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Chapter 8 - Chapter 8: Phobia Factor

"Last time on Total Drama Island…" Chris recounted as the camera panned in on him. "The campers had their survival skills put to the test when they spent the entire night camping in the woods. Katie and Sadie's friendship was strained when Katie's sense of direction got them totally lost. Duncan's mad ghost-story telling skills freaked out the Killer Bass, haha, and uh, Izzy played a prank on the Gophers by dressing up as a bear. Unfortunately, a real bear showed up and the Gophers spent the night up in a tree, which really sucked for them. Cody peed in his pants and then it rained. Luckily for the Bass, Dawn's freaky hippie magic predicted the oncoming storm and took measures to keep her team dry. Ultimately, the Killer Bass were the ones on the chopping block, leaving Katie without a marshmallow. Yup, the challenge was rough, all right. And if I have anything to say about it, today's will be even more brutal. Luckily, I do. What fresh horror have we planned for our campers? Find out next on Total. Drama. Island!"

Currently all of the Killer Bass were still gathered around at the camp fire with the exception of Bridgette and Sadie. Despite no longer having Katie and being down to 10 human members, the Killer Bass now had Edward the Platypus with them. Dawn was sitting next to Lincoln and both were petting Edward with a few watching, such as DJ, Geoff, and Harold, smiling at the scene and a few raising an eyebrow. "So what?" Duncan asked as he rested his head in his hands. "You're just gonna keep him now."

 

"Yep pretty much." Lincoln answered as he scratched Edward's head. "He wants to keep hanging around me so why not ya know?"

 

Just then the sound of crying got everyones attention and they looked to see Bridgette holding Sadie's hand with Sadie crying loudly with tears staining her face and holding onto a rip off piece of dock in her other hand. Bridgette sat Sadie down on a stump with the girl hugging the piece of wood she had as Bridgette turned to her team and said. "It was a long goodbye." The surfer girl then passed by Lincoln, giving Edward a small pat on the head as well, before sitting down on her own stump.

 

After a moment or two of sitting around the fire in silence. That was until the Screaming Gophers approached them with Beth carrying around a plate of green gelatin with a gummy worm inside it. "What do you guys want?" Courtney glared at the opposing team. "Come to rub it in?"

 

"We got you some extra dessert after our tuck shop party." Trent explained as Beth held up the plate of dessert. "Thought you might want some."

 

"So what?" Courtney crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes at the Gophers. She wasn't quite believing what they were saying. "You're just being…nice?"

 

"Ok." Gwen rolled her eyes and gave the real reason her team was here as she pointed at Owen. "Owen stank up our cabin and we need some time to air out." As if on cue Owen farted with Trent wincing a bit in disgust.

 

Beth then walked up to Courtney and held up the gelatin for her. "NO!" Courtney screamed as she seemed to actually back away from the dessert in…fear? Everyone gave Courtney a strange look as the CIT quickly tried to recompose herself. "I mean, no thanks. I'm good."

 

"What, are you on a diet or something?" Duncan asked, confused as to why Courntey reacted say fearfully to the desert.

 

"No!" Courtney glared at the delinquent. "I just don't like green jelly, okay?"

 

Everyone decided to simply shrug it off and pay it no mind. At least all except Dawn who, in true Dawn fashion, knew what the true deal was with Courtney but chose to keep silent. Beth then walked up to DJ and held the dessert to him but DJ took a look at the gummy worm inside and had a reaction similar to Courtney. "SNAKE!" DJ screamed as he flipped the dessert away from him with the green gelatin landing on the ground in front of the Gophers.

 

Cody walked up to the ruined jelly and pulled out the gummy worm. "Chill, dude." Cody told DJ as he held the candy worm up for the big softie to see. "It's just a gummy worm."

 

"Sorry for trippin'." DJ apologized as he slumped down. "Snakes just freak me out."

 

"You want scary?" Lincoln said in a bit of a joking tone with a small smirk on his face. "Try avoiding five emotionally unstable older sisters, once a week, every month."

 

"Pfffft, hahahahaha!" Most of the boys from both teams ended up laughing hard at this with the girls having reactions that went from amused smirk such as Eva to unamused such as Gwen.

 

"It's alright DJ." Bridgette stepped in once the laughter eventually died down. "I'm sure you guys noticed last night, but I'm kinda afraid of the woods."

 

"Kinda is an understatement." Duncan smirked causing Bridgette to give him a small glare.

CONFESSIONAL – GWEN

"So suddenly, everyone's having this big share-fest by the fire." Gwen began explaining what happened at the camp fire after DJ and Bridgette revealed their fears. "Like Beth went on and on about how her mortal fear is being covered by bugs, Harold's afraid of ninjas, Leshawna's afraid of spiders, even Heather admitted she's afraid of sumo wrestlers."

"My worst fear?" Gwen hardly had to think about this one once the phobia baton was passed to her. "I guess…being buried alive.

 

"Walking through a minefield." Lindsay spoke up on her fear. "In heels."

 

"Flying, man." Owen said with a fearful expression. "That's some crazy stuff."

 

"Hah. I would never go up in a plane." Izzy turned out to share her fear with Owen. "Never!"

 

"I'm scared of hail." Geoff spoke in a bit of a low tone as he looked into the camp fire. "It's small but deadly, dude."

 

Sadie sniffled a few times before saying her fear. "Bad haircuts."

 

"Oh, okay. I change mine!" Lindsay spoke up after Sadie gave her fear. "That's so much scarier than a minefield!"

 

Cody rubbed a finger against his chin for a bit in thought and eventually shared what his fear was. "Having to diffuse a time bomb under pressure."

 

"Being completely cut off from nature." Dawn said as she kept her hand on Edward.

 

Eva crossed her arms and grumbled a bit before she finally revealed her fear to everyone. "Having to wear girly, frilly clothing in front of everyone."

 

"I'm not really afraid of anything." Courtney said confidently.

 

"Bologna." Duncan disguised his word as a cough with Dawn rolling her eyes a little bit.

 

"Oh really?" Courtney narrowed her eyes at the delinquent. "Well, what exactly is your phobia, Mr. Know-it-all?"

 

Duncan actually flinched at this and everything went quiet except for the fire crackling in front of him. All eyes were on Duncan as the delinquent lowered his head. Seeing no real way out, Duncan decided to just rip the bandage off. "C-Celine Dion music store standees…" He shamefully admitted.

 

"Haha, ex-squeeze me?" Cody asked with a laugh as he put a hand around his ear. "I didn't quite get that."

