Hello readers! For those of you who have author alerts for my after reading a previous story of mine, those are gonna be useful now. This is my idea for a Season 5 of Total Drama. I was inspired to do this after a few of my FanFiction friends started writing their own stories. So, I took time out of my free time in college to write this and another story, which will be uploaded sometime in the future. Anyway, I'll stop typing and let you read my latest fanfic, which I do plan on ending with an actual ending. Enjoy!
WARNING: This story contains spoilers if you haven't seen all 13 episodes of Total Drama: Revenge of the Island. If you don't care about spoilers, or if you've seen the whole season of Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, you may read on.
Disclaimer: I do not own Total Drama. If I did, you think I'd be writing here?
Chapter 1: Episode 1: On The Show, Again!
A black screen is shown on the TV screen as we hear the voice of a host that we all hate to love and love to hate.
"First season we were at the island of Camp Wawanakwa in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada."
An image of Camp Wawanakwa, circa TDI, is shown in the top left-hand corner of the screen.
"Then we saw some action at an abandoned film lot in Toronto, Canada"
An image of the film lot is shown in the top right-hand corner of the TV screen.
"Next, we went on a world tour in a crappy jet plane, before it was destroyed."
An image of the Total Drama Jumbo Jet, before it exploded, is shown in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen.
"And last time, the island got its revenge! Ha ha!"
An image of the island filled with toxic barrels and hazard signs all over is shown on the bottom right-hand corner.
Those images disappear and the black screen is shown once again as the voice continues to be heard.
"So, you may ask yourself, 'What else can they possibly do? Go into space,'" the host chuckles a little before continuing, "Yeah, I wanted to do that, but a season that expensive would cut into my hair gel budget, and I can't allow that."
The camera shows the host, known as Chris McLean, standing on a sidewalk in a city.
"No space travel this season, but we are going on a wicked, way-out trip though. And that season starts here in the Windy City, also known as, Chicago, Illinois!" He gestures to the city as he raises his hands above his head while ending his sentence. The camera zooms out to show Chris standing in front of the famous Wrigley Field and a double-decker bus parked in the street. The camera zooms back in on Chris as he starts speaking again. "'Why Chicago as our first stop?' you may ask. Find out right here on…"
"Total!"
"Drama!"
"Avengeance!"
*Theme Song*
After the theme song and intro ends, the camera is still focusing on Chris whom is standing in front of one of Wrigley Field's gates.
"Welcome back to Total Drama Avengeance," Chris exclaims with his signature wide grin on his face, "You might be wondering why it's called 'Avengeance.' Well I'll answer that in a bit. But first, I need my 22 contestants. That's right viewing public! We're going back to 22 contestants, just like in the first season! However, half of the contestants in this one weren't in that season." He looks out to a distance and sees something of interest approaching, "Speaking of contestants, here comes a few!" A bus stops in front of Chris and opens its doors and lets out some of its passengers.
"Fans, welcome back, from Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, Mike and Zoey!"
Mike and Zoey walk out of the bus holding hands and wave at the host with their opposite hands. Mike inhales and exhales happily, "This is so awesome! Another season of Total Drama, another chance to win money, and some more time spent with my favorite girl in the world," he says as he smiles and looks at Zoey.
"Aww," Zoey cooed, "Well you're my favorite guy in the world," she says as she kisses Mike on the cheek.
"Ok, ok," Chris interrupts, "Enough affection. We still have 9 more contestants on this bus." Another contestant comes off the bus. "And here's the third," Chris continued, "Welcome back, Scotty!"
"Don't call me Scotty! Only family can call me that," Scott said as he begrudgingly stepped off the bus. That's right. Scott can walk again after sustaining numerous injuries after being hurled off of Camp Wawanakwa with the mutant land-walking shark, a.k.a. Fang. "Why are we in Chicago, Chris?"
"All questions will be answered in due time," Chris replied.
"That's a new one. Chris actually answering questions," Zoey whispered to her boyfriend as he chuckled.
"You know, my great-great-great uncle invented questions," the latest contestant said as she stepped off the bus, "Before that, answers were just random statements. So confusing!"
"Here's our friendly neighborhood chatterbox, Staci!" Chris gestures to Staci as she walked towards the other contestants. "Good to see your hair is coming back."
"Thanks Chris! It took a lot of hair re-growth formula!" Staci exclaimed as she brushed her short hair and looked back at the bus she arrived in, "You know my great grandpa invented the first bus. Before that, big groups of people had to fit into a small car like clo-"
"Ugh! Shut up already," a female voice with a New Jersey accent yelled from the door of the bus, "You've been talkin' nonstop since the bus ride started. You're drivin' me nuts!"
"And here's our Snooki wannabe! Welcome back Anne Maria," the host said keeping that signature smile on his face.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, whateva," Anne Maria said as she walked by Chris spraying hairspray on her diamond-hard hair, some of it getting into Chris's breathing air.
