We're almost done with the story, and I want to thank all the readers for sticking by. But this story isn't over yet. Enjoy the chapter.
"Last time on Total Drama Rankor Island, our final four relived the 'I Triple Dog Dare' challenge from the original Total Drama Island. This time however, the dares were made by the contestants from this season, leading to some interesting things. But it all came to swift end with Drake's dare, which had Eddy take on the equivalent of hurricane, which he just couldn't handle, eliminating him and leaving us with our final three contestants. Out of Donny, Chuck, and Asuka, who will move on to the finale and who will be the one being launched by the Box? Find out on the dramatic semifinal episode of Total Drama Rankor Island!"
The morning after Eddy's elimination, Asuka and Chuck were sitting outside of the Asuka's cabin. Asuka was checking on Chuck, who had a black eye.
"Chuckie! What happened?!" Asuka asked with concern, holding Chuck's face. She soon answered her own question. "What did Donny do?!"
"I don't even know what was happening. I was getting ready to go to bed and suddenly Donny just starts pounding me. I blacked out and the next thing I knew it was morning." Chuck explained.
"Well were going to go teach him a lesson he won't soon forget!" Asuka hissed, giving Chuck a sweet kiss on the cheek. A rumbling sound interrupted the two. "But we can't do it on an empty stomach. Let's go get some breakfast."
Donny was already in the mess hall, eating his breakfast with a smug grin on his face.
*confessionals*
Chuck: Man am I sore... but I'm glad I have Asuka to help me through this. But if we take out Donny then I'll have to go against her in the Finale. It's still better than having Donny stay in though.
Asuka: Why would Donny doing this? What would he gain from beating up my boyfriend?! Unless... he's trying to pressure him into quitting. Well I won't let that happen!
Donny: My plan's already starting to work! See, I'm smarter than I look! And once she's down, I'll just pound Chuck to make sure he doesn't stop me from winning.
*end confessionals*
The couple entered the mess hall, glaring at Donny and sitting at the table opposite of him. Chuck looked a little nervous...
The tension and silence in the mess hall was maddening, even Chef was a little surprised.
*confessional*
Chef: Man, those kids hate each other... HAHAHAHAHA!
*end confessional*
The silence was broken by Chris, who entered the mess hall.
"Good morning semifinalists! Today's the day of the penultimate challenge, are you ready?" Chris asked, he didn't give the three a chance to respond before he spoke. "Well ready or not, you three need to head to the docks for your challenge, and if you thought yesterday's challenge was brutal then you haven't seen anything yet!"
The challenge that was set up looked similar to the previous challenge, with three seats for each contestant. However this time there was a TV with a roulette on the screen with various spaces that had a red, blue, purple or gold background on it, the spaces on the roulette varied in size depending on color with gold being the only color that happened to be smaller than the others. There was also a board that was labeled "Level 1" all the way up to "Level 5" with a picture of a marshmallow above Level 5. There were six small squares on each level of the board that were covered by red, blue, purple, and gold sticky notes. Chris and Chef were waiting for the three of them...
"Welcome, Final Three, to the Rankor Island Roulette! Here's how this challenge works. Chef will spin the roulette wheel and whoever it lands on has to do a challenge based on the color background the ball stops on." Chris explained. "So take your seats and let the game begin!"
The contestants took their seats, Asuka sat between Chuck and Donny, just in case the latter tried anything.
"Chef, spin the wheel please!" Chris announced, Chef pressed a button on a remote, causing the roulette to start. A small silver ball rolled along the wheel, going around it several times before coming to a stop on a gold background.
"Already were off to an interesting start!" Chris announced. "Chef, reveal the challenge!"
Chef pulled the gold sticky note off of the Level 1 section of the board. Asuka was a little unsettled about what her challenge would be, but she was relieved to see that there was no challenge and the uncovered section was labeled 'Free Pass'.
"Wow, first roll and we get a free pass! That means Asuka advances to the Level 2 part of the board and is one step closer to the finals. Next up is Donny." Chris said, Chef started the roulette again, this time it landed on a red background. "Oh this is gonna be good. Donny, Chef has recently new pie recipes."
"So? How is that important?" Donny asked, interrupting Chris.
"It's important because you have to taste test his new recipe." Chris answered. Chef handed Donny a slice of pie that looked absolutely disgusting. Donny took one bite out of the slice and sighed with relief, feeling that he was done and could continue.
"...Well?" Chris asked.
"Well what?" Donny asked in return.
"We're waiting for you to finish." Chris said. "One bite isn't enough, you have to finish the slice."
Donny groaned and grimaced in disgust, much to the delight of Chuck and Asuka. Once Donny finished, Chef spun the wheel for Chuck's turn, this time the wheel landed on a purple space.
