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Episode 2- Truth or Mutant Shark
"Last time on Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, fourteen new campers were blown away by this year's challenges. They were treated to an early morning swim, said hello to the island's wildlife, and did some totem surfing. Explosive!" Chris narrated as the episode's opener played clips of the previous episode. In the end, Leonard's team got annoyed with his non-existent magic, and got sent packing Hurl of Shame style." The clips ended on Leonard being shot out of the catapult, and Sugar in attendance of the event. A flash transitioned to Chris at the present on the dock. "Who will be going home next, and how much pain can I put them through first? Find out right now on Total Drama: Revenge of the Island!"
(cue theme song)
The sky was tinted orange with early morning sun, and birds could be heard tweeting. The camera zoomed out to display both cabins, and a voice was heard vocalizing in harmony with the bird tweets.
"Very good," Ella's voice said after the vocalizing and tweeting ended. The scene shifted to inside the girls' side of the Rats cabin. Ella sat on the top bunk of the left hand side of the room, a little blue bird perched on her outstretched finger. "Now, let's try a pitch lower." She then vocalized the same tune as she did previously, but slightly lower. The bird attempted to join in, half-succeeding and half-failing at lowering its pitch.
Across the room, Sugar slept on the bottom bunk of a set of beds, and she had a sleeping mask over her eyes. Her face visibly twitched at Ella and the bird's practice, and after listening to it for a few more seconds, she sat upright. "Would you shut yer trap?! I'm trying to get mah beauty sleep over here!"
Ella stopped vocalizing, as did the bird, and they both looked over to her. "Oh, my apologies. I didn't realize I was disturbing you. You appeared to be sleeping fine a little bit ago so I thought it was alright."
"Well, it's not! I get up pretty early back on the farm, and even I know it's too early for that noise!" The pageant queen snapped, pointing absently in Ella's direction.
"Again, my apologies. I'll stop," Ella reiterated sincerely. The bird left her finger, and started flying to the cabin door.
Sky, already dressed for the day, entered the cabin and allowed the bird to fly out before letting it close. She seemed puzzled by a bird being in the cabin.
Huffing, Sugar slumped back into her pillow. "Stupid goody-goody…" She mumbled, shifting onto her side as she attempted to get back to sleep.
In the boys' side of the cabin, only Beardo appeared to be asleep in bed on the bottom-right bunk. He snored as he slept, and made several different noises as he slept such as a gym coach's whistle, a piano key being played, and an elephant trumpet. He was startled from his slumber after the last one when the door to the cabin slammed. The human soundboard made a sound of exclamation that sounded eerily like the exclamation point from Metal Gear, his eyes snapping open and looking towards the door.
Dave stood in front of the closed cabin door, his back pressed against it and his arms outstretched as if he was trying to prevent someone from getting into the cabin. His hair was disheveled, some dirt seemed to be on his face, and his sweater vest was half-untucked. He stood there, panting heavily.
Beardo made a noise of inquiry.
"What was I doing? I was, uh, looking for the immunity idol. Yeah, that's it." Dave answered rather nervously as his heart rate went down. Alarmed, Beardo jumped out of bed, looking at Dave with shock. "Before you ask, no, I did not find it. Something… got in my way."
The scene flashed to Dave a little earlier in the morning, where he was being chased by a big, wooly beaver that seemed to have grown spikes into its back and an extra tail. Dave screamed as he ran, and the beaver growled as it gave chase.
Returning to the present, Dave sighed as he folded his arms over his chest. "Guess that bush was a no-go for a hiding spot." He noticed Beardo giving him a look. "Don't give me that look, you'd try and look for it too. Given how we tanked yesterday, it might not hurt to have a little extra insurance, and trust me, I know about insurance."
(Confessional-Dave)
In Dave's confessional, he appeared to have cleaned up. Dirt was no longer on his face, his vest was tucked in, and his hair was perfectly combed. "Okay, I lied. I wasn't really looking for the idol. I was actually trying to impress that girl on my team, Sky. She rocked the challenge yesterday, and since she seems to be the athletic type, I figured she'd go out and do a morning run. I thought maybe if I woke up early and did a morning run too, we'd pass each other and she'd be impressed with me. Since we didn't pass each other, I think it's safe to say that failed."
After Dave's confessional concluded, the focus returned to the cabins. This time, the camera zoomed in on the Maggots' cabin as a shout of "Samey!" was heard.
In the girls' side of the Maggots' cabin, Amy appeared to be digging through her luggage. "Where's your hair dryer? I can't find mine, and I need it."
Sitting on her bunk, the lower left-hand side one, Sammy shrugged apologetically. "Sorry, but I can't find mine either."
"Chris most likely confiscated them along with everything else electronic everyone may have brought," Scarlett proposed, walking over to the twins from the right side of the room. "I had a very sophisticated calculator in my luggage that appears to be missing as well."
"First these crappy beds, and now Chris takes our stuff? I hate this camp!" Amy raged, standing up and stomping a boot on the floor.
The camera panned from the left side of the Maggots' cabin to the right. Inside the boys' side, all three males slept in their beds. Rodney slept on the bottom left bunk, Max slept on the bottom right bunk, and Topher had the top bunk above Max. Given Rodney's large shape, the bunk was almost comically tiny in comparison to him.
"Hnn," Rodney mumbled in his sleep as the camera focused on him. "Mary… Daisy… Hannah… Bonnie… Rebecca… Destiny…"
(Confessional- Rodney)
Hunched over in the outhouse, Rodney leaned in towards the camera, confessing, "The bed was pretty small. I was afraid I might break it halfway through the night. If I do, I'll just sleep on the floor. That has more room."
Up on a tree branch in a tree somewhere, Shawn awoke with a yawn, and stretched his arms. Briefly scratching his back, he swung a leg over, and dropped down from his perch. Down on the ground, Jasmine knelt on one knee as she inspected the leaves on a plant. Shawn's landing made her jump, and she whirled around, coming face to face with him.
