Yup, this is not Episode 11! Instead, we will be checking in with the losers to see how they've been doing since being kicked off the show! Sorry it took so long to release a chapter that has no impact on the game itself, but I took this opportunity to take things slow. Don't wanna burn myself out!
Big shoutout to Lacuevademisgustos btw, he made a one-shot alternate ending to episode 8 called Human Shield where Dave and Sky had a nice ending. If you were one of many who felt sad at Dave's boot, I'd recommend checking it out. If anyone else has a similar idea, feel free to dm to ask to make it.
Lacueva- Sky did nothing wrong, this slander won't stand! Ok but fr, writing the challenge was shockingly hard. There are only so many ways to describe throwing balloons sadly.
Vladiator- Still unsure about the virtual reality, but thanks for your ideas
Doomtron- Glad you liked it, you'll have to wait until next episode to see what's next
Mortal01- What Izzy had might come as a surprise. I keep giving you all the random af rivalries. EEK! I'm glad you like Sugar in this series again, she is seemingly a highlight of challenges for you. Queen Staci ended AleFLOPdro!
Jaron58- Yeah, I had to speed up the process of the eliminations
goodguygary- indeed
myfacewhen214454- Sadie try not to get slandered by multiple reviewers per episode challenge: Impossible
Andrew1- I probably won't do a music challenge because everything cool about that is gone in fanfiction when you can't hear the music.
kirbykid13- We talked in dms and your idea will likely be used soon enough
Guest- Sammy's steal a vote is a one use item.
Mr Mysterious- It's a steal a vote, it was said in the last episode
Omega Leonidas- Maybe, I'll go back and check your ideas again when I posted this challenge. I probably need to keep a doc of everyone's recommendations.
Johnathan1209- The legend is back! Your episode 3 review was legendary and this one was too, no need to apologize for the long reviews. (seeing it helped motivate me to finish the chapter today instead of tomorrow). The episode would've been 7 years long if camp life was as long as it usually is, I had to keep myself in check there lol. You're correct about Rodney. I wanted him out a lot sooner, but he had to stay in for a while to establish Lime as a dominant team. Glad you liked Brody's elimination, we need a dramatic tribal council at some point and this was the perfect opportunity to introduce it. Scott would've looked so dumb if Max went home with his idol, luckily for him that didn't happen.
Post Episode 2:
The boat of losers takes Jay and Spud to the Loser's Lounge. The duo step off the boat (Spud slower than Jay) and head towards the resort. "Woah… this place is huge, I have anxiety around large buildings!" Jay panics. "Do you have a paper bag?"
"Nah, sorry dude." Spud shrugs. Suddenly, they see someone walk up to them.
"Hey brats, here are the keys to your rooms." Chef says, handing keys to the eliminated duo.
"We have our own rooms?" Jay questions.
"DID YOU NOT HEAR ME, OF COURSE YOU DO!" Chef bursts out, causing Jay to get paralyzed in fear. Chef sighs. "Head to your rooms and you'll see what's there. There is a map of this place on the front door."
Despite his delayed reactions to everything, Spud is the first to move as Jay is still scared. Chef sighs and carries the frightened boy to his destination, just in time when Jay recovers from the shock. "Thank you Chef…"
Chef doesn't reply and walks off as Jay uses his key to enter. He steps inside to see a king sized bed with a basket and clean clothes on it. There is also a bathroom and shower. Jay walks over to the bed and plops down onto it. "Wait, I smell bad, I should probably shower first."
Jay takes a shower and changes into the new clothes before sitting on the bed and looking at the basket. He sees a letter and opens it to see a letter from his parents. He gasps before smiling and begins reading it in his head.
Hello Jay, we are hoping that you only see this letter after you or Mickey win the game!
Jay stops reading and sighs, looking at a mirror on the wall. "Well it's up to Mickey now…" he groans before continuing. Jay knows that he is never going to be the strongest, bravest, or really anything involving being good at something. But seeing the letter brought in a wave of disappointed emotions that he couldn't even have an underdog run like many others before him. He got eliminated over a button! He got eliminated before Leonard! Hopefully Ella and Mickey are doing well without him.
…
We see Spud in his room, not bothering to shower and instead just looking at his letter. It's just a picture from a fellow musician of Spud.
"That's cool."
Post Episode 3:
"What's on the menu today Ms Martin?" Jay asks the woman cooking.
