EPISODE 1: PILOT
(NOTE: To anyone that two characters in particular, Ching and Chong may offend, please remember that this show takes stereotypes and puts them to the max. That's all I'm trying to do here, I don't mean to be racist. Now that that is over with, i hope you enjoy it, and any pointers or constructive criticism would be appreciated. This is my first fanfic for over a year. Now, without further adu, Total Drama Island, Episode One!)
(Theme Song)
Chris McClain's face appeared on the screen.
"Hello," Chris said, "and welcome to
TOTAL
DRAMA
ISLAND."
Chris stepped onto the dock.
"This is the show where 14 insane teens go up against each other in crazy, and sometimes deadly *chuckle* competitions. Before I go on, we should introduce our teens. Here comes the first one now."
A little tugboat chugged up to the dock, and a very pretty girl, around fifteen or sixteen years of age, with bright red hair and a t-shirt with the British flag on it, stepped onto the dock.
"Hi McClain." She said with an English accent.
"Jessica," Chris said, "looking good."
"Thank you," she said. "Where do I put these?" she asked, gesturing to the two bags she was pulling behind her.
"We will get to that later, after the other campers arrive." Chris said. "Until then, stand over there." Chris pointed her to the spot where the dock connected with the land. As Jessica walked towards the spot Chris told her about, another boat pulled up to the dock. Out of the boat came a girl with brown hair and brown eyes, around the same age as Jessica.
"Ivy!" Chris exclaimed. "Nice to see you!"
Ivy rolled her eyes.
"Chris, you know I'm only here for the money, and I know you're only here to torture us, so cut it with the fake flattery." She walked up to stand next to Jessica, and started up a conversation.
Chris stared at Ivy with a blank face, obviously stunned. He opened his mouth to yell something back at her, just when another boat pulled up.
Out jumped a pretty average guy wearing a t-shirt and jeans, and carrying a single duffel bag.
"Hey man." He said, nodding to Chris.
"Hello Jim," Chris replied. "Welcome to your doom- I, I mean total drama island." Chris pasted on a smile. Before Jim could respond, Chris said, "Go wait over there with the others."
Jim glanced up at Jessica, and immediately his jaw dropped open.
(CONFESSIONAL: Jim)
I swear on my life, I have never seen a girl so beautiful! I know what I'll do. I'll walk right up to her and charm her right away with some clever pickup line.
(END)
Jim walked over to the others and shook their hands. He looked at Jessica and said,
"Hi, I'm pretty- I mean, you're pretty... I mean!"
(CONFESSIONAL: Jim
Well, I blew it.
(CONFESSIONAL: Jessica)
*laughing* These Americans have some really weird pickup lines.
(END)
The next boat to pull up contained two people, both obviously Asian, and both obviously twins.
"Ching, Chang, welcome aboard." Chris said.
"Mr. McClain," Ching said in a heavy accent, "it nice meet you."
Chris had an annoyed look on his face and pointed the twins towards the others. Quickly afterwards he called his producer.
"If you're the one who set me up with these two, I'll have your job!" Was all he said, before he flipped the phone closed.
Another boat pulled up to the dock, this one carrying a girl, fifteen years of age, with dark brown, arguably black hair. She was shorter than average, her full height only around 5' 3". She flew over the rail of the boat with gracefulness and strength.
"Hello Chris," she said, taking in the surroundings that were the island.
"Hello Grace." Chris said, a strange smirk on his face.
"Are you sure this is the right island?" Grace asked, suspicion creeping into her voice. "Last time I went to a martial arts summer camp, it looked nothing like this."
Chris's smirk grew.
"If you'd actually read your contract, you would've know that you weren't going to a martial arts camp at all!"
Grace's face went pale.
"Then where am I?"
Chris quickly outlined the situation of the game show, the million dollar prize, and the competitions they would have, all of which the other campers already knew about.
"Oh." Was all Grace said when Chris was done. She slowly stumbled to the others, leaving a satisfied look on McClain's face.
Another boat arrived, carrying a boy and a girl, kissing each other nonstop. Chris looked disgusted. He waited about a minute, looking down out his watch, before he broke up their love fest.
