"Well then let's get back on the yacht!" Courtney hollered. "Actually you can't." Chris said which made everyone giving him a perplexed look. "Um, may I ask why not?" She asked. "Because the yacht is a hologram, and so am I." Chris and the yacht faded a bit. Everyone gasped and were boggled by his insane ideas. "How are we supposed to get out of here?!" Samey screamed with panic. Cody tries to calm her down. "Easy, use those." Chris said pointing to the boats; one canoe, two rubber rafts, a rubber tube tied to one of the rafts, and a water ski. "There are GPS's in each one, just follow them to your destination and you'll be fine. Erin already took off in a water ski. "Erin! Wait up!" Jasmine said. Everyone else took off and grabbed a boat; Jasmine shares a raft with Shawn, Samey, Gwen, Sam, Zoey, and Mike got on rafts, Cody and Sky shared a canoe, and Courtney, Dave , and Max got the last raft but this one had a rubber tube attached to it. Max took the tube. "Start rowing minions!" He bellowed.
Everyone was already halfway from Wananakwa. As they row closer the island, the fog got thicker with each passing minute, filling the air with tension and fear. They arrived at the shore. Max found a recorder and pressed played.
"Hello competitors, guess what day it is? It's Merge Day, no Wolves, no Panthers, from now on each of you are on your own." Everyone immediately took off their headbands. Erin rolled her eyes not caring. "Awe, is little Erin sad because now she is alone?" Courtney said mocking her. Samey walked up to the mean CIT and says, "Shut it Courtney!" It made Courtney freeze a little.
~in the confessional~
"Samey looks so hot when she stands up to Courtney like that." Cody said commenting on Samey's aggressive side.
...
"Thank goodness it's Merge Day, but the others may still try to vote me off, all because I revealed that Erin is a few years younger. Sheesh, I don't see what the big deal is, they should be mad at her not me. Anyway, I was this close to going home last night. Of course I am sure Rodney won't vote me off, he is still nuts about me. Then there is Max, he probably supports my cunning, and Dave...well...he has no other choice, next to Samey and Cody, he is the weakest link. I have to stay in the game long enough to make it to the final two and I don't care what I have to do to get there. If aliens did exist I would trade Dave for a device that brainwashes the others to do my bidding; drop out of the competition, respect me...oh! Maybe make Mike brake up with Zoey against his will." Courtney said with a snicker.
~confessional ends~
"While you are on Boney Island, you guys are going to have a survival challenge. You need to go through this dangerous island and get to the other side using your GPS's. By the time you get to your destination we'll be there to pick you all up. First one to make it wins immunity and gets to vote someone off. McClain out."
"I have been meaning to ask you, if you win are you really going to burn the money?" "Yes." "Why?" "I'm only going to do it in front of Sky." "Dave, that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard, not to mention crazy." "But it's the only way to get back at Sky. Well...it was before I found out more about her and Keith. But still..." "Look, do you really wanna get back at Sky? Use the money to improve yourself." "Really?" "Yeah, you know update your wardrobe, change your attitude, and get some therapy to help you get over your issues. That way you'll get lots of girlfriends and post pics on your social page. Sky will see them and will regret ever underestimating you." "Wow, that's brilliant Courtney." "Once you and I get to the finals I'll let you win."
~in the confessional~
"Of course I am not helping him, even with the money he is still a major dork. I just need his vote to help me stay in the game. When the time comes I don't need him, probably around the final four or three, that's when I'll dump him. Depending if he survives this challenge." Courtney said.
~confessional ends~
"Quit your babbling and row!" Max yelled. Courtney and Dave grumbled as they continue to row. Meanwhile Erin was still ahead of the others, her facial expression hasn't changed since she challenged the robots to fight. She ignored Jasmine and the others calling out to her, even Zoey.
They arrived at a shore but it was too foggy to see what island they were on. As they got off their boats they see an arrow pointing to a path through an unusual thick wood so thick that you can't see the other trees. There was a note attached to the sign that said, "Your challenge is simple, hike through the woods. First one to make it to the other side wins."
