An Underdog's Destiny (Story 4 of 4 of my Underdog Series)

by The Legendary Dragon Reaper

He has spent more than a decade preparing for this day, and his fated final battle is drawing nearer. But with his greatest foe knowing just how to get under his skin and his best friend under that foe's thumb, it might turn out to be too much for even him to handle. Can he defeat his foe and protect his friends, or will he give in and lose everything?

2. Heroes vs Villains

(Normal speak)

(Thoughts/ Confessionals)

As per his usual routine, Chris popped up in front of the camera to begin the first episode of the new season, starting where it all began, on the Dock of Shame "Season 5 of Total Drama has arrived at last folks, now welcome to Total Drama All Stars! After I took my year long vacation against my will I realized that what I really needed was to be in a familiar environment surrounded by the people I love… to make suffer." he let out a malicious snicker "It's actually a condition of my parole, well except for the suffer part anyway. That part right there is nothing more than McLean brand originality. So anyway I'll be bringing back 14 contestants from previous seasons of Total Drama so they can battle it out in the most dangerous, brushing up with death style, one million dollar competition the world has ever known!" he gestured to were a chopper was hovering nearby "And here come our contestants now! From our previous fourth season of Revenge of the Island, say hello to Multiple Mike, AKA Chester, Svetlana, Vito and everyone's personal favorite, Manitoba Smith!"

"Wait a second I'm not ready-" Mike's protests were ignored as he was promptly thrown out of the chopper by Chef, switching between Chester, Svetlana, Vito and Manitoba Smith as he plummeted downwards into Lake Wawanakwa, hitting the surface of the water with a mighty splash.

"Next up we've got Mike's crush, the pushover turned terrifying yet somehow still hilarious powerhouse, Zoey!"

"Mike hold on, I'm coming!" Zoey dove down into the water below.

"Next is Private Pants Wetter, a fan favorite from last season despite never even making it to the merge, Brick! NOW DIVE IN LIKE IT'S HOT YOU LITTLE MAGGOT"

"SIR YES SIR!" and then Brick dove down into the water without any sign of protest or hesitation.

"Next we have the challenge throwing dirt farmer himself, Scott!"

"Get the hell off me!" Scott was promptly hurled by Chef into the water against his will, much to his ire.

"Our next newbie is bossy bruiser Jo, the one who dominated until her underling who shall not be named due to being on a certain other reality show that shall not be named, turned on her and pulled the rug out from under her."

"You're a dead man McLean, just wait until I get my hands on you!" Jo quickly took the chance to shove Chef out of the way, only to promptly get body slammed into the water as a form of Karma.

"The helmet head with a tan in a can Anne Maria, you know the one who quit the competiton about halfway through because she found a fake diamond?"

"Wait until I get my hands on you ya son of a-" Anne Maria was promptly cut off when she got hurled out of the chopper.

"And our final Revenge of the Island contestant, another fan favorite for some reason, creepy nature loving aura reader, Dawn!" he waited, but nothing happened "Okay where the heck is she?"

"You called?" Dawn suddenly made herself known to Chris from where she was meditating a few feet away, earning a yelp of terror.

"When did you- How did you- You're not even wet!"

"Oh I simply found a shortcut."

"...I'm gonna ignore that." Chris turned back to the camera "Now with those idiots out of the way, we can finally get to the original cast. First up, we have the scrawny geeky ladies man with a heart of gold, season 3 winner Cody!"

"Oh come on, not this crap again!" Cody was promptly hurled out of the chopper "You know what the heck with it." and so he prepared to do a cannonball.

"Next is the animal loving surfer chick with a sex drive that rivals the size of my ego, season 3 finalist Bridgette!"

"That was a cheap shot!" Bridgette dove down into the water of her own free will.

"Season 2 winner and broody bad boy, Duncan!"

"Bring it on!" Duncan was left free falling without giving a damn in an effort to make himself look like a badass.

"Devious deva and original Total Drama antagonist, Heather!"

"I HATE YOU CHRIS!"

"The diablo so handsome he can charm the pants off of most species, and one of the most hated contestants in Total Drama history, Alejandro!"

"Yes I am aware." Alejandro promptly dove in without another word.

"Well that was underwhelming. Anyway next is the guy who made quite the impression in his first season, and the one who BLEW UP MY PLANE, Adam!" nothing happened "Oh come on not this crap again!"

"Sup McLean?"

Chris let out a yelp of terror and whipped around to find Adam (clad in a new attire consisting of a dark red quarter zip and a pair of jeans) just sitting in the lifeguard chair on the other end of the dock looking smug as ever "Great just what we need, another teleporting nature loving freak!"

"Oh trust me McLean, the day I turn into a hippie like that is the day that butterflies fly right out of your ass. No offense Dawn." he received a shrug.

"MOVING ON." Chris got the camera to focus back on him "Last up is the queen of the knuckle sandwhich herself, Leshawna!"

