Total Drama: Unfinished Business Chapter 21: Total Drama: The Fools Awaken, a total drama series fanfic

Disclaimer- I do not own any of the Total Drama characters that I choose to torture—I mean put in the story! They are merely here for mine, and your amusement. No profit is being made off of this (No one would would stoop as low as to pay me for this anyway) I give all credit to the creators of Total Drama, as well as Johnny Depp, because...well, he's Johnny Depp!

Notes From The Depths of Vampirism- I have given into your requests! From now on, VR episodes will be one chapter long. This may mean that updates will be slower however as I have to fit all of the action and what not into one chapter rather than the usual two. Thanks for the feedback, it really helps because I want to make this a story you enjoy reading and I get that this story is lengthy enough already and I don't want to drag it out.

So, here's the long awaited Star Wars VR which admittedly isn't really Star Wars (ha-ha click-bait is so much fun). It's more of an Alien/Star Wars combination which I hope you'll still enjoy. As always be sure to hit that fav/follow button and leave a review because those are always appreciated and don't forget to check out my new Ridonculous Race story: The Ridonculous Race: More Ridonculousness! :D

Now, with that little shameless self-promotion out of the way, on to the reviews!

Acosta Perez Jose Ramiro: Thanks! I suppose your reasoning for Elsa not noticing the snow-covered town makes some sense, but Elsa and Anna still look nothing alike, nor like their parents. Anna has orange hair, Elsa has blonde, both their parents have brownish black.

Joel Connell: Thank you for notifying me about the mistake! It has now been fixed! :) I'm glad you liked the reverse psychology bit with Duncan and Scott, it's definitely refreshing to know that people still remember the classic Looney Toons cartoons! I decided to give Scott a break from Fang for this chapter by the way. And by that I mean letting something else torture him XD Your stuffed-animal bonding idea was great and I just needed the right spot to bring it up and I figured this reward was perfect, thanks for suggesting it to me! Also, speaking of suggestions, if you read the Author's Note then you'll know I took you other suggestion and cut this VR episode down to one chapter. ;)

Guest #1: Oh, I've definitely seen Ned's Declassified (Classic show! Woo!) and I totally get what you're talking about! Oddly enough the Opal Twins never came in mind when writing that bit, just the trope I suppose. Also, I know the Dave and Sky thing has been dragging on for so long and I apologize for that but it's very difficult to write since both characters are incredibly stubborn. Luckily, in some chapters not too long down the road, this train will finally start to get moving. What direction however, is completely up in the air ;)

Lightwing, Darkwing, Flashwing and Many Others: The coordination of these names is no coincidence. You're the same person. I do suspect you to be several other guest reviewers as well. If not, then I'm sorry but please, stop with the 'one sentence per review and then switch your guest name'. I'm sorry but the constant reviews from you as different guests is getting very irritating. I've asked you to stop before so either be ONE person and review ONCE or stop reviewing altogether. Once again, if you are not the same person, then I'm sorry, but things are too coincidental in the pop-up of several guest reviews talking about the same subject so I have to react. Also, if you're going to review, make it worth while. If you tell me you hate somebody, tell me why. I say reviews are greatly appreciated but if you honestly have no feedback whatsoever, then just don't review. I don't need to know 'how difficult it is to write a review' I honestly don't care. And by the way, yes, it is okay to say something other reviewers have already said. If more than one person like or dislikes something, it tells me what my readers as a whole want. So to sum things up, please, if you are the same person, just write one review as one person and make it something that can be useful to me, otherwise, just don't bother reviewing and enjoy the story. Even a simple 'nice job' is fine.

FOWLKON: Eh, happens to the best of us (I know it's happened to me on more than one occasion when reviewing XD) The error with the recap as well as Sammy's name being listed has been fixed, thanks for notifying me! :) Katie got the boot here because she really didn't have much else going for her other than copying Noah for a short while so I managed to squeeze that here and then eliminate her afterward. Sorry Katie and Sadie but you two were meant to be throw-aways XD The reason Duncan and his alliance targeted Katie is one, because she was an easy vote for one of the girls to take and use (Duncan is slightly paranoid after all) not to mention he wanted to start small. Had he gone for Jasmine, the girls would have known something was up and started picking off his alliance. Not to mention he stated that the teams would probably become official at some point soon and he would want Jasmine on his team for that. Sky and Dave? The couples therapy train will be leaving the station in one of the next couple of episodes, I can assure you that XD I'm glad Noah, Geoff, and Owen cracked you up. I gotta admit, if Owen isn't around, Noah and Geoff do make a funny duo with Geoff's stupidity and 'go with the flow' mantra and Noah's sarcasm XD By the way, it's bound to get much grosser with Owen, so no. He does not have any shame! Thanks for the challenge idea but as of late, all of my challenges have been planned and I am no longer in need of new ones! Thanks for the offer though :)

NerdyNightStocker: Yeah, this challenge was basically directly taken from that old story. It was one of the few things I did like about that so I decided to bring it back. Congrats on remembering! XD Gwen blamed Leshawna because it technically was her fault. However, they are good friends so while, yes, Gwen has a right to be mad, she understands it was an accident. It's mostly the pain talking. Also, Sierra's been lurking for a little while now so I think it was basically time to bring her out and what better way than to have her try and drown Samey? XD Also, this challenge, while the end title is a reference to Star Wars is actually more similar to Alien in many ways with a little Star Wars fun sprinkled in for good measure. And yeah, I suppose Star Wars isn't for everybody but if that's the case don't go to Disney's Hollywood Studios XD (It's basically Star Wars mania right now :P)

Triple Nipple: Odd name but thanks! I suppose at this point Izzy pulling something crazy at the end isn't too unforeseen. Although I don't think it'd be possible, even by Total Drama standards, to have them bring a Megalodon back from extinction... XD

Codammy Forever: I'm glad you like the unexpected Ice Fishing challenge! Yeah, most people like the Looney Tunes reference so I may have to add some more of those ;) You're also not the only one who was surprised to see Sierra give up so easily. I suppose it maybe could have continued longer but I felt like I needed to sum it up to one episode. Not to mention Cody's been telling her for a while so I think this time he finally told her more forcefully and thus got through to her. No doubt she'll still be harboring a crush and subsequent shrine to him but I think she'll at least let Samey touch him XD

Codammy Fan: Wow, you have an almost identical name to the guest above XD I don't know if I'd call it the best episode but thanks anyway! I figured Sammy could put up a fight against Sierra since she seemed to be a formidable adversary when fighting Amy (If you could call pulling their hair a worthy fighting technique). Glad you liked the chapter and sorry that this one won't be completely Star Wars but I can assure you I'll be fitting as many references from the franchise into this as humanly possible!

CMC: Well, I hadn't planned on taking the story request since I'm busy with this one and just wasn't interested but I'm glad you can make it work. The only choices I'd have to disagree with are Katie, Sadie, Trent, Justin, Tyler and B. None of them really seem like champions. Maybe Trent or Justin but the others have either appeared only once, or did nothing in both of their seasons. Plus Justin was only big in the second season and even then he was a sucky villain in my opinion.

Guest #2: Very interesting idea for the finale, I'm not sure if this will come to be because truthfully, I haven't yet decided who is going so there is always a possibility. Backstabbing Scarlett does seem like something Eva would do, but I guess you'll just have to keep reading and see how things play out. And yes, this chapter indeed is about to get CRAZZZZZY! Even if it isn't quite Star Wars :P

I believe that's all of the reviews, but before we get into this non-click-bait-y episode, I wanted to announce a possible Total Drama Big Brother-style story that may be in the works. Now if I do end up going with it, it won't be out for a while since I've already got two big stories I'm working on. However, in true reality show fashion, I'll be opening up applications for the story, so please PM me ALL Applications. A guideline will be at the very end of this chapter for anybody who's interested and when I'm ready to start the story, another application guide will be put out in the new story. So, now that that's out of the way, let's get to what you've been waiting for!

Chapter 21 (Day 16)- Total Drama: The Fools Awaken!

"Last time on Total Drama!" Chris opened the episode on clips from the previous one. "The campers had a cool time Ice Fishing, complete with walruses, nasty fish, and of course, sharks!" The host chuckled as clips of Scott getting attack by the walrus, Jasmine punching a shark, and Leshawna getting slapped by a muskellunge were shown.

"Gwen badly injured her leg after Leshawna accidentally knocked her off of her team's platform!" The clip was shown once again of Leshawna getting fish-slapped and stumbling back into Gwen who then fell, hitting the ice hard. "Luckily for her, her newly reformed friendship with Trent paid off!" The musician was shown bandaging her leg and consoling her.

"Samey had a not-so fun dive when Sierra of all people showed up and attacked her, nearly drowning her!" Chris said, still shocked at Sierra's perfectly timed attack. The ubber fan was shown grabbing onto Samey's leg and pulling her down before a jump-cut sent the scene to the two girls battling it out on the ice. "Who knows who would've been a goner had Cody not intervened and finally set it straight with Sierra!" The tech geek was shown angrily telling Sierra off before calming down and talking things out with her.

"In the end, Katie, who was acting like Noah for some reason..." Chris shuddered, "Was booted off the island, scoring another one for Amy." The cheerleader was shown grinning wickedly as Katie's name was called to be sent home.

"I'm just glad she's gone, don't need two eggheads running around." He shivered again. "Man, the challenge is over but I've still got the chills!" He chuckled. "Who else will get chills in this soul-sucking vacuum of an episode? Grab your toy-light-saber and find out because this is Total...Drama...Unfinished Business!

~ Theme Song (I Wanna Be Famous)~

The episode opened up on a pan through the inside of the Mess Hall where the campers were picking at their nasty breakfast. Noah, Samey, Cody, and Owen sat together at one of the tables. "Remind me again why you two are over here?" Noah asked.

"Oh, um . . . all the other seats were taken." Samey explained, not trying to sound mean.

"Yeah, I guess no one wants to stand downwind of him." Noah nodded, jabbing a thumb at Owen who was shoveling spoonfuls of what was supposed to be oatmeal into his gullet.

"What? Oatmeal makes me gassy." Owen said defensively.

"So do a lot of things that I'm not going to list." Noah said bluntly. "And that's no oatmeal my friend." The bookworm picked at his breakfast which was a sticky, gray paste with splinters of wood and tiny gratings of metal. "When I said I was required to have more iron in my diet, this isn't what I meant." He muttered.

"Heh-heh, funny." Cody chuckled lightly before stopping nervously.

"Hmm...I don't see any signs of Izzy." Noah said, also thinking about what Cody was thinking. "Which is unsettling."