Chris coughed as the Jersey Shore Reject stood by the other four "Total Drama: Revenge of the Island" contestants, making them struggle for clean breathing air. After getting a breath of fresh air, Chris continued with the introductions.
"Ugh! Our… *cough* next contestant. Give a warm welcome to B!"
B walked off the bus with his hands in his jacket pockets until he got to Chris.
"Hey B! How's it going man?"
B gives Chris two thumbs up.
"Still with the silent treatment huh?" B nods. Chris chuckles "Alright, stand by the rest of last season's losers." B shrugged and walked towards the other five contestants. He stops at Mike and Zoey and gives them a smile and an approving nod.
Mike chuckles, "Thanks B! Great seeing you again," he says as he gives B a high five. B looks at the other three contestants and decides to stand next to Mike and Zoey.
"Alright," Chris says bringing attention back to him, "And here's the other successful couple from season four. Give a warm welcome to Sam and Dakota!"
The aforementioned couple walked off the bus side-by-side with their respective handheld devices, which surprised the other contestants because Dakota looked like normal... more or less.
"Wow! Nice tan Dakota," Chris joked as he chuckled at Dakota's still orange skin. "I'm also diggin' the green hair. It's very, Oompah Loompa chic. Ha-ha! I can't believe you two are still together, even with the similar tech addictions!"
"What can I say," Dakota says looking up from her phone, "Sam here is a great boyfriend! He stayed with me, even after I became a giant radioactive freak! What more can a girl ask for?"
"Aww," Sam exclaims in his gruff voice, "Like I would ever leave a girl who grew three times her size, like she ate a Mario Land mushroom!" He laughs at his own joke.
Dakota giggles and kisses Sam's cheek, which causes him to blush uncontrollably as his glasses fogged up. Dakota giggles again and takes Sam's empty hand to guide him to the rest of the group.
When they get to Mike and Zoey, Zoey looks curiously at Dakota and asks, "By the way, how did you get back to normal…sorta?"
Dakota opened her mouth to answer, but Chris interrupts, "Not important right now, what is important is that the next two contestants are stuck in the door of the bus."
"Get out of my way! I'm getting off this bus before you," a deep female voice yells.
"Sorry, ma'am, but I am getting off first," a strict sounding male voice yells back.
Both contestants fall out of the bus and hit the Chicago sidewalk at the same time. Then they both rush up at the same time.
"I got up first! No, I did! No, me," they both say at the same time.
"Ok, ok lovebirds! Break it up, I got a show to host," Chris said getting in between the two latest contestants. "Welcome back, Jo," Chris gestures to Jo, who is brushing herself off until she realizes something.
"Whoa, whoa! We are NOT lovebirds," she debated.
"And Brick," Chris said ignoring Jo's protest and gesturing to Brick, who stands straight up and salutes to the camera with a slight blush on his face.
"P-Private Brick McArthur, reporting for another season of Total Drama!" he announced.
"Aw look," Zoey says points at Brick, "He's blushing!"
"C-Cadets do not blush ma'am," Brick stammers out.
"Oh you better not be blushing, Brickhead," Jo says as she gets into Brick's sweating face, "'cause there's nothing to blush about, got that," she almost yells and pokes Brick's chest with her accusatory finger. She walks over to the farthest part of the group from the bus as Brick stays near the bus and sighs in relief while wiping his brow.
Chris watches this all in amusement and does not notice that the last contestant on the bus seemed to levitate towards him from the bus.
"Her aura seems to say otherwise," the last contestant says as Chris jumps in surprise.
"Gah! Don't do that to me, Dawn." The host takes a second to recompose himself.
"Sorry Chris," Dawn says with a small smile on her face as she walks towards her friends from the Toxic Rats.
After regaining full composure, Chris smiles again at the camera and continues his introduction. "Alright that's all of the contestants from last season that will compete in this season. However, there are 11 more contestants to come," he looks on the horizon and sees another bus, "Oh, and here they come!"
"More contestants," Scott asks with a mischievous look on his face, "What? Are they newer people?"
Chris looks at Scott with a devious grin, "Oh-ho-ho, no. This season we're bringing back some of the contestants from the first 3 original seasons!"
"Wow," Sam exclaimed, "Is Cody gonna be in this season? That guy is awesome! And I heard he's an excellent gamer!"
"No way," Jo replied, "Duncan is a heck of a lot more awesome than Cody!"
"Ha," Anne Marie scoffed, "LeShawna is way betta' than both-a those scabs!"
"Ha! Yeah right," Scott said as he rolls his eyes, "You all know that Alejandro got all of those three eliminated in World Tour. He's better than all three of them combined!"
"At least Duncan won in season 2," Jo replied, "He didn't let Heather trick him like Al and Lindsay did."
"Well you all can stop debating," Chris interrupts as the second bus stops next to the sidewalk, "Because NONE of the people you mentioned will be in this competish! Ha-ha!"
