Replies, bundled up in a 3-in-1

Guest 1138- Luna as a finalist might be interesting, considering all she's done. Let's see of she can get there.

Sephiria Arks- Chef's plot might be a bit different than what you're thinking. It's a pretty short one since there's only two episodes left. Let's see what happens.

Candela Monsoon- Not only placement-wise, but Jonathan improved as person as well. He managed to thrive in a group of people that mainly hated his guts. Seems everyone thinks Iris will be a finalist.

One more set of replies before the thrilling conclusion. Have fun.

Episode 17: The Darkest Side of the Moon

Chris smiled with Chef at his side. "You know, it's good to have you back to terrorize teens with me," Chris said.

"Glad to be back," Chef said. "Sorry I took so long." He paused. "Why don't you go on with your opening, or whatever."

"Sure!" Chris said with a smile. "Last time, on Total Drama Fiery Passion!" Chris announced. "We took the teens to their aquatic limit! With boats! Campers had to fire off fireballs at their friends and send them off the rails as fast as they could!" The first clips were Jonathan's boat breaking and Luna and Ethan firing at each other instantly. "Each camper was given a helper who was specifically catered to the player's hatred: Jonathan got Ethan, Iris got Sky, Luna got Paul, and Max got Sugar." The next clip was each player seeing their partner, and mostly complaining. "Some teams worked well together, and others bit the dust quickly. But, once Max found himself alone, a petty argument took him out of the competition. Shucks. I was rooting for the poor guy." He laughed as the clip of Max slamming into the rock played. "Luna found herself in a safe position and took the time to think about her actions...of what was to come, which put Iris in danger, but it put Jonathan in the cannon."

Chris was back at the dock, with Chef still there. "We're down to three! Over half of the kids will make the finale. Half of those people will be the winner, but legal says we still can't cut anyone in half. Who's next to go? Who's gonna run them over? Find out today, on Total! Drama! Fiery Passion!

Opening Sequence

[Various cameras began to appear in a similar way to the other seasons. The first one appeared out of a lily pad, which seemed to be mechanically connected to the water. Next, one came out of a tree, which spit out some fire as the camera popped out. The final one fell on top of the outhouse confessional, and exploded into a burning flame. The camera then began to fly as the opening played.]

Dear Mom and Dad, I'm doing fine,

[The camera arrived at a waterfall, where Shawn poked his head out, to see Jasmine waiting for him. He waved a signal as she went in.]

You guys are on my mind,

[Next to the waterfall, Marty stares at them with a scowl on his face. He picks up a stick, smirks at the waterfall, and snaps the stick.]

You asked me what I wanted to be, and I think the answer is plain to see

[The camera flies over the waterfall, where Sky is doing Olympic style jumps. She lands one perfectly, much to Jonathan's amazement. Iris runs by and smacks Jonathan over the head. Ethan laughs in the back as Jonathan fumes.]

I wanna be famous!

[The camera flies to a clearly mechanical mountain, where Paul and Angie are intensely competing. Angie barely beats him up the hill, which angers Paul.]

I wanna live close to the sun

[Lavender and Flora smile at each other as they run off. A hand reaches out to stop one of them.]

Go pack your bags, 'cause I've already won

[Lavender turns her head to see Scarlett. The quiet brainiac signals for Lavender to follow her instead.]

Everything to prove, nothing in my way, I'll get there one day

[As Sugar tries her hardest trying to build something, she laughs at her own brilliance. Meanwhile, Norm fakes a fall, knocking it over. He gives the pageant queen a sheepish but fake smile.]

I wanna be famous

[Paul and Angie are seen in a hot race again, this time Paul has the lead. He skids to a halt and trips her, causing her to fall.]

Na na nanana na, nanana na, nananananana

[Kayla kicks the ground, evidently bored, while her sister, Kara, investigates a pipe spitting out fire on the others side. A ball of fire shoots by and ignites another pipe, which causes Kara to look back. Chander is seen blowing out ignition fuel.]

I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!

[Various other high ranking, non-competing contestants appear in silhouettes, as fire shoots out from behind them. Some have items like swords or heavy weights in their hand. Others are just standing there in a menacing fashion.]

I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!

[The scene zooms into the fire, which changes to a traditional campfire.]

