Where it all began (english version)

by MonsterGraffiti

Years after the show the Total Drama contestants had parted ways on bad terms. But one morning, Cody, the old group's geek, ends up waking up in the past, one day before everything began. With the knowledge of a lifetime and the premise of a bitter future, he'll have to do everything possible in order to change the events that would ruin said future.

76. Awwwwww, Drumheller

Awwwwww, Drumheller

POV. Third person

Chris begins to narrate, "Last time on Total Drama World Tour. Duncan, everyone's favorite delinquent finally went sterile," Courtney lands on top of his crotch, "I think. And while we searched for eggs on Easter Island, some old pals stopped by for a nice visit", they all searched among the statues of their defeated companions, "along with one seriously ticked off mother of a condor, Duncan's luck took a 180-degree turn, Cody met the mythical Easter bunny, or maybe it was just a hallucination, What do I know? In the end and unanimously Duncan was expelled from the competition and once again the roles between him and his ex were reversed," Courtney looks at Duncan silently as he is expelled. Chris and Chef were in the cockpit, "The final four remain. Which one of 'em will dig up more trouble this week? Find out right now on Total… Drama… World Tour~!".

-0-

"Mmm...", Bridgette shifted uncomfortably in the first-class seat, her eyes slowly widened.

"Grrrrrrr".

Only to see the baby seal standing on top of her chest growling with his sharp teeth.

"GRRRRRR!"

"AHHHHH!", the surfer got up suddenly and began to touch her face in search of bite signs, she also looked around looking for the aggressor animal that she swore she had left in Africa. However, her skin was intact and inside the first-class cabin there were only her and the other competitors.

She finally breathed a sigh of relief when she realized that everything was fine.

"Meow," Dennis looked at the surfer from her position on Cody's chest. She along with the other three were sleeping on the couch along with the geek (who was allowed to sleep there due to his previous stomachache), the other three were still asleep, the only one who noticed everything was the cat for being a nocturnal animal.

"It was just a nightmare," the surfer said to herself. When things calmed down, she realized something.

Cody was on the couch, Alejandro was a seat away from them, yet there was no sign of Courtney. She woke up with an idea of where she might be.

Dennis decided to follow her because she had nothing better to do.

Once they left, Alejandro opened a single alert eye, first he saw the back of the retreating surfer, then his eyes focused on a certain geek who was snoring on the sofa.

The Spaniard stood up and silently approached Cody until he rose just above the vulnerable boy. He reached out to his neck slowly.

The geek suddenly frowned.

*CRACK*

"MMM!", Alejandro collapsed to his knees as Cody's fist slammed directly into his crotch. He wasn't even awake, he did it only by reflex.

The Latino took several deep breaths to recover, then limped back to the place where he had been sleeping and collapsed in the seat.

He was thankful that Cody was asleep, otherwise that blow would have been much more powerful. Al never again underestimated the nerd's strength after he knocked him off the ring in Germany.

However, despite the dull and agonizing pain, he still smiled contemplating the reward in his hand.

A blue dreamcatcher.

-0-

Bridgette walked to the common area and just as she imagined, there sitting at a table with a single light above her head was Courtney, sitting with her chin resting on her hand looking at nothing while she pondered something.

The surfer had seen her do this a lot the last few days, instead of writing on a list or making Machiavellian plans, she would sit with a blank stare with something in her head. But she didn't know what the CIT might be thinking.

If Duncan was no longer the object of her thoughts, what was it then?

"So you can't sleep either," the surfer said as she sat across from her. Dennis climbed onto the table and lay down between the two waiting for attention, which she received in the form of Bridgette's hand on her head.

Courtney didn't say anything, not even turned to look at her, but at least she didn't yell at her to leave, which was more welcome than the last time they were like this.

"I'm finally here again," she said out of nowhere, "the four finalists."

"Yeah, but look on the side of who you put yourself on to get here," Bridgette told her with disappointment at the thought of her alliance with Alejandro.

"I could tell you the same thing," the CIT retorted back to her.

"How can you talk about Cody like that?" she said angrily.

However, Courtney did not lash out, which actually made Bridgette nervous, she still did not know what she was thinking.

"If only you, Cody and Alejandro were left in the race, which one would you vote for?" asked Courtney.

"Alejandro," she said without hesitation.

"And once it's just you and Cody, do you think you could beat him?"

"No-," Bridgette drew a blank when she realized where the CIT was going with this.

"Sorry, I asked the wrong question," Courtney finally looked her in the eye, "Would you even try to win?"

"... no," Bridgette said, all she cared about was that Alejandro got his comeuppance, but after that, she didn't plan to go any further.

"'Cause is Cody a monster?" she asked again.

"...", this time the surfer remained silent.

"No."

Bridgette looked at her when she said that.

"You couldn't beat him... because you wouldn't mind Cody being the winner," Courtney said, "after all such a nice guy deserves to win, doesn't he?" she said sarcastically, "it's the perfect plan."

"Are you implying that Cody is just nice so that everyone wants to see him win? Is that why you joined Alejandro? Because you think that you would try to beat him?" asked Bridgette, offended by that idea.

"Who knows? Maybe I do, maybe I believe something else, maybe I think Swedish meatballs are better than Italian ones," the CIT said rambling, "the point is that I want to expel him, and I assure you that my pulse will not tremble when it comes to pulling the trigger."

"You've changed a lot since the island," Bridgette said, barely recognizing her former friend at this point.

Where was the counselor who was looking for the best for the team? The one who worried about the Bass, the one who enjoyed hanging out with her friends, the one who laughed at the nonsense of the others, the one who stayed with Geoff until the end.

"And I'm supposed to be the only one?" the CIT returned to her.

Bridgette had also changed a lot, succumbed to temptations, she was betrayed, she had had to toughen herself to move on, lose a lot of friends, come to terms with her demons, take the game seriously. All with the aim of taking revenge on someone.

Bridgette sighed, "This show has worn us down so much."

"Don't worry about it," Courtney said getting to her feet, "when this is all over, it's over."

Bridgette also stood up, "What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means just that, when this season ends, I don't want to have anything to do with anything about this show, including its participants," she told her seriously.

Bridgette's heart shrank at the CIT's harsh words.

"They're not going to play with me again," she said, thinking of a certain delinquent as well as a certain goth, "so get ready, because after Cody, you're next," she warned her.

Bridgette frowned, "Don't think it's going to be that easy."

"I don't," she said walking away, "I'll never, ever do it again."

Bridgette sat back down at the table and put her hands to her face with a long sigh, "What happened to us?"

"Meow."

-0-

POV. Cody

I was walking down a long, confusing hallway. All around me were only mirrors and more mirrors, I think I was in a house of mirrors.

*Blow*

"Ouch", as there were only mirrors it was difficult to see where I was going and I ended up bumping into the walls, this was a kind of maze, "Where is the exit?".

"Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhu, there's no exit".

"...", the hairs on the back of my neck stood up when I heard that voice, that damned deep voice.

"Walk eternally through the halls, until your bones rot," said a female voice with an accent.

"Maybe you think of yourself as the big deal, but if it was just you and me, I bet I could beat you, loser," said a nasal voice from somewhere.

"I'm afraid you won't have the chance, I'll take care of him first."

I turned around when I heard the last voice, "Alejandro", he was standing in the hallway behind me, and next to him in the mirrors were recognizable figures, "Mal... Scarlett... and the other."

"My name is Scott, damn it!" the farmer complained.

"Do you really think you can change anything? You are pathetic, the world must be a chaotic place, that is why we exist," said Mal pointing to them all, "and you hinder us... anomaly".

"Even if you succeed here, there's still us left and you can't catch up with us," Scarlett said.

Mal smiled ominously, "but I really hope to see you soon", in an instant he was in the mirror next to me, "I can't wait to shatter everything you care about".

"...", I looked at the evil entity next to me out of the corner of my eye, "because this anomaly thinks the same, I have long since stopped caring about what the universe dictates, so if a fight is what you want, I guarantee you a beating".

"Jujujujuja, so brave, are the most fun to destroy."

*Crack*

Reality began to crack, just as a broken mirror would.

*Crack, crack, crack*

"Let's see if you can back up your words, little man," Alejandro said, then the mirror shattered and everything turned white.

-0-

Cody suddenly woke up by straightening up on the couch, breathing heavily after the sleep he had. Even if it wasn't real, the negativity that was emanating from the entity known as Mal was overwhelming, something was really wrong with that guy.

Reflexively, the geek put his hand around his neck and realized that his dream catcher was missing, he stood up looking around, the others were sleeping.

The first thing that occurred to him was to see if Alejandro had it, but when he was about to go check it, he stopped in his tracks.

Lying there in the seat in front of him, Bridgette slept peacefully, in her hand was Cody's dreamcatcher.

Completely destroyed.

"..." anger took hold of Cody.

...

"WHY DID YOU DO IT?!"

Alejandro woke up suddenly when he heard a scream, as did Courtney.

"I already told you, what are you talking about?" said Bridgette anguished.

"How could you take it and break it?! It was a precious gift! After how much I helped you! You just went and did this?!" the geek demanded.

Cody showed in his hand the broken pieces of the dreamcatcher that Dawn gave him.

"I don't know how it got into my hand or why it was broken, I would never have done something like that," the surfer tried to defend herself.

"Just as you would never have kissed another man under Geoff's nose, right?" Cody slammed in her face with contempt.

Courtney's eyes widened, as well as Alejandro's. Kevin and Butchie looked on with their mouths open.

Bridgette's eyes watered, "How can you say that?" she said trembling.

"In the end you showed what kind of girl you are, right? After I helped you get this far. You'd better take care of yourself from now on, because you're alone and I'm definitely going to crush you in the competition," Cody said as he shattered what was left of his dream catcher and dropped it to the ground.

After that, he left furious at the stunned sight of the other two finalists. The seagull and the prairie dog ran after him.

Alejandro looked at the petrified Bridgette, Courtney instead looked at the broken pieces on the floor, then looked at Alejandro.

---

Confessional.

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Alejandro

"Wow, I didn't think that would work so well, in fact, I had my doubts about whether it would work."

