Authors Notes: Welcome one and all to the first of an anthology series which will be concerning about me making one slight tweak in the events in one of the Total Drama seasons, or a divergence if you will, and seeing how it could be played from there. At first glance people might see this as kind of a copy off of Knifez's What If? story (Which you should all check out by the way, it's pretty good), and I'd be lying if I said I said this story doesn't take inspiration from it a bit. However, I've always had a bunch of What If ideas that I felt weren't substantial to make multi-chapter fics out of that I always wanted to flesh out in written form. Plus, I wouldn't want to make any of these oneshots due to the format I'm going to employ, which you'll soon see later. The starting scene will be one in a typical narrative style to set off the "divergence" while subsequent one's will be told in a summarized format.
Some of the scenarios that I have in my mind for this are:
What if Geoff didn't trick Blaineley so Beth got a chance to return in Aftermath Aftermayhem?
What if DJ was never cursed in Walk Like An Egyptian?
What if Courtney never got cheated out of TDI?
What if Gwen never agreed to Justin's blackmail in 3:10 to Losertown
And for the one that you are about to see now: What if Courtney lost the tiebreaker in Picnic at Hanging Dork?
Think things might have panned out differently than I thought of? Please make sure to leave your comments in a Review!
Anywho let's get started!
What if Courtney lost the tiebreaker?
16 - Picnic at Hanging Dork (Elimination Ceremony)
Everyone on Team Amazon was on skyscrapers edge. After Duncan threw the rabid Dingo at Cody resulting in the teams loss in Australia, they were sentenced to elimination. None of them suspected that Chris would pull a reward on them like at the Amazon, meaning for the first time ever one of them from their team would be gonzo.
Courtney wore a nervous look but had skeptical optimism. She worked all day to make sure her team was at a disadvantage so they could come to this point as well as forging ties with Heather and Sierra to make sure Gwen would be sent packing. It would be a close vote she reasoned, probably 3-2 but as long as Heather held up her end of the bargain, Gwen should be toast. Right?
Courtney glanced towards Heather, who was keeping an incredible pokerface. Only the Queen Bee herself knew the careful thoughts that lay in her brain. True to her underhanded ways, Total Drama's first ever antagonist had laid her cards on the table and made a crucial decision. While she hated Gwen, Courtney was giving the Weird Goth Girl a run for her money in terms of her own animosity. Not only was she so obviously trying to throw the game today so Gwen could be sent home, but her fawning over Alejandro enraged her.
She stopped herself.
It wasn't like she was jealous, no, no, no. But if Alejandro did manage to manipulate Courtney to be a pawn of his, romantically or not, that would mean big trouble for the Queen Bee if the merge hit because Alejandro would have an extra vote.
Her gray eyes frowned as she looked at those seated behind her. Sierra was looking woozy, Cody looked bonkers, and Gwen had nervousness written all over her face. Heather narrowed her eyes at the goth.
You better have gotten that geek to vote for Courtney
Heather mentally chastised. However, Gwen herself, while her face seemed nervous, held a cautious optimism resembling that of Courtney in her brain. She was pleasantly surprised when Heather had agreed to vote for Courtney with her, and knowing that Cody was steadfast in his loyalty towards her she didn't think how any of this could go wrong. She looked over towards Cody, who was mumbling nonsense to himself and swaying. She silently cursed her boyfriend who caused her friend to be like this, making a mental note that if she survived the vote tonight to have a talk with him about this later. She was also a bit concerned at Duncan's perceived jealously when Alejandro was wooing Courtney. That couldn't of been true jealousy, could it?
As the trio of girls were currently lost in their thoughts, Chef Hatchet pulled open the door outside, grinning at the camera.
"Okay," Chris was at the podium, holding up five faux Canadian passports. Immediately all the teens sans Cody who was still in la-la land leaned forward in their seats. It was now or never.
"One vote for Courtney,"
Gwen smiled and closed her eyes in a brief relief while Courtney glared sharply
"One for Gwen,"
Now it was vice-versa.
