"Last time on Total Drama Island." The camera turns on to show Chris standing on the dock going over a review happening on the show on the last episode. "22 campers arrived and learned they'll spend the next eight weeks at crusty old summer camp. The campers were faced with their first challenge, jumping off a cliff into shark-infested waters. While most took the plunge, a few chickened out and were forced to wear the dreaded chicken hat. And in the campfire ceremony, Sadie and Katie learned the hard way that they shouldn't be doing things always together, or they would go home with their butt itching from Poison Ivy. Who will be voted off this week in the most dramatic campfire ceremony yet? Find out tonight on Total. Drama. Island!"
To say Spike was a morning person was an understanding, since the entire time he passed into waking before dawn, seeing the sun slowly rising up. From the perspective of seeing a little inferno ball far away from the planet, as the way Sunset has debated with Twilight and him, it showed that even in times his mom could take vacations with his aunt, the sun could be treated that way, however, it would show panic to everypony who aren't used to a system of the star like that.
Spike decided to appreciate his own routine of preparing himself for the day, those 3 days passed in a blink since he was enjoying a good time talking with Courtney, helping Bridgette clean the beach, and even seeing Gwen when she went outside of the cabin just for taking a slight view of the camp nature at the sunshine. Spike noticed a little piece of paper in her hands, so he could guess that the goth on the camp was enjoying the good beautiful view of the sky and possibly sketching something to make her pass the time.
Now the day of the challenge, Spike has no idea what Chris may be planning for the day, so that thought is both exciting but also scaring in his mind. Knowing Chris after the first day, he would say it was like seeing a less insane but also a bit crueler version of Discord, now he could see how they both could be friends. The idea of jumping from 1 a 1-foot-tall cliff into a pool of sharks? His mom would have turned Discord into a stone, and Chris would be also a good addition to her gardens...
It's moments like that he is thankful that his family isn't watching the show because he knew it would make them freak out. But since he now is in another dimension, the only pony from his universe who could be watching it was Discord and Fluttershy, and he prayed for Fluttershy to hold a secret when it comes to watching such terrifying challenges.
"Alright Spike, it's just another day of challenge. You held pretty good so far, let's hope for this day to be an easier challenge than the first day." Spike gave a deep sigh, and looking at the sun which already went up, he closed his eyes. Whenever he sees the sun, he still feels the same connection with his mom. And like a simple and yet good prayer for his mom. "Mom, wish me luck."
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Hours passed, and as Spike was reading some of his iconic Power Ponies comic books, he was glad that none of them magically brought him inside of the said comic, but it was strange to see that even the version of his super pony heroes, now were all humans who had the same powers and characteristics on human version counterparts from the human world.
Still, a new style of seeing his superheroes was something interesting to make him enjoy to read once again the same comic over again. Spike then glanced at that walking nearby him. Chris was with his serene smile, ready to bring attention from all the campers since he had a megaphone with his shorts and an air horn.
"Morning Chris." Spike politely greeted the host of the show, who just winked and gave a thumbs-up.
"What's up Spike? Ready for an awesome challenge?" Chris smiled as he took his airhorn and was ready to blow up and make all the campers regret sleeping at that moment.
"Well, when you said awesome, you mean another challenge that may make Discord laugh crazily and make most of my family freak out?" The dragon boy asked, and by seeing Chris smirk growing up, he already knew that he would regret the answer. "Well, that's why I compete anyway."
"That's the spirit." Chris smiled, pressing the air horn on the megaphone and with that waking up all the campers.
Leshawna wakes up and hits her head. From all the time she would wake up, she hated when someone would wake her up that early, especially with loud noises. She got so irate that she raised the window from the girl's cabin.
"Ow! It's 7:00 in the morning!" Leshawna shouted angrily since she knew Chris did that on purpose to wake everyone up and make her angrier from seeing the innocent smile on his face. "Do I look like a farmer to you?"
It didn't take long until the campers were outside of their cabins. Eva is listening to her MP3 player, enjoying the music playing from her headphones, Cody passing by seems completely curious about what she is listening to, so he wants to touch it, Eva gives a slight glance, and immediately tries to bite his hand, which made Cody flinches and curves away, and he trembled as Eva growled like an animal to him... But still with his sheepish smile.
"Morning, hope you slept well." Chris greeted all the campers who seemed to have been on better days. Izzy yawned from waking up that early, Justin felt that he had better days.
Spike walked in the line and without noticing he was between the goth Gwen and the Queen Bee Heather who were near to Chris trying to understand what was about to happen on the challenge of the day.
"Hi, Chris, you look really buff in those shorts," Heather commented as she felt it was a good time to compliment the host of the show, trying to have his good grace.
"I know." Chris smiled as he winked at her, and with that, he walked towards the other campers who seemed not interested in participating in the challenge. "I hope you are all ready because your next challenge begins in exactly one minute."
"Oh, excuse me, " And at that moment, Owen raised his hand, sure that something wasn't right. "I don't know if that's enough time to eat breakfast."
"Oh, you'll get breakfast, Owen, "Chris smiled as he walked towards the other campers, Owen was happy to be relieved, but his relief was immediately exchanged for fear at the time Chris commented. "Right after you complete your kilometer run around the lake."
And that comment left one camper very irate. Since the bodybuilder Eva didn't enjoy the joke the host was telling.
"So you're funny now?" Eva walked towards Chris ready to punch his face, but Duncan and Geoff had to hold her tight before she made a stupid decision that would make the team regret. "You know what I would think is funny?"
Courtney had to intervene between them and find a way to make Eva hold herself together.
"Eva, try to control your temper!" Courtney whispered, since she knew that Eva was losing her control easily, and while she had been a good powerhouse in the first challenge, the temper of the said person had been a nightmare to deal with.
"You're enjoying this, aren't you?" Evan glared at Chris who seemed to have his iconic infuriating smirk in front of her.
"A little, you have 30 seconds." Chris smiled and raised his clock to show how much time they had left, and Evan glared at him...
Confession Courtney
"Okay, that girl Eva has got to handle her temper," Courtney confessed, as she had problems into dealing with one of her teammates, and even raised her fingers to tell what she did. "She's only been here one day and she has already thrown her suitcase out a window and broken the lock on one of the bathroom doors... With Spike using it.
The first day when the guys were preparing themselves to have the hot tub challenge, the Killer Bass had to make their votes to see who would get eliminated. Eva was furious at the time she walked towards the first bathroom she was to have a shower, but she opened the wrong door and revealed Spike was flexing in front of the mirror. And his smile dropped at the suddenly hearing the body builder girl staring at him... without a word... she closed it and walked away slowly...
And Courtney and Bridgette were there to try to warn her that it wasn't the girl's bathroom... And now the trio of girls saw Spike who was with his shorts, and doing... his flexing to himself, he isn't bulky, but it seems that he was doing that as a hobby...
"Hmm, I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that." Then suddenly a voice made the trio of girls stare at Justin who was checking his reflection in the mirror, and then gave a slight glare on the trio. "That wasn't cool. Let the poor boy enjoy his reflection, it's rude to interrupt someone into doing that. Now shoo, go your own bathroom."
Needless to say, Eva didn't want to talk about the event of that day.
Back to the present.
