"Last time, on the Ridonculous Race…"

A montage as the camera showed narrated the last episode's events; The Goths, Twins and Ice Dancers were shown in their swimsuits, sliding across the frozen lake, Josee punching out Kitty's helmet light before stealing her red ball, Jay cheering after he brought Mickey back to the surface, Sanders falling, crashing off screen as Kitty was pulled up, MacArthur taking Sanders into the ambulance, MacArthur crying as Sanders held her broken arm, and the sweet kiss between Mickey and Kitty at the bottom of the Kola Borehole.

"Our teams got down and dirty, dir-ty, dirty. Most of the teams arose above, but Sanders plummeted. Several miles thanks to MacArthur. Sanders' arm was severely broken and the Cadets suffered a tragic elimination. But in the midst of all this sorrow, lies a secret love, buried deep at the world's largest hole."

The scene switched back to Don, still in the sauna with a towel wrapped around him.

"We're down to the final four. Let's see who will be no more on… The Ridonculous Race."

Don flashed a smile for the camera.

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[after intro]

The scene showed Don at the bathhouse, still walking around with a towel around him.

"Welcome back to Siberia, where yesterday's cheaters…" The Ice Dancers glared at him. "I mean winners," They smiled and posed upon Don amending his words. "are collecting today's first travel tip."

Josee pressed the box, got the tip from it and announced, "We're going to Darjeeling, India."

A montage began with the country's flag, an image of a village on a mountaintop, a plant, a cup of brewed tea, and several batches of different tea leaves. Followed with a plane, and Don showing off the Don Box as the montage came to an end.

"Yes, Darjeeling, India. Where the world's finest teas are grown like Assam, Milgeri, and several more I can't pronounce. Teams must fly to Bagdogra, India then take taxis here to the mountains of Darjeeling to find this Don Box with their next travel tip."

The scene showed the present, with both the twins and Kitty trying to get a cab at the same time.

"Taxi!" Jay called.

"Taxi!" Mickey repeated.

"Cab!" Kitty called.

Emma threw herself onto the taxi, quickly claiming it for her and her sister.

"Taxi!"

Kitty looked unnerved, but still went along with it. "Okay…"

Inside the taxi, Emma was explaining her reasoning to a confused and saddened Kitty.

"What? We're down to the final four, every second counts."

"It sure does!" Don exclaimed from afar. "Except when all the teams are on the same flight."

As the flight was shown, Josee and Jacques were shown with a bowl of popcorn.

"This is brilliant. All the heroes are gone." Josee remarked.

"Now we can eliminate the zeroes." Jacques declared.

Jay and Mickey, who heard them from afar, slumped back into their seats.

"Those Ice Dancers seem really confident after the elimination of the Cadets." Mickey noted.

"I'm getting worried." Jay confessed. "What if we're their next target?"

"Not likely, they think we're weak. I think we should focus more on the race."

"You're probably right."

Interview; The Adversity Twins

The scene showed an interview with the two of them sitting in their seats.

"We never expected to make it this far." Jay confessed. "Truth be told, I thought we'd be done by the seventh episode."

"I was going to guess the sixth one." Mickey remarked.

"But now that we're this close to winning, there's no way we can back down. Not now, not ever."

"If we win this, which is a pretty big if, we want to use the money for our college funds. And to help our mom pay off her home."

"She's always had our backs, even when no one else did."

End Interview

Kitty was shown in her seat, looking at Emma, sleeping against the window and drooling. She took a picture and smiled to herself before turning away in worry.

Interview; Kitty

Kitty was shown standing in a separate area of the plane.

"Emma's always been the bossy one. She'd never approve of my feelings for Mickey…"

A brief flashback from the last episode appeared; showing Kitty and Mickey kissing at the bottom of the borehole in Siberia.

"I know I shouldn't be kissing him. She would argue that I should be angry with them. Both of them. But I know they didn't mean to crash into us back in Brazil…"

She thought of the air gliding incident in Brazil… leaving the gliders crashed and their limbs twisted in pain.

"I forgave them after Mickey explained what happened. But Emma wouldn't understand." She sighed. "Is it just me or has Emma been more demanding and angrier as the race goes on?"

