Total Drama X: Winter Warriors
Episode 10: The Pinball Bros.
Last time, four returning players had their many regrets and this time, there will be no regrets that aren't related to the challenge because the contestants will be moving around in soft balls...
...in a course with a lot of spikes and other stuff that would pop those balls, so a simple endurance game for people who are good with moving their balls.
sorry to the reader and sorry to Natalya, who's elimination had some ramifications that the villainous guys alliance actually somewhat anticipated, like a group of smart people.
"Last time on Total Drama X, there was a meeting of alliances that happened by pure accident and they vowed to give each other some aggression, which didn't show this episode because Courtney and Scott saddled the Snowmen with their awkward baggage and Gwen and Trent graced the Arctic Amazonians with their respect for each other! It doesn't even matter that both teams got the usual Total Drama pain for the gain and oh, one team felt the pain!"
"The Arctic Amazonians only managed to win one out of the four dating games and despite their couple leaving happy, they had to vote off somebody and that somebody for Natalya for seemingly no reason! Though the Snowmen's evil alliance basically voted her out with some nice moves!"
"Eurgh, thank gosh that there's no more love in this episode, we've got balloons and we certainly have bros and we clearly might have a pinball of a time! Find out on TOTAL DRAMA X: WINTER WARRIORS!"
*Taskmaster's voting confessional?*
The mercenary made sure to carefully open the door and realised two things, that he could easily pick the voting box with a random key and that he added just enough times to mess the game up.
"Damn, this is a recording." Taskmaster said. "Well, up your security."
And he left.
*Confessional cut*
Ermes, MK and Mamizou finally had a reason for their protection racket, as they were stomping on their way and Sticks had her own issues within the team, not involving these three.
"They're getting a boot in their faces! Or two boots, which ever hurts them much more." Ermes shouted. "Natalya managed to expose their butts indirectly."
"Damn, Natalya's loyal to the team and I can't blame her. We're gonna enforce their heads to roll!" MK couldn't help but joke.
"Not the time for such jokes, for they potentially subverted the game just to catch out a random spy. Unbelievably short-sighted." Mamizou condemned the dudes' alliance.
They didn't find their alliance, but at the same time, they did get some good exercise in.
"Welp, let's just go back to the cafeteria, they just pulled a Harold or a Coachman, whatever it's called now." MK shrugged. "I'm sure they're getting dissed."
"Survivor would reject them, that's total bull!" Ermes shouted. "They deserve to get their asses roasted forever-"
Now that both alliances not only knew of each other, but also at least one mole within their teams, the game just got that little bit more interesting on the strategy end.
Mostly because one of them was getting cheers from their teammates and the other wasn't really that interested in participating in the misery chain.
"Whew, that was one heck of a challenge! We're still ahead of the team with the girl from my rival class and we got rid of one of our biggest threats!" Monoma said.
"What do ya mean, our?!" Popeye shouted. "We're still groups of guys and gals."
"I'm thinking about the future of the game and it's not looking good for us." Monoma pointed to Ken. "For example, the doll known as Ken is hopelessly in love."
"Guy's found his dame and there ain'ts nothing wrong with dat."
Ken got spooked by Android 21's terrible food, which was not actually different from any other time, it just disgusted him for he was deeper in love, you see.
"Are you talking about my elimination, for the last time, it's not happening any time soon. The Ken-dom's too strong." Ken insisted in frustration.
A lot of people looked at him.
"I'm talking about most of you awesome dudes."
"Gee thanks, dude, I don't care about that." Bowser gruffly remarked. "Anyways, where do you think the spider-punk is?"
"I don't know, but he's having a fun time being fabulous!"
Bowser just rolled his eyes.
"Look as a fellow teammate, you should stop being an idiot and realise that she could be playin' you for chumps." Bowser said. "Because she definitely is."
Ken then replied with his own eye-roll, as the two "team leaders" were admiring their team.
"Man, eight challenges ago, this was a bunch of men struggling to not each other alive trying to figure out if a rat guy was gonna cheese his way to victory and now, it's a great team with a guy that could be out doing anything." Joe reminisced on his team's work. "Seriously, where's the punk!"
"Whoa, whoa."
Joe looked at Robotnik.
"That's why I have robots for servants, they don't go out and do anything. I don't mind being friends with other humans!" Robotnik explained himself.
"Okay, you still kinda creep me out, but at least I know the team's in good hands with you and me 'round this team."
Joe looked at all of the remaining members, as Santa had a strangely pissed off look that confused Bowser, Axl was spinning a battle at random
"Seriously, WHERE IS THAT PUNK?! And that Spanish cat guy."
*Puss' confessional*
The cat was drinking some leche.
"At least he got me this! Now this is some good stuff, but maybe he's just doing this out of the good of the heart."
*Confessional cut*
As for Hobie Brown, he was participating in what the people like to call a "devious lick" from the hut of the villainous alliance for a good reason since he didn't mind not having that much money.
Surprisingly, it was a map to the million dollars.
"Okay, these mans are officially jokesters, why do they have this here?" Hobie asked. "They could've just stole this thing and be done with it. I'm just here for the challenges."
Hobie put down the map anyways, because he had some fresh milk outta nowhere.
*Spider-Punk's confessional*
He actually had a fridge and a milk bottle.
"There's no way that I'm letting these two control the means of food that is edible. These guys don't even drink these, Puss needs that stuff."
*Confessional cut*
Joe and Robotnik were still wondering, as Sticks looked really mad.
"I swear those other guys were messing around with the votes. Mostly because it'd be lame for you girls to do it!" Sticks shouted. "We're annoyed at whoever they are!"
"Uh, yeah, we are very mad." Rukia couldn't convincingly do it.
