Chapter 21: Saloon Murder Mystery
It was finally Blaineley's turn to give a recap to the audience.
Blaineley's Commentary:
Last time on Camp Drama Showdown, it was an old fashion scavenger hunt led by Jade's two uncles. The goal was to find fake talismans that had the pictures of me or Chris, with the team that had the most talismans would receive immunity from being voted off.
For the Raging Bulls, Molly and Sissy made a deal to lose the challenge on purpose, while the Blazing Saddles got some help from Riley which is btw, CHEATING! But for the Racing Rangers, they were on a roll as June had collected the most talismans in her team, while the Spinning Six still had some of its fair share of problems.
In the end, it was Cree and Wally who got voted off, with Cree nearly getting into a fight with Jake, so who'll come out on top next, and more importantly, who'll be voted off next? Find out here on Camp Drama Showdown!
End of Commentary.
It was quite late at night, and the remaining contestants were fast asleep, Chris' new advisers made up of M. Bison, Seth and Juri were indeed inspecting the entire town with Chris and Blaineley accompanying them.
"I must say, we're impressed with the entire season so far" said M. Bison.
"Since when did you guys decide to drop doing fighting tournaments?" asked Chris.
"We still have those" replied Seth, "we just like to expand in other areas."
"I guess you three will be filling the shoes of Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters now" said Blaineley.
"Yeah, that Lord V was bad, but we're better in being worse" continued Juri.
"Well, that's the end of the tour, you're welcome to stay in the Saloon for the time being if you choose to do so" said Chris.
"Will do" said M. Bison as the trio left for the Saloon.
Meanwhile, in the Saloon itself, Courage who had a bad feeling that Eustace was up to no good in handing around with Ember and Young Blood decided to spy on the trio whom were making plans for the next challenge.
"So you get dibs on what the next challenge would be?" asked Eustace to Ember and Young Blood.
"Yep, that's the privilege of being on the Idea Team for Blaineley really is all about" said Ember.
"Can I have a little secret on what the challenge might be, come on, I won't leak it out" said Eustace.
"Sorry, can't, besides we can't exploit what'd happen in the coming challenge anyway" said Young Blood.
"Yeah, there has to be out in the open for us to do so, it's more in a closed environment, that makes it harder for us to do so" continued Ember.
After Eustace met with the two, he ran into Courage.
"Stupid dog, get out of my way" said Eustace to which he then placed on his mask and scared Courage, "Booga, booga, booga!"
Courage screamed and ran off where Muriel was who was getting the Saloon ready for Chris' new advisers. About a few hours passed and it was finally morning, the contestants were gotten up by Colonel Barnes and Chef, to which Blaineley had an important announcement to make as the contestants arrived outside.
"I have a very important announcement, Spud will be joining the Spinning Six, while Haley and Dee Dee will be joining the Wild Stallions" said Blaineley.
Confessions in the Outhouse:
"Alright, I'm finally in this game!" laughed Spud with joy.
"When the heck will Blaineley upgrade me!" cried Sheldon, "I want to impress Jenny what I can do!"
"Yeah, I'm a horsy!" said Dee Dee.
"At least I'll have some quiet time" said Dexter.
"Yeah, I'm on the same team my brother is!" said Haley.
"Even though Spud and I are on different teams, I say the more chances to win that 25 million dollars, the better" said Jake.
"Great, now I have to share my alliance with more people!" cried Dukey who didn't like being an alliance with Rose.
End of Confessions.
"Alright, today's a special day, since the mess hall is closed" said Chef, "you'll all have first class breakfast meals at the Saloon instead."
"About time we got some first class meals" said Mandy.
"Yeah" added Jack, "I'm getting tired of eating Chef's food."
As the remaining contestants headed to the Saloon, the Saloon was indeed packed as Muriel was managing them all with the help of Justin, Harold, Cody and Trent, along with Lindsey, Gwen, Duncan and the other Total Drama alumni. In the center of the Saloon, M. Bison, along with Seth and Juri were sitting there, and there was a chair left for Vlad Masters who was scheduled to come in.
"Doesn't it sound suspicious that Chris is giving us first class breakfast meals?" asked Molly.
"Hey I'm not complaining" said Mandy.
