SideshowJazz1: Thanks for the review! Yeah, Sky handled it as well as she could considering who was involved.

Nicky Haugh: Thanks for the review!

Joel Connell: Don't worry about Sugar and Fang's feud, I have ideas for that down the road. This isn't the end of it. Also, I cannot answer your question about All-Stars because that would spoil the cast. I'm considering a little something more about Dave/Sky in the finale, and I'm not sure if he didn't suffer a psychotic breakdown.

WeirdAlfan101: Eat, Puke, and Be Wary will be quite the show, I promise that. No, Sugar did not pass the tooth off to someone else.

SilentSinger948: Who's to say Dave didn't have a breakdown? And yeah, Amy's mutation will be different from Dakota's.

OmniPlanckInstant: Thanks for the review! Scarlett Fever may or may not occur. I'm not sure how I'll make her big reveal work without an island to take over, but yes, Scarlett is the main antagonist of Revenge of the Island.

ThatBritishGuy: Yeah, true that he didn't try to kill her. It probably has to do with the fact that she didn't accidentally lead him on as much, and he found out about the boyfriend before she kissed him instead of after the fact.

sdgeek: To clear up any confusion, after Dave found out about Keith and that Sky wouldn't date him, he told the others to vote him off because Sky was pretty much the only thing he felt worth sticking around on a radioactive island for, and since he couldn't have her, he didn't see any reason to stay any longer. Sugar quit afterwards for the diamond since she thought it could pay for her college fund more than the million could. The reason she didn't do it sooner, or even volunteer to be eliminated, is because she's that much of a jerk and wanted to see who would get canned. Hope that clears up the ending scene. And we're not at the merge yet, we've got one more episode to go before that, and that's this one.

Fear The Darkness Inside: Thanks for the review! We'll find out how Chris reacts to Topher, and how Sammy will react to Amy's mutation, in this episode.

Eager Reviewer: Thanks for the compliment! Don't worry, everything's fine. I've just been a little slow in getting this episode out.

And now with the reviews answered, it's time to wake up some campers!

Disclaimer: I do not own Total Drama, or anything within the franchise. I only own a DVD of season one.

Episode 8- The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean

"Last time on Total Drama: Revenge of the Island," Chris narrated as the episode began, flash-cutting to clips of the previous episode. "Players went on an impromptu environmental cover-up, I mean, clean-up challenge, and tried not to get a toxic makeover like Amy. Jasmine struggled with her fear of tight spaces, and nearly broke Shawn's hand. Freak-zekiel had slightly more luck with the ladies than Human-zekiel."

During the recap, Dave and Sky were shown meeting after the challenge. "Sky finally told Dave who Keith was, and broke his heart. Dave was so heartbroken, he asked his team to send him packing." The footage then showed Sugar jumping in the catapult with her diamond. "Sugar was also sent packing, right after she found out that her diamond was actually worthless.

"Makes you want to reflect, don't it?" Chris asked as he was shown on the dock during the day with a mug with his face on it in his hand. "Maybe with a cup of McLean-brand instant coffee!" The host took a sip, and his face scrunched as he immediately spit it out. "Bitter- better, better than the last!" Holding the mug over the edge of the dock, he dumped the remaining coffee into the lake. A fish broke surface, and ended up puking in response to the coffee in its habitat.

Putting on a smile, Chris walked across the dock asking, "Who will survive? Who will wish they didn't? Find out right now on Total Drama: Revenge of the Island!"

(cue intro)

The sun was halfway up the lake's horizon, and the loons crooned their morning greetings off-screen. Beardo was shown sleeping on a wooden raft in a close-up, which then panned over to show Shawn and Jasmine in the same position. The camera cut to Sammy and Sky sleeping on one side of another raft while Scarlett and Topher slept on the other side.

Tied to a lake buoy, a ticking clock was shown reaching the top of the six o'clock hour, and began ringing quite loudly. The noise was enough to make Shawn, Jasmine, and all of the Maggots snap awake.

"Wha? Where are we?" Sky asked, looking around them. The camera zoomed out from the Maggots' raft to show the two teams on two rafts floating in the lake water, along with a bathtub somehow, a couch, and a trunk full of clothes.

"Classic Chris," Topher commented rather pleasantly as he and Sammy were shown looking at Camp Wawanakwa far off into the distance, "one season he puts everyone in the cargo hold and drops them into Niagara Falls, and the next season he puts everyone adrift when they're asleep."

Sammy agreed, "Sure sounds like him." She then turned to Topher. "Wait, I don't remember anything after dinner."

Scarlett tapped her chin in thought for a moment, and then snapped her fingers. "Dinner, that explains it!"

The scene flashed to the mess hall the previous day, where Scarlett was being served dinner by Chef Hatchet. The burly man slapped some food onto her tray as she approached him.

Scarlett only took a moment to observe her meal. "Turkey buttolini? That seems rather fancy for you," she said, glancing up at the man.

"Whatever, genius girl," grumbled Chef before smirking. "Enjoy your naaap, er I mean, meal."

Regarding him with a skeptical glance, Scarlett once more looked at her dinner on her tray.

