Total Drama X: Winter Warriors
Episode 8: Meet Me At The Top
Here's the promised "less sadistic" challenge! The contestant climb up a mountain with only random tools, their own tools, their own powers and their bare hands, which almost doesn't count for the real challenge that will actually involve a double elimination because Chris feels like it, okay?
Anyways, it's gonna hurt anyways since they're going to try and break each other's "emotional" walls without much of a problem with their special weapons and push each other off, a hood classic if I've ever seen one and this should feel familiar.
Well, I won't elaborate on that because it's not that time yet.
G-man 2.0: Thought it was two, should be very easy to change it back! Yeah, I'd really like to hear this alternate reason for Red's elimination and...I have no idea wherever you thought it was nice or not.
That's all I want the reviews to do.
"Last time on Winter Warriors, the campers had to fight each other and it just was fighting gold, chock full of unfair stomps, incredibly close brawls and people giving themselves a cold bath, there were a lot of fights! It literally went down to the wire, both teams had 4 points and their last fighters had taken some serious damage, but the Amazonians took a win again!"
"Red then talked and instantly got eliminated because of course, he did. And that was the end of the silent guy who people care about for some reason! Anyways, who's got a whole lot of wall to climb in one day? Not me! Find out on TOTAL DRAMA: WINTER WARRIORS!"
The dudes (minus a certain quartet) had their reasons to do a war chant, even if some of them were plain ol' tired at 8:30am in the morning and Santa Claus was the last one to get up.
"Mate, we're a team first. I don't care how tired you all are, it'd be naughty to not cheer your team up." Santa said.(Yeah, that's 'Ol Nick, lmao.)
"I thought you were the only one that was tired." Alberto quipped, as Santa yawned.
"Yes, but we're a bloomin' team first."
"THAT'S RIGHT!"
Alberto and Santa got shaken by Joe's loudest yell.
"WE'RE NOT GONNA LET A BUNCH OF NICE LADIES BEAT US IN A GAME OF FIGHTING! THEY MAY BE STRONG, BUT WE DO HAVE THE MANLY ENERGY, most of you at least!" Joe shouted, as Ken got saddened. "Anyways, Y'ALL GOT THIS LIKE A COP TO A PERP!"
"What did you say?" Spider-Punk asked. "Bruv-"
"AND LIKE THAT COP, WE'RE GONNA CATCH THE WIN AND TAKE IT TO JAIL!"
"Bro, stop being a serious cop." Spider-Punk said. "I promise it ain't that serious and not everybody is here."
"They probably got started on that team spirit! My wife must be proud of me!"
Joe then stared into the sky for some reason, as the team were wondering what the heck Joe was thinking about and then all of a sudden.
"Yeah." Joe said wistfully.
"There is no way that they got started on team spirit especially when Robotnik builds that kinda stuff." Popeye said. "I dunno about it."
"YOU SHUT UP, POPEYE!"
Popeye was a little surprised, as Manolo and Monoma shared an equally concerned look.
*Spider-Punk's confessional*
"As a fan of ACAB, I hope Joe has a great wife. Else, it's gonna suck for him."
He looked at the camera.
"Mate, this guy could easily tussle with his wife if it's like that. Which it shouldn't be!"
*Popeye's confessional*
"People don't just disappear without a reason. They could be friends, they could be plottin' against us, but I just wanna know what's up." Popeye remarked.
*Confessional cut*
As for the quartet with extra team spirit, they really didn't have that much at all despite two of them looking dumbfounded.
"No way that he lost!" Bowser shouted. "He had that battle on lockdown, but the fish girl decided to turn the game around and win. And I didn't even get to fight!"
"From what it looks like, your fight would be pretty close." Taskmaster said. "And obviously, we've got a target today."
"Dude, Red was a good player and guy. Undyne's going down today!" Bowser almost cried, as Taskmaster shrugged.
"Now, now, fellow alliance subordinates, obviously the fervor for the piscine fighter is a more reasonable option at the moment. But let's not get ahead of ourselves, men, there's a much better option lurking in the midst, a certain agent from the KGB." Ivo explained
"You're only saying that because you were from the CIA." Taskmaster admitted. "Undyne's a tougher competitor to deal with."
"Do you not think I know the circumstances?! Seriously, Natalya is more than likely carrying some knowledge about our alliance, ready to expose us all for our schemes." Robotnik elaborated.
Taskmaster and Bowser didn't look like they were budging from their votes, as Robotnik and Medic sighed, sharing in each other's knowledge.
"Ze spy has disappeared sometimes from her team and she more than likely got some information about us. I came here to study this island and I'm not looking forward to my departure from this place. As a fellow scientist, I agree with Robotnik." Medic explained. "Unless you two want to be potential targets for ze spy..."
Taskmaster and Bowser looked at each other for once, as the mercenary conceded and Bowser just growled at the reasonable explaination.
"Urgh, fine! If I can grind her into fish paste in this challenge, I'll be a happy Koopa." Bowser shouted. "You better hope you're right!"
"She's a Russian Spy, why wouldn't I be right?"
*Natalya's confessional*
"Thank the Swedes for Bluetooth, which I doubt. Carrying kompromat is my job and hopefully, my friend Sticks doesn't slip her lips with the knowledge since my tastes in friends are presupposed to be crazy."
She looked quite calm.
"Of course, it's Swedish." She remarked.
*Confessional cut*
As for the rest of the Amazonians, they were running on a high that couldn't be compared to anything else, which even Chef could tell.
"Hit me with all you got!" Undyne declared. "Give me your worst."
"I ain't serving my worst today, but you can have this."
