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?

3. Evil Dread

(Chapter Title: Evil Dread)

In the typical fashion of Total Drama, Chris started off the episode with a recap, doing so on the Dock of Shame next to a large object covered by a tarp "Last time on the premiere episode of Total Drama All Stars: I welcomed the All Stars, such as they are, to the newly decontaminated island of Camp Wawanakwa. And then it become a battle of Heroes vs Villains diving into water infested with sharks in search of the one key that would unlock the doot to the all new and enviornmentally friend, as required by law, McLean Spa Hotel for winners only! With a surprisingly sappy apology from Alejandro, we learned that he's got a whole new game plan for this season, and as far as I'm concerned, it SUCKS! Anyway while Alejandro may not hold the key to the hearts of our former classic competitors anymore, he did hold they key to the Spa Hotel along with victory for the Villainous Vultures. As for the Heroic Hamsters, rather than have them send one of their own home I decided to be merciful, at least that's what it's supposed to look like to them, and let them lick their wounds for the night. A one time deal by the way so don't get used to it. So who's gonna be the first All Star to feel the flushing shame of defat and humiliation? Barring any spoilers by the way Find out right here and right now on Total! Drama! All Stars!"

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(And starting a new trend, once again here's my version of the full 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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The night was calm throughout the island of Wawanakwa, and everyone was fast asleep.

That is to say, everyone except for Adam, seeing how he was down on the beach throwing a volley of punches and kickes in the direction of Lake Wawanakwa 'I can sense it, a storm is coming the likes of which these people have never seen.'

"I can tell that you feel lost." that was when Chef came up next to him "You've grown a hell of a lot stronger over the past few years and you've gone above and beyond for the sake of your own personal goals, but you still have doubts about your own strength which leaves you stuck in a rut which only adds frustration to your doubt. You're hesitating when you throw punches and kicks and that's enough for me to be able to tell all of this about you."

"...I don't know if you actually know this but there's a lot of dangerous things out there that make my fight with M'Baku look like a cakewalk, and they're coming for one thing and one thing only: Me. There's a storm on the rise the likes of which this world has never seen, and I'm the only one who can stop it."

"You're pretty serious about this. Well all I can and will say is… Quit acting like such a goddamn wuss."

"And what exactly is that supposed to mean?"

"Exactly what I said. Do you think that if you just stand here brooding like that these things are gonna stop coming? Someone else has gotta do it, I know that your girl and the scrawny geek are probably gonna do something stupid with someone else taking the charge if you're not there for them. They're gonna face the same riskes and some of them might not make it, some that you might be able to save or maybe not. But either way…"

"Either way I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't at least try. You know I've really gotta give it to you Chef, tsundere or not you really know what to say."

"Whatever." and then Chef just walked away, but not without giving him a subtle wave as he did so.

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Morning came, and the sun was just beginning to rise over the skies of Wawanakwa, both the camp and the lake, and everyone was still peacefully asleep.

Well everyone except Mike that is, and that is to say that his sleep was anything but peaceful, seeing how his four other personalities talking to each other through his body, the first of which being Chester "There's a storm a coming dangnabbit!" and then Svetlana "I'm scared, after all of these years he's going to return and cause unspeakable pain and suffering!" and then Vito "Hey yo that's what he does best, now what the heck are we gonna do about this goombah?" and then the conversation was promptly ended by Manitoba Smith "Hush it mates, Mike is waking up right about now." and then Mike woke up, back in control "Wha, what's going on?" he glanced over at the other side of the male side of the cabin.

Cody was still fast asleep with a little bit of drool falling onto his pillow "Oh yeah Gwen, I love it when you pull out the canola oil…"

Mike just gave a shrug and went back to sleep, for about ten seconds before Brick's alarm clock started blaring causing him to bolt upwards and hit his head.

"No Gwen I told you that Adam is the one who likes the whip!" Cody bolted out of bed only to fall to the ground like an idiot.

"Oh joy, this again…"

Yeah as it turns out, Brick had just summersaulted out of bed and then proceeded to silence the death machine from hell- I mean his alarm clock "Rise and shine soldiers, time for a brand new day!"