The scene returned to the Maggots' raft, all of them now standing up. "The turkey in turkey buttolini contains tryptophan, a chemical known to cause drowsiness in humans. It's possible that mutating the turkey enhanced its natural abilities," she explained to Sky. She smiled as she once more tapped her chin thoughtfully. "That actually has the basis for an interesting experiment."

Over on the Rats' raft, Shawn and Jasmine stood over their still-slumbering teammate, Beardo. Beardo seemed to switch between snoring regularly, and snoring random noises.

"Okay, the fact that he can do that in his sleep is kinda uncanny," Shawn remarked while looking between Beardo and Jasmine.

Jasmine kneeled down next to Beardo. "At least he isn't sleepwalking," she pointed out, and then jostled his shoulder. "Wake up, mate! Time to rise!"

Beardo stirred, and his eyes blinked open before his awakening fully registered.

"Whoa," he said as he sat up, "what happened last night?" He scratched at his afro until his mind finally processed where they were. "How'd we end up out here?"

As Beardo was caught up to speed, the Maggots gathered at the center of their raft.

"While this is pretty classic of Chris, it feels like it's on the lower end," stated Topher. "Usually he adds some kind of dangerous factor, like stocking the water with sharks."

Sammy winced frightfully. "Oh em gee, you don't think he did that, do you?!"

"We'll be fine," Sky assured her as she patted the nice twin on the shoulder, and then gestured to the junk also floating in the water with the teams' rafts. "Even if he did, the sharks probably wouldn't be able to find us among all this junk."

(Confessional- Sky)

Sky sighed as her confessional began rolling. "Yesterday, I found out that Dave left, and that he specifically asked his team to vote him off because he didn't want to be here anymore." She rested her hands on her legs as she looked down at them. "I didn't think he'd be that hurt by finding out I had a boyfriend. I could understand him wanting to leave after nearly dying in a toxic waste-infested mine, but leaving because of me not being able to date him?

"If I were in Dave's position, I would've stayed even though he had a girlfriend," she elaborated. She groaned as she put her face in her palms. "This whole season has been a bust so far. I can't keep a consistent winning streak, Sugar pretty much outed me to my original team, and now one of the few friends I have out here left probably because of me. How am I ever going to win this show?"

As Sky assured Sammy that they were safe, Topher glanced at Scarlett beside him. Scarlett had her back to him, and was glancing over the junk as well as their own raft.

"So, you forming a plan?" he inquired after a moment of silence.

"Of course," she nodded. "I can already predict what kind of challenge we're going to have, and am planning accordingly."

(Confessional- Scarlett)

"With seven players left including myself, I'm quite annoyed that Chris hasn't announced the merge yet," noted Scarlett as she jotted down on a notepad in the outhouse. "That said, I think I have an idea of how to proceed in the game with who remains.

"For now, Beardo and Topher are relatively harmless to my plans," she said while looking over the notes she made. "Aside from his interesting ability to replicate sounds, Beardo does not appear to have any close ties and does not stand out from the remaining campers. Likewise, Topher does not possess any unique talents, and seems more fixated on Chris than winning challenges and the money.

"Sammy is above them in threat level. While athletic, she does not appear to have much in way of self-confidence, and mostly relies on Jasmine's friendship. With how close they are, Sammy's vote could be important when the merge arrives if she's still present. Sky is athletic as well, and has the right mindset for the game. Her one weakness is her lack of allies within the game, and I think that will serve my plans well.

"At the very top of my priority list are Shawn and Jasmine. While not the sociable type, Shawn displays a level of intelligence and athletics that I cannot very well ignore. Jasmine, on the other hand, is a triple threat. She's intelligent, athletic, and possesses a strong social game. Getting her out will be very tricky, both of them actually, and eliminating either will be very risky for my game.

"Thankfully," she concluded as she stashed the notepad away, "I have a safety net."

Once Scarlett's confessional ended, Chris and Chef, both men wearing life-jackets, rode up to the rafts on jetskis.

"Morning, suckers! How'd you enjoy your turkey buttolini?" Chris greeted.

Shawn shrugged in reply. "Eh, it was a little dry. It could've used a little more water and a couple pinches of more seasoning." He blinked as the camera pulled back to show Jasmine and Beardo staring at him weirdly. "What? Just because I prefer to prepare myself for the zombie apocalypse doesn't mean I don't know how to cook."

(Confessional- Jasmine)

"An outdoorsman," Jasmine began to say, "and a man who can cook? He's shaping up to be quite the catch, should I snag him up sometime." She smiled as she pounded her fist down onto an open palm.

Chris stood up on his jetski. "First things first," he reached behind him, and pulled out a photo of the immunity idol, "if any of you are still trying to find that McLean-brand invincibility sculpture I hid at the beginning of the season, you can stop now, somebody's already found it." He enjoyed seeing the distrustful glances several of the campers, including Shawn, Scarlett, Jasmine, Beardo, Sky, and Topher were throwing at each other. Sammy, on the other hand, looked a bit nervous about the news. "And speaking of digging things up, today's challenge is about winning the ultimate reward- life itself!