"Aaah!" Jasmine screamed, caught off-guard.
"AAAAHH!" Shawn screeched right back in surprise.
"What're you doing out here?!" They asked each other, pointing at each other at the same time. They fell silent, staring at each other.
"I," Jasmine started to say hesitantly as she gestured to the plant she was examining, "was just looking at the local plants. Considering what we saw yesterday with that squirrel, I thought it might not hurt to do some poking around. You?"
"I just woke up," he answered, jabbing his thumb upward. "I slept up there."
Jasmine followed his thumb, and spotted the branch Shawn had slept on. "You sleep in trees too?"
Shawn nodded, "Yeah, if I sleep indoors, I might get attacked by a zombie in the middle of the night. Zombies can't climb so- wait, too?" He raised an eyebrow, glancing at her. "You sleep in trees?"
"Yeah, the beds in the cabin were too small for my tastes so I slept out here. That's my post over there," Jasmine pointed at a tree not too far away. Shawn could barely see a length of rope wrapped around one of the branches.
The conspiracy theorist let out a laugh. "I thought I was the only one here that slept in trees."
Jasmine let out a chuckle of her own. "I guess not. Survival types like us think alike, huh?"
"I suppose so," Shawn smiled.
(Confessional- Jasmine)
Jasmine continued to laugh in the outhouse. "Not only is the guy cute," she said after finally getting a handle on her laughter, "he's kinda hilarious." She began to snicker again, "Zombies…"
A seagull slept soundly in a nest inside one of the camp's loudspeakers. Its peaceful slumber came to a stop when the loudspeaker turned on, emitting a loud squeal of static. The seagull jumped out, a noticeably bizarre tail at its rear, orange and scaly with a rattle at the end.
Chris rode up to the cabins on his ATV. "Up and at 'em my morning glories, it's time for today's challenge!" He declared, the viewpoint shifting around him to show the two gathered teams.
"What, already? I haven't even had two helpings of breakfast yet!" Sugar protested in shock, grabbing at her chubby belly.
"Forget about your petty needs," Max scoffed. He then pointed to his back. "That terrible sleep last night has left my spine uncomfortably bent!"
Rodney perked up with a smile, taking Max into his arms. "Let me help you with that!" He briefly squeezed Max, and soon enough, he heard a crack.
Max yelped as Rodney squeezed him and dropped him on his rear. "Confound it, fool! You could've killed me…" The wannabe villain complained when he started feeling much better. "Huh, my spine is cured. Thank you, minion."
"You're welcome." The country boy replied, missing Max's last remark. "Wait, what?"
"You can eat after the challenge," Chris informed them. He then pointed with both arms off in a direction. "Right this way to the Bay of Dismay."
Most of the campers, except for Ella and Topher, groaned in complaint.
"Alright, the Bay of Dismay!" Topher enthused. "Sounds interesting."
Ella clasped her hands together. "Oh, I agree. I love bays."
"That's the spirit," Chris grinned, giving them both finger pistols. "Come on, your humiliation awaits."
The two teams walked through the woods towards the challenge site in mixed little groups even though they were on different teams. Amy and Sammy led the pack, Jasmine was with Shawn, Dave was with Sky and Beardo, Max was walking beside Scarlett, Rodney and Topher were behind them, leaving Sugar at the back with Ella.
"Bay of Dismay… you think that sounds like it'll be a physical challenge?" Sky wondered out loud.
Dave smiled at her. "I hope so. If you rock this one as great as yesterday, we have it in the bag," he told her confidently and then hesitated, "er, barring any unforeseen circumstances like yesterday."
Panning to the right, the focus landed on the twins. Having overheard Dave, Amy smirked before turning her attention to her sister.
"Speaking of unforeseen circumstances," she began to say. "You sure are lucky that they lost the challenge yesterday. If we had lost, you'd have been gone for sure."
"We don't know that," Sammy countered, uncertain of herself. "And we never will know because we can't reverse the clock."
Amy scowled at Sammy's answer. She scoffed, "We don't need to reverse a clock to know you're a loser. Losers always get voted off first, and the first time we lose a challenge, you'll be the first one voted off the team, just like that nerd from the other team." Quickening her pace, Amy went on ahead, leaving Sammy behind.
Sammy frowned, looking down to her feet. Shortly after Amy's departure, Jasmine came up to match pace with her, glaring at the back of the mean twin's head. "Hey," the Outback explorer got her attention, "don't listen to a thing she says. You're not a loser. You're an underdog. Underdogs have a lot of fight in them."
"You think so?" Sammy asked timidly.
(Confessional- Sammy)
"Jasmine is really nice. While I was stuck up on the totem yesterday, I heard her defending me against Amy. That's the nicest thing anyone's ever done for me, and we've only known each other for less than a day."
"O-Okay, I'll try!" Sammy promised, a meek smile on her face in response to Jasmine's sincere one. The focus panned left all the way to the back of the pack where Ella and Sugar were.
"We're walking towards a bay and when we arrive I'm sure we won't know what to say. We don't know what we're going to do, but we don't want a second loss in a roooow." Ella sang as she walked, her arms outstretched for pizazz.
"I know what I'm going to say," Sugar hissed venomously before turning to look Ella in the eye, "Shut your face!" Swiftly, Sugar turned around and continued to head towards the Bay of Dismay.
"Gosh, she must still be mad about this morning." Ella murmured as she watched Sugar stomp away furiously before running to catch up with everyone.
Out in the water, three structures stood. In the middle was a platform Chris was standing on, along with a video monitor and scoreboard on top. On either side of the host's platform were two rows of gallery seats with red buttons situated in front of the contestants. On the left side of Chris' platform were the Toxic Rats, and on the right, the Mutant Maggots.
"Welcome to the Getting-to-Know-You Trivia Game Challenge!" Chris declared grandly from his platform.
