Total Drama X: Winter Warriors
Episode 7: (Winter) Sea Warriors (UPDATED)
Remember that one movie where two teenage girls get stuck on top of a radio tower and have to survive with each other without dying? Yeah, Chris thought that it would be a good place for the contestants to fight on and even if legally, there's softening waters...
...these guys are going to be fighting for each other's life in the game, possibly the most valuable thing for Total Drama!
No, I won't elaborate on that and yes, there is no double elimination this round, sorry for the spoilers, if reading the last sentence of the previous episode wasn't spoilery enough.
(Read and review for your country's sakes!)
Goodguygary: Yeah, Lucy's one of those people who wouldn't make it far as this cast's packed to the gills with personality and whatnot and I feel like Ken x Android 21 is quite the ship. Two artificial beings in love is something really interesting to me and plus I haven't really dedicated that much time to them (no really, that's it)...
Anyways, Robotnik might not have as hard of a time as you might think, Gary and secondly, it is January-
Also, I forgot about Popeye again.
"Last time on Winter Warriors, the contestants had a massive snowball fight, a fight so massive that it involved storming castles, shooting ice-melting fireballs and espionage. The Arctic Amazonians were looking good all through the fight from Natalya actually sneaking in to Ermes making big snowballs and, uh, the rest were nice, too."
"The Stunning Snowmen started off kinda bad, then clutched the end of the game and thanks to Tengen, blew the ladies up! Obviously, they won. And less obviously, Lucy got the boot from the Amazonians! Will they actually step up and fight like real woman would? Will the Snowmen freeze them out with only their fists and uh, they might! Find out on TOTAL DRAMA X: WINTER WARRIORS!"
The effect of the elimination could be felt and it wasn't for a reason that a reader like you would expect.
Thanks to Robotnik and the crew, MK's alliance knew that there was indeed one thing happening within the game and they were making sure to be in a private place.
"They've got some kind of alliance, there's no doubt about it." MK stated.
"Really, you're going to that kind of conclusion?" Ermes asked. "They could be working together to have villainous dudes be a major part of their team."
"Dude, if that's so, then why are Robotnik and Joe hating on each other?"
"Because they hate each other, what kind of BS are you pulling? I don't doubt there's an alliance, but there is no way that robot guy, medic fella, Taskmaster and turtle man are in an alliance together." Ermes answered.
"What else do you think they're doing?" MK said. "Lucy got hit by Bowser for no reason otherwise."
Mamizou was keeping quiet, mostly because she knew better than to assume that there said alliance was keeping themselves at bay and Ermes thought about it.
She thought about it some more.
She then come to an obvious realisation.
"I'm pretty sure that the medic guy isn't in there, but those three could be in an alliance." Ermes stated. "I don't want to get my [stuff] messed up."
"Quite right, if you get a little too suspicious or declare your intentions in other shows like this one, you end up as a massive target due to either false declarations or said alliance counteracting your actions." Mamizou explained, sighing. "There's no good move to play other than doing what they did."
"Finally, I've got so many ways to sabotage. Or just knowing the challenge's more than enough." MK said. "Mamizou, you know what to do."
"You dare command me without any respect? I'll do what I do because I'm in this alliance not because you told me." Mamizou stated. "Besides, you didn't do good last challenge."
"Yeah! Yo, Mami, real nice game out there." Ermes complimented.
"Well, that was easy for a tanuki like myself to do!" Mamizou siad. "Ermes, your performance was good, too."
MK was flabbergasted at the disrespect on display, as those two were having a good conversation.
"Maybe it could be your challenge, too, Mary-Kate."
MK was slightly incensed, as Ermes and Mamizou were looking towards their alliance leader.
"Yeah, well, it's gonna be my challenge and I'm gonna look good in this one because it's absolutely fitting to my skillset-"
*MK's confessional*
She was looking towards the paper almost in dread.
"Dang it, I'm either about to be the world's first boneless person or be useless for the second challenge in a row. Me and my big mouth!"
*Confessional cut*
It wasn't like nobody was watching, but that somebody made sure her personal intel was up to date on all of the alliance shenanigans.
As for the other trio in the game and also, Medic, they were back in their home base of some random hut full of discarded parts in a specific neck of the woods.
"Wait, why aren't you joining the crew?" Taskmaster asked. "We have two eliminations sort of under our belt."
"Well, that's just it. You think you have ze game out of the palm of your hand." Medic rebutted the mercenary. "Ze surprises may even hurt you or me."
"That's really nice, man, right now we're prepared for any surprises that head our way." Taskmaster stated.
"Hey, listen, Medic, which I doubt is your real name, if you join our alliance, any surprises that may land at the front of your feet will not blow up your game." Robotnik told him seriously. "And if you don't, we'll blow up your own game for you, of which the implementation should be thorough and simple."