*Whistling*

[Luna stares at Max with a bright green glow, while Max offers her a contraption he made. The psychic fixes it with her mind, which causes the others to glare at her as they whistle.]

The sun rose on the bunker, which was beginning to have an aura of emptiness. Luna was the first up again, and stretched out before letting out a big yawn. "Ah, what a great day," she said to herself, loud enough to wake the other two. "Just a fun day to crush one of you into the ground. Are you not excited?"

Iris woke up groggily and rolled over without much thought. "When I wake up," she said between yawns, "you're going...down." Iris fell back asleep.

Max decided to wake up for the day. "I will have you know that you should be at my feet!" he said. "I spared your life last elimination ceremony!"

Luna nodded. "Yeah, sure, but had you voted for me, we would have gotten the same outcome." Max gaped. "Yeah, unless you voted for Iris, then there would have been something different." She laughed. "But you didn't. I hope you enjoy reaping the rewards of being useless! I'll make sure you do!"

Max got up and yelled. "You'll rue the day you call me useless! I have been a pivotal player as of late! I wrecked your strategy. I incited revenge, all so you would pay!"

Iris, tired of the yelling, finally agreed to get up. "Yeah, he has done some stuff recently," she pointed out, still sleepy. "You should just watch your back."

Iris: "Am I scare of Max?" she laughed. "No. But, Luna is completely underestimating him. Today, I have to rely on his help to get rid of her. After all he's been through, maybe he does deserve a finale."

Max: "It is finally time to strike her down!" he said powerfully. "Once she is gone, Iris and I will have a proper duel to see who is the strongest. Obviously it will be me, but she will be a challenge."

Luna: "An idiot could figure out that Max and Iris are going to work together to get me out today," she pointed out. "Max? Easy. Iris has proved troublesome though. I have to go all out today to make it happen. No mercy."

"Fine," Luna said with a huff. "You want a challenge today? You'll get one! I'm not going to spare your lives today! If I kill you, then I'm closer to the million!"

Max shivered back when Luna said that. "You-you were being nice before? Your generosity is appreciated."

Luna smirked. "That's better. Fear me, if you value your life." With that, she walked out the door.

As soon as she left, Iris turned to Max. "We need to team up to take her down today," she said, "and if we don't, we lose. Today is the last day we can take her out."

Max shook his head. "Luna is no threat to me. She fell for one of my simple ploys. But, if you wish to acquire my aid, you shall have it."

"...Great," Iris responded. "I just hope whatever challenge this is doesn't stink too much. Maybe the cameo will be nice to us."

Max put his finger on his chin. "We have no mortal enemies," he observed. "None that aren't still here, at least. That means that there's a chance that-"

"You think so?" Iris asked. Max nodded. "Well, all we can do is hope at this point. Just remember, Chef is here. This might be a brutal gauntlet, or just a simple challenge." She groaned. "Just when we get to the end, there's another thing to throw us for a loop."

"Attention, sorry losers!" Chef's voice echoed. "Hop to the beach. NOW!" A breath of relief was heard. "Man, it's good to be back."

"Good luck today," Iris offered. "We're almost certainly going to need it."

Chef: "I got another reason for comin' here," he said suspiciously as he leaned closely to the camera. "I need to buy me some time to make it happen though."

The final three got themselves to the beach, Iris arriving first, followed by Luna then Max. "Here's your challenge!" Chef told them, "make your own!" Iris and Luna smiled and then grinned evilly at each other. "But, you gotta make it tough. I don't want any wimps in my finale, got it?"

"By tough," Max asked nicely, "does that mean physical or can I go for something a bit more-"

"Make it tough," Chef repeated. "It has to be real good, too. If I don't like your challenge, I'll make you one! And you do not want that!" Max gulped as Iris and Luna nodded beside him.

Chef let out a huff. "You got ten minutes to think of a challenge. I got my own work to do." As he walked off, the other three spent little time thinking about where he could be, and instead began to plot what would be the thing keeping them in the game.

Max: "Any challenge Luna can't do is my challenge! I have been thinking of countless of these since she betrayed me. Oh, they're all so diabolical! Which do I pick?"

Luna: "Okay, this is easy. Chef wants flashy, and I'm the only one who can bring that. Good luck, you two...you'll need it."

