Here is part 2 of he first episode. It took a bit longer than I thought because a variety of reasons. For one, I had written half of the challenge as part 1 but wanted to split it into two parts to release the first one sooner. I couldn't really find a good place to split it so I ended up coming up with a new challenge and moving the other over to the next episode. I also began an intro which was moved over as well. It will be included in the next chapter.
Thank you for the reviews, I did make a few mistakes in the first episode and went back to fix them.
Chris was seen standing at the resort dock by himself. "Last time on Total Drama Brains, Brawn, Beauty," he began the episode's introduction. "We met some old faces who will be helping lead the teams this season as well as the new cast." A quick montage was shown, starting with Owen and then going into a few of the new campers. "After being separated into teams based off of their qualities, the campers are now ready to set their sights to the ocean, where they will battle it out on ships." The four boats were shown pulling up to the dock.
"Who will sink? Who will emerge victorious? Find out, right now, on Total, Drama, Brains vs Brawn, vs Beauty!" he finished off the introduction.
The episode reopened with the cast still on the dock looking at the boats that Chris showed had shown off. "You can't be serious." Melanie spoke up from the group.
"Oh, but I am!" Chris chuckled. "As you can see, each team gets a boat. You will all go out onto the waters and fight it out using an assortment of weapons, last boat floating wins!"
"Won't that kill us?" Cynthia asked in concern.
"Hopefully not," Chris answered. "The weapons have been tested to be non-lethal but extremely painful."
"That isn't very reassuring." Daniel added.
"So, if the final team standing wins, does that mean everyone else loses?" Yoshi asked.
"If you mean if all losing teams will send someone home, no. You will be marked on performance. Even if you are the first eliminated from the challenge, it doesn't necessarily mean you're sending someone home. Chris explained. "Any more questions?" a few of the cast members raised their hands or opened their mouths to speak. "No? Good! Get on your marked boats and prepare to set sail! The captains of the teams will now become the captain of the ships! Oh and before I forget,"
A loud whirring sound drowned out the scene causing most of the cast to cover their ears. Above them, a helicopter flew over and ungracefully dropped the famous Total Drama outhouse in the middle of the resort. "Here is a confessional booth anyone can use to spill their innermost secrets." Chris announced.
"That looks a lot worse in person." Mikael commented.
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Mikael - "And it smells worse than it looks too." he covered his nose.
Owen - "Oh, man! It feels great to be back in this old thing! We share so many memories." he sighed as he reflected back. He then farted. "Yep, lot's of good memories." he laughed
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The scene flashed forward as the team began to board their boats. With the teams almost fully boarded, Liam was standing out as he stood looking nervous on the dock. Camila noticed. "I know the dock is nice and all but we're supposed to be on the boat."
"You know, you all look very capable I think I'll just watch from here." he responded.
Yoshi noticed his behaviour and moved over. "What's the problem here?"
"Not a big fan of water." Liam told him.
"You literally rode a boat to the island." Camila deadpanned.
"There is a big difference between riding a boat and potential sinking on one." Liam defended himself.
"Look," Yoshi began. "We're going to need all the manpower we can get. How about we see if we can find something for you to use near the centre of the boat."
"Okay, fine." Liam sighed. "But don't expect me to be much use unless we can win using my witty humour." he joked.
Over on the Beauty team, they had a small delay when Sarah disappeared for a bit. "Aren't we missing someone?" Daniel asked the group.
"Hmm? I wasn't really paying attention." Justin admitted.
"Wait!" Sarah called out. "I'm here!" she ran to the boat wearing a two-piece blue swimsuit.
"Any reason you had to change?" Daniel asked her.
"Well I wouldn't want to get my clothes wet." she acted as if it was a stupid question.
"Umm, we don't want to sink though, right?" Cynthia quietly added to the conversation.
"It's merely a precaution." Rellik jumped into the conversation for her. "And I have to say, no one of us thought to change. We need to think more ahead of the game like her if we want to win."
