Writers Notes: Thanks to HGranger89 for beta reading this.
Chris stood on the docks as he yelled out the recap. "Last time on Total Drama Island: 22 campers arrived and learned that they'd be spending the summer at an old crappy run-down summer camp, where they compete for a grand prize of $100,000! After getting settled in, the campers faced their first challenge, where Courtney and DJ chickened out, costing Team Killer Bass the win. Despite her best efforts, Courtney wasn't able to talk herself out of elimination and was the first camper voted off. Who will be next? Find out today on Total Drama Island!"
*** Intro ***
The sun was only beginning to rise for the campers on a new day at Camp Wawanakwa, with birds starting to chirp as they woke up, and the sound of someone's light footsteps as they walked across the grass, still wet with morning due all the campers were peacefully snoozing away in their bunks.
Chris walked down to the campgrounds, a happy grin on his face as he held a megaphone in front of himself. Once he reached the middle between the east and west cabins, he pulled an air horn out of his pocket and positioned it right in front of the megaphone, pressing down and releasing a loud noise out across the island.
LeShawna instantly woke up, sitting up straight and hitting her head on the bunk above her. "Ow!" She yelled, waking up her cabin-mates in the process. "It's seven in the morning!" She opened the window on the side of her cabin and looked out, to see Chris standing there, waving innocently, with a big grin on his face. "Do I look like a farmer to you?" She growled.
Chris smiled and chuckled, ignoring LeShawna as she mumbled something about the host and how much she already hated him. The campers groaned and rolled out of bed; almost everyone looked tired or mad, aside from the very peppy Ezekiel, Beth and Bridgette; the first two lived on a farm and were used to waking up early, while Bridgette always woke up early to catch the early morning waves. Exiting their camp, Duncan tripped Ezekiel and Harold.
"Hey?" Harold looked up at Duncan, who was laughing at the two of them.
"Not cool dude, not cool!" Tyler supported.
"Very mature Duncan," Bridgette replied as she helped the two up, as the punk just rolled his eyes. "Are you two, alright?"
"Yes," Harold replied as he wiped off the dirt of his shirt, while Ezekiel just looked around awkwardly and wrung his hands, unused to talking to girls.
A fully-asleep and equally anger Eva was listening to her MP3 player and snarled at Cody when he attempted to touch it.
"Morning! I hope you all slept well!" Chris yelled out with a bright smile, seemingly pleased that nearly all the campers were exhausted and glaring at him.
"Can we just sleep for... ten more minutes?" Lindsay asked, swaying from side to side as she tried to stay awake, "I need my beauty sleep."
"Me too," Justin yawned.
"Let me think about that for a minute..." He then smiled, "No." The host replied bluntly and laughed, before walking down the line. "Okay, I hope you're ready because your next challenge begins in exactly one minute!" He tapped at the watch on his wrist, his grin only growing in size.
"Uh, Chris?" Owen asked with a nervous chuckle. "I don't think that's enough time to eat breakfast."
"Oh, don't worry Owen, you'll get breakfast," Chris replied. "Right after you complete your 20 kilometres run around the lake." Nearly all of the campers groaned in tired frustration.
"Oh, you're funny now?" Eva attempted to tackle Chris but was held back by Geoff, Tyler, DJ and Duncan. "How about I rearrange your face! Wouldn't that be funny?"
"Eva, try to control your temper," Bridgette replied, Eva, squeezed her stress ball and turned up her music.
*** Confessional Bridgette ***
"Eva needs to keep her anger in check. She's already busted a lock on one of the bathroom stalls, broken a window and punched a hole in our cabin wall because Sadie spilled nail polish on her bed. I'm normally an easy going person, but that anger of hers will get her in trouble."
*** Outside the cabins ***
The campers all stood in position at the starting line, many appearing to be very reluctant to begin their run, looking like they were about to pass out.
"Alright campers, on your mark... get set... go!"
The campers all took off running at once, well Tyler stumbled and fell on his face, Eva, Trent, DJ, Bridgette and Duncan led the pack, with Justin and Geoff close behind. Not far behind them were Izzy and Lindsay. The others had started running, but most of them were now slowly walking.
"Do you know how much longer?" Harold asked as he walked beside Ezekiel, Gwen, Noah and Cody, the latter of which was attempting to play it cool with Gwen, but it was just annoying her.
"I know eh, I'm sweating like a pig," Ezekiel added.
