Introductory Note: This is my first first fanfic so I might be choppy on the format. This fanfic will be a recreation of the American Version of The Office using the characters from Total Drama. I'm not going to do all episodes of The Office, I'm just going pick any episode that fits some characters, important on continuity, and sometimes on a subplot that I like.
The first chapters will mostly feature the original Total Drama cast with one from Ridonculous Race. Also, there will be some characters who will remain the one's they were from The Office because I couldn't find anyone from Total Drama that fits with those certain characters (except one character because I like that character). The characters will be aged up to fit the characters they are representing.
Also, the years this story is set in will be the same as the episodes they were premiered. So expect some references you might not get.
Prologue
When the office first heard that they'll be the subject of a documentary, they were surprised that someone wanted to film a paper company from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Actually, the paper company wasn't the first choice for the documentary crew. Their first choices were either one of the famous companies like Microsoft, HP, or Disney. But all of those said no to the documentary crew. Luckily the higher ups of the paper company heard about the documentary and they agreed to them film their company. The paper company picked its Scranton Branch because they had good reports coming from that branch.
The workers in the office at first were a little bit uncomfortable with the crew's presence at first, but they were starting to feel okay when they realized the prospect of being in TV, despite the documentary airing on PBS. The only rule the crew enforced on the office workers is to never interact with the production crew while they're filming, besides their introduction and the occasional talking head interviews, or as one office worker called it " confessionals". Although the people in the office were breaking that rule more often during the years they were filmed, but the production crew didn't punish them for it.
The documentary crew stayed with the Scranton Branch for over 9 years and got a lot of good footage for the documentary. But when the documentary crew started to roll their cameras for the first, they were expecting high levels of professionalism coming from the workers. What they actually got though were a series of wackiness and random occurrences from the Scranton branch doing those 9 year period.
Yet, the crew still stay with them because they saw something different from them unlike the normal office setting. Though there were some ups and downs coming from the office workers, they have some sense of emotions and positive vibes from the people of the Scranton Branch.
And this is the story they got from them.
Episode 1: Pilot
The documentary starts with its camera capturing a small meeting between the regional manager of the office branch and one of its top salesman of the branch. The regional manager is in his mid to late 30s, although he would like to tell the documentary crew he's about 27. The salesman is a handsome young man in his late 30s with black hair and green eyes that would make anyone be attracted to him.
"All right Trent. Your quarterlies look very good. How are things at the library?" The regional manager said to the salesman.
"Oh, I told you. I couldn't close it. So…" the salesman replied before being interrupted by his boss.
"So you've come to the master for guidance?" The manager playfully asked. "Is that what you're saying grasshopper?"
"Uh no you called me in actually. But yeah." The salesman refuted back.
"Oh. All right then, I'll show how it's done."
The camera cuts seconds later with the manager talking to the library on the phone. "Yes, hello. This is Chris McClean, the regional manager of Dunder Drama Paper Products. Just want to talk to you manager-a-manager." After a few seconds, the library office manager reached a deal with the paper manager. "All right, thank you very much. You're such a gentleman and a… oh I'm sorry, I'm mean madame. My mistake."
"That was a woman on the phone." The regional manager told his salesman. "She had a low voice. But anyway, that's how it's done."
After the meeting, the regional manager, Chris McClean, then talked to the camera for his first confessional in the manager's office. "I've been working with Dunder Drama for 12 years with the last 4 being regional manager of the Scranton Branch. Dunder Drama was actually named after it's 2 founders: Robert Dunder and William Drama. Yeah I didn't know that there are people who are named Drama, but I'm not here to complain."
The camera then cuts to the whole office with them following Chris as he introduced one of the people who worked on the office. "Over here on the front desk is our receptionist Gwen Beesley."
The camera caught a girl the same age as the other salesperson, but sporting a goth look with black hair with blue streaks. "Gwen has been work with us for uh, forever. Right, Gwen?"
"Well, I don't know." Gwen coldly replied back.
"You know this office would've been more bright if she wasn't goth." Chris told the cameras.
"I can still hear you you know." Gwen said before switching to work related subject.
"So any messages?"
"Just a fax from Jan".
Chris groaned loudly. "Okay fine. Thanks Gwen."
