Author's Note: A new week, A new chapter. This episode took some heavy thinking, but I think I managed something good. Also, the plan is to see two chapters a week starting next week for the foreseeable future. So look forward to that I guess.
Disclaimer: I don't own Total Drama, the shuffled concept or the (most of) the characters.
And now, the reviews!
That British Guy: It'll certainly be a factor. As usual, sorry to boot one of your favorites.
mattafat: Not quite yet. One more after this, and then the merge.
Piecesxoxo: Those two do make the most sense for him to go after, luckily for Kitsune, he didn't have the votes. Glad you understand, sometimes I feel like things only make sense in my crazy mind.
Guest: Sorry to boot your favorite, I still have to get used to the fact that people like my OC's. I'll be honest, I never pictured Victor in that episode, but now I can see where you would. I can't comment on the video just yet, but it will at least make sense unlike the canon version. And to answer your question, I just didn't feel like it was working, but I had another look and I'll get back to it once this season is over.
Derick Lindsey: Again, surpirsed at the thought of him making it that far, but now that it's been pointed out, I see it. To answer your question, I do plan on bringing him back but not as a mole.
Currernt Castmates:
Screaming Gaffers: DJ, Duncan, Leshawna, Sammy
Killer Grips: Alejandro, Heather, Kitsune, Sugar
But no one's going home this week. Period.
Episode 14: One Million Bucks BC
"Last time on Total Drama Action!" Chris's voice said over a shot of the film lot. "Kitsune subtly hinted that Sugar isn't to be trusted," the goofball was shown looking at her female teammates slyly. "But all revelations were put on hold when she and Leshawna were locked up in safes."
"The Grips wasted a lot of time," the team was shown during their various attempts to open the safe, "and Kitsune eventually freed herself," the goofball was seen unscrewing a vent with her headband.
"And despite Samey's arguments," the nice twin was shown trying to get her team to get along, "DJ and Duncan left Leshawna in her safe to rot," the Gaffers were seen leaving the safe and Leshawna was seen panicking inside.
"The Gaffers then got the shock of their lives when they were faced with none other than," Duncan was shown talking to the bank teller, "Alejandro!" The charmer was shown revealing himself, as was the Gaffer's reaction. "Who thanks to his lawyer, is back in the running," his many arguments with Kitsune were shown.
"The Grips lost," their go-kart was shown losing it's wheels. "And due to a small technicality," Victor and Kitsune were shown waiting for the final statue, "Heather and Sugar were able to boot Victor," the gentleman was shown bowing to his team.
The recap ended and portraits of the remaining cast was shown: Kitsune, Heather, Sugar, and Alejandro on top; and DJ, Sammy, Duncan, and Leshawna on the bottom. "With only eight contestants left," Chris popped up in front of the portraits, "maybe one of them will stand a chance. On another awe-inspiring episode, of Total! Drama! Action!"
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[A stage light pops up in front of some fake buildings and turns on; a camera with a rat on top of it comes out of a manhole; another camera comes out of the hollow of a tree, along with some garbage and a very confused raccoon. A pair of hands claps a film slate in front of the camera, and the camera flies through the film lot; Chris drives a golf cart with Chef in the passenger side in the camera's path. The host grins and waves and the cook crosses his arms and scowls as the lyrics start]
Dear Mom and Dad I'm doing fine
[The camera passes through a tree and files down a road between the studio warehouses, dodging a farm backdrop and a sunset backdrop before flying through a costume rack]
You guys are on my mind
[The camera flies up the fake mountain and peeks over the edge to see a pool of water, then jumps in]
You asked me what I wanted to be
[As the camera lands in the pool, bubbles fill the screen and then disapate to show Sugar in her bikini with a large shark behind her. The pageant queen farts as the shark opens its mouth, then it chokes]
And I think the answer is plain to see
[The camera pans up to show Harold on a surfboard hooked up to some rigging. He tries to dodge seagulls that are shooting past him like bullets, only to take one to the face and be knocked in the water.]
I wanna be... famous
[The camera quick pans to the left, showing Duncan manning what can only be described as a seagull cannon with a sadistic grin on his face. The camera pans back to show Sky looking at the punk with contempt as he fires the rest of the gulls. The camera flies between them, then pauses in front of a large door as Sasquatchanawkwa runs across it in a pink dress and boa The door opens and the camera flies into a bright light.]
I wanna live close to the sun
[The light fades into a shot of the beach set where Leshawna sits on a pool chair. She is flanked with sharks in their own chairs The camera zooms in on Leshawna as she gives a huge smile.]
