Total Drama X: Winter Warriors
Episode 4: A Very Frigid Tower
Goodguygary: Yeah, something would be missing with Joe! Plus he's pretty good at challenges!
TDI 4ever (the guest): Thanks for those simple words and I'm glad you like what Bowser and MK are up to and spoiler alert, they're going to be up to a lot.
Yeah, it's Chris and obviously, there was a montage of the previous episode.
"Last time on Total Drama X: Winter Warriors, it was a cold day. Nobody would say it was a nice day to ride bikes, but that's what the contestants did! Predictably a lot of these fellas didn't know how to ride a bike before and it was pretty funny to you guys watching!"
"Obviously, the best of them including Alberto and Ken went through a course and some did way better than others, which led to the second Amazonian victory thanks to one Big Man's accidental crash into Alberto. Even if he was very chill or not planning any heinous actions, Big Man got carried by drone.
"Well, now that the bikes are back down in the dump house, these 34 campers are ready to climb on TOTAL DRAMA! WINTER WARRIORS!"
The Amazonians may have been up two members and Big Man may have stung a certain dude's mood, but there was better discussion amongst the Snowmen.
"Frickin' hell, you were the real deal out there!" Axl Low proclaimed.
"You got tell me where you got those kinda bike riding skills, mate!" Hobie said.
Red wasn't scared of being hounded, as he had a stoic look because of Chef's slop and Alberto and Ken were all too happy to tell those stories.
"I learned right up here on the surface by myself. And once Luca became my friend, I got really good at it and it was good enough to win a race with him and Giulia, my third friend!" Alberto kept it short.
The chill dudes were in awe of this guy.
"I wish I would've won the challenge, but Big Man messed it up for us!"
"Hey, whoa, whoa, how did you know he messed it up?" Axl Low tried defending him.
"I don't know what to tell you, you have eyes, genius." Taskmaster huffed towards London's chain wielder.
"Yeah, he was a cool dude and I doubt he would have done a sabotage."
A general sense of melancholy could be felt amongst the Snowmen.
"That's fair, but that was a real unflashy move." Tengen stated. "And there's definitely people who should been eliminated before him, which I'm not gonna say."
"Wow, yeesh." Hobie said. "Big man over here-"
"No, he ain't over here!" Tengen said. "He's gone."
Hobie was silently steaming, as Robotnik and Bowser hid their smile well.
*Bowser's confessional*
The koopa laughed.
"This is great, actually, we didn't even have to sabotage them and that fish guy's out! Good riddance to him, he wasn't a bad dude, just in the way of my money!"
*Confessional cut*
As for the arctic ladies, they were running on a little bit of a high from their second win, as they happily eat their hard-to-distinguish slop or tried to anyways.
"Alright, two wins in two challenges. Looks like we've got a solid enough team." Natalya said. "But let's not get too ahead of ourselves, anything could go wrong."
"I doubt it, look at our strong team! We've got a trickster, a karate girl, a flying scientist, a ex-con with some weird power and all of that good stuff!" MK shouted.
"I know, I'm not stupid. This won't last forever." Natalya said.
"Come on, you don't think I know that? Let's just try and have a good time." MK proclaimed.
Everyone was in pretty high spirits for the most part, minus a few.
"Rukia, why the heck do ya look so serious?" Akiko asked. "It's not like those weirdos can win."
"I get it. But I cannot shake the feeling that we might lose." Rukia spoke quietly, as Akiko could hear it.
Akiko tried to hold back her laughter, as Rukia looked confused and then fully got laughed on.
"What's wrong?" Rukia asked.
"You're acting like we could lose this challenge, which is possible! But we ain't those guys if you know what I mean!" Akiko proclaimed. "We've got team spirit and they've got none."
Rukia looked very confident, as Ermes couldn't stop looking at the villains.
"Why the heck are you staring at them?" Ashido asked.
"Because it's Bowser and Robotnik. They're always up to some shady as hell business." Ermes whispered to the hero in studying, who stared at her. "Wait, you haven't heard of them?"
"Uh, kinda?" Ashido answered with a very unsure look.
"Damn. Just don't trust them." Ermes told her.
"I won't. Though I don't even think the team trusts Robotnik, though." Ashido just saw Robotnik get up with a push from Joe. "Oh my god, it's that bad!"
Ermes had her mouth agape and Emma had something to say.
"Yeah, he looks like he has a plan for stuff! But we have each other!" Emma declared. "All we have to do is win!"
Ermes then suddenly noticed that MK and Mamizou were just not here and well, she managed to easily slip away since the team was in high spirits.
*Natalya's confessional*
She was in the middle of something.
"If there's two things that I know as a spy is that Chef Hatchet's ability to make terrible food is second to none and on Total Drama, you're not going to go off somewhere without a good reason."
*Cofessional cut*
In spite of the sudden exit, Robotnik, Bowser and Taskmaster all managed to get their time to themselves, now getting the time to do their thing of being an alliance.
Well, besides the terrible smell.
