Back in camp, Knuckles had recovered from his little ankle sprain, and was now walking past the ladder that led up to the diving board. However, as he looked up and saw Sonic, Amy, Cream and Cheese, he stopped and scratched his head in confusion.

“What the heck?” he muttered, “HEY, WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING UP THERE?” In response, the four campers all pointed behind Knuckles’ back. Knuckles glanced back and turned white as he saw the moose now staring HIM down. With a yelp, he quickly started running away. The moose took pride in chasing right behind him.

From up in the hot air balloon and from the diving board, everyone stopped what they were doing to watch Knuckles get chased. Even the bear stopped his pursuit of the campers in the hot air balloon to watch with interest.

Knuckles quickly ran into the mess hall, and the moose followed him in. A moment later, however, the moose was running right back out again, looking frightened. From behind it, Knuckles was holding an even larger moose head in front of his face and was making angry moose noises. From up in the hot air balloon, Rouge cheered him on.

“YAY! THAT’S MY KNUCKLEHEAD!” she laughed, “GO, HONEY, GO!”

“I’M COMING FOR YOU NEXT, SWEETHEART!” Knuckles snarled, glaring up at Rouge while still chasing the moose away. Then, however, the bear finally reached the hot air balloon campers.

“Guys…either that bear is going to get us or we’re going to crash into the diving board!” Shadow yelped, “We have to jump for it!”

“Are you crazy? We’ll be killed!” Tails argued, looking worried.

“No, Shadow is right!” Jet said quickly, “On the count of three, we jump! One…two...three! Jump, guys!” With yells of bravery, Big, Tails, Shadow, Jet and Froggy all ran past Rouge and leapt out of the hot air balloon. However, while they did, Rouge took the liberty of stealing the case from Tails’ hand.

All the boys landed on the diving board perfectly, but Big’s weight nearly caused it to crash. From up in the hot air balloon, however, Rouge was now grinning evilly and waving the suitcase around mockingly.

“HEY, LOSERS, LOOK WHAT I GOT?” she laughed, “I’LL BE SURE TO CALL YOU ALL FROM MY HOT TUB IN MY NEW MANSION IN…” She then got tapped on the head by the bear, who was now in the hot air balloon right behind the bat. Rouge angrily turned around to tell off the person, but seeing that it was the bear, she shrieked and leapt out of the hot air balloon as well.

Rouge closed her eyes, but ended up landing right in the middle of everyone on the diving board. The hot air balloon bumped the board, but crashed nearby harmlessly. When Rouge opened her eyes to see that everyone was now madly reaching for the case, she quickly held it up over her head and began fighting them off with her free hand.

“Omega refuses to let that case out of his sight again,” Omega suddenly growled, running up to the ladder after quickly getting out of the water when he crashed. He quickly climbed up the ladder and got the top in less than five seconds. When he saw the suitcase in Rouge’s hand, he extended his arms and tried to grasp the handle. However, as he did so, the suitcase flew out of Rouge’s hands. Everyone yelped as the case bounced off the side of the tub of tomato sauce and landed right in front of the outhouse. Then, from out of the doors of the bathrooms came Marine, Tikal and Nack.

“…and I was like, ‘yes, you can wear pink with red’ and she was like, ‘no, you cannot, Marine’ and stuff like that,” Marine was saying to Tikal, annoying the heck out of Nack. Marine happened to glance down at the case, but all she did was shrug. “Wow…that’s a pretty case. Anyways, as I was saying…”

“IT’S THE CASE!” Tikal cried, grinning for joy. Marine blinked, then reached down and picked up the case. However, just as she did, they all heard an engine sound. They all looked up and saw Vector standing in the doorway of an airplane just slowly zooming over the outhouse.

~~~

“Okay, now how the heck did he get the keys to the plane?” Bokkun asked, looking at Decoe and Bocoe in confusion. Both robots were sighing dreamily and holding up autographed pictures of Vector, but as soon as they saw Bokkun looking at them, they quickly hid them behind their backs.

“Uh, we don’t know!” they laughed, blushing in embarrassment.

Vector: Vector: 1, Decoe and Bocoe: 0. Hehe, I’m so bad.

~~~

Marine, Tikal and Nack all watched as Vector skydived out of the plane. He opened up his parachute and descended upon the group. Tikal and Nack both got covered up by the parachute, but Marine was left facing the grinning crocodile. The plane, meanwhile, went into a nosedive without a driver and crashed into the diving board holding the other 11 campers. They call gasped as the diving board teetered, but didn’t fall apart.  

“Ah, Marine, it’s so good to see you,” Vector said kindly, touching the gem around his neck, “Please, might I have that case from you?” Marine immediately drooled and blushed, then handed the case over to the crocodile.

“NOT SO FAST, CROC!” Cosmo suddenly snarled from on top of the outhouse, “ESPIO, METAL SONIC, NOW!” Both Espio and Metal Sonic then appeared next to Cosmo and emptied their buckets of fish guts on top of Vector’s head.

“GROSS!” Vector yelped, flinching like crazy and trying desperately to get the guts off his head and body, “This is so wrong! Get them off me, get them off me!”

