"Camp Wawanakwa, an abandon film lot, around the world, and then back to the crummy camp we all know and love. You people just can't get enough of Total Drama, can't you?" Chris McLain boasted to the camera directly in front of him. The host man himself was standing at an empty parking lot, with nothing but a huge school bus, and the camera crew surrounding him. He then shrugged, "hey, as long as I get paid, I'm not complaining!" Chris started walking slowly to his left, the camera man following him intently.

"Welcome back to the 5th season of our beloved show, Total Drama. You think it will be taking place here?" Chris emphasized the dead parking lot behind him. "Psh, forget it! What would I do here to the cast? Deep squat! Right now, we are just awaiting their arrival, which once they're all here, I'll get to the explaining. Look, I think that's them now."

Surely enough, a line of limousines pulled up into the lot, and one by one, a camper would file out.

The first one to exit their limo was a tall blonde, wearing a blue hoodie, and had long blonde hair.

"'Sup Chris?" Bridgette swiftly walked over to the host.

"Bridgette! Good to see you're not complaining! Not so sure what to say to the rest of the cast about to arrive." Chris shuddered.

Bridgette raised a questioning brow to him, but then started, "hey, I get a chance to redeem myself to the whole viewing world, that's good to me."

"I hear where you're comin' from sista'," Leshawna came striding down with pride, right past Chris, down to her old friend. "Being played like a fool was not good on lil' ole Leshawna's reputation I got. Still though, there will never be anything good coming from this show."

"That's one of the best parts!" Chris beamed to the two young adults. They just rolled their eyes at him and began to catch up.

"Is she here yet?" A short techno brunette whispered behind the host, surprising him, and making him jump.

"Sheesh! Don't sneak up on me like that!" Chris exclaimed at Cody loudly. "What are you even talking about?"

"Her. Is the coast clear?" Cody asked again, eyes wandering everywhere around the area they were standing in. Chris scratched him head to the little nerd.

"If you mean Sierra, Cody, then no, she has not arrived yet," Harold replied. Everyone was surprized to see Harold, no one saw him leave his limo! Cody happily sighed in relief.

"Thank the lucky stars!"

Just then, a very muscular teen with black hair pushed her way right through the two nerds and stood where Bridgette and Leshawna were still chatting.

"Um… Eva everyone!" Chris presented her. He then continued, "but Cody, what makes you think Sierra is going to be here?"

Cody's eyes shot right open in awe. "Y-You mean to say… Sierra might not be here this season!" Chris shot Cody his signature smile, and then the teenage started dancing around like a fool. Harold stared at Cody's peculiar happy dance, and gave him an odd glance.

Another teen walked out of the limo he was in, with a smug facial expression. He gripped his luggage and walked strongly to the other ex-campers, but stopped short when he saw Cody dancing like a mad man beside Harold and Chris.

"Who put happy pills in his coffee?" Duncan questioned Cody's odd state.

"Sierra isn't he-ere! Sierra isn't he-ere! And she ain't coming ba-ack. La la la la la-a." Cody sang.

"EEEEE! OH-EM-GEE. CODY, YOU LOOK SOO CUTE WHEN YOU'RE DANCING!" A high pitched voice squeaked, and then the owner to the voice trampled the now horrified Cody.

"Cody I've missed you so much! Where have you been these days? Every time I snuck into your backyard, I didn't see you through your bedroom window! My guess is that you moved though, because one time a lady from your house said I needed to leave or she'd call the police on me, and she did NOT look like any of your family members!" Sierra squished Cody in his arms.

"Agh… I-I… m-moved.. c-c-can't… BREATH!" Sierra quickly loosened her death grip on the poor boy.

"You moved without telling ME? Why Cody? WHY! Well, it's okay now, at least we can be together now." The purple haired stalker said creepily, she then lifted Cody up with one hand, and their bags with another, and joined the awaiting contestances.

"I thought you said Sierra wasn't coming this season?" questioned Harold, who was still a halt with Chris. The host flashed his teeth to the smart teenager.

"Nooo, I asked you why you would think she was coming back!"