Just as the camera sees a woman in a suit, who's about the same age as Chris, entering the office, Chris used the confessional in his office.
*Chris' Confessional*
Corporate doesn't really influence me. Including Dunder Drama vice president Jan Levison Gold. I call her the "Evil Queen" from Snow White. But not to her face though.
Jan and Chris started a meeting in Chris' office with Gwen also attending to take notes. "Alright Chris is there anything to add on the agenda?" Jan asked Chris.
"Me got no agenda." Chris replied in a the tone of a giant.
"I'm sorry, what?"
"I didn't get the agenda." Chris said in his normal voice.
"But I faxed it and gave it Gwen. Didn't Gwen gave it to you?"
"Well maybe she gave me the wrong paper."
"Actually, you threw it on the garbage under your 'Special Files' section." Gwen corrected Chris.
"Yeah that was a joke." Chris told Gwen.
"Anyway, the board of directors had a meeting today and decided we can't save both the Scranton and Stamford branch." Jan told Chris, who's begin to worry. "Chris don't panic."
"It's okay, I'm not panicking. It's all good. It's aaaaaalllll good."
"Well I told Josh the same thing and you and him have convince one another to do it."
Chris widens his eyes. "My alarm bells are going off. Ding-ding-ding-ding!"
Just as Chris continued imitating an alarm bell, Gwen feels uncomfortable being in the meeting. "Chris!" Jan interrupted. "You know this means a possible downsizing between your's or Josh's branch."
Chris calmed down. "Okay, no problem. But downsizing's a bitch. And I wouldn't wished that on my crew. Or Josh's crew. Or any man, woman and child on this planet."
"Alright, but I ask you not to blow the lid on the downsizing."
"Can't do that Jan. Cause we're a family in this office and we're not suppose to keep secrets."
*Chris' Confessional*
*Camera shows Jan leaving the office with a voiceover of Chris*
Am I going to sugar coat this downsizing? No.
It's not gonna be like a doctor who can't tell his or her patients that they have a horrible disease with a parade of clowns dancing behind the doctor.
When the entire office heard about the rumors of a possible downsizing, most of them began to worry that they'll be losing their jobs. But for others, like Gwen and the salesman from earlier, are talking other things like any normal day.
"I have an important question to ask you, Trent?" Gwen asked.
"What is it?" Trent asked.
"Are you going to Heather's cat party Saturday?"
Trent laughed. "Alright stop this is ridiculous."
As Gwen and Trent continued laughing, a young man with brown hair in his early 20s entered the office, but Chris noticed him before Gwen could call him.
"Hey!" Chris said to the man.
"Hey." The young man timidly said back.
"This is our 'wonderful' boss, Mr. McClean." Gwen sarcastically said.
"Hi, I'm Cody Howard from the temp agency. Danquia sent for me."
"Howard? Like Three Stooges?"
"Yup."
"You know I'm a big thespian in the realm of comedy. Wanna see my Three Stooges routine?"
*Gwen's Confessional*
*A voiceover of Gwen as Michael does his Three Stooges impression*
I don't think it would worst if they fire because… I don't think young girls ever dream receptionist.
Especially not on Dunder Drama Scranton. I basically want to be a painter. I mostly do, how you say… abstract art.
*stays quiet for 5 seconds*
Trent likes them though.
On Trent's desk, just as he was finishing a sales call on the phone, he noticed that his coworker/desk mate was moving his stuff onto Trent's desk. "Ezekiel what are you doing?" Trent asked the other man who looked like he never had any social interactions with normal human beings.
"Cleaning my desk. Can't concentrate." He replied back to Trent.
"It's not just your desk Ezekiel."
"It's overlapping. It's spilling over the edge. One word, two syllables. Demarcation." Minutes later, just as Ezekiel got back from his coffee break, he noticed Trent built a ford made of sharp pencils all over his desk. "You can't do that." Ezekiel told Trent.
"Why not?"
"Safety violations. I could fall and pierce and organ."
"We'll see." Bothered by the pencils, Ezekiel smashed them with his phone, amusing Trent. "See this is why this whole downsizing thing doesn't bother me." Trent said.
"Did you just say 'downsizing'?!" A shocked Ezekiel said.