"Aw, thank you!" Sarah smiled. "I also wouldn't want to get my phone wet, how else am I going to use Instagram or talk to Vanessa?"
"Vanessa?"Daniel asked.
"She's my BFF! After this is all over you all totally have to meet her!" Sarah began to get excited.
"Uh, sure thing." Daniel nodded.
The scene shot forward to when all four teams had gotten on their boats and moved away from the dock. The helicopter from earlier returned, this time with Chris holding a megaphone. "Are you all ready?" he shouted down below. He got mixed responses. "Well, I can't hear any of you anyway so let's begin! Last ship standing wins!"
With his signal to start the challenge, the teams began to prepare their weapons. Kazu picked up a clarinet and scratched his head. "Are we sure these are weapons?"
"Seems to look like it!" Wynda answered him as she noticed a cannon sitting on the side of the boat. "I call dibs!"
Kazu looked back to the clarinet but just shrugged and tossed it aside as he looked for something new.
On the Reject boat, Carl had found a paintball gun. "Yo, I'm not sure how much damage this thing will do but I kind of want to try it."
"Then don't let us crush your dreams! Go forth and live life!" Ozzy shouted out into the sky.
"Um, okay?" Carl slowly backed away.
Kathy was searching around the boat when she found a box. she opened it and smiled. "These will work." she picked up the box revealing it to be full of fireworks.
Therion was looking around as well while Mariana just sat beside him. "Are you going to help out?" Therion asked her.
She shrugged. "I'd much rather just wait it out." she took out a pillow and got comfortable.
Therion continued his search and picked up a controller. He pressed a button and a drone lit up beside him. "I can make this work."
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Mariana - "I'm going to admit, I don't plan on helping out much."
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Over with the Brain team, things were going a bit slower. Liam was making sure to stay clear of the sides of the boat in case he got knocked off and wore a large lifejacket. The others were searching for weapons as normal but Scarlett was staying clear of the other teams. "Any reason we are not fighting in the fighting challenge?" Camila asked.
"Simple, last team standing wins." Scarlett told her.
"So we're just going to wait around for someone to come sink us then?" Camila didn't look too impressed.
"I'm with her honestly." Liam pointed towards their captain. "The further we are from the fight the better."
"She does have a point." Yoshi agreed. "Just prepare for an attack and wait it out."
"Whatever." Camila rolled her eyes. "I guess it saves me from doing more work."
Melanie looked over the water. "What if they come to us?"
"We fight back." Yoshi looked confused from the weirdly stupid question.
"Then we might have a fight on our hands." she pointed towards another boat charging their way.
Scarlett turned and cursed. "Blast it. I'll attempt to keep us at a favourable distance but I won't be able to outrun them forever."
"Looks like we're up." Yoshi grabbed a nearby small model boat with a key on the back. He began to crank the key and then tossed it into the water where it began to move towards their approaching enemies.
"What's that supposed to do?" Mikael asked him.
Yoshi shrugged. "I thought it would do something more."
On their attacker's boat, the Brawn team were preparing their assault. "I can't wait to try this thing out!" Wynda was laughing out while caressing the cannon.
"Don't you think you're acting a little over the top?" Ryan questioned her.
"Maybe a bit but when's the last time you've gotten the chance to fire a cannon?" Wynda exclaimed.
"Can't really say I have." Ryan responded.
"My point exactly. Now you!" Wydna pointed over at Laurie. "Help me get this thing ready."
"Oh, um, sure." Laurie nodded and moved over to help. The three girls then noticed as a small boat passed them. "What was that?"
Kazu was peering out in the front when one noticed the team they were approaching. "Hey, what if we go for someone else?" he suggested.
"Why?" Eva almost sounded offended by the suggestion. "We're about to destroy the second strongest team."
"Well, my brother's on that boat and I don't really want to get him hurt." Kazu explained.
"Oh, I see how it is," Carter spoke up. "Your family more important than your team?"
Kazu looked shocked at the accusation. "Kind of? I want to win but I don't want to hurt the guy."