"Don't worry about 'em, whoever's doing this shady business should get a hit of the boomerang!"
"That's not really that hard hitting."
"But justice hits much harder!" Ashido screamed. "CHEATERS LOSE!"
"Whoever did this is a disgrace to this terrible show." Rukia added.
*Medic's confessional*
He was sweating.
"I'm starting to think that it was ze wisest idea to just force an elimination out of ze team that is incredibly tight-knit. Then again, it could just be rabble rousing from the team."
*Confessional cut*
As for Emma and Lolo, they were struggling to not be dour on their chances like most of the team.
"It's actually crazy that our votes could be so easily manipulated just like that and the recipient's friend actually knows what is going on." Android 21 said.
"Imagine that. I hate cheaters, too, but all we need to do is win as a team because teams are cool!" Emma shouted.
"This is much bigger than that-" 21 wanted to continue.
"Shut up, we don't doubt ourselves because my friend wouldn't doubt me." Lolo said quietly, as 21 and Emma heard it.
"Yeah, we're friends, right!" Emma shouted.
"YOU SAID IT!"
Undyne was on the table.
"Winter campers, enjoy your next challenge and whoever is stealing the milk! Please don't do that because it's important to my hair-body! My body!" Chris announced.
The campers at least could all see Chris metaphorically drop his trousers, as they all shared a chuckle and that was before whatever version of torture Chris wanted to do.
These guys were stepping towards the location, as Santa Claus actually has some lines to say and it was a surprisingly mean stare at Bowser, which got Axl all confused.
"Seriously, what happened to him?" Axl asked.
"The guy can sense some kind of evil business going on or something." Tengen said. "Either that or he hates turtles. That's unflashy, man."
"Yeah, he would never betray us!" Axl declared.
All of a sudden, almost out of nowhere, Spider-Punk and Puss jumped outta the bushes like they had an alliance.
"Ay, bruv, why's Old Nick so mad?" Spider-Punk then got jumped by the cop. "Hey, 'ey, can't a man do his own stuff no more?"
"You missed a lot, compadre. The ladies are mad at us senors." Puss told him.
"Bruv, I completely understand it. If some guy yoinked some votes, you'd be mad, too?"
"YEAH, WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU!" Joe shouted. "I THOUGHT-"
Chef had a damn whistle and he wasn't afraid to use it in front of a random high-capacity elevator that stuck out so much in the middle of the somehow snowy forest that the hut was entirely wood.
"Hey, y'all better get down into the catacombs!" Chef shouted. "I'm gonna enjoy this challenge and y'all better be prepared to not be terrible!"
"Bruv, we ain't terrible." Spider-Punk said.
Chef just grumbled about the Spider-Man that might have taken some milk, as the rest of the contestants were joining him in the lift to get down to the real challenge.
The contestant finally left the lift into the metal basement that comprised most of this mostly artificial island and these guys were either in awe at the sheer scale of the mechanical ambition of the place or a horrifying realisation that Chris controlled an whole island to be a playground for some mid Canadian reality show.
It was a weird pinball table that was human-sized, kinda like that one challenge from the last normal season with the questionable relationship except it was more like a traditional one with "ice spikes" around the place.
It even had two levels and everything, like the one in World Tour, but it was behind a glass screen with Chris waiting for the contestants.
"Dudes and dudettes, welcome to some more human pinball."
"Oh no, not human pinball! Last time this happened, it broke up an epic relationship of epic proportions and-" MK smugly remarked.
"Shut up, MK, I'm introducing the challenge. Anyways, each of you count as a ball and like any good pinball game, you got flinged around until you hit one of the ice spikes and you can control yourself to score even more points! But be careful, the time outside of your popped balls is limited to a single minute and the floor's on that table are very slippery!"
Chef had a substance called "Slightly Greasy Grease!"
"Happy to help, Chris."
Chris didn't want to say anything lest the flow of the intro get messed up, since the table wasn't really that greasy.
"Thanks, Chef! Each remaining contestant is one of your balls and because some of you might be asking, you can only have three balls out at once!"
"Well, that's still pretty flashy!" Tengen shouted. "We've got an advantage!"
"Yeah, that pinball table's gonna need to handle all of us, dear friends!" Puss shouted.
"Hey!"
Chris got the two guys' attention, as the girls were sure of one thing.
"Winning team has the highest score, that's it! Now you can form strategies or declare whatever statement you have!" Chris then walked away from the contestants. "Game starts when the first contestant hops in the ball!"
The ladies finally had some to actually talk things out.
"CAN I BE THE FIRST ONE OUT THERE, I CAN HANDLE THIS!" Undyne shouted.
"Yeah, yeah, just don't shout about it to the heavens." Ramona said, seeing the fish without armour flex her muscles. "Cool, who's gonna be second?"
"I don't mind being second since this is one heck of a challenge!" Sakura shouted. "What about the rest of you guys?"
The rest of Arctic Amazonians stood comically far away when that was asked, as nobody wanted to be popped by an random ice spike.
"Uh, I'm thinking about it!" Ramona vocalised before joining the other comically far away contestants.
And the dudes had their first pick already, mostly because he had one reason.
"I'm gonna be first because letting our advantage go would be mad stupid!" Hobie declared.
"Well, that's great, we won't stop you from-" Santa looked at the board. "-hopefully being alive!"
"Me being alive is a statement, bro, I got this!"
Hobie hopped into the ball, as Joe and Robotnik baulked at this anarchist being...anarchistic.
"Well, there is nothing I can do other than be the blooming ball. And talk with ya teammates!" Santa had to shout.
"Yeah, we definitely have an alternate first pick and he is definitely willing." Robotnik told the jolly old man, who could only smile. "Spider-Punk, get-"
"And go!"
