Total Drama X: Winter Warriors
Episode 2: Caving Carts
Welcome to the season's first challenges and we introduced the wild characters last time around, honestly though they are not ready for the trademark McLean danger boosting challenge.
You know, where the two teams have to navigate carts on a course that Chris would make AKA a cart race with a C...and there's an absurd amount of bootleg ice just to up the ante of the contestants' suffering.
Either way, it's here with the 36 players and you better review this thing 'cause I think it is in a good state.
The cafeteria had about 36 different people that were taking the time to eat some questionable good eats and uh, they were not pleased with the OG chef.
"Hey, uh, what's this stuff that you're putting on our plates?" Joe asked.
"Food that you eat." Chef spoke forcefully.
"I don't know about that. Looks like garbage."
Joe Swanson got that up close dirty look.
"Get eating. Or get out!"
Chef dumped a little bit extra on his plate, prompting Joe to roll slowly to Snowmens' table and watch everyone try to eat the garbage that Chef made, including the overconfident Bowser.
Joe slowly ate with a frown.
"Urgh, this thing sucks, fix that stuff!" Bowser yelled.
Bowser ducked under a thrown knife, as Joe looked up.
"Whoa, I just don't like it, man."
The second knife was accurate, as it cut Bowser's hair.
Everyone kept on eating, as Chris walked in like there wasn't two knives stuck on a pillar.
"How are you all feeling about the cooking?" Chris announced.
"It's probably the worst thing about this terrible place!" Ashido complained.
She ducked under the pizza cutter.
"Actually, uh, it's very awesome and uh, very healthy, right, ladies!"
Lolo and Mamizou quickly nodded and struggled to not vomit.
"Dude and dudettes, I'm going to let you people enjoy your first day in the camp and after you wake up, your first challenge should be ready! Anyways, you're gonna love the robot animals."
"That's what they all say." Sticks sniped. "Probably just waiting to kill us."
"The worst part is it's not far from the truth." Sakura remarked, as Sticks lit up.
"You know, it's all about the-"
*Sakura's confessional*
"I'm not surprised that she was talking about mind-controlled aliens, but I was surprised by her talking about how fanfiction can't capture Total Drama like it was a good thing! Which is right, but I don't mind the challenges too much."
*Confessional cut*
Snowmens' Cabin!
There wasn't that much interesting stuff going on in on the first day, so...
"Wow, Chris really sold this place short." Taskmaster snarked.
It was definitely warm, but everything else was the definition of crusty camp.
"Yeah, you're definitely right!" Alberto replied, not picking up the sarcasm. "Looks like a little dump."
"I've slept in worse." Taskmaster said, before Alberto opened his mouth. "I'm on the bottom."
"Alright, I'm taking the top bunk!" Alberto shouted.
Bowser and Ken had a better approach, doing some RPS for their bed.
"Man, you weren't even gonna fit on that!" Ken remarked.
"Listen to me, you're-"
Bowser bent the bottom bed.
"-This is my domain."
Ken shrugged, as he got onto the tap.
"Whoop, top bunk guys."
"Mate, I wouldn't even care that much about the top bunk. This show don't believe in good beds!" Spider-Punk remarked, dumping his stuff onto the top. "Bruv, Nick or whatever it is, what do you think about this place?"
"Blooming bed." Father Christmas said. "Not even that bad."
Spider-Punk and Puss stared at each other.
"I don't believe in his opinion."
"Of course, Spider-Punk! You wouldn't know a good bed, my man!" Puss remarked, lying on his top bed.
*Father Christmas' confessional*
"Right, I don't like this place and I really dislike the host. And I assume these challenges aren't going to be nice since I heard about this show...from somewhere." He said, trying to shake off the 'Santa' stigma.
*Confessional cut*
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Amazonians' Cabin!
As for the ladies, it wasn't that much better.
"Wow, that's one heck of a broken window." Ramona said.
"I know, right? I could just slip through easy." Akiko remarked, her nudging hand going through Ramona's shoulder.
"You're a ghost, you could slip through everything!"
"I was a normal girl! Twice!"
Akiko floated away to where Lucy was and talked about goth stuff, but there was something more interesting going on in a random corner.
"This ain't [freaking] prison, that I can say." Ermes complained. "And I'm stuck on reality TV to win some money."
"I don't know if that's a good thing, but I haven't been to prison yet!" MK remarked.
"It is, you doofus!"
Undyne threw her bag into a bottom bunk bed.
"Dang, I'm taking the bottom and proud of it!"
"That's nice, can you please not eat me?" Orphan Emma asked, trying to put her stuff on the top.
"I wouldn't eat you even if you tasted good! Just feels wrong, you know!"
"Thank you."
As for other ladies, they were not as nice.
"What is your problem, really?" Android 21 said.
"I don't know maybe casually telling me that I don't have that high of a chance." Ramona remarked.
"So? You still have a relatively good shot according to my data."
"No, it's not that. It's just that you told me."
"You did ask and I answered."
Android 21 and Ramona looked miffed about each other, as Lucy and Akiko watched on in some kind of awe for a few seconds before turning back to their more interesting conversation.
"Day one and it's already bad. Doesn't surprise me." Lucy commented. "So, tell me about your ghost lore!"
"Really, it's kinda boring." Akiko said. "I got turned into a scarier version of myself this one time-"
"WHAT?!"
Mamizou silently scoffed.
*Mamizou's confessional*
She smoked...something?
