Slap Slap Revolution
POV. Third person
Chris begins to narrate, "Last time on Total Drama World Tour. Ah~, New York! The city that eats the other cities for breakfast. Here, our competitors went to great heights to discover New York's finest, to the bosom of Lady Liberty to the Big Apple's rotten and stanky sewer core. In the end the Wild Cats ended up winning thanks to one of Heather's classic tricks, and surprise, no one was booted off, well, the grinder almost didn't live to see another day, but a certain geek, decided that maybe it was too early for the machine hahahaha", Chris and Chef were in the cockpit, "we still have 14 competitors in the race, very soon we will see who will win the million dollars on Total... Drama... World Tour~!".
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POV. Noah
Cargo hold of the aircraft...
I sighed.
Things haven't been going well at all lately, the proof of that? The crazy chick who mumbles chilling things while hanging more threads on her strange forensic mural in front of me.
It's been weeks since I agreed to help Sierra with her plan to conquer the geek, in exchange for help in discovering his secret, and a few days ago we were finally able to prove two of the theories Sierra had about him. But as expected, research was not among Sierra's priorities.
~0~
Sierra and I were in the dining area waiting for Cody to come out of first class, which he rarely did unless he went to see Lindsay. When the geek poked his head out, we set the plan in motion.
"There he is," Sierra whispered to me, "Hi Cody!", the geek froze and almost fell when Sierra called him, he seemed a little uncomfortable and surprised to see me and Sierra, I decided to take that into account.
"Sierra... and Noah, what are the two of you doing here... Alone... waiting?" he said defensively. This is very strange.
"Oh, we were just playing guess where the ball is," Sierra said, showing the three cups and the ball to play with.
"Economy class is usually a bit boring between challenges," I said boredly to hide appearances.
"Oh, I see," Cody said seemingly convinced.
"Heeey... I have a great idea, why don't you play with us Cody? It's going to be a lot of fun," Sierra said.
Cody scratched the back of his neck, "uh... I don't know, games like this are not my thing, you see...", he said hesitantly.
"And how about a reward if you win~?" said Sierra flirtatiously, this was where it all went to shit, "if you win three rounds in a row, you can ask me anything~, and I mean, anything~," she said winking at him as she slid one of the straps of her top off her shoulder.
Cody's expression was like having bitten into a very acidic lemon and the truth is that I don't blame him.
"Oh, look at that, Lindsay is calling me, I have to go, bye guys," then I flee the scene.
"You saw that?!" Sierra told me.
"I wish I hadn't," I said with a grimace.
"He must have used his clairvoyant powers to know that it was a trap and that's why he ran away from our game, plus he knew Lindsay was calling him even though we didn't hear her voice, why else would he have run away like that?"
I looked at her face with an "Are you serious?" expression, "yes, I can't imagine that I would have another reason to run away", I said sarcastically.
"That shows that he does have clairvoyant powers," Sierra said, I facepalmed.
...
It took me time to convince Sierra that the test was a resounding failure, but in the end she reluctantly accepted it.
Now there was another theory that she was perhaps too eager to try, which is why she was hiding behind some boxes while Cody looked with a pale face at the ring, which Sierra claims was silver, in the small case in the fan's hands.
"So, in short, this is a family ring that my grandmother left me, but my fingers are too thin to wear, so I thought that maybe, you could try trying it on, since you have the exact finger measurement, almost as if it was forged especially for you," Sierra said overly excited to the point of being creepy.
I don't want to know how the hell Cody's exact finger size knows, and from the geek's face something tells me that he doesn't either.
"Look! It's me, but without a shirt!" shouted Cody pointing behind Sierra.
"Where!?" she asked, turning around with bloodshot eyes searching everywhere.
Cody took advantage of this and ran off in the other direction, something tells me that he is no longer going to leave first class.
Sierra looked ahead again, but Cody wasn't there, I came out of hiding and went to her.
"You saw that Noah?! He ran away from the silver ring! He's a real werewolf!" said Sierra excitedly.
I'm wondering if she's doing this on purpose or not, no one can be so absurdly blind.
-0-
Unfortunately, it seems that Sierra is that stupid, that is, she is an expert at gathering information, by whatever means, but for everything else... yeah.
We couldn't test the imposter theory because Cody doesn't come out of first class anymore, and I don't know how we're going to test it because I don't know what he was like before the competition, that's something that apparently only Sierra knows, so I imagine he'll have a plan in mind that involves flirting with him again, agh, this girl is impossible, she lacks screws in places where Izzy has too many.
Now, I don't know if Cody noticed our plans, or if he's deliberately avoiding Sierra for some reason, which is weird, since I haven't seen him be this repellent with a girl since I've known him so far, it seems that even he has boundaries after all. The more steps we take toward the truth, the more confusing it becomes. But at the same time, it makes me want to know what he's hiding more eagerly.
"How could I get Heather to walk away from him? With her around Lindsay is not going anywhere, and Heather is not going anywhere as long as Izzy is glued to her, how do I get Izzy to leave him?", Sierra looked at her conspiratorial mural while her neurons made an overeffort to come up with a new plan, I told her what happened to me with Izzy in the Yukon and made it clear that I was not going to get involved again with the crazy girl so lightly.
Now it seemed like Sierra was at a dead end, which was good for Cody, but bad for me, because the number one Total Drama fan was starting to obsess over the matter even more, I'm afraid she'll eventually lose her mind and do something stupid... well, more stupid, and it might end up exposing us.
"Why don't you just go and tell him how you feel," I suggested, I have a slight feeling that Cody would reject her, but at least that way we can settle the matter.
"Not as long as those mermaids keep cajoling him and clouding his judgment," Sierra said, "if I want Cody to notice my pure and true love for him, I must first drive those witches away."
"So you're just going to wait for those three to be expelled?" I asked, if she wants to have him alone, why not try expelling them?
"Because Cody is too nice to break up with any of them and even if he does, the girl might try to get back to him, on the other hand, if they're the ones who take Cody out of the group, then there's nothing to do, and Cody would be alone, vulnerable, heartbroken, eager for strong, dark, delicate arms to jump into for heat." She said as she hugged herself creepy, I honestly don't know why I asked, "If any of them get kicked out, they'd leave still being Cody's girlfriend, and I couldn't get her to leave him, so I have to do everything I can to make sure that doesn't happen until the first part of my plan succeeds, which as you have verified is not fulfilling the agenda," she said showing me a calendar.
I think I'm beginning to understand how Sierra's mind works, and it boils down to the fact that she lacks common sense, discards from her reasoning what doesn't suit her and convinces herself that his way is the right way, it's as if she lives in her own world.
I contemplated for a moment talking to her about Alejandro and her possible plans, but then I considered that she wouldn't be interested since it doesn't directly involve Cody, so I didn't say anything, I guess I'll have to keep an eye on the charming Spaniard on my own.
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POV. Third person
In another part of the cargo hold...
"I'm telling you, it was definitely him," Kevin said.
"Are you sure?" asked a skeptical Butchie, "we were all there when Vancouver happened, Rabioso left this world."
"Well, I swear to you that it was him, crazy and violent like in those times," said the seagull.
"If he's really alive, maybe we should tell his brother," Dennis said.
"Good luck finding him, he joined that secret spy organization, you know, North Wind, they're presumptuous," Butchie said.
"You only say that because they rejected your request," Kevin said.
"I withdrew because the burrow needed me! It's different!" said the prairie dog.
"Aha," said the cat rolling her eyes, "and back to the subject, what do we do with Mr. Vengeance who came back from the dead?"
"Keeping an eye on him I guess, it's not like we can do anything against that lunatic, he seems to have something against my team," the seagull said.
"Let's just hope his temper has calmed down a little bit over time," Dennis said.
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POV. Courtney
Gwen and I were in first class watching a rather peculiar event.
"It's strange to see her like this," the team's gothic whispered to me.
"It's certainly not an everyday thing," I said uncertainly.
"Hmm...", Izzy was completely dejected, lying on the first-class sofa.
"All this because Cody didn't let her play with the meat grinder," I said rolling my eyes.
The red-haired lunatic had tried everything to get Cody to tell her where he hid the machine, seduction, beg, seduction, negotiate, seduction, throw a tantrum, did I say seduction yet? Because there was a lot of that.
Surprisingly Cody didn't budge, I guess if he can be firm with her when he wants, which only makes me angry because that means he actually let Izzy be a pervert in front of us, damn trickster geek.
