Total Drama: Ultimate Islands!
Episode 11: Beach Volleybrawl
Part 1: The Practice Serve.
We've got volleyballs, spikes, serves, ball saves, spike serves and volleyball saving techniques in this weird episode of TD...but that's not even close to what's in this chapter!
There may be a few cameos, but there's also a ton of drama inside some teams...considering that they're either in a power struggle or losing all of the time.
1602jaw: Hahaha, trust me, friendships might be tested in this episode and the next one.
Memeking: Yeah, I compensated for that for story reasons...and also, I probably can guarantee your Raven arc's gonna be great.
NondescriptNorbert: I didn't intend for this to be a slow-burn at the start, but considering there's going to be seveal arcs and having many character moments within said arcs, it was always going to end this way.
Also, Chapter 51, bitches...along with 10,000 views and 100+ reviews! Man, I'm going up in the world and all it's costing me is some of my sanity.
There was a whole bunch of flashback of the previous episode in this challenge.
"Last time on Total Drama: Ultimate Islands, we had a simple challenge of cooking with their hearts and some of these campers were really putting their hearts into their cooking techniques like Soma and Lowain."
"Others like The Coachman were more into ruining the competition for everybody like the Rhino's scheming head chef and hilariously, it didn't end up working so well...because there was some absolutely terrible dishes!"
"The Crows did way better than the others because they didn't suck with points...hahaha, man, there was a whole lot of good moments with them! They didn't have to vote off someone!"
"And the sabotaging Rhinos had to vote off Kristoff, who ruined their cooking along with the Deers voting off Bugs and Julia and the Swordfishes voting off Reigen and Raven and it looks like some stuff is about to go down!"
The camera then switched back to Chris McLean, who was still standing on the dock with confidence and his beaming smile.
"Who's going to set their team to the winning point? Who's going to take the spikes to the other teams? And more importantly, will the actual players keep their ball up for their teams? Find out on..."
The classic zoom out showed the multiple islands that was in the middle of the sunrise.
"...Total Drama: Ultimate Islands!"
Bruh, where's the intro? It's probably in every TD fanfic, dawg and honestly, chilling with my homies is better anyways...wait, where the heck are-
- Lowain with his bros cooking inside the fourth wall.
There was a new team member on the Deers and she was real controversial to some of the contestants and real agreeable to others...even if two not so important teammates had left.
And at 6am, someone woke up the whole team and the newcomer just wanted to slap them.
"Get up, maggots! We may keep on losing, but if we're one step ahead of Chris, we can beat all of the other teams!" Tanya declared without missing a beat and a megaphone. "Most of you have no motivation, by the way."
"Please, we already know that." Samus just groaned as she got up, fully awake. "Why do you always do this?"
"Because we need to be in winning condition." Tanya said.
"Shut the fuck up!" Catalina shouted. "Why do you do this shit? I'm never up at this time with the fuckin' boring assholes...at least Snake looks good."
"At least you're right." Samus wasn't that interested in shouting at 6am.
"So what?! I'm about to discuss strategy with him and you, no big deal!" Catalina was still shouting. "After I choke this dumb child!"
Catalina was running after Tanya, who hid quite easily in a good bush and had a smug smirk...as Snake, Samus and Sonja were realising that the criminal girlboss from Los Santos wasn't the best at straegising.
And that Tanya wasn't that either.
The three of them was actually hiding on the balcony, sitting down to do some chilling and talk with Snake's unshaved beard and Tanya just behind in the window...ready to do some listening in secret.
"I do like her work ethic, even if it's very...very misplaced." Sonja remarked. "The rest of her is a real annoyance."
"Geez, imagine professionally discussing why you think you're teammates a bit of an a-hole." Snake chuckled, before going on with the words. "She's definitely a real loose cannon."
"That's right, but it could help us in whatever Chris has planned today. The host always has a wild challenge for us!" Samus just got relaxed, being relatively tired.