Iris: "Picking a challenge isn't easy," she admitted. "I need to find something I can do, and Max can also, but also something Luna can't. Luna and Max are nearly perfect compliments. She outclasses him at everything. This will be tough."

Chef wandered down to the underground chamber, where Chander was waiting in a cage. "Oh no, you're here," Chander groaned. "What are you gonna do? Drown me in soup? Break my legs? Oh that might be less painful..."

Chef was perplexed by the former co-host's words. "Break your legs? How long has that man had you down here?"

Chander let out a few coughs. "Not too long. You have water?"

Chef handed him a bottle of water. "You need this?" he asked. Chander gladly took it from him. "Look," he said, bending down to Chander's height. "I gotta keep it real tough up there, or Chris'll notice what I'm here for."

"Are you not here to host?" Chander asked. "That seemed like the logical answer."

"But it ain't," Chef said. "You gotta keep things running down there, I got preparations to make."

"Sure," Chander agreed. "But for what? I'd like to know."

Chef sighed. "We're sendin' Chris back to prison. Between the Scarlett incident and tryin' to burn you kids all season, he's earned it. No contract will save him." Chander seemed surprised to hear this. "It happens right after the finale, or earlier if that gets out of hand. Don't blow the cover."

"Got it," Chander said. "Uh, I can't work unless I'm out of the cage."

"Right," Chef said, ripping the bars open.

"Time's up!" Chef declared. All of the final three came running to him as fast as possible. "Before we get started, I'd like to bring in a second judge. Someone to make sure it's all 'fair' and whatnot." Iris and Max looked up pleadingly as the helicopter dropped down a ladder. Smoke filled the area as the person descended. Today's cameo," Chef said, introducing the contestant, "is here because he tried escaping a little too early for our liking. So, he's here to run a challenge."

Max perked up at the sound of that announcement, and figured out what was going on. Luna and Iris still seemed pretty confused on that matter. The smoke cleared to reveal his brown hair and khaki pants, as well as his unflinching expression of boredom and lack of wanting to be there. Luna gasped and Iris and Max let out a cheer.

Luna: "Not him! Anyone but him!"

Iris: "Yes! She's so dead."

Chris returned to the area at the same time the cameo had dropped off. "Welcome back, Norm," Chris said with a laugh. "You forgot to read the part of your contract that said you might need to come back as a cameo."

"I did read it," Norm shot back. "I was just hoping you forgot about me." He took a look at the final three, more specifically his ex. "Great, you're here," he complained. "Chris how 'unbiased' do I have to be?"

"Enough for me to believe it," Chris answered. Norm groaned. "Luna? You okay?"

Luna seemed to be filling with rage. "No, not her! You can't do that to me! That's so unfair. I'll rip him to shreds if I need to!"

The psychic charged at Norm, who was swiftly saved by Chef. Chef pushed Luna back to her spot, and picked up Norm, placing him further away. Chris laughed. "Yeah, Chef, you might need to be on protection duty today. We can lose them, but we value our cameos." Chef grunted in agreement. "Now," Chris said. "I want to start with Max's challenge. I've heard it's crafty, so we gotta save the painful ones for later."

Max grinned darkly. "Haha! You will lose now!" He stepped forward. "Your challenge is to create something so diabolical, so intimidating, so deadly that it could stop Luna from winning!"

"So...just something to beat Luna?" Iris asked.

Norm chimed in. "Not necessarily to kill her, but something that would inevitably stop her from winning the game." He laughed. "Chander's junk pile is open. Good luck to anyone who I actually like."

The junk pile was completely unguarded this time, leaving the final three to wander around it as they pleased, hopefully grabbing something to save them from elimination. Luna poked her head around a corner as she saw Max grabbing several metal planks that seemed to be from the fire and ice challenge. Carefully, she approached him. "What'cha making?" she asked playfully.

"Your enchantments won't work on me!" he yelled at her. "I am making something so evil that you will want to stay at...hm, probably around three and a half away. No, I think that'll be too heavy...this is tricky..." Max continued to ignore her and get back to his work. Seeing nothing she could do to inevitably sabotage, she decided to head out and find her other opponent.

Iris was pulling something up on a pulley, getting it as high as possible. "That looks dangerous," Luna said nicely, getting closer to it.