"Well, the average walking speed in about five to six kilometre per hour so." Noah was beginning to explain as Gwen cut him off, "So if we keep this up we should be there by 10:30 or 11:00."
"Yeah, you three..." she turned to Cody, "you four, don't walk near me."
"I understand," Cody smiled pulling on a 'cool' voice, "You wanted to be left alone I can totally relate." Gwen rolled her eyes and picked up her pace.
"Dude," Harold shook his head.
"What?" Cody raised an eyebrow.
"Nothing," Noah replied, "She's totally into you."
"Really?" Cody smiled, obviously not picking up on Noah's sarcasm.
"Totally. Go get her Romeo," Noah smirked and patted the teen on the back, Cody immediately took off running towards Gwen, making Noah facepalm as his sarcasm went over Cody's head.
As Cody ran after Gwen, they passed Heather who was strolling by herself, barely putting in any effort at all, earning her annoyed glares as her teammates ran by her.
*** Confessional Heather ***
"I don't run, especially not with these shoes. If my team has a problem with that, they'll have to deal with it."
*** In the woods ***
As Heather continuing walking, she came upon Owen, who was licking up water from a puddle.
"Can't... catch...breath...must...have... condition!" Owen collapsed back into the puddle, unable to fully catch his breath.
"Yeah, it's called overeating," Heather coldly told her exhausted teammate stepping over him."Look into it, fatso."
"Oh, what's your excuse? You mean-spirited... annoying...Oh Lord, too tired for insults." Leshawna leaned against a tree and tried to catch her breath as Chris rode by on an electric scooter.
"Pick up the pace, campers. If you don't make it to the finish line, then you don't eat."
"I hate him, " Heather spat as she glared at the host riding by
"You know what white girl, as annoying as you are, that's one thing we can agree on," Leshawna added.
*** Inside the Mess Hall ***
Many of the campers had already finished their run and were sitting at their tables, exhausted and awaiting their remaining teammates. Suddenly, Owen burst through the door, carrying a passed out Noah over his shoulders.
"Clear a table stat; we got a man down!"
Owen dropped Noah down onto the table and began to administer CPR as Heather and Leshawna stumbled in.
"We...we...made it," Leshawna nearly collapsed but was slowly able to make it to her table, the last member to finish was Harold who was, out of breath and sweating.
"What took you so long dork?" Duncan asked in an angry tone, glaring at the ginger waving his fist at him."We just lost the challenge!"
"We lost again!" Eva went to tackle Harold, only to be held back by Geoff and Tyler.
"Are you alright?" Ezekiel pointed at Harold, "You look like you're about to have a heart attack, eh?"
"I think I have heart palpitations," Harold added while doubled over, holding his chest.
"Um, should he see a doctor or something?" DJ asked considered for the ginger safety, Chris just shrugged seemingly he didn't care about Harold's condition.
"He looks great to me," Chris smiled, and slapped the aforementioned teen of the back, he collapsed to the ground gasping for air, "see he's fine." Ezekiel and Tyler helped the tired teen up.
"Wait... so if they lost... then we will win the challenge," Gwen yelled. Soon after, the remaining Gophers all cheered with her, including Noah who somehow was revived by the excellent news, Harold looked down in shame as sunk in his seat. Tyler and Ezekiel gave him a pat on the back, letting him know everything was okay.
"Hold it guys, you didn't win anything," Chris said with a smile, Harold perked up a little after hearing that.
"Excuse me?" Leshawna raised an eyebrow, as Chris chuckled.
"Let me ask you guys something. Who's hungry?" Chris motions towards a curtain, which opened to reveal a buffet of delicious looking food. A huge turkey dinner, and much more. The campers stared at it with eyes watering; after days of Chef's cooking, they felt like they were dreaming.
*** Confessional Gwen ***
"I know I speak for everyone: after eating nothing but brown sludge. We almost died when we saw the dinner."
*** Confessional Owen ***
"Never have I seen something so beautiful in my entire life," Owen began to weep with joy.
*** Mess Hall ***
The campers were moaning in pain, many lying down on tables in a food coma. Chris looked around and smiled, taking great delight in their condition.
"Alright campers, are you ready for today's challenge?"
"But... I thought the 20-kilometre hike was the challenge?" Owen talked with his mouth full of turkey.
"Haven't we suffered enough for the day?" Heather said.
"No," Chris chuckled, "It's time for the Awakeathon!"
"What?" Tyler asked.
