Most of the campers looked down the 1000-foot-high cliff with either fear, or even some excitement. All of them in swimwear as they looked at Chris who was standing next to a create with a picture of a chicken on it. "Okay!" Chris said to make sure he had all 24 teens attention. "Today's challenge is three-fold. Your first task is to jump off this 1,000-foot-high cliff into the lake."
Brigette looked down the cliff without fear and saw that there were two areas. A large wide zone and a smaller circle area within the large zone. "Piece of cake." Bridgette confidently said.
"If you look down, you will see two target areas." Chris explained while pointing to the two different zones in 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, with the exception of Dawn, flinched when they saw the fins of sharks appearing in the large zone. "Inside that area is a safe zone. That's your target area, which, we're prettysure is shark free."
"Excuse me?" Leshawna said to Chris in response to the host's last words.
"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." Chris then looked at and pointed at the Killer Bass. "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.
Owen's laugh then broke the silence as everyone looked to him. "Hey, don't sweat it, guys." The big guy reassured everyone. "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, all the while averting his gaze from everyone.
"So, who's up?" Eva said as she looked to her teammates.
Everyone was still silent, not wanting to be the one to go first, that was until everyone watched as Lincoln took a deep breath and walked forward.
CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN
"Was I terrified? Absolutely! I mean I was about to jump off a 1000-foot-high-cliff into water. Infested with sharks!" Lincoln had a panicked expression on his face until he took a few deep breaths to calm himself down. "But…I had to prove myself to my team. I wanna be useful and show them I have what it takes to play the game. Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do."
"Alright, I'll go first." Lincoln said with his tone trembling a bit. Everyone simply watched as the white head approached the edge of the cliff and looked down at the water below. "Oh geez…"
"Hey, its alright." Bridgette reassured Lincoln with a hand on his shoulder and calm smile. "You got this."
"Yeah…yeah you're right. I got this." Lincoln gave a shaky smile at the surfer before she backed away a bit to give Lincoln some room. The white head looked down again before tightening his fist. "Welp…no time like the present…" Almost all the campers watching gasped as they watched Lincoln jumped down off the cliff. "CANNON BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL!"
Lincoln's voice echoed throughout the area as everyone on the cliff watched as Lincoln feel towards the lake at high speeds. After what felt like hours Lincoln finally hit the water, making quite a splash. After a few seconds, Lincoln emerged from the water breathing heavily and scared for his life that he fell into the shark water. But after looking around a bit, the Loud boy gave a giant grin as he saw that he landed in the safe zone. "WOOHOO!" Lincoln cheered as he raised up a fist. "I DID GUYS! I DID IT!"
All of Lincoln's teammates cheered in response as Chef Hatchet came up to Lincoln in a boat, allowing the white head to climb up in it and out of the water. "That was awesome dude!" Geoff yelled down to Lincoln.
Dawn smiled before she started walking to the edge of the cliff. "I'll go next." The mysterious girl told her team as Chris pulled out a clipboard and marked Lincoln as a jumper. "Here I go!" Everyone then watched as Dawn jumped off the cliff. The Killer Bass and even some of the Gophers went forward a little to watch Dawn jumped down...only to raise an eyebrow as they saw something a bit…off.
"Is she…" Tyler began as he and a few others rubbed their eyes to make sure they weren't seeing things. "Falling slowly?" Sure enough, Dawn was. The light blond girl was falling at a slower pace then Lincoln to where it looked like Gravity was taking it easy on her.
When she eventually hit the water after about double the time Lincoln took to reach the lake, maybe even longer, she hardly made a splash. Lincoln would have wondered about this as well…had Dawn not fallen in the shark zone in the water. "DAWN!" Lincoln yelled out with a terrified expression on his face. "LOOK OUT!"
Dawn looked to where Lincoln was pointing at and saw two sharks approaching her. But despite the sharks coming to the surface of the water and opening their mouths to show off their incredible amount of razor-sharp teeth Dawn wasn't scared one bit. And as the aquatic predators came closer, Dawn calmly spoke up. "Um, excuse me." Amazingly, at Dawn's words, the sharks actually stopped and looked at Dawn as she smiled at them. "I'm terribly sorry for falling into your territory, but would you mind taking me to that boat please?"