"I made some beef burgers for dinner." Ms Martin responds.
"Um…"
"Are you going to complain about my food?" she asks.
"No! I just… not the biggest fan of cows."
"Here's a sandwich then!" Ms Martin throws a sandwich to Jay.
"Thank you… how did you know I love an air sandwich!?" Jay smiles, seeing nothing between the bread.
"You're probably allergic to everything but bread" she bluntly responds.
"...fair enough." Jay replies as he sits down to eat his sandwich.
"Woah, are those burgers?" Spud gleams as he walks into the cafeteria and notices the food. Ms Martin nods as Spud begins gathering some on his plate. He sits across the table from Jay and as they're eating, they hear a noise.
"What is that?" Jay asks.
"The boat is here, the next eliminated contestants are arriving." Ms Martin informs.
"Should we go out and see who it is?" Jay asks.
"Nah, they'll come in." Spud replies. Jay shrugs and continues eating. They hear the door open and see Beardo and Cameron walking in.
"Oh wow!" Jay gasps at seeing Cameron.
"Hey guys…" Cameron says dejectedly.
"I didn't expect to see you here so soon." Jay replies.
"I didn't expect to be out so early either." Cameron frowns. Beardo doesn't say anything.
"Your room keys are hanging over there." Ms Martin says, pointing to the wall. With people now populating the loser's lounge, Ms Martin has taken over.
"You look familiar." Cameron looks with a hand on his chin. "Wait, are you DJ's mom?"
"That's Ms Martin to you!" she responds before looking at Spud. "You! Stop chewing with your mouth open!"
"Sorry dude." Spud apologizes.
"I'll go see my room then come back to eat." Cameron says, taking his room card and leaving. Beardo takes a bit longer to move, a look of disappointment clear on his face.
…
The following day, we see Jay and Cameron eating breakfast together. "These eggs are marvelous, they're even better than the spa hotel in All Stars!" he exclaims before frowning. "It makes being an early boot sting a little less…"
Jay gives a sympathetic look. "Do you know what happened?"
"No! It just isn't computable for me why the team would side with Alejandro over me!" Cameron frowns. "He is one of the slimiest players in Total Drama history, I guarantee that it will backfire on him."
"Who else is on your team again?" Jay questions. Cameron points to a memory wall that has portraits of everyone organized into their team. Jay, Spud, Beardo, and Cameron's pictures are gray. "Oh. Looking at that picture, I wouldn't think anyone but Josee would work with him."
"That's what I thought!" Cameron throws his hands in the air. "I hope to not see any of my alliance here soon."
…
Elsewhere, Beardo is sitting alone in the TV room. He goes to pick up the remote, but he accidentally drops it on the floor. He makes a sad trumpet sound as he goes to pick it up. "Woah, what was that?" Spud questions as he walks into the room.
Beardo looks nervous. "Uh- um… nothing."
"I thought I heard a trumpet." Spud says.
"Th- that was me." Beardo stammers.
"Woah… can you do it again?" Spud requests. Beardo obliges and makes a trumpet sound again. Spud nods with an impressed look. "Do you think you can make an electric guitar noise?"
Beardo gives a smile.
Post Episode 4:
To say that Beardo is shy would be an understatement. He makes sound effects out of fear of talking to people, which says a lot. However, he may have managed to find a friend in Spud, a very odd duo. They've spent the past few days in the music room of the resort and testing out everything. Beardo's sound effects are better sounding than him actually using the instruments, but he's more than willing to give it a go.
However, while they're having a good time, Cameron and Jay are subjected to hearing the gripes of our most recent losers. "I just tried to get the sandbags by using magic, and my team got mad at me, can you believe it?" Leonard vents to the weak duo.
"Yeah, magic has gotten you eliminated twice before." Cameron matter of factly states. Leonard huffs in annoyance at response.
"The reason I got eliminated was way stupider." Lorenzo angrily slams his fists onto the table.
"W-what happened?" Jay asks with worry at the anger.
"My team thought I was sexist!"
"Was it about what you said regarding Priya?" Cameron questions.
"Yes! It wasn't that bad, stupid sensitive babies!" Lorenzo bursts out.
"I mean the women are doing well this season, none of them have been eliminated yet. Maybe you need to change your attitude." Cameron suggests. Lorenzo just scoffs before walking away.
Post Episode 5
"The boat is coming!" Cameron exclaims as they hear the familiar noise.