"Well, it's one or the other." Carter told him. "What will it be? Helping us or your brother."
Kazu looked between his teammates and than to the Brain boat where his brother would be. "Do I really need to choose?"
"I would say yes." Carter glared at him.
"It's good to know where you place your trust." Ryan added.
Kazu finally sighed. "Alright, I'll pick the team." he said with a temper.
"Good." Carter gave a swift nod. "Now get a weapon and prepare to fight."
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Carter - "Do I trust his pledge for the team? Not at all." he scoffed. "I'll make sure to keep an eye out for any handouts for the other team."
Kazu - Kazu sat with his arms crossed not looking too happy. "I hate that Carter forced me to choose, what else could I say? Of course, I want to help the team but family always comes first."
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Back with the rejects, Therion was practising using the drone he found as Mariana still slept beside him. "I think I got this." he spoke to himself he was preparing to fly the drone out when someone shouted at him to stop. He turned to see Kathy walking up with a handful of fireworks.
"I've got a plan to turn that little drone of your's into a dangerous weapon!" she beamed.
"And it involves tieing fireworks to it?" Therion guessed.
"Of course! Just fly it on into one of the boats and blam! Should blow a hole in the side easy!" she laughed out.
"Right." Therion didn't look close to how she did about the plan. "Tie them on."
Kathy took the drone and placed a few fireworks on top of it before taking a string and tieing them on. A quick test showed the drone was able to support their weight. "Perfect! Now, just let me get an extended fuse to light." she set it up so they had plenty of time before the fireworks would set off.
With the light of the fuse, Therion moved to drone over the water towards the closest boat they could see which wasn't fairing too well, the Beauty boat. He managed to get it over successfully and managed to fly it into the room where Justin was controlling the ship.
"I can't wait!" Kathy was almost jumping up and down on the spot while Therion, now completely blind of the drone, just mashed away at the controls.
Justin was having some problems driving the boat in the first place but now a very annoying drone was flying around the room he was in. "Hey, knock it off!" he told the drone and tried swatting it. It bumped around the walls and ceiling in no sense of control. Justin tried swatting at it again and again but kept missing the radical movement of the drone. "Someone help me out here!" he called out.
Both Sarah and Rellik popped their heads into the room. Sarah gasped when she saw the drone. "Is that one of those drones you can take selfies from above with? Oh, I like really need a pick from above the resort now to show my Instagram followers!"
"Can you first get it out of here?" Justin yelled at the two.
Rellik moved in and grabbed for it but missed as well. "Slippery little thing, huh?"
As the three tried to get their hands on it Fern entered the room. "I was watching the ocean when I noticed we're heading towards a bunch of rocks." she told them.
Justin stopped trying to get the drone. "Oh no." he quickly went back to the controls of the boat but he was too slow. The boat ran into the rocks, tearing the hull and throwing all of them into a heap in the back of the control room and threw the only two that remained outside, Daniel and Cynthia, into the water.
Rellik rubbed his head and noticed the body pile they had made in the corner. "I didn't know we were so close yet." he joked.
Justin groaned when the drone fell down in front of him. He finally noticed the fireworks that were strapped to the top. He sighed heavily as they fired off and luckily for them flying out the door into the sky.
Kathy cheered to see that their plan sort of worked. "Yeah! High five!" she reached out to Therion.
"No thanks, I'm good." he told her.
"Ah, come on!" Kathy nudged him. "We made a good team!"
Ozzy appeared out of nowhere. "If you don't want that high five I'd gladly take it."
Therion just gestured for him to do so and walked away.
Ozzy claimed the high five from Kathy and the two cheered. "I must return to my post to watch out for the other teams." Ozzy declared. "Ozzy O-A!" he ran off to the other side of the boat leaving Kathy to ponder more plans involving the fireworks they had.
The scene then switched to show the classic battle between brain and brawn that was about to begin. Scarlett was forced to make some unfavourable turns to avoid collisions with rocks allowing Eva to catch up to her. The Brawn team were finally in closing distance to attack.