"Hey, that is true...but goddamn, we've got a lot of wildcards that aren't even doing anything." Snake remarked. "And honestly...actually...she doesn't seem that bad compared to some of 'em."
"Besides that, why are you defending her? She's not really useful to the team or anything like that." Sonja stated. "And she rob banks consistently."
"Well, it's too early to tell, so there's no reason to do anything at the moment." Snake told her...as Sonja sighed with confidence. "You know, it takes time to get to know wherever they're loyal or not."
"That makes sense." Sonja said. "I'll keep a check on Catalina...for now."
Samus looked confused.
"She is a habitual bank robber, so it wouldn't be the worst idea." Snake stated, as he actually bumped into Tanya.
The new contestant-discussing trio just waved their hands at Tanya, who just waved right back with quite the neutral face, as the trio also put on their game faces.
*Tanya's confessional*
The blonde soldier looked more than determined to make some plans.
"Well, I was reincarnated and I'd never thought that my previous life would actually help!" Tanya shouted. "Looks like I could have myself an good alliance finally."
*Confessional cut*
It was 6am no more, It was now 7:40am and things were running late for Chris.
"Okay, this bulletin board thing is gonna be hilarious." Chris shouted, as he gave it to Kurapika. "Real nice."
"It's not real nice, but it is a news place." Kurapika told Chris. "Fine."
"Geez, no need to be a mean man."
The host and the Nen-using intern just left the situation, going in completely different directions and speaking of directions, Noah just happened to be in Kurapika's way.
"Hey." Kurapika remarked, who was just wearing the intern clothes. "Why are you up?"
"...Honestly, Pit." Noah answered.
"Makes sense."
Twenty minutes later, after reading a book, Pit and Miko were somewhat awake, as Noah was just walking them to the board to discuss some strategy.
"We were hugging...as friends!" Miko shouted, as Pit and Noah both raised their eyebrows. "Yeah! Pit, it's no big deal."
"Yeah, don't worry about it...I appreciate your gaming skills and other skills!" Pit exclaimed, ready to take on the day...as Miko had a nervous grin. "Who was that intern, though?"
"He's definitely cute and you're cute!"
Pit and Noah looked at her.
"A cute above the rest!"
Pit and Miko just shared the hearty laugh, as Noah just scoffed and...hilariously enough, some other people had read it because the piece of paper was flapping in the wind.
It read "Volleyball Challenge...haha, no-one will believe this."
Noah looked at it, as the other two were also looking at the smug sentence and just left it up there.
*Noah's confessional*
"I can't predict the future, but I can definitely say that if there's anyone going hard out there, it's the volleyball players and any potential alliances that want to strategise." Noah remarked. "I guess..."
*Confessional cut*
On a hidden part of the beach, there was volleyball between some of the Crows, Swordfishes and Rhinos...despite the fact that they knew it was a challenge that was going to be done sometime.
Sakura being in the front.
"Kageyama, could you set a little lower? I'm trying to get my spike on, but your tosses go a little bit too high." Sakura suggested, as Kageyama looked quite pissed off.
"Yeah, yeah, I'll adjust it!" Kageyama shouted, clearly not rusty from being tired. "Just get with it."
"Okay."
Sakura, Kageyama, Kipo, Mikasa, Michiru and Shego were all up in the volleyball business and they were up against Oikawa's mad bunch of rascals, that being Tails, Lowain, Daphne, Sokka and Eva.
"Look, I know you're a pretty boy and all that, but it's too early in the morning to do some bullshit." Eva called out Oikawa quite loudly. "Also, you suck ass."
"Now, now, settle down, we need to win this challenge." Oikawa exclaimed, as the five out of the six that he had as teammates were rusty. "So we need all the practice we can get!"
"They're just scoring points while we're talking!" Eva shouted.
"No, they're not." Oikawa had a smirk on her face, getting hit by a volleyball. "Hey, that was a dirty trick!"
"You weren't even looking, come on!" Sokka also shouted, as Eva was incensed and ready to make some volleyball moves.
