Author's Note: Tumble1980— Hey everyone, welcome to the first reward challenge of Total Drama All-Stars Redux!
"Last time on Total Drama All-Stars Redux, we said goodbye to Duncan. No one was really upset. Gwen actually talked to Courtney, Lindsay and Owen are trying to break their 'dumb blonde' and 'fat guy' stereotypes to no avail. LeShawna may try and have Trent cheer up Gwen, for some reason. Also, Alejandro's back is against a wall due to being a main target of the power alliance on the Villainous Vultures. How will all of this play out? Find out right here, right now, on Total Drama All-Stars Redux!" Chris said to the camera with an upbeat smile on his face.
Bridgette bolted up from the grass she'd been lying in. Rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, she noticed the green hedges that surrounded her. Shakily standing up, Bridgette came to a sudden realization.
"I'm in a maze. Why?" She asked herself under her breath. Right as the last word let her lips, a blasting siren pierced through the air. Her knees buckled and her face tightened up with her hands trying and failing to protect her ears. As the noise went away, she heard the moans and groans of her fellow contestants. However, she couldn't go out and track them.
"Fucking bars?" She shook the iron bars that blocked off the only exit from the small clearing she woke up in. Right then, Chris' voice blared across the maze.
"Hello contestants! Welcome to your first reward challenge—"
"Why did you put us in a goddamn maze?"
"Well LeShawna, this is you and your fellow twelve competitors' challenge. You have to get to the center of the maze—
"How'd you drug us and get us in here?"
"Wow Lindsay, you actually guessed something correctly!"
"Hey!"
"I spiked all of you guys' dinners and had interns place you in your little enclaves."
"Thanks for that Chris, a challenge at two o'clock in the morning is exactly what we needed."
"You're welcome Noah. First team to get all of their members to the center of the maze win!"
Bridgette whipped her head around to the sight of the bars being lowered. Not wanting to lose again, she leapt over the bars and sprinted down a random pathway.
Trent gingerly walked out of his starting point. To his annoyance he found that there were three paths to choose from. He couldn't see anything at the end of any of them. Shrugging, he headed down the path in front of him, hoping it would let him reach the center.
Owen lumbered down a path. He really had no idea where he was going. Right as he turned around a bend he bumped into Lindsay.
"Oh, sorry Lindsay."
"It's okay Owen, do you want to try and find the center together?"
"Sure!"
The two walked in silence for a while, until Lindsay asked him a question that had been bugging her for a while.
"Hey Owen?"
"Yeah Lindsay?"
"I heard you, Gwen, Trent, Harold, and LeShawna talking about you not wanting to be fat or something. Why?"
"Well, I've sort of always been known as 'the fat guy', you know?"
"Hmm."
"I really want to be known as something more than that, you know."
"I know how you feel. Everyone thinks of me as a 'dumb blonde'. It's really annoying Owen." Owen gave her a pat on the shoulder.
"Thanks." Lindsay's eyes suddenly sparked. "How about this Owen? From now on we'll drop the stereotypes! I'll only know you as Owen and you'll only know me as Lindsay. In fact, I'll reverse my stereotype! Want to join an alliance with Sierra and I?"
Confessional #18
"I'll admit, I was hesitant to answer. I mean I don't really like alliances, but it would be nice to have some allies." –Owen
"Uh, sure! I'll join your alliance."
"Yay! Now we only need one more person to have a majority! I feel so smart!"
The two continued along, Owen a little overwhelmed with Lindsay's enthusiasm.
DJ and Noah strolled down a path, only to hit a dead end. This was the fifth time within the past ten minutes this had happened.
"Ugh! We've gotten nowhere in this stupid maze! I hate Chris, DJ." Noah dejectedly headed back the way they came.
"Hey, if these are just hedges, why don't we just run through them?" Noah face palmed.
"Why didn't I think of that earlier? Let's try it." DJ tentatively worked his way through a hedge and beckoned for Noah to follow.
Courtney, still exhausted from the running challenge, blearily wandered through the maze. She was so out of it that she didn't realized she rammed into Gwen and they were both on the ground.
"Watch where you're going Courtney," Gwen was about to start running again when Courtney grabbed her.
"Gwen. Wait. Please, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything I've done. I'm sorry for acting like a bitch in Total Drama World Tour. I'm sorry for throwing our friendship down the drain in All-Stars. Please! I just want to be friends again, or at least have you forgive me." Courtney was in tears by the end of her apology, but Gwen had already left. Sighing, she picked herself up and continued on.
Confessional #19
"I couldn't look Courtney in the eye after that, okay? I know she really wants me to be her friend, but I just can't! Not yet." —Gwen
Trent had been casually walking, when he and Bridgette collided.
"Oh! Sorry Trent," Bridgette helped him up.
"Don't worry about it," they were silent for a couple seconds.