"If I have to say one thing about this team is that I don't mind making conversation with any of my fellow ladies, but it's very likely that they're on guard around each other. Maybe I shouldn't have revealed my nature to everyone, but in this competition where everyone has to hide their true nature, lest be eliminated...lying about that would only invite trouble."
*Confessional cut*
Speaking of Mamizou, she squinted at the ceiling.
"Something wrong with the ceiling?" Natalya asked.
"What are these holes?"
Natalya couldn't even open her mouth.
"I know about air conditioning, you spy."
Natalya looked at the ceiling, as Mamizou looked on with suspicion.
"Nothing good, that much I can tell you." She answered.
"Okay, thank you, Miss Ivanova!" Mamizou said, forming a cheeky smile. "Can I say, you have a big-"
Natalya walked away.
*Natalya's confessional*
"I got some briefing on this Chris man. I doubt he's interested in politics or anything, but he's very dangerous even on reality shows and briefing people did a lot of research. Nothing compares to on the field."
*Confessional cut*
Two hours later, something odd happened in both cabins.
"-And I was like, hey, give me back my things!" Joe shouted.
"I think that was your fault, though." Manolo said. "But I get why you had to do it."
"I know, Mexican!"
"Same to you, American."
Manolo and Joe both looked at each other awkwardly, as everyone had done stuff and then Manolo tried to leave the cabin and couldn't budge the door.
"Come on, this door wasn't that hard to open."
"Or was it? Let the wheelchair guy handle it!" Joe proclaimed.
Joe crumpled against the door.
"There's no way that a place this crummy suddenly has an unbreakable door."
Puss tried slicing a window.
"Men, we've been set up!" Puss shouted. "I thought this was a-"
Joe and Manolo were plainly displeased, as Puss sniffed something.
"-a what, mate?" Axl had to ask.
Puss slumped down to the ground, as Joe and Manolo got a little shuteye.
"THEY PUT THE GAS ON US!" Axl Low yelled to a few awake fellas.
"Holy shit."
Spider-Punk was out like a light after those words.
Soon enough, both teams were deep into slumber and it didn't matter if it was a good position or not, Chris had a challenge to do and he truly was going to make quite the unique introduction.
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Mamizou and Natalya were the first ones out of the 36 players to wake up in the middle of an mysterious and somewhat artificial cave that had real crystals sticking out of the walls.
Though it was hazy.
"Oh, we're about to be eaten." Emma spoke, feeling queasy.
"If that's so, I don't WANT to know what we taste like." MK quipped. "Hold up, the other team's here!"
"Yes, we are, you damn kidnappers-" Joe realised something. "-Chris kidnapped us!"
"HE SENT US TO GET EATEN!" Emma shouted.
The haze quickly faded once Chris realised that he didn't want to get sued again, as the host stepped out of the fog and into the weirdly-lit cave.
"Alright, campers, it's not that serious, you guys are in a cave."
"With you?!" Sakura shouted.
"Yeah, with me. The first challenge shouldn't be that hard to figure out, since we have these minecarts on wheels!" Chris shouted, pointing to the covered carts with rubber wheels that were made to grip. "Seriously, dudes, all you have to do is try to push them towards where the finish line outside of this cave!"
Many of the contestants were more cognizant towards the host's trickery.
"So, there's no twist then?" Ashido asked. "This should be easy."
"Ha, you wish! There really is no twist here, just be careful with them! If your cart breaks then that sucks and your team can't complete the challenge! If both carts break, then whoever team's ahead wins the challenge and avoids the Cold Campfire Ceremony!"
Ashido's fear was only raised, but Monoma noticed something important.
"What's ahead? You wouldn't have us go in blind?" Monoma asked.
Chris took his time.
"Yes, dudes and dudettes!" Chris told them. "By these projections are awesome, made it look like I was there with you!"
The contestants looked miffed and Chef took the time to carry the horn and-
*HOOOONK*
-get them into action.
Both teams realised that it was a bad idea to mess with Chef Hatchet, since he disappeared to do all kinds of obstacle generating madness and then realised that these carts were something to behold.
"Wow, this kind of looks like a terrible cart." MK said.
"Doesn't really matter, da. Let's just push this thing." Natalya said, running straight into the push.
"Fair, but it looks worse than it should!"
The Amazonians quickly decided to slowly push the damn thing forwards and as for the Snowmen, they were really curious about one thing.
"This thing sounds like it's got nothing inside! Unlike me, who has a lot of things inside!" Ken proclaimed, knocking the thing.
"Hey, hey, hey, let's get this started already!" Joe shouted. "No-one look into the damn thing."
"Dude, I know, there's nothing."
Ken and Joe were pushing the cart and making progress, as Popeye took on some spinach and these fellas and Bowser were taking effort in pushing the cart.
Literally because there wasn't much more space.
The dudes weren't messing around when it come to pushing around a specialized minecart, as the rest of them were casually walking around.
"Soo, what's up with you guys?" Ken asked. "Dudes gotta talk with each other."
"It's been twenty seconds, Ken and obviously, I don't reveal things about myself for obvious reasons." Taskmaster remarked.
"Come on, we all have our secrets, but you can't reveal a little bit, dude?"
"No, dude."
Ken saw that Taskmaster was looking at the path, as the surfer doll shook his head and looked towards Tengen Uzui, who shrugged.
"I know that you don't have to reveal everything, but calm your antagonistic attitude, it's only the second day!" Robotnik shouted. "Help a fella out."