"Okay, runners, on your marks, get set, go!" Chris prepared the ceremony to start the race between campers, most members of the team seemed ready to start a good marathon before breakfast.... With Chris pointing the finger in the air and giving the start of the race. Trent, Justin, and Owen started at full speed the race... while behind Tyler seemed to be running with his arms dropped like a lazy man.
The sun indicated how strong the heat was at that moment, Spike was sweating from a good marathon like that, he remembered the time Applejack and Rainbow Dash would start a race, and he and Pinkie Pie were the judges of the said race... He actually never had an opportunity to have a race in Ponyville, so having a little cardio like that was something Spike would get used to. The group wouldn't believe he had to ride Twilight all the time to make sure they would trot the fastest as they could on some trips.
But he also won a race to become a Dragon Lord, so that may count.... unless he didn't have wings at that time, maybe if he had it before it would have ended differently? Spike had many questions... But seeing the group in front of him already gathering up to try to win the race... Something made Spike realize.
"It's not that simple... Does the challenge it's just a race like that?" Spike wondered loudly, as he already can guess... one thing he learned from Discord not just in his O&O sessions, he learned from the time he was with Twilight and the girls... When he first made the labyrinth game to fool all his friends, and by getting inside the said labyrinth, he made a victory by breaking every single of the girls into her terrible counterparts. "It's inside the lines... first, a marathon for a breakfast."
Spike ran until something was brought to his attention.
"Oh, Daisies." Spike found something that he would be happy to work with... A daisy sandwich after a marathon really looks appetizing and would be something awesome to eat... With an egg above the bread, and hay fries extra crispy and then his day would be perfect.
Spike decided to remember the place where he found the daisies, knowing that it would be a very good food to eat later.
At the time the campers continued to run, in the corner some contestants were just walking.
"Do you know how much longer?" Harold asked as Gwen watched Justin and Spike running away... And seeing the nerd boy being annoying to her, she preferred to not hear him.
"Don't walk beside me," Gwen replied as she didn't want to talk with the nerd.
Heather also preferred to walk, until Noah bumped into her at the moment he was running past her.
"Do you mind?"
Confession - Heather
"I don't run, and I definitely don't run in high-heeled wedges." Heather scoffed as she never would make herself suffer utter humiliation to run a marathon.
Heather walked until she paused, just to see Owen exhausted and licking the puddle.
"Can't...[licks]…catch…[licks again]…breath...must...[he licks again]…must...have...condition!" Owen was breathless, exhausted, and even despaired enough to drink the water from the floor like an animal. Heather looked at the poor situation of Owen and rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, it's called "overheating, " look into it." Heather made a sarcastic comment towards the fat boy who was still trying to take his breath.
"What's your excuse, you skinny, annoying, ooh, I'm too tired of insults." Leshawna showed that she wasn't in the mood to hear complaints about the possibility of her team losing. But the heat and the tiredness attacked the black girl so much that she couldn't insult.
And to add salt to the injury, Chris drove with his scooter and was ready to motivate the campers with the megaphone.
"Pick it up, people, you're not back by dinner time, you don't eat." Chris early motivated the campers, while he could see Spike, Justin, Geoff, and Bridgette almost finishing the race...
Heather was angry with how terrible the host had been with them and stomped her foot on the floor.
"I hate him so much," Heather said as she walked above Owen's body, while her hells made some cracks around the chubby camper who had his head in the puddle.
It didn't take long until Spike reached the main lodge, seeing that some of the campers looked exhausted from the marathon they had just done from the start. His getting in the 7th place showed that the race was something that would bring everything from all the campers.
But Chris still not around showed something fishy around. Justin looked exhausted, Eva and Geoff seemed unphased from the race, and Bridgette also had better days. And strangely, the group seemed to be sitting around with each other. Cody and Beth were near the supper model, and Lindsay was trying to recover her energy from the race. And looking at the blond bombshell, she looked desperately for a glass of water.
Not seeing Chef around, Spike decided to cross the counter and go directly to the sink to take a good glass of water for the girl who really needed it. And seeing that it would need something more refreshing, he decided to check the fridge which thankfully had a few fruits like lemon and orange...
"Hmm, that fits." Spike smiled, as he opened the kitchen drawer looking exactly what he needed... A knife. "That will work,"
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Lindsay wasn't a matinal person, or especially a girl who would run a marathon with heels, she probably regretted waking up in the morning for the challenge, and since she was having problems struggling to breathe, she was feeling tired and thirsty after running the scorching morning.
*drop*
Lindsay was distracted, until she found in front of her, something she never thought it would have been... Her eyes went wide open, and she licked her inner lips... A cold glass of water with ice cubes and lemon slices inside. The slices of lemon were perfectly rounded like they came from a very good restaurant service.
Lindsay gave a glance at the green and purple-haired boy who seemed to have done one for him as well.
"Hey Lindsay, you look thirsty," Spike commented as he finished enjoying a very refreshing drink for him after a good race. "So I went to the kitchen and brought a glass of water for you. I hope you don't mind the lemon slices."
Lindsay shook her head and immediately took the gorgeous drink that she felt like she found an oasis in the middle of the desert. She immediately gave a sweet smile at the boy who felt so happy to help someone. And gladly accepted her drink.
As the water trickled down her throat, Lindsay's senses were immediately awakened by the burst of citrus flavor from the lemon slice. The tangy zest danced across her taste buds, invigorating her senses and revitalizing her weary spirit with each refreshing sip.
With each sip, Lindsay could feel her energy returning, her fatigue melting away as she savored the crisp, revitalizing taste of the water infused with the essence of lemon. The combination of coolness and citrus provided a perfect antidote to the sweltering heat of the marathon challenge, revitalizing her body and restoring her vitality with each rejuvenating sip.
As she drained the glass, Lindsay felt a renewed sense of energy coursing through her veins, her spirits lifted by the simple act of refreshment. She always loved to drink this kind of water in restaurants, it was a fancy way to make her enjoy more her day. And from seeing the boy in front of her giving that so easily. She smiled happily at him.
"Thanks, Mikey." Lindsay was thankful to the boy who was gentle to her, even if she ended up telling his name wrong.
"It's Spike, but no problem," Spike corrected and smiled as he sat nearby at the blonde girl who was being a bit away from the other campers. "Do you mind telling me why are you sitting this far?"
"Oh, well, I was just tired and I didn't notice," Lindsay said as she felt unsure, noticing that everyone was just feeling tired as her... "And probably everyone doesn't want to talk."
"That's not true," Spike said as he placed one arm over the table. "I'm here if you want to talk, or even have an ear to listen, I'm a good listener."
"Hmm... okay." Lindsay felt unsure but then she felt relieved and nodded her head to him, and having someone to talk is really a good way to pass the time. "Hmm... Well, I always thought this was just a talent show contest."
"Oh, really?" Spike asked interested, as he could imagine how terrible Lindsay had felt into thinking about coming on this show and not imagining how different the show was. And receiving a nod from her Spike felt sympathetic. "It must have been terrible after finding out a few days ago."
"You have no idea, it was horrible." Lindsay sniffed as she felt how she was tricked around, and everything around the camp had been a nightmare. "Everything was terrible, I thought we would be in a good resort, and we would challenge to see who would be the prettiest around."
