Total Drama X: Winter Warriors
Episode 3: Cold Hard Cyclists
Yep, these contestants are breaking the ice once again and Chris is up to his usual stuff, which guarantees the yikes without a problem, so what is it?
I don't know, Chris basically is a supervillain, so some wild stuff most likely that the contestants wouldn't want to deal with even if the Amazonians were on a high at the moment!
That being said, the Snowmen aren't completely down and out with the power of their strongest and most determined members being near equals to the combined power of the Amazonians.
Even if they're riding bikes.
Previous vote stats:
Dr. Robotnik: Father Christmas, Hobie Brown & Big Man (3/18)
Alberto Scorfano: Ratigan, Dr Robotnik, Bowser, Tengen Uzui, Joe Swanson, Taskmaster & Axl Low (7/18)
Professor Ratigan: Popeye, Monoma, Ken, Puss, Manolo, Red, Medic & Alberto (8/18)
G-man: it's gonna be a good season for villains sorta and well, Basil's at least satisified even if he's having his own issues at this moment.
Wolf the guest: it wasn't that hard of an elimination, man.
Now onto off-topic stuff, Trevor Philip's actually in an TD crossover and I think that Spawn, Early Cuyler, Magneto, Shao Kahn & Master Shake aren't really OP, even if Shao Kahn, Spawn and Magneto are ridiculously strong, since it's a social and strategic game first and I don't know the rest, man.
(wait, who are ya, man?)
"Last time on Total Drama X, 36 players landed on the shores of Pahkitew Island once again and almost all of them were new to this thing, aside from Sakura from Ultimate Islands and MK from the two newest normal seasons!"
"And I already sorted them into the Arctic Amazonians and the Stunning Snowmen because it's part of this season's thing and immediately, the teams tried to get along with each other before I dropped them into another awesome challenge!"
"They had to push some carts with tyres along an ice cold course chock full of stuff that would make anyone mad! The Amazonians started off a bit weak, but made their comeback with only teamwork! The Snowmen pretty much did the opposite, which even led to their cart breaking due to bad decisions!"
"The ladies enjoyed their prize of Chef's actual cooking and the guys were practically at war! In the end Alberto barely survived basically messing up the team, as Ratigan's kinda obvious sabotage got him eliminated, which wasn't that sneaky!"
"Anyways, who's gonna handle their wheels and put their pedals to the metal on this episode of Total Drama X: Winter Warriors!"
Taskmaster, Robotnik and Bowser woke up bright and early at 7am two days after the first challenge, privately discussing the rat that got booted by more than a few of his fellow teammates who were still quite asleep.
And they made well sure that no-one else was awake, which was almost true besides one exception that they didn't care about for a reason that isn't revealed just yet.
"Hey, you guys got a minute?" Bowser asked. "I don't know if I want to get caught out like Ratigan."
"Well, that is practically a formality." Robotnik remarked.
"Well, let's get a move on." Taskmaster whispered to the two of them.
...
One random walk in the forest later, the trio managed to find one of their other teammates bright and early doing some typical unethical business.
"Come on, little birdie, let me operate-"
Medic chased after a seemingly normal titmarsh and tripped on Bowser.
"[s-word in german!]"
Well, he ran into the untrustworthy trio, as Bowser glared at him.
"Hey, man, watch where you're going, weirdo!" Bowser yelled.
Medic looked at him with some wonder and then huffed quietly, as the villainous trio managed to find something pretty cool.
A random empty hut that was chock full of technology, discarded parts and a decent bed and immediately, they took the time to sit themselves down.
"I find it kinda funny that we all had the same relatively intelligent idea. Make an alliance with each other." Robotnik proclaimed. "Especially since one of my potential partners was the first boot."
"Yeah, yeah, we get it. Us bad guys gotta protect ourselves else we could actually get eliminated." Bowser stated.
"That was a redundant statement, but that is actually true. Plus reality shows require just enough intelligence to circumnavigate the social game that we're dealing with."
"Yes, but who should we eliminate whenever the next challenge happens?" Bowser asked. "Since there's a lot of filler fellas in there."
"Big Man, he kinda can't talk English." Taskmaster stated. "Plus he's the most useless member even accounting for Alberto and I'm only saying this objectively, you."
