Hello again! Another Monday, another episode. Going back to the original challenge just for this one since it was actually quite a lot of fun in the show and had its fair share of memorable moments. Don't worry, still gonna do my best to add my flair to it and build off of last episode's momentum.
blee7442: Interesting that you might be viewing Cassidy as a potential antagonist. She definitely has some of those qualities about her what with viewing this as a video game and probably sees the others the same as NPCs. As for the challenge, I always enjoyed what they tried to do in Revenge and Pahkitew but they felt like such half baked ideas that never got fully realised. And the merge? Well... stay tuned.
Cody Fanatic: I personally found Millie to be overhated by the community since she always came across as relatable to me (My personal least favorite has always been Nichelle lol.) I do agree with you on Chase. He does seem to have a bit of a cunning side to him that I think they were trying to go for as the stereotypical streamer wanting to do whatever it takes to cash in on views but never got fully realised. The cast as a whole is one where I struggle to find anyone to hate and as a result, find it to be the most dynamic and interesting.
CodeTransformers: Really glad you enjoyed the challenge. Might be my personal favorite of the season. I always enjoy challenges that tells us more about the characters. With Julia, it's confirmed that at least the audience knows but not the cast and she's trying to keep it that way since she knows she isn't in the best spot. That mask is definitely starting to slip though. I won't speak much on MK and Cassidy, just that they were one of my favorite dynamics to write about. Glad you're enjoying either way.
Alright, let's get to it.
REMAINING PLAYERS.
Frogs of Death.
Bowie
Emma
Harvey
Julia
MK
Raj
Wayne
Ferocious Trout.
Cassidy
Chase
Damien
Ripper
Priya
Zee
EPISODE 6: HURL IN ONE.
"Last time on Total Drama Island! After Cassidy exposed her, Millie came clean to her allies about switching her vote to Lauren at the last minute and told the truth about her book to Damien and Priya, who both took it suspiciously well. Teams played a classic, fun game of Truth or Scare where some interesting Truths came out, including Harvey crushing on one of the Frogs and Chase finding another way of being a car crash. Even Damien had fun and no longer wanted out! The Frogs won another challenge as MK got to work on dumping Millie's book of judgements on Chase and Ripper, putting Millie on their radar. Cassidy meanwhile discovered about the guys alliance and worked hard to get the votes on Chase. But at the elimination, Millie was shocked to find her chances at one million big ones, up in smoke. Yeah, turns out Priya swapped her vote to Millie, thinking she was in the clear and she accidentally voted off her best friend. She messed up big! Which is hillarious! Who will mess up bigger this time? Find out today on Total Drama Island!"
MESS HALL: DAY #11.
It was the start of the day, Priya was inside, sitting by herself, poking her food with a sad look on her face. She felt Cassidy's glare as she walked past her table to go and sit somewhere else. Damien then came to join Priya with his tray.
"You doing okay?" Damien asked, feeling worried about her.
"I just can't believe I was so blind. I just wanted to vote for Millie just to scare her a little after her keeping Ripper around. She still didn't deserve to go home." Priya ranted. "This is all my fault! And now I'm probably next."
"Hey, don't count yourself out! There's still a million dollars to play for!" Damien tried comforting her but to no avail.
CONFESSIONAL: DAMIEN
"I'm not too great with drama, it's why I try and stay away from it. Guess that should've clicked when I decided to sign up to 'Total Drama.' Damien chuckled. "But ever since that zipline, I felt great! I'm here to play now and I'm going all the way!"
CONFESSIONAL: CASSIDY
"Ugh, first Millie decides to vote out Lauren over the person who butchered her best friend's face, then out of nowhere, Priya decides to vote out Millie!" Cassidy ranted, in frustration. "Some may call this karma. I call it a dumb move! I am done trying to help these people. Next time we lose, I'm siding with the guys and voting Priya out. Always look out for Player 1 as I like to say."
Damien, after finishing his food decided to head over to Cassie's table.
"I don't know what's going on but you really need to lay off of Priya." Damien told her which got her attention from her music.
"What did I do? She decided it was a good idea to vote for Millie without telling us!" Cassie defended herself, not about to back down from an argument.
"How was she supposed to know the guys were also voting for her?" Damien attempted to explain.
"Even if they voted for someone else, one of our butts coulda been on the line because of her." Cassie continued, knowing it would've at least went to a tiebreaker.
"I woulda taken that chance! As far as they knew, I still wanted out of this circus show!" Damien brought up which prompted her to pause.
"Wait, you didn't tell the guys you wanted to stay?" Cassidy asked, surprised by this decision. "Why would you put yourself at risk like that?"
"Because I didn't want them to vote for any of you instead." Damien answerred. "Where I'm from, you put others before yourself."
"That doesn't make any sense, this is a game! You play it to beat it!" Cassidy excused, still puzzled by this mindset.
"You can play for all sorts of reasons! Sure the million dollars sounded nice for a while but I do not put that price on other people." Damien stated openly. "Maybe you'd get that if you weren't tied to that thing all the time."
Cassie looked at her MP3 player which Damien was clearly pointing at.
"Look, I don't mean to put you on blast like that. All I'm saying is maybe put yourself in someone else's shoes every once in a while." Damien finally left her alone whilst Cassie looked towards Priya who still looked down and out after Millie's exit. She couldn't help but start to feel bad.
FROGS CABIN: DAY #11.
Bowie and Emma were relaxing outside their cabin but clearly one thing was on both their minds.
"I never saw Harvey as the one to have a crush." Emma said, recalling yesterday when Harvey confessed to having a crush on someone on the team.
"Can you blame him? We've got a lot of eye candy on this team." Bowie bragged.
"Heh, I guess you're right. Still, I wonder who it could be..." Emma tried guessing.
"Oh I'm sure we both know who it is." Bowie teased her which caused her to gasp.
"No way, it makes so much sense." Emma spoke in shock as Harvey exited the cabin with a yawn.
"What are you guys talking about?" He asked to which the two got a bit panicked.
"Nothing!" They said at the same time as Harvey merely raised an eyebrow.
"Okay... well I'll leave you guys to talk about nothing then." Harvey walked past them, wanting to avoid anymore awkwardness.
CONFESSIONAL: EMMA
"I can't believe it. Harvey likes Julia!" Emma concluded. "It makes sense, right? She helped him cool his feet down after the first challenge and he's complimented her looks at least once every few days. I gotta figure out what she thinks. It's what friends are for. And I'm a perfect matchmaker."
