Chapter Nineteen: Sundae Muddy Sundae
[Morning, Camp Wawanakwa]
[scene shows the interior of the spa hotel where Katz is seen eating breakfast in the dining room with a content expression on his face]
Katz: It certainly feels good to be in the winner's seat, while the others have to settle for those disgusting things they call cabins. [chuckles] At this rate, they might as well hand me the briefcase of money.
[static buzzing]
Katz: I've won three immunities in a row and I intend to keep that up until I reach the final two. Then, I'll crush whoever is pitted against me and go home with a million dollars in cash. To analyze my current competition, I've been marking down just who I see will be going next: Pamela is my most notable adversary, so I'll be keeping her around because I want to her face when she ends up losing to me, which means Angelina goes second last, and Shadow has to go as soon as possible. The only wild card of the lot is Wolf as he's been a rather distinct pain in my rear as of recently, but I'm pretty sure I can crush him. [sighs] Making a plan always helps clear things nicely.
[static buzzing]
[scene cuts to Pamela and Angelina sitting outside the cabins]
Pamela: I just don't understand, what are we doing wrong? I've tried to gain the upper hand in every single challenge since the bike race and no matter how hard I try, that Katz always manages to escape my grasp and sit all high and mighty upon his throne. It's absolutely frustrating!
Angelina: Especially now that Carmen is no longer here. She looked like she could have taken on Katz face-to-face and beaten him. It doesn't help that he's now won three immunities in a row since the regatta challenge. He wins two more and it's a gateway to the final for him.
[static buzzing]
Pamela: I hate losing, and I hate, hate Katz. I will make it to the final two even if I have to go all the way through hell and back just to make sure Katz stays as far away as possible from that million dollars! [looks up] Karma, if you can hear me right now, there's a certain individual on who you've been slacking on lately!
[static buzzing]
Loudspeaker: Attention, punching bags! Please gather in the forest clearing and bring your padded undies 'cause today's challenge is a butt-kicker!
[Chef Hatchet drives into view with Wolf on the other end of his jeep. When the lupine isn't looking, the chef pushes him off and Wolf falls to the ground]
Wolf: WHOA! [Thump!] Oof! [angrily] Gee, thanks for the soft landing!
[the other contestants walk into view to go to the forest clearing]
Pamela: Wolf! So how was your night on Boney Island?
Wolf: Not bad actually. A woolly beaver tried to eat me so I climbed a tree to the top and slept in the canopy. Fell asleep looking at the stars.
Pamela: [whistles]
Angelina: Wow.
Shadow: Impressive, I must admit.
Katz: Well, good to know that you're alive and such, but I do believe that we have a challenge awaiting us. [walks off as the other contestants glower at him]
Wolf: So, did Twiggy try anything while I was gone?
Pamela: I can only imagine what he's plotting. My guess is that he probably has a chart with all our names on it and he's just crossing out each and every name that gets eliminated.
Shadow: While that may be true, something tells me that he's thought it out more thoroughly than that.
Pamela: Regardless, we cannot keep letting him get immunity for every challenge until the final two. We've got to stick together and organize a coordinated attack on him when he least expects it. [notices Angelina walking toward the spa hotel] Um, Angelina? What are you doing?
Angelina: I'm going to see if I can find some intel on what he's planning.
[static buzzing]
Angelina: This probably sounds very unladylike, but I just wanted to see if I could find any evidence of Katz's schemes, notes, papers, charts...and I did happen to find something.
[Angelina walks through the dining room and looks around the area to see if anything can be found. She searches under furniture, under the table, and even in the library. She feels about ready to give up...when suddenly, it hits her]
Angelina: Of course! Where would you hide something where you least expect someone to find it? [she rushes toward some plants and lifts up the middle one to find a piece of paper outlining the contestants' names and sees who's crossed out and who's still on the list] She was right!