Spike listened, and while Lindsay may have said something selfish, from the experience Spike had, she looked like a naive girl who just needed help around, a good friend to help her.
"Well, sometimes being the prettiest would make the game a bit unfair," Spike explained as he brought the attention of the blond girl. "To have a good game, everyone must have a chance, some can win by being intelligent, others by being stronger..."
"But I'm not that," Lindasy said as she looked at the surprised boy. "I'm not smart, and neither strong. I'm just pretty."
"Oh, come on, don't say that," Spike assured Lindsay who just looked at him and told the truth, she is proud of her beauty, and she isn't neither strong nor smarter than the others. But Spike never saw that. "Everyone has a different kind of intelligence, most people in Canterlot would imagine Pinkie Pie as a bit of a person who lacks intelligence, but when she just shows what she knows, it was like seeing everyone just shocked on how spot on she was into being aware of the things."
"Ohhhh, I loved her name. Is that pink-haired girl who loves to bake? And who makes parties around the city?" Lindsay remembered which person was, from seeing the photograph album and knowing the party planner girl.
"Yep, that's her. She is very smart when she takes some serious subjects. Once there was a train trip to make her bring the bakery specialty from where she worked, and she made an investigation about who ate a bite of the said delicious dessert," Spike used his friend as a good example, which made Lindsay sparkle on her eyes.
"Oh, oh, oh. I love criminal investigations, tell me more about what happened." Lindsay felt it was a good time to listen about what happened.
"Well, from what my sister Twilight told me, everything happened when... Pinkie brought the Marzipan Mascarpone Meringue Madness to a train." Spike then decided to give a summary of what just happened with the events on how Pinkie and Twilight solved the case of who would be the person who bites the precious desserts before the completion.
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It passed a minute until Beth came to see a good empty spot with someone having a conversation around the Main Lodge, the other campers seemed to be having an interesting conversation.
"And when Twilight found an eyelid... Pinkie Pie called all the suspects when it came about to find the culprit." Spike was even explaining until Beth came closer as Lindsay was listening closely to the story was telling.
"Hey guys, what are you guys talking about?" Beth came closer, and before Spike could say what was happening. Lindsay said in a cheerful tone.
"Oh, hey Belly. Mike is telling me about the story of how his friends Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash were caught eating the Marzipan Mascarpone Meringue Madness, while the other bakers decided to each of them ate a bite of each other desserts before in the competition. And now his sister Twilight and friend Pinkie Pie are able to call all the suspects." Lindsay gave a summary of what happened, and Spike closed his eyes in agreement.
"Exactly, she was..." And at that moment, Spike blinked... not once, nor twice... but 5 times, until his mind processed what the blonde bombshell had just said... "Wait, I didn't tell who did what... How did you know it?"
"Oh, well... it's because Fluttershy seemed to be deflecting a lot, and Rainbow Dash seemed to be also way too interested in the dessert when you said about the eyelid and the change of her hairstyle, of course, Rarity was also inside of it... Maybe they worked together ... And the bakers, well they were provoking each other way too much. So their pride would let them try to eat each of their food to see if was that great..." Lindsay explained her own reasoning for what just happened... And Spike had his eyes wide open and his mind blown away...
Beth was also surprised.
"Wait, that's what happened? How horrible, how they would participate in the competition?" Beth asked horrified with the idea of how the others would compete without a piece of their own food...
"Well, in the end all the contestants on the train decided to work together to make the final dessert, and thankfully my mom was judging and with their own determination and happiness, my mom became proud to see them working together so she gave everyone the first prize." Spike gave the happy result which made Lindsay shed some tears of joy.
"That's so beautiful Milo..." Lindsay said once again Spike's name was wrong... Which made him confused.
"Err... Lindsay, how were you able to say the name of my sister and her friends right, but when it comes to the other campers' names, you say it wrong?" Spike tilted his head in confusion, and that comment made Lindsay gasp in surprise.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Lindsay apologized before sighing and giving her an explanation. "It's because the names you said to me were mostly objects, and from the way you said, they really have the personality of someone with that name."
"Hmmm, fascinating," Spike commented as he could imagine Twilight being fascinated to see how Lindsay could mess up all the human names, but when it comes to Equestrian names she would remember... "How about this, remember when I said a few days ago that my name is related to spikes? Try to say that in singular?"
"Err... Spike?" Lindsay asked as she hoped she got his name right.
"YEAH," Spike said happily which made Lindsay smile happier from her improvement. "You did it. I told you that you can be smart Lindsay."
"Thanks... Spike." Lindsay once again said happy with herself, proud of how someone just discovered and said she was smart... That was the first time someone had said that to her, and she felt so happy about it.
"That's great. Congrats Lindsay." Beth was also happy to see the improvement. The blonde girl was so proud of her.
"Thank you, Bethany." And then Lindsay said another wrong name, which made Beth sad and disappointed, but Spike touched her shoulder.
"Don't worry, baby steps, she will learn with time," Spike said hopefully for the farmer girl, who nodded her head to him. So in the end the group started talking as some minutes passed by.
Trent appeared exhausted, and the first thing he did was to get his body on the floor to take a nap.
"So how are your game plans for the future of the show?" Spike asked as he could see that one by one, the campers were coming one by one, and Spike felt there was something wrong with the challenge.
"What do you mean?" Beth asked as Lindsay tilted her head in confusion.
"Well, from what I just heard from Courtney and Bridgette, this show is also about not being voted out to remain in the game. So what if we work together and have 3 votes, we could protect ourselves from people who would want to eliminate us." Spike gave the facts about the rules of the show, he made both Beth and Lindsay have their eyes wide open with his explanation, and his idea to protect each other made them happy with the idea. "But also we should give our best effort to help the team to win."
"Like an alliance?" Beth asked hopefully, which made Spike think about it for a few seconds.
"Yeah, something like that." Spike smiled at the farm girl who just seemed to be so happy to hear about it.
"I like the sound of that, let's do this," Beth said excitedly, knowing now she had some backup in dealing with the challenges.
"Great, I'm going take another glass of water, would you like some?" Spike offered, as he soon saw Lindsay already giving her a glass with some lemon slices.
"Could please bring me some too?" Lindsay asked and was happy to see the green and purple-haired boy nodding his head to her.
"Would like some too Beth?" Spike asked, and after seeing the farmer girl smiling sheepishly at him, he nodded his head. "Alright, another glass of water coming."
And with that, another alliance was made.
It didn't take long until Gwen managed to put through the marathon, and she was already sweating from the heat outside, Chris forcing them to make such a cruel challenge, gave her one more reason to drive the goth to the madness, and now she would give anything to have something good to refresh herself.
Like the cold drink, everyone from the main lodge was having at that moment.
"Ahhhh, now that's better. Thanks again, dude." Duncan who had a very long run felt the fresh water go smoothly at his throat, and he felt better than ever.
"No problem." Spike waved, and instead of only having a glass of water, the boy found a glass jar and managed to make it for everyone who was interested in drinking it. "Hey Gwen, over here. You look thirsty, why not have one of these?"
Gwen blinked, and she could see Beth and Lindsay already talking happily, and surprisingly, even Chris was there to drink the fancy water.