CONFESSIONAL: HARVEY
"Okay fine, the truth is I like Emma." Harvey confessed with his hands held in the air. "She's sorta been like my best friend out here and she's helped me get a lot better in these challenges. I just figured she was still getting over her thing with Chase. I don't know why I'm getting my hopes up. She seems way out of my league anyway. Whatever league that even is. Anyway, I'm sure she's already figured it out so why embarrass myself further?"
Julia meanwhile was hiding in-between trees, making sure no one was around and sneaking in to the boat house. She breathed a sigh of relief before looking around. "Got to be around here somewhere..."
She paused at a locked box, looking similar to the one Chef was holding out while confiscating her phones on the first day. "What do we have here?" She pulled out a bobble pin and lock picked the box, allowing it to open and gaining her access to one of her phones.
CONFESSIONAL: JULIA
"A couple challenges ago, MK talked about a control room in the boathouse where she was able to control the shields. So I figured what better place would there be for my phones." Julia recalled as she pulled out her phone. "So I made sure no one was around before I made my move. I knew years of lock picking diaries would pay off."
"Wait a minute. 1, 2, 3, 4... one of my phones are missing!" Julia yelled before covering her mouth and looking around, making sure no one was near by before shutting the boat house door behind her, thinking it was likely best to look for her missing phone another day.
Julia then snuck back in to the Mess Hall as if nothing happened and sat down with a sigh of relief.
"Hey Julia!"
"GAHH!"
Julia turned around only to find Emma behind her with an awkward smile.
"Oh hey teammate! What do you need?" Julia tries composing herself while turning back to Emma with her own forced grin.
"Oh nothing, just thought we'd chat since we have the day off. Just two social media stars hanging out." Emma tried playing it off, wondering how to steer the conversation.
"Sure, not that I have anything better to do, well I do, but let's pretend I don't." Julia played off as Emma sat down next to her.
CONFESSIONAL: JULIA
"Okay, deep breaths." Julia said as she tried composing herself. "Emma's in a good place in the team so I'll listen to whatever she talks about if it means I can get her on my side."
Julia attempted to seem interested as Emma kept going on about her drama in Chase. "And then a week after we got back from the service, Chase decided to dress up as my Dad and scare the lights outta me. Gave me nightmares about ghosts for weeks. Ugh! Can you believe the nerve of that guy?"
"You know ghosts aren't real, right?" Julia questioned, looking up from the table briefly.
"Tell that to whoever made horror movies." Emma pointed out. "So tell me, any of the guys here catch your eye? Just needed to warn you if it was Chase because..."
"Honestly? No one here's really my type. Especially not Chase." Julia answered her and she seemed pretty set in stone with that answer. "Besides, I have a boyfriend."
"O-oh, you do?" Emma seemed surprised by this as Julia pulled up a picture of him on her phone. "W-wow. He looks really cute. You go girl!"
"What can I say? Good things come to proud citizens of mother earth. He even volunteers at a kitten orphanage." Julia bragged to her and Emma couldn't help but feel stunned and slightly jealous. She seemed more concerned with what she was going to tell Harvey rather than noticing that Julia somehow got a phone.
"Okay, I'll leave you to it. Thanks Julia." Emma waved as Julia couldn't help but exhale deeply, happy to be alone for a while.
CONFESSIONAL: EMMA
"Julia has a boyfriend? What am I gonna tell Harvey?" Emma asked with her hands on her head, seemingly worried about Harvey finding out the hard way. "It's okay, calm down. Maybe Harvey doesn't have a crush on Julia. But who else is there, MK?"
"So not gonna happen!" She heard MK call out as she was waiting for her turn to use the outhouse.
CONFESSIONAL: MK
"Been recording a few confessionals on Julia's phone for a while, so here's the dirt!" MK announced as she scrolled through the phone. "Cassidy wanted to get her way by voting Chase out but I pumped the breaks on that. Having Chase around is the perfect liability so my team keeps winning."
"Ripper, Chase and Zee are in an alliance, so that'll have to be dealt with." She observes while deep in thought. "Oh but here's breaking news. Princess Julia is not the positive yoga sunshine rainbow she pretends to be, and she stole one of her phones back from the boat house."
She then pulls out the phone that she got. "Good to keep in the back of my mind."
As MK exited the confessional, she ran in to Cassidy who was listening to her MP3 player, quickly pocketing the phone out of her sight. "Oh sorry, didn't see you there." Cassidy apologized while taking a earphone out.
"It's cool." MK brushed off. "Nice find on that immunity statue by the way."
"Thanks!" Cassidy smiled. "With some luck, maybe we'll find the other one."
"I might just go ahead and search for that tomorrow. I mean how cool would it be if we had both of them?" MK thought about, liking the idea of having that much power.
"It'd be like having 2 extra continues in a platformer!" Cassie compared which got MK to look at her puzzled. "Seriously? Nothing?"
"Guess I'm not that cultured." MK proclaimed sarcastically. "See you at the challenge."
MESS HALL: DAY #12.
MK walked away and started to head in to the Mess Hall but ducked back out the door when she saw Julia already at the vending machine.
"C'mon clue..." Julia mumbled as she loaded her drama dollars in, waiting for the machine to spit out the clue. When it did, she opened it.
This statue still alludes you
It seems nowhere to be found
It's not buried or concealed
Nor directly on the ground
Julia let out a smile and raced out of the empty Mess Hall to start searching, not noticing MK currently in hiding.
"Oh no you don't." MK ran towards the machine to get an identical clue, hoping to beat Julia to finding the actual thing.
Julia meanwhile was walking along the forest, looking upwards.
"If I was a statue, where would I hide?" Julia kept speaking to herself. "Maybe it's up in a tree somewhere."
"Looking for something?" Julia froze, turning around to see MK looking at her skeptically.
"Hey! How's it going? Just going for a meditation walk. What did it look like?" Julia wondered, trying to keep up the act as best she could.
"Oh, my bad! See, I thought you were looking for the immunity statue." MK matched Julia's clueless tone with her own.
"What? What would I need a statue for? If you pray hard enough, you can become an immunity statue to all of life's troubles." Julia put her hands together in a prayer motion.
"Oh, then I'm sure you won't mind if I join you then." MK walked past Julia and headed deeper in to the forest.
"Ugh... I mean, sure! Why not have a little girl time!" Julia smiled as her and MK walked together. Secretly cursing herself that she let herself get caught twice in one day.
