Total Drama: Across the Multiverse

by StaticShock01

Chris returns for yet another season in what may be the most insane one yet. 69 contestants! 9 winners from the previous seasons! 28 network picks! 28 audience picks! Which contestant will come out of this madness!(55/98 initial contestants remaining, 122/165 overall) UPDATE: The teams battle it out in an all-out planetary war! Battlefront style!

74. Total Drama: Cul-De-Sac Edition

A/N: Next episode is here folks! And unlike what the Eds do, this is no scam! This one is legit! Enjoy!

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Teams:

Radical Rats:

Bennett, X, Zero & Axl, Albedo, Rick & Morty, Sendo, Akko, Sucy, Lotte & Diana, Blaze, Puss, Rally, May & Becky F., Yulaw, Tangle, Lanolin & Whisper, Adrien, Hiruma, Sena/Eyeshield, Kurita, Monta & Mamori, Natsu, Lucy & Happy, Kagami, Zee, Murasakibara

Storm Kings:

Jotaro, Todd and Riley, Paul, Sophie, Courtney, Reimu, Razer, Din Djarin, Team RWBY and Penny, Ben and Rook, Octavia, Eliza, Huey D., Dewey and Louie, Aomine, Akashi, Sebastian, Isagi and Bachira, Sly, Mayuzumi, Maki

Wave Breakers:

Dwayne, Urien, Ayame and Ryoma(Power Stone), Toxsa, Reagan, Jenny, Julie, Launch, Randy, Team JET: Kaz, Fiona, Diego, Myron and Shiro, Hailey and Scott,Zak M, Hanamiya, Hinata, Kageyama and Tsukishma, Eijun, Miyuki and Furuya, Kunigami, Bakura, Bass, Asta and Noelle

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Eliminated:

165th- Dragonfly Jones(Radical Rats)-Martin Sitcom

164th- Richie and Virgil(Wave Breakers)- Static Shock

163rd- Cameron(Storm Kings)- Total Drama

162nd- Duncan(Wave Breakers)- Total Drama

161st- Chris P.(Wave Breakers)- Dan VS

160th- Mona(Storm Kings)- Mona the Vampire

159th- Owen(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

158th- Zoey(Wave Breakers)-Total Drama

157th - Tetsuya Kuroko(Radical Rats)- Kuroko's Basketball(Quit)

156th-Shintaro Midorima(Storm Kings)-Kuroko's Basketball

155th-MacArthur and Sanders(Radical Rats)- Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race

154th-Luz Noceda(Storm Kings)-The Owl House

153rd-Priya(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

152nd- Shogo Haizaki(Wave Breakers)-Kuroko's Basketball

151st- Edward Falcon(Radical Rats)-Power Stone

150th- Shawn and Jasmine(Wave Breakers)-Total Drama

149th- Zak Saturday(Storm Kings)- Secret Saturdays

148th - Nimona(Wave Breakers)- Nimona

147th-Rocky Rickaby(Radical Rats)-Lackadaisy

146th-Huey Freeman(Storm Kings)-Boondocks

145th-Cicini(Radical Rats)- Rabi-Ribi

144th- Blaineley(Wave Breakers)-Total Drama

143rd- Heather and Alejandro(Storm Kings)-Total Drama

142nd-Karin Kanzuki(Wave Breakers)-Street Fighter

141st-Ruby G.(Wave Breakers)-Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken

140th-Noah(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

139th-Marinette Dupain-Cheng(Storm Kings)-Miraculous Ladybug

138th-Dawn(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

137th- Dan Mandel(Wave Breakers)- Dan VS

136th- Ryoma Echizen(Storm Kings)- The Prince of Tennis

135th-Rei Hino(Radical Rats)-Sailor Moon

134th- Johnny Bravo(Wave Breakers)-Johnny Bravo

133rd-Skipper(Storm Kings)-Madagascar Movies/Penguins of Madagascar

132nd-Bren(Storm Kings)-Monsuno

131st- Kurt Wylde(Radical Rats)-Hot Wheels: Acceleracers/World Race

130th- Molly, Libby and Scratch(Wave Breakers)-The Ghost and Molly Mcgee(Quit)

129th-Becky Botsford/WordGirl(Radical Rats)-Wordgirl

128th-Mr. Wolf(Wave Breakers)-The Bad Guys

127th-Emma(Radical Rats)-Total Drama Presents The Ridonculous Race

126th- Rex and Bobo(Storm Kings)-Generator Rex(Eliminated via tiebreaker)

125th- Ryota Kise(Radical Rats)-Kuroko's Basketball

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"Last time on Total Drama Across the Multiverse! After the tiebreaker, it was back to business with normal team-based challenges. With this one taking place in 2034. Though ironically enough, you didn't really see any crazy future stuff like in 2105. Guess those 71 years make a big difference."

Footage of the teams appearing in the Benham City Park in 2034 was seen.

"As for the challenge itself, it was trials chosen by the other Tenkai Knight members. Well, everyone except Beni. For the most part, they were pretty simple. Guren had a relay race with different mundane obstacles and requirements. Ceylan had a crossbow sharpshooting challenge. Chooki had fishing and Beni had a series of riddles for everyone to answer."

Footage of the initial four trials was shown.

"Remember when Toxsa said Gen had a black belt in ninja arts? Well, it definitely shows here. Gen had multiple games. All of which that took place in his master's dojo. And they weren't exactly cakewalks either. A good few of the ones that played struggled. But in the end, it was the Breakers that were able to hold on and win majority of them, also allowing them to lock up first place. But not without some type of drama during the food break. That drama being Kunigami making a scene with Beni. Something that I don't think anyone was fond of. Will that come back to haunt him later? We'll find out soon enough."

Footage of Gen's games along with Kunigami yelling at Beni was shown.

"As for second place, that would be decided by one more game. A simple dueling challenge. Being able to win and beat your opponents despite the advantages or disadvantages you have with the abilities you've gotten. Some pretty interesting ability and gear acquisitions here. But, it was Kise and Aomine that took center stage with their little duet musical. And especially the former with him pushing past his limits and punching way above his weight. It looked like he had the win, but, he didn't. And his body ended up paying for it in the worst way. Something that his teammates, for one reason or another, took notice of."

Footage of the last battle was shown along with bits of scenes during the musical duet of Kise and Aomine was shown.

"And that was reflected in the votes. It was a unanimous decision from everyone besides of course Kise himself to vote him off. Some out of pure concern for his health. Some because he was considered to be too much of a threat in certain situations. And some a little bit of both. But regardless of the reason, it doesn't change the results. Unfortunately though, his injuries were too severe for me to boot him like how I wanted to. He was coughing up blood. As much as I wanted to get him out of here like I usually do, that wasn't going to go well with anyone. So, he got sent to the hospital instead."

Footage of the very brief elimination ceremony was shown along with Yulaw's final confessional.

"Who's going to get eliminated next? And will it be as unanimous as this one? Eh, I'm leaning 50/50 on this one because of what the next challenge is. But let's find out! On today's episode of Total…Drama…..Across the Multiverse!"

*TD: ATM Intro II Plays*

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Challenge Idea From: G-Man 2.0 on FF Dot Net

Special Guests for Today's Episode: Ed, Edd, Eddy, Sarah, Rolf, Nazz, Kevin, Johnny and Plank, the Kankers, Jimmy

Title Inspiration: My previous TD season, Total Drama Island: Multiverse Edition

The scene opens with Fiona slapping away a laptop from Penny.

"Fiona! What the heck has gotten into you!?" Myron yelled out, also there with the two along with Diego. With those three was also Noelle, who's eyes widened in surprise after seeing her do that.

"I'd love to hear your explanation for this one." Diego said, hands on his hips, waiting, not exactly happy that his teammate just did that to Penny.

"I surmise that it is her dislike of you two's musical interests." Penny inferred.

"I don't dislike all of the music they like to listen to. I just don't like one of them. Big difference." Fiona clarified.

"What!? Fiona are you kidding me?" Diego said in utter disbelief.

"I already made it clear multiple times where I stand when it comes to Titi. Why are you so surprised?"

"That's not what I'm shocked about. It's the fact that you'd let it go this far to do something like this."

"Yeah Fiona. This is incredibly petty." Myron added.

"Forget petty. She's just acting like a jerk. And with no clause."

"What the heck do you mean 'no clause'?" Fiona asked.

"It means you-" Penny started.

"Not you. I want to hear it from the person that said it."

"What I mean is you didn't even know if that was what she was listening to and you just assume and do something like that." Diego said.

"Well, I mean it was her." Fiona said, looking at the album image on the screen after Myron picked up his laptop, making sure it wasn't damaged.

"So? That still doesn't make it okay. Look, it's one thing if you don't like her music. Everyone has their preferences. Hiruma and Miyuki said they don't like sweets. Or in the former's case, sugar, to be specific. I mean, I can't exactly say I understand as I love deserts but at least they don't try to force others to not try them or eat them. Or, better comparison, Yulaw-"

"I get it alright? You don't need to go around the world."

"Then if you get it why in the world would you do that?" Myron asked.

"I….. I don't know."

"Well, I sure hope you figure it out soon so this doesn't happen again. These devices don't just grow on trees you know." Myron said, closing his laptop and walking away.

"Seriously Fiona, that wasn't cool at all." Diego said, genuinely upset with her before leaving too.

"Diego!" She called out before sighing.

"Unlike them, I won't take 'I don't know' for an answer. Why would you do that?" Noelle finally asked.

"It's….. a bit hard to explain."

"Well, you have several hours to figure out how to explain it."

"I believe the reasoning is exactly what Diego said earlier. Something that I believe is further amplified since you are her friend." Penny inferred.

"It has nothing to do with that! You're here too and I don't exactly consider you and me to be 'best buds'."

"Your emotional outburst says otherwise."

"Don't you have someone else to annoy?"

"Not until 4."

"What?"

"Sorry. It is a quote that I heard from a cartoon that I heard someone laugh at a couple of days ago. I guess it wasn't appropriate to use in this context."

"Yeah…."

An alarm was heard blaring, causing several people to either be surprised, cover their ears, or both.

"Sorry. That was a test. Anyways, come meet me in front of the house, where your next challenge awaits." Chris said on the loudspeakers.

"Maybe this challenge will help out with your explanation." Noelle said to her.

"Look, it won't happen again." She insisted.

"I'll believe it when I see it."

*Confessional*

Noelle(Wave Breakers):

"I know exactly why she did it. I'd just rather hear her admit it than continue to deny it. Or in her case, pretend that it's hard for her to explain. She knows exactly why she did it. It's just hard for her to say it because I think she knows what she did was ultimately wrong."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Fiona(Wave Breakers):

She sighs. "Look, if you were put in my position, you'd understand. That's all I'll say."

*End Confessional*

Once everyone was in front of the house, Chris started to explain where they would be headed to next.

"Alright, so for this one, we could take the plane or bus. But, for precautionary reasons, we'll just take the portal." Chris said.

"Already off to a bad start. Where are we going now? To an alien civilization? Don't want to aggravate and end up having your stuff stolen or destroyed?" Sophie asked, in a half-mocking, half-sarcastic tone.

"Aliens!?" Monta and Sena yelled out simultaneously before seeing that Shiro was right next to them before jumping back and yelling again, with the Wolfgar paying them no mind at all.

"No, no. No aliens. No future. No past. None of that today. Just a simple little neighborhood. I will not elaborate further than that." Chris answered.

"Sounds a lot more than just 'simple' if you're taking precautionary measures." X said.

"Like I said, I will not elaborate further than that. I will say this challenge should be pretty entertaining depending on how good your creativity is. At least, that's what I've been told. So, fair warning if you haven't already, get ready to put on your thinking caps for this one." Chris said as the portal opens.

"Trust me, you guys don't have anything to worry about. There really are no aliens there." Chef assured them.

"Eh, I guess I'll cosign." Heloise said, shrugging.

"Actually, I have no clue where you guys are going. I had to leave and got busy while they were probably talking about this challenge. So uh, safe travels?" Doyle said.

"Aren't you coming with us though?" Louie asked.

"Well yeah. I just didn't know what else to say."

"Well I do. Get in the portal so we can get going." Chris said.

"You realize you unintentionally spared someone?"

"I did? Who and why so I can get them to thank me."

"Give me immunity for this challenge and I'll tell you that and a couple other things."

"Depends. What kinda other things we talkin' about here?"

"Chris! You can't seriously be considering this!" Jenny said.

"I am. And there's nothing you can say to make me do otherwise."

"What if…. I told you something too?"

"Hmm… nah. One, I know you don't have anything to reveal. And two, you only offered that because he did."

"But who's to say what he'll tell you is true? You do realize who it is that's making you this offer, right?"

"Yes. I know exactly who it is. And it's for that reason why I trust what he'll say is reliable. Now, Louie, you get ten seconds. Spill. And if you waste my time with something stupid, your team's gonna pay for it."

"For your sake, I hope you're telling the truth." Octavia warned him.

"Or what? It's not like you really care enough to do anything." Louie said, calling her bluff.

"I'm moreso saying that for the others."

"As in…?"

"As in what'll happen to you if what you're claiming isn't true." Courtney clarified.

"Alright, we get it, you're gonna clobber him or whatever you're gonna do. As funny as it might be, I could care less right now because we're on the clock. Louie, talk. Now." Chris said.

"Okay, first off, can I tell you about who you spared and it not be on the ten second timer?" Louie asked.

"Sure. Go ahead."

"Cool. So, that was Aomine and Weiss. Not gonna sugarcoat it, they're bad at games. Video games. Really bad. Not the worst ever, but they're not even average. And if Aomine tells you otherwise, like I know he probably would or already has in a confessional, he's straight up lying to you. Weiss too. She probably would have come up with some way to sugarcoat it if she hasn't already. And I'm not the only one that's seen it. I am however, probably the only one that cares enough, or is willing to tell you the truth without thinking about 'hurting their feelings'."

"Okay, it wasn't that bad. We were learning the controls, alright?" Aomine insisted.

"See? I told you."

"Huh. Honestly, I'm a little surprised. Moreso that Aomine's bad at games." Chris said.

"That sounds to me like-" Weiss started.

"I'm not surprised about you? Yeah, I'm not. You just look like the type that's horrible at them. Same with Diana over there."

"You say that as if I ever expressed any interest in playing them." Diana replied, seemingly unfazed by his statement.

"Because the footage of you sitting by yourself, bored of your books throughout the day and then consistently passing by the games and making multiple glances at the cases doesn't exist. Because it definitely does."

"Wait, Diana is that true? If you want to play them you can you know. Even if it's by yourself." Akko said to her, genuinely surprised, who said nothing in response after Chris' declaration.

"The power of gaming compels you. The power of-" Toxsa started, waving a game manual he had in his pocket in Diana's face before she gently moved his hand out of the way, trying to not slap it away, as much as that thought came to her in the back of her mind.

"Would you please stop that? And why do you even have that in your pocket in the first place?"

"Look, I never questioned you guys about your book choices so don't question mine."

"Your small booklets are not the same as novels."

"So? They're still books. What does this say on the bottom?" He said, putting the manual in front of her so she could read it. "You know what? I'll read it for you. Instruction booklet! I rest my case."

"Louie, stop focusing on them and let's go." Chris said.

"I mean, you were looking-" He started.

"I can halve it to five if you'd like."

"Alright, alright. May saw Sendo shirtless for some reason. No, I don't know the reason why so don't ask me. And she thinks he's cute. Also J-"

"Okay, you can stop. That first one's enough. And….." Chris trailed off and was silent for a few seconds.

"And what? Are you really building suspense for this?"

"No, I'm not. Honest. I'm thinking. And, it's good enough."

"What the heck do you mean 'good enough'? I just gave you evidence of romance. Isn't that part of the drama you wanna make?"

"Well yeah. Except I really could have sworn she said something about that before. But I could be wrong. Regardless, it is useful info. Though I was really expecting either of them to have said something about it."

"That's because I don't really have much of an opinion on it. No offense, but I don't feel the same way." Sendo said.

"And, if you would have listened to the whole thing, you would have also heard that I said that I just wish he would be a lot more open." May added, talking to Louie.

"But he is open. Just because he works out alone doesn't mean he's a guy that likes to keep to himself." Kagami said.

"Not the kind of open I meant. I mean like, being a little more fun. A little bit nicer too, I guess? Look, it's really hard to explain. You had to have been there. Yes, I do think he's cute, I'll completely admit that. But just because I said that doesn't mean I'm just head over heels yelling, 'I want to date him!' And another thing." She gave a bit of a stink-eye to Louie. "What the heck do you think you're doing spying on me huh kid? And then throwing around conversations between friends just for your own benefit you selfish little-"

"Now calm down May. Being the angry one is her thing." Rally said, pointing to Becky.

"Hey! Don't just put that title on me!" Becky said. "Even though coincidentally I'm not fond of hearing you eavesdrop on a conversation between the three of us either."

"Now wait a second, who said I needed or wanted to be involved in this!?"

"Forget your 'girl talk'! I wanna know why you thought it was cool to spy on me. And if you did it once, who knows how many other times you've been secretly doing it. Damn perverts!" Sendo said.

"Now wait just a second, I didn't see a thing! May told me and Becky about it. Even though I could honestly care less. They were the ones talking about it."

"You made your comments about it too! How are you just going to throw us under the bus and try to save yourself!?" Becky said to her.

"Not as many as you did. I made a few comments and kept it at that."

"Number one, I never spied on Sendo. I just saw him passing by with his shirt off, cooling down before he got water. It's not my fault we just happened to be in the same area. And second, if you don't want people to look, then don't show it! Simple as that!" May said.

"Ain't a single person makin' you look! You chose to!" Sendo yelled back.

"And ain't a single person forcing you to be outside like that!"

"So!? Is it bothering you? You're actin' like it's a common occurrence or somethin'! No one else here complained so the only one with a problem seems to be you!"

"It probably is!"

"Well you're misinformed 'cause it's not! What, you probably wanted my pants off to, huh!?"

"Now you're just making up stuff!"

"Oh sure! You say that now when you're saying who knows what about me to yourselves!"

"Trust me, no one's saying anything about you in that way, I assure you of that. Not with all that yelling." Becky started. "And second, the real person we need to get mad at is the spy himself."

"The only reason I'm even yelling is because of stuff like this that ticks me off or gets on my nerves! Excuse me for expressing how I don't like getting perved over, especially behind my back for who knows how long. And second, you're right on that second thing." Sendo said before getting in Louie's face. "So you think it's cool to eavesdrop for your own benefit huh!?"

"Number one, it wasn't eavesdropping. I just happened to hear it at the time. I'm sure all of you have done that at least once let's be real. And number two, yes. Again, let's be real, we're all here to win." Louie said.

"One, even if that probably is true, you didn't have to say anything about it. Even if I don't like what they said, it woulda never came out if you didn't spill a private conversation. Two, why are we all doing this 'one, two' junk?"

"One, if I didn't, my team would have paid for it. Maybe not have a talk about something like that in a place where people can easily overhear you about it? And two, I don't know. I just did it because everyone else was doing it."

"Well, one, your team's not gonna pay for it. And two, as much as I'm enjoying this, we gotta go. You wanna continue to argue, do this on the other side of the portal. Oh yeah, and three, Louie, thanks for the info but, no immunity for you." Chris said.

"Wait, what!?" Louie said in disbelief.

"Yeah. Regardless of what you said I wasn't going to penalize you. But I wasn't going to give you immunity either. I just said that as a way for me to possibly get some legit juicy info outta you. And I did. So, great on me."

"Well played Chris. Well played."

"I'm gonna make sure I remember this the second we go up against each other in somethin'. So just make sure you do too." Sendo said.

"I get you. But why me?" Louie asked.

"Because, when you lose, you don't have to go and ask yourself or anyone else 'why'."

"Well, unfortunately for you, the boxing ring is a long ways away from here. I got no reason to be intimidated of you in anything else we do."

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch. The last guy that took me lightly never boxed again. If anything, you should be fortunate that the boxing ring's a long way from here." Sendo said as they both entered the portal.

*Confessional*

Weiss(Storm Kings):

"I honestly thought he'd be great at games. Video games to be specific. Well, at least we can be awful together. Wait….. that's actually not a good thing. Is it possible for the editors to scrap this recording?"

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Becky(Radical Rats):

"Look, to clarify, all I said about him was that-"

"Becky! No! Let's go! It's bad enough Weiss did it! Come out now or I'm leaving you behind!" Chris called out.

"Alright, alright I'm coming! Jeez…."

*End Confessional*

Once everyone enters it, the portal closes.

Junkyard, Peach Creek(Ed, Edd n Eddy)

When everyone appeared through the portal, they appeared to have been in a junkyard.

"Well, at least you didn't have us drop down into the trash." Sly said.

"That's because we asked Chris here to make sure you guys were all in mint condition." A voice was heard saying, not too far from where the remaining contestants were. A trio of boys began to approach them. The tallest had yellow skin, a unibrow and wore a green jacket over a striped red and yellow shirt, baggy purple pants and black shoes. The second wore a black beanie on his head and wore a red shirt with purple shorts and cyan colored shoes. The third and final boy, who was the shortest, and the one who had just spoke, wore a yellow polo shirt with a purple collar and a vertical red stripe on the side of the shirt, purple pants and red shoes. He also had very little hair. Three strands to be exact.

"You three. Never thought I'd see you again." Rally said to them.

"Half of these challenges have been part-reunion too when you really think about it." Ruby said.

"Now that you mention it…"

"Man forget all that! Does it look like any of those losers are here? In fact, I know the season ain't even close to bein' decided yet, but if you made it this far, then you're winners in my book. And when this is over with, you're all gonna feel like even more of some winners!" Eddy declared.

"But Eddy, I thought only one team is supposed to win the s-" Ed started before Eddy cut him off by grabbing his mouth and forcing it shut and tying it into a knot.

"I know that. Now can it hammerhead. I'm supposed to be the one doing the talking right now. Then Double D."

"So what am I supposed to do Eddy?"

"You'll do something later. We already went over this. And how the heck did you untie your mouth that fast?"

"I don't know."

"Sometimes that's my answer to a lot of the things you do man." Eddy said before turning his attention back to the cast. "But anyways, let me not be rude. I know some of you guys already know us from the time we competed together on that last season that was like this. But if you don't, I'm Eddy. Big guy right here is Ed. And sockhead is Double D."

"And before anyone asks, 'Double D' is simply a way to differentiate myself from Ed for easier identification purposes. Since my name is Edd, but with two d's. Hence 'Double D'." Double D explained.

"Yeah I think they got it after you said your name was Edd too. Double D here's the Einstein of our little group. Only I come up with the inventions. He does the stuff to make em. Guess we're co-Einsteins."

"I don't think that's how that works Eddy."

"Well, since you don't want it, you can call me the Einstein."

"You mean Edison?"

"Edison, Einstein, close enough."

"I can assure you there is a huge difference between the two. But, Edison did have a lot of failures."

"And out of the ashes of those failures, came some super big hits."

"You really could have stopped on the first thing."

"What the heck are you talkin' about? Einstein made the lightbulb! Now look at how many people are using it!"

"That was Edison."

"But I thought that was Eddy, not Edison." Ed said to Double D.

"Wait a sec. Ed, I can't believe I'm saying this but you're a genius."

"Yes! Call me Tommy Edison the second!"

"That's Thomas Edison. And-" Double D started before being cut off by Eddy.

"From now on, you can guys can just call me Eddyson!" Eddy declared.

"Yeah, we're not calling you that." Louie said. "Also, because Chris doesn't seem like he's going to do it, are you going to tell us what we're going to be doing? Today?"

"Patience my good duck. I'm gettin' to that. But first, how about we change venues?"

"Let's go to my house Eddy!" Ed suggested.

"Nah. We want them to actually feel welcome here. Now come on, time's a wastin'."