Someone else had to serve and of course, Eva did just that with the power that Kageyama's volleyball crew expected...but couldn't really stop, as the ball landed that far back.
Kageyama just growled, as Kipo looked sad at not being able to stop the serve.
"Nice moves, Eva!" Oikawa exclaimed.
"Thanks, volleyball pretty boy." Eva remarked, which got the guy into a tizzy.
The Crows, though, were definitely trying their hardest to stay awake...not so much have a psuedo-pro volleyball match on the beach, as Sakura had a grin.
"Are you okay, Kageyama? You look like you're taking this as a big deal?" Sakura asked.
"Yes...if we lose this challenge, someone's going to set-up, so-" Kageyama said.
"You sure it's going to be like that?" Sakura asked.
"Two of our teammates have gotten turned into donkeys, so it is like that." Kageyama confidently huffed. "Also, volleyball is the best sport!"
"But fighting gives you experience!" Sakura exclaimed.
As the two of them were having their arguement, Michiru just wanted to slap them both, judging by her growing hand..but Kipo ready to do the same back, although looking worried.
"Would that solve anything?" Kipo asked.
"Yes, they'd stop arguing and I can finally serve." Michiru was spinning the volleyball in her hands, as Kipo just sighed.
"I'm gonna go talk to them for real!" Kipo shouted.
*Michiru's confessional*
"This is a show about drama and that sort of stuff, so what's with these guys? They've got some kind of ants in their pants or something!" Michiru looked real tired of the lack of action.
*Sakura's confessional*
"What's with Michiru? We were just passionately talking about our favourite sports and then she gets kinda mad that this is a practice thing...she's really taking it seriously." Sakura said, still wearing her fighting gloves for the volleyball thing.
*Confessional cut*
The early morning volleyball madness continued on, as Sakura and Kageyama got it together and there was a lot of balls that hit the net...a lot, a lot of balls.
It was from either team as well, as there was pretty wacky recieves on both sides in different ways with Shego getting hit by more than one bad one...to the point when Mikasa tried it again and went off on an angle.
Shego almost got hit straight in the face with a powerful one, only pushing it out of the way.
"How are you this bad-never mind." Shego said.
"Sorry, I have not played volleyball." Mikasa answered. "But we do need to keep on the winning streak."
"...Cool, you can say that when we lose." Shego remarked, as she did not look interested. "I'm going to do some strategy!"
Shego just left the pop-up court, looked real tired of the weird practice game.
"Okay, do not worry about it." Mikasa answered.
The two captains of the random teams just clapped their hands just as an announcement came across and Michiru just served the volleyball into the sea.
"The food's getting cold, damn it and I ain't reheating it up anymore!" Chef shouted. "...Never mind, it's getting reheated. You don't get-"
Some of the eleven remaining players looked more than pissed that their practice volleyball match got stopped by a cut-off announcement from Chef.
Others weren't even fully awake, as Kipo was just looking forward to it and Sokka looked like he got woken up at 3am.
"Time really does fly when you're having fun!" Oikawa shouted.
"Yeah...it does." Sokka remarked.
And on the other side...
"This is dumb as hell, you guys could've-" Kageyama remarked.
"It's okay...We've got woken up several times?" Michiru said, which got Kageyama thinking. "We're helping each other, this time."
*Kageyama's confessional*
He didn't look well-rested.
"I'll be honest...these hosts think they're really cool because they can wake up people and host shitty challenges. At least they didn't pick my weird-ass team, because they're...not terrible." He said.
*Confessional cut*
The late breakfast came and some of the friends of the volleyball crews' teammmates were just running in with confidence, as it was now 8:20am and the tense air that the mess hall would usually have...was gone.
Pit and Miko were gaming together as usual, as Cassie and Amelia had some confident smirks on their face.
"Ayo, volley lovers, what's good?" Miko asked.
"I swear I'll slap the hell of you two if you say that." Kageyama grumbled.
