Total Drama World Tour Rewrite
Chapter 1: Walk Like an Egyptian Part I
Beginning AN:
In April of 2011, I wrote a remake of Total Drama World Tour - Albiet one that was mostly improvised at first, and focused on making a new story rather than on "fixing" any problems I had. And let me tell you right now: This will not be a remake focused on fixing per-say (apart from giving some underdeveloped characters screen time), but rather making a new plotline from the season.
However, as said above the old fic was mostly written as I was going along. While it was a good thing which eventually pushed me into goals for writting fan fics (I hadn't written anything throughout all of 2010 and I was mentally acting as though I was expecting the fics to be written for me), the improvision itself made it awful. Well, after looking back at it, it didn't seem that bad, but there were a ton of glaring errors, unnecessary plot points, and OOC-ness galore. So I decided to remake... the remake...
Yeah...
Anyway, still read these first four chapters even if you read the old version because everything is quite different from them, including some of the eliminations.
Pairings: I'm not telling you but I will say this: Unless you've read the old version (which I don't recommend when I mirror it somewhereuntil after you're done with chapter 4 of this, as the old one contains spoilers), I highly doubt you would be able to predict them. No, I really mean it.
Responces to reviews of the last chapter from before remaking this will be at the bottom of the second chapter, since that and this will be published on the same day and I'd like to get stuff like that out at the absolute, very end.
"Last time on Total Drama:
"Twenty-two teenagers competed on a campsite in Wawanakwa during Total Drama Island, where one by one they were voted off. From Ezekiel tripping and breaking the otherwise awesome hot tub the Killer Bass made to Heather refusing to get her hair shaved, the competition narrowed down to Owen and Gwen. With a little extra... help, Owen stormed foreward in the final race to determine Wawanakwa's winner and claimed the one hundred grand prize...
"Only to give it up in the post-game special, for a challenge to decuple that amount at the cost of risking the prize with the other campers. This ended in a failure, getting into a fourteen-way tie that resulted in season two: Total Drama Action. The castmates there eventually settled down into two finalists: Duncan, and Beth. Duncan unsurprisingly won, but the method he did was not unshocking in the least bit: He betrayed Beth, then and there, right near the end of the last challenge. Seriously, that heart of gold looked more like a heart of steel right there!
"In Celebrity Manhunt, we revealed that Duncan blew his million after an incident or two with Courtney... eh... not very important. The important thing was that I took the oppertunity of the Total Drama reunion that happened in Celebrity Manhunt to test my contestants by telling them that I'm leaving them, unmentioned in the special, and to start up a new series. They persued me... at first. A comment from Duncan about needing a 'man behind the wheel' to Courtney's driving sparked some unintended heat from Eva, and a fight broke out that drove their little comeback van to a screaching halt.
"We thought this was funny, but then the fight just sort of dragged on and pretty much the whole cast got involved. I finally stepped in and told them that the real purpose behind this was because I was about to start my filming for a new project, a third season that I made careful not to leak any details of! (But I know some of the other producers did. They can't keep their lips zipped about anything when it comes to this show.) I told them that this whole 'Total Drama Dirtbags' deal was to see if the old cast had any steam left in them. If they did, they get to compete in the show. If they didn't, I shove them all to the side and let these thirteen new guys play the game instead. Did they still have steam? According to the challenge, half-yes. But the budget was a little tighter than I thought, I couldn't have the old guys compete back on Wawanakwa for season four, and this had to be the final season. And I don't know about you, but I would rather risk ending the show on a high note instead of introducing new people that could cause a fanbase uproar.
"So here we are, Total Drama's grand finale! With everyone you knew before competing for one million dollars and two new faces added to spicen up, this is going to be one memorable last season! As you know what they say, third time is the charm, with Total! Drama! World Tour!"
*Cue intro. It begins with several cameras popping out in the runway, then the scene cuts to Egypt, the camera going up and splashing into the Nile River below. Owen, continuing the show's opening trend, is swimming underneath when a fishing hook grabs him by the back of the swimsuit and reels him in, showing her, Alejandro, and Justin on a boat. The latter two are fighting off crockodiles. Sierra glances at Owen, shakes her head, and throws him back out into the water.
The scene cuts to Japan, where Bridgette, Geoff, and Cody are all rolling in a line on a giant pinball table, inside pink, blue, and yellow balls respectively. Bridgette trips and falls off the table, where Ezekiel runs up to her before she rolls away. As Ezekiel runs after her with with a smug grin, snow blows across the screen as the setting suddenly turns into a representation of the Yukon.
Gwen and Duncan are by a pole, with him leaning in for a kiss. Courtney quickly pulls Gwen out of the way and down to a snowbank, where Trent is as well. This causes Duncan's tongue to get stuck to the pole as Trent looks up at something offscreen and ducks even further. What was heading at him turned out to be a sled carrying Lindsay and Beth, which moves to the right with the camera following, until the snowfields abruptly ends and goes to the top of the Statue of Liberty.
The two girls fall off of said statue while Heather is busy pulling Katie and Sadie up with a rope (the latter two being tied together). Izzy leaps into the scene from afar and laughs at all three of them, before jumping out as Heather turns to where she was and shakes her fist at her.
The camera scrolls down to another snowfield, this one having a large dancing platform with Tyler and DJ having an akward slap fight. They knock eachother off and fall into the ground below, where Noah and Eva are seen there laughing at them. The camera scrolls until it enters a batch of trees which soon become a forest, Harold and Leshawna briefly being seen here until the Total Drama Jumo Jet whooshes at them from above. Harold jumps into Leshawna's arms, which she reacts to with a giggle.
Finally, the intro shows off the plane itself. From the cockpit to first class, the common area, econ class, the elimination room, and the cargo hold. Aside from Chris and Chef being in the first location mentioned, the plane is empty. A hole breaks through and the camera then follows outside of it, showing Ezekiel desperately clinging onto the tail of the plane. He looks at the front, which as it turns out has the other twenty-three contestants on it, all clinging to the roof for their lives. Chris yanks the control from Chef and gives the plane a sharp turn, tossing everybody off and forcing them to activate their parachutes. They all land on the runway safetly, though Ezekiel is hit and knocked to the side by the jet as it slows to a land. The jet has the season's logo on it.*
Chris stood in an empty runway with a large grin on his face as a bus pulled up towards him.
"Viewers, let's meet the tourists!" He shouted to the active camera, as the bus doors opened and a well-known female duo stepped out and stared at the pavement.
