Yeah, it probably wasn't the best idea to do elimination votes... that's done, then.

This is the longest chapter I have ever written- nearly 11,000 words! Sorry if it's just too long to read, I'm going to try to shorten the other chapters to about what last chapter's amount of words was...


"Last time on Total Drama: Surprises of the Island, our campers got to know each other with a little help from Heather, Harold, and Lindsay. Jet took an explosive to the face, Jonathan fell into a pit to stall Team Awesome, but that failed epically. Team Awesome took the win and Team Fashionista met me for an elimination ceremony. In the end, with half the votes against her, Carly took the Cannon of Shame off the island. And since I couldn't be bothered to give Heather, Harold, and Lindsay a proper sendoff, they followed her! What will happen this time? Stick around for the answer!"

The theme song played five the camera cut to Xavier and Danielle standing behind the girl's cabin at about six o'clock in the morning.

"So you're sure you want to do this?" Xavier asked. "I'm sure, but I'm not sure if you are." Danielle looked Xavier up and down. "You're still in your pajamas."

"You should be to, as not to be suspicious." Xavier crossed his arms.

"So that means you don't mind raiding Chris's quarters in your underwear?"

"Nope."

"Then let's go." Danielle grabbed his wrist and they began to run.

They reached Chris's quarters.

"So... how do we plan on getting in?" Xavier asked.

"Through the window. Duh." Danielle rolled her eyes.

"Fine." Xavier bowed to Danielle. "Ladies first."

"Kay. Go on ahead." Danielle grinned and pushed him towards the open window. "Thank goodness that Chris didn't put a screen on the window."

"Uh-huh." Xavier began to slip through the window. "What exactly are we gonna raid?"

"The minifridge. I will not eat Chef's slop all the time, and this is the first part of "all the time"," Danielle shrugged.

"Okay. And do you think Chris has security for this?"

"No. He has to pay for the hot tub and sauna and whatnot."

"All right." Xavier pulled himself through the window and Danielle followed quickly. "Whoa..."

Chris's room was spray-painted gold. Gold everything. There was a hot tub, tanning bed, sauna, his golden not-so-mini fridge, and of course, his king-sized beds, where McLean himself was snoring away.

Danielle laughed. "Can I film this?"

"Ssh!" Xavier slapped a hand over Danielle's mouth.

"Mumph!"

"Good." Xavier took his hand off Danielle's mouth and they tiptoed over to the fridge. They opened it and grinned. "Let the raid begin."

When they'd slipped back out of the window, they ran to the respective cabins, each carrying half the foods they'd found in his room in large coolers and bags they had also found.

"Wakey wakey!" Danielle said loudly to the girls. The girls groaned with discontent. "It's only six! Who are you to be waking us up?" groaned Macy. "Okay, princess brat, I'm fine if you go back to sleep, since this is just for Alexis, Piper, Caroline, and I."

"Then why'd you bother waking us all up?" sighed Jenn.

"Because I couldn't be bothered to try to quietly wake up them. If I tried to wake them up, they'd probably end up screaming in surprise and wake up the boys as well." Danielle shrugged.

Alexis slipped out of her bed. "What is it?"

"Behold." Danielle whipped the cooler and several bags out from behind her back. "Real food!"

All the girls got out of bed.

"Real food?" gasped Alison.

"For campers?" shrieked Nikki.

"Yes, real food, but no, not intended for campers. Xavier and I raided Chris's minifridge, and then took food from the counter and stuff..." Danielle smirked.

"Aw, could you let us have some?" begged Macy. "None of us want to eat the slop, either!"

"Go do your own raid of his room." Danielle rolled her eyes.

"But from the looks of it, you raided it out good and well." Jenn peered into the cooler.

"Go back to bed." Danielle sighed. "What breakfast food do you have in there?" Alexis asked.

"Look through. You can eat whatever you want." Danielle shrugged.

"Cool." Piper pulled out a container of donut holes and a bag of grapes. "Chris had everything in here." Alexis was rummaging through one of the bags containing the cereal. "Coca Puffs... corn flakes... Apple Jacks... can't Chris make up his mind? Seriously, there's more cereal here than a tree has leaves!"

"You should've seen this stuff before Xavier and I divided it up." Danielle laughed as she popped one of the donut holes in her mouth.

"It's awesome that you went on this raid- real food is so hard to come by for us here." Alexis said.

Caroline nodded.

"We should've negotiated with the executives over our contracts. They shouldn't be able to give us the crap Chef's been feeding us." Piper commented.

"Well, this is a more fun way to do it." Danielle shrugged. "And whether we negotiated for better stuff than Chef's cooking, we wouldn't get anywhere close to the luxury Chris gets." Caroline said.

"Courtney did , so why shouldn't we be able to?" Alexis asked.

"Because that girl is a special case, that's why." Danielle shrugged.


Xavier burst through the door of the boy's cabin and woke up Seth, Travis, and Sam. "I have real food for us." he grinned at them.

"You have..." Seth yawned, his sleepy brain not totally getting what Xavier was saying.

"Real food?" gasped Sam. "Real food? Whoa! That's awesome!"

"How'd ya do it?" Travis looked at the coolers and bags.

"Danielle and I went on a raid of Chris's quarters." Xavier said smugly.

"Awesome." Seth said admirably and reached for one of the bags.

"Only Team We're Gonna Whoop Your Sorry Butts gets this stuff." Xavier handed him the bag.

"Sweet!" Seth opened the bag and pulled out a bunch of bananas and a bag of gummy bears. "Chris really does have everything!"

"He's spoiled and uses funds for the show for his own personal use. Of course he has everything." Xavier rolled his eyes.


Later, when it was the proper time to get up, Chris used his air horn to wake up the contestants. The members of Team We're Gonna Whoop Your Sorry Butts were out of their cabins first, and they all seemed very ready. Because they'd been outside as soon as he started blowing the air horn. "How did you get ready so early?" Chris asked.

"We just did. Have you had breakfast yet?" asked Danielle, stifling a grin.

"Okay, well, go get your breakfast and meet me back here when you have had your breakfast." Chris said.

"Kay." Danielle said, and they walked over to the dining hall and simply sat at their table.

"You gonna eat?" barked Chef.

"No thanks... we're not really hungry." Alexis smiled sweetly as the other two teams came in, eyeing them angrily as Chef served them their slop.

Then Chris ran in. "SOMEONE STOLE MY FOOD!" he screamed. He then eyed Team We're Gonna Whoop Your Sorry Butts' table. "That's it! You're not eating, you were up basically as soon as I'd blown the air horn... you stole my stuff!"

"Yep, indeed, McLean." Xavier said boredly.

"All right. Fine. Since you did that, you get a disadvantage in today's challenge!" Chris crossed his arms and glared at them. "But I'm going to have to figure out what."

"Okay, Chrissy McWhinyPants." Seth rolled his eyes. "We'll deal."

Chris stomped off.

So after the other two teams were done eating, they waited at the fire pit for Chris. Chris appeared a few moments after they did, followed by a bunch of surprises. "Oh, wow, did you bring all of the other competitors back?" asked Cedric. "So it may seem!" Chris grinned. "Because they're going to help with the competition! They'll be your partners!"

"But we're still teams," Min said. "So shouldn't we be working with our teams?"

