Day 14

Episode 5 – Fashionable Frenzy

Day 14

Banana Tribe

Cori ~ Ryan ~ Cody ~ Daniel ~ Ingrid ~ Elizabeth ~ Michaela

The Banana tribe was doing great, they were gliding through the competitions, winning them all, eating and resting. Every time they won, they all received more shower tokens, now they definitely had enough to last them until the merger, which they were convinced would happen soon. The Banana tribe had total control of the game and had the Muffin tribe in the palms of their hands.

“We won again!” Ingrid yelled “That's like totally awesome, I like, can't believe it!”

“Ya man! We gonna keep winning too! Those muff-muffs don't stand a chance” Daniel said, getting a laugh.

“Really, it's a shame that they don't win more often, I mean, it's an equal game. They deserve the same rights as us! I'm starting a protest!” Michaela made her very unique statement.

“Michaela you idiot, why would we want them to win? We need to make them keep losing, so we go into the merge seven strong,” Cody rolled his eyes, but knew what he was saying wasn't true.

Cody knew what he was going to do, he knew that he wouldn't keep his alliances with his tribe once they got into the merge, that would be far too obvious for his liking. He may align himself with some people from his old tribe, but to Cody, when he got to the merger it was a new game. New players, new alliances, new game. He smiled as all of these thoughts rushed through his head faster than you can say “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”.

“Hey guys...” Ryan started to say something as Cori ran in.

“CLOTHES ARE HERE!” Cori yelled, as Ryan rolled his eyes.

“Oh, yippee!” Elizabeth cheered as she headed for the entrance to the store.

As the tribe reached the front of the store, they couldn't believe their eyes. Around the walls of the stores, there were racks upon racks of clothes, all sorts of clothes, pajamas, sweat suits, formal wear, and “jeans and hoodies”.

“Hey, there's a note here!” Elizabeth called to her tribe mates as she opened the envelope.

As the note read: “Congratulations Banana tribe, on winning the reward challenge. As you know, you have one not only the styles that you modeled, but new SunnyBeach.Inc fashions, such as pajamas, sweat suits, and more. Each of you have your own shelf in the store with your name on it. This is where all of your clothes are, and you can access them whenever you like. Enjoy the outfits ~ SunnyBeach.Inc”

“Hey wow! There they are! That's cool!” Ingrid said, oblivious to the fact that the clothes appeared when nobody was looking.

“Wait a second...” Elizabeth knew something wasn't right but didn't bother to say it, and she didn't have to as she was interrupted anyway.

“So, why don't we do something for fun?” Michaela said, looking at Ingrid with an evil glint in her eye.

So as the tribe agreed to play Michaela's little game, having no idea what was in store for them, big mistake for them.

“The name of the game is..,” Michaela started.

“Tuesday!” Ingrid finished, letting out the laugh she had been holding in for so long.

The tribe groaned. They knew what a Tuesday was, and they didn't want to be a part of it, not during this lifetime anyway.

“So, who's in?!?” Michaela exclaimed.

“GROAN!” the rest of the tribe said, knowing that they would have to play this stupid game, which could potentially ruin the rest of their game.

“So, Glyde. Who do you like?” Ingrid smirked as she heard Ryan groan.

“Well, I like...I like...” Ryan stuttered.

“MALL MAIL!” Cori yelled, as Ryan let out a sigh of exasperation.

Muffin Tribe

Brittney ~ Vedran ~ Sean ~ Mike ~ Katie ~ Julia ~ Dylan

Still flustered by things around the camp recently, the Muffin tribe didn't need to take a loss to make things worse. The tribe members did that themselves. Things couldn't possibly not get worse, right? Jeff had definitely left his mark on this tribe when he left, it was an absolute disaster.

Jeff really had been controlling this game, he had a strong alliance, knew where everybody stood in this game, he was the perfect player, and when he left, nobody knew where to pick up the loose ends, and then this happened. Disaster.

Dylan and Mike, still very confused by the argument that had transpired the day before, decided to do some investigative work. Their first suspect? Katie.

“Hey, Katie,” Dylan said approaching with caution, as if Katie was a ticking time bomb (wait, what am I saying “as if” please!).

“Yeah, uh.. go ahead,” Katie said, wondering why Dylan looked so nervous.

“Well,” Mike interjected suddenly, “Well, we heard you arguing with Julia and Brittney, and we were wondering if you were okay,”.

“Yeah, I'm um... I'm fine, thanks,” Katie said, forcing a smile “thanks for asking,”.

“Don't worry about it, but what happened over there?” Mike asked, prying a little bit farther into the investigation.

“It's nothing, really!” Katie shrugged, trying desperately to get the topic changed.

“Katie, we're your team mates, alliance partners, you have to tell us. Or else.” Dylan said with a threatening tone.

Katie needed to tell Dylan and Mike about her argument with Julia and Brittney, how they didn't take her side, how they thought she was being ridiculous. As she told them she started to tear up again, and Dylan and Mike understood what they needed to do.