Medic look quite surprised at the threat that Robotnik was putting out inside the hut, as Bowser and Taskmaster smiled.
"Somehow, I don't believe you." Medic said, gritting his teeth in suspicion.
"As a fellow scientist, I'll make it my mission to prove it...if you don't join our alliance."
Medic looked at the other two guys in the shed and their confident shone through to him in the middle of the many discarded parts and he reluctantly shook Robotnik's hand in quite the forceful manner.
"Yeesh, didn't know that you weren't a big fan of the alliance. Well, who are we eliminating today if that's the only thing you're doing?" Medic sniped back at Robotnik.
"Hey, easy pal, we're just trying to make that Ashido chick take the walk!" Bowser shouted. "I just don't like her powers and her vibe, is all."
"Wait, really? I don't think it should be that hard." Medic said. "She just secretes acid."
"Yeah, go ahead and touch her acid, I'd like to see how far you'd go. Heard somewhere that it's the burning kind, too." Bowser stated, as Medic went silent. "She ain't a genius, so it should be kinda easy."
"Right."
The four men were silent for a moment, thinking of who would beat Ashido in a fight.
"I'll do it. I'm the master of combat and she's some teenager that can shoot out acid in creative ways...I'll figure that out." Taskmaster explained.
"Uh, what about me? I can burn through that stuff and more! In fact, lemme do it!" Bowser complained.
"What about the android?"
"What about her, you could do that easily!"
Taskmaster was baffled at the Koopa's ego-checking, as Robotnik smiled.
"I agree, Taskmaster's ability to copy moves should neutralise whatever tricks Android 21 has." Robotnik stated. "Bowser should be able to burn through the acid girl."
"What about-" Medic tried to bring up.
"What about it, the plan's simple, we've got this!"
*Taskmaster's confessional*
"I bet that the struggle to deal with Android 21 will be all worth in the end, but a surefire plan should actually help us keep our team winning instead of letting the big turtle on campus have an ego trip."
*Confessional cut*
Also, unsurprisingly, Natalya kept her ears peeled through the power of Bluetooth and a modern walkie-talkie learning of some major information in real time.
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In the main cafteria of decent food and things described as food, Ken and Android 21 accidentally caught each other's glances and it got awkward real quick for obvious reasons.
"Uh, what is your problem again?" MK asked.
"Oh, Mary-Kate, you're back from the toilet again." Android 21 said, almost off-handedly. "Anyways, I like Ken."
"Yeah, not like I couldn't tell! But keep in it the bud for the game."
"Well, I'm trying to, but his everything is too dreamy at the moment."
Android 21 then got pulled by Ramona out of Ken's weird sight, almost like some kind of hypnosis wore off.
"For the record, I could've done that at any time. And I chose not to." Android 21 stated.
"Then choose not to at the moment! We've lost two people in the last two challenges and I don't want you to be the third because you loved some blonde guy." Ramona said.
"He isn't just some attractive blonde guy!"
"I know, but right now, we're all team players today. Don't worry about him right now."
Android 21 just shrugged, as the other ladies weren't really ready to not have small talk with each other and plus, they had no idea what the challenge is.
"I bet you're just jealous of her." Ashido suggested.
"No frickin' way!" Ramona shouted. "I don't like him."
"Who really knows, who really knows."
Ashido got some eye-rolls from the blue-haired Ramona.
*Mamizou's confessional*
"I find out somewhat fascinating that out of all of the contestants on both teams, including people who would normally be incredibly willing to get romantic, it is the talking doll and the android who are the closest to a working relationship."
*Confessional cut*
Ken and the squad, however, were on a high for obvious reasons.
"Yeah, I can tell you really like her!" Axl said. "I can see why!"
"Yep, she's smart, attractive and wears glasses." Ken answered in a loving daze. "Maybe one of my many dream girls."
"Whaaaat, you got many?!"
"Yeah. They're all Barbies, though."
"Whoa, whoa, you can't just call ladies that!" Popeye instantly got offended.
"I live in Barbieland! All of the guys are Kens and the ladies are Barbies."
Popeye and Axl only understood that Ken had some love in his life.
Joe looked at the two of them with a serious look, which stumped the blonde boys just a tad thanks to just the glare alone and there was seemingly no apparent reason for it, too.
"I don't know about you boys, but I prefer to keep it in my pants for this challenge." Joe commanded them. "Even if she loves you, we came here to win!"
"Well, yeah, can't we talk about some birds?" Axl asked.
"Those girls aren't birds! They're our competition!" Joe shouted. "I've already got enough problems with Mr. Robotnik being a complete weirdo over here, I don't want you two to have girl problems break this team apart!"
"Sorry, man. Was just in love!" Ken defensively sputtered out, almost breaking under Joe's pressure.