 

Duncan tried to make himself smaller as Trent spoke up with a chuckle. "Dude, did you say Celine Dion music store standees?"

 

"Ooh, I love Celine Dion!" Lindsay excitedly said before growing confused. "What's a standee?"

 

"You know." Trent explained to the dumb blond. "That cardboard cutout thing that stands in the music store."

 

"Don't…say it dude!" Duncan told Trent with a glare.

 

"So if we had a cardboard standee right now…" Courtney just had to take the chance to tease Duncan about this. Especially since all the stunts he's pulled since day one of camp.

 

"Shut up!" Duncan yelled as he covered his eyes. The delinquent then uncovered them a bit and narrowed them and pointed at Trent. "What about you guys?"

 

"Okay, well, I hate mimes. Like, a lot." Trent quickly admitted before the guitarist turned and looked right at Lincoln. The white head has been…oddly quiet during this whole thing. It seemed Lincoln tried his best to hide in plain sight and chose to simply pet his brand-new pet Platypus. "Hey Lincoln." Lincoln violently flinched once his name was pointed out and everyones eyes were soon on him. "You've been weirdly quiet all-night man. What's your fear?"

 

Lincoln gulped audibly as he slowly looked around. The eyes of 18 campers and who knows how many cameras on him. Similar with Duncan, there was no way out. At least Duncan sorta soften the blow this would have as he was sure most would find his fear completely stupid and pathetic. So he just went out with it. "I…I…I don't like squirrels…ok."

 

"Wait…squirrels?" Courtney and nearly everyone gave Lincoln a confused look as he blushed in embarrassment over the whole situation. "You're seriously afraid of little fluffy squirrels.

 

"Y-Yeah…" Lincoln shifted a little in his stump as he tried to look away from everyone. "So what? I just…don't like squirrels ok."

 

"Wow, I didn't think it could get any more pathetic after Duncan's fear." Heather mocked causing Lincoln and Duncan to glare at Heather.

 

"Hey, it's alright." Dawn reassured Lincoln as she gently put a hand to his shoulder. Even Edward sensed his distressed and the platypus snuggled in closer to the Loud boy. "You have nothing to be ashamed of."

CONFESSIONAL – DAWN

"His aura…it was so…distressed. But…why?" Dawn actually questioned what was going on with Lincoln's fear of squirrels. Dawn. The girl who knew everyones secrets, strengths, weakness, insecurities, and more just with a mere look. "Whatever caused this fear must have been so bad he's made a true effort into hiding it in the deepest parts of his subconscious that not even I can see…..what could have happened to him?"

"Look can we just move on from me please?" Lincoln said as he put one hand on Edward and another on top of the hand Dawn placed on him, unknowingly making the girl blush, and looked to the Bass's CIT teammate. "All right, Courtney, you're afraid of something. Spit it out already.

 

"Nope." Courtney smirked and shook her head. "Nothing."

 

Duncan chuckled a bit as he pointed a thumb to Courtney. "That's not what she said last night."

 

"Duncan." Courtney growled and glared at the delinquent. "Did you ever consider that maybe I was just humoring you and your stupid story?"

 

"Sure, sure, princess." Duncan smirked and rolled his eyes, his usual attitude now back after facing the embarrassment of revealing his phobia. "Whatever floats your boat."

 

"Shut up!" Courtney yelled as everyone present laughed.

MORNING

 

It was now the morning after the night everyone revealed their fears to each other. Everyone deciding that what happened at the camp fire last night, stays at the camp fire last night and didn't speak one bit of it as they all got their breakfast. However, a certain host had some drastic change in plans. A whistle got everyones attention as they saw Chris come into the mess hall and look at both teams at their tables. "Campers!" Chris announced with his usual grin on his face. "Your next challenge is a little game I like to call…Phobia Factor! Prepare to face…your worst fears!"

 

"Worse than this?" Leshawna said in disgust as she lifted up her fork to show…something that could best described as a gray hairy hot dog on it.

 

"We're in trouble." Gwen said as she knew this challenge was going to be truly brutal.

 

"Now for our first victims…Heather!" Chris announced as he took a bunch of cards out of his pocket. "Meet us at the theater!" Heather took a long sip of her coffee as Chris announced what she would be going through. "It's…Sumo time!" At hearing this Heather's eyes shot open as she spat out all her coffee…on Gwen.

 

Beth, Cody, and Lindsay all gasped as Chris made the next announcement right at Gwen. "Gwen. You, me, the beach. A few tons of sand." Gwen's eyes shot wide open similar to Heather as the goth loudly gasped.

 

"Eva." Chris then turned to the athlete of the Killer Bass as she was lifted a spoon of food up to her mouth. "I believe you have a beauty appointment today." Eva froze as she ended up dropping her spoon into her food.

 

"Wait, how did they know those were your worst fears?" Lindsay asked in a confused tone after Chris listed the fears of not just one, not two, but three of the campers.

 

"Ugh." Gwen groaned as she laid her head down on the table. Trent was quick to sit next to the Goth and rub her back to comfort her. "Because we told them."

 

Lindsay still didn't quite get it so Trent further elaborated for the dumb blond. "At the campfire last night."

 

"Wait." Lindsay said as she tried to piece things together in her mind. "They were listening to us?"

 

"It's a reality show Einstein." Gwen irritably rolled her eyes. "They're always listening to us."

 

"But that's like…eavesdropping!" Lindsay gasped out in discomfort that all of their conversations were being listened in on…despite the fact that Chris said they would be monitored 24/7 on day one.

 

Lincoln let out a deep sigh. Dawn next to him and Edward on the table munching on a fish. "(BLEEP)!" Lincoln cussed out in response to the situation.

 

Dawn gasped and quickly covered Edwards ears. "Lincoln!" The aura reader scolded the white head. "There's no need for that kind of language!"

 

"Sorry its just…" Lincoln sighed again as he ran a head through his face. "Can't believe we were stupid enough to fall into a trap like this…"

 

"Alright campers. Better finish breakfast in the next five minutes." Chris announced to everyone as he held up his wrist and showed off his watch, specifically the time. "Because once that's up, it's time to confront your fears and become better men…or chicken out and give the audience something to laugh at!"

After the time Chris had given anyone, it was time for probably the most intense challenge yet of Total Drama Island. First up was Beth and her fear of being covered in bugs. For this challenge, Chris had set up a medium sized inflatable pool filled to the brim with worms.

 

Everyone was there to watch and either cringed in disgust, nearly barfed, or in Owen's case, fainted at the sight. Lincoln, with Edward on top of his head, gagged a few times with Dawn simply smiling and waving to the worms.