Undyne got some dark green slop.
"Nice, another challenge for me!"
Undyne joined her crew of ladies, as they were all looking reinvigorated.
"What's up, ladies and young girls that won!" Undyne shouted. "It's nice to have a good team in here."
"Yes, it's rather nice to have a good team. It would be a shame if someone had an alliance to undermine our team with kompromat." Natalya subtly warned. "It would."
"Yeah, any alliances that are against the team are gonna be like this food. Kinda disgusting." Undyne took a bite out of the slop. "They better be scared."
"Honestly, they should be ashamed to undermine our team." Mamizou added, bumping MK's shoulder. "As a tanuki, I've had to deal with many threats back at my home and something like that would be problematic to our group."
The whole team were in a great mood, as Ermes and MK kept silent trying to eat some slop understandably.
*MK's confessional*
"You know what, I've got a good game plan going. Get a squad of people to protect myself and then join in on booting shady chumps who think they've got game." MK was chilling somewhere. "Keeping myself out of the spotlight. Kinda simple, really."
*Confessional cut*
"I'm gonna be honest, we have not talked about each other much." Mamizou said. "We're still strangers working together to reach the mythical merge and we don't know much about each other."
"What the heck prompted this? You know how-"
Ramona got interrupted by Undyne.
"All you need to know is that I'm pretty damn strong, I got a lesbian girlfriend and she's the best nerd that I've met! DON'T MAKE FUN OF HER!"
"Damn, she must be a sweet one, congrats to you!" Ermes said, before sighing. "Don't know how to tell you girls this, but I'm supposed to be jail. Some two-bit gangster hurt my sister and I'm gonna hurt him in jail."
The ladies were understandably scared by the prisoner.
"What the hell did you do?!" Ramona asked rapidly.
"Uh, tried to get in that jail through [poopy] crimes. Sorry, guys."
"No, no, it's okay. I'm glad that we're learning stuff about each other and I learned that I should be real careful around you."
Ramona got more than a few looks.
"Okay, then what's your very normal story?" MK asked. "You got a few surprises or are you just a girl with constantly changing hair."
By the way, her hair was red today.
"Really, I don't think it's that interesting." Ramona said. "I just have seven exs. They were evil, but they're not now."
"WHAT? That's actually wild!" MK opened her eyes in surprise. "Are you gonna elaborate on that bombshell?"
"No. I'm actually Scott Pilgrim's girlfriend, if you wanted to know."
"Cool. Lemme introduce ya to me, I'm sneaky as hell, been on this show twice and uh, I got a lot of stuff to buy!" MK shouted.
"Yeah, right, I bet you don't have-"
A very familar horn that Bowser recognised sounded all throughout the camp.
"Meet at this mountain with a flat top! Or the bottom of it, anyways, right now!" Chris announced. "I'm gonna love this challenge-oh, my mic's on-"
With those words, every girl knew that this wasn't going to be a fun one.
*Orphan Emma's confessional*
She was scared.
"I'm starting to think that maybe Chris is one of those supervillains that one of tests talk about."
*Sticks' confessional*
The badger wasn't interested.
"Either he's trying to turn into pod people or give our location to aliens so that we can fight to prove them superirior. I don't find it likely that he likes to torture us for no reason."
*Confessional cut*
Both teams took a decent while to make their way towards where Chris and Chef were sitting in suprisingly comfortable chairs.
"Where the heck were you?" Chris asked.
"Getting to the base of the mountain. It's actually pretty difficult." Natalya said. "Not like you would know."
"I mean I wouldn't know that because it's easy to get here!"
Chris cracked his knuckles.
"Anyways, both of you teams will have to climb the many ropes that I put down because there's just a bunch of rope! And they're very close together!"
The mountain was more like a snowy pleteau with steep walls and a lot of ropes streaming down to the higher ground that both teams had equal ground on.
"First team to fully finish climbing these ropes, gets an advantage in the next part of the challenge!" Chris shouted. "3, 2, 1, GO!"
Of course, the host would leave everybody off-guard, leading them to a good scramble for their favourite rope.
Chef cocked his Mini-Meatball Gun.
"Nice and compact. You sure you don't want the regular size?" Chris asked his co-host.
"Yep, it hurts more. Last intern that got hit by this really felt it." Chef answered, cocking his meatball ammo.
As the scramble for a rope continued, a certain romantic couple somehow ended on parallel ropes and climbed up.
"So, what do you mean your job is the beach?" Android 21 asked.
"Yeah, my job's just beach and being the accidental leader of the Ken movement!"
"The what movement?"
"Yeah, the Ken movement. It's just me and a bunch of Kens doing stuff."
"Is it just hanging out?"
"Man, it's more than that. Us Kens weren't appreciating our fellow dudes and trying to get all of the Barbies-"
Android 21 had a very weird stare.
"Are they all called Barbies."
"Yeah, it's Barbieland, what about it?"
*Android 21's confessional*
She couldn't keep her surprise down.
"I'm starting to think that the multiverse is much weirder than I anticipated, can't believe that there's a place with beings that are named based on their gender! Ken's nice, too."
*Confessional cut*
"I'm not the only Ken around, all of my guys are Kens and-"
Ken got stuck to the wall with limb-sized meatballs, as Android 21 tried to reach for him and got his arm.
"-Nah, this isn't the worst day of my life." Ken groaned.
Android 21 was covered in some mean meatball, her hand stuck to the wall.
"Oh, come on!"
And others weren't having a much better time, despite their lack of meatball obstacles.
"Come on, why did it have to be you?" Sticks asked. "The plates told me something."
"The feeling's mutual. Don't listen to those plates-" Ermes couldn't even finish it.
