Disclaimer: I do not own Total Drama or any of it's characters
"Okay. Today's challenge is threefold. Your first task is to jump off this 1,000 foot high cliff, into the lake."
Bridgette and Tyler looked toward each other. "Piece of cake." Bridgette told him.
Chris continued. The big circle there is the part of the lake that we've filled with psychotic, man-eating sharks. Inside that area is a safe-zone. That's your target area, which we're pretty sure is shark free. Let's see. Screaming Gophers, you're up first."
Trent looked over the edge. "Wow…Okay, who wants to go first?" Nobody spoke up. "Okay…I guess I could go." He stepped up closer and took a deep breath. When he actually jumped, most of his teammates gasped. They didn't expect him to do it.
Everyone watched as Trent landed in the safe-zone. He waved up to his team. Tyler was the next to go. "He did it, yeah! I'm next." He then backed up and ran toward the edge, jumping when he reached the end. He was less fortunate than Trent however, and landed on one of the buoys that made up the safe-zone.
Scott was the next to go, "woohooing" the whole way down. DJ and Lindsay followed, hugging each other in fear and screaming. Then it was Harold, diving straight into the water. He landed in the safe-zone, but belly-flopped, ensuring a painful landing.
Up at the top of the cliff, Heather was less sure about it. "There's no way I'm doing this. You can't make me."
However, Eva stepped in. "Oh, you're jumping." She then picked Heather up right over her head.
"Put me down, RIGHT NOW!" Eva ignored her and threw her right off the edge of the cliff, before jumping down herself. They both landed in the safe-zone. "You are so lucky I didn't die."
"Am I?" Eva questioned before swimming away.
Katie peered over the edge. "There's no way I can jump without Sadie!"
Zoey walked up and looked at Chris. "I can switch places with Sadie."
"Ugh, fine. Go ahead."
Sadie squealed and ran up to Katie. The two then ran off the cliff holding hands.
"That just leaves Dakota." Chris smirked at the girl.
"Nope, sorry but I'm not doing it."
"Suit yourself, but now you'll have to wear the chicken hat." He held out the hat to Dakota.
"Eww. You're kidding right?" When Chris shook her head, she almost started to cry again. "Fine, I'll just jump off the stupid cliff then!" She then walked up and jumped, landing in the safe-zone.
"Okay, everyone jumped. Killer Bass, you all have to jump or you'll lose this part of the challenge."
Bridgette was the first to walk to the edge. "Okay. Who wants to go?" Similar to before, nobody spoke up. "Okay, I'll go. It's no big deal…" She jumped, landing in the safe zone, smiling from the rush.
"Yeah! That's no problem!" Geoff followed off the cliff, landing right next to Bridgette. The boat came to pick them up. Brick, Duncan, and Alejandro could be seen following.
Anne Maria stood far from the edge. "As if I'm gunna jump and get my hair wet."
"Come on Anne Maria, we can't win if you don't jump." Zoey pleaded.
"Actually…I don't think I can do it either." Cameron had his head hung low.
Owen nodded. "If they're not jumping, there's no point in any of us jumping."
Beth and Staci both nodded in agreement. Zoey looked too worried though, holding her hand to her face in thought. "Well I can't make any of you jump…and if we're going to lose anyways…fine, we won't jump."
"Alright then. Since, less than half of the Bass jumped, they lose the first part of the challenge." The Gophers all cheered from below. "Which means that you six all have to wear chicken hats." He handed the hats to each of the remaining campers.
When Chris and the other campers reached the beach, the Bass members that jumped gave their teammates the cold shoulder. "Gophers, since you won the first challenge, you can have this for the next part of the challenge." Chris gestured toward a wooden pull wagon. "The next part of the challenge is to take these crates back to the cabins. However you do this is up to you, but Gophers, you have the wagons. You can all start the challenge…now!"
DJ, Eva, and Tyler began to load their wagons with crates. All of the Bass tried to grab a crate to either push or carry.
The Gophers could be seen walking and talking as they took turns pulling the wagons. Heather and Harold lagged behind some since neither of them were pulling wagons right now. Harold began to walk closer to Heather. Heather was visibly disgusted. "Can you please keep your distance?"
"Sure I can. I just thought you might want to know that nobody here seems to like you. Once we lose, you'll be the first to go."
"Did I ask you?"
Heather: Ugh. That geek's right. I didn't think I'd have to do this so early in the competition but it looks like I'll have to "make some friends."
Heather sighed. "I guess you're right though. I'll go apologize to Eva later."
"Wow, you turned that around fast."
"I'll let you in on a very valuable secret in this game: keep your friends close, and you're enemies closer."
