Total Drama X: Winter Warriors
Episode 13: Lake Bros & Cave Ladies
Well crap, these guys have gotten unlucky with not only their episode count, but also their current challenge that Chris has selected for them to deal with!
None of the obstacles are merciful to finding a very special document that's buried in the deep waters inside of Pahkitew and buried deep in Pahkitew means you're going to see some of the most insane water-related animals you've ever seen!
Mechanical or natural, all of the animals will be works of nature that Chris unintentionally made and that's without the issue of Joe's crawl last episode and the whole cheating scandal, so tensions are running high.
The modus operandi of the two Total Drama hosts.
G-man 2.0: MK often plays smarter than harder like most of the other team and the Amazonians kinda need to learn that stuff! A lot of ladies are moreso trying to avoid losing key members, even if MK's a continuous edge case.
That being said, MK's a weird edge case where she does do pretty well in challenge and I did originally want to have a big elimination and then I remember Popeye existed. Plus she's actually a friend to the team, so she gets off easy.
Kinda hard to have a big name elimination when you don't exactly have any reasonable way to send them home...except for today, maybe.
Memeking: rip lolo.
Goodguygary: You are mostly wrong today-wait, is that the Hello Neighbor parody animation?
"Last time on Winter Warriors, we have a simple obstacle course relay race that had no controversies at all! But before that, the two alliances were cooling down their strategies and Amazonians were running on a high, even if the Snowmen were just planning their comeback."
"And then there's the race. MK and Tengen started the race for reasons and through trials, tribulations and Joe accidentally crawling on the board, it all went back to MK and Spider-Punk! Yeah, so the Snowmen won again."
"Lolo didn't even resist her elimination, probably because she realised that she had no chance and also MK's kinda funny, so Lolo got the boot! Alright, now that stuff's over, we promise to dive deep into the unkept waters of this island! Or not apparently, but you're gonna find that out in TOTAL DRAMA X: WINTER WARRIORS!"
Lolo was gone and there was no denying the fact that she was out of the game and everybody felt the effects of it, even if they were lacking in empathy.
Also, for the first time, the episode doesn't start in the cafeteria thanks to the ladies having their own agenda on how to deal with Lolo.
"Yeah, Emma's...not doing well." Ashido said.
"Thank you, we CLEARLY needed to say that. Seriously, her tears have dried up and I doubt she wants to quit." Ramona said. "Especially since her team got stabbed by cheaters."
Undyne, Emma and Jasmine were hit the hardest, obviously, mostly because they had to deal with it.
"I'M SORRY-" Emma squealed.
"Emma, listen, I know that your world's got all these scary demons and whatnot and there's no doubt that you think that Lolo's gone forever, but she's probably back at that hotel's Chris apparently loves!" Undyne tried to sooth.
"He has a hotel?!" Emma was surprised.
"Yeah, got a friend that was stuck in there two seasons ago." Undyne said. "Point is she would not want you to give up and surrender!"
"I know that Lolo wouldn't want me to give up. But I just wanna cry for a little bit."
"Yeah, I respect that decision. Are you all out of tears?"
Emma had a serious face.
"Pretty much."
"That's brutal." Ashido commented. "Anyways, now that we're all in a mood to beat the other team up, let's put that into the challenge."
"Yeah. Also, where did MK and Mamizou go?"
The whole AA team definitely noticed when Ermes accidentally was in the cafeteria, just doing her thing.
"They went somewhere, not that big of a deal." Ermes stated. "Sometimes people do that, doesn't exactly mean they're against us."
Some of them kinda figured it alone and the rest took it as an answer.
*Sticks' confessional*
"I find it kinda funny that MK's not cheating. Maybe because she learned her ways or maybe because I'd eliminate her before sunrise, I don't know, but what I do know is that the cheaters are still here. Rough situation for the plates and us ladies."
*Confessional cut*
The dudes had won, but it was clearly something was giving and wherever it was Monoma's smug attitude, Spider-Punk doing whatever, Joe accidentally giving more effort than he needed or Robotnik and Taskmaster's questionable demeanor.
Someone had to ask.
"Wait, are you blokes really fine?" Santa asked. "I'm just asking for myself, since the team's...just a group of lads."
"Well, I'm fine. The team gots a little tough." Popeye said. "Finally, dese fellas show up for once."
"At least you're a happy chap. This team's blooming 'bout to explode."
"The jolly man's right. I don't know why you guys are so mad when we're won and if there's any issues going on then we can talk like a team or your asses will be the ladies' grasses." Joe explained, seeing the very thick tension. "Seriously, man up and don't hide it like-"
Joe stopped once he realised he was gonna say something questionable.
"-like a bunch of criminals."
"Whoa, I'm not really a fan of your pigginess. I'll be an anarchist all day!" Hobie said. "But I do believe in telling the truth because some of us aren't doing that."
The tension somehow got that much thicker, as Hobie dropped one of those wild suggestions.
"I saw some alliances, no-one needs to lie, we're all real ones here. Even the pig's being honest for once-"
"Sit your butt down, Hobie!" Joe demanded.
"I don't know who that mandem is, bruv. Anyways, I'm going to the toilet."
Joe just huffed, as Spider-Punk jumped over a table to leave the situation, which was mostly the four allied villains having some good eats and there was an excuse.
"Well, I'm here to ask what you four's scheme is since we all need to bring that up!" Monoma said.
"The annoying and unflashy guy's right." Tengen had a confident grin, as Monoma quietly took offense.