*Ezekiel Confessional*
Downsizing? I have no problem with that. I have been recommending downsizing since I first got here. I even brought it up in my interview. I say, bring it on.
On the front desk, Gwen reminded Chris that he still have messages from yesterday.
"Okay, they look important. I should run them and answer them." Chris jokingly said.
Chris then pretended to run by taking giant steps and making sound effects with them, which Gwen isn't amused by it. "What are you doing?" An annoyed Gwen asked.
'The Six Million Dollar Man?" Chris replied, but Gwen just coldy stared at him. "Come on. Steve Austin. Actually, that would be a good salary. Enough for me to have a good young look." Chris then held up a piece of paper and pretended to write on it. "Memo to Jan: I deserve a raise."
"Don't we all?"
"I'm sorry? What did you just say?"
"Nothing." Gwen quickly replied back.
"Well, if you're unhappy with your work situation, maybe you should take it to Dwayne from HR."
*Chris' Confessional*
I'm considered to be a good role model here. I garner people's respect.
*Camera cuts to Chris announcing an office meeting while imitating a PA system*
My role models are Billy Crystal, Abraham Lincoln… the boss Bruce Springsteen is also a good role model. And they really helped people so much that it's out of this world. It's incalculable.
*Sips from a coffee mug inscribed "World's Greatest Boss"*
Chris gathered everyone in the office to the confessional room, except for Cody who's calling on the phone the main room. "I heard they might be closing this branch down." Cody said to someone on the phone. "That's just the rumor going around. This is my first day. I don't really know."
Back in the conference room, Chris tried to calm everyone down about what he's about to say. "Now I know there's a rumor hanging around in here," Chris said, "and I just want to set the records straight."
"I'm Assistant Regional Manager." Ezekiel interrupted. "I should know first."
"Assistant to the Regional Manager, Zeek." Chris corrected him.
"Okay… but can you at least tell me quietly and whisper it in my ear?"
"No, everyone's going to hear this now, alright!" Chris shut Ezekiel up. "Corporate has forced an ultimatum on me. Jan told me that they're considering downsizing this branch or Stamford's." Just as Chris mentioned the word "downsizing", every worker in the office besides Ezekiel started to panic. Chris tried to calm the office by handing Gwen a floor to speak.
"Um… I was in the meeting with Jan and Chris earlier this morning." Gwen told everyone. "She said it could be this branch that gets the axe."
Everyone started become more scared that the either one of them would be fired while a few others like Trent tried to remain calm.
*Trent's Confessional*
If I left, what would I do with all this useless information in my head? You know? Tonnage price of manila folders? Um, Gwen's favorite flavor of yogurt, which is mixed berry.
*Gwen's Confessional*
Trent said mixed berries? Well, yeah, he's on to me. Um…
*Laughs*
After the meeting, Chris tried to make things more happy by introducing Cody the temp to other people in the office, starting with Ezekiel. "Watch for this guy. Ezekiel Schrute in the building." Chris joked. "This is Cody, the new temp."
"What's up? Nice to meet you." Cody introduced himself to Ezekiel.
"Introduce yourself and be polite, Zeek." Chris instructed.
"Ezekiel Schrute, Assistant Regional Manager."
"Assistant to the Regional Manager." Chris annoyingly corrected Ezekiel again. "So Zeek, tell Cody about your beet farm and your kung fu moves."
"The beet farm is going well." Ezekiel said. "But I will not tell him about my kung fu moves. It's my warriors code not to tell my enemies the secret to defeat them."
"Uh oh, looks like we have a giant nerd here." Chris said in a funny voice.
Just as Chris and Cody were about to leave, Ezekiel opened his drawer and found a surprise inside. "Damn it, Trent!" Ezekiel shouted, gaining the attention of Chris.
"OK, the court is in session. What is it now Ezekiel?"
"He put my stuff in jello again!" Ezekiel lifted a plate of yellow jello with a stapler inside. Gwen saw it and quietly laughed from her desk. "This is real professional, Trent! This is the third time and it wasn't funny the first two times!"
*Ezekiel's Confession*
It's OK here, but people sometimes take advantage because it's so relaxed. I'm a volunteer Sheriff's Deputy on the weekends. And you cannot screw around there. That's sort of one of the rules I had to follow.