Well pack your bags 'cause I've already won
[The camera pans to the right and ending up on Noah in the confessional reading a book with a smug expression pn his face and his legs propped up on the table. He leans back and goes too far as he falls backwards.]
Everything to prove, nothing in my way
I'll get there one day
[The camera quick pans to the right again to show Heather and a bald and camo cap wearing Alejandro on rock pillars against a dark backdrop. The two have dueling sticks, Heather's is blue and Alejandro's is orange. Alejandro hits Heather a few times and she responds with a jab to his face, his cap falls off and the camera quick pans down to show the hat falling perfectly on DJ's head.]
'Cause I wanna be... famous
[The camera zooms out a bit to show DJ stirring a metal pot with a smile on his face. He pulls out a small orange bottle and sprinkles something in the pot, takes out a spoon and offers it to someone off-screen; the camera zooms out more to show he was offering it to Sammy, who giggles and kisses him on the cheek. The camera pans out to show Amy watching the scene on one of two monitors in another room with a look of disgust on her face. She angrily presses a button and is surprised when an explosion rocks the other screen.]
(Na nananana nanananana nananananana)
[The camera cuts to the explosion as it fades away revealing a slightly singed Shawn nervously looking around... only to scream and run away to the right past a zombie in familliar clothing. The zombie reveals itself to be Kitsune, who giggles to herself as he runs past. The camera follows him as he runs past the Lame-o-sine then stops at the vehicle.]
I wanna be! I wanna be! I wanna be famous (Na nananana nanananana nananananana)
I wanna be! I wanna be! I wanna be famous (Na nananana nanananana nananananana)
[The camera zooms in on the limousine's window, which rolls down to show a smiling Mike and Zoey. The window behind them rolls down to show Victor smiling at the couple. He opens the door with an formal bow. The camera flies past a series of flashes as if it were going down the red carpet and stops at Chris in a blue tux on the amphitheatre. The host grins and opens an evelope, then looks over at a scowling dress-wearing Chef as he holds a tray of Guilded Chris's. Chris purses his lips and gives a look to the camera. The camera zooms out to show the scene was being watched on a monitor, then pans down to Gwen and Trent, the latter strumming the last few notes of the theme on his guitar.
The camera zooms out to show the non competitors on the center couch of what looked to be the set of a talk show, flanked by two double tiered couches. On the top left: Noah, Sammy, DJ, and Tyler. On the bottom left: Zoey, Mike, Leshawna, Harold, Duncan, and Kitsune. On the top right: Staci, Malcolm, Victor, Sky, and Alejandro. And on the bottom right: Scarlett, Sugar, Shawn, Amy and Heather. The feed on the monitor fizzles out and changes to the Total Drama Action logo]
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The episode began with a shot of birds flying across the sky before the camera panned down to the trailers. "I'm so glad to finally get rid of this boot," Kitsune gushed as the camera zoomed in on the girls' trailer before cutting to the inside.
Heather was applying make-up in the mirror, Sammy sat on a bottom bunk next to the fox lover as she undid the ungodly amount of Velcro straps on her boot, and Sugar stood in the middle of the room brushing her hair. "I still can't believe Alejandro's back in the game," Sammy said.
"The dude lawyered up," Leshawna said as she walked over to the mirror. "I ought ta try it. Get me the big bucks for bein' locked up in that safe all day," she said with a pointed glare at Sammy.
"I tried to get them to stay!" Sammy defended.
"Not hard enough," Leshawna accused. "I could've starved in there!"
"I said I was sorry!" Sammy yelled back.
"You ladies keep fighting each other," Heather said smugly as she finished her make-up. "It'll make it easier for me to win."
"You mean the Grips right?" Kitsune asked.
"Yeah, aren't you like the new team captain now that Victor's gone?" Sammy asked curiously.
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"Technically I am," Kitsune answered in the confessional. "But when you're on the same team as Heather, Sugar, and Ale-bald-bro, you tend to not want to advertise that kind of stuff. I know If I wanna stay in the game I need to be extra useful. It's another reason I'm glad to finally be rid of that boot."
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"I don't think we need a leader," the goofball answered diplomatically. "We're a team and we should work together."
"Not a bad idea," Leshawna agreed. "With Alejandro on your team y'all do need to stick together."
"He ain't too bad lookin' though," Sugar thought aloud. Heather stomped on her foot. "What? I ain't goin' after him! He's all yours." She stomped on her foot again. "Ow!"
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"For the record I am not into Alejandro," Heather told the confessional. "I may have mentioned that I find him attractive during a sleepover at the Playa last year and now everybody's still bringing it up."
