User:The Flaming Sword of Fury/RR Chapter 3

“Last time on The Ridonculous Race: after shopping for spices and cameling through the Moroccan desert, our teams built up a hearty appetite and I lost mine. These people are disgusting! The winners of this leg were Carrie and Devin, in my book everyone else was a loser, but we could only send one team home. In the end, it was the LARPers who got cut, but not without sharing a little affection towards each other first, they still freaked me out though. But that was then, and this is The Ridonculous Race!”

(theme song plays)

“Yesterday’s chill zone is today’s starting point,” Don began to explain, “Teams will depart in the order they arrived, starting with yesterday’s winners the intriguingly platonic best friends, Carrie and Devin!”

Carrie had pressed the Don Box and grabbed the travel tip, she handed it to Devin who immediately smiled in delight.

“Oh wow! We’re heading to Paris!” He cheered. Carrie pumped her fists in excitement and squealed after Devin had revealed their next location.

“Paris, France-home of the Mona Lisa, tiny coffees, and other things that annoy me like you wouldn’t believe! Once in Paris, teams must make their way here, to the Eiffel Tower and find their next travel tip!” Don narrated.

The Best Friends saw some mopeds nearby and immediately got onto one of them. As they were racing towards the airport, the Cadets managed to pass them with MacArthur imitating the noise of a siren and shouting, “Move aside! This is emergency police business!”

The two high-fived each other in celebration, until they saw the Ice Dancers passing by them, both with their signature creepy smiles.

(Team Interview: Jacques and Josee)

“Being sports heroes, we never know when the cameras will be on us! That’s why we always approach things with a smile on our face!” Josee said.

“It’s…really painful! Josee, I think my face is frozen!” Jacques said through gritted teeth.

“Oh, suck it up Jacques! I mean…I’m so sorry to hear that!” Josee said.

(Team Interview Over)

MacArthur shivered as she glanced over at the Ice Dancers, “I don’t know about you Sanders, but those two give me the creeps!”

Sanders nodded and commented, “Yeah, there’s something not right about those two.”

Meanwhile, more teams had managed to get onto their mopeds and rode off to the airport, however Tom and Jen were both struggling to carry a rather heavy looking Moroccan carpet.

(Team Interview: Tom and Jen)

“If we knew the fashion capital of the universe Paris was our next stop; we would not have spent so much time picking out a hand-woven Moroccan carpet!” Jen said.

“I just can’t believe we’re going to Paris! Can you imagine?” Tom squealed.

“I know right? Paris, EEEE!” Tom and Jen both squealed in unison while jumping for joy.

(Team Interview Over)\

Jacques and Josee had finally managed to make it to the airport. The two of them did a slide all the way over to the check in, and Josee chirped excitedly, “Two for Paris! Do you offer free upgrades for those who participated in the Olympics?”

The clerk looked at his computer and typed something on the computer before replying, “Ah, yes! We offer upgrades to all gold medal persons!”

The Ice Dancers both twitched in annoyance before Josee grumbled, “Economy class, is just fine! Thank you!”

The Cadets, Best Friends, and Tennis Rivals had also managed to make it to the check in, before a sudden crash had sounded through the airport. The Tennis Rivals turned to the source of the noise and it had turned to be the Surfer Dudes.

“What…are those kids doing?” Gerry panted.

“I don’t know, but that looked insane!” Pete chuckled.

(Team Interview: Geoff and Brody)

“I love mopeds! I tried to like, jump one over into my pool last summer, but ended up crashing into my neighbor’s gazebo.” Brody said.

“I told you that you wouldn’t be able to make it! But still, that was one wicked moment!” Geoff said.

“The best part was the free cake! I feel bad about ruining my neighbor’s wedding though!” Brody scratched his head sheepishly, “But hey! Cake and mopeds! What could be better than that?”

(Team Interview Over)

While the Bloggers had managed to finally get onto their moped with the carpet, Tom was struggling to keep it on. After Jen had noticed that they were falling behind once the Stepbrothers had passed them, she said, “The carpet’s slowing us down! We have to ditch it Tom!”