As Cleveland Jr. sat down to eat his breakfast, he noticed Trixie was sitting at her team's table doing the same to which the two smiled at each other from afar. Likewise, Marc did the same to Libby.
Confessions the Saloon:
"Wow, I cannot believe Trixie still likes me" said Cleveland Jr.
"Cleveland Jr. is quite nice, he's much better than any of the guys around here" said Trixie.
"Marc's pretty good" said Libby.
"Now that Wally's gone, no one will be embarrassing me with my poems to Libby" said Marc.
End of Confessions.
After Vlad finally arrived on the scene, in the back of the Saloon, Ember along with Young Blood who were allowed by Vlad to release Alejandro, Courtney and Heather from prison on a pardon he managed to make in secret were let in through the back.
"Pretty neat how Vlad can give out pardons" said Young Blood.
"Yes, but he said he had A PARDON" said Alejandro, "I wonder what he meant by that."
"Isn't it suspicious that he said that?" added Heather.
"Nope" said Ember who was obviously hiding the surprise for the challenge.
Ember and Young Blood led the trio upstairs and to the balcony where Chris and Blaineley were supposedly sitting with five seats waiting for them. But as Alejandro stepped forward, he accidently stepped on a button that was purposely installed there by Dexter of Blaineley's Idea Team, along with execution helped out by Ferb and Newton. Both figures what seemed to be Chris and Blaineley came out flying out of their seats as if they were pushed right out, and falling right onto the stage of the Saloon's theater itself.
"Chris, Blaineley!" cried Alejandro as he looked down.
Everyone in the Saloon began to panic mostly.
Confessions in the Saloon:
"Oh my God, Chris and Blaineley are gone!" cried Kuki.
"Great, who the heck is going to give us the 25 million bucks" sighed Rose, "I guess Vlad can host the show now."
"Just when things went bad to worse!" cried Dukey.
End of Confessions.
"Alright" said Hoogie as he got up on the table and placed on his detective hat, "I am the only one who is qualified here to solve this murder mystery."
"Hey, don't accuse me of being a suspect this time" said Mushi to Hoogie.
"Relax, I know you're not a suspect here for now" said Hoogie.
"I think you're going to need some help on this" said Marc.
"Hmm, maybe I do need your smarts after all" said Hoogie.
Confessions in the Saloon:
"What a poor execution!" cried M. Bison who wasn't impressed with how Chris and Blaineley fell.
"If I were behind it, that would not be my style" said Juri.
"Arrrgghhh!" cried Courage.
End of Confessions.
"Chef, Colonel, don't let anyone leave the Saloon" said Hoogie as he took charge to which Chef and Colonel Barnes went around the Saloon to block all the exits, "we are going to do this by the book."
Everyone who was sitting at their tables had no other choice but to get up and be interrogated by Hoogie while Marc was taking down notes on the possible suspects.
"I'm going to start with these three suspicious characters, only because I want to eliminate them as suspects" said Hoogie referring to M. Bison, Seth, and Juri.
"Listen kid, we didn't do it" said M. Bison.
"Why would we, we got all the money in the world going for ourselves" added Seth.
"So lay off us as suspects already kid" said Juri.
"I do not think they did it" said Marc, "they're also part of Chris' new advisers and could defund the show if they end up becoming unhappy."
"Yeah, listen to your smart friend over there" said M. Bison.
Hoogie then concentrated on the Blazing Saddles and the Racing Rangers as possible suspects.
"You there, you seem pretty strong for a girl" said Hoogie.
"Hey, don't make me show to do what I did to poor Dash" said June.
"Don't accuse me of being a suspect either pal" said Mandy.
"Er, I do not think those two teams were behind it" said Marc, "besides, everyone of them were at their seats when it happened."
"Alright" said Hoogie to which he turned his attention to the Chanting Cherokees as Danny was the only member absent, "you there, where were YOU when the incident occurred."
"I was, er" said Danny who was not going to say he was secretly spying on Danielle and Hiro while invisible.
"Come on, he couldn't do it, I guess he was spying on those two love birds over there" said Libby referring to Danielle and Hiro, "secretly somehow."