*Joe's confessional*
"I'm gonna help him because we're teammates and then I'm going find a place on this island that looks like a jail and put him in there. COPS ARE COOL, SPIDER-PUNK!"
*Confessional cut*
Spider-Punk went flying into the multi-level pinball machine, as he got hit by multiple 1,000 bumpers and went flying through the bottom of level, hitting a single 2,000 point switch and flew through the spinning gates gaining 5,000 each and obviously, someone had to hop in.
"HIYAH!"
Undyne was about to kick Spider-Punk as a pinball, which went as well as you'd expect.
"Holy moly, she's raising so many damn points!" Sakura shouted, as Undyne got bounced between two different bumpers. "Time to get in on the action."
"Get 'em, Sakura!" Ashido said. "Seriously, get her, I think she's about to vomit!"
"Undyne just did, but she did earn the Amazonians' 30,000 points fair and square! Sakura's entering the game and Joe's right behind his teammate, Spider-Punk, who only has 28,000 points for the Snowmen."
Sakura and Undyne were obviously in pink balloon balls and Hobie and now Joe Swanson were in blue balloon balls (ha) causing a little bit of a ruckus in the points.
Undyne was still gaining more points, post vomit and she was desperately trying to escape the ball even with a tough smile.
"Oh no!"
Undyne's ball got popped by an ice spike and she stood there with all of the vomit coagulating on one spot, as Joe rolled over her.
*Undyne's confessional*
"I'm carrying my team on my back. Also, this sword which Papyrus gave me for some reason after kicking butt on both seasons!" Undyne shouted, seeing that sword go flaccid.
She looked at the camera, about to cry.
*Confessional cut*
Sakura and Joe were balling around, as Spider-Punk and Undyne were trying their best to earn points and Spider-Punk went hard.
"The Snowmen have 85,000 points thanks to Spider-Punk, but the Amazonians have only 60,000 points because Undyne vomited. I would say more, but..."
Undyne got teleported out, as she shook off the vomit easily.
"Looks like I didn't do too hot. Ladies, let's go and beat those guys!" Undyne shouted. "Don't let me down, y'all!"
"Don't worry, Undyne, the other ladies are already doing that!"
Ramona had a hammer and points to earn, while Jasmine was just rolling and rolling at random with Sakura having the power to keep it consistent.
"Holy moly, the Arctic Amazonians have got over 150,000 points with only three balls down!" Chris announced. "And the Snowmen have only 145,000 points, but it looks like they're getting more firepowers!"
"Guys, I'm about to make this pinball stuff even more flashy!" Tengen declared, before flinging himself off into the pinball abyss.
To be fair, it was more like a tilted box of pinball madness, but still the three wives ninja was clearly making his mark heard on the table, dashing towards every bumper and even getting to a higher level.
And seeing that higher level befuddled the ninja, who saw a few robots and a whole lot of bumpers, flipping gates and light switches
"Okay, more of these things again? So unflashy, man."
Tengen then accelerated towards one of the clawed exoskeletons, who popped the bubble and laughed at him.
"Chris or whatever your name is, does destroying them gain me no points?"
"Yeah, just bump them or whatever."
Tengen got to rubbing their shoulders with impressive aggression, as he kept on attacking the bumpers to rack up a stupid amount of points at the same time Hobie and Joe were off the table.
And then he subsequently got sent off the table with his team having a solid 399,000 points with his teammates ready to shake hands with him, Hobie dapping him up.
"Hey, mister three wives guy, man, you got those girls packing!" Hobie shouted.
"Pretty flashy, ain't it!" Tengen shouted. "Maybe the next guy will."
Tengen literally saw Axl become a house ball, going straight down the table in an impressive feat of big mistakes and the gutter shot the Brit out of a hole that left his ball stuck in the machine.
"You bummed it, man." Hobie told Axl.
"So unflashy!" Tengen dissed the Brit sickle wielder.
Axl got a lot of looks of disappointment, as Robotnik was preparing something very shady that got a surprising amount of looks.
"Uh, are you even allowed to put those things into the ball?" Manolo asked.
"Don't worry, Chris allowed me to for sure." Robotnik hinted.
"Are you sure?"
"Yep, it's legal. You're just mad that he isn't crafty! By the way, the Amazonians are catching up fast since they've got 307,000 points!" Chris announced. "You might need it!"
Sakura fell out of the ball, excited about her experience within the table, as Ermes instantly took her spot on the board and made it her worth to reach that damn upper level.
Ermes was definitely punching an exoskeleton robot, having done the same thing as Tengen by running into a robot and doing the ORA-ORA on one of them.
It was also kinda obvious that Jasmine and Sticks were double-timing on going around on the outside of the paths to scrounge up the rest of the points, these two hitting the flippers easily.
*Sticks' confessional*
The confessional had a little bit of vomiting.
"Robotnik can actually win a challenge legit. Why is he cheating? What's his deal and what does it have to do with the fake trees? Actually nothing, but I'm tired of Robotnik."
Then she puked a little bit again.
*Confessional cut*
Ermes got some strong high-fives when her 200,000 point crusade ended and the Amazonians had 352,000 points in total, but the Snowmen now had 415,000 points which wasn't as big of a lead as before.
"Can I be completely honest? This challenge is terrible." Ermes said.
"Said everybody that's watching Jasmine upchuck Chef's stuff." MK remarked.
"What?"
MK pointed to the table, where Jasmine was actually on the second level vomiting out the Chef's daily garbage while she was pinballing the upper set of bumpers and...slot machines?
"God-[fracking]-damn, Jasmine's gonna be sick!" Ermes shouted.
"Yep, nothing we could do about it." MK shrugged, as Ashido hopped into the ball. "Ashido, please don't vomit inside the ball."