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Courtney

"Did that just really happen?"

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End of confessional.

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-0-

Dennis and RRRaúl were on top of one of the tables in the common area with many kitchen products around and a cookbook that they stole from the chef.

"(Ok, here it says let's mix the ingredients in a big bowl)," the kitten read. RRRaúl pushed a large Viking helmet upside down on the table, she shrugged, "(it works, then measure out 300g of flour and add them to the container).

RRRaúl looked between two bags, one said flour, the other said baby powder. He shrugged his shoulders and took the second, without measuring anything he opened it and threw a large amount into the helmet.

"(Then add sugar.)"

RRRaúl took the salt shaker and began to add it little by little with his mouth, but the lid opened and all the contents were emptied into the flour.

"(Crack three eggs and separate the yolks from the whites, why? If it's all going to end up in the same bowl)," the confused cat said.

"(Mmm... eggs)," the Gila monster said as he licked one of the eggs.

"(RRRAÚL!)".

The lizard stopped drooling and broke the three eggs, then threw them with everything and shell into the mixture.

"(Place a pinch of baking powder)."

RRRaúl tried to open the envelope of powder but could not even bite it.

*Scratch*

Dennis had no problems, RRRaúl waved the envelope and a large amount of dust was spread on the helmet and the table.

"(Add the chocolate)."

RRRaúl put two sticks with everything and wrapping to the mix.

"(Ok, the next step is to stir constantly until there are no lumps... What are lumps?)"

RRRaul was thinking about how to solve this situation, so he noticed his tail, put it in the container and began to shake it at high speed.

A while later Dennis compared the mixture to the photograph of a huge decorated and colorful cake in the book.

She frowned, "(Why doesn't ours look like this? Did we skip a step or something? Put in the oven for an hour at 160 degrees)," she read in the book.

RRRaúl licked the remains on his tail, "(I don't know, maybe we have to wait for it to ripen, you do know what you're doing?)" he asked doubtfully.

"(Not really, but if a rat could run a well-known restaurant in France, I think we can put our skulls together to make a cake)," she said confidently. Suddenly her ears fluttered and her eyes became slits, "(Someone is coming! Hide the evidence!)".

They quickly threw everything off the table onto the floor and pretended to be sleeping... well, Dennis was, RRRaúl was pretending to be a tree.

Cody passed through the common area ignoring them and continued until he reached the confessional and locked himself inside.

Kevin flitted around to sit at the table, "(I think there might be a problem)."

The Butchie looked at the petrified RRRaul, "(what a strange tree)".

"(Great, which of the two did he sleep with now?)", asked the cat with her paw on her forehead.

-0-

The plane landed at its destination relatively calmly, something very unsettling for both the crew and the pilot chef himself, they rarely had normal landings, so this seemed like a bad omen.

Cody walked silently at the front of the group, behind him but quite far away was Bridgette who remained silent and behind her a little far away were Courtney and Alejandro.

"Can I know what you did now?" the CIT asked the Spaniard.

"Me? Wasn't it Bridgette who in revenge for being licked destroyed Cody's precious accessory?" he asked as if he didn't understand the question.

"Don't play dumb with me, I know you had a hand in this," she told him.

Alejandro rolled his eyes, "I just spread a false path of crumbs and the nerd followed it straight to the end, that was all, although I myself was surprised that he exploded, I expected something more like a cold shoulder or that he would start ignoring Bridgette, but I guess this works".

"So it was a plan to get Bridgette out," Courtney said annoyed, "I thought we were supposed to kick Cody out first."

"Hey, this is the best I could do for both of us to be divided, now we can definitely dominate the vote as long as we don't let them get immunity."

"Bridgette is not going to vote for Cody," Courtney said confident of this fact.

"But now Cody will vote for Bridgette, then we both knocked him down in the semifinal, plain and simple," Al said.

Courtney looked at the other two in front of them, she closed her eyes, "well, we'll do it your way, but when Cody beats you up, you better take it like a man," she warned.

"Oh... believe me".

Courtney stopped suddenly at Alejandro's deep, dark tone, she couldn't even turn to look at him.

"I've stopped playing the good and soft boy," the CIT could hear how she clenched her knuckles and swallowed saliva, sweat began to drip down the back of her neck.

Alejandro passed by her and his expression was the same stoic as always, "come on, don't be left behind".

"..." Courtney resumed her walk with a slight shaky step, that wasn't right.

-0-

The remaining four competitors met Chris outside the plane.

"Welcome to Drumheller, Alberta. A world heritage site. It has the wicked-est collection of dinosaur bones on the planet. In front of you is a giant pit with lots of super ancient dino bones. Grab whatever bones you can find to make your very own life sized dino. I'm calling it "Designosaurus!" Chris said.

The whining about the bad name began.

"I know. They should pay me just to come up with titles. I'm that good," the host said.

Courtney raised her hand.

Chris sighed, "Yeah... Courtney?"

"Excuse me, but taking dinosaur bones from a world heritage site, doesn't it qualify as desecration and looting?" the CIT asked suspiciously.

The other three looked at the host.

Chris for his part looked at the chef, and the cook just shrugged, "I say we'll be fine," he downplayed.

Courtney folded her arms, not satisfied with the answer.

"You have two minutes to rifle through the plane's cargo hold and grab whatever you can to help build your creations. And... go!"

The remaining 4 finalists made their way to the plane's cargo compartment.

Once they left Chris spoke to Chef, "All right, while they're at it, here's a shovel and this is a map that marks the location of what we need, good luck."

Chef accepted the shovel and the map, "Can you tell me why in the name of everything extinct you need a dozen velociraptor skeletons?" the cook asked.

"Oh... That's for a little experiment that I plan to try that can be very useful to us at another time; far, far into the future," said the host while rubbing his hands, "hahahahahahaha... hahahahahahaha... hahahahaha

As Chris laughed like a cartoon villain, Chef rolled his eyes and began searching for the dig site.

...

Inside the plane, the only ones looking for objects to assemble their dinosaurs were Cody, Bridgette and Courtney. Alejandro went straight to look for bones as it was all he needed for what he had in mind.

Cody picked up the craft box that Sierra used last time, it was very useful back then. However, instead of going out he went even further into the cargo area looking for something specific, he still didn't know what he was going to put together but he did know what details he wanted it to have.

Bridgette went through a box that for some reason only had carpets in it while wondering something about the challenge that didn't quite convince her.

"Why would Chris want us to look for materials to make dinosaurs? Isn't it enough with the bones outside?" she wondered. Then she remembered the box of art supplies that Cody took, it was possible that the challenge was more than just building dinosaurs, she doesn't know how to build a real one anyway.

Going through another box he found some promising things, "this could work," she said taking the box.

*FALL*

"AHHHHH!" Bridgette freaked out when a huge box nearly crushed her. She looked up at the pile from where he fell but there was nothing out of the ordinary, "what happened... It doesn't matter," she said as she lifted her materials and walked out of the cargo area.

The baby seal peered over the boxes, angry that his plan had narrowly failed. What he didn't realize is that Kevin was on top of the ceiling beams and saw everything.

Courtney walked out of the cargo hold with just a magnifying glass and a brush, "this will be very helpful."

...

Alejandro checked the small bones around him while working on his dinosaur, "no, no, no, no, this one will never work, no... perfect," he said as he lifted something off the ground. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Cody carrying a couple of boxes, got up and approached the geek, "so, it was a scene that you put together this morning".

"I guess," Cody said without giving him his full attention, he was picking up bones from the ground.

"Maybe you don't want me to ask you this, but can I know what caused so much scandal?"

"You saw it, Bridgette destroyed my dream catcher, I can't believe she of all people would do something like that," Cody said as he clenched the bone in his hands.

"You always wore it, what made it so special?" the Spaniard asked him curiously.

"It was a gift from someone special... although not in the way you imagine. It helped me feel safe while I slept, losing it is... Shit, she won't even forgive me for this. And it's all Bridgette's fault, I swear that when I win the challenge her days and her constant moans for Geoff are numbered," he said annoyed.

Alejandro couldn't help but smile behind his back, he quickly pulled himself together, "well, I guess you can't always find the right ally, too bad," after saying that Al left letting the geek simmer.

...

Kevin, Butchie, Dennis and RRRaúl were gathered in the shadow of the plane.

"(Now what do you want? We tried to make another cake with the help of Butchie but what we cooked came to life and a death battle with the pandas began)," Dennis said.

*Battle Sound*

The sound of a battle came from the plane.

"(I named him Guillermo)," RRRaúl said.

"(We're not going to keep it)," Butchie said.

"(I was watching as we agreed and I saw a certain spiteful psychopath who came back once again from the afterlife to exact revenge)," Kevin said.

"(Are you shitting me? Really?)" Dennis said in frustration, "(How did he get back on the plane?)"

"(Innocent whistle)", everyone looked at RRRaúl as he tried to pretend.

"(Really?)" Butchie asked him.

"(He said he wasn't going to seek revenge anymore!)", RRRaul tried to defend himself.

Kevin shook his head, "(It doesn't matter anymore, we have to stop him before he does something stupid)."

"GRRRRRRRR".

"(After saying good night to Guillermo, of course)," Butchie said, holding a pastry knife.

...

A good three hours passed in which the competitors only concentrated on building their dinosaurs, without talks, conspiracies, casual conversations or furtive glances. At this moment they only cared about the challenge.

Alejandro meticulously selected the pieces that best suited the dinosaur he was building, in an almost a little too detailed way.

Courtney was dusting off a pile of bones trying to figure out what she was supposed to put together. She used the brush to dust off a bone, "cough, cough, cough, cough", however, the bone she was cleaning ended up disintegrating completely at the perplexed sight of the CIT, this made her angry.

Bridgette couldn't decide between a plaid shirt or a Hawaiian one. But then she realized that she hadn't even begun looking for the bones for her dinosaur. So she ran out into the valley.

*Fall*

A butterfly net fell where it had stood a few seconds ago, Rabioso growled when he saw that the surfer had dodged him once again.

Cody, rather than assembling a dinosaur, seemed to be doing a kind of mechanical construction. Around him were pieces of the mechanical kung fu suits. His clothes and face were stained with oil and he was currently welding two pieces of metal with a childlike smile.

