"Last time on Total Drama Island…" Chris began with a bit of an eager grin on his face. "A note from a secret admirer got Courtney and Bridgette up in each other's business. Gwen learned that sand isn't exactly the softest thing to land on. Owen proved that being heavy can actually have its advantages…so long as eels aren't involved. Leshawna showed everybody how to hang on for dear life on the moose ride. Dawn proved to be a decent shredder and quickly retired after her first course. And Harold showed himself to be an ace flag-catcher, until he caught sight of Heather's…unmentionables, causing him to crash his way right off the island, but not without a little canoodling time with the fair Leshawna. And now, let's see what's in store for our campers on this week's episode of Total. Drama. Island!"
Morning had come onto Camp Wawanakwa and both teams were quick to get up, shower, and do their business. Currently the Screaming Gophers had 5 members. Owen, Leshawna, Heather, Gwen, and Lindsay. Meanwhile the Killer Bass had seven members. Courtney, Lincoln, Duncan, DJ, Dawn, Geoff, and Bridgette.
That left only 12 campers left. On the first episode of camp 24 campers were introduced to the island. And started from episode 2, someone from the losing team was voted off, walked down the Dock of Shame, and rode the Boat of Losers away from Camp Wawanakwa for good.
Only half of that original 24 remained.
And currently Chris and Chef were seen in the mess hall waiting for those remaining campers to come in for their breakfast. And boy were they in for a surprise. "What?" Lincoln had come into the mess hall with a sleepy Edward being carried around in his backpack. When the Loud boy came into the mess hall, with many campers following soon after, he noticed one thing. "No breakfast?"
"Oh, don't worry bro." Chris told Lincoln as a few other campers passed by the white head. "There will be plenty of food later on." Lincoln rose a brow at the host and buff Chef but simply decided to join the rest of the Killer Bass at their table. And as he left Chris and Chef begun to giggle as quietly as they could.
But they were quickly noticed by Leshawna who saw the teenage torturing duo snickering. "What are you two bozos so giggly about?" Chris and Chef stopped giggling for a moment…before they quickly went back to giggling.
Leshawna simply rolled her eyes and joined the rest of the team at the Gopher table. Once both teams were seated, Chris and Chef managed to calm themselves down allowing the former to clear his throat and walk out in front of everyone. "Congratulations to the remaining twelve campers for reaching the halfway mark in the competition!" Chris announced to everyone getting some smiles from a few of the teens. They couldn't help but be a little proud of themselves for making it so far. "You'll all be on the jury for the final episode."
"We got the power!" Geoff cheered as he pumped up a fist. "Yeah!"
"The two teams will become one next week." Chris explained getting some surprised looks from the campers. The Screaming Gophers and Killer Bass will be no more. Now, it was every camper for themselves. All gunning it to win the $100,000 grand prize. "But first, all the girls will be moved to the Gopher cabin and all the guys will stay in the Bass cabin. This week's challenge is as old as history itself. A battle of the sexes!" At hearing this, most of the guys sent challenging looks to the girls with a few of the females sending the looks back and, in Lindsay's case, blowing a raspberry. "After everyone is settled in, I'll announce the challenge. And then, you'll have an, uh…bite to eat." Once again Chris and Chef started snickering uncontrollably getting raised brows from nearly all the campers. Just what sick and twisted thing were those two planning? "Ready for a little good news? This week, no one will be kicked off. It's all for a reward and it's a good one." Everyone cheered and high fived at this. "Okay, time to relocate. Let's move!"
All the campers then got up with the girls from the Bass and Owen ready to make the move to their new cabins. All the while Chef and Chris started snicker again. As they left, Bridgette ended up walking by herself with her now former fellow female Bass Courtney and Dawn walking with Duncan and Lincoln respectively. As the surfer girl went to go get her stuff, Heather suddenly came up to her with a friendly face that seemed completely foreign to the queen bee. "Wow, your hair looks great today." Heather actually complimented Bridgette as she walked next to her. "So natural."
"Thanks." Bridgette said with a bit of an uncomfortable look. Heather was one of the last people she suspected to walk up to her and start complimenting her. "I-"
"How do you take care of it?" Heather cut off Bridgette before the surfer girl could say anything more. And to make matters even more uncomfortable, Heather proceeded to grab one of Bridgette's arm and pull her in closer to the queen bee's side. "You have to share your secret."
"Oh, uh, it's nothing really." Bridgette explained in a bit of a shy tone. She didn't wanna outright push Heather away. They would be living in the same cabin from here on out and it would be better if they got along rather than hated each other.
Before anymore words could be exchanged, suddenly Gwen came up to the two and whispered to Bridgette. "Watch it with this one." The goth warned the surfer girl. "She's trouble." This got Heather to let go of Bridgette and as she and the goth started glaring harshly at each other with Bridgette awkwardly walking away from the scene before a cat fight or something like that could begin.
"So…guess this is it for being on the same team huh?" Currently with Lincoln and Dawn, the two were walking together to the Bass cabin, soon to be the guy's cabin, where Dawn would have to collect her stuff and move to the Gopher cabin, soon to be the girl's cabin, and neither teens were all too happy about the situation. "That…really sucks…" Lincoln said sadly as he put his hands into his pockets.
"Yes…it's not the happiest feeling…" Dawn expressed in a sadden tone as she held her head down. "It was really nice being able to work with you."
"Yeah…I wanted to thank you for that actually." Lincoln admitted as he started scratching the back of his head. Dawn looked up to Lincoln as she anticipated what his next words would be. "When I first got here at camp I…wasn't in one of the best positions. But it's like whenever I was down and out you were always there to pick me back up. I doubt I would have made it nearly this far if it weren't for you."
Dawn felt her cheeks go red at this statement. She just couldn't explain why but it seems ever since day one of camp Lincoln's aura practically dragged her towards him. She wanted to help him with his doubts, insecurities, and self-confidence. And it looks like she's done a good job. But even despite this, she just couldn't pry herself away from him. And really, she didn't want to. "Lincoln…you don't need to thank me for anything." Dawn told him as she covered her face with some of her hair to try and hide her blush. "I may have been the one to give you a push, but you took those leaps to improve on your own. You should be proud of yourself."
Now Lincoln blushed as the two ended up walking in silence for a bit until Lincoln spoke up again after a moment or two. "Ya know…" Lincoln began getting Dawn to raise a brow at him. "Just because the teams are dissolved…doesn't mean we have to stop working together."
"R…Really?" Dawn asked as she felt a smile coming to her face.
"W-Well yeah! Totally!" Lincoln took a few deep breaths to prep himself for this. "We could, um, perhaps be, y-ya know if y-you want, be…" Dawn tapped her fingers in anticipation for the Loud boy's next words. Could this be it? "A-An alliance!"
"O-Oh…" Dawn let out with her smile just a little smaller than it was. Don't get her wrong, she was thrilled at the idea of being in an alliance with Lincoln. But she also couldn't help but be a little disappointed as she was expecting a little…more. "I would love to be in an alliance with you Lincoln!"
