Sorry for not updating in over a month. Besides the fact that I was working on other stories, I got distracted by the lovely weather Ireland has been getting recently. I have to appreciate it as often as I can, especially since this was the hottest, sunniest weather we've had in decades and we've been having it for over three weeks now. It is said to stay like this for the rest of the month. Hopefully we'll get it again next summer. But yeah, I'm not going to let that excuse that hiatus during the summer, especially when I have promised you guys seven updates before returning to college in September. Yet I still have three more updates to go after this. Laziness is my only excuse. On another note, this story is now the most viewed story I've written, with over 5,000 hits. You guys are awesome! And for that, I will respond to your reviews:
Toaneo07 Ver2.0 – Glad you were surprised by the reveal about Brady. Surprising my readers has been one of my plans for this story. You'll love Ezekiel's role in this story. Trust me on this one.
I'll Cover Angel and Collins – That's fine. I prefer Courtney to date Chris as well. It's much more interesting that way. But since Chris is being an even bigger psychopath in this story, while Courtney has ceased to be one, I doubt Courtney would consider Chris to be a suitable mate in Total Drama: Island Renewed. In my other fics, it will be Chrisney all the way! I'm glad you liked the Brady/Beth moment and I can assure you Heather will get more involved as the story progresses. Sadly, due to my incurably twisted mind Brick's gonna be here a while, and Justin will be here for a while as well for the slapstick. You'll love it though.
Kyrogue23 – I agree. The PS4 is better than the Xbox One. Though that's my opinion. Anyway, I'm glad you're glad Zeke is back.
Helmet 798 – Now ya know what Helmet 798? I wrote this chapter, and even I was shocked the imposter was Brady, and was jealous towards Beth. That Total Drama Returns shout out was for all you TDR fans out there. I'm one of you guys *smiley face*. We can all agree that Brick deserves our utmost sympathy (until he severely maims another character to the point they are forced to quit the season). Jo will definitely eventually regret torturing Brick (until he severely maims another character to the point they are forced to quit the season). Justin suffering is the only reason I'm keeping him around. Anyway, I will always enjoy your reviews and Total Drama Fan-Fiction Theatre.
Christ lover 357 – Glad to have another reader of this story. You find this fic hilariously over-to-top? The same goes for your fic. I agree, hardly ten per cent of what happens in Total Drama: Island Renewed would be allowed to happen in the real show, probably even if it was made for adults. I gave more screen time to the underdogs because I think the writers have wasted their potentials, especially Noah's, Eva's and Tyler's potentials. I'm glad you like what I did with some of the characters, like Duncan and Courtney, and that you like the elimination order. The challenges will get more coverage as the story progresses; especially when there are fewer competitors left later on. As for the negatives, well, the cursing and sexual innuendos were among the main reasons why I proud the story's rating up to M. I apologise for what I did with Izzy. As for Brick, he may… scratch that, he will realise towards the end of the fic that his actions are inappropriate, and will go back to normal. For now though, you're stuck with psycho Brick. Sorry for that. I can assure you though, he is in my top five in terms of favourite Total Drama characters, and so is Izzy. Of course, I don't condone their actions. Not one bit. I also apologise for the sectarianism in the fic. The characters' fanon opinions do not reflect my opinions at all. In fact, those opinions were meant to reflect either the ignorance, bigotry and/or tendency to over-exaggerate in relation to religion. I am sorry though if this offended you. As for Total Drama Payback, I checked it out and I love it. Your Chris is an even bigger psychopath than my Chris. Keep up the good work.
I've went back over the last chapter and I have realised how rushed it was. Damn! It looks like future chapters might have to come in parts in order to keep the updates – relatively – consistent. Anyway, I won't keep you guys in suspenders. Here is the tenth chapter… much to Trent's chagrin, heh-heh.