...

Inside the plane's galley, RRRaul stared longingly at the drawing of a super egg omelet in the cookbook as Butchie and Dennis ran in panicked circles around a burning cake.

...

Chris arrived at the place where the 4 finalists had been working on their projects, "Time's up. Now we'll begin the amazing tour through the ages of imaginary dinosaurs. Let's start with Alejandro."

The Spaniard stood proudly next to his incredible project, "I can do better than imaginary. This impressive fellow is the Allosaurus", Alejandro presented a very realistic complete model of the extinct animal, "And yes, that's his real name".

It received no ovations from the other competitors, Bridgette refused to acknowledge it as impressive, Cody was blank at this point, and Courtney rolled her eyes at the clear and intentional pun on the dinosaur's name.

"It's going to be hard to beat that good start," Chris said, "Bridgette? What do you have for us?"

The surfer swallowed nervously, "with you the... ah... P-Partyraptus?" she said unsurely.

Their dinosaur was small, but still larger than a velociraptor, the skull was that of a carnotaurus, but all the other pieces were improvised. The skeleton was decorated with fake wooden sunglasses, a large Hawaiian T-shirt made from a pile of carpets sewed together, and next to it was a large wooden board cut improvised to resemble a surfboard.

"It was a semi...aquatic animal who liked to collect logs and... Fishing while surfing?" I try to give him context.

"Are you serious?" said Chris boredly.

Bridgette lowered her head in embarrassment.

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Confessional.

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Bridgette

She was upset and with her arms crossed, "okay, I don't know anything about dinosaurs, sue me."

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Chef Hatchet

"Who took my priceless, expensive collection of World carpets from the cargo area?!" the cook complained.

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End of confessional.

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"I love it!" shouted Chris, surprising everyone.

"It does?" the four asked in disbelief.

"Well, the backstory was bullshit, but the dinosaur? It has some wicked style," said the presenter.

Bridgette felt proud again.

"Wow, a dinosaur with an open shirt, do you really think Geoff is going to forgive you for immortalizing him as a dinosaur? Were you always this shallow?" asked Cody annoyed.

Now Bridgette felt like crying again.

"Hey, that wasn't necessary," Courtney said with a frown. Alejandro gave her a look at this.

"Why do you care? She was lying to you too, wasn't she?" said Cody without looking at her.

Courtney folded her arms with a frown.

"Even though I like what's going on here, Courtney, how about you show us your work?" said Chris.

The expression of the CIT changed from annoying to presumptuous, "with you, the conflict."

Courtney's work was stacked on a stone slab, what you could see in this was not 1, but 2 skeletons, one was of the well-known (at least to them) prehistoric beaver and the other was of the well-known (again, only by them) prehistoric goose, "the prehistoric beaver and the prehistoric goose, two species that shared territory millions of years ago here in Alberta. I found this incomplete earthenware and with a little effort I filled in the missing bones and this is what came out," said the CIT proud of its paleontological work.

"Yes," Chris said, "and what is this supposed to tell us? That they both died while fighting?" he said, looking at the two fossils.

"You can bet it," Courtney said, "this was definitely a big battle between two territorial species, oh~, I wonder how must have been to see it in person," she said dreamily.

...

A million years ago...

A meteorite was about to impact the earth.

"(It's the end)," said a fat prehistoric beaver, "(we have no salvation, if this is our last day on earth, I don't want to leave with regrets, Gooselinda)," he said to the prehistoric goose next to him.

The prehistoric goose with crooked teeth and a slimy eye looked at the giant beaver "(yes?)".

"(I… I... "I love you!)"

"(But ours cannot be, we are of different species, it would be a forbidden love)".

"(I don't care, I would defy nature for you)," the beaver told her lovingly.

"(Awwwwwww, it's the most romantic thing I've ever been told)," replied the goose moved.

Both ancient animals embraced as the large space rock crashed into the background and a fiery orange gust slowly headed towards them.

"(I just hope that if our species survive a million years later preferably on an abandoned island, they can both live together in peace, devouring the dominant species of that time)," the beaver said.

"(I just hope that if our bodies are found and shown to the whole world by the dominant species, they can understand the great barrier-breaking love we had for each other)," said the goose.

...

In the present...

"Yes, a brutal fight for territory, hell there was nothing but hate between these guys here, just deadly intentions to finish off their opponent," Courtney said explaining her fossil.

"A story of conflict and hostility, my two favorite things," Chris said, "well done, Cody, what do you have for us?"

Cody smiled like a child at Christmas, "Meet you, Frankensaurus... but you can call him Franky."

Chris's eyes widened with excitement, "Is that-?"

"A tyrannosaurus with robot parts? Yes... yes, it is," Cody said just as satisfied.

Cody's work was based on a tyrannosaur skeleton, but many of his parts had been replaced with robotic parts taken from the kung fu robot suits of the second season, making him look like a cyborg dinosaur skeleton. Something that most children and 100% of adult men can only dream of.

"I love it! If it was up to me, I would have made you the winner right now," Chris told the geek. Courtney, Bridgette and Alejandro began to complain about the host for his words, "What? It's a robot tyrannosaurus," Chris said as if he were a child.

"Men," Courtney said, rolling her eyes with her arms crossed.

"Did I mention it can do this, too?" said Cody, pressing a button installed on the dinosaur's leg. His eyes lit up with a red light.

"GRRRRRRRRRRRR", the huge dinosaur came to life and began to take one step at a time in front of the gaping competitors and host.

*CRASH*

The dinobot tore the Allosaurus to pieces as it passed over it.

"Hey!" complained Alejandro.

"He's alive? Awesome!" said Chris.

"In fact... it is," Bridgette said dumbfounded as she watched the dinosaur walk around.

"What was the need for that? You could just make a tyrannosaurus and that's it," Courtney told the geek, she was a little worried that the dinosaur would appear out of nowhere and step on her by accident.

Cody smiled and shook his head, "oh, Courtney, Courtney, Courtney, as correct and logical as ever," the geek said arrogantly.

The CIT's cheeks turned red, "Excuse me? What does that mean?" I ask him with narrowed eyes.

"It means what it means," Cody said nonchalantly, which only annoyed Courtney more.

"Shouldn't you turn it off?" asked Bridgette uneasily as she watched the robot move randomly around the place.

Cody's eyes widened, "ah... I didn't think about that."

The other four looked at him incredulously, "Are you serious?" asked Courtney frustrated.

"To be fair, why would I ever want to turn it off? It's a robot dinosaur," Cody said.

The robot dinosaur moved away from them in a random direction and was never seen again. Years later, many legends would emerge about the wild and enigmatic, marauder of Drumheller.

Courtney extended her palm and directed it toward her forehead.

...

*PAFFFFFF*

Butchie raised his head from the cookbook, "(What was that? It sounded painful)".

"(Return those eggs!)"

"(No! They're mine!)".

Meanwhile, Dennis chased RRRaúl around the kitchen to take the eggs in his mouth.

...

"It's judgement day! Which dinos will survive and which ones will be driven to extinction?" said Chris.

"Vote? You're not going to pick the winner," Bridgette asked.

"No, that's what we have some very special judges for," Chris said.

"And where are they?" asked Courtney looking around, she wouldn't be surprised if Chris brought in old teammates again for something like this.

"They're already here, it's you," the excited host said, "With a pretty shocking twist, of course

"Great," Alejandro said borelessly.

...

Bridgette swallowed hard when she found herself tied to an electric chair, she knew very well the jolt that these things could give, "Is this really necessary?" she asked worriedly.

"Probably not, but it makes things a lot more interesting," Chris said, "It's time to vote for your fav dino. Can't vote for your own, of course. And you might wanna tell the truth. Just saying."

Bridgette was silent for a few seconds, "well, Alejandro and Courtney's dinosaurs were awesome... but they don't compare to a robot dinosaur," she said with a smile towards the geek, the chair did not electrocute her.

Cody crossed his arms and turned his back on her, to which Bridgette stopped smiling.

...

Alejandro was put in the electric chair, "Courtney's history of conflict was very fascinating."

*ZAP*

"AHHHHH!" the Spaniard was toasted by the chair, "okay, the robot dinosaur was amazing, I admit it," he said with red cheeks of embarrassment for admiring something so childish.

"Yes, you sure do hahahahahaha," Chris teased him.

...

"Despite the silly pun, Alejandro's dinosaur was the most realistic, so I'm voting for him."

*ZAP*

"AHHHH! That wasn't a lie!" complained Courtney.

"Well, I try, how about we go again?" said Chris.

Courtney gritted her teeth, "well, though it wasn't, realistic and seemed absurd, childish and immature to do, not to mention irresponsible... It was still a job well done, so I vote for the dinobot," she said, looking away with red cheeks.

"Yes..., sure," Chris said arrogantly.

...

"I guess I have to vote for Bridgette's Partyraptus, it really looks like Geoff with all the crooked bones," Cody said.

"Hey!" said the surfer.

"And that's three votes for Frankensaurus and one for Partyraptus, which means Cody gets the reward for the next part of the challenge, this handy-dandy post digger," Chris said.

Chef brought the excavator for the geek.

"Sweet," he said.

Chris looked at the camera, "the competition is still in the next challenge, stay here to see it, in Total Drama World Tour", he paused for the camera to stop recording, "very good, join me", said Chris heading towards the plane.

...

Kevin fluttered through the surrounding sky looking at the competitors, Chris, the plane, the bones and rocks, but there was no sign of his objective, "(Where has he gone?)".

...

Chris took the 4 finalists to the outskirts of the plane, along with two interns and three metal barrels. The presenter looked a little annoyed, but he went ahead anyway.

"Welcome back to resource-rich Alberta, Canada. The interns were supposed to bury these barrels full of maple syrup, sugar, spiders, and rattlesnakes," he tapped the barrel above.

"Sssss (Stop bothering!)".

Everyone became uneasy when the snakes' bells rang furiously.