"G-Great! Then it's settled!" Lincoln eagerly grinned as his and Dawn's alliance became official. "And if one of us wins, we split the money with each other!"
Dawn giggled a bit and nodded her head. "Sounds good." As the nature lover said this, they suddenly found themselves at the porch of the now Boy's cabin. Welp, this was it. It was time for Dawn to pack up her things and move to an entirely new cabin. "I guess it's time I pack up my things…I'll see you later Lincoln."
"Yeah…" Lincoln did his best to keep a smile on his face. "See ya later." Lincoln then watched as Dawn went into her side of the cabin to go collect her things along with Courtney and Bridgette. Letting out a sigh, Lincoln was about to head into the cabin himself but was cut off by…
"Brbrb…" Lincoln looked over his shoulder and saw Edward sticking his head up out of the backpack and giving Lincoln a deadpanned look and shake of his head.
CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN
"…" Lincoln let out a sigh as he buried his face into his hands. "I stink at this…"
A little later, Bridgette, Courtney, and Dawn were all seen outside the now girl's cabin with all their stuff and were ready to move in. Bridgette was probably the most nervous of the three as she looked up at the cabin with bit of a nervous frown on her face. "Hey." A hand was placed on the surfer girl's shoulder to get her attention. Bridgette turned to see Courtney looking at her with a concerned expression. "Are you alright?"
"Y-Y-Yeah. Totally." Bridgette stuttered as she looked back at the cabin again. "Sorry, just, kinda nervous about all of this is all. Just weird knowing we'll be living somewhere else with different people."
"It'll be alright Bridgette." Dawn reassured the surfer girl in her usual calm and collected tone.
"She's right. Besides, we'll all still be together." Courtney stated with Dawn nodding at Courtney's words. That did make the surfer girl feel better. It wasn't like she was the only new girl in the cabin. She had Dawn and Courtney with her and the three had grown close over the weeks they have been here. Maybe it won't be so bad. "Why don't we all go in together?"
"Hey yeah." Bridgette quickly approved at the idea. "That sounds good actually. Let's do it."
"Well alright then!" The CIT, aura reader, and surfer girl all then stepped up to the entrance of the cabin and put a hand on the door. "Let's meet our new cabin mates!" The three girls then opened the door and-
"Nobody's leaving until I find out who ate my pudding pockets!" Were quickly introduced to Leshawna yelling at Heather with the queen bee having her back to the girl with a tude. Lindsay was on the side of the cabin Heather was at with Gwen on the opposite side of the cabin along with Leshawna. And from the look of things it seemed like this was a very heated argument.
"I ate them." Heather admitted with no amount of guilt or remorse for her stealing and eating Leshawna's stuff. "So what?"
"Whoa! Pump the brakes a minute! You're 'so what'ing me?" Leshawna yelled back as her glare got even more ferocious. One could practically feel Leshawna's blood boiling. "That's my food. No one touches my food!"
"Whatever, deal with it." Heather was quick to yell back at Leshawna and wasn't afraid of speaking her mind to the girl in front of her one bit. "It serves you right for leaving your junk everywhere, especially that." Heather then pointed to a triple-D bra hanging on Leshawna's bed. "That is bugging me!"
"Yeah, it'd bug me too if I didn't have anything in the front or in the back to shake." Leshawna mocked Heather's petite frame compared to hers. In Leshawna's opinion, when it came to a girl's…'accessories' the bigger the better and more fabulous.
"Yeah?" Heather got right into Leshawna's face with this one. "Well, you've got so much junk in your trunk, your jeans should come with a trash compactor!"
"Ooh! You want a piece of this?" Leshawna then rolled up her sleeves and got ready to throw down with the queen bee.
"Uh-oh." Bridgette let out as she and Courtney were watching the whole time with Bridgette looking uncomfortable and nervous while Courtney was glaring at Heather. Meanwhile…Dawn couldn't be seen with the two girls and had seemingly disappeared.
Both Heather and Leshawna quickly stopped their fighting as they, as well as Gwen and Lindsay, turned their heads to see Bridgette and Courtney at the door with their stuff. "Bridgette! Courtney!" Heather greeted them as she put on her nice and innocent look as quickly as she could. "Come in, come in! Welcome to our cabin. We're like a big family in here."
"Big and dysfunctional." Gwen added in.
CONFESSIONAL – COURTNEY
"How dumb does she think I am?" Courtney asked while glaring at the camera. No way was she falling for that little act of Heather's.
Heather was quick to put her arms around Courtney and Bridgette, but while Bridgette let Heather do this Courtney was quick to pull herself away from Heather. "Um, no thank you." Courtney told the queen bee with narrowed eyes. "I can make myself comfy without your help thank you very much."
Heather quickly started to glare at Courtney, but before she could say anything Leshawna spoke up. "Hey wait a minute?" The girl with a tude asked as she looked around. "Aren't you two missing a little white girl?"
"Oh, I'm right here." The familiar voice spoke up and everyone saw Dawn was already on one of the top bunks of a bed in lotus position. "I already unpacked." Everyone's eyes widened as Gwen looked to the drawers and saw that Dawn had already, and quite neatly, already unpacked all her cloths and other items she had.
"Wait, what?" Lindsay let out in a confused tone. While she wasn't exactly the brightest to say the least, she could have sworn she didn't see Dawn do any of that. "But, how did you-"
"Don't try and wrap your brain around it." Courtney was quick to stop Lindsay from using what brain cells she had to try and figure Dawn and her antics out. Lindsay already had a tough time keeping up with things that were right in front of her. And figuring out Dawn was a challenge in of itself. "Trust me, with Dawn, just expect the unexpected."
Heather heard this and put on her innocent smile again and walked towards Dawn. "Ya know Dawn, I find that really admirable." Heather said as she tried to sweeten the aura reader up into hopefully coming to her side. "I would just love if-"
"If you're trying to persuade me into joining your alliance, you can forget it." Dawn bluntly interrupted Heather taking the queen bee back. Dawn actually turned her head to give Heather a glare and say. "I would never join anyone with such a black and cold aura."
This got Heather to quickly, but silently, glare hard at Dawn and grit her teeth at her. First Courtney, and now Dawn. That was two of the girls that were quickly denying Heather as potential alliance partners. But there was still Bridgette she could hopefully exploit. So putting her innocent look back at Bridgette, picked up the girl's bag, and led her across the cabin. "Well introductions aside, it's so good to have you all here." Heather told Bridgette who actually started to smile at the queen bee's words. "And if you need anything, just yell."
"Come on Bridgette." Courtney quietly called out to her friend. "You're smarter than that."
"Thanks for the awesome welcome, Heather." Bridgette told the queen bee making Heather nod. In Heather's head however, she was sure she got the surfer girl on her side. Hello Beth's replacement.
"Welcome to the club! It'll be so much fun!" Lindsay said as she walked up to Bridgette and Heather and gave the surfer girl her own introduction. "As long as you do everything Heather says." This quickly got the dumb blond a kick to the foot.