"A second for Courtney,"
Again it was swapped.
"A second for Gwen,"
And again.
"And the last vote is for…" As Chris was drawing out deliberate tension Gwen bit her lip in nervous anticipation while Courtney crossed her fingers and prayed.
"Sierra, it's a tie!"
"No!" Courtney, Gwen and Cody shouted, knowing that each of their plans failed. Heather was mentally cursing at Gwen for screwing up her math.
"It was an accident Gwen, I swear." Cody whined, shaking Sierra on the upper bleacher, who merely cried in return.
"My favorite cop show is on via satellite in ten, so let's make this tiebreaker snappy." Chris said while tapping his finger against the drum podium he was standing at. "Chef!"
The cook, now at the center of the room removed a tarp over a box looking thing revealing it too be a cage with two koala bears sitting inside. "You each have to feed a hungry baby Koala Bear!"
"No problem, I am a baby-sitting pro," Courtney announced confidently, already walking over to the cage.
"Sure, but unlike human babies, Koala's eat 2.5 pounds of Eucalyptus leaves a day-" The camera showed the baby Koala's tummy rumble before it patted its stomach, "And these guys haven't eaten in a week so… they're nice and pekish!"
"Well good thing I'm not allergic to this stuff," Gwen muttered bitterly.
[POINT OF DIVERGENCE INITITATED]
[ALLERGY TERMINATED]
"Well, uh good for you?" Chris answered, a bit taken a back at why the goth girl seemed to bring that up out of nowhere, "Anyway, you have to do this without your hands!" Chef immediately then handed both girls a bowl of Eucalyptus, as they both frowned at each other. "First bowl empty wins! And… go!"
Both girls were on their fours, bowl by the tip of their mouths and crawled inside the cage. Both Koala Bears immediately sprang up and latched onto the girls' faces. Both girls cried in pain as both animals seemed to ravage both faces. Heather, Sierra and Cody both leaned in to see which animal would finish first. It was a brief period, if you blinked you would almost miss it, but soon one bowl was clearly empty first and a victor rose,
"I did it!" Gwen coughed out in pain, spitting.
"No, no, no!" Courtney's eyes widened, now standing up as well, grasping her head.
"Courtney, eleven o' clock, exits right behind ya." Chris grinned as he tossed the C.I.T the parachute.
Courtney seemed to sputter, not knowing how to react. Cody was jumping up in joy, still clearly loopy, while Heather wore a devilish smirk. Sierra had her mouth a gape and Gwen smiled, relief flooding her face that dealing with Courtney was soon to be over in a few moments. The C.I.T wanted to scream, cry and fight all at once, but could do neither.
"Yeah, we don't have all day… Chef?"
The cook nodded, taking the parachute shoved it into Courtney's hands while shoving the C.I.T out the plane. Immediately as she started to form tears started to wet her eyes and curses started to form on her mouth. Loud at first they soon grew fainter and fainter as she fell to Australia below.
"If you think that was fun, you're going to love what I'll do to these kids next time, right here on Total Drama Wooooooooooorrrrrld Tour!" The camera snapped back to Chris as he wrapped up the episode, finishing with a shot of the Jumbo Jet flying high in the sky
[DIVERGENCE COMPLETED]
[COURTNEY ELIMINATED]
[GWEN SAVED]
[CONTINUING NARRATIVE FROM POINT OF DIVERGENCE]
Votes:
Courtney: 2 (Gwen and Heather)
Gwen: 2 (Sierra and Courtney)
Sierra: 1 (Cody)
Elimination Order: Ezekiel, Harold, Bridgette, LeShawna, Lindsay, Izzy, DJ, Noah, Tyler, Courtney
Team Amazon: Cody, Gwen, Heather and Sierra
Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot: Alejandro, Duncan and Owen
17 - Sweden Sour
The Jumbo Jet soon landed in Sweden for the next challenge. Gwen and Duncan talked where he reveals that he feigned jealousy over Courtney so he and Alejandro could throw the C.I.T off her game. The Goth girl pressed the punk for why he threw the dingo at Cody in Australia, which the delinquent apologized for. However he brought up how Cody was messing with him on Australia. She promises to talk with Cody about it.