"Ah, man, nothing like a refreshing drink for a marathon," Chris smiled as he talked like he also was part of the group who had to run during the whole challenge.
The campers wanted to shout to him that he didn't run with them... But remains calm...
Gwen grumbled as she passed by Spike who was with a glass of water already for her... And with a grateful smile, she felt much better with such a problem solved. At least she knew Spike was there to make good company, and Trent seemed to be there as well, but he was on the floor enjoying a good nap.
"So now are you serving water?" Gwen asked with her eyebrow raised, receiving a nod from the purple and green-haired boy.
"That's right. After such a challenge today, I was between making iced tea, but I forgot my tea herbs in my backpack, so nothing like a well-made glass of water wouldn't solve." Spike smiled, which made Lindsay more cheerful.
"Oh oh oh, you know how to make ice tea? That's so wonderful. I love iced tea," Lindsay was jumping from her seat excitedly, which made Gwen roll her eyes.
"It's just tea with ice cubes," Gwen said as she couldn't believe the absurd but then she heard Spike scoff.
"I don't know Gwen, you never tasted the iced tea I made before, my aunt always prefers coffee, but even she loved to have my iced tea as a second option." Spike bragged as he could see the girl staring at Lindsay and Beth. And that also made Spike have another idea. "Hey Gwen, me, Lindsay, and Beth are making an alliance, are you interested in joining in?"
Gwen raised her eyebrows, seeing Spike has always been a helpful guy, and a person who is interested in talking, but also glanced at the blonde bombshell who seemed an ameba would be smarter than her, and then the farmer girl who was so eager to be touchy, that also would drive the others into madness...They seemed to be friendly, but it was not her style to live or play the gameshow.
"I will think about it." Gwen dismissed without being rude. And the way Beth, Lindsay, and Spike smiled made her flinch as they trusted that she would indeed think about the idea.
And with that Gwen sat on the other table, to wait for the other campers to appear. And from far away from that table, Courtney and Bridgette gave glances to the boy who was just having fun talking with his alliance.
Minutes became an hour, as the contestants were some of them are tired and some were sleeping, Chris was enjoying their boredom while he was filing his fingers.
At the next moment, everyone was surprised to see Owen busting from the door carrying someone on his shoulder.
"Clear a table, stat!" Owen shouted as the group gave space for him to place Noah who seemed to have fainted from exhaustion.
"We made it!" Leshawna also came from the door, breathless from all the run she had to do, the extra pounds in her weight made her regret waking up to do the matinal run on that day. But she finally made it.
Owen started to do CPR on Noah while Courtney just noticed Harold was the last member of their team who came in the last place, making her tired but also annoyed.
"What took so long?" Courtney complained as she saw Harold holding his heart and groaning in pain. "We lost the challenge!"
Spike went to Leshawna and quickly gave them a glass of cold water, which she gratefully drank as her life depended on it.
"Ahh, sweet water. That's how a girl likes it." Leshawna never imagined a fancy glass of water would have made her entire day, and seeing the boy so helpful and proactive. She messed with his hair. "Thanks, sugar boy."
"No problem." Spike smiled as he offered a glass to Owen, but the chubby camper took the entire jar and drank it, and was about to share his drink by mouth to mouth, and Noah woke up.
"WOAH, WOAH, WOAH. I'M FINE, I'M FINE." Noah raised his arms because he didn't want to see himself being kissed like that on live television.
"I think I'm having heart palpitations!" Harold said as he was feeling his chest hurt, and even if Courtney complained about their defeat, the poor boy seemed to not even have a break.
"Hey, wait a minute, if they lost, that means we won the challenge!" Gwen realized, as she saw how the logic works... if the other team just said they lost, that meant they won the challenge... And from that logic alone, the Screaming Gophers cheered in victory.
"Whoa there! Hold your horses, guys." Chris then decided to step in, which made the Screaming Gophers stop cheering. "That wasn't the challenge!"
"What did you just say?" Gwen's eyes twitched as she looked at the host weirdly. The group of campers went into a whole marathon with empty hands.
At the time Chris walked in the direction of a giant purple curtain which made everyone get by surprise...
"Who's hungry!?" And with that Chris then pulled back a certain way, revealing something that made most of the camper's, if not all of them have their eyes sparkling and drool like they were a bunch of starving animals. A buffet table was completely stacked with foods of great quality, which made them think they had died and had woken up in heaven.
Confession - Gwen
"After a whole week of brown sludge, I almost cried when I saw that buffet," Gwen admitted as she pointed out how they have to eat the most disgusting kind of food made by the chef himself.
Confession - Owen
"And then I saw it, the buffet table. It was beautiful." Owen said with his voice showing that he may have entered into an oasis while he felt like the richest man on earth. "There was turkey, and the naval bars, and bakes beans and maple syrup?"
"Sniff Ha... can I have a minute?" Owen shed some tears as he felt emotionally touched by seeing the good food once again in his life.
Confession - Spike.
"Okay, firstly Chris made us run a marathon... then offered a lot of good food after weeks of having to eat what we usually do on this camp? Is he trying to make us to sleep?" Spike asked in disbelief at the camera.
And after what would be a whole hour.
Spike heard about the time on how addicting meat can be when it comes to food. Sunset Shimmer even offered a hamburger to taste and it was irresistible for him...
Eating a turkey was also a very new experience for the Equestrian dragon, even as the tears coming from his eyes showed how delicious was to eat something so different from the human culture.
And from what Sunset told him, they eat turkey once or twice each year, and from how delicious it was... He wouldn't mind.
Seeing Bridgette away and eating a lot of greased beans and potato salad.
"Hey Bridgette, you should try this turkey. It's amazing." Spike said happily but then glanced at Bridgette hesitant.
"Oh, no thanks, I'm vegetarian. I don't eat meat."Bridgette explained which made Spike nod his head.
"Hmmm. Fair enough, most of my family is also vegetarian, so if you want. I know how to make a daisy sandwich that it will blow your mind." Spike gave a smirk which made the blond surfer raise her eyebrows in amusement.
"You mean daisies like flowers?"Bridgette has heard a lot of jokes about vegetarian people, but saying them eating flowers was the first one.
"And with a good egg on top. Trust me, my sister loves it. But me I'm more like hay fries." Spike commented as he didn't mind her disbelief. "I like them very crispy..."
And Bridgette listened to Spike. The duo seemed to keep enjoying another good round of food. Then Spike went to eat cake with Courtney who just wanted to talk with the purple and green-haired boy...
Duncan watched that scene and smirked at the way the girl was looking at the boy, and when the blonde surfer was near him, she glared a bit at her own teammate... The delinquent would have used the opportunity to make fun of it, but he decided to ignore it and just enjoy the food while it lasted.
After eating all the food, all the campers felt like their stomachs begging to stop, every single one of them groaned from how their bellies were satisfied and just wanted to have a nap.
And it was the right time for Chris to start the real challenge. By taking his megaphone, it was time for their surprise.
"Okay, campers, time for part two of your challenge," Chris smirked as he could see the confused look on their faces.
"I thought eating was the second part," Owen said as his face was covered with food.
"What more do you want from us?" Gwen said as her belly was exposed from all the food she ate in gluttony.
