Dana whistled to herself while sitting in the passenger seat of a ginormous truck, one which Aaron was driving. Weirdly, there were nine crates shoved in the bed of the truck, each of them labeled with the name of one of the contestants that was still in the game. "You putting bets on this one already, or are we still unsure who's gonna taste the sweet victory cake?" The host looked over to her partner in crime, who clicked his tongue as he thought about it.
"I'm not too sure…I zhink it could be quite anybody's game, really." The co-host went back to staring at the road ahead, only one possible destination in his path. There was a massive factory that was coming up on the road…it had to be at least three times the size of the hotel that everyone had been staying at. Steam pumped out through pipes, which were adorning several areas of the factory itself.
"I guess you're right. Even Fridge could wobble his way through this challenge if he just bumps around enough." Dana snickered to herself, imagining the athletic boy trying to put together a puzzle, only to get frustrated by it and slam his fists on the ground, causing each piece to fall into place perfectly. "Yeah…it'll really be funny to see how he handles this one. But, anyways…last time on Total Drama: Scrap Island, we were brought down to our final ten contestants, each of which was given a special little scavenger hunt list. The items on the list, however, were not so much physical items, but secrets about the other contestants! The goal was to find out whose secret was whose, the only way to do that being to search for clues that we hid on little bobble heads. Vernon managed to snatch a nice lead on things when he bounced from bobble head to bobble head, putting clues together to come up with an answer for each secret. Some contestants had a bit more trouble, like Bunny, who was too confident in what she figured the answers might be, and Fridge, who was too scared of venturing into rabbit waters to really solve any of the secrets. Ivy wanted to play, but seeing as one of the secrets involved her, she obsessed over it, which eventually caused her to fail miserably. It was only then that Vernon helped her out, showing that the secret about her was none other than his own, which was him writing a love song for her. There was some cute smooching action, too. I know, I know! We've been waiting all season and it finally happens! Unfortunately, the happy times would be short-lived, as Vernon got all the answers and showed them to me and Aaron…right after Valerie had already sneakily claimed victory. Yeah…people don't care much for others knowing their secrets. The musical loverboy was voted out, our lovely intern following in suit so that she could spend more time with him. Which of our nine remaining titans is gonna fall in our little trip through this factory of looming doom? Find out, right now, on Total Drama: Scrap Island!"
The camera suddenly flew into the sky, being struck by a massive chunk of debris and knocking it back to the ground, only to be picked up by a cute, blue and silver striped robot with one wheel that it used to move.
"Dear mom and dad, I'm doing fine," the robot pointed the camera at Theodore at a cafeteria table, pounding down energy drinks like a champ, his eyes twitching from the caffeine while Larida looked concerned for his health.
"You guys are on my mind," at a nearby table, Ronnie was arm wrestling Mitchell, winning easily and slamming him straight through the table, causing Celeste to run over and start screaming at the powerhouse.
"You asked me what I wanted to be and I think the answer's plain to see," the robot wheeled its way out of the cafeteria, showing a junkyard with Vernon scribbling something down in silence and Ivy looking over his shoulder to peek at it, until Blaster popped out of one of the garbage piles, scaring him and making his papers fly off into the sky.
"I wanna be famous!" Vernon ran after his papers, leaving Ivy behind in confusion, eventually passing by Margaret and Daniel as they were making out while surrounded by four intense looking mafia thugs, one who spotted the camera and chased after it.
"I wanna live close to the sun," the robot wheeled away from the mafia goon, passing by Zane and Bunny, the latter who was bugging the boy by holding a mic up to his face, which he tried to shove away.
"So pack your bags, cause I've already won," Fridge carried Caleb on his shoulders across from Aaron, who had Dana on his own shoulders, the two up top slapping at each other as the robot passed by.
"Everything to prove, nothing in my way, I'll get there one day," as the robot continued to roll around, it finally made its way out of the junkyard and to the remnants of Cali-Tokyo, where Buck was attempting to profess his love to Yves, who was all flustered by the gesture.