"Give my a few minutes and you'll see it for yourself!" Leshawna promptly leapt out of the chopper on her own accord as Bridgette had done before, and then she did a cannonball into the waters of Lake Wawanakwa below, resulting in a mighty splash.

"Oh yeah that's the catharsis that I need, man it's great to be back.

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(And now in response to the complaints that I've seen on comments on YouTube, a redone version of the original intro)

Shots of four brand new spotlights popping out, following by the camera zooming through the camp past the spa hotel and the crappy cabin, up to the top of the thousand foot cliff, and then down into the lake below "Dear mom and dad I'm doing fine, you guys are on my mind!"

Underneath the lake, Anne Maria and Leshawna are tugging back and forth over a treasure chest, which opens to reveal Cody inside of it, along with Mr Coconut and several McLean Brand Invincibility Statues floating out of it until they rose to the surface, where Bridgette is lying on top of a surfboard "You asked me what I wanted to be, and now I think the answer is plain to see!"

In the nearby forest, Jo is jogging through the forest past the are where Dawn is meditating, surrounded by several animals, with Duncan just watching without giving a damn "I wanna be famous!"

In a nearby river, Alejandro and Heather are glaring at each other until their canoe is about to go over the waterfall, with Alejandro leaping out onto dry land while Heather goes over along with the raft "I wanna live close to the sun!"

Down below, Brick is standing on top of a cracked log doing sit ups unti Heather lands on top of him, causing the log to give out and for both of them to fall "Go pack your bags cause I've already won!"

Scott is watching and laughing at this until Fang comes out of the outhouse confessional and starts chasing him "Everything to prove, nothing in my way! I'll get there one day!"

Pan over to where Chef and Adam are both just relaxing in lounge chairs in front of the Spa Hotel "Cause I wanna be famous!"

Mike and Zoey both sitting on the Dock of Shame staring romantically at each other, which is ruined when Sasquatchanakwa and the bear start to get into a slap fight "Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na!"

Pan over to the lake where all 14 contestants (Anne Maria, Jo, Scott, Alejandro, Heather, Duncan and Leshawna on one side, and Adam, Brick, Bridgette, Cody, Dawn, Mike and Zoey on the other side), are standing on poorly built platforms holding jousting sticks and all preparing to duke it out "I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!"

The teams clash, Brick and Jo taking each other out, Zoey shoving Scott back, Dawn shoving Anne Maria back, Bridgette pushing Heather back, Cody and Duncan pushing each other back, Mike going up against Leshawna, and Adam locked in a power struggle against Alejandro while keeping his gaze solely on Mike "I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!"

The scene chages to the blackness of night, with Brick and Dawn holding hands awkwardly and gazing into each other's eyes, only for Chris to ruin the moment just to be a jerk "(Insert whistling tune as the song ends)."

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It was only a matter of moments before Chris and Chef made their way down to the beach and met up with all of the contestants (except for Adam and Dawn), as they finished swimming their way to shore "Greetings old torture puppets- I mean old friends."

Heather promptly spat out a starfish "I am not your friend!"

"Ain't that the truth." Leshawna muttered "But let's just face it, you just miss your tonsil hockey partner."

"What you mean Alejandro? Why the hell would I care about that handsome jerk after all the crap that he pulled?" she failed to notice Alejandro cringe.

"You mean the same crap that you pulled but on a smaller scale?"

"Yeah whatever you say Sweetheart." Adam's tone was laced with sarcasm, earning a dirty look from Heather "Hey don't get mad at me just because I tell it like it is."

"Bite me quarter zip." she promptly rounded on Chris "You're going to be paying for my hair and my dry cleaning you know."

"Actually no I'm not." Chris promptly held up her contract "I had you guys sign brand new contracts?"

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Heather let out a groan of frustration "Same old Chris, same people that I can't stand, same old disgusting island and other crap that I hate about this show. What the hell was I thinking coming back again? Oh yeah right, getting my million dollars that I deserved but was robbed of by these peons back in season three, and last season too. Time for the queen to reclaim her throne."

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"As a matter of fact we have a lot of big changes for this season, the first of which being that the island is now 100% toxic waste free." Chris was met with various sighs of relief "But that being said, there are still a considerable number of toxic beats running around the island like, for example, Scott's old buddy Fang!" this caused Scott to freeze in terror "Yeah I think this is gonna be fun, even if you guys all suck but you're the best that we could get."

"Meaning that we're the only ones that were stupid enough, ballsy enough or all of the above to come back on this show?" Adam guessed.

"That combined with the fact that a considerable number of contestants whose names I never want to hear again betrayed me and went on that abomination of a show."

"You mean Gwen, Owen, Noah, Cameron, Lightning, DJ and Geoff because they all competed on the Ridonculous Race, and because DJ and Geoff were finalists?"

"...I hate you more and more every minute. Anyway on the upside, I've taken the liberty of upgrading your accomodations. Chef bring the thing."

