Author's Note: Hi friends! ^-^ I haven't been writing much lately partly because of how busy I've been and partly because of lack of motivation; I've tried starting numerous projects and most of them couldn't get past the first episode, so I said I would hold off uploading anything new until I knew I was dedicated to it. I think this project could be the next one though! I present to you an All-Star series featuring characters from all my completed works. Hope you enjoy!
The camera panned around a vast land; it soared over an ocean and golden beaches, coming to a spanning field. It circled around a monumental city towering in the middle of the field, showing the busy people constantly in motion. It soared away from this town and came to a fantastical forest with trees of all shapes, sizes, and colours. Moving away from this, it rose high and higher up a mammoth mountain; the higher it rose, the more snow began to fill the scene until it was almost entirely white. Then it drew back out, lingering at the blue sky. Suddenly the clear sky was filled with a massive head of a black haired handsome man.
"Greetings, viewers!" he boomed with a grin. "I am Chris McClean and we have already entered the virtual world, using technology like you've never seen before…unless you watched Total Drama Switcheroo, but otherwise it's new! And what's more we've brought back 30 of your favorite and most hated players from the previous eight seasons! They've been spread all around the map and will be fighting for survival in this fantastical world!"
Several flashes occurred around the land. The camera moved to show various teens awkwardly falling from thin air and landing in different locations.
"Six former players have been scattered over five different regions," Chris continued, "There they will face off against off beasts and monsters of the world, all while having to provide for their own needs of survival. This isn't your typical season though, there will be no votes, no challenge, no marshmallows! Instead there will be a number of goals that they can fulfil to move on, each region has five, meaning one person from each land will be left without one and will be eliminated that way…of course they can still just plain old die and get eliminated that way. The lands are full of dangers at every turn and only the strongest will prevail! Let's get to it, this is…Total Drama Fatansy!"
The camera dropped and zoomed into the field. It showed a thin girl with brown hair that was highlighted with violet streaks. She wore a magenta shirt and mauve skirt.
"Ugh," she groaned as she hit the ground.
She shook herself off and stood up, taking in her surroundings.
"Where am I?" she remarked.
All she could see was rolling hills in all directions.
"Well, that's helpful," she remarked.
She began to wander through the hills, in search of anything or anyone else. After some time of walking, she heard a horn blare. She turned to face the source of the sound and began to walk towards that instead. However, she soon wished she hadn't. An army of green creatures emerged from the crest of the hill and were charging straight at her. They had leathery skin and wore loose rags over their bodies. Some road on furious black ponies, others wielded weapons such as clubs or pitchforks, all of them had packs slung around their backs. And all of them seemed to have their eyes angrily set on the girl. She took the cue and turned the other way running. She managed to keep a bit of a lead, but she knew she couldn't keep it up forever, especially with the number of creatures riding on animals. Her time ran up sooner than she had hoped though when she tripped over an uneven patch of ground, falling to the ground. In no time she was surrounded by the creatures. They danced around her viciously, wielding their weapons wildly. The girl scrambled desperately for anything she could, but found herself absolutely trapped. Suddenly a stone was flung at the creatures. It made contact with one of the ponies, sending it into a fury. The animal galloped off, shocking its rider and causing him to fall off, colliding with another. Another stone was thrown and it hit the shoulder of one of the creatures. The reptilian being angrily swung its axe at its nearest comrade.
"Move it, you big ugly stupid things!" someone shouted from the top of another hill.
It was a girl with black hair done up in a pair of buns. She wore a black tank top and shorts, and a pair of sharp specatcles.
"Yeah, I'm talking to you, dumbo!" she sneered while grabbing another rock and tossing it at the face of one of the reptile creatures.
This one gave an angry cry and lunged at the girl; it was soon followed by the others.
"Do your worst!" the girl snapped, but soon realized her danger and began to run as well.
The other girl who had just escaped certain death had gotten back up and realized one of the packs had fallen off in the initial scuffle. She saw a hilt poking out of it and reached down to grab it. She drew a thin crimson blade.