"You don't have to- there isn't an individualized prize for a team!" Chris grinned. "We're having a three-legged scavenger hunt, and everyone gets a prize, whether you like it or not!"

"What?" Alison asked. "How are we going to do that?"

"You'll be paired up with one of these people here and you'll get one of your legs tied with one of theirs, and you're going to have to operate that way!" Chris grinned. "So let me start to set you up."

"OH. MY. GOSH. IT'S SCOTT!" screamed Ashley. She turned to Jonathan. "You're going to have to catch me." she fainted.


***Confessional***

Jonathan frowned at the camera. "Her disgust for Scott is so great that she faints, and her love for me is so great she puts me in charge for catching her!"


"Whatever you wish, m'lady." Jonathan bowed to her and Ashley fell past him and landed on the ground with a thud.


***Confessional***

Jonathan frowned again. "I don't think she'll be putting me in charge of catching her again if she faints."

Ashley crossed her arms and glared at the camera. "I didn't want to have Jonathan catch me. But he was closest to me, and the only one I could rely on to not stick their arms out and pull them away at the very last minute! But apparently, he was too busy making goo-goo eyes at me that he could care to save me." she tossed her hair. "Well, I suppose that if I were him, I'd be doing that, too..." she sighed. "Scott's wonderful... I fangirl over him!"


"Hey, Sierra, that girl just fainted over Scott!" smirked Heather. "You could learn a thing or two about fangirling from her."

Sierra crossed her arms and made the "harrumph" sound. "I refuse to take fangirling tips from a person who is fangirling over one of the antagonists."

"Whatever!" Chris yelled. "I have taken the liberty of pairing the newbies with a veteran. Team We're Gonna Whoop Your Sorry Butts, your penalty is that you are blindfolded!"

"What'd they do?" called out Harold.

"They raided my fridge." Chris crossed his arms and frowned. "So I had to punish them."

"Heehee. Crime never pays." Harold wagged a finger at Team We're Gonna Whoop Your Sorry Butts.

"Hey, dweeb, just shut your mouth!" Duncan yelled.

"Why don't you?" Harold came back. "Because my opinions are worthy."

"My opinions are so worthy!" Harold grumbled.

"Ladies, ladies, shut up and let me pair you up!" Chris then looked down at Ashley "Wait, someone wake the princess up!"

"Wait, Ashley's a princess?" Jonathan sighed dreamily. "I feel like this is going to be one of the occasions where the knight has to rescue the princess and kiss her to wake her from her spell..."

"Oh ho! Harold, you never told me you had a twin!" Duncan laughed.

Harold frowned. "I find that comment very rude and judgmental."

"Whatever!" Chris sighed. "Jonathan, if you kiss her... well, good luck with that."

"I can do it? Yes!" Jonathan kneeled down over Ashley and kissed her on the lips.

Ashley was up immediately. "Oh man, I just had this dream where Scott came onto the island and then I fainted and a dwee-" she looked at Jonathan. "No, no, not a dream." she stood up and then squealed. "I don't mind the first part!"

"SHUT UP, CHILDREN!" screamed Chris. "We are going to have a scavenger hunt for treasure chests around the island, and you're going to get partnered up with one of the veterans, as I said before. Team Awesome, I'll pair you up first.

"Detgen, you're with Heather."

Detgen nodded and walked over to Heather, who nodded curtly to her.

"Jenn, Trent."

Jenn walked over to Trent and they high-fived.

"We are so gonna win!" Trent grinned.

"Min, Bridgette."

"What's up?" Bridgette asked as Min walked over to her. "It's cool we'll be working together."

"Nicole, Dawn."

"Hi, Dawn!" Nikki walked over to Dawn.

"Your aura is a pinky-purple color. That's interesting."

"Um... thank you?"

"Jet, Owen."

"Hey, cool!" Jet grinned and then walked over to Owen, high-fiving with him.

"Cedric, Noah."

"Hello." Noah looked up from the book he had his nose in long enough to greet Cedric.

"Hello." Cedric returned.

"Lars, Zoey."

"Hi!" Zoey smiled at Lars as he walked over and high-fived her.

"Hi, Zoey." Lars returned the smile.

"Alek, Brick."

Alek nodded and walked over to Brick. "Hello."

"Hello! Sergeant Brick McArthur, reporting for duty!" Brick stuck out his hand for a formal handshake, which Alek took.

"Now for Team Fashionista! Ashley, Dakota!"

"That's an awesome pairing." whispered Danielle to Xavier, who laughed. "Two brats!"

Ashley walked over to Dakota, who had gotten cured of her mutant freakiness, and opened up her arms for a hug. Dakota moved away.

"You're covered in dirt and stuff!"

"Sorry. That shouldn't have happened!" Ashley tossed her hair and glared at Jonathan, who blushed and shrugged.

"Macy, Lindsay."

"Hi!" Lindsay said, smiling. "I'm Lindsay, what's your name?" she asked Macy, as she walked over.

Macy frowned. "Chris just said it. I'm Macy."

"Chris just said it? The man with the dark blue shirt? I thought his name was Colby." Lindsay said.

"Nope, Chris."

"Alison, Courtney." Alison walked over to Courtney, who sniffed. "Well, I suppose it could've been worse. I could've been stuck with that Jonathan boy."

Alison shrugged.

"Anthony, Sierra."

"Hi, Anthony!" Sierra grinned as he walked over to her. "Since I'm the president of the Total Drama fan clubs and all that stuff, I'm pleased to inform you that you have plenty of supporters out there and you were named one of the more likable competitors for this season!"

"Um... thank you?" Anthony said.

Sierra hugged him. "You're welcome!"

"Andrew, Beth."

"Hi, Andrew!" Beth grinned to him as he came over. "We'll make a great team!"

"Alex, DJ."

"Hi, man!" DJ high-fived Alex as he walked over. "We should have some fun today!"

"And Jonathan, your partner is Harold." Chris grinned.

Duncan chuckled. "No surprises there!"

"You have a good partner," Harold told Jonathan. "I was one of the captains at Scavenger Steve's Scavenger Hunt Camp."

"Cool." Jonathan nodded.

"And, Team We're Gonna Whoop Your Sorry Butts. Piper, Izzy."

"Hi!" Izzy waved frantically at Piper as she walked over to her. "And hi from all my friends! Explosivo says "Hola"!"

"Hello to you and your friends." Piper nodded awkwardly.

"Caroline, you're partnered up with B."

Caroline grinned and walked over to B, who smiled and nodded to her.

"Alexis, Cody."

"Hi!" Alexis grinned.

"Hello." Cody grinned back at her.

"Danielle, Scott."

"We're so gonna win!" Danielle walked over to Scott and high-fived him.

"Travis, Cameron."

Travis walked over to Cameron. "Think you can lead me to win here?" he asked.

Cameron nodded.

"Seth, Eva."

"Cool." Seth shrugged and walked over to Eva, holding up his hand for a high-five. Eva just ignored him.

"Xavier, Duncan."

"Sweet!" Xavier walked over to Duncan and fist-bumped him.

"Samuel, Mike."

"Cool." Sam walked over to Mike and high-fived him.

"All right! And now, Team We're Gonna Whoop Your Sorry Butts, your penalties!" Chris waved blindfolds in the air.

