LaCuevademigustos: Yep you certainly have it all down.
Ellismskd24: Maybe he will, maybe he won't.
Guest: Why?
acosta perez jose ramiro: Yep Courtney certainly did what was needed for the greater good. Yeah Mal isn't that powerful.
Jss2141: Indeed.
Screaming Gaffers: Mike/Mal, DJ, Noah, Amy
Killer Grips: Sky, Dawn, Duncan, Heather, Max
"Last time on Total Drama Action, Duncan and Amy were captured and put in bank vaults." Chris recapped "The Gaffers and Grips got the shock of their lives when they were faced with none other than Max who thanks to the producers is back in the running. And thanks to his quick thinking the Gaffers lost, and Mal was able to boot Courtney but not before she and Amy exposed him for who he truly was."
"With nine contestants left, maybe one of them will stand a chance. On another awe-inspiring episode, of Total! Drama! Action!" Chris said happily.
(After theme song)
The episode begins with all the girls in the girls' trailer.
"I can't believe Max is back." Heather said in shock while supplying her lipstick.
"Really?! What about the fact that Mike has been taken over by Mal?" Sky asked.
"Well yeah that's pretty shocking too." Heather shrugged.
"I'm just sorry I didn't see it sooner." Dawn sighed in disappointment.
"It's okay Dawn, we know it wasn't your intention." Sky said, placing a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"Well maybe you could've saved me from being blackmailed earlier, so yeah I'm pretty mad." Amy grumbled.
"But in the end you did learn something, and gained a whole new respect for your sister." Dawn said happily.
"How did you know that, oh right your freakish aura powers." Amy rolled her eyes before confessing "Well yeah I've sort of been realizing how horrible I've been towards Same- I mean Sammy after the whole blackmail by Mal and I wanna make things right with her after the show." Amy explains.
"Aww." Dawn cooed.
"You do realize she might not forgive you." Sky said.
Dawn glared at Sky before the gymnast continued "Well it's true, she abused her sister for years, crushed her self confidence, ruined her friendships, and tried kissing her boyfriend, it might take a while before she considers forgiving Amy."
"I guess you're right but there's no harm in trying, right?" Amy asked.
Meanwhile DJ, Noah, and Duncan were seen talking to each other while Max was sleeping.
"So Mal really intimidated those guys?" DJ asked.
"Yep." Duncan nodded.
"I just hope we vote him off soon, he's really annoying me." Noah said, annoyed.
"Don't worry Noah, if we stick together with Amy, all of us should be able to get him out." DJ smiled.
"Hello peons." Mal said as he entered the trailer making Duncan, Noah, and DJ glare at him.
"Well, this isn't a good way to treat your fellow roommate." Mal smirked.
"What have you done with Mike?" DJ seethed.
"Oh that poser, he isn't coming back anytime soon." Mal laughed.
"You monster!" DJ said angrily.
"Oh my, how insulting." Mal said sarcastically.
"Would you all be quiet, you are disturbing my beauty sleep." Max lectured.
"Beauty?! That's debatable." Noah smirked.
"Silence!" Max yelled.
A loud and deep sound was heard making the boys shake.
"What was that?!" DJ asked incredulously.
Soon we see Chris in a full leopard print loincloth laughing and he was next to a massive curved horn.
Soon we see that the contestants were at the caveman set lined up by gender, with Mal, Max, DJ, Noah, and Duncan on the left and Sky, Dawn, Amy, and Heather in the right.
"Well that looks like a fashion failure." Heather rolled her eyes.
"Like it?" Chris asked, gesturing to himself.
"No way, that's just gross." Noah said, disgusted.
"You think that's gross," Chris said frowning in offense, "Wait 'til you get a load of today's challenges. Now, let's get started."
"It's time to bring out your more primal instincts. Today's genre? The Period Movie!" Chris began.
"The what?" Max asked incredulously.
"The Period movies are about different periods of time and due to the outfit Chris is wearing it's likely about cavemen." Noah said dryly.
"Thank you for the clarification." Max smirked.
"No talking, Cave people just grunt and look confused. So for once, you're all perfectly cast." Chris smirked back.
