Total Drama X: Winter Warriors
Episode 12: Relay, Replay and Reliable Players
After all that hockey terminology got stuck in the heads of our 25 remaining contestants, it was indeed time for a little familiarity with this of the challenge!
Which isn't a good thing because this is Chris McLean and familiarity breeds pirahna plants that can survive in the cold, killer baby seals and more mud than a moshpit would be comfortable with! Also, also, sheer old hatred from some team members. Also, also, also, I hope you review this chapter because I need 'em.
Goodguygary: You kinda figured out the reason why I eliminated him, as it's not the important characters' time to get eliminated just yet. Also, Axl Low's a whole different character from MMX Axl obviously, don't know how you confused the two.
"Last time on Winter Warriors, we had a heck of a time in hockey and despite there being cameos from everyone's favourite pair of hockey bros and one of the hockey bro's boyfriend, no-one cared about that. They just wanted to not slip, slide and get sent down a pole with their babymakers intact! There was a lot of pole hits, a lot of near bear hits and oh, oh so much fighting!"
"There was even a whole brawl in the second half, despite Android 21 and Ken not having any bit of the animosity that made both teams made! Well, the ladies were angry enough to not only win the challenge, but blowout the Snowmen by four whole points! Yeesh, they felt it in the morning! Of course, Axl Low got the boot for screwing two challenges in a row and he didn't take it too hard!"
"I tried to give him pain, but he couldn't stop smiling during his elimination, even if he almost cried! Either way, both teams are now angry, ready to tear into each other and probably hate a certain loving couple! Who's ready to really ride the cold? Find out today on TOTAL DRAMA X: WINTER WARRIORS!"
"Someone tell me that last night didn't just happen." Spider-Punk said.
Regardless of wherever it was warranted or not, there was clearly a massive hole in the team that nobody could really fill despite the fact that Monoma wasn't really that well-liked.
Axl Low, despite flopping in the last two challenges, must have added something that it was definitely missing and the fact that the dudes lost handily helped.
"Well, it did, you can't deny that." Joe stated. "What matters is that those women better be prepared for our comeback."
"What does that mean, man, what does that mean?"
"I mean-" Joe clicked something. "-we're ready to shoot."
"You can't just shoot the other team. That's a fascist move if I've ever seen one." Spider-Punk casually told him. "We could hearn our teamwork."
"How is our team even working at this moment? We might have cut our weakest link at the moment, but I don't know if it was that weak of a link." Bowser said. "He had a positive attitude!"
"The man did act like a plonker, but he definitely deserves a present. Wasn't ever a bad man." Santa had his comment. "But we do Ken, Ho..erm..Spider-Punk and the rest of you nice fellows."
"Yeah, thank you, old guy. Seriously why do you look like Santa so much?" Bowser asked.
"Rah, calm down, I've seen a lot of old guys look like Nick over there. We need to figure why we've bummed out instead of figuring out some random geezer!" Spider-Punk defended Santa for one reason.
They both winked at each other, which confused a good majority of the team, but the two scientists who were currently right next to each other, fully ready.
"Maybe ze British have a thing together." Medic whispered to Robotnik. "Or zhese two are super powerful."
"Actually, it's more than likely these two know each other's identity and bringing that up would hurt the team overall and our mediocrity does not need to sink us to a terrible status." Robotnik whispered back.
"That's true." Medic said. "Who are they?"
"One of them should be obvious, my fellow scientist." Robotnik stated.
Medic and Robotnik looked right at Santa and figured it out, as the rest of the team were organising themselves.
*Santa's confessional*
He was sweating a little bit.
"I'm starting to think that my team might be getting a little wise about who I am. Oh, that would be terrible since I bloody love these fellows!"
*Spider-Punk's confessional*
He looked a little surprise.
"Dude almost said my government name and there is no way that there's an interdimensional government that knows me, especially after all of the Spider-Verse madness. I already know who he is and as he's part of the mandem and basically a socialist, I ain't gonna reveal it!"
*Confessional cut*
As for the ladies, they had their food and now, aside from MK, Ermes and Mamizou unsurprisingly, all of them were rather elated about their reversed fortunes.
"LET'S GO, LET'S GO, LET'S GO!" Undyne, Ashido, Emma and Jasmine cheered.
"Hey, whoa, whoa, we just won a single challenge, it's gonna take more than one single victory to make us a winning team." Ramona tried to cool them down, justifiably.
"Realstically speaking, if we carry that kind of energy to the challenge, it will help us make a winning team." Jasmine rebutted. "Besides, we don't have any weak links right now."
"We do, but-" Ramona started.
"-But who cares. We beat the cheaters and we beat the men, that's all that matters at this very moment. Even if the sole robot isn't that happy about it." Sticks stated.
"Are you sure she's unhappy about it?" Jasmine asked. "She is smiling."
"Robots do crazy stuff and I bet she's planning an uprising." Sticks said.