"Weird goth girl is right, haven't we been through enough?" Heather said as it was a rare occasion that both girls would agree on something. And from having to walk to a terrible Marathon, and eat a lot until their stomachs full of food she has no idea where Chris wants to go with that.
"Um, let me think about that, no," Chris said on his megaphone, while he passed a full second thinking about it. But sarcastically replying to her answer. "It's time for the Awake-A-Thon!"
"The what-a-thon?"Owen asked, since he never heard about it. And Spike had his eyes wide open.
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Confession - Spike.
"Oh ponyfeathers." Spike said an iconic Equestria slang, which would now recognized by life television. "I suck on awake-a-thons. Every time Twilight and Shining did that at home, I was always the first one to lose. Welp, at least it's safe in comparison to the last challenge."
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"Don't worry," Chris jumped off the table and smiled assuredly to Owen. "This is an easy one, the team with the last camper standing wins invincibility."
"So, what you're saying is the 20k and the turkey-eating frenzy were part of your evil plan to make it harder for us to stay awake?" Gwen said in disbelief, finally understanding what the host of the show planned from the beginning.
"That's right, Gwen." Chris smiled as he could see the campers becoming afraid of him.
"Man, he's good," Gwen commented as she had to admit that she was played like a fiddle.
Leshawna nodded as she was also impressed and nothing she could say at that moment could save her from the challenge.
"Move, move, move" And with that Chris shouted while the other campers immediately ran away to reach the marked spot.
Seeing the campers walking away, Trent approached Gwen who was still feeling exhausted from the two phases of the challenge.
"So, how long think it'll be before everyone's out cold?" Trent asked as he himself was unsure of how the challenge will go.
"About an hour, give or take," Gwen commented until they both saw a drooling Owen groans and walk past them. "Maybe less."
The sunrise changes to daylight, a few hours have passed, and marked 11:59 AM on the clock. The contestants are tired and some of them have bags under their eyes and some of them are awake.
"We are now 12 hours in with all 21 campers still wide awake," Chris commented as he showed around all the campers who seemed to be almost sleeping, Owen different than the others, he was acting like he was driven by caffeine.
"Woohoo! Stay awake for 12 hours? I could do that in my sleep. Woohoo!" Owen was excited about the challenge, and at the time he stood in a pose... he suddenly froze and then fell... Taking one point away from the Screaming Gophers.
Confession - Gwen
"The Awake-A-Thon was definitely the most brutal thing I've ever done in my life." Gwen looked exhausted, after having to suffer hours to remain awake, and she wished to have a good night of sleep.
"This is the most boring thing I've ever done in my life." Gwen yawned as she felt bored, Chris forced the teams to sit in logs, doing absolutely nothing, with boredom lurking around, staying awake on that challenge was more difficult than she thought.
"Could be way worse," Trent commented as he yawned as well. Which made Gwen stare at him inquiring for an answer.
"Oh yeah? How?"
"I could be stuck here without you to talk to," Trent commented making Gwen give a smile, having someone interested in talking to her at that time, made her enjoy having good company.
And while the duo seemed to start what would be a good duo... Heather looks suspicious trying to accomplish her strategy.
Confession - Heather
"So, my strategy is to get other campers to form an alliance with me and take to the final three, the only question is who can I find that is either desperate or dumb enough to do whatever I say?"Heather explained how she planned to survive around the reality show, knowing as the queen bee herself, it would be easy to find easy targets.
Lindsay was doing a handstand, which Gwen couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.
"What are you doing?" Gwen asked as she tried to understand the reasoning coming from the blond girl whose Spike decided to make an alliance.
"Trying to get the blood to rush to my head, I think it's working." Lindsay came up with an unorthodox method to make sure that her brain would remain focused and have better oxygen to her brain.
"Can I try?" Beth felt eager to help her new friend and try to apply herself, even if the plan wouldn't work, she at least would have fun with Lindsay.
"Sure." Lindsay smiled since she and Beth would start an excellent friendship, especially with Spike helping their alliance.
Heather grinned as a plan formed in her head.
"Perfect, Lindsay, and Beth, can I talk to you for a sec?" Heather called the attention of both the blond and the farm girl who were trying to find a strategy to make them be prepared for the challenge.
Lindsay and Beth blinked, but both nodded their heads and went to talk with Heather a bit away from the others.
Heather smiled as she knew how things would work, since both girls looked a bit despaired for some help, she knew that at the time she would offer an alliance they would accept it.
"Okay, I have a plan to get me and two other people to the final three and I chose you guys."Heather first decided to give the good news to the girls, knowing they wouldn't have a chance to survive until the final three, so giving a false hope was the best way to bring attention.
"Really?"Lindsay was happy, but then she and Beth blinked... until they realized something... "Err... you mean like an alliance?"
"Yeah, you should know that this is a very big deal, I am placing my trust in you and trust is a two-way street."Heather smiled as she gave a very serious voice until she looked at the unsure faces of both Beth and Lindsay. "What's the problem?"
"Well, it's because we are already in an alliance," Beth replied which made Heather stare at the duo in shock, and her eyes were twitching in anger.
"Oh, really?" Heather said as she gritted her teeth and tried to smile.
"Yeah, Spike came to us this afternoon, and we decided to form a trio to help each other," Lindsay commented as she didn't realize her teeth of Heather gritting at that moment. "Oh yeah, did you see Spike around Beth?"
"He said he was going in the bathroom, so it wouldn't take long," Beth said until both Lindsay and Beth saw Spike coming back to his log who was behind Gwen and Trent. "Oh, there he is... See you later Heather. Good luck in trying to find your alliance."
"Yeah, good luck Halley," Lindsay said happily as the duo went away from her...
"IT'S HEATHER," Heather shouted angrily as she saw the duo of girls going after the foreign boy who seemed to be so happy around. And he didn't look either tired or exhausted. "I'm watching you, boy... Don't think you won against me yet."
As time passed, Spike was happy to talk with Lindsay and Beth, and when there were a few minutes when Gwen and Trent asked some questions, Spike could also offer some interesting questions to debate around. Especially Noah who came near them to debate with Spike about the book he was reading.
"So you heard about the concept of time travel?" Noah asked, and Lindsay and Beth were still confused about the last explanation Noah tried to come up with his theory, but Spike dismissed it with another important point.
"You can say that," Spike commented, but inside of his own mind. "Practically lived both concepts."
"Well, so what's your point when it comes to changing the time-space continuum?" Noah asked and he was interested to see if the boy from Equestria really knew what he was talking about.
"Well, which one would you like to hear? Paradoxes or Dimensional shifts?" And from that question alone, Noah had his eyes wide opened by surprise, and Spike gave a glance to Lindsay. "Well, let me put it this way. You went into a time travel this morning to warn yourself about the challenge you are doing right now, feeling exhausted and have just 20 seconds to warn yourself about this... but your past version got so curious about how you made the time travel or even tried to guess what happened without you giving time to explain about the challenge... making you disappear, and your past version get worried about the challenge all day long... until had the opportunity to make a time travel to warn about the challenge which is happening today..."
"But wouldn't that make the results the same?" Lindsay tilted her head, she understood from the way Spike had explained from his point of view the little story. But that question was on her mind.