 

But to everyones surprised Beth stepped up to the pool of worms and simply shrugged at it before diving in. Beth didn't even have an ounce of fear in her eyes when she went it and everyone watched in shocked as the braces wearing girl swam from one end of the worm pool to the other and emerged from it and ended up covered in worms. "And Beth sets the bar way up there!" Chris commentated as Beth's teammates cheered for her. Even Owen managed to recover and cheer for Beth…only to faint once again a few seconds later.

CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN

"Ok…" Lincoln shook his head and gave the camera an unamused look. "Beth…you freakin liar!"

Next up was Sadie and Lindsay for the Killer Bass and Screaming Gophers respectively. The two shared a fear of bad haircuts so Chris ordered them to get into the mess hall where Chris had a matching pair of ugly wigs for them. Chris was about to put one on each girl's head…only for Owen to grab one of them and put it on his own head. The big guy then danced around a bit before hitting a wall and falling to the floor, allowing the host to place the ugly wigs on Lindsay and Sadie's head. "Just keep them on for six hours and you'll both earn a point for your team." Chris told them before looking to the kitchen. "Yo Chef!"

 

In response to the host's words, Chef came into view while holding a hair dryer and a case of makeup. "How's our little beauty queen coming along?" Chef smirked and nodded his head making Chris clap in satisfaction. The host of the show then gestured Lindsay and Sadie to follow him outside.

 

All of the campers were waiting outside the mess hall and got a full view of the hair styles Sadie and Lindsay now had with a few of the campers snickering in response as the two lowered their heads and grouped up with their respective team. Chris however stayed next to the door out of the mess hall and held his arms out and announcement. "Everyone, may I introduce the totally brand new…Eva!" The doors to the mess hall opened once more and everyone gasped at what they saw.

 

It was Eva…looking very un-Eva like. The athlete of the Bass was now wearing a bright pink dress with that went down past her knees. Her hair was now down up in pig tails and she had hot pink lipstick, bright blue mascara, a little bit of blush. She also had pink high heels and long white gloves.

 

Everyone couldn't take their off Eva as the girl, looking more pissed then she's ever been, slowly stomped her way down to her team. The wood she walked over even cracked a bit from the force she stomped at. Just then Lindsay went up to Eva and smiled at her and said, "Aaaaaaww, you look so pretty!" However, Eva didn't exactly take it as a compliment and proceeded to punch Lindsay right in the face and sent the dumb blond flying quite a few yards away.

 

"Remember Eva." Chris spoke up getting everyones attention. "Gotta keep that all on for six hours. If even one drop of make-up is whipped away, you're out!"

 

Eva grumbled violently and tightened her fist to the point where veins could be seen as the athlete quickly glared at everyone. "One joke about my appearance, and you're all dead." Eva practically growled like a beast at her teammates making them all flinch in response. "GOT IT?!" Everyone from the Killer Bass quickly rose their hands and backed away while rapidly nodding their heads…while Heather looked at the scene with a smirk.

CONFESSIONAL – HEATHER

"My original plan to get Eva kicked off didn't quite work. Didn't help that their team won." Heather explained with a smirk as she rose a finger. "But you know what they say. In life, there is always a second chance."

Once everyone either got over or were threatened to not speak of Eva's make over, the next two up also shared a fear. Owen and Izzy. The two were treated to an incredibly old and rusty plane that looked like it should never be allowed to be in the air for a second. Its wings were held together by packing tape. Owen and Izzy gasped as the door to the plane opened and revealed Chef to be the flyer, while dressed as a flight attendant.

 

The two aerophobics very reluctantly stepped into the plane. Chef didn't give the two a chance to back out as he closed and locked up the door and quickly got the shacky plane into the air, treating Owen and Izzy to one of the most terrifying flying experiences ever.

With Harold, the ginger was simply walking into the bathroom with a magazine in hand and was about to head to a stall to do his business. However, Harold soon stopped and carefully looked around as he heard the sound of something opening close by.

 

Before Harold knew it, ropes were lowered from the ceiling and the ginger witness as three ninjas made their way into the room and blocked off Harold's path to the bathroom stall. But similar to Beth when she did her challenge, Harold wasn't even fazed by the ninjas. "You three should know something…" Harold spoke up making the Ninja's raise an eyebrow, their eyes being the only thing not covered by their black outfits. "When I said my fear, I only said a part of it as I knew the cameras we're watching. I do fear ninjas…but I only fear facing them unprepared and today…" The ninjas all flinched as Harold suddenly pulled out a pair on nunchucks and started to twirl them around. "I'm prepared."

 

"W-W-Wait!" One of the ninjas said with a clearly fake Japanese accent. "We are not real ninjas! We are just interns dressed as ninjas!"

 

"That's what they all say!" Harold said as he narrowed his eyes at the 'ninjas' and-

 

TWACK!

 

THUNK!

 

SLAM!

 

In a manner of only a few moves, Harold had taken down all the intern-ninjas swiftly leaving them all unconscious on the bathroom floor. Harold simply walked past all the fallen intern-ninjas and opened up the stall. Stepping into it, the ginger looked at his fallen foes and said. "Watashi no kurutta sukiru o osoreru." In Japanese before closing the stall to do his business, earning the Killer Bass their first point.

"Alright Leshawna, you ready?" Chris asked Leshawna as he gestured to an opened-up box next to him. The perfect size for Leshawna to lay down in. And currently Leshawna was only wearing a bra and her pants. Her shirt and sandals having been taken off per orders by Chris. Although the host did give her clear hardware glasses to wear.

 

"C-C-Can you a-at least explain to me w-what the heck it i-is I'm gonna be doing?" Leshawna stuttered fearfully. The girl with a tude scared out of her mind about how Chris is gonna exploit her arachnaphobia.

 

"Sure!" Chris shrugged as he pointed to the box. "Your challenge is to lay down in that box for one minute…" Chris then lifted up a cardboard box that sounded like it had something crawling around inside. A lot of things crawling around inside of it. "With 50 daddy long legs spiders crawling all over you!"

 

Leshawna paled as she laid down in the box right as Chris explained the thing about the daddy long legs. 50 spiders with incredibly long legs walking all over her for a minute…it was Leshawna's worst nightmare come true. "You'll be ok Leshawna!" Gwen's voice spoke up and reassured her. "They're daddy long legs! They can't hurt you!"

 

"Easy for you to say honey!" Leshawna shrieked in absolute terror. "You're not the one that's gonna have 50 of those sick little pest crawling around all over you!"

