*Narrator*
Previously, on "Total Drama: Virtual Final Fantasy"...

"Where am I?"

"Where the [bleep] am I?"

"What's going on? Who are you?"

"What is that?"

"Testing? What kind of testing?"

"What was that?"

"What if I make it worth your while?"

"Why did you do this?"

"You don't understand," stated the soldier, with Gwen's voice coming out of him. "If I die here... IT'S OVER!"

And now, the parodying of video games continues...


Trent walked out of the other end of the portal. Once he was fully through, it closed behind him. As he took in his surroundings, which appeared Middle Eastern to him, he took stock of his new clothes. He was now dressed in battle fatigues and armed with an assault rifle.

"What the..."

He tried to move forward, but he quickly discovered that he was frozen in place. Suddenly, a message box popped up in front of him. He read what was on it aloud.

"'Match in progress. Please wait.' Match in progress? What does that mean?"

"AAAAAAHHHHHH!"

He suddenly heard a scream.

"I'd know that scream of terror from a mile away! GWEN!"

A male soldier appeared from around the corner and started running towards Trent. At first he was confused, but then he, or rather she, screamed.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"

"GWEN! Don't worry, Gwen! I'm..."

Gwen, or to be precise, Gwen's soldier avatar, ran right through Trent as if he was not there. And he was not, because he was in a waiting room.

"...here?"

'Gwen' kept running for her life. And with good reason. Two guys in darker combat uniforms were chasing her. The three of them disappeared around the corner of a building across the street.

"Gwen?"

Soon after, he heard a loud explosion. A new prompt appeared in front of Trent.

"'Score limit reached.' Wait, does that mean... Gwen? Gwen?"

Suddenly, Trent felt himself being teleported away from the current battlefield.

"What's going on? What... what about... GWENNNNNNNN..."

And in a flash, he was gone...


Total Drama: Virtual Final Fantasy
Story Written by Freedom Fighter

So after this, we're already one-third of the way through this fourth and final segment of the saga! It feels like we just started this yesterday...

This week... more new characters get re-introduced, while others continue their trek through some dangerous and/or terrible, terrible games.

Disclaimer: The characters of the 'Total Drama' series belong to Fresh TV Inc., Teletoon, and Cartoon Network, not me. All video games and other things referenced belong to their respective owners.

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TDVFF Episode 4 ['Fantasy' Saga Episode 43]:
It's Do That, Or Die! (07.01.13)
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Trent found himself in a blue room. Well, that was not completely true. His head was in the room. His giant digital floating head.

"What's going on? Where am I? What happened to Gwen? Can anybody hear me?"

"Yeah!" shouted a somewhat unfamiliar voice. "The whole world can hear you whine, loudmouth!"

"What? Who is this?"

"This is ShaBamQB1, fool!"

Lightning's head appeared in front of Trent's.

"And I hope you're better than the last group of losers that rolled on through here! They were terrible at this game! Dying left and right of me, they were."

"Wait, dying? Have you seen a girl named Gwen?"

"Girl?" Lightning seemed surprised. "What girl? This is a man's game, son!"

Suddenly, Gwen's voice filled the air.

"Ugh. Where the... oh no! Why am I back here? No! Not again!"

Trent called out to her. "Gwen?"

"Oh, you mean WhyamIhere? He might as well be dead. All he did is run around like a coward! I don't need someone like him on my team!"

"He's not a he!"

"Whatever, man! If you know that dude, tell him to grow some balls or I'll sha-POW him out of his game!"

Lightning then disappeared, at least for the moment. Trent got another prompt that read 'Waiting for Players' on it, as well as a ten second countdown. But that was the least of his concerns.

"Gwen? Where are you?"

Gwen's head finally appeared before him, as if she had heard his call.

"GWEN!"

"Trent? Is... is that you?"

"In the flesh! Sort... of..."

"What are you doing here? What am I doing here?"

"No time to explain! We've got to get out of here before..."

The countdown reached zero, and the words in the prompt box changed to 'Loading Match.' Gwen's head disappeared, followed by the room itself.

"Whoa, wait... WAIT!"


