WhatTheHeck23: You reviewed the first chapter, but I should still count it. Fun fact: you were actually the reason I wanted to continue writing along with AnonBrowser. Thinking back, I would've liked to include Owen and Gwen, just because I could and it would've been cool to see them interact with others. Though that concept will be lived on with Alejandro, Blaineley, and Sierra in the future.
HayamiHinata: Indeed it was, indeed it was.
AnonBrowser: Well if it isn't my favorite reviewer. Dakota being an intern mimics canon again, and Dawn switching teams is a shocker to everybody.
One Flu Over The Cuckoos
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The black screen faded out, to show the prison setting from the last challenge. "Last time, on Total Drama Action." Chris announced. "Imprisoned in a world they didn't create." The host narrated. "Forced to digest terrible foods, and even eat them twice." Clips of Dawn and Lightning eating in their cells were shown, and then cut to the two teams digging through the tunnels. "While each team clogs their way to freedom! Unfortunately, prison is no place for wimps, and everybody's favorite aura reader Dawn was transferred to the Screaming Gaffers." A clip of Dawn's elimination was shown, and the shock of her ex-teammates as she was announced to not be eliminated was placed. "How will Dawn's presents affect her new team? Find out here, on
Total!
Drama!
Action!"
(Cue intro)
After the intro, the black screen faded out to an owl hooting in the night, before it suddenly short circuited and blew up. The camera went away from the tree and moved over to the cast trailers, where the Gaffers were walking away from their recent victory. Brick was crouching behind Scott, which the dirt boy noticed and turned around. "Any reason why you're scared? Huh scaredy cat?" Scott taunted.
Brick gulped. "Well, I-I-I always had a fear of the d-d-dark."
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"Ever since I was born, I hated the dark." Brick confessed. "With the creeps, and The Who's that? A-and the get away." Brick stuttered, and the makeup trailer's lights turned out, so Brick's eyes were the only thing visible. "Ahhh!" Brick screamed, a sound of water coming somewhere was heard, but nobody could prove where.
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Scott sneered. "Well, I can't believe they didn't eliminate Dawn earlier, so now that's at least one more challenge I have to deal with to get her out." Scott huffed grumpily and went to the boy's trailer, Brick looked up, and Dawn suddenly appeared behind him.
"You don't have to hide your fears just because you were teased a lot as a child." Dawn said, making Brick yelp.
"Woah! When did you get here?" The cadet asked.
"Hmm? I was always here." Dawn said ominously.
"Well, who told you that?" Brick questioned, Dawn seemed to strug, not thinking about it too much.
"It's all over your aura. Between your bladder control issues and your need to be dominated." Dawn said, Brick scratched the back of his head.
"I don't need to be dominated, I'm large and in charge!" Brick said, feeling offended by her claim.
A whistle came from off screen. "Ten hut!" Jo said from offscreen, a military theme started playing and Brick dropped his confused state.
"Sir yes sir!" Brick solutes, and pokes himself in the eye with his own hand.
"Having a nice tea party with your new playmates?" Jo asked. "Well enjoy the honeymoon g-I-joke, cause today we're bringing the pain."
"Negative!" Brick stood up. "Your platoon has zero moral, that's what happens when you just lose, a great soldier." Brick pokes Jo in the chest, annoying her.
"Listen Brick for brains." Jo pushed Brick back. "We don't need her kindness, when I'm a champion sprinter, shot putter, shopping cart racing circuit champion, and squat thruster!" Jo did the squat thruster as she said she could, Brick stepped back. "Plus, I'm pushing these wimps into shape." Jo bragged.
Over near the girl's trailer, Sam was laying on the ground next to a book. "How to do a push-up." He read. "Step one, lie on the ground." He read off. "Step two, push up." Sam did as the book told him to, when he suddenly got a notification on his game guy, looked at it, and promptly fell to the ground. "Ouch! Uhh, Jo, do we really have to do these exercises in the middle of the night?" Sam asked.