"Oh no." Piper groaned.

"Not to worry! Your partners needn't suffer through this, just you! But then again, if you continuously trip, they'll suffer..." Chris grinned evilly, tossing them the blindfolds. "So, in the chests that you have to find, there are prizes that you get to keep. The chest will be divided into two, and one of the sides is for a camper, one side for the veteran. There are prizes, but there are also punishments. One of the chests contain an automatic elimination, and that would be for the camper of the pairings. The camper can't get the veteran eliminated. You have an hour-and-a-half to do this, and if you find a chest you don't want, you can re-hide it and go look for another one." Chris crossed his arms. "So, are we ready? One, two, three, GO!"

And they were off.

The camera moved to Alexis, who clutched onto Cody. "You move and I'll follow. I can't see anything with this stupid blindfold!"

"Okay..." Cody shrugged and began to move. Alexis accidentally tripped over Cody's foot and they both crashed to the ground.

"New plan. You move, I don't hang onto you, and you guide me." Alexis sighed. "That's a good idea." Cody nodded.

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Jonathan and Harold were deep in a conversation, laughing and getting along great.

"I can't stand those dweebs, but I envy how easily they're getting along, and how Jonathan doesn't have to wear a blindfold." Danielle tripped over a fallen tree branch and she and Scott went crashing down.

Scott groaned. "Yeah... and are you going to keep tripping with every footstep? We're never going to find one of the chests this way."

"Then be the guide." Danielle told him irritably.

"There aren't any freak mutant sharks on this island, is there?" Scott asked her.

"Not that I've seen. Besides, Fang mauled you and got his tooth back- he's gotten his revenge. Why should you care?"

"Because I'll probably end up getting mauled some more."

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Sierra was incessantly talking about who was and wasn't Total Drama: Surprise Island this or that. "Danielle, Ashley, Alison, and Macy are the girls people think will end up turning out as the antagonists, and Seth, Travis, and Cedric for the boys. People think Xavier will turn out to be a cross between Scott and Duncan, so I guess you should call him an antagonist as well. People also think that Ashley, Alison, and Macy are going to keep Jonathan around to do their bidding..."

"Okay, Sierra." Anthony said tiredly. "Can we please just focus on the challenge?"

"Okay!"

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"Where do you want to go?" Cameron asked Travis. "It could be anywhere in the woods."

"Let's go to the candy half of the island. Since it's not your traditional forest, Chris probably had an easier time hiding chests there and probably hid more of them there."

"Do you need me to guide you or anything? I mean, since you have the blindfold on..."

"Oh, no, I'm fine." Travis gave Cameron a slight grin. The blindfold was still over his eyes, but not fully covering it. He could still see enough to fully operate.

"But how can you... ooh," Cameron said. "But isn't that cheating?"

"Shut up!" Travis put a hand over Cameron's mouth.

"In other words, yes." Cameron mumbled from behind the hand.

"Yes, it is, but you know what? If I had that stupid blindfold on totally on, I'd be tripping and land on top of you, and you definitely aren't strong enough to get me off of you!" Travis snapped.

Cameron considered this for a minute. "I suppose you're right... but cheating's still wrong."

"Shut up and let's get going."

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Brick looked up at the sky. "Which way should we go?"

"You're the military man. Shouldn't you have a good sense of direction?" Alek said.

"Sure, but this is your challenge! I'm just here to help."

"You can help by deciding which way we go." Alek nodded.

"Okay... I say we just go with our conscience and go whichever way we think is right." Brick said. "Follow your conscience."

"Into the woods!"


***Confessional***

Alek looked worriedly at the camera. "I'm not sure if that's a good thing... that Brick is just using his conscience. I mean, he's got military training! Shouldn't he be using his sense of direction? Well, I suppose he can afford to lay off a bit, since this isn't war or something... but it would've been nice to use direction. Well, then again, we don't know exactly where the chests are hidden..."


"Since you can't see, does that mean I'm in charge here?" Izzy asked Piper excitedly.

"Maybe?" Piper shrugged.

"Great! So, for strategy... Explosivo suggests we blow up the whole island and then the chests will fly into the air and then we can go after it!" Izzy got a maniacal look in her eyes.

"That'd be a lovely idea if we weren't on the island, too!" Piper threw her hands into the air. "No problem! We just go to a bomb shelter!"

"There is no bomb shelter."

"Well, that's stupid. What kind of place doesn't have a bomb shelter? My family's house does."

"Maybe that's because they live with you."

"Oh! That's a good point." Izzy giggled.

"So, B, I was wondering... d'you think you could make a contraption to navigate for one of the chests?"

B, being the silent person that he is, just shrugged.

Caroline, because she had her blindfold on, didn't know this, but assumed it. "Could you try?"

B shrugged again. Caroline assumed he was shrugging again. "Well, I guess you couldn't... there isn't anything to make it out of." Caroline frowned. "Well, you've got to be my eyes, since Danielle and Xavier made it that we can't see..." she said irritably.

B patted her back.

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Jenn asked Trent, "Woods or the candy forest?"

"I dunno. Whichever works for you." Trent shrugged.

"How 'bout the woods? Since the candy part is more fascinating, more people might go there."

"But people also know woods better than the candy part. So I think it could be the same odds either place." Trent said, thinking.

"Good point..."

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"Heather, where do you want to go?" Detgen asked.

"Oh, the woods, obviously. Chris made it all sweet and pretty, but I'm pretty sure that that thing is booby-trapped like crazy. The woods look scarier, so he's probably just trying to fake us out." Heather crossed her arms.

"That was easy." Detgen held up her hand for a high-five, but Heather refused.

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"So, Bridgette, where should we look for a chest?" Min asked.

"Well, Chris probably hid them in abnormal places... so there's probably some up high in trees, in water, maybe even in the one of the cabins!"

"I think we should go to one of the cabins first." Bridgette grinned. "I bet people aren't going to think of going there!"

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Alison nudged Courtney "Did you hear that? Min and Bridgette are going to check out cabins!"

Courtney shrugged. "If that's the way you want to go, that's fine with me!"

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"Macy, what are we doing again?" Lindsay asked as she and Macy simply began walking. Macy couldn't be bothered to strategize with Lindsay, since she was so dumb.

"A scavenger hunt." Macy said impatiently. "Come on, we've got to find a chest!"

"Ooh, you know who would be good helping us here?" Lindsay squealed. "Tyler?"

"Oh, how'd you know? Are you psychotic or something?"

"You mean, psychic? I suppose you could call me that." Macy shrugged.


***Confessional***

Macy shrugged. "Lindsay may as well think that I'm all-powerful and all-seeing and that junk. Maybe she'll just shut up and listen to me, now."


Ashley asked Dakota, "Where to first?" Dakota nodded towards the cabins. "Over there. Woods come as a last resort. I don't need to get messy doing this!"

"Kay." Ashley shrugged, and they walked towards the cabins.

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"I think we should check the candy place first," Alex said. "Chris'll probably have found some creative places to hide there. And probably more of the chests are hidden over there."

"Cool. That's fine by me!" DJ smiled and they set off.

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Seth glanced at Eva. "Where to first?"

"Wherever. Let's just get this over with." Eva shrugged.