"You're a horrible man, Chris," Harold grabbed his bag, getting ready to stand with the others, before shooting a glare to the delinquent to his left. "Duncan.''

Duncan rolled his eyes before the nerdling left. Chris then turned his attention to said teen.

"Duncan! Juvie doing you well?"

"You know it!"

Back with the others, Harold walked up to Leshawna and smiled to her. She didn't seem to notice, or if she did, she didn't care. Now back to Duncan…

"Well, Mr. Fan Favourite, here's the question all of the viewing world would like to know, how are-" Chris was cut short of Duncan already answering.

"Gwen and I? That's for me to know, and you to find out." Duncan mysteriously smiled, then strode past the host and made his way to the group.

"Guess you aren't find out anytime soon," Chris gave an obvious fake frown to the camera. "Maybe I'll ask Gwen when she gets here. Now for our next contestant, DJ!"

"Yo man, how're you doing?" DJ acknowledged Chris at ease. He didn't stop walking though. He went straight to the group without needing Chris' answer.

"Like WOAH Katie! We're here! I still can't believe we finally get to compete! This is like SOO exciting! EEEE!" Sadie squealed to her BFFFL. Katie looked bemused, gripping her small bag.

"Uhuh… right."

Sadie looked to the tanned teen, and then to the ground for a moment. Katie kept walking, leaving Sadie behind. Bridgette and Eva both raised their eye to this action.

Sadie looked up, a little more content than before, and ran to catch up with Katie and the rest of the group.

"Okay then…" Chris said hesitantly, scratching his head.

"Katie! Wait up!" Sadie perked over beside her, the others watching them.

"Hmm…" was all that Katie said. Everyone was beyond confused to her actions, not so much Sadie though.

"Chris! HEADS!" A low pitchy voice screamed coming closer and closer to Chris. The host man turned, to see a red blur on a skateboard charging at him with force, and dodged it quickly.

Said blur kept rolling down the pavement, past Chris, past the other ex-campers, and straight into the school bus with a SPLAT! Like a bear smashing a strawberry into a wall. The skateboard started rolling away. It took a few seconds for Chris to regain his posture before realizing who that was.

Dusting off his shirt, he exclaimed the man in the jumpsuit's presence.

"Tyler everyone!"

"TIGER! NOO!" A high ditzy voice shrieked. Heads turned to the direction the voice came from, and none other was there the blonde Lindsay running her way to Tyler; or as she said it, Tiger. "I'll save you!"

Lindsay was sprinting down to her mushed boy, and without realizing it, trip on the skateboard, and rolled her way right into where Tyler currently resided, against the bus.

"Ugh," Tyler started, losing consciousness, "it's… Tyler."

"That's got to hurt! Ahahaha!" Chris started laughing like a school girl.

"Chris! They could be seriously hurt!" Beth complained, and ran over to her best friend and boyfriend to see if they were okay.

"Whatever… hey Zeke!" Chris and everyone looked to the prairie boy, most surprised by how he looked.

"Hey Chris, it's uh… nice to be back, eh?" Ezekiel said with his Canadian accent. He looked just the same as he did in Total Drama Island.

"Woah, Zeke! How did you get back to normal?" Bridgette asked in awe. Ezekiel blushed at the call of his name.

"Well'umm, you see-"

"Let me explain," Chris intruded, but that's the Chris thing that he would do. "We got in a lot of trouble with the producers about destroying Ezekiel, so we decided to pay for fixing both him and Alejandro up, so now they're good as new!"

"What about Alejandro?" Heather expressed, slightly red, walking toward the ensemble. Leshawna was amused by this.

"What, you blushin' at the mention of pretty boy's name now ain't ya?" Leshawna cackled under her breath, and got an awarding high five from Bridgette. Heather got even more red.

"I would n-never! Uh.. umm…"

"What about the mention of my name?" a certain super model inquired.

"Justin, looking as good as ever," Chris fawned at him, Justin gave him a super model smile. "But, we aren't talking about you, but the other pretty boy on the show."

