Authors Notes: Hey again! This chapter was originally supposed to be the second chapter published, but I didn't release it at the time as I felt like it wasn't up to snuff. The finished project you see here is a result from massive retooling, mostly from halfway on.

As for the chapter itself, was spurred me onto finally complete this after I let it languish for two weeks was due to the result of the poll, which it tied with the Samey one. I'll probably make another poll with a different slate of ideas, so check that out if you want!

Keep an eye out for various endnotes, as I've sprinkled them throughout this behemoth of a chapter in order to explain things or references that I included here. And yes, this chapter is a behemoth. This is because the divergence occurs so early in the season that I'm summarizing the bulk of the episodes that occurred in Total Drama Action.


What if Gwen never agreed to Justin's Blackmail?


Out of all the grueling days of Total Drama Island as well as the first few of Total Drama Action, Gwen never felt as awful as she did right now.

Today was their fifth movie genre based challenge, one of the western. But it wasn't the fact that they all had to jump from over 20 feet in the air to land on a hard old mule, or the fact that she was humiliated into having to wear cow udders on her head while trying not to get lassoed, or even the fact her allergies were there for all of it. The challenge in itself was pretty tame for Total Drama so far. No electrocutions or vomiting was a plus, and even the ridiculous udders Chris made her wear wasn't that embarrassing. She did have to drink out of the communal toiler and have her deepest darkest secrets in her diary read aloud for the entire Canadian Reality T.V show wearing public after all.

The main thing that made the goth feel so down was having to breakup with Trent, which was the culmination of all the prior uneasiness from their relationship ever since Total Drama Action started up to that point. His worrying of if something was up between her and Duncan, his even more constant worrying if Gwen was angry or upset with him for whatever reason, but most of all his insistence on trying to throw challenges for her was the last straw for Gwen and deciding to call it off. She wasn't angry with Trent, not at all, nor was she questioning her decision. It just sucked so much that she saw her first ever boyfriend, the boy she had a crush on for nearly forty days as she was hold up at Camp Wawwanakwa, turned from a cool, well-adjusted person that she fell in love with to a completely nervous wreck.

It wasn't that Trent was annoying her, it was that she felt so guilty that her being his girlfriend caused him to become this way. She was making him unhealthy, and even though she didn't want to breakup with him in the end, she couldn't live with the guilt of causing Trent to become like this any longer.

Gwen sighed collectively as she thought of this, placing her hand on the door handle to the exit of the girls' trailer.

At least it can't get any worse

She was about to be proven so very wrong, after taking a few small steps.

"Tell them what I heard you just say to Trent." Justin ordered sternly, right into the goth girls face.

The camera (ah yes, there's a camera now) flashed to Owen, Lindsay, and Beth's (all still wearing their towels from showering) confused expressions before cutting back to Gwen's bewildered face. A pregnant pause passed. "Sorry I can't hear you, ha-choo!" she sneezed briefly, "head cold!"

"Fine I'll do it than," Justin turned to his fellow Grips, "Trent's been purposely throwing our challenges for Gwen." He jerked his thumb at the goth.

"What?" Owen's eyes widened.

"That's so unfair," Lindsay pouted.

"Gwen would never let Trent do that, ever. Right Gwen?" Beth clasped her hands together and stared at the blue haired girl with puppy dog eyes.

"Errr…" The goth looked away briefly before continuing, "Depends on how… they're other ways too…" As Gwen was stuttering the camera zoomed in on Beth's face showing her lip quivering. Gwen could hide it no longer, "It's true."

"You two have been cheating?" Beth gasped as Gwen closed her eyes in guilt. "How could you, you are our friend!"

"It wasn't my fault; I wasn't in on it I swear." Gwen defended hoping they would soften up.

"Why should we believe you?" Justin narrowed his eyes, dashing her hopes.

"Because I broke up with Trent," She admitted, lowering her head in shame.

"Oh no," "Poor you and Trent." Beth and Lindsay both seemed to lose their faces of betrayal and were replaced with those of sadness. Owen could be seen as looking down at Lindsay's cleavage [1], but no one seemed to notice. Justin was having none of it.

"This, this all could be a ruse, some strategy to make it to the final two." Justin warned.

"Wow beauty and brains," Owen gasped.

"I wasn't in on it, I swear." She reaffirmed, offering a pleading look to the foursome.

"Prove it," Justin narrowed his eyes. Gwen looked at the four faces and winced, not knowing what to say or do she blurted out the first thing that came to her mind, "Vote Trent off, things have gotten way too complicated between us anyway, you'd be doing me a favor." As Gwen said this, her gut wrenched. Her brain was mentally chastising her for being so callous. This was something Heather would do, not her!

"Great cherry cheesecakes, she's bluffing." Owen leveled a frown at the goth that made her heart sink.

"We'll see about that." Justin took another step forward, "Either way, you owe us Gwen."

Gwen blinked and turned around at him, her instantaneous regret making her renege, "Wait, forget that I said that. Don't vote off Trent please."


[POINT OF DIVERGENCE INITIATED]


"So it was a bluff." Justin's expression darkened. "You've just sealed his fate. We're done here."

"No please, I wasn't in on it I just don't want you to vote him off!" Gwen tried to explain, but it was too late. Beth, Lindsay, Justin and even Owen started to turn and walk away. Seeing the trio head off, Gwen got on her knees and sighed. "I so messed this up,"

What was that? Why did she put a target on Trent's back! Of course they thought it was a bluff after she reneged on it. She imagined the elimination ceremony, Trent looking at her with a distraught, hurt face knowing that she had told them to vote for him, no matter how much she'd say she took it back. She would be, she would be like the New Heather! [2] She couldn't live with this guilt if it happened, to dump Trent as well as robbing him of a chance at the million-dollar prize!

The only thing she could do to save him was too…

Gwen steeled herself, making up her mind. She got up and walked back to the trailer.


The camera zooms in quietly to the Gilded Chris Awards Ceremony stage to the sounds of loud brass and drums. Beams of light were shining up and down the curtains, stage itself and podium as the now iconic tune of the elimination ceremony played, with various reels of Chris from Total Drama Island were shown in moving squares, one right after the other. This led up to a final, bigger square of Chris faded into a pure gold color. The camera slowly panned itself back to reveal it being a giant Gilded Chris Award. It sparkled as two stage lights crisscrossed it with fireworks sounding off in the background of various colors.

A flash occurred with the camera zooming in on the Grips, tapping their votes on the device provided to them on the bleachers.

"The votes have been cast," Chris began, wearing a blue tuxedo, "If you get a Gilded Chris it means you're safe… for now."

Chef walked up, swapping his dress from earlier during this episode's challenge for a black coat and purple bowtie. "What happened to your dress?" Chris remarked slyly to the cook. For a reply the hulking man merely flashed the Chris the 'I am watching you' sign with his fingers prompting the host to knock it off.

"And the Gilded Chris goes too… Lindsay…and Beth."

