Author's note:

Guess who's back!

I've got to say that this episode took a while to plan out. More explanation will be in my ending note. But first, some things to go over.

First off, this is just a friendly reminder that my poll is still running on my profile about who you think will make it to the finale. This is also to remind you that you can vote for up to two people in this poll.

Second off, time to answer the reviews!

Candela Monsoon: The William box scene is going to be a major plot point later, but it won't really be addressed for a bit. Very bold prediction guessing one of the main characters going home. Let's see if you're right.

Tempokeep: I'll take your word for the Stand and Deliver thing. Interesting predictions too by the way.

That's about it. Now let's do this thing. See you at the end of the episode!


EPISODE SEVEN: MIND GAMES

This episode of Total Drama contains scenes of extreme stunts performed by animated teens. Do not try anything you see here at home. Seriously, you could get really messed up.


Chris stood in front of the dining hall. "Last time, on Total Drama," he said, "The teams fought it out to deliver an important package to yours truly (clip of the Lions moving with the package). There were some epic brawls (clip of Hannah and Charlie fighting) and big mistakes (clip of Amber and Marvin kissing while Logan steals the box). In the end though, the Lions emerged victorious thanks to Alex's mad skating skills (clip of Alex getting the box to Chris), and ultimately, after Lana finally stood up to Colt (clip of Lana confronting Colt), the Eagles voted the bully off the island (clip of Colt's elimination). And, in a final twist, Lana and William switched teams (clip of the team swap).

The camera focused again on Chris. "What torture will befall our players today? How will Lana and William function on different teams. And can my teeth get any more perfect?" He flashed his signature grin, his teeth gleaming. "To find out the answers to some of these questions, you're going to have to stay tuned right here. On Total! Drama! Danger Zones!"

*Intro*

(As the intro music begins to play, cameras are seen appearing from above on a tree branch, from a sand pit, out of a small hole in a cliff, and from a pool of what appeared to be lava. The clapper clicks)

Dear Mom and Dad, I'm doing fine

(Chris is seen flying by on his jetpack)

You guys are on my mind

(The camera pans up over a cliff and into a body of water that appeared to have steam rising from it)

You asked me what I wanted to be, now I think the answer's plain to see

(In the water, we see Quincy taking a picture of Fang before getting yanked up by a fishing hook before the mutant shark can eat him. In the next shot, the fishing hook is revealed to have been cast by Wendel. As he glares at Quincy, an explosion next to Wendel goes off, sending both boys flying past Theresa, who is too busy writing things in her notebook to notice Kyle watching her from a distance)

I wanna be famous

(An obviously cybernetic bear rises behind Kyle, who turns around in shock before an arrow shot by William destroys the robot. William gives Kyle a salute while Nicole lands next to him with a loving smile, making him a bit nervous)

I wanna live close to the sun

(Kaia and Desmond are seen arguing, unaware that they are half sunk in mud.)

Well pack your bags cause I've already won

(At the side of the mud pit, Todd is seen being forced by Colt to press a red button, which causes Todd to be flung into the air by a spring)

Everything to prove nothing in my way

(Alex is seen skating past on her skateboard away from a cackling Deedee, who has two torches in hand. Alex is then saved by Moira, who swings in on a vine and grabs her before Deedee can burn them.)

I'll get there one day

(The scene pans into the mess hall, where Dana is reciting an incantation over a cauldron before Chef pushes her aside and adds several rotting vegetables to the mix.)

Cause I wanna be famous

(Logan is running from Dana and Chef in fear before he is stopped Hannah. Behind them, a plane crashes through the wall where Logan would've been, and Amber falls out of the pilot's seat)

Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

(Rob is seen attempting to do comedy to a clearly unamused Phyllis)

I wanna be. I wanna be. I wanna be famous. I wanna be. I wanna be. I wanna be famous)

(Marvin is seen quickly carving something out of wood, then painting it. As he turns to the side, Chris confronts him. Marvin shows him that he had made a lifelike mini replica of Chris. Chris smiles, but a jet of fire shoots out from under where Marvin is holding the replica. He throws it, now on fire into the air. As the fire rises then falls, the scene turns to night)

*Whistling the main theme*

(Lana is seen nervously looking away from Charlie as he meditates. The camera pulls back to reveal the entire cast around a campfire, with Chris off to the side. The title is seen above)


The sun rose on another day on the island. In the Lions' cabin, Lana fidgeted in her sleep, clearly upset at what had happened at the previous elimination ceremony.


