Here is anther late chapter. I am sorry but I had to basically take the month of May off due to family issues.
I don't want to make excuses though and I'm sorry for the wait.
I hope you enjoy.
Chris stood in front of the run-down camp close to the firepit they used for the elimination. "Last time, on Total Drama Brain vs Brawn vs Beauty," the host began. "The contestants searched high and low for a key item they would need to win the challenge." he emphasized the pun as he continued.
"After each team found what they were looking for, they made their way from the resort to the crappy run down camp we had waiting for them!" the disappointed looks of Team Beauty was shown when they arrived at the camp.
"Team Brawn almost threw their victory when Wynda picked the worst chest of the four, pushing their team in a race for last." Wynda was seen picking the waterlogged chest followed by the scene where her team gave her irritated looks. "They still managed to win, however, and Team Reject sent someone packing!" Carl was seen waving goodbye to his team.
"What exciting challenge awaits the campers today? Will Team Brawn ever stop fighting with each other? Find out, right here, on Total Drama Brain vs Brawn vs Beauty!"
(Intro)
A shot of the small campsite opened of the scene. Outside one of the two cabins stood Fern, who was rummaging through a small bag she had. She pulled out various materials for drawings and took a look around for a good spot to begin. Behind her, the door for the girl's cabin burst open and Wynda stepped while stretching, still wearing the green t-shirt and shorts she slept in. Her hair was particularly more messy than normal as she marched out groggily.
Fern didn't seem to notice the door slam open at first as she was busy sorting her stuff. She did, however, did notice as the next few girls emerged from the cabin, complaining about being woken up from the slamming door.
"Hey!" Camila shouted out, not to happy to be woken up. "Could you have opened that door any louder?"
"Is that a challenge?" Wynda turned to face her.
"You know, some people actually enjoy sleeping." Camila shot back at her.
Wynda rolled her eyes and blew air out of her mouth. "Sometimes it's good to get up nice and early! I'm doing you all a favour if anything!"
Mariana appeared from behind Camila. "Do you two have to yell?" she asked.
"I don't see why not!" Wynda yelled louder than before.
Camila just sighed. "I really should just ignore her."
"Yeah that's probably for the best." her teammate Melanie came out of the cabin too, hearing their conversation.
"What's wrong?" Wynda called out, noticing that Camila had gone silent. "Fall asleep on me?" she taunted and began to laugh at her own joke.
From the boys' cabin, both Liam and Rellik popped their heads out to check what was going on. "What's with all the yelling?" Liam wondered.
"I'm not sure but I am going to see if I can break it up. Rellik walked out of the cabin.
"Hey, wait for me." Liam soon followed.
The two walked over seeing Wynda yelling over at the other girls, getting angrier as they mostly refused to yell back. "Oh, come on! What's the fun in an argument if I'm the only one yelling?" Wynda cried out in anger.
"Hey, hey!" Rellik tried to intervene. "There's no reason for yelling! Now, I'm not really sure what happened but I think we can sort this out." Rellik wandered closer to Wynda. "You wouldn't want to hurt your beautiful voice on all this pointless yelling, right? Why don't we join the others and talk things over?"
Rellik got too close for Wynda's liking and she pushed him back, knocking him over. In an attempt to right himself, Rellik flailed his arms and grabbed onto the closest thing, which was Wynda's shirt, causing him to drag her down with him.
Wynda caught herself on her hands while Rellik landed on his back. "So, you want to play rough, huh?" she spoke with fire in her eyes.
Liam winced as he saw the two fall. "That can't be good for him." he turned to the other girls watching. "Do we help him?"
"He got himself into it." Ryan shrugged. "Let him handle it."
"Really?" Melanie sounded concerned. "She looks like she's about to kill him!"
"Chris wouldn't let that happen, right?" Laurie piped up.
"Looking back at older seasons, I'd give it a fifty-fifty chance." Liam guessed causing Laurie to hold her hand to her mouth in a mixture of fear and shock. "I'm kidding!" Liam quickly retracted his statement.
Rellik wasn't happy he got pushed over but Wynda was even angrier she got pulled down too. "Come on, you want a fight? I've been itching for one since I've got here!" Wynda cracked her knuckles.
"Hey, easy." Rellik frowned. "I just wanted to calm things down, not escalate them."
"Well too bad for you! You're about to feel a world of pain!" Wynda chuckled.
Just then, a loud ringing came through the speakers around camp gaining the attention of the awake and sleeping campers alike. "Good morning campers!" Chris greeted the campers. His voice was a bit static filled as the system was quite old. "I see some of you are already up and about! Head on down to the mess hall for breakfast and the rundown of today's challenge!"