"I will not vomit, you guys!" Ashido shouted.
Ashido got pinballing, as Jasmine was racking up points like it was no tomorrow despite getting a surprise 50,000 already.
"Jasmine's got a solid jackpot and the Snowmen only have 420,000 points to the Amazonians' 407,000 points, which is pretty frickin' close!"
Robotnik was in the ball and had a few inactive sentries to make up for Joe finally getting dumped from his ball and landing on the ground.
Jasmine, Ashido and then Rukia were on the table helping the Arctic Amazonians catch up to the leading Snowmen, as MK was starting to get more than a few looks.
Which she was weirded out by.
"What's with the stares, I'd just upchuck some food and get no points." MK commented.
"Are you sure about that? I'd like to think that you would ace it and stuff!" Undyne declared with a vomit-covered mouth.
"Uh, I'm not stupid what do you think would happen?"
"Who really knows! But I can't have you quit!"
"I'm just gonna save myself for a later ball, you know, so that I don't get-"
Jasmine finally came back taking a breather.
"-sick."
"What's happening, right now?" Jasmine asked.
"Uh, MK's being a wuss." Sticks answered, unimpressed with MK's antics. "I'm gonna be next!"
"Cool, I'm 'bout it."
Mamizou was actually kinda surprised to see MK getting some heat for no apparent reason other than not being in lockstep with an enthusiastic team and Android 21 wasn't too pleased about it either.
The team also forgot that Sakura had finished her run with a solid amount of points and walked to see such a scene.
*Mamizou's confessional*
"Out of all people, I completely understand the team not being excited with MK waiting for the right opportunity, since our rival alliance sabotaged Natalya's chances of winning the game. That being said, they have no reason to insult her game!" She politely vented. "Especially since she consistently is able to handle this game's challenges!"
*Confessional cut*
While the game was happening with the Snowmen (460,000 points) and the Amazonians (446,500 points), there was some other business going on with the members that were waiting in the wings.
By the way, Ken, Robotnik and Manolo were doing some good business for the Snowmen.
"Wow, those three really can pinball off each other, huh?" Bowser asked. "Damn, we're looking good."
"Yeah, they are doing quite good. Anyways, why are the ladies so mad?" Monoma asked his own question quietly.
"Because they can't hang with us men!"
"They're definitely on the down and out!"
"Yes, they are!"
Bowser was starting to raise an eyebrow to Monoma, who had a simple smile.
"Those ladies say that one of the players on this team did some vote stuffing and I don't think it's needed! If they're losing that hard, then their votes should reflect the losing position!" Monoma laid it all out. "Just wanted to know."
"Uh, yeah, they're definitely lying. Probably just scared of that spy girl since she knows stuff!" Bowser threw an excuse, complete with an awkward laugh.
"Stuff about what?"
Bowser looked shocked at his excuse, unintentionally providing a crumb of evidence, sweating a tear, as Monoma looked quite surprised and then somebody accidentally got in the way.
"Maybe she knows how to steal stuff or some spy business, yeah?" Axl Low piped in. "Could be nothing more serious than that."
Bowser and Monoma realised that Axl didn't know stuff.
"But hey, our team's gaining a crazy amount of points! And so is the other team."
The two of them turned to see the leaderboard lit up in sheer chaos, thanks to Robotnik popping his ball and putting his real plan into action.
It was Rukia, Ashido and now Sticks up against the deadly trio of Robotnik, Manolo and Ken on the pinball table.
Currently, Jasmine, Undyne, Ermes and Sakura were out of the table on the girls' side and Axl Low, Joe, Tengen and Hobie were out of the mens' side.
"You have gotta be kidding me?"
The sentries were only going directly into places where the team would earn a massive amount of points and putting a canyon directly in between the points of the Snowmen and the Amazonians.
"Chef, these Snowmen have got 800,000 and oh, man-they've got 850,000 and wait, wait! With only Robotnik, these guys now have 900,000 points to the Amazonians' 513,000! The ladies are lookin' weak!"
Sticks, in the pursuit of Robotnik, only managed to get bounced backwards onto the upper lanes and she managed to land into one of the spike pits to pop her bubble early.
"Aw, come on, I'm letting any Eggman have this win!"
Sticks swung her boomerang at a flipper several times, before being sent off to be replaced by a surprise appearance of Lolo, who looked nervous.
"Uh, do you think I could die here?" Lolo asked.
"I don't know if I can help you, Lolo." Sticks honestly answered, as Lolo nodded. "Just be proud of being an Amazonian."
"Ok."
Lolo just rolled on in and got sent all around the lower table in a ping-pong fashion and then realised that Robotnik scored a mean amount of points.
"The Snowmen have a whole million points, but the Arctic Amazonians are catching up very slightly with 592,000 points!" Chris announced. "Chef, you haven't said anything!"
"I don't know these guys are pin-ballin' but they have an easy win on their hands!" Chef replied. "Those Amazonians do have a little spunk. Ain't much."
MK was still getting some dirty looks from Ramona, Undyne and Sakura for obvious reasons.
"Serious question, put some more spunk in there!" Undyne shouted with a smile. "You have spunk, MK!"
"Wrong kind of spunk for pinball, honestly." MK answered. "Do you think having me in there is going to reverse our major loss?"
"Yes, it would because if you try hard enough, you can kick those guys' asses and get to the third level!" Undyne shouted. "What's up there?!"
"Dunno, don't really care that much." MK said. "Uh, I'll be busy with something."
"STOP BEING BUSY AND GET BACK HERE!"
*Ramona's confessional*
"I would say that Undyne's being too hard on MK, but that isn't happening. What is happening is that MK's just trying to make sure that she actually gets points from seeing everybody else do it." She opened up. "And Undyne's mad because she ain't a super team player like everyone else."