"The plates talk the truth!"
Ermes rolled her eyes, as she climbed more quickly and swing around the snow that fell down out of nowhere and got Sticks a bit cold and shaky.
Ashido was basically trying to walk up random slippery ice surface and prompting Monoma to have a good laugh at her expense.
"Okay, look, you'd have trouble doing this. Would I laugh at you?" Ashido asked.
"No, but let me have this. I don't get much spotlight."
Monoma got a serious eyeroll from Ashido, who finally got some acidic grip, as the blonde hero in training climbed on rougher surfaces, the two heroes climbing up the mountain.
Spider-Punk had it real easy and a few stragglers.
"Bruv, I made my own path." Spider-Punk said. "All of the mandem, y'all better pull up."
"Hey, we're pulling up in your web!" Axl was offended.
"Nothing wrong with that. Just that I think somebody wants to cut off the web."
"Mate, I can fix 'dat!"
Axl then pulled out the fiery sickle to try and stop some falling rocks, as he spun the sickle around almost at random and then cut down a little bit of web rope in the process.
"What the hell, Axl, you should've just let it fall down on ya." Joe was dissapointed.
"I just didn't want rocks to make us all fall down!"
Sometimes, it got real awkward on the ropes.
"You move!" Alberto was scrunched up against Sakura.. "It's not that serious."
"I'd like to think that Total Drama is pretty serious to me, at least." Sakura shuffled up the rope.
Alberto and Sakura were in the lead, but had an awkward time besides Popeye who was getting hit by several meatballs.
*Sakura's confessional*
"I'm not exactly a serious rope climber. But I really don't know why Alberto can climb so fast, he's just a fish guy!" Sakura shouted. "Not that's anything wrong with being a fish guy, but he's a fish guy."
*Alberto's confessional*
"Serious, why is the rope so good for my fish hands and feet? There's no way that they're not giving me an advantage."
*Confessional cut*
Orphan Emma, surprisingly, was the first one to reach the top, as she breathed in the cold.
"Congratulations on making it to the top first!" Chris announced. "You get to wait for your whole team!"
"I can't believe that I'm first and-"
Emma saw Chris' own jetpack.
"-you have a working jetpack?!"
"Yep, it's cool!"
Bowser arrived in second place, Undyne was third, Taskmaster and Popeye were fifth and sixth and Jasmine was seventh and all of them were pretty damn close.
"I didn't know that you climbed like that!" Undyne exclaimed.
"Don't lay it on too thick, I just taught myself." Jasmine humbled herself, as Undyne's eye shined.
Bowser bumped Popeye's meatball self, popping out the sailor.
"Thanks for the save, big guy!" Popeye said. "Chef coulda tried harder to stop me."
"No problem!"
*Bowser's confessional*
"Damn, the kid really made it here first? I'm so proud of her!" Bowser shed a tear. "But at the same time, that kid's gotta try against the Big Bowz!"
*Confessional cut*
Soon enough, a lot of previously mentioned people climbed up, which only left Lolo and Santa Claus.
"Nick! Nick! Nick!" The Snowmen all cheered.
The jolly old man struggled to make it up, as the young mage right next to him just kept on slipping on some cold rope.
"Come on, he is an jolly old man! He could not be a better obstacle for you!" Mamizou attempted to cheer Lolo up. "Don't worry about him."
"But he's so jolly! And doesn't want to compete against me!" Lolo shouted.
"I doubt he believes that!" Mamizou said, as Lolo awkwardly climbed.
"I guess so?"
Ol' Saint Nick really felt bad about beating a child, but he wouldn't have to worry that much longer thanks to Lolo finding her second wind out of nowhere.
"And somehow, Lolo actually wins the first part of the challenge for the Amazonians! Looks like they're turning around their game, sad how the Snowmen could lose the challenges thanks to the old man!"
"I did it, we won!" Lolo shouted. "What did we win?"
"Hopefully something that is actually useful." Ramona added.
All of the remaining players were still there and organised in a weird manner.
"Well, this might be a weird challenge for you campers! That's because it is pretty simple and dangerous at the same time, quite a challenge, I know! All you have to do is push people off this mountain with strength or snowball and the last two people each standing from each team wins immunity!"
"WHAT?!" Ramona shrieked.
"Oh yeah, both teams will have to go to the campfire to vote off someone from each team! The challenge is to stay on as long as possible and the final four from the challenge is immune, simple as that."
"How the hell will it not turn into backstabbing?" Ramona asked.
"Yeah, it's supposed to be a team game. I wasn't expecting to be the wild west this soon." Sakura said.
"I know, but pushing teammates off means you'll get something extra dangerous. Obviously, the Amazonians won, which means that Undyne gets the first push!" Chris announced.
Undyne flexed her strength, as Lolo and Sakura patted her on the back.
"Give it your best please!" Lolo shouted.
Undyne then walked up to the biggest dude, Bowser, and pushed him a considerable distance with her own two hands.
Bowser put in some smoke from his nostrils.
"Oh, you're up against a hopeless romantic!" Bowser shouted.
"Dang, that's sad. Lemme teach you romance from a lesbian!" Undyne taunted right back.
The teams were waiting with baited breaths.
"GO!"
And it turned into some awkward chaos right away, as you can guess what happened?
Santa wasn't reall interested in this pushing thing.
"Mate, I don't know what kind of fun challenge this is, but-"
"My apologies, but I must do this." Medic said, bunching up against the fat.
Medic wasn't really moving Santa at all, despite putting all of his effort.
"What are ya doing?"
"Doing ze experiment."
Santa was only baffled.