"Then," Staci started as she looked at Chris curiously, "who is coming back?"
"I'm glad you asked Staci, because you're about to find out!"
"After this break," Chris said right before the screen goes black.
*Commercial Break*
After the commercial break ends...
"And we're back loyal viewers," Chris says as all the season four contestants look at each other confused before Chris continued. "We are about to find out which 11 classic contestants we're bringing back for season five. And here's our first one!"
A guy, with somewhat long black hair and his signature guitar, steps off of the bus and walks towards the host and the other contestants with a modest smile on his face. He waves at them and greets them, "Hey guys, what's up?"
"Welcome back Trent! Ready to start competing again," the host asks Trent.
"Sure am Chris," he replies with his mild toned voice as he walks toward the other competitors, giving high fives along the way.
"Alright, now welcome our next contestants. The annoying twins that make your eardrums pop, Katie and Sadie!"
As Chris finishes this statement, said twins walk off the bus at the same time, still wearing the same exact outfits that they wore from the first season, and both say, "Hi Chris," to the host.
"We're so psyched to be back for another season," Katie declared, "Right Sadie?"
"Oh yeah, Katie," Sadie replied, "We haven't been on the show in soooooooooo long. We were always stuck on the Aftermath show with all the other non-competitors."
"I know," Katie replies, "It was sooooooooo totally boring!"
"It sooooooooo totally was!"
"And you're both soooooooo giving me a headache," Scott muttered.
"But now we're back," Katie says right before they both let out a loud, "EEEEEEEEEE!"
All the other contestants had to cover their ears in fear of going deaf as the windows on the bus cracked along with Sam's glasses.
"Aww! My glasses," Sam said worrying about his cracked lenses.
"Ugh," Scott yelled out, "They're almost as bad as her!" He points at Staci who takes slight offense.
"You know, pointing is rude! That's why my great, great, great, great, great aunt invented manners," Staci said talking about another one of her relatives.
Katie and Sadie had made their way towards Trent's end of the group when they heard Staci's last statement. They both gasped as asked, "Really? You aunt invented manners?" Staci nods excitedly, "We should thank her sometime," Katie says right before a bullhorn is sounded off.
All the contestants look at Chris who had the bullhorn in his hand. He chuckles before he says, "I really love this thing."
"Ugh! Keep it down out here," a new male voice said annoyed, "First a loud siren goes and breaks the bus windows, and now you sound off that bullhorn! I'm debating on purposely going deaf."
Chris chuckles, "Well if it isn't our resident cynic himself. Welcome back Noah."
"Don't welcome me back," Noah replied, "Haven't I suffered enough on this show?"
"Nope," Chris says with his usual grin.
Noah sighs and says, "Great…"
Noah walks past the group of Katie, Sadie, and Staci and stands near on the opposite side of Trent.
"Yeah! Wrigley Field! Extreme!"
All of the other contestants look at the bus to see the guy who let out those unnecessary exclamations.
"Welcome back Tyler," Chris says to the jock, "Ready to suck again?"
Tyler took offense to that statement, "Hey, I didn't suck in season three!"
"Yeah, that's why you left in a bunch of medical gauze," the host replies which a chuckle.
Tyler glares shortly at Chris before looking at the other competitors and puts a smile back on his face.
"Hey! New competitors! Awesome," he yells while looking at the newer contestants. "Where's that Lightning guy? I'd love to have a sports talk with that dude."
"Oh he's not competing this season," Chris says as Dakota, Sam, Jo, and Zoey mutter, "Thank goodness."
"Aww," Tyler says sounding defeated, until he saw his old friends Trent and Noah at the far end of the collection of contestants. He walks over to them and starts a conversation with them as the next contestant walks of the bus without a word.
She, wearing her signature gym outfit and her hair in her normal ponytail, walks past Chris and towards the other original contestants with her duffel bag full of dumbbells.
"Good afternoon to you too Eva," Chris says as she walks on by. She stands next to Tyler and drops her bag right on his left foot.
"OW!" Tyler let out as everyone else cringed.
"My bad," Eva said not really caring.
The sadistic host chuckles at Tyler's pain as the next contestant walks off the bus.
The latest contestant raises his arms over his toque covered head in a V and yells out, "Whoo! It's great to be back on Total Drama, eh!"
"And it's great to see you're back to normal, Ezekiel," Chris says welcoming the Home-schooled teenager, "well… mostly."
Ezekiel still had somewhat pale green skin due to the malnutrition he suffered while stowing away on the Total Drama Jumbo Jet after being thrown out the door three times. His hair had also grown back a bit, but not as long as it was when he had arrived in season three.
"Yup! All the treatments I've bin takin' have helped oot a lot."
"That's how I got back to normal too," Dakota cheered.
"Don't care," Chris said in an annoyed tone, "Just go stand by the other 'Originals.'"
Ezekiel nodded happily before he walked towards the group of older contestants, not noticing the nasty look that Anne Maria was giving him.