"Alrighty...I don't care." Miko shrugged. "Guys, what's the challenge?"
"Probably has something to do with volleyball." Kageyama remarked, still keeping the shred of paper in his pocket.
"Oh, okay! I thought that this thing wasn't written by Chris!" Pit shouted at the all of the people that already knew about the written note on the random board. "Anyways, what are we doing again?"
"Trying to get three million, four million, whatever it is." Michiru just sat in between the two very different heroes, sitting in a true sour spot. "That doesn't seem that different."
"Trust me, it's way different in points." Pit said. "...And apparently, money, but I'm not a human."
"Imagine half of the stuff you could buy with one more million. Could be a bigger game-changer." Michiru remarked, as her teammates were thinking. "Civil rights?"
"Whoa, whoa, less crazy stuff...please." Shego said. "I'd just buy a bigger laser."
"Somewhere in between those tw
The eight remaining players were just hanging out together, as the mostly ladies-focused Swordfishes were in the mood to slap someone for making them awake.
And that someone just so happened to be the pretty volleyball player and Sokka (for reasons.)
"Aw, what did we do...aside from proving that Sokka isn't the best leader." Oikawa had a confident smirk.
"We lost...with your actions!" Sokka shouted.
The rest of the team that was there noticed the duo's lack of sync and fullness of spite.
"Does it really matter who lost compared to who we've lost?" Amelia stated. "Not really...especially since you're acting like this and we've lost a strong player to boot."
"To be fair, it wasn't her jam." Cassie said. "And I'm not sure what happened with the psychic guy being eliminated, but we're still here and you two acting like dumbasses...is gonna suck for us and you."
"You act like babies, I unbaby you with...my hands." Heavy was still a little bit out of it, as Sokka and Oikawa were sweating beads. "You get my words."
"Alright, please don't murder me." Oikawa, practically doing the surrendering hands.
"I won't..." Heavy then "un-cracked" his knuckles. "...When am I going to get Sasha?"
"I dunno, big guy! Can you block the balls?" Oikawa remarked.
"Sure, these balls are not going past me!"
The main crew of the team that was missing a certain someone were more than motivated to...figure where the rest of their teammates were and wonder what the heck was going on.
*Khun's confessional*
"I may have voted off Reigen, but that's because this is Total Drama. Sometimes you have to do dirty moves to survive, I'm sorry." Khun was practically smirking. "Besides...it's not my fault that the two leaders can't cook."
*Confessional cut*
The two Rhino alliances were practically on opposite sides of McLean Island (named by Chris, obviously) discussing some strategy about the upcoming volleyball challenge (courtesy of Kurapika...somewhat) and all of them were taking it seriously.
Azula's had some idea of what volleyball is, which why there was a boatload of hidden strategies coming around based on their powers and strengths and also why Tendo was there.
The other was trying, but just barely.
"I know what a volleyball is!" Dante remarked. "So it's okay, if you sit this one out."
"Well, then, I decide when to sit this one out!" Coachman shouted. "To be fair, I wanted the opportunity anyways...and besides, it's time for someone to make some moves."
Basil was technically there, but couldn't care less...and Pinstripe actually looked really interesting.
"Finally, I get to make some moves." Pinstripe remarked. "Goddamn it, finally."
"And what are you going to do?-" Dante looked plainly tired...as Basil rolled his own eyes.
"Alright, alright, meet me at the campgrounds and trust me, it's because you guys don't know where this place is!"
The host's announcement somehow didn't even throw off the conversation, as the Coachman just answered like it wasn't a big deal.
"Do nothing!"
And...let's just say that the alliance was more than pissed.
*Basil's confessional*
"I swear I'm going to leave this malformed alliance with Dante, try to make some kind of other alliance without the old man and figure out a perfect way to have some semblance of a good time!"
*Confessional cut*
From the forest to the campgrounds to the volleyball court, every remaining contestant was there and a lot of them were in a rather good mood and none were moreso than Chris.