"I am assuming you mean me?" Alejandro wondered out loud, entering their conversation. Justin looked offended, and chuckled nervously.

"But we all know I'm the hottest one here, right?" Asked Justin. Sadie gave both of them a dreamy look.

"I think you're both smoking hot, right Katie?" Sadie nudged her. Katie just shrugged.

"Whatever, if you guys want to have a dispute or whatever on who's hotter or not, just don't do it now. We've got to rap this up soon, so we need the remainders of you losers to come." Chris expressed, agitated slightly.

"But-" Justin was cut off by a charging voice of a female.

"Excuse Chris, but do NOT refer to me as a loser, the rest of them, who cares, but me? No." Courtney glared at Chris while walking by him. "Besides, I was a CIT! It is impossible to call ME a loser. So, don't even try, feel free to call Gwen and Duncan that though, because that is the actually truth," she continued gliding past Chris with a triumphing smile, and to the rest of the losers- I mean… winner challenged as Heather would say.

"Oh really now? Let's try this then Princess. You are a loser," Duncan smirked at Courtney, she turned her face to him, her eyes rock hard.

"Your words don't hurt me, Duncan. Now, where's your stupid weird goth girlfriend?"

"She ain't here yet darling, why, you miss her?"

"Bite me."

Duncan and Courtney didn't stop glaring at each other, while Chris pondered what he said.

"Wait… you didn't deny if you and Gwen were dating! So you are then! It must be true!" Chris yelled a bit too happy.

Duncan stopped his mental fight with Courtney, and turned to Chris. "Or maybe I just did that to confuse you. Why do you care so much anyways?" Chris just frowned and became sad all of a sudden.

Nobody seemed to notice until now, but Trent was standing beside Chris, holding his bags and guitar, confused slightly.

"Uhh… hi?" The music man said to the childish host. Chris then closed his eyes and counted to three silently to himself, and then regained his posture.

"Trent! Our musician! Welcome back to the game!"

"Thanks man," Trent gave Chris a handshake. Duncan gave Trent a disgusted look while he started making his way to there. Trent raised his eye brow to him. "What?"

"Trying to get on Chris' good side won't get you anywhere, pansy," Duncan spat at Trent.

"I wasn't trying to, it was just a hand shake… and you know this isn't my first season here, right? I know that trick doesn't work," Trent said in the same expression as Duncan.

"Yeah, but I've been around a lot longer then you have musician, just giving you the heads up so you don't leave too quickly," Duncan mocked. Trent looked now very peeved.

"Hmm, 'pansy', 'musician'… you claim you've been around for a while, yet you don't even know my name? It's not like I didn't far in the first season, but come on Duncan, there's only 24 of us. It's not that hard to remember Trent. T-R-E-N-T. One syllable. Guess you are that dumb," Trent replied, as jaws dropped. Even Duncan himself seemed surprised.

"Oh snap!" Leshawna exclaimed to herself.

"Childish people…" Eva whispered to herself under her breath.

"Or maybe he's too big of a wimp to even say your name because you're his girlfriend's ex," the snide voice of Courtney rang.

Many 'oooOOoo!'s' were heard in the background. Duncan crinkled his eye brow and looked at his ex.

"This is stupid, what does that have to do with anything?" Duncan slightly raged to the CIT.

"Meaning that you find Trent as a threat," Courtney replied smartly, putting her hands on her hips.

"Stay out of this, Courtney. And Trent, well played," he smirked to the number 9 lover, "well played. This isn't over though."

"Geez, you don't even know what's going on this season, yet there is already so much drama!" Chris watched as the two teens fumed at each other, "I love it! But sadly, we need to cool things down a bit. Wait until the season officially starts."

Chris turned his heel to see the next contestant to show up, and luckily for him, it was Owen!

"Owen! Just the man we need to cool things down!"

"Hey guys! I missed you all so much!" Owen beamed to his friends. Though, something seemed wrong to him. Before him he saw a slightly unconscious Tyler and Lindsay standing beside each other, a good looking Justin glaring a good looking Alejandro who seemed to be looking a pretty Heather who looked in shock at Duncan and Trent, who were fuming to at one another, Courtney looking distressed, and an unhappy Katie and a concerned Sadie. "Did I miss something?"