“But…it’s hand-woven! And the design’s really pretty too!” Tom argued.

“Tom, we are going to Paris! There will be way better-looking fashions to get there!” Jen said.

“Fine, I see your point,” Tom let go of the carpet, “Fly, carpet, be free!” The carpet flew until it had hit Dwayne and Junior who lost control of their moped and crashed. Meanwhile, the vegans had been slowly pedaling their moped behind them.

(Team Interview: Laurie and Miles)

“We walked our camel instead of riding it, and now we’re pedaling our moped instead of driving it.” Miles said.

“It’s better for the environment that way,” Laurie crossed her arms and said, “We don’t want to accidentally pollute the environment. I wish there was a way to give this moped to our camel though, that’d be cool! …Right?”

(Team Interview Over)

Back at the airport, the Bloggers had finally managed to arrive.

“I’m so glad we ditched that carpet when we did,” Tom whispered to Jen, “Otherwise we’d probably still be riding our moped here.”

The door suddenly opened, and an injured Dwayne and Junior walked in, Jen turned around and said, “Oh no! What happened to you?”

“Weirdest thing, a carpet suddenly flew at us and made us lose control of our moped. We crashed, and it hurt really bad. In fact, I think it could’ve killed us!” Dwayne said.

Tom and Jen both looked at each other awkwardly before giggling nervously, the Father and Son saw this and were creeped out.

“Um…” Dwayne said, “I’m just going to go…over there!” Dwayne and Junior immediately started walking away from the still nervously giggling duo.

“9 teams wait anxiously at the airport to board flight 2, which doesn’t take off for another hour and a half, so we covered it with sad face stickers which is hilarious! But flight one is already in the air, with the first 8 teams on board!” Don narrated.

A few hours later, the first plane had managed to land in Paris and the first 8 teams quickly ran out of the plane and the airport.

“Eiffel Tower please!” Carrie said once she and Devin had managed to catch a taxi driver’s attention.

“You know Gerry,” Pete yawned as he and Gerry were waving to catch a taxi driver’s attention, “I’m getting a bit tired.”

“Same for me, I think once we get a taxi, I’ll go down for a nap.” Gerry agreed.

“Well don’t sleep too long, wouldn’t want to distract the driver with your snoring, haha!” Pete chuckled while Gerry glared at him.

The other 7 teams had managed to get a taxi and immediately climbed in and gave the driver the name of their location. Pete and Gerry on the other hand, climbed into the taxi and immediately crashed. The driver, not sure what to do, immediately started driving without a destination.

The Ice Dancers had successfully managed to reach the Eiffel Tower first. Josee cheered in excitement, while Jacques gave his signature creepy grin, until the car behind the taxi had crashed into it, and Josee was pushed forward slightly and gave a scream.

The car turned out to have had the Cadets in it. MacArthur smiled triumphantly and said, “Nailed it!” She ran over to the Don Box and grabbed her travel tip, and commented, “Huh, it’s a botch or watch…”

“In this botch or watch, whoever did not drink the stew in Morocco must draw a caricature of their teammate and get their drawing approved by this local French artist. Once the drawing is approved, he will hand the teams their next Travel Tip!” Don said. After he finished, the Best Friends, Daters, RTV Pros, Geniuses, and Surfer Dudes had arrived at the Eiffel Tower and had managed to start drawing their caricatures.

Meanwhile, Flight 2 had been in the air for quite a while, Emma was currently sleeping while Kitty was busy taking some more selfies. She looked bored and glanced around the aisle to look at the other teams, most of them were sleeping or were talking amongst themselves. She frowned until she had managed to spot a certain bandanna donning rocker sitting in the seat across from hers.

She got up and tapped him on the shoulder, the unwitting rocker jumped up in fright and turned to her with wide eyes, “Wha-what the heck do you think you’re doing?”

“Nothing! I just got lonely and wanted to chat, my partner’s asleep and I really needed someone to talk to!” Kitty chirped.

“Well…could you have at least made it more obvious? My partner’s sleeping over here, and I’ve been trying to nap too!” Rock sighed and shook his head, “Look, you seem nice…it’s just, you really gave me a fright! Please don’t do that again, ok?”