The players followed the path until they reached what looks like an entrance. They all stepped inside and gasped, they found themselves in a twisted jungle environment. "Uh oh, I think I know where we are..." Gwen said but the entrance suddenly closed on them before Gwen could finish her sentence. "Psyche!" Chris said on the monitor a over the closed entrance. "What's going on McClain? I thought you said this was a survival challenge. Why lead us to this mutant zoo?" The miffed goth girl said glaring at the psychotic host. "That's only half true, yes you must make it to the other side but in order to do that you need to rescue Total Drama's songbird Ella, who is currently tied up and trapped in a tower." "And why may I ask?" Courtney asked. "Because after you untie Ella, she'll get up from the chair she was sitting on, which will activate a secret panel from the floor, press the red button and it releases sleeping gas that only effects mutants and activate the an exit door located on the other side of this habitat. First one to rescue Ella wins immunity." "How do you expect us to defend ourselves against mutant animals?" Cody asked. "That's what that blind treasure was about, you'll be protecting yourselves using those items you found on Wawanakwa. Duh." "How am I supposed to fight off mutants with a bowl?!" Courtney yelled angrily. Jasmine couldn't stand her attitude and the way she embarrassed Erin earlier. Suddenly Shawn's nose suddenly picked up something subtle from the bowl the former CIT was holding. "Hey Courtney, any particular reason why your bowl smells like a sewer swamp sundae?" Courtney gave Shawn a puzzled look until her nose picked up the scent, her face turned green and she threw up in her bowl a little. She slowly placed the barf filled bowl on a tree stump. Jasmine giggled lightly at what just happened. Her eyes noticed Mike shivering. "Mike? Are you alright mate? You're shaking like a dried up leaf on a windy day." "Mike is afraid of mutant gofers." Zoey answered on his behalf and the Australian girl responded, "Seriously? That scary Huh?" "Yeah." Mike said, terrified at the thought of running into them. Dave rolled his eyes.
There was a loud rustle in the bushes, one of Larry's children appeared, it snarled and drooled at them. Everyone except Dave were shocked by the site of it. "Yeah right, like mutants are real, they are probably just robots that look like mutants. Watch." He said as he patted it like a horse. The baby monster plant grabbed Dave using it's mouth. "You were saying Dave?" Chris asked rhetorically with a smirk. He muffled with panic which made the creature spit him out. Dave was freaked out by the slimy texture and smell of the plant monster's drool. "Ahhhhh!" He panicked more and ran around screaming for moist towelettes until Erin tripped him with her foot. He fell flat on his face. She grabbed Dave by the collar, pulled the traumatized teen up onto his feet, and slapped him. "Either grow a spine...or shut up!" He nodded with a whimper.
~in the confessional~
"I know the situation was stressful but that is no reason for Erin to yell at someone, even if it is Dave. Although he did sabotaged the Panther plane, nearly buried Sky alive with that Avalanche, and...actually on second thought he did deserve that." Zoey said.
~confessional ends~
"If I were you guys, I start planning on how to rescue Ella...like yesterday before more of those mutant animals come after you. Ready, set, and go!" Chris said and then blew his air horn. Erin took off on her own. "Wait, Erin!" "You heard Chris, it's every player for themselves." "But we need to work together, to save Ella and make sure Courtney doesn't get immunity." "I know, that's what I am doing. If I can take down a couple of malfunctioned robots I think I can handle this, or did you forget?" Erin said glaring at Jasmine. "Oh let her go Jasmine, after all she took those robots easy." Courtney said with a teasing tone. Jasmine glared at her and turned her gaze back to Erin. "Look Erin, I..." Another roar bellowed from deep within the jungle. A giant mutant chicken appeared from the trees, shrieking, and the others scattered all over the area in terror without realizing they were separated. Erin dashed off.