"Hey, it's not a shame to be in love. Just don't get it in the way of the game." Joe almost threatened.
The dudes were having an good time with the hardest player of the season in spite of the dual alliances, as they were keeping it real serious.
"Listen, Robotnik, that was a good challenge back there. You actually contributed to the team instead of fighting me." Joe said, as Manolo agreed. "More importantly, we're winning two challenges and I think you might make it a third."
Robotnik looked baffled.
"LOOK, I'M GIVING YOU A CHANCE!"
"Okay, okay, my apologies. I never got the chance to be answered and honest, my robotics would help in a lot of challenges." Robotnik was trying to not say something condescending. "It would help."
Joe and Robotnik gave the most passive-agressive handshake to ever be done while still being completely genuine, as Manolo and Bowser was understandably cautious.
"Something tells me that there's gonna be some betrayal." Popeye whispered to Monoma, who nodded. "Or not."
"Alright, you two, please make some flashy moves." Tengen said, rubbing his foreheads. "If you two don't, one of you is gonna get eliminated."
"Yes, I'm not looking for that." Robotnik stated
*Bowser's confessional*
"Finally, I'm not always making some decent moves. I like the man but he was being a little bit of an unintelligent guy in the third and fourth challennges!" Bowser shouted.
*Confessional cut*
As for Natalya-
"What the heck were you doing?!"
-Sticks got her first, prompting the other people to give her a weird eye.
"I was watching birds, which were surprisingly life-like." Natalya basically lied. "And these birds apparently have weapons."
"THEN IT'S OVER-"
Sticks got the cut off treatment, which only came from Chris using his warrior's horn which was definitely scuffed, but did get everyone's attention.
"Sticks, calm down! You campers have a special fight that must be done! Make haste or I'll eliminate you!" Chris announced with the horn still in his hand. "Be prepared to give it your all!"
Sticks just angrily sat down.
"Can you even do that?" Sticks asked.
"Have you seen these challenges? Yeah, I can do that!"
As for almost before the challenge, there was always going to be something.
"I'm not looking forward to this challenge." MK said. "Don't get me wrong, I like see some dudes fight, but I'd definitely get my butt beat in this kinda challenge."
"Honestly, a lot of you are not fighters and that really isn't a bad thing except in this niche situation where the challenge revolves around it." Mamizou had to say her truth. "So, we need a strategy."
"Yeah, Undyne, how do I not get my butt beaten?" MK remarked.
Undyne looked real confident in her skills as the team leader and in this advice.
"Stay determined like that one human did. Like Frisk!" Undyne declared. "The rest of you ladies, are you ready to get your determination up?!"
"Yeah, but that's not gonna stop me from turning into mincemeat."
"Who knows, you absolutely could not!"
MK rolled her eyes at Undyne, as Mamizou look exasperated at MK's pure lack of confidence.
*Undyne's confessional*
"I know that Ramona could absolutely be the team leader, just that she needs the right kind of attitude. I don't know what's with her or the android lady, but we're all gonna find out together."
*Confessional cut*
Anyways, the campers arrived at a quite weird location, mostly because the arena wasn't really that high off the cold sea water that Pahkitew was now stuck in and looked like a cousin of the Tower of Drama minus the building.
The arena was octagonal, it was coloured in a rusty red and looked like it was a small part of an oil rig, complete with the fake landing pad design and ridiculously sturdy lights.
Even Undyne balked at the sight of the sea-bound arena.
"Can I say that this is the challenge that I wanted to do earlier, but the guys said no at the time? Yeah! Welcome to the Octagon Of The Sea, the arena of Pahkitew that was supposed be in the season called Pahkitew Island, but got cut for some reason. Well, most of you can definitely rumble in the ring!"
"Yeah, quit with the preamble, what are we doing?" Ramona asked.
"Ramona, I was getting to that! It's kinda the simplest of all! One from each team gets picked at random to knock out their opponent or send them into the sea, where we made sure that the sharks are fenced out because the network wouldn't allow sharks in the arena!"
Ramona could only gawk at Chris' willingness to pepper in sharks wherever he could.
"First team to win five rounds wins immunity, simple as that! I'm not gonna lie, some of you could get seriously hurt as a consequence of having this awesome challenge! Alright, one of the more annoying Snowmen, the guy who can copy almost any power, Monoma!"
"Something tells me that it's a little less random than I think." Monoma remarked.
"Alright, girlie, keep your pants on." Chef snipped back, wearing a boxing referee's uniform.
He spun the wheel and the wheel landed on-
"Sticks, the conspiracy badger, the weirdo of the jungle and a great friend to have!"
Sticks looked at Monoma, as the two of them looked in each other's eyes.
"I bet you're looking down on my power because of my lack of power." Sticks' glare couldn't be compared.