(Outhouse Confessional- We're gonna need a bigger ship. Huh? Get it?)

Noah- "Whenever Cody and I are even standing next to each other, Izzy always has push us together and try to make us kiss for all the psycho 'NoCo' people out there." He muttered. "You guys are not appreciated! And for the record, I do have a girlfriend." He huffed, glaring at the camera."

Samey- "Is it weird that I'm slightly weary of Noah?" She asked. "I mean, not that Cody and I are dating or anything but...he doesn't really like Cody... right?" She wondered.

Noah- "No, NO I DO NOT!" He shouted angrily from outside the outhouse, startling the cheerleader.

Samey- "Um...sorry!"

"So um, yeah, we're only here because the other seats are taken." Cody said, trying to steer away from the topic at hand before realizing he sounded kind of rude. "Oh, uh, sorry. Didn't mean for it to sound like that."

"None taken." Noah shrugged. "I prefer to be by myself anyway. Although there does appear to be a sudden disappearance of tables..." He said, tapping his chin as he glanced around the Mess Hall which seemed to have more space than usual. "Chris must've taken away some of the tables to try and get us sitting with different people so he could stir up the drama or whatever." He rolled his eyes.

The scene suddenly cut to the middle of the forest where the camera panned over to show the two missing tables set up as ping-pong tables for what appeared to be a Forest Ping Pong Competition. The seats had been ripped from the supports and glued horizontally to the top of the tables to act as a net.

One match was a bear vs bear while the second match looked like a raccoon vs Sasquatchanakwa. Several woodland creatures looked to be watching intently from the treetops and branches.

The raccoon and Sasquatch appeared to be entangled in a high-steaks volley before the raccoon swung it hard, sending the ball flying right into the Sasquatch's mouth.

Noah poked at his oatmeal one last time before deeming it inedible. "I'll be throwing this away now." He said, getting up from his seat and dumping the presumptive breakfast item out the window and into a small patch of grass outside where it immediately started decaying and turning brown.

Flies hovered around it as they usually do until they too dropped dead, shocking Noah. "After three seasons now of this crap, why am I still surprised?" He wondered with a sigh before returning back to his seat. It was from that moment on that nothing would ever grow in that same spot ever again.

"Aw man, why'd you throw it out? I would've finished it for you!" Owen whined.

"Trust me buddy, I did you a favor." Noah answered, patting him on the back.

The camera panned over across the Mess Hall to Trent who was returning from the serving window with two trays of food. "Here you go, Gwen." Trent smiled coolly, setting one of the trays down in front of the crippled Goth.

"Thanks Trent, you shouldn't have." Gwen smiled with a blush before looking down at the bowl of revolting paste. "Uh...you really shouldn't have." She recoiled, pushing the bowl of oatmeal away from her.

"Heh, sorry. They didn't have anything else." Trent admitted.

"Yeah, I wouldn't recommend eating that." Noah advised as he passed by. "It's not safe for human consumption."

"But Owen's eating it." Gwen pointed out.

"Like I said, not safe for human consumption." Noah repeated before walking away.

"O-kay then. I think I'll listen to the egghead. Sorry." She apologized. "It was a sweet gesture though." She quickly added.

"No problem, I'll just take that away for you." Trent smiled. "And mine while I'm at it." The musician headed back towards one of the garbage cans but suddenly tripped on a loose floorboard. In an attempt to keep the oatmeal from flying everywhere, Trent tried to clap the trays together but only ended up sending both bowls flying right into Chef's face as he cleaned off the serving counter.

The first bowl landing on his head, sending gooey paste dripping down his bald scalp. To make matters worse, the second bowl hit him directly in the face seconds afterword before dropping to the ground, but not without leaving a dripping mess of oatmeal on his face.

Chef slowly wiped the crud from his face in time to spot his assaulter. With an angry growl, the furious cook grabbed the bowl of oatmeal from his head and chucked it at the musician with grinding teeth.

Trent screamed and ducked just in time, letting the bowl sail right over his head . . . and into Scott's awaiting face, earning a laugh from Duncan. In turn, the punk earned an annoyed look from Courtney.

"FOOD FIGHT!" Izzy declared, popping out from under a table and ambushing Noah with a rotting banana to the face. Instantly, the Mess Hall was chaos with food flying in all directions and several campers going down as they were nailed in the face and other places by Chef's cooking.

Samey yelped as a cream pie was hurled at her. Cody instinctively dropped to the floor, taking Samey down with him just in time as the pie whizzed over her head and into the wall behind her. "We've got to go!" The nerd cried as food flew over their heads, the floor already stained with unidentifiable messes.

(Outhouse Confessional- We're already dirty enough! Don't shoot!)

Samey- "One minute I was trying to keep a glob of that oatmeal stuff on my spoon and then next minute there's food flying everywhere!" She exclaimed frantically. "But lucky for me, Cody pulled me down to safety just in time." She said dreamily.

Cody- "Heh-heh, it was more of an instinct actually, but I'm glad I was able to save her from getting cream pie all over her beautiful hair." He sighed happily. "I-I mean, her hair is nice..." He tried not to make it sound like such a big deal.

Samey and Cody army crawled across the floor, occasionally taking shelter under a table when they reached one. "Incoming!" Cody called out as a small cake stuffed in a tin was thrown under the bench they were currently hiding in.

The batter began to shake as a high-pitched whine sounded, indicating the temperature inside was going up at an alarming rate. "It's a cake bomb and it's gonna blow!" Cody cried, crawling away as fast as he could. But he and Samey weren't fast enough. The two closed their eyes and braced for impact.

The cake bomb detonated, sending batter flying in all directions. Cody opened his eyes and realized he and Samey were still clean. "Huh?" He wondered before noticing Gwen's lifeless body laying on the ground, covered in batter.

"Gwen!" Cody cried, both he and Samey rushing to her side. "No, it can't end like this! Not like this!"

Gwen moaned. "Relax man, I'm not dead." She rolled her eyes. "Just sticky..." She muttered, flicking some batter off of her head.

Cody breathed a sigh of relief. "Come on, we're making a break for the exit!" He hissed.

"Um, hello, probably broken leg." The Goth pointed out, the camera glancing down at her bandaged leg. The skin was visibly red from around the bandages, who knew how bad it was underneath.

"Well we can't just leave you here." Samey replied.

"Just go, I'll be fine. You people are over-dramatizing this way too much." Gwen rolled her eyes again.

Cody looked like he was tearing up as he turned away with Samey right behind him. The two kept crawling; as they did so, they passed by Max's ketchup-covered corpse and Dave's twitching body.

The two were about to move into an open space when suddenly Owen came crashing down in a dramatic slow-motion, an entire turkey ramming into his belly, sending ripples of fat in all directions.

The titan fell with a lifeless thud, earning gasps from Cody and Samey as they stopped in their tracks. There was a dramatic pause... "Ooh, is that turkey?" Owen asked in delight, reaching over and grabbing the very food that brought him down.

Cody gave him a salute and went around him, quickly followed by Samey who repeated Cody's action and also gave the tubby boy a friendly salute.

"What's going on Jasmine?" Samey asked as she and Cody reached another bench. The Aussie had a bowl of oatmeal in hand and stood up and threw it out into the open before ducking back down to face her two friends.

"Looks to me like someone started a food fight." Jasmine shrugged. "Probably on accident."

Cody and Samey peeked over the bench at the chaos that had unfolded. At one table, Scott chucked a cream pie into Duncan's face after the punk had laughed at him. Now it was Scott's turn to laugh . . . until Duncan returned the favor with a bowl of soup to the face. It was then that the two rivals continued to throw different foods at one another in rapid succession.

"You two are so childish. I can't believe I ever dated you." Courtney scoffed before she was hit in the back of the head with a watermelon. "Ah!" She cried as red goop dripped from her hair. "WHO THREW THAT?!" She growled, whipping around while holding her bowl of oatmeal threateningly.

On the other side of the cafeteria, Leshawna was about to get struck with a stray plate of ravioli before Harold jumped in the way to save her. The lanky nerd dropped to the floor, covered in meat-sauce. "Harold you . . . you saved my life." Leshawna marveled.

"Why wouldn't I?" Harold asked weekly, earning annoyed groan from Gwen nearby. Leshawna bit her lip and looked away nervously.

(Outhouse Confessional- A Soap Opera to clean things up?)

Leshawna- "Truth is... my relationship with Harold is just feeling kinda...I don't know, one sided." She admitted with a sigh. "I love him, I really do but . . . he's so in love with me. He's like a lost puppy dog. I know he's just trying to be a perfect gentleman but I guess I just...can't keep up with him?"

Harold- "I'd take a bullet for Leshawna any day! She's my whole world!" He gushed. "She's my chocolate goddess. I mean, she could probably take the bullet like it was nothing, but no sense in putting her through that when I'm at her disposal." He sighed happily. "Wait...that doesn't sound right.

"We should get going." Samey hissed, jabbing her thumb behind her at the open mess hall door. She and Cody turned around only to come face-to-face with none other than Chris McLean.

"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!" He demanded, halting the chaotic scene in front of him instantly. "I leave you teens for a simple disgusting breakfast and you destroy the mess hall? AGAIN? And Chef, joining in on the destruction too I see?"

"Blame guitar boy!" Chef snapped, pointing at Trent who cowered meekly.

"Ahp-ahp-ahp-ahp-ahp!" Chris shushed him. "Now's not the time for the blame game. As punishment for your misbehavior, you will be playing an extra in today's Virtual Reality challenge!"

Chef scoffed. "An extra? What's so bad about that?" He howled with laughter.

"The theme? Alien space-ship horror!" Chris grinned impishly. Chef's laughter stopped and his smile fell. "Yup, everyone knows the extras are the ones to bight the dust first. And in the most horrifying ways!"

"Listen to me Chris, ya better not make me dress up in that stupid mama alien costume again!" Chef warned.

"Great idea!" Chris laughed. "Now if you pathetic losers will follow me, we can get on with the challenge! And that includes you Chef." He added, earning an annoyed grunt from the cook.

The teens and Chef were assembled at the elimination area, which had since retracted into the ground and switched out for the VR machine and seats that surrounded it. "The rules of the challenge are simple." Chris said. "You'll all spawn somewhere in a doomed spaceship overrun by aliens. Your goal is to get to the escape pods hidden somewhere on the ship and escape at the time you think is best. But your judgment better be good because the team with the most escaped players wins!" He summed up.

"So it's basically a rip-off of the zombie challenge but now we're on a spaceship with aliens?" Noah wondered.

