AnonBroswer: Despite being the only person to review the last chapter, I'm sure you're not the only one who's read it. Nice to analyze each important character, and yes, Brick and Dawn should be watching out for Scott, and Mike should start playing safe around Zoey.
The Phantom of the Film Lot
This is a piece of fan work, just like Total Drama Reunion, it's not official. Go watch the real thing.
"Last time, on Total Drama Action!" Chris introduced again. "A dude with leadership, leadership that took his past everyday thinking, but when the chips were down, and even when the chips came back up again, he was the only one who could rescue them." Clips of Brick doing heroic actions during the episode were shown. "Searching for a cure, that was inflicting his dearest friends. A challenge was won, and a cure found." Brick and Dawn winning the challenge and reward for the Gaffers was played. "Nobody was more deserving of this reward, then Dawn!" A loud crunch was heard, which didn't go with the clips of the episode. "Hey? What can I say? Gross disease movies make me crave a little corn!" Chris picked up a bag of popcorn from his chair. "It's time to put the snacks away kiddies, because after this totally terrifying episode, there won't be a stomachs left unturned. Hold on to your buckets! It's time for some:
Total!
Drama!
Action!"
(Cue intro)
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It was a hot summer day, and Sam was doing push-ups in the heat as a soccer ball was being kicked around him. Sam groaned for a second, before falling to the ground. "Urg… I'm gonna need to recharge my stamina meter before going a little more."
Jo rolled her eyes at the gamer. "You are indeed hopeless." Jo kicked a soccer ball, and Lightning kicked it back, revealing that they were playing soccer together. "Sometimes I wonder why I teamed up with you."
Lightning bounced the ball between his feet for a while. "Hey dude, who are ya talkin to?"
"She's talking to me." Sam groaned.
"Oh sorry, Lightning didn't notice you there, I thought you were just a clump o' dirt." Lightning apologized.
Jo sighed. "Don't tell me you're actually that stupid. Your looks said it all but I didn't think you would actually confirm it."
While Jo and Lightning started an argument, the camera moved over to a table that Brick, Zoey, Mike, and Dawn were sitting at. "I was never good at this game, never understood it." Mike said to himself. He suddenly gasped and turned into Chester.
"Darn kids and their video games! Back in my day, this was one of the only games we had to play. I can still fold this like a young one!" Chester attempted to shuffle the cards in his deck, before breaking his fingers. "Ah! My fragile old person hands!"
Chester gasped back into Mike. "Hey Dawn, would you mind shuffling these for me?"
"Of course." Dawn grabbed Mike's cards and shuffled them for him, all without taking a peek.
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"I'm so glad that my two friends are able to get along with each other." Zoey said. "Though I can't shake the feeling off that Mike is hiding something from me."
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"I used to be a little mad at Dawn for exposing my secret, but now I realize that it helps me socialize better when I'm not hiding it from people." Mike complimented. He thought for a minute too. "I was going to say something else, but I forgot."
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"It's good to know I can have good relations with the other team." Brick said. "This is a friendly competition after all."
B's picked up a sandwich and shoved it inside his mouth. "Aye yo, thanks for stealin this stuff from the cafeteria ya?" Anne Maria thanked. "Those handy gadgets you got really are cool." The jersey girl stuffed a sandwich in her mouth.
Scott rubbed his chin. "Yes, very cool." Scott also put a sandwich in his mouth. "This food is still as bad as the rest of the stuff Chef makes, but it's at least nice to eat something to eat. These challenges are hard work."
"You don't have to be so rude you know?" Sam said, still laying on the ground. "They put a lot of effort into their work."
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A small flashback played, it was near the craft services tent, it was night time and a very rainy day. In the kitchen area, somebody held up a knife, as if they were about to kill somebody, but then they just spread butter over a sandwich before putting cheese, pepperoni, and a slice of bread on it. A very tired Dakota picked it up, and placed it in a stack of other sandwiches, before a strike of Lightning revealed Sam's location behind her. "Hey Dakota!"
"Agh!" Dakota threw the knife at Sam's face in fear, luckily Sam was able to dodge it before it hit her. "Oh my gosh Sam are you ok?"
After recovering from the fear, Sam stood back up. "Uh yeah, I'm fine. Sorry for scaring you back there."
"Oh, it's fine. At least I have a chance to talk to you now." The blonde girl admits.
"Haha, that's true." Sam agreed. "It's hard to talk to you without one of Chris's evil minions forcing us into a challenge or even stepping in my way."
At that moment, Chef was able to sneak up behind both of them. "What are you doing in my kitchen!??!"
Sam jumped back. "Well, I uhh, just wanted to talk to Dakota."