"So what exactly is this place? As in where? Normally we would have already known that by now." Doyle asked as they left the junkyard and were now on a street where there were multiple houses.

"This is Peach Creek. And more specifically, this is the suburban street normally called The Cul-De-Sac." Double D answered.

"So this is where you guys stay huh? Where the heck is everybody?" Morty asked, noticing the lack of anyone on the streets. Which, in this neighborhood, is an oddity.

"Oh, everybody's at school. So you ain't gonna be hearin' much from anybody else here until school lets out." Eddy answered.

"What about you guys? You're just skipping?" Akko asked.

"Nah. We got an excuse. Chris took care of all of it."

"We got excuse notes! A kid's best friend in school! Right Double D?" Ed said.

"I've already expressed how I feel about the timing of this. I will not make any further comments." Double D replied.

"The timing's good sock-head. We already went over this. Now stop whinin' and move on." Eddy said.

"I must agree with Double D here. Skipping school for a Total Drama challenge is just not a good decision. Especially when you could have just waited until a time when you're out for school for the day." Akashi said.

"And have a bunch of distractions? That's why we did it. Because we thought about you! Nobody's here so you get some good time to think."

"Okay, I don't know if it's just me, but I noticed you haven't gone into specifics about what we're doing." Rally said to him, already not buying what Eddy was trying to sell.

"You know Ral, it's things like that that helped you get far last time, and I think you'll definitely-"

"Oh stop it already, you-"

"And we're here! My humble abode ladies and gents!" Eddy announced, proudly gesturing to his home. It had pink walls and red-bricked roofing. "You want answers Ral? Well you'll get em. Once we step right in of course. Or, if you prefer to wait outside, be my guest. Just uh, try not to break anything will ya?" He said, opening the door and gesturing for those that wanted to, to go inside. "After you."

Those that wanted to go inside, which included Rally, Lanolin, the Duck Triplets, Zee and Randy among some others.

They went into a room that was white and pink. There was a dressing table that had multiple grooming items. There was also a blue bed and a nightstand with a lava lamp.

"Okay, you three aren't exactly the naïve bunch, so you know what I mean by no BS. What exactly are you going to have us do? No BS. Straight to the point."

"A woman that knows what she wants. I can dig it." Eddy said as Ed plopped on his bed hard. Luckily the bed didn't break on the spot from him doing that.

"What did I just say!?"

"Alright, alright! A guy can't give a complement around here?" Eddy said before grumbling, "It's no wonder you haven't gotten laid yet…"

"What was that!?"

"I said, it's no wonder you haven't gotten laid out yet."

"I think he's trying to give you a complement on how good you are at your occupation. As oddly worded as it seems." Double D tried to clarify. As much as he despised being dishonest, he also didn't want any conflicts to break out when the challenge wasn't even explained yet.

"Yeah well, thanks. I guess." Rally said, calming down.

"Seriously though, please tell us what we have to do. We can't do anything unless we know that first." Louie said.

"Louie said please! I'm sad I don't have anything to record this moment in history." Huey said.

"To be fair, I think we all share his sentiments. I just think some of us are a lot more patient than he is about it." Hanamiya said.

"Well, wait no more ladies and gents!" Eddy said, clasping his hands together. "You want the real story for why you're here, you got it. For starters, if you don't know us already, the three of us have quite an interest in jawbreakers."

"And let me guess, you need our help in getting them." Lanolin inferred.

"Right you are cowbell! But don't worry, you're not gonna have to steal em or fight for em or anything crazy like that. We're doing this legit! By buying 'em!"

"Woah, woah, woah. Wait a second, what kinda jawbreakers are these?" Randy asked.

"They're just jawbreakers man. Just jawbreakers."

"There are no flavor variants if you're wondering." Double D added.

"So you mean to tell me you want us to go buy candy for you?" Louie asked, confused. "There must be some crazy inflation going on around here."

"Inflation? But we don't have any balloons here. Do we?" Ed asked before lifting Eddy's bed to the side and looking under it, unknowingly smashing an unsuspecting Hanamiya under it as he slammed it into the wall. "Hmm, nothing but boxes and-"

"Ed! There are no balloons here! Now put the bed back down!" Eddy yelled.

"Then why did he say inflation? Unless….. it's not balloons." He slams the bed back down and notices Hanamiya still on the ground. "Oh I see. Well why didn't you say so!?" He then takes a deep breath and prepares to blow air into back into his body. But it ended up being too much air and he inflated to something way past his usual size.

"Whoops." Ed realizes his mistake and realizes that he needs something to get the air out of him. Not having a needle to pop him like he wanted to do, he instead squeezed him hard until he was forcibly able to get air out of him. Once he looked like he was back to his normal size, he tied his mouth together like a knot to stop the air from coming out of it before setting him back on the ground to where he was standing back up. "There you go! Good as new!"

"Well, you can't say he didn't get the job done." Randy commented.

"Yeah. Super innovative Ed." Eddy said sarcastically as Hanamiya, now out of his state of shock, realized what happened to his mouth and tried to untie it, but to no avail.

"Thanks Eddy! Can we all be co-Edisons now?" Ed asked.

"Let's not get too carried away. Anyways, it's not just that simple. To buy em, you gotta actually earn the money. And that's where you and your fresh ideas to earn the money comes in."

"We already have money though. If the jawbreakers is what you want, we can just go buy them right-" Huey started.

"If it were that easy, it wouldn't be a challenge now would it?"

"Well, I guess not, but still-"

"Exactly! Besides, when this is all said and done, you'll all be a bit richer too. You see, there's another reason why we did this on a school day."

"Wait, there is?" Double D asked, not remembering there being a second reason.

"Yes, there is. Is your hat on too tight or something? We went over this. Obviously, those kids, our classmates, are gonna be back off the bus exhausted from school. If not physically, at least mentally. You gotta come up with some ideas to help them relieve that stress off them. For a price of course."

"So that's what this is about. You want us to come up with some ideas so you don't have to. You're literally using us because you're lazy." Rally said.

"Nothing in life is free. And like I said, it's not like you're not gonna be paid too. Who the heck do you think I am? Mr. Krabs? And also, this is rich coming from the person that promoted her gun shop multiple times. I think you should know a thing or two about advertising and compensation. Or maybe you don't. Too cheap to even pay your friends huh?" He tsked a few times, shaking his head before saying, "For shame."

"Well, I'll admit, I wasn't sure where he was going with the Mr. Krabs comparison, but he does make a very good point about your advertising." Double D said.

"Not the same thing or situations at all. But, you could be asking us to do worse so…. I'll take it." Rally said.

"Glad to hear it. Now, we're fair in our prices. Which means, no overchargin'. Double D here will be the one in charge of that."

"Don't worry, when this is all over, I'll make sure you all are fully compensated for your work." Double D said to them assuredly.

"So is there anything that we can't do?" Huey asked.

"Aside from the obvious egregious ideas, no. So, let your creativity run wild! The more creative, the better!"

"Man, forget creativity. You listen to him and you might be the one that's gotta send somebody home. This ain't a talent show. Just do what you know's gonna rake in the most dough. That's what you gotta do to win anyway." Eddy said. "Oh, and it's one per team. So, whatever you guys do, probably a good idea to make sure most of you are bought in."

"So make the most money and win, right?" Louie asked, wanting to clarify.

"Yep."

"But Eddy, don't you think they'd like it if they came up with something unique that's never been seen before? That would be more interesting than something they have." Double D reasoned.

"So? The money's the bottom line here. They could come up with the coolest coaster ever. If no one goes to see it, who the heck cares? All that time and effort goes in the trash."

"They can at least have some while doing it. Is that too much to ask?"

"Yes."

This response only caused Double D to sigh.

"So you're getting the jawbreakers. Where do you come in to contribute?" Lanolin asked the three.

"Easy. I bring people in with promotions. Double D's in charge of helping design what you need, along with the numbers stuff. And Ed's gonna be the workhorse!"

"I've already got my saddle and bit ready!" Ed said, having both in his hand.

"I'm not even going to ask where you got those." Double D said.

"And maybe some extra stuff too. Depending on what you ask us to do that is. We'll let you know what's out of our forte. But, just gonna let you know now, don't expect us to do all the heavy liftin'. You better pull your weight if you wanna get paid." Eddy said. "Now, Double D, how much time are they gonna have?"

Double D looks at his watch, using when school would be dismissed for reference on how much time the contestants would have.

"A little over two hours." He answered.

"Well, you heard him. We'll tell you when your time's up. So get to brainstormin'!"

Those that were inside now came out to tell their teammates what the challenge entailed. And once everyone was informed of that, brainstorming for ideas began.

"No." Din said, referring to an idea that Louie presented involving showing off Grogu.

"Look, it's not like we're saying he's gotta do backflips. Everyone's gonna look at him, be fascinated, call him cute, he does some cool stuff for a bit and bam. Show's over, easy money." Louie replied as Sebastian, with Din's permission of course, fed him.

"The answer's still no. I'm sure we can come up with something that does just as well."

"Can we at least keep it in our back pocket in the case that we don't?"

Din sighed. As much as he wanted this idea to be completely thrown out, at the same time, he didn't want to hurt his team's chances of winning because of his stubbornness. If it really did come down to that, he'd just set limits for what they would be allowed to do.

"Alright. But only if we're absolutely out of other options."

"No problemo Din. Good enough for me. Alright, let's get thinkin' of some other ideas."

"We can't take too long on this. Remember, we still have to make whatever it is too." Reagan said to her own team as they were brainstorming as well. They had already thought of the idea of a lemonade stand but unanimously agreed to put that one on the backburner as that was too obvious.

"We know, we know. This is easier said than done though." Hailey said. "Who knew thinking for something like this would be this hard?"

"How about a talent show? I'm sure everyone here would be amazed at seeing what some of us can do." Ayame proposed.

"Good idea, but I feel like we're just scratching the surface here. We can do a lot better than that."

"Did you forget what Double D said though? I think it's fine. We can't go wrong with showing off our best. And besides, we already did it earlier in the season so it's not like we don't have experience." Kaz said.

"Yeah, and look what happened then. Look, I dig the idea, but I'm just…. a little nervous about doing that again. Besides, despite what Eddy says, people are attracted to something new and interesting. How many people do you think see a new ride and ignore it? It's certainly not everyone. I think it'll pay a lot of dividends if we at least make some sort of attempt at thinking outside the box. As long as we make it look enticing from the outside, and obviously make it actually enticing on the inside, we'll be just fine."

"I got one! Winter Wonderland! We use Shiro's….." Hinata started before realizing why she was nervous about the talent show. "Okay, bad timing. But let's, keep it in our back pocket, eh?"

"You know, that's not exactly a bad idea." Ryoma spoke up, only listening in initially as he knew he didn't have any ideas himself, but would be more than willing to help in whatever the others came up with.

"Really?"

"Yes. Ayame has used her Power Stone to create rain when there was a heat wave in Moon Land and there was a drought of water."

"So you want me to do that again? How would that make us money though?" Ayame asked.

"Well, it's kids right? I'd imagine they'd love to be able to play in the rain whenever they want to. We could do that and have them pay for it."

"I like the basis of the idea, but having it happen everywhere and asking people to pay for it is too much. Not to mention the other teams could say it's interfering with whatever they come up with. And in their defense, they certainly may have a case." Hailey said.

"So? I don't get how that's our problem though. It interferes with their stuff so what? They could always just come up with something else where that won't be a problem. Not to mention they could just wait until we're done. It's not like it's going to be raining forever. If she can start it, I'm sure she could stop it too. No one's forcing them to go first." Zak countered.

"Force. That's it! We hypnotize them! Make them give us the money!" Randy proposed. Everyone was silent after that. "No? Too far huh? Okay, I'll stop talking now."

"Honestly though, as messed up as this sounds, I legit see that working. Too bad we don't have anyone here that knows hypnosis." Reagan said.

"Don't do that one again. Trust me. It ain't gonna go how you think. I wanted to be hands off with this but I had to put my two cents into that one from personal experience." Eddy said, passing through as he and the other Eds watched the teams plan from a distance.

"Probably because you did it wrong."

"Or it just doesn't work. I refuse to believe these three were able to pull something like legitimate hypnosis off." Myron said.

"It actually worked. I can vouch. It was…. something. Or specifically, someones that caused our ultimate failure." Double D said as Ed barked like a dog.

"Ed, you're not even hypnotized. Why are you even acting like a dog?" Eddy said.

"I'm not?" Ed said in surprise.

"No doofus."

"The memories. They're still there! Get them out! Get them out Eddy!" Ed yelled before somehow being hypnotized into being a dog for real just from those memories and running around, almost trucking over some of the contestants in the process.

"What the hell is wrong with him!?" Sendo yelled out, grabbing onto him before being dragged into the ground as Ed pulled him.

"Oh my! Someone stop him before he hurts someone! Or himself!" Double D yelled out in horror.

"I'm not worried about Ed. I'm worried about the others! How else am I-we, supposed to make money if they're hurt!?" Eddy yelled before running after him. "Don't just stand there sock-head, let's go!"

"Okay, he's definitely stronger than he looks." Sly said, on the ground, dirt in his mouth before spitting it out, after a failed attempt of trying to grab onto him and stop him.

"Being hypnotized by a memory is never something I would have imagined to be possible. I must take note of this." Double D said as he was running.

"Let's talking, more running!" Eddy yelled out.

"I got him!" Kurita called out, in front of him, hands out, ready to grab onto him and get him to a complete stop. And while he was able to do that, Ed was still able to somehow get through and run him over and continue running through the neighborhood, running through lampposts and fire hydrants.

"If he trashes the neighborhood, no one's gonna care about giving us money! Someone needs to stop him!" Eddy yelled, trying to keep up with Ed, but wasn't able to, despite his efforts.

"Alright, that's enough of that!" Tangle declared as she and Blaze used their speed to easily catch up to him and grab him. But even that wasn't enough to stop him as he simply barked at them before biting both of them, to their horror, pain and disgust. He then used his teeth to grab onto Tangle's tail and forcibly extend it as he ran around, dragging the two of them behind him until Ed was locked into place. The source being Albedo as Ultimate Gravattack.

"The fact that it even has to resort to me doing this shows how disappointing you two are. You can't even handle a normal human?" Albedo said to them.

"You think being hypnotized by a memory is normal? Quite the opposite." Double D said, to him as he caught up to Eddy and Albedo, seconds later. Now stopped, he was finally able to start writing legible notes.

"I'm very tempted to knock him out. If that's what you want." Albedo said to Eddy.

"Screw it. Go ahead. Slam him into the ground until he's out cold. Just keep him in whatever it is you're doing though. If he gets out, you might be in trouble. And so are my-our, profits." Eddy answered.

"Eddy! How could you even be okay with doing that to him!?" Double D said to Eddy in disbelief.

"This is Ed we're talking about. He'll be fine. Goku had to try harder to stop him in that football game, and you saw how strong he was."

"The fact that you think I'd be in trouble against him is rather insulting." Albedo said before doing exactly what Eddy said, but slightly harder, mostly because of what Eddy had just told him. Though even after all of those hits, he was still conscious. Though at the very least, his eyes were back to normal.

"Hmm, perhaps I was a bit less forceful than I thought." Albedo said before preparing to do it again.

"Stop! Stop! He's fine! He's back to normal!" Double D pleaded, trying to stop him, even though him trying to grab onto him wasn't going to do anything.

"Your friend told me 'until he was knocked out cold'. So unless he says otherwise…." Albedo said before continuing to slam him into the road.

"Eddy! Tell him to stop!" Double D implored him.

After a few more slams, Eddy told him to stop. "He's good now."

"You had better be right." Albedo said, releasing him.

"Eddy, I told you he was back to normal. Why didn't you listen? Those last few slams were quite literally unnecessary." Double D said.

"Just wanted to make sure." Eddy replied, shrugging.

"Or you wanted him to be slammed down a few more times for some twisted reason."

"Who the heck do you think I am? Why would I enjoy doing that to him? He's just as important to this too."

"And not because he's your friend?"

"Eh, I guess that too. But moreso the other things." Eddy said as he walked over to Ed. "Rise and shine knucklehead."

"Eddy? I think….. I can see the light. Is this….. really the end? Who's going to take care of Sarah?" Ed then had a realization before suddenly rising up lightning fast and grabbed onto Eddy's shirt. "WHO'S GOING TO TAKE CARE OF SARAH EDDY!? WHO!? I CAN'T LEAVE MY SISTER BY HERSELF!"

"Calm down moonbrow, you're not dead!" Eddy yelled back.

"Wait, I'm alive?"

"Yes! Now put me down ya dodo!"

"I HAVE BEEN GRANTED A SECOND CHANCE AT LIFE! THANK YOU CLOUD ANGELS!" Ed yelled out, looking above at the clouds as he did so.

"Ed, you know you're not- you know what, forget it." Eddy said, shaking his head.

"Ed, you do realize that you never died, right?" Double D said to him.

"Yes! I have been revived! Not like a zombie! But, resurrected!" Ed exclaimed.

"No Ed. Don't you remember? You were hypnotized."

"Hypnotized? But I thought-" The memories suddenly came back. "Oh no. THEY'RE BACK! MAKE THEM GO AWAY! MAKE THEM GO AWAY!" His eyes were about to lose their pupils again as he was about to be hypnotized into a frantic dog again before he was knocked out by Tangle via a hard punch to the back of the nogging via a fist-shaped tail attack.

"Sorry. But that was for your, and our, own good." Tangle said.

"Yeah. Thanks to him, we were about to have to go through that mess again." Eddy said, referring to Double D.

"How are you going to blame me for this when you were content with letting him believe something that wasn't true?" Double D replied.

"It's called leaving well enough alone Double D. Try it sometime."

"But what if he went to his parents and told them he died? Can you imagine how they'd react?"

"Yeah, probably the same way they do when he says a lot of stuff to them."

"Which is?"

"It's Ed. What do you think?"

Double D pauses for a bit to really think about what Eddy was saying before finally saying, "I see your point. But still, that doesn't make doing that right."

"You say this as you're the reason Ed's on the ground, knocked out. You didn't have to mention the hypnosis thing again."

"Don't put this on me!"

"Is he wrong though? Everything was fine up until he remembered he was hypnotized." Tangle said.

"I….." Double D sighs in defeat. "Let's just meet back with everyone else and check on their progress."

"Cheat codes!" Toxsa suggested. "Or, I play their games and get past whatever level they need to get past. Charge them per level, up the price depending on the difficulty."

"That's a good one, but I'd imagine that not everyone's a gamer here like you Toxsa. Not a bad idea, I just don't think we'd get enough money to win." Julie said.

"How about tech support? You give us your tech problems, we give you nothing but solutions and fixes."

"I actually like that idea. Not everyone's tech savvy enough to do it themselves. Or can afford to get it fixed from a professional." Myron said.

"And plus, how many times has someone broken something and they're afraid to tell their parents about it? We charge em a lower, obviously reasonable price, and it adds up."

"But not everyone has tech problems either. We'll keep that in mind, but let's try to find something more broad." Diego said. "Is someone writing these ideas down?"

"Already on it." Hailey said.

"Extermination company." Dwayne suggested.

"For one day?"

"It'll be the best service they every had for a low price. 100% removal rate just out of that one day." Dwayne said before laughing.

"If it was longer than one day, yes. But as it stands now, no."

"Gun show!" Launch, as her bad personality, proposed.

"You do realize this is for kids, right?" Reagan asked.

"What? Kids can't enjoy some fireworks?"

"Not ones that could potentially get them hurt or killed if a freak accident happens. Anyone else?"

"Robo-ride?" Diego proposed.

"What the heck do you mean by that?" Jenny asked.

"I don't know. But it sounds like something I'm going to hate. And if so, I'm not doing it." Bass said.

"Well, when you put it that way, we could always change it a bit. What if we build some sort of remote control for you guys and then let them use it?"

"And it's exactly like I thought. I'm not doing it." Bass said.

"Or, we could do a fake remote and just have it seem like they're controlling you." Randy said.

"Depends on what's on the remote. As long as it isn't something too silly, I guess I'll be fine with it." Jenny said.

"Or we could some sort of talking robot gimmick. Like, you tell the robot what to do and it does it. Like on those toy commercials." Hinata said.

"What if someone asks them to be a killing machine though!?" Eijun proposed, with his sudden outburst causing several people to give him looks.

"Terminator again huh?" Reagan asked, which caused Eijun to gasp.

"TERMINATOR! WE-"

"Okay, ignoring that outburst, moving on."

"We make copies of our gear for them! Like the gloves and stuff." Kaz proposed.

"Again, this is for kids. We're trying to make sure they don't get hurt or killed. That includes giving tools to allow them to do it to each other."

"In his defense, he's got a mini-natural disaster starter in his pocket so…." Tsukishima said.

"Answer's still no. Besides, that's going to take too long. And the effort I do put into making that stuff again is not gonna be so they could use it, get bored of it after a few days and never use it again or break it."

"How about face painting?" Ayame proposed.

"Hmm, I think I have an idea." Bakura started.

"Okay. What do you have in mind?" Hailey asked him.

"I'm sure none of them have heard of or seen Duel Monsters before. Maybe we could set something up and have them entertain them."

"You know what? That could work. But, let's go even further than that." Scott said.

"Further? How?"

"A small little haunted theme park. Doesn't have to be anything crazy. But think about how Bakura's monsters are. Wouldn't that fit a haunted theme more?"

"Oh. My. Gosh. Scott. You. Are. A. Honkin'. Genius!" Hailey exclaimed.

"Don't. Ever. Say. Honkin'. Again. Please." Beta said, coming out of her backpack.

"Sorry. That's just how good I thought it was."

"Honestly, I can see that working." Bakura said.

"So, are we all in agreeance with this idea?"

"Can we at least incorporate the face painting in?" Ayame asked, secretly hoping that they'd say yes.

"Can you do scary face paintings?"

"Can I!? Do you realize who you're talking to?"

"I'm guessing that's a yes then."

"Do you think we should do a haunted house or a haunted theme park? The former was a challenge before." Julie asked.

"Uh….. both can work. I guess it just depends on what everyone else wants. But if we do the haunted house, we have to make it genuinely scary."

"But if we do the theme park, we can make it real scary or fun scary." Scott added.

"'Fun' scary? That doesn't make any sense. Scary is scary. There is no 'fun'." Kageyama said.

"You've never seen Halloween themed parks have you? Or haunted parks?" Hinata asked.

"No. I've never been. But even if I did, I know what they look like."

"Well, apparently you haven't seen enough. Because Hinata's right." Tsukishima said.

"Wow, I don't think you've ever said that before!" Hinata exclaimed in awe.

"And if you keep this up, I never will again. But anyway, what Scott means by 'fun scary' is something not too serious. A haunted theme's still there, but it's done in a way where it's not legitimately scary."

"Basically everyone knows it's not really scary. But it's still fun." Scott said.

"I still don't get it. If it's not really scary then why call it scary?" Kageyama said.

Tsukishima sighs.

"Look, the best thing you can do is just help us with whatever we need, alright? You don't have to understand it as long as we win." Reagan said to him.

"You know what? Fair enough. But don't expect me to not call this dumb throughout all this."

"Well, it looks like we have two teams finished." Double D said to Eddy as the Rats were the first team to finish planning several minutes ago. Even before Ed started to run amok. The only one left was the Kings.

"Well, they better hurry it up. They don't got all day." Eddy said.

"Should I ask them if they need assistance."

"Nah. If they don't get it, that's on them."

"But Eddy-"

"Did I stutter? We're holdin' people accountable here."

"Holding people accountable does not mean letting them fail." Double D said as he watched the team continue to plan out ideas.

"You're too soft sockhead. We already told 'em they had a deadline. What do you want us to do hold their hand? They're supposed to be the ones to come up with the ideas. Then we come in to help. What part of that wasn't clear?"

"I know but-"

"I hate to break up your battle of morals, but they just said they're done." Chris said to the two.