Wynda smiled and seemed to completely forget about the fight. "Alright, breakfast! I'm starved!" she picked herself up and allowed Rellik to dust himself off as well. She turned around and ended up bumping into Fern, knocking her over as well. "How long have you been there?"
"The entire time." Fern answered while picking up the things she dropped. "You should be more careful next time."
"Eh, right." Wynda didn't seem to care as she moved onward to get her food.
The shot switched to inside the mess hall. The four teams sat at their four tables with the team captains joining them. Most of them looked tired or annoyed due to the early wake-up call. Chris walked into the building and eyed the contestants eating their excuse for eggs prepared by Chef. "Good morning everyone! I hope you all enjoyed breakfast because you'll need the energy for today's challenge!"
"So I'm guessing it's not food related then?" Owen guessed.
"Nope!" Chris answered much to the large man's disappointment. "Today you'll all go on down to the shoreline and catch some fish!"
"Can we eat the fish?" Owen looked for some hope."
"No." Chris deadpanned.
"Is that it?" Melanie questioned the host. "Fishing doesn't seem much like a challenge.
"Well, there is a bit more to it." Chris admitted. "All will be explained after breakie, down by the docks."
Chris left the campers to guess what more could be in store for the challenge. "It really can't be that simple, can it?" Daniel asked his team.
"There will probably be a big twist like we can only catch the fish without mouths or something." Rellik predicted.
"I really hope not." Cynthia softly spoke.
"As long as I don't have to." Justin shrugged.
The team noticed that Sarah was unusually quiet. "Is something wrong?" Rellik asked her.
Sarah nodded glumly. "I don't have my phone anymore! How am I going to stay in contact with my Instagram followers or my best friend! What if Drake releases new music and I can't listen to it!"
"Drake? You mean that rapper guy?" Daniel wanted to confirm.
"Yeah, and without my phone, I won't know anything that's going on!" Sarah cried out.
"Hey, come on, cheer up! You'll get your phone back eventually and besides, we're going fishing, you wouldn't want to get it wet, would you?" Rellik tried to encourage her.
"I guess you're right." she nodded. "I wouldn't want to lose because I'm a bit sad! Let's get out there and win!"
Her team gave a collective cheer with Daniel, Rellik, and herself being loud and full of energy while Cynthia cheered more quietly, Fern had a delayed reaction, and Justin just pretended to cheer.
"Do you guys think we'll need our bathing suits?" Daniel quickly changed the subject.
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Sarah - "It's going to be tough without my phone but I need to put on a strong face for the others!" she announced to the camera. "I don't want to sour the mood of my team."
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The shot switched to the campers around the so-called dock at the rundown campsite. There wasn't really much of a dock at all as half of it was broken and submerged in the water. It looked unsafe to even walk on barefoot as the wood was splintering.
Most of the campers did switch to their swimsuits, either having some hindsight or not wanting to get their clothes wet like they did in the first challenge. Team Brain had everyone switch except for Scarlett who didn't bother. Yoshi wore his black swim trunks, Liam made sure to come prepared, wearing his purple swim trunks and a pair of goggles, even if he had no intention of setting foot in the water. Camila wore a halter top styled mint bikini with matching boy shorts, and Melanie wore a black bikini while also tieing her hair back.
Unlike Scarlett, the other team captains did wear their bathing suits. Eva wore her blue one-piece suit and her team wore their own with Kazu wearing a pair of black swim trunks similar to his brothers, Wynda wearing a dark green one-piece swimsuit, Laurie wearing a white two-piece swimsuit she didn't look exactly comfortable in, Cater wearing dark green swim trunks, and finally rounded them off was Ryan with her gray bikini and black swim shorts.
For team Beauty, Justin was taking full advantage of the situation. He only wore a pair of grey shorts, showing off his body to the others. Rellik made a fashion statement by wearing red jeans, white shoes and his pair of sunglasses which may not be the best outfit for swimming but he knew he would look good doing it. Sarah wore the same two-piece blue swimsuit she was smart enough to wear for the first challenge, Daniel wore a simple pair of blue swim trunks, Cynthia wore a white and blue long sleeved rash guard top and bottom, and Fern wore a blue tankini.
Finally, with the Rejects, Owen wore the same orange trunks he always wore with a pair of green arm floaties. His team's outfits consisted of a black and red pair of swim trunks with a wolf pattern on it and a black short sleeve rash guard with a pair of goggles worn by Therion, an orange swim dress, yellow swim caps, and yellow duck arm floaties worn by Mariana, orange and dark blue striped swim trunks worn by Ozzy, and a one-piece spring green swimsuit with a blue swim cap and goggles worn by Kathy. Interestingly, Mariana still carried her pillow with her.