"Do you all think about is dumb conspiracies?" Android 21 said. "I was just smiling about Ken."
"See, she wants to take Ken's mind or something."
"I'm reasonably not at that stage, can I hold hands with him?"
Sticks then squeal his way out of the cabin, as the rest of them were a little weirded out by the odd conversation.
"I'm starting to think that maybe it will be like that. There are definitely cheaters, but Sticks might be taking it too far." Android 21 said.
"What do you mean too far? She definitely has reasonable skepticism." Emma explained herself. "There's a bunch of cheaters messing with us."
"How do you they're not on our team?" Ramona asked.
"Because that would be super messed up!"
"...Uh, have you asked where MK, Ermes and Mamizou are at right now?" Ramona said. "Sounds like some super honest people."
"They're probably helping us through ways that I kinda rock with, but most of you guys would hate it." Jasmine guessed. "Either way, I doubt they'd mess with the votes."
*Ashido's confessional*
"What the heck, like, there's no way that the traitor's on our team, especially since they specifically tried to get the most powerful members of us eliminated and I don't think there's anybody like that!"
*Confessional cut*
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Speaking of alliances, they were currently busy being holed up in their respective locations, the villainous alliance back in their hat of panic and potential shame.
"I think we might have messed up." Bowser said.
"Wow, that is incredible. Next thing you're gonna say is that we lost the challenge or that our strategy bolstered the other team." Taskmaster sarcastically remarked.
"Wait, I already know all of that stuff. The point is that it worked against us, right?" Bowser remembered. "And we're getting hunted by people on both teams, not to mention the Spider guy, Sticks and maybe more fellows knows of this alliance's existence."
"Well, that is just the thing. We did a stupid attempt at fixing the votes and unsurprisingly, the anger from those kinds of moves backfired on us and led us to another loss." Robotnik stated. "I was going to try and vote off another key player, but I'd rather watch the social situation on the Amazonians to figure out how to bolster the chances of her elimination."
"Now, zat's the type of zhinking that we needed in zis kind of stiuation!" Medic exclaimed. "But if we've been getting too much suspicion, how do we do it?"
"Basically, we don't have to meet up every challenge, especially since we're in a perilous situation and we're all situated on the same team. So, just pretend for a challenge or two that we do not have this alliance."
"Wait, so we're getting the heat off of us?" Bowser asked.
"Yes, zat is what we're talking about! Let the experiment begin!" Medic shouted.
"It's not really an experiment, just a little bit of common sense happening." Taskmaster answered.
*Taskmaster's confessional*
"And also a benefit to my own solo game. The first thing that I did was joined an alliance that popped up and the second thing I'm about to do is to basically betray and pretend that I was never there when they blow up, because I don't see these guys lasting until the merge without being exposed. The third step's basically be the best damn version of me I can be, which isn't really that hard." He laid out his whole plan, throwing a little bit of emotion in there.
He was excited, though you couldn't tell.
"I'm gonna play the best damn solo game that I can."
*Confessional cut*
Thanks to the hilariously conveninent location, MK (and her alliance, since they were actually pretty close to her) was doing a little bit of espionage from a tree that hid her well.
Chris had a bunch of interns, one dragon maid and a goddess that tried to stop Seiya's cautious madness, pulled up for the challenge, which even included the layout of the course and MK didn't care to listen to the special instructions, considering past attempts.
But she did get the course in her head, as did her partners in crime who were taking a good look and when the dragon maid turned towards them, they all essentially booked it quietly, anticipating whatever stupid ability that Tohru had.
"Serious question? We definitely learnt that there's robot bears, robot seals and robot pirahna in some relay race-type business, but what the hell else does he have?" Ermes wasn't impressed with the host with the most.
"If I'd have to guess, an anti-me strategy. I messed up his hair last main season." MK remarked.
"Hey, that was your fault."
"Come on, you would do the same!"
"Honestly, I wouldn't do it right now and I wouldn't do it ever if he's just a crappy reality show host and I doubt he's gonna become a true supervillain or whatever."
Ermes and MK were notably behind Mamizou, who hadn't said a single word unsurprisingly and they all were panting.
"Let's just get back to wherever the ladies are at." MK said.
"Or not. Something tells me that the challenge is coming very soon." Mamizou answered. "And it'd be best for us to wait here."
*Mamizou's confessional*
The tanuki lady was just sitting on her tail and couldn't help but smile at her extremely fortunate situation.
"Today we learned that we beat the alliance that has been tormenting us for a short while in one challenge and all of them were left unscathed. I am looking forward to whatever petty retailiation that the group of miscreants could throw at us and especially, me, because I outrank them by an incredible margin."
*Confessional cut*
It looked like nothing interesting was gonna happen today, like yesterday.
"Guys, challenge time! This challenge won't involve ice-skating I promise."
Welp, it was the scheduled challenge to happen and it has been 2 days since the ice skating comedy happened, so it was going to be something.