"The woods, I guess." Seth began to move, then remembered that he was tied up with Eva, and they both fell onto the ground.

"The woods are the other way. Are you blind or something?" Eva grumbled, picking herself off the ground.

"Currently, yes." Seth grimaced. "Thanks to this stupid blindfold."

"Right." Eva sighed.

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"Dawn, does your mind-reading things or animal-speaking powers give you any idea where we should go?" asked Nikki.

"Hm..." Dawn looked around, and then a squirrel ran up to them. Dawn bent down and picked it up. "Hello, little guy! What do you have to share with me?"

The squirrel chattered excitedly. "The squirrel says that he has seen one of the treasure chests! Come on, we need to follow him!" Dawn smiled.

"What are we waiting for? Let's go!" Nikki cheered and they began to move.

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Zoey asked Lars, "Where do you want to go?"

"Um, the woods, I think," Lars shrugged. "It's a more familiar place to go than the candy."

"Okay, cool." they began to move.

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"Duncan, you're going to help me, right?" Xavier asked him. "You know, since I'm blindfolded and all..."

"Yeah, sure. I want whatever's in those chests and I can't just drag you around, looking for it." Duncan ran a hand through his green mohawk.

"Good. Let's go into the forest." Xavier began to move forward.

Duncan grabbed his shoulders. "Wrong way, dude."

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Jet asked Owen, "Where to?"

"Candy..." Owen was drooling.

Jet face-palmed. "Not the time!"

"Candy forest!" Owen continued to drool.

Jet shrugged. "I suppose it could work."

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Sam sighed. "Stupid blindfold. Mike, you'll guide, right?"

"Sure, buddy!" Mike patted him on the back. "I'll try my best to help you through the blindfold issue!"

"Thanks."

Unfortunately, as soon as they started to move, they tripped and fell.

"Bad start." Mike winced.

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"Let's go Noah!" Cedric nudged him. "We've got to start moving!"

"Where to?"

"The cabins and stuff, maybe? Not many people will think to go there." Cedric grinned.

"Okay." Noah was still reading his book.

"Get your nose out of that book and let's get moving!" Cedric yelled at him.

"Fine." Noah put it away and they started to move.

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"Let's go into the woods!" Beth said to Andrew. "Then maybe we can get some animals to help us!"

"You know what you did with that raccoon is basically a once-in-a-lifetime thing, right?" Andrew asked.

Beth shrugged. "You never know.. you could get lucky!"

Andrew considered this for a moment. "If you think that the woods is the best idea, then off we go."

"Yay!" Beth clapped her hands and they moved off.

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Dawn and Nikki were moving rather quickly for a two girls who were tied together to have three legs.

"Let's keep moving!" Dawn grinned. "I can't wait to see what we get!"

The squirrel moved towards a tree and pointed upwards. Dawn and Nikki followed it's paw. There the chest was, nestled in at the crook of the trunk and one of it's branches.

"What are we waiting for? Let's climb!" Nikki said excitedly.

"But... how are we going to climb with only three legs?" asked Dawn worriedly.

"Just like we did walking. Except upwards. Let's go!" Nikki began to grasp the tree trunk and haul herself upwards, Dawn scrambling to follow her.

"Yes!" Nikki and Dawn hauled themselves onto the branch.

"Let's open it!" Nikki said excitedly.

Dawn reached for it and opened the chest. "We're putting this back..." she whispered.

Inside, there was a divider, one side for Nikki, and the other for Dawn. On Dawn's side, was a bobblehead of Chris and a bag with Chris's face on it. On Nikki's side, nothing but a blank piece of paper that said "AUTOMATIC ELIMINATION".

"Oh yes. Thanks anyway, squirrely." Nikki and Dawn began to move down the tree again. The squirrel sighed, disappointed.

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"D'you think Chris would hide a chest in Chef's kitchen?" asked Ashley to Dakota.

"Probably. Because Chef is freakishly overprotective of his kitchen things, Chris thought that it would be funny to see if the competitors would be stupid enough to risk it and go into his kitchen in attempt to find one."

"Shall we try?"

"I'm not stupid. No way!" Dakota put her hands on her hips.

"I know it's risky and dangerous, but no one else would bother to venture into the kitchen, which means we have free rein of any chests that are inside!"

"Fine." Dakota sighed, and they walked into the dining room, and slipped into the kitchen and looked around.

"See, Chef's not even here!" Ashley said confidently.

"If we die in here, I blame you." Dakota said angrily.

"Fine, whatever." Ashley opened a cabinet. "No chest in here..."

Dakota scanned the countertops. "Nope..."

Ashley looked in a cabinet under the sink. "No."

Dakota looked in the sink while Ashley looked in the cabinet. "Nope." Ashley looked at the dishwasher.

"Chef has a dishwasher? Seriously? Then why do the plates always look so dirty?"

"Chef probably doesn't care if the dishes are dirty or clean." Dakota shrugged.

Ashley opened the cabinet, and grinned. "Yes! Chris did put a chest in here!"

Together, Dakota and Ashley pulled the chest out of the dishwasher and it dropped to the ground.

"Perfect." Ashley opened the chest. On Dakota's side, there was a guidebook on how to become rich and famous. On Ashley's side, there was a box of sushi. "I think this chest was our destiny to open!" Dakota hugged her book.

Ashley shrugged. "I suppose I don't mind sushi."

And then Chef burst into the room. "WHO'S IN MY KITCHEN?!" he roared.

"No one!" Dakota said, panicking, and picked up the chest. Ashley took one of it from her and together, they tried to move out, but ended up tripping and landing on the chest.

"Ugh... my stomach!" Dakota groaned.

"Ow!" Ashley moaned.

Chef picked them up and then took out some rope and tied them together. Then, he took them outside and tied them to a tree.

"Oh, this stinks." Ashley sighed. "I'm tied to a tree while tied up to Dakota, and we lost the chest!"

And then the chest came flying towards them.

Of course, the most rational thing to do in this situation according to both girls was to close their eyes, raise their heads, open their mouths, and scream their heads off. The chest landed three inches away from them with a thud.

"Oh. So we didn't lose the chest. But I'm still tied to a tree while being tied to someone!"

"I find myself very enjoyable to be tied up to!" Dakota said defensively.

"No, I don't mean you're not a bad person to be tied up to- you're definitely better than a bunch of others, by far. But I'd prefer not to be tied up to anyone."

"Gotcha."

"Hey, don't you have a cell phone on you?"

"Of course! Like I'd leave the house without it!" Dakota smiled.

"Then how about calling for help?" Ashley said.

"Good idea!" Dakota pulled her arms from the rope and whipped out her phone, then began to dial.

"Wait, Dakota, if you can get your arms out, can't you untie us? That'd be quicker."

"Oh, no, this'll be quicker." Dakota finished dialing. "Hello? Yeah, we're stuck on a tree outside of the dining hall. Please come quickly!" she paused for a moment. "Yeah, okay. Thanks, bye!" she hung up. "Three, two, one..."

The paparazzi appeared and began to take pictures of them.

"Ooh, Dakota, I'm going to kill you if they're just going to take pictures of us tied up here..." Ashley shook her head.

"I think we look cute tied up!" Dakota urged her. "C'mon, let them take a few pics!"