Everyone turned to Owen and most smiled. Even after all the bad stuff that has happened, you can never be sad to Owen, he brought the happy out in everyone! Well… mostly everyone. Owen happily waved to them.

"It's great that you're here! Just the tension breaker I needed!" Chris flailed to the food lover. Owen gave him a peculiar look.

"Tension breaker?"

"Never mind that Owen, let's just keep this going so I won't be here all day," Chris explained to the happy teenager.

Owen smiled and made his way to the other waiting people, receiving high fives and hugs in the process.

Chris turned once again to see the next person that was going to arrive, and much to his anticipation of everyone showing up, Geoff was there.

"Welcome Geo-"

"BRIDGEY BOO!" Geoff immediately dropped all his bags and ran to his arms opened girlfriend.

"GEOFFEY BEAR!"

The two immediately locked arms and tightly embraced, earning some disgusted looks from their fellow friends.

"How long have you been waiting?" Geoff asked not letting go.

"I was the first one to arrive," Bridgette said almost sadly, and the two immediately locked their lips together and started to make out. Some people like Lindsay and Sadie 'aww'd', while others scrunched their faces to the site.

"Geez, get a room you love birds, or at least not do this here," Noah said suddenly coming out of nowhere, as heads turned to his direction. A smiled grew on Owen's face when he saw his tiny friend.

"NOAH!"

Owen ran as fast as his feet could and smashed Noah into a huge hug, "I missed ya buddy!"

"O-Owen… c-c-c-can't… let GO!" Noah squeaked out, having trouble breathing.

"OH GROUP HUGS! THOSE ARE SUPER FUN!" And kart wheeling Izzy sprung out of the blue, "Izzy is coming to join!"

Izzy immediately rapped her arms around her giant boyfriend and her old friend, and by now, Noah's face had turned blue. Katie seemed to take note of this.

"Uh guys, I think you're killing him," Katie stated to the happy reunion. Owen and Izzy quickly let go, and colour started to come back to Noah's face.

"T-Thank… you…" Noah complied to Katie, breathing each word. The three happy friends, excluding Noah, trotted their way with the other young adults.

Chris looked at the big group before him, quickly doing a head count.

"Twenty one, twenty two, twenty three… we're missing someone! And we really need to finish this up if we want any time for the actual show! Who's missing?" an agitated Chris spoke, before feeling a tap on his shoulder.

"I'm guessing me?" a gothic girl asked Chris, smiling ever so slightly.

"Gwen! Look, we don't have much time for catching up, but I must ask you one thing. It is very important," Chris expressed as if the question was quite essential. Gwen nodded to him before he ask, "are you and Duncan still together?"

Gwen furrowed her eyebrows before answering, "what does that have to do with anything?"

She grabbed her bag and started head toward the group, now standing beside Duncan.

"Geez, why is it such a huge secret? Well, no matter now, every, put your bags on the bus, and head on in it!" Chris yelled to the group, before walking away before adding an extra, "also, the confessional is on the bus at the back, since you're going to be spending a lot of time on it, we might as well decided to put it in there," Chris finished, and walked away. The campers gave each one another a confused look.

Confession Cam-

Alejandro- So, the confession camera is here on the bus? Don't judge me for being confused, Chris told us nothing of this season! Maybe it may be… Total Drama Trapped inside a Bus? Um… no, no… that wouldn't be it.

Eva- Finally, they're letting me compete! It was so COMPLETELY unfair that I only got to for ONE GOD DAMN SEASON! They let the prissy witch aka Heather compete for all the seasons we were in? No matter though, I'm winning this year no matter what.

Sadie- YES! I get to be here instead of on the aftermath! This is going to be so totally awesome! I get to stare at all the hotties here, meaning Justin, Alejandro and Trent. *Dreamy sigh* It's too bad Katie's still in a horrible mood though, she's been like this for almost 5 months now! She won't tell me why sadly, but it must be pretty serious if it turned her as serious as a dictionary… wait… dictionaries are serious?