*MK's confessional*
She huffed.
"Can't a girl not like death-defying challenges for no reason? As much as I'm keeping to my OG strategy, breaking a leg because of Chris' poke robots ain't my thing!"
*Confessional cut*
The team was indeed seeing Rukia go sword-to-sword in the second level with some other exoskeletons that actually had swords for some odd reason.
Lolo was doing okay getting bounced all around the place since she couldn't really do anything and Ashido bumped out Ken surprisingly, who just landed on the ground.
"Can I keep it real?" Ken asked, slumped on the ground. "I think I like human pinball."
"What." Joe really had nothing to say to the surprising admission. "The hell."
"Yeah, it's weird, man."
Soon enough, Rukia reappeared on top of Ken.
"My apologies." Rukia stepped off Ken. "I was playing this weird game."
"Aren't we all?" Ken groaned.
"And the Arctic Amazonians have 730,000 points even if the snow dudes have 500,000 more." Chris announced. "It's looking like a guy's game."
Rukia then came up to MK with a vaguely threatening look.
"We'll vote for you, we'll make sure of it." Rukia told her.
"I don't get it, why do you want me to go so badly?" MK baulked at the suggestion.
"Because we're losing by a severe amount and that sucks."
"Good point." MK grumbled out, as Undyne was happy to see her hop in the pinball.
MK, Ashido and Lolo were on the table, as the dudes had a surprise of Monoma and Bowser helping out Manolo's appearance on the third floor, thanks to a lone spring that lifted up
A slanted box that was chock full of tables and stools to bump around that had the distinct vibe of a Y2K-style futurism diner.
*Manolo's confessional*
He was feeling the vomit at the bottom of the confessional.
"I'm surprised that I lasted this long on this challenge and the third floor looks...unique and weird." He was hesistant to criticise the floor.
*Confessional cut*
"The Snowmen have 1,350,000 points, but the Arctic Amazonians have 960,000 points and they're just getting closer!"
Manolo had one thing to do and with a direct way to the gutters, he bumped on the tables and stools repeatedly and inevitably, he had to be sent out of the place, falling to the bottom of the fake diner and getting himself eliminated.
"Manolo single handedly added 350,000 points. This game's over if those ladies ain't gonna reach the top and I ain't a betting man, they won't reach the top!" Chef took the mic for a second.
Ashido and MK were looking at each other.
"Wanna reach that third floor?" Ashido asked.
"Hell yeah, I do." MK answered.
Lolo got sent out by the way and rolled out on the ground and the pinball had a lot of vomit, it spilling out on the floor along with the young mage landing on the ground.
"Holy moly, she might be dead!" Sakura shouted. "Somebody help her."
"What?" Lolo got up instantly.
Sakura looked down at Lolo with an impressed face.
"Did I do good?"
"Yes, Lolo, you sorta did great this round."
"The arctic girls have got 1,230,000 points, though."
Lolo got up and walked up to her team, who was eagerly watching the duo try to reach the top and someone had to hop during the meantime.
"21, get in there or we might have to eliminate-" Undyne commanded.
"Yes, yes, I was already in a pinball." 21 insisted, riding in her own pinball.
21 went flying inside that ball and it only left Emma and Mamizou watching as their team's third last ball went blastin' in a desperate bid to get some points, but meanwhile the dudes were in a very positive mood.
Despite the fact that Bowser and Monoma were up against MK and Ashido, who had long been on the second floor trying to close the gap between the men and the women.
"Hahaha, how does it feel to be behind my team!" Monoma shouted. "Does it feel bad?"
"Yeah." Ashido didn't humour him. "We lost a few times, doesn't mean we'll lose forever!"
While they were both talking and rolling, Bowser and MK was more like that scene two episodes ago where the big bad turtle was chasing the "little" Asian-Canadian scammer around, except MK had one simple plan.
MK hit one of the big points bumpers, which was just a wheel that spun around and it gave the Amazonians some extra 250,000 points alone, as MK then tried to control herself and did end up getting caught by Bowser of sorts and then got into bumping around.
Even if the scammer managed to score another 130,000 points in the process before getting bumped by the Big Koopa, who only got 100,000 points thanks to him chasing MK, not hitting the wheel.
"Hahaha, take that, you nasty turtle." MK shouted, before hitting a bumper head on.
And then getting ping-ponged all around and Ashido skated with her pinball to try and reach the third floor, the mecca of the McLean pinball table.
MK narrowly avoided hitting Ashido on the way out of the pinball table, still somehow earning 60,000 points.
"And MK literally swings her team back into a potential winning position!" Chris announced. "The Arctic Amazonians have 1,701,000 points compared to the Snowmen 2,180,000 points, ooh you can smell the distance getting closer."
*Popeye's confessional*
"I gots to hand it to that mad science guy. He may be a freak, but he gots the grit and those flying machines and one of dose cartoon moustaches." He could only compliment his fellow dudes of snow. "Those ladies plays mean games."
*Confessional cut*
It was down to Android 21, Ashido, Orphan Emma and Mamizou and the dudes had Puss, Popeye, Santa, Medic & Taskmaster to go, so obviously.
Bowser lost just enough control that his pinball got popped by a robot and Monoma wasn't looking to take the same fate or get burned by a villainous king.
The exoskeletons withstood the Koopa's raging fire, Monoma finally bumping into a robot for 50,000 points and then following MK down the exit chute, where the woman was getting all thumbs up.
Monoma then walked back to his team very confident.
"Moneymart-"
"The name is Monoma." The copying hero corrected.