"Cheer up Izzy, there will probably be a lot of danger during the next challenge," Gwen said.
Izzy glanced at her sideways, "Is there a chance something will explode?"
"Knowing Chris, everything will probably explode in our faces," I said, already feeling stress about the upcoming challenge.
"Yippee!" said Izzy quickly regaining her spirits.
"Maybe we shouldn't have done that," Gwen said, already regretting it.
I sat in one of the seats and took my notebook, "better that than her attitude slowing us down during the challenges."
"I see you're still as competitive as you are on the island," Gwen said.
"Of course, I always want to win," I said excitedly.
Confessional.
Courtney
"Losing is something I've gotten used to being on this show, I don't like it, but I accepted it, but that just means I can still do things better."
Gwen
"I have to admit... that when she's not constantly harassing us and boasting about her many virtues, Courtney's competitiveness isn't so bad for the competition, plus she also doesn't get along with Heather, which makes me like her a lot more."
End of confessional.
...
"Hey Courts, Chef washed your sweater, so I came to give it back to you," Cody told me, sitting next to me.
"Oh, thank you," I said taking the gray sweater that Cody wore in the Yukon, many would think that it would be best to throw it away, but these are my favorites, "hehehe, thank goodness we have more or less the same figure, or you would have stretched it".
"Ha ha, very funny," he said sarcastically, "my chest is not as big as yours, thank you."
"Maybe, but you've certainly gained mass since the first season, I have to admit I was surprised by the change in appearance," I think we were all surprised actually, Cody is the only one who looks drastically different after a year.
"Well, I didn't want to be a scrawny geek forever, and with three girls by my side I had to at least catch up a little bit, right?"
"I don't know how to answer that exactly," I said rolling my eyes, "Who dates so many girls as if it were the most normal thing?
"Do you think it's wrong?" he asked me curiously.
"Yes, but only because you're dating Heather," I joked.
"Hahaha, you guys are never going to get along, are you? Couldn't you at least try now that you're on the same team?"
"Let me be clear Cody, I like you," I don't know why, but he laughed when I said that, "but the moment the teams disband, Heather's head will roll at the slightest opportunity, count on that."
He shrugged, "well, I tried, no one can say no", I rolled my eyes at his indifference, he knows very well the kind of woman Heather is and he doesn't defend her blindly... maybe they're a good couple, but I'm never going to say it out loud, "What are you writing? Your will in case Chris goes too far?"
I looked at the notebook in my hands, "no, such a document has been in the hands of my lawyers since the second season. This is a new list of things Duncan has to fix about himself, and I'm adding even more guidelines if he wants me to forgive him for abandoning me and the competition as well," I said with a bit of a bad mood.
Confessional.
Courtney
"I still can't believe that he preferred to leave on a whim than stay for me. I'm doing everything I can to get back what we had when we started dating and he's not even trying, that man is so stubborn that not even mules compare to him."
End of confessional.
"The next time I see him, he better try twice as hard if he wants me to continue dating him," I said annoyed.
Cody looked at me with a rather strange expression, "Hey Courtney, I hope you don't want to kill me for saying this but... Have you considered that maybe Duncan isn't the right guy for you?"
Now it was my turn to look at him strangely, "What?"
"What I'm saying is... that if Duncan has as many flaws as pages in that notebook, why bother so much?"
I sighed, "I don't know completely," I admitted, "all that time on the island there was something about him that attracted me like a magnet," I said hugging the notebook to her chest, "at first I thought it was only because I was irritated by his attitude and I didn't like how out of tune with the things I was used to, plus I'm sure the feeling was mutual... It was something completely new for me, I couldn't stop the burning emotion that was slowly getting bigger in my chest, until, well, you saw what happened in the finale of the first season," I said scratching the back of my neck with some embarrassment, I don't know where that impulse to kiss at the most inopportune moments comes from.
"I understand the feeling, that's more or less my relationship with Heather, the truth is that you would think that she is with me only out of obligation, but she does it because she wants to, no one is tying her to this relationship."
"Except Izzy".
"Except Izzy," he said smiling, "but you know something?... I have never expected her to change."
"..."
"I think if you're going to date someone, you don't have to agree on everything, there are things about a person that you have to be willing to accept, both the good and the bad... that's enough," he looked me in the eye, "What about you? Have you accepted everything from each other?"
"..."
No... we haven't, right? And I think that's the problem, when we try to be ourselves to irritate the other, it works, the fire burns... but when we finally feel comfortable with each other, it gets boring, we end up drifting away... And we go back to square one, it's like we can't exist without fighting or getting angry, we've tried... Well, I've tried to take things further, but it's like being stuck in a circle that goes nowhere but at the beginning, over and over again.
I don't want to admit it, but in this time that I've been away from Duncan, I've felt free from any pressure, I feel like I can be myself again without worrying, I guess he feels the same way, wherever he is, he must be carving his name on some private property, stealing a car or giving Harold a wedgie.
Despite all that... a very large part of me doesn't want to throw in the towel, because Courtney doesn't like to lose.
"Attention future victims, I mean... skilled competitors, here's your captain speaking, informing you that we are approaching our destination, everyone meet in the cargo hold," Chris announced over the loudspeakers.
Cody got up from his seat, "maybe you should find out if there's really anything about Duncan that you're genuinely willing to accept and go from there," with that said he began to leave.
I stayed for a second thinking about what he said in my head, I looked at the notebook in my hands and looked at its pages seeing the thousands of things I wrote about every aspect of Duncan, all things that I thought he should fix, it's even more than what I gave him in the second season and he couldn't even make it half.
I sighed, my head is spinning, "What am I supposed to do?", whatever the answer is, I'll have to look for it later, it's time for the challenge.
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POV. Cody
These last few days have been a bit busy.
On the bright side, I have candy to eat until the end of the season, the cute first-class flight attendant left me her number, not that I going to use it, and I didn't wake up sucking on Sierra's thumb previously tucked into Sierra's armpit.
On the more chaotic side of life...
Noah and Sierra are definitely working together, probably to uncover my secret, just as I feared, Sierra must already know everything about me and must have noticed the abysmal and sudden change I had before TDI and now she's teaming up with Noah to find out the truth, great.
And what is worse, her interest in me has not died in the least, in fact, it is becoming more and more evident and notorious.
My only relief is that Izzy hasn't said anything about it, probably because she's still angry right now, and I know Sierra won't accept being in a polyamorous relationship because she's not the type to share.
But sadly, she's starting to be more brazen with her courtship attempts, which means she must believe she can do something to separate me from the girls, and that I'll inevitably turn to her when I'm alone.
I sighed, Sierra can be very smart when she wants something, but at the same time she is totally ignorant of things that are not part of her fantasies, that's why she sees Chris and everything he does as a god performing miracles, instead of the devious imp that everyone else see. It wasn't until Chris refused to give her medical attention because she blew up the plane that she finally stopped seeing him as her hero.
After the night of passion between Lindsay and Izzy I asked the latter why all that was and she told me that it seemed that Lindsay had not been feeling well lately, I don't need to be a genius to know whose fault it is.
I'm afraid that if this goes on like this the cringy Sierra of All Stars could make its debut much earlier than planned, that's scary, and not to mention what Izzy would do to her, my red-haired amazon of a girlfriend is usually not jealous, but she is extremely possessive and will not let anyone mess with what is hers.
Seriously, fate is pushing me to talk to Sierra no matter what, and I hate it, but I guess that in the face of a sadistic and psychopathic universal force there is nothing I can do.
However, the fan, the universe and my future panic attacks will have to wait as there is a Latino and his plans that I must interfere with first.
'You're just making excuses again.'
'It's not my fault that the situation is so convenient,' I said to the voice in my head.
On the other good side, it seems that I was able to get Courtney to think a little deeper about their relationship, which is a great achievement, the Courtney of before would never have listened to me, or anyone else, she had been betrayed and her mind had already been turned upside down to such an extent that the only word that was valid for her was hers.
However, she's much more open to other people now, I guess that's good, but because of that I don't know how well this new Courtney will handle betrayal... I guess all that remains is to wait and see.
When most of us arrived at the cargo hold, including the three plagues from the show, Alejandro was talking to LeShawna who was blushing slightly.
The last time in Germany's challenge, Al inflated LeShawna's ego so that she turned on Heather and ended up giving her the beating she owed her from TDI.
Which although it was satisfactory for... all of us actually, I really wouldn't want my girlfriend's teeth to be pulled out and her pretty face disfigured, especially when for once she tried to do something good and try to warn LeShawna about Al.