Robotnik had a very confident grin, as Bowser and Medic were a little scared.
"We were making robots in secret because this island's very fascinating and filled to the brim with mechanical parts, proprietary technology and one-of-a-kind machines and these robots can't be made in one single day." Robotnik explained with a half-truth. "And the mercenaries and the king here were for testing."
The whole team was judging the explaination, but Joe was the team leader.
"Sounds like some stuff some mad scientists would do and I'm willing to accept that kinda stuff. As long as you're not against us, we'll be okay." Joe accepted, having no other choice.
"Yeah, that makes sense. Joe, I would never betray you."
"Okay, now this is getting cliche. Best we figure try and guess what kind of dangerous and unfun challenge we have."
Tengen, Puss and Monoma all now knew that there was definitely an alliance within the team, just from the vibe alone.
*Puss' confessional*
"Unless he's stopped being a bad guy and he is dumb enough to make me believe that he isn't making an alliance, he is up to some business. I'm going to have to investigate Senor Robotnik for myself!"
*Spider-Punk's confessional*
He held a little something.
"My guy, this your robot or what?"
He had some random parts.
"Nah, these fellas think they're a governmental agency! Reason why I didn't say anything was 'cause I just wanted to mess with these guys. You know, send a message."
*Confessional cut*
MK and Mamizou were doing their cheating thing, considering that the intern trailer wasn't that impressive and extremely conspicious, so they just wanted to find out the challenge.
Somebody should've checked if a brunette wearing glasses and a fake nervous smile was supposed to be there, but Chris goes through these like water to a whale.
"Okay, random interns and people that may or may not be qualified to go deep into the water, you gus have to make sure that the treasure is down deep in the artificial lake! You guys were trained to deal with those air masks anways!"
Mamizou kept up the nervous smile.
"Alright, after the Joe stuff, we should be really careful about getting sued, having one of my contestans almost die would hurt my cash! By the way, here's the map."
Mamizou kept quiet wisely because she had to do and the interns all got a map and Chris just took his lave to probably eat double shottays with lattes, the tanuki girl slipping away from the rest of the interns.
MK was chilling.
"Hey, that's our cheat!" MK whispered.
"I think you meant to say 'Thank you, Miss Futatsuiwa for doing all of the work and disgusing yourself in an inconspicious manner'." Mamizou replied, handing her the map. "It wasn't good."
"If it's good enough to fool Chris last season, it worked."
"Unless the host is an invalid, he will remember that. And not to mention, this show isn't worth cheating for."
"Good point, but that's why we're doing it."
The tanuki regretted this decision, but she did it right away.
*Mamizou's confessional*
"She knows that there is no point due to how often the challenges are a bizarre session of torture and shame that cannot be easily predicted." She spoke. "That being said, I should be able to easily navigate this stupid challenge."
*Confessional cut*
Anyways, Android 21 and Ken were taking some time to hang with each other because they're grown adults not beholden to some arbitrary team and the sun was bright with the thick snow on the ground.
"You know, it kinda feels like Christmas in here..."
Ken did his usual smug chuckle.
"...How you survived so many eliminations despite being able to shoot lasers and fight people!"
"I doubt it was that big of a mircle." 21 said. "Just got lucky more than a few times and I'm friends with most of the other players."
"Still a miracle to me. Sticks tried to insult your honour and it almost worked because you voted for some person!"
"It was Lolo, who got voted out last night. It was a strategic decision that wasn't worth being proud of."
"Damn."
They were silent for a good second.
"You ever think we'll get the merge and get the chance to kiss?" 21 dropped the question. "Since we're comfortable with each other."
"Heh, I have no idea when that is." Ken confidently remarked. "But me and you are pretty Kenough as a pretty nice team."
"That is nice! For the record, this is no strategic partnership, I just like you as a person."
Ken had a rather sincere grin, as 21 felt like all of her attention was on him.
"Isn't it crazy how we're both kinda plastic?" Ken looked to the clear sky. "You're a robot, I'm a doll man, that's pretty cool."
Android 21 was quite deep in thought, as she thought about their current situation and Ken was quite happily hanging out with an android that was quite deep in her thoughts.
And then a fog horn sounded.
"I bet that woke you guys up! You guys ready to dive into the caves for your next challenge?"
Chris was the bane of every players' existence.
Both teams came in together, surprised to see that Android 21 was already there and the amount of people surprised included Ken.
"Wow, you're here already?" MK remarked.
"Yes, it's not really hard to find places as an android." 21 casually snarked.
"Imagine that, maybe you can find why you like that guy."
"Why would I tell you?"
And both teams were finally lined up, as the twin hosts were in front of a cave that was definitely as real as the island itself, partially filled with pools of water that easily varied, having many spikes, stalagtites and other bits of rock that made it more authentic.
Even if it was really obvious, Chris got a little creative with the depths of the water.
"Campers of the cold, I know how long you have been waiting for some warm challenges! So we went to a cave in the middle of winter, a true place of warmth with a giant lake that hasn't frozen over and things that will get into your nightmares!"
"Why things?" Sakura asked.
"Because they woke Chef up in the middle of the night, which is why he's not here? Anywho, today's challenge involves going into the waters of this cave of warmth to find a special treasure that has stirred up quite a few rumours about it. Some say it curses you into misfortune, most people say that those guys are lying!"
The campers just didn't care to verify those people.
"First team to find the treasure and open it wins the challenge! For the record, I don't know who those some people are!"