"Could you have done it at a better place?" Robotnik asked. "I can feel my clothes rotting away."
"I don't see the problem, Robotnik. No-one's gonna come here!" Bowser proclaimed.
"I don't think risking nasal problems and health issues is worth forming plans to be put into action."
"Yeah, yeah, let's just do this. We've gotta knock down one of the ladies." Bowser said. "Like the stronger ones!"
Taskmaster just dealt with the smell since he probably had something for it, as Robotnik and Bowser weren't excited to be around the sceptic tank.
"Colette is definitely one of the stronger and more unstable players and it'd be an easy play to eliminate her." Robotnik saw Bowser look angry. "We have to start it small or else, someone's going to notice our plays and I doubt it will be just the audience."
"Plus the majority of the Amazonians are either social butterflies that could talk to supervillains without problems or challenge beasts that could climb Mount Everest in an hour, so no-one's going to miss her." Taskmaster added on.
"Hey, that was a solid statement." Robotnik proclaimed. "And Colette will be gone."
"I was talking about Rukia. She's got ice." Bowser said.
Taskmaster and Robotnik stared at the Koopa king like he said something a little too revealing for an uncomfortably long time.
"Geez, it was an idea."
"Then put it in the back of your mind for now! It's a good one, just not at this moment." Robotnik reassured Bowser.
*Bowser's confessional*
The king sulked.
"Come on, everybody knows that I'm here to make big moves! Well, my son likes me making big moves and uh, I like making big moves!"
*Confessional cut*
As for the other alliance, they had some strong words for some other people.
"Uh, what do we do?" MK asked. "We won already, we gotta boot some people like the twin weirdos."
"That's true, but I do not like what your implication is." Mamizou mused.
"I'm talking about giving our team extra inside help!" MK said.
"I don't much care for that idea, since who would even sacrifice their morals and their potential work for a random contestant? Somebody foolish."
"These interns get slapped like flies, Chris wouldn't even miss a single one."
Ermes looked at Mamizou.
"Besides, can't you just look like one of them?"
"I will not debase myself to that level!" Mamizou confidently shouted. "MK, you're quite known for your sneaking shenanigans and knowing about the challenge would help us a lot."
MK looked a bit peeved.
"Quite right. Be right back."
Ermes and Mamizou were seeing the young criminal disappear in front of their own eyes, as they casually sat back.
"There are a noticeable amount of players that would fit in this alliance, honestly." Mamizou thought out loud. "Since there are many strategries that are being carefully thought about amongst our team members."
"I get it, but why the hell are you so wordy?" Ermes grumbled.
"Because I can afford to be."
*Ermes' confessional*
She looked around at the terrible outhouse.
"I doubt she is that kind of kid, but why does she sound like a giant [butthole]?"
*Confessional cut*
As for the non-alliance people, there was Ken.
He was trying to play it cool in the snow, somehow getting winter clothes that actually fit him and he leaned on a tree in an "casual" manner looking for that certain someone.
"Hey."
Rukia wasn't quite it.
"What are you doing?"
Ken tried to chuckle.
"I'm leaning...on a tree."
"I think I know what you're trying to do." Rukia calmly guessed. "Have fun on your romance quest
Rukia then jumped quite a distance, doing her Shinigami thing as Ken went blank at being read like a picture book and he looked down on the ground, unintentionally looking cooler.
And he still smiled like a dude would, as Android 21.
"Yo, what's up?" Ken tried to use his rizz. "I heard you're flying in the sky here."
"I'm actually more surprised that you didn't see me! Do you have good food?" Android 21 asked, slightly unhinged.
"Nope, but I'm right here-"
"Campers, meet me at the giant ice cave in 30 minutes, I have a challenge that's not for the slippery amongst you campers! Or anyone with a fear of heights!"
Ken looked at Android 21 all confused, as the latter pulled the former up with a decent amount of ease for no reason other than not wanting to waste any time.
Ken and Android 21 literally rolled into the cave, as the android flew and landed with Ken just rolling on the rocks confused at why she'd just help him.
As for the other contestants, they soon arrived.
"Campers, welcome to your next challenge! I have something a little special prepared for you and if you can see it over there, then somebody's getting fired!"
"How do you even find a tarp that big?" Natalya asked.
"I don't have to tell you, but the challenge is awesome like every other challenge in this season and if you couldn't tell what the challenge actually is, congrats on being surviving two challenges, how does it feel-"
"It feels good to make it!" Axl Low immediately replied.
"ZIP IT!"
The British chain-wielder suddenly was real sad.
"Alright, you've probably heard of that tower movie from a certain streaming services of those two girls climbing up a radio tower and it's kinda like that! Get excited for the-"
Chris pulled off the tarp.
"-TOWER OF COLD!"
The tarp revealed what looked like an abandoned air control tower with partially ice-covered walls, a massive balcony without guard rails, Chef Hatchet ready to shoot tennis balls in a air traffic officer's uniform and coloured rocks for climbing, obviously.
Some of the contestants actually clapped at the scale of the building.