"I should've stayed in Vegas." Chef brought over a large monitor, revealing the same crappy old cabins as in previous seasons "This season the losers still have to sleep in the same crappy old cabins as before." this was met with groans, before the screen panned out to reveal the new Spa Hotel "But the winners of each season get to stay in the brand new environmentall friendly, as required by law, McLean Spa Hotel, which is complete with a butler, a hot tub and a 24 hour masseuse." this was met with cheers "And in honor of your status as All Stars I'm going to be dividing you into teams based on your past performances: Heroes vs Villains!"

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Heather gave a malicious smirk "Well obviously Chris is going to put me on the villain's team and I will be running it by lunch."

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Adam just put his arms behind his head "Well at least it's not anything too simple like newbies vs classic competitors, even I know that that would be way too obvious." and then he suddenly turned serious "Anyway here's a few things for you to keep in mind. Me, Bridgette, Cody, Alejandro and Mike all learned a few things, really really awesome things, over the past two years or so, but you won't be seeing them. As OP as I might be right now, I have no intention of one shotting everyone like this was One Punch Man. I said before that I believe in playing a clean and fair game and that's exactly what I'm going to do. And for the record I'm not here to win the season either,

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Chris quickly counted off the 7 contestants of the first team "Heather, Duncan, Anne Maria, Jo, Scott, Alejandro and Leshawna. From now on you the seven of you guys are the Villainous Vultures."

"Oh hell no!" Leshawna immediately rounded on Chris "Why the hell would I be on the villains' team?"

"Let's go through that one season by season. Back in the first season alone you threw Heather off of a cliff into shark infested water, shot Heather with paintballs, locked Heather in a freezer which was awesome, chased Heather down while she was wearing nothing but a towel, convinced everyone to vote off Trent, beat the ever loving crap out of Duncan, locked Heather in the confessional after Owen had been in there, nearly ran Heather over. And that was all in the first season."

"Well maybe but-"

"Second season was definitely what sealed the deal for us and made your placement on the villain team actually seem legit, remember how you lied to your teammates in order to win that reward and then bad mouthed them and Courtney showed everyone on her PDA?"

"...Alright alright point taken." Leshawna had to restrain herself, leaving Chris to count off the second team.

"Anyway, Mike, Zoey, Brick, Dawn, Cody, Bridgette and Adam, the 7 of you will be the Heroic Hawks!"

"Oh yeah!" Mike and Adam caught each other in a high five.

"Now then, as for the challenges-"

"If I may Chris." Alejandro held up a hand to stop him "There's something that I would like to say first."

"Oh for god's sake, do we really have to go through this." he was promptly smacked upside the head by Adam.

"Thank you Adam." Alejandro took to the chance to face the other competitors, the majority of whom (except for Adam, Bridgette, Cody, Mike and Dawn) were eyeing him with a certain degree of suspicion "I have a rather fair idea of how all of you feel about seeing me after all this time, after the things that I've said and done to a good majority of you. But now I want to take a moment to stop and, well to apologize to all of you for the way that I've acted. The things that I've said and done were, to put it simply, despicable. I'm not proud of those things, I never have been and I never will be. I don't intend to justify what I said and did and I do not expect you to trust me, but I do want to take my time and earn your trust. That is to say, if you're willing to give me a chance." and then he took a step back to where he was before, leaving his message to sink in.

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Dawn let out a remorseful sigh "I have been made aware from personal experience that over the past two years, Alejandro's quest for redemption has proven to be quite an arduous one. His aura is not filled with evil, but rather a mixture of anger, sadness and shame, as well as a lovely shade of burgundy. And alas, what only myself and a select few of others present realize is that there is a much greater evil lurking inside of another, evil that may very well be capable of destroying all of us, and there is only one who has the potential power to stop him, but not as he is at the moment. He has much more healing and growing to do before then."

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"...Yeah, moving on." even Chris was left dumbfounded but he quickly got the first episode of the season back on track and had Chef work the monitor "Anyway the challenges for this season are all about nods to classics from the past, but with harsh and painful new twists that will make this-"

"-the toughest and most torturous season of Total Drama to ever exist?" Adam cut him off "I think you're slipping McLean, because wasn't that the challenge last year? Or the year before that? Or the year before that one?"

"My hatred for you is ever growing. Anyway your first challenge of the season is to find the key to the doors to the Spa Hotel and you'll be doing it in a homage to the first ever challenge of Total Drama, cliff diving into water infested with ravanous sharks. As previous competitor and season 4 finalist Lightning will now demonstrate."

"SHABAM!" sure enough, Lightning was on the cliff and he promptly dove down into the waters, where he began punching the ever loving crap out of one of the sharks.

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Scott let out a very shallow gulp "Okay so maybe I have a phobia of s-shakrs now, but can you blame me? Fang ripped me apart last season and ever since then my fear of sharks got multiplied by like a thousand, all because of one damn tooth?! The trauma chair itself actually wasn't that bad, at least for the first week or so. But then I got an itch where you NEVER wanna have an itch and it felt like my sister had dumped fireants down my pants. Again. She has a twisted sense of humor."

