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?

4. Saving Private Leechball

In the typical Total Drama fashion, Chris started off the newest episode with a recap of the previous one "Last time on Total Drama All Stars: Our 14 heroic and villainous All Stars went digging for buried treasure and ended up uncovering a few nasty surprises here and there courtesy of myself. Scott took the chance to villain it up big time in an attempt to sabotage the heroes and when he got caught by one of Mike's other personalities he got the punishment that he deserved. No seriously, he actually got punched off of the island and now we don't know where he is." this was followed by Scott suddenly crashing through the Dock of Shame next to him with a very loud crash "Well that answers that. Anyway thanks to some quick action from our own surfer girl Bridgette the Heroic Hawks won the day and it was Anne Maria who took the first flush of the season, in a rather gruesome manner too. 13 competitors remain in the game at the moment, which one of them will ride the sewer system next? Find out right here, right now on Total! Drama! All Stars!

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(And keeping up with the new trend, once again here's my version of the full intro for the season)

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 over the skies of Wawanakwa.

Duncan and Scott settling down for the night in the male section of the Loser Cabin "Well that's just great, I so wanted to be reminded of how much these craptacular cabins suck. Well with any luck it'll be."

Scott on the other hand was whining about, well, pretty much everything "I miss being in the Spa Hotel, now that I know how rich people live everything I used to love sucks!" and then the bunk bed collapsed on him, leaving a spring stuck in his eye "Lousy discount piece of shit!" and then he got nails stuck in his hand when he punched it.

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Duncan gave a simple shrug "Scott could be a lot worse, at least with him you know what you're getting. Which is crap to begin with, but still it's good to know. As for Alejandro, I think it goes without saying that I hate the guy for the crap he pulled back in season three. I don't know where he is right now and frankly I don't care, the guy took off about an hour ago and he hasn't come back."

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Meanwhile, on the female side…

Even after the challenge was over, Heather and Jo were still arguing "Thanks again for blowing the challenge today Jo."

"Me?" Jo let out a scoff "You're the one who wasted time arguing with my instead of just following my orders."

"I wouldn't have had to argue if everyone just did what I told them to do, it's obvious that I know what's best! I'm the one with the most experience on this team!"

"Just like I'm the one who has the most experience with doing this!" finally fed up with their arguing, Leshawna slung Heather over her shoulder and then proceeded to throw her out the door, slammed it shut and locked it, gave Jo a high five and then proceeded to punch her lights out "Maybe if you bothered to pull your head out of your ass and work with the rest of us like a team instead of thinking that you're better than everyone else then this wouldn't be a problem in the long run!" and then she called it a night.

"Ow…"

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Leshawna let out a sigh "Well can you blame me? I've been putting up with Heather since season one, and now we've got sweat pants to deal with? A girl can only take so much before she says "F*ck it" and then just starts throwing people around like the Hulk from the 2012 Avengers movie."

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Adam and Alejandro stood down on the beach side by side, gazing out at the vast magnificence that was Lake Wawanakwa "I can sense that we're gonna have a huge fight on our hands in just a matter of days and I think it's safe to say that we've done all of the training that we possibly could for it. But that being said, it would be a really bad idea to go charging in head first into a fight if we didn't test what we were capable of. There's only one thing that we can do about that, and I think you know damn well what that is."

Alejandro nodded "Yes I do, so when will we do it?"

"I'm thinking tomorrow at noon."

"Sounds like a sound plan then."

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Meanwhile, in the Spa Hotel with the rest of the Heroic Hawks…

Cody leaned back on one of the beds and let out a content sigh "Now this is what I'm talking about, I haven't been in a place since the last tour I went on with the Drama Brothers a few months back."

Mike let out a sigh "Yeah, it's just great…"

"What's the matter?"

"It's… It's nothing, I'm just kind of concerned about Brick. Looking at his duffle bag and his empty bed I just feel guilty letting him go on his own to Boney Island like that, I hope he's okay over there."

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(Meanwhile, on Boney Island…)

Brick found himself stuck high up in a tree surrounded by a large number of bears, blindfolded and sitting on a branch "Note to self, thank Dawn for giving me the suggestion to blindfold myself in order to conquer my fear of the dark. Now what was it that Owen said back in season 1 during the paintball challenge? The naturalist must be one with nature and all of its woodland creatures big or small, just like these creatures down here. And now nature, come at me with everything you've got!" he leapt out of the tree branch.

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Morning came, and the sun was just rising over the skies of Wawanakwa as the Heroic Hawks enjoyed what they were referring to as the Breakfast of Champions. Literally.

Dawn was enjoying a large plate of pancakes "Oh my, I must say that I have never experienced a delightful sensation of fluffy goodness."

Bridgette was enjoying a nice bowl of fruit for breakfast "It's hard to believe that Chris would go out of his way for us like this."

"Knowing him he's probably either got some seriously f*cked up alterior motive or he's being forced to do it by the producers." Adam didn't even look up from where he was stuffing a banana into his pocket, receiving odd looks "What? I'm doing it for Brick, the guy needs nourishment after spending a night on Boney Island."

"Oh yeah good idea." Bridgette stuffed an apple into the pocket of her hoodie "You know you can be so sweet Adam, wild and reckless but still so sweet."