"Listen Brick it's awesome that we're on the same team again but is the early morning wakeup call really necessary?"

"I'm just trying to be punctual like always soldier, as your team captain it's my responsibility to make sure that the two of you are aleart and ready for anything. Now if you'll excuse me, it's time for my morning 5k!" and then he bolted out the door.

"Maybe coming back to Total Drama wasn't the best idea after all."

"ROOM SERVICE SUCKERS!" that was when a bag of gruel burst through the door and hit them dead on, courtesy of Chef as he poked his head through the hole in the door "Here's BREAKFAST!" and then he took off.

"7/10 on the reference Chef!" Mike let out a sigh "Yeah coming back was definitely a really bad idea."

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At the same time, Zoey and Bridgette were just busy talking about their own stuff "So you mean that Adam just charged at the Zing Zings guns blazing?"

Bridgette let out a giggle "Well it's not like Adam has ever been known for restraint, I swear sometimes it's like he's trying to make us think that he's insane. Mike is probably the only person that never gets surprised by him."

"Mike doesn't seem surprised by a lot of stuff, and he's probably the only person that knows how to calm Adam down when he gets way too into something."

"I guess that's just proof of why those two are so good together."

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Brick made his way to the sight of the campfire ceremony, where he found Dawn in the middle of meditating "Good morning fellow teammate, need any assistance?"

Dawn opened his eyes and glanced over at him "You don't have to apologize to me over what happened last season, I bare no ill will towards you over Scott's actions."

"Well maybe but- Wait a second who told you that?"

"I can see it right there in your aura, as well as your shame over being teased a great deal as a child, your struggles with your bladder control and your former desire to be dominated, the last two having been significantly improved upon since our last encounter."

"...Yes, well anywawy I still do want to apologize for what happened. I know Scott was the one who lied about that but I should've been a better judge of character and been able to see through that deception. If my own team can't trust me to have their backs then how could I call myself a team captain?"

"You had a difficult childhood Brick, as did others on this island." Dawn put a gentle hand on his shoulder "The difference between you and them is that they managed to push past it and grow stronger as a result. The pain that you felt does go away, but before anything else you have to accept that it's there."

"I… I guess you're right."

"Hey guys." that was when Adam jogged up to them "What are you up to Captain?"

"Just got through my morning 5k run and taking care of something that I should've taken care of last season, I'm guessing that you did a 10k right?"

"3k actually, I don't want to waste anymore energy than I have to before we get to any of the good shit but it still gets the blood pumping."

"...Huh. Not a bad idea actually."

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Meanwhile, in the Spa Hotel…

"Oh I am so digging this!" at the same time, Scott and the other villains were in the middle of enjoying breakfast "I can't wait to be a millionair after I win this season, I got up at 5 AM this morning to watch the releasing of the doves and I'm not ashamed to say that it was totally beautiful!"

"Oh yeah I know what you mean." Anne Maria leaned back in her own chair "This is definitely the life, and if we keep winning challenges like we did yesterday then we can chill like kings and queens all season."

"Oh you said it, to villainy!" the two of them did a toast.

"Yeah, villainy." Leshawna just let out a sigh.

"What's up with you dollface?"

"First of all never call me that again, second of all I think it's clear that I'm not a villain like you guys. Seriously I'd rather be stuck on Boney Island in Duncan's place, if it wasn't for the fact that this place is awesome!"

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At the same time, Duncan was still on Boney Island carving D+C with a heart around it into a rock on the shore "It's times like this I'm glad no one has the balls to come here, well no one except for maybe Adam." he frowned in thought 'He and the scrawny geek are definitely hiding something, the same with Alejandro too. I guess all I can do right now is bide my time and see if I can find out anything else.

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By this point, Jo had joined the others, along with Alejandro, at breakfast "Well I don't know about you guys but I just hope that Duncan doesn't find the Invincibility Statue, you guys know as well as I do how tough he is so we'd better take the next chance that we get and vote him off soon or he'll be too strong for us to beat later on in the game."

Scott actually seemed to be pondering this "So maybe we should try and do that right away, we could throw the next challenge and then send Duncan packing."

