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Total Drama X: Winter Warriors
Episode 11: Love Truly Pucks
RAJ AND WAYNE ARE BACK AND THEY'RE HERE TO (technically) HOST A CHALLENGE that will be more than likely incompherensible to most of the other contestants, so Chris "gets" a few details wrong as part of his mission to make the contestants' lives worse.
But there's indeed love in the air and not only from Bowie and Raj, but another pair that share something in common that I won't reveal just yet despite it being incredibly obvious. Also, the Arctic Amazonians are angry and that is it.
"Last time on Total Drama X, the campers went from the wintery love of two awkward couples to an ice-cold classic of a good game of pinball! There was enough pain for everybody and enough floors that everybody could get crazy, but only the guys really took advantage of that. The almost won thanks to Miss Mamizou, but they lost again because Popeye did a last minute save and Taskmaster rubbed that winin their faces!"
"The Snowmen are comfortable and the Amazonians were very much not, so much so that Rukia somehow got the boot. Yeah, Rukia wasn't the victim of any weird business at all and the girls are also very calm."
But the Amazonians might come back, but the Snowmen definitely have the puck today! Okay, nevermind, it's just another episode of TOTAL DRAMA X: WINTER WARRIORS!"
Ten challenges were done and right now, the Striking Snowmen were on a strikingly good high carrying over from the challenge where they had to deal with a tempermental lawyer and an annoying country guy, even if it didn't seem like it at the moment to everybody.
Because two people felt something was up.
"I ain't gots a good feeling 'bout this." Popeye said.
"Why not, he seems like a good guy and he's training to be a hero!" Manolo argued for the annoying blonde. "And he can copy any power."
"I ain't talking about the guy. I'm talking 'bout the wretches."
Manolo popped his eyes out.
"The alliance of goons, those ladies are exquisite."
"Whoa, nice save. I'm starting to think that there is an alliance because Sticks keeps on shouting about betrayals." Manolo said. "And the ladies are all fighting."
Popeye actually took a closer look at what was happening along with Monoma, who scooted up into his seat.
"Yer name's not Moneymart?" Popeye asked.
"Yes." Monoma stated. "While I would celebrate my fellow student's loss, something is terribly off about their specific elimination. What did Rukia do?"
"Youse don't get 'em." Popeye shook his head.
The three dudes were having a decent time figuring out the ladies' vibe, despite it not only being incredibly obvious but also put a dent in the team's camrarderie.
'
Minus the alliance that actually had an opportunity, so says MK, who was even gone from her alliance that was waiting for something important and sneaking for any kind of advantage.
"I made this kinda cheating and those guys are just copying it." She quipped quietly, sneaking into the bush.
And she was surprised to see three familar faces that might have caught her.
Raj, the gay hockey player, Wayne, the supportive hockey player and Bowie, the gay strategy player, all having a decent time with hockey sticks and a puck.
"Okay, I'm not really that impressed with MK because she ain't cheating as much." Bowie threw it out.
MK could definitely hear Bowie throwing disses at her.
"Maybe that's a good thing, Bowie, maybe she's tired of cheating." Raj remarked.
"I don't about that, Rajie, she definitely wants to cheat!" Wayne shouted. "But she can't."
"Wayne, you surprise me sometimes." Bowie rolled his eyes. "I thought-"
"Because she likes having friends."
Bowie just put his hand on his face, as the hockey bros were having a laugh.
"Eh, Rajie, wonder why Chris had us hosting a hockey challenge in an weird ring?! Maybe it would take too long, which I doubt!" Wayne declared. "Can't believe that it's a whole sprint to one goal."
"I know, Wayne, what a weird hockey challenge." Raj remarked. "But Chris is a mean guy, never forget that."
"Yeah, I was alone! I missed ya, Rajie!"
"Missed ya, too."
"Can I just say something-" Bowie did say more, but MK had all of the info that she needed to slip away back to her fellow alliance mates who were practically incensed.
And they were in the beautiful snowing forest.
"Well, I got the info on the next challenge, you can thank me later." MK said.
"Good because we're kicking the other alliance guys' asses!" Ermes threatened. "Right into hospital."
"Why the hospital? Fighting makes them badass, they ain't got nothing on my gameplay." MK remarked. "Exposing them's cool."
"Exposing them to my fists a good option-"
Ermes got her fist grasped by the tanuki lady, who wasn't so incensed like many of the other members and also the Stand user.
"Miss Costello, MK has a much better option strategy-wise and you're not risking your spot in the game by using your stand to enact transient justice. It will literally last ten minutes-"
"[Funk] that, I'm not letting cartoon villains rule the game!" Ermes yelled. "MK, you look like you have something."
"Uh, you're actually gonna like this."
MK whispered to her fellow squadmates, who were just as baffled as her.
*Mamizou's confessional*
The brown-haired tanuki sighed.
"If this man knew of shogi, mahjong or anything that someone of my stature knows, he would find a way to insert any kind of danger on it." She commented on the situation.
*Confessional cut*
Android 21 walked back before Ken definitely could and she could see the firestorm first hand, literally kicking her in the face.