“Ok, ok, I’m sorry for scaring you, my name’s Kitty by the way.” Kitty introduced and put out her hand.

“Yeah…my name’s Rock.” He placed his hand in Kitty’s and the two shook hands, “And this, is Spud. He’s a bit lazy, but he’s really nice when you get to know him!”

“Wow, he sounds like the opposite of my sister!” Kitty giggled, and Rock started to giggle along with her. The two of them started to chat for a while and discussed their goals for the money and their partners.

“Attention we are preparing to start landing! We would advise all passengers to return to their seats at this time!” The flight attendant said over the intercom.

“Well, I guess I’ll talk to you later?” Kitty said to Rock.

“Yeah…see you soon!” Rock said. Kitty returned to her seat and put her seatbelt on. She gave Rock a smile to which he returned.

A half-an-hour later, the second flight had managed to land, and the other 9 teams departed out of the plane and subsequently, out of the airport. As soon as the Sisters had managed to catch a taxi, Emma climbed in and shouted the location, while Kitty turned towards Rock who was still trying to wave a taxi over and wink at him.

“What are you doing?” Emma said after she got into the cab, “This is a race!” Emma pulled Kitty inside the taxi, and Kitty’s head landed on her sister’s lap.

“Oh hello, sis!” Kitty chirped to which Emma just scoffed and rolled her eyes.

The surfer dudes had managed to finish their caricature, and Geoff handed it to the judge. Despite the crudeness of the drawing, the artist gave it a thumbs up and handed them their travel tip.

“Sweet! Thank you, my good man!” Geoff said. Brody looked at the drawing and said, “Wow, that’s a rather impressive drawing!”

“I know right!” Geoff cheered, as they high fived each other. Owen witnessed this, and said to Noah, “You know…we should be a more supportive team? You know, like them?”

“Sorry big guy, but you know I don’t do supportive.” Noah said as he drew his picture to which Owen only gave a frown.

“Go down down down, find the cheese so round, where your next tip is found. Huh? Where are we supposed to go down?” Geoff turned to Brody and asked who only shook his head. The two then saw a rat go down a manhole.

“You know, I’m not sure man, but I think the rat might be able to lead us where we need to go.” Brody said.

“You might be right, bro! Quick, follow that rat!” Geoff said as he and Brody both ran towards the manhole.

“Welcome to the catacombs, where ancient Parisians buried victims of the plague. Teams must use their noses to navigate this maze of tunnels and find the correct exit and their next travel tip, hidden amongst these wheels of Roquefort cheese.” Don narrated.

Meanwhile, the Bloggers had managed to find a taxi and had given him the name of their next location. Unfortunately for the duo, the taxi crashed, but on the bright side it had managed to get a flat tire near a shopping mall.

“A flat tire in luxury boutique heaven during a midnight madness event. Come on!” Tom said.

Jen gasped and stated, “It must be fate! The universe WANTS us to go shopping, Tom!”

“You might be right…or it could be the ultimate test of our wills.” Tom admitted.

“We are already behind, it’s not like we can simply stop, drop, and shop.” Jen said.

(Team Interview: Tom and Jen)

“If we come in last, we’re going home!” Jen said.

“And hello the more time we spend in this competition the more we can promote our blog!” Tom said.

“NOW TRENDING WITH TOM AND JEN!” Tom and Jen cheered together.

(Team Interview Over)

“On the other hand, Jen, it will take us a while to change those tires.” Tom said.

“Hmmm…you have a point. Now that I think about it, opportunities like this don’t present themselves every day! Come on Tom! We got shopping to do!” Jen said. The two ran out the taxi squealing and ran into the shops, while the driver fixing the tire simply gave a confused look.

When Carrie showed her caricature of Devin to the artist, he briefly looked at it before giving it a thumbs down.

“What?” Devin exclaimed, “That has to be a mistake, Carrie was an A student in Art!” The artist then showed him the drawing, it was of a mostly nude Devin laying down with a heart underneath him and two cherubs surrounding him. Devin looked at this and was speechless.