"This is an easy one Tyler, whoever stays awake the longest wins immunity for their team!" Chris yelled through the megaphone right in front of Tyler, causing his ears to bleed and ringing painfully. "Whichever team has the last person standing wins."
"So the stupid run and turkey dinner was just your sick twisted plan to make it harder for us to stay awake?!" Eva yelled, her eyes narrowing into slits and her fists clenched at her sides. Chris' smug smile was all the campers needed to confirm Eva's question.
"Okay campers, to the bonfire area."
"WHAT?" Tyler replied, having become temporary deaf.
"Just follow me, eh?" Ezekiel pulled on Tyler's arm.
The campers started to slowly exit the mess hall one by one as Trent approached Gwen.
"So, how long before everyone's sleep?"
"Hour or two," She replied. Owen then lurched passed them, looking like he was about to pass out, Cody attempted to approach Gwen but tripped in a pile of Owen's drool. Cody tried to play it off as he meant to do it, Gwen was already gone before Cody got up, and Noah facepalmed at Cody's failed attempt to flirt with Gwen.
"What?" He chuckled.
"Oh, nothing, you'll have her swept off her feet in on time flat," Noah replied, Cody, smiled and went to check up with her, as Cody left Noah mimic putting a gun to his head.
*** Bonfire ***
"We are now twelve hours in, and all of the campers are still awake," Chris spoke softly. Many campers were slumped into their seats, while some were moving to stay awake.
"This challenge is easy!" Owen pumped his fist into the air before suddenly passed out.
"This is the most boring thing I've done," Gwen told Trent.
"When it could be worse," he responded.
"Really, how?"
"I could be here without you to talk to." Trent smiled, evoking a small blush from her.
*** Confessional Heather ***
"So, I have a plan to get a few campers to ally with me. Owen is easy; I'll bribe him with food for votes, but who else Is dumb enough to listen to me?"
*** Bonfire ***
Lindsay and Beth were both standing on their hands, while Izzy was watching nearby along with Gwen and Trent.
"What are you doing?" Trent asked.
"Trying to get blood to rush to our heads," Lindsay replied.
"I think its working!" Beth added excitedly.
"Can Izzy try?" Izzy asked them.
"Sure!" Beth smiled.
Heather looked at the three of them with a sinister smiled on her face and walked over to him."Hey, can I talk to you girls for a second?"
"Sure," Beth smiled at her teammate as she alone with Izzy and Lindsay got up and walked over to her.
"So, I'm forming an alliance, and I want you with me!"
"Really?" Izzy asked in a surprised tone.
"Really!" Heather smiled, "Let's just set down some rules. Number one I'm in charge of this alliance. Understand?" They all nodded. "Good."
"Speaking of alliances, you know who I think is really hot?" Lindsay smiled at Tyler; the jocked waved to her before Heather blocked her view.
"You can't date him; Heather scoffed, "He's on the other team. It's against the alliance rules."
"There are rules?" Lindsay asked.
"Yes, Lindsay there are rules," Heather folded her arms, "But if you don't want to follow them, you can leave the alliance. But I can't save you from elimination."
"No, I want to be in the alliance!"
"Me too," Beth added.
"Izzy likes alliances!"
"Good," Heather smirked as they returned to their seats.
An hour later, Katie and Sadie were both asleep on Team Killer Bass; as for the Screaming Gophers, Noah and Cody had also fallen asleep. Gwen and Trent were talking to each other non-stop, Justin stood still like a statue and LeShawna was moving around trying to stay awake. On the Bass Geoff and DJ were chatting happily with each other, Eva and Duncan's expression grew cranky due to lack of sleep. Tyler and Harold were talking to Ezekiel, teaching him a thing or two outside the world of his farm.
"So, Ezekiel?" Tyler asked, "Is there anyone here you like?"
Ezekiel thought for a few minutes, "Well, I guess you, and Tyler, eh."
Harold rubbed the back of his neck, uncomfortably, "That's not really what I meant. I mean... you know like like." This just left the homeschooled boy even more confused, "I mean...Well, do you find anyone here cute?"
"Yeah, any girls you like here, or boys, I don't judge," Tyler replied.
Ezekiel was left puzzled as he looked around the campsite, he found many of the girls here scary. Eva, Izzy, Gwen, Leshawna, Heather and the girl who got voted off first. "Well... I guess... Bridgette is nice. She did help us earlier when Duncan picked on us; and she's so brave, she was the first to jump during our first challenge."
"She's sitting over there all alone, why don't you talk to her?" Harold suggested to the prairie boy pointing to Bridgette sitting alone, on the other side of the campfire.