Heather herself was starting to sweat. She was aware of the alliance between Gwen and Cody and thought that Gwen might want to target her next if they lost. Heather plants the seeds with Sierra that Gwen was the reason Cody voted for her, spurning Sierra onto crush the Goth.
As for the challenge all they had to do was build a ship and secure a flag.
While they were working it was a tug of war for Owen's loyalty between Duncan and Alejandro, after Owen inadvertently revealed Alejandro's true nature to Duncan.
Sierra was enraged at Gwen all through the challenge, almost as much as Courtney was with Gwen prior. She even tried to fire at Gwen with their ships own cannon! Cody snaps and tells Sierra to knock it off, but she persists.
In the end as a result of Sierra's fury, Team Chris wins with ease.
For the elimination ceremony it was a tiebreaker once again, but this time between Sierra and Gwen. Both girls steeled themselves for yet another tiebreaker, before Chris reveals it was just a reward challenge.
Votes:
Gwen 2: (Heather and Sierra) *NULL*
Sierra 2: (Cody and Gwen) *NULL*
Elimination Order: Ezekiel, Harold, Bridgette, LeShawna, Lindsay, Izzy, DJ, Noah, Tyler, Courtney
Team Amazon: Cody, Gwen, Heather and Sierra
Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot: Alejandro, Duncan and Owen
19 - Niagara Brawls
At the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, the merge commenced. Owen, Duncan, Alejandro, Heather, Sierra, Gwen and Cody had all made it.
Duncan tried to ally with his girl, but Cody being there made things a bit more complicated. He did bring along Owen though, which softened the tension a bit. With this solid 4 person alliance starting to form both Heather and Alejandro steeled themselves for a tight game and made a begrudging partnership. Heather brought along Sierra, but her animosity for Gwen was even beginning to freak the Queen Bee out.
Chris changed the game however by introducing Blaineley, former co-host of Celebrity Manhunt. No one liked her all too much, except for Owen. However Heather and Alejandro breathed a sigh of relief seeing that another person could help even up their 3-4 situation.
For the challenge, it was a wedding and with pairs being drawn by slot machine (Chris originally wanted it to be the girls choosing the guys, but Chef Hatchet suggested that putting all of the contestants in the machine so it wouldn't just be heterosexual pair ups would be a bit better, so they went with that) with the pairs ending up being:
Blaineley and Owen
Sierra and Alejandro
Heather and Gwen
Cody and Duncan
The both same-sex pairings were not faring well. Duncan and Cody kept sabotaging with each other while Heather let it slip to Gwen that she was the one who setup Sierra against her, spurring a shouting match. Both pairs didn't even reach the dress in time, leaving only Sierra with Alejandro and Blaineley with Owen to compete in the tightrope challenge. Sierra's crazed like state caused Alejandro to fall early on, so Owen and Blaineley were declared winners with invincibility on that spot, much to Chris's disappointment.
The vote was interesting. Despite Cody and Duncan's differences both wanted to get rid of Sierra due to her rabid hostility towards Gwen, uniting the foursome into voting for the crazed fangirl. Alejandro and Heather, not really wanting to vote for Gwen knew they had to as Sierra wouldn't vote for anyone else. The duo both tried to convince Blaineley to vote for Gwen with the them plus Sierra, but due to the co-hosts newfound friendship with Owen, she joined the majority decision and the crazy fangirl was sent packing with Cody shouting with joy when it happened. All eyes turned to both Alejandro and Heather, who cursed under their breath as they were the newfound targets.
Votes:
Sierra: 5 (Gwen, Duncan, Cody, Owen and Blaineley)
Gwen: 3 (Alejandro, Heather, Sierra)
Elimination Order: Ezekiel, Harold, Bridgette, LeShawna, Lindsay, Izzy, DJ, Noah, Tyler, Courtney, Sierra
Final Seven: Alejandro, Blaineley, Cody, Duncan, Gwen, Heather and Owen.