Bowser awkwardly laughed, as Robotnik was miffed.
"Well, watch your tongue, for I won't be useless this time around." Robotnik snapped, as Taskmaster and Bowser nodded. "But this is a team effort after all."
"Hopefully, no-one noticed that we left." Taskmaster quipped. "Which will be impossible."
*Medic's confessional*
He had some...red hands.
"I wonder what the man with the war mask, the talking turtle and the bald scientist were done up quite early. Must be curious for some serious scientific reasearch."
*Confessional cut*
As for the others that weren't Medic or the alliance-
*REALLY OBNOXIOUS HORN THAT WOULD WAKE EVEN THE DEAD UP*
-they had an obligatory wake-up horn anyways, as they did wake up a little while after the trio formed their currently unnamed alliance and they were obviously groggy.
"Wake up, campers, you better head for your awesome breakfast!"
*Axl Low's confessional*
He had a tired ol' grin.
"Mate, I don't think it's going to be an awesome breakfast. Especially since we lost last time." Axl Low stated.
*Confessional cut*
'
Chef cooked just about what everyone expected, as Robotnik and Bowser could barely eat the slop and Red and Taskmaster decided to starvation was worse than eating the green stuff.
Even if Red could barely get it down, Big Man questioned his life choices upon easily eating it and Alberto's nerves really tried to upchuck the slop.
"Yay, man, this is something." Alberto groaned.
"Ay. Ay! (Dawg, this is definitely something. Aw no, it moves!)"
Alberto and Big Man watched as Medic used the gun on the slop and it turned into another kind of "something.", as Axl Low just ate his plate of slop.
*Axl Low's confessional*
"You know, it's got a little taste to it. But it's not the worst thing ever." He was wincing the whole time, somehow. "I hope Chef can't hear me from here!"
*Confessional cut*
As for the ladies, they were all confident about one thing.
"Hah, I wonder if we're going to end up like those guys." MK bragged.
"As a fellow lady, we're already halfway there. How can he even cook this bad while still being a good cook?" Mamizou asked.
"He probably doesn't like us."
MK, Mamizou and Ramona looked at Chef glaring at all of the contestants.
"Definitely true." Ramona said. "My boyfriend survived a whole lot more last time he was here."
"Oh yeah, it's the season with a 100 characters and a lot that you don't care about!" MK casually quipped.
"Hey, he did pretty good!" Ramona defended Scott Pilgrim. "After he came back."
"Hey, knock it off, MK. I was on that season and I'd say he did pretty good!" Sakura casually remarked. "He got eliminated when Yumeko did!"
MK, Ermes, Android 21 and a few others just had their mouths open at that statement, since this technically was the sequel to Ultimate Islands.
"Imagine outranking almost all of the major villains on your comeback with not that much strategy, that really means something about him!" 21 shouted. "Honestly, I'll think you'll do the same, Ramona Flowers."
"Uh, thanks." Ramona awkwardly answered.
Speaking of the other ladies, they just ate it, when-
*MILITARY HORN FOR THE NATION OF MCLEAN*
-Chris did his shtick of making everyone mad for a challenge that would've already done that, even getting Emma to get food dumped on her face.
"Guys, follow the signs for your second extreme challenge! I can definitely promise that it's extreme and not in a cave!" Chris announced.
*Emma's confessional*
"Maybe he's not a good person or he puts us through painful challenges, but he doesn't eat us! Which is good because I'm not sure about the eating part." She nervously said.
*Confessional cut*
Everyone just got up, as they couldn't any more of whatever Chef was "cooking" and they definitely saw something quite interesting.
Mostly because, it was pretty obvious that Chris could definitely be seen looking smug and all that.
"Never mind, campers, I can see ya! Just go towards me!"
35 campers were set to have a ball in the middle of the forest.
Though, some people were thinking a little smarter than that.
"I bet this challenge is gonna suck." Ermes said.
"That is indeed, a fact. I have seen my fair share of Total Drama in preparation for my run!" Mamizou stated.
"Damn, you don't have to brag it about it. Wait, why are you telling me this?"
"Because you're an interesting teammate."
Ermes looked slightly offended, as Mamizou gave an smug grin since they were still in the crowd and well, the challenge was indeed extreme to everyone.