"You know that I don't have an offensive power, so it should be fairly equal!"
Round 1: Sticks vs Neito Monoma!
Neito was wearing a light blue headguard, while Sticks was wearing a sunset-coloured headguard.
"I can't believe it took both teams this long to get a logo." Sticks growled. "I don't like it."
The Stunning Snowmen had a hunk of a snowman, while the Arctic Amazonians had a lady polar bear standing up.
*Monoma's confessional*
"I don't know who did the other team's logo, but something about it looks weird. Like it's unintentionally more sexual than it really should be if that makes sense." Monoma said.
His hands were wet.
"At least I got some time to practice."
*Confessional cut*
The two fighters were in fighting position, especially Sticks.
The bell rung and immediately, Sticks saw that Monoma wasn't moving at all but had the most gleeful smile on his face and just threw that boomerang at him.
Immediately, Monoma shot out some water that stopped the boomerang, as Sticks came in with a solid flank to start off with a good hit, literally rolling closer to the edge, leaving him good time to try and avoid Sticks' next attack.
Which was a leaping boomerang swing that slugged Monoma in the head, leaving the studying hero hurt a little bit, but there was one thing that Sticks did.
"YAAARRGGGGHHH!"
The war cry and Monoma used that to shoot out a big damn stream of water both made Sticks wet and shoot her off the ground, leaving her to be near the edge.
"Nice."
Monoma then ran around the badger, who slowly got up and sensed him about to shoot some water and that boomerang went flying.
Just as soon as Monoma shot another Hydro Pump, sending both Sticks and the boomerang out of the arena, as Monoma grinned.
"And Monoma has one point for the Snowmen!"
Sticks rose back to the surface swiftly, as she saw that smug grin one last time.
"I swear I'll wipe the smug grin outta your face!" Sticks rose back up from the water. "Ya hear!"
"What are you talking about? I'm actually surprised myself!"
Sticks then glared, putting her mouth in the water to do the "watching you" gesture.
"Alright, we've got kind of a wash in here! Chef, spin the wheel again!"
the wheel was spinning and the next Snowmen was-
"Axl Low, the accidental time-travelling dude with a girlfriend that was stuck in the past!"
-and Chef spun it once again and the next Amazonian was-
"MK, the cheater and master strategist who messed up my hair! Still not over that."
Round 2: Axl Low VS MK (Mary-Kate)
One scene later, MK walked to roll her own eyes, as Axl was spinning the sickle like it was a bike chain rather unseriously.
MK did have a few secret weapons that Chris wouldn't care about, but that was not the most important part as Axl looked at her with some serious curiosity.
"Mate, did you do that?" Axl queried.
"Well, yeah, he wouldn't be so mad otherwise!" MK beamed, adjusting her head guard. "Go easy on me please."
"Nope!" Axl's smile was genuine.
MK's groan was genuine, as the bell rang and Axl went sprinting into MK's space, who was trying to do the run around on the British guy and that was his mistake.
Since the sickle shot out forward and Axl had to reel it back with MK getting a solid knee on him but not without missing and falling to the ground.
"That was something." MK groaned, as Axl got up quick. "Wait, wait, no, no!"
Axl then shot out his sickle, it hit MK and then it pulled her into Axl does a simple clothesline, leaving MK on the floor and slowly crawling up to standing position.
Next thing, you know, Axl lit those sickles on fire, spun it around and before MK could stand, she got completely blown out of the arena.
"Axl Low wins another point for the Snowmen! MK gets a well-deserved defeat!"
MK rose back up from the water, just lucky to be alive and not singed.
*MK's confessional*
"I'm hoping that my ladies get the chance to actually take a win because I'm not looking to pull out my secret ingredient so early! Thank you for the tips, Julia." MK was hiding something in her actual bag.
*Confessional cut*
MK and Sticks both shared a mean look towards each other for reasons that they didn't care about.
"What's your game, huh?" Sticks interrogated. "Did you throw that?"
"The heck are you talking about? I suck at fighting, no matter what." MK confidently stated.
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Round 3!
The wheel spun and the third fight was a fair one.
"The robotics expert with a penchant for villainy and hatred of animated critters, IVO ROBOTNIK!"
Robotnik looked quite confident in one thing, as he had a small box with something robotic inside.
"Against the crafiest criminal this side of the Atlantic Ocean, knowing for doubling things for twice the pain, ERMES COSTELLO!"
The latina criminal looked at the doctor could see one thing.
*Ermes' confessional*
"I doubt he came in without some bullcrap. I'm pretty, frickin' sure, it's a Robotnik thing or whatever Anasui was complaining about." Ermes said.
*Confessional cut*
Ermes brought out Kiss and Robotnik brought out a robot with only an exo-skeleton and pretty familar problems.