"Huh?" Both said to him, confused.

"Uh, hello? They're done? Do you need to hear them say it or something?"

"Oh. Well, cool. Come on skinny, let's go see what they got." Eddy said to Double D.

The teams, after being requested to do so by Double D, all had at least one person in a group to represent their team for presenting their ideas.

"Radical hug, kiss'n'drink stand. Three rad items sold for the price of one." Sucy said, unethused. "One hug from Puss, one kiss from Lucy and one….. why do I have to do this again?"

"You mean to tell me you can't even present an idea? Alright, guess I'll do it. Besides, that wasn't enticing at all." Akko said to her.

"Again, why did I even have to do this in the first place?"

"Because Puss is getting ready, Lucy's in the bathroom and….. where's Zee?"

"Bathroom. Guess all those sodas finally got to him." Murasakibara said, pointing inside Eddy's house.

"Check out our Rad Rack! Three rad items sold for the price of one! One hug from the cute and cuddly Puss in Boots, one kiss from the beautiful Lucy, and one snack pack from our duo of Murasakibara and Zee! And as a bonus, a free fourth item! One custom made potion from the great alchemist witch herself, Sucy!"

"So basically four items. Though we're passing it off as a deal….. for some reason." Sucy said.

"It's a business practice. Make customers think they're getting some type of deal and that'll entice them to get the original item more." Becky explained. "Also, Rad Rack. I like it."

"I still don't see the point. Just say it's four-for-one then."

"Look, there's a psychological thing behind all of it. Just know that it'll work."

"Well, good thing I don't plan to pursue a career in business." She replied, shrugging.

"I see exactly what you're cookin'. And I for one am lookin' forward to tryin' it out. Becky, you just got yourself a new supporter." Eddy said. "Who's next?"

"I got it." Louie said. "So, we're doing a restaurant. With a variety of dishes. Recipes are from Sebastian, made by Sebastian and supervised by Sebastian. With our specialty meal, for those that want something closer to home, being cooking from Jotaro's mother! Every dish made by Jotaro himself! Oh and those that can't cook will be the servers. Or, will clean up the tables. Just some other odd little jobs around to make sure as many people as possible get something to do and contribute."

"Yep. For this, we're really trying to minimize spectators." Huey added. "That way we'll all feel like we earned it."

"A restaurant huh? Hmm, you're gonna need a place though." Eddy said.

"We thought about doing it with outside tables."

"Outside tables!? Are you crazy man!? You gotta think about rainy days too."

"Well, we don't exactly have anyone here that can really build a place for us to do this. At least, not in enough time before this is over. And have a thorough enough inspection to make sure it's safe to patronize."

"Don't worry about all that. I got a place you can do this in. Just make sure that food's good." He then looked at the last group, which had Hailey, Scott, Ayame and Reagan. "Alright, I'm liking what I'm seein' so far. Got one more. You guys better have somethin' good."

"We do. We're doing a haunted house." Hailey said.

"Yep. We were going back and forth over whether we wanted to do that or a theme park but, yeah, that one is kinda out of our reach." Scott said.

"Julie has seen how this worked out in a challenge before so we should have a good idea of what to do. Maybe do some things different in the process as well." Reagan said.

"Seems like an interesting idea. Although, I think you may run into one issue with this. You'll need, well, a house." Double D said.

"Yeah…."

"I mean it shouldn't be that hard to build a house right?" Hailey said, trying to convince herself before realizing that it wasn't working at all, putting her hands on her head. "Oh who am I kidding, this one might be out of our reach too. And it really sucks because we had a lot of things planned for it."

"I have no clue how the house itself slipped my mind either." Ayame said.

"Well, we could always do the Duel Monsters idea." Bakura said.

"Or the face painting one." Ayame said.

"I've got one." Shiro said, unfolding his arms, finally breaking his silence on all this.

"You do? Tell us!" Hailey said, more than willing to take ideas.

Tsukikage said something to him.

"Really? Alright." Shiro replied, nodding before turning his attention back to the team.

"I had an idea of something winter themed. Whatever you could think of in regards to that. Wolver and I will try our best to do it for you. But, Tsukikage also brought up the idea of an aquarium."

"An aquarium huh? Interesting. But, where would we get the fish?" Myron asked.

Tsukikage said something else.

"Tsukikage says we could just find them in the ocean and make sure they're put in a tank immediately after." Jenny said.

"The problem would come in with diversity. If we don't get diverse types of fish, the sales aren't going to be good." Myron said.

"Look, let's not make this more complicated than it has to be. Hinata had the idea of the Winter Wonderland thing. Shiro agreed to it. Why don't we just do that?" Kageyama said.

"Actually, I never agreed to that." Shiro corrected him. "I said we'd be willing to try our best with whatever you guys need. I never specifically agreed to whatever this 'Winter Wonderland' is."

"But, you'll agree to it now, right?" Hinata asked.

Shiro closed his eyes and made a bit of a brief and low sigh. "I guess so."

"And yes, we'll try to find a way to incorporate facepainting." Reagan said, already being ahead of Ayame asking about it.

"Great!" Ayame said, trying to hide the fact that she was ecstatic about still being able to do it.

"One really important question though. How the heck is all of this going to be able to coexist? These are some pretty ambitious ideas that I don't see being able to work together." Hailey said.

"Oh great, that sounds like we have to change again." Randy said.

"TERMINATOR!" Eijun yelled out again.

"Okay, that is getting annoying. Would you please-" Ayame started before Eijun cut her off.

"Wait! Wait! Terminator! Back to the Future! Time machine store! Buy items from the 80s and 90s!"

"You mean like a throwback store?" Reagan asked.

"Yes!"

"That's…. actually a good idea. And we don't have to worry about weather or anything like that interfering with the other teams either." Hailey said.

"Only problem is, we need items for it. And, the most important thing is, would these kids even be willing to buy that stuff? I'm not sure if they even know or care about those things from back then. I barely know things about that time myself." Reagan said.

"Why not get some of those items from back home? Like the games and stuff?" Eijun proposed. "And of course they'd be interested in it! Unique items never before seen! Who wouldn't!?"

"I guess we could do that. But that's only if everyone else is okay with that. Wait, Chris, are we even allowed to do that?"

"I don't know. That's not up to me. Ask them." Chris answered.

"Sure. Do what you gotta do to get that cheddar. We're gonna do these over the course of three different days anyway. So each team's gonna come in and set up shop. Then after the three days, the money's counted. That's how we see who raked in the most dough and who won." Eddy explained.

"I still say we go with something else. We just don't have the items for that." Myron said.

"Well, what could you have in mind that could be better?" Eijun asked.

"Eh…. Honestly that's hard to say. At least things that they'd possibly care about."

"Screw it, let's just go for the Winter thing. Everything is either too hard or not a guarantee." Reagan said.

"So what, you don't think the winter stuff's not gonna be hard too? I'm not trying to go against it. As long as we win, I don't care. Genuine question." Zak asked.

"Well, at least with that we don't have to worry about building houses or getting items we might not have. Don't worry, before we get started, I'll explain everything."

"So, in other words, it sounds like we'll be doing the Winter-themed idea." Hanamiya said to Eddy.

"Well, whatever it is, I hope you figure it out soon. But, you'll have at least another day to figure it out if you can't." Eddy said.

"Why does it have to be on different days?" Ryoma asked.

"Probably to avoid competition. After all, we're not competing for adults' money. These are kids." Becky said.

"Right again girlfriend! We wanna make sure every team get's a fair shot at winning." Eddy explained. "And right now, looks like all three of you got a fair shot. So, get to work!"

"You have approximately an hour before everyone arrives." Double D said.

"You expect us to be finished in an hour? I don't know about that." Diego said.

"Nah. Just get what you can done here, and then scatter. I'd rather not have everybody see you here yet." Eddy said. "Fair warning though, this is the only time you're gonna get help from us, so you better make it count."

"So, let's say we do nothing and then wait until we get back. Does that mean we get all the profits?" Louie asked.

"No. Not how that works. We still get a cut regardless."

"But if you didn't do anything to earn it, how is that fair?"

"Look kid, you gonna talk and try to take money from me or are you gonna get to work?"

"Ironic coming from you." Double D said to him.

"Oh please, I always contribute when we do this stuff."

Double D could only give him a look.

"What the heck are you starin' at!? Get to helpin' out! Now! And wake lugnut over there up. And when he does get up, nobody mention anything about you know what."

The three teams got to work on their ideas.

"I really don't understand why I can't do it, but he'll allow damn there everyone else to." Aomine commented, referring to feeding Grogu as Eddy was showing them the space they would use for the inside portion of their restaurant. That space being Eddy's own house.

"Do we even have to say it?" Ben said.

"Apparently so, because I'm not getting what you're hinting at."

"Horikita Mai ring a bell?"

"Yeah? What about-" He just realized what he was hinting at. "Oh yeah, because I'm definitely that lazy to not do that."

"Annnnd I really think we should change the subject now."

"Okay, fair. But you brought it up."

"It is a miracle that she's willing to put up with you doing that. You're real lucky." Isagi said to him.

"Yeah well, it's not like I look at em all day. Besides, I kinda have been doing it a little less believe it or not. Don't let her know that though."

"Why not?"

"I don't want it to make it seem like what she's doing is working. Well I mean, it kinda is but…. you know what? L-Let's just focus on the challenge, alright?"

"You mean the thing you should have been doing initially? Yeah, I agree." Maki, behind them, said before prodding them in the back with the one staff she brought with her.

"What do we even have to do anyway? It's not like we can cook the food right now."

"Well for one, you can't make food without the ingredients. Or the pots, pans, utensils, etcetera needed to do it."

"Well that's easy."

"Oh good. Well if it's so easy, then you can go get them."

"You think Chef is gonna be cool with that?"

"No, I mean from the store."

"The store?"

"Yes. Here, take this cash. Go talk to Jotaro and Sebastian and see what they need. After that, get going. This is probably the only chance we're going to have to do this so you might want to be fast."

"These two are coming along to help me, right?" He asked, referring to Ben and Isagi.

"Nope. They've got other things to take care of. But, you're quick and pretty strong so this shouldn't be too much of an issue for you."

"Man…" He said in a tone that said that he really did not feel like doing this. But he also knew that if he didn't, he'd be high up on the reasons they lost. "Alright, you can count on me."

"Okay, if you really wanted speed, I could have taken his place for that." Ben said to her.

"Nah. To be honest, I just did that so that he has something to do instead of just sitting around. As for you two, Ben, you're gonna go get some wood. We're obviously going to need signs throughout the place."

"Wood? Don't you think there are better ways we could do that though instead of using wood?"

"The other ways involve more money or something we might not be able to do. I know 'get wood' doesn't sound like the fanciest thing in the world, but it's the most guaranteed. Besides, we can clean it up to make it look neater." She looked and saw Ruby passing by with an apron and chef hat on. "And take Ruby with you."

"Wait what? Why me?" Ruby asked.

"Because he needs help to get it done faster."

"I don't want to sound selfish but, can't you go get Yang or something? Those two get along a lot. Or Rook? They're partners. Just this once. I promise I'll never do this again. Please?"

"As much as I want to say yes, I can't. Now get going."

"But I was really looking forward to learning how to cook the meals that Jotaro's mom makes."

"Maybe another time. I'm really sorry."

She sighs. "Okay. Give me a second." She goes to take off the apron and chef hat.

"I could have gotten this done myself. It looked like she was really looking forward to that." Ben said to Maki.

"I know but, you didn't hear what I heard earlier when she was in the kitchen."

"Oh….."

"Please don't tell her that though, alright?"

"Lips are sealed."

"Okay! I'm ready!" Ruby exclaimed, returning.

"Cool. Wanna race?"

"I guess."

"Come on, don't you think it's pretty odd we haven't raced each other yet?"

"Well, you've got a point." She perked up a bit and smiled. "Okay, you're on!"

Ben changes into Fasttrack. "Try to keep up!"

"You're telling me that?" Both immediately speed off.

"Okay, I'm actually kinda curious. What did you hear in the kitchen?" Isagi asked Maki after they sped off.

"Sebastian trying to give her instructions. I could tell he was trying his hardest not to get mad. Him getting her to ask Jotaro if he needs help is his kindest way of kicking her out. How do you think that would have gone?"

"Yeah, I can definitely see why you did that then. Well, guess I better make myself busy too."

"Glad to hear it. I got nothin' for you so, if you can find something, be my guest."

"You know what? I just thought of something, you're assigning other people stuff to do. What are you doing?"

"Just helping out with whatever, honestly. I don't see a particular place I could really just 'fit in' to like some of the others. Or anything that I 'can't do' either. So yeah. Bit complicated."

"Ah. Well, let's hope we both find something to do. I don't know about you, but being the odd man out in these types of situations feels bad. At least for me."

Meanwhile, even the Rats had some work to do, and they seemingly had the simplest "business" out of the three teams. Much of that work involving gathering the materials Sucy needs to make more potions.

"I don't get how the person involved with this stuff does the least amount of work out of all of us." Akko said, looking at the list given by Sucy of the materials needed.

"Probably because her part comes in when she has to actually make them?" Sena said, also with her along with Lotte and Morty. In their case, they were looking for a certain moss. And as such, they were in a forest, looking at different trees for the moss she requested.

"Yeah well I still don't like it. She could at least have the decency to search for some of this stuff herself instead of throwing all of it on us while she looks at some book. Probably the only other person doing less than her is Lucy. And that's the other thing I don't get. It's just a kissing booth! Why does she need to take all of this time just to get the right outfit?"

"Well, to be fair, we were told that Eddy-"

"That's a different story. I can kinda get why people didn't want to pay for his kissing booth."

"Why?" Morty asked.

" 'Kiss the Hunk' my butt. He's got a weird definition of 'hunky'. And what kind of dummy does that in the middle of the school hallway during class?"

"Okay, not gonna lie, I really didn't get that part when he and Double D explained that to us."

"My point exactly. And as for Lucy, why couldn't it have been multiple girls huh? Like a spin the bottle! But of course, she gets picked with no protests from anyone just because of how she looks. I mean, what's wrong with the rest of us huh!?"

"Well, Rally, May and Becky are adults so-" Sena started.

"I'm not talking about them. I mean the people around the Cul-De-Sac's age. You know, me? Lotte? Mamori? Heck, even Diana."

"You forgot about Sucy. And Tangle, Lanolin, Whisper and Blaze."

"That's different."

"Different how?"

"For one, I'm not even sure if Sucy herself would like that because well, it's Sucy. And the other four….No offense to them but do I even have to say it?"

"Uh…."

"Look, just know that it wouldn't work."

"Actually Akko, I'm not sure I'd really like doing something like that." Lotte admitted.

"Really? Why not? I'd say you're pretty cute-looking. And I'm sure there's some guys out there that think the same thing. I mean, don't you remember Frank?"

"To be fair, we don't really know how much of that was from the influence of the bee. Don't get me wrong, I like Frank. But not in the same way that he felt about me. It's like I said multiple times, it was just too sudden. But as for the kissing booth, I guess I just wouldn't enjoy it like you or Lucy would. I can't really put my finger on it as to why though."

"Is it because you're not really a person that cares about something like that too much? You don't really come off as a person that's like really into appearances and stuff like that, if you get my drift. N-no offense to you obviously. I'm definitely not saying you look bad or anything." Morty guessed.

As much as she tried not to, her cheeks were completely flushed after hearing this. "Yeah, I think I get where you're coming from. No offense to anyone that is, but I'm just not really that invested in that sort of stuff like you all are. It doesn't mean I don't care about it, it's just-" She stopped the second she heard a chainsaw and what seemed to have been someone hissing. Something that terrified all four as the chainsaw noise started to get closer and closer to them with Akko literally jumping into Sena's unsuspecting arms.

"Well? What the heck are you waiting for? Get us out of he-"

"GRAAAAAAAAWR!"

After hearing that roar, he didn't need to be told twice as he immediately tried to get the other three out of harm's way and out of the forest, as difficult as that was especially with Akko refusing to get out of his arms.

The 'roar' was revealed to have been from Ed, who had something lodged in his throat, chainsaw in hand. He coughed it out, revealing it to have been some old buttered toast in his throat(though it looked nothing like it, in a disgusting ball covered in spit).

"Oh, so that's where that went." Ed said before disgustingly putting it back into his mouth, chainsaw still on the entire time.

"Hey! Are you alright!?" Kurita yelled out, running to where Ed was, axe in hand with Monta also with him.

"Of course! I got a chainsaw!" Ed replied.

"Huh. I could have sworn I heard someone else here. It sounded like Sena and Lotte." Monta said before having to duck under Ed suddenly swinging the chainsaw forward at him.

Ed looked around. "Sena and Lotte? I don't see them." He swung the chainsaw back again, forcing Monta to have to jump out of the way.

"Can you please turn that off!?"

"Turn what off?"

"The…. *duck* chainsaw! *jump again*"

"Silly monkey man. You can't turn off a chainsaw. This is not a computer or a TV."

"Kurita! Do something!"

"Ed, can we switch?" Kurita politely asked him.

"Hmm….." He looked at the chainsaw he had in his hand as he held it dangerously close to his face before putting it down and looking at the axe Kurita had. "Hmm….." He then did it multiple times, seemingly holding it dangerously closer and closer to his face. "Mmmm… okay!" He then casually throws the chainsaw to Kurita, forcing him to duck it to avoid having his face torn off.

"Hey! A promise is a promise!" Ed yelled at Kurita, giving him a rather mean look as Kurita was still on the ground before swiping the axe out of his hand.

Though ironically, it would be Ed that would the one to technically not keep his end of the bargain as the chainsaw would continue cutting through trees in the forest as it went forward from Ed's throw.

Seeing that the chainsaw was way out of his reach, Kurita could only sigh. But, he wasn't going to give up. He'd simply have to get a lot more creative in doing so. Another yell was heard that startled him.

The source of the yell coming from Ruby. Ben had gotten impaled by the same chainsaw that Ed threw.

"Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh! What am I going to tell the others? Hey uh, so Ben just got impaled by a chainsaw out of nowhere and died."

"Flying chainsaws. That's new." Ben, as Katastrophe said, slipping out of the chainsaw impalment before returning back to normal as it fell to the ground.

"You're alive!" She exclaimed, hugging him tightly.

"I won't be for long if you keep squeezing me like this!"

"Sorry." She said before immediately letting him go.

"Well, now I know firsthand how you can constantly swing that scythe around."

A few seconds after, the chainsaw turned off by itself.

"Well, at least it won't hurt anyone else. Out of fuel." Ben said, looking over at it with Ruby also looking at it.

"You think we should-"

"Nah." He then took a few seconds to look at it before rethinking his decision. He then changed into Four Arms to break apart the chainsaw. "Alright, guess I can bring this back for safekeeping and trash it there." He then picks up some of the wood he chopped. Both started to walk back with the wood they had in hand.

"Yeah, it's funny you mention you the scythe swinging. Usually my sister's looked at as the muscle out of the four of us."

"Makes sense. Has she tried lifting your scythe though?"

"Nope. I never asked her to either. I imagine she probably could."

"Well, you should ask her. I'm genuinely curious if she can lift it or not. Anyways, speaking of her, don't tell her this, but I don't think I'll ever be able to get her that smoothie."

"Also funny you say that too. She's talked about that too. And about how you probably forgot about it. And that whenever you got eliminated, she'd make sure she'd remind you."

"I'm sure her reminder would have involved some sort of punching or wrestling move I bet."

"I don't know. She didn't tell me."

"I'd be shocked if it wasn't. But then again, I don't plan on going down any time soon for that to happen in the first place."

"Yeah well, we have other plans. When we get there of course. Also, are there no Mr. Smoothies anywhere else?"

"Nope. They're only where I'm from. Which sucks. Really wanted to get her opinion on them. Remember when I talked about Julie earlier? She thinks they're disgusting. I just wish she would have told me that from the jump instead of waiting until we broke up to reveal that to me. I wouldn't have been mad. Well, maybe a little bummed out that I can't share my favorite drinks with her, but not angry. That's the one thing I will a hundred percent put on her. But uh, let's change the subject. I'd rather not go off on a tangent about my relationships to you. And I'm sure you don't want to hear it."

"It's okay. To be honest, I'm having a little bit of trouble figuring out what to talk about now."

"Yeah, talking about Grandpa's cooking and then your sister will do that to you."

About a minute later, they arrived back with the wood that they gathered.

Meanwhile, the Breakers would continue to work on their "business" as described by Reagan.

One of the things that they planned to have in their winter-themed attraction being ice rinks for hockey and ice-skating. Though of course, for hockey, goals were needed. Goals that they were more than willing to make out of wood. Wood that Ryoma was assigned to get but hadn't returned yet but Ruby and Ben did.

"He should have been back by now. I hope he's alright." Launch, back as her good personality said as she helped out Ayame with creating the signs(though in her case it was more the writing and not the drawing).

"I seriously doubt anything bad happened to him. If he really did run into something, he could always use his Power Stone to defend himself." Ayame said.

"You guys are worryin' yourselves too much. Ain't nothin' in those woods." Eddy said, passing by. "Well, nothin' except Ed. Where the heck is he anyway? He really taking that long just to get wood?"

"Yeah, nothing is what I would say what you've contributed."

"That is where you're wrong chopstick head. I think I got a pretty hefty contribution so far."

"Sure you do."

"Omelet ring a bell?"

"Huh?"

"One of the items on the menu of the restaurant. Just try it for yourself. One bite will knock your socks off."

"Honestly, I wouldn't mind something quick."

"Cool! Will that be here or to go?" He said, jar suddenly in hand.

"What!?" Ayame said, looking at Eddy in disbelief that he just asked her that.

"Like I already said, ain't nothin' free. Now what's it gonna be? You're in luck because I'm offering you a deal. It's full price when the restaurant's done."

Ayame takes the jar from him and opens it up, which delighted Eddy.

"Thank you for your bus-" He opened his eyes and saw what Ayame was doing, which was holding the and winding it back with not a single penny in it. "Hey, what the heck are you-" She jammed the jar in his face so hard his mouth was stuck in the opening.

"You're very welcome Eddy." Ayame said, letting him leave on his own afterwards instead of kicking him away.

When he went to Double D, who was helping to calculate prices for the teams, along with looking at the blueprints for the snow-making machine that Hailey proposed, with revisions, notes and suggestions from Myron and Reagan, Double D continued to work without even looking up.

"Whatever you did I'm sure it was well-deserved." Double D said to him.

"Shut up and get this off me sockhead or you're not getting paid!" Eddy replied.

Sighing, Double D got up to try his hardest to pull the jar off but couldn't.

"Come on, what the heck is taking so long? This is starting to hurt!"

"I'm trying my best here!" Double D said, trying to pull even harder but still couldn't get it off. "I'll be right back."

"Hey! Where are you going!? I'M SERIOUS! YOU'RE NOT GETTING PAID! Someone get this off me and I'll pay you a bonus commission! Ten percent! Okay, maybe not ten. Five!" Everyone that was in the area passed him without even acknowledging him. Moreso because they were busy with other things. "Anybody!?" Still no response. "I'll pay you whatever Double D gets!"

Hanamiya seemingly saw him and attempted to pull the jar off but couldn't and shrugged. "Sorry."

"Hey wait! Come on! Double D tried more times than that!"

Ryoma, who also passed by, offered to slice the jar off before Eddy immediately shot the idea down.

"For you to chop off half my face with it!? No thanks!"

Bakura was the one that looked as if he had a chance to do it, seemingly getting the jar to budge a bit. "I….. think I've….. got it!" When he pulled the hardest he could, it only caused him and Eddy to fall to the ground, and for Eddy to actually feel worse.

"You idiot! You're supposed to try to pull it off! Not make me feel worse!"

"I think I loosened it up. Let me try again." He continued to try to pull at it but it only hurt Eddy even more.