“Well?” Carrie asked.

“Uhhhh…it’s something homie.” Devin said.

(Contestant Interview: Devin)

“Wow…” Devin said with wide eyes, “I knew Carrie had a crush on me, but not this bad…. ugh! How am I going to let her down gently? I don’t want to possibly hurt her feelings, but I also don’t want Shelly to think something’s up too!”

(Contestant Interview Over)

While Kitty was creating her caricature of Emma, she took the time to start chatting with her.

“So, got an eye on any guys lately?” She asked.

“Yes, his name is international law! Now get back to work!” Emma snapped.

“I’m just asking.” Kitty shrugged helplessly, “That rocker guy’s pretty handsome…”

“Which one? The guy who keeps making those annoying noises, or the one who I swear has 40-day old cookie crumbs in his pockets?” Emma asked.

“The former, and I wasn’t asking for your opinion necessarily…” Kitty winked at Emma, who looked at her sister curiously.

(Team Interview: Emma and Kitty)

“Emma’s always been the more serious one, but ever since her boyfriend Jake broke up with her she’s been so- “Kitty was cut off by Emma placing a hand over her mouth.

“I’ve been FINE, perfectly fine! I do not need nor want a boyfriend! I need a law degree and I need my kid sister to grow up and stop goofing off! Got it?” Emma snapped at Kitty, who nodded in response.

(Team Interview Over)

More teams had managed to reach the Eiffel Tower and receive their tip. When the Twins found out they had to draw a caricature, Mickey’s eyes widened in horror.

“Come on Mickey, show that pencil who’s boss! There’s two of us, and only one of it!” Jay said.

(Team Interview: Jay and Mickey)

“It was a Tuesday morning, Mickey’s pencil case broke. Pencils were everywhere, he slipped on one and fell down the stairs, landing on stairs the whole way down! He’s been afraid of them ever since!” Jay explained.

(Team Interview Over)

Mickey was nervous, but he had finally managed to pick the pencil up and start drawing, however very cautiously.

Over at the RTV Pros, Noah had managed to finish Owen’s caricature and showed it to the judge. The two of them laughed while Owen asked, “What’s so funny? Can I see it?”

“No big guy, it’s…hard to explain!” Noah giggled.

The Tennis Rivals however, had been sleeping in their taxis for a while. It had taken until the taxi stopped in front of a goat for them to wake up.

“Wh-where are we?” Pete grumbled.

“Yeah, this doesn’t look like the Eiffel Tower.” Gerry commented.

“You never told me where to go.” The driver said, the tennis rivals exchanged glances and Pete said, “Well would you be a good boy and take us there?”

The driver mumbled about how he didn’t get paid enough to do this job, but immediately started heading towards the Eiffel Tower anyway.

Down at the catacombs, Stephanie and Ryan were both cautiously navigating through the maze.

“If you got the plague, I would throw myself on your boil covered body, so I could get infected too and we could die together!” Ryan exclaimed.

“I don’t know whether or not to call you creepy for saying that, or extremely sweet.” Stephanie said, looking at him oddly. Nevertheless, the two of them then began to passionately make out once more.

Over at the Eiffel Tower, Emma was busy reading a book describing to Kitty what a caricature is, “It needs at least 5 exaggerations to be, a caricature!” She explained.

“Oh, I have way more than that, trust me!” Kitty said.

“Do you want to look more dead? Or less alive?” Ennui said as he was drawing Crimson’s caricature.

“Thank goodness I’m the one drawing this picture!” Taylor said as she drew a caricature of Kelly, “I can’t think of how my mom would screw this up if she were drawing it!”

“Oh, funny that, I actually went to art school before you were born, I was going to become an artist, but I settled down to raise you!” Kelly said.

“Nobody cares mom, nobody cares.” Taylor sighed, to which Kelly gave her a slight frown in response.

Fortunately for the bloggers, they had managed to race over to the Eiffel Tower with multiple shopping bags in hand.

(Team Interview: Tom and Jen)

“Getting that flat tire was like, the best thing to ever happen to us!” Jen said with a big smile on her face.