"Your first challenge is to race to the shore," he pointed at camp in the distance, "by any means possible! The first team there wins a handy reward; the last team gets a heinous penalty before you embark on a quest for buried treasure."

"You're using us to dig up buried treasure now?" Topher remarked, raising an eyebrow. "That's a step down from using us to seal off the mine. It's a good step down, but,"

Chris frowned in Topher's direction. "Zip it, Topher! I know about my phone, so consider yourself lucky that I have access to a number of back-up phones."

"You're the one that dropped it, and I was going to give it back!" Topher shot back.

"Whatever, game on!" Chris rolled his eyes as he and Chef put their jetskis in reverse, and backed away from the rafts.

Shawn rubbed his hands together as he went to the back of the raft. "Alright, let's get moving. We can start by using the sign as an oar, and as an improvised weapon." He gripped both hands on the sign's post, and started to pull.

"Great idea, Shawn," Jasmine agreed brightly, "about the paddle thing. Not so sure about the weapon thing, though." She joined him, and started tugging at the post.

Beardo stood back, and watched.

(Confessional- Beardo)

"Jasmine's only been on our team for a few days, and it seems like she's really hit it off with Shawn," Beardo said. "Since Dave and Sugar both left the other day, it's clear that now I'm the odd one out." He then sighed as he glanced down at his feet before raising his eyes to meet the camera again. "I really hope we win this challenge, otherwise those two are more likely to vote me out than each other."

From afar, Scarlett watched as the three Rats worked together to tear off their sign and prepared to paddle. "While their idea is a clever one, it's not going to give them much rowing power," Scarlett summarized, turning to her teammates. "We're going to need to play to our strengths if we have a chance of beating them. Sky, Samey, both of you have an athletic build. You both get in the water, and kick from behind. Topher and I will paddle with our hands."

"Sounds like a plan to me," Sky nodded, and then dove into the water.

"What about the sharks Chris probably have out here? We're dead meat if we're in the water," Sammy pointed out.

Scarlett dismissively waved her hand. "We'll cross that bridge if it appears. Right now, we need to get a lead on the Rats. I dread to think what the penalty could do to our chances of winning."

Sammy frowned, but reluctantly nodded. "Okay…" She jumped in the water, and joined Sky in pushing the raft.

The Rats were already on the move. Jasmine had taken to paddling with the sign while Shawn and Beardo rowed with their hands. As they continued, Beardo happened to look up and see the Maggots beginning to follow them.

"Hmm," hummed Beardo, "looks like they have people pushing from behind in the water."

"That's actually a good idea," Shawn spoke up, ceasing to paddle with his hand, leaving only Jasmine still paddling. "Maybe Jasmine and I should get in the water while you paddle with the sign."

Jasmine did the same, holding up the sign. "Right! Beardo, you take the-," she stopped when the raft bumped into something. She looked forward again, and met two giant, yellow eyes. The Outback explorer gasped as tentacles rose out of the water around the raft. "Giant squid!" Shawn and Beardo started to scream along with her.

Up in the sky, Chris and Chef returned, riding in a helicopter.

"Aw," cooed Chris, "it's playing with them."

The camera zoomed in on Jasmine with a very disgruntled expression on her face. "Bring me a little closer so I can hit you, ya wet drongo!" The camera pulled back to show the squid having wrapped its tentacles around the Rats. Feebly, Jasmine attempted to swipe at the squid with the sign. The raft also mysteriously vanished, possibly due to the squid.

Shawn struggled against his bonds. "Grr, I'm trained to fight zombies, not squids!"

"This is the worst morning I've had since the one after that night I subbed for the Homecoming DJ!" Beardo shouted.

The Maggots gasped as they continued to paddle their raft.

"Okay, I anticipated possible sharks, but not squids," Scarlett noted with a tone of surprise.

"Is that better, or worse than sharks?" Sammy inquired fretfully.

Ominous music began to play as a dorsal fin rose out of the water behind Sky, and then the full form of Fang emerged, snorting down Sky's neck. Feeling the breeze down her neck, Sky twisted her neck around, and she yelped in shock. As Fang opened his mouth to eat her, she did a front flip out of the water onto the raft, making Fang miss entirely.

"We've got company!" Sky alerted her teammates.

"Oh em gee," Sammy cried, scrambling out of the water and onto the raft as Fang began to circle it. "What do we do?"

Fang leaped out of the water, and landed on the team's raft, causing them all to scream.

After a moment, Sky composed herself, and scowled at Fang. "Step off!" Raising her leg, she gave him a swift kick to the male private area. Fang reacted as a human male would, and winced in pain, freezing up for long enough of a moment for Sky to shove him back into the water.

Topher winced in sympathy for Fang. "Remind me to never make you that mad."

"I told you," Jasmine grunted as the scene switched back to the Rats dealing with the squid, "to let us go!" As a last straw, she threw the sign at the squid, and it smacked the creature in the eye, forcing it to drop all three of them into the water.

The camera panned to the right, behind the squid as the three campers broke surface.

"Swim for it!" hollered Beardo, and the three started swimming away as fast as possible.

On the Maggots' raft, Scarlett approached Sky with an impressed smile. "Well done, Sky. I was right to put you on swimming duty."