Total Drama: Island Renewed
Day 9: Counting Made Harder (Part 1)
"Last time on Total Drama: Island Renewed!" said Chris. "We had a go-cart race course where Brick kept ramming into even his own teammates, causing Team Green to be sent to the chopping block. After Team Blue won, the real Ezekiel returned. The imposter was also revealed to be Brady, who, surprise, surprise, turned out to be Beth's clingy, jealous and over-protective boyfriend. And he was Beth's boyfriend of all people! Seriously! I thought Beth would've been the clingy party of the relationship! Anyway, Beth broke up with Brady. Brady grew even more insane and tried to blast Beth off into oblivion with a bazooka, but he was aiming it the wrong way. Worse, HE SURVIVED! So now he has to suffer those injuries for the rest of his life! Sucks to be you, Brady! Sucks to be you! Brick would've been eliminated had it not been for Beth wanting to go the Playa, believing she's had a good enough run on the show. And thank God for that. She's boring! So will Brick become sane again? Will Chef swallow his pride and admit that he was never involved in an actual war? Will Ezekiel make it past the first elimination ceremony? I doubt it. But find out anyway, on Total… Drama… ISLAND RENEWED!"
Team Blue – Male Cabin
Alejandro could not sleep. He's been thinking about Ezekiel ever since the revelation that Brady was previously posing as Ezekiel. Alejandro realised that the main reason he formed an alliance was because he wanted what he thought was Ezekiel gone. Now that Brady was in the hospital, there was no point to the alliance anymore. Then Alejandro remembered how much Noah hates him. He realised that without his alliance he would be vulnerable. But on a team of twelve, an alliance of four would not be enough. Alejandro needed more than that. He needed an alliance of five.
He spent all night thinking about it.
Any-who, Ezekiel awoke and stretched. He climbed down from his bunk and decided to go gather some berries. Alejandro saw this as a perfect opportunity to ring the prairie kid into the alliance. He climbed out of the bed and jumped in front of Ezekiel, nearly giving the prairie boy a heart attack.
"Psst, Ezekiel!" Alejandro whispered. "I was thinking if you'd like to join an alliance."
"What the fuck, eh?!" Ezekiel hissed. "And no. Noah and Mike warned me a-boot you. I refuse."
"Fine then," Alejandro hissed. "Get eliminated the next time we lose."
"You can try, but yer alliance is only a turd of our team, eh."
"How do you explain we got rid of Duncan, then?"
"That was just poor luck. The only reason you have an alliance is because of Harold's lack of common sense, Anne Maria's stupidity and Chef's mutual desperation for an alliance, eh."
Alejandro rolled his eyes. "Well fuck you then," he muttered.
"Let me guess: ya spent all night thinking a-boot yer proposal, eh?" Ezekiel jeered. Alejandro gave Ezekiel the finger and went back to his bed. Ezekiel left the cabin to gather the berries. Noah watched this in amusement.
"Having problems with your alliance lately?" Noah smirked.
"Shut up!" Alejandro scowled. "The alliance members are fine. I just need another alliance member, that's all."
"Too bad we've warned Home-school about you," Noah stated. "By the way, were you up all night thinking about getting Zeke to join your alliance?"
"That's not important!" Alejandro snarled. "What's important is that you are our next target."
"You do realise that the only reason you got Duncan out was because luck was on your side, right?"
"It might happen again," Alejandro hissed.
"It might not," said Noah.
"Yes it would."
"No it wouldn't.
"Yes it would."
"No it wouldn't."
"Yes it would!"
"No it wouldn't!"
"YES IT WOULD!"
"NO IT WOULDN'T!"
"SHUT UP! BOTH OF YOU! YOU MAGGOTS HAVE WOKEN ME UP WITH YOUR BITCHIN'!" Chef snarled.
"He started it," said Alejandro.
Chef whipped out a cane and pointed it at Alejandro. "See this?! It's a cane! And if I hear one word from any of you, I will cane everyone in this cabin with it!"
"Yeah Noah," Alejandro jeered.
"That's it! Everyone get on yer hands and knees!" Chef ordered.
"You heard the man!" Alejandro jeered.
"That includes you too, maggot!" Chef snarled.