"Say what now?!" Anne Maria promptly rounded on him, with Leshawna pretty much doing the same, only a lot more up in Scott's face about it, and because Anne Maria was barking at him it caused bits of food spray in Alejandro's face "You expect me to give up on all this crap, no way in Hell! You know what I found in the bathroom, hairspray that's water and fire proof!"

"Well either way this is sweet, you know what I slept on last night? A pillow filled with actual feathers! Back on the farm all I have is a burlap sack filled with small animals, have you ever had a pillow bite your face?"

"No but I do have an older brother that has a vicious streak of cruelty and a wide knowledge of animals." Alejandro told him without looking up from his breakfast, receiving several odd looks from everyone else present "What?"

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Heather let out a loud scoff "Oh please, his whole thing about apparently being remorseful is obviously bogus. All he wants is to get some sympathy points with everyone but here's a reality check, I am not falling for him- It! Not falling for it, that's what I said the entire time!" and then she started grabbing at the camera "I want that tape back, give me the tape! How the hell do you open this thing?"

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Alejandro let out a sigh "I have never found Heather to be more radiant, what with her glossy locks, her perma-frown, the way that the hair on her upper lip catches the light when she yells at me. Yes I'm aware of how that sounds, I've been through a great deal over the past two years or so and I've seen things that can scar most men. Or at least give them some brain damage on some level. I am no exception."

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"Attention victims- I mean campers, it's that time we've all been waiting for! Yeah that's right people, it's challenge time! Get your butts down to the beach pronto!"

"And thus the moment of truth looms ever closer." Alejandro stood up and walked away without so much as another word, leaving the others to follow after him.

Heather just rolled her eyes "Looks like someone is desperate for attention, and I thought was pathetic in season three."

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It was only a matter of moments before all of the contestants, with the exception of Duncan for obvious reasons, had gathered on the beach, separated on opposite sides by a line down the middle made up of rocks.

Chris on the other hand was doing the thing he loved most, looking down on everyone from a position very high up in order to boost his ego "God I love looking down on people, it really does complete me." he glanced over to see that Brick and Dawn had locked eyes, and he gained a few mischevious thoughts "TV couples, the perfect source of never ending manipulation."

That was when the Boat of Losers pulled up onto the beach, with Duncan stepping off from the back looking surprisingly beat up "Not gonna admit to anything, if you have questions about this then shove them up your-"

"Family show dude, moving on! Anyway bonjour mes campers, some of you may recall our finding and building a statue challenge from our time in Paris during season three."

"Yeah and I'm pretty sure that you still owe Noah a shoe, not to mention a new pair of shorts that don't have a hole burnt through the crotch." Adam pointed out.

"Well this time I've had the interns buried 3d puzzle pieces with there being seven pieces per team, find all of the pieces on your side and assemble them on your platform ino order to recreate one of the landmarks that we had visited on our World Tour. The first team to finish wins the challenge and gets to stay in the Spa Hotel for the night. Also, since the Villainous Vultures won the challenge from yesterday they get to use shoves in order to dig for their puzzle pieces." he motioned for Chef to throw them the shovels to the Villains side, one of them landing in Anne Maria's hair, not that she actually noticed, Leshawna, Jo, Duncan and Alejandro all catching theirs, and Scott's hitting him in the face.

"Which means that we've gotta dig the old fashioned way, which actually works for me all things considered, so bombs away assholes!" Adam leapt right off of the platform, only for the ground beneath his feet to suddenly give way and for him to fall into a moat "F*ck!"

"Oh and by the way, getting on and off of your platforms will be challenging due to the moats we stuck around them, and they're also filled with-"

"Oh for the love of hell you just had to stick crabs down here didn't you McLean? Well the jokes on you, I've got the butter!" this was followed by a massive flame shooting into the air and raining down on the moat, turning most of it, if not all of it, into glass.

"I don't know why, but it gets funnier every time."

"Well what the hell are we waiting for? I'm getting back into that Spa Hotel even if it kills me, as long as it doesn't kill my looks." so Anne Maria leapt over the moat and down onto the beach, only for a board to spring up and hit her in the face, sending her down into the crab infested pit as a result "Ha joke's on you, your stupid pinchers have got nothing on my hair!"