"Shut up. Monomart, you disappointed me. You would have earned more points, buddy!" Joe shouted. "And you had it, but you couldn't beat Bowser! Axl goes first, though, you gutter ball trash!"
Monoma swiped off a tear of sweat, as Axl looked baffled.
"But we haven't lost yet, Joe, we're still winning!" Axl Low shouted.
"SHUT UP, AXL, YOU'RE A DISGRACE TO THE BAND THAT YOU TAKE YOUR NAME FROM!"
Axl Low was baffled at the random reference to his "favourite band if anyone bugs him about that question" since he obviously didn't take his name from there.
Ashido was on the third floor, finally.
"And She's gonna try and stay in the diner for the long haul! You guys get it?"
"Yeah, it's incredibly obvious. You took that from a movie." Joe told Chris, whose face fell at that comment. "Don't worry, man, this should teach ya to not make insane challenges."
"You're only saying that because you get your butt beaten down a big amount." Hobie honestly piped up, as Joe grasped his fist. "I'm not fighting a disabled man."
"DISABLE THIS!"
Ashido wasn't watching your average reality-show argument, as she was spinnin' tables around with impunity and even managing to hit a chair or two on the way down to the exit.
Though even at the end, she managed to bounce on the counter all of the way to a second "invisible" exit chute that easily managed to score her some points.
"The Arctic Amazonians now have 2,310,000 points compared to the Snowmen's 2,440,000 points, which means this challenge isn't a wash."
Ashido crawled out of the ball, her sense of everything screwed from all of the rotations inside the ball and MK got her up.
"Damn, guess I could've done worse." MK remarked. "Even if you feel absolutely worse."
"I've been here for long enough." Ashido groaned.
21 then fell out, surprising everyone else and she just simply landed.
"Sorry about that, everyone, got hit by a surprise spring." 21 told everyone, who was baffled by her appearance. "Ashido nearly put us in the lead."
"Hey, I respect the grind for sucking at challenges. Kinda impressive!" MK laid on the sarcasm. "Shame you did it at a bad time."
21 looked frustrated, as the final three pinballers for their team were even giving her the cold shoulder and Undyne really looked disappointed in her.
*MK's confessional*
She just chuckled.
"As much as it is pretty sad that she didn't get to fulfil her love with the doll guy, I'm so happy that it's not my spot up for elimination! If we lose to the cheaters' alliance."
*Android 21's confessional*
"With all of my predetermined calculations, formulas and mathematical equations..."
She sighed.
"...I have come to the conclusion that I funked up."
*Confessional cut*
Believe it or not, Puss, Medic and Santa were all trying their best to regain the stupid lead that they obtained from Robotnik's honest plays (trade mark) and it wasn't nearly as good as anyone expected.
Besides the obvious cat on the table, they were not doing too hot because they were either old or trying to make sure that the Christmas Spirit wasn't spilling out of their mouths in disgusting fashion.
"Oh no, it ain't a Merry Christmas!" Axl shouted.
"Buddy, that's not even a stinky Christmas any more." Joe remarked.
Santa definitely earned some points (96,000), but it certainly his terrible lunch and then he laid on the ground before getting up.
"This challenge is bloomin' terrible." Santa was choked up too. "Can't believe that didn't even nab that many points."
"Don't worry, you tried to power through the vomit." Joe said his condolences, as Puss was pinballing up and down the table with precision.
Puss bounced off a bumper, angled himself to hit another bumper on the ground floor and then did it again several times in a row and he was enjoying it the whole time.
*Puss' confessional*
"Gracias, leche." He held the bottle of milk. "I'm on a roll!"
*Confessional cut*
Despite the bumps, he literally tried to fight against the forces of nature to reach the flippin' gates, which was at the exact same time that Medic fell victim to said forces of nature.
Medic did some damage, though with about 150,000 points before falling out and flipping up back to his team.
"Blooming 'eck, never thought a cat would do that business!" Santa declared.
"Hey, that is Puss in Boots! Of course, he would be up to that business." Manolo could only hype his fellow Latino feline. (Would Puss be Mexican or Spanish?)
Puss managed to cause a little more trouble, hitting the switches with ease and putting another 100,000 points on the Snowmen.
"And the Snowmen putting their score up to 2,800,000 and only countin', while the Amazonians are certainly trying to keep it close and trying's for extra emphasis!"
Mamizou and Emma looked at each other, as the ladies were genuinely stumped at how they might have the chance to stop the lead from going out of control.
"Hold up, aren't you a young tanuki?" Sakura asked. "Or a kid raccoon?"
Mamizou tensed up, as Ermes put a hand on her shoulder.
"I am a bake-danuki and certainly older than you! Don't treat me like I am a fool." Mamizou replied. "Clearly you don't think I am capable of reversing this team's fortunes or you have a similar feeling."
"Yeah, I think you're kinda capable. But we need someone powerful." Sakura said. "Someone strong. Someone that can shoot fireballs."
Mamizou did a serious tut.
"I can do all three, Sakura Kusagano. You would do well to have faith in me."
"Everybody's been getting sick in there and you don't look like somebody that can hold down your lunch-"
"Foolish answer, Miss Kusagano."
Mamizou then made her way into the pinball, as Orphan Emma looked confused.
"Why is she so ready to fight me?" Sakura asked the team leader.
"Because she knows what's up!" Undyne screamed in the karate girl's ear.
Puss was on the second floor, just as Mrs. Futatsuiwa rolled into the pinball table with only a single mission and her many, many powers and she rolled with an impressive amount of control.
Robotnik and Joe stared at the floating girl handling her game, as she was directly fighting Puss on the pinball table, the tanuki brushing past the bounty hunting cat with ease.
"And the second strongest lady in here finally makes her showing, trying to get Puss' metaphorical head!" Chris announced.
