The longest chapter of the story so far in terms of words, as this clocked in at over 20,000 words. Enjoy!
Total Drama World Race- Hello and Dubai
Recap
"Previously on Total Drama World Race, our teams went to Hawaii for another duo challenge. as we had many interesting pairings." Blaineley said as footage of the cast landing in Hawaii, Ezekiel's allergic reaction to the orchids, and footage of Anne Maria and Cody arguing was shown, "No duo was more interesting than the explosive pairing of Anne Maria and Cody in the challenge."
"Kitty meanwhile tried to play matchmaker with Zoey and Mickey, as she felt nervous about how close Cody and Mickey were getting." Blaineley said as the footage showed Zoey swimming with Kitty.
"The losers for this challenge however was Team Style, as Justin and Trent threw the challenge at the last round, and Julia seized the opportunity enough to vote out Justin. With Bowie promising Julia was the next one to leave, while Jen revealed her strategy of being underestimated was on purpose."
"Tonight, we go to Dubai, where our final 30 get a taste of the service industry, and more drama, deals, and backstabbing happens. Find out what happens on Total Drama World Race!" Blaineley closed the recap, as the intro began.
Theme Song
Dear Mom and Dad I'm Doing Fine
The theme song immediately begins showing Owen underwater swimming while Noah and Cameron look on in disgust underwater pointing to Owen's lack of swimsuit which makes Owen instantly cover up
You Guys Are On My Mind
The camera pans up to show Harold showing off his moves on top of a weaved boat while Dave and Leshawna look confused until a paddle is shown hitting Dave and Harold knocking them into the water while Leshawna glares as the camera pans to Duncan who is laughing at the situation.
You Asked Me What I Wanted To Be
Brick, Eva, Jo, Sky, and Courtney are shown paddling the boat with Jo and Sky glaring at each other with Sky also glaring at Duncan for what he did to Dave, while Brick looks enthusiastic, and Eva has a neutral expression.
Now I Think The Answer Is Plain To See
The boat crashes into a raft holding Gwen, Ella, Kitty, and Mickey with Gwen looking resigned to her fate, Ella not seeming to mind while Mickey looks freaked out until Kitty gives him a pat on the back to try and calm him down.
I Wanna Be Famous
Duncan quickly tries to pull Gwen off the raft, but Courtney stops and glares at him as the camera flashes to the next scene.
I Wanna Live Close To The Sun
Alejandro and Bowie are shown helping Heather and Julia up the Statue of Liberty with Justin glaring at Alejandro while Bowie tries to push Julia back down, but she moves out of the way as Justin helps Bowie from falling to the ground.
Well Pack Your Bags Cause I Already Won
Tyler and Chase are shown pushing carriages containing Cody and Emma respectively as the latter two look on in fear but Ezekiel trips Tyler and Shawn trips Chase causing both Emma and Cody to go freefalling out of the sky while Jasmine looks on in worry.
Everything To Prove Nothing In My Way
Cody and Emma land in Sierra's arms with Sierra tossing Emma to the snow on her head with ease and then giving Cody a huge hug much to his discomfort. Lindsay is then shown a picture of Tyler, confused about it as Beth, Sadie, and Katie try to explain who he is before a bear shows up scaring all of them and making them run away.
Cause I Wanna Be Famous
The person shown in the bear is Izzy who laughs, while Millie is shown writing in her notebook, Laurie winces at the sight, and Scott laughs as well about the whole thing until a seal comes and bites Izzy's hands making all of them run away.
Na Na Na Na Na
Geoff, Brody, and Bridgette are shown surfing really well, while Damien, DJ, and Lorenzo are shown struggling, causing all 6 to pile up soon after.
Na Na Na Na Na
On a street in presumably Europe, Trent and Jen are shown dancing on the road enjoying the moment, same with Zoey and Topher until Anne-Maria tries to grab on to Topher confusing him and making Zoey glare, however all 5 stop when the jumbo jet comes near the ground making all 5 ducked for cover.
I Wanna Be I Wanna Be I Wanna Be Famous
All of the cast is shown falling out of the sky with parachutes with Sierra holding onto Cody as Cody looks worried and notices Mickey looking worried at the ground.
I Wanna Be I Wanna Be I Wanna Be Famous
The cast begins hitting the ground with most doing well until Mickey does poorly on the landing and Ezekiel hits the ground hard.
(Whistling)
Noah is shown looking worried at Ezekiel and Mickey's bad dismount before the theme song and intro cuts.
(End Of Intro)
Hawaiian Beach
It was the morning after Justin's elimination with the sun just barely in the sky, as everyone was gathered, to where the last challenge ended and waited for the instructions from Blaineley and Chef. "Attention contestants, Chris is still going to be missing in action." Blaineley announced, gleefully.
"Where is Chris?" Topher asked in concern for the host at this point.
"He is still in talks with the producers after what happened in Newfoundland." Blaineley explained.
Total Drama Headquarters
The scene shifted to a business room, with many plaques as Chris was sitting in a chair, with a nervous expression "I'm telling you sir, this will never happen." Chris begged.
"You put this show's integrity on the line." A man's voice was heard. "I have vested interest in this season, as you and I both know."
"Yes sir. You know one of the contestants, and they came here of their own volition." Chris said. "Is there any way for me to retain hosting duties?" Chris asked, hoping to keep his job.
"I've been talking with the showrunners behind the scenes, and there is one scenario where you are still hosting when the jumbo jet is fixed. However you may not like it" the man's voice said off screen as he handed Chris a piece of paper.
"What, that is absolutely not fair at all! This is not right Mr. Strauss." Chris said, as he was shown angry and throwing his hands up in the air.
"It's either this or you are fired from hosting and Miss Blaineley has full control. Your choice." the aforementioned Mr. Strauss threatened as the camera flashed away.
Back To The Hawaiian Beach
Blaineley is back explaining the challenge, "We are going to say aloha to Hawaii as our next destination is Dubai."
"Oh my gosh, I love this." Jen said in excitement "It's an oasis of luxury."
"Maybe we'll get to visit the man made islands." Damien stated as everyone looked at him weirdly, "What? I want to see those in person."
"If I go shopping there, I know I'll get lost but the clothes and fashions they have there are to die for." Jen further said.
"Well there won't be much shopping as we will be going to Burj Al Arab for today's challenge entirely." Blaineley explained.
"Oh this is a luxury challenge, The Burj Al Arab is the only 7 star hotel in the world." Courtney explained as she was starting to feel some semblance of happiness ever since Duncan broke up with her in Jamaica.
"Victory you guys will be in First Class, Amazon and Style will be in second. Oh and the flight is going to be 17 hours, so rest, enjoy each other's company. Flight leaves at 6:30 and it's 6:15 so let's move everyone." Chef explained. "We are expected to land just before midnight."
"Oh my gosh we get luxury class Millie!" Lindsay cheered to her best friend. "I hope I get a full manicure as I could use it, and oh my gosh you could too." Lindsay said as she inspected Millie's hands.
"Uh, thanks Lindsay." Millie said awkwardly, wanting to just get on the plane regardless.
Confessional- Lindsay
"Ever since Beth left, I have been looking for a new best friend and Millie has really become that for me. Sure, she is a bit of a nerd, but so is Beth, and nerdy girls I always gravitate towards as best friends, when I am not at cheerleading practice. Millie is amazing!"
Confessional- Millie
"If someone would have told me that Lindsay and I would be close friends, I would have thought you were crazy. She does provide great research to say the least (pulls out journal) but regardless I do consider her a friend."
Economy Class
In the Economy class section, the seat belt button was shown flashing as Jo and Owen were shown sitting together with Owen sitting on top of Jo. "I know I'm supposed to have a seat belt on, but Owen is scared of flying and we don't know where Beary is, so I have to comfort Owen." Jo explained.
"Thanks Jo, you're the best, I hope you don't mind." Owen said with a huge chuckle.
"No problem, but we'll need to find Beary." Jo said as she struggled to move, and was annoyed but also knew Owen was her closest ally so she didn't want to upset him.
"You can handle this for 17 hours though, right?" Owen further asked, afraid he was rubbing Jo the wrong way.
"I'll tell you when I need to go to the bathroom, but other than that I should be fine. I'm the toughest person on our whole team." Jo explained with a huge confident smirk on her face.
Jen and Trent were seated together right next to Jo and Owen, with Trent looking worried. "Hey Trent what's wrong?" Jen asked at Trent, noticing his paranoid look.
"Ever since Justin left last night, I've just been panicking that I'm next after him." Trent said as he looked at the ground, with a frown on his face.
"I wouldn't worry, besides maybe we could align with another duo, like maybe Jo and Owen?" Jen suggested.
"That's not a bad idea, but I don't want to keep track of Owen again like I did the first season. I had to find out all the food that made him sleepwalk." Trent explained.
Jen raised her eyebrows at that, "Sleepwalking? What's so bad about that?" Jen asked, confused.
"He sleepwalks naked." Trent said as Jen looked grossed out.
"Okay, well we can still work with them vote wise, Owen has made it to the final 3 twice so he obviously has some smarts." Jen reasoned.
"Come on Owen put on the seatbelt." Owen told himself until he farted so badly the oxygen masks came down in Economy Class.
"Owen, I'll be back. I'm going to the bathroom where it smells better." Jo said as she and Jen were seen face to face, "Do you wanna talk?" Jo asked.
"Maybe when it airs a little better, but yes Jo. If that's okay with you?" Jen asked as Jo nodded.
On the other end of the plane was Zoey and Mickey sitting together with Mickey hunched down with his hands over his head, and two things of toilet paper where his nose is for his bloody nose, "Ow, oh my gosh, I can't feel my head, how much longer."
Heather popped up from behind, "It's only been 30 minutes you wimp." Heather sternly told Mickey.
Cody and Kitty who were sitting across from Mickey and Zoey watched Mickey in fear. "Come on Mickey, calm down buddy." Kitty said, as she held Cody's arm.
"It's okay babe I know Mickey's fine. He is my best friend on the team after all." Cody explained. "Zoey's got this."
"Then explain what he is doing now?" Kitty asked, looking scared and pointing back towards Mickey and Zoey.
Mickey was shown clawing and banging on the window, "Come on get me out of this death trap!" Mickey screamed as Zoey kept trying to grab his hand to calm him down even a little bit but it wasn't working at all, and Zoey could feel her fear going up.
"Look I'm going to go talk with Gwen for a bit, go help Mickey out Cody, please, for me? He tends to listen to you" Kitty pleaded as she saw Cody hang his head in agreement.
"Fine, babe." Cody said as he kissed Kitty's cheek, as Mickey was shown still screaming.
"I want out!" Mickey pleaded. However at that moment it wasn't Zoey holding Mickey's hand and it was now Cody.
"Come on buddy, please calm down, this isn't like you." Cody said as he pleaded back to Mickey, trying to calm him down, not wanting to see his best friend so worried. This had worked as Mickey's breathing began to get better.
Kitty, who was now sitting next to Gwen who had a solo seat, was sighing at the interaction between Cody and Mickey, "What's wrong?" Gwen asked.
Kitty was unsure whether to tell Gwen what she was thinking, but decided it was best to be honest since Gwen showed interest. "I just wish that Cody gave me the attention he gives Mickey."
"I wouldn't worry about Cody and his friendship with Mickey, he talked with me back in Brazil about how much he loves you before he even asked you out." Gwen explained as she wanted Kitty and Cody to stay together, as there was part of Gwen that would always worry about Cody crushing on her.
"That's a relief." Kitty said as she sighed into her seat next to Gwen.
"I mean Cody is just a really friendly guy, he gets along great with anyone. During Season 1, Cody was probably the most liked person on the Gophers, he and Owen were pretty much the only ones who talked to Noah, besides Leshawna, Trent and I considered Cody our closest ally. That and during Season 2, Heather told me that Cody was a loser but he was one of the more tolerable people in Season 1. I've always said that if Cody wasn't mauled by a bear, he was likely to win the whole thing." Gwen explained as Kitty, had an unsure look the more Gwen went into detail.
The camera pulled back and showed a now calm Mickey, with Cody and Zoey. "Should I leave you two guys alone for some guy time." Zoey asked.