Topher leaned in his seat eagerly. "Hey, your Total Drama Action tuxedo! It looks more amazing in person, Chris!" Topher sat on the upper left corner of his team's seats, Rodney to his right, and Amy and Sammy furthest right. In the row below, Jasmine sat in front of the twins with Scarlett to her left, and Max in the bottom left corner below Topher and Rodney.
Chris gave a little bow in the Maggots' direction, saying, "Thank you, Topher!" The host stood upright, and asked, "Everyone nice and snug?"
"Um, Chris, can I get a bigger harness?" Rodney spoke up, his hands pulling at the harness on his body. "I think mine is a little too small. It's digging into my shoulders."
Chris only laughed at Rodney's torment. "That's what you get with children size harnesses. I'll be asking our players embarrassing questions, and I mean majorly humiliating. If the player I'm talking about owns up and hits the poorly-wired buzzer and owns their humiliation before time runs out, their team gets a point. First team to five wins part one and a distinct advantage in part two." He explained, and then held up a finger. "But, if no one owns up, this happens." Pulling a remote out of his back pocket, he pressed the single button on it.
The Mutant Maggots' seats sunk under the water, forcing them all to hold their breath. While under, Max spotted something that scared him into releasing his breath. In front of the team's seats was the same legged shark from the season's opening theme. The shark barred its teeth, frightening the whole team. He opened his mouth, and moved to take a bite when the seats rose up out of the water. Sputtering, the team coughed out the water they had accidentally inhaled.
"There's, like, some freaky shark thing down there!" Amy shrieked at Chris.
"You mean Fang?" Chris inquired, and then let out a chuckle. He pointed up to the monitor above him. "Yeah, turns out toxic waste can affect stuff underwater too. Who knew?" The monitor showed a normal shark sitting in the water, somehow enjoying a cup of tea, and then the image shifted to an image of Fang as he was now.
"That's… really messed up," Shawn commented. Shawn sat in the middle of the back row of his team's seats. To the left of Shawn sat Beardo, and on his right was Dave. The girls all sat in the front row, Sugar on the far right, Sky in the middle, and Ella on the left.
Going on as if Shawn hadn't spoken, Chris explained, "Anywho, when a team gets dunked, their opponents can steal by guessing which dunk-ee is guilty. Guess right, and you get a point. Guess wrong, and this happens." Chris once more pressed the button on his remote, only this time the Rats were the ones to go down.
Down below, Fang managed to tie a bib around his neck. He noticed the Rats descending behind him, and turned to face them. Not wasting any time, he opened his mouth, causing the team to gasp.
Bubbles formed on the water's surface, and Chris stood on his platform, smugly awaiting the correct moment to bring them back up. After a moment, he pressed the button, and the team rose out of the water, them and their seats appearing wet but unharmed.
"Now that we understand the rules, let's start the game!" The host declared, pulling out a card from behind his back. "To the rats, now listen carefully- 'Who does this when they're nervous, or likes a boy?'" Chris pointed up to the monitor, which played a burping sound effect.
Everyone except Sky and Ella laughed at the sound. Whereas Ella appeared to not laugh out of concern, Sky did not laugh out of embarrassment as her cheeks turned red. "Who told you that?" She demanded to Chris as she reluctantly pressed the buzzer in front of her. "Ow!" Ella gasped at Sky's pain, and above Sky, Dave abruptly stopped laughing when he learned whose secret that was.
The scoreboard dinged as the Rats gained their first point.
"Who becomes a flustered mess when it comes to girls?" Chris went on, turning to the Maggots for their question.
Dave raised an eyebrow. "First Sky's thing about liking guys, and now embarrassing someone who has difficulty talking to girls? Is he trying to make romantic tension?"
Topher kicked back in his seat with his legs up on the counter and his hands behind his head, waiting for someone to own up. Scarlett disinterestedly examined her fingernails. Glancing over her team, Jasmine noticed that out of all of them, Rodney was the most nervous.
"Looks like that's you big guy, just bark it out," she advised.
Reluctantly, Rodney slouched in his seat, and sighed as he pressed the button. "Ow! Okay, yeah, it's me…"
No one really laughed at Rodney, except Sugar, who snorted and began a full-out laugh. After a few seconds, she noticed the stares she was getting from her teammates. "That was about somethin' else," she quickly lied.
"And it's one all," Chris announced as the scoreboard added a point to the Maggots' side. The Maggots cheered, except Rodney, who tried to shrink into his seat.
"Thanks for doing that, Rodney. That was really brave of you," Sammy thanked him gently.
Amy rolled her eyes at her sister's kindness, and patted the country boy on the arm. "Yeah, same or whatever."
At Amy's touch, Rodney suddenly became more alert, and he took to staring at her with starry eyes. In his eyes, hearts and cherubs surrounded Amy, who looked at him with a confused expression on her face. He began to blush and babble.
(Confessional- Rodney)
Rodney was curled up on the outhouse toilet, his feet against the wall, and staring into bliss. "She thinks I'm brave. She admires me, and now I admire her…"
"Rats," Chris began the next question, "who got banned from their local mall?"
Dave's eyebrows shot up in surprise. "Banned from the mall? Seriously? Who here would get themselves banned from a mall?"
No one said anything. Beardo thought of a potential answer, and glanced down below him at Sugar, who answered with a dirty glance for the assumption. Shawn shrugged, not really caring; Sky tapped her chin in thought. On the end, Ella twiddled with her fingers, gazing at the button. Resigning herself, Ella reached out, and pressed the button. "Ouch, that stung!" She cried, cradling her hand.
"Correct, it's Ella!" Chris affirmed, causing the other Rats to gasp. "Though, I would've appreciated more of a response."
"No explanation would justify my actions. That is why I'm willing to accept the judgment of my peers," Ella stated, closing her eyes as if she was waiting for her doom.
"Cute, but I don't care. So as a quick punishment," Chris replied, holding up his remote and pressing the button.
The Rats disappeared under the water, holding their breath. While under, Sugar's makeup began to run. She touched her finger to her face, and noticed this when she pulled the finger away. Looking up from her finger, she only had a second to react to Fang chomping his jaws down around her. The seats rose up as Fang licked his chops. His mouth bulged surprisingly, and was then forced open by Sugar herself. She gave him a poke in the eyes, and swam up to the surface.