"Ok Chuck, here's an interesting one. You have to name all of the contestants from every season that were eliminated first; starting from season one and ending with this season." Chris explained.
"Wow, ok. Um... let me think for a sec. Ezekiel was eliminated first in the first season. Then Bridget and Geoff were eliminated together in Action, in World Tour Duncan quit but Ezekiel was technically voted off first. Stacy went off first in Revenge of the Island, then Lindsay in All Stars, Beardo in Pahkitew Island and in this season Sarah was voted off first but she came back on during the merge." Chuck answered.
"Well done! Now we move on to Level 2! The challenges will increase in difficulty so this challenge is only getting started. Asuka, you're up again." Chris announced. Chef spun the wheel, again it landed on a purple space.
"Two in a row! Alright Asuka, name all of the contestants who were runner-up in the past seasons."
"First it was Gwen, then Beth, then Heather, Lightning, Zoey, and Shawn." Asuka answered.
"Not bad!" Chris replied, the wheel landed on a blue space for Donny's turn. "Donny, your challenge is to rave through an obstacle course on a bike."
Donny jumped off of the seat and went off with an intern who led him to the course.
"Well, while Donny does his challenge, we'll move on with you Chuck." The wheel landed on another blue space. "Ooh! Chef's been waiting for this one! Chuck, you have to avoid an onslaught of dodge balls thrown by Chef for one whole minute."
"Oh crap..." Chuck cursed.
*confessional*
Asuka: Ok, Chuck might struggle with this challenge, but if I can keep getting lucky with these challenges I can get into the finale... I don't want Chuck to be eliminated but if Donny and I are in the finale then I don't have to hold back!
*end confessional*
Chuck and Chef were in a makeshift dodge ball court with Chuck running and doing the best he can to dodge Chef's dodge ball attacks. He survived for a full minute and went back to join Asuka and Chris. He grimaced to see that Donny had already returned.
"Glad to have you back Chuck. Now that you're all here, we can move on to Level 3." Chris said. Chef spun the wheel for Asuka's turn, this time landing landing on a red space. "Eat one the giant pancakes from the All Stars season. Now, since those pancakes are pretty huge and might take you a while to eat all of it, we'll move on to Donny's turn while you eat."
Asuka left with Chef to eat the giant pancake. Chris himself spun the wheel for Donny's turn, which landed on a gold space.
"You're in luck Donny, you earned a free pass to Level 4. As you can probably tell by now, all the gold spaces are free passes to the next round." Chris explained.
*confessional*
Donny: Oh yeah! Who's the man!
*end confessional*
"Now then Chuck, it's your turn again!" Chris spun the wheel again, this time it landed on a purple space. "Build totem pole using wood carvings of the previously eliminated contestants."
Chuck jumped back on to the dock, an intern brought out a large crate full of wooden carvings of the heads of the older contestants. Chuck thought about the order for a moment before figuring out the order.
'Ok, first is Sarah, then Shannon, then it was Steven, then Johnny, Samantha, Kevin, Lila, Danny and then Dorothy, Rodrick, Tina and Lacey were eliminated at the same time... heh and then there was Lucy, I'll never forget her how she left. After her it was Christine who was voted off, then... Drake, good riddance... after him it was Isaac and then Sarah again. After that Kevin was eliminated again and then lastly it was Eddy.' Chuck thought to himself as he put the totem pole together.
"Well done Chuck." Chris said.
"Yeah, nice job sweetie!" Asuka said, hugging Chuck.
"Asuka, glad to have you back!" Chris said jokingly.
"Can we just... get on with this?" Asuka asked, burping as she spoke.
"Sure, we're on Level 4 now and it's your turn Asuka!" Chef (who came back with Asuka) spun the wheel, this time the roulette landed on another blue space. "Jump out of a plane without a parachute."
"What?! Are you insane!" Asuka shouted.
"Easy, easy! A parachute will be tossed out of the plane and you'll have to catch it, and if you fail to catch it then you'll be safe since you'll be jumping above the water." Chris replied. Chef and Asuka left to go do the challenge.
"Looks like we're moving on to Donny again, let's hope it's a good one!" Chris said enthusiastically, turning the roulette on, it slowly stopped stopped on another blue space. "Do Shawn's challenge choice from the previous season's semifinals."
"Um, what was his challenge again?" Donny asked.
"Travel 100 meters without touching the ground." Chris answered.
"What?! That's impossible!"
"Dude, you just have to use the trees!" Chuck responded.
"...Pssh, I knew that!" Donny answered, leaving to do his challenge.
"Alright Chucj, that just leaves you." Chris said, spinning the roulette. Chuck was lucky enough to land on the golden space.
"Looks like you get a free ticket to the final round of the challenge, Chuck!" Chris announced, Chuck breathed a sigh of relief, but he soon grew worried when he saw the plane that Chef and Asuka were in, it was flying above the island...
