Remaining Campers
Screaming Gophers: Allen, Erica, Garry, Jonathan, Molly, Ramona
Killer Bass: Brenda, Caleb, Caroline, Christian, Faith, Lamar and Nick.
Episode 12 Basic Straining
Last time on Total Drama Island…
The teams were given three challenges that tested their trust in they're teammates. The rock climbing challenge showed just how far Jonathan was willing to go for his team. And Allen got the bad end of the blowfish, courtesy of Molly. Lamar trusted Christian with his lucky penny, huge mistake by the way. Some of the campers dropped on they're butts, and Caleb shocked Brenda by showing his softer side. Yeah, touching moments good times. Stay tuned for more on Total Drama Island!
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(intro Plays)
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Inside the cabin, Lamar was taking a little nap. He started mumbling something and the scene changed to a ripple effect. As the effect ended, the new setting was surreal to say the least. He was in a giant stadium with millions of fans watching in the crowd. He had a football in his arms and a much bigger defender right in front of him. He trucked the guy and scored for a touchdown while the crowd roared in applause. He walked up to his coach after celebrating with his teammates. "You see that play?" Lamar asked.
"You're getting moved down the depth chart for the rest of the year," The coach answered.
"Why would you do that?" he looked at his teammates, "I'm the best player on this team!"
"Listen kid," the coach stated, "We have a new player coming to the team, he's top ranked in high school football. You're still gonna be number 2 on the depth chart and get playing time but he's gonna be the main guy."
"So should I just transfer to another school then?
The coach grew serious, "Sure, if you're ego is that big,"
"What do you mean? I've been the best player this year and now i'm getting demoted"
"It's for the good of the team, this new player will give us a better shot at winning back to back championships. Trust me."
"Fine then, I'll do it. But if i start outplaying him then you'll give me the number 1 spot back" they agreed. "Let me get some water," Lamar disappeared.
The assistant Coach looked at the Coach, "He seems really upset about this,"
"I wouldn't worry about it," The Coach replied, "We're getting rid of that kid soon anyway"
"Yep, and hopefully he'll never come back," The assistant said.
Lamar woke up in a panic. Chef's voice sounded over the loudspeakers. "Listen up you little cockroaches. I want all campers in 0900 Hours." he shrugged and went back to bed. "That means now soldiers! Now! He woke back up and left.
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(Dock of Shame)
The thirteen remaining campers lined up at the dock. "Line up and stand in proper formation" Chef instructed over a megaphone. "You call this proper formation?" he asked while searching for a wooden pointer. "Feet together!" he smacked Jonathan's legs. "Arms down!" another whack to Caleb's arms. "Eyes forward! Chin up!" several smacks to Christian.
"This is gonna be a fun day," Erica whispered to Allen.
"What did you say to me, soldier?! Chef asked.
"Ummm, nothing," Erica said.
"And you will continue to say nothing, until I tell you that you can say something! Today's challenge will not be an easy one. In fact, I don't expect everyone to come out alive. Ramona rolled her eyes at the comment and received a whack. "My orders are to make sure all the babies in front of me drop out of my boot camp except one. The last one standing wins the most important reward of the game for they're team, and that's all I can say.
"Where's Chris?" Garry asked.
"Rule number one! You will address me as Master Chief. Have you got that?
"Yes Master Chef!" the campers said.
"You will sleep when I tell you to sleep. And you will eat only when I tell you to eat, is that clear?
"Yes Master Chef!" Allen said.
"Rule number two! When you are ready to give up, you will report back to the dock and ring the bell. Which brings me to rule number three. I like to get one quitter before the end of the first day. And that day will not end until someone drops out! Now get your butts down to the beach soldiers! Now! Now! Now!
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Confessional
Erica - Whoever's sick, twisted idea it was to put him in charge of our challenge i have to say…i'm a little bit impressed.
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(Beach)
The two teams stood by two caneos, one red and one green, as they waited for instruction. "Listen up!" Chef said. "Each team will hold a canoe over their heads, i catch you with your hands off the canoe, and you will be eliminated. No one eats lunch until someone drops out. Canoes up! Both teams lifted up they're caneos.
"This isn't that hard," Molly bragged.
"Easy," Lamar agreed.