The next two people walked off the bus making a lot of moaning and sucking sounds; Sounds that you might hear while watching a movie in a theater, but not necessarily from the movie itself. These sounds were being made by the only couple to remain a couple all throughout the first three seasons, besides Tyler and Lindsay.
"Bridgette, Geoff, welcome back," the host said trying to interrupt the blond couple's make out session, but that was futile as they continued. The other contestants stared in curiosity with some wondering if they even knew what was happening around them, how far they would go, or wishing that their girlfriend was there so they could make out too (That last one was Tyler).
Chris was getting annoyed from being ignored by the couple, so he sounded the bullhorn near their faces.
"AHH!"
They both released each other from their grasps and held their ears.
"What was that for, dude," Geoff asked the host before he looked at the other contestants staring at him and Bridgette. Geoff's eyes widened in realization before asking, "Were we making out in public again?" All of the other contestants nodded. Geoff chuckled and continued, "Oops! Sorry dudes! Bridge and I get in the moment sometimes."
Bridgette blushed a little in embarrassment and said, "Yeah, sorry about that guys." She whispers in Geoff's ear to say, "We really need to work on that." Geoff nods before they walk over to the other original contestants.
"Alright, now that that is settled," Chris says, "There should be two more old contestants on this bus."
"Who are you calling old, Chris," a mild soothing voice is heard coming off the bus. "I'm not old! I can't be getting wrinkles already. Am I?" The latest contestant takes out his signature mirror to double check for wrinkles and smiles at his reflected image and kisses it. "Nope, still as beautiful as ever," he says before winking at his image.
"And here's our male model, Justin," the host says with a chuckle.
Justin smiles at the other contestants and all of the female contestants, new and old, taken or not, openly stared at him in admiration. Some were so stunned that they forgot they had boyfriends standing next to them (Making those boyfriends a little jealous) or that they were spraying their hair for the umpteenth time and dropped their hairspray can on the sidewalk.
As Justin walked along the row of new contestants, the girl who dropped her hairspray can stepped out of line and in front of Justin.
"Heya, gorgeous," Anne Maria greeted Justin, "If you're lookin' for a girl this season. I'm fully available."
She posses as Justin looks at her surprised and blinks a few times before speaking again, "Umm… I'll think about it…yeah," here says as he keeps walking towards the other older contestants.
"And now to welcome our final contestant," Chris declared as everyone looked back at him, "she did fairly well in both Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action. She's made a lot of allies and a few enemies while in those seasons. She's made it to the final 2 once and she was a major part of the first alliance in Total Drama history! It's…"
All of the contestants waited in anticipation to find out who the last contestant would be.
"It's…," Chris said as he stalled, "…Beth!"
Almost all of the newer contestants' faces fell after the latest contestant was announced.
Beth walked off the bus with a huge smile on her face and hugged the host.
"Aww," she said, "Thanks for the great intro Chris!" She giggles and says, "I never even realized I had done all of that cool stuff."
"Well, you did, Beth. Now, please let go of me," the host said with the short farm girl still hugging his torso.
"Oh sorry," she said as she let go. She waves at the new contestants as she walks down the line.
Zoey smiles a wide smile as she waves back at Beth.
"Oh wow!" she said excitedly, "I finally get to meet Beth! You're my favorite Total Drama girl!"
"Really," Beth replied with a gasp and a slight blush as she shyly looked away, "I'm not that great."
"You're really not," Scott said angrily, "I was hoping for Heather to walk off that bus. At least she won a season."
Zoey and Beth glare at Scott before Zoey says, "Forget him. He's just sore that he didn't get to win last season." The girls and Mike laugh at Scott's expense which makes him sneer at them. "I'm sure you'll do great this season," Zoey concluded.
"Aww, thanks," Beth gushed, "I think you'll do well too, Zoey."
"Alright, alright," Chris interrupts the two new friends, "Now that all 22 of you guys are finally here. It's time to explain what this season is all about. But first, let's make our way into Wrigley Field!"
"YEAH! EXTREME," Tyler yells out in happiness as Chris opens the gate to the baseball stadium.
*On the Field*
The host stands in front of the group of 22 teenagers as they stand on the infield dirt of Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago Cubs.
"Welcome to Wrigley Field, kiddies," Chris said as he looks at the 22 teens, one of which was so happy that he looked like he was going to explode. "You may ask why we're here to start off this season of Total Drama…"
Chris waited after he finished that sentence. The contestants looked around confused until Beth broke the silence.
"So, why are we here?"
"Good question Beth," Chris replied with his signature chuckle and grin. "We're here because this season is called…" [1]
"Total!"
"Drama!"
"Avengeance!"
"This season, instead of going around the world in a plane in a quest to win one million dollars, we'll be traveling around these United States of America in the Total Drama Double-Decker, which is the double-decker bus that's parked outside, in a quest to win…FIVE MILLION DOLLARS!"