"That's part of the Anderson charm Bridge." he and Cody high fived without even looking at each other.

Zoey let out a giggle "I guess Adam and Mike rub off on each other, the only difference with that is that Mike isn't super fight happy."

"And Mike hasn't gone into cardiac arrest for 17 seconds and been locked in a freezer because of your Commando Zoey persona."

"I said I was sorry!"

"Believe it or not that was the one time you actually didn't, seriously the 0.0000000000001% you don't apologize and it's when you do something that you actually should be apologizing for."

"It's true." Mike pointed out "Sorry Zoey, I mean you're the coolest girl that I've ever met but you apologize A LOT. Plus Adam is my best friend so…"

"Yep, you and I are the ultimate duo. Brian and Stewie, eat your hearts out." they both high fived without looking at each other.

"Attention victims, forest recon in five! Over!"

"And the moment is ruined, typical McLean."

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Soon enough, the two teams were making their way towards the recon sight that had been appointed to them by Chris.

This was when Heather, now sporting a black eye, pulled Leshawna to the side "Hey listen I just wanna say that I'm sorry about yesterday and that you're right, teamwork is key. So apology accepted?" she held out her hand.

"...Yeah okay sure." Leshawna slowly shook it.

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"Teamwork? Oh get real." Heather let out a loud scoff "Is she trying to make me hurl? I'm still gonna take control of this team and nobody is gonna stop me."

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Less than a minute later, Jo walked up to Leshawna "Okay I admit it, you were right about what you said before. Teamwork is the way so what do you say, truce?" she held out a fist.

"Oh yeah you got yourself one hell of a truce." Leshawna met the fist with one of her own, in terms of a fist bump I mean.

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Jo gave a smug grin, her confessional mirroring Heather's in almost every way "And having a powerhouse like Leshawna on my side is the best way to do it, like a wise man once said you have to keep your friends close and your enemies closer."

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Leshawna just leaned back with a confident "Do I know that they're trying to play me like a sucker? Well duh, this ain't my first rodeo. Am I gonna make them squirm? Oh you better believe that I am, it feels good to hold all the cards. After all, like a wise woman named my cousin once said, payback is a- Dammit I can't say it on TV!"

"I can!" Duncan's voice rang from outside "And are you gonna keep ranting in there like a jackass or can someone else have a turn?"

Leshawna promptly slammed her foot into the door.

"OW! F*CK!"

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Chris was waiting for the two teams (with Duncan now sporting a black eye), wearing a military helmet and saluted them in a mocking manner "At ease victims, time for your daily torture by my hands. But before we get onto that let's welcome back the exile to Boney Island and self proclaimed team captain Brick!"

Sure enough, at that moment Brick pulled up, still blindfolded but covered in a few scratches here and there and he saluted them "Team. Others."

"So how did exile go?" asked Bridgette.

"Believe it or not miss it actually wasn't that bad, aside from the fact that the constant bear attacks turned it into an all out battle zone. Nothing I couldn't handle though." he got down on one knee "Didn't get much sleep though."

"Can't help with that but we did smuggle you some breakfast." Adam and the others handed him a few pieces of fruit.

Brick gladly accepted the offerings "Like the sergeant always said, go into the heat of battle and come back with maple flavered shore leave."

"What the hell does that mean?"

"I have no idea."

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Adam gave a shrug "Brick is actually pretty cool, sure Mike is my best friend but I was really rooting for Brick to win last season. See when you're as close with someone as I am with Mike it means that you don't have to kiss someone's ass just to make them feel better. It feels good to have your priorities in order."

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Chris let out a clearly sadistic sounding chuckle "Alright you guys now welcome to your daily experiment with your pain thresholds, I hope you're ready because I've provided an ingenious twist on the war movie challenge from season two. We've put two weapon caches in the heart of this forest, the big one is filled with state of the art paintball weaponry and the little one has a bunch of crappy old paintball slingshots, and whichever team gets there first gets to have the first pick and then you have to pick off the competition."

"Looking forward to it." Duncan shot a look over at Alejandro, but it was more cocky than it was malicious.

"Your team gets one point for each opponent you splatter and the first team to off all of the other members from the other team wins the day and one of the losers will get a dishonorable discharge tonight via the Flush of Shame."

"Seriously though, again with paintball? Not gonna lie McLean, you're losing points for lack of originality." Adam pointed out dryly.

"Oh yeah, that. See one of the conditions of my parole is that I'm not allowed to use or be around hard projectiles like paintballs so we found a substitute." he had Chef bring out what they were using "You guys will be using leeches instead."

"...Next time I open my mouth someone just smack me upside the head." he was promptly smacked on the back of the head by Duncan "Thank you."

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"Leeches?" Heather let out a scoff "Chris is really trying to make us earn the million this year isn't he? Douche."

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Dawn on the other hand was gently tending to one of the leeches in questiony "How many innocent creatures must Chris abuse before his black as night soul is satisfied? Even creatures as small as these have a right to live too do they not? Just like all creatures of mother nature have such a right!"

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"Leeches? You can't be serious!" Bridgette sounded increasingly aggravated "Well I guess I was right about one thing: There's evil, there's sadistic, and then there's Chris!"