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Sometime later they were singing a different tune. Caroline's arms had started to buckle and Ramanoa's stomach was growling. "Come on you sissies," Chef taunted, "It's only been three hours!"
"Looks like they missed lunch today," Chris said.
"Mhhhhm. Guess they just weren't hungry. Unless someone wants to quit now?"
Molly noticed something out of the corner of her eyes and looked. Garry was using a fishing pole to give Jonathan a wedgie. She muttered "Idiot," to herself before looking away.
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That night, the campers were still holding up the canoes while Chef was telling war stories. "Twenty-Five of us went into the jungle that night," he said. "Only five came back out."
Erica yawned. "What war were you in anyway?"
"Did I ask you to speak? Because I don't remember asking you to speak.
"Whatever, he so wasn't in a war"
Suddenly Faith said, "I'm sorry but I can't do this anymore," and started walking to the dock.
"Don't do it, Faith!" Christian yelled but she already rung the bell. The bass collapsed under they're canoe while the Gophers simply tossed theirs aside.
"Listen," Chef told Faith in a soft voice "You have nothing to be ashamed of. Except being a little baby that let you team down! As for the rest of you, report to the mess hall. Dinner is served.
"It's about time!" Molly chereed.
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(Main Lodge)
"All right maggots open your ears," Chef said, "You've got ten minutes to eat before night training begins so get to it." The campers groaned at the idea of more challenges from the cook.
"Um excuse me master chef," Erica said. "Where's the food?"
"You're looking at it," The cook said with a gesture to some trash cans.
"That's the garbage from this morning's breakfast," Allen pointed out.
"You're darn right! When you're at war you take what you get!"
"Well," Chris said. "I can see you got this under control. I'm off to craft services. Coming?
"Serve me up some of that," The cook said as they walked off.
Nick shuddered, "Have at it, I will not be eating that"
"Yeah," Caroline agreed, "I'm with Nick on this one,"
"Don't care for Today's special?" Garry mocked while carrying a glass.
"A girl's got her limits," Caroline said. "Mine just happens to be eating garbage." she noticed Garrry was gone.
"Hey Jonathan," Garry said. "I felt bad about the whole 'underwear fishing incident' so i found you some apple juice.
Jonathan took the glass and drank. His eyes went wide at the taste and he spit it out. "That's not juice!"
Garry laughed. "Oh my mistake dude. I must've confused it with the kitchen grease!"
"Why are you bullying Him?" Molly interjected.
"Ok, listen I know you like me," Garry said, "He knows. Everyone knows. So here's a tip. If you wanna kiss me, i might let you"
"Don't you have a girlfriend?" She smirked.
Garry's eyes widened "Me and Donna were hooking up but we never really got together."
"How about you start focusing more on the challenge, rather than pretending to be tough" she said walking off.
Jonathan laughed. "She owned you."
"Shut It!"
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(Beach)
Chef had all 13 campers, including Faith for some reason, dancing a modified version of the thriller dance. During a series of pelvic thrusts, the music cuts off and the campers sighed. "Garry," Molly asked. "What are you doing?"
"One of us drops out, we're done for the day," Garry said.
"We're done when I say we're done," Chef yelled. "Now drop and give me twenty. Anyone else g
ot something they want to say?"
"Uh yea," Erica said, raising her hand. "Can I go to the bathroom?"
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(Washrooms)
Erica was stuck cleaning the bathrooms."Not exactly what I had in mind."
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(Main Lodge)
"For your next challenge," Chef explained. "You will write a 300 page essay about how much you love me. Anyone who falls asleep or fails to complete the challenge will be eliminated!"
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Two hours later, Chef collected the essays. He read Garry's first. "I love Master Chief Hatchet because he is very very very very very very very very very very very. This is just one sentence with five pages of verys in between!
"It's three hunderded words exactly," Garry defended, "You can count them if you'd like."
He walked past the table with a glare and cleaned up some drool on the floor.. "You two slackers," he said with a point to Caleb and Allen" are out. The rest of you get to bed and report to the playing field at 0550 Hours."
"You missed a spot there General," Garry said.
"Boy do you wanna run fifty laps around the camp right now!?"