"No, I want you here with us!" Mickey and Cody said at the same time, before awkwardly looking at each other.
"Um, uh okay. I'll stay with you guys." Zoey awkwardly said, wishing she was anywhere else.
Confessional- Zoey
"After Cody calmed Mickey down, and I asked if the two guys wanted to be left alone, it was like something changed with Cody and Mickey and both desperately wanted me there so both wouldn't be alone together, and I honestly don't get it."
Start of Challenge
All 30 contestants, along with Blaineley and Chef stepped off the bus, and got a look at the hotel at night, with almost everyone being in awe, "This looks amazing!" Topher said in astonishment.
As everyone entered the hotel, the astonishment continued, "This place is just amazing. The richest of the rich probably reside here." Mickey stated, looking in awe at his surroundings.
"Agreed, don't you think so, Kitty?" Cody asked as Kitty kissed his cheek as reaffirmation
"Can you two please stop being so affectionate?" Heather asked, annoyed at the two of them.
As everyone continued in the lobby, many people noticed that something was off. The lobby was completely empty, something that Sky voiced, "Where is everybody?" Sky asked.
Blaineley chuckled at what Sky said, "The staff has the night off. Because you will be filling in for their roles."
"Nuh uh. No way. We aren't hired to help." Heather protested.
"Besides we know nothing of how this place is runned." Noah also said in protest. "This feels like we are being set up to fail."
"Not exactly, we are going to have 5 stations per team, two of you will be on the service desk, two of you will be bellhops, two of you will be window washers, two will be waiters, and one person will be a Chef. So nothing too difficult, as the menu for the chef is also very basic as well." Blaineley explained.
"Well then, who gets what position then?" Duncan asked.
"For Team Victory, we will start with you, the service desk workers will be Lindsay and Millie."
"Ooh yay, what is that?" Lindsay asked.
"We get to deal with the customers walking in, let me handle it." Millie explained to Lindsay, nervous about being partnered with Lindsay for the challenge.
"The bellhops are Harold and Ezekiel"
"Seriously, I have to carry people's luggage?" Harold asked in anger, "I have no upper body strength at all."
"I could do all the heavy lifting, as I did that a lot back on the family farm. Once I carried a pig that went loose." Ezekiel said, as he and Harold had an awkward silence after that comment.
"Geoff and Brody are window washers, while Damien and Tyler are waiters, which leaves Bridgette as the chef.."
"Oh dude, Damien this is perfect. Leshawna and I participated in a show called Restaurant Ravage, I took orders in a race and got to roller skate on set." Tyler explained, in pure glee thinking he was going to do great at the challenge.
"Um, okay. Tyler, I trust you know what you are doing." Damien said, as he gulped in fear, nervous that Tyler's clumsiness was going to get the better of him.
Confessional- Brody
"Me and my bro Geoff get to window wash today? Awesome, it sucks the sun is sleeping dudes, as I would love to get a tan. But at least I am not Damien who is stressing. It's like my momma always said, stressing and obsessing about someone or something else is no fun."
Back To Scene
"Team Style, the service desk is Jen and Bowie, bellhops are Duncan and Trent."
"I have to dress like that?" Duncan asked, as the camera panned to a red trench coat with buttons, as that was the bellhop's outfit along with tight black dress pants.
"Yep, now shut it sissy." Chef barked. "Blaineley continue, please."
"Gladly, Noah and Owen are the window washers, waiters are Julia and Sky, and that means Alejandro you are the chef."
"Oh great, more physical labor." Noah sarcastically said, annoyed at being a window washer for the day.
"Last up is Team Amazon. First up is the service desk, which will be Courtney and Scott."
"Courtney's not in the right headspace to interact with people, she's going to be a disaster." Katie worried.
"Bellhops are Gwen and Kitty."
"Well this sucks." Gwen complained at the thought of her having to carry people's stuff for hours constantly.
"Oh it could be fun, we just need to find something to carry the luggage." Kitty explained, as she was trying to lift Gwen's spirits.
"Topher is the head chef."
"Yes, oh my gosh yes!" Topher cheered out.
Mickey however, was shocked by Topher's excitement. "Why are you so happy? You don't seem like the culinary type."
"Growing up, my mom and I always cooked, provided I was doing the stuff that wouldn't hurt my face." Topher explained, as he sighed at the end thinking of his mother.
"Waiters are going to be Zoey and Anne Maria."
"Ugh! I hate this, people serve me, I don't serve people." Anne Maria complained, as almost everyone on the team looked at her with an egregious look, at her complaining.
The camera showed each of Katie, Heather, Cody, and Mickey, two of them knowing they would sit out of the challenge today, while two of them knowing they would be window washers, something that Mickey dreaded. "The window washers are… Cody and Mickey!"
Mickey's world felt like it stopped to a halt when his name was announced, as he had a huge fear of window washing, specifically the squeegees. "No, nope, no way. I can't wash windows, the squeegee noises are enough for me to have a panic attack. I can't do it."
Blaineley had a mockingly unsure look on her face, "Hmm let me think about it? Nope. Toughen up Mickey. The decision is final. Now for our sitouts, Katie, Heather, and Jo, you three get a midnight spa reward tonight and are safe tonight, and as an added bonus since this is such a luxurious challenge, this safety extends until you go to an elimination ceremony. Congratulations ladies." Jo, Heather and Katie cheered at the news of the safety, while many people glared at the situation.
Mickey however was still panicking, "I can't do it, I can't do it! I am going to die, I am going to freaking die!" Mickey said as he was now visibly shaking.
"Stop being so overdramatic." Blaineley complained. "Anyways, the challenge starts now, so everyone needs to get in position."
Confessional- Cody
"Look, things have gotten somewhat awkward between Mickey and I lately. I don't know why, as I thought we were best friends. But seeing him so freaked out, I am going to make sure he is okay and can hopefully calm down. Since apparently I am the only one who can calm him down. Heh, maybe I am just gifted and should be a therapist? Nah."
Confessional- Mickey
(Mickey is shown breathing into a paper bag) "Squeegees, heights, Cody, I can't do it. This can't be happening. I could die today, I may die today!" Mickey screamed out as he began breathing back into the bag before it exploded in his face.
Outside The Hotel
Blaineley came on the screen, and began talking solo to the camera people, "What these contestants don't know however is that the guests they will be serving are all of the past eliminated contestants. Okay well not all of them, each team's first 5 members who were eliminated, so Team Victory has to serve…" Blaineley began saying as the camera flashed showing icons of each person, "Laurie, Beth, DJ, Cameron, and Leshawna. Team Style has Lorenzo, Izzy, Dave, Eva, and Brick. Lastly Team Amazon has to serve Sadie, Chase, Sierra, Emma, and Ella. This challenge will go in the elimination order of the past 15 contestants, so first up will be Lorenzo." Blaineley said as the camera cut back to the lobby.
Hotel Lobby
In the hotel lobby, everyone that was a front desk worker for the night was sitting at their desk, the camera zooming in on Jen who was reading a fashion magazine, "Dubai fashion is great!" Jen told herself.
"Girl you could rock anything. You're almost as fashionable as me." Bowie told Jen, with a humble brag about himself. He was drinking some coffee as he didn't get much sleep on the plane ride to the hotel so he was trying to make sure he was wired to stay awake. Unfortunately for Bowie, he was stunned at seeing Lorenzo in front of him and spit his coffee out with it landing on Lorenzo.
"Dude gross." Lorenzo said as he began wiping himself clean. "What was that for?"
"I just didn't expect to see you until the season finale, or whenever I am eliminated." Bowie said defensively.
"Well regardless, I have a room to book. What's my room?" Lorenzo asked.
"Your room is Room 514, for yourself. Anything else?" Jen asked, in a positive tone, that could easily fool anyone into thinking she actually liked them.
Said nice voice did fool Lorenzo however, "Maybe when the challenge is over sweet cheeks we can hang out together alone." Lorenzo suggested in a flirty tone, that would make any sane person gag.
"Ew gross." Bowie, Lindsay, Millie, Courtney, and Scott all said at the exchange as Lorenzo made each cringe so much on the inside.
Jen was also grossed out, but while she cringed, she realized how to make Lorenzo leave her sight, "You need to get over yourself. I remember you saying you had a stepbrother?"
"Yeah what about it, hot stuff." Lorenzo said, still flirting.
"Well maybe you have an inferiority complex, because he would never be the first boot." Jen said as Lorenzo was left stunned and grabbed his hotel key without saying a word.
Bowie, realizing that this twist potentially was wanted to talk to Lorenzo, in order to eliminate Julia, but he left before he could even think of saying anything. "First of all girl, thank you for reading his filthy ass. But if we see another teammate I need to talk to them, as I want to get rid of Julia."
"I'll try to remind you." Jen said as she reread her fashion magazine.
Team Style Bellhops
Lorenzo was shown with a scowl as Trent and Duncan were carrying his luggage, with neither of Duncan and Trent happy at all, as both did not care for Lorenzo, and both hated being partnered next to each other. "Come on dudes hurry up. I want to get to my room already." Lorenzo complained.
"Dude shut up already. Your negative attitude, and overconfidence is why we all got rid of you first." Trent said as he snapped at Lorenzo.
"What's your problem John Mayer?" Duncan sarcastically said.
"Well let's see here Duncan, you and I have never gotten along, and oh you also voted out my best friend." Trent accused Duncan, and soon after threw Lorenzo's items into his room. "Go ahead and enjoy Lorenzo!"
Squeegee Portion
Lorenzo entered his room and noticed his windows were dirty "Looks like I will have to mark them down."
The camera panned over to Owen and Noah outside still working on the window, "Come on little buddy this could be fun." Owen stated.
"Yes, because standing outside on a cool summer night washing windows in Dubai is going to be amazing." Noah sarcastically stated, as he just wanted to be with Sky.
"I am happy to be with my little buddy." Owen said, giving Noah a small hug. "But we should discuss some strategy, is that what you call it Noah?"
"Yep, what do you want to talk about Owen, we probably have a few hours?" Noah asked.
"Well I just wanted to make sure we are getting rid of Al, I want him gone so badly." Owen pleaded, knowing that Alejandro still hated him.
"I promise next time, I will vote out Alejandro, next time. I promise buddy." Noah reassured.
"You promise?"
"Yes, why? What would happen if I spared him again." Noah asked, confused at what Owen was alluding to.
"Well if Alejandro stays again, I may want to take out Julia or even Sky buddy." Owen explained, as Noah jaw dropped as the scene cut away,
Restaurant
Lorenzo headed down to the restaurant area by this point, "Who's next of my former teammates?" He got his answer when he saw Julia and Sky in the waitress uniform, which was just a basic cooking apron with the total drama logo on them.
"Hello, welcome to the Total Drama Restaurant, where reality show rejects dine and get served by potential future rejects, how may I help you?" Julia said in a fake happy tone.
"You can help me, by meeting me after this night in my room." Lorenzo said as he tried to flirt with Julia, only for Julia to grab him by the throat, "What's what's your damage?" Lorenzo choked out.
"Julia, back down!" Sky said, as Julia set Lorenzo free, and walked away in disgust while Sky looked in concern. "Sorry about that."
"Man that is so hot." Lorenzo said, as he now disgusted Sky as well.
"You are absolutely disgusting." Sky said in disgust, and hating Lorenzo more.
Alejandro, who was the head chef for the challenge, popped his head out of the window, "Amiga what is the order, Julia is nowhere to be seen. I need to know what he wants."
"Duh I want a hamburger, I am a man who likes his meat." Lorenzo proudly claimed.
Tyler and Damien, who were the waiters for Team Victory, saw the exchange and both were left stunned that Lorenzo was so casually cruel and sexist. "That dude is gross. Thank goodness I am not like that." Damien said.
"Right, I would never ever treat my Lindsay that way." Tyler said defiantly.
"Well first of all, Lindsay is no longer yours. Ever since Newfouldland, and why the heck won't you show her that you do care about her?" Damien asked.
"Because she never believes me anymore. I could tell her she is my everything, and I don't know if she'll believe me." Tyler explained back.