Alejandro was shocked. "What?! Hell no! You can't cane me! I'm the leader of the alliance you're a party to!" he protested.
"I don't care!" Chef barked.
"Well then consider yourself out of the alliance!" Alejandro growled.
"Did you know that judicial corporal punishment was used in Canada until 1972?" Harold gabbed.
"YOU'RE OUT OF THE ALLIANCE AS WELL!" Alejandro screamed at Harold. "AND SO TOO IS THAT MORONIC TAN-IN-A-CAN BITCH!"
"Ha! That means you have no alliance!" jeered Mike.
"YOU'RE OUT OF THE ALLIANCE AS WELL!" snarled Alejandro.
"I was never in the alliance," Mike shrugged.
"VETE A LA MIERDA TODOS!" Alejandro screamed before stomping out of the room. He did not leave without receiving a lash of the cane from Chef, but Alejandro was too pissed off to give a damn.
(Video Diaries)
Alejandro – "Okay, so maybe kicking Chef, Harold and Anne Maria out of the alliance was a bad idea," Alejandro admits. "It was just that I was in a bad mood after Ezekiel blew me off. Now I am left without an alliance. What do I do about that?" he demands.
(End of Video Diaries)
Team Blue – Female Cabin
Gwen, Bridgette and Zoey were discussing recent events. Sadly, the smell of Anne Maria's tan-in-a-can disturbed them.
"Uh, can you please spray your tan outside?" Zoey groaned.
"Or better yet, stop using that stuff?" Gwen spluttered.
"No way! I need to look good!" Anne Maria dismissively growled.
"Look, I know looks are important to you, but why are they important to you?" Bridgette choked.
"To be popular! Why else?" Anne Maria demanded.
"Most sane people don't give a crap about popularity," Gwen muttered, opening a window. Anne Maria ignored her and continued to spray herself.
Then the canister ran out of paint. Anne Maria scowled as she dug into her bag for more canisters. There was none.
"WHERE ARE MY TAN-IN-A-CANS?!" Anne Maria bellowed.
A loud belching noise is heard coming from the covers of the bed under Anne Maria's. Anne Maria scowls and pulls back the covers to find Izzy and a punch of empty canisters.
"Man, Anne Maria, those canisters make tasty soda!" Izzy chirped.
"YOU DRANK MY TAN?!" shrieked Anne Maria.
"Yep!" Izzy chirped. "They were delicious!" She belched again. "Say? Got anymore?" she asked.
"Great!" Anne Maria scowled. "Now how am I supposed to keep myself beautiful?"
"For starters, you could start focusing more on your character development and less on your looks," Zoey suggested.
"Screw that! Lindsay, gimme one of yer canisters!" said Anne Maria.
"What's a canister?" Lindsay asked innocently.
Anne Maria groaned. "Fuck it, I'm just gonna go raid da other cabins." She ran off. Bridgette, Gwen and Zoey sighed in relief.
(Video Diaries)
Zoey – "Anne Maria has got to be the shallowest human being I have met in my entire life," says Zoey. "She is the exact reason why media corporations need to consider ethics above profits. They are one of the main reasons why our generation sucks."
Izzy – "Izzy loves our generation!" Izzy chirped. "It has lots of stupid people that Izzy could brainwash. Once a wormhole leading to a planet that supports life is discovered, Izzy will send those stupid people off to invade that planet! The indigenous populations will be like "AAAAAAAAH!" and the stupid people would be like "BOOM! BOOM!" and Izzy will be like "this is fun!" Then E-Scope will be the supreme leader and the state religion will be the Number Ten Religion! HA! I could hear Trent reacting to this!" she laughs, as Trent can be heard from the Playa shouting no in horror.
(End of Video Diaries)
Team Green – Female Cabin
Katie and Sadie were squealing once again. The rest of the girls obviously took no notice of this. However, Dawn discovered that the squealing did manage to obscure any sound that would have indicated the presence of a male at their door. She left a few minutes ago to go the toilet. She re-entered the cabin. She was very wide-eyed.