A flash montage went by with Emma and Kitty arguing at the Spice Kiosk in Morocco, Kitty finishing the "Broken Telephone" challenge in Iceland, looking down below as Noah saved Emma, the two teams taking first place and second place in Dubai, and the two holding hands in Beijing.

"She was angry for a while… I thought she was finally loosening up and getting better when she fell in love with Noah…"

Kitty thought back to Noah holding a saddened Emma backstage, and their first and only kiss that they shared.

"But when the Reality TV Pros were eliminated in Finland… Everything went downhill from there. What if my sister is losing sense of self? And if I'm right… what does that mean for me?"

End Interview

The plane was shown landing, with teams scrambling to get taxis.

"Taxi!" Jacques called.

"Take us to Darjeeling!" Josee commanded.

"Hurry!" Emma ordered.

"Still first!" Jacques cheered as they ran off the camera's screen.

Only seconds later, the Ice Dancers were shown sweating profusely in their black outfits.

"Heat… too hot…"

Emma was shown with a band of sweat along her forehead. "This humidity is bad for my hair."

"Tell me about it." Kitty remarked as the camera showed her pigtails poofed up and fizzed up.

Mickey licked his fingertip and held it above his head, testing the humidity. "Yep, it's hot out there."

"Even if we can't feel it, we should get some water after this challenge."

"Agreed."

The Goths simmered, but said little as they made their way forward. Loki, however, felt the heat get to him immediately and started to rest to conserve energy.

Pushing themselves up, Josee pressed the button, getting the first challenge tip of the day.

"Tea Time?"

"Please tell me it's ice tea…" Jacques pleaded.

A montage began with Don using a small electric hand fan, cooling himself as a woman gathered tea leaves. She placed them in a basket behind her before the scene switched to an indoor area.

"Wouldn't that be nice? But no. Each racer must strap on one of these baskets and fill it to the brim with these tea leaves. Once full, teams must bring their baskets to this local."

The camera focused on the woman, holding a travel tip. "If she approves of their haul, they'll get their next travel tip."

As the montage ended, the scene switched to the sun shining overhead before the camera showed the Twins picking tea leaves. Mickey's basket was about half full as he grabbed fistful after fistful. Jay grabbed a small handful and tossed them in the basket behind him.

"We can't feel heat, this challenge will be easy!"

Suddenly, Jay sneezed. Loudly.

"Oh dear..."

"Achoo!"

He sneezed so loudly and suddenly, hurling himself near the Goths. He landed face first in the dirt, seeing Loki nearby Crimson's feet.

"Oh my, I'm so sorry." He looked at the goths' pet bunny nervously. "Nice bunny…." Loki growled softly. "Scary bunny..."

"Fear not. He won't bite. He can sense that you're good people." Ennui told them.

"Jay, are you alright?!" Mickey asked, running up to him.

"I'm fine." he told his brother, before getting up. "What about the others? What does he think about our competitors?" Jay asked the Goths.

"Loki has already determined the Ice Dancers are horrible. They tried to kidnap him."

"What?!" the twins exclaimed in unison.

"Your clumsiness inadvertently stopped them."

Mickey blinked. "Oh. Oh my… I'm not sure what to say there."

"You need not say anything." Crimson told them. "We're just happy Loki is with us and not them."

"As for the Sisters, Kitty is similar to you; a good heart but consumed by fear." Ennui continued. "As for her older sister… she stands at risk of losing herself…"

Jay gulped. "Oh my…"

Mickey looked aside, perhaps wondering what Emma knew (or may not have known.)

"Do you have any other questions for us?" Crimson asked.

"Well… I do have one, if you don't mind me asking."

"Go ahead."

The younger twin breathed in, readying himself before he asked, "Why did you decide to race?"

Crimson raised her eyebrows briefly. "You're very brave. Asking that question."

"No one has asked us that before." Ennui elaborated.

A moment of silence passed as the camera darted back and forth between the Twins and the Goths.

"Ennui has an older brother." Crimson revealed. "His name is Charlie. Charlie does not understand how we are. Or the love me and Ennui share."

"Charlie challenged me to enter this race and face the real world." Ennui explained. "He didn't think I'd last a day."