Challenge Voting Booth
Lorenzo had finished his meal and was escorted to a room at the center of the hotel, "What's this, oh give scores 1 out of 10. Service, well Jen was kind of hot, and Bowie didn't bug me. I will go with a 7. Duncan and Trent get a 5 as bellhops, Owen and Noah get a 1 as the window was disgusting, like Owen is. Sky and Julia get a 4, and Alejandro's burger was perfect, so a 10." Lorenzo said which gave Team Style 27 points.
Hotel Lobby
The second person to show up was the vegan Laurie, and she had to go to Millie and Lindsay. "Hi Laura." Lindsay greeted.
Laurie, flinched hating that her name was misremembered, with Millie quickly trying to make the situation less awkward. "Lindsay always forgets names Laurie. How have you been?"
"Oh I have been great, happy to be away from the show. Also made a great best friend out of DJ." Laurie explained. "He and I have many similar interests. He is great"
"Awe, I am so happy for you. Looks like you are staying in room 506. Here are the keys to your room! Harold, Ezekiel carry her stuff!" Millie called out but saw that no one was coming.
"Where are they? Please don't tell me I have to carry this all by myself." Laurie complained.
Hotel Basement
The scene showed a dark room, with a dingy light that barely kept the room bright, as Harold and Ezekiel were barely visible. Both were trying to find something easier to make carrying the suitcases. "This basement is straight out of a horror movie. It's like I am in a Scream movie, and I am waiting for Ghostface." Harold noticed freaked out about the room.
"I still think this is unnecessary Harold, eh." Ezekiel said as he was looking through stuff.
"Dude, this is for both of us." Harold said as he saw a large contraption that could easily hold a lot of weight and be pushed around. ""This is perfect for us. Oh my gosh!" Harold cheered out.
"Fine eh. I will do it on one condition." Ezekiel said.
"What's that condition?" Harold asked, confused.
"I ride this up the stairs as you push it and me up the steps Eh.' Ezekiel asked, in a sincere tone. Wanting Harold to earn the friendship between them.
Harold briefly looked like he was considering it but decided against protesting "Fine."
Hotel Room
Laurie had dragged her stuff by herself into the room, as she saw Geoff and Brody, "Aw those guys Geoff and Brody, they are so nice."
Geoff and Brody however didn't recognize Laurie. "Oh who's that girl? She looks kind of neat." Brody stated as he waved at her.
"I don't know, but she seems cool." Geoff said as he and Brody kept on working.
Restaurant
Laurie, disappointed that neither Geoff or Brody recognized her, and barely acknowledged her when she made it to the room, went into the total drama restaurant, and saw Damien and Tyler. "Hello, I would like to order."
"Yes, what would that be Laurie?" Damien asked.
"Just a simple salad." Laurie meekly said.
"Right away, Tyler's got this!" Tyler called out before crashing into a wall. "Ow!"
"Tyler, you write the orders down, I will hand them to Bridgette." Damien explained to Tyler who was still in pain and now crestfallen.
"Don't worry guys, I already got it." Bridgette said as she was shown handing them a basic salad. Damien handed it over to Tyler, before walking back up to the injured Tyler.
"This isn't the challenge to impress Lindsay, when she isn't even here." Damien whispered to Tyler, who got up off the ground, distraught at what Damien told him.
Voting Booth
"So my scores are Lindsay and Millie get 8 points, Harold and Ezekiel get 0 by default. Sorry guys. Geoff and Brody get 7 for being on time for my window, Tyler and Damien get a 6 for providing a few laughs, and Bridgette gets a 10, as the salad was amazing, and Bridgette even showed me the recipe." Laurie told the cameras as the score showed Team Victory with 31 points.
Hotel Lounge
Back in the hotel lounge, and while the group figured out who the guests were, no one could be prepared for who came next. Aka Izzy. Izzy came sprinting into the lobby "It's Izzy time!" Izzy yelled out, as she crashed into the service desk of Jen and Bowie.
"Oh my gosh!" Jen yelled out, setting her magazine down, and ran right up to Izzy. "Oh my, are you okay?" Jen asked, helping Izzy up to her feet.
"I'm fine, just wanted the headrush." Izzy explained, clearly unaffected by the damage she did to her head.
Jen internally flinched, but noticed what Izzy was wearing and was transfixed, "I never noticed this before, but what you're wearing is truly amazing. How'd it come to be?" Jen asked.
"Oh this thing?" Izzy asked nervously. "I made it by myself and my family when we camped in a jungle for a month." Izzy said before she paused. "Wait if you two are here, that means Owen is here. Where's my sugarboo?" Izzy demanded.
"Here's your key, Room 211. Second floor." Bowie said, as he walked up to Izzy and Jen handing her the key. "Trent and Duncan! Take care of her stuff."
Jen and Bowie went to sit back at their desk, with Jen looking over to Bowie, "Why didn't you ask her about taking Julia out of the game?"
"It's Izzy, she's fucking nuts." Bowie explained, shuddering at having to even interact with her, which Jen agreed with even if she was able to be nice and cordial towards Izzy.
At the desk for Team Amazon, Courtney and Scott were shown sitting together, as Scott looked at the Izzy interactions nearly bug-eyed, "Wasn't that the girl you almost got into a physical fight with over a million dollar case in the first season?" Scott asked.
"Yep, she was. I just want to get this challenge over with as I don't want to see any of my former teammates." Courtney said, complaining.
Hotel Room
Izzy had now made her way into her hotel room, with Duncan and Trent setting her stuff down without a word, as neither wanted to speak to Izzy or each other. Izzy walked into her room, and noticed on the desk of her hotel room a picture of her family "Oh my gosh, so cute." Izzy awed before looking up and seeing Owen, "Oh My gosh! Owen"
"Izzy!" Owen also called out as despite their being a glass window between them, the two were practically making out again.
"Ew gross. Can't you guys do this some other time?" Noah asked.
"But we may never get to again." Owen pleaded, before turning around to face Noah, "Unless you want to talk about sending Sky home if Alejandro stays any longer."
"Okay, look I will vote out Alejandro with you. I just don't get why you think threatening Sky's spot in the game is the way." Noah said as Izzy could tell her almost makeout session with Owen wasn't going to happen.
"Because you sent my second best friend home in Brick, Noah." Owen said going back to scrubbing windows as Izzy had left by that point, leaving Noah still stunned that Owen had grown a spine and was now in Noah's eyes guilt tripping him.
Hotel Restaurant
Izzy had made her way to the restaurant by this point, and was sitting at her table, "I will take the explosive burrito, with extra hot sauce." Izzy ordered.
"How fitting." Julia said as she rolled her eyes.
Julia and Sky were walking to the kitchen window to inform Alejandro about the order, with Sky wanting to talk some game while she could "While we have some alone time, who's the next target on the team?" Sky asked.
"Heck if I know. I haven't completely decided but I will let you know." Julia said. "But we are definitely going to keep Alejandro." Julia also said as she noticed Alejandro showing up.
"I assume the explosive burrito for the orange haired senorita?" Alejandro asked, showing the plate of food.
"Of course, it's Izzy." Sky noted, as she picked up the plate. "Thanks Alejandro." Sky and Julia walked back over to Izzy's table and handed the food to her. "Here you go."
"Ooh boy. Meh, I don't need the silverware." Izzy said as she began eating the burrito sloppily with no silverware and even face first.
"Ew you animal. Here's some napkins." Julia said as she handed napkins to Izzy before turning around disgusted.
Voting Booth
"Okay, so I give Bowie and Jen an 8 as Jen is so nice, Duncan and Trent get a 5 as they didn't talk to me, but they weren't rude. Owen and Noah get a 10 as I love my big O. Even though there was a window between us, Owen was still with me and we got to make out. Oh right scoring, Sky and Julia get an 8, and Alejandro gets a 9. Good luck Team Style, love you Owen!" Izzy called out as she gave Team Style 40 more points boosting their total up to 67 points."
Hotel Lobby
Sadie made her way to the lobby as the fourth guest, "Oh my gosh this building is so beautiful." Sadie said in admiration at her surroundings. Sadie walked up to the desk and wasn't pleased at all seeing Courtney.
"Welcome to the hotel, Sadie, how are you?" Courtney asked in an annoyed tone.
"Yeah hi, whatever." Sadie said wanting to end the conversation.
"What's your problem?" Courtney asked Sadie, irritably.
"You cost me twice now in this game, so why should I pretend to be nice to you anymore? Just give me my key." Sadie demanded. "Do you have anything to say Scott?"
Scott was silent for a few seconds before speaking up and saying something that would destroy Sadie, "Yep, you should be the one to carry your own luggage as you can afford to shed a few pounds so the guys stop only focusing on just Katie when you are out together in public." Scott sneered at Sadie.
"You…. You ASSHOLE!" Sadie yelled out, crying with her luggage and running away distraught.
"Wow. Thanks Scott." Courtney said, appreciative of Scott defending her.
"No problem." Scott said, with a proud smile on his face.
Confessional Scott
"What, if someone is going to be awful to my best friend and future girlfriend, I will bite back. Sadie had it coming."
Hotel Hallway
Sadie had made her way over to Gwen and Kitty, happy to see people that weren't Scott or Courtney, but still annoyed she didn't see Katie. Luckily since Sadie only had one large duffle bag, that wasn't heavy, it was an easy lift. "Thank you Sadie for not having a heavy bag. I dread what someone like Chase has since he is all about stunts." Gwen said, happy with Sadie.
"You know what this reminds me of?" Kitty asked. "My sister Emma, when she moved into her college dorm for law school."
"That's cool. My goal would be more of an art school type. When the challenge is done Kitty, I can show you and Cody some of my artwork." Gwen told Kitty.
"What about you Sadie, do you know what you want to pursue?" Kitty asked, as she took her turn holding Sadie's bag.
"I don't know actually. Oh gosh, I've never thought that far ahead. I know that Katie is interested in an arts and craft style of school and job. But I don't think that's for me." Sadie said, as she looked sad. "I didn't get to ask earlier but is Katie part of the challenge today so I can see her?" Sadie asked.
"She's a sitout today actually, her, Heather, and Jo. I fear for Katie since Heather and Jo just seem like two that will clash." Gwen said, shuddering at the thought of Jo and Heather interacting together.
Spa Hotel
The show flashed to the spa at the hotel, with each of Jo, Heather, and Katie sitting together on comforting chairs getting their feet taken care of, "I'm just going to say one more time, that this isn't my thing, and I would've rather been at the gym."
"But Chef and Blaineley said all 3 of us have to be together at all times." Katie explained.
"That and I would rather be at a spa than at the gym." Heather further said.
"Agreed. Hey, since we are going to be here for a few hours more than likely given the nature of this challenge. Is there any way the 3 of us could work together?" Katie asked, as she was desperate for allies.
"Wait really Katie? You'd actually work with me?" Heather asked in astonishment, "You voted me out." Heather noted. "What's the reason?"
"I'm desperate for allies, and I think all of us are in the same boat." Katie explained, "Heather, now that Emma's gone, who do you have on the team as a number?" Katie asked as Heather was left silent.
"What about me?" Jo asked. "You're not even on my team so you don't know my situation."
"I can figure that one out." Heather said, turning to face Jo. "You're only aligned with Owen on your team, and I know you hate Alejandro." Heather bloated.
"Well he's an ass. He is selfish, and a jerk." Jo said growing more angry.
Katie, who had focused on her spa treatment, looked over to Jo ranting, ""What's she going on about?"
"She's ranting about Alejandro." Heather explained.
"Oh him, I feel nervous saying this as I didn't even tell Ella this, but I think he was responsible for when Sadie left." Katie explained as Heather grinned. Pleased with both Jo's ranting and Katie's suspicions of Alejandro as she finally had common ground with both of them.
Hotel Room
Sadie had made her way into her hotel room, only to look out and see the windows in her room were left untouched, "Aw what a shame. Where is Cody and Mickey?" Sadie asked herself.
The screen zoomed out to show Cody and Mickey at the top of the building, with Cody on the platform, "Come on Mickey, it's just washing windows."