"Senor Robotnik, he's a guy with a lot of secrets." Puss defended him. "Plus he's got good weapons."
"True, but I feel like if we're not a solid team, the ladies will eliminate us easily."
"I don't know, man, you're looking too far ahead."
The two of them could only look on ahead.
"As an accredited genius, I essentially have to. But I guess you're right for this challenge."
Puss and Robotnik kinda respected each other, but some other people were wondering something.
"I wonder how the lasses are doing?" Father Christmas asked.
"Maybe they're kicking our butts and-WHOA, STOP!"
Spider-Punk got the pushing boys to stop the cart, as a rock could be heard slamming on a cave wall and these fellas were mostly intact aside from one obvious fella.
The rock broke apart because of one man's efforts.
"Gee, this place ain't so nice after all." Popeye remarked. "He ain't messing around no more."
"Ain't that the truth." Joe said. "And I don't think Chef's going to like me either."
*Popeye's confessional*
"I've only seen Bluto or wise guys pull that kind of stunt and they had reasons for it. This guy tries to kill us for the people on television or that streaming stuff, but I gotta feeling that my crew's got my back."
*Confessional cut*
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The Amazonians didn't fare much better, even if their cart was intact.
"I know what that was!" MK shouted. "Chef just threw some boulders down!"
"So? We just keep on pushing this thing." Undyne declared. "No boulder's gonna stop us!"
"True, it won't stop us hopefully."
Colette was basically punching the boulder several times.
"Let us out! I'm not missing the next Brawl Star games!" She yelled, making some cracks in the rock.
"Yeah, she's got the right idea!"
Undyne threw the spear into the rock and it split apart into bits, some of the other ladies getting a little bit of the dirt action, as the two fighter got up dirtied and determined.
"Sorry for the rocks, but I had to do it."
"I respect it." Colette stated. "The people want to see a Brawler win!"
"The heck's a Brawl Stars?" MK asked.
"Only one of the best things ever! You team with two other guys to do battle and fight six different ways and uh, I'm a Brawler, somebody that does that non-stop!" Colette spat out. "Sorry, y'all got dirty."
"Apology accepted." Ashido answered, slightly dizzy. "Sounds awesome."
The ladies got back to pushing the cart in the cave.
"Colette, I don't know if that sounds as awesome as you'd think." Kamala said.
"It is awesome! And you better accept it!" Colette got dangerous close to Kamala.
"Okay?"
Kamala looked confused.
*Kamala's confessional*
"I don't know if I want to say it, but she seems a little crazy. Like not really crazy enough to be a villain, but crazy enough that she could be one from my understanding."
*Confessional cut*
As for the rest of the ladies they had their conversations as well.
"Damn, you're not a tanuki?" Ermes asked.
"Yes, though I may look like one." Mamizou answered. "Tanuki do have incredible powers, though, especially bake-danuki!"
"So, you're just a weeb nerd."
"I would be perferred not be called that, since I'm actually Japanese you could say."
Ermes rolled her eyes at the statement, as Mamizou looked at her.
"Don't let her get you down, I'm pretty sure living in Japan's nice!" Orphan Emma spoke honestly with a smile. "And uh, having a lot of knowledge's gonna help us out!"
Mamizou just pushed on ahead, as Ermes raised an eyebrow.
"Wait, did I say something wrong?"
"Don't worry about it, I dunno if you did." Ermes couldn't stop looking at the tanuki lady's tail.
These guys weren't suspect.
For the guys, they realised it was not getting any easier with one thing.
"WHAT THE HELL, that's a crusher!" Joe emphasised.
"Yes, everyone can see that." Taskmaster rolled his eyes.
The crusher may have moved slowly, but...it was definitely one.
"This is the first challenge and they're already doing this!" Joe complained.
"But why?" Manolo asked. "Is this-"
"Don't worry, dudes! I just like seeing you fellas deal with this."
Chris left as abruptly as he said that, as there was indeed one thing to do.
"Anyone got a rock?" Manolo said, as Joe threw him one and he threw at the crusher's area.
Well, that rock survived, as the crusher only went down to about the cart's height.
"Weird, but it's probably there for a reason."
Most of the guys that weren't pushing the cart crouch-walked or crawled under the crusher, as the cart pushers realised something that was ridiculously obvious with how the crusher would hit the cart.
Joe, Ken and Popeye were real careful with it and they just pushed it through, the crusher just missing it, though Ken gained a bump on his head.
"Uh, man, the patriarchy's crazy dawg."
*Ratigan's confessional*
The small rat glared at the camera,
"Some of the other fellow contestants are blithering idiots, clearly intended to be easy elimination fodder for this show of entertaining the masses with torturous challenges and social engineering. Clearly, I have some good ideas."
*Confessional cut*
The ladies dealt with the crusher in a funnier way.
"I can't believe that worked." Jasmine said, literally getting smacked by the plank. "Must be something."
"Honestly, it's nothing." Ermes remarked.
The caves were over, but the unfun stuff was beginning, which really started with a good view of the other team.
"Come on, guys!" Kamala shouted. "Chris probably has some stuff!"
"Oh yes, I do! Chef, make the 'stuff' drop!"
The Amazonians decided to run ahead wisely, since there was definitely a whole bunch of rocks that were primed to fall down if they did something stupid and were already dropping behind them to great effect by some of them.
"The stuff was here the whole time!" Kamala shouted, swatting away a few rocks.