"WHY WOULD YOU EVEN SAY THAT IF YOU WEREN'T GOING VOTE FOR ME!" Sticks screamed.
"I swear I did and that was my reasoning. I apologise if you don't like it, but my vote got swapped around by somebody."
"I ain't so sure about that?"
21 was plain baffled at how Sticks stopped believe in consipracy theories and then she saw Jasmine look mad.
"She wouldn't vote me off for my mental health, which is a conspiracy that I can't get into right now."
"Sticks is kind of right. That isn't a friendly move." Jasmine said.
*21's confessional*
"I didn't know that watching the Shawshank Redemption would lead to this." She was deep in thought. "Ken's got strangely good tastes in movies."
*Confessional cut*
21 sat down, as Ramona and Undyne were talking over each other now and glared at her for a second before going back to the new standard protocol.
"What did Rukia even do to deserve voting her off!" Ramona shouted.
"I don't know, but I didn't vote for her. Lolo said that she looked like a dead girl, she's super strong and uhhhhh, that's apparently it! Somebody messed with our votes again!" Undyne said.
"I doubt it, she seems ridiculously overpowered." Ramona offhandedly stated. "And not super team-y."
"WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN! SHE SAID THE VOTES ARE MESSED UP, TOO!"
"Why are you getting so aggressive, we know that whoever is messing with the votes might not be us two." Ramona said. "Sticks might know. I'm just tired of getting screwed."
"Me too, but why are you so mad?" Undyne insisted. "Why would you think that Rukia would even be a good candidate. MK and 21 messed up in the last challenge if you're arguing that."
"Yeah, uh, I feel like Sticks should be outta here, mostly because our team's hella stacked!"
MK was under a table for some reason and then got up after saying that.
"Don't ask what I was doing down there. It's questionable, okay?"
"STOP TALKING CRAP, MK CONTRIBUTED A LOT! Your ass should be careful right now." Ermes screamed. "Geez, ten episodes in and the eliminations are ass."
"Hey, what is you two's problems. I was just figuring out alternate eliminations!" Ramona shouted.
The ladies were not having a good time, even moreso for the more optimistic pink lady who had to speak up.
"Guys, I don't really care who should have been eliminated last challenge! What matters is that we're up against a bunch of cheaters and they might be from the other team, so whoever wants to do their thing is gonna have problems with us!" Ashido said her piece. "Girls, the only thing that the cheaters want us to do is lose!"
Ashido made the team silent for the first time in about half an hour from some directionless arguing and feuds that had started in an elimination.
"Yep, you're right. Whoever these cheaters are, they're toast." Undyne said.
Sticks disappeared again.
The air in the team was plain awkward.
*MK's confessional*
"I found this."
MK held a random smartphone.
"Bet it has something on there." She shrugged.
*Confessional cut*
The alliance of villains definitely noticed the notable uproar of the ladies and the genuine suspicion of some of the men, going back to their hut of tech and random technological garbage.
"Something's very wrong with this. We did it again and those ladies are mad." Bowser said. "So why are some of the guys suspicious?"
"Easy? It's cheating and we do have a decent amount of virtuous players pretending that this is a honest game." Robotnik explained. "Newsflash, buddy, this game will always contain strategists, snakes and other dubious game players of all kinds. And we're just that."
"Whew."
Bowser had a sweaty look.
"I don't know if I wanted to be disliked by these guys, they're good at their business!"
"Hey, hey, hey, it's not that serious. You're talking to the master of combat here if it comes to fists and I doubt that it would come to that." Taskmaster was smoking. "Could be easy money."
"Have you seen Popeye?" Robotnik asked.
"Yes. I could find a way of beating him."
Medic, Bowser and Robotnik were astounded at this guy's ridiculous overconfidence.
"Ze trick to dealing with Popeye is to catch hiz spinach when you have the time." Medic stated. "Otherwise you're in for an unwinnable fight, nevermind dealing with everyone else on your own."
"Point being is that acting like an fool will get you people who don't tend to like fools very much and said people actually have the ability to turn into strings of meat." Robotnik remarked, unimpressed. "Anyways, let's just turn the heat down."
"Good, I don't know if I could've handled Popeye." Bowser remarked.
While the dudes were leaving, Sticks and Hobie were surprised to both be back together and also be on the cusp of finding out about an secret alliance and Sticks had one question.
"I don't find it crazy that the government agent, the government in turtle form and two kinda shady mercenaries are in alliance." Sticks said in a calm fury. "But I found out about our team's votes being swapped around!"
"Bruh, don't ask me for anything else. Just found the wastemans hanging about."
"Hey, garbage man are controlled by the government. They ain't bad."
Hobie didn't want to explain that wasteman means loser in roadman slang. (roadman means modern British gangster?)
*Sticks' confessional*
"I don't know that one fic had me looking at the script for future episodes, but I finally found something and now it's time for a version of Eggman to pay!" She could only yell. "Anyways, where's the challenge announcer?"
*Confessional cut*
Sticks left the toilet, where Puss was waiting outside.
"What's up with you?" Sticks asked.
"Not that much, since our next battle will be legendary!"
"Okay, campers, we've got another challenge and-Wayne, don't hold the mic! Next challenge!"