20 - Chinese Fake Out
Both villains were in dire straits come China. It became well known knowledge at this point that it was Heather who spurned Sierra on into her hating Gwen territory, so the bigger target was on her. On the other side of things, people were confident. It was solid 4-2 them winning, and counting if Blaineley would still be on their side 5-2. But perhaps Duncan and Cody were getting a bit too confident.
The next challenge was a race through the Great Wall of China before Chris sounded the giant gong. All won except for Duncan, who Cody "accidentally" pushed off his bicycle and Heather, who was stuck with sandals that made her feet hurt.
For those who advanced it was an eating challenge which await them, which Owen claimed victory in a dominating fashion.
The majority alliance agreed on voting for Heather.
Seeing that neither of them had won immunity, Heather and Alejandro formed the idea of a last ditch gambit. Heather sat down with Duncan whilst Alejandro with Cody. Heather broached the idea of Duncan voting with her and Alejandro for Cody whilst Alejandro asked Cody to vote for Duncan with him and Heather. Both they argued, that voting for the other one of them in the alliance wouldn't put them at a disadvantage because of their immense numbers advantage on them, plus they'd get rid of someone that was in a thorn in their side of them that was inhibiting their relationship (or lack thereof with Cody) for Gwen. Heather even threw in that making the numbers a bit closer it would make things not as boring for Duncan, while stroking the punk's ever growing ego. To both the villains' amazement, the delinquent and geek agreed.
Next all Alejandro had to do was charm Blaineley into her vote and the outcome was secure.
The ceremony was a shocker, but both Cody's and Duncan's arrogance led to Gwen's demise in a 3-2-1-1 vote. Heartbroken at both of their stupidities both Cody and Duncan apologized to Gwen profusely and tried to explain Alejandro and Heather's trickery with Gwen both giving them the cold shoulder, while Owen gave her a bear hug of a goodbye.
Alejandro and Heather smirked as the dominos started to fall into their favor.
Votes:
Gwen: 3 (Alejandro, Heather and Blaineley)
Heather: 2 (Owen and Gwen)
Duncan: 1 (Cody)
Cody: 1 (Duncan)
Elimination Order: Ezekiel, Harold, Bridgette, LeShawna, Lindsay, Izzy, DJ, Noah, Tyler, Courtney, Sierra, Gwen
Final Six: Alejandro, Blaineley, Cody, Duncan, Heather and Owen
21 - African Lying Safari
What Alejandro and Heather planned had worked: without Gwen to hold Cody and Duncan together, they were at each other's throats, more so than before, with each blaming the other for Gwen's elimination.
Duncan stuck with Owen and somewhat Blaineley while Cody was left out of luck for an alliance due to Alejandro and Heather being a solid duo. Owen also, still distraught over Izzy breaking up with him way back in Jamacia, started crushing on Blaineley big time, causing the blonde to grow uncomfortable and nervous.
The plane soon landed in Africa and the challenge commenced. For the challenge to gain supplies to hunt down Ezekiel, Alejandro and Heather plus Duncan each got a slingshot with six trancballs. Owen got a slingshot with three trancballs while Cody and Blaineley got squat.
In the challenge, Owen continued lovey-dovey nature towards Blaineley grew her more uncomfortable. Duncan used one of his trancballs to paralyze Cody and went laughing all the way as he paralyzed the geek. However during his paralysis Cody befriended a certain baboon who he managed to get to steal Duncan's ammunition, paralyzing the punk in the process. With all of this infighting, Alejandro and Heather teamed up and nabbed Ezekiel in a dominating fashion, with the Spaniard taking invincibility.
Elimination had come.
Heather and Alejandro, seeing how Cody and Duncan's continued rivalry as a benefit, decided to target Owen. Alejandro went to Blaineley, and noticing Owen's crush on the former co-host convinced her to vote for him. He argued that voting him off would be the best for him, as it would show him definitely that Blaineley didn't like him that way as well. She agreed.