 

"You ready?" Chris asked with his grin still on his face. The box of spiders in his hands.

 

"NO!" Leshawna screamed.

 

"Great!" Chris then lifted off the lid of the cardboard box he had. "Release the spiders!"

 

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Leshawna shrieked in a pitch that should have been impossible for humans to make as 50 daddy long legs spiders were dumped all over her. She was forced to keep her mouth shut as to make sure none of these disgusting things got in her mouth.

 

But Leshawna was shaking more then a chihuahua in the winter as she felt all 400 legs crawling over her body. She tried her best to keep herself from standing up and running away from these things as fast as she could…but eventually a few ended up crawling on the goggles she was looking giving Leshawna a near point plank view of them.

 

This was the last straw as Leshawna let out another ear piercing and glass breaking shriek as she bolted up from the box, jumped out, and ran away as fast as she could, a few daddy long legs still clinging onto her. All of her teammates gasped, with the exception of Heather who facepalmed, as Chris checked his stop watch. "Not even ten seconds." The Chris gave Leshawna's time in the spider box. "That's just sad."

After Leshawna's fail, the score was still tied one to one. Next up was yet another Screaming Gopher in Heather. Everyone who could was in the stands of the theater where the talent show occurred and watched as Heather was facing her fear. On one end of the stage was a shaking Heather and on the other is a sumo wrestler.

 

Just then the sumo wrestler screamed and ran towards Heather at full force. Heather violently flinched and decided to play to her strengths in this situation. So quickly stepping to the side, Heather used a common bullying tactic and held her leg out in front of the sumo wrestlers' feet.

 

What resulted was the sumo wrestler tripping over Heathers foot and bouncing away. Heather sighed in immense relief and fell down onto her butt and successfully earned her team a second point.

 

Meanwhile the plan Owen and Izzy were in flew above everyone with their screams being heard.

A little later, everyone was now gathered up in the center of camp. They all watched as Chris walked up to the team's surfer gal Bridgette and put a hand on her shoulder. "Alright Bridgette, for your challenge you gotta spend six hours in the woods." Chris explained as the host pointed to the woods outside the camp and causing the surfer girl to flinch violently. "You do that, and you'll get your team a point. Take one step out of the woods and you're out!"

 

Bridgette gulped before she put her hands in her hoodie pockets and started shakily walking towards the woods. "Y-Y-Yeah…" Bridgette stuttered, trying her best not to lose her cool. "P-Piece of cake…"

 

Once Bridgette had walked out in the woods and was gone, Chris turned to the resident aura reader and spoke up to her. "And Dawn, we have quite the opposite planned for you." Chris revealed making Dawn flinched and leaned into Lincoln for support making the white head blush a bit with Edward still on his head. "It's time for you to say goodbye to the great outdoors.

 

"B-But how?" Dawn stuttered with a bit of fear in her voice. "Look at where we are? There's nature for miles!"

 

"Don't worry, we thought of everything." Chris then pulled out a walkie talkie and spoke into it. "Bring it in!" Suddenly everyone jumped a bit as they heard the sound of a helicopter and looked to see that a helicopter was indeed flying over the camp and carrying a large metal box on it. The aircraft then lowered and dropped the metal box on the ground while detaching it before flying away.

 

Dawn's pupils turned to mere dots as she stared at the metallic cube with Chris walking up to a door that was located on front of the box. Opening up the door, Chris revealed inside the box was a bunch of different machines left on and making beeping sounds of various pitches with a cold breeze out of the box when Chris opened it up. "Dawn, for your challenge you must spend six hours locked inside this metal box with constantly turned on machines." Chris explained as Dawn started shaking. "Complete isolation from anything natural. Not even a single blade of grass inside."

 

Dawn made a loud gulp in response as her shaking only got worse. "N-N-N-Not e-e-even o-o-o-one?" Dawn violently stuttered.

 

"Nope!" Chris shook his head. "If you decide to chicken out, there's a key there on the metal desk that'll unlock the door. At least I think that's the right key."

CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN

"Seriously dude…" Lincoln said with a completely unamused expression and tone. "Not cool."

"It's ok Dawn, you can do this!" Lincoln encouraged as Dawn made her way to the box. Her face one of complete fear that made Lincoln's heart feel like it was being stabbed. "I know you got this."

 

"Brbrbrbr!" Edward encouraged.

 

"O-O-O-O-Ok…" Dawn gulped again as she was right in front of the entrance to the box. "H-H-H-H-H-H-Here…I….go." And right as Dawn walked inside the box, Chris immediately slammed the door to it shut and locked it up.

 

"Don't worry Dawn!" Lincoln yelled as he put a hand to the metal box. He really hoped Dawn could hear him from in there. "I promise I'll be here for the entire time!"

 

"Actually Lincoln…you won't." Chris told Lincoln making the white head flinch and slowly turned to the host of the show. "I have a couple little friends waiting and they're pretty eager to meet you~"

 

Lincoln slowly turned to Chris and asked. "Please…tell me they're just a bunch of midgets?" Chris simply shook his head leading Lincoln to gulp and slump down a bit. "Great…"

 

"But before we get to that, gotta take care of a few more things." Chris said with Lincoln following while hugging himself.

At the beach, a mock grave was made as a bunch of sand was dug up with a stone resembling a grave stone placed in front of the hole with a timer on it set to five minutes. Inside the hole was a glass box with Gwen lying down inside with a walkie talkie.

 

Trent was looking down at her and reassured the terrified goth. "There's enough air for an hour." Trent told Gwen as Chris proceeded to bury Gwen with sand. "You only need to do five minutes."

 

"As long as we decide to dig you up." Chris joked as he placed more sand on top of Gwen's box.

 

"Not funny Chris!" Gwen snapped at the host.

 

"Sheesh." Chris rolled his eyes a bit. "Take a pill."

 

"I'll be listening the whole time." Trent told Gwen as he held up his own walkie talkie which was connected to the one Gwen had. "Just yell for me if you panic and I'll dig you right up."

 

"Goodbye cruel world…" Gwen grimly said as Trent closed up the glass box completely

"Oh sweet merciful God why…" Currently Lincoln was looking right at his fear. For Chris had led him towards a pen…filled with around 10 squirrels. "Ah…screw it! What do you want me to do?"

 

"It's an easy one. Trust me." Chris said as he held up a paper bag completely filled with acorns. "Just feed all those cute fluffy squirrels this entire bag of acorns. And you can't just dump the bag. Every acorn has to be hand fed to them."