Puss and Mamizou knew that they didn't want to lose the challenge, lest they potentially suffer an elimination and Puss' angle was just enough to be off slightly.
And he hit the upper flippers, sending him to the light spots with him still being able to control the ball decently, while the tanuki lady sent herself into the bumpers.
*Mamizou's confessional*
"For what it is worth, this is not nearly close to the worst challenge that Chris has sent me into. Moreso, this is the challenge that requires great observations and power."
*Confessional cut*
Popeye rolled into the pinball table and both players noticed that he was seemingly stuck being out of control.
Either way, surprisingly enough, they both turned themselves towards the second floor for obvious reasons and soon enough, they both shot themselves right up the chute.
"Senorita, your game's strong, but not strong enough."
"On the contrary, I have learned of ways to stop you."
Mamizou, easily being able to fly, steered her pinball right into one of the exoskeletons and surprisingly deflected from them easily, with Puss not trying the same business and hitting some odd wheels.
Wheels of a rather spiky nature that the cat made his pinball bounce off them without any damage, him racking up points just like the tanuki lady, except Mamizou was still hitting the exoskeletons quite easily, dodging their claws with her expertise.
And they both had to collide.
"The ladies and the dudes both have at least 3 million now and nothing's going to stop them aside from each other and maybe Popeye!"
Popeye, surprisingly, wasn't doing too hot mostly because this was pinball and he just kept on rolling around with the spinach just out of his reach.
*Popeye's confessional*
"Dis challenge really tried to take de wind outta me sails. It tried."
*Confessional cut*
Puss couldn't last forever on the spiky wheels section and his pinball popped and immediately went into action on trying to pop the ever confident Mamizou's who swiftly dodged his strike.
She then went up to the third floor through that same spring that Puss could only chase for considering his limited time and she earned as many points as she could really carry on her tail.
Puss just about managed to reach it and used his remaining fifteen seconds to clean up the rest of Mamizou's many points, spinning around and doing fancy tricks in the Y2K future-styled diner, by that time it was well and truly over.
Puss got teleported, just as Mamizou went down the third floor's exit chute.
"And the Amazonians have 3,496,000 points compared to the Snowmen's 3,276,000 points, finally putting them in the lead!"
Mamizou stepped out of the ball haughtily and Puss looked at Popeye while eating his superfood while the women were celebrating their first victory.
Spinach.
Also (Orphan) Emma nervously went into the penultimate pinball, but Popeye ate that spinach and he did what a man with spinach should do.
Use his arms to propel himself towards the second floor and let the ball pop on one of the exoskeletons and rush the stationary robots with punches.
And then a few slobber knockers.
And then some dirty swings, along with a few heavy hitters and scoring points in the meantime, not realising that Taskmaster was yet to go and taking a good look at his Ermes-style rapid punches.
Popeye then saw the exoskeletons still standing with a few exposed wires.
"Yeesh, that aint'sk a pretty sight." He remarked, before being teleported.
The ladies then realised that they were properly and certainly losing the challenge, especially since Taskmaster and Emma were the only ones left in the game.
"And the Snowmen have 3,780,000 points thanks to Popeye punching his team back into the lead and it's all down to an orphan and a deadly mercenary."
Popeye was getting a lot of high-fives that he couldn't receive, but he appreciated them nonetheless.
"You can do it, Emma, if you can't do it then no-one can!" Undyne shouted.
"Uh, that's literally what is happening right now." Ramona said. "Even if you kinda mess up, you won't be voted out."
"Thank you. Do you think I have a chance?"
Jasmine and Ramona looked at each other worryingly, as Undyne had one thing to say.
"EVERYBODY HAS A CHANCE!"
Taskmaster wasn't really doing anything special and keeping the food in his stomach, while Emma was trying to do a lot of special actions while trying to keep the vomit off.
*Mamizou's confessional*
She just took her glasses off.
"Unless Emma can outwit and outmatch an experienced mercenary with many confirmed kills and an ability to copy any attack, we will definitely lose."
She put on her glasses.
"But notably more bizarre things have happened in this challenge, like a sailor punching his team into the lead."
*Confessional cut*
Emma did score 190,000 points and was basically knocked out at the end of it.
"Holy moly, she might be dead!" Undyne shouted. "Uh, can somebody help?"
Lolo put down some kind of spell and Emma instantly got up, covered in vomit.
"Holy moly, how did you do that!" Undyne piped up again.
"I learned from my master." Lolo humbly said, as Emma hugged her "And my friend."
"Thank you, Lolo, you're my best friend!"
Emma then saw the score and instantly dropped, just like the rest of the team had minus one person that wanted to say something to Chris thanks to her authority.
"Hold on, how can Taskmaster be out there! We actually have less members, not to mention that everyone went once." Jasmine suggested. "It would be redundant for his score to be counted."
"Yeah, Chris!" Undyne backed her up.
"Should have done that before letting him in there! Anyways, the Snowmen win once again and you Amazonians have to vote somebody else off!"
Undyne and Jasmine were pissed, but Ramona could only comment on the mercenary's meticulous moves.
"I'm only going to say this once. The man had skills." Ramona said. "For a bunch of cheaters."
"The crazy part is that he cheated better than I did-" MK suddenly added. "-last season."
"Yeah-wait, what do you mean he?"
"Uh, he's a bad guy willing to do anything for money. I'm surprised he hasn't cheated more." MK had an excuse cooked up that still got Ramona suspicious. "Gotta say some of us definitely tried harder than others, which ain't a surprise."
"Yeah, but it's not that simple."
*Jasmine's confessional*
She felt something was off.
"Why would MK know that Taskmaster cheated, let alone cheated at something? I doubt it's news around here since it's the first time I heard it." She stated. "But then again, maybe it was some kind of coordinated effort."