*Robotnik's confessional*
He had a cheeky look on his face.
"I might have told somebody to test wherever Chris was telling lies or not. More importantly, he's a fellow mad scientist apparently, because going for him was all his idea."
*Santa's confessional*
"Well, that Medic fellow won't be going on any nice list anytime soon. I didn't know that I was that strong, mate." He looked disappointed yet surprised.
*Confessional cut*
In better places, Bowser and Undyne were having a wannabe grudge sumo match with only their hands and the power of romance, the lesbian somehow pushing the bad guy slightly forward.
"That's for trying to push me off!" Bowser grunted.
"Yeah, gimme!" Undyne taunted the evil dad. "And that's for being a bad teammate to your team."
"Wait, why do ya say that? I'm helping these dudes out."
"Because YOU'RE A BAD GUY!"
Undyne was determined to push the Koopa off, as something much funnier happened.
"No way, I can't believe this!"
Robotnik sherieked this, as MK pushed a giant snowball towards him and gave a cheeky thumbs up.
"Oh no!" Robotnik shouted from the ground.
"I did my part!" MK declared, rolling up a snowball.
Joe literally shoved her in the elbow with only a wheelchair.
"Take that, criminal sucker!"
Joe flexed his own arms, as he wheeled himself towards Ermes at a notable speed with the prisoner putting her own stand up as a warning, which didn't stop Joe at all.
Joe ended up on the wrong side of a Stand Rush, as Ermes gave the wheelchair cop a solid punch on the chair and Joe somehow landed on the slope with his wheelchair.
"I won't give up!" Joe tried to skate up the slippery slope
"You kinda have to because that is the rules! Joe, you're out!" Chris came out from a jetpack.
Joe then wheeled down the plateau mountain, as Ermes looked in awe.
"He kinda went out like a badass."
Ermes then blocked a strong strike from Axl's burning sickle with her stand, as it finally got real with the gangster.
"Hey, you look really good!" Axl said.
"Look I'm not interested, but thanks."
The battle raged around one corner of the place, especially with some of the more flashy and forceful players of the game.
"We're suprisingly equally matched!" Android 21 said.
"I wish I could fly! My three wives are more attractive than you, though!" Tengen had a geniune smile the whole time.
"I'm glad to know that."
21 and Tengen were giving each other force because of course they were, but the other players weren't nearly as equal as the deadly duo.
Mostly because Popeye seperated Medic and Santa in the most forceful manner, which meant that Medic slid across the battlefield with a ridiculous amount of momentum.
And Medic fell down on top of Lolo.
"Get off me! Get off me!" Lolo shouted.
"Don't get yourzelf in a twist!" Medic got up.
It was the match between the mage and the medic and it was a pretty obvious one.
"Get out of here, magic child!"
Medic carried Lolo and threw her off with his own hands.
Back with the sailor and the bringer of presents, they both tried running into the somehow unimpressive Mamizou, who was sitting around doing something.
Popeye had an elbow and Santa then slowly slid to a stop with a realisation.
"Don't do this, mate, she's doing something!" Santa shouted.
"No, she ain't!" Popeye said. "She's just standing there."
Mamizou was indeed standing there, confident in her "small snowball"
Popeye then walked up to the child-looking tanuki and immediately got trapped in a snow-shaped kettle.
"Crumbs, she did that!"
Mamizou instantly pushed the snow kettle forward with an impressive lack of effort, Santa ready to try and help his guy out.
Santa still got pushed by the kettle, but he did stop it just to see Popeye finally punch out of said kettle right in his face.
"CRUD!" Popeye yelled, as his good friend got blown off by accident.
Santa landed on the slope, his back hurting.
"It's okay, I ain't holding it against ya!" Santa shouted.
*Mamizou's confessional*
"A rare mistake on my end, but surely my team should be strong enough to handle more than a few bears. These bears are nothing to a tanuki like myself!" She nervously hoped.
*Confessional cut*
Chris flew to the tanuki's side on his trusty jetpack to say something.
"Look at that, first accidental teamkill! Release the bears, these guys have been waiting at the chompers to push all of you! They're just regular bears by the way!" Chris shouted.
The bears literally jumped out, ready to be nature's biggest Total Drama haters, as the whole game literally shifted.
"Why bears, specifically?!" MK yelled from the bottom.
"Because they're cool with pushing other contestants off...and uncool with you!"
Orphan Emma was actually evading one of the bears, as she scurried around the decently sized plateau with only a prayer and tan boots.
"Why are you so mean?" Orphan Emma asked.
The bear didn't care to answer, as then saw another vulnerable in the form of Mina Ashido, who was in the middle of trying to push Manolo off the edge.
"Hold still, Manolo! I'm trying my best!" Ashido encouraged himself.
"Don't worry, I am!"
The bear then swiped Ashido off the plateau with only its claw, as Manolo looked surprised to see such a thing.
"That's a bear?!" Manolo shouted, pulling his twin swords. "I'll stop it for my team!"
Manolo had his swords and then Monama had the copied spider webbing to basically slow down the bear severely in his tracks.
Monoma basically flew towards the bear and its claw that grabbed the webbing and then got slapped off the pleateau.
"Monoma, no!" Manolo shouted. "What did you feed these bears?"
"Bear food, obviously!"
Manolo defended himself against the bear.
In other news, Ken and Android 21 were somehow sticking together thanks to a bear being right above the rock that they were sitting under.
"Wait, can't you slice through that bear real easy?" Ken asked.
"I don't know if they're biological or robotic and I'm not risking it!" 21 shouted.
"So, find that out."