"Step near it, and I'll have this step on you," she said, not even looking up from what she was doing. Luna tried to stay out of her field of vision, but it didn't work. "I can see you getting closer," Iris told her.

Luna laughed playfully. "Oh, you got me, I guess. I'll just have to- hiya!" Luna threw a small piece of metal at the rope that was holding the object up. Iris ran far away from the object as soon as the metal snapped the rope, bringing the giant weight down. It crashed into the ground. Iris ran over to it, trying to lift it up again, but with the rope broken, it wasn't going anywhere. "Oops, have fun!"

Iris spun around and began to chase after Luna. "You're dead for that!" Panicking, Luna took out her grapple gun and fired it off, "teleporting" to a different location.

Luna: "Okay, that didn't work," she admitted. She stared blankly for a second. "Huh? Oh, yeah, she's set back on the challenge, I was trying to kill her."

Max was now pounding away with a metal hammer, making his metal bend to his will. "Finally," he said. "Now, I just need to find the finishing additions." He went back into the yard, where eventually, he found a remote control car lying in front of him. "Excellent," he said to himself, breaking the car. He removed the battery and wires, and began to wrap it around the metal he bent.

Finally, Max picked up the weapon he had forged, as lightning coursed through the sword. "Time to evil!" he shouted, pointing it in Luna's direction.

Luna, who had been watching nearby, jumped back and ran off to go find Iris again.

Iris was nearby, now with a more stable pulley system, and she had managed to find a bigger weight. Luna approached her, smiling. "What'cha got there?" she asked.

Iris grumbled. "I'm keeping my eye on you," she said. "You won't murder me this time either."

Luna let out a laugh. "Please, if I really wanted to kill you," she narrowed her eyes right at Iris. "I would have succeeded."

Iris began to stammer back before a buzzer was heard. "Time's up!" Chris announced. "Let's see what everyone made!"

The final three went over to Iris's area first, and observed what she had built. It was a large contraption, held up by four support beams. On top, was a giant weight reinforced by four pillars. "So...what is it?" Norm asked.

"A giant weight," Iris answered bluntly. "Luna stands under it, I cut these ropes," she gestured upward to a few of the ropes holding up the weight, "and she dies. You can't win Total Drama if you're dead."

"Okay," Norm said, poking at it carefully. "We unfortunately can't demonstrate with Luna, but do you have something else to show it off?"

The scene flashed to a car being rolled right under the weight, and eventually stopped directly centered beneath the giant crusher. "Let it rip!" Iris shouted gleefully, cutting the rope. It eventually spun around a lot, and the weight finally gave way, making it fall very quickly toward the ground. "The best part is," Iris explained, "is that it's reusable." Iris began pulling rope in toward her, and the pulleys began to work on bringing the weight back up to the top. Iris secured it once the weight was back up.

"Well," Norm said with a hint of nervousness. "That certainly worked." He kept walking. Max, you're up. Surprise me."

The group went right over to Max next, who was holding the item he made. It was clearly a sword, but the catch was that it was glimmering with active electricity. "Bask in the glory," Max introduced, "of the Metal Blade of Electric Doom!" As he swung it, the sword gave off small shocks in the air. Once pricked Luna, causing her to jump back.

"Allow me to demonstrate my high level of mechanical proficiency," Max continued. He had prepared a training dummy with the time he had left, and it had a crude drawing of Luna's face on it. Max ran right at the dummy, and swung at it. He managed to connect on the first hit, and the dummy nearly exploded, giving off shocks through the air as the pieces began to slowly come down to the ground.

"Wow," Norm said. "You...caught me off guard. This is impressive." He looked at it closely. "And, it's mildly practical too. Works better than a giant weight at least." Iris frowned. "But, giant weight was still impressive." He turned to the final contestant. "Luna, what have you brought for me?"

"Nothing," Luna said proudly.

Norm, shocked, blinked a few times. "I'm sorry, you...intentionally brought nothing to show me?" Luna nodded again. "Okay...why?"

Luna stood proudly. "Well, I figured that the best way to stop myself was to not accomplish anything. So, all I have to bring to you is a few failed sabotage attempts."

"You tried to kill me!" Iris complained.

"While sabotaging you. I didn't kill you, so I failed." She turned to Norm. "Well, like that?"