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The shot cut to the inside of the guys' trailer and DJ brushing his hair in the mirror before putting on his trademark cap.
"I'll never understand how you can spend so much time getting ready for Sammy," Duncan told him.
"It's called makin' an impression," DJ replied with a chuckle. "You might wanna try it sometime."
"Foxy and me are fine," the punk waved off.
"When was the last time you really got to talk to her?" DJ asked.
"Don't know if you've noticed, but we on separate teams," the punk answered. "So we can do that when the merge hits."
"Assuming she makes it with Heather and Alejandro to deal with," the brickhouse commented.
"She's tougher than she looks," Duncan said with a dreamy tone. "Look how on top of things she's been even with her foot messed up."
A door opened and the two boys' attention was caught by Alejandro entering the trailer in nothing but a towel. "Good morning gentleman," he said to his roommates.
"Didn't you cause the gentleman to get sent home?" Duncan asked with an inquisitive tone.
"My vote was for Kitsune," the charmer replied.
"That's not gonna win you any points with me dude," the punk said. Alejandro rolled his eyes and DJ turned back to the mirror.
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"And with one last strap," Kitsune said as the camera cut back to the girls' trailer. "I... am... free!" She stood up after unstrapping the last strap.
"There's like, no way you can be kicked off now!" Sammy cheered.
Kitsune gave a wary look to her teammates. "I wouldn't be so sure," she muttered under her breath. A loud and deep sound shook the camera.
"What was that?" Leshawna asked in a slight panic.
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The camera cut to laughing Chris, dressed in a leopard-print full-body loincloth and holding the on to a massive curved horn that looked like it was made of shell or bone. He caressed the horn at the end of his laugh, and sighed happily.
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The footage skipped ahead to the cast lined up by gender; Duncan, Alejandro, DJ, Heather, Leshawna, Sugar, Sammy, and Kitsune.
"What a fashion faux paw," Kitsune joked.
"Is that boy wearin' a loincloth?" Leshawna asked in disbelief.
"Lllllike it?" The host asked, gesturing to himself.
"No," DJ said trying to avert his eyes. "That's just horrorfyin'."
"You think that's horrorfying?" Chris asked with an offended frown, "Wait 'til you get a load of today's challenges. Now, let's get started."
"Yo Chris!" Chef's voice called out. The host turned and looked as the cook, dressed in his own loincloth but still with the hat, walked on screen and handed him a book. "Don't forget the legal stuff."
"Fine," the host sighed. "Let's get this over with. In light of the various lawsuits," he started with a glare toward Alejandro, "injuries, and cheating, the producers feel the need to take care of a few... formalities."
"Such as?" Duncan asked.
Chris opened the book and began to read, "The potentially game-ending injury received by one Faith Gamble was given to said contestant by one Chef Hatchet while said staff member was in an illegal alliance with one Devon Joseph Powell. As such, the collective producers of Total Drama Action have seen it fit to reward the injured contestant, previously identified as Faith Gamble, with a settlement of twenty-five thousand dollars in the event that she exit the competition without winning it."
The fox lover groaned. "Did you have to use my real name?"
"Sorry, no nicknames allowed in legal jargon," Chris said unapologetically.
DJ whistled. "Man, she scored big."
"I'll get to you in a minute," Chris threatened. He cleared his throat and began to read again. "The Total Drama Action contestant known as Devon Joseph Powell has publicly admitted to entering an illegal alliance with Chef Hatchet. This resulted in the previously named staff member to attempt several times to give an unfair advantage to the contestant. As the producers can find no evidence that the contestant was a willing participant in the cheating attempts, he will not be disqualified from the competition. However as punishment for willingly entering the alliance, he must work in the Total Drama Action kitchen to cook and serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner every other day."
"Better than gettin' kicked off," DJ shrugged.
"And finally," Chris said before reading some more. "The contestant known as Alejandro Burromeurto will receive the following benefits upon his entry into the game: Complete immunity from elimination upon his first Guilded Chris Ceremony back, a one-time gourmet dining experience with the host and producers that he may extend to his teammates if he so desires, and a once-a-day allowance to a personal digital assistance barring any communication that would break the non-disclosure agreement that was signed prior to entry into the competition."
"That doesn't seem too unfair," Sammy said unsurely.
"Trust me, it could have gone a lot better for him," Chris commented. "Is that everying legal wanted to mention?" He asked Chef. The cook nodded.
"Your real name is Faith Gamble?" Heather asked Kitsune.
"Yes and before you ask, I am related to that Jacob Gamble," the goofball said sadly.
"You mean the on that was married to-" Leshawna started to ask.