All of the contestants let out loud cheers at the possibility of winning five million dollars.
"I knew that would get your attention. Now, the bus is a double-decker for a reason. The winning team in each challenge will travel to the next town in the bottom deck, where there are 11 beds, a couch, TV, video games, stereo, refreshments, and most importantly, shealter."
Many of the contestants made "Oohs" and "Ahhs" at the description of the bottom deck.
"The losing team will have to travel on the top deck, which comes with uncomfortable metal seats and no roof. No roof means you're unprotected from the elements. So, if it is raining, hailing, snowing, thundering, or lightning-ing… you're on your own. Ha-ha!"
Many of the contestants looked scared after hearing that. A lot of complaints were made before Chris sounded off his bullhorn once again.
"Now, you may ask, 'why is this season called Total Drama Avengeance…'?" Chris pauses again.
"Why is it called Total Drama Aven…," Beth asks again.
"Another good question, Beth," the Host interrupted, "It's called Avengeance because you all are gonna have a chance to redeem yourselves after losing every season you were part of," he explains with a chuckle. [1]
"To be honest Beth, you've come the closest to winning a season out of everyone here. So you probably shouldn't be here and neither should Bridgette, since she was in all three seasons despite getting into the Final 10 only once." [2]
Both of the girls that Chris mentioned were looking at the host with nervous expressions.
"But," Chris continued, "then we'd have an uneven amount of boys to girls, and we can't have that. Total Drama is an equal opportunity television show." Chris chuckles at his last comment. "Anyway, just like Beth and Bridgette, all of you have a reason to seek redemption."
"Katie, Sadie, and Eva, you three ladies only participated in one season overall." This comment earned an angry sneer from Eva and sad looks from Katie and Sadie.
"Geoff and Trent, you two dudes were in two seasons. However, both of ya were ousted almost immediately in season two after doing so well in season one." Geoff and Trent looked at each other and winced from the bad memories from the second season.
"Ezekiel, need I say anything? You were voted out first in both of the seasons you were in, and managed to turn into a gremlin," Chris said with a chuckle as Ezekiel tries to hide his face with his toque in embarrassment.
"Tyler, Justin, and Noah, you were all eliminated early in season one, but managed to make it fairly far in your second respective seasons. Not without getting a few scrapes and bruises along the way." Tyler, still in his happy state, managed to glare at the host for a second while Noah and Justin rolled their eyes in annoyance.
"And you 11 teens," Chris said as he gestures to the former Total Drama: Revenge of the Island contestants, "Well, none of you were in the Final 2, hence why Cameron and Lightning aren't here competing again. No matter how much Lightning wanted to," Chris says with a chuckle, "He was such a baby."
Scott chuckles and says, "That's funny and all, but you never explained why we're here in Chicago."
Chris chuckles some more, "Well, we're having our first challenge here in Wrigley Field because this stadium has been the home of the Chicago Cubs since 1916, but they haven't won a World Series since 1908." Chris laughs, "What losers!" He clears his throat after having a good laugh and continues his explanation, "So, what better place to start a season with all of you losers," he concludes with a chuckle. This earned a glare from many of the contestants who weren't too thrilled about being called losers.
"Anyway," Chris continued, "Time to announce the teams. You guys may notice that there are 11 contestants that started out in season 1 and 11 that started last season."
The contestants looked amongst themselves and, sure enough, Chris was telling the truth.
"Well, that was purposely done, because the theme of this season is…"
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"…Old Losers vs. New Losers!" Chris finished announcing with a chuckle. "The teams should be obvious, but if you need a reminder."
"Staci, Dakota, B, Dawn, Sam, Brick, Anne Maria, Mike, Jo, Scott, and Zoey! You guys are the New Team!" Chris announced as a logo of a bronze medal with the logo for "Total Drama: Revenge of the Island" in the middle appeared over the New Team.
"And the rest of you," the host continued, "Katie, Sadie, Eva, Geoff, Trent, Justin, Beth, Ezekiel, Noah, Tyler, and Bridgette! You guys are…"
"The Old Team? Real original," Noah said unsurprised as a logo with a silver medal with the logo for "Total Drama Island" in the middle appeared over the Old Team.
The host looked undeniably annoyed about being interrupted once again. "You just have to take the fun out of everything don't ya?"
"Only if it's you that's having the fun, Chris," the Cynic replied with a smirk.
The host put on another grin as he started to speak again, "Well, I'm sure you'll have fun in this challenge, Noah. I call it, 'The Wimp Ball Derby!' I'm sure some of you watched at least one Major League Baseball game in your lives."
Most of the contestants nodded their heads slow while Tyler looked like he was about to jump out of his sneakers from anticipation.
"Well once a year," Chris continued, "the MLB has a Home Run Derby where 8 of the players in the league with the most homeruns slug it out and try to hit as many homers as they can. The dude who hits the most, wins. That's similar to what you guys are gonna be doing in this challenge!"