Sticks and Puss looked at each other and wondered who Wayne was.
Sticks and Puss, on opposite sides of each other, managed to figure who Wayne really was and so did everyone else because he was holding a hockey stick like it was an artifact.
"Hahaha, 'eh Rajie, looks like we're gonna see these weirdos handle the best sport on earth!" Wayne out of sincerity.
"Yeah. One of them even looks like MK!" Raj shouted.
Also, Chris then walked out in a hockey uniform that rightfully got the derision he didn'tn want, as almost everybody laughed at him.
"Haha, laugh all you want! I promise you the challenge is awesome!"
"Honestly, don't feel bad, it just looks funny on you." Emma insisted innocently, as Chris' ego took another beating.
Chris wisely sighed, having enough of the orphan.
"Anyways, we've got a relatively simple and cold challenge! This one's a Canadian of a tradition as it gets right next to this show, liking syrup and the word ey-h. Ice hockey and these two guest stars will not stop telling you about it, but I've got a way better version of it right here on this arena!"
The contestants, Raj, Wayne and even Bowie were looking at the ice-covered clearing in the middle of some random trees that may or may not be missiles for self-defense, but the fauna was definitely real with all of the slightly out of season flowers and snow that dotted the place around where the contestants were and where Chris was on the hastily made stage.
Everyone saw witness to what looked like a hockey rink rise out of the ground and it didn't look too unordinary if you squinted at it for a second, but the big single goal, assortment of poles and ice spikes dotted around the edge made it very Total Drama in a sense.
"Alright, so here's the rules! Your team put the puck in the goal and you get a point and it's the other team's goal to stop your team from getting points! And I may have added a few things for entertainment reasons!"
"Wait, they don't deserve to be messed up over this!" Raj shouted.
"Raj, we've been over this. He likes putting people in pain way too much." Bowie said.
"I'm right over here, dude! Anything's allowed that doesn't destroy the puck or other dudes, pushing, shoving, shooting beams or arrows are allowed! And uh, you guys have fun!"
"How is this fun?" Bowie suggested, unsurprised.
"You figure it out, man." Ken had a now nervous smile on his face. "Also, the ladies have less members than us guys."
"Sweet, it's gonna make their comeback worth it! Anyways, you guys have ten minutes to figure what you're doing."
'
The ladies were still reeling from their argy-bargy situation back in the cafeteria and Sticks had one duty to tell something very important to the rest of them.
"Wait, how does this work again?" Lolo asked.
"You put the puck into the goal, that's it. Wait, doesn't somebody have to be the goalie?" Ramona said. "Somebody rough, tough and somebody who might have voted for-"
"Would 21 even be a good fit. She's super fast." Lolo defended her teammate.
"Yes, because she can block stuff."
Lolo had a thought about it, as Ramona stepped right back with her fellow "team leaders", who had mostly calmed down by then.
"Undyne, it's not that serious. We can definitely pound the cheaters, but it's definitely true that most of these guys wouldn't do that." Jasmine explained to herself like she was doing it again.
"WHOEVER THOSE CHEATERS ARE WILL PAY!" Undyne screamed, energising her hockey stick.
"It's just four villains, not the whole team!" Sticks screamed. "I bet those guys love you acting like this!"
"I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEIR ATTEMPTS, WE'RE THE STRONGEST TEAM ON EARTH!"
Sticks and Ramona were witnessing their team leader become a crash-out and were understandably worried about her.
"Then make it true. Please don't hurt them too bad." Sticks tried to calm her down.
"Why the hell not? The team allowed the cheaters to have their business and run along with it." Ramona said, as Sticks whispered in her ear.
Ramona and Sticks then looked at each other for a second, before turning back to their furious team leader and then Jasmine came up to her for the information.
Jasmine heard it and instantly shook her head.
*Sticks' confessional*
"Those guys compromised their prinicples and the worst part it's absolutely working for them. The whole team's like a broken plate, Undyne could actually get herself eliminated and I feel like most of us aren't friends anymore, but I had to reveal the truth."
She sighed.
"Yeah, the rest of the men probably wouldn't do stuff like this."
*Jasmine's confessional*
"I don't know what's worse, the fact that if we lose that our team's going to become more compromised or the fact those four villain think that doing won't get them into serious trouble with their teammate."
*Confessional cut*
The Snowmen, meanwhile, were all witnessing the ladies struggle to pick their goalie, as in his infinite confidence, Hobie stepped up and took the goalie uniform.
"Mate, you guys have no problem with it?!" Spider-Punk shouted in surprise.
"Yeah, go for it."
Tengen could only look onto the other team.
"Those ladies have been shouting about cheaters for two challenges, now. So unflashy."
"Yeah, accusing us of cheating is some nasty work!" Bowser could only grin.
"No, it's unflashy to cheat on this thing this early in the game." Tengen replied. "Those cheaters suck."
"Damn right. We beat them fair and square, no need to make 'em mad like that." Joe ruminated. "Also, GET THAT UNIFORM OFF, PUNK!"
"Bruh, make me." Spider-Punk quipped, as there was many thumbs up for him. "Lads, I didn't do for the thumbs up."
Joe sighed, as Tengen then saw a bead of sweat drop on Bowser.
