Episode 3: Survival of the Hungriest
The island was very quiet, which was very unusual. Even the animals were quiet that night. The contestants were all sound asleep that night. It wasn't too long ago since the last challenge ended and the Campfire Ceremony that sent home TST ended.
But all of that was about to end when Shelly walked onto grabbed her microphone, holding it in one hand and held an airhorn in the other. She giggled a bit, before blowing the air horn which made a loud noise go through the intercom to wake up the contestants. They weren't happy about it.
"Wakey, wakey!" She giggled.
It took a while, but the contestants finally got up. The remaining fourteen got ready for the day, by doing the usual morning routines such as bathing, grooming, self-care and getting dressed. The barely legal teens caught up with Shelly, but they weren't happy about it at all.
An angry Jun grinned at Shelly. But it was hard to see his facial expressions as he was still wearing a paper bag over his head, to cover the scar he got earlier today. "Why the hell did you wake us up, sis? I need my ten-hour beauty sleep."
"So, you're still going to wear that paper bag over your head?" Corey asked.
"Yes, hon. This paper bag is going to help protect my ugly face from being seen on national television and I'm going to keep that way."
"Whatever floats your boat." Corey shrugged.
Asuka was still pissed off at Jewel and she glared at her. "What's up, my princess?" Jewel winked.
"Shouldn't you be flirting with Brooke? You know your "straight" girl."
"Are you jealous?" Jewel laughed.
Asuka turned her head, folded her arms and closed her eyes. "No, I'm just telling it how it is," Asuka explained, but all Jewel did was laugh at her.
Adam sees the tired Lulu and thought she was the cutest thing in the world. He blushed and waved at her. Lulu saw and decided that it would be best for her to hide between Brooke, which caused Adam to get sad.
Adam: I don't know how to impress Lulu. What should I do? (He facepalmed).
"But before the challenge begins, I have exciting news! You guys are going to be put on new teams!"
"What?!" The teenagers were all surprised to hear this news.
"But this never happened on the old Total Drama." Abraham pointed out.
"Abraham, this is an r-e-b-o-o-t. This isn't the original." She explained, which Abraham remembered made sense.
Shelly clears his throat. "Lewis, Max, Jun, Corey, Dylan, Grimmy and Daniel you guys will be now known as the Bumbling Bees." She said. The new team walked towards each other, so they would be closer together. They all looked at one another, trying to get a good look at their new teams.
The remaining teenagers looked at one another as well, and some of them we're not happy to be on the same team as one another, as that was what it was beginning to look like. "Last but not least, Adam, Lulu, Brooke, Abraham, Asuka, Adrian and Jewel you guys will now be known as the Fighting Ferrets."
"Fighting Ferrets?" Asuka asked.
"It rhymed okay."
Adam got excited. He was so happy that he ended up hugging Abraham to the point of almost choking him. Abraham tried to say something, but Adam realized that he made a mistake and lets him down.
Abraham: (Holding his throat) I almost died.
Adam: I get to be on a team with the girl of my dreams! But I hope Abraham doesn't hate me too much.
The newly formed teams waited for Shelly to tell them what their challenge was going to be for the day. Two interns bring a flat-screen television and one of the intern's hands Shelly a remote. This intrigued the contestants as they wondered what the challenge was going to be, but Shelly, on the other hand, was ready to announce it.
"For today's challenge, we're going to be watching some interesting videos." She explained. The contestants were very confused by Shelly's word of choice. Some of them even started to question her sanity, thinking that she might have gone insane.
"Why are we watching videos…?" Max asked.
"Because." She said. "It's fun." She turns the video on, and it shows a delicious chocolate cake. There were three layers and covered in chocolate frosting and chocolate molting. On top of the cake were two strawberries. The cake looked so good, that it made the contestants' mouth water.
Jewel: It's been so long since I've eaten anything sweet.
Corey: When I saw the cake, I wanted to put my hand through the television and start eating it.
Jun: (Eating a rib.) I don't like getting dirty, but a rib is a rib.