But since the Spaniard is trying to wrap Big Sister around his finger to have a trusted ally under his control, perhaps this time I could take advantage of the timeline situation constant. But just in case I'm going to need help making sure that events repeat themselves in a similar way.
And for that I'm going to need the help of the person who just arrived and stood next to me, "hello Izzy", I tried to talk to her.
"Hmm!" but she crossed her arms and turned her back on me.
"Uh... Are you still upset about the meat grinder?" I asked her when I saw her annoyed attitude.
"Meat grinder? Which meat grinder? I haven't seen any meat grinder," she said throwing a tantrum.
"Trouble in paradise?" said Alejandro mockingly.
Confessional.
Sierra
"Oh, holy cow! Oh, good heavens! Oh, good heavens! Is this real!? Is it really happening!? Did Izzy get mad at Cody!? "YES!" she said excitedly, "I knew they wouldn't last," she said confidently.
End of confessional.
"It was just a meat grinder, get over it," Heather told her.
"I'm not going to talk to you either!" said Izzy childishly.
"Damn-," Heather tried to say but just then the doors below us opened.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!", we fell from the plane into the white snow of the German Alps. The truth is that compared to others this was a pretty soft landing.
"AHHHHHHH!"
*Crash*
Except for Al who had to catch LeShawna for the sake of appearances.
"Oh, thank you Alejandro," said the big sister.
"No problem," Alejandro said muffled beneath her, I have to admit that was funny.
Confessional.
Bridgette
"How quickly Alejandro got over me from what I see, and I'm not saying that because I'm jealous!", she quickly stressed, "I'm just saying, please, it's very obvious that he's now trying to manipulate LeShawna," said the surfer, "but I'm not going to let Alejandro get away with it, I'm going to expose that handsome and sexy Spanish faker... no, wait, I didn't mean it that way, I mean, yeah, he's handsome, very handsome, no! Ugh! He's evil, evil!"
End of confessional.
Lindsay rose from the snow next to me, "oh, hello Cody."
I smiled at her, "hi Linds", I don't know what Sierra has been doing to demotivate Lindsay but it's good to see her get her good humor back lately, I know Sierra is probably still going to try to do something against her, but I don't want to interfere, not yet, even if it gets tough, I have to let Lindsay handle some problems on her own or else it would be like spitting on all the effort she put in during the second season, I know she'll be fine, she's a lot more capable than I or anyone else gives her credit for.
"Is Izzy still mad at you?" she asked me as we watched the redhead play in the snow and throw snowballs at Noah and Owen.
"Yes, it seems so," I said looking at her, she is much happier now, she looks prettier when she acts frantic.
Lindsay frowned and pouted, "that's not right."
"Huh?"
"I don't think Izzy is really mad at you ... Maybe she's just testing them, you know, to know how much you care," she said with a smile.
That actually sounds exactly like something someone with Izzy's thought process would do, "pff, you might be right, I can't believe you're the first of the three who came up with it," not even Heather thought about it, whatever.
Lindsay grabbed my cheeks and stretched them tightly, "What does that mean?" she said with another pout and an adorably offended look.
Despite my stretched face I smiled at her, "it means you're amazing Lindsay."
Lindsay's eyes widened and her face turned red into a puzzled expression, "ehhhh... That's not fair, you can't say things like that to get out of this," she said while trying to remain upset, emphasis on trying.
I gave her a hug and she reluctantly returned it, "thank you Lindsay."
"Boo, cheater," she said hiding her face in my neck, she's just too adorable.
I walked away from my blonde girlfriend when Chris arrived with his parachute fan, "Guten tag, und wilkommen in Deutschland. A.K.A. Germany" whispered the host, the snow on the top of the mountain shook and my heart too, oh hell, I remember this, "We're in avalanche territory, so you might wanna keep it down".
"What?! There's a sale at the Khaki Barn?!" Lindsay said listening poorly, just before she screamed Bridgette and Heather quickly covered her mouth.
I let go of the breath I was holding, along with everyone else.
"Welcome to today's musical challenge."
*Ding, ding*
"Avoid the song-alanche. To avoid a potentially fatal tumble down the mountain, and a suck-tacular climb back up, you better keep the singing nice and not loud."
"He has to be kidding me," Bridgette said as she looked at the top of the mountain.
"He's very serious," I said with a dead look.
Musical moment
Noah: "Keep it down so I can win the loot~", he takes Owen by the lips shutting him.
Owen: "Try I will, but I still gotta fart~ No, toot~!".
Noah and Heather:"Shhh~".
Heather: "Toot on, but you're still out of luck, you suck the lemon chuck~"
Gwen: "Wait 'til you're voted out for being such a lout~."
Courtney: "I'll dance a jig when Chris shoves you off the plane~," she pointed to the queen bee's nose.
Alejandro: When you don't hold back and lead the pack, Truly there is nothing stopping you, you, you~", LeShawna blushed.
LeShawna: "Swimming in your eyes, it's butterflies and suddenly there's nothing I can do~, sorry Harold~", she apologized falling into Alejandro's arms.
Izzy was sitting idly by, and Lindsay came up from behind and put her hands on her shoulders.
Lindsay: "Pretty please, them you have to forgive~"
Izzy: "No~."
Lindsay: She hugged her and spun her around, "do it for love's sake, please~, come on, come on, forgive, forget, love~, come on Izzy do it, do it noooow~", she finished rubbing her cheek with hers and actually made the redhead smile.
Tyler saw them and sighed dejectedly.
End of the musical moment.
POV. Third person
"(Hey Dennis, why is Butchie approaching the depressed monkey in red?)", the seagull asked the cat.
"(I'm here)," said Butchie behind him.
"(Then who is that?)" Kevin asked, pointing to the lump moving under the snow behind Tyler.
Dennis' tail bristled and her pupils sharpened, "(oh no, I feel like an impending disaster is coming)."
*Bite*
Tyler froze, slowly looked behind him only to see the baby seal biting his ass, his eye moved, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" and then roared in pain.
The whole mountain shook and the contestants watched in panic as the snow from the top fell off.
"(Every man for himself!)" Butchie shouted as he fled through a hole in the ground. Kevin for his part flew away.
"Avalanche!" said Grito Zeke.
"(Protect me!)" Dennis shouted, jumping to Cody's head.
"Oh shit," the geek said.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!", the snow swept away all the contestants in its frenetic descent down the mountain, dragging them all to the foot of it.
Chris flew over the body parts and moans visible in the snow, "hahahahahahaha, yes, this is exactly what I expected to happen, alright, what are you waiting for? Get up now."
Confessional.
Heather
"Alejandro flirting with Leshawna? I would throw up, but he is not even worth the puke. Did you hear him back there? Even his singing is up to something, argh, I knew that damn guy was just trying to confuse me in New York, faker, how I hate him!"
End of confessional.
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POV. Sierra
"This isn't too bad huh," Zeke said as we climbed the mountain, "it's a lot less cold here than in the Yukon."
"Well, I think we have bad luck with cold places," Tyler said as he rubbed his butt where he had a large bite mark.
No one expected the baby seal to return once again, but as a loyal connoisseur of the show I know that it probably won't be the last time we see it, I think it has become a recurring subplot of the episodes.
In any case, this is not the time to think about meaningless trivialities, a time window has opened and I must make the most of it.
I looked back, Noah and Owen were talking to Cody distracting him just like I asked Noah to do, Heather was watching Alejandro and LeShawna, Lindsay was talking to Bridgette and Gwen, this is my chance.
I walked up to Izzy who was walking almost ahead of everyone, "hello Izzy, my good friend", I greeted her, I haven't spoken to her alone since Celebrity Hunt, mostly because I didn't want her to suspect my intentions or propose or imply that I join Cody's harem, Love is supposed to be a thing of two not something you give away like candy, If you are not going to value it then you don't deserve it! In fact one of the reasons I sought out Izzy to do my research of the participants was to find any cracks or flaws in her relationship with Cody, and while the entire relationship itself seems to me a big flaw to point out, I couldn't find anything visible with which to convince Izzy.
Unless she lost interest in Cody voluntarily, there was no way to make her falter... until now.
"What's up Sierra?" she waved back, "I haven't heard from you since the show started, but it looks like you're doing well so far."
"You can say that again, I'm having the best time of my life right now," I said genuinely. I'm on my favorite show, being tortured by my favorite host, being a part of the drama with my favorite cast of characters and I'm standing next to my favorite love interest, who wouldn't be elated to be in my position?