(Confessional- Sugar)
She stood in the confessional, her arms crossed and something white poking from her butt. The pageant queen scoffed, shaking her head. "If he thinks he can turn me into his late breakfast, he's got another thing comin'!" Confusion taking over her scowl, Sugar reached behind her, and yanked the white object out, revealing it as a big tooth. "Whoa, that's a big tooth! What's this from?"
(Confessional- Fang)
The shark used a mirror to look at the gap in his teeth. Clearly unhappy, he growled, and snapped the mirror in half.
Back at the challenge, Sugar clambered back into her seat. The pageant queen touched her finger to her face again, and examined her running makeup. "Well, shoot! All this dunking is making my makeup run! I can't do this challenge if my makeup is running. Can we take a break so I can re-apply?" She asked Chris.
"That's a good point," Amy agreed from the Maggots' side, drawing all eyes on her, including Rodney's lovestruck gaze. "Unlike this hideous monster over here," she jabbed her thumb at her sister sitting next to her, "make-up actually looks good on me."
"Hey, speaking of makeup," Topher spoke up from the other end while raising a hand. "Chris, can we talk about your crow's feet?" Topher pointed to Chris.
"Crow's feet?!" Chris repeated, visibly becoming uneasy. "Hey, listen this-"
Dave unbuckled his harness, and stood up. "You know what? I'm all for taking a break. In fact, how about we just skip this challenge, huh? I certainly don't feel comfortable having my secrets brought up."
"But how are we supposed to win if you leave?" Sky questioned, twisting around to look up at him.
"Hah, like you were going to win to begin with!" Max sneered, cackling. His cackling abruptly ceased the moment Fang jumped out of the water, and took a bite out of the Maggots' seats. The wannabe villain screamed, and jumped into a surprised Scarlett's arms while the rest of the team panicked at the sight of Fang causing damage.
Seeing the damage to the Maggots' seats, Shawn yelped while unbuckling his harness. "Okay, that's my cue to get out of here!" Beside him, Beardo began wailing an alarm siren.
Jasmine started to argue with Amy, and Sammy attempted to interject. Scarlett, no longer surprised and rather downright annoyed, dropped Max onto the floor; Topher continued to try and bring attention to Chris' appearance; and Rodney stared at Amy lovingly. Beardo continued making noises, prompting Dave to tell him to shut up; Ella attempted to reason with Sugar, causing the pageant queen to yell at her while Sky tried to keep the peace.
Livid by this point, Chris straightened his back, and shouted, "Alright, shut it!" The shout seemed to bring all conflict to a halt. "Thanks to that pathetic digression, we don't have time to finish this challenge. Happy?" He told them all sternly.
The Rats all voiced their agreement, though Ella's was the only hesitant voice among them.
The Maggots also agreed, but several of them were half-hearted about it due to being distracted by other things.
"Well, you won't be happy for long. Come back after the break for an all-new challenge, from which there is no escape!" Chris declared to the camera. "And in the meantime…" Holding up his remote, he pressed it, and both sets of seats sunk down into the water with yelps of fright from the campers. The show faded to black.
When the show returned, there was a brief shot of the trees before returning to the group of campers all dried and walking through the forest in their teams instead of as one big group like before. In the time unseen, Sugar had a chance to redo her makeup, making it look as if she was never wet in the first place, and her makeup never ran.
"I'm glad that the challenge ended early," Sammy told Jasmine as she walked with her at the front of the team. "It would've been awful for Chris to ask me an embarrassing question."
"Oh, you mean like how you still suck your thumb in your sleep? That wouldn't matter. Everyone here knows you're already a baby, anyway." Amy spoke up from behind, a smirk on her face. Topher, Max, and Rodney all laughed while Scarlett only smirked.
"Um," Sammy spoke up amidst the laughter, "that's not one of my secrets. That's one of yours."
Sammy leaned close to Jasmine, and Jasmine bended over so Sammy could whisper to her. "Just so we're clear, she's the one that still sucks her thumb while sleeping." Jasmine nodded in understanding, smiling.
(Confessional- Sammy)
"Thumb sucking is definitely Amy's thing," Sammy said in the outhouse. "She likes to dump all of her secrets on me to make herself look perfect and make me look like a mess. For example, did you know she always makes me pay when we go to the movies?"
(Confessional- Amy)
Amy scowled, sitting in the confessional. "After I was born, Mommy and I had to wait seventeen minutes for Samey to come out. Can you imagine? If I could've walked, I would've left without her."
As the Rats continued to their next destination, Dave and Sky held back.
"Sorry Chris embarrassed you like that, it wasn't cool," Dave told the gymnast.
Sky sighed, "No, it wasn't. Ugh, it's so gross." She held her face in her hands.
Dave quickly held up his hands. "Hey, hey, it's okay. It's actually kind of cute."
Sky paused, and then lifted her face out of her hands. "Really?"
The normal guy smiled, rubbing the back of his neck. "Well, yeah. Everyone has a tic or something that happens when they do something. Burping when you're nervous is just another one of those tics."
"I never thought of it like that. The way you put it, it sounds so… normal."
Dave chuckled a little. "Hey, in a place like this, a little normal is good."
Giggling, Sky smiled at him, beginning to blush.
Ahead of the two, Ella watched over her shoulder, a bright grin on her face. She turned to Shawn. "Isn't that beautiful? He's making her feel better about herself."
Not even looking back to see what Ella was talking about, Shawn raised an eyebrow. "Um, sure, if you say so."
(Confessional- Shawn)
"Relationships are nothing but trouble," he stated. "When you start caring about someone more than yourself, you aren't preserving yourself, and self-preservation is important when it comes to the zombie apocalypse. While I'm on this island, you won't see me hooking up with a chick."