"Long story short, the interns buried our reserve fuel barrels instead," Chris said annoyed, then threw the barrel on the interns and it opened up throwing the snakes and spiders on them, "since Bridgette came second, she gets this rusty old prospector kit," Bridgette smiled as Chris threw the equipment at her, "and Courtney has third place," he said as he handed her a kiddie pail and shovel.

"This has to be a joke," the CIT said uncertainly.

"And for coming in dead last," Chris said.

"How am I last when I created the only realistic dinosaur?" the Latino complained, "that has to get me something."

"Hahahahahaha, Yeah, you'd think so. First one back with a barrel of my oil wins immunity," said the host.

Everyone looked out over the incredibly wide and vast desert.

"This won't be easy by any means, will it?" asked Bridgette.

"No, definitely not," Courtney said.

"Oh, I forgot to mention. We'll be pummeling you with the occasional boulder, hahaha, hahahahahaha," no one shared the host's joy.

-0-

Alejandro and Courtney watched as Cody went in one direction and Bridgette in another.

"So what will we do? It's going to be very hard to find and dig up the barrels before the guy with the bulldozer and the girl with the pickaxe," Courtney said.

Alejandro rubbed his chin, even though he had his plan in place he didn't want to leave loose ends again, like letting one of the other two gain immunity.

"You're right, it will be difficult for us to find and dig up the barrels," he said with a smile.

"That's what I said," the CIT said with boredom.

"You follow Cody, I'll follow Bridgette, and at the least expected moment, we can steal their barrels," said the Spaniard.

Courtney narrowed, "Why do I feel like I got the harder one on purpose? How am I supposed to steal a multi-gallon barrel in the middle of the desert from someone I begin to doubt is fully human?"

"Cody has a lot of strengths, but he has two key weaknesses that we can use to our advantage. First, he has a very big, sweet tooth, and second, he is a hopeless pervert," explained Alejandro.

"Well, I don't have candy in my pocket," Courtney said, the truth was that she completely moved away from candy days ago with the fear that Cody would start groping her in search of his precious sugar.

"What are you talking about? You have the perfect sweet for the second point," Alejandro said while squaring it with his fingers as if they were a camera.

Courtney's cheeks burst red, "Are you implying that-? No, no-oh, I refuse, I won't, I refuse to fall so low and lose the dignity that I still have left," she said quickly imagining the worst possible scenario. Which would be with her between Cody and a very hard rock... which would break first.

Alejandro raised an eyebrow, "I was just suggesting that you approach him and be kind and sweet, maybe a little cheeky and flirtatious, a hip shake here, one less button on your cleavage, some rubbing, things like that. What did you think I meant?"

"..."

"..."

"Maybe I'm not going to do that, why don't you do it and tell me how it goes?" she said with hatred while crossing her arms with red cheeks.

Alejandro grimaced, "Yeah, I don't think either of us would feel comfortable if I do that," he said with a shiver. Alejandro was a woman lover, "it has to be you, or it won't work".

Courtney bit her lip hesitantly. The truth is that she knew they didn't have many options.

In the end she sighed making a decision, "Fine".

-0-

Courtney looked behind a rock as Cody walked through the desert. It didn't take her long to find the geek, but she had been following him for a while, and something seemed very weird to her.

"Why hasn't he tried digging anywhere?" the CIT asked.

To her eyes Cody seemed to be looking for something as he walked, but at no time did he try to dig in the ground to at least verify that there was nothing. She couldn't believe that he was seriously going to find the barrels just by scratching the surface, right?

Cody on the other hand looked at the ground looking for clues that would lead him to the barrels, 'Courtney has been following me for quite a while', the geek had no way of knowing where the barrels were based on his future knowledge as he never really found a barrel. While the other three found theirs thanks to the power of cinema, so there was no way to know their exact location. However, the interns were not experts at hiding things and there should be thousands of clues as to where they took the barrels. The thing was, he had to stumble upon some of those tracks as well, and since these should be above ground, they were easier to find than barrels. That's why he'd been walking everywhere.

And the effort paid off when he finally found what he was looking for, "yes", they were prints of the interns' boots.

As Cody checked the floor, Courtney was mentally prepared for the humiliating, embarrassing, and degenerate action she was about to perform. Her only consolation was to believe that Duncan was going to foam at the mouth when he saw this.

That actually gave the CIT a satisfying chill, "NO!" she slapped both cheeks hard, "focus, you can do this," she told herself, though she wasn't quite sure.

The first thing that occurred to her was to take off her sweater and tie it around her waist, the second thing was to unbutton the first and second top buttons of her shirt, and the next thing that occurred to her she would feel ashamed for the rest of her life.

She unzipped the last two buttons of her shirt and tied it in a knot above her navel, highlighting her large breasts even more. Finally, she messed up her hair a bit with her hands to give it a wilder touch.

She looked at herself as best she could once, twice, three times, and came to a single conclusion, "agh, I look like the Heather's of my school," she said with displeasure, yes, in her school there were also Heather's, they were usually the ones who tried to smear her name every time it was the election for student council president, "Come on, don't back down now, you can do this."

---

Confessional.

---

Courtney

"Who am I kidding? This is never going to work."

---

End of confessional.

---

...

Bridgette was walking through the desert looking for the barrels, a little further behind Alejandro was following her closely.

The surfer paused for a moment. Alejandro thought that perhaps he noticed her presence, but after standing in silence for a moment he kept walking.

Alejandro thought what he could do to take her barrel once she found it, the truth is that taking it by force would not be so easy, Bridgette could seem innocent but she was quite aggressive when she wanted to be, and he preferred to save himself the trouble, he could try to distract her, but with what? Tricking her was not an option, she would no longer fall for his tricks, perhaps setting a trap for her...

The Spaniard smiled, that seemed not only a good idea, but also a pretty satisfying one.

*Whistle*

The sound of something falling caught Alejandro's attention.

*BOOM*

"AHHHH!" a rock fell very close to him, "argh."

---

Confessional.

---

Alejandro

"Is that what Chris calls a boulder?"

---

End of confessional.

---

...

Cody stood up ready to follow the trail.

"Hey Cody," and immediately his attention was caught by a nervous Courtney who strutted awkwardly towards him showing more skin than usual.

Cody's dumbfounded expression said everything he thought, which was a good thing, because his open mouth couldn't say a word.

"What a coincidence, we both came to the same place, uffff~, yes it's hot here, don't you think~?" said the CIT as she took part of her shirt neckline and shook it showing a little more of her breasts, "I had to get rid of some fabric or I was definitely going to melt, like a soft, sweet and succulent chocolate bar~", She said making her best attempt at flirting.

---

Confessional.

---

Courtney

"Like a chocolate bar?! What the fuck was I thinking?! Argh, it was easier when I was dating Duncan, since we were just fighting we never really flirted," she said while massaging her temples.

---

End of confessional.

---

Cody looked at the sweaty skin of the CIT, (which was actually because of how nervous she was) imagining a real chocolate bar, "hmm... yes... what a waste that would be," he said a little dizzy at the thought of the candy.

Courtney, who didn't understand anything about flirting, was dumbfounded when she saw Cody looking at her eagerly and licking his lips, thinking that the cheeky geek was really looking at her body.

'Don't tell me this shitty plan is really working?', she thought uncertainly.

"So...", she leaned forward showing Cody as much as she could of her cleavage, at this moment she didn't want to do anything but dig a hole and bury the corpses of everyone in this damn show by pushing her to this, "Wouldn't you mind if I accompany you? Searching should be easier between two."

"Yes~".

"And if you help me get a barrel, and-I... maybe," she swallowed the lump in her throat, "I could ma... make up for it~," she said in an attempt to sound mellow and seductive.

At this point Courtney felt like a total slut, how could Izzy say much worse things in public without any shame? She still can't forget what she asked Cody to do to her on the minibar counter once...

Cody finally blinked back to his senses, Courtney feared what he would say now. And that fear only grew when Cody smiled innocently.

"Oh, are you going to reward me for a barrel? That sounds fair, but... What would you give me in return?"

"Candy bars!" Courtney said immediately.

"I still have a lot left," said the geek without losing his innocent smile.

'What?! I saw you devouring them yesterday!', "uh... how about... I owe you a favor... Outside the competition!" she clarified, she didn't want the geek to use that against her later.

"So, if I asked you for a date outside of the show would you say yes?" he asked raising an eyebrow.

"A-," the CIT drew a blank for a moment, she couldn't be serious, or could she?, "Heather wouldn't be happy about it," she said with red cheeks.

"Yes... it's true, she doesn't want you close to me romantically," Cody agreed.

Courtney heaved a big sigh of relief, that was a good sign.

"Oh, I know how you can pay me for the barrel," Cody said. He approached her and whispered something in her ear, for a few seconds there was nothing but silence in the desert wasteland.

And from one moment to the next, Courtney's face contorted in horror as she burst red, and her nose began to bleed.

"AHHH!" she quickly moved away from Cody as far as she could to the point that she bumped into a rock on her back as if the geek was going to rape her at any moment, she looked at him with an accusing finger pointing at her, "Did you blow a fuse or what?! You didn't mean it! There's no way you meant it! I absolutely refuse to believe that you even really meant it! It's all a vile and dirty trick!" she shouted in fear. Unlike the previous one she said, Courtney's brain refused to even consider that the geek's words were correct, in fact, she was 100% sure that she misheard. Because the implications of her being serious honestly terrified her.

Cody kept smiling innocently, "you know, it's been a little boring since Izzy, Lindsay, and Heather are no longer here," he said thinking quietly.

All of Courtney's skin stood on end and she closed her legs tightly reflexively, "I won't, I don't even think it's moral or ethical that you asked me," she said squinting.

Cody looked at her with a poker face for a few seconds, then shrugged, "as you wish," grabbed his bulldozer, and began tracking the interns before it cooled down.

A thousand thoughts passed through the mind of the CIT at that moment, most of them blasphemies against the geek who was leaving.

'Fucking stupid, degenerate, depraved... There's no way he meant it; it just doesn't sound like him.'

At that moment Courtney had an epiphany, "no... he sounds like him," she smiled when she realized. Cody didn't mean it, he was just picking on her, yes, that was it, he must have realized her plan and told her that to get her off his back. There was no way he could ask her for that, therefore, he was lying.