"Thank you, nice to know that some of you actually appreciate my challenges! All you have to do is climb to the top, avoid Chef and make it to the inside of the tower which has seats and a TV! First team to make it to the top wins immunity and by the way, you can't just fly because that wouldn't be fun and there's a box of random tools somewhere! Okay, teams, any questions!"
A lot of hands raised.
"Cool! READY, SET, GO!"
Both teams were plainly startled.
The Snowmen were ready to bring their own moves to the tower.
"Hold on, can't we just use our own weapons to climb this thing?" Axl Low asked. "I mean, I could pull myself up like that Spider-fellow!"
"Bruv, I'm a spider anarchist, I ain't just gonna leave my proleteriat guys down here!" Hobie shouted. "You need a web?"
"Hey, all of us can climb ourselves just fine!"
"It's Total Drama, mate, I don't think they'll ever make it that easy."
Hobie webbed himself upwards, cognizant of Chef shooting down tennis balls with his tennis ball cannon and he kept on swinging like he had no plan.
In spite of his very consistent plan, Hobie managed to get smacked in the chest with a tennis ball which only slowed down his attempt and allowed Android 21 to pass him.
With ease, mind you.
"Those are strong tennis balls." Android 21 commented.
"Thanks, miss."
These two managed to get up to the top of the obstacle, where Chef exactly was and he tried to juke them both, but ended up falling flat on his face thanks to them splitting up.
"And Android 21's got the Amazonians' their first point! Spider-Punk's still trying to make it easier for his team if Chef doesn't throw him down!" Chris announced.
Kamala was on that rope right away and Manolo wasn't going to wait for no spider punk for the climb, trying to make sure he didn't slip and neither was Taskmaster or Joe.
"Joe!" Manolo shouted, concerned. "How are you?"
"I'm climbing, man!"
"How are you even climbing?!"
Manolo just saw Joe grab the rocks with intent.
"I don't care, I just climb!"
The two boys kept on doing their thing, as the mens' web was getting stronger and Kamala had already climbed and sat down with the chill android.
"Oh and Kamala adds another point for the Amazons, while Spider-Punk's still trying to help his fellow dudes out by distracting Chef!"
"And I'm providing a web for all of my teammates out there. It's a long term thing, bruv." Hobie casually remarked, casually dodging Chef swinging a chair. "Anyways, gotta tell about the CIA-"
Chef was indeed in action, as Spider-Punk got punched down from the top and got on a web.
"-What the hell, man!" Joe shouted.
"Not of all of us can climb like you, man, you're beating our oppression!"
"SHUT UP, PUNK!"
Hobie got himself off the thing.
"Sorry, man."
Hobie and Joe just kept on climbing up, as Manolo was deseperately trying to avoid the meatball shots that were actually raining down on him now and the other ladies had a great idea.
MK pulled out a random stick and Ermes put some odd sticker with lips on it, not wanting to lose a lead and well, they each had their own stick.
"Oh my god, there's two sticks?!" Sticks shouted. "The governement's got a hand in this new technology."
Ermes showed her pink and yellow stand.
"I bet that she's an agent of the government."
"Shut up, dumbass." Ermes quite replied.
Sticks casually grumbled, as she started to climb the wall as well briskly, as the rest of the team stood looking at Ermes not actually moving thanks to having a hidden plan.
"Hold up, what's your deal?" Ramona asked.
"I don't know if you noticed that she's been like this."
"Uh, we have, but she's actually climbing." Ramona said. "That much can be said."
"Hold on, we're both holding the sticks and long story short, if she peels off the sticker, stick's gonna carry me along."
Ramona had a little bit of a thought, as Mina and Undyne were quickly climbing the tower right behind them unnoticed.
"I can climb pretty good, anyways." Ermes assured Ramona. "Let's just do this crap."
"Glad you get it."
Ermes and Ramona joined the three other girls on the tower, leaving the rest to analyse the ice-cold structure with fresh eyes and worried looks especially Sakura, who held back for one reason.
"I thought we were taking turns." Sakura inquired, as the five girls kept on climbing. "Well, what are we doing back here?"
"Letting our teammates do their thing because I get the feeling that there's some traps going on-" Jasmine got interrupted by Mina falling down. "-OH MY!"
Mina fell down onto the cold hard ground thanks to a stray glove, as Undyne quickly dodged it.
"HER BACK!" Jasmine shrieked.
And then Mina instantly got up, a little worse for wear.
"Geez, these guys really like their death traps, huh?" Mina asked, as if she didn't just drop twenty metres.
"I doubt they're deadly, but I did forget to tell about traps as a surprise!"
Akiko looked right at Jasmine and Sakura seemingly confirmation, but their mouths were wide open as Mina walked back to the two agape women.
*Mina Ashido's confessional*
"No frickin' way I was able to get up just like that. Anyways, so there's ice, traps and Chef now, which means that we're going to get messed up before we win!"
*Confessional cut*
"Alright, so the Snowmen have 2 out of 16 and the Amazonians have about 4 out of 18! By the way, the tower's huge and chock full of surprises!"