"Haha! We love joking around here at the girls' cabin." Heather told Bridgette to try and make her forget about that little comment from Lindsay. While the dumb blond was a loyal sheep that would easily do almost anything Heather said, she really was too dumb for her own good sometimes. "I made sure your bunk was next to mine–"
"Hey!" Lindsay cut Heather off as the queen bee offered her bed to Bridgette. "That's my bed." Once again, Lindsay was met with a kick that quickly got the dumb blond to limp away.
"So we can talk and share and really get to know each other." Heather was able to finish her train of thought once Lindsay was out of the way.
"Okay, yeah!" Bridgette said with an enthusiastic smile as she turned to Gwen and Leshawna and started to walk towards them. "Hey, thanks everybody, I can't wait to get to know all of–"
"Okay! Plenty of time to chat later!" Heather was quick to shut Bridgette off and start pulling her away from the two girls she completely hated. All the while they as well as Courtney glared at Heather for this. "Let's unpack."
As this was happening, Courtney sat down next to Gwen and asked. "How have you put up with her for so long?" The CIT had to give her respect to Gwen and Leshawna. Even when Duncan was at his worst and she was still in her 'hating him but no really' phase, he wasn't nearly as bad as Heather from the things the CIT saw her do. And they weren't even on the same team!
"We usually just tune out half of what she says." Gwen stated to the CIT.
"Only half?" Dawn inquired.
"This is great!" Lindsay stated as she both tried to ignore the throbbing pain in her foot and was unaware of the conversation between Courtney, Gwen, and Dawn. "I bet we're getting along way better than the guys."
THE GUY'S CABIN
"Woohoo!"
"Yeah!"
"Alright!"
Yeah, the guys were doing much better than the girls.
Currently the guys were all having a mini-party to celebrate all of them coming together. Currently Edward had a lampshade over his head and was working a miniature DJ table to provide music as the guys all danced around drinking pop. "Rock that soda pop, my brotha!" DJ cheered as the guys all lifted their soda in the air.
While Lincoln was upset about no longer being on a team with Dawn, he now had a full-on alliance with her and, especially due to his homelife, he couldn't help but be extremely happy about being surrounded by all the guys on the island and partying with them. Well expect for Chris and Chef that is.
And it got even better as the guys started to have a bit of a burp contest. "UUUUURP!" Owen let out after downing his entire bottle of pop.
"UUUUUUUUURRRRPPP!" Lincoln was able to one up the big guy by releasing a much louder burp.
Geoff then downed all of his pop and, "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRPPPPPPPP!"
Proceeded to release a burp so powerful it shook the entire cabin and then some. Edward was even knocked clean off his feet and was launched out the open window while all the guys had their hair blown out. "Awesome…" Owen managed to let out as he pointed at Geoff. "He deserves to be captain!"
"Speech! Speech!" The guys chanted and cheered for Geoff as Duncan brought up a stump with DJ and Lincoln lifting Geoff up onto it.
"I owe it all to my big bro back home." Geoff spoke to his fellow bros after he finished clearing his throat. "For showing me how to pull back and let'er rip!" Geoff then finished up his speech with another burp and getting all the guys to cheer. "Those chicks are goin down!"
GIRLS CABIN
Back at the girl's cabin, Heather was still ponying up to Bridgette to get the surfer girl prime for controlling. And right now, she was bribing Bridgette with all the stuff in her make up kit. Which was quite a lot. "What's mine is yours." Heather offered Bridgette who didn't really seem too interested in what Heather was showing her. "Nail polish, scrunchies, earrings, just help yourself."
"Wow…" Lindsay let out as she tried to see what was in the make-up case for herself only for Bridgette to snap it shut on her.
"Thanks, Heather, but um, I like to keep it natural." Bridgette stated as she was a girl who wasn't really a fan of make-up. Her mother taught her to appreciate her normal looks and to not rely on things like make up. Like her mother said. Don't try and fix what isn't broken.
But Heather had other ideas as she grabbed Bridgette's face. "Like my mom always says, a lady can always use a little boost in the looks department." Heather's mother's advice directly opposed the advice of Bridgette's mom as Heather was about to apply some make up on Bridgette.
"And my momma told me ain't nothin' free in this world." Leshawna spoke up to Bridgette as a warning about Heather with said girl quickly glaring at Leshawna. "Watch what you take from this girl, Bridgette."
"Mind your own business!" Heather snapped at Leshawna as she stepped right up to the girl with a tude and got right in her face.
Just then Courtney got right in between the two and glare right at Heather. "In case you can't tell, we're all in the same cabin so everything that happens here is all our business!" The CIT informed Heather as the queen bee crossed her arms and glared at Heather. "And after everything you've done, what makes you think any of us are gonna trust you. Need I remind you about how you read Gwen's diary on national television!"
Heather scoffed as Gwen sent the queen bee a death glare. The goth remembered that day perfectly as she was unable to forget no matter how hard she tried. "Oh please, it was just a harmless prank." Heather stated as she tried to make it sound like it wasn't that big of a deal. "You need to stop living in the past. At least I can say I don't have a criminal for a boyfriend!"
"At least I have boyfriend!" Courtney yelled back getting Heather to growl like a beast at her.
"Girls come on! We need to stop fighting!" Bridgette yelled as she tried to stop an actual physical fight between Heather and Courtney from going down. "We're a team. We should be using this as an opportunity to get to know each other better."
"You want to play that way? Fine. Be on their side!" Heather snapped as she's had enough of trying to get Bridgette on her side and now considered it a lost cause. Everyone watched as the queen bee took out a roll of tape and started to make a divider between the two halves of the cabin. "This is my side and that's your side!" On one side was Heather and Lindsay, and on the other was Leshawna, Gwen, Courtney and Dawn. And in the middle was Bridgette.
CONFESSIONAL – HEATHER
"Okay, I probably could've played that better." Heather sheepishly admitted to the camera before putting on a frown. "But Leshawna and now Courtney are seriously creasing me!"
"Huh, yeah that's right. You keep putting down that tape." Leshawna stated as Heather finished up putting down the tape divider with Courtney nodding in agreement with the girl with a tude. "And if you cross it, I'll smack you down!"
"You can choose the weird girls if you want, but just so you know, once you do, you're like, not allowed on our side." Heather told directly to Bridgette as the surfer girl stood in the middle of the line. This was essentially her way of giving Bridgette one last chance to join her and her alliance. If she joined, she would drag Bridgette along with her until she was useless. If not, she would have no problem getting her out at any time. "Right, Lindsay?" Lindsay nodded in agreement with Heather and crossed her arms.
CONFESSIONAL – BRIDGETTE
"I thought we were supposed to be a team." Bridgette stated as pretty much her worst fears of moving in a new cabin were coming true with all the arguing and hate going down in a matter of a minutes. "You know, 'united together in solidarity' or something."
"Let's build bridges, not walls!" Bridgette pleaded to everyone to try and tear down the divider and get everyone together.
But Heather wasn't having any of it as she said. "Take your pick."