Several hours have passed and the students were still watching videos of delicious food. They saw people eating juicy, enormous hamburgers, people licking ice cream, a group of friends eating New York-style pizza and so much more. At this point, Shelly was pretty much touching the contestants, as the only thing they could think about was food. Some contestant's stomachs began to growl and others watering mouth got worse and worse.
The video was finally over and Shelly turned the television off. The interns take the remote and wheel the television away. Shelley could sense that the contestants were starving, and she loved that. "How are you, all feeling?" Shelly asked. She had a bit of a smirk on her face.
"I'm freaking starving man. How could you have us watch all of that delicious food?" Lewis asked. "Are you trying to kill us?" Food was very important to him.
Shelly chuckled. She was enjoying watching the teens suffer in misery. "No! But I was preparing you for today's challenge. A forty-eight hour, no eating contestant. You can't eat anything, if you eat anything then you're out. If no one manages to eat anything, then that means there will be no elimination tonight." She explained.
"But isn't this illegal…?" Dylan asked.
"You signed contracts." Shelly grabbed a contract from out of her pocket. The teenagers all moaned.
Max: Damn contracts. The evilest of all evils.
Three hours had passed, and the two teams were sitting at the campfire ceremony, with them being separated by both sides of the logs. The summer heat along with the intense feeling of hunger was starting to get to the contestants, as everyone was being quiet.
Adam looked at Lulu and he was happy to see her. With the two of them now being on the same team, this meant that they could get a little closer. "Hey, Lulu! Are you feeling hungry?"
Lulu's stomach growled and she put her hand on her stomach. She didn't say anything and just looked over at the side.
Adam felt down.
Adam: I don't know how I'm supposed to talk to this girl! She like never talks.
Lulu: I want to say something to him. (She was getting nervous.) Heck, I want to say something to someone, but it's just too hard.
Max was trying not to think about the smell of Dylan's cologne, but it was bothering her to no end. "Why are you wearing such cheap cologne? It freaking stinks." She grabs her nose, so she could block out her smell.
"Sorry, I'm not up to your standards. But give me a ball, sometime." He winked.
"Have a car." She walks away to go and sit somewhere else, but she ends up tripping over a rock and lands in Dylan's lap. Dylan smiles at her but Max rolls her eyes.
Dylan: She wants me. First Shelly and now Max. With all these girls wanting me, it's looking like it's going to be a dog's dinner.
Max: He is so gross.
Max gets up and dusts herself off. She was getting annoyed by Dylan's behavior and it was beginning to piss her so. "You're such a pig!" For her sanity, she thought it would be best to go somewhere, maybe be around girls.
"A pig you want to kiss." Dylan blows a kiss to her and she rolls her eyes. Dylan knew that she was annoyed by his behavior, and he liked playing with her feelings. To him it was fun.
"Learn to be original." She said walking off.
"By princess." Dylan waved and laughed.
Max: I'm tired of men and there are too many guys left. I need to find a few girls and make an alliance with them.
Max got a group of girls together and they all formed a circle together. The group of girls was Max, Brooke, Jewel, and Asuka. But some tension had formed between three of the four members, as Asuka was still a little jealous of Jewel flirting with Brooke. Jewel winks at Asuka, and she rolled her eyes.
"Listen up ladies, I want a girl to win this season and I want to be sure that happens," Max explained.
"Yeah. There are way too many boys and not enough girls." Brooke responded.
"Well if you were so straight, isn't that something you would want, Brooke?" Asuka asked. She still wasn't sure that Brooke was as straight that she was making it seem.
Brooke grinned. "I am too straight. I like the D."
"Well if you like the D so much, then who on this island would you date?" Asuka asked.
Brooke turned around and began inspecting all the boys on the island. She saw Adam looking at Lulu and knew that he was unavailable. She noticed that Jun and Corey were chatting it up, so that wasn't going to be an option. The only guy there that wasn't seeing someone was Lewis. She looked at him and smiled. "I like Lewis."
Asuka laughed. "That's hilarious!"
Brooke: I totally like Lewis…. he's super cute. The way he...um...Yeah.
Asuka: Who is she *bleep*? She's about as straight as a noodle when it's wet.
