Total Drama: Across the Multiverse

by StaticShock01

Chris returns for yet another season in what may be the most insane one yet. 69 contestants! 9 winners from the previous seasons! 28 network picks! 28 audience picks! Which contestant will come out of this madness!(52/98 initial contestants remaining, 119/165 overall) UPDATE: The teams join the Time Patrol in fixing history across the multiverse!

64. Just a Regular Episode

A/N: Next stop in this multiversal trek: The Park! Where it's almost anything but peaceful lol

Reviews:

G-Man 2.0: Yep, at least he has that going for him. As for Skipper, apparently he, Hiruma and Miyuki all share the same personality type according to the personality database website(they're obviously not the same people but still, an interesting thing to learn, at least for me). Do with that information what you will lol.

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Teams:

Radical Rats

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

Storm Kings:

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

Wave Breakers:

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

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Eliminated:

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

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

163rd- Cameron(Storm Kings)- Total Drama

162nd- Duncan(Wave Breakers)- Total Drama

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

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

159th- Owen(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

158th- Zoey(Wave Breakers)-Total Drama

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

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

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

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

153rd-Priya(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

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

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

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

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

148th - Nimona(Wave Breakers)- Nimona

147th-Rocky Rickaby(Radical Rats)-Lackadaisy

146th-Huey Freeman(Storm Kings)-Boondocks

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

144th- Blaineley(Wave Breakers)-Total Drama

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

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

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

140th-Noah(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

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

138th-Dawn(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

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

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

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

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

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"Last time on Total Drama Across the Multiverse! Our next stop in this multiverse tour was Camp Kidney and Acorn Flats, located in Wisconson! And where previously appearing guys like Slinkman, Edward, Raj and Wilbert go to camp! All of whom are Bean Scouts from Camp Kidney by the way, just so you don't get confused. See Wilbert? I finally remembered. If you're watching this." (Chris had the list in his hand again because he forgot but was able to get away with it because the recap footage was showing during that time he pulled it out)

Footage of Slinkman and Scoutmaster Lumpus introducing themselves to the cast was shown.

"Also, fun fact if you missed it, at one point, one of our previous winners, Luz, was also a camper here for a bit. But enough talking about eliminated contestants. Let's talk about what our current ones felt about this place's food. The answer: Not happy. The definition of when you take organic too far, at the cost of well, everything that makes some food good. Guess I forgot to tell them McMuesli, another guest star….. in the worst cooks episode, was the chef at Camp Kidney. Oh well." Chris said before laughing. "They better be lucky Sebastian's there, because he pretty much saved breakfast for them."

Footage of the food being served was shown along with some of the other subpar parts around the camp was shown.

"Well, they had to have liked the challenges, right? Yeah. In the beginning. Was pretty normal, average camp stuff. Tug of war and canoeing. And then the third game, was when things got back to being really good. Pinecone sitting. And not from Camp Kidney. This was a game from Acorn Flats. You would have thought it would have been the other way around. Nope. A game idea that I'm impressed with. Challenging and painful, while still competitive. My type of game. Bravo Squirrel Scouts!"

Footage of the three aforementioned games along with the fourth game, of stopping Ms. Mucus was shown.

"As for who won, it was the Kings, winning the fourth game to break the three-way tie between the teams. By half an inch. Not an exaggeration. Leaving a displeased Rats in second and a team in the Wave Breakers to have to send someone home. That someone being Johnny. Thanks to the bright idea of Miyuki to get him motivated, AKA lie to him about Blaineley going to date him, he was able to lead his team to a win in the second game. And it looked like he was going to be an under the radar valuable player for his team again and survive. But nope. His team shut that down immediately, as much as it seemed like half of them didn't want to. But hey, when you're all over the place like he was, ranging from almost Dragonfly levels useless to miraculously underrated in wins and second place, you can't exactly blame them."

Footage of Johnny's elimination was shown.

"Well, at least I get to laugh at the fact that Blaineley has to deal with Johnny. So thanks on that Miyuki. Anyways, let's find out what today has in store, on this episode of Total….. Drama….. Across the Multiverse!"

*TD: ATM Intro II Plays*

Today's Challenge Inspirations:

Regular Show Episode: "High Score" with slight inspiration from others

Special Guests in Today's Episode(VAs for never before seen guests are in parenthesis):

Mordecai and Rigby(Regular Show)

Skips(Mark Hamill), Pops(Sam Marin), Benson(Sam Marin), Muscle Man(Sam Marin), Hi-Five Ghost(JG Quintel)

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"This is unbelievable!" Myron said. While it seemed like he was referring to a great discovery that he made, it wasn't. He was talking about the food he was given. Which was a veggie burger. Which seemed to be tame compared to the food they were served before. There was one problem though. There was way too much emphasis on the "veggie".

"Unbelievable is spot on." Hailey said, frowning at the meal. But was honestly disgusted at how it looked.

"You guys are complainin' when you didn't win. Get over it." Bobo said, passing by as he discarded his tray.

"We have a right to complain. Chris told us that he'd make up for the prize that we won in New York, and we get this?" Myron said.

"What are you guys talking about?" Courtney asked, sitting at their table with a way better looking veggie meal compared to theirs.

"This." Hailey gestured to the "burger".

"Well, to be fair, you got last place. Not much to complain about."

"Except again, as I had already stated before, Chris promised that this would be the episode that he'd make up for first place in the New York challenge. Does this look like 'making up' to you?" Myron asked.

"Looks like you got scammed. That's all I can really say."

"And unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about it." Hailey said before sighing.

"I'm sure Chris will have a great explanation why we have this." Myron said sarcastically.

*Confessional*

Myron(Wave Breakers):

"Not going to lie, I can understand the stance of 'win to avoid putting yourself in that predicament in the first place'. But at the same time, I had my sights set on that food!"

*End Confessional*

"Hey guys, I think I figured it out." Randy said at his table as he put away his phone, with him and other teammates also expressing their displeasure over the shockingly horrible food.

"Figured out what? How to get those unreleased Dragon Dynasty prototypes?" Toxsa asked.

"What?"

"That was sarcastic. Well, okay, maybe half-sarcastic but still, we're not mind readers man. Be specific."

"I figured out, why this supposed 'good food' sucks. It's because it's Chef McMuesli's food."

"Ah. So you used pictures of the food from last episode. Pretty smart." Hanamiya said.

"Uh no. I was just checking the time. I just recognize it from the smell."

"Smell? You actually smelled this?"

"Look, just know that the 'good food' that we got from somewhere else was the food from there."

"Yeah, good to know."

*Confessional*

Hanamiya(Wave Breakers):

"I don't know about you, but I wouldn't just smell something that I can see doesn't look to be in good shape. Some weird people here…."

*End Confessional*

Soon, word of this got around, and unsurprisingly, several people were still unhappy about the explanation.

But until the start of the challenge where they could ask Chris about it, the topics were changed. And for a few of the tables, yesterday's elimination was the main topic.

"So you finally got rid of him huh?" Yulaw asked Mr. Wolf, Urien, Dwayne, Reagan and Ryoma, referring to Johnny.

"I wouldn't say 'got rid of him'. That's a bit too strong." Reagan said.

"I get what you mean. And what he means. Not a better way to reword it to be honest. Someone had to go." Dwayne said frankly.

"I know that, but still. Let's not make it seem like we just 'dumped him'."

"Reagan, everyone but Johnny himself voted for him. Which means everyone, yourself included, like it or not, thought pretty much the same thing about him." Mr. Wolf said, also in a frank tone.

"I know that too. Is it a bad thing to say that this was one of the eliminations that I hated?"

"Yes." Urien said.

"Not really. I can understand why. But still, it's just like Dwayne said, someone had to go. And be honest, if it was you that was in danger of leaving along with him, I don't think you'd be feeling as bad as you are now." Rally said. "He may have been annoying with some of his flirting but it was pretty harmless. Compared to Haizaki and Aomine."

"I can understand the former, at least when he was doing it, but the latter? He's never really flirted with anyone here." Reagan said.

"In Aomine's case, he's just a pervert more than anything else. But, give him credit though. He hasn't really been showing it all that often lately. If you just looked at solely those episodes, you'd think he wasn't one."

"That's what we call a 'covert pervert'."

"Speaking of which, I wonder how much he has improved since his training with Weiss." Ryoma said, hand on his chin to match.

"Knowing how this show's been with challenges, we'll find out sooner or later." Rally said. "And how about you? You've been, for the most part, pretty silent. How's things been with your master?"

"I can't say. I haven't seen him in a while."

"What happened?" She asked, now concerned.

"Nothing. I can tell you're concerned. But don't be. I haven't seen him in a while because I am still on my journey to become stronger."

"And that journey brought you here. With all of us. For a second time too." Mr. Wolf said.

"Funny how things work out huh? All of us deciding to come here, for money, to get stronger, make friends, list goes on." Reagan said.

"But at the end of it, only one person's gonna walk away with the win. I know that looks to be a long time away, but we'll be talking about how quick everything felt when the time comes. At least some of us." Rally said.

"And that winner will be me." Urien said.

"That'll be the day you keep your anger in check completely." Yulaw said.

"Make any scenario you want, nothing is going to change what'll happen when that time comes."

"Can't make a scenario that doesn't exist."

"You were a lot more tolerable when you weren't being a smart alec."

"Over thirty are already gone. I don't plan on being on that list anytime soon." Kurt said.

"Neither do I." Dwayne said.

"That, is something that every person that's left, no matter what they say out loud, can agree on." Mr. Wolf said as there was a silence at the table, with all of them knowing that when the challenge comes around, and whenever the teams split apart for the merge, none of them are going to be friendly with one another like they are now.

"Maybe it waa a good thing that Johnny got eliminated. Things are only going to get harder to try to stay afloat around here. I know others have said it already but anything could happen to get you booted. I'd hate for that to happen to Johnny. Or really, anyone here." Eliza said, attempting to change the subject to reduce any type of tension. Though what she said about not wanting something bad happening to Johnny or anyone here was a lie. In truth, she could care less.

"I guess that's one way to look at it." Mr. Wolf said.

"Regardless of how you look at it, he's gone. We will move on without him." Urien said.

At another table….

"Honestly though, he did his job. You can't take away the games he's helped us win or stay out of elimination from him." Miyuki said.

"Of course you'd say that when you motivated him to help us have a chance at winning last challenge. Even if it was a lie." Fiona said.

"No, I mean it. Even if it's a 'small' or 'boring' role, it's still a role. You've been racing on a team for how long and you don't know this. I'd say it's a miracle you haven't been kicked out yet but then I remember who's leading."

"You want to take a shot at Kaz, fine. But come on, do you really think I'm just gonna let you get away with insulting me!?"

"Well, you just did."

"You're lucky I can't zap you."

"And the fact that with how you guys look, you need me."

He was suddenly sent off his chair with a burst of water.

"You're welcome." Noelle said to her from another table.

"About time someone did that to him." Lucy commented at yet another table. Only Rex was at this particular table.

"Eh. Not gonna really change anything. He finds it funny when anyone reacts like that." Rex said.

"Just let me feel some type of gratification for this. Even if it's for five minutes."

"Whatever floats your boat. But if you want real satisfaction, just get him eliminated. I know that's easier said than done but yeah."

"I know. But whenever it does happen, it will be satisfying I'll admit."

*Confessional*

Rex(Storm Kings):

"Everyone's got a plan until they're punched in the mouth. Honestly, I could care less about him or Hiruma. Not because I don't take them seriously. But because I know worrying about them is only gonna get me into trouble. And with how this show works, you don't have much room to make mistakes. You do, and the next thing you know, you're gonna be the next person everyone's waving goodbye at. The way I see it, all I and Bobo have to do is do our thing when we're called on, stay out of the in-fighting, have fun and we'll be good."

*End Confessional*

"Wow. This is really good." Molly said, impressed at the drawing that Ayame was currently drawing. It was a picture of Rally, Urien and all of the others at the table they were currently sitting at.

"Yep. Just need to color everything in now." Ayame said, adding some finishing touches to the drawing.

"I've got a challenge for her. Make a drawing of everyone that has ever competed here and fit it all in one picture." Scratch said.

"I'll do that eventually. But I need to see how everyone looks first. Which means all the late additions need to have shown up." Ayame said.

"Ha! Good luck with that one kid."

"I mean, all I would have to do is get larger paper if need be."

"Forget larger paper. With all these people here that you've gotta draw, you're gonna end up going insane eventually."

"Not really. That's only if I tried drawing everyone in a single day. Which I'm not going to do."

"Fair. Darn it! I should have added that in!"

"Scratch, you do realize this type of thing is supposed to be fun, right?" Molly asked.

"Yeah. That's why I wanted to try to make it as 'un-fun' as possible. See how tough she really is."

"As if I'd be insane to accept something like that." Ayame said. "You must think I was born yesterday."

"In other words, Asta, Eijun and Kaz."

"A bit of an exaggeration but yeah."

"And, done! Go ahead guys! Tell me what you think." Libby said, putting down her pencil and handing the paper to Molly before Scratch took it and eyeballed it.

"0 out of 10. Not enough violence." Scratch said, handing the paper back.

"The story isn't supposed to be violent." Libby said in a deadpan tone.

"What? Then what is it even supposed to be about?"

"Well, here's the cover. For the summary." She said, handing him the cover of the book.

"That was rhetorical. But alright, I guess I'll be a nice guy and humor you. Just this one time!" Scratch said before looking at the cover. It had a picture of someone being on an island by themselves. Except a house was there as well.

"Home." Scratch read the title. "Points for simplicity. But uh, what's the story about? Our team being sent home one by one?"

"No. It's about someone being stranded on an island by themselves. And how they traverse the challenges of being alone."

"Alone? Then why the heck is there a house there?"

"That's the only thing they have in their possession while on the island."

"Is there at least TV?"

"Yes, and internet. But I'm still trying to see how I can rework that to make it make sense. Lotte pointed out that there was a plot hole about him potentially contacting for help to reach him on the island."

"Maybe remove access to the internet? If he's on an island, maybe say he's too far away to receive a reception." Molly proposed.

"Yeah. Internet on an isolated island? Super realistic." Scratch said sarcastically.

"To be fair, you're a talking ghost. And you asked about TV." Libby said.

"Eh, different situation. Also, that last part's entirely fair. Didn't think about that."

"But anyways, I really don't want to remove the internet aspect. The theme won't really be the same."

"What theme are you going for?" Molly asked.

"It's supposed to explore the different effects of isolation and lack of social interaction on someone's mental health. Where even with access to the internet, it still doesn't feel the same as face-to-face interaction. Home is supposed to be a safe haven for you to rest and relax in. But what happens when you go outside and realize that no one's there? There's no one to go. No one to talk to." Libby explained.

"Hmm, you've got this pretty thought out. I can see why you'd want to keep the internet aspect in then."

"Pretty ironic that you of all people are writing a story like this." Scratch said.

"I guess. But it's not supposed to be an attack on introverts. Even in the case of most introverts, there's always the option to go outside, bask in the peace and quiet of nature. What if that's taken away from you? You never really think about those simple little things until they're taken away from you. That's something that I want to explore with this story." Libby said.

"Oh yeah, I get what you mean. Like how when we had to stay in that mansion. Before there was TV."

"That could also count as an example too."

"I was already interested before since, well, it's your writing, but I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what you have in store now after hearing all of this. So, may I take a look at what you've written so far?" Molly asked her.

"Sure. Go right on ahead!" This time, she was able to pass the paper to Molly without Scratch or anyone else taking it. "I want to pass this to on to Lotte to see what she thinks too when you're finished."

"Speaking of Lotte, anyone notice how she's been with Morty recently? And often?" Scratch said.

"Scratch, you've gotta remember that there's other people here too. And the fact that she's on another team. She can't just spend all her team with Libby. Or Diego. Good on her for making more friends." Molly said.

"Well duh! I mean like anytime she's with him it's almost always just them. She shares food with him too."

"She shares food with other people too." Libby said.

"Yes I know that too!" Scratch said before facepalming in frustration. "Do I have to spell it out for you people!?"

"What?"

"I think Lotte and Morty might be…. you know!"

"Is there any reason for you to be subtle about it? They clearly don't get it." Ayame said, shaking her head as she stopped coloring. She lowered her voice before saying, "Scratch thinks Lotte likes Morty. As in more than friends."

Both Libby and Molly gasped.

"How the heck did Ayame get that before you guys did?" Scratch said, still holding his head in confusion.

"I wonder what their ship name should be?" Molly wondered.

"Lorty? Motte?" Libby proposed.

"Let's just hope our good ol' friend Rick doesn't screw it over. Because I don't even think the kid knows he's won her over. Look at her! She's making cookies for him! Cookies!" Scratch said.

"How many of these did you pack?" Morty asked, after eating one of the Finnish cookies that she personally baked.

"Um, a little over a dozen." Lotte answered. "How was it?"

"Really good." He looked as if he wanted to reach for another one.

"A whole container of them? That seems pretty extreme." Molly said skeptically. "Are you sure you're not jealous that she didn't give you one?"

Scratch gasped, offended. "Molly, how dare you assume that! One of the friends of one of your friends is going through something and you make this about me? For shame!"

"Yeah, he definitely wanted a cookie." Libby said.

"So what if I do? How are you guys not upset too? You mean she brings all of those cookies and she only shares them with a boy? Is that how they run things where they're from?"

She was then seen giving cookies to Akko, Sucy and Murasakibara.

"You were saying?" Ayame said to Scratch.

"That doesn't prove anything! And aren't you supposed to be finishing a drawing?"

"A little hard to do that when someone is ranting about cookies."

"Please. You don't need focus to color."

"Maybe if you're casually doing it. But I need to color neatly."

"Then move to another table then! Anyways, as I was saying, three people doesn't prove anything. He probably told her to do it."

She was then seen giving cookies to Kagami and Sebastian, asking for their opinions on it for what she can improve on. And then Diego. And Mamori, Kurita and Diana. Although Diana initially wanted to decline, she didn't want to be rude and took the cookie.

"Pretty good. Although, I'm not that much of an expert on the bakery and desert side of things. If anything, that's my brother's forte." Kagami said to her.

"That's okay. Thank you anyway!" Lotte said.

"Not bad at all miss Jansson. To be honest, I was expecting them to be crunchier than this. No offense to you. Slightly overbaking is a common minor mistake that I've seen. But one you seem to have evaded." Sebastian said, with Lotte having a joyful, wide-mouthed grin after hearing this praise.

"Thank you!"

"Any time."

"Eh. Crunchy cookies aren't that bad." Kagami said to him.

"If done properly."

"True. But still, good food is good food you know?"

"Yes. I suppose that's one way to look at it."

"What? Did I say something wrong?"

"What did I say to make you assume that?"

"I don't know. You kinda had that look along with the way you said it."

"I assure you that there was no underlying intent on what I said, or how I looked. I apologize if it seemed that way."

"Right. Sorry."

The three girls looked back at Scratch.

"Still doesn't prove anything."

She then made her way over to where the four were.

"Hi Libby! Molly! I made some cookies. Do you guys want to try one?" Lotte offered.

"Sure!" Molly and Libby said simultaneously before getting one.

Scratch folded his arms and looked away as if he was ignoring her.

"How about you Scratch. Want one?"

He opened one eye and looked back before taking a few seconds and ultimately deciding to take one. "Fine! But only because you asked." She hands him a cookie out of the container. After taking it, he eats it.

"You know what? You've won me over. I can't even lie and say it's alright like I was originally going to. That's how much of a disservice it'd be." Scratch said.

"Glad you like it." Lotte said, smiling.

"Who knows, I may have liked it better if you would have came over here first."

"Sorry. I wanted to make sure Akko and Sucy got one. And some of my teammates. Especially Murasakibara. He seemed pretty upset a few days ago that we didn't win."

"And don't forget Morty. You sure let him have his way with the cookies didn't you?"

"What are you talking about? He only-"

"ATTENTION CONTESTANTS! IF YOU'RE NOT ALREADY, GET YOUR BUTTS OUTSIDE PRONTO!" Chris called out via megaphone, causing several people to cover their ears, upset after he had finished, with them all leaving. Libby, Ayame and Molly all left Scratch behind.

*Confessional*

Lotte(Radical Rats):

"The cookies actually weren't my idea. My mom thought it would be nice to give something to some of my teammates, friends, and anyone else that may have wanted one. My only regret is not being able to bake more to share with everyone,seeing that a lot of people liked them. Murasakibara even gave me pointers too. Which makes sense. He was a judge in the cooking challenge after all."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Kagami(Radical Rats):

"Yeah. Himuro's just as great of a cook too. But in his case, he's a lot messier. You couldn't see it because we were in the kitchen, but I'll be the first to say that he's not the neatest person when it comes to that. If he was a little better at that, he wouldn't have as much to clean up every time he gets in the kitchen."