"Do you think Chris wouldn't give us a worse punishment? He really likes giving challenges a sadistic twist."
21 and Ken thought about it, before the bear tried to lift up their rock and the blonde doll got up almost instantly to see the bear fight him.
"You can't be serious!" Android 21 shouted.
"I'm very serious!"
Ken then stared the bear down with a confident smile and a random big stick, as the bear gawked at what it thought was an blonde idiot.
"Try it on a guy your size!"
Ken then got swiped off.
*Android 21's confessional*
She couldn't help but facepalm.
"Is it really because he is attractive-ly nice? What is wrong with me?!" She was frustrated.
*Confessional cut*
As Ken, Ashido and Monoma were the first victim of the bear infestation, others were trying to be really innovative with their methods of pushing people.
Sticks was still in business with a bear.
"Random bear, man, I don't think you believe this."
The bear shrugged.
"There's two evil alliances, one of each team and they're here to eat our brains and consume them to become smarter!"
The bear raised an eyebrow.
"Okay, bear, your loss."
Ermes and Robotnik looked at each other.
"This badger's crazy, I wouldn't believe her." Ermes casually remarked. "Of course, if you get in my way, you're gonna have a problem."
Robotnik had a few sentries with nice arms.
"Yeah, I've got enough problems today." Robotnik spoke honestly.
Ermes pulled out Kiss, but couldn't match the reaction time of a dang robot and a smiling mad scientist grabbing her.
"GET OFF MY BUTT!"
Ermes tried to punch the sentries, who instantly threw off with good momentum and then eliminated the prisoner, even if her and her stand almost grabbed the ledge.
"Goddamn it, Robotnik!"
*Robotnik's confessional*
"It's really obvious that somebody told that damn badger about my alliance and some other alliance. Whoever that is will have a elimination heading their way soon." He had a mean grin. "Potentially before Sticks, because I have a feeling that they're manipulating her."
*Confessional cut*
Robotnik then walked towards Sticks with a maddening grin on his face, as the badger didn't look too surprised at his presence.
"I won't let you eat my brains!"
His sentries did the heavy lighting, though Sticks had a hard boomerang.
Said boomerang somehow punched through the sentries' wiring, shell and even their CPU, leaving them out of order.
"AHHHHH!"
Sticks' sounded her war cry to basically get on top of Robotnik.
She scratched his bald head and then jumped off him with a pole-boosted backflip, with Robotnik teetering on the edge of the flat snowy ground.
Before getting poked by Sticks' staff.
"Don't mess with my brain, Robotnik." Sticks said.
As for Natalya, she saw this completely while dodging Taskmaster's copied kicks and punches and then she easily flipped over the mercenary, who actually didn't expect the kick coming after that flip.
*Natalya's confessional*
"Somehow my best ally is someone who thinks she could convince a bear that both alliances would eat their brains. I got some plausible deniability and a comrade in arms...of sorts."
*Confessional cut*
Natalya then saw Sticks still talk with that bear like it knew what she was talking about and got decked in the face.
"You were distracted for a second there." Taskmaster quipped.
"I didn't know you were concerned!" Natalya zinged back.
The two agents were surprisingly going at it.
Things weren't doing too hot for the Brits and Popeye, as Mamizou actually managed to easily eliminated Alberto with only a fake cold snowball that blew up.
"Mate, we're toast and not the good kind!" Axl lamented. "How do we beat her."
"Bruh, most of us are anti-capitalists or at least, not exactly a fan of capitalists. I think we take down the capitalist girl." Spider-Punk said. "Get up close to her-"
"Great idea!"
"-Bruv, she's just gonna..."
Spider-Punk and Popeye looked at each other.
"You like unions or something?" Spider-Punk grapped with a bear.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I?!" Popeye said, punching the bear away. "We gotta unionise against whatever alliance is happening!"
"Big man."
Axl then got on the wrong end of a tea kettle and then subsequently got blown up by said tea kettle...and Tengen avenged him with a couple of those ninja bombs to the tanuki girl's face.
Popeye and Spider-Punk ran in to assist the ninja, real stealthy.
"I'M GONNA SMACK YA IN THE FACE!"
Popeye was stuck in the ground, as Mamizou got blown up by Tengen's many bombs and completely stopped any attempt for the tanuki girl to actually throw out something.
"That's a whole lotta bombs!" Popeye screamed, skidding to a stop.
Spider-Punk got flipped over Mamizou and snatched her with his web, as she got thrown for a wild ride thanks to one ninja and his many bombs and she was goner.
"And that's one for the team!" Tengen shouted, as Spider-Punk landed.
"Score one for socialism." Spider-Punk. "Where's the other anti-captalist?"
"Stuck on top of her highness, man. I thought he was flashy!"
"Me too."
Jasmine and Puss were having a grand old ball for no reason, the positions switching constantly as they were swirling around each other like real snow lovers.
"Your Highness, go easy on me!" Puss shouted.
"Sure I will!" Jasmine couldn't stop laughing.
Jasmine tickled the hell out of Puss's belly, as the cat then got up with a smile.
"Your unique technique is not lost on me!" Puss called out the princess. "But you dare underestimate a bounty hunter like me!"
Puss then ran for Jasmine.
*Jasmine's confessional*
"Wow, he really is a bad kitty. I'm so glad that I have Rajah on my side or else I wouldn't know how a small cat works! Which I don't, but it could be worse!"
*Confessional cut*
"Okay, this challenge is actually taking too long! Seriously, Bowser and Undyne managed to have the craziest stalemate I've ever seen and the bears aren't doing anything for some reason-"
Sticks got thrown out by a group of them.
