eva replied, as Ezekiel also got inside the same main lodge, which made him see that Eva was calmer than in the actual episodes of the show, and while a part of him already could guess the reason for that, he cannot help but be shocked and surprised that it was indeed a huge difference into having a calmer Eva, since now she could be an even stronger potential challenge to the other campers.
But deciding to follow his way of life, Ezekiel just smiled and let the show go on. Who knows who could be potentially eliminated today in case the bass loses again, since the reason why in the cannon was because Heather took the opportunity to touch Eva's MP3 and waited the day after to make Eva suffer the consequences of her berserker mode.
Ezekiel knowing that the game was going to start to get worse from there, decided to sit among the Killer Bass...
"Welp... that was easy." Ezekiel smiled as he was still sweating a lot from the exercise, especially after releasing a heavy backpack above the table which made his teammates stare at him in surprise, but then before they even asked about what happened, Ezekiel then slowly narrowed his eyes, knowing on how the challenge would go. "Too...easy..."
The tone of his voice was noticeable to Duncan and DJ who were nearby him, and with that, they also could understand the meaning behind his words.
"What do you mean by that?" Bridgette asked as she sat nearby them, and before Ezekiel replied, Duncan sat as he understood what was happening.
"I have to agree with Zeke, something is up. On the first day of the challenge, they made us jump towards a pool infested with sharks... Running miles before breakfast sounded too ordinary for a challenge, something is up." Duncan was street-wise enough to see something was up, and from the tone of the voice of the homeschooled boy, he also could see some red flags of the challenge.
And by explaining the way the last challenge went, the group of Killer Bass, then looked at each other.
"So you mean, that this is possible an advantage challenge? And the whole team to appear first is going to have the advantage on the next challenge?" Courtney could see the way the challenge would have gone, and by seeing the possible pattern, both Ezekiel and Duncan stared at each other, and became in silence... because one didn't know the answer, while the other didn't want to explain further what was going to happen.
"So what is our plan for dealing with this?" Bridgette asked which made Duncan, Courtney, Ezekiel, and Eva look at each other.
Ezekiel knows the answer, however, he didn't like to be the one to explain it to his team, he didn't have a choice.
"I think it would be for the best if we have someone already in mind to vote it off," Ezekiel commented while the others had in mind, but didn't courage to tell. So an idea struck inside his mind. "Maybe we should also be honest with the person we have in mind to vote off, making them aware to give their best performance, that way if they surpass our expectations we can vote off the worst person who made a mistake today. It would be the best time for them to prove themselves."
Duncan became quiet while Courtney also became thoughtfully with the idea, however, Eva narrowed her eyes.
"And who do you think should be the one who deserves to leave?" Eva was already glaring as she had in mind that people would try to stab her back.
"If you think it's you, Eva, you are out of your mind, you were one MVP from the last challenge." Ezekiel immediately noticed that she was starting to get annoyed, and even if Ezekiel knew about Eva's temper, from the first challenge, Eva became a good piece to help them achieve victory.
The sudden comment, made the bodybuilder blink, as her silence was enough to show her surprise.
"Yeah, you were asleep at the time we decided the best trio of MVP on the challenge." Courtney agreed as she pointed out and explained how the conversation of the hot tube was...
Eva who was listening with her stubborn semblance, suddenly gave a slight smile of relief before coming back to her usual scornful face. So as the whole group became quiet, it wasn't Ezekiel who was the one who gave the suggestion.
"I have one good idea who was the weakest link of the team. A duo of stupid girls." Duncan said as he already could see Ezekiel glancing at him, the delinquent wasn't kind with his words. "They have been a pain in our asses since the start of the show."
"Duncan, while I understand that those girls can be pretty handful without being together, and possibly a burden to us to carry, we shouldn't do that without her c..." Bridgette was about to cut the idea from Duncan, but suddenly was surprised by Ezekiel.
"I will tell them both." Ezekiel made sure to be known as the whole group, which Courtney and Bridgette looked at the hat boy staring at the door. "What Duncan said may be harsh, but there was a truth behind it, they are too dependent on each other. And for them to truly compete on this show, or even grow up as a person, they must learn on this game, there will be a time that they are going to be a part, even if they want it or not."
"Well then." Duncan smiled as he tightened his fist. "So we warn the duo of twins that they are at risk of being eliminated today, and if they don't prove themselves, they are going to be on the verge of elimination."
Courtney remained in silence, but looking at how her team had the possibility of winning or losing, she must always have a backup plan, but the idea of warning the person who was on the verge of elimination and incentive them to prove themselves to be better was a good way to make sure that she would remain on the competition, and she would be the one winning.
"Usually it would have been best to eliminate the strongest members because they would become a threat in the future." Courtney gave a counterpoint, as she somehow believed someone would betray her at any moment.
"That's a stupid idea." And at that time Ezekiel surprised Courtney by saying that. "While it would be the best to make you the strongest, it would be always the best to rely on your team. We won last time because we worked together, and the Screaming Gophers have a drama between themselves. I would prefer to eliminate the strongest of the other team instead of our strongest members because it's best to win against the enemy you know the strength of losing to an enemy you have no idea about their strengths."
Ezekiel's comment made both Courtney, Duncan, and Eva stare in surprise by that point since the boy even decided to make a good example.
"Movies of competitions which have great success had some of the best endings when two childhood friends went to the finals to show their strong developments, as the rivalry was awaited during all the time, sure that the arrogant antagonist which most people want to see to lose is appealing, it would create a better cheer over the finals when all the public is divided to who to cheer them on, dividing friends and rivals until the end." Ezekiel knows good movies and shows which ended up with that kind of climax.
"And you got that right Ezekiel." Suddenly a voice could be heard from behind him, as the whole group of campers stared at the one host who was smiling widely at them. "Usually having the chaos as a drama also works many times, but in some great movies, as one of my badminton one, I acted with a good friend of mine and used our friendship to make a way for both of us wanting to win with all coast, we did a great final, and let me tell you a secret... the last throw was improvised, and we both really wanted to win."
Ezekiel looked at Chirs, and was surprised to hear such a comment, learning from even the crazy sadistic Chris Maclaine that one of his acting, was improvisation was something out of your mind.
"And what you are doing here Chris?" Courtney asked as she narrowed her eyes, as she saw that the host was listening to their conversation.
"Well, I'm here to wait for the other campers, nothing more than that. But your conversation about giving some incentive was a good strategy and a good way to start a drama, so I say keep it up because the audience will love to see how the duo of twins will react and how will they do in the rest of the challenge." Chris smiled, as he clearly could see the suffering the whole team would have when dealing with such a horrible challenge he had in mind. "Oh and look at that, it seems the twins are finally here, with DJ and Geoff."
And like Chris has said, the whole group of Bass, with also some of the Goophers like Heather, Beth, Gwen, and even Izzy. Sadie and Katie were tired after the long walk, and they decided to drop themselves over the table. The other Gophers were on the other side of the Main Lodge, making Ezekiel glance at Courtney and Duncan...