"Great, good for you," she said.
"But I'm not here to talk about me, I'm here to talk about you, I couldn't help but notice in the cargo hold that things are pretty tense between you and Cody."
Izzy looked in Cody's direction for a moment and then looked back at me, "oh yes, Cody has put Izzy in a bad mood," she said, "but now that we're in another crazy and chaotic scenario I feel much more relaxed," she said with a smile while stretching out her arms, damn this isn't good, "I think Izzy is ready to forgive-".
"You can't!" I quickly interrupted her holding her face, she raised an eyebrow intrigued, pulled my hands away, "I mean, I don't know what he did, but if he bothered you so much then it shouldn't have been that simple."
"Oh, it was actually for something very simple," she said downplaying it, "it doesn't matter anymore," uh, come on, I can't miss this opportunity.
"But isn't that worse?"
"Huh?"
"If you got so angry about something simple, what will happen when he makes you really angry? Wouldn't that be very bad?"
"Hmm...", she thought, "Maybe? Izzy doesn't pay attention to those far-fetched things," she downplayed.
"But you should, these are very important things."
"Ehhhh~...," she said reluctantly, "that sounds annoying."
"Well, that's what it means to be in a relationship, you can't think about yourself anymore, you have to commit to your partner 100% of the time, be attentive to their needs, take care that soulless harpies don't steal him from you when you know it's yours! And push away every dirty woman who wants to get her hands on your man!", okay, I think I exploded a little bit in that last part.
"What? Why? Cody can take care of himself, and if that's not the case, how am I supposed to do that? Izzy has three people she loves and I like to go at my pace when I want, I can't focus 100% on Cody, that would be very boring, plus I don't mind other girls getting close to him, otherwise Lindsay and Heather wouldn't be a part of this."
I know and that bothers me! Everything could have been easier if Izzy was a good girlfriend and jealous of Cody from other girls properly! But no! You had to do the complete opposite and involve two more girls and encourage Cody's perverted attitude instead of correcting him like I would have done! You don't deserve him in the least!
"Well, it's a sacrifice that you have to be willing to make, you know, boys have a lot of needs and require more attention than girls."
"Izzy could swear it was the other way around," she said thoughtfully.
Sweat dripped down my neck and forehead, "no, no, it's exactly as I say it, believe me, I'm an expert in these romance things", I said quickly, although I've never dated anyone... But I've shipped a lot of people that I thought were compatible, so my argument is valid.
"What you're saying sounds like too much work," Izzy complained with an annoyed expression, "Can't I just let him do whatever he wants and do the same thing?"
"No, it's what you have to be willing to do when you're dating a guy, relationships are no different than a leg shackle or a cage or a prison, if you go all the way you can't escape anymore," Izzy actually seemed a little stressed about this, she's not the type who likes to be tied up, "Girls are infinitely easier to deal with than boys, a purely girl relationship is ideal, just a small observation, did I mention how complicated it is to date a guy? It can't just be about... well... you know... s-sex," I said uncomfortably, I don't like to think that they've already done it, a lot of damn times!, "they don't need it as much as we do after all, they're more sentimental, they need someone willing to be tied up by their side, always."
"Hmm... that... it sounds very suffocating."
"It is, relationships have to be suffocating to the point of discomfort, if not, it's not real love, honestly, relationships are the worst, that's why I would never recommend a relationship to anyone, the two of you would only get hurt by nothing, but that's just my opinion, you don't have to listen to me... Did I mention that I'm an expert in love?"
Confessional.
Izzy
"Maybe that explains why Cody never tried to jump on me despite a year of abstinence," she said seriously, "I always thought I understood relationships and guys, but I've never had a relationship that lasts too long, everyone eventually pulls away from Izzy... Was my interpretation wrong all this time?"
End of confessional.
I can't believe it, is it really happening? Izzy is finally cowering from this charade, uh I want to jump for joy.
"But I really like Cody... I think I could bear to be tied up... for him", Damn it! Just yield already!
"And... Did I also mention that couples... they have to share their responsibility?", Izzy stopped in his tracks, "the army is constantly chasing you, right? And you have a lot of enemies out there, I wouldn't want to see anything bad happen to any of the four of you as a result... since you are... my favorite... couples," I swear I felt like I slit my throat to say that.
"...", Izzy no longer answered, she just kept walking, a huge smile was drawn on my lips, I definitely made her think things through, that's a big jump.
-0-
POV. Cody
We reached the top of the mountain after our busy descent, and similar to last time, Owen was the most exhausted.
Chris along with the sausage makers and ground beef were already waiting for us at the top.
"I smell... food~," Owen said, running to the ground beef, "haha, it's... beautiful," he laid down on the meat and began to eat like an animal.
"Easy, tiger," Chris stopped him, we approached them, "Don't think of this as raw meat, think of it as raw building materials. Over fifteen hundred species of sausage call Germany home, hence the theme of our most efficient challenge yet..."
Chef appeared from behind the pile of meat, "Shut Up Und Stuff It!" he yelled at us.
"Danke, Chef," Chris said, "Each team must make a giant German sausage by shoveling meat into the grinder. Push it down and grind the mixture out into an oversized sausage casing, all without losing a finger or toe."
"What about thumbs, are they cool?", I don't know why that matters.
"I'm sorry, sausages? This is the most disgusting challenge yet," Heather complained.
"Count yourselves lucky you're not making hot dogs," Chris said.
Bridgette covered her mouth as she turned green, "I think I'm going to throw up."
"Why? What's wrong with hot dogs?" asked Zeke.
"You don't want to know," Noah said.
"You'll have to shovel fast or risk getting stuck with an incomplete sausage, which will be a lot harder to ride down the hill," we saw in the direction of the hill that didn't look like a big deal, "ah... no, not that hill", then Chris pointed us to a descent full of dangerous ledges, fallen trees and even lightning, A damn lightning fell in the snow!, "that's the spot. Of course, if you had a shiny new electric meat grinder, just plug her into our portable generator and voila! Sausage stuffed in seconds. You know, like the one Heather threw off the plane last challenge hahahaha," Heather looked open-mouthed.
"Did you get rid of a reward in the previous challenge?" Alejandro asked mockingly, Heather looked at him with pure hatred.
Confessional.
Heather
"Okay, I just did it to annoy Courtney and Gwen! But! Who does that idiot think he is to look at me with such disdain as if I were a kind of rookie and he was the veteran expert on the show!? I completely detest him!"
End of confessional.
"It's nice that her much smarter boyfriend saved it before it fell off the plane, didn't Heather~?" said Chris.
"Yes, it's a relief, isn't it Heatheeeer?" said Courtney, she and Gwen looked at the queen bee who seemed to just want to bury her head in the snow and scream.
Confessional.
Heather
"ARGH! Those two will never let me forget this," she complained.
End of confessional.
"Okay, I think Heather learned her lesson," I said to the other two girls, "for now let's focus on the challenge."
"Speaking of which, there will be prizes for those who make it down the hill alive. And there will be punishment for one sorry loser on the last place team," said Chris, "Behold, der penalty-hosen," he said pointing to the tiny, embarrassing German suit I had to wear last time, I don't even think it would fit me now.
Chef blew into a huge horn starting the challenge.
" Go, go, go!" said Chris.
Courtney looked around, "Where's Izzy?"
"Woo hoo! Look how deep this thing is, echo, echo," Izzy was tucked into the grinder like last time, I don't know why I thought that would be different now.
"Izzy stop playing! We don't even need the mill," Heather shouted.
"I'll go get her, you guys start putting meat in our sausage," I told my team. Chef brought our electric meat grinder and connected it to the portable generator to make it work.
"Well, at least we'll save ourselves a lot of work," Gwen said.
"Ezekiel and I will shovel, Noah put the meat in the grinder, Owen watch the sausage, and LeShawna, we're going to need your strong, beautiful arms on the crank," Alejandro told her.
"Don't worry honey, leave it to LeShawna," she said.
"We may not be able to finish first, but we can finish second, let's go team," Lindsay said.
"I agree," Bridgette said, "I'll keep an eye on the sausage, I'd rather not go near the meat," she said looking at the pile with a bit of disgust, this challenge will definitely be very difficult for a vegetarian like her, "but we're going to need Tyler's strength on the crank."
"Count me in," Tyler said, rolling up his sleeves.
"Sierra and I will shovel," Lindsay said, well it looks like both teams have a plan.
"Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo," Izzy said inside the mill.
"Izzy get out of there before you turn into ground beef," I called her.
"Well, well, well... well," she said with half of her body still inside the mill, "if it isn't Mr. 'only I can touch the meat grinder,' are you coming to continue ruining my fun?"
I facepalmed, "Izzy."
She got out of the machine and jumped in front of me, "oh no sir, no 'Izzy' this time, you've been meddling with me many times and I always brush it off, so I'd like you to return the courtesy for a change," she said with an annoyed expression as she pointed her finger at me.
My eyes widened, I had never seen her like this before, what's wrong with her?, "What are you talking about? I only took care of you so that you wouldn't blow your fingers off with the meat grinder," I clarified.
"And haven't you thought that I can avoid that alone? You know, I had a life before I dated you and it was pretty good."
"What?"
"Izzy's life doesn't revolve around you, Izzy's life revolves around Izzy, maybe you boys have your cheesy and sentimental needs, but you better accept that or I'm going to have to ask myself if our thing is really worth it."
...
..
.
Everything around us went completely silent, no one moved a muscle, I'm sure everyone was looking at us at this moment.
And I don't blame them, I myself didn't know how to take what had just come out of the mouth of the girl who until now was the most passionate and cheerful of the three, "Izzy...".
"Cielos," Alejandro said with his eyes wide open.
"Dude," Noah said.
"Izzy," Lindsay said in complete surprise.
"Oh, dude, that had to hurt," Chris said.
Confessional.
Heather
"What the hell just happened!?" she asked dumbfounded, "oh this has Alejandro's name everywhere," she said furiously.
Sierra
"Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! It's happening! It's happening! I can't breathe! Hyperventilating! Need! Paper bag!"
Courtney
"What!?" was all she could say.
Noah
"Oh hell, what the hell did Sierra say to her?" he said dumbfounded.
End of confessional.
"I'll do you the courtesy of listening to you this time, but you better give me my space and walk away or things will get ugly, Cody," said that Izzy walked towards our team passing by me.
I scratched the back of my neck completely confused as I watched her walk, "All this for a meat grinder?", I think I understand better now when adults were getting divorced and using phrases like this.
...
POV. Third person
"What the hell is wrong with you? Why did you talk to him like that?" Heather complained to Izzy when she returned to her team.
"Izzy is tired of being told what to do, from now on Izzy will go back to doing things Izzy's way, if you have a problem with that then you can start looking for another lover," she said passing by her.
Heather gasped at Izzy's words, "You were the one who started this nonsense! You can't just walk away when you feel like it!" shouted Heather.
"Izzy does what she wants!" she shouted back.
"Urgh," Heather turned on Cody who was also returning to his team. The queen bee took him by the shirt and pulled him towards her, "Why the hell are you so calm? Don't you see that we have a problem here?"
Cody blinked twice, "Why are you so angry?"
"Ah!?", Heather was two seconds away from hitting the nerd, "What do you mean why? Aren't you listening to Izzy?"
"I mean, yes, but... I've never seen you take it so seriously before, this relationship, I was a little surprised," Cody clarified.
Heather froze, it was true, she had accepted it or rather resigned herself to being a prize after losing last season, and yet, now she is the one making a scene?
Heather let go of her shirt and Cody adjusted it, "Izzy is angry, those things always happen in relationships, in fact I was a little surprised that she and I had never fought until now, plus her problem seems to be with me, so let me take care of it, it could get worse."
Heather crossed her arms, "I hate it when you don't say anything to me", Cody smiled and walked past her giving her a couple of spanks.
"Yes, yes, you sure do," Heather didn't say anything, she just blushed with a frown, "Is our sausage ready?" the geek asked his team.
"Huh? Oh yes, it's ready," Gwen said uncomfortably, Izzy was already sitting in the front, "the other teams are barely halfway through, all thanks to the electric grinder."
"So what are we waiting for? Let's get out of here," Courtney said.
The four of them climbed into the sausage in this order, Izzy, Courtney, Gwen, Cody and Heather.
"Goodbye losers, see you all at the finish line, Alejandro, I'll make sure to save a seat that says 'last place' just for you," Heather scoffed at the other teams.
Alejandro frowned with his pride beaten, while Lindsay for her part waved her away and smiled, Heather's words only slipped into the blonde at this point.
"Agh, I despise that skinny white girl with a toothpick body," LeShawna complained.
Confessional.
Alejandro
"Yes, enjoy your sudden sense of assured victory Heather... while it lasts," he said darkly.
End of confessional.
'You wouldn't be so arrogant if you knew how we did last time because of you,' Cody thought with his eyes rolled at his Asian girlfriend.
Courtney swallowed hard when she saw the crazy and violent descent that awaited them, while Izzy smiled like a total psychopath.
The CIT held on to Izzy's waist tightly and the others followed suit, "well, here we go," Courtney said.
"AHHHHH!"
"I MISSED THIS!" yelled Izzy.
"And the Wild Cats are the first to descend the dangerous and deadly hill," Chris narrated in front of the camera, "Will they survive the descent? Especially with the rabid mountain goats we put in their path? They are super deadly hahaha, will any of the other teams be able to beat them despite their overwhelming advantage? Find out when we get back."
-0-
"Come on Zeke, keep shoveling meat, I won't accept the last-place spot a second time," Alejandro said as he tossed meat to the top of the mill.
"Uh... Al," Zeke tried to call him.
"Less talk and more shoveling," the Latino said, just as he could press the right buttons to irritate Heather, she could do the same with him, even if he shouldn't realize it himself.
"But."
"Now!" said Alejandro.
"Okay, okay," Zeke said shoveling.
"That's the spirit, I'm not going to let that big ego queen bee continue to humiliate us," LeShawna said, turning the crank at full power.
*Splash*
"Ogh, yuck," Noah said when a pile of meat fell on him, "Hey! Look where you throw that! It's disgusting!" said the meat-covered know-it-all.
"Less talk and more meat in the mill," LeShawna scolded him.
Noah continued to put meat in the mill while muttering complaints about his team.
Confessional.
Noah
"Alright, I have a very good memory, I know from my own experience what LeShawna is like, and right now she doesn't look like herself, it's as if Alejandro's influence is altering her behavior... almost the same thing that happened with Harold," she said as her suspicions began to grow.
End of confessional.
-0-
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!", the Wild Cats slithered down the deadly and treacherous hill on top of their sausage.
"We are going very fast! Let's go very fast!" shouted the goth while clinging to Courtney.
"I know! Isn't that amazing!?" shouted Izzy from the front of the sausage, "oh look, there's a cute goat ahead."
Cody's eyes widened and he turned pale, "wait, did you say cute goat?" he asked peeking over Gwen's shoulder.
Sure enough, a cute goat was innocently standing right in his path.
"Dodge it! Dodge it!" shouted Cody.
"Cody's right Izzy, it wouldn't be okay to hit her," Courtney agreed.
"Wow," Cody clung to Gwen's waist in panic.
"That's not the problem," Cody said with a pale face.
The innocent goat smiled showing a row of sharp teeth, "GRRRRRRRRR!", and roared in a way that was impossibly thunderous for an animal of its size.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!", the Wild Cats screamed, clinging to whoever was in front of them.
Confessional.
Cody
"Honestly, I didn't know it was going to do that, I just wanted to stay away because I'm allergic to goat saliva," he clarified.
End of confessional.
The goat leapt towards the team with its jaws open.
"Everybody get down," Cody said. His team didn't question it and they hung their heads, the geek straightened up and the axe on his back, "Go back to the ninth circle of hell, you demon!"
*Blow*
As if playing baseball, Cody hit the goat in the face with the sheathed axe and it flew away. They all got up and saw the goat fall into the snow, get up, shake it off, and go on its way as if nothing had happened.
"Is it indestructible or what!?" asked Courtney with her eyes wide open.
"MUACK~!" Heather kissed Cody on the face, "you amazing unpredictable nerd," she said hugging him, which made Cody smile.
Izzy stared at them with a poker face, but then shook his head and looked straight ahead again.
The team made it to the foot of the mountain and crossed the finish line, "Woo hoo! We did it!" celebrated Courtney.
"And we're still alive," Gwen said.
"Barely," heather said.
Chris approached them, "Wild Cats, congratulations, you came first and with a wide margin of advantage, so you will have a reward during the next challenge."
"Yeah!"
"While we wait for the other teams you can relax and drink a cup of hot chocolate courtesy of Chef," said the host.
