Total Drama: Ultimate Islands!
Episode 8: Somewhat Famous
Part 1: Cross Over Your Talents!
1602jaw, thanks for the review my homie and Memeking, considering that there's too many characters, there's going to be a lot of (somewhat) filler eliminations and a lot of non-filler eliminations!
I can't predict the future, though.
You know, the only note I need to type is that I start writing chapters when the last one ends, so let's go!
"Last time on Total Drama: Ultimate Islands, we had all of the remaining contestants and some of them ran out of running powers, while literally sped by."
Tails and Genos blasting through the run was shown.
"And then everyone had a big feast...before getting into the second Awake-thon, where so many contestants fell to our four guests. Byleth, Shermie, Azwel and Jigglypuff all had ways to put their best into making these many contestants sleep!"
The four guests were shown and they were shown doing their sleep-inducing thing.
"Some of 'em got pranked, some of 'em got hit by a sleeping powder and some of 'em stayed out of it and won the challenge for their team! Storm Shadow and Robyn took on the sleep and made their avoid elimination!"
Storm Shadow and Robyn were both shown, the former being a proud ninja and the latter looked confident.
"The Crows lost Gloria, since she literally fell on her teammates and for the Swordfishes, Noel left for her nervousness and Smee left...because no-one knew how to deal with him."
The three eliminated contestants were shown again.
"Who's going to make the best jokes? Who's going to get their song on? And more importantly, what do these guys do? Find out...on Total Drama: Ultimate Islands!"
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These intros are taking up too much space, by the way, so they're not always here for each episode.
The winning team was in an incredibly good mood, as some of them were just celebrating their alliances and some of them were celebrating the team and Shulk had a thing to make.
"Can I hang out with you guys?" Shulk asked. "You seem like a cool group."
"Thanks, but we're full of people!" Muscle Man pointed to a bunk with an empty spot up there. "Never mind."
"Well, thanks." Shulk said. "I'd never thought that I would leave that alliance."
"No pressure, dude." Muscle Man had a thought on his mind. "Wait, you did know about the crown slicing plan?"
"...It was planned?! Must be some serious sabotage..." Shulk was just thinking about it, as Muscle Man gave the thumbs up. "...I hope that whoever did it apologises to all of us."
"Yeah. I don't appreciate the guy just messing with the challenge." Legoshi said. "I just came here to get away from things."
These guys were just hanging out happily, Tendoo talking about ladies, Legoshi getting uncomfortable, Shulk just trying to say stuff and Kristoff was there...while Muscle Man wasn't.
These five were doing some business.
*Kristoff's confessional*
"As much as he does come from that alliance, he does not seem like that bad of a guy." Kristoff said. "But this is the game about lying, so I don't know if that's true."
*Confessional cut*
In the guy alliance, spirits were high and Dante was in a motivated mood.
"You nearly knocked out half of the contestants with that one steal, gotta hand it to ya, old guy, I thought you were washed up." Dante remarked.
"I'll admit that was not the greatest of strategies, but I wasn't stupid enough to let that affect me too much." Coachman said, very jubilant. "And next challenge, I'll pull out the winning strategy again."
"Alright...oldie, but what's the next challenge?" Dante said.
"...What do you mean, what's the next challenge-" Basil wanted to interrupt the conversation.
"Something rather hard to counter that easy one." Coachman guessed smugly.
"...You only won because you stole something, so think about this logically. There's no way we would know what the next challenge is." Basil just stopped the conversation right there, the whole alliance looking at him.
"I mean...he isn't wrong, but the returning challenges have all been from Island, which I watched all of, so there's bound to be another one." Dante answered, as Basil just sighed.
"You don't know what kind of challenge this is, though." Basil said. "Calm yourselves, we don't need to get hasty."
Dante just shrugged, as Pinstripe was just cleaning up his tommy gun and listening with intent.
"...You've got a good argument, but you're also acting like I haven't considered that. So, you calm down." Coachman remarked, throwing a sneer at Basil.
While the alliance was just talking, there was a wolf that couldn't sleep and looked really interested in what they were talking about.
*Legoshi's confessional*
"Our team is kind of a mess and so is the alliance that does crazy stuff in the challenges." Legoshi said, just pulling up his hoodie. "I'm not that surprised, but I really want to sleep."