"Yay!" Both girls hugged each other before catching both awards. The camera panned slowly to show Owen, Trent and Justin's faces before Chris said, "Justin."

The model let out a small sigh of relief as he caught his award.

"And last but not least…"

The score went higher in pinch with excitement as the camera showed a split screen of both Trent and Owen's perspectives

"Owe-

"Wait!"

All eyes turned to see none other than Gwen, dashing towards the stage. She skidded to a halt, breathing heavily and to everyone's surprise the rest of the Screaming Gaffers was close behind her, but stayed a fair enough distance away that it was only Gwen near the Killer Grips and the two hosts. Silence was struck for a good thirty seconds, with everyone staring at the goth girl. Gwen, acutely aware of this, gulped and begun with her plan, "Chris, don't eliminate Tre-," She paused. "anyone from the Killer Grips. I quit."

Gasps could be heard throughout the venue, especially in the small huddle the Screaming Gaffers were in.

"Come on, Gwen!" Duncan lamented. "Don't tell me you're pulling this to try to save lover boy," He jerked his thumb to the bleachers where Trent was sitting, his face pale with shock.

"Quiet Duncan," LeShawana took a step forward, "Believe me, I'm not on board with this either." Her expression softened. "But Gwen came to me and told me why she needed to do this, and we all have to respect that." Her eyes turned to the former Gaffer leader and smiled, "I'm gonna miss you girl,"

Gwen smiled back at LeShawna and to the rest of her team, who had mixed expressions. DJ looked melancholy while Harold looked shocked. Heather couldn't contain her devilish smirk while Duncan continued to maintain his annoyed expression.

"Ahem," Chris coughed. "You don't exactly make the rules here Gwen," The host frowned, "But," His expression lightened. "Your team has been winning way too much that it's gotten boring. Like, really boring. So I'll allow it, Killer Grips you'll stay as you are."

The camera shifted perspective to the Killer Grips now, all wearing shocked expressions. None rivaled Trent's face, whose was white as a ghost. "Gwen," He croaked. "Why?"

The newly eliminated Total Drama Action player rushed to his side, "Trent just trust me on this." She gave the musician a reassuring smile, "I don't want to get into it here, but I accidentally did something that was going to hurt you…" Her glance drifted to the other four players of the Killer Grips. Three of them looked downward, guilt awash over them at what they tried to do. Justin seemed to just scoff and roll his eyes. "I needed to quit to make sure that, thing, doesn't happen."

"But Gwen, I-"

Trent was cut off as Gwen planted a kiss on his cheek, "Please Trent, just trust me?" She said, her face pleading. Trent seemed to blink rubbing his eyes. The kiss caught him off guard, even if it was on his cheek. He wanted to keep asking what was this thing Gwen was talking about, but pushed the feeling down to his gut. He wanted to trust her.

"I, trust you." He managed a small smile. Gwen returned the smile, and for a brief moment as they gazed at one another, it was like they were back at Camp Wawwanakwa.

"Okay," Chris broke that bubble pretty quickly, "It's Total Drama Action, not Total Sappy Action. Gwen get in the limo."


The camera flashed again to all the contestants standing with Gwen as she made her way to the car. Giving DJ and Duncan fist bumps, LeShawna and Owen hugs, and for Trent another one that lingered before she entered the lame-osine as it jettisoned into the night.

As it disappeared from view, Trent felt like he had been stabbed in the stomach. Why would she quit, and what bad thing was going to happen if she didn't? Only time would tell.


[DIVERGENCE COMPLETED]

[BLACKMAIL AVERTED]

[GWEN ELIMINATED]

[TRENT SAVED]

[CONTINUING NARRATIVE FROM POINT OF DIVERGENCE]

Trent 4: (Justin, Beth, Lindsay and Owen) *NULL*

Owen 1: (Trent) *NULL*

Gwen 1: (Gwen) [QUIT]

Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen

Screaming Gaffers: Duncan, Harold, LeShawna, DJ and Heather

Killer Grips: Trent, Justin, Owen, Beth and Lindsay


7 - The Chefshank Redemption

After a mishap with locked trailer doors, Chris announced that the next challenge would be Prison Flick day. Chef continues his alliance with DJ, and the Brickhouse with a Heart's guilt continues to spiral further and further. Trent, distraught and concerned at Gwen's cryptic reason for quitting is so saddened that it looked like he wouldn't be of much help competing. Heather, ecstatic Gwen is gone tries to take the reins of leadership of her team, much to their chagrin.

The first part of the challenge consisted of both teams making gross meals that one from each team had to eat.

The Grips chose Heather.

The Gaffers chose Lindsay.

In the end due to DJ adding his momma's spice to the concoction allowed the blonde to be victorious, though she puked immediately after Heather due to the Queen Bee projectile vomiting in her face, earning the Grips a shovel.

For the second part of the challenge, the Grips tried to get Trent to push their laundry cart but he was still too distraught to compete and the role defaulted to Lindsay. The Gaffers got DJ to push.

It seemed a blowout at first, with DJ pushing the Gaffers to the place they had to dig well before Lindsay. When Lindsay with the Grips got there they did have the shovel though, which even things up a bit.

Along the way the Gaffers bumped into Izzy, who showed them a shortcut. Unfortunately, Izzy's shortcut was more of a long cut, which allowed the Grips to catch up and take victory.

When the Gaffers eventually got there, Izzy rejoined the Grips as she explained that they had technically voted out E-Scope not her, much to Owen's joy.

Before the elimination, Trent asked Izzy if she watched last episode and to tell him why Gwen had quit. Izzy spilled everything, with Gwen wanting to quit to save Trent after she initially told the Grips to vote for him, as well as Justin overhearing Trent admit how he was throwing challenges for Gwen. Also in typical Izzy exaggeration she put particular emphasis on how Justin orchestrated the whole thing, trying to get him to turn against the model, but Trent just felt guilty about the whole thing. Izzy did manage to get Trent to promise that they'd look out for each other though, with both being sort of outcasts on the team with everyone knowing Trent threw the game and Izzy being a returnee. A partnership was born.

On the Gaffers side, LeShawna was up to her wits end as Heather continued to try to take Gwen's place as captain. She tried to coax Harold into voting for her, but the nerd was adamant at wanting Duncan gone.

In the end it didn't matter as both DJ and Duncan were both getting annoyed with the Queen Bee's antics and sent her packing to the lame-o-sine.


Heather 3: (Duncan, LeShawna, DJ)

Duncan 1: (Harold)

LeShawna 1: (Heather)

Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather

Screaming Gaffers: DJ, Duncan, Harold, LeShwana

Killer Grips: Beth, Izzy, Lindsay, Justin, Owen


8 - One Flu Over The Cuckoos

Shortly after the end of the Prison challenge and Heather's elimination, Trent apologized to the Grips about throwing challenges. To his surprised everyone seemed to be accepting, including Justin. Although it was revealed in the confessional that he was still distrustful. Izzy grit her teeth at the model but said nothing.