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Chris continued with the instructions "As the ones who won yesterday's challenge, the heroes are allowed to have a full one minute as a head start over the villains." this was met with cheers from a majority of the heroes and groans from a majority of the villains "Okay so ready… set… and GO GO GO MAGGOTS!" and he had Chef fire a leech from a starting gun, which promptly landed on Scott's face as the heroes all took off.

"Well isn't that just perfect." and then Heather started bitching everyone out "They've got a bunch of psychopaths and survival nuts on their side, so I'd say we're screwed. Way to go idiots."

"Perhaps that attitude right there is the problem." Alejandro got everyone's attention.

"Excuse me?"

"I did not stutter senorita. I am aware that we all hold ill will towards each other, that directed in my direction being completely justified, but the fact is that we are still part of a team and we have a common enemy. The other team, who keep in mind know how to work together in near perfect harmony, which means that in order to prevail in this challenge we must draw from the same source of strength as them. Teamwork and understanding of each other. As I said, the anger being directed at me is justified and I will gladly allow you to take out your ill intentions on me but only after we win."

"...As much as I hate to admit it, he's right." Duncan spoke up, taking everyone by surprise "I say we kick their asses before we kick each other's asses. All in favor?" he received raised hands from Jo, Scott and Leshawna "All opposed?" he received a hand from Heather "Okay so ignoring one of the harpies, it's unanimous, now let's go wreck some shit."

"We still have to wait for the time to finish counting down."

"F*ck!"

And then Chris made the call "Alright Villainous Vultures, you guys are up in 3… 2… 1! GO GO GO!" he had Chef fire another leech from the starting gun, which also hit Scott in the face as a result, much to his amusement.

"...Okay now we can go and wreck some shit, that sound better?"

"Much." Alejandro told him.

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Adam and the other heroes continued sprinting towards where the crates were located "Alright you guys let's hussle and then we'll wreck some shit!"

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Mike shuddered a little bit "Not gonna lie, it's kind of unnerving how into these things Adam can get sometimes." and then Mal took over for a brief moment "But at the same time that's exactly what we need." and then Mike took over again "So what was I saying again? Kind of spaced out for a second there."

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"So does anyone have any idea where the heart of the forest is exactly?" asked Mike "I know my directional skills are lacking but…"

"Hang on a second you guys, I'll go take a better look." Zoey started leaping on various branches as she made her way to the top of a nearby tree in a very impressive fashion.

"Woah, I'm not comlaining or anything but I keep forgetting that Zoey is so athletic. I think she would get along awesome with Svetlana, if she ever decides to come out again."

Brick nodded "I know what you mean soldier, with commando maneuvering like that and a heart of gold Zoey is a valuable asset to this team."

"Yeah, and she's totally awesome."

"I can see it over there!" Zoey leapt down from the top of the tree and began leading the rest of the team in the direction.

"I said it before and I'll say it again-"

"Please don't, otherwise you're gonna turn into some kind of Disney character." Adam cut him off dryly.

"Zoey and I are not a couple of Disney characters!"

"I can just picture the two of you singing songs from Aladdin."

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"Zoey and I are not like a Disney couple!" Mike sounded considerably indignant, but that was when Mal took over again "Contrary to what he lets himself believe they're totally a Disney couple, but I personally would've said Frozen."

"God dammit!" Adam's voice rang from outside of the confessional.

"He just hates being wrong when it comes to screwing with people, and frankly I'm not even sure he knows that I'm back out again."

"I do, and if you try anything then your ass is grass and I'm gonna mow it!"

"...Well then, asked and answered I guess."

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Alejandro and Duncan, as well as the rest of the Villains, screeched to a halt not far behind the Heroes "Okay it looks like they're heading left, if we try and take another path then we should be able to cut them off. We must hurry, there's no time to waste. To victory!"

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"We got the big one, go for the big one!" Brick led the heroes towards the bigger of the two crates once they arrived at the scene where the two crates were located.

"Thanks for the advice Captain Piss Pants!" that was when Jo and the rest of the Villains cut them off from the big crate, the good majority of them looking increasingly smug, the only exceptions being Alejandro and Leshawna.

"...Change of plans team, go for the small one!" Brick and the others made a beeline for the small crate, which had a bucket of leeches and a large number of crappy slingshots.

"Well I guess this is the low tech crate alright." Mike noted rather dryly.

"Oh hell yeah!" about 10 feet away, Jo was enjoying the fact that the villains got the decent haul out of the two "And that's what happens when you leave leadership to a competent competitor people, take notes!"

"I say let Senorita Jockstrap believe whatever she wants to believe." Duncan promptly punched open the crate, revealing several state of the art blasters as well as a cannon.

Alejandro let out a sigh and just pinched the bridge of his nose 'And they'll all start arguing over something trivial in 3, 2, 1…'

"I'll take the cannon! No, I'll take the cannon!" and that was when Duncan, Heather, Jo, Scott and Leshawna all started arguing over who would take the cannon.

Alejandro quickly blitzed in between all of them to put a halt to the argument "Everyone please stay focused, we spoke before about the need for cooperation at the very least, and therefore we should use it as a team." he received several grumbles, some of which involving profanities courtesy of Leshawna.