RANDOM CUT
A blonde healing goddess wearing a short white princess-esque dress and a dragon maid with ginger hair and a giant green tail that stuck out of her butt.
"Seriously, what is he talking about with some people say it's cursed?" The blonde healer, Ristarte asked. "They're interns."
"Interns are real people, too!" Tohru, the dragon maid shouted. "Real humans, but it does mean something."
Ristarte and Tohru just huffed.
"Are you sure, Chris isn't evil?" Ristarte asked.
"Those people are wrong. We legally have to give you working helmet headlights or this challenge will take ever longer than all day, so appreciate them while you can!"
Each helmet were both coloured according to their own team and also looked cheap as hell, but the campers did appreciate Chris giving them actual safety.
"You got anything else?" Sakura asked, concerned.
"Yeah!"
Chris had an air-horn.
THE STRIKING SNOWMEN.
Both teams hit a split path and one of them turned left and one of them turned right and this is about the team that actually hung on the right side of the lake.
"Well, men, there's only one thing we can do-"
Joe heard the door close.
"-fish like we mean it and avoid the things and the ladies from stealing the treasure! And as an American dad, I know how to fish for things." Joe shouted. "But what the hell are we gonna fish with."
"Ourselves because all of us have skills that could help us fish!" Ken said. "That's it, I got nothing other than finding a boat."
"Then we'll find a boat together!" Puss proclaimed. "Shouldn't be that hard right."
"Yeah, it could be easy!"
Ken and Puss already had a plan in action, Tengen stopping them in their tracks.
"Do we even need a boat, though?" Tengen asked. "We can just swim for the treasure, real flashy! Some of us can easily do it like a certain mercenary!"
"Well, I was already doing that. It's better that we have two people to do this dirty job." Taskmaster said. "Ken and Puss have no idea what they're doing."
"Yeah!"
Taskmaster and Tengen took the dive, as Ken and Puss were ready to run blind in the place joined by their team leader, the trio surprised to be with each other.
"You bet your ass I'm joining ya!" Joe reassured Ken. "Mostly because Chris doesn't lie about stuff that could kill us."
"Senor Joe, you wanna do this?" Puss encouraged him. "What about last time?"
"What about it? These things are gonna be scared of me!"
"Aye, we're gonna have a good time!"
*Joe's confessional*
He was smiling.
"Look, Bonnie, I know that this show's trying to get the better of me, but you and I know that this team isn't going to be a losing team anymore! Also, you pissed me off for the last time, Spider-Punk, if that's even your real name!"
*Confessional cut*
THE ARCTIC AMAZONIANS.
They were on the northwestern side of the hard to see lake and weren't that surprised by it being frozen, but due to almost everyone being very capable of doing crazy business, the getting was indeed going.
Everyone was getting intro roles
"Alright, we're doing stuff and this time, we're going to be co-ordinated! We're not letting Monoma, that Robotnik guy or Bowser take us down a notch, so all of us are gonna help in roles!" Undyne shouted. "Emma, you're coming with me!"
"Thank you, Miss Undyne. I might die out here."
"That is true! Mamizoo, Android 21 and Ramona, fight off whatever Chris raised in the dark of some good garbage! Rest of us, better find a way of getting the treasure!" Undyne commanded. "We've gotta beat the cheaters and the rest of the guys fair and square!"
"Damn, that's specific." MK remarked. "Honestly, I think I might know a little something, but I need somebody."
"If it has anything to do with cheating, then nope. Sticks, keep an eye on her."
Sticks and MK were both befuddled.
"Why? What did she do?" Sticks asked.
"I don't know, but you two could be a powerful duo together!" Undyne shouted. "Your tricks and your consipracy business would be a crazy team!"
The team instantly split up, minus Undyne and Emma, who were surprised at the sheer speed of the dispersion and these four were having a good time.
"They're some fast ladies! So glad that they carried me here." MK remarked.
"Okay, Miss MK, cheating is very bad because it is...and uh, this show isn't worth cheating on!" Emma tried her best. "Also, what are we doing Undyne?"
"We're all gonna lift a boat together!" Undyne declared.
*MK's confessional*
"Do you see me and Sticks, we're not carrying that boat! Honestly, it would be much better to sabotage the other team, but even knowing the challenge doesn't help much. I do know something, though."
*Confessional cut*
MK, Sticks, Emma and Undyne were on a journey to find a boat, it was very exciting according to Chef, who was on the lookout to let one of the robot animals.
"It's kind of insane how none of us had talked a lot with each other." Emma raised a point. "So, let's do it right now when we can!"
"I already said I was a former low-key scammer and I made a whole buncha money, so I decided that it was a bit lame and took the high road." MK said.
"I'm a badger who sees the truth and also beats a muscular Robotnik!" Sticks had a picture. "Don't ask where I got this, I dunno either."
Emma say the picture and saw Eggman with muscles, along with Undyne and MK.
"Whoa, what's his workout regiment?!" Undyne was shocked.
"Yeah, he's a bad fella with machines that destroy the village, steal money and other bad stuff. That's it." Sticks said.
"That doesn't sound too different from our Robotnik. He did cheat the votes after all."
All four of them sighed, as they heard a little tremor in the middle of the cave.
"Crud, I might know about this." MK said.
And then there was a giant-sized spider that had Chef riding on top.
"Kids, you aren't ready for what animals are in here. Including this damn robot." Chef calmly sneered, as the four girls squared up.