Chris announced that night that both teams would be studying with an near endless surprise of pizza from medical books to prepare for the Medical Challenge in the morning.

Duncan and LeShawna chose to skip the studying due to it being only a reward challenge.

Without having to deal with Heather, LeShawna's next target was Duncan. She didn't appreciate Duncan's continued bullying of Harold and confronted him about it while they were walking back to sleep. Duncan, not liking being questioned, told LeShawna to "shove it," and implied he was being extra harsh due to something being done in the past by Harold. LeShawna grew ever more incensed at the delinquent, and a wedge between them started to grow.

The next morning had most of the contestants tired, save for LeShawna and Duncan. For the first part of the challenge, Chris instructed both teams to retrieve parts of giant like cadavers by spelunking down into pools of water, teeming with electric eels as well. They would than need to pull the cadaver up a way with a rope contraction before it being struck with lightning. Whichever team did this first would win.

During the challenge, Duncan kept messing with Harold, drawing LeShawna's ire, her anger from last night not subsided. The last straw for LeShawna was when Duncan pants'd Harold, spurring a shouting match between the two of them. With tempers flared, DJ was the only one level headed enough to go on with the challenge, and it looked like the Grips would win with ease.

However, the challenge stopped short where Owen's lemony burp made Justin think he had a "Mortitistical Crumples Disease" with Beth confirming. Pandemonium soon set in as everyone else started to feel sick, prompting Chris to exit the room, barricading the exits.

As everyone started to feel sick with various symptoms, LeShawna and Duncan started to notice they were the only ones feeling ok. They also saw that they also were the only ones who didn't study for the whole night. Both begrudgingly knew they had to work together in order to figure this out and escaped using a pully for one of the cadavers and investigated to see what was wrong.

Once both returned, they alerted everyone that Chef used itching powder and laxatives for his cheese, while confirming that the sores on DJ and Owen were just pepperoni. All the other symptoms, they reasoned, were placebo. No one noticed an ever guiltier looking DJ.

Chris burst through the door and declared The Screaming Gaffers the winners for their deductions. All four bickered over the spa reward, but in the end LeShawna's crying convinced the other three that she should get it, even Duncan. However, it was revealed to the viewers that LeShawna only feigned tears to spend the day with LeShaniqua.


Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather

Screaming Gaffers: DJ, Duncan, Harold, LeShwana

Killer Grips: Beth, Izzy, Lindsay, Justin, Owen


9 - The Sand Witch Project

As the next episode opened up, tension on the Screaming Gaffers was reaching a boiling point. LeShawna and Harold continued to be at odds with Duncan over him bullying the nerd, with Duncan still not revealing why he was doing so harshly. DJ, still guilty at his illegal alliance with Chef, kept his head down.

The Grips, while still having their own problems, were much better off. All had forgiven Trent, and while Justin was still a bit wary, he more or less was trusting of him at this point now that Gwen was gone. Izzy still wanted the model gone, but she mostly kept it to herself. Trent was still quite a bit downcast, but his move was starting to improve as Izzy made it a point to try to cheer him up. Lindsay vowed to take on more of a leadership role.

After a Chris faking his death, which led everyone to discovers Beth inability to scream, Chris tasked each team to choose a killer and try to make the others scream. Whichever team was the loudest would be crowned the victors.

After some bickering between the Grips, Lindsay put her foot down and demanded that Beth be the killer, due to her inability to scream.

The Gaffers wanted Duncan to be the killer, but Chef threatened them to have DJ be it, which they complied. The Gentle Giant was beginning to sweat.

In the end the Gaffers were victorious, but not after Chef cheated to make sure Duncan and Heather would scream, causing DJ to be knocked out. When he awakened, his conscience seemed to be at a breaking point.

For the second part of the challenge, Chris instructed the Grips to spend a whole night in the craft services tent while unbeknownst to them the Gaffers would try to scare them out. Lindsay tried to get the team to stay put, but eventually, despite Duncan, LeShawna and Harold's bickering, they managed to scare them out and the Grips were sent to elimination.

Izzy tried to get Trent to vote for Justin with her, but the musician wasn't so sure.

For elimination on the grips side, Lindsay and Justin were at the bottom two, and before Chris could read out the final name, DJ erupted that he and Chef had an illegal alliance, and that he would vote himself off. This shocked everyone and Chef tried to get DJ to backdown from this, but he persisted.

Chris, visibly angry at Chef, told DJ no dice. They already had allowed Gwen quit, he reasoned, and it would be boring for the viewers to see another quitter. DJ tried to persist but Chris was adamant: DJ would still be in the competition unless he was voted off, and in a dramatic fashion declared Lindsay would be taking the boot. [2] Heartbroken the blonde implored Beth why they chose this, with the farm girl hazarding a guess that it was due to her bossiness during the challenge. Owen and Trent exchanged guilty looks as the bombshell entered the lame-o-sine.


Lindsay: 2 (Trent and Owen)

Justin: 1 (Izzy)

Owen: 1 (Beth)

Izzy: 1 (Justin)

Elimination Order: Geoff and Bridgette, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay

Screaming Gaffers: DJ, Duncan, Harold, LeShwana

Killer Grips: Beth, Izzy, Justin, Owen


10 - Masters of Disasters

Shortly after Lindsay's elimination, DJ apologized for his illegal alliance and told them he wouldn't be working with Chef anymore. Most if not all agreed at how intimidating Chef could be and forgave him. To the Gaffers he also told them that he would do his best in challenges, but to vote him off if they lost. LeShawna tried to convince DJ to vote for Duncan with her and Harold if they lost privately, but DJ was adamant at wanting to go home and set things right with his mother.

Also it was revealed during breakfast the next morning that Beth had a boyfriend. Most did not believe her. Chef kept his head down, as everyone was throwing glares at the cook for manipulating DJ like he did. He seemed to lose all of his intimidating demeanor towards the campers, and hiding his face whenever DJ was around. Harold took a bunch of plastic straws from the table.

Soon Chris revealed that today's challenge would be one of based off Disaster Movies, with the first part being the "Earthquake of Inevitable Pain." The Gaffers with DJ strength and endurance were dominating, despite the various objects Chris and Chef were throwing at them, and it looked like it would be a blowout. However just as Owen was about to climb over one of the obstacles, Chef threw his 1000 plus page manifesto at Owen's mouth, breaking his jaw. He was sent to the hospital and out of commission for the challenge, much to Izzy's worry. Trent comforted the redhead, causing the two to become ever closer.

Chris, loving the "money shot" that came out of it, declared the Grips victorious despite them making across the finish line last.

The next challenge was both teams being trapped in two submarines with the water steadily rising, trying to find a way to escape. The Grips got a paper with a combination, and Izzy quickly pulls it out. Justin tries to grab it from Izzy, wanting himself to do it, but when he took it he dropped it in the water. All glared at the male model, including Beth.