"The hell kinda Terminator is that?" Ermes said.
"I reverse-engineered some robots in here, turns out they're strong enough to defeat criminals like you." Robotnik stated, holding his glove. "But enough talk."
The robot observed its surrounding, as Ermes went right for the jugular on the robot, but it could easily sense it, as Ermes got directly grabbed and then slammed to the ground.
"Well, the stand is intangible. A minor setback."
"I'm gonna be a major setback for you, Ivo!" Ermes shouted, peeling off an sticker.
Robotnik looked confused at the sticker, as the ex-con stood there proudly for no apparent reason and the robot took the time to do the thing.
The multiple rapid punches to seemingly bait Ermes into doing some unintelligent actions, but surprisingly, she just had a good stick to deal with the robot.
The robot definitely hit much harder than the stick, getting the undeserved rush on the ex-con, getting her pushed back quite a distance and well, the robot moved closer to do one thing.
"Gotta be honest, I thought this would be much harder this time around. That was a solid test run, Ermes..."
Robotnik trailed off because his robot grew a second body and it basically destroyed it, which didn't help when the sticker flew off and the robot was in still usable pieces, but still pieces.
Ermes got up and then walked towards Robotnik with a weird sense of urgency.
"Grah, it was a nice prototype, too."
You know how it goes, you've likely seen a JoJo Bizarre Adventure episode.
"Hohhhh, Ermes wrecks Robotnik and actually gives the Arctic Amazonians their first point! Nice." Chris announced. "Though, I think someone needs to lift Robotnik from the ocean."
"Don't worry, I can do that." Chef shrugged, grabbing his gloves.
Popeye was horrifed at the powers that Ermes.
*Popeye's confessional*
"He ain't ready for all that. He could've died!" He exclaimed. "This game's too crazy for some of us."
*Confessional cut*
Round 4: Natalya Ivanova VS Anthony Masters (AKA Taskmaster)
The twin spies circle around as they were looking for the best opportunity to space their solid hits, slowly skalking in each other's sights.
"Something tells me that you know something." Taskmaster said.
"I know that you've got a lot of experience in the game of assassination." Natalya calmly stated. "And combat. And that your name's-"
Taskmaster came in swing with the right move, as he kicked with the same kind of kick that Natalya would easily do.
"Don't doubt my name."
Taskmaster and Natalya was completely on each other's butts, thanks to the clashing punches and trading blows almost making their mark, clearly leading to the two of them to the edge of them.
Though it did leave to a one-minute stalemate that ended with an solid arrow to the arm on Natalya's side, as Taskmaster took the time to take advantage of the shot with a strong one-two combo and then a strong kick.
Natalya may have backflipped backwards, but she recovered swiftly and Taskmaster plainly punted her in the face, slipping towards the edge with only one hope.
"You got this!" Sticks shouted.
"Of course, you do, you have spy skills and stuff!" Ashido cheered sorta.
Natalya barely guarded Taskmaster's kick and got pushed back into getting slugged by the mercenary that remembered a million moves, she slipping back into the cold damn water.
"And that was pretty rough...oooh, Taskmaster gives the Snowmen their third point! Two more and they win, but there's still more fights to be done!"
Round 5: Manolo Sanchez VS Mamizou Futatsuiwa
Manolo was fighting like a real bullfighter, dodging whatever Mamizou was shooting with some kind of easy and looking like he was struggling the whole time.
"You surprise me." Mamizou said.
"Well, thank you!" Manolo replied earnestly.
Mamizou then proceeded to do some danmaku business, as Manolo attempted to do every new Touhou player's worst nightmare...dealing with their first boss.
"You bear witness to the power of a Bake-danuki." Mamizou said. "I really don't know how you could've prepared yourself."
Manolo somehow came out of it on the edge of the platform.
"As the only guy from San Angel, I don't know either." He said it earnestly, despite looking worse for wear.
Mamizou then sent out some more of her danmaku (Japanese energy blasts) patterns and uh, Manolo was basically outta space, the cliff rocks were falling parts
"Snowmen 3, Amazonians 2, a surprisingly close challenge thanks to the tanuki gal shooting bits of the cliff! And Manolo-"
Manolo rose up fine.
"-is okay! I don't have to go into court!"
Ermes and Mamizou were getting all of the claps from the rest of their team, as the Arctic Amazonians were in a good mood and MK was trying to smile.
*Joe Swanson's confessional*
"Listen, I know that I've been hard to the weird science guy with no hair and probably no sanity, but he ain't much of a fighter and he tried his hardest. IF ANYONE WANTS TO MAKE FUN OF HIM THAT THEY'RE GONNA GO THROUGH ME this challenge. Maybe he'll mess up worse next challenge!" Joe exclaimed.