The duo remained quiet, but they directed their heads towards the twins.
"Katie and Sadie," Ezekiel said as he used the most serious tone, which not only brought the attention of the twins but also the Jamaican and the party boy. "We need to have a serious conversation right now."
"Ohhhh, what is it?" Sadie asked as she got excited to hear someone talking directly to her. "What do you want to talk about? Is it about Justin? He is so lovely."
"Yes, he reminds me of the time we met that British boy in the mall, he was so cute. Oh, oh, we need to go to the mall after the show." Katie commented that she was feeling excited and Sadie was also happy with the idea.
"Yeah, as the time we ca..." Sadie was about to concur with her best friend when Ezekiel didn't even want to beat around the bush since he was already annoyed.
"You both are on the verge of elimination," Ezekiel said and just like that, the girls froze and looked at him in horror, as DJ and Geoff didn't even have a good reaction as well. "Since we don't know that we can win, you both were chosen since from the last challenge you both became the primary option to be voted off in case we lose..."
"Wha...what..." Katie stuttered as Sadie had her own eyes watering from such words.
Before the duo starts crying. Ezekiel pressed further.
"So that's why we want you both to do your best because you both have something to prove... and if in case you both fail the task, it will become between you both who will be voted off," Ezekiel said with the most solemn tone, as a good part of him felt the pain of seeing the faces of both Katie and Sadie. "I'm sorry, but the power of friendship just works when you both work together to be stronger and not when you become too dependent that you would be useless without each other."
With that, Ezekiel left the chair and decided to walk to the bathroom, while Duncan had to whistle by watching this scene, and Chris was smiling like it was the best day of his life.
"Wow, cold and sharp speech, maybe I should add this one in case I become an antagonist in my next movie." Chris loved the way the homeschooled boy gave the carrot and the stick to both twins, and he can already see the viewers of the show showing empathy for the twins, but also giving to Ezekiel for speaking facts.
CONFESSION EZEKIEL
"Did I feel bad for speaking the truth to the duo of annoying siblings who couldn't live without each other?" Ezekiel stared at the camera as he was scratching his head in reflection. "No, I didn't, these two need to understand that it's okay to depart for a few days or weeks without each other. Because these two became so annoying for not being on the same team... they cried without each other, they shouted without each other... they don't even go to the bathroom without each other... I swear, if there was a case of them ending up peeing into Poison Ivy, the duo would be doing it without thinking twice. They are not stronger together, but they are both weak alone...It's not worth the burden from them both."
Ezekiel explained the facts about what happened.
"I tried, I tried to be patient, but they don't realize that on this show, everything is a big deal... for the same could be said of the drama, if anyone had the choice they wouldn't think twice about how to make them both depart of each other. Just for the sake of the drama." And with that Ezekiel pressed the flush, and the static went off.
At the time Ezekiel came back, there were both Katie and Sadie who were holding themselves together and crying loudly, much to his exasperation and also for a few members of the team. DJ looked sadly at him but became quiet, while Tyler tried to help the girls, but both of them just slapped on his face and started to cry even louder.
"It seems that they cannot learn their lesson." Ezekiel sighed in disappointment. But with a resolute mind, as he knew that it didn't matter since sooner or later neither of the twins would grow up until each of them departed from the other, Sadie did have more opportunities the first season as she was alone, and she grew a bit of her character, however such terrible skill and with Courtney without patience, it leads the chubby camper on the shame boat towards the well-rested island, but she didn't grow a character, and became irrelevant in the future.
Ezekiel, would have worded it better, but a part of him as a watcher of the show, never actually cared for both of his siblings, but being near them made him agree more with Duncan when it comes to launching both girls to the lions... So Ezekiel found it ironic how he preferred to eliminate Sadie and Katie way before the season than see them get lost in the forest trying to have the terrible fight of siblings and being spoiled brats who would just make amends on the time the team loses.
Looking for the other side, and seeing that indeed most of the Goophers were staring at him from the choice of words he just said, he knew that sometimes doing the meddling work was a chaotic spot, since most of the time he would receive the blame and the judgment of the others, but sometimes for people to grow up, they needed to understand that being a teenager is fine, but in the competition, people wouldn't care if you are the best friends with someone if you don't has the drive to win.
By opening one of his backpacks, Ezekiel took from inside what would be a sketchbook, which made the Kille Bass group stare at him in surprise. And a good pencil in his hands, Ezekiel decided to distract himself from the bad thoughts on how the boredom would get for him, and a good way to relax himself from the pressure of waiting for the whole team in silence.
"Oh hey, Zeke. Is that a sketchbook?" DJ asked as Tyler also approached to see curiously what was on the hat boy doing at the moment, and at the time he nodded to him, as he turned a few pages which revealed some of his works. Some of the works were a complete version of a cartoon style but each of them doing being like a well sketched in pencil made the Jamaican awe from seeing it. "Woaa dude."
Tyler quickly looked and he was also surprised to see how the boy managed to create great creations, which Ezekiel called inside of his mind a fanart from some own customized works he created the way he remembered.
"Dude, look at this one, a group of chicks using weapons," Tyler said as he looked at the art style of some of the girls, one using a lance, the other a whip, and the other two gauntlets. "This trio looks awesome. And also a boy is using a shield."
"Oh yeah, they are my creation, they are from Steve Universe," Ezekiel commented as he was about to draw some doodles, but from seeing the Killer Bass approaching to see it, he didn't mind it.
"Wow Ezekiel, these are pretty nice work," Courtney commented as she could see that some of the fanart looked clean and also well made, without sensualizing them, it was more like they were in a combat way and every girl looked badass.
"Thanks, Courtney, I have been doing a lot of preparation to make them ready as I can imagine. She is Pearl, that one is Amethyst, and the tallest of them is Garnet, and this little boy is the main character, Steven Universe." Ezekiel presented to his friends around every single character, as Duncan scoffed but didn't show that he was impressed by the work. Even Katie and Sadie let out sudden crying being interested to see more of it and being happy to be distracting themselves from sudden bad thoughts.
Bridgette took that as an opportunity to see how Ezekiel viewed the Crystal Gems and hoped that it wouldn't have been that well-puberty-matured images, and to her surprise, every single one of them was gorgeous, but their most humanized way but also showed a good well-structured part of being a mineral, like a gem... She loved to see the little boy fanart named Steven since she always thought Steven would have been bound with a hat, but seeing a little chubby kid of 7 years old made her smile even further... On the next page, she saw the name of someone that she wanted so much to know.
"What about that one? The one with four arms?" Bridgette asked as she then looked at the actual drawing of her for the first time. The long hair, the way her forehead and chest somehow lighted on the shadows, and the way that she was holding a freaking bow, with a different kind of arrow. The clothing... that art was gorgeous.
"Oh, that's Opal," Ezekiel said as he showed the art he did about the character, which made the whole group awe once again, which this time Bridgette now had something she was happy to know... she knew who the giant woman was... And now she can use it as her main point of imagination when she has the opportunity to finally read Ezekiel's work... if he gives his permission to her to read.