"Well nobody enters my kitchen without my permission. Even then, they're not allowed to enter in the first place!" The burly man yelled.
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The flashback ended, Jo and Lightning stared at Sam weirdly. "You excepted Chef without even a scratch? Impressive." Jo complimented. "I must be rubbing off on you."
Lightning gawked. "Yeah right! Dude can't even do a push-up! The Lightning can not believe you think that!"
"And the Scott wants you guys to shut up!" The dirt farmer yelled at the three. "I hope there's a challenge today so one of you can be gone."
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"Why is everybody I'm around a moron?" Jo asked herself.
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"Attention all Total Drama victims!" Chris called over the loudspeakers. "Please meet me in the northeast corner of the studio Palooza! Bring lozenges, the screaming is gonna hurt."
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"We've walked all the way over here and Chris can't even be bothered to show up?" Scott complained, walking from one part of the cliff to another.
"Cut the man some slack, I'm sure he has his reasons to be late." Brick said as he leaned on a light.
"Woahhh!!!!!" Chris could be heard screaming from above. Chris fell onto a light, and blood splattered on everybody standing around. Everybody screamed, Brick even wet himself.
Zoey waved her hand in front of Chris's eyes. "He's… dead."
Chris popped back alive at that very moment, spooking Zoey momentarily. "Silly Zoey, stars never fizzle out!"
"Well they can." Mike commented. "They blow up, known as a supernova."
"That's the magic of cinema dudes!" Chris ignored Mike's comment.
Scott sniffed around himself for a moment. "Brick, did you just pee yourself?"
Brick shook his head. "No! I would never!"
Chris pulled out his megaphone for a moment. "Hey! Eyes on me please!" Chris put the device away once he had the attention on him. "Anywho, I'm absolutely perfectly Chrisoly fine. Wanna see how it's done?"
"No!" Everyone yelled at once.
"Alright fine, whatever you say." The host wined. "Well if we're going to continue this show, it's time for today's terrifying, bloodcurdling, horror movie challenge! To figure out which team gets which challenge, a scream-off! Think of every great horror movie you've ever seen."
"Heck yeah!" Jo celebrated. "I'm a huge horror movie fan, I've seen tons of them."
"They all have one thing in common: fantastic screaming from actors." Chris said. "And the killers who snuff them." Brick and Anne Maria stepped back in shock at that last line. "Each team will pick their killer, the rest of you can be the screamers. If your cereal killer can make you scream the loudest, your team wins." A chainsaw waves over the screen, before blood is poured down to cut to the next shot.
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"You guys should pick me!" Scott demanded. "I mean, have any of you seen how the rats look at me back at the farm?"
"Well, I'll get easily scared by just about anybody." Brick subsided.
"Plus, your aura is nasty." Dawn commented.
"I ain't understandin how, we can smell you coming from a mile away." Anne Maria insulted. "But, there's nobody else really available, so it's fine."
"I'd appreciate it if you didn't call me smelly, but you're right." Scott pointed out. "I'll be the perfect killer."
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"I'm not too sure if letting Scott be the killer is a good idea or not." Brick confessed. "I mean, he threatened to eliminate me to my face, what if he's really gonna kill me?"
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"Come on, you guys gotta let me be the killer!" Jo demanded from her side of the team. "I mean, are you gonna let Sam do it?"
Sam coughed into his fist. "I'll let you know that I have a very high score on Alive by Evening, I'm very good at scaring!"
Mike raised his hand temporarily. "I do this unintentionally, but I can actually be scary on occasions."
"Really? Well, you learn something new everyday." Zoey said.
Jo just groaned at the commotion. "Look, I'm doing the scarring around here, and that's final!" Jo turned her attention towards B for a second. "You've got the screaming covered right Silent Bob?" B just gave Jo a thumbs up. "Alright, we settled that one quickly."
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"Well, that was unexpected." Jo admits. "Back at home everybody would just listen to me. Whatever, that's not an issue."
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"Mike, being scary?" Zoey asked herself. "Ha! Don't make me laugh, he's a total sweetheart!"
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It was nighttime now, Brick was patrolling an area in the woods. "Hello? Is anybody there?" Brick called out nervously.
"You're scared of the dark?" Sam asked, spooking Brick.
"Ah!" Brick let out a small yelp. "Woah, you scared me right there. Anyway, no, I'm not afraid of the dark, not afraid of anything!"
"Oh well, ok?" Sam's said, not really sure of the answer he got.