*Confessional cut*
"To be honest, because one of the teams are this close to winning the challenge, I'm going to cut a break and it's not because the lawyers & producers on my butt right now! Yes, that is true!" Chris' phone was basically working over time at the moment.
As the producers and lawyers were giving the contestants an invoulentary break, the contestants were actually surprised to see the interns literally fly in as quickly as they could.
Ristarte was working overtime with the other nameless interns to heal Robotnik as quickly as possible.
"Why is so he-okay, okay, give him to me!" Ristarte shouted. "Please!"
Ristarte gave Robotnik all of her healing power, as the doctor just rolled her eyes with all of the contestants taking watch at the display.
"I'm gonna be completely honest, you nearly murdered that evil man." Emma stated. "Even if he's a bad guy!"
"He's the worst kind of guy." Ermes said. "Two bit chump somehow with a 1000 IQ."
"But you shouldn't really do that." Emma quietly stated, trying to hide from Ermes.
"I know, but I had to. Sorry for that."
Things were equally awkward on the scientist's team.
"Do you think he'll come back to the game?" Tengen asked. "Honestly-"
"He will because we're pretty strong fellas. Robotnik gave it his best shot and I DON'T SEE YOU GIVING IT YOUR BEST!" Joe commanded. "SO DO YOUR BEST SHOT!"
"That I'll do. Be prepared to get flashy business if I get picked."
"You better hope, you gay-ish guy."
The air turned cold, as stuff got real awkward in the heat of the team.
"Sorry, man." Joe casually apologised. "You got three wives, right?"
"And I think they all love him because he's very cool. And could cut a guy in half!" Bowser shouted. "I bet they're all smoking-"
Tengen bonked Bowser on the head.
"Okay, I don't know if you're a demon or not, but you will knock that stuff off or else suffer the unflashy consequences." Tengen threatened him. "Of getting booted off."
Bowser sadly nodded, as Robotnik just got back up and rested on the bed and his whole team looked at him with some kind of weird fascination and he could easily see that.
"The most positive reception I get it in years and years and it's from my future competitors." Robotnik remarked, prompting some misgivings from his teammates. "Do not worry too much about that statement, it was an off-hand remark."
"I bet it is." Popeye accidentally threatened him. "I bet it was a real one."
"I'm not being rhetorical!"
"I'll take ya word for it."
Popeye and Robotnik shook hands.
*Robotnik's confessional*
"And I'm not willing to dipense the goodwill that I have for some attempting at feeble-minded grandstanding as a villain. That's for the final pre-merge challenge like that one show-"
He said, but Chris didn't like it.
*Confessional cut*
The team was in solid spirits.
"I've gotta say, mate, do you think there's going to be a fair fight?" Ol' Nick asked, genuinely worried about his teammate.
"What kind of question is that? Because he's always going to put a fair fight." Ken answered.
Santa had take a look at him.
"Mate, he won't."
"Don't worry, dude, he will!"
Popeye and Manolo looked at each other with serious worry.
Round 6: Ken(neth) VS Android 21
Ken was genuinely standing awkwardly there, as his potential girlfriend was flying in the sky with only the bemused expression.
"What am I supposed to do?!" Android 21 shouted. "Most of my attacks could probably kill."
"Then find attacks that won't kill him!" Ramona told her. "Please!"
"I guess."
21 wasn't too happy about shooting a sexy guy down when he had no chance, even when he was swinging a inflatable sword around with his team looking embarrassed.
Android 21 landed and then walked up to Ken's face, who didn't look too pleased.
"What's up, babe?" Ken started the flirted. "I got my beach sword because my job's the beach."
21 was baffled.
"Yeah."
Ken got the beach sword slapped out of her hand, as he smirked.
"Looks like I've got my karate skills to-"
He practically got lifted off the ground thanks to her red energy lariat and straight into the ocean, as 21 didn't want to see her potential boyfriend hurt.
"Wait, can he swim-oh, good, he can swim!"
Ken swam pretty casually, as he looked irked.
"And it's three-three! Two more wins for either team and they'll be good!"
*Ken's confessional*
"I mean I get trying to win the challenge for your team, but you couldn't have gone on easy on your dude? For me or something?"
*Android 21's confessional*
She was kinda blushing.
"That was the stupidest move he ever did, but I really like that he tried because of...stuff. Nope, not romantic at all!"
*Confessional cut*
Round 7: Puss In Boots VS Mina Ashido!
Ashido was trying to wipe that cute smile off her face, as Puss was giving the cute eyes towards a teenage girl.
"Argh, you're too cute, but I gotta fight you!" Ashido shouted.
"Eh, it was worth a try." Puss remarked.
Chef blew the whistle and immediately, Ashido swiped some acid on the ground, as Puss was trying to rush in on her and jumped over the acid quite swiftly.