"It looks like you all came prepared." Chris looked around. "Except for you." he noticed Scarlett was still wearing her normal clothes.
"I have my reasons." she stated.
"Right, anyway," Chris rolled her eyes. "As I had mentioned earlier, today's challenge is a fish fiasco! Around the dock is a netted area we filled full of fish. These fish have either the symbol of one of the teams or no symbol at all. Catch a fish and return it to your team areas." Chris pointed towards one of the corners of the netted area wear a smaller netted area was set up with the Beauty's team symbol of a heart on a buoy nearby. In the other corners, the three other team's areas sat. "A fish with your team symbol will net you three points. Another team's symbol will only get you one. No symbol, and that's zero. The team with the lowest score by the end loses."
"Is that it? Can we get started?" Kathy asked impatiently.
"Hold on." Chris told her. "The team captains will stay and guard your netted areas by any means necessary since they are still free game for everyone." Chris took a brief look around. "Now, if there are no questions, get to your areas and get ready to go."
The four teams quickly made it to their corners. Liam once more struggled to get out into the water, now actually having to go inside but he was enticed by his team eventually. The only one who hadn't moved at all was Scarlett. "Aren't you going to go protect your corner?" Chris asked her.
"Eventually." Scarlett answered.
Chris shrugged. "Suit yourself." he whipped out a megaphone so everyone could hear him. "The challenge ends when I get bored and begins, now!" he yelled out, causing Scarlett to grimace slightly from the loud noise.
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Scarlett - "My actions might seem foolish but I have a plan for everything. I expected Chris to be lax on the rules allowing me to gain a huge advantage if I played my cards right."
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Liam was standing completely still in the water as the others started to work around him. "What's the matter?" Melanie asked. "Still have that whole, afraid of water thing?"
"Yeah, I didn't really learn how to swim overnight." he nervously chuckled to himself.
"It will be fine." Melanie told him. "It's only waist deep anyway."
"I'm going to play it safe." he murmured. "Maybe move inshore a bit."
Elsewhere, Team Beauty was having some problems catching the fish in the first place. Sarah quickly splashed out, trying to grab a fish that escaped her grasp. "How are we even supposed to catch these?"
"There are a couple getting stuck on the nets." Daniel spoke up, holding a fish he had caught. "But this won't really be easy."
"And the poor fish too." Fern spoke to herself. "This might count as animal abuse."
"As long as you don't step on any, all fish will be returned to the ocean safe and sound after we are done with them." Chris responded through his megaphone after hearing her say that.
"That is not reassuring at all." Daniel frowned. "And what about the symbols on the fish?" he pointed at the fish he had showing off a heart symbol.
"It's paint. It will wash off in twenty-four hours." Chris explained.
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Chris - "The Lawyers and I can confirm that no animals were harmed in the making of this episode."
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Team Brain were struggling like the other teams but had a bigger disadvantage as their team leader was missing. "Where is she?" Liam looked around.
"Probably gave up and went back to sleep." Camila answered as she swung at a fish and missed. "I know I'd do the same."
"We don't really need her. She's only supposed to guard what we catch anyway." Melanie pointed out.
"This does mean we can't take the advantage." Yoshi added. "We are already down a player and now our captain is gone. We need to be careful, others will catch faster than us and be able to protect what they have."
"So what do we do then, just give up?" Melanie asked.
"No, we need a plan." Yoshi corrected her.
The scene switched to show the Rejects splashing about in the water. Kathy was rushing her way through the waves, scaring away the fish as she tried to catch any. Mariana barely moved as she really didn't try to catch anything. Therion was being a lot calmer than Kathy but also doing more work than Mariana, taking his time to snatch fish out of the water at a surprisingly efficient rate.
Ozzy fully took the challenge to heart. While the water was shallow enough for the campers to stand, he took to swimming around. He acted strangely as he moved but whatever he was doing worked well enough as he caught several fish this way.
Eventually, Ozzy accidentally bumped into Therion. "What are you doing?" Therion asked the strange boy.
Ozzy righted himself and stood up. "I'm thinking like the fish! I am convincing them I am one of theirs so I can easily relocate them into their new home."
"Okay." Therion looked weirded out. "Just make sure you're catching our teams fish."
"Rightio!" Ozzy dived back into the water, splashing Therion in the progress.
Therion sighed as he moved over to Owen. "Got a few more."
Owen nodded. "Just toss them in, I'll keep these fish nice and safe." he then bit his lower lip. "Say, do you think they would taste like sushi?"
"Don't eat the fish, Owen." Therion told him sternly.
"Okay." Owen sighed. "Maybe one bite?"
Theron continued his stern look.