"Yup. There's only so much we can do." Chris shrugged. "However, there's something else I should mention. Not only is there a psycho mama-alien (Not Chef, the real one) running around, but if you snatch one of her eggs, it can substitute as a missing team member, meaning, if you lose five members and steal five eggs, you're set."

"Wait, so now we're ripping off the egg challenge from Season 2?" Gwen asked, leaning up against one crutch.

"How can one egg substitute as an entire person?!" Harold exclaimed. "That just seems so unethical!"

"Hey, on the bright-side, it should be easy to win. If we lose anybody, we just go get some eggs." Leshawna shrugged.

"Yeah...about that. You see, mama-alien's not gonna let her eggs go easy. When she doesn't feel the need to go and hunt you down, she'll be guarding her eggs closely. As will her many, many minions." Chris grinned devilishly.

"Okay, not so easy." Leshawna frowned.

"Um, excuse me," Scarlett raised her hand, "The amount of contestants is uneven. One team will have an immediate advantage over the other."

"M-maybe we could sit someone out like what you did with Izzy." Dave suggested nervously. "I'll volunteer! Uh...i-if I have to." He quickly added.

"No need." Chris shook his head. "Chef will be added to whichever team is short one player, just to even things out." He smiled.

"But that's not fair!" Sky protested. "Chef is a powerhouse! He could take down twenty aliens at once! The other team will get destroyed!"

"Don't worry," Chris waved it off, "He'll be wearing a red shirt under his mama-alien costume. That's how you know they won't be there for long." He winked. [1]

"Naming the teams anytime now would be nice." Eva scowled at the host.

"Okay, okay, sheesh. The one time I actually answer questions for you freaks you want to bite my head off and skip right to the challenge!" Chris muttered.

"I'd enjoy decapitating you any time, for your information." Scarlett smiled, whipping out a knife and drawing it across her neck, which was accompanied by a gross horror-movie sound-effect.

"Thank you Izzy, your sound effects were much appreciated." Scarlett acknowledged before button her knife away in silence, earning many weary looks from the campers.

(Outhouse Confessional- We'd rather be with mama alien!)

Jasmine- "Yet another reason to add to my list of reasons why I sleep outside." She said with wide eyes.

Sky- "I don't think I'm comfortable sleeping in my bed anymore!" She gulped. "First she does weird observations on me while I sleep and now she suddenly has a weapon?!" She cried.

Dave- "Boy am I glad I'm all alone in my side of the cabin. Max took his bunk out a while ago and left to sleep...somewhere else I guess?" He shrugged. "Now if I hear anything in the night, I'll know it's Scarlett."

"Team 1, for this challenge, you guys will henceforth be known as The Slithering Space Serpents." Chris read. "Duncan, Amy, Courtney, Scarlett, Scott, Max, Dave, Eva, Noah, Sky, and Dakota!"

"Um, is it just me or are we all supposed 'villains' in your eyes?" Noah asked flatly. "Coincidence? I think not."

"Fine. We wanted to go for a cool 'Space heroes vs space villains' type theme." Chris explained. "So anyway, onto the Heroes who will be dubbed The Courageous Cosmic Chimps!"

"Chimps. Seriously?" Gwen deadpanned.

"Mmm...Cosmic Brownies." Owen giggled to himself as he licked his lips.

"Alright! Talk about a real party animal!" Geoff whooped, putting an arm around Bridgette.

"Just so nobody's confused, The Courageous Cosmic Chimps will consist of Geoff, Samey, Harold, Izzy, Trent, Cody, Leshawna, Gwen, Bridgette, Jasmine, Owen, and Dawn. Which means, Chef! You get to join the villains side!" Chris decided.

"At least he's got some of his casting choices right." Noah rolled his eyes.

"You've got five minutes to decide who's getting paired up with who before the VR sends you in!" Chris called out as the teams gathered together into two huddles.

(The Slithering Space Serpents)

"I'll go with Courtney!" Scott and Duncan volunteered at the same time, both with eager grins.

"Hey! I'm going with Courtney!" Duncan snapped.

"No way! You've been hogging her!" Scott accused.

"Excuse me?" Courtney raised an eyebrow in shock. "I'm not going with either of you."

"What?!" Duncan and Scott exclaimed, once again in unison.

"Since no one else wants to be paired up with her, I've taken the liberty of pairing myself with Amy for this challenge." Courtney answered.

"Hey!" The cheerleader complained.

(Outhouse Confessional- Something's fishy, and it's not the previous challenge!)

Courtney- "I haven't really talked to Amy much lately about our secret alliance that we formed back in the Museum." She explained. "So I figured pairing myself with her for this challenge would be the perfect time to talk strategy. Meanwhile, I'll be pairing Scott and Duncan together and hope that they'll at least make an effort in joining together for the purpose of my alliance."

Amy- "Hold the phone, what does she mean 'no one wants to be paired up with her'?" Amy gasped. "I'm the better twin. Who wouldn't want to be paired up with me?" She asked.

"Alright, so Amy and I will be one pair, Scott and Duncan, you two need to clean up your acts, so I'm putting you two together." Courtney told them.

"Aw come on!" Duncan whined.

"Yeah, he stinks!" Scott complained, jabbing a thumb at the punk, who was standing next to him.

"Yeah right, coming from you, dirt boy." Duncan scoffed, rolling his eyes.

"Anyway," Courtney continued, "Does anyone else have a preference?" She asked.

"I'd prefer to be paired with Noah since he appears to be the only one capable of my level of intelligence." Scarlett requested, pulling her knife out from her pocket slightly so that it was just barely visible to Courtney.

"Excellent choice!" Courtney quickly smiled. "Let's see...um, Eva, you can go with Max...Dakota, you can go with Chef I guess."

"Nuh-uh!" Chris interrupted. "In punishment for his crimes, Chef will be all by himself." Chris grinned impishly at the cook who was now dressed in his red shirt and alien costume.

"Dakota can go with us!" Amy quickly decided.

"Alright then, that just leaves Sky and Dave then...oh." Courtney trailed off.

"No, no . . . it's fine." Sky assured her. "We can work things out. You won't have to worry about us."

(Outhouse Confessional- We have our doubts)

Sky- "Jasmine said I needed to either work things out with Dave, or completely shut him out and focus on the game. That last option seemed really harsh, not to mention it's what started this whole mess." She sighed. "So I'm going to make an effort to work things out with him, whether he likes it or not!"

Dave- "First she shuts me out, then she kisses me during last season's finale, then she blocks me again, and now she wants to be paired up? WHAT IS WITH THIS GIRL?!" He cried, completely loosing it.

(The Courageous Cosmic Chimps)

"Everybody got someone they want to be paired up with?" Jasmine asked.

"Leshawna and I can totally show these aliens who's boss." Harold grinned, putting an arm around his girlfriend who looked less than thrilled.

"I got my babe!" Geoff called out, pulling a smiling Bridgette closer to him. "We need more alone time anyway." He winked, causing the blonde to blush.

"I'll go with Gwen, just in case her injured leg transfers over to the virtual world." Trent insisted.

"Yeah, that's the reason." Gwen chuckled with a smile.

"Uh, I'll go with Cody, if that's okay with everyone." Samey offered.

Jasmine winked at her friend. "Excellent, that'll leave me with Dawn and-"

"Ooh! Izzy will go with Big O!" Izzy volunteered.

"Then it's settled." Jasmine smiled at their quick accomplishment.

"Everybody got a partner?' Chris asked through his megaphone.

"We're right here, you don't need to use that thing!" Noah glared at him.

"I can if I want! Now I repeat, everyone got a partner?" He asked again. Chef raised his hand, still glaring his Chris with fire in his eyes. "Everyone except you, Chef!" The host cackled. No one else raised their hands. "Alright then, hop into your seats, put on the headsets, and wait for the VR do to it's programming whatchama-hoozits."

The campers did as they were told. While VR challenges were often scary and draining, they were free of pain, which made them a favorite throughout the cast. With everyone seated and head-sets on, Chris pulled a large lever on the side of the machine and it started buzzing and starting up.

"Have fun and good luck, because you're gonna need it!" Chris cackled as the campers were transported into the virtual reality world.

(Cosmic Chimps – Leshawna & Harold)

The couple found themselves standing in the middle of a long green hallway with several panels on the walls as well as buttons and other doohickeys. "Whoa..." Harold marveled. "It looks like we're on the set of Mutazoid Aliens 5!"

"Mutazoid what now?" Leshawna asked, not the faintest idea what he was referring to.

"It's the best of all the Mutazoid Alien movies." Harold informed her. "The rest were pretty good too, except for three, number three was trash."

"Um...okay, that still doesn't answer my question but whatevah." Leshawna shrugged.

"Neat! I got a pop gun!" Harold silently cheered.

"What's so great about a toy gun?" Leshawna asked, still confused as she waved her electric katana about.

"It's not a toy pop-gun. It's one of those blasters that shoots nets so you can capture the aliens!" Harold explained. "They don't kill them but it traps them so if I snare 'em, you can stab them with your light-saber!"

"Hmm...sounds good to me." Leshawna grinned, cracking her knuckles. "As long as it's not a toy." She added. "If those aliens know what's good for 'em, they'll stay away from lil' Leshawna."

Suddenly there was a loud boom followed by a metallic crash. Sharp nails scraped against the ventilation system above before moving on. Moments later, an alarm sounded followed by a constant blink of red light throughout the corridor.

"We've been bathed in an eerie red light!" Harold exclaimed as he and Leshawna looked around in search of what might have set off the alarm.

Before Harold could act, a green and purple alien with sharp teeth and a thin, frail body body burst from the air-ducts. Harold fell back in shock as Leshawna quickly stabbed it right through the chest. Her blade gave an electric crackle and the alien exploded, sending purple goo all over the place. "It's a good thing we got these nifty goggles..." Leshawna said. The eye-wear was covered in the purple sludge, as well as her clothes.

"Hey, I just noticed that we're dressed in blue space-suits, neat!" Harold grinned. "Do I look like Spock or what?" He grinned. Once again, Leshawna had no idea what he was talking about.

(Confessional- Wasn't that guy played by Neonard Limoy?)

Leshawna- "I love Harold, y'all know I do, but we just don't have that much in common." She sighed. "He's into alien samurai ninja movies and I'm into shopping and girl stuff. Well, not that much girl stuff." She added. "But my point is that I just never feel like I get what he's talking about..."

Harold- "How could Leshawna not know about Spock? Or Mutazoid Alien 5?" He wondered. "We watched all five movies one night, how could she not remember?"