*Confessional cut*
Taskmaster dropped out of the pinball table to see his team pleasantly surprised at his game.
"The Snowmen do have exactly four million points, while you Amazonians have 3,700,000!" Chris could only see the Snowmen mostly celebrate.
"I don't know if that was a fair game, but you did play fair today." Manolo said.
"Eh, shut up, we took a victory." Taskmaster replied. "Mission accomplished and something tells me that those ladies hate us now."
"Which still bugs me, but I'm just happy for Popeye basically saving our game." Manolo told him. "There's no reason for Robotnik to cheat here, a million dollars doesn't seem like that much."
"There's always a good reason that people cheat and a million dollars is a damn good one, too."
"It is still wrong in my book!"
"Good one, rich boy."
Manolo didn't feel too angry.
*Manolo's confessional*
"Last time that somebody I knew cheated, somebody almost died." He said sorrowfully. "That somebody's my wife."
*Confessional cut*
Well, there was a group of four that wouldn't really kill for Total Drama and they were just hanging out with the boys and seeing the girls get into a frenzy about who should be eliminated.
Rukia was thrown around and she instantly disputed for lacklustre reasons, leading to Lolo saying something stupid and became a good candidate and of course, Android 21 and Sticks were also thrown around as potential candidates.
Meanwhile, Robotnik and Bowser looked at them on a whole different side of the table.
"Look at them, mad at our success." Bowser chuckled. "Almost makes it sad to give another member of their team the boot with our own hand."
"Actually, it is none of ours." Robotnik whispered. "For any cameras recording, we didn't do anything."
"Yep, they got themselves to blame."
"Simply eliminated due to their strength, simple as that."
Monoma wasn't really listening, moreso observing those two in particular and had to bump Medic in the shoulder.
"What are those two chuckling about?" Monoma was straight forward.
"Biggest supervillain achievements no doubt." Medic said. "Wouldn't you laught about it."
Monoma looked at them laughing and then Ken put a hand on his shoulder.
"They're just guys being guys. Let them have a good time, Moneymart." Ken said.
"NOT YOU TOO!" Monoma shrieked, as Medic and Ken laughed at him.
"Whoops, sorry, forgot it wasn't Moneymart." Ken accidentally said it with a smug tone.
*Monoma's confessional*
He couldn't stop laughing.
"Besides the fact that one of Class 1-A's players is up for a second consecutive elimination
*Ken's confessional*
He kicked up some snow.
"I hope that Android 21 isn't eliminated! I haven't even made her watch the Shawshank Redemption, if there's a thing around here."
*Confessional cut*
Elimination time, du-du!
It was a surprisingly spicy elimination, mostly owing to the increased tension within the team.
"Well, well, Arctic Amazonians, you ladies have lost against and the team seems a little on edge for reasons that I'd love for you to elaborate on!" Chris announced.
The team was mad and silent.
"Hey, you can talk-"
"Seriously, Lolo, you can't just say that crazy people should be eliminated!" Sticks shouted.
"But you're both really scary and really talk to plates! I'm sorry!" Lolo squeaked. "I didn't mean it."
"That's okay, the plates wouldn't understand you anyways. You still didn't do good in the challenge."
Lolo slumped.
"What the hell, I thought you were cool!" Ramona shouted.
"Hey, she definitely tried harder than Miss 21, which I really apologise for-" Emma defended her friend.
"What did I do wrong, I tried my best!" 21 said. "Lolo actually had the right idea."
It was just turning into a shouting match that only ate into the episode's length.
Chef had a mean whistle.
"Shut up! I already heard your reasons!" Chef called them out.
And now the team was back to a frustrated quiet.
"Anyways, believe it or not, the votes aren't that surprising again! Ramona, Jasmine, Ermes, MK, Mamizou, Ashido, Sakura, Emma and Undyne all have no votes to their name! Weirdly enough, so does Sticks or Lolo!"
Sticks and Lolo genuinely looked surprised and Ermes was definitely pissed now.
"And it all comes to Rukia being able to freeze anything or Android 21 being able to fly and shoot beams! Who will it be?" Chris announced.
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"Rukia-"
Rukia then waited for her marshmallow, as Android 21 slowly got up.
"-you're out of the game! Guess you were too cold."
Android 21 saw her marshmallow drop, as Rukia looked surprised.
"Okay, this is just wrong. How come neither Lolo or Sticks got any votes?" 21 questioned Chris. "What's happening?"
"Hey, there's no funny business, I guess Rukia was too strong after all!"
Rukia then looked at her team without disgust, but only with a simple conclusion.
"I can tell that something's up with the votes." Rukia said. "I'm glad to at least lend my blade to the team. Didn't really get to use my full power, but I didn't need it."
And with one simple yoink on the Drone of Shame, the Shinigami had left for greener pastures.
"And that was that, another challenge done, another lady eliminated! Will more Amazonians take their love or will the Snowmen finally lose the game?"
To be continued in Episode 11, where the game goes wild for the hockey that people definitely care about and are totally not sliding on the floor for! Also, the hockey bros will be back for more cameos because of course, they would and you guys are gonna see how a millionaire spent his life-changing amount of money in the next episode because his situation has kinda changed.
I feel like I have this weird problem where despite liking media I just don't tend to watch it for reasons that I really don't want to divulge (wasting time & YouTube) and Rukia doesn't really suffer from that, just wanted to acknowledge that.
She might be voted off at this point thanks to being a solid teammate, seriously strong and being a general loner compared to the camaraderie of the remaining Arctic Amazonians.
Big problem is that she didn't get voted off, though and hell hath no fury compared to when women are angry (says Joe Swanson, expert on feminism and women)