"The Boyfriend Strangler," the fox lover answered. "My birth mother."
The cast, except for Duncan, gasped.
"So you're just as big a liar as you accused me of being," Alejandro said smuggly.
"I never lied!" Kitsune cried indignantly. "I just... never mentioned it," she added softly.
"Never mentioned that your mother's a serial killer," Heather retorted. "Don't you think we had a right to know that?"
"You needn't worry," Alejandro told the queen bee. "The only person here in any danger is Duncan."
Sammy, who had been getting angrier the more she heard, finally snapped. "Hey leave her alone!" The cast looked at her in surprise.
"Sammy," the goofball said pitifully, "it's ok."
"No it's not! So what if your birth mom's a killer? You've been nothing but nice to us the entire time we've known you! And if this is how people treat you when they find out, then I get why you kept it hidden."
"As much as I'm loving this," Chris interrupted flatly. "It's time to bring out your more primal instincts. Today's genre? The Period Movie!"
"The what?" Sugar asked in confusion.
"Period movies," DJ answered. "You know, movies set in a certain time period."
"They're usually based on the American Civil War," Sammy continued
"Oh! why didn't you just Civil War movie?" Sugar said.
"Because today," Chris answered, "we're doing the Paleolithic Period. Something I thought you dumb-dumbs would've guessed from my... loincloth," he gestured to the garment again.
"Paleo-litmus?" Sugar asked. "What the heck does that mean?"
"Paleolithic," Alejandro corrected. "Cavemen," he clarified.
"No talking," Chris sushed them. "Cave people just grunt and look confused. So for once, you're all perfectly cast."
"Some of us more than others," Heather muttered under her breath.
"Okay," the host explained, "cave people in prehistoric flicks do two things; make fire and use tools made of bone. Technically, you also need to know how to bring down a mammoth. But it's crazy expensive to get one of those, so we'll skip it."
He walked over to a costume rack holding various loincloths. "Here are your costumes. Get into character people."
"You gotta be kidding," Duncan said with wide eyes.
"I never kid," the host replied seriously, then laughed. "Okay, I do, but never about something this funny."
"At least I've got the hottest cave girl in the jungle," the punk said to his girlfriend in an attempt to flirt.
Kitsune just groaned and walked away, leaving a confused Duncan.
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The camera flashed to a set decorated with strange trees with purple leaves and littered with rock spires before cutting to a close up of the host. "Hello cast," he greeted deviously. "Nice to see to see you all decked out for the competition."
The camera pulled back to show the cast dressed in their costumes; DJ and Alejandro wearing what could only be described as fur speedos, Leshawna, Sugar, and Duncan wearing full body loincloths, and Heather, Kitsune, and Sammy in fur bikinis, the goofball without her usual headband and belt and DJ without his cap.
"And might I add," the host continued, "you all look pre-hysterical!"
"I am not comfortable with this," DJ said.
"Me either," Sammy said rubbing her backside where something white was sticking out. "But that might be because of the claw in mine."
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The footage cut to the host in the control room. "Please note," he calmly told the camera, "no animals were harmed in the making of this television program. Okay," he scowled and looked off-camera, "we good?"
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"I'll get it," DJ said, picking at the offending piece. Sammy blushed.
"Chef!" Chris called in an overdramatic manner. "The tools for the first Stone Age challenge, please!"
"Here's your rocks," the cook man announced, joylessly handing out a single rock to each cast mate from the pile he was carrying. Leshawna accepted hers with a blank face and immediately started to look closely at it, and Kitsune did the same but with more enthusiasm. Duncan was last to be shown, and immediately raised an eyebrow at the stone in his hand.
"Rocks?" The punk asked. "Aren't we taking this Stone Age thing a little too literally?"
"Stones were the main thing used by cave people," Kitsune told her boyfriend in an annoyed voice. "Kinda why it's called the Stone Age."
"Okay, what's you deal?" Duncan asked with annoyance of his own.
"The fact that you don't know!" Kitsune yelled and stormed off, leaving Duncan with a mixture of confusion and annoyance.
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(Commercial Break)
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The episode returned to a long-distance shot of the film lot, then cut back to Chris as he explained the first challenge. "First team to collect the hidden firewood," he told them, "and use the flint-stones to make fire, earns something to help 'em with the second challenge! Ready? Aaand, action!"
The Grips looked startled for a moment, but quickly scattered.
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The scene skipped ahead to Sugar pulling a stack of wood from behind a bush as Kitsune ran past. Alejandro walked on screen and looked around before pointing to the right and started off. But before he could go, he was grabbed by Chef by the neck and litfed up.