 

Lincoln gulped a bit as he took the bag of acorns from Chris. "We're they at least checked for rabis?" Lincoln squeaked out as he looked at the group of squirrels again.

 

"Oh they were." Chris nodded. "Not sure what the results were, but they were checked."

 

"Greeeeeat…" Lincoln sarcastically said as Chris took a few steps back.

 

"Hey man." Coming up to Lincoln was DJ who had placed a hand on Lincoln's shoulder. In DJ's other hand was Edward as Lincoln had left him in DJ's care until he was done with this whole thing. DJ gave Lincoln a calm and reassuring smile as he spoke to the white head. "You got this. They're just a bunch of cute fluffy squirrels. You like cute and fluffy things, right?"

 

"Well yeah but…" Lincoln flinched a bit as he struggled to form more words. Looked to the squirrels again, the Loud boy recoiled a bit as he saw a few of them look right at him with their beady eyes. "Just…not them! I just…have sort of a history with squirrels ok? Not a good one."

 

"Hey, hey, it's alright brother. I understand." DJ gently spoke to Lincoln to calm him down as he looked to the squirrels himself. He didn't know why Lincoln was afraid of them, but something told him this wasn't the right time to ask. So, the big softie settled with just giving Lincoln advice. "Look man, here's what you gotta know when feeding these little guys. Get on your knees to their level and look them in the eye. That'll calm them down and show that you mean well. Then simply move slowly and hand them the acorns. It's like feeding a bunny. Do you like bunnies?"

 

"Y-Y-Yeah, yeah I do." Lincoln stuttered but nodded his head in confirmation. "I like bunnies. Bunnies are cute."

 

"Then there ya go man." DJ gently patted Lincoln on the shoulder. "Just pretend like you're feeding buncha bunnies."

 

"Ok…Ok I can do this…" Lincoln took a few deep breaths to calm his nerves and slowly headed to the gate that led into the pen full of squirrels.

 

Lincoln flinched a bit as once he stepped inside, all the squirrels were now looking at him. Lincoln soon found himself unable to move and shaking in his boots. "Remember man!" DJ's voice spoke to him from not too far away. "They're bunnies! Not squirrels!"

 

"Ok…ok…they're just bunnies…they're just…bunnies." Lincoln then followed DJ's advice and proceeded to very slowly get on his knees so that way he was eye level with the squirrels he was trying his best to picture as a bunch of rabbits. "Bunnies…bunnies…bunnies…"

 

Lincoln then reached into the bag of acorns and took out as much as he could. With a fist full of acorns, he slowly moved his hand over to the squirrels and held it out for them. The squirrels slowly walked over to Lincoln's hand with the Loud boy trying to control his breathing as to not freak out and scare the squirrels. Luckily it seemed to work as the squirrels eagerly started to take and eat away at the food Lincoln brought.

 

Lincoln felt his hand completely be cleaned of acorns and slowly peaked an eye open. He saw the squirrels actually smiling at him and actually making some squeaking noises. It was as if they were asking for more.

 

Lincoln obliged, mostly because he still had the rest of the bag to get through and mimicked what he did before. And so he continued to rinse and repeat what he first did. Taking hand full's of acorns and slowly handing them to the squirrels and once they took them all he reached for more. This went on until…

 

"Huh?" Lincoln left out as he reached into the bag and felt himself grabbed nothing but air. Looking at the squirrels, he saw all of them laying on their backs with extended bellies, some of them even had fallen asleep after having their share of acorns. Lincoln then looked into the bag and saw that it was completely emptied out. Not a single acorn left! "ALRIGHT!" Lincoln rose to his feet and raised his fist in victory.

 

"Woohoo! Way to go brother!" DJ complimented Lincoln as the rest of his team cheered for him as Lincoln raised the Killer Bass's score up to 2 and once again tying with the Gophers once again. "Knew you could do it."

 

Lincoln let out a relieved sigh as he went over to DJ and put his hands on top of the gate that led out of the pen. "Thanks DJ, I really owe you one." DJ simply shook his head and smiled at Lincoln, silently telling him that he was just happy to help. "Now get me the hell outta here!"

 

DJ went along with Lincoln's request and opened up the gate for him as Edward went. "Brbrbrbr!"

 

"Come on Edward!" Lincoln quickly picked up his platypus and started running away. "We gotta go check on Dawn!"

 

"Run man! Run like the wind!" DJ encouraged as he chuckled at Lincoln running the direction of the metal box that Dawn was currently locked inside of. "Hehe…he totally digs her."

And it seems that after helping Lincoln face his fear, it was DJ's turn to face his fear. Once again everyone was gathered up at the theater with DJ on stage. In front of him was a table that had a little terrarium on it that contained a snake that was only a few inches long. DJ was shaking a bit as Duncan clapped and encouraged him. "Hey, you can do this, buddy!" The delinquent cheered the gentle giant on.

 

DJ continued to stare down at the tiny snake which was actually smiling at him. Both were completely still until…the snake blinked. "Ahh!" DJ squeaked in fright as he backed away. "It blinked!"

 

"It means she likes you!" Sadie reassured DJ.

 

"It's the smallest snake ever, DJ!" Courtney yelled at him as she got off the stands and walked forward a little bit. "Come on!"

 

"Yeah, but it's slimy and scaly! Slithery!" DJ listed all the reasons why he hates snakes.

 

"It's smaller than you're freakin finger!" Eva yelled harshly at DJ, still wearing all her pink cloths and make-up. "Man up already!"

 

"We need this point DJ." Courtney told DJ in a still stern but a little bit more of a soft tone. "And you need to conquer you fears some point. If you can't do it for your team then at least do it for yourself."

 

DJ took in Courtney's words. She was right. He couldn't live with this fear forever. At one point or another, we would have to deal with it. So taking all the courage he had within him, DJ closed his eyes and slowly put his finger inside the cage. After a second or two, he felt the snake slither onto him and…it wasn't that bad. Opening his eyes, he brought the snake closer to him and couldn't help but admit it was a little cute.

 

Everyone cheered as DJ earned a third point for their team as Courtney crossed her arms and nodded her head. "See?" The CIT told her teammates. "Fear is only in the mind."

Back on the beach, Gwen was still buried under the sand with three minutes left on the timer and Trent laying down right next to the fake grave with his walkie talkie. "You still alive in there?" Trent spoke into the walkie talkie. "Only three more minutes."

 

"And then you'll dig me up, right?" Gwen quickly asked, her tone frightened and showed how freaked out she is.

 

"I promise." Trent reassured the goth in a calm tone.

 

"I need some kind of distraction!" Gwen told Trent while taking deep breaths. "Tell me a story! Um, why do you hate mimes so much?"

