Author's Note: Now that we've had four seasons worth of competitors, it's time for the first All-Star season! Fourteen players from the past four seasons will battle it out in the... you know what, Chris can explain it better than I can. Now it's time to see if you guys are right about your predictions.
I will say that I'm well aware of how unpopular this season is with the fan base and I'm actually kind of nervous tackling this one, but I'm also excited...
The pairings for this season will be put on wraps for now. Don't wanna spoil the cast, and it's actually the one thing I'm most excited about.
So without further adieu, it's time for Random Drama All-Stars...
Episode 01: Heroes vs. Villains
The scene opened on a close-up of a manila envelope being carried in the familiar black-skinned hand of Chef Hatchet. A loud crashing noise like a heavy door being shut opened in turn for a low but tense musical score which was quickly joined by a metallic clatter and a low murmur as a cut outward revealed the place as a prison corridor. Chef was being led by a mustachioed white male guard through grimy and trash-filled halls lined with darkened cells, and the shadowed men inside watched the passing visitor with interest.
"I'm innocent, I tell you! Innocent!" one of the inmates shouted, revealed to be the formerly escaped killer with a chainsaw and a hook last seen leaving the wreckage of a bus before the start of Total Drama World Tour. Chef and the guard ignored both him and the older, skinnier man sharing his cell who made kissy-face at them.
"The Crusty Cockroaches have a big lead over the Soiled Stinkbugs!" a familiar yet muffled voice rang through the halls, causing Chef's brow to shoot up as the camera moved in front of him.
"Cram it, McLean!" another man said, descending into raucous laughter as Chef gave him an annoyed side-eye.
At last, the visitor came upon a special cell, one with reinforced glass walls, a mail slot in the door, an electronic lock, and a security camera watching the entrance. It seemed surprisingly well-furnished, sporting a curtain over the window to the outside, a pair of familiar bobble-heads on a shelf next to the toilet, and a pair of paintings along the back wall – the smaller depicting a familiar golden statuette; the larger depicting an aerial view of Wawanakwa Island.
"Ooh! Lightning slips past Kitsune!" the cell's white male inhabitant said, hunched over in front of the door and focused on something at his feet. "The heat is on! Yeah! Look at that!" The camera cut inside to show what he was watching – a stinkbug and a cockroach sitting almost motionless on the ground.
Chef's shadow fell over the bugs, prompting Chris McLean to stand back up. "Well, well, well," he said, hands on his hips as the camera behind him showed him standing proudly in his orange jumpsuit. "Look who finally came to visit me after a whole year," he said in annoyance.
"Come on, you've finished your sentence for dumping toxic waste," Chef told him with mild annoyance of his own.
"Whatever," Chris said stubbornly, crossing his arms and looking away. "Think I'll stay right here. Got everything I need," he added brightly, "including Chef 2.0!" he said, holding up a nut with the vague shape of Chef's head, and an approximation of the man's face drawn on with black marker. "I made him from a cashew," Chris explained proudly.
The real Chef merely slid his envelope through the slot in the cell's glass door. "What's this?" Chris asked as he took it.
"Your contract!" Chef answered. "The producers have green lit another season! So?" he asked expectantly, the camera finally showing his face again. "You in?"
"It is ON!" the host answered excitedly, the light gleaming off his teeth.
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The episode proper opened with a drumroll into a grandiose theme as the scene faded into a long-distance shot of Wawanakwa Island, the lake water glittering under the shining sun and a flock of geese flying in formation far in the background.
"Welcome, to Total Drama All-Stars!" Chris opened, the shot then cutting to him on the slightly-shabby Dock of Shame. "After my involuntary year-long 'vacation'," he explained with air quotes, "I really need to be in a familiar environment, surrounded by the people I love..." He put his hands together as he smiled at the camera for a moment, then added "to hurt!" with a dark grin and a round of laughter. "It's a condition of my parole," he explained. "Except for the hurt part, heh, that's all McLean!" he said, pointing at himself proudly.
He walked left towards the end of the dock, picking up a certain briefcase from a familiar-looking robot as he passed it by. "So, I'm bringing back thirteen TD All-Stars to battle it out in the most dangerous, death-defying," he held up the briefcase and opened it up for the camera to get a close-up of the prize money within, "one million dollar competition ev-er!" The sound of a helicopter approaching preceded the wind kicked up by its arrival overhead, a few stray notes of prize money blown away before the shot cut back outward and the host closed the case. "And here they are now!" he said, looking upward expectantly.
The shot cut up to a double-rotor helicopter as it descended a few feet. "From Revenge of the Island, say hello to geeky gadgeteer Cody," the host said, the camera cutting in closer as the helicopter door slid open to reveal The Geek, gulping at the long drop before trying to school his features into something resembling 'cool'... which was difficult to do considering he was a short white teen dressed in his usual pale long-sleeve striped polo shirt. He was promptly shoved out of the helicopter by an arm most likely belonging to Chef Hatchet.
Cody just screamed as he fell through the open air.
"Soulful surfer girl, Bridgette!" Chris said next, the shot cutting first to him and then back to the open helicopter to show The Surfer Girl - still dressed in her baby blue hoodie and blue jean shorts - in a diving position.
"Here goes," she said before she dived out of the helicopter.
The next to step up to the open doorway was The Athletic Overachiever, his black skin contrasting with his white hair, still wearing his football jersey. He crossed his arms and looked at the doorway his friend had just jumped out of with an unimpressed frown. "Jock with a heart of gold, Lightning!" Chris announced.
"You call that a dive? This is a dive. Sha-" Lightning said confidently, only to get kicked out of his diving position by Chef in mid-air. He grabbed his sore behind, and screamed "Argh!" as he fell uncontrollably.
"Aptly-named sweetheart, Angel!" the host said next, the camera cutting from him up to a pale platinum blonde girl, looking nervously at the drop with an impatient Chef behind her.
"Do we really have to jump?" The Innocent Idealist, dressed in her white and pale green floral sundress, asked Chef before she was casually pushed out of the doorway. As she screamed, Chef retreated back into the helicopter.
He reappeared after only moment holding a girl that looked identical to the one he'd just shoved out of the plane, except for her dyed red hair and black jeans and vest, by the collar. "Angel's evil twin sister, Lily!" Chris introduced next, causing the camera to zoom in on The Cynic who scowled and rolled her eyes.
"Thanks for the stellar intro, Chris!" she yelled down at the host before Chef dropped her.