Bridgette gulped a bit. Looked like she had to choose a side. As much as she would have preferred everyone come together, when it came to picking a side there really was only one choice for her. "Knew you'd make the right choice Bridgette." Courtney praised the surfer girl as Bridgette stepped onto the side with Dawn, Leshawna, Courtney, and Gwen.
"You just dug your own grave." Heather told Bridgette as she and Lindsay turned their backs to the surfer girl.
"Let's try to get along, okay? Otherwise, the guys are going to cream us, don't you get it?" Bridgette told everyone. Heather's only response was to harshly throw Bridgette's bag to the side the surfer girl was now on. "Tough room…"
THE MESS HALL
Once the time Chris had allowed everyone to move was up, he had all 12 remaining campers gather up at the mess hall again. They all thought it was finally time for breakfast, but according to Chris, "It's time for today's challenge!"
"Uh, where's breakfast at?" Leshawna asked as there's no way Chris would make them start the challenge without breakfast, right? Sure there was the awake-a-thon but this is TV. Doing the same thing twice would make it seem kinda stale and would cause a drop in ratings.
However, Chris and Chef once again started giggling madly and by now it was really starting to get on everyone's nerves. "Stop doing that!" Heather snapped as she's had to deal with enough annoying people today after the incident that happened earlier at the girl's cabin.
Chris and Chef finally managed to calm themselves down with the former finally giving an explanation for everything. "Let's just tell them…today's challenge is…The Brunch of Disgustingness!" Chris revealed getting everyone's eyes to widened a bit. While also getting a few worried looks due to the name of the challenge. "You'll be getting an eleven-course meal. Each member of each team must finish each dish. You will not know if the next dish is grosser than the last, not as gross, or just as gross. Just that it'll likely be…gross."
CONFESSIONAL – DAWN
"I have a really bad feeling about this…" Dawn said with a cringed look on her face.
While everyone was gulping a bit in worry for what kind of 'food' they would be served today. Most thinking that what they will be given will hardly count as food. "Tell them what they'll get if they win, Chris!" Chef said in a classic game show host voice.
"The winning team spends two days at a local five-star resort where they'll be pampered, eat gourmet nosh, and be given antibiotics against anything they may have caught while participating in this challenge!" This got cheers and smiles from everyone present. Whichever gender won would be treated to a weekend of pure fun and relaxation. "The losing team will go hungry tonight and spend the next two days here. On Total Drama Island. With Chef." This got worried looks from everyone as the losers would still be treated like they have been for the last few weeks. Didn't help that Chef waved to them with a rather psychotic look on his face.
"We are going to win this challenge!" Heather stated to her fellow female campers. No way was she missing out on a weekend of paradise.
CONFESSIONAL – BRIDGETTE
"I just hope we win to ease some of the tension." Bridgette said as everyone getting along was better than a five-star resort. "I mean, I'll try anything once. Except meat. I can't eat meat." Bridgettes eyes then widened a bit as she realized something. "And…Dawn as well…..crap."
CONFESSIONAL – DUNCAN
"So from what I can tell we're in an eating challenge against a team with two vegetarians on it." Duncan stated with a smirk as he casual used his knife to cut his finger nails. "Sorry Courtney, but we're gonna cream your team."
"Ahem. Take a whiff, boys!" Leshawna said to all the boys with a smirk as she took in a deep breath through her nose. "Cause all I smell is victory for me and my girls!"
"I'll eat anything! Even my gitch if I have to!" Owen stated as he pulled out a pair of his very dirty underwear. "Will I have to?"
"Let's begin the challenge!" Chris said as he clapped his hands with an excited grin on his face. This was gonna be fun to watch. Chef then emerged from the kitchen with a kart full of platters with a covering to hide what the first dish was. "First…some Hors D'oeuvres."
The covers were then lifted up off all the platters revealing…meatballs? "Haha, all right! Meatballs!" Owen cheered with an excited grin. Meanwhile everyone else was looking at the meatballs with a suspicious look. Something seemed…off about them. And when Dawn looked at the dish she seemed absolutely horrified. "Bring it on!" Owen then went for it and stuff all the 'meatballs' into his mouth at once.
As the big guy chewed, Chris pointed something out. "Well, technically, you're right, Owen." Chris stated getting everyone to look at him. "But these are kinda special."
Chef grinned as he lifted up one of them and told all the campers exactly what they were. "It's beef testiclebourguignon."
Everyone gasped at the information as they looked at the dish in a whole new light. These meat balls…were meat balls. "Testicles…" Owen questioned before throwing up all he ate right on DJ. Thankfully Chef was there to provide a new plate to Owen.
CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN
"Ok…definitely a good thing I left Edward at the cabin…" Lincoln stated as, due to Geoff's massive burp earlier, Edward was accidentally knocked out. So the Loud boy left him at the cabin to rest.
"Y-Y-Y-You…ripped these off poor bulls…" Dawn stated as her whole body started shaking as she looked down at the dish as if it was the boogie man himself. She was a vegan. Not only that but she felt connected to all animals everywhere. To eat even just a part of another animal was pretty much the ultimate taboo for her.
It wasn't going well with the guys either. But their reluctance to eat was because…well…they were guys. "Oh, I don't know if I can do this to my bovine brother…" Geoff said as he picked up a 'meatball.'
DJ even found himself crying a little as he looked at the dish. "It's the hardest thing a man can do." Chris commented as he looked at the guys struggle to eat the first dish.
CONFESSIONAL – HEATHER
"Judging by the way the guys were reacting to the uh… dish…" Heather said while still looking a bit uncomfortable about the whole situation. "I knew we could win the round."
Just then the guys looked and gasped as they saw a few of the females tossing some of the 'meatballs' into their mouths with not nearly as much struggle as them. "Oh…okay, gross me right out the door!" Lindsay gagged as she ate her dish with a fork. "But I could totally use a pedicure at that resort. My corns are growing corns."
"What's the matter?" Heather asked after swallowing a 'meatball'. "Mm…you big boys can't eat a little meatball?"
"Come on!" Geoff tried to push his team of guys forward. "We can't let the girls win! Our manhood is at stake!" The boys all nodded and did their best to try and stomach the 'food' but they were still struggling a bunch.
Luckily for the guys, the girls had two team members that hadn't even tried to eat the dish. Bridgette and Dawn. "What are you doing?" Heather glared at Bridgette as she saw the surfer girl's untouched platter. "Why aren't you eating?"
"I'm a vegetarian." Bridgette informed Heather with her voice breaking a bit. "It's against my principles."
"Are you sabotaging the team just to spite me?" Heather yelled at Bridgette making the poor girl wince. All the while Geoff watched and just couldn't stand to see how Bridgette was doing.
CONFESSIONAL – GEOFF
"I felt so bad." Geoff said to the camera. "I had to help."
As Geoff got up from the guys table and went towards Bridgette, Lincoln had his eyes on a different female. Dawn. And it looked like she was having a much tougher time dealing with this then Bridgette. "Come on Dawn." Courtney tried to encourage her friend in a soft tone. Before, she probably would have yelled and scolded Dawn for refusing to eat. But now she knew sometimes a softer approach was better. "You can do it."