"Okay, fine." Owen conceded.
Once more the camera switched back to the Brain team. Liam was beginning to look around more. "So are we at an agreement?" Yoshi looked around at his team. "We lay low and try to sabotage the strongest team.
"Laying low will be pretty easy for me." Liam nodded. "On the fact that I'm not moving much. I am getting used to the water a bit more though."
"That's good." Melanie smiled. "We really need all the help we can get right now."
"So that's it? We just wait around and hope for the best?" Camila spoke up.
"As I said before, we don't want to look like a threat. We lay low for now and when the time comes, we strike." Yoshi repeated the plan.
"And what if the time never comes? Chris said himself, the challenge ends when he says so." Camila challenged the plan.
"Look, we don't really have time to argue. The other teams are bound to just try and brute force their way through the challenge. If we can avoid conflict, we should." Yoshi explained.
"Something just brushed past my leg." Liam froze up once more. "Wait, I think it was just another fish."
"Need assistance?" they heard Scarlett ask. They turned to say her paddling in on a canoe.
"Hey, where did you get that!" Liam was shocked. "Also, before you answer come over here and let me on."
Scarlett rolled her eyes but moved the canoe over and allowed Liam to hastily crawl on causing her to get splashed a bit. "I searched around the camp last night and noticed a few potentially helpful things." Scarlett pulled out a few nets from the canoe. "Which includes, fishing gear. Badly maintained fishing gear, might I add."
"Wow, so you aren't worthless after all." Camila commented as she grabbed a net from their team leader. She looked at it and noticed a few tears in the netting.
"I'm going to choose to ignore that comment." Scarlett bit her tongue.
Yoshi retrieved his own net. "This does change things a bit. The others are bound to see us with an advantage. Let's take full advantage of it."
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Yoshi - "A small change in plans but turning a disadvantage into a large advantage cannot be passed up."
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The other teams were indeed quick to notice the Brain team's unfair advantage. "Hey, how come they get a canoe and nets?" Carter complained to Chris.
Chris just shrugged. "Never said you couldn't use anything you wanted."
Wynda scoffed. "Who cares if they are playing fair? They want to fight dirty? I'll fight dirty!" she stomped off through the water towards the canoe.
Ryan noticed as Wynda was leaving the group and grinned. She quickly went over to gather the rest of them. "Look, we have a problem and that problem is a walking bull. I think we need to all agree that she goes first."
"Shouldn't we wait to lose to talk about who goes home?" Laurie asked. "It doesn't really feel right talking behind her back."
"This conversation needed to happen eventually. She almost made us lose the last challenge plus she is annoying as hell." Ryan pointed out.
"She is pretty aggressive." Kazu agreed. "But I kind of agree with Laurie here, shouldn't this wait until after the challenge?"
"And what makes you justified to tell us who to vote for?" Carter added. "Sounds like you're just trying to protect your own skin."
Ryan frowned at the backlash to her idea. "Come on, you've all seen the way she acts. She's bound to get one of us killed if she continues at this rate. I just want y'all to think about what I've said here."
"Right. Can we get back to not losing?" Carter was quick to turn away and continue in his attempts to catch the fish.
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Ryan - "I don't get why everyone is so against a simple decision. I need to make sure to get through to them."
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Team Beauty continued their struggles but were finding some success. As the challenge progressed they had gotten more accustomed to catching the fish. Justin was utterly bored as he stood in front of his teams net. "What's the point of guarding the fish when there is no one to guard it from."
"I think you're guarding a bit more than you realize." Daniel pointed towards a few of the girls on the other teams who were stealing looks of the model. Even Eva had to stop herself from getting distracted.
"Well, I guess I do have that gift." Justin smiled and closed his eyes.
"Armful of fish, coming through." Rellik dumped a load of fish behind Justin into the net causing the water to splash him and get them both wet.
"Wow that was quite a bit, how many were ours?" Daniel looked impressed.
"Of the eight I had, only three. But it's still better than nothing."
"How do you even catch them that quickly?" Cynthia asked as she moved over and tossed two fish into their net.
"Well, I'm a good swimmer." Rellik bragged. "And while the water is a bit too shallow to swim effectively I'm still fast in the water."
"Oh, okay." she simply answered.
Daniel looked at their supply of fish. "I'm thinking maybe we should go raid another team's stuff. There will be more fish in a smaller area and it will take away from the others."
"That sounds like a good idea." Rellik nodded along while Cynthia just looked between the two. "But who should we go for? Brains look like the obvious go-to target right now but the Rejects are called that for a reason."
"How about brains then?" Cynthia suggested quietly.