In an un-dramatic vote, Owen was sent packing. Not before giving Blaineley a tearful look that made the blonde be hit with a wave of guilt.
Votes:
Owen: 3 (Alejandro, Heather and Blaineley)
Duncan: 1 (Cody)
Cody: 1 (Duncan)
Heather: 1 (Owen)
Elimination Order: Ezekiel, Harold, Bridgette, LeShawna, Lindsay, Izzy, DJ, Noah, Tyler, Courtney, Sierra, Gwen, Owen
Final Five: Alejandro, Blaineley, Cody, Duncan and Heather
22 - Rapa Phooey
In two episodes, Heather and Alejandro went from being on the chopping block to running the game. Blaineley was feeling immense guilt at what she had to done to Owen while Duncan and Cody were continuing to be at odds.
With their newfound position in the game however, both were looking to the future and were wary of taking the other too far with them, knowing that they were strong competitors.
The plane landed on Easter Island and Chris tasked the Final 5 into retrieving condor eggs from head statues of each of the eliminated contestants and giving them to a mother condor.
Alejandro won yet again with Cody and Duncan breaking each other's eggs while Blaineley's guilt hampered her ability to compete.
However when it came to the elimination, tensions started to form. Heather wanted to eliminate Blaineley due her annoying her, but Alejandro wanted to vote for Duncan due to his physical prowess. Both bickered for a bit, but Heather eventually acquiesced and agreed to vote for Duncan.
With another undramatic vote it looked like Duncan was about to take the drop before Blaineley dramatically declared she was quitting the competition due to the guilt from her sending Owen packing. However, before she took the drop she implored Duncan and Cody set aside their egos to defeat Alejandro and Heather to avenge Owen and even Gwen.
Votes:
Duncan: 3 (Alejandro, Heather and Cody) *NULL*
Cody: 1 (Duncan) *NULL*
Heather: 1 (Blaineley) *NULL*
Blaineley: 1 (Quit)
Elimination Order: Ezekiel, Harold, Bridgette, LeShawna, Lindsay, Izzy, DJ, Noah, Tyler, Courtney, Sierra, Gwen, Owen, Blaineley
Final Four: Alejandro, Cody, Duncan and Heather
23 - Awwwwww, Drumheller!
After Blaineley's stunning departure from the game both Cody and Duncan set aside their difference and came to the understanding that it was both of their arrogance that led to Gwen's demise. They agreed to partner up for Gwen, as well as to defeat Alejandro and Heather. However, they also decided that they would continue to feign animosity between each other so Alejandro and Heather won't become privy to their plans.
Tensions were still bubbling from the Spaniard and Queen Bee, and due to their ignorance over Duncan and Cody's reconciliation were busy plotting each other's demise.
The plane landed in Drumheller Alberta and were cast with building a dinosaur that each had to vote for to determine the winner.
Alejandro had built the Al-osaurus, which he claimed to be an actual dino.
Heather, at an obvious attempt to suckup, built the Chrisceratops. This was before it was revealed the contestants would vote for each others dinos.
Cody built the Cody-o-lite. Alejandro quickly told everyone it was fossilized poop.
Duncan built a badass dino with black and red spraypraint, christening it the Duncosaurus, earning him the win, earning him a post-digger. Alejandro got second which was a pickaxe. Heather and Cody tied for last place and earned squat.
The final challenge of the day was to be the first to bring back a barrel of oil hidden in the badlands. Whilst this was happening both Alejandro and Heather were jockeying the other two to vote for the other, but Cody and Duncan still feigning hatred for each other pretended to be adamant on voting either the punk or the geek. The way things were going, it looked like it might be a four way tie in both the villains' eyes.
However, in the middle of this Heather seemed to get stuck under a rock. Alejandro rescued her and in doing so, realized that he did truly want to go to the finale with her and ceased jockeying for position against her. Heather still wasn't so sure.