CONFESSION- DJ.
"It was awesome to see how dedicated Ezekiel was to achieve his first book, he showed so much on what was his plans around Steven Universe, and he told me there would be a lot of drama with some wholesome moments, and it made me want to read it once. But then I saw his sketches of Courage, and he is the most adorable Beagle I ever seen in my life. And the Muriel, Momma if you ever saw it, it would be almost like you looking at yourself in the mirror, but she is Scottish, but I can see how much Courage loved her..." Dj said as he happily commented on the confession, which then he gave a nervous smile, and sweat a bit from thinking a bit more. "But also some of his scared shouts made me a bit scared. When Ezekiel said Courage shouted a lot, he even showed how many drawings he had on his scared face, and there was one section dedicated to villains that he made me look away because it would be too much for me, and from seeing Duncan actually stared at Ezekiel and almost freaking out showed how much dark the villains were. So I'm glad he did it. Eustace looks exactly like I imagined, so I guess he had it coming. But anyway, can't wait to see more of it."
DJ commented as he didn't notice someone suddenly opening the door.
"BUGA WUGA WUGA WUGA GUGA."
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH." DJ jumped as he also farted on live television, while it showed Duncan laughing from seeing the coward Jamaican scream in fear of his life. "IT'S NOT FUNNY."
"HAHAHAHAHA. OH, IT IS. Now I can see why Eustace does that, it's hilarious." Duncan said as he left the confession bathroom, and the Jamaican narrowed his eyes.
"Oh, that's going to have a payback," DJ swore as the static took place again from the confession.
An hour has passed since most of the campers who were in the main lodge remained mostly bored and fighting the tiredness from their bodies. Some of them were with their heads lying on the table as they were on the verge of sleep, waiting for the other teammates to appear and put an end to the challenge many sought it would have.
Chris was enjoying his time by filling his nails and humming a song.
Most of the campers seemed to be tired of waiting for the other campers at that moment until like a blast the door was opened with Owen crawling like a zombie.
"Finally, food. Feed me, feed me." Owen went on the table and when he collapsed it was enough to break the whole table as the group of the tired Screaming Goophers gave some space for the chubby happy camper to have some room.
"Oh boy, we made it..." Leshawna appeared completely exhausted, as her entire body went to the knees and she started crawling inside of the lodge. And with that the whole Screaming Goophers inside the main lodge.
"Wow, why did it take you so long?" Courtney looked both concerned but also impatient. She could see Harold holding his chest like he was almost having a heart attack. "We don't know if we lost the challenge if you were the last one who came?"
"UGHH AHHH, I think I'm having a palpitation," Harold said as he used both his hands to clutch his chest, as his eyes got open and the group of Killer Bass didn't know if he was being dramatic or not.
Gwen as she was listening the group suddenly got a thought on her mind.
"Hey, wait a minute. If they lost, that means we won the challenge!" At the time Gwen used the logic, she felt very happy to explain to her group, and at the time she said that the Gophers quickly cheered, happily with their first victory.
"Whoa there! Hold your horses, guys." Chris then decided to step in, which made Ezekiel, Duncan, and even Eva glance at each other thinking the same thing... It wasn't that easy. "That wasn't the challenge!"
"What did you just say?" Gwen's eyes twitched as she looked at the host weirdly. The group of campers went into a whole marathon with empty hands.
At the time Chris walked in the direction of a giant purple curtain which made Tyler suddenly realize one thing.
"Hey guys, is it just me or did this curtain just appear from nowhere?" Tyler pointed out but then he received a slap on the back of his head from the delinquent who rolled his eyes.
"No idiot, you were knocked out when Chris came here and explained that there was something behind the curtains and not explained if was a reward or something like that," Duncan explained as he pointed out to Chris who seemed to be ready. "What kind of torturing challenge Chris may have in mind behind that curtain?"
"Who's hungry!?" And with that Chris then pulled back a certain way, revealing something that made most of the camper's, if not all of them have their eyes sparkling and drool like they were a bunch of starving animals. A buffet table was completely stacked with foods of great quality, which made them think they had died and had woken up in heaven.
CONFESSIONAL - GWEN
"After a whole week of brown sludge, I almost cried when I saw that buffet," Gwen admitted as she pointed out how they have to eat the most disgusting kind of food made by the chef himself.
CONFESSIONAL - OWEN
"And then I saw it, the buffet table. It was beautiful." Owen said with his voice showing that he may have entered into an oasis while he felt the richest man in earth. "There was turkey and Nanamo bars, and baked beans and maple syrup!"
"Sniff Ha... can I have a minute?" Owen shed some tears as he felt emotionally touched by seeing the good food once again in his life.
The brunch around the Main Lodge was something Ezekiel never thought he would have seen in his life, he always were curious about how the characters may have enjoyed the buffet from episode 3 of Total Drama, and from looking at that angle, he could see what he was missing.
Duncan, DJ, and Geoff were eating like a bunch of animals, like they desperately needed to feed themselves from the pray, while Harold even as skinny as he was, was eating rice and beans in such a way that Ezekiel thought he was watching a nerd trying to replicate the cultural art of anime eating rice bowl style. Harold was using a fork to push down rice at an angle like the plate was on his face.
It wasn't pretty. Neither Owen made it easier since he was eating all the food like a bottomless garbage disposal.
But from all the food Ezekiel was looking for, there was one thing he was aiming for, breads and desserts. It would be risky and it would be a mess... But Ezekiel knew that he would need it.
Grab slices of cakes, cups of mousse, cinnamon rolls, and a few breads. It was enough to fill his empty backpack.
"Why are you placing the food in the backpack dude?" Tyler noticed the hat camper hiding the food from the others, which made Ezekiel stare at him, but not before thinking about what to say...
"Well, we finally had a great time eating a lot of good food, don't you think it would be best if we save it for tomorrow in case we would need it?" Ezekiel quickly pointed out one of the advantages of eating the food of Chef Hatchet. "If tomorrow we start eating Military food again, at least I have backup food in case I want something nice to eat."
"Ohhhh, that's smart dude." Tyler nodded his head, as he decided to take some bread and place it in his pocket, which Ezekiel smiled at since a good strategy in case they would need it in the future. But now that he filled his backpack for later. Ezekiel finally could enjoy the good food Chef Hatchet did for them, enjoying the days of paradise in case hell took a break.
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"Uuuuuuuuugh..." With the passing of time, the group finally went to the final point, where the entire buffet was completely eaten. Almost everyone was either groaning or holding their completely stuffed stomachs.
Chris satisfied to see how his evil plan has been working well so far, decided to start the true reason for the buffet after the exercises.
"Ok, campers!" Chris called to everyone, and the group winced when he used the megaphone. "Time for part two of your challenge!"