Max was got fed up with the girls constant bickering and talking about romance. "See, this is what I'm talking about! Girls, we can't let romance ruin our chances at the million."
"She's right! We have to band together and destroy this competition, so we can all make it to the final four!"
"What do you say? Are you all in?" Max asked. She put one of her hands out and put it in the center. Brooke, Jewel, and Asuka all nodded their hands and put their one of their hands out in the center too. The girls looked at each other, threw their hands up and cheered.
"Girl Power!"
Shelley walked into the center of the campfire grounds. She was holding a plate of baby back ribs, that where smothered in barbecue sauce. Steam came from off the ribs, and the sweet aroma filled the air, which made many of the contestants very hungry.
Grimmy's stomach was growling so much, that the hunger was growing. "I can't do this!" She ran over to the plate of ribs and grabbed her a piece. She chewed down on the rib and was eating as much as she could.
Grimmy: Once I saw those ribs, I knew I couldn't stop eating!
Jewel, Dylan, Corey, Jun, Abraham, and Brooke all got up and started grabbing pieces of the rib and chewed down on it like they've never eaten before. They couldn't resist the smell of the food, and just looking at the ribs, just made it worse.
Brooke's alliance side-eyed both Jewel and her, but all Brooke and Jewel could do was just shrug it off. The ribs were just too darn delicious.
Brooke: These ribs are amazing. (Brooke chews on the piece of rib she was eating.)
Both teams lost three members to the challenge. Hours have passed and it was beginning to get nighttime. Both Lulu and Adam looked up at the night sky and watched as the stars were twinkling. It was a truly romantic moment, as it was just the two of them and no one else. Lulu turns to look at Adam. She might not talk much, but there was something about him, that liked being around. But all she wanted to do was speak to him.
Lulu opens her mouth. She hoped she could say something, but it was extremely painful for her to do. Her anxiety got the best of her. She got up and ran off. Adam worried about the girl and chased after her.
Brooke saw Lewis and Abraham playing with action figures. She thought it was a little nerdy, but at the same time, it was a little cute. Brooke takes in a big breath, as she walks over to Lewis to see what he's doing.
"Luke, I am your father," Lewis said. He was holding a Dark Vader action figure and tackling the Luke Skywalker action figure that Abraham was holding.
"Nooo!" Abraham said.
"Hehe, playing with Star Wars action figures?" Brooke asked.
Lewis freaked out. He accidentally knocks his water bottle and water ends up spraying on Abraham's shirt. "Oh *bleep.*." Abraham needed to dry off, so he took his shirt off. When he took his shirt off, Adrian turned over to the side. His eyes were locked on Abraham's gorgeous body. Something roses in Adrian's pants and he tried to cover it.
Adrian: Never noticed how um…Abraham looked. (Adrian was trying his best to cover his crotch so no one would notice.) I'm not getting soft, I'm just saying...Abraham looks good.
"I'm so sorry Abraham for spilling water on you!" Lewis apologized.
"It's fine. I can go and change into another shirt." Abraham gets up and walks away.
Lewis felt guilty. "Gosh, it's all my fault."
"Don't feel so bad," Brooke said, putting his right arm on his shoulder.
"Thank you." Lewis blushed.
"No thank you! You're the one who helped me with yesterday's challenge. Your advice really came in handy and the next time you need advice, I'll make sure to come to you." Brooke tried her best to flirt with Lewis, but it just didn't feel right to her. On the other hand, Lewis was enjoying this, and his face turned really red.
Brooke tries to see if Asuka was looking, so Asuka could see that she was straight. But she noticed that Asuka was looking elsewhere and just talking to a few members on her team, which caused Brooke to get really upset. She ends up accidentally, pushing Lewis to the ground and she felt guilty about it.
"I'm so sorry Lewis."
Lewis felt a little pain, but it wasn't that bad. "It's okay." He only had a little headache.
Lewis: Oh, I know that Brooke is like totally gay, it's obvious. (Lewis started thinking and it wasn't a good kind of thinking.) But if I can use her obvious fear of being gay to my advantage, I can have a trusty ally in this game. So, I must play it up!