"Fine, but I will vote your ass off if we lose." Joe threatened.
"I'm cool with that." Spider-Punk jokingly answered.
*Bowser's confessional*
"No way that one of the ladies found out my scheme. If this gets found out, I'm going to be more dead than somebody swimming in lava." Bowser said.
*Confessional cut*
The match started with Chef was the referee, Wayne was the referee that the other referee didn't like and Raj and Bowie attempted to have a good time watching.
"ATTENTION!" Chef shouted. "Every teammate, no matter what they are, will participate. If you get injured on the field, you're out! Each half of the game's an hour each and your break gets 30 minutes!"
"Why so lenient?" Wayne asked.
"No lawsuit and-"
"Oh, okay!"
Undyne and Joe were ready to fight, as Joe took the puck with Undyne struggling to even move correctly on the ice.
"There ain't no frickin' way that you guys know how to do this!" Joe called out, seeing some of his teammates have no problem.
"Thank god." Axl was literally slipping at speed. "Sounds like one of those lame sports-"
Axl Low had hit a pole, as Ramona took the puck from Joe being the only decent skater.
It was Joe VS Ramona, since most of the other players were either slipping on the ground consistently or had hitten at least one pole and couldn't catch up to the deadly duo.
Ramona was definitely skating awkwardly, but Joe was rolling full-steam ahead on trying to bash the girl with only a wheelchair and his spirit.
Hobie & Santa (of all people) were skating on ahead.
"Big man, where was this in those last few challenge!" Hobie shouted.
"I do tend to love a bit of skating on ice." Santa opaquely explained. "Cold's great."
"I don't believe in loving the cold."
On the other side, Ashido and Sticks were notably slower, owing to Undyne trying her hardest to get the game back.
"Listen, you're gonna get frozen! Just like the aliens that like freezers!" Sticks shouted.
"What do you even have against those guys?" Ashido asked.
"I don't know, but I don't care either!"
"Fair point!"
Undyne got up against and then screamed back into the ground, as Santa finally took a swing at the stick and miraculously and it went the goalie that was just a bear wearing Owen's colours.
Ashido or Sticks weren't fast enough and Santa got a lot of cheers from his fellow dudes, surprised to see such an old bogey do some good work.
"And Nick takes the point for the dub!"
"Mate, where did you even get that!" Axl shouted.
"Guys, guys, the guy can skate for some reason." Taskmaster said. "Why the hell can you do that?"
"Hey, don't be rude to the geezer, he gave us a goal!"
"I just wanted to ask."
Santa was definitely sweating under the coat.
Striking Snowmen 1 - Arctic Amazonians 0
And the puck was back in the neutral zone for some odd reason, as Joe and Undyne were back to fighting in a very "balanced" zone and then Undyne passed it to someone that technically wasn't breaking the rules.
Android 21 kinda just "flew" above the ice, as she tried to control the puck and got it bouncing onto a pole and then she almost caught it, but uh, Undyne figured something out.
She had to pass lest her team get a serious disadvantage, letting Lolo try a little something which was wildly flail around at a ridiculous speed and somehow pass it back to 21.
"Phew, safe and simple-"
21 then saw Ken ice-skate like it was nothing.
"No hard feelings on this, 21, I-"
Ken then ice-skated right into a hole that opened up, as 21 then passed it back to Sticks, who just shot it for the goal at stupid fast.
By this point, Hobie, Joe and Taskmaster (it probably makes sense if you considering the mess of comic continuity) were trying to get the catch up on the conspiratorial badger and the puck went flying through.
Taskmaster caught it, if you count near misses, but the ladies had a goal on their hands and the bear landed just as the puck went into the goal.
"And then the ladies equalize those points easily!"
Striking Snowmen 1 - Arctic Amazonians 1
*Santa's confessional*
It was oddly Christmas-sy in there.
"Something tells me that letting us blokes win easily will not be good, especially since Sticks is right on the money. Those bloomin' villains can't just pull the rug from under us and I might have had a fall."
"It was a fall." He couldn't deny it.
*Confessional cut*
Joe took the puck and this time, it was going to be surprisingly awkward since a lot of the other players were swarming on top of him for obvious reasons and not looking where they were going.
Ken tried to jump over a pole, but his chest took the brunt of it and he fell straight down on top of one of his teammates, which meant one thing seriously happening.
Ken was on top of Medic and could definitely hear the screams of the currently scrunched Medic, which was rather ironic.
"HOLY MOLY, how are you still alive!" Ken shouted.
"Ze angle wasn't really enough to hurt me zhis much." Medic calmly stated. "But I cannot ice skate."
"That's okay, you tried you hardest and did your Kenniest. Anyways, uh, is the game still going on."
"No, we stopped it. Mostly because-WOW, MEDIC!" Chris just saw the guy's ankle bend in a impossible downward direction. "Okay, somebody, get Medic outta here!"
Chef and Wayne skated onto the field and saw Medic's injuries in detail.
"You said you had an healing gun, eh?" Wayne asked.
"Why is zat zhe first question you ask, you knucklehead?" Medic groaned.
"Because I know stuff!"
