Chris McLean, a well-groomed, dark haired man stands on the dock of a familiar island wearing sunglasses and a grin. "Welcome to Total Drama! Canada's most dangerous reality show!" he starts. "In the past, you've watched handfuls of teenagers risk their lives for the chance to win one million dollars! Well we're bringing twenty of them back again for yet another chance at our big cash prize!" Chris walks down to the edge of the dock and continues talking. "We had trouble deciding who to force, er..ask to come back, so we reviewed some past episodes and decided to give these select few a chance at redemption! Seriously, some of them were majorly screwed over!" he laughs. "This, is TOTAL DRAMA: REDEMPTION!" A shiny, white yacht pulls up to the dock, and a ramp is lowered down. "Now let's meet this season's batch of victims!"

The first contestents to walk off the boat are two girls, one thin and dark skinned and the other is chubby and white. Both are wearing matching outfits and have huge smiles on their faces. "First up, we have Katie and Sadie!" Chris announces.

"Omigosh I am like sooo excited to be back!" Katie squeals.

"Yeah, we are sooo gonna be the final two this time! I just know it!" Sadie continues.

"Riiiight, go stand over there." Chris says, pointing with his thumb over his shoulder. Both girls prance to the side. The next contestants to walk down the ramp are a scrawny, sweater-vest wearing kid, a brown-haired guy in a red jumpsuit, and a dark-skinned boy in a long green robe with a fake beard. "Noah, Tyler, and Leonard! Welcome back!"

"This time, my mastery of magic will surely lead me to victory!" Leonard shouts. Noah covers his ears and grimmaces.

"Please, PLEASE make him stop!" he groans. As they walk towards Katie and Sadie, an orange, thick haired girl struts down the ramp, followed by a masculine girl wearing all blue, a serious looking, tan girl, and a big black girl.

"And welcome back to Anne Maria, Eva, Courtney, and Leshawna!" Anne Maria keeps her eyes glued to her handheld mirror. Eva and Courtney stay silent.

"What up Chris?" Leshawna says excitedly. He high-fives her as she walks past. Stumbling behind them is a pasty kid with a peach fuzz covered face. "And here's Ezekiel! One of Total Drama's biggest losers!" Chris shouts. At the mention of his name, Noah, Eva, Courtney and Leshawna all look up to see him.

"How are you even alive right now?" Noah asks bluntly.

"Massive amounts of physical and mental therapy, eh. Paid for by the producers!" he says proudly. Chris frowns at this.

"Yeah, don't remind me." he says.

"And your parents let you come back?" Leshawna asks.

"We really need the money. And I really need to get out of the house, eh."

"But you fell into a volcano!" Courtney shouts. Ezekiel just shrugs and stands beside the others. An orange haired, sly looking kid walks down the ramp next, followed by a gorgeous blonde girl.

"Next up, Scott and Dakota!" Scott turns around to see Dakota. During her time on the show, Dakota had mutated thanks to exposure to radiation. She grew much taller, had green hair and claws, but was now back to her dainty, pretty self.

"Didn't you go all crazy mutant last time?" Scott asks her.

"Didn't you get paralyzed or somethin'?" Anne Maria says to Scott. He ignores her. Dakota just giggles.

"My daddy paid a lot of scientists to get me back to my sweet, supermodel self." she explains. A boy and girl, both rather plump, descend to the dock next. The boy has his eyes glued to a portable game device.

"and my great great uncle Chester invented portable video games. Before him people carried TV's around and extention cords were all over the place!" the girl says.

"Sam and Staci! Back for another chance!" Chris shouts. Though her hair fell out in season four, Staci had now grown it back. Sam lifts his eyes from his game and sees Dakota. He rushes over to her and wraps his arms around her waist. She returns the hug.

"It's so great to see you again!" he shouts. Finally, the last few contestants march to the dock. A pale, stocky kid, a tall farmer type, a dark-skinned, big-haired guy, a snowy white girl in a green sweater, a junior cadet, and a big blonde girl who looked like she could pop out of her shirt at any second arrived on the island.

"Finally, we have Max, Rodney, Beardo, Dawn, Brick, and Sugar!" Rodney, the farmer type, looks the most excited.

"Look at all these pretty girls" he squeals. The boat drifts away from the island as Chris faces the line of contestants.

"You're all here for a shot at one million dollars, and a shot at redemption! For one reason or another, you all got utterly screwed over! Be it by getting kicked off early, voted off by a parrot, or just sucking at this game!" he explains. "There was also a ton of unnessecary, but viewer-attracting cruelty! LOVED IT!"

"Question?" Courtney says, raising her hand. "If we're talking about getting screwed over, where's Heather?"