"The secret is in goat's milk," said the cook.
-0-
"I don't get it, Izzy wasn't like that a while ago, what happened?" asked Lindsay rubbing her chin as she thought sitting at the top of the mill. Everything was so confusing right now and she wasn't the best thinker, "Did I get it all wrong?"
"Lindsay, this will sound insensitive of me, but maybe you should focus on the challenge for now," Tyler said.
"You're right, you can ask Izzy when we're safe from elimination," Bridgette said.
"It's true, Sierra, more meat," Lindsay called, but the fan didn't respond, "Sierra?"
The three of them looked around, "Where is she?" asked Tyler.
"Ohohohohoho, no, you have the prettiest nose my adorable meat Cody", the three saw that Sierra was flirting with a sculpture made with the rest of the meat for the sausage and even gave him a kiss.
"Ok, it's starting to freak me out," Bridgette said with a frightened look.
Confessional.
Bridgette
"I don't like to judge people without knowing them, but I have to admit that sometimes Sierra can be very creepy," she said with a shudder.
End of confessional.
"I don't know why, but that meat sculpture looks vaguely familiar to me," Tyler said.
"Me too," Lindsay said, looking at the sculpture carefully as she rubbed her chin.
...
"Yes, we finally finished," Alejandro said.
Noah turned to check on his sausage and his eyes widened, "ah... Guys? We have a problem."
Instead of the casing for the sausage, Owen's mouth was connected to the mill's outlet tube and the big guy was now shaped like a giant sausage.
"Did you eat all the meat on our sausage!? What's wrong with you!?" LeShawna yelled at him.
"I tried to warn you but you kept shutting me up!" said Zeke.
"Burp, too spicy," was all Owen said.
...
"No! Wait! At least let me say goodbye!" Sierra shouted disconsolately as she tried to escape Tyler's arms.
"Sierra you've already said goodbye six times," Tyler said, Sierra hitting him with her elbow, "Ouch!"
"I'm sorry Mr. Meat Man," Lindsay apologized with the sculpture, "you're strangely handsome and all, but we need to finish our sausage," then she pushed it into the grinder.
...
At the foot of the mountain Cody got a chill, "uh, what was that?"
...
"Nooooooooo!", Sierra shouted as he collapsed hitting the snow, "Whyyyyyyy?! You are monsters, murderers! WAAAAAAAAAA!"
Tyler came over patting her on the back, "yes, now, you'll get over it, you're a girl and he was a mountain of raw meat, it wasn't going to work."
"You don't know that!" shouted Sierra.
Confessional.
Sierra
"I can't be with the real one and Lindsay murders the second one who looks the most like him, what could justify this mistreatment of me!?", she asked for a response to the heavens, but as is customary for the universe, it kept it comments to himself.
End of confessional.
"It's ready," said Bridgette, "hurry up, let's get it up the hill."
...
The Prairie Dogs watched as the Seagulls dragged their sausage downhill.
"Great, now what are we going to do?" complained LeShawna.
"Grrr, I have an idea, we can ride Owen down the hill," Alejandro proposed.
"Is that allowed?" asked Zeke.
"Well, technically Owen is a sausage now, I say it's fine," Noah said.
"We have to do it, what can we lose?" said LeShawna.
-0-
While the other teams were preparing their sausages, Cody had separated Izzy from the rest of the team to talk to her.
"What do you want? I thought I had set the record straight," Izzy told him, deliberately ignoring him.
"... I came up with a plan to win the second part of the challenge, I had time to see the place and I have a good idea what the second part is about, however, there is a "but" in this plan," he said seriously, "if it works, Heather will end up with a disfigured face", Izzy's eyes widened and she looked directly at Cody.
But a second later he frowned and looked away again, "what a garbage plan it must be then", 'Since when do you make plans that could hurt others?'
"Yes, it's a rubbish plan," Cody agreed, "it is unless someone is there to act as Heather's bodyguard."
"I'm not interested," said the redhead, "Izzy isn't going to follow any plans, I'll do what... ever... I…".
Before she could finish, Cody's hand grabbed her chin and the geek's lips pressed against her. Izzy's eyes widened.
"MMM~," she moaned and closed her eyes as Cody slipped his left hand under her top and began massaging one of her breasts, "What are you doing!?" she yelled trying to push him away from her. But Cody didn't walk away, instead he went to her ear and started nibbling on it, "AHHH~!", that caught her off guard, her legs were shaking.
"If everything you say is true...", he said in her ear, "then look me in the eyes and tell me you don't want to see me again", Izzy froze, "I know you could push me away if you really wanted to", he said pressing against her.
The redhead didn't make any movement, she was paralyzed, "...", and she was completely silent.
Cody hugged her, "okay, get angry all you want, whether it's because of the meat grinder or because you don't want to do it in public, or any other whim you want, but I'm not going to stop protecting you from yourself ever," Izzy began to tremble, "and I'm not going to let you go even if you beg, as long as you don't say it looking at my f-."
Izzy interrupted him by planting a kiss on his lips, the redhead forced her tongue inside Cody's mouth dominating the kiss and sticking her body against his as much as she could.
Their tongues danced together as Cody's hands slid into Izzy's butt squeezing and kneading it to the great pleasure of the lunatic, who even lifted a leg around Cody's waist, which the geek caressed with his hand.
"Ah!" they finally broke up the kiss and both breathed erratically, "Damn! Shit! Damn it!" shouted Izzy looking at Cody with desire and a lustful smile, "Why don't you take the initiative like that more often!?" she demanded.
Cody just laughed, "because I know you like being the one doing it."
"Grrrrrrr," Izzy smashed her head against his chest complaining, "that's true," she said muffled.
"And ... it's more fun to dominate Heather."
"Hahahahaha!" Izzy burst into a fit of laughter, "it's also true, she's so cute when she's being dominated."
"...Are you feeling better yet?" asked Cody, rubbing her lush hair.
"... Izzy tried to do things her way, I thought everything would be more fun like this, like it was before," she immediately became sad, "but it wasn't. When I was inside that meat grinder and when we were coming down the hill, deep down I wished you were there as always," she confessed, "I wanted you there by my side as always. In the end, it was Izzy who didn't want to let go of Cody anymore."
"..."
"Izzy doesn't mind being tied up, locked up or imprisoned as long as Cody has the key, so please don't leave me, it's not the same without you," she begged showing weakness for the first time since the geek met her.
Cody smiled and continued to hug her, "so even you can change like that, huh, I don't know what you mean by everything you said, but if you want me to be there for you, then I will, but... that doesn't mean you have to be tied to me, Izzy isn't Izzy if she's not trying to dominate the world by herself after all."
"Hahahahahahahahaha, you know Izzy better than I do," she said as she parted ways with him, "okay, let's leave the cheesiness for Lindsay," she said going back to her default lunatic mode, "What do you want Izzy to do for you this time?"
...
"Heather," the queen bee turned around and rolled her eyes, "I guess you made amends, didn't you?" she said to Cody who had a face full of kiss marks. Despite her attitude, the queen bee felt a weight lifted from her shoulders.
"More or less... During the next challenge I'm going to need you to do something for me," the geek told her.
Heather inhaled deeply and then exhaled, "and I guess you're not going to tell me the details."
Cody smiled at her, "You know me so well."
Heather massaged her temple, "speak before I regret it."
Cody became serious, "I need you to push LeShawna to the limit," the queen bee raised an eyebrow.
-0-
Both teams dove up the hill around the same time, one riding a sausage and the other riding Owen.
"Woo hoo! Here we go!" Lindsay shouted excitedly behind Bridgette.
The surfer was ahead controlling the direction, then Lindsay followed behind her was Tyler and at the end was Sierra.
"Hey everybody, we should be holding on to each other so we don't fly away by accident," Sierra said.
"Good idea Sierra, hold on tight to my waist, Tyler," Lindsay told him as she held Bridgette.
Tyler turned incredibly red, "ah yes, yes, that's what I'll do," the athlete said nervously as he wrapped his arms around Lindsay and swallowed in panic, "It's like I'm giving her a hug!"
Bridgette's eyes widened, "Everybody crouch!"
Because of his momentary distraction, Tyler reacted late, "Huh? What?"
*Blow*
"Ouch!", they will pass through a narrow space between two crossed trees and Tyler hit his face with one of the trunks knocking him unconscious and collapsing backwards on top of Sierra.
"Oh please!" the indignant fan shouted.