"Yes! Now get back to exercise!" Jo commanded. She was about the walk into the girl's trailer before she turned around. "Oh, and if Dawn ever reveals inside information about us, don't be surprised if she doesn't show up to the next challenge, got it?" The tomboy said calmly. All of a sudden, an air horn blew out of nowhere, making the three contestants still out cover their ears in alarm.
"Out of my way!" Anne Maria yelled, pushing Jo off the steps, Zoey ran out screaming and with her eyes closed.
"Woah woah woah! What's happening?" Mike yelled from the guy's trailer.
"Me first!" Scott demanded, pushing Mike to the side, and Lightning bolting out the trailer.
The sound went on for a little longer, with the ten remaining contestants looking at Chris with their ears covered, while Dakota was holding the horn. Chris cut the sound out with his hand and smiled. "Thanks intern." The host thanked.
Dakota looked at him blankly. "What?" She asked.
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"So once I applied for this job, Chris put a restraining order on the paparazzi!" Dakota wined, now in an intern outfit. "The one thing I enjoyed when challenges aren't going on is gone! Now it's replaced with, work! So not cool."
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"Hi Dakota." Sam waved.
"Huh? Speak up!" The intern yelled, before being pushed aside by Chris.
"Good evening campers! I'm here today to prep you lucky ducks with our most awesome challenge yet!" Chris announced. "These text books here hold the sum total of eight years of med school." Chris held up one of the books, and the ten teenagers looked at it. "Each one of you will get one, because tomorrow, we're gonna play doctor!" The host tosses a book to Jo, and she rolled her eyes at the statement.
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"Lightning doesn't get doctors." The Lightning confesses. "They're always telling him stuff like: you need to take a rest and sit out, and: having protein every time he gets hungry isn't healthy." The jock admitted. "Unless you're coach, you do not tell the Lightning what he can and can't do."
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"I have a doctor, he's a very good guy honestly." Mike said. "He was actually the one who told me about my multiple personality disorder."
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"To win this challenge, you're going to have to memorize the entire contents of these text books, by morning." Chris said, suspenseful music playing in the background.
"But it's already so late." Zoey said.
"You got that right!" Chris responded, Dakota pulling up in a golf cart with hands full of pizza boxes. "But what all nighter would be complete without pizza?" Chris asked, a few of the contestants salivating at the smell.
Dakota plopped the boxes in Sam's hands, and he took a big sniff. "Wow, this smells great Dakota." Sam complemented, Dakota blushed and walked away.
"This has to be a trick." Dawn said.
"You're not gonna throw our challenge just so your original team can win will ya?" Anne Maria asked.
Dawn shook her head. "No, I swear it has bad energy."
"Well, get studying. Remember, med school students consume eight hundred and fifty percent more pizza than the average human." Chris said.
"Do you even have the facts to back that up?" Mike asked.
"Nah! Just eat the pizza, there is plenty more to come!" Chris yelled out as the golf cart drove away, leaving smoke behind for the campers to cough at.
Mike walked up to the pizza, and inspected it. "Looks ok." He said, and sniffed it. "Smells ok." He said again, and took a bite. "Wow, it tastes incredible!" Mike exclaimed.
"How is something like that even possible?" Scott asked.
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Over at the craft services tent, pizza dough was being tossed up into the air by Dakota. The camera panned over to the side, where Chef was also making pizza. "Keep em coming." Chef said. "I'll add the cheesy tough." He said, sprinkling in cheese from a shaker.
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Back at the cast trailers, the two teams were sitting at logs next to a campfire, eating the pizza being served. Lightning and Anne Maria were sitting next to each other, and Lightning yawned in a comedic way, and put his arm around her shoulder. Anne Maria just accepted it, not really seeming bothered, but she did blush.
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"Yes! Sha-score!" Lightning pumped his fist.
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/
Over at the craft services tent, the Grips were enjoying their pizza, and reading from textbooks. "This pizza is great! Who knew Chef would be able to make this stuff?" Jo said, taking another bite of the food.
"Aren't you gonna have some Mike?" Zoey asked.
Mike yawned. "Uhh, no thanks, I'd rather keep studying these medical books." He yawned again.
