LaCuevademigustos: Yep Leshawna was indeed exposed. And she indeed got a painful lesson thanks to Harold breaking up with her. I did this because Leshawna needed karma for what she said about him.
Jss2141: Not at all, ship all you want.
Ellismskd24: Got it.
acosta perez jose ramiro: Yeah Rodney has come a long way.
Trigger Warning: Implications of abuse.
Screaming Gaffers: Mike/Mal, DJ, Courtney, Noah, Amy
Killer Grips: Sky, Dawn, Duncan, Heather
"Last time on Total Drama Action. We learned that war movies are brutal." Chris began "At first our contestants were flying high but tensions were deep between Leshawna and Duncan. And while the Gaffers won the battle, the Grips gave a farewell to Leshawna."
"Was it time for Leshawna to go?" Chris asked before shrugging "Eh I don't know she probably could've caused some more drama. You keep coming back for the explosive drama," Chris was seen in a car, "I keep coming back for the perks. Car chase this week. And with only nine players left, the engine is on and the stereo is set to thump to the tune of the catchy opening theme song! It's time for some Total! Drama! Action!"
Chris then began driving his car but it crashed into a tree.
"Ow!" Chris said, annoyed.
(After theme song)
The episode begins with the Killer Grips as Heather was glaring at Dawn while Dawn rolled her eyes at Heather.
"Have you spent enough time glaring at Dawn, Heather?" Duncan asked annoyed.
"Fine, I was getting bored of it anyway." Heather said angrily.
Confessional:
"Our Team is a bit dysfunctional which is not good because if they don't cooperate more. We could lose more challenges." Sky said fearfully.
Confessional Ends
"I'm gonna go get some fresh air." Duncan said before walking out of the tent.
Confessional:
"Man this bites, due to there being so much drama I can't seem to warn anyone about Mal other than Courtney. Hopefully she takes my warning to heart and votes him off but still…" Duncan began to rant when an intern put a bag over his head and pulled him away.
Confessional Ends
Soon we see Amy smelling something from the kitchen.
"Hmm, that actually smells good. I'm gonna go ask Chef what that is." Amy said happily before walking over to the kitchen.
Amy then saw a pot that was steaming and smirked before removing the lid and seeing it was just steam.
"Ugh, steam, what a waste of tim-" Amy began before a bag was dropped on her head by an intern before dragging her away.
We cut back to the inside of the dining area, the roof specifically where a knife cut a small square and a rope fell through the hole.
Chris then slid down the rope with a smile on his face in the middle of the tent.
"Nice entrance." Mal said, a bit impressed.
"Consider it a hint to this week's movie genre!" Chris smirked.
"Generic Action Movie: Starring Middle Aged Actor Past His Prime?" Heather deadpanned.
"No." Chris said annoyed, before smiling "We're paying tribute to the action packed Bank Heist Gangster Caper Film!"
"Um Chris, we should wait for Amy to return." Courtney said.
"We should also wait for Duncan." Sky said in agreement.
"Amy and Duncan are gone people," Chris announced. "Because rescuing them is the first part of the challenge!"
Everyone gasped at this before Chris continued "They've both been locked up in state-of-the-art safes, Along with all the tools each team will need to commit a movie perfect bank robbery. Your job is to crack the safes, rescue your teammates, grab your tools, and try to be the first to rob The First National Bank of Chris!"
"Let's kick it gangstas." Chris said as he pulled the rope as an unseen source pulled him and the rope back up.
Soon we cut to Duncan sitting inside the bank vault alone.
"Well this is clearly part of a challenge, at least now I can sit here and figure out what to do about Mal." Duncan said.
We then see Amy in her own bank vault complaining "How dare those neanderthals kidnap me. I mean this is likely for the challenge but seriously they could've at least given me a warning."
Soon we see that Heather is fiddling with the dial on the bank vault.
"Ugh what is this combination?" Heather asked.
"Let me do it, I was able to pick the lock last time." Dawn said.
"Fine, you can do it." Heather huffed.