"Yes it does... that's why it's called paradox." Noah had to confess that he was impressed by the fact the dumb blond actually managed to understand the dummy version of what would be the interesting concept of physics... Seeing the boy in front of him teaching her that in simple words... makes him nod and accept that there was indeed someone smart just like him in the show.
Gwen and Trent had to give to Spike, they knew about Paradox when they were in high school, but for Spike to find an easy way to explain that to Lindsay? He was indeed someone who was willing to help and take the interest of others.
"So, what about Dimension Shifts?" Trent asked and Spike gave a very serious look.
"Well, the concept of dimension shifts when it comes to time travel... Let's just say this, you guys know that I was adopted right?" Spike asked which made both Beth and Lindsay have their eyes wide open.
"You were?" Beth asked, and the others nodded their heads to her.
"Anyway, if someone moved back in time, for a specific time on the day I was known by my adoptive parents, and instead of them seeing me, someone just decided to hide me in a bedroom for a few hours, without any contact with anyone around..." Spike gave a serious explanation which made the group stare at each other. "So in case I wasn't meet with them, they would have preferred to adopt another person, which would make my whole life different, and from my life differently by not being around my parents and my friends, random events could happen because we never know what could happen... and if I wasn't adopted and didn't have meet my friends... then I wouldn't have know the show, and without knowing the show, I couldn't be here, and if I'm not here..."
"Then we couldn't have met you." Gwen understood where the point of Spike was going, and from seeing a good explanation, Lindsay had a very impressive display of understanding of the simple story of what could happen.
"So that would mean that we would have accepted the alliance with Heather," Beth commented which made Spike tilt his head, and the others stared at Heather who was far away, glaring at Spike.
"She wanted to make an alliance?" Spike asked in surprise. The duo nodded their heads. "Well, that could prove my point, there would be another dimension where you girls would be in an alliance with Heather."
"I pity for your dimensional versions."Gwen snarked while Noah tried to not laugh.
Lindsay and Beth looked unsure of what she meant by that, but at least they learned something new from their friend.
Time passed as the group was talking between themselves, in the Killer Bass side, the boredom was strong, and not many members of their team felt the desire to talk between themselves. Courtney and Bridgette gave glances towards Spike but then glanced at each other by surprise. They tried to hide their eyes away, but their attention was towards the boy who seemed to be enjoying his talk with his team.
Eva was listening to her MP3 until she got up to take it off.
"I'm going to the bathroom," Eva commented but not realizing it at the time she walked away, her music device fell from her pocket and hit the floor... And Heather realized a good opportunity to seize it. She decided to do some stretches, but doing it in front of everyone, who didn't notice her hands going to the floor and taking the MP3. Everyone was too tired to realize Heather taking the MP3, and even the Screaming Gophers were distracted because of the tiredness or were talking to distract themselves from going to sleep.
It was a perfect plan and was done flawlessly, so she smiled evilly from the victory way to sabotage the rival's strongest player.
Hours passed until finally it reached the night... Courtney looked at Spike who finally showed the stages of tiredness... from seeing the sunset reach to the end, and now the night was about to start...Courtney walked towards the group who was still trying to remain awake... However, after spending a few days with Spike, she knew one important fact, every night after the campfire elimination, Exactly 30 minutes after that hour, Spike prepares himself to sleep.
"So you are not going to stay awake?" Courtney's sudden question made the group glance at the C.I.T. girl, curious to know who she was talking to. Until Spike sat in front of the log and rolled his jacket like a ball but then somehow managed to place a few leaves inside of it to make a very comfortable pillow with it. The group stared at him in disbelief.
"Yep, once I had to help Twilight shelve all the books into a specific order with her, and we spent 3 days inside of the library doing that, but at night I always couldn't stay awake, so I slept always at the same hour. That's why I usually suck on awake-a-thon." Spike explained as the Gophers were staring at Spike, he was prepared to throw the towel. "Well, I'm on my limit already, good night Courtney."
"Goodnight Spike, I hope the dreams let you guide you to your true happiness," Courtney repeated what Spike had said to her, and surprisingly, when he said that, she never thought she would sleep so well in her whole life...
The others were confused by what the girl had said, but Spike smiled at her.
"You too, Courtney, you too," Spike replied as he then inclined his head on his improvised pillow jacket, and with a last glance to the sky... he gave his final prayers. "Have a good night of work Aunty Luna,"
Courtney was satisfied at the time Spike closed his eyes, she knew that her team made progress, while they were 2 ahead of the Screaming Gophers, even if the others were staring weirdly at her, she just ignored them.
The Gophers were confused about what happened, but they were even tired of caring about what just happened.
At the time Spike slept, many things happened around the time around midnight, Bridgette, Izzy, and Noah were all sleeping because they couldn't take the pressure to stay awake. And while some of the campers still had some difficulty remaining awake, Justin was in a frozen position smiling with bigger eyes to make him stay awake.
Tyler was about to sleep, but he saw Katie who was sleeping in the log, and suddenly a bear appeared from behind the bushes just to attack the tan girl.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH." Tyler screamed in fear which made Katie jump and wake up, just to realize Tyler had a nightmare. Some of the other campers also woke up from his shout, however, the green and purple-haired boy remained sleeping on his log.
Chris came with a book of fairytales, and with Chef to play a tiny harp, he told a very boring story in which Cody slept in Owen's butt, counting sheep until the fart coming from the fat camper was enough to make the geekester wake up and cough the fart which was inside of his mouth.
Later Chef appeared in the air, wearing a balerina's costume, and using magic sparkles to make everyone sleep, the song played in the background while he danced was Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Duncan, Eva, and Geoff look surprised, but they are "affected" by Chef's "magical sparkles" and fall asleep, Chef continues to sleep, and Cody and Leshawna look surprised, they also get sparkled by Chef's sparkles. DJ ties himself to a tree, he also gets sparkled, yawns, and falls asleep. The tree falls on him and gets timbered, the Killer Bass lose one point.
Beth and Lindsay after being attacked by the magical sparks... also got down from the tiredness, and seeing their friends enjoying a good night of sleep, they couldn't blame themselves since they begged to sleep at that moment.
Even with all the difficulties, Courtney came up with a strategy, she was jogging on her place after having her talk with the duo color-haired boy.
Courtney - Confession
"I figured that if I kept moving, I get out last all of them, I just had to keep my eye on the ball. Their team was sleeping way faster than mine, so if I kept focused, I'm sure that we could win this. We just needed more 3 of them to sleep and the victory would be ours." Courtney smiled, as she was ready to go with her plan.
"Okay, favorite song," Gwen asked as she started playing the game with Trent, simple questions which have been very effective to him.
"She Would Loved," Trent answered the question as he smiled at her just to find out more about her. "Favorite color."
"Um, midnight blue." Gwen thought for a second, but not before replying to the guitarist, and the sudden answer made him surprised.
"Ooh, mysterious, I like that," Trent commented as he could see the girl smiling at him, but at the next second, she yawned. "Aw, Don't fall asleep, okay, quick, favorite movie moment."
"You're gonna think it's cheesy." Gwen scoffed, but Trent assured her that he wouldn't. "Okay, the kiss at the end of that road trip movie, you know the one with the guy and three girls."