"Not so silent mastermind, Natasha!" the host said next as Chef turned around, then forced The Mastermind to the open doorway by his arm.
"Don't think I'll go easy on you this time," Natasha said, smirking before being unceremoniously thrown from the helicopter by a grumpy-looking Chef. The mastermind began to scream, his long black ponytail streaming behind him as he fell.
"And bossy bruiser Jo!" Chris introduced next, the shot cutting back to him. "Who dominated until she tried to turn on her only ally."
The camera cut back to the helicopter as the fair-skinned dirty blonde struggled to keep Chef from throwing her out into the open air. The Take-No-Prisoners Jock-ette shook her fist and yelled "You're a dead man McLean!" down to the host... and was promptly shoved out of the helicopter by Chef, sending her out with a scream as the cook went back inside.
The almost reverent tune that had been playing finally drew to its conclusion as Chris laughed, and turned into something darker but more muted as he resumed his introductions. "And, from our original cast, the man of many minds, Mike!"
"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" The Comedian asked, gulping as he stood with Chef in the open doorway. In response Chef shoved the spiky-haired boy out the door like he had with various others.
"Homicidal brainiac," the host paused to chuckle, "Scarlett!" Chris said as his assistant turned around and dragged The Quiet Brainiac to the fore.
"I thought you weren't going to bring that up?" she asked the cook, her hair still in the long braided ponytail it was in after snapping in season three. Chef just shrugged at her, then tossed her out of the helicopter by her pale yellow sweater. Scarlett screamed as she fell, the camera following her rather than lingering on the helicopter.
"Multi-talented manipulator, Alejandro!" the host said next, the shot once again cutting to him briefly before cutting back to the camper in question – though this time they were already in mid-fall.
"I welcome the new chance to compete!" The Arch-Villain said as he fell through the air.
"Devious diva, Heather!" was introduced next as Alejandro fell out of view of the camera and The Queen Bee fell into it.
"I hate Chris!" the slender Asian girl shouted angrily as she fell out of sight.
"Gregarious goofball, Kitsune!" came next, the young white woman still dressed in her orange shirt and yellow and black plaid skirt - and with her trademark fox acceseries of course.
"Or you could've just landed!" The Goofball shouted as she shook her fist. "That was an option!"
The shot cut back to Chris as he said "And finally prim and proper Victor, the very model major of a modern major gentleman!"
"Chris knows of Gilbert and Sullivan?" The Gentleman asked Chef in confusion. The young black man was as Chris said, dressed very proper in his black dress blazer, shoes and pants, white dress shirt, and gold tie. Chef shrugged, then pushed him out of the doorway The shot cut down to the water as the previously introduced contestants looked up in shock, then hurriedly swam away before the gentleman belly-flopped into the lake. The towering splash he made was shown from a camera behind Chris and the robot.
Chris winced, then sighed happily. "Man, it's great to be back!"
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The footage skipped ahead to show all thirteen members of the new cast scattered on the beach. They were drenched and exhausted, with only Alejandro and Heather still able to keep standing.
"Greetings, old friends," Chris told the coughing and groaning teens as he and Chef arrived.
Heather grunted in irritation and coughed up a starfish. "We are not your friends," she told the host.
"Yeah," Kitsune chimed in with a smile. "That implies Heather has friends." She giggled as Heather scowled at her, then sniffed in disdain and turned away.
The camera stuck to Kitsune, though, as Alejandro walked up to her, while brushing the sand off his shirt. "Must you continue to egg her on?" he asked in exasparation.
"Uh, yeah," she answered. "Unless you want me to start messing with you again. How long did it take to get rid of that sewage smell?" she added with a smirk.
"Fair point," Alejandro nodded. "Just go easy on her okay?"
"As long as she can stop living in the past," the goofball told her enemy-turned-friend. "Which reminds me, Duncan's sorry about the... noodle incident..."
"I would hope so," Alejandro said with a hint of anger. "It took a week to get all the pasta out of my-"
"Too much info!" Kitsune interrupted.
The camera panned from them to Victor and Scarlett, who were watching and listening with mild amusement. "I suppose Sierra decided not to compete as well? How is she?"
"She's decided to become the Drama Brothers' social media influencer," the brainiac answered with a smile. "So she's doing well."
"I'm glad to hear it," Victor nodded.
"What about Sky?" Scarlet asked. "I figured she'd want to come back on the show more than you would."
"She's heading up a... project," Victor answered cryptically, "and will not have the time to compete."
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"It is odd being on the show without my lady love," Victor admitted. "But I am feeling confident in my ability to win."
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The footage cut back to Chris, his hands behind his back as he looked over the beach with his usual smile. "I can see you've all gotten back on your feet," he said, the shot briefly cutting outward to show the campers watching him in various clusters among the rocks, "which means I can now announce all the big changes we've got for this season!" he said excitedly, spreading his arms wide. "For one, the island is now 100% toxic waste free."
The seven 'Revenge of the Island' campers cheered while some of the veteran campers voiced their confusion.
"On the upside," the host continued, "I've upgraded your accommodations." The shot cut over to a widescreen television being wheeled over on a cart by the robot. "This season, the losers still have to sleep in a stanky old cabin," Chris explained, walking over to the television as an image of a cabin identical to the ones used in previous seasons appeared on it, in the same position as the ones that had previously been allotted to the Screaming Gophers and the Mutant Maggots. The unseen cast groaned in disappointment.
"But, the winners," the host continued as the live cabin feed began to zoom out, slowly revealing a magnificently large building styled almost like a high-class bed-and-breakfast, "get to stay at the all-new, eco-friendly, McLean Spa Hotel!" he finished as the music rose grandly, then faded into an angelic chorus as the shot cut to Mike, Cody, Natasha, and Heather beginning to smile. "Complete with butler, hot tub, and 24-hour masseuse," Chris said, provoking delighted cheers from the campers both on and off the screen.
"And in honor of your All-Star status," the host continued once the celebration had died down, "I'm dividing you into teams based on your past performances: Heroes, versus Villains!"
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"Obviously I'll be on the villains team," Heather told the camera with a haughty look before smirking and adding "and I'll be running it by lunch!"
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"Heroes versus villains?" Scarlett asked the confessional while slightly slumped over. "It doesn't take a genius to guess which team I'll be stuck on..."
