After a whole hour of panic crossing for the whole Canterlot, the ponies suffering from the heat happening from the anger of a powerful princess who wanted to have 2 specific beings locked in Tartarus to suffer any kind of torture and rot even with the worst criminals around Equestria, including the pony who did tax evasion, but still she after releasing a frustrated sigh, Princess Celestia returned once back to the royal chambers, which everypony who were there were nervous about how Celestia was angry after seeing her baby dragon into what would be a suicidal challenge.

"Discord better pray for me to have mercy on him, because I'm torn between sending both him and this Chris to Tartarus or finding a way to make them statues once again." Celestia stomped as she glared at the screen with a fury of 1 thousand suns.

“My sister, while I agree that both of them deserved a terrible punishment for their ideal ways of fun, we have to accept Spike is a very capable dragon, since he helped Twilight Sparkle and her friends into defeating many kinds of threats around Equestria.” Princess Luna said as she tried to remain calm, even if in a situation she wanted so much to make both of the sadists suffer terrible nightmares, she had to accept that Spike was already in another dimension and they could not find a way to transport themselves.

“I have to try.” Twilight interrupted both of them, as she glowed her horn trying to make sure a portal would be created, but that spell alone wasn’t enough, since she didn’t have the right locations, or which spell would fit for dimensional traveling.

“Twilight, maybe is for the best if you don’t do it. Remember when you tried to visit me and the girls while you decided to do an experiment into dimensional traveling without the mirror?” Sunset stopped the mare from doing another of her crazy stunts, since the time Spike told her about what happened, Sunset became worried sick about her friend going to the hospital. “Not only did you get magical exhaustion, but you also lost your fur for 2 months.”

Twilight froze, and then glancing at the princesses and also her brother looking at her funny, she stopped as her face was covered in a deep blush of shame. And the option to appear the next episode appeared on the screen.

“Everypony, while we know that Spike may be in terrible danger, we must calm down,” Shining Armor commented as he glanced at the Princess still trying to not destroy anything in the chambers, but she was already stomping her hooves impatiently. He gave a hopeful look at Sunset who was still with the remote control. “Can you please continue to show what happens?”

“Oh that, right.” Sunset realized that she was still with the remote control, and looking at Twilight and Princess Celestia with anticipation in her heart, she didn’t want to stale long. “Starting the episode… right now.”

And from the start, the episode showed its opening. Which made the ponies watch the show listening and enjoying the catchy song.

Cameras and stage lights pop throughout the forest knocking a gopher out of the ground and a squirrel out of its tree. We zoom through the island passing Chris knocking over his coffee

Dear Mom and Dad I'm doin' fine,

You guys are on my mind.

The camera reaches the mountain peak diving into the water as Owen swims by letting loose a fart just as Geoff is laying back on his surfer board before falling over from the stank with Bridgett surfing past him.

You asked me what I wanted to be

And now I think the answer is plain to see,

I wanna be famous.

A hawk swoops down picking up a dead fish from the water soaring into the sky accidentally dropping onto a peaceful Dj surrounded by adorable animals who soon bite him when they see the fish causing him to run off screaming in terror as Duncan laughs and Courtney rolls her eyes.

I wanna live close to the sun,

Go pack your bags, 'cause I've already won,

Everything to prove, nothing in my way

I'll get there one day.

Cause, I wanna be famous!

Heather and Leshwana slap fight on a raft unaware of the waterfall nearby as it falls downward as Harold is practicing karate. Izzy swings by on a vine crashing into Harold knocking them into the confession booth knocking Lindsay out. Inside the main lodge, Chef sticks his arm into a pot of green soup smirking into the tied up and Fearful Noah, his unlucky taste tester.

Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na!

I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous

Katie and Sadie swoon as Justin looks at himself in the mirror while Beth twirls around her batons tossing the flaming stick into the air. And while the baton was in the air, Spike gave a fire breath to make sure to lit the campfire, which Gwen and Trent look at each other before Cody gets between them smiling with an arm around each of them the campers Chef and Chris sit around the campfire whistling to the tune of the song.

"I have to admit, the song is very catchy." Twilight tried to say positivelly, which her brother and sister-in-law agreeded by nodding.

"Even if Spike is already famous in Crystal Empire, I think I can understand their concept of idea," Cadance commented as she could see all the groups being unique, even if Flurry Heart giggled from seeing the humans acting silly. "Everyone on there want to be famous by being watched by everypony."

"We say everyone when it comes about humans Cady." Sunset corrected her cousin as she could be surprised by the theme song of the show they showed Spike doing his dragon fire...

"Well, let's see how this will goes. I hope Spike is going to be fine." Twilight commented, as she could see both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna being anxious to know about what's going to happen...

Most of the campers looked down the 100-foot-high cliff with either fear or even some excitement. All of them were in swimsuits as they looked at Chris who was standing next to a creature with a picture of a chicken on it.

"Okay!" Chris said to make sure he had all 22 teens' attention. "Today's challenge is three-fold. Your first task is to jump off this 1,00-foot-high cliff into the lake."

"It's not just jumping from the cliff?" Princess Celestia was sweating, feeling fear for her baby dragon, and the possibility of there was nothing that it would make things even worse.

Bridgette looked down the cliff without fear and saw that there were indeed two areas. A large wide zone and a smaller circle area within the large zone.

"And now you've done it," Sunset said as she slapped her head in disbelief. "I admit your courage, but you shouldn't have said that."

"If you look down, you will see two target areas," Chris explained while pointing to the different zones inside of the water. "The wider area represents the part of the lake that we have stocked with psychotic, hehehe, man-eating sharks."

Everyone looked down and flinched when they saw the fins of sharks appearing in the large zone.

"WHAT?" The whole group of ponies shouted as Twilight was hiperventilating, Sunset was feeling the pressure, Shining Armor was narrowing his eyes angrily, Princess Cadance was horrified, and both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were with bloodshot eyes.

"HOW DARE YOU THOUS MAKE OUR LINEAGE INTO SUFFER SUCH DANGEROUS CHALLENGE YOU INSECT?" Princess Celestia and Luna shouted in Royal Canterlot Voice as the entire walls trembled from their anger. "DISCORD."

"I SWEAR BY FAULST, YOU ARE GOING TO BEG FOR BEING TURNED INTO STONE AFTER WHAT I'M GOING TO DO WITH YOU." Princess Celestia swore that she would make Discord suffer for every single time Spike would be seen in pain, she swore that she would beat him so much, that not even his mom would recognize him.

"I'M GOING TO BANISH HIM IN THE MOON." Such a comment coming from the Princess of the moon made everypony stares at Luna in surprise. "WHAT? I WAS THERE, I SHOULD ALSO SEND SOMEONE AS A PUNISHMENT TOO."

"I AGREE WITH YOU," Celestia shouted in her Royal Canterlot voice, and while the group was trying to continue the show, the ponies outside the castle were running in panic, knowing that someone angered their princesses, and now everypony must suffer the consequences.

"Mom, aunty, I know that you are both angry. But please, be calm. I'm sure Spike is going to be fine." Sunset said as she tried to regain the confidence, and seeing on how afraid she was for her baby brother, she was almost hiperverntilating. And talking about hiperventilating.

"Twilight, calm down, everything is going to be okay." Cadance tried to assure the princess of friendship, but shew was already in panic.

"BE OKAY? BE OKAY? MY BABY BROTHER IS GOING TO JUMP A 100 FEET CLIFF IN A WATER FULL OF SHARKS AND YOU SAID EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OKAY?" Twilight took the head of her sister-in-law and shaked as her panic paranoid form was once again activated. "FLUTTERSHY ISN'T THERE TO TALK WITH THEM TO HELP HIM, HOW IS GOING TO SURVIVE IF HE GETS EATEN?"

"Twily, calm down. I know that you are afraid, TARTARUS, EVEN I'M AFRAID. But you gotta calm yourself down... Spike is our brother, he can do that." Shining Armor usually said firmly, as he wanted to not just convince her, but also himself that his bro was going to survive that... "We must have faith in him."

Twilight who was still hiperventilating slowly recovered her breath, as she then felt something nearby her... Her nice Flurry Heart giving a hug on her, which was enough to make the princess of friendship have the filly on her arms and find the comfort that she needed...

"Okay, okay,you are right... We don't know how the phisics on that dimension works... so maybe Chris had thought about the limits of their human body, and have convinced himself that if was not something that could actually kill them." Twilight decided to calm her mind, and then use some logical side of her brain, since Spike is in another dimension, maybe his body could take all the danger launched on him.

"Let's hope that your theory is true Twilight." Sunset Shimmer hopped as well, and since the episode paused, it was the time for them to continue to watch it.

"Also inside that area, there is a safe zone. That's your target area, which, we're pretty sure is shark-free." Chris finally explained the areas. Which didn't help their anxiety at all.

"Okay, so that's good." Shining Armor said as he felt a little more relieved, but the same couldn't be said from the others...

"Excuse me?" Leshawna said to Chris in response to the host's last words. Who seemed to take it as a signal to continue.

"For each member of your team that jumps and actually…survives, there will be a crate of supplies waiting below." Chris gestured to the beach at the bottom of the cliff where everyone could see two stakes of crates waiting below. "Inside each crate are supplies that you'll need for the second part of the challenge… building a hot tub. The team with the best one gets to have a wicked hot tub party tonight. The losers will be sending someone home."

“So that means, that even after the whole dangerous challenge, they still need to carry the crates. Which it doesn’t seem that difficult for me, just to build a hot tub?” Shining Armor commented as he gave a glance on the crates, and possibly he and his soldiers could have carried on the crates easily… But the part of jumping the cliff in a water in a zone full of sharks? It would need to be an example of military into doing that.

The group stared at each other until Chris pointed at the Killer Bass team. "Alright, Killer Bass, you're up first.

"Oh, wow…" Bridgette's confidence faded a little as she saw the sharks swimming in the larger zone. The surfer girl then looked to her team and asked. "So, who wants to go first?"

"…" Everyone was completely silent and the chirping of a cricket could be heard.

“Does that answer your question?” Princess Luna commented as she felt snarky on that moment, knowing that it was her to tempted the fate into bringing the sharks on the challenge… She didn’t deserved it the snark, but Luna wanted some vindication.

"Hey, don't sweat it, guys." The big guy reassured everyone over the cliff. "I heard that these shows always make the interns do the stunt first to make sure it's survivable."

"Oh yeah, we totally did that." Chris nodded, trying to avoid his gaze from everyone.

And after that the whole group watched on how Chris tricked Chef Hatchet into jumping on the cliff, which made all of them sighs in relief that it’s possible to jump from the weight without even minor injuries… But the problem later made them gulp in fear of Chef almost get eaten by a shark, but he ran away quickly like Pinkie Pie, so that made the sharks unable to catch him.

“Oh good, that means if they are fast enough to run like that, they can survive from the sharks.” Shining Armor was proud into seeing a militar man responsible of his carrear showing a way that mostly his soldiers would do, if it was him, he would have used a magic shield around his body to protect from the sharp teeths. “Good work Chief, I’m proud of you.”

The mares stared at the man who seemed proud of the Chef who ran away in fear and panic, but now they were more relieved by knowing that the sharks weren’t as dangerous as they should be, and the jump was somehow survivable, so that gives them a good sigh in relief.