There was a whole bike park with everything in there, except it was winter time, which meant that it wasn't going to be a fun challenge, basically it had typical McLean touches.
"Good morning, campers! Seriously, this challenge actually took a little bit too long for me to add my touches to for reasons!" Chris got some eyebrows raised. "But now it's ready! I heard that some of you guys like riding bikes all around the place!"
Everyone didn't want to humor the host, except for Alberto and Ken for some reason.
"Great, do you guys like riding bikes in winter? I bet you're thinking it's not that cold."
Alberto and Ken looked nervous, as Ramona gave them a sypmathy glance.
"Well, you guys are gonna be doing just that! The challenge is simple, the first part involves going around the park which has icy places here and there. Get enough points by staying on, doing tricks, stunts and whatnot!"
Ramona had this look of determination.
"And there's the second part! The whoever qualifies are going through a bike track designed by me, full of the awesome stuff that makes Total Drama exciting and a ratings magnet! Explosions, lakes, mud, all of that stuff!"
"And what about the rest of us?" MK asked nervously.
"You just watch your friends either mess up or win! Whoever takes first place wins and second place gets sent to the campfire and reconsiders what they're doing with their life!" Chris announced. "First part starts in 30 minutes, since the bike warehouse is locked!"
Chef then smoothly rode in on a bike.
"How did he do that?!" Alberto gasped.
"I don't think he's looking for answers, man." Ken said, seeing Chef's scowl.
Ermes decided to get her Stand business on, as she couldn't really do that and then two people decided that it was a good time to be "curious" in the middle of the former forest.
"Hey, ya, what's happening?" MK asked. "I heard that you might have an alliance going on."
"Uh, we don't. But I was planning on making one." Ermes answered. "Racoon chick was trying to make moves on me, though!"
"Oh ho, you are thoroughly mistaken. I was trying to do the same thing as you two except everyone could hear us." Mamizou explained herself. "Plus you've got a pretty strong Stand."
"Yeah, nice stand, ma'am."
Ermes looked about ready to punch someone.
"Please tell me you can't see this?!"
Ermes then summoned Kiss, which was a yellow-skinned humanoid with purple and pink "clothes" and a crown thingy, which everyone could see.
"It's not a nightstand?!" MK shouted, as Ermes sighed.
"Damn, you guys aren't Stand users? [Ship], this makes easier for us." Ermes stated.
"Well, time to establish our alliance." Mamizou said. "Are you ready, fellow people?"
They all nodded sure of their alliance, putting their hands on top of each other.
"Well, this alliance stuff is official. We're gonna be saving each other's asses from now on until the final whatever, but no shady business!" Ermes said. "These ladies don't suck ass, really."
"Sweet, I propose we will be called the Cold Chicks, because we're damn cold!" MK suggested, as Ermes rolled her eyes. "You got any better names?"
"I propose we be called the Winter Women, since your name sounds rather ridiculous and we are women in winter, are we not?" Mamizou had her answered.
MK just shook her head, as Ermes smiled.
"Sorry, MK, your name is dumb." Ermes said bluntly.
"I'll accept it. Let's just make to the final six together."
The Winter Women were formed, ready to protect each other.
'
Well, the break was kinda over since there was indeed enough bikes for everybody and it had that classic Total Drama quality control with the metal and everything.
"Here are your bikes! Chef and a special guest's gonna be judging you since they're good at doing that!" Chris announced. "Meet Tails from-"
"Tails?!" Sticks shouted.
"Tails?" Ramona said loudly.
"Tails?!" Robotnik screamed with venom.
They all did it at the same time, which got Chris groaning.
"Tails is just here to judge the show, dudes! Now, you guys know how to ride a bike?"
Tengen looked at the bike with a weird look.
"Why would I?" He was offended.
"Great!" Chris remarked, as Tengen looked pissed.
Tails was baffled to Chris just leaving him and the campers high and dry and the people could not recognize him besides someone who hated him.
"Hi, guys. Why is Robotnik staring at me like that?"
*Robotnik's confessional*
He broke a plank in half with his bare hands and dropped it.
"I did not know that I had that much strength!"
*Sticks' confessional*
"The heck is this broken plank of wood doing here? Maybe the government or the aliens really don't like wood because it's natural! Yeah, I got it." She reasonably said.