"B-B-But…" Dawn sniffled a little as she couldn't even look at the dish. "Those poor bulls…"
"Hey, it's alright." Dawn's eyes widened a bit at the familiar voice as she saw Lincoln had come up to her with a soft smile on his face. "Ya know, animals eat other animals all the time out in nature. And humans are pretty much just talking animals. It's perfectly natural."
Dawn couldn't help but give the tiniest of smiles at Lincoln's attempts to try and make this challenge more bearable for her…but that smile quickly vanished when she looked back down at the dish. The vegan managed to pick one of the 'meatballs' up. Her hand quickly started shaking as she slowly brought it closer and closer to her open mouth…but just couldn't do it. "I can't…I can't do it…" Dawn whimpered as Lincoln witnessed a scene that practically broke his heart. Dawn started crying. The nature lover started sniffling as tears went down her eyes. "I just…I can't…please don't make me…" The act of being forced to eat meat practically broke her. Looking, Lincoln saw that Geoff had actually managed to get Bridgette to start eating. But that wouldn't work for Dawn.
But what would work? Well…one single idea came into Lincoln's head. It was very, very risky. But he couldn't just leave Dawn like this. Seeing Dawn cry was far more painful then having to eat some bull meat balls. So Lincoln got close to Dawn's ear and whispered something to her so that only she could hear. Dawn's eyes widened a bit, thankfully stopping the tears, as she whispered back to Lincoln. "A-Are you sure…" Lincoln nodded in response. Dawn averted her eyes, a bit guilty about going through with this...but she just couldn't bring herself to eat the meat. So she nodded and was ready to go along with the plan.
Once it was decided, Lincoln moved away from the girl's table and headed towards Chris. "Uh hey Chris." Lincoln said to get the host's attention. "Mind if I open a window? It's getting a bit drafty in here."
"Sure, I don't mind." Chris said with a shrug getting Lincoln to smile. "Might come in handy for puking your guts out, hehe."
"Hehe, yeah totally!" Lincoln agreed with the host of the show as he headed towards the girl's side of the main lodge…and opened the window closest to Dawn. Everyone was a bit confused at the Loud boy's request but seeing as how it was just opening a window, no one paid it any mind.
Lincoln then took a deep breath to prep himself for what's to come next for his and Dawn's plan. He could do this. He just had to pretend the 'meatballs' were meatballs and not meat balls. So, getting everyone's attention in the process, Lincoln stood right on top of his table and grabbed his plate. "Come on guys! It's not that hard!" Lincoln stated as he hid how disgusted he really was at this. "Just do what I do!" Just then making everyone, even most of the girls, gasp in surprise…Lincoln shoved all the 'meatballs' into mouth.
Everyone was in shock at seeing the scene as Lincoln did his best to chew em all up and not spit them out. The effort taking every bit of will power he had. But it was worth it. With everyone distracted, Dawn picked up her plate, headed towards the open window…and dumped all her 'food' out the window and quickly made her way back to her seat with her clean plate.
Thankfully no one noticed her doing anything. And just in time as Lincoln managed to swallow everything and was doing his best not to faint at the realization of what he just done. "See…" Lincoln said with a bit of a raspy voice. "Easy." The Loud boy then sat back down at the table with a few of the guys he was sitting next to slowly scooting away from him.
"I…I have no idea what to say about this…" Courtney stated with widened eyes.
"How about…girl's win!" Chris announced after he himself recovered from the shock of the scene. On the girl's side were seven empty plates and on the boy's side there was only two. Lincoln and Duncan being the only ones to down their food.
The girls were a bit surprised to hear they won as they all looked to see that Dawn's plate was empty. "See? The hippie could do it." Heather told Bridgette as she gestured to Dawn's empty plate. The aura reader sheepishly smiling and nodded, doing her best to keep the little cheat going. "I don't wanna hear any more complaining about your principles got it?!"
Bridgette flinched and nodded at Heather. But the surfer girl soon got up from her table and walked towards Geoff with a smile. "Thanks for the talk, Geoff." Bridgette quickly told the party dude with a smile before heading back to her table.
While Geoff smile and nodded at her, Duncan was quick to start glaring at Geoff for aiding the other team. "Uh, what, you're helping them, dork?" The delinquent yelled at the party dude. "You just cost us this round!"
"Yo, it's my business who I talk to!" Geoff stated as he glared back at Duncan. "Gimme a break, man!"
As a full-blown argument between the guys started, Lincoln kept his head down and chose not to say anything. After all, he was kinda doing something much worse than Geoff just giving Bridgette a little push.
CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN
"I know I'm jeopardizing our team and it could cost us our victory. But did you see the look on her face?" Lincoln justified his reasoning for helping Dawn cheat and simply toss her meals rather then eat them. That crying face Dawn had was easily worse than any abomination Chef could make. "I couldn't just do nothing!"
Chris then blew a whistle loudly and got the guys to stop arguing. "Are we here to argue, or are we here to eat a series of revolting meals?!" Chris yelled as he gave a quick glare to the guys.
"Alright." Duncan let off the issue.
"Fine." Geoff side out before looking at Duncan with a small smile. "Sorry 'bout that, dude."
"Sorry man." Duncan returned the apology as the two guys shared a fist dump.
All the while Bridgette looked at the scene with a dropped jaw.
CONFESSIONAL – BRIDGETTE
"I can't believe how quickly the guys made up!" Bridgette said with a surprised tone and look. "Even I like to hold a grudge for a good six minutes…wait…you all already knew that, hehe."
"The score now stands at one for the girls and zero for the guys! And now, the next course in…The Brunch of Disgustingness!" Chris said right to the camera to hype the audience up. The first round was already crazy and gross enough. And there were still ten more rounds of suffering to go through. "You guys like pizza?"
Everyone eagerly nodded from both tables. Pizza was something everyone could love! "I could eat pizza any time with anything on it!" Owen excitedly stated.
"Anything?" Chris questioned as Chef brought out two more larger platters that contained the next course. Owen nodded as Chris gestured Chef to reveal the food. "How about live grasshopper pizza with tangy jellyfish sauce and live anchovies?" Lifting up the covers of the platters, Chef revealed that it was indeed pizza…but with jellyfish mixed in with the sauce, grasshoppers jumping around on it, and anchovies flopping on it for dear life.
CONFESSIONAL – DAWN
"Why do so many animals need to suffer?" Dawn cried into her hands. "Why…"
"Ew, I hate anchovies." Lindsay groaned out as Chef placed one pizza on each table.
"Ironically it's probably the least disgusting thing on it." Courtney cringed as at least anchovies were considered a normal pizza topping. Grasshoppers and jellyfish? Not so much! "Ok Courtney…you can do this…" The CIT then took a slice of pizza and did her best not to throw up at the sight.