*End Confessional*

"Alright, I think I've given you plenty enough time to be to yourselves. And now it's time for the next stop, and your next challenge!" Chris said.

"Excuse me, Chris?" Lotte started.

"What's up?"

"I have cookies left over. Would you all like to try one?"

Chris was surprised. "Wait, you serious?"

"Just take the cookie dummy!" Scratch said.

"Yes!" Lotte insisted.

"Okay. Sure, I'll take one. Thanks." Chris said before he, Chef, Doyle and Heloise got the remaining four cookies left.

"You honestly don't even deserve that." Noelle said.

"Don't see why I don't deserve one." Chris said before starting to eat it.

"Well for one, it's because of what you did today. Before we go anywhere, you've got some explaining to do Chris. What the hell was that we were just served?" Kageyama asked.

"Yeah, I thought you said we were getting good food today?" Hinata added. "I was really looking forward to that good meal." He said in hungry agony.

"Gotta agree with these two. Once, fine, I could care less. But twice? When people were looking forward to it? That's annoying." Tsukishima said.

"Considering you let Sucy use your food for her weird voodoo stuff, it doesn't seem like you cared." Kageyama said.

"It's not like you can eat it. At least it gets some use in some way."

"Hey, one man's trash is another man's treasure." Diego said, shrugging. "But anyways, back on topic, not a cool move Chris."

"And it's potions, not voodoo. Idiot." Aomine said.

"Who are you calling an idiot, idiot!?"

"Ohhhh that. Yeah, take that up with the source, not me." Chris said.

"No, we're taking it up with you. You were the one that chose to give us the source!" Fiona said.

"You got what I promised you. So it's not like you can say I lied."

"By using technicalities to do it. You conveniently left out where the food was coming from and made that ambiguous." Hailey said. "But I'm over it now. Not like there's anything else we can do. Where are we going now?"

"Follow me and we'll find out. Let's go!" Chris exclaimed, opening a portal to their next destination.

*Confessional*

Dwayne(Wave Breakers):

"Yeah, I can feel why everyone would be disappointed. But, we're just gonna have to win to guarantee we get good food this time. Besides, after what happened last challenge, I'm itchin' to get back a win."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Fiona(Wave Breakers):

"Lotte is way too nice. If it was me, he wouldn't be getting anything."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Sucy(Radical Rats):

"You know, at one point, I did have a voodoo doll. But they didn't need to know that. Let them fight. Sometimes, it can be pretty entertaining. Sometimes."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Chris:

"Again, I didn't lie to them with what I promised them. In this case, this would classify more as misleading. Anyways, the minute I saw Lotte passing out cookies was the second I had to shut it down. Things were starting to get way too positive. Although….. I gotta agree with Morty. She's definitely got it when it comes to cooking. At least from what I tasted of her cookies."

*End Confessional*

The Park(Regular Show)

Everyone began to gradually appear from the portal. The surroundings looked to have been simply a field of grass with trees, pathways and a few lamp posts. A large blue and white house was to the right of them.

Seven figures were seen. The first was someone that resembled a gumball machine. The second was a yeti with large muscles and abs, small hands and jeans. The third was an overweight green man with shoulder-length, greenish-brown hair and wore a long-sleeved grayish-blue shirt, dark gray pants and black shoes. The fourth was a ghost that had resembled the ones from the Pacman games, but in his case, also had a small arm and left hand sticking out from the top of his head.

The fifth was a pale-skinned, pink lollipop head-shaped man that had a body and limbs that were all thin. Although his head, as described before with the lollipop appearance, was abnormally large and he also had a handlebar mustache. He wore an always buttoned-up black vest over an off-white dress shirt with long sleeves, lighter gray pants and dress shoes that matched his vest along with a black top hat.

The sixth and seventh were a blue jay and a brown raccoon respectively.

"Mordecai and Rigby?" Ryoma said, one of the few to recognize the pair.

"Hey guys. Good to see you again." Mordecai, the blue jay said.

"Yeah. And this time, I'm not getting punched for a list." Rigby, the raccoon said.

"Good afternoon Chris. Chef. Doyle and Heloise. And to all of you. Glad you could make it. And we're really excited to have you all here for today. I know some of you may have recognized me and some of the others from our short time on the talent show from one of the island seasons, but if you don't, my name is Benson. This is Pops."

"Hello!" Pops, the man with the large lollipop head exclaimed, waving as he did.

"This is Skips."

"How's it goin'?" Skips, the yeti said.

"Muscle Man."

"Sup bros. Hope you're ready for a good time today. You know who else knows how to have a good time?" Muscle Man, the man with green skin asked.

"Who?" Scott asked.

"My mom!"

"Hi-Five Ghost." Benson continued.

"Hey guys." The ghost said.

"And finally, as even more of you may recognize due to them actually competing in a season, Mordecai and Rigby."

"Yeah. You newbies better respect your elders." Rigby said, arms folded as he looked at some of the completely new faces. "Like you! You got another soda?" He asked Zee.

"Actually, Zee's been on a season before." Chris corrected.

"Well I haven't heard of it. Still, you got another soda on you man?"

"Nope. Sorry." Zee said.

"Aw man."

"We'd all like to officially welcome you to the Park, the place where we all work, and take care of. I understand that your time is valuable so I won't waste your time with anything trivial that isn't pertinent to the challenge today. So, without further ado, let's get started. But if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask." Benson said. "Skips also decided to build a confessional outhouse for you all to use today. Nothing much to say other than use it just like how you would any other episode."

The outhouse was blue with a black top. And it looked a lot nicer and better put-together compared to the one that was normally used and brought from location to location.

"Huh. Well, Heloise, you can bring that confessional back." Chris said.

"You mean, they can bring the confessional back." Heloise said, referring to Doyle, Chef and the robots that she built to do hard labor that she couldn't do herself.

"That tells us all we need to know about it being Chris' idea to do it. That looks really nice. Thanks a lot Skips." Rally said with others being behind her to show their gratitude as well.

"Any time guys." Skips said.

*Confessional*

Lucy(Radical Rats):

"Wow. An outhouse that's built and actually is nice to be in? No flies just randomly flying around? This just shows that Skips actually put effort into building it to make it nice. Unlike Chris."

*End Confessional*

The cast along with the Park crew made their way through the Park as they headed to the first area for their challenge for today.

"So this is where you two work huh?" Ben said aloud to Mordecai and Rigby.

"What? You think our job is lame or somethin'? Well guess what buddy, not everyone gets to do cool jobs like what you do. Or heck, even what Rally does. Somebody's got to do the lame jobs. And unfortunately, we got stuck with the lame ones." Mordecai promptly hit him in the arm for that last remark.

"One, I wasn't even saying that. Two, do you really think it's smart to say something like that in front of your boss?"

"What? Benson has threatened to fire us like multiple times. And nothing happened."

"Except the times that it did. Now, if you're willing to test it out so they can see for themselves…." Benson started.

"No! No! I'm good."

"There ain't nothin' wrong with working an honest job. You gotta start somewhere." Sendo said.

"Even if you hate it?" Aomine countered.

"Not every job is going to be an enjoyable one. But, it still pays. I don't understand why people would laugh at someone for simply working." Weiss said.

"Because people are stupid, that's why." Becky F. said.

"That's probably because you've never had to actually work." Aomine said to Weiss.

"He got you there." Blake said.

"Even so, is what I'm saying wrong? Aomine, what jobs have you worked?"

"Uh…." Aomine started.

"I think we've already gone over this before. I don't think he's ever worked." Kise said.

"Shut it blondie."

"If you've never worked, you don't have a right to criticize me." Weiss said to Aomine.

"So I've never worked. I've been okay so far."

"And you've also had to ask people for money. Don't you think it would feel nice to not have to worry about doing something like that? You can pay for it yourself?"

"She's right about that. There's nothing that feels better than seeing that paycheck, knowing you worked for it." Mordecai said.

"And then there's Reimu who works and still doesn't get anything." Rigby joked before getting whacked on the head by her.

"And there's you that's asking to get hit more making comments like that." Becky F. said.

"Wait, how does that even work? Even Rei tells me she gets paid." Kagami said.

"Rei doesn't have to worry about others competing with her. Not to mention her role is a little different than mine when it comes to that." Reimu answered. "And also, the last time we went against each other you couldn't land a single hit against me, doing the same move over and over again expecting it to work."

"What the hell are you talking about? We never-"

"I was talking to Rigby."

"Yeah, so? It was my strongest move. What do you want me to do, not use it?" Rigby said.

"You know, with some of you being recognizable faces, it's strange that you two chose not to join them." Pops said, referring to Mordecai and Rigby.

"Yeah, that's because they knew they were gonna lose again." Muscle Man taunted.

"We didn't see you enter!" Rigby shot back.

"Yeah man. Not gonna lie, you don't exactly have a leg to stand on to talk about us when you never even competed." Mordecai said.

"Honestly, competing sounds fun." Hi-Five Ghost said.

"How would you competing even work though? You're a ghost." Morty asked.

"And so am I! Your point?" Scratch said.

"With how resourceful a lot of people are here, I'm sure someone could make it work if it doesn't." Hanamiya said.

"Seriously though, why didn't you guys decide to come back?" Ruby asked. "Just curious."

"Honestly? I kinda forgot to sign up." Mordecai said.

"Yeah, I was waiting for you to make up some dumb excuse or lie." Rigby said.

"Dude, I told you you could have signed up by yourself."

"And I told you I wasn't about to do this without my bro!"

"And now look, you missed out on an opportunity to win that type of money. Was it even worth it? And while you're trying to clown me on forgetting, you willingly signed up and dropped out when I said I forgot."

"Wow man. You are stupid. There's literally no other way I can describe what I just heard." Louie said.

"Shut up! I told you to respect your elders kid!"

"You're not even that taller than me. And be honest, everyone that just heard that. Was that not a terrible decision?"

"That was a bad decision. Especially with Mordecai telling you you could have gone by yourself. It's not the end of the world if you don't get to compete with friends. Just ask some of the loners here." Rally said.

"But you have to admit, it's a lot more fun." May said.

"Even so, with this type of money on the line? I'd do this myself if I had to." Lucy said.

"And then you'd take all the money for yourself." Happy remarked.

"I'd share. Some of it. The same way I'm willing to show now if we win."

"And then within a week, it'll be all gone." Miyuki said.

"So? It's my money. You wouldn't like me telling you what to do with your money."

"No one would have to because I know how to make sure that doesn't happen."

"So now you're saying I don't know how to manage money properly!? You are something else you know that?"

"To be fair, you're always talking about how you need to pay for your place." Natsu said.

"That's not even the same thing."

"And why exactly are you always talking about it?" Miyuki said before being immediately punched in the face, causing him to fall to the ground and was knocked out.

"Goddamn." Aomine remarked.

"You'll pay for that!" Eijun declared.

"Relax, I didn't kill him. I just did something that I wanted to do for a while but couldn't." Lucy said.

"Well deserved I might add. Pocket watching when you don't even own or have the ability to pay for the place you stay is insane." Becky F. said.

"Everyone, please calm yourselves and let's have a least a bit of civility. We're about to arrive to the first site of the challenge." Benson said.

*Confessional*

Lucy(Radical Rats):

"Look, I may get mad at some of the things he says. But that was it. He'll understand when he gets his own place to pay for."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Rally(Radical Rats):

"I understand being upset at that. Maybe not punch upset though. I'd save that for the challenge. As someone that works to keep the house that I have, someone that doesn't own anything like that under their name isn't exactly in the right to say something like that."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Mr. Wolf(Wave Breakers):

"Not gonna lie, that was bound to happen sooner or later. There's only so much of that talking that people are gonna take before it goes too far. But the way he probably sees it, is that now he knows he can get under her skin. Whether that plays a part in any challenge remains to be seen."

*End Confessional*

Everyone had arrived at the first area of the challenge.

"And we are here everyone!" Pops exclaimed.

The cast all awkwardly looked around. The only difference between where they were earlier and now(besides the house obviously), was that there were bushes along with the trees.

"There's nothing here." Yulaw said.

"Unless, it's invisible! Somebody use their infrared vision quick!" Toxsa said.

"Hmm, I don't see anything." Jenny said, after doing just that, looking around.

"I also do not see any additional heat signatures. What exactly is our game today?" Penny asked.

Pops ran to get some cases from out of the bushes. There were a total of six. Pops opened up one of them, revealing a butterfly net. "Here you are gentlemen! Now, who wants to play?"

"Uh Pops, you have to explain what the game first so they can know what to do with the nets." Mordecai said.

"Oh,you're right! My apologies. Now then, this is how this game will work. Two of you from each team will try to catch as many butterflies as you can in ten minutes. The team that catches the most wins! Any one of you could work. Just try to make sure it's someone that's good of course!"

"So where do we put the butterflies? I don't see any jars or anything." Sly asked.

"Oh, you are right! One moment." Pops said before getting ready to leave to get jars before he was stopped.

"No need. Could you get six jars? Try to make sure the tops have different colors." Chris asked Doyle.

"Sure thing." Doyle said before a portal was opened for him to get just that from out of the film lot.

Not long after, he returned with the six jars. "Alright, six color-coded jars." He said.

"Thank you!" Pops said.

"Any time." Doyle replied, giving a thumbs up.

"Alright, you heard Pops. Go ahead and pick who's gonna play." Chris said.

"If there's no limits on who we can pick, then let's pick our fastest guys." Axl said to his team.

"Not a bad idea. But we should also make sure they don't drop the jar and lose them." Lanolin said. "Yulaw, do you think you can-" She stopped when he gave her a look, that said "Did you really just ask me that question?" Regardless, he still chose to do it.

"Sena or I could get this done pretty quick." Tangle said.

"You're right. You and the shrimp have speed, but the sheep is right. We can't afford to drop them. You'll get a chance to do something else." Hiruma said.

"You guys are making it seem like we're some unproven rookies. You should especially know what Sena can do when you're teammates with him on your football team."

"You aren't, and I know, which is exactly why you two are going to do something else."

"Okay, okay. But you guys better keep that promise. So if it's not us, who else do you have in mind?"

"Key girl or Merriam-Botsford, either one of you."

"Key girl? Who's that?" Bennett asked.

"I think he means me." Lucy said.

"Oh. Sounds about right."

"I could definitely just fly out of reach, but your spirits could be a big help too since it's extra hands." Becky B. said.

"Hmm…. you're right about the helping hands thing. But at the same time, knowing them, they're gonna accidentally destroy the jar and lose the butterflies. But also, there's others that can just fly after you." Lucy said.

"I should be able to handle something as simple as catching butterflies if you're worried about the jar." Blaze said.

"As long as you guys can take care of the jar, it doesn't really matter to me." Rally said.

"Firecat, go ahead!" Hiruma said.

"If the others are on board with it, then so am I." Lanolin said.

"Agreed." X said. The second he said something, a thought came to Mamori as Ruby was chosen. She relayed this to him, Hiruma, Lanolin and Rally via the hand signs that she and Hiruma created.

"Hmm….. You're right." Hiruma replied. "Change of plans." He said to the rest of the team.

"You can't take a jar that you can't touch." Bren reasoned as Reimu was chosen as their second rep for their challenge.

"Depends on how long she can hold that though. She's got to come back eventually." Bobo said.

"Long enough. I'll get a few and that's it. Ruby's going to be the one that needs to do the heavy lifting with her speed." Reimu said.

"Actually, I've got a suggestion." Sly said before gesturing them to come closer so he can whisper it to them.

"More than likely they're choosing those X to stop time on us. They're not just stacking the deck just because." Hanamiya said, looking at the other team's choices and referring to X as Eijun tried to shake Miyuki awake as he was still out. "The question is, why wouldn't they just do the same thing?"

"Forget them. We're taking the worst of it because we're gonna have to just deal with it. There is literally nothing we can do to stop it." Reagan said.

"Something's going to have to give though. We can't just keep letting that happen and give them free games." Hailey said.

"Exactly. I refuse to just lie down and surrender because of one ability." Bass said.

"We could always just get Shiro to turn into a wolf and freeze everybody." Zak proposed.

"And then the jars will be frozen too you moron." Tsukishima said.

"Okay, that's honestly a good point. For once."

"You act like me saying something sensible is something rare. I think you confused me with him." He said, thumbing to Kageyama.

"You just love pushing my buttons don't you?" Kageyama said.

"Forget the jars being frozen. After what happened before, we're not doing that period. That shouldn't ever be a consideration." Reagan said.

"Come on slowpokes! Hurry it up!" Chris called out to them.

"Alright! Alright! We're coming!"

"Zak actually didn't have a bad idea. Although Jenny would probably be a better fit for this than me." Shiro said.

"Wait, so you agree with turning into a wolf?" Zak asked.

"No. I meant the other part of the idea."

"Still-" Myron started.

"Forget the time stopping. Even if we lose, the least we can do is try." Gorem said, appearing out of ball form, already knowing what he was going to say.

The Scan2Go Racer sighed. "Fair enough. Good luck."

"Alright Chris, I think we have our two. Jenny and Bass, you're going to have to work together on this one." Reagan said.

"Don't slow me down." Bass said to Jenny.

"And you don't do anything rash trying to play hero. Now if we do this right, we might still be able to win. Just hear me out." Jenny said before whispering something into his ear. Before out of nowhere Miyuki began to whisper into her ear."Where the heck did you-"

She heard his proposal.

"No! We're not doing that!"

"If you want to win, you'll do it. There's no other option." Miyuki declared, a dead serious look on his face.

"Also, before we start, I'd like to add one rule to the game, if you don't mind Pops?" Chris started.

"Go right on ahead!" Pops exclaimed.

"Cool. So, we're going to keep the jars back here and hold onto them. Because I already know most if not all of you are either going to drop them, lose them or smash each others' jar to stop them from from contributing. And then, that's going to end up being a tie real quick. I'm sure we all hate ties, but a quick one where nothing happens is probably more annoying than one that just happens from playing. And no, you cannot destroy each other's jars from here either. Anyone that does voids their team's contributions. When you get butterflies, bring them back here."

"If that's the case, we don't have to worry about losing them. Let's go back to our original plan." X suggested.

"Ringtail! You'll get your chance after all it seems." Hiruma said.

"All right! I won't let you down! Promise!" Tangle exclaimed, while saluting.

*Confessional*

Jenny(Wave Breakers):

"Well, I guess that's one less thing we have to worry about. But still, I….. really don't want to but…. just this once! Then after that, we have to find other ways. I refuse to win games this way just because of one ability!"

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Yulaw(Radical Rats):

"Butterfly catching? This show just gets weirder with every episode it seems."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Mordecai:

"The fact that Pops didn't set any type of restrictions on what they could and couldn't do is going to lead to some insane stuff happening, I can already tell. I really don't think he thought about that when he came up with this game."

*End Confessional*

The six participants grabbed a net.

"Okay everyone, are you ready?" Pops asked. "On your marks, get set… GO!"

Everyone was off to the races. And by races, almost everyone going in completely separate directions, with Bass calling Treble to turn into Super Bass to fly.

"Why is Jenny even flying that far in the first place?" Axl said. "Considering we don't really know where to go, wouldn't it just be smart to just stay in one area?"

"She could just be trying to find a place to go without being interfered with. Which isn't a bad idea. If we would have had someone that could fly too, we could have been that interference." Kagami said.

"But that's also a double edged sword. While that could slow her down, at the same time, we're supposed to be collecting butterflies, not fighting. Especially if this is just for ten minutes." Lanolin said.

"True. Didn't think of that."

And that was exactly what the six did. Catch and collect butterflies, as fast as they could. Yulaw's speed and incredible acrobatics and jumping allowed him to catch several with ease and bring them back, with Tangle using her speed and her tail, using it to hold the net and catch butterflies as well.

Bass, flying, caught several of them quickly and with ease as well. Ruby seemed to have an easy time catching them as well. While Reimu and Jenny were pretty quiet. And it wasn't because they were having a hard time catching them, at least in the way it would seem. In fact, they weren't even in the Park anymore.

Several minutes passed and all four other participants had something when those two didn't.

"Jenny! What's taking so long? There's no way you're having a hard time with a game like this." Reagan asked, now communicating with her via earpiece.

"Sorry. I'm a little….. occupied at the moment." Jenny said before Reagan heard water in the background.

"Okay, I think I'll leave it there. Just, make sure you hurry and get back here alright?"

"Sure thing!" Jenny said before grunting. This was the last thing Reagan heard before ending communication.