Sakura instantly booked it, as Ermes and MK were doing better, but not exactly good either.
"Yo, help a girl out or something!" MK shouted.
"I don't know how!" Ermes was holding on by a pole.
Undyne was quickly joined by Mamizou at the top, as the monster and bake-danuki basically did a hard handshake inside of the shelter.
"Hey, welcome to the club!" Undyne shouted. "We've got a conspiracy badger, an android and a stretchy girl in here."
"I know, it's a great club to be in." Mamizou casually remarked, before Mina somehow got flung upwards and then landed on the deck. "The door's quite open!"
"GET IN, GET IN!" Sticks shouted.
Mina got up instantly and was face-to-face with Chef and on her right was one of the doors, basically side-stepping with force into the lounge and rolling into it.
"Yeah, anyways, we're talking about mind-control!"
"That's cool."
Mina hopped into the couch and sat down, seeing Manolo and Spider-Punk look nervous seeing as they were the only Snowmen here except they almost weren't.
What do I mean by that?
Joe was at the top, as was Axl Low.
"Buddy, I'm interested in a fight!" Joe proclaimed, legs still broken and slowly moving towards the door.
"Mate, I can handle this Chef guy!" Axl was spinning his sickle around, cutting the meatballs into meat bits.
As for the other Snowmen, Taskmaster, Puss, Tengen and Monoma were climbing good and the rest were not climbing good besides Ken having a hard time with the traps.
"Yo, manliness is back-"
Ken got swung in the face.
"-manly man man man!"
And he kept on climbing.
"Senor Ken can handle it, definitely, probably, maybe." Puss said confidently.
"Maybe man can do stuff!" Ken told Puss.
Axl Low literally got dropped back to the ground at speed.
"Ooooh, I bet that hurt! Axl Low might be down for the count, but the Snowmen are trying to make a comeback with the dudes all doing their climb!"
Father Christmas got blown up, as Axl got crushed by him.
"Yeah, he's gonna feel that in the morning! That being said, the Amazonians are definitely keep their lead in check with some ladies with notable features!"
Natalya just side-eyed the host from her vantage point, which wasn't that high.
MK finally reached the top of the tower, sweaty and tired and peeled off the sticker of her stick.
"Time for some magic to happen."
Like a Souls protagonist, she rolled into the door.
Ramona and Ermes were slowly climbing and Ermes definitely grasped that stick with force and energy, as she got pulled up fast enough that Ramona definitely noticed.
"Holy shit, you're flying." Ramona spoke with disbelief.
"No, I'm just being pulled!" Ermes shouted, as she was flying right into the lip of the tower.
And the two sticks smashed into each other, as Ermes literally jump kicked nothing and landed on the lip, seeing Chef running towards her side of the tower at a ridiculous pace and made a swift roll towards the door that finally opened just as Chef was about to shoot her.
"Amazonians are 10 out of 18, but the Snowmen are catching up real fast! No seriously, they've got 7 people in!"
"What the-how did you guys get here so fast?!" Ermes yelled.
"We climbed." Ken said rather casually. "And my head was a bit messed up."
"Yeah, I don't know why I asked that?" Ermes replied, still miffed.
"Because you were baffled by our collective performance as a team!" Monoma had to brag for some reason. "Especially with-"
"Dude we could literally lose like a movie." Ken said, basically putting his arm around Monoma.
*Monoma's confessional*
He looked baffled.
"How come no-one thinks I'm quite that serious?" Monoma remarked. "It does to pay to be theatrical in a show like this!"
*Puss' confessional*
"I don't know why Mister wannabe phantom thief is so mad that we find him kinda annoying. He reminds me of some goofy fellow or Donkey with a mask!"
*Confessional cut*
Ramona then opened the door nervously, seeing Sticks say a whole lot of words and Monoma not be liked by his team and she hopped into the ladies' seat.
"Sticks, what are you talking about?" Ramona asked.
"Good ways of dealing with government-mandated robots that want to steal your sorveignity!"
"...What?"
"Well, you just came here, you wouldn't understand."
"I see. I'll leave you to explaining all of that junk!"
"It's not junk, it'll..."
Ramona tuned out Sticks to go and go talk to a very much exasperated Mamizou, who was being quite educated.
"Oh, is that all she's talking about?" Ramona asked.
"She has been talking about her possibly fictional friend Amy...sometimes."
Ramona slumped down on the couch.
"How did Scott find this fun?" She whispered to herself.
As for the other people that were not having a good time, Colette and Alberto somehow ended up in the same part of the wall without much problem.
"Can you please not talk about Brawl Stars? I don't care about Brawl Stars, lady." Alberto replied.
"But Brawl Stars is awesome and you can beat people up in the game."
"What if I don't want to beat people up."
"Well, too bad!"
Colette tried to go swinging at Alberto on that simple and solid climb, who looked at her weirdly from a relatively safe distance even while doing some awesome climbing.
"Showing you the power of Brawl Stars is hard with one hand!" Colette feebly yelled.