[static buzzing]
Angelina: This is the list of contestants that have left the game and only ones not marked with an X are me, Pamela, Wolf, and Shadow. That Katz is so in for it now!
[static buzzing]
[scene cuts to the contestants walking through the forest]
Katz: [inhales and exhales] The morning air, so fresh and full of life, wouldn't you agree?
Shadow: Yeah...thrilling…
Angelina: [innocently] So, Katz, I've heard that you're a businessman. Would I be correct in assuming that you know all sorts of charts like pie-charts and whatnot?
Katz: Yes, I would, in fact. Why do you ask?
Angelina: Oh, nothing much, it's just that, you wouldn't mind explaining...THIS?! [pulls out Katz's chart from her pocket]
Wolf, Pamela, and Shadow: [gasp]
Pamela: I knew it! I knew he was writing our names down! Oh, you are so gonna get it! And why are you still smiling?!
Katz: [chuckles] Oh, my dear. Do you really take me for a fool?
[static buzzing]
Katz: They say that rage can be a great weakness when fighting. With the others blinded by their hatred for me, it'll make it easier for me to get the better of them. Exposing my chart of the elimination order isn't going to scare me.
[static buzzing]
[scene cuts to the five contestants standing behind the starting line where Chris and two really malnourished interns are standing in front of a giant screen]
Chris: Behold, my sad skinny interns.
Female intern: [groans]
Male intern: [groans]
Chris: I totally forgot to feed them this week.
Angelina: That is just...awful! Downright appalling, even!
Shadow: You're a sad, sick little man, Mclean.
Wolf: I concur.
Chris: [chuckles] I know, funny, right?
Pamela: You're disgusting, you know that, right?
Chris: Eh, I try. So today's challenge is a race to make a delicious sundae and serve it up to good ol'..."what's his name" and "who's it" over here.
Shadow: And you further fail to surprise me by not even remembering your own interns' names...you just keep digging that hole deeper and deeper.
[static buzzing]
Angelina: I feel so bad for those poor interns. Imagine having to work for a man as immoral as Chris Mclean and he doesn't even feed you for a whole week. I just hope that sooner or later, Chris gets a right kick up the rear!
[static buzzing]
Wolf: I may not be the most morally enlightened person to exist, but even I know that starving your own crewmates is stepping over the line. Mclean's gonna get his, let me tell you.
[static buzzing]
Chris: [as Chef hands out a bowl to each contestant] So, to make this fun, for me, you'll have to travel to the most dangerous areas on the island to procure the ingredients of this dessert. [scene cuts to a snowy mountain] Your ice cream awaits at the top of the diving cliff, which the ice machine has been making nice and slippery all week. [scene cuts to a swamp] The maraschino cherries are perched on a rock in the swamp. [scene cuts to the messhall] The finely crushed peanuts are in the old cafeteria and [scene cuts to the forest where a mutant fire-breathing flower surrounded by chocolate sauce is standing] the final ingredient, chocolate sauce, can be found in a pool surrounding a recently planted mutant fire flower. The first person to have their sundae completely consumed by the interns wins. On your marks...get set...and SCRAM! They're hungry! [blows air horn]
[the five contestants take off from the starting line and begin the race]
Pamela: You better wipe that smug look off your face, you're not gonna be smiling once I crush you in today's challenge!
Katz: Bold words, I must say. But there's a slight issue which you forgot to address, it's that you'll actually have to beat me if you're going to get rid of me. So, good luck with that. [chortles and runs ahead of the other contestants as Pamela seethes with fury]
[static buzzing]
Pamela: Sooner or later, I'm going to grab hold of that skinny twig of a body and smack the living daylights out of him so that he can't look at me with the disgusting smirk on his face. You hear me, Katz? I am NOT the one getting eliminated tonight, that I promise you!
[static buzzing]
[scene cuts to the contestants climbing up the snowy mountain and finding themselves having to struggle through the deep snow]
Pamela: ARGH! How thick is this stuff?! I can barely move!