*Dante's confessional*
"I'm definitely the doer type and let's be honest, Bayonetta hasn't been doing much...so I'm gonna do what I do best! Bring some style into whatever the next challenge is!" Dante remarked.
*Confessional cut*
The second place team all slept rather comfortably, mostly because Chris couldn't spring a challenge on the people that were awake (the challenge wasn't ready and Courtney brang some humanity into this) and the fact that most of them got their good hours of sleep.
You know what happened next.
"Wake up, wake up, wake up, another returning challenge is gonna drop soon!"
Some of them were just used to it and angry, while others were still caught off-guard.
"I'm so ready to make McLean see my side of argument." Tanya said, seeing that B almost hit his head on the bunk. "Annoying the contestants doesn't help."
"Yes, our energies haven't fully healed yet and some of our teammates aren't in a good mood." Dawn explained, who was actually fine.
The child soldier looked at the moon girl with confusion, considering the three days of sleep deprivation that Dawn went through...while others were elated, mostly notable the Short Ladies Squad with Robyn, feeling the after-effects of said three days.
"After helping you guys, I feel I could do anything!" Robyn just jumped out of bed. "Who was that, though?"
"Chris." Dawn answered.
"Oh...at least, we're awake." Robyn said, practically falling onto the floor.
"You're not going to win like that." Yuri just picked her up quickly. "We're going to be winners in the next challenge!"
"Guys, guys, we could lose the next one if we go too crazy." Uraraka said. "We need to stay calm and uh, think of things."
"Think of what? Whatever the challenge is, we're gonna think about it when Chris says the challenge!" Yuri declared, as Robyn got down and raised a hand.
"Guys, Chris could say anything and just declare it a challenge!" Uraraka said.
"She's right...in that case, me and Yasha are going to help you." Mystique Sonia hopped in, fully reawakened for another challenge. "Let's go."
"Come on, you've gotta have more faith in us." Robyn remarked, as Uraraka felt guilty at trying to be realistic.
There was a lot of energy going into the group of five ladies and these five weren't the only ones that were actually in the mood to do some competition.
And in a completely different place.
"I can't believe that we even have our own maid." Tanya said. "And she's surprisingly absent."
"I did the challenge, but no-one acknowledges that I did." Ram remarked. "I did make it about 60 hours in, which I counted."
"...How do you know that? You weren't even at the campfire." The blonde child soldier told the pink-haired maid. "You didn't even contribute a thing-"
"I did by being there and ensuring that Snufkin got his berries for whatever lies ahead...as he said. I think he's quite annoying." Ram replied, not missing a beat. "You didn't even make it 12 hours."
"You still weren't there." Tanya remarked.
*Ram's confessional*
She was just huffing, as she didn't look interested.
"All I'm saying is that I did well in the challenge and Tanya's more interested in acting like the leader of a team that already has leaders." Ram said. "Also, she doesn't even have much skills."
*Uraraka's confessional*
"I could be wrong, but it's always best to be prepared. Besides, I'm not scared...just trying to make sure that we don't get beat down." Uraraka remarked.
*Confessional cut*
The Swordfishes weren't sure of one single thing, as some of them were just okay with it and some of them weren't okay with it...and the bluest team were just eating the terrible, but nondescript sludge.
"It's your fault that Noel's gone. She really has started to come into her own and then you eliminate her...meanwhile you haven't done a thing!" Arle argued, as Daphne was just trying to hold her back.
"At the same time, what if Cassie is out of commission or the team splits up, which are both very possible." Amelia argued honestly, as Cassie stood headfirst. "I didn't really want to eliminate Noel either, but I didn't vote for her."
"Lying...big...cat lady." Arle said.
"...You really should calm down, you didn't talk to her much." Amelia wanted to stop the puzzle-loving witch, but Arle threw some ice her way. "I have good aim."
"I have gooder aim too-"
For once, Sokka, Oikawa and Tails looked unnerved at the scene that was unfolding only a few meters away from them.
"...Man, was that a good idea? Connor-" Sokka said.
"-really helped us through both of the previous two challenges. Noel only did it once." Oikawa just said.