Spider-Punk was actually doing his own thing, like he should and he was trying to look down at the deep lake itself and noticed something weird about the bottom of it thanks to his bad headlight.
"Mate, I swear that box a the bottom of it is blue." He had to tell the most anarchist person about it. "For some reason."
"Hohoho, you are very wrong. Mostly." Santa said. "That box might contain a little surprise for us."
"Rah, what do you even mean by that."
"Bloody hell, I don't really know what it would be." Santa joked, as Spider-Punk. "Chris might have a little something planned."
Tengen and Taskmaster rose back up from the surface to the two British fellas and a lot of the more notable people noticed that they were a little bit dissapointed.
"Believe it or not, there's a box stuck under a lot of rocks." Taskmaster calmly explained. "Yeah, unless we could pull out a bunch of rocks, it's not happening."
"And there's two of these gate things. Probably contains some wacky cooked-up crap." Tengen finished the story loudly. "This challenge's unflashy!"
Spider-Punk and Santa looked down at the very atypical lake and had to say one thing.
"Can I dive down there?" Spider-Punk asked.
"I don't know if you should, it's not that type of place yet-" Joe advised him unwisely.
"Alright, I'm gonna."
Spider-Punk was in the lake, which was both one of the bigger lakes and also notably, could be that same place where the Tower of Cold was half a month ago.
Anyways, Spider-Punk and Taskmaster were in the dark waters of the cave system, stroking towards the walls of the artificial lake which were lit in an very onimous and muted teal by the gates.
He couldn't exactly do what a spider could, so he had to rise up for water and see a sasquatch squatting in the cave like it was a warm place.
"I ain't even gonna lie, bruv, keep on doing your thing."
*Taskmaster's confessional*
The mercenary wasn't impressed.
"Spider-Punk definitely knows too much about this alliance to not try and do something stupid. Natalya hid it better, but he'd be too likable and strong to get himself eliminated in any way that wouldn't implicate us, so I have to do this subtly.
*Confessional cut*
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Last time, we left off, MK, Undyne, Emma and Sticks were stuck with a spider and Ashido, Ermes and Jasmine were definitely trying to ignore that and figure out where the sasquatch the anarchist Spider-Man found was a friendly fella or a malicious male.
"Was Chef really riding that spider?" Ashido asked. "You know what, I should go and help them."
"We should, but we can't see anything in this damn cave! What the hell's up with this challenge!" Ermes shouted. "There's nothing going on on our end."
"That's actually a good thing."
"I ain't so sure about that since this show always has some monster come out of nowhere."
Ashido looked surprised for some reason.
"Why are you surprised? Chris always invents new monsters out of nothing." Jasmine answered.
"What can I say, I'm an expert! By the way, spiders!"
Chris just left it at that, as Android 21 surprisingly rose out of the water with some new and unsurprising knowledge to the ladies' situation.
"There is definitely something down there." 21 said. "And I'm surprised that I am so waterproof, honestly."
"Why are you so surprised?"
"Because, Ashido, most of my fellow android haven't really dipped our toes into water, so it's an unknown factor on my end. The bad news is that Chris has all kinds of mechnical fish to disrupt us and both boxes need a key."
The new discovery got dampened by the screams of Undyne and her part of the team, dealing with the new spider that were currently making them run around in circles.
"You have got to be kidding me..." Ermes was exasperated.
Meanwhile in the spider-conga, Undyne had a spear and tried to throw it at Chef's pet spider and failed to do anything and Sticks realised that the spider was forcing them to go in circles for one reason, sliding to a stop.
"Stop following the spider!" Sticks called out.
Undyne then skidded to a stop, picking up the spear and being a little dizzy.
"Yeah, Chef, you're distracting us from our game!"
"That was redundant." Sticks threw his boomerang, as Emma and MK was all dizzy.
The boomerang definitely did something to the spider, as Chef couldn't control it no more and it shook off the cook, unintentionally revealing one very interesting thing.
"IS THAT A KEY!" Undyne shouted. "GET IT, GIRLS!"
"We have a bit of a problem with that."
MK wasn't interested making friends with the nest of spiders that seemingly popped out of nowhere, the rest of the ladies stuck on top with what probably a canoe.
*Ramona's confessional*
"Can't believe she bailed on us only because she had a feeling. What was about that feeling?" Ramona asked. "I kinda get why she left, but a feeling isn't really good enough to just drop a canoe on us two."
*Confessional cut*
Ramona, Mamizou were trying to cook something up, as they weren't really out thanks to some surprise knowledge.
"Well, well, a key." Mamizou said. "And you have a door, too."
Ramona looked surprised at her door summoning.
Despite the Snowmen seeing all kinds of chaos coming from the ladies, they realised that they had much less progress than the women struggling with a whole bunch of spiders.
"Hah, they're fighting spiders!" Joe mocked. "Imagine us fighting a bunch of spiders, they'd have to deal with me and the rest of the team!"
"Yeah, they are pretty scary, but what's even scarier is that the ladies figured out that there's a key involved." Puss informed Joe. "And we don't have a key!"
"Maybe the key's a fake. Not the first time that this guy's done stuff to mess with us and I don't think they have a boat!"
"Senor Ken's got the boat! And running mucho rapido."
Puss and Joe saw Ken stop to see his teammates baffled at his sheer fear, as he was looking around the place.
"Turn away, this boat has a very un-Ken-ny thing inside!" Ken shouted, trying to keep a smile. "Seriously, you might want have to take a look at this."