"Fine." Ashley plastered on a smile. "But in a minute... they're going to untie us!"

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Danielle clutched onto Scott's arm as he led the way through the woods. "Do you see anything?" she asked.

Scott rolled his eyes and pulled up Danielle's blindfold ever so slightly, only that she could see a little. "Do you see anything?"

"I see that you're just following Xavier and Duncan."

"No, they just came off from the path over there." Scott pointed to the left side. Sure enough, there was a trail.

"Right. Hey, Xavier!" Danielle called. She had a plan, and she needed Xavier in it.

Xavier tried to turn around and ended up twisting awkwardly and he and Duncan crashed onto the ground. "Hi, Danielle." he and Duncan stood up, only to collapse to the ground again. "What do you want?"

Danielle looked around, then asked Scott and Duncan, "You don't mind if we talk private here? I mean, don't tell any of the other competitors?"

"Sure." Duncan shrugged. Scott nodded.

"Xavier, I want to be in an alliance with you." Danielle said.

"Why?"

"Because you're a good player in this game. If we wanted to vote off people, we do it together and try to get help from others. That way, we get secure votes from us, at least." Danielle said. Xavier considered this for a minute.

"Good points. But what's the reward for this?"

"We get farther in the game. Strength in numbers." Danielle grinned. "This morning was fun. We could make a great team." she held out her hand for a handshake.

Xavier nodded. "Deal." he shook Danielle's hand and they fist-bumped.

"Ooh, are you guys gonna make out now?" Duncan teased them.

Xavier turned red. "Why would you say that?"

"I have another crush!" Danielle said immediately, with a quick glance at Scott.

"You like Scott?" Duncan asked, laughing. "Heehee. That's awesome."

"Not really. It's kind of like that fangirl thingy like Ashley but not as fangirly." Danielle bit her lip.

"Two girls crushing over me? Boy, it's my lucky day!" Scott grinned.

Danielle pursed her lips. "Say that to anyone and your dead."

"Danie, this is reality TV. I think we're being recorded right now." Xavier frowned.

Danielle looked around, and saw a cameraman peeking his video camera through the bushes. "Oh, this better not air." she warned him.


***Confessional***

Danielle frowned. "That better not air. I'm very serious. I don't need the whole world to know I have even the slightest of crushes on Scott."


The camera cut to Chris, who was lounging on a lounge chair, drinking Mr. Coconut, with Chef on one next to him, as were the rest of the previous competitors who hadn't been chosen to be anyone's partners. The cameras of the paparazzi who were taking photos of Dakota and Ashley could be heard in the background. "Wow... things are getting crazy!" he grinned. "What else will be revealed? Who will get the chest with the elimination note inside? Will the paparazzi ever stop arriving for Dakota's sake as soon as she calls them?" he raised his voice and added an edge to it for the last question. "Find out, when we return, on Total Drama: Surprises of the Island!"


And so, they returned, the camera on Lars and Zoey.

"Where in the woods could one of these be..." Lars wondered, looking around.

Zoey followed his gaze and then grinned. "Over there! In that bush!"

There, in a bush covered with bright red berries, there was a chest sticking out a little bit.

"Let's go!" Lars grinned, and they three-legged walked over to the chest and pulled it out, and they opened it.

On Zoey's side, there was a stuffed monkey. On Lars's side, there was a bag of chips, a soda, and a card that read "INVINCIBILITY PASS: Use when you are about to be eliminated."

"Oh, cool!" Lars grinned.

"What the...?" Zoey stared at the stuffed monkey.

"We're keeping this chest." Lars said immediately.

"That's fine with me." Zoey shrugged.

"Cool. So... Are we reporting back to Chris now?" Lars asked.

"I think so."

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!"

Zoey began to move and Lars had to keep up. "Wait!" Lars said to her. "Don't you think this was a little too easy? I mean, for a challenge Chris McLean made up?"

"Hm... well, we haven't run into anything yet..." Zoey shrugged. "So just keep moving!" Lars took one step forward with his free foot, and his ankle got caught on rope and they both flew into the air. "He didn't tell us about booby traps!" yelled Zoey angrily. "He's Chris. Would he bother telling us?"

"No."


***Confessional***

Lars sighed. "To think Chris would bother to tell us about booby-trapping the forest!"


Harold and Jonathan walked through the forest, almost seeming like they had been walking a three-legged race their entire lives and this was just another day in the usual. Finally, they came across a chest just sitting in a clearing, but they hadn't realized it, so they just walked into it and fell over it.

"Ouch!" Harold groaned, rubbing his head.

Jonathan turned his head to see what they had tripped over. "Look! A chest!" he said excitedly.

"Cool." Harold nodded. "Let's open it!"

Together, they opened it and peered inside. On Harold's side, there was a bunch of roses. On Jonathan's side, there was jewelry.

"That's stupid." Jonathan sighed. "What am I going to do with jewelry?"

"I don't know, but I know that I'm going to give these to Leshawna." Harold sighed dreamily.

Jonathan looked at him for a moment like he was crazy. Then he grinned. "I'll give the stuff to Ashley and Macy!"

"What about Alison?" Harold asked.

Jonathan shrugged. "She's pretty and all, but I've got to narrow my choices. I mean, all the ladies want a piece of this, but in the end, one shall have it."

"Good point." Harold nodded.

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"FOOD!" Owen screamed hysterically, seeing the candy section of the island. He then began to run and Jet was tossed to the ground, bumping against it painfully as Owen moved towards it.

"Owen! Stop! Ouch, ouch, OW!" Jet yelled.

Owen looked down at him and grinned sheepishly. "Sorry, buddy." he helped pick Jet up. "But this is basically a dream land to me."

"Great." Jet sighed. "But please be more careful? I happen to care about my body."

"Okay. Do you know if we can eat this stuff?" Owen looked at him hopefully.

"Beats me." Jet shrugged.

"I'm going to risk it!" Owen raised his arm and pointed a finger towards the sky. He then ran over to a tree, Jet flopping onto the ground again. "Narf, numph, wumph." Owen said, gnawing on a churro log.

"Whoa, dude..." Jet watched him.

Then Owen yelled out, "Ouch! My teeth!"

"Huh?"

"I just bit into something hard! Like, wood or something!"

Jet peered at the log. "A chest!" he cheered. "Let's open it!"

Owen pulled it open and looked inside. On his side was assorted goodies, a package of uncooked hot dogs, a three-pack of lollipops, a box of raisins, a large bottle of soda, and a coupon for an all-you-can eat buffet "Sweet! This chest was made for me!" he cheered. "What'd you get, Jet?"

Jet looked in his half of the chest. "Um... a package of rubber bands and a stapler."

"Why would you need that?" Owen asked, already dumping the box of raisins into his mouth.

Jet shrugged. "Who knows. But, since you've already broken into the prize, I'm assuming we have to keep it."

"Oh yes! Pretty please with ice cream, cherries, sprinkles, and hot fudge on top?" Owen begged.

"Let me have a lollipop and it's a deal." Jet grinned.

Owen took the wrapper off the lollipops and tossed it to him. "Done!"

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Min and Bridgette cautiously entered the girl's cabin. "Careful, Chris probably rigged something somehow." Bridgette said.

