The camera opens to reveal both Chris and Chef, in their spacesuits, standing on Mars, dust blowing heavily as they seem to be setting up a track of some sort. Chris then notices that the cameras are rolling and drops what he's doing to do his intro.
"Last time on Total Drama Space Station: things got a little heated on the Penguins' side when Liz accidentally dropped a stink bomb in front of Gretchen's door. Man, was she angry! That led to Liz being nominated as her team's hostage alongside Luna in the rescue mission challenge. Unfortunately for their enemies, that also guaranteed them immunity for the challenge. Bummer. Tony the phony decided that Vicente was the most dangerous teammate of his to have on board, thinking his reality show experience would help him catch onto his evil plans. And thus, with some brilliant planning, Tony caused Vicente to throw the challenge, despite the fact that Gretchen and Dusty were pretty much unstoppable at their guard duty. In the end, even though Vicente accepted his losing fate, he couldn't even warn his team about Tony due to a deadly ally he made. Tonight, the challenges take a turn for the extreme, both in content and in environment. Who will be the next astronaut to bite the dust? Find out in what could be the most dramatic elimination ceremony ever right here, on Total Drama Space Station!"
As the opening starts, the Chris space station is revealed and quickly zoomed into, showing cameras all over the corridors and traveling through them and reaching the captain's chambers, where Chris is shown. He shines an evil smirk before the camera zooms past, showing outside of glass in his room.
"Dear mom and dad, I'm doing fine," the lyrics start while Alex is shown in his orange spacesuit, trying to befriend a space monkey, which, in its scaly, grotesque, but somehow still fluffy appearance, swims through the empty space away from him. Slightly to the left of him is Natt, in his black spacesuit, clapping unenthusiastically.
"You guys are on my mind," the camera pulls back inside, showing the cafeteria where Gretchen playing her guitar on top of one of the tables, while Jianne covers her ears, disapproving of the noise.
"You asked me what I wanted to be, now I think the answer's plain to see," Thomas is seen peering into the captain's chambers, before turning to smile and wave at the camera. The camera slides over quickly, showing Luna and Liz shaking hands while crossing their fingers behind their backs, each with a sneaky smile across their faces.
"I wanna be famous," Damien is seen on a stage, performing in his own little play, before the door to the room is opened by Benjamin, causing the former to stop what he was doing.
"I wanna live close to the sun," Dusty is by the pool, showing March, who is clearly mortified, pictures of some horses from back home.
"So, pack your bags, cause I've already won," Taylor is lounging by the pool as Nicolás jumps in, splashing water on her and causing her to start yelling at him.
"Everything to do, nothing in my way. I'll get there one day," Haley and Sebastian are seen together in the gym, both looking away from each other while whistling awkwardly.
"I wanna be famous," Vicente is seen on the other side of the gym being chased by several interns with cameras.
"Na na na na na na na na na," Chef is seen in the kitchen, inspecting the astronaut meals in their small packages, and opening one labeled, 'popcorn,' causing the room to fill up with popcorn and Anne, just outside the kitchen door, to laugh hysterically. Chef then bursts out of the room and starts to yell at an unsuspecting Flint, who then realizes that he has similar, 'popcorn,' bags in his hands.
"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous," Alexis is seen tinkering with a control panel, in the dark. The lights then flicker on and she gives a thumbs up before the camera pans over to Archie in the observation room, where the lights flicker off and he lets out an annoyed sigh.
"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous," Crustacean is seen in the same room, clipping a wire on a control panel and bringing the lights back on, before the camera pans up to show the galaxy, panning back down after to reveal Tony among the other contestants, showing them some fake watches with a huge smile on his face as they are all seen whistling in chairs with Chris in a room full of escape pods.
After the opening plays, Archie can be seen, seated alone in the escape pod room, looking up at the stars in deep thought. As he watches them twinkle, he hears two sets of footsteps approaching him, turning after to see their owners: March and Damien.
"Hi, Archie!" March calls, happy to see, at least in her own eyes, another friend.
"Hey, man," starts Damien, "What're you doing in here?"
"Oh," Archie replies with an annoyed sigh, "Haley and Sebastian won't stop smothering each other in the Auditorium, where I usually go to think about things, so now I'm here."