"Stop! Stop! Stop! Don't you hear me crying out in pain? That hurt!"

"But didn't-"

"You know what? Forget it. I'll just wait 'til sockhead comes back. Even if he overthinks stuff, I know he won't kill me in the process." Eddy said before walking away to find a place to sit.

"Fair enough." As he turned to find something else to do, he idly looked over the blueprints on the desk that Double D was working on. And seeing that was what caused Yami Bakura to take over, knowing that the real one wouldn't even consider giving those blueprints a look.

"Hmm, it looks like this is what will keep things cold for our little business." He thought as he looked over them.

"I shouldn't. I'd rather hurt the other teams but….. I am due for a bit of mischief. Let's just see what happens." He added before changing the internal temperatures of some of the parts. "And that's all I'll change. Don't want to be too blatant."

About 15 seconds later, Double D came back with Natsu and Jenny to help Eddy.

"Don't worry, we got ya." Natsu said, stretching his hands before preparing to pull the jar off Eddy.

"On the count of three, pull!" Jenny said to him, preparing her wings for extra force.

"One…

Two….

Three!"

When they did, Eddy to yelled so loud that it could be heard throughout the Cul-De-Sac, even getting Grogu's attention as he looked in the direction of the yelling as he was inside Eddy's house watching cartoons alongside Murasakibara, May, Albedo, Bennett and Zee.

"Was that…. Eddy?" Nazz asked, worried as she was looking in her locker to get some things before heading to the buses.

"Plank says who cares? He wants to know why Eddy and the others weren't at school today." Johnny 2x4 said to a hunk of wood with a face drawn on it that he had in his hand.

"And I say that's a good thing. Things have been a lot quieter with those dorks not runnin' around here today." Kevin said.

"Plank also says your shoe's untied."

"Huh?" He looks down. "Thanks I- hey wait a second, my shoes aren't-"

"Plank says, made you look!" Johnny said before laughing.

"Yeah well tell Plank that he does that again, he and his buddy's gonna regret it."

Back at the Cul-De-Sac, the teams continued their work, showing even better progress.

"Alright, I'm actually kinda curious, what did you have to say about me?" Sendo asked Becky after she and Sendo brought back the materials that Sucy asked for.

"Well I mean it shouldn't matter right? Since it was something 'perverted'. And two, what happened to not caring about romance?"

"Yeah, well for one thing, your sarcasm says otherwise. And two, the only reason I'm asking is because there really ain't much else to do."

"Well, if you really want to know, pay up."

"You must be outta your damn mind if you think I'm gonna do that. Screw off!"

After seeing his reaction she laughed. "I kid, I kid."

"You know, you got a weird sense of humor."

"And from the looks of things, you don't seem to have much of one." She said before scrunching up and changing her expression to try to match his. "Yeah, I'm nothing like Ippo. Being nice? Too soft for my tastes. You know what makes me tough? Yelling and threatening people all the time with my skills in the boxing ring, even though I know these challenges are nothing like boxing at all."

"Yeah, because that's definitely how I sound." He said, eyes closed, looking away.

"What was that!? I can't hear you over my yelling!"

"Are you done yet?"

"Shut up before I beat your a*s! Now, I gotta go train for hours by myself so I can keep up my tough guy image compared to Ippo."

"WOULD YOU CUT THAT OUT!?"

She started to giggle before laughing out loud a bit. "Okay, okay, I'm done. But seriously though, I don't think I've heard you laugh not once."

"That's BS and you know it. Can it with the exaggerating. Now are you gonna tell me what you said or not? At least have the decency to not waste my time."

"Didn't you just say there wasn't much else to do? I'd say that I have a while."

"That's it, if you're gonna waste my time-"

"Okay mister grumpy pants. If you really must know what I said, all I said was that I'm not impressed. For me, it'll take more than just a good looking chest."

"Let me guess, you care more about what's on the inside than the outside."

"Well, I mean you're partially right. Why wouldn't I want my partner to look good? I mean, take Ippo for instance. He's just as good as you, but he's got a nice personality to boot too. Crazy how someone that can just put you flat on your back if they wanted to and get paid professionally to that is so nice and shy. He's kinda like if Sena did boxing. I know it's not one-to-one but it's the comparison I could make."

"Yeah, and that's the part that irks my nerves."

"What? The fact that he's nice? Explain to me what exactly is so horrible about being nice."

"It ain't about him bein' nice. I could care less about that. It's everything else. He's too freakin' soft!"

"Or maybe you think being nice is soft. When it isn't. If anything, it's a strength to be that. It is so easy to be an a*shole. I mean, look at Rick. He makes being nice seem like a chore."

"I already told you that that ain't the case! Do you got wax in your ears or somethin'!?"

"Uh huh. So wanting to win just to prove you're better than Ippo is so hardcore. So tough." She said before rolling her eyes and shaking her head.

"If that's really what you think…. Then you don't know a damn thing about me lady."

"This 'lady' has a name. And second, be specific. You can't say something like that and not say anything about it."

"Look, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that that's not a major reason. But, it's not the only reason. Yeah, I wanna get stronger and battle strong guys so I can eventually become the best. But, doin' it just to do it, that doesn't work for me. There's gotta be some reason, some motivation for me to do it. And that's the same thing here. If I didn't have any motivation for me to try to keep going I would have packed it in a while ago."

"So, what is it then?"

"I already can make enough money with my boxing career. But, of course, there ain't nothin' wrong with getting more. But in this case, I don't intend to keep any of it. Whatever money I get's going to my fans and the kids back in my hometown, many of whom are those same kids. I also wanna make sure the guys at my gym get paid too. Getting to where I am professionally in boxing wasn't just something I'll credit to myself. It's the fans, my family, the trainers, everyone at my gym, that helped too. Boxing ain't considered to be a team sport, but teamwork is still involved a lot."

"So you're not giving any of that to your family?"

"Only my grandmother. She's the only family I got now."

"Oh. Sorry. I know that has to sting for you."

"Don't you even think about telling the others this, got it? Nobody else needs to know any of this unless I tell it to 'em."

"Lips are sealed."

"Now it's your turn."

"Huh?"

"I told you my motivations. It's only fair you return the favor. It's funny, Eddy said nothin' in this world is free. Well, in this case, me telling you that isn't free. Now you gotta do the same."

"Alright. Well, to be honest, all I want is for Chris to pay back the money from damaging my car. And considering lawsuits won't work, this is the only way he's gonna do it. And obviously I'd share with May and Rally. That's pretty much it. And even share some with Misty."

"Misty? You mean that kid that was on that aftermath call?"

"Yep, that's her. I know just giving her a wad of cash at face value just seems like it'll spoil her, but I don't think so. Believe it or not she actually wasn't always the working, good kid that aftermath makes her out to be. She was an amateur burglar. Rally only came across her because she had a job that required her to find and bring Misty in. But, apparently, the lawyer was in on the drug stealing and Misty was framed for it, which was easy to do due to her past history of stealing. The second Rally brought her in for arrest, they were going to quietly get rid of her so she couldn't tell the truth in court. And obviously paint it as some sort of tragedy or freak accident. Sure, there's always the case of no one believing her but they didn't want to take that chance."

"I don't know what she did to convince Rally to believe her, but it definitely worked. And thanks to that, they got the real perpetrators. The lawyer and his nephew, who was the one that stole the drugs in the first place. Now she stays with Rally and May. Of course, that didn't come without a price. That price being Misty having to agree to turn herself in and serve the time for the burglaries she did do. I heard it was a few months but, time is time and she had to serve it regardless."

"Something tells me she's involved in some of you three's jobs too." Sendo replied.

"Sometimes, but we'd prefer not to. Hence why Rally has her working at the shop. Not just for the money she pays her, but to keep her out of trouble. Same thing with me too, when she is around to help me that is."

"You know somethin'….." He trails off for a couple of seconds before changing his mind. "Never mind."

"What is it? I know all of this is really personal to you. I won't tell a soul unless you say it's alright."

"Nah, like I said, it's nothin'."

"I got the wood!" Ed yelled out, running with wood in hand. Kurita and Monta were not that far behind.

"Took you look enough knucklehead. Ya get lost or somethin'?" Eddy asked.

"Your face looks funny." Ed simply replied as he dropped the wood, referring to the impression left around his face from the jar and from when Natsu pulled it off him hard.

"And I'm gonna make yours look even funnier if you don't shut your mouth! Now get the wood and take it to the teams. I don't need it."

A few more minutes passed before Double D made an announcement.

"May I have your attention please? Our contemporaries should be arriving from their buses soon, I suggest you all begin to get to a stopping point."

"Everything will be brought back to the island for you to finish working on it so don't worry. I'll also announce the order each team will go in so be prepared for that as well." Chris said.

Taking the hint, all three teams began to clean up and gather what they had.

"Jeez, did you really need that much?" Tsukishima asked Sucy, referring to the large amount of items that she was rolling on a cart thanks to what her teammates had gathered.

"Nah, some of these are completely extra. Don't know if I'll get this opportunity to get the others to do this stuff for me, so why not take advantage of it?" She replied.

"You better hope the others don't find out."

"Are you going to tell them?"

"Tell them what? I have no idea what you're talking about." He said before smiling at her and joining the rest of his team as they grouped back up.

Eventually, all three teams were about to bring what they could back to the island.

Once they did, Chris began to speak.

"Alright, so this is how this going to work. Going off last game's results, the team in first place goes last, which means they'll have the most time to work on their stuff. And the team that was in last place goes first, meaning they'll have the least time to work on and finish their stuff. Got it?"

"So we're in the middle. Shouldn't be too much of a problem. We really don't have much left to work on anyway." Louie said.

"We'll see how all of that pans out when the money is counted. But anyways, you're free for the rest of the day. You can keep working or do something else. It's your choice. But what isn't your choice, is the fact that things will start tomorrow."

"Wait, tomorrow? We don't even get a day in between?" Sena asked.

"No. Why would I do that? You got extra time already with them wanting each of you on one day. Be happy with that."

"I don't know about you guys, but I think we should go ahead and finish this stuff up today if possible. Those few days can and will sneak up on us." Hailey suggested.

"Good idea. Let's get to work everyone!" Reagan called out.

There weren't that many that didn't use the free time they had to work on what they were doing for their challenge. Or at the very least, watched and/or talked about it with the ones that were working on it.

"Imagine how much easier this would have been if Musashi would have been here." Kurita said as they began to build their stand.

"Which is exactly why I thought about calling him just for this." Hiruma said, phone in hand as he was waiting for him to pick up.

"Hello?"

"Hey old man, we need your help with something."

Hiruma could feel the eyebrow raise from him even through the phone.

As that took place, Akashi and Huey began to practice the violin off to themselves, something that was still in earshot of some of the other contestants, namely Noelle and Fiona.

"Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this music makes things pretty awkward." Fiona said.

"In their defense, they wouldn't know. And besides, the music is actually pretty nice."

"Yeah. Honestly, if it wasn't for the fact that it would help them win, I wouldn't mind trying something in their restaurant. Really seems like they're going all out. But unfortunately for them, so are we." She paused before saying, "Speaking of music, I want to apologize for what happened earlier today. Just because I don't like something doesn't mean I should stop anyone else from enjoying it if they want to."

She tried not to, but Noelle couldn't resist laughing.

"Come on! I know it might not be the greatest apology but I'm trying here!"

"No, the apology was fine. And I wholeheartedly accept it."

"Then what exactly were you laughing at?"

"Because, you just assumed that I actually liked it. Honestly, I didn't really care for it. To each their own though."

"Wait, are you serious? You have to be messing with me."

"Why would I do that? It's my honest opinion."

"Do they know that?"

"Actually, no. I would have said something if you hadn't come in out of nowhere yelling like someone died."

"Yeah, I really messed up huh?"

"Just be glad you didn't break Myron's stuff. You wouldn't have heard the end of it."

"Yep. And honestly, I wouldn't blame him. I probably would have done the same thing."

The music from Akashi and Huey started to swell. "Well, now that that's over with, I should go help out the others before this gets weirder."

"Yeah. Only thing that's missing is a smoothie with two straws or spaghetti."

"What, do you want that to happen or something?"

Fiona instantly had two dashes of red on her cheeks. "Huh? U-uh, no. Forget I ever said anything."

Another statue was made by Bass, melting it to create a replica of himself….. with the help of Jenny,

"Wow, that's pretty good. Nice work you two!" Diego said to them.

"Thanks!" Jenny replied with Bass only scoffing at the compliment.

"I think he's still a bit upset that I helped him." She whispered to Diego.

"I can still hear you." Bass said to her.

"Yeah well, I still think what Ayame is doing is even more impressive." Jenny said, referring to how she was carefully sculpting something smaller with Diego's energy blade that he had allowed her to borrow. Regardless of the size, her doing it by herself and trying to make the least mistakes possible was not something that was easy.

"All of it's impressive in it's own right. Then again, this is coming from the person that can't do any of that." Diego replied before laughing.

Cracking and shattering was heard. The source being Reagan, trying to lightly tap it with the glove.. Something that Octavia, who was in the area, only raised an eyebrow at as the ice was in pieces.

"I was just uh…."

"I think it's better if you don't try to explain it." Octavia replied.

"Yeah, you're probably right." She replied, looking at the now useless ice on the ground.

*Confessional*

Reagan(Wave Breakers):

"You know that thing where when you hit the block and then it suddenly turns into something? Yeah, I was trying to do that. Yes, I should have known that wasn't going to work but I was just being stupid. Look, it's not like that's gonna be a regular occurrence. Not like I really have much else to do."

*End Confessional*

"Yeah, that is exactly what 'I don't know what to do with my free time' looks like." Doyle commented, looking at the ice along with Reagan now.

"No lies told. We're doing this done early and now I'm starting to wonder if that was a bad idea."

"You think getting work done early is a bad idea? Who are you and what have you done with the real Reagan?"

"Again, I'm bored. And I'm really trying to find something to do out here so I can keep an eye on them."

"So you don't think they can handle this by themselves? You know what? Don't answer that question, I already know the answer. I notice you keep putting extra stress on yourself that you don't really need to. This is the same team that won like a gazillion games in a row. Exaggeration but still. Not everyone's going to be good at everything for this type of stuff. Hence why they're team challenges."

"Don't you know that? That's exactly why-"

"Uh uh. Nope. I'm turning you around and you're gonna not think about this challenge until this is over."

"Until this is over? Have you lost your mind?"

"Okay, okay, too much. One hour, cartoons with May, Zee, Muraskibara and Bennett."

"One hour yes. Cartoons, no."

"Okay, hot chocolate, whatever your favorite TV show is."

She raised an eyebrow. "Why hot chocolate?"

"…..I just want hot chocolate. Just because I heard you guys talking about it."

"Oh really? You could always pay for a cup."

"And get fired. Don't forget that too."

"Come on, no one has to know."

"But Chris will. I'll take the free cup."

*Confessional*

Doyle:

"You'd think the days in between where there're no challenges would help her. Doesn't seem like it."

*End Confessional*

When the day started to end, it turned out Doyle was right. They were perfectly fine. In fact, they were actually close to being done.

"See? What did I tell you?" Doyle said to her, looking at the sculptures and signs that they made, along with some of the other items they had like the pack paper cups that Chef allowed them to use, etcetera.

"Sorry for doubting you. Thanks for slightly lowering my worry levels."

"Well, it's something. More TV?"

"Yeah. You know what? Let's see what cartoons they've got on."

The next day…..

At around noon, Chris made the announcement that the Rats would be the first team to head to the Cul-De-Sac.

"Though I'm sure you still remembered, just wanted to give you that reminder." Chris said.

"Oh yeah, give us that reminder just when we're about to leave. Real helpful." Axl said sarcastically.

"Well, at long as you got your stuff done it shouldn't matter that much. At least, for your sake I hope you did. I could care less."

"Well, we did. It also pays that it was pretty simple too." Kagami said.

"Good for you. Now, bring your stuff, and your butts, into the portal. Everyone else that's not on their team, stay here."

All of the Rats filed into the portal back to the Cul-De-Sac.

"Alright, first team of money makers are here!" Eddy exclaimed, already seeing the potential money flying in.

"And a hello to you too." May said sarcastically.

"Greetings. I hope all of you slept well." Double D said to the team.

"We did. Just give us a bit to set up and we'll be ready to go." Becky said to him.

"Glad to hear it. I also took the liberty to make a confessional booth for you all."

"Forget that booth. Hurry up and finish setting up. You don't got all day." Eddy said.

"Yeah, thanks for telling us that captain obvious." Kagami replied.

"THEN GET GOING ALREADY!"

"YEAH WE'LL DO THAT WHEN YOU STOP YELLING!"

"Eddy, we're gonna set up, we promise. And Kagami, stop with the senseless arguing and go help us get up. In fact, I've got just the job for you." Lanolin said.

"Something tells me that I'm not gonna like this…."

The next thing he knew, he was on the street spinning a sign around.

"Man…. Why the heck do I have to do this? Why does anyone have to do this, we're literally the only ones with our stuff here!"

"To direct people to buy our stuff. Now, get ready to put that loud voice to use and call people over here." Becky said to him.

He sighs. "Jeez."

*Confessional*

Kagami(Radical Rats):

"This is what happens when you don't have much of a role this time around. People have to make stuff up for you to do. And when people have to do that, it's crap like this. Look, I don't mind having a smaller role but at least don't make it stuff like this!"

*End Confessional*

Now by himself in silence, he sighs, eyes closed. "Well, it could be worse. I could have been stuck wearing a rat costume. I should be thankful for that much at least." He said to himself.

He opened his eyes as he idly looked around the Cul-De-Sac. "And plus, at least this time around I don't have to deal with Midorima or any of his bad luck shenanigans. Guess that job experience as the sign guy's gonna come in handy, oddly enough." He thought. "Why the heck couldn't we have done a street performance or something with Blaze? I'm sure her dance moves would have gotten some extra cash. Speaking of, I wonder what Rei's up to. That talk about her having kids. I can't imagine what that would be like, raising a child. Of course, the first thing is…."

His eyes then widened a second later, face completely filled with red as if it was a kettle. "Damn it! I JUST WANT THIS DAY TO BE OVER WIIIIITH!"

"Would you calm down!? You're just holding a sign!" Lucy yelled out.

"YEAH WELL IT'S EASIER SAID THAN DONE WHEN YOU'RE NOT THE ONE HAVING THESE THOUGHTS ABOUT DOING IT! I MEAN WHILE HOLDING IT! I MEAN….. GARRRGH!"

"Just be patient, stop being a baby and hold the sign."

"Yeah red! The only other option was Ed, and you really don't want that." Eddy said as Ed was watching cartoons on TV….. outside. "Ed, how the heck are you watching TV outside?"

"Easy! One of them stretched the cord. Without pulling it out the TV like I did." When both Eddy and Double D looked at the cord in question that was "stretched", it was actually connected to another black cord, revealing that it was connected to an extension cord.

"That's an extension cord doofus." Eddy said to him.

"Yes. They extended the cord."

"No Ed. What Eddy means is the TV is connected to a completely separate cord to extend the TV cord's reach to a power supply. Hence the name, extension cord." Double D explained.

"You say a lot Double D, but they just mean the same thing."

Double D could only sigh at Ed's lack of understanding.

"Alright, you guys done yet?" Eddy asked the team.

"Pretty much." Lucy answered.

"Cool. 'Cause they're gonna be here any minute."

"Good. The sooner we finish this the sooner I can get back to what I was doin'." Murasakibara said.

"Which is nothing, right?" Tangle asked, half-joking.

"Even nothing is better than this." Sucy said, manning one part of the stand.

"You guys really don't like this? Why?"

"It's not that I don't like it, I just don't really care for it."

"And you're sure it's not because you have to give kids your snacks?"

"Eh, it's a little annoying but, I guess with the money we make here I can get some of it back."

"But if you're from Japan, I don't think that money would work there. Or, does it? Don't you have to get that transferred?" Zee asked.

Murasakibara's eyes rose after hearing this, realizing that he completely forgot about that fact, he was still frowning but it was easy to look at him and tell that he was even more annoyed now.

*Confessional*

Murasakibara(Radical Rats):

"I got the right mind to pull out and quit right now. Only reason I won't is because at the very least, money is money. I'll figure somethin' out."

*End Confessional*

About ten more minutes passed before everyone arrived.

"Come one come all to our rad rack! Four radical items for the price of three!" Kagami called out, pointing the sign towards where his team was before moving it around in multiple ways.

"Rad rack huh? Okay, I'll check it out. Where to?" Nazz asked.

"That way." He replied, pointing the sign again towards where they were.

"Cool. Thanks."

"Rad Rack! This way guys!" Kagami called out as others started to walk along the street, passing by.

"Rad rack. What a lame name. But, I guess I'll go check it out." Kevin said before going the opposite way that Nazz went.

"Where heck is he goin'? Guess he's gotta go back to his house and get money." Kagami said.

By the time Kagami realized the sign was pointed the wrong direction, it was too late and afterwards, he put a hand on his head, covering his eyes because of the mistake he made.

"Alright, no more foolin' around with this sign."

About a minute later, a blue-haired boy with blue that wore a yellow shirt with a red diagonal stripe on it approached him and looked at him with curiosity moreso than he was the sign.

"Uhhh…. Rad Rack's that way, if you're interested." Kagami said, starting to feel creeped out.

"Hmm, you've quite the muscle on you. Do you have experience working on the farm?"

"Uh, no? I just work out."

"I see. The Urban Rangers could use another member like you."

"Thanks for the offer but uh, I don't know if I'm gonna be around to accept it."

"Well, consider it! We welcome new members! Tell me, what is your name stranger?"

"Kagami."

"My name is Rolf. Kagami is a strange name. From what country do you come from red-headed boy?"

"Japan. Spent most of my childhood in America though before moving back."

"Japan. Interesting! I will visit this 'Rad Rack'. Where is it located?"

"That way."

"I see. I hope you will accept my offer to join!"

Even though he was led the wrong way, Kevin, from hearing the commotion, was able to find the stand. So at the very least, Kagami was able to get his job done and made sure they came to the stand.

Though the job still wasn't finished. They still had to make the sale. And that's where they seemed to have run into a bit of trouble. At least at the end.

"Look, four items for the price of one is a good deal. You can either take it or leave it." Becky said to a girl with orange hair and a pink tank top with blue jeans.

She actually seemed to have been just as nice, if not nicer than Nazz to the team when they first approached the stand. But after declining the kiss from Lucy and wanting to only pay for the other two items and the potion, her personality had undergone a complete 180.

"I'm not paying for something where I can't get all of my money's worth! This stand is a rip-off you old hag!"

She could tolerate everything else, but the girl insulting her age is what made her erupt. "THEN GO THEN! NO ONE'S FORCING YOU TO PAY KID!"

"I WILL! COME ON JIMMY! AND JIMMY IS GETTING HIS MONEY BACK TOO! THIS GARBAGE, RIP-OFF STAND DOESN'T DESERVE OUR MONEY!"

"But Sarah, I really wanted one of the potions!" Jimmy pleaded. He wore a cyan colored sweater, white pants and had a brace ring in his mouth.

"I said come on!" She repeated, now forcefully pulling him away.

"Sorry, I'm going to have to take this back!" Jimmy said, taking the 45 cents back. Until Eddy quickly leapt on the stand, catching Sucy and Jimmy off guard.

"All sales are final! No refunds!" Eddy declared.

"But Sarah-"

"Forget what that loudmouth brat says. The sign says no refunds so you're gonna follow the policy!" Eddy said, pointing to said sign, that, surprisingly, actually does say "Sorry, no refunds! All sales are FINAL."

"Exactly. Your friend paid for this service and actually wants the items. Now let him get them!" Becky added.

"I DON'T CARE! IF YOU DON'T GIVE JIMMY BACK HIS MONEY RIGHT NOW I'M TELLING MY PARENTS ABOUT THIS!" Sarah yelled. "AND THEY'LL GET THIS WHOLE THING SHUT DOWN!"