Asuka: Yeah, I saw Gayrooke trying to flirt with a guy when we all know she likes tacos.
Abraham was on his way to go and change his shirt, but as he was walking, he saw Daniel by the lake, throwing rocks into the river. Abraham thought it was worth a shot to go and talk to him. Meanwhile, the stalkerish Adrian was following Abraham, but hiding behind trees.
"Hey, what's up?" Abraham said to Daniel.
"The sky!"
"I guess I'll go now…" Abraham walks away, but Daniel grabs him by the arm.
"Wait...stay here with me...I guess." Daniel said. "It's not like I want someone to talk to."
"Sure…" He blushed.
Abraham looks Daniel in the eye and the two teenagers begin blushing. Both had a clear attraction to each other, that had been building up since the first day they met. Daniel may've been blind, but he knew how he felt about Abraham, without even having to see him. Daniel goes in for a kiss and Abraham continues it. The two-start making out and things get very "intense."
But Abraham quickly freaked out over that kiss. "I'm not gay, you faggot!" He slapped Adrian and ran away but that only confused Daniel, as he wouldn't have done that if he didn't know if Adrian was gay.
Daniel: What just happened?
Abraham: (Freaking out!) Oh my god...mom...dad...that was just an act! I'm not gay, okay! I like *bleep*. (He began sweating and shaking like a leaf on a tree.)
Adrian was feeling jealous. He got up and started creeping behind trees, that were a little closer to the lake. He wanted to hear everything so he can get all the details. But mostly he wanted to see if something was going to happen between them.
Adrian: I must protect Abraham… (He tries to backtrack.) Because I want to get him out myself...yeah that's what I want to do.
As the rest of the group was starving, near the campgrounds, Asuka couldn't resist her growling stomach and she was munching on some chips behind the tree. She was hoping to hide this from the rest of the group, but people heard the chewing going on and exposed her.
"What...I was hungry?"
The Bumbling Bees were the ones who were now in the lead with four, as the Fighting Ferrets only have three members left in the competition. Dylan sees that Shelly was on her phone. He wanted to work his charm on her. "Blimey, is it hot in here or is it just you?"
Shelly rolled her eyes. "Dylan, what do you want?"
"Nothing mate. You were the one who was flirting with me last week and I wanted to see what was up. Are you doing anything after the competition was over?"
Shelly sighed. "Look, Dylan, I was very drunk, and you were there. It wasn't serious."
Dylan felt insulted. "You taff! How can you flirt with a guy's feelings like that?"
Shelly shrugged again. It was like she didn't care at all about Dylan's feeling and it made him very upset.
Dylan: (Crying into the palm of his hands.) How can she do that to someone! (Dylan grabs a jar of ice cream and starts eating it, causing Daniel to now be out of the competition.)
Shelly: Like that child had a shot with me. (Shelly was looking at her nails to see if they were properly done.)
Both teams were tied, three to three. But not a lot of the contestants were focused on the competition as Lulu was crying with her back up against a tree and Adam trying to chase her. Things between the two of them had been getting intense. Which was very ironic as the two of them wanted things to go smoothly.
"Lulu, where are you?" Adam asked.
Lulu: Oh god, I made a mess of things. (She continued to cry.)
Adam sees Lulu sitting and he smiled. But he was relieved that he finally found her, after doing a ton of running. "I finally found you!" But things weren't as smooth as Lulu was in the middle of a panic attack. She was freaking out and breathing heavily, but that just made Adam more worthy.
"I-I-I-I-I-I can't breathe!" She said.
Adam gets down on his knees and looks at her in the eyes. "Calm down, Lulu! I'm here."
"Am I going to die?" She asked him.
"No Lulu, you won't. You're having a panic attack. I used to have them all the time." This was the first time he's ever heard her spoke any words, and he thought that she had a beautiful voice. But he didn't want to focus on that as he wanted to help calm her down.
"You-you did?"
"Yeah back when I was a kid," Adam explained. "What we've got here is failure to communicate with each other." It came out of his mouth and he didn't mean to say that, but at the same time, he was glad that he did, because it was something that he wanted to get off of his chest, but he needed to play it off.