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"Heather," Chris said over a shot of the queen bee pursing her lips. "Alejandro." The shot cut to the smirking charmer. "Lily." The cynic rolled her eyes. "Jo." The jock-ette narrowed her eyes. "Natasha." The mastermind grinned darkly. "and Mike." The camera zoomed out to show the robot carrying the comedian over to the other five and throwing him on the ground with more force than necessary. "From now on, you're the Villainous Vultures!" the host announced, a slightly dark tune rising up as a circular logo depicting a pale red vulture head spun onto the screen above them.
"Go team..." Lily said sarcastically.
"Wait," Mike said. "Why am I a villain?"
"Does knocking out half the players in season three ring any bells?" Chris asked.
"That wasn't me!" Mike protested. "It was Mal!"
"Who is one of your personalities," the host told him. "Which as far as I'm concerned, makes you a villain."
Mike just groaned in acceptance.
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"Forcing Mike to be a villain because of his disorder?" Natasha asked the confessional. "That's low."
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"Angel, Bridgette," the two girls shared a loving smile, "Lightning," the uber-jock crossed his arms and smirked, "Cody," the geek pumped his fist, "Kitsune, Victor," the goofball and gentleman each smiled, "and Scarlett," the confused brainiac was pushed over to them by the robot, "you're the Heroic Hamsters!" A grand theme played as the second team's logo spun into view overhead, depicting a golden yellow hamster with a halo.
"Hamsters?" Cody questioned. "What's so heroic about a hamster?"
"It was that, or the Heroic Hippos," Chris explained.
"Really?" the geek asked in an incredulous tone. "Because I can think of like three other H animals right now. Like hawks, or horses, or-"
"Yeah, you're still gonna be hamsters," Chris told him in annoyance. "Any other questions?"
Scarlett immediately raised her hand. "I'm a little confused at my team placement. I don't really think my actions warrant being a hero."
"Are you kidding?!" Cody asked the brainiac. "You were the only one who could stand up to Mal! You clawed your way through the game when almost everyone else wanted you gone! You're awesome Scarlett," he finished with a wide grin.
"Oh," Scarlett said, taken aback and blushing slightly. "Thank you."
Cody awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck with a blush of his own. "No problem." The camera panned to the left to show Angel looking at the two the way one would look at a toddler, Bridgette with her hands on her hips and smirking, and Lightning raising an eyebrow.
"Hey!" Jo spoke up. "They have seven people to our six. No fair!"
"It didn't bother you last season," Chris told her.
He was met with six glares of varying strength.
"Fine," he said in annoyance and holding a remote with a single red button. "You can have the robot." He pressed the button and the robot rolled over to its new team.
"I thought your robot could talk," Natasha said as the machine passed him by.
"And we thought you couldn't," Lily retorted. "Life's full of surprises."
The robot wheeled itself over to Mike, who gave it a blank look and shuddered.
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"There's something familiar about that robot," he told the outhouse. "Something I don't like."
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"This year's challenges all nod to classics from the past," Chris explained, the static cutting away to him standing with his hand on the widescreen. "But, with harsh new twists to make this the toughest Total Drama season ev-er! Your first challenge?" he said, motioning to the television as the spa hotel appeared on its screen. "Find the key to the Spa Hotel. And, you'll do it in an homage to Total Drama's first ever challenge," the shot of the hotel was replaced by a shot of the island's thousand-foot cliff, "cliff-diving into water infested with ravenous sharks."
The camera cut to Jo, Natasha, and Alejandro as the mastermind shuddered.
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"Not thrilled about being back in shark infested water," he explained. "I''ll still do it mind you."
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"Once you dive into the water," Chris said over a close-up of the television, now playing a clip of Chef kicking some light-skinned male intern wearing a red tanktop and cowboy hat off the cliff, "try to avoid the sharks long enough to snag a key." The intern was shown landing in the shark-infested lake, and one of the predators leapt at him before the camera cut to the lake bed that had been littered with keys of all shapes, sizes, and colors. "And, choose wisely," Chris said as the intern was pushed down towards the sandy bottom as he struggled to keep a shark from swallowing him, "only one of those suckers is the real deal." The camera panned closely across the keys, then cut back to the surface as two sharks emerged and happily high-finned. "Assuming you live long enough to make it to dry land," the scratched and battered intern trudged up the beach with a key in his hand, "a teammate will drive you to the hotel," the intern collapsed into a golden yellow baby carriage which was promptly pushed away by the long-banged intern who had worked the previous season, "in one of the baby carriages from season three's race through Central Park," the host finished as the camera finally panned away from the television and back on to him.
He then walked over to a jeep driven by the fat male intern. "First team to unlock the spa door wins. And, someone from team loser will be going home tonight," he added as he hopped onboard the jeep. "Meet me at the face of the cliff in fifteen minutes," he told the campers. "Chop. Chop." He sat down and clapped his hands with a demanding smugness, and the jeep drove off.
"Wait, shouldn't we change into our swimsuits or something first?" Mike called out as the host left.
"Sorry," Chris replied from some distance off-camera, "no time!"
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The scene flashed to a slightly closer shot of the thousand-foot cliff, the camera panning down and to the left to the nearby forest.
"Seriously," Mike griped over the squeaking of wheels, "does no one else think this thing is weird?" The camera cut to the Villainous Vultures walking single-file through the woods, with Mike giving the robot a blank look at the back of the pack.
"Not really," Heather said with a disinterested tone in front of them.
Mike shuddered, and the camera panned to the right past Jo, Natasha, Alejandro, and Lily on to the Heroic Hamsters. In the back were Lightning and Kitsune, with Cody and Scarlett in front of them, then Angel, Bridgette, and Victor in the lead.
"So, uh," Cody looked up at his fellow genius, "where's Sierra? I thought you two were inseparable."
"Normally we are," Scarlett answered, "but given the reaction to one of her more recent blog posts she thought it was best to stay out of Heather's arm reach for the time being."
"Are you talking about that one with-" Cody asked.
"Yes," she cut him off. "Regardless, this is an excellent opportunity to see how far I can get without someone carrying me."
"I think you'll do great," Cody told her.
Scarlett blushed again. "Thank you." The camera cut to Bridgette smirking.
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"Cody's totally crunching on Scarlett," she told the outhouse. "It's really cute actually."
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A low and slow tune started playing as the footage cut back to the villains, with Heather knocking into Jo as she passed her with a haughty expression. "Excuse me," she told her rudely.
"Watch it, Old Timer!" Jo warned, pointing at her in a threatening manner.
"You watch it, Newbie," Heather replied, not even looking Jo's way.