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Duncan frowned in thought "Okay so I know that I beat the ever loving crap out of Alejandro at least twice back during season three, yet here he is popping up in front of everybody like it was nothing. Once the challenges are over, I've gotta check some things out."

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"So to put it simply, you need to ask yourself this question: Which do you hate more, each other or losing?" Alejandro received no audible replies "That is what I had expected, now fire the cannon!"

"Way ahead of you!" Scott promptly fired the cannon, which hurled forward a large ball of leeches… which promptly hit an intern off screen "Uh…"

"I will take responsibility for that one. Ay dios mio, being in charge is harder than one would anticipate."

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Chris observed this from his private monitor room "Tell me about it. Looks like the Villains are off to quite a start but the question still remains, which of our two teams will make it to the finish line? Find out when we come back right here on Total! Drama! All Stars!"

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Bridgette and the other heroes were making their way through the forest with their ammo and weaponry, such as it was "Of course the villains would get the machine guns, so do any of you have any ideas how to go about this?"

"I've got a pretty fair idea, it's not much but it's better than nothing." Cody told her "For now we have to wait and listen for the right moment to strike."

"Just out of curiosity, was that plan you came up with any sort of reference to Avatar the Last Airbender?" asked Brick.

"No! Maybe. Why is that bad?"

"Quite the opposite actually, that was my favorite show when I was growing up, and my made sure to model my leadership style after Sokka."

"...That actually explains a few things." Mike noted, with Adam silently nodding in agreement in a Sage like fashion.

"Why is that a bad thing?"

"You do know that Sokka was meant mostly for comic relief right?"

"Of course but he really came into his own in season three."

This was when Mal took over again, making sure to act like Mike so that no one noticed the difference "Look we can start geeking out over what's without a doubt the greatest cartoon of all time later, right now we need a strategy and I think that I know the best way to go about it. So then… permission to take the reigns captain?"

"Permission granted." they saluted each other, with Mal sublty trying not to slap his face.

"Okay so here's what I'm thinking." Mal got down on one knee and began drawing out his plan in the dirt "We have 7 members in comparison to their six, which means that it would make sense for each of us to go after one specific target while two of us are sent after the strongest player on their team."

"You mean Jo?"

"Not a chance, she's basically Heather in sweatpants. I mean Alejandro, he's easily the strongest out of all of the villains, with Duncan not being that far behind him. So anyway here's my train of thought: Brick will target Jo since he has a history with her and has a fair understanding of how she thinks. Zoey was the one who got Scott eliminated last season so she'll be the one to take him out. Dawn… where the heck is aura girl?"

"Oh she took out bucket of leeches and left while we were talking about Avatar." Adam told him nonchalantly.

"...Good to know. Anyway Bridgette and Duncan were both members of the Killer Bass back in season one, the same with Cody, Heather and Leshawna, so what I'm thinking is that we switch things up. We have Cody take out Duncan and Bridgette take out Heather and Leshawna too if she's able to, since Dawn is absent. That leaves myself and Adam to go after Alejandro two on one."

Brick and the others contemplated this for a moment "And since the villains are all busy hauling that gigantic cannon now is the perfect time for a surprise attack."

"Exactly."

"There's greatness in you soldier, I can tell this for a fact."

"...Okay."

"Oh hey guys, let's do that thing that I mentioned." Adam quickly put his hand into the center, with Mal and the others doing the same "As we approach the decisive battlegrounds, believe that the blades of our hearts and souls will never shatter! Believe that our resolves will never waver! Though our paths may diverge, our iron hearts will remain as one! Swear that even if the land itself may break asunder, we will return alive and well! Scatter!"

"Right!" and so everyone broke off into teams, with one consisting of Bridgette and Cody and the other consisting of Brick and Zoey, leaving Adam and Mal alone.

"Alright you cheesy James Bond movie villain reject, let's get one thing straight before we get onto the important stuff." Adam promptly yanked Mal to his feet "If that cannon to the head from yesterday let you out to play then what about you know who?"

"...I haven't seen him in person yet but I can defintely sense that he's lurking somewhere withinthe mind."

"Any idea when he'll make his move?" the two of them started walking.

"It's hard to say really, my guess is that he'll wait for the moment when you're alone and it's not likely that anyone would come to help you."

"Yeah well now Mike has absorbed the power of the Cosmic Elemental of Darkness, so by extension that means that he has that power too."

"I wouldn't be surprised, and that means that you've gotta be ready."

"I wasn't ready 6 years ago but I've changed a lot from the scared and confused teenager that I was back then. I barely even knew how to throw a punch back then."

"Yeah I know, seriously I know I was possessed and all but it's like you weren't even trying back then."

"I might as well have not been."

"...Listen Adam, I know this is more than a decade late but-"

"I have a pretty good idea of what you wanna say Mal, but the thing is that I don't know what I wanna say. Not yet at least. So let's hold off on any of that crap until after I confront Sordibus and wreck his shit."

"Yeah, yeah that's fair. We'll talk later." and then he switched back to Mike "So what was I saying? Hey everybody go?"