"Girls?" Dawn asked.
"Yeah?" asked Jo and Sierra in unison.
Katie and Sadie stopped squealing. They turned to face Dawn.
"Yeah?" they also asked in unison.
"There are scratch marks on the door," Dawn replied. She held the door open by the knob, pointing towards the scratches.
"Who did this?" Katie wondered.
"I have a feeling we already know who it is," Dawn whispered. Then she closed the door. She locked it. Quietly, she walked over to her bed and got in. She girls stared at the door. Waiting for the inevitable to happen.
It happened.
"YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM ME FOREVER! ONE DAY I WILL KILL YOU! I WILL KILL ALL OF YOU!"
"I'm guessing we probably should've just voted out Brick instead of honouring Beth's wishes," Sierra suggested.
"I'd still feel bad," said Jo, "despite everything I went through with him years ago."
"There's always a chance that your conflict with Brick will get resolved, Jo," Dawn assured the athlete. "And if it doesn't, well, Brick would probably be in an insane asylum, so he won't be able to hurt anyone."
"Thanks Dawn," Jo beamed.
(Video Diaries)
Dawn – "I have a bad feeling about the remainder of Brick's run on this season," she shudders.
The figure in the Batman mask – "I really should put a collar and lead on him," he deadpans.
Anne Maria – "I was gonna ask da Team Green girls if they've got some tan-in-a-cans," says Anne Maria, "but then I saw that Brick-headed fella banging on da door. I bet he was trying to get some tan-in-a-cans but they wouldn't give any to him. If they wouldn't give any to him, why would they give it to me? Brick needs a tan more than I do. Maybe that's why he's so freaky."
(End of Video Diaries)
Team Green – Male Cabins
Cameron and Cody were exchanging Pokémon cards. Geoff and DJ were talking about football.
Next, the door slammed open. In walked a raging Brick with bloodshot eyes.
Cameron was the first to notice him. He turned to face Brick and ask: "Brick, um… are you okay?"
Brick looked over at Cameron and scowled at him. He marched over to the bubble boy, grabbed him by the shirt and held him up to his face.
"Stay…" Brick breathed "out… of… it."
"Whoa, dude, let the dude go!" Geoff shrieked, intervening.
"What is up with you anyway?" Cody demanded. "Where have you been?"
"NONE OF YER BUSINESS!" Brick shouted. "I WAS TRYING TO KILL JO! BUT THE RUDE BITCH WOULDN'T ANSWER FLIPPIN' DOOR!"
"Brick," said DJ, "you need to calm down!"
"NEVER!" Brick shouted, grabbing a chair and smashing it against the window. He jumped out the window and ran off, cackling like a maniac.
"I have a bad feeling about this," said Cameron, concerned.
Suddenly, they boys heard the sound of an intern screaming at the top of his lungs, followed by the sound of Brick roaring, subsequently followed by the sound of someone getting eaten alive.
"Well, at least he won't have to endure Ms Scratcher's food," said Cody.
(Video Diaries)
Cameron – "Okay… Brick is beginning to terrify me," says Cameron, shuddering.
The figure in the Batman mask – "Okay… Brick is beginning to annoy me," says the figure in the Batman mask, scowling.
(End of Video Diaries)
Team Red – Female Cabin
Blaineley, Eva, Heather and LeShawna were fast asleep when all of a sudden Anne Maria barged in.
"Have any of ya girls got any tan-in-a-cans?" Anne Maria asked.
"DO I LOOK LIKE A SHALLOW JERSEY SHORE REJECT WHO WOULD WASTE ALL OF HER TIME WITH MAKE UP?!" Eva screamed.
"OH! NU! NU! NU! NU! YOU DID NOT JUST DISS JOISEY SHOH!" Anne Maria lunged for Eva and the two had a catfight. Needless to say, Blaineley and Heather found this amusing. LeShawna rolled her eyes at this. She turned to Heather and Blaineley and asked:
"Okay, which one of ya girls were the last person in?"