*Confessional cut*
Robotnik then calmed down, clenching his fists.
"Alright, Chef, are you ready to do this or what?" Tails asked the big man himself.
"Oh, hey, Tails! Oh yeah, I am." Chef spoke menacingly, as Tails looked nervous.
"GO!"
Tails and Chef were on a special announcer's table place, as Chris sat right in the middle with his mic.
And the action started in spectacular fashion, as Alberto, Ken and MK were the only remotely natural ones on their bikes...and the rest were definitely trying their butts off.
Some doing much worse than others like Joe for obvious reasons.
"Joe, you don't have to do this-" Ken shouted.
"-I'm doing it for my country!" Joe declared, struggling to get anything done.
"We're in Canada, though. And you're not okay."
Joe Swanson leered at the walking manly doll, who was casually riding his bike and also at Red, who was riding it with the most serious face.
"DAMN IT, MAN!" Joe whined. "Still not going down without a fight."
Joe tried his hardest and he wasn't having a great time unlike the fish kid, the doll and the Pokemon Trainer, but he finally stood onto the bike when suddenly Medic came up to him.
"Would you like to get up?" Medic asked out of concern.
"No, I'll get up my own!" Joe screamed.
Medic biked away at speed in a spooked manner, as Joe sighed.
Akiko then spooked Joe just for the heck of it, since she couldn't really do anything.
*Joe's confessional*
"This ain't my challenge to win. If I see any of them not trying, I'm going to personally eliminate someone!" He yelled, making the confessional shake. "HUH!"
*Confessional cut*
As for the other dudes and ladies, they were doing much better than Joe since they were able to stand on the bike and ride on them.
Wherever they could consistently stay on them was another question entirely, though the traps didn't really help them at all.
"Hey, maybe this place is-" Kamala started, before hitting an oil trap.
And slipping and sliding, before recovering in with her stretchy body.
"-Dang it." Kamala fell anyways, as Orphan Emma had fallen down for the fifth time already.
Android 21 rode the bike with good eyes and moved around like she was a bomb magnet.
Speaking of bombs, her bike completely got blown up by one, though she flew.
"Dude, we already have an disqualification already!" Chris beamed.
"Sorry, Android 21." Tails told her apolgetically. "You're out."
Android 21 basically floated away from the bike park, as Rukia and Natalya were about average on their bikes.
"How did you learn to ride bikes?" Rukia asked.
"What kind of question is that?!" Natalya shouted in confusion, turning towards Rukia.
"Sorry." Rukia apologised.
Natalya got blown up, did a few backflips and then landed back on the ground, as Rukia tried to study it before accidentally doing the bike slide successfully.
And then getting stuck on some ice and leading to the bike's explosion.
"Rukia's out and so is Joe because he can't do anything! Also, Tengen and Manolo are also out 'cause their bikes are in a hole!"
Tengen and Manolo just looked down the hole, as MK rode by and laughed at them.
"Hey, that's very disrespectful." Manolo said.
"Then direspect her back." Tengen whispered.
"No." Manolo saw MK trip someone up. "I don't know if I'd survive."
"OH MY GOSH, MY BIKE!"
Bowser's bike wasn't long for this world.
"Bowser's eliminated because he's too fat. And also Orphan Emma and Kamala, because they collided!"
Kamala and Emma shrugged, as they had hope in the other Amazonians.
*Emma's confessional*
"I hope that my teammates will be good as the guys over there! And I hope that I get to know how many Emmas there are, because I don't really like being called Orphan Emma." Emma's smile faded mid-sentence.
*Confessional cut*
Speaking of bike riders, Taskmaster and Robotnik were also doing alright, though Big Man somehow outshined them even with only fins.
"Okay, how the hell is he doing that?" Robotnik asked.
"The same way he did in the last challenge. A lifetime of learning and fresh-ness." Taskmaster announced, doing a drift.
Big Man managed to do a stunt-y backflip and landed easily, as Taskmaster wasn't that impressed.
"How the heck did you do that?" Robotnik asked with envy.
"Ayyy! (Buddy, you could do that, but you ain't fresh enough)." Big Man accidentally had an one liner, too.