"Who do we think is joining us?" Jay asks.
"Hopefully Carrie." Lorenzo bitterly says. Lorenzo is disappointed when he sees that neither of the eliminated players are Carrie, instead it is Mickey and Beth.
"Mickey!" Jay yells out, running towards his brother. The twins embrace before Jay pulls back after a few seconds. "You kinda smell…"
"Hey!" Mickey laughs, not offended.
"Sorry that you're gone so soon…" Jay looks sad. He is happy to see his brother again as they usually are never apart, but he wanted to see Mickey make it to the end and win.
"It's fine. I wish I could've done better, but I did alright! I can now jump six inches in the air!" Mickey puts his hands on his hips with pride.
"Good job, I struggled with that for a long time!" Cameron praises.
"That should be normal." Lorenzo rolls his eyes before turning to Mickey. "How did you outlast me again?"
"Because the Blue Team made a mistake by eliminating me!" Leonard says. During the whole conversation, Beth ignored everyone else to go to her room. She opens the door and steps inside, jumping onto her bed to cry.
"What even happened…" she cries to herself.
…
The following day, everyone is sitting together eating lunch. "Your vote was 5-4-1?" Cameron questions.
"Yeah, I did not see it coming at all." Beth frowns in response.
"That makes both of us." Cameron chuckles lifelessly.
"What confused me is that MacArthur said that I was running around and trying to plot blindsides on everyone. I wasn't even doing anything, Rock was injured and it should've been an easy 9-1!" Beth explains.
"Rock is injured?" Spud frowns.
"Yeah. We were doing Simon Says and he twisted his ankle by jumping." Beth informs.
"Ugh, that means he will probably be gone soon!" Lorenzo complains.
"Poor guy…" Jay sympathizes.
"Anyways Beth, I guess we'll have to wait until another Purple Team member shows up before we can find the answers." Cameron states.
"I guess you're right… I just hope that Lindsay and Tyler survive their next elimination."
Post Episode 6
We see Rock hobbling into the Loser's Lounge while Topher still has a stunned look on his face. "Aw…" Spud frowns at seeing Rock eliminated AND hurt.
"Sorry I couldn't rock on to a victory." Rock frowns.
"I was rooting for you and Chet." Lorenzo says.
"I tried my best." Rock replies. "At least now I won't have to risk injuring myself further."
"Yeah dude, we can rock out here!" Spud smiles. "I made a new friend here who is great at sound effects, would you like to meet him?"
"Of course I would!" Rock responds with a grin, happy to see Spud socializing on his own as that isn't exactly his strong suit. The duo leave the room as Beth walks up to Topher.
"Uh… hi Topher." Beth greets awkwardly. Topher looks nervously at the woman he got eliminated.
"Oh… hey Beth, how are ya?" Topher responds after regaining his composure after the blindside.
"Alright, the food here is good…" Beth responds. An awkward pause commences.
"I'm gonna just go." Topher sighs as he heads to his room.
Cameron raises an eyebrow. "What was that all about, aren't you guys in the same friend group with Lindsay and Tyler? What's with all the tension?"
"...I wouldn't exactly describe us as friendly, he was kind of threatening towards me in the sandbag challenge. I wanted to greet him to be polite though." Beth responds with a shrug.
"Topher isn't the only person you can talk to, don't worry." Cameron assures. "You can talk to Rock and get more insight as to what happened at your elimination!"
Beth smiles. "You're right!"
…
The following day, things are relatively normal with ten players eliminated. Topher is self isolating in his room to decompress from the elimination. We see him lying in bed with an emotionless look at his face, clearly upset with his performance. "I had another chance to finally become a big star and this is how I did…" he mutters to himself.
Elsewhere, Cameron and The Adversity Twins have formed a friendship throughout their entire stay at the Loser's Lounge due to their similarities. They, mostly Cameron and Jay, usually are the welcoming committee, listening to the gripes of those who left the game. They are currently playing video games.
In the music room, we see Beardo, Rock, and Spud. Rock and Spud are using electric guitars while Beardo makes sound effects to go along with it, creating quite the good trio. "Man, this is way more fun than being in the game!" Rock smiles.
Beardo gives an awkward but sincere smile in response. "Y- yeah… my t- team in the game wasn't chill at all, I felt like I couldn't speak to them. Y- you guys are easier to talk to…"
"Thanks." Spud shrugs. Lorenzo and Leonard are watching this go down.
