Day 10

Episode 4 – Cockiness Killed The Cat

Day 10

The smell of bananas was in the air the next morning as the tribe was up bright and early roasting bananas over an open heat register.

Now that Steven was gone, the power of the tribe had shifted. Cody found it horribly unfair that one of his own had drawn the red coin. “Why couldn’t it have been a member of the other team?” he constantly asked himself these questions, as if he was almost counting off his days. He knew he had to do something to secure himself a spot for just a few more weeks. He knew there was only one way this could happen. He only hoped that he could pull it off. He rehearsed what he was to say as he approached the other alliance.

“Hello,” Cody said in the nicest way he could, “Okay, well, I‘m going to be truthful here, so just give me a chance to plead my case alright?

“Hmm, what do you guys think?” Ingrid asked the rest of the tribe.

“Let him talk,” Cori added her opinion.

“Thank you Cori,” Cody said to Cori, whom he would definitely rather not talk to at all, “Now, I know that this group has the majority, after all I’m not stupid,” At this statement Michaela rolled her eyes “If I join forces with you, we can keep this tribe stress-free until the merger,”

“How do you suppose you are going to do that?” Elizabeth asked curiously

“Betrayal is my only option. I will join forces with the majority and vote my former teammates out one by one. They will know that it is coming and have nothing to fear. That way there will be no stress and it will encourage the tribe to win immunity challenges. So, what do you think?” Cody hoped they would go for it.

“How do we know that you are trustworthy enough not to backstab us during this plan?” Ingrid questioned.

“Hey, we have to have some trust in Cody, don’t we? Besides, even if he does betray us, we still have the numbers right?” Michaela said with reason.

Michaela needed to have as many people on her side as she could, and a free walk to the merger would be nice and easy for her game plan, she just needed to keep up what she was doing and she would be fine.

“Humph,” mumbled Ingrid, who obviously disagreed with the whole idea of joining forces with her nemesis.

“Don’t worry Ingrid, you’ll be fine,” explained Elizabeth calmly.

“Humph,” Ingrid was definitely not happy.



Over at the Muffin Tribe, Jeff was pumping up his tribe for the upcoming reward challenge.

“Okay guys! Who is going to sit out this round? It really doesn’t matter because we are going to win anyway!”

Katie and Julia didn’t know how much more of this they could take, they knew that this cockiness had to be stopped before it hurt their tribe.

“There is only one way that we can do this Joolz,” Katie thought aloud.

“Hmm, what would that be?” Julia asked.

“We need to throw the challenge, we’ll have Mike sit out and then it is up to you and me to lose the challenge for our tribe.” Katie explained with a smirk.

“How are we going to do that without them knowing that we are doing it. I mean, won’t it be kind of obvious?” Julia questioned the plan.

“If it’s something physical, well, we are girls, we can get away with that. If it is mental, then we can put them in our shoes.” Katie said with certainty

“Well, okay,” Julia said. “Let’s hope this works!”

Just as the plan was decided, Katie and Julia heard Jeff call,

“Mall Mail! Let’s see what competition we have to win now!”




In a shopping mall the cart is your friend
But in this challenge it can be your end
Your physical strength is what to be tested
So for this challenge you’ll want to be rested

“Pfft, who needs rest?” Jeff said triumphantly as he spent the rest of the night wide-awake and partying with the tribe.

“He’s making our job easy,” Katie whispered to Julia before going to sleep.


“Welcome Survivors, to the reward challenge. As you can see, Steven was eliminated by a coin draw at last night’s tribal council.” Andrew explained.

“Today’s challenge involves timing, strength, and strategy. You will be each be give an empty shopping cart, you must push it as close as you can to the 300 metre line without going over the blue start line. However, if you go over the 300-metre line, you will be eliminated.

“Ready to hear what you are playing for?” Andrew asked to great applause.

“The winning tribe will win cooking recipes, food, utensils, and anything else you can imagine! If the muffin tribe wins, they will have the last key to their chest, if Banana wins they will have only one card left to unlock.

Muffin, please choose one person to sit out and the first players can take their positions.

Katie
Vedran
Paul
Sean
Dylan
Julia
Jeff

Cori
Ryan
Cody
Daniel
Ingrid
Elizabeth
Michaela







Mike has chosen to sit this challenge out, Katie and Cori take your positions, Survivors ready? Go!

As the challenge was underway Katie and Cori both gave a hefty heave. Cori’s cart sailed clear over the 300-metre mark as Katie landed at around 225.
*Challenge Changed to fit story

“Katie is on the board for her team! Cori is eliminated for the competition, you can take a seat,” Brittney said aloud.

“Vedran and Ryan both in the 100 range, Katie still in the lead!” Andrew recapped the score.

“Cody with 250 is the new leader! Paul gets 10, Congrats Paul!” Brittney said with utter sarcasm.

“Sean and Daniel, both get 50’s and are eliminated from the competition.” Andrew said

“Dylan and Ingrid trying to break Cody’s score of 250 and Ingrid with a 275! Dylan gets a 1 for trying.” Brittney sighed.

“Julia overshoots the target and Elizabeth gets a 270, so close!” Andrew exclaimed.

“This is the final round, will either Jeff or Michaela be able to beat Ingrid’s score of 275? We are about to find out. Ready? Go!

Michaela and Jeff both pushed their carts off at the exact same time and they were completely equal throughout the whole race.

“Our judges have come up with the winner, with 299, Michaela. With 300 on the dot, Jeff. Congratulations Muffin wins reward.” Andrew exclaimed

As the MTV’s were pulling out, Brittney called them back “There has been a mistake! As it seems, Jeff stepped over the starting line and is therefore eliminated from the competition, leaving Michaela victorious.

“WHAT?!?” Jeff exclaimed. “You’ve got to be kidding, I won. Fair and Square.”

“I’m sorry, judges rule,” Andrew explained

“If you refuse to take the loss you will be eliminated,” Brittney added.

“Then eliminate me,” Jeff said angrily.

“Be careful what you wish for,” Andrew said, “You have spoken!”

As the security guards took Jeff away the Muffin Tribe left on the MTV’s in awe, as did the Banana Tribe.


The next morning at the Muffin Tribe, Jeff’s bed was filled, but Jeff wasn’t in it. As Katie awoke, she was in pure shock.

“B….B…Br…Brittney?!?”