"Looks like it's time to get dirty," she remarked.
She chased after the creatures, as soon as she was close enough she dug the blade into the back of one of them. Green goo splurted out of the wound, the creature gave an agonized cry, and then fell to the ground.
"Um, Hel-LO!" the girl in black called. "I just saved your life, could you freaking hurry up and help me here!?"
The girl in magenta sighed and continued to chase after the creatures. She swung her sword wildly, slicing at the creatures wherever she could. They seemed vanquished easily enough, a single wound was enough to have them drop to the ground in agony. There were too many to stop altogether though. Two of them reached the girl in black and began to grab and tug at her arms.
"Let go of me this instance, you sickos!" the girl spat.
One of them was suddenly pulled back by someone else. The girl used the chance to break free and knee her other attacker between the legs. The creature groaned in pain, and the girl took advantage of this to grab hold and slam it into the ground. She turned around to see a boy wrestling with the other one. He eventually managed to grip it by the head and slam it against a nearby wrong, rendering it motionless. The boy stood up and turned around. He had brown hair and chestnut eyes. He wore a tan vest but was otherwise topless.
"Oh, it's you," the girl in magenta said with moderate disdain as she caught up.
"Jacquie?" the boy asked with a hint of bemused shock.
"What are you doing here, Caleb?" she snapped. "This was supposed to be MY season!"
"I thought last season was YOUR season," Caleb replied with a laugh, "You know…the one you won?"
"What's your point?" Jacquie scoffed.
"Oh, so you two know each other, well that's just great, don't bother introducing me or anything," the girl in black snapped.
"I'm Caleb," the boy said, "This is Jacquie."
"Well I figured that out from your embarrassingly childish conversation just now," the girl spat, "Do I look that dense to you!?"
"We were finalists on Total Drama Switcheroni," Jacquie filled in.
"Ugh, here we go with the bragging," the girl groaned. "I do not CARE about your life story, you know what, let's just go before more of those little gremlins show up."
"But you're the one who—" Jacquie began to say.
"Less talking, more going!" the girl ordered.
"Can we at least know your name?" Caleb asked.
"Ugh, what is this, you gotta know EVERYTHING about me now!?" the girl snapped. "It's Mel. There, happy!? Now let's GO already!"
(Elsewhere)
A girl with golden blonde hair in a ponytail was cautiously wandering through a forest. She wore a large pink dress that was just scraping up dirt, branches, and other clingy features of nature as she walked.
"Okay, okay…forest," she said to herself, "big scary forest with no one around. I got this! I can do this!"
She put on a bright smile and walked forward. All around her trees loomed over her; vines and large leaves dangled above her head. She had to wade through seas of ferns and thick thorns.
"This is an adventure!" she told herself as she tore her dress through a series of thorns. "And I am the hero! Look at me go!"
With another step she suddenly was submerged in murky water, hidden by a coat of lilypads and fallen leaves.
"I am WET!" she sobbed as she re-emerged. "Ugh, ick, gross, ew!"
She floundered through the water awkwardly, having a hard time telling the difference between land and water. She was aided though by a stranger extending a hand. She took it and was pulled back to the ground. Her dress dripping with mud and sagging around her now.
"I really need to talk to Chris about a wardrobe change this is not okay," she groaned.
"Don't hold your breath on that," her saviour said.
She was a girl with long red hair and a blue beret. She wore a gold jacket over a grey shirt and brown pair of jeans.
"Roquette," she introduced.
"Hi, I'm Annie!" the girl said eagerly while shaking her hand and getting mud on her.
Roquette gave a brief annoyed sigh as she wiped her hand against a fern, but followed it with a smile.
"Well guess I should be more careful," Annie remarked, "This forest is clearly full of nasty surprises."
"Hey girls!" someone called.
"You don't say," Roquette remarked with a sideways glance at Annie.
The two looked up to see a small boy with very light blonde fluffy hair in a ponytail. He had a light blue hoodie and blue jeans. He was sitting in a tree branch with a playful smirk on his face.