All 23 of the players had arrived to see a what basically was a Christmass-y version of a hobbled together McLean challenge, even if it looked very solid.
"Are you serious?" Spider-Punk asked.
"Yeah, he's always serious." Manolo answered.
The oddly circular course was kind of a like an two indentical lanes of obstacles that was quite maze-like albeit without many alternate paths and it was also made to be mad.
The obstacles included spikes, bears, GMO pirahna pools and whatever else was brewing in Chris' mind that could be done on a budget and could also fit the theme of the season and the path was definitely wider than your average Total Drama obstacle.
The real difference it was covered in snow.
"Good morning, campers! I hope you enjoyed your time relaxing from falling off the ice skates so much, because it was really funny! But I did notice that I haven't done a race in so long!"
"We were on bikes, it was only half a month ago, Big Man wiped out so hard that he got blown out of the game!" MK reminded Chris.
"Oh yeah, that was amazing. But this time around, everybody's taking part and everybody can really wipe out like he did! It's a simple relay race against each other and against all of the obstacles that I was allowed to put in! Seriously, I was held back."
The contestants were looking at the awkward circular course in malaise?
Yeah, malaise.
"Come on, campers, say something already!"
"I've dealt with tougher stuff back at the Demon Slayer Carps and half of this is actual trash. That's unflashy, man." Tengen insulted the guy.
"Anyways, Tengen think it's going to be easy and dude, you shouldn't judge a challenge by it's cover. Everybody's going in this relay race until you run out of members and since one team has a few more than the others, some Amazonians will go twice!" Chris heard the ladies' jeers. "Simple challenge! First team to finish every lap wins immunity, the other has to boot a contestant off!"
"Great, who's doing this wacky obstacle course first?" MK asked. "Can't be since I'm not exactly a physical type."
"Yeah, she can't handle it!" Tengen said.
Chris was doing a thinking pose and then he could only rub his hands.
"You two campers have finally inspired me to do something."
MK and Tengen were a little sussed out.
"Go on." Tengen said. "You can try me."
Tengen and MK were forced to be the first ones to test the course, as Chris grinned.
"Hey, just lettting you know that it's going to be awkward for you!" Tengen taunted. "As a warning."
"Yeah, it's gonna be pretty awkward for you, haha." MK followed up nervously.
*Tengen's confessional*
"Alright, time to make Chris mad. Scratch that, that's probably the easiest thing I could do outside getting Tanjiro to try and beat up an Upper Moon Demon!" He was chilling in the seat.
*Confessional cut*
"What, are you seriously that petty of a guy?" Ashido complained.
"He definitely is!" Manolo shouted in agreement.
The two of them looked at each other, as Chris pulled something out.
"You two ready?"
"HELL NO!" Joe shouted.
"Wasn't asking you, Joe. Alright, it's GO time!"
Tengen and MK instantly started sprinting on the straight away, which was covered in snow, the crunchy stomps of the snow didn't affect Tengen that much, but MK was just trudging through well.
Well isn't enough to catch one of the best ninjas in the business, the white-haired ninja trying to sprint through a thick pit of snow and MK was surprisingly close.
Though Tengen started sprinting again, as MK could only run right into a banked corner that wasn't too slippery and the second obstacle was a few ice floes with familiar baby seals.
"Why would he do this?" Tengen asked, hopping right over the seal. "I bet this guy's cute-"
The three wives ninja had the seal stuck on him, as MK didn't really have an easier time, but she didn't have a seal stuck on her.
Despite the ninja's sheer speed, the low-key scammer just about managed to catch up to him onto the third obstacle, which was monkey bars over a cold pirahna plant (which is more impressive than it sounds), Tengen finally extending the lead.
MK was doing decently on the bars, but slipped once and quickly realised that cold pirahnas bite just as hard as the rest of their kind, swimming desperately out of the cold pool.
Tengen was actually onto the third obstacle, a place so dark that you'd have to hit each and every random thing that was just there inside the atrium, but the ninja demon slayer dodged them all.
Minus one.
"Nice hat, dude." Chris announced.
"Thanks, Chris!" Tengen said. "It was made to be flashy."
The dude was wearing a flowery hat like one of those Victorian ladies.
*Bowser's confessional*
The big koopa smiled.
"I respect a guy comfortable in his masculinity. I respect it." Bowser nodded, knowing that his number one minion would do the same thing.
*Confessional cut*
Tengen then crawled through the snowy army wires, MK stumbling through the dark room and only being one obstacle behind.
That was only right before the ninja, climbed up a tall wall that contained one flag for each team member and a few extra to compensate the Amazonians lacking a few of them.
"Hah, easy work!"
"Heheh, yeah!" MK shouted from a slight distance.
Tengen was slowly climbing up the wall, dodging random sticky boxing gloves that were meant to cause a little bit of trouble, especially in Feburary.
The ninja got his flag quite easily and the downhill section was a slide chock full of ramps made to drop the flag or drop the contestants into the mud and he went down it rather smoothly.