"Not here. No one who made it to a finale is competing this time! They had their chances!" Courtney's eyes widened, as did Leshawna's. They look at each other as smiles formed on their faces. "Yeah," Chris continued. "There were a lot of you guys we wanted to bring back cause of how much we loved watching you suffer, but we can only afford so many." Leshawna and Courtney shared an excited high five before Chris continued. "Now I'm sure you're wondering about teams. There will be four this time! Determined, like this!" A large, angry looking chef, Chef Hatchet, approaches the teenagers with a tennis-ball launcher. Inside are four colours of tennis ball, red, blue, green, and yellow. "Catch a ball, any ball! Just remember there is absolutely no trading!" he says with a grin. "Once five of you have a matching colour, you will become a team!"

Before anyone else can speak, Chef flips the switch on the machine and tennis balls begin pelting the twenty kids. Almost immediately, Eva snatches one out of the air. Green. She steps out of the crowd without flinching and stands beside Chris. Brick is the next to catch one. A blue one slams right into his crotch, sending him crawling to the side. Staci was busy chatting.

"My great great great uncle Henry invented Tennis ya know. Before him people didn't know what to do with all those nets, so they ju-" a blue ball hits her in the mouth before she can finish. A red ball bounces off Anne Maria's rock-hard hair and lands in Leshawna's hands. She shrugs and steps aside. Courtney, Tyler, and Sugar have all caught yellow balls. Sadie manages to grab a red one. She turns around to see Katie holding a blue one. They look around frantically but Chris pulls them aside.

"Don't even THINK about trading!" he warns.

"But we can't be split up!" Sadie cries.

"Tough." Chris says bluntly. Leonard gets smacked in the eye with a yellow ball.

"Curses! Seems my force field spells are still to weak..." he mutters. Sam is seen dodging them, rather than catching them.

"Hey Sam!" Chris yells. "You're supposed to CATCH the balls!" Sam looks up at him and gets whacked in the side of the head with with a red ball. The same happens to Dakota, which makes them both smile. At the back of the group, Dawn sits cross-legged. A blue ball lands gently in her lap. Anne Maria, Noah, Rodney and Beardo have all caught green ones. Scott has a blue one. Max grumbles to himself, cursing the machine before he takes a hit from a red ball. Being the only one left, Ezekiel picks up a yellow ball from the ground and scrambles to the group. The twenty contestants now stand in groups of five, seperated by the colour of the ball they caught.

"Red balls. Sam, Dakota, Leshawna, Sadie and Max, you are now the Northern Narwhals!" Chris says. They all cheer except for Sadie, who stares longingly at Katie and the other blue ball holders. "Dawn, Staci, Katie, Scott, and Brick, your team is the Southern Starfish!" Again, all but Katie cheer. The green balls were next. "Eva, Anne Maria, Noah, Rodney, and Beardo, you guys will now be the Eastern Eels!" The whole team smiles except Eva, who is wearing a scowl. "And finally, those of you with a yellow ball, Courtney, Sugar, Ezekiel, Tyler, and Leonard, you are now the Western Weakfish!"

"The Western Weakfish?!" Courtney shouts. "That's a terrible team name!"

"We couldn't think of any other marine animals that started with W" Chris explains with a shrug.

"What about whales? Walruses?"

"You'd wanna be called a walrus?" Sam asks.

"Oh...shut it!"

CONFESSIONAL: SAM

"I am so excited to be on a team with Dakota! She's like my real life princess! I'd totally jump over a million barrels for her!" Sam says. "Plus, our team is the Narwhals! How cool is that?

CONFESSIONAL: COURTNEY

"It's bad enough that my team is called the 'Western Weakfish' but look who's on it! Ezekiel gets voted off first every time, Tyler's a clumsy oaf, and Leonard...ugh, look at the guy! My only hope is this new girl, Sugar. Please let her be useful to me!" Courtney pleas.

Four identical cabins face a speaker in the center. The contestants settle in to their new homes. Chris explains that the team that comes in first in the challenge will get access to the Champion Suite, a small building with a buffet table, massages, air conditioning, and other luxaries. He also explains the McLean Brand Chris Idol. A wooden replica of Chris' head that, once found, can be used to save the holder from immunity. A new one will be hidden once the current one has been used. At last, the contestents were greeted with their first challenge.

"Alright campers, select one member from your team. You'll find out why in just a moment" Chris says.

"I'll do it!" Courtney says, stepping away from her fellow weakfish, not consulting with her team.

After a bit of discussion, Eva, Brick and Leshawna step forward for their teams.

"You four, stay here. The rest of you, swim out to your team platforms." Chris instructs, pointing to four wooden platforms floating in the water. "The four of you are going to be launching balls to your teammates on the platform. Once a teammate catches a ball, they can swim back to shore. First team to get all their members back wins. Last team to do so has to say goodbye to someone. Oh, and some balls, may not be balls. Ready? GO!" On command, Leshawna, Brick, Eva and Courtney rush to their respective sling shots and ball baskets, and begin firing.