"Hey, guys!" Sarah walked up to them holding a few fish. "What are we all talking about?" she tossed the fish towards the net but missed her mark slightly causing one of them to hit Justin and fall back into the main net. "Oops, sorry."
Before Justin could say anything Rellik spoke up. "We are thinking about going over to team Brain over there and taking some of their fish."
"Oh, that could be fun!" Sarah smiled. "But they have like, a boat and all? Wouldn't that be hard to get past?"
Rellik just smiled. "All strengths have weaknesses."
Over with the Rejects Kathy was frowning at the few fish she held as she waddled her way back to her net. "Stupid fish." she muttered as they wiggled in her grasp. She finally was able to throw them in her net but not before losing one. "Ugh, why do fish need to be so slippery?"
"At least they are tasty!" Owen added for her.
Kathy turned to see the large man holding one of the markless fish which had a bite mark in it. "Ew, that's gross." she gagged at the sight.
"What? It's just like sushi!" Owen defended himself.
Therion noticed and moved over. "You're probably going to catch a disease from that." he said as he dumped his own fish into their net.
"Don't worry, I have a gut of steel." Owen patted his stomach.
"That you do, buddy!" Ozzy agreed and threw a fish past Owen into the net. Suddenly he saluted towards the large man. "Scout report, Team Beauty looks to be heading away to war with Team Brain!"
Therion turned to see for himself. "That will make them easy targets but we could also put more pressure on the Brains."
"We only need to beat one other team." Ozzy reminded him. "We seem completely, absolutely, one-hundred percent safe otherwise!"
"Then we should go for the Beauties when they're busy. It will be hard to beat the Brains with their unfair advantage here." Therion concluded.
"Then let's march!" Ozzy threw his arm into the air. "Ozzy O-A!" he began to march through the waves.
"That's the wrong way." Kathy told him.
"Right. Let's march not that way!" Ozzy turned around.
"You guys go ahead." Mariana spoke up from nearby. "I will hold down the fort with big guy here."
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Therion - "I feel like Mariana is just trying to get out of work but I have to admit, she is a lot less hectic than both Ozzy and Kathy."
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Once more the scene returned to team Brain which was now facing a dire situation. Scarlett and Liam sat in the canoe watching as others teams moved out of their own waters and closer to their net. "The nets were good and all but I'm starting to see a massive problem with this." Liam commented. "Those guys don't look like their coming over to say hi."
"They have nothing but their own hands to help." Scarlett told him. "We have tools. Tools which can also be used in defence." she raised her oar as a way to show him.
"I don't know, beating people with an oar doesn't sound like a good way to make friends." Liam didn't sound too sure.
"You aren't here to make friends, you are here to win." Scarlett corrected him. "The only help you need is your own team."
"Yeah, I'm weighing the options and I don't think I'll be taking social advice from a sociopath."
"The canoe doesn't need two people on it." Scarlett responded threateningly.
"Right, beating others with an oar it is." Liam conceded.
Yoshi waved towards the two to get their attention. "I'm thinking we don't need everyone to defend. We should send a counterattack out to take one team by surprise."
Scarlett thought for a second before nodding. "Yes, that will be fine."
Yoshi nodded as well. "Good, I just need a volunteer to help me." he looked around at his options. "How about you, Melanie?"
Melanie stopped what she was doing and turned when she heard her name. "Me? You sure?"
Yoshi nodded again. "You look like you know what you're doing besides, I don't think Liam would be much use in the water."
"Well, okay. I'll give it a shot." Melanie agreed.
"Now, we just need to figure out a team to attack." Yoshi scanned the other three teams.
"Why don't you stick it to the muscles?" Camila joined into the conversation. "I'm hoping they get rid of miss loud and obnoxious."
Yoshi looked a bit hesitant but agreed. "They are the most likely to have gotten the most fish."
"Can't always trust stereotypes." Liam joked.
"Maybe we should get going." Melanie spoke up. "I don't want to get caught in that." she pointed towards an angry Wynda approaching the team.
"Speak of the devil." Camila glared at her.
"Hey!" Wynda shouted at them. "Why do you all get nets and boats? Can't win without them?"
"It's actually a canoe." Liam shouted back.
"Whatever." Wynda approached closer. "Let's see how well that canoe stands up to me!"
Liam was quick to panic. "Please don't tell me what I think she's going to do."
Scarlett looked at him. "Willing to hit someone now?"
Liam nodded quickly. "It's self-defence and all, right?"
Yoshi grabbed Melanie by the arm and pulled her away. "This is our chance to get behind them, let's go."
"Alright, you don't need to be so grabby." Melanie followed along after pulling her arm back.
"Sorry, I'm just thinking we don't have much time left." Yoshi tried to explain his actions. "I hope I didn't hurt you."