"It's really no big deal, just an insane dive into a circle of angry sharks." Bridgette tried to reassure herself. So she takes a dive as everyone runs up and looks at her diving into the safety zone. Bridgette came out and waved to everyone, showing that she was fine.

And by seeing the surfer being the first to jump, and getting out from the water completely fine, the group relaxed…

“Very impressing little Bridgette, thous may have caused the worst outcome over the sharks, but was the first person to jump from thous team.” Princess Luna commended her act, as showing the girl had proved herself in front of the princess, and receiving also a nod from her own sister.

“Impressive indeed, she went head first, and showed not even a single inch of fear.” Princess Celestia was impressed on how corageous a mare or girl as her daughter has taught her managed to do the dangerous challenge and even was able to get a point for her team. “Is she from the Spike’s team?”

“She isn’t, she is from the opposite team,” Sunset commented as she was still trying to memorize which members of which team belonged to… And it’s going to take a while.

“Well, that’s unfortunate,” Cadance commented, as she went back to her clipboard… And gave a glance to her sister-in-law, she was still a bit busy being hugged by her treasure Flurry Heart… both them watching in relief at how the challenge could be done...

"AWESOME! I'm next! Cowabunga!" Tyler yells as he takes a run off the cliff with his chest puffed up with pride, and runs at the cliff before leaping off with a yell but the high dive ends with his groanings of pain. His body fell on one of the buoy's towers before he slid into the safety zone.

The ponies flinched as Flurry Heart giggled from seeing the pain towards the clumsy jock…

“That must be horrible,” Twilight commented as she had some similar moments where she managed to catch herself with her body into a very solid object, which made her groan in pain… But still seeing the boy managing to get out from there...

"Woooooo! Hahahah!" Geoff cheered and laughed as he dived down the cliff next, his hat still stuck into his head.

"…" Duncan was completely silent as he jumped down the cliff with his arms crossed.

“Wow, Duncan must have nerves of steel.” Princess Luna was surprised to see a human not even phased from the danger… “So that concludes.”

The ponies were now happy to see that everyone from that world seemed to be fine from jumping that high and surviving without hurting themselves… and if they did with minimal injuries.

“Okay, I think now Spike can do it without fear.” Shining Armor commented as he looked at the humans who jumped… A part of him also felt a bit of adrenaline rushing in his body. “From the way they are jumping, it makes me also want to try it.”

“Are you?” Princess Cadance asked as she raised her eyebrow, which made the prince of Cristal Empire shook his head.

“Buck no, there is no way I’m going to do that.” Shining Armor said shamelessly, which made the ponies chuckle at his answer.

Next up was DJ who looked down the cliff, but instead of jumping the teen shook a little and backed away from the edge. "Uh-uh. No way, man." DJ said while waving his hands and backing away more. "I'm not jumping."

"That's alright big guy," Chris told DJ, getting a smile on the teen's face which was soon lost after what he said next. "Unfortunately, that also makes you a chicken. So, you'll have to wear this for the rest of the day." Chris then reached into the box he was standing next to pulled out a rubber chicken hat and placed it on DJ's head.

“Really? That’s all it takes? Wow, Spike could easily avoid jumping the terrible high, if they just conceal defeat for once. I mean, how being a chicken worse than actually jum…” Twilight was commenting as there was no way Chris would...

"Bawk bawk bawk!" Chris mocked while doing a little chicken dance before pointing to an…escalator that was on the cliff for some reason. "That means the chicken path down is that-a-way. Next."

“Yeah, he would.” Twilight hoofpalmed her face as she could see Chris acting like Rainbow Dash when someone decided to give up in fear.

“I hate when people do that,” Sunset said as she knew one of her best friends she holds dearly, but she always want to beat the crap out of her when Rainbow Dash does the chicken mock.

Princess Celestia gulped in fear… she wanted her son to not do something dangerous, but she would hate seeing her son humiliated and being called a coward…

“He is going to jump.” Celestia knew her son, she knew that Spike would never let anypony down, and having a team, and possibly new friends? He wants to prove himself to them.

Twilight and Shining Armor wanted to protest… but knowing Spike, he always wanted to prove his valor to his family… And watching him to another dimension? They know… Spike isn’t going to disappoint his team.

Justin confidently took a dive into the water, just for the fear of everyone he landed outside of the safe zone.

“OH NO,” Sunset said as she felt fear for the supermodel that she has a new crush on… but suddenly the video showed in slow motion, as her heartbeats started to see the beautiful scene in front of her.

Everybody yelled at Justin to swim away from the sharks, until the impossible occurred. The moment the sharks appeared near him, they stopped swimming until they saw the water dripping off his body and his sparking eyes and smile. Which made the sharks enamored with the teenager and helped the handsome boy to pick him up and give him a ride to the shore.

Everypony had their jaws-slacked from seeing Jutin doing the impossible, and Sunset placed her hoof on her face as she tilted her head… looking enamored at the super model.

“Well, I think that’s a way to make the sharks behave?” Princess Cadance commented as she gave a glance at the human Justin, and seeing her cousin already in a crush, she decided to make a mark between the names of Justin, Sunset, and even some sharks on her clipboard.

Everyone was slaw-jacked about that. But seeing the group of Killer Bass already had another member on the boat, they cheered for another point for them.

SPLASH!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Harold yelled in pain as he yelled into the water…crotch fist. Everyone watching, even the sharks, all winced as Harold continued to scream... It was something all the males around the cliff, and even on the beach covered their crotches in reflex.

“AGHH.” Shining Armor fell down which made everypony look horrified at what happened.

“SHINING.” Both Cadance and Twilight went to see the stallion recoiled in fear. “What happened?”

“I don’t know… but suddenly I felt a pain in my lower region…” Shining Armor never felt a pain like that, he didn’t hit anything, but just hearing the skinny boy with glasses splashing in the water, made him feel a shared pain.

“I think that is what made you have pain.” Sunset Shimmer pointed on the screen, showing Harold was hit on the water from the splash… Crotch first… “That’s where the male’s reproductive system is…”

Shining Armor realizing that, coughed. As he felt the terrible pain that he suffered in sympathy with the boy who just was so courageous and dumb enough to do that...

"Oooooh!" Chris laughed a bit as he watched the scene from on top of the cliff. "Hate to see that happen."

"Excuse me, Chris," Courtney said to the host as she stood at the edge of the cliff. "I have a medical condition."

“Really? Does she have heart problems? Because that would be terrible for her to jump and possibly would lead to her disqualification.” Twilight commented as Sunset narrowed a bit of her eyes.

“She doesn’t look like she was eager to throw the towel, and seems with some excuse in her mind.” Sunset could see from the upside attitude Courtney was having at that moment, she could already see how that would go.

"A condition that prevents me from jumping off cliffs," Courtney stated in an obvious tone.

“She cannot be serious.” Shining Armor asked as he looked in disbelief at the audacity of the girl simply saying in such an obvious state, that most of her team jumped and they would risk a lot of losing the challenge.

“Hmm, while I could understand her lack of desire to jump. She shouldn’t have made such a joke about doing it.” Princess Luna raised her eyebrow as she deadpanned at the girl who did not want to jump.

"You can chicken out if you want." Chris offered Courtney as he smugly looked at her. "But it might end up costing your team the win. And then they'll hate you."

"It's a calculated risk," Courtney said confidently with her arms crossed. "I've seen the other team, and I don't think ten of them will jump."

“HEY, DON’T UNDERSTIMATE THE SPIKE’S TEAM,” Princess Luna said angrily as she hated how she looked at the tone of the brat girl who was so cocky on their victory.

“Sister, while I share your sentiment, I have to say, Spike’s team has some obstacles on their own… the team he has is probably in a terrible spot.

Cadance and Shining Armor nodded their heads and grimaced at the possibility that Spike would even risk himself in danger for a team who wouldn’t win.

"All right, here is your chicken hat," Chris said as he put a chicken hat on top of Courtney's head. Chris then took out his clipboard again and went over it. "So let's tally up the results. Hold on. That's seven jumpers and two chickens. We're missing two."

Those two were Sadie and Izzy with the former holding hands with Katie tightly. "I'm not jumping without Katie!" Sadie said with Katie nodding in agreement.

"We have to be on the same team, Chris," Katie said to the host before she and her best friend approached Chris.

"Please! Please! Can we? Can we, Chris? Can we? Can we?" Both Sadie and Katie constantly asked the host.

Both Shining Armor and Twilight flinched from their exposition of siblings would make them cringe in shame.

“Were we that bad when you babysat me?” Twilight asked Cadance who had a whole minute to think about it… and from that time she had flashbacks of how Shining Armor and Twilight were so close that it was like she was even his collar once. Or for the time needed to go to the fillies’ room Shining Armor got to stay outside of the door while being like a body guard…

“Hmm… more or less.” Cadance waved her hoof which she could see how far those two would go. So imagining it wasn’t that bad with both sparkle members, but she could imagine Spike having a headache if he dealt with it every single day.

"Alright, fine!" Chris relented with an irritated expression on his face. "You're both on the Killer Bass now. Izzy, you're on the Screaming Gophers."

Izzy smiled and shrugged and she headed over to her new team with Katie and Sadie hugged each other. "Yes!" The besties cheered.

"That means you're up, girls," Chris told the two as he pointed towards the edge of the cliff.

"We're coming, Killer Bass!" With their hands joined, both Katie and Sadie jumped down the cliff at the same time fearlessly.

“It’s so nice to see Izzy giving her spot for one of the girls,” Shining Armor had to give that for the happy ginger since she seemed to show sportsmanship towards the girls and even a relief for both Chris and the ponies watching the migraine twins who are now at the same team. "I don't know why, but I have a great feeling that she would be a good asset on Spike's team. He may need someone to cheer him up in crazy situations like that."

"Like Pinkie Pie?" Both Sunset and Twilight asked in unison since a good part of their minds shared the same thought, whenever the universe is, there would always be a Pinkie Pie around, so having someone to make Spike laugh would actually help him in case he is homesick...

Princess Cadance looked at the ginger who seemed fine to change teams, and then listed the theory of her husband... so in case, she decided to mark Izzy's name on her clipboard.

“And counting with them 2 it seems everyone from the Killer Bass team made their decision, 9 of them jumped and 2 gave up,” Twilight said as she was now in analysis towards the possibility around Spike’s team. “The Screaming Gopher just needs to have 10 of them to jump and that would make a victory for Spike’s team.”

“But that would lead to a discussion...Will his team really jump?” Princess Celestia asked as she showed a worried glance at the television show.

"Okay," Chris said as he finished marking down the last of the Killer Bass on his clipboard. The host then turned to the Screaming Gophers and said. "So that's nine jumpers and two chickens. Screaming Gophers, if you can beat that we'll throw in a pull cart to put your crates on."

"Nice! Okay, guys." Trent spoke up as he turned to his teammates. "Who's up first?"

Spike glanced around, seeing that his team was hesitating to jump... he was about to offer himself to jump when suddenly a voice interrupted him.

Neither the group who was watching said a sound, the group could see that many of them were nervous, and needed someone who could both inspire or deny their chance of victory…

"I'm sorry," Heather said firmly as she crossed her arms and shook her head. "There's no way I'm doing this."