"Please give him the money back!" Ed pleaded, suddenly appearing out of nowhere and running over Kevin in the process and causing him to waste the snacks that he had along with the potion. He then grabbed on to Becky's blouse, catching her off guard in the process. "Please Becky! I'll be in big trouble! Please!"

"Look Ed, that was clearly written on the front for everyone to see. It'd be one thing if he paid and didn't want it after. He still wants it. It's Sarah that's forcing him to try to get the refund." She replied.

Sarah had had enough and snapped, forcing them both out of the way, and then picking up Eddy and throwing him off the money, leaving only a blank-faced and seemingly indifferent Sucy.

"You got a problem droopy-eye?" Sarah said to her.

"I could care less honestly." She replied, shrugging.

"Good!" She takes the coins before walking off.

"Hey! What the heck are you doin'!? Don't just let her get away!" Eddy yelled out to Sucy, who still did nothing. "Are you deaf or somethin'!?"

Sarah and Jimmy were stopped by Albedo, running right into him and causing the two to fall down to the ground.

"I already told Eddy and the rest of your stupid friends that we're not paying! Now get lost!" Sarah yelled.

"You don't have to worry about paying any money." Albedo started as he began to pick a form.

"Good!"

"But your friend will."

"COME AGAIN!? ARE YOU THREATENING ME GRAY HAIR!?"

"That wasn't a threat." He then changed into the standard version of Humungosaur just so he could increase his size, making him even more intimidating to the two kids. "That was a promise."

"Woah….." Kevin said, turning around from confronting Double D about Ed causing him to waste his snacks and potion after seeing the alien.

With ease, Albedo picked up Sarah and forced the money out of her hands by shaking her. He then dropped her after.

"Please don't hurt me!" Jimmy pleaded meekly, just as, if not more terrified than Sarah.

He placed Jimmy back where Sucy was along with the money.

"We appreciate your business." He said, before returning back to normal.

"I'll just…. take this and go." Jimmy said, just taking one random potion and then quickly running away, taking Sarah with him, who was still mortified. "Let's get outta here Sarah!"

"But you didn't- ah what the heck. Go ahead." Sucy said, shrugging.

"I have never seen such a beast! Is it possible to pay extra to purchase it? Along with this cat?" Rolf asked, pointing at Puss.

"Sorry my friend. But I am not for sale." Puss said to him, smiling after dancing with Rolf.

"I see. What a shame. Still, I enjoyed being able to share my stories of the Old Country with you. And hear stories of your adventures in your own land. Until next time!" Rolf said before petting him and leaving back to his home.

"No wait! Actually-" Eddy started, preparing to run after him before Mamori intentionally blocked his path.

"He's not for sale." Mamori said vehemently.

"But-" Kevin suddenly grabbed him out of nowhere.

"That's exactly what I'm gonna kick if you don't do somethin' about this!" Kevin warned, showing the empty soda can, snacks and potion bottle.

"Okay? Just go pay again if you want more." Eddy replied, shrugging.

"I ain't payin' for half! So either you give me the stuff I'm owed free of charge or I'm gonna knock those 45 cents outta that fat head of yours!"

"Buddy unless you got proof, we're not lettin' you scam us outta items. So pay up!"

"You want your proof!? It's right here!" Kevin said before whacking him in the face and sending him flying back. "Now I ain't gonna ask again. Give me my potion and my snacks and soda or we're really gonna have a problem."

"You know what? As a show of goodwill because of what happened with Sarah and the scene it caused, we'll give you those again free of charge. But only those. If you want to hug or spend time with Puss, like Rolf did, or get another kiss on the cheek from Lucy, you're going to have to pay full price, understand?" Becky said.

"Finally, somebody's that's reasonable. That's cool. I just want the stuff I asked for."

"Okay. Just know that we'll only honor that once. Anything additional is full price again."

Kevin was given the three items that were wasted due to Ed again. "Appreciate it. And for what it's worth, you and the dork triplets got a pretty cool place here. Catch ya later!"

Jonny, watching the whole ordeal looked at Plank before saying, "Plank says he missed out on his kiss because of Sarah. And wasted his drink." Jonny said

"Eddy says nice try. You want that stuff again, pay up." Eddy said, with a black eye.

"Dang it! I thought we were gonna have us a free kiss!"

"I still can't believe I kissed a wooden plank….." Lucy said to herself.

"Look on the bright side, it's not the worst thing we've had to do here." Sucy said.

"That still doesn't mean I- you know what? It was worth it."

This sudden change made the witch raise an eyebrow.

*Confessional*

Lucy(Radical Rats):

"Even though I'm still pretty shocked I had to do that, I'm not going to act like it was the end of the world. Not just because of the fact that we got Jonny to pay twice, but because it really looked like we made Jonny's day. Even Rolf looked pretty satisfied. So you know what? That should count for something, right?"

*End Confessional*

"Well, I think that about does it. All in all, a very good profit I'd say." Double D said, counting the money made. With Sarah refusing to pay and Nazz politely declining, the total money made totaled to $2.25.

"Is this really all the money we made? What the hell is that!?" Kagami said, finally coming back to look at the profits with the rest of his team.

"You have to remember that they're kids. So of course, they're not going to casually be giving us ten, fifteen dollars and up." Rally said.

"So? The kids that are competing here don't seem to have that issue."

"What's two dollars and a quarter to ten million? As long as we win, it's not that big of a deal. We're lucky that Jonny, for some reason, was willing to pay double." Blaze said.

"Not gonna lie, splitting this little money is going to be awkward. We should at least talk to Chris about this." Adrien said.

"And while you do that, we'll hold on to this thank you very much." Eddy said, getting the jar of cash.

"Don't worry, I have already recorded the total amount of money earned." Double D said to them.

"Good, because I have too." Chris said, coming through a portal to greet them. "Alright, so, you got a problem with the money you earned. What if I replaced the money with-"

"No! No replacing anything! We want the money we rightfully earned!" Akko declared, interrupting him.

"And if we do agree to it, what's stopping you from changing it up? You can do whatever you want with 'alternate compensation'." Becky said to him.

"Yeah, I'll take the money." Yulaw added.

"I could care less." Rick said.

"You weren't even really involved in this challenge to really have an opinion." Lucy said to him.

"Sure I was. This is my involvement. Right here with these very lines. And getting the stuff that Sucy asked for."

The first part of that reply only caused her to just give him a look.

"I'm with the others. I'll take the money." Morty said.

"Same here." Mamori said.

"She only wants the money so she can use it to stuff her face with more cakes and pies." Hiruma remarked, with a rather deadpan look.

"Not true!"

"Alright, alright. No compensation. Got it. You guys made two dollars and twenty five cents. Well, we're gonna multiply that by a hundred. And then, it'll be divided by the amount of people left on your team. Groups will count as one person as reflected on the sign ups, so you'll have to decide between yourselves how that's going to work out. We'll hand out the cash once the final calculations have been made. If you have bank accounts, we'll give you the option of a check to cash it in as well." Chris explained. "Now, head on back to the island."

"Goodbye!" Ed said, waving.

"It was nice meeting you all! Until next time!" Double D said.

"Pleasure doin' business with ya." Eddy concluded as they all went through the portal.

Eddy jumped for joy, laughing happily as he shook the jar. "If this is any indication of what the others got, we're gonna have jawbreakers for days." Eddy said with a toothy grin.

Day 2

The Kings were next, with them running a restaurant. Like the last time the Eds held a restaurant, it was in Eddy's house. There was a large sign that said "Ponce De La Eds" with the words "Grand Re-Opening!" under it. Also on the side was "Prices up to 30 cents! One day only!"

There was a sign outside on the lawn that said "Please Wait to Be Seated", which was literally the same sign that was used the last time they ran the restaurant. Music was also being played by Akashi, Huey and Riley inside.

"Runnin' out of ideas huh? You did this already." Kevin said to Eddy, who was waiting outside to welcome in guests. And Kevin actually happened to be their first guest.

"Looks like somebody's cap is on too tight. Because it clearly says Grand Re-Opening under the name." Eddy said, pointing it out to him, also wearing the same white suit that he wore before.

"Pfft, whatever. And it's gonna be grand re-closure soon."

"Look buddy, no one's forcing you to eat here. You can take your attitude and your money somewhere else." Aomine said, net over his head, along with an apron over his gray t-shirt and black pants, who had just finished taking out some garbage to a dumpster that was brought in.

"With that smell and haircut, I think I will." Kevin said, waving his hand around his nose before beginning to leave.

"No wait! Come back!" Eddy called out, running after him and pushing him back towards the "restaurant" against his will, to his surprise. "He didn't really mean that. The garbage fumes must be gettin' to his head."

"Actually, since he wants to talk about my hair, I did. And I ain't takin'-" Eddy shoulder charged him to the ground.

"Garbage boys. Am I right?" Eddy said to Kevin, with a nervous smile on his face.

"You know what? I'll entertain it. Just to see how you dorks will crash and burn this time." Kevin said, going in.

"Great! You're the first person in, sit wherever you'd like!" Eddy said before tending to Aomine. "As for you, garbage boys take out the trash! When they don't do that, they get taken out! Got it!?"

"Are you really threatening me string hair? I can quit right now and there's nothing you can do about it." Aomine replied, now standing up and having to actually lower himself to get to Eddy's face level.

"Oh really?"

"Yes, really."

"I think someone here needs to have a talk with Human Resources…."

"What?"

He was suddenly grabbed by a yellow hand and dragged away.

"Hey! Ed!? What the heck are you doing!?"

"Looks like someone needs to be taught a lesson!" Ed said to him, wearing a police cap for some reason.

"I'm gonna teach you a lesson if you don't let go of me!"

"No can do mister! You do the time from doing the crime!"

"That's not even the right way to say that!"

"Don't talk back mister lawbreaker! Anything you say can be used against you!"

"Now that's taken care of, we're gonna need a new garbage boy." Eddy said before going inside to find one. When he saw Reimu mopping, he was about to ask her about it before she immediately shot him down with a "no".

"But you didn't even let me-"

"No."

"Alright, alright. I'll go get someone else then." He said before looking around and found Todd, who somehow found a way to break away from the rest of the team to watch videos on his phone. The second Eddy tapped on his shoulder, he jumped back and quickly hid the phone.

"What me? I wasn't doing anything! I was just headed to the bathroom!" Todd quickly said.

"Good. Since you aren't doing anything, I got a job for you."

"25% of your profits go to me and it's a deal."

"Ten. You're already gonna split the overall money you make anyways. And besides, I can tell the rest of the team you were goofing off."

"Who's gonna believe you?"

"Who's gonna believe you?"

"Touche. Deal."

The next thing he knew, he was asked to take out trash from some of the remnants of the food that was cooked, the uneatable parts of them, to be specific. "Darn it! Why didn't I think to ask him to be specific?"

Focusing back on the entrance of the restaurant, Sarah, Jimmy and Rolf were the next to enter.

"I don't know why you wanted to come back here. Don't you remember the last time we went here?" Sarah said to Jimmy.

"It looks like they have more people this time around to help. Maybe this time it'll be different." Jimmy said before taking a whiff of a smell that was coming inside. "And it smells really good too!"

Sarah sniffs herself. "I guess. But if we don't like it here we're leaving! And this time, we're getting our refunds!"

Rolf smells the food himself and was quite pleased with what he smelled. "This second time seems quite promising Ed-boy. I hope you learned the difference between a turkey and an Ed-boy." Rolf said before laughing and going in.

"Trust me, Ed's got a different job, far away from the kitchen." Eddy answered.

"Man, really feeling a sense of Deja-vu here." Nazz said to Kevin, looking at the menu as they were both sitting at the same table.

"More like Deja-dork. I bet it's the same stuff as last time huh?" Kevin asked, not even bothering to open his menu the whole time he was there.

"Actually no, the menu items are completely different. At least, I think they are."

"I'll be the judge of that." Kevin said, looking at the menu. "Not impressed. It looks like the same stuff. They just changed the name and made the books and pictures more 'fancy-lookin' '."

"You guys ready to order?" Someone asked them.

"You ain't pullin the wool over my eyes double…" Kevin said before looking at the person taking their order. And it wasn't who he thought it was. "Dork…" He trailed off and said nothing after seeing that it was Yang and not Double D, who had her hair tied into a ponytail. "Uh….. n-not yet. Nazz, you go ahead." Kevin said, fidgeting with the neck of his shirt numerous times.

"Sure thing! I think I'll take….. hmm….. hey Kevin, do you think I should go with the soup, the pizza, the burger and fries or the fish sandwich? Or maybe something fancier? But they're a little more costly…."

"Uh….. the golden crisps."

"That's….. not a menu item."

"Huh?"

"Maybe you should actually look at the menu and not the person taking your order?"

"Oh…. Yeah, yeah. You're right. That's why I said give me a second ya know?" Kevin said before laughing a little.

"If you guys need some time, I can come back." Yang said to them. "That's cool with me too. Or Double D might be able to take you if I don't."

"Nah, I think you can take me…." Kevin said, a dumb-looking grin on his face now.

"But Kevin, I thought you said you needed some time?" Nazz asked, confused.

"I do!"

"Then why- never mind." Nazz said, unsure what was going on with him but wasn't going to question it. If anything, she assumed it was because of him being hungry after school. They did have a pop quiz today. "Hey uh, what's your name?"

"Yang."

"Cool. I'm Nazz. And this is Kevin. So Yang, I have an idea of what I want to order, but I'm still not a hundred percent sure. Do you think I should get the fish sandwich? The pizza? The pizza? The soup? The burger and fries? Or should I roll the dice with something fancier?"

"Well, if you're trying to get a dessert after that, then I'd probably got the pizza or the burger and fries. A lot more dessert-friendly. But, those are some pretty safe choices. If you're really looking for something new to try, I'd just go ahead and spend the extra bit of money."

"That's what I'm saying. The first few are some safe options. Ah what the heck, I'll roll the dice. I'm always down for trying new things. And if it doesn't work out, there's always the experience as a positive."

"Cool. And Kevin's going to wait to get his order right?"

"Yeah, I'm assuming so." Nazz said, looking at him, still confused as to what he was doing.

"Alright. I'll tell Double D to get Kevin."

"Plank says what's taking so long!? We're hungry too! Not everybody's got it made like you two might!" Jonny called out, growing impatient as Double D was in the kitchen, giving out Rolf and Wilfred's order.

"Yeah! Where the heck is the other waiter!? What's the point of having two if only one's gonna do their job!? Jimmy's starving here!" Sarah yelled out impatiently.

"Coming! Coming! Just give me a second!" Yang said to them.

"I'll take this one here." Nazz said, pointing to the lobster souffle.

"Cool. We'll bring it right out."

"Thank you! And by the way, nice hair."

"Thanks!"

"Took you long enough! I hope you left some food over for us." Jonny said to Nazz.

"Sorry about that. Picking was a lot harder than I thought it was gonna be." Nazz apologized.

Double D returned a few seconds later.

"Took you long enough!" Sarah said to him.

"Sorry. I wanted to make sure they were able to accurately get Rolf's-" Double D started.

"Who cares about Rolf's order!? Make sure you get mine right! And Jimmy's!"

"Rolf will get his order right! Ignore her! The hard-earned money from the son of a Shepherd will not go to waste!" Rolf shot back.

"And it won't! Rest assured!" Double D said to him before turning his attention back to Sarah and Jimmy. "Now, what will you have today?"

"I want what I asked for last time. With a bag of cookies! And make sure there's extra chocolate chips on them! And that they're hot! But not too hot!" Sarah said to him.

"I think I'll have a carrot souffle. With some spaghetti and meatballs. With, a milkshake! Vanilla please!" Jimmy said.

"I can't believe it! This is actually gonna work!" Eddy exclaimed, watching from outside the house.

*Confessional*

Eddy:

"And to think, all we needed to do was keep Ed out of the kitchen and it would have worked the last time we did a restaurant. But then again, no one would have been around to cook, so we kinda had no choice. These guys need to be around more often! You know what, if this is what an elimination and a failed alliance with me and Riley's gonna get me then I'll take it! Wonder where that knucklehead is anyway. Did he get eliminated already?"

*End Confessional*

Surprisingly, the term "too many cooks in the kitchen" didn't really apply in this kitchen. It was a well-oiled machine. Probably because two rooms were used as kitchens instead of one.

"No, that's not right!" Courtney said to Razer, who was the one manning the non-soda/water drinks area. "She specifically said 'easy on the Frappe'."

"Sorry." He apologized. Now there was a shake that no one wanted.

"Don't even think about throwing that away! Just give it to Eliza." Luckily for her, she was their designated taste-tester. Along with that, any orders that were a mistake would go to her to eat instead of it going to waste.

"Real glad we haven't made any mistakes yet. Else we have to suffer her wrath." Blake said to Octavia, as both were in charge of the bread.

"To be fair, if I were the customer, I'd want to make sure my order's right and I get what I paid for. At least she cares enough to do that." She replied.

"Fair point. I just wish she was a little quieter about it."

"Keep an eye on that bread you two!" Courtney called out.

"We are!" Both replied simultaneously.

"I don't know about you, but I'm feeling some serious deja-vu right now. In a good way this time around." Isagi said to Din, taking care of cooking the exact thing there were assigned to do in the cooking challenge, oddly enough.

"It's because of Weiss and Aomine not being around isn't it?" Din asked, not even trying to be subtle.

"Uh… I think I should stop talking now." He then looks out the window and sees Todd taking out the trash and not Aomine, trash that Reimu gave him. "Where the heck is he anyway? Looks like he threw the job off on Todd."

"Well, Weiss is still in the other room sweeping if that clears things up." Din said, seeing both her and Ruby sweeping.

"What do you mean by 'clears things up'?"

"And you're supposed to be younger than me?"

"I…. am lost."

"Maybe it's a good idea for you to take your own advice now."

"Okay, now I'm completely lost."

Din didn't say anything else to that.

"Come on, now you choose to be cryptic?"

"You're a puzzle solver right?"

"What does that even have to do with anything?"

"Maybe if you stopped asking more questions than answering you'd figure all of that out."

"Wow. Harsh much?"

"Well, he's kinda got a point." Bachira said, in charge of the desserts.

"You stay over there and keep an eye on your….whatever it is you're watching!"

"You're just mad because he's not defending you." Louie said.

"Am not! Okay, maybe just a little bit. But seriously, does anyone else have any clue on what Din is talking about?"

"Whatever it is, he's not talking about it anymore, so, doesn't look like it matters." Maki said.

"Just think, why is he being subtle?" Bachira asked him.

"I…. hmm…" Isagi said, thinking and idly chopping before Din had to stop him from cutting his finger off, grabbing ahold of his hand.

"Maybe focus on not losing your own puzzle pieces right now." Din said to him.

"Yeah, that's probably for the best." Isagi said, already getting the hint.

Eventually, all of the food was served to the patrons, including Kevin, who came back to his senses.

"One dollar says one of these plates is gonna have at least one of those dorks on it." Kevin said.

"I sure hope not." Nazz said.

"That's why Plank and I learned our lesson. No turkey for us!" Jonny said.

"The smells are circulating my nostrils. Now it is time for the food to enter my stomach!" Rolf said with anticipation with Wilfrid, Rolf's pig, also looking in anticipation for his food as well. Even Eddy was awaiting in anticipation for the food to be revealed.

"I swear if my brother or any of those idiots are on one of these plates or did anything to our food, I'm getting a refund!" Sarah warned.

"Well you can dream on fish lips. Because this time we kept Ed far away from the kitchen." Eddy said.

"We'll see about that."

"And your drinks. Enjoy!" Double D said as he and Yang had come out with everyone's desired drinks.

"Let's see." Sarah said, grabbing ahold of Eddy's neck with one hand.

"Hey! What's the big idea!? You didn't even take off the cover!" Eddy said, trying to get out of her grasp but couldn't.

"That's just so you won't try to run. Jimmy, take the cover off."

"Okay." Jimmy said before taking off the cover. And lo and behold, was their orders, 100% accurate.

Sarah scans the food and drinks. "Hmm, Jimmy, you go first."

Jimmy gets first bite and drink of his meal.

"Well?"

"It's…" Jimmy started. Everyone looked on in anticipation. "It's…"

"It's what? Spit it out man!" Kevin said.

"It's wonderful! Sarah, you have to try it!"

"I'll be the judge of that!" Sarah said before trying her own food.

"Well? What do you think?"

"Huh…. I don't believe it! This is actually… good! Eddy! What did you do to this food!?"

"I ain't do nothin'! You're just bein' paranoid." Eddy replied.

"Which is probably why it's actually good. You and my idiot brother weren't in the kitchen."

"Yep! I told you it- HEY!"

"Tch, you know what? You almost had me for a second. With the good lookin' waitress, the bringin' in everybody's food. Makin' sure you get Sarah and Jimmy's food right. One heck of a show you dorks put on. But I ain't gonna fall for it. Because I already know whatever's on this plate is gonna be the reason I pound you guys into the…." Kevin said as Nazz took the cover off. "Ground…" What the two ordered was on the plate, not an Ed or contestant in sight on it.

"This looks even better up close doesn't it Kevin?" Nazz asked him.

"No way. I ain't gonna believe it until I see everybody else's!"

"Come on Kevin, really? Your food's going to get cold if you wait that long."

"Let him do what he wants. It's his money." Eddy said, shrugging.

"Exactly. Now, let's see the rest!"

Everyone else's food was revealed to have been exactly what they ordered.

"Wow. I…. wait! One more thing!"

"Ugh, what now Kevin? Are the Eds hiding in the food?" Nazz asked, now starting to get annoyed with how far Kevin was taking his skepticism.

"What? No. Now it's…. the taste test."

He goes to taste the soup he ordered.

"Well?" Nazz asked.

"It's… dude, this is….. it's…. awesome!"

"I told ya Kevin. This wasn't gonna be like last time." Eddy said proudly.

"Yeah well, you know what? I was wrong. And I'll own up to that. Here, give these to the head chef. He or she, deserves it." Kevin said, dropping an extra 30 cents in his hand.

"Sure thing."

Kevin grabs Eddy. "I'm serious! You better not pocket that!"

"Trust me, they'll get it."

"They? You mean there's more than one?"

"Two, actually."

"Ah shucks. Well, tell em to split it."

"Come on Kevin, don't be cheap." Nazz said.

"If I had more I'd give it to em, honest. That was the last 30 cents I have on me."

"This meal reminds me of the Old Country! I can feel the love made within this meal!" Rolf said. The meal he chose was a meal made by Jotaro's mother, Holly.

Once everyone looked to have been satisfied, everyone that was in the kitchen helped clean up.

"Phew. Doesn't even feel like we did anything to be honest." Ben said, exhausted.

"I feel the same way. I suppose even seemingly simple tasks like these can be strenuous." Rook said.

"Some of it is just being in here for what feels like forever." Sly said.

"Yeah. There's definitely a mental part of this too." Ben said.

"Well, it was definitely worth it I'd say. Everyone looks satisfied." Courtney said.

"Now the only question left is if we made enough money for us to be satisfied." Sophie said.

"Something tells me we've made more than enough." Sebastian said, fifteen cents in hand from Eddy.

Once everyone left, everyone, including the Eds, got back together to count their profits.

"Today's profits totals out to…" Double D started.

"Three dollars and sixty cents!" Double D announced.

"Wow, that much?" Dewey said in disbelief.

"Yes. Deserts and drinks along with Rolf, Jonny and Kevin pitching in with extra money helped bump it up even more."

"Well, at least we know we're not sending anyone home when this is over."

"Three hundred and sixty dollars. That is a lot of money." Louie said.

"The most important thing is we don't have to send anyone home though." Huey said. "After all of that work, that would have been really disheartening."

"Yeah well, let's see if the last team can keep the trend going."