"...Is this it?" One of them, Lindsay, asked. "Are we going to live on the streets this season?"
"Do you think Chris would be that mean?" Beth asked, looking between her friend and the host.
"Wait, you can't be serious." Gwen said, behind them. She paced out and started looking around. "Wow. If you two are right, then this will be the worst season this show will ever have."
"Worst so far," Heather added before stepping out herself.
"And there's Lindsay, Beth, Gwen, and Heather!" Chris cried.
"I'm sure the viewers all know who we are." Courtney said, elegantly stepping off. "There's no need at all to recap."
Chris shrugged. With his eyes closed, he said, "And I'm sure this will get more views than season one and two combined. And of course, more views means new viewers. And some of those viewers might not bother checking the online bios."
"Everyone, move out of the way." Leshawna gloated from inside the bus. "Because I'm a future millionare and you should repect people wealthier than you. After all, if they like you enough-" she looked at Gwen, "Or if they pity you enough-" She looked at Courtney, "They could be lending you money out of kindness."
She then stepped off, and glared at Heather and Courtney, dropping her smile along the way.
"Don't think you can do any harm this time, girls." Bridgette began walking out as she said this, "I'm on your backs."
"And I'm on Bridgette's back!" Izzy cried, before leaping out of the bus and ending up on Bridgette's shoulders. Taken by surprise, the second blonde tried to keep balance, but ultimatley slipped and fell over.
"And that," Chris continued, "Is Courtney, Leshawna, Bridgette, and Izzy!"
Alejandro walked out, with a frustrated Justin following. The former went up to Leshawna.
"Don't forget about that guy," he told her, jerking his thumb to the original pretty boy. "Courtney may have swept him away in more ways than one, but he still has a chance to make a comeback this season."
The girls all laughed.
"Here's our first of two newcomers, Alejandro!" Chris cheered. In a much less excited tone, he added, "And Justin."
Noah peeked his head out of the bus and gagged. "Note to self, sitting behind Owen is a bad-"
"Noah, get back in!" Chris beamed. "We're not gonna introduce the nobodies who weren't in the second season until everyone who was has left!"
"Alejandro wasn't in either." He darted back. "In fact, wouldn't it be better to introduce the new ones last?"
"The fact that you and the other guys are returning was supposed to be an even bigger surprise than the two newbies, and you ruined it!"
Noah scoffed, then sunk back in, as Duncan, DJ, Owen, and Geoff stepped out, all of which (except Duncan) were trying to comfort Trent, who was along with them.
"And here's our past winners!" Chris cried. "Duncan and Owen, plus their old allies Trent, Geoff, and DJ!"
Sierra ran out next, with a squeal, and tackled Duncan to the ground. "Eeek! OMG, Duncan, I can't find the word to describe how happy I am to compete with you! I've been dreaming about this day since I saw the series premiere! But I've been wanting to dream about it sooner!"
He tried throwing and pushing her off, but couldn't get the strength.
"Oh, don't even bother." The fangirl said, "I have been carefully observing your feats through the first two seasons and I calculated what I think is your strength. I'm pretty sure I'm stronger."
"And there's the second new contestant, Sierra!" Chris cheered. "And finally, our last Total Drama Action veteran... Harold!"
He walked out nonchalantly and continued moving towards the other ex-castemates... until he saw Duncan, now stood up, trying to push Sierra away from him. Harold laughed.
Gwen scowled at this and started nudging Sierra, who replied with a hiss. Courtney stepped up and then lifted the purple-haired fangirl off of the delinquent, but in return she simply knocked Courtney to the ground and jumped back on Duncan just as he was about to get back up.
"And now," Chris said, "For what was going to be a shocking twist, all of those who weren't in Total Drama Action will be competing here as well! Katie, Sadie, Eva, Cody, Noah, and Tyler!"
"Eeeek I wonder what the season here is going to be!" Katie cheered.
Sadie frowned. "I overheard Lindsay saying that we will be living on this runway?"
Katie gasped. "Noooo that sounds terrible!" She cried, "I would have liked another movie themed season so that we could be like, actresses!"
"Yeah, being an actress is like, soooo cooool of a job!"
As with Harold, Eva didn't do anything of note until she saw Duncan and Sierra.
"Wow. You're weaker than I thought." She smirked, a rare sight indeed. "And you called yourself a real man."
"It's Sierra!" The delinquent cried. "She's a lot stronger than she looks!"
"Yeah!" Gwen defended, "She really is!"
Eva seemed unfrazed. "It says a lot about you when your biggest enemy this season is a blogger." She spat.
"Urgh!"
"So Gwen," Cody said upon walking to the aformentioned contestant. "Are you still looking for a new boyfriend?"
"Let me make this perfectly clear." She darted. "I would rather be single than go out with you."
Noah opened his mouth to say something, but Chris interrupted him.
"Oh no you don't!" The host exclaimed. "You already got your line when you went out of my clearly established order!"
Tyler ran out and stopped when he got to Lindsay.
"Lindsay!" He cried dramatically, "You still can't remember my name?"
"Yeah I remember it. It's Ezekiel!"
The jock sighed.
"Alright now, that's everyone." Chris said, "Yep, there is no contestant left unintroduced. The bus driver may take off now."
He laughed. "As you may have noticed the theme of this season has been kept secret from you. I've only been calling it 'Total Drama Season Three' to you guys. Well, that's so I can see the looks on your faces when I show you..."
"You forgot me!" Ezekiel cried, jumping out the bus just as it began moving. He then ran up to the camera. "My name is Ezekiel, dawg, and yo yo yo I'm gonna be the one to win this!"
"Tyler!" Lindsay cried, running up to him and kissing him. The twenty-two other competetors looked in shock. Tyler - the real Tyler - bit his lower lip and looked like he was going to cry, then began to slouch.
Chris smirked at the kiss and chuckled, then gave a hand motion to the camera man to run over in a direction away from the last one out the bus, and he did, only for Ezekiel to break from Lindsay's kiss and to follow. Another camera started recording the chase scene, as it led far out into the runway. A loud jet was heard, and sure enough a giant, dark gray plane with Chris's face on it flew in and knocked Ezekiel down. The cameraman didn't get hit, but he did faint after a second of his knees shaking.
"This is the look-on-face thing I was telling you about." Chris said. "The Total Drama Jumbo Jet. This season's theme? Around the world. The season's name? Total Drama World Tour. Now, if you will, step on so I can give you a trip of where you will be staying throughout most of the show."