"Alright, Brick and Sam, prepare yourselves for your killers to enter. Then, I want huge, massive, ginormous screams! We'll be measuring the volume on our scream-o-meter!" Chris explained, the scream-o-meter played a stock sound effect sample of the scream. "Lights!" A light popped up out of nowhere. "Cameras!" A camera did the same thing. "Action!" The challenge has officially started.
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Sam was shown standing around, a mask was out over the camera as somebody approached him. Jo crawled out from the bushes and yelled loud. "I'm a killer coming to kill you! Fear me mortal!"
"Ahhhhh!!!!!" Sam yelled, Jo's scare was simple yet effective. The scream-o-meter popped up and showed a respectable score. "Hehe, killer jumpscare man."
"Thank you, I told you choosing me wouldn't be a bad choice."
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"It's showtime." Scott said to himself before putting on his mask. Scott ran up to Brick, who was walking around nervously. The dirt farmer tapped Brick on the shoulder. Brick turned around nervously. Scott grinned and he jumped with a very unconvincing yell. "Boo!" He yelled.
"Ahhhhhh!!!!!!" Brick screamed at the top of his lungs, it was ear-piercing.
"And with a score of fifty on the scream-o-meter, the win goes to Brick and Scott, for the Screaming Gaffers!"
While Scott looked dumbfounded at what just happened, Sam was sneaking off to the other side of the room, where Dakota was holding up a camera. "Hey Dakota, nice to see you again."
"Oh Sam! Welcome back." She said. "I saw you up there, a shame you didn't win."
"Well hey, who said you can't rig it so we do win." Sam chuckled at his own bad joke.
Dakota awkwardly laughed too. "That would be nice, but I don't have such power, but I would if I could."
"Well, you let me know when you figure that out." Sam said. "I gotta get going though, see you then." Sam began to walk away, before tripping on a box of knives, chainsaws, and other sharp murder weapons. "Ouch! No fair!"
"Haha!" Dakota laughed at the gamer. "You're so clumsy goofball!"
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There was now a porta potty on set. It was large, and had nothing around it.
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This time, the confessional was taking place in a toilet area. B was sitting in it, reading a newspaper. B noticed the camera, and held up finger guns.
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Dawn was also sitting in the bathroom confessional, with her legs crossed might I add. "While this bathroom may look clean, it is the living space of many beautiful flies. A fly sat down on Dawn's finger. "Hello, aren't you a cute little guy?"
Scott burst through the door, not even trying to yell. "Hello Dawn." He said blankly.
"Greetings Scott, I could sense your aura approaching earlier, so I'm not that scared." Dawn admits to Scott.
"Whatever." Scott slammed the door shut.
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B was still reading his magazine, before Jo punched a hole in the porta potty. "Here's Jolene!" Jo said, poking her face through the door.
"Eeeeeeeee!!!!" B screamed like a girl loudly.
Jo started to chuckle, and B glared at the tomboy. "I'm sorry, I just didn't expect you to scream like that." Jo started chuckling to herself harder.
Outside of the confessional, Chris was peaking his ear in the porta potty. "And that's round two over and done with! B's girly scream combined with Sam's score is still not enough to defeat Brick!" Chris walked off stage, and then Scott could be seen looking behind the corner.
"Hmm, that's just perfect." He said to himself. Suddenly, a fly flew into the rat's mouth, and he started coughing profusely.
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"Alright guys, this is the tiebreaker scene." Chris told Lightning and Anne Maria, who were sitting on a couch together. "And for this one, you're gonna have to act your faces off."
Lightning takes a small read at the script. "Oh! Lightning likes this one!" The jock did an exaggerated yawn and wrapped his arm around Anne Maria.
"How basic horror movie is this? We gotta make out!" Anne examined.
"Yes! Come to Lightning!" Lightning and Anne Maria started to make out, Chris looked very uncomfortable.
"Uhh, ok? Good for them." Chris said awkwardly.
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Mike and Zoey were sitting on another couch, reading the script. "Woah, ok! That's uncomfortable!" Zoey said, throwing the script in the air.
"I mean, I'm a good actor but I'm not so sure about this." Mike added on.
Chris stood up from behind the couch. "Remember kiddies, it's a million bucks!"
Mike and Zoey looked at each other awkwardly for a moment. "Well, it should be fine. It would just be a friendly kiss after all." Zoey meekly said.
"Y-yeah, not too bad." The two's cheeks were red as lava now. As they slowly leaned in for the kiss, Dakota's shadow leaned over the two holding a chainsaw.
"Let a rip!" The blonde girl said loudly, Mike and Zoey both stopped at the moment to scream incredibly loudly.
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Meanwhile, where Lightning and Anne Maria where, Scott just watched the two make out. "Love, I will never understand it. Well, time to throw." Scott said to himself. "Hey you two! I'm gonna chop you into pig meat!"