"This is going to be beautiful." Wynda laughed. With the help of Laurie, the two rotated the massive iron cannon a few degrees to line it up with the enemy boat. "Let's fire this bad boy!" she pulled a string and a massive bomb rang out as it shot. Wynda's smile slowly faded into confusion as the cannon shot out a large fish at the other boat. The fish flew through the air and actually hit its target but did no more than slap against the hull before falling into the water. The Brawn team was silent as they were trying to comprehend what just happened. Then Wynda began to laugh loudly. "A fish! I shot a fish at them!"
"Alright, the fish was funny and all but this ain't the time to be laughing about." Ryan told her. Wynda mostly ignored her and continued laughing.
"Can someone shut her up?" Carter asked now annoyed from her loud laughter.
"Hmm, Wynda?" Laurie tried to speak up but was drowned out.
"Fine, leave it to me." Carter rolled his eyes. He walked up and ungracefully tried to push her overboard to stop her but she stayed firm. She did at least stop as she glared at him.
"Oh, is this how it is then?" she rolled her neck and took her jacket off. "You want to fight? I'll fight ya!"
"This is neither the time nor place for that." Carter told her. "Just be quiet."
"Can we focus on the other teams?" Kazu joined in onto the conversation.
"I thought you didn't want to fight your brother." Carter reminded him.
"Hey, I said I'd help the team!" Kazu shouted.
A shouting match began between the three of them. "QUIET." Eva roared from her position as captain of the ship. Everyone stopped what they were doing and shut up. Carter made a signal as to Kazu telling him he was watching him but mostly dropped the issue. "Now everyone, stop fighting each other and fight the other team!"
"Alright, someone load this thing with something useful." Wynda pointed to the cannon.
"I found these." Laurie held up a basket of eggs.
"Guess that'll do for now." Wynda shrugged.
Ryan moved over to Kazu. "Hey, think you can help me look for something?"
"Oh, sure." Kazu responded.
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Ryan - "I'm looking at this team and it's pretty dysfunctional. Laurie looks to be too scared to do anything, Wynda can't stay quiet for more than five seconds, Carter looks to be outing everyone and Kazu seems conflicted over his brother being on another team. I need someone that can help me and Laurie and Jazu seem to be the best choices for now.
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Following the confessional, the scene transitioned to show the Reject's boat pulling up to the battle scene. "This is it! The final stand." Ozzy called out to his team. "We may die, but we will die heroes!"
"Wait, we might die?" Carl looked afraid.
"Nah, we should be fine." Ozzy waved it off.
"We won't." Kathy smiled. "But one of them might get a tiny bit injured." she pulled out the case of fireworks and began to search through.
"You sure this is safe?" Carl asked her.
"It worked with the other team." Kathy answered. "So yes. One hundred percent safe!"
Ozzy came to look over as well. "Try to get one of the ones that are super loud!"
"How about this one?" she pulled out a large firework labelled 'Boomstick'
"Diffenitly." Ozzy nodded enthusiastically.
Kathy set it up to her side and lit the fuze. "Let's watch her fly!" she took a couple steps back and the fuse burned down until the firework began to spark like crazy and fly into the air next to the other two ships. It exploded into a colourful display of sight and sound. Kathy and Ozzy cheered but Carl noticed something and looked concerned.
"Um, guys?" he tried to get their attention.
The two ignored him as Kathy went to grab another one.
"Guys!" Carl yelled grabbing their eyes and ears.
"What is it?" Kathy asked. Carl pointed to the box she was about to grab from and she finally noticed that some of the sparks from the 'boomstick' had lit the fuses of the other fireworks. "Oh, that is not good."
"RUN!" Ozzy shouted. "THERE"S NO TIME JUST RUN!"
The three ran away yelling for the others to jump ship. Both Therion and Owen noticed and quickly jump off. Mariana awoke from her slumber just in time to see the boat light up in a gulf of flames. She grabbed her pillow and jumped over the side into the water. "Any reason our boats burning down?"
The others looked at Kathy. "Whoops." she nervously giggled.
