Chris looks over the group "All right gang. I hope you get to know everyone here, because half of them are going to be on your team." The contestants look at each other and then back to Chris. Chris smiles. "And if you've seen the previous seasons, you'll be happy to see another returning part of the crew. The confessional." He gestures to an out of place looking outhouse which looks just as stinky as ever. The contestants look less than thrilled.
"However, eliminations will work a little different this time around." He says as they find themselves in an auditorium looking setting. "Instead of marshmallows, you will receive one of these." He picks up a golden statue of himself. "A Chrissy". there are a few snickers from the crowd, eliciting a grimace from Chris. "Laugh all you want, because if you don't get one of these babies, you're going home. In THAT." He points over to a broken down limo with duct tape holding up the bumper and sputtering, seemingly barely working. "The lameozine." The campers make disgusted faces towards it. "Also." He puts a finger up. "This time, I can 100% guarantee that NO ONE is returning. Scouts honor this time. You're gone, you're gone. Soon you will break into your 2 teams of 8 and the games will begin."
The contestants think for a moment as they look around. Finally, Noah raises his hand. "Uh, Chris, there's 17 of us." Hearing this, Chris smiles. "Why yes indeed Noah, there certainly are. I guess we'll just have to have an elimination challenge before we split into teams, won't we?"
This receives a collective gasp from the contestants.
*Confessional*
Noah: It's not a terrible idea actually. Vote off the worst competitor before you get into a team. That was there's no hard feelings as you're not a team yet.
*End Confessional*
Chris snaps his fingers. "Oh, almost forgot. If you win this challenge, not only will you be immune for the night, but.. you'll also receive this." He points to an award that Lisa is holding. It is a silver statue of herself. "A Silver Lisa. You may use it once in the future for a free immunity. Anybody you'd like up until the final 5."
*Confessional*
Heather: There's no WAY i'm not winning this challenge. Immunity AND another immunity later? That can make or break this thing
*End Confessional*
"The first challenge is going to be outer space themed. That being said, please step into our spaceship." Chris gestures behind him to reveal a pair of metal doors opening, smoke pouring out from them.
The contestants look between each other warily before shrugging and stepping in. Cody looks between some of the girls who look a tad frightened. Puffing out his chest he takes a few steps so that he is in front. Stepping deep into the smoke he puts on his bravest face and looks around. Seeing nothing he turns back. "Pff, this isn't so-" However, at that moment, Cody falls flat on his face as his legs become bound. An instant later, he's pulled up into the rafters, a scream barely coming out.
Before the others can even react, Chris laughs. "Oh yeah, I forgot. There's only one rule. Survive. See ya!" And with that, the door closes in front of him, locking the contestants inside.
*Confessional*
Jason: HAHAHA! OKay, that WAS pretty hillarious.
*End Confessional*
Heather crosses her arms defiantly yet stands close to some of the others. "Okay, well, obviously we can't go off alone. Chris has some stupid alient thing going on and it'll definitely pick us off if we separate." Jason scoffs. "Don't we WANT to separate then? We're not exactly a team here. Every man for himself?" Heather scoffs.
Erika pushes her glasses up. "I have read several studies on a group of people being placed in a separate environment and having to deal with isolation with the threat of-" However she's interrupted by Shawn. "Guys, this is just like being trapped in with a zombie. First rule is arm yourself. And i'm going to do just that!"
And with that, Shawn runs off into the smoke. Brad chuckles. "Well, he's dead." Ella puts up her hands and gasps. Brad rolls his eyes. "Not REALLY."
Killian puts his hand on his sheath. "No monster is going to stop me from winning this challenge! Yarrrrr!" Killian screams his yar as he runs off into the smoke. There's a moment of silence before the sound of metal on metal can be heard followed by a 'BWAH!', then silence again.
Noah thumbs over to where the noise was. "Yeah, that right there? That wasn't that great of an idea." Neos lets out a dismissive noise. "This isn't that bad. We can take any monster!" Tyler sees this and joins in. "Y..yeah totally! We got this!" He turns to Neos and bro fists him.
*Confessional*
Tyler: Yeah, that Neos guy is a pretty cool dude. I wonder if he plays ball...
*End Confessional*
Jason raises an eyebrow as he mulls to himself. "Well..I suppose they WOULD make good meat shields.."
Harold puts a finger to his chin. "Gosh, this is just like that movie with the alien. Okay, I think we totally should-" However he's interrupted as Tyler and Neos start to walk off. Tyler turns back. "If anyone wants to come with us, you better come now!"
the contestants look around until April eventually shrugs. "The hell with it, i'll go."