On the Gaffers side, tensions were flaring. DJ was desperately trying to keep the peace as LeShawna and Duncan locked horns. As the water continued to rise up and LeShawna accidentally admitting that she never cried, Duncan put two and two together and deduced that she had fake cried during the medical challenge in order to get the reward. Harold seemed hurt that LeShawna would lie to him, while DJ tried to defend the Soul Sista', saying what he did with Chef was far worse. Duncan was just angry.

Eventually with Harold's use of the plastic straws for a makeshift breathing device, the Gaffers won the challenge.

Owen returns from the hospital, revealing they had to wire his jaw shut, and Chris offers a deal that he can go enjoy chips and soda with the Gaffers if he agrees not to sue, which the big guy agreed to.


Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay

Screaming Gaffers: DJ, Duncan, Harold, LeShwana

Killer Grips: Beth, Izzy, Justin, Owen


11 - Full Metal Drama

The episode starts with a bunch of the contestants wanting to use the bathroom, with the sole working one being occupied by Owen. After refusing his dietary smoothie made by Chef, LeShawna drank it up. Both DJ and Harold had more or less forgiven her at this point, and Duncan seemed like he was on the outs.

On the Grips, Trent seemed to be fully recovering with his stint of depression. He had been hanging out with Izzy a lot more, and chose to think about their alliance to keep his mind off Gwen. Justin, knowledgeable of Izzy's dislike of him, was wary of the friendship and tried to stick extra close to Beth. The farm girl however seemed to be giving the model the cold shoulder. Owen was oblivious as always.

Chris started the challenge, which was War Movie theme. After a fake out with parachuting off an airplane, the real challenge begun in earnest, which was trying to make a controlled paint explosion. DJ scared of explosives, and LeShawna and Harold who were still at odds with the delinquent let Duncan alone handle the challenge while Izzy, or Explosivo as she was now known did it herself as well.

In the end Chris declared the Gaffers victorious as while Izzy's explosion was more massive, it wasn't all that controlled.

The second part of the challenge was where the Gaffers needed to defend the "Trunk of Mind-blowing Secrets!" due to DJ's cowardice ever creeping guilt due to his illegal alliance and LeShawna starting to grow sick from the smoothie she drank, Harold and Duncan managed to put their conflict aside and kept the Grips from getting the trunk.

For the elimination on the Grips side it looked to be close. Izzy convinced Trent to vote for Justin with her finally and Justin managed to reawaken his seductive charm over Beth, securing her vote against Izzy.

Owen looked to be the swinger.

Izzy and Trent went to him first and asked the big guy to vote for Justin. Owen was sad at them wanting to vote for his good friend Justin, but he agreed at the time to not upset his girlfriend.

That is until Justin sat Owen down. Knowing that he would never agree to vote for Izzy, Justin asked his jaw broken friend to not vote for him, to at least give the model a fighting chance in a tiebreaker. That way, he wouldn't have to choose between the two of them. He also tipped off Owen to remember how Trent was throwing their challenges in the past.

Justin's plan worked and come the Gilded Chris ceremony where Izzy and Justin were both in the bottom two Chris declared that it was a tie, where there would be in fact a tiebreaker. Chris led both candidates to elimination to the area with the trailers so both teams could watch where he announced it would be a paint ball fight to determine who'd be sent home. Giving both guns, the very same kind from the Paintball Deer Hunt episode a season prior, he announced a minute for both of them to try to hide from each other. First one hit by paint was out.

Justin was completely outclassed, and Izzy shot him right in his perfectly quaffed head.

Owen, sad that Justin was gone but relieved that the tension between his friend and girlfriend were over tried to give Izzy a hug after the whole ordeal with Izzy giving him a hardened stare, knowing that he betrayed her. "Explosivo doesn't mess with traitors."


Izzy: 2 (Justin and Beth)

Justin: 2 (Izzy and Trent)

Trent: 1 (Owen)

Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Justin

Screaming Gaffers: Duncan, LeShawna, Harold and DJ

Killer Grips: Izzy, Trent, Owen, and Beth


13 - Ocean's Eight - or Nine

Despite Owen's jaw being fully healed, tension was high as ever on the Grips. Izzy was very hurt at Owen's betrayal for lying to her, and despite Trent's best efforts at making her feel better, it was to no use. Owen on his end kept trying to apologize, but the redhead didn't want to hear it, saddening the lovable oaf. Trent was sad to see his alliance partner so distraught, while Beth kept her head down, sad that Justin was gone.

For the Screaming Gaffers, it was a bit more mellow. Duncan grew to respect Harold somewhat due to their team up last challenge and softened up his bullying. DJ however was still worried about what his illegal alliance did to his image, especially towards his Momma. He wanted to go home.

During breakfast while no one was looking, Owen and LeShawna seemed to disappear, though no one paid much mind. That is until Chris came in and announced that this theme of challenges would be based off a bank heist, with Owen and LeShawna and a bunch of bank robbing equipment being the rewards for the first part of the challenge.

Izzy wanted to leave Owen and just head for the teller, as did Duncan with LeShawna, however both of their other teammates insisted that they stay and help out. Izzy managed to level her head due to Trent's comfort and with Beth using her cologne, Owen was free at last, breaking through the vault with superhuman strength due to the smells of food. He was hungry, as he hadn't breakfast, but surprisingly his worry over Izzy led it to not affect him. Harold managed to break the combination, but this was well behind the Grips.

The Grips managed to make it to the bank teller first with the equipment, and were surprised that it was none other than Courtney, who Chris explained sued her way back into the game. Once the Gaffers got there, Chris said that Courtney was their 'consolation' prize. Harold sighed, LeShawna and DJ were skeptical, and Duncan smirked.

The next part of the challenge was building a getaway cart to get to the finish line first. Despite Duncan being a decent mechanic, he clashed with Courtney at how to build it which allowed the Grips to finish first.

Any goodwill Duncan and Harold built up was shattered with Courtney's return. The C.I.T wanted Harold to go due to his treachery on Total Drama Island and got Duncan to target the ginger with her. LeShawna was aware of this and told the nerd that despite Duncan and his sudden comradery that they should vote for the criminal. It looked like it would be a deadlocked tie, as DJ wouldn't dare vote for anyone but himself.

DJ, immensely sad that it looked like he wouldn't be eliminated yet again, sulked in the craft services tent. Chef approached the gentle giant and issued a rare apology, and broached the prospect of helping DJ. He could change the code of the voting machines where whoever pressed it which part of the screen, it would count as a vote for DJ. DJ, shocked, agreed to this. He was about to hug Chef before the cook threatened to stop acting like a "sissy," and to not tell anyone "or else,"

In a dramatic announcement at elimination, Chris said that DJ was voted off unanimously. The Gentle Giant waved goodbye to his shocked teammates faces, despite their protests. After he left, Chris shrugged his shoulders and said it must've been a glitch, but not caring enough to correct it. Courtney vowed with her lawyers to get to the bottom of it, while Chef seemed to smile, his guilty conscience finally fading.