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Brick let out a sigh "I actually do feel pretty bad about laughing at Scott the way I did when he was in the chair, even if he did do a lot of horrible things like lie to all of us and make us think that Dawn was a thief I feel like I stooped to his level at that point."

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Chris carried on with explaining the challenge "Once you guys dive into the water you have to try to avoid the sharks long enough to snag one of the keys that we've lined up along the bottom of the bay, and be sure to choose wisely because only one of those suckers is what you're looking for. Assuming that you live long enough to reach the shore one of your teammates will drive you to the hotel in one of the baby carriages from the race through Central Park in season three. The first team to unlock the door to the Spa Hotel wins, and just as a friendly little warning someone from team loser may or may not be going home tonight. Meet me at the base of the cliff in fifteen minutes." and then he took off in a jeep driven by Chef.

"Wait a second!" Mike called after him "Shouldn't we change into our swimsuits or something first?"

"Sorry there's no time, and I really don't care!"

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About 5 minutes passed, and the two groups were heading through the forests of Wawanakwa towards the cliff.

Mike noticed the lust covered look that Anne Maria had been giving him and shot a glance over at Adam "You know Anne Maria keeps staring at me and to be honest it's kind of freaking me out."

"She's waiting for you to turn into Vito so that she and her can pick up where they left off and start dry humping again." Adam told him dryly "And you know what Mike I'm just gonna go ahead and be real with you for a minute, good workout partner or not Vito is a dick."

"He's not that bad, sure he can be a pain but he's got a good heart hidden somewhere underneath those abs. I just don't know where."

"Well he's gotta compensate for something."

Mike had to stiffle a chuckle "But anyway she's gonna have to keep on waiting, or just get over it which isn't very likely, because my heart belongs to Zoey."

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What the two of them didn't know (or in Adam's case, didn't care) was that Anne Maria was glaring at them and Zoey from afar "Oh yeah just keep basking in that glory red, all I have to do is get rid of you and then I'm gonna be all over Vito."

"Hey Tanzilla get moving!" Jo barked "We're not gonna wait for you all day!"

"No need for you to bust an artery blondie, I'm coming so piss off!" Anne Maria stormed after them.

"About time."

"Step aside newbies." Heather shoved her way past them.

"Hey why don't you watch it Old Heather!"

"How about you watch it Newbie!"

"How about you two and Fake Diamond Head over there shut the hell up!" Leshawna rounded on them, leading to a four way brawl.

"Senoritas please!" Alejandro suddenly blitzed in between the four of them and stopped them from attacking each other "Just because Chris labled us as villains does not mean that we have to live up to his sick twisted expectations. We're a team and we should be acting like it, if we don't then the other team is going to destroy us." he received various voices of agreement from the four girls, an eye roll from Scott, and a death glare from Duncan.

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"There's no way in hell that's going to happen." Heather let out a scoff "The reason as to why is simple. I-"

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Jo: "-don't trust-"

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Anne Maria: "-anyone-"

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Scott: "-on this-"

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Duncan: (insert massive stream of cursing)

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Leshawna: "-team!"

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Alejandro sighed "Well that could've gone better, but I shoud at least get points for effort don't I?" and cue the creepy shots of all of the others cackling evilly, with Leshawna clearly enjoying it way too much "But with that aside I wasn't lying, I really do want to make amends with all of the people that I've hurt."

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Adam glanced back and noticed Brick sparing a few glances at him "Hey, what's up? And by that I mean why do you keep looking at me, if you've got something to say then just go ahead and say it. I'm not gonna stop you."

Brick breathed a sigh "Sorry, I'm just rather nervous."

"About the fact that we're probably gonna get killed by one of these challenges?"

"No, about you." Brick suddenly saluted him "It's an honor Adam, sir."

"...Is this really happening?"

"Yes and it's absolutely sincere. I saw every single episode of Total Drama World Tour and I know for a fact that you are the kind of person who has earned my undying respect."

"For real?"

"Absolutely. First you show a strong chivalrous nature, incredible skill and determination, your heart is filled with compassion even for your enemies, and you've gone above and beyond for the sake of your friends and teammates. That's the kind of attitude that I admire. You're strong both in body and in mind, your resolve is unwavering, and you're willing to do whatever it takes for the sake of the people you love. As far as I'm concerned you're an inspiration." he saluted him once again.

"...You're really giving me too much credit." Adam stopped walking, which prompted the others to do the same "All of the things that I did during season three was just me doing what I had to do in order to accomplish a goal, and I could and would do all that stuff only because I had a good teacher."

"Why do you say that like it's a bad thing? There's nothing like a good teacher to make one strong."

"I know, it's not what you're saying but how you're saying it. You make it sound like I'm some kind of gift from god when really, I'm not. Everything I've done and can do is through years worth of hard work and perseverence. Besides if anyone here is worth admiring it's you."

"I'm flattered that you would say such a thing but I'm really not all that praise worthy-"

"No I'm serious, you're the one worthy of praise here. You believe in chivalry for starters, you know what it means to be a team player, and you value your own moral codes over winning a contest. Plus you did save Mike and the others from those mutant gophers during the mine challenge last season so I owe you for that one. As far as I'm concerned you're the inspiration here."