"I wanna be famous!" Nearby, atop a pile of rubble, Brittany was making fun of Valerie, who let out a sigh and pushed her off the pile and onto the ground.
"Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na," near the pile, there were some barrels of toxic waste, which inspired Mitzy, who scribbled something down on a blank sheet while Alice was absolutely appalled by the sight.
"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!" CJ was being chased by a massive and terrifying robot with six legs and two clawed arms, which then noticed the robot with the camera and chased after it, causing it to drop the camera.
"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!" The camera feed cut to the aftermath stage, showing Calvin trying to kiss Max, who, out of embarrassment, belched right in his face.
The two were soon shoved aside by Capone, who rolled his eyes at them, while Sunny, next to him, waved happily to the camera with a huge smile on her face. Maggie popped up between the two of them, an acoustic guitar around her back, hugging them both tightly and snickering while the camera panned out to show the whole cast sitting in the risers, with the little robot sitting next to Caleb, and Franchesco standing off to the side with a glare fixed on Maggie.
Each of the nine crates was dumped off in what seemed to be some sort of dank hallway with steam pipes running along the walls and the ceilings, although not a single hallway had more than one crate in it. The loudspeakers of the building came on, with Dana's voice soon following after the brief audio feedback noise. "Attention survivors! You're all probably wondering what exactly you're doing all boxed up in the dark right now…which means it's the perfect time to tell the lot of you that you're in the middle of a challenge as we speak! This challenge is one that really requires a lot of thought to get through, and it simply can't be done by just forcing your way through. What is this challenge, you ask? Well…it's a real family favorite for those puzzle lovers! That's right, you'll all be going through…an escape room!"
Dana paused her speech for a brief moment, as if expecting someone to respond with shock, excitement, or some other third emotion. "Oh, right…forgot that you guys are all in crates right now…and not in the same room as me at all. Well, that's alright, I can tell there's lots of panic and excitement already! When your crates burst open in a brief moment, you'll find yourselves each alone in a hallway. Follow the hallway to reach your escape room…each escape room being based on one of the main series seasons that came before this one! Island, Action, World Tour, Revenge of the Island, All-Stars, Pahkitew Island, Haunted Village, Mega Mechas, and Space Station! Each room has been designated to a specific contestant…so you don't get a choice in what room you get."
Dana snickered to herself, as if already imagining some of the hilarious scenarios that the contestants would find themselves in. "Oh yeah…the elimination is another thing. Rather than having you guys vote to see who will be eliminated, the person who fails to complete their escape room or completes it in dead last will be eliminated on the spot1 No ifs, ands, or buts! So, give it your all and have fun…just make sure that you're willing to do whatever it takes to save your own hide! I'll open the crates now and you can all get a move on in three…two…now!"
The speakers finally cut out, and every single one of the crates burst open, allowing the captive contestant inside each one to be freed. In one hallway, there stood Caleb, who was short enough to stand up in the crate without his head touching the ceiling. His eyebrow twitched as he crossed his arms firmly. "Keep me in an oversized crate, will she? What does she think I am, her fucking dog?" The chess player adjusted his glasses before starting to walk down his hallway, hardly paying attention to his dank surroundings. "Whatever, it doesn't matter…this challenge is going to go by like a damn breeze the second I get to my room. I wonder which theme I've gotten stuck with?"
Caleb kept walking along his hall, sticking his hands in his pockets before finally coming across a doorway. It was rather plain, with some oil stains on it, like something you would typically see in an older factory, such as this one. The boy sighed, grabbing the doorknob and twisting it while closing his eyes and mumbling to himself. "This had better be entertaining…if I finish in a few minutes Dana will really have to work harder on her challenge crafting skills." He took a step into the room, soon opening his eyes and looking around to see that it seemed like he was hovering mid air, clouds all around him. He looked below him to see that he was, in fact, in the air. As he started to fall down through the massive room, he let out a screech that only a banshee could utter. "GO FUCK YOURSELF, DANA!"