When they got back to the island, their earnings were recorded by Chris.

"You disappeared. What happened? Decided to go off and look at those magazines again?" Isagi asked Aomine.

"Real funny. What actually happened was that I had a talk with 'human resources'." He replied.

"Human resources?"

"Ed. Dude put me in a small a[censored] timeout cage. You're not gonna understand how uncomfortable that is unless you're in it yourself."

"You had to have done something for that to have happened. What was it?" Weiss asked.

"I had a problem with Kevin's attitude and told him about it. That made him want to leave and Eddy got mad at me for doing that. When it sounded like he was threatening me I told him I could quit and there was nothing he could do about it. Then he told about me talking with 'human resources'. Next thing you know, Ed comes in, grabs me and drags me to a timeout cage like he was putting me in jail. Dude even had a police cap and everything."

"Yeah that second part about you saying you could quit sounds like that's on you. Even if you weren't serious, maybe not joke like that?" Maki said.

"And maybe that idiot shouldn't put me in a small cage."

"At least cut him a little slack. He was only doing what Eddy told him to." Weiss said.

"Yeah, well let's see what you say when you're in there."

"I know that couldn't have felt good but I just can't get too upset at Ed. Eddy yes, but not Ed. He's kind of like Lotte in a way. They're both just too nice for me to seldom legitimately get mad at them for anything."

"It's because he doesn't know any better….. Alright, I guess I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Eddy? Absolutely not." He said, stretching.

"If you'd like, I can help you stretch out those muscles later. I know I could use a good stretching too after all that sweeping." She said, yawning after.

"With some training right? I'm down."

"Great! See you tonight!"

Some people looked at each other after this response from the huntress, with Octavia's eyes immediately widening, seemingly alarmed before turning up her music, earbuds in her ear since reentered the island.

"Oh….." Happy said before giving a rather sly smile.

"The hell are you guys looking at?" Aomine asked.

"And why is he smiling like that? It's starting to bother me." Weiss added.

"Before you think about doing any of that, maybe you should go shower?" Sly suggested, covering his nose, getting a whiff of him.

"I think we all should." Ben said. "I know I need to freshen up."

"Well, good luck with your training tonight. You're probably going to need another shower afterwards though." Yang said to Weiss.

"You two have fun." Lucy said, a teasing smile on her face as well.

"Thanks I guess. But I don't think we'll need one. I won't really push him that much."

"Sure you won't."

"Just….. please try not to make too much noise." Blake said.

"But we're going to be outside." Weiss said.

"Outside? I would have taken you for an inside person for something like that, but okay. I won't judge." Sly said.

"What? Why would I train him inside?"

"Oh….. yeah, something tells me we're not on the same page. I'm just gonna go shower now."

"What the heck are they talking about?" Aomine asked.

"I don't know. I think it's best we….." Weiss then gasped and covered her mouth, cheeks red.

"What?"

"You really don't know?" She whimpered out.

"Clearly not. That's why I'm asking."

She whispered it into his ear. His jaw dropped before his cheeks turned red before his whole face turned red. "YOU BA[CENSORED]DS!" He immediately pushes her towards the showers. "Come on, we're headed to the showers."

"Come on buddy, you can't blame us for feeling that way! Especially with what you like to read!" Happy called out.

"If you still want to be around tomorrow, you'll shut the hell up! And I don't mean by elimination!"

"You guys do realize you can't shower together, right!?" Doyle called out.

"Eh, let em have it I guess." Chris said.

"Chris!" Doyle and several others said simultaneously.

"I'm joking, I'm joking. Seriously guys, you can't shower together! At least while there's people in there with you."

"WE'RE NOT SHOWERING TOGETHER!" Both yelled out simultaneously.

Din could only sigh as he walked off, bringing Grogu with him.

"Ew. You're not showering?" Fiona asked him.

Din only gave her a look. And he didn't have to say a word for her to feel the expression he was giving her behind the helmet.

"Right. Right. How silly of me to assume that. Heh, heh." He then turned back around, something that terrified her. "Wait! Wait! I didn't say anything!"

"Jotaro, you still have one of those plates right?" Din asked, seemingly ignoring Fiona's frantic denial, referring to one of the disposable food trays that had leftovers in them for anyone to eat.

"Yeah. Feel free to get one whenever you're ready. I can't promise it'll taste the same reheated though." He answered.

"Hopefully it'll be close enough. Thanks." He said before leaving for real this time.

"Okay but seriously though, you guys stink. Please go shower." Fiona said, waving her hand around her nose. "Especially you." She added, referring to Todd.

"I'll shower whenever I'm good and ready to!" Todd said before getting closer to her. "Afraid of a little BO? Oooh! The odoooor! It's out to get you!" He added before doing an evil laugh.

Repulsed, she covered her nose and stepped back away from him. "Ugh! Get back, you idiot!"

"Todd, you better shower! That is disgusting!" Riley said.

"I'm gonna, I'm gonna! I was just messing with her. When the hot water's not all used up that is."

"That just sounds you're being lazy. If no one else showers here, you definitely need to." Louie said.

"I'm gonna shower! Jeez!"

"If you don't shower, I'm going to make you shower. Personally. You've got until 10 PM tonight. Barring an elimination." Courtney warned.

"I'M GONNA SHOWER!" Todd exploded before leaving, catching everyone off guard with the sudden explosion. "Jeez! You guys take one little joke and blow it up into something it doesn't need to be. Freakin' ridiculous!"

*Confessional*

Todd(Storm Kings):

"I remember entering a radio contest where I had to not shower for two weeks! The winner would get five dollars! So I think I have some experience with toughing it out on things like that if Chris decides to throw something like that at us."

"Well, maybe a little. I didn't get to finish it because Riley paid me six to shower right then and there. I only lasted for an hour and a half. But you bet I'd finish the two weeks if she didn't!"

*End Confessional*

Day 3(Final Day)

It was the third day, which meant one more team had an opportunity to rack up some cash and try to secure a victory. Or at the very least, stave off an elimination. And this one looked to have been even more promising than the last. A makeshift wooden entrance with the words "Winter for a Day" was up above on a sign on the entrance. Below it was also the words, "Only available until 12AM Midnight! One day only!"

There was snow, an ice skating rink, a hockey area, a slide along with several ice sculptures, a stand to buy hot chocolate and even a tall pile of snow, tall enough to ski down. Everything, including the snow falling down in the main part of the Cul-De-Sac, was maintained by a snow machine created by Edd and Hailey.

"One free day of winter! Who woulda thought it Plank!?" Jonny said as he was preparing to ski down the pile of snow, after being flown up by Jenny. "Hold on Plank! This is gonna be a wild ride!" He then began to ski down at a fast speed. "WAHOOOO! Again!"

Hearing this request, Jenny was more than happy to bring him right back up.

"OUT OF THE WAY!" Rolf said, completely charging through Noelle as they were playing hockey with her raising her arms in protest.

"How is that not some sort of penalty or foul?"

"If you want fouls for something like that, hockey ain't the sport for you." Kevin said to her, as he was ice skating with Nazz not too far from where the hockey area was.

"He's right. Moves like that are completely legal." Double D said, watching them play.

"If you can just do that, then how is anyone supposed to be able to score?" Noelle asked.

"I guess you just have to muscle through it." Asta said, also watching instead of playing for this round of hockey.

"I'm guessing you haven't seen anything involving football, huh?" Randy asked, one of the players on Rolf's team. "And I mean the American version, not Soccer."

"Yes. We actually have prior experience in playing American Football as a seasonal challenge. I am very surprised you all haven't gotten an opportunity to play it again. That would seem like a pretty simple and simultaneously entertaining challenge that Chris could use."

"Maybe he's saving that for the island again? Who knows?" Julie said, wearing a small coat and scarf. She was also ice skating with a cup of hot chocolate in her hand.

"You may want to be careful with that. One slippage and-"

"Don't worry, I'll be fine. That's why I'm taking a slow circle around."

"Are you all going to complain, or play!?" Rolf said, already waiting to play again.

"Snow angels!" Ed said before laughing as he did one.

Sarah and Jimmy were just handed cups of hot cocoa.

"We know you're going to have some complaint about them, so, let's hear it." Toxsa said, behind the counter.

"Maybe not provoke them?" Scott suggested.

"Provoke? She's the provoker."

"Maybe shut up and I'll actually get a chance to drink it." Sarah said.

"See what I mean?"

After several seconds, she finally voiced her thoughts. "You know? It's actually not bad. Good job."

"Huh. I'm shocked."

"A nice way to warm yourself up huh Sarah?" Jimmy asked her.

"Yep!" She agreed as they walked away from the stand.

"Thank you, come again!" Scott called out.

"Well, the hard part for us is over. Unless they come back, that is." Toxsa said, watching the two leave before Kevin approached the stand.

"I don't know how you did it, but you somehow were able to pull it off three times. I gotta give you props for that. That bein' said, I'll take one." Kevin said, putting down a dime.

About a minute later, three additional figures stood before them. Though these three girls were never seen before today by the contestants.

"You still servin'? 'Cause we'd like to order too." One of the girls asked. She wore a red sweater with blue jeans and purple boots. She has ginger hair that covers her eyes and noticeably has a Brooklyn accent.

"Sure! What'll you have?" Scott asked.

"Uh….. I'll take….." The girl with blonde hair that wore a gray hoodie and red pants started.

"May, I'm goin' first!" The first girl said, pushing her out of the way so she can see the menu.

"I'll take mine black." The girl with blue hair wearing a black turtleneck sweater said. Her hair, like Sucy's, was covering one eye. She also noticeably had a midwestern accent.

"Marie! I said I was going first!" May, the blonde girl pouted in a rather loud voice.

"Actually, it was me." The ginger-haired girl corrected.

"Well, you snooze, you lose." Marie, the blue-haired girl said.

"Sheesh, no need to rush. Take your time. Not like anybody else is behind you." Toxsa said to them.

"Well aren't you the gentleman? You know, just for that, I'll pay ya." The ginger-haired girl said.

"Uh, okay?" Toxsa said, confused as they were going to pay anyway. Or maybe she was referring to giving him a tip?

"Ooh! Ooh! I know which one I want! I want the-" May started, excitedly.

"Shut up May! I can't think with you doin' all that yellin'!" The ginger-haired girl said, knocking her upside the head. "Alright, I'll take the marshmallow mix. Little bit o' sugar, but not too much. Alright May, go ahead and tell em what you want."

"About time Lee. Hmph!" May pouted. "Okay, I'll take the cinnamon! Two lumps of sugar!"

"Jeez May, do you need enough sugar?"

"It's my order Lee. I can order whatever I want!"

"Excuse me for not wantin' my sister to get diabetes."

"Now you're just overreacting Lee. Diabetes from one cup of hot cocoa? Really?" Marie said.

"You never know. Now pay em!"

"Huh? But Lee, you said we weren't-" May began to protest.

"Forget what I said earlier! That was before I realized we had two sweethearts manning the counter. Now pay em now! Before I make you pay!"

"Okay, okay….." May said, digging in her pocket for change and placing it on the counter. Marie also did the same thing.

"There you go boys. Enjoy it. 'Cause that's the only money you're gonna make today."

"Thanks?" Toxsa said, still just as confused as he was earlier.

"You're welcome sweetheart. Now, May, you stay here and make sure our orders are ready."

"But why do I have to-" May started.

"Because I said so! Now, we'll be right back." Lee said, finding a piece of eye candy. Marie as well. And both intended to get them as they zipped off.

"That all you got Kevin?" Eddy said, scoring a goal past him as they were playing hockey now along with Kunigami, Miyuki, Julie and Hanamiya.

"So you got one goal off me. It was a lucky shot. Let's see ya do it again." Kevin replied.

"Oh I intend to."

"Make you don't forget what passing is." Hanamiya called out to him.

"I know, I know frogbrows."

"Subbin' in!" Lee called out.

"What the-" Eddy looked over and saw someone he didn't expect to see. And hoped not to. "Kankers? Oh not now…."

"Don't worry, you had a player that had to leave so I'm takin' their spot." Lee said, casually swinging the hockey stick she had.

"What the heck are you talkin' about? Nobody-"

"Oh yeah? Where's Kevin?"

Eddy looked over and saw Kevin with his mouth stuffed with a headband and tied to the skating rink barricade, unable to get free.

"Friend of yours?" Miyuki asked him.

"Not even close." Eddy replied before looking back at Lee. "If you're here, then the others gotta be around here somewhere. Where are they?"

"Oh you shouldn't worry about them. How about it? First team to score wins." Lee offered.

"If it'll make you scram, fine. You're on!"

"Alright, gather around boys! I may be new, but I know how ta play. So let's do this." Lee said to her teammates, who were Miyuki and Kunigami.

"You know, I think it's pretty cool you helped make all this." Marie said to Double D, close to him, already taking away the money jar he had.

"Thank you, I really appreciate it. But, I'd also appreciate it if you just step back just a little. You're in my personal space." Double D said to her.

"Oh sorry. Is this better?" Marie asked, stepping back.

"Yes. Thank you. Now, if you could kindly hand back the money we rightfully earned."

"Sorry, no can do."

"But-"

"Forget money. Why didn't you tell us you were doin' all of this so we could join?"

"Well…. that's because no one was supposed to know."

"Oh, so it was a surprise then!"

"MARIE! LEE! YOUR COCOA'S READY! HURRY UP BEFORE I DRINK 'EM!" May yelled out.

"YOU BETTER NOT!"

"I'M GONNA IF YOU DON'T COME HERE RIGHT NOW!"

Both Marie and Lee got to stand incredibly fast.

"Those three are gonna ruin everything if we don't stop them!" Eddy said to the others.

"Seeing that they have our money is enough of a reason for us to stop them right there." Kunigami said before he and the others ran to confront the three.

"Wow. These are pretty good." Lee said.

"Really glad you enjoyed them!" Scott replied.

"Alright! Put the drinks down and your hands, and the money jar, where we can see 'em!" Eddy declared as he and others confronted the girls.

"What's going on over there?" Jenny said, looking at the commotion from afar, carrying Jonny.

"Plank says beats me. He wants to go again!" Jonny said.

"We might have to wait on that. I have to-"

"Now hold on just a second. Plank says if you don't give us a ride, he's in his rights to ask for a refund!"

"But-"

"The customer's always right!"

Jenny sighed. They've been doing this how many times? And he whines about not being able to do it once. "Fine."

"Hooray!"

"Last chance. Give us our money back or else!" Eijun warned.

"Bold words. Whatcha gonna do about it?" Lee taunted.

"A lot, actually." Eddy said.

"Oh yeah? What?" May added before Bass pointed a now charging buster arm at her head from behind. "Marie! Lee! Help me!"

"Now, about our money."

"You're bluffing." Lee said.

Bass shot a buster shot into the ground a little further away from them, creating a hole in the ice.

"Alright, alright! We'll give you the money! Just don't hurt our sister." Lee said.

"We'll let ya go. But, you gotta give us the money, and then, get outta here." Eddy said to them.

"Marie."

"But-" Marie started.

"MARIE!"

"Alright, alright! You don't hafta yell." Marie slowly walks forward to give Eddy the jar of money.

"And don't even think about trying anything." Eddy said.

"We're not. We promise." Lee said. Not even a second later, the snow machine they had was seemingly going on the fritz.

"What the heck did you guys do to our machine!?"

"We didn't do anything to it!"

"Likely story. Somebody go check it!"

"We didn't! Honest!"

"I'll believe it when I see it. In the meantime, you three stay put!"

"This is not good. The temperatures are very unstable." Myron said, looking at his watch which showed the readings that he asked Slazor to retrieve.

"Unstable!? I thought you guys knew what you were doing!?"

"We did! We followed all of the readings on the blueprints!"

Eddy looked at Lee and her sisters, enraged.

"I swear, we didn't do anything! It's the honest to goodness truth!" Lee insisted, hands in the air.

"I oughta-"

"Here! Money talks, right? Take it. It's the rest of the money I got on me." She said, giving him the dollar and twenty five cents in her pocket. "Marie! May! Give him your money!"

"What!?" May said in disbelief.

"We're not doing that!" Marie declared.

Lee grabbed both of them. "I said…. give him your money! NOW!" She then forcefully shook all the pocket change they had out of them and gave it to Eddy. "Here. Look, I like messin' with ya. But this wasn't us this time. Are we cool?"

Eddy pockets the money. "Tch, I guess. But you ain't touchin' nothin' else around here. Everything was fine until you three showed up. Now scram!"

"Alright. Let's get outta here girls!"

"I can't believe we gave away our money to your man." Marie said.

"Yeah, that's not fair at all! I didn't even get to really see Ed!" May complained.

"Shut up May! That's called makin' it right!" Lee said, punching her in the back of the head.

"Yeah, well we shouldn't have to pay for it!" May countered, hitting Lee back.

"Yeah, well ya just did!" Lee shot back, hitting May again.

"Wow. You guys must have a love-hate relationship, huh?" Miyuki said to Eddy.

"Yeah, right. Ain't nothin' close to resemblin' love from me or for me. The Kankers are a pain every time they show up." Eddy said.

"Bad news everyone." Hailey said, running back.

"Oh brother. What now?"

"The temperatures are constantly rising on the machine. And any solution that we come up with to stop it is going to take too long."

"Then just throw it out or somethin'!"

"If we do that, all of this is over."

"It's going to be over regardless of what we do. Wolver! Freeze it!" Shiro commanded. Wolver was able to freeze the machine, but it still looked as if it was going to explode.

"Screw it, time to take this into my own hands." Jenny said.

"Hey! What's the big idea!?" Jonny complained.

"Look, if you want your refund you can have it, but I have to do this!" Jenny said before putting down Johnny, picking up the frozen machine and then pitching up further into the air, hard. A few seconds later, it exploded. "Well, that takes care of that."

"Hey Jenny. Plank says he'll forgive you and pay up if you take us up one more time. And then take us to the cocoa shop. Deal?"

"Sounds fair enough to me. Deal!"

Just as she was about to take him up, the hill collapsed on top of them.

"Well, I guess that's not happening."

"Eddy! Double D! What's happening to the snow!?" Ed yelled frantically as he ran towards them, forgetting that he had on ice skates and was making cracks in the ice.

"Ed, you idiot! Stop running with ice skates!" Eddy yelled. But the damage was already done. The ice was starting to come apart and almost everyone fell into the melted water.

Thankfully though, those that weren't frozen were able to unfreeze those that were.

"So…. cold….." Hailey said, still shivering.

"If t-t-that…. idiot…. Wouldn't have r-ran, with ice skates… we would… have been fine." Kunigami said, also shivering,

"D-d-d-d-d-dorks. W-w-w-what a… r-r-r-ripoff." Kevin said, coins in hand.

"It's…. not my fault!" Eddy said before sneezing.

"Oh yes it is! You promised us winter until 12! This doesn't look like it to me!" Sarah yelled, blowing her nose.

"Tch…. Whatever. I got the money at the end of the day so-"

"Eddy….. I hate to inform you that-" Double D said.

"I'm not listening!" Eddy yelled out, covering his ears, already knowing that he was about to give bad news. He'd rather act oblivious to it.

"What the heck happened to all our money!?" Zak said, looking at the empty jar in Double D's hands.

"WHAT!?"

"That's right! We're taking our money back! This was a rip-off!" Sarah yelled.

"YOU CAN'T DO THAT! YOU PAID FOR ALL OF THIS!"

"Plank says on the account of false advertising, yes they can. Wait, how do you know about that?" Jonny said.

"It was fun while it lasted though. I'll give you that. Two out of three's still not bad." Nazz said.

" 'Still not bad' as you take your money back too." Zak said.

"I don't exactly appreciate the safety hazards all of this caused at the end."

"I should have known you dorks would have found a way to screw it up. You always do." Kevin said before sneezing. "I'm outta here! Don't even think I'm gonna anything you try the next day!" He then casually threw the jar with Double D fumbling it before catching it.

"Well, at least we still have some of the profits from today." Double D said, jar back in hand.

"From who?" Zak asked.

Rolf laughed, seemingly unaffected by the cold. "The hot chocolate along with hearing the tales from these two were quite a treat! Until next time, Ed-boys!" He said, referring to Dwayne and Asta.

"So that's where those two were." Scott said.

"So, how much money do we have?" Eddy asked.

"Well, there's the money from Rolf. And then the money from the Kankers and Rolf again for the hot cocoa. One dollar and eighty cents!" Double D said.

"That's it? I did all of that going back and forth up and down the same snow hill over and over again to not even get two dollars from it!?" Jenny yelled out, with a stuffy voice.

"Wait, are you sick? How? You're literally a robot." Toxsa asked.

"It's….. my internals….. I think all of the water got in. It's not that I'm sick. It just sounds like it to you guys because of my voice."

"Don't you have something to stop that from getting in? I mean, look at Bass. He's fine."

"Well yeah. My mother updated me with upgrades to try to stop that from happening. I guess I'm going to need another one. Regardless, I should be fine."

"I don't know. Shouldn't you get that water out of you if it's damaging your internals?" Scott asked.

Jenny removes her head and shakes it, taking out any water from it before putting it back onto the rest of her body.

"There! Problem solved!"

"Hmm…." Myron said low.

"You may have solved that one, but unfortunately, that won't solve the problem of you losing. Your team's still last. Which means, you've got to send someone home." Chris said, appearing in a portal. This caused Jenny and some others to sigh. "We'll be right back."

"Wait, you're not gonna stay and help us clean this up!?" Eddy asked.

"No? What gave you that idea? Oh, and enjoy the money you made too. Because that's all you're gonna get out of this."

"WHAT!?" Eddy was about to explode.

"Chris, I am not in favor of this deceit!" Double D said.

"Yeah well, too bad you don't have a say. I have to pay hundreds of dollars to the people competing here already." Chris said.

"Another place where there's a mess that Chris refuses to clean. What a surprise." Tsukishima said sarcastically.

"Me? You guys keep doing it. Not me."

"That still doesn't change the fact that you've done this almost everywhere we've gone. Outside of maybe a few lazy people here, I don't think anyone really minds cleaning up." Jenny said.

"Yeah, that's because we all have powers to help us out. And no parents to tell us not to use them. Or hide them from" Zak said. "Well, some of us. In both cases. And don't give him ideas! Is that water getting to your brain or something?"

"I literally just took off my head to get the water out, genius."

"Slazor, I need you to run a scan on Jenny's internal systems." Myron whispered, said machine in hand before its sensors opened to scan Jenny.

"Don't worry, we're not gonna do it. Why? Because if we did, that would take up unnecessary run time. Which is why we almost never do that." Chris said.

"Chris!" Eddy said, beginning to run after him but it was too late. He already reentered the portal and closed it on him, intentionally.

Myron looked at his watch for what Slazor had found. "I thought so."

He then opened it back a second later to peek out of it. "Cue the commercials!"

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*Commercial Break*

Multiversal Nexus Short: The Return of Bobby Blabby(Ed Edd n Eddy, an idea given by G-Man 2.0 on FF Dot Net)

The three Eds were in line to get a newspaper for the day, behind Spongebob and Ilana "Lunis". Behind them was Throttle, a member of the Biker Mice from Mars and the 1987 counterpart of Raphael.

Once those two finished grabbing their papers, the Eds grabbed one. Of course, several stories were seen.

The main article was one that included pictures of the Fantastic Four. "Fantastic Four make their debut in the smash hit Marvel Rivals" the headline said. Under it was "Susan storms out in front as fan favorite character" with "Hawkeye, Hela receive the nerf hammer" in a smaller corner with details about the Fantastic Four's debut below the main headline of the story.

On the left was a smaller headline that said "Act III of Destiny 2's Revenant Storyline began yesterday, but does anyone care?" below it was a picture of Fikrul, the Scorn Fanatic.

Below it was a more-detailed headline around the same size as a first that said "Shadow continues to smash through his film debut in latest Sonic movie; Disney bullying theaters with Mufasa?"