"-That was amazing. Nevertheless, I have the executive decision to put in some more bears and Chef, who just ate lunch!"
"What does eating lunch have to do with Senor Chef?" Puss asked.
"I don't know, probably something BRUTAL!"
Undyne literally carried Bowser, who was a little tuckered out and she threw him off like a piece of meat and she looked mad.
"WHO WANTS A PIECE OF ME!"
Android 21 was in the middle of fighting some bears, who were surprisingly strong.
"Help me, other teammates!" 21 shouted. "These bears are getting-"
"Don't worry about it, you're still here and I bet these bears are scared of you!" Undyne told her.
21 then saw the bears.
"I don't think they're scared."
"They're only scared if you let them be."
Android 21 facepalmed.
So it was down to Undyne, Ermes, Orphan Emma, Akiko technically, Natalya, Rukia and Sakura for the Amazonians and Tengen Uzui, Popeye, Spider-Punk, Puss In Boots, Taskmaster and Manolo for the Snowmen and that was a lot of people to deal with at one time.
Luckily, Chef and the bears were somehow co-operating with each other, which weirded out the remaining players of both teams, Chef Hatchet literally whispered into the bears ear.
The ladies had a hard decision to make.
"I'm surprised that I didn't get to do anything." Rukia said. "If I had my Zanpankuto, it would be over in a second."
"Small problem, the last two from each team will just have immunity, Rukia! Basically meaning that it would be real awkward if only you stayed on." Sakura stated.
"In that case, it's going to be up to random chance to be fair. Because we're eventually going to be down a member either way."
"Did you have to bring that up?"
Rukia sighed.
"I wish it was not that way. But we're still a strong team."
"YEAH, we're still a team first! Doesn't matter if one of us goes, because we're gonna be standing strong after this challenge ends and after the elimination ceremony, because we're good with each other!" Undyne yelled. "You girls with me?!"
"WOO YEAH!" Akiko and Sakura yelled.
The rest of the non-eliminated ladies clapped, as the dudes were still taking their own position aside from two different people that were whispering strategy amongst each other.
"There is no way that Taskmaster isn't suspicious." Tengen told Popeye.
"Really, I mean he don't look like no standup guy, but he's not a bad fella." Popeye stated.
Taskmaster looked directly towards Popeye.
"The win condition of this crazy challenge is basically boot your teammates off until you get immunity. I'd be surprised if there wasn't any friendly fire in here!" Tengen answered him.
"Yeah, don't announce it." Popeye said, blocking a bear paw.
Taskmaster ran towards the Russian agent and then kicked her in the chest, when the ladies broke the congregation.
Taskmaster caught her and easily threw her overboard.
"And Natalya's out! Seriously, where's all of the friendly fire?" Chris asked. "There should be no reason why-"
"I don't care about danger. I only care about what kind of stupid stuff you're gonna put all over the place." Taskmaster said, before...
...Undyne gave him the hardest spear that she could muster up and eliminated him.
"And Taskmaster's also out! Only nine players left!"
Undyne took a serious breather, as she took some time to breathe.
"DAMN, HE WAS STRONG! Gotta say that Popeye's next!"
Undyne saw Popeye eating spinach and grinned.
"He's gonna deal with it!"
Undyne booked it, as Akiko wondered something.
"Wait, am I supposed to be in the game?"
"Oh yeah, Akiko! You're out now!"
*Chris' confessional*
"I mean I wasn't gonna eliminate her, but she had to bring it up. Sometimes messing with people is the best part of my job!" He had a smug grin the whole time.
*Confessional cut*
Manolo and Puss looked at Undyne heading towards Popeye and wondered why the sailor was standing there ready to brawl against a CHARGING FISH LESBIAN like it was nobody's business.
Puss immediately ran to try and stand against Undyne, as Manolo stood there sure in something.
*Manolo's confessional*
"Last time he even ate spinach was back in the cave challenge. But I do have a good feeling about this!"
*Confessional cut*
Popeye had the spinach and Undyne had determination, but it was surprisingly obvious which one would win.
"JUST BECAUSE YOU ATE SOME HEALTHY GOOD DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING!" Undyne screamed.
"Yeah, you ain't wrong." Popeye told her.
Popeye winded up a punch, Undyne charged with a spear and he dodged the spear and punched with an absurd amount of force and blew her straight off the plateau.
"Holy moly, Popeye literally sent Undyne packing!"
The whole of the ladies saw this and knew that Popeye was instantly immune, so they decided on a much better approach...aside from one android who fought bears easily.
Manolo took a lot at Android 21 fly right into Popeye's space, as she though she could counter the power of spinach.
Popeye literally tanked her energy lariat without any damage, as Android 21 landed.
"Sorry, miss, but you did ask for a fight." Popeye wasn't too happy about hitting ladies.
"Wha-"
Android 21 got blown out of the game.
"Popeye's eliminating Android 21, it's getting real!"
Manolo was gawking at his friend in sheer awe, so much so, that he almost didn't see her coming in.
Almost as he somehow guarded himself against Ermes' stand with his two swords, even being pushed back quite the distance against the classic ORAH punches.
Manolo was barely still in the game!
"Holy [scart, you're a strong man!" Ermes called out.
"Thank you, Ms. Costello, I got it from my family."
Ermes was taken aback by the compliment.
"Alright, let's get back to business."
Ermes kicked Manolo in the chest, as he tried to strike with his sword.
"And Manolo is out!" Chris announced. "The Snowmen and the Amazonians are still dealing with the bears and Chef!"
Ermes slapped a sticker on one of Chef's inert meatballs and suddenly had two of them in her hands.