"Oh, what are you thinking about? The next challenge maybe?" asks March, her face still bright as ever.
"Just...uh...personal things."
"Ah, I understand," adds Damien, "You don't gotta get into it with us if you don't want."
"...Thanks."
"We'll leave you to it then," he says before the two wave at him and start to walk away.
Before he's left alone again, he hears March calling out to him once more, turning to face him.
"Oh, Archie! If you ever wanna talk to anyone about anything you can come right to us!"
"Yeah," says Damien, "Or if you just want to hang out or something."
They continue walking off, leaving Archie with a small smile on his face.
Confessional
"I'm not all too used to people not judging me for...well, the obvious scars," Archie starts, a slightly puzzled look on his face. "But Damien and March seem to treat me...pretty good. At least in comparison to some others, like Luna. Talk about self-absorbed."
"Archie is such a cool person!" March exclaims, the twinkle in her eyes shining brightly. "I heard him doing his, um, 'spoken word' before! Gosh, it was so depressing! But he's really good at it!"
"I honestly wasn't too great about speaking to others when I first got here," starts Damien, "But March kinda brought me out of my shell, and it just kinda sucks seeing the way some people talk about Archie. Kinda reminds me of myself in a way."
Confessional End
After the brief journey to the confessional, Flint is seen walking through the halls, humming to himself as Dusty suddenly approaches him.
"Howdy, Flint!"
"Oh, hey Dusty. What's up?"
"Oh, I was just wonderin', y'know, with more and more people getting sent home everyday, how long do ya reckon it'll take for us to kick the bucket."
"Well, I don't really know how to answer that. Today? Tomorrow? I feel like nobody's safe."
"Me neither. I'm kinda worried 'bout it and all."
"Worrying's not gonna help, just play as best as you can! Our team is stacked, we should be fine."
"I suppose we are."
As the two talk among themselves, the ever-obnoxious voice of Chris comes booming from the speakers.
"All astronauts report to the dock with your space suits on, it's challenge time!"
"Welp, guess we'd better head on down then!"
"Yep, full speed ahead."
The two race down the stairs, quickly being followed by the rest of their team. The camera slides over to Natt, who's, as usual, walking with Anne.
"I wonder what this challenge is gonna be?" she asks.
"Who knows?" Natt replies, a slight, calm-sounding tone to his voice, unusual for him. "Could be anything between playing with blocks and stealing something from a gang of space pirates."
"Oh! Or stealing blocks from a gang of space pirates! Definitely that!"
"Yup, definitely."
As the two continue walking, Tony and Benjamin are seen, some distance behind them, the brains of the alliance glaring at them.
"What a sight," he says to his aloof partner, "The clown and the freak all buddy-buddy."
"That seems pretty normal to me," Benjamin replies, looking behind him, "I mean, don't circuses usually have clowns and freaks?"
"Benny-boy, you're as simple as always," he says, looking back at his partner to see that he's peering off behind him. "What are you doing?"
"Oh! Just, uh...nothing, boss!" Benjamin exclaims, turning to face his ally again.
Tony continues to look where Benjamin was, only to see that he was looking at March.
"Are you drooling over the enemy girl? Really?"
"No, boss! Just...investigating."
"Look, Ben. I can be rude sometimes, but I'm gonna say this as your pal. She's not into you, and the sooner you realize that, the better. Just focus on the challenges at hand."
"Oh...right," Ben droops down sadly after hearing the words, causing Tony to roll his eyes as they keep walking.
Confessional
"I'm not very big in the brain," says Benjamin, still upset, "But, according to Tony, I am thick in the skull. And my big skull tells me that March is the nicest person on this station...but Tony says no 'faternizing' with the enemy. I don't get it, though. He's the fat one, right?"
Confessional End
The next that is seen of the two teams is them all suited up and ready to board the spaceship, with Chris and Chef already inside it. As many of them start to head on in, Sebastian and Haley can't stop ogling each other, blocking the way for some of the others.
"Even though I can't see you under the space suit," starts Sebastian, "I bet you're just a beautiful as always."
"Aw, that's so sweet Seabass!" she replies with a blush.
As they continue to gush over each other, Jianne pushes through them so she can get on the ship.