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"The guys back home are gorgeous." Zoey admitted. "But they're all hokey thugs and juvey rejects who have a collective IQ of ten." The indie chick insulted. "Mike is hot, and smart." She sighed dreamingly. "I was starting to think smart hot guys were a myth, like unicorns and perfect hair."
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"Well, no pizza for Mike means more for the rest of us." Jo said, shoving another slice in her mouth.
"Hey, slow down, I haven't saved any for Dakota yet." Sam yelled. "Well, not that I was going to lose my focus on the game for her." Sam spat out after Jo glared at him.
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Back at the Gaffers, the five campers were studying hard, all except Brick. "You know, you should probably take a rest." Dawn said, making Brick jump.
"Huh? Why do you say that?" Brick asked.
Dawn shrugged. "I can sense in your aura that you've been overworking yourself from leading the team, and tomorrow's a reward challenge. There should be no need for you to work so hard for something so pointless." Dawn said.
Brick thought for a bit. "You know, maybe you're right, I should take a break." Brick threw the book behind him. "Sorry team, but you'll be down a man tomorrow." The team leader sighed.
"Hey I knew it! She's trying to throw our challenges so the other team would win!" Scott pointed out.
"Sha-yeah!" Lightning backed up, though he was a little quiet with Anne Maria sleeping on his shoulder. "All team members must put in as much work as Lightning does!"
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"Sure I could've given up too, but then I'd look like dead weight." Scott admits. "Besides, Dawn will be easier to convince the team to vote off." Scott smirked.
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The scene moved back to Dawn and Brick walking away, Dawn looked like she was hovering, while Brick slouched down. "Man, I really need this break. Thanks Dawn." Brick said, rubbing his eyes.
Dawn looked at her new team leader. "No problem, however, I would also like to use this opportunity to tell you about your teammates."
Brick narrowed his eyes. "What do you mean?"
Dawn sighed. "I'm talking about Scott, his aura is quite an interesting one, I've never seen something like it before. It's very dark and grim, and it looks like someone threw up on it." Dawn walked away ominously, while Brick turned back to his team, where Lightning and Anne Maria were cuddling, and Scott was eating pizza.
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The camera flashed, and it was now daytime. It zoomed into one of the storage sheds, where the ten remaining campers were all waiting for the challenge to start. "I'm so… tired." Zoey said.
"My sha-head is full." Lightning commented.
Mike turned to the jock. "Actually, your brain can't get full, it just keeps absorbing information." Mike pointed out, making Scott roll his eyes next to him.
Chris suddenly burst through the door, surprising everybody. "Morning competitors! Or should I say, doctors!" Chris pulled out a gun, which shot medical equipment at the contestants, putting them all on instantly. "Ready for today's big challenge?" The host asked.
"Some of us may be more prepared than others." Anne commented, giving a glare to Brick and Dawn.
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"Lightning filled me in about those two shnooks." The jersey girl said. "Brick may be ugly, but skipping out on a challenge isn't like him. Something's up with pasty, I know it."
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"Today's reward challenge is called: visiting hour." Chris announced. "Only one member of the winning team will actually get to enjoy the reward."
"Hey, if only one of us gets the reward, then why should we try to win?" Jo questioned.
"A win is still a sha-win." Lightning said, Jo glared at him in annoyance.
"Well, what exactly is the reward?" Zoey asked.
Chris chuckled. "Well, you have to see, right after you assemble your very own Frankenstein!" The host announced.
"You know Frankenstein was the name of the doctor, not the monster right?" Mike asked.
"Nobody cares Mike." Chris states, he was not wrong. "Anywho, these kegs contain two identical bodies, each player will climb a latter, strap on the bungee cord, and jump into the keg in hopes of retrieving a body part." The camera showed the various parts of the challenge as Chris explained it. "Each body part will be stacked in place on the platform, use those chains to raise them all the way to the roof, where they'll be re-animated by a blast of lightning!" Chris explained.
"Yo! You called?" Lightning asked.