"So, what's up?" Mr. Wolf asked her.

"Uh…. bathroom break."

"...What?"

"Just do what I did and leave it be."

"Alright."

"Wait, how can robots even do that anyway? Do they leak oil or….." Randy started.

"Dude, I don't want to hear about that." Toxsa said.

"Sorry. My bad."

*Confessional*

Toxsa(Wave Breakers):

"And I'm still thinking about it. Thanks a lot for putting that image in my head. And to whoever made her for going having way too much attention to detail. You don't see Penny, X, Bass, Zero and Axl with-" He stopped himself. "Okay, you know what? I'm just gonna stop there. Can we skip this mission, because I'd definitely like to."

*End Confessional*

In reality though, Jenny was not taking a "bathroom break". She was battling Reimu after being caught getting butterflies from a zoo. The latter was going to expose her for supposedly "cheating" while the former refused to allow that to happen and was willing to knock her out if she had to to prevent it as she had already destroyed the binocucom she had to take the picture.

"Let's say you were to get back and say I was cheating. Then what? You don't even have any butterflies of your own! So you don't win either! And another thing, considering how Pops wasn't specific on much of the rules at all-" Jenny started as they continued to fight(thankfully away from the public to avoid potentially hurting anyone).

"-Then who's to say it's cheating?" Reimu finished. "Then if you knew that, why resort to fighting me? Even if I have to agree that this game wasn't very thought out at all." She countered.

"If I just let you tell, there's a chance the same thing would happen."

"In other words, you put yourself in a bind that you didn't have to put yourself in just to try to get an easy win."

"Well, I don't think you'll fare any better. So good on you for trying to be Sherlock Holmes and follow me."

"Hey uh, you do realize you have two minutes right? Just a little friendly heads-up." Mr. Wolf said to Jenny.

"Crud! I've wasted so much time!" Jenny said before Reimu took advantage of this and sent her flying back, taking the large jar of butterflies that she had as well. "Hey!"

It was now a chase back with Jenny trying to take the butterflies back without breaking the jar and Reimu trying to keep it away from her.

"It probably would have been smarter to just get a larger jar initially." Ruby said as she brought back more butterflies to a slightly larger jar that was brought in.

"True. But, I don't think anyone thought that you guys would be back this fast that often." Doyle said.

"Everyone but Reimu and Jenny it seems. Where the heck are they?" Dwayne asked.

"Don't know. But they better be back here in the next 40 seconds or their contributions won't count." Chris said, looking at the countdown timer that was set as backup in case something happened with Pops' pocket watch that he was using to see how much time was left.

"Just goes to show that powers aren't everything."

"Yeah, but it's the fact that they can do that that made them pick those guys over you." Aomine said.

"Same can be applied to you too. Not fast enough it seems."

"Hey, I'm not gonna deny that. But even so, I know I can at least run circles around you."

"Just like my resume and body of work runs circles around yours. Multiple times."

"Uh huh. That's exactly why you're in the same employment status as me, right?"

"Least I know what it's like to be in the other statuses."

"Man, they are not holding back." Mordecai said to Rigby. Suddenly, several butterflies were seen flying as Reimu and Jenny were seen flying at a high speed not too far behind them as they tried to get as many as they could gather before quickly dropping down.

"Just in time. Three seconds left. And it probably would have still been too late if I made you put them in the jar too." Chris said as Reimu and Jenny were allowed to add them to their team's numbers.

"What even happened? We've been trying to reach you." Sly said to Reimu.

"Uh…." Jenny started.

"It was a fight over the butterflies." Reimu said quickly, showing the destroyed binocucom.

"Makes sense. Can't even catch butterflies without a physical fight starting." Fiona said.

"You're the last person to be talking about fighting. You'd actively participate in it. And then pretend you're too good and mature for fighting later." Miyuki said.

"Yeah, that sounds just like her." Myron said, laughing a little.

"Just keep it up with the laughing mister 'difference spotter'. And you just got knocked out. You'd think you'd stop." Fiona said, the first part to Myron and the second part to Miyuki.

"You're still not letting that go? People make mistakes."

"Guys, please." Diego said but was ignored.

"Yeah, one that was so big it sent Hanamiya of all people over the edge. And by the way, you're one to talk mister 'stick to the formation'. Remember that?" Fiona reminded Myron.

"I also remember you being the one constantly protesting when you had no ideas of your own rather than being a lone wolf!" Myron shot back.

"Hey Shiro, any clue on what they're arguing about?" Julie asked as the wolfgar was sitting down, cleaning his Wolver.

"Not at all honestly. And for their sake, I hope they figure it out."

"Don't you think you should be helping them then? You're their teammate after all.

"What difference would it make if I did? This is something they need to figure out. I'm not a babysitter."

"Unfortunately, I think Shiro may have a point. Telling them to stop is only a temporary solution. Whatever those two are going through, only they can resolve it. Her and Noelle resolving things should be more than enough evidence that it can be done." Gorem advised, appearing on her shoulder.

"Guys! Stop fighting like….. oh." Ayame started to yell, realizing what she was about to say and how ironic it would be for her to say it.

"Yes. So much irony." PEL said.

"So who won the game?" Shiro asked, seemingly ignoring everything else that was happening or had happened.

"I don't know. Probably the team with two jars worth of butterflies. And was about a third if they had time to go back." Chris said, referring to the two taller jars of butterflies that the Rats had catched compared to the other teams' one.

"That is a good bit of butterflies. I didn't even know that many could be around." Diego commented.

"Now that we've figured that out, can we set them free now?" Libby asked. "I'm not even the ones in the jar and it's making me anxious."

"Yeah." Chris said before they were opened and the butterflies were promptly set free.

"You all still did a marvelous job so don't be too down on yourselves! Now, who is presenting their game next? I can't wait to see what fun ideas you all have come up with!" Pops said.

"Wait, you mean you guys don't know already?" Doyle asked.

"Nope. We all wanted to try to come up with something without having to worry about what another person came up with. Less pressure, more ideas to play around with." Benson explained. "And now it's time I show you mine. Follow me." In this instance, they were actually leaving the park.

"Wait, we're leaving the park?" Hailey asked.

"Yep."

*Confessional*

Benson:

"Who said were just going to limit games to only being in the park? That would limit things way too much. And don't worry, this game isn't going to be anything crazy or outlandish. But it'll still be fun. And I think we'll still see that same competitive edge from some of the guys competing here."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Rigby:

"I bet Benson got something boring like playing cards or getting something from the store. Or, something disguised as work. You know how he is with getting work done around the park."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Reimu(Storm Kings):

"On one hand, I could have still tried to say that Jenny cheated. But with her destroying the binocucom it would have just been my word without any actual proof. But, knowing everyone here, someone would have questioned as to why I was there too. It may have not mattered now since we still didn't win anyway, but that would have potentially negated any contribution I could have given." She explained before shrugging. "At the very least, Jenny's team didn't win."

*End Confessional*

The contestants were brought into a bowling alley, with many of the patrons already there giving some of the stranger looking contestants giving them a couple of looks and nothing more than that. Probably due to the fact that the members of the Park have been there before so seeing some of them wasn't exactly anything new.

"Alright guys, your next game for today is gonna be bowling!" Benson exclaimed.

*Confessional*

Rigby:

"Okay I gotta admit, bowling's not that bad. But, it's a game we already did before so eh, not super original either. But he might not know that so I guess I can give him a pass."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Rally(Radical Rats):

"The last time we did this, the two people that absolutely dominated this game were Ippo and Homer. Those two might not be familiar to some of you, but if they are, then I'm sure you already know why' I said it was surprising. The question is if anyone here can do the same thing. And are they on this team?"

*End Confessional*

"I'm aware that some of you have not heard of or never played bowling before. So if you haven't, don't worry, I'll explain how it works. And do a demonstration set as an example." Benson began. "For starters, there are only going to be three sets. Meaning there will only be three of you from each team that will be able to get a chance at playing. Who plays is completely up to you. But other than that, here's how to play." Benson said before picking up a bowling ball.

"For starters, you're going to pick up a ball from a bowling rack. Since I'm bowling on this lane, I'm going to get a ball from this rack, not another one." Benson went to the rack that was closest to the lane he was on but didn't pick the ball up. "I know some of you are stronger than the average person, so you might not have to do this to even pick up the ball. However, even if that's the case, you still should follow this to avoid putting a hole in the wall, roof, or seriously hurting someone. Put your fingers and thumb in these three holes right here and then pick the ball up. If you've never picked up a bowling ball before, they may look light but they're actually heavier than you think so be prepared for that as well."

After picking the ball up, he looked forward at the pins ahead on his lane.

"See those pins? Those are what you need to knock down to score points. The more pins you get, the better your score. If you get all 10 on your first try, that's a strike. If you get them on your second, that's a spare. If you don't knock down all the pins on either try, don't worry, you'll still get points based on the number you knocked down. To knock them down, you'll roll the ball forward like so." Benson said before moving forward a bit and then rolling the ball afterwards. It rolled toward the lane and knocked down six pins.

"And that's it. Strikes are worth 10 points and the next two balls' scores are multiplied by two. Keep getting strikes in a row and this doubling carries over until your next non-strike. Spares just get a bonus of your next ball."

"Don't worry, if you're not a numbers person, that's what Heloise is for. She'll take care of the scoring." Chris said.

"And try not to take my head out while I'm doing it. If I get something wrong, I probably won't but still, let me know." Heloise said.

"Pfft, six pins, that's it? I could have done better than that." Rigby commented.

"After what you pulled the last time we did bowling, you don't need to be anywhere near a ball today." Mordecai said.

"He hurt someone didn't he?" Weiss asked.

"I'd rather not say and kill the mood."

"Understandable."

*Confessional*

Mordecai:

"If you're wondering what it was, me, Rigby, Benson, Skips, and later Pops for a bit, were on a bowling team named the 'Park Strikers'. We were doing pretty good and got all the way to the finals. If you think Ippo and Homer were good, those were two guys that competed on the season we were on, then Skips is even better. The guys that we went up against was a team called the magical elements, a team of, you guessed it, guys that could use magic, including Death. Rigby decided it would be a good idea to bet our souls for a bowling ball. A bowling ball! Yeah it was glowing and had souls in it but still, I'm not betting our souls for it! We were lucky that Skips decided to come back and help us win or we would have been toast. Permanently."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Rigby:

" 'I'd rather not say and kill the mood'. Then why even bring it up in the first place? And besides, what does it matter? We're fine so why not tell them? And no, I'm not saying anything. Mordecai was the one that brought it up so he should."

*End Confessional*

"Okay everyone, any questions?" Benson asked.

"Can we get a practice run, just so we can have an idea of how they feel?" Noelle asked.

"That's not a bad idea, but that's up to Chris."

"Eh….. yeah. I guess. Five minutes." Chris decided.

"All right. You heard him. You've got five minutes."

"Okay, who has never played bowling before?" Isagi asked.

Multiple hands were raised. Surprisingly a lot more than he thought.

"Okay. Who has never heard of bowling before this?"

Some of those same hands were raised, but not as many as before.

"Okay, you guys are probably the ones that need the practice the most."

"And what about the rest of us? We just don't get to practice?" Kagami asked.

"To be fair, you've played basketball. And you at least know what bowling is. It's just way too many people to try to give everyone time."

"So we should just give the practice time to the people that need it. A good idea." Lucy said.

"Let's just have each team use one lane. That way no one's fighting over a turn." Hailey said.

"People are probably still going to do that anyway." Toxsa said.

"No way. At least not this time."

"Whatever you say."

"Okay, Noelle gets a turn first."

"Why the heck does Noelle get to have a go at it first?" Kaz asked.

"Because she was the one that brought up the idea of practice. Guys, please don't start with the complaining already."

"That wasn't complaining. It was just a question."

"That definitely sounded like you were whining." Myron said.

"No it wasn't!"

"I told you." Toxsa said to Hailey, with the latter only sighing and grabbing her forehead before a large thud was heard. They turned and saw that the source was Happy, who tried to pick up a bowling ball and couldn't.

"Why the hell would you give Happy a ball!?" Rally asked, just catching this.

"It was his idea!" Happy said, referring to Natsu trying to get his arms out of the ball.

"You were okay with it!" Natsu said, rolling the ball but actually tossing it instead, causing it to knock down a pin but go through the back wall as well. "All right! I got one!"

"And you also took out the back wall. You're supposed to roll the ball, not toss it." Benson said.

"Wait, but it's still going across the lane right?"

Benson grabbed his nose. "Yes. It did. But you're still supposed to roll it across to prevent something like that from happening."

"Got it. Let's give it another try."

"Actually, we need to switch out with someone else. Five minutes, remember?" Lanolin reminded.

"Just give me another chance! Please, I'll make it quick!" Noelle pleaded after getting a gutter.

"Nope. Tough luck pal." Toxsa said. "Now who's next?"

"You know what? I just thought of something: If we can pick whoever we want, doesn't that just defeat the purpose of people that have never played it before practicing?" Scott asked.

"Huh…. actually, you're right." Fiona said.

"Yeah. He is. And for that, I'd like to add something additional to this game. Two more team members for this will be chosen, making this five for each team. But, it'll be random choices. So, you better go ahead and get your practice in. Or face embarrassing yourself. And possibly seriously hurting someone." Chris said.

"Then we don't have any time to waste! No more fighting! That's only going to slow things down! Everyone only gets one shot! Got it?" Ryoma asked.

"Loud and clear." Ayame said.

And the other two teams followed this as well.

A montage of the team members that were unfamiliar with bowling was shown. Some like the Maverick Hunters, did decent. Others, like Noelle were awful. And there were some, like Penny and Razor that did very well.

Because of how quick some of these turns were, even those that heard of, but never played bowling, got to give it a try, with some of these same varying results. With those like Kurt being in the decent/average pool, some like Monta and Kageyama being in the awful pool, and some like Akashi, Hinata, Asta and Yulaw doing great.

"And that's your five minutes! Although I was like 30 seconds late in calling it just so I can see some of you play awful." Chris said.

"Wow. Such a nice guy." Kageyama said sarcastically.

"Only reason you probably feel that way is because you were the last person to be seen being really bad." Heloise said.

"Look, I did bad. It was just one turn. Can we just start already?"

"Yeah. Let's start off with the team picks. So teams, go ahead and choose your first three members for this game." Chris said.

"Pick Hailey! She's great at bowling!" Scott exclaimed.

"Is that so huh?" Hanamiya said.

"Well…" Hailey said, hand behind her head, now feeling a little shy from the attention that she was now getting, and would potentially get with everyone knowing this about her.

"Come on Hailey, tell them your name!" Scott said.

"My what?"

"Your nickname!"

"Come on, don't be shy, let's hear it!" Kaz insisted.

Hailey facepalmed, sighed and said "Why?" under her breath."Okay, fine. Since I know you guys won't leave me alone over it, it's 'The Hammer'."

"The Hammer huh? Not bad. Not bad at all." Kaz said, rubbing a hand under the chin.

"Alright, so that's our first pick. Who else?" Dwayne asked.

"Hey Kaz, do you have a nickname?" Hinata asked.

"I can answer that one. He doesn't have one." Fiona said.

"You don't have one either!" Kaz shot back.

"The classic 'you don't either'. News flash, I don't need one to know I'm awesome."

"If you're so awesome, who has the most wins on this team?"

"Actually, Shiro won the most." PEL brought up.

"My point exactly."

"That's old news! Myron, check our data post Final Gran-Prix!" Kaz said.

"Well-" Myron started.

"Come on! Hurry it up!"

"But shouldn't we-"

"Look, we'll make the picks later, right now, we need to-"

Kaz was picked up by Mr. Wolf. "Hey! What do you think you're doing!? Put me down!" Kaz said, trying to shake free.

"Reminding you that this is bowling, not racing." Mr. Wolf said frankly.

"Well clearly! I know that! You didn't have to pick me up to get that across."

He then put Kaz down before saying, "Well clearly I did. I'm sure Myron was trying to tell you about it until you kept cutting him off. Same thing applies to you Fiona." Said person gasped, a little surprised that she was called out as well. "Hey, you wanna bicker, argue, fine. I get it. But at least do it when we're not on the clock."

"Okay. Sorry." Fiona apologized.

"Yeah, alright. My bad." Kaz added.

"Glad to hear that. Alright, anyone else? Scott, how good are you at bowling?" Mr. Wolf said.

"Eh. Not as good as Hailey that's for sure. Why else would I not have a nickname?" Scott said.

"Because we didn't give you one?" Hailey proposed.

"Hmm….. yeah, that probably checks out too."

"I could give it a shot. I may not have a nickname, but, I should be able to do pretty decent." Julie volunteered.

"Cool. One more."

"Did you see how Asta played? Give him a spot!" Toxsa said.

"That's one round. That could just be a lucky shot." Kageyama said.

"Then if you're not satisfied with him going, I'll play." Hinata declared, going forward before his volleyball teammate grabbed him by the head with one hand and stopped him.

"You're sure as hell not playing either. For you to mess things up!?"

"To be fair, it couldn't be any worse than what you did. You almost went off the lane."

"He's got a point. I don't see why not." Dwayne said.

"Yeah man, when you're doing worse than people that don't even have bowling where they're from, that's an issue." Toxsa said.

"No one asked you!" Kageyama yelled out.

"Okay. That's our three. Any last minute objections? Valid ones?" Reagan asked. None were given. She signaled the thumbs up to Chris to indicate that they were ready.

"Cool. And the Rats have just made their last pick." Chris said. "So now, we're ready to go! By the way, you won't know the random picks until we get there, just to keep you on your toes. Since they won the last game, the Rats go first. You can go in any order you want. The order applies for all teams by the way."

"Ladies first." Adrien said, referring to Emma. He, Kise and Emma were their first three bowlers for this game.

"Right." Emma said before grabbing one of the lighter balls for women.

*Confessional*

Emma(Radical Rats):

"Surprisingly, a good bit of this team has little to no experience playing bowling before, so there wasn't much we could work with when it came to choices of people that knew what they were doing. Heck, Murasakibara himself said he's 'garbage' at bowling so he immediately took himself out of possible choices. And that pretty much is the reason for why we took so long. Sendo at first was going to be one of the picks instead of me but he changed his mind. Regardless, I still think we can make this work."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Sendo(Radical Rats):

"After hearing from Rally how Ippo killed it at bowling when he was here, I wanted to go so bad. Believe me, I really did. But I changed my mind and backed out. If I screwed up and had a bad round and we lost? Yeah, I think you can fill in the rest of what was going to happen."

*End Confessional*

"So it looks like Emma's up first! Let's see if she can start things off strong for her team and for this game as a whole." Chris commentated.

She takes a moment to focus before going forward to roll the bowling ball onto the lane. She was able to knock down 7 pins.

"Okay, decent. Now let's get that spare." Emma said before taking another ball. She rolls it forward and was able to do just that, knocking down the remaining 3 pins.

"Nice spare Emma! A pretty good start I'd say." Benson said, congratulating her.

"Thanks. Confident that you guys can get something even better." Emma said to her other two participating teammates as she walked back to where the rest of her team was.

"Don't worry, we've got it. Trust." Kise said, giving a thumbs up.

"We'll just have to see about that. On the next turn that your team gets. In the meantime, Hailey, your team's up." Chris said.

"Hailey, wanna do the honors and start us off?" Mr. Wolf asked.

"Uh…." Hailey started, nervously pulling the collar of her shirt and looking around.

"Come on, these teams think they've got great bowlers. But they don't have….. The Hammer! Now bring it down Hailes!" Scott said in an encouraging tone.

"The Hammer? What the hell is that?" Aomine asked.

"Isn't that the Final Boss in that game?" Hi-Five Ghost asked.

"Yeah, but I don't think he's talking about that." Mordecai said.

"Wait, your nickname's 'The Hammer'? Oh I gotta see this." Muscle Man said. "This is either gonna be an epic win or an epic fail." He said, an eager grin on his face, waiting to see what would happen.

"Actually, I think he did. Homer that is." Rally said. "Ippo's too humble to do something like that I don't think."

"Nah, you're remembering wrong. I'm almost certain he didn't."

"Too bad he's not here to answer for sure." Morty said.

"Yeah. Wonder what the guys that didn't choose to come back are up to now? Heck, they might be watching." Mordecai asked as Hailey walked up to a lane with a bowling ball, taking a breath to focus herself.

"So Ippo got to show off his great bowling skills huh?" Bakura said.

"Yep. I didn't know you bowled with him." Rally said.

"Joey did as well. In fact, all of my friends were there along with Ippo and some of his boxing mates."

"Oh, you mean that Takamura guy."