"Oh, we're doing this now."
Taskmaster wasn't pleased with the strife, as Father Christmas fell down and distracted the quietly raging Robotnik and confused Big Man.
*Big Man's confessional*
He looked quite pensive even if he was smiling.
"Ay. (I don't know how I did that, but I'd rather not tell him!)"
*Confessional cut*
While that was happening, Father Christmas looked at his chances on this mess of a bike park.
"Mate, that wasn't a fun ride." FC spoke, getting up. "At least, my bike-"
Hobie untentionally made the big man of the holiday season get eliminated from the challenge just by jumping and he looked right at the miffed old man.
"Bruh." Spider-Punk remarked.
"Honestly, I can't moan about this." Father Christmas said. "These things might as well be death traps."
"Oi, man."
Axl Low didn't stand a chance, as he flipped right into Spider-Punk who got tipped over.
"Axl Low, Nick and Spider-Punk are out! Also, Sticks' bike has been broken for a minute, so she's out! Also, also, Akiko can't do anything."
"The government gave me this bike with a broken chain so that they can take down a robot-hater!" Sticks complained, moving the pedals at light speed. "Or are you part of the government?"
"I doubt it mostly because the governments hates fun challenges." Akiko slid right into the situation.
"You have a weird definition of fun-"
Mamizou's bike exploded.
"-so I bet it's brainwashing."
Popeye looked up grimly at Puss doing some epic flips and tricks, as he had that gut feeling.
"Me thinks he's gonna get his bike blown up." He thought out loud.
Puss' bike landed on a a mine and Puss may have survived, but the bike wasn't so lucky.
"Mamizou and Puss In Boots are both out!"
Puss then landed right besides Popeye, sure of one thing.
"This is an outrage, you can't just blow up a bike like that!" Puss shouted.
"This guy ain't right-"
*HORN*
Popeye and Puss heard that horn.
"Alright campers, that was quite the fun challenge and a lot of dudes lost their bikes, so they can't be judged! It's time for the judges to see who's worthy of making it to the final 4v4 race!" Chris announced. "And honestly, not a lot of impressive performances in here minus a few!"
Sakura and Undyne were doing an unprompted stretch sesh, as Lolo tried to join in.
"What are you doing?" Lolo asked, trying a stretch.
"Oh, just making myself stronger with my second chance!" Sakura proclaimed, stretching herself. "Undyne joined in because she wanted to."
"I WANTED TO!"
Lolo got spooked, as Undyne and Sakura just kept on going.
"Uh, that's fine." Lolo slowly spoke. "Maybe I'll just stretch somewhere else."
The microphone screeched, as the three ladies got spooked with Jasmine looking quite worried at her chances by their side and Lucy casually chilling on the side.
"Us judges, mainly me and Chef, will decide which four will make it onto the real racetrack and some of you campers really did get lucky because you might suck a bit! Some of you are killing it out there, though! Who would it be, though?"
Tails had the cymbals and they were hammering themselves.
And they were hammering.
They were hammering on their own.
*TISH*
"Actually, it was pretty easy! Big Man, Alberto, Red and Ken for the Snowmen and MK, Ramona, Lucy and Sakura for the Amazonians! All of them were killing it out there and the rest of you can just watch your teammates go hard on their bikes!"
"I could beat all of those ladies, if only my bike didn't break." Puss muttered in a manner.
Undyne and Lolo clapped for the delivery skater and her fellow cohorts of bike riders, who couldn't stop grinning even after it got uncomfortable for some people.
"You know this isn't going to be a fun challenge." Jasmine casually remarked.
"Don't say that, they'll do worse." Ashido whispered to the princess. "Plus it's obvious."
Jasmine and Ashido were definitely heard by Lucy.
"I heard that and I know it's not fun." Lucy said. "But winning's better than having a fun time."
Ashido might have been downtrodden.
"I'm glad you understand that." Jasmine casually remarked.
*Lucy's confessional*
"Now that Akiko's eliminated, I guess it means I have to try on whatever Chris could put on this challenge." Lucy said. "At least my bike's black."
*Confessional cut*
Big Man, Alberto, Ken and Red were up against MK, Ramona, Lucy and Sakura on the course of all time and there was a good reason why the quartet of cyclists were looking at each other while wincing.