Leshawna- "And every time he tries top get me to watch one of those space movies like Galaxy Wars or Space Samurais, I always end up falling asleep half-way through the movie." She threw her hands up.

"Hey, do you know what's going on?" Harold asked a crew member as they ran by with a tricked-out blaster in hand. Three more followed him, none of them stopping to answer Harold's question. "Well that was rude." He muttered after they left.

"Guess they don't got time for chit-chat." Leshawna shrugged.

And it was then, suddenly and swiftly, that the lights went dead. It was now pitch black and neither Harold nor Leshawna could see their hand in front of them. "This isn't just darkness..." Harold gasped. "This is . . . advanced darkness." [2]

(Space Serpents – Duncan & Scott)

"Man, this bites." Duncan scowled. "These outfits are ugly, I have a lame pop-gun, and I'm stuck with you!" He pointed a finger in Scott's face.

"Yeah? Well look who's got a light-saber." Scott snickered, waving the light sword in Duncan's face.

"Whoa! Watch where you're waving that dirt boy!" Duncan warned.

"Quit CALLING ME THAT!" Scott shouted angrily, bringing the light-saber down upon the punk. Lucky for Duncan, he managed to dive and roll out of the way just in time as the laser cleaved through the floor.

"Dude! What the heck?!" The punk exclaimed. "We're on the same team!"

"Sorry, must've mistaken you for an alien." The dirt farmer sneered.

"As much as I don't like it, Courtney put us together and if either of us wants to impress her and/or not get eliminated, we need to work together." Duncan sighed.

"Fine. But I still have no idea why Courtney dated you when I'm clearly the better choice." Scott rolled his eyes.

"Likewise." Duncan glared him down.

"At least I didn't cheat on her." Scott narrowed his eyes.

"Yeah, well at least I'm not an idiot who couldn't see that Cameron clearly kissed her when you were down in the mine." Duncan rolled his eyes. "Honestly, my parole officer let me watch the rest of All-Stars when I was in prison and it was totally obvious that Cameron kissed Courtney, even if it was Mike's idea."

"I-it was the sun!" Scott claimed. "It was in my eyes!"

"You keep telling yourself that." Duncan deadpanned, walking ahead down the hall.

(Cosmic Chimps – Jasmine & Dawn)

"I'd say I'm prepared for most situations, but I've never really planned for an Alien uprising on a secluded spaceship in the middle of the dark, soul-sucking, vacuum of space." Jasmine gulped as she crept around a corner with Dawn in tow.

The Australian was now outfitted in a red jumpsuit, similar to the one Chef was wearing. "And crikey! I'm wearing red!" She cried, looking down at her outfit.

"Do not worry friend, it is just virtual reality. You're not really in a confined space, you're merely sitting in a chair with a headset on right now with all the space in the world." Dawn reminded her.

Jasmine took a deep breath. "I guess you're right." She nodded. "But what do I do about the red shirt?"

"I'm afraid I can't help you with that one." Dawn shook her head solemnly. "However, you are a strong young woman and I'm certain you can show these aliens you mean business."

"Thanks." Jasmine said as she slowly peeked around another corner. Suddenly, a green, gelatinous, living blob launched itself at the Aussie. Jasmine screamed and ducked as the extraterrestrial flew overhead.

"Oh my! What is that thing?" Dawn gasped, merely brandishing a small pop-gun.

"I think it's a . . . dog?" Jasmine wondered as the green glob morphed into the shape of a dog. Soon, the color changed and it was now a small Golden Retriever.

"Do not get too close!" Dawn warned. "It's still an alien! Although it appears to have shape-shifting capabilities." She noted.

"Wasn't planning to!" Jasmine replied, aiming her blaster at the creature. The seemingly happy dog panted and looked around for a little bit before leaping at Jasmine in a playful manner.

Before she new it, the dog morphed in mid-air into a tiger shape before the stripes and colors set in. When they did, the tiger had already tackled Jasmine, who was putting up a good fight.

"Get off of me, ya tosser!" Jasmine snapped, whacking the alien upside the head with the butt of her blaster. The Aussie kept the blaster between her and the ferocious tiger's maw. "Some help would be nice!" She called out.

"Oh, yes!" Dawn nodded, running over. She aimed her pop-gun and fired, sending a black net spiraling towards its target. The net snared the tiger easily, encasing it in a thick cocoon of netting. So much so that you could hardly see the tiger inside.

"Nice work!" Jasmine grinned, high-fiving the moonchild.

Little did they know, the tiger began morphing back into it's usual alien self, a blob of goo with a head, two arms and two legs, similar to a gorilla or ape. Then, it began to melt into nothing more than a liquidous green pile of goo that seeped out the small holes in the netting.

"Hold on a second, why is the net sagging?" Jasmine wondered, noticing the lack of animal inside it. "There should be a full-blown tiger in there!"

"Oh my!" Dawn cried, pointing to the moving green ooze at their feet. The bits and pieces of alien slowly spread out of the net in all directions before suddenly shooting into the air and colliding with the rest of itself.

The ooze formed a blob which sprouted arms, legs, and a head with teeth that looked more like dripping goop. The eyes were merely two deep dents in the head.

The alien jumped onto Jasmine's face in a split second, letting out a gravelly screech that sent bits of green ooze flying into the survivalist's face. "Crikey, why does this thing like me so much?!" Jasmine exclaimed. "Never-mind, I forget what I was wearing..." She muttered before throwing the creature off and hitting it with her blaster a couple times.

The blob of goo was disintegrated into nothing but a smoldering ash streak on the floor. "Well that takes care of that." Jasmine grinned, dusting off her hands.

(Space Serpents – Eva & Max)

"Who needs a stupid shield when You've got fists?" Eva rolled her eyes, chucking her light-shield behind her and cracking her knuckles.

"Wah!" Max cried as the shield went for his head. He ducked just in time and the shield went over his head and clattered against the wall behind him.

"You beefy buffoon! That could be useful!" Max snapped. "Certainly more useful that this piece of garbage." He muttered, looking at his pop-gun disdainfully. "What's it even supposed to do?"

"Gee, maybe you could find out if you actually tried it out." Came Noah's obnoxiously snarky voice. "Fancy meeting you two here."

"What? How did you find us? And so quickly?" Eva wondered, looking back to see Scarlett and Noah standing behind them.

"Simple. I rewired some of the magnetic-" Scarlett began to say but stopped upon seeing Eva's confused face. She gave an annoyed sigh. "I messed around with the gadgets in one of the panels on the wall and used it to find you." She explained, knocking on one of said panels.

"Does that even work in the virtual reality world?" Eva asked.

"Apparently so." Noah shrugged. "So, shall we get moving before an alien comes along and decides to eat us?"

"I demand a new weapon!" Max whined. "SIDEKICK! Give me yours!" He demanded, throwing his pop-gun on the ground.

"If you say so." Scarlett shrugged, seemingly content. She handed Max her weapon, which . . . was another pop-gun.

"USELESS!" Max screamed, throwing down the pop-gun again. "Give me yours!" He pointed to Noah.

"Heck no, I'm not your sidekick." Noah scoffed, holding his electric crossbow closer.

Max let out a frustrated cry and picked up his pop-gun. Scarlett walked over and grabbed hers as well. "I hope you're content, now let's go." Scarlett hissed, walking down the hall.

(Outhouse Confessional – We're useful!)

Scarlett- "Max has now become the bane of my existence." She grit her teeth. "Once he's done with the new mind-controlling collar, I will dispose of him swiftly. In the meantime, my duplicator I've been working on is progressing quite well and should be near completion in a matter of weeks." She added confidently.

The foursome continued down the hall with Noah aiming his crossbow ahead threateningly. Scarlett pumped her pop-gun while Max tried to figure out his gun worked. Eva merely brandished her fists but looked just as threateningly nonetheless.

"I see one!" Noah suddenly shouted, aiming his electric crossbow up at the air-ducts. He fired, hitting a small monkey-like alien but with scales and spines around its head. Suddenly, more of them came crawling along the bottom of the air-ducts.

"ATTACK!" Max commanded, casting a finger forward.

"What do you think we're doing ya gnome?!" Eva snarled as she clobbered one of the small creatures, popping it into a barrage of purple goo.

"The odds of you surviving this is one thousand to one." Scarlett informed the purple-haired weirdo as she shot some of the aliens with her pop-gun. Noah fired some arrows at the netted creatures, electrocuting them.

"Never tell me the odds!" Max whined. [3]

"Where are they all coming from?!" Noah exclaimed in shock. Firing several out of mid-air as they tried to tackle him. Even for their small stature, if there was enough of them, they could take someone out.

"I'm getting tired of punching these things!" Eva hollered as she nailed another in the face, popping it again. "Ugh, this monkey crud is disgusting!"

"Actually they're a false species of extraterrestrial beings that happen to look similar to primates, despite most likely being closer related to the reptilian family should they be a real species on earth." Scarlett corrected her.

"Whatever!"

"Retreat!" Noah cried as hundreds more came streaming from around the hall. They were crawling upside-down along the air-ducts, along the walls and on the floor. A few extras in red shirt fell into view as they were taken down by groupings of the aliens.

"WAAAAAAAGH!" Max screamed as he pushed his way ahead of Noah, Eva, and Scarlett. "I'm more important! Go for the others!" He shouted to the aliens.

"Quick! Everyone behind me!" Scarlett instructed.

"Deciding to be the heroic savior, are we?" Noah raised an eyebrow as he ran behind the brainiac.

"Nope." Scarlett answered, slamming a fist on one of the many buttons along the wall once Eva and Noah were past.

Immediately, a wall of light rose from the floor and ceiling, acting as a barricade. The monkey-like aliens leaped towards their pray, only to hit the laser wall, get electrocuted, and promptly explode into purple goo.

Hundreds of them detonated, leaving the hallway covered in the purple sludge. "How did you know there was a laser wall right here?" Noah asked.

"Simple. As we were running from the extraterrestrials, I noticed thin ejection panels on the floor and ceiling. The closest button would obviously activate it. And it would appear my hypothesis was correct." She said.

"Yeah, well good thinking." Noah nodded. "That is one close encounter that I do not want to experience." He muttered.

(Cosmic Chimps – Geoff & Bridgette)

"Dude! It's been a while since we've been on the same team, hasn't it?" Geoff awed as he and Bridgette wandered the halls of the spaceship.

"Um...we were together in the cooking challenge..." Bridgette reminded him.

"Oh yeah..." Geoff nodded in recolection. "Huh. Seems like it's been longer." He stroked his chin. "So, how much damage do you think I could do with this pop-gun?" He asked, pretending to aim it at nothing in particular.