“I’ve never shopped so fast in another language in my life! And look at all the stuff we managed to buy!” Tom cheered.

“It was risky, but it was sooo worth it! I mean, you try finding rock studded leggings in North America!” Jen said.

“Truth!” Tom agreed.

(Team Interview Over)

Meanwhile, the Twins, Best Friends, and Father and Son had managed to get their caricatures approved and they all ran towards the entrance to the catacombs. As they had entered however, the Rockers, Vegans, and Tennis Rivals had finally just managed to reach the Eiffel tower.

(Team Interview: Gerry and Pete)

“It’s nice to be back on tv. All our previous sponsorship deals dried up 30 years ago.” Gerry said.

“The last time I was on tv, the internet didn’t even exist! And neither did the hair on your ears!” Pete said.

(Team Interview Over)

Over at the catacombs, the Cadets had managed to reach an area with two tunnels, MacArthur started sniffing the air around her.

“Ok, what exactly are you doing?” Sanders asked.

“I’ve trained my nose, so I can work border crossings. People think they can bring oranges into any country they want, not on my watch sister! You might also wanna try taking that up too!” MacArthur raced into the tunnel to the right as Sanders simply watched. A few seconds later, MacArthur simply started screaming and Sanders worriedly ran after her only to find a skeleton had fell on her.

“Seriously? A simple skeleton defeated you?” Sanders asked.

“No time for wisecracks Sanders! This is serious business!” MacArthur shouted, “Now get it off me!”

Meanwhile, the Bloggers, Rockers, and Sisters had all managed to show their caricatures to the artist and were approved. When Taylor showed the artist her caricature, he cringed in fright at what she drew. Kelly looked over her shoulder at it and said, “Ooo I should keep this to give to my surgeon!”

Geoff and Brody were lost inside the catacombs and had managed to reach yet another dead end.\

“Aww man, not another one!” Brody said.

“Chill out dude, maybe once we reach all the dead ends we’ll be able to find the right way out!” Geoff reassured him.

“I’m not certain how much that will really help us, but if you insist!” Brody said as the two kept walking.

(Team Interview: Geoff and Brody)

“We’re both glass half-full kind of people. But since there’s two of us, all we need to do is pour the contents of one glass into another and we have…” Geoff started. “A full glass! Haha, take that science!” Brody said.

(Team Interview Over)

The Tennis Rivals and Vegans finally had both managed to get their caricatures approved. As the Vegans passed them, Pete turned to Gerry and whispered, “I got a plan! We’ll follow the veggie heads until they find the cheese then rocket past them and win the whole thing!”

“Veggie heads…” Gerry snorted.

“Did you hear something?” Laurie turned to Miles and asked.

“No, just keep going!” Miles said.

Down in the catacombs, Mickey and Jay were running frantically, they saw a tunnel which had two pairs of yellow eyes glowing in it. The two hugged each other and screamed, before running in the other direction. It turned out to however to just be the Goths.

“What are they so frightened of?” Ennui asked.

(Team Interview: Crimson and Ennui)

“This place would make a really good amusement park or a camp for kids.” Ennui said.

(Team Interview Over)

The Cadets however, had successfully managed to locate the cheese with the help of MacArthur’s sniffing skills.

“Let’s see, Roquefort, cave aged about 3 years!” MacArthur reported.

“Wow, that was…excellent.” Sanders said.

The two ran out the tunnel and MacArthur cheered when she saw the cheese. She grabbed onto a piece of cheese before she heard a noise behind her. She turned, and it turned out to be the Ice Dancers.

“Oh! If it isn’t the smiling silvertons!” MacArthur said. Josee walked quietly over and gracefully kicked some of the wheels of cheese over, “I hate silver!” She said.

“Take your cheese and sail away to where Mona Lisa’s on display!” Jacques read the sign.

“We’re going to the Louvre!” Sanders said.

“The Louvre, home to many paintings I was asked to stop touching. It’s also the chill zone for this leg of the race! The last person to reach the Louvre, may be heading home!” Don narrated.