Ashido basically smiled cutely, as Puss ran up carefully to get the jump in on the pink-skinned alien-looking hero though Ashido did managed to slide under him when he pounced finally.
Puss pounced and slipped on the non-corrosive acid, letting him land on the ground.
"Sorry if it burned you!" Ashido apologised.
"Thank you, Miss Ashido, I can still stand!" Puss stood on the stage, being close to the edge.
Ashido then did a smooth and rapid spin to throw some projectiles that were made for Puss to get thrown off-stage, but Puss slipped, slided and swerved around the many non-corrosive globs that the acid girl shot out.
And then Puss slid under her and finally jumped on Ashido quite easily, even with the acid girl almost throwing out an counter-attack and it was finally the win condition.
Either way, Puss actually pushed her off the platform with cuts and sitting on top of the acid girl's head and then he coolly jumped off her.
"Oooh, it was a close one! Puss gives the Snowmen one more point! If the Snowmen get one, they'll finally win!"
Puss got a lot of claps from his teammates, as Ashido got up kinda mad and then she saw the cat look all determined.
"You fought well, young lady."
"Yep, you're good! Plus I can't be mad at you, you're so cute!"
"Hey, only my girlfriend calls you that!"
Ashido could only AWWW at the cat bandit's admission.
*Puss' confessional*
"I shouldn't have said that." Puss regetfully spoke.
*Confessional cut*
Round 8: Joe Swanson VS Rukia Kuchiki
"Yeah, that's right, you better get used to having your life on the line! This isn't lethal by the way, but I'm doing this for the team!" Joe declared. "YOU THINK I'M SCARED OF SOME ICE!"
"Good, then I won't use my ice." Rukia stated.
"Well, you should say your prayers."
Joe Swanson then skidded in on his wheelchair, ready to use his useless legs to really kick Rukia in the legs somewhere.
Rukia teleported behind Joe, ready to strike where it hurt the most and she did multiple cuts to the wheelchair cop, slicing and dicing all around and leaving him grounded.
Joe somehow pulled himself and the wheelchair up and got hit by a very strong sword strikes that made him and the wheelchair fly just enough to teeter on the edge.
Rukia sprinted towards the wheelchair cop, ready to finish it all and Joe finally had an advantage in the game, his hands ready to grapple the Shinigami except...
...she swung her sword with such speed that it pushed Joe off at ridiculous speed and stayed stoic even when Joe floated on his wheelchair with inflatable floats.
"You may have won this round, but you won't win every time." Joe declared.
"I know, but this was still an unfair fight." Rukia said. "Sorry, I had to do that to you."
"No worries, I didn't mess around."
"IT'S FOUR-FOUR, we've got only one final round to this epic battle of team against team! One team captain has already done his deed and now the other will take the place against someone random!" Chris announced. "Chef, you got anything to say?"
"Something tells me that it's actually going to be fair."
"Good words, Chef."
FINAL ROUND: Undyne VS Red
Hobie slumped down.
"Damn captalism, always bringing the socialists down." Hobie said. "Keep it socalist, Red!"
Red raised his thumbs to his team, as he had a confident look about it.
"Rah, he actually got it! Socialism!"
"Wait, does it mean hanging out with your buds?" Ken asked. "Because I love that!"
"Ignore him, it's lame." Joe Swanson stated, as Hobie sat down with a grin. "Hanging out with your friends ain't lame."
Either way, both the Pokemon trainer and the determined fish lesbian were prepared to make their moves count, armed with their weapon of choice and armour of choice.
Red had no armour, but his weapon was a friend.
"Okay, if Red's pokemon is knocked out, he can't summon more because we have thirty-minute show!"
Red listened to that and heavily considered his options...and then just threw out Lapras for "some reason that he doesn't say", as Undyne scoffed at the light blue half-turtle, half-dinosaur Pokemon with a grey rocky shell.
"Damn, a good challenge finally! Dunno why you're bringing your pet but that's kinda messed up." Undyne shouted.
Red then rubbed Lapras on its shell, leaving it to cuddle up and then do an attempt at a fistbump, as Lapras then slid into battle.
"I don't need to say Go every time-"
Lapras and Red nodded together in doing one thing.
Lapras made a wave, rode on top of it and decided that it had problems with Undyne with the deadly glare that didn't stop the fish girl from doing one thing.
Doing a damn backflip that actually just sent her into the giant-ass wave, which worked surprisingly well for her, as she pushed through it with only some damage.
She got hurt, but Lapras stopped to see the lesbian standing strong as she prepared to throw her spear.
"I'M SORRY, CUTE TURTLE LOOKING THING! AHHHH!" Undyne shouted, putting her strength into throwing the spear.
Red could only run as fast as he could to protect his pokemon from being stabbed, but Lapras could only take the hit and took some damage and turned green.