"Oh, um, thank you, Scarlett…" stammered Sky, unsure of how to take Scarlett's compliment.

"Yeah, that was great and all," Topher added, walking over with Sammy. "What're we going to do about that guy, though?" He pointed over Scarlett and Sky's shoulders, and they turned to look.

Apparently while they were talking, the squid had recovered and had approached their raft. Yelping in fright, all four team members huddled together at the edge of the raft furthest away from the squid. The squid raised its tentacles.

"Oh em gee, we're going to lose!" Sammy exclaimed, and then blinked. "Wait a minute! Everyone stay back!" Forming a scowl on her face, she stepped forward.

"What are you doing?" "Are you crazy?"

Clenching her hands into fists, Sammy started yelling at the squid, "You ruin everything! It's always me, me, me! This is all your fault!"

"Samey!" "What did you do?!" "It's going to kill us!"

The creature didn't take kindly to being yelled at, and lifted a tentacle high into the air, curling it into a near-fist. Spikes then appeared on the curled tentacle.

Scarlett, Sky, and Topher all screamed in terror upon seeing the spikes. A pause sign then appeared over their faces as they appeared to freeze. Chris then rose up onto the screen, wearing a hat that oddly looked like the squid.

"Will Samey's shouting outmatch the squid's punching? Will the Maggots beat the Rats? Find out after the break!" Chris announced, and then the show went black for commercial.

When the show faded back in, Sammy jumped back to her teammates, and the squid smashed its spiked tentacle into where she had been previously standing, launching the team off their raft.

The team screamed as it soared through the air. Down below in the water, the Rats swam until they heard the screams and saw the shadows pass overhead. Shocked, they stopped to tread water, and watched as the team finally landed.

The team groaned in pain, laying on the beach in awkward positions. Sky was first to get on her hands and feet.

"Hey, we hit land! We're in first!" declared Sky.

Weakly, her team voiced their cheers in a painful tone.

Sky got up on her feet, and Scarlett soon joined her as the camera got closer to the team, fixing her glasses into the correct position.

"That was a reckless course of action," Scarlett reprimanded Sammy as she and Topher joined the two standing girls on their feet. "Please, think out your actions more carefully next time."

"Sorry," Sammy apologized while fixing her skirt, "I panicked and I guess I just… acted."

"Since it got us in first, and on land, I'm not complaining," Topher interjected, raising a hand to his hair. "Though, I do hope I don't have any hairs sticking out of place." After checking his hair, he grinned at his female teammates, "besides, I think we won."

"Win you did," Chris confirmed, leaning out of the helicopter. "And because you won, you get these!" He held out a rolled up sheet of paper and an open compass, dropping them down to the team.

Scarlett caught the paper, which unrolled to reveal a map, and the compass. "A map and compass? That is useful."

"Oh look," Chris said as he was seen in the helicopter again, pointing at the shore. "Look who just washed up!"

Jasmine, Shawn, and Beardo crawled onto the beach, soaking wet.

"That was the longest swim I ever had," Shawn panted, collapsing onto his stomach.

"I don't think I can eat calamari without thinking of that squid again," remarked Beardo.

"We gave it our best, team," Jasmine said, "we just didn't get as lucky as they did."

"All three of you put a sock in it!" The trio looked up at Chris, who was now holding a remote. "The second part of today's challenge started out as a practical joke involving classic Total Drama competitor, Gwen, but it's turned into more of a rescue mission." He pressed the button on the remote.

The Maggots turned toward a widescreen monitor that had apparently been rolled onto the beach by the skinny intern with his hair covering his eyes. The monitor powered on, and Gwen could be seen rubbing her head while sitting inside a wooden chest.

"What the," she stuttered, her face growing increasingly panicked. "Oh no, I'm buried alive? Again?! Chris!" She started hollering as she pounded a fist on one of the walls.

Sky glared up at Chris' helicopter. "Burying someone alive is not cool, Chris!"

"I agree," Jasmine nodded from where her team was standing, all three members now dried off. She wrapped her arms around her midsection. "I'm getting chills just looking at her panic like that."

"Relax, it's all good," Chris said. "That's why we're using the buddy system. Instead of letting last year's players have all the fun, we brought in one of this year's duds."

The campers turned their attention back to the monitor, and watched as the camera in Gwen's space zoomed out to show Amy, still dressed in her intern outfit and bald, asleep beside the gothic girl.

"You put Amy in with her?" Sammy questioned incredulously, and then calmly paused. "Huh, I don't actually have a problem with that. After how many times she's done that to me since we were eight, it's actually kind of refreshing." A pleasant smile formed on her face, which quickly was dropped. "Still feel bad for Gwen, though."

Chris chuckled, "That'll teach her to not be so rough with filing my nails. Maggots, you've got your compass and your map to the general vicinity of the chest at the northern tip of the island. Now go!"

With their rewards in hand, the Maggots turned on their heels, and sprinted further inland. The Rats made to hurry after them, but Chef landed the helicopter in their way before they could pursue their opponents.

"Not so fast! To the losers go the penalty belts," Chris turned to Chef and requested, "Chef, lock them in!"