"It was me," Heather apathetically admitted. "Who cares? What kind of idiot would break into a cabin Eva was sleeping in anyway?" she asked rhetorically.
"Anne Maria?" LeShawna rolled her eyes.
"Well then maybe you should fix the lock on the door then," Blaineley huffed.
"You were the one who broke it," LeShawna pointed out.
"Then stop locking me out," hissed Blaineley.
Heather had had enough of the fight. She dug into her suitcase and withdrew from it a canister.
"Hey Anne Maria!" Heather barked. "Go fetch!" Heather opened the door and threw the canister out the door. Anne Maria saw it. She immediately pried herself out of Eva's grip and ran off after the canister like a dog running after a Frisbee. Heather rolled her eyes at this and slammed the door shut.
"There," said Heather, "problem solved."
(Video Diaries)
Heather – "Obviously I don't use fake tan," Heather explains. "But when I realised that Anne Maria was going to be in the competition, I decided to buy the canister and bring it with me to the show. I would've used it to manipulate Anne Maria into joining me in an alliance, but because of her little display back in the cabin that canister was a good waste of money. I could've used those five bucks to get a lap dance."
Anne Maria – Anne Maria is licking the canister Heather gave her.
(End of Video Diaries)
Team Red – Male Cabin
Scott, B and Lightning got no sleep the previous night. This was because Justin was wailing all night long. Scott finally had had enough of this. He grabbed the edge of the bunk, slid down to his wheelchair and went over to Justin.
Not to console Justin. Not at all.
But to back-hand him.
"OW!" shrieked Justin. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!"
"For keeping us awake," Scott grumbled.
"BUT I'M UUUGGGLYYYYYYYYYYYY!" sobbed Justin.
"Well tough!" Scott scowled. "Your wounds will heal if you just shut up! Be a man!"
"But looks are everything to me!" Justin whispered.
"Well getting a good night's sleep is everything to me!" Scott retorted.
"You guys are sha-idiots!" Lightning jeered. "Neither looks nor a sha-good night sleep are sha-everything! Sha-winning is!"
"No wonder you went psychotic, went on a killing spree and killed fifteen interns when you lost to Cameron last year," Scott snickered.
"Sha-SHUT UP!" sobbed Lightning. He began to cry as well. Both Lightning and Justin were crying. B gave Scott the finger for making Lightning cry, because one person crying was bad enough for him. Scott noticed this and scowled.
"Fuck this! I'm going for a walk- err, I mean, a roll!"
B squinted his eyes suspiciously at Scott. He did in fact notice that Scott had virtually no difficulty climbing down from his bunk. Something didn't seem right to the silent genius. However, he could not put his finger on it, what with all the screaming and crying.
"SHUT UP!"
Justin and Lightning stopped crying. They were shocked. They looked over at B, who was glaring at them.
(Video Diaries)
B – "Yeah, I can talk," says B, apathetically. "So what? In fact, the only reason I haven't said a word up until this point was because every time I opened my mouth to speak, someone would cut me off. Other times, I'd keep my mouth shut because there's no point in opening your mouth in a reality show. If you do that too often, you'd either come across as a negative grump or a moron. The only reason I signed up for that show was to provide some form of sanity to the show. Actually, there's another reason. My siblings keep fighting over the remote and I needed a break from them."
Justin – "Oh my God!" Justin gasps. "Our cabin is haunted!"
Lightning – "Lightning sha-wonders who sha-told us to shut up," said Lightning. "Lightning hopes it was no sha-ghost! Lightning hates ghosts! Sha-BAM!" He shudders.
(End of Video Diaries)
Mess Hall
Chris swaggered into the mess hall and barked: "Who's up for Sudoku?!"
"Not me," said Justin, only to get nudged by Heather.
"Well too bad!" Chris laughed. The challenge starts… NOW!" Interns immediately swarmed into the mess hall and gave each contestant a pencil, an eraser, a pencil sharpener and a sheet of paper. Each sheet had three Sudoku grids: one elementary, one intermediate and one advanced.