(Jumbo Jet)
"We'll start by going over the loser's part of the jet." He said. "This is the mess hall. Just like the past two seasons this will be the place where you will recieve meals from Chef Hatchet. There's not much else to this room becides from how this here is where you will all go when there is a challenge, so I'll show you around to where you will be sleeping."
As Chris left with most of the contestants following, Duncan left from under one of the tables. Just when he started following the contestants, he turned to see Sierra right behind him.
"Gah!" He screamed. "How did you know I was hiding there?"
"Your neon green mohawk isn't that hard to see, you know." She giggled. Duncan nervously backed into the doorway leading to the next room, where Chris was showing the bench seats in a poor, run-down part of the plane.
"This is economics class- Duncan, is she bothering you?" Chris said, saying the second part once the pair of contestants entered the room. "Because this season hasn't officially started yet and I do have the power to remove her from the game right now. No vote offs, no ceremony, just a simple push out of this crummy plane. It would cause a lot less trouble, she wasn't even a real contestant until now."
Sierra tried to push herself over to Duncan, resulting in him trying to shove her back. He looked at though he was going to shout something at Chris, before he turned his glance to see Eva giving him another cocky smirk. Duncan frowned, saying to Chris a simple "Nope. Everything's fine."
"Do I get a say in what will happen to her?" Gwen asked, cocking an eyebrow.
"Mmm... we'll see how she does in this game."
"How are we gonna sleep?" Courtney asked, keeping a watch under Duncan and Gwen.
Chris guestered to a set of buckles.
"So yeah, this is where the loser teams have to stay after an episode. Don't worry though, unlike before, challenges are only a day apart. So whichever teams lose don't have to stay there for all three days."
"Wait, teams?" Noah asked. "As in plural?"
Chris sighed. "Well, yes. This wasn't supposed to be revealed until after the first team is all rounded up, but there will be three teams this season-"
"You could have just lied and said that you were only expecting both of the two teams to fail. In fact, that seems like something you would-"
"Yo!" Ezekiel broke in, "I'd just like to say that I am not gonna be sleeping here! This season, the Zeke is gonna go to the top!"
Leshawna rolled her eyes. "Yeah, if by that you mean to crash and burn horribly."
"No offense," Bridgette said, "But you got voted off first last time. Remember? For your clumbsyness?"
"You and Tyler were klutzes, too!" Ezekiel beemed back. "I can't say the same for Tyler but you were looking good in the final ten!"
Tyler, who had still been slouching, sighed.
"And as the first season," Chris continued his trip, "The confessional is in the bathroom."
(Confessional)
Bridgette: Izzy recommended rewatching the first two seasons with her, Geoff, and Trent, because of how badly we did and to look for "strategic strategies..." And I remembered something. Did you see how Ezekiel was hitting on me after we were both voted off? And I hit him at one point? That's because... he was like that all the time. He never got as bad as Cody did to Gwen, but if he did, I might turn into a goth. The guy can seriously be creepy and annoying sometimes... I hope he's voted off first again!
Harold: Man, I am so pumped for this! Back on Wawanwaka I was collecting anything I found interesting in these test tubes. The movie lot never had anything worth collecting, but now that we're going around the world I'm sure there's bound to be some wicked stuff growing everywhere!
Duncan: We haven't even gotten to our first challenge yet and I'm already being stalked by half of the new blood, and I have an enemy! This season sucks.
"This is first class," Chris continued yet again, showing around the gold-plated, well conforting, juice-bar containing part of the jet. Several flight attendants walked around the area.
"The winning team gets to stay here until the next challenge." Chris added. "By the way: People from one class can invite another, for anybody feeling lonely enough. Those from first class may also move to the econ class all they want, but not vice-a-versa."
"Yeah, this is totally where the Zeke is staying in the whole season! Boom!"
"Now," Chris said after shooting Ezekiel a glare, "Because of a... little rat problem, we won't be going into the next room until Chef has it figured out. So, you guys may feel free to look around," He glanced at Tyler with a bullying smile, "talk some things out, whatever."
Of course, the red-wearing athelete went to Lindsay right away.
"Lindsay," He said, "You do know that I'm Tyler, and the guy you kissed back there was Ezekiel, right?"
"Hrm?" She said, "No, I remember Tyler was kicked off early and wore a heavy outfit. I'm sure I know who Tyler is and who Ezekiel is. Are you just saying you're Tyler so that you can try to makeout with me?"
Tyler sighed and walked away.
(Confessional)
Tyler: In due time, Tyler. In due time. You'll get her back. You will. You... *starts weeping* will?
Lindsay: Man, that Ezekiel guy is such a creep! Who would lie about their name anyway?
Chef threw a giant rat about the size of himself out the door of the next room. The rat hissed, and ran off.
"And for the final part of the tour, the elimination room." Chris said, inside a hold containing a set of bleachers and a few tikis. "It's the same thing as before, but with barf bags full of peanuts. The contestant that does not get a bag will be kicked off, and will go down the drop of shame!" He whispered to himself, "Oh thank goodness Chef got rid of the rat in time I was getting tired of waiting and I would almost rather risk getting mauled by that thing. Heh."
"Hey, um," Ezekiel said, "I have a peanut allergy eh."
"And I've found the perfect demonstration for this." Chris smirked, grabbing Ezekiel by the jacket and tossing him out of the door. Ezekiel fell onto the runway below and laughed.
"Nice one! Also nice is that you picked the person who would never go through this in the real deal-"
Chris turned his head back inside after having it leaned out to get a better look at the contestant on the ground. "Picture that, except miles above the air. And Duncan, if you want that could be Sierra." He then turned to Chef. "Now start the plane, now now now!"
"Wait a minute eh..." Ezekiel said. Chef began running towards the cockpit. "Hey! You don't really want me in here, don't you!"
"You think?" Chris said. Afterwhich, the plane jerked for part of takeoff, which tossed the host off of the plane as well.
"Hey!" He shouted. "Chef! Stop the plane! You can hear me from here, right? Stop the plane!"
The wheels started, the plane began moving slowly yet frighteningly (in the POV of both people thrown off) down the path.
"Everyone!" Chris cried to the contestants, pointing at Ezekiel. "Help let me back on, but not him!"
They just laughed. Chris charged towards the plane, only to find Ezekiel tackling him down to the ground.