Surprising everyone for the who-knows-how-many-times this day, the sharks actually smiled back at Dawn and nodded. One of the sharks dived back down under water and used its nose to lift up Dawn out of the water and swim over to the boat Chef was driving as both he and Lincoln looked at the scene with dropped jaws.
CONFESSIONAL – BRIDGETTE
"Ok, I wasn't seeing things, right?" Bridgette asked with a completely confused expression on her face. "Because either the food here is causing me to see things…or Dawn just communicated with sharks."
"Thank you so much!" Dawn said to the shark as the predator helped Dawn onto the boat. Dawn then petted the Shark a bit and said. "10 of my teammates are about to jump down the cliff as well. Would you pretty please let them be if they don't fall in the safe zone?" The shark simply smiled at Jaune and nodded with Dawn clapping in response. "Thank you, and don't worry. I'm sure if you ask her, she'd love to be with you."
Hearts appeared in the shark's eyes as it started swimming back to the other shark. Everyone still on the cliff, even Chris, watched this in complete silence. All to stunned or surprised to say anything. Finally, it was Chris who broke the silence. "Ok…don't see that every day." Chris slowly said with everyone nodding in agreement.
"You can talk to fishes to?!" Lincoln asked Dawn with a bit of a shocked expression.
"Uh-huh." Dawn nodded as she looked back at Lincoln with her usual smile. "Like I said I can communicate with all of nature's creatures."
"Wow." Lincoln let out; the white head extremely impressed with the light blond girl in front of him. "You're just full of surprises huh?"
Dawn giggled in response before putting a hand on Lincoln's shoulder and giving him a sympathetic expression. "And you know, you didn't have to go first just because you were worried everyone wouldn't like you." Dawn said to Lincoln causing his eyes to widen instantly. "You shouldn't worry so much about what others think of you."
"W-W-What?" Lincoln stuttered out. The Loud boys face quickly went red as he started scratching the back of her head. "Who told you that?"
"Its all over your aura." Dawn informed Lincoln, her hand still on Lincoln's shoulder. "You're a sweet and nice guy Lincoln. We're all lucky to have you on the team."
"Huh…" Lincoln looked to Dawn and gave her small but grateful smile. "Thanks."
Dawn smiled back at Lincoln just in time before a splash to be heard as they saw Brigette was now in the water, specifically the safe zone. "Did I miss anything?" Bridgette asked the two as Dawn removed her hand from Lincoln. Lincoln simply shook his head as he helped Bridgette get onto the boat.
"Wooooo! Hahaha!" Geoff cheered and laughed as he dived down the cliff next, his hat somehow staying on his head.
"Look out below!" Eva yelled as she jumped down after Geoff.
"…" Duncan was completely silent as he jumped down the cliff with his arms crossed.
Next up as 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."
"Scared of heights?" Chris asked as DJ turned to him.
"Yeah." DJ nodded. "Ever since I was a kid."
"That's alright big guy." Chris told DJ, getting a smile on the teens 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 a pulled out a rubber chicken hat and placed it on DJ's head.
"Aw, man. For real?" DJ frowned as he looked up at his new headwear.
"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."
As DJ slumped down and headed towards the escalator, Ezekial stepped up next and proceeded to jump down. "Yeeeeeee-haaaaaaaw!" Ezekial cheered as he fell down the cliff. As he fell, he ended up hitting a rock on the cliff and went spinning. Ezekial still ended up landing in the safe zone with his team cheering, with the ones that have dived now on the beach, as Ezekial sent them a thumbs up.
"Yes!" Harold cheered before jumping down…while doing the splits.
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 and eventually sink with Ezekial being quick to save him and help Harold onto the boat as it came back around.
"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."
"What condition?" Chris asked.
"A condition that prevents me from jumping off cliffs." Courtney stated in an obvious tone.
"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."
"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 eight 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.
"I'll switch places with her." Izzy offered as she rose her hand.
"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.
"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 ten 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?"
"I'm sorry." Heather said firmly as she crossed her arms and shook her head. "There's no way I'm doing this."
"Why not?" Beth asked the taller girl.
"Um, hello, national tv." Heather said as if the answer to the question was obvious. "I'll get my hair wet."
"You're kidding right?" Gwen asked while looking at Heather in disbelief.
"If she's not doing it, I'm not doing it." Lindsay said as she and Heather smirked at each other.