MK got stuck on a boxing glove, but she got off it and still on the rope, costing a little bit of time on her end.
But she did hear the ninja land in some particularly troublesome patch of mud and decided it was her opportunity to finish up the slide, the flag in her jacket pocket.
"Well, that was definitely a flashy patch of mud!" MK mocked him, actually landing on the upper wood walkway.
"Like I said, easy work!"
This time, the two of them were now neck and neck, thanks to Tengen getting a little stuck in the mud and finally, there was a maze that you could walk over if you climbed the walls or jumped high enough.
MK got lucky in there, but Tengen had the jump to finish off his run in the course and he realised that it wasn't exactly a manly hat and threw it towards the ladies.
*Ken's confessional*
"I don't even know if I could've made that hat even a manly thing or a Ken thing and I'm not sure if that British guy could even rock it!" Ken said with a confident smile. "Anyone can try it, though."
*Confessional cut*
"Snowmen, your dude's back! You gonna pick somebody?" Chris asked.
"Of course, but we haven't decided just yet." Joe replied. "Do you think this is gonna be okay?"
Jasmine looked confused at her rivalling team struggling to choose and though Tengen gave the Snowmen their headstart, MK had finally arrived and high-fived her.
"Get 'em, Your Highness!" MK said.
"That's what I aim to do!" Jasmine quipped back.
The princess was off, just as the boys had finally decided on Medic, of all people and it was clearly, that it wasn't an unanimous decision.
"There's no way that he could do it any faster than me. We need all of the momentum and flashiness we could get here!" Tengen complained.
"Mr. Uzui, you don't understand the rationale of this choice." Robotnik said. "We're only trying to throw the simpletons on the other team off."
Jasmine was doing surprisingly well, even when she could stomp through the snow more slowly than Medic really could and immediately ran faster out of the snow.
Medic was taking it slowly and surely, though his boots definitely helped a little bit in the snow pit, albeit he was still behind when it came to everything else.
He sunk in the ice floes pool, having to deal with something that Chris could put down there without it jumping out of the cold pool and Jasmine just jumped over them.
"I don't know why Chris would put-"
Jasmine got a baby seal for a glove.
"-WHY IS THIS GUY SO AGGRESSIVE!"
Jasmine sprinted trying to shake off the baby seal, as Medic dealt with Fang's long awaited return in the pool, only being able to swim slowly.
The princess shook off the baby seal and the doctor was about to witness a baby seal and a walking shark fight each other and wisely decided that he didn't want any part of it.
By the time the German doctor got out, Jasmine was already swinging smoothly across the monkey bars over the pirahna plant and managed to make it across.
Medic definitely tried his hardest and he might have been a bit slow, but he did get bitten by it without landing on the fertile ground.
"SCHISSE!"
Medic could move on ahead, as Jasmine hopped right into the dark room and bumped into a myriad of random stuff and things that was contained within the thing.
Unlike Medic, who actually managed to navigate it without turning into a fool, but Jasmine eventually got out of it.
"YEEEERRR!" Jasmine could only let out a yankee-ish cheer for some reason. "What just happened?"
"You got possessed by a hat." Ramona remarked.
Jasmine threw it down, as Medic easily navigated the army wires, the princess trying to follow behind with only gusto and getting a few cuts along with being muddy as all hell.
Medic then tried to climb the wall, having a slowly shrinking advantage thanks to Jasmine climbing twice as fast as him, the doctor gulping in fear.
Either way, Jasmine reached the top first and Medic could only see her slide down with her flag and slide off a ramp right into the mud.
"Guten tag, Your Highness!"
Medic slid and avoided the ramps and the mud, running right back with his own flag right back to tag out another fella, but Jasmine wasn't that far behind.
The mini-maze only meant that Jasmine could at least try to catch up, while Medic ran through that thing with surprising ease.
Ashido quite instantly high-fived the princess to try and catch up with the next player, Monoma, who had this maddening smile.
"And Medic's got the Snowmen on the third lap, as Jasmine's still got the ladies stuck on the second lap." Chris announced.
"How's zat for a weak player?!" Medic exclaimed.
"Eh, you were pretty alright." Joe answered, seeing the mad doctor's maddening smile. "For the record, don't experiment on me."
"I never said I vill, but my services do include ze leg healing!"
"Listen, man, I'm not interested now. Save it for an important challenge."
Medic had a confident smile, as the ladies were at least high-fiving Jasmine.
"Why the heck are you so good at doing that kinda stuff!" Undyne shouted. "I'd thought you'd complaining!"
"I'm a little bit of adventurer. Still have never seen a baby seal before!" Jasmine remarked.
"And that crazy baby seal didn't stop you!"
"Wait, that's not normal for a baby seal?"
Undyne had a thought about it.
"Living with humans? Haven't heard it!"
Back to the race, Ashido and Monoma were surprisingly equal, The cocky copying hero only being slightly in front of the acid-secreting hero in the dark room.