"He's really spooky and he licked some blood...that's a reasonable argument." Sokka argued proudly. "And, and, Noel had two guns."
"Really?" Oikawa said. "But, anyways, we're not in a good state."
Cassie and Arle were just straight up fighting, as Amelia and Daphne looked on real worried about the state of them.
"The vote's controversial and some of our teammates are going ice-to-green energy, fist-to-stick, AKA real bad!" Sokka shouted. "Man, what are we gonna do about today?"
"We actually have a really good chance of winning, considering that most of us are stupidly good at one thing and the fact that we've got..." Tails just looked over at Cassie and Arle, who were somewhat mad. "...some kind of team synergy and most of us can do some teamwork."
"True, dude!" Lowain shouted, as Oikawa and Sokka were both feeling awkward about the statement.
"I don't know, most of these other contestants aren't exactly in the headspace for team synergy and what not." Sokka said the obvious, the team's terrible mood seeping through. "But we don't hate each other."
"That's...sorta true." Oikawa remarked. "We're all going to show off in this challenge, though."
"I'll figure something out and then we'll probably win." Sokka shrugged nervously.
The team's table was still exuding some weird energy that the teams' leaders couldn't shake off.
*Min Min's confessional*
"If it's like this in the challenge, we're going to lose two more people. No way that we're going down like this...but I feel like we're going to end up doing that!" Min Min said, a little bit scared.
*Confessional cut*
The Crows weren't too great either, but they had three sources of positivity...despite two of them both being annoying people and the third was trying her best.
"Guys, if we can pull off a win in one challenge, then we can do it in another challenge!" Kipo shouted. "We've got skill, we've got hope, we've got each other and we're all sharing the same food."
"I don't know if that's a good thing...I swear it smells like nothing else in a bad way." Sandy was just wafting away to the smell to Soma.
"It's a good thing, because we're mostly on the same track...I hope." Kipo said.
"Doubt it, though." Sandy remarked.
"Yeah, we can all agree that this reeks." Soma said. "More importantly...what are we doing today?!"
"Not losing, that's for sure!" Kipo declared, as the whole team cheered. "We may not think that we're the best team, but we're a team!"
"Wait, where were you?" Sandy asked.
"I was just trying my best to survive both the challenges, just like the rest of you guys." Kipo explained, the half-mute putting it plain and simple. "Sorry for not being responsible, though."
"Eh, don't worry about it. We're all in the Total Drama at the end of the day." Sandy was just hugging Kipo, as the two leaders were just hugging. "Mikasa, you wanna hug."
"I would, but I'm currently being pulled right now." Mikasa answered, as she was just getting tugged on by Giovanni. "What are you doing?"
"Proving that I'm a badass!" Giovanni stated, getting elbow-knocked down onto the floor. "...That hurt not a lot!"
"Dang, what a guy! Get this guy up!" Wario declared, as Giovanni just took it into his stride.
The Crows managed to get into a good mood, as the team was back in the mood for another challenge and most of them were more motivated than ever, thanks to the words and the actions that just happened in front of them.
*Noah's confessional*
"As much as I'd like to say that Kipo's a decent team leader, which she is, I still have no idea what happened with Mikasa and soup guy. At least, the team's out of the dumps...despite being losing several times in a row." Noah said, nonchalantly.
*Owen's confessional*
"Uh...uh...I'm glad we're okay, but I'd like to know what we're doing, thanks!" Owen shouted. "...Eh, does it matter anyways?"
*Confessional cut*
Kageyama and Kyo weren't impressed with two guys that were on the Rhinos' table, considering that they were Tendoo and Iori, who were just trying to mock them.
Terry Bogard just came up to the both of them and slapped their shoulders...pretty hard, too.
"Oh man, could you warn us next time!" Kageyama shouted reflexively.
"Hey, hey, I was just trying to calm you guys down. Focusing on those two ain't gonna help anybody, never mind us." Terry talked some sense into these two, as Kyo gave a thumbs up. "Alright, now we've got to figure out what the next challenge is!"
"Uh, beating them up obviously." Kageyama just told the other two.
"Come on, that's not happening." Terry remarked with a smile.
"Bet?" Kageyama's smirk coming on full force.