"Yes. Him, and a couple others too. Aoki and Kimura I believe."

"Wait a second, if you've got experience like that, why the heck didn't you say anything?" Kageyama asked.

After taking a breath and looking ahead at the pins on the lane, she rolled the bowling ball forward and knocked down 8 out of the 10 pins, leaving a pin on each side.

"I played, but I wouldn't consider myself great like Hailey. Moreso, average." Bakura explained.

"Eight out of ten! Nice one Hailes!" Scott exclaimed.

"An eight? With a name like that I was expecting a strike from the get-go. But, I guess it's not too bad." Rigby commented.

"You know, I've got a nickname too. '' 'Monster'." Bachira said, popping up in front of Aomine before he pushed him back down.

"Nah, Bachira Suschia's better." Aomine said.

"I don't get it."

"Yeah, me neither." Isagi said.

"You're smart enough. Figure it out." Aomine said.

*Confessional*

Aomine(Storm Kings):

"I can count on hand how much sus stuff he's said on this show so far. That's why I named him that. Although maybe the name could use some work to make it flow better."

"And it's all jokes. If that's how he actually is, I don't judge."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Isagi(Storm Kings):

"You know what? I actually got it." Isagi said before laughing. "Honestly, when I first came in to Blue Lock, I thought a majority of the people there were pretty weird. Not just Bachira. You wouldn't believe it with how he acts here, but Kunigami was probably one of the most tame out of all of them. Again, this was before he decided to turn edgelord. But now, I think most of them are pretty cool guys, even if it doesn't seem that way in the games. Just watch the YouTube live streams of some of the games and you'll see why I said that."

He then put a hand to his chin. "Of course, I guess some could say the same about me. I think I saw a comment of someone saying I had issues after hearing some of the stuff I've said. But then again, it's YouTube comments. People say anything."

*End Confessional*

(A/N: This is actually canon that some of the later games were livestreamed to YouTube)

*Confessional*

Scott(Wave Breakers):

"I have no idea why she's so nervous. She's awesome at bowling! Heck, she's so good, she tried to lose to her dad on purpose and was failing horribly at it. This should be a slam dunk for her! First round jitters I guess."

*End Confessional*

"Just try to go for one more. There's no way you'll be able to get both." Asta said.

"She also has to be mindful of the gutters too." Noelle reminded him.

"Actually, there is a way. Let's see if she'll be able to get it." Skip said as she finally made the decision of the angle she would take and rolled the ball forward. The ball was able to knock down the pin on the right, and that same pin was able to fall in a way that it was able to knock down the one on the left as well.

"A split! Not bad. Not bad at all. Too bad that skill doesn't show up on the scorer sheet. That's still a spare." Chris commentated. "Next!"

"How is that not worth anything extra? That looked like it took a heck of a lot of skill to do." Natsu asked.

"Some of it is skill, some of it is luck honestly. You can't predict where and how the pins will fall every time. But the first thing you have to do is make sure you get one down first. Doesn't mean anything if you gutter it." Hailey explained.

"Yeah well, still doesn't make much sense to not get rewarded for skill."

"Luck factor's probably the biggest reason why you don't get anything extra." Riley said as she picked up a ball before rolling the ball forward and getting a strike. "But of course, if you score a strike, you don't need luck. Just skill. Don't need a hammer when there's nothing to fix."

"Wow. You really got me." Hailey said sarcastically.

"What? It's true. All of it. Including the fact that I have still yet to miss in any bowling frame that I've actively tried in."

"Way to be humble after one frame."

"What am I supposed to do? Not celebrate?"

"No one's saying that. But come on, you're acting like one frame won you guys the game when Emma and I got spares."

"Not gonna lie, you sound really hurt for it to be 'just one frame'." Rigby said.

"Whatever. Just know that this game isn't over like you think it is."

"Oh she's definitely p[censored]ed." Reagan said low.

"Uh huh." Doyle added.

"Yep." Dwayne also added.

*Confessional*

Doyle:

"I know it's for time sake, but I kinda wish everyone wasn't assigned to one frame so we could really see how they'd respond on at least a second go at it. And it's for things like this."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Scott(Wave Breakers):

"Well, this game certainly took a turn fast. Let's hope it just stays like this and doesn't start getting personal. Last time that happened, things started to get really personal."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Benson:

"What did I tell ya? All it took was one round. And now everyone's looking to play."

*End Confessional*

Second for the Rats was Kise, who rolled the exact same way Riley did and also got a strike with him pumping a fist in triumph.

"Guess everyone just forgot he could just do that." Emma said, smiling.

"Honestly, I kinda did." Hailey said.

"A smart move. Just remember where you got those great skills from buddy." Riley said to him.

"Trust me, I won't forget." Kise said.

*Confessional*

Kise(Radical Rats):

"To be honest, I've played a bit of bowling before. But I've missed some pins before. To be perfect like that is insane. I had to make sure we stayed in the game."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Isagi(Storm Kings):

"With how good some of these people are, I'm sure Barou would love this. He calls bowling his 'hobby sanctuary'. And he's crazy good at it too. Though, I kinda wonder if he'd be p[censored]ed at me telling people this. Guess I'll have to find out when I go back today."

*End Confessional*

Next was Julie. She closed her eyes for a second before opening them back up, lowering the ball from away from her face and then rolling it forward, getting a grand total of zero pins.

"No pins!? How!?" Julie said, stunned.

"Don't worry about it, just try again!" Hailey called out.

She rolled again, this time taking a different approach and still missing. She fell down in tears.

"This is absolutely terrible! How could I waste a bonus spare like this!?" Julie cried out.

"I would console you, but scoring no points!? What the hell!" Kageyama yelled out.

"I know. I'm sorry…."

Kageyama sighed. "Look, please get up. You just had a bad game."

"Yeah. I guess." She replied, drying her eyes and sniffing. "You know, you really can be a nice guy if you tried."

"Kageyama?" Hinata started.

"Nice?" Both he and Tsukishima said simultaneously.

"How the hell is that being nice? She deserves some type of slack considering how well she's played." Kageyama said, half annoyed before turning to Julie. "We'll consider this your off game. Even the best pro players have those sometimes. Just don't let it happen again!"

"Trust me, it won't." Julie said confidently as the next player for the Kings was up, that person being Akashi. He wasn't able to score a perfect, but he was able to score a spare, getting a 9 on the first shot and the last one on the second roll.

"So close." Akashi said before sighing. "Apologies for being unable to score a strike." He said to his team, returning back.

"What? Are you serious? Riley got a strike and you got a spare. That's great in my book." Mordecai said.

"Seconded. Don't be that bummed out for not being perfect." Isagi said.

"I suppose. Apologies." Akashi said.

"Dude, you gotta stop apologizing for doing nothing or doing decent man. I promise you, no one's upset at you or is gonna be upset at you.." Aomine said honestly as Adrien was getting a feel for the ball that he had picked up.

"Yeah, not everyone is going to be as insane as Riley is at this game. Which seems to be common for bowling it seems. Ippo and Homer were just as good at it too." Yang said.

"Speaking of which, Heloise, what's the score?" Riley asked.

"I'm honestly surprised you guys didn't ask this sooner. Kings are at 29, Rats are at 30."

"And we're last." Jenny said before sighing. "How bad is it?"

"You're at 10."

"So 20 points. That seems manageable." Ayame said as Adrien rolled, getting 4 on the first roll.

"Make that 28. For now."

His next roll was another 4, making it 8 pins down.

"And now it's 36."

"Come on, we need a strike to catch up. Don't screw this up." Kageyama said, a hand on Hinata's head.

"You got it. One strike coming up!" Hinata declared before getting a ball, grinning.

"And don't get too overconfident either!" Kageyama also called out.

"Relax! I got this! I promise!" He brings his arm back, leaving it back for a couple of seconds before rolling. And he was able to get 7 pins.

"A seven! Very impressive." Pops commented.

"You sure got that strike didn't you?" Kageyama asked.

"Keep your shirt on. I'll get this spare for sure!" Hinata said as he grabbed a second ball. He rolled it forward and was able to get it. "All right!"

"Still not a strike."

"Look, we're not out of the game yet. We still have two more turns left."

"But now there's more pressure on them to make sure they get it right! That is why you needed to get a strike!"

"You do realize you could also be called on, right?" Myron reminded him.

"Well thanks for stating the obvious."

"If he gets called on, it's pretty much over." Zak said.

"Like I said, it was a bad turn. And also, you guys want to get on me, but there were crickets when Julie got nothing."

"To be fair, you've got the opposite of the midas touch when it comes to any ball you touch that's not a volleyball." Randy said.

"The royal touch." Tsukishima said.

"Okay, he can't be that bad." Dwayne said.

"We'll just have to see when their turn comes up." Chris said.

"You amateurs might as well just pack it up now!" Skipper called out as Dewey grabbed a ball. "When he gets this strike, the fat lady better get those vocal cords ready!"

"Not gonna lie dudes, things don't look good for you guys. But you know who always looks good?" Muscle Man said. "My mom!"

"Wait, I thought the 'my mom' jokes were supposed to be the other way around? Like 'your mom'?" Randy whispered.

"Yeah, that's what I thought too." Toxsa whispered.

Dewey scored a six on the first ball.

"Come on! Get that spare Dewey!" Huey called out.

Dewey took a deep breath before looking at the remaining four pins ahead of him on the lane and then rolled. He was able to knock down two pins, with a third being knocked down by one of the already fallen pins. The fourth was also moving.

"Come on! Come on!" Dewey pleaded, hoping for that fourth pin for the spare. It continued to move around for what felt like forever as some of the others stared at it as well as if everything rode on that one pin.

And it stopped moving.

"Daw." Dewey said, clear disappointment on his face, leaving the score at 9.

"Alright. Team picks are finished! Now it's time to roll the die on the random picks! Who's going to show up and who's going to crumble when their number gets called on? Let's find out now!" Chris announced before the first random pick was chosen for the Rats. "Botsford! Get a ball and get rollin'."

"Just make sure it actually rolls on the ground." Becky F. said.

"Trust me, I'll be fine." Becky B. insisted, grabbing a ball. Though it didn't even feel close to feeling heavy, something that she made sure to keep in mind before rolling it. After taking a few seconds, she rolled the ball forward and was able to score a 6.

"Hey Becky, did-" Natsu started.

"Hold that thought. Let me get this ball off first."

After getting another one and doing the same thing as before, she was able to knock down two more pins in the middle, leaving the two pins on the left and right ends of the rack.

"Eight pins. Could be better, but I'll take it. Now, what were you about to ask me Natsu?"

"Did that ball even feel heavy to you?" He asked.

"Honestly, no. I'm guessing that was the problem you had on your practice run. All I did was make sure I kept that in mind and took it easy on the roll. Our weakest roll is most others' normal or strongest roll on this team. No offense to anyone here obviously."

"Hmm, I'll see if I can do that. Thanks."

"Jenny! You're next!" Chris called out.

"Okay. Shouldn't be too much of a problem." Jenny said after getting a ball and looking at the pins ahead. She brought her arm back before rolling it a second later at an incredibly fast speed. It was so fast, the ball blasted through the pins. But the ball hitting the back hard could clearly be heard. But unlike Natsu, it wasn't so hard that it busted through.

"A strike! All right!" Hinata cheered with some of his other teammates joining in.

"If only we would have had you earlier." Hanamiya said.

"Well, maybe. But the only reason I was kind of hesitant was because I was scared I'd roll it too hard and break something." Jenny said shyly, hands behind her back as she moved a foot a little as well.

"Fair. But, you didn't."

"Yeah. That's true."

"Sophie! You're next!" Chris called out.

"Right." Sophie grabs a ball before calmly rolling it a couple of seconds later. This was probably the slowest roll of the day. But to her credit, it was able to get 5 pins down.

"Took it look enough." Rigby said.

"Yeah. That was an old lady roll. And I really do mean that." Todd said.

"Okay, maybe it was a little slow. But excuse me for trying to make sure it was an accurate roll." Sophie said, grabbing another ball.

"You can be accurate and not roll like an old lady."

"I think that's pretty offensive. I've seen some old people really strike out at bowling." Molly said.

"No you haven't."

"Actually, you'll be surprised at how good grannies are at bowling." Scott said.

"I don't know what type of old people are around where you guys are from."

The second ball was able to knock down 3 more pins, totaling eight.

"There. Are you happy now?" Sophie said to Todd, referring to the fact this ball was faster than the other one.

"What? I wasn't paying attention."

"Never mind." She said, internally shaking her head.

"Kurt!" Chris called out. "Now you get a chance to say nobody beats Kurt Wylde in bowling!"

"I wouldn't exactly go that far. This is a completely different type of lane." Kurt said, getting a ball.

"Hard to believe you were an arrogant cheater at one point. Like sabotage levels of cheating. Now you're saying stuff like this."

"How did you-" Kurt started before shaking his head. That wasn't important right now. What was was making sure that he did well enough to make sure his team had a chance to win.

"You gotta admit, villain Kurt on a Total Drama season would be pretty interesting."

"Eh. I don't really see it." Chef said.

"Really?"

"Nope."

"How? His sabotaging would fit right in. I wouldn't exactly just throw out that idea because-"

Kurt looked back at them, with Chef and Chris taking the hint. "My bad. Go ahead. That way if you fail, there won't be any whining from you or your teammates about me." Chris said.

Kurt looked back ahead and rolled the ball forward. He was able to get 6 pins on his first roll. Despite taunting from Miyuki about him being Rally's type, it was ignored and he was able to get 3 more pins, totalling the score up to 9 for him.

"You're gonna have to come up with better distractions than that." Kurt said to Miyuki.

"Trust me, I will. Also, you didn't exactly seem opposed to it." He said to the Teku driver, with him only smiling and shaking his head. If there was one thing Kurt learned about him, he was an equal opportunity nuisance.

"That, and the fact that he's not twelve years old." Lucy said.

"So age is supposed to decide how people are supposed to react to something?" Myron asked, offended.

"Like it or not, age plays a factor in some things." Becky F. said.

"I know it definitely plays one with your single relationship status." Miyuki said.

"You know what? I can't even be mad. I walked right into that one."

*Confessional*

Becky Farrah(Radical Rats):

"There may be multiple reasons for why I am single. But my age is not one of them! Jesus christ, this damn-" She stops herself and facepalms in frustration. "Ah my God…."

*End Confessional*

"I mean, he would seem like a nice match." May commented.

"I really don't understand you people's fixation on my relationships with people. Specifically romantically." Rally said.

"Next up! Hailey! Again!" Chris called out.

"Okay." Hailey said before grabbing a ball. "Number one: Grannies actually are good at bowling." She said before holding the ball with both hands and doing the "granny roll" instead of the traditional roll and slightly rolling it forward. It was slow, but not as slow as Sophie's. A few seconds later, it was able to knock down every single pin. "And number two: That's why they call me The Hammer." She finished, pointing at herself afterwards.

"I thought it was because you nail it every game?" Scott asked.

"Yeah. I just nailed it there."

"Booooo!" Todd and Rigby called out.

"Everyone's a critic." Hailey said, waving them off.

"Eh, still not impressed. I guess 'nailing it' is scoring occasional strikes with spares. Instead of, you know, all strikes?" Riley said.

"You know what?" She immediately caught and stopped herself.

"What? Go ahead. Say it."

"For the sake of not ruining things for us, I'm going to keep silent."

"Hailey, you're up again." Heloise said. "And before anyone protests, it's because she got a strike and it was her team's last ball. So she actually is required to go again so the bonus points can be awarded. Two more balls and that's it. Just two." She said, holding up two fingers on the last two sentences.

"She's right. That's part of the official bowling rules." Skips said.

"If Skips said it, then you're good. Skips is almost never wrong." Mordecai said.

"Except for the time that he- oh, you said almost. I didn't hear that." Rigby said.

She was able to get strikes for both.

"Well? You wanted strikes, and you got them." Hailey said to Riley.

"Skipper! You're up!" Chris called out.

"So you got your strikes. Which I'll admit, is impressive! But, two can play at that game! You want a strike!? I'll give you a strike!" Skipper declared as he went to grab one of the smaller balls for women.

"Wait, aren't those balls for-" Asta started before Riley unknowingly talked over him.

"I cannot believe this! You of all people would resort to personal attacks over a bowling game. Shocked and disappointment is only the tip of the iceberg of what I'm feeling." She said to Hailey.

"It wasn't a personal attack. Honest. Look, I may have been a little upset-" Hailey started.

"A little?" Toxsa said, one eyebrow raised.

"Yes. A little. But I'm never going to resort to personal attacks that I'm almost certain could hurt people's feelings."

"Three!? Is this some kind of joke!?" Skipper yelled, up in arms. Well, flippers.

"Just get another ball and roll." Aomine said.

"Thanks for stating the obvious. Unlike you, I don't need simple instructions explained to me on occasion."

"Yeah with saying stuff like that, you'd better get a spare or damn there close to one."

"I intend to." Skipper winds back his arm, second ball in hand before rolling it forward. He was only able to get 4 more, totaling 7.

"Seven? That's it?"

"Yeah. You sure got that strike and that spare." Aomine said sarcastically.

"I suggest you mind your tongue. You never know what could happen next."

"I know damn well a guy that's five times shorter than me, probably more, isn't threatening me."

"That wasn't a threat soldier. It was a warning!"

"Be able to slap me without having to get picked up and then maybe I'll put some stock into it."

"You're assuming I'm the one that's going to do something. I don't have to."

"Yeah because you can't- you know what? Why the hell am I arguing with you?"

"That's a good question!"

"Okay, I think this is maybe the time where we read the final scores?" Ruby suggested, looking at Chris as she emphasized the final part.

"Heloise, go ahead." Chris said, knowing full well that him waiting to give the okay was intentional.

"It's the Breakers. 70 points. Four strikes in a row. Second closest was the Rats with 63." Heloise said.

"Wooo! Now that's what you call putting the hammer down!" Hailey said, pointing at Riley as she said it.

"Okay, seriously, stop." Zak said.

"What? I was only going to do it that one time."

"And one time's enough."

"You guys are overreacting. Anyways…."

"Looks like you're on the board! Congrats!" Chris said to the team. "Now, who's got the next game?" Chris asked.

"Me! Let's go!" Rigby quickly spoke up.

"Dude, every game's going to be played today, chill." Mordecai said.

"I know, but I still want to be next! Maybe I'm not first, but since it's Pops and Benson I'll let it go."

"What does it being Pops and Benson have to do with anything?"

"Because Benson's our boss, duh. And come on, it's Pops. Think of all the nice stuff he's done. It's only fair he gets to show his game first."

"Huh. Good point."

"Rigby is next. If that's what Muscle Man, Hi-Five Ghost, Skips and Mordecai all agree on." Benson said.

"Doesn't matter to me." Skips said.

"It's cool." Mordecai added.

"Sure." Hi-Five Ghost said.

"I guess I'll be nice. Go ahead and show us your game Rigby. And it better not be lame!" Muscle Man said.

"Trust me, you guys are gonna love this one. Hm. Hm." Rigby said, nodding confidently.

*Confessional*

Mordecai:

"He's hyping this challenge up. Five bucks it's something really boring like a hamboning contest."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Hailey(Wave Breakers):

"If you wanted to know what I was going to tell Riley, it was basically me challenging her to roll the way I did, or some way even more difficult than that. But the reason why I decided not to say anything was because I thought I would jinx it, she just so happens to get picked, does it and we lose. And if that happened, not sure if people are superstitious like that here, but for some, that'd be good enough of a reason to kick me and Scott out if we lost this challenge."

*End Confessional*

The cast were back in the park. But there were no extra objects or materials that needed to be brought in.

"All right Rigby, where's the game?" Mordecai asked, but already expecting what it was going to be.

"Right here." Rigby said, holding up his fists eagerly.

"What?" Muscle Man said, confused. And he wasn't the only one. The rest of the Park crew was confused too.

"Is it rock,paper, scissors?" Chef guessed.

"Nope." Rigby said.

"Staring contest?"

"What? No."

"You're reacting that way when you just randomly put up your fists like we're supposed to know what that means." Mordecai said.

"Dude, do you really not know?"

"No."

"It's a fight, duh." Aomine said.

"Nope."

"Is it too hard for you to just tell us what it is?" Young Bennett asked, starting to get annoyed.

"Since none of you, not even Mordecai can even get it. Which by the way, I'm disappointed in you Mordecai." Rigby said, pointing at Mordecai.

"Just tell us what it is." Mordecai said.

"I was gonna, chill. It's Punchies!"

"Punchies? Huh. I stand corrected."