*Confessional*
April: (she shrugs) honestly, it's probably a good idea to be with the more phsyically active guys on this challenge. Maybe the three of us could actually take this thing.
*End Confessional*
Seeing someone else go, Heather, Jason, and Elena follow suit. After they leave, Noah makes a head count. "Well, that leaves 8 of us. I've seen enough of these to know that we should head towards either the bridge or the escape pods. I'm heading towards the bridge. Anyone else?" Erika nods. "It's the most logical choice. I will accompany you." "Ooh! The bridge of a movie spaceship! Count me in!" Dana agrees excitedly. Beth raises her hand. "Oh! I'll go too!" Noah nods. "All right then. Good luck to you four."
And with that, the four of them take off. After they leave, Brad looks over to the remaining three members. He sees Harold, Staci, and Ella. Seeing his group he sighs. "Terrific."
We cut to the largest group being lead by Tyler and Neos. There's silence until Tyler finally breaks it. "So uh...Neos. You play sports?" Neos looks over to him. "Well, I mainly parkour, but I would TOTALLY be up for some football." Tyler smiles at him. "Right on bro."
Overhearing this, Jason chuckles as he begins to speak quietly to Heather. "Can you believe this?" Heather rolls her eyes. "I know, it's like Jock in stereo. At least little miss southern belle has been quiet." She points behind her. Jason looks back only to see April. "Uh...I think we lost her." Heather looks back, raising an eyebrow. "Huh...so we did." Seeing them look back, Thinking they're looking at Elena, April turns back only to see nobody. Shocked, she spins back around. "Guys! We lost Elena!" Tyler and Neos turn around. "WHAT? Aw man!" They both say in unison. Annoyed, they both turn their heads down. Tyler however, looks back up, and his eyes grow large as he tries to scream. "N..NEOS! BRO! BEHIND YOU!" Without even time to turn around, something grabs Neos from behind and pulls him into the smoke. "NEOOSSS!" Tyler screams into the air.
We cut to the group heading to the bridge. They hear someone yelling in the echoed corridors. Noah raises an eyebrow. "Sounds like we lost someone else. If we keep going this way we SHOULD hit the bridge in a few minutes." "You seem to know a lot about spaceships." Dana replies impressed. Noah shrugs. "I've read a lot of sci-fi books." Soon they come across what looks like a scaffolding that will have to be crossed before they can continue.
Erika looks at the scaffold. "Predatory habits would dictate that the last person in the line will be picked off. Any volunteers?" There's a brief pause before Beth sighs. "I'll do it." Dana puts her hand on Beth's shoulder. "You're all right Beth." Beth smiles in response to this.
*Confessional*
Beth: I might lothe thith challenge, but thath okay! I think making friendth is much more important!
*End Confessional*
They climb on, Noah leading with Erika in second, Dana in third, and Beth bringing up the rear. There's an eery silence as they move forward. "Beth, you okay back there?" Noah asks. "Yeah! I'm okay!" she responds.
Erika pauses inquisitively. "That's strange, you'd think that by now that-" but she's cut off as a purple hand clasps around Erika's leg and pulls her clean off the scaffolding.
"ERIKA!" Dana screams as Erika falls into the smoke.
Back over at the third group, Brad is rubbing his temple as Staci is talking to Ella. "Did you knnow that my great great grandfather invented the spaceship?" Ella seems incredibly interested. "Oh my, really? That's amazing!" Harold on the other hand steps a bit further ahead as he looks around. Suddenly he stops, the two girls stop talking as he does so. "I think that the escape pods are around here somewhere...gosh." The red haired boy says as he looks around.
Brad smirks. "Hey Staci, aren't you going to tell us how your great great grandmother invented.." But he cuts himself off as he turns around to see Staci is no longer there. "Oh. She's gone." Ella puts her hands on her cheeks. "Oh my goodness! Staci!" Brad sighs and turns back. "Well Harold I guess-" Only this time, now Harold's gone. He looks back to see that it's just Ella and him. He sighs deeply.
*Confessional*
Brad: SERIOUSLY?! You couldn't have taken ME instead?!
*End Confessional*
Tyler's group is walking along as Tyler is doing his best to be careful up front, taking much more precise steps. However, with the smoke so thick, he takes a step forward, and not looking down, steps in something sticky. He calls back. "Everybody wai-WHOA!" He's interrupted as he falls into the gunk, completely covering him.
April calls out to him concerned. "Tyler! Are you all right?!" Tyler does his best to stand up. "Yeah I-" but he's cut off by a yell. "I GOT YOU ZOMBIE!" Out of seemingly nowhere, Shawn leaps in and start to swing at tyler with what looks like a bat. Tyler tries fending him off. April yells at him to try to get him to stop.