"Excuse me!" Chris yelled in a whiny voice.
"Oh, we're here!" The girl shouted in a high voice.
They both stepped off the boat, his arm around hers.
"Hello Ross, Lauren." He said through gritted teeth.
"Hello Chris!" Ross exclaimed. The couple went back to smooching, and continued down the dock towards their new friends.
The next boat to arrive held a kid in a straw hat wearing overalls, and having a piece of hay in his mouth. He basically looked and sounded like Huckleberry Finn.
"Hey y'all." He said.
"Hey Preston." Chris said. "Long time no see." He looked uncomfortable.
"Remember Chris," Preston said, his accent making his words barely understandable, "you owe me a favor." Preston winked and walked over to the others.
Soon after, another boat arrived with a boy and a girl on it. Much to Chris's relief, they weren't a couple. They were just friends.
"Hi," the girl said in a shy voice, her freckled face lighting up a bit. The boy simply raised his hand and waved.
"Amy, Ron, welcome."
"Thanks Chris." She said. She nudged her friend and he muttered something unintelligible because it was so quiet.
"He said thanks." Amy insisted. She dragged Ron off the dock, and the two sat alone, away from the others.
Two more boats arrived simultaneously, and out of the first one came a short kid with Woody Allen glasses, clothes way out of style, and a pimply face. The only way to describe him was nerd.
"Hey... Sam..." Chris said.
"Hey Mr. McCline." He said in a voice like his nose was stuffed.
Chris rolled his eyes.
"It's McClain, dork."
Sam sighed, and moved towards the others.
Out of the second boat came a plain girl. She was average height, had average looks, brown hair and deep blue eyes, which were probably the kindest eyes anyone had every seen.
"Hi Chris, it's nice meeting you." She said.
(CONFESSIONAL: Chris)
Oh, I'm gonna have some fun with this one.
(END)
"Hello Zoey." Chris replied, the thoughts already going around in his mind about what he could do to torture her.
"I guess I go over there?" She asked, gesturing to the small crowd which was now formed.
"Not until you complete the test," Chris chuckled. "They all had to do it." He said, pointing to the others.
"What's this test?" Zoey asked.
"You've gotta swim from here to that island all the way on the other side- see it over there- and back."
Zoey was awestruck at the distance.
"But- it's so far..."
Chris mad a fake sad face.
"Alright, you don't have to, but it would really ruin my day if one of my contestants cheated..."
"Well, maybe I'll..."
"Stop it, Chris." Jim said. He turned to Zoey.
"None of us had to do this, he's just trying to take advantage of you."
Chris glared at Jim.
"Did I say you can interrupt me?"
"I didn't ask your permission." Jim replied. They glared at each other at Zoey slowly made her way off the dock and to the others.
The final boat pulled up while the glare fest was still going on, and an amazingly beautiful girl stepped out, with sunglasses on and light blonde hair. A piece of gum was stuck in her mouth.
"Like, hey Chris. I'm Maddie." She said.
Everyone immediately recognized her for what she was. Chris, his fists clenched, sent her over to the others without another word. Then he got his producer on the phone.
" Are you kidding me? You send me two people who can't even speak fluent English,someone who I owe a favor, and now this!? A dumb blonde is the best you can come up with? You are done! You are so done!" He hung up the phone and sighed. Then he walked over to the campers.
"Right, now that you are all here, let me tour you around. From right here you can see our luxurious cabins", he said sarcastically, "and this way is the mess hall." They all followed him past the building as Chef waved the them.
"Over here is our confessional booth, where you can let out your inner thoughts or secrets. Some of you managed to figure that out before I told you..."
(CONFESSIONAL: Jessica)
Hey, I did as much research on this show as I possibly could.
(END)
Chris continued to show them around the camp, passing the showers and a few other minor landmarks.
"And up here, we have our campfire ceremonies. This is where, tonight, after you've all voted, 13 of you will receive a marshmallow, and one will not. He who does not receive a marshmallow must leave the island and can never, ever come back. Ever."
