A disillusioned Cody loses his third season; but before he goes home without the money or the girl he finds himself waking up on the day before the first season of TDI. And a chilling ultimatum is carved into his wall and flesh. "Win or repeat this day a thousand times!"
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Cody awoke with a start; his pulse raced in the darkness and he was sweating uncontrollably. The teen was on complete autopilot as he ran forward into the bathroom and puked his guts out into the toilet. Finally after what felt like years Cody lifted his head from the bowl and groaned; falling onto his back.
"What happened?" Cody mumbled to himself; before he looked around the bathroom. He didn't recognize his surroundings for a few moments until an old memory clicked into place.
"This… is the hotel I stayed at… before I left for season 1" Cody said to himself before shaking his head. Getting up and looking around; Cody found everything to be in place according to his, admittedly rather hazy, memory of the place.
As he walked out of the bathroom and into the main area of his hotel room, Cody's eyes were immediately drawn to the mirror hanging above his dresser. The mirror was fogged over as if someone had taken a long shower and steam filled the mirror, and drawn on it was a single sentence.
'Win or repeat this day a thousand times.'
It was at this point Cody started to get a little afraid.
Suddenly a burning pain made itself known to him. Falling to the ground Cody tried to scream as a vicious pain burnt through his body but his voice refused to respond. Cody's back arched as his abdomen burned like some was branding him with heated iron.
Finally after what felt like years Cody was able to breathe again, and he tore off his pyjama shirt to see what the hell happened to him. The sight made Cody's teal eyes shoot open and his breath hitch.
A circular mark was emblazoned upon his stomach; showing up in a livid red as if someone had carved it carefully with a knife, within the scar was another circle, this one showing up as a darker blood red.
Cody's mind froze and he wondered what the hell was going on; how was this even possible? The teen tenderly rubbed his stomach and felt the ridges of the brand on his stomach. Cody closed his eyes and let out a sigh.
Whatever the hell was going on he didn't want to know, he just wanted things to go back to normal.
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Cody stayed in his room that morning and ignored the knocking on his door, hearing someone's voice on the other side asking for him to come out. Eventually the voice left and Cody spent the rest of the day hiding in his room from the outside world.
It wasn't the smartest or bravest thing he'd ever done; Cody mused to himself, but he was scared of going out. There was something frightening and supernatural at work and he was quite happy staying inside his nice safe hotel room.
Eventually when the clock above his mirror (which had returned to normal) struck midnight once more; Cody found himself once again in burning agony, he looked down and saw the mark emblazoned on his stomach turning pitch black and Cody had just enough time to wonder why this was happening to him before blacking out.
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Cody awoke the same way he did the night before; he ran to the bathroom and heaved his guts out, before seeing the same sentence emblazoned upon his mirror with an addition.
'Win, or repeat this day a thousand times'
'Hiding is unbecoming of you.'
A burning fury rent through Cody and the normally peaceful gap-toothed boy thought about smashing in the mirror. A thought struck Cody and with sudden alacrity and he ran over to his bedroom dresser and threw away everything inside it searching for his phone. Finding and opening the device, Cody whimpered in shock as he stared at the screen. The mixed lighting casting a blue and white glow over Cody's face in the darkness.
The phone showed the date as one day before he left for TDI's first season.
'Either someone hacked my phone and his playing the ultimate prank on me… or I've honest to god time traveled' Cody thought numbly before he looked out of his window and saw everything the way it was the night before when he had first woke up.
'Is it really possible that I've time traveled?'
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Cody went through the next day in a daze; he dimly remembered going out at the behest of an intern Cody vaguely remembered the first time performing season 1. He then hopped on a familiar boat. Looking behind him Cody saw a few identical boats behind him and Cody felt frozen inside.
'If I remember right, Gwen is on one of the boats in front of me…'
The rest of the day went by in an even worse trance; Cody walked past Chris without acknowledging the homicidal host's greeting leaving Chris with a faked expression of hurt. Cody found himself staring at Gwen most of the day, until the gothic girl asked him to stop, looking creeped out.