On the right was another story that said, "More Star Wars Battlefront III info Uncovered; Unreleased Wii Build Leaked Online and Is Playable Alongside Already Present Xbox Build. Playstation 3 Version Soon?" Pictures of Clone Troopers X1 and X2 fighting alongside their fellow clones against Drones in what was clearly a rough unfinished picture due to the game being unfinished was shown.

Below was a slightly more detailed story that said "Marvel VS Capcom Infinite continues to surge with an unlikely revival. And it's all thanks to Maximilian Dood and modders…. Not Capcom." Pictures of Marvel VS Capcom Infinite Beyond with Zero, Dante and others was shown along with a picture of a smiling Maximilian Dood.

Finally, there was a poll that asked, "Which characters do you want to see added to Marvel Rivals the most?"

"That's it?" Eddy said, unimpressed.

"A gaming focused newspaper today. I can see why it might not be preferable to everyone." Double D said.

"That ain't the problem. This newspaper has been boring for almost two months! What the heck happened to the action!? The drama? Who the heck cares about this crap?"

"Well, you can't expect major events to happen every day."

"Look Eddy! There's a hedgehog on a motorcycle!" Ed said, pointing to Shadow.

"Forget the stupid hedgehog. And by the way Double D. Two months? Two!? Nothing new, nothing interesting. Nothing major?"

"For some, these stories may be major." Double D replied.

"Well they ain't for me. And I say we do somethin' about it."

"Taking initiative. Great! Be the change you want to be Eddy."

"You're comin' along sockhead. And don't worry, when this is all said and done, we'll all benefit from it. Even our pockets."

"Of course…." The second Eddy mentioned money, he knew he was in for one heck of a day.

"Can I come too Eddy?" Ed asked.

"Duh. Who else is gonna pass out the papers?" Eddy answered.

The Next Day….

Sokka was getting his laundry after leaving it hung out to try on a clothesline. But for whatever reason, several people were giving him looks. As odd as he thought it was, ignored it and continued to get his clothes.

"Look, I get it, she's not bad lookin', but really?" Vinnie, another member of the Biker Mice said to him, folding some pants.

"Oh, you're talking to someone else." Sokka said.

"Actually, I'm talking to you."

"Yeah well Suki's off the table, sorry."

"Wait, she already got with someone else?"

"Uh, no? We're still together."

Vinnie laughed. "You're a real comedian."

"I'm not trying to be funny. For once."

"Dude, at least own up to it. Lying ain't exactly a good look for you." The Storm Hawks' ace marksman, Finn said to him.

"I'm not!"

"Oh yeah? This says otherwise. Ka-blam! Caught on camera buddy!" Finn said, putting the newspaper of the day in front of him.

"Loyal to his tribe, but not to his girlfriend. Water tribe warrior caught kissing Bushinryu practitioner Maki Genryusai." Sokka read with a picture of him kissing the blonde being shown. "What!? This is a load of baloney! I never did this!"

"Picture tells a different story bro."

"Whatever. Once I finish this, I'm clearing the air with Suki. I don't want any misunderstandings between us."

The 2012 version of Raphael was seen at a shake shop and was next in line to order. "Give me-"

"Next!" The person behind the counter called out.

"Yeah, that's me."

"NEXT IN LINE!"

"Hello? I'm right here!"

"Sorry, we don't serve people who take joy in hurting animals and children. And before you try to deny it like I don't know any better, I read today's paper."

"The paper? Let me see that." He reads the headline on the side in question. "Hotheaded bully pounds kid and his dog for beating him in air hockey!? I wasn't even at the arcade yesterday!"

"For your sake, I hope you leave."

Raphael notices some of the other patrons giving him looks.

"Great…." Rather than pouring fuel onto the fire he decides to just leave.

The secret WOOHP spy, Clover Ewing, had just finished going for a jog around the park. Unfortunately, she forgot to bring water with her. So, she had to spend a bit of money to buy a drink at the vending machine. After choosing a blue Powerade, she paid for it, took said drink from the bottom area of the machine and left to sit down on a bench to drink it.

If she had to be honest, it was pretty serene to hear the only background noise being maybe a few cars in the far off distance, but mostly people talking, running along with birds, squirrels, and a few dogs. Of course, that serenity would be broken seconds later by a passerby.

"Wow, your butt's smaller in person." Timmy Turner said to her, newspaper in hand.

"Excuse me!? And your sense of manner's just as small kid. And what the heck do you mean by 'in person'?"

"Here!" He replied, pointing to the newspaper story and opening it up to another page for a bigger detailed picture. "You didn't read the newspaper?"

She gets the newspaper from him to get a better look. "No. I get my news on…" She gasped. "Augmented!?" Clover's face gradually turned red as she scrunched up the newspaper.

"Hey! I paid 25 cents for that!"

Her face turned red wasn't out of embarrassment, but anger before she yelled out loud, causing Timmy to cover his ears. The yelling also got the attention of others.

And these shocking stories seemed to have continued for days. And back at the printing press where this was held, the newspaper seemed to have been making a killing since this new surge of shocking events.

Eddy laugh. "Yes siree! I told ya we'd make reading the newspaper great again."

"More like ruining the integrity of it. When you said you were going to write interesting stories I thought you were going to try to actually go out and find some. Not misconstrue real events!" Double D said.

"It ain't misconscrewing anything. All these newspapers do a bit of exaggeration. That's how you draw people in."

"Pick paper up! Pick paper up! Pick paper up!" Ed said, casually throwing papers into the wall as they came off the press for him to put into the newspaper racks.

"That's misconstrue Eddy." Double D corrected. "And this is more than just exaggeration. These are just complete lies! You haven't improved at all since the last time you did this!"

"What you just said was a complete lie. I did improve. And learn. How come these look so much more believable?" Eddy countered, showing the latest big headline which had Huey Freeman with a gun in his hand in a store, with the headline implying that he was robbing it as people were down on the ground.

"Because this time you're using real pictures but telling a different story. And in some cases, slightly editing them. That's called being misleading."

"Look, if this really does make any misunderstandings, people can always clear it up. I mean, look what happened with Suki, Maki and Sokka. That got cleared up real quick. Problem solved! Besides, I only said I was gonna do it for a week and then cash out and dip. They're on their own to keep it interestin' after that. You know, carry on the legacy."

A buster shot busted down the door of the room they were in. The source being Bass. With him also was Vegeta, Suki, Noelle, Clover, Mandy(Totally Spies) and Chazz Princeston.

"Alright, I'm only going to say this once. Tell us where and who Bobby Blabby is!" Vegeta demanded.

"Bobby Blabby? There's no Bobby Blabby here silly!" Ed replied.

"Yeah, what he said." Eddy said.

"Then where is he!?" Clover asked.

"Your guess is as good as mind blondie."

"That might be enough for these dopes, but that ain't enough info for The Chazz!" Chazz declared before grabbing Double D. "Alright buddy, you're the only that hasn't said a word. So it's either one of two things. It's either you, or you know somethin'!"

"It's not me! I never write such deceiving stories!" Double D insisted.

"Likely story pal! Look at this! Look what this paper said about me!" Chazz said, putting yesterday's newspaper in his face after putting him down.

"Edgar Allen Princeton tries to woo girl with poem but fails horribly?"

"I never wrote that!"

"Dude, we saw you trying to smooth talk Alexis with that lame poem. That one's actually real sadly enough." Eddy said before laughing.

"You think that's funny!?"

"Why wouldn't it be?" He replied before continuing to laugh again.

"Wait, how do you know that that particular one out of all of them are real?" Noelle asked.

"Duh, because I actually heard him do it."

"Spying on the Chazz huh? Sounds like you're in cahoots with Bobby Blabby!" Chazz declared before being pushed out of the way by Clover to get in Eddy's face.

"Forget that poem! You must have went to Bobby Blabby with that lie about my butt! It is not augmented! For your information if I really wanted a bigger butt I'd just do squats." She said to him.

"Blabby said that I spend time volunteering in the library!" Mandy complained.

"Uh….. how is that a bad thing?"

"Because I wouldn't be caught dead doing that! Not with my free time!"

"Oh. Fair point."

"I fail to see what is wrong with volunteering your time with the library." Double D said.

"Everything is wrong with that! I'm not Sam!" Both yelled at him simultaneously before they looked at each other. "Ew, stop copying me!"

"You're copying me!" Clover said. "Sam is my friend!"

"Why would I want to be friends with her? That has nothing to do with it! If anything, all three of you are lame!" Mandy countered. "Big butt!"

"If I have a big butt then you definitely have an even bigger mouth with how loud you whine. You sound like a banshee."

"WHAT WAS THAT!?"

"You heard me! Banshee!"

"Big butt!"

"Banshee!"

"Big butt!"

"MY BUTT IS NOT BIG!" Clover tackled her to the ground with Mandy kicking her in the face before they made a fight cloud.

"Get your hands off me! I just bought this shirt!"

"Good! Well let me pull on it some more!"

"Well let's see how many boys will want to go out with a big butted, bald eagle!"

"STAY AWAY FROM MY HAIR!"

"STAY AWAY FROM MY SHIRT!"

The two started to get into a fight around the room, with Vegeta and Bass only looking on with blank expressions on their face, unamused.

"Tch. Idiots. It's a miracle she was even able to get as far as she did when we were on the show together." Vegeta commented.

"THAT HURT!" Clover yelled.

"OH YEAH!? WELL I'LL MAKE SURE THIS HURTS EVEN MORE!" Mandy said.

"REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE GIANTS!? I'M GONNA POUND YOU INTO THE GROUND LIKE THEN TOO!"

"LAST TIME I CHECKED, I WON!"

"NO YOU DIDN'T YOU LIAR! YOU'RE JUST AS BAD AS BOBBY!" Both unknowingly took their fight outside the building with everyone seemingly watching the two fight. The Eds took this chance to try to get away but was stopped by Vegeta and Noelle.

"We're not through with you just yet." Vegeta said to them.

"There is nothing wrong with reading, no matter how those two make it seem. But there is something wrong with potentially breaking up relationships!" She then showed the story she was referring to to Eddy. "This story made it seem like Sokka was cheating on me! Thank goodness I didn't overreact and we cleared things up. But I can't say the same for anyone else this may have affected."

"Exactly! Look what this stupid has done!" Vegeta yelled. "Everyone think that just because we got into a disagreement and said 'it's over', Bulma and I are no longer together! Now I've had to send away a bunch of people trying to hit on her!"

"Well hey, that means more ladies get to hit on you, right?" Eddy said, trying to give some sort of positive before Vegeta picked him up.

"You think that's a good thing you moron!? It's annoying! I can't even go to the store in peace anymore! One of the damn cashiers even looked at me up and down instead of checking out my food so I could leave! 'You could use someone younger to keep up with your Saiyan Spirit'. You think I want to randomly hear that when I'm trying to figure out what apples to get!? I'll have all you idiots know that Bulma can keep up just as fine!"

"Well, I suppose your loyalty to your wife is definitely not in question." Double D said, blushing.

"Vegeta loves his wife Eddy!" Ed said, laughing.

"Yeah. Real Casanova." Eddy added.

"SHUT UP YOU PIN-HEADED IDIOTS!" Vegeta yelled, face red before Bass, seeing enough, grabbed Eddy.

"I'm sick of the rest of them wasting time! Tell us what everything you know about Bobby Blabby right now or you're going to draw your last breath!" Bass barked, gritting his teeth in anger as he held him at buster point.

"Look man! All I did was tell him a few things! I-I was an information guy! Double D, what's that word for the person that gives like info and secrets to people but gets paid for it?" Eddy said, sweating as he knew Bass was serious.

"I believe you're looking for informant." Double D said.

"Yeah! That's it! An informant!" Eddy said. "Please take it, please take it, please take it!" He repeatedly said in his hand.

"Then if you told him what you know, you know exactly what he looks like! Now describe his appearance!" Vegeta barked.

"Uh….. he's-"

"HURRY UP!"

"Okay! Okay! I'm trying to think!"

"Well think faster! The Chazz doesn't have-" Chazz started, joining in before Vegeta immediately cut him off.

"You shut up! We've got this covered!" Vegeta said, pointing at him.

"Jeez. No need to be rude."

Eddy frantically looked around. He knew he would have to lie and make up an appearance and fast. "I got it! He's short! W-with brown hair, brown pants. H-he wears a red tie and a black fedora! That's all I know! Can you please let me go now?"

"He told us what we needed to know. I think that's enough." Noelle said.

"Yeah. Bass, please put him down. You're really scaring him." Suki said.

"If we find out you're lying to protect him it's going to be a whole lot worse for you than just being scared." Bass warned him, putting him down.

"Trust me, I got the hint the first time around man." Eddy said. "Come on Double D, Ed, let's get outta here."

"But what about the newspapers Eddy?" Ed asked.

"What about em? We already told em what we need to know. We're done."

"But Eddy, no one's going to read our stories for the day! We'll be wasting paper! Trees Eddy!"

"Wait, your stories?" Noelle repeated, eyebrow raised, catching that last part.

"Yeah! They're the ones we helped Bobby make! You know, giving him info." Eddy lied.

"Ed, who is Bobby Blabby? Tell the truth and I'll buy whatever your favorite food is. Don't worry, Eddy and Double D will be safe. I just want to know." Noelle asked him.

Eddy continuously waved his arms and shook his head to try to get him to stop as Ed idly looked on.

"Bobby Blabby isn't here Noelle." Ed finally answered, shrugging.

"Really? Are you sure?"

"Eeyep."

"Hmm, okay. One more question and I promise that's it. I'll still get you your food no matter what you answer."

"Ask away!"

"Has Eddy ever called himself Bobby Blabby since being here?"

"Yes."

"ED!" Eddy yelled out.

"Thank you. That's all we need to know." Noelle said.

"Can I pick what I want to eat now?" Ed asked.

"So we have some liars huh?" Chazz said, picking up Double D, who was starting to look away, knowing he was about to experience pain. Loads of it.

"Chazz, you can let Double D go."

"What!? But why? The Chazz wants to-"

"Let him go."

"Noelle, all of them are liable for this." Suki said.

"Maybe so, but Eddy's he one that made the stories. He was the informant. Remember?"

"Ohhh. I see where you're coming from."

Vegeta stopped Eddy before he could attempt to sneak away.

"You're not going anywhere!" Vegeta said to him, picking him up by his dress shirt.

"Ed hasn't eaten his breakfast yet. Pair that to him not being the brightest and-" Eddy started, trying to weasel his way out but Vegeta wasn't buying any of it.

"Shut up before I kick you through this roof!" After hearing this, Eddy didn't dare utter another word. "Not only did you lie once, you lied multiple times! And almost got away with it! But that's not what ticks me off the most. You had to bring my wife into this! And dared to monetize it for your own gain!" Vegeta said before gritting his teeth and closing his eyes before putting him down. "I'll let the rest of them deal with you. Because if I lay a finger on you, I might end up killing you, as much as I might try not to. Even if the crap you pulled p*sses me off you're still just a child."

He turned around and prepared to leave. "But don't think you're getting off easy. I may have control over what I do but I have no say about what the others want to do to you. And judging by the reactions you created, I expect you to have a long day ahead of you." He turns his head a bit. "Noelle!"

"What is it?" She asked, surprised that Vegeta wanted to talk to her.

"What exactly did he write about you? If you're wondering why I'm asking, I'm just curious. You're the only one that hasn't said anything about it."

"If you must know, he said that I don't….. shave my legs."

"That's it?"

"Look, it might not be that important to you, but it is to me!" She said, blushing in embarrassment.

"That wasn't what I was implying. At the very least, it isn't something as stupid as what that idiot came in here for." Vegeta said before flying off.

"Ed, Double D, wait outside. We'll be right out." Noelle said to the two.

"Come on Ed, I really suggest we leave." Double D said, dragging him along.

"But what about the papers Double D?!"

"We'll pass those out!" Suki said. "And bring Eddy out too. We're just going to have a bit of a chat with him."

"Okay!"

"So, you think you can lie on The Chazz and get away with it huh? We'll see how you feel after we Chazz you up!"

"If you're going to say idiotic things like that can you please exclude us from it?" Noelle asked him.

He shrugged. "Suit yourself."

"That wasn't even a lie you idiot!" Eddy said to him.

"Shut your mouth!" Bass yelled.

"Now, let's get down to Chazzness." Chazz said, putting a hand in his fist as they approached Eddy.

"Would you please shut up!?" All of them said simultaneously.

"Jeez, no need to get-"

"Do you want to get beat up next!?" Noelle threatened him.

"Alright! Alright! Tough crowd."

Hours Later…..

The real newspaper was passed out for the day, with the main headline being "Bobby Blabby Exposed! Culprit From the Cul-De-Sac, Eddy, Forced to Apologize as He Was Hung to Dry, Literally!" A picture of Eddy on a clothesline apologizing to everyone was shown.

One Month Later…..

The main headline of the newspaper for the day had said "Eddy AKA Bobby Blabby, Forced to Work Under Everyone He's Lied About For One Month". Under it was a picture of him working and a couple of quotes from two of the people he's had to work under, those people being Bulma, Yami, Lance and Din, with pictures of them being shown. The first two of them having a bit of a smile on their face for the photos taken of them by their quotes.

"Oddly enough he's been pretty quiet and easy to work with. The exact opposite of what Vegeta described him as. If only he wouldn't have written all of those lies. I would have called him a sweetheart and chalked it up to Vegeta exaggerating like he does sometimes, but nah." – Bulma Briefs, Capsule Corp, Wife of Vegeta

"That pathetic idiot looked miserable the entire time he was here. But you know what? I don't feel sorry for him one bit. He made his bed by telling all of those [dumb] lies. And now he needs to lay in it. The entire time. Besides, maybe he'll learn a thing or two. He might not look it, but he's pretty resilient. I was surprised because I honestly expected him to want to quit ten minutes in. Whatever kills you doesn't make you stronger, right?"-Yami Sukehiro, Leader of the Black Bulls, Noelle's Magic Knight Squad

"He did what he was supposed to do while being here and didn't cause any trouble for me. That's all I really care about." -Din Djarin, Mandalorian

"To be honest, I don't have much of an opinion on what Eddy said in the paper. I just ignored it. But, Ilana insisted on him doing something around here to 'atone for his hurtful lies and rhetoric'. I don't remember anything major he did wrong, if anything so, I guess he did good."- Lance, Galaluna Royal Guard

"So, how would you rate your job experiences on a scale of 1 to 10?" Double D interviewed Eddy after he finished with his jobs for the month.

"No comment." Eddy answered begrudgingly before leaving. "Next time I'm gettin' my news online!"

"That's all folks!" Ed said, to the audience laughing as he pulled the black screen down like a pulldown projector screen.

Total Drama Across the Multiverse Bonus Interview with Chris McLean!(Inspired by the Bonus Clips from Total Drama World Tour)

Chris appears on screen in front of a moving yellow-orange background with multiple squares on it.

"Yo! How's it goin'? I'd like to welcome you to this Total Drama Interview, featuring moi, where I will be asked questions by Hugh Apple. No, I'm trying to be funny, that's the interviewee's actual name." Their face, which was a teen with black hair swept to the right with a cowlick was shown. He wore a red hoodie and black pants with matching red and black tennis shoes.

"His parents put down a good bit of dough for him to sit down with me and ask some questions, so obviously, the nice host that I am, I accepted. Of course, ninety percent of it had to do with the money too, so there's that. This is the only shot you're gonna have at watching this interview, so I suggest you get recording so that no one else misses out. Now, let's get to it!"

The scene changed to both Chris and Hugh on stage, sitting on stools across from one another for the interview.

"Alright my man, the floor is yours." Chris said to Hugh.

"Great! So first off, you've had some time to really get a feel for the contestants that have competed so far this season. Everyone else has been asked their favorite so how about you? Do you have one?"

"Eh, nah. And this isn't me trying to be unbiased. I'm serious. I really don't have favorites like that. Because they're all equally fun to mess with. Not to mention the relationships that form between them, with some unlikely ones here and there. And I don't mean just romantic ones. I mean in general. Rivalries, people teaming up, messing with each other, surprisingly liking or disliking each other, annoyed, etcetera. I mean, you can't have drama without interaction so, yeah. There may be some that annoy me more than others or ones that I think do more stuff that I like or think is cool but that's about it. Why else do you think I can kick every single one of these guys out without a single shred of remorse for years?"

"Sheesh, you got cold heart Chris. Alright, next one. I know the seasons have themes based around the team naming. But I don't remember if there was ever a theme for Multiverse Edition. What was it? Or was there not one?'

"Oh that. I could have sworn I mentioned this already but maybe not. Each name was based off something that the creative director had interest in. Like the Fighting Lion. That's a weapon he uses in a game if I recall. I think it was Destiny 2. Okay, now it's starting to come back to me. Yeah, it's a unique exotic weapon grenade launcher in the game that he likes using and has continued to stick with it even when the game first came out. That's about it for that. He just really likes the gun. Ask him yourself if you really know more about why. As for the Phoenixes, he said he didn't know. He just thought phoenixes were cool animals. And bam, that's your two team names for the season."

'Ooh, more lore on our author huh? I'm always down for that."

"Author? What the heck are you talking about? I said he's the creative director, not an author."

"Never mind. Next question, and this one's about fistbumps, hugs and kisses! What is the most unexpected relationship so far to you in the show? Do you ship anyone? What's your favorite ship?"

"Alright first off, that was three questions. But anyway, to answer your first question, the volleyball kids and the witches. Well, all of them except for Akko and Hinata. And Lotte. The first two is because I can kinda get why they'd be cool with each other. And Lotte because she doesn't really interact with them much. Zee and Murasakibara's another one. I know it doesn't seem like it because of how Murasakibara is but come on, he wouldn't keep sharing stuff with Zee if something wasn't there. But I didn't expect that one honestly. Same thing with Dawn and Albedo. Pretty funny to think that both Ben and Albedo befriended a blonde. And their personalities are like the exact opposite of one another. The rest are kinda 50/50, they make obvious or perfect sense, or I don't really care enough to give an opinion." Chris began.

"Second one, no. Moreso because I could care less. Whether a pair is good or not is not something I really care too much about to be honest. As long as it doesn't stop the drama or entertainment I got nothin' much to say besides what's on my mind at the time. Again, why do you think I can kick people out and break couples up without remorse?"

"Third one, same thing. As long as it leads to some drama or entertaining stuff, I don't really care."

"Awww. I was hoping I'd hear you say at least something about ships."

"Yeah no. I'm not a shipper like some of you guys are. Doesn't mean I'm completely oblivious though."

"Well, I guess that's one good thing to take out of this. Also, when am I ever gonna get into a ship in one of these seasons? I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet. No, MasterKat doesn't count."

"I don't know. That's for you to answer." Chris replied, slightly confused.

"Anyways, I'm pretty sure you saw the leaked episode list for the island part of the season, right?"

"Oh that? Yeah. I just don't really care. It's not like they'll know when it's coming up. Let them speculate. And also, I know that was Deadpool that did that. The same way how I know that you're Deadpool."

"What? I'm not-"

"Dude, just give it up already. You kept mentioning authors and other stuff no one knows. I figured it had to have been you. And then you mentioned the leaked challenges and how you'll see me real soon."

Hugh looked around. "Alright, you caught me!" He takes off the skin suit and reveals himself to have been Deadpool all along!

"Dude, you could have just paid me upfront. I probably still would have did this."

"For me to risk you saying no? Not gonna risk it."

"As long as you don't annoy me I don't really care. And what the heck happened to you after that whole thing with Multiversal Madness? You just disappeared."

"Oh that. It was terrible Chris! I got booted first! Why Gary!? Why'd you have to do that to me!? Meme, Subway and Kat treated me better than that! I thought I was gonna have an arc and everything!"