"Whoa! Let's just cool it for a minute," Mike said as the camera panned back to him. "We may all have been villains before, but there's no reason we should act that way now. Can't we just work together as a team?"
His teammates immediately voiced their agreement, but their tones ranged from blatant lying to outright mockery.
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Heather scoffed. "No way is that going to happen. I-"
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"-don't trust-" Lily said, the scene cutting to her confessional in mid-sentence.
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"-anyone-" Alejandro followed up.
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"-on this-" Jo said next.
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The robot beeped twice
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"-team," Natasha finished.
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"That could've gone better," Mike told the camera blankly. "But it could've been worse too..."
His confessional feed shrunk as the screen split into nine, Mike awkwardly chuckling at the camera in the center with empty blackness above and below, and his teammates – Heather, Jo, and Alejandro in the left column; Natasha, Lily, and the robot in the right – looking towards him and laughing evilly against a fiery background.
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The footage cut over to a close-up of Lightning as he looked back over his shoulder and glared at Lily. The cynic groaned in annoyance, and the camera panned slightly to the left to include Mike as she told him "I'm surprised I don't burst into flames with the way Lightning keeps glaring at me."
"Didn't you pretend to like him to get yourself further in the game?" Mike asked.
"Only at first!" Lily hissed angrily. "I fell for him later on. That should count for something."
"That hardly matters to people like him," Alejandro interrupted, walking up next to Mike. "Some people just can't accept that they're only useful to the more strategic players."
"No one asked you," Lily griped to the charmer, causing him to raise an eyebrow and shrug.
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"I'll accept that I'm not the nicest girl on the island," Lily confessed. "I don't even mind getting hit with the villain stamp. But for Alejandro to approve of my choices? That's just wrong."
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The shot cut to Lightning again as he turned his head back forward and softened his gaze. "Bad blood between you two?" Kitsune asked as the camera zoomed out slightly. "Because those are some serious daggers you're shooting."
"Yeah, she made Lightning look like a fool," Lightning told her. "She spent all season goin' on about how cute and strong I was, and the whole time she was waitin' to stab Lightning in the back. There's no tellin' what she'd have done if Not Quiet Dude hadn't sent her home."
Kitsune gave a sympathetic grimace. "Yikes. I don't really know what to say about that."
"Ain't nothin' to say," Lightning shrugged, the camera panning back on to Lily to show her frowning.
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The footage skipped ahead to the two teams lined up at the beach, the Vultures on the left and the Hamsters on the right. Baby carriages in their respective team colors sat in the gap between, and their team logos briefly spun into place overhead.
A laugh from the host led the camera to cut to a path of sky just before he descended into it on his jetpack, a triumphant theme playing upon his arrival. "Greetings, All-Stars!" he said, his jetpack kicking up a large amount of sand into the faces of the closest members of the two teams, forcing them to hack and cough and throw their arms up in a useless show of defense.
Chris landed on the beach between the two carriages. "Here are your carriages," he told the campers as the music became slow and plodding, "blood red for the Villainous Vultures," the shot zoomed in on the left carriage before panning to the right one, "and purest gold for the Heroic Hamsters. You've got thirty seconds to pick your carriage drivers," he explained, "starting...NOW!"
"I'll drive!" Jo immediately volunteered over a close-up of her hands grabbing the carriage handle.
"Yeah, I've seen you drive a go-kart," Lily told Jo in a condescending manner as she walked up to the jock-ette, "and I actually want to win this challenge."
The camera zoomed out to show them locking eyes, Jo's glaring and Lily's apathetic. "Well excuse me if I don't believe that."
Lily scowled. "That was a one-time incident," she defended angrily.
"Oh just let her drive," Natasha interrupted the argument. "We're on a time limit after all."
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"I prefer to deal in win-win situations," Natasha confessed. "And letting Jo drive certainly counts. Either she wins us the challenge, or she gives us a target."
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"Uh Jo?" Mike asked, getting into the fray. "Shouldn't you be a diver since you're so athletic?"
"Nobody tells me what to do Multiple Mike," the jock-ette retorted. "Which one of you am I even talking to anyway?"
Mike scowled.
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"People like Jo are why I wanted to hide my multiple personalities first season," he confessed with a scowl.
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"Ten seconds!" Chris told the Hamsters, who were still looking at one another expectantly as a low trilling tune played in the background.
"Allow me to drive," Victor said. "I was able to compensate for my team's disadvantage when we did something similar third season." He promptly stepped over and grabbed the golden carriage as the other heroes murmured their general agreement.
"Okay," Chris said as the camera zoomed out to show him and the two chosen carriage-drivers, "everyone but Jo and Victor, up the cliff you go."
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The scene cut to a shot of the cliff, which zoomed in as the campers were heard panting. A cut to the very top showed Chris waiting patiently at the edge, and moments later Lightning ran up and skidded to a halt. "Sha-first!" he said proudly before the camera panned to the left, showing the other campers as they arrived behind him. Alejandro, Bridgette, Mike, and Kitsune were the closest and the latter three had doubled over to catch their breath; followed by Lily, Angel, Heather, and Natasha all panting in near-exhaustion as well. Cody and Scarlett brought up the rear, with the robot wheeling itself behind them. The two intelligent heroes fell to the ground with tired groans.
An upward shot showed Natasha, Bridgette, and Angel looking down over the edge of the cliff. The camera cut down to the water's surface as the massive mutant shark known as Fang surfaced with a wide and toothy grin, and he waved his fingers at the campers as a deep and dangerous tune rose in the background.
"Fang!" the three said together in fear.
"Who?" Heather asked, looking out over the edge next to Natasha.
"Who's the best key spotter?" Chris asked the camera as it cut to him and a deep chanting note played. "And, who's dead in the shark-infested water? Find out, when we return, on Total!" The shot cut outward to show Natasha, Bridgette, Angel and Heather still looking out over the cliff's edge. "Drama!" Another outward cut showed Lightning, Kitsune, and Lily standing to the host's other side. "All-Stars!"
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"Places, people!" Chris called out to the cast as a slightly dramatic melody began to play. The six Heroic Hamsters were shown looking towards the cliff edge with a mixture of confidence and worry, while the six Villainous Vultures looked largely unimpressed. "It's divin' time!" the host continued, laughing as a pair of non-mutant sharks were shown leaping out of the water in anticipation.
"So who wants to go first?" Mike asked, earning himself four glares and an annoyed sounding beep.