"No, I'm fine." Melanie assured him. "But maybe you should ask before you grab someone by the arm?"
"Again, I apologize. We should get going however, we don't have any time to waste."
"Right behind you."
The two slipped away as Wynda, who was followed close behind by a few of the Beauties, Sarah, Rellik, Cynthia, and Daniel, reached the canoe. She grabbed at it and tried to turn it over to dump the two in the water. Liam panicked and swung his oar at her, hitting the top of her head. Unluckily for him, this just made her angrier. "Can't fight hand to hand?" Wynda reached up and snatched the oar from him and preceded to snap it in half.
"No hard feelings?" Liam laughed nervously.
"Oh, you'd wish so." she threw the broken oar into the water and reached up to grab him. Liam tried to crawl back but the small canoe wasn't helping him escape her grasp. Before she could grab him, however, a loud smack followed by a splash had Liam looking to see what happened. In front of him, Wynda was now unconscious in the water with Scarlett beside him wielding the other oar.
"Sometimes you just have to hit a little bit harder." Scarlett told him.
"Is she going to be okay?" Liam was now concerned for the person who was about to attack him.
Scarlett shrugged. "The blunt force will probably just leave a bad bruise. Her being face first in the water, will probably drown her."
"Can you help me get her in the canoe then?" Liam asked. "It's one thing to protect myself but I'm not about to let her die!"
"Fine, I guess so." Scarlett conceded.
With those two preoccupied with trying to make sure Wynda wouldn't drown, Camila found herself as the only defence against the approaching Beauty team. "This isn't fair now, is it?" Camila asked as the four approached her team's net.
"Sorry, we're not about to lose either." Rellik apologized. He then turned to his team. "Hey, Daniel? Can you make sure that canoe doesn't give us any trouble?"
"Sure thing." Daniel went over to stop any interference.
Rellik turned back to Camila. "Now, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way."
"You won't like my answer." Camila responded.
"Very well." Rellik sighed.
"We won't hurt her, will we?" Cynthia asked.
"No, we shouldn't need to." Rellik told her. "She can only confront one of us at a time." Rellik stepped up in front of the solo Brain member. "Now, just let us-" before he could finish, Camila threw her net over his head and pushed him back, knocking him into the water. "Hey!"
"I'm not about to let you walk all over me." Camila prepared to fight off the other two.
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Rellik - "What's with the girls and pushing me over?" he sounded upset. "Can't we just talk things out for once?"
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The three members that agreed to go against the Beauty team arrived in front of Justin. The man turned towards them. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be off collecting fish from your own area?"
"We have come to declare war!" Ozzy declared much to the dismay of Therion.
"I guess that's one way of putting it." Therion sighed. "Yeah, we're here for your fish."
"Why waste your time? There's no way you get past me." Justin claimed. "These muscles aren't just beautiful you know." he flexed causing both Kathy and Ozzy to stop for a second to admire him.
"Man, that guy is beautiful!" Ozzy admitted as he looked at Justin. "Too bad he's rotten to the core!"
"Hey! Don't insult my personality. It's the second best thing to my looks!" Justin defended himself.
"I noticed you left out brains." Therion commented.
"Why don't you just head elsewhere?" Justin frowned. "Insulting me won't win you the game."
"We are already here, why not try?" Therion shrugged.
"Because you don't stand a chance against me. I'm not really supposed to get in fights because I need to protect my image but if you don't back off I may need to defend my fish."
"That sounds like a challenge."
"It might be."
"Well, I concede then, you win." Therion threw up his hands.
"Really? You're just going to give up now?" Justin got confused.
"Yes, because all I had to do, was distract you." Therion let a smile onto his face.
Justin turned to see both Kathy and Ozzy had slipped behind him and were currently rounding up fish into their arms. They both were able to fairly easily due to the fish having no real place to go. "Hey!" Justin turned to stop them but the two ran away.
"Ahah!" Ozzy exclaimed. "Take than looking!"
"Let's get these fish back to our own net!" Kathy laughed out.
As the two escaped Justin, Ozzy accidentally ran into Fern causing him to drop most of his fish. "Oh no! I've been had!"
"Oh, sorry about that." Fern apologized. "Wait, you're not on my team."
The two thieves quickly ran leaving Therion staring down Justin. Therion just shrugged one last time before heading off himself.
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Therion - "You know, I don't really like Justin. It was fun to trick him like that."
Justin - "So I got outsmarted, big deal." the model didn't seem to be phased. "I still got my looks and besides, I'm saving my brain power for when I need it." he tapped his head.
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The small band of Rejects returned to their team. "So, how'd it go guys?" Owen asked them as they approached.