In the end, Duncan was victorious and the elimination was nigh. However with his post digger he accidentally punctured the oil barrel and trail led back to the plane, although no one paid much mind. Cody and Duncan both agreed to vote for Alejandro at the ceremony, while Alejandro and Heather both agreed to vote for Cody. At least, Alejandro thought Heather agreed…
In the end it was a dramatic vote. In a 3-1 fashion it looks like Alejandro was defeated, and he was about to give Heather a fiery rant at how she betrayed him. Duncan in victory chuckled and flashed his lighter, but in his carelessness dropped it on the trail of oil causing a massive explosion which obliterated the Jumbo Jet.
An irate Chris disqualified the delinquent on the spot and brought Alejandro back in the game much to Duncan and Cody's chagrin.
Votes:
Alejandro: 3 (Cody, Duncan, Heather) *NULL*
Cody: 1 (Alejandro) *NULL*
Duncan: 1 (Chris)
Elimination Order: Ezekiel, Harold, Bridgette, LeShawna, Lindsay, Izzy, DJ, Noah, Tyler, Courtney, Sierra, Gwen, Owen, Blaineley, Duncan
Final Three: Alejandro, Cody and Heather
25 - Planes, Trains and Hot Air Mobiles
The Final Three were tasked on an epic race against all odds to Hawaii. Alejandro and Heather locked horns on a speeding train whilst Duncan assisted Cody on his journey, who was impressed at the geek's engineering abilities in making his hot air balloon. However, he was less than thrilled that Cody had to sit on his lap in order for both of them to fit.
In the end, the final three plus Duncan made it to Tijuana Beach in Mexico and it was a boat race to the American island state. Heather got there first, securing his spot in the Final Two and it was Cody and Alejandro in a near photo finish scenario. However Duncan gave Cody an edge by using his slingshot he kept from Africa to hit Alejandro right in the eye, causing the tech geek to finish by a hair before Alejandro, causing his defeat.
Elimination Order: Ezekiel, Harold, Bridgette, LeShawna, Lindsay, Izzy, DJ, Noah, Tyler, Courtney, Sierra, Gwen, Owen, Blaineley, Duncan, Alejandro
Final Two: Cody and Heather
26 - Hawaiian Punch
Cody and Heather looked at each other. They were in the Final Two.
Chris ordered that both needed to choose two helpers. Cody chose Duncan and Gwen as Gwen finally accepted thee apology of both her friend and boyfriend's actions while no one seemed to volunteer for Heather. The Queen Bee started to sweat. Eventually, both Sierra and Alejandro volunteered for her, but both wanting to sabotage her chances.
It was a fierce fight, but in a way, both came to respect each other. Heather confided to Cody up the cliff of her guilt at voting for Alejandro and Cody lamented about his folly over Gwen. As Alejandro and Sierra were going to sabotage Heather to lose, Cody sent off Duncan and Gwen to stop them from sabotaging the girl, wanting to win fair and square. Heather was touched.
In the end a victor was crowned, but not before Ezekiel robbed them of their money and sent it flinging into the lava. Spicy.
In the Canadian version, Cody was victorious while Heather won in America, as well as in most other countries.
Victors: Cody/Heather
Elimination Order: Ezekiel, Harold, Bridgette, LeShawna, Lindsay, Izzy, DJ, Noah, Tyler, Courtney, Sierra, Gwen, Owen, Blaineley, Duncan, Alejandro
Authors Notes: And there you have it, Cody OR Heather won. I wrote this in about two hours flat, and honestly, I'm pretty surprised how much this spiraled into something beefier than I had realized. The main plot of it all is Cody and Duncan coming to terms with each other, which hopefully I described rather well.
I'm very tired now, so I'll bid you all good night (It's 12:23 AM right now where I'm at.) So, what did you like? Dislike? Anything you think mightve turned out different? Send it in a review or PM! I'm always open to chat :)
Edit: Due to some technical difficulties of me accidentally posting the next chapter to another story (I deleted the other one in attempt to avoid confusion) the next chapter for this doesn't seem to be showing up. If it isn't showing up for you I DID post it which you can find with this link:
-ewisko