Katie- That's extremely rude of Chris to put me and Sadie in the same limo, I mean at first I thought people were arriving in pairs, but I realized her and I were the only ones! It's not like we're attached by the hip or something… I just wish people will see me as my own person!

Justin- I'm hotter than that Aleuglyface, right? Right? RIGHT!

Trent- My god, why is Duncan such an idiot? Fighting with me at the very beginning for no reason? I just want to get this season over with… and hopefully make it out alive, not heart broken, and totally fine. *Unconvincing smile*

Cody- Why does Sierra have to be here? *hangs head down low*

Noah- I seriously thought Izzy and Owen were going to kill me with that hug. I swear 5 more seconds and I would have been dead.

*STATIC*

All the teens went to put their bags away as a group, some chatting, and some walking alone. One of those some's happened to be Katie. Noah saw this and decided that he was feeling in a nice mood, and decided to officially thank her for almost saving him. He approached her slowly.

"Um.. hey Katie," he hesitantly started. She was currently putting her small luggage into the back of the bus like everyone else, and seemed to be deep in thought and ignored Noah. He tried again, "Katie?" he tapped her shoulder, which made her jump and turn around. She turned slightly red.

"Oh, Noah! Hi, sorry I didn't realize you, I guess I was kind of thinking at the moment…" Katie said sheepishly.

"We, as humans, are always thinking," Noah said under his breath, Katie didn't seem to hear though, and continued, "thanks for getting Izzy and Owen to stop chocking me to death," he started, and Katie giggled slightly, "I think I would've stopped breathing without you there…"

"It was nothing, I just stated to them that you couldn't breathe, so I had to do something," Katie said curtly to him, not cracking a smile though. Just then Noah felt a tap on his shoulder, and turned to see an out of breath Cody before him.

"Noah, do me a solid and sit beside me on the bus before Sierra does and rapes me," Cody said desperately. Noah gave him an indifferent look.

"Okay, I guess. Let me just grab my book and I'll be there in a second," Noah explained to the now more happy Cody.

"Thank you! I seriously owe you one, dude," Cody happily walked onto the bus.

Noah reached inside his bag, and pulled out a nice looking book, before throwing his bag at the back of the bus.

"See you around, Katie," Noah spoke, and walked away.

Katie watched him as he walked, before being tackled by her best friend.

"Come sit with me, Katie!" Sadie shrieked into the tall girl's ear, and Katie gave her a surprized look, before nodding her head solemnly.

"Um… sure."

"Holy crap on crackers Gwen, you sure as heck missed a lot! Is there something funky going up with you and Duncan?" Leshawna asked her goth friend as they put their bags away. Gwen gave her a questioning stare.

"What do you mean?" Gwen asked obliviously.

"Girl, come and sit with me on the bus, I'll tell ya everything," Leshawna answered as she dragged her good friend toward the entrance of the bus. Right as they were about to enter, they were stopped by the green haired delinquent.

"Hey Gwen, wanna crash with me on the bus?" Duncan asked his possibly girlfriend. Gwen gave him a sorry smile.

"Sorry hun, Gwen and I needta sit togetha, we have some girl talk we need to establish," Leshawna quickly said before pulling herself and Gwen onto the bus. Duncan stood their dumbfounded.

"No matter, I'll just find someone else to sit with."

Eva put her bag away with ease, before turning around and getting a good look at her fellow teens.

CONFESSIONAL

Eva- If I actually want to get anywhere this season, I'm going to need to get well acquainted with everyone here. I sure as hell know that playing this game without strategy will get me nowhere, so I need to be smart, and get in good with the people.

*STATIC*

Eva found her eyes wander up to the crazy Izzy. Eva was already semi friendly to the phsyco, so maybe sitting with her will make it seem like she isn't a mean person to others, which will all make it easier for her to manipulate people into joining her in an alliance. Eva made her way up to the red head.