Ken, Puss and Joe examined what was in the boat and the fragile blonde vomited and the tough-as-nails officer and bounty hunting feline could only balk at the sight of a real human corpse.
And the random squirrel that survived in the dark that didn't help the case, when it had cut to Chris in the middle of that same control room.
"For anyone relevant watching, that corpse was a prop! The best kind of prop, a realistic one and I'm not gonna tell them that because of the squirrel."
The squirrel shot a laser towards the roof of the cave and dropped a whole bunch of rocks.
"Yeah, that's what I'm taking about!"
Ken, Puss and Joe were guarded by said canoe that was a little bit broken, as they put it down and saw that it had a lot of cracks in there, but there was no time to not deal with a few laser squirrels.
These three ran in with the boat and dropped the boat as soft as they could considering that Spider-Punk jumped in to stop the squirrels.
"Where were you when we getting hit by squirrels?!" Joe complained.
"Keeping watch of the ladies! Mate, they have a key." Spider-Punk told him. "Also, I swear Taskmaster's up to something."
"What are you talking about?"
"My man's been up to some business, basically."
"The business is talking to his friends secretly."
Joe then waved off Spider-Punk, as the whole team saw that he had a boat that definitely had seen better days, but they did have a boat, the whole crew celebrating.
"Well, that is all and good, but currently that boat is one mistake away from ruining our challenge and leading the ladies to victory." Robotnik explained. "So, it's best to have Taskmaster dive down, while I repair the boat."
"But why though? most of us can swim pretty good. Heck, I swam in a flashy manner, pretty sure a boat would at least get us closer to the treasure." Tengen remarked.
"What if it falls apart."
"But it has a bunch of cracks, so it's not that serious, Robotnik. I'm sorry, friend, but I'm not letting a bunch of ladies take the lead!" Joe declared.
*Robotnik's confessional*
"Well, yeah, I'm not really excited about either me or one of my alliance partners getting eliminated by some anarchist who can shoot webs, so ensuring our victory would've helped!" He grumbled.
*Confessional cut*
The dudes were trying to figure something out, as the two leaders were not budging and Manolo and Popeye were sure that those ladies were making some serious progress.
Speaking of serious progress, MK held the key mostly because she snagged it and she had a good talk with Mamizou, who looked at her with an unclear vibe.
They were tucked away in a good corner of the cave.
"What's with the look, those guys are gridlocked into giving us an easy win." MK said. "Girl to girl, what's the prob?"
"Listen, as much as you have been a massive help to us, I feel like the merge will come soon and when it comes, us being an alliance might be problematic for each of our games." Mamizou explained. "And those villains on the other team will not hesitate to sabotage, distract and do whatever to us if we're allied."
"Yeah, that is true. But that doesn't matter when we got some secret sauce."
"Said secret sauce is just this piece of paper." Mamizou said, hiding it wisely.
"YO, how are you with that key?!" Ashido called out.
The cheating duo raised their thumbs up, as Ashido accepted it.
"Seriously, if we lose because of you, MK, you're gone instantly."
Mamizou and MK went back to looking at the paper and saw a solid win condition thanks to a little surprise.
"Who said cheating won't get you anywhere?"
"I would have normally said that, but that would be hypocritical."
The two cheaters, who were plainly sure that they now had some kind of advantage, were only augmenting the team that was still getting hemorrhaged by the spiders and bats that were plummeting down on the rest of the team.
Undyne and Sticks were currently slicing a lot of robot bats, Emma and Jasmine were doing a lot of surprising things like hanging on top of a spider to look much further down.
"Please tell me that I don't need to ask Genie." Jasmine sighed.
"It's okay, uh, I can tell that the monsters are also out." Emma said. "Actually, that's worse."
"At least you told me."
Yeah, the lake's giant eels were currently hanging around the left side of the lake for obvious reasons and all of the guys were really intrigued by the specific effect, as they just had a laser squirrel.
*Monoma's confessional*
"Hahahaha, it's rather funny how despite their troubles, they are much further ahead than us and struggling to deal with it. Which is not all that funny, since we're stuck dealing with necessary repairs and laser squirrels."
*Confessional cut*
Monoma touched a laser squirrel and didn't get anything, but he did grab one of them with a sly look on his face.
"Don't worry about it, we won't hurt you-"
Taskmaster threw one of its brethen away.
"-since all of us love animals and even mechnical ones deserve our respect-"
Manolo was just trying to avoid the squirrels' laser eyes on his poncho.
"-so, can you please calm down."
Speaking of poncho, Joe was rolling away from a squirrel, while Monoma was trying to reason with a robotic miniature terrorist and like any terrorist, negoitating with them was futile.
Monoma got a whole lot of laser up onto the roof of the cave again and this time, it didn't end well for him, being stuck under a bunch of rocks and seeing said squirrel do a middle finger.
"At least you understand me." Monoma sympathised, before he passed out.
*Manolo's confessional*
"As much as I agree with the squirrels fighting us because we invaded their home, I do it find weird how they're able to go underground. Then again, squirrels don't shoot lasers either."
*Confessional cut*
Manolo just wanted to focus on finding their team's key, which wasn't that hard when you had a Popeye and a Medic on your side with the cave dropping many rocks.
"Ze key should be one of ze many animals that are packed in this cave!" Medic shouted. "Monoma cursed us."
"I doubtsk he cursed us, I ain't a big believer in luck. We got'sk each other and your science healing gun, so it ain'tsk the pretty boy's fault." Popeye said.