Min asked her, "But we're sleeping in here. Would he really rig our beds?"

"He's Chris- and right now, these aren't your sleeping quarters- they're being used for a challenge. All I'm saying is that we need to be careful, okay?" Bridgette said.

Min nodded. "Okay... look! It's a chest!" she pointed up to Ashley's bed, which was a top bunk.

"How are we going to do this?" Bridgette wondered. "The ladder is too narrow for both of us to climb up, and too rickety that it probably wouldn't support both of our weights, even though we both are pretty skinny." she looked at Min. "Any ideas?"

"Risk it by climbing up? I mean, it isn't really much of a fall if the ladder does collapse."

"If you want." Bridgette shrugged.

So they began to carefully move up the ladder, Min hanging upside down and basically climbing up the ladder with her hands.

"Got it!" Bridgette cheered, grasping the chest and pulling it towards her. Then, she lost her balance, and they fell down, the chest following. It nearly hit them, but it just crashed down right beside them.

"Hm... that was pretty, bad, but at least we got it!" Min said, trying to control her annoyance.

Bridgette nodded, and opened the chest. On her side was a hairbrush with Chris's face on the back of it, a bottle of Chris's hair gel, Chris's biography, and a t-shirt with Chris's face on it. On Min's side was a box of tea bags and two glass teacups and a teapot.

"This is stupid. Do you want to put it back?" Bridgette asked.

"I like tea." Min looked at her. "May we please keep it?"

Bridgette sighed. "I guess..."

"Thank you." Min hugged her.

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Cody looked in a hollow tree stump. "Hm... where would Chris hide a chest?"

"Beats me." Alexis shrugged. "Just look around and see what you find, okay?"

Cody looked around and gasped. "Up there in that tree!"

"What tree?" Alexis looked around frantically.

"That tree, up there!" Cody pointed at the tree.

"Well, you can't see it, so just follow me!" Cody began to move.

"Whaa!" Alexis yelled, and fell to the ground. Cody stumbled but managed to stay up. "Come on, Cody, again, I'm in a blindfold!"

"Right, sorry." Cody helped Alexis up.

They moved, and carefully managed to climb up, Cody telling Alexis where to move.

"Open it, open it!" Alexis said excitedly as they reached the branch.

"Okay!" Cody pulled it open and immediately closed it.

"What was in it?" Alexis asked. "Well, for me, there was a bag with Chris's face on it, and a bobblehead of Chris, and for you there was a piece of paper that said "automatic elimination"." Cody sighed.

"Yeah, we're not keeping that..."

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Alison and Courtney peered into the girl's cabin and saw Bridgette and Min opening a chest.

"Oh no!" Courtney sighed. "That means we'd have to go into the boy's cabin- Chris wouldn't put two chests so close in such a small area."

"Then to the boy's cabin we go." Alison sighed.

Courtney shuddered, but they began to move forward and into the boy's cabin, where they saw Travis and Cameron also looking around in there. "They haven't found a chest yet! We still have a chance!" Courtney whispered, and burst into the room.

"What are you guys doing here?" Travis asked them accusingly.

"Looking for a chest. You two might want to look into it." Courtney fired at him.

"Guys, please! You've been in here for five seconds- we don't need to make it an immediate socially awkward conversation!" Cameron begged.

"No one cares about your opinion!" Courtney huffed.

"Why are you in the boy's cabin? Can't you look in the girl's?" Travis crossed his arms.

"The chest was already found in the girl's cabin, so we're here." Alison said.

"Too bad, so sad, because... look! Cameron- behind those bunks!" Travis pointed to behind one of the bunks.

"Hey... you're cheating!" Courtney said angrily. "You're wearing a penalty blindfold! You shouldn't be able to see!"

"That's just how it's going to have to happen," Travis said. "A blindfold can't hold me back!"

Courtney threw her hands into the air, narrowly missing Alison's head. "Ugh!" she screeched. "This is why I have lawyers involved in my participation of Total Drama!" she began to move towards the chest, Alison stumbling to keep up. Travis began to move forward, and Cameron clutched onto him in fear of falling.


***Confessional***

Alison shook her head. "Cameron and Travis would not win this thing. Winners never cheat, and cheaters never win."


Macy and Lindsay walked through the candy forest. "Oh, this is so pretty!" Lindsay looked around. "You're so lucky to be living here, Mary!"

"It's Macy!" Macy said to her. "And I don't live here- I'm just stuck here for awhile."

"Oh, sorry. Well, it's still pretty here, and you're lucky to be staying here!" Lindsay smiled.

"I really don't think so." Macy rolled her eyes.


***Confessional***

Macy rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. "Lindsay's stupid. But worth it. She obeys my every order without question."


"Lindsay, go check behind that pointy bush thingy for a chest." Macy ordered.

"Okay!" Lindsay said immediately, and looked through the bush. "Ouch!" she whined. "These peppermint shards are pointy!"

"Oh, I couldn't tell." Macy grinned slightly. "Is there anything back there?"

"Yes- a chest!" Lindsay said.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Drag it out an open it!" Macy said excitedly.

Lindsay pulled it through the bush and together they opened it. On Lindsay's side was a brand-new pair of boots that look just like the ones she was wearing, filled with gummy bears. On Macy's side, a bag of gummy bears.

"Ooh! We're keeping this, right?" Lindsay clapped her hands excitedly.

"Why would I want gummy bears, though?" Macy looked at them.

"If you don't want them, I'll have them!" Lindsay squealed.

Macy sighed.

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Jenn and Trent walked into the candy part of the forest, looking up and down, left and right. "Where do you think Chris hid the chests?" Trent asked.

"I think he could've hid them in a tree or something." Jenn shrugged.

Trent moved over and Jenn struggled to keep up with him. He peered into a hole in a hollow tree stump made from candy canes. "Correct!" he said, pulling out a chest.

"Cool!" Jenn smiled and they high-fived. Then they opened the chest. On Trent's side was a DVD of Chris's movie about badminton, and on Jenn's side, a bag with notecards, flairs, markers, and a posterboard.

"Hm... I wonder what that would be used for." Jenn said.

"Since this could lead to an advantage or something in another challenge, do you think we should keep this?"

"I'm not sure. I'm not too psyched about getting Chris's movie, but if you think it'll help you, go ahead." Trent shrugged.

"Cool."

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Noah and Cedric reached the boy's cabin. "Well, there should be a chest in here..." Cedric peered through the window, only to see Travis, Alison, and Courtney fighting each other and Cameron simply yelling out in pain every once in a while. "This'll be too easy." Cedric grinned, and they moved into the room.

They strolled past the fighting four and snatched the chest. The four stopped fighting and looked at them as they lifted up the chest and began to move out.

"Oh, no." Courtney said, breathing heavily. "I didn't fight Bubble Boy and his partner here just so another pair could stroll in and take the chest!" she paused for a moment. "I didn't come into the boy's cabin to lose, you know." she and Alison lunged at them.

"THIS IS NOT THE WAY I WANTED TO DIE!" screamed Noah. "NOT IN THE HANDS OF COURTNEY- NO WAY!"

"WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN, NERD?!" screeched Courtney, grabbing a tuft of Noah's hair and pulling. Hard.