"I'm not doing it, no! I can't! I can't handle the sound of windows getting washed." Mickey pleaded, in fear.
"Okay." Cody told himself. "Let's just do this step by step. Just step onto the platform with me Mickey. Can you at least do that?" Cody asked.
"I… I can do that." Mickey said as he stepped onto the platform, that would be used to clean windows.
"Now we lower it." Cody said as he went to one end of the platform, unfortunately before Cody could call out for them to drop the platform down lower, the sound of squeegee was heard and Mickey panicked.
"Aah! That noise! Get me off of this thing!" Mickey said as he hit his lever on his end as hard as possible. Cody barely had enough time to react before he and Mickey were freefalling on the edge of the building both screaming in fear of their lives.
Hotel Restaurant
Back at the hotel, and specifically the restaurant, Sadie had sat down and had taken Scott's words to heart, "I'll take a salad." Sadie sadly said looking down.
"I'll take care of it." Anne Maria said walking away, still annoyed she was partnered with Zoey for the challenge.
"Ew, oh my gosh is that her fake tanner on one of our menus?" Zoey asked, picking it up from Sadie's hands.
"Yep it is, gross." Sadie said, trying her best to not gag if the salad ends up with fake tanner. "How much of that stuff does she use?"
"At least 3 cans a day." Zoey said, looking grossed out still.
"Sadie wants a salad, Topher!" Anne Maria called out. "You know I figured she would opt for a steak instead." Anne Maria said, chuckling at her joke.
"Anne Maria, stop that! Otherwise, you're no better than people like Courtney, Heather, and Scott." Topher said, annoyed with his back turned to Anne Maria while making the salad. "Here you go." Topher said sternly, handing the plate to her.
"Geeze, what's his problem?" Anne Maria asked herself incredulously. "Here's the salad."
Anne Maria walked away for a tanner break as she dubbed it in her head while Zoey sat down with Sadie to enjoy her meal. "Don't worry, I'm not mad at you. It's Anne Maria, if I mark you down it's not because of you, it's all because of her."
"Thanks Sadie. I'll make sure to tell Katie you said hi. It's great to be reunited." Zoey excitedly said. "Oh and I will say you do a great job with your makeup. I don't know if you have thought of it, but I can absolutely see you join cosmetology school."
"Wait, oh my gosh you are right, thank you Zoey. Oh and tell Topher he did a perfect job with the salad. I hope you guys can end up together." Sadie said, catching Zoey off guard completely. But the two enjoyed talking beyond the topic of Topher for the next 10 minutes while Topher was in the kitchen and Anne Maria took a break.
Voting Booth
Sadie found the voting booth soon afterwards, "I'm giving Courtney and Scott a 4, just because while harsh Scott didn't say anything false. But still they are both so mean. Gwen and Kitty get a 9, they are both so awesome. I'll give Mickey and Cody a 1, as I want to assume they are doing the best they can, Anne Maria and Zoey get a 3 and that is solely due to Zoey. Topher gets a 10 as he can cook so well. Sadly, I couldn't see Katie and talk to her, but she'll be okay without me. Good luck everyone." Sadie called out.
Hotel Lobby
Back in the hotel lobby the next person up was Beth. She was most excited to be reunited with her best friend Lindsay, and as soon as she made her way into the lobby, she saw her best friend. "Oh my gosh, Lindsay!" Beth yelled out running straight towards Lindsay.
"Beth, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!" Lindsay said as Beth almost tackled her to the ground in the lobby.
Millie awkwardly walked up to the BFF's "Am I intruding on anything here?" Millie asked.
Lindsay and Beth stopped hugging, as Lindsay still beamed with excitement while Beth had a neutral expression on her face. "Oh my gosh Beth. This is my other best friend, Millie."
"I'm familiar with her." Beth said, as Millie felt now both nervous and awkward with Beth now.
Lindsay had luckily managed to steer the conversation, "Hey Beth you've seen the show so far. What are Tyler's intentions overall?" Lindsay asked, wondering what to do with her relationship with Tyler.
"I can't explicitly say anything. But I do think Tyler always has love for you." Beth said as she turned her head towards Millie, "and doesn't have bad intentions." Beth said, clearly implying something towards Millie.
All of a sudden however Lindsay had a look of worry and her lips made an o shape, "Oh, I have to go to the bathroom break." Lindsay said. "Millie watch the desk, I'll be right back."
As Lindsay left, Millie however was immediately sensing the animosity that Beth had for her, "Hey Beth, now that it's just us, do you wanna talk?"
"Not really, no. All I really wanna say is that Cameron told me about your journal." Beth said, matter of factly.
Millie was now fearful that Beth knew what she wrote, "What did he say?"
"He just said you write in it." Beth calmly said, before stepping closer to Millie, "But this whole journal thing, if you in any way use it against Lindsay, just know that I will be there to make sure karma comes back to bite you. Because Lindsay has been through enough crap. She doesn't need any fake friends. Now can you hand me the key?" Beth said, as her demeanor went from threatening to calm.
Hotel Hallway
Beth had looked in the hallway for Ezekiel and Harold, for upwards of 10 minutes before noticing both of them standing behind an item that looked like a cart of sorts. "What the heck is that?" Beth asked.
"It's a luggage cart we found in the basement, Ezekiel doesn't think this is a good idea." Harold boasted.
"I just think I have enough physical strength to carry people's stuff by myself." Ezekiel defended.
"That's fine, let's put my stuff on here and see how it goes." Beth said as she put her stuff on the cart, and Harold easily pushed the cart with Ezekiel. "Looks like Harold's right Ezekiel." Beth gloated.
"Ok eh." Ezekiel said weakly.
"Oh and Harold I wanted to tell you that Leshawna misses you so much. She talks about you everyday." Beth gleamed, smiling about Leshawna and Harold's relationship.
"She's my queen. GOSH! I can't wait to see her, I can hardly wait." Harold said, giddy with excitement.
"Promise me you won't be like Geoff and Bridgette last season and make out with her the whole time, eh?" Ezekiel asked.
"Fine." Harold said annoyed, at Ezekiel's demands.
"Heh, it's funny you guys bicker like 2 brothers." Beth said laughing, as Harold and Ezekiel glared at each other, before a slight smile was shown on both of their faces.
Hotel Room
Beth set her stuff down in her room and waved hi to Geoff and Brody with the camera panning out to them. "Is there any way we can do this faster, dude?" Brody asked.
"Maybe, but we also need to talk a little game, as Bridge wants my head in the game." Geoff said.
"Dude, I just want to keep having fun. But what do you think dude?" Brody asked.
"Well, if we do manage to get rid of Millie or Damien," Geoff began suggesting.
"Preferably Damien dude. You know he and I don't mesh well at all." Brody explained as he kept scrubbing.
"Regardless, I was thinking of roping in Tyler and Lindsay with us afterwards. Help fix their relationship, make them feel happy like we are at a party and we need to pick them up." Geoff further explained as the camera panned back to Beth inside.
"Those guys are busy, so I'll just leave them be." Beth told herself as she decided to get ready for her restaurant date with herself.
The camera panned back outside to the window washers, as the sound of squeegee was heard as Cody and Mickey were back to the top of the building, with Cody covering Mickey's ears "This is all my fault, I am going to die today. I deserve it!" Mickey said as he was clearly losing it mentally.
"Mickey, please buddy please calm down. I am here for you, Mickey. I am not gonna leave you." Cody said, doing his best to comfort Mickey and to calm him down, but now it wasn't working.
Hotel Restaurant
Beth had made her way to the restaurant by now, as she was sitting in her chair with a menu, "Yes Tyler, I would like a basic cheeseburger." Beth asked.
"Right away, Damien, go get the order!" Tyler yelled out.
Damien took the order, and ran back to the question just as quickly, while being very precise, as Beth's eyebrows raised "Why is he getting the order?"
"Damien says I am too clumsy. Oh, but while it is just the two of us can we talk?" Tyler said as he sat opposite of Beth.
"I, uh guess so. What do you want to talk about?" Beth asked, in a nervous tone.
"Well first of all I want to apologize for voting you out back in New York. Also I wanna talk about Lindsay." Tyler proposed.
"She's still angry with you by the way. Look, Lindsay just wants you to be honest, and to shed this whole confident act and want to be famous. I know her, she likes honest, good people. You chasing popularity shattered that perception of you." Beth explained. "You have to prove her wrong."
Damien had made it back to the table by now, "This is what the chef Bridgette provided." Damien said.
"Oh Bridgette cooked it? She's vegetarian though." Beth said as she soon took a bite. "Holy crap this is so good."
Confessional- Bridgette
"Look, I refuse to eat meat. But I can cook, and in between Season 2 and 3, I took some online cooking classes, so even though I don't eat meat. I can cook it. That being said, heh, I wish it wasn't meat I had to cook."
Voting Booth
"Lindsay and Millie get a 10, since Lindsay is my best friend. Harold and Ezekiel get a 9, Brody and Geoff get a 6, Tyler and Damien get a 5 since Damien didn't even talk to me. Bridgette gets a 10. Ooh any final words? Just that I wish Lindsay well and I do hope she and Tyler get back together." Beth said.
Hotel Lobby
The next person to the lobby was Dave, he showed up with gloves on his hands and had a mask on as well, "Please no germs. Please no germs." Dave told himself as he approached the front desk.
Jen and Bowie had noticed the gloves, with Jen in particular being interested, "Why are you wearing gloves and a mask?" Jen asked.
"Protecting myself from all the germs." Dave calmly explained.
"Oh, that makes sense, Izzy did try to drool over the table as she left about an hour ago." Bowie said.
"Of course she did, look, can I just get my hotel room for the challenge." Dave said as Bowie handed the key.
However Bowie instantly remembered what he needed to ask Dave, "Look Dave, do you have any idea how to get rid of Julia? She is a poisonous little viper who needs to leave this team."
Dave looked at Bowie, dead in the eyes, and saw how genuine Bowie was being and decided in that moment to help Bowie as much as he could, "I am going to put a good word with Sky and tell her that Julia sent me home. That should help you a lot, at least I think?"
"Thank you, anything to get rid of her, is so welcomed." Bowie said in a rare gracious tone.
"Oh Dave, one last thing before you go." Jen said as Dave turned to her. "I wanna say your sweater vest is really fashionable for your body type." Jen complimented.
Dave was completely caught off guard, and blushed at Jen's compliment before awkwardly speaking "Thank you."
Hotel Room
Dave set his stuff down in his room, as he talked to himself "If I have to hear about how Duncan screws everyone over or how Trent is a sissy boy, I will personally be on pain medicine for the rest of my life." Dave said, annoyed about how Trent and Duncan spent the whole time bickering while carrying his stuff. Dave then noticed the window and saw Owen and Noah. "Well at least my allies are together."
Dave waved to Owen and Noah as he noticed a little opening for one of the windows and opened it, "Dave! It's so great to see you buddy." Owen cheered.
"Yeah, yeah, it's great, why aren't you guys going faster?" Dave asked.
"Anytime someone uses the squeegee, Mickey on Team Amazon has a freak out." Owen said, looking down sadly, feeling bad for Mickey.
"If you guys want to win the challenge, you guys still need to wash the windows though?" Dave asked.
"Anything else?" Noah asked.
"I talked to Bowie, and apparently he has it out for Julia, maybe you guys can get rid of her?" Dave suggested.
Owen instantly beamed at the idea, "Yeah Julia can't be trusted and I know Jo would want her out, or we can still default to get rid of Alejandro."
"Yeah we can." Noah said half haphazardly as he started scrubbing the windows again, as Mickey was heard screaming off screen again.
"Let's not do that. I have an idea, but I may wanna do this new idea once Eva is done." Owen suggested, as both Noah and Dave looked at him confused, by Owen's suggestion.
Hotel Restaurant
Dave had made his way to the restaurant by this point "I just want some water. No food, I am not that hungry." Dave suggested as Julia walked away, leaving Dave alone with Sky.
Julia approached Alejandro "The little twerp just wants water." Julia said as she rolled her eyes. "What a baby. Wait, what is that?" Julia asked as Alejandro showed a red burrito."
