And the winner is...

"This may be y'all's final round," Kendra said somewhat menacingly. "Good luck!"

Becca -> Mandy
Paige -> Abby
Abby -> Liam
Sara -> Becca
Lauren -> Paige
Liam -> Lauren
Mandy -> Sara

Everyone was much more cautious this time, because nobody had the illusion of safety that came with zero strikes. Three of them; Abby, Sara, and Lauren, were on thin ice with two strikes each.

"Paige again?" Lauren protested. "Ugh, why the fuck would they give me Paige twice? Well, I guess I can't just sacrifice myself again, because then I'll be out of the challenge. Although...I could just not target her and try to get in the top half by making it through the fifteen minutes and getting eliminated at the end of the round...then I'd probably get a guaranteed 6th or 5th."

At least for the time being, she settled in behind a shrub and waited for Kendra's countdown to begin, giving herself some time to think about it.

"I gotta get Becca out," Sara said, panting and out of breath as she ran off in the distance. "She's too far ahead, and she's perfect to get more victory points for things she may do with Turner."

Sara hatched a plan. She would shoot Becca, and then follow her around and try to get in the way of Becca's laser shot to cause her to get another strike, similar to what had happened to Kathryn in the first round. It wouldn't be that difficult to find her, her orange hair and exposed white undershirt stood out against the dark green canopy. Sara herself had to be a bit wary, because she was on her last life, so to speak.

She saw that Becca was on her tail, and hid behind a pretty large rock to get an immediate hit as soon as Kendra said that the round was started.

Becca walked into the forest. Although she was ahead, she couldn't be careless. "This is for Turner, and trying to make the best out of this stupid game", she thought, psyching herself up.

As soon as she entered the forest, Kendra announced that the third and possibly final round had begun. Her voice was distant, but somehow still carried out to the far reaches of the boundaries. No more than fifteen seconds in, her white undershirt disappeared as she had been hit.

"What-how the fuck?" she said aloud. "It's been like no time at all, how did you do that?"

"They're better than you, that's why," her mind responded.

She ignored that, just grumbling as her perky tits under a plain black, conservative bra were visible.

"Of course I got Abby when it's most difficult to see her," Paige complained. "I couldn't get her when she had that stupidly bright red top on, I have to get her when she has nothing on."

She didn't realize that Lauren was right behind her, walking as stealthily as someone like her could walk in an area full of sticks and foliage, and then she shot her in the back.

Paige's short shorts were gone, which didn't honestly change much about what was covered up. She spun her head around and saw Lauren booking it away from her.

"Lauren?" she incredulously said. "Really? Although, I guess she was on two strikes, so I can't complain about that."

Her voice went quiet as she saw Abby no more than twenty feet ahead of her. It was the perfect shot and she wasn't going to miss it, nicking her in the edge of the head with her laser.

Abby didn't feel any change, since there was nothing to remove. She was just going to wait these 15 minutes out, not actively seeking out her roommate to hit, but if she did come across him, she'd just take the opportunity.

"I have the opportunity to get Lauren out of this game," Liam told Mandy.

"I have Sara as mine," Mandy responded. "If we do this well, we'll get a guaranteed top half win."

Becca ran up to Mandy, seeing her through the foliage, with Sara close on her trail.

"How convenient," Mandy thought.

Becca shot her laser at Mandy, who was running away from the line of fire. Meanwhile, Sara jumped in front of Becca as soon as she saw her finger over the trigger, blocking the shot and causing Becca to get her third strike.

"Sara!" Becca yelled as her cargo shorts disappeared, leaving her in just her underwear. "Why would you do that?"

"Because I need to get ahead in this game," Sara explained. "You have all these advantages, meanwhile I have to try my damn hardest. You don't want me to have to fuck your boyfriend for points, do you? This is how I need to get my victory points!"

When Sara mentioned not wanting to fuck Turner, Becca's brain started firing on multiple cylinders, her transformation being activated again, but she shook it off. How much longer she could keep doing that was uncertain, but she would delay it as much as possible.

"Sara, this is honestly poetic," Mandy butted in, speaking up. "Because you're the one I have to go after. I'm so sorry."

Mandy then shot Sara, her shorts disappearing and confirming everyone's beliefs, with no underwear on covering her pussy. Becca's mind started up again the same way it had with Abby's but she continued to shove those beliefs down as there was something more pressing on her mind.

"I have to go after you too though, Mandy," Becca said. "I don't want to end up like Emma."

Mandy's frumpy shirt disappeared, but she had put another shirt on underneath. It was hellish to walk around in, and she had no idea it would help in the challenge. She just did it to try and prevent anything Kendra may do with clothing during the challenge, which she had a strong suspicion about given the nature of the show.

"Five minutes remaining!" Kendra warned.

"I still haven't seen Lauren at all," Liam noted. "How am I gonna get her out in these five minutes?"

"Well, I guess we should go find her," Mandy reasoned.

Lauren, after shooting Paige, had not left the spot that she got Sara from on the mountainside. It was very far away from where everyone else was, fairly hidden, and she could see people coming without them seeing her. The perfect place.