Courtney stood up with renewed confidence after her reflection.

"Hey Cody, wait," she said reaching out to the just walking geek, "I'll do it, I'll do what you asked me to do," she said confidently.

Cody widened his eyes, "wow, are you serious?"

'Hmph, look at that face, of course you didn't expect me to say yes', "very serious, who knows? It might even be fun," for some reason was starting to get hotter in the place.

"Are you really sure?" Cody asked again.

"What? Do you want a test?" she put her arm under her breasts to make them stand out, "maybe a little advance."

Cody frowned with concern.

'Ha, I knew you weren't serious, now stand back and ask me for something else.'

"Watch out," she didn't even notice that Cody took her hand and pulled her towards him.

*BOOM*

A huge rock fell to the ground right where Courtney had been standing.

She looked back puzzled, then turned forward again, "t-thanks," she said sincerely to Cody.

However, the geek buried his face in her cleavage and grabbed her breasts with both hands causing the CIT to paralyze and her blood to go from icy to boiling in an instant.

"Hmm... they're really soft and they smell really good," he said as he gave them a squeeze. He then walked away leaving Courtney paralyzed with a traumatized look, "I can't wait to do this and that to them later... Just as you promised. Well, let's go get those barrels," he said as he walked away from the CIT.

...

..

.

Courtney stood there, petrified without lifting a finger, with a face that only war veterans had. She felt a huge desire to cry from helplessness.

---

Confessional.

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Cody

"Wow, I felt like I avoided death while reaching nirvana the same time, is that possible?" he said while looking at his hands and remembering Courtney's softness.

---

End of confessional.

---

...

On the plane, Dennis and RRRaúl were sitting at the kitchen table relaxing.

"(You know? We should have tried this from the beginning)," said the cat.

"(Yeah... I don't know why we didn't think of it)," said the lizard.

The two supervised while a bunch of mice worked on the cake as if they were laborers working on a construction site.

"(We are geniuses)," RRRaul said.

"(I came up with it, I'm the genius)," Dennis said.

"(But I was next to you supporting the idea, which makes me a genius)."

"(A-... touché)".

...

Alejandro smiled when he saw Bridgette digging in the dirt with her pickaxe. Somehow she had managed to find one, and now she was digging to get it out. It would take someone like her a while to dig even with a pickaxe.

So while he waited, he had put his new plan into action. It had taken extra effort on his part, but it would be worth it when he finally destroyed the last of one of the greatest hindrances he had ever known.

They had both been doing this for a while, but fortunately for him, he was able to finish his work first.

"Ready, now let's see if I haven't forgotten how to do it, mmm, cough, cough, help, help," Alejandro's voice became a little deeper and older. The Latino smiled.

Bridgette dropped her exhausted beak, took a deep breath to catch her breath, "yes... I did it, now I have to take this to AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Chef stuck to a boulder flew close to her head and was lost in the distance with a loud bang.

*BOOOOOM*

"Ok, check the sky... Always, don't forget it again," the surfer told herself with her eyes wide open. She began to roll her barrel on the floor. At least that part would be easier than getting it out of the ground.

"Help! Help!"

Bridgette stopped when she heard a voice, "What the-?" she looked around, "Hello?"

"Help!" her eyes immediately went to a couple of rocks, "I'm an old miner who has been trapped in this conveniently hidden hole! My ladder broke due to the tremors!" the voice shouted.

"Oh shit," Bridgette said worriedly, "it must have been because of Chris's boulders."

She quickly ran to the rocks and went around them, sure enough there was a moat on the ground.

"Hello! Mr. Miner? Are you okay?" she asked without being able to see him.

"Oh~... I feel perfect."

Bridgette's eyes widened as she heard Alejandro right behind her. Then she felt a push and lost her balance, "wow... woah... AHHHHHHHHHH!".

*Fall*

"Ouch!", Bridgette rubbed her head after falling into the pit, she immediately looked up, "No!".

"Hahahahaha," Alejandro laughed maliciously, "I knew you'd fall for something like this, good old Bridgette always so kind and helpful," he sneered.

"AHHHHHHH," Chris flew past athem stuck to a boulder but was ignored.

"Urgh," Bridgette tried to jump but couldn't reach the edge.

"Don't bother, only someone with muscular legs and extraordinary parkour skills could get out of there... Like moi," he said pointing to himself, "now if you'll excuse me, I have to take my barrel to the plane."

"Don't even think about it! It's my barrel!" shouted Bridgette from the pit.

"Not anymore," said the Spaniard.

"What? Are you just going to leave me here and take my barrel? You can't do that."

"Oh~, I think I can do whatever I want, after all, I'm not the one who's trapped in a pit. You've been a thorn in my side since the Yukon, you know? You should have disappeared from the competition in that frozen tundra. But instead you held on to the competition and managed to get here, you're really a nuisance."

*Ding, ding*

Instead of complaining about the peculiar bell, Alejandro smiled.

---

Musical moment.

---

Now a stage with a red curtain and rock music in the background was shown.

Alejandro: "Ahh... I crushed Harold's pride to the ground~, I exiled LeShawna with a vote~, with a coconut I made Cody lose control~, Now I'm gonna leave you trapped in a hole~", he sang while manipulating the puppets, "Yes~! This is how we will end it~!"

Al hand puppet: "This game we have played~!"

Alejandro: "This is how we will end it~!"

Hand puppet Al: "And you'll leave in the end~!"

Bridgette: "Uhhhhhhh~! I should have never look into those eyes~, Trapped I am and it seems impossible to get out~, naïve I was and fell into your trap~", she sat on the floor with her knees in her arms.

Hand puppet Al: "Ha, you think I'll feel sorry for you 'cause of that~? Ain't a tea party~ it's combat~!"

Alejandro: "This is how we will end it~!"

Hand puppet Al: "This game we have played~!"

Alejandro: "This is how we will end it~!"

Hand puppet Al: "And you'll leave in the end~!"

Bridgette: "Uhhhhhhh~! I'm imprisoned in a hole here~! It's humiliating to lose like this~! I don't want to get trapped~!", stood up and tried to climb, "I want to see him again~, with my head held high~", Geoff's image came to his mind, "I got nothing eeeelse~! So that's it? Will you just steal my barrel and leave me here abandoned? I thought you weren't afraid to face me face-to-face, but now I see that you're really just a coward," Bridgette slipped and went back to the bottom of the pit, "Is that the victory you want?"

Alejandro: "aw, good try Bridgette, but I'm beyond your provocations, besides, I have two big fish to hunt down later," he said with a sinister smile, "ahh... I crushed Harold's pride to the ground~, I exiled LeShawna with a vote~, with a coconut I made Cody lose control, and you're going to stay trapped in that hole~", he began to walk away from the pit, "This is how we will end it~!"

Bridgette tried to jump once more.

Hand puppet Al: "This game we have played~!", he picked up the barrel and started rolling it.

Alejandro, "This is how we will end it~!"

Bridgette: "AHHHHH!", fell back to the bottom.

Hand puppet Al: "I got rid of you in the eeeend~!"

---

End of the musical moment.

---

"Come back here, you coward!" shouted Bridgette.

"Goodbye Bridgette, good luck in tonight's vote!" said the Spaniard amicably.

Bridgette collapsed into the at the bottom of the pit, hugged her knees and lowered her head.

-0-

Alejandro rolled his barrel through the desert towards the plane. The Spaniard whistled the melody of the song he had sung recently, the truth is that he was satisfied, he felt as if a weight had finally been lifted from his shoulders, one that had been trying to sink him since almost the beginning of the game. Now he just had to win immunity and he could finally relax for the day.

Unfortunately, that part of his plans was not going to go as he wanted.

Alejandro stopped in front of the plane and frowned when he realized that there was already a barrel in front of it, someone else took the immunity, "Mierda!" shouted the Spaniard kicking the barrel which made a loud metallic sound. This happened because Bridgette took a long time digging the barrel out of the ground, it seems that even at the last moment she finds ways to screw him up.

"Relax, that's my barrel," Courtney got off the plane with a frown.

"I don't think it's relevant to whose barrel it is as long as it's not mine, considering how patient I had to be to get this one," Al said.

Courtney's eye trembled violently, "What did you have to do? Do you have the slightest idea what I had to do to get that barrel?!" the CIT shouted.

"Yes, I was actually going to ask you about that," said the Spaniard, "How did you get the nerd to give you this barrel?"

Courtney began to reminisce as she blushed.

~0~

Before Alejandro's song...

Cody leaned over looking at the ground, "there are footprints here," he said, then got up and started walking.

Courtney walked over and looked closely, yeah, there were footprints but they were so blurry that she would never have noticed.

"The interns were loading the barrels as they walked around here," Cody said, mimicking the gait of someone carrying a heavy object, "as Chris probably made them carry the barrels without any help the interns got exhausted and dropped the barrels here," he said while pointing to the sunken earth in the ground.

Courtney walked over looking at what Cody was pointing at.

"One of the interns went into an existential crisis and collapsed in the fetal position here, sucking his thumb while questioning the decisions he made in his life," the geek said while shaking his head.

Courtney looked at him with a face of "What the fuck are you talking about?"

"The other intern took 14 steps north and stood right up ... here, where he looked at this peculiar collection of fossils," Cody said as he rubbed his chin.

The fossils were embedded in a huge flat rock and were quite peculiar. These were the bones of a mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger and a giant sloth, all of which were lined up in the rock. As if they had been traveling together, just like a herd.

"Both interns were sick and tired, so after yelling several insults at Chris, they decided to bury one of the barrels right here to lighten the weight of their load," Cody said, then made an x in the ground, took the bulldozer and put it on top of it, letting it do its job.

Courtney waved her hands like, "Are you listening to what you said?"

"Oh, please, there's no way that such a horrifyingly specific situation could have happened!"

*Blow*

A sound.

A metallic sound.

The clanging sound of a bulldozer running into something metallic.

That was enough to shut Courtney's mouth and make her blood run cold, to make her swallow hard and really fear for her sanity, to feel the need to take off all her clothes and run away laughing like crazy.