Things were awkwardly silent between the two as they continued their pointless walk to keep up appearences.
"So... do you like stuff?" Julia attempted to break the silence.
"Not particularly." MK answered, already starting to get bored.
The two kept going until they heard a snap above them. They looked up where right on top of one of the trees was a green frog statue poking out with a couple birds pecking at it. MK and Julia stared at each other for a brief moment before scrambling over to the tree, trying to beat the other to it as they started their climb.
"That statue's mine! Mine!" Julia repeated, trying to get ahead.
"Over my dead body!" MK said out loud.
"What on earth are you two doing?" The two were now petrified in place as Bowie watched them both looking like they were tree wrestling.
"We were just..." MK started, struggling to think of an excuse on the spot.
"Trying to find somewhere with better oxygen!" Julia finished. "The freshest air always comes from trees! Everyone knows that!"
"Right... well Chef's serving breakfast. Better get some before the challenge." Bowie let them know as they both climbed down with him watching them head back. Both glaring at each other.
CONFESSIONAL: BOWIE
"Yeah... they were both clearly looking for the immunity statue." Bowie quickly found out. "And honestly? Why stop them? If one of them plays it, we can just vote the other out easily!"
TROUT CABIN: DAY #12.
Mostly everyone was busy eating whatever excuse Chef had for breakfast, except for two of the Ferocious Trout who were standing outside the cabins.
"I'm confused, why do you want me to keep watch?" Zee wondered before starting to panic. "Are we under attack?!"
"Keep quiet dorkatron!" Ripper warned him with a shake to the shoulders. "I just need you to let me know when Chase is on the way back. Do one of your weird soda sounds or whatever."
"Oh, you mean gargle sound you? Like this?" Zee drank from his soda and gargled from different pitches like he was in an opera house.
"Just keep watch!" Ripper cut him off and stormed inside.
CONFESSIONAL: RIPPER
"The vending machine was down a couple clues and I bet my new pair of shorts that Chase went statue hunting without us! So I'm going through his bag to make sure he doesn't have it." Ripper paused for a couple seconds. "What? It's not weird. They do this in airports all the time! Just ask my dad!"
"Okay, let's see..." Ripper eyed Chase's bag and started to rummage through it. "Hair spray... no... water bottle... no... magazines... wait what's this?"
Ripper paused and pulled out a letter that looked at least a couple years old.
"Aha! A clue! I knew he was hiding something! Alright, letter, read me your words..." Ripper laughed as he opened the letter but his smile disappeared when he found something completely different to what he was expecting.
Dear Chase.
Happy Valentines day! I remember the first day we met. Watching you and your friends try to do stunts off those bookshelves in the library was one of the cutest things I've ever seen. You're welcome for not snitching on you to the principle by the way. Getting a first row seat to watching all your crazy challenges has been one of my favorite parts of being together with you.
I know you won't give up on making it in to those world records just like I know you won't give up on this relationship. Thanks for being the first guy to make me feel like I exist and for making these last couple months of high school the best I could ever ask for. And I'm super excited to what these next few years have waiting for us. I'm not sure what it is, but I promise I'll be with you every step of the way.
From your not so secret admirer, Emma. XXX.
After reading, Ripper started to feel weird but quickly shook it off. "Ugh, can those two get any more pathetic?"
Zee kept watch for a while until Ripper exited the cabin. "Hey, did you find anything?"
"Let's just get to breakfast." Ripper cut him off and left.
"Woah, you mean that's it? Wicked, I could land a job doing something like this!" Zee celebrated before taking another sip, only for the can to be empty. "Aw man, outta soda..."
CONFESSIONAL: CHASE
"Check it out." Chase pulled out the letter and held it tightly. "My first ever Valentines day card from Emma! Back when we just started dating! I was gonna leave it for her to find just to remind her what she was missing out on! I wonder what it was doing on my bed."
Chase thought to himself for a while before letting out a giant gasp. "Maybe Emma left it there! This is her way of telling me she wants me back! Oho! Chase is back in the game!"
"Next challenge! The field! 10 minutes!" Chris announced over the loud speakers.
The 13 campers were all walking through the woods on the way to the field with Wayne and Raj out in front.
"That last challenge was crazy!" Wayne chatted to his friend. "So many wicked scares."
"Oh for sure brah. That boxer was no joke." Raj recalled, rubbing his head as he still felt some pain from the boxer's blows.
"Funny how Chris said only one person had to buzz in at that crush question." Wayne pointed out. "It was like he said someone else had a crush." He laughed off.
"Hehe, yeah..." Raj chucked nervously as he glanced over at Bowie who waved at him.
CONFESSIONAL: RAJ
"So maybe I like Bowie. I don't know what it is, he's just a really cool guy. But I'm not ready to tell Wayne yet." Raj confessed, scratching his head awkwardly. "It's not the kinda thing you talk about in Northern Alberta anyway."
"So, did ya remember to bring the playoff beards today?" Wayne asked Raj who shook his head.
"No score. I can't find them." Raj shrugged. "Did you swallow them in your sleep?"
"Nah, I left them in the bags. Uh oh... was I sleepwalking again?" Wayne panicked as he shook Raj in hysterics.
"Chill, dude. We lose things all the time." Raj patted him on the back.
"Yeah I guess you're right. I even found my half eaten tuna sandwich from a week ago down the fridge." Wayne remembered fondly. "Best dare I ever did."
CONFESSIONAL: WAYNE AND RAJ
Wayne and Raj were both sitting in the confessional with their beards on. "When your hockey team's in the playoffs, shaving is bad luck!" Wayne explained.
"So everyone ends up with beards." Raj added. "We can't grow em yet."
"These are fake!" Wayne revealed as he pulled his beard down.
"But eventually we'll be men, and actually have to shave our faces." Raj confirmed. "We just wear these to keep the luck of the owls going."
THE FIELD: DAY #12.
Both teams were standing next to two giant catapults where they were all wearing helmets like in the obstacle course challenge. "Okay, today's challenge is called 'Stranger Flings'". Chris and Chef stood in front as Chef spoke up to explain the challenge.
"Each team gets their own state of the art, medieval catapult which you will use to fling your teammates as far as you need to." He began.
"Uh, wha- huh... hold up. Fling?" Chase panicked, starting to lose feeling in his legs.
"The goal is to land your teammates in to one of three point value targets. Land in the first one, that's 1,000 points. Second is 2,000, third is..."