"YEAH," Tyler yelled out as he jumped about 10 feet in the air, "I can't wait to smack some homers!"
"You guys are gonna have your own Home Run Derby. Each team will pick the five people who they think can smack a few long ones. Each batter gets 3 outs, just like in regular baseball. In this challenge, an out is a pitch that is swung on and missed or any ball that is hit but is not counted as a homerun. Everyone get those rules?"
All of the contestants nodded.
Chris continued with the explanation, "Also, since I know most of you aren't athletic or full of steroids, you won't be hitting regular baseballs with regular wooden bats." Chris shook his head as he continued to explain the challenge. "Nope, you'll be using plastic bats and a sponge ball will be pitched to you by my co-host, Chef Hatchet. Also, instead of hitting homers over those weed covered walls back there," gesturing to the famous wreath covered outfield wall of Wrigley Field, "We, at Total Drama, have brought our own wall that will placed 225 feet from home plate. However…" Chris snapped his fingers as the wall was brought onto the field.
The wall was more than twice as tall as the real outfield wall and made of solid brick. It curved from the left field foul line to the right field foul line so that it was 225 feet from home plate all around.
All of the contestants dropped their jaws and stared at the huge wall as it was wheeled onto the field.
Chris chuckled at their surprised looks. "Yep! This behemoth is 25 feet tall and made of solid brick! That baby's what makes this a challenge."
All of the contestants continued to stare at the wall until Tyler let out a loud, "YEAH! EXTREME!"
"I like your enthusiasm Tyler," the host continued. "I hope your team chooses you to be one of the five people to participate. I'm sure I'd love to see you take a few swings," Chris says as he chuckles. "Ok, so let's begin this first "Old vs. New" challenge! New guys get to pick their five batters first."
As soon as Chris finished that sentence, the team of new people went into a huddle to decide who should bat.
*New Team's Huddle*
"Ok," Jo started, "I'm definitely going to bat. I'm more athletic than most of you people," she says looking at Mike.
"Hey!" Mike exclaimed.
"Please don't argue with her, hon," Zoey said to her boyfriend, "she is one the most athletic on our team."
"Hey," Brick said from across the huddle.
"Aw suck it up, Brick-For-Brains," Jo responded.
Mike sighs and says, "Alright. Anyone else wanna volunteer?"
Brick solutes within the huddle and says in an orderly fashion, "Private Brick McArthur, volunteering to hit homeruns!"
"Alright," Mike replies with a nod. "Anyone else?"
"I can do it," Scott stated, "I smash rats with a baseball bat at home all the time. This should be cake."
"I dunno," Sam said, "You weren't really all that reliable last season, what with all the devious plots and all."
"Oh come on," Scott debated, "That was a year ago! I'm a changed man." He smiles and bats his suddenly visible eyelashes at his teammates.
Dakota sighs and says, "Alright, we'll let you bat. Just stop looking so weird."
Scott's eyelashes disappear as he smiles. "Deal! Alright, what other two people are going?"
B toward himself as Dawn interpreted for him, "B thinks that he can do it. Any objections?" A lot of "No's" and "Nuh uh's" were muttered. "Alright," Dawn continued, "who is going to be our last batter?"
A silence overcame the huddle until Scott broke it, "Well come on! Someone needs to be our fifth batter."
"Don't look at me," Dakota said, "I hated playing whiffle ball in gym."
"I did not do well in gym either," Dawn concluded.
"My great, great, great uncle may have invented baseball," Staci spoke about her relative, "but I don't play it. So sad!"
"Yeah, I wasn't too great in gym either," Zoey said as she looked down at her feet.
"I don't do sports," Anne Maria said flat out.
"Well that leaves Sam and Mike," Jo concluded.
All attention was on Sam and Mike. Sam was playing on his handheld game system while in the huddle and let out a small cheer as he leveled up. Everyone else in the huddle came to a consensus and voted for Mike. This made Mike gulp in nervousness.
*On the Field*
After the New Team came to an agreement, they all turned towards Chris as Jo decided to speak on her team's behalf.
"We have chosen to have myself, Brick, Scott, B and Mike swing for the fences," she said with a satisfied smirk on her face. She then looked over at the Old Team and looked at Eva competitively. Eva countered by raising one side of her unibrow at Jo.
"Alright! Old Team, who are you gonna have smack the sponge off this sponge ball?" Chris asked the team of older contestants as they went into a huddle themselves.
*Old Team's huddle*
"I'm batting first!" Eva declared.
"No objections here, Iron Woman," Noah said.
"I wanna go too! EXTREME!" Tyler yelled.
"You don't have to yell Tyler," Noah said, "we're right here."
"I know. I'm just so psyched for this challenge! Whoo!"
"Fair enough, any objections?" Noah asked.
"Yeah, I do," Eva stated, "You can't do anything athletic, even if your life depended on it."