~in the confessional~
"Easy?! Courtney has no idea what I have been through!" Erin shouted out.
**flashback**
Erin rose up from the shallow muddy water and looked up, all she could see was a small light from above and around her was darkness. She spotted a medium sized tunnel and started to crawl into it. The smells of the earth and stinky water almost made Erin to lose her lunch. She finally reached toward the end and sees a spacious cavern. A light pierced from above revealing a way out and The Sword of Victory sitting on a pedestal like rock surrounded by fresh water sharks. At first she was going to chicken out but when all of those memories of her being teased, ignored, and humiliated ran through her mind, Erin became a whole new person. She dove into the water and took out the terrors of the deep, crawling out of the water and grabbed the sword, holding it up as the light gleamed in it, blinding the wounded sharks.
**flashback ends**
"When you mess with me, you awaken the beast." She glared at the camera.
~confessional ends~
Shawn stopped to catch his breath. "Phew, that was nuts, huh Jasmine. Jasmine?" He noticed his girlfriend was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly a mutant gofer emerged from the ground. The zombie Hunter screamed at the sight if it but managed to bop it on the nose and quickly climbed up a tree.
~in the confessional~
"Now I understand why Mike is scared of those gofers. They are like giant hairless, blind zombies!" Shawn said.
~confessional ends~
Jasmine woke up moaning when she realized she was in an underground tunnel. "What?! Awe man!" What made it worse is tunnels were mutant gofer sized. "How did I end up here?"
**flashback**
Jasmine was right behind Shawn after they ran away from that mutant chicken. She turned her head slightly to see if it was following but didn't notice the gofer sized and tripped, falling in there.
**flashback ends**
Jasmine face palmed herself after realizing it.
Zoey, Sky, Gwen, Dave, Cody and Sam end up at the swamp. "Oh man, this place stinks! I am so glad I wasn't picked for the first AllStars season." Cody said while holding his nose. Zoey looked around for Mike. "Oh no, we lost Mike!" "Dave go find Mike, and while you are at it go find the Samey, Shawn, and Jasmine. We need all the help we can get." Gwen ordered. "But wait...who will get immunity?" "Our lives are more important. Besides it doesn't matter who gets immunity as long as Courtney or Max don't get it." Dave sighed and walked off.
~in the confessional~
"I rather ride a dirty wild boar across a greasy mud pit on a rainy day than work with them." Dave said in a harsh tone.
~confessional ends~
"Faster! We have to get to the tower before the others show up." Courtney complained until she opened her eyes and noticed the carriage wasn't moving. She sees Max standing in the clearing with his eyes closed shut and holding two fingers from both hands up to his head. "What are you doing?!" "I am trying to mind meld with these mutant monsters, they'll make excellent henchmen." "You do realize the longer you stand there the more likely you'll get eaten?" "Nonsense! Once they sense my kindred spirit they will help me win the challenge!" A mutant squirrel appears. "You, tree crawler, I command you to obey me!" The squirrel's eyes glee red a fires lightening bolts out of it's eyes at a Max. His hair was singed. The squirrel roared which made Max run away screaming. Courtney sighed and said, "Forget this! I'll find way own way out." She hopped out of the carriage and walked off.
"Okay, in order to get out of this crazy place alive we need a game plan to rescue Ella." Gwen said and looked at the others for any ideas or suggestions when Sam spoke, "If I know my video games, the tower she's trapped in is heavily guarded." "What makes you say that?" Sky asked with a raised eyebrow. "Ask Larry." Zoey says pointing to a giant mutant Venus flytrap, wrapping it's vines around the tower. "Okay, that is scary." The nervous gymnast said.