After a few moments, Shawn finally does indeed stop. "Wait...That's NOT a zombie?" April angrily looks at him. "No you crazy idiot, it's Tyler!" Shawn puts a finger to his chin. "Oh..sorry" Only for a moment later, a tail wraps around him and pulls him into the smoke, a second tail pulling away the unconscious Tyler. Aprile calls out as she, Jason, and Heather are left in the smoke alone.
Beth, Noah, and Dana finally make their way to the end of the scaffolding where they reach a door. Noah sighs. "Okay, it looks like we reached the entryway to the bridge. According to my best guess, the door itself should be right...here." Reaching out, Noah opens a door. As he does, he looks ahead and comes face to face with something, the camera only showing its shadow as it makes a horrifying shriek. Noah's eyes open wide. "Oh...um..wrong door." He is then grabbed by the torso and pulled in, the door sealing behind him. It happens so fast that Beth and Dana don't even have time to react. Once they come to their senses, they immediately make a mad dash for the door next to it, flinging it open as they run inside.
Back with Jason, Heather, and April, April has taken the lead. Jason pulls out a cigarette. Heather balks. "Ew, you are NOT going to smoke that next to me." Jason rolls his eyes. "Relax. I'm not going to light it. I just like having it in my mouth. Relaxes me when I have to deal with stupidity. And I have to deal with it a lot. If that's all right with you."
*Confessional*
Heather: Ugh, this guy is such a jerk. I so do not want to deal with this guy right now. He BETTER not be on my team.
*End Confessional*
Heather just rolls her eyes in response. Jason moves the cigarette around in his mouth only for it to fall out. Falling near his feet he sighs and raises his foot, only to accidentally kick it. He takes a few steps over to it and bends down to pick it up. He picks it up and dusts it off, putting it back in his mouth. His eyes tilt upwards as he comes face to face with a shado. He lets out a sigh. "Ah crap." A tail wraps around him and pulls him offscreen.
Meanwhile, with Brad and Ella, Brad is walking across a dimly lit, grated area. Ella looks frightened. "Oh Brad I don't like the looks of this place at all!" Brad rolls his eyes. "I gathered as much."
Suddenly, they hear a screech as they both stop. Brad looks around. "Oh fantastic." He says sarcastically. Suddenly they feel the ground shake. A moment later they wheel around and see a large ooze dripping alien. their eyes open wide as Brad tries to make a break for it. Unfortunately, his foot gets caught on the grate, tripping into Ella, effectively knocking her out of the way and falling directly into the alien, knocking them both into the smoke.
*Confessional*
Ella: Oh my goodness! Brad sacrificed himself for me! He's so very brave!
*End Confessional*
Beth and Dawn, having stepped into the bridge, look around for any type of command console. Dana looks to Beth. "Beth, look over there. I'll check here." She nods and walks over to what looks like the main console. As she walks over, her feet make a squelching noise. She makes an 'ew' face as she sees slime covering her shoe. She looks down to see what appears to be broken egg shells. Her eyes go wide. "Beth...Look!" She's too late though as she hears a scream. Flipping around she sees Beth being dragged through an open vent next to the control panel. "BETH!" She screams in vain as Beth is pulled away.
It then goes deathly silent. She begins to look back around as she begins to hear noise. Turning around in a full circle she soom realizes that the noises are coming from all around her. Suddenly a tiny creature pops out of one vent, then another, until she's completely encompassed in a circle of what looks like tiny little aliens, seemingly staring at her. She raises an eyebrow. "Clever." as they all rush her.
Meanwhile, April and Heather are warily looking around the area with the escape pods. There seems to be a few lined up along the wall. April look over to Heather. "You want to go first?" Heather scoffs. "uh, yeah." As she walks over to the door, she presses a button, opening it up. As she does though, an arm shoots out from the pod, grabbing her, and pulling her into it. She screams as the pod door closes, sealing her in.
Suddenly, the lights start to flicker. April balks as she looks around. Suddenly she hears a noise from above her. Slowly she tilts her head up, her eyes going wide as the camera moves to a POV shot from above her. Looking up at the camera, April puts her hands up in a defensive position, and something drops onto her as she lets out a scream.
Just as suddenly as them starting to flicker, all the lights come on as the smoke begins to be vented.
Chris' voice can be heard from the loudspeaker. "Haha! Well, that was fun. All remaining contestants, please make your way to the exit and head towards the award stage!"