"Oh yeah that reminds me, you might wanna watch out for booby traps in the sand."

"So what are we supposed to dig with?" asked Mike.

"Sorry but shovels are for winners only so I guess you guys are gonna have to dig the old fashioned way. Anyway, your challenge starts… NOW!" he blew on an airhorn.

Brick huddled all of the other Heroes, as well as Adam after dragging him out of the moat once he finished eating a few roasted crabs, much to the confusion of him and Zoey, but not any of the others "Here's what I'm thinking team, we should divide our section of the beach into 7 different sections and we each dig from one. Any objections?" he received no objections "Great, now let's get to work. Go team!" he placed his hand in the center.

"Works for me, now let's wreck some shit." Adam placed his own hand in, with Mike and the others all doing the same.

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Brick frowned in thought "Don't get me wrong, Adam's proven himself to be worthy of respect with the way he's performed in World Tour and up until now, but the more time I spend around him the more I realize that he's a bit… wild and reckless. Maybe it's just one of those things where it's about the heat of the moment. Oh well, as captain I need to have faith in my teammates. I've made that mistake before last season and I'm the kind of person who learns from his mistakes."

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At the same time, Jo was barking orders at the rest of the members of the Villains team "We need to use strategy people, STRA-TE-GY! We should start from one end and then dig to the other end in a straight line!"

"How stupid can you be?" Heather promptly rounded on her "What if all of the pieces are hidden at the far end huh? What we need is two lines that push in towards the center right guys, who's with me?"

"Here's what we need." without even batting an eye, Leshawna proceeded to pick up Heather and Jo and throw both of them into Lake Wawanakwa "Now here's a thought, who here just wants to ignore them and dig however the hell they want?" she received raised hands from the likes of Duncan, Alejandro and Scott, and a finger from Anne Maria "That's about what I had expected, now let's do this!"

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At the same time, Adam was digging in his section of the beach, only to find a bag of dirty clothes explode in front of him "And for the second time today alone, f*ck!"

Chris let out a cackle "Looks like someone found Chef's dirty laundry." he was promptly hit in the face with a shoe "Ow…"

"Joke's on you McLean, I know how to adapt." Adam made his way over to Mike with a phedora in his hand and promptly placed it on his head "Since we're playing this one old school I think our old mate Manitoba Smith could give us a hand right about now."

"Way ahead of you mate." so now that he was in control of Mike's body, Manitoba Smith then proceeded to dive into the sand and rose up seconds later with a piece of the Heroic Hawks' statue in hand "G'Day beauty, that be 1 down and 6 to go." he tossed the piece onto the platform and sat down next to where Zoey was digging "Well what the hell do you know, it looks to me like the real treasure is right here beside me. Wink wink." and yes, he both said and did that last part.

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(Meanwhile, on the disfunctional team, AKA the Villains team…)

Now that they had dragged themselves out of the lake and they were still mad as hell at each other and at Leshawna, Heather and Jo were still going at it "Fine how about this, we'll work in a circular motion towards the center."

"Not a chance in hell!" Jo let out a scoff "We should start with the corners and then move to the center and zig zag."

"Do you hear yourself?"

"Oh yes, our sense of camraderie rivals that of Fairy Tail." Alejandro muttered, earning odd looks from Duncan and Leshawna "What? Adam showed it to me, I must admit that it is quite well done."

"Weird anime crap aside he's right and you know it, a team without a leader is like a horse without a head! It just runs around blind!"

"I'm fairly certain that a horse without a head would not run anywhere."

"Oh for-"

"Hey lay off him, he's saying what I like to hear." Jo pointed out "And that's exactly why I should be the leader of this team."

"When hell freezes over, if anyone should lead it's me!"

"Well how about we let the team decide that?"

"Fine by me."

"Hey Scott get over here!"

"Duncan!"

"No." Duncan didn't even look up from where he was digging.

"You didn't even-"

"Don't care, piss off."

"...F*ck you."

