A/N: Well, everyone, here's the alternate version of the ending to "Kiss Me, But Don't Let Me Love You"...a story in itself! I'll explain everything as we go. And for newcomers, go read the original story first. If you've gotten here from my explanation about how I'm doing this as an alternate version of the ending, I hope you enjoy this.
Why had I agreed to do this? Why was I now sitting on a plane to Camp Wawanakwa with six people I knew and seven I only knew from TV? Oh, and Ezekiel, but anyway, why?
Because that stupid Chris McLean had a contract over my head, saying I had to compete in another season of Total Drama. Excuse me, Total Drama World Tour was enough for anyone! I had to pity some of the others, though. I mean, Heather, Courtney, Gwen, Duncan and Lindsay were all on their fourth season. Luckily, the only other person I'd met before was Sierra, who was in her second season, like me. Except she was looking forward to it.
Okay, let me tell you who I am. My name – Amethyst Willow Jettison. I was on Total Drama World Tour, but apart from that, no other seasons. I was a fan of Total Drama before getting on the show, and I watched the fourth season. Oh yeah, and I'm going to be nineteen by the time of the finale (I'd been out of school for a semester), and I'm currently boyfriend-less.
Okay. I'm holding out for someone. Remember that finale of World Tour, when Heather won after she pushed Alejandro down the volcano, then he got trampled and coated in lava? Yeah, that was my boyfriend there. No, seriously. We were together, although I was planning to talk things through after the show, since he'd recently told me he harboured deep feelings for Heather, although his feelings towards me rivaled those he had for her. Chris was supposed to let me know what happened to him afterwards. He promised he would, but because he's Chris, he never got back to me, and just started another season like nothing ever happened. I don't even know if Alejandro's still alive, but I didn't want to date again. I pretended to let go of my feelings long ago, but I still had them. Only Heather, who I kept in touch with, knew the truth. She still had feelings for him, too.
Half that fourth season cast was also sitting in the plane taking us to Wawanakwa. They'd been there when it was full of toxic waste. Those not coming back were Staci, Dakota, B, Dawn, Anne Maria, and Brick. But that left us with Mike, Zoey, Jo, Scott, Lightning, Cameron, and Sam. I'd watched the last season. As long as Zoey wasn't in crazy mode, I was okay with her. Mike, Cameron, Sam and even Lightning seemed okay, but Jo was so bossy and mean, and I hoped that Scott wasn't on my team. He kept trying to throw challenges and kick his whole team off!
Chris had been arrested after the end of the season, and was only let out on parole to host this season.
All too soon, Chef was throwing us out of the plane into the ocean as Chris introduced each of us. We could hear most of what he was saying. When he referred to Gwen as Courtney's "bestie-turned-boyfriend-stealer", we all heard it.
Chef dropped Gwen out of the plane at that moment, her yelling "He wasn't her boyfriend at the time!"
Soon enough, it was my turn, after Lindsay and before Sierra (by the way, her hair had started growing back, now just reaching the top of her neck).. "Heart-melter of evils...Amethyst!"
"I'm AMEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" I yelled as Chef gave me a shove. I always hated being called by my real name. I made everyone call me Amee instead. The only person that I ever allowed to call me Amethyst on a regular basis was...Alejandro.
As Chris announced Sierra, I heard her yelling as she cannonballed. "For Codyyyyy!" Momentarily, before she hit the water, I wondered how she'd go without her beloved Cody this season. Maybe she'd be less weird this season.
Ezekiel was just a prank, as it turned out, so it was just the fourteen of us.
First, Chris told everyone about the season's changes. "The island is now one hundred percent toxic waste free."
"What?" frowned Sam. "I only came back to get up close and personal with some toxic goop, so I could become a kickbutt mutant like my gal Dakota." He held up a picture of himself and Dakota. She'd started last season a willowy blonde beauty, but due to an encounter with toxic waste, she'd changed, mutating into a green-haired orange-skinned oversized mutant who had grammatical problems. But it was nice that she was still with Sam.
Chris smirked at the poor guy. "Too bad. Guess it's gonna be all pain, no gain for you, huh?" He laughed. "On the upside, I've upgraded your accomodations." The robotic Drama Machine came up with a screen, while Chris showed us the McLean spa hotel, where the winner of each challenge would stay until the next challenge, just like First Class on the plane in World Tour – first teams, then after the merge, whoever won with someone else they chose. We all cheered. The losers had to stay in the old cabins from the first and fourth seasons.
"And in honour of your All-Star status," Chris continued, "I'm dividing you into teams based on your past performances – Heroes vs Villains."