Alberto wasn't impressed as Colette had that one hand climb down to an art of not moving anywhere while punching with some kind of force, so the fish boy just kept on going.
"What is up with these guys?" He wondered aloud.
Colette heard and climbed faster than ever up to about Alberto's position, who was scared all of a sudden.
"I just want to show you my hobby, that's it!" Colette seethed, as Alberto climbed ever faster.
The situation quite literally got comically fast, as Natalya somehow could see from the lip of the tower.
"Wow, well that's going to be one heck of a crazy woman to deal with." Natalya whispered quietly, as Colette leaped onto the tower.
"How the hell did you jump up here?" Natalya asked both Colette and Alberto.
"I did." Colette answered, as Alberto jumped into the tower's door.
*Natalya's confessional*
"I'm starting to think this lady is either a threat to our team's game or our team's lives and as an agent, I know how to deal with people like that. Keeping watch."
*Confessional cut*
Natalya let Colette in, as Sticks was talking about walking vegetables or some nonsense like that to the very not interested ladies and the badger looked quite nervous.
"I'm glad most of our team is here, since most of you don't want to hear my stuff-"
Colette punched Sticks in the face to get up on her soapbox and talk about stuff.
"Yeesh, I bet she was talking about mind control, government and whatnot." Colette slyly replied. "So, let's talk about beating people up."
Natalya and Sticks sighed.
*Natalya's confessional*
"Sticks, you are very lucky that you are not my current target aside from a second ago. And you are definitely nicer than her." She casually said.
*Confessional cut*
As for the dudes, Ken was staring the whole time at an embarrassed Android 21 without realising that he was doing it and then tried to divert his eyes in embarrassment.
"Ayyyyy!"
Spider-Punk somehow was the only one that noticed.
"What?" Ken asked. "I'm just admiring a nice lady."
"Come on, you know she's a baddie."
"I doubt she's a villain. She doesn't look like one."
Spider-Punk raised his eyebrows.
"She looks like a smart genius next to a pretty cool dude. She's got the coat, glasses and stuff!" Ken emphasised quietly. "I think she's gonna be real cool with me."
"Bruv, you know that you can't be doing this in challenges, so keep it for the private times, big man!" Spider-Punk encouraged him. "Keep it real cool."
"Thanks, man."
As for the climbing stuff, somehow Lucy climbed up without nobody noticing...minus Chef which explained why she was a walking meatball.
"What happened to you, little girl?!" MK remarked.
"I got hit by a meatball and I don't care."
Lucy sat down.
"Damn, someone's mad that they don't have the-"
Lucy had the surprisingly mostly teal gloves and threw them at MK.
"Hey, I wasn't done."
"Tell it to someone else."
"The Amazonians' got 12 out of the 18 contestants that they got, while the Snowmen have...9 out of 16, which is definitely something!"
*Akiko's confessional*
The ghost kept on flying.
"How am I going to do this challenge without disqualifying for the team! I can only fly since I'm pretty dang dead right now! Do I really have to piggyback on my fellow contestant?!"
*Confessional cut*
Akiko was looking at Robotnik with a serious look, sure about one thing.
*Akiko's confessional*
"Oh yeah, I can scare the robot guy!"
*Confessional cut*
Robotnik, thanks to having his climbing troubles, just growled as Akiko "parked" up on his shoulders silently.
"Well, that is a weird presence." He noticed her ghostliness. "And I cannot do anything about it?!"
"I don't know, man, your loss." Bowser quipped right back.
Akiko easily hid, as the robot man was climbing slowly and surely trying to make the ghost get shaken up and get stuck in the air, but the ghost had seen some stuff, being some centuries old.
Boxing glove? Kinda messed up Robotnik's nose, as Akiko chuckled.
Icy wall? Akiko casually floated right in front of Robotnik flailing on said wall.
Random brick wall? Akiko passed right through that stuff, as Robotnik grabbed on top of said wall and Bowser literally got burnt in his face.
And hilariously, Robotnik made it to the top with Akiko doing the pretend piggyback stuck on him.
"Will you quit it, you troublesome specter of annoying-ness?!" Robotnik shouted.
"I honestly would, but I'm not flying into that thing! Plus you got Chef!"
"I know, but he's a-"
Chef barged right into Robotnik, the mad scientist kinda stuck on the ledge while Akiko floated on in.
"Man, Akiko found a way to not get DQ'd and made Robotnik look like a dummy in the process! But the mad science dude gets up-"
Robotnik fully got the boot.
"-and crashes out! The Amazonians have got a solid thirteen contestants to the Snowmen's 11, which is actually ridiculously close!"
Unsurprisingly, Popeye made it despite getting whacked many a time and not popping that spinach.
"I don't know why it was tough." Popeye said. "Messed up many times and I still didn't get down."
"That's the Popeye I know!" Axl declared. "How did you get sent down so many times."
"I just told ya, damn tower had bombs, lasers and them gloves. I swear ya saw that!"
"I dunno, mate, it only had bear claws on my end. And bombs."