"Come on you two, save it for later," she says, slightly irritated.
They shrug and follow her onto the ship, leaving just Luna and Liz outside, the latter trying to get on board before she's pulled back by the enemy competitor.
"Ahem, Liz, was it?" Luna asks, a rather polite smile on her face.
"Yes?" Liz replies, confused as to why Luna is bothering talking to her.
"First, may I say, that I love your science."
"You do?"
"I just adore it! It's wonderful!"
"Even though it mostly blows up in my own face?"
"Well, that's not the important part," she continues, trying not to snicker at the thought of the ridiculousness that is Liz being blown up by her own experiments. "What's important is that you've got quite the brain on you, to do all that stuff."
"I guess. Your point being?"
"I think that we should work together!"
"We aren't even on the same team, why would I work with you?"
"After the merge, of course! We'll help each other beat out the rest of the competition!"
"I see, but what do you bring to the table?"
"My looks, of course! I can get lots of people to do my bidding pretty easily."
"Uh..."
"What do you say?"
"...I guess?"
"Perfect! Oh, just wonderful! I look forward to it, darling."
With that, Luna passes Liz and boards the spaceship.
Confessional
"How amazing!" exclaims Luna, with an evil grin on her face, "I, of course, don't require Liz's help for anything. But I do find her somewhat threatening. If she lowers her guard under the guise of an alliance with me, I could perhaps get rid of her as soon as the merge hits!"
"I know that Luna is just going to try and use me, I'm not stupid," Liz starts, her own evil grin on her face. "But if I already know this, I could get her eliminated pretty quickly by keeping my guard up while she goes after me."
Confessional End
Chris and Chef face the contestants, now all of which are boarded, each snickering between themselves.
"Well, astronauts," Chris starts, that smug tone in his voice as usual, "It's finally happening. We're going to a planet for a challenge!"
"Ah, which one?" asks Thomas, interested to see what the other planets have to offer.
"Mars! Earth's neighbor, Mars is the dustiest planet out there. Which makes it the perfect place for an intense physical challenge! Chef, I'll hand it over to you from here."
"Heheh," Chef starts to snicker at the thought of the challenge. "Here's how it works! Everyone will be put in a race track, with clear boundaries. Your goal is to keep running the course as long as you can."
"Is that all?" asks Crustacean, scoffing at the seemingly easy challenge.
"Oh, no it ain't, little crab," Chef says, causing her to glare at him. "If you step out of the boundaries, you will rack up one point for your team. Three points means your team loses the challenge. And once you step out, you can't go back in. What's more, is that I'll be degrading all of you on the sidelines. We've dug into your interviews and picked out the most personal information that we could find about you to use against you."
Some of the contestants gasp at the thought, while others, like Natt and Archie, remain stone-faced.
"But why would you do that?" asks Sebastian, "What's even the point?"
"Oh, you'll see what the point is. You'll all see."
Chef and Chris cackle maniacally, causing the astronauts to share some concerned looks as the ship starts its descent towards Mars.
Confessional
"Ah, great," starts Gretchen, clearly upset about the challenge. "Just what we needed, these jerks prying into our lives to use them against us."
"Oh, no," Haley says, worrying a bit, "I don't even want to know what they have to say about me."
Confessional End
As the ship lands, the contestants all step out of it, noticing an expanse of lights stretching out for quite a bit.
"Those are your boundaries," says Chris. "if you step outside of them, the lights closest to you will flash red and buzz, signifying that you've stepped out. Now, everybody get on inside those lights!"
The contestants all pass by Chris, who smirks devilishly as they do. They all start stepping inside of the boundaries, each of them starting in different spots.
"Remember, Chef's voice will play inside of your helmets for added intensity. Likewise, when the challenge is over, I'll announce it. And with that...go!"
The astronauts all start jogging down the track, leaving Chef and Chris behind, who are still snickering about the challenge at hand. The first to be focused in on is Luna, who isn't so much jogging as she is walking slightly fast. As she does so, Chef's voice can suddenly be heard inside of her helmet.
"Well, well, well," his mocking voice starts, loud as can be, "If it isn't the model who get's let on stage out of pity!"
She gasps at the statement, not sure how to respond, but clearly frustrated.