"One diver, per team, at a time," Chris explained, holding up an airhorn as the music became tenser. "The next diver has to wait until their team's carriage returns. Ready? Set?"
He blew his horn, and Lightning and Natasha dashed towards the edge of the cliff and jumped off it, the uber-jock with an excited "Woo-hoo! Lightning strikes!" and the mastermind as silent as he used to pretend to be.
The camera quickly cut from Lightning's dive to Fang and the other sharks waiting eagerly below and back again as he grinned. He held out his right arm out in front of him to punch with a cry of "Sha-bam!" as he and Fang collided. They sank under the lake, and Natasha landed silently moments later.
A grand tune played as Lightning quickly surfaced with a golden triangle-shaped key in his hand. "Sha-score!" he said, the footage skipping ahead to him jumping and flipping into his team's carriage.
"Most excellent!" Victor said excitedly, pumping a fist and running off with the carriage towed behind him.
"And the Heroes take the lead!" Chris announced over a shot of the two non-mutant sharks comforting a bruised and crying Fang while Natasha swam past in the background.
He quickly got back to shore, ran over to his teammate, and hopped into the carriage. "Let's go!" he commanded Jo.
"Whatever," the jock-ette rolled her eyes, pushing with an abruptness that startled the mastermind. "Listen. You don't like me, and I really don't like you."
"Your powers of observation never cease to amaze me," Natasha commented dryly.
Jo sent him a dirty look, then continued. "The point is, we're both the biggest threats on our team. Agree to stay out of each other's way until the teams merge?"
"Yeah, no." Natasha answered. "I don't think you'll last long enough for that to benefit me."
"And how long do you think you'll last?" Jo questioned angrily, making sure to run over a large rock that jostled her teammate.
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"Hey Lightning's gotta ask," Lightning told Victor, the music tense and fast-paced as he was pushed through the forest, "you're not messin' up the game for the producers again are you?"
"I understand your concern," the gentleman said. "But I can assure you, I am under no special obligations from Chris or anyone else."
"Uhhh...," Lightning replied, staring at him blankly. "Cool. It's just that, outside of his old teammates, Lightning doesn't want to trust people too quickly. You just never can know if they want somethin' from you."
"Well trust in the fact that all I want is a season of fair and honest competition," Victor said.
Lightning just gave him an amused smile. "Lightning can get with that."
"I am glad to hear it," Victor smiled as the dramatic challenge music peaked and the camera cut to the spa hotel. A short pan showed Victor and Lightning arriving, which was followed by a close-up of the lock as Lightning inserted the key he'd found and the background score became much quieter.
"Come on, key!" he said with an annoyed frown as the lock failed to turn, "Get. In. The lock!"
"Lightning?" Victor said in mild concern as the music rose back up, walking up behind him. "I believe you have the wrong key."
The shot cut to Jo and Natasha arriving, and looking at Victor and Lightning as they went back the opposite direction.
Natasha was shown quickly inserting his silver key as the music turned soft yet again, then throwing the key to the ground as it failed to open the door. "Wrong key!" he said in frustration.
"Way to screw up Silent Treatment," Jo scolded him, earning a glare.
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"Lily," Angel said in a scolding tone, the scene flashing to her approaching her sister atop the cliff, "didn't you come here to make things right with Lightning?"
"I'm here to win," the cynic corrected. "Making right with a guy I used to like is secondary."
Angel put her hands on her hips and gave Lily a disbelieving look.
Lily sighed in resignation. "You spend too much time with your girlfriend..." she muttered pitifully.
Angel didn't budge from her posture. "You can lie to yourself, but not to me."
"It's not like I can do anything with him somewhere in the woods right now anyway," the cynic defended.
Angel smirked, then pointed back down the cliff. "Look at that, Victor and Lightning are back," she said with a sly smile.
"I got next!" Kitsune declared as she quickly ran past the startled twins and dove off the cliff, a dramatic tune playing as the shot cut to the water. She plunged into it with her cheeks bulging and holding on to her headband, then looked around and down and smiled at the sight of a bronze key sticking out of the sand. She picked it up and dodged a sudden bite from Fang, then the scene skipped ahead to show her running over to the Heroes' carriage as the music became tense again.
"Let's roll!" she cried, jumping in to the carriage after Lightning had hopped out and ran off. Victor nodded and quickly pulled her away.
Jo and Natasha arrived as soon as the Heroes left the screen. "Hurry up! They're still ahead of us!" the mastermind yelled, his driver looking annoyed.
The shot cut to Alejandro smiling expectantly at the top of the cliff. "I'll take the next jump," he told Heather and Mike before running off and diving gracefully off the edge, a Latin riff playing as he did so. The challenge music resumed as he fell towards the lake with a confident grin, and he plunged in with barely a splash.
"What're the chances he stays down there?" Mike asked Heather, the two shown looking over the cliff's edge by a camera below them.
"Not good enough if you ask me," Heather replied.
Sure enough, the scene cut below the water to show Alejandro calmly brushing the noses of two apparently smitten sharks, then diving down to the lake bed. The next shot showed him surfacing with a golden key in hand, and a flash took the camera to Jo and Natasha.
"You need to drive faster," Natasha scolded as he climbed out of the carriage. "I don't know where-"
"Excuse me," Alejandro interrupted, pushing the angry young man from the carriage and hopping in. "Now vámonos!" he said, pointing dramatically in the direction they were to go."
"Yeah, yeah," Jo said, still visibly annoyed as she began to pull the carriage back the way she'd came from.
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"How awesome is it to be competing again?" Kitsune asked as she was pushed by Victor down the forest path. "And on a team full of heroes no less! No repeat of season two for this fox-lover."
"Is that not the season you made it to the finals?" Victor asked with a hint of confusion.
Kitsune looked taken aback by the question. "Well yeah, but being stuck on a team full of villains wasn't an experience I wanna repeat ya know?"
The footage skipped ahead to a close-up of Kitsune's key being inserted into the lock. "Crap it's a dud," the goofball said after it failed to open up the lock, tossing it away as the camera zoomed out.
"I'm sure on of the others will choose the right key soon," Victor said encouragingly.
"That's what I like about you Victor," Kitsune said as she sat back down in the carriage, "you always look on the bright side."
"It is easier to see there," Victor joked, earning a giggle from his teammate as he pushed her off-screen.
XXX
"Truthfully," the gentleman confessed. "I was beginning to get tired. But I could not let my team know. After all, I did have the easier job."