"Observe!" Ozzy showed the fish he had.
"Wow! That's great!" Owen laughed. "We have so many, what's a one fish difference?"
"Don't eat them." Therion once more repeated to the large man.
"Okay." Owen sighed.
Kathy and Ozzy dumped off the fish into their net. Mariana pretended to cheer. "Good going guys. You all did such a good job, I think we can just wait around now."
"We still have work to do." Therion told her. "No point in stopping until we're forced to.
"Good, because I'm going to go get more." Kathy quickly splashed away from the group.
The scene switched back to Camila as she defended her team's fish supply. She managed to keep the others back, as no one really wanted to fight her and she was being quite defensive.
"Hey guys," Daniel called out. "We don't really have much time left." he pointed towards the canoe which was approaching, now with the unconscious Wynda on it.
"I really don't want to lose now!" Sarah cried out. "I already lost my phone!"
"Then we got to act fast." Rellik told her.
Rellik attempted to flank Camila's right while Cynthia saw an opening and went left. She managed to slip by and cross into the Brain's net. "What now?"
"Just grab some." Rellik attempted to stop Camila who turned to stop her. He turned and saw the canoe approaching. "Daniel, get that oar!"
Daniel nodded and attempted to grab it from Scarlett. She swiped it away and attempted to hit him with it but he dodged in time. While she still had the oar, his attacks did slow them down.
Cynthia started to randomly grab fish and just started throwing them over the net. "What are you doing? Sarah asked.
"Getting rid of their points." Cynthia continued to grab at fish and toss them over the net as fast as she could.
Sarah nodded. "Oh right, we don't actually need to take them back to ours!" she managed to get behind Camila too and attempted to copy Cynthia.
Over at the Brawn's net, the team was hard at work collecting fish. Eva noticed Yoshi and Melanie approaching. "Hey!" she shouted. "Don't do anything stupid."
"We are just passing by." Yoshi causally responded.
"I don't buy that for a second" Eva shouted once more.
Yoshi saw that the other members took an interest in him. Both Ryan and Carter began to flank him. He saw his brother who tried to avoid the conflict. "Can't we talk about an agreement? You're probably not too keen on your rogue member." Yoshi tried to reason.
Eva looked insulted. "I'm not throwing any challenge for you. You want to win? You got to earn it."
"You're surrounded." Ryan added. "Just back off now before things get messy."
Yoshi turned and whispered to Melanie. "Do you trust me?"
"Yes, why?" Melanie nodded slowly.
Before she could finish her thought Yoshi grabbed her. "Then sorry about this." he pushed her into Eva and ran forward himself.
Eva caught her but was distracted. "Stop him!"
Carter moved to intercept him. Yoshi turned once more. "Fall!" was he said before getting tackled.
This confused both Melanie and the entirety of the Brawn team. Melanie looked down before she realized how close to the net she was. She had a moment of realization as she threw herself down in the water. Eva was surprised and grabbed at her but messed, allowing Melanie to fall on top of the net, pushing down enough for the fish around her to scurry about.
The fish both entered and left the net however, more left as there was more water to swim out into. Melanie found herself being picked up by Eva. "You just made a bad choice." Eva growled.
"Maybe we can talk about this?" Melanie looked for an out.
Before Eva was able to do anything, a whistle sounded out around the arena. "And that's time!" Chris announced. "You are all starting to bore me, so let's get dried up and Chef will count up the scores."
Melanie sighed in relief. "Can you put me down now."
Eva just frowned, upset she got away with what she did. Instead of setting her down, she lifted her over her head and threw her into the water. "Alright, let's get this over with." Eva walked towards the dock.
Melanie resurfaced and spit out some water. "I guess that could have been worse."
The scene flashed forward to the campers all sitting around a lit campfire. Some had towels around them as they dried off and chatted amongst each other. Chris approached them. "Ready for the results, campers?"
"Let's get on with it." Carter told him.
Chris frowned but continued. "Chef spent a long time counting the fish and we have some numbers! First of all, I would like to say congrats to team Brain for having the most fish worth zero points!"
"Huh, guess the nets were not as good as we thought." Liam said out loud.
"But you still managed to get an impressive seventy-nine points!" Chris told them. "And you should feel safe, as team Rejects, who faced no real conflict, only got fifty-four!"
Team Brain let out small cheers knowing they were safe for the night. "Now the question is, did either the Brawn or Beauty teams have fewer points than the Rejects? And that is a surprising yes! Brawn pulled out only thirty-five points."
"Looks like our plan worked." Therion smiled.
"And the fish I ate didn't matter in the end!" Owen smiled, receiving looks from his team.