[scene shifts over to Shadow climbing ahead of the others when Katz runs over him]
Katz: Out of the way, hedgehog! This challenge is mine!
Shadow: [growls] You're gonna regret that!
[Katz arrives at the top and scoops up the ice cream into his bowl]
Chris: [off-screen] Katz scoops up first place!
Pamela: [sarcastically] Oh, great.
Katz: Ha-ha! [slides down the mountain] Later, losers!
[Katz's slide causes Angelina and Pamela to slip back down a few feet]
Wolf: [sighs] Guess it's up to me then.
Angelina: Oh, this is hopeless! We'll never catch up at this rate!
Pamela: Oh, I'm NOT losing another challenge to that stuck-up braggart! C'mon!
[Shadow has just finished filling his bowl with ice cream when Wolf arrives to do the same]
Wolf: The girls are a little behind, so you'd better dash like a rocket if you're ever gonna catch up with Katz.
Shadow: Hmph, noted.
[as soon as Wolf finishes filling his bowl, the two guys slide down the mountain just as the girls reach the top]
[scene cuts to Katz holding his nose as he trudges through the swamp and approaches the cherries]
Katz: Ugh, what a pong!
Chris: Katz is first to the cherries, will he keep his lead? Not if Snappy has anything to say about it!
Katz: [after putting the cherry on his sundae] Who?
[just then, an alligator arises out of the swamp and growls at Katz, but the feline proceeds to punch him in the nose and jump over him]
Katz: Nice try, McLean, but not really! [reaches the shore and runs off to the messhall as the other guys and girls arrive at the swamp]
Wolf: ARGH, damn it!
[static buzzing]
Wolf: Seriously, did Katz get struck with a bolt of good luck recently or something? Because there is no way he would have made this far without a hitch! The guy can't even defeat a little dog, for crying out loud!
[static buzzing]
Katz: I've got three kinds of ice cream and a cherry. Funny, all I can taste is victory.
[static buzzing]
Chris: Wow, Katz is on fire today, which means bad luck for the others. [chuckles] Who will survive the sundae challenge and who's getting an unfortunate trip on the Boat of Losers? Find out after the break on Total...Drama...All-Stars!
[scene cuts to black, the episode continues]
[scene shows the two guys and two girls struggling through the swamp]
Pamela: Ugh...I hate Chris...so much.
[static buzzing]
Pamela: I have had it up to here with this show's antics. As soon as I get to the final two and secure my victory, I'm going to jam my foot so hard into Chris' crotch, he won't be able to stand for two weeks.
[static buzzing]
[scene cuts to Katz arriving at the messhall]
Chris: [off-screen] And Katz is the first to enter the crushed nuts zone where he'll face off against the Total Drama Machine!
Katz: Pardon? [sees a giant robot wielding a mallet about to strike]
[the robot tries several times to land a mark on Katz, but the feline dodges out of the way and quickly grabs the peanuts and puts them on his sundae. With that, he dashes out of the messhall, just as the other four contestants arrive]
Pamela: Quickly, inside, all of you!
[the four contestants enter to see the robot about to swing his mallet at them]
Wolf: You two, go! We'll distract him!
[Pamela and Angelina quickly grab their peanuts and dash out of the messhall as Wolf and Shadow run from the robot. Quickly, the two males each grab a handful of peanuts and run out of the messhall]
[scene cuts to the fire flower]
Chris: [off-screen] And Katz is the first to reach the chocolate fire zone!
Katz: [smirking] Perfect…[runs to the flower and ducks as it breathes fire at him] Easy there...we're going to have to fix that, aren't we? [picks up a rock and throws it into the flower's mouth. Then, as quickly as he can, he collects some chocolate sauce and takes off, just before the mutant flower explodes, burning the chocolate sauce into coal]
[just then, the four other contestants arrive to find the chocolate all burned up]
Pamela: Oh, for crying out loud! What are we supposed to do with this?!