The two looked up for a second, and they didn't seem to care. "Ah." They said blankly, resulting of a low score on the scream-o-meter. The two immediately went back to making out.
(Cue add break)
The shot came back with the five Killer Grips sitting in the craft services tent. "Excuse me, but can u ask how Dakota is doing?" Sam asked.
"Oh, don't worry about her." Chris said. "She's not gonna be fired, we still need a little more torchure to her soul. The producers just want to talk to her, not allowed to interfere with challenges and stuff."
Jo just slammed her hand on the table. "Yeah, and because of Sam's little friend, we lost the challenge! We had the highest score of anybody!"
"We still technically cheated." Zoey countered.
"Ok, ok, no need to get all riled up." Chris taunted. "Gather around, and let me tell you the story of why this film lot is abandoned."
"Cause it's a death trap?" Jo asked.
"Hush my child, this film lot is perfectly safe." Chris re-assured. "But on this night." Chris picked up a flashlight and cut the lights, scaring Mike and Sam for a moment. "One day, Onny the Rent a Cop - a dedicated security guard who worked here for twenty-five years - mysteriously died, on this very spot!" Chris pointed directly to the ground. "Now, her desperate and uneasy spirit walks the lot, and nobody has ever spent the whole night in this craft service tent."
"They were killed by fallen sets?" Jo asked again.
"Cause of the haunting!" Chris spat back at Jo. "On an unrelated note, your goal is to spend the whole night in this tent. I'd you succeed, I'll forgive you from Dakota's actions, and you won't have to send anybody home." The five Grips cheered at the news. "Track any psychic phenomenon using these ghost meters, and just in case." Chris handed Zoey a very small flashlight.
"Gee, thanks." She said grumpily.
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The Screaming Gaffers were walking their way to the trailers, having a chat. "I'm telling you guys, I was a good cereal killer! Dawn and the highschool freaks just weren't paying attention."
"That's no excuse for a poor behavior soldier! We may have won, but we WILL talk about this in the morning!" Brick commanded.
"Yo! Screaming Gaffers!" Chris yelled.
"Oh what do you want now ya shnook?" Anne Maria asked in a very tired tone.
"Ok, so here's the deal. The Killer Grips are sitting in the craft tent like sitting ducks. Your task is to scare them out of the tent, and win immunity. All before daylight!" Chris explained.
Scott rubbed his chin. "Interesting, so we haven't won yet?"
Dawn raised her hand. "Chris, how are we supposed to scare them out?"
"Eh, that's your problem." Chris shrugged the question off. "But hey, I did tell them a story of some haunted cop ghost story, wanna listen?"
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"Ok, so here's what we're gonna do." Brick started. "Scott, you're gonna hold this fishing pole, and direct it at the window, I'll do the talking!" Scott and the rest of the team looked at Brick weirdly.
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The Killer Grips had started to play the card game from earlier. B scratched his chin, and got Zoey's attention by holding up seven fingers. "Oh come on! I do have a seven!" Zoey placed the card on the table and slid it B's way.
Sam tapped on Zoey's shoulder. "Uhh, Zoey, you might want to see this."
Zoey looked at the direction Sam was looking at. "Hmm?" A very unconvincing sheet of blanket was being waved in the window, causing the others to scream and attempt to run away. B and Zoey stayed behind though, and watched the ghost meter momentarily. "Wait guys! The ghost meter isn't even moving!" The three stopped in their tracks for a second and looked at the ghost, when it just fell down.
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"I looked way cooler there than I actually did." Zoey told the audience. "It was all B's work, I was just hiding behind him and noticed."
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"Wait! What happened? Why did you drop the rod!?" Brick asked Scott.
"It's not my fault! Lightning was getting all rowdy and knocked it out of my hands." Scott defended.
Lightning, who was flirting with Anne Maria, just looked back at Scott. "Huh? Did you say something about Lightning?"
Brick sighed. "Ok. Does anybody else have an idea?"
"Hey! I got one!" Anne Maria yelled.
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In the kitchen area, a pot with a red liquid was being burned over a stove. "Once we melt all this lipstick, it'll start lookin like blood yeah?" The jersey girl explained to her team.
Scott just huffed. "It doesn't look convincing at all."
Brick shrugged. "Hey, it's the only thing we've got right now."
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The fake blood was poured on the walls of the tent, and once again, Sam, Mike, and Jo started to freak out about it. "Wait guys, it's fine, the ghost meter still isn't going off!" Zoey yelled, B showed the three the ghost meter, which wasn't moving.