"Some more than others." Mal smirked at Duncan who glared at him.
"Okay, cave people in prehistoric flicks do two things; make fire and use tools made of bone. Technically, you also need to know how to bring down a mammoth. But it's crazy expensive to get one of those, so we'll skip it." Chris explained.
"Aren't mammoths extinct?" DJ asked.
"Shush." Chris put a finger in front of his mouth.
Chef then walked over with a dressing rack with loincloths.
"Here are your costumes. Get into character people." Chris said.
"You gotta be kidding," Duncan said with his eyes widened.
"I never kid." Chris replied seriously, before laughing. "Okay, I do, but never about something this funny."
The camera flashed to a close up of Chris. "Hello cast," Chris grinned deviously. "Nice to see you all decked out for the competition."
The camera zooms out to show Mal and DJ in loincloths on their waists which could only be described as fur speedos.
Duncan, Noah, and Max were wearing full body loincloths while the girls were wearing two pieces loincloths.
"And might I add, you look pre-hysterical." Chris laughed.
"I don't feel comfortable with this." DJ said uncomfortably.
"Oh grow up, it's basically wearing a speedo." Mal rolled his eyes.
"No one asked you Mal." DJ said bitterly.
"Chef!" Chris called in an over dramatic voice. "The tools for the first Stone Age challenge, please!"
"Here are your rocks." Chef said as he gave a rock to each contestant.
"Rocks, aren't we taking this Stone Age thing a bit too seriously?" Duncan asked.
"Well Duncan, it is called the Stone Age." Mal said with a grin.
"Oh shut up." Duncan said, walking away from Mal who glared at him.
(After commercial break)
Soon we cut back to the Stone Age set as Chris begins speaking "First team to collect the hidden firewood, and use the flint-stones to make fire, earns something to help 'em with the second challenge! Ready? Aaand, action!"
Soon they all began running to get firewood when Chef grabbed Duncan by the back of his loincloth.
"What? Come on!" Duncan growled.
"Hand it over." Chef commanded.
Duncan then took out a pocket knife and dropped it on the ground.
"All of it Prehistoric Pond Scum." Chef said.
"Alright Alright." Duncan said as he had something in his fiat before he and Chef heard a scream which distracted the cook giving Duncan the opportunity put the thing he had, back in his loincloth.
Amy was seen running away from two monster beavers with firewood in her hands.
Chris walked on screen with a laugh. "Looks like Amy stumbled onto the set of Rodents Who Kill!" He said.
Amy soon ran away from the beavers to the left while Chef shook his head at Chris.
"Those beavers are animatronic right?" Duncan asked, concerned.
"Animatronic, of course." Chris lies before winking at the camera.
Duncan then found a piece of wood in the bush and threw it at the beavers who both began fighting over it.
Amy panted before she sighed in relief "Thanks, you do realize we're on different teams right?"
"Well I didn't want you to die so I saved you." Duncan shrugged.
Soon we see the rest of the Killer Grips with a stack of firewood.
"How are we supposed to start a fire with these useless stones?" Max said angrily.
"Give me those, I think I can make this work." Sky told Max as she took the flint from him.
Sky then began clashing the stones together while Mal did the same on the Gaffers side.
Both continued this routine until Duncan sneakily brings his lighter close to the firewood and secretly lights it.
"Ha, I did it." Sky said, thinking she lit the fire.
"Ooh we make fire." Duncan mocked in a caveman voice.
"Grr these flints are defected, no one could make a fire with these useless rocks." Mal said angrily before throwing them on the ground.
Noah then picked them up and tried clashing them together and they ended up lighting a fire.
"Really now?" Noah smirked at Mal which made him seethe in rage.
Confessional:
"This… game… is… putrid…" Mal growled before taking a deep breath and smirking "I need to calm down, once my plans are in fruition, those peons will regret messing with me."
Confessional Ends
Soon we cut to the final nine near a tar pit.
"Time for our second caveman movie challenge!" Chris announced as he walked into view. "But first, Chef will pass out your rewards from this morning. Chef, Weapons please!"
Soon we see Chef with a fur blanket on top of something which he pulled off, revealing a pile of bones.