"Oh you're doing it." Leshawna told Heather in an aggressive tone as she got right into Heather's face.
"Say's who?" Heather crossed her arms and glared back Leshawna.
"Says me." Leshawna said back as she glared right into Heathers 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 cat fight going on or smirks as they watched the show. All except Justin who pulled out a mirror to look at himself.
CONFESSIONAL – DAWN
"I'm sensing a lot of negative energy coming from the other team." The mysterious girl said with a small wince.
"You're jumping!" Leshawna yelled at Heather aggressively.
"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!"
"Hey, I threw you into the safe zone, didn't I?" Leshawna yelled downed 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.
"She did it. Yeah! Yeah! I'm next." Tyler was quick to go after Leshawna as he ran off the edge of the cliff and dived down and aimed for the water "Cowabunga!" Tyler cheered as he reached the bottom…only for Tyler to end up falling right onto one of the buoys. "Oowww…" Tyler let out as everyone watching winced as Tyler slowly slide off the buoy and into the water.
"Yikes!" Chris said as Lindsay stepped up to the cliff next, a scared expression on her face.
"I thought this was going to be a talent contest." Lindsay said to the host with a frightened tone.
"Hahaha yeah." Chris laughed sarcastically. "No."
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.
After Izzy came Justin who confidently dived into the water…landing outside the safe zone. Everyone on the boat yelled at Justin to quickly swim away as they saw the sharks approaching him…only for the sharks to stop swimming towards him as they looked at Justin as saw water dripping of his body and his sparking eyes and smile. Hearts appeared in the shark's eyes as one of them picked the handsome teen up similar to Dawn earlier and gave him a ride to shore.
Beth was next up to dive, but the glasses wearing girl looked down and, similar to DJ, backed away. "I…I can't do it." Beth said as she slumped down a bit. Chris was quick to put a chicken hat on Beth as she yelled down to her team. "I'm sorry!"
Cody and Leshawna mocked Beth a bit as they danced and bawked like Chicken as Heather and Lindsay watched it all from the shore. "That is, like, so lame, right?" The dumb blond asked Heather.
"Fully lame." Heather responded.
"Um, didn't you have to be thrown into the water." Lincoln accused Heather as he glared and pointed at her.
Heather scoffed at Lincoln while looking away from him. "Mind your own team Mr. Albino." Lincoln simply rolled his eyes at the remark Heather made about his hair.
CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN
"I've heard literally every possibly joke that has to do with my hair color." Lincoln said as he pointed to his head full of snow-white hair. "Nothing about it really gets to me anymore."
As Beth took the chicken escalator down the cliff, Trent passed by Owen and gave him a high five. "Let's do this!" Trent said before jumping off the cliff and landing down in the safe zone. "Yeah!" After Trent, Noah soon followed and jumped off the cliff himself.
"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." Owens 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 breather before strapping some floaties around his arms and backing away a bit to give himself a running start.
CONFESSIONAL – OWEN
"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."
CONFESSIONAL – GEOFF
"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.
CONFESSIONAL – GWEN
"I actually thought, if he jumps this...he's gonna die." The Goth girl said, not having that much confidence in Owen.
"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 leapt right off the cliff and dived down towards the water at high speeds. "OOOOOOH CRAAAAAAAP!"
SPLAAAAAAAAAAAAAASHHHH!
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, all 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 start pumping his fist in the air. "Yes! Yeah!" Owen cheered with a grin on his face. "Oh, yeah! Who's the man?"
"Woo-hoo-hoo!" Beth cheered.
"Yes!" Leshawna said with a victorious tone.
"The winners!" Chris yelled with his megaphone to the campers below. "The Screaming Gophers!" The Gophers all cheered while same of the Bass sighed in defeat.
"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.
Later, as Chris promised, the Screaming Gophers were given carts that allowed them to easily pull the crates back to camp. Everyone was back in their normal dry cloths with the Killer Bass seen struggling to move their creates. Most of them at least as Duncan, DJ, and especiallyEva were moving their crates pretty easily.
With the others Lincoln and Harold, Katie and Sadie, Courtney and Dawn, Bridgette, Geoff, and Ezekial, were all paired up together 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 with Dawn looking to her in response as 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 Dawn 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."