I wasn't sure which I was. Did being Alejandro's girlfriend make me a villain? After all, he'd definitely been a villain on World Tour. I hoped it didn't – if I was, I'd definitely be stuck with challenge-throwing Scott, and probably awful whiny bitchy Courtney. I despised that girl. On the other hand, maybe I could ally with Heather. We were sort-of friends.
If I was on the heroes team, I knew Cameron, Mike and Zoey would be on the team. I'd love to get to know them. I couldn't think of any downsides, unless Sierra was with us and kept taking pictures of us. Lindsay would definitely be with us, and despite her lack of brains, it would be nice to get to know her better.
Chris divided the fourteen of us unfairly, for some reason. First, the villains. "Heather, Duncan, Lightning, Jo, Scott and Gwen. From now on, you're the Villainous Vultures!"
"Wha?!" Gwen exclaimed. "Why am I on the Villains' team?"
Courtney spoke up. "Because you stole my boyfriend and became the new Heather!" Oh yeah, I'd completely forgotten. Personally, I thought Duncan had made a good decision when he dumped Courtney, but she was still furious that he'd cheated on her with Gwen before dumping her, and then made it official.
"But I've done so many good things!" Gwen protested. "I'm not a villain! I'm nice!" I agreed with that. Gwen was one of the nicest people on the show. Despite her rather forbidding appearance – goth to the core – she was actually really nice. I didn't get to know her so well, but I always admired her.
"Being bad is cool." Duncan told her, putting a hand on her shoulder. "And now we're on the same team, so that's good, right?"
"I guess." Gwen muttered.
Chris put the rest of us onto the other team – the Heroic Hamsters. I sighed, looking around. Looks like I'd have to deal with Courtney this time around. I'd been lucky enough to escape Courtney's team last season.
"Wait a minute!" Jo protested. "They have eight people to our six! No fair!"
I decided to speak up. "I think Chris meant to put Courtney on the villains' team, where she belongs. It was a mistake, putting her on our team. Isn't that right, Chris?" Courtney scowled at me.
"There's no mistake." Chris said cheerfully. "I needed a seat on the plane for the Ezekiel prank."
Jo continued to glare at him.
"Fine, you can have the robot." Chris said. The Drama Machine wheeled itself to stand with the villains, after beeping at me for some reason.
"I thought your robot could talk." Scott said. Apparently, the communication chip had stopped working.
The robot immediately wheeled itself to stand next to Heather. She gave it a shove. "Keep your distance, toaster!"
All the challenges would be twisted versions of old ones. Having seen or participated in all the old seasons, I hoped there'd be one like the Talent Contest of the first season as opposed to the trust exercises (oh yeah, Gwen trusted Heather enough for her to rip her skirt).
Chris gave us our first challenge straight away. "Find the key to the spa hotel! And you'll do it in a callback to the first ever challenge: Cliff diving into water filled with ravenous sharks!"
Scott audibly gulped, and I remembered how he'd been having problems with a mutant shark called Fang in the last season. He'd had to be placed in a trauma chair afterwards, although he seemed to be back to normal now. I knew Fang would be back, and I was right, as I found out later.
Basically, we'd have to avoid the sharks while grabbing a key stuck in the sand. Only one was the spa hotel one. Then a teammate would drive us to the hotel in a baby carriage from the Central Park episode in World Tour, and we'd try the key. If it didn't work, the teammate would drive it back and our the next team member would go. The team that unlocked the door first would win, and the losing team would send someone home.
"Meet me at the base of the cliff in fifteen minutes!" Chris ordered.
"Wait!" called Mike. "Shouldn't we change into our bathing suits or something first?"
"Sorry! No time!"
As the groups walked through the forest, I walked alongside Cameron. Sam and Sierra were talking, and I didn't want to play gooseberry to Mike and Zoey, the newest cute couple of the show, while Courtney was walking with Lindsay, busying herself with trying to kill Gwen with a glare.
"So," I said. "Hey. I'm Amee, and you're Cameron, right?"
"Yep." the kid said, giving me a shy smile. Cameron had won the last season, and shared his money with everyone else. He'd actually been living in a plastic bubble for most of his life, which had rendered him physically weak and socially awkward, but super-smart – he was the first one to discover that Mike had Multiple Personality Disorder. I personally thought that was one of the reasons why Cameron was so short and skinny. He would've turned seventeen before this season started, but he was really little for his age.
"Nice to meet you." I said, continuing to talk. "So, what do you think Chris has in store for us this season?"
"It's unpredictable to a point," Cameron surmised, "But knowing Chris, it will most likely...hurt."