Alejandro used a stick to steer Owen down the slope, " Great steering, Al, ouch! Good dodge Al, ouch! Well done Al, ouch!", and for every time Owen called him Al, he smashed his head into an obstacle.
Bridgette glanced sideways at Alejandro and frowned, "everyone lean forward," the surfer said.
The other girls and the still-fainting Tyler leaned forward and sped up the slope.
Alejandro saw this and also frowned, stopped playing with Owen and focused purely on the race.
In the end both teams reached the finish line, it was a very close finish, but Alejandro's driving was better than Bridgette's and they crossed the finish line a little earlier.
"Yes! We did it! Second place!" celebrated LeShawna.
Bridgette sighed disappointed to lose to Alejandro.
"Cheer up, there's still a challenge left," Lindsay told her, Bridgette smiled.
"You're right, there's still a challenge to go," the surfer said.
"Congratulations on coming second, Prairie Dogs," Chris told them, "Good way to use Owen's face as a brake Alejandro."
"Sweet cheese crackers," Owen said dazed and with his eyes rolling.
" On to part zwei of today's challenge. Competitors must learn and perform a traditional German dance on this very platform," he said pointing to the place where he was standing, " The mats are rigged to deliver a hilarious and painful jolt every time one of you missteps or I need a laugh. Last team standing wins," Chris said.
"Hello? And our rewards?" demanded Heather.
"Patience, Wild Cats get these helmets for a little extra protection," Chris said as Chef threw the helmets at them.
"Wow," Courtney almost fell under the sudden weight, "they're heavy."
"Ah!" Gwen actually fell backwards into the snow, "very heavy indeed."
"Team Butchie, they get this," Chris said as he tossed them some Eskimo hats, "and lastly, Team Kevin," he threw them traditional German green hats.
"Well, since the Seagulls have one less member than the rest, we'll do it like this, Wild Cats, three dance, two sit out," to dance came Courtney, Heather and Cody, "Prairie Dogs, three dance, two sit out," Alejandro, LeShawna and Owen passed by them, "Seagulls, two dance, two sit out," said Chris, Sierra and Tyler stepped forward.
"Wait, I thought you would do this fair," Bridgette complained.
"Yes... it's not that kind of show," Chris said.
"Don't worry, we can do this," Sierra said.
Confessional.
Sierra
" My grandparents are German. Schnitzel! So, I'm like a tenth generation slap dancer! It's what kept me alive on the school playground. And probably why I didn't make any friends. But who needs friends when you can be Cody's future wife?!"
End of confessional.
"But before we start, which member of the losing team must wear Der Penalty-hosen?" asked Chris, no one said anything, "As you wish, inny miny miny… Lindsay!"
"Yes! I won!" said the blonde jumping up, "What did I win?", Chris threw the outfit in her face.
...
Lindsay returned when the competitors were already on the platform, the suit was super small and very tight, the shorts exposed her beautiful and long legs, the buttons in the chest area struggled not to burst outwards and the shirt did not even close completely, leaving a large part of the cleavage exposed, The straps of her shorts were on the sides of the towering mountains on Lindsay's chest, "I think it's a little too small for me," Lindsay said more critical of it than embarrassed by it.
"I think I'm in love with Germany," Cody said dumbfounded as he looked at Lindsay dreamily.
"So do I," Heather said from another doormat.
Izzy bit her lip and scratched her arm so as not to jump on the blonde, and think that she was about to send everything to hell an hour ago.
Tyler was dumbfounded and many more were the same.
Chef blew on the horn again to get everyone's attention, "That's German for shut up, follow my lead and nobody gets hurt! Yet," said the cook.
'I think that's the point,' Cody thought.
"Right knee up, left arm swings, thump, hop, slap your thighs, kick your butt, jump and clap," the chef told them, demonstrating the choreography.
Cody watched Sierra skillfully execute the moves in silence, which was a huge relief, 'I guess it wouldn't make sense to expose yourself like that this time', singing was not mandatory during this challenge, Sierra had only done it to assert her dominance over Cody.
Everyone practiced the choreography in their own way, and almost no one followed the chef's instructions, LeShawna in particular was implementing her signature dance moves.
"Hahahahahaha," Heather teased her, "this isn't a break dancing battle you know?" LeShawna looked at her annoyed.
"Ignore her, what does she know about talent? You really are fabulous LeShawna, you give rhythm to the dance, you know it, they know it, I know it," said Alejandro.
LeShawna smiled at him, "you're right, there are those who aren't worth it," she said looking at the queen bee.
She just rolled her eyes.
"I'm disappointed, Heather. You're above petty teasing," Alejandro scolded her.
Confessional.
Heather
"Petty teasing? Who does he think to talk to me like that and to decide what the expectations are about me? This isn't my first rodeo, I've been at this for three seasons, urgh, I would like to smack that arrogant jerk right in those..."
LeShawna
"Strong, sexy cheekbones, he's right, Heather is pure bark and I shouldn't listen to her."
End of confessional.
"Wow, you do pretty well for your first time," Courtney told Cody when she saw him dance.
"What can I say, I feel like I've already done this in a past life," the geek said, "and you... well, you're moving."
"Agh, I can't get my steps to come out," complained the CIT.
"Hahahaha, you're too stiff, relax, you don't have to copy them perfectly, try to give it your own personal touch," the geek suggested.
Courtney paused for a moment and inhaled and exhaled deeply, then proceeded to do the steps, but in a more fluid way and without worrying about every little detail.
"Hey, this is fun," the CIT said wiggling her hips, turned around and kicked her round, curvaceous butt in front of Cody inadvertently.
"Yes it is, for you and me," Cody said with a sly smile.
"I don't feel so h-h-h-h-hot," Owen said, barely moving next to Alejandro.
"Perfect time to test this baby out," Chris said with a remote. The host pressed the button.
*Zap, zap, zap, zap*
"AHHHH!", Owen was electrocuted by the doormat, burped and sniffed the air, "hmm... smells like cooked sausage, cool."
"Gross," Courtney said with a cringe.
Heather discreetly spoke to LeShawna, "So now you let a handsome guy fight your battles? I'm disappointed, who knew you'd become the Beth of this season?"
"Excuse me? I'm not like that little farmer in love and Justin would like to be like Alejandro," she replied.
Heather smiled, "says the girl who melted for the model when she wasn't looking at the weird nerd."
LeShawna didn't know how to respond to that.
"Open your eyes, he's wrapping you around his finger and you don't even notice."
"So what? Alejandro is a good guy, unlike someone who has been a thorn in my side for three seasons and was the cause of me being ejected twice," LeShawna reproached her.
"He's using you, he doesn't care about you," Heather told her.
"You're just jealous".
"Jealous-!? UGH! Alright! If that's how you want it to be! Go ahead! Be the puppet of that cretin Spaniard!" shouted Heather.
Confessional.
LeShawna
"Anyone Heather can't stand must be good."
End of confessional.
*Zap, Zap, Zap*
"AHHHHHHH!", Chris electrocuted them all.
"Time for the challenge," said the host. Many changed doormats still shaken by the current, "the last person standing on the platform wins the challenge for his team, this... It'll be fun."
The platforms rose into the air, the couples were Owen and Heather, Tyler and LeShawna, Sierra and Courtney, Alejandro and Cody.
They all began to slap each other following the steps that the chef taught them to the great amusement of the presenter.
From time to time Chris would activate the electricity of a random doormat to give it excitement.
"Hey dude, like on the game shows," Tyler told LeShawna.
*Slap*
"AHHHHHHHHH!", the athlete was blown off the platform by a solid punch from LeShawna.
"Yeah dude, like in the game shows," said the big sister.
"And Tyler is out," said the host, of the athlete only his feet were visible, the rest of him was buried in the snow.
Courtney was slapping Sierra in the face, "Ouch!", but she was getting more than she was giving back.
*Zap, zap*
And Chris wasn't helping.
Confessional.
Courtney
She was rubbing her cheek, "Does she have lead in her hands or what? Ouch!"
End of confessional.
After a sequence of three slaps Courtney was fed up, "look, a limited edition Chris Mclean doll."
"Where!?" Sierra gasped and turned around immediately.
"No Sierra! It's a trap!" shouted Tyler from below.
Courtney tried to kick Sierra off the platform.
"I don't see it!" but she ducked at the last second.
*Zap, Zap, Zap*
"!", Courtney lost her balance due to electricity and fell off the platform.