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Dana whistled nonchalantly while checking her nails before looking back over at the camera with an inconspicuous little grin. "Make sure Caleb gets stuck with the room that starts with a horrifying skyfall? Why would I of all people ever do that to the poor boy?" The devious host shrugged her shoulders, maintaining a look of innocence.
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Valerie wandered through her hallway, glancing at the walls around her as she walked. She found herself rather amused by the dull atmosphere, finding it rather comforting in comparison to some room full of other people. She eventually made it to her escape room, opening the door to see a model replica of Cali-Tokyo, everything just shrunk down so that she was the size of one of the mechs in comparison. "Hm…my big debut where I did 'oh so well.' Typical of our wonderful host to remind us of all our past failures…blech."
The loner shut the door behind herself as she entered the room, noticing that there were a lot of callbacks to the challenges of Mega Mechas, with some miniature olympic events being set up in the distance, a replica of Dana's mech resting in a corner of the room, among other things. "Of course…only challenges where I wasn't present." Valerie groaned before pushing to the center of the room, where she saw the dome that the contestants resided in during their time on the show. In the center of the dome, there was the football field, which had a small table in it. She reached down to the table, grabbing a piece of paper from it and reading it over.
"'A device so sturdy and rather staunch, it just takes this to start the launch.' …What the hell is any of that supposed to mean?" Valerie groaned again, tucking the note into her pocket before looking around the room again, only finding herself more and more annoyed with the challenge at hand. "She must think I'm real stupid…she's enjoying this, I just know it." She turned her head, looking up at a camera that she noticed in one of the corners of the room. "You are, aren't you? …Fine, don't respond…I don't need you to. I'll figure this out soon enough, just you wait." She looked back away from the camera, continuing her search through the city streets.
While Valerie fumbled around her replica of Cali-Tokyo, Bunny stood before a doorway, having yet to actually go inside the room. She felt a cold draft coming from underneath the doorway, something she didn't quite understand, though she didn't question it. "Time to see what kind of scoop I can get out of this room!" The blogger snickered before opening the room and stepping inside of it, the door slamming shut behind her with immense force that managed to knock her flat to the ground. She picked herself up quickly, realizing that the ground was actually entirely muddy, and that she was getting rained on intensely. "W-what kind of escape room is this!?"
A good look around the room revealed that it was mainly based on a dark, wet, and rather creepy forest. There was hardly any light to illuminate her path, but there was a note floating in the air, a ghostly glow around it. "What's this? A scoop?" Bunny narrowed her eyes at the bright note, holding her hand just above them to make sure the rain wouldn't blur her vision. "'A storm can be a helter skelter…move ahead and seek some shelter.' Gasp! Rhyme schemes and wacky forests inside the middle of a factory! Dana really put her all into making this an exciting challenge! I'll get to the bottom of this mysterious room, or my name isn't Bunny Yoshihiro!" With those words, Bunny started rushing into the depths of the forest, the note soon disappearing like a ghost.
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"I must admit, I never really watched whatever season I got stuck with. I think I remember the studio canceling all reruns after the original, something about Chris being scarred for life or something. It doesn't matter! I'll use the power of clues to win this challenge in a flash!" Bunny snickered to herself before taking a picture of the confessional camera with her polaroid, the flash causing it to cut out soon after.
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Calvin rolled through his hallway, soon ducking behind a set of pipes that covered him greatly. He peered over the pipes, aiming a finger gun at the doorway that was dead ahead, making sure that no threats were present as he sat there. He held his free hand up to his ear, pretending to press some sort of secret headphone or mic. "Path ahead seems clear, I'll go in for a closer look, over." The boy got up from behind the pipes, rushing over to the door and opening it before aiming his finger gun around the area. As he stepped into the room, he tucked his finger gun into a fake holster on his hip, his jaw dropping at the sight before him.