Norm chuckled. "Well, I'll have to see. Back to the beach for results."

Norm read off a clipboard. "Well, first place goes to Max. He made something that looked like it took effort, and was light and useful. Good thinking." Max beamed as Luna began to look nervous.

"Second place," Norm continued. "Iris. While harder to control and more of a hassle to reset, it wasn't as atrocious as what Luna brought." Iris shrugged in complacency.

Norm turned to Luna. "Luna, what you did was very clever, but it was also very stupid. Last place."

"Biased!" Luna argued. "Chris brought in a lousy cameo to make sure I lose! I will sue!"

Chris stepped in at that very moment to settle things. "Give it up Luna," Chris insisted. "I chose Norm to run this episode as soon as he left. If you didn't want to see him, you should have gotten booted sooner." Luna fumed, but eventually gave up. "Good. So, Max is in the lead with three points, Iris has two, and Luna has one." He gestured to the psychic girl. "But, your challenge is up next, so let's see what you got!"

"Oh, this will be good," Luna said evilly.

The group went to the underground chamber, where an obstacle course was set up. There appeared to only be one obstacle, a ledge higher up from the starting point, with a pit of spikes at the bottom. "This is it?" Iris asked, looking around. "I'm sure you're plotting to kill us in some other way, but...well, what are you actually planning?"

Luna laughed. "Norm, care to show these people how they'll die?"

Norm groaned. "Not sure how this one got approved, but here goes." He pointed at the course. "As you can see, there's only one jump. Your goal is to make it there without being shot by the dozens of motion-sensing lasers that are stationed throughout the room."

"Dozens?" Max asked nervously.

Norm passed out rope to the three of them, as well as a grappling hook. "The lasers will be easily deceived by some fake teleportation ploy. So, if you can to the top at a high enough speed using any of the tools given, they won't fire at you." He cleared his throat. "But, if you are hit, try and save yourself before you crash into the spikes below, because they are real, and you will die."

"Are you really going this far to kill us?" Iris asked. "You have some nerve. If I don't compete, then I don't have to die, right? I can manage being a bit behind."

Norm sighed. "No, sorry. Luna planned this with full intentions of murder. One of you has to complete it for us to move on, if both of you forfeit, then you're both eliminated."

Luna smirked. "Let me save you the issue of worrying about first place," she teased. Luna picked up her grappling hook and shot it right to the other end. Right before swinging across, she grabbed a rock and tied it to a rope. As she flew herself up the obstacle, the lasers began to fire, but her movement with the rock deflected all of the lasers.

By the time the rock disintegrated, Luna had made it to the top without issue. "Well, Luna gets first," Norm said with a heavy sigh. "Anyone wanna stop her?"

Iris grunted before shooting her hook across the obstacle as well. With no rock in hand, she did a small practice swing, which alerted a few lasers to shoot at her. She narrowly missed them, retreating back to the first platform. Iris seemed very upset after just the small excursion.

Iris: "I like to think that I'm pretty good at this kind of stuff," she said. "But Luna's agility with that rock was something else. I'm sure she's been practicing it. The way that rock moved, knocking down each of the lasers...she was planning to not have a finale at all. She wants no mercy." She laughed. "Fine. Once we hit my challenge, there won't be any mercy."

Luna watched from above as the other two struggled to figure out how the challenge worked. Growing impatient, she stood up and looked down. "You know," she taunted, "I could take one of you to the finale with me, and we'd just have to let me win Iris's challenge." She smiled at them with a fake smile as she gave her offer. "How does that sound?"

"That sounds atrocious!" Max declared. "We will take you down now!"

Iris shrugged. "I'll take that offer."

Luna stared Iris down with intensity before turning away. "I can tell, you'll betray me. You're still mad about the times I broke you." Iris fumed. Luna saw through her instantly. "Actually," Luna said to them, "Iris, you're going to be in a bad spot if you lose here. So, I think I'll spare Max. If I can break him in the finale, all the better."

Luna: "It's a bigger risk than killing them both," she admitted. "But, if Iris is only at three points by the third challenge she's in bad shape. If Max wins, so be it. I'll live." Her eye twitched a bit at the last part she said.