"3,000 got it." Bowie cut him off with a raised hand. "But what is with those craters in front of and behind each target?"
"Oh those are surprise penalty pits." Chris answered. "If you overshoot or undershoot your target, you'll probably land there where you will get a special surprise."
"What are these surprises?" Ripper crossed his arms.
"Do you not understand how surprises work?" Chris said unamused.
"So if you land in a point section, exit out the door and come back to your team. If you land in a penalty pit, use the ladders to escape before trying again." Chef concluded as one of the interns demonstrated with a mannequin.
"So is everyone ready to..." Chris started before noticing Chase hyperventilating. "Uh... what's wrong with him?"
"Huh? Uh, I'm fine, dude! I'm just... I'm just... haha..." Chase rocked back and forth with the rest of the team looking down on him with confused looks. Emma smirked at this, thinking this'll give her team the advantage.
CONFESSIONAL: EMMA
"Chase has never backed out of a dare, he's done them all, well the ones he's filmed anyway. Except for slingshot ride at ape pennant theme park. He totally chickened out!" Emma pointed out excitedly. "Our team's got this in the bag."
Chase then got back up trying to find the right words. "I..dum...der... it's...just...uh... I'll call flinger, yeah! I said it first so I'll just work the catapult, no biggie!"
"Nice try Chase but every team member must take a turn being flung before anyone goes twice." Chris pointed out, foiling Chase's plan.
"Oh crud..." Chase muttered.
"First team to reach 10,000 points wins, and the losing team will be sending someone home by drone." Chris glanced at the scoreboard which displayed 10,000 points before starting both teams off at 0.
"I used to kill it at the catapult games at the arcade." Cassidy bragged. "There was even a medieval first person shooter I put hours in to."
"Are catapults made of cats?" Zee scratched his head.
"Was this covered in your training too?" Damien whispered to Priya, not too fond of this challenge.
Priya nodded, saying, "Last summer, my parents sent me to catapult camp. So now, I know all about torque, tension and angles." Damien's eyes grew as much as they would let him and his jaw dropped. "I know that sounds weird so please don't tell anyone else that story, okay?"
CONFESSIONAL: DAMIEN
"Who sends their kid to catapult camp!" Damien screamed, seeming puzzled at Priya's parents. "Whatever happened to Summer Camp? Or fishing camp? Or not getting flung by a catapult camp?"
Chris and Chef were now sitting on top of the scoreboard stand. "Ready... Set..." Chris started before finishing off with the airhorn.
"I'm first!" Ripper called as he ran to the Trout's catapult.
"Awesome, I'll look busy." Chase responded as Priya whistled to everyone to get their attention.
"Guys! I know how to work catapults! If you let me be in charge, I'll..." Priya called out before getting cut off by Ripper.
"Nerd! Less talky, more tossy!" He yelled at her.
CONFESSIONAL: PRIYA
"UGH! If this wasn't a challenge, I'd fling Ripper right to the sun!" Priya growled. "But I want to win! If we lose again, Cassidy and Ripper will for sure vote me out!"
Priya was then drawing a diagram on the floor of how to work the catapult with Damien and even Cassie watching. "Okay so the angle and distance have to be carefully calculated..."
"What does this lever do?" Zee wondered as he pulled it which sent Ripper flying.
"Zee!" Priya cried out as Ripper was sent screaming over Chris and Chef.
"And Ripper is the first one out of the bucket! And lucky for us, it was by accident." Chris chuckled, enjoying Ripper's high pitched screams.
Ripper then hit the ground and went tumbling down in to the penalty pit in front of the 1,000 point zone. "Oooh, fling and a miss. Chef, tell em what he's landed in."
"Ripper has landed in a very crabby crab comedy." Chef pointed out as Ripper was getting attacked by crabs in the pit. "Gah! So pinchy!"
"Cassidy, get in! You're the lightest so I should be able to get you to the third target." Priya instructed.
"Huh? Come again?" Cassidy felt shivers up her spine, not expecting to get flung so soon.
"Don't worry, I've made all the calculations and if they're right, we'll be..." Priya tried calming her down but to no avail.
"IF?" Cassidy asked, almost yelling at this point.
CONFESSIONAL: CASSIDY
"Last time I put my trust in Priya, she voted her best friend out. And now she wants to send me flying to my death?" Cassidy retorted to the camera. "Ugh, but I need to prove that I'm a team player! I just wish I was the one behind the catapult so I can do the flinging."
Wayne and Raj were hard at work in cranking the wheel.
"Awesome work guys!" Julia clapped for them as she turned to the others. "Who's up first?"
Everyone turned to each other, MK shrugging.
"Come on people! We've got a challenge to win!" Julia tried motivating them.
CONFESSIONAL: JULIA
"I'm not in the best spot on this team but they can't vote me off if we win! So I want to take charge." Julia explained, seeming a bit worried about the Trout getting a head start on their flinging.
"Okay, let's do this!" Emma yelled out as she sat in the catapult, ready to get flung.
"Has anyone even used a catapult before?" Harvey wondered.
"You're asking that like it's a normal question." Bowie pointed out.
Julia shrugged and launched Emma who went spinning, her whole team covering their ears from her high pitched screams.
"Those screams can wake the dead!" MK yelled out.
"Or make more of them!" Bowie added, feeling his entire body shake.
"Emma's got some pipes!" Chris noticed. Everyone watched as Emma came crashing down in to the 2,000 point zone.
"Woohoo! Score! We did it!" Raj and Wayne cheered as they high fived.
"Um, I did it?" Julia pointed out, causing her whole team to stare at her. "I mean, uh... go team!"
"And the Frogs of Death leap on to the scoreboard first with 2,000 points!" Chris announced as the score was displayed on the board.
Emma then came tumbling back out, feeling extremely dizzy. "Yay... I nailed it..." She said before tripping and falling in to the penalty pit in front of the point zone where she fell inside a bucket. She came to her senses before hearing some sniffing and growling.
"Um... what was that?" She wondered. Her heart fell through her stomach as she peaked out and saw a bull staring at her.
"Oooh! I was hoping this would happen! Emma accidentally fell in to a penalty zone so now she's got a mad rodeo bull to deal with!" Chris narrated on his megaphone.
Emma then panicked and hid inside the bucket which the bull charged at, causing her to bounce all over the place like a pinball. "GAH! MAKE IT STOP!"
Chris meanwhile was just laughing like a maniac at the scene. "Wow, classic."
Cassidy then let out a gulp over hearing Emma's screams whilst Priya prepared the catapult for launch.