"Damn, those two are about equal! Wonder who's gonna get ahead." Chef could only comment. "Never mind, blonde kid's ahead!"
Monoma could only laugh.
"Looks like one of Class 1-A's shining stars can only see in the light! This challenge isn't that hard for me!"
His team wasn't really that impressed, as Ashido jumped out of the room and then tried to slide all of the way through the wires...and successfully did her slide.
"What!"
"Monoma, why are you a jerk?" Ashido got up.
Monoma could only crawl through, as Ashido climbed up the wall.
"It's not very complicated."
Ashido actually got stuck on a boxing glove, as Monoma finally got out of the barbed wires and onto the awkward slightly sloped wall, climbing it rapidly.
"Why are you such a gigantic douche?!" Hobie asked.
"Why shouldn't he be one?" Taskmaster suggested. "He's on the other team to his school rival, he doesn't always have to be friendly."
"Man's annoying is all I'm saying."
Ashido put her acid on the boxing glove, as she slipped off to try and climb a wall that Monoma had already scaled.
Monoma slid down the slope and hit a ramp like he didn't care and landed like he also didn't care, as in he managed to almost get onto the wooden platform before slipping all of the way down to the mud.
Ashido also slid and jumped off the ramp to get some serious air time, leading to her getting an major advantage for the ladies and Lolo raised her hand up.
Both of them were going over the mini-maze
"Do you think you could do it?" Ashido asked.
"Klonoa told me I could do it. I bet I could!" Lolo had a cheeky smile on her face.
Lolo sprinted off, as Monoma finally swapped to somebody's ire.
"Senor Monoma, you can't just insult a man's honour." Puss made a dramatic statement.
"Great, then you can make up the difference!" Monoma complimented the cat.
Lolo had a decent advantage, especially when she shielded herself from the snow pit with her magic and Puss could barely walk in it due to being the shortest contestant by a good margin.
And that was it for advantage, because though Lolo didn't do too bad, she couldn't even remotely compare to Puss running on the monkey bars in parallel and rushing through the dark room.
*Lolo's confessional*
She almost cried.
"Wow, Puss would be a really cool friend if we were on the same team!" Lolo shouted. "He's so amazing."
*Confessional cut*
Puss was still far ahead in the dark room, as Lolo was careful to not offend the baby seal on the floes, jumping carefully around it to ensure that she didn't get bitten.
Puss' hat didn't change, albeit he definitely broke a statue on the way out as he sprinted, leaping onto the wall to climb much faster, while Lolo wasn't doing too bad on the monkey bars even if they were ice cold.
The gatito was quickly climbing the wall and the teen mage slipped off the monkey bars.
Lolo got a little lost in the dark, while Puss had a daring jump from sliding down the other side from his boots and nailed it perfectly and honestly, it was not even close.
Lolo had gained some white powder, while Puss
"Wow, Puss is really proving that he's the MVP for the Snowmen! Looks like Old Nick is finally having a go!" Chris announced. "Lolo trying to shake the loser mentality!"
Lolo hopped on a boxing glove and somehow barely cleared the wall by accident, and slid onto the slide to also somehow avoid any ramps and landed on the upper section.
Lolo went through the maze, as Santa Claus just ran through the snow easily and then hopped on the ice floes to see the baby seal leap towards him for a good bite.
And then the baby seal turned away from him, as Santa just kept on moving.
"Lolo, come on, come on!" Ramona shouted.
"I got it, I got it!"
Lolo slipped down the slide and got in the mud.
Santa was actually decently ahead, struggling on the monkey bars, but Lolo had finally done her lap and Ramona quite literally slid back into the race.
"Lap five for the Amazonians and the jolly guy's not doing too bad!"
Ramona then metaphorically was starting to skate through the relay, as Santa was going through the dark room and running straight like it was nobody's business.
He gained a familiar outfit, as he kept on climbing on the wall.
"Holy [shirt, he's looking jolly!" Ramona shouted.
"Actualy, he rocks it pretty good!" Ken complimented the old guy, who was fuming.
Santa did climb and he did slide right onto the top and the outfit wasn't actually a santa outfit, but a red cowboy outfit that was right on top of his overalls and shirt.
"It looks daft right now!" Santa shouted.
"I think it looks cool." Ken remarked, as Santa just took it off. "Just need it to be on its own."
"And Robotnik's doing lap six for the dudes and he is not doing too hot! But Ramona's already past the dark room
Santa took a look at it, since Robotnik was forced onto the course and Ken wanted to update a dude's style.
Android 21 was looking through the glass wall that seperated both teams to bear witness to a fashion guy doing his thing, as Ramona was skating through the course in unremarkable ways.
Even if Ramona was basically blasting through all of time.
"Stop staring at him, he's basically our enemy!" Sticks shouted. "Sort of."
"Really, I can't admire his sense of fashion and his belief that life is indeed fantastic in plastic?" 21 asked.