Brick wiped away a single tear and gave Adam a third salute "Coming from you that means a lot."

"Seriously enough with that man, I'm just a normal guy so treat me like one."

"Whatever you wish sir- I mean Adam."

"I'm serious, stop it." he smacked Brick upside the head "Better?"

"Much actually, thank you." they all started walking again "So now that I'm snapped out of that I have to ask… would you mind if I were to ask you to consider me to be the captain for our team?"

"Okay sure."

"...Just like that?"

"Yeah why not, I mean you're the only one with any military training. All you need is to get over your fear of the dark."

"I'm uh… I'm working on it."

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Bridgette and Cody were just awkwardly walking side by side, trying to rid themselves of the awkward silence that plaggued them "So… great to be back at camp again isn't it? The nature and the memories…"

Cody nodded "Yeah, nature and memories. Like during the phobia challenge when I blew myself up. Sorry about costing you that point by the way."

"Don't worry about it. So, how far do you think we're gonna get this season?"

"I doubt we'll make it to the finals again that's for sure, if a contestant wins as season then they never make it as far as that again."

"But top five?"

"Maybe. Who knows, us helping Adam and Mike aside this season might actually turn out to be fun."

"Indeed." Dawn suddenly popped up next to them, freaking both of them out "I also look forward to what this season has in store for us. And Cody there is no need for you to fear, I am quite sure that Gwen misses you almost as much as you miss her."

"...I forgot you could do that."

"It was part of my training that I had undergone with my mother."

"Of course it is."

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Soon enough, all 14 contestants had arrived at the scene of the beach, where two baby carriages were waiting.

"Greetings All Stars, or whatever the heck you guys are supposed to be because you're the only ones who were willing to come back!" Chris flew onto the scene using his jetpack, blowing dust and smoke all over the place, leaving a good number of contestants in a coughing fit "Well here are your carriages, we've got blood red for the Villainous Vultures and purest gold for the Heroic Hawks. I'm giving you guys 30 seconds to pick the team members who drive the carriages, and those 30 seconds start now!"

"I'll drive!" Scott immediately grabbed onto the carriage.

"Not a chance, I'm driving!" Jo grabbed onto the carriage.

"Not a chance, there's no way in hell I'm diving into that water from Hell!"

"Oh like it'd be such a big loss if you got eaten by that stupid thing, if anything that would be doing us a favor now give me the damn thing!"

"Listen you little c-"

"Alright it hasn't even been a minute and I'm already sick of you two bitching at each other like that, the dude in the hood is jumping and you're driving!" Leshawna promptly slugged Jo over her shoulder despite her protests (yes she called Jo a dude).

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"10 seconds!" Chris made a warning call.

Adam glanced over at the rest of his team "So anyone else wanna do it?"

"I might as well." Cody stepped forward "I'd rather not be put in the carriage again and I also don't wanna be shark bait."

"You realize that-"

"I know but they don't know that, and I've got a rep to maintain."

"You mean a rep of having the muscle tone of a paperclip?"

"...I'm not gonna answer that."

"Probably for the best."

"Alright then, time is up!" Chris made the call "Everyone except for Scott and Cody up the cliff and towards your inevitable deaths you go, as in NOW!"

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"Yes, first place is mine assholes!" Jo bolted to the top of the cliff ahead of all of the other contestants, with Brick trailing only seconds behind her.

And yet somehow Chris was already there waiting for her "Yeah it feels just like old times, me being able to torture you guys on the island where your journey into fame and suffering had begun."

Three of the non original contestants (namely Mike, Zoey and Brick) poked their heads over the edge of the cliff, only to see a certain familiar mutant shark waving at them in a very malicious manner "Fang!"

"So who's the best at spotting keys and who's gonna end up as Fang's lunch? And will I be able to break Adam this season?"

"Unlikely." Adam pointed out dryly.

"Ignoring that, find out when we come back right here on Total! Drama! All Stars!"

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What Scott had to say was short, anything but sweet, and straight to the point "They're gonna die up there, they're gonna f*cking die up there. Well better them than me."

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"Alright punching bags get into position, it's time for the dive of death!" Chris was quick to make the call "Here's how it's gonna work, it's gonna be one diver per team at a time and the next diver until the carriage for their team is back at the beach. Ready, don't really care if you're ready, GO!" he blew on an airhorn "Now dive in like it's hot suckers!"

"Sir yes sir!" Brick promptly dive in first for the Heroic Hawks.

Jo dove in first for the Villainous Vultures and punched out Fang in the process before rising up from the waters and bolting onto the beach "Quit wasting time and let's go!"

"As if you had to tell me, so long suckers!" and so Scott promptly took off with Jo and the baby carriage, giving the villains the lead for the moment.

Brick burst out from the water a few seconds later and hopped into Cody's carriage "Let's get moving soldier!"

