AN: Welcome back to TDI and... I can't think of any good intro, so here's the chapter.
Chapter Ten: Who Can You Trust?
"Welcome back to Total Drama Island," Chris Mclean gave his signature toothy smile as the cameras focused on him at the docks, watching some of the teens swim from his position, "Last time, we went hunting. Gophers and Bass hunted each other. Too bad there wasn't much gunfire, except from Duncan firing at his own teammate, costing the Bass the game. Meanwhile, Gwen and Geoff had a conversation about her secret that ain't so secret now, well at least to those watching. And Noah went a bit seclusive into himself after Owen was rigged out of the game. But he picked himself up right as the challenge ended. And at the end of the day, it was Courtney who was sent home, who thought school was more important than whatever other reasons people had to win the money." Chris' voice played over Courtney kicking Duncan in the kiwis.
"And I decided not to give any break from the last challenge and today the teams need to start building trust. But will it be torn down first? Find out here and now, on Total! Drama! Island!" Chris yelled and proceeded to get splashed by water as Eva dived into the water.
"Come on!" Chris complained as the swimming campers laughed at their host's misery.
Meanwhile, Bridgette was attempting to teach Noah how to surf while Trent strummed his guitar at the shore.
"Just steady yourself and keep your balance. Don't think about balance, just think about the ride and it comes naturally." Bridgette said as she kept herself afloat next to her board as Noah resurfaced after falling off for a fifth time.
"Bridgette, wouldn't it be smarter for him to do this with actual waves?" Trent called from the shore as Noah got back up on the surfboard.
"No it wouldn't. He needs to learn how to get on the board before actually worrying about riding waves." Bridgette called back to shore as she helped Noah steady himself on the board.
"Like this?" Noah asked as he stood up and fell, not into the water but onto the board and on his kiwis.
"Ouch." Trent winced as Bridgette brought Noah to shore, who was wincing at his own pain as well.
"Yeah, we'll try again another time, okay?" Bridgette asked as she pecked Noah on the cheek before wringing her hair out.
Confessional:
"It's nice of Bridge to try and teach me, but I don't know if I'm cut out for it," Noah admitted before looking straight at the door and reaching for it and pulled back a piece of paper.
"Chef's handwriting." Noah proceeded to read the paper and his eyes widened.
"Thanks for the warning. I just hope everyone else will be fine after today." Noah proceeded to crumble up the paper and put it in his pocket before exiting the confessional.
Confessional End:
Noah then closed the door of the confessional and started walking to the mess hall when he heard the loudspeakers come on.
"Campers! Meet at the mess hall. Your challenge will happen after breakfast." Noah heard Chris say and heard a slight chuckle at the end. Noah scowled as he made his way to the mess hall and got in line behind Trent and in front of Beth.
"Trent. Read this." Noah took the paper out of his pocket and handed it to the guitar player who looked at in confusion until he finished reading and then nodded.
"So he's gonna spout lies?" Trent asked as the line moved forward.
"Doubtful. If I know him, he's gonna find old confessionals or personal clips and play them to make us distrust each other. Don't let it get to you." Noah shook his head as they stood at the pick up and Noah crumpled the paper back up and tossed it to Chef, who proceeded to catch it and nodded as Noah got his food and walked to his table.
"Campers! Today's challenge will be one based on trust. Now I want each team to tell me their least trustworthy and most trustworthy teammates. Bass, you're first." Chris told from between the two tables.
"Cody is definitely the least trustworthy." Duncan grumbled as he rubbed his eyes open and his team nodded except for Katie and Cody himself.
"I could have guessed. And most trustworthy?" Chris asked again and the Bass looked around before nodding.
"DJ." All of them said at the same time and DJ looked happy at how much his team trusted him.
"Good. Gophers?" Chris turned to the other team who all glared at Heather
"Heather." Leshawna said grumpily and Heather rolled her eyes as she picked at her food.
Confessional:
"I need to lie low for the moment. One mistake and I'm gone. And rigging the votes again probably won't fly." Heather informed the camera with an annoyed look.
End Confessional:
"Okay, so now most trustworthy." Chris nodded and the team looked conflicted.
"Let's put it to a vote. Everyone say who you trust the most." Leshawna offered.
"Trent." Gwen and Beth both said at the same time.
"Bridgette." Noah and Trent both said just the same as Gwen and Beth.
