Eva was jogging by the lake as the sun was finally rising. Everyone was still asleep, which gave the strong woman plenty of time to work out without their incessant rambling annoying her.

She finally finished up, only barely making it to the front door of the cabin before an all too happy voice rang out from the loudspeaker.

" Good Morning Campers, rise and shine!"

" Damn you Mcclean!" Gwen's voice rang out.

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" Campers, today's challenge is dangerous, I'm not gonna lie."

" Are you making us go into the woods again?" Katie asked, a worried tone strong in her voice.

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Confession Begins

Katie: The last time we went into the woods, me and Sadie cost the team and there was almost a bear mauling! I really don't want to have to repeat that again.

Confession Ends

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" Relax Katie, it's not quite that dangerous" He then mumbled 'stupid censors' under his breath. " Instead, today's challenge is a best of three fighting challenge. First round is an arm wrestling competition, second is a swordfight, and third is a wrestling match

"Alright, so obviously Eva's gonna either take the first or third round…" Courtney started to strategize..

"I have some fencing experience senorita, I could be of use in the second round." Alejandro added.

"I'm sorry, when did I say you'd get to pick who got to handle what challenge. Where's the fun in that?" Chris leered, his ugly smile still on his face," no, all the rounds are completely random!"

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Confession Begins

Gwen: With any luck, Eva won't get picked for any rounds. Or Courtney, she's way stronger than she looks.

Confession Ends

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Chef wheeled what looked like a slot machine next to Chris.

For the arm wrestling competition, we're gonna have" Chris pulled the lever and eventually both sides ended on the choices, " Courtney vs Sierra!"

Chef slapped a small table in between the 2 sitting girls.

" Listen up maggots, the first one to force the back of your opponent's hand to touch the table wins! Any questions?" Courtney nodded no while Sierra stared daggers at the C.I.T..

" Begin!" The big man hollered. Both girls put all the force they could into forcing their opponents arm down. Neither's fist budged an inch, while both groaned in exertion.

Eventually, Courtney began forcing down the Amazon's hand.

"C'mon Courtney!" Cody cheered

"You totally got this!" Katie cheered.

" Kill her!" Eva shouted. Alejandro, Katie, and Cody all gave the iron woman sideway glances.

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Confession Begins

Eva: Too much?

Confession Ends

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" For Cody." Sierra shouted under her breath.

" Wait, what?" Courtney's momentary surprise at such an odd statement allowed the amazon to force her fist down.

" And Sierra wins the first round!"

Courtney walked back to her team, giving a look of half apprehension and half worriedness to the tech geek.

" What did Sierra say back there?" Katie asked.

" What?"

" It looked like she said something, then she beat you. What'd she say?" Katie asked again.

Courtney looked at Cody again, a very odd look plastered on her face.

" Nothing...she said nothing." She averted her eyes from everyone else.

" The Beetles take the 1st point, can the Squirrels even manage a comeback? Let's see." He then pulled the lever again, revealing that the sword duel would take place between Cody and Bridgette.

" It's our very own Codemeister vs the Surfer Chick."

" Hey Chris, I kinda want to leave that whole Codemeister thing behind…"

Chef handed fencing rapiers to Bridgette first then Alejandro. He then slapped white pads on both of their chests.

"These little babies are how we're gonna see who wins. If your pad is hit, we'll hear a flatline and know who lost." And Go! Chris blew a whistle.

Both competitors looked unsure, not quite knowing what to do.

Bridgette took the initiative, making a sloppy slash at Cody, who just barely sidestepped out of the way. She took a couple more swipes, while the tech geek kept backing up.

"I'm sorry Cody."

Cody finally stabbed at Bridgette, who sidestepped him and struck his hand with the rapier, making him drop his. He dove away, holding a now aching hand.

"Amigo, you have to press the advantage!" Alejandro chimed in from the sidelines.

"But I don't want to hurt her…"

" She obviously doesn't feel the same way! Look the rapiers are blunted, just poke her when she's on the backstroke!" Cody dove for the rapier when Bridgette went for another swipe. He rolled to his feet, rapier in hand. When she went for a high slash, Cody ducked and poked her in the chest, earning a loud flatline.