"Yes to the fashion, no to the plastic. The truth ain't plastic and he's on the other team."
"Do you think he's cheating? Because he really isn't smart enough to cheat."
"No, but you don't know this guy. He could be a sleeper agent or something."
"And Ramona's tagging in Ermes, basically meaning that the Amazonians will beat Robotnik's verrrry slow butt!"
Sticks and 21 just huffed, as Ramona had finally arrived at the start and tagged in Ermes for obvious reasons and saw this discussion happen and shook her head.
*Ramona's confessional*
"I don't know if Ken's good enough for her since she can fly and shoot beams, basically do all kinds of stuff that the guy might not be able to handle. Doubt he's a bad guy, though, since he doesn't really mind me of-"
Ramona had a thought.
"-never mind, it was just something."
*Confessional cut*
Robotnik was flopping and Ermes was thriving, actually managed to pass him quite easily on the bars thanks to both Robotnik falling and Ermes swinging past this thing easily.
Ermes saw a baby seal leap an incredible distance and fail to snatch her on the floes.
*Ermes' confessional*
"Holy shit, me and Jolyne have seen some insane stuff in prison, things that still would be impossible on this show! And yet, a baby seal flying in the air for damn bite on the head is the most surreal [shaft] I've ever seen!"
*Confessional cut*
Ermes didn't hesitate to let the scientist know one thing, as she entered the dark room.
"Your dumbass couldn't even handle a day in jail!" Ermes shouted.
"Well, that's moreso an indictment on you rather than on me!" Robotnik then threw a (robotic) baby seal into the water.
Robotnik then got pulled back into the water, as Ermes kept on running with Kiss out in front punching all sorts of stuff in the dark room and managed to carry some stuff onto the wall.
"Oh my god, he threw it into the water!" Ashido yelped. "He's like super evil."
"Ashido, it's a robot, but that was ridiculous." Sticks commented.
Robotnik only made it to the dark room, but Ermes was going at it at speed, basically flying up the wall with only a rope and her stand and she slid down at speed.
"Oh my gosh, these ladies are not making it easy for Robotnik!"
"Damn right, we're not!" Sticks proclaimed.
"Yeah!" Ermes was already there.
Chris and Chef were even surprised at Ermes' appearance.
"What I can't be fast?"
"No frickin' way, that was awesome! Robotnik's just stuck now!"
Ermes high-fived Mamizou almost ouf of instinct, but she knew that the tanuki girl could do some action and the only problem was that Mamizou's walking on her own two feet instead of kinda floating.
That wouldn't mean much as Robotnik tried to grapple his coat off the wall.
"Hey, if you want, I could-" Manolo realised the rules. "Wait, I don't know if I can help you!"
"Yes, I do have a solution for this!" Robotnik remarked, finally getting thrown up to the wall.
Mamizou trudged through the snow pit slowly and flew through the monkey bars, but unfortunately for her, Robotnik had unstuck himself and slid down the slide by now.
"THIS IS JUST THE BEGGINNING!" Robotnik screamed.
"Oh my stars, this incorrigible man doesn't deserve his victory and not to mention, I'd be a dissapointment for everyone at Sado."
The baby seal couldn't give two cares about Mamizou's short speech, but she was gone just like that.
It waited for its next prey.
"MANOLO!"
"I'LL GO!" The Mexican hero jumped up from Robotnik's well. "Are you okay?"
"JUST GO, I'M IN A SATISFACTORY STATE!"
Robotnik was part mud, part steaming man, as he got picked up by his teammates and Manolo could hope to catch up to Mamizou who went in and out the dark room in about twenty seconds.
Yet, Manolo was matching the absurd pace of the powerful tanuki, leaping through the snow and the floes without a problem and albeit, Mamizou was at the mini-maze.
"We're absolute going to win this!" Emma shouted. "Our friends are not losing another member from a challenge! And we will win this!"
"You will not if you start bragging only seven laps in, Miss Emma."
"Wait, is it my turn?"
"Yes."
Emma then leapt out of the teams' zone, as Manolo was getting lost in the dark room.
"I still do not know why she's excited for so much torture."
Sticks and the rest of the team minus Sakura nodded to that.
"And Emma's the eighth player for the Amazonians! Manolo's almost back at the start! Not gonna lie, I thought it was gonna be a blowout for...you know."
"These kids are too damn powerful." Chef could only say.
Manolo then finally tagged Ken, who wasn't too keen on fighting a child, but tried anyways.
It was not spectacular, but here's the highlights.
Ken and Emma literally passed around the aggressive baby seal between each other, mostly because the orphan kid kinda got stuck having fun in the snow and also not moving much.
They got stuck in the dark room, Ken soothing Emma.
Emma got stuck on a boxing glove and Ken pulled way ahead, but Emma somehow pulled herself out of there and saw the Snowmen tag from the top of the wall.
"Get down here, they switched out a man!" Undyne called out. "I'm gonna break these guys!"