Chris ignored his question. "First team to bring a Franken-Chris to life wins, now, can somebody tell me how to treat somebody with a bean stick up their nose?" Chris asked.
"Oh oh!" Zoey raised her hand. "Administer two cc's I'd pain meds and probe the affected area with a sterile swab." She answered confidentially.
"Correctamundo!" Chris said.
"Yes!" Zoey cheered.
/
Zoey was on top of the diving board, about to jump off. "Woooooaaaah!" She yelled, before splashing into the water, and coming back up with an eel. The eel zapped her, and she dropped it back in the water. "Ow, what was that?" The indie chick asked.
Chris pondered for a bit. "Oh right, I forgot to mention the electric eels. Three zaps and you're out dude."
Zoey looked worried for a bit, but jumped down once again to grab a foot. "Eww, ok, I got a piece." She tossed the foot to B, and he smirked and put it on the table.
"Ok, next question." Chris continued with the challenge. "Your patient has an itchy red inflammation on their but, diagnosis?"
"Sha-diaper rash, apply repeatingly to achieve humectant dispersion." Lightning answered.
"This!" The questioner congratulates.
/
"Sha-dive!" Lightning dives into the pool of green slime, holding an eel coming back up. "Sha-score, wait what the?" The eel shocks him before he could continue, falling back into the vault. The jock comes back with an extra eel, and gets shocked again. Finally, Lightning comes back with an arm, and throws it down. "Yes! Take that eel!"
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"Those eels were just jealous of Lightning." The jock defends. "They were just, Uhh, hold on, let me think, Lightning's been trying to keep this medical stiff in his brain since last night."
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"I got it! I got it!" Brick called out, only for Scott to shove him to the side and catch it instead.
"Thanks for the arm fizzle." The dirt farmer whispered.
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"This is easier than I thought." Scott said in the confessional, legs crossed on the table, and hands behind his head. "All I have to do is convince the team that Brick is a traitor, and it's bye bye Brick, or Dawn, I just can't decide."
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"Next question." Chris announced. "Your patient has a white tongue, red eyes, and they're oozing gooey crud, diagnosis?" Chris asked.
B was about to speak up, but Jo interrupted him. "Pinkish iotus, treat with two rounds of floppity Jib 'it's."
"Absolutely!" Chris called out from off screen, while B glared at Jo. "I messed around with some of the terms in the text book."
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"That doesn't seem right." Mike said. "I may be tired, but I know a fair share of medical terms, I must be imagining things."
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"That's not right, not in the slightest." Dawn said blankly.
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Jo jumped off the diving board, screaming all the way down. "Haha! Nailed it! Now catch multi-man!" Jo tossed the second leg to Mike, and he scrambled to catch it, and then put it on the desk.
"Smells like ear wax?" Chris asked.
"Pineapple itis." Anne Maria answered, Chris gave her the thumbs up, and the jersey girl ran to the latter.
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Anne Maria almost jumped, but the board started creaking, and it suddenly snapped in half, sending her all the way down. "Woah!" She came back with three eels around her body, and was shocked by all of them.
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Dakota was in the confessional, holding a saw. "It's just like using daddy's steak knife, clever huh?"
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/
"Fur between the toes?" Chris pointed at his toes.
"Stick two horse feathers between the wiz bang!" Mike answered, seeming to be correct.
/
Mike splashed into the pit, and picked up some shorts, throwing them to Zoey.
/
The next few scenes were a montage of the Grips and Gaffers putting their pieces into place. "Wacka wacka two by four!" Mike answers.
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"Sissy pants McGee." Jo declared after holding a stethoscope on Chris's chest, making him look offended at her.
/
The next clip was of B beating an eel with a baseball bat, which flashed again to Scott getting shocked by an eel, and then grabbing the Chris head from his arm, and throwing it towards Anne Maria, being carried on Lightning's shoulders. "The Gaffers ahead by a, a head!" Chris called out, stuttering on his word choice.
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Brick eagerly caught one of the hands being handed to him, and Scott stole it from him to pants him. "Hahaha!" Scott laughed.
"Hey, what was that for?" Brick asked, pulling his pants up frantically.