The Ice Dancers jumped onto their wheel of cheese with Jacques holding Josee up with one of his arms, “Bye! You stink worse than this cheese float!” Josee called.

“Too bad you forgot your oars!” MacArthur said with a smug smile on her face.

“Jacques,” Josee started, “You were supposed to get the oars!”

The Ice Dancers lost their lead rather quickly, as the Cadets had managed to pass them without much trouble due to the oars.

“What’s French for, boo ya!” MacArthur said as she passed them.

Back at the catacombs, the Vegans were pinching their noses to block the stink with the Tennis Rivals following them.

“If this is what French cheese smells like, I’m officially lactose intolerant!” Gerry chuckled.

“Oh yeah, I’m officially YOU intolerant!” Pete replied.

The two came to a sudden stop when Miles had stopped in front of a door, to a room that was assumed to be the source of the smell.

“It’s coming from there.” She said. She opened the door and found that it was not cheese, but Owen sitting in a toilet, he let out a fart and the Vegans screamed and ran off.

“Man…that Moroccan stew can really rip through a guy. Hahaha!” Owen chuckled.

(Team Interview: Noah and Owen)

“And that was only a 6.2 on the Owen stink scale.” Noah said.

“Wait, there’s a scale for how much my farts stink?” Owen asked.

“Sure, sushi farts are 1, onion soup is a five, spicy burrito farts go all the way to 12. Those things can peel the varnish of a locker!” Noah said.

“It’s true, I’ve actually experienced that once! And it wasn’t even my own locker!” Owen said.

(Team Interview Over)

Meanwhile the Fashion Bloggers were navigating through the catacombs quite well, even with the multiple shopping bags each of them were carrying.

“You know it is like so scary in here! I feel like I’m being watched!” Tom said. While he had his head turned, Jen walked away from him, put her bags down and climbed on top of a mound of bones. She grabbed a skeleton and tied some string around its arms.

“Hey Tom, I have a BONE to pick with you!” Jen exclaimed, while moving the skeletons arms around using the string. She and Tom both laughed at her joke until Jen heard something and jumped down from the mound.

“T-Tom? I think there’s something behind you!” Jen said. Tom turned and saw a shadow of what appeared to be a monster. The duo screamed and ran with their bags in hand. In the end it turned out to be a rat just playing a prank on the two. The rat snickered before running back into its hole.

Back at the canal, the Best Friends had managed to get their wheel of cheese. Carrie jumped onto the wheel into Devin’s arms.

“Oh…uh…this is awkward.” Carrie blushed as Devin set her down onto the wheel. She started giggling as Devin started to paddle through the water.

Meanwhile, the Cadets had a lead over the other teams, but MacArthur noticed that the Ice Dancers were starting to swim using their wheel of cheese.

“No way!” MacArthur exclaimed.

(Team Interview: Jacques and Josee)

“Missing paddles, hah! That won’t stop us!” Jacques said.

“We’ve competed in far more dire situations, than that! Jacques once got rabies from a squirrel, but that didn’t stop us!” Josee said.

“I skated dressed as a Saint Bernard so that all the foam coming from my mouth made sense!” Jacques stated proudly.

(Team Interview Over)

The Ice Dancers quickly managed to take over the Ice Dancer’s lead, much to MacArthur’s dismay.

“Those two just get creepier by the minute.” MacArthur commented.

While some of the teams had managed to reach the water, the Tennis Rivals and Vegans were still lost inside the catacombs.

“Gosh, what was I thinking Gerry? I made a terrible mistake…” Pete whispered to Gerry.

“I thought Vegans would be able to sniff out dairy in a second!” Gerry said.

“Um, we’re right here, you know?” Miles said.

“Yeah, and vegans don’t eat dairy. You’re thinking vegetarians.” Laurie corrected Gerry. The tennis rivals exchanged awkward glances at this revelation.

Much like the Tennis Rivals and Vegans, the RTV Pros were also finding it somewhat hard to make it through the maze. They walked past a certain skull before Noah pointed out, “Hey, didn’t we walk past this skull, 20 minutes ago?”

