I do not own Total Drama. If I did, Noah would have stayed on World Tour and Alejandro would have been voted off.
It was Halloween. It was a Saturday, so Team E-Scope spent the day with Noah's siblings making last minute additions to Noah's haunted house. Owen was preoccupied with the food table, but Izzy had instructed him to wait until the rest of the kids had arrived. Eva had found some of Noah's dad's weights, and prided herself for being able to lift the 10 lb ones. Noah watched as she enjoyed herself with weight lifting, and predicted her to be a woman bodybuilder later in life. Just as the sun was setting, the first couple guests arrived.
They were two girls, who despite not being even related, did their hair and clothes identically to each other. Noah never met them personally, but he knew their names were Katie and Sadie. Since they were always together, he didn't know who was who.
"Hi Katie! Hi Sadie!" Izzy greeted, hugging to the two.
"I love your costume, Izzy!" Katie said.
"I love it more!" Sadie said, causing Katie, whom Noah assumed was the skinnier girl with the dark complexion, to glare at Sadie.
The next kid to arrive was another girl, but this one wasn't one Izzy really wanted to see. Noah had seen her around before, and knew her name was Heather, the girl who bullied Izzy and caused Eva to come to the redhead's defense. Noah though her witch costume suited her.
"Ugh, the weird redheaded girl. Whatever, I'm only here because my parents went to an important party." Heather said, walking past Team E-Scope and Katie and Sadie.
"You want me to finish what I started when I pushed you in the mud, huh rich girl?" Eva threatened.
"Just get away from me!" Heather said, leaving Eva to glare at her and Noah and Owen trying to keep Eva from going after her.
As the evening turned to night, more kids from Team E-Scope's school arrived. Even home-schooled Ezekiel came, though not many kids bothered talking to him. So Zeke sat on the sofa alone. Eva saw this, and despite the voice in her head telling her to ignore him because he was weird, Eva went over and sat beside him.
"You okay?" Eva asked, trying to sound concerned and not angry.
"Eh? Aren't you going to ignore me like everyone else?" Zeke asked, surprised that someone was talking to him.
"No." Eva plainly said. "I'm Eva."
"Name's Ezekiel, though my friends call me Zeke. Or they would if I had friends, eh."
"Nice to meet you, Zeke." Eva said, softening up a bit. Suddenly, Izzy appeared, startling both of them.
"Eva's got a boyfriend!" Izzy shouted, causing everyone to look at them and snicker.
"Go away, E-Scope!" Eva said, quickly becoming furious.
"You girls are weird, eh." Zeke said, composing himself after the scare.
"Shut up, home school." Eva said, pushing Zeke back down onto the sofa and storming away.
"Don't worry Zeke! Beneath Eva's cold, tough, mean exterior is a cold, tough, mean heart! I'll stop at nothing you make sure that you two like each other!" Izzy said, confusing the poor home schooled boy even more. Noah witnessed this whole scene, and laughed at the thought of Izzy being a matchmaker. He also laughed at the thought of Eva liking someone.
Meanwhile, most of Noah's siblings had gone out to parties of their own and Noah's parents had stayed to chaperone. Owen grabbed a large plate of food and began enjoying himself. After Eva threatened to punch Izzy, who was dressed as a pretty convincing mummy, she began hiding in places around the house to scare people. Noah was approached by a rather awkward-looking boy with red hair and glasses, dressed as a ninja.
"Hi, you know historically ninjas didn't really wear all black. That misconception came from stage hands during plays." the boy, whose name was Harold, said in a somewhat nasally voice.
Noah, of course, already knew this. He was a genius after all. So why did this kid just randomly come up to Noah to spout off a seemingly pointless fact? "Uh, yeah, I knew that. Why did you tell me this?"
"Because, you look friendless and I use trivia and facts as icebreakers." Harold explained.
"As a matter of fact, I have three friends, Izzy, Eva and Owen." Noah said. "Now go and hang out with your friends."
"I'm friends with Owen too, so that makes us friends by extension."