With fear in her soul, the CIT turned around to see a barrel of fuel sticking out of the ground.

"We have one! Very good!" said Cody.

"No... it's not... that's simply... it is not possible... No... I refuse to accept this as reality... Someone did it on purpose! I'm sure!" Courtney began to rant.

---

Confessional.

---

Courtney

"I want to clarify that none of that was serious, I was just acting of course, because I'm a very good actress and I needed to save face," she finished with a huge fake smile while several of her hair stood on end and her eye trembled.

---

End of confessional.

---

"Now we just have to find a barrel for you and get them on the plane, then we can take advantage of the extra time to... well, you know, pay me the favor," Cody said innocently.

Courtney's whole body shuddered, and panic invaded her mind preventing her from remembering that this was supposed to be a scam.

At this moment she was scared, at this moment there was not even a possibility that Alejandro or Bridgette were already on the plane to save her from the deal with the geek. Since Courtney knew what Alejandro's plan was and that it would take him a while to carry it out.

And seeing now how eerily good Cody was at finding the barrels, there was no doubt, they would get to the plane first.

Which was supposed to be a good thing, because then she could catch Cody off guard and steal immunity at the last second.

But then they'd both be on the plane together... Alone... maybe for hours (Chris and Chef were never relevant)... where he could take her to the cargo area... throw her on a box and then...

'There's no way I can let him accompany me!' she shouted in her mind.

She had to get rid of him if she wanted to have a moment to leave first and have time to make an excuse.

Even if it meant giving up her dignity.

"Hey Cody~, I've been thinking, What if I take this barrel and take it to the plane while you look for another one? It's just that it's so hot," she said, fanning herself with her hand.

Cody frowned, "Why? It won't be long before I find the other barrel," those were precisely the words she didn't want to hear.

"It's just that...", she approached him putting her arm around his neck and holding him as closely as she could, praying that he could not feel her heart beating in panic, "I wish... you know... to prepare for that~", she whispered in his ear.

'Who am I kidding? This is pathetic', thought the CIT wanting to cry.

However Cody swallowed, "well, if you put it like that... I guess you can take the barrel, I can catch you on the way," Cody said unsurely.

'NOT IF I CAN HELP IT!', then Courtney finally signed her one-way pass to hell.

"awwwww, thank you Cody~!" the CIT grabbed the geek's cheeks and before he could react, smashed her lips against Cody's.

Immediately afterwards and without thinking, she began to smooch with him, without giving him time to protest, question, or reject her.

She even took Cody's hand and brought it up to her chest making him squeeze it like she'd seen Izzy do before, "MMM!" she groaned in surprise as Cody suddenly squeezed it roughly.

The geek's other hand went all the way to Courtney's right leg and lifted her up, causing the CIT to wrap around her waist like only Duncan had done before. And he began to caress her thigh until he took her butt and also squeezed it.

Courtney wrapped her arms around the geek's neck, she was panicking, her body warming up quickly as Cody clearly took control of the situation.

'It's not enough! It's not enough! Go further now!' she shouted to herself internally, if she gave in she was lost.

She opened her mouth, and her tongue slid into Cody's mouth, with a slap she took Cody's hands off her and quickly pushed him to the ground, straddled him and held his hands above his head, then proceeded to give him the wettest, wildest, most brazen and depraved kiss her mind could think of in such a situation.

She was aware that this was damn wrong, she had crossed a line, someone like her wasn't supposed to act in such a slutty way.

But what was done was done and now the only thing left for her was to pray to any deity that hasn't abandoned her for this, that it would really work.

"AH!" with incredible willpower Courtney broke away from Cody, a long trickle of saliva between the two as she walked away, then took deep breaths to catch her breath.

Courtney prided herself on her ability to hold her breath, but this was Cody, so the fear in her body looking at the geek's face was understandable.

"Woooooooooow...".

To his total relief, the geek was totally knocked out.

"Yes!" she said a little prouder than she should. She quickly stood up and began to take the barrel away, "see you on the plane," she said quickly.

"Wooooow...", Cody didn't try to get up.

Despite the fact that everything went as she wanted, the CIT could not shake the feeling that something was terribly wrong.

And it wasn't entirely because of what she had done, but rather because it worked too well. She had no hope in this plan, it was mostly a desperate maneuver. But it worked, and that worried her.

Cody was a pervert, but not that much, he shouldn't have fallen into such a basic trap, but he did. In fact the geek had been behaving a little weird lately in the challenges, what was really happening?

The uncertainty did not leave Courtney until she arrived on the plane and in fact, as expected, Chris received her as the winner of immunity.

He and Chef invited her to the barbecue for the three finalists, but the CIT ignored him and ran inside the plane to take off the obscene appearance and think about how to avoid what was to come.

-0-

"This is all your fault!" Courtney yelled at Alejandro.

"Wow, wait, I just told you to flirt with him, not to make a child with him, that was your fault," Alejandro returned.

"I had no choice! It was that or-!", the CIT shuddered, couldn't even say, "What am I supposed to do now?"

Alejandro raised an eyebrow at the question, "What do you mean? Just don't do it, it was a ruse after all, remember? What's the worst thing he could do? You have the immunity."

Courtney said nothing for a moment, giving Alejandro the impression that she might have forgotten that tiny detail, "What if he doesn't want to vote for Bridgette because of this?"

"Well, since you've come this far, why not go for the home run?" the Latino tried to joke.

If looks could kill, Alejandro would already be dust.

"Ok relax, just tell him to wait until after the vote, you know, when everyone is asleep, and you two can be alone, and no one can hear you doing... well you already know," Courtney's body began to heat up again, "then out of nowhere, Pam! You cut it right there. Even if he gets angry, it's not like he's going to do something to you, is it?"

He was right, it's not like Cody was going to force her if she refused, although he would definitely yell at her furiously what a slut she was and he wouldn't want to have anything to do with her again, it's what she would have done, in fact she wanted to do it right now, today she had crossed a line, now there was no going back.

"Well, that's what I'll do," she decided.

-0-

The minutes passed and in that time Cody arrived with another barrel to the plane, as agreed she told him her proposal and he accepted immediately. He didn't even stop to consider the fact that Alejandro was there, too, or where Bridgette was. He just sat in the shade looking at the barrels.

Uncertainty fell back into the bottom of Courtney's stomach, something really was wrong but she couldn't guess what it was.

An hour or so later, Alejandro was surprised when Bridgette actually appeared alone while rolling a barrel.

The surfer had a straight face the entire time when she arrived and left her barrel. she didn't talk to anyone, she just got on the plane ignoring them like they did with her.

In fact no one spoke to anyone for the rest of the day, the atmosphere was very tense and everyone was simply waiting for the infamous elimination ceremony.

-0-

Night finally arrived and outside the plane the Hawaiian decoration of the elimination booth had been placed to emulate the bonfire of TDI.

Even the four finalists were seated on logs, in the order Alejandro, Bridgette, Cody and Courtney.

Bridgette remained crestfallen as she was harassed by the gazes of the other three, it seems that her fate like the dinosaurs around her had already been set in stone.

Chris arrived at the campfire with an annoyed expression, "Who the hell steals a catapult in the middle of nowhere?" he complained. Then he smiled again when looking at the four finalists, " I've got a little season one tribute treat for you. Remember, Courtney has invincibility, so there better not be any votes against her ", Courtney felt proud to hear this, " So Courtney, you get tonight's first marshmallow... ironically hahahaha", despite the mockery she gladly accepted it and ate it, "the second marshmallow tonight is for Courtney's not-so-secret lover, Cody".

"Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough," Courtney choked on what Chris said and started coughing, she couldn't even refute that because she was so busy coughing.

Cody caught his marshmallow and ate it right away.

"Let's look at the remaining votes, just a little fun and suspense," Chris said enjoying the situation, "a vote for Alejandro."

The Spaniard rolled his eyes, he could already imagine whose vote it was.

"One vote for Bridgette," Chris continued.

The surfer covered her head with her hood.

"Another vote for Bridgette," said the host loving the situation.

Bridgette's shoulders began to tremble as a faint murmur could be heard. The surfer seemed to be trying to hold back tears.

"And the last vote is for, guess who? It's easy," Chris scoffed, "Alejandro!"

...

..

.

They say that silence cannot be heard, that night 5 people in front of a campfire learned that this was not true.

"Yes, that's exactly the reaction I was expecting," the host said with a huge smile.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!" Alejandro and Courtney shouted at the top of their lungs, trying to overshadow the noisy silence for miles away.

"As you heard, it's a tie," the host said.

Cody let out a long, relieved sigh, "Seriously Bridgette, did you have to make me go that far? You really made me feel bad," Cody said, scratching the back of his neck.

The surfer's sobs grew louder and louder and her shoulders moved more frantically, then the Spaniard and the CIT realized that it was not sobs, it was laughter, Bridgette got up and took off her hood, "hahahahahahahahahaha", laughing openly. It had cost her the world to keep the sad façade, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," she said wiping away a genuine tear, "I can't believe it worked."

-0-

That same morning...

Lying there in the seat in front of him, Bridgette slept peacefully, in her hand was Cody's dreamcatcher.

Completely destroyed.

"..." anger took hold of Cody.

'Oh... now you crossed the line, Alejandro,' he thought angrily.

Dawn probably wouldn't say anything to him about the object, she would even give him a new one, but to Cody it was much more personal than that.

That object accompanied him in what was the most difficult test of his new life and the one that made him the king of the bears (nickname given by Owen). Marking a before and after in his journey.

And now it no longer existed.

"Bridgette, Bridgette," Cody woke the surfer carefully.

"Mmmm... Cody?" Bridgette barely opened her eyes. However, when she saw the geek all the dream she had left her system, "I don't taste like pineapple!" she shouted immediately.

Cody quickly covered her mouth with his hand and checked the other two occupants of the first class cabin.

Fortunately, Bridgette was not a metalhead, because if she were, surely a scream of hers would wake Courtney and Alejandro up immediately.

"Something happened," Cody said to the surfer, with the other hand the geek raised Bridgette's arm and her eyes widened at the sight of the dream catcher shattered in her own hand.