"Nice work, now let's go!" Cody grabbed the baby carriage and took off, pulling it after him with considerable ease, taking a good majority of those present by surprise.

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"Okay hold on a goddamn second." Duncan was the first one to voice his thoughts "There is no way that squirt should be that athletic, if he's turned into a jock then Gwen and Courtney have turned into Katie and Sadie 2.0 It's just wrong!"

(For those who didn't get it, this was done for two reasons: to show that Duncan is smart enough to notice something like Cody being really athletic, and it's a jab at Ed MacDonald's crappy writing in the original canon season)

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Cody glanced up at Brick as they made their way towards the hotel "So you were on the island while it was covered in toxic waste right, was it bad?"

Brick gave a shrug "Well sure it was a lot of things that I had never seen before but I was taught that as long as you stay true to your moral code and keep your eye on your goal, nothing can stop you."

"Sounds like something Adam would say. You know I've actually been through some stuff of my own over the past few months, mainly character building and teaching me to have faith in my own abilities instead of just being Adam's hypeman."

"All of the skills in the world mean nothing if you don't have faith in yourself."

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Scott and Jo continued their way towards the Spa Hotel "Okay listen up sweats, you hate me and I hate you and I think those things are pretty obvious. But here's what I'm thinking, you and I are probably the two strongest contestants out of all of them so I think that we should at least agree to stay out of each other's way until the teams merge. Sound good?"

Jo rolled her eyes "Yeah whatever, but when the merge rolls around it's ever man for themselves."

"Starting with number one, glad we're on the same page." they rolled up to the Spa Hotel.

Jo quickly bolted up to the hotel doors, only for the key to fail to open the door "Dammit it's the wrong key!"

"Why am I not surprised, just get in the damn thing." and then they bolted off back towards the beach.

Brick and Cody arrived not long after, only to run into a problem "That's a negatory on the key, we've gotta head back for another try." and so they quickly took off after Jo and Scott.

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Duncan was growing impatient as he waited for Brick and Cody to return "For the love of god will you two idiots hurry up?!"

"I didn't know you to be so spunky." Adam pointed out.

"I'm not spunky you smartass, but my million from season two isn't gonna last forever so I actually wanna get some extra cash."

"...Courtney made you?"

"Pretty much yeah."

"Figures."

"So what's your reason for coming back?"

"...I've got some personal shit to work through okay?"

"Fine, I can respect that."

"Which reminds me, I know I'm not on your team so I don't really have a say but would it kill you to at least give Alejandro a chance?"

"You're seriously buying into that crap?"

"It's not crap, he really does wanna redeem himself for all the crap that he pulled. Look I'm not gonna give you his whole life story because it's honestly not my place to but I think it's safe to say that I'm a pretty kickass judge of character, just give him a chance and I give you my word that he won't let you down."

"...If I say yes then can we end this conversation?"

"Yep."

"Then fine, I'll think about it. Anyway here comes the squirt, I'm gonna go next. Which reminds me, I'm gonna have some questions for him later on." and then Duncan promptly dove off of the cliff into the waters below.

Adam glanced back at Leshawna "So going back to what I was saying to him-"

"Let me stop you right there sugar." Leshawna held up a hand "Believe it or not I get where he's coming from, keep in mind that I've made my fair share of mistakes on this show too. I'll give him a chance, but keep in mind that if he pulls any crap like that again his ass is grass and I'm gonna mow it."

"...Good enough for me."

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Duncan burst out of the water with a key in hand and leapt into Scott's baby carriage "Now let's roll!" and then they took off.

"Come on let's go!" Cody and Brick quickly returned to the beach "They're still ahead of us, we've gotta pick up the pace!"

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Adam got into a stance "Alright you guys just sit back and enjoy the show." and with a wild battlecry he launched himself.

Mike shared a glance with Zoey "Well, that… happened I guess."

"Do you think he's okay?" asked Zoey.

"Oh he's definitely fine, I just feel bad for the sharks."

"BOOYAKASHA!" with a mighty roar and a massive surge of wind, Adam burst out from the water with his key in his hand and landed on the beach, and then he hopped into Cody's baby carriage and the two of them took off. Not long after they did, Fang and two other sharks landed on the beach with three simultaneous thuds, looking like they got the ever loving crap beaten out of them, which they actually had.

"See what I mean?"

"I feel like he's having way too much fun with this." Bridgette pointed out dryly.

"You've dated the guy for two years and you're just realizing that now?"

"...Yeah okay that's fair, but that's a large part of why I fell in love with him." she gave a small smile.

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Scott was tearing into Duncan (who didn't give a damn) as they made their way towards the Spa Hotel "Alright listen up short pants I'm taking charge of this team, you try and get in my way and I'll make your life a living hell."

Duncan let out a snort "Oh trust me pit stains, if I didn't want to be in charge before then why the hell would I start now? But if you want it then feel free to get your ass kicked trying."

"...Oh. Well good. I'm glad we're clear on that." they reached the Spa Hotel.

