Chapter 17

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The Game Has Begun

Alicia's squad was in the lead, they consisted of the smartest in the facility, but it took a genius to connive a genius.

"First clue..." Gabriella picked up Alicia's first clue and they all gave her a confused look.

"Shouldn't you be with your squad?" One of them hissed.

"It's obvious she's here to sabotage us, but it's one against 10." The shortest of them all stepped up.

"Ariana, indeed you're correct but, I'm only here for the cl- whoops." Gabriella stopped the clue into the lake next to where the clue was located.

"No!" Another reached for it.

"Don't worry, it'll only set us back a few minutes." Ariana huffed as Gabriella took off with a laugh, going to the next clue location since she did figure it out.

Meanwhile, Willow was making several traps in her targets paths. Pulling out her phone, she made a whole intro to her plan.

"Hey y'all, so we have this classic leaf trap and of course they'll see that it's bait, maybe go around it. That is where the trap will activate and many rocks will be launched at my victims. BUT, I'm a genius and if they don't go around the trap, the leaf trap actually has really stick mud under it then I'll active the rocks my own self making it still launch at them- oh here they come." Willow smirked, setting her camera down and waiting behind a tree as Lauren appears with her crew following quickly behind.

"What is this?" Camila stopped Lauren.

"Clearly a trap." Lucy, another part of their squad stated.

"What if it's fake?" Halsey squated, observing it.

"Then let's go around it." Camila rolled her eyes.

"That's stupid, it's clearly not real and we'll look even stupid thinking that it is, let's go." Lauren brushed past Camila and began to walk.

"Stop, let's go around." Lucy ushered and Lauren rolled her eyes this time.

"Fine." Lauren walked around it and she was shot at by some rocks.

"Was it worth it?" Camila rolled her eyes and everyone brushed past Lucy and walked through the leaves with everyone.

They watched as all of them either got stuck in the mud or shot by rocks. Willow smiled sinisterly, grabbing her camera and made her way to her next victims. Cardi's squad. On to Solána, she had moved all of Jennifer's and Nicki's clues to one location as well as their end goal. She only sat awaiting onto of the waterfall with their goal beside her. Montero on the other hand had a whole costume on display for his target. He would come to the forest and pretended be a bandit just because it was fun. As he made his way to Usher's crew, he sees that they were on their way to their second clue. Making their way there, Montero clinked his knife on several rocks, catching their attention.

"What was that?" Jaden asked.

"Just some animals or birds." Justin ignored his worries until lapis clothing was thrown behind them. "What the hell..." He trailed off.

"Let's play cat and mouse boys." Montero smiled, painting his face with mud and they all looked amongst each other then took off without a second thought.

Now last, was Normani. She was walking with Beyoncé group as they figured out their second clue. She was nibbling on her chocolate just listening until Dinah stops.

"Dude, warning." Rameer brushed off himself.

"Why are you following us?" Dinah questioned the smaller girl.

"How long has she been there?" Chloe jumped.

"This is girl is truly like a puppy." Ella laughed, hugging Normani who hugged her back.

"I'm meant to sabotage you, I don't want to." Normani shrugged, biting into her chocolate as they looked amongst each other.

"So why are you here?" Dinah rephrased her question.

"If I get caught slacking, I won't hear the end of it." Normani sighed and Ella smirks.

"Alright little puppy, hop on. You'll tag along with us." She ushered and Normani gave her a blank stare.

"Fine, whatever." Dinah went back to looking at the clue while Normani wondered what was happening.

"Okay." Normani got onto Ella's back and Ella lifted her, giving her a piggy back.

She didn't mind, as long as she gets to eat her chocolate. They fall upon China who was just finishing her second clue.

"Hi!" China waved to Normani.

"Hello." Normani greeted back and Beyoncé's squad cooed unknowingly.

"I'm off to my third clue, see you at the end." China skipped off and Normani waved bye.

The sisters looked at each other confused but shook their head. Once near the end, Normani gets off of Ella's back and stretched.

"Gotta go, I'll see you all at the end of this game." Normani waved and made her way to the finish.

"We should hurry if we want to win." Dinah ushered and they took off to their end game but they didn't make it in time.

Rihanna's team had just rejoined while China was jumping around happy by the applause from Willow. They had a weird dynamic.

"You-" Camila was immediately cut off by Solána.

"I would advise you not to finish that sentence Canola." She threatened and Camila swallowed the lump but pushed through the threat.

"Look at what your muppet did to us!" She hissed and Willow laughs, evilly.

"There were no rules. game's the game." Willow smirked and the mentor shakes their head.

But before all of that, back to what the mentors had to discuss.

"Mariah, what do we owe this pleasure?" Beyoncé questioned, this was the last person she wanted to speak to.

"I have research on your new recruit." Mariah held up a piece of paper and Rihanna took it swiftly.

"What are you getting at?" Rihanna jaw clenched, she hated this woman, not more than Chris though.

"Read it for yourself." Mariah shrugs.

Rihanna read over Normani's history, over everything that has happened to the girl and it all made Rihanna's eyes grow wide. She thought she had it bad, but boy was she definitely wrong.

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