The first one to catch a ball is Scott. Unfortunately, it's not a real ball. It cracks open in his hands and a swarm of bees fly out. Scott screams and leaps into the water. Leshawna launches a ball to her team, which Sadie catches. Sadie looks over at her friend Katie, who seems to be having trouble.

CONFESSIONAL: KATIE AND SADIE

Both girls are sitting side by side in the confessional outhouse. "I had such an easy time catching a ball, so I had to make sure Katie got one too," Sadie starts. "We both have to make it to the merge!" Katie nods in agreement.

"Here ya go Katie!" Sadie says, throwing the ball gently across the sea and into Katie's hands. Katie thanks her and jumps back into the water, then starts swimming to shore.

"And the Starfish take an early lead!" Chris says with pleasure.

"What?!" Courtney cries. "But Sadie caught the ball! They can't do that!"

"Fine," Chris groans. "Starting now!" Courtney sighs and continues firing at her team. Dawn stands still on her platform. A ball starts flying a bit too high for her to catch, but a fish leaps out of the water and knocks it down into her hands. Dawn turns around to face the fish. "Thank you very much, my friend." She says. Seeing this, Leonard gasps.

CONFESSIONAL: LEONARD

"The way Dawn summoned that fish to do her bidding was...incredible! She must be a level ten wizard at least! I must learn her secrets!" he says.

Noah jumps to catch a ball, but it turns out to be a rock and knocks him into the water. Beardo turns around and opens his mouth, making the sound of a disappointed trombone, to which Noah replies with a sharp glare. Trying to catch a ball, Anne Maria backs up into Rodney. Immediately, he develops a crush on her.

CONFESSIONAL: RODNEY

"I had no idea that Anne Maria was so...gorgeous!" he shouts.

Before long, Sam, Sadie, Max, Scott, Noah, Rodney, Anne Maria, Sugar, and Tyler had all caught a ball and returned to shore. Only Dakota, Staci, Beardo, Ezekiel and Leonard were still on a platform. Beardo continued to make sound effects for each ball, mostly a whistle followed by an explosion. He hadn't actually started to even try catching one until he was the last one on his team to be on the platform. Ezekiel had caught one, but it turned out to be a paint bomb and it covered him in a coat of green paint. Dakota kept flinching and Leonard's spells were not working. Dakota takes a hit to the face and the ball lands in her hands.

"Finally!" she squeals.

"And the Northern Narwhals win first prize! Enjoy your time in the champion suite!" Chris shouts. Sugar steps forward to call out to her team.

"Use your wizard powers!" she shouts. Leonard nods and waves his fingers.

CONFESSIONAL: COURTNEY

"She actually thinks he's a wizard? Ugh, I'm doomed..." Courtney says with her palm over her face.

"To win this brawl, sieze victory, make this ball come to me!" he shouts. Furiously, Courtney launches three balls at once. Leonard manages to catch one, and Ezekiel uses his hat as a net to catch another.

Beardo catches a ball just after him, but starts making a loud hissing noise. He holds the ball up, revealing that it's really a painted pumpkin.

"Staci, step forward a bit!" Brick calls out to his teammate. She obeys and steps forward, right under where the next ball lands.

"Woohooo!" She cheers.

CONFESSIONAL: DAWN

"Staci was voted off first because of her constant chatter. I can't stop her lying, but I sense potential in her. If I can just destract her from telling these stories, she could be an asset to the team."

"And that's it!" Chris shouts. "The Eels will be facing elimination tonight!"

Eva, Anne Maria, Noah, Rodney, and Beardo all sit on a log near a campfire. Rodney reaches for Anne Maria's hand, but she pulls it away. Chris arrives with a plate of marshmallows.

"In this game, marshmallows represent life. Sweet, mushy life. I have four here, and there are five of you. If you do not recieve of marshmallow, you must leave immediately...and never come back...ever! The following contestants are safe..."

"Eva" Eva stands up, glares at her team and accepts her marshmallow. "Noah, and Anne Maria." Both of their worried looks vanish as they stand up too. Rodney and Beardo both stare at the last marshmallow. "And the final marshmallow goes too..."

"Rodney." Beardo looks down and makes the sound of a car crash. "Come with me, Beardo. Time to show the new elimination method."

"Oh boy, what is it this time? Can't be worse than jumping out of a plane." Noah says. Beardo finds himself in a large, plastic sphere.

"This is the Sphere of Shame," Chris starts.

"Awful lot of balls today, Chris." Noah says.

"Trust me, this one's fun! Notice, the plank of wood the ball rests on." Everyone looks down at the board. Chris flips a lever and the plank sprinks up, launching Beardo off the island, sending his plastic prison bouncing across the water with him tumbling around inside.

"Wow, voted off first twice. And it wasn't even Zeke. Shocking." Chris says. "Well there are still nineteen more campers just waiting to be flung outta here! Who will be launched next time? Find out next time on Total. Drama. Redemption!"