Luna took her rope and threw it down, and pulled it, grabbing Max perfectly. With all her might, she pulled him up, and he flew through the air, eventually landing up top. The lasers tried to fire, but he had enough momentum to get past them reasonably. As Max landed with a thud on the top, Iris began to realize her bad position. "Okay, that's fine, no one died, so good," Norm said. "Well, that puts Iris at three points, Luna at four, and Max at five."

"Shoot," Iris said, getting down from the course. "Luna has to lose, and I have to win. Otherwise...we messed up badly."

Luna smiled darkly as she walked by. "Hope your as good with a sword as you claim to be," she taunted. "I'm going to target Max, so unless you protect him, I'll be with you in the finale."

"If you mess up, then we'll be tied," Iris responded. "And I'll excel at anything Norm conjures up." She looked right at Luna. "He'll make sure of that, and you know it." Luna huffed and walked off, eager to defile the competition.

The final three now stood on a high platform on the beach. Below them was a large amount of water. "As you can see," Iris explained. "I made sure that we don't die if we lose." Iris was now wearing high levels of armor, as were the other two. Iris had blue armor, as Max had purple armor, and Luna's was green.

Norm cleared his throat. "Right, thanks for doing my job," he said blandly. "Iris's challenge is a simple sword duel, and it will go three ways. Your goal is to knock each other off of the platform, last person standing wins. Questions?"

"Yeah, I got a question," Luna complained. "This armor is completely rubber, so how are we not going to get cut in half? Rubber won't save us from sharp metal."

Norm laughed. "Scared, Luna? Well, you should know that chopping each other in half won't be a problem." At that moment, the swords were being handed out to them. Luna looked down at hers, and it was a blunt wooden rod, no area to damage someone too much. "Notice anything? Those swords won't cut you open, but they'll hurt if you get hit. Your armor is rubber since rubber is heavy, and that the swords are laced with electricity."

"I'm sorry," Iris interjected, "but I don't remember adding that to-"

"You didn't," Norm said, "but Chris and Chef liked Max's electro-sword or whatever so much that they implemented it here. So...sorry. Well, take your positions!"

Luna: "Here we go," she said. "If I can pierce the armor even remotely, I can shock them to the point where they give up or I can throw them off." She smiled. "I always thought that sadist girl was weird, the one from last season. Well, maybe she had the right idea, because I'm going to enjoy cutting them up."

Max: "It's time for Luna to fall! I will be the one to cut her down!"

Iris: "This is my challenge," she reassured herself. "I'll win easily, and that's all it takes for me to cut through. To victory!"

The three took their positions on opposite corners of the square, with one empty. Iris stood on the left, Max on the right, and Luna in the center corner below them, right in between the two. "Ready to die?" she asked. "I've already figured out two ways to kill you!"

"Psychopath," Iris scoffed. A buzzer sounded the start of the competition, and Iris began her pursuit. Her sword clashed with Luna's armor instantly, but as expected, there was no shock. Luna swung right for Iris's neck, but Iris was able to parry the attack in time, giving her a chance to move in. She swung a few times, but Luna was fast. She seemed to be able to predict all of Iris's movements and dodge them. "How are you not getting hit?" Iris asked.

Luna laughed. "I knew you'd be tough to beat," Luna admitted. "So I read up on the style of sword fighting Quaoar taught you." Iris gasped. "Yeah, be surprised. No matter what trick you have, it won't be enough!"

Luna's monologue was interrupted by Max charging at her, spinning sporadically in an attempt to knock her off. Luna quickly grabbed Max and shoved him to the side. Then, she got an idea. "I just need to beat Max to stay in this game," she said out loud. Iris can try to protect him, but it won't be enough. I can easily take him out, and then topple Iris in a sweet zone of concentration."

Luna charged at the super villain, ready to deliver a devastating hit. "Get ready to die!" she shouted, aiming for the eye socket of Max's helmet. Max's eyes widened as the sword got closer, but he relaxed when something else interfered.

"You're gonna have to protect yourself," Iris shouted, pointing her sword at Luna. "If you want him, you go through me first."

"Fine," Luna said blandly, and went for the same attack. Iris parried it again, and began with some powerful hits. As expected, Luna was blocking all of them, but it backed her to the edge.