The charmer gasped in surprise. "If it's all the same to you, I'd rather leave some things to the imagination."
"Hand it over," a bored sounding Chef told him.
"I don't anything to hide," the charmer told him, "or anywhere to hide it," he gestured to his outfit.
"Look kid, we gotta a tip that you smuggled somethin' into the challenge," Chef said. He opened his mouth to sy something else, but was distracted by Kitsune's scream.
"Evil beavers!" The wood carrying-goofball screamed as she was chased past the two by a woolly beaver.
Chris walked on screen with a laugh. "Looks like Kitsune stumbled onto the set of Rodents Who Kill!" He said.
The goofball was chased back past them and dropped a piece of wood, this time by two beavers.
"And Rodents Who Kill Part Two," Chef added with a chuckle.
"A little help please!" Kitsune yelled from off-screen.
"Those beavers are animotronic right?" Alejandro asked with a hint of concern.
"If that makes you feel better," Chris answered nervously.
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"As much as Al and I hate each other," Kitsune confessed while covered in scratches and her right arm being bandaged by an unseen intern, "we both want to win. So as tempting as it probably was to let me get eaten by those beavers, I knew he'd save me. If for no other reason than to keep us from losing."
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"Don't just stand there," the fox lover shouted at Alejandro, who was now by himself, "help me!"
Alejandro pursed his lips and rolled his eyes, then picked up the piece of wood Kitsune had dropped earlier. He threw it at one of the beavers, landing it on its head and causing it to skid to a sudden and startled halt. The second beaver ran into the first. The two rodents noticed the lone piece of wood, then began to fight over it as a relieved Kitsune joined her teammate.
"Finally!" she admonished the charmer. "Couldn't you have done that earlier?"
"Yes," Alejandro said simply, grabbing the wood out of Kitsune's arms and walking off. "But I have to get my fun somewhere." He left an annoyed Kitsune in his wake.
A growling alerted her to that the killer beavers had ceased fighting, and the goofball began to run and scream away from them again.
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The scene skipped ahead to the four Grips around an unlit bonfire. "How the heck are we supposed to start a fire with these?" Sugar asked while holding up her rocks.
"Let me do it," Kitsune said as she grabbed them. "I was a Junior Lady Ranger in grade school."
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"I was," the goofball clarified, "until I was kicked out for all the bad press my birth mother brought."
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"I'll have this done faster than you can say antidisestablishmentarianism," she said as she banged the rocks together.
The camera moved over to the Gaffers, where Duncan was watching. "What's goin' on with her?" He wondered as he absentmindedly struck his rocks together. "She's all smiles and laughs, but when I try to talk to her, she gets all bent outta shape?"
Leshawna and Sammy, who have heard much of his girlfriend's complaints, just shared a look and shook their heads.
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"I've been tryin' to help him," DJ admitted. But the brotha just don't listen. Ironically what got him into this mess."
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"Normally Foxy drives me crazy," Duncan confessed in a dreamy tone. "But today she's been driving me crazy!" He said in exasperation.
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"I smell weakness," Heather sang in the confessional. "Now which one is the easier mark?"
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"Things are finally heating up!" Chris announced happily before the focus moved back to the Grips.
"C'mon, you can do it!" DJ cheered as Duncan struck his rocks together with a glare, producing a few tiny sparks. The camera panned over to the Grips, showing Kitsune striking her rocks and returning Duncan's glare.
"I love it when sparks fly!" the host told the camera.
The focus alternated between Duncan and Kitsune as they banged their stones and glared at each other, the close-ups getting closer with each pass. Eventually, Duncan tossed his rocks aside and grabbed a lighter from his loincloth. The camera cut to Kitsune as she was startled by the sound of a fire starting.
The camera cut to the cheering Gaffers. Duncan turned to his grilfriend and bragged, "I make fire!" He then grunted a couple of times and beat his chest.
Kitsune growled in anger, then struck her rocks together one last time which finally lit the firewood.
"Impressive moves Kitsune," Chris's voice said as the goofball glared off screen. "But there's no prize for second place. Gaffers win the first challenge!"
"Way to make us lose Kitsune!" Sugar accused.
"What happened to 'I'll get this fire started'?" Heather asked.
"I guess the Junior Lady Rangers never covered fire building," Alejsnro added with a smirk.
Kitsune growled in frustration and stormed off.
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The film lot was shown from a distance again as the same loud and deep horn blared. The shot cut to Chris standing with the massive instrument, grinning proudly. "Yup!" he told the camera. "Still lovin' this crazy thing!"