"First team to have all their members finish wins!" Chris explained. "If you have finished your grid, raise your hand and give it to Ms Scratcher. Oh, and no cheating, no helping the person sitting next to you or anyone other than yourself, no looking over other people's sheets and no one can leave until everyone on one team has finished!"
"So does that mean people who are done have to sit here and stare at the wall?" Noah demanded.
"Pretty much," said Chris. "In fact, I'd encourage it. Ms Scratcher is supervising you guys after all."
"But what if one of us has to go to the toilet?" asked Blaineley.
Chris smirked. "Well it's not my problem!" He left. Ms Scratcher entered the mess hall.
"SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!" she roared.
"We are sitting down and shutting up!" Harold snarled. "Curse your short-sightedness! IDIOT!"
"HAROLD! WRITE OUT TEN PAGES ON WHY IT IS RUDE TO CORRECT AN ADULT IN AUTHORITY AFTER YOU'VE DONE YOUR SUDOKU!" Ms Scratcher screamed.
"You're not an adult in authority! You're just an intern! Curse your ignorance of your current state of employment! GOSH!" Harold corrected her.
"EVERYONE! WRITE OUT TEN PAGES ON WHY IT IS RUDE TO CORRECT AN ADULT IN AUTHORITY AFTER YOU'VE DONE YOUR SUDOKU!" Ms Scratcher screamed. Everyone glared at Harold before proceeding with their Sudoku(s).
(Video Diaries)
Alejandro – "Okay, so maybe kicking Harold out of the alliance did turn out to be a good idea after all," he admits. "But it still doesn't make up for the fact that I threw out Chef and Anne Maria. Let's hope Anne Maria doesn't find out, so that I could just act like her expulsion never happened."
Anne Maria – "Who needs an alliance when you've got swag?" Anne Maria rhetorically asks.
(End of Video Diaries)
Three hours later…
The Sudoku challenge turned out to be longer than everyone would have preferred. Within half an hour of the challenge commencing, Noah, Harold, Izzy, Cameron, Dawn, Cody and B had already completed the puzzle. However, that meant that all they could do for the next two and a half hours was sit there, look around them and hold in their piss. They could have done their write-outs, but they just couldn't be bothered, unless they were Harold. By the first hour, Scott, Gwen, Alejandro, Sierra and Heather were finished. Half an hour later, Bridgette, Zoey, Mike, Ezekiel, Jo, DJ, LeShawna, Blaineley and Eva were finished. Another half hour later, Geoff and Chef were done. So too were Katie, Sadie and Lindsay by the last half hour. That left Anne Maria for Team Blue, Brick for Team Green and Justin and Lightning for Team Red.
By the third hour, Brick raised his hand. His sheet was collected. Suddenly, a puff of smoke occurred and Chris appeared.
"Congratulations Team Green!" Chris announced. "You have won the Sudoku challenge! Your reward is…
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"…that you don't have to do your write-out!" Naturally, this infuriated the members of Team Red and Team Blue.
"This is unfair!" Heather protested. "We've been sitting here for three hours and we've all pissed our pants at one point!"
"Huh," said Chris, "no wonder why the mess hall stinks. But seriously, you could've just done that write-out while you were waiting, couldn't you?"
"I've done the write-out," said Harold.
"Good man, Harold," Chris smirked. "You are now the most hated camper on the island."
Everyone was glaring daggers at Harold. Harold shrugged and said: "Nah. They just don't want to admit that they are intimidated by my intelligence."
"Hey, it's your funeral," said Chris. "Anyway, onto Part 2 of the challenge!" he announced.
"WHAT?!" everyone shrieked in unison.
"What?! You'd really think I would just let you guys play Sudoku and leave it at that?" Chris chortled. "In your dreams! Besides, we have a problem here that we figured could make a decent challenge for you guys."
Noah rolled his eyes. "What's the problem then?" he asked, apathetically of course. Sadly, the bookworm and everyone else were in for a nasty surprise.