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Duncan found himself uncharacteristically slamming his head against the camera "Every single thing! They say to me! Is pissing me off!" he stopped for a moment and let out a sigh "Well at least they're as bad as it gets being on this team. Leshawna knows how to make people shut the f*ck up so that's good, Scott could be worse, and believe it or not La Cucaracha hasn't been that bad. Maybe he does want to change. Still though I can't shake the feeling that he's hiding something, the same with Adam, Cody and Bridgette. Maybe Mike too but I'm thinking about other stuff involving him right now, I'll get to that later though."

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And now Jo and Heather were still attempting to claim domination over the team "Attention team, I am your leader!"

"No, I am your leader!" Heather slammed her shovel into the sand for emphasis, only to end up finding herself with one of the pieces that they needed "And my finding of a piece further proves why I am more suitable to be your leader." she lifted it up and started carrying it over to the platform.

"Oh hell no, you never would've found it without me!" Jo tried to snatch the piece from Heather and started tugging on it.

Heather quickly got one of the last laughs in when she dropped the piece on Jo's foot "Oops, sorry about that. Not really." and then as a form of Karma she got shoved by Jo into the moat infested with crabs.

Chef glanced down the unconscious form of Chris (because Adam threw a shoe at him earlier) and took the chance to temporarily sign off of the episode "Two booby traps, two puzzle pieces and two moats filled with crabs, one of which has been partially devoured by Adam in a super bizarre way. It's still anyone's game and now it's time to bring the pain when Chris regains consciousness right here on Total! Drama! All Stars! God dammit I've always wanted to do that."

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Soon enough, an hour had passed, and Chris had regained consciousness, albeit with what looked like a pretty serious migrane "About two hours have passed since today's challenge began and our two teams are still tied at one all which raises a very pertanent question that just has to be asked… WHAT THE HELL IS TAKING SO LONG?!" he received several jumbled yells from down on the beach "Oh blah blah blah, whine whine whine, other stuff I really couldn't care less about! Will you peons just hurry the hell up, I have dinner plans!"

"Yeah yeah don't get your panties in a bunch-" Anne Maria was cut off when she ended up triggering a hidden spring platform that launched her into the air, causing her to hit the ground with a loud clanging noise (due to her hair), but lucky for her she did manage to find "Oh yeah, bada bing baby!" she tossed it onto their platform.

"And that makes two for the villains! What do you know, Anne Maria actually did something useful."

"Bite me!"

"I'd rather not."

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At the same time, Manitoba Smith made his way over to where Zoey was struggling with digging out a piece "That's alright sweetheart, there's no need to strain yourself. Just go right ahead and allow me." he started tugging on it.

Zoey was actually slightly touched by this "Well if you insist I guess."

"Well I've gotta give Mike credit for one thing, he's got good taste-" he suddenly ducked underneath a cannon that popped up out of nowhere, which sent Anne Maria flying into their moat.

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On the other side, Leshawna yanked a piece of their puzzle out of the sand "And add one to the list of the Leshawna." she quickly ducked when another trap almost threw sand in her face "I guess that makes that two then." she nearly tripped but found another piece hidden beneath the sand "Three it is then, everything is coming up Leshawna!"

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Brick quickly dug up another piece of the Hawks' puzzle "And the captain delivers for the sake of the-" he promptly got hit with a wooden pole rising up out of the ground, hitting him in the crotch "Pain… so much pain…" he fell to the ground with a thud, but he suddenly managed to dig up another piece "Well it's like my mom always says, in every cloud there's always a silver lining."

Manitoba Smith on the other hand had found the fifth piece for the Hawks in an attempt to impress Zoey "And that makes five right there, it's just like taking vegemite from a roo. You know I could show you how one of these days, if you want that is."

Zoey found herself blushing "Uh no thanks, with Mike maybe." and then she walked off in search of the final piece.

"Yeah she's definitely a loyal one. You've gotta give it to Mike, he definitely knows how to pick them." he glanced over and frowned as he saw something "And just what do we have here now eh?"

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At the same time, Scott was up to one of his old tricks, in which he snuck over to the Heroes' side, found one of their pieces, snuck it back over to the Villains' side, and then proceeded to bury it 'That'll teach them to laugh at me for getting mauled by the shark from Hell, just one step at a time until that million belongs to me.'