*Zap, Zap, Zap*
"AHHHHHHH!", Chris electrocuted Owen again and before Heather's horrified gaze he regurgitated the meat that he ate in the form of a large sausage, "ahhhh...", Owen fell off the platform by himself.
Cody and Alejandro had their hands up, but the geek's hand was shaking, he looked at Alejandro and he squinted back at him, 'well, it's time to play', Cody thought.
He tried to slap Alejandro but he leaned back dodging him, the Spaniard was about to hit him back, but Cody hadn't been trying to hit Alejandro really, what he wanted was to gain power with a 360-degree turn.
The Spaniard's eyes widened as Cody completed his turn a second before he caught up with him.
*SLAP*
"AHHHHHHH!", Alejandro was thrown backwards and buried in the snow.
'Would you believe me if I told you I learned it in a dream?' Cody thought as he rubbed his hand with a smile.
"That's Cody! That's my boy!" shouted Izzy on Gwen's shoulders who was struggling not to fall.
Sierra's mouth opened in fright.
Confessional.
Alejandro
He had a red hand-shaped mark all over his right cheek, "okay... I think I underestimated the strength of that geek a little bit," he admitted.
Heather
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahohohohohoho, oh his face was so de-pff, hahahahahahaha."
Sierra
"Ah, wha, but, he, she...", she tried to speak but the words did not come out, "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!? WHY!? EVERYTHING WAS GOING PERFECTLY! THAT'S NOT FAIR! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
End of confessional.
In the end, there were only Heather and LeShawna, Cody and Sierra.
"Come on Cody, you can do it!" shouted Izzy.
"Come on Sierra, kick his ass!" Tyler yelled, Lindsay frowned, "I'm sorry."
"Kick her ass, Leshawna," Gwen yelled.
"Excuse me? Who are you on?!" offended Heather.
"Oh, sorry, bad habit," Gwen apologized.
"You can do it, LeShawna, beat her," Alejandro shouted.
"Hi Cody, what a coincidence to meet you here, it seems that we bump into each other a lot, don't you think it's destiny?" said Sierra, completely oblivious to the challenge now.
"...", Cody for the first time since the season began, he did not look at Sierra with fear, but with annoyance and even pity, he did not miss the face he put on when Izzy encouraged him, it was not difficult to connect the dots to guess who put ideas in the redhead's head, 'okay, I think I was a coward too long, the truth is that I never wanted to have to face you if possible, I think because the friendship we had in the past, and the idea of making your future worse was preventing me from gathering the courage to correct you, but it's over, you went too far, if I want to help you, I must first accept that you need help and you need a lot of help, from now on you'll have the hard treatment like the rest Sierra', thought the geek bitterly.
Heather and LeShawna slapped each other hard and for the big sister it was like lighting the fuse of the bomb, "Ouch! That's it!" said LeShawna.
"LeShawna, no!" Alejandro tried to stop her.
But LeShawna was beyond words, punching Heather off the platform, "AHHHHH!"
"You've had this coming for three seasons," said the big sister and then jumped on Heather.
However, before she fell over the queen bee with her fist of anger, she was caught in mid-air by Izzy who restrained her from reaching Heather.
"Let go of me! I'll finish it off! I'm sick of that arrogant skinny bitch!" she said as she tried to catch up with Heather who got up and backed away in panic.
"Request rejected," said the redhead.
"LeShawna, you just cost us the challenge," Noah scolded her.
LeShawna was finally aware of her surroundings and what she had done, "oh... shit," she said to the disappointed looks of her team.
"So, Cody, wouldn't you rather forget about the slapping thing? move on to something healthier, like a tickle contest?" she said, moving her fingers depravedly.
"...," Cody clenched his fist and his hand stopped shaking, "goodbye Sierra," he said simply.
*Slap*
Before she even knew it, Cody pulled her off the platform with a hard slap to the face, "AHHHHHHHH!", the fan fell into the snow with a dumbfounded look, "I... can't believe it."
Confessional.
Sierra
"I HAVE THE IMPRESSION OF CODY'S HAND ON MY FACE!" she shouted excitedly, showing the camera the red hand-shaped mark, "Oh~ hohohohohoho, never again in my life will I wash my face, or take a bath, never ever!"
End of confessional.
"And it's over, Cody is the last competitor standing so the Wild Cats win the challenge," Chris announced.
"Yes!", celebrated the Cats.
Heather was shocked when Izzy gave her a big hug, but then the queen bee smiled and returned it.
Cody smiled as he looked at his red hand, "I was finally able to step forward," he said clenching his fist tightly.
"Prairie dogs, you lost, and you must send someone home," Chris told them, they lowered their heads in embarrassment.
Confessional.
Alejandro
"Agh, this wouldn't have happened if...", the Spaniard's eyes widened, "if Heather hadn't provoked her so much, argh, that manipulative shrew! Mark my words Heather," he said pointing to the camera, "this is not going to stay like this, I don't know how or when, but I guarantee that I will take revenge, you will regret having bothered Alejandro Burromuerto."
End of confessional.
-0-
"LeShawna, wait," back on the plane Bridgette approached the big sister.
"Hi Bridgette, what's up girl?" she greeted her.
Bridgette looked both ways, "don't trust Alejandro."
LeShawna's eyes widened, "You too?! Agh, what did that manipulative bitch Heather tell you?"
Bridgette shook her head, "I'm not saying this because of Heather, I'm saying this because of me, Alejandro can't be trusted, I think he's up to something."
LeShawna's expression changed from anger to doubt, "...Are you serious?"
"Very seriously, I don't know what he is up to, but I have a feeling that it is not good at all," said the surfer.
LeShawna looked carefully at Bridgette's face, she knew what the girl looked like, she trusted her, "it's okay... I believe you, honey," she said with a smile.
Bridgette smiled too, "thank you."
"What do we do then? Alejandro told me that we would expel Owen because of the problems he caused during the challenge," the big sister told her.
"For now we can only hope that he is wrong, just keep up appearances, he thinks you are trustworthy right now, right? We can use that against him," Bridgette said.
LeShawna smiled, "I like the sound of that, well, leave it to me, we'll find out what he's up to."
-0-
The Seagulls were sitting in economy class talking, Sierra for some reason rubbed her cheek and almost managed to lick it, disgusting her teammates.
It caught their attention when the Prairie Dogs returned after the elimination ceremony.
"Ahhhhh... no more sausages for me... Okay, maybe one more wouldn't hurt."
"Dude, that's wrong," Noah said.
"Yeah, you already ate the one you vomited, eh."
Bridgette got up wide-eyed and walked over to the other team, "Where's LeShawna?" she asked them panicked.
"She's gone."
The surfer froze, slowly turning her head to see out of the corner of her eye the imposing and serious figure of Alejandro standing behind her.
~0~
"And the last bag of peanuts is for... Owen!" said Chris, "LeShawna, you're out."
LeShawna's eyes widened, "What?" she saw Alejandro smiling, "You! You did it!"
"I don't know what you're talking about, LeShawna, the one who cost us the challenge today... was you," Alejandro said simply.
"Guys, don't believe him."
"Chef".
"Alejandro- uff," Chef hit LeShawna with the parachute to shut her up, and then threw her out the door, AHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Goodbye LeShawna," Alejandro said.
-0-
"It was a shame to be honest, she was a woman of... confidence," Alejandro said, looking directly at Bridgette.
Her heart got stuck in her throat, 'He heard us! He was spying on us!'
"Or at least that's what I thought, because I think she was colluding with someone to sabotage our team, that's why she made us lose so blatantly. Sometimes you don't know who you can trust, right?"
"I don't know about you, but she messed it up big today, that's why I voted for her," Noah said with a shrug.
Bridgette swallowed with a dry throat, "I... I'm going to go back to my team now," she said as she passed by Alejandro.
"Rest well, Bridgette," was the last thing the surfer heard from the Spaniard, it felt like a bucket of ice water, she was not going to be able to rest.
Confessional.
Alejandro
"I knew I couldn't trust Bridgette, I'm sorry LeShawna, you had potential, but no one betrays me and gets away with it."
End of confessional.
-0-
"Oh yeah, things are finally starting to really cook," Chris said from the cockpit next to the chef, "What was it that LeShawna wanted to say to her team and we didn't let her? Who will survive Alejandro's purge? Will Bridgette last now that she knows that Alejandro has an eye on her? What crazy plan will Sierra try next? Who will be left standing at the end? Find out next week in another exciting episode of Total... Drama... World Touuuuuur~!".