"Why is no one wanting to be my friend around here?" Leonard questions.
"Because you're…yourself." Lorenzo replies.
"What's wrong with that?!" Leonard asks. "I'm a great wizard, everyone should be lining up to get to know me!"
Before Lorenzo can retort, Beth walks into the music room. "Hey Rock, can we talk?"
"Heh, that rhymed…" Beardo says to himself.
"Sure Beth!" Rock nods.
"Let's go somewhere a bit more quiet." Beth requests.
"Alright, see ya later guys!" Rock waves goodbye as the duo head to an empty room.
"So… we're the only two from Purple Team here." Beth starts, getting a frown from Rock.
"Yeah, we didn't do too well."
"You can say that again… anyways, can I ask how I got eliminated? No offense, but you were injured and seemed like such an easy target. I don't understand how I got five votes against me!" Beth says.
"Oh, you got eliminated over a misunderstanding." Rock informs.
"What do you mean?"
"Apparently during the Simon Says challenge, Topher told Zee that you told him that you, Lindsay, and Tyler were going to try and blindside MacArthur or Damien. Zee told Damien about this and it led to a big campaign against you." Rock states. Beth gasps and the gears in her mind begin turning.
"Wait… TOPHER told Zee this? I didn't talk to Topher at all about strategy!" Beth says.
"Well that's what Zee told us after you left. Topher's gone now anyways, so he got his karma." Rock shrugs. Despite the silver lining Rock laid out, Beth still doesn't look pleased.
Post Episode 7:
Beth decided not to be confrontational right away with Topher, she doesn't want to make any heated or irrational decisions in the moment that she'd end up regretting. She decides to talk with Cameron instead. "What do you think I should do?" Beth questions after relaying the information to her fellow eliminated finalist.
"Communicate." Cameron says simply. "Simple communication solves most problems, ask him why he did it."
"I doubt he'll have a good excuse, he was supposed to help Lindsay, not harm her game… but I'll see what I can get out of him." Beth nods, going to the rooming area to find Topher. She takes a deep breath as she walks over to his room and knocks.
After a pause, Beth groans as she hears no response. Not wanting to leave, she knocks again. "What?!" Topher snaps in an irritated tone.
"It's me, Beth!" Beth replies in a tone that nearly matches Topher, annoyed at his rudeness when he's the one who screwed her over.
"Oh." she hears. After a few moments, the door opens, leaving Beth and Topher face to face. "What do you need?"
"I wanted to ask you about something… I talked to Rock, and he said some interesting things to me."
"Ok?"
"He said that you told Zee that Tyler, Lindsay, and I told you that we were going to blindside Damien or MacArthur so that I'd get eliminated. Why did you do that?" Beth questions. Topher's eyes widened at hearing Beth's words.
"I- uh… repeat that?" Topher requests, trying to stall time so he can think. Beth promptly repeats her words, giving enough time for Topher to go into actor mode. "I'm confused, I didn't say anything to Zee!"
Beth raises an eyebrow. "Huh?"
"I didn't say anything to Zee, I have no idea what you're talking about!" Topher says louder.
"Rock said-"
"Rock got that information from Zee, and his brain isn't reliable." Topher bluntly states, catching Beth off guard. She doesn't know if she believes what Topher is saying, but she considers his words. Before she can respond, a loud yell is heard.
"What is that?" Beth gasps.
"Don't know, don't want to find out." Topher shrugs. Beth runs towards the noise while Topher shuts his door.
"Didn't think I would get found out…" Topher thinks to himself. "What do I do… I'll surely get fired by Lindsay if I don't do anything!"
Topher thinks some more as an idea pops up: Continue to lie to the point of making Lindsay, Beth, and Tyler think he did nothing wrong.
…
Beth storms into the cafeteria where she sees a chair fly across the room. She looks and sees Cameron, Mickey, and Jay hiding under a table as Priya is throwing things around. Ms Martin takes matters into her own hands to stop the raging girl, walking over and slapping her. "Calm down, you ain't gonna ruin this place!"
The slap seemed to work, as Priya now realizes the mess she made. "Sorry…" she weakly apologizes. Beth walks up to her.
"Hey Priya…!" she says, trying not to further anger the recently eliminated former winner.
"Hi Beth." Priya frowns.