Intended Votes:

Duncan: 2 (LeShawna and Harold)

Harold: 2 (Duncan and Courtney)

DJ: 1 (DJ)

Rigged Votes:

DJ: 5 (Duncan, LeShawna, Harold, Courtney, DJ)

Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Justin, DJ

Screaming Gaffers: Courtney, Duncan, Harold, LeShawna

Killer Grips: Beth, Izzy, Owen, Trent


14 - One Million Bucks, B.C

For the prehistoric challenge, both teams were on edge. Battle lines were drawn on the Gaffers: Courtney and Duncan vs. Harold and LeShawna. Both sides knew that if they lost they would have to deal with a tiebreaker, spurning themselves on to win.

Owen was still trying to woo Izzy back, but the red head was still not feeling it. Trent and Beth both hung their heads seeing the Big Guy in sadness over it.

When Chris brought up everyone to the challenge site, which he would soon reveal to have a prehistoric theme, he revealed Courtney's perks due to her winning the lawsuit. Everyone complained about them, including Duncan, except Owen who was stewing in sadness.

Soon the Final Eight changed into Flintstones garbed and Chris tasked a race between both teams to see who could make a roaring blaze first with sticks and flint.

Izzy, channeling Explosivo, earned an early win for the Grips. Duncan was about to use his lighter for the challenge, before Courtney swiped it from him.

The second part was a series of one on one grudge matches on rocky pillars, with the goal of knocking the player on the opposing team into the tar pits. The Grips had the advantage of using larger sticks due to their winning the pre-challenge, and the pairs were thus:

Izzy vs LeShawna

Beth vs Courtney

Trent vs. Duncan

Owen vs. Harold

The fanatic Izzy was no match for the loud and proud LeShawna.

Beth channeled her baton throwing skills to best the C.I.T

Duncan got distracted by Courtney's revealing loin cloth from above, scoring Trent the point.

In the end, Owen was too saddened from Izzy and basically ceded the point to Harold, earning the Grips the win.

Nothing much of importance happened after, with the Grips mammoth rib as a reward getting dropped into the tar by Chef Hatchet and the Gaffers trying to dine on a giant loon egg for a consolation prize.


Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Justin, DJ

Killer Grips: Beth, Izzy, Owen, Trent

Screaming Gaffers: Courtney, Duncan, Harold, LeShawna


15 - Million Dollar Babies

Chris woke up the Final Eight bright and early for the Sports Movie Challenge, tasking the competitors to do a series of obstacle courses. Harold starts to question his honor due to him rigging his votes, while Duncan and Courtney continue to bicker over strategy.

Owen keeps apologizing to Izzy and the redhead finally snaps at him. She remembered how Owen had abandoned her to the Psycho Killer in season one and now with his betrayal over Justin, she didn't want to get hurt again and didn't know if she could trust him. Owen hung his head, not knowing how to respond.

After the courses were over, Chris announced that it was all a ruse just for ceding for the real challenges, which were all rematches from last episode.

Harold and Owen were first with the boxing challenge, yet it was over fairly quickly as Chris disqualified Owen over his incessant crying over Izzy. As Courtney was yelling at Harold to win it, she dropped her PDA. Duncan picked it up and played with it a bit, before discovering something on it that shocked him. He quickly showed it to Courtney once the match ended and both glared at LeShawna throughout the rest of the challenge.

The next match was between Courtney and Beth in badminton. In similar fashion, Beth used her baton twirling talents to crush the now irate C.I.T, bring the score 1-1.

Duncan and Trent were next, and due to Courtney yelling at Duncan to focus he got distracted again resulting in Trent pinning the criminal.

For the final challenge, it wasn't even close, Izzy's speed and zaniness allowed her to romp LeShawna in the basketball challenge adding to the Grips winning streak.

For elimination, it looked like it would be a tiebreaker, which LeShawna and Harold braced for.

That's when Courtney and Duncan struck.

Duncan dragged Harold by his collar to Courtney where the C.I.T showed him what Duncan first noticed on the PDA. It was a video of LeShawna mocking all the competitors during her trip to the spa with LeShaniqua, ending with her making fun of how Harold had no shot in ever securing a proper relationship with her. Harold was dumbstruck, with eyes wide. Courtney took this a step further, saying that the only way of making things even and restoring his "honor" was that he vote for LeShawna with herself and Duncan. Harold's lip quivered in a mixture of sadness and fear as the vote was upon them.

In a shocker, a dumbfounded LeShawna was thrown into lame-o-sine as Harold hung his head in guilt, Duncan snickered, and Courtney glared.


Votes:

Duncan: 1 (LeShawna)

LeShawna: (Courtney, Duncan and Harold)

Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Justin, DJ, LeShawna

Killer Grips: Beth, Izzy, Owen, Trent

Screaming Gaffers: Courtney, Duncan and Harold


16 - Dial M for Merger

After several mishaps, the Final Seven woke up in a strange cave, with Chris announcing that the merge was upon them.

One way or another: Beth, Courtney, Duncan, Harold, Izzy, Owen and Trent had made it.

After Beth sat on a rock revealing a secret passage, the newly merged cast mates found themselves in a building with Chris tasking them to maneuver their way through lasers in order to make it to the bag in a glass case in the center of the room. No one else could match the acrobatics of Izzy and Courtney, and soon it was a dead heat between both of them to make it first.

Izzy retrieved the glass a hair before Courtney, and after a fake-out of the building exploding, Chris warned the cast via projector that the building would indeed explode in sixty seconds if they could not find a way to get out in time. Izzy opened the bag and discovered a grappling hook, and the cast all managed to make it out of the building through the window before the explosion… that never actually occurred.

The second part of the challenge involved the cast with several drums of stink bombs, with Chris tasking them of trying to cut the right wires to deactivate them. Izzy, with breakneck speed managed to deduce the correct wire and cut it, but that didn't stop all the other bombs from detonating and causing the cast to be embroiled in a foul stench.

In the end, the whole cast had to spend a healthy amount of time in tomato broth to get the stench off of them. Chris deems Izzy the victor with the reward of attending a local cheese factory, with the ability to choose one person to attend with her [3]. She first opts to take Trent, but the musician cedes his spot to Owen, hoping that a little quality time between them would allow them to make up.


Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Justin, DJ, LeShawna

Final Seven: Beth, Courtney, Duncan, Harold, Izzy, Owen and Trent


17 - Super Hero-ld

After another argument with Duncan, Courtney tries to convince Beth and Izzy at night in the trailer to form a girls' alliance to start picking off the boys, saying that the genders were now three to five. Beth was skeptical, but Izzy seemed to be a firm no, saying cryptically "me already gots a' one," Courtney vows in her head to figure out who Izzy was aligning with.

Back at the guys' trailer, Trent asks Owen if spending the cheese tour with Izzy managed to make things better. The Big Guy said that things were a bit better, as she agreed to be friends again, but that "Izzy's off the table" for a relationship with him again. Trent, not wanting to see Owen and Izzy go through what he and Gwen had, promises that he would try to talk to Izzy to convince her to continue the relationship again.