DJ, Eva, and Dawn simply looked at each other and chose not to respond. The Bass then quickly went back to pushing their crates and after about 15 minutes Ezekial stopped helping Geoff and Bridgette pushing and started heading towards the heads. "I gotta take a wiz ay." The home school boy told everyone.
"Hurry up." Eva said as she set her crate down. "We're already behind."
"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 Ezekial into the woods and decided to go in a different direction in order to do their business.
As they left, a rather large fly approached Courtney's face causing the C.I.T to quickly swat at it and ended up hitting herself in the eye. "Ow!" Courtney let out in pain. "I think something just bit me."
"NOOOOOOO!" Dawn yelled as she got on her knees and picked up the now dead fly. "Rest in Peace little friend…"
Courtney gave Dawn a strange look as Lincoln approached the two of them. The white head looked at the dead fly in Dawn's hand and then to Courtney's eye. "That's not good." Lincoln said while looking at Courtney. "That was a black fly. And it bit you in the eye."
"What?!" Courtney quickly started to panic as she covered her with both of her hands. "Whats gonna happen to me?!"
"Woah, woah, woah, woah, relax. You'll be ok." Lincoln quickly reassured Courtney in order to calm her down. "Your eyes just gonna swell for a bit unless we treat it soon…give me a second." Everyone from the Killer Bass then watched as Lincoln approached a nearby tree and plucked a few leaves and a vine from it. The Loud boy then folded the leaves together before tying the vine around it.
Once he was done, Lincoln walked back over to Courtney and wrapped his little creation around her head. Everyone looked to see an eye patch made of leaves and vines around the eye that the dead fly bit. "There, that should hold for awhile until we can get some proper treatment to it." Lincoln told Courtney who tightly felt the eyepatch. "Sorry if its uncomfortable, it was a bit of a rush job."
"Actually it's not so bad." Courtney told Lincoln with a small smile on her face. "Thanks Lincoln."
"No prob, happy to help." Lincoln told Courtney before walking back over to the create he was pushing with Harold.
"Cool." Harold told Lincoln, complimenting him about the eye patch he made Courtney. "Where'd you learn how to do that?"
"I read and watch a lot of survival stuff." Lincoln told the ginger as he leaned back on the crate. "So I've learned a lot about surviving in the woods and such. Me and my best friend Clyde actually survived in the woods for a whole day when we were just 11."
"That's awesome." Harold said as he smiled at Lincoln, also leaning on the crate. "I got some mad skills myself to. I can make a hang glider out of an old tent and sticks."
"Woah seriously?" Lincoln asked with an amazed expression. "Dude that's awesome! Think you can show me sometime."
"Totally." Harold nodded at the white-head. "I'm in Muskrat boys. They teach you a lot about wildness survival and how to be creative with the things in your disposal. Its pretty cool. A lot of people underestimate those sorts of skills."
"Tell me about it." Lincoln agreed with the ginger as he stretched out a bit, popping a few joints. "Not even in the wild, I've had to learn a whole lot just to survive in my own home. It can get really chaotic there considering how many sisters I have."
"How bad can it be?" DJ asked as he and a few others turned to Lincoln. "How many sisters you got? Four? Five?"
"Eeeeeh…" Lincoln averted his gaze from everyone as he got ready to drop the bombshell. "Try…ten."
"…" One could only hear the wind being blown as the rest of the Killer Bass stared silent at Lincoln. All with the exception of Dawn.
Lincoln slowly nodded, fully expecting this reaction. "Yep." That was all Lincoln said.
"Dude, there's no way you have ten sisters." Geoff said, thinking Lincoln was punking them. No way could anyone have that many siblings let alone just sisters. "That's gotta be impossible."
Lincoln gave Geoff a blank look before he pulled out his wallet from his pockets and opened it up. The Bass all stared with widened eyes and slowly gapping mouths as a strip of pictures came down from the wallet. All of them containing a selfie Lincoln took with a different girl. "From oldest to youngest." Lincoln began listing things out. "Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa, and Lily."
"…Wow." Eva let out with widened eyes.
"Geez dude." Duncan smirked as he shook his head. "What even is your life?"
"Completely crazy and full of chaos." Lincoln told the delinquent with crossed arms. "It gets…difficult sometimes."