Unfortunately for him, it turns out that Manitoba Smith had noticed him "And just what the hell are you up to Kookaburra?"

"Whatever do you mean?"

"What I mean is this." faster than anyone except for Adam could see, Manitoba Smith proceeded to slug Scott right in the face, sending him flying through the air and off of the island in a comedic fashion "That's one thing down." he knelt down and licked a little bit of the sand, and then he dug it up to reveal the hidden piece "Nice try you wily dingo-" he was cut off when the same cannon from before suddenly struck him in the back of the skull while his back was turned, sending him crashing to the ground in a heap.

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Svetlana placed down her hand of cards "And that would be go with the fishing!"

"Ayo it's go fish not fishing." Vito on the other hand was growing impatient "When the heck is he gonna yank off his shirt already, Anne Maria is out there working up a sweat that's just ripe for the Vito!"

"Dang nabbit kids with spray on tans." Chester muttered "Back in my day you had to buy a lady a sarsaparilla if ya wanted to smooch her!"

"What the heck does that even mean?" this was followed by Manitoba Smith landing back inside of Mike's mind with a very loud thud.

"Oh that can't be good."

"You got that right mate, you feel that now don't you?" Manitoba Smith pulled himself back to his feet "It's the Dark One, he's about to come for us." this was met with screams of pure terror as a nearby picture of Mike suddenly burned away to reveal a shadowy silhouette with his hair covering one of his eyes, a malicious smirk plastered across his face "Looks like we're in the Endgame now."

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Deep within the recesses of Mike's mind, within a sinister looking tower sat a lone figure with dark rings around his eyes, a bang covering the left side of his face and one of his eyes, bound by chains from every direction. His eyes snapped open as all of the chains shattered except for he ones binding his arms and his legs 'I guess he finally took a serious enough blow to the head then, which means that Sordibus is about to make his grand return. I hope you and Mike are ready Adam, because you're about to be in for the fight of your lives. That's a Mal style guarantee.'

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"Mike! Mike come on, please be okay! Mike wake up!"

Mike slowly opened his eyes and found Zoey, Adam and the rest of the Heroes all looming over him "Ow… what happened to me?"

"You took a cannonball to the back of the head." Adam told him flatly "Leave it to McLean to play dirty like that."

"Yeah I guess, but I'm okay now so don't worry. Come on, I don't wanna have to send someone home." he pulled himself back to his feet and put his phedora back on, only to soon find a problem "Huh that's weird, I can't find Manitoba."

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Dawn on the other hand was practically shaking in fear "I cannot help but fear for the safety of the others, they have no idea the amount of pure evil, chaos and destruction that has been unleashed!"

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Bridgette kept on digging until he hit something "Looks like I just found the final piece of this puzzle, literally!"

"Hey Maid of Honor what's up?" that was when Izzy suddenly popped up carrying Zeke in her arms.

"Oh hey guys. Quick question, why exactly did you guys up on an island in Muskoka on reality TV?"

"Oh see after our wedding last month we've been living underground amongst all of the mutant gophers."

"And they didn't try to maul your faces off or turn you into hideous abominations like pretty much every intern from last season?"

"Oh see when they're not all snarly and trying to eat you they're actually really civilized and cultured." Zeke told him "Did you know that they've set up a whole mutant gopher utopia down there? It's like some kind of futuristic thing down there."

"Huh. Cool."

That was when a helicopter suddenly descended onto the scene "Izzy we know you and your husband are down there, you're under arrest for good this time!"

"Oh no, Izzy what did you do?"

"I might have blown up a small Malasian island. Welp Bridge this has been fun but we've gotta jet. Oh and before I forget." Izzy suddenly yanked the last piece out of the ground and handed it to her "That's supposed to be the Statue of Liberty, so good luck with all of that. YOU'LL NEVER GET US ALIVE YOU SONS OF BITCHES!" and then she suddenly slung Zeke over her shoulder and ran off into the forest.