"Oh…I'm your friend though, right?"
"Oh yeah." Heather nodded, smiling.
Up ahead, Scott and Eva were pulling a wagon together. Scott glanced back at Heather and Harold before speaking to Eva. "I don't trust Heather. She's been nothing but nasty to everyone, but now she's being friendly with Harold of all people. That's just not right."
Eva was almost growling. "That witch is crafty! We need to get rid of her right away."
"So what do you say we throw the challenge and vote her out?"
Eva dropped her end of the wagon and yelled at Scott. "Shut it and pull! I'm not throwing a challenge for anyone!"
Scott rolled his eyes and looked down at the wagon that had now fallen out of his hands. It was broken beyond use. "Way to go, now we have to carry these crates."
Eva rubbed the back of her head and looked around, embarrassed. Everyone had stopped to look at the situation. "I-I'm sorry okay! I'll carry a freaking crate!" She picked up a crate and left the others behind. Heather smirked from the back of the group.
The Bass were struggling as they pushed their crates through the sand. They all had their own crates except Cameron, and Beth, who shared, and Staci and Brick, who also shared. Surprisingly, the commotion that Eva caused allowed the Bass to catch up. Duncan was of course the first to gloat. "Looks like you can't win even with the advantage!"
"Why don't you shut it!" Eva screamed at him.
"Hey don't feel bad. Our team has its weak links too" Duncan glanced back at Zoey, Cameron and Beth.
Zoey: I'm starting to wonder if I did the wrong thing.
Eva: I make one mistake and suddenly everyone's against me!
The teams both arrived at the cabins at the same time. Chris was waiting for them. "Okay everyone, the final part of today's challenge is to open your crates, and assemble a hot tub from the supplies inside."
Geoff: Hot tubs make for wicked parties. We need this hot tub.
DJ looked around at the crates. "How do we get them open?" Just then, Eva threw her crate across the campground. It broke once it hit the ground.
Trent walked over to the broken box. "I guess that works."
Over by the Bass cabin, Anne Maria was struggling to open her crate when Geoff walked up to her. "Hey handsome. Mind giving me a hand over here?"
"Relax. The Gopher's are a mess right now. You don't need to rush. Besides, I know hot tubs inside and out! We've got this challenge in the bag."
"If you say so, but I can't open this stupid crate!"
"Just keep working on it." Geoff walked on.
Anne Maria: If Geoff knows so much about hot tubs, why isn't he doing the flippin' challenge?
By the time the Gophers had put their hot tub together and were beginning to fill it with water, the Bass had only just started the assembly of theirs. Alejandro, Geoff, and Duncan were doing most of the building as Cameron looked at the pieces that hadn't been used yet. "Guys, I don't think you're doing this right."
Duncan just kept building. "Shut it dweeb."
Geoff walked up to Cameron. "I've spent more time in hot tubs than any of these guys. I promise I know what they look like."
Cameron: Geoff's making a huge mistake! You can't do something like this based on your eyes only! That being said…Duncan could probably rip me in half so I'll butt out and hope it works for them.
When both teams had finished their hot tubs, Chris came by for inspection. He looked at the Gopher's tub and tested the water's temperature before ruling that it was "not bad."
The Bass's tub looked like it could spill over at any second. Sure enough, once Chris reached it for inspection, it did spill over. Chris was visibly angry. "I think the winner here is clear. Screaming Gophers, you get to keep your hot tub for the rest of the summer. As for the Bass. I'll be seeing you guys at the campfire tonight."
Bridgette seemed to be really disappointed, but not angry. "Geoff, I thought you knew how to build a hot tub!"
"I thought so too! It was so much harder than I thought!"
Duncan suddenly butted in. "Now hold on. We would've had time if these guys would've just jumped like we did." He was talking about all six of the campers that didn't jump, but he was looking right at Cameron.
"I made my own decision. These guys couldn't make up their own minds." Anne Maria rolled her eyes.
"This is it campers. I will give out marshmallows to each of you that is staying tonight. I have ten marshmallows and eleven of you. Whoever does not get a marshmallow will take a walk down the dock of shame, and ride home on the boat of losers! Oh. And you can't come back…EVER! Anyways, marshmallows go to…
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Zoey. Can't say I'm surprised Geoff. You totally blew this challenge."
Geoff held his head low and walked down the dock. The boat drove away with the first eliminated camper.
"Well there you have it. Tune in next time for more friendships, fights, and of course, drama!"
A/N: I sort of just wanted to finish so I'm sorry if it seems a bit rushed toward the end. Anyways, I tried to get some different characters involved but I know some people still haven't gotten much attention. Let me know if you have any complaints or suggestions.