"Um, hello, national TV," Heather said as if the answer to the question was obvious. "I'll get my hair wet."

"If she's not doing it, I'm not doing it," Lindsay said as she and Heather smirked at each other.

“I can’t believe it,” Twilight whispered in disbelief… “I would agree if she was afraid of jumping or even with the possibility of hurting herself… But to wet her hair?”

“Well, she is a snob. I can see from the look of her face.” Sunset wasn’t amused, she already could guess from the idea of Heather being a lame girl to give up for a stupid reason. “I don’t want to offend Rarity, but I think she also would give the same excuse.”

Twilight opened her mouth to scowl at her friend… but then realized how sometimes the element of generosity was a bit of dramatic mare… she couldn’t blame Sunset for saying she said that.

“So that means the team is going to lose?” Princess Luna asked as she was afraid for Spike's team already lost so easily, but also hoping that in case many of his team gave up, he wouldn’t need to jump.

“From the look, I’m watching that girl Leshawna… I think that’s far from the truth sister.” Princess Celestia gave a glance and she knew that look… she had a lot of that headache from many years of the past… and once again… it happened.

"Oh you're doing it," Leshawna told Heather in an aggressive tone as she got right into Heather's face.

" Says me," Leshawna said back as she glared right into Heather's eyes. "I'm not losing this challenge 'cause you got your hair day, you spoiled little daddy's girl."

"Back off, ghetto-glamour, too-tight-pants-wearing, rap-star wannabe." Heather insulted Leshawna right back into her face.

"Mall-shopping, ponytail-wearing, teen-girl-reading, peeking in high school prom queen!" Leshawna didn't let up on the insults to Heather.

"…" Heather was silent for a moment before smirking and simply saying. "Well, at least I'm popular." Everyone winced in response to the catfight going on or smirked as they watched the show.

At that moment Twilight and Shining Armor had their eyes wide open, while Princess Luna and Princess Celestia had raised their eyebrows on the statement of the Korean girl.

“I would doubt that.” Princess Luna commented, but seeing her sister who was taking a deep breath, she couldn’t help but ask. “Are thou okay sister?”

“Oh… I’m fine, it’s just this moment that happened to remind me of somepony.” Princess Celestia said as her eyes glanced at the princess of love who was trying her best to not look into their eyes.

“What? Me, what are you talking about aunty?” Princess Cadance freight innocence since she tried her best to not relieve…

"Wow, I never saw so much back and forth since the time my cousins BlueBlood and Cadance had a discussion on my mom's birthday. Since they were supposed to bring a gift together, and their ideals clashed in the way it ended up with Blueblood launched from the window while Cadance's entire body was covered in mud and strawberry cake." Spike remembered since it was one iconic part of his childhood, where he could see how both siblings had a very scandalous fight over the best gift for his mom. "Key word, never call Cadance a love-sucking vampire if you want to have your dignity intact... Blueblood learned it the hard way."

Everypony stared at the princess of love who had both hooves covering her face as her fur blushed in scarlet… Even her daughter giggled from the misfortune of her own mother, the pony who gave birth to her… it was the biggest betrayal she ever had at the moment.

“S...sh..shut up. Spike, you promised to never tell anypony about this.”Princess Cadance commented as she now knew her husband would never let her live down… it’s going to take a while for everypony to forget such an event… “Oh ponyfeathers, now everypony who is watching the show knows about this… AHHHHHHHHHHH.”

"Make me!" Heather yelled back as she got right into Leshawna's face. Leshawna ended up doing just that as Heather screamed as the black girl easily lifted up Heather and tossed her off of the cliff. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Heather screamed as she fell all the way down into the water, Leshawna successfully throwing Heather into the safe zone. "Leshawna, you are so dead!"

“Karma is so good.” Sunset Shimmer commented as she smirked at seeing the queen bee being launched to the safety zone. “Be grateful that she launched you at the safety zone.”

“Well while that gave me many concerns…” Princess Celestia said as she found that scene a bit worrisome. “At least Spike wouldn’t need to be concerned about someone giving up so easily, with the person who wanted to make everypony or everyone give up, she being the first one launched at the safety zone would be a good example of inspiration. Thank you Leshawna.”

"Hey, I threw you into the safe zone, didn't I?" Leshawna yelled down to Heather before getting ready to jump herself. "Now I just hope I can hit it, too." Leshawna then screamed as she jumped off the cliff next and successfully landed in the safe zone with Heather.

“Poor Lindsay, it must be difficult for her trying to understand what show she got into too… I kinda feel bad for her.” Twilight commented as she could understand Lindsay isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, but getting into the show like that has been a nightmare for the poor blond.

“You don’t have to worry about Twilight, I’m sure that she will find good friends around, and knowing Spike, he will be happy to help anyone in need,” Sunset commented as she knew how her little brother would go to help his team, and with the princess of friendship nodding her head towards her, the whole group knew… Spike got it. They just need Lindsay to jump...

Lindsay then screamed and waved her limbs around frantically as she fell down the cliff. Next up was Gwen who also screamed as she fell to the water who was then followed by Cody. After Cody was Izzy who laughed hysterically as she fell down the cliff.

Everypony watched the Screaming Gopher jumping and felt bad for Lindsay and Gwen since they were scared of jumping that high, and then they were surprised to see Izzy enjoying such an extreme challenge, maybe it was because of her desire for adrenaline…

And now their heartbeats came loudly, as their mouths went dry, and the sweating on their foreheads…

“I can’t watch this.”Princess Celestia tried to look away, but her sister used her mouth to pull the mane of the princess of the sun.

“THOUS MUST, IT’S THUS SON.” Princess Luna shouted as she herself was afraid, and using her magic to make the eyelids of princess Celestia remain open.

“LUNAAAAAAA.” Celestia was trying to look away, but it was her heartbeats making her afraid… the baby dragon she took care of after being hatched from an egg, the time she shared the rights with the Sparkle family and even the time she also taking care of him at the times she was teaching Twilight…

Shining Armor fainted, but then immediately got up and tried to remain serious as the king of the crystal empire and chef of royal guards, his brother needed someone to cheer for him when he did it.

Cadance was also bitting her lip, she knew Spike the brave and the glorious would surprise everypony again, but a good part of her felt afraid to even help her aunties, she was afraid to even cheer at all.

Even Flurry Heart was in deep silence, scared as she hugged Twilight to hope her uncle would be fine…

And then they saw him jump in doing a cannonball. And they could see Spike was about to scream, but suddenly he paused as his eyes went wide open...like he saw something unbelievable… until on the next moment.

Everypony was in silence praying deeply in silence, hoping for Spike, until he got up… And everypony let it out a sigh of relief they never thought they had inside of themselves.

"OHOOOO, YEAH." Leshawna and Cody clapped as they saw the green and purple-haired boy get out from the water, and see a slow boat coming near him.

It was one of the most terrifying experiences he ever had in his life... But also one of the most awesome he managed to accomplish it.

"That, was AWESOME," Spike shouted as he placed both hands in the air after swimming to his team.

“Wohooooo, way to go Spike.” Shining Armor cheered loudly, as everypony also did that for the little dragon who seemed to get out intact from the sudden challenge.

As Twilight almost fainted in relief, she was almost in a panic to see him getting in such a dangerous situation but that proved a point that Spike didn’t suffer a terrible backlash from jumping on that cliff.

“I’m so proud, but also at the time he returns he is going to be so grounded for one year.” Princess Celestia was both angry but also very proud of her baby dragon…

“You do realize that this is the first episode, so that means he is going to also do more terrible and difficult challenges in the future right?” Shining Armor asked, which made not just Princess Celestia, but also Princess Luna and Twilight Sparkle get their nerves high.

“Okay 10 years without power ponies, and inside of his bedroom, it doesn’t matter if is a friendship mission, he isn’t allowed to leave the castle.” Princess Celestia gave a royal order to Twilight who nodded her head at her.

“Yep, he is going from School of Friendship and then returning home, nothing more. He is in such terrible trouble.” Twilight agreed with her mentor, but Princess Luna Princess Cadance, and even Shining Armor rolled their eyes.

“Let the dragon live, Spike is having fun. Look.” Shining Armor was getting annoyed to see Twilight freaking out and Princess Celestia going supernova into her worries.

"Wow, I never felt so terrified in my life, but man, the adrenaline, the accomplishment into doing something so crazy like that. Man, I think Rainbow Dash and Apple Jack would try to challenge each other into doing that." Spike said as his entire body was still dripping water, and he quickly explained excitedly about the challenge, and what his feelings were at that moment. "They would always try to do something crazy like that. But man, I'm glad to make another point for my team."

Sunset Shimmer and Twilight chuckled knowing that indeed after seeing Spike jumping from the cliff, the farmer mare and the wonderbolt pegasus would try to do something crazy like that, so in mean meantime, Twilight was tempted into calling her friends to watch with her… At least she knew Applejack and Rainbow Dash would get crazy into seeing such difficult challenges.

Now the Killer Bass most of its members jumped, so proving the group has a very strong chance of winning… That was until they saw Beth giving up on the moment because she was afraid…

A few of them narrowed their eyes when Leshawna and Cody were mocking the poor farm girl giving up, and Sunset had a slight glare into Lindsay and Heather talking badly of Beth.

After seeing Beth using the escalator down the cliff, they saw Trent and Noah jumping the cliff, which made everypony happy, Spike’s team has a chance of winning… There was only missing one more member.

"Ok, campers!" Chris said to everyone down below with a megaphone, Owen standing by the edge of the cliff. "there's only one person left. You guys need this jump for the win." Chris then turned to Owen and said. "No pressure, dude." Owen's face seemed to relax a bit before Chris said. "Okay, there's pressure!"

Down below, the Screaming Gophers were all cheering for Owen to jump with Heather going. "Jump! Jump! Just do it, Owen. Do it!"

Owen took a deep breath before strapping some floaties around his arms and backing away a bit to give himself a running start.

Everypony felt the tension, seeing Owen gulping dry and being afraid of jumping…most ponies would have thought Owen would give up, but seeing the chubby camper even if he was afraid of giving himself into jumping… takes a lot of courage.

"Oh, I was pretty darn nervous," Owen said with an expression that matched how he said he felt. "See, the thing is, I'm not that strong a swimmer."

"I'm looking at this guy and thinking, there's no way he's gonna make it," Geoff said while looking right at the camera. He was telling in disbelief and confident with himself the possibility of the largest camper dying.

"I actually thought, if he jumps this…" Gwen looked sadly and in concern at the camera showing the possibility of the worst outcome for her teammate, until her cold nature came back again and with her sarcasm finished the sentence. "He's gonna die."

“Wow, if even the campers have a feeling that Owen has a high chance of dying, does that mean the challenge was that fatal?” Twilight asked in fear which made Sunset gives a thought.

“I think it was more for the fact Owen's high weight, which could possibly give heart failure… So anything could happen.” Sunset didn’t sugarcoat, and the ponies were afraid for the chubby boy… But there was one pony who wanted him to do it.

“Come on Owen, you can do this.” Shining Armor said as he knew the boy could do it. The mares gave a look at themselves and decided to cheer for the boy.

“Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen, Owen.” Everypony was chanting his name trying to give him the courage to jump...

"Take a good run at it buddy." Chris encouraged Owen as the big guy turned around after getting enough distance. "You got this!"

"I'm going to die now," Owen said as he looked forward to where he would be diving. "I'm going to freaking die now."

Owen stood frozen in place for a few seconds as both teams watched from below in anticipation. "Come on, big guy," Leshawna said as she looked up at the top of the cliff, hoping Owen would work up the courage to jump.

Finally, Owen clenched his fist and narrowed his eyes at the edge of the cliff in front of it. Owen let out a battle cry as he charged forward as fast as he could. "YEEEEEEEAAHHH!" Owen yelled as he leaped right off the cliff and dived down towards the water at high speeds. "OOOOOOH CRAAAAAAAP!"

Everypony had their mouths dropped, even Flurry Heart who was giggling suddenly stopped as she saw the giant wave hitting on the beach…

When Owen hit the water, his splash was enormous with the water reaching up almost halfway to the top of the cliff. When the water came back down, nearly all the campers could be seen spread out throughout the beach completely soaked. Even the sharks were sent out of the water.

Owen soon emerged from under the water and started pumping his fist in the air. "Yes! Yeah!" Owen cheered with a grin on his face. "Oh, yeah! Who's the man?"

"The winners!" Chris yelled with his megaphone to the campers below. "The Screaming Gophers!" The Gophers all cheered while some of the Bass sighed in defeat.

“WOHOOOOOOOOOO, WAY TO GO OWEN.” Everypony jumped and even some used their wings to flap as a way they were happy to see Spike’s team winning.

"That was awesome, dude." Trent complimented Owen from the boat as the big guy was seen looking through the water around him. "What's wrong?"

"I, uh…" Owen awkwardly began. "Think lost my bathing suit." This was meant with a lot of disgusted remarks from the rest of the campers.

“What was the matter?” Shining Armor asked as Sunset cringed into imagination.

“It’s a taboo in the human world, the humans always wear clothes in the places as they don’t want to see some parts of the other humans exposed…

Since that answered the question, nopony asked any further since they could see Spike’s team very happy in accomplishing his promise.

Later, as Chris promised, the Screaming Gophers were given carts that allowed them to easily pull the crates back to camp. The screaming Gopher side seemed to be on their moral high since their work together managed to make them win the first step of the challenge. A good time for a song as everyone sings loudly...

"Good to see everyone singing as they look cheerful and ready for the next part of the challenge."Twilight smiled as she could see Spike was having fun with his team.

Everypony nodded their head, it seemed that everything hadn't happened a few scenes ago. And seemed that everything was fine for the Screaming Gophers, however, the group cringed into seeing the Killer Bass they couldn't say the same.

Everyone was back in their normal dry clothes with the Killer Bass seen struggling to move their crates. Most of them at least as Duncan, DJ, and especially Eva were moving their crates pretty easily.

With the others Harold, Katie Sadie, Courtney, Bridgette, Geoff, and Tyler were trying to move their crates across the sand. As they were moving their crates, Courtney winced a bit as she removed her hands off the crate Courtney pointed at her hand.

"Ow! I think I just got a splinter." Courtney said as she looked over her hand.

Eva then walked up to Courtney and lifted their crate off the ground effortlessly. "Shut it and move your crate." Eva aggressively said to Courtney before setting the crate back down with a thud. "chicken!"

"Hey I'm the only one with C.I.T. camping experience here," Courtney stated as she pointed a thumb at herself. "You need me."

"Well, it seems now you regret not jumping did yah?"Sunset snarked as she could see the girl acting like a spoiled brat and with the possibility of having a high chance of being eliminated first if they didn't pull up something quick.

"Some causes and consequences, you never know that some of your decisions can lead to defeat..."Princess Celestia gave a lesson as she also recalled the time she made mistakes in the past, as Courtney also made one terrifying mistake that usually their enemies always committed in the past."That's also why you never should underestimate others. That's how it leads Discord and many other enemies to their defeat."

"Well, it's a good thing, since Spike's team can take this advantage and even manage to make the hot tub with more time than them because time is essential, and with them getting behind, Spike has in the bag," Twilight said as she was happy to see how it will turn out the first challenge.

The Screaming Gophers seemed very happy as everything went easy for them during the whole trip, with carts helping them to carry the crates, Lindsay found a beautiful seashell on the sand and passed a few seconds to appreciate, it before realizing that she was being left behind, so she quickly ran in the direction of the group. The loud singing was what made her keep following them... Until she saw Spike carrying the cart alone, since it had been easy for everyone, she felt it would be a good idea to be near one of the last carts, the boy who sweetly smiled at her.

The same could be said by the group of ponies, they saw a very good time the Screaming Gophers were having on the show.
While at the time they looked again at the Killer Bass team, they couldn't help but feel pity on them.

The Bass then quickly went back to pushing their crates and after about 15 minutes Tyler stopped helping Geoff and Bridgette push and started heading toward the heads. "Ugh... I gotta take a wiz." The jock told everyone and without thinking twice started to go away.

"Ooh, I have to go too," Katie said as she and her best friend stopped bushing their crates.

"You do?" Sadie asked with Katie nodding in response. "Oh my gosh, me too!" The two best friends then followed Tyler into the woods and decided to go in a different direction in order to do their business.

"Wow, they even go to pee together, sometimes it scares me how much they have been in synchrony to make sure everything they would do, they would do it together." Princess Celestia mused loudly while Cadance gave a slight glance to her husband. And Shining Armor looked at his wife in disbelief.

"Ah no, buck no, I never did that with Twilight, even if I'm her best brother and best friend forever, I wouldn't go on that extreme with her. These two are passing the limits." Shining defended himself while he could see his wife giggling at him...And most of the ponies raising their eyebrows at him. "What?"

Ignoring his question, the group returned to watch the television. Witch they winced into seeing Courtney get her eye hit by an unexpected fly.

"Hey look, it seems Spike's team finally reached the camp," Twilight commented as the ponies looked at how the group carried the crates over the next phase of the challenge.

"Wow, that was easy," Sunset commented as she raised her eyebrows in surprise. "Well, maybe that's because of the carts they had to help them out, because if not they would be in the same state as the Killer Bass..."

Tyler, Sadie, and Katie all came out of the woods. "Feel better?" Eva asked the three of them, wanting to get back on track with taking the crates back to camp.

"Yep!" Katie said with Sadie, and Tyler simply nodding before they all went back to pushing the crates through the sand.

But as Katie and Sadie began to push, both gained rather uncomfortable expressions as they looked at each other. "Ew, something's itching me," Sadie spoke up to her best friend. "Are you itchy, too?"

Sunset Shimmer raised her eyebrow until she saw a little red mark on their butts...

"Did they just?" Sunset asked in disbelief and Twilight Sparkle looked at her friend in surprise.

"What?" Twilight asked, bringing the attention of the others at Sunset who raised her hoof to point at the girls.

"I think they sat in Poison Ivy." Sunset pointed at the girls which made the ponies look at her in fear and in confusion... The silence made Sunset realize one thing. "Oh, right, you don't know what is it... It's a little plant that makes your skin itchy by contact."

"Oh," The others showed understanding of the explanation but also realized at that moment that the Killer Bass already has another obstacle on the show...

But thankfully the group went back to see Screaming Gophers ready for the next phase.

It didn't take long until the whole Screaming Gophers team let all the crates on the floor. Which was the right timing since Chris was smiling at them with his iconic smirk and sadism.

"Welcome to the camp Gophers, now that your whole team is here, I guess it's time for you to open your crates." Chris decided to explain the next part of the challenge, making the whole group shrug and place their hands over the crates. "Ah ah ah ah. You are not going to open your crates with your hands."

"And how do we have to open the crates then?" Cody tilted his head, while he could understand the idea of what the host would want from them... And from seeing Chris smiling evilly, the group felt uneasy. While Spike could swear that kind of smile was almost too similar when Discord planned to pull up a prank on someone.
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After what would be 10 minutes of pure strength towards their teeth, Chris smiled at the camera.

"You must use your mouths to open your crates." Chris annunciated to the whole Screaming Gophers team, while every single one of them used all their strength towards their mouths to be able to open every single crate they had. Chris looked towards the camera and whispered about it with a wink. "I created this rule."

"Oh, so they must open the crates like some Earth Ponies?" Princess Celestia asked as she raised her eyebrows, and later nodded her head. "That seems an interesting challenge to do with unicorns and pegasis, to show a very sympathy towards the ponies around... I like it."

"Yeah, I also think it would be a good idea to do a teamwork practice for the others as well." Twilight as much as she disliked Chris, had to give him that for being creative in developing an interesting challenge as well.

Every single crate was like torture for each camper, who used all their strength until every single one of them got opened. Izzy was the first one to use a rope and use all the strength to pull up the entire crate but also had slight damage to her tongue.

"Ow, Ow, rope on my tongue," Izzy said in pain while Gwen was surprised to see one of the crates opened...

"Wow, Izzy has a great skill. Even if she is a bit eccentric." Shining Armor commented impressed into seeing the ginger girl helping the others on their crates.

Until they cringed into seeing the state of the Killer Bass once again. And how far they still are from Screaming Gophers. And with the same girls as before...

This went on for about five minutes, both Sadie and Katie's bottoms slowly turning a red color. "Ooh, it's really itching now," Sadie said with her butt feeling like it was on fire.

"Mine feels like it's burning," Katie said, having a similar feeling to Sadie.

"Okay, I have to scratch!" Both girls then stopped bushing their crates and started to aggressively scratch their butts.

As they were doing this, Chris came up to everyone driving an ATV. "You guys are way behind the other team," Chris informed the Killer Bass while pointing to where the camp was. "Like, way behind. What's the problem?"

"Their butts are itchy," Courtney told the host of the show. Until the host saw her face and was surprised and horrified.

"WHOA," Eveypony said as they felt horrified to see Courtney in that state, the big eye swollen from the damage made by a single fly. Even Flurry Heart had to close her eyes not to see it.

"My goodness, that looks horrible." Princess Cadance whispered as Sunset had her eyes wide open in disbelief.

"Okay, I know I believe in Karma, but I think this is ridiculous. She needs to treat this quickly." Sunset commented as they saw Chris reacting the way they expected.

"GAH, oh my boxers that's bad." Chris talked about the swollen eye with a pink mark around the eye.

Just then Bridgette walked up to the best friends and asked. "Did you guys squat down when you peed in the woods?" The surfer girl asked with her best friend nodding response. "Did you happen to notice what kind of plants you were squatting over?"

"They were kind of oval-shaped and green and all over the place," Sadie explained as she and Katie continued to scratch their butts.

"Were they low to the ground, about this big?" Bridgette asked as she brought her hands together to make a shape similar to a small leaf. Once again Katie and Sadie nod causing Bridgette to inform of the situation. "You guys squatted on poison ivy."

Katie and Sadie were silent before they started to scream and panic about the situation as Chris laughed. "Hahahaha! No way!" Chris laughed hysterically. "That's awesome! Hahahaha!"

"Told yah," Sunset Shimmer called out since she knew from experience in camping about accidents like that.