In the morning, Chris woke up the cast for the Super Hero challenge, tasking the Final Seven into creating super hero personas while Pythonicus (Chef Hatchet) and dander boy (a random cat) sabotaged their efforts, for judging.

Soon the casts come out on stage with their costumes and made up powers:

Izzy was "Super Donkey", with wearing too long donkey ears in a purple suit and faux buck teeth, her power being her super dynamic kicks. Chris was unamused that one of those kicks almost hit him, and gave her a 5/10. [4]

Beth was "Lumber Woman", with the ability to talkto plants. Chris yawned and gave her a 3/10.

Harold donned the cape of "Captain Alberta", with his mighty Canuck wind and patriotism earning him a 7/10

Courtney outfitted herself as the "Human Cricket" and despite her ear piercing sound earned an 8/10.

A lazy Duncan, adamant about not wearing spandex, was the "All Seeing Eye", awarding him 2/10.

Owen crafted the persona of "Marshmallow Man" with the ability to shoot Marshmallows from his mouth. An amused Chris awarded him 6/10. [5]

Trent became the "Shredder" with his guitar saying that he could shred some wicked riffs to thwart baddies in their tracks. After a rockin' solo, Chris awards him a 9/10, cementing his victory. An ecstatic Izzy ran up to Trent and gave him a colossal bear hug, causing Courtney to become ever more suspicious.

The second trampoline was an obstacle course challenge where first place would earn them invincibility. For winning the challenge, Trent gets 10 seconds to be cut from his overall time.

It was a tight race but in the end only Courtney, Duncan, Harold and Izzy managing to pass the finish line, with Izzy herself taking gold by a mere second before the C.I.T, drawing her ire.

For elimination, no one had expected how many deals would be made. Courtney approached Duncan at the guy trailer and told him to vote for Trent, saying how Izzy had told her earlier that she had an alliance and that she suspected it was the musician. Duncan shrugged, not really caring and agreed. However, both didn't notice that Owen was still in the trailer, taking another sad nap at his breakup with Izzy, and heard this. Courtney than rushed to the girls' trailer and pleaded with Beth to vote out Trent with her, saying that they couldn't risk having another girl be voted off. Beth, not really having other options, accepted.

Trent and Izzy, meeting outside were discussing who to eliminate. Trent broached Duncan being a good candidate, saying that Harold would probably vote for him too, with Izzy agreeing. Izzy decided to head to the girls' trailer while Trent told her that he would find Harold and tell him of their plan. Once he reached the distraught nerd, hanging out in the mess area, Owen barged in and pleaded with them that they all had to vote for himself as he had overheard Duncan and Courtney planning to eliminate Trent due to his closeness with Izzy. Trent balked, saying if what Owen was saying really true he could just vote with them with Duncan and he would be eliminated, but Owen spoke of him needing to do this in order for her to see that she trusted him again. It took some persuading, but Trent eventually acquiesced with Harold. He was about to run and tell this to Izzy, but soon elimination was struck.

In a shock tie, it was between Trent vs. Owen for a tiebreaker. Chris brought the cast back to the obstacle course from today's challenge, saying whoever could finish it first could stay. Owen didn't even try, and he was gone. Izzy ran up to the Big Guy, and after Trent explained Owen's plan, kissed the Big Guy, rekindling their relationship before he entered the lame-o-sine. Izzy turned and vow to crush the "meanies" of Courtney and Duncan to their faces, with Trent awkwardly standing behind her.


Votes:

Duncan: 1 (Izzy)

Owen: 3 (Harold, Owen and Trent)

Trent: 3 (Courtney, Duncan and Beth)

Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Justin, DJ, LeShawna, Owen

Final Six: Beth, Courtney, Duncan, Harold, Izzy, Trent


19 – The Princess Pride

After a faux burrito contest administered by Duncan, Chris walks in and announces the Fairy Tale theme, stating that due to Izzy's win last challenge she would be the princess, much to Courtney's ire. He tasks the rest of them to put on fairy tale costumes and brings them all to the first area to save the crazed redhead, being trying to get out of Chef's path on a bridge while blindfolded.

Trent and Beth both fall, but Harold manages to run past Chef and Courtney manages to slide under the hulking cook's legs. Duncan cheats with his blindfold, and hangs on Chef's Rapunzel hair to swing himself across the chasm. Courtney accuses Duncan of cheating, but none believe her, and Duncan starts to smirk.

For the second part of the challenge, first Izzy is lowered down and starts to sing a spastic song about her ideal prince, using adjectives to make it plainly obvious it was Owen. Courtney remarks that it should have been her up there, causing Duncan to snap at her, telling her to stop whining. Both glare at each other, and Harold keeps his head down, missing and feeling guilty about LeShawna.

Soon then the second part of the challenge begins in earnest, with it consisting of trying to rescue Izzy from the challenge and to defeat the giant monster from the season premiere dressed as a dragon. With Courtney and Duncan both bickering, Harold managed to get the monster to trip on himself and made it up the tower to Izzy.

Suddenly Chris announced that both would have to duel for immunity. Izzy let out a powerful battle cry and looked like she would defeat the ginger before he ducked using his "Mad Dodging Skills" causing Izzy to fall off, resulting in his victory and immunity.

Despite Courtney and Duncan's bickering, both resolved to vote together to make sure none of them to get the boot. Courtney tried to convince Beth again to vote with him, but her time sitting out of the challenge with Trent had started to change her allegiance.

In an undramatic vote, Duncan was eliminated, but not before a reconciliation with Courtney, ending with a kiss. He also gave Harold surprising fist bump, congratulating him on defeating him after all this time which had earned the delinquents respect.


Votes:

Duncan: 4 (Beth, Harold, Izzy and Trent)

Izzy: 2 (Duncan and Courtney)

Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Justin, DJ, LeShawna, Owen, Duncan

Final Five: Beth, Courtney, Harold, Izzy and Trent


20 – Get a Clue

After a diversion where the Final Five had to locate Chris, he assigned them to meet him at a train station with various DNA from their fellow competitors to commence the Murder Mystery challenge.

Courtney arrived first with many types of DNA, and after much whining Chris gave her a bag of cheese snacks for "winning."

Once on the train, the lights went out, revealing a numb looking body of Chris. After some brief pandemonium, Harold thought of trying to figure out who the murderer was, with Courtney decrying that it was all a farce by the producers. One of Izzy's orange hairs could be found on the ground, which spurred Harold and Beth to cuff her, much to Courtney and Trent's chagrin.

Soon Beth discovered a napkin of cheesy prints and turned her accusation on Courtney. Chris opened the door and congratulated Beth on her sleuthing skills giving her the reward that she could go to the movies with a player of her choice. Noticing how sad Harold was ever since LeShawna left, she opted to take him.


Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Justin, DJ, LeShawna, Owen, Duncan

Final Five: Beth, Courtney, Harold, Izzy, Trent


21 – Rock n' Rule

Chris woke up the Final Five early from the trailers to announce that today's challenge would be the Rock n' Roll biopic. He also says that he would be bringing another competitor back to the game, citing unfinished business to be attended to.