"I thought eating was the second part." Owen groaned with his mouth full and with food staining on his face. And while the Scream Gophers looked at the host of the show confused, the Killer Bass then glanced at each other, knowing what they suspected and feared was about to happen.
"What more do you want from us?" Gwen asked as she was feeling her stomach dropping, from all the food she ate.
"Weird goth girl is right." Heather admitted while groaning herself." Haven't we been through enough?"
Chris looked annoyed but decided to reply to Heather with a bit of sarcasm.
"Um...Let me think about that...No!" Chris said with a giant smirk on his face. Knowing that he was going to enjoy the next part of the challenge. "It's time for ... The Awake-a-thon!"
"The what-a-thon?" Owen asked as he looked confused about the name of the challenge.
"Don't worry! This is an easy one!" Chris said as he went down from the table, and decided to explain the rules. The sound of the megaphone could still amplify his voice to make all the campers hear. "The team with the last camper standing wins invincibility!"
Gwen then realized what the plan of the host was, but she decided to ask just to be sure.
"So, what you're saying is the 20k run and the turkey-eating frenzy were part of your evil plan to make it harder for us to stay awake?" Gwen asked, finally understanding what the actual challenge of the day was.
"That's right, Gwen!" Chris happily admitted.
"Man, he's good." Gwen had to say, the host was certainly good at planning.
Leshwana nodded her head as she felt terrified from seeing how devious the host of the show could be.
"Alright campers, to the campfire pit!" Chris instructed everyone as he started to leave the main lodge."Move, move, move!"
And while the group seemed to be walking knowing that they were in a deadly trap. DJ was about to follow them.
"Hey DJ, can you help me to carry this?" A voice was enough to make him snap from his concentration, just to see Ezekiel trying to raise two backpacks. "I think I can't handle this alone."
The Jamaican camper shrugged but at the time he took one backpack, he felt that it was heavy, like 20 pounds of weight.
"What is inside of this?" DJ asked as he used a bit of his strength to carry it, offering his other hand, Ezekiel smiled as he gave the other backpack which is lighter than the other.
"Oh, it's something you are not going to believe," Ezekiel said as he stretched himself, "I don't know why, but I had a feeling that I would need it."
DJ nodded his head as the duo passed towards Gween and went to the fire pit.
"So," Trent walked up to Gwen while holding his stomach. "How long do you think it'll be before everyone's out cold?"
"Possibly an hour" Gwen tried to guess but at that moment, Owen passed by groaning loudly with some drool escaping from his mouth..." Or even less"
And from the time it started passing by, the Killer Bass team looked at Ezekiel if he was the craziest person alive...
Courtney, Eva, and DJ looked in disbelief, not finding the right words to say.
"No way," Duncan said as he started laughing.
"That's so cool," Harold said loudly as he had to admit that nobody ever thought about it.
"DUUUUUDE." Tyler shouted in disbelief, as Katie and Sadie couldn't even help but be surprised.
And on the Gophers side, all the other team was surprised and in disbelief.
"Is he for real?" Heather asked in disbelief as she couldn't help but find another weirdo in the show. "Should even this be allowed?"
"Didn't he carry the weight on the running with him?" Owen asked Trent who nodded his head.
"Yeah, maybe Chris allowed because of that" Trent had to confess that he was surprised.
"I should have expected that," Gwen commented but with a good smile on her face. "A good plan thought."
Bridgette agreed, she was still surprised, but she shouldn't have been. It was a genius plan.
Ding
Ezekiel pushed the metal bar on the left, as he continued to use his typewriter above the log where he was supposed to sit.
"With a time like this? I can have a loooooooooot of work done. This may be the best challenge ever." Ezekiel said as his many blocks of papers with already written chapters of Steven Universe, Adventure Time and Courage the Cowardly Dog were nearby him."
The sun which was around the sky finally decided to act as a good way to indicate the hours and by passing by quickly the hours since the Marathon, until that moment it reached in red letters.
12 HOURS LATER
All 21 campers were hanging around the campfire site. Most of the Screaming Gophers looked exhausted with bags under their eyes. On the Bass team, the morale seemed to be the opposite.
"Noooo," Harold commented as he was shifting for another page. "Marceline owns the house Finn and Jake live?"
"Yep," Ezekiel smiled as he continued pressing the keys of the typewriter, while the good part of the Killer Bass team, seemed to be distracting themselves from reading some of the works made by the homeschooled boy.
Since it was like the group was sitting and talking as well, the idea to keep their minds distracted gave an advantage towards the awake-a-ton.
Chris smiled as he appeared to show their progress.
"We're now twelve hours." Chris's voice softly spoke up as the camera gave a view of all the campers struggling to stay awake. "So far all 21 campers are still wide awake."
"Woohoo!" Owen cheered with heavy bags under his eyes as he tried to stay awake with his usual happiness and enthusiasm. "I can do that in my sleep! Woohoo…" After a few seconds, Owen proceeded to pass out on the ground with a thud, the Gophers falling to 9 awake members.
CONFESSIONAL – GWEN
"The Awake-a-thon was definitely the most brutal thing I've ever done in my life," Gwen said with a sigh.
Gwen let out a loud yawn as she looked down at the ground, feeling like complete crap.
"This is the most boring thing I've ever done in my life," Gwen said with Trent sitting next to her. By seeing some of the killer Bass team reading the sheets of paper and even showing their reaction, while the others were talking in cheerful mode she couldn't help but envy. "I should have brought a book to read."
"Yeah, that was a smart plan. But it could be way worse."The guitarist let out a yawn before looking at Gwen.
"Oh yeah?" Gwen questioned as she looked at Trent. "How?"
"I could be stuck here without you to talk to."Trent smiled at the Goth girl and said that.
Gwen couldn't help but give a small smile at Trent's words, a small hint of pink coming to her cheeks.
All the while Heather watched with narrowed eyes. Knowing that now she needs to think quickly.
CONFESSIONAL – HEATHER
"So my strategy is to get two other campers to form an alliance with me and take to the final three," Heather explained as she put a finger to her chin. "Beth is already in my hands since she showed the utmost loyalty. I can ask her to jump and she would jump without thinking twice. Now, I just need to solidify one more member... But the only question is, who can I find that is either desperate or dumb enough to do whatever I say like Beth?"
Heather watched around until a voice caught her attention.
"What are you doing?" Gwen asked with a raised eyebrow as she and Trent looked to see Lindsay trying to stand on her head.
"Trying…to get the blood to rush to my head," Lindsay answered with a smile on her face. "Heh…I think it's working."
"Can I try?" Beth asked as she walked next to Lindsay.
"Sure!" Lindsay encouraged.
Heather looked at both Lindsay and Beth with a grin.
"Perfect. Great job Beth." Heather smiled as she walked towards the duo who seemed to be trying to do the same thing. Heather walked towards the duo. "Hey, girls."
"Oh hey, Heather? Want to join us?" Beth asked while Heather rolled her eyes.