"Probably not much considering it's used for netting things." Bridgette pointed out. "I'm just glad I got a shield." She smiled. "I'm more of a defense person than offense." She admitted.

"And that's why I love ya babe!" Geoff grinned, putting an arm around her shoulder again.

"Stop it Geoff!" Bridgette scolded, although she couldn't help but smile. "This is a challenge! Who knows when an alien could come bursting out of the air-ducts and snatch one of us!" She warned.

As all Total Drama logic goes, whenever someone says something could happen, it does. It's like Murphy's Law but specifically targets this show. So, naturally, as soon as Bridgette said that, a skeletal alien with a long crest on the back of its head burst from the air-ducts. [4]

With a loud hiss, it reached for Bridgette and grabbed her by the shoulders, picking her up."Let me go!" Bridgette screamed, trying to pound on the alien's clawed hands.

"Bridgette!" Geoff cried, trying to reach out to grab her.

The alien let out another loud hiss and suddenly a long tongue with another mouth at the end of it slithered out from the creature's toothy mouth. "Ew dude... you should really invest in some dental hygiene." Geoff advised.

"Geoff!" Bridgette cried.

"Oh yeah...right. Let go of my girlfriend!" He shouted, shaking a fist at the alien. As soon as he said this, the alien's tongue came curling near him. Almost immediately, he let out a scream and went running in the opposite direction.

(Outhouse Confessional- Eeeewww...)

Bridgette- "My hero..." She deadpanned.

(Space Serpents – Chef)

"Hmph, at least gel-boy had the courtesy to arm me with a blaster." Chef huffed as he wandered the empty halls alone, turning back and forth with his blaster. "Not even his kitchen, what's he complaining about?" He muttered to himself.

Suddenly, there was a quiet scraping sound coming from the air-ducts as something crawled through. Chef quickly aimed his blaster up at the ducts but the noise stopped. The cook narrowed his eyes at the metal tubes on the ceiling. "What are you planning . . ." He looked around as more metallic scraping could be heard elsewhere in the ducts.

Suddenly and without warning, an alien much like the one that had snatched Bridgette burst through the floor behind Chef. The cook could barely turn around before the creatures grabbed him by the ankles and pulled them out from under him. "Wah!" Chef cried as he fell to the floor, his blaster flying out of his hands and landing on the ground with a clatter.

The alien's long tongue with the mouth on the end then slithered out of its larger mouth and wrapped itself around Chef's fallen body. "Gah! Get offa me!" He shouted, trying to slap away the tongue but it just pulled him down into the hole in the floor.

(Cosmic Chimps – Owen & Izzy)

"Man, this suit is tight!" Owen choked out. He wore a bright blue space suit that didn't fit too well on his . . . chubbiness. "I can barely breathe here!"

"Ha-ha, that's 'cause we're in space, silly." Izzy laughed as she bounded through the hallway happily. Owen tried to keep up, but wasn't very fast in general, and his tight suit didn't quite help.

"Alright!" Izzy suddenly cheered. "Izzy's back to her natural hunting nature!" She said, aiming her popgun at nothing in particular as she shifted about. She turned around and pointed it at Owen.

"Wah! Watch where you're pointing that thing!" Owen cried, using his light-saber as a shield. "I don't need it to get more tight!" He whimpered. The loveable oaf took another few steps before suddenly hearing a ripping sound. "AW! I think I ripped my pants." He admitted. "Man, these thing really don-"

"Shhh!" Izzy suddenly stopped him, putting a finger to his lips. It was dead quiet.

"What? I was just-"

"SHHH!" She shushed him again, this time more forcefully. "It sound like someone..." She suddenly whipped around, expecting to see something, "WANTS TO SELL ME SOMETHING!" She finished, but there was nothing there. "Hmm..." She pouted, turning back around and walking fast to make it to the end of the hall as if there was something there. [5]

When they left, a purple yet fleshy lizard-like alien with green spots suddenly turned visible, revealing itself pressed up against the wall. It let out a sigh of relief before quickly crawling along the floor and up the wall before making it's way towards Izzy and Owen via upside-down crawling on the air-ducts. As it neared it's target, it turned invisible once more.

The invisible alien stalked it's unknowing yet suspicious prey slowly, ready to pounce. Izzy heard its claws scraping on the metal air-ducts and turned around right as it turned visible once more.

"Owen! Look out!" Izzy shouted, pointing at the lunging alien.

"WAH!" Owen wailed, flailing his light-saber in every direction. He managed to slash the alien out of mid-air in pure terror.

"Owen..." Izzy said quietly, looking down at the light-saber that went right through her virtual belly. "YOU IDIOT!" She suddenly roared before dropping dead and disconnecting from the VR.

"Um...oops." Owen chuckled sheepishly.

(Outhouse Confessional- With power comes responsibility you dolt)

Owen- "Oh no! I just got back together with Izzy and now I accidentally killed her in her favorite challenge yet! She's gonna be so mad!" He cried nervously, cowering in fear at what Izzy might do to him.

Izzy- "I'm gonna have a long, colorful talk with him..." She grumbled, clearly quite angry.

(Space Serpents – Amy, Dakota & Courtney)

The three girls walked along the hallway in a triangular formation. "Trust me girls, nothing will be able to touch us as long as we stay alert and keep this formation." Courtney insisted.

"Formation? More like bore-mation." Amy muttered. "Nothing's happening."

"Exactly." Courtney answered. "The aliens know they can't get us, so they'll go for the teams of two." She smirked. "Advantages of being a team of three."

"And who's idea was that?" Amy pipped up.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Courtney rolled her eyes. "Speaking of, what's our strategy, we haven't gotten much of a chance to talk while you were trying to eliminate Katie and Sadie."

"Do you guys think I'm a villain?" Dakota suddenly spoke, slightly surprising the other two.

"Why does that matter now?" Amy asked. "Once we get this alliance in full swing, all three of us will be the greatest villains this show has ever seen!" She grinned wickedly.

Dakota bit her lip. "But like, I don't really want to be a big bad villain. You said you'd protect me from getting eliminated again." Dakota reminded her.

"Yes, which requires you to do what I say." Amy continued. "We vote out the competition and anyone who gets in our way so they can't do it to us first."

"Dawn will be safe though, right?" Dakota asked.

"Of course." Amy nodded. "That was part of the deal wasn't it?"

(Outhouse Confessional- LIES! IT'S ALL LIES!)

Amy- She stares at the camera for a moment before she bursts out laughing. "I don't care about Dawn! In fact, if I can find a way to eliminate her without taking the blame, I could use her anger and vengeance!" She exclaimed. "Man I'm good! I just came up with that on the spot!"

"So what happens when the official teams are decided?" Courtney asked. "How do we know Chris won't put us on different teams?"

"Well, we don't, but if given the chance, we have to try to be on the same team." Amy said. "If not, then our plans will be put on hold until the merge." She scowled at the thought.

"Maybe there's a way to influence the vote should we be on different teams." Courtney suggested. "I'll have you know that I'm very persuasive." She smiled proudly.

"So am I, so don't think you're so special." Amy narrowed her eyes.

"Um, I was just stating a fact..." Courtney glared at her partner in crime.

(Outhouse Confessional- Uh Oh)

Courtney- "Okay, since my only other alliance in this game is Scott and Duncan, I have to rely on Amy, no matter how vain and cocky she can be." She sighed. "Honestly, she has to be better than you at everything, it's not even just her twin, it's anyone she talks to."

"Wait, so if you're protecting me, than who's our target?" Dakota asked. "Is someone after me?!" She suddenly gasped.

"Well, you never know..." Amy lied, "But I'm thinking Bridgette could be a big threat."

"What?" Dakota gasped again.

"Are you serious?" Courtney raised an eyebrow.

"One-hundred percent. She's good at challenges, she for sure doesn't like me and probably doesn't like you either." She told Courtney. "Who's to say she's not just pretending to be friends with you and Dawn?"

"That's not Bridgette." Courtney shook her head. "I know her and she would never try and cause trouble like that. Are you sure your threat-radar is working?"

"I'm telling you, she's got the votes." Amy continued. "When you think about it, who will people listen to? Her, or you?" She looked at Dakota and Courtney.

"I'd like to think I've got lots of power over the rest of the contestants." Courtney said.

"Well I hate to break it to you, but some people think you come off as annoying and bossy." Amy shrugged. "Personally that's not my opinion, I think you're a great leader, but others don't think so."

Courtney gasped indignantly. "That can't be true!"

Amy nodded in assurance. "It is. Honestly, who would you rather listen to? Someone who's bossy and controlling in your eyes or someone who's nice and understanding?"

Courtney bit her lip, knowing her answer would further support Amy's claim.

"What about me? I'm nice, right?" Dakota asked.

"Yes, but when you get mad, you turn into a freakazoid." Amy reminded her. "No one's ever gonna take you seriously, not to mention you came off as a dumb blonde even before the mutation happened."

"Is that was people really think about me?" Dakota looked saddened.

"I hate to say it, but it's true. Of course they do feel bad for you, some of them anyway." Amy went on. "I'm sure Dawn understands you though. She's always been a freak." The cheerleader rolled her eyes.

(Outhouse Confessional- That's harsh, man...)

Amy- "And the seed of doubt is planted." She grinned. "Now that they both think Bridgette is a threat to their game, they'll be sure to fall right into my hands. Of course I couldn't trash-talk Dawn too much or it might turn Dakota away, but I think I got into her brain just enough."

Dakota- She starts crying. "I can't believe that's the way people think about me!" She cried. "I've gotta boost my looks and personality!" She decided. "Nothing a little make-up can't fix." She said, taking out some mascara and applying it to her eyelashes.

"Okay so like, I totally don't want to run into any aliens but where are they?" Amy wondered as their formation continued down the seemingly endless halls of the spaceship.

"Maybe we're near the escape pods?" Courtney suggested. "The aliens couldn't have reached them already. That could explain their absence."

"Good, because I'm ready to get this lame challenge over with." Amy rolled her eyes.

"Hey, what's that door lead to?" Dakota wondered. "It's the first one I've seen since we came in here."

"It must be the escape pod!" Courtney exclaimed. She left the formation and ran up to the door to see if there was a button or something.

Amy and Dakota looked up for a second, noticing a small tip of a tail hanging out of one of the vents in the air-ducts. The two girls looked at each other with wide eyes and then back at the CIT. "Courtney, look out!" They both shouted at once.

Hearing that its cover had been blown, the crested alien clawed a hole in the air-ducts and lunged onto Courtney who let out a scream. She didn't even have enough time to activate her blaster.