"Who knew how a little plant like that would cause such a torment?" Princess Luna mused as she never thought about how a little plant could cause such itching in others.

"Reminds me of Poison Jokes," Twilight remembered on how an inoffensive plant actually caused a lot of shenanigans on her group of friends. And then receiving a look from everypony around her. She blushed and looked away. "Please don't ask me about how I know that."

Sure enough, due to having the advantage of the carts, the Screaming Gophers were all back at camp with opened crates. Granted Chris did make it a rule that they had to open them with their teeth but it all worked out in the end. "Hey check it out!" Owen said as he reached inside his open crate and pulled out some wood. "I got wood."

"I got some tools here," Trent said as he pulled a hammer out of his crate and then a pool liner. "And what looks like a pool liner."

As that was going on, Heather and Lindsay walked up to Leshawna with the former speaking up. "I just wanted to say, I didn't mean bad about you being a ghetto, rap-star wannabe." Heather actually apologized to the black girl. "And I love your earrings. They're so pretty."

"Oh look, it seems Heather is apologizing for what she said."Twilight smiled happily at seeing the duo going to be friends, however, one pony raised her eyebrow and already guessed the true intentions.

"She is lying." Sunset Shimmer commented which made Twilight look at her friend in surprise. "You watched the attitude and the way she talked, she is faking it."

"How did you know that?" Shining Armor after hearing it, realized that it was indeed true, in the same way the Princesses of the Sun and Moon stared at the orange mare who was with a deadpan on her face.

"Because that's the tone I would use to make myself in low radar before. Or when I was plotting something at Canterlot High before Twilight and Spike visited me for the first time." Sunset explained as Twilight dropped her ears and looked disappointed at the show after seeing Leshawna and Heather faking a friendship. And creating a truce between each other.

Heather and Lindsay then walked away and when they were far enough away from Leshawna, Lindsay asked, "Did you mean all that stuff you said to Lefonda back there?" Lindsay asked, getting the black girl's name wrong.

"Leshawna." Heather corrected before rolling her eyes. "Hah, no. She's going down. And P.S. Those are the ugliest earrings I've seen in my life."

"Oh," Lindsay said, looking rather confused. "So if you hate her why were you being nice to her?"

"You ever seen one of these shows before?" Heather asked as if the answer was obvious. "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."

"Ooooooh." Lindsay finally got what Heather said before asking. "I'm your friend, right?"

Everypony glared at Heather as the true way she showed herself, knowing that Spike was going to have difficulty dealing with a person like Heather, and they also felt pity towards both Leshawna and Lindsay for not seeing the brat from the way she was.

"I already can see that I'm going to hate her." Shining Armor said as he could see that a person like Heather was going to make not just him, but even his little filly Flurry Heart who gave a raspberry in the direction of the evil human.

While Sunset Shimmer cringed a bit, since Heather reminded her a bit of herself when she started at Canterlot High and how bitch she was on the school members, and if wasn't for Twilight and the girls, she would have been hopeless.

"Finally…" All of the Gophers heard the new voice come in and looked to see that the Killer Bass had finally arrived back at camp. Although Katie and Sadie seemed to be missing for some reason. Harold had been the one to speak up after he stopped pushing their crate.

"Hey, aren't you missing a couple of white girls?" Leshawna asked, noting the absence of Katie and Sadie.

"Oh, um…" Courtney shifted her visible eye around trying to think of what excuse to make for the best friend's absence. "They're just…getting a drink."

"Yeah," Harold smirked as he whispered to himself. "If they drink with their butts."

Everypony watched Katie and Sadie sitting on the waterway behind, where the group could see the Killer Bass were way behind from the challenge, and that would possibly cause a reason for their loss on the challenge.
Until the group saw Spike appearing once again on the screen. And what he did next made everypony smile at him.

Spike came nearby to help the group until he saw Courtney with her eye swollen and getting even worse. Leshawna was also terrified and their looks made Courtney cover her eye with her hand.

"No, don't place your hand on it, it will get it worse," Spike said in alarm and immediately went near the C.I.T. girl who was surprised by the purple and green-haired boy who came near to her and gave a slight glance to the eye. "My goodness, tell me how it got this way. Was allergy or bug bite?"

Courtney was about to say it was an allergy, but she just saw Spike taking out his jacket immediately as he saw the swollen eye, she then saw the boy ripping one of his sleeves which made her mouth drop in shock from the way he acted.

"Did somepony hear a scream outside?" Princess Luna commented, as it was the time everypony turned their heads at the princess of the night. "It sounded like a screech of somepony losing a part of their soul being tortured..."

"Well, that's what happens to me when I'm out cake in the Tuesday... Actually, now I'm craving cake, after this episode I think I'm going to ask the chef to make one for us." Princess Celestia commented as she wasn't aware of who would have screamed, but she just shrugged, she was craving cake.

"Rarity sorry, but if it's for the sake of helping someone, I think you would say that's generosity," Spike mumbled those words, which made Courtney tilts her head trying to understand why he said that. But Spike interrupted her. "I have antiseptic in case you were bitten by an insect."

"You do?" Courtney asked which immediately made her realize which was for the dragon.

"Got it, let's go." Spike decided to take her away from the campground... Which made Leshawna and Trent look at each other in surprise at what happened.

"Spike is always quick on his feet when it comes to helping the other ponies," Princess Cadance said as she could see Twilight and Princess Celestia proud of seeing the baby dragon already giving a claw for the human who needed treatment.

"And that's what makes me proud of Spike, whenever it is a griffin, a changeling, a pony or dragon, if somepony needs help and Spike knows how to help then he wouldn't think twice." Princess Celestia said as she always felt proud when her baby dragon followed her example, helping whenever they could.

"Most ponies from Ponyville know Spike because whenever he walks around there and sees somepony wanting some help, he is always there. And I would have been doomed if wasn't for my number one assistant and my right claw of every day in my life." Twilight also felt proud to see her baby dragon brother always showing one of his best characteristics.

"Wow, he took his own sleeve and immediately went to help the girl deal with her problem." Trent looked amused by the way he acted, while Leshawna was impressed.

"Gotta say the sugar boy has a heart. He took his sleeve and said it was generosity. I have to say he has a heart of gold." Leshawna was happy to see that her team was getting better and better when they worked together, she thought she would have problems with her team, but it seems that she is enjoying passing the time around with the Gophers.

"Okay, Leshawna is my favorite on the show behind my boy, of course, anypony who can say my baby dragon has a heart of gold, knows the truth." Princess Celestia nodded her head in respect, and everypony agreed with the opinion.

"Yes, in case Spike would be eliminated, Leshawna is my second option." Princess Luna agreed as she could see how that human was speaking truths about her nephew and she would see that she would be a great ally and friend for Spike.

"Oh look, they are showing inside of the cabin" Shining Armor commented as he wanted to see how is it going.

Princess Cadance felt a tingling in her instincts and had her eyes sharp for what was going to happen.

At the time the duo went to the Screaming Gophers boy's cabin, Courtney never felt so uncomfortable as she didn't even give a response because of the help of the rival team.

"You shouldn't be doing that. I'm sure that I'm going to be fine at the end of the day." Courtney quickly said, but then she saw Spike just rolling his eyes.

"No...err...I forgot your name," Spike was determined to help, but then he realized that he had forgotten the name of the girl, who just stared at him in disbelief. Spike blushed a little but then focused to let her sit in one of the bunker beds. "Never mind, the point is, it's better if you treat your swole eye immediately because the itching and the discomfort coming from the eye would distract you from the game."

Spike then found in one of his backpacks the antiseptic he was looking for and carefully cleaned the area where the insect had bitten, which made Courtney flinch in pain.

"Ouch," Courtney said as Spike focused on making sure that the sleeve would be properly sterilized with alcohol first. Which made the C.I.T. girl stare at him unsure of how to respond. "You shouldn't have done that."

"Oh come on, just acept the help already. Spike is doing that for your sake," Sunset rolled her eyes, knowing Courtney would be a competitive freak, but she just need a chill pill.

"Yeah, Spike took care of me many times when I had accidents with insects, trust me, having Spike right now is the best option." Shining Armor said as he then suddenly felt the stares of everypony around him. "I had a few ideas for cleaning products in my teenage days, it wasn't my best ideas."

"Please," Spike waved his hand, as he prepared to make sure to use the antiseptic around her eye. And then starts to wrap. "I already did that thousands of times, if you ever saw how many times my brother Shining Armor had problems with insects. You would be surprised that there isn't a part of his body that a bug didn't bite or even strung him from improvising his own hygienic products."

"Your brother is named Shining Armor?" Courtney asked and Spike nodded his head, making the C.I.T. girl start laughing. "Oh, so he is a knight or something of sorts?"

"Yes, I am... Actually, more of King of Cristal Empire, tell her Spike."Shining Armor took offense on the tone of the C.I.T girl and he knew his brother would come to defend him.

" Commissioner of Cristal Police Department of Canterlot," Spike replied that he looked confused about what he was talking about, but suddenly he saw Courtney's eyes wide open, not just in shock, but in awe as well.

"Language, Shining, remember your daughter is here." Twilight hissed through her teeth, while her brother frowned upon her.

"You... Ah, forget it, what does he mean Commissioner of Cristal Police Department?" Shining said in disbelief since the royal guards are treated as the elite of law around Canterlot, and not his minor rivals who would pass a good time eating donuts on PonyJoe.

"Maybe Discord manipulated his tongue to not say about us, and since humans aren't well aware that we are a monarchy and Spike is in another dimension, he would want to make Spike blend among them." Twilight has a good experience dealing with Discord, she knows that when Discord was committed to doing something crazy he would think about many, many steps on how to approach the issue.

"So you mean that me being the Chief of Royal Guards led me towards being a commissioner of police? How does that seem important?" Shining Armor while accepting the explanation still thinks it was too little in comparison that he and his wife were now royalty of the Cristal Empire.

"Well, we don't have royal guards in the world where I live Shining, but nobody would want to deal with the police, especially if is someone from a high rank like a commissioner." Sunset having experience around the human world, she on her first years feared that she would be caught by the police so she learned just in case to not cross the line sometimes

"He is a commissioner? Wow, how old is he?" Courtney was surprised to hear that a commissioner would be the head of the entire department of the police force, which Spike shrugged in his mind.

"27," Spike replied which made Courtney even awe to know how young the commissioner of his family was, and yet Spike seemed to be happy to take her attention. "And yes, he heard the joke of being the knight of shining armor many times, so much that people nicknamed him the Chef of the Royal Guards."

Everypony giggled from that joke Spike just made, showing a bit of the truth related to how Shining's name was indeed a description of his life, and seeing Courtney giggling, Cadance's eyes went wide open, and a part of her smile became a grin, as she finally marked two names and she was enjoying what she was watching...

"Okay, that was funny." Courtney smiled, and Spike was happy to help someone. And when Spike was still wrapping her bandage... She couldn't help but ask. "Why are you helping me? You shouldn't do that, since we are from opposite teams."

Everypony rolled their eyes, and even Flurry Heart gave a raspberry for how the competitive girl was being annoying with the victory instead of being grateful for Spike helping, the game is one thing, but doing what was right was the other thing Spike would never forgive himself in case he doesn't do.