The scene changed to show the Brain team fighting back the Brawn team. Yoshi had found a slingshot and fired stones at the other boat which didn't really do much. Melanie found a large rocket launcher looking device but when she fired it, all that came out was a giant punching glove that shot out about five feet. Liam watched as a few eggs were fired at them but missed. "First fish now eggs? Are they going to fire an entire buffet at us?"
"Better than being shot with an actual cannonball." Camila replied dryly. Another egg flew at the ship this time hitting it, however, instead of an egg yolk coming out, the spot that it hit burst into flames.
"Did that egg have fire in it?" Melanie asked in disbelief.
"That shouldn't even be possible!" Liam was shocked.
"Actually, knowing Chris he probably had filled the eggs with a chemical or substance that reacts harshly to oxygen causing it to combust when it shattered." Scarlett explained.
"Still doesn't make much sense." Melanie told her.
"It doesn't need to. Just fight back." Scarlett ordered.
"Unless we get within punching distance, I can't do much with this." she held up the punching device she had.
"Then get something else." Mikael spoke up. He wielded a crossbow with flaming marshmallow arrows and fired it at the Brawn team.
"Where'd you get that?"
"I found it. Now go look for your own weapon."
"Geez, fine." Melanie rolled her eyes.
With only the two teams left, things were getting heated up. Due to the interesting choice of 'non-lethal' weapons by Chris, both teams now had a problem with chemical fires on their ships. "Water isn't going to put this out." Kazu told his team as he splashed a bucket of water onto one of the flames caused by an arrow.
"We just need to keep shooting!" Wynda yelled.
"We are out of ammo." Laurie told her.
"What? Is there nothing else?"
"We got almost nothing left." Carter told her. "We've fired every round object on the boat."
"Then get something else!" Wynda shouted.
"I guess it can't hurt to try." Kazu shrugged as he took the clarinet he had found earlier.
"That thing will never work." Carter told him.
"Just let him fire it. The worst that can happen is it misses." Ryan defended the bad idea.
"Fine." Carter rolled his eyes. "I'll try something that might actually work."
Laurie took the clarinet and loaded it into the cannon. They aimed it at the ship and Wynda fired. They looked on as the clarinet flew through the air and actually managed to hit the ship. It plunged a hole into the side of the boat and they began to take in water. "We did it!" Kazu cheered before another flaming arrow fell beside him. "Maybe we should deal with that first."
Kazu was, however, correct in his premature celebration. The hole the clarinet caused was enough and the Brain ship stopped moved and rendered itself destroyed, even if it didn't sink all the way much to the happiness of Liam.
"That is it!" Chris called from above. "Everyone, make your way back to the dock!"
The camera shot forward to when all the campers were standing on the dock, a couple of them being wet. "You all showed an interesting display today." Chris told them. "The Rejects took themselves out, The Brain's tried to run from the entire fight, and Team Brawn was really the only ones doing anything."
"That's because they had a cannon!" Melanie argued.
"All potential unfairness aside, it's clear that Team Brawns win!" Chris announced. "As for the losers, Team Rejects was the only other team to lead to another team being eliminated allowing them to be safe. Between Team Brain and Beauty, both equally sucked meaning we need a tie breaker!"
"How's that fair? They were out long before us." Mikael complained.
"Because you ran away like chickens." Chris deadpanned. "To decide this tiebreaker, both teams will set up in new boats with a new win condition, you can still sink the other team but if you take out the team captain, you will also win."
Justin didn't look too happy with the new condition. "Can we do something else? That doesn't involve people targeting me with weapons?"
Chris shook his head. "You better get going or the Brain team will have an easy time taking you out."
Another flash took the scene forward to the two loser teams standing on the dock looking at their new boats. This team, instead of decently sized boats stocked full of weapons, Chris had provided them with small rowboats with only a few buckets of supplies in them. "Is this really it?" Daniel asked.