"Do you need to talk about your elimination?" Beth questions as the terrified trio on the ground emerge from the table they were hiding under to join.
"Yes, I do! It was the stupidest thing ever!" Priya responds.
"What happened?"
…
Beth asked a simple question. What she didn't expect was a long rant from Priya. It's now the following morning, and Priya has STILL not wrapped up her rant about disliking Sadie. "And then she had the nerve to put a sandbag on my bar! Like how did she ever get on reality tv, she shouldn't have been cleared with how stupid she is!" Priya goes on. Cameron, Beth, and the Twins are chugging coffee to stay awake so Priya won't be upset. "Dawn said she voted me out for being too intense and the game not being good for me, but she kept Sadie who is ruining all of their games by existing! Do you see why I'm upset?!"
Lorenzo walks into the cafeteria right when the rant is done. "Priya is still ranting?" Lorenzo questions before anyone can respond to Priya.
It wasn't a good idea on his part to incite the already angry Priya, as now she has a few choice words for Lorenzo. "Oh and you! Do you have anything to say for yourself after what you said about my win?"
"No."
…
"This is awkward." Jay comments.
"Whatever!" Priya exclaims. "I need to sleep, I'll deal with you tomorrow Lorenzo. I hope all of you keep in mind how stupid Sadie is!"
With that, Priya exits and runs to her room. "Um, who else was eliminated? I just realized Priya was the only one to arrive." Cameron mentions.
"We should look around, I doubt they snuck in." Beth replies. The foursome go to the entrance and walk around.
"That's Gerry in the boat!" Mickey points out, and they all see the old man snoring. "Another Blue Team member bites the dust…"
They walk up to the boat and Cameron shakes Gerry awake. "Gerry! Wake up!"
After a bit of shaking, Gerry's eyes open. "Huh? Was I sleeping in here all night?"
"Yes." Jay answers.
"Wow, this is just like the fishing trip I took in 91!" Gerry says before chuckling. Beth reaches her hand out and helps him out of the boat before everyone makes their way inside.
…
Priya woke up in the evening, she was running on fumes and needed a long rest. "So…" she says to herself. "I'm not in the competition anymore… everyone is competing without me. Caleb… Millie… Damien… all my friends are doing what I trained my whole life for and I can't be there…"
Priya walks around her room. "Dawn said this game is too stressful for me… like she knows anything! Even though she's wrong, I can relax! I don't need to compete right now, I'm just fine chilling here with no competition."
Priya decides to look in the basket that was on her bed for the first time, as she was too tired to check beforehand. She opens the letter and sees a message from her parents.
"Priya, we expect you to not read this letter until you have won and become the first 2x winner-"
Priya throws the letter on the ground instantly and screams. "I need to be competing!" she yells out loud. "If I can't play the game, I'll have to find other ways!"
Post Episode 8:
Ripper and Lorenzo are chatting in the gaming room after the former's elimination, Ripper seemingly content with how his journey in the game had concluded. "Nah man, wings over burritos anyday!" Lorenzo says, clearly in an argument with Ripper.
"Have your wrong opinion, you're missing out!" Ripper replies. Suddenly, Priya bursts into the room.
"YOU TWO! I challenge you to a race!" Priya says.
Lorenzo raises an eyebrow. "Weren't you mad at me?"
"And don't you still hate me for the human shield thing, why would you want to race us?" Ripper inquires.
"The past is the past, I need to compete in something and you two are the first people I've seen today!" Priya replies.
"Let's compete in a fart off!" Ripper offers.
"No!" Priya recoils.
"Then it's off, I don't want to run." Ripper shrugs.
"We can uh… play video games instead! What are you playing?"
"Minecraft." Lorenzo responds.
"We can do something in that-"
"I hate the way split screen looks when more than two people are playing, no can do." Lorenzo shuts down. With that, Priya storms off.
…
The Twins are sitting together outside near the pool, reading a book that Cameron recommended. They're having a peaceful time before Priya runs up to them. "HEY!" she yells, causing both twins to scream in shock. Priya has an apologetic look. "Sorry, didn't mean to startle you like that. Let's do something!"
"Um sure, what is it?" Jay asks.
"Let's have a swimming contest! First one to swim across the pool 50 times wins, you guys in?" Priya questions. Jay and Mickey look at each other nervously.
"We can barely keep ourselves afloat, sorry Priya." Mickey frowns.
Priya sighs. "What is with everyone today?"