"If I don't get in this season, you don't get in either."
Chris tried to throw him off but, as with Sierra and Duncan before, the pinner was unexpectidly stronger than the pinnie.
"Well!" Chris shouted, "At the very least I can contact interns who will loyally fly me over to the destination in a helicopter. You, on the other hand, have nothing."
"Really?" Ezekiel chuckled. "Don't you think that they can hire another host to replace you? What about that Celebrity Manhunt hostess? She seems like an interesting lady."
"What?" Chris beamed. "Blaineley? Never!"
He whipped a rope out of his pocket and tossed it so that it wrapped around a pipe fom the ceiling of the elimination room. Just as the plane began moving faster, Chris got a tight grip on and began being dragged, Ezekiel still holding him down.
The jet lifted in the air and the two who were thrown out flew up along with it. Chris stuck his legs out, which somehow swung him to the direction of the door, causing both him and the contestant trying to stop him to re-enter.
Chris slammed the door shut and ran over to the direction of the cockpit showting "My show, Chef, my show!" while Ezekiel fell on one out of the only contestants to remain in the area: Lindsay. This accident had knocked them both to the floor of the jet's room, with him on top of her. Both of them chuckled.
Tyler, the other contestant in the room, hung his head down.
(Confessional)
Tyler: *Sighs.* Getting Lindsay back is gonna be harder than I thought. I'm gonna need some... relationship experts on this.
(Egypt)
The plane landed in a large set of dunes. Every competetor stepped off, and into the much hotter air.
"Really! I swear!" Chef exclaimed, dressed in a pharoh outfit. "I didn't know you were knocked out too!"
"Alright, alright." Chris tossed, wearing a similar outfit. "I'll believe this. You did have a plausible reason. That being that you can't really see what's by the Drop of Shame door from where you were. But my eyes are still on you. Got it?"
The hosting duo went over to a pair of lawn chairs and sat in them.
"Alright," Chris said, "Your first challenge is the Pyramid Over-Under. You can chose to either climb up, in a painfully long, painfully hot, painfully dry rise with nothing of interest at all, or you could go through the entrance and navigate your way through a trap filled labyrinth. Either way, pick which ever path of doom you find the least painful. And the least boring, for that matter. Any questions?"
"Yeah," said Leshawna, "Is it cooler underneath?"
"Yes! Now, if you have any further concerns, you are more than free to waste your valuable time getting through this challenge and will have to suffer through the desert heat a little longer by asking Chef or I after I began. And speaking of which, this first challenge starts NOW!"
He shot a flair gun upwards and the contestants sprinted over to the large structure. The first two to enter the lower path were Duncan and Sierra, the latter obviously chasing after the former.
(Confessional)
Duncan: I was gonna go over, but I figured, Chris said the place under was a maze. Normally I'm real good at losing people chasing me, but, well... you try doing that when the only room to run is in a pyramid.
Courtney: To make up for my... behavior last season, I wanted to set out and help Duncan with that freak of a stalker he has! *Glares.* However, I'm only gonna try to nicen up in regards to Duncan. Anyone else? They all deserve my full skills. Especially Gwen.
Cody: Man, that guy is lucky! He's dating Courtney, Gwen seems to be getting a little too friendly with him, and now he's even got his own stalker! What's next, Izzy breaks up with Owen and starts going after him too?
(Entrance Hall)
"Sierra, get over here! Now!" Courtney screamed, chasing the fan through a hallway in the pyramid. Close behind, Gwen and Cody were pacing after the trio.
"So," Cody began, "Why are you chasing after them? You seem a little too interested in someone who already has a girlfriend."
Gwen rolled her eyes. "I just care for my friend."
Cody laughed a little bit, before a sarcophagus in the hall opened up and revealed Duncan in it. The geek and the goth both screached to a halt, and looked ahead to see that the prep had vanished in the darkness.
"Duncan?" Both of the two asked.
"Yeah, I hid myself in here. For obvious reasons. Is she gone?"
"I couldn't even see Courtney." Gwen said.
"Courtney?"
"She was chasing after Sierra. I guess to help defend you or something?"
"Psh. Listen, if you see her, tell her I can protect myself. Actually, tell that to Eva too."
He looked around and saw that there was an opening leading to another part of the pyramid. Looking at the original hall, then back at the opening to another, he shrugged and turned.
"Why are you going down there?" Cody asked, "Isn't your girlfriend in the other trail?"
"That crazy fangirl's gonna realize that I'm not there eventually. Chris said this place was a maze, and I'm using that to lose her. Follow me or don't, I don't care."
He paced in the path, and Gwen followed. Cody looked back and forth at the two options.
(Confessional)
Cody: So my choices were to follow Duncan and Gwen, or to risk an encounter with Courtney and that stalker girl. *Laughs.* If you knew me, would you think for a second that I would rather be with Courtney than with Gwen?
(Three-way Split)
A rather large crowd composed of most of the contestants came to a dead stop when they found Sierra and Courtney fighting eachother.
"Stop stalking him!" The CIT shouted, jumping on the purple haired girl.
"No!" The fan replied, throwing her enemy off.
"Guys, guys!" Owen said, standing with Trent and DJ by him, "what's wrong?"
"Courtney won't let me get near Duncan!"
"I don't want to because he doesn't want you near him!"
"Oh yeah? What happened to being in denial about being his boyfriend!"
"Really? That was so long ago!"
Owen stepped in again, "Wait! Can't you two work something out?"
"NO!" They both shouted at him.
Sierra looked ahead and saw the three pathways. "Aw man, Chris never said there were three paths!"
"Well he did say it was a maze." Noah added, "And quite frankly, this is being nice.
"Anyway, there's going to be three teams, twenty-four of us. I saw eight contestants climbing the pyramid and I found no signs of Duncan, Cody, or Gwen. Based on the math I would suggest going down in groups of four."
"But wait," Courtney retorted, "There's thirteen of us here. Which group will-"
"Hey, you said you didn't see Duncan or Cody and Gwen?" Sierra said with shock. "But... I know Duncan and I entered first! So does that mean... he's hidden himself and found a secret path? And now he's with Gwen and Cody? I think I know what to do now!"
She darted backwards.
"Well," Noah said, "Problem solved. I can tell this is purely luck based, so I'm going in the left path."
Upon walking down said choice, Owen, Trent, and DJ followed behind him.