Therefore, imagine her surprise when Liam sneak attacked her from behind, causing her shirttail to no longer be present, along with the rest of her shirt. It was her final strike, and just in the nick of time as Kendra announced the end of the round.

"Alright, only three of you remain," she said once everyone made it to the center. "Also, Abby, you are receiving a fourth strike for not getting your target, Liam, in the allotted time. That puts you in ninth, so Kathryn and Charlotte, you better thank her for that. Also, speaking of Liam, they are the only person to not have two strikes! Mandy and Paige, you have two each. Good luck on the final round!"

Becca: 3 (6th)
Paige: 2
Emma: 4 (10th)
Abby: 4 (9th)
Sara: 3 (5th)
Kathryn: 3 (8th)
Charlotte: 3 (7th)
Lauren: 3 (4th)
Liam: 1
Mandy: 2

"There are only three of us left," Mandy said as the the two of them left Paige. "That means that one of us is gonna have the other as a target."

"Well, I guess we should get Paige out first and then discuss amongst ourselves who we want to win," Liam said sullenly. "I think you should, Mom. You've got less BP than I do."

"No, you should, Liam," Mandy refused. "You're the one who is gonna be running low on victory points on account of Turner being your best friend. I have fewer qualms doing anything with him if I need to."

Paige -> Liam
Liam -> Mandy
Mandy -> Paige

"Alright, I have to find Paige," Mandy said. "If we stick together, we should be able to get her out of the game and then you can just get me out."

"Sounds like a plan to me, Mom," Liam agreed.

_"Those two are gonna be sticking together like peanut butter and jelly," Paige thought to herself as the name appeared on her screen and Kendra announced the beginning of the round. "If I had Mandy as my target, I could eliminate her and get second place to Liam, but I have Liam, so I won't be able to do that. My best hope is evading them for the fifteen minutes and tying Mandy for second place, assuming that Liam doesn't shoot her in that time."_

Paige climbed up a tree with low-hanging branches. She and Turner used to do that all the time while they were dating. He expressed interest in having a treehouse in his yard when he eventually settled down, which corresponded to his whimsical childishness that he sometimes possessed. The same whimsy that she was now competing for, and she wouldn't let his best friend and best friend's mom take away her chances of doing that. No, she was gonna get first in this challenge if she could help it. Atop this tree, she noticed Liam and Mandy lurking around on the other side of the battlefield. If she misfired and hit Mandy, it would be the end of the round, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. Her finger hit the trigger as she aimed as best as she could at Liam.

Liam felt his short disappear from him, revealing two small breasts that definitely were not on him this time yesterday. He had yet to change clothes or look at his new female form at all, preferring the doctrine of "out of sight, out of mind". As he was looking down with horror, Mandy was looking around with suspicion.

"Paige has to be around here somewhere," she said, examining the dense jungle nearby with such efficiency that Kathryn would've been proud. "She can't have shot from across the field, there's no way that she has a trigger finger that's that good."

"She might," Liam remembered. "She was quite the good shot in high school, when we did archery in gym class, she and Turner had competitions for how many times they could get a score of 30."

"No way that's translated to today, the last time she did that in high school would've been over four years ago," Mandy reasoned. "Especially with her eyesight."

As Kendra announced the five-minute warning, Liam and Mandy still had no luck trying to find Paige. She hadn't moved from her spot the entire time, rationalizing that movement was more noticeable than something appearing out of place.

"Liam, we only have one minute left," Mandy said. "Hit me with your best shot, I'll take the 4 strikes."

"No, you won't," Liam said, putting his foot down metaphorically and physically. "We're gonna take the 3 strikes each, us getting 2nd and 3rd is better than me getting 2nd and you getting 8th."

"Liam, if you don't, I'm gonna take your laser and use it on myself," Mandy warned.

Liam responded to that by throwing his laser up into the branches of a nearby tree, rendering it unobtainable, especially within the one-minute time limit.

"How dare you!" Mandy said, just below a yell. "I'm your mother, why would you do something as stupid as that in defiance?"

"It doesn't matter!" Liam declared, getting louder than his mother. "We're not mom and son anymore! We're competing to be tied to the same man, and competing for favorable positions!"

Paige heard the discussion from no more than 50 feet away and let out a snicker. It would've been audible if it weren't for Mandy and Liam arguing.

"And that is the end of the round and end of the game!" Kendra announced from the center. "Mandy and Liam, you both didn't manage to hit your target by the end of the round, so you both get your third strike and Paige gets first place! Liam, because you...threw your weapon up into the tree, I'm giving you third and Mandy second place. Now, because this is our first challenge, the VP gain and loss will be more lenient than it will be in future challenges. Keep this in mind, the next challenge will have some of you losing VPs, but this time, you all get some aside from Emma."

1. Paige (9 VP)
2. Mandy (8 VP)
3. Liam (7 VP)
4. Lauren (6 VP)
5. Sara (5 VP)
6. Becca (4 VP)
7. Charlotte (3 VP)
8. Kathryn (2 VP)
9. Abby (1 VP)
10. Emma (0 VP)

"Alright, you all are free to go aside from you, Emma", Kendra said as soon as the placements were announced. "You're going to get freshened up for your date with Turner!"