…
The other eliminated contestant, Dave, is sitting by himself and eating an air sandwich, Jay's recommendation. Dave tries not to think about his elimination too much. He didn't want to compete again in the first place, so logically he shouldn't care, right? "The perception of me likely hasn't changed at all." Dave thinks. "I wonder what the viewers think of me."
Dave scolds himself mentally for letting those thoughts seep in. He doesn't use social media much anyways, and the encounters he has with people in the real world aren't that bad. He can handle haters finding his address and sending hate letters to him. He can handle haters slashing his tires or walking up to him in the grocery store to tell him how annoying he was, right? Why does it matter what absolute nobodies think?
He begins to ponder about the Pink Team and how they must be doing. "Sky must be throwing a party at the camp right now… I wonder if anyone else is joining in." Dave sighs. He knew Sky for a few weeks four years ago, and the woman defined a lot of his life afterwards with the backlash his actions surrounding her got. "Whatever, she probably won't last too much longer anyways…"
He thinks about the 5-2-1-1-1 vote count and smiles knowing that it wasn't unanimous. "Thankfully Sammy stuck by me." Dave frowns upon thinking of something. "What if my conversation with her was aired on TV? I should've thought before speaking, I didn't want people to know about… that."
Dave is snapped out of his thoughts as a large tray of food is slammed onto the table in front of him. "Hey Dave!" Priya greets.
"Um… hi?"
"I bet I can finish a large plate of Ms Martin's cooking faster than you can!" Priya challenges.
"Ok?" Dave raises an eyebrow, causing Priya's face to drop.
"Can you please have an eat off with me, I've been dying for competition!" Priya begs.
"Priya, I'm really not in the mood." Dave replies.
"Please…" Priya looks into Dave's eyes.
"I have a question." Dave says, not answering the eat off proposal. "Why are you still so competitive? You made it to the top four twice, shouldn't that have satisfied you enough? Just enjoy this place while you can."
Priya frowns. "Competing is all I know, it's what I've been doing my whole life."
Dave sighs while looking at her. "Maybe you can expand to do some non competitive stuff? Viewing everything as a competition or being fixated on stuff is miserable."
"It sounds like you have experience…"
"Yup."
The duo sit in awkward silence. "So… I guess no eat off?"
"No, sorry. I'm probably allergic to half the food in that pile." Dave laughs.
Priya gasps. "Oh crap, sorry for not thinking of that."
"It's fine, don't worry." Dave finishes his bread sandwich while Priya takes his words in.
"Non competitive stuff… hm."
Post Episode 9:
The majority of the eliminated players are eating in the cafeteria for dinner, waiting for the next eliminated contestants to arrive. They don't have to wait for long, as Pete joins the group. "Ha, you got eliminated, what a shocker!" Gerry laughs.
"I outlasted you at least." Pete retorts.
"First time you've done better than me at something since the 90s!" Gerry says before both old men chuckle.
"Bet you regret voting me out!" Leonard pipes up. "You guys wouldn't be losing so much if you had kept a wizard like me around. I bet Tammy is the only reason you haven't lost everything!"
"Tammy hasn't tried any spells or talked any nonsense about magic in days, she's moved on." Pete snaps, causing Leonard to gasp. He knew that she was not wanting to cast spells in the final days of the game, but moving on… could it be true?
"Who else was eliminated?" Rock questions, noticing that only Pete has entered the Losers Lounge. His question is swiftly answered as Chef carries Scary Girl into the Losers Lounge, as she is still tranquilized. Chris wasn't kidding about that dart being effective!
Everyone gasps at the sight. "What happened to her?" Beth asks.
"We took her out before she could go crazy." Chef responds, getting no shocked faces. "I'll take her to her room."
Scary Girl is taken away by Chef as Mickey and Jay shiver. "This place just got a whole lot scarier…" Jay frowns.
"I don't like her." Ripper shakes his head. "Let's lock her in her room or something so she can't bother us the rest of the time we're here."
"Good idea!" Lorenzo smiles, the duo beginning a conversation on their plan of keeping her away.
"I'll admit while I'm upset she's here, I'm glad she's out of the game. I thought for sure that Mike, Sam, and Dakota would be gone next on my old team." Cameron says.
"Your old team is doing well." Mickey says. "Ours only has five members."