These two were mad chilling, as they realised that Father Christmas was really the only weak one on their team...until they both watched Medic and Robotnik get themselves right into the same glove.
"Popeye makes it 12, meaning the Snowmen have four guys left to climb the challenge compared to the Amazonians' five! But it's only getting harder, it's like it flipped a switch!"
Indeed, it actually was, though very well hidden.
Father Christmas, Red, Medic and Bowser were the four that couldn't exactly make it up the tower either due to unfortunate situations or because they sucked at climbing.
As for the Arctics (yes, that's what I'm gonna call 'em.), Lolo, Emma, Rukia, Jasmine and Sakura were left for the ladies and arguably were the stronger lineup against the dudes in climbing.
Sort of.
Rukia did managed to run up the wall right before getting juked and jumping off from a decent height for the fourth time, this time on the wrong end of a random claw.
And landed back on the ground for the fifth time, breathing carefully, as Jasmine Ashido kept on seeing.
"Rukia, what's going on?!" Jasmine called out. "It's not that serious."
"It seems to be getting harder!" Rukia shouted back. "I know it's not that serious!"
"Just keep on going, it'll get better!" Jasmine before something terrible happened.
She slipped...onto a boxing glove and hung on it for dear life and Rukia quite easily ran on through all of the garbage that was literally getting thrown out of the tower, ice included.
Jasmine literally saw Rukia sprint almost all of the way up and then grab one of the very last rocks.
"Well, I'm glad somebody's showing off!" Jasmine had a cheeky compliment.
"My apologies." Rukia humbly apologised, before getting up and noticing that Red almost got himself up there and looked quite fatigued dealing with Chef.
"Hehe, it's a good day to be wielding a meatball cannon!" Chef declared.
Red and Rukia looked at each other and neither of them decided that fighting a meatball cannon would be worth it, but that very short time was all it took for Chef to fire it off upwards towards where the door was for the both of them.
There was no other option, Rukia had to run towards where the meatball would eventually end up and Red deliberately lagged behind since he really couldn't do everything.
Rukia managed to successfully block the meatball with her Zanpakuto aka she cut that ball in half quite simply and Red actually got into the door.
*Red's confessional*
He just held his head in shame at Rukia basically getting juked by him, seeing as she's an anime chick in a shonen manga.
*Confessional cut*
Rukia managed to cut it and also dissaude Chef with one good swing, even if she basically put it back near instantly and then walked into the place.
"Yikes, guys, Rukia really cut Chef's pride just like that!"
"Well, damn, we're equals now!" Joe commented, as Red looked surprised.
Red's hat was all meatball now, as the final three on each team were trying their best to climb up the tower.
Emma and Lolo had a very hard job to do, as they were wearing the "special gloves" and were basically helping each other.
"Emma, are you okay?" Lolo asked.
"Not really!" Orphan Emma basically panicked.
"Same here, it's awkward! Sakura, how are you holding up?"
"Doing good for someone's who been knocked down all day!" Sakura shouted, gripping the boulders like nobody's business. "Just need to reach the top!"
"Exactly!"
Emma somehow dodged the small rock that the tower just spat out.
These two were serious about their climbing, as Medic, Bowser and Father Christmas were slowly working their issues out and the emphasis was definitely on slowly, as Medic was doing noticably better.
As in, he was nearly at the top of the tower with only a lot of scratches and even an bruise and he just kept on going and then reached the top with a surprised look on his face.
Mostly because Sakura got smashed with the cannon and he had to slip on through lest his head got covered by meatball.
"Hello, fellow teammates. How do you do?" Medic greeted the others.
"Not too bad, I thought you were weaksauce, but you're cool actually!" Bowser complimented Medic, as the doctor looked on in surprise.
"HOW DID I NOT NOTICE YOU!" Medic shouted. "DU WARST AUF DEM DACH-"
"Okay, fellas, it's going to be one crazy story." Bowser explained himself.
xxxFLASHBACKxxx
"Bwahahaha, what kind of meatball's gonna stop me?!"
The footage then cut to Robotnink just bawking at his villainous partner in arms falling down and Popeye watching the fall from a lower vantage point with shock.
Bowser landed shell up and still kinda felt the pain and a ridiculous sort of anger that led to him basically bruteforcing the tower...right after being stuck in a helpless state.
xxxFLASHFOWARDxxx
Bowser did definitely light up someone's day with his raging flame that he just put out there.
"Mate, can ya not do that?" Axl asked politely, the whole team giving Bowser a stern look.
"I just got mad!" Bowser defended himself.
"Doesn't matter, the Snowmen are one guy away from winning the challenge, while the Amazonians have to get three different members up there!" Chris announced.
*Axl Low's confessional*
He looked at his kinda burning sickle.
"No frickin' way, this is kinda awesome! The fire ain't melting my weapon and this stuff can make these things hotter." Axl swung his sickles around.
*Confessional cut*
Well it was down to Father Christmas, Emma and Lolo, none of whom were having a good time dealing with the climb of the tower especially with their repeated attempts.
