Recap: In the previous chapter, the remaining contestants get to compete in the third challenge, which is a survival version of hide and seek where the contestants are hiding from the shapeshifter. The two members of Striking Piledrivers are captured by the shapeshifter, while the other four members of Demolition Legends are captured. The scientists have arrived to restrain the shapeshifter, meaning Penny has included Striking Piledrivers to be safe (due to having a lot of teammates surviving from being captured) while Demolition Legends are up for elimination for the second time (due to having four teammates being captured). Gauri and Rosaria are in the tiebreaker, which is different from the previous elimination. They have to bet which color of the marbles went first in the marble race. Gauri ends up being safe from the tiebreaker by picking red, while Rosaria is eliminated by picking blue.

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Ollie's POV

Great. I woke up and looked at the clock, which was five in the morning. Man, I'm hungry. Maybe I should get some snacks so I won't starve for another hour since the cafeteria won't open until 6 in the morning. I guess I learned my lesson not to eat too fast.

I grabbed the bag of chips from my bag before I tore it open and ate the chips.

Oh crap, the crispiness of the chips makes it loud for them to wake up.

I heard one contestant woke up from their sleep.

Cain: Huh? What is that?

Ollie: (Oh crap.)

I looked at Cain as he stared at the bag of chips.

Cain: Can I have some?

I decided to grab the bag of cookies.

Ollie: Alright, have this, and don't tell anyone about this.

Cain: Alright, thanks.

Then I went back to eat the remaining chips while trying not to make noise eating them, since the chips are crispy.

Colton: Can you keep it down!?

I turned around and saw Colton, who was quite stressed from waking up.

Ollie: But I'm hungry!

Colton: Then eat outside!

Cain was eating the cookies.

Looks like both of us are dead thanks to the sounds of the crispy chips.

End of Ollie's POV

Cain: Guess I don't have to deal with this.

Colton: *looks at Cain* You too, Cain!

Cain: The cookies aren't as crispy as chips!

Colton: Yes, but you have to eat outside too!

Cain: I don't want to leave my boyfriend wondering where I'm going!

Colton: He'll know as long as you're not going far!

Pierce: Shut up! I'm trying to sleep!

Colton: No one's asking!

Pierce: Still! Shut up!

Colton: No! You're the one who's gonna shut up!

Pierce: This is why your parents don't love you!

Colton: That's why your dad never gets bitches!

Pierce: You're so done for!

Colton and Pierce start a fight, causing the contestants in the cabin to wake up from the chaos.

Penny was outside the door feeling annoyed.

Penny: Can anyone please shut up!?

Everyone in the cabin was silent when they heard Penny shouting outside their cabin.

Penny: You know what. Just prepare yourself, meet me at the football field.

Everyone in the cabin prepared themselves with their routines before they went out and went to the football field.

They saw Penny, Pax, and Bryon are waiting for the contestants.

Penny: Before the next challenge, write your secrets on the paper, fold it and put it in the colored basket corresponding to your team. Any secrets will do.

Everyone has their turn to write their secrets in a paper then they fold it before putting in the baskets for their teams.

Penny: Then pull out the paper before we start the challenge.

Colton: Uh alright then.

Everyone pull out the folded paper by random until the basket is empty.

Penny: For the next challenge, you will unfold the paper and read one of the three secrets, then you have to figure out which teammate of yours has that kind of secret. The team with the most correct answers will be safe and the other will be up for elimination, and no, you can't give hints to others in your team.

Bryon: You can make decisions but one wrong move and it's the final answer. To do so, write the name of your teammate on the paper with the secret if you think you are correct. You can't erase anything from the paper.

Pax: Once you wrote all the teammates names on the paper, that's the time that you'll know the secrets you wrote that is correct.

Colton: Man...

With Striking Piledrivers

Colton: So who wants to go first?

Spencer: Not sure...

Rayna: Can I go first?

Capri: Alright, go on.