Lulu felt embarrassed. "I'm-I'm sorry I haven't been able to talk to you!"
"What, no... that's not it at all!" He worried. "It's a quote from Cool Hand Luke...but honestly, I also said it because I do feel like we have a connection and we haven't been able to do anything about it, because we haven't been able to talk. They don't call me Adam Jackson for nothing."
Lulu was confused. "Huh?"
"It's from In the Heat of the Night."
Lulu started laughing. Her heavy breathing had stop and she was calmed down, thanks to Adam and his movie puns. Adam noticed that she was happy, and he started laughing too, the two of them sharing a moment.
"I want to show you something…" He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a piece of paper. "Say hello to my little friend." He said. The paper had the names of everyone currently in the competition and listed them in the order in which Adam wanted them to go out. At the top was him and Lulu. "So, I made this list...I went ahead and predict the order of elimination for the contestants here."
"Why's that?" Lulu asked. She grabbed the paper and looked at it.
"Because, I was bored...but mostly, I want to let you know that I'm going to protect you in this game. I want to make sure that me and you make it to the finales."
"But-but-but-why me?" Lulu asked.
"Because you're an amazing girl and I like you!" Adam blushed and so did Lulu, they both looked over to the side. Since Adrian was close by, he had heard everything and knew that he could use this "list" that Adrian had to his advantage.
"I like you too…" Lulu said. Lulu and Adam were getting ready and were about to kiss, but before that happened, Lulu's stomach and ended up growling. She was hungry and needed to eat something. "Sorry." She felt embarrassed. "I'm just really hungry."
"Me too." He replied and sighed. "I know that this is going to cost us the challenge, but I know that eating is more important. Why don't you have this." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a chocolate bar. He breaks the bar into two pieces, and they begin eating it. The paper that he was holding, falls over to the side.
Adrian slowly walks over to the paper so he can pick it up and read it. "Oh, this is going to be good." He knew that with this paper in his hand, he could use it to his advantage and finally take out Adam, something that he's been wanting to do.
There were only three contestants left in the game and that was Lewis, Max, and Adrian. The rest of the contestants who had all go eliminated from the challenge, could go and get something to eat by searching in the forest. Lewis and Max were sitting on one log and Adrian was sitting on another.
"Well, the final three...Haha. I have a surprise for you, for all lasting so long."
"What is it?" Max asked.
Shelly smiled. "I'm happy you asked Max." Shelly went away for a second and quickly returned. She pulled up with a buffet full of food, from Turkey to Pizza, from Shakes to Spaghetti and Meatballs, it had just about everything you can imagine on the table.
As soon as Max saw the food, her mouth watered up. "Food!" Max forgot all about the challenge and started chewing down, eliminated from the competition. She wasn't the only one who thought the food looked too good to pass up, Adrian did too, and he walked over and began eating. Meanwhile, Lewis didn't let the food bothers him and he refused to eat.
Shelly smiled. "And with that, Lewis is the last one standing, meaning that the Bumbling Bees are the winners!"
Lewis cheered. But he was so hungry that he ended up rushing to the table and started eating. "I'm glad that I won, but I'm happy that I can eat." He said. No one really cared now about who won or lost, all that was on their mind was the delicious food that was on the table.
It was almost time for the elimination ceremony and for the Fighting Ferrets to vote. But before they can vote, Adrian wanted the entire team to be together, so that they could talk. Adam and Lulu walked up together, but this time they were holding hands as they had officially become a couple.
"What did you guys want to talk to us about?" Lulu asked.
Everyone was surprised to hear Lulu talk, seeing as they hadn't heard her talk before.
"You-you, spoke!" Grimmy said.
"I didn't know you can talk," Jewel responds.
"I-I-I-I'm trying to get over my shyness...and Adam here helped me." She looked at him and he blushed. But Adrian wasn't so thrilled to see the couple in their honeymoon phase.