"Name's Keith, care to come up and join me?" he asked. "Nothing can get you up here."
He was soon proved wrong, though, as a vine he was sitting next to began to slither on its own. It coiled around his leg and dragged him down.
"Wah!" he cried as he was pulled into the vegetation.
"We should help him!" Annie exclaimed.
"Nah," Roquette replied as she headed off in the other direction. "He seems like he can handle himself, we'd only be wasting our breath."
"Are you sure?" Annie asked as she followed after her.
"Positive," Roquette said without looking back. "Besides, we've no doubt got work to do. I mean, it's up to you, you can either waste your time oohing and aahing over every little thing, or we can actually focus on getting something done."
"Let's do that, the second thing!" Annie exclaimed.
"That's what I thought," Roquette replied. "Hey, look at this."
She spotted a bow and quiver of arrows placed against a tree.
"Wow, where do you think that came from?" Annie asked.
"Who cares?" Roquette replied. "We could probably use something like this."
Meanwhile, Keith was still wrestling with the serpentine vine. It was coiling tighter and tighter around him, but he managed to wriggle his way free and drop to the ground. He hit the muddy surface, but recovered quickly. The vine swiveled through the air furiously. Keith dove for shelter in some bushes, but he didn't lose his predator. He quickly grabbed a twig and began swinging it to try to fend off the sentient plant. His weapon snapped upon impact though.
"Come on, give me a break," he sighed.
He ducked and rolled to avoid being snared again. He made a dash through the woods. The vine snaked after him all the way though. Eventually he just desperately leapt across the ground. As the vine neared his ankle it was suddenly skewered by an arrow and dropped limp. Keith hit the ground and rolled through the leaves. He looked up to see Roquette across the distance with a bow in her hand. She shot him a smirk.
"Good shot!" Keith said while giving her a thumbs up.
"That sure was lucky," Annie remarked to Roquette, "just imagine if you'd been a second quicker you would have hit him. That sure would have been ugly!"
"Oh, I can imagine," Roquette replied coyly.
(Elsewhere again)
A thin boy with orange hair under a green toque walked along the edge of a mountain path. He wore a green shirt and khaki pants…none of it looked warm enough for the climate he was going through. He shivered as snow beat down on him. His legs were already sinking into the snow all around him. He could barely see anything but white in all directions. He kept his eyes on the path and watched each step he took. From what little he could see, he knew that he was high up and one wrong step could spell certain doom.
"Oof!" he exclaimed as he suddenly walked into something.
He rubbed his nose and looked around. He realized he had walked right into a rock wall.
"Looks like I'm going up," he remarked.
He felt around the wall and eventually found a groove he could fit his hands into. He pulled himself up the wall and struggled to keep himself moving. Twice he nearly slipped and fell, but he managed to dig his foot into the wall again and regain his balance. Eventually he made it to the ledge and pulled himself up to another endless valley of snow.
"Woo," he said unenthusiastically.
He continued to trudge through the snow. However, as he did he began to feel some movement. It started out as a minor tremor but got more and more violent. Pretty soon it turned into a full avalanche; a cascade of crushing snow was pouring right his way. He had nowhere to run, the storm was coming right for him at an alarming speed.
"Booyakasha!" someone exclaimed as he was tackled to the ground and pulled into a cave.
He found himself facing a large girl with frizzy black hair in a pair of buns wearing a green dress with several yellow flowers on it.
"I just saved your life!" she exclaimed.
"Oh," the boy replied. "Thanks?"
"No problem, pally!" she exclaimed while slapping him on the back. "BonBon's the name, flirting's my game! Though I'm off limits now, got myself the man of my dreams and I couldn't be happier! You?"
"Neil's my name, causing long lasting scarring trauma on victims with low self-esteem is my game," he replied.
"Hm…you sound like a weirdo," BonBon said, "I like it!"
"So…" Neil said as he glanced at the entrance now totally blocked with snow. "We're stuck in here?"