The ladies were carefully trying to not make the cart slip, as Ramona batted away a few rocks with her sledgehammer and the others had to deal with Taskmaster's arrows.
Natalya stared right at a confident Taskmaster, who put his bow away knowing that he did a good job, as she kicked away the arrows.
"We're behind." Natalya said.
"We know, spy." Lucy icily replied.
And as for the Snowmen, they plainly got lucky, as they had something important to deal with, which was the coldest slope known to Total Drama.
"Bloody 'ell, they really don't like us." Father Christmas said.
"Mate, they just really like seeing us in pain, which I don't believe in!" Spider-Punk remarked, as Father Christmas raised an eyebrow.
Either way, the cart was having a decently fair time compared to the blonde duo of Axl and Ken feeling the ice and everyone else trying to find solutions, wherever from the high position on the top of the slope or at the bottom.
And then there was Spider-Punk.
"Bruv, why are you guys over thinking this?" He dared asked, pulling the cart with the web.
"I still don't know how I got up here!" Alberto shouted, strainging to pull the cart.
The cart was on top of the slope, while most of the team weren't on it, slowly climbing up in hilarious ways.
*Alberto's confessional*
His hands were all sea monster.
"Did I just give myself frostbite because these hands can't really feel things no more! I don't know why they call it frostbite, because they don't-"
He smacked his cold hands together for some reason.
"AHHHHHHH!"
*Confessional cut*
As for the Amazonians, Kamala Khan tried pushing the thing forward with her big hands and Undyne helped to pull it, but the cart wasn't giving them any help.
"Girls, can any of you help?" Kamala requested.
"My strength would probably break said rubber-wheeled minecart." Mamizou said, getting a few glares. "Because they're spells."
"I don't know if I could-" Lolo started.
"I definitely can." Android 21 interrupted. "Sorry for the interruption, but there's no time to waste."
Android 21 basically flew to Undyne's side and pulled the cart up quite easily, as the ladies climbed the ice-covered slope easier showing off their stuff in the process.
Sticks growled quietly at the android, but not quietly enough for Ramona to pick it up.
"You're just jealous." Ramona told her seriously.
"I AM NOT!" Sticks screamed.
Ramona slowly backed away, as Lolo was determined to do something of worth despite the entire team slowly climbing up the slope without that much of a problem.
"Are you ok?" She asked.
"No, she's a robot!" Sticks told the mage.
"Is that really it?" Lolo asked.
"Yeah, pretty much. I just can't trust robots like her."
Lolo kinda shook her head.
*Lolo's confessional*
"I don't want everybody to be fighting, because it has only been one day and if we're fighting, it's not going to be fun to be in this place." She said.
*Confessional cut*
After the slope, it didn't get any easier for both teams, as Chef was stationed up in a certain location with bazooka that carried an unusual ammo onto an open cave area with some awkward turns for the cart pushers and pullers to deal with.
Which only a few of them noticed.
"Don't get stupid, that army chef's up there." Natalya said.
"How do you know he's army? Maybe he's just angry." Ermes remarked with a smirk.
"Don't worry, I could tell."
Right after that, Chef shot the bazooka as a warning shot at one of the dudes and uh, someone got their fashion ruined.
"NOOOOOO!"
"Calm down, Ken, I promise it doesn't look that good." Hobie reassured him honestly.
"That was my fur jacket, man!"
Hobie then saw the next one coming and got his fashion splatted.
"Bruv, I'm still gonna rock this."
"Listen up, Chef's got the meatball bazooka! Make sure it doesn't hit your cart, dudes!" Chris jokingly warned, as a shot hit Ramona on the hammer.
Ramona got pushed back quite a distance, regardless.
"That's one hell of a bazooka!" She shouted.
Chef aimed another one at the girls already and took a serious shot, as Mina Ashido tried to put some acid out and ended up tasting a meatball blocking the shot.
She got up slowly, eating a little bit of meatball.
"Ow! I don't care how good it tastes!" Ashido shouted.
"Yeah, it does taste good, doesn't it."
The Amazonians were clearly moving around to mess with Chef's aiming, as the Snowmen were about to live up to their own name in a not so positive way.
Ratigan did had something special lined up, but he was too small that it was pretty small, but it did have one thing.
"May I please do a little bit of a sabotage?" Ratigan asked.
"Yeah, sure, go for it." Alberto said. "I don't think it's that serious-"
Ratigan then gave Alberto a mousetrap and the fish guy threw it.
"You were supposed to throw it at the right time!" Ratigan shouted.
"I don't know it's messed up, plus it's probably the right time."
Ratigan stewed in his anger, as the other dudes were clearly trying to slice through the many meatballs that made some of them move the cart in weird ways.
As for the Amazonians, they weren't doing worse, just getting hurt a whole lot more by the meat-iest bazooka known to man and while Ashido did put some acid on some meatball.
It did not help them getting hit, but someone tried and somehow the meatball clanked with the danmaku balls.
"This Chef Hatchet is truly a strong one." Mamizou said. "And with food as well?"
"Chef Hatchet's just like that." Sakura shouted, shooting a Hadouken.
The ladies just moved on ahead, since there was only nothing but a out-of-range bazooka to handle their chest except their chest was looking a little cracked in one area.
"He hit the chest!" Sakura yelled.
"Not the minecart!" Emma shouted. "No way that a meatball is that strong."
"Yes it is! Chef really wants the thing inside your minecarts!" Chris shouted. "Have fun with that!"