"We don't truly need the money, but if we did win, perhaps we'd use it to build a home for ourselves. A haunted mansion where we can be in the darkness together." Crimson briefly smiled at that thought.

"Well, if you do win, I hope you're happy with your mansion. Good luck." Jay wished.

Ennui stared at him, seemingly unfeeling. "Thanks. And same to you."

Meanwhile, the Sisters and the Ice Dancers got to work pulling their tea leaves, Josee smirking all the while. Kitty's hair was shown to still be frizzy and poofy.

"Can you guys pick somewhere else?" Emma asked.

"And where did you have in mind?" Jacques asked.

"How about anywhere but here?" Emma asked as the camera zoomed out over the entire tea leaf field. Before recentering on the two teams, the sisters glaring at them. "We know you're up to something. How naive do you think we are?"

"Excuse-moi?" Jacques asked angrily.

"Wait," Josee told her partner. Before addressing the Sisters with a smirk. "Fine, you're right. But we're not here to cheat against you, we're here to cheat with you." Josee smiled.

"Why should we believe you?" Emma retaliated.

"We still have our alliance, do we not? Nearly all the Light teams are gone and now's the best time to take the twins out, as they're the weakest."

"Aren't they immune to this heat though?" Kitty asked, hoping they'd shift away from targeting the twins.

"Oh curses!" Jacques exclaimed. "I totally forgot!"

"But the older one seems to be allergic to these leaves. They're toast." Josee quickly noted.

Jay was heard sneezing from afar.

"When we see weakness, we attack it! And right now, they're the weakest team."

Another loud sneeze filled the air, showing Jay falling over, with Mickey kneeling down to try and shove the leaves back into the basket.

"Okay, I believe you."

Josee unclipped their baskets as they got distracted by Jay's newfound allergy.

"Jay's really sneezing his head off!"

Interview; Ice Dancers

"Oooh, you're good!"

"Sometimes I even impress myself."

End Interview

"No thank you. I'm not going to make things worse for them," Kitty remarked.

"Or risk getting a penalty." Emma rationalized.

"Also, we're better than that." Kitty remarked.

"Fine, it's your funeral." Josee 'lamented'.

The Ice Dancers walked off.

Kitty smirked. "It felt good telling them off." They continued scooping leaves with their hands. "Playing dirty never works."

Emma soon grew concerned. "Kitty, does your basket feel light?"

They noticed their leaves on the ground, soon blown away by the wind.

"They tricked us!" Emma exclaimed.

"Not again!" Kitty remarked.

The Ice Dancers laughed, skipping across the field.

"We hate you!"

Don began to narrate the events as a montage showed Mickey's basket being filled up, the Goths hurrying to fill their baskets, Loki coughing from the heat as he held leaves in his paws, the Ice Dancers sweating heavily but smirking, and the Sisters collapsing from the heatwave.

"All the teams are scrambling to finish first. Who will it be? Who's drive and determination will launch them into first place? Ahead of everyone else here…" Suddenly, the Ice Dancers entered. "You guys again?! Why don't you get eliminated already?!" Don asked.

"In your dreams, Don." Josee taunted.

"Yes, I do dream about that. And what sweet dreams they are!"

He walked away as the Ice Dancers set their baskets down.

"It's all there."

The woman handed the Ice Dancers their tip.

"'Get sent reeling on the Darjeeling.'" Josee read.

A montage began of Don demonstrating the challenge, starting with him in front of a train station.

"This is the Darjeeling Express. Train Cars alternate between people, animal, people, animal and so on."

The screen showed train cars, with a slot being taken up by the Ice Dancers, Goths, Twins and Sisters in that order. Then showed a map and Don himself on the train.

"Each team will be assigned to one of the passenger cars based on the order they arrive. But here's the kicker; before the train reaches the chill zone station, teams will have to fight their way here, to the front of the train to exit."

The Goths turned in their baskets, and the woman looked at them confused, but still gave them their tip. The Goths went forward and into their train cart, Loki resting in Crimson's arms.

"We seem to be doing well," Crimson remarked.

"Indeed so." Ennui echoed. "Charlie… eat your heart out."

Ennui gave a rare smirk, followed by Crimson smiling and Loki chattering.