"Hah, I bet you guys know what the challenge is..." Chris announced, as there was a lot of hands up. "...So I'll tell you guys a little bit about volleyball, baby! It's a game where you keep the ball in the air with only your hands and move around to not let it fall, no matter what!"
The contestants just got it somehow, as there was a lot of thumbs up.
"Nice, your four teams are going to be in a volleyball tournament and man, it's gonna be wild on the beach! Tomorrow, though, the producers didn't want you campers having some serious pain, only funny moments!"
"I do not like the sound of that." Basil said.
"Wise choice, mouse." Noah cracked a joke.
"Alright, you guys get prepared in here!" Chris said. "I'm gonna have some good lunch and you guys should be ready to be awake tomorrow!"
The host just left the situation, leaving a purple-haired intern to just draw up a map of McLean island with the volleyball court right there and looking quite confident about it.
"Don't worry about it, there's several other maps that show the island, including at the campgrounds, mess hall and some bunch of places!" Entrapta shouted at the somewhat confused contestants. "There's even an electronic version for everyone too!"
"...You sound like a person." Basil could only muster that up, as Entrapta just waved the contestants off.
And with that, some of the teams had no idea what the hell they were going to do with each other.
*Azula's confessional*
"Taking over the team isn't going to be that hard, because luckily, I've got some killer skills that Zu-Zu wishes that he has...besides my great firebending brain and a new powerful alliance!" Azula exclaimed, ready to take her volleyballing hands. "The other teams will not underestimate my spike!"
*Confessional cut*
There was a whole bunch of practice that these contestants were really going to squeeze out of at least twelve hours and goddamn were the rest of the Rhinos willing to spike a whole ton of balls.
And it was Tendou Time, according to him anyways and there was so many players to respect his time.
"Heh, you guys need a setter? Because I've got one!" Tendou shouted. "Meet Squirrel Girl, baby."
"At least you didn't call me baby." Squirrel Girl just jumped back for a bit. "Guys, the volleyballs don't get past me...Dante's the back-up setter by the way."
"Aw yeah, it's time...for volleyball." Tendou remarked, as Dante was just spinning his sword. "Minus the sword."
"I'm no anime swordsman or anything!" Dante exclaimed right back, ready to use his own two hands.
The many players on the half-united team were about to get their volleyball skills on or refined their lack of volleyball skills, which wasn't a problem for some of the players.
Azula was just hitting those spikes like it's nobody's business...no matter how questionably Dante set the ball or how Clover actually made a decent set of...sets.
Clover was really enjoying actually doing something, along with Lynn being the liberio (aka the person on the outside diving for some balls) and taking practice names as a duo.
Legoshi and Tendou were both blocking balls like proper bros...despite the former just getting taken down several times and even he got slammed to the ground by another spiker.
Tifa had a little fun breaking through some defenses, even if she wasn't the greatest jumper in the world and Pinstripe...got a lot of balls and one ended up right down in his two balls.
And he took in great spirits, especially at 4pm...where there was a whole bunch of practice going in all sorts of sides
"Yeah, it's great to be a player." Pinstripe groaned, struggling to get back up. "Fuck yeah."
"Finally, we're making some good moves!" Dante shouted. "...You should get those checked!"
"I'm gonna check my own self!" Pinstripe just awkwardly walked off the multiple courts.
"Good for you, weasel man." Dante remarked...as a good chunk of the rest of the team were cringing at that. "You get those healed or something!"
*Pinstripe's confessional*
"Back before I went into the business, I tried a load-a sports and I had a mean volleyball game, before I annoyed some guy who broke my leg. That guy got annoyed outta...there!" Pinstripe shouted, almost admitting to a murder.
*Confessional cut*
As the vast majority of the Rhinos were having fun times in the volleyball court, there was a few that was taking the time to sit down and strategise or they were just there, thinking of...something.
"You're really okay with doing nothing?" Carmelita asked, not liking the person sitting next to her. "You're not doing something stupid."