Meanwhile on the guys table, Owen kept to his word and actually downed a slice rather quickly and easily. This caused the guys to miss Lincoln send a wink to Dawn. Looking at the rest of the girls table, Lincoln saw Gwen and Courtney keeping Heather from running away and not eating the pizza and knew it was time to get a distraction going. "What's wrong girls? You being a buncha sissies?!" This got all the girls' attention as Lincoln tossed a slice into the air and caught it into his mouth.
Everyone gasped again at how Lincoln was able to down yet another disgusting dish with complete ease. "Ok…you know him better then me." Gwen cringed as she spoke to Courtney with both girls watching in disbelief as Lincoln swallowed the slice. "Was he always this gross?"
"No…not one bit." Courtney stated as she held a hand to her neck to stop any potential throw up from coming up. All the while they missed Dawn throwing the pizza slice over her shoulder and out the open window. After this happened, Courtney looked to Dawn and was about to ask an explanation for Lincoln's behavior, but saw the nature lover without her slice of pizza. "Wait…did you eat yours already too?"
"Uuuuh…yep!" Dawn sheepishly stated as she tapped her fingers against her knees and tried her best not to make eye contact with Courtney. "Just thought I'd…rip the bandage off ya know? Get it over with…for the team!"
"Hey now that's the spirit!" Courtney smiled proudly at Dawn as she patted her on the shoulder. Dawn just couldn't look at the proud smile Courtney was giving her as she had no reason to be proud with the aura reader. "I know this must be hard for you."
"Y-Yeah…" Dawn quietly muttered.
While Bridgette was able to help Lindsay down her slice with a bit of help from the art of yoga and meditation, Leshawna was just unable to do it. The grasshoppers especially making it harder for her more than the other two 'toppings.'
And before anyone knew it, the guys had completely finished their pie. "The winners of this round…are the guys!" Chris announced as the guys all cheered with most of the girls, an exception being Dawn, giving dirty looks at Leshawna.
"Alright, who's ready for the third course?" Chris asked with the clap of his hands. His only response was groans from everyone as Chef passed everyone their next dish. "Spaghetti!" Chef then lifted the tops of one of the dishes revealing a plate of squirming worms covered in some sort of slime and balls of hair. "Well, actually, Earthworms covered in snail slime sauce and hairballs."
CONFESSIONAL – DAWN
"Oh come on!" Dawn yelled at the fact of their being three dishes with meat in a row.
"No!" Geoff yelled as he stood up. "I can't take it anymore!"
Geoff then started screaming as he quickly bolted from the table and ran out of the lodge as fast as he could. "I'll take care of this." DJ told everyone as he chased after Geoff. Meanwhile Dawn and Lincoln felt their blood run cold. If one of them happened to spot the food Dawn discarded out the window, it was probably game over for one or both of them.
Thankfully it seemed that both Geoff and DJ didn't spot it as when they came back Geoff was hyperventilating in DJ's arms while DJ simply smiled and kept a strong grip on DJ. "Come on Geoff, it's not that hard." Lincoln stated as he got ready to go about his distraction for Dawn. "My sister Lana does this all the time. Just watch me." And for a third time, everyone watched in complete disgust as Lincoln opened his mouth up as wide as he could and stuff his fast into the pile of worms, slime sauce, and hair balls.
"What the (BLEED) Q-Tip!" Leshawna shrieked as she and the other girls were more disgusted then ever at Lincoln's actions. Leaving the perfect opportunity for Dawn to slide her worms out the window. "That is straight up messed up!"
"You're just…" Lincoln emerged his now slime covered face from the plate after sucking up all the worms on it and doing his best not to puke his stomach out as he burped out an entire live worm. "Just jealous I'm a faster eater then you! If you can't take the heat then get outta the kitchen girlfriend!"
Not only was everyone completely surprised, and disgusted, for how well Lincoln was doing in the challenge, but also with his attitude during it. While he wasn't being a straight up jerk like Heather or Duncan, but he did seem a bit more…competitive and boastful during this challenge. Maybe it was just his competitive spirt being brought out due to the teams breaking up. But no one really had a solid answer. The boys just knew they needed to keep up with him to win and the girls knew they needed to be faster.
Although, from Heather's observations, it seemed that one of them was eating about as fast as the Loud boy. "Wait…how did you finish so fast?" Heather questioned Dawn making the aura reader flinch. Dawn's plate was completely empty say for some left-over snail slime. But one key different between Lincoln and Dawn was that Dawn was completely clean. "You don't even have any slime on your face."
"I, uh, cleaned myself…" Dawn sheepishly explained as she thought of excuses as fast as she could.
Heather didn't seem to be buying it as she narrowed her eyes at Dawn. "If you're planning something that could ruin this for us I swear-" But before Heather could continue Courtney was quick to make the queen bee back away from the moon child.
"Would you leave her alone and focus on your own plate for a change." Courtney harshly told Heather as she poked the queen bee harshly with her finger. "She's just doing her best to make sure we win. And this is probably harder for her then any of us. So why don't you shut up, and eat your (BLEEP)ing worms!"
Heather glared harshly at Courtney before sending Dawn an 'I'm watching you' gesture before going over to her plate.
While the girls came close to winning this one, it was the guy's who ultimately prevailed. "And once again, the winners are the guys!" Chris announced as Geoff burped up a worm and put their scores 1 to 2.
"Come on, guys." Bridgette cheered her team on as Dawn tried to make herself invisible, still feeling shame for her cheating. "Let's show them some girl power!"
"Bridgette's right." Gwen stated with a smile as she tried to pump herself up. "Let's kick some boy butt!"
"Yeah. Just like I've been saying all along." Heather stated, getting deadpanned looks from everyone. "We've gotta act like a team."
"Whatever." Leshawna rolled her eyes. She was too miserable to argue.
CONFESSIONAL – CHEF
"I was excited about the next dish." Chef grinned and chuckled as he scratched his butt. "I made it from scratch."
"All right everybody. Time for course number four." Chris announced as Chef brought out everyone's next dish. If one looked at the buff Chef's face, it was clear he was enjoying this far too much. "No nine-course meal would be complete without soup." Chef then revealed the next dish to be soup with some things floating around in it that should never be in soup. "Today's special is French Bunyon soup with hangnail crackers."
CONFESSIONAL – GEOFF
"I think they just use stuff from Chef's bathroom floor." The party dude stated.
Lincoln cringed in disgust at this dish…then looked to Dawn to see if he should do his distraction duty again. But to his surprise, when Dawn looked back at him…she shook her head.
CONFESSIONAL – DAWN
"Ok…ok…ok…" Dawn repeated as she hugged herself. "There's no real meat in this one…I can do this."
Lincoln nodded back at her and looked at his, what could very loosely be called, soup. He knew if he started losing steam now everyone might get suspicious. So he did his best to down the soup only this time didn't make a scene out of it. All the while the guys were struggling and gagging about having to down one spoonful.
The girls were also struggling to down the soup. That is until Bridgette's brain got to work and she brought out a funnel for the girls to use. Thanks to this, the girls were practically able to pour the soup down into their stomachs without the need for tasting it at all, quickly securing them the win. "The girls win again!" Chris announced getting all the girls to cheer as Chef came in and replaced all their soup bowls, finished or otherwise, with a brand new and covered course. "The scores now tied up at two."