"Remember to tuck on your decent so you get more air time. You got this Cassie!" Priya instructed confidently as she pulled the lever and launched Cassie.
"Woah!" At first she was nervous, closing her eyes but as she opened them, she found herself enjoying the adrenaline rush of being in the air. "Woohoo! This is so cool!"
"Why is she enjoying this?" Damien questionned.
"Tuck!" Priya reminded her as she was coming up on the 3,000 point target. Cassidy nodded and tucked in to a ball, landing right in the zone. "YES!"
"And the Trouts swim ahead of the Frogs by 1,000 points." Chris pointed to the scoreboard. The Trout cheered as they managed to pull ahead with Cassidy exiting the zone with her fists in the air.
CONFESSIONAL: CASSIDY
"Okay I had never even been on an amusement park ride before. But that? That was the most fun I've ever had!" Cassidy laughed, still feeling the rush of getting flung in the air.
Cassidy raced back to Priya as the two high fived before trading spots. "Now do me!"
She nodded as she re-adjusted the catapult, Priya looked at her puzzled. "What are you doing? That was at the perfect angle!"
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing!" Cassidy reassures her before flinging her as she attempted to tuck but wasn't enough as she hit the 2,000 point area structure but didn't actually land in the hole that sounded the bell.
"Ooh, and that's a near miss for Priya!" Chris announced as Cassidy slapped her forehead.
Wayne and Raj were then shown sitting in the catapult together. "We're ordering a double double." Wayne explained to the group.
"Double points for the double threat!" Raj pounded his fists together before Bowie walked up on them.
"Don't you two look cozy." He admired.
"Ahaha, well, you know, we're teammates..." Raj laughed before Chef interviened.
"No no no! Safety first, boys. It's one at a time!" He ordered, causing them to groan at this.
Raj then climbed out, allowing his buddy to go first. "Go for it Wayner!"
"On it!" Him and Raj fist bumped before he got launched in to the air. "Check it out Raji! I'm reversing!"
Raj laughed as Wayne started doing poses like reversing a car and flying like a bird. "Wayne duck left!"
Wayne then turned around and bumped in to an eagle, losing him his momentum as he came crashing down in to the penalty pit where Emma was still stuck in the bucket, trying to escape the bull.
"No fair, that bird was off side!" Raj yelled out.
Wayne then landed on top of the bull as it started jumping around, trying to get him off. "Woah! Why is this cow so mad!"
"I'm coming Wayne!" Raj called out to him as he was next to be flung. "Aim for the cow!"
"We need points!" Julia retorted, cranking back the catapult even further as she launched him, starting to lose her patience.
"Ooh, that might be..." Chris watched on as Julia launched Raj especially far, wanting to replicate Priya's aim for the 3,000 point zone but he missed and landed in the pit behind it. "Too far!
"Darn!" Julia cried as MK walked up to her.
"Since you're doing... well... I'm just gonna say it, horribly, maybe let someone else work the catapult?" She suggested which only got on Julia's nerves even more.
"I got this." Julia responded through gritted teeth as Emma finally made it back to her team and out of the bucket.
"Ugh, someone stop the world from spinning..." She trailed off as she fell on to the ground.
"Well I would but that'd trigger massive earthquakes and tsunamis and I do not want that on my conscience." MK grinned as Harvey let out a laugh, which led Bowie to look at him with a raised eyebrow.
"What? It's funny!" Harvey tried defending himself.
CONFESSIONAL: BOWIE
"I don't think Harvey actually had a crush on MK or Julia. Can you imagine?" Bowie asked the camera rhetorically. "But I do not need him and Emma getting too close for comfort. I'm not third wheeling any alliance."
Raj then emerged from the white sludge in the penalty pit, wondering what it was. "What is this? Uh oh... I think I landed in barf!"
"Haha! Close, but nope! It's tapioca pudding!" Chris pointed out.
"Eugh! The evilest pudding of all!" Bowie gagged along with the others.
"Guys! I got a cramp! I can't tread this tapioca much longer!" Raj called out for help
"Someone save my buddy Raj!" Wayne yelled, still preoccupied with the bull.
"On it! Put me in the pudding!" Bowie ordered.
"If by pudding you mean target, then sure." Julia rolled her eyes whilst re-adjusting the catapult.
"While Bowie's about to make it in the air, let's see how Wayne's doing on the ground." Chris said as Wayne was busy getting spun around by the Bull's feet and got launched up in the air and in to the 2,000 point zone. "And just like that, Wayne scores! So now that is a total of 4,000 points for the Frogs!"
"4,000 points? How is that fair? Wayne landed in a penalty zone!" Priya objected.
"Wayne landed right on the bull so he technically never touched the ground until he was in the point zone." Chef clarified as Priya grew upset.
"Well no one mentioned that before we started the challenge!" She yelled and turned to Cassidy who had the lever stuck. "What's the hold up?"
"Stupid lever's jammed. I must've pulled too hard on it." Cassidy tried explaining.
"I got this!" Damien let her know as he wound back and landed a kick on the lever, launching it with no one in. "Uh, oops?"
"I gotta say, I thought you'd be more nervous." Priya admitted to Damien.
"I still am, just on the inside. It's all about making sure we come out on top." Damien explained, making Priya start to respect him more.
"Uh guys? The Frogs are still ahead!" Cassidy reminded them.
"Ugh! Chase! Get in! We're flinging you!" Priya ordered as Chase gasped and started running before Ripper grabbed him by the back of his hoodie.
"Huh? What? Me? Hey, hey, hey. Hang on a second!" Chase started panicking as Zee and Ripper tossed him in to the catapult. "How far are you going to-"
Cassie re-adjusted again for 2,000 points then kicked the lever which launched Chase in the air at the same time as Bowie who got launched by Julia. Chase alternated between screaming and fainting as he was that terrified.
"Uh, what is he doing?" Harvey watched while scratching his head.
"Screaming and fainting in terror." Emma laughed out loud.
"Tuck Chase! He's not tucking!" Priya warned as Chase fainted, tumbling over the 1,000 point zone and landing in the pit behind it.
"Wow, all of that just to miss the first hole. I love it!" Chris expressed as Chase woke up surrounded by crabs.
"Pfft, crabs? Beat it crustees." Chase taunted as he kicked one of them across the room only for the big one, who was hiding in its shell to emerge and start chasing him. "AHHHH! SUPER CRAB!"