"Wonderful. I'm just completely ecstatic" Noah said, rolling his eyes.
"Gosh, I was just trying to be nice!" Harold said, walking away, "If you tone down the sarcasm, you'd probably have more friends."
Noah rolled his eyes again. He didn't really need more friends, since he had Team E-Scope and his books. Speaking of, Noah grabbed the book he was reading and sat on the sofa across from the one where Zeke sat, trying not to look lonely.
"Hello, you're Noah, right?" Zeke asked, trying to strike a conversation.
"You are correct, Ezekiel." Noah said, not looking up from his book and using Zeke's full name as a hint that Noah doesn't consider him a friend. That shut Zeke up, who decided to just sit quietly. Once again, Noah wished that it was just a get-together for Team E-Scope, so he wouldn't need to deal with these new people.
Just as Noah was getting into his book, despite the music and chatter of kids, loud shouting caused Noah to jump and look for the source of this distraction. He saw some kid, with brown hair and somewhat pale skin, dressed as Count Dracula, had a look of fear and embarrassment on his face. Izzy was standing in front of him, making a scary face that quickly changed into mad giggling. Soon everyone else was also laughing at the poor kid. Noah soon saw why. Izzy must have scared the kid so bad that he peed his pants. With tears in his eyes, the kid ran outside and presumably home, with everyone laughing at him. Except Noah. The know-it-all just felt sorry for him, and couldn't see why any of these imbeciles would laugh at someone for peeing their pants, when it clearly wasn't the kid's fault.
Noah approached Izzy. "Okay, Izzy that's enough. You scared him away."
"I know! It was amazing! I was like 'BOOO!' and he was like, 'AHHHHH!'" Izzy said, trying to contain her laughter.
"To be honest, it was both funny, and mean, E-Scope." Owen said, "We should probably apologize."
"Who was that anyway?" Noah asked.
"I dunno, Cody something." Izzy said, shrugging. "He just moved to Wawanakwa, like last week."
"Owen's right, we do need to apologize. We can't mentally scar a new kid." Noah said. Eva joined the others by the front door, being followed by Zeke.
"Um Eva, I just want to apologize, eh. For the comment I made earlier. You're not weird." Zeke said, hoping the female bully would accept it. Izzy just stared at Eva with a big grin. Eva just sighed, annoyed.
"Whatever, Zeke." Zeke took this as a sign that Eva still thought of him as a friend.
Noah's mom came up to Team E-Scope plus Zeke. "What's going on here? I heard screaming, laughing and crying."
"Izzy scared some poor kid so bad that he peed his pants." Noah said.
"Oh, Izzy! You need to apologize!" Noah's mom scolded.
"That's what I said, Mrs. Desai." Owen said, still stuffing his face with candy.
"Oh fine. Come on, Big O, Noah, Eva." Izzy said, then turned toward Eva with a devious smile. "You can bring your boyfriend, Zeke, too! E-Scope away!" Izzy then ran out of the house, with Eva furiously chasing her, followed by Noah, Owen and Zeke trying to stop Eva's anger. Harold also slipped out with them, as he didn't want to miss the excitement. Noah's mom sighed and went back to hosting the party with her husband.
Noah had expected Cody to run back to his house after the incident, but he was mistaken as Team E-Scope plus guests spotted him sitting by the curb of Noah's house, still crying. All six of them stopped a few feet away from him.
"Well, Izzy, go apologize." Noah ordered.
"I never really apologized for anything in my life, though!" Izzy protested.
"Come on, E-Scope! You can do it!" Owen encouraged.
"Just apologize to the wimp! It' cold out here!" Eva said.
Izzy let out a big sigh. "Fine, I'll do it, but Noah has to come with me!"
"Wha...Why?!" Noah said, annoyed.
"Because, you're the only one who didn't laugh at him!" Izzy pointed out.
Noah looked to Eva, surely she didn't laugh. Knowing what he was going to ask, "I did laugh at the wimp. Who wouldn't?" Noah then turned toward Harold and Zeke, but they shook their heads, indicating that they laughed as well. Defeated, Noah bowed his head and followed Izzy to where Cody cried.