"The only prize you ever get is a consolation prize! The real contest starts when you mosey on home!"
Luna, now very visibly upset, starts to slink in posture, but continues to walk the track, nonetheless. Soon after, Flint dashes right on past her, the camera following him.
"Haha! Yeah!" he shouts, invigorated by the challenge, "I'm the fastest guy around!"
Chef's voice then creeps into his own helmet, revealing that he's wearing his lucky black sweatband for this challenge.
"So, you think you're a hotshot, kid?"
"I guess so, yeah."
"Let's see how you react to this!"
Suddenly, a bunch of dog barking noises are heard in Flint's helmet, causing him to scream and start running even faster than he already was, causing some of the other astronauts to look at him in fear, wondering what could be making him go that fast.
Confessional
"Look, I'm afraid of dogs, okay?" Flint shivers as he says the 'd' word. "It's a normal fear! Lots of people are scared of dogs, I'm not the only one!"
Confessional End
The next to face Chef's vocal onslaught is Natt, who is running right alongside Anne, to no surprise.
"The emotionless freak, oh boy. It's kind of weird that little miss jokester hasn't left you're side yet, considering the fact that she and everyone else here thinks that you're deranged. After this show, you're gonna end up all alone again, no friends at all. Pretending to be your pal is her best joke yet!"
Natt kind of stops in his tracks staring at the ground. The camera inside his helmet doesn't reveal much of any emotion, but the bags under his eyes are even darker than ever now. He just stands, kind of looking at the borders of the track, contemplating whether or not to throw in the towel, but then Anne suddenly grabs his hand, taking him by surprise.
"Hey, what's up Natt?" she asks, close enough for him to see the concerned look on her face. "Why'd you stop?"
"Uh..." he hesitates to respond.
"Don't worry about Chef, he's just jealous of all of us because he looks like an angry bulldog."
"...Haha, nice one."
Anne smiles at him, continuing to hold his hand as she pulls him along with her. In his helmet, he cracks the slightest of smiles possible, before quickly returning to his regular expression. The next contestant to be faced with Chef's voice is Jianne, who isn't really near anybody.
"How someone like you is still in this game is pretty shocking."
Jianne rolls her eyes and continues running.
"Oh, sure. Ignore me. Keep in mind, if you do, we'll tell everyone your secret."
She suddenly screeches to a halt, realizing what Chef's talking about.
"That's a bit much, isn't it? Even for you guys."
"Nothing is too much at all. Are you sure you want everyone to know why you're so obnoxious?"
Jianne thinks to herself before starting towards the boundaries, walking out of them and causing a loud buzz as she does, alerting Haley and Sebastian, who are now coming up behind where she was.
"And that's one point against the Guppies!" comes Chris's loud voice, followed by the snickering of Chef.
"What happened, Jianne?" asks Haley, "Sorry if me asking bothers you."
"Yeah, what gives?" follows Sebastian. "It's unlike you to give up on something like that."
"Shut up," Jianne responds, harshly, "You don't know me, you don't know anything about me. Just...leave me alone."
The two, clearly taken aback by the response, hurry ahead, leaving her behind, clearly very upset.
Confessional
"Not to be rude," Sebastian starts, seemingly a little angry about what happened, "But it's time for Jianne to beat it. She's not only really self-centered, but she just points out how bad we are at everything so she doesn't have to admit that she does anything wrong."
"I wonder what that was all about?" asks Haley, "I'm not very used to this kind of thing, but I hope she's okay..."
"What?" asks Jianne, unsure of why anybody is even wondering what is wrong, "It's nothing, no one needs to know."
Confessional End
Dusty is the next one to deal with Chef, as she runs nearby Crustacean, the two pretty close by to Flint, despite his intense speed.
"How's it going there, 'JoAnne?'"
She gains an angry face, hearing her name, but doesn't respond to it.
"How's your mother? The one who's fiiiiiiiine."
She grumbles, but still doesn't respond, refusing to give in to Chef's dirty tactics.
"Oh, don't look now, but I saw something you may like off to your right side."
Dusty looks over to the right, noticing a large, dust tornado in the distance, ravaging around. She shudders, but manages to continue on.