A dark grin on his face, Chef got out of the helicopter with metal belts slung over one shoulder. He quickly locked the belts around the three Rats' waists, their hands in handcuffs attached to the belt.

"These are pretty heavy. About one hundred pounds?" Shawn guessed as he attempted to move his hands.

"One hundred and twenty," Chris corrected before sticking a metal detector on Shawn's back.

Beardo raised an eyebrow. "How's a metal detector supposed to help us find a wooden chest?"

"It's not," Chris took out a megaphone and shouted through it, "now go-go-go!"

Taken aback by the sudden shouting, the trio sprinted off in the direction that the Maggots went.

Above the ground where Gwen and Amy were buried, the audience was shown where the chest was located, and the cameras picked up the sound of Gwen's pounding on the chest.

"Ugh, where's my-" Gwen cut off her muttering as she rummaged around, and picked up her phone. She began dialing a number. "Lousy Chris and his stupid game on his crummy show…" As the phone began to dial, she put it to her ear.

The screen split in half to show Chris answering, "Hello?"

"You've gone too far this time, McLean. You can't-"

"Ugh, what's with all the noise?" A new voice joined the conversation. Gwen looked down as her half of the screen pulled back to show Amy waking up. "Gross, did the circus kidnap me and put me in a box with one of their clowns or something?"

Gwen opened her mouth to retort, but Chris beat her. "Amy, glad you're awake!"

"Yeah, no thanks to you! It's probably your fault that I'm stuck in some sort of box with a clown," Amy snapped.

"I'm not a clown, you cue ball," retorted Gwen.

"What did you just call me?!"

The split screen removed Gwen and Amy's half as Chris pulled his phone away from his ear, listening to Gwen and Amy erupt into a shouting match.

Ending the call, he lowered his phone and shrugged at Chef, "Eh, I'm sure they'll work themselves out."

The Maggots skidded to a stop in front of a swamp, and began to cough as the camera panned over to the right to display its sickly green color and several waste barrels littered around.

"Ugh, this place smells worse than Keith's room the one time I visited and he forgot to clean up," Sky remarked, covering her nose.

Topher, holding the map, looked at it. "According to the map, Gwen and Amy were buried straight across the swamp from here."

"Are you saying we might have to go straight through the swamp?" Sammy clarified, a bit horrified by the idea.

Scarlett pondered the question. "It would be the fastest way through… I say we go for it."

"Me too," Sky agreed.

Sky and Topher went on ahead, and Sammy was about to follow when Scarlett grabbed her arm. "Before we progress further, may I speak to you for a moment?"

"Um, sure, what is it?" Sammy nodded.

"In the event we lose today's challenge, who would you vote for?"

"Uh, I don't know. I kind of like everyone left."

"So you seem troubled with indecision," assumed Scarlett, "well, if I may make a suggestion, I think it would be wise to vote for Sky."

"Sky," the nice twin gasped, "why her?"

"For one, she's the newest member of our team. She was on the opposing team at the beginning, and may still have connections to them when the teams merge. My second reason is she's incredibly athletic. We did witness her take down Fang this morning, correct?"

"Yeah, I guess she is pretty strong…"

"Total Drama is more of a physical game than a mental one," Scarlett reasoned, tapping the side of her head for emphasis. "Our own games are better off if we eliminate the strong ones before they can do the same to us. Just something I'd think about." Her final word on the subject said, Scarlett began to wade into the swamp.

Biting her lip in thought, Sammy gazed downward for a second before following her teammate to catch up with the others.

A flash forward showed the Rats arriving at the swamp's edge just like the Maggots before them. A purple frog tried to use its tongue to snatch up a similarly purple dragonfly, but the dragonfly bit down on the frog's tongue, making it cry out in pain.

"Oh man, I didn't think I'd come across something that smells worse than me!" Shawn griped.

Jasmine bent down as best as she could next to the ground. "Look, the Maggots left footprints, and they lead into the swamp."

"They went into the smelly swamp?" Beardo inquired. "Shouldn't they have gone around the smelly swamp?"

"If it's the way to Gwen and Amy, then we should probably go the same way," Jasmine reasoned.

Shawn shrugged as best as he could while his arms were restrained. "I already smell pretty bad so I guess I've got nothing to lose. Let's go." He ran forward, and Jasmine soon joined him.

"I better not smell like toxic swamp for the rest of my life!" Beardo hollered, and followed them.

The dragonfly from before flew past the camera, dragging the frog by its tongue.

Scarlett and Sammy waded through the swamp, attempting to catch up to Sky and Topher. The latter two were quite a few feet ahead of them.

Sky looked back at Scarlett, and turned her attention to Topher. "I don't trust Scarlett. Did you know she kicked me in the head in the mine? She didn't sound very apologetic when she apologized."

Topher shrugged as he continued to read the map while he walked. "Scarlett's just very focused on the game. Don't take it personally if she sounds cold. I don't think she's close to anybody."

As Topher talked, he didn't realize that his path was rising as his feet walked over a green, scaly back. The head of an alligator rose from the swamp, revealing it had several spikes protruding from its head. Rising on its hind legs and revealing tentacle forelegs, it threw Topher off its back, and roared as Sky ran away screaming.