CONFESSIONAL

"This is horrible," Lana said, "After that last ceremony, Chris moved me to the other team. Now not only am I separated from my only friend, but I'm on a team that would probably vote me off the next time we lose."

END CONFESSIONAL


On the other side of the cabin, Deedee was busy pouring something into an airhorn.

"What are you doing?" Alex asked from where she was lying.

"Trying to see if I can turn an airhorn into a flamethrower," Deedee explained.


CONFESSIONAL

"I stole a few gallons of gasoline from Chef's storage shed," Deedee explained with a giggle. "I can have a lot of fun with this."

END CONFESSIONAL


"And you think that's a good idea why?" Alex asked.

"Because it'll be fun!"

"Not if you burn down the entire cabin," Alex pointed out.

"Oh relax, I've set myself on fire loads of times before," Deedee replied, raising the now gas filled air horn and flicking on her lighter.

"Okay, here we go!" she yelled, shaking the air horn. Alex, seeing the potential danger, ducked under her covers.

Deedee blared the airhorn, shaking the entire cabin, but failing to light the gas that also spat out of the airhorn on fire.

At the noise, Lana woke with a start and squeaked in fear, ducking under her bed. Dana also woke from where she was sitting, looking angry.

"How dare you!" she growled.

"Aw, it didn't work," Deedee groaned.

"Watch it, fire girl, or I'll curse you so hard that you won't be able to even remember your own name," Dana growled.

"Aw, come on. You know you liked the wake up," Deedee said.

Dana flashed a dangerous glare and gripped her staff tighter.

"Calm down, both of you," Theresa interrupted, jumping down in between the two girls. "We don't need infighting now while we're on a winning streak. If we're going to keep this up, we need to work together."

"Oh please," Dana told her, "Even if we do lose today, we all know that new girl's going home."

"People predicted that she'd go home on day one, yet she's still here," Theresa argued. "She's unpredictable. For all we know, she could even make it to the merge."

Dana rolled her eyes.


Over with the boys on the Eagles, William was casually carving a few notches in his new makeshift bow with a rock.

"Dude, do you have to work on that in here?" Kyle asked. "You're leaving splinters all over the floor."

"Then just wear shoes," Marvin told him. "It's cool that he's expressing his creative side."

"Yeah, lighten up Kyle," William said, "I'm just trying to fit in with this team."


CONFESSIONAL

"With the team swap, I've got a big fat target on my back," said William. "I've got to make some powerful friends and fast, or I'm a goner."

END CONFESSIONAL


As the campers were settling in for breakfast, Amber and Marvin sat right in front of Hannah.

"We need to talk," Marvin said.

"About?" Hannah asked.

"About your stupid blackmail, that's what," Marvin spat.

"What blackmail?"

"Don't play coy with us, Hannah," Marvin growled. "We know you're blackmailing us into voting with you. I'm here to tell you that it ends now. And if you even touch my painting, I'll tell everyone about it, and you'll be going home."

"What painting?"

"The one that Marvin's painting in the woods," Amber clarified. "Stop playing dumb."

Hannah sighed. "You two do realize that I can't see the painting, right? Because I'm blind."

Realization dawned on Marvin. "Oh, man," he groaned, "How could I be so stupid?"


CONFESSIONAL

"And so those two have finally figured out the truth," Kaia said with a smirk. "And now that they know Hannah didn't blackmail them, it's time to plant some "evidence." But who to go after? Decisions, decisions."

END CONFESSIONAL


At another table, Alex took a bite of the food. "Hey," she said, her eyes wide with shock, "This is…surprisingly good."

"What?" Theresa also took a bite. "She's right," she said, astonished.

"Did Chris fire Chef and hire someone that's actually good at cooking?" Nicole asked.