"Uh-" Terry had something to say, but-
"What's good, campers! Another returning challenge is about to drop and no, it's not about dodgeball! Come with me...to the stage!" Chris announced, as no-one looked interested in what trap Chris had set-up. "No, there isn't anything exploding, so get your butts moving!"
The three of them just got up, ready to head to the stage...along with the rest of the team that was still not so convinced.
Still on the smaller island with the campgrounds, resorts and some other stuff, the contestants were actually back at the stage that Jigglypuff was messing heads with.
The two hosts were...actually on the stage, somehow, which threw some of the people off...but there was more than enough space to have all four teams discuss things.
"Welcome back to the stage...where today you guys are going to show off your powers, your moves, your teamwork, your skills and whatever else you guys have...in Total Drama's Talent Trouble!" Chris was just in a suit now, as some of the contestants just noticed. "Chef and four other guest judges here will judge your teams' act based on whether you sucked or not! And man, some of you are gonna suck!"
Chris' unnerving laugh came back.
"You've got a whole day to hone your stuff and talents down to five or six acts!"
"Wait, is that it? Where's the torture chambers, where's the highly questionable stuff?" Joseph asked. "Then I'm ready for it!"
"Also, only the first place team gets safety, as the other three teams will have to vote someone off. Good luck, dude." Chris said, as he went off to probably get some brunch...as Chef was walking with confidence and poise.
"Wait, who are the guests?! And what's with the switch up of the elimination?" Joseph shouted, as Chris just ignored him and Chef said something.
"Doesn't matter! You teams go back to your cabins or somewhere to practice your acts and then do that!" Chef shouted.
The Crows were just basking in the early morning...clouds of the day, as they were more than prepared to bring their acts into the show, as there was a constructed platform that was suddenly there at each cabin to show off their skills.
And all of them were sitting, deciding what they were going to do in the early morning sun and Kipo, Sandy and Mikasa were the trio that was just going to decide what they were going to do.
"Uh, what do I do...if I don't have an act?" Kageyama asked.
"Come on, man, I bet you do!" Kyo proclaimed.
"Well, I don't!" Kageyama shouted. "So, what do I do?"
"Listen, we're just the audience, right?" Kyo suggested. "I'm about to kill Iori with this poetry."
The two of them were talking for a second, as the first potential act came up on stage and Papyrus came up proudly with some spaghetti, which got the team leaders confused.
"What are you doing?" Kipo asked, fake whispering for reasons.
"I like spaghetti, so I cooked up the greatest spaghetti that we need!" Papyrus, indeed, has a great plate of spaghetti, Soma having a cheeky smile. "Is that a good enough talent from the Great Papyrus?!"
"I don't know if that's what Chef wants, though." Kipo said. "I mean, like, actual acts!"
"Then we'll cook...live!" Soma proclaimed, as Papyrus had his trademark grin. "Me and Papyrus are going to cook something live!"
"...Still don't know if that's going to be fast enough." Kipo remarked.
"You'll regret not picking me for the team! I'll try my best to do another act." Papyrus said, as Soma was just lifted off-stage.
There was going to be a lot of acts that were proposed on the stage and a lot of them that was going to be rejected...as Sandy looked tired and Noah looked unimpressed.
The first act was there and Michiru had a baseball bat and Tiny Tina...had a baseball-shaped bomb, as these two looked ready...and the leaders and Noah looked concerned.
"It's baseball, obviously!" Michiru said.
"Yeah...but what's with the bomb?" Noah asked.
"That's for me to know and for you to find out." Michiru remarked, as Noah was hesitant.
Tiny Tina just threw the baseball bomb at Michiru, who provided a swing that was on point and a serious strike and then the ball went pretty far before exploding.
"For the record, everything's better with booms in them!" Tiny Tina shouted, as Michiru gave a thumbs up.
"As much as that isn't true, we'll consider it." Kipo said, as Sandy wrote something down. "Yeah, this will be easy."
"Are you sure you want her?" Sandy whispered to Kipo, as the first potential act left the stage.
"If there's better acts, then they won't have to do it." Kipo answered, as Mikasa looked interested
"I think it's a good act." Mikasa answered, as Kipo gave a thumbs up. "That amount of coordination can't be counted out."