Chef was holding the parachute that Asuka had to catch. Asuka herself looked ready to jump but Chef was too preoccupied with a picture he was looking at. Asuka coughed to get his attention.
"Huh? Oh, sorry... you ready?" Chef asked. Asuka nodded as a response. Chef tossed the parachute, Asuka dived right after it without hesitation. Once Asuka was out if the plane, Chef went back to looking at his picture, which was the same one he was looking at in the previous challenge.
Asuka barely managed to grab the parachute, put it on, and open it. She then tried to position herself so that she would land on beach. Once she was safely on the beach, she headed back to the docks where Chris and Chuck were waiting for her. As she went back she met up with Dommy, who was dirty and had some broken branches on his clothes and in his hair. The two silently glared at each other as they headed back to the docks.
"Glad to see both of you back here. We're finally at the last Level of the challenge. Now this level is going to be a bit different. This time you'll all do your challenges at the same time!" Chris announced. The roulette then changed to have the final three's faces on it. When Chris turned the roulette on, three roulette balls came out instead of one. One of them landed on a blue space with Asuka's face, another landed on a gold space with Donny's face and the last one landed on Chuck's face on a blue space.
"Well this is an interesting turn of events. Asuka, your challenge is to steal the box from Fang, essentially you're redoing a previous challenge. Chuck, you have to go through the obsta-kill course from the fifth season, and Donny gets the best luck possible and gets a Free Pass, solidifying his place in the Finale!" Chris announced.
*confessionals*
Chuck: Crap! Why is he always getting lucky!
Asuka: Are you f*cking kidding me?!
Donny: Hahahaha! The game and the money are as good as mine!
*end confessionals*
Chuck and Asuka left to do their challenges, Donny tried to go to the mess hall but he was stopped by Chris, who told him that he couldn't leave until there was an official loser.
Asuka was looking for Fang in the woods, as he was there the first time she did the same challenge. She stopped dead in her tracks when she recognized the shark's eyes staring at her through the thick trees.
"Ok you overgrown trout, come at me!" Asuka taunted, Fang took the proverbial bait and ran at Asuka who pulled out her pocketknife. Fang didn't seem worried this time around, instead he bared teeth at the girl.
"Oh this is going to be fun..." Asuka said to herself.
Meanwhile, Chuck was climbing up the ropes of the Obsta-kill course. He seemed to be deep in thought as he went through it.
*confessional*
Chuck: I've been thinking, should I let Asuka win? I think she deserves a place in the Finale more than I do... But would she want to win that way? I feel like she would want to win without me having to give up...
*end confessional*
Chuck arrived at an empty clearing, it was quiet but Chuck was more confused than suspicious.
"Is that it?" Chuck asked, he was answered by a leech that was fired at him. He looked in the direction where the leech came from and saw Chef, who was holding what looked like an oversized paintball gun.
"You're almost done kid, all you gotta do now is get past me, hehehe." Chef chuckled.
Several minutes later, Asuka had finally wrestled the box out of Fang's grasp. As soon as she had it, she ran as fast as she could back to the docks.
'Alright, now to get back to the docks.' Asuka thought to herself.
Once she arrived, she was shocked at what she saw, it was Chuck. He had already finished his final challenge.
"Welcome back Asuka." Chris said. "Unfortunately you came back just a little too late, Chuck arrived here mere seconds before you did, meaning he'll join Donny in the Finale."
Asuka looked at Chuck, he tried not to look back at her and turned away.
"Chuckie." Asuka said, holding Chuck's hand. "I'm not sad Chuckie. You beat me, and I'm proud of you. You came a long way and you deserve a spot in the finale."
"But... what if I lose?" Chuck asked.
"No matter what happens, I'll always think of you as a winner." Asuka said, embracing her boyfriend.
"Hey, as much as I'd love to let you have your moment, I'm afraid it's time to go Asuka. But I'll tell you what, since this is the semifinals, I'll let you go home without being launched. I've called a boat to come send you where the losers are staying." Chris said.
A few minutes later, Asuka's boat came to pick her up. The couple shared one last kiss before Asuka stepped on to the boat.
"Pfft, good riddance!" Donny said. "My plan worked! Now it's just you and me wimp, and I'll be happy to beat you down and take the million for myself!"
"Your plan was to make sure it was you and me in the finale? Well your plan got Asuka eliminated... your plan was a mistake!" Chuck replied, he sounded unusually calm.
"Good one, but I don't make mistakes!" Donny laughed.
"You just did... you made me angry!"
"With Asuka's departure we are left with just our finalists. Things look like they're about to get brutal! Who will walk away with the million bucks, Donny or Mr. Floop? Find out next time on the final episode of Total Drama Rankor Island!"
It's almost over, who are you rooting for?