"Yes, I'm sure it's not his fault!" Manolo had faith in his compatriot.
The trio were going quite deep into the cave, Medic being a healer, Popeye being the everything else and Manolo being a defender of sorts, which wouldn't matter that much.
They were dealing with another flesh and blood sasquatch, who was holding the key on its necklace that was at least three meters up, basically an awkward hieght.
"Listen, if we punch this guy who's minding his own business, the ladies will win this challenge and that is it. So let's make peace." Manolo told them.
"Oh boy!" Popeye and Medic exclaimed.
The trio were rather interested in talking to the dark missus.
"Hello, mein fraulein, give us ze key and I promise that ze key will be returned." Medic introduced himself. "I don't have to reveal my name, Miss Sasquatch."
The sasquatch instantly didn't get pissed off.
"Huh, guess it is a senora." Manolo said. "Can you please give us your key, my lady?"
The sasquatch did point to the key.
"Yea, dat one."
The sasquatch just shrugged, as it "slowly" gave the key.
"The Arctic Amazonians are actually doing it! They're carrying out the rocks, thanks to Android 21!"
Popeye, Medic and Manolo wisely decided to wait, since they didn't want to lose time to being a pancake and they managed to get their colour-coded key.
"We have it! Zank you, miss sasquatch."
The villain's manners preserved the trio, as they were bookin' it for the rest of the team and as they reached their team's "base camp", Robotnik had finally fixed the boat.
"How's ze boat?!" Medic asked.
"Yo, gosh, you have an inside voice in there, just use it."
Medic, Manolo and Popeye didn't have time for funny business apparently.
"It's good." Robotnik said. "And we have a key, too."
"Right on the money, mate!" Santa joined it. "But those lasses beat up some eels and are pulling the treasure up."
"WHAT?!"
"With that Android lady, too."
"SURPRISINGLY PREDICTABLE!"
And it was a mad dash of sorts, thanks to most of the men trying to deal with squirrels and bats that just had to come out at a very inconvenient time for all of them.
*Ken's confessional*
He had a can of bug spray.
"Seriously, though, we had nothing but the powers, the weapons on our backs and whatever Puss was talking about and we were stuck, minus Puss hilariously."
*Confessional cut*
Manolo, Joe and Puss all tried to flip the boat over, but it was actually starting to get futile thanks to the ladies beating the spiders and bats with only their hands and the crack Amazonian trio of 21, Undyne, Sakura and Ashido helping each other to carry the treasure box.
Ermes was using Kiss to bat off the robotic bats with invisible punches, Mamizou was keeping them at bay with a random teapot that she made out of a rock and MK actually slapped a bat away.
"Hey, fellow men, how's losing feel?" MK asked.
"Uh, yeah, not the time for mockery. This challenge's over at the end of this paragraph." Sticks remarked.
"What-"
"WE GOT THE BOX UP TO THE SURFACE!"
Before MK got to question Sticks' fourth wall shenanigans, the android, the acid-spewing hero and the fish lesbo were all a little too tired to open the damn box.
Emma was looking at the men, who were strugglers no more, having their boat ready to take on their side's eels and she was a little worried for their massive lead.
Sakura turned the key and looked confused, as inside the box was an actual treasure chest that was completely locked.
"Yeah, let's get it back to Chef...and Chris, too!" Sakura declared.
"And the Amazonians have their chest open, but it looks like Robotnik's about to carry that their own box and oh my god, Chef, what happened to you!" Chris announced.
Chris turned off the mic.
"Those ladies beat up the damn spider I was ridin' on."
"Well, you did slow them down, points for that."
"Thanks, but I don't know what you expected."
The Arctic Amazonians were running towards the entrance of the cave, where Chef was wearing his winter duds and didn't look too impressed.
"Why are you so mad? We're just giving this back to ya!" Sakura said. "And-oh yeah, sorry for breaking your spider."
Their chest was put down on the ground, as Chef opened it up with a special key to reveal their epic treasure and needless to say, the ladies were not impressed minus one.
"You know what after nearly a month of garbage, this definitely counts as a treasure." Ramona said. "Immunity isn't that much of a treasure."
"Don't push your luck, girlie. It is a treasure." Chef got up in Ramona's face.
"And the Amazonians get immunity! And also to see the Snowmen lose two contestants in a row!"
The ladies gasped.
"That's crazy, but I completely get it." Ramona answered.
"Yeah, their team's too big and too confident." Jasmine joked, as Ermes did a fistbump to her. "What is that?"
"A fistbump? It happens around here a lot."
"I can deal with that."
And the fistbump was reciprocated.
*Undyne's confessional*
"Sorry for ignoring those anime lessons. Revenge is indeed a dish that I wouldn't like to serve, but those bad guys were cheating!" Undyne shouted. "And the team really doesn't deserve the loss or to be with those bad guys."
*Confessional cut*
The Striking Snowmen were currently swinging on the squirrels.
Popeye finally had his spinach, fighting the eels off with ease, as one of Robotnik's sentries had the grasp of the treasure and currenly being helped by Tengen's strong pushes.
Santa and Ken were carrying shovels to try and poke the bats with, trying to smash them into bits.
Manolo was guarding the team with only his muscles and no punches, having the strength to withstand it and Puss was poking the backs of the bats to try something a little different.
"Look, it's over, Senors, we might have lost." Puss called out. "But it doesn't mean we have totally lost, since we have team spirit."
"Yeah, we have the key right?" Bowser asked. "Some guy has got the key, right."