"Who cares?" Desmond said. "Let's eat!"

As most of the campers began eating, Kaia frowned and secretly stuffed some of the food in her pocket.


CONFESSIONAL

"Chris has never cared about the food quality for the cast on Total Drama," Kaia said with a frown. "Clearly there's something sinister about the food. So, there's no way I'm eating it."

END CONFESSIONAL


As the cast continued to eat, Nicole realized that someone was missing. "Hey, where's Lana?" she asked.

"You mean shy girl?" Alex pointed at Deedee, who was, of course, seeing if their breakfast could be turned into flambé. "This one decided it would be a good idea to scare everyone by waking them up with an air horn. As far as I know, she's still hiding under her bed."

"And you just left her there?"

"Hey, we tried getting her out," Theresa interrupted. "But I think she's still a bit shaken by this team swap thing."

"Besides," Alex added. "I think Charlie's looking after her."

"Charlie?" Nicole repeated.


CONFESSIONAL

"I do not trust that ninja," Nicole admitted. "He's hiding something sinister about him, and I'm going to find out what it is."

END CONFESSIONAL


Outside, Lana timidly was walking towards the dining hall when Charlie leaped down beside her.

"Rough first night?" he asked.

Lana squeaked and jumped back from him.

"Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you. I'm just wondering how you were doing."

"How I'm doing?" Lana asked, "I'll t-tell you how I'm doing. I got moved to this team, separated from my only friend, and e-everyone's going to vote me off the next time we lose."

"Oh, they're just saying that," Charlie assured her. "They don't actually mean it. They're only saying that because you're new to the team, which makes you a target…at least this time."

"What does that mean?"

"It means," Charlie said, "We need to win again this week."

"Can we do it?"

"Well, we got rid of our weakest links already, so I'd say there's a pretty good chance as long as we all cooperate."

Lana sighed. "It won't matter," she said, "They're still going to vote me off next time we lose, regardless of how long that will be."

"Maybe. Maybe not," Charlie said mysteriously. "I've got a few tricks up my sleeve."


"Attention punching bags!" Chris called over the loudspeaker. "I hope you all had breakfast because it's challenge time! Meet at the elimination fire pit pronto!"


At the fire pit, the campers were greeted with a large monitor that faced all the tree stump seats.

"Campers," Chris greeted them as they all took their seats, "As you know, Total Drama is about two things: pain and humiliation."

"And winning a million dollars," Desmond added.

"Nope! Pretty sure it's just pain and humiliation," Chris countered. "Anyway, today, we'll be focusing on the humiliation part."

"Let me guess: you're going to force us to tell embarrassing truths about ourselves," Desmond guessed.

"No," Chris said, "Instead, I thought it'd be funnier to make you all act like bigger fools than you already are."

"And how, pray tell, do you plan to make us do that?" Desmond challenged.

"So glad you asked, Des." Chris gestured to the giant monitor. "Campers, I present to you…the Screen of Mesmerizing Awesomeness!"

"What does it do?" Nicole asked.

"Why, it'll hypnotize you all, of course," Chris said with a grin, "And then I'll be able to make you do anything I want."


CONFESSIONAL

"Seriously!" Nicole exclaimed.

END CONFESSIONAL


CONFESSIONAL

"Why do I get the feeling that this won't end well for me," said Logan.

END CONFESSIONAL


CONFESSIONAL

"I wonder how easy it'll be to set something that big on fire," Deedee wondered.

END CONFESSIONAL


"I hate to break it to you Chris, but some of us won't be hypnotized you know," Moira said.

"True, some of you are surprisingly strong minded. That's why I had Chef put a little extra something in your breakfast this morning. It helps make you more susceptible to hypnosis, but had the unfortunate side effect of making it taste good."

"Is it actually legal to put random chemicals into our food like that?" Alex asked.

"Don't know, don't care," Chris said.

"How does this supposed to be a challenge?" Nicole asked.

"Simple. You'll all stare at the screen for five minutes, which should be plenty of time to hypnotize most of you. Whoever is left unhypnotized will have to break everyone else on their team out of their trances. The first team to do that wins the challenge, while the other team will be voting someone off."