As Izzy just stood there, at a lost for words, Noah started. "Um, Cody, is it?" Cody said nothing. "My f-friend wanted to say something." Noah was shocked at his own nervousness. It's not like he made Cody cry.
Izzy cleared her throat, as calm as she was when she described how she befriended Eva and when she met Owen, "Um, Cody, I just wanted to a-apologize for humiliating you. I'm so sorry." This finally caused the young brunette to look up at Noah and Izzy. His eyes were red and teary. This sight made Noah's chest hurt with guilt and something else that Noah couldn't really identify.
"I-it's okay. Believe or not, I'm used to it." Cody said, his voice still cracking from his crying session.
"So, you're new in town, huh?" Noah asked, composing himself. Cody nodded. "Well you just got yourself a new group of friends." This made Cody weakly smile.
"R-really?" Noah nodded. Izzy then smiled.
"Yay! Another Team E-Scope member!" Izzy exclaimed, becoming her old self.
"Team E-Scope?" Cody asked.
"It's our group of friends. Izzy just calls herself E-Scope for some reason." Noah explained.
"Great!" Cody said, becoming happy again. "Um, I'm going to head home and...change. Sorry for leaving your party so soon, Noah."
"How did you know my name?" Noah asked, as he knew that he never said it to the boy.
"My neighbor, Trent, was the one who took me to your party in hopes that I find some friends. Looks like I did." Cody said, smiling.
Noah frowned. He knew who Trent was. Trent was a musician who acted mysterious to get girls to talk to him. Noah didn't really like Trent, but he thought it was odd to start disliking someone because Cody mentioned him. Noah shook his head, he hated being confused, so he would need to look into why he was feeling this way all of a sudden. Cody said goodbye to Izzy and Noah and went home, to change his clothes.
"Yay! A new boy for you to have guy talk with!" Izzy said.
"Yeah, he seems super intelligent, I surely won't get bored talking to him." Though Noah said this in a sarcastic tone, he knew he was telling the truth about not getting bored. He didn't know how intelligent Cody was, though.
"Hey, Eva! Big O! We have a new member!" Izzy shouted to Eva and Owen.
"Hey, can we join your team, eh?" Zeke asked, pointing to himself and Harold.
"Sorry, I don't let anyone join all willy-nilly." Izzy said, crossing her arms.
"Uh, Izzy? That's how Owen and Cody joined." Noah said, annoyed at Izzy sudden changes.
"Fine, Izzy guesses you two can be temporary members." Izzy consented.
"Alright!" Harold said, fist bumping Owen.
"Cool, now we can become closer friends, eh." Zeke said to Eva, who just sighed in annoyance.
As the night wore on, the other kids' parents arrived and picked them up. Eventually, Izzy, Eva, Owen, Zeke and Harold went home as well, leaving Noah to clean up the mess with his siblings. As Noah settled into bed, he couldn't get Cody off his mind. He began thinking about Cody's eyes and how they looked when everyone ridiculed him for peeing himself. His thoughts then went to that gap in Cody's front teeth, and Noah was sure that others probably make fun of him for that too. Noah, however, didn't find anything wrong with it. The more Noah thought about Cody, the more Noah realized something. He began to realize that he liked Cody...in the same way Owen and Izzy like each other.
"But he's a boy..." Noah whispered to himself, as he fell asleep.
Sorry for the actual lack of Halloween-related stuff, but hey, chibi NoCo! That's got to count for something. Plus some EvaxZeke hinted (Evakiel?) Next chapter will most likely dealing with the day after Halloween, with the age-up time skip occurring in the chapter after the next one.
Oh, don't worry, Team E-Scope will forever be the original three. Owen, Cody, Zeke and Harold are just add-ons. Well, Harold won't be around much once Leshawna is properly introduced. Also I decided to use the name of the island in season 1 as the name of the town they all live in.