Rayna read the secret from the paper.

Rayna: The secret is that someone's mom is the only person who them as the dressmaker until she's dead.

Spencer: Very tragic...

Capri: So who's next?

Spencer: Dunno.

Everyone in Striking Piledrivers is wondering who will go next to say a random secret and make a guess.

Meanwhile, with Demolition Legends

Marcel: So who wants to read the secret first?

Gauri was not sure if she should go first or let others go first.

Pierce: I'll go!

Marcel: *sighs* Go on... I guess..

Pierce: The secret is that the contestant here is a transgender male, from female to male.

Cain: (Guess my secret won't last long...)

Cain was hugging Brynn as if he was scared that others would find out about his secret that almost everyone didn't know.

Brynn noticed and decided to comfort him.

Cain: So who's next?

Marcel: You can go first, but for now, we should list the secrets from any paper, then we'll match the secrets after so it won't be confusing.

Gauri: (I should help them and stop my tiebreaker curse!)

Gauri: I have the notebook and a pen!

Marcel: That's great!

Marcel listed the secrets he currently knew.

Marcel: You can list the secrets now so we should connect them, since we all know it's randomized.

Brynn: The secret is that they never made friends in their school and focused on studies.

Beatrix: That sounds very lonely..

Molly: The secret is that they are into singing songs often when they're alone.

Fallon: Interesting..

Gauri: Two of the contestants here are siblings.

Pierce: Wait! For real!?

Marcel: I mean, one of them could be in the opposite team to be fair.

Cain: My turn! The secret is that they could be tardy in every school schedule back then.

Marcel: (Ouch...)

Gauri: Marcel, could it be you?

Marcel: Guess we should write it and pray for our guts that it's the correct answer.

Marcel wrote his own name on the paper that Cain is holding.

Fallon: Good job Gauri!

Pierce: I'm impressed that you pointed that out without a mistake.

Gauri: Thanks Pierce.

Beatrix: The secret is that they used to be graffiti artists with her friends before going back to painting.

Cain: That's something that an artist would do.

Beatrix: Yeah...

Cain: Should we choose Fallon?

Marcel: Why is that?

Cain: She may look like an artist to me, so yeah, no difference.

Brynn: Should we go for it?

Marcel: If you want, you can.

Brynn wrote Fallon's name on the paper that Beatrix is holding, since Fallon can't write anything without arms.

Marcel: We're slowly making progress.

Pierce: So what do we do now?

Fallon: I'll go next. The secret is that their parents are very strict and homophobic.

Pierce: Wait, so that means they want someone to be straight.

Marcel: Sounds possible..

Cain: (I can't say that it's my boyfriend for some reason.)

Brynn: So should we guess?

Marcel: I think that is Brynn's secret.

Pierce: Hold up! Are you sure?

Marcel: Based on my thoughts.

Brynn sighed as he wrote his own name on the paper that Fallon was holding.

Pierce: Guess we'll take it like it's an answer.

Molly: Should we continue?

Marcel: We should.

Back with Striking Piledrivers

Spencer: Should we guess?

Capri: Not yet.

Colton: I'll go next. The secret is that their father married another guy after their mother died from sickness.

Adrian: That means someone has two fathers.

Spencer: Based on the secret, yes it could be.

Peggy: I'll go next.. The secret is that their father is addicted to coffee instead of tea.

Priya: That's interesting...

Capri: That means someone here likes tea instead of coffee.

Peggy: Could it be Destiny?

Spencer: How so?

Peggy: I feel like Destiny is a calm kind to me, she would drink tea and do yoga daily.

Spencer: Didn't know that..

Capri: You can write the name on that paper if you're positively sure about that.

Peggy: If that is your choice.

Peggy wrote Destiny's name on the paper she was holding.

Destiny: Another secret is random. The secret is that they are a foodie for everything, even their allergies wouldn't stop them.

Spencer: They should get help.