And Medic was pulled out of the game, to the horrified eyes of many of the Swordfishes.
*Bowser's confessional*
"Wayne's smarter than a lot of these guys, he knows that Medic's gonna heal everybody's injuries and my guy can stand up proud to be part of this alliance...and team!" He could only cheer.
*Confessional cut*
Bowser then held the puck in his hands, as Joe looked confused.
"You can't just-I can't believe you would do that." Joe tutted at Bowser's gung-ho puck steal. "Also, can you ice skate?"
"A lot more of us than you'd think. Have faith in us, Joe!"
"I do. Just don't steal my puck next time, real dick move."
Bowser then charged with Puss on his left and Santa two paces behind on his right, making sure that the ladies knew what was about to happen, who definitely had their girls on the defense.
21, Undyne, Ramona, Mamizou and Ashido were ready to block whatever shots went their way, as Ermes carefully moved with her own stand slightly off the ground with both her stick and the stand's stick.
"That's a whole wall of lady right there! How's the Big Bowz gonna handle it?"
Bowser put some fire on it and it didn't melt the ice, just meant that the puck was only gonna get hotter and he sent it full-force right towards the weakest looking girl of the team.
Who also had a suspicious smile that he only noticed when Mamizou pulled a second hockey stick out, caught the puck with the first hockey stick to flip it into the air and could easily see the puck...since it was going straight up.
The tanuki (bake-danuki) managed to catch it and send it right into the goal, which even put some fear intoa bear robot.
"And wow, that's one heck of a little girl! Mamizou gives those Arctic Amazonians another point!"
"You caught the puck with your tail and then swung it into the goal." Ramona could only say it with exasperation.
"I did and your eyes did not deceive you." Mamizou shook her hand.
"Yeah. If that's a legal goal, we can get creative!"
"Well, that was an experiment in creating tactical manouvres and of course, it worked out in my favour!"
Undyne got up and she had an unusually angry smile, as Bowser was complaining to Wayne.
"That had to be some illegal move, that was straight up stealing the puck to do some stupid flashy stuff!" Bowser vocalised his insults.
"Rajie would agree that's legal, since she stole the puck. Never a bear goalie either, but it still counts!" Wayne insisted.
"I hate it when you're right."
"Sorry, can't just let you mess with hockey. It's already been messed with enough."
Bowser growled, as Wayne ran back from the king, sensing the ability to douse him with fire and the ladies were having a good time in this weird game of hockey.
That being said, for the third time, Undyne got taken down and it was by the mercenary without morals or a massive mouth, who was swiftly sliding down his side of the arena with one simple reasoning.
*Taskmaster's confessional*
"Far from it to discuss my home life, it's boring, which I don't mind because my missions very much are exciting in ways that I can't really discuss. All I know that we're throwing whatever they got back at them with a little something extra, since that's how we won the last two challenges."
*Confessional cut*
Taskmaster, Bowser, Joe and Tengen hopped into the attacking seat, as the rest of the Snowmen had a little surprise for all of the other Amazonians that weren't going on the attack.
Mostly because they were beating up on each other with only hockey sticks and their latent abilities that they brought along with them.
"Seriously, this is getting old, what is your problem?" Ashido asked.
"The problem is that you lost twice, which isn't much of a problem admittedly." Monoma explained himself, using only his stick. "And I heard about the cheaters."
"Yeah, there's been four bad guys messing with our votes Sticks says. Which doesn't sound right."
"I guess it doesn't." Monoma opaquely remarked, before Ashido noticed a weird glint in his eye.
Ashido could only see a bunch of smoke come up out of nowhere, as Tengen slid right in her prime position near the center of the ice field with Monoma taking his leave.
"Damn, you girls are flashy! Gotta respect that." Tengen arrived, as Ashido almost caught the puck sliding under her.
But it only shifted directions towards Santa, who swung it quite awkwardly in the right direction (because of Tengen's puck speed) and the bear goalie couldn't really stop anything thanks to the odd angle it came into the goal with.
"And once again, Nick ties it up 2-2 for both teams! The guy's got the jolliness and can skate on ice, what else do you need!"
Santa looked weirdly proud of most of his team, aside from a certain few that were cheating on a bootleg Canadian survivor, especially since they were trying to come to hug him.
"Bloomin' 'eck, it's all on me!"
"It'sk sure is." Popeye replied. "How'd ya do that?"
"I like to skate on ice?"
"Sounds right!"
"And it's time for the half-game break! Remember you guys better use this time to strategise, because I'm about to upgrade this challenge from a crazy one into a crazier one!" Chris announced. "I'm not joking, there's stuff I've been holding back!"
*Sakura's confessional*
She looked worn, her red tracksuit wet and her red winter jacket was stained.
"This challenge sucks...mostly because I'm kinda bad at ice skating and these poles and random holes just make it much worse. Chris is tring to make me hate this show, but I can't because this is kind of like a fight! A fight to not get an illness, but a fight nonetheless!"
*Confessional cut*
Two different teams with two totally different strategies took the time to talk about important things.
"Do we just wipe the floor with them or what?" Undyne asked. "Because I sure as hell want to!"