"Welcome, players!" Chris' voice boomed over the loudspeakers as the two teams arrived in a muddy area. "It's time for part two of today's challenge- The Mad Skills Obstacle Course!" The viewers were then shown a giant boot mechanism above a wooden platform. "The relay race begins with a mad dash from the Kick Start. Forget coffee, this baby doesn't get you going, nothing will." The giant boot made a few practice kicks before the scene switched to a section of cannons mounted around another platform. "Then it's a race against time that is the Cannonball Run." The cannons fired off a round of shots, creating holes in the platform. "Over to my personal fave, Wrecking Ball Alley, hurts so good!" To prove his point, a wrecking ball swung over the rotating logs the camera panned across. "And moving on, we head to the Gangplank, complete with rabid mutant beavers!" A series of high posts were shown, and then the beavers in question were shown gnawing through the supports. "Followed by the bouncy agony of Double Trouble, and finally the Grand Slam, where you'll use ropes to swing into the giant baseball mitt while avoiding those deadly bats!" Last shown were a series of red bulbs vaguely resembling butts pumping up and down, and then a giant baseball glove surrounded by large baseball bats standing in the mud. A bird slammed into one of the bats, and fell to the ground unconscious.
"Piece of cake!" Chris laughed as the campers hesitantly looked at each other. "Oh, and as you may remember, I said the winning team from part one would have a distinct advantage in part two."
"But there was no winner," Jasmine pointed out.
Chris rolled his eyes. "Yeah, don't remind me."
"There was no winner!" Sugar called out.
Unamused by Sugar's antics, Chris continued as if she hadn't spoken. "The losing team was going to wear snazzy specs while competing, but since we never actually finished the competition. I've decided everybody has to wear them."
Chef walked up with a box full of green glasses, and Scarlett, the only member of the cast wearing glasses, took out a pair. She took off her glasses, and put on the new ones.
"Interesting," she hummed as the vision behind the glasses was quite blurry. "The lenses of the glasses appear to have been deliberately made to decrease the wearer's eyesight levels regardless of conditions."
"Dorktacular goggles won't make part two easy, or attractive, but it can be done in theory," quipped Chris. The contestants all groaned at this.
Topher noticed the obstacle course, taking count the number of obstacles, and raised his hand. "Hey, Chris? There's only six obstacles, and we have seven people."
"Already thought of," Chris assured him, and pointed, "Competitors, take your positions!"
Beardo and Topher stood at the Kick Start section, Beardo already having his glasses on while Topher skeptically inspected them before putting them on himself. "First up at the Kick Start, it's Beardo versus Topher." Scarlett and Ella both had their glasses on, and were reaching their arms out to feel around since everything was so blurry in their vision. "Then it's Ella versus Scarlett versus the cannonballs." Jasmine smiled at Shawn, though he did not smile back, instead trying to see through his glasses. "Shawn faces Jasmine in Wrecking Ball Alley." Up at the beginning point of the Gangplank, Rodney stood still, trying not to fall from the high point, and Sugar sat on the edge, kicking her legs absentmindedly. "Sugar is up against Rodney at the Gangplank." Max scowled and Sky appeared hesitant as the camera showed them stationed at Double Trouble. "Sky and Max battle Double Trouble." Dave, Amy, and Sammy stood at the last station, and like Scarlett and Ella, Dave was reaching his hands out to try and find where stuff was. "And Dave will fight Amy and Samey for the Grand Slam. First team to finish wins the whole shebang, and the other team loses a member tonight.
"Since it's a relay race, you'll need something to pass- your mascots!" announced Chris. "Oh, intern!"
The gloomy intern walked up to Beardo and Topher, carrying a crate in each hand. Beardo and Topher exchanged looks as the intern retrieved the creatures from their crates. Wearing yellow, rubber gloves, the intern held a snarling, six-pawed, hairless rat in Beardo's face. "Team Rat gets a mutant rat," Chris explained as Beardo took the rat in his hands, "And Team Maggot gets a mutant maggot." Topher was handed a green maggot that was dripping ooze from its mouth.
Topher made a noise of disgust as he accepted the maggot, and Beardo let out a similar but stronger hiss to the rat, scaring it into calming down.
Once both competitors had their team's mascot, Chris held up an air horn. "And go!" He hit the button on the horn.
Right off the bat, the giant boot came down swinging, and kicked Beardo right off the platform. Beardo let out a scream that sounded like it was actually his.
"And Beardo gets the boot!" Chris commented off-screen.
Down in the mud below the platforms, a dazed Beardo laid on the ground with no rat in sight. His afro shuffled a bit, and the rat poked its head out of the massive amount of hair, clearly confused. Even in his dazed state, Beardo managed to make a 'chirp, chirp, chirp!' sound mimicking cartoons where birds circled around a confused person's head.
Above him, Topher eagerly hopped across the platforms with the maggot tucked under his arm. "Topher takes-" Chris began to commentate.
"Topher gets his team the early lead with a great start," Topher announced, cutting Chris' own commentary off. Upon reaching Scarlett, Topher held out the maggot. "And he makes a flawless pass to Scarlett!"
Taking the maggot, Scarlett said, "I think the commentary is unnecessary." Without another word, she turned and started heading towards her section of the relay.
Topher huffed, walking away. "She doesn't know anything about show business." As soon as he finished his comment, he blindly stepped in a gap between the platforms, and fell into the mud.
Scarlett ran towards her obstacle, holding the maggot in her hands. As she ran, she collided face first with a wooden pole. She let out a hiss of pain, clutching her head with one hand. "Okay," she murmured to herself as she took two steps closer to the camera, "two paces to the pole's right." She made it another few steps, and then the cannonballs started firing, forcing her to stop. After a rapid succession of cannon fire, Scarlett hummed to herself, "Alright, can't go any further without a plan. If I could just calculate the pattern for the cannons…"
Meanwhile, Beardo successfully climbed back up onto the platforms, and hopped the gaps to the next leg. Letting out a short trumpet of success, he handed the rat to Ella.