“Yeah…that’s weird, isn’t it?” Owen said.

“Oh no…Owen, I think we’ve been going in circles!” Noah said. “Quick, we can’t waste time!” Noah ran off.

“Wait for me Noah!” Owen shouted as he followed his friend.

Back at the canal, Josee had finally managed to spot the Louvre. Once they reached the other side of the canal, Jacques and Josee both gracefully jumped off the wheel of cheese onto land and waved to the cameras. By doing this, they lost their lead, as MacArthur and Sanders both were rolling their wheels of cheese past them. Jacques grabbed the wheel of cheese and started rolling it like the Cadets. As the two started getting closer to the Louvre, their wheel of cheese was racing neck and neck with the Cadets’ wheel of cheese. In the end however, it was the Cadets who rolled their way into first.

“Well well lady cadets! Good work, you’re in first place! And the Ice Dancers have to settle for second!” Don said.

Once the Ice Dancers rolled their wheel of cheese onto the carpet of completion, MacArthur started taunting them, much to their annoyance.

“Huh? Do you not her victory music? That’s probably ‘cause you didn’t win!” MacArthur said, to which Josee twitched in annoyance.

“Time to put this cheese into overdrive!” Ryan cheered as he threw his paddle into the air. Unfortunately, it dropped into the ocean, Ryan turned to Stephanie and said, “Oops, babe, pass me the oar! I promise I’ll double time it!”

To this, Stephanie’s only response was to drop her oar into the ocean as well. Ryan sighed in disappointment.

(Team Interview: Ryan and Stephanie)

“I’m sorry I let you down babe.” Ryan apologized.

“It’s alright sugar plum, so long as you NEVER DO IT AGAIN!” Stephanie demanded.

(Team Interview Over)

Meanwhile the Bloggers had managed to get their wheel of cheese into the ocean. While most of the shopping bags were on the wheel, or on Tom’s head, Jen had still not managed to get on.

“Ohhh don’t let those get wet!” Jen said as a shopping bag hung off Tom’s foot.

“I won’t! But…I think you’re going to have to swim for this one Jen!” Tom said.

Jen gasped before saying, “Fine, I’ll do it, for the clothing!” In response to this, Tom let out a large gasp.

“But, you only let your beautician get your hair wet!” Tom said.

“Tom, clothing is serious business!” Jen said. She dived into the water and once she resurfaced she saw a frog on her head, she screamed and tried to get away from it.

Over at the Louvre, Brody and Geoff managed to roll their cheese all the way to the Carpet.

“Ah, nice job! You’re third!” Don cheered, the two boys hugged each other in celebration of this news.

“Fourth!” A picture of the Best Friends was shown.

“Fifth!” A picture of the Father and Son team was shown.

“Sixth!” A picture of the Stepbrothers was shown.

The Vegans and Tennis Rivals finally managed to make their way out of the catacombs and got their wheel of cheese out. The Tennis Rivals jumped in front of the Vegans and mocked them, much to the confusion of the latter team. Immediately after them, Noah and Owen rushed out.

“There’s no time to waste, big guy, we’ve got to get our cheese!” Noah said to Owen.

Owen grabbed a wheel of cheese and placed it into the water. He jumped on it forcing it to sink a little, but still manage to keep afloat. Noah jumped after him and managed to land on his stomach.

“Am I riding a wheel of cheese? Or am I riding Owen?” He quipped.

“Both!” Owen chuckled.

(Contestant Interview: Owen)

“Normally, I’d have eaten the cheese by now! But I know my buddy, Noah and I know he really wants to win this competition! I want to prove to him I can be a good partner, so I’m trying to control myself better,” Owen said, “On the other hand though, maybe I can eat it after we’ve checked in, it looks super good!”

(Contestant Interview Over)

Noah immediately noticed they really weren’t moving when he paddled fiercely, and they barely were past where they started. “Owen look,” Noah said, “It’d be way better for us, if you were in the water and pushed the cheese!”

“Are you sure that’s a smart idea?” Owen said.

“Listen Owen, just close your eyes and imagine it as the most disgusting thing you’ve ever tasted!” Noah said.