"No he doesn't" Molly said grabbing him. "He's going straight to bed, aren't you?" She pulled him off and asked, "Are you trying to get kicked off?"
"Aww" he mocked. "I didn't know you cared"
"I don't" she said quickly, "I just don't wanna lose this challenge. So stop being a tough guy and do what you're told for once" she stormed off.
Garry looked to Allen, "She wants me."
"You know it man." they fistbumbed.
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(Playing Field)
The two teams, minus Faith, Allen and Caleb stood at the start of an obstacle course. Included were a large wall, some tires to jump through, and a couple of axes. "You will all run this course until you can all complete it in under 1 minute." Chef explained, "Am I making myself clear?"
"Crystal," Garry said.
Jonathan tugged Molly's shirt. "Maybe get through this one without flirting with Garry?" he asked.
Molly blushed. "Right. Got it.."
"Go Maggots Go!" they all took off. Erica and Garry had no trouble getting over the climbing wall. Ramona was another story. Both Jonathan and Molly managed to get through the tires easily. Further up, Lamar and Caroline crawled under the swinging axes, with Lamar looking much more confident. Erica and Jonathan swung across a mud pit on ropes.
Christian made it to the top of the climbing rope before falling down and landing in the mud. He started vomiting when Garry grabbed chef's attention. "Uh General Crazy, we got a situation here."
"Too much mud" Christian said through
"Ring the Bell and report to the infirmary," Chef instructed. "Your tour of duty is finished."
"Wow," Garry commented. "Poor guy."
"Back on the course now! One false move and I'll be on you like a stink on a poop wagon."
"I look forward to it. Sir!
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Caroline hopped over the climbing wall with ease. Ramona attempted but it broke from it's support and crushed her. Lamar slipped through a tire. Erica fell from something, and Jonathan had somehow got tangled up in a rope. Brenda crawled under the axes, but got stuck and started sinking. Garry passed her and said, "Fallen soldier, I salute you!" He stopped when he saw Chef standing over him.
"You just bought yourself twenty more push-ups," chef said.
"Thank you!" Garry kissed Chef's nose. Chef growled silently.
"I think you may have pushed him over the edge," Jonathan said.
"I think you're right."
"One night solitary confinement," Chef said with a scarily quiet tone. "In the boathouse."
The campers gasped, but Garry scoffed. "Big deal, how scary can it be?
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(Boat House)
"I should've kept my big mouth shut" a wolf howled, catching his attention.
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(Main Lodge)
Molly worried over dinner, which looked like paste before saying, "Maybe I should check on him."
Jonathan shrugged "it's not challenge time so there's no harm in flirting."
"It's not flirting" Molly defended.
"Sure it isn't," Jonathan said with sarcasm.
"It's concern for a fellow teammate, who's trapped in a small shack with sharp objects by a psycho chef." She paused for a moment. "I'm gonna go check on him."
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Confessional
Jonathan - I don't think it's possible for it to be any more obvious that she likes Garry.
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Molly opened the door to the boathouse, "Garry, you in here?"
Garry was pretending to sweep when he said, "Molly!" in fake surprise
"That wasn't very scary you know,"
"So, come to collect that kiss?"
She held out a bowl of paste, "Just making sure you don't starve to death,"
"No thanks, I'll stick with the bait," he said pointing to a barrel of live worms.
"Probably a good call," she admitted with a shrug. "I can't get the spoon out of this stuff. So why do you egg people on like that? I mean the things with Jonathan and Chef…
"Like you haven't been messing with people,"
"I have, but i also have my limits,"
"Is that what that weak teasing is about?"
"There's a fine line between being funny and being a jerk and you passed that line back in Toronto!"
"Oh come on, I'm not hurting anyone. What's wrong with a little fun?"
"Cause a little fun gets you locked in a fish cabin!"
"But I'm in a fish cabin with you," he pointed out, causing her to smile. "Feel like ditching this crap for some peanut butter and jam?"
"Are you kidding? All I've had for two days is this gruel. I don't know where you're going with this,"
"Come on Molly, trust me this once."
"Do you have some on you?"
"No, but I do know where to get it. It will involve breaking quite a few rules though. Are you in?"
"Let's do it," she said walking out of the cabin.