The course may have been basically S-shaped, but it was chock full of the trademark Total Drama obstacles, mines, giant rocks and ice spots and that's nothing to say about the random ice spots on a random lake.
"Snowmen and Amazonians, you're going to be racing each other on bikes on this courses with of course a few awesome touches! First person to the finish line wins the challenge for their team! Alright!"
Chris was back on the same stage, as Chef looked interested and Tails wasn't so pleased on the course.
"Are you sure this is alright?" Tails asked.
"Yeah, a lot of interns went through this course and they don't have major injuries, dude."
Tails and Chef were both equally unsurprised and slightly disgusted at the stuff.
"Wait watch for the-"
*THE SADISM HORN OF MCLEAN*
And that got all of them starting to race downhill on a relatively tame segment and the eight of them were getting blown up once again.
"This again?" Lucy couldn't care less.
"Yeah, got a problem with that?!" Undyne couldn't care more, biking hard. "I like explosions!"
"Good for you."
Lucy somehow went faster downhill, as Ramona tried to keep up with the wonder trio of Alberto, Red and Ken who were exploding their way down that simple hill.
Either way, Sakura and Big Man were both trying to not be last and MK was trying to make Big Man lose instantly with some careful bumps to the manta ray's bicycle.
"Eat my dirt, marine man!" MK proclaimed.
"Ay. (Then I'll let ya get my dirt.)"
Big Man did a slide that gave her dirt, obviously and almost fell down, but he somehow recovered, as MK passed him with her own dirt.
"Ay! (Yeah, I planned that?!)"
The manta ray and pickpocket were kinda at each other's throat, as Sakura looked at them and trying not to cringe.
*Sakura's confessional*
"I don't get it. They're both acting like they've planned their whole rivalry out, even though they're just sending each other some dirt." Sakura said, baffled.
*Confessional cut*
In that stead, Lucy and Red were going at each other silently, making sure they cut off each other and while Lucy just rode through the explosions like an old-school action hero, Red got creative and took a high ramp to dodge the other explosions.
"Aw yeah, you like to see the silent types lead!" Chris announced. "They're giving each other a hard time!"
Lucy and Red were now on a relatively narrow path.
"Say, why are you so quiet?" Lucy mockingly asked. "Can't think of an insult?"
Red dared to look where he wanted to go, keeping his lead, as Lucy was in a close second and third and fourth was surprisingly anyone's guess.
Mostly because, Ramona and Alberto were eyeing each other on the narrow path and were both doing pretty good.
"Besides Big Man and MK, it's actually looking like a close race!" Chris said. "Red's still in the lead for the Snowmen, though Lucy's looking to steal that!"
Lucy managed to slip on by onto the "best" part of the course, as Red grunted in frustation.
"And she just did! Right time for the big rock trail!"
Lucy literally swerved around a slow boulder, as Red looked a bit unsure about his trajectory around this smooth, rock-studded curve, though it was looking to be a nice one.
As for Alberto and Ramona, things were awkward.
"Okay, so how do we fight each other?" Alberto asked, not being a fish boy no more.
Ramona swung immediately, as Alberto swiftly dodged it and they really started to do their fight, albeit with Ramona swinging and Alberto trying to not get hit by a sledgehammer.
Which went great until-
"AHHHHHHH!"
-Ramona got smashed by a rock, as her bike was done for and Alberto literally got saved by a rock hitting his arm.
"Ramona's out of the race!"
*Alberto's confessional*
His arms were bruised.
"Okay, why did Chris say this was a fun challenge? I don't think it's fun to see a guy get hit by rocks unless you're a bad guy!"
*Confessional cut*
While Ken, Sakura and Undyne were going balls to the wall on their bikes and shrugging off hard hits, MK straight up got a second wind from almost nowhere and sped past the all of them.
"Goodbye, suckers!" MK yelled.
"Good job, MK."
Undyne then pulled out her spear.
"Time to show 'em who's boss!"
Big Man finally caught up to see Sakura trying to fire off an Hadouken as Ken looked a bit nervous at the iconic energy ball.
Sakura basically swung it around, as she was trying to be last line of defense for her team, which sort of worked since Ken looked straight at it and bonked straight into a wall.