Seeing an advantage, Luna thrusted her sword forward, causing it to hit Iris square in the stomach. She didn't get shocked, but she was hit back, allowing Luna to recover her footing.

Max took that chance to close his distance on Luna, and went for another hit. Luna was hit in the arm, but it didn't affect her too much. Luna used that hit to knock Max back again. "You can keep trying," Luna mocked. "But I will eventually catch one of you slipping up, and that will be your death."

"Evil doesn't die," Max taunted back. "I will make sure you're in the water this instant! To the end with you!" Max charged again, and Luna managed to smack away his sword. Instead of letting it fall backward into the water, Luna leaned back and caught it. "Uh oh," Max said nervously before running backward.

Now with two swords, Luna began approaching Iris. "I was going to save you for later," Luna said psychotically, "but I decided that I'm going to kill you now. How would you like that?"

"You're a nutcase," Iris said confidently. "This game really broke you. Too bad there's no way to remedy that. Best I can do is get you eliminated!" Despite Luna's clear advantage, Iris was able to hold her own against Luna. "Oh," she added, "Quaoar taught me multiple styles. I can swap if need be."

"W-what?" Luna asked again nervously. "You better not do that! You don't want to make me any angrier!"

Iris began enclosing Luna's distance from the edge with powerful hits. Luna wasn't able to focus on attacking and defending at the same time, so Iris continued to edge on her."

Max was still hiding in the back, watching the two girls fight each other. He looked to the side and saw several buttons. "Norm," Max asked nicely, "are these useful at all?"

"Very," Norm told him. "Those are traps. They should...I forgot to tell them about the traps." He laughed. "Goodnight, Luna."

Luna eventually found an opening to Iris's offensive, and swept her off to the side. Luna tuned her attention to Max. "I kill you now!" Luna shouted running forward. Hoping his plan worked, Max stood his ground, waiting for Luna to approach. When she got close enough, she readied a stab for his head again, but was sent flying in the air by a geyser of fire. "No!" she shouted. "That's cheating!"

"Stop whining," Norm told her. "You cheated all season."

"And it's time to pay!" Iris chimed in, swinging at her from the back. The geyser caused her to drop the second sword, allowing Iris to grab it. Luna backed off a bit, but realized Iris was coming in quickly. She readied an offensive attack, but Iris was skilled enough to dodge and attack. Eventually Luna got out again, but Iris pursued. "Max do something!"

Max pressed another button, and the square closed in, getting smaller in area.

Luna was now backed into the corner again, and as she swung, she made a giant mistake of leaving a side open. Iris swung in with the second sword, and knocked Luna's out of her hand. This time, there was nowhere to catch it. The sword was in the water. Luna dashed off again, with Iris still chasing her. Iris saw that Luna was gunning for Max now. "No!" Max shouted. "I'm just doing this! I have no weapon!" Luna kept up her assault. Max frantically pressed another button.

This button launched Luna back again on a spring. "Why are they only hitting me?" Luna complained.

"Because Max is activating them on you," Norm said bluntly. "Get a clue. I thought you were smarter than this."

Luna began to charge at Max again, but was knocked into the corner again Luna crawled to the very corner, and Iris pointed one sword at her, keeping the other one on the ground behind her. "It's over," she said. "You have nowhere to run."

Luna sighed. "Right...right you are." She turned around and looked out to the water. "I guess that's it, huh?" She sighed. "I was bested. I cheated, I schemed, and I tried to kill. I...I really messed up." Iris lowered the grip a bit on the sword that was facing Luna. "I'm...I'm sorry. I should have played more honestly. I should have been more honest from the start. Could you give me the honor to fight you honestly in the finale? That is all I could ask for."

Iris watched the sorrowful Luna hang her head. Dropping her sword, Iris stuck out her hand instead. "Get up," she said. "Let's duel for real. No combination of points will save us both, but we can at least honorably fight it out here."

Luna began to stand up, smiling. Eventually, that smile grew darker.

Then, it became a face of shock.

"No!" Luna screamed. Iris turned her head to see that Max had picked up the sword from behind her and thrusted her into the water. After poking her head up, Luna screamed again at Iris. "You fooled me! How dare you! I'll kill you!"

"Heh," Iris said with a smirk. "I guess you should have kept your guard up."