" And Cody finally becomes a ladykiller, though probably not in the way he was hoping! That's 1-1, with a wrestling match to come." Chris pulled the lever.

" What's the final match going to be? It's going to be…." The wheel finally stopped, " Gwen vs Katie!"

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Both girls were now in a circle.

"Alright, we're running low on time, so here's the deal. Push your opponent out of the ring to win. And Go!"

Gwen took the initiative to push Katie, who almost fell out of the circle. The bfffl then dove at Gwen, who sidestepped.

"C'mon birdbrain!"

"You've got this senorita."

Courtney was too busy side-eying Cody, who was still rubbing his hand.

Gwen dove for Katie, who had knelt down to pick up one of her pigtails. The Goth went tumbling just out of the circle.

"And the squirrels win again. Beetles, I'll see you at the campfire tonight."

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Bridgette was sitting on a chair on the beach, enjoying the sun.

"Bridgette, can we talk?" Bridgette sat up to see Courtney blocking her light.

"Sure, what's up?" The surfer chick patted the ground next to her and the C.I.T. sat down.

" Does that Sierra girl ever talk about Cody?"

" Um, well during the Awake-a-thon, she kinda referred to him as 'my Cody'."

" Really, Cody didn't tell me they were dating…" Courtney's smile was slightly manic looking.

" They're not, she seems to be crushing on him hard. It's funny, she thought you were putting the moves on him."

" What? That's ridiculous, I mean, Cody's a good friend and all, and he did help me get rid of Duncan…."

" Bet you were real happy about that."

" Sorry," Courtney rubbed the back of her neck ,"I guess I forgot he was your teammate.

" It's fine, he wasn't much of a team player. Which makes the fact I'll probably be joining him at plaza de losers soon especially sucky."

" What makes you think you're going to get voted off?"

" I lost today. By the way, could you tell Cody I'm sorry for whacking his hand?"

" Gwen also lost today. Couldn't you try to convince your teammates to vote for her?"

" I guess, but I'm not really good at all that stuff."

" Bridgette, most people love you. Just ask around and see who Zeke and Sierra are thinking of voting for. It can't hurt to ask."

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Hey Zeke The homeschooled teen whipped his head away from the lake and his fishing pole.

Oh hey Bridgette, what's up?

I was just wondering who you were gonna vote for tonight.

"I was thinking Gwen, eh. She's kinda been on edge ever since Duncan left."

"Alright, that's good. Do you know who's Sierra voting for?"

"The purple haired girl? Not sure, we aren't exactly friends."

"Alright, well thanks Zeke." Bridgette walked away.

"Wait Bridge!" The surfer chick turned around. "Are we cold? I know everybody was real mad at me after, you know, the crap I said in the 1st episode but I'm sorry."

" I think you mean cool, Zeke?"

" Yeah, sorry. Still trying to learn all this slang."

" It's fine Zeke. So long as you've learned your lesson….and so long as you don't start wearing gold and trying to be a rapper again."

" That was not my proudest moment. Uh, are you doing okay?"

" Yeah, why do you ask?"

" Well, it's just, I kinda heard you and Geoff broke up?"

Bridge looked shocked.

" Yes, how did you hear about that? It wasn't in any of the celebrity magazines."

" Linsdey put it up on her blog...though she spelled it 'Jeff' and' Brenda'"

" You follow Linsdey's blog?" Bridgette asked, raising an eyebrow.

" I follow her blog, Harold, Gwen, and Beth's youtube channels, and everyone else who's online. I guess it was my way to try and get to know everybody since I made myself a social pariah in the 1st season."

" I guess I didn't think about that Zeke. I'm doing okay, me and Geoff just decided we weren't working out."

And with that, the Surfer chick walked away to find a particular fan girl.

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Confession Begins

Gwen: I failed today, and so did Bridgette. I know Zeke's got a crush on her, so I have to convince little Miss Crazy to get on my side.

Confession Ends

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" Hey Sierra…." started Gwen. The fan girl was currently cutting pictures of Cody out of Star Stalker magazine.

" Hm" Sierra said snottily, "what do you want Gwen? I'm doing something."

" Just seeing who you were voting for tonight?"