With shocked gasps, it was none other than DJ who walked into frame, with everyone demanding an explanation as to why.

Chris explained that this was due to DJ's dubious elimination last time around, and upon reviewing the footage, he revealed that it was orchestrated by DJ himself and Chef Hatchet, with the cook changing the code in the voting devices to make it that any part of the screen that was touched to count as a vote for the Gentle Giant. He went on saying that because of the forgery, Chris was bringing the Gentle Giant back in the game. DJ himself was at peace with it, apologizing to his Momma, and vowing to play fair. All seemed to be happy at the Gentle Giant's return, even Courtney.

Chris took the now Final Six to the Gilded Chris Theater and tasked them to play a version of "Guitar Hero." Whoever could play the longest would win.

Unsurprisingly, Trent demolished the competition.

Next up was the red carpet challenge, where the six teens needed to go across the red carpet with the most rock and roll style, with Trent getting the advantage of starting halfway due to his win.

Courtney dashed through at breakneck pace.

Beth tripped and didn't even finish.

DJ was reminded of his mom due to the cardboard cut outs and cried.

Harold was still sad over LeShawna and cried as well.

Izzy hopped over all the cut outs.

Trent was suave and strut all the way.

In the end Trent was declared the victor yet again, and Chris brought them all to a faux-hotel room where they were tasked to try to break the most things. Courtney, knowing that she would most likely be voted off without immunity went ballistic and demolished everything in sight, earning her victory and invincibility. Not even Trent's ten second bonus time could tip the scales; she had destroyed everything.

Courtney, Harold and Beth, all wary of Trent and Izzy due to their solid partnership, went to DJ and broached the prospect of voting for either of the two. DJ opted to vote for Izzy, due to the crazy girl scaring him, and the outcome was secure.

At elimination, Izzy glomped a saddened Trent, and in a rare moment of seriousness, thanking him for how good of a friend he was to her after all this time. She encouraged him to win before jumping into the lame-o-sine, excited to be reunited with Owen.


Votes:

Izzy: 4 (Beth, Courtney, Harold and DJ)

Harold: 2 (Izzy and Trent)

Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Justin, DJ, LeShawna, Owen, Duncan, Izzy

Final Five: Beth, Courtney, DJ, Harold, Trent


22 - Crouching Courtney, Hidden DJ

The Final Five woke up to find they were back at Camp Wawwanakwa where Chris introduced the Kung Fu challenge, where the first task would be a boys vs girls grudge match where one would have to train another. DJ though, he decided, would sit this one out as punishment for rigging the votes with Chef Hatchet, but the gentle giant didn't mind this.

Courtney decided to train Beth while Harold decided to instill Trent his "Mad Skills." During the training, Harold apologized to Trent at voting out Izzy, but the musician said there was no hard feelings, knowing this was a game. Courtney tried all that she could to secure a girls' alliance with Beth, knowing her options were still limited as Duncan was gone.

Once the training was completed, and after DJ would have to be wearing a geisha costume throughout the day, Chris revealed that both students would have to climb into robotic mechas to duke it out with the masters controlling them.

Harold's knowledge of robotics led him to quickly crush Beth and Courtney.

For the winners of Trent and Harold both were tasked to climb "Mount Banshee" with glasses of water to deliver to Sasqushanakwa while Beth and Courtney were relegated to kitchen duty.

Nothing much of importance happened with the boys, with both of them helping each other as Geisha DJ led the way, and Harold eventually one the challenge and scored the killer reward dinner. Harold and Trent bonded and Trent manage to cheer Harold up from his LeShawna problem a tad.

Courtney did manage to convince Beth on the girls' alliance, causing much excitement for the C.I.T.


Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Justin, DJ, LeShawna, Owen, Duncan, Izzy

Final Five: Beth, Courtney, DJ, Harold, Trent


23 - 2008: A Drama Odyssey [6]

Chris woke up the cast before daybreak to begin the Space challenge. Before he begun though, he gave various trinkets and gifts from home to the Final Five as rewards for making it this far.

Beth got a candy ring from her alleged boyfriend Brady.

DJ managed to receive an old cookbook that his Momma wrote for him, causing homesickness.

Courtney got a photo of her winning a debate all by herself.

Trent got a toy train from his dead grandfather, with only nine wheels on, explaining that this is where his lucky number came from.

Harold received nunchucks.

Chris then tasked the Final Five to all enter the space simulation roller coaster for the night, where it would be zero gravity. Once in there, the "navigation system" started to malfunction, but Harold quickly fixed this and other than that it was an uneventful night.

Once out of the ride, Chris brought them all to a different location where they had to ride the Vomit Comet. Harold for fixing the navigation system got to choose the order, and Courtney, trying reverse psychology, suggested that he should order himself last so he could learn from the others mistakes. Harold, wary of trusting Courtney after everything with LeShawna, decided to do the opposite and the order was thus:

Harold, Trent, DJ, Beth and Courtney.

Once Chris revealed the vomit comet however, Courtney cursed as her plan backfired, not wanting to ride in puke after everyone else went.

Harold went 5.6 seconds.

Trent didn't fare much better, lasting nine seconds, puking everywhere.

DJ managed fifteen, puking just as much as Trent.

Once it was near Beth's turn, Courtney told Beth to forfeit the challenge so they could have strength in numbers come elimination ceremony, but Beth reneged, opting to go for it. Courtney was incensed as Beth scored a 35.5 seconds.

Courtney refused and elimination was upon them with Beth scoring invincibility.

Beth's disobedience caused a major fight between the two girls, and soon the girls alliance was dissolved. Beth went to Harold, Trent and DJ and asked them to vote for Courtney with her, which they all agreed to.

Chef had to drag an irate Courtney to the lame-o-sine, kicking and screaming.


Votes:

Beth: 1 (Courtney)

Courtney: 4 (Beth, DJ, Harold and Trent)

Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Justin, DJ, LeShawna, Owen, Duncan, Izzy

Final Four: Beth, DJ, Harold and Trent


24 – Top Dog

After Courtney was gone, it seemed that any resemblance of drama or dislike among one another was gone from the cast, with everyone mostly getting along with each other. DJ, Harold and Trent though, seeing how Beth was the only girl made a pact to vote together to ensure an all-male final three.

Soon the animal buddy challenge commenced, with the Final Four contestants needing to choose between a shark, raccoon, chameleon and bear where they would have to teach them tricks to be judged by Chris and Chef.

DJ, scared of all the others, quickly went for the chameleon.

Beth opted for the raccoon.

Trent and Harold did a rock paper scissors to get first dibs on the two bad options that remained. Harold won and chose the shark, whereas Trent was stuck with the bear.

After a brief stint of training, Beth is first up to perform. Their similarities earn her a ten.

Trent was second up, playing a song on his guitar with the bear moaning backup vocals, earning him a ten as well.

DJ got the chameleon to change to the color of his brown hair, earning him an eight.