"Thank you so much!" Ella smiled gratefully to Beardo, who gave her a thumbs-up as she turned to run.
Still doing mental math, Scarlett stood off to the side of the section, allowing Ella to hurry by.
"The Rats take the lead!" Chris announced as Ella approached the cannons, the princess' hurry transforming into a happy skip.
As she entered the zone, she started to dance and sing, "These glasses almost make me blind, but I don't mind. Sure cannonballs may fire, but this isn't as hard as balancing on a wire." As she sang and danced along the path, the cannons fired cannonballs but they all missed her. Ella, along with the rat, did not mind the sound at all and continued to dance to the song.
"Whoa! Ella just aced the Cannonball Run… by singing?!" Chris reported, him and Chef shown watching the feed through a monitor. As he made his announcement, the host looked to his assistant with a confused eyebrow raised.
(Confessional- Ella)
Ella held the rat in her lap, and a couple birds hovered around her. "I was a huge fan of Total Drama World Tour. The contestants in that season were so lucky to get to do that. I wish I was there. If I was on that season, I would've sung the entire time."
Dancing her way over to Shawn, Ella passed the mascot over. "Take good care of him, please."
"Huh, we're in the lead? Nice job, Ella," Shawn praised. He turned to face his obstacle. "Okay, here goes." Taking a slow step, he stepped onto the rotating log, at which point he started jogging on top of it. "Aha, there we go-ah!" Just as he was getting into the groove, the rat leaped from his hands to chomp on his head. "Ah, not the head! Not the h-eaaaad!" Distracted by trying to get the rat off his skull, Shawn didn't even see the wrecking ball come swinging behind him. It batted him into the air, over the second rotating log, and to Sugar's feet.
"This isn't good," Jasmine noted, observing Shawn's increase in the lead and turning back towards the Cannonball Run. "Scarlett, hurry it up over there!"
The maggot crawling at her feet, Scarlett drew imaginary numbers in the air, and finally declared, "Got it!" Picking up the maggot, she rushed through the area to Jasmine as the cannons fired, dodging every which way. "Sorry for the delay. Couldn't make any mathematical errors," the genius apologized, passing the maggot to the unofficial team leader.
"It's fine. I can take it from here." Jasmine hurried away to start on the logs.
Standing up, Shawn shoved the rat into Sugar's hands. "Here! Take the little brain muncher!"
Though she couldn't really see much through the specs, she thought the rat looked a little cute. "Aw, who's a cute little varmint? You are, you are." She hugged the rat, almost squeezing the life out of it, and the rat fought to get itself some air.
"Sugar, the challenge?" Shawn reminded the pageant queen while she was still hugging the mutated creature.
The pageant queen stopped hugging the rat and looked at Shawn, "What? Oh right! Yeah, I'm going to win this thing. It's Sugar Time!" Still holding the rat close to her, Sugar jumped on the first platform and noticed it was a little wobbly. A glance down below told her that the beavers were gnawing away at the support beam holding the platform up. "Hey! Quit that! I'm trying to win the pageant up here!" She yelled down at them. Unfortunately, it was too late. The support beam was already eaten through, and the whole platform came down, taking Sugar and the Rats' mascot with it.
Down in the mud, Sugar sat up, the rat in one arm. Lifting up her free one, she smiled. "Hey, a mud bath! I've been needing one of those." Nearby growling caught her attention, and she looked up, seeing two snarling mutant beavers. "This don't look so good, does it?"
Back at Wrecking Ball Alley, Jasmine had little trouble getting across. Having seen Shawn get hit earlier, the Outback explorer was prepared for when the ball tried to strike her. Once it got close to her, she jumped on it. "Got to do better than that, mate!" She told the machine, leaping off when it reached the height of its arc.
Now standing, Sugar was still confronted with the beavers. "Listen, I've wrangled with pigs as big as you two! Do you really want to go up against me?" She challenged the beavers. They merely growled at her. "Well, I tried…" Darting her eyes around, she soon got an idea. Dramatically, she pointed past the beavers. "Look over there! A girl beaver's checking you two out!"
Amazingly, the beavers bought it, and looked in the direction Sugar pointed. Quietly chuckling to herself, Sugar ran off. Moments after she left the vicinity, the beavers realized they had been tricked, whirling around and expecting to see Sugar, but she was gone. The two growled.
"Your turn," Jasmine simply stated as she passed the maggot to Rodney.
While they were passing the maggot, their hands touched and Rodney got this love-struck look in his eyes as he stared at Jasmine, who became confused by his behavior.
(Confessional- Rodney)
Rodney blushed, his cheeks slightly red. "She passed the maggot to me… she trusts me. Every good relationship has trust. It's a sign! We're destined to be together."
"Um, are you going to take the darn thing or not?" Jasmine asked while he was still in that dazed state.
Rodney shook his head. "Huh, oh yeah. I'll take it." He completed the hand-off and held the maggot in the crook of one of his arms. The farm boy stood there staring at his teammate lovingly. "You… two days… dangerous… wedding…"
The tall Australian gripped his overalls once she got annoyed by his distracted behavior. "Get a hold of yourself and go!" She commanded as she shook him.
"What? Oh yeah!" Rodney snapped back to attention and turned to the Gangplank. Tucking the maggot into the chest pocket of his overalls, the country boy hopped across the first few platforms. Upon reaching the third platform, everything began to wobble. The beavers had gone back to chewing the posts. "Waaah!" He yelled as he fell down.
Finally a safe distance from the beavers, Sugar giggled loudly, pumping her fist as she approached Max and Sky. "Nailed it! Here you go." Sugar made to hand the rat over to Sky, but pulled the rat back at the last second. "Wait! Mama is going to miss her little rodent baby. Mwah!" Giving the rat one last hug and a kiss on the head, to which the rat seemed disgusted and confused, Sugar handed over the rat. "Okay, now you can take him."