Trent materialized on the battlefield. Unlike the one he originally appeared on, the buildings here were made of modern-day materials like metals and concrete. Again, he was dressed and armed like a military soldier. And he was not alone... two people were with him. One of them, thankfully, was Gwen.

"Trent! We can't be here! We're gonna die! We're gonna TOTALLY die!"

Trent was about to respond, but the third person in their group decided to cut in first.

"Enough chatter, you two! Get your head in the game! We've got an enemy to sha-LIGHTNING!"

Lightning's avatar started sprinting off, expecting Trent and Gwen to follow him.

"Don't worry, Gwen. We'll get outta here. But until we do, we'd better stick with this guy. He knows what he's doing."

With that, the two ran after Lightning.


Duncan still had no idea where he was, but one thing was for certain...

"Man, that's a lot of holes!"

...he was in a field that had at least a dozen large holes in it. And, miraculously, they were all the same size.

"This place blows! I'm outta here!"

He tried to leave the field, but he walked right into an invisible wall. He pounded his fist on it several times, hoping to break through. But no matter what he did, it would not budge.

"For crying out loud!"

He gave up on the wall, and turned his attention to the only thing around.

The holes.

"ARGH! I guess I'm going to have to get into some holes. Heh... holes."

He picked the one closest to him and jumped in. To his dismay, upon reaching the bottom of it, he found it was completely empty.

"Empty? Ugh, I feel like I'm being trolled, '80s style. And I don't like being trolled by anything!"

While Duncan contemplated what to do next...


...Courtney had already finished figuring out her next move.

"There... and there!"

Now that her two portals were set, all that was left to do was...

"Here goes nothing!"

With a wooden ball being carried by her device, she ran onto a launcher, which flung her into a blue portal. That sent her flying out of an orange portal, over a previously uncrossable moat, and onto the far platform by the door. Two wooden balls were already in place, and all Courtney needed to do was drop the third onto the last switch, thereby opening the exit to the current chamber.

"HA! Ten down, 30 to go! That money WILL be mine!"


"Get 'em! GET 'EM!"

The enemy team had opened fire, and Lightning instructed his to return it. Unfortunately for him, he was the only willing to do so, as Trent and Gwen were paralyzed by all of the fighting going on around them.

"What do we do?" Gwen asked, in fear.

"We've got no choice. If we want to get out of here, we're going to have to fight our way out!"

Trent peeked around the corner of the automobile they were hiding behind. Bullets were being fired in their general direction, but there was no one coming towards them. Yet.

He pulled back and spun around to look at Gwen's male avatar.

"You think you can work that thing?"

He was referring to the rifle she, er, he, had in hand.

"But I've never used one before!"

"Here... let me show you."

As he tried to teach her the quick ins and outs, Gwen spotted two soldiers running towards them. She hastily fired a few rounds over Trent's shoulder and towards the two incomers. She did not hit either of them, though she did succeed in one of them so much that he hunkered down and refused to move.

"Friendly fire!" the one that was still moving their way shouted. "Friendly fire!"

Unsure of what that meant, Gwen was about to pull the trigger once more. But Trent stopped her before she could, as he was familiar with the term.

"They're on our side!"

Understanding, Gwen lowered her weapon. The first guy got to them and squatted down behind the parked car they were hiding behind.

"We've got bogeys at ten, twelve, and two at two o'clock!" the newcomer, whose usertag was BrickHouse. "They're gonna pincer us if we don't... hold on!"

Seeing his comrade still stuck in the open with bullets raining down on him, the guy ran out, grabbed him, and ran back.

"You okay, Cam?" the guy asked the frightened soldier.

"Wh-wh-what is this? I'd never heard gunfire before today... and now I wish I still hadn't!"

"What about what happened last season?"

"Laser space fire is totally different!"

Trent and Gwen's avatars glanced at each confused.

"We have someone whom we joking call Brickhouse..."

"...but this guy doesn't sound like DJ."

Suddenly, there was a scream in the background of one of the enemies dying.

"MOMMAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

"Now that's DJ," the two said in unison.

"So who are you then?" Trent asked BrickHouse.