Said minecart stayed strong for the Amazonians, who weren't ready to fumble-
-while the Snowmen had a slightly different problem with the next section of the course and one of them even stared down the problem.
Said problem was the ice-covered circular platforms that slowly went down until a "normal" cave section and Robotnik was staring it down trying to solve it in his usual machine-loving manner.
Then Ratigan said something to Alberto.
"I think the fish boy would like to contribute!" The rat spoke. "He did say he had notable strengths in carrying fish."
"Yeah, I don't remember saying that, but that is true!" Alberto told him.
"So you should use your strength to help us cross these awkwardly-situated platforms."
"I don't know, rat guy. It looks pretty heavy."
Ratigan then made sure this next statement was heard, masking his anger quite well.
"Don't you want to know how strong you are? I can't believe you would let your strength go like that!" Ratigan shouted, feigning disappointment. "If only there was a chance for you to use it."
Ratigan then made a wick towards Robotnik, who instantly got some kind of idea.
*Tengen's confessional*
"I don't know what about that Robotnik guy and the Ratigan rat makes me suspicious, but there is no way that Alberto is that strong." He pondered angrily. "But then again, Zenitsu did beat an Upper Rank with his friends."
*Robotnik's confessional*
"Ah ha!"
He smiled.
"To be fair, it is quite the simple task to push that minecart towards the goal even with the fish boy and a simpler task to eliminate some of the cannon fodder that populates my team. At least in this moment."
*Confessional cut*
Robotnik got inspired, as Big Man and Hobie were starting to get a inkling of a potential sabotage.
"It's very clear that a few of us are getting a little tired of pushing the cart." He spoke clearly. "And those two may not be able to push it much longer."
"What the hell-" Joe shouted, as Manolo and Popeye held him back. "-you think I can't push the thing?!"
"It's energy conservation, Joe and we really don't know how strong the fish boy and the old man really are. They do have some good skills."
Hobie and Big Man simulteanously raised an eyebrow, as Joe Swanson glared right at Alberto almost reactively.
"Really?!" Alberto said. "But why the old guy?"
"Flipping 'eck, that ain't easy." Father Christmas remarked.
"Well, someone said that taking chances leads to victory and your muscles could help us."
Just like that, Joe and Manolo handed the reigns onto the fish boy and the jolliest man alive reluctantly and their challenge just got noticably harder with the duo slowly pushing the cart.
"He's a nice mouse, ain't he?" Father Christmas said.
And they both felt the drop from the top platform to a lower one, as the other contestants could see something going very wrong, though Alberto was confident in his game.
The cart moved on and the drop shook it once more, moving down the platform.
"I don't know about this, the kid's got noodle arms." Joe remarked.
"Come on, don't you have faith in Alberto? I think he's doing good!" Manolo shouted.
As soon as that was said, the cart slipped towards the side of the fourth platform and the situation just got real.
"AHHHHHH!"
Alberto's scream was so loud that it even got the girls a little spooked in the middle of literally carrying their cart down the platforms in a hilarious manner.
"What the hell was that?" Ramona asked.
"Nothing interesting, let's move it!" Natalya shouted.
The ladies got themselves going, while the guys had a dilemma.
"Okay, wise guy, what were you thinking?" Hobie questioned.
"(Ay ay ay.) What kind of move was that?" Big Man asked in a straight-forward manner.
Robotnik and Ratigan did had one thing, as more than a few guys tried to help the struggling mismatched duo.
"He probably had some kind of sabotage planned or something." Robotnik spat it out, as Ratigan looked displeased.
Red instantly got out Charizard (the orange dragon with a flaming tail) and glared right at Robotnik for that poor excuse.
Believe it or not, Alberto and Father Christmas were keeping the cart on the sloped edges with only their bare hands and Hobie intended to help with a little of that strong web and the web got stuck in an awkward place, with Red's Charizard on the look out.
With three guys, the cart managed to get stuck under the platform and it's fate was sealed by a drop into the basically black water, since Charizard knew that it would break the cart.
"Nooooooo!" Alberto screamed.
"Son, why did ya listen to them."
"Yeah, why did I?!"
Father Christmas mustered up as mean of a glare as he could, which came out as a look of disappointment towards Robotnik, while Alberto regretted everything with Red patting him on his shoulder.
"Well, that could have been implemented much better, Alberto-" Robotnik scolded the fish boy.
Before realising that the cart did land in some water.
"-Hopefully, the cart should still be in one piece."
*Joe Swanson's confessional*
He looked down to the ground.
"It was on me. WHY DID YOU LET THE GUY WITH THE MOUSTACHE HAVE AN IDEA?!" Joe yelled.
*Confessional cut*
"Whoa, calm down, dudes, the cart's just in the water! Like 15 metres down or something. In cold water." Chris announced. "Besides the Amazonians are clearly ahead!"
Even if they were ahead, that didn't mean that it was a perfect team by any means mostly when it came down to the spinning wheel.
"What the hell is this course about?" Ermes said.
"Chris just trying to be a supervillain." Sakura said. "But never mind, let's push on through."
"Exactly, Papyrus' friend, the wheel needs to handle me!" Undyne yelled, Sakura basically being pushed out.
"What?" Sakura was just baffled.
Undyne and Colette went full-send on pushing it along the wheel's clockwise rotation and they might have been right on the money because the cart managed to slip onto the other side horizontally.