"None of you." Heather scoffed
"My gal Bridgette." Leshawna glared at Heather for her comment.
"Okay. Heather, Bridgette, DJ, and Cody. You all automatically get immunity today." Chris smirked and the teams started protesting.
"Of course Cody gets fucking immunity." Duncan muttered under his breath.
"And also I have a treat. Who wants to watch some confessionals? Really stir up trust." Chris smirked while Chef rolled in the tv cart and put in a dvd reluctantly.
Chris clicked the play button and the tv proceeded to show a video that he hadn't planned. Chris' plans for the challenge from last night.
"Who can they trust? Yeah, let's manipulate that. Let me look through some things that could strain trust and then we'll do that challenge," Chris said as he started going through the library of videos as he started trying to find things to break apart the campers.
After the video stopped every camper threw their food at Chris. This included Chef, who threw some leftovers at the host.
"Fine! Since you all seem that you can't take that we'll just do the challenge normally. Follow me." Chris scoffed as he exited the mess hall with the campers behind him.
Confessional:
"Oh the note? Chef told me what Chris planned and told me that he planned to do something about it. Told me to play it up for the cameras that I knew what was coming and nothing more." Noah informed the camera.
End Confessional:
"First challenge will be a two person challenge. One will hold the rope and the other will climb the side of the cliff," Chris motioned to the cliff behind him, "The one on the ground will be responsible to catch you if you fall. Now those participating are Duncan and DJ, and Gwen and Heather." Chris then tossed the equipment to Heather and Duncan who started strapping their teammates into the safety equipment.
"What's the extra line for?" Gwen asked as Heather looped the rope onto her equipment.
"Extra safety." Heather gave a sickeningly sweet smile.
"Doubt it." Gwen muttered as she tightened the harness and got to the bottom of the cliff next to DJ, who didn't have a second line.
"Go!" Chris blew an airhorn and DJ and Gwen immediately started climbing. They seemed to have no difficulty until suddenly an explosive went off between the two.
"What was that?!" Beth squeaked out behind Chris.
"Some explosives we found from Phobia Factor." Chris said nonchalantly as he started loading a toy gun with something.
Confessional:
"Mal brought fucking explosives?!" Cody yelled his frustration at the situation in the confessional before punching the camera again.
End Confessional:
"Who wants some habanero sauce?" Chris whispered to the camera before shooting a stream of hot sauce at Heather, causing her to let go of the rope holding up Gwen, causing Gwen to almost fall.
Chris then tried to shoot Duncan, but he just turned and opened his mouth and ate the sauce shot at him.
"Is that the best you can do?" Duncan wiped his mouth of the sauce and turned back to the cliff.
"Is that the best we can do?" Chris whisper shouted to a camera.
Confessional:
"Yes that is the best he could do." Bridgette smirked to the camera as she folded her arms.
End Confessional:
Gwen got closer to the top and made it above DJ when Heather smirked and pulled on the second line she attached to Gwen, causing her skirt to be yanked off, revealing her underwear.
DJ felt the skirt hit him in the face and he let go of the wall when he realized what it was, causing the rope to snag Duncan and force him to be entangled with DJ.
Gwen grabbed what little she had left of her skirt and kept it in her mouth as she reached the top.
"Yes!" Gwen pumped her fist before realizing to cover herself and Heather just sniggered from the ground.
DJ and Duncan just groaned as they spun around on the side of the cliff.
Confessional:
"Oh Queeny is gonna get it." Leshawna scowled.
End Confessional:
The camera then cut to the mess hall, where Noah and Leshawna waited at one table and Geoff and Eva were at the other. Chris then flipped into the mess hall and landed behind his podium and proceeded to brush himself off.
"Welcome campers to the next challenge where you will test your trust in your partner's cooking." Chris gave a thumbs up and Chef brought out an aquarium.
"This," Chris motions to the two fish in the aquarium, "Are the Fugu Blowfish, a poisonous Japanese fish." Chef proceeds to toss the fish to the tables and they land on a cutting board.
"This requires precise cutting prowess. One small mistake in the food will send your partner to the infirmary. Usually there is no antidote for the blowfish, but we got genetically modified ones that have poison that can be treated. I'll be back in an hour to see the results and watch the taste test. Oh, and the eater can't touch the food before eating it." Chris proceeded to walk off and Chef brought in a projector that showed where to cut the fish.