Confessional
"Cheap tactics!" Dusty shouts, a look of determination on her face. "They can call me by my name, or talk about my ma all they want, but I'll never let them get to me, nosiree! ...But the tornado..." She shudders again, thinking about it.
Confessional End
Chef, after having failed at getting another one out, now shifts gears to go after Thomas.
"The 'I know lots of languages to make up for my lacking personality kid!' Why don't you remind me what happened to you when you were younger? We'd love to hear it."
"That the best you can do? Ich schwöre, sogar jemand wie March könnte es besser machen."
"Speaking of March-"
"Oh wow, your tiny brain picked out one thing I said in there? I'm impressed."
"I'm doing the insulting here, don't you forget that!"
"Why don't you do some work on that? You may not be quite cut out for it."
Chef grumbles before shifting gears and going into March's helmet, as she is running with Damien, with Archie not too far behind.
"Hello, little artist."
"Hola, Chef!" she replies, not yet upset with him.
"Oh, don't sound too happy to hear me, you ditz."
"Oh, that comment was as dull as your food! You can do better!"
Chef snickers and plays a loud 'neighing' noise in her helmet, causing her to panic and start running around wildly, raising some confusion from Damien and Archie.
"Woah, March!" Damien shouts to her, though she doesn't hear him. "Calm down!"
Suddenly, right before she's able to run out of bounds, she bumps into Archie and falls onto the ground, though he's quick to help her up.
"I'm good...I'm good..."
Damien runs over to the two to see what's happened.
"What was that about?" asks Archie, somewhat quietly.
"I don't do so well with...horses..." she shivers a little, "I guess he knew that and..."
"Well...just ignore him!" adds Damien, trying to encourage her. "We can do this, whether he comes after us or not!"
Oddly, rather than saying anything to Damien, his helmet goes completely dark, leaving him wondering what's going on. Somehow, a crowd is projected through the glass, causing him to start to freak out.
"W...woah..."
He starts to back towards the boundaries, still freaking out, before Archie tugs him back towards them.
"I'm not really sure what's happening in there," he says, "But it's not real. Like you said, just ignore him."
"Right, you're right. Thanks Archie."
The three continue on their way, the camera swinging over to Liz, who is currently running in fear as a buzzing noise plays loudly in her helmet.
"No, no, no!" she shouts, "Not again, not again!"
"Yo, Liz!" calls Gretchen, close by, "Snap out of it! You got this!"
The rocker glares at Chef, who is still on the sidelines, though he can't notice it from the glass.
Confessional
"Sure, Liz and I had our differences," Gretchen starts, "But we sorted it all out. She's actually pretty cool. And I'm sure not gonna let anybody mess with my friends."
"The bees...the bees..." Liz mutters, shaking in her seat.
Confessional End
Next up to face Chef's onslaught is Benjamin, who is gleefully running around to his own tune with Tony right next to him.
"Big Ben, Big Ben. Riddle me this: what's nine plus ten?"
"It's...uh...twenty-one!"
"Nope, try again."
"Come on, that's an impossible question!"
"Two plus two?"
"Fish, duh."
"Wrong again!"
"Ugh!"
"Oh, why don't you look behind you? There's a surprise!"
"Is it cake? Man, I hope so," Benjamin says, turning to see Flint, Dusty, and Crustacean all pretty close behind, the latter of which is wearing her fully red spacesuit. "B...blood! The horror!"
The big guy starts to scream, running out of the track almost immediately and causing the buzz to sound. Chris's voice comes calling once again.
"And the points are even at one and one!"
Tony then buzzes into Chef, angry about the situation.
"What was that?" he asks, a tone of irritation, "You were supposed to skip me and him!"
"Man, I'm tired of you and your griping! Chris threatened my job a couple season ago over an alliance with a contestant, I'm not going through that again."
Suddenly, their connection cuts out and Tony grumbles to himself about the whole situation.
Confessional
"Well, you just whined your way out of some of that prize money!" Tony shouts, still angry.
"It was so red!" Benjamins starts, cradling himself in fear. "That's not natural!"
Confessional End
Chef's voice then buzzes into Haley's helmet as she's still running alongside Sebastian.
"Don't look now, but there's a wasp on your head."