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The footage skipped ahead to the contestants lined up with their back to a bubbling tar pit. "Time for our second caveman movie challenge!" the host announced as he walked into view. "But first, Chef will pass out your rewards from this morning. Chef?" he called out. "Weapons, please!"
The camera cut to Chef next to a fur blanket over something. He pulled the blanket off to show a large pile of bones.
"Ex-cuuse me? Our reward is bones?" Leshawna asked in disbelief.
"For cave people bones were cutting edge technology," Chris told her as Chef handed tiny bones to the Gaffers. "And, they're not your reward," he added as the cook handed large bones to the Grips much to Duncan's shock.
"Hey what gives?" He demanded. "We won the challenge. I made fire."
"Actually, you didn't," the host replied. "We reviewed the footage caught on camera, you made fire with a lighter, which is not a Stone Age tool. Which means that Kitsune made fire first, and won the challenge."
Heather, Alejandro, and Sugar all cheered at the victory, but Kitsune just sent a hateful glare to her boyfriend.
"You cheated?!" She asked. "How could you?!"
"Come on Foxy," he defended, "it doesn't really matter in the long run."
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"Doesn't matter?!" The goofball asked incredulously. "Does he not realize how close I am to being kicked off? Does he not care?!"
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Chris cleared his throat, hands on his hips and visibly annoyed. "The props department for caveman movies are bare-bones," he informed them, holding up a small bone. "Which means these are all actors have to fight their on-screen enemies with."
"And who might these enemies be?" Leshawna asked.
"Each other!" Chris announced jovially. "Grip tribe verses Gaffer tribe."
"Cool," Duncan said giving his bone a few swings. "We have to fight each other with bones?" He asked, only to get hit in the back of the head by Kitsune's bone.
"Lovin' the enthusiasm, Kitsune," Chris told them, "only you'll be fighting over there!" He pointed to the bubbling tar pit behind them, and the camera panned over to a pair of rough stone pillars standing in the middle of the tar pit.
"Each player that knocks his or her opponent off the column into that fake bubbling tar pit," he explained as the camera cut to a close-up of the pit, "scores a point for their team." The shot cut back to the grinning host as he dramatically proclaimed "To the tar pits!"
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Leshawna and Sugar were the first to fight, the pageant queen on the left smiling happily to the somewhat annoyed sista on the right.
"I'm supposed to knock her off with this teensy weensy little bone?" Leshawna asked in disbelief as she examined her weapon.
"How do we know when to start hittin' each other?" Sugar asked.
"Oh don't worry," Chris answered with a dark smile, "you'll know!" He laughed a few times, then took a deep breath and blew hard into his massive curved horn.
The booming noise startled the two contestants, causing each to nearly lose their balance. As Leshawna tried to regain her balance, she accidentally bumped into Sugar. Already unsteady, that was all it took for her to fall backwards off the column and plunge screaming into the tar below.
The camera cut to the cheering Gaffers before cutting to Leshawna on the platform, having regained her balance.
"See, now that was just way too easy," she bragged.
"That's one point for the Gaffers!" Chris said from off-screen, and the shot cut to Sugar as she pulled herself out of the pit.
"That was seriously pathetic," Heather told the tar covered girl.
"You could have at least tried to stay on the platform," Alejandro added.
"Next up," Chris said as he walked over to the villains, "Heather and Samey."
"You might as well give me the point now," Heather bragged with crossed arms. Sammy opened her mouth to say something, but was cut off by a loud screech from above.
The camera cut to the sky to show numerous prehistoric geese from the first season flying around.
"Uh-oh," Chris said, "looks like Sugar's blood-curdling screams have attracted a swarm of prehistoric pterodactyls! This," he said as the camera switched back to him, "should make things interesting!"
"Wow!" Sugar cried, clearly impressed. "Those things look so real!"
"Yeah," Chris said while quickly backing away from the pageant queen, "they just look real."
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The footage skipped ahead to the next challenge. The geese were still flying around and the camera panned to the left to show Sammy staring it down.
"If you think I'm gonna like, make this easy on you," she said. "You're wrong!"
One of the geese stopped flying to observe the match, then narrowed its eyes before diving. The camera cut to the two girls as they waited for the signal to start. The goose rammed into Sammy's back, knocking her into Heather and the resulting momentum sending them both off the platform and into the tar.
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"Ugh!" Heather groaned, completely covered in tar. "I can't believe I was knocked off by that weak little-" she groaned again. "At least it wasn't a loss. Of course it wasn't a win either."
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The two girls were shown splashing into the tar and quickly surfacing, the rest of the Grips smirking at the tar covered queen bee.