Spike paused... and then looked at Courtney in disbelief as if she just said one crazy statement.

"Are you even listening yourself?" Spike asked the girl who was just surprised by his question, which made her almost offended. But Spike ignored her. "I did it because that was the right thing to do. If I didn't help it, you would have been like that for the whole day, and from everything I learned from my friends and family. Sometimes we should act with Kindness to everyone who needs help, act in Generosity if we are able to make a difference and is possible to help someone because we can, and show Honesty to ourselves after we question if you had the possibility to help, and if you helped at all, show Loyalty to your principles, family, and friends because they knew that you have character, knowing that in the future that would be a story that would bring Laughter and joy to everyone since it would be a funny story, and you know that would be the result."

Princess Luna and Princess Celestia had their eyes wide open, as they couldn't help but smile.
Twilight has her smile becoming wider and wider with each word Spike was saying.
Sunset and Shining Armor were impressed. And by seeing Twilight trembling in excitement, she could see that Spike was doing one speech that both of them created...

Courtney felt touched by how Spike viewed that he didn't do it for the sake of winning the game, or neither if he care that it would have terrible repercussions for the game show he was playing... He did it because it was the right thing to do to a person needing help... And she couldn't help but smile happily with a good smile until she had one more question inside of her heart.

"Result of what?" Courtney had to ask, and after doing that, she could see the proud smile the boy who looked cute in front of her, showed with his sparkling emerald eyes, and said something that would be stuck inside of her forever.

"FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC," Twilight shouted as she quoted at the same time as her baby brother. Feeling so proud of him...

"Friendship is Magic." And with that Spike took a little mirror and showed it in front of Courtney. "It took a few minutes, but I think this is a good wrap, just a few hours and then this swollen eye will not exist."

Courtney was shocked but at the time she saw in the mirror, that it was a very elegant wrap, that made like an eyepatch, with a combination of colors of green and dark purple colors, it showed a contrast of colors that made her like the vision of her face, it even had a tiny tied to make it well elegant nearby her neck... Which made her give a hug on Spike.

"I have to confess she looks awesome with that look." Shining Armor whistled, impressed with Spike knots ability and how to bandage somepony, it was impressive to see the brat girl having another look instead of the horrendous eyes. "It showed a great look on her, and with the idea of making her with a focus that would help her and her team to try to make them build the hot tub."

"But will that be enough for them? Looking at how far behind they are, they would need a miracle to help their case."Sunset Shimer commented, that as much she had to confess the eye patch would help Courtney's case, maybe wouldn't be enough to make her team win the challenge.

The group was bittersweet over the fact that Courtney may be eliminated from such competitiveness and wouldn't be able to help her case, but that would be a good first victory for their family member.

"Thanks, Spike, that looks amazing." Courtney could say that from that moment she learned more than everything she could ever ask. And then she realized that he may never heard his name from her. So she coughed on her hand and recovered her posture. "Also, my name is Courtney, so you better don't forget it."

Spike smiled from both the hug and the attitude the brown-haired girl talked to him, so he nodded his head to her.

"Uhhhh a hug." Cadance felt the tingling in her instincts making her bite her inner lips, trying to avoid squealing to bring attention to her. She felt that she was going to love watching this show. She already had some plans for how the baby dragon's marriage would be with the girl whom he showed good sportsmanship but also something more.

But she also needed to make sure that nopony would see her doing it, this will be great research she was going to make for the future. It wasn't even 2 hours passing inside of the royal chambers and Spike was already taking the hearts of the humans. She was losing every second, and she wanted them so much to kiss already, but as a princess of love she needed to be patient, slow but steady, if Spike learned something from her... he just needed to be himself and the right mares would love him.

"A pleasure to meet you. Now, we better go, it seems that our team would need us." And with that, both of the campers got out of the cabin, and most of the groups stared at both of them, in both disbelief and shock...

Disbelief that Spike took a few minutes to make sure the wrapping would be done correctly, and from the stylish look from his now one long-sleeved shirt. Courtney now had a very well-designed eyepatch on her eye, which took out the terrible look on her face.

"Wow, you look way better now girl," Leshawna smirked as she could see how caring the boy from her team made sure that it was well done, and the girl seemed more confident the time she went back to the game.

"Took you a bit too long," Duncan said, but he couldn't help but nod his head to her. "But have to say the look on your face looks much cooler."

"Wow, even Duncan complimented Courtney, that means she really is looking better, I just hope they would work together and that way would make the challenge fairer," Twilight commented, as she could see the tension between them two, she just hoped they would work together, and luckily for her...

Courtney was about to make an angry comment, but she remembered how Spike talked about the qualities of friendship, so she composed herself and decided to let it drop.

"Thank you for the compliment." Courtney just accepted it, and Duncan instead of smirking smugly, just nodded with a solemn look, which made the C.I.T girl stare at the situation, and realize that he was indeed complementing her. Which made her just accept it and continue to reunite with her team.

"Wow, it's just me or Courtney sounded like a different girl?" Shining Armor whistled as he never thought to see someone changing so quickly, and for the fact that Courtney looked more mature now.

"No, it's not just you, she really changed... it seems Spike's speech made her realize the way she was acting was not helping her case, and the fact someone like Spike was on another team and showing how he cared for the other team... She seems to realize that alone she couldn't do much. She needed friends, and Spike was the first one who opened the door for her." Twilight smiled proudly, as she remembered that Spike in some ways was the voice of the reason, and by his way of talking, she could always learn a lesson with him by her side.

"And now she realized that she would need a focus...did she just make Spike a somepony to be her rival?"Princess Celestia asked her sister who shrugged at her... Sunset nodded her head at her mother, while Cadance was doing her best to not giggle madly from behind.

"From rivals to lovers? That's so perfect, " Cadance was using her markers and even making some personal notes about which episode and interaction and the possible cause of such feelings, she loved to see rivals become lovers in books, and having her brother-in-law in such an opportunity, this was so perfect that she knew that ship was ready to become real. She just needs more info to make it concrete evidence...

"Wow boy, I have to say, you took really well care of her." Leshawna have to say, the green and purple-haired boy got her respect, for showing that sometimes the game doesn't need to be taken everyone into each other's throats.

"It was the right thing to do." Spike smiled, as he was being reasonable like most times he remembered how Twilight always hurt herself in terrible cases, and he was always there to treat her and help her in all the cases... Like the Pinkie Sense investigation, which led his adoptive sister into one of the most hilarious situations that she should have learned about their friend.

Everypony watched that scene proudly on how Spike became someone as a great example to be followed, not because he was on the television, it was because that's how he really is, someone like him doing his best to help others.

The Bass then quickly piled up their crates allowing Geoff to stand on them and speak to his team. "Okay, dudes, it's not too late." Geoff tried to encourage everyone and give them a positive attitude. "We can do this!"

However, some of his teammates weren't paying attention as shown by Harold drooling but Courtney saw that Geoff had a good mind.

"Wow, their situation is way worse than I expected." Princess Celestia said as she grimaced from seeing how the Killer Bass lost their morale and seemed to be ready to throw the towel...

"But I don't think Courtney will lose without fighting look at her." Princess Luna commented as she pointed at the brown girl who had her eyes or eye closed until she got ready to try again...

"You are right, we needed to make sure that working together. And with the hot tub to complete. We need to do our best to make it work. We need a project manager, does anyone want to manage the whole group?" Courtney was about to offer herself as C.I.T. but she held her tongue because she just recognized that on the first day, the competition looked fierce, and seeing a boy wanting to not just help his team, but also treat her... She found one thing that she hadn't thought about finding before... A rival, someone who she could see that would be a very strong player and team leader of the other team... Spike was an inspiration and a very powerful player on his own.

At that moment everypony looked surprised, to see Courtney's attitude change to a certain degree, showing how willing she was to want to adapt herself to remain on the game, to even offer leadership to someone else.

That made Duncan raise his eyebrows, the same as the Killer Bass team. The bossy girl who would try to control everyone around suddenly stopped and just asked if someone was interested in leading the team for the challenge. And even as she feared... She could see Duncan already raising his hand, and stepping into command.

"Well, since you asked nicely," Duncan smirked, which made the girl huff, she then gave a solemn look at her and decided to step in to lead the team. "Alright, let's start with opening the crates, this would need the help of everyone around. So Courtney, bring the dunderheads to come back here, they already spent too much time sitting on the water. And we need a hottube to build. Now, let's go."

"Wait, Katie and Sadie are still sitting on the water? Wow, they are way far behind," Sunset commented as she never thought the deadline was shorter than they expected, and from the possibility the group would rush their decisions, it could also show many chances for error.

"It's their only hope, let's see if they can make it happen," Twilight said as she couldn't help but feel pity towards the group since many of them would lead to their defeat.

And with that, the Killer Bass team didn't throw the towel yet, they would give everything they could before the end.

At the time Spike and Beth were slowly building a well-made structure of a hot tub, the same could be said with Geoff and Justin from the opposite team... Heather passed the hammer for Trent to help put the nail into the wood to make the hot tub more stable, but differently on the Killer Bass team, Tyler tried to take the hammer DJ was holding, and with a loud gasp in fear, DJ launched the hammer away which immediately hit Harold on his crotch, at the same time Bridgette took a wood plank and raised to hit his jaw, and without noticing Bridgette hit the ginger head nerd to the floor and making him knocked out...

Needlessly to say, Duncan busted in laughter from that, while Courtney rolled her eyes and ignored, she was in silence, helping the team while bringing water bottles, and even giving all the support they could need. Eva holding the hot tube with strong arms showed that she was very strong, and she could even crack the wood planks if she lost her control...

Duncan also noticed that most of the campers were missing, the tanned skinny girl, and the chubby girl, who were on the other side of the cabins, scratching their butts... That made him narrow his eyes, and whistle to the girls to go back to work.
Seing the duo of girls getting in panic just to back to work, made the delinquent punk facepalm... since it was the fourth time this was occurring... Being a team leader was sucking for him at that moment.

And then the Screaming Gophers shared the bucket with water to fill the entire hot tub, making it perfect for them to get the water to the top. And with a very well-done work, the entire hottube was made.

Spike whistled and smiled at how the teamwork managed to make it perfect for the team to win the challenge. Making him appreciate the good time he was having on this summer camp, and internally thanking his friend Discord for a challenge that would become easy as they worked together.

And when he glanced around... The Killer Bass team hot tub didn't look exactly like the work they just made... Not, that it looked a bit inferior, somehow it looked solid, but there was something that didn't feel right, and he wasn't sure of what it was...

"Wow, it seems they are doing their best, even if the team work of Killer Bass would need some improvement, they still worked like a machine."Sunset Shimmer had to confess that she was impressed, she thought they would lose into humiliating form, but here they are, finishing to build a hot tub. "It's going to be close, it looks good for me."

"I have to agree with you my niece, however from Duncan's face, he seems to be not sure what's going on but something feels wrong. "Princess Luna pointed out the face of the delinquent who seemed to be serious about the way he looked at the hot tub.

"Maybe it's because of Katie and Sadie, they have been doing a lot of breaks, and that made Duncan very angry." Twilight made a good point as she witnessed the angry face of Duncan as the girls didn't help on the hot tub and wanted just to scratch themselves. They could have given turns for each other doing that, but they refused just for the sake they wanted to do that at the same time.