"Looks like it!" BonBon said cheerily. "But we're still alive! That was a close one, eh?"
"I guess," he said as he got up and began to pace around. "What about food, water, warmth, any of that?"
"Nope, nope, and nope!" BonBon said.
"Great so…sounds like we're screwed," Neil said.
"Oh that's no attitude to have, look at the positives, man!" BonBon said. "You'll never make it through this if you have to be a Debbie Downer on everything."
"I'm sorry," Neil said, "Do tell me all the positives you see of being trapped in a cave with no means of survival?"
"Well…we're still alive!" BonBon said.
"Yeah, you said that already," Neil said.
"Well, excuuuuuuse me if I see still being alive as ten times more important than any of those silly things you just mentioned," BonBon said. "Now come on and get up, we've got some spelunking to do!"
(Elsewhere for a third time)
A girl with light blonde hair, a pink sunhat, and fancy pink dress was walking along the golden sand against the blue sea.
"Why this is just beautiful!" she exclaimed.
She playfully swung herself around a palm tree before sitting beneath it.
"Why this is just like being on vacation," she said, "Daddy has never ever taken me anywhere as nice as this."
"That's enough of that!" someone exclaimed from behind her.
The girl jumped up with a fright and turned to see her new companion. It was a tall girl with black hair in a ponytail. She wore a dark magenta dress and brown belt.
"There will be no vacationing on Nighthawk's game!" she barked. "On your toes at all times, be ready for danger, never know when you need to jump into action!"
"Oh um…o-okay?" the girl replied. "I'm—"
"Portia Sussman, daughter to successful entrepreneur, Gregory Sussman," the taller girl listed, "Ninth place finisher on Total Drama Strandarama."
"Oh…you certainly know a lot about me," Portia said somewhat uncertainly.
"Nighthawk does all adequate research on those that I will be dealing with, friend or foe alike, for your sake you had better hope to be the former!" Nighthawk said.
"Has anyone ever told you that you sound like a retarded four year old?" a third voice sneered.
Nighthawk whipped her head around and faced a short boy with black hair and red headband. He wore a purple jacket over a blue shirt and black shorts.
"No, no they have not, Calvin Payne, winner of Total Drama Stranded and you want to know why not? Why I'll got ahead and tell you why not the reason why not is because that would be an insult, and not just any insult, oh no, an insult to the Nighthawk, and insulting the Nighthawk is step one in making an enemy out of the Nighthawk, you want an enemy out of the Nighthawk? Let me answer that for you, you don't! It doesn't end well for people," the girl said all while glaring into the boy's eyes.
"You done?" the boy asked.
"Nighthawk is never done, that's what separates me from a one hit wonder like you!" she said. "Whatcha gonna do now? Reach for your weapon? Too bad! Nighthawk already disarmed you just like that!" snaps "in the blink of an eye! Defenseless, at my mercy, the tables have turned have they not? No they have not for to imply that the tables where ever turned in such a way that favored you would be laughable. Ahahaha! Hear me laugh, laugh at the thought of you besting me the Nighthawk! Ha!"
"…Uh…I don't have any weapons," Calvin said.
"That's right, you do NOT!" the Nighthawk said, "because I disarmed you! You catch on quick! Nighthawk out!"
With that she dropped a smoke bomb and disappeared.
"Well…she seems like quite the character," Portia remarked.
"She seems like a freak I hope we never see her again," Calvin said.
He tried to step forward but suddenly flopped to the ground. Nighthawk quickly emerged from behind a palm tree.
"Aha, surprise, I also tied your shoelaces together when you weren't looking!" she boasted. "I didn't tell you about this though, OH NO! I never reveal my whole hand, that's a rookie mistake, I'm always twelve steps while you're still looking on with that dazed look at the start line. It's a three pronged attack, you see. First the weapons, then the shoes, what's step three you ask? Oh you'll see, you'll see, but NOT now! You'll see at some point in the future, could be tomorrow could be by the end of the month, but it won't be pretty, think about THAT while you sleep! Nighthawk out!"