"Hey," Trent debated, "That's a little harsh Eva."
"Well it's the truth."
"Oh, come on Eva," Katie interjected, "it's just a sponge ball and a plastic bat."
"Yeah, Eva," Sadie agreed, "what harm can Tyler do with plastic?"
Eva looked at Tyler who had puppy dog eyes and his bottom lip quivering. Eva sighed and said, "Fine, he can bat."
"WHOO!" Tyler yelled out in jubilation.
"Alright, now that that waste of time is over with, who else wants to bat?" Noah asked around the huddle. "I'm just saying right now, I'm not doing it."
"We didn't expect anything else, Bookworm," Justin says earning a glare from Noah.
"Oh, and you're gonna risk your 'flawless body' trying to win the challenge for us, Pretty Boy?" Noah asked as he rolled his eyes.
This earned a glare and a scoff from Justin. "At least I have a flawless body to risk. Unlike you and your string bean shaped body."
Noah snorted as he retorted, "'String bean body'? That's the best you could think of? Actually, I'm not surprised since your brain is probably as small as your-"
"Guys, please stop arguing," Bridgette said as she interfered in Noah and Justin's argument. "We need to work together to win this challenge."
"Yeah, dudes," Geoff said as he agreed with his girlfriend. "Also, I'd like to nominate myself. Sheya!"
"Alright, Skater Boy is in," Eva said as she retook the reigns of leadership in the huddle, "Elvis, you think you can get some homers?" she asked Trent.
"I did pretty well when I played in Little League, so I'm game," he answered with a slight shrug.
"Alright, so it's me, Tyler, Geoff and Trent," Eva concluded, "String Bean and Justin aren't going, so we'll need another girl to swing."
"Hey! I'm here too, eh," Ezekiel interjected.
Eva looked at him for a second and continued, "So which one of you girls wants to swing, unless Home School here thinks that none of us are strong or smart enough to hit a home run."
That comment hit Ezekiel like a smack in the face as he looked down in disappointment and hid his face under his toque as he walked away from the huddle. The rest of the team looked at Ezekiel sadly and then glared at Eva.
"That wasn't nice, Eva," Bridgette said with a rare somewhat angry look on her face.
"Totally not cool, Eva," Geoff agreed.
"Yeah, not cool," Tyler concurred.
"Oh whatever, he'll get over it," Eva said with an irritated look on her face.
Bridgette scoffed, left the huddle and went after Ezekiel. Geoff watched her go in worry.
Eva ignored it and asked, "So who wants to bat? Twins? Beth?"
"I guess I can try," Katie suggested, "I did pretty well for myself in the dodgeball challenge before."
"That's good enough for me," Eva concluded, "Break!"
*On the Field*
The huddle broke apart and the Old Team, minus Bridgette and Ezekiel, turned around to face Chris.
"We've got our five, McLean!" Eva bellowed. "We've chosen me, Geoff, Trent, Katie, and Tyler."
Chris chuckled as he said, "This should be good. Alright teams, go to your respective dugouts. Old Team gets the first baseline dugout, the New Team gets the other one, and we'll alternate teams to put up a batter. We'll start with the New Team."
All of the contestants went to their team's respective dugouts. "Oh and by the way," Chris said as everyone looked back at him, "There's a reason why this city is called the 'Windy City.' Wind gusts here on a normal day can reach over 20 miles per hour. So, you better hope that the winds of change blow in your direction. Ha-ha! Ok, batter up!"
The New Team sent up Jo to start off. She took her stance in the right-handed batter's box next to home plate as Chef Hatchet stood 10 feet in front of the actual pitcher's mound with a huge bucket of sponge balls.
"Let's go, Cheffy," Jo taunted, "Let's see what you can do with those little balls. HA!"
This wasn't so funny to Chef who snarled at Jo as he picked up a ball and launched it right at Jo. Jo managed to make contact on the ball with the plastic bat she had. The ball was hit down the left field line towards the large brick wall, but it tailed to the left to far and fell in foul territory. Jo groaned at this as she got ready for the next pitch.
"That's one out, Jo," Chris announced from the Announcer's Booth, "You got two more."
"I know the rules of baseball, McLean!" She yelled.
Jo stood in her batting stance and waited for the ball to come to her.
Chef got in his windup and pitched another ball to Jo, this time it was more over the plate.
Jo managed to make solid contact with the ball as it went towards the top of the 25 foot tall wall.
"Yeah!" Jo yelled out then looked at the Old Team's dugout. "That's one homer, 'Senior Citizens'! And there's a-plenty more where that-" Jo didn't get to finish that sentence as the ball that she just hit, hit her back. "What the…?" she questioned as she looked down at the fallen ball.
"Oooh! So close Jo," the host said while laughing out loud, "A massive headwind came out of the outfield right as the ball went over the height of the wall and blew it back! Ha-ha! That was so awesome!" Chris chuckled some more before saying, "Oh, by the way, that's two outs."