We see an alien creature remove its head, revealing a sweating Homura underneath. A larger alien does the same to reveal Chef who turns to Homura. "Heh heh, good job newbie." Homura, exhausted, smirks at this.
We cut to everyone sitting in an audience seat in the auditorium from earlier with Chris and Lisa standing on the stage, Lisa holding a large tray of Chrissy's along with one silver Lisa.
Chris smiles as he looks over the contestants. "Haha! I'm not going to lie, that was fun as hell to watch." A few of the contestants glare at him. "Still, there are 17 of you and only 16 of you can make it past this prologue. Who will be our opening kill? Well, we're about to find out. First of all though, the winner of the challenge, our sole survivor is..." He opens an envelope that is handed to him. "Ella." Everyone, shocked, turns to Ella, who is smiling with her hands together. Lisa tosses her the Silver Lisa.
*Confessional*
Brad: ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Not only is she immune tonight, but she will be LATER?! Great. Just great. (he leans back and crosses his arms annoyed)
*End Confessional*
*Confessional*
Heather: Ugh, seriously? LIttle miss princess got the immunity? That was supposed to have been mine! This is seriously all Jason's fault.
*End Confessional*
Chris looks to the rest. "Now, there's 16 of you left. Only 15 will get a Chrissy. Please place your votes on the buttons below!" The camera shows everyone with a remote with 16 people's names highlighted on them as Ella's is blacked out. Everyone looks between each other as they press a button.
*Confessional*
Noah: If what I heard is true, it's obvious who the weak link is. Or you know...the CRAZY link.
*End Confessional*
*Confessional*
April: I can't speak for everyone else, but I think it's obvious who to vote for tonight.
*End Confessional*
*Confessional*
Harold: We would have survived if they had just listened to me! Gosh!
*End Confessional*
Satisfied that they finished voting, Chris waits for a card to be handed to him from offscreen. After a few moments, he receives one. He opens it up. "All right! The voting results are in! It appears that 8 of you received 0 votes and are therefore safe for the night! And those 8 are... Brad, Beth, Harold, Dana, Elena, April, Erika, and ...Neos." Beth, April, Harold, Dana, Elena, and Neos all sigh in relief. Brad smirks as Erika simply nods as they are all thrown their awards by Lisa.
The other 8 competitors look on nervously. Chris receives a new envelope which he opens and then smirks at the competitors. "The next 5 of you received exactly 1 vote. Someone out there doesn't like you very much, but you're all still safe. Those people are...Staci, Killian, Tyler, Heather, and Noah." Lisa tosses them all a Chrissy. Staci, Killian, and Tyler take a deep breath, Heather looks irritated but mildly relieved, and Noah catches his without much reaction.
Chris smiles as he looks at the remaining 3 competitors. Cody, Shawn, and Jason all look between each other nervously. "Cody, you were the first one eliminated during the challenge. Looks like trying to look cool backfired on ya huh?" Cody sinks down blushing slightly. "Jason, you're kind of a jerk." Jason rolls his eyes in annoyance. "And Shawn, you uh, you kind of took a bat to Tyler." Shawn raises his arms. "I totally thought he was a zombie!" Chris chuckles. "Right... anyway, the next one safe is...Jason." Lisa tosses Jason a Chrissy, who lays back, and betraying himself looks more relieved than he would like to let on.
Both Cody and Shawn look at the final statue being held by Lisa. "Cody, Shawn. This is the final award. If you don't get this award, you take the lameozine out of here and you can't come back...ever. That being said, the final Chrissy goes to...
...
...
Shawn and Cody look increasingly nervous as Chris holds for tension as they both eye the award. Finally, he receives the final envelope. He dramatically opens it up and smiles.
...
"...Cody." He turns the envelope around to reveal Cody's name. Lisa throws the final Chrissy to Cody. Immediately after catching it, he allows himself to slide down in his seat, finally taking a breath.
Chris looks at Shawn. "Sorry man, good intentions or not, you kinda beat Tyler with a bat. Hard to look past that." Hearing this, Shawn sighs as he gets up dejectedly and walks to the limo. Most of the contestants wave to him as he takes a seat in the limo.
*Confessional*
Shawn: So, this didn't work out. That's all right. Money won't save you when the world is overrun by zombies anyway!
*End Confessional*
As the limo drives away, Chris turns to the campers. "Congratulations to the sixteen of you! Now that there's an even number of you, you know what that means! Time for teams!" A majority of the contestants cheer about this. "Everyone come up on stage!" Excited, everyone does so.
Chris looks between them. "When I call your name, stand over there." He points to the left of him.