"That's classified," he replied. "But if you need me, just call me Brick!"

He then pulled up the hapless soldier he was paired up with. His usertag was BubbleBoy16.

"And this is Cameron."

"Hi..." he groaned.

"I'm Trent. And this is Gwen."

"Gwen? Isn't that a woman's name?"

"I AM a woman!"

"Oh! Apologies, miss, I mean, ma'am! Just... not familiar with too many girls who'd play this game."

"This game? Why are we in a GAME? I thought we were done with those! The last thing I remember was that I was about to be carried into my new house with my new husband, Cody..."

Trent groaned.

"Oh. Sorry, Trent."

"It's okay, Gwen. You chose him, fair and square. I have to accept it."

"Wait," Cameron interjected, unsure of the situation. "What?"

Suddenly, they heard loud gunfire from nearby. That was immediately followed by the yelling of an irate Lightning.

"What ya'll doing over that? When Lightning tells you to cover Lightning, YOU COVER LIGHTNING! Lightning just got taken out! DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!"

"MOMMAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

"See? Was that so hard?"

The foursome all looked at each other.

"That wasn't us, sir," Brick told Lightning.

"I DON'T WANNA BE HERE ANYMORE!" cried DJ.

"Stop being a baby and respawn, you [bleep] piece of [bleep]!" one of the other enemy players shouted.

"[Bleep], he's useless," said another. "[Bleep] him."

"Oh no," Brick shouted to the others around him. "They're coming! Open fire!"

Brick came out from behind the vehicle and started firing at two incoming enemy combatants. Even though he was scared, Cameron did the same, although his aim was a lot wilder. Trent and Gwen joined them, unwilling to let them risk their lives alone.

"[Bleep]! They're camping! Pieces of [bleep] are camping!"

The two enemies ducked behind some cover, while the group of four continued to shoot without rhyme or reason.

"What's with those guys?" Trent tried to ask over all the loud gunfire. "Not even Duncan doesn't curse that much!"

"I hear it's typical among players of this game, sir," Brick replied. "Just don't let it get to..."

BLAM!

Gwen's avatar's head was shot clear off of her shoulders. The person who had got her was celebrating.

"YEAHHHHH! Take that, you [bleep] [bleep] [bleepity] [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [bleeeeeeeep]. [Bleep]."

Gwen was stunned silent, while DJ was heard still weeping in the background. Trent issued a response in Gwen's defense.

"C'mon, man! Really? What are you, 12?"

Cameron also responded to the profanity-laden tirade.

"I don't even know half of those words!"

Cameron's avatar then stepped on a land mine, and blew up.

"Can I go home now?"

It was now two-on-two, but considering how much more experience with the game the foul-mouthed enemies had on them, Trent and Brick turned tail and ran.

"We can't turn and run!" Brick shouted even though he was doing just that. "That goes against my oath!"

"It's do that, or die!" Trent barked back. "And I'm not ready to be buried in this virtual world!"


While Trent and Brick were just trying to survive a world war, Cody was attempting to survive... a party war?

Start!

"Start? Start what?"

Cody was in a kitchen. Behind him was a pre-lit brick oven, and in front of him was a cooked pizza. In hand he had a bunch of uncooked pepperoni, and on a cutting board to his left were anchovies, green peppers, and mushrooms... all uncooked as well.

"What am I doing here?"

Suddenly, the pizza started spinning on the table it was on. It got to a steady speed and stayed there.

"Hmmm..."

He took one of the pepperoni in hand and flung it at the pizza. It landed on one of the slices. As soon as it set, a timer appeared above Cody, keeping track of how long it took him to put all the toppings.

"Oh well. When in Rome, do what the Romans do."

He went to work placing the other pepperoni pieces. But before he could finish, Owen ran on screen...

"Waka waka waka waka!"

...and he had his eyes on devouring the pizza whole, as well as anyone who may happen to be standing by it.

"Owen, NO!"

Cody picked up the pizza and ran off to the left with it. Owen followed him off-screen. A few seconds later, Cody reappeared, running left to right. Owen was still chasing him, and now Izzy was involved as well.