"And Ken's out of the race!"
Sakura almost got blindsided by a moving boulder.
"Where did the boulder come from?!" Undyne shouted from the side lines.
"I don't know!" Sakura shouted. "But I'm not scared!"
As for Lucy and Red, that wasn't going much better.
"Don't try to shock me." Lucy casually said.
Pikachu was on top of Red, who wondered how he'd got out.
These two were in the second-to-final section of the bike track, the many-ramp section which wasn't a problem for most of the people that were on the bikes.
Though Lucy's bike was shaking awkwardly.
"I can't believe that Lynn-"
Lucy got sent into the air at an awkward angle and landed without her bike, as the bike landed on a mine.
"This sucks. At least I can talk to the ghost." She walked off the track.
"And Lucy's out as well! It's Red, Alberto and Big Man vs Sakura and MK on the ramps!" Chris announced. "At least they're taking the time to be stylish!"
Big Man did a few waves, Alberto accidentally did a backflip as did Red and Sakura and MK were both keeping it grounded thanks to the boulder still chasing them, but they were in the lead.
"How do we shake this thing?!" MK shouted.
One big ramp, apparently, as everyone either screamed happily or screamed in excitement as the boulders fell down into a random hole and well, all of them were still here.
"Welp, there's a reason why I saved this one for last! It's because it is designed to show who's the real cyclist among you five!" Chris announced. "Get ready to cross an ice covered lake!"
"I'll never be ready for that." MK casually remarked.
"Well, I am!" Sakura said. "Let's go, girls."
The whole of the non-participating Amazonians cheered both of them on, as the non-participating Snowmen were either silent or chattering their teeth at the sight of their final three.
"Well, Robotnik, why are you so nervous?" Monoma asked.
"Because we'll lose, you fool." Robotnik spoke honestly. "Also, Big Man ain't making it."
"Then put some hope into the manta ray."
Back on the lake, most of them were keeping it relatively quick in spite of the ice and some were much better equipped for it than others, as Red just couldn't recover from MK's bump and fell into the water.
"Oh, man, you hate to see it! Red went from being first to being out of the race! It's down to the marine dudes and uh, Asian dudettes!"
"That wasn't your finest moment, Chris." Tails stated.
"Well, it's still down to MK and Sakura against Alberto and Big Man for the win! Will the ice suss them out?"
MK looked quite smug, as she looked straight at Alberto.
"I've been on this show three times already. I know what's up." MK quipped.
"What's up with you, though?" Alberto asked. "Scared to lose?"
MK and Alberto were getting real with each other, daring to only outspeed each other on the somewhat unstable ice, while Big Man and Sakura were both trying to survive on the ice.
Besides that, MK and Alberto had a straight line to the finish, albeit with ice and well, the other two had to get off the lake lest they'd get frozen.
"Okay, this was one of the best challenges for me! But you did pretty good, Big Man." Sakura stated.
"Ay! (Of course, I did!)" Big Man shouted. "Ay! (Anything for the team!)"
Big Man then saw one of those accelrated ramps that would led right into the path of the finalists and thinking of other people's past mistakes, biked right off.
Sakura just looked suspicious at the Sonic-like ramp, but Big Man biked down it quite easily.
*Sakura's confessional*
She had a few bandages
"Have you ever had a feeling in your gut that's telling you would win from unforunate circumstances? Because that feeling was strong back at the ramp."
*Confessional cut*
Sakura then grunted and proceeded to go slowly down the ice-covered slope, as Big Man was kinda out-of-controlf for the whole slide down and flew right off the ramp.
But as for the leading duo, MK could see Big Man about to hit somebody and slowed down a bit.
"Yeah, uh, why did you slow down?" Alberto asked. "Because-"
Alberto then got the full-force of a manta ray and his bike on the side, as they both slid off into oblivion while MK managed to skate on through to the finish, to the cheers of her team.
"Well, after an accidental self-sabotage, MK AND Sakura win it for the Amazonians twice! I have to say that it was pretty funny how Big Man managed to literally send Alberto out of the race, though I don't think it's going to go well on the campfire."
Sakura did manage to land and also finish, as Alberto and Big Man swam back up to the surface with one move.
"Ay! (I swear I didn't mean anything to hurt ya, man!)" Big Man shouted in a panic.