"My name isn't some guy, but yes, I have ze key." Medic said.
The blue box slowly opened to see a treasure chest, courtesy of Medic finally being useful and the guys had a chest and a massive amount of trouble ahead of them.
"Stand up, men, we're gonna barrel through these animals!" Joe announced.
"This is the stupidest plan I've seen and I've seen Undyne scream her victory to her loss." Taskmaster said.
The whole team barreled through the robotic animals that were in their way.
Meanwhile, Chris and Chef were enjoying a little bit of the winter picker upper.
"It ain't hard to make a damn good hot chocolate." Chef said. "You deserve it for coming up with this crazy challenge."
"Hey, I respect it-"
The two hosts saw the Snowmen run in with the treasure.
"-Wow, what happened to you people?" Chris asked.
"Come on, stop askin' me like you don't know the answer." Taskmaster poked Chris with his words.
"Yeah, that was awesome! By the way, Snowmen, you're going to figure how to eliminate two of your dudes."
The men were silent like at the end of the war.
"I can't wait to see these votes!"
The talk of embarrassment of all 13 dudes that were currently stuck could not be felt more and there was one key issue that had to be brought up eventually.
"Four of us players are in an alliance. Robotnik, Taskmaster, Medic and Bowser, all pricks of the highest order and one of them helped to mess with the votes of two ladies." Spider-Punk stated, getting the glares of those four. "Bruh, I got two eyes and I used them."
"Nah, that checks out." Tengen said, Puss nodding. "Unless you guys got a real flashy explaination of disappearing to nowhere for some reason. Hey, this also goes for Spider-Punk."
"Doing some Anarchist biz, mate, caught these guys cheatin'."
"Nice!" Puss shouted. "Hey, villains, what's your deal?"
The many stares that all four of the suspected people in the alliance and eventually, two people had to drop the act and reveal the truth sorta.
"Oh man, you got me." Taskmaster admitted. "Well, it's not really much of a charade, I don't really like you guys that much."
"WHAT?!" Robotnik shrieked.
"What the hell, man, that's not actually a big surprise!" Joe complained.
Robotnik, Medic and Bowser were trying to keep their poker faces, as Taskmaster realised that he was done with doing stupid business.
"Wait, why reveal it, you could've just kept it under wraps, man, you're here for the million dollars, right?" Tengen asked.
"Actually, it's three million. Some bozo hired me to do this Total Drama competition and I'd like to say I was doing pretty well until Spider-Communist revealed me a minute ago." Taskmaster spilled his guts. "Anyways, only one of these guys are allied with me."
Tengen, Puss and Monoma could only raise an eyebrow.
"Yeah, Monoma, you stupid liar."
"How ridiculous of an accusation is that. This guy who doesn't like us, who's dangerously strong and who is currently fighting the accusation of being a big 'ol cheater, decides to shift the blame onto me!" Monoma tried to rebut the accusation.
"It's not illegal to have moles. Dopes do it on Survivor, thought I could do it here first." Taskmaster kept it cool, as Monoma got more heated. "Robotnik, Bowser and Medic over here, got played by me and Monoma."
Bowser and Medic looked at each other in pure confusion, as Robotnik understood exactly what was going on.
Spider-Punk knew that he was probably spewing some top-tier gobbledygook, Monoma definitely knew it and Taskmaster was spewing it no problem.
"Okay, this guy's whole thing is because he could never win against of you guys. Same thing kinda goes for me, too, I ain't a social butterfly." Taskmaster answered. "By the way, MK's involved, too."
Monoma looked quite serious.
"Cut the bull, Taskmaster and Mono-money, we're taking you out of this island and your charge is to get out of the money!" Joe was excited. "Blonde kid, your mom's gonna hate this and MK, you're going down."
"Monoma, that's a very unflashy strategy." Tengen insulted the blonde hero.
"Yeah, that's plain dishonest, man! You can't just do stuff like that!" Ken proclaimed.
"Monoma, that can't be true, right?!" Manolo questioned.
Santa and Spider-Punk just witnessed the lies of a man who probably couldn't remember what he had for breakfast and couldn't believe that the team was on his side.
Sort of and so did Popeye, who looked on the team with utter shock and a little bit of disappointment.
"Yes, it's practically fiction! Lies coming from a side villain trying to stop my honest run from bloomin'."
"Alright, Manolo, quit defending the kid, Taskmaster just blew him wide open for lying to everybody!" Joe shouted. "Team, it's time to vote!"
And slowly, everybody but Monoma, Spider-Punk and Santa walked out of the building and all they wanted to do is prove Taskmaster was lying.
"He convinced even Manolo, mate. All I could really say is that Spider-Punk tells the truth right here and you got set-up." Santa shed a tear. "Listen, you're going to be a great hero."
"Hey, don't listen to what anyone says." Spider-Punk tried to cheer the dude up. "Mate, I'm on your side, masked guy's just chatted straight nonsense."
"Well, thanks, but realistically, what chance does a side character like have against those main villains."
All of them were silent.
*Taskmaster's confessional*
"Rule number...something of being a mercenary, if you can't fight your way out of situation, get a friend to help you come up with a lie and I'm not calling Robotnik a friend, but it was a two-man effort."
He had a thought about.
"Wait, do they do moles on Survivor? Eh, Spider-Punk shot my chances of making it past this episode, might as well take down an intended target with me!"
*Robotnik's confessional*
He just laughed.