*Sandy's confessional*
"As much as they're doing teamwork, once that bomb goes anywhere else but up, something's gonna be lost. And no, it's not just the nitroglycerin that's inside the bomb balls." Sandy said.
*Confessional cut*
There were two acts and now...there was going to be a third, as there was smoke and no fire, with Giovanni just leaping onto the stage from the smoke.
"Watch out, a bad boy's coming in!" Giovanni declared. "Take this!"
"Hoo-rah." Noah unenthusiastically said.
Giovanni was just putting in smoke and sneaking around proudly before doing a smoke-boosted high jump, ending up landing just off the platform and standing tall.
"Wanna see some more of my bad boy moves?" Giovanni asked the judges, stepping back onto the stage. "I'm gonna teleport behind you!"
"Sure-" Noah somehow saw the guy teleport behind him. "-Okay, that is actually impressive, so I'll consider it."
"Alliance, we've got it!" Giovanni shouted, as Noah just groaned at the enthusiastic red-haired villain.
Noah, Kipo, Sandy and Mikasa weren't sure what was next, as there was explosive baseball, psuedo-teleports and spaghetti, so Kyo and his poetry was unexpected and he looked smug about it.
"What in tarnation, you said you didn't have an act!" Sandy said.
"I was talking to Kageyama!" Kyo boasted, clearing his throat. "You're not ready for my poetry!"
"Show your skill, then." Mikasa said, as Kyo was just ready to show his thing.
I can't write Japanese, so expect some more English.
My heart is pretty big for you.
It ain't like a big bowl of soup!
I've got a lot of love to come around!
You should know how much I like to get down-"
"That was terrible, next act." Mikasa didn't even humour him.
"Wait, I can play guitar...which I definitely have." Kyo remarked, as he was literally kicked off the stage by Shego. "What the-"
Mikasa didn't look that surprised.
"He doesn't have his guitar." Shego stated, before just jumping off.
"I know." Mikasa stated, as Kyo was just shouting some words at them.
And then Wario come on stage and showed his butt, which...smelled a lot like garlic and the guy had these words to say.
"You heard for my thing?" Wario raised his eyebrows, about to pull out his bike.
"No, we're not! Move on already!" Sandy shouted, as Wario rode off on his bike. "Geez."
"He could actually have bike skills for all we know. Let's just see him-" Noah said before Wario just did a jump from a random rock over the platform and landed perfectly. "-I think we've got an act."
"I doubt it, but we're moving on." Sandy said.
As the acts were about to come, two people that were thinking of strategy were just moving out of the general view of the rest of the team...to do some things.
Judy and Riku, hilariously enough, were just sitting down with each other.
"Why did you want me to do it alone?" Riku asked. "Soma's here..."
"You two are the perfect people that I need for this thing...Soma a little less so, but you're good with words." Judy said, as Soma raised his thumbs up. "I want to investigate what's up with the Rhino's old guys and bad girls."
"Is that it?" Riku answered. "I know that the both of them had some darkness, but...come on."
"What, don't you want to do some investigating?" Judy asked.
"Nah, I've got my own talent to show..." Riku stated, as the guy went back to the stage.
And it was down to Judy and Soma, both willing and able to find what kind of happenings was down in the Rhinos' two alliances and they had things to do...as Riku went back to his friend.
"Wait, don't you have anything to give?" Genos asked. "I have some kind of talent, but it might not qualify."
"Believe it or not, yeah! Just hope that it goes well." Riku said.
*Soma's confessional*
"Man, as much as I like being away from Totsuki, I don't know if I like being here and I don't like doing nothing. And what do the other teams have that I'm missing out on? I dunno, it's cool!" Soma proclaimed.
*Judy's confessional*
"Strangely enough, it's because of a few contestants who have committed crimes against humanity, people and living beings in general. So, I know what I'm looking for!" Judy stated with a confident smile.
*Confessional cut*
"Oooh, the cook's ready to start some drama in this dramaless episode and so far, only the Crows have shown some of what they've got...but what about the other teams and will they start some drama and acts?! Find out after the break!"
To be continued in the second part of this challenge of many talents, skills and whatever...where Shulk does things with his new homies in the potential acts!