"Get away from her you bully!" Dakota shouted, tossing her glowing blue shield at the creature. It hit the lizard-like skin and harmlessly fell to the ground.

Meanwhile Amy began firing rapid shots from her blaster at the alien who was already running off with Courtney's dead body. "Ugh, these stupid goggles won't let me see anything!" She pouted, ripping them off and throwing them on the ground. "I can't get a good aim."

"It got Courtney!" Dakota exclaimed.

"Yeah, yeah." Amy rolled her eyes. "It's just a virtual reality game, she's probably sitting on the bench right now, watching the whole thing."

"Okay...so do we like, go to the escape pod then?" Dakota asked.

"As long as there are no more loser aliens, I think we can." Amy said, walking ahead. She pressed the button next to the door and it slid open with a hiss. Inside was just an empty room with more buttons and blinking lights in Amy's eyes. "Ugh, now we have to wait for the rest of our stupid team to get here." She huffed.

(Cosmic Chimps – Sky & Dave)

The two walked silently down the empty hall, both brandishing blasters. Dave still refused to look at Sky and was glaring at nothing in particular as he looked away. Sky on the other hand kept glancing at the back of Dave's head, hoping he's say something. She didn't really feel comfortable starting the conversation.

Finally, she gave in and sighed. "Dave, we need to stop this." She stated. She waited for a reply but the Germophobe was determined to stay silent and ignore her. "This silly feud has gone on for too long!" She continued, but still no reply.

"Dave, I'm trying to work things out. Could you at least talk to me?" Sky glared at him. Dave started sweating but kept his mouth shut and still looked the other way.

Now Sky was starting to fume. "I want to change this! I'm trying to make amends to better not only my game, but your game as well! If we keep fighting people are going to get tired of it and vote us out! Trust me on this one!" She pleaded.

(Outhouse Confessional- Yikes, the silent treatment)

Dave- "Why should I trust her?! The last time I did that she led me on and then ripped out my heart and stomped on it!" He cried. "She says she wants to better both of our games, but I know she's only in it for herself! I've seen what you're like Sky!" He pointed at the camera with vengeance in his eyes.

Sky- "I don't know what more I can do! He won't talk to me, and if he doesn't talk to me, I can't fix this!" She sighed, holding her head. "Ugh! If it wasn't for Chris messing things up at the finale, I could have explained everything to him!" She grit her teeth.

"Please Dave, you have to understand," Sky continued her plead, "I didn't mean for any of this to happen! I was trying to focus on the game and then you came along and I really liked you and . . . ugh! Chris messed everything up!" She shouted.

Dave just continued walking ahead. Sky didn't deserve his breath, and now she was trying to pin the whole thing on Chris. There were plenty of moments when she could have explained herself, but she led him on.

"Yes, I'm at fault, but you need to understand that it was your fault too! We're both at fault!" Sky exclaimed, throwing her hands up.

The gymnast took another step and suddenly the floor gave out beneath her. She had stepped on a rusty vent and it had fallen out from under her. Now, the runner was hanging above nothingness. It was so dark, she wasn't even sure if it was space or a deeper part of the spaceship. Whatever it was, it didn't look good. "Ah! Help!" She cried, hanging on by one hand. "Dave!"

"Sky!" Dave suddenly exclaimed, looking back to see his ex-crush in peril. He ran up to the hole in the floor and stood over her. "You never loved me." He hissed venomously at her. "All you did was lead me on!" With that, he stepped a foot down on her hand, causing Sky to cry out, only feeling numbness as she was forced to let go.

"That's not true!" She yelled back as she fell into the dark abyss, her cry echoing throughout the hall.

Satisfied with his vengeance, the lovesick psychopath turned around and left without another thought.

(Outhouse Confessional- Long live the king!)

Dave- "Okay, so maybe killing Sky wasn't the best move for the team, but I can't deny that it felt so good!" He squealed. "She totally had it coming."

Sky- "That was completely uncalled for!" She exclaimed. "He should have just worked things out with me when I gave him the chance, but instead he sabotages the team for his one personal revenge!" She threw her hands up in anger. "I tried good cop, but it looks like he's giving me no other choice but bad cop!" She sighed.

(Cosmic Chimps – Trent & Gwen)

"I still can't believe my messed up leg transferred over to into the virtual world!" Gwen complained as she hobbled through the halls of the seemingly endless spaceship with Trent as her crutch.

"Yeah, and for some reason your crutches didn't come with it." Trent said, scratching the back of his head in confusion. "Guess it's a good thing I volunteered to be your partner, huh?" The musician grinned.

"Yeah." Gwen smiled with a blush. "I guess since the crutches weren't actually attached to me, they didn't come with me. I guess that means you'll be my permanent crutch for this challenge. At least until we run into an alien."

"Aw come on now, don't be such a downer." Trent insisted. "You're a strong girl and no messed up leg is gonna pull you down."

"Come on Trent, you know that if one of those things attacks us I'm a goner." Gwen told him. "I'm like a wounded gazelle."

"Then I'll just have to protect you. I've got this shield after all." He said, holding up the light shield.

"Trent, you don't have to do this for me. I can deal with getting eliminated from the challenge." Gwen assured him. "If I can't keep going I at least want you to."

"Don't worry babe, I want to." Trent smiled.

"Um, we're not dating, remember?" Gwen reminded him. "That makes it kind of weird to call me babe."

(Outhouse Confessional- Friend-zoned!)

Trent- "Agh! I can't believe I did that! How does Geoff get away with saying it so easily?" He wondered.

"Sorry I just...figured you'd be okay with it since, you know...you're cool like that." He said with a light chuckle.

"You were trying to get away with it like Geoff does, weren't you." Gwen smirked.

"Yeah, kinda." Trent admitted sheepishly.

Gwen chuckled to herself. "Well, I guess it's not that bad." She smiled.

"Man, I just gotta get something off my chest." Trent said as the two continued down the oddly empty hall. "You know how I went kind of crazy back during Total Drama Action?" He asked.

"How could I forget?" Gwen bit her lip.

"Yeah well . . . I just wanted to apologize for that." He came clean. "It wasn't your fault and if I was in the same position as you, I probably would have done the same thing."

"You mean back-stab you and vote you out after dumping you?" Gwen winced.

"Um, no just the dumping part." Trent corrected her rather awkwardly.

"Then I guess I should apologize too." Gwen said. "I didn't for any of that to happen. In truth, it was all Justin's fault. He blamed me for well . . . what you were doing and said that I owed him, even after voting you out."

"Nah, that's mostly my fault." Trent reminded her. "I'm the one who was doing all that stuff for you, even when you didn't want me to. I guess I kinda dug my own grave, huh?"

"Yeah, kinda." Gwen nodded in agreement.

Trent looked at the ground with a sigh. "Man, I really messed up. Sorry for putting you in that situation and causing you to lose out on a million bucks." He apologized.

"No no, it wasn't your fault. Like I said, it was Justin who twisted everything up and put me in that position." Gwen corrected him. "And then everyone pinned the blame on me. And I guess it didn't help that I dumped you that same day."

"So all's forgiven?" Trent asked.

Gwen nodded. "And don't even get me started on Duncan. That was the biggest mistake of my life. Even bigger of a mistake than signing up for this show in the first place."

Trent laughed. "Yeah, well you dumped him. Hard." He grinned. "So I guess I can forgive you."

"Wait, do you hear something?" Gwen asked, glancing around the hallway. Trent raised an eyebrow and listened intently.

Somebody or two somebodies were screaming. It started out quietly but then gradually got louder and louder until Cody and Samey suddenly came running down the hall, ultimately crashing right into Trent and Gwen.

"Ah! What's the big idea?" Gwen demanded, unable to get up from the floor. Trent got up and grabbed her hand to pull her up.

"Sorry, but there's a scary alien thing chasing us!" Samey breathed heavily, pointing down the way they had run from.

As if on cue, another one of the green gelatinous aliens entered the scene, swinging along the air-ducts similarly to an ape or monkey.

"Get behind me!" Trent instructed, holding out his shield to block the lunging creature. Samey and Cody, who were both brandishing blasters, began firing at the shape-shifter accompanied by Gwen who also had one.

Whenever the bolts of light slammed into the gooey body of the alien, it ripped a hole in the skin, only for it to reform seconds later.

"It's not doing anything!" Samey cried.

"Maybe it's like the hydra from Greek Mythology." Cody suggested, firing some more bolts of light from his blaster. "You know, cut its head off and then burn the skin before it can grow another set of heads.

"It's worth a shot." Gwen shrugged before firing some more at the creature.

"I'm on it!" Trent called out, hurling his shield like a disc. It cut right through the shape-shifter's neck like a pizza-cutter. "Now!"

As soon as the shield went all the way through, Cody, Samey, and Gwen all fired their blasters at the neck stub which was already trying to reform back into its a head. "Did it work?" Samey asked hopefully.

All three of them stopped firing their blasters, anxiously waiting to see if their plan worked. Suddenly, the gooey body fell to the floor, exploding into a piles of green goo rather than the usual purple.

"I think it did!" Cody chuckled, wiping a glob of guts from his goggles. "What are the chances of that!"

"It's a good thing we ran into you guys." Samey breathed a sigh of relief. "I thought we were gonna be goners back there!"

"Uh, no problem." Gwen smiled. "So...I guess we keep going and look for the escape pods?" She guessed.

"Well they're not that way." Samey said, pointing back the way they had come from.

(Space Serpents – Eva, Max, Scarlett & Noah)

"So, does anyone actually know where we're going?" Noah asked. "It feels like we've been wandering the halls for a good eleven minutes."

"Of course, fool." Max scoffed. "What's the point in going somewhere without knowing where you're going? It's nonsense!"

"So, which way are the escape pods then?" Noah questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"Um..." Max paused, looking between two pathways of which the one they were on diverged into. "The escape pods are clearly . . ."

"You have no clue where they are, do you?" Noah deadpanned.

"Yes I do!" Max insisted. "It's this one!" He said, pointing the hallway closest to him on the left.

"Oh please, you guessed randomly at best." Scarlett rolled his eyes. The brainiac lifted up one of the panels on the wall to reveal a series of blinking lights and lines. "According to this map, the right hallway will lead us to the escape pods here." She pointed to two green lights right next to each other on the map.

"What's that blinking red light?" Eva demanded, pointing to the middle of the right hallway on the map.

"I would assume that's where a known alien encounter occurred which means we should be alert." Scarlett answered.