"This guy with a very wacky memory managed to send Monoma a message that came straight from me. Listen, this was never your game to play, you were an obnoxious fellow and just so happened to flop in this challenge spectacular! I don't think they do moles on Survivor."
*Popeye's confessional*
The sailor was very confused.
"Somethink's very wrong here and it ain'tsk just the robot guy surviving an elimination." Popeye wondered. "Why was Robotnik smilin' like a knucklehead at that stuff? I swear somethin' ain'tsk right here."
*Joe's confessional*
Joe was enthusiastic.
"Guess, Monoma, MK and Taskmaster, your days of being an alliance are numbered, BOOM! Yeah, I find it kinda hard to believe that Bowser, Medic and Robotnik were just hanging out like bad guys, but it turns they were just hanging out like men do!"
*Confessional cut*
They walked to the elimination campfire and it was a bright today to signify the fact that two dudes were about to be eliminated.
Taskmaster purposely sat right next to Monoma, who like many of the players here, didn't have that much knowledge of anything Total Drama or Survivor.
"Oooooh, it's real spicy today, ain't it? One alliance collapses today and two dudes go along with it! Seriously, though, you men fumbled the challenge today, but that isn't important compared to the big bombshell and Chef's here to explain your follies."
Chef cleared his throat.
"Robotnik, you wasted your team's time to rebuild the boat further than anyone cared for it too."
He gulped surprisingly and had a grimace on his face.
"What can I say, I really care about them." He honestly said.
"Monoma, you got exposed for being in an alliance that may or may not be real."
*Monoma's confessional*
"I can't believe that I was the pawn for an alliance that didn't exist six hours ago! This is what I get for trying to be a main character..." He sighed with sadness.
*Confessional cut*
"Taskmaster, you fessed up to being in an alliance that also may or may not be real. Also, people don't like you in general."
Taskmaster just shrugged.
*Taskmaster's confessional*
"Look, Deadpool, you had a better run than me, are you happy? All because I listened to some old British man from Italy about this damn show and you popped up to make fun of me not being on Total Drama." He complained.
*Confessional cut*
Well, Chris had things to do and those things were, indeed, being done.
"Puss, Tengen, Bowser, Medic, Joe, Manolo, Spider-Punk and Ken, you guys don't have a single vote to your name!" Chris threw the marshmallows.
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"Nick, you only got a single vote for some reason."
A few eyebrows were raised.
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"Now it's down to the dastardly Doctor Robotnik, the treacherous Taskmaster or the kinda maddening Monoma!" Chris announced. "Who's out!"
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"Actually, Robotnik's also got one vote. Monoma, Taskmaster, your time fighting against the winter's over! Sorry, dudes."
Taskmaster did look pissed, but then he realised.
"Well, you can't win everything and I sure as hell didn't. But I ain't going home by drone."
"No, that's not how it works-"
"SMOKE BOMB!"
Taskmaster doused the whole ceremony into smoke, smoke so thick that he got picked up quickly by somebody that was very interested in him indeed and just like that, he was gone.
Monoma didn't look too surprised, considering that he was a hero-in-studying and he had to know that, but he was rather surprised at this very hostile atmosphere that he left on.
"Okay, Monoma, time to go."
"For the last time, Taskmaster obviously lied and I don't know why you believed him." Monoma said his parting words.
Joe then had a thought about it, as Manolo realised it way too late.
"Yeah, why did we believe him?" Manolo said.
"Hey, the deed's done." Joe answered. "Taskmaster wouldn't mess with us, wouldn't he?"
The two of them kind of agreed for some reason.
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Monoma looked straight at Ashido, who was more mad at the team.
"Hey, I can't believe Taskmaster lied to the guys!" Ashido shouted. "Sorry that it had to be you!"
Monoma could at least take solace in the fact that he was the only Class 1-B player in the game and he wasn't too angry about his elimination considering that everybody would be on his side anyways.
He had a smile, as the drone grabbed his cranium.
*Monoma's elimination confessional*
"If this accusation doesn't follow me at all, then it means that is basically worth nothing! To be honest, I know that my class may not be a big fan of me, but I did prove myself by pressuring the main villainous alliance, consistently helping my teammates and always keeping to my morals even when my team turned on me due to those dubious accusations. Class 1-B, my apologies for getting stuck in a mess."
*Confessional cut*
"Alright, that was both the craziest episode of this season, but also one of those where people forget the challenge! Will the dudes actually recognised they got bamboozled, will the ladies help them for real and will the merge come pretty soon? All of the questions will be answered, if only you were watching the next episode of TOTAL DRAMA X: WINTER WARRIORS!"
To be continued in Episode 14 where everybody's going to war. The nature of war changes thanks to a colorful bunch that was both acing this challenge and the merge will come very soon that isn't the next episode.
Plus, Robotnik's not the only angry villain left in the game thanks to Spider-Punk blowing the game of the baddest alliance of the season yet.
It both feels kinda right having Taskmaster booted for actually getting caught doing the deed and Robotnik not caring that much about the mercenary, considering he ain't super spectacular compared to Bowser's fire, Medic's general healing or Robotnik being able to make robots with ease.
He got caught in the middle of the pragmatic vote.
Monoma should have been eliminated earlier, even without considering his dick-ish personality, since he doesn't really stand out all that much with his ridiculous power ceiling compared to Tengen or Popeye and could really only copy a few powers, almost all of them eliminated. And he got a terrible read in the last paragraph.
Ouch to both, much less so to Taskmaster, having done several terrible things.