"You stand corrected about what?" Rigby asked, lowering his eyes suspiciously at Mordecai.

"Nothing."

"Go ahead. Share it with us. We'd love to hear it."

"Eh, not really." Louie spoke up.

"Well that's you."

"I really don't care either." Sucy said.

"Same here." Tsukishima added.

"Can we get to the game already?" Axl asked.

"WAIT! We're not starting until Mordecai says what he meant." Rigby said, now annoyed that people were going against him.

"Really man?" Mordecai said.

"Yes really! Tell us! Now!"

"Mordecai, please just go ahead and tell him." Benson said.

"I was going to. I only said 'really' because of how Rigby's acting over this. I just thought you were gonna pick some lame, boring game like a hamboning competition." Mordecai said to Rigby.

"What? That's dumb. How could you even think I'd pick that?" Rigby said in disbelief with Mordecai just giving him a look.

"All right guys. So this is how punchies work. One of you has gotta stand there and take one punch in the arm. And take it like a man! Whoever punches the hardest wins!" Rigby explained.

"That's it? We've done that a lot in challenges before. Even though just punching someone wasn't exclusively the challenge." Tangle said.

"But all those times you probably had the option to do something to avoid it, like block or dodge. In this, you don't have that option. You have to take it. Oh yeah, and one more thing. You don't get to choose who goes." Rigby said, an evil grin on his face.

"Dude, why do you look like that?" Mordecai asked.

"Who me? Only because I created a challenge that I know Chris will love! I got best game of the day in the bag baby!"

"We'll see about that. Just because it's got pain in it doesn't automatically make it the best."

"You're partially right. But, bonus points because it is painful. And also because it's random too. So they don't get a chance to try and play it fair like I know they will and pick either the strongest guys or in an attempt to make sure no one gets hurt, weaker guys." Chris said.

"Yeah, I don't know about that." Rick said, taking out a piece of gum and chewing it.

"See? Now let's go! Heloise!" Rigby said.

"What?" Heloise asked, annoyed that Rigby just called her out like that.

"Could you do the random picks? Please?"

"Since you said please, I guess. So how exactly does this game work? Is it three at once?"

"Nope. 1v1 baby!"

"Any preference on who goes first? And how long this is going to go for? Or is it just one game each?"

"Winning team stays so they get a chance to put the hurt on the next person on another team. And, I guess I'll stop it at ten wins. Like the Mortal Kombat challenge we were in."

"Okay. Good to know." She then randomizes the first two people. "Jenny and Bren are up first."

"We can use abilities for this right?" Bren asked.

"You're supposed to punch the hardest so if it helps, heck yeah."

Bren breathed a sigh of relief, taking out a core.

"Woah, woah, woah buddy! What do you think you're doing?" Rigby asked, stopping him.

"But you said-"

"Did I say anything about getting help? No!"

Bren puts the core away and gulps, already knowing what was about to happen. And pretty much every one of the contestants, along with Chris, Heloise, Doyle and Chef knew too.

*Confessional*

Sly(Storm Kings):

"Yeah, there's no type of speech or motivation that's gonna stop what's about to happen. At the very least, we know she won't kill or injure him."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Penny(Storm Kings):

"I was able to calculate the chances of teammate Bren winning against Breaker Jenny. Sadly, that chance is 0.2 percent. Reasons for why it isn't completely zero is because there is the possibility of Jenny forfeiting the game or her hitting Bren very very softly to avoid the possibility of seriously hurting him. Although, from what I have gathered of Jenny's strength, that is very unlikely."

*End Confessional*

"Uh….. ladies first?" Bren said.

"Don't mind if I do." Jenny said before winding up a punch. Bren closed his eyes with several people looking away or preparing themselves to grimace as well.

"Yeah, I can't watch this." Libby said, looking away and closing her eyes as well.

The punch landed, knocking Bren back a bit.

"Ooh, that's gotta hurt!" Chris commented. "Although, I felt a bit of restraint in that punch there Jenny."

"What did you want her to do, kill him?" Ayame asked.

"Probably." Rally said.

"Wait, did you actually kill him?" Chris asked, seeing that Bren wasn't getting up.

"No…. I hope I didn't." Jenny said, now feeling uneasy.

There was a couple of seconds of silence before Bren got up. "That's it. You've done it now!" Bren angrily runs up at Jenny before punching her in the arm, which in reality only caused him pain and not her as he was grabbing onto the hand that he tried to punch Jenny with, grimacing in pain.

"Why would you even do that?" Maki asked him as the game was already given to Jenny after seeing that.

"Is it bad to say I kind of thought he was about to reveal some secret strength he had all along?" Rex asked.

"Frankly, yes." Bobo said.

"A valiant effort. But with arms like that, it's not a surprise that happened." Skipper said to Bren.

"What's wrong with my arms?" Bren asked, still holding on to the fist that was in pain.

"Everything!"

"Right…." Bren said before mumbling. "Not as if you could do better."

"What was that?"

"I said, I'll do better!"

"A never give up attitude! I love it!"

*Confessional*

Bren(Storm Kings):

"This guy acts like he could have done better. Heck, because of how small he is, he probably would have done worse!"

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Jenny(Wave Breakers):

"I had to make sure it was at least hard enough for us to win. He'll heal up from that. I feel bad for how unfair it was….. but not enough to do something like let him win."

*End Confessional*

Next was Julie and Adrien.

"You wouldn't hit a defenseless girl would you?" Julie asked Adrien, making puppy eyes.

"From what I've seen, you're nowhere close to defenseless." Adrien said.

She shrugged. "Well, I tried." She suddenly threw a hard punch to Adrien's face, one that caught several people off guard.

"Jeez." Kise commented.

"Yeah, you're supposed to punch them on the arm, not the face." Rigby said.

"Oops." Julie said.

"Try again. And this time, the arm. Not the face."

"Right."

"Wait! Take this!" Reagan hands her a watch.

"You're giving her….. a watch." Yulaw said, half expecting there to be more than just this.

"Not just any watch. Julie, press the two buttons together."

She presses them and the power glove that has been used before appeared on her, transforming from the watch.

"It's no Omnitrix or Ultimatrix, but it works. And best of all, now it's compact! And, if you're worried about it being distracting like how Blaineley was, it's now a watch! I almost forgot about it actually, but now's the perfect time to use it."

"That is sick. What can it do?" Mordecai asked.

"A lot. But in this case, Julie's going to use it for one thing. To punch the hell out of Adrien."

"Nah. She punched once. She's gotta do it again with her own fists." Rigby said.

"What? Why not? Adrien was allowed to transform."

"Yeah but he did it before he decided to throw a punch. I feel like giving her that now, as cool as it is would be cheating. You wanna use it for another turn, go ahead. I don't care."

"Alright, fair enough. Just give it back to me for now Julie."

After giving the glove, back as a watch, she punched Adrien. The punch on the arm wasn't as painful as the face but it definitely wasn't a soft punch either.

"Okay, I gotta admit, that punch to the face hurt." Adrien said to her.

"Well, isn't that the point?"

"I mean yeah but still. That definitely caught me off guard to be honest. But now it's my turn." Adrien said before transforming into Cat Noir.

"No fair!" Julie whined.

"Sorry."

She laughed. "I was only joking. Do what you gotta do. But you better not miss!"

He punched her on the arm and it was clear as day who punched harder.

*Confessional*

Julie(Wave Breakers):

"I meant what I said. I know I'm not the only one that's here to win. Besides, if people were to just let me win, it wouldn't be as satisfying when I get all the way to end as number as one! Although, I am open to using my beauty as a weapon when necessary." She said, winking.

*End Confessional*

Adrien was here to stay, now against Din.

Adrien was the first to punch. He was able to knock Din back a bit, but it was nowhere near the clear difference that was there between Jenny and Bren, even with her holding back.

Din threw his own punch, and while it was a good effort, it wasn't enough to beat Adrien's punch.

Next was Bakura and Emma.

"Well, here goes." Emma said before punching Bakura on the arm, which didn't even seem to have much of an effect on him. Sure, it hurt, but it definitely didn't pack the punch(no pun intended) that the others did.

"Did that even hurt? Be honest." Emma asked him.

"A little, but not much." Bakura answered. Assisted by the glove, he then threw his own punch. It wasn't enough to seriously hurt her, but it was definitely enough to make sure they won.

Sophie and Molly were up next.

"When I was thinking of simple challenges, this is not what I had in mind." Sophie said.

"Yeah. But, weird challenges are par of the course here. Besides, some of them, while different, are still pretty fun." Molly replied.

"I suppose."

Molly was the first to throw a punch. And it was stronger than anything Sophie could have done without help from her Titans.

"Too bad you don't have anything that could enhance your strength." Isagi said to her.

"Yes. Unfortunate, but, there's no use complaining about it now." Sophie said.

The next pair was Yulaw and Dwayne.

"Give me your best shot. I can take it." Dwayne said to him.

"We'll see." Yulaw said, already deciding to not give his best punch, but strong enough to make sure it was better than anything Dwayne did, even with the help of the glove.

Yulaw wanted Dwayne to go first, but Dwayne declined, insisting that Yulaw goes. He had already inferred that the exterminator had his plan figured out. So there was no use in trying to push back. So he went first and hit Dwayne hard. It knocked him back a very far distance but as he said, he took the punch. And got up, ran back and punched Yulaw back. Dwayne was given the win.

When Yulaw came back, his slight surprise was written on his face.

"You look surprised. You didn't think I would just make changes cosmetically did you?" Reagan said to him, grinning over the fact that her invention was able to triumph over his own strength. "I wasn't expecting some of you to be that strong when I first made it. But now, whatever you throw out, it's more than capable of taking."

*Confessional*

Yulaw(Radical Rats):

"I held back to make sure I didn't injure or kill him. Maybe I did it too much."

*End Confessional*

Next was Ben and Hanamiya.

"You do realize this isn't going to end well for you, right?" Ben said to him.

"If you really think that, go ahead." Hanamiya said, wearing the glove.

Ben chose Humungosaur and sent him flying back. And due to his large size, Humungosaur was nowhere even close to being affected like he was.

"Guess you were right." Hanamiya said.

"Of course I was!" Ben said, returning back to normal. "Sorry Reagan, but you're gonna have to make it hit a little harder than that. Back to the drawing board."

The next pair was Albedo and Aomine.

"If you're gonna pick something at least pick something that won't kill me." Aomine said, already knowing that with him having access to the Ultimatrix he had absolutely no shot at winning this.

"As you wish." Albedo said before making his choices on what he wanted to use. He chose Ultimate Swampfire.

"Go ahead." Albedo said, awaiting the punch. And what came to him was barely a punch at all. Not because Albedo was that much stronger, but because Aomine didn't even try. Albedo punched him back, hard enough to knock him down.

"You didn't even try!" Bren said to Aomine when he got back with his team.

"Show of hands, who on this team thinks I could have won against Albedo?" Aomine asked, matter-of-factly.

"With or without the Ultimatrix?" Weiss asked.

"With. Duh."

"Oh. Sorry. I was going to raise my hand if it was without but…. I have to be honest."

No one else raised their hand either.

"Don't worry, I'm not mad at all. I'm just trying to prove a point to four-eyes over here."

"I just hope you be better on the next one! And why the heck is Skipper not calling you out?"

"Why would I? With effort like that of course he's not gonna have a chance!" Skipper answered.

Sendo and Scott were the next pair.

"I don't give a damn if you do lose, you better give me your best shot!" Sendo declared to Scott.

"Don't you think you shouldn't be asking your opponent to do that?" Becky F. asked.

"No. I don't. It ain't a challenge if that's the case. That's like asking me to fight someone below my weight class."

"You still have to do that here…."

"JUST PUNCH ME ALREADY DAMN IT!"

"Hey, if you insist." Scott said, shrugging before trying his hardest to punch Sendo, also knocking him back as well.

"Now it's my turn." Sendo said after getting up before bringing his arm back for his own punch. One that Scott definitely felt.

"Wow. I got punched by a pro boxer! Cool!"

"Not the reaction I was expecting." Hailey commented.

"No, not cool! You lost!" Kageyama yelled to him.

"Well yeah but-" Scott started.

"But nothing!"

"Uh, dude, he won." Toxsa said.

"Huh? Oh."

"You could at least apologize." Hailey said to him.

"Kageyama? Apologizing?" Tsukishima said.

"My bad. I didn't know." Kageyama grumbled out to him.

"What was that?"

"I heard him. It's alright." Scott said.

Sendo could only shake his head.

"That damn glove is gonna make things a whole lot harder." Sendo said to his team.

"So? Hard does not mean impossible. We still have a decent chance of winning." Hiruma said.

"I never said impossible. Stop putting words in my mouth!"

"And I never said you said it. I said it."

Rex went against Mr. Wolf.

"Come on, right here." Rex said, referring to the arm that was now a smack hand.

Mr. Wolf only shook his head. Using the Smack Hand as extra defense was a cheeky move. But one he could respect as he'd do the same thing. Although both punches were good, Rex's was able to win out due to again, the Smack Hands having better toughness than a regular arm.

Sucy took Mr. Wolf's place as she went up against Huey.

"Go ahead." Sucy said before sniffing a potion, looking as if she was in heaven afterwards.

"Did I just see her do what I think she did?" Kagami asked.

"Metaphorically." Rally said, just as weirded out as Kagami along with several others with Mordecai, Rigby and several of the Park crew just looking at each other after seeing this.

Huey, snapping out of his own confusion gave Sucy his best punch. But it didn't seem as if it did anything.

"My turn." Sucy said before punching back. It wasn't particularly a hard punch, but at the very least, it seemed like he actually felt it compared to Sucy, awarding her and her team another point.

"Let me guess, you used whatever that potion was to minimize any pain." Huey said to Sucy.

"I wouldn't say minimize. But, it did its job."

"The Kings are laggin' behind. Can they catch up?" Chef commented.

"I'm not surprised. Unfortunately." Isagi thought.

*Confessional*

Isagi(Storm Kings):

"Remember what I said before about them being the physically strongest team when abilities were added in? Yeah, it's showing here. Big time. Although, not in the way I expected to be honest. It's not even just the game. Do I even need to explain what I just saw Sucy do?"

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Sucy(Radical Rats):

"That potion was only able to temporarily make me stop feeling pain, not stop it. Drinking it gives the full benefit. But all you need to do is take a whiff and you'll get it for a couple minutes. If you can take the smell. Most of these guys here couldn't. Except for Akko, and apparently Zee too. Well, looks like I may have a potential new test subject."

*End Confessional*

The game continued.

Toxsa went up against Mamori, with the former winning.

"Should be thankful for that glove, because we both know you wouldn't win without it." Miyuki said to Toxsa.

"So I'm not the strongest in the real world. Big deal. Not everyone can be a master at everything." Toxsa said.

"Don't bring up that Tenkai Knight thing. Or the video games again. We've heard that a thousand times. This is the real world, not a game. Not Quarton." Fiona said.

"Whatever. Still not gonna change the fact that it's true."

"Again, it doesn't apply here, so who cares? That's also true."

"If you want a real answer, it's probably a mixture. Not saying she's a bodybuilder, but I did see her hittin' the weights when we were in New York." Dwayne said. "Definitely not an amateur when it comes to that type of thing either."

Launch was up against Mayuzumi.

"Go ahead. We both know what's about to happen anyway…" Mayuzumi said to her, looking off in the distance, not even caring about this game much at all.

Launch, as her good self, took a deep breath before punching him with the glove. Mayuzumi, getting up from it, hit back, but it was only to say that he tried more than anything else. He already knew he wasn't winning.

Next was Sucy again, this time against Tsukishima.

"I gotta ask. What did you make that potion out of?" He asked her, genuinely curious.

"It's not the food if you're wondering. I still haven't figured out what I'm going to do with that yet." Sucy replied, before deciding to actually drink some of it this time.

"And this time you choose to drink it. Don't know if that's a bad omen or not, but, I guess we'll find out. You get first hit."

"If that's what you want." She threw a punch at his arm. It hurt a lot less than he thought it would. Though that was because he expected to be sent flying. He hit back a few seconds later, but again, it was as if Sucy didn't feel anything at all.

He could only shake his head.

"One eye is better than one it seems. In more than just games." Sucy said.

"We'll see when this game's over."

Rick and Reimu were next.

"Can we get Rick out of this? I'm almost certain this counts as elderly abuse." Libby said.

"There's no such thing as elderly abuse in punchies! Old people can catch some fists too!" Rigby said.

"Besides, it's Rick. He's not your average old man. Which means, I don't feel bad for doing this!" Reimu said before punching him in the arm, sending him flying and into a tree.

"Aw jeez. Rick! You alright!?" Morty called out.

Rick coughed a bit before getting back up. "Yeah. Yeah I'm good. Now let me show you a real punch!" Using the rockets on the shoes that he was wearing to thrust himself forward, he punched Reimu, sending her crashing through the house.

"The hell?" Aomine said.

"There is no way Rick is naturally that strong." Noelle said.

"He clearly did something to enhance himself. Otherwise, he would have probably been hurt a lot worse. Don't know why you guys are acting so surprised." Sucy said.

"Yeah. I did. One punch pill. And yes, it's an anime reference. And it does exactly what the name says it does. Take it for one enhanced punch equivalent to anime levels." Rick explained.

"But was sending her through the house necessary." Benson said with Rick looking indifferent.

"Unfortunately, this is the par of the course this season." Lanolin told him. "Still though, I do apologize."

"And also, isn't it Rigby's fault for deciding not to limit the strength for this challenge? Or at least letting things be fair?" Axl asked.

"I mean, that's true but I wouldn't have said that out loud." Tangle whispered to him.

"No it's not! Rick didn't have to punch that way!" Rigby quickly yelled out.

"Look, we're wasting time pointing fingers. Just try not to do something like that again, alright?" Benson asked.

"You got it. Sorry again." Lanolin said to him.

"It's fine. So, I would assume Rick won this round?"

"Yeah, that should be an easy one." Rigby said with Heloise giving the credit to the Rats again.

Reimu flew back seconds later after, clearly upset.

"Stay mad at something that's your own fault. No one told you to give me pity points. And you paid for it." Rick said to her.

*Confessional*

Reimu(Storm Kings):

"Yes, I somewhat held back on that punch. But that was to avoid actually killing him. It's hard to say I won't do it again because for all the stuff that he makes, he's still just as strong as a regular person is."

*End Confessional*

Zee was next, going up against Eijun, but not without Sucy letting him get a whiff of whatever potion she had. And surprisingly, as much as it caught him off guard at first, he was still standing. Eijun punched him far regardless.

"Heh. I guess that potion only really works with its maker." Hinata said.

But he couldn't have been more wrong.

"Wow. That's crazy. I didn't feel a thing!" Zee said.

"Wait, are you serious?" Mr. Wolf asked in disbelief.

"Nope. You can punch me again and see!"

"Nah. No time for that. Zee, let's go." Heloise said. He punched back, and it was enough to make Eijun flinch just enough for Heloise to give the win to the Rats.

Kise was up against Aomine.

And Aomine was way too eager to go first.

"Jeez Aominecchi. I have a feeling you've been waiting to do that for a while." Kise said, rubbing his arm.

"What gave it away? Only thing that would have made it better would have been me being able to hit you in the face. Next model shoot you go to, you got a black eye and tell em I gave it to you."

"What the heck did I do to you!?"

"Nothin'. Just always wanted to hit all of you guys just once without any repercussions for it."

"Who the hell just thinks of just wanting to punch their friends?"

Yang whistled out loud.

"It's Weiss isn't it?" Ruby said to her in a deadpan tone.

"Who told you that? I could be talking about anyone. Even Ben."

"Yeah. I know from experience." He replied.

"You guys are crazy. You know that?" Kise said, smiling a little /before shaking his head and punching Aomine back. But it wasn't as hard as Aomine's.

"Come on Kise. You're gonna have to hit harder than that." Aomine taunted. This was enough to credit him the win.

"That punch hurt and you know it! You just lied so you could get the point." Kise said to him.

"Got nothin' to lie about. You saw what I did against Albedo right?"

"That was a completely different situation."

"Hey, stop complainin' and hit the weights more instead of doing all those model shoots."

*Confessional*

Aomine(Storm Kings):

"Okay, yeah, I kinda lied. But I had to really sell it for it to work. And besides, when you got these, you can make it believable." He said, pointing to his muscles. "I'm not like Sucy where I can…. be her and not feel a thing with all those random a[censored] potions she makes. Do I think she's weird? Yes. But, you can't deny that what she does works."

*End Confessional*

Courtney was up against Zak.

"I don't even need the glove to beat you. Let's get this over with." Zak said. And predictably, he was able to win.