“GET THIS OFF YOU, CROC!” Cosmo sneered, slamming an empty bucket down onto Vector’s big head. The croc yelped and started staggering about crazily, the parachute still stuck on his back. Cosmo quickly took the case out of his hands and started rushing towards the dock of shame with it.

“I WON, I WON!” she was crying like crazy. However, bad luck struck once more as she ended up tripping over a rock and sending the case bouncing along on its own. Ironically, Silver and Blaze were both heading back to camp when they saw the case bounce past them (Storm had gone off his own way upon getting dizzy from running). They all quickly changed directions and ran after it, with Cosmo speeding along with them. Marine and Tikal also joined the chase after getting free of Vector’s spell and parachute. Nack was nowhere to be seen, for some reason.  

Back on the platform, the combined weight and attacks finally made the whole thing collapse. The rope binding Tails’ team finally got snapped off and all the campers found themselves falling down towards the tub of tomato sauce. As they did, Knuckles came racing by while riding on the same moose that he had just chased off. Rouge, Big, Froggy, Jet, Cream and Cheese all ended up splashing down into the tomato sauce, while Tails, Shadow, Sonic, Amy and Omega all slide off the tub on their platform and started racing along the ground, as though it were a sled.

The platform ended up crashing into Cosmo, Blaze, Silver, Marine and Tikal along the way, bouncing them all up onto it as well as the entire thing slid towards the dock of shame. From the side, the platform managed to catch a small seam from Vector’s parachute and ended up dragging him along with it, since he was still wobbling around trying to get the bucket off his head. Along side the platform, the moose was still running with Knuckles on its back.

Charmy and Wave were just getting out of the water, with Charmy holding Wave’s hand to help her out more. They both gasped as they saw the case bounce past them into the water, then got slammed into by the rest of the campers and the platform. The moose stopped about twenty feet from the end of the dock and sent Knuckles flying off its back. Up in his helicopter, Bokkun, Decoe and Bocoe all winced and covered their eyes as a monstrous splash and crash ended up happening at the same time.

“Oh my gosh…where’s the case?” Cosmo suddenly yelped, resurfacing with everyone else a moment after they all landed in the water. They all looked and saw the case floating only ten feet away on the water. Then, the unthinkable happened. As all the campers were about to swim towards it, one of the monstrous sharks from all the other challenges suddenly surfaced out of the water as well and swallowed the suitcase!

“ERROR, ERROR, ERROR, ERROR!” Omega yelled, his eyes flashing wildly, “CASE HAS BEEN EATEN BY SHARK…DOES NOT COMPUTE!”

“WHAT THE HECK DO WE DO NOW?” Wave yelped, looking around wildly. The fourteen campers all looked and saw Bokkun’s helicopter land a moment later. Bokkun hovered out of it, looking very angry and annoyed at the campers in the water.

“So…you all lost the case!” he snapped, putting his hands on his hips, “Way to go! I didn’t want to have to do this…but since none of you officially won…you all officially TIED. That means, you’ll all have a chance to win the million dollars again…on season TWO!”

Omega: Out of cheese error…does not compute. Did Bokkun just say season two? Or is Omega simply hearing static?

Wave: Nope. No way. I am NOT coming back here again!

“Ha, forget this!” Knuckles snarled, bobbing up and down in the water and glaring up at Bokkun on the dock, “I didn’t agree to season two!”

“Actually, you did,” Bokkun snickered, “It’s called the fine print. Read it, live it, love it!”

“I HATE the fine print!” Blaze hissed, crossing her arms angrily. Before Bokkun could speak more, he noticed that all the other campers had run up behind him. Grinning, he turned to look at them.

“As for the rest of you, I’m afraid your challenge ends here,” he said, “So, there is now no chance for any of you to win any money off of this show! The good news is, you’ll be watching all the action from the sidelines!” Cream and Cheese both whimpered, Metal Sonic and Espio both growled, Nack and Jet both sighed and shook their heads sadly, Storm and Big and Froggy all looked at one another and shrugged, but Rouge was livid with rage.

“WAIT A MINUTE, BOKKUN!” she cried, running right up to him, “I WANT TO BE ON SEASON TWO!”

“Sorry, Rouge, read the fine print!” Bokkun grinned, wagging his finger at her.

Rouge: If Bokkun and this show’s producers thought they were in trouble before, they’re in HUGE trouble now! Are all of you viewers listening? I hope so, because Rouge the bat will NOT be denied! I’m coming back, whether they like it or not!

Charmy: Another season? Sweet! That gives me another chance to show off my super-cool skills! Plus, I’ll get to know Wave and Marine even better! Hehe…ow, my arm hurts for some reason; must be that old soccer injury.

Cream: Well, at least we get to watch from the sidelines; we’d watch at home anyway. I’m just glad I’m still with Cheese.

Cheese: Chao chao, chao chao chao!

“Oh yeah, that’s right!” Cosmo grinned, rubbing her hands together, “C-Scope is coming back! C-SCOPE IS COMING BACK, PEOPLE!”

“So, in exactly two days, our fourteen campers will all report to a brand new location,” Bokkun said to the cameras, “There'll be new challenges and new everything! The last one standing will walk away with one million dollars! So, make sure you all don’t forget to tune in to Total…Drama…Action!”