"We definitely could, but if Chris says he's been holding back stuff it always means that it's some crazy thing that wouldn't fit here!" Sakura stated. "So, yeah."
"Good idea, Sakura!" Undyne said.
"Hold up, I think I might have a little something-" MK started.
"No time for cheats, MK, we're getting serious!"
The whole team cheered, minus a dejected pair of Mamizou and MK, who had stuff to say.
"It's not really a cheat, but I think it might be more bears." MK remarked. "Either that or more holes."
"Truly he loves us suffering for the televised audience." Mamizou added on.
...
As for the Snowmen, they had one goal.
"So, how do we score more goals?" Bowser asked. "Anybody got ideas."
"Oi, just shoot it at the goal with your special ability!" Axl suggsted. "Sounds simple."
"That's a pretty unintelligent idea, especially since it is likely that said strategy would either result in Mamizou stealing our puck or Android 21 being able to stop it easily and if Popeye gets in-"
"Gets whats in?" Popeye questioned Robotnik, who just had a coy smile.
"-if you get in a fight with Android 21, the arena could either break apart or the puck would break and we'd automatically lose." Robotnik finished his explaination. "The best method is to all ensure that as many of us as possible make it past the pole section and then harass the other members, so that the puck shooter."
Joe and Manolo thought it over, as they were trying to figure out wherever the plan was just junk or not.
"We'll do it, since the plan makes a lot of sense. A lot of our members do have abilities that easily counter theirs and I'd like to have another victory over Ashido." Monoma hypotheised, having a mischevous grin.
"I don't really care, we came to win!" Joe Swanson proclaimed.
The break was over the only thing that changed was there being three more holes and a few more bears to fight, which may have been the reason why Chris was miffed.
"Can't believe that legal said that it'd be too dangerous and physically impossible! When that has stopped me-"
Chris let his hand off the mic mid-rant, realising the obvious and Chef was ready to do his job.
"Oh, for heaven's sake, pretty boy's having some technical difficulties, can y'all hear me!" Chef called out with the megaphone, everyone nodding. "The game's back on!"
This time, Wayne actually got to do the job.
"Just letting you know, both teams are awesome." Wayne then put his arms down, as Undyne easily caught it.
"GO GO GO, I CAN'T SKATE!" Undyne screamed, somehow skating through raw anger (and plot armour)
"Uh, but you're doing that-"
Ramona saw the fish gal fall.
"-Never mind, make do on that stuff!"
"I'm making do!" MK was skating okay-ish.
*MK's confessional*
"Let me have this one, I can't just keep on cheating if the only way to cheat gets stopped by Chris cutting holes and plopping more of the bane of my second showing!" She barely justified.
*Confessional cut*
MK was trying to not slip up, easily getting the momentum to win and then passing it to Ramona, who had full control of her skating, MK sliding on the ground right into a bear slapping her away.
Ramona, Ashido and Mamizou were up against what looked like a gauntlet of fellas from the other team do their thing and their other teammates were actually doing ok.
Lolo, somehow especially so.
"Hold on, I'm gonna put down some water and uh, I don't want any of you to slip please!"
"Just do it, already, they're fine, Lolo!" MK insisted.
Lolo shot down some water in a very specific way that made a simple corridor down towards the guys and some of the bears that just happened to be in the way.
And with that, the guys were down.
"Thanks, Lolo, you did a thing!" Ramona shouted.
"I...appreciate it?"
Ramona and the leaders were skating around most of the fellas, minus an impressive pair of Ken and Joe, who were helping guard the goal along with the bear from the earlier half.
"Come on, Android 21, you gotta deal with those guys!" Ashido shouted. "I don't care if he's your future potential boyfriend, we can defeat him."
"I'm not discouraged, though." 21 remarked. "Ken, you don't hate for this, right?"
Joe and Ken quick looked at each other and then looked back at the ladies in fear.
"Ken, you better find a way of stopping the ladies." Joe remarked.
"Nah, I got a good way of stopping them." Ken confidently said.
Ken had a stick and a dream and Hobie to help on that dream, as the three dudes were seeing Ramona, Sticks and Ashido pass the puck between each other at ridiculous speed.
And Mamizou sent it through Ken's legs and the bear's foot, letting the Amazonians celebrate once again, Santa falls down the hole.
"MAN, they got us!" Joe shouted.
"Yeah, she's mad overpowered." Ken added in astonishment.
"No, she isn't, not as long as I don't believe in our team losing." Hobie tried to encourage.
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*Spider-Punk's confessional*
"Since Mamizou's allowed to just blast the puck anywhere, I'm gonna web my stick and if Chris has a problem with it."
He pointed to the camera.
"Then he's a neoliberal, he already looks like one!"
*Confessional cut*
The game continued and Hobie snatched the puck with a sticky hockey stick and it actually didn't help at all.
"Bruv, we might actually lose this one!" Hobie shouted in frustrated. "I don't see ya ice skating like the old man, Taskmaster."
"Well, I'm a master of combat. That's it."
Taskmaster and Hobie were working together like it was a non-canon comic, despite the puck actually managing to fall off the stick, Santa actually following up quite easily.
Taskmaster fell into a hole.