"NIIIIIINE! NIIIIIINE! NIIIIIINE! NIIIIIINE! NIIIIIINE! NIIIIIINE! NIIIIIINE! NIIIIIINE! NIIIIIINE!" sang an eerily, all-too-familiar voice. This sent tremors of shivers up the contestants' spines.
"Oh great!" Scott deadpanned. "Dr Nine is back with a vengeance!"
"You'd better believe it!" Chris smirked. "Trent escaped from the Playa and he's now running around the island. So that leaves us with our second part of the challenge.
"Your objective is to catch Trent and keep him restrained until we can bring him back to the Playa," Chris explained. "Not only do we have to catch him because, let's face it, a psychopath is on the loose, but also because Trent might wander into the restricted areas on the island. If he does that, then we can't catch him. And he might get arrested and put in a mental asylum for a long time. That would be bad, because Trent's number nine obsession brings the ratings."
"Of course," Sierra scowled. "All Trent is to you is a means of getting more ratings."
"Well yeah," Chris replied, having missed Sierra's sarcasm, "of course. If Trent was just a normal guy, I wouldn't give a shit if he wandered into the restricted zones."
"If Trent was just a normal guy," Jo cut in, "there would be one less maniac on the show, and the show would be more suitable for children."
"Yeah, but then the show would have less ratings," Chris insisted.
"Face it Jo," Sierra muttered. "Ethics mean nothing to Chris when it comes to profits and ratings."
"I heard that!" Chris growled. "Anyway, the team that captures Trent wins immunity. The other two teams will have to eliminate a contestant. I'm not punishing you guys. It's just that I can't have ten people alone on an island if Trent is among them. I don't need to tell you why."
"For once he's shown some human compassion," Gwen sneered.
"Right," said Chris. "The less lawsuits, the better."
"I take it back," Gwen groaned.
"So anyway," said Chris, "the challenge starts… NOW!"
Then all of a sudden, the lights went out. It was pitch black.
"Now hang on a second!" Harold snarled. "It's broad daylight! How could there be an absence of light when there are windows in the room?!" He received a nudge from Bridgette, effectively shutting the dweeb up.
(Video Diaries)
Bridgette – "Wasn't Harold supposed to be aware of the fact that this is a cartoon?" she asks, rhetorically.
Mike – "Harold is never going to survive a hostage situation if he keeps being technical," says Mike.
(End of Video Diaries)
Soon the lights went back on. Everyone is seen crouching under the tables. When they register that Trent is not in the building, they scramble out and stand up. That's when Chris noticed that the group was smaller. He did a headcount. He gasped.
"Okay, change of plan!" said Chris. "The team that captures Trent and rescues the nine hostages he's captured wins immunity. So anyway… STEP ON IT!" The remaining contestants did not need to be told twice. They scurried out of the mess hall in search of Trent and his nine hostages:
Alejandro, Anne Maria, B, Brick, Cody, Dawn, Heather, Justin and Noah.
Dun! Dun! Dun!
Trent has escaped! He's kidnapped nine campers! What is he going to do to them?! What will it take for the others to rescue them?! What are Trent's motives behind this?! Wait… don't answer. We all know at this point in time why Trent is doing what he's doing.
This is another two-part chapter. This is not because I'm rushing to have this chapter up before tomorrow (I will be busy tomorrow, so I won't have much time for updates though), but because this is the characters' ninth day on the island. I needed to leave you guys in suspense. Also, it's better if the ninth challenge is not set entirely within the tenth chapter. Damn, this is the shortest chapter so far! Anyway, the next chapter should be up within two weeks. I can guarantee it.
HOSTAGES: Alejandro, Anne Maria, B, Brick, Cody, Dawn, Heather, Justin and Noah.
PEOPLE IZZY SHAGGED: Blaineley, Justin, Scott, Harold, Noah, Chef, Brick, Lindsay, Trent, Anne Maria, Brady and a few RCMP cops and paramedics.
CONTESTANTS THAT HAVE KILLED AN INTERN: Courtney, Izzy, Trent, Brick, Owen and Eva.
Until next time!