Confessions in the Saloon:
"Why doesn't Danny trust me and Hiro?" cried Danielle who was upset.
"What a creep" said Libby referring to Danny, "I hope that Sam girl realizes she should reign on in on her boy."
"There must be someway for me to get Danny to pay more attention to Sam instead of me and Danielle" said Hiro.
"Nope, cannot be him" said Marc as he had a list of suspects where he crossed out Danny's name.
End of Confessions.
Suddenly Ember, along with Young Blood emerged from backstage to which Hoogie noticed the two.
"You two!" said Hoogie as he approached them, "You two look very suspicious to me."
"Look kid, if it's about Chris and Blaineley falling to their doom, we were NOT behind it" said Ember.
"Yeah, we're not monsters" said Young Blood.
"But you two have access to everything here, more so than any contestants on the show even before you became part of Blaineley's Idea Team" said Hoogie.
"That doesn't mean we have any motives" said Ember.
"Yeah, what's our motive if we didn't do it pal?" added Young Blood.
"I think we may have to move on" said Marc.
Suddenly Hoogie and Marc noticed shadows of the three fugitives, Alejandro, Courtney and Heather running to the back of the stage.
"After those suspects!" ordered Hoogie.
Both Marc and Hoogie managed to overpower the trio with Ember and Young Blood ended up helping them with the trio of suspects being brought out to everyone where everyone gasped in shock that they were somehow released from prison.
"We didn't do it!" cried Heather.
"It was a setup!" added Courtney.
"Yeah, what she said" added Alejandro.
"We were given A PARDON from Mayor Vlad Masters" said Courtney.
"A PARDON, A PARDON, only A PARDON?" asked Hoogie who felt it was really just one pardon, "That means two of you are the guilty party behind pushing Chris and Blaineley down the balcony, and only two of you had the real motives of doing so."
"Wait a second, I am NOT behind this one" said Courtney as she realized who the pardon was for.
"Yeah, I know that YOU cannot do something like this, but Alejandro and Heather COULD" said Hoogie to which everyone gasped in shock.
"There was a button I stepped on that launched them out of their seats!" cried Alejandro, "I didn't mean to!"
"One down" said Hoogie, "and I think Heather provided extra help in trying to protect Alejandro."
Suddenly Sheriff Woody who was allowed into the Saloon with Mayor Vlad Masters took over.
"Alright, it seems we found our two suspects here" said Sheriff Woody as he placed handcuffs back on Alejandro and Heather.
"No, not back to prison!" cried Heather.
Confessions in the Saloon:
"I must say, Mayor Vlad did really meant that pardon was just for me, he should have said so" said Courtney, "but I guess he was saving this for the challenge."
"I cannot believe Daniel was accused of the deed" laughed Vlad with joy, "for the first time, I wasn't the accused party!"
"The things we do around here" said Ember, "but it'd soon be worth it."
End of Confessions.
As everyone were being let out of the Saloon, it turned out that it was rubber dummies of both Chris and Blaineley, and NOT the real Chris or Blaineley.
"Wait, this was a fake murder scene?" cried Alejandro still in handcuffs.
"That's right" said Chris as the real Chris McLean came out of hiding along with Blaineley, "I have decided to make this a reward's challenge, everyone will be getting complementary first class meals from the Saloon for the rest of the day."
"What happens to me?" asked Courtney.
"To make up for some of your past misdeeds, you'll be working as Vlad's Secretary" continued Chris.
"And you get all the perks of the Mayor's place as well" added Blaineley.
"Ah yes, this challenge takes me back to the days of Total Drama Action" said Chris.
As poor Alejandro and Heather were taken back to their jail cell, Ember and Young Blood were last spotted chatting to Buford who was eager to join one of Chris' Teams.
"So you're saying I can be an alliance with you two?" asked Buford who was quite curious.
"Yeah, just think about it kid" said Ember, "we'll help you get into one of Chris' Teams, once a few more of them get voted off, and you can gain from the benefits."
But indeed, someone was indeed spying on the trio, as Chris who was in his private chambers was doing just that, Chris was intrigued by Buford's motivations.
"Yes indeed, there seems to be more mystery here than there was back in the Saloon, tune in next time for more of it here on Camp Drama Showdown!" said Chris.