A few hours later, the two teams were standing with their respective hot tub. Everypony watched wanting to know the results of the challenge, the anticipation was getting on their nerves...Until Chris came and everypony held their breaths as Chris examined attentively at the Screaming Gophers hot tub.

Chris first inspected the Gophers hot tub and nodded in approval. "This is one awesome hot tub!" Chris told the Gophers who all cheered in response with Owen emerging from within the tub.

"HORRAY. HUZZA" Everypony clapped their hooves, as they were happy to see Chris approving the dynamic of Spike's team who made everything perfect, and now they could watch Chris going directly at the Killer Bass...

The host of the show then went over to the Bass's hot tub, which had a seagull floating in it, and enjoyed the warm water which looked almost similar to the other structure. The Killer Bass team looked nervously. Chris examined what was missing around until some screw nuts were loosened, and when he simply touched it, the Hot tub trembled with a tremor and the motor of the hot tub went down, and with that drained a good part of the water and slowly made the hot tube empty.

"Oh no..." Twilight whispered as everypony watched in gasped their entire work being down from the motor got a few loosened screws, and the results couldn't be more obvious.

"Well…I think the winner is obvious." Chris said with the Gophers smiling and the Bass sighing. "The Screaming Gophers!" The Bass didn't say anything as the Gophers all cheered for their victory. "Gophers, you're safe from elimination and you get to rock this awesome hot tub for the rest of the summer. Bonus!" The Gophers continued to cheer, some even doing a victory dance, as Chris turned to the Killer Bass. "Killer Bass, what can I say? Sucks to be you right now. I'll see your sorry butts at the bonfire tonight."

"We won!" Lindsay cheered with a giant smile on her face. "We all get to stay here for another three days!"

Heather, Beth, and Lindsay all cheered in unison, "Woohoo! Woohoo! Hahaha. Yes!" Owen quickly got everyone's attention…with everyone seeing he wasn't wearing a thing. Thankfully his bottom half was blurred out…from the audience's perspective at least. "We get to sta-a-a-ay. We get to sta-a-a-ay, we are so awesome. We won the contest!" Owen then wrapped both Heather and Lindsay into a hug with one arm each with Heather cringing in disgust with Lindsay simply smiling.

"While I'm happy that Spike's team now has an awesome hot tub and 3 days off, which for me would be perfect in case into dealing with such craziness. I'm still feeling bad for knowing Courtney's team just lost because of a few loose screws." Shining Armor commented, as now they would witness the first elimination.

"I just hope Courtney won't be eliminated since she changed, I wanted to see her still on the show." Cadance agreed with her husband, as internally she didn't want her ship sinking just like that, she needed to spend more time with Spike, she was so eager to see more of it.

Everypony now was sad to know that this would be one of the moments they would hate most to see the members say goodbye. But there was nothing they could do, only watch.

Later, everyone was once again together in the main lodge to eat what could be more or less called food. While the Gophers were smiling and enjoying themselves, still basking in their victory, things were more tense at the Bass table as they were trying to decide one thing.

"We need to figure out who to vote off," Courtney stated the obvious. But she was unsure of which person would be eliminated...

"Well, I think it should be either the princess here or the brick house here... And you two, dunderheads." Duncan said while pointing it out not just to Courtney, or DJ, but also to both Sadie and Katie who gasped in surprise and fear

Everypony had their eyes wide open from the statement of Duncan, from seeing him already indicating 4 names? That means Courtney has a chance of survival.

"WHAT?" Katie and Sadie shouted in unison which made the whole group flinches and in surprise and fear. "WHY?"

"Because, unless I'm mistaken, those two are the only ones here wearing chicken hats." Duncan pointed out as everyone looked to the rubber chicken hats Chris put on Courtney and DJ's heads. "But they compensated that by working themselves while I saw you two scratching your butts like it was an excuse for work. Also for the fact you two have been a constant annoying since the start of the show and I want to avoid a migraine if you both start shouting every single time."

"But, but..." Katie and Sadie tried to find a good way to defend themselves but the delinquent Duncan didn't even let them finish.

"I want to know which one of you did the screw nuts on the motor? Because they were so loose that at the moment Chris touched it, it made the motor fall down and leak all the water." Duncan asked and from the way the chubby girl flinched, made him nod his head, finally finding the culprit. "Well, at least we know which twin made us lose the challenge."

"That's very astute of Duncan, spotting the girls slacking around, that means he observed the other members working hard. Courtney may have a chance to survive another week." Princess Luna felt relieved, as she could trust Duncan that he was making the best decision for his team. Dealing with the annoying duo who didn't work well on the last challenge.

"I know that I'm always brotherly with Twilight, but even I find those two too much." Shining Armor facehoofed as he glanced at his little sister, who was cringing at seeing the girl who was both annoying and a migraine for everypony.

"I think that's a lesson that we may learn from this?" Twilight as a princess of Friendship felt conflicted about seeing those two, as they were probably having too much friendship. Even Twilight had no idea how to describe what she was seeing.

"Duncan I think that's enough," Courtney said which brought the attention of the table, and while she had to admit that she was relieved that she compensated for the bad risk she did that morning, at least she was under the Radar from the reasoning of the delinquent. But now she noticed that both twins were about to go into a crying mode... She glanced around at the entire group of campers on her team... They immediately found the person that they should vote for most.

"But we tried to work, but our butts were itching so much, and couldn't help it."Sadie gave a last retort but Duncan shook his head. And then pointed at the eyepatched girl who was surprised by what he was going to say next.

"Well, it was you both who sat on the Poison Ivy in the first place, so you should have paid attention to where you crouch to pee next time," Sunset commented as she rolled her eyes, it seemed that the more those two talked, the more she wanted to slam her head on the wall. and it seems that she wasn't the only one.

"Bwa bwa bwa bubba." Even Flurry Heart took the time to make a sarcastic comment, in such a way that her mother couldn't help but gushy, with also her husband and the princess of Friendship.

"Awww, look at her, it seems that even Flurry Heart is tired of the two." Shining Armor said happily, as the group decided to once again return their heads to the show. And how Duncan will show another point.

"The C.I.T pirate was bitten in the eye by a fly, and even if her eye was looking like a monster, she managed to patch it up, and continue the work, and she didn't complain about it for the rest of the afternoon. You, on the other hand, tried to hide from work, I saw you both hiding away from me." Duncan said as he got up from his seat, and glared at the duo of girls who whimpered from the words he just said. "You two tried to run away to help the team, and if you are not to help us, then you better go home, maybe you now regret being on the same team instead of being separated teams..."

"Wow, that was harsh and cold," Twilight commented as felt heartache after hearing those words from the delinquent.

"But it was for the best, those words may be harsh but they have some truth behind them." Princess Celestia said as she looked at her own protege. "Sometimes the harsh truth is what makes us wake up the reality and helps us to grow up when the circumstances force us to do it."

"Still, I feel terrible for both Katie and Sadie, and while I understand Duncan's point, he could have a least been a bit more tactful on them." Twilight felt horrible, as she felt it wasn't the only one, she could also see the Screaming Gophers and even Spike feeling terrible to hear those words.

"Many would wish that Twilight, but I think that's the only way Duncan could find to make Katie and Sadie understand that things were serious, and they lost the challenge, somebody must go. And from the look of his own team... We already can imagine who would be eliminated." Sunset sighed as she couldn't blame Duncan for the point he made, even if she had to agree with Twilight, but maybe that's the only way they could see him acting. Harsh but fair.

And with that comment... It was all it needed to make both Sadie and Katie cry the loudest as they could... This made the other campers from Screaming Gophers turn their heads, to the scenery... And Spike for the first time, felt a bit of sadness, for seeing how cruel these kinds of shows could be...

"Eeeeh, I've had enough prison food for one day," Duncan said as he stood up and started walking away. "I'm gonna go have a nap."

Night at fallen on Camp Wawanakwa. All the members of the Killer Bass were sitting on the stumps at the campfire site with Chris in front of the metal barrel. All the girls on the team were nervous about what was about to happen.

"It's still difficult for me to understand how the sun and the moon around the human world move on their own." Princess Celestia commented as she was very impressed by also looking in disbelief into seeing what would have been centuries of her work being done by own its own.

"I know that it may be hard to understand Mom, but some realities may find a good interesting way to explain, as the whole group of planets keeps spinning around the sun, which would create the cycle of day and night, from half of the planet being day and the other half as night." Sunset once again explained a very reasonable reason why her mom wouldn't need to use her powers to control the sun, and from seeing how the human universe sounded way more complex than her own mother using her magic to raise the sun and the moon, but still, it was funny to see her own mom having a blue screen around every time it happened.

"Well, I have to say this is a very interesting way to show very good teamwork between day and night, maybe someday we should do that Tia... It would be a perfect prank for the ponykind." Princess Luna smiled as she gave a very interesting idea for her own sister.

The smile of the princess of the sun matched her sister, and with a good giggle, now both of them know how to make someponies freakout while they enjoyed a good laugh.

"Shhhhh, it seems Chris is going to say something." Twilight shushed the princesses as everypony finally saw the solemn look from the host of the show, and the frown on his face it seemed the time was going to get serious.

"Killer Bass." Chris got everyone's attention as he spoke in a serious tone. In Chris's hand was a plate holding 10 marshmallows. "marshmallows represent a tasty treat that you enjoy roasting by the fire. At this camp, marshmallows represent life."

"Wow, that's a good way to create the tension." Shining Armor sweatdropped as he could imagine how must feel being in a campfire, and seeing that his stay would depend only on a little candy...

Nopony said anything since they were also imagining how the tension could be cut with a butter knife.

Geoff dramatically made a hanging gesture before looking to Bridgette and winking, the surfer girl nodding in response.

"You've all cast your votes and made your decision," Chris said while holding up his plate of marshmallows. "There are only ten marshmallows on this plate. When I call your name come up and claim your marshmallow. The camper who does not receive a marshmallow tonight must immediately return to the dock of shame to catch the boat of losers. That means you're out of the contest and you can't come back...ever."

Everypony looked at each other, feeling the pressure of the suspense created by Chris, and now they were with their nerves on their skin... Anything could happen on this elimination...

Most of the Killer Bass tensed up as Chris said that. "The first marshmallow goes to...Geoff." Geoff gave a big smile as he walked up to Chris who pierced a marshmallow onto the party dudes stick.

"Tyler." Chris then said the name and Tyler jumped happily to take the marshmallow. "Bridgette, Eva, D.J, Harold" ."

Chris called out the next four names who all smiled and walked up to Chris with sticks with the host attaching marshmallows to them.

Every single name made more and more tension around them not just for the campers, but also for the ponies who were watching, Flurry Heart was hugging her snail plushy as she was even feeling fear of how intimidating Chris could be when he isn't cruel...And more and more the ponies were holding their breaths.

"Duncan" Chris named the delinquent WHO smirked as he went to collect his marshmallow from Chris. and knowing that who probably would be eliminated... And looking at each name given, the BFF girls seemed to get more and more nervous... "Courtney."

And with that name, Courtney never felt so relieved that she wasn't the worst name to appear on the first camper to be eliminated.