Erin continued to storm through the jungle, hacking through vines, branches and huge leave that were in her way. "I'll show them." She said under her breath. Her feet accidentally stepped into quicksand. "Oh no! Oh no! Help!" The young sword wielding prodigy yelled out but no one answered. "Not again!" She said crying, thus time there was no escape. All Erin could do was think back to those days when she was young, practicing a lot, watching Total Drama, remembering how Zoey changed between seasons, and the stiff she has been going through this past season. She was up to her neck in quicksand when someone grabbed and pulled her out by her shoulders. Erin gasped, feeling relived to be free. She looked up and her rescuer was Samey. "Samey? How did you..?" "I followed from the distance, but then I lost you fir a bit until I heard you calling for help." She explained and saw Erin's face become extra melancholy. "Erin, Jasmine told me why you were upset and she's sorry for calling you a kid. She didn't mean it." "I know. I realized that now, it's just...I am so embarrassed about how I was acting earlier. I'm afraid they won't like me anymore." "That's not true and besides it's never too late to apologize." Samey smiled at Erin sweetly. The young contestant smiled back.
"Where's Dave?" Sam asked, it has been about thirty minutes since Dave left. "He's probably lost." Sky said with an annoyed tone. "This is taking too long let's start the plan anyway. Everyone get into your positions." Gwen said. They scattered to various spots around Larry, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. "You know Zoey, now that the teams have been disbanded, you don't have to hold back right?" "I do." "And so will Mike. Maybe just incase, you and I should form an alliance." "Sky, I understand your concern but Mike and I have talked about it before; if we were on different teams or when the teams disband we promise each other that neither of us would hold back and play fair." Sky took a minute to absorb what Zoey just said. "Wow...that's so...incredibly mature of you two."
~in the confessional~
"Honestly, I really wanted to say she is ridiculous!" Sky yelled out.
~confessional ends~
Mike pants searching for Zoey when he found Dave lurking around. "Dave? Are you okay?" "Yes I am! Why wouldn't I?!" "She's she I was just asking...whoa!" Mike sees a nasty bump on Dave's head. "Dude your head, we should tell Chris when this challenge is over." Dave eyes widened, thinking that Chris will automatically send him home which means he'll be out of the game, and then narrowed with fury. He pulled out one of the tranquilizer balls and aimed it at him. Mike backed away with caution. "What are you doing?" "If anyone is going to win immunity it's me! I need it more than you!" Dave yelled. "Dave calm down." Mike said... "You calm down!" Dave uses his tranquil balls to knock him out. Mike didn't have enough time to dodge and got hit, starting to feel numb and sleepy, and fell backward into the gofer hole. He suddenly heard Shawn calling out. "Mike!" Dave quickly hid himself before he showed up. Shawn followed Mike into the hole to rescue him. Dave came out of his hiding spot and sighed with relief as he leaned on a tree. The tree started to fall forward and blocked the hole, turns out it's roots were rotten. He walked away whistling nonchalant.
~in the confessional~
"What? One of them was was going to get voted off anyway. Might as well be now. Besides I am not going home on merge day again." Dave said. Then he got a splitting headache. "Ow."
~confessional ends~
Jasmine was still searching for a way out when she saw an unconscious Mike and her boyfriend about to get eaten by a mutant gofer. The spelunking creature slowly unhinged it's jaw. She ran up and punches it in the nose. "Take that you overgrown dirt eating rodent!" The mutant gofer ran away screeching. "Jasmine!" Shawn hugged her. "Thank goodness you are okay!" "I'm fine, but what happened to Mike?" "I don't know I was climbing from tree to tree when I saw him falling backward in that hole." He pointed to the hole which is now blocked. She took a closer look at Mike's face and sees some pink residue. "I smell a rat." Jasmine said as she picked Mike up and carried him on her shoulder. "Come on, we better find another way out."