"That dumb twink, needs some food and for me more payback for him trying to eliminate me in Morocco. Give it to his scrawny ass." Alejandro said, clearly holding resentment for Dave.
"Fine, but I don't think twink means what you think here." Julia said as she grabbed the burrito.
Meanwhile Dave and Sky were talking at one of the tables face to face, "It's so great to see you again." Sky beamed.
"Yeah. yeah it's great. Look, we don't have much time to talk." Dave said in a hushed and discreet tone, looking around nervously.
"Sure, what's up." Sky responded back.
"Julia is not to be trusted, she was the one that sent me home back in Morocco, not Jo. Trust me, Brick can vouch for this." Dave said, still trying to sound quiet, unfortunately at that moment, Julia arrived.
"Oh hey guys. Alejandro insisted on giving Dave some amount of food, and as a matter of fact. Here you go buddy." Julia said as she picked up the burrito and shoved it into Dave's mouth.
"Dave!" Sky cried out.
"How is it?" Julia sarcastically asked, as Dave was shown screaming and crying to the bathroom to cool his mouth down, or to throw up the burrito. "Awe, poor boy can't handle his spices. How tragic." Julia sarcastically said.
Confessional- Julia
"Damn it. I don't think I forced the burrito down Dave's throat fast enough before he outed me to Sky that I sent his sorry ass home. I have to do damage control with Sky, as this can't be good."
Confessional- Sky
"What the hell was that?" Sky asked. "The trust between Julia and I is dying out. But Dave telling me that has made me reconsider everything. I need to get confirmation from Brick of this challenge, more importantly I need to talk with Noah and see where he feels about this."
Voting Booth
"I can't feel my face, Jen and Bowie? They ge guess. Duncan and Trent get a 3, Owen and Noah get a 5 because they were my allies. Sky and freaking Julia get a 4 and that is only due to Sky. Alejandro gets a zero though. Screw that guy." Dave proudly said. "Any final words for your team? I wish Owen and Noah good luck, and I wish Noah good luck with Sky, and may karma bite Julia and Alejandro in the ass."
Hotel Lobby
The next person to enter was the 7th person eliminated in DJ. He was carrying a duffle bag, while also having a huge smile on his face. "This place is amazing!" DJ said in awe and astonishment. "Why couldn't we have a season here?"
"Hi DJ" Lindsay said as she hugged him. "I miss you so much. Really sad you and Millie were the bottom 2 that day." Lindsay quickly stated, remembering the first Paris elimination, and how awful she felt for voting DJ out.
"You don't hold it against some of us that we voted you out?" Millie asked, nervously.
"No, of course not. I don't want to hold grudges." DJ explained, as he hugged Lindsay and Millie at the same time.
"Oh that's great. Also how is Shawn doing? Have you talked to him since he left Jamaica?" Millie asked, as her nerves were starting to settle down.
"He's doing great, he was so thrilled when Jasmine returned last night to the place where the eliminated people normally are, and now both of them are a couple." DJ explained.
"Oh my gosh, that is so cute." Lindsay said. "Looks like your room is 119." Lindsay noticed, as she handed DJ the keys.
Hotel Hallway
"Oh, sick dudes, you got a cart to pull for the challenge, awesome!" DJ cheered, as Harold and Ezekiel noticed and appreciated having DJ with them, as both of them liked DJ so much on a personal level.
"I told you getting the cart was a great idea." Harold, said in a snarky tone.
"Okay fine eh. You are right, I was wrong eh. Anything else?" Ezekiel asked, as he rolled his eyes.
"Nope, just happy to be right. Gosh!" Harold said back in annoyance. DJ then set his stuff on the cart, however as soon as Harold pushed it he struggled, "Oh man this bag is heavier than Beth's. Zeke help me out!" Harold called out as Ezekiel pushed as well.
"Oops sorry, is my bag heavy?" DJ asked.
"Not heavy, but certainly not light eh. Did you take some of Eva's workout gear eh?" Ezekiel asked as DJ shook his head no as the camera flashed forward to later on.
Hotel Room
"Man, this place is even better than the loser resort!" DJ said as he set his stuff down in his room and saw it was Geoff and Brody, but both were going slow in terms of cleaning and opened one of the spare windows. "Yo Geoff. The window isn't clean, not that I am complaining, but what's taking so long?"
"Mickey on Team Amazon keeps panicking and freaking out dude whenever anyone uses one of these squeegee things, so Geoff and I decided not to use it." Brody explained.
"I can't argue with not wanting to hurt someone." DJ said. "But maybe come up with an alternative plan." DJ said, as he saw a T-shirt that looked like Owen's fall on Geoff.
Geoff picked the shirt off of his face and looked at it, "Is that Owen's shirt, what does he have planned?" Geoff wondered, while being grossed out that he had Owen's shirt now.
Hotel Restaurant
DJ showed up to the restaurant as he sat in his seat, and noticed. "What… what would you like, DJ?" Damien asked nervously.
"Just a regular salad." DJ said as he handed the menu to Damien before noticing how nervous Damien was. "What's wrong dude?"
"I mean…. I was just the one who did vote you out, all those weeks ago? I am shocked you aren't furious with me," Damien said, as his shoulders dropped and he sounded confused.
"Heh, you must know nothing about me. I am not a bitter person at all, and it was all just a game. Yes, I would have loved to win so I could get my momma a replacement bus after her previous one got destroyed right before the season. But I didn't." DJ explained.
"Oh, that's sweet." Damien said, still sounding shameful.
"Damien, you're a smart guy I can tell. But a word of advice, you are never going to get far in this game, if you don't actually get to know people and how they will react to what you say and do." DJ said, before looking around, "Hey where's Tyler?"
"Oh no! I left him for the order!" Damien yelled out, before Damien could do something a salad came falling right in DJ's face, making a mess everywhere with food all over the ground.
"Oh gosh! I am so sorry DJ!" Tyler said as he ran up to the scene.
"It's fine, I will just head on out. Damien, please take my advice." DJ said as he walked away.
"What advice?" Tyler asked, confused about what Damien and DJ could have discussed.
"It's, it's nothing. I will do the last two orders all by myself. You just relax okay." Damien told Tyler, yet Tyler internally was annoyed at Damien's rather coy response.
Confessional- Damien
"DJ is right, I need to get to know people. I also need to make sure I keep an eye on Tyler no matter what. Also get to really know the dude. Maybe we can hit it off."
Voting Booth
DJ looked at the camera with a sheepish grin, "Sorry guys no suspense, everyone is getting an 8 from me. I wanna be fair and help my former team a lot." DJ said, as he saw the next part of the question, "Any final words for your team to see? I wish them all nothing but the best."
Outside The Hotel
Blaineley and Chef were shown in a tent outside the hotel, with a desk, and a bunch of cameras. "Gosh! That segment was so boring! Who's next?" Blaineley asked.
"Chase." Chef said. "He knows he is not allowed to film any stunts or anything in this hotel?" Chef asked.
"I would like to think he is smart enough not to do it, but what if he does?" Blaineley jokingly asked.
"Then we end up in the hot seat with the government of this country, and the producers." Chef flatly said.
Hotel Lobby
The 8th person to show up was Chase, he still had his trademark red sweatshirt, and was now having a camera in his hands, "Yo, yo it's your boy Chase at the Burj Al Arab. I brought my stuff, and I will pull a wicked stunt here in the hotel lobby."
"Like hell you are." Courtney protested immediately. "No way, you are not damaging this hotel."
"Oh hi Courtney." Chase flatly said. "Don't worry yourself. I am a professional."
"No you are not doing anything. This place is way too prestigious for you to damage." Courtney argued back at Chase.
"I don't even know what that word means. So I won't listen to it." Chase said in annoyance.
"Shocker. Look here's your key, don't do anything stupid." Courtney said aggressively, handling his key.
"You know I am shocked that you always talked about wanting to go to law school, since at least for me, you are not qualified at all due to how emotional you and people like you tend to be." Chase boldly claimed.
Courtney was in a state of shock as Scott spoke up, "What do you mean people like her?"
"Women in general tend to be emotional, Emma went on and on crying and yelling about how badly I treated her when she was eliminated and.. Why is Courtney breathing out her nose?" Chase said, before noticing the glare Courtney was giving.
"I would get out of here now, Chase if I were you." Scott said, and Chase didn't need to be told twice, as he packed up his camera, grabbed his duffle bag and booked it to his hotel room which was 202. Scott turned back over to Courtney, and asked her "Are you doing better now?"
"Yes. Now that the sexist prick with a crummy clip tube channel is not being a dick. I can calm down. He is lucky that I did not lunge across the table to strangle his ass." Courtney angrily said.
Bowie, who watched the whole ordeal, whispered to Jen "She has every right to be pissed off. I kind of like it though."
Hotel Hallway
Gwen and Kitty were carrying Chase's luggage, but both were getting increasingly more annoyed by the influencer and in their eyes, his delusional arrogance, "That teammate, well you know, former teammate for me. Courtney is so emotional and pushy. I swear, she is just like Emma was at her worst. Chase don't do a stunt that could kill you, Chase hear me out more, please. Chase, maybe our channel should also have dance videos. Yeah right, I always know best."
As Kitty and Gwen made their way closer to Chase's room, an idea popped in Kitty's head as she whispered something inaudibly into Gwen's ear. Gwen then spoke up with a smirk. "Hey Chase, you do crazy stunts, and like good film locations, right?" Gwen asked.
"You know it. What's the suggestion?" Chase asked.
"The bathrooms are great to film here, for like a proper intro." Gwen explained.
"Totally, this place is rich, and fancy. I will head to the bathrooms, can you both watch my stuff?" Chase asked back as both of them nodded. Chase then immediately took off for the bathroom and left Kitty and Gwen alone.
"Gosh, I thought he would never shut up. Could you imagine if Cody ended up like him?" Kitty said, remembering her boyfriend. "Gosh I hope he's okay."
"I am sure he is, now where can we hide Chase's shit." Gwen asked herself. "He is so annoying. There has to be a janitor closet nearby somewhere." Gwen said, scanning the halls. "Oh right there. Come on, that prick deserves it."
"Dude is a total jerk. I still feel bad for Emma, she dated someone like that." Kitty said, still thinking of her current boyfriend Cody and in her mind how awesome he is, while still having a weird feeling that something was awry.
Duncan and Trent walked up to the two girls throwing Chase's stuff into a janitor closet, with Trent not being enthused about it, while Duncan had a smirk on his face, "What's shaking pasty?" Duncan asked.
"Just throwing Chase's shit into this closet here. Challenge be damned." Gwen explained.
"Let me guess no one on the team liked him?" Trent asked.
"I would rather be with Heather during the trust challenge in Season 1 when she exposed my underwear on international TV. Then spend another day with his ass." Gwen explained.
"Wait Heather did what?" Kitty asked in astonishment, as Gwen began explaining and the show went on to later that night with Chase.
Hotel Room/Window Washing
Chase had finally made it to his hotel room with only his key, and now the dude was soaking wet as he had fallen in the toilet, trying to prep an intro for his channel. With no bags, Chase was pissed, "Stupid ex teammates of mine. Act all emotional, throw my bags away somewhere else in this hotel, and now I am left with nothing. I am treated so unfairly." Chase then looked outside and saw the window was untouched. "Where the hell are Cody and Mickey anyway?" Chase asked.
The camera zoomed out, and back to Mickey and Cody, with Mickey still shaking and nervous beyond belief, "The team is going to hate me, I can't do this. I can't do this!" Mickey once again told himself.
"Mickey, please calm down. It's going to be okay, I will take the fall for us if we do lose today." Cody said as he kept trying to calm Mickey down to no avail.
Mickey however stood up, freaked out, eyes wide open and looked over the ledge, "Maybe.. Maybe I could.." Mickey began to say as he looked over the ledge some more, "It's… it's what I wanted to do in high school." Mickey said.
Cody, quickly picking up on what Mickey was implying however, lunged for Mickey and tackled him to the ground, before he did anything rash in his mine. "Mickey, stay with me, just hold my hand. Hold my hand!" Cody yelled out.