Soon we see Noah trying to find the combination as well with a purple funnel to his ear.
"Hurry up, I don't want to lose." Courtney said, annoyed.
"If I rush it, we'll likely be stuck here." Noah argues "So zip it and let me find a way to get Amy out."
"Hey whatever gets me out of here sooner." Amy said from inside.
"Amy, you can hear us?" DJ asked in shock.
"Duh, this isn't exactly soundproof." Amy said.
"Same old Amy." Noah smirked.
Mal snapped his fingers with a smile, gaining an idea "Are the vents in there real?"
We then cut to Amy inside as she began speaking "Yeah they are."
"Climb out through the vents." Noah instructed "You're skinny enough for it. And bring the bank robbing kit with you.
"But it's so dirty." Amy complained.
"Do it or we'll vote you off!" Courtney said angrily.
"Fine." Amy groaned from inside.
Confessional:
"It was so dirty and mucky in there but I had to do it or we were gonna lose." Amy said, annoyed.
Confessional Ends
Soon we see Amy crawl out of the vent pushing out the bank robbing kit where her teammates were standing.
DJ and Courtney then pulled her out of the vent and up to her feet.
"Ugh, it was horrible in there." Amy said angrily.
"Save the complaining for later, we have a challenge to win." Courtney said angrily before she and the rest of the Gaffers began running off.
Dawn then began yelling "Duncan crawl through the vent with the bank robbing kit, the Gaffers are leaving."
"Got it." Duncan nodded from the inside before crawling through the vents with the bag and immediately making it outside.
He was then pulled up by Sky and Dawn up to his feet while Heather got the bank robbing kit, before they began running.
Soon it was a race for first place to the bank set and then we see that the Screaming Gaffers made it first.
"Ha, now allow us to win the challenge." Courtney smirked before turning to a small man with brown hair.
"Excuse me sir, I hate to do this but we need you to fill this bag with money." Courtney told the banker.
"Can I do anything else for you." The banker asked turning around to reveal he was Max.
"Courtney!" Max threw the brown haired wig away making everyone gasp in shock.
"Looks like the Gaffers bit off a little more than they could chew with that robbery," Chris said as he popped up in front of the camera. "They can run, or in this case gasp in shock, but they can't hide, because Total Drama Action will be right back."
(After commercial break)
Soon we see that Max was still at the bank teller while everyone else was staring at him in shock while Chris was reading a sheet of paper "Teams, it is my duty to inform you that Max will be back for the duration of the game and we're all happy about it."
Max gave a smug look before Heather began speaking "He got booted out fair and square."
"Yes but the producers wanted someone to return and they ended up spinning a wheel and landed on Max." Chris explained.
"Yes it was most fortunate I got to return now I will show you all my full potential." Max smirked.
"Please you'll be voted out at the first or second Gilded Chris ceremony." Amy said haughtily.
"Oh I wouldn't say that." Max said before winking at Mal which he widened his eyes at.
"So Max, since you were the bank teller in the last challenge, you get to decide who wins first prize: you bag of loot." Chris tossed a bag of coins to Max.
"The choice is most obvious, the Gaffers deserve the prize more as they made it here first." Max said handing the bag to Courtney.
"Thank you." Courtney said with widened eyes.
"That means the Grips get second prize." Chris said happily.
"What's second prize?" Sky asked.
"Max! For the rest of the game." Chris said happily "Or until he's eliminated, who knows."
Confessional:
"How dare Chris make me second prize." Max said angrily before smirking "No matter I will win this game no matter what. Mwahahahahahahaha!"
Confessional Ends
"So, Grips, Gaffers," Chris addressed the teams, "you getaway cars are waiting! Better get a move on before the cops arrive."
Both teams gave Chris unimpressed looks before he continued speaking "That means GO!"
Soon we see the ten contestants running when Duncan began speaking "Getaway cars are very cool, I'm hoping for a Mercedes."
"I'm partial to Jaguars myself." Mal smirked at Duncan causing Duncan to widen his eyes at him.
Soon we see the teams on top of a hill with a torn apart green and red cart.