"Gotta use this somehow."
Orphan Emma, Ermes, Sakura, 21 (sort of) and Rukia was what was left of the ladies and Puss, Tengen, Popeye and Spider-Punk remained.
Chef had a cannon that changed all of that, as Popeye wasn't looking at the meatball heading his way and Puss definitely was.
The cat leapt for Popeye's meatball and got smashed in the process, almost getting rolled off the plateau in the process.
Puss then saw Popeye punch a meatball.
"He's a whole different man when he's got his lunch!" Puss realised.
Puss then got blindsided by Spider-Punk got knocked by a Shinku Hadouken, courtesy of Sakura finally getting a Sho'ouken finished (running Shoryuken) and charging up one of them.
"And Puss is out!"
Spider-Punk got up, as Sakura threw a Hadouken that he easily dodged.
"Rah, we're all that's left of the mandem!" Spider-Punk shouted. "I don't believe in you losing, Popeye!"
"You better believe it!" Popeye declared. "Olive's gonna love this."
"Damn, she your girlfriend or something?"
"Nope, but she might be soon."
As for Tengen, he fought like a real dude would and went weapon-to-weapon with Ermes and these two were testing each other's techniques.
Ermes flew upwards thanks to Tengen doing the cleaver uppercut and she countered with a flurry of punches once she recovered and landed.
Tengen got hit with a few of them, but took them in great stride and didn't stop with the flashy techniques that stunned Ermes, flashing the convict with only bombs.
And then he appeared right in front of Ermes without warning.
"Damn, I'm good aren't I?"
Ermes couldn't even process the brag before hearing.
"Fourth Form: Constant Resounding Slashes!"
Ermes got swept out of the game, her stand even getting a cut or two.
"And Ermes explodes! Almost literally!"
*Ermes' confessional*
"I can see why he's got three wives. Dude's attractive and strong as hell, you can't deny that, even if he looks like an giant dick!" She shouted. "And is a giant dick."
*Confessional cut*
Emma was being chased by a bear.
"How are you so fast!" Orphan Emma shouted.
After all of the chasing, she slipped once and realised that this plateau was covered in meatball marinara leading to her elimination with the bear looking at her in pity.
"And finally, Emma is eliminated! Rukia and Sakura have immunity for their team and well, either Tengen, Spider-Punk or Popeye will not have immunity!" Chris announced. "Seriously, where's the friendly fire!"
"I don't believe in friendly fire, Chris!" Spider-Punk shouted.
"The challenge's actually over after this!"
*Spider-Punk's confessional*
"Damn, is that what it feels like to be a politician? Nah, bro, I'm stickin' to causing a little bit trouble for the pigs back at home! Besides, I'm going out doing what I believe in."
*Confessional cut*
Spider-Punk ran towards Rukia, who was preparing something.
Spider-Punk literally saw Rukia disappear and then he got hit with that Flash Step slash and it was over.
"And that's the challenge almost over! Tengen, Popeye, Rukia and Sakura are safe! By the way, you can vote for anyone else on both teams!" Chris announced. "Just not these four!"
The Amazonians and The Snowmen were all looking at each other suspiciously thanks to Chris dropping the challenge.
"Congratulations on your immunity! I would've done it, too, but I slipped on some meatball sauce." Emma cheered on Rukia.
"Well, thank you. Can I please have my solitude?" Rukia asked.
"NO WAY-"
Ashido got pulled by Undyne.
"Sure, you have a good time." Emma said. "You know who to vote for?"
"Yeah, someone on the other team."
Sakura was getting many high-fives from some of the potentially eliminated contestants.
As for the other team, they were having a strange time.
"Men, I know that this is hard because I'm pretty sure those ladies over there are voting for one of us for the some reasons that we're doing it to them, BUT WE'RE BETTER about it!" Joe shouted. "Okay, Snowmen, no matter who gets voted out, we proved that we don't backstab each other."
"I agree. The social conditions of this group of male people are quite stable and would not break even under the strenous force of the so-called Amazonians!" Robotnik added to it.
The whole team gawked at him.
"You just swallowed a dictionary or what?" Spider-Punk asked.
"Honestly, you guys are...not smart." Robotnik tried to use the most neutral term he could.
"What are ya on about, mate?" Axl asked. "Are you being a prick or something?"
Axl, Popeye, Monama and Puss stared at Robotnik.
"Hold on, there's a lot of smart people within this group of fellows. Honestly, intelligence doesn't matter when you've got a team working together!" Robotnik sputtered out.
"You've got that right! Stop dissing the mad scientist, we're good now!"
Joe had a serious look.
"I swear I'll vote out one of you if you do that!"
"Yeah, mate, we won't do that. Right, guys?" Spider-Punk asked.
Axl sadly nodded, as the team atmosphere became awkward thanks to Joe and Robotnik.
*Bowser's confessional*
"I'm gonna keep it real with you, it won't be much of a surprise when this lady gets booted off. She's just too dang strong, basically and the leader of the team."
*Undyne's confessional*
"Popeye's freaking strong! He just got lucky and honestly, it's gonna suck when we boot this guy off because he's nice." Undyne stated.
*Confessional cut*
The campfire ceremony, a time for people to get marshmallows or get sent away on a drone.
Both teams had experienced multiple teams, but never together and the tension in the air could be cut out of.
"Wow, that was a wild challenge and I see all of you are kinda mad about it! Which I would be surprised if you weren't mad about it!"
Some of the fellows weren't impressed with the host with most, obviously.
"Come on, campers, it was epic! Chef got to do stuff this time around!"
"I don't think I like these challenges." Santa spoke up sadly.