"Dude, chill. You're acting like it was you that competed. Maybe that Deadpool got eliminated because people saw him mentioning all that weird stuff as a potential threat? Just food for thought. I haven't actually looked at the season myself to know."

"Oh yeah? Then how come Meme and Kat never did that?"

"I don't know. Again, different people, different circumstances, different personalities. Lotta different things can go down for things to turn out differently."

"Yeah well still, f[censored] you Gary! No seriously though, first boot was kinda surprising. I mean it sucks, because it's me but, ya did somethin' different. So, I gotta give you props for surprisin' me. Now next time somebody needs to give me an arc! Or a romance! Heck, talk about my backstory!"

"Right….. anyway, back on topic about the leaked episodes. I'm not gonna take 'em down. Besides, anything could change from then until now."

"Cool. Glad you're not overreacting like when Amanda stole your episode list. And speaking of episodes, can you talk a little bit about some of the upcoming ones and what the audience can expect?"

"Sure. So, the next episode's gonna be a Star Wars one based off the Battlefront games. Mostly the original 3 games. This one's gonna be an all-out war. And it's gonna be super entertaining, I can't wait!" Chris said as footage of gameplay from the games was shown on the monitor behind them.

"Three? Uh, there were only two in the OG series."

"Apparently there was going to be a third. It didn't get released though. But, there's some pretty interesting unfinished versions floating around on the internet. Word spread so I asked Heloise to check it out. And it was legit. Heck, three basically got salvaged into Elite Squadron, a game our creative director absolutely loves. With how things are now, we'll be implementing some things from all of those games, including the unreleased 3. Don't worry though, it'll still be simple enough to understand for the contestants and the audience that's never played them before."

"There's gonna be lightsaber battles in this, right?"

"Yep! Do well enough and the contestants will have a chance to use abilities and weapons from some well-known Star Wars figures! If a contestant ever wanted to force choke someone, this is their chance."

"Niiice! And they're going to the actual planets right? Not just some weird area off in the middle of nowhere?"

"Not the actual planets. Virtualized. As much as I'd like to do this for real, because of individual planetary laws and me just not wanting to have to deal with potentially ticking someone off and have them send an assassin over here to kill us, I'm doing it this way. Plus, there's no way I was going to have close to having enough of a budget for gunships, fighters, tanks, weapons, all that jazz. This is the best way to simulate that experience. Now, I'm gonna move on, because I'd rather not spoil anything else." Chris explained before getting ready to continue explaining.

"Next up is the Fortnite episode. I shouldn't have to explain this one too much. Multiversal Madness has this featured so go watch that and that should you give you an idea. Or just watch someone play Fortnite. That works too."

"Fortnite huh? Eh, I guess. But hey, you did damn there everything else. Why not?" Deadpool said, shrugging.

"And finally, because I'm not doing more than three, the Mortal Kombat episode. Which features more than just that game. Several fighting games may make their appearance here. From well known ones to more obscure ones. Our creative director seems to really like fighting games so that was able to really help when it comes to research and what to go out and buy." Chris explained as footage of multiple fighting games was seen playing in the background. From Mortal Kombat, to Tekken, to Fatal Fury and even games like Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm, Kill la Kill IF and Skullgirls.

"Oh really? Name some games not name Street Fighter, Tekken, Smash Brothers, MK or King of Fighters right now!"

"I'll just read off the list." Someone off screen handed him the list he was referring to, which was the "Possible List of Fighting Games for this Challenge" list.

"Let's see, besides those….." He looks down to find the first different game. "Ah! The entire Marvel VS Capcom series, including the new Beyond mod, whatever that is. Um, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 1 and 2. Kung Fu Panda Showdown of Legendary Legends. Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT. There's like a ton of those games here. Capcom VS SNK. TKO. Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion standard and XL. Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Heritage for the Future. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle R. Soul Calibur. Dead or Alive. Virtua Fighter. Battle Stadium D.O.N. Power Stone. TMNT Tournament Fighters. TMNT Smash-Up. Killer Instinct. Kill la Kill IF." Chris looks up. "And there's more on this list. But I think that should be enough, right?"

"You're gonna have them play all these games? Wow!"

"Well, not exactly play in some cases. There'll be some cases where they're going to be the ones fighting." He explained as Mako was seen in the background hitting Ragyo with a fisticuff-fisted punch. "And it's not a guarantee all of these games will make an appearance. It's all random. Along with that, you might see some extra things happen during battle too that can change the landscape of the fight. If anyone remembers when we did Test Your Luck that one time, it's basically that. But for every fight. Even eliminated, past contestants and other surprise guests get to join in on the fun to help teams or team members." He continued as Hercule was seen shooting a rocket launcher at Ginyu in the background in Ultimate Battle 22.

"Surprise guests huh? Can we get some hints?" Deadpool asked as he was seen in the background in Marvel VS Capcom 3 fighting Chun-Li.

"Now if I told you that, it wouldn't be a surprise. And yes, that's you in the background." Chris said, noticing how much he was looking at the screen.

"I know!" Deadpool exclaimed as the screen changed to Tekken 8 gameplay of Doyle against Heloise. The characters used were in completely different outfits than their usual ones via customization. In this case, Reina Mishima had an outfit and appearance similar to Gwen from Total Drama while Azucena had an outfit similar to Dora.

When Chris noticed Deadpool still looking at the screen, he had to look himself to see what he was looking at. "Okay, who the heck decided to make Gwen?"

"What? You can't tell me that's not a good fit for her."

"Oh yeah, I'm not denying that it's creative. I'm just surprised. And I'm also saying that to give credit to whoever made that. It's hilarious." Another fight which was a Lee Mirror Match with one being Geoff and another being the Master Chief was shown with a battle between Lars as Kaiba and Xiaoyu as Megumin seconds later. "Alright, if you can get that creative to make Gwen and Geoff-"

A couple of seconds later, Lars, as Chris, was shown against Lili as Cynthia. And finally, Paul as Mr Beast against Leroy as Uncle Ruckus.

"Wow. Okay, the only thing that's missing is the facial hair for me. It's not one-to-one but I'll give it a pass because it's a game. Props to whoever made these. Whether it be Doyle or Heloise. The effort is definitely there. Like, I'm legit considering giving them a bonus in their checks just for this. Not just the Chris costumes. All of them. Like I can actually tell they're making characters here. Even if I don't recognize all of them." Chris said as footage of Mortal Kombat 1 was shown with Omni Man fighting Reiko and literally smashing his head into the ground with devastating punches.

"So….. we're just not gonna talk about Uncle Ruckus fighting Mr Beast? 'Cause I mean, we probably should…."

"I think people kinda get it already. But the fact that one of them decided to make Mr. Beast, yeah, that just confirmed they were definitely just screwing around with the customizing while doing this." The screen changed to Tron sending an army of Servbots at Wolverine in Marvel VS Capcom 2.

"Alright, now can we please talk about the Xenoverse episode? You know, the one where-"

"I said three episodes. No!"

"Come on, just drop a hint!"

"A hint for what? Nobody knows what's gonna happen yet."

"Sure. And Troku doesn't exist."

"Not sure who that is. But like I said, no. I've said enough. Any other questions?"

"Last time you did a special episode, and an episode that allowed people to come back. You think we're gonna see that again?"

"First one, I'm not sure. Right now, that's unlikely. The second one? I can confidently say that that's not gonna happen. Not on my watch at least. And it's not just because of the cast number. It's also because there's also the possibility of some of them coming back to help out for a challenge or two. I know that's not the same thing,but let's not pretend the other seasons did this. At least to this extent."

"Ahh, you know what? I get ya on that second one. Especially with the MK chapter. Can't wait to show up again in that one!"

"Counting your chickens before they hatch huh?"

"Oh they're gonna hatch. Static told me they would! Or….. did he? Ah, who cares? I'm gonna be there! Just you wait Chris! Smoke bomb!" He then threw down a smoke bomb and in a flash, disappeared.

"Well, guess that's it for this interview. Hope you enjoyed it! And recorded it! Now back to the show!"

*End Commercial Break*

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It was nighttime, with the Breakers preparing for their elimination, which was about an hour or so away.

"What!? Why would you wait until now to tell us this?" Launch said to Myron in disbelief, as her bad personality. He had gathered some people from his team about his scannings of Jenny.

"Yeah. Pretty convenient that you're bringing this up when the elimination gets close." Kageyama said to him.

"Even if it is a coincidence, I don't think he'd fabricate something like that." Hanamiya said.

"I wouldn't. The only reason why I'm bringing this up is because something tells me that she hasn't to anyone else. I found it way too odd that she would brush off something like that with a quick and simple fix like that." Myron said.

"The only reason? Yeah, I don't believe that. You have to know that this could potentially save you from getting eliminated too." Miyuki said. "That or Hailey and Scott or Reagan get saved. Either way, one of you geniuses were gonna be gone tonight, I guarantee it."

"Yeah, I would have definitely been one of those people." Kageyama said. "You guys were in charge of making the machine. And the second it stopped working, everything went wrong."

"Gotta admit, no one would have asked for refunds if that wouldn't have happened. Heck, I think we might have actually had a chance to win." Toxsa said.

"Would you guys stop it? Look, I'm not gonna sit here and be blind to the fact that this could change who goes, but this is about more than just that. If something is still wrong with Jenny, this might as well be like if we kept going with an injury." Diego said. "Myron, do you think any of you guys can fix her?"

"Well it's a little late to be asking that now, don't you think?" Kageyama replied.

"I never considered that option. Moreso because of how her makeup is. Or at least how I imagined it to be. I didn't think any of us would be capable of understanding her parts good enough to really fix her." Myron said.

"That should have been the first thing you thought of kid!" Launch said in a scolding manner. "But, I'm equally just as mad at her for being dishonest about it."

"That's probably why she didn't say anything. If no one here could fix her, game over man. But seriously though, am I the only one questioning why she wasn't fine but Bass was?" Toxsa said.

"You know stuff about tech, couldn't you have done something?"

"I don't know how to fix a robot like her, who do you think I am?"

"The person that's gonna load you with bullets if you don't fix ya tone. Who helped you in that Big Ball game again?"

"I wasn't even trying to big smart with you. I was just saying."

"Sure you weren't."

"Well, at least we know who to vote for tonight." Miyuki said.

"Looks like you saved yourself kid. Better make it count. Second chances don't come around real often." Launch said to Myron.

*Confessional*

Diego(Wave Breakers):

"Man, I hate this! On one hand, if we tell her about it, she's going to insist that she's fine. On the other, I don't like telling everyone but her. Because then she'll feel like we all colluded to get rid of her when that wasn't the case. I know it sounds like I'm overthinking this but….." He groaned in frustration. "Let's just get this elimination over with."

*End Confessional*

"Okay guys, guess what time it is!" Chris said excitedly to them.

"Chris, can you please just get on with it?" Noelle said to him.

"Can you not be a party pooper?"

"Can you not make a spectacle of something we've done multiple times?"

"I bet you'll want it to be a spectacle when you get kicked out now, won't you?"

"Of course not. Because that'll never happen."

"Never say never. Ask Blaineley during World Tour. But anyway, the answer I was looking for was, time for another one of you hopefuls to try out my latest boot method as you're kicked out. Question is, who's it going to be? You decide! Right now!"

"Chris! Wait." Diego said, a somber look on his face as he stood.

"Diego?" Kaz said, confused, with Shiro also gasping a bit in surprise as well.

"Diego, what are you doing?" Fiona, sitting on the right of him, whispered.

"What's up?" Chris said to him.

"Diego, please don't tell me you're-" Myron started before Kaz started yelling.

"You better not be saying you quit! We've gone too far to give up because of one bad accident!" He yelled, pointing at him.

"I'm not quitting Kaz." Diego said. "But, I do have something to say regardless."

"Cool story. Really don't have time for speeches so-" Chris started before Diego raised his voice and cut him off.

"It's not a speech! Now listen already! It's Jenny. She….." Diego started, with Chris being caught off guard by the racer's outburst. "Her internals. There's still something going on with them. Myron, just show them."

Myron was surprised to have been put on this spot like this as he looked around before snapping out of it.

"There's nothing wrong with-" Jenny started.

"Yes there is. And I have the readings to prove it." Myron countered. Using his laptop, he showed them to everyone as he already transferred the data there. "I got Slazor to scan you twice. The first time was after the challenge had ended, and the second was when the sun was starting to set. The second time was to confirm this and make sure nothing had changed. When that wasn't the case, I made the transfer to my laptop and showed several people what I had found."

"Jenny, this isn't any better than trying to hide an injury. But at least in this case, you could have told us this earlier. You have the luxury of potentially being fixable." Reagan said frankly.

"No offense to you guys, but that's easier said than done when it comes to me. And besides, just because he did those readings doesn't mean I still can't function. I mean, I've been fine for hours." Jenny said.

"Walking around and talking doesn't count. Try using your weapons and your tools."

She cycled through some of her weapons and modes. And while it wasn't close to all of them, she noticeably only readied them. She didn't try to use them. Nor did she try to do more than once. None of her teammates were moved by the display. She sighed.

"Alright. I quit. Are you happy now?"

"Jenny please, we're only doing this-"

"Because you want to make sure nothing worse happens to me. I know. That still doesn't make this any more frustrating for me. Especially when I don't even have at least a bit of a say on if I go out or not. All I'm saying is, it's just not fair."

"Tell that to everyone else that got eliminated in a similar or worse way. You're nothing special." Kunigami said.

She turned and faced him quickly. "Why is it that almost everything you have to say is something rude or nasty? Even Zak doesn't do that as much as you!" She snapped.

"If you think I'm thanking you for that backhanded compliment, think again." Zak said.

"So we make mistakes. I get being frustrated and upset. I was pretty upset with Myron, Hailey, Reagan and Double D too. Not to mention the other times I've been annoyed. But it's never gone as far as me being extremely rude to people like you were to Beni! Isagi and Bachira are proof that it's not Blue Lock or Ego. It's you! Wild Card or not, that doesn't excuse you from having that bad attitude towards people! You too Urien!"

"Leave me out of your little rant and leave at once! You were too cowardly to say this to me before but you expect me to fear you now? Laughable." Urien said.

"I don't want anyone to fear me. I never have and never will. My mother didn't even want me to interact with people because she thought people were going to be afraid of me. Of course, that isn't the case now, but that's beside the point." Jenny replied. "I should have said this then the minute he said that to Beni but I chose not to to prevent any more fighting or arguing. But you…. you're no better than the Crust Cousins! No…. you're worse! They'd never say something like that! Or at least, I don't think they have. You're….. You're… You're an [CENSORED]!"

Several people were shocked, while Chris turned from shocked, to intrigued.

"A rotten piece of [censored] that only got far not just because of his skill, but because of his teammates helping him, but secretly walks around thinking he's hot [censored] [censored] with his mean, disgusting [censored] personality! [Censored] [censored] [censored, that's why they're called team challenges! And I hope he and the rest of the people here, like Rick, Urien, whoever shot Marinette and every other person that has shown their face on this that is unapologetically hurtful to people…." She catches herself and stops and looks around at several people who were genuinely surprised, including Tsukishima, Furuya, Heloise and Hanamiya. Dwayne had unknowingly dropped his glasses and picked them up to put them back on when he realized it was over.

"Oh….. I think I went too far. I know my mother is going to clean my insides. And scrub them. Multiple times." Jenny said, blushing as well.

"To be fair, that kinda needed to be said. I just…. wasn't going to be the one to do it obviously." Ayame said. "And maybe not that colorful?"

"Yeah. I don't mind expressing yourself but…. wow. I don't even want to imagine what you would have said if you kept going." Fiona said.

"Yeah, we know that already." Miyuki remarked.

"If you don't want to get shocked I suggest you shut it!"

"Yeah, I guess so. I guess, if there's one thing I do wish was different, it's that-" Jenny started.

Rolf suddenly appeared out from under the ground.

"Rolf?" Asta said in surprise.

"What the- where the heck he come from!?" Hinata said.

"From under the ground. Clearly." Tsukishima remarked, with a face that clearly showed he was done for the day.

"No but like how?"

"Rolf never expected such strong language from you, robot-girl! Now he will send you to your mother for your discipline with….. THE HAT OF DISCIPLINE!" Rolf yelled, putting on a hat that looked like a large hammer.

"The what?"

"SHABLAHAA!" The next thing she knew, she was sent flying off the island and into the portal as a flat disc.

"Could uh, you get her stuff please, thanks." Chris said to Doyle.

Because she was a robot, there wasn't much that she packed other than a couple of magazines.

"Until next time, McLean." Rolf said, shaking his head before Chris opened the portal.

"Thanks again." Chris said as he went through the portal before it closed. "If you're wondering why I brought him here it's because I offered him some extra things for his farm. To which he accepted. And he didn't disappoint. Now, the rest of you are safe, for now."

Once everyone left, he made his closing remarks.

"Wow. Didn't expect that outta Jenny. But, still pretty entertaining. Who's gonna get sent to the scrapheap next? Find out on the next episode of Total….Drama….Across the Multiverse!"

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A/N: Ugh, I hate that this took so long. Even with the Florida vacation I still think this is later than what I would have liked this to be done. Regardless, better late than never.

Congratulations Bakura, you succeeded in taking out one of your own. Hope you're satisfied.

Next episode is going to focus on the Battlefront games, inspired by an idea that Ginrai12 suggested in someone else's season. These games being some of my favorite Star Wars games of all time. Elite Squadron is still one of my favorite PSP games of all time and its ability to let you battle on the ground, in the air, in space and in capital ships all at once(This includes online play too) is still something that has shockingly yet to have been replicated on any other Battlefront game(3 would have done it first but that got cancelled before it got released; this game is literally just BF3 if it was released on the PSP and DS)

Until next time!

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Placements:

165th- Dragonfly Jones(Radical Rats)-Martin Sitcom

164th- Richie and Virgil(Wave Breakers)- Static Shock

163rd- Cameron(Storm Kings)- Total Drama

162nd- Duncan(Wave Breakers)- Total Drama

161st- Chris P.(Wave Breakers)- Dan VS

160th- Mona(Storm Kings)- Mona the Vampire

159th- Owen(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

158th- Zoey(Wave Breakers)-Total Drama

157th - Tetsuya Kuroko(Radical Rats)- Kuroko's Basketball(Quit)

156th-Shintaro Midorima(Storm Kings)-Kuroko's Basketball

155th-MacArthur and Sanders(Radical Rats)- Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race

154th-Luz Noceda(Storm Kings)-The Owl House

153rd-Priya(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

152nd- Shogo Haizaki(Wave Breakers)-Kuroko's Basketball

151st- Edward Falcon(Radical Rats)-Power Stone

150th- Shawn and Jasmine(Wave Breakers)-Total Drama

149th- Zak Saturday(Storm Kings)- Secret Saturdays

148th - Nimona(Wave Breakers)- Nimona

147th-Rocky Rickaby(Radical Rats)-Lackadaisy

146th-Huey Freeman(Storm Kings)-Boondocks

145th-Cicini(Radical Rats)- Rabi-Ribi

144th- Blaineley(Wave Breakers)-Total Drama

143rd- Heather and Alejandro(Storm Kings)-Total Drama

142nd-Karin Kanzuki(Wave Breakers)-Street Fighter

141st-Ruby G.(Wave Breakers)-Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken

140th-Noah(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

139th-Marinette Dupain-Cheng(Storm Kings)-Miraculous Ladybug

138th-Dawn(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

137th- Dan Mandel(Wave Breakers)- Dan VS

136th- Ryoma Echizen(Storm Kings)- The Prince of Tennis

135th-Rei Hino(Radical Rats)-Sailor Moon

134th- Johnny Bravo(Wave Breakers)-Johnny Bravo

133rd-Skipper(Storm Kings)-Madagascar Movies/Penguins of Madagascar

132nd-Bren(Storm Kings)-Monsuno

131st- Kurt Wylde(Radical Rats)-Hot Wheels: Acceleracers/World Race

130th- Molly, Libby and Scratch(Wave Breakers)-The Ghost and Molly Mcgee(Quit)

129th-Becky Botsford/WordGirl(Radical Rats)-Wordgirl

128th-Mr. Wolf(Wave Breakers)-The Bad Guys

127th-Emma(Radical Rats)-Total Drama Presents The Ridonculous Race

126th- Rex and Bobo(Storm Kings)-Generator Rex(Eliminated via tiebreaker)

125th- Ryota Kise(Radical Rats)-Kuroko's Basketball

124th- Jenny Wakeman(Wave Breakers)- My Life as a Teenage Robot

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Upcoming Episodes:

Episode 41:In a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Battle in Simulated Star Wars Battles(Star Wars Battlefront Games)(An idea inspired by a challenge idea from Ginrai12 in another season)

Episode 42: Hold the Fort!: Compete in a Fortnite Squad Battle(Fortnite)

Episode 43: TOTAL KOMBAT II: Test your might and mind in the Test Your Might and Chess Kombat mini-games(Mortal Kombat, with the second game being based off a game mode in Mortal Kombat Deception)(Double Elimination) A/N: Elements from other fighting games will be seen.

Episode 44: You're History!: Help Supreme Kai of Time/Chronoa, Trunks, and the rest of the Time Patrol stop a crisis and save history Across the Multiverse!(Dragon Ball Xenoverse)

(More than likely, the time placement will be post-Xenoverse 1 so only aspects of that game will be used)

Episode 45: Gotta Catch Em All!: Train and Catch Pokemon. Then use them to compete in a Pokemon Battle(Pokemon)(Yes, the Indigo League theme will be used unlike the Bakugan episode where I scrapped it. Haven't decided on whether it'll be a montage or musical yet)

Episode 46: Wherever the Wind Takes You: Visit the Air Temple island and play a game of Airball….. and learn a bit of Air Nation history!(Legend of Korra)

Episode 47: Tense Atmos-phere: Learn How to Fly a Skimmer, then compete in various Sky Knight Challenges(Storm Hawks)(Double Elimination)

Episode 48: Derezzed: Enter the Virtual World of Tron and Battle Against One Another(Tron)(A/N: Yes, I know there's the whole meme of the OG Tron movie from The Simpsons. I've actually unironically watched it lol)

Episode 49: B.M.W.(Become Most Wanted): Become the Most Wanted contestant on the streets. Only two things stand between that however: Their fellow contestants... and the Police Department(Need for Speed)

Episode 50: Into the Battle Zone: Enter a Battle Zone with combat enhanced vehicles, combining both combat and racing into one killing machine(Hot Wheels Battle Force 5)

Episode 51: Chris McLean, where are you!?: Help Mystery Inc. Solve a Mystery(Scooby Doo)

Song:Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you?

Episode 52: Picture Perfect!: Go to different worlds and race to take pictures of certain people and/or objects(Various)(Inspiration from Nicktoons Freeze Frame Frenzy game on GBA)

Episode 53: Let's Beyblade!: Learn the basics, build a bey, then, compete in Beyblade Battles(Beyblade)

Song:Let's Beyblade!(Beyblade 2000/G-Revolution)

Episode 54: It's time to Duel!: Learn and compete in Yugioh Duels, standard and turbo(Yugioh Original Series-5DS)(For recency's sake, only cards up to 5DS will be used. I actually made an in-game deck that uses Pendulum and XYZ summoning but I haven't watched Zexal and Arc-V in a minute, so I don't feel comfortable writing those cards. And I for sure have not watched any series after Arc-V)

Song:Get your Game On!(Yu-Gi-Oh GX)

Episode 55: INTERDIMENSIONAL SEGMENT FINALE: Aftermath II: Your Secrets are Not Safe with Me: Compete in a game involving guessing opposing team members' secrets(Total Drama Revenge of the Island Challenge)(Double Elimination Challenge)

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ISLAND SEGMENT:

Episode 56: ?(Total Drama Island Classic Challenge but revamped and combined with a separate viewer-requested challenge)(First challenge, willnotbe double elimination)