"I'm cutting." Leshawna told Noah who just raised an eyebrow before pulling out a packet of papers to read.
Confessional:
"Heather has immunity today, so I need to find someone on our team to vote for if we lose. And if Leshawna messes up this challenge, then she'll be the one to go." Noah smirks as he explains his idea to the confessional
End Confessional:
"You good at cooking?" Eva asks Geoff who nods.
"My mom is a master chef and she taught me how to do everything in the kitchen. I got this." Geoff proclaimed truthfully.
Confessional:
"I swear to god if he isn't telling the truth." Eva muttered under her breath.
End Confessional:
A montage was shown of Geoff cutting the fish very precisely and checking how to do it every so often. Meanwhile Noah was reading that packet of papers and Leshawna was anxiously cutting the fish very awkwardly.
Confessional:
"So it didn't turn out perfect. I think I cut out all the poison parts though." Leshawna looked very nervous at her performance
End Confessional:
"Time!" Chris shouted as he walked back in the room and saw Leshawna sweating at her red pile of fish and Geoff looked proud of his sushi looking food.
"Eva. Dig in." Chris told the muscular girl who grabbed one of the sushi off of the plate and threw it in her mouth. Chris winced back and raised an eyebrow at how Eva didn't seem sick.
"Bass you're good. Gophers." Chris turns to the other team and Leshawna puts the plate down in front of Noah who just gags.
"Uh can I have Chef make sure this is safe to eat?" Noah asked as he poked a fork at the food.
"You don't have to eat it if you want to cost your team a point." Chris told his brother who nodded.
"If I eat this and get poisoned I would sue the hell out of you, and I'm sure mother doesn't want to deal with a legal debate between her two kids." Noah taunted Chris who scowled.
"You're gonna give the Bass the point?! Just eat it. You'll be fine." Leshawna growled at her teammate who grabbed the plate and threw it in the trash can.
"Bass win the second round! Time for the final challenge! Follow me to the Blindfold challenges!" Chris announced and Leshawna glared at Noah who just followed Chris silently.
"Good job Geoff. You can cook." Eva rolled her eyes at the accomplishment while Geoff just smiled brightly.
"Who will win the blind challenges? Will Noah let his team down again, will Eva make better relations with her team before her downfall? Find out after these commercial messages!" Chris told a camera as he put a blindfold on and walked into a tree as the camera cut to black.
As the camera cut back to the show, a shadowy figure was seen walking into the woods, away from where Chris was currently talking to the contestants.
"We have three blind challenges that if you win two of them, you win the entire challenge for today. First we have the blind William Tell challenge." Chris told to the gathered contestants and some looked confused.
"The legendary William Tell shot apples off of people's heads with arrows, but we're gonna do it backwards." Chris explained as he put an arrow on top of Noah's head and pulled out a slingshot with a rotten apple.
"Why me?" Noah complained as Chris put the blindfold on and shot Noah in the nuts. Noah immediately bent over in pain.
"Oh, that's gonna leave a mark." Chris winced as Noah dragged himself back to his team.
"Leshawna you're the shooter for the Gophers, Katie you're shooting for the Bass. And Heather and Cody get to be the ones pelted by apples." Chris tossed the blindfolds to Leshawna and Katie as Chef placed arrows on Cody and Heather. Everyone besides those called for stepped back to the edges of the clearing.
Katie and Leshawna put their blindfolds on as Cody and Heather started worrying for their safety.
"First to hit the arrow off with an apple wins. GO!" Chris shouted and Leshawna shot an apple almost immediately, hitting Heather in the stomach
"Go higher!" Heather shouted back as she was hit by another apple. Leshawna tuned out her yelps and kept shooting on instinct.
Meanwhile, Katie had yet to shoot a shot as she was listening to Cody telling her where to aim.
"Aim up about an inch and shoot it with as much power as possible." Cody told the kind, skinny girl who nodded and did as she was told and let the apple fly at the same time as Leshawna hit Heather in the face. The apple soared through the air and hit the arrow dead on and the arrow fell off of Cody's head.
"The Bass win! Leshawna, stop before you give Heather a concussion." Chris told the take no prisoners girl who pulled up her blindfold and saw Heather covered in bruises as she collapses to the floor.