Ezekiel tried to take his stapler out the jello, but Chris is against it. "No. No. Stop it Ezekiel, there are starving people in Africa. Which I hate." Chris told the camera before going back to Ezekiel. "And it's a waste of a perfectly good food."
"Alright then. You there, new guy! Can you be my witness?" Ezekiel pointed to Cody.
"How do you know it was me?" Trent calmly interrupted.
"It's always you. I can feel it. Are you going to discipline him, Chris?"
Chris was acting immature for a moment before acting professional again. "Alright, here's the deal guys. When it comes to practical jokes, there is a time to start and a time to stop."
"Yeah!" Ezekiel cheered.
"And Trent, this is a time to stop."
Trent nodded in agreement. "Okay, I understand. Zeek, I'm sorry, but I have always been your biggest flan."
Cody laughed at Trent's remarks. "Maybe we should put you in custurdy."
Chris really like Cody's joke "Nice! Score one for the new guy!" Chris said and high fived Cody. "Alright let's get on with the rest of the crew." Chris brought Cody to a desk with three people. "This little island is the Accountants. And the one leading the crew is Heather Wong. Or as people call her the 'Queen Bee'."
Chris introduced Cody to Heather, a Chinese-American who is about the same as Gwen. "What's up, I'm Cody." Cody wanted to shake hands with Heather, but she refused.
"I don't shake hands with new people until I get to know them better. Heather said. "And from the looks of it, you look like a dog person."
Chris moved on to a big man sitting across from Heather. "Here we have our residential teddy bear, Owen Malone." Chris said
"Hey there." Owen said to Cody before he got up from his desk. "Wanna a welcome a hug?"
Cody then went on a defensive formation. "Um… maybe later." He told Owen.
Just as Owen happily sat down, Chris introduced the last accountant. "And now the smartest of the bunch, straight from Hawaii Justin Hale!" Chris said like a game show host. Justin, who is described by Chris as the "second" hottest person of office, waved to Cody. "Justin, by the way, is our first openly gay worker in this office." Chris said before he turned to the camera. "Which I'm not against, by the way. I think Dunder Drama needs to be forward thinking for the future."
"Yeah, I'm not like one of those types of gay stereotypes you see on TV." Justin told Cody. I'm just a regular guy who happens to work on a small paper company."
"Oh no I'm cool with being openly gay. I'm not homophobic or anything." Cody said.
"Thanks. And by the way. By the time you get to know more of this office, you'll find that I'm one of the few normal people here." Justin told him.
Chris and Cody then went to a red-headed woman in her 40s who's seated behind the accountants. "And here we have our suppliers relations, Meredith Palmer."
"Hi there." Cody said.
"Hey, you want to me after work and 'hang out'?" Meredith told Cody.
"Probably best if you say no." Chris instructed Cody. Chris then introduced an orange-haired girl sitting across from Meredith. "And here we have Izzy and she's in charge of… something."
"That is correct." Izzy told Chris and Chris didn't argue about it.
Chris and Cody then moved on to the desk behind Ezekiel. "This is our senior salespeople of the office. This is our 'office grandma' Beth Lapis." Chris introduced to a girl with glasses and brown hair.
"Actually Chris, I'm a couple years younger than you." Beth corrected before Chris tried ignore her by moving to an older African-American sitting across from Beth.
"And here is Stanley Hudson. The light of our life in this office!" Chris introduced, but Stanley ignored them by doing crosswords. After that, Chris and Cody then moved on to the back office. "This here is the annex. And here's Sierra Aguilar, who works on customer service." Chris introduced Cody to a Latino girl with purple hair.
"Hi." Sierra said while trying to contain her excitement by the sight of Cody
"Um… hi." Cody said.
Chris and Cody moved on to the final person, a middle-aged man with brown hair, working in the office. "And last and definitely least: Dwayne Flenderson!"
*Chris' Confession*
Dwayne is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate, so he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.
The camera cuts to Gwen and Trent having a conversation with one another in the front desk like any other day in the office. "Do you like having an end of the week drink?" Trent asked.
"By working with the most annoying boss, hell yeah!" Gwen said.