"I didn't want to die in your hands! I thought that much was clear!" Noah cried as he batted at Courtney's hands in attempt to get her to stop pulling.

Travis then dove into the middle and pulled the chest out.

"NOT YOU EITHER!" Courtney yelled, diving on Travis.

"Crap." Travis groaned as Courtney rammed into him. "This lady's gone psycho!"

"No." Alison shook her head. "She just wants to get that chest!"

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Seth and Eva walked through the forest, Eva looking around in hopes of finding a chest. "Let's see... I bet McLean put it in a rosebush." Eva said, crossing her arms.

"Probably did." puffed Seth. "Do you see any rosebushes around here?"

"Do you?" "I've got a blindfold on. So no." Seth sighed.

"Right. Um... yeah, right over there." Eva began to move again, and Seth quickly started moving so they wouldn't fall down again.

"Look in!" Seth said eagerly when she stopped.

"How about you do it? I don't need the thorns." Eva said.

"Blindfolded!"

"I know! Just feel around for it!"

"Ugh. But it makes more sense for you to-"

"DO IT!"

"Okay!" Seth said angrily, and stuck his head into the bush. "Ow... thorns..." he felt around. "There is!"

"Get it out!" Eva said.

Seth felt for the sides of it and pulled.

Eva quickly pulled it open.

"What's in there?" he asked. "For me, there's a bag of coffee beans, and on your side, there's a bunch of girly headbands and hair elastics and that stuff." Eva grinned.

"We're putting that back." Seth said.

"Agreed."

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Beth and Andrew looked around, Beth looking downwards and Andrew upwards. "Maybe there are some rabbit holes or something where Chris hid it!" Beth said excitedly.

Andrew rolled his eyes. "If there's a big enough rabbit hole."

"Well, yeah, or Chris could've buried it." Beth said.

"Hm, well-" Andrew was cut off by getting his shoe foot stuck in a hole he hadn't realized was there and then tripped, and the two of them crashed to the ground. Andrew looked at the hole and gasped. "Well, nice going, Beth. You were right."

Beth clapped her hands excitedly. "Yay!"

Andrew pulled the chest out and opened it. On Beth's side, there were a bunch of rocks, and on Andrew's side, four differently weighed dumbbells.

"This is stupid." Beth sighed. "Are we going to put it back?"

"I could use the dumbbells." Andrew said hopefully.

"Okay." Beth shrugged. "I suppose this isn't about me- but you."

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Piper and Izzy ran through the forest as fast as the three legs could take them, Izzy occasionally taking big leaps that sent Piper crashing to the ground, and Izzy along with her. The fourth time Izzy did that, she yelled, "Let's do it again!"

"Izzy. We've done that four times already. We need to focus on finding a chest!" Piper threw her hands up into the air.

Izzy grinned. "But this is fun!"

"No more, Izzy." Piper crossed her arms.

"Fine, fine." Izzy said. But of course, when they neared a river, Izzy did it again, giggling madly.

"Come on." Piper sighed, and they were thrown into the river.

Izzy grinned. "Paddle, friend! Treasure at the end of the waters!"

"I've heard of a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but never this." Piper sighed, but paddled.

"I know. But one of my friends made it up, so I went along with it!" Izzy grinned. "Whatever."

Surprisingly, Izzy's friend was right. When they reached land, they found a chest at the edge of it.

"There is one!" Izzy said to Piper, who couldn't see it because of her blindfold.

Piper cheered. "You're friend's a genius!"

"Of course he is! He's Albert Einstein!" Izzy grinned.

"You're friends with Albert Einstein?" Piper asked her.

"No, not the real one! Just the reincarnated one- the one in my head!"

"Right." Piper said, and then she and Izzy climbed out of the water, and opened the chest. On Izzy's side, was a bunch of assorted candies. On Piper's, five stuffed animals.

"Cool! Candy! Can we keep it?" Izzy asked.

Piper shrugged. "To end this stupid challenge, certainly."

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Mike and Sam walked through the candy forest, Sam keeping a hand on Mike's shoulder so he wouldn't fall down. "Do you see anything?" Sam asked.

Mike looked around. "Not really. Just the candy stuff- wait, oh that's so cool!"

"What? What?"

"There's a chocolate river and there's peppermint discs and there's a chest on one of them!" Mike said excitedly. Sam shrugged. "Should we risk jumping over them?"

"Sure! If we fall, we will fall into chocolate!" Mike said.

"Okay..." Sam shrugged, and they moved forward to the very edge of the river.

"When I say jump, you jump." Mike said.

"Works for me." Sam shrugged.

"Okay... jump!" Mike called.

Sam jumped and Mike did, as well. They landed safely on the first peppermint.

"Yeah!" Sam and Mike high-fived.

"Jump!" Mike said, and they successfully got to the next one. Only one more until they got to the chest! But when Mike said jump, Sam jumped, but Mike forgot to jump with him, and they fell into the chocolate.

"Oops." Mike said sheepishly.

Sam shrugged. "It's fine." Mike led him to the peppermint and they opened the chest.

"What's inside?" asked Sam.

"A towel, a floaty ring, and a rubber ducky for me, a towel, floaty ring shaped like a duck, and a toy boat."

"Works for me." Sam shrugged.

They climbed onto the peppermint, took the chest, and began to jump over them without falling off this time.

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Anthony and Sierra decided to go to the bathroom. Not the bathroom to go to the bathroom, but to try to see if there was a chest in there. It would be gross, but worth it, because no one else would think of going in there. Sierra kept talking to Anthony about the facts of Total Drama and that type of thing.

"Please, Sierra, isn't there anything else to talk about?" Anthony asked.

Sierra looked at him like he was crazy. "What else is there to talk about?"

"Well... since you were on the show, it shouldn't be such a big deal."

"But I'm not on this season! I was only on Total Drama World Tour and Total Drama All-Stars! I wasn't on Total Drama Island, Total Drama Action, Total Drama Revenge of the Island, Total Drama Pahkitew, nor this one! I've still got a right to talk about it!"

"Okay..." Anthony sighed.

They peered into the first stall.

"Why are we looking in the toilets?" Anthony asked. "Would Chris really put one in the t-"

"YES!" squealed Sierra. "He would!" she reached into the toilet and pulled it out.

"Oh, that's sick..." Anthony put a hand over his mouth.

Sierra opened it up and squealed. "Ooh, there's a scrapbook with all of the best moments from Total Drama!" Anthony looked in. "Hm... there's a bunch of markers and note paper. I wonder why..."

"We're keeping this!" Sierra hugged the book to her chest.

"Sure."

"EEEEE!" Sierra let out her fangirl shriek and hugged him.

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Alek and Brick walked through the forest, and almost immediately came to a chest.

"Sweet!" Brick fist-pumped and began to do a little dance. He opened it. On Brick's side was a cage, and on Alek's side, there was a whistle, a bunch of roses, and a candy bar.

"These are weird choices..." Alek commented.

Brick nodded. "Do you want to keep it?"

"Yeah... I don't want to be stuck with nothing or whatever will happen to us if we don't bring back a chest." Alek nodded.

"All right." Brick said, and they began to walk back, sharing the weight of the chest between the two of them.

Alek looked around. "Now that I think about it, that was probably too easy."