Capri: Some of the foods with their allergies are not good. You're right.

Peggy: Is it Ollie?

Ollie: Eh?

Capri: I mean he's the only one who's addicted to food.

Spencer: He even brought the snacks on his own when the cafeteria was closed until morning.

Peggy: So should we answer?

Spencer: We should.

Ollie: Alright...

Ollie wrote his own name on the paper that Destiny was holding.

Peggy: I feel like Priya matches with the secret of being a dressmaker.

Capri: How are you sure?

Peggy: About that, I eavesdrop on her and Rosaria about dresses and stuff when we're in the airport.

Capri: That sounds helpful.

Capri wrote Priya's name on a paper that Rayna was holding.

Spencer: I guess I'm next. The secret is that their parents have different expectations. One of them expects them to be a scientist and the other is expecting him to be a musician, which stresses them out.

Capri: That sounds like Adrian to be fair.. I mean he has a path to becoming a scientist based on the book cover he held before we turned into objects.

Spencer: Good call.

Adrian: HOW THE FUCK-

Spencer: Not now.

Spencer wrote his name on the paper that he's holding.

Adrian: Guess I'm next if I want to forget about what I'm reading..

Spencer: Go on.

Adrian: Since I got notice of reading that kind of book, I'm sure this secret is hard since most of us experience that. The secret is that they miss their childhood friends when they're kids and go to school together. They even protect them from being bullied.

Capri didn't say anything and had a flashback about her childhood friend which matches the description of what Adrian had said.

Spencer: Are you alright..?

Capri: I'm alright, I don't want to say anything about that.

Peggy: *whispers to Destiny* should we write her name?

Destiny: If that triggers her, we should.

Destiny wrote Capri's name on the paper that Adrian is holding.

Spencer: Can we please change the topic?

Adrian: Fine.

Spencer: Take some time to calm down.

Capri nodded as she went to cool down her thoughts while the rest went back to finishing their progress.

Back with Demolition Legends

Marcel: How many did we even answer the secrets?

Gauri: Hmm... let me see how many we answered?

Gauri looked at the papers one by one with their names written.

Marcel: We have about three.

Pierce: I feel that Cain might be a transgender male.

Marcel: Are you sure?

Brynn: Guess you're right since I kept a secret from you guys since he, rather keep it to himself than revealing it and get harassed by others. The same goes with his friends.

Marcel: I see..

Pierce: Sorry if I have to trigger it..

Cain: No, it's good.

Cain wrote his own name on the paper that Pierce was holding.

Beatrix: The secret about someone who focused on school is probably Gauri, since she focused on studying for good use in her future.

Gauri: How did you know?

Beatrix: By how you interact with others.

Gauri: Oh.

Beatrix wrote Gauri's name on the paper that Brynn was holding.

Marcel: Guess I have to reveal the secret. The secret is that they helped their family to do a restaurant business in Italy.

Molly: Hate to say it but I feel it's Pierce, since it's quite obvious about how he acted about Colton pissing him off.

Pierce: *sweats* yeah...

Pierce wrote his own name on the paper that Marcel was holding.

Penny: Time's up! Time to count the scores if the owner of the secrets said it's true.

Both of the teams counted the score so that they got the correct answers.

Striking Piledrivers: 5
Demolition Legends: 6

Penny: Time for the results. Striking Piledrivers has 5 points and Demolition Legends has 6 points. Meaning Demolition Legends is safe, while Striking Piledrivers is up for elimination.

Marcel: I know we have finally made it. It is thanks to you Gauri, keep it up for us!

Gauri smiles lightly while the others, including Rosaria and Warren, are proud of them.

Penny: Viewers, vote for one of the members of Striking Piledrivers who will be eliminated. The contestant with the most votes will leave the show.

Peggy - A
Priya - B
Rayna - C
Spencer - D
Ollie - E
Destiny - F
Capri - G
Adrian - H
Colton - I