"Thanks, I think," Sky took the rat with uncertainty, and began to run. "Okay, Sky. Your vision is impaired, but you can still overcome this obstacle. Here goes!" She pep-talked as she got closer and closer to Double Trouble. To her surprise, she managed to land decently on the first bulb. From there she did a front flip to the next, jumped from that one, jumped over the third bulb with another front flip, and landed on the fourth bulb. On the fourth and last bulb, she jumped to the next platform. However, the bulb's constant moving up and down threw off her balance, and she ended up jumping short of the platform.
On the platform, Dave stood there with his arms outstretched. "I got it! I got it!" As Sky fell short of him with the rat in her hands, he squirmed and brought his hands back to his chest. "No, I don't," he said with a hint of squeamishness.
Having fallen face first in the mud, Sky groaned as she pushed herself up onto her knees. The rat, free from her hold, began scurrying away.
"Hey, get back here! We're not done yet!" Sky got to her feet, and chased after the creature, tripping in the slippery mud in the process.
Back at Double Trouble's starting point, Rodney hauled himself up to where Max was. "Here, take the little guy." The country boy handed the maggot over to Max.
"Fine, if I must," the wannabe villain muttered. Taking the maggot into his hands, he stared at it through the glasses. "Hm, not quite the evil little minion I want, but you'll have to do."
The maggot puked onto his face.
Cringing, Max gagged. "We'll have to work on that." Without another word, he took off at a run towards the bulbs.
"Good luck!" Rodney called, still hanging from the edge of the platform. A beaver paw grabbed onto the back of his overalls, and dragged him back down as he screamed.
Max cackled as he approached his obstacle. "Prepare to face the wrath of me-ouch!" His sinister proclamation abruptly cut off when he jumped onto the first bulb, painfully landing on his stomach. The bulb bounced him onto the next one, where he landed on his back that time, and the process repeated for the other two, and he finally fell on his face in front of the twins.
"And with Max's bumbling performance, the Maggots retake the lead!" Chris announced.
"Haha, wow! That was so lame!" Amy sneered, and took the maggot from Max. Almost immediately, she shoved it in her sister's arms. "Here. I touched it so I think my participation counts, or whatever."
"Uh, I'm not sure if it works like that," Sammy pointed out.
Amy barked out a short laugh. "Oh, I'm pretty sure it does. Trust me."
The camera shifted over to Dave, and Sky arrived with the rat. "Here, sorry it took so long."
"It's fine," Dave told her, and then glanced down at the team's mascot. "Uh, before you pass it to me, could you maybe wipe it off?"
While Sky reluctantly did as Dave asked, concerned that this delay could cost their team the win, the twins went on ahead.
"Look, don't embarrass yourself more than you already do, and just don't even try to win. Don't try to be a hero," Amy told her sister as they jogged.
Sammy frowned, "But… I want to try."
"Well don't," Amy responded flippantly, "trying is for people, like me and not you, who are actually good at it."
"I don't care. Trying is better than not trying at all," Sammy replied, and the twin cheerleaders reached the Grand Slam. They stood at the edge, staring at the finishing point of the challenge.
Almost immediately, Amy side-eyed her sister, and stated, "You're not going to make it."
Down below in the mud, Rodney found himself stuck between the two beavers. "You guys really don't want to hurt me, do you?" Rodney asked, looking between them. "I have a girlfriend to think about, maybe two. Do you really want a broken heart, or two on your conscience?" The beavers looked between themselves, chattering to one another. One of them drew a heart cracked in two in the mud. "Oh, you guys want to find a girlfriend too? I get how that feels, like a lot." The two beavers chittered, pounding their double tails in the mud, and enveloping Rodney in a hug. "Aw, that's right. Us guys looking for love need to stick together. Bring it in." Rodney wrapped one arm around the middle of each, and squeezed. The beavers began to gasp for air, surprised by Rodney's strength.
"I'm telling you, you're not going to make it," Amy continued to argue when the scene switched back to them.
Sammy had her back turned at her sister, and grabbed one of the two ropes available. "Still going to try."
"Samey, don't you dare-!"
The mean twin's sister leaped, and swung away from the platform. Just as she left, Dave arrived with a clean mutant rat in his arms. He lout a "No!" as he came onto the screen. Sammy's swing seemed to be clear, avoiding the bats and heading straight for the glove. When she got close enough, she planted her feet on the glove, but too much of her balance was off. She tried to maintain position, but her boots ultimately caused her to fall, not quite reaching the intended goal.
With a plop into the mud, Sammy groaned as she sat there, all dirtied up and the maggot in her lap.
"Okay, Dave… you can do this. It's a straight shot to the glove. Just one swing, and that's it. One swing without hitting those tough-looking bats, and one swing without falling into the gross, dirty mud." Dave attempted to coach himself, grasping the other remaining rope in one hand, and cradling the rat in his other arm. Off to the side, Amy watched with an uncaring expression, not even attempting to stop Dave from finishing the challenge.
"Come on, Dave! Do it!" Sky encouraged, followed by other vocal support from the rest of the team.
Beads of sweat formed on Dave's forehead. The rat seemed to notice sweat on the boy's arm as well. "Alright, you can do it. On three! One… two…"
At that moment, Sammy returned to the platform with the maggot, splotches of mud all over the two of them. "Eugh, I'm covered in mud…" The nice twin whimpered.
Caught off-guard by Sammy's return, Dave whirled around, screaming in fright the moment he saw her all filthy. He attempted to take a step back, but found nothing but air. Faltering, he accidentally began to swing towards the glove. Along the way, he slammed into nearly every bat surrounding the area. Reaching the glove, he slipped off the rope, falling on his face. The rat blinked as it somehow landed on Dave's head.
"The Rats win!" Chris declared, causing the other Rats to cheer. "To the Rats the spoils- McLean brand soap, shampoo, and conditioner guaranteed to wash off the stink."
"I dunno. Stink isn't so bad." Shawn remarked, earning a weird look from Ella and Sky. Beardo and Sugar shrugged, not disagreeing with him.