"Cody, take her to the infirmary. Everyone else, follow me." Chris told the campers, who followed without a word while Cody took Heather to the infirmary. After Cody brought Heather into the infirmary, he stepped back out of the infirmary and a hand was put over his mouth and he tried screaming as he was dragged off by the shadowy figure from before.
"Campers, this could be the last challenge of the day." Chris tells the assembled campers in front of a pond with two trapezes above it.
"DJ is already up there to jump, as is Beth. Trent is catching, as is Duncan." Chris informed the viewing audience as DJ looked terrified with his blindfold on.
"Shit. Shit. Shit." DJ muttered to himself as Beth looked confused.
"What's the matter?" The wannabe asked and DJ shook his head.
"I can't do this man. I can't!" DJ screamed and Duncan decided to speak up.
"DJ! Man! You can do this! If I drop you, then you can vote for me!" Duncan yelled and DJ still looked nervous.
"Did I mention if you fall, the pond is filled with jellyfish?!" Chris shouted up to DJ, which made him even more nervous.
"Beth, you can do this. Jump… now!" Trent yelled as he swung to Beth, who missed the mark by a second and missed Trent and fell into the pond below, screaming. Beth proceeded to resurface with a jellyfish on her head.
"Bridgette, take her to the infirmary." Chris ordered the surfer girl who just nodded as she helped her teammate up and to the infirmary.
"DJ! If you do this, we win the challenge! Don't be scared!" Duncan tried to get the big and friendly giant to calm down.
"Count me down!" DJ yelled in terror as he stood on the edge of the platform.
"3," Duncan swung back to his starting position, "2," Duncan swung back towards DJ, "Now!" Duncan shouted and DJ jumped and barely grabbed onto Duncan's hands as they continued to swing back and forth.
"Bass win! Damn, I had another challenge, but oh well. Just beware of landmines on a nearby hill." Chris said nonchalantly and the Bass cheered as Duncan swung him and DJ back to the platform.
"You're safe dude." Duncan tore off the blindfold and DJ let out a sigh of relief.
"Sorry, I just have a fear of jumping into water. After I invented the wedgie flop." DJ told Duncan who just patted him on the back
Confessional:
"He's the one who made the wedgie flop? Didn't expect it to be him." Duncan looked a bit surprised at that piece of information before nodding his approval.
End Confessional:
"Gophers, you sucked hard. Noah, you refused to eat Leshawna's meal, not that I blame you. Leshawna, you sucked at making food and aiming apples. Heather, you pulled off Gwen's skirt in the middle of a challenge and got bruised by apples. Beth fell and got stung by a jellyfish and Trent failed to catch her. Bridgette didn't compete in any challenges, although she would have done so in the last one. But Heather and Bridgette are immune, so here's your marshmallows." Chris tossed the marshmallows to those mentioned.
"Trent and Gwen have no votes." Chris tossed the marshmallows and Gwen smiled at Trent, who smiled back as he threw the marshmallow into his mouth.
"Beth, you received a single vote." Chris tossed the next marshmallow to Beth who looked nervously at Leshawna.
"Leshawna, Noah. You both know why you are at the bottom. And in a 4 to 2 vote, the last marshmallow goes to…
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"Noah, you're safe. Leshawna, pack your bags. You've lost." Chris threw the last marshmallow into Noah's hands and Leshawna looked barely upset.
Leshawna sighed and then asked, "Can I at least know the votes?"
Chris shrugged and pulled out a pile of papers.
"Noah voted you, as did Bridgette, Trent and Heather. You and Beth voted for Noah, and Gwen voted Beth." Chris flashed all the cards to the team and Leshawna turned to Noah and gave a smile.
"After how I did today, I expected either this or you losing. I'll leave with my head held high." Leshawna high fived Gwen and Beth before pushing Heather to the ground and walking to the Dock of Shame, to board the Boat of Losers and not return to the game. Ever.
Confessional:
"I would be home by now if not for the immunity today. I need to prove that I am a threat and they need to not underestimate me." Heather growled as she once again fell into the toilet and yelled curses that needed to be censored unlike the other swears heard before.
End Confessional:
"Has anyone seen Cody?" Katie asked as she combed her hair with her hairbrush.
"Not since Chris sent him to take Heather to the infirmary." Eva responded as she washed her hands.