"Great, now that that's done, go shower up, and meet me back at the dock in half an hour!" Chris walked off, leaving the campers alone.
Thirty minutes later, the fourteen campers arrived at the dock.
"Well," said Chris, "since it was the first day, I was gonna take it easy on you, until Jim and Zoey ruined my fun earlier!"
Everyone stared at him blankly.
"Anyway, today will be a two teamed race. And earlier I had an idea which I just HAD to use. The first team to get a member to that island all the way over there and all the way back wins. There are no rules, other than the facts that you can't use a pre made boat, and unless you get back before sunset, no one wins. The winning team gets invincibility, and cannot be voted off the island today."
The other island was at least three miles away, which meant the campers had to make a six mile round trip. They also could not use a pre made boat, and had only around two hours until, sunset. No one had any idea how they were supposed to get there.
"Now for the teams." Chris said. "Ivy, Preston, Ching, Jessica, Lauren, Sam, and Maddie, you are hereby on the same team, and known as the Toilet Plungers. Jim, Chang, Amy, Zoey, Ross, Ron,and Grade, are hereby known as the Screeching Losers!"
"What kind of team names are those?" Grace asked, clearly annoyed. "They make absolutely no sens-"
"Do you want me to ground you for the rest of the day? No. Then shut up!"
Grace immediately shut up.
"Now, I would have the team members working together, but that would be no fun. The first team member to get back gets their entire team invincibility today, AND themselves invincibility tomorrow!" Chris yelled.
"So, it's basically a free for all. All of you, GO!"
For a moment, no one moved. Then suddenly, there was complete chaos. Ivy knocked Jim to the ground, and said, "Oops." Then she looked around to make sure no one heard her and said, "That's for making all of us complete this stupid challenge!" She ran off as quickly as she appeared. Jim watched as his competitors and teammates scrambled to build a boat out of sticks or try to use a pre existing item for a raft. Jim didn't even know where to start. Even Maddie, the dumb blonde, seemed to basically know what she was doing. He would have teamed up with Jessica, but Chris had put her on the other team.
(CONFESSIONAL: Jim)
It seems to me that Chris put people who would normally be friends on opposite teams, to drive them apart. Ching and Chang, the brothers, are on opposite teams, as well as Ron and Amy who were friends before they got here. Ross and Lauren are also put on opposite teams. I see waht McClain is doing...
(END)
Around a half an hour into the competition, Ivy was the first to launch a boat.
"See all of you losers later." She said, as she rowed quickly towards the island.
"How did she get finished so quickly?" Grace asked.
Sam smiled sheepishly. "She may have promised me a kiss is return for my help... One which she never gave me..."
Three minutes after that, Jessica and launched her boat, paddling as hard as possible. She was quickly gaining on Ivy.
Soon afterwards, 10 other boats went into the water one by one. The only one who was yet to escape from the shore was Sam, who has wasted all of his time building Ivy's boat for her. He sighed, and went to work on his own raft, knowing that it was basically pointless. Ivy stayed in the lead for all of five minutes, until Ching and Chang, who were teaming up even though they were on different teams, paddled past, faster than everyone else because they had two people rowing.
Jim came up behind Ivy, gaining slowly on them. The rest of the boats were so far back that they didn't even matter. Ching and Chang held their lead for a very long time until Ivy, in frustration, took her spare paddle and threw it with all her strength at Ching, causing him to topple out of the boat, shouting Chinese curse words on the way down. He instinctively caught onto the side of the boat, toppling the whole thing over and sending Chang into the water along with him. That brought Ivy back into second place, with Jessica close ahead, and Jim close behind.
"Hey, Ivy, that wasn't fair!" Yelled Jim.
"No rules, remember?" Smirked Ivy. Then she got close to Jessica's boat, and rammed the side of it with the front of hers, causing a huge gap to form in the hull of the small ship.
(CONFESSIONAL: Jessica)
Ivy is such a jerk!
(END)
Ivy laughed as Jessica sank into the water, and she regained her lead. Jim stopped his boat next to where Jessica had fallen in.
"Jump in." he said.