"...Huh. Well that happened I guess. Anyway… hey you guys I found the last piece!" she quickly rushed over to the platform.

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Duncan let out a nostalgiac sigh as he kept on digging "Yeah that's the good thing about the walking timebomb that is Izzy, even when she's gone you can still smell the excess crazy that she left behind." he hit something with his shovel and dug it up a little bit more to reveal the final piece of their puzzle "A clock hand and what looks like a tower? Hey guys we've got ourselves a Big Ben!" he and the other villains rushed over and began building it, only for him to glance over and notice that Bridgette and the other heroes building what their Statue of Liberty "Crap this is gonna be close!"

"No it's not!" Bridgette suddenly slammed the torch onto the hand of the Statue of Liberty, completing the statue.

Chris made the call "And the Heroic Hawks take the win for the day!"

"Oh hells to the yeah!" Adam spun Bridgette around in a hug, leaving all of the villains, with the exception of Alejandro to groan, until the moment was ruined by Chris.

"You know I do require one of you for exile duty on Boney Island."

"I'll take you up on that offer." Brick stepped forward "I can't ask any of my teammates to go through that kind of torment, and besides a place like that might help me with my fear of the dark."

"Fine by me, let's get moving maggot." Chef promptly grabbed him by the back of his shirt and hauled him into the Boat of Losers, and then they took off towards Boney Island, leaving everyone else to make their way back.

Adam and Alejandro stayed behind for a moment just as Anne Maria had stopped to apply some hair spray "So it looks to me like you've been in better spirits since this season started, did someone finally get their mojo back?"

Alejandro let out a sigh "I don't know if I would go that far, I can still sense the hostility that they hold towards me at the moment."

"Well yeah I can get why Duncan and Leshawna are still pissed at you even though I asked them to just give you a chance but still, it's nothing that can't be fixed. You've just gotta give them time. And besides, we both know that you're not a villain. You just made a few bad choices in the heat of the moment, that can happen to anyone. Look at me, I might end up trying to kill my best friend. Seriously though, just because someone makes a few bad choices doesn't make them a bad person. What matters is what they do in order to get back on the right path, and in that regard I say that you've taken every right step there is, including pulling my ass straight out of the fire."

"...You really do have a way with words sometimes Adam, Carlos really did teach you as well as one can be taught-" Alejandro accidentally stepped on another hidden booby trap, sending a garbage bag flying into the air, which he kicked away on instinct, which sent it crashing straight into Anne Maria "Uh…" she walked away before he could say anything, but not without flipping him off "Senorita wait, that was just an accident, I didn't mean-"

"Oh Alejandro my boy." Chris started clapping sarcastically "Dear handsome, evil and all of the above Alejandro, you're definitely on the right team."

"Maybe but that doesn't mean that I am!" Adam promptly hurled another boot at Chris, once again knocking him out cold before walking off nonchalantly.

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Nightfall came, and the time for the elimination ceremony had begun.

Chris made his way over to where Adam and the rest of the Heroes were sitting in the new Peanut Gallery "Welcome Heroic Hawks and Adam, feel free to sit back and enjoy the show that you're about to witness. As for the Villainous Vultures, now it's time for you to vote off your first villain and the first contestant of the season. This year you guys get to vote by placing a gigantic X on the 8 x 10 photo of the person that you want to send home. Now get to voting already."

What almost no one noticed was that Mike's appearance had suddenly changed, his hair covering one of his eyes, which had now turned blood red, black rings appearing around his eyes, a sadistic and malicious smirk plastered across his face, confirming that Sorbidus had briefly taken control of Mike's body "One by one, all of those who stand in the way of my goal will fall until I at last eliminate he who I was born to kill."

"Hey Mike did you say something?" Zoey glanced over at him, which prompted Sorbidus to switch control back over to Mike in order to avoid suspicion, leaving Mike completely oblivious

"What, no I'm just sitting here. Why?"

"I thought I heard you say something."

"Nope."

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Adam took several deep breaths in order to keep himself composed "Oh trust me, the one who said that was definitely not Mike. I know you're out there, you know you're out there, the others don't need to know. So let me make this clear to you, because I'm only gonna say this once and only once. You came here for me and I came here for you, if you wanna fight me then I'll come at you with everything I've got but you keep the others out of it. Are they strong enough to hold a candle to you, yes but the grudge that we bare is between us and us alone."