"I prefer to pass. But thanks for inviting me." Heather used her rude tone, but seeing Beth eager to please her, she decided to add a bit of smooth tone, before going back to her strategy. "Lindsy, Beth, can I talk to you for a second?"
"Sure!" Both girls said in unison…both standing on their heads.
As they left the group of the Goophers, Heather crossed her arms as she smiled at the plan working so well in her favor.
"Well girls, I have a plan to bring me and two more girls to the final 3. And since Beth knows about this, I also choose you Lindsay to reach the final 3." Heather played her cards right, since Beth nodded her head as a good minion, and Lindsay was feeling awestruck by the idea that she was going to be on the final three.
"Really?" Lindsay seemed to be so happy as she couldn't help but ask.
Heather nodded as she felt satisfied with her plan completed.
"You should know that this is a very big deal. I am placing my trust in you, and trust is a two-way street." Heather said solemnly as she could see the girls eating on the palm of her hand. "So you'll do everything I say, then?"
"Sure.!" Lindsay squealed loudly, "WE'RE GOING TO THE FINAL THREE!"
Heather cringed from the loud shout and Beth who also heard the scream palled,
"Shhhhhhh." Beth said as she was afraid, and looking around if the group was looking at them. "Lindsay please more quiet, they cannot know we are doing this."
"Why not?" Lindsay asked while Heather raised her eyebrow.
"Last challenge I messed up, and I don't want them to keep targeting me until I get out. If they keep finding an excuse to try to vote for me, I will never be able to be on the final 3," Beth said exasperated. Which made Lindsay and even Heather understand how desperate Beth was... "I got lucky, really lucky. If wasn't for Heather and Cody defending me, I would have been the one leaving."
Heather remained quiet.
CONFESSION HEATHER:
"Okay, that girl needs a life. Come on, while I'm full force on participating in the competition and I plan to crush down to the victory, all I just did was simply let her carry my crate, and defend her just to send the bookworm away." Heather said in disbelief, as she knew the words she just said. "I mean, I don't care how her life would be when she loses the prize, but come on, we are also here to try to be famous, and there must be a limit on how desperate the person must be... and I'm not going to teach her how to have a life, oh no, no way. Take me out of this."
CONFESSION BETH:
"I don't want to go home this early. I have so much to prove... and the nightmare I had yesterday of me dragging down my team again didn't help me at all... I want to be on the final three, and this is my only chance." Beth said as she sweated from the future. "How things will go until there?"
The trio of girls went to their places to continue the challenge, while the whole group of Killer Bass was still their conversation...
In the next hour, nothing seemed to happen.
"Ughhh, okay. I think I'm going to have a break now." Ezekiel said as he then took his other backpack which by opening made the Killer Bass look surprised. "Ah, a cake break is always a good idea."
"Did you just bring food?" Courtney asked as she stopped reading the sheets and was enjoying a good time talking with Tyler.
"Oh yeah. I forgot." Tyler slapped his face, and then from his pocket, he took bread and started eating. "Man, that was a genius plan."
"Yep, me and Tyler, noticed that we may come back eating the usual cam food, so we just took some reserves in an emergency... so like right now, my body craves sugar," Ezekiel said as he started eating the cake. And making the others groan. By either for still being full from eating, or for the fact they would return eating Chef's food when the challenge's over.
Eva glanced, she was currently sitting next to both Bridgette and Geoff while listening to heavy metal music on her MP3 player. The athlete decided that she had enough so she stood up as she put her MP3 in her pocket.
"I'm going to the bathroom," Eva told everyone as she headed toward the bathroom area. But as she walked, her MP3 player fell out of her pocket.
Heather watched this happen and a smirk came to her face. But before she even got up from her seat. There was a shout which made everyone alert.
"YO, EVA, YOUR MP3 FELL ON THE FLOOR," Ezekiel shouted as he was eating his cake, which made the bodybuilder girl freeze, and then quickly checked on the pocket, and to see that it was the truth, she glanced at the floor, which for such a relief, she went back and took it from there. But at the time she was going to leave... She went to the homeschooled boy and gave him a crushing hug, just to his panic and dismay. "Ughhhhhhh."
"Thanks, you have no idea how this is important to me." Eva released him as she heard the sound of bones snapping, and immediately left the area to go to the bathroom.
"Pain, pain... gratefulness is pain," Ezekiel said as his own feet were twitching and his entire body was on the floor.
Heather, scoffed. As she found nothing would have been that easy.
24 HOURS
The night has filled the island, as the red letters finally reached the 24-hour mark. On the Screaming Gophers' side, Owen and Izzy had all fallen asleep with everyone else looking exhausted and ready to fall anytime now. All except Justin who was standing firm, unmoving with his chest puffed out and his eyes wide open.
On the Killer Bass side, the whole group is still awake but different from the beginning, most of them looked deeply annoyed by one specific thing.
*tec, tec, tec, tec. Ding, wrap;*
Duncan, Eva, Courtney, and Tyler were already covering their ears from always the constant annoying sound of the typewriter constantly typing the next work.
"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE. I WANT TO DESTROY THIS ABOMINATION." Duncan said as he really tried to go towards Ezekiel who seemed to be constantly typing, and being in his zone. The dark circles on his eyes showed how deeply he was doing so much for the next project. And the delinquent wanted to destroy the bane of all the annoying sounds.
"DUNCAN STOP," Courtney said as she was doing her best to not be annoyed, and she and DJ used both forces to hold the delinquent away from the hat boy. At that moment the group seemed to be on the verge of fighting each other, a sigh was heard from the said boy.
"Ahhhh, thank God it's over. I'm going to have a break." Ezekiel said which made the group of Killer Bass finally achieve peace. "I'm going to the bathroom."
"Finally, with that annoying sound, I couldn't even...sleep..." Duncan said as he was finally achieving a conclusion which made not just him, but some of the other members of the team realize... "BEEP. I forgot we shouldn't sleep. WE NEED IT TO STAY AWAKE."
And before the group would even try to reach Ezekiel to ask to come back, a voice that appeared from the last person they wanted to hear on that night, was from the host himself.
"Congratulations, campers!" Chris said as he watched the completely exhausted and sleep-deprived campers from next to the metal barrier. "You've made it to the twenty-four-hour mark. Time to take things up a notch!"
"Fairy Tales!" Everyone then watched as Chris pulled a sheet off of what was revealed to be a large stack of books.
"Oh, he's not serious!" Gwen complained as that was one of the last things she wanted right now.
"Well, I have one special for you all." Chris smiled evilly as he went nearby to the Killer Bass group, and quickly looked at one of the blocks of paper, he found the one he was looking for. "This one was written by your team member yesterday, and when I was watching the security cameras, I slept like a log for a few hours after he read it for a grammar review. Let's start with this one... Courage the cowardly dog, and the Sandman sleep."
"Oh no" The whole group of Killer Bass who was staring at Chris, now got on his hands one story which could be a killing factor to anyone who was going to listen to it. And with Ezekiel in the bathroom, their source of protection is now against them.