"Okay, Miss Undyne!"
Emma slid down the slide and she got real lucky, but still...
"And Emma switches for the strongest lesbian in this season, Undyne! Looks like Taskmaster's got a strong opponent with "
"Heh, you're getting a little stale, Chris."
Undyne was up against Taskmaster and it was a match so close that I will not bother elaborating on it.
Just know that they both got stuck on the boxing gloves and used it to leap over the slide and that Undyne easily caught up to Taskmaster, but the mercenary was swinging all of the way through.
Basically, they were doing a whole-ass battle race and somehow both managed to tag out their most questionable player for this specific challenge.
"Oh my lord, Joe's getting a go at it! Also, Sticks could be cruel here-"
"Joe, you don't have to do this!" Manolo shouted.
"I have to. Half because we would lose the challenge and half because I'M NOT LETTING A FISH BEAT US!"
Joe wheeled himself out and Sticks looked at him.
"I'm starting to think fighting unfair matches is all we do." Sticks lamented. "But I'm gonna do it because reality TV's evil."
"Yeah, she's actually kinda right." MK commented. "But I don't mind being a shady B."
"I don't care."
Joe didn't stop for anyone, as he wheeled through the snow fast and actually had enough momentum to surprise Sticks and then the ice floes came up, where Sticks also stopped.
"Hold on, I got this!" Joe screamed.
"Yeah, what." Sticks said.
Joe rode through the not that deep water, as Sticks was very surprised to see that kind of stuff, going over the water and doing a whole race and you know, yada.
Joe however, was fighting Fang with only his fists and a mean bite and he managed to make a kick brutal and he swung on the shark with a wheelchair and finally rose out of the water.
The baby seal dare didn't question him.
*Sticks' confessional*
The badger had a massive smile.
"Game on, Joe, game on! Plus I'm happy that a guy in a wheelchair beat up a shark, I bet you didn't expect that, huh random reader who's reading this! He probably did this anyways, it's Family Guy."
*Confessional cut*
Joe Swanson swung outta there, as Sticks was flying through the bar and Joe did pretty okay with the wheelchair, him landing on his wheels with no problems.
*Joe's confessional*
He smiled.
"There is no way that I did it with a wheelchair. Hah, take that, Peter! And also Cleveland! Man, this reminds me-"
*Confessional cut*
Joe and Sticks were going toe-to-toe with climbing on the walls, but the wheelchair had be left behind, which actually made it way more perilous for the cop.
"Your wacky theories are not gonna harm my team from the inside!" Joe insulted Sticks. "Our team's got no traitors!"
"Yeah, right, they're just hiding in plain sight, trying to join your side." Sticks said. "I don't want to mess up your team, just that-"
"Total bull, this is reality TV!"
Joe Swanson reached the top and slid all of the way, crawling like it wasn't a problem and he did it quite fast and Sticks actually landed in the deep mud.
"Oh man, that is brutal! Joe's just crawling through the pain!"
"There's no pain, I'm just doing this!"
Joe eventually made it to the maze, as he could crawl fast enough and Sticks had mercy.
"Oh god, but I can still do it!"
"This is getting stupid." Sticks said. "I'm gonna lift you up!"
"Honestly, I'd really like it, but I don't know if I can last-"
Sticks lifted him up unwillingly, as the two of them didn't want to do this and clearly the two of them basically finished at the same time and Chris was sweating.
"That's awesome how Joe is safe! Yeah. Uh, anyways, can we move on please?"
Sticks and Joe both realised that there was something very wrong with Chris, as Chef literally had to get Joe's wheelchair and well, not many people would be willing to go after seeing that.
Sakura and Bowser had to go at that, as Popeye and 21 agreed on one thing.
*Popeye's infuriated confessional*
"This guy'sk one bad challenge away from becoming some kinda cartoon villain. Scratch that, he's gots a robot animals and a walking shark, he'sk a cartoon vllain. Joe's a troopa for dat."
*Joe's confessional*
"Can't believe that Chris hit me in my pride and it was all for my team!" Joe shouted. "Popeye and Bowser, you better make it up for me!"
*Confessional cut*
Uhhh, I would write more, but that was one heck of a moment.
Long story short-
Sakura gathered all of her energy for one special move, as Bowser was nearing the end of the challenge.
"What are ya gonna do?! Your hadoukens mean nothing to me-"
"SHIN-KU HADOUKEN!"
Bowser got blasted in the mouth, as Sakura moved on.
-that happened.
"And it all comes down to Popeye vs Android 21, which somehow checks out! And Joe's wheelchair's back on Joe's butt and we have a good challenge!" Chris announced, trying to not let Joe's "moment" ruin the show.
"It ain't a good challenge no more, Chris." Chef said. "I respect the boy in blue!"
"Alright, Chef, we get it. Now let's focus on the OP duo!" Chris was annoyed.