"What. Is this?" Heather asked, holding up a small leopard skin cloth.
Sammy looked down with wide eyes and then squeaked. "That's mine!" She yelled as she snatched the cloth back.
"And with that tie," Chris said, ducking into the shot with a grin on his face, "the score is still 1-0 to the Gaffers. Next up, Alejandro and DJ!"
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The scene cut ahead to the boys' fight. As always, the Grip was on the left and the Gaffer on the right.
"Don't expect me to fall as easily as my teammates," Alejandro warned.
"And don't expect me to go down quick either," DJ replied with a smirk.
Alejandro pursed his lips and as the horn was sounded, signaling the start of the fight. Alejandro immediately took a swipe at DJ, but the brickhouse ducked tried to return with a swipe of his own. The charmer smirked as he side stepped the blow and readied another attack, but before he could a grunting noise got the attention of both competitors.
A pair of woolly beavers had arrived at the edge of the tar pit. The shot cut back to the boys', both shooting curious looks down at the rodents.
"Don't blow this DJ! They're not real beavers!" Duncan yelled.
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"I know that was meant to make me fell better," DJ said, "but for some reason it didn't."
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Alejandro made another attack, but DJ blocked it. The force he put into his attack caused him to sway slightly.
"Don't lose this for us!" Duncan warned. "Beaver's can't swim through tar!"
The camera cut the beavers as they jumped into the tar.. and swam through it. They crowded around DJ's platform and snarled at the Gaffer captain.
"They look hungry," DJ commented as he ducked from another swipe.
"You'll be okay!" Sammy called to him.
"Don't be a wimp!" Duncan yelled. "The columns are plaster not wood, and beavers can't climb!"
One of the beavers took a bite out of the platform, and the other started climbing it.
"Stop helping me!" DJ yelled to his team as he took a swing at Alejandro. The charmer ducked and the climbing beaver reached the top. As a last resort, DJ tried to tackle Alejandro. The brickhouse knocked the charmer down and the two wrestled on the left platform. Finally, Alejandro managed to break the grapple, sending DJ into the tar with a splash.
Chris laughed. "That was awesome! Would've preferred to see some beaver carnage, but! You can't have everything. Anyways, that leaves the teams tied at one-all and us with a grudge match between Kitsune and Duncan!" He grinned and raised one finger on each hand, then brought them next to each other. "On the same column! You just can't write this stuff!" He added with a wink to the camera.
The camera panned out to show the couple standing across from each other. "Who knows," the goofball said bitterly, "maybe I can beat him even when he cheats."
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The footage skipped ahead to show the couple as they occupied the same platform. Both had no trouble balancing and were giving each other heated glares.
"You ready for a tar bath? Duncan asked.
"I'm gonna knock you into next week," the goofball threatened.
The horn blew and both tried to take a swipe at each other, only to meet in the middle. "Seriously? What is your deal?" Duncan asked as the two tried to shove each other off.
"My deal is that I could be eliminated at any moment and my boyfriend is cheating me out of wins!"
"Here we go again only talking about your problems!" Duncan yelled. "You're just like your mother!"
The cast gasped at what escaped Duncan's mouth. The look on his face showed that he immideately regretted what he said. The look on Kitsune's face however, showed that it was too late.
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"Aw man, I didn't mean to say that!" Duncan confessed. "I really screwed this one up."
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"I can't believe he just said that!" Kitsune yelled. "Forget playing nice now!"
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"Faith I-" Duncan started to say.
"(BLEEP) You!" Kitsune yelled in a broken voice before shoving the punk into the tar. The footage skipped ahead to show the fox lover running from the tar pit with barely audible sniffles.
"Well," the host said as the cut to him and Duncan crawled out of the tar pit in the background, "I'd say the Gaffers had a better chance at the one million B.C.! B.C.," he repeated, "before cursing! As for the Grips, they win today's reward!" He motioned off to the side, the camera panning over to show Chef Hatchet driving up in a golf cart with a Flintstones-esque side of ribs strapped to the roof. "A mammoth-size prehistoric barbecue!"
The cart drove past Heather, Sugar, and Alejandro, the latter two still covered in tar, and came to a stop right next to the tar pit as the winning team cheered. "Ehh, it's a living," Chef told the camera with a slight shrug.
"Don't worry," Chris added, "the Grips may have won today's reward, but," he took a large egg out from behind his back, "we're not gonna let the Gaffers go hungry."
He tossed the egg to the tar-covered Sammy, who looked at it suspiciously. "A giant egg? Why do I have a bad feeling about this?"