 

Trent sighed, but decided to explain. If it would help calm Gwen down, then he would do it 100 times if needed. "My mom took me to this carnival once when I was four." Trent began telling the story. "So I could see the elephants. I was stoked!"

 

"Yeah?!" Gwen fearfully let out as all she could see from her point of view was the sand she was buried in. She really needed this distraction.

 

"I was so busy watching them that I lost her for a minute." Trent continued. "I called out, but when I turned, all I could see was the horrible white face with black lips pretending to be me! I screamed and tried to run, but every time I turned around, he was there, doing this creepy fake run and scream routine!" Just then Trent felt someone poke his shoulder. Looking back, and doing a classic invisible box routine, Trent came face to face with his worst fear…a mime.

 

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Trent screamed, dropping his walkie talkie and quickly started running away with the mime quickly chasing after him.

 

As they ran, they both passed by Chris as the host called to Trent with a megaphone. "Come on Trent, he came here just for you." Chris told Trent as the guitarist and mime passed by him again. "Just watch his little performance for two minutes and you're done."

 

"What?!" Trent screamed as he came to a sudden stop along with the mime. "Seriously? I gotta watch this creep for two minutes?!"

 

"Yep!" Chris nodded as the mime simply stood there completely silent. "Come on, he came out here just for you bro. Why not throw him a bone? Besides, the faster you finish here the faster you can get back to a little someone you just ditched?"

 

Trent's eyes widened as he looked to the grave Gwen was still buried alive at with him no longer there to talk to and comfort her. "Gwen!" Trent called out to in a concerned tone. He was so scared that he completely forgot about Gwen and left her completely alone buried in sand. He had to get back to her! But first…there was a white-faced freak he had to get past first. "Alright you make-up wearing freak, give me your worst."

 

Trent crossed his arms and tried to steel his nerves as the mime clapped a little before he started his performance. Trents eyes constantly twitched and he had to resist his body's temptation to start running away again and just had to face the mime as it did all the classic mime things. Invisible box, invisibly rope, invisible slap fight. Pretty much everything invisible.

 

Trent started to have beads of sweat go down his head. He was starting to question how much more of this freaks jokes he could take until, "And done!" Chris called out as he turned off his stop watch and showed Trent had successfully made it to the two-minute mark. "Good job bro."

 

"Yes! I'm coming Gwen!" Trent didn't stick around for another second as he quickly ran to where Gwen was buried. The mime then nodded and walked away with Chris giving a creeped out look to the Mime's back. Once Trent made it back to where Gwen was buried, he saw the timer on the fake grave stone was at zero and wasted no time in quickly digging Gwen back up as fast as he could. After about half a minute, he dug the goth up and opened up her glass box. "Gwen! You did it!"

 

Gwen responded by throwing her walkie talkie at Trent's head and glared at the boy. "Where'd you go you jerk?!" Trent winced a bit as Gwen yelled at him and pointed in the direction he came from. Gwen, eager to get the hell outta that grave, stood up and looked to where Trent was pointing…and saw the mime walking away. "Oh…"

 

"Yeah sorry about that, Chris kinda gave me a surprise attack." Trent explained as he helped Gwen step out of the hole. "I promise I didn't mean to leave you. I got back as soon as I could.

 

Gwen sighed as she rubbed her temples. "Just…please never do that again." Gwen asked as she never wanted to go through something like that again.

 

"I promise." Trent said with nothing but sincerity in his voice. At the very least, the two earned two more points for the Gophers.

"Gotta get to Dawn! Gotta get to Dawn! Gotta get to Dawn!" Currently with Lincoln he was still trying to make his way to the metal box Dawn was locked inside of. However, in his rush, Lincoln ended up getting a little lost leading to him and Edward trying to find their way to camp and-

 

BOOOOOOOOOOOM!

 

"What the hell!?" Lincoln yelled as he saw and heard an explosion in the distance. He was wondering why the heck there was an explosion in the woods until, "Oooooh right. Cody's challenge. Welp, guess he didn't pass."

 

"Brbrbrbr!" Edward loudly let out getting Lincoln to look down at him.

 

"What? What is it Edward?" Lincoln asked his platypus as Edward turned his head and pointed his bill south east. "Wait, is that the direction of camp?"

 

"Brbrbrbr."

 

"Well…I'm sure your sense of direction is better than mine. Let's go!" Lincoln then went in the direction Edward pointed to at full speed, hoping that he would make it back to camp quickly. Thankfully his wish was granted as five minutes later he made his way back to camp with the metal box right in the middle. "Alright! Way to go Edward! Dawn I'm coming!"

 

Lincoln didn't waste any time and got to the metal box. Setting Edward down on the ground gently, Lincoln pressed himself against the metallic cube and banged his fist against it. "Dawn! Dawn it's me! Are you ok?!"

 

"…"

 

"Dawn? Dawn come on speak to me!" Lincoln pleaded as he continued to bang against the box and called out to the aura reader. "Dawn please tell me you're-"

 

"I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

 

Lincoln and Edward flinched at the loud, yet muffled voiced, coming from the metal box. Just then they heard a loud clunk noise coming from the door as the Loud boy and Platypus watched it quickly opened. Lincoln gasped at what he saw. Of course it was no one else but Dawn…but not looking like her usual self at all. Her hair was frizzed up and beyond messy, her eyes were constantly twitching and incredibly blood shot, and she was shaking violently.

 

"Oh my gosh! Dawn!" Lincoln quickly rushed to the girl. Not caring a bit that Dawn failed to stay the necessary six hours. Lincoln quickly got Dawn out of the box completely and set her feet down on the grass and hugged her close, with Dawn quickly clinging onto him and still shaking. "Dawn! Are you ok?"

 

"…So….cold….." Dawn manage to squeak out, struggling to even speaking in her condition. "So much….beeping…so many….machines…no nature in sight."

 

"Ssh, ssh, ssh, ssh, it's ok. You're back outside. Your feet are on the grass. You're with nature again." Lincoln spoke to her with a gentle and soften tone. Dawn's shaking went down a little bit as Lincoln ran a hand through her hair to help straighten it up a little. Lincoln then looked down and saw Edward placing a foot on Dawn's shoe. While still holding the aura readers hand, Lincoln separate from Dawn and picked up the platypus and handed it to Dawn. "Here, cuddle with Edward."

 

"Brbrbr…" Edward softly let out.