"What are you doing!" Jessica yelled, "you can't let that jerk win!"
"Exactly, and we have a better chance if we team up and both of us paddle. We might be able to get ahead of her. It's the only way at this point."
In the time they had been talking, Ivy had already widened her lead by a few hundred feet.
Jessica nodded, pulled herself into the boat, and began rowing.
(CONFESSIONAL: Jim)
I didn't care about beating Ivy that much, I just wanted to spend some time with Jessica. Oh, Jessica...
(CONFESSIONAL: Jessica)
Why did he help me? He would have overtaken Ivy without me anyway...
(END)
The race was so close between the two teams that it was often impossible to tell who was in the lead. Ivy began falling behind soon, because she was only one person paddling, and the other team was two.
Ivy had managed to get in the lead by getting close to Jim and Jessica's boat, and slamming the side of it with her paddle until it began to leak. Now one of them had to constantly devote their time to shoveling water out of the bottom of the boat. They began falling behind again.
"This is not cool..." Jim said. "That girl is a serious-"
"I can take over paddling for a bit.." Jessica interrupted. She was currently shoveling water out with a small bucket.
Jim smiled. "Sure."
They quickly switched jobs. After a few moments of silence he said, "Jessica, tell me about yourself."
A grin spread over Jessica's face which Jim couldn't see because he was behind her shoveling water out of their leaking boat with all his might.
(CONFESSIONAL: Jessica)
I knew he had a crush on me. I knew it. If I were a mean person, I would totally use this to my advantage... If I were a mean person, anyway...
(END)
The race was almost over. They were only about a thousand feet off shore. It was still close, but it was obvious that Ivy was going to win. Or so they thought.
Just when Ivy was getting ready to do her victory dance, a noise that has been around for a while suddenly grew much louder. The two teams turned just in time to see Sam zooming past them, a boat engine attached to the small raft. He was cheering all the way back. He flew over the finish line in a few seconds.
"No fair!" Yelled Ivy, once she returned to shore in second place, "you said we couldn't use pre made boats!"
"Yep," chuckled Chris, " but I never said you couldn't use the engine."
"Ugh!" Ivy yelled and stomped past Sam who said, "Can I have that kiss now?"
Jim and Jessica got back next. Both of them had blabbed on about their life stories, and they both knew a lot about each other.
"You're an interesting person, Jim." Jessica said.
(CONFESSIONAL: Jim)
Interesting? What does that mean? Like, interesting... Or interesting... Or maybe... Interesting?
(END)
One by one the boats arrived back, all of their occupants devastated that they had lost the competition. Soon, everyone was back.
"Alright." Chris said. "Shower up, go down to Chef's and eat some slop. Meet me at 8:30 on the button after you have all voted. We will see who leaves TDI forever.
"It's been a great first day." Chris said, after everyone had showered in the toxic water and eaten the 'food'. "Some of you did well... Frankly, some of you sucked. But now it is time for elimination. The votes have been cast. Since Sam won this days challenge, he and his team have invincibility."
He threw Sam and each person on Sam's team a marshmallow.
"Now there are six marshmallows on this plate. That's one less than enough for everybody... So who will be eliminated... Who will live to fight anoth-"
"Get on with it already!" Ivy yelled.
He threw a marshmallow to Jim.
"Jim, you stay."
The next one went to Ross, and so on, until Grace and Chang were the only ones left. They stared at each other unhappily. They had become friends by discussing different martial arts techniques. Now one of them would be leaving the island.
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"Grace!"
Chang bowed, and silently made his way down to the dock to where he would be taken away forever. He had been voted off because he was the last one to make it back (due to Ivy sabotaging the brother's boat).
"I avenge you, brother!" Ching yelled.
"... No you won't." Chris said. "At least not until next time. I'm Chris McClain, and this has been...
TOTAL
DRAMA
ISLAND!"
(Cue Credits)
(So, any thoughts? Suggestions? Constructive criticism? Inconsistencies? Just tell me, and I'll do my best to fix the error. I hope you enjoyed it. I'll try to have the next installment by next week.)