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(Craft Services Tent)
The two Gophers snuck into the tent and raided the fridge while Chris and Chef were bust talking to each other. "Twenty-five of us went into the jungle. Only five came back out,"
"I mean come on," Chris said. "I am nothing without my stubble.
"Amen Brotha"
"This is so exciting," Molly said as she threw some old marshmallows in the fridge. "A present from the campers of wawanakwa.
"Good one Molly," Garry commented and the two ran off into the night.
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(Gophers Cabin)
All the campers were chowing down on the food Garry and Molly stole from the chef. Christian and Lamar were chatting in a corner, "You alright man? It seemed like you had a nightmare last night,"
"Yeah I'm alright, wait how did you know?"
"I woke up early today and did some reading,"
"And what is with all the lame war stories?" Erica asked Ramona and Caroline. "He is so demented."
"Girl," Ramona said, "These nails aren't meant for combat training, you know what i'm saying?"
"I'm a little surprised at how good i am at this though," Caroline said.
"Aww guys, gross!" they looked to see Jonathan looking at a peanut butter smiley face in his bunk.
"Now see that's a waste of good peanut butter," Garry said, chuckling.
Molly tried to grab an ice cream sandwich but Caroline stopped her, "I think you've had enough,"
"Just one more," Molly said as she popped it in her mouth and let out a huge burp. She ran out of the room with a bulging cheek as Erica and Ramona laughed.
Outside she leaned over the railing and vomited. Garry walked out of the cabin and said, "Who knew you were such a lightweight?"
She wiped her mouth and said, "That was so thrilling! I kinda want to do more bad stuff now"
"You could always give me that kiss, that'd be pretty bad."
"In your dreams," she joked.
"Fine, enjoy a peanut butterless life."
"Thanks, enjoy prison"
"I will," she suddenly grabbed him and kissed him before walking off.
"Dude, Nice!" Allen said as he walked outside.
"Told ya she wanted me," Garry bragged, Jonathan smirked watching this.
"Attention remaining bootcampers," Chef said over the loudspeaker, "The next evolution of your training begins at 07000 hours." And If I catch the sucker that took my dessert, your butt is mine!"
Jonathan, Garry, Erica, Molly, Lamar, and Caroline, Were all hanging from a tree by the legs. "What you are experiencing," Chef explained. "Is an ancient form of torture. By now the blood has begun rushing to your head. The next stage is nuesa, followed by dizziness and a flushed appearance as the blood begins to pool in your eyes. You may experience fainting smells,"
Garry fell from the tree hard. Molly saw this and yelled his name in concern before hopping down to check on him. "Way to throw our advantage away," Ramona snarked.
Suddenly Caroline finally fell off.
"Lamar, it's up to you!" Brenda said.
"Erica, Jonathan you guys gonna be good?" Molly asked while holding hands with Garry.
"Yeah i think s-" Jonathan fell from the tree and landed face first. Molly giggled.
"Don't worry guys," Lamar said. "This is…..su…such..a..a..pi..piece.. …cake" he fell from the tree.
Molly winced "That's gonna hurt later,"
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The Gophers were carrying Erica on their shoulders as they cheered for the victory.
"Erica," Chef said. "Congratulations solider. I'd go to war with you anytime."
"I'll keep that in mind when deciding my future career" she said awkwardly.
"You do that soldier," The Gophers ran off and he tearfully added, "You do that."
"Now for you losers!" Chef said, pointing at the Bass. "Luckily this is a non elimination challenge so none of you are going home….for now"
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(Woods)
Jonathan was waiting for someone until Allen showed up. "I've thought about what you said,"
"And, what do you think? Jonathan asked.
"I'm in. but this is only for the next vote. After that I'm not making any promises and you owe me a favor" Allen left.
Jonathan Smirked. "If it gets rid of Garry, it'll all be worth it"
Author's Note: This is the last non elimination where there was an elimination in canon, i wanted to do an elimination here cause this episode is iconic, but 2 non eliminations in a row would be a bore. Also i wanna see if anyone can guess what the reward is, trust me it will be huge but i wanna see if anyone has any guesses,
TDI Rankings
22nd Wanda
21st Louis
20th Donna
19th Shawn
18th Chelsea
17th Jake
16th Annie
15th Jasmine
14th Evan