"Yeah, dude!" Tyler nudged him in the side, "Go for it!"
"Um, what?" Ezekiel felt a lump in his throat as his face turned a little red, "What should I say?"
"Hi," Harold suggested.
Um," Ezekiel stammered, he wrung his hands before blurted out a little loudly across the campfire Bridgette was sitting "Hi Bridgette!"
The sudden greeting startled the surfer girl, who looked over to who called out to her and raised an eyebrow at Ezekiel, who was sitting still as a statue.
"What do I do now? She's staring at me," Ezekiel said terrified, making Tyler chuckle
"Idiot," Harold muttered under his breath, and facepalmed, "I meant to go over and talk to her."
"What?" Ezekiel's eyes widen as Tyler got up.
"I'll be your wingman," Tyler said, Ezekiel was just more confused, "Just come over."
Ezekiel raised an eyebrow and eventually decided to sit down back down and looked down at the ground and twiddling his thumbs.
"Maybe later, eh?"
"Sure, Zeke. I don't want to push you to do it." Tyler sat back down and patted his back.
"Maybe you should write her a poem," Harold suggested.
"A poem?"
"Sure write how you feel," Harold replied. "I've been thinking about writing one for someone."
"Really? Who is it?" Tyler asked.
"I'm not telling you," Harold replied, and turned to Ezekiel. "but don't worry it not Bridgette."
"I'm going to the bathroom," Eva said suddenly.
When Eva stood up, she didn't notice as her MP3 player fell out of her pocket. Unbeknownst to her, Heather saw, and with a mischevious smile, jumped up to grab it.
"Isn't that Eva's MP3 player?" Beth asked.
"Yes," Heather replied.
"Won't Eva be furious when she finds out it's gone?" Lindsay replied.
"That's what I'm hoping for," Heather smiled.
"Did you see that?" Ezekiel nudged Tyler, "That Heather girl took angry girl's music thingly."
"Why would she do that?" Harold asked.
"Should we tell her?" Tyler suggested as they got up to tell Eva.
"SHE DID WHAT!?" Eva roared and took off with them without saying anything.
"GIVE IT BACK!" Eva's eyes bulged and cracked her knuckles.
Her presence immediately intimated heather and before Heather could hand it over Eva, filled with rage, landed a punch and knocked Heather out cold.
"Well, Heather's out!" Chris announced.
"Does that even count?" Gwen asked.
"Yep!" Chris smiled.
Another twelve hours later, Bridgette, along with Harold and Ezekiel, fell asleep on the Killer Bass, while Beth and LeShawna were now sleeping for the Gophers.
"Time to crank things up a notch. Time for fairy-tales." Chris smiled as Chef came out wearing a sheep suit and played the harp.
"Really?" Duncan looked at Geoff, who shrugged in confusion.
"Once upon a time... there was a sleepy kingdom... filled with very sleepy children." As ridiculous as this was, it was successful in putting Lindsay, DJ, and Tyler to sleep.
Gwen and Trent spent the next two hours sharing details about themselves, talking about their favourite movies and their favourite hobbies. The sweet moment between them was suddenly interrupted by a naked Owen.
*** Confessional Owen ***
"Did I mention I ate all the beans at the turkey dinner? The funny thing about baked beans...they make me sleepwalk!"
*** Bonfire ***
It was, at last, the fifty-hour mark in the challenge. It was then that it was finally brought up that Justin's way of standing still the entire time was just odd to everyone.
"How in the earth can he stay perfectly still?", Gwen asked.
"I don't know," replied Trent, "Let's go see."
The two walked over to Justin and attempted to get his attention.
"Amazing," Gwen said as she poked Justin in the face, he moved his eye revealing they were painted. Eva noticed this and was offended at his cheating.
"Hey! His eyelids are painted on! He's been asleep the whole time."
"No way!" Chris exclaimed, "Oh, I have got to see this!", the host then went over to Justin to inspect his eyes. Justin sheepishly smiled at the host, and of course, blinked thus revealing his painted eyelids. "That's so amazing incredible! But your still out dude." Justin's head looked towards the ground upon this reveal.
Soon enough, the night ended and the morning was reached, with it being eighty-five hours into the Awake-a-Thon. Harold and Ezekiel lied on their back when Duncan placed their fingers into a warm glass of water. Soon enough, Harold and Ezekiel's pants were soaked. Duncan smiled and laughed at this.