"...Houston…" Calvin shut the door behind him, stepping further into an empty void of space surrounded by stars dotted on the dark walls with the whole galaxy laid out in front of him. "...We have a problem…" He kept walking on ahead, a small meteorite eventually crashing into him and knocking him to the floor. He grabbed the rock mass while he was laying on the ground, holding it above his head to see that it had words written all over it. "'A hop, a skip, a jump away, go to the place where one-sixteen's a day!' Riddles! That crafty little host…it's a good thing our top agent is on the job!"
Calvin tossed the meteorite off to the side, causing it to spiral away into the void while he leapt up to his feet, looking further in the distance to get a better glimpse of what was waiting ahead. He could make out each of the planets, though some seemed smaller than others. Pluto was the closest, that was sure enough, but his goal was much further down the line. "One small step for agent, one giant leap for agentkind!" The agent started rushing into the dark room, a clear goal in mind.
Elsewhere, Mitzy was wandering through her own hallway, feeling a bit creeped out by the atmosphere of the factory. She looked at a pipe that was next to her on the wall, raising a finger to touch it out of curiosity, only for it to gush steam out in her face, causing her to stumble back and cough a lot. "Gee willikers! This place is wretched…a perfect hideout for a villain if I've ever seen one! I could really use a lot of this island as inspiration for my comics." The comic artist turned around to see that she had stumbled right over to the doorway which would lead to her escape room. "Wowee…here already! I wonder which season will lie in wait for me beyond this door?"
Mitzy wiggled her fingers in a silly manner before grabbing the doorknob and swinging the door wide open. As she stepped into the room, she noticed that there was a plethora of space…it was absolutely massive. The room itself resembled a sort of island…likely Camp Wawanakwa, though Mitzy was merely in the forested part, so it was a bit hard to tell. Just ahead of her, there was a sign post sticking in the ground, one that had a message reading across it. The comic artist narrowed her eyes at the sign, leaning down to read it better. "'Evil and justice tip the scales, go have some fun with buckets and pails.' Ah! That must mean the beach!"
Mitzy looked around, not quite sure where the beach was from where she was, but absolutely determined to find it. "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe…I choose left, here I go!" The girl giggled to herself before running off to the left of the sign, which soon fell down to the ground from the slight gust that came from her running by.
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"I've done my research on every season of the show, as a good agent should, so I do know a good deal about the challenges of Space Station. I do also know of some rather…cryptic events that happened from the inside. We did get a chance to meet that assassin some time ago…it still gives me chills when I think about his attempt to kill Chris." Calvin shuddered for a brief moment before shaking his head and regaining his composure. "I won't get lost in the fear of running into him again…I'm sure those chances are quite minimal."
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Brittany walked through her own hallway, annoyed with Dana as she saw the grease and grime all over the place. "Blech…Dana had better be willing to pay for a spa day for me if any of this gook gets on me." The pseudo-rich girl squeaked as a blot of oil splashed against the ground near her, causing her to jump up to avoid getting touched by it. Unfortunately for her, when she landed, she slipped on the residual oil, falling against the ground and getting her white jacket coated in the stuff. "Yuck! Dana! Not cool!"
Brittany continued to moan and groan as she got up from the ground, taking her jacket off and sighing as she saw the huge stain on the back of it. She tossed it off to the side, her pink tee shirt still remaining. She pressed on ahead, soon coming to the door that led to her escape room and opening without a second thought. As she stepped into it, she found herself on a small boat, a note directly on its steering wheel. "Eh? This had better be check with enough cash to replace my jacket."
Brittany went right up to the steering wheel, grabbing the note from it and reading it closely. "'The world's in need of something new, what's made of wood and a great place to debut?' What's that supposed to mean? Riddle's are seriously really dumb…ugh, whatever." The mean girl looked on ahead to see that her boat was floating in the middle of a body of water, which was quite massive. There was a shrunken down version of Camp Wawanakwa in the distance, and seeing this caused a thought to pop into her head. "Island, I should've known! Debut…debut…that must be that dock that everyone showed up at! Ha! Dana, you'll have to try harder than that to knock me out of the game!"