Jo looked like she wanted to snap her plastic bat in half, but she managed to keep her composure and got back into her batting stance.
*2 minutes later*
"And Jo finishes with 2 homers and a broken bat," Chris announced as Jo walked back to her dugout with said bat in her hands. "Good thing we got a bunch more. Alright, now it's the Old Team's turn!"
Eva stomped up to the plate clutching, and almost breaking, her plastic bat. She took her batting stance in the right-handed side and waited for Chef to throw. On the first pitch, Eva made such hard contact that the ball was over the wall in a matter of milliseconds.
"And Eva opens up with a thunderous homer for her team! And she still has no outs," Chris announced.
Eva put an evil smile on her face as she glanced at Jo, who had her arms crossed in envy.
On the next two pitches, Eva did the same exact thing. She finally got her first out when she hit a ball down the left field line, but a sudden gust of wind blew it foul before it went over the wall.
"Stupid wind," Eva grumbled.
*In the Old Team's dugout*
Most of the team members were on the steps of the dugout watching Eva put on a clinic with her homers. There were three on the bench that weren't looking at Eva since her comments in the huddle had upset them.
Ezekiel was slumped over on the bench with his hands holding up his head while his elbows were on his thighs. Bridgette was sitting next to him with her hand on his back trying to console him while Beth sat on his other side.
"Ezekiel, don't let Eva's words hurt you," Bridgette said, "She's just really hard to please. And she can really hold an unnecessary grudge." Ezekiel didn't move after Bridgette finished and she looked at Beth with worry.
"Bridge is right Zeke," Beth said, "Eva is just a grumpy person. Barely anyone can get on her good side after they've made a big mistake."
The Home-schooled boy let out a sigh as Beth said, "Oops…that came out wrong didn't it?"
Bridgette was about to say something until Chris's voice was heard over the loudspeaker. "And Eva finishes with 5 homeruns! That gives the Old Team a 5-2 lead over the Newbies!"
Cheers erupted from the Old Team's dugout as Eva made her way back to it. When she walked down the small stairs to sit on the bench, she passed by Beth, Bridgette, and Ezekiel. She looked at Ezekiel and asked with a scoff, "He's still moping? What a wimp."
Bridgette and Beth glared at Eva as Ezekiel let out another sad sigh. "He wouldn't be like this, if you would just let what he said in the first season go!" Bridgette almost yelled at Eva.
"Hey," Eva retorted, "You were ticked off by his remarks that day too. Why are you on his side now?"
"Because he's changed since then, Eva. He's more aware that guys and girls can be as strong and intelligent as each other."
"Oh, really?"
"Really," Beth answered, "He really has changed."
"I'll believe it when I hear him say it," Eva said as she walked to the far end of the dugout and stood on the stops to see Brick get up to bat.
Bridgette and Beth continued to console the saddened prairie boy.
*In the New Team's dugout*
Jo was looking at the other dugout and saw the argument that had just transpired. She snickered before making an announcement to the rest of her team.
"Those old farts are tearing themselves apart. We need to capitalize on this." She turned around and yelled to Brick, who was standing at home plate in the left-handed batter's box. "Brick!" she called out to him.
He looked at the dugout and saw Jo calling him. "Ma'am?"
"You got this one! Just focus!"
"Ma'am! Yes Ma'am!" the cadet yelled as he saluted her.
He got back into his stance as Chef readied to throw.
*Five minutes later*
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" Brick yelled out in pain.
Two interns were called onto the field with a gurney to wheel Brick off the field after he had fallen on the ground in a crumpled heap. The two interns got Brick onto the gurney as he continued to yell in agony. Members of both teams winced and cringed as Brick let out those pain-filled wails.
"Well," Chris announced, "Before getting his third out and dislocating his…everything, Brick managed to get two homeruns. So that makes the score: The Oldies 5, the Newbies 4!"
Chris looked at the camera as it focused on him.
"Will the Oldies be able to keep this small lead or will the Noobs be able to come back and beat their preceded counterparts?"
"Also, who will be the first loser eliminated in this season of losers?" Chris chuckled.
"Find out after the break!"
"MY SPLEEN!" Brick yelled in pain as the screen went black.
[1] - Those of you who are familiar with The Kobald Necromancer probably know about the running gag of Beth getting a cookie whenever she asked a question. Well, I kinda did the same thing here, just without the cookie. TKN is a bit of a fanfic inspiration for me, and I can't wait for the next chapter of Total Drama Battlegrounds to be uploaded.
[2] - I know that Beth won Total Drama Action in some countries, but in the USA (where I live), Duncan won. So, I'm going based on the USA's rankings.
How's that for an intro chapter? I really like writing this story, so I'll definitely be completing it. It might take a while, since I'll be busy with college stuff and hopefully working during the summer, but it will be completed. You have my word. Anyway, leave a comment and stay tuned for the next update!