"So,"
"Yeah,"
"I'd ask you to walk with me if we were on the same team."
"See you, I guess." The two then went in opposite directions.
Confessional #20
"That was weird." –Trent
Confessional #21
"I don't want to do that again." –Bridgette
Harold and LeShawna were able to get along better, to say the least. They'd ran into each other early in the challenge, and the two had been more interested in talking to each other than the challenge.
"So that's why you want to be a fashion designer?"
"Yep, I think that fashion can be used to comment on society, like books or movies."
"That's really cool LeShawna, oh hey it's the center of the maze! We're first!"
"Yes! We made it!" LeShawna gave Harold a quick hug. Harold blushed at this.
"Congratulations LeShawna and Harold! You're the first two people to make it to the—"
"We made it!" Noah and DJ stumbled out of a hedge with torn clothes, cuts, singed hair, and bruises.
"The heck happened to you two?" LeShawna asked as she and Harold went over to help the two boys up.
"I thought it would be a good idea to just cut through the hedges. It worked, until the hedges automatically caught on fire." DJ said through pants.
"Not to mention those bees whose stings numb the skin and destroy your motor functions!"
"Yeah, next time you probably shouldn't cheat." Chris was pleased to see the two suffer though.
"You know what, I'll cut you two some slack. Since you went through so much, I'll give you two the point. You've finished the maze, albeit incorrectly. Noah and DJ nodded and collapsed, exhausted.
Sierra had been wandering around for a while, not sure where she was going. As she made a turn, Gwen rammed into her side.
"Gwen are you alright?" Sierra pulled Gwen off the ground.
"I'm fine Sierra."
"Do you want to walk together?"
"Sure."
The two silently headed down multiple paths, each a dead end. They stayed silent, until Sierra asked: "Gwen, why do you keep being so haughty to Courtney? I know she's screwed you over two or three times, but I thought you would have gotten over it."
"Did you get that from our 'interactions'?"
"Yes. However, I also got it from how Cody and I are like. We're pretty good friends, despite the fact that I tend to follow him everywhere—"
"You mean stalking?"
"I don't really like that term."
"Okay, so you stalk Cody and you're still friends. That's nice and disturbing and all, but that doesn't relate to Courtney and I."
"The point is Cody still puts up with what are apparently 'flaws'. Courtney's flaws are her over-competiveness and prissiness. You clearly have a hard time forgiving people who've wronged you. You're also cold to people who don't know you. Courtney is willing to deal with it. So, are you?"
Confessional #22
"Wow. That was really insightful. I never thought Sierra had the depth or empathy to say something like that. I think I need to talk to Courtney." –Gwen
At this point, the challenge had been going on for a few hours. Bridgette, Heather, Owen, Lindsay, Trent, and Alejandro had all arrived. Chris was at the finishing area as well, sipping coffee while watching the sun rise.
Heather was pacing, away from everyone else.
"Why are you doing that?"
"What do you care Bridgette?"
"I don't know, we're on the same team, might as well try to talk to one another."
"Well, I was thinking about who to get rid of on our team next."
"Who?"
Heather glanced around and whispered "Courtney."
"Hmm, I can see that. She's a total bitch."
"I know, you in?"
"Sure." Bridgette then walked away with a smirk.
Confessional #23
"Well, I think I need to get rid of Heather. I'm glad, she's rude, annoying, hogs the bathroom all to herself, and is the most untrustworthy person in the game besides Alejandro." —Bridgette
"Alejandro, I have good news. Bridgette will help us get rid of Courtney."
"Great. Now we only need one more person. I think we should—"
"We have a winner!" Chris shouted. "Villains, you've won an advantage in the next challenge!"
"We're here!" Gwen yelled. Both she and Sierra were badly beat up. "We ran through the hedges."
"No way! Four people ran through and they all made it out? I'm impressed." Chris then realized what he was doing earlier and told Gwen some tragic news.
"Gwen, I'm so sorry, but you and Sierra have lost this challenge for your team."
"What? No! Sorry guys." Gwen looked at her teammates and then turned her gaze at the ground.
"Well, since this is a reward challenge no one's going home. However, the villains win the advantage of Coffee in our next challenge."
"How will coffee be useful?" DJ asked. Lindsay's eyes widened
"No! Not the awakathon!" She squealed.
"Yes Lindsay, the awakathon." A collective groan from nearly all of the contestants pervaded the air. "Also, the challenge starts now."
"What?"
"We haven't gotten any sleep!"
"Ugh!"
"So that's the episode!" Chris was beginning his ending speech, with the contestants in the background. "Uh, I think I'll just skip the ending soliloquy." The campers looked around each other distrustfully. "Anyway, join us again on Total Drama All-Stars Redux!"
Author's Note: Tumble1980— Sorry for the short chapter, I hope the character interactions and developing story are enough to keep everyone happy. I promise to have chapter four out by the 5th!