"No...those are moves that just happened to be stopped by something unseen." Coachman explained, while just smoking out of his pipe. "Honestly, you need to calm down, my dear, go play your game."
"I'm terrible at volleyball and somethings tell me that you're up to something." Carmelita had a sneaky look at the untrustworthy old man.
"Eh, you really are a cut above the rest of these blokes and ladies." Coachman looked like he could care less. "So, what's your problem?"
"My problem is that you somehow always find volatile strategies that only seem to benefit you. Not the team." Carmelita stated it matter-of-factly.
"Ahhh...that's only if you would follow my lead, which I don't have to do sometimes. Good cooking must not come to some of our team members, which is rather a coincidence!" Coachman just blew the smoke out of his mouth. "Besides, they work more than your contributions."
"They also turn into bigger mistakes, so remember that." Carmelita just got right up. "I hope your hubris catches up with you!"
"The same to you, obviously!" Coachman remarked, just letting his hubris ride behind him.
And there was someone that...technically wasn't even bothering with it, as Tron Bonne looked real interested in just taking a look at the situation, sweating from all of the volleyballin' that she did.
*Tron Bonne's confessional*
"I get the feeling that there's a very dumb and weird reason for it, but I swear it's like the old guy acts like he's the god of being witty! He isn't even that witty, Carmelita owned him!" Tron exclaimed, still sweating like...a true volleyball player.
*Confessional cut*
Kageyama had a team and said team was plainly getting used to the Karasuno-original tactics and the pressure that's coming Miko and Michiru nailing their spikes...for no apparent reason.
Wherever they were doing, Pit and Kipo were behind the spikers and they were really kicking some butt.
"Yo, let's go, gir-Miko!" Pit shouted, trying to hide his love. "How are you able to play volleyball like this."
"Wait, you guys don't even have volleyball games?" Miko asked.
"No, they don't, I don't and Kipo doesn't even have video games." Pit exclaimed nervously, as Miko actually cringed. "Hey, it's not a thing here!"
"What's the universe's deal?" Miko was ready to pounce on...whoever's up there, as she put her hand on that ball and...
...the ball might as well been shot from a meteor, as it not only bounced off the ground at a perfect angle...it almost managed to fly halfway across the court and coincidentally.
Iori just so happened to be in the way of the ball and he took it and crushed it something, as Kyo had a smirk on his face.
Pit and Miko were...concidentally hugging each other and then stopped hugging, as Kyo gave some words of advice.
"You two really like each other, man! This shit's getting old...not as old as Iori being a dickhead!" Kyo just told the both of them.
And the two of them were about to fight some more, interrupting the eight-odd hours of uninterrupted volleyball hours and considering it's mid-summer...you know how the sun just went down...
...and in the end, Kyo and Iori were about to face each other off, fist and fist and immediately they got swinging with some fire and all that madness...and Chef threw a curveball.
Mostly because it was 8pm now.
"Ayo, teams and all that good stuff! We're closing the hell up...if you complain, you're going to get a strain!" Chef announced. "Of the painful kind, especially you two fighting heads!"
There was a whole lot of groans and complaints going on
"Alright, quit your own whining." Kyo remarked.
"Yeah, we're gonna fight outside!" Iori yelled.
"Good, y'all need sleep 'cause we're going to wake you up at 6 for the volleyball game...just like you should!" Chef shouted at the people that were getting up together.
"Goddamn...okay, Chef." Kyo said that.
As the two rivals were leaving...and so was the rest of the contestants, there was one more thing that needed to be done that Chris had to do...even if it is at night, where the end of a challenge normally would be.
The host was actually just in a random hut, sitting like he couldn't care less.
"Man, that was one weird day and honestly, that's just one of the off days of this show. But we've got a challenge tomorrow and man, they're not going to be ready for the volleyball challenge...after the break!"
To be continued in the second part of this beach volleyball episode, which starts in classic Total Drama fashion.
No food, maybe? Definitely disrespectful wake up and early challenge.