Chris then cleared his throat and got ready to read…only for a harp to be heard everyone watched and laughed as Chef Hatchet came up next to Chris wearing a pink sheep costume. Chef growled as Chris and a few others laughed at him until the host cleared his throat again and started reading from the book.
"In a farm... in the middle of Nowhere. There was a family of three, which everyone knows who is. Murial who was using her nighty to sleep, was enjoying a good time with her constant snoring. Eustace seemed to be sleeping unaffected by the constant snoring... but our lovely purple beagle Courage was pulling his eyelids to try to see if he could sleep with that constant noise... and from another side of somewhere, there was a giant sand castle, where it was a man dressed in purple, and black mask, doing the constantly counting the sheep jumping over his bed... 632.000.498, 632.000.499..."
"Sadie, we cannot sleep first." Katie tried to help her sister to remain awake, but the chubby camper was doing her best to remain awake, Sadie just stared at Katie who was on the verge of crying.
"It's too late for me...Katie, please be strong, for both of us." Sadie gave a sad smile as she closed her eyes for the first time.
"Noooooo." Katie was about to lament when she was the next victim of the impactful weight of tiredness and sleep.
The story ended up getting quite a few yawns from some of the campers. It even managed to get a member of the Gophers out. Cody, who proceeded to lay asleep on Owen's butt, started to dream about the sandman having problems sleeping, and how the idea of stealing someone's sleep was good enough for his imagination to fly... but…only to be woken up by Owen farting. But he was still out.
When Ezekiel came back, Chris was in the middle of telling his work. Later Ezekiel had to conclude.
CONFESSION - EZEKIEL:
"Courage Cowardly Dog and the Sandman Sleep was a creation I had for people who suffered from insomnia. Since there was a time my pa was having problems without a reason on why he couldn't sleep... The ending may surprise you on how little personal things were the factor on how to help us to sleep well at night." Ezekiel commented as he was feeling proud of his work. "Still a low blow, Chris."
More time passed as more and more campers kept falling like flies. Ezekiel tried his best to keep writing, but suddenly he started to see double... He shook his head, and once again shoved another dessert on his face, to keep eating just to recover his energy. And by eating bread, he was prepared for what was coming next. But no other campers were as ready as him.
It got even worse when Chef, now dressed up like a ballerina, started dancing around with Chris playing The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy on radio as Chef through some sort of sleep-inducing sparkles on the other campers with these sparkles managing to knock DJ out as he tied himself to a tree…causing the tree to fall.
40 HOURS
CONFESSIONAL – COURTNEY
"I figured that if I kept moving, I could outlast all of them," Courtney explained her strategy on constantly running in place. "I just had to keep my eye on the ball."
"Courtney," Courtney was focused on doing her exercise, but the voice broke her concentration. "Carbs, you need carbs."
Then she found in the hands of Ezekiel offering bread to her, which made her raise her eyebrow to him.
"I'm on my limit. Good luck in winning for the team." Ezekiel said as he wasn't able to keep it going, and with just like that, the long plan of stalling their chances was finally crumbling.
And with that, the Killer Bass another member, now made them to be the remaining four of their team. Duncan, Courtney, Eva, and Geoff. All of them seemed to be losing their energy quickly and were too bored and tired to do anything else.
The screaming Gophers also weren't having a good time either, since Heather decided to elbow one of her alliance members.
"We need to talk about our strategy." Heather tried to remain positive and in control of the challenge, but the moment Lindsay fell from her seat, it showed how much was, especially when she looked at her other member Beth, who was knocked out and with her legs in the air. "Beth?"
"Ok, favorite song?" Gwen asked as she and Trent continued to sit next to each other. To both pass the time and to help each other stay awake, they kept asking each other various questions.
"She will be Loved." Trent thought about it for a moment before answering. And with a smile on his face before asking his question. "Favorite color?"
"Midnight blue." Gwen didn't even have to think about this one.
"Ooh, mysterious. I like that." Trent said with a little grin on his face. Gwen smiled but soon yawned causing Trent to quickly put a hand on her shoulder. "Aw, don't fall asleep. Okay, quick. Favorite movie moment?"
"You're gonna think it's cheesy," Gwen told Trent.
"I promise I won't," Trent reassured the girl.
"The kiss at the end of that road trip movie." Gwen averted her gaze a bit before admitting to the guitarist. "You know, the one with the guy and the three girls?"
"I know the one." Trent laughed a bit with Gwen even joining in on the laughing with Trent. "You like that movie?"
The moment would have been sweet…had a now naked Owen not sleepwalked past them. Both of their eyes slowly widened as they looked to where Owen was lying and saw only all of his clothes scattered about. They then watched as Owen, still sleepwalking, headed into the woods.
CONFESSIONAL – OWEN
"Did I mention that I ate the entire dish of baked beans and maple syrup?" Owen sheepishly asked. "Funny thing about baked beans, they make me sleepwalk."
"Heheh, How cool is that that." Trent couldn't help but smile as he and Gwen watched Katie and Sadie sleeping right next to each other. The two best friends fell asleep at the exact time and hadn't even rolled away from each other in their sleep. "They even sleep together."
Duncan, Courtney, and Eva stared at the duo, knowing that the duo were the first who were asleep from the challenge. They couldn't prove their value around the challenge. So, therefore... the results were clear.
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Gwen and Trent had a good time spending together. From talking about how tired they were, to the point of even talking and learning about the stars.
51 hours.
The night seemed to never come to an end. From the time Owen sleepwalked went on his journey around the island. And inside of the camp. Trent and Gwen were staring at the young model Justin who seemed still using his iconic pose and smiling like nothing happened.
"Look at him. He's like a statue." Gwen commented as she and Trent looked in amazement at Justin who was still standing tall and firm with wide unblinking eyes. "He hasn't moved in over…fifty hours! Hello? Yo!"
"Yip! Yip!" Trent yelled and made wild movements to try and break Justin's concentration. "Yip, yip, yip, yip, yip!"
"Amazing." Gwen couldn't help but be impressed by the unbreakable wall that was Justin. "Look at the concentration."
Gwen decided to touch the face of the model, who just shook his head and slowly opened his eye slides. Surprising and even making his team members gap.
"He painted his eyelids! I saw it" Eva pointed at Justin who was just confused at the moment he woke up.
"Get out! Oh, I've gotta see this." Chris then ran over to Justin to see the situation for himself. Justin smiled nervously as he blinked a few times to show the makeup on his eyelids. "That is so crazy and incredible! But, you're still out, dude." Justin slumped down a bit as the Gophers were down another member.
And the time passed once again, from night to day, to day to night. Some of the losers of the team Killer Bass and Scream Gophers were allowed to go the bathroom from time to time and go to the main lodge just to eat once again Chef's food once, just for them to remember paradise on that island isn't what they would get. And with their routine once again. They went back to the challenge just to see who would win.