CONFESSIONAL

"A hypnosis challenge?" Alex groaned. "Remind me again why I wanted to be on this dumb show?"

END CONFESSIONAL


"There is no way I'm doing this," Alex said.

"Sure, you can opt out now," Chris said, "But then you'd lose your chance at the one million dollars."

Alex sighed. "Fine."

As the campers reluctantly started sitting on the tree stumps, Lana looked incredibly nervous.

"You'll be fine," Charlie told her, sitting next to her. "Neither of us ate the food, so that helps us out a little bit."

She didn't look convinced, so Charlie said, "You know, I can help you not get hypnotized, but you're going to have to trust me."

"O-okay," she said.

"Everybody ready?" Chris asked, already turning on the monitor. "That was a rhetorical question, by the way."

On the screen, a large black and white spiral appeared and began to spin extremely fast.

"Please," Todd said. "There's absolutely no scientific evidence to support…." He trailed off, his head slumping down to his chest as he succumbed to the hypnosis. Around him, the other campers were doing the same.

Lana also began to sway. Charlie, seeing this, slipped a thorn out from under his sleeve. "Sorry about this," he said, lighting pressing it into Lana's shoulder.

Lana let out a little cry, glaring at Charlie. He shook his head slightly at her.

Eventually, the five minutes were up, and the screen shut down.

"And we have the people that could determine their team's fate!" Chris said. "For the Lions, Charlie and Lana. And for the Eagles, Hannah and Moira."


CONFESSIONAL

"I'm blind," Hannah reminded, "I couldn't see a spiral to begin with."

END CONFESSOINAL


CONFESSIONAL

"It's all about mind over matter," Moira explained. "Instead of focusing on relaxing, I focused on thinking about beating the other team. Especially that Desmond." She shivered. "That guy's got a big attitude problem."

END CONFESSIONAL


"You stabbed me," Lana said to Charlie.

"Technically, I poked you," Charlie corrected. "Just applied enough pressure to make you feel pain, but not enough to actually hurt you."

"Why?"

"To get you focused more on the pain rather than falling asleep," Charlie explained. "I told you I'd help you out."

Lana still didn't look very happy, but she seemed to accept Charlie's answer.

"All right," Chris said, taking out several index cards. "Prior to this episode, we asked our fans what they'd like to see the campers do. Turns out, they came up with a lot of ideas. So, I took the best."

He began with the Eagles. "When I snap my fingers, the following things will happen: Amber, you will become a mime; Kaia, you will become a chicken; Kyle, you will be blind; Marvin, you will become a cow; Nicole, you will become a statue; and William, you will think you are a caveman."

Chris then turned his attention to the Lions. "And as for you, Lions," he said, "When I snap my fingers, the following things will happen: Alex, you will become a ballerina; Dana, you will become a bird; Deedee, you will become sane; Desmond, you will see your greatest fears all around you; Logan, you will start digging a hole without end; Theresa, you will become a monkey; and Todd, you will become so dumb that you will only be able to speak gibberish."

Chris raised his hand, about to snap his fingers.

"Wait!" Lana cried. "H-how are we supposed to s-nap them out of it?"

"Don't know, don't care," Chris said, snapping his fingers.

Chaos instantly ensued as the campers, now fully acting under the influence of their hypnotic commands, all scattered.

"Hey! Come back here!" Charlie yelled as he and Lana started chasing after their teammates, while Hannah and Moira did the same with theirs.

Chris laughed. "I love this show," he said, before turning to the camera. "Who's better at freeing the mind from a fake reality? Find out when—"

"Fire in the hole!" Deedee suddenly leaped into the frame with a can of bug spray and a lighter. She flicked on her lighter and sprayed bug spray over it, creating a massive fireball.

Chris yelled in fear and ducked under the flame, which then hit the camera instead, turning the scene to static.


Lana and Charlie were chasing after Theresa, who was making monkey noises and scratching her armpits like a monkey.

"How do we get them out of their trances?" Lana asked, panting.

"We need to catch Theresa first," Charlie said, grabbing a vine as they ran past a tree. "I've studied hypnosis; I think I know how to break it."