XXX
A long, deep chant played as the scene cut back to the spa hotel, Jo and Alejandro finally arriving. The shot cut in close to show Alejandro attempting to insert his key. "Aah, no!" he exclaimed in frustration as it failed to enter the lock. "It's too big, we have to go back!" He threw his key down onto the porch, then dashed past Jo and hopped into the carriage.
"Great job putting us behind Loser McLatin" she scolded Alejandro as the challenge music resumed.
"Less joking, more pushing!" Alejandro commanded as Jo walked over and grabbed the carriage handle.
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The fast-paced music continued as the camera flashed back to the cliff top, showing the remaining campers lined up with Bridgette and Mike waiting nearest to the edge. Angel, who was standing right behind them, quickly glanced down to the shore – the shot cut down to show that not only had Victor and Kitsune returned but, to the Heroes' annoyance, that Jo and Alejandro had returned as well.
"They're back!" the idealist called out. She skipped up to her girlfriend and kissed her on the cheek. "Just for luck," she said.
"Thanks sweetie," Bridgette said with a smile and blush, jogging over to the cliff... and accidentally running into Mike.
They fell off the cliff with startled cries that quickly turned panicked when they saw what was waiting for them. The camera cut to water level as Mike splashed down, right in front of the two normal sharks who had stuck their heads out of the water with eager grins. He surfaced after a moment and spat out a mouthful of water, then looked with wide eyes from the sharks in front of him, then back to Fang who had surfaced behind him.
"Uh, nice sharks...," he said, raising his hands in a placating gesture as Bridgette fell next to him, splashing the sharks and causing them to growl menacingly. The surfer resurfaced a second later and saw the circle of angry sharks.
"Oh crap," both hero and villain said at the same time.
A sudden rock his Fang first and forced him back under the water. The two normal sharks looked at where their mutant brethren was with shocked expressions, before two more rocks hit them and forced them back under.
The shot quickly returned to the cliff, however, to focus on Angel holding what looked like a slingshot while Lily, Lightning, Heather, and Cody looked on visibly impressed.
"Good job sis," Lily spoke up.
"She's saved me enough times," the idealist said with a shy smile. "It felt good to return the favor."
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"All yours," Kitsune told Bridgette as she hopped out of their team's golden carriage.
"Let's hope it's the right one!" the surfer said as Victor pulled the carriage away, his breathing slightly heavier than normal.
Mike arrived seconds later, and jumped in to the Vultures' red carriage while Jo waited impatiently. "Hurry!" he said frantically.
"You think I don't know that?!" Jo called out irritably.
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The tense challenge music resumed yet again as the scene moved to the spa hotel, Mike inserting his key and jiggling it around to no effect. "No, back we go" he said, taking the key out and running off.
"How hard is it to pick the right key," Jo griped tiredly as Mike returned to the carriage.
"Looks like you should have dived," Mike said as the two made their leave.
A second later, Bridgette and Victor arrived on the scene. "Here we are," the surfer said, disembarking and running off-screen with key in hand while her driver leaned over the carriage handle with an exhausted sigh. He gave no reaction to his teammate's return moments later. "Wrong key," she said apologetically, "we have to go back."
Victor whimpered.
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Lily and Cody were the two standing at the cliff's edge as the scene flashed back. "Well, here goes nothing," the geek said nervously before jumping off with a scream.
"About time she got here," Lily said with an eye roll as she jumped off the cliff.
The camera underwater to show Cody was being held in one of Fang's arms and being repeatedly punched with the other, while the two normal sharks pumped their fins in excitement. Moments later, Lily landed in the water with a smirk. She quickly noticed a black skeleton key, grabbed it, and swam out of the frame.
The footage skipped ahead to Lily running over to her team's carriage. "Hah!" she mocked back at the water while Jo panted and pulled her away.
The camera panned over to the water as Cody surfaced, his face slightly bruised and scratched and his clothes slightly torn, but with a key in his hand. He moaned.
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A flash skipped the footage ahead to show Lily failing to open the spa hotel's door. "Okay, we seriously better not be doing this all day," she said as she ran back to Jo and the carriage.
"Man," Jo complained, pushing the carriage off screen and ignoring the cynic, "I haven't been this tired since I ran that septathalon!"
Just as the villains left, Victor pushed a battered and groaning Cody to the spa hotel.
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"I was so tired," Victor told the outhouse. "Even pushing someone as light as Cody was becoming a Herculean task."
XXX
Back at the clifftop those who had already had a go at key-finding had regrouped with their teammates, but the scene focused on Scarlett and Angel as they stood closest to the edge with the other Heroes.
"You should probably jump next," Angel said. "I wouldn't want to lose this for us."
"My physicality is laughable at best," Scarlett replied, cleaning her glasses with her sweater. "It would be better for you to go."
"But you won a season!" Angel replied. "I never made the merge."
"Can you two hurry up and figure this out?" Kitsune asked, the camera zooming out to show her, Bridgette, and Lightning. "Victor's already back." She pointed down towards the shore. Scarlett nodded, then dashed off the cliff.
"And so's Jo," Natasha added quickly, the shot panning left to the villains. "Your turn Heather," he turned and told his teammate.
"Do I have to?" the queen bee asked. "Can't we just send the tin can instead?"
"Yes you have to," Mike replied. "And no we can't because I don't think it's waterproof."
"Can we throw her off the cliff?" Lily asked. The camera quickly cut to show Victor trudged toward the spa hotel with Scarlett in the carriage.
"Listen, Heather," Alejandro said in a somewhat pleading tone, walking over to the queen bee and grabbing on to her shoulder, "I know you're upset about what turned up on Sierra's blog, but this isn't the time or place for it. Jump off the cliff, and we can discuss it in the spa hotel."
"Let go of me!" Heather replied, pushing the charmer in anger and in doing so knocking him in to the robot, sending it rolling away towards the edge of the cliff to the villains' shock and a sharp rise in the background music's intensity.
The robot let loose a series of fearful sounding beeps as it rolled past the shocked heroes, and off the cliff. With two more beeps that sounded like 'oh... no...' the ground at the edge of the cliff crumbled away, sending it plummeting downward, bouncing off a protruding rock and spinning into the lake. The shot immediately cut to the lake bed as the shark trio began to gnaw at the metallic prey.