 

Dawn was quickly to take Edward with one hand, tightly clinging onto Lincoln's hand with the other, and held the Platypus close to her chest. "That….that feels…better….." Dawn said as she tightly held both Edward and Lincoln's hand.

 

Lincoln then felt an idea pop into his head and said. "Hey, I know a place where a bunch of fluffy squirrels are at." That's right, Lincoln was actually offering to take Dawn where he had his phobia factor challenge. "Would you like that? A bunch of cute, small, fluffy little squirrels that are probably asleep."

 

"Y…Y…Yeah…squirrels….." Dawn slowly nodded her head while still shaking but not as much now. "That…..That sounds…..nice…"

 

"Alright then, let's go." Lincoln then started to lead Dawn to where the squirrels were.

CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN

"Ok…seeing Dawn like that. It…it was much worse then facing those squirrels." Lincoln admitted with a small frown on his face as he remembered the state Dawn was in after stepping out of the box. "I had to do something to help her. Especially after everything she's done for me. I still don't like squirrels, like, at all. But a guy's gotta make sacrifices."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Just then the two stopped when they heard a female scream and saw Bridgette running out of the woods in a panic.

 

"Well…" Lincoln let out slowly. "If it makes you feel any better, Bridgette didn't pass her challenge."

 

After that the sound of a plane was heard and Lincoln and Dawn watched as the plane Owen and Izzy were on landed with the two mentioned campers quickly jumping out and kissing the ground. Earning two points for the Screaming Gophers. "But they did…"

 

"AAAAAAHHH! AAAAAHHH! AAAAAAHHH!" Another scream got their attention as they looked to see Geoff running past with a small cloud right above the party dude and dropping beads of hail on him.

 

"Ok, I don't even know how to explain that." Lincoln said with a confused tone as Chris walked up to them with Chris holding a remote control to the cloud that was chasing Geoff. "So hey, where'd you get that cloud?"

 

"Not sure." Chris simply shrugged. "Producers said some little genius girl from America made it or something like that."

CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN

"Really Lisa?" Lincoln deadpanned.

Currently Eva was seen with a few of her teammates sitting at the Bass table in the main lodge. The athlete, still with her girly cloths and make-up, was impatiently taping her fingers against the table with the other Bass that were with her a bit too frightened to speak up to the girl that could quickly snap at them. Although Courtney actually managed to work up the nerve to speak up. "So Eva…are you doing ok?" Eva quickly snapped towards the CIT and growled with Courtney quickly raising her hands. "Just…checking. Not teasing at all."

 

That seemed to calm down Eva a little bit as the athlete growled. "I'm fine." Through her teeth as she slammed her fist against the table, making her teammates flinch. "Just one more hour and I can take this dumb stuff off. And we never speak of this again!" All of the Killer Bass around her quickly nodded so they wouldn't have to face the wrath of Eva.

 

But unaware to everyone, the Screaming Gophers member Heather was watching through the window and smirked. "And snowball isn't here. Perfect." Heather said before walking away from the window. After a few moments, the Killer Bass heard the door open and watched as Heather walked into the main lodge with a…strange smile on her face.

 

"Oh hi guys." Heather greeted the Killer Bass in a false friendly tone. "Don't mind me. I'm just here to get a drink."

 

A few of the Killer Bass rose their brows as Heather walked towards the drink machine in the corner of the room. But the mean girl soon stopped and grinned a little before putting her 'friendly' face on and looked towards Eva. "Oh my Eva, I nearly forgot that was you. You really do look unrecognizable."

 

Eva growled a bit causing her team to flinch. But the athlete managed to keep herself from snapping and said. "Shove it…"

 

"Hey come on. Don't be like that, it was a compliment." Heather kept up her fake tone and expression as she completely turned towards Eva. "I mean looking like that, guys might actually try and get your attention. That should be a nice change for you right?"

 

You could actually hear Eva grit her teeth as her teammates slowly started backing away from her as Courtney glared at Heather. "Heather seriously…" Courtney harshly whispered to the Gopher. "Shove it!"

 

"But why? I'm just saying how much of an improvement Eva's new look is." Heather said as she started to wickedly grin. Looking to Eva, she saw the athlete visibly shaking in anger. Just needed one more push to get the Bass over the edge. "I mean now instead of looking like a steroid using ragoholic, now you look like a girly, girly hussy."

 

If the emotion of rage could make a sound, it would be heard for miles. "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" The Bass that were with Eva along with Heather quickly ran out of the mess hall as the whole building shook as a result of Eva's rampage.

 

"(BLEEP)! (BLEEP)! (BLEEP)! (BLEEP!) (BLEEP)! (BLEEP)! (BLEEP)! (BLEEP!)" Swear after swear was bleeped as inside Eva could be seen inside the mess hall and picking up and destroying everything inside. Make-up stained her face and hands as a result of her violently wiping it off and her girly cloths had been ripped completely off her body with the athlete now only in a blue sports bra and panties. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Eva roared as she pounded her chest like an ape until-

 

PIERCE!

 

Eva came to a sudden stopped and slowly looked to her shoulder and saw she had been shot with a dart. In a matter of seconds Eva fell down to the floor completely unconscious. The Killer Bass and Heather peaked inside the mess hall with Chris in front of them holding a dart gun. "I knew this would come in handy." Chris said as Heather smirked at the sight.

After the darted Eva was carried to the cabins, the next up to face their fear was none other then Duncan. With the exception of Lincoln and Dawn, all of the Killer Bass were there to watch as Duncan, with Courtney next to him, was looking right in front of him and saw that a mew 2 yards away…was a cardboard cutout of Celine Dion.

 

Duncan was frozen in place as Courtney spoke up. "She's pretty. She's nice." Courtney reassured the delinquent in a gentle tone.

 

"Just one hug and you're done." Chris said with the snap of his fingers.

 

"T-That looks really…real, man." Duncan actually spoke to Courtney with a fearful tone.

 

"Hey." Courtney put a reassuring hand on Duncan's shoulder. "It's okay if you can't do it."

 

Duncan took a deep breath as he looked between Courtney and the standee of Celine Dion. Letting out a deep sigh, Duncan took Courtney's hand and said. "All right…I'll try." Courtney cheered Duncan on as the delinquent took a deep breath…and ran full speed towards the cut out and proceeded to pick it up and hug it. His team cheered as Duncan earned the Bass their fourth point.

 

Courtney suddenly ran up to Duncan and enveloped him in a hug. "Duncan! You're awesome!" Courtney cheered for him as Duncan wrapped a single arm around her.

 

"Ha! I did it!" Duncan said with a smile.