"I know the one." Trent laughed as he made a side joke. "I can't believe you liked that movie."
The duo seemed to have a very good time together, however, it was interrupted when suddenly, Owen walked by, interrupting Gwen and Trent while sleepwalking naked. Gwen and Trent look shocked at what they just saw. Gwen and Trent look at Owen's clothes, which are lying beside the seats. Gwen and Trent look at Owen sleepwalking continuously.
Confession - Owen
"Did I mention that I ate the entire dish of baked beans and maple syrup? The funny thing about baked beans, is they make me sleepwalk." Owen said sheepishly, not knowing how to explain the consequences of his actions while sleepwalking.
The night was still around when Trent was still suffering from forced insomnia, he couldn't move his head since he was too tired. Both he and Gwen talked about how tired they felt and even learned more about the stars.
Owen continues sleepwalking, he almost falls onto the cliff, steps back turns around, and falls.
It is 51:00 hours. Leshawna falls asleep, but she just woke up from Gwen and Trent talking about one simple thing. Justin stands frozen.
"Look at him, he's like a statue," Gwen commented as she examined closer the model who was still confident in his position. "He hasn't moved in over, 50 hours. Hello."
"Yip, yip, yip, yip, yip." Trent tried to scare him, to make loud yip noises, and even shook his arms to try to have some reaction from his eyes.
"Yo. Amazing, look at the concentration." Gwen was impressed by his team rival, from having a focus like that he must have a strong determination. And then at the time Gwen just tapped on his face. Justin moves, he opens his eyes, which means he was caught cheating. Gwen and Trent gasped.
"His eyelids are painted, I saw it!" Eva said in outrage, not sure if she just called it the cheating from her own team because she was too tired, or because she didn't like cheaters on the competition. But at the time she said loudly, Chris was impressed.
"Get out, oh, I've got to see this." Chris ran to Justin, he looked at him, and Justin smiled sheepishly at being busted. And Chris had to admit. "That is so crazy incredible, but you're still out, dude."
Justin is disappointed, the Killer Bass lost another point, they have 3 points. Leaving Duncan, Courtney and Eva remaining.
A bunch of salmons jump on the water, along with Owen, the screen tilts to the left, and the salmons and Owen go up to the waterfall. And what it looked like an eternity, the night was almost to cross to the end. The campers who were still having difficulty sleeping in such conditions, suddenly heard a groaning of someone waking up.
The boy who made the pillow of leaves just opened his eyes and got up from his log to crack his back from sleeping in such conditions. He didn't complain about it, since there were times he slept on the floor after doing a hard research with Twilight.
"Alright," Spike stretched himself as he then glanced at the remaining campers in the competition. "Woah, were you guys still awake this whole time?"
"60 hours," Gwen commented, which made Spike stare at them in surprise.
"Do you want some company? Dawn is about to happen." Spike smiled at the exhausted duo, who just nodded their heads. "If you guys want, I can try to bring breakfast."
"Would you do that to us?" Trent asked in a hopeful tone, which the boy seemed to be so happy to help. "Dude you are a lifesaver."
"Yeah, but I don't think Chris would allow anyone else to get out of this place." Gwen then made a good point, which Spike raised his eyebrow to her, "Possibly Chef will bring something disgusting to make us stay awake, or give the same food from yesterday to make us to sleep easier."
"Yeah, but thanks for trying Spike." Trent smiled, and the dragon boy accepted the answer... Seeing that most of his friends like Trent and Gwen were still awake... Spike just saw Courtney on her limit, her legs feeling sore from all the exercise she did.
Spike grimaced, and he wanted to help, but he couldn't... so the trio just stared at the dawn of the morning on the camp. While Spike was used to seeing such a view, Trent and Gwen were fascinated by seeing such a beautiful view.
"Whoa." Gwen was in awe, as Spike smiled to see one of the most beautiful moments of the morning.
"Breathtaking right?" Spike asked, which made the duo nod to him. "I always sleep early just for this moment, my mom always liked to stay awake for this moment, and it became like a tradition to me, a part of my own culture... I just love to see it, over and over again, it never gets old to me."
Trent and Gwen looked at each other, and from seeing the good view, they couldn't help but nod their heads, even if their own tiredness couldn't find the true appreciation as it should.
Like Gwen said, Chef came to feed the campers with their usual camp food, which now made them want to keep sleeping just for the sake of missing the food. Spike didn't mind, and was enjoying the good part of talking with Lindsay, Beth, and Bridgette who just came to talk around, Gwen, Trent, Courtney, Heather, Duncan, and Eva were focused on remaining in the game, but only Trent and Gwen appreciated the talk the group had around to make sure they would remain distracted and awake.
And from 60 hours, later it became 70, then it became 80 then became 85. The campers surpassed almost 3 days of challenge. Harold was sleeping, Duncan decided to put Harold's hand in cold water, and after a few seconds, Harold accidentally wet his pants after a wet dream.
"Oh gross it works, The dude peed his pants!" Duncan never thought his prank would have worked, but it seems everything went better than he expected.
Harold woke up, and after he found out he peed on his pants, he covered it to make people not see it. he gasps and sees that he peed his pants, and he covers it. Noah was kissing Cody's ear in his sleep. But the moment he opened his eyes, Noah and Cody screamed and ran off.
"I'd kill for a coffee right now," Gwen begged for a heaven signal, to bring something to make her stay awake, however, nothing was supposed to be easy for her.
Chris came nearby to them with a mug of steamed coffee in his hands.
"What is the matter with you, people?" Chris's smirk was something iconic that everyone from the camp started to hate, and from the way he drank the coffee, it was an invitation to make the others obey him. "Come on, fall asleep already!"
"You gotta hook me up, man! I'll even eat the grinds, anything!" Gwen went to grab his pants and begged for a caffeine drink for her to remain awake, and that has been bugging Chris.
"Alright, you five stay with me, the rest of you go and get a shower for heaven's sake, you stink!" Chris finally gave the permission of the group to go to their beds, or do a time on the shower, anything to take the reck smell from being outside of the camp for more than 3 days.
Harold was the first one to run, still covering his groin. Leaving a confused and curious Geoff, and the other campers leaving the place.
"Good luck guys." Spike wished luck to his team, Trent gave a thumbs up, Gwen sighed sadly, and Heather rolled her eyes.
Hours passed by, and Spike after having his breakfast from Chef Hatchet, and a very good mug of coffee... He saw how the others seemed very tired from all the terrible routine. Lindsay and Beth seemed very exhausted, and Bridgette was with her head on the table, sleeping a bit.
Everyone who had their routines messed up like that would make his aunt Luna very angry since she wanted the others to appreciate the night, but also appreciate a very good night of sleep.
He wasn't an expert in awake-a-thons because of that, usually, there weren't winners after such a challenge. It was more a cruel torture for people who never have time to sleep, nor to dream...
Maybe on the next day, everything would be better for everyone.
Spike seeing that everyone was exhausted and needing to have time to rest, brought the pillows from their cabins, and their blankets as well. Lindsay without noticing, gave a quick pick on his cheek, which made Spike blush like a tomato... It was the tiredness of Lindsay who surprised him. Bridgette was happy to have someone who cared for her, and she didn't even manage to close her eyes for a minute and she was having a very beautiful dream... About a clean beach, and a purple and green-haired boy learning surf from her.