"Thanks, but we were handling it!" Ashido shouted.
"Sorry." Undyne explained. "Just wanted to take charge."
Ashido calmed down.
"Can't believe you just did that easily!" Ashido shouted in disbelief.
The other ladies who weren't gawking at the girls with sharp teeth just got across to whole other section, as there was a little bit of a surprise that none of them liked.
As Chris would have liked it.
"Why are there so many spikes?" Ramona asked.
"Because it's awesome to watch you people deal with them. Speaking of watching, the guys are catching up quickly!"
Ramona didn't panic, as she looked at the thing, along with Android 21, which got someone a little mad.
"Once again, I can't trust her judgement." Sticks said. "Something's up about her."
"Maybe she's just trying to help." Orphan Emma answered. "She doesn't seem like a mean lady."
"Yeah, sorry, kid, but I can't trust her." Sticks stated, as Orphan Emma looked at the android analysing the spikes.
Somehow, the ladies missed that it was just spikes tha could be broken.
*Sticks' confessional*
"I gotta be honest, I haven't gone this long without mentioned how the government can control the climate. Mostly because I'm in a place that proves me right!"
She jumped with elation.
"PROCESS THAT, SUCKERS!"
*Confessional cut*
Red's Charizard definitely managed to grab the cart, only with it's mouth and certain people were miffed by that decision and said dragon landed on the other side of said platform.
The cart was holding up.
The wheels weren't looking too good.
Alberto look baffled, as Joe Swanson wanted to shout at him but knew better.
"Listen, kid, you got tricked by a rat." Tengen told him.
"What do you mean tricked? I could've not listened to them." Alberto wistfully said.
"Yeah, that is true. But you had the rat guy on your shoulder."
"The rat guy looked cool, though."
Tengen and Alberto nodded in agreement, as Ratigan actually did look pretty cool to some people, but someone wasn't going to let you take this lying down.
Popeye popped open that spinach and decided that losing wasn't an option that he liked.
"What were you think, genius?!" Joe shouted.
"Now, I know that it may seem like poor judgement, especially since that Alberto did push the cart and Father Christmas-" Robotnik argued.
"I'm talking about you, [grasshope]!" Joe said, right before Popeye just lifted the cart.
Every dude in the area was either surprised, astounded or in Hobie and Taskmaster's case, pleased.
"Lads, the sailor guy's carrying the cart." Hobie called out. "Best, we leave this behind us."
"Listen to the spider guy, we gotta help each other!" Popeye shouted, finally stopping Joe and Robotnik. "Okay."
The dudes were getting real with it, speeding through the circle section and finally arriving at the room of spikes a little while after the girls and it was obvious what they needed to do.
Alberto grabbed a pickaxe, basically outta instinct and Red looked at his options.
"You gonna get that dragon to help?" Popeye requested.
Red pulled his cap down and let Charizard take the wheel and Bowser helped, too, but not without any cough.
"Darn, my throat's dry." Bowser said. "Oh well."
Charizard and Bowser were kinda making a joke out of the ice spikes, as Android 21 realised a little bit too late.
"Wait, it's just spikes!" 21 screamed.
"Just spikes? We can handle it." MK remarked under her breath, as Ramona got to swinging the sledgehammer.
*Hobie's confessional*
"Yo, yo, what were the ladies talking about? They've been stuck five minutes without breaking any spikes, minus the flying android who's looking at them. I don't believe in sexism, but I do believe in breaking the ice."
*Confessional cut*
Two teams basically riding their cart with the power of madness and throwing their powers at it, the 36 contestants were purely blowing the others away with their ice spike breaking powers.
Rukia, despite having ice powers, use her swordsmanship to break that ice quite confidently and swiftly and Natalya could only kicked.
"If only I didn't use ice for my powers." Rukia said.
"Well, it did break a lot of spikes, so it's working." Natalya remarked, kicking a bunch of spikes off.
The ladies were working rather well despite Akiko's lack of tangiability, as Taskmaster, Tengen and Puss were making quick work of the ice with the other dudes having their own problems.
"Finally, the teams are completely even despite their carts having a few broken wheels and massive cracks! And look who else is here!" Chris announced. "It's Chef!"
"El Hatchet." Puss said seriously.
"I don't know if you can give a nickname to a guy that you just met-"
Tengen instantly dodged a meatball, as Puss got it.
"This is a good meatball, Chef!"
Axl and Big Man were pretty much going in swinging with their weapons, as they were deflecting paintballs.
"Mate, for a manta ray, you're not half bad at this thing." Axl said.
"Ay Ayyy Ay. (Yeah, I'm way better than not half bad!)" Big Man declared.
The two of them were swinging at random, as Alberto and Father Christmas were trying to make up for their own mistakes with their pickaxes and the ladies were finally clearing a path.
After dealing with a lot of meatballs.
"I got this." Lolo said to herself, deflecting the meatballs with her magic. "I hope."
She got hit smack-dab in the face with a meatball, but still stayed strong on the ground.
*Lolo's confessional*
She was covered in some spagbol (spaghetti and meatballs in Bri'ish)
"I don't regret it one single bit, especially since Chef can actually cook the meatballs. Does he really hate us that much or does he treat everyone like this?"
*Confessional cut*
The Snowmen had a pretty clear path to victory and the final obstacle.
"All we hafta do is avoid Chef shooting those bazookas and whatever Chris is gonna pull outta his butt!" Popeye shouted. "Fellas, this shouldn't be that hard."