"You could've just waited a bit, man! We would've finally won a challenge!" Alberto shouted. "Except you just had to go down there at the wrong time."
"Ay. (I know, man. Didn't mean to sabotage.)"
"Well, you did." Alberto angrily said. "I hope you're not eliminated, though."
As for his teammates...
*Monoma's confessional*
"He definitely didn't sabotage, but he really didn't think about what he was going to do once he tried going for that ramp. A fair elimination for someone who got their time cut short unfairly." He was sad, even if his smile betrayed it. "Well, he's going to have to convice a lot of people."
*Alberto's confessional*
"Isn't he like a smart guy or something? Why didn't he just wait for me to cross the line, wouldn't really be that hard to do!" Alberto shouted. "Instead now everyone's gonna boot him off."
Big Man was getting a few dirty looks and not many friendly ones aside from Axl Low, as the Snowmen were walking back to the campfire ceremony and this time, there was a few more unfriendly animals watching the team on their walk of shame.
"Mate, no matter what, you're always cool." Axl Low stated.
"Ay. (Thanks, man. Still messed up, though.)" Big Man said.
"No problem, hopefully they'll forgive you."
"Ayyyy... (Dunno if I'd forgive a move like that.)"
Well, it was time for the ceremony and anything's possible there.
"Well, Snowmen, I'm starting to think that you guys suck because it's the second time you've been here in two episodes! Even if some of you really stepped up this time around!" Chris announced. "At least the eliminations are more one-sided this time around!"
Big Man looked around at his teammates.
"Joe Swanson, you can't ride a bike. That's it." Chef spoke matter-of-factly.
"So what, most of us couldn't ride a bike either!" Joe piped up proudly. "It's not just me."
"Monoma, people think you're annoying."
"You're only saying that because I'm not a part of Class 1-A." Monoma spoke.
"I have no idea what that is, man. You're annoying." Joe said.
"Big Man, you lost your team the challenge because you got real unlucky with that ramp."
Big Man confidently sat down, accepting of his wrongs.
*Big Man's confessional*
"Ay. (Imagine losing because you were doing too much.)" He sadly spoke.
*Confessional cut*
The 15 contestants were sure of one more thing.
Those damn marshmallows that determined the fate of the dudes.
...
"Robotnik!"
"Bowser."
"Alberto."
"Red."
"Ken."
"Manolo."
"Taskmaster."
"Nick."
"Axl Low."
"Spider-Punk."
"Puss."
"And Popeye, you guys have no votes!"
...
Monoma and Big Man looked quite serious for once.
...
"Joe Swanson, you got two!"
"Yeah, baby!" Joe shouted.
The previously aforementioned duo were looking at each other.
"You don't get this marshmallow, you're out!"
...
...
...
"Monoma, you're safe! Big Man, you get the boot!"
"Ay. (Not gonna lie, it's kinda messed up how I went out.) Ay! (But I did mess up you guys' game, so.) Ayyy... (This sucks, though.)" Big Man lamented his elimination.
"For what it's worth, you are nice to talk to." Monoma answered.
Big Man got up and walked down the dock of shame and looked back at his team and then got easily picked up on his head, causing some serious pain.
*Big Man's confessional*
The manta ray looked back on this season, a little less fondly.
"Ay! (I had a whole game plan figured out and stuff.) Ay! (Like just trying to be good at challenges and hanging out with dudes for friends and strategy as well!) Ay. (But I flopped at a challenge.) Ay. (Shiver, you better not laugh at me for this.)"
*Confessional cut*
"Well, a dude from the sea got eliminated and the other campers from the sea are still going strong!" Chris shouted. "Either way, next time it's going to be real interesting on TOTAL DRAMA X: WINTER WARRIORS!"
To be continued in Episode 4, where we go into the water and this time around, it's not on top of it and the same guy from this episode doesn't have much trouble.
Unless he gets messed up, which wouldn't happen, right?
RIGHT?!
Big Man's one of those guys could get pretty damn far thanks to being chill and having a cool head, but sometimes you end up as fodder in a pretty stacked cast and that was his role and plus it could be much worse.
You could be written OOC like a decent chunk of early boots, so yeah, water challenge next time!