85 HOURS
Lots happened during the last few days of staying awake. Duncan made Harold pee his pants by sticking his hand in warm water, Cody was hugging a possum while he was asleep ending with him being attacked by the little animal, and the still sleepwalking Owen swam up a waterfall with salmon. The only remaining campers were Gwen, Trent, and Heather or the Screaming Gophers and Duncan, Eva, and Courtney for the Killer Bass.
Gwen let out an incredibly loud and long yawn, "I'd kill for a coffee right now." Gwen groaned out, feeling miserable.
"What's the matter with you people?" Chris asked as he walked to everyone as if taunting Gwen, holding a coffee. "Come on, fall asleep already!"
Just then Gwen crawled up to Gwen with the goth tugging his pants. "You've gotta hook me up, man," Gwen begged for any form of caffeine. "I'll even eat the grinds! Anything!"
Chris pulled away from Gwen as the host looked to the remaining campers. "Alright, you six stay with me. "The rest of you go get a shower, for heaven's sake. You stink!" Everyone did as they were told as Heather, Gwen, Trent, Duncan, Eva, and Courtney, followed Chris with all the other campers heading out to either take a shower or pass out somewhere else.
Chris took a long mocking sip of his cup of coffee as the remaining six campers sat down on the stumps. "I didn't want it to come to this, I said that to Chef Hatchet last night, I said, 'Chef, I don't want it to come to this," Chris explained from behind the metal barrel. "But darn it, these campers are tough." And so…I've come up with the most boring, sleep-inducing activity I can find."
CONFESSIONAL – GWEN
"Oh come on! What now?" Gwen yelled before crossing her arms. "Okay, you know what? Bring it on!"
CONFESSIONAL - COURTNEY
"I got to the point my legs started to cramp and I couldn't possibly move," Courtney said as she was still munching another bread. "But if I continue focused and if Chris doesn't read one of the most annoying books like History of Canada, then I think we can win this."
Chris then grinned as he pulled out an incredibly large red book. "The History of Canada." Chris narrated in a soft voice before opening up and revealing a pop-up of a beaver. "Chapter One: The Beaver, National symbol and a dam fine hat." Duncan, Courtney, Eva, Gwen, Heather, and Trent all groaned at Chris for that statement.
CONFESSION COURTNEY
"beeeeep" Courtney cursed as she threw her arms in the air while knowing the outcome of such a terrible book.
86 HOURS:
"And of course, those were the little spark of the discussions which later became the war of 1812." Chris when he first started reading the book, he was enjoying himself torturing the kids, but with the pass of the time, his voice became monotonous from how boring the book was.
And with that summary, Eva, and Heather were out.
Courtney was blinking as she kept trying to keep moving her legs.
"Come on, come on. Just for a few more hours. I know I can do it." Courtney whispered to herself, but it seemed that her body was giving her language, since on the next second, Courtney noticed something was wrong. "That's strange, it seems the floor is going to my direct..."
*slam*
"Oof." Both Duncan, Gwen, and Chris winced as the CIT girl just got knocked out from body exhaustion.
And it wasn't long before Treen was seen falling off his stump. "Trent! Noooo!" But despite Gwen calling out to him, Trent fell flat on his face and was out cold. "Don't leave me…"
Chris kept reading but Gwen and Duncan didn't let up. Chris stopped reading for a second before checking his watch. "Time for a bathroom break!" Chris told the last two campers still awake. "Any takers?"
Duncan doing his best to hold himself up from all the pee he could give, he still smiled and tried to remain strong.
"Hey bro, I held until now, I'm sure I can still hold for the entire day." Duncan tried to remain courageous, but Gwen smirked as she gave a very solid point.
"Okay, but you still can take more 10 chapters of the book?" Gwen smiled as Duncan knew it would be a terrible idea. So he quickly went to the bathroom.
"You have 5 minutes." Chris smiled as Duncan looked pale from all the pressure he had been holding for so long. And with that, walking into a death trap. "As long as you don't mind being occupied."
"Alright, but stay away from the cabin," Duncan said to the cameraman who nodded his head to accept his condition.
And from the time Gwen was almost on the verge of giving up in 5 minutes, suddenly the cameraman gave a letter message, describing what happened. Duncan slept while sitting in the bathroom.
"It seems Duncan launched himself into Morpheus' arms, and now we have a true winner of awake-a-thon. GWEN." Chris said at the time Gwen launched herself on the floor, as her entire body went to dreamland. "The Screaming Gophers are the winners."
(Aquarium )
The whole group of Killer Bass was with low morale since the last challenge made them the first loss of the show.
The Katie and Sadie were in deep cry since both of the girls knew what was going to happen. And they couldn't help but be in the last hours together hugging each other.
Duncan was still asleep on the hot tube since it was the recommendation from the bodybuilder herself. Courtney and Eva still want to be awake before enjoying a good nap on the massage bubbles from the hot tube.
Tyler, DJ, Harold, and Bridgette were in silence, unable to say any word, because the decision was clear, both of the girls were the first to sleep and couldn't prove themselves to the others.
Courtney was on the verge of saying something rude, her body was sore and she was having a headache, Eva was in point to screaming to the annoying twins to shut up. But then the sounds of a flag were enough to break the silence of the other campers.
When the group looked on their side, they found out that the Killer Bass Flag was not stuck on the wall anymore, but it was now in the hands of Ezekiel.
"I know that is a harsh decision to make it the final point where we are about to eliminate both of you. But I think we as a team, shouldn't break ourselves apart... While we are still competing, I believe we all should remain friends, even after this show ends."Ezekiel always wanted to be friends with everyone, and even if Katie and Sadie were annoying twins, he learned something important about them as well, not just terrible with a marker and the flag in his hands, he gave the marker to the chubby girl while he spread the flag open. "So as a signal of great honor, and to prove that we are Killer Bass until the end. Sadie, you have the honor to be the first person to sign your name on this flag."
Sadie remained quiet, but seeing that the little teenager was being truthful to her, she gave a weak smile, and she decided to write her name on the flag. The first killer bass who signed the name.
Courtney nodded her head, from being touched and happy that a situation like that was solved by that.
As a good example, Courtney took the marker and also signed her name. Later every single member of the Killer Bass followed the example, and different than the original flag... When they signed their name, even Duncan who had to wake up just to sign it... The team could see, how a flag became also the proof of their teamwork.
It was a great sadness that a member of that team must go... But now with that flag in hand, that would be a good memory of the competition wouldn't be only for money. But alliance and friendship, in a path to make all of them famous.
"Alright, while we are still here. We must decide to prepare our plans" Courtney said as she suddenly saw Ezekiel raising his hand. "What is it, Zeke?"
"I would like to suggest something for our group, especially Katie." Ezekiel started, while he brought attention to the other twin who seemed still sad to say goodbye to her best friend and sister. "If things get too much for you, and you are on the verge of a breaking point. I would like to suggest a secret word for us to use. That it would mean that you wanted to be eliminated in the challenge we lose."
At the moment Ezekiel said that everyone turned to him.
"WHAT?" The Killer Bass shouted in disbelief, and Ezekiel raised both hands.