"I like your style, turtle thing and Red. You can't dodge my stuff, though."
Undyne already threw some more spears, as Lapras countered with Ice Shard, leading both of them to clash in a flashy manner and while some ice hit, some spears went through.
Red understandably wasn't pleased with the direct attacks, as he could see Lapras look shaky and then commanded her to do a Blizzard quietly, blowing a cold wind towards Undyne.
Who stood there real seriously, taking a surprising amount of damage, but still standing strong as Red looked surprise at the fish girl standing.
"Dang, you're good. But my team won't lose ANYONE ELSE!"
With that war cry, Undyne fired a ton of spears and Lapras threw another wave, as that stuff blew up like an ice cold geyser, complete with it getting onto the contestants' bleachers.
The explosion wasn't fiery, but it was still massive enough for Chris to not properly take notice.
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Lapras fell down.
Red laid on the ground, hoping that the fish lesbian lost.
Undyne, in all of her armour, sat down easy, still wide awake and hurt.
"Look at that, the Arctic Amazonians win this challenge! The Stunning Snowmen are stunned to take this loss, look at their faces!" Chris pointed to the surprised guys. "Anyways, one dude's not gonna survive this night!"
Undyne celebrated proudly and weakly along with her team, as Red fully got knocked out with Lapras going back into its Pokeball and his team rushing him.
"I think he needs a medic!" Popeye said. "And the animal, too."
"It's a Pokemon, they need some specialized healing thing!" Robotnik elaborated.
"I'm getting berries!"
Popeye was already gone.
Red woke up from his injuries, as his Pokemon weren't healed just yet, as his whole team was looking at him in the exact opposite way that Robotnik woke up in.
"Augh, what happened?"
Every dude could hear Red speak, as did Ristarte and Tohru and he actually looked annoyed at his team's surprise.
"Oh!"
Joe Swanson and Robotnik looked at each other in agreement on one obvious thing.
"What else are you lying about?!" Robotnik shouted, as Joe patted him on the back.
"Yeah, why ain't ya talking like a normal dude?" Popeye said. "I mean, you ain't no mute guy no more."
*Red's confessional*
He shook his head at his inopportune time to speak, as Lapras wasn't impressed with him.
*Confessional cut*
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One walk to the elimination ceremony later and everybody was looking at the "formerly mute" Pokemon trainer with some suspicion.
"Stunning Snowmen, back at the campfire again! People all around the multiverse must have heard the voice of the quietest guy over here! And man, some of you guys could not fight to save your lives! If you get a marshmallow, you get a second chance at fighting. No marshmallow, no game." Chris announced. "Chef, tell 'em."
"Ken, why the hell are you going to battle with a beach sword?" Chef asked. "You would've died instantly."
"It worked on the beach front." Ken pleaded immaturely.
"Joe, you had a bad time in this challenge. You could do way worse in other challenges."
"As a cop, a dad and a husband, are you sure about that?" Joe questioned Chef.
"Red, you talked. Dunno why you hid that and the team thinks you're some kinda mastermind."
Red just shook his shoulders, clearly aware that he messed up.
"Right, everybody who's staying in the game..."
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"Monoma, Tengen, Spider-Punk, OId Nick, Robotnik, Taskmaster, Bowser, Joe, Manolo, Popeye, Medic and Alberto all have marshmallows and no votes surprisingly!"
Ken smiled rather nervously, as Red bowed his head in shame.
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"Ken's got the final marshmallow! Red's gotta go home, you gonna say something!"
Red shook his head, as he looked at his teammates with shame.
"Mate, I don't know if we should've voted out the silent guy." Santa said. "I think I'll miss him."
"I'm gonna miss him too, yeah?" Hobie casually remarked.
Red looked at them with positive rememberance, as he almost kicked the fish lesbian's butt and Popeye could only bow his head in shame.
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Red and Chris stepped onto the Dock of Shame, happy that he learned something good.
"Red, you got anything to confess?"
Red nodded no.
"Alright, nice, this should be real easy!"
The Pokemon trainer actually got snatched up, as he got flown by drone to his elimination.
"Okay, now that we got the silent guy of the way finally! This competition's about to get that little bit colder! This was a good one and you can expect more good ones right here on TOTAL DRAMA X: WINTER WARRIORS!"
To be continued in Episode 8, with a challenge that's hopefully not as sadistic as this and emphasis on hope, because Chris will always try to up the sadism for your reading entertainment.
Or his own personal enjoyment, but you're talking to the man who made the 100-person season to beat a record that no-one cares about besides Mr. Beast, who's currently in the middle of his WORSE troubles, somehow.
Basically, there will not be that much fighting.
Believe it or not, there was a very good reason why Red was sent home! He's (usually) a silent character and has the B problem albeit now magnified since he could actually talk