*Confessional*
Brad: I swear, he BETTER not put me on her team
*End Confessional*
"Killian, Elena, Beth, Tyler, April, Harold, Brad, Ella. You 8 are... THE SCREAMING GAFFERS!"
*Confessional*
Brad: (clenches fists) You son of a-
*End Confessional*
The eight of them walk over together, enthusiastically with the exception of Brad and begin high fiving each other.
Chris turns to the remaining 8. "That means that Heather, Cody, Jason, Staci, Neos, Noah, Erika, and Dana. You 8 are...THE KILLER GRIPS!"
Heather and Jason glare at each other.
*Confessional*
(splitscreen)
Heather/Jason: (annoyed) Terrific
*End Confessional*
There's less cheering from this group as it seems to be a much quieter group, although Neos, Staci, Dana, and Cody try to show their support.
Chris puts his hands behind his back. "Now, we have 4 trailers for you guys to sleep in. 2 for each team. However, we could only afford 2 nice ones. So..." Chris pulls out a box of keys from behind his podium.m "One of these keys is the key to the nice trailers. The first one to find it gets the nice trailers for their team. You'll know it by the TV shaped keychain. ready? GO!"
Chris says suddenly as he launches the boxes' contents into the air, causing the keys to go flying everywhere.
All of the competitors look at each other for a brief moment. Suddenly, a large group of them leap towards the keys. A frenzy begins as they all try to find the key.
Chris laughs as he looks at the madness. Elena, who is the only one besides Ella and Erika to not be involved in the chaos, takes a step back, only for her foot to land on something. She looks down and puts a finger to her chin. She bends down and picks something up. Giving it a glance over she walks over to Chris. "Um, excuse me, Mista Mclean? Would this here be the key?"
Pulling his attention away from the madness, Chris looks at Elena. "Huh?" His eyes open wide as he looks at the key. "Oh! It is!" Chris clears his throat loudly. "We have a winner!" He says over the noise. Everyone immediately stops moving at this. Chris gestures over to Elena. "Elena has found the key! The winner of the nice cabins are... THE SCREAMING GAFFERS!"
For a moment there's silence, whic his finally broken as a cheer erupts from the Gaffers as they immediately head over towards Elena. Tyler and Killian pick her up above their heads as a chant begins. "Elena! Elena!" The entire team chants as they make their way over to the nice trailers, led by Lisa.
Chris looks back to the Grips. "Grips...what can I say except... enjoy your trailers." He says as he hands Noah a key. He accepts it as Chris thumbs over to a pair of cruddy looking trailers. A farting noise plays as it shows the door fall off a hinge. Noah raises an eyebrow. "Swell."
The camera turns to Chris. "And with that we lose our first competitor, the zombie-phobe Shawn. Not only that, we now have our two teams, The Killer Grips and the Screaming Gaffers! Who will win tomorrow's challenge and who will send someone packing on the Lameozine? Well for that you'll just have to tune into the next exciting episode of...Total...Drama...Action!"
Eliminated
17th: Shawn
Screaming Gaffers: Killian, Elena, Beth, Tyler, April, Harold, Brad, Ella
Killer Grips: Heather, Cody, Jason, Staci, Neos, Noah, Erika, Dana
Vote Breakdown:
Ella: Immune
Brad, Beth, Harold, Dana, April, Elena, Erika, Neos: 0 Votes
Staci, Killian, Tyler, Heather, Noah: 1 Vote
Jason: 3 Votes
Cody: 4 Votes
Shawn: 5 Votes
Who voted for who:
Brad: Staci
Shawn: Tyler
Jason: Heather
Harold: Noah
Erika: Killian
Cody, Heather, Elena: Jason
Neos, Staci, Dana, Killian: Cody
Tyler, Noah, Beth, April, Ella: Shawn
AN: Nothing like hitting the ground running, right? I really wanted to get these guys in their teams, and i'd never really done an elimination before the teams were made and I thought it would be fun to do so. Next chapter will start to have a lot more development for characters. This time around was more of a taste. I also wanted to get a feel for the characters and see how they all fit into the mix. This was my trial chapter to see how the meshing worked. And honestly, i think this cast is going to work well together, especially now that i have them in their teams.
Now onto Shawn. Yep, he's my first elimination character. Not because i dislike him, but because i feel that he had his time in the sun on Pahkitew and with this cast, going first just works for him. He's kind of a one note character that doesn't work with the multi-dimensional casts i work with. He doesn't have a lot of room for development as others do and i think it makes sense for him to go first.
Did you like this chapter? Who's your favorite character so far? Let me know! Well, until then, see you next time!