"Sure is." Chris smiled. "The playing field will be smaller," Chris began to explain once more. "We've set up buoys around the portion of water you'll be fighting on. Each team starts at one end and on the signal, you'll begin."
The two teams began to board their small boats and Liam wasn't looking too happy again. "Well, now all that's between me and water is going to be a small wooden floor, I'm not feeling too keen on this."
"Just get on." Cami scowled at him.
"I will but let it be known that I will not be happy about this." he grimaced as he stepped onto the small boat and quickly made his way to the centre.
Rellik eyed the other team from his boat and smiled. "Looks like we have an advantage here."
"Why's that?" Sarah asked in confusion.
"They're going to be one player short." he told her. "At least in the fighting department."
"We should still be careful." Daniel spoke up. He then leaned in to whisper. "We don't exactly have the most reliable teammate either." he pointed towards Fern who was sitting in the boat looking off into the ocean.
Rellik grinned. "Don't worry, I'll deal with her."
The two teams finally fully boarded their now pathetic boats and went to their sides of the battle arena Chris had set up. With his signal, the teams went off albeit a bit slowly since they now had to row to move. Justin stood in the back peering over to the other boat. "I think it'll be easier to take out Scarlett, so why don't you guys do that?"
"You make it sound a lot easier than it is." Daniel told him.
"So how easy is it then?" Sarah looked confused. "If it's not as easy as it sounds does that mean it's hard? Or is it still easy?" she sighed. "If Vanessa was here she would know!"
"I'm sure it won't be too hard." Cynthia spoke softly.
"It better not be." Daniel reached into one of the few buckets and pulled out a water balloon. "We don't have much in ammunition."
Rellik made sure to sit next to Fern when they set off and was now using that to his advantage. "Her, Fern." he tried to get her attention. She didn't look to be listening and was instead tapping the side of the boat rythemicly. "Fern?" he spoke a bit more firmly.
"Oh?" she perched up. "Sorry, I was lost in the clouds."
"It's fine." Rellik shrugged. "I just need to make sure you can help us out here."
"For sure." she nodded. "But what are we doing?"
"We're sinking their ship," he pointed to the enemy boat. "Or knocking their captain overboard."
"I meant plan-wise."
Rellik stopped for a second. "Do we have a plan?" he turned to his team. They all just sat in silence for a few seconds.
"I thought the plan was to win?" Justin said aloud.
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Rellik - "I have to admit, it's not looking too good for us." he looked worried. "But I'm not about to give up! Time to show the world what I can do!" his expression changed to one of boldness.
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The Brain team were having a completely different discussion. Scarlett was quick to order her team. "Yoshihisa and Melanie, you two on rowing. Mikael and Camila, you two will be on weapons. Liam, supply the other two with anything they need."
With her orders, Mikael looked peeved and rolled his eyes. "Why should I listen to you?"
"Because, last I checked, I'm the team captain." Scarlett retorted.
Mikael turned to his team. "Come on, how can we trust her? She literally tried to kill people!"
"He's not wrong." Melanie agreed. "She's kind of dangerous."
Yoshi nodded as well. "And your last plan didn't work out too well."
Scarlett grit her teeth but tried to remain calm. "If I need to remind you, I have changed from my previous ways and I'm not currently in the competition." she spoke with venom in her voice.
Mikael straight up ignored her as he stood up. "I say we should create our own plan without her input."
"And what would that be?" Melanie asked.
"I saw we should rush them before they can prepare." Mikael told them. "They aren't the brightest bunch and they don't know how to counter it."
"As long as it gets us on dry land faster, I'm all for it." Liam nodded.
Scarlett's eyes burned with fire but she simply sat down. "Fine, go ahead. Let's see how it turns out for you."
With basically a challenge from Scarlett to prove her wrong, the team set up for a quick assault with everything they had.
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Yoshi - "I dislike having the team leader." Yoshi spoke calmly and uncaring. "I'd much rather see what I can do to lead the team to victory but with a dedicated leader it might be hard. However, this little uprising we have going on might allow me to assume control."