"So, she's just going to be the guinea pig?"

"Do you see anyone else around?" Charlie swung the vine in a circle over his head like a lasso and flung it at Theresa, catching her easily.

"I got her!" Charlie exclaimed, pulling the struggling girl back to them.

"What now?" Lana asked.

"This is going to hurt," Charlie told her. With a mutter of, "Sorry, Theresa," he raised his hand and slapped her in the face.

"Ouch!" Theresa cried. "Why would you…uh, where am I?"

"It worked," Charlie said, breathing a sigh of relief and untying Theresa. "That's one."

Deedee then came bursting through the trees, juggling a flaming stick. "Man, you guys are fast," she said with a giggle.

"I thought Chris made you go sane with his hypnotism," Charlie said.

Deedee giggled again. "Silly Charlie. I've always been sane!"


CONFESSIONAL

Charlie sighs. "So much for the plan to get Deedee into a psychiatric hospital after the show is done," he said.

END CONFESSIONAL


"I guess that's four down then," Charlie said. "Only five more to go and we win."

"Did you see where everyone else went?" Theresa asked.

"Somewhat," Charlie told her. "They spread out pretty good. And some will be easier to free than others."

"Then what are we waiting for?" Theresa said, "Let's go free our friends."

Over with Hannah and Moira, the two were busy trying to wake Nicole up. Thanks to Chris's command, she was frozen in place on the stump.

"Wake up, lassie!" Moira yelled into Nicole's ear. Nothing happened.

"Yelling won't work," Hannah told her. "You need to shock them awake."

"I'm open to suggestions," Moira replied.

Hannah rubbed her chin, lost in thought. "I got it," she said.

Suddenly, she said, "And look at that folks, little Suzie Winterbourne is wowing the judges with her amazing feats of gymnastics. Only one person can stop her victory, and that's Nicole, the greatest gymnast in the world!"

Nicole instantly stirred, jumping to her feet immediately. "I'm going to beat you, Suzie!" she yelled. Then she fell flat on her face.

"You okay, lass?" Moira asked, kneeling next to her.

"Apart from the fact that all my limbs feel like noodles and the pain in my face, fine," Nicole replied. "Go help the others. We can't afford to lose again."

Meanwhile, Kaia was off near the Eagles' cabin, acting like a chicken. Suddenly she stopped, straightened up, and grinned.


CONFESSIONAL

"Fools," Kaia chuckled. "Did they really think that hypnosis would work on me? Now I have the perfect opportunity to frame whoever I want for the blackmail and ensure their elimination."

END CONFESSIONAL


Kaia entered the girls' side of the cabin and looked around. "Which one, which one," she wondered.

"Eenie," she said, pointing to one bed.

"Meenie." She pointed at another bed.

"Miney." A third bed.

Her eyes drifted onto one last bed. Kaia grinned.

"Moe."


The Lions were walking through the woods when they came upon a large hole with dirt still flying out of it.

"Logan," Charlie and Lana said at the same time. Indeed, Logan was down in the hole, digging deeper and deeper.

"Logan! Wake up!" Theresa yelled. He ignored her.

"That's not going to work," Charlie told her. "We got to shock her awake."

"Righto, Charlie!" Deedee yelled, bringing out her bug spray and lighter again.

"Without frying him to a crisp," Charlie quickly added. Deedee pouted, but put her fire equipment away.

Charlie then jumped into the hole. "I found him, fellow ENEMY AGENTS!" he called up to the others. "Now I'll TAKE HIM OUT!"

That did it. Logan cried out in fear, stopped digging, and dove to the side, covering his head with his hands.

Charlie chuckled slightly. "Welcome back, detective," he said.


In a cave, William was grunting and trying to start a fire with sticks. Suddenly, there came a whistle from outside the cave.

William grunted and started crawling on his hands and knees to the opening. The moment he poked his head out, Hannah whacked him with her cane, once over the head and then again in the face.

"Ow!" William exclaimed. As Hannah prepared to whack him again, he threw his hands up. "Okay, okay, it's me! I'm back! I'm back!"