And with that, all the ponies in the royal chambers released a breath they never thought they were holding for so long, and they felt the same relief Courtney must have been feeling.

"I can feel a few years of my lifespan diminishing from this elimination and I wasn't even there," Twilight said as she fanned herself with her wings, it was indeed a very suspense created at that moment.

"Now I can see why Discord is such friends with him, that man is a monster. To make us suffer like that." Princess Celestia shook her head as she accepted Chris as the way he was... a person whom she wanted so much to prison in stone, but she had to accept that it was his show, and she must respect his way of leading the show she was watching. "I don't think I will be able to handle this in case Spike's team goes for the elimination."

"Me neither sister, but that's how the rules of that universe work, and while I cannot deny how horrifying this experience is... the adrenaline and the hush and anxiety and anticipation for that made me so addicted." Princess Luna had to confess that she enjoyed that terrifying experience.

Nopony wanted to comment on that moment, they were still watching who would be possibly eliminated from the show.

"Justin." And that comment made the best-looking teenager smile and go to take his own marshmallow with the group...

And that left only one marshmallow. And two campers. Sadie and Katie. "Campers, this is the final marshmallow of the evening." Both bff girls were incredibly tensed up. As neither of the girls wanted to see their twin go away from the show, but now, they are on the verge of crying... It was the first challenge and they didn't even have enough time to pass together for a whole day, and they were already going to be eliminated. Chris raised his hand up causing both of the remaining campers to drop their sticks as both of their eyes focused on who the host would point at.

And after what felt like a house of complete and heart attacking causing tension…Chris called out the next and final camper that would be staying tonight.

That left one marshmallow and two contestants. Katie and Sadie. The best friends hugged each other. Only one of them would get to stay. They would be forced to separate.

Everypony watched that scene with a weight on their hearts, and the suspense made by Chris really made the scene even more dramatic, that even Flurry Heart didn't blink at that moment, Princess Cadance teleported her clipboard as she was still staring at the screen...

Sunset wasn't very fond of reality shows in the world she was, even if her friends sometimes talked about some challenges about couples being naked in the wild, she usually scoffed and stopped watching on the first episode, but from seeing how Chris managed to make the show so serious and absurd, she felt even addicted, not just because her brother was on the show... She possibly would have been watching the entire season with the girls after school.

Twilight, Celestia, and Luna were with their eyes staring as they could sense it was taking an eternity for the final marshmallow, and for some kind of miracle, it seemed Chris had enough time and finally was ready to say a name.

"Katie." And so Chris threw the last marshmallow to Katie with the girl not catch it and continued to cling to Sadie, who would be leaving for home.

"No! Why Sadie? Why her?!" Katie yelled out as tears started to build up in her eyes.

"It's so unfair!" Sadie sadly yelled, not wanting to be separated from Katie.

"I so can't do this!" Katie shook her head as she wished there was some way to avoid this. "I've never been anywhere without Sadie! We have to be together or I'll totally die!"

"Katie, listen to me," Sadie said as she grabbed Katie's face and looked her best friend in the eye. "You can do this. You are strong and beautiful, and like, maybe even smarter than me. And plus, you're like, the funniest girl I know. You have to do it for both of us!"

Katie cried a bit but nodded as she took her best friend's hand and was ready to take her friend over to the Boat of Losers. And after that, Katie would be left to fend for herself on Total Drama Island.

Everyone watched as Chris led Sadie to the dock of shame. The chubby girl stepped onto the boat Chef used during the diving challenge earlier that day and drove Sadie away from Total Drama Island. Forever.

Everypony felt heartache at seeing one of the girls leaving the show like that, even Twilight as a Princess of Friendship gave a few sniffs as a few tears went down from her eyes, Shining Armor gave a hug on her, since she needed so much at that moment.

The princesses mourned the elimination of the first camper, and they truly understand how cruel the experience must be for someone still playing the game, and see one of their friends being eliminated and now they must keep playing without that person... Indeed it was a Total Drama in an Island.

"The rest of you, enjoy your marshmallows," Chris told the remaining members of the Killer Bass as they started to roast their marshmallows over the fire. "You're all safe…for tonight."

Everypony felt the first taste of the show, and while it was crushing, they couldn't stop watching the show... everything they could just do was pray for Spike's safety but also for his victory and happiness.

"Yep, this camp pretty much still stinks." Gwen sighed before looking at the camera. "But now that I'm here I guess I might as well actually try to win."

"To the Screaming Gophers." Cody cheered as he and the rest of his team were enjoying a nighttime hot tub party.

"Go Gophers! Go Gophers!" Leshawna chanted as she started dancing around in victory.

Owen and Noah soon joined Leshawna in dancing around and chanting, "Go Gophers! Go Gophers! Go Gophers! Go Gophers! Go, go, go Gophers!"

"Wow... that's a way to add salt to their injuries." Sunset Shimmer deadpanned, as she even looked in disbelief at the audacity of the others giving a dance of victory into a terrible cruel scene on the elimination. "That was a low blow."

"Maybe they didn't know what happened." Twilight tried to defend, but seeing how cheerful the Screaming Gophers are, it made her look in disappointment at them, they could have waited for a day or 2, it wasn't necessary to do that after the exact time the Killer Bass was leaving the elimination..."But it's sad that they have no idea how harsh has been for Killer Bass, maybe they will realize how serious this is at the time they lose a challenge."

Meanwhile, the Killer Bass were seen walking back to their camps slumped down in defeat. But as Courtney came into view, she looked at the camera with a fierce look. "Are you recording this?" Courtney asked as the camera zoomed in on her. "Good. They can enjoy their little party all they want, but I am gonna win this competition and no one is gonna stop me."

"Thous have my vote, Courtney, I will be cheering for thou." Princess Luna gave her support, knowing that her drive and determination to win, she knew that since Courtney while sounded a little bossy at the beginning, she could see that having Spike as her challenge, would give a new drive and a new way to make her team wins on the next challenge.

"Yeah, Courtney, you can do it." Princess Cadance cheered, as she also had a light smirk on her smile, she wanted to make her on the finals with Spike since they would make a very challenge and then they would confess their love and even marry, yes, that's how she can see it.

"YEAH," Sunset and Twilight felt the drive of Courtney and now they had another person to cheer up, since they were hoping for her to not be eliminated, she also gave them hope that she would crush the elimination.

The show was about to end when the group of ponies finally watched an extra scene before the credits.

And with that, Courtney left the whole Screaming Gophers having their fun party in the Hot tub, but at the time she was approaching her cabin, she just saw Spike lying on the ground and looking above at the sky... Courtney took a few seconds until she noticed that indeed the light of the stars looked better than the fire around the camp... Shaking her head, she decided to walk away, until she heard Spike talk to himself which brought her attention.

"Have a good night of work Aunty Luna," Spike said, as he also decided to get up and go directly to his own cabin... And while he walked he then blinked at seeing Courtney staring at him. "Oh hey, Courtney,"

Princess Luna felt like Spike was whispering in her ears, as she had her proud smile of her nephew, in the same way, he always wished her good night before going to sleep, she smiled warmly at the screen... feeling her nephew was nearby her like always...

"Thank you, my little nephew, I hope the dreams let thou guide thou to your true happiness," Princess Luna said warmly as she felt her horn glows slightly and with her blessing, she knew her nephew would have wonderful dreams.

"Hello Spike," The C.I.T. girl commented, as she noticed that the boy wasn't dressed for the occasion, Did he seem interested in partying with his team? "Aren't you going to be with your team after the victory?"

"Hmm... Eenope." Spike commented on one of his best friends which made her stare at him weirdly. "I already partied for an hour, and while the party is good in some time, I think it was too much for me for the day, and I think I would prefer to have a nice time dreaming. So I'm going to sleep right now. Tomorrow will be another day and more time to meet the others and make more friends."

Everypony smiled at how good an example Spike has been, and once more showing Courtney a reason why he would be a great rival, showing great sportsmanship and humility, and the desire to make friends, like how Princess Celestia and Twilight always taught and lived the lesson with Spike.

Courtney remained calm, but she somehow could understand the words the dragon boy was saying, he seemed to be more interested in making friends, than participating in the show. And somehow, Courtney couldn't help but see him as to even better player than herself.

"Well, if that on this way, then I will also be going to sleep... Have a good night Spike." Courtney nodded her head to him, and Spike smiled at her, and when he did that... Courtney couldn't help but see it was indeed a genuine smile.

"I hope the dreams let you guide you to your true happiness," Spike commented on such a sentence which made the girl tilt her head to him... Which chuckling he just said sheepishly. "This is what my aunt says every night when she goes to work."

Suddenly Princess Luna felt her horn slightly glow as the same magic happened again, and seeing Spike gave the C.I.T. girl the blessing that she always does to her family... she was surprised because her own body reacted that way... but then looking at Courtney, she couldn't help but also smile warmly.

"Well it seems a valid reason, thous are blessed Courtney, my child, have a wonderful dream." Princess Luna commented as she ignored the confused look of the girl, as she was giving the blessing of a good night of sleep for her, since that girl deserved strength to go back for the next days to relax, and prepare herself for the next challenge.

"Your aunt works on the night shift?" Courtney asked in surprise, which Spike thought about for a second but immediately nodded his head to her.

"Yeah, she does. And she works very hard every single night... So I think about her every night, and how she does her best... Well, I gotta go to sleep, see you tomorrow Courtney." Spike commented, but not before giving a wave as he left... Letting the girl who was so bossy and competitive see the boy in front of her like a total opposite, but somehow more to the ground, and even more like the voice of the reason...

"Yes... have a good night of sleep Spike." Courtney smiled, as she herself went to her cabin to sleep...

The silence was enough to make them look at each other, hoping to find the right words to tell about the episode.

"Well I have to say, this episode went way better than I expected, Spike's safe, and he didn't hurt himself." Shining Armor had to dress the biggest detail around what happened, and seeing Twilight and Princess Celestia and Princess Luna relieved not seeing the baby dragon being eaten by sharks.

"It was... unique, I have to say." Princess Celestia commented as she coughed on her hoof, she wanted to forget the outburst that she had half an hour ago, but everypony couldn't blame the princess of the sun for being worried for her son.

"Well, we can agree that Chris is a big jerk," Sunset commented and everypony nodded their heads in agreement, even Flurry Heart giggled from seeing the host causing such chaos around the show and making their lives into a rollercoaster of emotions.

"And we can agree Courtney really showed a good change, I was annoyed by her at first, but after talking with Spike, I think she will have a great future on the show." Princess Cadance commented as she smiled internally at the double meaning of her statement.

"I also agreed, I just wished she would have been on Spike's team instead of Heather," Twilight commented, as everypony also agreed with that talk, seeing how Heather may backstab someone, they will be watching her actions like a hawk, and they will cheer for anyone who would take down a person like her...

"It has been an interesting experience, but after hearing my nephew, it seems it was indeed the time of the night, and I have work to do." Princess Luna commented as she glanced at the clock, Princess Celestia was also caught by surprise to see how the hours had passed, and she immediately teleported herself to raise the moon.

Everypony giggled... Knowing that possible it was the best time for them to go to sleep, and enjoy more of the show on the next day...

Total Drama Chaos: Spike's Adventure

by CaioCoia

Interlude 2.5