 

Courtney then leaned in closer to Duncan…but then realized what she was doing and quickly separated from him as the rest of the team came up to Duncan and cheered for him. Just then the sound of a watch beeping got everyones attention as it turned out to be Sadie's watch. Looking it, Sadie quickly smiled. "Eeeeeeeh! My times up!" Sadie happily squealed as she started to run off. "I gotta meet up with Lindsay!"

 

And with that, Sadie and Lindsay met up in the washrooms and took their ugly wigs off. Their six hours up and both earning a point for their teams leaving the Screaming Gophers at 7 points to the Killers Bass's five.

 

"Hey wait a minute…" Courtney gasped as she realized something as soon as Sadie came back along with Lindsay and the rest of the Screaming Gophers. Once again, the only ones missing were Lincoln and Dawn. Along with Eva who was still knocked out in the Bass cabin. "Oh great! There's no more challenges to do and we're down by two points!"

 

Right as the Screaming Gophers were about to cheer, Chris raised up his hand to get everyone to settle down. "Weeeeeeell, not exactly." Chris said getting confused looks from everyone. "We have one more challenge set up."

 

"Who? It can't be me." Courtney said as she looked around and saw all eyes on her. "But I didn't…"

 

"You didn't have to. We're always watching you and your reactions!" Chris revealed causing Courtney's eyes to slowly widened. Oh no…they saw everything including…that. "Campers, follow me to the last challenge of the day."

Courtney didn't like this. She didn't like this at all. Chris had led her and everyone else to about a 50-foot-high dive…right into a pool of green jelly. The same color of the jelly Courtney violently rejected having last night.

 

As the CIT was frozen in fear, Lincoln and Dawn finally rejoined the group. Dawn holding Edward close to her with a few birds perched on her head and a few rabbits following her. Everyones eyes slowly widened as they stared at the two with Trent asking. "Dude, what happened to her?" Dawn's eyes were still blood shot and her hair was still mostly a mess.

 

"She…didn't' take her challenge very well." Lincoln said as he patted Dawn gently on the shoulder a few times. The aura reader staying silent and choosing to be close to both Lincoln and her animal friends. "She just needs an extra fill of nature right now. So what's going on here? What's with the jelly."

 

"It's what's she's afraid of." Duncan chuckled a little as Courtney gulped. "She's afraid of jelly.

 

"…Jelly? Really?" Lincoln deadpanned at the CIT as she looked away from Lincoln. "You mocked me for my fear of squirrels."

 

"Shut up!" Courtney snapped at the white head, starling a few of the birds hanging around Dawn. "Only the green kind! It's like sugary, jiggly snot! Besides, it's not like it's going to make a difference."

 

"What if I sweetened the deal a little bit." Chris offered getting all of the camper's attention on him. "If you can face your fear and dive straight into this pool of jelly, I'll give you triple points and secure a victory for your team. Or you can wuss out and let your team lose yet another challenge."

 

Courtney thought about the offer for a second…before sighing and started heading up the ladder. "This is insane!" Courtney told everyone as she continued climbing up. "I could seriously die doing this!"

 

"Oh, that is just cruel!" Gwen cringed at the whole situation Courtney was put in. "It's probably warm by now. Warm, green jelly! Snotty, bouncy, ugh!"

 

"You're not going to make me quit!" Courtney snapped at Gwen as she kept climbing.

 

"That's it, keep climbing!" Duncan encouraged, wanting to help Courtney liked how she helped him earlier.

 

"She's just trying to psych you out!" Bridgette told Courtney as the CIT made it to the top.

 

And when Courtney got to the top, she realized it wasn't as bad as she first thought. It was much, much worse! Her legs constantly shook as she struggled to work up the courage to jump down and into the jelly. "Like you said, Courtney! It's okay if you can't do it!" Duncan reassured the CIT, using the same words she told him.

 

"It is?" Bridgette rose her brow at Duncan. "But we'll lose!"

 

Courtney looked down again…before tearing up a bit and stepping back. "I can't do it!" Courtney covered her face and whimpered a bit. "I'm coming down!"

 

All the Killer Bass slumped down a bit as the Gophers cheered. "Then there you have it." Chris spoke to the camera as Courtney climbed back down and shamefully walked away. "The Gophers win invincibility this week. Again."

CONFESSIONAL – COURTNEY

"I'm so embarrassed. How could I be so weak? I deserve to go home!" Courtney whimpered and sniffled a bit before she shook her head and tried to get her usual attitude back. "Ugh! Okay, stop it! You're pathetic! Show some confidence, Courtney!" But Courtney still whimpered a little and ended up smacking herself.

THAT NIGHT

 

It was time for yet another dramatic bonfire ceremony. Once again, it was time for the Killer Bass to send one of their own home. Forever. Lincoln, Harold, Geoff, DJ, Duncan, and Sadie had all received a marshmallow. Lincoln having fed his to Edward with the Platypus eagerly munching on the sugary white treat. Now only three marshmallows remained on Chris's plate with four campers in front of him. Dawn, Courtney, Bridgette, and the now awake Eva.

 

"There are only three marshmallows left on this plate." Chris said with the four remaining campers looking nervously at each other and Chris. All of them on the chopping block. "The four of you did not complete your challenges today. One of you is going home tonight and cannot return. Ever. The next two names I'm gonna call…is…Bridgette and Dawn." Both blonds eased up as they went up to go get their marshmallows.

 

Lincoln breathed a sigh of relief at the fact Dawn was staying as the aura reader came up to him and gave him a hug. "Thanks for helping me today." Dawn told him as Lincoln's face quickly turned red as he returned the hug. "I really needed that."

 

"Y-Yeah…" Lincoln reassured her as he patted her back. "Anytime." Feeling eyes on him, Lincoln looked to see all the guys on his team grinning at him.

 

But two Killer Bass weren't grinning. Courtney and Eva. Two of them…and one marshmallow. The two girls slowly looked at each other. Nervous expressions on their faces. Both arguably had the biggest fails among their team. Eva freaking out and going berserk in the mess hall and Courtney ultimately costing her team the game. "The final marshmallow of the night goes to…" After what felt like hours and incredibly thick tension, Chris announced who the final marshmallow was going to. "Courtney."

 

Courtney smiled and quickly went to go get her marshmallow as Eva slumped down and sighed heavily. "Great…just great." Eva yelled before stomping away. "Let's just get this over with…" And so, everyone watched as an incredibly grumpy and upset Eva made her way to the Dock of Shame and proceeded to board the Boat of Losers and left Total Drama Island…for good.

 

And with that, another episode of Total Drama Island came to an end.

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