Duncan raised an eyebrow at this as he finished up in one of the stalls and went to wash his hands. He did this quietly before he silently walked out of the restrooms and walked into the forest. After walking for around ten minutes, he came back to the clearing he brought Cody to before and saw Cody on the ground, unconscious, with an arrow in his left hand. Attached to the arrow was a small note. Duncan grabbed the note and started reading it.
Duncan,
You're gonna kill me for doing this, but I needed to get revenge on him as soon as I saw him on the show. It took me a little bit of time to escape from the mental hospital, but I was able to do so in my less than sane state. The other patients have called it my Commando Mode, when I don't remember what I do and I act mental. Anyways, since you last visited, I've been breaking out of that state more and have slowly begun getting my mind back under control. I'm not completely fine, but if you do win even 10,000 dollars from that show, it'll be enough. Anyways, I thought your carving was kind and now I know that all you told me back when you tried to get me out of Mal and Cody's clutches is true. Also, Duncan. Be careful. Dad said that the one day he had off when he visited me a week or two ago, Mal escaped. You know how dangerous he is, but if anyone can stand up to him it's you. Anyways, all my heart is for you and whatever you do
Love,
Zoey Brightson
Duncan's eyes widened as he read that Mal escaped. He knew that he was a menace to society. As he thinks this, he hears Cody yawn and wake up.
"Where am I and why does my hand hurt like hell?" Cody asked as he lifted his head off the ground and saw his hand bleeding with an arrow through it. Cody went to grab the arrow, but Duncan pushed his hand to the ground.
"Keep the arrow in. It stops more blood from flowing out. And no it wasn't me. Take a guess at a prisoner guard's kid you tortured and you got…" Duncan trailed off and Cody's eyes went to the DxZ on the tree.
"Brightson. Didn't know she was good with a bow." Cody nodded as Duncan got Cody up and Cody winced as his hand fell to his side.
"She said her insanity basically manifested into a Commando Mode, so yeah I'd say she might be." Duncan said as he had Cody lean on him for support as they started walking back to camp.
"I think Mal mentioned Commando before." Cody said after a minute of silence.
"What?" Duncan asked, very confused.
"You know how he gets control over people with his eyes. Well he talked about pushing that to make a different, better personality of a person. Did Zoey have red eyes last you saw her?" Cody asked after informing Duncan, who shook his head.
"They were her usual brown. Wait," Duncan turned to Cody and looked at him, "You don't have red eyes anymore."
"Wow Captain Obvious. After Phobia Factor, I broke through his control and reestablished mine once more. We'll talk more after I get this looked at." Cody looked down at his arm as the two of them walked back into camp and Cody walked off to the infirmary, leaving Duncan to think about what happened today.
"Interesting happenings. Leshawna given the boot, Cody attacked by Duncan's girlfriend, and Heather being knocked senseless. All in a day's work at Camp Wawanakwa. But what shall tomorrow bring? Who knows? But find out, here on Total Drama Island!" Chris shouted as he walked by the infirmary and an arrow soared by his head and the screen cut to black as Chris screamed in terror at nearly being hit.
AN: Leshawna was eliminated. Yep. I felt it was her I struggled to write the personality of the most, but maybe that's just me. I decided to give immunity to Heather just so she wasn't eliminated. Zoey was seen this episode, but only as a shadowy figure. Also, let me ask something. I skipped the Boney Island episode, but I want to introduce it before the later episodes. Should I bring that into the story for a reward challenge? If not, then it's onto Basic Straining.
Votes:
Noah: Leshawna
Bridgette: Leshawna
Beth: Noah
Gwen: Beth
Leshawna: Noah
Trent: Leshawna
Heather: Leshawna
Elimination Order:
22nd: Sadie
21st: Harold
20th: Lindsay
19th: Justin
18th: Izzy (Host Rigged Choice)
17th: Tyler (Double Elimination)
16th: Ezekiel (Double Elimination)
15th: Owen (Rigged Votes)
14th: Courtney
13th: Leshawna
12th to 1st: Unknown
Episodes until merge: 3 (4 if Boney Island Reward Challenge) (Counting Brunch of Disgustingness)
Take guesses at who will make the merge. I think most are obvious (especially Izzy since she returns), but take guesses as to whom are the next two to be eliminated. Also there will be an Aftermath right after Brunch of Disgustingness and before the merge, so keep that in mind for the future.
Next Episode: Basic Straining (or Up The Creek).