After the comment, another buzzing noise plays, causing Haley to gasp in fear, rolling around on the ground to try and save herself, not realizing that she has rolled outside of the boundaries, the obnoxious noise playing from the lights. Sebastian sighs and looks down at her, helping her up when she's close enough to reach without stepping out of bounds. Chris's voice calls to the group again.
"Two points on the Guppies!"
"Oh, I'm sorry Seabass," she says, relieved that there's no wasp.
"It's fine, just...it's fine," he responds, continuing his run down the track, leaving her behind.
She watches him run off, confused as to why he didn't stay back for a second.
Confessional
"What did I do to make him angry?" Haley asks, rubbing her arm awkwardly.
Confessional End
With the competitors starting to get a little exhausted from all the jogging, Chef snickers to himself, tabbing back into Dusty's helmet.
"So, how does it feel to be a bikini model's daughter."
"Would ya shut yer trap about my ma?"
"Must be hard knowing that she's always gonna be prettier than you."
"These magazine shots sure do her justice, a whole lotta justice."
"That tears it!" Dusty shouts, running out of the boundaries, pulling a lasso from seemingly nowhere, heading towards Chef.
Crustacean facepalms, seeing her teammate run from the challenge. Once again, Chris does his thing, starting to annoy everyone by now.
"And it's neck and neck! Next person out decides the challenge!"
Just ahead of her, Sebastian and Thomas have caught up to Flint, do to his slight exhaustion from all the running. Suddenly, Chef gets connected to all three of them at the same time, playing more loud barking noises in all of their helmets. Flint and Sebastian start to run in fear while Thomas shivers a little, but maintains his composure. As the two run around wildly, Flint dashes right out of bounds, causing the buzzer to sound loudly and Chris to pipe up again.
"And it's over! The Guppies have won a narrow victory!"
With the announcement, the Guppies group together and cheer for their win while the Penguins huddle together, Dusty dragging Chef behind her tied up in her lasso, causing some snickering from Tony. Benjamin, however, is not with the group.
"Benny boy?" calls Tony, confused to where his partner is.
The camera pans over to the big lug, who is somewhere near the spaceship, gasping for air after running for so long. Out of nowhere, a purple, alien dog creature runs up to him, slightly startling him, but wagging its tail at him. It blinks at him with its three eyes, causing him to chuckle a little.
"You're a funny puppy! I should bring you back with me!"
It continues to wag its tail at Benjamin, who looks around to see if anyone is watching. When he notices there isn't, he runs aboard the ship, grabbing a sack for the dog to hop into.
"Sorry, puppy, I gotta hide you 'til we get back."
The dog jumps into the sack, surprisingly easily, and Benjamin stows it away on the ship. After he's done, he returns to his team, where they're all trying to figure out what to do.
"I don't get it," says Anne, puzzled. "Chef didn't even say anything to me."
"Me neither," says Crustacean, looking around awkwardly.
"How did you guys get out?" asks Gretchen, who's holding the still-terrified Liz's hand.
"The bees...the bees..." Liz mutters, still shaken up.
"Well, Chef kept insisting on talkin' dirty bout my ma," Dusty says, proud of what she's done.
Chef just rolls his eyes at the comment.
"What about Flint?" asks Natt.
"I...uh..." Flint starts to stutter, unsure of what to tell his team. "He knew I was afraid of dogs, so..."
Tony laughs a little until all eyes turn on Benjamin, who hasn't said why he got out yet.
"Ben?" asks Anne, "What happened to you?"
"I saw-" Benjamin starts, only to be hushed up quickly by Tony.
"Chef kept talking about a real childhood tragedy that happened to my boy, here," Tony says, faking a sad look to match his tone, "Parent's divorce and a grandma died. Tragic."
Benjamin looks at Tony, confused, but doesn't say anything.
"That is pretty sad," says Natt, not appearing to be affected by it at all.
"Well, we'd better get on back to the ship. To the elimination ceremony," Tony says with a sigh. The group starts to head back, Tony pulling Benjamin aside. "Do not mess this up, Big Ben. It's hard to cover for you, keep it together."
"Okay, okay..."
The two join their team and the other team in boarding the ship, which heads back towards the space station at once. Not long after, three important looking characters with government agency patches on their suits show up, searching for something.