The Maggots clustered together as Topher got to his feet, sputtering swamp water. They all shrieked, running forward and narrowly avoiding the squidgator diving at them.

"We need to ascend to higher ground! Into that tree!" Scarlett ordered.

The team ran to a tree standing in the middle of the swamp.

(Confessional- Sammy)

"This island gets scarier and scarier with every challenge," Sammy sighed, staring into the camera. "I wish Jasmine was still on my team. I knew that as long as I stuck with her, I'd be safe from whatever kind of monster we meet here including Amy." Sammy grasped her left arm, and started rubbing it up and down.

Sky hopped up onto a tree branch, followed by Topher.

"Come on, hurry!" Sammy pleaded with Scarlett as the genius attempted to climb the tree.

"Note to self- never dismiss exercise as a waste of study time," Scarlett remarked, finally getting to safety on a branch.

Sammy moved to climb to the branch Scarlett was on, and looked over her shoulder, seeing the squidgator rushing towards them. She yelped, and tried to climb.

"Quick, grab my hand!" Scarlett reached a hand out down to Sammy.

Sammy raised an arm up, and grasped Scarlett's hand. Before either could do anything, they looked up to see the squidgator fast approaching. They both screamed in fright.

Just as the squidgator appeared as if it was going to attack, a surprising figure slammed down on top of it.

"Fang!" The four Maggots exclaimed, shocked that they had been saved by another mutant that had attempted to kill them.

The mutant shark growled at them, apparently wanting to get revenge for earlier. Before he could make good on his threat, the squidgator, apparently not happy that Fang had interrupted its own attack, wrapped its tentacle forelegs around Fang, and chucked him away, proceeding to leap in Fang's direction to attack further.

(Confessional- Topher)

"So there we are, Sammy about to be eaten by a squidgator when Fang, of all people, er, mutants saves us!" Topher declared, making animated motions with his hands as he told the story. "Sure, he intended to attack us too, but hey, whatever works. I wish I had popcorn so I could enjoy the show." Topher finished his confessional with a grin.

As Fang continued to wrestle with the squidgator, the Maggots dropped down from their safe zone back into the swamp water.

"Let's go, while they're distracted by each other!" Sky declared.

"Little problem with that," Topher spoke up, holding up a torn map. "The map's ruined so we have no idea where to go next."

Scarlett smirked, "Not necessarily. Chris told us that we had to go north, and I still have the compass." She held up the device, and then read it. "According to this, north is that direction," she stated while pointing past the tree they had just been hiding in.

Sammy grasped her arm nervously. "You mean past that thing of prickly vines?"

The camera panned over, and showed an ominous-looking cluster of spiky vines in the swamp.

Scarlett held up the compass again, and checked. "Unfortunately, yes."

Sky eyed the vines warily. "They look too thick. We'll have to go around. Follow me!" She ran off, and the rest of the team followed her.

As Fang managed to get the upper hand over the squidgator, he did not notice that he had an audience watching. The camera pulled back to show the Toxic Rats watching the scene.

"This is scary for me to admit, but I think I'm actually rooting for Fang to win," Beardo remarked to his teammates.

"Agreed," Jasmine nodded, "I'm just happy that it's not us he's attacking. Hopefully with the both of them occupied, we can just sneak past."

Shawn glanced off to the side. "Hey, there go the Maggots!" He jerked his body in the Maggots' direction, the camera briefly cutting to the team to show them going around the vines.

"Um, you guys, we've got company!" Shawn and Jasmine's heads swiveled around, and they gaped when they saw two smaller squidgators slinking towards them and Beardo.

"Run!" Jasmine commanded, and she along with the boys ran just as the squidgators attempted to pounce.

Inside the chest, Amy was now sitting upright across from Gwen, both girls glaring daggers at each other.

"I swear, when I get out of here, I'm going to kill Chris!" Amy growled. "He better sleep with one eye open tonight."

"For once, I agree with you," Gwen snapped, before raising an eyebrow. "Um, what's going on with your skin?"

Amy looked at Gwen in annoyed confusion. "What are you talking about?" She lifted up one hand, and gasped.

Dozens and dozens of black spots, much like her mole, er beauty mark, began to appear all over her visible skin.

"What's happening to me?!" Amy demanded, growing increasingly panicked with every new black spot's appearance.

Up above ground, the Maggots had just arrived in the clearing that Gwen and Amy were buried in, having gone around the thorny vines. They all came to a halt when they heard a loud, muffled screech of horror from Amy.

"That was my sister!" Sammy exclaimed in recognition.

Topher glanced around, wondering, "Where did it come from?"

"It sounds like it could've come from anywhere," Sky replied, also looking.

"Quickly, everyone spread out and start digging!" Scarlett ordered, and the team got to work.

As the Maggots began digging four individual holes, the Rats arrived on the scene.

"It looks like they've started digging already," Jasmine noted.

"Speaking of digging, how are we supposed to dig when our arms are like this?" Beardo questioned, thrusting his arms out as best as he could.

Shawn glanced down at his penalty belt. "Chris never said we had to dig like this. There's probably a way to get these off."