Iris's gloat was quickly put to an end by Max swinging at her, which caused Iris to roll underneath. "I have vanquished my foe!" Max shouted. "Now it is your turn!"

Iris quickly picked up her other sword and got ready to fight. "You idiot!" she shouted. "If I don't win, Luna could stay in the game!"

Max paused. "Oh? Well, why didn't you say something?" Max very promptly dropped his sword and dove into the water, ending the challenge.

"That's it," Chris announced. "Luna takes third, Max gets second, and Iris gets a win." He looked at the scores. "That puts Max at seven points, Iris at six, and Luna at...five points." He turned to the pseudo-psychic. "You're done."

"What!" Luna complained. "No! I'll kill them! They won't have a chance! She began to charge at Iris but was grabbed by Chef instead.

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Luna was no in the cannon, wrapped in a straight jacket. "This is not fair!" She shouted. "I'll have my revenge on you! Just you wait! I-I'll kill them in the finale! I won't be stopped there. That money will be mine!"

"Chef," Chris told the cook, "make sure Luna's off the rotation for helpers, and that she doesn't come back for the finale. Did you keep the address for Scarlett's asylum she was at?" Chef nodded. "Send her there. It seemed to have done miracles for her."

Iris walked up to Luna. "You played hard," she admitted. "But you fell harder." She laughed. "Enjoy prison, or wherever they send you." She began to walk off but turned around. "Oh, one more thing."

Luna's contorted face of anger quickly shifted to one in pain as she let out an "Ow!" Iris had punched her. Then Max punched her. Luna let out another "Ow!"

"That felt good," Iris said. "Never mess with me or my family again." That was the last thing Luna heard before being blasted out of the cannon.

"Wow, that was thrilling!" Chris announced. "Some people almost died, but that level of threat will be nothing compared to the finale!" He laughed maniacally as the two finalists looked nervous near him.

Iris: "Despite toppling Luna," she mentioned, "we haven't beaten the real villain: Chris. This ought to be painful, but I'm this close to a million bucks. No chance am I dropping out now."

"Iris! Max!" Chris announced. "We now have our finalists! Will it be a steamroll, or will the dark horse continue his plunder? Only one way to find out the true winner, and that's to tune in next time, on Total! Drama! Fiery Passion!"

(END OF CHAPTER)

Votes: Merge

No vote (Sudden Death Elimination)

Eliminated: Luna

Finalists: Iris, Max

Elimination Order:

19th (kind of)- Chander, The Spooky Prankster

18th- Sugar, The Pageant Queen

17th- Norm, The Antisocial Genius

16th- Jasmine, The Outback Amazon

15th- Marty, The Con Artist

14th- Kayla, The Brat

13th- Flora, The Pacifist

12th- Ethan, The Anti-Villain

11th- Shawn, The Zombie Conspiracy Nut

10th- Lavender, The Nature's Child

9th- Sky, The Athlete

8th- Kara, The Curious Girl

7th- Paul, The Pessimist

6th- Angie, The Hothead

5th- Scarlett, The Brainiac

4th- Jonathan, The Lover Boy

3rd- Luna, The Pseudo-Psychic

Finally, Luna takes the cannon, in a very similar fashion to the other villains, they go out with a giant bang.

I mentioned earlier that Luna becoming unhinged was one of the reasons she was my favorite villains to write. Instead of the final three all being fixated on moving on, only Iris is focusing on that. Max has tunnel vision on Luna, and Luna has tunnel vision on murder. I saw some people predict a Luna-Scarlett finale or a Luna-Iris finale, and those would have been good, but Luna did cheat quite a lot, so that has to be punished.

Luna's downfall was not actually being stopped by Chef, it was before that, with Iris repeating the line Luna told her when she shut her brain down. And of course, Max was the one to strike her down. Luna's fake plea before that was the setup for that, but seriously, if you were with this person all season, you'd see right through it too.

Now we're down to our finalists. This was the finale plan from the beginning. Iris was a definite, and after factoring out all the other finalists, my other option I was thinking of was Paul. But, Paul started doing less and less, so in my planning phase, with Scarlett and Luna also placing high, I brought Max into the plot more and had him come out on top as a finalist.

Well, who's going to win? There's only one episode left, and it's gonna be a big one. How will this dramatic trilogy end? Only one way to find out. See you next time!