CONFESSIONAL – CHRIS
"Ok, I thought that guy was lying about having that many sisters on the application forms." Chris said with his usual smirk on his face while also laughing a little. "But he seriously has freaking ten sisters? Hahaha, wow you Americans really know how to get busy huh?"
Before anyone could ask Lincoln any questions, Ezekial, Sadie, and Katie all came out of the woods. "Feel better?" Eva asked the three them, wanting to get back on track with taking the crates back to camp. More so then learning about Lincoln's extremely large family.
"Yep!" Katie said with Sadie, and Ezekial 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?"
"Totally itchy." Katie nodded. "Really bad."
This went on for about five minutes, both Sadie and Katie 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 camp is. "Like, way behind. What's the problem?"
"Their butts are itchy." Courtney told the host of the show.
"…Uuuuuuum." Chris let out while looking at Courtney's eye patch.
"She got bit by a black fly." Lincoln told Chris. "Patched her up."
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 the best friends 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 silence before they started to scream and panic about the situation as Chris laughed. "Hahahaha! No way!" Chris laughed hysterically. "That's awesome! Hahahaha!"
THE SCREAMING GOPHERS
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."
"Straight up?" Leshawna asked before smiling as Heather nodded her head. "Well, I'm sorry about pushing you over the cliff and all."
"No worries." Heather reassured the girl in front of her. "I needed a push. Truce?"
"Yeah, yeah." Leshawna agreed as she and Heather shook hands. "You got it."
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 girls 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?"
"Oh yeah." Heather reassured Lindsay. "For now."
"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 having been the one to speak up after he and Lincoln stopped pushing their crate.
"Hey what's up guys?" Trent said in his usual cool tone to the Gophers.
"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 friends absence. "They're just…getting a drink."
"Yeah." Harold smirked as he whispered to Ezekial. "If they drink with their butts."
"Haha." The homeschooled boy laughed. "That's funny."
"Hey what with the eyepatch?" Owen asked with a curious tone. "You pretending to be a pirate or something?"
"Well she certainly has the hat for it." Duncan joked with a smirk on his face.
Courtney glared and growled at Duncan before calming herself down and looking back at Leshawna. "Just…patching up a bug bite." Courtney explained to the black girl.
The Bass then quickly piled up their crates allowing for 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 and Ezekial picking his nose. "Ew." Courtney cringed as Ezekial wiped his finger on his pants.
"What?" The homeschool boy turned to Courtney.
"That's…really gross." Bridgette cringed in disgust as she backed away from Zeke.
"Okay look, guys, we have a hot tub to complete, and we need a project manager." Courtney got everyones attention on her as the girl was completely focused on winning this challenge. "Since I've actually been a C.I.T. before, I'm electing myself. Any objections?"
"What does being a C.I.T. have to do with being building a hot tub?" Lincoln asked not really thinking Courtney's reasoning had much sense. Really C.I.T. camping skills would be of much use in a Reality Show like this.
"Well do you have any better ideas?" Courtney asked as she narrowed her eye at Lincoln.
Sighing, Lincoln simply sat down and decided not to get in an argument with her. Thankfully Dawn, who was suddenly sitting next Lincoln, placed a reassuring hand on his back. "So, any more objections?" Courtney asked her fellow Bass.
Everyone was quiet and didn't voice any complaints with Duncan being the one to speak up. "Where do we begin Captain Chicken?" The delinquent asked, making a joke about both Courtney's eye patch and her chicken hat.
"Open the crates!" Courtney yelled as she got into Duncans face. "Bridgette, go find those itchy girls. We need all the help we can get."
CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN
Lincoln let out a sigh as he looked down. "Yeah, things went about as well as you'd expect." Lincoln told the camera as he leaned against the outhouse wall. "Teamwork is definitely something that we need to work on. I mean Dawn, Harold, and DJ are pretty cool, so it Bridgette but she really needs to work on her awareness, but it seems everyone else is either butting heads, letting themselves get distracted, or are just hardly paying attention. I mean I know its only the first challenge of the summer and all but...still…kinda sucks that my team is the first to lose."
A few hours later, the two teams were standing with their respective hot tub. The Gophers hot tub looking really well built and party worthy and the Bass…well…it was a miracle it hadn't fallen apart yet. Chris first inspected the Gophers hot tub and nodded in approval. "This is one awesome hut tub!" Chris told the Gophers who all cheered in response with Owen emerging from within the tub.