Hobie, Santa, Joe and Ken were back in the game and tried to get around the problem group of six that were blocking the goal with sticks that were made to steal.
Didn't help that Robotnik's sentries were getting blocked surprising well by Wayne's bare hands and a good chunk of the rest were looking like comedy clips in the making.
Bowser was fell into another hole, as the four dudes were trying to fight the wholesale group of ladies that saw Ken shoot off a puck and get it caught by Sticks.
Sticks shot it off, but the bear finally blocked it and then Sticks got on the bear and fought on him, leaving the puck to be fought over by absolutely everybody that could skate minus two people that were in love.
"For the record, Ken, please don't have any hard feelings for this move." 21 just commented on the absolute brawl.
"I was gonna say that!" Ken huffed, as 21 got the puck and threw it in the goal near instantly. "That was stupid fast, 21."
"Why didn't you try to hit it?"
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(this challenge sucks to write, arghhhh, but i'm putting in all of my effort in unlike gary, who i seriously respect)
"Wow, I've never see so much failure in the team that's winning, ain't it, Chef?" Chris nudged Chef. "And there's still twenty minutes left, unless the Snowmen-"
Undyne took the puck again.
"I don't know what to tell you, pretty boy, the ladies found their stride." Chef saw Orphan Emma actually skate. "The orphan can skate now!"
"SHE CAN SKATE NOW?!"
Orphan Emma and Lolo were clearly trying their best, but their best was much better than the currently hectic Snowmen and Lolo throwing some ice on one of the guard bears didn't help.
Orphan Emma might have slipped, but she unintentionally gave the ladies a massive advantage thanks to Lolo freezing a bear and the guys having an strangely aggressive bear.
Long story short-
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*Robotnik's confessional*
"Look what happens when they don't listen to me." He said. "We are down three points in a sport that most of us are borderline useless in. If only that Wayne imbecile allowed my sentries, it could actually be a fair fight."
*Confessional cut*
"Uh, there's still ten minutes left, but if the Amazonians score another goal then they automatically win! Come on, Snowmen, you're getting blown out by amateurs!"
"Half of these guys haven't heard of ice skating before, eh!" Wayne mocked. "And the ladies are rushing them easily!"
"Thank you, but get out of the booth!"
Joe huddled all of the team that weren't feeling the cold or plain injured and it was an amazing huddle, too.
"I didn't even know that Total Drama had pity rules! Can't believe they'd pity us!" Axl Low whined.
"Chris definitely does which is clearly a first." Bowser said. "Yeah, I watched this thing, it's funny, but the point we have to overcome uncomfortable odds to beat them."
"We can absolutely do that in ten minutes if we cheat." Taskmaster suggested. "Do you guys have any ideas?"
"Use fire?" Bowser said.
"Go real fast, real flashy?" Tengen questioned Taskmaster.
"Figure out why the ladies are shouting about cheaters?" Monoma asked. "I mean, it is more important than overcome impossible odds."
"What, you can't just lose hope! The guys in the movies do it all the time!" Axl cheered his teammates.
"Yes, let's win this! Who's blocking this time?" Manolo was already pumped.
"I'll do it."
Joe wheeled up to the occassion.
"Unless any of you guys have something to stop whatever those girls are cooking up, I'm gonna block them."
"Then what do we do?" Manolo asked with hope.
"Act like dopes and makes one of our guys go home." Popeye said. "But I gots the arms!"
"YEAH, believe in Joe and Manolo!"
Most of them cheered, mostly because they had no other option.
*Joe's confessional*
His hand was scrunching up his face.
"IT'S OVER! It is really over."
*Confessional cut*
"Alright, eh, it's gonna be curtains for you awesome Snowmen if you don't get it! But the game ain't over, I've seen comebacks and stuff!" Wayne was trying to cheer the fellas up.
"And stuff?!" Bowser shouted.
"GO!"
Bowser actually caught the puck, which meant the Snowmen finally had the advantage for once and the dudes were moving and swerving around the poles, the holes and the big koopa had a solution for the bear.
He burned it.
"I can't believe he just did that-is that allowed!" Chris asked.
"It is a little funny how you're suddenly about the rules now." Chef announced.
Bowser was steamrolling his way towards the goal, which made it much more of a surprise when some of the girls were already almost there and they were all the heavy hitters, too.
"Popeye, get 'em good."
"Way ahead of ya, knucklehead."
Popeye had the spinach and instantly, he got to doing his thing and he met fist-to-fist with Mamizou Futatsuiwa, of all people.
"Where's ya mother?" Popeye asked.
"I'm old enough to be my own father, Mister Popeye." Mamizou answered rather haughtily.
Popeye actually got blown away by a random energy ball from the bake-danuki, as he fell into a hole with Bowser giving a glance to him.
But all of a sudden, the guys were not fast enough to stop Sticks from stealing it and at this point, she had to pass it around with the goalie bear being hyper vilgilant.
Sticks passed it to Android 21 because fighting Popeye was even too serious for Mamizou to not let up on the effort.
Android 21 passed it to MK, who passed it to Ramona for obvious reasons and Ramona bounced the puck off the bear's limb to get something good.