"Are you serious?! Our reward is bones?" Heather asked in disbelief.
"For cave people bones were cutting edge technology," Chris explained as Chef gave tiny bones to the Killer Grips "And they're not your reward."
Soon Chef gave large bones to the Screaming Gaffers.
"Hey what gives?" Duncan asked incredulously. "We won the challenge. I made fire."
"Actually, you didn't." Chris replied. "We reviewed the footage caught on camera, you made fire with a lighter, which is not a Stone Age tool. Which means that Noah made fire first, and won the challenge."
Noah, DJ, and Amy cheered at their victory while Mal smirked at Duncan "Well, Mister Delinquent chested, big surprise."
Chris cleared his throat, annoyed. "The props department for caveman movies are bare-bones," Chris informed the contestants while holding up a small bone. "Which means these are all actors have to fight their on-screen enemies with."
"And who are our enemies?" Sky asked.
"Each other." Chris announced joyfully, "Grip tribe versus Gaffer tribe."
"Cool," Duncan said, swinging his bone. "We have to fight each other with bones?"
Mal then smacked Duncan on top of his head with his bone making the delinquent fall over.
"Loving the enthusiasm Mike." Chris said happily.
"It's Mal." Mal corrected angrily.
"Whatever, you'll be fighting over there." Chris said as he pointed on top of the rock columns.
Each player that knocks his or her opponent off the column into that fake bubbling tar pit, scores a point for their team."
"Now originally we were going to have the Grips decide who will sit out but since Duncan cheated, I decided he has to sit out." Chris smirked.
"What? Aw come on." Duncan rolled his eyes.
"What a shame I was looking forward to battling him." Mal complained.
"And now it's time for the matches to begin." Chris said happily.
Amy and Max were seen on top of their teams' column, Amy on the right, Max on the left.
"How am I supposed to knock her off with this tiny bone?" Max asked incredulously.
"When do we know when to start battling?" Amy asked.
"Oh don't worry," Chris answered with a dark smile, "you'll know!" He laughed a few times, then took a deep breath and blew hard into his massive curved horn.
The loud noise made both Amy and Max lose balance and fall into the pit of tar while screaming in terror.
Mal then laughed in pure joy as Amy and Max arose from under the tar with glares.
"Huh I guess it's a tie, oh well." Chris shrugged "Next up Heather versus Noah."
Soon we see Heather on the left column while Noah is on the right.
"Why don't you jump now and save us all the time." Heather said angrily.
Soon a screech was heard and some prehistoric birds began flying over the columns.
"Uh oh, looks like Amy and Max's blood curdling screams attracted a swarm of prehistoric geese! This should make things interesting!" Chris told everyone.
"Wow they look so real." DJ said in awe.
"Yeah, they just look real." Chris nervously backed away from DJ.
The geese were seen flying around the columns when Heather and Noah began battling.
Soon a goose grabbed onto Heather's hair as she tried to wave it off.
"Agh, get off of me!" Heather commanded before she tripped, making the goose let her go as she latched onto Noah's bone.
"Let go!" Noah commanded.
"No you let go!" Heather said infuriated.
"Okay." Noah smirked before letting go of the bone making Heather fall into the tar pit.
"And with that the Gaffers lead one to zero." Chris announced "The next match is DJ versus Sky."
We then cut to DJ on the left column and Sky on the right.
"Sorry Sky but you gotta go down." DJ apologized.
"Don't count me out yet." Sky glared at DJ before he swung his bone making Sky jump over it, DJ lost his balance and fell into the tar pit.
"And with that we are once again tied." Chris announces "Now that leaves us with a match between Dawn and Mal, on the same column. You just can't write this stuff!"
Soon we see Mal and Dawn on the same column with their bones in hand.
"Mal, you must bring Mike back, you still have a chance to redeem yourself and see the light." Dawn told Mal.
Mal growled and grabbed Dawn's wrist and began squeezing it "I do not have to do a damn thing you say, after how Mike and the others abandoned me, I have never been the same, so don't talk about that bulls*** about seeing the light." Mal snarled before squeezing her wrist harder.
"O-Ow." Dawn kneeled in pain making Mal smirk before he let her go and kicked her into the tar pit.