Courtney rolled her eyes and went down the middle path, with Izzy and Leshawna following and Harold quietly walking through not too soon after.
Heather smirked and snapped her head to the last three contestants.
"Katie, Sadie, Ezekiel," she said, "I want you to follow me through the right path. Do this, and I will garuntee an alliance to the final five."
They all laughed.
"Yeah," Ezekiel said, "We'll follow you alright, but don't think for a second you can fool us into making you your next allies."
"Listen," she said, jerking a thumb to herself. "I made it up to the final three. And if I didn't care about leaving my hair the way it is, I would have won. You, on the other hand, tripped over a stick and got thrown off first. Out of the four of us, I'm your best bet."
Ezekiel shrugged with a smile and followed her through the right path.
(Over the Pyramid)
Tyler tiredly, slowly trudged up the next step and saw Lindsay and Beth in a conversation.
"So," Beth said, "What do you think of the new guy?"
"Ezekiel? Hrm, I don't know... he wears like, too much red-"
"No, that's Tyler. The new guy is Alejandro." She pointed to him in question, who was easily several steps ahead of them and almost at the top. Geoff and Bridgette were just two steps behind. "I mean, look at how he jumps! He's like, a Latino mountain goat!"
"Lindsay, look!" Tyler paniced on the step Lindsay and Beth were at, "I can be a mountain goat too! Baa!"
He jumped up, this leap managing to skip over one step, only for him to land on his knees in the next. He let out a cry of pain and fell to the ground.
"Ezekiel?" Lindsay asked. "Are you okay?"
The blonde and her friend went up to the step Tyler was on.
"Ezekiel?" She repeated.
Tyler slowly stood up, eyes watery, then got on his knees in a begging position. "Please Lindsay, I'm Tyler! See, look at my jacket! That's a 'T' on it! There's no 'T' in 'Ezekiel!' Ezekiel is the guy in the green and teal, not me!"
She looked down for a few seconds, then her eyes shot back up. "Oh yeah, I remember you! You're Tyler!"
"Yes!" He cheered.
"Wait, if you're Tyler and that other guy is Ezekiel... well..."
"What?"
"I want to break up with you."
(Confessional)
Beth: I can't believe she did that so easily! When I broke up with Brady, finding the courage to say that we weren't working out was almost impossible!
(Pyramid Top)
"Hey Justin!" Alejandro called down to a point a few steps below Tyler, and trying not to giggle, "We got up here a little earlier than expected! Do you want us to wait for you to catch up to us? Bridgette said she can surf me, her, and Geoff down on this sign!"
"NO!" Justin yelled back.
"Well," The new male said, turning to the surfer. "I offered."
"Why?" Bridgette said with a glare. "He tried to manipulate everybody last season!"
"Yes, but that was the past. In the nearer past, he was on the losing streak, so in the present, I will try to see if giving him an oppertunity for redemption will mean that he will take it, so in the future, he could turn his abilities from evil to good and become a valuable ally."
Bridgette pulled a sign out from the top and set it on the roof. She got on, with Geoff right behind her and Alejandro following. While she was kicking at the sandstone a little and trying to get the makeshift board moving, Alejandro looked down at a lone figure on the other side of the pyramid and grimanced.
(Confessional)
Alejandro: Only one person has made it, meaning that we will all be in the same team unless I do something! And I do not want Bridgette and Geoff to be in the same team as me. Splitting them up as much as I can might not do much to the ordinary couple, but for them they will be convinced to focus less on eachother and more on the game, and in turn it will make them easier for me to control! ...And for them to be more cooperative in... general.
Bridgette kicked the sign off, and the trio were starting to speed down to the goal. Alejandro, however, was examining this side of the pyramid, and saw an opening in the structure. Quickly, he put his foot down hard on the sandstone, causing the sign and the three contestants to spin out of control and eventually fly off. Geoff landed on one brick, while Bridgette fell through the hole. She grabbed on a loose set of rocks sticking out in the opening and looked back up at Geoff.
"Bridgette!" He cried.
"Go down without me!"
"Why?"
"You're so close to the end, and the advantage! I don't know what's inside this, but I'm sure I can handle it alone! Go on, Geoff!" She slipped and fell into the structure. "Win this for usssss...!" Her voice echoed.
At the bottom, Eva looked and saw a sign sliding through the sand, coming to a stop after it touched her feet. Alejandro followed as well in suit with the sign.
"Newbie," she said, "If you see Duncan, tell him I wanna stage a fight."
"What... why?"
"I saw how he acted last season. The guy gets too much credit, too much fame, and I'm going to remind him that he's not the strongest contestant on the show..."
Alejandro got up, shrugged, and looked over at Chris and Chef. He gave a quizzical look over at Chris, who replied with a nod and a devious smirk. He looked at Eva, then frowned and looked at the ground.
(Left Path)
The group of four had encountered a small row of mumified animals.
"Aw, look at the little dude," DJ said, looking at the small mumified dog.
He was about to touch it, before Izzy's voice came blaring through a series of speakers set up around the ceiling. DJ ran far down the hall.
"Hello? What is this? Oh, hey, I can hear my own voice with this thing! Cool, I think it's like, a PA system!"
"Right on!" Owen cheered. "You found a way to make announcements!"
Noah rolled his eyes. "Yeah, she can't hear you."
Izzy continued. "By the way, Owen, if you can hear me... I... I think we should break up! Sorry dude, I don't think you're fun anymore!"
(Confessional)
Chris: *Laughing.* Two breakups in one episode, I can't... *laughs again* I can't... Pfft this is an awesome start to an awesome season.
(Middle Path)
Harold stared at Izzy as she unpressed the intercom button and ran off, sprinting.
"Dude!" He shouted.
Courtney whipped her head around and gasped.
"You!" She cried. "You went with us?"
Harold shrugged. "Yeah. My girlfriend wanted to go here, and I would rather be with her than follow Duncan's old team of friends or Heather."
They stood off in the hall, giving odd glances at eachother. Leshawna finally spoke up.
"You don't remember? We broke up."
They stood in puzzled silence until Duncan, Gwen, and Cody ran in from a perpendicular hallway.
"Oh, great." The delinquient said. "Look geek, I'm not in the mood to deal with you. Just tell me if any of you have seen Sierra."
Bridgette flew into the room from the ceiling and fell onto Harold, which knocked them both down and caused them to fly away just a few feet. Geoff fell in after, only since there wasn't a person by the hole in the ceiling he came from, he hit the floor face first.