“Like broccoli?” Owen asked.

“Yes exactly, now push!” Noah said. Owen jumped into the water, leaving a medium sized splash. He closed his eyes and started pushing the wheel of cheese. Noah immediately noticed a difference in their speed, he smiled and said, “Good job Owen! Keep it up!” He turned and resumed paddling.

Over at the Louvre, Don excitedly cheered, “And here’s more teams!”

“Seventh place!” Don cheered to an ecstatic Tom and Jen.

“I can’t believe you did that! We should like, shop to celebrate.” Tom turned to Jen and chirped.

“Sure, but maybe after we get rid of this frog on my head.” Jen pointed to the aforementioned frog.

“Eighth place!” A picture of the Daters appeared.

“Ninth place!” A picture of the Geniuses appeared.

“Tenth place!” A picture of the Sisters appeared.

The final 7 teams were still battling it out in the canal. While Owen and Noah had managed to close the distance between them and the other teams a great deal, they were still behind.

“You got to push harder Owen!” Noah said.

“But, if I do, I might you know, eat it!” Owen said.

“Just keep imagining it as broccoli! Meanwhile, I’ll try to paddle harder!” Owen started pushing the wheel harder, as Noah started to paddle the wheel faster as well.

(Team Interview: Laurie and Miles)

“The thought of coming in last made us realize that we need to step up our game!” Laurie said.

“Yeah we were super charged up!” Miles said.

(Team Interview Over)

The Vegans immediately started paddling faster and passed the Tennis Rivals as they did so. The Tennis Rivals stared at each other simply confused.

“How is that possible? We’re athletes! They eat BIRD SEEDS with dust!” Gerry shouted.

(Team Interview: Laurie and Miles)

“Mmmm pass the bird seeds.” Laurie said.

“Want some dust on that?” Miles asked as she handed the seeds over to Laurie.

(Team Interview Over)

“Eleventh place!” A picture of the Mom and Daughter team appeared.

“Twelfth place!” A picture of the Adversity Twins appeared.

“Thirteenth place!” A picture of the Goths appeared.

Soon after the Goths, the Vegans and Rockers both rolled their cheese wheels onto the mat and were called fourteenth and fifteenth respectively.

The RTV Pros on the other hand, had finally managed to catch up to the Tennis Rivals. As both teams reached the other side of the canal, Noah leapt off the wheel of cheese and Owen climbed onto the other side and picked up the wheel of cheese. The Tennis Rivals on the other hand, had managed to start rolling their cheese.

“Come on we don’t have much time!” Noah shouted, as Owen started rolling their cheese up to the area in which the Louvre was located.

The two teams raced neck and neck with their cheese wheels, both glaring at the other fiercely. Near the carpet of completion however, both teams got fearful of their lives in the game and jumped onto the carpet of completion all at once.

“Oh, it’s a tie! Nobody goes home!” Gerry cheered.

“Not exactly, you have your foot out the mat, so you and your partner both have to go home!” Don said.

“B-but, my foot was inside the mat! I swear!” Gerry said.

“I saw it, it was out!” Don said. Gerry glared and was about to say something before Pete placed a hand on his shoulder.

“It’s no use, we’re out. It’s sad, but it’s true.” Pete said.

“You know what else is true, your show sucks!” Gerry yelled at Don before he and Pete walked away.

Don simply rolled his eyes before Owen asked, “Hey, Don is it? Can I eat my cheese now that’s it not necessary to my survival in this game?”

“Uh…sure.” Don looked at him strangely.

After this, the camera cuts over to a montage of the Tennis Rivals moments while on the show.

“Well that was a disaster…” Gerry said.

“At least we didn’t go home first!” Pete pointed out.

“Yeah, now we got a shot at some new sponsorships!” Gerry said.

“Anyone out there who needs a pitchman for arthritis cream or those bathtubs with the door, so you don’t have to step over them, call my agent!” Pete called.

“Who’s your agent again?” Gerry asked.

“It’s been too long, I can’t remember!” The two laughed as the scene cuts to them floating away in the water on their cheese wheel.

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