CONFESSIONAL – Bridgette
"I think the girls really made a breakthrough as a team." Bridgette happily said as it seemed the girls were getting better at working together.
"Now onto course numero quatro!" Chris decided to use a bit of Spanish for this announcement. "Now then, who could ever forget the timeless classic…the Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich." Chef then revealed the next course to be a sandwich that did indeed have peanut butter in it…but instead of jelly had a different white colored item in it.
And Lincoln couldn't be happier to see it.
"Or in this case, the Peanut Butter and Sauerkraut sandwich!" Chris revealed making most of the camper's gag.
"Oh my gosh…" Courtney gagged as she quickly covered her mouth with both of her hands. The CIT then swallowed and managed to keep any potential throw up down before covering her nose. "What could have possibly given you the idea for this?"
"Well you see-" Chris began before being cut off by…
"Done!" Everyone looked to see Lincoln had already downed his sandwich…and looked incredibly happy and bliss filled. He even licked his fingers! "Aw man…that was a nice break. Thank you so much Chef."
CONFESSIONAL – CHEF
"Finally!" Chef shouted as he looked right into the camera. "Someone who appreciated my cooking."
"Hold on…do you actually like this?" Lindsay asked with an incredibly cringe filled face as she looked at the sandwich in her hands.
"You better believe it." Lincoln stated with nothing but honesty in his voice. "It's one of my favorite foods. Made it all the time back home."
"…That's just sick man." DJ told Lincoln. Although they were friends, DJ still had to admit that his friend's favorite food was disgusting. Lincoln simply shrugged in response. He was used to his friends and family telling him that. Even Clyde.
And it seemed even Dawn found this a little gross as she cringed a bit as she watched Lincoln take pride in eating the sandwich. He even asked Chef for seconds! All the while Heather watched this and grinned a bit as a plan went to her. Similar to everyone on the island, she was fully aware of Dawn's crush on Lincoln and decided to take advantage of that. "So, still feel like kissing him?" Heather asked Dawn with a grin.
Dawn found herself jumping a bit in her seat as her cheeks went red. "Um…" Dawn shyly stated as she looked at the ground. "Well…"
"I don't blame you." Heather casually stated as she looked at her nails as she went in for the kill. "He's pretty gross."
"WHAT?!" Dawn suddenly snapped as she stood up from her chair and glared at Heather. This kinda scared everyone. They never really saw the aura reader this angry. She's glared a few times yeah, but never looked full on piss. But just then Dawn's angry face was traded for a smirk as a comeback came to the moon child. "Well considering I'm sitting next to you; I would say I have a high tolerance for gross stuff."
Heather gasped loudly as she soon sent an enraged glare to Dawn as a few girls at the table, and even a few of the guys, started laughing. "Ooooooo!" Leshawna let out as she pointed one finger at Heather and another at Dawn. "That white girl got you good!"
After that, Dawn then picked up her PB&S sandwich…and stuffed the whole thing in her face. She nearly gagged at the taste, but managed to hold it back enough for her to chew and swallow the sandwich. Once it was in her stomach, the aura reader stated. "There." In a satisfied tone, holding back how she really felt about the sandwich. "Now we're even."
Lincoln couldn't help but blush at Dawn's gesture as the rest of the females quickly tried to down their sandwich. Along with him, Duncan and Owen seemed to be able to be able to down it with relative ease as well. But the real hold ups came with DJ and Geoff. Geoff especially as the party dude looked ready to throw up at even the tiniest bite to the sandwich.
"And the girls are the winners!" Chris announced as the seven girls were able to all finish their sandwiches before all the guys could.
"Come on guys!" Owen cheered his bros on and tried to hype them up. "We got this! We just gotta believe in our stomachs!"
"Not how that goes but whatever." Duncan shrugged. He guessed that it wasn't totally inaccurate to the situation they were in right now.
"Man, you guys look like you've had it rough." Chris chuckled as he looked at the absolute miserable state everyone was in. And they were only five courses in with Chef placing the sixth one in front of them right now. Although Lincoln looked a bit better than everyone else after actually enjoying the fifth course. "How about we give you guys a break and have dessert right now." Everyone smiled a bit at this information as Chef revealed what the dessert they would be having for their sixth course. "It's time for cupcakes!" Chef then lifted up the cover to reveal cupcakes…with rather interesting looking frosting.
All the cupcakes had different colored 'frosting' as well. Lincoln's cupcake was white, Duncan's was green and black, Courtney's was brown, and Lindsay's was yellow…blond yellow. "Wait a minute…" Courtney gulped a bit as she inspected the cupcakes 'frosting' and quickly cringed in disgust. "This frosting…is this-"
"Hair?" Chris finished for the CIT getting everyone;s eyes to widen. "Why yes Courtney, yes it is. Not just any hair. It's all your own hair harvested from the shower!"
Nearly everyone felt their cheeks puff up as their bodies were practically begging them to throw up. But they all managed to hold it back and swallow. "Ok guys, we can do this." Lincoln said as he lifted his white hair covered cupcake with all the guys doing the same. "Don't think and just toss it in. On three?" The guys all cringed but nodded along with Lincoln's plan. The girls caught onto what they were doing and did the same. Only instead of counting to three they all did their best to stuff it in right away. "One…two…three!"
And with that, all the guys quickly tossed the cupcakes into their mouths and started chewing as fast as they could to break down the food and hair as best they could. The girls seemed like they were going to win…until Heather started gagging and even choking. Bridgette was the one to come to the queen bee's aid as she performed the Heimlich maneuver on Heather…and got the mean girl to throw up a hair ball. "Eeeeewww…" Courtney let out as it landed right in front of her…before coughing up a hair ball of her own to add onto it.
"Done!" Duncan called out as the guys all opened their mouths to prove that they down all the hair as well unlike the girls who had a few hair balls on their table.
"The guys win!" Chris announced getting cheers from all the males. "Scores are once again tied up! Only five more courses left. Bon appetit!"
Now what's the best way to get through five courses of completely disgusting food without making the author having to write dialogue for each and every one of them…musical montage!
You gotta eat
Eat!
Eat to win
Chef provided the next course to everyone which was just a giant ball of chewed up gum that Chef chewed himself.
Don't let them gross you out
Don't let them push you down
Stand up tall and say you can
Next up was milkshakes made from skunk stink juice. This one being one Lincoln had to provide another distraction for Dawn to toss as it came from an animal.
You gotta eat
Eat!
Eat to win
After that, the next course was straight up a sandal with a smiley face drawn on it with lard.
Ooh, you gotta eat
Eat to win
And course number ten was a bunch of rotten fruit and meat stirred together into what could loosely be described as gumbo.
And with that the montage came to an end. Ten courses eaten, and boys and girls tied at five to five. All the campers groaned as they were feeling completely miserable and just ready to die then and there. But there was still one more course left. "Wow, it's still tied up. We're down to the last course in the challenge." Chris stated as he really couldn't believe that the campers actually ate all that crap. And for the scores to still be tied? This episode was gonna be awesome! But it would quickly come to an end as Chef presented everyone with the last course which was revealed to be…hot dogs? Well…yes and no. "It's delicious dolphin wieners. Hot dogs made of dolphin."