"Should be enough for four," Chris told the losing team. "You do have fire." The camera cut over to the Gaffers' fire pit from earlier that day, which was still burning, until it suddenly went out. Sammy and Leshawna stared at it blankly, and the host added "Maybe the Grips will throw you a bone when they're done?"
"I can't wait to eat some barbecue!" Sugar said excitedly as she, Heather and Alejandro approached the cart, followed by a dejected Kitsune.
As they approached Chef got out of his seat, but in doing so caused the cart to begin rolling towards the tar pit. The Grips were shown gasping in shock, and the camera focused in on the cart as it rapidly approached the tar pit, began to tilt, and finally fell in.
The camera cut to the Grips as they gasped at the loss of their reward. Chef, who was standing next to them, said, "oops."
"Look on the bright side," Chris said, walking over with an impish smile on his face, "you still have your bones. You could hunt for your dinner like real cave people."
Heather twirled her bone in her hand and gave a fierce glare to the host.
The Gaffers, except for Sammy, laughed at their rivals. "I feel so bad for them," the cheerleader commented. The same terrifying cry from earlier rang through the air.
"Uh Samey," Chris said cautiously. "I think the pterodactyl wants its egg back."
The monster goose was shown hovering in the sky above, and it quickly dive-bombed the contestants below.
The cheerleader screamed and her teammates scattered, and the goose was soon on top of Sammy. She quickly got up and ran away, but the goose followed her.
"Aaaaaah!" she screamed. "It's just like last season!"
The shot cut back to Chris and Chef, who were cringing at the fight happening just off-screen. They looked at each other, and shrugged helplessly. "Ehh, they'll be fine," the host said right before another goose-cry was heard. "Probably. And hey, at least we'll be eating nice tonight!" Chef nodded happily.
They looked over at the Grips, who were now staring helplessly at where their reward dinner had fallen. "Hey Al," Chris called to the charmer, "you wanna have that dinner you were promised? We're having surf and turf tonight!"
Alejandro brought a hand to his chin, then said to Kitsune "If you'd like to join me and drown your sorrows in buttered lobster?"
The goofball shrugged. "It's better than being here with you know who," she said pitifully and the two joined Chris and Chef as they left the scene.
"Hey!" Heather cried indignantly alongside a glaring Sugar. "What about us?!"
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"Heather thinks she's smart, forcing me to stay on a team with the annoying fox child," Alejandro said in the confessional with a smirk. "But despite our mutual loathing, we are capable of being nice to each other. This miscalculation will be her downfall."
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"Sure we won," Kitsune said while holding a plate of lobster, "but this challenge was a bust for me. Al's being nicer to me than my own boyfriend. Should I even still call him that?"
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The next confessional was Chris himself, picking his teeth and drinking out of the top half of the Mike-onut. "I know everyone was hoping for Alejandro and Kitsune to come to blows," he said. "It's the only reason I didn't fight harder to keep him off the show." He paused to take a sip from the straw in his coconut. "Sadly, it just didn't work out this time. Looks like something might be brewing between him and Heather though." He shrugged, then picked his teeth again.
"Anywho, see ya next time, kiddies!" he told the camera. "Same Chris time," he tossed his toothpick away, "same Chris channel!" He tossed the Mike-onut away next, and a tinkling crash from off-camera soon indicated it had broken something. "Uhh, wasn't me!" Chris called nervously before dashing off in the opposite direction.
(Roll the Credits)
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(Bonus Clip)
"I hate to say it," Leshawna confessed, "but Duncan sayin' what he did was probably the best thing that happened to me all season. Now I at least gotta chance to stay in the game."
Author's Note Post Script: And that was the last reward before the merge. The chapter was admittedly Kitsune-centric butI needed serval things to happen right now and they all involved her.
The Gaffers continue to deteriorate, and Duncsune has hit a major bump. Kitsune's real name has been revealed to the cast, also why she doesn't use it. It actually kinda hurt to write her being so dejected to be honest.
i also cut back on a lot of Al's benefits coming back for a number of reasons. One, I wanted to add Kitsune's settlement and DJ's punishment. They won't mean anything long-term, but it felt like it needed saying. Second, I felt that Courtney's rules were to establish that she is meant to be unlikable and villainous, whereas Alejandro already has that reputation.
I'm honestly not sure about this chapter.
With that I'm signing off
-TotalDramaFan14
RDA ELIMINATION TABLE:
16th Place: Mike/Zoey
15th Place: Zoey/Mike
14th Place: Amy
13th Place: Noah
12th Place: Sky
11th Place: Harold
10th Place: Shawn
9th Place: Victor