"Heeey! Geoff!" Duncan said, smiling for the first time on the season. "Nice to see you dropping by!" He then snickered at the pun. Geoff managed to laugh a little himself.
"Wait." Bridgette stood up, "Geoff? I told you that you didn't have to jump down the hole!"
"I wanted to see if you were okay. That's all."
"Geoff, I told you, I can make it out of this by myself. Now, you on the other hand-"
"Wait, what?"
Bridgette looked to her feet. "You see... I told you not to go down here because I was worried about you. You're not the most... defensive person on the show."
The other seven contestants stared at them, wide-eyed.
Geoff smiled. "Okay, okay, so we both underestimated eachother. No big deal about that."
Bridgette looked back up at him. "Yeah, I guess you're right."
They started making out again.
"DUNCAN!" Sierra's voice could be heard from down the hall. "I KNOW YOU'RE DOWN THERE! I FOLLOWED YOUR SCENT, AND I CAN HEAR YOUR VOICE!"
Duncan stuck an arm out in front of Courtney. "Let me handle her," he smirked, "You don't have to."
"She's just as strong as me, so she is stronger than you. At the least it would take both of us to even hold her back."
"I got this." He said again, this time smiling smugly.
"Really? How?"
Once Sierra stepped into visibility out of the shadows, Duncan looked around and saw something that resembled a highly primative elavator. It had an open, rectangular space, a lever, and seemed detatched from the surrounding part.
"I'll dodge her until the challenge is over. By then I'll come up with something."
He grabbed Geoff by the jacket and dragged him over towards the elavator, then pulled the leavor. A stone slab loudly decended over the contraption, and behind it the elavator could be heard moving down. Sierra ran up to the 'door' over it and banged her fists on it.
"NOOOOO!" She shouted. "DUNCAN! HOW COULD YOU LEAVE ME LIKE THAT?" she started sniffing.
(Confessional)
Cody: Alright, Duncan's "lucky streak" ends here, and I know exactly how to end it! First, I'm going to turn the three girls crushing on him against eachother. Then, I- um... that's all there is to it, really. Heh heh. At that point in the pyramid I thought, "This should be easy! All three of them are right there!"
"Heeeey..." Cody said, patting the violet haired girl on the shoulder. "I know how you feel!"
"Wh..." Sierra started sniffing. "What?"
"We both have somebody we like who are not interested in us."
"Huh?"
Cody shook his head with his signature grin. "Let's go through the challenge together, and come up with some way to make us both happy."
They walked down through the path, Cody noticably scanning the ground and walls until he found a loose tile. He firmly pressed it with a foot, clearly trying to act like he accidentally stepped on it, and several doorways began to close in on the six contestants remaining in the section The only available path was where Duncan, Gwen, Cody, and Sierra had came from.
"Gosh!" Harold yelled.
"Hey look, there's the light already!" Cody shouted. "We're almost out!"
"Psh. I'd be much more excited if I was exiting with Duncan."
"What if I told you that I might have an idea on how to hook you up with Duncan, and me up with Gwen?"
"We're not gonna date to make them jealous." She said grimly. "That's a stupid idea."
"No, I mean we're gonna make an alliance dedicated to having Gwen confess that she likes Duncan too!"
"Really? Why?" She asked, now much more surprised.
"Because it will slowly start tearing her, Courtney, and Duncan apart! Just think of it for a minute! They will be heartbroken after the whole incident, and it will make Duncan more available for you, and Gwen more available for me!"
Sierra smiled. "You're right. But what about Courtney?"
Cody laughed. "Who cares about her?"
"You're right about that too!"
She charged outside, screaming "FIIIIRST!"
And then she stopped when she saw Eva and Alejandro there.
"Uh... third?"
"Well, that makes me fourth?" Cody asked upon getting out as well.
"Exactly." Chris said.
The active camera began a quick pan upwards towards the top of the pyramid, where Justin, Lindsay, Beth, and Tyler were aligned with one long stab lifted from the pyramid.
"Okay," Tyler said, "This is the plan. I saw Alejandro, Bridgette, and Geoff surf down this. I'm... kind of a surfer, I should be able to take you guys down relativley safely. So," he took a deep breath in, "Let's do it and get that first to eighth place reward!"
(Confessional)
Justin: No! Even Tyler is manlier than me! Tyler!
Unsurprisingly, they fell off after only getting down about sixteen steps, and tumbled the rest of the way down the pyramid. Justin, eye twitching throughout the fall, quickly grabbed Tyler by the feet and tossed him towards the bricks, stopping his fall while Justin and the girls kept going.
DJ ran outside, shouting "Talking dog, talking dog, talking dog!" before the falling group of three landed on him.
Heather ran out shortly after the four hit the sand, then turned back to the entrance of the structure.
"Way to go, girls! You had the perfect chance to join the Heather Alliance of Witches Two, but botched it. I'm not gonna ask you again!"
Katie and Sadie stepped out, with Ezekiel following.
"Like, once again we are not interested in finding out that you are a bad person and leaving you!" Katie said.
"Well, we already know you're a bad person, but still, that's what Lindsay and Beth did!" Sadie added.
"Um," Ezekiel broke in, "I'm a guy eh."
Heather huffed, and stormed over to Alejandro, Eva, Sierra, and Cody.
"Oh great, I have to be on a team with you guys?" She said.
"Actually, no." Chris said. "You see, that team over there-" he guestured at the group that was at the top of the pyramid (excluding Tyler but including DJ), now in extreme pain in the sand, "May not have walked right up towards me, but they did technically touch what I considered the sand of the other side first. Meaning that those four round out Team One, and you start Team Two. So your teammates from this point onward," he started snickering, "Are those guys."
Heather, Katie, and Sadie all reacted in disgust.
"Which reminds me," Chris continued, pulling a megaphone out.
(Left Path)
"Hey look," Owen cheered, "It's the exit!"
"ATTENTION CONTESTANTS." Chris's voice boomed throughout the building. "TEAM ONE AND HALF OF TEAM TWO IS ROUNDED UP. THE PRIZE FOR THE FIRST EIGHT PLAYERS IS NO LONGER UP FOR GRABS, BUT IF YOU'RE FAST ENOUGH YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET THE SECOND PLACE PRIZE. AND TRUST ME, IT'S PRETTY HELPFUL. AT LEAST, COMPARED TO THOSE WHO GET LAST PLACE. HA."