"Yap all you want. You may win the battle, but the war is far from over." Courtney said, waving him off.

"Actually, the war is pretty much over for you. It's a three-way, and you're the side that's irrelevant."

"I wasn't talking about the game genius."

"Ohhh, you mean the season that you won't win like every other season you've been in. Got it."

"I won't laugh when I see you get interviewed on the next aftermath. You're not even worth those few seconds."

"But I'm worth it now?"

She put up a hand, completely ignoring him.

"Whatever backpack."

"Backpack?" Asta repeated, confused.

"He's saying she's a burden to her team basically." Toxsa explained.

"I don't know about that."

"Of course you'd say that."

Bass was against Albedo next.

"Your weapons are similar to X, Zero and Axl's." Albedo started before suddenly being hit by Bass and getting up afterwards. "You….."

"If you're going to attack, do it and stop listening to yourself talk." Bass said.

"As you wish….." He was clearly not happy being interrupted. He changes into Ultimate Humungosaur and sends him flying back. "I would suggest you choose your words more carefully next time." He changed back after his team was granted the point.

"We'll see if you have that same confidence when we fight for real, without being limited."

"I will. If you even last long enough for that to happen."

Morty was against Todd.

"And the winner for most boring matchup goes to…." Todd commented.

"Just punch me man." Morty said, wanting to get this over with himself. Todd punched him with Morty punching him back, with Morty winning. But it was an uneventful one compared to the others.

The Rats' next potential winner was Lotte as she went up against Miyuki.

"Come on, don't be shy!" Miyuki said to her.

Lotte looked at him suspiciously. Even for a simple game like this, anything could happen. Just because she was nice to pretty much everyone here and hasn't really interacted with him much, doesn't mean she wasn't privy to him pulling some sort of trick to win.

"You go first." Lotte finally said to him.

"No, no I insist! Ladies first!"

She already knew that this was just going to go in an endless circle, so she just decided to go first. And if he had to be honest, he was caught off guard by how hard Lotte hit him that he flinched a bit afterwards.

"Not bad. Now it's my turn." He threw his own punch. And he was able to, predictably win by sending Lotte flying.

"Lotte, you okay?" Sena called out.

"Yeah. I'm fine." She replied.

"You don't have to worry about her. She's more than capable of handling it." Sucy said.

"Wait, that was it?" Lotte asked Miyuki.

"Yeah. Duh. What did you expect?" He replied.

"Oh. Nothing! Don't worry about it!" Lotte said, smiling and waving a hand dismissively.

*Confessional*

Lotte(Radical Rats):

"With all the things that he's done, I was half expecting him to try something. But, I guess I was just being too paranoid."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Miyuki(Wave Breakers):

"No idea what she thought was going to happen. And if she was talking about me, I was just being a gentleman." He said, grinning as he shrugged, as if he was clueless to why Lotte told him to go first.

*End Confessional*

Maki went up against Furuya and made sure she gave him a hard hit.

"That wake you up?" Maki said to him. "Been half-sleep for damn there most of the challenges you're not in. Not even Murasakibara did that."

Furuya threw his own punch back but it was with his own fist and not the glove.

"Whoops. Better settle that one with your team." Maki said after she was given the point.

"Did you not hear when we told you to use the glove!?" Reagan yelled at him.

"Yeah, if you're gonna do stuff like this, that sleeping's gonna have to stop." Mr. Wolf said.

"Do you not get enough sleep at home?" Launch asked, genuinely asking.

"Nah, that's not the problem." Miyuki said.

"He's your teammate. Fix it!" Kageyama ordered.

"Ehhhhhh, that's gonna be easier said than done."

"But getting rid of you will definitely be easy." Fiona said.

Bachira and Lucy were the next pair.

For the first time this game, things seemed to be even after each punch.

"I don't know. What happens if they're even Rigby?" Heloise asked.

"Just do it again. Get two more people." Rigby answered.

Axl and Paul were selected for the do-over, with the latter sighing. If he had to be honest, he did not want to be in this game. But it didn't really matter much anyway as Axl was able to win easy.

Next was Kageyama and Diana with the former winning.

"Well, you finally get to say you won against me in something." Diana said to him.

He put the glove to her face as if she was about to punch her. And actually did, to his surprise.

"Wow. She must have really beat you bad. Guess you're no longer the king." Tsukishima said.

"What are you even talking about!? That was an accident!"

"Sure didn't look like it."

"It was! And you're one to talk when I hear Sucy keeps kicking your a[censored]."

"At least I didn't decide to punch someone over it."

"Which I didn't mean to do. What part of that don't you get!?"

"How do you accidentally punch someone like that? That doesn't even make any sense." Ayame said.

"If I'm going to be honest, it's hard to believe that was an accident." Ryoma said.

"If Ryoma's saying it, then you don't have a good case. He's mostly neutral on stuff here." Reagan said.

"I wouldn't say neutral."

"What was that for!?" Diana yelled out, returning and clearly upset.

"It was an accident!" Kageyama replied.

"Yeah dude, sure it was." Randy said.

"It's one thing to do that, but to be dishonest about it?" Diana said before shaking her head as she went back to her own team.

"Are you okay?" Kurita asked her.

"Yes. I'm fine. I appreciate you asking though." She closed her eyes for a couple of seconds before folding her arms, paying attention to the rest of the game as her and the Breakers were one round away from winning.

Urien and Eliza were next, and both already had an unspoken agreement to allow the former to win, but sell it enough to make it seem like that wasn't so.

"Is that it? Pathetic!" Urien said after taking Eliza's hit and attacked back, causing Eliza to stumble a bit.

"And the Breakers win the game!" Chris exclaimed.

"MVP, right here." Dwayne said, pointing to Reagan.

"Nah, it wasn't all me." She insisted.

"No need to be modest. You deserve it."

"Admittedly, they're spot on. She was their most important player. And she didn't even play." Old Bennett said as he looked at them celebrate.

"Like it or not, Sendo's right. That glove is gonna be annoying to deal with." Kagami said.

"Pfft. Whatever. I don't know why you guys are overreacting." Murasakibara said.

"Because it's an actual problem?"

"Yeah, right. I'm not sayin' it sucks. But think about it, they had to resort to this just to try to keep up and win."

"I get what you're trying to say, but downplaying it is only going to get us into trouble." Rally said.

"Not downplaying anything. I'm just statin' what I see." He said before emptying a decent bit of animal crackers in his mouth.

*Confessional*

Mr. Wolf(Wave Breakers):

"I checked. My eyes are working correctly. And yours are too. We just basically saw someone get high to help win a game." He could only laugh and shake his head at how absurd that was.

*End Confessional*

Mordecai's game was next. And his particular one was at the arcade.

"The arcade? Sweet!" Toxsa exclaimed.

"I'm sure you guys already know what time it is." Mordecai said. "Game time!" He exclaimed.

"Well, this is your chance to shine again Toxsa." Kageyama said.

"You know, after the disrespect I got earlier, I don't know if I should help out. Ask Randy to do it for you." Toxsa said, stretching as he did, but embellishing it a little.

Fiona grabbed Toxsa by his vest.

"You better help out or else!" She growled out.

"Would you calm down? Of course I'm gonna help! It was just a joke!"

"Then don't even joke like that. We're already behind. This is not the time to try to be funny." Ayame said.

"I want you guys to do that same thing when he does it." He said, pointing to Miyuki.

"We will. But until then, we're talking about you." Fiona said.

"Just do your best to help us tie things up." Ryoma said to him.

"You got it buddy. And by the way Fiona, you're grabbing me like you're someone like Urien. You're about as tall as me."

"So!?"

Urien suddenly picked up Toxsa. "Be careful what you wish for, child. Now, you claim that you have skill at these games. Show your dominance again. Or face the consequences."

"Guys would you calm down? I got this." He replied, trying to make it seem like he wasn't afraid of the man when he actually was.

Urien put him down. "For your sake, you had better be right."

*Confessional*

Toxsa(Wave Breakers):

"I know I've said it like a bunch of times but it's times like this when I wish I had access to my Tenkai Powers on Earth. Even if it's just the staff, like that one time where we got access to our primary weapons but nothing else. Guys like Urien wouldn't be able to just push me around. The second he picks me up, bam! Staff blast to the face! No I'm counting Fiona. She's about as tall as me. And we're probably the same age. As of right now, Urien is like when we go up against Granox and Slyger whenever they come to Earth. Don't tell him I said that. That's kinda indirectly an insult to him."

"And no, don't think I'm gonna ask how old she is. You never ask a girl her age. Even I know that."

*End Confessional*

"Everyone's worried about who's gonna deliver but no one's gonna ask the real question: What game are we playing?" Randy asked.

"Almost there guys. Annnnnnd-" Mordecai stopped at one of the machines. "Broken Bonez!"

"Broken Bonez!" Rigby repeated. "I didn't know they brought this game to the arcade!"

"Yeah. It was about a couple of weeks ago when they did it. And now, you guys get to experience it in all its awesomeness today!"

"And this time, without a giant head appearing out of nowhere."

"A what?" Young Bennett asked, confused.

"Don't worry about it. Just get ready to play." Rigby said.

"But first, let me lay down the rules of how to play. Obviously, you got your joystick and your two buttons here. But, you actually don't use the joystick to move. The game does for you. What it, and the buttons are for is to do tricks when you jump in the air." Mordecai explained. "Here, just let me show you." He takes out a coin and inserts it into the machine to start the game. He selects "1 player".

Everyone tries to move as close as they can to see the game. The game was shown to have been an 8-bit game with a biker in a black outfit and a matching black bike. The dirt was brown with occasional ramps with a blue sky in the background. Mordecai jumps up on a ramp and does tricks by pressing buttons and moving the joystick around.

"8-bit? Jeez, we're really going backwards." Toxsa commented.

"What do you mean backwards? Are you callin' these games lame?" Rigby asked in a confrontational and offended manner.

"Nah. Just caught me off guard."

"See? And that is how you earn points. The more stunts you do, the more points you earn. If you land. If you don't, you get your bones broken. If that happens five times it's game over."

"So can we get extra lives?" Randy asked.

"Nope. There are no extra lives in this game. Gotta play with what you got." Mordecai answered.

"Highest score wins, right?" Toxsa asked.

"Yep. But, I'm not gonna let you guys off that easy and have just one of you play from each team. Each life is gonna go to one person. So if you lose a life, you gotta switch out with somebody else."

"So that's five per team. Alright." Bren said.

"So, anyone got questions?"

"We've got a choice on who goes, right?" Hailey asked.

"Yeah. I'm paying for this with my own coins. I'm not gonna chance wasting money on people that might not be good. No offense."

"None taken. Alright, I think I can manage. I can give it a try. I've had a few experiences at the arcade. Not with this game, but I can definitely rack up some points."

"I guess I can be saved for last." Toxsa said.

"Count me in." Randy said.

"I call fourth." Scott said.

"I get the last spot!" Julie, Molly, Libby and Hinata said simultaneously.

"Rock paper scissors for it." The first of the four declared.

"You got it! One game." The last of the four added.

"Tournament. Winner plays winner."

Julie played Hinata while Molly played Libby.

Molly chose paper, while Libby chose rock.

"Darn it!" Libby said.

"Tough luck buddy. Maybe next game." Molly said to her.

Meanwhile, Julie chose scissors and Hinata chose paper.

"Darn it! I thought you'd pick rock." Hinata said.

"Because she plays Subterra?" Tsukishima asked.

"Actually, yes."

"Why am I not surprised?"

"I thought it'd be like a subconscious thing!"

"That still doesn't make any sense."

"Well it does to me."

"And to you only."

"Alright, this is for all the marbles." Molly said to Julie.

"Marbles that I'll win!" Julie declared.

Both made their choices.

Julie chose paper, while Molly chose rock.

Molly snapped a finger, a little upset at herself. "I knew I should have went with scissors!"

"Good game regardless!" Julie said.

"And a good game to you as well. Oh well. On the bright side, this is your chance at redemption! Don't waste it!"

"I didn't know you played games." Randy said to Julie.

"Why? Because I don't mention it? I may not mention it 24/7 like you guys, but I have played at the arcade a couple of times. I'm not a noob you know." Julie said.

"Hey Hanamiya, don't you play games too? How come you didn't volunteer?" Bakura asked.

"Didn't want to take a spot from anyone else. Besides, like I said before, I'm nowhere near as hardcore as some of these guys." He answered.

"You seem to be at least someone who plays more than someone like Julie, but, fair enough. Speaking of games, that reminded me of the fact that Haizaki likes going to the arcades. He probably would have loved this type of challenge." Bakura said.

"Probably. But, unfortunately he's not here."

"True."

"That had better not backfire on us. That's all I have to say." Fiona said.

"These guys are pros. I don't think it will." Hanamiya said.

*Confessional*

Hanamiya(Wave Breakers):

"In reality, I didn't choose not to play because I was being nice. I chose not to because I didn't want to. Like I said before, some of you might call that lazy. I call that smartly playing the long game. Right now, this is another episode I'll be able to get through from doing absolutely nothing." He said, laughing. "And this isn't the first time I've done this. I've purposely chose to sit myself and our best players out during some of the Winter Cup games that I didn't think mattered. Sure, we lost games. And some of those opponents called putting out benchwarmers intentionally a gesture of disrespect, but I could care less. As long as we won the ones that mattered I was happy with doing that as much as I needed to. And I'll do the same thing here as much as I need to and produce when I have to play. Why waste energy that you don't have to use?"

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Yami Bakura(Wave Breakers):

"Now I see. It all makes sense. Why else would he just allow someone like Scott of all people to play? Or Julie, who's never mentioned playing games at all? Unlike Kise, who's genuinely trying to be nice, Hanamiya's sitting out to try to silently coast through the show. A viable strategy. But one that only works if you and/or your teammates are good enough for that. Let's hope the former applies. Because if not, you're in for a rude awakening sooner than you think."

*End Confessional*

Mordecai inserted a coin into the machine. "Alright. You're gonna just select 1 player for this. Highest team score wins."

Hailey was the first to go to the machine and selected "1 player".

A few seconds after being on solid ground, the first ramp showed up.

Pressing only the buttons she was able to stand the biker up in the air and brings his arms out before quickly bringing him back down to the ground and landing safely for 100 points.

"I should probably play it safe with some simple tricks. Make sure this one life counts." Hailey thought.

And she did just that. But it was nowhere clse to what she'd be able to score if she took more risks.

"You think you could score points any faster grandma?" Todd said to her.

"But if you do the same thing it's okay? Give me a break." She said, trying to keep focused on the game.

"Seriously though, you'd score more if you took more risks. Playing safe like this is kinda boring." Randy said.

"I know, I know. But at the same time, I only have one life. I want to make sure I get the most out of it." Hailey said.

"That works if you're trying to be deep. But you're just gonna bore everyone to death if you do this here." Randy said to her.

"Look guys, the point of this is to-" A few seconds later, she broke her bones(in-game). And she groaned in frustration. "Look what you guys made me do! Must have dropped an input and didn't realize it."

"Wait, how did you know what to do? There were no instructions." Albedo said.

"I just watched Mordecai. And figured out the rest."

"I see…"

"I've got next!" Scott called out.

"Just please don't play like she did." Zak said with Hailey only rolling her eyes.

"Broken Bonez huh? So this must have been the game you two were playing." Benson said.

"Oh you mean back at the Coffee Shop. Yeah…." Mordecai said, grabbing the back of his head, not exactly wanting Benson of all people to recall that.

"It's fine. I've put that whole situation behind me. Was just asking more out of curiosity."

Scott was able to land a trick for over 2,000 points.

"Wait, how'd you know how to do that? That was definitely more than just luck." Becky F. asked Scott.

"I just got creative. These games might be old, but they're definitely not as simple as they look." He answered as he pressed more buttons, getting ready for another jump and was able to land again, already surpassing Hailey's score. Though that couldn't be seen due to the fact that the scores were shared.

"Huh. It's funny. He's the exact opposite in this game compared to real life with his stunt videos. Well, stunt fail videos." Hailey commented.

Before anyone could say anything, seconds later, Scott fell and broke his bones in the game.

"Man! I thought I had that one. It's like the game just suddenly got faster." Scott said.

"That's because it did. It's hard to tell, sometimes your eyes can make it seem like it did, but it definitely got faster." Mayuzumi said.

"And it just so happened to go faster the second Hailey decided to say something." Zak said, glaring at her.

"Okay, I may have jinxed it. Sorry." She said, not even going to argue on that one.

Third was Randy. He stretched his arms out. "Alright Scott. I got admit, that was pretty good. But not Bruce. And this, is Bruce." He declared while playing.

"Bruce? There is no one here by the name of Bruce." Pops said, confused. "Is there?"

"That's just his stupid slang. Disregard it." Noelle said to him.

"Okay, but nobody's tellin' me what that means. I gotta know bro." Muscle Man said.

"It means awesome." Toxsa answered.

Muscle Man puts a hand under his chin, taking in this new information. "I see…."

"But do you know who else is awesome? My Mom!" He then laughed afterwards.

"Do you have to be obnoxiously loud with that laugh? I'm almost certain it's distracting to Randy." Noelle said, though she was also annoyed by it herself.

"I don't know, he doesn't seem too distracted by it." Hi-Five Ghost noted as Randy continued to silently play and perform some tricks that not even Scott was able to perform. Although he was able to balance out safer tricks with more risky ones whenever he needed to, to make sure he had a good balance of scoring a lot of points and making sure he landed safely.

"Yeah, the kid is in the zone. Let's not take him out of it alright?" Dwayne said.

"Hey, that's one of the tricks I did!" Rigby pointed out.

"I'm sure more than just you did that trick Rigby." Mordecai said.

"Sure. Then how come you don't remember doing it?"

"I don't know. I might have. I might not. I can't say for sure either way."

"Exactly!"

Randy was able to put up an impressive score by himself with one life, but he eventually fell and broke his bones, like his previous two teammates.

"Man. Got greedy." Randy said out loud before letting Julie have her turn at the game.

"Okay, here me out." Randy started.

"I can tell this is about to be something stupid. Not interested." Fiona said.

"I mean, you're just gonna say it anyway, so…. what is it?" Tsukishima asked him.

"Uh…." Randy started as he watched from behind, Julie continue to play. "You know what? I think I kinda forgot what I was about to say."

"No you didn't. You just used your brain and decided what you were about to say was dumb enough to not say." Fiona said.

"No, actually that's not it. Also, what happened to not listening?"

"The not listening stuff was a lie. Like I said before, this is what she and Noelle does. Pretend they're so mature and eavesdrop." Miyuki said.

"They're not the only ones." Aomine said.

"How would you know that?" Weiss said to him.

"How did you know I was even talking about you? I could have been talking about Satsuki for all you know. Man, you got baited so hard and I wasn't even fully trying."

"I-" She didn't even bother trying to protest anymore as she knew she was had.

"Oh yeah. My sister does that a lot." Todd added.

"Surprised you didn't add 'women am I right' to that." Riley said.

"Nah. Some of you don't do that to be fair. Or at least you don't look like you do. Just look at Maki and Rally."

"Leave me out of whatever you're talking about." Rally said to him, only hearing her name and a bit of what Todd said. While Maki just ignored him.

Julie groaned in frustration, which was enough to get the attention of anyone that wasn't paying attention.

"Looks like I'm done." She said.

"Not a bad score though. Now, allow me to finish things off m'lady." Toxsa said before getting to the machine.

*Confessional*

Randy(Wave Breakers):

"Not like I care about romance or anything like that, but if I did, I gotta say, anyone that gets with Julie is pretty lucky. A giant Bakugan that protects her, an energy sword, good at sports, and is pretty good at games. Not Bruce. But not an absolute shoob either. Need I say more?"

He then frowned as he concentrated more on the camera."Don't look at me like that. I couldn't say that to them because… it's classified!" He declared, pointing at the camera at the end.

*End Confessional*

"It's nice that you're scoring all these points, but don't you think you're trying to go for the home run too much?" Hailey asked Toxsa as he continued to do high scoring tricks, that also doubled as high-risk.

"Trust me, I know what I'm doin'." He insisted, not taking his eyes off the screen, getting ready to do another trick.

"At least he's actively trying to earn points that way unlike that-" Kaz started before Hailey snapped.

"We get it. You don't like how I played. Could you please stop mentioning it a hundred times? It's not going to change anything. Jeez!"

"Hey don't get mad at me! It's not my fault everyone said your playstyle is boring!"

"No one was blaming you exclusively. I'm just tired of hearing it when we're already past that."

"And if we're already past that, let's not argue about it anymore either. I'm sure this is very distracting for Toxsa." Ryoma said, not taking his eyes off the game screen.