"And finally the final team, Team Beauty, had a point total of," Chris paused for a second to build tension. "Thirty-eight, meaning the team of strength will be sending someone home!"
Eva frowned and punched the ground beside her. The other members looked upset as well.
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Confessional
Carter - "I can't believe we lost! And it's obvious on who to blame."
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The scene switched to outside the cabins where Yoshi approached Melanie. "Hey, how's it going?" Yoshi asked her.
"Fine." Melanie said while turning away.
"I'm sorry about that final push near the end, I needed a way to guarantee we could do something to win."
"Well, we won anyway. All we did was make them lose." Melanie told him.
"Is there anything I can do to make it up to you? I wouldn't want bad feelings between us."
"It's fine. Just, promise me you won't push me around again."
"Promise."
"Thank you."
The camera changed to show the other Shimazu brother, Kazu, being confronted by Carter. "I saw what happened near the end." Carter glared at him.
"What do you mean?" Kazu was honestly confused.
"You didn't try to help! You helped your brother make us lose!"
"Hey, I didn't help him!" Kazu defended himself.
"You did indirectly when you didn't help us take him out. You let us fail." Carter crossed his arms.
"I tried! Don't blame me because you failed." Kazu looked ready to fight.
"Save your anger for tonight." Carter turned away.
As Carter left, Ryan watched in the shadows.
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Ryan - "Now, this is my chance to take control."
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Ryan approached the fuming Kazu. "Hey, Kazu, are you okay?" she feigned ignorance.
"No, Carter won't get off my back! Just because my brother is on another team." Kazu explained why he was angry.
"That's not fair at all! You can't control your own brother! Carter just seems to be trying to create tension." Ryan favoured Kazu's side of the argument.
"I know! He just makes me so mad." Kazu admitted.
"Well, we could vote for him." Ryan told him. "But there is someone I want gone first."
"Let me guess, Wynda?"
"Yeah, her. I'm trusting you to vote with me here, I do think you are the strongest one here."
"You think so?" Kazu looked surprised.
"Yes. And I wouldn't want you to go home because of your brother." Ryan told him. "So what do you say, bro? Will you vote with me?"
Kazu thought for a second. "Yeah, I will." he then stopped. "Wait, did you call me bro?"
Ryan realized she in fact did. "Eh-no, you must have heard me wrong." she quickly tried to hide it. "Anyway, I'll see you around, right?"
"Yeah, see you later." the two waved goodbye.
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Confessional
Ryan - "And there we go! Now I just need to convince Laurie but that shouldn't be too hard. After that, I have full control over my team."
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The scene switched to show the campfire ceremony that night. All five of the Brawn's members sat around with Eva looking very angry behind them. The only oddity was Wynda holding an icepack to her head. "Welcome to your first bonfire ceremony, not so fun is it?" Chris taunted them.
"Shut it, Mclean." Eva growled at him.
"Alright, getting on with it." Chris was quick to pull out the bag of stale marshmallows. "The first one goes to Laurie.
She smiled she caught hers.
"Next one, Ryan."
She smiled as well.
"Carter,"
Carter caught his without a smile.
"That leaves Wynda and Kazu. One of you went unconscious in the challenge and the other well, didn't do anything really bad. Which is why he's getting the final marshmallow." Chris tossed it to Kazu who looked relieved.
"Are you kidding me?" Wynda stood up quickly. "I'm clearly the strongest here! You'll fail without me kicking the others into submission!"
"Just pretend you're only going home due to your injury." Chirs joked causing her to throw the ice pack at him.
"I'm not going anywhere! You'll have to drag me kicking and screaming!" Wynda set her foot down. Eva came up behind her and pulled her arms behind her back. "Hey!"
"Just leave already. You're starting to annoy me." Eva pushed her towards the helicopter and threw her in.
It was quick to take off so she couldn't jump out. "With her out of the fight, will we see any more fights? Will we find more marshmallows?" he held up the bag to reveal it now empty. "Will Scarlett be questioned due to her eagerness to harm the others with a weapon? Find out, next time on Total, Drama, Brains vs Brawn vs Beauty!"
With Chris's send-off, the episode faded to black.
And that's that for this chapter. Not much to say about the elimination, Wynda was grating for her team even if she proved to be a powerhouse.
I do plan on bringing up relationships more in the coming episodes as I think I haven't really explored them yet. This is more than the love type relationships, I'll also look into rivalries and friendships more too. I'm also prepping for the aftermath where some of the new characters might get a chance to redeem themselves or even host!
Again, sorry about the delay for the chapter. If you can leave a review, it is appreciated but I won't hold you against it.
Votes:
Wynda - 3
Kazu - 2
Eliminated:
20th - Mikael
19th - Carl
18th - Wynda