"Alright, stop arguing you two!" Dawn put herself between Brick and Scott, making Brick Woden his eyes and Scott roll his. "If we manage to work together and win this challenge, you could get the reward, even if the tea leaves say it's unlikely."
"Tea leaves shmea leaves." Scott says, just get back to doing the challenge.
Dawn walks back to Brick, but glaring at Scott the way down. "Don't let him get to you, remember what your drill Sergeant says."
"You're right Dawn." Brick replies. "But uhh, I really don't know what to do with it, I've always mostly looked out for other people than myself."
Dawn nods in understanding. "I hear you on that, but living in this world requires change, change that you'll have to find."
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"I still have no idea why Scott's out to get me." Brick states in the confessional, arms crossed. "We're on the same team here, we should be working together."
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A moment later, Sam splashed out of the water with an arm, tossing it to Mike with a smile. "Oh yeah, one piece retrieved!" Same calls out, with Mike putting the arm on the table.
"The Grips have their cadaver, time to start yanking some chains dudes!" Chris announced. "Be quick about it too, because the Gaffers are right behind you."
Jo and Zoey start pulling on the chain, while Sam pulls the frame away. "Hurry up! Lightning's got the last piece!" Lightning yelled, throwing his team's last body part to them.
Scott, Dawn, and Brick all start pulling on their chain, with Anne Maria standing by spraying her hair. "Seems like the Gaffers are still in this, but who's cadaver will hit the roof first? Make sure you come back for all the
Total,
Drama,
Action!"
(Fade to add break)
The Gaffers were pulling their FrankenChris up to the ceiling, while Lightning and Anne Maria stood by. "Ugh, all these losers are taking it too slow!" Lightning complained. "I bet the Lightning can do much better, sha bam!" Lightning said his catchphrase, and struck a pose, when Anne Maria noticed something.
"Say, doll, what's that weird red mark lookin thing on your arm." She presses her hands on his arm. "Hey, and your arm's got to, ya burning up!"
"Hold on." Mike paused. "Red sores and fevers, if he has lemony burps then that's one of the diseases in the book."
Just then, Lightning burped. "Sha-dang, my burps do taste lemony."
"You're right Mike." Zoey said. "Page seven hundred and fifty three, mortaltistical crumples disease, and it's not only fatal, but highly contagious!" Zoey panicked as suspenseful music started up in the background.
"Ok, looks like it's quarantine time!" Chris announced, slowly backing away from the scene. "See ya, wouldn't want to be ya." Chris runs out the door, and boards it up with nails, wood, and drills, as the remaining listen in on the other side to hear. "There's more to this disease than any team knows, hahaha."
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"Odd, how does Lightning somehow gets infected with a fatal disease?" Mike asked.
Dawn was about to answer, but was interrupted by the jock. "Oh come on! It's gotta be some twelve hour kinda thing."
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Mike asked. "Quarantine Lightning stat!"
Jo pumped up a big bubble, and started calling orders! "Come on! Get jockstrap inside here before he kills us all!"
Zoey walked over to Mike, hands behind her back. "You know, you're really good at orders actually, you could probably replace Jo."
Mike just blushed. "Well, thank you, you know, I never really get-"
"Wait, hold that thought." Zoey panicked again. "I see another sore on you Mike!"
Mike's eyes widened. "What? No! It's gotta be a mistake!" Another bubble immediately began getting pumped when B carried Mike on his shoulders, and threw him into the bubble.
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Sam was rocking in the confessional, sitting in the fetal position. "I'm sure nobody will let us die. Dakota's much nicer than any of the production crew, right?"
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Just after the confessional ended, Mike gasped. "Hehehe." The same figure with hair over one of their eyes from last episode came out and laughed. "Time to cause a little chaos." The figure rammed itself into the bubble, which hit Lightning's bubble and made them both bounce around out of control.
"Oh that's just great!" Jo wined. "Not only are muscle head and multi man infectious, but now they're giant pinballs of death!"