"Sweet, we need to move. Big guy's probably gonna shoot at us!" Ken remarked, seeing Chef take aim.
"You better fight him, then."
Ken had a goofy grin and pulled out a surfboard, as Popeye, Hobie, Joe, Taskmaster and Bowser came to try and finish what the challenge has started and to everyone's surprise it had worked in a weird way.
"Of course it works." Robotnik complained.
"Well, yeah, I'm a beach man." Ken casually remarked.
The ladies were not having a good time.
"Thank,[flock], we don't have to carry that thing. Lucy and Akiko, I'm pretty sure you've done nothing." Natalya remarked, moving the cart around. "Akiko, especially so, because I think Lucy's doing something else."
Akiko raised a thumbs up, as Lucy looked at the agent.
"Well, what could I have done?" Lucy snottily asked.
"Something of importance, since you have some goth powers apparently."
Akiko did something of importance.
"AHHHHHHH!" Chef screamed as loud as he could.
"Oooh, Chef gets fully spooked!"
*Akiko's confessional*
"I did something of importance and that something directly stopped the challenge! Well, I'm glad I did."
*Confessional cut*
As for the Snowmen they finally managed to get through almost all of the course without messing up and with Chef basically shooting wildly consistently, the challenge was almost theirs.
"Hey, look at that, the Snowmen are truly making this cold course theirs! But I did forget to mention one more thing." Chris announced, as Popeye made sure to properly carry the cart. "Always look up, dudes"
"You don't have anything else to throw at us-" Robotnik got interrupted.
Robotnik and the rest of the dudes heard a crunch of sorts, as Popeye looked up to see a meatball breaking a hole in the cart, covered with web and power.
"Youse gotta be kidding me." Popeye angrily spoke.
"Was that your last surprise?" Robotnik mockingly asked.
"Nope, that was still Chef! This is, though!"
Popeye saw one last rock dropped onto of the destroyed cart at the perfect time and all of the Snowmen realised they were boned, dropping the cart.
"Well, some of our members certainly did not help themselves!" Ratigan called out calmly. "And some of them should feel sorry for their attempts at carrying our cart."
Alberto looked regretful, as Popeye put an mornful arm on the fish kid.
"Sorry, Snowmen, you've gotta send somebody to the campfire tonight! Amazonians, you're not out of the woods yet!"
*Father Christmas' confessional*
"Blooming 'eck, this is not how I wanted to introduce myself. Best to hope that I won't get eliminated." He said wistfully.
*Ratigan's confessional*
"Please tell that I do not have to be cognizant of my size when the others consider the vote? Because as far as I know, Alberto failed the challenge and has questionable strength and the old man does have several strengths." He explained politely.
"And he does not call me. A RAT!"
*Confessional cut*
The ladies were still really careful, since the rocks are loud and Chef was mad.
"I'm tired of you ladies!"
Chef was shooting good, practically having Ramona, Rukia and Lolo on meatball mashing duty and well, the ladies saw the falling rock rather predictably and that was the end of that thanks to Kamala's power to deal with them.
The Amazonians saw sunlight with their cart cracked, but stable and they saw the finish line with a grinning Chris.
"What the hell was that?!" Ermes shouted.
"Rocks that could easily break your cart! But congratulations, you have immunity and your cart! Which has your special prize!" Chris told the team, who were elated to win.
The most underrated of them all, Rukia, opened the cart and looked at the piece of paper.
"This is ridiculous." Rukia pulled out a card.
A card that was literally for heating and better food.
"Hey, it's your first challenge! I can't just give out big prizes just like that and also, the hot tub's broken! Enjoy your immunity, Amazonians!"
Understandably, they still cheered for their victory.
"At least we won't be cold no more." Rukia casually stated.
"Come the [flack] on, we won the challenge! And the guys are going for each other, as well." Ermes exclaimed, as MK grinned.
And the Snowmen were looking notably worse for wear, as even Big Man had someone to glare at and Ken and Axl just wanted somebody to be eliminated.
*Hobie's confessional*
"Alright, bruv, there was no way this was going to down peacefully, since it's kinda obvious that Italian fish guy messed up, rat man sabotaged him and Robotnik's completely ." Hobie said. "And we can only vote out one of the mandem. I don't believe in loud-ness."
*Confessional cut*
As the ladies tried to enjoy their finally decent eats, the guys were having a bit of a situation dealing with the two obvious candidates.
"I don't know how you're defending the fish guy. He messed up spectacularly and started our downfall, basically." Robotnik answered. "Plus we need Ratigan's genius."
"But, uh, he's small and I'm pretty sure I saw him say something to you before he let Alberto carry the cart." Joe rebutted. "Plus I suspect that you two want to team up."
"I did try to help his team out and your suspicions are unfounded!"
"Listen up, buddy, there is no way that Ratigan's getting out of this alive."
Even the calmest guys were heated, as Taskmaster, Bowser and Tengen was staring right into Alberto's guilty soul, Big Man and Axl saw that Ratigan smiled like he was up to no good, Hobie and Father Christmas weren't looking at Robotnik with smiles and well, Popeye and Monoma were trying to prove something.
Also, Ken, Puss and Manolo all had a silent agreement to watch the shouting match between the mad scientist and the police officer on the same table that Popeye and Monoma were figuring things out.
"Well, why didn't ya do something?" Popeye asked. "Since you coulda copied a couple of guys' powers."