"Long story short we split up into teams, you and I are gonna go and take on Alejandro and see what his new power has got."

"Oh… okay." Mike let out a sigh "I'm just having a hard time wrapping my head around this right now, it wasn't too long ago that I couldn't keep my personalities in and now they won't even come out. I'm scared Adam, I'm downright terrified. I don't wanna end up hurting you or anyone else that I care about."

"...You really do freak out over these things way too much Mike, seriously your whining is starting to get on my nerves."

"What?"

"Let's just get going already, I wanna wreck some shit today." and so he walked on ahead, leaving Mike to figure out the hidden meaning behind his message.

'So that's his way of saying that everything will work out so there's no need to worry about that right now.' Mike gave a small smile 'You never change Adam, and I don't think you really ever will, and I'm happy about that.'

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Adam just put his arms behind his head and let out a sigh "Okay so hear's the deal, Mike's other personality that's been popping up today is called Mal and he doesn't exactly have the best track record. And by that I mean that he's done a lot of shitty stuff and he hasn't come out in about half of a decade, and the last thing I need is for Mike to have major a panic attack when he finds out that Mal is popping out whenever the hell he wants."

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(As for the Villains…)

Alejandro and Duncan continued pushing the cannon along, with the rest of the villains as well as Leshawna lagging behind "Carrying this cannon like this sacrifices far too much movement speed and makes us easy targets for them to pick off."

"So what are you thinking?" asked Duncan "You think we should ditch the cannon and just use our blasters?"

"I believe that would be best."

"Not a chance you bozos, I haven't even had a turn to fire this thing yet!" and then Jo started cuddling the cannon "Isn't that right sweetheart?"

"...This just took an unsettling turn, but perhaps we should split up through the Divide and Conquer strategy."

"Fine by me, hey Leshawna you wanna team up?" Duncan glanced over.

Leshawna gave a shrug "Cover each other's backs and get away from the two (insert word that never has and never will be allowed on TV) then yeah why not."

"Good enough for me- Take cover!" he pulled Leshawna to the ground to avoid a leach being hurled at them.

"Thanks Mohawk."

"You scratched my back once awhile back, now we're even."

Unfortunately, Scott wasn't so lucky since he was the one who ended up taking a leech to the crotch "Are you f*cking kidding me?" and then he passed out.

As it turns out, Zoey had fired that shot, being backed by Cody and Bridgette "Sorry about that, but not really! Or at all actually." the three of them took the chance to make a run for it while avoiding enemy fire.

"And Jo takes the win!" Jo took the chance to sieze command of the cannon.

"Get down Mohawk!" Leshawna shoved Duncan to the ground, only to end up taking a massive ball of leeches to the back "Jockstrap Barbie… goes down…"

"And that makes three point for the Heroes and nothing for the Villains!"

"But Zoey and the others only hit Scott." Duncan pointed out.

"True but friendly fire counts."

Jo found herself on the receiving end of multiple glares "Hey don't get mad at me, Thunder Thighs is the one who got in the way!"

"You can take your bullshit excuses and shove them up your-" Heather was promptly cut off by a leech hitting her on the side of the head "Son of a-"

Yeah as it turns out, Cody was the one to fire it "Yeah I would say that I'm sorry but here's the thing, I'm really not! Call that payback for screwing with Gwen as much as you did. So, see ya later." and then he took off after Bridgette and Zoey.

"It's in my hair, what the hell is wrong with that little-"

"Hey watch it Queen Bee, this is a family show! Anyway make that three for the Heroes and nothing for the Villains!"

"F*ck you!"

"Yeah just like that I'm out, I've got something that I wanna check out." Duncan commented out of the blue "Anybody wanna give up their blasters?"

"Might as well Mohawk." Leshawna tossed her blaster to him.

"Thanks for the haul, I'm gonna go see if I can wreck some shit." and so he ran off with both blasters.

"Avenge me!" Heather called out to him… for some reason.

"No!"

"Yeah you take care of that crap, I've got Zoey all to myself now." Jo on the other hand to the blaster from the unconscious form of Scott and then took off on her own, leaving Heather to rip the leech out of her hair.

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Duncan was making his way through the forests of Wawanakwa, his mind drifting 'There is no way that pipsqueak could be that athletic when he originally had the muscle tone of a paperclip back in season three, not to mention Adam seems like he's hiding something. I guess it's time for me to do a little bit of investigating, see this is one of the few reasons why it helps to come from a family of cops.' he glanced around a corner and promptly hid behind a tree.

As it turns out, Alejandro had confronted both Adam and Mike a very large and open forest clearing "Now then Adam, I believe that the time has come for us to face off. My power is higher than it has ever been before, and now I need to test its full capabilities."

"Oh believe me I know." Adam handed Mike his slingshot and motioned for him to get back a distance "Hey since we're still in the middle of a challenge and we can't go all out what do you say we make things interesting, first one to take a hit has to leech themselves. Sound like a fair deal?"

"...Even months later I still question whether your newfound confidence is a good or a bad thing."

"Is that a yes or a no?"

"Very well amigo, I will accept your terms."

"Good." Adam promptly ripped off his shirt, revealing his numerous scars glistening in the sunlight for all of the world to see.