Tyler suddenly jumped down from an opening in the celing.
"How did you get here?" Owen asked, "Didn't you go above to be with Lindsay?"
"Yeah, but that was to so that we could try to be on the same team. That wasn't the case, so I dug around and found a secret passage that took me here. I mean, I did not want to risk falling down this... more than I already did."
He went over to Trent, "But now that I'm here, I want to offer a... group. Trent, Lindsay broke up with me. So, I'm thinking about teaming up. Not in an alliance way, just in a friend way. To work to us getting back together."
"Well, Gwen and I-"
"Aw come on, don't be like that! There's always a chance for something to happen, no matter how small it is! Nothing is downright impossible!"
"Wow." Owen broke in, "That was kinda deep. Where did you learn that?"
Tyler looked at him and started tearing up. "L- Lindsay told me that!"
Owen frowned. "Hey, um... if we're talking about breakups... can I join your little group?"
"Well," Trent said, "I never agreed to this, so it's not a group yet-"
"Why do you want to be in?" Tyler asked.
"You didn't hear? Izzy broke up with me over an intercom!"
Tyler winced. "Wow. That's harsh. Lindsay broke up with me right after remembering that I was Tyler and not Ezekiel."
"Owch, really? That's even sadder! Come on buddy, group breakup hug!"
He pulled the jock into a hug, then looked at Trent. "You too," Owen said before wrapping his arm around him.
"A-HEM."
The three turned to see Duncan, with Geoff right behind him.
"How long have you been standing there?" Tyler asked.
"Long enough to know about your girlfriend issues. Listen, while you keep trying to confort eachother, Geoff and I - the two with working relationships, have a second place prize we want to win."
The two in question started running towards the goal. Along the way, Geoff turned to Duncan.
"Hey, why did you pull me away from Bridgette?"
"Dude." He answered, "Do you want a rehash of what happened to you in season two? - I would want that of me, but we're sidetracking - I'm making the chances of that happening a lot smaller by keeping you seperate as much as possible. Even if fate has other plans and you end up on the same team as Bridgette, I won't stop you, but the important thing here is-"
"IZZY! I'M COMING FOR YOU!" Owen charged, not unlike how he did to win the first season, with Trent and Tyler on his shoulders. Tyler lost his balance and fell, having to grab onto the back of Owen's shirt and start flailing from it. The large guy then knocked into Duncan and Geoff, pushing them towards the exit and getting all five of them out. When he reached the desert sand, he suddenly stopped, throwing Duncan, Trent, and Geoff off of him while Tyler continued to cling onto his back.
"Yes!" Owen cheered. "We made it! All of us on Team Two, too! Heh heh, cool!"
"Actually, not quite." Chris said. "You see, there were only four slots for Team Two, and five of you got out. Tyler, because you were both flailing behind Owen and thus at the back of the group and you touched the sand last - or actually, you haven't touched the sand yet." Tyler dropped after Chris said that, "You begin Team Three."
Noah walked out after Team Three began. "Hey, if you're going to have a breakup feelings jam, next time remember do at least aknowledge the one guy who was never in a relationship in the first place."
"Noah," Chris said, "If you would, join Tyler in beginning Team Three."
(Confessional)
Tyler: CRAP!
Noah: Crap...
Sierra: *Tear drops from her eye.*
(Final Six)
"ATTENTION. BRIDGETTE, COURTNEY, GWEN, IZZY, LESHAWNA, AND HAROLD." Chris's voice boomed again. "TEAM TWO IS ROUNDED OUT. IF YOU ALL MAKE IT OUTSIDE, YOU WILL OFFICIALLY ROUND OUT TEAM THREE AND GET THE DEAD LAST REWARD. NOTE THE WORD 'IF.' SHOULD YOU GO AT THE RATE THE OTHER CONTESTANTS WERE GOING, THERE IS A VERY HIGH POSSIBILITY THAT YOU COULD DIE. IF YOU ARE NOT TOGETHER IN A GROUP, I'D SUGGEST BANDING TOGETHER FOR SURVIVAL, BECAUSE HEY, YOU GUYS ARE GONNA BE TEAMMATES WITH EACHOTHER ANYWAY AND THIS SEASON THE TEAMS ARE GONNA LAST A LITTLE LONGER THAN USUAL, MIGHT AS WELL GET USE TO IT."
Courtney groaned. "After that little detour thanks to Cody, we all had to fight three seperate automated mummies, distract a bunch of crazy scarabs, flip an entire chamber upsidedown to reach the only way out, swim through sand, and have to solve an obviously Chris-made puzzle in broken English. We even lost Izzy!"
"Actually," Harold said, "She's right there."
Izzy was laying down, eyes closed, by a wall slightly further from the group's location.
"Izzy?" Harold asked, running over to her, "Izzy, are you okay?"
She opened her eyes, which were rolled as high up as she could. Her mouth opened, and about a dozen or two scarabs came crawling out. Harold jumped back with a shout, and the four girls behind him backed away.
Izzy sprang up with a large grin and started laughing, her eyes now looking foreward again. "I got all of you right there!"
Gwen smiled, and clapped with a few giggles. "That was awesome."
"I know!"
"Izzy?" Courtney beamed. "Where have you been?"
"I got bored of you guys, so I went around exploring the place a little. By the way," she said, looking at the floor, "Whatever you do, don't step on this tile right here."
She then placed a foot on the tile in question. The pyramid started shaking, and two slabs - one ahead of them and one behind them - began to slowly close down. An icon that had seemed to be a simple painting of a face fired an arrow from a hidden hole in it.
Courtney walked over to the other wall, where the arrow hit, and saw some dark, thick purple liquid dripping from the tip.
"Is that... poison?" She asked.
Harold ran up to it, got a test tube out of his pocket, and let the poison slowly drip into it. "Cool!" He said.
The pyramid rumbled again, and other paintings of faces on the walls between the two slabs about to close started firing more arrows.
Courtney dashed over to the direction where her group did not come from, and put her hands on the closing door, trying to keep it up with her strength. It was slowing down the speed, but not stopping it.
"Everyone! It feels warmer down this path, so I think that we're almost out of the pyramid! But, if you all go back behind the other door, you'll be trapped here even longer because there wasn't any obvious way out. Look! I don't want you to waste my time after I got out of here so find some way to cross and get over here! And for the love of gosh, hurry!"
"The love of gosh..." Harold quietly repeated.