"What is all this?" Sky asked.
A horn sounding like the opening theme sounded and Chris drove on scene in his red sports car "This is your challenge. Assemble the getaway cars and drive to freedom!"
"That is so not hot," Heather complained.
"If the cars were ready to go, then it wouldn't be much of a challenge," Chris argued.
The contestants groaned at this before Chris drove away.
Soon we zoomed into Mike's head where he was looking at all his memories.
We then see Chester was chained up to a rock, while making wood carvings of Mal's face.
"Chester, are you making carvings of Mal?" Mike asked.
"It was Mal's idea." Chester grumbled.
"Maybe you can help me take control of my mind again." Mike suggested.
"Mal, oh he.'a whippiest whipper snapper that ever snapped a-" Chester began before Mal interrupted him.
"Chester, will you help me?" Mike asked.
"Aw what the heck, I'm with you Mike." Chester smiles.
Mike then used a wood carving of Mal to break Chester's chain and he began running.
"Let's go." Mike said happily.
"Yay." Chester said happily before following Mike and they made it to another door.
"Huh, another door?" Mike asked, raising an eyebrow.
Mike then opened it to see he and Chester were now light blue.
"Wh-What happened?" Mike asked.
"This is one of your memories." Chester explained.
"Hm. So it seems." Mike said.
We then see Mike, who was now younger, all bruised up and his father who was muscular and tan with a black shirt was driving him to a house.
"It's okay son, your mother is not gonna hurt us anymore." Mike's father told him.
"Oh I remember you telling me about that mother of yours." Chester said.
"Yeah." Present Mike said "How can I not remember her, she made me miserable for five years."
"Yeah but I felt so defenseless and trapped and I don't…" Young Mike then gasped as he fell asleep.
"Mike, Mike, are you okay?" Mike's father began shaking him.
We then see Young Mike was in his subconscious.
"Wh-Where am I? Dad? Where are you?" Young Mike asked with tears in his eyes.
"It's okay Mike, your safe." A deep voice said as a figure that looked like him but with hair around his left eye walked over to him.
"Who are you?" Young Mike asked.
"Your protector of course but please call me Mal." The being known as Young Mal explained.
"This is when I first met Mal." Mike explained to Chester.
Soon we cut back to the mostly assembled go karts as everyone, even Max was assembling their team's go karts.
"You know I'm glad your helping out with the go karts Max." Sky smiled at the wannabe evil genius.
"Yes. I learned from my mistakes last time and I figured I should contribute more." Max smirked back.
Soon we see that the Screaming Gaffers' green go kart is finished along with the Killer Grips' red go kart.
"Hop in." Duncan told his teammates in which they did.
Courtney then got in the kart as well and began speaking "Hurry we can't let them win."
"Don't have to tell me twice." Amy said fearfully before she, and the boys got in the kart.
Soon it was mad kart race to first place and the Gaffers soon passed the Grips when DJ noticed something.
"Look out for the clothing line!" DJ said in horror before the Gaffers crash into it.
Soon they got through the clothing line but then everyone saw Noah in a bra and Noah himself was in shock as everyone laughed at him.
Confessional:
"That was the most humiliating moment of my life." Noah said angrily.
Confessional Ends
Soon they continued driving and Noah no longer had the bra on while the Grips were still driving down the fake hill and soon passed the Gaffers.
"Ha ha suckers!" Duncan laughed.
Soon the two teams drove down the hill and to the finish line, they were neck and neck when Max took a balloon out of his pocket and held it in his hands "Time to evil!"
Max then threw the balloon which revealed to be a cloud of smelly gas, making the Screaming Gaffers cough and swerve into a wall
Confessional:
"Did you see that, I never accomplished anything so evil before. Pure sinister gold MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Max said happily before laughing.
XXX
"As annoying as Max may be, he might actually be a useful alliance member." Heather smirked.
Confessionals End
Soon the Killer Grips cross the finish line as Chef waves the flag.
"Alright the Killer Grips sin invincibility. That means I'll be seeing the Grips at the elimination ceremony tonight." Chris said happily.