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Duncan was taken aback when he noticed Adam's scars "Damn, you think you have this guy figured out and then he takes off his shirt looking like he just came out of a war zone."

"He might as well have." Mike suddenly popped up next to him, but if Duncan was startled then he didn't show it "There's a side to Adam that's been hidden from the world for years, I'm one of the few who know about it."

"Uh huh, and the fact that a pipsqueak like Cody is capable of moving around crap like he did in the first challenge, or the fact that Alejandro is blitzing around like something straight out of anime, or the fact that you've been acting like you're hiding something too. How about you start explaining that?"

"...How about instead of that I just go ahead and let you leech me?"

"Good enough for me." so Duncan promptly shot Mike square in the chest with a leech "But I'm getting my answers at some point, count on that stringbean." and then he went back to watching the spar that was about to begin, but he was still frowning to himself 'Add this to the list of stupid questions, why the hell do I feel like I've seen him somewhere before? I know it's not from last season because I didn't watch a single episode, but I swear I've seen him from somewhere before.'

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"Looks like thanks to bad boy Duncan the Villains just lucked into a point, but the Heroes are still leading with three points to one!"

Adam let out a sigh as he removed the weights hidden beneath his jeans "Mike just had to give himself up didn't he?"

"He hasn't exactly made himself out to be very secretive." Alejandro quickly took on a battle stance.

"He's not, anyway let's rock some shit. Your move."

"How honorable of you, but just remember that you asked for this!" so Alejandro suddenly launched himself forward at nearly blinding speeds.

'He's so much faster than before!' Adam quickly caught Alejandro's fist in his hand, sending out a shockwave that broke the ground beneath them as the two of them began trading even blows across the clearing.

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Mike observed the spar from his place perched atop a tree "Looks like Adam is getting a good workout in."

"Well good for that bastard!" Duncan on the other hand was holding onto a random tree branch for dear life "I get that he isn't known for restraint but this is just bullshit!"

"Oh just wait, you haven't seen anything yet. They're just getting warmed up."

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Adam and Alejandro both broke away from their clash "I've gotta admit that's some pretty impressive moves that you've gotten."

Alejandro nodded "I can see that your power has increased substantially as well over the past few weeks or so, you've been training in secret haven't you?"

"So you noticed, well sorry to disappoint you but I've been working on a secret trump card of my own ever since I got back for one reason and one reason alone: to take down Sordibus using the element of surprise and the sake of raw power. Not even Aurora knows about it, I haven't told anyone so that if Sordibus is watching from inside Mike then that way he can't find out about it. But one thing is for sure, with this trump card at my disposal Sordibus and Metallum, they don't stand a chance in hell. I'll make sure of that."

"Fascinating. However, I was referring to your Cosmic Force form."

"...Oh. Well pretending I never said any of that, I know that you're holding back a hell of a lot too."

"Oh yes, so you do remember that after all. But keeping in mind that we are not out to cause unnecessary chaos and carnage, we'll keep this one brief and short." Alejandro flared his crimson aura "Now let us begin round two."

"Well you asked for it." Adam flared his own blue colored aura, blocking a sudden kick to the head from Alejandro that resulted in the two of them trading even blows, only for Adam to power through and deal Alejandro a palm strike to the chest, sending him skidding backwards across the clearing.

Alejandro quickly went on the evasive as he dodged a barrage of energy blasts being thrown at him, and he quickly channeled "Perhaps the time has come for us to end this before we draw any unnecessary attention." he channeled his crimson aura into his right hand, a sort of energy claws forming on his fingertips "Garra Carmesi!" and he surged forward.

"Fine by me! Roaring Thunder!" Adam charged forward with a blast of lightning compated into his left hand, the two attacks colliding in a clash that decimated the entire clearing as well as a good portion of the surrounding area "Uh… nobody finds out about this."

"Agreed." the two of them powered down "Your power is as impressive as always."

"And you've grown a hell of a lot stronger too, I figured that the Crimson Jaguar was nothing to scoff at but it's not easy to keep up with yours truly. Oh yeah, that reminds me." he was promptly hurled a slingshot by Mike "Remember our best, I dealt the first blow."

"So you did." Alejandro spread out his arms "Very well I am a man of my word, do what you must."

"Glad we came to an understanding." so Adam made his way forward and threw away the slingshot before sticking the leech on Alejandro's chest "I'm not ruthless though, I just do what I gotta do."

"And for that I thank you my friend."

"It's what I do. Oh hold that thought." he threw a leech into the forest, earning a cry of pain and seconds later Duncan dropped out of a tree with a leech sticking to his ass "But that being said I still know how to get the job done."

"That makes it five to nothing Heroic Hawks, one more point and then they'll win the entire day!"

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Jo let out a scoff "Well this is just pathetic, so much for the team. I think it's obvious that I'm a hell of a lot stronger than Old-Heather, Ale-handjob, Stunkan, Sharkbait and Thunder Thighs put together. At least Lightning knew how to play the game."

And then a screen popped up with Lightning looking increasingly smug "I told you that you'd regret it! Make that one point for me, Sha-whoo!"

"What the hell?!"