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Anne Maria started scribbling all over a picture of Alejandro "Nobody of NOBODY messes with my hair."

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Duncan frowned in thought "I still owe Alejandro some payback for the crap he did but then again, Anne Maria is really annoying. Tough call."

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Leshawna gave a shrug "What can I say, they all suck. Tough call."

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Soon enough, Chris had the votes in one hand and a plate of marshmellows in the other hand for the ones who were safe "Okay then, the following players are safe for now." he started throwing them to the ones whose names he had called "Scott. Duncan. Heather. Leshawna. Jo. Now then, two players left but only one marshmallow. Alejandro, you're on the chopping block for hurling a garbage bag at one of your teammates."

"Si." Alejandro let out a sigh 'Keep it together Alejandro, trying to justify your actions is only adding fuel to the fire.'

"And Anne Maria, you're on the chopping block because you're insanely annoying with all of your whining and hairspray crap. And the loser for tonight is…" he paused, and then pulled out the picture of the one who had been eliminated "Anne Maria!" he quickly tossed the final marshmalloe to Alejandro.

"You know what, f*ck this!" Anne Maria bolted to her feet "Who the hell needs a million bucks when you already look like a million bucks! Hairspray be damned, it ain't worth putting up with you people! Just stick me in the damn capatulpt and get it over with!"

"Actually this season we have a whole new method of elimination."

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3 ½ minutes later…

Chris and Chef had soon stuck Anne Maria inside of their newest method of elimination, which had disgusted all of the others "Behold, the Flush of Shame! Patent pending."

Anne Maria let out a groan "Yeah whatever, let's just get this done already. The hotel hairspray is only good for another hour or so."

"Oh yeah I forgot to mention that." he let out a snicker "As it turns out the water and fire proof hairspray has a few… side effects."

"...What?"

"Yeah as it turns out the mutant gophers love the stuff and it attracts them like a lion is attracted to a gazelle." this was followed by two mutant gophers charging at Anne Maria and then going down the Flush of Shame with her as she got flushed "Should I feel bad? Probably. Do I feel bad? I might if it wasn't so funny. So which contestant is in line for a porcelain goodbye Flush of Shame style? The only way to find out is to tune in next time right here on Total! Drama! All Stars!"

A/N:

And thus the dark one's rise to the top begins at last. Mal has been freed from his imprisonment and Sordibus is using the connection between him and Mal, which he had never actually severed, in order to take over Mike's mind, so the long awaited war between Sordibus and Adam is about to begin. The only difference here is that Mal isn't a bad guy, he's just trying to be subtle in his attempts to sabotage Sordibus and make sure that things run smoothly, at least to an extent.

I said it before and I'll say it again, I REALLY did not want to bring Anne Maria back in this fic and I only did it because I felt like I had to balance out the generation count. I basically added her in as fodder and a replacement for Lightning since he and Cameron were in the Ridonculous Race.

So yeah, no no Alejandro being stuffed into the Drama Machine means no screwing with Heather by pretending that his legs are asleep. It was funny, at least in my opinion, sure but it wouldn't work here.

Mike, or Manitoba Smith in this case, punching Scott across the world until he ends up getting embedded in the side of Mount Chrismore.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that Adam and Brick are pretty similar characters with their codes of honor and how much they value their friends and teammates, and I thought having Adam act as sort of a mentor to Brick would be a cool idea to incorporate into the story, and it will have an impact on Adam's own character development later on.

I don't know about anyone else, but I personally ship Brick x Dawn. Say whatever you want about it, it's better than Dawn x Scott. I seriously have no idea where the hell THAT pairing came from.

Izzy's cameo (with Zeke included to show them on what they consider their honeymoon) is sort of a callback to Total Drama Island episode 8 when she almost got arrested by the RCMP, along with a small Johnny Test reference in there too just for fun.

Cameos: Izzy and Zeke

Elimination Order:

Anne Maria: 14th