Soon we see Courtney and DJ at the Craft Services Tent.
"Okay DJ, I have to tell you something, we need to vote off Mike tonight." Courtney told DJ.
"Why Mike, he's really nice, shouldn't we vote off Amy instead?" DJ asked.
"This is gonna sound crazy but Mike might have a secret alternate personality named Mal and Duncan told me he went to juvie with him." Courtney explained.
"Well, I'm not sure if I believe this Courtney." DJ told Courtney "I mean this information did come from Duncan."
"Yeah but do you really wanna take any chances?" Courtney asked.
"Courtney we can't vote him off until we know for sure he isn't Mike so let's just vote off Amy." DJ said angrily.
"Ugh fine, at least we know she's evil." Courtney rolled her eyes but what they didn't see was Mal behind the Craft Services Tent, snarling before walking away
We then see Noah walking to the Gilded Chris studio when Mal pulls him behind and begins whispering "Tonight we vote off Courtney, got it?"
Noah nodded at this before walking to the Gilded Chris ceremony.
Soon we cut to Chris and all the Screaming Gaffers together at the Gilded Chris ceremony.
"The time has come." Chris said "Like always Screaming Gaffers, one member of your team will not be receiving a coveted Gilded Chris made of the finest Belgian Chocolate."
Soon the Screaming Gaffers all voted and Chef came down from off-screen on a rope harness, handed Chris an envelope, and then was pulled back up.
"The Gilded Chrises go to… Noah."
"DJ."
"And Mike."
"And the final Gilded Chris goes to…" Chris began as Amy and Courtney were glaring at each other.
…
…
…
"Amy."
Amy sighed in relief as she caught her Gilded Chris.
"Fine but before I leave I have something to say, I believe Mike is currently in control of his secret evil personality Mal, Duncan told me he went to juvie with him and he must have heard our conversation, why else would he vote for me."
DJ and Noah raised an eyebrow at Mal as he began to sweat before Amy spoke up "It's all true, Mal has been blackmailing me ever since the prison challenge and threatened to hurt me if I said a word!"
"A silly tale you weave Courtney and Amy, unfortunately no one will believe you." Mal smirked.
"Oh I believe them, both of them have incriminating evidence against you." DJ said angrily.
"Yeah stop lying to us already." Noah said "Or should I ask Duncan myself if this is true."
Mal growled before putting his hair above his eye "Fine, you got me. It is a relief anyway, pretending to be that boring was really getting to me and now to punish Amy."
"You will not touch her or you'll have to deal with me and everyone else" DJ grabbed Mal by the shirt with a glare.
"Fine." Mal rolled his eyes.
"Okay this is getting heavy Courtney, it's time for you to go." Chris said.
"Okay, I already said what I needed to say." Courtney smirked before walking to the Lame-o-sine as Chris begins walking down the red carpet
"Will Mal be able to stay in the game now that he's been exposed? Will Amy survive his wrath? And how far will Max get? Find out on Total! Drama! Action!" Chris said as he closed off the episode
Bonus Clip: Courtney
"Going home before merge again does stink but I still got the last laugh. Mal was exposed in front of everyone and now I doubt anyone will ally with him. So he's pretty much a goner." Courtney smirked "I really hope DJ wins, he has come a long way, did you see how he stood up to Mal? That was awesome!"
Bonus Clip Ends
Author's Note: Mal was pretty much going to be exposed here no matter who left, so with Courtney I did consider her as a finalist and originally DJ was going to leave due to Courtney telling him about Mal and Mal himself getting Amy and Noah to vote him off due to him being more of a threat than Courtney but I figured DJ would want evidence before being quick to judge. So instead Mal targeted Courtney because she was onto him.
Screaming Gaffers: Mike/Mal, DJ, Noah, Amy
Killer Grips: Sky, Dawn, Duncan, Heather, Max
17th/16th: Jo
17th/16th: Cody
15th: Geoff
14th: Harold
13th: Sammy
12th: Dave
11th: Leshawna
10th: Courtney