"Mutant hermit crab, one of our popular Boney Island species." Chris stated.
"Okay fine, you can do the catapulting." Cassidy sighed in defeat as Priya let out a smile.
"Hey, check out Bowie!" Harvey pointed in the air as he was doing moves to increase his air time.
"He's gonna make it, woo!" Emma cheered him on.
CONFESSIONAL: BOWIE
"What? You think Priya's the only one who trained for this? I'm mind and body fierce." Bowie laughed. "As easy as it'd be to just grab the points, I can't just leave Raj, he'd drown!"
"And that's another 3,000 points for the Frogs!" Chris declared as Bowie kept flipping in to the hole, boosting the Frogs points to 7,000 before leaving and leaping in to the pudding pit behind him to help out Raj. "Oh what's this? I guess someone likes tapioca pudding after all. I just hope he can save Raj from the sharks."
"THE WHAT?" Chef and the rest of the Frogs yelled.
"Oh did I not mention the pudding sharks? Why am I always forgetting the sharks? It's like I- oh! Damien's in the catapult! This'll be fun!" Chris distracted Chef by pointing out Damien gulping as he sits in the catapult seat, starting to feel his nerves creep up again.
"It's okay Damien, it's just a catapult, it's just a catapult..." Damien gulped, feeling his fears start to creep back up on him. "Are you sure this is safe?"
"It's Total Drama, when is it ever safe?" Cassidy laughed as she re-adjusts the catapult by Priya's instructions.
"You'll be fine, Damien. Just remember to tuck!" Priya reminded him as he got launched and screamed the entire way to the 3,000 point zone.
"And another 3,000 points for the Trout brings their score to 6,000. And more hillarious screams. If I didn't know better, he's writing Scary Girl a love letter!" The scoreboard updated as the Trout were catching up again with Priya jumping for joy and clapping.
CONFESSIONAL: PRIYA
"I won't lie, I never thought catapult camp would turn out to be useful but woohoo!" Priya cheered. "Thanks Mom and Dad!"
Raj was now below the Tapioca, starting to drown until Bowie emerged and helped him to one of the ledges next to the ladder. "Hold on Raj! I got you!"
Raj regained consciousness, coughing and gasping for breath and his eyes seemed to fully recover when him and Bowie were face to face. "Bowie! Hey! What're you doing here?"
"I came to rescue you, silly. Now come on! We should probably-" Bowie started before getting cut off as the next thing he knew, Raj kissed him on the lips which he gladly returned. Unbeknownst to the duo, Wayne was above the pit, watching with a big smile on his face.
CONFESSIONAL: BOWIE
"Well that was... interesting." Was all Bowie could say, the enjoyment clear on his face.
CONFESSIONAL: RAJ
"That felt... right." Raj concluded, feeling glad that he was open about his feelings to Bowie.
CONFESSIONAL: WAYNE
"So I go and run over to help my bud and what do I see? Raj! Kissing! Bowie!" Wayne celebrated. "Face kissing! On the face! That happened bro! Okay, I can't celebrate with him yet until he tells me. I'm sure he's gonna now though!"
Wayne kept watching as Damien emerged from the zone, feeling dizzy. "Ugh... where am I?" He said as he started stumbling backwards towards the pit.
Raj then pulled away, initially feeling awkward about it. "That was uh... sorry. I've been thinking about kissing you a-and."
"Hey, let's talk about this after we get away from these sharks." Bowie cut him off.
"The Sharks? They should be in san jose. They got a home game tonight." Raj cluelessly mentions as one of the sharks emerged and growled at them before Damien fell and struck it on the head with his helmet, knocking it out and allowing Bowie and Raj to get away.
"Phew, that wasn't so bad." Damien emerged and breathed heavily before the shark re-emerged, angry over the attempted concussion and started chasing him with Damien trying to swim away in the tapioca. "Gah! No! No! No!"
"The Frogs of Death lead with 7,000 points while the Not so Ferocious Trout have 6,000." Chris reminded everyone as he got ready for the big announcement. "Since we've sat through the fun of all three targets, let's make things a little exciting! It's time for the lightning round! Campers! There is now a winner takes all bullseye."
"A new target?" Emma asked.
"Yeah... this won't be dangerous at all..." MK rolled her eyes.
"Winner takes all? Why do they take so much?" Zee wondered out loud. "Why is it never, winner shares all."
"Shhh, I wanna hear the instructions!" Priya hushed Zee who's eyes widened as he backed off.
"The new target is 10,000 points and it's fittingly 10,000 feet away. If you land in the target, it's an immediate win. All you have to do is fly through this lightning storm." Everyone looked up as a storm started to form on the horizon. "Ah Wawanakwa weather, you never fail to disappoint. So campers, what's it gonna be?" Chris posed the question dramatically as the score was now really close.
"I dunno, seems pretty far." Ripper weighed up.
"It's our only chance to win this in one shot!" Priya argued. "I know I can calculate the trajectory and tension needed!"
"All the Frogs need is to bag another 3,000 in one shot so we've gotta reach it before them!" Cassidy pointed out. "Go ahead and fling me! I've got this!"
"Everyone has to go at least once! It has to be Zee." Priya said as the group all looked over at him.
"Okay, I'll do it. What game are we playing?" Zee asked her to which she suddenly felt awkward.
"Oh... you know... I just have to fling you 10,000 feet through a storm cloud so we can win?" Priya tried explaining.
"And I said yes to that? Weird." Zee thought.
CONFESSIONAL: ZEE
"To fly that far, you need to think light thoughts. Which is pretty heavy." Zee explained in his typical logic and laid back tone.
"Funny story, this is exactly how I lost my leg." Zee turned to Ripper who only fell more speechless.
"Woah..." Was all he could muster saying.
"True story." He nodded in confidence.
CONFESSIONAL: ZEE
"Not a true story. Fabricated it, man. Brain game!" Zee pointed to the camera then at his head.
"Okay, me, MK and Julia haven't flown yet." Harvey listed out as he hopped in to the cannon. "I got this for us, team!"
"We're already winning, so why try for 10,000 points..." MK started off.
"If we only need 3,000! Which we know we can do." Bowie stated confidently.
"Right, then it's settled. We're gonna play it safe and..." Emma concluded before getting interrupted by Harvey panicking.
"Uh, Julia? What are you doing?" Harvey asked worried as Julia was cranking the catapult as far as it could possibly go.
"Dislike me all you want! When I win this, you can't vote me off!" Julia let out, clearly aiming for the 10,000 points.