CONFESSIONAL – DAWN
"MAY THE GODDESS OF NATURE DAMN CHRIS FOR AN ETERNITY!" Dawn yelled in a complete outrage over the last course.
Bridgette gasped as she looked at the dolphin dogs with a look of horror. "But dolphins are our friends!" Bridgette stated as although she was able to put her principles aside over bull 'meatballs', worms, grass hoppers, she would rather be killed then eat a dolphin.
"What are you waiting for? It's already dead." Heather stated as she grabbed a bottle of ketchup and was fully prepared to eat the dolphin. Heck, it was probably the least disgusting thing today. "If you don't eat it, we don't win."
"Ooh, I can't!" Bridgette whimpered as she looked away from the murdered sea mammal. "I'm a surfer! I swim with dolphins!"
"Eat it!" Heather demanded Bridgette.
"No!" Bridgette yelled back as she got right into Heather's face. "I'm not doing it. You can't pressure me."
"I'm with you sister." DJ stated from the boys table as he crossed his arms after pushing the dolphin dog away from him. "I ain't eatin no dolphin."
CONFESSIONAL – CHEF
"I slave over a hot stove cooking dolphin." Chef complained at two of the camper's unwillingness to eat the dolphin dogs. "No appreciation!"
Chris frowned at the current situation. It seemed neither Bridgette nor DJ were gonna break and even eat a tiny piece of the dolphin dog. "Ok, enough." Chris announced as he gestured for Chef to take the dolphin dogs away. "Look like there's only one way to solve this. A tie breaker!" Everyone looked around at each other and seemed to be ok with this…but suddenly Chris grinned and revealed something that really took everyone back. "At least that's what I would say if the winners weren't the guys!"
"WHAT!?" The girls all yelled in unison. Not even the guys cheered at the news as they were too confused over their sudden victory. The scores were tied so why was Chris saying they won.
Meanwhile Dawn and Lincoln found their blood running cold.
"Why?!" Courtney demanded to know as she slammed her hands down on the table. "Were both five to five! It's a tie!"
"Weeeeeell, nooooot exactly." Chris slowly explained with the grin never leaving his face. Just then the host of the show turned to Dawn and looked her right in the eye. Dawn found herself freezing under his gaze…he knew. "Ya see, a certain animal loving vegan has been tossing all meat-based dishes out the open window."
"You what?" Heather said directly to Dawn as everyone gasped. All except Lincoln who was feeling the same things as Dawn right now. Chris then gestured everyone to follow him to the open window and when they all looked, they indeed saw all the dishes that had any sort of meat in them tossed out and uneaten. "You…you…" Heather growled and was ready to attack Dawn.
"Dawn…how could you…" Courtney said as she narrowed her eyes in disappointment at the aura user.
Dawn held her head low. Shame completely enveloping her aura. The aura reader sniffled a bit as she whimpered. "I'm sorry…"
"So…we were disqualified from the start?!" Bridgette yelled to Chris, extremely angered about eating all that disgusting food for nothing.
"Yep! Classic hosting move. I gave ya a bit of hope then YANKED it away like a dollar bill on a string." Chris explained as he took immense pride in having the girls pretty much do the challenge for nothing as a few of their points weren't actually earned. The host then turned to Dawn and said. "Still though, pretty nice move getting your boyfriend to cheat for you."
"I'm not her boyfriend!" Lincoln yelled as he stood up from his seat…getting all eyes on him. "Aaaaaah…crap baskets…"
"Wait a minute…" Duncan looked between the open window and Lincoln. The window Lincoln requested be opened. The delinquent soon got right into Lincoln's face and glared. "That's why you wanted the window open! You were helping them cheat?!"
CONFESSFIONAL – HEATHER
"Looks like we found a weak link~" Heather stated with a smirk on her face. Although she was still extremely pissed about losing the reward, pretty much all tension was being taken from her and put onto Lincoln and Dawn.
"Give me one good reason why we shouldn't ditch you when we go to the resort?" Duncan growled at Lincoln as he lifted the Loud boy by his shirt collar.
"Hey, hey, hey, let's all just calm down now." DJ stepped up to the two of them as he tried to diffuse the tension. While he wasn't exactly happy at Lincoln for helping the girls cheat, he couldn't exactly be mad at it. Especially since he was doing it to essentially protect Dawn and not out of any malicious intention of sabotaging the guys.
"Yeah man, let's just drop it." Geoff suggested as he couldn't help but feel a little responsible for helping the girls as well. "We'll deal with it later after the weekend party."
"We won anyway." Owen shrugged, not really wanting to start conflict. "What does it matter anyway?"
Duncan looked around at his fellow guys a bit before sighing. "Fine." Duncan relented as he dropped Lincoln harshly on the floor. "I'll ease up. For now!"
"Well ladies…" Heather glared at Lincoln as she crossed her arms. "I think we all know who we're voting for next." All the girls except for Dawn joined in glaring at Lincoln.
This made the Loud boy gulp a bit as he looked down. "Crap…" He had a feeling his time on the island wasn't gonna be for much longer.
SUNSET
The sun was coming down on the camp. A cruise ship had come to pick the guys up for their weekend get away. Duncan, Geoff, Owen, and DJ were making their way to the cruise ship with none of the girls there to see them off. All expect one ready to send off one particular guy.
"I'm…I'm really sorry Dawn…" Lincoln apologize to the nature girl as she held Edward in her arms, both the girl and platypus looking upset. "Thanks to me everyones gonna be gunning it for us…"
"Hey, it's not your fault." Dawn told the Loud boy as she put a hand on his cheek. "I was the one who couldn't do it…I just ended up dragging you along with me. But hey, we still have us right? We're still an alliance?"
Lincoln found himself smiling a bit at Dawn as he nodded his head. "Yeah. Absolutely." Lincoln said as he and Dawn found themselves joining hands. "To the final two we go."
"Brbrb…" Edward let out sadly.
"Hey don't worry buddy." Lincoln reassured his platypus as he gently pet his head. "Dawn will take good care of you while I'm gone." Edward still looked sad, but nodded his head. The boat's horn then went off signaling Lincoln that it was time to go. "I…guess I better leave."
"Yeah…" Dawn said…before the two shared a hug. Dawn wrapped a single arm around Lincoln with one arm holding Edward while Lincoln wrapped both of his around Dawn. The hug lasted longer to them then it actually was in real time as they felt their bodies against one another with Edward in between the two.
But the two had to separate and Lincoln, with his backpack on, started heading towards the boat. "See ya Dawn…" Lincoln gave one last bye to Dawn as he waved to her.
"Bye Lincoln…" Dawn was forced to watch Lincoln board the cruise boat which took off pretty much as soon as he boarded. And as she watched the boat leave, a few tears escaped her eyes. "I'll miss you…"