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Brick sighed. "Well, that's gone. Anybody else have an idea?"
"Ugh! Come on! Lightning has to carry his team again!" The jock complained.
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"Back at home, Lightning always had to carry his team." Lightning confessed. "At least those fools could actually play the game!"
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Dawn cut the lights to the craft tent. Brick looked into the tent, where four of the Grips were all huddled together. "Excellent work animal speaker, now super cool man, you're there right?"
"You bet!" Lightning said.
"This must be Chris playing some tricks on us." Jo said to her team. "Remember, the Killer Grips will never give up!" Suddenly, Lightning began making spooky noises into the window, when the team looked up, Scott, dressed in a gown, was being hung up from above, waving around like a maniac.
"B! What's the ghost meter like?" Mike asked frantically. B looked smug, but when he pulled out the ghost meter, it was completely broken. At this moment, the five Killer Grips just started screaming, and ran out of the tent all at once.
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Back at the trailers, Zoey was laying down in bed, awaiting her team's elimination. A knock came from the door, and Mike slowly opened it. "Hello Zoey? You're in here right?" The tall boy asked.
"Hm? Of course I am!" Zoey said. "The only one here, actually." She added on.
"Ok. That's good." Mike said awkwardly. "So, about earlier. That didn't mean anything did it?"
"Oh no! Of course not! We're still friends after all." Zoey said.
"Well great great!" Mike said. "So uhh, apple?" Mike held out a knife with an apple on it, which startled Zoey.
"Ah!" She jumped, then started laughing. "Hey, you were right. You can be unintentionally scary sometimes."
"Well I told you so." Mike chuckled. "So, we should probably get to the award ceremony huh?"
"Oh right!" Zoey said, she got out of bed and they both ran outside the trailer.
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The gilded Chris intro played for another time this season, somebody was about to go home. "And now, scaredy cat Grips, it's time to announce who will not win a gilded Chris this week!" Chris said after everybody had pressed a button on their devices. "Who will go home? Utterly disappointed. With tears in their eyes." Chef walked up to Chris and handed him the note card with votes on it. "The gilded Chris statues go to: Mike, Sam, and Zoey!" Chris called out, Chef through a statue to each of them. Zoey looked more relieved than the others. "Still on the chopping block, Beverly and Jo, who will go home?"
"Come on McLame! Just hand me the statue already!" Jo called out, though you could tell there was some falter in her voice.
"You seem confident for somebody who just bragged about herself the whole time." Chris explained.
"Well of course, these people know I'm too good to not have on their team for this part of the game." Jo said nervously.
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Correct! Catch dude!"
Jo's confidence was back, as she caught the statue like nothing was wrong. Zoey pat B on the back. "It's ok, sorry you had to go. It wasn't your fault the ghost meter was broken." At the back of the stairs, Mike gulped loudly.
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"Did I do that?" Mike asked himself. "I thought it was just my imagination."
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B waved goodbye to his team, gave a hug to Zoey, and closed the door. The car drove away, and Chris got ready for his outro. "Looks like Zoey's short lived friend just hightailed it out of town! But will Zoey be able to survive the most horrific, gut wrenching, challenge ever!?!" Chris hyped up, messing with Zoey's face and hair.
"And that is?" Zoey asked.
"Jo's fury!" Chris answers, Zoey fainted on the spot. "Hahahahaha! I love this game!" Chris laughed.
(Cue credits)
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A flashback had occurred, back at the tent, with four of the Grips huddled together in the dark, all except Mike. A silhouette of Mike stood above the ghost meter, but one of his eyes were not visible. He grabbed the ghost meter with one hand, and squeezed it tight. The ghost meter had been crushed, and the figure smiled darkly.
Votes:
B 3: Mike, Jo, Sam.
Jo 2: B, Zoey.
Elimination order:
Cameron, Staci, Dakota, B,
Remaining contestants:
Killer Grips: Jo, Mike, Zoey, Sam.
Screaming Gaffers: Brick, Anne Maria, Lightning, Scott, Dawn.
Author's note:
That was a very quick release for a chapter, took me like what? Three days? Anywho, this is actually an episode I really like in canon, and I enjoyed writing it too. Also, somebody who isn't Scott causes an elimination, I wonder who that could be? About that name change, I actually realized that while writing this chapter, the Sand Witch Project isn't a pun in the Blair Witch Project and sandwiches, but it's a reference to DJ's food and the whole Chef arc. Another rename was in place, so I called it "The Phantom of the Film Lot" in reference to the movie The Phantom of the Opera, the ghost story Chris tells the Grips, and the film lot where the show takes place. Well that's it for the author's note, I don't have much to say.