Cody soon found himself standing in front of a familiar cliff with the cheeky host behind him; still in a daze the teen barely noticed when Chris leaned near Cody and asked softly.
"Uh kid, you okay?" That statement alone made Cody's head spin; was Chris worried about him?
Chris?! Of all people?! Cody turned and saw genuine concern for the teen in Chris's beady eyes. The Host was actually worried for Cody's health!
"Uh yeah, I think I'll have to chicken out here, sorry." Cody said now a bit spaced out from the fact that in a weird way Chris had actually been genuinely worried for Cody's health. The enthusiasm in the host returned and Chris slapped Cody on the back before slapping a humiliating hat on tech geeks head.
"See ya downstairs then buddy!"
Cody, remembering the screaming gophers winning the challenge; was shocked when he found himself sitting at a campfire next to an extremely nervous Beth.
"And the camper who will get to stay another day… is… BETH!"
Cody felt a very, very, sharp shard of betrayal and hurt slam into his chest. Carefully managing his expression Cody smiled sadly and looked up to his future friends who were unaware of why this betrayal hurt so much.
"Haha that's fine guys; sorry I let you down." Cody saw some flashes of pity in the eyes of the other campers and felt a burst of anger this time.
He didn't want pity. He hated pity.
Eventually Cody remembered walking down a familiar dock and jumped off it, the cold water woke him from his daze and he found himself spinning around in darkness.
Had time to remember that unlike in future seasons campers didn't have to jump off into a body of water, they took a boat home, before everything went dark.
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Cody woke up in a familiar hotel.
This time he did smash the mirror and hid away in his room the entire day.
A mixture of hurt, betrayal, confusion, all swam around inside him as he realized he had been the guy voted off first by people he thought were his friends.
It was with these thoughts of betrayal and anger Cody remembered the words of the mirror.
Win, or repeat this day a thousand times
Hiding is unbecoming of you.
Cody thought miserably 'Gee thanks for the words of encouragement; I've actually somehow managed to mess up even worse this time then I did the first time around.'
Slowly anger and hurt melted away to glorious elation as a though struck Cody; he could do things right this time! He could win, make friends; even possibly melt Gwen's heart along the way!
At that thought Cody's newly found joy flashed away.
Okay maybe not Gwen, but at the very least he could have fun and be remembered less as the dorky guy who got rejected on national T.V. and instead be known as Cody...
...whoever he wanted that to be!
'Yeah,' Cody thought to himself 'I can work with this!'
'I have a fresh start, and I can use it!'
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This is the first chapter of an idea that wouldn't leave me alone; literally as soon as I had finished 'Frosty Wolf's' short and (sadly) dead 'Total drama Timeloop' it kept bugging me. I got his blessing for the idea as well; though this is not his story adopted. This is my own ideas on his concept! In any case it'll be largely Cody-centric but with a few changes.
Cody watched the girl of his dreams, Gwen, slowly turn into a nasty person. He is then left with team Amazon; girls all who've been damaged by Alejhandro and Duncan in some way plus Sierra. Because of this Cody has become a rather depressed individual. It'll show in the next few chapters; "Codemeister" will show up a few times but it will be more Cody satirizing himself than anything. Don't worry though; Cody will still be the self-sacrificing, kind-hearted nerd we all know and love; his thoughts will be just darker then you'd expect. Finally expect to see changes! Perhaps not right away but this story will not necessary follow canon or canon pairings.
Lastly Fuck NoCo! Yeah you heard me! Your favorite pairing is shit!
*achem* now that I've lost 80% of my viewers for 'funsies' just wanna point out Yaoi/Yuri pairings are not likely unless they are canon (and there are no gay canon pairings in TDI) nothing against gays, just feel awkward as hell writing it. To be fair to the guys I also extend the same policy to women :P.
In any case...
Onwards!