Meanwhile, Gwen gave the signal to the others to distract Larry long enough for one of them to climb the tower and save Ella. "Charge!" Un fortunately Larry was not alone, her children appeared out if no where to protect her. The players retreated to a safe distance away from the hideous monsters. "Awe man! It didn't work!" Cody said. "No worries." Dave said as he walked out of the bushes with a confident look on his face. "Dave? Where are the others? Where's Mike?" "Oh I don't know about the others but as a for Mike...I suggest you move on." Zoey begins to tear up. "No! It can't be!" "Yeah, sorry about that, but lucky for you all I am here to save you with these." He held up his tranquil ball pouch and slingshot. "All I have to do is launch some of these tranquil balls at the plants, they fall asleep long enough for me to go up the tower, rescue the lovely Ella, and press the button to end the game. Any questions?" Sam raised his hand and answered, "Um...what tranquil balls?" Dave looked at his hands noticing his stuff was gone. A drop of water splashed on him from above but when Dave looked up it was really saliva from one of Larry's kids, it had his tools and threw them away. Dave gulped and said, "Oh no."
Up in a tree, Samey and Erin grabbed a vine. The cheerleader looked at her and asked, "Ready?" "Ready." They swung at the same time over the others and Larry's kids. Samey poured the vomit from Courtney's sundae bowl into Larry's mouth, the monstrous plant got sick and passed out. The mutant plant sibling carried their mom somewhere else to get healthy. The two courageous girls were able to swing into the tower through the window with ease. "You have got to be kidding me." Courtney said after she showed up. The others, except Courtney and Dave, cheered. Erin cut the rope with her sword while Samey removed the gag from Ella's mouth. The songbird happily gasped with a smile and said, "Oh thank you so much." She got up from her chair and the panel rose up from the floor knocking it over. Erin and Samey smiled at each other and pressed the button at the same time. The gas was released everyone putting the mutants to sleep and the exit door on the other side of the habitat was opened. "Samey and Erin have won immunity, everyone out of the mutant pool and report to the beach on the other side of the island to get picked up." Chris announced on the speaker.
All of the players headed for the exit. Dave comforts Zoey. "It will be okay Zoey." "No it won't." "Well, maybe now you can start over. Maybe with a guy who is normal and good looking, someone like..." They see Jasmine climbing out of the hole near the exit with Mike and Shawn. "Mike!" Zoey exclaimed feeling relieved that her boyfriend is okay but at the same time was concerned when she saw him out cold. She over to them and Dave snuck away with panic. "He's fine mate, don't worry." Jasmine said to the worried redhead indie chick. Zoey sighed with relief. "Listen Zoey, there is something you should know." Shawn said. "Hey! Pick up the pace people! The sooner you get to the yacht, the sooner you start to decide who is going home!" Chris said.
Later that night after everyone got back to the mainland for the elimination ceremony. Jasmine sat next to Erin. "Hey Erin." "Hey Jasmine." "About before..." "It's okay, I forgive you. Can you forgive me?" "Of course mate." Chrus appears with a plate of marshmallows. "Wow, what an exciting day. Now I have one more piece of news; we ran out of hackie sacks so we'll be going back to the marshmallow system. Samey and Erin have both won immunity for saving Ella, so...the first two go to them." Chris throws the first two marshmallows to them, the two lucky girls high five each other. "The rest of you are safe; Cody, Jasmine, Sam, Shawn, Sky, Gwen, Zoey, Mike, and Courtney." Everyone got their marshmallows except Max and Dave. "Max, Dave, you dudes are on thin ice. Max, you attempted to mentally connect with some of the mutant wild life and failed. Even if you did you will not be as evil as Dave here." The once clean and tidy Dave became stiff with tension. "Looks like the last marshmallow goes to...Max." "What?! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" Dave screamed, feeling like robbed when it reality he did it to himself again. "Any final words Dave?" "Yeah! I hope Total Drama gets cancelled! I hope Mike and Zoey's and everyone's relationship gets permanently severed! And I think all of you are freaks! Just be normal! Normal is good, normal is better than being whatever you all are, normal is..." Dave noticed he was already on the road. "Of course." He said with a sigh of defeat and sat down, but then he felt a sharp pain in his head. "Ye-ow!"
"Hm, I wonder what he was mumbling about. Oh well, who cares. Only twelve players to go. Come back next time on Total Drama Road Warriors!" Chris said.