Chris shot a finger pistol at the Maggots. "Maggots, see you at the elimination ceremony!"
The five watching teammates groaned at the loss.
Amy walked over with Sammy in tow. "I told her not to go for it," she said arrogantly as Sammy hung her head.
Jasmine glared at her, unseen by her teammates.
Later that evening, Jasmine stood in front of the Maggots' cabin. Rodney, Topher, Max, and Scarlett were all sitting on the cabin porch, and the twins were nowhere in sight.
"Okay, we've probably got not much time before the twins come back so let's make this quick," Jasmine hurried along. "I think we need to vote for Amy tonight."
"Why? I thought it was Samey that screwed up in the end," Topher spoke up, reclining back as best he could on the steps.
Jasmine scowled at Topher's words. "She didn't screw up. She tried, unlike Amy. Amy did nothing to try and help us today. All she ever seems to do is boss her sister around, and tries to make her look bad in comparison to her."
"Anything for you…" Rodney murmured, blushing until he realized what he said. "Wait, huh?"
Scarlett adjusted her glasses, saying, "I agree that one of the twins will need to be eliminated. They are clearly distracting to each other, and if we wish to win more challenges in the future, we cannot have any distractions."
"Which one is the mean one? I want to keep her around." Max blurted out, deviously rubbing his hands together. "Her attitude is perfect for my future empire."
"We don't want to keep the mean one. We want to get rid of the mean one." Jasmine corrected him, growing increasingly annoyed.
Max raised an eyebrow, eyeing Jasmine strangely. "Why would we do that?"
The Outback girl facepalmed, and let out an irritated sigh. "Just vote for Amy, please."
At the bonfire ceremony, Chris stood prepared with the plate of marshmallows in his hands. Beside him stood Chef in his hazmat suit, holding the metal box. Amy sat on the first row's right corner with Sammy to her left, and to Sammy's left sat Jasmine. Topher sat beside Jasmine, and in the back row, Scarlett sat behind Topher, to her right sat Max, and Rodney to the right of him.
"Ready?" Chris questioned to the team. "Everyone gets a marshmallow, even the loser. But that's one marshmallow you do not want to eat- the Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom. The following people are safe," Chris picked up a marshmallow, and threw it.
"Jasmine." The Australian girl plucked it out of the air with one hand.
"Topher." The Chris fan smiled, catching the marshmallow.
"Scarlett." The genius held out a hand, and the marshmallow landed in it perfectly.
"Max." The marshmallow beaned the villain's forehead, and he fumbled to cup it in his hands.
"Rodney." The marshmallow managed to land in the chest pocket of Rodney's overalls. Reaching in, he pulled it out with a smile on his face.
The view shifted around all of the campers as they received their marshmallows, and finally landed on the twins, both without a marshmallow. "Which leaves Amy and Samey!" Chris gleefully continued.
"I'm in the bottom two with her?!" Amy exclaimed indignantly, pointing at her twin. "I'm not surprised she doesn't have a marshmallow yet, but me?!"
Ignoring Amy's outburst, Chris called, "The Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom goes to…"
Amy sat forward, actually nervous. Sammy sighed silently, hanging her head and getting ready to accept her fate. She blinked oddly when she felt a hand on her shoulder. Turning, she saw the face of a solemn Jasmine silently supporting her.
"Amy!" Chris declared at last.
Smiling victoriously, Amy shot out of her seat, throwing her fists in the air. "Hah," she whirled around to face her sister, "in your face, Same- huh?!" Her mind finally caught up, and she saw the glowing marshmallow coming her way. Yelping, she jumped out of the way. She shook her head afterwards, and scowled at her sister. "You had something to do with this, didn't you?"
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Sammy replied honestly, not sure what happened herself.
As Amy pestered her sister, the viewpoint shifted over to Scarlett, who had her arms folded over her chest smugly.
(Confessional- Scarlett)
"Jasmine clearly thinks nicely of Samey, and wants to save her." Scarlett explained in the confessional. "I could vote her off, and leave Jasmine one less potential ally in the game, but I know what it's like to have an annoying sibling."
Amy sat in the Hurl of Shame's bucket, very angry. Chris stood next to her on the dock, and Chef was at the catapult's lever.
"Samey had something to do with this! I know she did." She cried out.
Chris smiled at her. "I'd ask if you have any last words, but I'm pretty sure you just said them."
Rolling her eyes, Amy glared at Chris. "Stuff it, Mc- ahhhhhhh!" The catapult launched, flinging Amy out of sight.
"Two hurls down, twelve to go. Who will be eliminated next? Tune in, and find out on Total Drama: Revenge of the Island!" Chris outro-ed.
Amy- 13th
Leonard- 14th Place
The vote here was pretty close. Jasmine, Rodney, and Sammy all voted for Amy. Max, Topher, and Amy all voted for Sammy. Scarlett was the tiebreaker vote. Her reasoning is just as she said. She also wanted to vote off Max, but she saw enough of him and her brother in Amy, who already had a target on her back thanks to her actions in the day and Jasmine's attempt to rally the team against her.
I changed the word 'laser' from the original episode's title to 'mutant' because the laser part was just random, and no lasers were seen in the episode. I also used trivia from the campers for the first part of the challenge, instead of making stuff up. Sky's was used as a way to get the ball rolling, and Rodney's was to make sure he got some attention. In canon, Rodney was essentially ignored or dismissed by the other characters when it came to his love life, so I brought it up in the challenge to fix that. I could've made something up for Beardo to make the challenge digress without a verbal response like B before him, but I thought Ella's canon trivia was much funnier, and gives a little depth to the character so the cast knows her as more than a fairy tale princess expy.
The second half of the challenge went through a major overhaul in how it operated. Sugar was originally set to hop across the Gangplank as the platforms tipped over, but that was when Rodney got ahead of her so with her going before him, that just didn't jive well. Scarlett also was going to use the cannon fire from Ella as a measure of time before making her way through. Probably the only leg of the second half that remained the same as in my original draft was Topher and Beardo's start.
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