" Gee, who should I vote for: The closest thing I've got to a friend on this team, or little Miss Goth?" Sierra crossed her arms.

" You really think Bridgette is your friend?"

" Yeah, why wouldn't I?"

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Confession Begins

Gwen: This makes me feel like Heather, but it's the only way to stay in the game.

Confession Ends

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" I mean, I'm glad you and Bridge are so cool considering her crush on Cody…."

" What?!" The fangirl shouted.

" Oh, you didn't know?"

" I knew her and Geoff had broken up, but I never heard she had a crush on Cody. Wait, how would you know?" Sierra's eyes narrowed.

" Bridgette's kind of a blabbermouth, she told me she was hoping to be put on the same team as Cody so she could get to know him better."

" That lying little hussey! I'll rip her in two, I'll, I'll make her regret the day she met the future Sierra Anderson!" Sierra was becoming more and more frenzied.

" Hold on there psycho, what do you think will happen if you beat her up? You'll go to Juvie, that's what. Just help me vote her out tonight. It'll get her far away from Cody. Deal?" The Goth put out her hand.

" Deal!" Sierra shook viciously.

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Confession Begins

Bridgette: I tried to talk to Sierra, but her and Gwen were joined at the hip all day. Which was

weird, since they've been arguing the whole time we've been here. Well, at least Zeke's got my back.

Confession Ends

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Chris was holding three marshmallows on a plate as The surfer Chick, The piriarie teen, the goth, and the star stalker all sat, each one nervous as always.

"On this plate, I'm holding…." Chris started.

"We all know how this goes, Chris" Gwen complained.

"Could we hurry this up?" Bridgette added.

"Fine," Sierra The Fangirl caught her marshmallow and quickly chowed down. "Ezekiel." The homeschooled teen caught the marshmallow , looking nervously at Bridgette all the time.

"Bridgette, Gwen. You both lost for your team today. Gwen, you're not making many friends this season. Bridgette, you're lacking that killer instinct to go far in the game. One of you will be leaving tonight." Chris lifted up the final marshmallow.

"And it's whoever loses the pugi stick fighting tiebreaker tonight! Yep, it was a tie."

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On a raised platform 20 feet in the air, Bridgette and Gwen both held pugi sticks nervously.

"1st one to get knocked off goes home, and go!" Chris blew his whistle.

Gwen swung and Bridgette ducked. The goth paid for it by taking a blow straight to the face.

The surfer chick landed a series of blows to Gwen's body, forcing the goth to back up.

" Come on Bridge!" Zeke shouted.

The surfer chick whipped her head around, and paid for it when Gwen dropped the stick, grabbed her by the hair with both hands, throwing her over the edge.

"I'm sorry Bridgette. It's your time" Chris said. Ezekiel helped Bridgette to her feet.

"Bridgette, I'm so sorry!"

"It's ok Zeke, you were just trying to help."

"Boat of losers is thatta way." Chris pointed.

Bridgette sighed, before grabbing a very shocked Zeke and pulling him into a hug.

"Thank you for being a friend. Don't give up, I know you can go far." She let go of a now blushing Ezekiel and walked to the boat of losers.

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Alejandro was sitting on the porch of the cabin, enjoying the warm night, when Courtney took a nervous seat next to him.

" Alejandro, has Cody been seeing that purple haired girl from the other team?"

" Senorita, whatever would give you that idea?"

" So, he isn't?"

" I did not say that, I merely wondered what gave you the idea…."

" During our arm wrestling match, Sierra said 'for Cody'"

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Confession Begins

Alejandro: Hmm, do I tell her the truth, that that little fellow only has eyes for her, or do I break up their little alliance and pull her to my side? Decisions, decisions….

Confession Ends

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" Not to my knowledge, senorita.I think it's possible she just has a crush on our little Cody."

"A crush on Cody? That's ridiculous. I mean, yeah he's funny and friendly." A small blush started to form on Courtney's cheeks , "And he's good at following orders, and it is sweet how he tries to keep everyone's spirits up…

" Hey, what are you guys talking about?" Katie walked up.

"Nothing! I'm going to go to bed and get an early start on tomorrow."