"Ha, It worked! Dorks peed their pants!" Duncan said with a laugh. Harold and Ezekiel awoke, and looked down, both flashing red with embarrassment.
"What's your problem, eh?"
"Calm down, homeschool," Duncan replied.
"Idiot!", the nerdy red-head shouted as Duncan fled the scene. Also on the island, Noah and Cody managed to fall asleep near each other. Noah happened to be hugging Cody and even kissing his ear. During this, both boys woke up and looked at each other. Noah, of course, noticed what he was doing first, and getting up from their sleep, both boys screamed in horror and ran off.
"Okay. So now we are nearing the end here so all of you that are no longer in the challenge can go wash up. Like really, it's starting to stink around here!" Chris pointed out. All of the eliminated agreed to this, especially Harold and Ezekiel who did not want anyone to see the front of their pants now."I never wanted it to come to this. I said that to Chef Hatchet last night. I said, "Chef, I don't want it to come to this." But darn it, you campers are tough! And so, I've come up with the most boring, sleep-inducing activity I can find!"
*** Confessional Gwen ***
"Okay what now," Gwen crossed her arms, "You, know what? Bring it on."
*** Bonfire ***
"The history of Canada! A pop-up book, chapter 1! The beaver, national symbol of the country and a damn fine hat.!", Chris revealed. As he began reading the chapter, Heather, Geoff and Eva immediately fell to the ground.
"Trent?" Gwen asked as she turned over to see that he as well fall asleep. The remaining two struggled against the boredom, and of course, found it profoundly hard to do so.
"Any takers for a bathroom break? So long as you don't mind a little company," Chris asked.
"No," Duncan replied, "I held it this long."
"You ready for the rest of the book?" Gwen mocked.
"Next chapter is about the maple leaf," Chris replied.
"Ok," Duncan turned to the cameraman, "Just stay out of the stall."
"Yo, Duncan! You in there man?" The cameraman called, having waited outside for the past few minutes without hearing anything. Hesitantly, the cameraman pulled open the door to the bathroom, only to be greeted with the sight of Duncan, fast asleep on the toilet with his pants down. Sighing, the cameraman pulled a walkie talkie from his shirt pocket and pressed a button on it speaking to Chris.
Chris chuckled from the other end, looking down at the half-asleep Gwen lying down on the ground, her feet still propped up on a stump. "Looks like Duncan's dived the can! Which means, the official winner of the Awake-A-Thon is," Gwen sighed in relief and let her eyes fall shut, instantly falling asleep. "Gwen!" Chris bent down and raised the teen's hand in victory. "The Screaming Gophers win!"
*** Elimination Ceremony ***
That night the Killer Bass all gathered at the far-too-familiar bonfire pit, Duncan still passed out from the challenge as he tried to recover the sleep he had lost. Chris walked up to the team, his plate filled with nine marshmallows. "You've all cast your votes and made your decision." There was a smile on his face that annoyed the campers, having lost twice in around, and many of them were dead tired... "If I call your name, you are safe, and you will receive a marshmallow. The camper who doesn't get one will be eliminated." A few of the campers began to fidget nervously in their seats as they thought back to the race, while some were struggling to stay awake.
"The first marshmallow goes to Duncan," Chris tossed the marshmallow hitting Duncan's in the face while he continued to sleep.
"Also safe are DJ and Geoff." The two high-five each other before getting up to collect their marshmallow.
"Brigette, Ezekiel." As the two got up, Bridgette flashed a smile to your surviving teammate, making the prairie boy blush.
"Tyler," Tyler smiled as he claimed his marshmallow.
"Katie and Sadie You're all safe." The eight campers each happily received their marshmallows and stuck them on their sticks, walking over to the fire to roast them. Harold and Eva looked at each other, eyes wide. Ezekiel and Tyler who looked back at Harold nervously waiting for the last name to be called, hoping for their friend to make it.
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"Eva!" Eva was pleased as well but didn't show she was visible still very cranky due to lack of sleep, as Ezekiel looked down in sadness along with Tyler. The two walked over and hugged their new friend before he walked down the dock in sorrow.
Remaining Campers:
Screaming Gophers. Noah, Justin, Izzy, Cody, Beth, Trent, Lindsay, Leshawna, Heather, Gwen, Owen.
Killer Bass. Ezekiel, Eva, Katie, Tyler, Sadie, Bridgette, Geoff, DJ, Duncan.
21st Place: Harold
22nd Place: Courtney