"Hey Izzy," Eva started in a quite obvious semi louder voice, hoping people would hear her before continuing, "would you mind sitting with me on the bus? I know a lot of other people, including you, probably already have a bus partner, and I don't want to be left alone. Plus, I don't think anyone would want too.."

"OKAY!" Izzy screamed as if she was imitating Eva's volume. "I'LL SIT WITH YOU. I WAS GOING TO GO SIT WITH OWEN, BUT YOU'RE COOL, TOO!" Izzy mysteriously cackled and ran onto the bus leaving Eva there. Eva smiled in victory, and entered the bus, too. Beth and Lindsay gave her a sad look.

CONFESSIONAL

Beth- Woah, I always thought Eva was a heartless mean person, but I guess she's just a little lonely. But we all are lonely sometimes, aren't we?

Lindsay- Poor Eve, she looked so sad! But, it must be pretty upsetting to be a sad little loner with no friends… I wouldn't know though.

Eva- I'm hoping this will turn into one of those 'Hook, Line, and Sinker' moments, and so, I feel it is right to say: hook.

*STATIC*

One way or another, all of the teens filed their way onto the tiny bus, squished. Chris then entered the bus with a bag in his hand.

"Welcome participants of season 5 of your love show, Total… Drama… Recycled!" Chris said, cutting straight to the point.

"Why is this bus so god damn small?" Courtney complained, annoyed.

Chris, being Chris, decided to ignore her.

"Let's just get on with this. So, I bet you're all wondering, 'we've done so much the past 4 seasons, what could you possibly do?' Well, the answer to that is-"

"What happened to the Revenge of the Island cast? Because aren't they supposed to be competing this time also? That's what everyone else thinks in the viewing world…" Harold interrupted, gaining many glares from the teens around him.

"Hey, will you do me a favour and SHUT UP?" Chris raged to the skinny nerd, but continued none the less, "as I was saying, this season is called Total Drama Recycled! And this season, we will be reliving you're most favourite times on this show. This time around, every other day you will have a challenge loosely based on a challenge we did in past seasons. No, we aren't completely redoing the challenges, but, we need some inspiration, hence, recycling! And you people say I'm not eco-friendly!" Chris exclaimed with his arms in the air, smiling ear to ear. Gwen did not seem amused by the comment.

"Chris, that doesn't make you eco-friendly at all…" Gwen yawned after saying.

"Whatever. We start off with a challenge based from Island, then Action, then World Tour, then the every multiple of 4 will I will be making up my own special challenge for you that has nothing to do with any of the seasons past! Aren't I being a clever cookie?"

Mumbles of 'no's were heard across the bus, but Chris shrugged it off.

"One last thing I need to add is this," Chris reached into the bag he brought in before, and pulled out a golden marshmallow, that looked like it was made of plastic… "You see this bad boy? These will be scattered pretty much everywhere. In the challenge, where you will be saying, and even on this bus! These guys are pretty much a token that you must redeem that will bring you some very useful items, and some not so much," Chris explained, dropping the golden puff back in his bag, "for example, one might give you a bag a chips, one might give you a pillow, and one might give you immunity. So, if you ever catch one of these, make sure you grab it before anyone else does! Also, I failed to mention where you redeem it, and the answer to that is every night, Chef will be at the front of the bus, you bring that to him, and he'll determine your prize, and hand it over to you. Got it?"

Many head nodded before him. He smiled, "Good. You're first challenge will start once we get there, and it will be based off Trial by Tri-armed Triathlon. Happy busing, and see you there!"

A/N: Holy cow! 13 pages! That is quite a long first chapter, but yes, better than it being like only 100 words long… So what did you think? Good? Bad? Worth Reading? Please give me some feedback, because reviews help me become a better writer! This is the first fanfic I'm posting in the Total Drama category, and the first fanfic I'm posting on this account. My goal for this story is to surpass 19 reviews though before I reach chapter 7… just letting you know. That is because 19 is the most reviews I've ever gotten and the story was 7 chapters long, so… I'm crossing my fingers I reach my goal!

Thank you so much for reading! Until next chapter!