"Well get this, all of us here are having a middle-of-the-week drink later tonight. Are you game?"
"Oh I'm definitely game."
The two were then interrupted by a slightly large man, who was the same age as the two, with a bag entering the office. Trent became scared by the sight of man. "What's up, Roy?"
"What's up, Trent my man." The man said before going to Gwen. "Hey. Are you ready?"
"Almost." Gwen replied.
*Gwen's Confessional*
Roy's my fiancé. We've been engaged about three years. We were supposed to get married in September but I think we're gonna get married in the spring.
"Hey, Roy do you think I can hang out with these guys later?" Gwen asked Roy.
"No. No. I just wanna get home after work."
"Okay. I'm just gonna be ready for 25 minutes because I still have to send Chris some messages." Gwen said in an almost sad voice as if she won't see Trent later before leaving her desk.
With Gwen gone, Trent and Roy tried to remain quiet as if they don't want to be the first to talk. "So um… what's in the bag?" Trent gave in. Roy didn't answered and left as if he was a little bit mad.
*Trent's Confessional*
Do I think I'm gonna be invited to the wedding? Um… *long period of silence and scratches his head*
With only a quarter to 5, Chris and Cody are in Chris' office and decided to have a little chat. "So have you felt the vibe yet?" Chris asked but Cody shrugged. "Okay. I guess the atmosphere I've created here is I'm a your friend first, then boss second… and probably an entertainer for third." Chris was then interrupted when he heard a knock on the door. "Okay, do you watch prank shows like Punk'd?" Cody didn't answer Chris. "Okay let me show you. And you're gonna be my accomplice." Chris then acts calm to prepare for his prank. "Come in."
Gwen walks in with a stalk of paper in her hands. "Chris I need you to…"
"Not now Gwen, just have a seat. I have something important to tell you." Chris interrupted. Not knowing what's going on, Gwen followed Michael and sat down. "As you know, there's going to be a downsizing." Gwen nodded in agreement, but is starting to feel scared. "Well you just made my life easier and I'm gonna say I'm eliminating you from this office."
"What?! Why?!" A surprised Gwen asked.
"Well, for stealing post-it notes."
Gwen is confused by what he said. "Post-it notes?! Chris those cost 50 cents a piece!"
"Yeah, but you could've made a profit from it. You're gonna run us out of business."
"Are you serious?! I mean I've never stolen everything in my life!"
"I am serious. And I'm also we're not going to give you a severance pay because it's a gross misconduct so… clean your desk you're gone."
Chris then noticed Gwen started to cry, the first he actually seen her like that. Knowing he feels bad about, Chris decided to end the prank "Surprise! You've been punk'd!" Chris said which made Gwen stopped crying. "Come on it's a joke. I just wanted to make Cody feel welcome about the office." The camera then showed Cody shaking his head showing his disagreement on the joke.
"You're a jerk!" Gwen said and stormed off Chris' office leaving just silence between Chris and Cody.
*Chris' Confessional*
What is the most important thing for a company? Is it the cash flow? Is it the inventory? Nuh-uh. It's the people. The people. My proudest moment here was not when I increased profits by 17% or when I cut expenses without losing a single employee. No, no. It was a young man who recently graduated from college. He came to me, and said, "Mr. Scott, would you help get a job in Dunder Drama?" Wow. Wow. Didn't work out in the end. We had to let him go. He sucked.
Gwen came out of the restroom after cleaning her face from the prank Chris did and noticed Trent being the only one in the office. "Hey, I thought you were suppose to go out drinking with the others?" Gwen asked.
"Oh no, I decided to not go. So how's your headache?"
"Fine, thanks."
"Oh great… um…. Do you want to?" Trent was then interrupted by a car horn outside.
"Well I better get going. Have a nice weekend." Gwen said to Trent.
"You too." Trent said and Gwen left. With no one else in the office, Trent decided to have one more prank before leaving. "You know what, follow me." Trent told the camera and they followed him to the office and showed them a plate of jello with Chris' "World's Greatest Boss" mug in the jello.
So that's the end of the first episode. New chapters will be updated weekly.
Author's Note: I originally was going to cast Izzy as Meredith, but I decided to make her be Creed because both of them have the same type of personalities in their respective series.