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The Beauty team were still discussing their plan. "I say we should be careful, they are bound to think of something crafty to pull." Daniel shared his idea.
"Why? We should just get this over with." Justin told him.
"They are called the Brain team for a reason." Rellik added. "Going in without any real plan is doomed to fail."
"I don't think we need to worry about planning anymore."Sarah spoke up while pointing towards the other boat which was now rushing in towards them.
"Are they going to ram us?" Cynthia asked in concern.
"They better not!" Justin was shocked. "They could seriously harm me!"
"Quick! Let's move!" Rellik ordered. He, along with the help of Daniel, quickly jumped to the oars of the boat to move it out of the way before it was too late. The others quickly prepared to throw what they had at their attackers.
With the Brain boat approaching surprisingly fast, there wasn't much time for them to move. They barely managed to get the boat out of the way, causing it to be clipped in the back slightly damaging both boats but leaving the Beauty team's worse off. "That can't be good." Sarah commented.
Fern observed the damage. "It doesn't look too bad." she told the team.
"Don't just stand there, throw something!" Justin shouted in a panic.
The other team had the same idea. Scarlett still sat, peeved, while the others began to throw water balloons at their opponents. Melanie and Yoshi, who were left on rowing duty, looked tired, Melanie more so than Yoshi. "My arms are really killing me." Melanie complained.
Mikael threw a water balloon at the other team. "We don't have time to slow down, swap with someone if you need to."
A balloon hit Camila's head and burst open, covering her face and hair in green slimy goo. "Oh, look. Chris didn't put water in the water balloons." she groaned.
A few more of the balloons whizzed by. They managed to turn the boat around and charge for another chance to either destroy the opponents' boat or to knock Justin overboard.
Sarah threw another balloon at the approaching enemies. "These are not really doing anything!"
"We need to aim for Scarlett." Cynthia told the other two girls.
"I'm trying! But we're moving and they're moving." Sarah whined.
"I don't know how much longer we can keep this up. " Daniel looked over to the other team. "But, they are going to tire themselves out soon if they keep up that pace. We just need to outlast them."
"Row a bit faster, please." Rellik almost shouted as they narrowly avoided another collision. A few balloons were exchanged but none hit either of the team captains.
"Now's our chance, when they are turning around!" Daniel called out.
Cynthia threw one but ended up hitting Liam rather than Scarlett. One in return hit Daniel. Fern took a second to aim and let one fly through the air. As the other team turned, Scarlett became vulnerable and Fern's shot hit true, smacking her on the side of the head and in a mixture of surprise and the impact, Scarlett fell over the side of the boat into the water.
Chris sounded his megaphone. "Scarlett is overboard, Team Beauty wins!" he announced.
Liam let out a sigh of relief. "Can we please go back to the land now?"
Mikael threw his arms up in anger. "I can't believe we lost!"
The scene switched to when all the campers were on the dock. Chris stood in front of them. "Some of you are losers but some of you are bigger losers." he turned towards the Brains. "Looks like smarts can't do everything, huh?"
"I think we would have done better if the team listened to me." Scarlett calmly spoke to the host. She was given angered looks from her team and Mikael rolled his eyes.
"In any case, you will now need to say goodbye to one of your team members" Chris told her. He then turned to the other three teams. "Here," he held up a few key rings. "Are the keys to your rooms. All of which, are on the first floor of the resort." he tossed them to Owen, Justin, and Eva respectively. "Get comfortable, you'll all safe tonight." he handed the last key ring to Scarlett. "And I'll be seeing you all at tonight's campfire ceremony."
The shot switched to show Owen open one of the rooms. He looked around the rather nice room which had two beds in it. "Oh, awesome!" he laughed out.
"This is a lot better than I thought we'd get." Carl was surprised as he looked around.
"Yeah, usually Chris is all like: rundown cabins and rotting beds for you!" Ozzy spoke trying to imitate Chris.
With the Brawn team, they were having about the same reaction. "This looks surprisingly nice." Kazu commented on the clean room.
"I wouldn't get your hopes up." Carter told him. "It's bound to be some sort of trick."