The robot began to spark, and then it exploded, covering the screen with hundreds of bubbles. The bubbles dissipated to show a familiar-looking teen, if only slightly. He was still short and pale, but his slightly messy brown hair had grown out and looked horribly unkempt, his ironic anti-t-shirt t-shirt was faded and tattered, his blue skinny jeans covered with dull stains, his right eye was white and his normally clean-shaven face was covered with stubble. But nonetheless, he was still recognizable as Matthew, The Hipster, who was last seen on top of the erupting volcano in Hawaii during season three.
"Aw man!" Kitsune complained as the scene cut to the shocked heroes and villains. "Not him again!"
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"The last thing I remember was being trampled and left for dead on top of a volcano," Matthew told the confessional. "Then Chris stuffed me into in that robot so I could 'heal from my injuries', and forgot about me for. A. Year!" he explained getting angrier with each word. "But now? I'm finally free," he added with a dark grin.
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The static cut away to Matthew landing on the beach with a key clenched in his fist, pieces of his former mechanical prison falling around him as his teammates cheered.
He took one step... and fell to the ground. Natasha, Alejandro, and Mike winced in sympathy.
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"I repeat," Matthew added. "Stuck in a robot. For a year. It'll be a few hours before I can walk again."
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A flash skipped the scene ahead to the cabins as the Hamsters arrived, Victor seemingly moving forward on momentum alone. He crashed the carriage into the steps of the spa hotel, allowing Scarlett to use the impact to propel herself onto the front porch while Victor slumped to his knees. Jo and the Villains' carriage slid to a stop a few feet away from him, and Jo picked up Matthew and started tiredly carrying him to the door.
"Blast," Scarlett muttered as she frantically tried her key, only for it to fail. "Another dud!"
"Move it," Matthew told her, knocking her away from the door as Jo carried him to the porch. He inserted his key, and the music turned victorious as the door finally opened. "Hah!" the hipster cheered as Scarlett groaned in frustration.
"The door is open!" Chris announced, the shot zooming out to show him flying up over Victor. "The Vultures win!"
Victor just moaned and fell over onto his side.
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A few deep notes were struck as the footage faded forward to a long-distance shot of the island at night, the moon bright in the sky and the light of the campfire shining across the lake.
"Welcome, to our first elimination ceremony," Chris said, the scene cutting to the firepit as a few more notes of the low and tense campfire theme began to play. The childish logo of the Heroic Hamsters spun into place in the top-right corner of the screen just above the host and his assistant, who had forsaken last season's hazmat suit in favor of his usual dull yellow-green outfit. The seven losers were seated together in the middle of the two row of log-seats, with Scarlett, Cody, and Lightning in the front row and Victor, Angel, Bridgette, and Kitsune in the back. Interestingly, a tiered, high-walled seating area had been built along the left rock wall of the firepit, and the tops of a few familiar heads could be seen looking out from them.
"How do you like the new Peanut Gallery, huh?" the host asked, the viewpoint shifting to get a better look at the boxed seating area. It had the logo of a peanut emblazoned on the front, but more importantly it currently housed the seven members of the Villainous Vultures – Lily, Natasha, and Heather in the top row; Alejandro, Jo, Matthew, and Mike in the bottom. "Now winners can watch their opponents give someone the boot before they head to the spa hotel for a deluxe dinner!"
The seven Villains cheered and exchanged high fives with one another at the good news. The seven Heroes just made their annoyance known through grumbles or glares or general lack of enthusiasm.
"Before we start," Chris continued as another deep note played, "I need one winner to volunteer for a special reward!"
Jo immediately skidded over to him with an expectant look. "This one's on me!" she exclaimed, the shot briefly cutting over to show Lily frown in annoyance.
"Grrreat!" the host said. "Your reward is...spending the night in exile on Boney Island with all the hungry wild animals!"
"What kind of reward is that?" Jo asked in annoyance.
"The kind," Chris answered, taking out a familiar wooden carving of his own head, "where there's a McLean Invincibility Statue hidden somewhere on Boney Island!" The music began to trill tensely, and the camera zoomed in on the invincibility statue. "Find it, and you're golden."
"Now he tells us," Natasha griped.
"This year," the host continued as Jo left the firepit under Chef's watchful eye, "you get to vote by placing an X," he made the shape in question with his pointer fingers before the camera cut over to the attentive heroes, "on the 8 x 10 photo of the person you want to eliminate. Now, get voting," he commanded with a mild frown and a thumb over his shoulder.
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One by one, the Heroic Hamsters were shown casting their votes in the outhouse confessional in quick and silent succession. First Cody, then Kitsune, then Bridgette, then Lightning, then Scarlett, all five hiding the photo they'd chosen from the camera while they made their marks with a thick-tipped pen. Angel was the first to show her vote, holding up Victor's photo with an apologetic smile and drawing a red X on it. Victor was the last, sighing as he crossed out Angel's.
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"Okay," Chris said as the scene flashed back to him now holding a tray of six marshmallows, "the following people are safe. Lightning! Kitsune! Bridgette! Scarlett! And Cody!" One by one the heroes happily caught the marshmallows as they were tossed at them, and all the while the trilling elimination theme began to build.
"Victor, you're on the chopping block for your terrible driving skills," Chris explained as the shot cut to the two heroes on the bottom. The gentleman nodded in acceptance and hung his head. "And Angel, you're on the chopping block because... you never jumped." The idealist gaped in shock, then hung her head.
"I do apologize for my vote," Victor told Angel.
"And the loser is...," Chris began as the music started to peak, the shot cutting from close-ups of Angel, then Victor, then the final marshmallow. "Victor!"
"So ends my time here," the gentleman said, slumping over in sadness as the one he'd voted for caught her marshmallow in her hands. "I suppose it is time for me to ride the catapult?"
"Nope," Chris gleefully answered, "this year, we've got a brand new elimination device!"
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The scene transitioned by way of a screen rotation about a central vertical axis, putting the shot on the end of the Dock of Shame where a gigantic and rather stained toilet had been set up. Victor was already treading water in its bowl, with his former teammates and the host standing by while the series's sombre farewell theme began to play.
"Behold, the Flush of Shame!" Chris declared dramatically before adding "Patent pending."
Most of the remaining six heroes recoiled in disgust, except for Kitsune who just giggled and said 'Toilet humor'.
"It has been-" Victor began to say before the host interrupted.