As for Jasmine, something really interesting happened.
"Open up, aren't you guys on my team-"
Jasmine then noticed Bowser blocking the door.
"-Hey, what is your problem, you giant ugly turtle!"
"I don't know, Your Highness, the door's locked for some weird reason!" Bowser said. "It's kinda messed up."
"Really?" Jasmine asked incredulously, as Bowser was relaxing against the door. "What is your problem-"
She got shot off the top of the tower, as Father Christmas could barely even climb up the tower...and yet, he avoided many of the traps.
"This Chris fellow thinks I'm a mountain climber, eh!"
Unfortunately, one of them hit.
A rock that plummeted him down back to near the ground and made him fall down.
"ARGH, CRUMBS!"
"Whoopa, Jasmine's getting back up to the top kinda quickly with...a stick? But Bowser's keeping on blocking those doors!"
Lolo kept herself quiet, doing a decent climb upwards on the rock, despite her general mage skills.
"Can I do this?" Lolo asked.
"Yes, you can!" Emma shouted, climbing much more slowly. "You climb like you've been doing it before."
"Alright."
Lolo kept on climbing like her ring-wielding idol, nervously climbing faster than any other lady and she almost got herself blown up...
...leading to her climbing kinda like a spider until she didn't even realised thjat she landed on the ledges, but she noticed just soon enough to block the meatball shots with her magic.
"Put that stuff down or else, you're gonna get what's coming to ya." Chef tried to command Lolo.
"No!"
Lolo then moved towards one of the doors, as she tried to open it like Jasmine, but decided to go towards the other side that was actually open.
She leapt into the place.
"AHHHHHHHH-oh."
Lolo realised that she had a good victory.
Every lady cheered for the now nervous mage, as they really had her back minus Colette who didn't look too pleased with some little girl.
"Now it's down to Jasmine and Emma for the Amazonians and Nick for the Snowmen!" Chris announced. "Old Nick looks like he's got the hang of the climb, while the other two kinda don't!"
Orphan Emma was having a panic attack of sorts, literally holding onto middle level rocks for seemingly dear life, as Jasmine was climbing slowly and surely.
Father Christmas couldn't help but see a nervous child in the middle of a challenge that she was clearly not equipped to deal with and had to ignore it due to an explosion.
*Father Christmas' confessional*
"I know who I'm not giving any presents to-if I wanted to give presents. Mate, I can't believe I had to leave someone like that for the challenge." He stated, trying to avoid supicion. "For this blooming challenge!"
*Confessional cut*
The jolliest man on earth couldn't exactly keep up the jolly when Emma had a little bit of an attack, but then realised Total Drama was really like this and he kept on climbing.
Emma then took a big breather, as she looked nervously at the lady cheerers at the top, the ledge and Father Christmas.
*Emma's confessional*
"It's kinda terrible that he had to leave me behind, but this game is very much cruel. At least, my team had my back and the old guy looked like he regretted that, but I don't want him to get blown up either."
She sighed.
"This game sucks."
*Confessional cut*
Father Christmas finally made his way to the top, though wanted to see Emma reach the top...right before Jasmine actually jumped onto the ledge and it was race time.
Like last time, Jasmine got blocked while Father Christmas didn't as he walked on through the door with every guy cheering for his victory, a little befuddled at the circumstances.
Especially since Bowser clearly was blocking the door.
"And look at that, the Striking Snowmen win the challenge! They don't have to vote off somebody for the first time in the competition! Amazonians, what happened?" Chris asked from a crane.
He could hear Ramona and Jasmine complain.
"Ladies, you've got to head towards the campfire tonight, I don't really care what happened because this was a good challenge! Emma, you better hope that someone makes a spectacle of themselves."
Emma climbed up and finally reached the top angry.
"Snowmen, you guys get to enjoy the simple wonder of the classic hot tub plus some legally edible food that Chef cooks."
Everybody cheered minus two villains who used this opportunity to slip elimination bait amongst each other.
*Bowser's confessional*
"As a dad of eight kids, I know that Emma ain't having a good time being here. Some of her friends were eaten, that's a rough life for a kid and I'm pretty sure she ain't going home today thanks to this!"
A paper that just says 'EMMA SUCKS AND SHOULD BE VOTED OFF'.
*Confessional cut*
Bowser threw a little something Colette's way, which was just a piece of paper and the insane tax official immediately lit up upon seeing the "great advice" on said paper.
Bowser did a confident thumbs up and Robotnik did the thumbs up.
"Hey, what are you two trying to pull?" Joe asked.
"What, you haven't heard of celebrating a win? That's just how I do it."
Joe Swanson nodded, knowing that these two were up to some shenanigans.
As for the ladies, it was real awkward since there was arguably too many good options and for MK, she was lucky that none of her friends were among them.
"I think Sticks is annoying and can't contribute to the team like me!" Colette shouted. "...Plus she's a conspiracy nut and crazy."
"What can I say? I came for the truth and the truth is she's as crazy as me!" Sticks argued.