I giggled. "True." I said. "Chris seems to get more and more sadistic every season. Bet his time in prison hasn't done much to change that."
The first thing we had to do when we got to the cliff base was choose our designated driver. While there was arguing on the villains' team (Jo won), us heroes were calmer about choosing.
"You can do it." Cameron suggested to Zoey.
"Maybe you should do it."
"Lindsay will do it." Courtney said straight off.
I sighed. But then, it was only pushing the carriage. Even Lindsay couldn't screw that up, right?
Wrong. Courtney was the first on our team to get a key, and when she ordered Lindsay to push, the blonde asked "How do you push again?"
The villains had the lead for a while. Sierra was the second to go, and her key was similar to Cody's sillhouette (trust her)! It didn't work.
Mike jumped next...well, more like fell. Zoey kissed him on the cheek and whispered "Good luck." That made him stumble over the cliff, also knocking an unprepared Gwen into the water. Then again, it was only down to Zoey that neither of them became sharkbait, since she used the necklace Mike gave her last season to hit Fang and the other two sharks. "Sorry!" she called to them (good, I have worked out that we have nice Zoey with us, not powerhouse insane Zoey like she became for a couple episodes).
Mike picked the wrong key, and so it was my turn. I prayed, and then jumped, coming up with a key. Lindsay was too tired to push by this time. Mike had just pulled the carriage along with a bamboo crutch, so I did the same.
Wrong key. "Sorry, Linds." I apologized. "Just walk as I push, no need to push for me." Lindsay could barely crawl by this time, but she tried. I watched as Zoey jumped next.
Up on the cliff, Lightning was trying to pry Scott off a rock to get him to jump in. In the end, they accidentally knocked the robot off the cliff. Seconds later, a strangely familiar silhouette holding a key appeared in the air.
I hadn't seen that silhouette in over a year, but from that distance, I picked out the tattered burgundy shirt, the bull charm on the necklace, the emerald eyes.
"YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" shrieked Heather. I didn't blame her. I was of a similar opinion.
It was Alejandro. Yes, he was still alive. Chris had known where he was the whole time and hadn't even bothered to let me know when I specifically asked him to? Oh well, at least he was on the right team.
Although he seemed to have trouble walking, he managed to get himself into the carriage and Jo pushed the carriage.
It was just our luck that he had the right key, right? We had the lead after Zoey had tried her key, but Lindsay still wasn't back with her until after Alejandro had tried his key and opened the door.
I knew who I was going to eliminate that night. No, not Lindsay. It was Courtney who made Lindsay drive, and I couldn't stand much more of her, so I voted for her (and even before that, I had the pleasure of seeing Courtney's allergies get set off when Gwen tried to apologize to her with flowers – Courtney just told her she really was a villain).
The new part for eliminations was that the winning team had to sit in another place to watch us kick off one player. Oh, and one of them had to volunteer for a "special reward".
"Ha! Sha-Lightning!" the white haired African-Canadian exclaimed.
As it turned out the reward was spending the night on Boney Island, the haunted island nearby. Apparently there was an immunity statue hidden there, and whoever stayed on the island got a crack at finding it.
As it turns out, Lindsay wanted to go. We had to draw a cross on the picture of whoever we wanted gone, and Lindsay drew a cross on her own face. Oh yeah, and she did get eliminated. I'd have to keep putting up with Courtney.
"Thank goodness!" Lindsay cheered. Suddenly, she frowned, remembering last season's elimination tool. "Wait...do I have to ride that scary catapult thingy?"
No, she didn't. The new elimination was called the Flush of Shame. The contestant floated inside a giant toilet (not used for the actual use, hopefully – even mutated Dakota would fall in), and then Chris would flush it, sending the loser away.
Lindsay screamed as Chris flushed, and the water splashed onto the rest of us. I was relieved to dry off at the cabins.
Sierra claimed one of the bottom bunks as her own, so I decided to take the top one above her. Zoey took the other top bunk, with Courtney below her.
"Sierra, one rule." I said. "I know you have your Smartphone here. Just please, put it on Silent during the night."
"Sure, Amee!" Sierra said cheerfully. At least she was as good natured as ever. "Goodnight!"
"Goodnight." I returned to her, and added another goodnight to Zoey and Courtney. At least most of our team was nice. I liked Zoey already, but then I knew I would. I liked Mike, Sam, and Cameron, too. However, I wondered what the next day would bring.
I know it was a long chapter. The others will be shorter. Good if you like short, sorry if you like long ones. Things like this usually write themselves. Anyway, that's the first chapter done. Please review!