"Fools!" Max spat. "You'd rather run into one of those disgusting aliens than go down the clearly right path."

"Hey, you do what you want, gnome." Noah shrugged. "But I'm gonna follow the one who knows what they're doing."

"How dare you defy me! I know what I'm doing!" Max snapped. "And quit calling me a gnome!" Noah, Eva, and Scarlett just ignored him and went down the right hallway. "Fine! I'm going the right way! And by that I mean the left hallway." He hollered at them before pouting down the hallway.

Max began pumping his pop-gun, looking back and forth in case he came upon an alien. "Whoa dude! Didn't see you there!" Geoff exclaimed, almost running into him. "Hey, have you seen Bridgette?"

"What are you talking about your incompetent baboon?!" Max cried. "Who's Bridgette?"

"Um, my girlfriend..." Geoff answered, slightly shocked that he didn't know. "Um, she's another contestant."

"Meh, worthless lives mean nothing to me." Max waved it off.

"Hey! She's not worthless!" Geoff protested. "She's fun, and nice, and . . . hot!"

"I hate to interrupted this unintelligent conversation, but we appear to have company." Max pointed behind the party animal.

Geoff turned around to see Bridgette walking towards them, albeit silently and slightly out of it. "Bridgette!" Geoff exclaimed, running up to his girlfriend.

She still didn't say anything.

"Is this what you call fun?" Max raised an eyebrow dubiously.

Suddenly, Bridgette grew an extra set of arms and her mouth began to fill with long sharp teeth. "Whoa! You're not Bridge!" Geoff cried, backing away before it could bite his head off. Max hit the shape-shifter with a net from his pop-gun, securing it. And for good measure, Geoff netted the net as well.

"Whew, I guess it goes to show you that you can't trust anyone." Geoff wiped some virtual sweat from his forehead. The two paused and then looked at each other suspiciously.

Suddenly, at once they both pulled out their pop-guns and began pumping them. "So, you were an alien all this time!" Max glared at him. "And you didn't even tell your master?"

"Whoa bro, I didn't even know!" Geoff said defensively as he continued to pump his gun.

"Yeah? Well I've got you now fool!" Max declared.

"Oh, but it's not you that's got me . . ." Geoff grinned as he finished pumping his pop gun. "It's-" The party animal fired his pop-gun, only to find out that he was holding it the wrong way once he was encased in a net. "...me that's got me." He said in defeat. [6]

"Ha-ha! Never try to outsmart your master foolish minion!" Max cackled. "Or should I call you . . . foolish ALIEN minion!" With that, the evil genius left the party boy as he went further down the hall.

"Yo dude, there's a guy behind you." Geoff warned.

"Yeah, like I would ever listen to anything an alien told me!" Max spat.

"I'm not an alien, bro!" Geoff protested. "And there's really a dude-" He was cut off when the shape-shifting alien lunged at the back of Max's head. The purple-haired weirdo didn't even have time to react before he was devoured. "Woah...harsh, dude." Geoff whispered to himself. Despite being quite, the alien heard him and turned sharply toward him. "Aw man . . . this bites!"

(Space Serpents – Chef)

Chef awoke to find himself in the corner of what appeared to be the ship's boiler room. There were pipes running everywhere with steam bursting from them at frequent moments. The cook looked down and saw that he had been tied up in a thick cocoon of green slime.

Looking around, he saw that there were other cocoons, only they were hanging from the ceiling. He managed to make out the unmoving bodies of Bridgette, Geoff and Max who appeared to be asleep in their green slime sacks.

To Chef's right, another one of the skeletal aliens with the crests, of which his costume was based on, came in dragging Courtney's dead corpse.

Slime dripped from the ceiling and with a quick glance up, Chef let out a startled scream as one of the aliens hissed at him. The creature was perched on the side of the wall looking down at him. With a swift leap, it landed next to him and got close to his face.

With what Chef hoped wasn't loving eyes, the alien released its long slimy tongue with a mouth at the end to inspect Chef's 'handsome' face. First the tongue slithered around to his costume head and began kissing the cheek of it.

Much to Chef's horror, the tongue lowered and began kissing his cheek. While there was no pain in the VR, the machine was very good at other senses and touches. Unfortunately for the cook, the slime from the tongue was one of those sensations.

"Just kill me now!" He wailed. He was given an immediate angry hissing reaction from the alien who was now about to give him his wish.

(Outhouse Confessional- Be careful what you wish for!)

Chef- "Dang Chris makin' me wear that costume! That is something I did not need to experience!" He snapped. "I oughta show him punishment..." He mumbled.

(Cosmic Chimps – Leshawna & Harold)

"Quick Leshawna, give me your light-saber!" Harold instructed in the dark. It took a little coordination but Leshawna finally managed to find Harold's hand and give him her light-saber handle.

There was a pause before the nerd pressed the button and the blade slowly rose out from the handle, illuminating a small space around them in the hallway almost like a torch. "There must be an emergency power-circuit that we can turn on somewhere." Harold said, looking around, dragging the light from the light-saber with him.

"Here, since I have more experience with these, you can have my pop-gun." Harold said, handing her the small cylindrical gun. Leshawna looked slightly annoyed that she was now forced to use a lame gun but she couldn't help but smile when seeing Harold all happy and excited.

"Look out Leshawna!" Harold suddenly cried. Clearly he saw something she didn't. Leshawna looked behind her to where Harold was looking and saw another horde of the small monkey-like aliens that had terrorized a part of the spaceship.

Leshawna immediately began firing her pop-gun, netting several of the aliens out of mid-air. Unfortunately, they had numbers on their side and began overpowering Harold's Chocolate Goddess.

The lanky nerd didn't even notice the monkey aliens take down his girlfriend, for he was too busy showing off his mad ninja skills and slicing and dicing more of the aliens. He spun the saber so fast that it acted as a shield, blowing up any alien that hit it into a splash of purple goo.

Soon enough the siege of aliens died down and Harold stopped swinging and observed the damage. There were piles of purple goo spotted everywhere around the floor. The ubber nerd looked to his side to find Leshawna's dead body.

"No! My love!" Harold cried. "I will fight for you!" He vowed, bringing the light-saber to his chest dramatically, only to have the moment ruined when he realized the laser was burning off his goatee. "Ah!" He cried, pulling it away from his smoking chin.

(Outhouse Confessional- FOR HONOR.)

Leshawna- "I have to admit, it was nice to get outta that awkward, freaky place." She told the camera. "Nothin' against Harold or anything but that's just not my style." She shook her head.

(Space Serpents – Duncan & Scott)

The two enemies continued walking down the hall. It was odd that they hadn't run into any aliens yet but neither one was complaining. The less they had to work together to accomplish a goal, the happier they were.

"Hey, do you hear something?" Duncan asked. "It sounds like it's coming from around the corner." He added.

"You must be hearing things." Scott rolled his eyes. "Either that or you're just stupid." he snickered.

Duncan glared at the dirt farmer. "This is serious man, I think I hear someone." He scolded. The punk listened closer and could make out some voices.

"You fight like a girl!" Came a gruff, gravelly voice.

"Yeah, well at least I'm not insulting my own kind." Came another voice, this one much more blunt and dry.

"Could you refrain from using me as a shield and instead use that crossbow of yours to help us?" A third voice requested.

Duncan and Scott turned the corner to see another skeletal and crested alien attacking Eva, Noah, and Scarlett. The three had managed to keep it at bay but couldn't get it to go away or die.

Scarlett's pop gun was rather useless in this case but she still fired several nets at the creature. They weren't big enough and either slid off harmlessly or caught the head, but the alien managed to rip them off.

Meanwhile, Eva was socking it in the face left and right while Noah was cowering behind Scarlett, only occasionally peeking out to fire an electric arrow at the creature. Most times he missed.

"Wow, you guys suck!" Duncan laughed, gaining the attention of the alien for a second before Eva clocked it upside the head once more.

"Why don't you take a crack at it?" Noah suggested with narrowed eyes.

"I would but, this pop gun isn't gonna do much." Duncan admitted. "Just look at your psycho-killer friend." He said, gesturing to Scarlett who still couldn't land a good hit with her net.

"AUGH!" She finally screamed. "Curse this confound and useless instrument!" She roared.

"Well, it looks like it's your lucky day, eh Scott?" Duncan grinned, shoving the dirt farmer ahead and closer to the alien. "After all, you do have the useful light-saber." He grinned, now happy to have a pop-gun.

Scott stared, mouth agape in shock and fear as the alien screeched at him. Eva punched it again, but this time it had had enough. The alien swiped at Eva, clawing her in the face. The weight-lifter recoiled, holding her face where blood was already seeping out of the claw marks. Thank goodness for no pain sensors, not that it would have stopped her of course.

The thin and bony creature turned around once more and lunged at Scott. "WAAAH!" He cried, blindly waving his light-saber in the air in pure terror. He closed his eyes, waiting for impact from the creature, but it never came.

Scott opened his eyes to find the alien sliced, diced, and smoking on the ground. "W-wait, I did it?!" He gasped.

"Hey, looks like swinging blindly does work." Noah grinned.

"We should get moving." Scarlett interrupted the celebration. "The noise from that attack would easily draw attention from other nearby aliens. If we can just get to the escape pods down the hall, we'll be fine.

"Oh, you mean those two doors over there?" Duncan offered, jabbing a thumb behind him and to the right.

"Precisely." Scarlett nodded.

"Say, you haven't seen a short, purple-haired weirdo running around, have you?" Noah asked Duncan and Scott.

"Nope." Scott shook his head.

"Afraid not." Duncan chimed in.

"Huh, guess the little twerp didn't survive." Noah rolled his eyes. "What a shocker."

"Wait what? You mean you just left him?!" Duncan exclaimed. "And let him get killed? Way to sabotage the team!"

"Actually, Max refused to go with us. He dug his own grave." Scarlett corrected the punk. "So do not blame us for his ignorance."

"Whatever." Duncan said, wanting to drop the subject. "Here we are!" He then said moments later as the group came to the two doors. One was open slightly with a light on while the other was dim.

"Anybody home?" Noah called out, walking into the lit one.

"Oh, it's just you." Dakota breathed a sigh of relief, she and Amy putting down their blaster and shield.

"Took you guys long enough." Amy rolled her eyes as Scarlett, Eva, Noah, Duncan, and Scott entered. "I've been bored to death in here."

"Wait, where's Courtney?" Duncan asked, concerned.

"Oh, she was killed by one of those ugly anorexic alien things when she got too close to the escape pod." Amy explained nonchalantly.

"Huh, I never took Courtney be that gullible." Duncan shrugged.