Izzy grinned, dropped down, and crawled out on her stomatch. Once she reached the end, she started helping Courtney keep the door up as well.
Leshawna ran through next, charging through the arrows and even managing to break some of them mid-flight. When she was added to the group keeping the door up, it stopped, but there was still clear stuggle in the girl's efforts.
Gwen pulled out some slabs from the pyramid and used them as shields, making it to the end with only a few cuts.
"I..." Bridgette said, "Don't think I can go through that. I'll just go behind us and start looking for another way out."
"No!" Harold cried, getting on one knee. "I shall assist you, soon-to-be-teammate."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Just get in my hands."
(Confessional)
Bridgette: Well, if I trip, it's over. If I try to go another way, it's... yeah, over. Harold carrying me was really the least risky option I had. *Glares.* But did he have to do it bridal style?
Harold huffed as he paced across, Bridgette barely being able to be held up by the weak geek. The four keeping the slab up were trying not to laugh, but failed.
"OUT OF THE WAY!" Harold cried.
He accidentally tackled into Izzy, sending them flying down past the closing door. Leshawna, Courtney, and Gwen stopped trying to keep it open and ran over to the fallen three and gasped. Harold gasped too upon looking at them.
Izzy and Bridgette were knocked into a kiss.
They got up shortly after, blushed, and nervously laughed.
The would-be-subject on conversation switched from an accidental lesbian kiss, however, once Harold got up and hugged Courtney.
"Thank you for saving us from getting locked into that room, even after we had been eternal rivals since the start! That was one of the most selfless acts I've seen anyone done! I wish I never rigged the votes in the first place! You can do better than a guy like Duncan!"
He let go of her, and she glared at him.
"What is that last part supposed to mean?"
Harold rolled his eyes. "The guy's a jerk. See for yourself: You have four girls around here, with a variety of interests, hobbies, and personalities. Make a survey and ask them what they think about him."
"Yeah, he kinda is a jerk." Izzy said.
"Well, maybe," Gwen said, "But-"
Leshawna sighed. "He's a nice guy once you get on his good side."
(Confessional)
Bridgette: Well, Duncan is a close friend to my boyfriend, even after he left him sleeping outside for not agreeing with his plans to vote me off, so in one way Harold's right, but... it's complicated, okay? I said the first thing I thought of, which was-
"Well, I don't have a crush on him, but at least he has a heart!" Bridgette blurted.
"A crush?" Courtney said, "A CRUSH? Are you implying that at some point, Gwen privately confessed to you that she did, in fact, like Duncan as a romantic option and not just a friend? GWEN! I knew it! Why don't you tell to the public already that-"
"Here's a better idea." Leshawna broke in, "Let's get this dang challenge over with already."
(Outside)
Reaching the exit to the pyramid, the group of six found Lindsay nearby the doorway, looking between cracks in the rocks. She had a hook in her skirt and a long rope attatched to it that stretched back towards where Chris was at.
"Hey," the blonde said, "Have any of you seen someone by the name of 'Geeky,' 'Gothy,' 'Loudmouth,' 'Surfing Bird,' 'Lawsuits,' or 'The Crazy One?'"
"Um..." Harold said, "I think that's supposed to be us."
"ALRIGHT." Chris announced with the megaphone, looking over at the bundle of rope that the source to what was wrapped around Lindsay's hook. "THE FINAL SIX CONTESTANTS ARE OUT. CHEF, YOU MAY CALL OFF YOUR STUPID 'SEARCH PARTY' IDEA."
Chef pulled on the rope. Unfortunatley, all that did was rip Lindsay's skirt off and throw her slightly backwards. Chris stared at Chef with wide eyes.
"What?" The co-host said. "Her way of doin' that was her idea."
"Okay you six," Chris said to those that just got out, "Go over to the '3,' where your other two teammates are waiting."
After doing as instructed, Lindsay followed them.
"Um, Lindsay," Chris said, "You're supposed to be in Team One, not Team Three."
"Oh."
"Now contestants, come up with a team name and I'll announce your rewards."
"TEAM VICTORY!" Team One shouted in unison on their yellow mat.
"TEAM EZEKIEL!" Ezekiel shouted on his team's blue mat. Chris gasped.
"Wait!" Duncan broke in, "I have a better idea! TEAM CHRIS!"
"Alright, I like your idea more. How 'bout we go with that instead, hm?"
"TEAM FIRE!" Izzy, Gwen, Leshawna, Courtney, and Harold shouted in unison.
"Lame." Noah commented.
"Yeah," Chris said, "But it's majority rule in this."
"Hey!" Ezekiel shouted. "You counted Duncan's team idea when he was the only one who voted it!"
"Don't care. Now, for your rewards: Team Victory, in first place, you get this!"
He whipped a stick from under the lawn chair he was sitting on, and threw it over to the team. Lindsay bent over to pick it up, causing all of her teammates barring Cody to wince in disgust.
"What?" She asked.
"Um, Lindsay," Alejandro explained, "You do know that when Chef reeled you back in, you lost your skirt, right?"
"So? It's not like I'm naked. I still have underwear on."
"Team Me," Chris said with a hearty laugh, "You get this."
A goat sped over to them. Sierra started weeping.
"Noooo! I love goats! And Duncan!" She whined, turning to the other team. "Is there anyone who wants to switch places with me?"
"I do!" Duncan said, laughing.
"And Team Fire, you get this."
A camel trudged over to them. The team winced in the smell radiating from it, and flys were clearly buzzing around it.
"Well... at least it's big!" Harold cheered.
"Yes. But, now that the rewards have been set, I will now tell you viewers that this is only half of the Egypt arc! How will our teams fare next time? And what will be that challenge in store for them in question? Find out next episode of Total! Drama! World Tour!"
Teams:
Team Victory: Alejandro, Beth, Cody, DJ, Eva, Justin, Lindsay, Sierra
Team Chris: Duncan, Ezekiel, Geoff, Heather, Katie, Owen, Sadie, Trent
Team Fire: Bridgette, Courtney, Gwen, Harold, Izzy, Leshawna, Noah, Tyler
Closing AN:
I have to admit that I had a lot more fun writing this than... a huge percentage of everything else I write.
Well, unless you are a really fast reader and got here during the few seconds/minutes before I would have uploaded the next chapter, then there's no reason to wait! (Unless I encountered some error in uploading the next chapter after I get this one out...) I have updated the revision of both Egypt parts on the same day!