"What, what are you doing?" Mickey asked scared out of his mind as he was pinned to the ground underneath Cody.
"Preventing you from doing something, that you would regret, and that I could never live with myself. Now take my hand and please just try to breathe steadily." Cody asked as Mickey looked at Cody's hands and nervously held onto them, "Breathe, just please breathe."
Hotel Restaurant
Chase had finally made his way to the restaurant after cleaning himself up, so far this trip had sucked for him, and he wished he could have ended up on Team Style or Victory looking back. As Chase sat there, Anne Maria and Zoey approached him, with Anne Maria speaking up, "What would you like to order?"
"A steak. A man's dish so to speak." Chase confidently said.
As Zoey went to inform Topher about the order, Anne Maria decided to stay behind and talk with Chase. "You know I do love a guy who likes his steak." Anne Maria informed Chase in a flirty tone.
"Thanks, but aren't you with Topher?" Chase asked, confused.
"Yeah, but I am just harmlessly flirting with you. Besides, Topher back there needs to show more assertiveness, and stop being a wuss. I swear if he wasn't so drop dead gorgeous I would never go out with him." Anne Maria said, complaining about her current boyfriend.
Said boyfriend, Topher, was busy cooking a steak and was talking to himself, "Chase probably would want a well done steak, and there we go!" Topher said as the show flashed quickly to about 20 minutes later, as Zoey watched in awe. "Order up!"
"Coming! Thanks Topher. You know, I don't think anyone here has you pegged as a good cook." Zoey said, admiring Topher.
"Well back home, my mom and I are close and I took cooking classes. You know I am more than a pretty face." Topher said, as he struck a pose in his cooking outfit.
Zoey, flustered by Topher's actions, immediately left and headed over to the table, where she saw Anne Maria and Chase talking. "What's going on?" Zoey asked herself.
Zoey handed the steak over, as Anne Maria stood up, "We'll keep in touch Chase, I would love to be a model for your stunts." Anne Maria said. "What do you want red?"
Zoey grabbed Anne Maria aside, "What were you and Chase talking about?"
"Nothing important toots. Back off." Anne Maria defensively said, as she walked away as Zoey glared at the jersey girl from behind.
Confessional- Zoey
"What could Anne Maria have told Chase? I am still nervous about that chick, I do not trust her at all!"
Voting Booth
"Well let's see here, my former teammates sucked, Courtney and Scott got a zero, Gwen and Kitty a zero, Cody and Mickey got a 1 out of 10 since they weren't rude to me today. Anne Maria and Zoey get a 7, and Topher gets a 9 for an excellent steak. Topher, Anne Maria you guys are cool, the rest of the team kiss my ass." Chase said defiantly, before slipping on the ground and falling onto his butt. "Ow that smarts."
Hotel Lobby
Back in the lobby, the challenge that had started at midnight, was now at 4am. Jen was on her third fashion magazine in terms of reading, "I could read these magazines forever."
The next person that showed up was Eva, she set her bag to the ground, as she glared at Jen and Bowie, as she demanded, "I want the keys to my hotel room, now!" Eva demanded.
"Geeze, I can see that the anger management classes never worked." Bowie said, rolling his eyes.
"What did you say, Bowie?" Eva asked as she slammed her fist onto the table.
"Nothing, here's your key." Bowie said, scared as he quickly handed the key. "This is for Room 115."
"Thanks." Eva sternly said, picking up her bag.
Jen however wanted to lighten the mood up, "Oh before you go I wanna say that your athletic gear is amazing. Maybe you could show me your workout routine. It works really well for you."
"Oh, uh thanks Jen." Eva awkwardly stated, lost, that Jen was being nice to her. "I will definitely keep that in mind." Eva then went away with her bags, while Bowie was left dumbfounded.
"Wow, how did you get roid rage to be cool with you that quickly?" Bowie asked.
"The gift of gab I guess. I don't know." Jen shrugged, unsure of why she was not intimidated by Eva.
Hotel Hallway
Eva had made her way to the bellhops Duncan and Trent, both of which were still angry with each other. "Just so you both know, there is absolutely no love loss since both of you voted me out." Eva stated as she dropped her bags on Duncan and Trent's shoulders, and while Duncan was able to hold Eva's bag. Trent was caught completely off guard, and fell right to the ground.
"Ow! Did you pack extra dumbbells?" Trent asked, with the bag on top of him.
"Ha, that is so funny you couldn't even hold her bags." Duncan said, taunting Trent.
"Oh piss off, Duncan!" Trent said off screen.
"What's gotten into the guitar boy down here? I don't care that much, but isn't he more level headed than this?" Eva asked.
"He usually is. But he has a lot of hate for me, when he is over Gwen, so I don't get the anger, he has for me." Duncan explained.
Confessional- Trent
"Wanna know why I hate Duncan? The dude and I have nothing in common. He betrayed the alliance to get rid of Justin, and because of that I feel like I am the next boot. Because Duncan would for sure vote me off in a heartbeat."
Hotel Room/ Squeegees
Eva had made her way to her hotel room, glad to be away from the awkward tension from Duncan and Trent, however she saw Noah and Owen outside. She wasn't happy to see Owen, but decided maybe she should take the high road. But Owen's appearance is what threw Eva off, as Owen was only in his underwear. Eva opened the window, to talk to them "What the hell are you two doing?" Eva asked.
"We're going to use Owen as the squeegee." Noah explained.
"Use Owen, as the wait what?" Eva asked in confusion. "Why?"
"One of the people with the squeegees can't stand the sound of squeegees at all." Noah explained.
"Is Owen at least going to look decent?" Eva asked. Noah and Owen however stayed silent, "Duly noted. I'll give you guys a good score in hopes this works. Also to make it up to Owen since, well I destroyed the alliance."
"Aw thanks Eva." Owen said happily.
"This doesn't mean we are friends. I'm just doing this so there's no more hard feelings with each other." Eva explained, as she soon walked away to the restaurant.
"Look, do you know who you want to get rid of if we do lose." Owen asked. "I still want Alejandro out even after what Dave said."
"I'm fine with him leaving, Julia can go if what he said was true. But we need to make sure we are on the same page." Noah stated, feeling very unsure of his position in the game.
Voting Booth
In the voting booth, Eva showed up, "Well this has been fun. Bowie and Jen get a 5 from me since Jen seems kind of cool. Trent and Duncan get a 6. Owen and Noah get a 9, but this is only because I am hoping their plan works, Sky and Julia get a 5 and Alejandro gets a 3 because he is a dick."
Hotel Lobby
The next person up is Cameron, where he only had a very small bag of basic items with him. Lindsay instantly greeted him "Hi Carmen." Lindsay greeted.
"My name is Cameron." Cameron said, "Lindsay, can you look up my room number, I need to talk to Millie?"
"What do you want to talk about?" Millie asked, unsure of what Cameron was alluding to.
"IIt's about your journal. I know that your journal has a deeper meaning, I don't know what it's about. But after our conversation in Iceland I'm just hoping you don't talk bad about others in your journal." Cameron explained.
Millie had a look of pure guilt, she knew her journal was going to be a point of contention, but she also knew that writing about her generation was her life calling. Above all else though, she knew she needed to tell Cameron what he wanted to hear "I promise this journal isn't malicious. I would never hurt anyone here emotionally." Millie claimed.
Lindsay, who was not listening to Millie and Cameron's conversation did speak up "Carl, your room is 708." Lindsay spoke up.
"Thanks, Lindsay. Millie, just please take my advice." Cameron said, trying to reassure Milie as he left.
"What were you guys talking about?" Lindsay asked.
"Nothing important, just random stuff in general." Millie said, as she didn't want Lindsay to lose trust in her.
Hotel Hallway
Cameron noticed the bellhops were Ezekiel and Harold, and he instantly felt a sense of relief and ran up to Ezekiel to hug him, "Hey Zeke, I've missed you buddy." Cameron said in the hug.
"Me too eh. Me too." Ezekiel said.
Harold awkwardly walked up, "Am I intruding on something here?"
"Not really, as if you wouldn't be all over Leshawna in about 20 minutes." Cameron stated with a sly grin.
"Wait, I get to see Leshawna in 20 minutes, oh hell yeah!" Harold gushed.
"Oh Ezekiel, why haven't you pressed Millie about her notebook?" Cameron asked, as he was now walking with Ezekiel and Harold.
"Journal?" Harold asked. This was the first time he had heard about any sort of journal.
"Yeah. A journal eh. Look Cameron, I just didn't want to expose Millie's notebook, journal or whatever eh. I don't want to be the bad guy." Ezekiel explained.
"I'll be the bad guy." Harold proudly claimed as Ezekiel looked at him with worry plastered all over his face. "I can read it since Millie and I have no affiliation with each other. Besides, it's probably harmless." Harold explained. "She's probably just crushing on some other guy here."
"All of that, eh, is not the point. Moron. I'm not stealing someone's stuff and I don't think you should either." Ezekiel explained his concerns.
"It's not that big of a deal Zeke. Besides I can read it while someone watches guard, return it to where Millie hadn't, and nothing more. It would be just like a spy movie." Harold explained, as he was growing more excited by potentially showing a sneakier side to him.
Hotel Room/ Squeegees
Cameron had now entered his hotel room and saw Geoff and Brody, however both of them were in their underwear, which confused Cameron. "What are you two even doing?" Cameron asked.
"We uh we dropped our squeegee, and we kind of decided we're going to use each other as the squeegee." Brody explained.
"That and Owen suggested it, when we saw what he and Noah were doing and they said it will calm Mickey down who hates the sound of squeegees dude." Geoff further explained.
"Are you guys going to at least be decent and keep at least the underwear on?" Cameron asked.
Neither Geoff nor Brody however answered that, which told Cameron what the answer was, as Geoff spoke up as he saw Cameron begin to leave the hotel room, "Oh and Cameron, I am sorry for injuring you back in Brazil."
"It's fine, Geoff. I am healed, but I am gonna head out, just so I don't have to see what you guys are going to do." Cameron awkwardly said as he shut the door, "My appetite is gone, so I will just head straight to the voting booth."
Voting Booth
"Since I didn't go to the restaurant, I can only vote for what I did. So I guess I will make it up to my team and just give each of the service desk, bellhop, and window washers a 9 out of 10 to make it up for the team." Cameron said giving his team 27 out of 50, as he saw something at the bottom, "Any final words for your team? I would just say good luck to all of them. Hopefully Millie isn't the evil type, and I look forward to seeing how all of them do."
Hotel Lobby
The 11th guest who came was Leshawna, with Lindsay in particular being excited, "Oh my gosh, Leshawna it is so amazing to see you."
"You too girl."
"Wait, you're able to remember Leshawna's name just fine. But you constantly struggle with mine?" Millie asked, in a mix of confusion and annoyance.
"Well Leshawna is a distinct name to remember, and she and I have been together for 3 seasons now. Sorry." Lindsay meekly said.
"It's okay. Oh and Leshawna your room is Room 217." Millie said as she handed her keys. "Oh, Lindsay, you wanted to talk to Leshawna, right?"
"Oh right. Leshawna, you and Tyler spent a lot of time together in between seasons, right?" Lindsay asked.
"Yep, what about that clumsy buffoon?" Leshawna asked.
"Well did he talk about me more, or the whole popularity thing?" Lindsay asked.
"That's complicated honey, at first when Tyler and I were together he talked about you so much. All about how much he loved and missed you, but then something changed." Leshawna explained.
"What changed?" Millie and Lindsay asked at the same time.
"Well we were on the "So you think you could eat that? Let's just say we bombed it. It was around that time, all these anti Tyler blogs and social media posts came, about how I had a shitty partner, how Lindsay deserved better. Tyler was a bigger loser for not doing great on these shows. It got kind of ugly." Leshawna said, shuddering at the past.
"Oh gosh. How did Tyler respond to that stuff?" Millie asked in concern.
"He just kind of shut down, when the cameras were on for the shows we did. He would just fake it for the cameras. But he was hurting. I wanted him to tell me but he never did."
"Wasn't most of the anti Tyler stuff online due to Sierra?" Millie asked.