"Guys! We gotta confirm nobody else is infected!" Brick called out. "Does anybody know what symptoms of mortage istical crumples disease includes?"
"Oh oh! I know!" Zoey raised her hand while jumping up and down. "It includes explosive diarrhea." B covered his growling stomach while slamming a porta potty door shut. "Itchy lips." The red haired girl counted on a finger.
Just then, Anne Maria started itching her lips. "Oh my gosh! My lips are on fia!" She itches rushingly, and they appeared red and puffed out.
"Sudden hot flashes." Zoey said again. Jo started fanning herself with her hand while sweating profusely, and rang out her hoodie. "Sea sickness." Sam bends over and pukes. "Speaking in-" just then, Zoey started spitting out incomprehensible words, and panicked.
Scott started laughing in the distance. "Ha! Speaking in tongues is also one of the- oof!" Scott bumps into Zoey and stops mid-sentence. "Oh no! Blindness is also one of the symptoms, I'm infected!" Scott runs around in a mad panic, stumbling and tripping on things.
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"I'll be honest, I was terrified." Brick said, arms crossed. "I had to keep my composure though, it's what my drill instructor taught me." The cadet paused for a while. "I mean, they're not gonna let anybody here die for real."
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In the recording room from the alien challenge, Chris leaned back in his chair, smirking. "Yeah, you'd think that."
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A moment later, everybody besides Brick and Dawn were in a bed, Mike and Lightning were also outside of a bed, mostly because of the bubble. Zoey groans on a bed, while Brick runs up to her carrying a jug of water. "Here you go ma'am, you look thirsty."
"Thank you Brick, you're a real lifesaver." Zoey commented, she took a drink of water and threw up in her mouth. "Ew! Why's it so salty?"
"I made it out of my own sweat, always handy in case of emergency." Zoey spits back the water in Brick's face after he said that.
Brick was starting to get more nervous at this point. "This is insane! I should've fixed this by now! Maybe I should've read those books."
"Brick, I suppose I should have told you this earlier." Dawn said. "But we're the only ones who didn't read the books, and we're the only ones who aren't sick."
"I know, I know, we're lucky. We need to get out of this place and grab a textbook!" Brick commanded.
"If you insist." Dawn said. "Problem is, Chris sealed off the only exit."
Brick looked around a little. "Not that one!" Brick pointed to the roof of the building.
"Alright! Good eye Brick!" Dawn complimented.
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After a while of pulling the chains to the top of the building, Brick and Dawn jumped down to the bottom. "Dawn! You look for textbooks, I'll look around the kitchen!"
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"At the very least, Dawn respects me for what I'm doing! She's much easier to boss around that way!" Brick facepalmed. "I mean command! Jo is getting in my head!"
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"Ahhhhhhh!!!!" Lightning cried as he kept rolling. He slammed into a wall and came to a sudden stop in his bubble.
Jo was sweating so bad in her bed. "I'm… so… hot…"
"No. I'm da hottest." Anne Maria said.
"I wasn't talking about attractiveness fake skin." Jo said angrily. "Though let's face it, I'd win anyway."
"Maybe it's because you're wearing that track suit in the middle of summer!" Maria insulted.
"Dear doctor." Mike started writing. "He came out again today, you said the pills should work fine for my time on the show, and I don't wish to hurt anybody without knowing it. Signed, Micheal."
Just then, Brick and Dawn burst through the doors of the room. "Pappy?" Scott asked in his haze.
"No need to fear anymore! Brick is here!" Brick saluted.
"And me!" Dawn announced gleefully. "Plus, we have an announcement to make!"
"These textbooks are a lie! The covers are just made from cereal boxes!" Brick rips off the cover effortlessly. "Plus, this thing of cheese is actually itching powder and laxatives!" Brick rips off the sticker and it reveals a logo for somebody itching.
Anne Maria became angry. "You've gotta be kiddin me! Chef ruined my good looks for some challenge?"
"Yes, as unfortunate as that is." Dawn said. "The rest of you are simply suffering from a popular term known as first year med school syndrome. It happens from too much study, and too little sleep."