Shadow: We'll just have to use the coals as a substitute, it'll still be chocolate, just...burned up.
[Angelina, Pamela, Wolf, and Shadow each pick up a handful of chocolate coals and put them on their sundaes, but face an immediate dilemma]
Angelina: [gasps] The coals are still warm! They're making the ice cream melt!
Wolf: GRR! We've gotta get to the finish line before they do! Hurry!
[the four contestants run off toward the finish line]
[scene cuts to Katz running toward the finish line]
Katz: Ah, another easy victory, if I do say so myself.
Pamela: [off-screen] That's where you're wrong!
Katz: Huh? [gasps to see the others approaching him]
Pamela: You're not winning this race! Go it, Shadow!
[Shadow speeds up and begins to catch up towards Katz. The feline runs as fast as he can to the finish line, but the hedgehog is closing fast on him. Then...they both reach the finish line at the same time as Wolf, Pamela, and Angelina cross shortly after]
Shadow: [smirking] And that's how it's done.
Pamela: Yes! [to Katz] In your face, loser!
Chris: Uh-bup-bup! From what I saw, Shadow and Katz crossed the line together, but let's see who actually won by rewinding the footage and getting a close-up.
[the giant screen shows Katz and Shadow crossing in the finish line in slow mode. Then it zooms in to see…]
Chris: Oooooh, by a centimeter, the winner of the sundae challenge is...Katz!
[Katz smirks while Pamela gives off a deep frown]
Chris: Also, Katz was the only one to have a legit sundae. The rest of you seem to have your sundaes lookin' rather...soupy. [chuckles as Pamela, Angelina, Wolf, and Shadow look down dejectedly at their melting sundaes] Katz wins immunity for the fourth time in a row, meaning he cannot be voted out! As for the rest of you...I'll see you at the campfire ceremony where we'll see who's getting eliminated tonight.
[static buzzing]
Pamela: This is NOT fair! We were this close to finally getting rid of him and he STILL got away...GRAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
[static buzzing]
[scene cuts to black, at the Campfire Ceremony]
Chris: Well, well, well, what a day for desserts. The final five is about to become the final four, with the exception of Katz, the rest of you should be feeling rather nervous.
[static buzzing]
Pamela: [scribbles down on an image of someone and sighs]
[static buzzing]
Katz: [scribbles down on an image of someone]
[static buzzing]
Chris: Okay, I've tabulated the votes and the following players are safe: Katz [catches the marshmallow], Pamela [catches the marshmallow], and Wolf [catches the marshmallow]. Shadow, you almost made it to the finish line today, but you still blew it. Angelina, the last member of the original Heroic Hamsters, definitely the odd one out. Anyways, the last marshmallow goes to…
…
..
.
[scene cuts to Shadow with an annoyed expression on his face, then cuts to Angelina with a worried expression on her face, then cuts to Chris]
...Angelina!
[Angelina breathes a sigh of relief and catches the marshmallow]
Shadow: [sighs and stands up] Let's just get this over with.
[scene cuts to Shadow boarding the Boat of Losers while the other contestants watch onward]
Shadow: Goodbye...I guess. By the way, make sure that Katz ends up on this boat as soon as possible!
Wolf: Noted and will do!
[the Boat of Losers departs from sight]
Chris: Congrats on making it to the final four, better get plenty of sleep because tomorrow's challenge is gonna be a hard one.
[as the four contestants walk off the dock and to their quarters, Pamela watches Katz walk to the spa hotel and shut the door. She stares for a while and then leaves to head to her cabin]
[static buzzing]
Pamela: [sighs] Okay, big day tomorrow. Tomorrow will be the day he goes down. I feel sure of it or my name isn't Pamela Bondani.
[static buzzing]
Chris: Only four competitors remain! Who's here to stay and who's going away? Find out next time on an all-new Total...Drama...All-Stars!
[scene cuts to black as the episode ends]