"How do you do so badly?" Beth questions out loud before realizing what she said. "Oh sorry, I didn't mean to come off rude-"
"Nah, you're right." Jay laughs. The twins turn to each other to discuss the book Cameron recommended while Beth and Cameron begin talking.
"I've been a bit distracted the past few days, but I wanted to tell you about my conversation with Topher." Beth says.
"Go on."
"He told me that he didn't say anything to Zee and that he was confused about what Rock said." Beth informs.
"Hm… do you believe him?" Cameron asks.
"I'm honestly not sure. I found him sketchy and I do think that he would do something like this… but he is right that Zee might not be the most reliable and he wouldn't want to piss Lindsay off. Ugh, I just don't know what to do!" Beth sighs.
"I feel like it will have to be a waiting game until you can get more details unfortunately." Cameron shrugs, unsure of what advice to give. "Maybe get Rock and Topher together at some point to discuss it?"
"That might be a good idea."
Post Episode 10:
20 people. The Loser Lounge is quite the crowded place at this point with now 20% of the cast knocked out of the competition with more on the way. Everyone seemed shocked to see four people walk in instead of the usual two, but things have mostly settled down.
We see Lorenzo and Ripper laughing at Scary Girl's door. Everytime they walk by, they always stick around to laugh at the barricade they've created. Scary Girl hasn't exited her room since her elimination, so they assume their plan was a success.
As they continue their laughing, Carrie walks by. "What's going on here?"
"None of your business." Lorenzo responds, looking annoyed at her. "Nice to see that you're finally here though, it's been a long time coming."
"Oh shut up!" Carrie annoyedly responds. "There is a reason you were booted unanimously."
Before Lorenzo can respond, loud noises are heard from Scary Girl's room. Carrie immediately runs away while Ripper and Lorenzo share a concerned look. Soon enough, the door is broken down and the psychopath herself emerges. "WHO LOCKED ME IN HERE?"
"It was him!" both boys say at the same time while pointing at each other.
"You are going to PAY!" Scary Girl vows. The duo try to run away, but Lorenzo isn't quick enough as Scary Girl grabs his arm.
"Please let go of me!" Lorenzo begs. Scary Girl growls before throwing him into the wall. She leaves to chase after Ripper. Lorenzo lays there for a bit before smiling. "I like a woman who can do that…"
…
Gerry, Pete, Leonard, and Rodney are talking outside. "Yeah, I got voted out in a 9-1 vote… and worst of all, Stephanie was cheating on me!" Rodney sobs.
"You were with Stephanie?" Pete questions. "Wasn't she dating steroids?"
"Steroids!" Gerry repeats the nickname, causing the tennis rivals to laugh.
"She is now…" Rodney bitterly comments.
"You seem very lovesick… a spell of mine can cure it, if you're interested!" Leonard offers. Rodney smiles in response which causes the old duo to groan.
…
"It's good to be talking to you again Sam." Cameron smiles as he, Sam, Mickey, and Jay are eating lunch.
"Good to be talking to you too, sorry that you got booted fourth." Sam replies.
"It's fine. Can you tell me some stuff that happened on the Green Team since I left?" Cameron requests.
"Sure! We all voted out Scary Girl unanimously. Josee, Nichelle, Shawn, and Alejandro formed an alliance at the first vote to take you out, and Miles joined up with them later. Dakota and Mike are still in trouble, but I think they'll find a way out." Sam explains.
Cameron frowns. "I sure hope they find a way out."
"I do too. I mostly believe in Dakota, and not just because of bias. Mike has seemed down ever since that truth challenge." Sam says.
"Truth challenge?"
"Like the one we did in Revenge."
"Oh."
"I'm glad to have been eliminated before doing that, there's a lot of embarrassing material on us." Jay laughs.
"True that!" Mickey adds.
"Do you think it was something about that challenge that upset him, or do you think it was coincidental timing?" Cameron questions, just getting a shrug in response from Sam.
…
Priya decided to take Dave's advice from a few days ago. She told herself to do something not competitive, and watching TV seemed like a fine idea. She puts on the Gilmore Girls and begins watching. She finds the show good enough and sticks to it. Suddenly, Carrie walks in.
"Hey Priya…" she greets, out of breath.
Priya reaches for the remote and pauses the show. "What happened? You seem tired."
"Scary Girl-"
"Makes sense." Priya says, needed no further elaboration. "How are you?"
"Good- are you watching Gilmore Girls?"