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While Owen was being used as part of a beaver's dam, the time was 88 hours, when Spike just heard the news of Chris saying the Screaming Gophers were the winners,
"YES." Spike cheered as he went to see how the group was after such a terrible challenge... And from seeing Heather, Gwen, and Trent finally with their eyes closed and sleeping... He couldn't help, they did their best to win the challenge.
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"UGH. Wha? Where am I?" Heather woke up until she realized she was in the bed from Screaming Gopher's cabin, she just closed her eyes for a minute and then she felt like she just woke up 3 hours late. It was the sound of someone screaming in anger. Heather looked around and saw Gwen was also sleeping on the bed, but was too tired to even notice the shouts and trashing happening around.
Heather, didn't know who brought her to her own bed, but she smiled as the plan she did worked so well.
The Killer Bass are standing outside of the cabins, stuff is outside due to Eva throwing them because she can't find her MP3 because Heather stole it.
"Where is my MP3 player?! One of you must stolen it, I need my music! No one is going anywhere until I get my MP3 player back!" Eva shouted as she threw a book, which almost hit Harold.
Courtney, as she felt defeated by her poor strategy, which made her feel her legs like jelly, was now annoyed and tired of everything. Even the lesson of friendship Spike taught her before showed that in a tiredness like that, Eva would be a loss cause, since she couldn't listen to her and neither the others.
"Okay, whoever took it better give it up now before she destroys the whole camp," Courtney said as she was exasperated. And she didn't want to deal with a consequence like that.
"Hey, guys," Heather knew it was her time to shine, so she feigned ignorance to try to make her acting spot on. "wow, this place is a real mess."
"Someone stole Eva's MP3 player," Courtney said in a tired tone, she just wanted to go to sleep, but now she needs to find a way to find the...
"Who, you don't mean this do you?" Heather showed the Music Player which surprised Courtney and even Eva surprised to see someone who found her MP3, not knowing that she was the one who stole it in the first place. "I was wondering who it belonged to, I found it by the campfire pit. You must have dropped it."
"Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!" Eva said as she was now relieved to see her most precious object in her hands, not knowing she was playing like a fiddle.
"Sure thing," Heather said as she gave her final goodbyes to the strongest member of the Killer Bass team.
Confession - Heather.
"Turn a team against their own members, easiest trick in the book." Heather tapped her own back from doing a perfect manipulation tactic without being caught.
Eva smiled sheepishly, while everyone who was afraid of Eva, now were very angry from her outburst, and her lack of control. Justin saw some of his precious mirrors destroyed, and the group never saw the beautiful model show that much anger.
"So, sorry about that little misunderstanding." She apologized, but neither of her team accepted it, even if the excuse of she being wrong wasn't going to protect her from the terrifying experience everyone was feeling. They were angry. "Guess no one stole it after all. Okay, maybe I overreacted a little."
Eva gave the final nervous laugh from the show...
(Campfire at Night.)
The scene changes to nighttime, the Killer Bass are at the elimination ceremony for the second time. Chris walks up to tell the campers who got the marshmallow.
"You've all cast your votes on a major decision, there are only nine marshmallows on this plate, when I call your name, comp up, and claim your marshmallow, the camper who does not receive a marshmallow must immediately return to the Dock of Shame, catch the Boat of Losers and leave, you can never come back, ever," Chris explained once more about the circumstances of what happened around the show, now that everyone was tired and wanted to be done with it. Chris already has a script in mind. "The first marshmallow goes to Duncan, Bridgette, Courtney, Katie, and Justin."
And the more Chris commented every single member claimed their marshmallows. Tyler then came next, DJ as well, and then Geoff, until the final marshmallow arrived. Leaving just Harold and Eva staying between the people who don't have any.
"Campers, this is the final marshmallow of the evening."Chris showed the plate the last marshmallow, Eva looked shocked and nervous, and Harold was shocked and nervous, too.
There was a dramatic pause, the tension around between the two campers, until the host came to the final conclusion.
"Harold." And with that, Harold smiled and went quickly to claim his marshmallow.
"Eva, the Dock of Shame awaits," Chris smirked at the bodybuilder, but the anger from her eyes showed that she was annoyed beyond her limit.
"Nice, really nice, who needs this lame-o TV show anyway?!" Eva said as she could see Katie looking nervously, and she walked angrily to the Dock of Shame, but not before kicking Chri's shin."
"Ow! Have a good night's sleep tonight, you're all safe." Chris commented as he massaged his shin from receiving the kick of the ungrateful contestant.
Confession - Courtney.
"See, I told you, you can't act like a total ringing psychopath and then expect people to just forgive you, no matter how tough and strong and fast you are, she's never gonna have a career if she doesn't get her act together," Courtney commented, as her own tiredness speak for her. "How can you even have friends if you let your temper control you like that? That's not healthy."
Confession - Heather.
"So, Eva was one of their strongest players, and now she's gone. I am so running this game." Heather said proudly of herself, but then she narrowed her eyes. "I just need to find 2 paws to help me to remain in the top 3... And I need to do it quickly."
Courtney saw Eva going on the boat, and a part of her wanted to wave and say goodbyes to the bulky camper who just lost... but she decided to ignore that part, and just go straight to the bed...
Chris came near them and decided to give a bomb to them.
"I hope you enjoy a very good night of sleep because since you all remained in the challenge for almost 4 days, tomorrow will be the start of a new challenge," Chris smirked once more which made the whole Killer Bass in disbelief.
"YOU WHAT?" The Killer Bass felt attacked after dealing with just one defeat, and now they had to do another challenge for the next day.
"I wish you all good night." And with that, Chris left the group, who were glancing at each other...
Even if Eva was their strongest player, it wasn't worth it since she didn't want to control her temper, that was her flaw, and they couldn't help her with that. Courtney had to help her team's morale, so she raised her stick of marshmallow.
"To the Killer Bass. And to not end up here again next week." Courtney was actually praying for not dealing with such a problem once again... And hoping that on the next challenge, things would get better for them.
And like a routine, Courtney saw Spike watching the sky, but not seeing the Killer Bass team going back to their cabins, and seeing how late it was... The dragon boy smiled at Courtney...
"Going to sleep now?" Spike asked, and Courtney nodded her head to him, she was really exhausted, and she needed a very good night of sleep. "Well, I hope the dreams let you guide you to your true happiness,"
Courtney smiled and gave a hug to the boy who was just surprised.
"Thanks, I hope the dreams let you guide you to your true happiness as well," And with that, the C.I.T. girl went to her own cabin, with the other girls already exhausted from everything.
Courtney really needed some help to sleep... But she didn't know that those words... were what made her eyes see a little glimpse of dark blue sparkles... And with that, she felt her own mind drifting away for the land of her own dreams... Not realizing that her own team would suffer from a loud snoring happening in the boy's cabin.
Owen is sleeping in a cave where four Sasquatchanakwas are standing around them. A Sasquatchankwa pokes Owen, and Owen snores and farts, they sniff it, he gets kicked out of the cave, he farts again, and the black hole closes in, ending the episode.