"So like, what are we supposed to do?" Dakota asked.

"I don't know, but do you hear something?" Duncan asked, sounding serious again.

"Oh not this again." Scott groaned.

"No, really, listen!" Duncan said. "It sounds like . . . this dark lord?" He wondered. The punk was suddenly cut off when his hand almost forcibly went up to his neck and formed a choke-hold. As if by some otherworldly force, he was being choked as he gagged for air.

Amy, Eva, and Scott all gasped while Dakota screamed before Duncan dropped the act and let out a loud cackle. "Ha! You guys are so gullible!" He laughed.

"Hey! That was so not cool!" Dakota scolded.

"He was obviously faking." Scarlett scoffed. "There's no such force that exists; only in the special effects genre of cinema."

"Bored now?" Duncan grinned, earning glares from Dakota and Amy.

"There you guys are!" Came another voice. Everyone turned to see Dave enter the small compartment.

"Hey, I think that's everybody." Duncan said. "Except for . . . wait, where's Sky?"

"Oh..." Dave sweated. "She uh, fell. Down a shaft" He lied. Technically it wasn't lying, right? He just left out the part about making her fall.

"Really? Sky? Clumsy?" Noah asked, raising a suspicious eyebrow. "We're talking about the same gymnast who surfs down tree branches after falling from airplane heights and lands gracefully in the water, right?"

"Look, she stepped on a rusty grate and fell, alright?!" Dave snapped, starting to get annoyed about the subject.

"Okay, sheesh." Duncan held up his hands defensively. "Whatever, let's just get off of this crappy spaceship. Everyone who's alive is accounted for."

"On it!" Scott announced, pressing the red button on the wall. With a hiss and some other mechanical noises, the escape pod left the spaceship. On the outside, the spaceship appeared to be shaped like a large green, metal hand that flicked the small escape orb deep into space. Why it was shaped like a hand is beyond anyone's comprehension but man, did it look cool. [7]

(Cosmic Chimps – Trent, Gwen, Samey, & Cody)

The two couples wandered the halls in search of the escape pods. "Do you ever feel like you're going in circles?" Cody asked with a slight chuckle to lighten the mood.

"Yup." Gwen sighed. "But those escape pods have to be around here somewhere." She said as she hobbled along at Trent's side.

"Well there haven't been very many aliens lately so that must be a good sign." Samey offered.

Suddenly, and without warning, Owen came screaming down the hall, practically appearing out of nowhere. He clobbered Gwen and kept going until he blindly ran into the wall behind them.

"What is with everyone knocking me over?!" Gwen cried angrily as Trent helped her up again.

"There's scary aliens chasing me!" Owen wailed.

"Aw, seriously?" Trent groaned.

"No, not seriously." Came an Aussie accent. Everyone turned to see Jasmine and Dawn arrive on the scene, the later sitting around the tall girl's shoulders. Both of them were covered in alien goo. So much so that at first glance, an Owen could easily mistake them for an alien.

"Wait, it's just you guys?" Owen asked incredulously.

"Yes." Dawn nodded with a smile. "No worries. I just climbed onto Jasmine's shoulders to make ourselves appear bigger to any aliens who we might have come across."

"Yeah, well it worked!" Owen chuckled sheepishly. "Not to mention all of that weird alien goo on you makes you look even scarier!"

"That's alright, mate." Jasmine smiled, still keeping up the cheerful attitude. "I reckon the escape pods are here somewhere." She tapped her chin in thought.

"Well ya might wanna find them fast!" Chris suddenly came over the spaceship's intercom. "You guys are taking too long and it's getting boring, so it's time to RELEASE THE ALIENS!" He declared.

"Release the what now?!" Cody exclaimed in fear.

Suddenly, rattling came from all angles. Above, below, within the walls and down the hall. "Chris must've activated a bunch of aliens!" Jasmine deduced. "And they're all headed here!"

"We need to find those escape pods now!" Gwen stated. "Let's try this way!" She suggested, pointing down the hallway that intersected from the two ways both groups had come from.

"There are some more of those monkey things!" Owen cried nervously. He had apparently encountered them at one point.

"I see some of the shape-shifting ones too!" Jasmine pointed out as the horde of assorted aliens came crawling, slithering, and running down the corridor towards them.

"Watch out!" Dawn exclaimed. "There are invisible ones from above!" She used her pop-gun to net a few of them while Jasmine shot others that were dropping down.

Owen screamed in terror, using the same technique from before and waving his light-saber around wildly. His teammates ducked and ran out of the way so as not to end up like Izzy. "Let's keep moving!" Trent instructed as the group fended off some of the aliens that were getting too close.

"I see a door!" Samey pointed ahead two doors in the center of the hallway. The one closest to them just looked out into space however, so Samey assumed the Villains had already left. "And Harold?" She wondered.

The nerd appeared to be guarding the escape pod entrance wielding a light-saber similar to Owen's red one, only this one was blue.

"Hurry team!" Harold ushered them into the open door. "I will fend them off with my skills!" He assured them.

Trent helped Gwen into the compartment and the two were quickly followed by a cowardly Owen as well as Cody and Samey. Dawn was next after sniping a few aliens with nets from far away.

Jasmine was still firing her blaster at the aliens, hitting a few, but that wasn't enough to stop the wave of aliens. "Ah!" She cried as she tripped, trying to run backwards. Her blaster clattered to the floor and before anyone knew it, the horde of aliens grabbed her and devoured the red-shirted girl alive.

"It never fails." Harold shook his head solemnly before realizing there were a ton of aliens still gunning for them.

"Jasmine!" Dawn cried upon seeing her friend get swallowed into the wall of rabid aliens.

"They're getting in!" Trent warned, kicking back a tentacle. Owen whacked a claw with his light-saber.

"Come on Harold!" Samey called out, but the nerd was too busy hacking and slashing at various alien scum. There was no way he's be able to get in in time without bringing several aliens with him.

"We've gotta go!" Gwen shouted. She didn't want to leave Harold behind but they had no option. She pressed the button on the side and the door closed. Moments later, the escape pod was flung safely into space.

There was a pause before hand spaceship exploded into a million pieces of space-debris, killing everything and everyone left inside.

"At least I went out in honor." Harold said as he and the rest of the heroes were released from the machine.

"Ha!" Duncan laughed. "Your 'honor' cost your team the win!"

"Actually, Jasmine's death is what cost them the win. And even then it would have resulted in a tie." Scarlett corrected the punk.

"Wait, we lost?!" Gwen exclaimed.

"Yup!" Chris answered happily. "But you won't have to suffer through the dreaded elimination ceremony, today was actually a reward challenge!"

"You mean we did all that for nothing?" Courtney complained.

"It wasn't for nothing, you guys won a special reward!" Chris grinned.

"And that would be?!" Eva demanded, getting very irritated.

"An Alien Movie Marathon!" Chris announced with his usual annoyingly happy smile whenever the contestants were suffering.

"No thanks." Duncan declined.

"Yeah, not after that." Courtney shook her head.

"Nice one McLean." Noah said dryly.

"So it looks like it was for nothing then." Harold frowned.

"Hey, you did save us." Cody reminded him. "Even if it didn't matter in the end, it's the thought and action that counts."

"Thanks, Cody." Harold smiled.

"Well, it looks like that's it for this week's episode of Total...Drama-"

"Hold on!" Chef interrupted the host's outro. "This is for framin' me for a crime I didn't commit and then punishing' me." The cook grinned maliciously.

"Wha-what's going on?" Chris asked worriedly.

Chef grabbed the small host and threw him down into one of the virtual reality seats. Before he could escape, Chef tied him in and slammed down one of the headsets on him. He then went over to the machine's core and cranked up a dial all the way. "Have fun." He cackled.

"AH! AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Chris screamed, apparently forced to be in unimaginable horror as the episode faded to a close.

~A/N~ Well, no doubt I forgot some sort of reference or something I wanted to add in there but I think I'm pretty happy with how the first one-chapter-VR episode turned out, even if it may have seemed a little rushed. The partial reason I decided to make THIS one one chapter is because it wasn't scheduled to have an elimination and I didn't want to have two chapters without an elimination in a row again.

I do hope I had enough Star Wars, Alien, Star Trek and other references to satisfy your needs. Hopefully Sigorne Weaver would be proud.

I feel like I'm forgetting something I wanted to talk about here at the end but I guess I can't wait and think about it forever, so I'll just leave you with 'Be sure to check out my Ridonculous Race story and fav/follow both my main stories if you haven't already!'

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[1]- It's common knowledge that in all Star Trek movies, anybody with a red shirt will die eventually. It's foolproof.

[2]- I don't know why but I just love this line from the Spongebob episode "Rock Bottom". It was just so classic Spongebob that I had to put it in. Come to think of it, maybe I could have incorporated the spitting language but whatever. I guess (phttp) you can't (phttp) have everything (phttp)

[3]- A play off of Han Solo's line "Never tell me the odds." Only much more whinier since Max is saying it :P

[4]- This is obviously the aline from, well, Alien. IT appears several times throughout the chapter and is no doubt the alien that Chef's costume is based on.

[5]- Just like with the "Rock Bottom" Spongebob joke, I had to include this one because I love this scene XD I can't quite remember the episode it's from but I love it.

[6]- The last Spongebob reference, I promise! This one I couldn't not include. Everything about this scene and episode is great and makes me miss old Spongebob. Seriously, I only included pop-guns as weapons in this chapter purely for this joke to work.

[7]- Why is the spaceship a hand you ask? Because Steven Universe of course. In the episode 'Jailbreak' the spaceship Peridot and Jasper are on is in the shape of a hand. The flicking motion escape pod thing was also from that. No spoilers though, just watch the episode ;)

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Total Drama: In The House Application Form

So, as you know, this is a Big Brother rip-off. Like I said, this won't be in production for an extremely long time but I wanted to put out the application for now for anyone who wanted to submit a character. This will likely be open for a long time so have no worries if a good OC doesn't come to mind right away.

Speaking of which, I'm looking for interesting, different, and creative personalities. I don't want them to be too similar to an already existing character and I don't want them to be a boring Mary Sue or Gary Stue. The point is, make your character cool. It's okay if they are a manipulator like Heather for instance, but make them stand out more. Make them be three-dimensional instead of a hollow 2D shell of a human being.

You may send in a total of two OCs but it is not guaranteed that they will both be picked, or either of them at all. I'd prefer one girl and one boy but if you can't imagine that far, then just stick with one gender.

I think that's all I have to say, so without further or do, here's that application form you were lookin' to take a little peek at.

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