Jasmine hummed in thought, "Chef locked these belts onto us with a key, so…"

"There must be a key to unlock them," Beardo concluded, and glanced at the metal detector on Shawn's back. "The metal detector! Maybe we're supposed to use that to find the key that unlocks the belts!"

Jasmine faced Shawn. "Shawn, bend over and see if you can detect a metal key!"

Shawn did as she asked, and bent over, starting to search.

Sammy poked her head out of her hole she was digging in, and gasped. "The Rats are here, hurry!" She then went back to digging, but at a much quicker pace. The other Maggots were quick to do so as well.

Awkwardly, Shawn walked around with the metal detector facing the ground, and eventually he came to a small, black rock at which point the metal detector started going off.

"Hey, I think this is it!" He called, kicking the rock and revealing two keys underneath it, one of them smaller than the other. "Score!"

A flash forward showed the penalty belt falling at Beardo's feet, unlocked at last.

Beardo smiled as he massaged his wrists. "I'm so glad that's over."

"The penalty may be over, but the challenge isn't," Jasmine said, holding up the larger of the two keys. "We still need to dig up the chest that Sammy's sister is in, and I think we're supposed to unlock it with this key."

"Guess we better start digging then," Shawn added while massaging his wrists as well, "maybe we should try a spot near where the keys were found."

"Somebody get me out of here!" Gwen's voice shouted from underground.

"Hey, make them get me out of here too!" Amy also yelled.

Sky peeked out of her hole. "Anyone find the chest?"

Scarlett, Sammy, and Topher all rose their heads out of their respective holes, giving her negative replies.

At the Rats' area, Shawn and Beardo dug with their hands while Jasmine dug with the metal detector, it being a surprisingly good shovel. After some quick digging, the detector smacked against something that was not dirt.

"We found it!" Jasmine shouted excitedly, Shawn and Beardo cheering along with her.

Chris and Chef flew over the area in their helicopter, Chris declaring, "The Toxic Rats win!"

The Maggots clambered out of their holes, and groaned at their loss.

Beardo unlocked the chest, and Gwen got out. "Thanks, all of you really," she nodded to the Rats before climbing out of the hole, pulling out her phone and dialing a number. "Chris? Chris? You better pick up the phone, you sadistic bleep!" She walked off, passing the Rats as she did so. The Rats watched, wincing at the curse.

Sammy, at this point, jogged over to the Rats' hole, and looked down inside it. "Amy!"

The Rats looked back down their hole, and grimaced, backing out of their hole to give some space.

Amy, bald and covered in black spots of varying sizes, hauled herself out of the hole. She was breathing heavily, and her whole body was shaking with anger.

To put it simply, Amy was pissed, and that didn't even begin to cover it.

(Confessional- Sammy)

Sammy sat on the outhouse toilet with her hands in her lap, trying to look as composed as possible. "So, it turns out that Amy being down in the mine longer than thirty minutes did have some effect on her. She didn't die, which is nice, but it looks like she got some kind of mutation. I don't know what it does, but it makes her look like a human Dalmatian.

"After she was freed by Jasmine and the Rats, she went on this tangent that I'm pretty sure won't be aired on TV, and she eventually got taken away by some other interns," she explained, shrugging. "I feel a little bad that happened to her, but I also can't deny that she deserved it after everything she's put me through when we were growing up."

The sun had set by the time the campers found their way back to the campgrounds. Chris was no help, as usual, and made no attempt to guide them back, so they relied on Shawn and Jasmine's exploration knowledge and Scarlett's intelligence to find the way.

Later that evening, Sky sat on the porch of the Maggots' cabin, tapping her foot against one of the steps as she considered her options. Behind her, the door to the girls' side swung open and then shut again.

"May I speak to you for a minute?" requested Scarlett, sitting down beside Sky.

"Oh, sure! What is it?" Sky lifted her head up, listening attentively.

Scarlett adjusted her glasses before speaking, "I would like to make a suggestion regarding your vote tonight. I'm voting for Samey, and I think you should do so as well."

"Samey?" Sky repeated, an incredulous tone in her voice. She looked back at the girls' side of the cabin, and then around the camp before facing Scarlett again. "Why? She's so nice!"

"Nice she may be, but she's not that useful," Scarlett answered in a straight manner. "While she did help us win the first part of the challenge, she has very low self-confidence and from what I've observed, is very close to Jasmine. Currently, Jasmine is on the other team and inaccessible to her, however if the merge comes soon, which I assume will happen in the near future considering how many contestants are left, Samey may have a vote in her corner which then makes her a threat."

"I don't know," Sky replied hesitantly, looking down at her feet.

Scarlett stood up from her seat. "Think about it, eventually you'll come to see that is the only logical conclusion that is well for our futures." She then went back inside the cabin.

Sky sat alone on the porch, and sighed as she began thinking over her choices with the new perspective that Scarlett had given her.

As the Maggots sat in front of the bonfire and Chris stood in front of his podium, Sammy raised her hand while asking, "How's Amy?"

Chris shrugged, "I dunno. Fine, I guess. After her tantrum, Chef and I decided she had lived out her punishment and sent her home."