"Wowzers, Mal got more physical with that one. And with that the Screaming Gaffers win." Chris announced.
The Screaming Gaffers cheered at this while the Killer Grips groaned as Dawn got out of the tar pit groaning in pain.
"Dawn, oh I'm so sorry that happened." Sky said as she and Noah walked over and helped Dawn stand up.
"How bad is it?" Noah asked, worried.
"I don't know but why don't you take a look?" Dawn asked as she rolled up her sleeve and her left wrist had a purple bump on it.
"Oh my goodness that's bad." Sky gasped.
"I'll be fine." Dawn whimpered.
Noah just glared at Mal while all the Malevolent persona did was smirk.
"Good news Screaming Gaffers, you win the challenge." Chris said happily.
No one but Mal cheered as they were all concerned for Dawn.
"Anyway Killer Grips, I'll see you at the Gilded Chris Ceremony." Chris told the Grips.
Soon we see Heather walking to the girls' trailer when she hears someone behind the girls' trailer "Psst."
Heather looks to see Max gesturing her to come behind the trailer.
"What do you want Max?" Heather asked, annoyed.
"Well I was wondering, you need some allies so I decided we should form an alliance and go against our enemies." Max smirked.
"Hmm, I actually like the sound of that, okay then so who should we vote out?" Heather asked.
"I suggest we vote out…" Max began whispering to Heather who the target was.
"Hmm, interesting, okay then, I'll vote with you." Heather smirked.
"Excellent." Max smirked.
We then see Duncan in the Craft Services Tent about to leave until Heather stops him and places a hand on his chest.
"I need to talk to you about the vote." Heather told Duncan.
Soon the Gilded Chris theme played as a montage of Chris' best moments were shown.
We then cut to the Gilded Chris Ceremony where the five Grips were.
Sky, Dawn, and Duncan were sitting on the top row of the bleachers while Heather and Max were on the bottom.
"Okay, welcome to today's Gilded Chris Ceremony. Remember if you don't get a Gilded Chris, you're out." Chris explained.
Soon the five Grips clicked on their voting devices and cast their votes.
Soon the votes were printed out and Chris grabbed them.
"Alright the Gilded Chrises go to… Duncan surprisingly."
"Sky."
"And Heather."
Dawn looked nervous while Max smirked confidently.
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"Max." Chris said.
"Yes?" Max asked.
"I'm sorry but…" Chris began before continuing "Heads up."
Chris then threw a Gilded Chris at Max making the wannabe evil genius maniacally laugh.
"What? Me? Why me?" Dawn asked in shock.
"Your injury seems pretty bad, and we don't wanna irritate it." Duncan explained.
"Yes, even evil has standards." Max nodded.
"Same thing for me, except I also wanted revenge on you, buh-bye Dawn." Heather smirked.
"I understand." Dawn said solemnly before walking to the Lame-o-sine.
Confessional:
"Looks like I'm the only hero left on a team of backstabbers, I'm screwed aren't I?" Sky gulped.
Confessional Ends
We then see Chris was watching from the monitor room.
"It seems to be that way." Chris shrugged "Will Sky be able to survive on the team she's in? Or will she end up getting eliminated like she predicts? Find out on the next episode of Total! Drama! Action!"
Exclusive Clip: Dawn
"Well I guess I understand why my teammates eliminated me." Dawn said in a lotus position "My injury likely would've hindered my game. I felt Mike's aura when Mal was fighting me, he is fighting for control, hopefully he is able to defeat Mal or I fear something horrible may happen."
Exclusive Clip Ends
Author's Note: Like Courtney, Dawn was a contender to be a finalist, but on the Grips it was between her, Sky, and Duncan on who would leave, Duncan still had some plot so I couldn't get rid of him, and I do have some plans for Sky so I eliminated Dawn in a showcase of Mal's villainy and strength.
Screaming Gaffers: Mike/Mal, DJ, Noah, Amy
Killer Grips: Sky, Duncan, Heather, Max
17th/16th: Jo
17th/16th: Cody
15th: Geoff
14th: Harold
13th: Sammy
12th: Dave
11th: Leshawna
10th: Courtney
9th: Dawn