Duncan bolted up to the door, only to find that it failed to open it "No go, looks like I picked up a dud."

"Oh well that's just perfect, way to pick the wrong key Dud-can."

"Huh. Not bad."

"...Thanks. Finally, someone who gets a good insult when they hear it!" and then they bolted back to the beach.

Adam leapt up to the door and tried to cram the key in, only to end up accidentally breaking the door down "Uh… oops." and he quickly put the door back up and tried to play it off like nothing happened "Okay so that key didn't work, back we go."

"You really are a master of deception." Cody's tone was laced with sarcasm "And by the way I thought we were trying to be discrete about you know what."

"Hey I didn't do anything to the sharks, I just punched them a few times and then I told them that they could eat Scott."

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Mike was in the middle of stretching "Well I guess I might as well go next, get that one out of the way."

"Oh look there they are!" Zoey pointed to where Adam and Cody were returning to the beach, and then she pecked Mike on the cheek "Call that a way of saying good luck."

Now in a daze and babbling like an idiot, Mike stumbled backwards until he fell off of the cliff and into the water, knocking Anne Maria in along with him.

Anne Maria rose up from the water and found herself face to face with two sharks, and yet she still didn't back down "Oh hell no you two do NOT want a piece of this!" and it only got worse when Fang rose up from the water.

'Okay this could be bad.'

Lucky for both of them that was when a rock hit Fang on the nose, courtesy of Zoey launching it at him "Sorry!" and then she did the same to the other two sharks "Sorry!"

"Thanks Zoey!"

"Sure thing!" Zoey glanced back and noticed several others (Heather, Dawn, Bridgette, Leshawna and Alejandro) looking impressed by her skills, causing her to blush "Well after all the times that he saved me before., I figured that I owe him one."

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Anne Maria leapt into Scott's baby carriage "Get a move on pit stains!"

"You think I don't know that tanorexic?!" and then Scott took off.

Mike bolted out of the water and into Cody's baby carriage "Come on we've gotta go!" and so they took off.

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A few minutes later…

Anne Maria quickly found out that her key wasn't the right one either "Oh for the love of god dammit!"

"Oh for crying out loud." Scott muttered "How hard is it to pick a damn key?! Seriously, even I couldn't screw up this bad if I was TRYING to lose and I've done that before too!"

"Oh piss off pit stains, how about next time you get off your ass and actually jump off of that death trap!" and they started arguing the whole way back to the beach.

Immediately after they left, Mike and Cody arrived at the hotel and Mike rushed up to the door, only to rush back a few seconds later "Well it's back we go I guess." and so they started making their way back.

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"Here goes nothing!" Bridgette was the next one to dive in for the heroes.

"Well it's about time!" Heather promptly dove in after her for the villains, and she was the first one to emerge with a key and bolt into Scott's carriage "So long sucker!" and then the two of them took off.

"I wouldn't be too sure!" with surprising gracefulness, Bridgette leapt out of the water and directly into Cody's waiting carriage, and they both bolted off after the other two.

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A few minutes later…

Scott found herself getting considerably winded from the constant running back and forth across the island "God dammit, I haven't been this tired since my sister dumped those fireants down my pants."

"Less yacking more running, now get a move on!" Heather leapt back into the baby carriage and the two of them took off running.

Cody bolted to a stop in front of the hotel "Go for it Bridgette, Heather and Scott are already ahead of us!"

"I know I know!" Bridgette leapt up to the hotel and tried her key, and then she leapt back into the baby carriage "Back we go."

"Back we go." and then Cody took off once again with surprising speed.

"You know I've gotta admit Cody, you're hanging in there really well."

"Yeah tell me about it, it's been more than two years since we did challenges like this and we've only been getting stronger. I guess that means that we've just got what it takes."

"I can only hope so."

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Mike glanced down to see Cody and Bridgette nearing the beach "I can see Cody and Bridgette coming in hot!" he glanced over to Zoey "Hey good luck out there, not that you're gonna need it."

"Thanks." Zoey kissed him on the cheek again and dove right into the water, leaving Mike to dissolve into a pile of goo while she emerged with the key and took off with Cody, giving the Heroic Hawks the win for the first time in the challenge.

Alejandro let out a sigh as he stepped forward "Well then my teammates, I believe that the time has come for me to do my part." and faster than any of them could track he blitzed out of sight, and before anyone knew it he was down on the beach with a key in hand, and he didn't even look like he was wet "Come amigo, our duty awaits us!" he leapt into Scott's carriage and the two of them took off.

"Hot damn." was all Leshawna could think to say, with everyone else (Adam and Bridgette included) nodding in agreement, a good majority of them appearing to be dumbstruck.

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Adam let out a long whistle "Alejandro told me a few days ago that he had managed to learn a few tricks from his father but holy shit that was downright awesome, I am so punching that later on."

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"That was the wrong key." Zoey leapt back into Cody's baby carriage "Well so much for our lead, now let's hurry before the other team shows up."