"That was from his demonstration in the first challenge!" Chris's voice rang from the speaker outside "He asked us if he could leave a pre-recorded message as payback for you turning on him last season!" the only reply he received as Jo stomping on the screen "You know you're gonna have to pay for that!"

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With both blasters at her disposal, Jo slowly and cautiously made her way through the forest as she followed her nose "Smells like piss and dried blood… Brick your ass is grass and I'm gonna mow it!"

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Brick covertly made his way through the forest, hiding behind every rock, tree and bush that he could find, only to soon find a surprise "Dawn?"

Sure enough, Dawn glanced back from where she was dumping a bucket of leeces into a nearby lake, with one of them sucking on herface "Oh hello Brick. Do not mind me, I was simply releasing these delicate creatures of nature back to where they belong."

"And you're… I wanna say feeding one of them?"

"Well to be fair leeches are creatures of nature as well as I said, they need their nutrients just like all of the gentle souls of mother nature." she gently scratched the head of a leech and let it make its way back into the lake.

Brick knelt down beside her "Are you okay after that, do you feel faint or anything? Allow me to help you back to camp."

"Thank you but I can assure you that I am quite alright."

"Well that was both touching and disgusting and touchingly disgusting at the same time, but an out is an out so that makes 5 for the Heroes and 2 for the Villains, which means that it's not over yet!"

"Well it cannot be helped I suppose."

Brick gave a small smile, until he suddenly glanced back "Dawn get behind me, we've got some unwanted company."

Sure enough, at that moment Jo emerged from the bushes "Well well well if it isn't Brick, just who I had been looking for Sergeant Piss-Pants!"

"And if it isn't Jo, one of the toughest competitors, but that talent is wasted on your own selfish agendas."

"Hey don't get mad at me, it's not my fault the rest of those suckers don't have what it takes to get the job done and you can't tell me that I'm not a team player."

"Yes I can, because you're the exact opposite of a team player! For as long as I've known you in this competition you've had such a horrible attitude, you're arrogant, rude, selfish and everything that soldier shouldn't be! You'd rather push your team off a cliff before go out of your way to save them because all you care about is being the best and making sure that everyone knows it whether they like it or not! You want everything all to yourself, but that isn't the way that like works and you just won't accept that!"

"...Wow that's actually a pretty good summary of me. But I don't really care, cause I'm gonna take you out and settle our old score." she aimed one of her blasters at him.

"You came prepared, I can respect that to an extent. But then again, you're not the only one now are you?" he whipped out a blaster of his own.

"What the hell- Where did you get that thing?"

"There's two parts to this answer. First of all, I think this goes without saying but I'm gonna say it anyway, a good soldier never goes into war unprepared and this is definitely war. Second of all, I used my deduction skills. There are 7 members on my team and 6 on your team, which means that the interns had to prepare the weapons caches with enough weapons to accomodate either team since they didn't know which one was gonna make it first. Just like I thought, they had put 7 blasters in the big crate instead of just 6, which means that there was one that you guys hadn't taken with you, especially since you were distracted by the cannon. And now we're gonna finish this once and for all."

"Correction Captain Piss Pants, I'm gonna finish this!" Jo prepared to fire at Brick, only to find her blaster was jammed "Dammit!"

"Nice try but this is where it ends."

"Well you're half right!" Jo promptly ripped off her batch of leeches and threw it at him in a desperate bid to hit him.

Brick swiftly ducked under the onslaught and then fired his blaster.

Jo attempted to dodge the barrage being fired at her, but unfortunately one of the leeches hit her on the knee "Dammit!"

"Yes!"

"This just in, with a final score of 6 points against 1, the Heroic Hawks have officially won the day!"

"Yes!" Brick pumped a fist in triumph, and then he glanced back at Dawn and found himself blushing slightly.

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Dawn found herself slightly taken aback "Brick's aura has turned from its usual shade of camoflauge green to, well the same only with a small tinge of pink. Could this mean that… Well my aura reading has never failed me before. I must look further into this."

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

Chris addressed the Villainous Vultures, with the Heroic Hawks looking on from where they stood "Welcome back Villainous Vultures, looks like you're facing your second elimination in a row. Way to suck. Now get ready to cut someone loose, it's time to vote."

Bridgette put a hand on Brick's shoulder "You don't have to worry Brick, you don't have to go back to Boney Island twice in a row. Nobody here is that heartless."

"I appreciate the thought Bridgette, but I actually don't mind it over there." Brick assure her, only to receive a firm stare "But then again if you're that insistent then I suppose it would lower team moral to raise an argument over this."

Adam glanced over at Mike "So what are you thinking, who's gonna end up in the toilet after tonight? My money is on Jo."

"I don't know about that." Mike told him "For all we know she might be able to convince everyone to cut Heather."

"Not likely, they're both a pain in the ass but Jo took out her own teammate. I'm just gonna call it, 75% Jo goes and 25% chance Heather goes."

"Works for me."

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Heather just rolled her eyes at the scene "Bromances, they make me wanna hurl."

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Soon enough, Chris and Chef had gathered the votes and a plate of marshmallows "Well the votes are now in, but before we get to unveiling the loser that gets shoved down the toilet I'm gonna need one of the Hawks to volunteer for exile on Boney Island."