"MMM! MMM! Cody decided to trust her and withdrew his hand from her mouth, "How did that-? I don't-," she began to panic.

"No, you didn't," Cody said as he nodded in the direction of the sleeping Alejandro, "he must have thought I'd be mad at you for breaking it, with the idea that you were mad at me for licking you as a backup."

"Well, I'm still a little angry about it," she admitted with a frown.

"He probably meant to get me to vote for you, so they could take you out of the game," Cody said.

"That's very low," Bridgette said annoyed. She was tired of Alejandro's tricks.

"Yes, I think it's time for me to take care of Mr. Español," Cody said. He still didn't know how but he was going to come up with something to get Alejandro out, "if we get you immunity in the next challenge and we vote for him then we would have to face each other in a runoff," Cody said.

"Don't take offence, but can you really beat him? You've been a little... distracted and relaxed in the last challenges, are you okay at least?" she asked suspiciously.

Cody smiled, "Oh, that? I wanted them to get a little confident and let their guard down as much as possible, and if I convinced you, can you imagine them?" he said, pointing to the others.

"Son of a bitch," Bridgette blurted out. She knew that Cody could make elaborate, very complex, and even creepy plans, but this? "You mean you were faking it all this time?"

"A little yes, I wanted them to think that they didn't need Duncan, but it didn't work at all," Alejandro insisted to Duncan until the end so the Spaniard at least had not let his guard down and was the one who would have liked to deceive the most, "but that's over, I'm going to take care of him directly," he said determinedly.

"...", Bridgette thought of something for a moment. Then she hardened her gaze determinedly, tugged Cody's arm for his attention, "wait... use me."

"...," Cody grimaced, "you don't look at a guy like me and tell him that."

"I know this is a selfish request and I'm sure you could beat Alejandro... but I want to be the one to do it... no... I need to be the one to do it. I want revenge... for our friends... for me... for Geoff," she said with her head down, "I can't let him get away with it once again. So, let's go along with what he does while luring him into a trap."

"... Are you really sure?" asked Cody.

"I've never been surer of anything in my entire life," she said, "so get angry and yell at me with the most hurtful things you can think of, I want him to leave with the idea that his plan worked," she said angrily.

Cody smiled, "I think I'm starting to understand why you and Lindsay became such good friends."

Bridgette smiled back.

Cody inhaled a big breath of air, he was sure that neither of the other two would remain asleep, after all he was a singer.

"WHY DID YOU DO IT?!"

...

Cody and Bridgette met behind some rocks after they drifted away in different directions.

"I'm so sorry for what I said about your dinosaur," Cody apologized awkwardly.

Bridgette squeezed his arm comfortingly, "It doesn't matter, really. We don't have much time, what's next?"

*Bite*

Cody bit into a candy bar.

"Are you serious?!"

"Try to brainstorm every thought of your opponents, see if you don't need a stimulus," the geek refuted, "well, Alejandro wants to eliminate you, so it's imperative for him that you don't get immunity. At this point he must be so obsessed with you that he'll definitely follow you, we have the digging tools and they don't, so that's something. And as an added measure, he'd probably send Courtney to steal my barrel. He's not going to trust me completely so he's not going to leave that loose end."

"Wow," Bridgette said of Cody's deduction, "that's... well, very impressive."

"We can use that to our advantage, if Courtney comes for me I'll let her take my barrel and keep the immunity, that will make Alejandro even more confident."

"And don't you think Courtney was suspicious? She's not dumb," Bridgette said.

"She definitely will," Cody said, then smiled, "that's why we're going to give her immunity, that's going to leave her confused until the time of the ceremony. Also, if we give her immunity Alejandro won't be able to take it, so you have to keep him busy," he pointed to the sun in the sky, "make time until the sun is more or less above that rock over there," he said while pointing to the highest rock in the valley.

"Leave that to me," Bridgette said smiling, but then her smile faltered, "although... I have no idea how I'm going to find any barrel in this whole place," she said, worried that this would ruin the plan.

"I have a secret weapon for that," Cody said, then slammed the ground three times.

*Pop*

"Annoying squeals," Bridgette was shocked when Butchie emerged from the ground in front of them.

"What do you mean? We agreed to three hits, not five," Cody told the rodent.

"Annoying squeals."

"No, you don't know how to count," Cody reneged.

"Annoying squeals."

"Hey! Don't get my grandmother in this!"

Bridgette was sure now. This show had taken every last drop of sanity she had, "ahem."

The other two looked at her, "oh right, he'll guide you to one of the barrels," Butchie raised his eyebrows suggestively.

"... Isn't there someone else?" she asked.

"Unfortunately, no," Cody said.

Bridgette let out a big sigh.

...

"See you on the plane."

...

..

.

The moment Courtney was no longer within earshot, Cody sat down on the floor, "well shit... that happened," he said, recalling what happened with Courtney moments ago.

It was not in his plans for the CIT of all people to use such a cliché tactic, much less that.

But they served him the situation on a silver platter and in no way was he going to waste it, now the CIT was definitely more than confused. And she was definitely going to spend the rest of the afternoon thinking about what she said. Which gave her less time to reflect on what was really going on.

"She's going to be really furious when she knows the truth," she said aloud.

However, that no longer mattered, Courtney had crossed the line, there was no turning back, now there was only one way to deal with her and that was in her own game, which translates into competition.

"I'm so conflicted right now," it definitely shouldn't be satisfying to see Courtney fall so low, "they really were so soft," but it was, and he feels a little dirty to enjoy it, "Izzy's going to kill me. She doesn't like it when I don't share," was the last thing he reflected on as he lay on the floor, "Now it's all up to you Bridge."

...

Butchie was hidden inside Bridgette's sweatshirt with only his upper body peeking out from under her chin.

The surfer could feel Alejandro's gaze behind her, Butchie had noticed his presence a long time ago.

The rodent sniffed the air and told Bridgette which way to go, although sometimes he lost track and had to stop to find it again.

Bridgette turned her back on the Spaniard the entire time so that he would not notice the presence of her little guide.

...

Bridgette remained with her head lowered and hugging her knees inside the pit, until Alejandro's footsteps and his presumptuous whistle were non-existent.

"He's gone," she said, straightening up.

Butchie emerged from inside her sweater, got off Bridgette and like a drill cut a small hole in the wall of the pit through which he escaped.

Bridgette counted the seconds in a tense silence.

...

..

.

*Fall*

Then she smiled as his pickaxe fell into the hole.

*Nail*

Bridgette's hand appeared in front of the Butchie at the front of the pit, followed by the rest of her. She slowly propelled herself until she was able to get out of the hole.

"AHH!" and collapsed exhausted on the floor.

"Squeals."

She slowly stood up and wiped the dirt from her face, "no time to rest," she looked at the rodent, "take me to the next barrel."

-0-

"A trap," Alejandro said furiously, "You laid a trap for me!" he shouted at Bridgette.

"No, we set you up," she said as she smiled at Cody.

"Wait! So it was a lie?!" shouted Courtney on the verge of a heart arrhythmia.

"Oh yeah, it was a lie, I'm sorry," Cody said, "I didn't really ask you seriously... but I guess since I gave you my barrel we're even with what happened, don't you think?" said Cody with a nervous smile.

Courtney put her hands to her head and almost pulled her hair out, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!", forget about feeling guilty. She wants blood now, fresh geek blood.

"I can't believe this," Alejandro said annoyed.

"No more tricks Al-ejandro, now it's just you and me," Bridgette told the Spaniard, "it's time to end this."

"Don't you think the host, I mean, should be the one to decide that?" said Chris irritably. Then I look at the camera smiling as always, "Now it's just Alejandro and Bridgette friends! It's time to end this!"

"As you wish, but you made a mistake, you're not going to beat me in a tiebreaker," Alejandro said seriously.

"We'll see about that," Bridgette said.

...

Now in the campfire was a huge tower of dinosaur bones and on either side were Alejandro and Bridgette.

"This is what's going to happen, we have this tall tower of dinosaur bones that Chef spent hours putting together," Chris said, "you both are going to take turns pulling out a carefully placed bone from the haha dinotower, until it collapses, the competitor who makes the tower fall... loses, then he/she will be expelled and will never! Win a million dollars, easy, right?" said Chris.

A small breeze of wind blew into the campfire and the whole tower shook. Both Bridgette and Alejandro swallowed.

"This will be easy," Alejandro said confidently.

"Since you think that, why don't you go first?" said Chris.

The Spaniard was surprised by Chris' words, but only for a moment. He approached the tower very carefully and checked it from top to bottom.

He raised his hands and moved his fingers ready to make his move. He reached out and...

"That's it, don't think about how you could lose it all right now," Chris said, nearly causing him to have a heart attack.

"You mind?!" shouted Alejandro. Chris raised his hands and fell silent.

Alejandro turned his attention back to the tower. He wiggled his fingers and...

*Flash*

He quickly removed a bone and closed his eyes.

...

..

.

The tower didn't even move. The Spaniard smiled and threw his bone into the ground, then bowed to Bridgette, "your turn."

The surfer swallowed.

Cody looked once again at the fuel barrels, it was almost a tick at this point, 'no leaks yet, so everything is fine', 'you can do it, Bridgette', he encouraged her.

...

As Bridgette stepped towards the tower, she was being watched from far away with binoculars.

"GRRRRRRR," the baby seal growled at the sight of her. He climbed down from the rock where he was spying and jumped to the stolen catapult that was already loaded with a huge boulder engulfed in flames.

How did a little baby seal steal a huge, heavy catapult without anyone seeing it? It was going to be one of the great unknowns of the universe.

Rabioso climbed into the catapult and went for the lever.

"(Don't you dare put your hand on that lever)."

The seal stopped in its tracks. He slowly turned around to see Butchie and Kevin looking at him with serious faces.

"(So, you finally come to face me)," said the seal more than a little offended, "(What? Isn't that attempt at an actress with you?)".

"(Really?)" Butchie asked, pointing to the burning rock, "(I thought your intention was just to vote them out of the game)."

"(That was before I was shot and left to fend for myself in a wasteland full of predators eager to taste seal meat for the first time in their lives)," Rabid said hatefully.