"Not everything is a trick." Kazu plainly said.
Eva walked by the two. "When it's with Chris, it is." she gruffly told them. "Don't expect to stay here long."
She left to go to her own room leaving Carter giving Kazu a smug look.
Elsewhere, Yoshi had pulled aside both Melanie and Camila. "Look, someone messed up today and they should go home."
"And you want us to help." Camila guessed.
"Right, we all put in work, I think it's only fair we team up for at least this elimination." Yoshi nodded.
"I guess that sounds like a good idea." Melanie nodded as well. "I'm in."
"Better than nothing, I guess." Camila added.
"Perfect." Yoshi smiled.
The shot went forward to night time. The moon was in the sky above the resort, and it was lit up with lights. Chris stood in front of a small bonfire pit with a few boxes beside him. He was joined by the Brain team, sitting on the opposite side of the fire. "Your combined brain power couldn't save you from the first elimination of the season, must be rough being beaten by the literally Rejects." Chris teased them.
"Can we just get this over with?" Camila asked him dryly. "I'd much prefer to be sleeping right now."
Chris gave her a small glare. He reached over behind the boxes and pulled out the classic tray of marshmallows. "On this tray, I have only four marshmallows." Chris began to explain. "AS you all should know by now, the one who doesn't get a marshmallow will be sent packing and will not be allowed to return." Chris then smiled and looked up. "For this season's elimination device, we'll going to have you evaced by helicopter. Meaning you get to fly with Chef!"
Chef looked over and gave a devilish grin.
"I assure you, he is a licenced pilot but that won't mean he won't have fun." Chris chuckled but quickly changed into a stern look as he picked up the first marshmallow of the season. "The first marshmallow goes to Yoshi."
Yoshi gladfully caught his marshmallow after Chris threw it at him.
"Next up, Melanie."
She smiled and caught hers.
"Camila."
She caught hers but still looked pretty angry.
"Mikael, Liam, there is only one marshmallow left." he looked between the two.
Mikael was sitting with his arms crossed in a soft glare. Liam looked pretty worried.
"Mikael, you staged a coup against your captain and came up with a plan that ended up making you lose. Liam, you basically did nothing all challenge."
"That's unfair!" Liam complained. "It's not my fault I can't swim!"
Chris held up a finger to shush him. "The final marshmallow of the night goes to," he paused and picked it up. He stayed silent for a few seconds before finally revealing the name. "Liam."
"What?" Mikael looked insulted as he stood up. "How could you vote me first?" he yelled. "He literally didn't do anything!"
"Again, unfair." Liam repeated.
"This is outrageous!" Mikael continued to complain. "I helped the team."
"You're plan lost us the challenge." Camila deadpanned. "Not much of a help."
"No one else did much of anything! At least I tried!" he got louder and louder until Chef stepped out of the helicopter to push him towards it. He began to yell out in Finnish but no one really knew what he said. Chef basically had to throw him into the helicopter before getting in himself and flying away.
Chris stood to the side and smiled. "One down, a bunch more to go. Who will win next? Will the Brain team fail once more? Will we allow them to stay at the resort, hint, the answer is pretty obvious." he whispered the last part into the camera. "Find out next time on Total, Brains Vs Brawns Vs Beauty!" he exclaimed as he threw his hands into the air. The episode faded out but slowly returned in static.
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Confessional
Yoshi - "Was it a tough decision to know who to vote for? No, I'm planning what's best for this team and that requires me to be the leader. Mikael was a possible threat to that."
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And that's that. It was actually pretty hard to eliminate someone first. I had plans for all teams to have a potential first elimination but this one ended up coming out in the end.
As I said in the beginning, the next chapter will have the intro and do not worry about them staying at the resort for the night, Chris will make sure they don't stay there long. After all, there is a nice rundown camp close by he would love to use.
Review if you liked the chapter or find any mistakes so I can fix them.
Votes:
Mikael: 4
Liam: 1
Eliminated:
20th - Mikael