The host of the show then went over to the Bass's hot tub, which had a seagull floating in it, with the Killer Bass looking down at their crappy job. Chris rose a brow at all the tape on the hot tube and pocked it a bit only for some water to leak out and squirt his face. Soon after that, the Bass's hot tub, if it could even be called that, completely fell in pieces.
"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 as, "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.
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.
Who would be the first camper to leave Total Drama Island?
"So, uh…." Katie began awkwardly. "What do we do now?"
"We need to figure out who to vote off." Courtney stated the obvious.
"Well I think it should be princess here." Duncan said while pointing to Courtney. "Or the brick house here." Duncan then pointed to DJ.
"What?" Courtney said in surprise. Why would Duncan say that she should go? "Why?"
"Because, unless I'm mistaken, you 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. "And if we ever have to lift a truck, I like our odds with the big guy."
DJ smiled at Duncan's words as Courtney gave an expression of disbelief. "You guys need me." Courtney told everyone as she tried her best to make sure they wouldn't be voting for her. "I'm the only one-"
"We know." Bridgette rolled her eyes and spoke with a slightly annoyed tone. "Who used to be a real C.I.T. so would you pick?"
"Well what about…" Courtney looked around the table and tried to find someone to push the voting attention onto. "Her!" Courtney pointed at Dawn.
"W-What?" Dawn stuttered a bit, taken back by Courtney telling everyone to vote her off.
"Hey! Leave her alone!" Lincoln was quick to defend Dawn as he glared at Courtney and pointed an accusing finger to Courtney. "She actually jumped of the cliff and need I mention convinced the sharks not to attack you if you landed outside the safe zone. DJ at least had the excuse of being afraid. You just took a gamble that failed. And a lot of good job that C.I.T. experience did with building the hot tub! Whenever there was a leak you just tried to fix it with tape!"
Courtney and Lincoln both glared at each other while Dawn smiled at Lincolns attempts to defend her. "Ok guys, lets just try and chill out." Geoff was quick to try and play peace maker and split Lincoln and Courtney apart. "Look we're all a little tense right now so why don't we just try to ease up before making a decision, k?"
"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."
"You can't do that!" Courtney told Duncan who continued to walk away. "We haven't decided who's going yet."
"I still don't get why you didn't jump DJ." Ezekial spoke up as he looked to the tallest guy at the Bass table. "Why you stooping down to the girls level ay?"
Everything went silent as everyone from the Bass table, and even some from the Gopher table, starred at Ezekial with widened eyes. "Uh…what?" DJ asked, making sure he heard that right.
"Well look around ay." Ezekial explained as he pointed to both Courtney and Beth. "The only ones with chicken hats are the girls ay. You're a guy, you're better than that."
Katie and Sadie gasped as now everyone from both tables' attention was on Ezekial, many glaring at him. "What's that supposed to mean?" Birdgette aggressively asked as she and Eva approached Ezekial with fierce glares.
"Yeah homeschool." Eva said as she pounded her fist in front of Zeke, shaking the entire table. "Enlighten us!"
"Well, guys are much stronger and better at sports than girls are." Ezekial stated causing everyone nearby to back away from the scene as all the girls in the room were giving Ezekial a look that could kill. Even Dawn!
"Oh dude." Geoff slapped his hand against his forehead while shaking his head. "You did not just say that."
"My dad told me to look out for the girls here, ay." Ezekial told everyone as he crossed his arms and nodded his head. "And help them in case they can't keep up."
Bridgette gritted his teeth as Eva grabbed Ezekial by his neck and easily lifted him up into the air. "Still think we need your help keeping up?" Eva asked in a threatening tone while lightly strangling the boy in her hands.
"Uh…" Zeke let out in a slightly frightened tone. "not really."
"Okay, guys, let's give him a break." Geoff once again played the roll of peace maker to try and get the heat off Ezekial as Eva harshly dropped him on the ground. "I mean, at least he doesn't think that guys are smarter than girls."
"But they are." Ezekial just had to speak up.
"Dude…" Lincoln shook his head with an immense amount of disappointment as he glared down at Ezekial. "You are so dead."
THAT NIGHT
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 glaring at Ezekial as Duncan told the homeschooled boy. "Dude, you've got a lot to learn about the real world."