This was enough to get both of them to stop.

Eventually though, the speed of the game had caught up to Toxsa and he crashed.

"Crud. Good run regardless though." Toxsa commented. "Wonder if I got the most points? Probably."

"Won't matter much if we don't ultimately win." Ayame said.

"But it does when it comes to voting." He thought.

Ultimately they were able to score over 370K points.

"Not bad. So you guys have some skill." Rigby said to them.

"Some skill? Buddy, look at that score. That doesn't seem like 'some skill'." Dwayne said.

"Yeah, but look at the high score." Rigby said. The high score was 1,300,000.

"You can't expect them to be able to just get all of that on their first playthrough." Mordecai said to him as he inserted another coin for the next team to play, which in this case was the Rats. Akko was the first to try her hand at the game for her team.

"That, and we'd be here all day." Weiss added.

"But that's the point. Score as many points as possible and get the record." Ruby said.

"Not for this. All I care about is getting enough to win."

"Since you want to act like you're so good at the game, what score did you guys get?" Muscle Man asked.

"That's our score up there." Rigby answered.

"No way. You're lying."

"We're not. And we'd show you, if they weren't playing."

"It's true. How do I know? The minute I came here, I got covered in brain goo." Benson said.

"Wait what? That is disgusting." Diana said, repulsed. Even Sucy was disgusted.

"Covered in Brain Goo!? What the heck were you guys doing!?" Miyuki said aloud. He was disgusted himself, but he intentionally said it loud enough to try to disgust Akko, who was focused on the game. And it worked. She immediately got away from the machine and left, covering her mouth. The second she got outside, she threw up.

"You know what? I can't even blame her. No one needed to hear that." Becky F. said.

"Sorry about that." Benson said.

"Not your fault. If that's what happened, that's what happened." Miyuki said.

Next on the machine was Sucy. And while she was able to certainly get a better score than Akko, she eventually crashed too.

"Huh. Thought it would go higher." She commented, seemingly indifferent to the fact she crashed.

Third was Morty. "All right, here we go." He said, warming himself up and pressing a couple of buttons to get a good feel for the game. And that almost proved to be a mistake. Doing that almost made him crash on the ramp that was coming up.

"Okay, I think I'm pretty warmed up now."

After the first jump, he was able to get into a good groove with the game. Until it got too fast for him.

"Not bad. Now let a pro show you how it's done." Rick said before getting to the machine next. "Screw a warmup. Let's go." After getting to the first ramp, he immediately went for a high scoring trick and landed it. And did it again, and again, and again.

"Man. I didn't think you would be this good." Morty said.

"What? I cannot believe you just said that. I should quit right now just because of that."

"Don't do that. Please." Rally said.

"Relax. I'm gonna play it out first."

He continued to play until he crashed.

"Now that's how it's done Morty. Take notes." Rick said.

"Sure buddy. Of course you'd be good at these games." Toxsa said to him.

"If I really gave enough of a damn I could have easily beaten you. Just know that. But I'll let Kise take care of that. Y-you got it, right? You're not gonna play the nice guy, like you've been for like several episodes, right?"

"Yeah. I got it." Kise said before getting to the machine.

*Confessional*

Kise(Radical Rats):

"Before you ask, I'm nowhere near as hardcore as Haizaki. Or Toxsa. You could just put me in the casual group. So why did I ask to play? Well, Minako and I were at the arcade like a couple of days ago and she got mad at me for losing to her. And it's only because she knew I could have beaten her. Heck, she got upset at me for being too passive here too before then. Hence why I'm trying to participate more. 'You should be a lot more eager to help your team with your skills' she says. Hand on her hip, wagging finger and everything like a mom. Now I wonder what would happen if she were competing."

*End Confessional*

Although he wasn't familiar with the game prior, he used what he saw from others in how they played to better familiarize himself with the game. Not to copy them, but to create his own style of playing from what he saw.

"It's crazy how even a simple game like this can be complicated when you really get into the nitty-gritty of it." Kise commented as he played.

"Yeah, we already established that." Yulaw said.

"I know, but still. Really interesting to think about the attention to detail."

"Which is why even if it's digital, it's still considered art. Even the simplest of them take at least some amount of time and dedication." Mayuzumi said.

"You keep saying stuff like this occasionally. Why do I feel like you're secretly a gamer?" May asked him, giving him a playfully suspicious look.

"I just understand and respect the work that's required to create them. That's all."

*Confessional*

Toxsa(Wave Breakers):

"Do you really believe that? I sure don't. Not the work part. Of course that part's true. If you're a coder, you'll know that that's not easy to do. I mean him saying 'that's all'."

*End Confessional*

"Man, he's actually doing pretty good." Aomine commented, referring to Kise, genuinely surprised.

"Why are you surprised? He could have just looked at how everyone played and used that." Murasakibara said to him.

"True. But it doesn't really look like it, that's the crazy part. I don't have a clue about how Haizaki plays, but I bet he's mad Kise's doing this and not him."

He couldn't do as well as Toxsa as he gambled on a jump and lost, but he was able to get second best.

"345 thousand? How so few?" Kise said in disbelief.

"Akko." Diana answered.

"Not her. Him again." Hiruma said, referring to Miyuki.

"Forgive me for failing to know what you mean."

"The Brain Goo. He used the current situation to his advantage."

Her eyes widened, figuring it out before closing them "Well then, I guess you'll need to do something to overshadow him. In your own way of course."

He only nodded as Bren started to play first. "Not gonna lie, retro isn't exactly my thing, but I'll make it work. Like so." He started off well until he crashed out three ramps later.

"Yeah, we can definitely see the first part is true." Reimu said to him.

"Okay, that one's totally on me. Sorry guys."

"If it wasn't for Akko leaving early, that would have been the worst score. Just to let you know." Sucy said to him.

"Okay, okay, I get it. I didn't do good. No need to rub it in."

"Nah, there was plenty of need for it." Todd said as he got to the machine next.

"Don't play bad and that won't happen. Simple." Sucy said to Bren, shrugging.

"I bet you say that to him a lot." Miyuki said, looking at Tsukishima.

"Nah. He can actually take losing pretty well."

"Of course you'd defend your boyfriend." She only blinked, her face not showing any type of reaction.

"Wasn't funny the first time, not funny now." Tsukishima said.

"To be fair, we kinda weren't even trying to be funny. It was just supposed to be a distraction by how jarring it was to suddenly hear. You guys are running it into the ground. You included Todd." Louie said.

"Now wait just a second!" Todd started to protest and hit one of the buttons too hard. He was able to land safely that time, but the ramp after that, not so much. "Alright, I partially blame Louie for that one."

"How about this, no one say anything distracting to the person that's playing. Because now that's two people that have pretty subpar scores." Isagi said.

"And I'll make sure this guy keeps his mouth shut." Aomine said, now next to Miyuki. "Go ahead and do what you gotta do Ruby."

"Right." She said as she got to the machine to play.

"Hey, you don't gotta worry about me buddy." Miyuki said to Aomine.

"Sure I don't." The latter said sarcastically.

She was already off to a promising start, landing on a few ramps safely. A couple were high-scoring tricks, others were low-scoring, but were a lot safer.

"At least she's not trying to take everything back all at once." Weiss commented.

"Considering the setbacks we had with the first two, she's gonna have to really pour on the points to make that up I think." Rex said. "But by then, I just hope the game speed doesn't catch up to her."

"I think she's more than capable of handling it. With the exception of me, she kicks everyone else's butts at games back home." Yang said to them.

Another 5,000 points was put up by another successful trick from her.

"Not true. She beats you too." Blake said to Yang.

"Occasionally." Yang corrected. "Not all the time."

"Yeah that sounds like she beats you more than occasionally." Ben said.

The points were starting to add up. And had now become the third highest scorer in the entire game and was still going.

"What did I tell you guys?" Yang said to her team.

In the end, she was able to get the second most points out of everyone, surpassing Kise.

"Really wanted to go all the way too. Oh well. Pretty good for a first time player though." Ruby said.

The fourth player was Ben.

"Going to see if you can top my sister's score?" Yang asked him.

"For a first time player? Have you lost it? Yeah Kise was definitely right about you." Ben said.

"Jokes aside, you're gonna have to do something. Same with you Rex."

"I know, I know, we're behind. I'll try."

That 'something' was an above average score, at least out of everyone that played.

"Let me at it. You clearly don't know what you're doin'. So let me show you." Rex said, getting to the machine next. And his score was only slightly above Ben's. Despite their efforts, it wasn't enough to get them to first. But Ruby's scoring was able to get them just above the Rats for second, even if it didn't mean much on the leaderboard.

"Well clearly you don't either." Ben said to him.

"Despite us losing, that score seems pretty decent." Rook commented. "Both scores actually."

"Well duh. For a first time player, absolutely. I'm just responding back to what Rex said."

"At least I slightly have a better idea than you. Numbers don't lie buddy." Rex said.

"Just like the numbers didn't lie and showed that you guys weren't good enough to win. That's three games for the Breakers. Rats have the only other point so far from the first game." Chris said. "Alright, what's the next game?"

"All right bros. I hope you guys are ready. Hey Chris, you got that music?" Muscle Man asked.

"Chef? You got the music?" Chris asked, turning to him.

"Doyle? You got the music?" Chef asked, turning to Doyle.

"Heloise? You got the-" Doyle started, turning to Heloise before she pulled out the CD.

"Yes. I have it." Heloise said, slightly annoyed that she had to be the one to remember.

"Sorry. I forgot." Doyle said.

"Clearly."

"Is this what I think it is?" Mordecai said.

"What? What's up man?" Rigby asked.

"You'll see. I'll explain afterwards."

*Working For The Weekend by Loverboy Plays During This Montage*

Hi-Five Ghost's game was pin the tail on the donkey. With the donkey being an opposing contestant, with the fastest team to track the opposing teammate getting the point. The participating team members would have noise-canceling headphones taped to their heads to make sure they couldn't take them off, intentionally or accidentally. Though Chris also had the suggestion of taping the donkey's mouth shut as well.

Skipper would pin a tail on Becky Farrah, Zee would pin a tail on Miyuki and Dwayne would pin one on Sly.

Zee would have won. If he would have pinned the right person. Dwayne, using his sense of smell of animals, was able to get a pin, but it was on Skipper. Becky was pinned twice and wasn't happy when she was told who pinned her and where. It was on one of her butt cheeks. And Skipper pinned one on her butt, but was way too accurate. But he did win regardless.

"Heh, it fits." Aomine said.

"What do you mean it fits?" Becky asked, frowning. "This isn't funny you moron!"

"Not what he meant." Rex said.

"Then what did he mean?"

"Not gonna lie, he kinda has a point." Rally said.

"Heh heh, point." May added.

"It's easy for you to make lighthearted jokes and remarks when you guys aren't the one that has a stick up their behind! Literally!" Becky F. yelled before she figured it out. "And I don't always! I seem that way because you guys make it that way! That includes you two!" She pointed at Rally and May at the last part.

Muscle Man's game was pinata hitting. But the pinatas were the contestants. The last team member to give up would be considered the winner for their team. Victims for this game were Sena, Octavia and Hanamiya.

The hitters were Jotaro, Whisper and Kunigami. And of course, they were all blindfolded and noise-canceling headphones so they had no idea who they were hitting. The same with the ones that were being hit. But none of them had their mouths taped shut, so that the ones being hit could say when they give up. Only the bats they had could be used to hit with.

After aimlessly swinging and hitting in several directions, eventually Sena was the last one to throw in the towel, winning another point for his team.

"Good job shrimp!" Hiruma said, nudging him hard and pushing him forward a bit when he did.

"Guess that extra weight put on paid off huh?" Sena said, laughing a little.

"Nothing is paid off until we win so don't get carried away!"

The final game was from Skips. And this game involved getting supplies first before using those same supplies to build a house, with Skips himself helping.

"Hold on a second. Stop the music!" Courtney suddenly called out.

Music Stops

"Uh oh." Mordecai said low.

"Is there a problem?" Skips asked.

"So you mean to tell me, that with all of the games we've done so far today, this culminates into building a house?" She asked.

"Yeah."

"That'll take how many people again?"

"The whole team. If you want to get this done faster."

"And how much time is this going to take?"

"As long as you need."

"You know what? Fair enough. Carry on. Okay everyone, we have the supplies, let's get to work!"

*Confessional*

Kurita(Radical Rats):

"It makes me sad Musashi isn't here for this. Because he works with his father at the family construction company, he has a lot of experience in construction and building things. He even helped build the clubhouse that we stay in now!"

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Riley(Storm Kings):

"I'm all for team projects and hard work, but I'm not gonna lie, I'm confused what the purpose of this game is. Just randomly asking us to each build houses is kind of out of the blue. All I want is there to be a good purpose for doing this, that's it."

*End Confessional*

"Hey Tangle." Axl started, a couple of bricks in hand.

"Sorry, I know we've gotten to know each other a good bit, but let's not get-" Tangle started.

"What….. are you talking about?"

"Oh. My bad. What were you actually going to ask me?"

"Anyways….. I was going to ask you, if you ever thought about how things would be if we were on different teams?"

"No. Why?"

"I mean, look at Hiruma and Miyuki. Kagami and Aomine. Sophie and Lucy. I think you get my point. I bet we would have been just like them towards each other. All three of us."

"Maybe. Maybe not."

"Then again, if we were, I don't even think it'd be close on who'd win."

"Power isn't everything you know. And I don't mean just on this show."

"It's not, but it's worth a heck of a lot."

"And they also say speed kills."

"Well you're going to need more of it then."

The two turned when they heard Kaz howling in pain after dropping a board on his foot, grabbing it and hopping on one foot after.

"If you're struggling to carry that many things, don't you think you should get help?" Lanolin asked him, carrying a drill.

"I'm fine! Don't you think you should be worrying about things involving your team and your house?" Kaz said, suddenly feeling better instantly before trying to pick up all of the boards again. When he walked with them and turned, he almost hit Paul on the back of the head.

"Does he not realize it's only one house?" Huey asked her, passing by, paint buckets in hand.

"He'll figure it out." She replied.

The almost victim thought about saying something but didn't, knowing it would only fall on deaf ears.

"So Skips, while I do like how unique this challenge is, I'm honestly at a loss here for why you would choose this out of all things for them to do." Benson said to him.

"Yeah, you're not the only one." Mordecai added.

"I know you guys have got questions. You'll get your answers soon." Skips said to them.

"You know what would be crazy?" Rigby started.

"What?" Mordecai asked.

"If they cause something crazy to happen just from this."

"I mean I guess. But why would you want that to happen?"

"I don't. I'm just saying it would be pretty crazy if it happened."

"Let's not jinx it. Weirder things have happened when it was just the two of us. I think you forget what happened with the smoke mirror, and that was just the island and the film lot that season."

"If we wouldn't have started going different places like that, that wouldn't have happened. But yeah, I see your point."

"Smoke mirror?" Pops questioned.

"Trust me Pops, you don't wanna know."

"I see… well, I won't question you about it any more."

"Alright, second thing Tangle." Axl started.

"Look, I know I'm your first non-robot friend, and an irresistible one at that, but don't you think you should be focusing on helping finish up?" She said to him.

"Alright, first off, no reason for you to make that first comment. Second, irresistible? With that tail and personality? Maybe on another world."

"This is another world genius."

"One that doesn't mirror ours."

"Seriously Axl, what do you want now?"

"It's about Whisper."

Tangle raised an eyebrow. There wasn't anything wrong with her. At the moment, she was helping out with painting. "If you want to talk to her about something, maybe ask her yourself?"

"You've known her longer than me. Do you really think that'll just be a simple solution?"

"Actually, yes."

"Not the answer I was expecting."

The two were suddenly soaked by Hiruma.

"Get back to work! NOW!" He screamed.

"But it was an honest one. Seriously Axl, whatever it is, I really think you should talk to her about it." Tangle said to the reploid as they started move to avoid drawing more attention and ridicule to themselves. "Unless you're scared to."

"The day I get scared of something like that is the day Sigma and the Mavericks win. And as long I'm alive, I'm never allowing that to happen."

"Just go and talk to her drama queen." She used her tail to push him away.

"Dah!" Aomine said, tripping over an untied shoestring with paint in his hand before Whisper caught the paint. Thankfully, a lid was on them, otherwise it would have gone everywhere airborne. "Crud. I'm screwed." He said before looking up, getting his face out of the ground. He saw boots before also seeing Whisper standing over him, buckets in hand.

"Wait…." After he got up and she handed the bucket to him, that was all he needed to know. "Oh man. Thanks. You're absolute lifesaver. I would say I owe you one but uh, you're on another team. So you'll just have to do with thanks."

"You're welcome. Just don't forget to tie your shoes." She replied.

"Yeah, I won't. Thanks again. You really didn't have to do that." He said before kneeling to tie the untied shoe.

"Hey Whisper." Axl started, trying to get the Wolf's attention. "Nothing's wrong, before you ask. Just wanted to ask you something."

"What is it?" The wolf asked.

"That was easier than I thought. Guess she was right." Axl thought.

"It's about Mimic." Axl said with no hesitation in saying it.

She closed her eyes before moving to get back to working on the house.

"Can't say I'm surprised." Axl said to himself, thinking that he pressed a very sensitive button.

She stopped and turned to him. "Unless you want to get yelled at again, it's a good idea for you to come on and start helping again." Whisper said to him, wanting him to follow her.

"How the heck did she know it was us?" Axl said under his breath before following her and doing whatever he could to help out around the house. One that they were actually almost done with.

"So it looks like that was a sensitive subject. My bad."

"No. It's fine. As great as it would be to not have that be brought up, with everything that's happened so far, I'm not surprised at all. You're just the first person here to ask about it."

"Well, do you want to talk about it with the whole team?"

"No."

"Why not? Kurita got to talk about Hiruma. And didn't you hear what Lanolin-"

"I know what she said. That still doesn't mean everyone feels that comfortable being readily open to so many people like that. If that were the case, then so many more people would have been ready to open up about what's going on with them. It's just that Kurita was willing to do that at the time."

Axl didn't have a response. And that was because she had a point. Now that she mentioned it, no one has been willingly that open to that degree since then. For the most part, it's just been smaller groups more than anything else. At least from what Axl has heard or noticed.

She pulled out a picture. The picture included Whisper and Mimic alongside a green howler monkey, a teal-furred ocelot, and a large brown-furred lion. All of the Wisps that accompanied Whisper were seen in the picture as well. All of them, even Mimic were smiling in the picture. "There were five of us. Smithy, Slinger, Claire, myself and Mimic. We were the original Diamond Cutters team."

Now Axl had an idea of what happened: Betrayal. But he didn't want to be rude and cut in and instead let her continue.

"The current team is a rapid-response team that works for the Restoration. But the original was an anti-Eggman mercenary team. I thought we were all committed to the cause. To stopping Eggman. But that wasn't the case."

And that confirmed it for him. Before he could say anything, she took off her mask, something that she rarely, if ever, has done since being on the show besides when she slept. At least in the sight of others.

"I would show you what happened with the footage from my mask. But, it wouldn't be right to do that in the middle of a challenge."

"Yo Whisper! Toss me another brush will ya!?" Kagami called out from a distance.

She was able to grab one from the multiple that were by her in a box of supplies and accurately toss one to him. It was a little fast, but he was still able to catch it no problem. Experience with catching high-speed balls from someone like Kuroko being the biggest reason why it wasn't too hard for him.

"Thanks!" He called out.

"Make sure you don't break this one too!" Lucy said to him.

"I told you the first two times was an accident! I'm not doin' that crap on purpose!"

"And I'm telling you that it being an accident or not doesn't matter! Stop stroking so hard! It's too small for that!" She quickly pointed at Randy. "Don't you even say anything!"

"I wasn't! Sheesh. Not like I'd know. Or you either." Randy said.

"You just said something!"

"So you want me to just stop talking? Yeah, that's never going to happen. Not in this universe!"

"You know what? Never mind."

"Long-story short, Mimic sold us out. Went behind our backs at some point and aligned himself with Eggman. One day he came to us with info about an Eggman base. That taking it out would cause a blackout for his forces in the coastline and wanted all of us in on it. Claire though, she told me to hang back. I questioned it since Mimic insisted all of us go but, she was adamant about it. Said she had a bad feeling."

"And I'm guessing she was right unfortunately." He inferred.

"Yes… they went in, Smithy made a plan for Mimic to scout ahead for an ambush while the rest pushed ahead. And that was just the excuse needed for Mimic to run off. They eventually found a line of dormant Shadow Androids. Until they weren't anymore. Eggman activated them to ambush them and sealed them in with a door capable of withstanding our weapons. They called Mimic and I for help. But they didn't get any. They tried to fight them off but….. they didn't make it out."