"I'll do it." Mike got out of his seat and raised his hand, much to the surprise of pretty much everyone else.

"Uh… are you sure about that? Don't you think that there's someone more deserving of a night on Boney Island? Someone like Adam?"

"No not really, I actually do want to go. I have a few things that I want to work out on my own over there."

"...Well it's your funeral."

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Mike let out a sigh "I haven't been able to access any of my personalities since the challenge from yesterday, with any luck maybe some time to myself on Boney Island will give me the chance to figure out what's going on. Or if not, then it can keep the others safe from whatever I could do to them if I lose control."

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Dawn had a grim expression on her face "I know exactly why Mike's other personalities have yet to surface, right now I can only pray that it is not too late for him."

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Chris took the chance to get things back on track "Alrighty then, it's time for someone to end up in a toilet. The following Villains are safe for another day. So far we've got Alejandro, Duncan, Leshawna and Scott. Heather and Jo the two of you are both on the chopping block, Heather you were a pain in the ass just like always and Jo you were a pain in the ass just like always but you took out your own teammate in the challenge today."

"Hey Thunder Thighs should've ducked!" Jo pointed at Leshawna, earning a middle finger in response.

"And the flushee for tonight is… Jo!"

"Say what now?!" Jo promptly rounded on all of the others "Are you all out of your f*cking minds?!"

"Yeah for not getting rid of you sooner." Duncan pointed out dryly, receiving several nods in agreement and cheers from Brick, Mike and Zoey.

And then Chris got everyone's attention again "But before we get to flushing I wanna do a little bit of reshuffling, see today one Villain acted more like a Hero and one Hero really gets on my nerves. So pack your bags and switch your teams, Adam and Leshawna." this was met with several gasps.

"...Well better them than me."

"I did think about doing you Duncan but apparently you're one of the most popular contestants with the fans and I've received several death threats so…"

"Got it, enough said."

"Okay, now just do it."

"...Well guys it was fun while it lasted." so Adam pecked Bridgette on the cheek, gave Cody a quick bro hug, saluted Brick and then he made his way out of the Peanut Gallery, where he soon met Leshawna in the middle "So have fun with being a hero."

Leshawna nodded "Same to you, with being a Villain and everything I mean."

"Yeah, wreck some shit." the two gave two simultaneous short nods and made their way over to their new teams "I'm just gonna say it, I would've voted for Jo too. At least Heather shuts up at some point." he received growls from both Heather and Jo and a thumbs up from Duncan.

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7 ½ minutes later…

Soon enough, Chris and the Villains, now with Adam in place of Leshawna, on the Dock of Shame ready to send Jo off "So any final words?"

"Just flush it already." was all Jo said before she got flushed.

"I will not miss her."

"I'm pretty sure no one will." Adam pointed out, with pretty much everyone else nodding in agreement.

"Well that's one thing that we agree on. Anyway tune in next time for more sweet sweet chaos and drama right here on Total! Drama! All Stars!"

A/N:

And thus we get the Queen of the Knuckle Sandwhich (Leshawna) back on the side of good. I know that a lot of people hated how Duncan was treated in All Stars, and since there's no Gwen for him to take a leech for (or Courtney in this case), there was no real plausible reason for him to be switched over to the Heroes team, and since Leshawna was never a bad guy to begin with, I figured why not swap him over in Duncan's place. As for why Adam was swapped over to the Villains team in Leshawna's place, I need to keep the team numbers as balanced as I can for the time being, and I think I've already established that Chris hates Adam with a burning passion, so I don't see it as out of character for him to put Adam on another team out of spite.

I know the rivalry between Jo and Lightning was entertaining in Revenge of the Island, but keep in mind that Brick had a rivalry going with Jo far longer than Lightning did, so I thought it would be best if he was the one who finished off Jo in this version instead of Zoey. Plus I personally think Jo is annoying so I figured that now was the best time for her to go.

When Duncan said that Leshawna scratched his back one and he was returning the favor, remember season 1 episode 21, Trial by the Tri-Armed Triathalon? Well Chris caught Duncan carving a heart in the back of a fake Courtney head and started mocking him, so Leshawna hit Chris with another carving, saying that they don't have to be tough all the time.

Oh, and in case this chapter didn't make it clear, I totally ship Brick and Dawn as a couple. I know that a lot of people ship Noah x Dawn thanks to a certain fanfiction over on Deviantart, but I've already established that Noah is with Emma since I did the Ridonculous Race in another fic earlier on, I figured that why not make Brick x Dawn a real thing.

Yeah I get that some people might not be a fan of huge anime style fight scenes but keep in mind that it's part of Adam and Alejandro's character arcs, whether it be about Adam's training for the battles that have yet to come or Alejandro trying to get stronger so that he can redeem himself. Besides I work hard on these things and I would like a little bit of appreciation if that's not too much to ask.

I know Lightning already appeared once, but I want to keep a cameo appearance in every episode of this season and you have to admit that his pre recorded message to screw with Jo was pretty funny. Plus keep in mind that in Revenge of the Island they had Ezekiel make multiple appearances.

Cameo: Lightning (again)

Elimination Order:

Anne Maria: 14th

Jo: 13th