"Just making sure," Hannah told him as Moira giggled next to her.


Todd was spouting off random nonsense words when the Lions found him.

"This time I got it," Deedee said, pulling out her airhorn. She blew it right next to Todd's ear.

"Gahhhhhhhhh!" Todd screamed, falling to the ground.

"Todd? You okay? Can you speak normally again?" Charlie asked.

"What?" Todd asked. "I can't hear you!"

"Yeah, he can speak normally again," Theresa said. "Now we just need to find Alex, Dana, and Desmond."

"Uh, I think we just found Alex," Logan said, pointing. Everyone turned to see Alex, now in a pink dress, dancing like a ballerina past them.

"Oh, dear," Charlie said. "She is not going to be happy when she wakes up."

Deedee raised her airhorn again and grinned.


Marvin was on the ground chewing on grass. Then he got whacked multiple times with a cane.

"Ow! Ow! Ow!" he yelled.

"That's another one," Hannah said.

Marvin rubbed his head. "You know that hurts!" he exclaimed. Then he started spitting. "And why does my mouth taste like dirt?"

"You don't want to know," Amber, whose face had a ton of white makeup on it, told him.

"Why does your face like that?" Marvin asked.

"You don't want to know," Amber repeated, not looking happy.

"All that's left is Kaia and Kyle now," Nicole mentioned.

"Just Kyle, actually," Moira said, walking up with Kaia. "Apparently, Kaia's chicken routine caused her to hit her head against a wall, snapping her out of it."

"Still hurts, by the way," Kaia added, rubbing her head.

"Then I guess we have to find Kyle then," Nicole said.

Just then, a loud scream of rage was heard in the distance.

"What was that?" Marvin asked.

"If I had to guess," Moira theorized, "I think the Lions just woke Alex up."

"MCLEAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!" they heard Alex yell.


CONFESSIONAL

Alex is still in the dress, looking mad. "Stupid Chris, making me dress all girly girly. I'm never going to hear the end of it when I get back home." She sighed. "At least I didn't take my hat off."

END CONFESSIONAL


Alex stomped off, muttering angrily under her breath.

"We should probably let her cool off for a bit," Logan suggested.

"Uh, yeah," Theresa agreed. "Plus, we need to find Dana and Desmond fast. Who knows how quickly the other team is to winning."


Kyle was wandering around in the forest. "Hello?" He called. "Anyone there? I can't see a thing! Hello!"


Desmond was curled up into a ball, squeaking in fear at unseen sights all around him.

Suddenly, Dana appeared, not looking the least bit hypnotized. She looked down at Desmond and shook her head.

"Tempting to leave him like this," she said to no one in particular, "But a challenge is a challenge."

She slammed her staff onto the ground, where it began to glow. There was a bright flash of light. When it cleared, Desmond was no longer shaking in fear.

"What the heck happened?" he asked.

"Your team won, Des! That's what happened!" Chris blared through the loudspeaker. "That's right, campers! The Lions have won yet another challenge!"

The Lions all cheered from where they were at.


"Seriously?" Nicole groaned. "We were just about to free Kyle."

They had corned Kyle, and Hannah was approaching her with her cane.

"Sorry about this," she told Kyle. "But this is going to hurt."


"So, who are we going to vote off?" Nicole asked the other girls.

"We got to take out William," Moira insisted. "He could be trying to sabotage us."

"At least he wasn't the last one to be hypnotized, making us lose the challenge," Hannah pointed out. "I say we eliminate Kyle."

"It's not his fault we got to him last," Kaia insisted.

Just then, Amber returned, having been in the bathroom cleaning the mime makeup off her face.

"Hey, Amber, who do you think we should eliminate?" Nicole asked.

"It should be the person that we can go without," Amber said, getting up into her bed. As she did, something small and papery fell down.

"Hey, what's this?" Kaia asked, picking it up.

"What's what?" Amber questioned.

Kaia began to read it. "Vote for Nicole tonight, or I will destroy your painting in the woods. Don't cross me, or you will pay." She looked back up at Amber. "What painting in the woods?"

"And what's this about voting for me tonight?" Nicole added, looking angry.