“And the worse part is, that they didn't even take my side, I mean, Julia and I have had an alliance since the beginning, and now it's just gone!” Katie began to get angry through her tears “This is all Jeff's fault! If he hadn't gotten himself disqualified, then Brittney would have never come here, she started all these problems, she deserves to be voted off!”

“We understand that, Katie” Dylan tried to get her to stop crying, but it worked to no avail.

“Listen, we are still in your alliance, but we are outnumbered, there is only three of us, and four of them, we need one more of us on our side!” Mike sighed.

“Nobody else in this game would want to be in an alliance with me, they all think I'm crazy!” Katie cried, wiping away her tears.

“Well, I know one person that doesn't,” said a familiar voice.

“Julia!” Katie was astonished that her friend kept her loyalty to her, or so she thought, “I..I can't believe you're here!”

“Does this mean that you are voting with us?” Mike questioned her.

“Yeah, I mean, are you really going to oust your Brittney?” Dylan didn't see this happening.

“I...I...don't know...” Julia said, unbelieving of what was rushing through her mind.

“Julia!” Katie yelled, but it was too late, Julia was already long gone.

What was she going to do? Julia wished that she knew. Would she vote with Katie, her partner for the game this far, and risk her own safety in this game by going against the guys in the tribe? If she did this, her alliance would have the majority of the votes and have control of the tribe. Would she side with the guys and Brittney, and vote out Katie, and then too her alliance with them would have the majority. Julia was the swing vote, either way she went, that tribe would be the majority. She had to choose, and she had to choose faster than she would have liked, as Brittney and Katie walked into the girls bathroom.

“So, whose it going to be? Me or her,” Brittney said as she shot Katie a glance.

“Me? Do you have a problem with me? That's fine, as long as Julia sides with me, right Julia?”

“I'm siding with....with...” Julia stumbled as she was so happily interrupted by Vedran.

“Mall Mail, guys!” Vedran said, as Julia sighed in relief.

Immunity Challenge

“Finding your way around the mall,

will make this challenge quite a ball.

If you can remember what you wore,

and can find it in this maze, a store.”

“Welcome Survivors, to your immunity challenge. I can see that the Banana tribe is happily wearing you're new fashions, you'll need them.” Andrew said as the Muffin tribe wore a confused look on their faces.

“In this challenge, you will be working your way through a maze of clothing, trying to find specific clothing items to match the outfits that we have chosen from the SunnyBeach.inc line. You will each be given a specific outfit, with this outfit you will have to find the shoes, shirt, pants, hat, and sunglasses, that are included with this outfit. The thing is, that you'll be tethered together while you're doing it. Since the numbers are equal, you can take your positions,”

“Survivors ready? Go!” Andrew shouted as the teams took off.

The Muffin tribe was the first into the maze with their card, they were looking for the SunnyBeach.inc beach fashions, they needed to get a brown sun hat, a blue beach shirt, a pair of red beach shorts, and some black and white sandles. As they entered the maze they saw the Banana tribe pass beside them and turn left.

“Should we follow them, or go right?” Vedran asked.

“Let's go to the left, if they went the wrong way, and made the mistake, then we can capitalize on it!” Dylan said, and it seemed like the smart thing to do at the time. At the time.

So as the Muffin tribe passed through the racks of clothing, they found articles of clothing missing from the shelves. It seemed like they were going in a circle until they saw the rows upon rows of sun hats.

“Which hat is it? I hope it's pretty!” Brittney in a somewhat panicked state.

“It says... sun stone brown” Katie read off of the card.

“Which HAT is it?!?!” Sean was becoming impatient.

“Oh, you want to know what hat it is, that's easy, it's that one!” Katie said as her teamed groaned.

The Muffin Tribe continued their adventure through the maze, picking up their items along the way until they received their last item, and they headed back to the start of the obstacle course, but found some trouble along the way.

“We've been here already!” Julia yelled as she realized that they had been here before “This is where we got the sun hat!”

“The sun-hat! That means that this way is the exit!” Vedran yelled as her ran for the exit.

The Banana tribe was the second group into the maze, they followed the Muffin tribe, and then took a left at the fork in the road. This tribe didn't have much trouble at all finding the clothes that they were assigned, athletic wear. Since they had won the reward challenge, and Michaela was wearing her athletic wear, they knew very well what they were looking for.

The first item they had to find was a baseball cap with the Calgary Flames on it. Ingrid spotted it first.

“There it is, the flames hat!” she yelled as they grabbed the hat and kept going.

On they're way around they saw many empty clothing racks, the tribe didn't know what this meant, but they didn't stick around to find out.

“Next, we've got to find some summer athletic wear,” Elizabeth read the list.

“I found it ...and it's way too revealing, put it back!” Cori protested.

“Cori! So not the time!” Ryan said as he took it and studied it, “Let's go!”

As the continued to get their items they made their way to the exit, and it was music to their ears when they heard Andrew call out to them

“Banana Tribe, wins immunity, Muffin will see us at tribal council, again.”

The Muffin Tribe was not pleased as they walked out of the maze just moments later, frowning as the MTV's pulled up.

“Muffin Tribe, I'll see you tomorrow at Tribal Council,” Andrew so politely reminded them, as the MTV's pulled out and headed towards the stores.