Chris and Chef kept quiet with a smile.
"Anywho, I've got a lot more marshmallows this time around because there's more people and the rules don't change! You get a marshmallow, you're safe! No marshmallow, you get carried by drone! You guys got any immunity idol?"
Ken and Android 21 accidentally grasped each other's hand, before breaking it up.
"Good. Chef?"
"Akiko, you can float through everything. That is literally the only reason and yet it's a really compelling reason, so you better watch yourself!" Chef shouted.
The ghost huffed.
"Android 21, you fumbled the bag for your team despite being easily the strongest member out of all of them."
The android looked surprised.
"Alberto, a lot of As in here. The voters determine that you're not the greatest guy of all time and that you're mid at challenges. I bet they're true."
"I doubt it, they're probably just voting me because they're nice." Alberto confidently said.
"Puss In Boots, you tustled a lady's hair! That's messed up."
"I know, but I was fighting for my team's honour. Sorry for your hair, Jasmine." Puss said.
"I appreciate the apology." Jasmine accepted his words.
Chris basically stopped all of them.
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"Okay, so everybody but Alberto, Puss, Android 21, Monoma, Akiko and Joe Swanson get marshmallows! Because you six have at least one vote!" Chris announced, as a lot of marshmallows had gotten grabbed.
Some of them didn't though.
"Aw, man!" Ken vocalised.
"Don't worry about him, he'll be alright!" Axl supported his dude.
Joe looked pissed.
Monoma and Puss were unsettled.
Alberto was surprised.
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"Joe Swanson and Puss only share one vote!"
"I'M GONNA GET THE GUY THAT VOTED ME OFF!" Joe shouted.
"Calm down, it was me." MK said, sweating at Joe's crackling fist.
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"Monoma only has two votes!"
Monoma took his marshmallow in stride, as Android 21 looked baffled.
Ken was about to be devastated.
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"It comes down to either Android 21, Alberto or Akiko to not be eliminated today! Which one of you also had 2 votes?"
"I'd like for it to not be me." Android 21 said.
"And I doubt it's me." Akiko reassured herself.
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"Good news, it's not you! Android 21, you only have 2 votes! Alberto and Akiko, you both have at least 10 votes to your name!"
"Dang, maybe it was being a ghost." Akiko spoke up, as Android 21 savoured her marshmallow.
Ken tried to keep the grin under Joe and Robotnik's watchful eyes.
"Hold up, why me actually?" Alberto asked. "I'm a cool guy and I'm not too strong."
Most of the ladies weren't saying anything, but there was a lot of uhhhhhs and gritted teeth.
"Weird reason for voting someone off, but I'm happy to make it this far! Thanks for my butts after the first challenge, guys." Alberto explained himself. "Anyways, I bet Luca's going to either be worried or want to join this crazy game!"
As for Akiko, she looked very surprised.
"Wait, are you Snowmen scared of me?"
"Yeah, we are, what's the problem?" Bowser answered angrily.
"You scared of this?"
Akiko had one heck of scary face and even the hardened fellas got spooked.
"Whoop, time to cut this elimination! It took too long anyways!" Chris announced. "Alright, these two are gone!"
Alberto was sad, as Akiko was miffed.
"I was gonna have a lot of money!" Akiko shouted.
"Hey, it was gonna be my money!" Alberto shouted back.
And Alberto got grabbed by the Drone, as Akiko shrugged.
"You stay here and you end up in a vaccum cleaner!"
"Bye, Chris the toupee guy!" Akiko insulted the host.
"IT'S NOT A TOUPEE!"
Akiko followed Alberto out of the game.
*Akiko's confessional*
"Dez, Puffin, you're not getting paid a million dollars and I'm don't wanna get cursed for you guys because I'm pretty this guy raised some white-skinned fellow from the dead. Sorry I couldn't get the money, but I definitely had a fun time here and I met a 9-year old goth."
She sighed happily.
"I think it could be way worse."
*Alberto's confessional*
"Wait, why me? I mean there's still a lot of strong guys on my old team and they're all mostly cool and they didn't want to see a mean team-Actually, I get it. These guys saved my butt from elimination and are pretty much the manliest team I've seen! The team leader's a guy like Massimo, so they're going to be a great team!" Alberto shouted honestly. "Is it crazy that I think this competition's awesome?"
*Confessional cut*
"Okay so we had a lot of drama and this episode probably unearthed a lot of drama! Who's gonna to start hating on people or being haters on TOTAL DRAMA X: WINTER WARRIORS!"
To be continued in Episode 9 because it, of course, will continue on in that chapter and we have the first whiff of more OG Total Drama contestants appearing in the game and this time, the contestants unintentionally help an historical relationship fix itself.
Not a friendship, but a proper relationship! (It's actually really funny how the sole homosexual relationship is solid, while the majority of the heterosexual relationships are trainwrecks with apparently infinite momentum.)
Unsurprisingly, they don't want his help for obvious reasons and those reasons including a dangerous love challenge that Chris made worse for everyone else, but himself.
Also, alliances finally meet.
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Yeah, that is it.
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Alright fine, Alberto kinda didn't deserve to go, but it was the least bad of all of the options since the team usually isn't mean and plus he ain't doing too hot these days. I like Luca as a movie and he's a good character, but he's the most filler-esque character at the moment so he's out.
As for the Akiko boot, guess why she got booted and you win two million dollars. (Sorry, 1602jaw) Sometimes, being overpowered can be much easier to stomach than being intangible, as that completely breaks many challenges, allows her to get scoops much easier and a whole lot of other upsides that the dudes considered! Plus she's a fun character and that is it.