"NO!" Her team tried warning her before she flung Harvey out in to the sky.
"See you on the other si-iiiiide." Zee yelled out as Priya flung him at around the same time.
"I can't watch!" Chef covered his eyes, not liking the look of the thunder storm.
"And they're off!" Chris yelled through his megaphone, knocking Chef off his seat.
"Oh hey! What's up, Harvey?" Zee asked as they were both now speeding through the air next to each other. "Woah! Sweet view! I've never been this high before."
"Not now Zee! Trying to focus!" Harvey told him, unsure what to make of the high comment.
"My bad, you do you." Zee apologized.
"Oh no! Zee's dropping too early!" Priya panicked. "He won't make it to the target!"
Zee was sipping his soda when he and Harvey noticed they were both dropping especially early.
"Gah! Gotta dump some weight!" Zee said, taking one last sip of his soda before tossing it. "Recycle yourself little buddy!"
Harvey, not taking any chances took off his t-shirt, trousers and shoes.
"He's not going full moon on us, is he?" Bowie wondered.
"In to a thunder storm? Stranger things have happened." MK shrugged.
"Well at least neither of us will make it." Harvey said before turning around in shock as Zee took off his leg. "What the- what're you doing?"
"Dropping more weight!" Zee answered, kissing his leg before dropping it which surprisingly did the trick as he started to gain more height again while Harvey continued to fall.
"Um, that's not how the laws of physics work." Damien observed.
"Come on Zee! You're right there!" Ripper yelled out.
Harvey then came crashing down, falling through a couple trees before grabbing on to the top of one as it started to bend towards the left all the way.
"And this is the part where I scream..." Was all he could say before the tree flung him back in to the air with added screams.
"As Harvey uses a tree to get some more air time, Zee heads in to the storm clouds in search of victory for the Trout." Chris narrates as Zee reaches the thunderstorm.
Things were going well until he got electrocuted by a stray lightning bolt, which pulled him in to a trance. "Woah... four fingers..."
He ends up surrounded by a bunch of sea creatures, catching a ride on a dolphin as he heads towards the giant soda can in the sky. Once he reaches the top, he leaps off for a dive as he tucks and dives in to it.
Zee dives out of the thunderstorm but Harvey flies in out of nowhere as the two collided, sending one to the target zone and the other just past it.
"Looks like we have a winner. Let's see who it is..." Chris headed towards the point zone and opened the door to see Harvey in a dazed state in the target zone.
"Man, that was wild." Zee sighed as he was laying there on the beach, just past the zone.
"And the Frogs of Death win yet again!" Chris announced from his megaphone as the Frogs all screamed and cheered with MK making sure her celebrations were kept pocket sized. "Uh... can someone get Harvey's clothes and Zee's leg?"
"Ferocious Trout. Another day, another defeat." Chef stated from the other side of the field, looking at the remaining members. "See you at the campfire tonight. One of you is heading home tonight."
The group all groaned at this, as did Chase from the far side before the mutant crab crushed him in to the ground with many punches. "Owie..."
"TAPIOCA SHARK! TAPIOCA SHARK!" Damien screamed his way back towards the group and ducked behind Cassie. "No sharks are gonna eat me today!"
"Yeah... you tell that shark, Damien." Cassidy told him awkwardly as he kept cowering behind her.
"You did great today, Damien!" Priya told him as he held out a shaky thumbs up.
TROUT CABIN: DAY #12.
Chase, Ripper and Zee were all recovering from the challenge, the former two upset at their team for losing for a 4th time.
"I say we get rid of nerd 2. She talks this big game about knowing everything about the show yet we've lost 4 times." Ripper campaigned, clearly wanting Priya out.
"But Cassie slowed us down when she jammed that cannon and missed her shots! Sure Priya sucks but at least she brings more to the team." Chase argued.
"And what has she done so far?" Ripper shot back. "She was out early in the ship challenge, got tossed around by a boxer and couldn't even land Zee in that target! The only thing she was good for was a human shield and we still lost!"
"Didn't she score us 6,000 points and kill it in the obstacle course. Or was that someone else?" Zee asked.
"Well who do you think we should vote for, einstein?" Ripper turned to Zee.
"Why don't we vote Chris off." He suggested.
"Say what now?" Chase turned to Ripper who seemed just as confused.
"He's the one who always has us eliminating people. If we vote him out, we can just chill for the rest of the season." Zee explained cluelessly.
Ripper and Chase couldn't help but slap their foreheads.
"Fine, let's go with Priya. But next time we lose, I'm deciding who goes home." Chase pointed to himself, trying to reason.
"Pfft, not like you have much of a choice, crab bait." Ripper rolled his eyes.
MESS HALL NIGHT #12.
All of the Frogs apart from Julia were sitting around at the Mess Hall with MK at the front of it. They were all enjoying yet another victory until MK got their attention.
"I'm telling you guys, Julia is a complete wacko." She tries talking to them, hoping they'll see Julia as the issue over her. "Did you see her today?"
"But she's the one who helped get us the cup!" Raj tried reasoning.
"And she kept us the lead through most of that challenge." Bowie seconded to which MK sighed.
"But she almost blew it for us! if we kept doing what we were doing, we woulda been able to win it way before Zee landed!" She crossed her arms. "She didn't even fly!"
"Neither did you." Bowie pointed out.
"I just don't get what the big deal is. We won either way." Emma shrugged off. "Sure she's a bit weird but she's really brought her A game when it comes to the challenges."
"I mean I woulda preferred we did it without me getting flung and turned in to a human porcupine." Harvey admitted, still feeling the bruises from the trees but equally relieved he got his clothes back. "Can't complain about someone having a competitive edge to them."
CONFESSIONAL: MK
"Now that Julia and I got busted trying to get the statue, it looks like we're both trying to keep a low profile." MK explained in an annoyed tone. "I'm the only one who can see through her facade. So I've gotta try and find someway to expose her before we lose again and I end up toast! I just gotta wait for the right moment..."
"Hey..." Raj started before Wayne cut in.
"Quiet!" He yelled out. "Everyone hush, Raj has something to say! Raj, go ahead."
The Frogs all turned their attention to the hockey pro who just looked around awkwardly.
"Maybe we should uh... call it a day?" Raj answered while rubbing his shoulder.
One by one, they all left the Mess Hall with Wayne sighing to himselfl as he followed. Emma and Harvey were the last to leave.
"So you don't actually 'like' Julia, do you?" Emma wondered before they headed to bed.