"Uh… yeah?"
"Can I join?"
"Sure!"
…
Rock, Beardo, and Spud have had a set routine for a long time. Go to the music room and rock out! They're doing their usual thing before Rock makes a suggestion. "You know, we have been doing this for a while… how about we make a song while we're here! It could be about TDU!"
"Woah, that's a great idea!" Spud smiles in response. Beardo gives a cha-ching noise to signify he agrees. Before the trio can begin to discuss what they'll write about, Beth walks into the room with a wave. She turns her attention to Rock specifically.
"Hey Rock, can we… discuss something?" Beth says, not wanting to say 'talk' so Beardo can't mention rhyming again.
"Sure!" The duo leave the room. "Heh, this is the second time you've called me from the music room! What do you need this time?"
"Let's go talk to Topher." Beth bluntly says. Rock silently nods and they head to Topher's room. Beth knocks on the door and Topher quickly answers. He wants to curse at them because he knows what will be brought up, but he keeps it in his head.
"Hey!" he greets. Between the last time Beth talked to him and now, he decided that he needed to come off as friendly as possible to her to gain her trust. "How are you two doing?"
"Can we discuss the Zee thing?" Beth asks.
"Sure!" Topher fake smiles.
"So that we're all caught up, Rock says that Zee said Topher caused my elimination." Beth reminds.
"Zee is wrong." Topher says while shaking his head. "I don't know what fantasy world he's living in."
"Why would he mention you specifically?" Rock asks.
"To cause drama! Think about it, what if Zee has come into this season with a new strategy to act like himself from the past two seasons, but he's really antagonistic!" Topher blurts out a theory. Rock and Beth look at each other with unconvinced looks. Topher notices this and sighs. "Beth, if I did cause your elimination, I would be bragging about it. I mean getting a former finalist out is pretty big, I would rub it in Chris' face how I'm a great player. There is no point of lying now that we're both out of the game."
Beth's formerly unconvinced look sure looks convinced now with that follow up.
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Dave is sitting by himself in the cafeteria at night. Those thoughts he had a few days ago begin resurfacing in his mind, specifically his conversation with Sammy. "Hey dude!" a voice greets. Brody walks in and grabs some food before sitting next to Dave.
"Oh, hi Brody." Dave responds with a wave.
"You look down, is something wrong?"
"I've just been thinking about the game." Dave frowns.
Brody gives an understanding nod. "Yeah, it's a bummer. I would like to still be playing too."
"It's not really about the game itself, it's more about what will air. Do you have any moments you're worried about making it to TV?" Dave asks.
"I kidnapped a baby, that won't look good." Brody frowns.
"What the fuck-"
"Anyways, why do you ask?"
"Well… I guess I can tell you, you seem chill enough and you'll find out anyways if it airs on TV. So Sammy and I were talking before going fishing and I accidentally fell into the lake. Sammy asked if I wanted to dry my shirt since it was wet, but I told her no. I described the reason why was because of my scars from Pahkitew Island." Dave explains. Brody nods, showing that he's paying attention. "I wish I didn't say anything, I'd rather not have people know what happened."
"Why not?"
"I don't know, people would probably find it funny and I don't want to deal with that." Dave groans.
"Don't worry dude, I'm sure people would be more upset at Chris for leaving you on an Island." Brody assures. "And if people judge you, their opinions don't matter. You have to live life to make yourself happy, not worry about others!"
Dave smiles and Brody feels proud of himself, thinking back to Geoff saying he should be a counselor in the Ridonculous Race. "Being positive seems to come easy for you, wish I was the same way." Dave bitterly laughs. "How do you overcome negative thoughts?"
Brody has a sad look on his face. "Well it's not always easy… who was that girl you dated then hated, Sky?"
Dave's expression turns sour at the mention of her. "Uh… yeah. What about her?" he asks with skepticism.
"You're not the only one who had dating drama with a contestant from this show…"
"Huh?"
Before Brody can explain, they hear the doors open where the 21st and 22nd eliminated contestants walk in.
And that's it for now! Again, sorry for taking so long for a non competition episode but whatever.
Questions:
1. Of these first 20 boots, who's elimination made you the most sad?
2. Who had the most exciting elimination gameplay wise?
3. Who's elimination made you the happiest?
4. What was your favorite scene of the episode?
5. Which storyline caught your attention the most?
That's all for now, see you when Episode 11 releases!