Only Harold struggled, not knowing how to tame a shark and came back empty handed, earning him a zero.

Beth was declared winner of the pre-challenge, and soon the four were dropped off by bus far away from the Film Lot, tasked with their animal buddies to find their way back first for invincibility. Beth for her reward was secretly handed a GPS and embarked off on her own. Trent, Harold and DJ maintained their guys alliance and traveled together, however they were quite slow. Trent had to keep playing his guitar in order to keep calm the bear and they all had to travel by river in order for the shark to follow. Harold also still had no idea to control him, causing them to slow considerable.

For all of these reasons, Beth thrashed the competition and got back to the lot first with her raccoon at a breakneck pace compared to the rest of them, all arriving a lot later. Beth was granted immunity, and elimination had come.

In the end, everyone was wary of DJ's immense physical strength and sent him home, but he held his head up high and bore no grudges, wishing everyone good luck, eager to see his mother once more.


Votes:

DJ: 3 (Beth, Harold and Trent)

Harold: 1 (DJ)

Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Justin, DJ, LeShawna, Owen, Duncan, Izzy, Courtney, DJ

Final Three: Beth, Harold and Trent


25 – Mutiny on the Soundstage

The Final Three all woke up bound together on a pole at a pirate ship on Wawwanakwa lake. Once they managed untie themselves, Chris appeared and tasked them with their challenge, which would be pirate theme. Players had to clean their respective quarters of the ship until spotless, secure their flag on the poop deck by climbing a greased up pole, and to then fire themselves by air cannon to Boney Island to search and dig up a giant X for a treasure chest containing an invincibility pass.

Harold and Trent, despite DJ's departure, decide to work together and continue their guys' alliance. As a result of this, Beth was immensely outclassed and was defeated by the two boys, with Harold technically securing invincibility.

Beth hugged both Harold and Trent as she headed for the lame-o-sine, head held high knowing she played a good game.


Votes:

Beth: 2 (Harold and Trent)

Trent: 1 (Beth)

Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Justin, DJ, LeShawna, Owen, Duncan, Izzy, Courtney, DJ, Beth

Final Two: Harold and Trent


26 – Lights, Camera, Finale! [7]

Trent and Harold looked at each other with looks of good competition. They had outlasted all the others and made it to the Final Two. Last night after Beth's elimination both had a heart to heart talk, with Trent telling the ginger that he shouldn't feel bad about LeShawna's elimination, and Harold's to Gwen's. Both harbored guilt's that were held in both teens seemed to dissipate, with both vowing for an even fight without any thoughts of their respective exes.

After a surprisingly good breakfast from Chef Hatchet, Chris announced to both of them that they had to compete in a marathon of challenges from the past, with the option of skipping them if they managed to answer a trivia question about an eliminated competitor from that episode.

It was a fierce but friendly fight, and it was immensely close.

Both were in a tight heat to win, and in the end it was a tight foot race to see who would make it. Both seemed to exit the door at the same time…


Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Justin, DJ, LeShawna, Owen, Duncan, Izzy, Courtney, DJ, Beth

Finalists: Harold and Trent


27 – Aftermath IV: Who Wants to Pick a Millionaire?

All were shocked as Harold and Trent seemed to enter the doors at the same moment to the Aftermath studio. Not knowing what to do, Geoff and Bridgette decided on a number of challenges to determine the victor. They had tied in all of them. Gwen and LeShawna tried not to meet the finalists with their eyes, aware that they knew of the things they had done to them and feeling guilty at doing them.

Soon an angry Chris arrived with Chef and made an executive decision to have each eliminated contestant from TDA to ask questions to both of them.

Some questions were weirder than others, Heather simply went on a tirade at how she should have been in the finale and Lindsay asking whether each one of them were Tyler (much to the actual jocks chagrin.) However the most interesting ones came from LeShawna and Gwen.

Both had asked them if they knew what each one of them did, and both told them that they weren't angry. Harold apologized to LeShawna for voting for him and Gwen apologized to Trent for telling the Grips to vote him off at first. LeShawna accepted it, apologizing strongly to Harold at what she said to LeShaniqua, saying she loved to start a relationship with him. Trent said he felt no ill-will towards Gwen and apologized again for how obsessed he became earlier in the season about him.

In the end, one secured enough votes than the other, but most were locked in on who they voted for, with the one taking victory only taking it due to a few swing votes that could have gone either way going into his direction.

The runner-up held no grudge at the winner, happy that he worked out things with his ex or now new partner and Chris ended the season with a bang.


Victors: Trent/Harold

Votes in Trent's Ending (Italicized indicate they vote for Trent regardless of ending, bold are swing votes):

Trent: Gwen, Courtney, Izzy, Geoff, Bridgette, Owen, DJ and Lindsay

Harold: LeShawna, Justin, Duncan, Heather, Beth,

Votes in Harold's Ending (Italicized indicate they vote for Harold regardless of the ending, bold are swing votes):

Trent: Gwen, Courtney, Izzy, Geoff, Bridgette, Owen

Harold: LeShawna, Justin, Duncan, Heather, Beth, DJ and Lindsay

Elimination Order: Bridgette and Geoff, E-Scope, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Justin, DJ, LeShawna, Owen, Duncan, Izzy, DJ, Beth


Wow, I told you it was wrong right! Let's just get to the endnotes first:

[1] Yes, Owen does do this in the episode. Believe me, I checked.

[2] Gwen doesn't want to be labeled this a season before she has to.

[3] In canon it was both Courtney and Lindsay because they won, but because Izzy won both rounds I gave her the option of choosing someone to come with her.

[4] This is Izzy's superhero from the Total Dramarama episode "The Bad Guy Busters"

[5] Like Izzy's, this is Owen's superhero from "The Bad Guy Busters"

[6] I changed the name of this episode since Owen isn't here.

[7] I split up the TDA finale because there was no double elimination. I have a detailed information at why I did this on the second chapter of this story if you want more info.

And that's it! This chapter is a bit different from the three others I wrote. First off is the ending, where unlike my last Total Drama Action chapter I showed what I think would happen if a tie occurred. I did this because I wanted to resolve both Trent and Harold's plots with Gwen and LeShawna respectively. I also showed who vote for one in which scenario, with DJ and Lindsay being the only swing votes. DJ was pretty much on the exact same terms as Harold and Lindsay I could realistically see have the reasoning of voting for Harold as her best friend is voting for him as well or voting for Trent because he was on her team and had more interactions with him.

I originally also wanted Izzy to make it to the finale with Trent, but didn't think it was that realistic (something people have been warning about that I stray to far from in these) so I decided in the end to have Harold be a finalist again with him. I hope you all enjoyed the Izzy/Owen plot as well having DJ return instead of Owen and him rigging the votes with Chef. I hope it isn't too far fetched, but I do believe that Chef would do this for DJ as people would hold a grudge against the cook with DJ still being there and him wanting to set things right.

Yup, I hope you all like this. I have midterms coming up so I doubt I can keep my weekly basis for these chapters, but who knows!

- ewisko