"(As irrationally spiteful as back then)," Kevin said shaking his head, "(You know we can't let you do this, right?)"

"(Well, come and try to stop me, I'll put you at the top of my blacklist, along with the Scots and the Karens)," he spat at them, baring his sharp teeth.

"(Next to the Karens? Oh, now you did ask for it)," said Butchie rolling up his sleeves... Fur?

"(This reminds me of Vancouver)," Kevin said.

"(No one talks about Vancouver)," Rabioso said.

"(AHHHHHHHHH!)", Butchie and Kevin jumped on the seal.

...

"HMM! AH!" Bridgette fell backwards with a big bone in her hands.

*Tremble*

She closed her eyes and expected the worst.

...

..

.

But the tower remained standing.

She exhaled in relief and stood up, "it's your turn," she said to the Spaniard. Alejandro narrowed his eyes.

...

*Blow*

Butchie flew off after Rabioso slapped him in the face with his tail. And he almost crashed into the lever of the catapult.

...

Alejandro quickly removed another dinosaur bone from the tower and pointed to Bridgette. Cody and Courtney watched with sweat falling down their foreheads.

...

Rabioso jumped to the lever and took it with his fin. But Kevin descended from the sky and grabbed him by the fur on his back, dragging him off the catapult.

Butchie hit his elbow and jumped on the seal with a wrestling move.

*Plush*

But it was like landing on a pillow.

"(It's called fat, you idiot)," Rabioso turned the tables and began to slap Butchie in the face with his fins.

...

Bridgette touched a bone in the tower, but it shook at the moment of contact. She approached another and the same thing happened, she began to despair until she found a quite loose bone and removed it.

The tower was still standing.

...

Rabioso bit one of Kevin's paws.

"(SHARP SQUAWK!)".

*Bite*

Butchie bit Rabioso's hind fin.

"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!".

...

Alejandro held his breath as the bone he picked up shook the tower. He slowly slid it out of its place until a sound was heard. The tower shook violently.

The Latino expected the worst.

...

..

.

But the tower refused to end this so soon.

...

Butchie and Kevin held Rabioso's tail by digging furrows in the ground as they tried to stop him. Meanwhile, the seal clung to the ground, advancing toward the catapult, one fin at a time.

...

Bridgette was undecided between two bones that were fitted together in much the same way. Sweat could be seen on her sweatshirt as she tried to pick one of the two randomly.

"This one!"

...

The three animals rolled across the ground in a classic cloud of cartoon fight dust.

...

Alejandro was doing some equations as he looked at three bones that were obstructing each other.

"So, if I take this one, and move this one, that would cause this, then the obvious solution is... Here!"

He quickly removed a small bone from the tower.

*Collapse*

...

..

.

The four contestants looked at Chris.

"Sorry, it's my ringtone," the host said.

*Collapse*

He quickly turned off his phone due to the contestants' intimidating gazes.

Bridgette swallowed, the tower was getting lighter and lighter, and that scared her.

...

Butchie came out of a hole in the ground and Rabioso tried to crush him with his tail, then Kevin got down and hit him in the head, then Butchie came out of another hole and Rabioso tried to crush him with his tail, then Kevin descended and hit him in the head. And so on.

...

"Why don't you just give up and save us the trouble?" shouted Alejandro.

Bridgette was fed up with him, she decided she was going to take a chance, she approached one of the largest bones that supported the tower.

"Do you really think Geoff cares about any of this? As far as we know, he stopped watching the show after you cheated him in his face."

Bridgette stopped completely.

Alejandro smiled, Courtney looked on with her best poker face, and Cody frowned. He was about to say something to the surfer but she beat him to it.

"This is not about Geoff," Bridgette said. She took the large bone in a fit and the whole tower staggered violently, much more than at other times.

...

..

.

But it did not give in to everyone's surprise.

The surfer pointed at Alejandro with the bone in her hand, "it's about you and me, that's all," she said.

Alejandro looked at her defiantly.

...

*Fall*

Rabioso collapsed on the ground.

Butchie and Kevin were panting breathlessly, their feathers and fur tousled.

"(Shit, it's harder than I remembered)," said Butchie cracking his neck.

"(And it's supposed to be just a baby seal?)" Kevin asked, beginning to question nature.

...

Alejandro was taking longer than the other times, carefully analyzing what to do, the bone that Bridgette pulled out was an important piece, now what he did next could decide everything. Every bone he looked at had a con to be chosen, the more he looked the fewer options he had left. Bridgette had accomplished what very few people in life did.

Put him in check.

"It's not that there's a time limit, but I'd like this to be over before midnight," Chris complained.

However, Alejandro was no ordinary person and they could hardly keep him cornered.

He let out a sigh of exasperation, in fact he knew a way out of this. But there were two reasons why I didn't want to do it.

The first was because this is a table trick that his brother Jose taught him, and if he saw him do it on TV, he was never going to let him hear the end of it. However, losing was not a better option.

For a Burromuerto it was not even an option.

The second reason was because what he was going to do would not only save him, but also Bridgette, and that bothered him.

Alejandro had lived in a way that benefited from the minimum of effort. But since coming to this show he had had to make sacrifices, many of them to stay in the game.

So, in a way his soul was already more than sold. So, he forgot everything and moved on.

Alejandro took the other bone that held the tower and shot hard, with more force than necessary. The small bones flew out, and the large ones fell off.

The tower began to fall.

Courtney and Bridgette gasped at what they saw and Cody widened his eyes.

*Fall*

The entire lower part of the tower collapsed, however, defying the laws of physics and nature, the rest of the tower remained standing, very shaky and unstable, but not yet falling. That shouldn't be possible.

Alejandro leaned on the bone as if it were a cane while smiling arrogantly, "your turn".

"Hell dude, that was crazy," Chris said.

"Shit," Cody said.

Instead of preventing the tower from collapsing, Alejandro deliberately knocked it down so that it would fall downwards instead of to the side, retaining its shape as best as possible. And because the bones were tangled together, they kept their shape regardless.

That was a damn risky escape. Alejandro was desperate.

Bridgette frowned when she saw the new base of the tower, it was like going to the next level, where you started again but with a greater difficulty.

...

"(Slowly, slowly)," Dennis exited the plane as she beckoned to the donkey Ace, which was carrying a large cake on its back as it slowly descended the ramp to the cargo area. RRRaúl was walking behind them.

"(Be patient girl, I know what I'm doing)," said the bitter animal.

*Stampede*

The animals on the plane fled past them.

"(Wow, what's wrong with them?)" RRRaúl wondered.

...

Bridgette took one of the bones and watched as the tower moved, took a deep breath and pulled.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

...

..

.

No one saw it coming.

And even if they had, there was nothing they could physically do to stop it.

It just happened. Like most things in the world.

Bridgette covered her face as bright light flooded her vision. Followed by a blunt force that shook the earth and nearly knocked her down.

She didn't even know what happened.

*Stagger, stagger*

At the distinctive sound of bones, the surfer looked up only to see the tower fall on top of her.

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" she quickly jumped to the side avoiding being pasted. But the damage was already done.

Cody pulled his arm away from his face and looked at the surfer, "Bridgette!"

"MY BEAUTIFUL PLANE!" cried Chris wailing and running towards the plane.

Cody helped Bridgette to her feet, "I'm fine," she said.

"What the hell happened?!" shouted Courtney.

Cody finally looked in the direction of the plane and felt like pulling out his hair, 'it has to be a joke'.

The jumbo jet in which they had been traveling for months no longer existed. Like everything that was found in that valley, it was now only ruins and remains.

The four contestants approached Chris who was crying on his knees on the floor.

"What kind of soulless monster out of hell could do this?!" he cried.

...

"(Hahahahaha, hahaha, haha, hahahahahaha)", Kevin and Butchie were unconscious on the ground while Rabioso laughed like crazy on top of the catapult, "(yes... at last... each and every one of them have fallen!)", he shouted with joy, "(... So... Why do I feel so... empty?)" he said bewilderedly, "(this is all I wanted... isn't it?)".

...

"(Uh... my head)," RRRaúl rose from the rubble. And immediately panicked, "(Oh no, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, wake up! Please! Wake up! Don't do this to me! Please open your eyes! O good heavens, this is my fault! It should have been me! IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME!)"

*Emerge*

An angry Dennis with somewhat roasted whiskers came out of the rubble, "(Are you serious?! It's a cake!)", she shouted at him with her hair standing on end.

RRRaúl cried on the floor with cake scraps in his claws, "(But it was for 12 people! 12 PEOPLE!)", the lizard couldn't take it anymore and collapsed while the cat hit her forehead with her paw.

"(I need a vacation)," she said.

"(I'm too old for sudden explosions)," the seemingly unharmed donkey said.

...

"So... Now what?" asked Alejandro.

Chris barely heard them as he checked the wreckage of the plane, "Huh? Oh yes, since the tower fell, Bridgette is expelled from the competition or something," said the host without taking much importance of it.

"That's not fair Chris, she wasn't the one who took it down," Cody said.

"You want to talk fair? Look how my beautiful plane turned out! I'm the victim here!" said the host.

Cody hit his forehead, it was impossible to talk to Chris when he got like that.

"That means... that the three finalists... it's Alejandro, Cody and me," Courtney said dumbfounded.

"Apparently," Chris said, "now if you'll excuse me I need a... time alone," he walked away from them sobbing again.

Cody looked at the wreckage of the plane with a frown, it was unreal that this would happen again, either fate was punishing him for the stuff with Courtney or the plane was cursed.

Bridgette put a hand on his shoulder, "okay, it doesn't matter anymore," she said trying to cheer him up, a part of her was prepared for the very big possibility of losing, but she didn't want Cody to feel guilty about it.

"You're right, we can't do anything about that," Cody agreed with her, then looked at the other two competitors who were still in play, "now it's up to me."

...

Chris stood in the rubble of the plane and spoke to the camera, "Well, this was not my best day ever. Join us next time. There will be a next time, I'm just not sure what kind of show it will be or where. It will still be called," he tried to say with a lump in his throat, "Total... Dram...! World tour?" The last thing that was heard was Chris' crying before the screen went black.