"My apologies senorita." that was when Alejandro and Scott showed up "Though you have performed valiently, I'm afraid that this competition has reached its end." he quickly bolted up the stairs and put his key into the lock, which actually managed to open the door… right before it fell to the ground with a very loud thud "Damn you Adam."

"The door is open and Adam has a new bill to pay!" that was when Chris flew onto the scene in his jetpack "The Villainous Vultures win the day!" this was met with a groan of joy from Scott right before he hit the ground with a loud thud from exhaustion, groans of disappointment from both Zoey and Cody, and a simple sigh from Alejandro.

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Nightfall came, and the time for the would be elimination ceremony had arrived.

Chris had gathered everyone, even the Villains team, in the area where the campfire ceremony was to take place "Alright you guys welcome to our first elimination ceremony, and how does our winning team like the new Peanut Gallery over there? Now as an added bonus the winners get to watch the losers give someone the boot before they head over to the Spa Hotel for a deluxe dinner." this was met with clear signs of approval from the Villains "Now before we get started I need one of the Villains to volunteer for a special solo reward."

"I'm calling it." Duncan made his way over to Chris "So what are we talking here?"

"What we're talking is that you get to spend the night in exile on Boney Island with all of the hungry wild animals."

"...Yeah Chris I'm thinking we have different definitions of the word reward."

"I don't think we do because there's a McLean Brand Invincibility Statue hidden somewhere on Boney Island, find it and you've got yourself a Get Out of Elimination Free card good for one use."

"Lead with that next time." and so Duncan left with Chef.

"Now as for the elimination ceremony… there is none!" this left a good majority of the cast gaping at him "Yeah we've got a lot of juicy drama bubbling beneath the surface and I'm gonna milk it as much as I possibly can. You suckers are all safe. From elimination I mean. For now at least." he was met with various groans as he took the chance to sign off of the episode "So who's gonna end up getting flushed off of the island next, barring any spoilers? There's only one way to find out and that's to watch when we return right here on Total! Drama! All Stars!"

A/N:

So yes, this was the first episode of Total Drama All Stars. There will be a few semi surprises, more character development at least for a few characters, and the return of some certain characters that sort of got pushed off to the side like Brick and Dawn.

Just as a refresher, here's the line up for the two teams:

Heroic Hawks: Adam, Brick, Bridgette, Cody, Dawn, Mike and Zoey.

Villainous Vultures: Alejandro, Anne Maria, Leshawna, Duncan, Heather, Jo and Scott.

I really didn't want to put Leshawna on the villain's team, but I don't consider it to be out of Chris's character to f*ck over a contestant like that, or take advantage of even the smallest act of what can be seen as villainy. That, and you've gotta admit that Leshawna has had her fair share of villainous moments of her own throughout the course of the first three seasons. Besides, it was either her or Adam and I can't put him on the villain's team. At least not yet. I do have the team swap later in the season to consider as well. And no, this doesn't mean that I'm going to be torturing Leshawna the same way that they tortured Gwen in canon. Just throwing that out there.

Let me just go ahead and say now that I did NOT want to bring back Anne Maria. The only reason that I did was because I had to even out the generation count since I used both Cameron and Lightning in the Ridonculous Underdogs, hence the reasoning for bringing in Dawn to replace Cameron and with Lightning being replaced by Anne Maria, to my VERY great reluctance.

I was torn on who to bring back as the seventh member of the cast from the first generation that I could put on the villains team. I had initially thought of going with Courtney, then thought of Zeke for being sexist back in season one, then of Trent for his mental breakdown in season two, and initially I decided to go back with Courtney for the sake of Duncan's character arc, which will be a little bit shorter this time and will NOT end with him getting arrested. However, in the end I decided to go with someone that I felt I could have relate to everyone: Leshawna. My initial plan was just for her to have a cameo later on in the season, but I believe that she could be included the most easily and is the most compatible with everyone's character arcs. Plus I got the idea to include her when I was reading chapter 8 of the fic Candy For Your Thoughts by Strix Moonswing, so I have to thank him for that one.

As for Brick's inclusion, I think it goes without saying that he was far more deserving to return for this season than Sam. Plus I can totally see a bromance developing between him and Adam. After all, Adam's desire to protect his friends and Brick's code of never leaving a man behind work well together.

I'm going to at least try to incorporate some cameos from other former contestants of Total Drama in ways similar to how it went in Revenge of the Island, with the first one being Lightning just for the hell of it. Sure it was small, but it was there right?

The main reason I made this episode a reward challenge was because I want to have a three person finale in regards to the three most important characters in this story. Go ahead and guess who they are.

As for Adam's confessional early on, it was actually put in there to make a very serious point: Could he, Cody, Mike, Bridgette and Alejandro wreck everyone there and breeze through the competition with ease? Well yes obviously, but then there wouldn't be any excitement or suspense, and frankly it wouldn't be fair, so I'm not having any of them use their powers during the challenges if there is no need for them to. That and what he said in the first part was true too, doing classic competitos vs newbie (Revenge of the Island) competitors would be way too predictable.

Cameo: Lightning