Scott blinked a few times, and after sitting up for a few seconds, he came to a realization. "What? I can see again?"
There was a celebration for a quick moment, before Chris came swinging in on a chain. "Congratulations to the Screaming Gaffers! You've just won the challenge. As for your reward… I knew I was forgetting something! Hold here while I whip something up." Chris left the room as Chef pulled the chain back up.
In the corner of the room, Lightning was trying to punch his way out of the bubble. "Sha-bam!" He punched the bubble, but nothing happened.
Anne Maria saw him struggling, and took out a hair pin. "Here toots, lemme help you with that." She pushed the pin into the bubble and it popped instantly.
"Woah! Thanks Anne Maria!" Lightning complemented.
"Oh you know, just doing things for the people I care about." Anne Maria said.
"Mike!" Zoey yelled. "I'm so glad you're ok."
Mike shuddered. "Yeah, I'm glad you're ok too."
"Oh, I almost forgot." Zoey said. "Brick, Dawn, thank you so much for helping us get through this."
Brick saluted. "No problem, it's my duty to help those in need."
Dawn bowed. "Of course, I would always come to the aid of a friend."
On the other side of the room, Jo groaned. "That should be me getting all that praise. Why is soggy shorts the one who had to figure it out, with my teammate too!" Suddenly, an arm grabbed Jo by the side. "Gah! What are you doing?"
"Shhhh… don't question it." Sam said.
Jo looked annoyed. "What do you want?"
"Look, I've been feeling down ever since I now have less chances to talk to Dakota, along with the fact that I'm probably gone next, and I was hoping you could whip me into shape. We could maybe even form an alliance?" Sam asked. "I've seen your affect on Brick, so it should work on me right?"
Jo thought for a second. "Well, I can't pass up on the idea of an alliance, but I must set a few ground rules. First, don't come on runs with me, I don't need you slowing me down, and two, vote for who I say." Jo chuckled. "You know? This is convenient, I was just doubting my abilities, but you'll make a great student." Jo put an arm on Sam's shoulder.
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Sam sighed. "Jo's strong and all, I'm sure she's one of the people who will be able to protect me, but I feel like this will be a mistake."
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Chris came back down on his chain for the second time. "As I was saying, for your reward…" Chris began, taking the lid off the plate.
"That's my drill sergeant!" Brick said.
"And that's my pappy!" Scott also yelled.
"That's right!" Chris said. "One of you will get to leave this cruddy film lot to have a night with your very best friend. Who's the lucky somebody?" The Gaffers immediately began arguing over who deserved to have it, except for Dawn. Eventually, punches started being thrown, and Dawn ended up being the only one left. "Hey Dawn, do you want it?" Chris teased.
Dawn shrugged. "I'm sure Brick deserves it more, but I guess so."
"Alright, exit is to the left." The host smiled.
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In the camera room, Chris was watching the tape. "Wow, I never knew my smile looked so bright at that angle. I should try it more." Chris stood up out of his seat. "Will Dawn's skin be whiter than it was before? Will Sam's alliance with Jo actually work out? Find out next time on:
Total!
Drama!
Action!"
(Cue credits)
/
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"Hey, you want drama?" Dakota asked. "Well I'll give you drama from behind the scenes! Chris treats his employees like dirt, and they get no respect from him! I think I've seen one fall off a building and he didn't bat an eye. Worst of all, a ton of it is directed at me, so not cool!"
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Elimination order:
Cameron, Staci, Dakota,
Remaining contestants:
Killer Grips: Jo, Mike, Zoey, B, Sam.
Screaming Gaffers: Brick, Anne Maria, Lightning, Scott, Dawn.
Author's note:
Sorry about that long ass wait. It really took longer than it needed to. I decided that this episode should set up a few things, such as the Brick and Dawn friendship, Brick and Mike's storyline, and the last minute Jo and Sam friendship that I came up with, and can go anywhere. This chapter might have felt worse than the last ones, but that's because of the fact I had such long breaks in between each writing session. Also, expect the old aftermath to be replaced with something else, I don't really like it that much and it should be replaced with something more original.