"It was babe, but it was just some of them. Sierra confirmed when she was eliminated at the loser lounge she only wrote half of them. She doesn't know who did it though." Leshawna said, as she put her head down. "May I have my key?" Leshawna asked and walked away with her stuff, just waiting to see Harold, and wanting to focus on something happier..
"How are you feeling Lindsay?" Millie asked.
"I don't know." Lindsay said, as she attempted to play with her hair to distract her mind.
Hotel Hallway
Leshawna had made her way to the hallways, as her heart fluttered seeing her boyfriend Harold, as both immediately embraced and started kissing passionately. Ezekiel awkwardly walked up to the couple, "Am I intruding on something here, and leave you two alone. Eh".
"Nonsense, besides Harold, I was thinking we could spend some alone time together in our hotel room." Leshawna flirted with Harold.
"Oh, I like the sound of that." Harold said, unable to contain his excitement.
"Here's the key, Harold baby. I need to talk with Ezekiel one on one. I'll be in the room in a few minutes." Leshawna said as she handed the key to Harold who was more than happy to get away from the challenge.
"Why did you have Harold leave eh." Ezekiel asked, confused about what was going on.
"Look homeschool, wanna make it up to Harold?" Leshawna asked as Ezekiel nodded. "Well I wanna spend some alone time with Harold, so I want you to take my place for this challenge."
"Is that cheating?"
"It might be, but I know Harold will appreciate it, and I will make sure he comes to his senses." Leshawna said, as she went inside her hotel room, leaving Ezekiel to finish the challenge.
Hotel Room
Leshawna opened the door to her hotel room, and while she was happy to see Harold, she also saw Geoff and Brody, and was stunned at what she saw as Harold was talking to them, "Why are Geoff and Brody naked? What the hell?" Leshawna asked, confused.
"We lost our bucket so we are going to both be the squeegees and use every ounce of our bodies, dudes." Brody excitedly said.
"That's great, I will let you uh, I will be out of your hair." Leshawna said awkwardly as Geoff and Brody lowered the platform to a lower level as Leshawna laid down on the hotel bed. "Oh this bed is amazing. Even better than the loser resort, even if it is only for a few days."
Harold instinctively jumped on the bed to the other end, and was mesmerized by Leshawna, "I love this day now so much!"
"Sweetie, do you love it due to being reunited with me, or also being with Zeke." Leshawna asked.
"Mostly you, but I actually think I am doing a great job with Ezekiel. With the way the team is set up, he and I are in the middle so I am most loyal to him." Harold said.
"That's great, baby. But are you actually trying to be his friend, or is it just for the game?" Leshawna asked as the two of them
"That's what I'm debating. There's part of me that wants to become his friend. But I just don't know how he feels, and after voting him out in Jamaica, we don't try to talk about any game at all." Harold explained. "Look, I will try to make things better with Ezekiel. But can we just make out already?" Harold asked as Leshawna happily obliged.
Geoff and Brody who were working on the window right below Harold and Leshawna could hear the make out session, and both instantly felt uncomfortable, "Bro, that's our cue to leave." Geoff said.
"Totally." Brody said as he and Geoff pulled the levers at the same time, to go down to the hotel lower floors. "Wahoo!" Brody cheered out.
Unfortunately all the noise that Geoff and Brody were causing, made Mickey feel noxious, "That noise! Aagh!" Mickey screamed off screen, as the viewers watching this episode could also hear the platform begin shaking as well.
Hotel Restaurant
Ezekiel showed up to the restaurant as Damien and Tyler looked confused, "What are you doing here?" Damien asked.
"Leshawna told me to fill in for her in this part of the challenge as she and Harold wanted some alone time, eh." Ezekiel explained.
"Ooh I get what you are getting at, Zeke. Man Harold is one lucky dog." Tyler said with a chuckle.
"I don't get it." Damien flatly said.
"It doesn't matter, just get me a soup eh, I want this challenge to be over with." Ezekiel explained as Damien left to take the order over to Bridgette.
Tyler and Ezekiel decided to talk with each other, while they waited for the order. "Man Harold is lucky that he has a girlfriend and no relationship problems."
"Weren't you a big part of why you and Lindsay aren't doing well eh?" Ezekiel asked.
"I know it's my fault, I just don't find it fair, how this whole game has gone for me. Honestly, I should have never aligned with Damien at this point. I'm worried he is ruining this whole thing for me." Tyler stated. Shortly afterwards Damien brought the soup over, while Ezekiel noticed there was a lot of tension between Tyler and Damien.
Voting Booth
Leshawna had made her way to the voting booth, and was informed of how Tyler, Damien and Bridgette did, as Ezekiel was forbidden from entering the voting booth. "Millie and Lindsay get a 6, Harold and Ezekiel get a 10, Harold deserves that. Geoff and Brody get a 7 since the window was clean. Tyler, Damien, and Bridgette get 15 out of 20." Leshawna stated.
With Leshawna this left the score at 176 for Team Victory for their final score, Team Style had 114 points and since they only had Brick left, Team Victory was lock safe, while Team Amazon had 44 points, with 3 people left to go in Emma, Sierra, and Ella.
Hotel Lobby
Brick was the 12th person to enter the lobby and the final one for Team Style to show up and was in a really chipper mood. "He seems happy, so happy." Bowie observed.
"Hello Bowie, Miss Jen." Brick said in a polite tone as he bowed. "It's great to be reunited together."
"Why are you acting so nice? Jen and I both voted you out." Bowie asked, confused.
"If you hold grudges in this game, you will never win, and I don't hold them regardless." Brick explained.
"Awe, that is so inspiring." Jen said in awe. "Your room is 207. Also I wanted to tell you Brick I love your suit today." Jen explained, as Brick was wearing a camouflage suit, with a blue tie and black dress pants, as he decided to dress up for the occasion.
"Thanks Jen. Can you guys make sure to tell Jo that I miss her if I don't see her." Brick explained.
"I really hope all the compliments you gave to our former teammates, helps us win." Bowie said.
"Oh, I just did that because that's how I felt about them." Jen said, as Bowie was truly stunned Jen was being genuine.
Squeegees
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Noah asked, as he was standing by a lever to send him and Owen down the hotel.
"You only live once, 3, 2, 1, hit it!" Owen said as he was pressed against the window and hit his lever at the same time as Noah as both went free falling to the bottom while Owen as a squeegee was cleaning window after window. Brick came into his hotel room and only heard the dismount but saw his window was cleaned and was satisfied.
However between both Team Victory and Style, doing similar quick loud squeegee sounds, this left Mickey in an absolute panic, as he started shaking and made him and Cody's platform. "I am going to die!" Mickey yelled in fear. Before Cody could react however, Mickey bumped one of the levers making the platform slant to a 90 degree angle while Mickey was able to lock his body in on the high railing. Cody didn't have the same luck, and tumbled to the edge and was now dangling on the platform with him and was left 40 stories up in the air, dangling for his life.
"Uh, Mickey, Mickey!" Cody screamed out, scared he was near death. But he didn't have any luck right away as Mickey was still paralyzed with fear.
Control Room
By this point in the challenge, it was around 5:30 am, and the sun was soon going to rise, however the situation with Cody and Mickey had made Blaineley spit out her coffee, "Fascinating!" was all she could say as her phone rang."Yes Mr. Strauss. Right away." Blaineley said as she turned to Chef, "Get the giant pillow mattress we carry on for emergencies." Blaineley demanded.
"What about Sierra, Ella, and Emma's visits to the hotel?" Chef asked.
"We'll just montage them. Besides, Cody is in a life or death scenario, so Sierra's trip won't be relevant, and Katie along with Heather are at the spa, so does it really matter with Emma or Ella since they were only relevant with those two?" Blaineley asked. "Look, we'll tell the editors to montage those 3. We just need to make sure Cody is safe and see where things go with Cody and Mickey. Besides those two and their story has been bringing in the ratings for the TV show." Blaineley said, as Chef looked like he understood but he wasn't happy about the situation at all, especially since Cody was someone he could tolerate of the contestants.
End Of Challenge Montage
The montage started with Sierra, as she walked up to the desk and all that could be heard was Sierra saying, "Courtney you are an uptight shrew." Sierra said.
Courtney was shown leaping across the service desk, tackling Sierra "You bitch!" Courtney yelled out as Soctt watched in concern, as security was shown arriving on scene.
Sierra's montage continued with Gwen and Kitty throwing her stuff in her room, with neither showing much care as both hated Sierra, Gwen hated Sierra for being weird while Kitty hated Sierra due to the whole Cody situation, "Oops." Both said without a care in the world.
"My self made Cody action figure, no!" Sierra cried out, as her montage ended.
Emma's montage had her show up to the service desk with now no Courtney in sight, and then the camera faded to her talking with Gwen and Kitty, "Chase is so awful, if I have to be forever single I will do it if it means I never end up with him. Thanks for hiding his stuff." Emma said as all 3 were laughing.
The montage continued to the restaurant, as Zoey walked up to Emma, "Hey, sorry for voting you out in Newfoundland. I will let Heather know, you came."
"It's okay. Also thank Topher for cooking. He has a future in culinary arts, if this food is any indication." Emma explained, as her montage ended.
Ellla's montage showed her singing in the lobby as Scott covered his ears "I don't need to be hearing this." Scott grumbled.
Ella was shown hugging Gwen, "I am telling you, Gwen. There's no hard feelings. Can you just please protect Katie. She genuinely loves you as a friend." Ella said, as Gwen nodded.
In the restaurant Ella was shown talking with Zoey inaudibly while Anne Maria slammed the plate full of salad in front of her. "Annoying!" Anne Maria huffed in anger as she went outside for her last tanning break with her fake tanner.
Control Room
Blaineley was shown back in the control room, "Okay now let's see how things go with Cody and Mickey. This should be good!"
Outside Hotel Windows
Back outside, it was dawn, but the sun rising was the last thing on Cody's mind as he was dangling off of the platform 40 stories up in the air. "Mickey? Mickey! Mickey?!" Cody continued to shout out.
Mickey, who had been screaming due to the squeegee sounds, and windows being washed, had begun to calm down as both Team Victory and Style were done washing windows, "Cody, Cody, where are you?" Mickey asked.
"I am holding on for dear life!" Cody screamed out. "My grip is slipping!"
"Oh my god." Mickey said as he lunged across the platform for Cody, as Cody's grip slipped. "I've got you dude. I'm never letting go!" Mickey said. In a moment of pure adrenaline, Mickey who had tied his legs to the platform, managed to throw Cody back on and luckily the platform evened out as well. However when Mickey dragged Cody onto the platform, the two fell on top of each other, faces inches apart, and while now, they were both off of each other. The tension in the air was thick.
"Ugh, my hands are so numb right now." Cody complained, looking at how red his hands had gotten. "Today might have been one of the worst nights of my life."
"At least there's a nice sunrise this morning." Mickey said, trying to break as much tension as possible.
"Yeah but we got the worst assignment we could have. Look at this point if we lose I will take the fall for you." Cody said, as he looked away, but his tone was that of someone who was really annoyed.
"No you're not. You're not taking the fall for me. I could tell by your tone there. You're annoyed with me." Mickey accused.
"Excuse me?" Cody asked, in an incredulous tone.
"You just said we got the worst assignment and are blaming me for this whole situation. It's like you don't even want to be my friend anymore." Mickey said.
"It's not like that. Not at all." Cody said, trying to defend himself.
"It's not? Ever since Germany and the Amazon challenge, you and I don't spend any more time together. In Paris, you were stuck with Sierra, in Newfoundland you never asked me, how was it to hang out with Zoey? In Jamaica, you just wanted to spend all your time with Kitty. Heck when we were leaving Romania, you acted weird with me during the musical number!" Mickey accused.
"What are you talking about?" Cody asked, trying to make sense of Mickey's ramblings.
"I get that you and Kitty are dating, and I am, I'm happy for you. But I thought I was still your best friend." Mickey demanded.
"Mickey just stop buddy, I have always cared for you. You and I both know that." Cody said, trying to calm the situation down.
However Mickey ignored what Cody said, "I feel like I am losing my fucking mind!" Mickey said, almost screaming out.