"What do you mean, I've been acting like a normal person all day unlike you, who's been speaking garbage to their faces! Brawl Stars is awesome!"
MK got some weird sense of deja vu.
"I'd love to talk about that, but I gotta help my team out first and then get eliminated and then deal with the robot zombies!" Sticks actually defended himself.
"So you don't wanna hear about my thing, but I gotta entertain your robot zombie whatever whatever? Really, does no-one get me?"
Colette got some cold looks, as Sticks straight up glared at her.
"Uh, not really? You are kinda like Sticks except meaner and more one-note." Ramona answered.
"I don't know if that's-" Sticks still wanted to defend her fellow crazy lady.
"I'm not like that badger and I'm not really like you, because you don't listen!" Colette shouted. "I just want to talk about Brawl Stars, but you girls are total downers about it. Plus I did help in the minecart challenge!"
Sticks didn't really want to get involved, as Colette got a lot of the attention and the badger quite nervously looked at her.
"She could've just asked..." Sticks answered sheepishly.
"Yeah, that ship has long past sailed for her." Mamizou answered. "If there's nothing left to argue..."
Colette then had some Hail Mary argument that she totally didn't rip from a random piece of paper.
"What about Emma, though?!"
From the disdain that her team and half of the Snowmen were giving her with their eyes alone, she need Mary to come down and give her an angel.
*insert campfire cutscene from the new total drama seasons, one of the several things that they did right in both seasons except it was all wintery and Colette was giving the Zeke treatment*
"Wow, first time at the campfire and some of you have made yourselves enemy number one! Amazonians, what really happened at the climbing challenge?"
"We got stumped by your ridiculous obstacles and Bowser blocking us." Ramona explained. "Not to mention, some of us revealed our douchier sides."
"That was brutal! Both the challenge and that insult, but I'm gonna let Chef say his words!"
Emma was quite nervous, as Lolo was hugging her as a friend and Lucy moved slightly further away.
"Emma, somebody thinks that you're not exactly built well for this competition. Sticks, no-one cares about the plant people rising up from the ground even if you did good this challenge!"
"Hey, just warning you that they could." Sticks justified her action.
"Colette, you did fine and then you acted like a villain! No-one likes someone that disses a child."
"But it was a piece of paper!" Colette spat out. "And it came from an actual villain!"
"It just says EMMA SUCKS in capital letters, I wouldn't get caught by that psy-op." Sticks picked up the paper.
Chris made a whistle while carrying the plate of marshmellows.
"Like the whistle? You girls have voted for each other and each marshmallow represents your continued stay in the game and no marshmallow means you get carried by the Drone of Shame off the island!"
...
...
"Ramona!"
"Mamizou."
"Kamala."
"Ermes."
"MK, somehow."
"Huh, jealous." MK quipped.
"Shush. Lolo."
"Android 21."
"Princess Jasmine."
"Ashido."
"Natalya."
"Lucy Loud."
"Undyne."
"Rukia."
"Akiko and Sakura."
...
...
Colette looked genuinely apologetic, as Sticks wasn't a big fan of her, neither was Emma.
"Emma, you had only had one vote."
Colette actually was getting the Staci treatment, since nobody liked her now.
"It was not me!"
"I actually believe her, it definitely wasn't her!" Emma said.
Hilariously enough, Chris didn't want to waste time.
...
...
...
...
That was a lie, but he did eventually throw it to-
"Sticks, you had three votes."
The badger sighed in relief, as the insane brawling tax official got up in shame.
"Colette, you got the rest of 'em. Insulting a kid, not so cool."
"I'm being completely serious, I swear somebody dropped a note on the floor that had Emma in there-" Colette tried explaining herself to an uninterested crowd.
"Get outta here, this show ain't going on forever!"
Colette skalked down the dock to her unfortunate elimination.
*Colette's elimination confessional*
"To whoever Emma's parents or guardians are, I hope that they come to fight me with her bare fists! Not to mention, there are definitely some people that have misjudged me for being into my hobby and getting tricked. Huh, I'm gonna go back to Brawl Stars, I bet they're gonna love me over there!"
*Confessional cut*
She screamed while she was being carried away on that Drone of Shame.
"Well, that's another wintery episode wrapped up and I'm not surprised that she was the ladies' first boot! Who's going to leave the cold once more on TOTAL DRAMA: WINTER WARRIORS!"
To be continued in Episode 5, where things get more romantic, though this is Total Drama, so the weird couple can only get weirder and more strategic!
No seriously, it can.
Colette may not have been a first boot, but it was entirely down to luck, getting the short end of a "made this scheme in fifteen minutes" strategy and being generally insane like Sticks.
Unlike Sticks, she's kinda aching for a fight and not really that well-known for being nice to everyone (in spite of Sticks' endless amount of conspiracy theories) in addition to not being that smart.
Plus she's an tax official, so she can officially piss off.
Anyways, might go Italy pretty soon which is depending on me getting a visa, which might not be happened and if so, Episode 5's going to be two weeks away on a vacation.
Or somehow arrive on a Thursday.