"It—it must be a new blackmail note," Amber stammered. "Someone's trying to force Marvin and I to vote for with them."

And that's when more papers fell down from Amber's bed.

"These are all blackmail notes," Moira realized. "Each one is telling Marvin to vote for someone else or they'll destroy whatever painting he has. The only one that isn't mentioned in the blackmail besides Marvin is…" she looked up at Amber.

"You."

"What? But—I didn't—"

"Didn't what?" Marvin asked from the door of the cabin.

"We found your blackmailer, Marvin," Hannah told him. "Turns out it was Amber all along."

"What?" Marvin asked, shocked.

"It wasn't me!" Amber yelled. "Someone's trying to frame me!"

But the look on Marvin's face showed that he wasn't buying it. "All this time I thought you were my friend," he said. "I actually thought that we could be a couple. And now I find out that you're manipulating me? Blackmailing me?"

"I didn't—"

"Save it for someone who cares," Marvin said, storming out.

No one noticed in the background Kaia smirking evilly.


CONFESSIONAL

"I didn't blackmail anyone!" Amber protested. "Someone's framing me. But who?"

END CONFESSIONAL


CONFESSIONAL

"This is just too easy," Kaia said, chuckling.

END CONFESSIONAL


As day became night, the Eagles all met at the fire pit, where the massive screen had been taken down.

"Welcome back again, Eagles," Chris said with a laugh. "Losing three in a row without anyone throwing the challenge. I haven't seen a team this bad since Team Victory back in Season 3."

"Just get on with it," Moira said.

"Fine," Chris said, holding up his plate of marshmallows. "The following people are safe:

Nicole,

Moira,

William,

Kaia,

Hannah,

…and Marvin."

Chris held up the final marshmallow. "This is the final marshmallow, campers," he said.

"Kyle, you're on the chopping block because you were the last one still in a trance. Amber, you're on the chopping block for angering your entire team with blackmail."

"I didn't blackmail anybody!" Amber protested again.

Chris smirked. "The final marshmallow goes to…

…Kyle." Chris tossed the marshmallow to Kyle. "Amber, the Boot of Shame awaits."

Amber stood up, angry. "Just wait," she said. "You'll see that I'm innocent. And I'll be waiting for a big fat apology when you do."

She marched off to the Boot of Shame. "At least I get to go out flying," she said.

"True," Chris said, "But this time, without a plane." He pulled the lever, and the boot kicked Amber off the island.

"I never get tired of that," he said before turning to the camera. "Six gone and sixteen left to play. Who's getting kicked off next? Find out next time on Total! Drama! Danger Zones!"


VOTES:

Amber: Kyle

Marvin: Amber

Nicole: Amber

Kaia: Amber

William: Amber

Moira: Amber

Hannah: Amber

Kyle: Amber

ELIMINATED: Amber


Team Standings

FLYING EAGLES

Hannah, Kaia, Kyle, Marvin, Moira, Nicole, William

ROARING LIONS

Alex, Charlie, Dana, Deedee, Desmond, Lana, Logan, Theresa, Todd


ELIMINATION CHART

22nd: Quincy

21st: Rob

20th: Phyllis

19th: Wendell

18th: Colt

17th: Amber


And so Amber is gone. I never really intended for her to get too far.

Eliminated Character Fun Fact: Amber crashed the flight simulator multiple times and cost the flight agencies millions of dollars to repair them.

The reason I was struggling with this chapter was what to have some campers do under the hypnosis. I know that how hypnosis is described here is not really how it works, but this is a cartoon (technically), so I'm willing to bend some things around. All in all, still don't count this as one of my better chapters. Hopefully the next one will be better.

As for why I eliminated Amber, I needed to get some friction between her and Marvin before she got kicked off. So I decided to make her another victim of Kaia's scheming.

This challenge was also an excuse for Kaia to actually plant some evidence for the blackmail. Expect a more exciting challenge next time.

Anywho, that's all from me. Be sure to read, review, and place your bets on who's going home next. Until next time, I'm Guest 1138, reminding you that petting cats can bring you happiness...unless you're allergic. Ciao!