With that she once again disappeared into a puff of smoke.
(Elsewhere once more)
A boy with a messy mop of orange-brown hair walked through an underground complex. He wore a grey shirt with purple stripes and mauve shorts. He walked nervously, quivering each step of the way. His head darted from side to side at all times. Every time something clicked beneath his feet he cowered and counted to ten before continuing. Suddenly something grabbed his shoulder.
"Waaah, don't hurt me!" he cried while slapping the air in a panic.
"At ease, I'm not going to hurt you," a woman said.
He looked up to see a muscular girl with messy brown hair. She wore a purple headband and matching shirt along with a navy pair of shorts.
"I think we're in the same boat here," she said, "so it might do to stick together. I'm Ilona."
"R-Rich," the boy said while extending his shaking hand.
"Take it easy," Ilona said, "have you even seen anything out here yet?"
"N-no," Rich said, "but it's a dark scary underground temple…you don't need to be an expert to know that spells bad news."
"Well let's just stay close, I'm sure we'll be fine," Ilona said.
The two continued to walk through the decaying ruins. Eventually they came to a chamber; the walls were lined with crevices and various intricate paintings.
"Is it just me or did it get icy cold all of a sudden?" Rich asked.
"I think you may be overreac—" llona began before she was interrupted by the sound of movement coming from behind the walls. "What is that?"
Suddenly the crevices widened and the walls split open. A horde of skeletons and corpses lumbered out and moved towards the duo. They moaned and groaned while stretching out their hands ominously.
"Not good, not good!" Rich sobbed.
Ilona delivered a firm kick to the nearest zombie and it fell apart.
"Come on, they're not that tough," she said.
She delivered a few more blows to others approaching. It was then that she realized they were approaching from all sides.
"Aaah!" Rich cried as he closed his eyes and slapped blindly.
Ilona sighed before performing a twirling kick, knocking back several corpses in all directions. More and more kept coming but she managed to keep them at bay. Rich contributed my frantically dashing around the chamber trying to avoid ever getting too close to one of the monsters. Ilona was beginning to get overwhelmed. For every one she knocked back, two more seemed to take its place.
"Okay no strategy," she said, "Let's get out of here!"
"I'm so on it!" Rich said as he scrambled his way between the corpses and ran out into the darkness.
"Oh sure, just leave me," Ilona sighed.
She used her shoulder to charge through a crowd of the zombies. Several more clung and pulled at her legs and back though. She tried to shrug them off, but they proved to be persistent. She had to turn to fight them, but this just allowed for more to come up from the other side.
"Eat glitter, you meanies!" someone exclaimed as they tossed a handful of glitter dust at the army of undead.
The creatures paused momentarily in confusion at the sudden "attack."
"That's your cue to run," the girl said.
Ilona took it. The zombies didn't stay stunned for long and soon chased after her. The other girl guided her through the passages and eventually pulled her up to niche at the top of a wall. The horde of corpses just ran right past them. Ilona turned to her saviour, it was a girl with chocolate brown hair and a black dress. She wore a set of silver wings and antennae and held a magic wand in her hand.
"Thanks for that," Ilona said.
"Always happy to help a poor innocent purehearted soul in need," the girl said, "not like that cowardly, no good, spineless SCUM that abandoned you! Hi, I'm Missy your new best friend!"
"Hi Missy, nice to meet you," Ilona said, "I guess we should go find that guy before he hurts himself.
"No, no would should not," Missy said eerily calmly as she gripped Ilona's wrist. "He abandoned you, it's only fitting that we abandon him. I hope he dies out there, it would be quite suiting. What you should do is stick with me, your new best friend, so good?"
Missy gave Ilona a broad smile which Ilona weakly returned.
"We are going to have SO much fun together I just know it!" Missy laughed.
(The Sky)
"The battle is on!" Chris exclaimed, "The adventure begins! Who will prove to be a champion, who will fall short!? Tune in next time as we meet the rest of the cast on Total…Drama…Fantasy!"