"Pfft, where did you get that idea?" Harvey laughed to himself. "I'm not typically the type to go for people who hurl me in to trees. She's cool and all but a bit too high maintenance for me."
"Right..." Emma nodded awkwardly.
CONFESSIONAL: EMMA
"Ugh, back to square one again." Emma said, still unsure what the answer to Harvey's crush is.
The two of them followed the team out while walking past Priya and Damien, the former of which was heartbroken they lost again.
"I tried my hardest today and we still lost? It's for sure over for me." Priya whined while Damien patted her on the shoulder.
"What makes you think they won't vote Cassie out instead? She did slow the team down." Damien points out while finishing his dinner.
"Ripper's had it in for me since the beginning, and I tried to get him voted out. He absolutely gets Zee and Chase on board. And Cassie's still mad at me for what I did to Millie." Priya cried. "My parents are gonna be so disappointed in me. Am I even gonna be able to go to med school now?"
"If it makes you feel better, I think you deserve to be here more than anyone else." Damien admitted which made Priya feel a bit better. "Millie values your friendship over a million dollars. That's gotta count for something, right."
"Yeah... thanks Damien. I was never great on making friends back in high school." Priya laughed to herself. "I always gave other kids the creeps with my competitive edge."
"You know how many Rippers me and my buddies have had to deal with?" Damien asked her. "Trust me, you're no Ripper."
"Nicest thing someone's said to me here." Priya couldn't help but laugh at Damien's comparison.
CONFESSIONAL: DAMIEN
"I've kinda gotten used to this show, and Priya's really trying her best to go far, even if her parents are a bit crazy. I get being on edge and all. I mean I almost got eaten by a pudding shark. A pudding shark! Sharks shouldn't even be able to live in that stuff!" Damien ended off by ranting about the show's laws of physics yet again.
CAMPFIRE CEREMONY 6: NIGHT #12.
Wolfs were heard howling as the Trout headed for their fourth elimination as a team. The team was much more silent as usual with one person in particular fearing that her time on the island had finally come to an end. Chris looked unamused at the team that arrived to sit down. "Wow, guys. 3 times in a row? That's gotta sting, heh heh! Not only are you about to vote another person off, you'll be 5 members to the Frogs 7."
"Priya. Everyone was counting on you to bring home the win for your team, but your bossy nature ended up rubbing a lot of people the wrong way and you undercharged Zee's fling." Chef started with his usual hitlist. Priya only felt worse by this.
CONFESSIONAL: PRIYA
"This totally stinks! If I head home now, there's no way my parents will let me go to med school. I guess some things just aren't meant to be." Priya sighed as she looked up, feeling defeated.
"Cassidy. The moment you took charge of the catapult, you ended up jamming it and costing the team precious time. This ain't no video game." Chef pointed at Cassidy who felt on thin ice when she felt her team members glare at her.
CONFESSIONAL: CASSIDY
"Lesson learned. Shooting real catapults is a heck of a lot different than shooting 8 bit catapults." Cassidy nodded as she started thinking to herself. "Wait, why does that sound more obvious when I'm saying it out loud?"
"And Chase... you were just pathetic. And I thought Damien was the crybaby of the group." Chef told Chase as he was forced to remember freaking out during the whole day.
"Hey!" Damien objected.
"Let's see who's in for their fourth helping of marshmallows and who will be heading for an early ride home." Chris said as he took the platter from it's usual stump. "Let's begin."
"Zee."
"Ripper."
"Chase."
"And Cassidy."
He threw them out one by one as they each caught it, some in their hands, others in their mouths. Zee's ended up in his soda can which confused him. "Priya, Damien. This is the final marshmallow of the evening."
"It's fine." Priya stood up. "I had fun."
"Sit!" Chris yelled as Priya sat down, rubbing her arm. "And the last one safe is..."
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"Priya! Damien, time to go!" Chris revealed as Priya was hit with the shock of her life as she found the marshmallow in her hands.
"Huh? You guys chose Damien over me?" She asked, surprised but also slightly mad that another one of her friends were heading home.
"I really appreciate everything you've done for the team. And this clearly means a lot to you." Damien explained as he seemed accepting of this result. "So I convinced everyone to vote for me instead, it's the least I could do."
CONFESSIONAL: DAMIEN
"That, and I couldn't stand facing another challenge!" Damien specified, clearly not getting over getting catapulted through the air and getting chased by the pudding shark. "I get to finally go home."
"Aw, thanks! I promise I'll do my best!" Priya said, blushing again. Chris then cut them both off.
"Oh no, not having one of these again." He then led the way to the dock with Damien following him. "Damien, follow me to the Dock of Shame, please."
"Well this is something I'll never forget for a while. More of a reason to rub it in my buddies face, they thought I'd get booted first!" Damien boasted as he reached the end of the dock. "No more scary challenges, and no more gross food. And I made it out alive!"
The drone then came up from behind and grabbed his head as he held on for dear life. "Woah! This is not safe!"
"Looks like Damien finally got what he wished for." Chris said as he watched him get flown away. "We're 6 challenges down but a butt load of Drama to go! Who will be next to walk the Dock of Shame? Will Raj tell Wayne the truth about him and Bowie? Will Harvey tell the truth about his feelings for Emma? Will Julia tell the truth at all? And will the Trout continue to blow it in challenges? Well the only place to find out is right here on Total Drama Island!"
VOTES.
Chase - Damien
Damien - Damien
Ripper - Damien
Zee - Damien
Cassidy - Priya
Priya - Cassidy
18TH - CALEB
17TH - AXEL
16TH - NICHELLE
15TH - LAUREN
14TH - MILLIE
13TH - DAMIEN
Yeah pretty anticlimactic for me to spare Damien last episode only to have him go in this one. Unlike a lot of other people, it never bothered me that he went as early as he did, it just bothered me that they didn't do more with his character during his time on the show. Heck I even struggled with what to do with him in this challenge. I did originally have Zee planned to get voted out here and when I decided not to, was going back and forth on whether to have this or the next episode's challenge and elimination come first since they are the most interchangable to me out of the whole season. I'll go in to more detail about it next week. But pretty much what it comes down to is I had more to do with everyone else than with Damien.
We're now down to 12 and next episode is another sorta new-ish challenge. I say sorta because it does have elements of the raptor and Cassowary challenges mixed in but the format is slightly different. And it'll give both teams the chance to mingle a bit more.
Until next time, see you whenever!