Cody at this point had grabbed onto Mickey's shoulders and brought both of them to sit on the ground, while the sun continued to rise, "It's not like you to swear." Cody tried to say until Mickey all of a sudden flinched.
"Don't fucking touch me!" Mickey yelled out as he backed away from Cody, as if he was a monster now. Mickey took a deep breath before looking all around, "What the hell is wrong with me?" Mickey asked himself. "What did I do to you Cody so you now ignore me?" Mickey asked as he turned his whole body away from Cody.
Cody however, was now just fed up at this point. "What are you going on about right now? You are just freaking out even though we are safely up here. What's going on?"
"I can't do this anymore Cody." Mickey said, as he was still looking away from the person he thought was his best friend. "Sorry I am such a freak to you."
"You aren't a freak, but this panic attack and screaming is making me feel like I am just your babysitter. Especially since I am apparently the only one who can calm you down before any flight, so you're not screaming your head off. If it wasn't for me, you would have been kicked out of this team a long time ago." Cody said, as his anger was now growing too.
"Oh I am so sorry, that I am a burden to you, and so weak." Mickey yelled, still turned away.
"That's not what I said. I am just exhausted from today." Cody said, trying to calm himself down. "I haven't gotten to spend any time with my girlfriend today. Do you know how that feels?" Cody asked. "Wait no you don't because you've never had a girlfriend, yet probably want mine!" Cody yelled, rhetorically.
"Do you really want to know how I feel, about this, about you?" Mickey asked back, as he still looked out at the morning sky
Cody rolled his eyes, "Let me guess, you hate my fucking guts now. Because I never give you attention, and I told you something hurtful." Cody said sarcastically.
"No, this is how I feel." Mickey said, as he turned his whole body around to face Cody, and in one motion he kissed Cody on the lips, catching Cody off guard. Mickey had at that moment changed their friendship and dynamic forever. For Mickey this crush had been harboring since around the time in New York City. Mickey didn't ever want to admit it publicly, but the stress of today's challenge, and the fight he and Cody were having had finally broken him. He couldn't believe he was finally doing something he always wanted too, and in that moment, he was at his happiest, even despite the huge heights that should have kept him freaked out.
Cody was still caught off guard, but for him, he reciprocated the kiss, something he didn't understand why he was. The camera caught the kiss under the backdrop of the bright pink sky in the Dubai morning sky as both were lost in the moment. Cody however after 30 seconds had come to what he thought was his senses and pulled away after what felt like eternity. "I uh, I, you. I uh." Cody stuttered.
"I am sorry. I don't know what came over me." Mickey said, trying to make this situation better, as he felt like Cody was confused, and didn't want to make things worse.
"It's fine. It's fine. Well it isn't. But it can be. No one, and I mean no one, ever finds out about this kiss. Not Kitty, not Zoey, no one. I'm with Kitty, and you're close with Zoey." Cody tried to explain, but inside he felt like he wasn't convincing anyone including himself. "But we can still be friends, right?" Cody suggested
"Right?" Mickey awkwardly stated. "I am just so sorry. Must have been emotions. Where do we go from here?" Mickey asked.
"For now, can we just not talk? I have a lot to think about, and I am with Kitty. Not you. Is there any way at all we can try to be friends? Like we were before this kiss and awkwardness happened." Cody asked, back.
Mickey internally felt devastated, but he decided to please Cody and make him happy. "Yep we can be friends. This never happened. I won't tell anyone, and no one will have any idea since we did it so far up in the sky." Mickey awkwardly said. "Wanna head on down, I am sure we lost." Mickey said as he stood up and went to one of the levers.
"Yep, let's head down. We'll go at your pace." Cody said. Neither of them spoke a word the rest of the way down, as both knew their dynamic had forever changed, and wanting their bond to be a friendship like before was going to be impossible.
Confessional- Mickey
"Yep, I am gay. It's one of my biggest secrets I had coming into this game. Happy viewing world. I have known since I was about 10. But meeting Cody here kind of confirmed it. Not even my twin brother Jay knows about it, and he tells me everything. But I never had the guts to tell anyone. Now I fear the friendship between Cody and I could be done. I also probably look like the biggest idiot on television ever. The thing is, that's not the only secret I am still keeping from Cody."
Confessional- Cody
"This can't be happening. He liked me, as in wanted to kiss me? No Cody, he made an honest mistake. Besides I am straight, and like my parents say most guys are like me when it comes to dating. So Mickey probably is straight and just panicked. Yep that's it. There is no way that kiss meant something. It can't. Besides I will forget about that kiss and Mickey, him and his stupidly cute face." Cody said, unaware of what came out of his mouth at the last moment.
End Of Challenge
It was now the end of the challenge, as it was now 8am in the morning, as everyone was gathered outside the hotel who was still competing. "Congratulations to all 30 of you for the successful service, while the staff was out. Now is the time for the final scores, Team Victory you got 176 points out of a potential 250."
"Aw awesome dudes, we did great, I think." Geoff cheered.
"Team Style you guys got 155 points for your grand total, as Brick gave 41 total points."
"Oh Brick, I miss him so much." Jo stated, thinking of her closest ally.
"He misses you too." Jen said, as Jo smiled back at Jen for giving her the reassurance.
"Team Victory is safe tonight. Now Team Amazon Sadie and Chase gave you 44 points between both of them, so you need 111 between the last 3 people."
"That's 37 points per person." Harold said.
"Well ultimately you guys came up short. Sierra gave 17 points, Emma gave 30 points, and Ella gave 28 points. So Team Amazon you end the challenge at 119 points. You lost this morning."
Cody without even thinking stood up, and stepped forward, "I ruined the challenge for this team."
"What the hell is he doing?" Mickey asked himself in pure panic.
"If you are looking for someone to eliminate, eliminate me. I deserve it." Cody stated, as he turned back to his team.
"I am shocked he is doing this." Zoey said, as Topher nodded.
"He shouldn't give up so easily." Topher added.
"Hold on Cody, I am not done yet." Blaineley said, stepping back into the camera frame.
"What's going on?" Heather asked.
"Well due to Jasmine's medical evacuation back in Jamaica, we've been ahead of schedule for a couple rounds now, so we have been trying to decide when to implement a non-elimination, and with the amount of content with today's challenge. You guys provided enough for us today. So today is a reward challenge only!" Blaineley announced.
Everyone on all the teams cheered at this, as many felt relief, especially Team Amazon. On Team Victory Geoff immediately went to hug Bridgette "I am so happy, ow!" Geoff said before setting Bridgette back down.
"Uh Geoff, why is your chest completely red as a lobster?" Bridgette asked. Geoff had a sheepish grin on his face and whispered in her ear why. "What? You know, I'm proud of you for thinking outside the box today."
On Team Style, Jo was less enthusiastic than many others, "It would have been nice to lose another competitor." Jo told Owen. "But hey, we didn't lose or win. Do you want to see a doctor about your skin right now, by the way."
Lastly on Team Amazon, Cody looked at his teammates awkwardly as he walked back to them. "I promise to bring my all for the next challenge guys. Today was a fluke, in a way."
"You better, you deserve to go home." Anne Maria rudely stated, taking pleasure that Cody messed up for the day in her mind.
"Anne Maria, back off." Topher said as he and Anne Maria walked away, while Zoey looked at him.
Cody however nudged Mickey closer to Zoey as Mickey fell in front of Zoey's feet, "Oh my gosh are you okay? Mickey? You okay? You look like you've been crying today, your face is redder than a tomato."
Mickey, who thought he saw Cody nudged him, was still in a whirlwind of emotions but decided to try and show a brave face for Zoey. "I'm fine, I promise."
Confessional- Owen
"Today was great. I mean I do have a giant bandage on my chest. But Noah and I are on the same page I think to get rid of Alejandro. Also Jo had a great day today. How can I not be happy?"
Confessional- Harold
"Now that I know of Millie's journal. I am so interested in finding out about it. But I need someone to help me take it, since Ezekiel isn't willing, and I am trying to make sure he is still on my good side."
Confessional- Zoey
"What is going on with Mickey? He looked more nervous than normal. The dude is always scared, but it wasn't fear this time he was feeling. It just felt like sadness. But what happened?"
Confessional- Topher
"I don't like this aggressive side Anne Maria is showing. She is painting such a target on her back, and it doesn't help either of us at all."
Confessional- Julia
"Well now Sky is suspicious of me. So, I am going to play even dirtier and leave this team in disarray. I have an idea that if I can manage, I should easily cruise into the Top 20 in this game, and no one will stop me, not even Sky. But the thing is, she isn't the target of my sabotage."
Confessional- Mickey
"I don't understand Cody. He doesn't want to talk to me after he kisses me back. but then he tries to sacrifice himself in the game for my mess up. So many mixed messages. I don't know." Mickey then began to cry in the confessional with his hands in his face.
End of Episode
Blaineley was shown standing outside the hotel with Chef, and just the camera crew "Next time someone will be sent packing. What will the fallout be from each team? Will Harold find Millie's journal, what is Julia planning? Lastly, what will become of Cody and Mickey. Find out next time on Total Drama World Race?" Blaineley said as the episode closed.
Elimination Order
48th- Lorenzo (Team Style, 15-1 vote, Episode 2)
47th- Laurie (Team Victory, 14-2 vote, Episode 2)
46th- Izzy (Team Style, 10-5 vote, Episode 3)
45th- Sadie (Team Amazon, 9-5-1-1 vote, Episode 4)
44th- Beth (Team Victory, 9-4-2 vote, Episode 5)
43rd- Dave (Team Style, 8-6 vote, Episode 6)
42nd- DJ (Team Victory, 7-6-1 vote, Episode 7)
41st- Chase (Team Amazon, 7-4-3-1 vote, Episode 8)
40th- Eva (Team Style, 7-3-3 vote, Episode 9)
39th- Cameron (Team Victory, 6-3-2-2 vote, Episode 10)
38th- Leshawna (Team Victory, 9-3 vote, Episode 11)
37th- Brick (Team Style, 8-3-1 vote, Episode 12)
36th- Sierra (Team Amazon, 13-1 vote, Episode 13)
35th- Emma (Team Amazon, 7-6 vote, Episode 14)
34th- Jasmine (Team Victory, Medevac, Episode 15)
33rd- Shawn (Team Victory, Quit, Episode 15)
32nd- Ella (Team Amazon, 6-4-2 vote, Episode 16)
31st- Justin (Team Style, 6-5 vote, Episode 17)
Votes
N/A
Author Notes
So thus ends the Dubai episode in what is probably going to be one of the biggest chapters of the whole story, which is ironic since no one has been eliminated.
This chapter was one that I knew was going to have to be very different and creative, as this episode in canon only has the tennis match, and window washing. Which neither were going to be able to be a full challenge with 30 people still in the game and 3 teams left. So I decided to look into the Burj Al Arab, and decided to have it be hotel work as the challenge.
Now instead of talking about the eliminated contestant. This time I will talk about why this was a non elim. With the twist I have planned for when the jumbo jet returns, I needed one of the chapters to just be a non-elim and set up future storylines. Because everyone left of the Final 30 still has some level of story left with them.
Having the eliminated contestants be the people judging, was for me such an obvious answer. However I could only do 5 since Team Amazon had 11 people still in.
This chapter was meant to start new plots (Harold's intrigue in the journal, Sky not trusting Julia, Heather maybe working with Katie and Jo, Tyler and Damien falling out) and continue other stories (Cody and Mickey's dynamic with Mickey now kissing Cody, Bowie's rivalry with Julia, Lindsay and Tyler's relationship with Millie trying to figure it out).
Next chapter we take our first visit to China, where the rules are thrown out for the challenge, as many unexpected duos have to work together, and the target is constantly shifting on the losing team, landing on a blindside that no one will see coming.
Until then, hope you enjoyed reading this. Please review/comment on this chapter, and story in general. I will be working on rewriting some past chapters (add some extra words and what people are thinking in some moments, fix grammar mistakes, make it look more presentable). So the first China chapter will be a little delayed, but the goal is to have it out by Thanksgiving (aka late November). But regardless, thank you if you have read it this far.