"So what Mimic said. Or at least the virtual one. All that was true?"

"About me not helping? Yes. It was. I could have helped. But l didn't. I waited until everything was clear and rescued the Wisps before returning to base and got the prototype Variable Wispon Smithy created."

"To know that that weapon you use every day is the last thing he would ever make in his life…. along with having those Wisps with you…."

"Never forget. Never forgive. That's why I keep that footage of what happened that day on my mask." Whisper said before putting it back on.

"And where's Mimic now?"

"Not sure. I know he's infiltrated The Diamond Cutters. He's why Silver got kicked out. But, he's been hiding under the persona of a cat named Duo to infiltrate the team. Why, I'm not sure. I've tried to expose him numerous times. Silver too. But it hasn't worked. And trying to target someone that's innocent like Duo with no proof he's Mimic was enough to make Lanolin declare Silver out of the team. Of course, Mimic did his part to sell it too. So for now, Mimic's been able to get away with it. At the moment, he's working with another pair named Surge and Kit. Two that I'm honestly not too fond of either. Especially Surge."

"But your mask records everything. Unless you didn't have it."

"It wasn't me that initially started to get suspicious actually. It was Silver. When he told me what was going on, how his eyes changed color, I suspected it was Mimic. And that's when I told him we were going hunting."

"So maybe Lanolin doesn't believe you. And pestering her about isn't gonna help. Fair. What about Tangle? Did you tell her? Or Blaze? I know she's not a part of the Diamond Cutters, but she helps out in you guys' adventures too right?"

"Tangle just assumed that I was stressed. And Blaze isn't a part of the Restoration. But you're right, she does help from time to time. Same with Silver. But she doesn't know anything about it. Considering what happened with Silver, I'd rather not get either of them involved with this at the moment. At least until the day I actually catch Mimic with proof. For what he lacks in combat and empathy, he makes up for it with how smart he moves. It won't be easy, but he will slip up, and when that happens I will catch him. If we've done it once, we can do it again."

Axl lightly grabs onto Whisper's shoulder, something that admittedly caught her off guard for a bit.

"You'll get him. At least from what I've seen from him so far, the only reason why he'd do something that risky is more than just some petty grudge. Someone's probably, no, definitely paying him to do it. With guys like that, those worst qualities like greed's going to rear its ugly head soon enough."

"I never considered him being paid by someone as the reason. But you're probably right."

"In a way, I guess I'm a little similar to him."

"Don't ever make that comparison about yourself. Regardless of what you've done."

"No, I'm serious. I don't mean just my abilities, I mean what I did to the team I used to be with before I was a Maverick Hunter, Red Alert. I learned later they were corrupted by Sigma but, that didn't make what I had to do easier. I still remember one of them begging me to retire him so he couldn't hurt anyone else."

Whisper had already caught on what he meant by 'retire' from the tone of his voice.

"Still, I don't like you making that comparison. You did it because you had no other choice. Mimic had one. And he made it for all the wrong reasons."

"WOO! That's it guys!" Hailey called out as she and Asta were trying to make sure that last window was in correctly. "And that's all folks! We're done!" Hailey announced triumphantly.

Skips walked in front of the house to look at it. It was a three-story house with multiple windows, painted red.

"Looks great guys! Great job everyone!" Skips approved.

"So who exactly won this game?" Dewey asked.

"You all did." Skips said.

"What do you mean 'we all did'?" Louie asked.

"Don't tell me you asked us to build this house to do a job you were supposed to do." Bobo said, a cap on replacing the original hat that he wears along with a woodworking apron over his usual clothes to prevent paint from getting on them.

Skips looked at Chris, with the latter nodding.

"Guys. Welcome to your new home. At least for the time." Skips announced.

"New home?" Several people said simultaneously.

"Yep! The game was over after the Hi-Five Ghost challenge. This one was a bonus. For you guys! We worked this out days prior and Skips said he was okay with it, and even asked to help out." Chris explained.

"So you tricked us into building ourselves a place to stay." Emma said. "Why?"

"Because if I would have said it straight-up, you would have phoned it in and/or complained."

"Not really. This is the place we have to stay. Of course I want to make sure it's nice."

"Correction. Some of you would have."

"Now that makes more sense."

"Wait, so that means-" Reagan started.

"Yep. You're goin' back to the island." Doyle said.

"Did you really think I would just let you guys go back home with your parents, friends, loved ones or whatever, having a good time, eating good food the whole time? And waste all of that food and this perfectly good island for you to stay there just to eat and then go to a challenge? You guys are super delusional." Chris said. "You should be lucky even let you guys get this involved in building your own place like this."

"And you probably set it up this way because you and/or Heloise were too lazy to do it yourselves. Or at least hire and pay someone to do it." Octavia said.

"Yeah, this has to violate some type of Child Labor laws!" Todd added.

"Hence why he did it in a challenge. Because with it being this way, he can skirt around any type of legal issues that might arise."

"Now hold on a second." Heloise started. "For starters, you're kinda right. And that's kinda without Chris even saying anything. But, I still would have done it. And tried to make something for you guys that was good enough to stay in. Maybe not the best looking place, but good enough."

"So that's what those weird prizes like a bed, a chair and a table were for." Hailey said.

"But, we built those too. So are those gonna just be extras or…" Scott started.

"Oh those! Yeah, you're not keeping those." Chris said before they were brought in via portal and burned to a crisp by a wrist flamethrower used by Doyle.

"No not the TV!" Randy exclaimed, hands on his face in shock. The consoles were burned next.

"No! What is wrong with you man!?" Toxsa added.

"Then what the hell was even the point!? You just scammed us out of prizes and wasted our time!" Becky F. said to Chris.

"Did I?" Chris asked innocently.

"Yes! Yes you did!"

"Whoops." He said, shrugging. "Now, while your new home gets brought to the island, there's still the issue of an elimination. Kings! I'm talking to you!" Chris said.

"Man, I was kinda hoping that would be waved off too." Dewey said.

"Well, it isn't. And now we've got to figure out who leaves." Weiss said.

"That you do. And make it quick. The rest of you, go home and enjoy your last day. Only reason I'm doing this is so I'm not pulling you away from wherever you guys are without warning. And without extra sets of clothes. It's one thing to have a handful of you be dirty or stinky because of a challenge. It's another to have all of you that way because you couldn't shower. And boy, some of you definitely need to make sure you have access to that. So go ahead and pack your things too." Chris explained.

Rex looked at Bobo. "Don't know why you're lookin' at me. I shower thank you very much."

"You guys, same thing. Although in your case, one of you's going to be going home and not coming back tomorrow."

"Wait, tomorrow?" Kise said.

"Is that a problem?"

"I had a model shoot scheduled for tomorrow. And plus, I was hoping to- never mind. I'll just figure something out."

"Yeah. You might want to, because I'm not changing that. And if I don't see you back on the island by the time Chef's finished with the food, I'm tossing you from the show. No ifs, ands, bribes, pleads or buts about it. That doesn't just go for you. I mean that for all of you. Now, Kings, portal. Now. Rest of you. Home. Now."

Everyone started to go into their respective portals.

"Good luck guys! Enjoy your new house!" Mordecai called out.

"At least as much as you can anyway!" Rigby added.

"Farewell! Best of luck to you all!" Pops said.

"Thank you again Skips!" Several people called out.

"It's nothin' guys! But you're very welcome!" Skips replied.

"Later!" Chris said before quickly going into the portal that the Kings went in. When the portals closed, the pile of ash left behind from the objects was revealed to have been still there. Along with all of the other stuff left from building the house. And the broken parts of the house as well.

Benson came back, carrying packs of bottled water in his hands.

"Hey, I know you guys worked pretty hard, so I know you're thirsty. And hungry. So I ordered some pizza for you guys. So before you get clea-" He looked and saw that only the Park Employees were there. "Where's Chris?"

"Oh you just missed him. He just left." Mordecai said.

"Everyone else too." Rigby added.

"Are you serious!?" Benson said in utter disbelief.

"What? Pizza? Man, they are missing out." Muscle Man said.

"It's not just the pizza. It's the fact that Chris told me he'd make sure the contestants and the interns would help clean up after the games were over."

"Chris told you that? I don't know about that." Mordecai said.

"Maybe he forgot?" Hi-Five Ghost suggested.

"Nah, there's no way."

"He actually might have. So I'll call him and ask. When the show's over of course." Benson said before going inside the partially destroyed house to give Chris a call.

"Do you know who else is getting a call? My Mom! No seriously, I'm gonna go check on her and see how she's doing. Later bros!" Muscle Man said before leaving to go to his trailer.

Back on the island, the elimination ceremony had already commenced. "Alright Kings, the revolving door of eliminations has turned back to you. So you gotta send someone home. Make your votes and come back here when you're done."

*Confessional*

Eliza(Storm Kings):

*Stamps Skipper*

"Nothing of value will be lost with this elimination that's for sure. He should be thankful that this is all he's getting."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Akashi(Storm Kings):

*Stamps Todd*

"On one hand, Skipper's unpredictability and smart tactics have made him a formidable member of the team. On the other, his size will continue to be a very glaring issue that cannot be fixed easily. However, I think the benefits far outweigh the negatives. So my only other choice is Todd. And by extension, his sister."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Sophie(Storm Kings):

*Stamps Todd*

"While I don't have any problem with his sister, Todd on the other hand is a different issue. Say what you will about Skipper but he will contribute in his own way when needed. The same way Puss has. I genuinely mean no offense when I say it, but Todd and Riley, both of your lack of abilities will be a hindrance later on."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Reimu(Storm Kings):

*Stamps Skipper*

"It was either him or Bren. It's pretty obvious why I'm not voting for Todd or Riley."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Aomine(Storm Kings):

*Stamps Todd*

"Can't believe I'm doing this…." Aomine said under his breath. "Alright, as annoying as Skipper is, he's been gettin' it done when he needs to. So that only leaves Todd and Riley. Sorry about your brother Riley, but he's the only one that made sense."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Maki(Storm Kings):

*Stamps Skipper*

"If you ignore the remarks Todd makes, you got a secretly solid competitor. That being said though, it's him or Skipper. I feel like that size is gonna be an issue later on, as great as he's been playing."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Courtney(Storm Kings):

*Stamps Skipper*

"This was a tough one. And that's only because of Riley being with Todd. On one hand, with Skipper, he annoys even me with how he acts sometimes. On the other, he definitely wants to win. And you can't take that away from him. And he's done it before, despite him not playing well in the beginning here. But then there's also the size issue. And the fact that we'll lose two people instead of one. Yes, I'm fully aware that on the island, we'll get more people. But who knows when that's going to be?"

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Louie(Storm Kings):

*Stamps Skipper*

"On a serious note, there's a big difference between Puss and Skipper. They're both actually really good even with how small they are. But there's one big difference: Puss has made himself likable. Skipper has done things that have made him unlikeable in the eyes of some people."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Sebastian(Storm Kings):

*Stamps Skipper*

"I understand some may not agree with this decision. But, the reason why I chose Skipper is because of his lack of usefulness. Something that is only masked within the context of certain challenges. Tell me, what can he possibly against the full might of someone like Natsu? Yes, the same applies to Todd and Riley, but they are at least fully aware of that fact and will make choices to avoid those conflicts. Skipper does not seem to."

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Skipper(Storm kings):

*Stamps Todd*

"Bren, the only reason you're spared is because of those Monsuno you've got. But you better get it together! And fast!"

*End Confessional*

*Confessional*

Jotaro(Storm Kings):

*Stamps Skipper*

"When Todd stops constantly opening his mouth, he can actually do pretty well for himself in these challenges. As for Riley, the talent show and bowling shows she has untapped potential herself."

*End Confessional*

"Alright, you've all cast your votes and made your decision. So I can go ahead and send you guys home, we're gonna bring it down to the last two. And one of them is exactly who you think it is. Todd. And the second one is Skipper!"

"Not a problem. And we all know exactly who's going home." Skipper said confidently.

"Yeah." Todd said, looking right back at him.

"I wouldn't be smiling if I were you."

"Well, let's end the debate once and for all on who's going home right now! The person that stays gets a marshmallow! The one that doesn't leaves. And doesn't come back! Ever!"

"You always say that and then they come back." Courtney said.

"Quiet!"

"And why is it marshmallows again?" Todd asked. "Ran out of ideas?"

"It was either that or some Total Drama merch. And I didn't think you guys would have been interested in that. Anyways, have you guys seen the last promo? What did you think?"

"Promo? What promo?" Riley asked.

"Ohhhh, right. You guys never got a chance to watch it. I was supposed to show it you but it wasn't ready yet. You'll get to see the next one then. Anyways, the final marshmallow goes to…."

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"Todd!"

"What!? That's a load of baloney!" Skipper declared.

"Nope! You got the most dude. Says so right here." Chris said, showing him the results.

Skipper was on the verge of exploding but stopped. "Fair enough! I can understand some of your reasoning to vote for me. The more the merrier! Strength in numbers!"

"Actually, I just voted for you because-" Yang started but he cut her off.

"No need to explain! I will take my leave! Temporarily! I will be back!"

"No you won't. You're gone. For good." Chris said.

"That's what you think!"

"That's not what I think. That's what I know." Chris said.

"And you know less than you think! Until next soldiers!" Skipper said, saluting. "Chris! Open the portal!"

"Sure thing." Chris said before pressing a button and creating a boot out of the remote and sending him flying off the island.

"Mayday! Mayday!" Skipper was heard yelling before a portal opened by the time he started falling back down. When he returned to the Penguins' Lair, he landed right in doll accessories, now with a wig on his head, a purse that was on his shoulders and had makeup.

"Skipper! Welcome back!" Private said before seeing him along with Kowalski.

"Uh….." Kowalski started.

"What? You're acting like you've never seen me before!" Skipper ssaid.

Kowalski and Private could only stifle in laugh.

"What's funny!?"

"I didn't know this is what they had you do on the show." Private said.

"You mean those games? You've clearly not been watching then!"

"Sir. I suggest you take this." Kowalksi said, still trying to stop himself from laughing out loud as he handed him a mirror.

"Are you trying to be funny with me Kowalski!? Because I don't appreciate it!"

"No sir! I am…. not!" Kowalski said, unable to keep his face straight for five seconds. "Just take….. the mirror!"

"I'm not-" Skipper started before seeing the bit of hair and then deciding to take the rest. "What in-" Skipper started before yelling. "CHRIS! You evil, disrespectful, son of a-"

As this was happening, Chris concluded the show. "And with that, Skipper's gone! Will-"

Chris' phone suddenly started ringing.

"Hello?"

"Hello, Chris?" Benson started.

Chris just looked at the camera and winked.

"Yeah, I'm about to finish up. Make it quick if you don't mind."

"I was just calling to remind you about your contestants cleaning up around the park. You might have forgotten so I wanted to give a call to remind you."

"Yeah, I don't remember saying that."

"You did. Remember? We talked over the phone about it."

"Only thing I promised was the money you get paid, that was it. Anything else, I said it might happen. And since we're not coming back…."

"What? Chris, you-"

"Thanks for the pizza though!" Chris said.

"What pizza? I didn't-" Benson turned and saw Chris, via portal, taking a couple of pizza boxes.

"Chris!" Benson yelled out before he quickly closed the portal. "Looks like you were right." He said to Rigby and Mordecai.

"Duh. You got suckered out of pizza and a free day of cleaning." Rigby said. "Well, at least we get the pizza to ourselves."

"Oh no you don't! Go and clean up that mess right now!"

"What? But we didn't even make it!" Mordecai protested.

"I don't care! You want that pizza, you're gonna have to earn it! You guys haven't done a single thing all day! And the only reason I even allowed it was because of the Total Drama cast appearing here today. And with them being gone, things are back to how they were before! The only person that deserves to do nothing today is Skips! Which means, get to work now or I'm docking your pay!"

"You know, for a second there I thought he was gonna say 'or you're fired.'" Rigby said to Mordecai low.

"Be quiet!" Mordecai said under his breath.

"I can choose to do that instead if you'd like." Benson said.

"No, no, we're good."

"Good. I'll go get a broom and some other things to make it easier for you. Along with getting Muscle Man, Pops and Hi-Five Ghost." Benson said, before walking away.

"Hey Benson!" Rigby called out.

"Rigby!" Mordecai said, gritting his teeth as he did.

"What?" Benson said, turning around.

"You said everyone but Skips is going to be doing something. What about you?" Rigby asked.

"Good question. I'm going to calculate the damages of the trees and part of the house that were destroyed. Along with the lampposts. You know things that could may have not even been a problem had Chris kept his word!" Benson said, starting to raise his voice.

"Woah, Benson. Relax. We'll get to work. We promise."

"Glad to hear it. And, I'm sorry for raising my voice. It's not your fault. I'm just frustrated."

"All good." Mordecai said.

"Thanks. I'll be sure to get you guys some help alright? Once you're done, have at with the pizza."

"Cool. Thanks."

The second Benson got into the house, his face completely turned red and he was heard yelling before calming down eventually and sitting down on the computer, angrily typing.

"Ha! I got him pretty good didn't I? Anyways, as I was saying, will Skipper's equally bite-sized contemporary on the Rats be next? And how will the teams enjoy their new home? I would hope so! They built it! But find out next time on Total…. Drama….Across the Multiverse!" Chris finished.

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A/N: Got busy with school so I had to slow the writing on this chapter down unfortunately. And it looks like Mordecai had nothing to worry about as nothing happened. Which is pretty abnormal in their world lol.

Looks like Skipper's size and his personality came back to bite him. As Chris stated, will Puss be next? Or will it be someone else? Find out on the next episode as the cast gets to brawl in Interspace in Bakugan Battles!

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Episode 33: In Interspace We Brawl(Title's a reference to a small playstation game): Compete in a Bakugan Battle in Interspace

Two Worlds Collide by Daniel Leblanc and Creighton Doane(Bakugan)

Episode 34: Compete in Field-Tournament-Style-Style-Up-And-Down-On-The-Ground-Manja-Flanja-Blanja-Banja-Ishka-Bibble-Babble-Flabble-Doma-Roma-Floma-Boma-Jingle-Jangle-Every-Angle-Bricka-Bracka-Flacka-Stacka-Two-Ton Rerun-Free-for-all-Big-Ball(Big Ball for short, but it's bad luck to not say the whole name)(Chowder, An Idea from 1_true_believer_3000 on AO3)

Episode 35: Grudge-by Match: Compete in Grudgby Matches in the Boiling Isles(The Owl House)

Episode 36: TDKO: 2nd Impact: Battle in Kungfubots with abilities based on each character(Cartoon Network TKO(Titanic Kungfubot Offensive) Online Video Game) (Double Elimination)

Episode 37: Holding Serve: Compete in Volleyball Matches(Haikyuu!)

Episode 38: Project: TD: Battle in Exonaut Suits with special abilities based on each character in simulated battleground-modified locations Across the Multiverse(Cartoon Network's Project Exonaut Online Game)

Episode 39: Here we go A-Gen: Compete in trials cultivated by Gen, Mr. White and the rest of the Tenkai Knights(Tenkai Knights)

Episode 40: Total Drama: Cul-de-sac Ed-ition: Help the Eds in making the best scam(Ed Edd n Eddy, an idea from G-Man 2.0 on FF Dot Net)

Episode 41:In a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Battle in Simulated Star Wars Battles(Star Wars Battlefront Games)(An idea inspired by a challenge idea from Ginrai12 in another season)

Episode 42: Hold the Fort!: Compete in a Fortnite Squad Battle(Fortnite)

Episode 43: TOTAL KOMBAT II: Test your might and mind in the Test Your Might and Chess Kombat mini-games(Mortal Kombat, with the second game being based off a game mode in Mortal Kombat Deception)(Double Elimination) A/N: Elements from other fighting games may also be seen.

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Placements:

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

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

163rd- Cameron(Storm Kings)- Total Drama

162nd- Duncan(Wave Breakers)- Total Drama

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

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

159th- Owen(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

158th- Zoey(Wave Breakers)-Total Drama

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

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

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

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

153rd-Priya(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

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

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

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

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

148th - Nimona(Wave Breakers)- Nimona

147th-Rocky Rickaby(Radical Rats)-Lackadaisy

146th-Huey Freeman(Storm Kings)-Boondocks

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

144th- Blaineley(Wave Breakers)-Total Drama

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

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

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

140th-Noah(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

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

138th-Dawn(Radical Rats)-Total Drama

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

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

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

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

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