"Killer Bass." Chris got everyones attention as he spoke in a serious tone. In Chris's hand was a plate holding 11 marshmallows. "marshmallows represent a tasty treat that you enjoy roasting by the fire. At this camp, marshmallows represent life."
Geoff dramatically made a hanging gesturing 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."
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.
"Lincoln, Dawn, Harold." Chris called out the next three who all smiled and walked up to Chris with sticks with the host attaching marshmallows to them.
"Yes!" Harold cheered as Chris gave him his marshmallow.
Lincoln let out a sigh of relief and relaxed a bit as Chris put a marshmallow on his stick as Dawn put a reassuring hand on his back. Lincoln looked back at Dawn and gave her a grateful smile for the support.
"Katie. Bridgette. D.J, Sadie." Chris called the next four campers up who eagerly went to get their marshmallow.
"Oh, yay." Sadie and Katie said in unison as they hugged each other. "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you."
"Duncan." The delinquent smirked as he went to collect his marshmallow from Chris.
And that left only one marshmallow. And two campers. Courtney and Ezekial. "Campers, this is the final marshmallow of the evening." Both Courtney and Ezekial incredibly tensed up. Courtney's heart raced as the homeschooled boy started to violently tremble and shake. Chris rose 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 house of complete and heart attacking causing tension…Chris called out the next and final camper that would be staying tonight.
"Courtney." Courtney quickly smiled and grabbed her stick and went to go bet her marshmallow as Ezekial sighed and slumped down. "Can't say I'm shocked. I saw you picking your nose, dude. Not cool." Ezekial got up while slumping down as all the girls gave Ezekial a smug look, his reason for being eliminated obvious. "Dock of shame is that way, bro."
Everyone watched as Chris led Ezekial to the dock of shame. The homeschooled boy stepping onto the boat Chef used during the diving challenge earlier that day and drove Ezekial away from Total Drama Island. Forever.
"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."
CONFESSIONAL – GWEN
"Yep, this camp pretty much still stinks." Gwen sighed out 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.
"To the Screaming Gophers!" The rest of the Gophers cheered.
"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!"
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 part all they want, but I am gonna win this competition and no one is gonna stop me."
Lincoln sighed as he looked up into the night sky. Everyone from his team was either in bed or getting ready for bed. The Loud boy wearing a pair of orange pajamas. Lincoln was silent as he looked up at the stars. "It's not your fault we lost you know."
Lincoln lightly jumped at the voice that suddenly appeared right next to him. He wasn't to freaked out as years of being constantly scared by Lucy had given him a slightly immunity to sneak ups. Looking next to him, Lincoln saw that Dawn was sitting next to him. "Oh, hey Dawn." Lincoln said in a slightly saddened tone. "Sorry guess I'm just kinda taking it hard right now, being the first one to lose and all."
"We lost as a team. Don't single yourself out." Dawn told Lincoln with a firm but reassuring tone. "You don't have to do everything yourself just to prove something to us. You're doing just fine."
"…Thanks…" A small smile managed to appear on Lincoln's face at Dawn's words. "It's just…I guess I can be hard on myself sometimes. That's all."
"If its about comparing yourself to your sister then you need to stop." Dawn said to Lincoln causing his eyes to widened. However, Lincoln didn't ask this time how Dawn knew that as by now he was aware that this girl could find out nearly every single thing about a person by just looking at them. She certainly had quite a number of mysterious talents. "You're not them. You're you. You have a completely unique and even really special aura. You have a lot to be proud of." Lincoln couldn't help but lightly blush at Dawn's words as she sheepishly scratched the back of his head. "And if its her, then its not your fault she broke up with you. She acted extremely immaturely and treated you harshly and unfairly. You're a kinda, sweet, and caring induvial and you deserve better."
"Huh…you really think so." Lincoln asked as he continued looking forward. Just then Lincoln's eyes widened as he briefly forgot what he told himself about Dawn as he quickly turned to her. "Wait how do you know about-" But when Lincoln looked to where Dawn was, he saw she was gone. Looking to the door that led to the girl's side of the cabin, he saw it looked rather untouched with no sign of Dawn having opened it. He didn't even hear it open and the doors were extremely creaky.
Taking a deep breath, Lincoln stood up before looking at the moon. "Tomorrows a new day."