"This wouldn't happen to partially be because she swore to kill you for her condition several times?" Topher inquired, raising an eyebrow.

"Eh, that too," Chris bobbed his head side to side as Chef arrived in his hazmat suit with the box containing the Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom. "Okay, time to send one of you hurling. The safe players are… Topher!"

Topher smiled as he caught his marshmallow.

"Scarlett!" Scarlett smirked, catching her marshmallow as well.

Sammy and Sky tensed up, realizing the vote was down to them. "Samey, Sky, one of you are about to receive the marshmallow that no one wants to eat, and that one is…"

Sky clenched her hands into fists, narrowing her eyes at Chris, as if daring him to say her name. Sammy, on the other hand, bit her lip and began rubbing her arm. The pair exchanged brief glances in anticipation before returning their attention to Chris.

"…Sky!"

Sky gasped as Sammy sighed in relief, slouching over in her seat. "What?!" Sky demanded, standing up.

Chef threw the green-glowing marshmallow at her, and she did a backflip to avoid it.

"I don't understand," Sky turned to her team, and gestured to them before gesturing to herself. "You guys voted me off?!"

"Sorry, Sky…" Sammy apologized, averting her gaze.

Topher shook his head. "Don't look at me."

Sky was pretty sure that was his way of saying he didn't vote for her, but she had voted for Sammy as Scarlett suggested, Sammy voted for her apparently, but that meant in order to get the majority of the votes for her to leave, Scarlett would've had to… Oh!

"Scarlett, you lied to me?" Sky glared at Scarlett.

"Yes, I did," Scarlett answered, folding her arms over her chest haughtily. "Don't take it personally. Total Drama is a very physical game in regards of challenges. I was just making it easier for the rest of us to win."

Sky stared at her quietly for a minute, and then spoke. "You know, I'm a big believer in good sportsmanship, and what you just did was very unsportsmanlike, just like Sugar when she eavesdropped on my confessional." She looked at Sammy and Topher next. "Just so you know, Samey, Scarlett told me to vote for you."

Sammy gasped, her hands flying to her mouth as her gaze darted over to Scarlett.

"If I were either of you, I'd watch out for Scarlett," warned Sky before turning on her heel and marching down to the dock with Chef.

Topher leaned back, clasping his hands behind his head. "Wow… talk about a dramatic exit."

Down at the Hurl of Shame, Sky had already climbed into the bucket, and Chris stood by her with Chef operating the lever for once.

"You look mad," Chris teased, a light smile on his face.

"Gee, I wonder why," Sky replied crossly, her arms folded. "You know, I'm glad I'm leaving. This game has been awful to me, and I don't think I want to play with a bunch of people who aren't going to play fair even under your constant bending of the rules."

"What's fun about rules if you don't bend them?" Chris rhetorically asked before motioning to Chef.

"Rules are there to be fair!" Sky shouted as Chef pulled the lever, and she was flung into the night sky.

Chris chuckled, hearing Sky's scream fade, and then turned his attention to the camera. "Another one gone! We never did find out who has the invincibility statue? Will we find out next time? Will the merge ever come? Tune in next time on Total Drama: Revenge of the Island!"

(cue end credits)

Sky- 7th

Sugar- 8th

Dave- 9th

Rodney- 10th

Max- 11th

Ella- 12th

Amy- 13th

Leonard- 14th

Sky is a character that I've had a constantly changing opinion of over the years since her debut. I like her, but I also don't like her in a sense. At first, I loved the idea of her and Dave together, even though their story ended on a disastrous note. I even wrote a fanfic about Sky patching things up between her and Dave for Christmas one year. Eventually, I got over the ship, and I owe some of that to Fangren, who got me to ship her with Eva instead. While I don't love Sky as much anymore, I would still vote her as winner of Pahkitew Island over Shawn. Sky is a bit of a hard character to interpret, and that was something I thought about while writing Sky's arc during this story. In the end, I decided to interpret her as a team player and also a bad decision-maker. Throughout her time in the competition, Sky made several seemingly bad choices while acting as her team's unofficial leader. She let Shawn lead the team in episode 3, and they lost; she went into the cave in episode 4, and got caught by the mutant spider when she should've waited for Dave to come back with Sugar; she continued to let Max man the seagull cannon in episode 5, and she was knocked unconscious, her team losing that challenge afterwards; and she made a bad choice of words in her confessional that Sugar overheard, leading to Sugar getting most of the team to ostracize her. In short, Sky is athletic and a team player, but when it comes to decisions, she's a bit lousy. Let me know what you think of my interpretation of her character.

Even though she's an intern, Amy was my first choice for a character to shove into the treasure chest with Gwen. I definitely think that Chris and Chef would put her in there as part of their little punishment for her and for sake of convenience already having her around. In a way, this almost makes up for there not being an intern with Bridgette back in episode 5 like canon had Dakota, who was an intern at the time. Amy's mutation was random, not entirely sure if the black spots all over her body are the full mutation, or if they do something more that's even more bizarre. I also decided with Amy as pissed off at Chris and Chef she is now, she has suffered enough and should go home.

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