"Yeah, but... this is definitely a better place than the mutated island," Brick commented. "Much more peaceful. Maybe Chris didn't bother booby-trapping it."

And then they fell into a hole.

"No it isn't." Alek said. "And, yep, getting the chest like that was too easy."

"Yeah..." Brick sighed. "How are we going to get out?"

"I have no idea."

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Detgen and Heather looked around the forest. "Where do you think one of the chests would be?" Detgen asked.

Heather shrugged. "In a tree."

"That rhymes!" Detgen chuckled.

"Whatever. I think Chris is hiding one in a tree, though."

"Okay, okay. Well, you keep your eyes peeled for that." Detgen said.

"I did and I will. There!" Heather said, grinning and pointing to a tree with a chest nestled at the crook of a branch and trunk.

"Nice! Let's get up there!" Detgen and Heather moved as fast as their three legs would let them and began climbing up the tree. One problem: they met Caroline and B up there.

"What are you two nerds doing here? We were here first- this is our chest!" Heather said angrily.

"I didn't hear you call it!" Caroline yelled, but in the wrong direction. She didn't know where they were because of her blindfold. B placed his hands on both sides of her head and faced her to Heather and Detgen.

Heather yelled, "We call it!"

"Too late!" Caroline reached for the chest, and Heather did as well. They began to tug at it, B and Detgen clutching for dear life to the branch.

Then there was a cracking sound.

"GUYS, THE BRANCH IS SNAPPING!" screeched Detgen.

"Oh. My. Gosh." Heather whispered as it totally snapped and they all plummeted down, screaming. Thankfully, none of them were hurt.

"This is all your fault! You were too heavy to be in that tree!" Heather said angrily to B.

B shrugged. "Hey! Don't be so mean to him! Why are you so cruel?" Caroline yelled.

"Because that's me!" Heather reached out and slapped her face.

Detgen's eyes widened.

"Don't even go there!" Caroline yelled, and reached over and slapped her face. Within seconds, they were simply slapping each others hands and yelling at each other.

Meanwhile, Detgen opened the chest, frowned at what she saw, shoved the chest towards B and Caroline, and pulled Heather away.

"What did you do that for?" Heather complained.

"That had an automatic elimination card in there. We do not want that." Detgen whispered.

Heather crossed her arms. "Oh. Okay."

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Alexander and DJ looked around the candy forest.

"Where do you want to check first?" DJ asked.

"Um, I saw a field of sugar cane nearby," Alex said. "Maybe there?"

DJ shrugged. "Sure."

They walked over to the sugar cane field.

"Oh, this is like a sugar cane maze!" DJ said.

"Wanna risk it?" Alex asked. "Wanna risk getting lost?"

DJ nodded.

They entered the maze and after about five minutes, they came to a fork.

"Right or left?" DJ asked.

"Left."

After a couple of lefts and rights, they came to a chest. On DJ's side, there was a bottle of toothpaste and a washcloth. On Alex's side, there was a bag of assorted candy bars.

"I can keep this." Alex shrugged. DJ nodded. "I didn't go into this maze for nothing."

Suddenly, Alex got a nervous look on his face. "Do you remember how to get back?"

"No! I thought you would!"

"Oh... boy..."


When the time was up, Chris sent interns to retrieve the lost or stuck pairs and the chests that hadn't been found or taken. When all of them had been retrieved, he allowed the members of Team We're Gonna Whoop Your Sorry Butts to take off their blindfolds and everyone to untie themselves from each other. Then he called, "Line up! Those with chests line up on the left, those without them on the right!"

DJ and Alex, Brick and Alek, Jet and Owen, Zoey and Lars, Mike and Sam, Scott and Danielle, Izzy and Piper, Sierra and Anthony, Beth and Andrew, Dakota and Ashley, Dawn and Nikki, Trent and Jenn, Harold and Jonathan, Lindsay and Macy, Bridgette and Min, and a smug Courtney and Alison went to the left, while Noah and Cedric, Duncan and Xavier, Cody and Alexis, B and Caroline, Heather and Detgen, Cameron and Travis, and Eva and Seth stood to the right.

"These are the remaining chests." Chris swept his hands towards the chests that hadn't been taken. "Pick one, and that's the one you're going to have to stick with. Good luck." They began to scramble for a chest, all praying that it wasn't the "automatic elimination" chest.

Caroline opened up her chest and gasped. "Oh no..." she whispered. It was the automatic elimination peered at her.

"Ooh, looks like you're out! So you'll take the Cannon of Shame tonight!"

Caroline sighed. "I could've done better."

B gave her a pat on the back.


***Confessionals***

Xavier frowned. "She probably would've been one of the first to go during elimination ceremonies for our team. Maybe it's better this way."

Danielle rolled her eyes. "Team We're Gonna Whoop Your Sorry Butts can live without her. She wasn't really too much of a participant, anyways."

Travis stared emotionlessly at the camera. "Oh well."

Piper shrugged. "With or without Caroline, I think we'll be able to operate okay. She was smart, though. She could've been good for academic-based challenges."

Seth waved a hand dismissively. "We'll live."

Alexis sighed. "Maybe it's for the better. The only thing Caroline seemed to be very good at was smart stuff. And I doubt Chris'll have much of that."

Samuel looked a little disappointed. "That's too bad. Besides Alexis, me, and maybe Piper, Caroline was the only person on our team who wasn't too antagonistic. Which means the bad guys are winning!" he laughed sheepishly. "Um... I mean, I'd prefer to be on the non-evil team. Probably Team Awesome's. They still have all their players."


"Any last words, Caroline?" Chris asked her as she was loaded into the cannon.

Caroline closed her eyes and shook her head.

"Whatever." Chris lit it and she blasted into the sky.

"And... how are we leaving?" Courtney asked.

Chris grinned. "The Cannon of Shame."

"Oh no, Chris. Not again." Heather said angrily.

"Oh yes, Heather. Yes again." Chris threw her into the cannon and fired.

And soon the sky was filled with flying veterans from the show.

"YOU'LL BE HEARING FROM MY LAWYERS, CHRIS!" screamed Courtney.

Chris shrugged. "Obviously. I can't do anything with her without getting sued." he turned to the camera. "Who will be eliminated next? Will Jonathan be able to woo Ashley and or Macy? Will Team We're Gonna Whoop Your Sorry Butts try to care about their teammates any more than it showed in their confessionals? Find out next time, on Total Drama: Surprises of the Island!"


Team Fashionista:

Jonathan Roberts
Andrew Petrius
Anthony Burton
Alexander Nicholson II
Carly Hyscus (ELIMINATED)
Ashley Marigold
Macy Millington
Alison Mason

Team We're Gonna Whoop Your Sorry Butts:

Danielle Cutler
Alexis Conley
Piper Beauchamp
Caroline Fairbairn (ELIMINATED)
Xavier Connors
Samuel Howard
Seth Adam
Travis Adams

Team Awesome:

Jennifer Smith
Detgen Bannigan
Min Sung
Nicole Baron
Cedric Walker
Jet Rosenberg
Lars Erickson
Alexander Klein

Elimination Order: Carly Hyscus (24th), Caroline Fairbairn (23rd)

I know I probably should have saved this challenge for post-merge, but I got inspiration to do it now, and I didn't want to leave the inspiration.