"Hey, hey, hey, hear me out okay?" Ezekiel commented, and at the time everyone went calm again, he decided to explain. "These two challenges we got in less than a week were nothing more than a nightmare. So my point is... When things get too much for me, or for anyone around here. We should develop a word that means we had enough of the challenge, enough of the competition... And back out. No drama."
...
The silence was enough to explain that they were in deep thought.
"I mean, I wouldn't be surprised that in the future they would push our limits or even our morals. So in case that happens, it would be terrible for the team to lose because someone gave up, and not giving the heads up for the team, since the team was going to lose because someone quit, wouldn't be better if we just prepared ourselves to lose and get ready for the next challenge?" Ezekiel pointed out a reasonable point, as even some of the Bass considered the idea.
"But what about we win, even if that person would quit and not get eliminated?" Katie decided to ask as she was tempted to just quit because she wouldn't want to leave Sadie.
"I think it would be fair to eliminate the person when we lose on the next challenge. Since the person wants to quit first, I think it would be best if we give what they want." Courtney decided to answer that question since she could understand the idea of giving the quiters a chance to leave, and make the team just drop the challenge and focus on the next one.
Ezekiel smiled, as Courtney understood what was his point.
"If Katie wants to quit, we could just drop the challenge and be ready for what's coming next." Harold could see the point.
At the time Katie was about to jump on the idea, Sadie tightened her grip which made Katie flinch.
"No, don't do that" Sadie for the first time instructed her sister which made Katie stare at her in shock. "While it's good for us to be together, I still want you to win. So don't make my sacrifice in vain, and while I love you, Katie... I wouldn't quit it... Not just after you lose. So wait until you got to the point where you couldn't take it anymore."
Katie just heard Sadie giving the instructions, and Sadie was just telling in a low tone just for her sister to hear.
"Don't give up because of me... Give up because of you. You are the smart twin, so be the smart one." Sadie instructed as she gave a final hug to her tanned sister. "I love you, and I will miss you, so please don't screw this up for us."
Katie sniffed, but nodding her head she hugged the chubby twin. She could see Ezekiel looking at them, and in silence looked away.
"So what is the secret word we should develop in case we want to give up?"Bridgette asked as she was still feeling tired from the last challenge.
"Well, it's something we can work with later," Ezekiel said, as he felt that at some moment there would be enough for people who wanted to leave without being judged.
"Well, that seems a reasonable idea and something that we can implement around the game." Courtney nodded her head as she understood that soon some players, even from her team would decide something like that. So it was best for them to plan for cases like that to happen.
It was an afternoon of hugs and goodbyes for one of their members.
Night - Campfire Pit.
"Killer Bass, that's terrible you managed to be here for the first time. You got so close to winning, so close yet so far." Chris smirked while some of the Killer Bass groaned in anger. "Like I said to the Screaming Gophers, Marshmallows represent a tasty treat that you enjoy roasting by the fire. At this camp, marshmallows represent life."
Sadie and Katie held hands together, as the duo knew that the time was coming.
"You've all cast your votes and made your decision," Chris said like in the last episode while holding the plate of marshmallows. "There are only ten marshmallows on this plate. When I call your name come up and claim your marshmallow. The camper who does not receive a marshmallow tonight must immediately return to the dock of shame to catch the boat of losers. That means you're out of the contest and you can't come back...ever."
The team remained quiet as they remained too tired to care since they had the longest challenge and they didn't even have a mind to process what was happening.
"The first marshmallow goes to Duncan." Chris smiled as Duncan was still with dark circles in his eyes. "Bridgette, Courtney, Eva, Ezekiel, Harold"
And by each name, Chris was calling, every single member of the Killer Bass was excited to have a marshmallow and the guarantee for another day.
Remaining 5 members, Chris smiled as he then called.
"Tyler, DJ, Geoff" Both names of the boys who jump from their seats, and even with the dark circles around their eyes, everybody knew what was coming next. "Katie, Sadie... This is the final marshmallow of the night."
Katie and Sadie watched that little sugary treat that resembled a monster since it was time for one of them to leave the show. The suspense created as the sound of drums in the background made all their heartbeats in shock, and both closed their eyes.
"Katie." Chris smiled as the time came, and Katie let out a whimper and shed a few tears. Her sister Sadie, smiled at her and gave a final hug.
"Please be strong, I will be waiting for you. But only come when you know you can't handle anymore." Sadie said, while Katie still cleaned her face with her hand. The Killer Bass team was in silence and sadness. "Hey guys, that's fine. Sure it was quick, but it was a good experience... I just wish I could have done more."
"Your boat awaits Sadie." Chris smiled as the chubby camper gave a few sniffs, before giving a hug to Chris. "You 10 are saved and have a good night of sleep. Because tomorrow will be the next challenge."
"WHAT?" The whole Killer Bass team shouted in disbelief. Even Sadie who was almost going to leave the boat.
"Didn't I tell you, since you all spend more than 86 hours on the challenge? This night would be the last of 3 days off you guys would have. So you better prepare yourselves for tomorrow." Chris smiled as Sadie gave a final smile before accepting to go on the boat.
"SADIE." At the time the boat was leaving. Katie shouted as the chubby twin looked to see her whole team waving at her. "HAVE A NICE TRIP. WAIT FOR US, WE ARE GOING TO WIN THIS."
"ALRIGHT, GIVE YOUR BEST." Sadie smiled as the whole group of teammates received their first defeat. The camera showed for the last time the twin who started to cry, but this time in the hope that her friends would win the whole competition. "I miss them already."
"To Sadie, the first Killer Bass member to leave, we are not going to let her down." Courtney smiled as she noticed that the morale of the Killer Bass was on fire, with bloodshot eyes, they wanted revenge for losing a member. "And for our team, that we are going to crush them down on the next challenge."
Eva, Duncan, DJ, Tyler, Ezekiel, Katie, Bridgette, Geoff, Courtney and Harold. All of them are not going to let their defeat cheap, they are going to win it the double if necessary. That was something they swore.
"TO KILLER BASS," Geoff shouted, as the whole team screamed in cheers. To show that the next time. Tomorrow would be a different game.
In the night.
"ZZZZZZZZZZ." A loud snore was enough to make most of the boys just wake up from their sleep.
"What the beep? Who is snoring loudly like that." Ezekiel asked until he realized who is it.
"Dammit nerd," Duncan gritted his teeth, as he was feeling angry already.
"Oh no, not tonight." Ezekiel understood what was about to happen. "Guys, we need to make a travel to the Aquarium.
DJ and Tyler looked as if they were confused about what was happening. But nodded without question.
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"ZZZZZZZZZZ." A few minutes later, there was Harold, sleeping in a blanket... in the cave known as the aquarium, where he could snore without disturbing anyone... A good night of sleep for every single member of Killer Bass.
"Now that's a good way to start the day." Ezekiel smiled as the whole camp went back to sleep. With a good moral for the next morning.