"I was mainly trying to make sure that nothing from behind would hurt us. But I'm not really surprised that Ratigan made a move." Monoma stated. "Plus he does hate being called a rat and Alberto called him that a lot."
"Yeah, he sounds and looks like one of those cartoon villains." Popeye realised. "Still though, you ain't done much."
"That's true, but I didn't really have a lot of situations to do stuff in.
Monoma then looked towards Ashido, who was enjoying a good burger.
"How's that for investigations?!"
Ashido shook her head, as Robotnik swiveled his head around to Monoma, who smugly grinned and then Robotnik got back to his staring match with Alberto.
The odd duo convinced their fellas on the table, though.
"Good arguments, dudes, but you better hope that guy can pull through." Ken remarked.
"That guy didn't stay down even he kinda cost us the challenge. And he didn't sabotage us, as well." Manolo spoke confidently.
Well, the Snowmen made their way the "reboot" way walking through some cold, cold forest to make it to their new campfire and Tengen and Big Man looked at the spooky surroundings.
"Welcome to your first campfire ceremony campers! Some of you have heard of this legendary ceremony, but most of you haven't been here before. You guys vote for whoever and whoever is safe gets the marshmallow!"
Chris showed it.
"There's 17 marshmallows here and whichever one of you doesn't get the marshmallow will be sent on the Drone of Shame outta here to never return!"
Some thunder sounds played.
"Fam-" Hobie started, before he got interrupted by Chef's speech.
"Alberto, you messed up the cart and you have small arms!"
"I'm gonna make it up, if you guys keep me on! Also, my arms are fine." Alberto shouted, huffing about those arms.
"Robotnik, you let the kid control the cart and kinda started your team's downfall."
"My genius was off today and I accept my responsibility!" Robotnik said in a resigned manner.
"Ratigan, some people think you sabotaged the challenge and the fish kid as well."
Ratigan just sighed, seeming rather confident in his trick.
"A rather ludicrous accusation, especially since Alberto did all that on his own accord!" Ratigan mocked his voters.
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"Tengen, Manolo and Joe Swanson!"
These guys accepted it easily.
"Bowser, Taskmaster and Hobie!"
"Allow it, fam." Hobie remarked, confusing all but Axl Low.
"Axl Low, Big Man and Popeye!"
They grabbed their marshmellows with purpose.
"Monoma, Ol' Nick and Red."
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"And finally, Medic, Ken and Puss."
"Oh thank you, mein friend." Medic was thankful.
"Sometimes, I feel like people forget you're here." Puss remarked, somehow getting the milk.
"Robotnik, Ratigan and Alberto, all of you got at least 3 votes and all of you are gonna regret being in this season!"
Robotnik and Ratigan looked quite displeased, as Alberto was shaking in his boots.
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"Robotnik, you had 3 votes on your side."
He savoured his marshmallow with a mad grin.
"Well, this team definitely recognized my genius." He arrogantly spoke.
"Ratigan and Alberto, one of you's about to take a ride on that drone! And believe it or not, it was a close one!"
Alberto was nervous, as Ratigan looked almost bursting to rage.
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"Alberto, you're literally one vote away-"
Alberto got up.
"-from getting eliminated! Sorry, Ratigan, you're out by two votes quite literally."
Alberto sat back down and Ratigan basically jumped up.
"This is an outrage! How did you survive elimination?!" Ratigan yelled.
"I don't know, but you mess up the team." Alberto told him. "Kinda messed up to sabotage."
Ratigan realised that he lost his composure which unintentionally confirmed the sabotage, his team did not like him besides Taskmaster, Bowser and Robotnik for obvious reasons.
"I demand a recount!" Ratigan shouted.
"Too late, dude, you got like 10 votes! It's time for the Drone of Shame."
Well, Ratigan basically got picked up by Chef in one hand fuming, as Chef carried his luggage.
*Ratigan's elimination confessional*
His composure was back on.
"Yes, I did do quite the sabotage and I made sure that it was obscured by everyone else and little did I know that someone had an good eye on me. That Monoma fellow truly irks me, does have the same kind of skills as that damned Basil!"
He slammed his watch close.
"It doesn't matter, since this show can have someone return to the game, despite what Christopher says. If I do come back, this game's mine."
*Confessional cut*
Ratigan got carried on the drone and his stuff was on it as well, thinking about his wicked schemes if he were to return to the game.
Flying home with a lot of regret, but also a lot to think about.
"Well, the rat criminal mastermind made his mark on the game! Even if it ended making him the first boot of this season! He was truly a dude, but will the Snowmen make a comeback? Next time on Total Drama: Winter Warriors!"
To be continued in Episode 3, where the challenge should be something a little bit familiar for the many fans of Total Drama Island, though in an entirely different way thanks to one guy's ability to ride 'em.
Though it's not like a lot of the contestants can't ride this vehicle, just that they haven't tried it or don't know it exists, but in typical Chris fashion, nobody's going to have a good time.
And plus there might be an alliance or two starting to happen during said episode after the sad, sad departure of the quite beloved (by fangirls) and unquestionably disliked (by his team) Ratigan.
He basically got Caleb'd with the exception of being a piece of shit that sabotaged the challenge even with his small stature.
Plus he basically oozes the classic sleazy and ridiculously cool villain that Disney produces when they're putting in they're full effort, which means he's a little too conspicous for most of these guys to not suspect him.
Anyways, I gotta work on Hotel Rockies for real, so I'm out.