"We have traitors on our teams!" He pulls out a piece of paper and points at Lulu and Adam. Lulu and Adam recognized the paper as the rest of the team started reading it. Grimmy and Asuka grabbed the paper so they could get a better look at it. Lulu and Adam were shocked, but Adrian was pissed. "Lulu and Adam made a list of who they want to eliminate, one by one."
"That's not true at all!" Lulu defended her boyfriend.
"Yeah! It was only a prediction."
"Lies!" Abraham said. "You two are working together in a secret alliance...I knew that whole being shy thing was fake." Abraham was pissed off and so was the rest of the team. They thought they could trust Lulu and Adam, but apparently, they couldn't. But the rest of their team wouldn't hear it, and all they did was glare at her.
It was finally time for the elimination ceremony. The campfire was lit up, and Shelly had six marshmallows on the plate. Lulu and Adam were sitting on one log as the rest of the team were sitting on another log. The team wanted nothing to do with the couple and were pissed off with them.
"There's only six marshmallows on this plate. If you don't receive a marshmallow, your leg will be attached to the Anchor of Shame and you will drown in the Drowning of Losers." Shelly said.
"Abraham." Shelly throws the Marshmallow at him and he catches it.
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Things were getting intense and the tension was in the air. Adam and Lulu held hands as they were waiting for Shelly to give the final marshmallow. Both Adam and Lulu swallow their spit.
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"Lulu." She tossed it at her, and she grabbed it.
Lulu wasn't happy with this; in fact, she was disappointed. "Why-why-why-him?"
"Because the two of you are traitors! One of you had to go!" Asuka admitted.
"But this isn't right! This isn't-"
Adam had to interrupt Lulu. He knew that his girlfriend was going to be sad to see her go, but he had to go for the sake of their relationship. "Lulu, I know this is going to be hard." He said. Her eyes started to water up and she began crying. "But I have to go. Hasta la vista, baby!" Shelly said.
"I love it when you quote movies." She blushed.
Adam blushed back at her and he goes in for a kiss. She goes in for a kiss too and for the first time ever, they kiss. It was romantic and very sweet. It was like the two of them were the only two people in the world. Even though they hated their guts, the rest of their team thought that it was cute to see them finally kiss.
But Shelly was getting bored of. "Adam...it's time to go." She drags Adam to the end of the dock and attaches the chain of the anchor onto his leg. But before he wanted to leave, Adam needed to get something off his chest. "Lulu watch out for Adria-" Before he can finish what he says, Shelly pushes Adrian into the water and he begins to drown.
"Adam!" Lulu raced to the end of the dock, so he can see if he was okay. She cried once again, missing her boyfriend.
Later that night, Adrian was having a hard time sleeping. He gets up and thought that it would be a good idea to snoop around in his new team blogging. He started searching through most of their bags, but he couldn't find anything interesting. He then notices that he hasn't checked Grimmy's belongings yet and started too.
As he was looking through Grimmy's bag, he saw something that was interesting. He found the Immunity Idol that Grimmy found the other day and he thought that was interesting. "So Grimmy's been hiding out on an Immunity Idol...huh?" He started thinking and came up with the perfect idea. He turned to look at Lulu and knew what he had to do.
"Lulu...you're going to be the next one out of here." He laughed evilly and placed the idol next to Lulu. His plans were starting to along perfectly and he was enjoying it. He hoped that this plan was going to work, seeing as his last two plans worked. He went back to sleep, so he wouldn't get caught.
Abraham noticed that Adrian was up, but he quickly pretended to close his eyes.
Author's Note: Another chapter is finally done! It took me a while to finish this one, but I'm glad that I was able to. This is one of my favorite chapters, as it sets up a few plot points that are in store for this season. Also thank you all for the reviews!
To Adam's creator, Adam went home Haha. Yeah, it was very emotional, but I was finally finished with his character arc for the season. But who knows what else is in store for Adam? Adam was a great character and I loved having him quote movies Haha.
Bumbling Bees: Lewis, Max, Jun, Corey, Dylan, Daniel, Brooke
Fighting Ferrets: Lulu, Grimmy, Abraham, Asuka, Adrian, Jewel
Eliminated: Aabidah, TST, Adam