"And it's all over, it's all over! The Arctic Amazonians finally take a win and this time, it's literally because they stomped all over the Striking Snowmen, who finally struck a loss!"
The men were either stomping their feet, groaning at their insurmountable loss or genuinely displeased from how hard they motivated the other team.
*Robotnik's very silent confessional*
He just broke some sticks and if you don't get the symbolism, you're cooked.
*Confessional cut*
There was an alliance, there was strategic players, there was players that voted with their heart and others who were very much random in their general voting pattern.
Either way, no-one knew who to vote for despite the abundance of easy options-
"Ay ay ay, this challenge was ours to lose. And there are a lot of people who didn't have the skills. No patinaje sobre hielo." Puss could feel the disappointment. "We all tried our hardest-
"Listen, you stupid clown, Axl Low, your idea sucked and you were basically useless, give us a good reason why we shouldn't vote you out." Robotnik explained it simply.
"Mate, I've got a positive attitude and if it was any other challenge, I could've gotten there, mess with time and-" Axl defended himself awkwardly.
"Whoa, whoa, what the hell do you mean mess with time?!" Joe shouted, trying to grab Axl.. "Did you just say that."
"Yeah, but I didn't want to do it because it was too unfair!" Axl sputtered. "And it's mad overpowered too."
"I'M ASKING WHAT DO YOU MEAN!" Joe screamed in the timeless Brit's face.
"I can essentially squish time so that you guys can go mad fast, but the puck would get messed up. Basically, I can make ya teleport..."
Axl got the glares of many of the members and the rest had some empathy for him giving arguments for his own elimination.
"You messed, hombre. Lo siento, pero tengo que votar por usted." Puss dropped some half-Spanish words of wisdom on an oblivious Axl.
*Santa's confessional*
"Oh ho ho, the bloody youngin' got some crazy power that could've made us win. I really don't know how he's going to survive this one, but he definitely won't!"
*Confessional cut*
Axl Low literally had no chance, feeling the crounches of his shoes on the snow and the snow that was falling on him.
"Well, well, it's the comeback of the challenge! You Snowmen are back at elimination and I do have one thing that I have to say." Chris announced.
Axl dreaded a double elimination, as did more than a few people who either had friends that partook in previous seasons or at least heard of Survivor.
"You guys blew it out there, proud of you! Never seen a lot of teenagers wreck real men! Chef, explain it to 'em!" Chris said.
"Axl Low, you could actually freeze time and instead, you were floppin' harder than a dying fish!" Chef surmised the thoughts of most of the team.
*Axl's confessional*
"I can't believe I argued myself out of the the game, why the hell did I say that?"
*Confessional cut*
"Ol' Nick...somebody voted for you. Must be jealous of your great skating skills."
"Well, I got a single vote, can't be too careful about this game!" Santa chuckled in spite of the team's misery.
"Medic, someone thought you were kinda useless in the challenge and also suspicious as hell."
"...What did they mean by that?" Medic questioned.
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"Joe, Medic, Robotnik, Taskmaster, Monoma, Ken, Manolo, Spider-Punk, Puss, Bowser, Popeye, Nick, marshmallows for the lot of ya!" Chris shouted.
Axl didn't look too surprised.
"Well, I had a great time 'ere, got real lucky, saw love bloom and I came here for the game, mates!" Axl said. "Just cursed myself today."
"Alright, already, just give us some time to miss you already." Monoma sardonically stated. "You were a good man, just not a smart one."
"I know."
Spider-Punk didn't want to say anything.
"Axl Low, it's time to leave, dude, but you didn't do too bad." Chris summed Axl's run up. "For a loser."
"Are ya having a laugh, mate? I don't feel like a loser, even if I made you all lose-"
"Let's just take it to the drone!"
"Okay, mate!"
Axl then waved to his teammates, who were not nearly as forlorn.
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The blonde fella that looked like Axl Rose if you looked at him for a little bit of time, was grabbed by the drone and carried to his doom.
*Axl Low's final confessional*
"Ya know, I've had a lot of up and downs throughout this season, from losing the cute little rat guy to winning two challenges before this one to contributing to my team's wins. I ain't the most memorable team player out there, but I'm a team player until the end, even if I messed up in the last two challenges! I've definitely had a bloody good time, that's for sure!"
*Confessional cut*
"Okay, now that was what I was expecting, though there was not many moves made on the lovebirds' side! Just the fact that their relationship could get messed by both teams not having a good time! Either way, stick around for more TOTAL DRAMA: WINTER WARRIORS!"
To be continued in Episode 12, where the ice-related sports keep on coming and this time, it is not an actual sport but just some jetskis going around an ice-covered course in a relay race to end all relay races!
By the way, there may be bears for everybody just in case you guys want more cute, cuddly robotic creatures to see, though they might not be as advertised on this paragraph.
Also, Ken and Android 21 are definitely happening to enjoy each other's company, what wacky business could happen to them? Aside from both teams having to struggle to deal with each other's cheaters, that is.
Axl Low's one of those characters that isn't just destined to do well since he's a good natured idiot with powers that would break the game if used properly, basically a less powerful Superman and not nearly as consistent in challenges.
I liked him in my first deleted TD crossover and I like him here!