"Yeah yeah yeah, been an honor to compete, you hope for the best, blah blah blah you say the same thing every time," Chris said in irritated disinterest before pressing the button on his remote control. The gargantuan toilet began to flush, and Victor screamed as he circled the drain and disappeared from sight. A massive back-flow shot out of the toilet like a fountain, but the host smugly opened an umbrella over his head allowing him to remain dry while the remaining heroes were doused in toilet water to their vocal disgust.
Chris laughed as the series's dramatic capstone theme started up for its first time that season. "Who will be flushed into the history books next?" he asked the camera,tossing his umbrella away. "Find out next time, on Total! Drama! All-Stars!"
As always, the camera jumped outward with each portion of the season's name, ending once more on a long-distance shot of the island under the clear summer night.
(Roll the credits)
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(Bonus Clip)
The honking of countless car horns could be heard as the scene faded in to a manhole cover in the middle of a sidewalk. It began to shake and clatter, then suddenly fly off entirely as Victor hurriedly climbed out of it with something white and scaly snapping at him. He stood up on sidewalk and slammed the cover down with all his might. A second later a splash and growl was heard.
Victor stood and wiped the sweat from his forehead, then scratched his head and looked around. "Well then, now what?" he asked himself.
His answer came in the form of an excited "Vic! Dude!" that caused the camera to pan to the right.
"Malcolm?" Victor asked. "Sky? What are you doing here?"
"Taking you back to the new Playa of course," the pain magnet said brightly, waving around his right arm... which was in a cast.
"He's right," Sky said, pulling her boyfriend into a hug and placing a kiss on his cheek. "Everything's set up with Chris and the producers and the staff at the hotel are excited to meet everyone from the show."
"Yeah dude," Malcolm added. "Even your mom's been cool after you set this up. I mean, Noah's complaining but he pretty much always does."
"And thanks to Zoey's tarot cards," Sky added, "we knew that you'd wind up in New York after being eliminated."
Victor blinked. "New York?" he repeated, and the shot cut outward to show the city's skyline. He made a pensive noise as the focus moved back to him and his friends. "Well if there are no pressing matters, how about we see a symphony before returning to Canada?"
Sky chuckled. "I told you he'd ask that," she said to Malcolm before turning to Victor. "We already have the tickets," she said as she held up three slips of paper.
Author's Note Post Script: And now I have a cast to explain. Also I lied, I totally let you guys influence the final group. Anyway, here's what I was thinking on a case-by-case basis.
Alejandro: The series's first villain and the only character to make the merge in every season of the original trilogy. His popularity notwithstanding I couldn't not include him.
Heather: RDA's main antagonist. Even though she hasn't done as well as some of the other All-Stars overall, that just means I can still do things with her character. Plus Aleheather was one of the few things the canon season got right. I had to keep them both.
Mike: Mal was the RDWT villain, and the first one to make the finale. On top of that, he perfectly fits as the token good teammate like Gwen in canon.
Matthew: Let's face it, this one was confirmed the second I had him put in the robot suit. Next to Heather, he easily has the most potential of the seven.
Natasha: Come on, I wasn't gonna leave this guy out. He owned season four from start to finish.
Lily: Even though she's not as bad a person as the majority of her teammates, she did pull some villainous moves.
Jo: While not the most villainous person, she was the most antagonistic. There was no leaving her out.
(Dis)Honorable Mentions: Sierra: Yes, for a time I considered the super-fan as the token good teammate instead of Mike on the grounds that she blew up Chris's plane. That idea was thrown out pretty soon.
Leshawna/Sky: Both girls were also at one point planned to be the token good teammate and like Sierra the idea was tossed out quickly.
Sugar: A minor antagonist in season two, she could have had a little more time to shine here. But ultimately I decided to keep Mike because I'd rather have a villain who wasn't a villain than a villain who as barely a villain.
And now the Heroes...
Bridgette: She was locked in as soon as I saw her in the season four cast. There's maybe two other people who personify heroism as much as her. Plus Bridgette's one of my favorite characters.
Angel: Admittedly, she was only added like an hour before I wrote the first word of the chapter. But there was remarkably few Bridgel moments considering they were the primary couple of last season. And she can serve as the bridge between Lily and Lightning.
Cody: He was pegged for this season as early as when I was planning on him being the winner of RotI. With his elimination being bumped up this may seem like an odd choice, but his rivalry with Jo qualifies in my opinion.
Lightning: The guy who faced off against Natasha in the finale. Seems like he's a fan favorite, he's had several big heroic moments, and he's just darn fun to write.
Victor: Another last minute choice. But he's an overall decent guy who's had some pretty big heroic moments in the past. I'm a little wary of him being the first boot, but I had plans for everyone else.
Kitsune: Season two finalist. Final Five in first season. Main rival of two separate main antagonists... need I go on?
Scarlett: Now I know I said that DJ not being in World Tour was the second most controversial decision, at the time I considered this to be the most controversial one as she was never really heroic on her own outside a couple of confrontations with Mal. But, I came across some Cody/Scarlett fanfics and fell in love (no pun intended) with the pairing. And since I had the opportunity to do it here, I did.
Honorable Mentions: Ezekiel: Was originally in Angel's spot before all the cast predictions made me rethink. Yes he made it far and yes he had his rivalry with Fang, but as he could easily be called an All-Star, I'm not really sure he could be called a hero and he definitely couldn't be a villain.
Sierra: Was originally in Victor's spot, right down to being the first boot. She was clearly a hero during her short tenure, but I just wasn't sure what else I could do with her. And since I'd swapped Zeke for Angel, I needed to lose an original female and both Kitsune and Scarlett were nonnegotiable.
Zoey: I'm honestly surprised at how many people were expecting Zoey to be here as she didn't really have that great an impact on the game in my opinion. At least not to the extent of Kitsune or Scarlett. She was definitely the fourth choice for a female from the first generation, but even in the earliest planning I could only have three.
DJ: Arguably should be here more than Victor. But I knew that spot was going to be the first boot and I just couldn't do that to the guy.
Tyler: Was also considered to replace Sierra, but of the two Victor just seemed more... heroic.
Well, I hope that you all understand some of what I was thinking of with this cast. I think it's safe to say these next dozen episodes are gonna be...interesting.
Let me know what you thought of the cast, the premiere, and the season itself.
And as always I'm sure I'm forgetting to mention something.
I hope you all enjoyed the episode, or some part of it.
And I'd also like to remind you guys that a TVTropes page for this series does exist and needs you guys adding to it.
With that I'm signing off
-TotalDramaFan14
RDAS Elimination Table:
14th Place: Victor