Popeye and Android 21 were speeding through the course like it was no-one's problem and of course, the sailor had spinach and uh, no-one could figure out what was happening.
But it was definitely them running fast, jumping well and dodging stuff in the dark room, but however 21 was actually slightly ahead thanks Sakura blowing up Bowser slightly.
No matter what, they both climbed at a normal speed.
"Something tells me that we can't fly." 21 said.
"Of course, flying's cheatin' and there's cheatin' here."
21 ignored him, as Popeye just had a feeling about it.
Either way, they both grabbed the flags and 21 did a perfectly angled and advantageous jump to land on the ground and well, she easily beat the sailor man to the punch.
Only very slightly, though, thanks to a little, uh, spinacia oleracea, as Popeye landed on the finish line by a jump so long and precise, that 21 swear that she saw him leap in an impossible bear.
"Punk guy, go!" Popeye said.
"On it. Chris better not give us-" Spider-Punk complained.
"Oh yeah, it's down to Spider-Punk and MK again! For the final try."
Android 21 slid right into a curse, as the whole team realised that MK had no chance, least of all against Spider-Punk, who was webbing all over the course.
"How do I accept defeat without getting eliminated. A letter of surrender, getting bombed, period-" MK remarked.
"NO MATTER WHAT, YOU NEVER GIVE UP AND SURRENDERING MEANS THAT YOU WILL LOSE ALL THAT YOU HAVE EARNED! PLUS IT'S GONNA GET BETTER OKAY!"
"Alright, can you stop trying to give me tinnitus."
MK saw Spider-Punk leap through the ice floes, as she tried to even get through the snow pit and once she crossed...
...Hobie was getting up the rope real easy and her face was in awe.
*MK's confessional*
"How do I compete against a Spider-Man, nevermind a British one! Dude's had to deal with so much rain that his web's part rain! And I can't even cheat!"
*Confessional cut*
Chris didn't even pause the confessional.
"Now, that's music to my ears! That's for my hair, by the way."
Long story short, MK was stuck in the dark room and Hobie's challenge was over.
"Anyways, the Striking Snowmen win again! Kinda sucks how the ladies had no chance in the end, but on the other end, I get to boot off somebody!"
*Lolo's confessional*
"Unless I can pull off a miracle, then it's my job to get eliminated. And I actually made it pretty far, better hope that my friends don't make fun of it for me."
*Confessional cut*
The ladies walked all of the way to the elimination stand and Lolo was sure of one thing, but she did want to at least go down with her honest effort.
"Okay, you ladies almost had a win streak until you didn't. The worst kind of feeling to have in Total Drama and now you ladies have to do the dirty deed of voting off somebody!"
The ladies were all not excited, as MK didn't look too impressed.
"Alright, there's really only two candidates and Chef is going to call them out individually." Chris announced.
"MK, you were a shady person and also didn't do too hot in the challenge." Chef said. "The votes says all."
"Alright, you try to fight Spider-Punk and see how it goes."
"Lolo, gotta be honest, you also didn't do too hot in the challenge, which doesn't redeem for the two questionable things that you did!"
Lolo sighed, but Emma and Undyne put their hands on their shoulder.
"No matter what, I think you tried your best." Emma said.
"And we kinda voted for you because, uh, um, this is gonna sound horrible." Undyne tried to explain, but got shushed.
Emma did the shushing, as Lolo tried to not cry.
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"Eh, I'm gonna say that Lolo's eliminated and call it a day! I've gotta handle these calls!"
Lolo cried, as Emma hugged her, as did a majority of the team and MK obviously didn't, Ramona and Ermes didn't really want to and Mamizou was disappointed in Chris as usual.
"I swear I'm gonna miss you ladies! You guys are like my friends!" Lolo spoke through the tears. "We were an awesome team."
"Yeah, we all made an awesome team. Most of us are taking it pretty hard." Undyne said. "Swear that you'll watch us all of the way through."
"I don't know if she can make that promise. Just promise that you'll remember us." Jasmine reassured Lolo.
"I promise."
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Lolo left on the Drone of Shame and that was it.
"Haha, now that was weirdly emotional, which would much better if I didn't get into a little controversy. Speaking of controversial moments, will the ladies realise their revenge? Probably on the next episode of TOTAL DRAMA: WINTER WARRIORS!"
To be continued in Episode 13, where oh no, the contestants have to actually get into the water and this time, it's not only a double elimination challenge, but also a lowkey showcase of the aquatic abominations that will obstruct the other players from having a fun time!
Also, Joe.
Lolo was always gonna go early, much earlier than certainly Rukia or Kamala, even if she'd be another decent player with some emotional troubles that the main villain bullies which tends to happen quite a bit. But at the same time, she found fufillment with her own teammates!
Great stuff.
Anywho, I was gonna eliminated somebody else, but then I realise that I don't have that kind of prestige and there's also 24 contestants remaining, which I just like to point for the heck of it.
Fun fact: The merge is closer than you'd think.