"IZZY WANT PIZZA!"

They disappeared off-screen. Cody then returned a third time, running right to left. Owen and Izzy were still behind him, but the latter was now riding a certain bird...

"Since when do chocobos like pizza?" shouted a panicked Cody.


"Since when do aliens like candy pebbles?" questioned a pissed-off Duncan.

Duncan was exploring his fifth hole, and after striking out on the first one, he had been finding these so-called candy pebbles in the others. This one, though, had an actual person waiting for him.

"F.B.I., freeze!" hissed Harold, who was dressed in a black suit.

"Yeah right, dork!"

Duncan snapped his fingers, at which point he started levitating out of the hole. Harold tried to grab him, but he missed. Unable to jump up to attempt to grab Duncan's legs because of the severe limitations of the game they were in, Harold could only stand and watch his prey escape his grasp.

"You know," Duncan said, as he appeared in the field again. "This game isn't as bad as they say it is."


Elsewhere in the game realms, someone riding a horse was in the midst of crossing a long bridge. His destination? A large abandoned shrine waiting on the other side.

Once safely across, the man pulls on the reins, in turn telling his horse to come to a stop. A close-up of the rider shows that it is Geoff. But he had not come alone. Riding along with him was a second person, whose body was wrapped completely in cloak. Geoff stared at it for a second; the long look on his face signified that he cared deeply for the cloaked one and that he was willing to do anything to get her back.

Taking the body from the horse's back, Geoff carried her up the steps of the shrine and to the waiting altar. He placed her body down on it, at which point he removed the portions of cloak that were covering her beautiful face and her luscious blonde locks.

The girl under the cloak?

Dawn.

At first, Geoff was confused, then enraged, saddened, grief-stricken, and, at the end, confused once more. He opened his mouth to voice an objection, but he found himself to be mute. No matter what he did, no words came out of his mouth.

Suddenly, a booming voice filled the shrine, grabbing Geoff's attention.

"Brxqj zdqghuhu, gr brx khdu ph?"

Geoff scratched his head. He could not understand whatever language the voice was speaking. A few seconds later, an appropriate translation followed so that he could understand it.

"'Young wanderer, do you hear me?'"

Geoff nodded. He attempted to explain his situation, but again, nothing came out of his mouth.

"'The maiden you have brought here is cursed. To rid her of it and bring her back to the world of the living, you must do something for me.'"

Geoff nodded again, although she had no idea who Dawn was or why he was trying to save her, as if he cared about her so much that he would willingly risk his life to do so.

"'Thy first task be found by yonder pillar, which the sun shines directly upon at thine hour of tea time.'"

Geoff had no idea what that meant, but after waiting several minutes for a more clearer explanation, he shrugged his shoulders and decided to go figure it out on his own.

But before leaving the shrine, he could not help but take one last, longing look at the cursed girl on the altar. The one someone mistakenly thought he had feelings for, although he was secretly relieved that it actually was not that special person.

But because he was a nice guy, he figured he had to see if he could break the spell over the fallen Dawn.


"We can't outrun them forever!" Brick shouted.

Suddenly, Brick felt several bullets hit him in the left leg, almost all at once. He fell to the ground, writhing in pain.

"Brick!" Trent shouted.

He stopped and turned around to try and help, but the second he did, he felt a bullet pierce his chest, just inches above his heart.

"Die, [bleep]ers! Die!"

"You gonna [bleep]in' die!"

Trent saw the two enemies charging at him and Brick, guns a-blazing. And at that very moment, he thought... this would be the end.

After first losing Noah and then losing Gwen, will it now end with Trent losing his own life? Will Cody escape the gluttonous hunger in Owen's stomach? Will Courtney get her pay day for being a test subject?


And will Duncan realize that the tour that Sierra has sent him on will be three hours of Hell?

Duncan was seen was falling into his... his... 'he lost track a while ago of how many he's dropped into'-th hole.

"Holes! HOLES! DUNCAN JUST WANNA PHONE HOME! ARRRRRRGH!"

Find out the answers to probably only one of those questions next week, in Episode 5! Yes!

To be continued...