"Where did he get to?" one asks, scanning the area.
"Not sure, but he's a clever one," the second replies, "Acting innocent all the time."
The third peers up into space, noticing the ship in the distance and getting the other two's attention.
"Well, I think we've got a lead," he says, the three watching as the ship disappears from sight.
Some time passes, and the Penguins find themselves seated in the escape pod room, the three who failed in the challenge with upset looks on their faces. Chris stands at his podium, twirling the marshmallow platter in hand while they watch, noting only eight packets on it this time.
"Well, Penguins," he starts, a smug look adorning his face perfectly. "You've found yourselves here for the second time in a row, bet that doesn't feel good at all. It was a tough challenge, but I think you could've done better than that."
"Whatever, Chris," starts Liz, still upset, "You and your dumb Chef can kiss my-"
Gretchen cuts her off by putting her hand over her mouth.
"Right...well, here's the deal. You've all cast your votes, and one of you just disappointed your team more than the rest did today. When I start calling your names, I'll toss a marshmallow packet to you. The person that doesn't get one has to walk their sorry little butt over to these escape pods, don their suit, and get the heck outta here! And you can not come back. Ev-"
"Ever!" shouts Anne, pulling the string on a party popper and getting confetti in Chris's hair, causing him to glare at her.
"Yes. Exactly. First up...Gretchen."
He tosses the packet to the rockstar, who catches it with a grin.
"Crustacean..."
Crustacean catches her own with a slight smile, but then remembering that it's Chris that gave it to her, and rolling her eyes.
"Natt...Anne..."
The two each catch their marshmallow packets, Anne jumping for joy as Natt watches her, cracking that slight smile again.
"Tony...Liz..."
Tony catches his and winks to Chris, while Liz just lets it fly past her head, still grumpy.
"And...Benjamin."
Benjamin lets out a long sigh of relief, catching his happily while Tony pats him on the back. Dusty and Flint exchange a worried glance, noting that they are the only two still marshmallowless.
"Well, this is a first for both of you, being in the bottom two. How does it feel?"
"Just peachy," sarcastically says Dusty.
Flint just gulps, remembering what happened during the challenge.
"Dusty, you let your, what is it, jealousy? Of your mother's looks get the better of you today, and Flint, you succumbed to fear of something that wasn't even there."
"Those barks were very realistic!"
"People shouldn't be talkin' bout my ma like that!"
"The last marshmallow goes to..."
Chris hesitates to say the name while Flint quivers in his seat and Dusty taps her feet nervously.
...
...
...
...
...
...
"...Dusty."
The cowgirl suddenly smiles out of surprise when her packet reaches her hand, but then realizes that Flint's time is up, turning to him to see his deeply saddened face.
"I'm sorry, Flint," she says, sympathetic for her teammate.
"No, it's cool," he replies with a faint smile, "It's all good..."
He gets up from his seat, tossing on his space suit as he walks over to the escape pod, turning to say his last goodbyes.
"Well, it's been real, guys. Flint Goldenrod out."
With his final words, he notices at the entrance of the room, the space dog that Benjamin brought aboard wagging its tail, staring directly at him while everyone else cannot see it. He screams in fear once more, rushing into the pod and slamming it shut while Chris presses the button and sends him flying. The dog then hurries away from the room, causing the remaining Penguins to look at the door, but see nothing as the camera fades to black.
Author Notes:
*Flint has officially signed off of Total Drama Space Station in a big upset for his team, losing their most athletic player. Due to Tony's smooth words, he's also the second victim of a villain.
*Big thanks to BadLuckAE for the art he has made for the series. All of it can be found on the discord server.
*Lastly, the mini-episodes, the first two which were posted one Wednesday, will continue that pattern. Two per Wednesday. The topic of them is voted for in the discord as well, and just because a character is out doesn't mean they can't get one of them.
*Votes: Flint - Dusty, Crustacean, Natt, Anne; Dusty - Flint, Tony, Benjamin; Benjamin - Gretchen, Liz
*Placements: 22nd - Taylor; 21st - Alexis; 20th - Nicolás; 19th - Alex; 18th - Vicente; 17th - Flint