Brittany cackled to herself as she started steering the boat towards the replica of the island, all too excited for the challenge that she was complaining about only a few seconds ago. In a different part of the factory, Fridge was whistling to himself as he strolled through one of the hallways. He seemed to be unbothered by the grim atmosphere, though it could've been that he thought he was dreaming. It was hard to tell with this guy, considering how boneheaded he was at times. He kept on walking, eventually noticing something odd about his hallway. There was a doorway ahead, but what was odd was that there was a red carpet leading up to it. "Huh? Am I watching the Buff Boy of the Year Ceremony? I don't think so…"
Fridge shrugged his shoulders before ripping the door off of its hinges on accident, blushing out of embarrassment before tossing it off to the side and stepping through the crater of the doorway. He seemed to be standing right before a limousine of sorts, and, before he had time to react, some robot arms slammed a tuxedo down on him, forcing him to look nice before shoving him into the limousine and slamming its door shut. "Wah! This is the most interactive ceremony I've ever watched!"
In the front of the limousine, there was a robot that was built to look like Chef Hatchet, though dressed as a chauffeur, of course. It turned around to face the muscular boy, soon speaking through a speaker in its "mouth." "Alien eggs hide in a secret base…where do you want to go? Name a place."
"...Is that a trick question? I never really did good in geography back in school." Fridge kept blushing from embarrassment, not wanting to look stupid in the presence of a robot. The robot just kept staring at him blankly, waiting for an answer, but the boy didn't quite understand. "Friend robot? Frobot? Robend? Did you break already? I wanted to play a game of football with you before you broke!"
"Alien eggs hide in a secret base…where do you want to go? Name a place." The robot repeated its message from before, only for Fridge to stare blankly back at it, still unsure what exactly it was doing.
"...You said that already, Robend. I'm not sure where I want to go…I haven't really thought about it, since this is my first time in Hollywood and all that." Fridge let out a mighty chuckle, though the robot didn't have much of a response to this at all. "Before I decide, I need to think about what would be the most fun!"
"Alien eggs hide in a secret base…where do you-" Fridge held his large hand over the robot's speaker, muffling the voice that was coming out of it.
"Not yet, I'm not ready. I need a moment to think before we do any of that stuff." The athlete pulled his hand back soon enough and tapped his chin in thought with the robot just blankly staring at him.
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"Hollywood…what's fun about Hollywood? I think it has the Eiffel Tower in it or something…maybe I should go there and take a picture? I can make it look like I'm holding it above my shoulders! Harhar…if only Friendleb were here to enjoy this fun place with me…" Fridge let out a sigh, slouching down where he sat, truly upset that Caleb wasn't around.
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Yves walked slowly through her hallway, entirely uninterested with her surroundings and more so just ready to get the challenge over and done with. She had a scowl on her face, something that had become a common occurrence since she found out about Calvin's secret in the previous challenge. "Tsk…that agent is lucky that Dana ensured we'd be separated in this challenge. If we were near each other, I'd make sure he takes an early departure from the show." The dancer clenched her fist in anger, stopping at the door that would lead to her escape room. She looked at it before opening it up with a sigh. The sight she was greeted with was another island, just like the room that Mitzy was in, although this one looked a little bit different. She looked all around, realizing that the weather in the room was…well, quite chaotic. There was an area with snow, an area with blistering heat, a rainstorm, it was all over the grid.
"...This must be that island from the sixth season…Pahkitew or something like that." Yves sighed again, shutting the door behind her and stepping forth to see a large bear wearing scuba gear standing before her, holding up a large piece of paper that had words on it. "...Am I supposed to read this? You're not gonna try and maul me while I'm reading it, are you?" The bear didn't answer the question, nor did it even move from its possession, convincing Yves that it was just a statue, rather than a real bear.
"Alright…let's take a look at this here. 'If you want the money, you'll have to seize 'er, go to where there's quite the fever.' Fever…there was an episode named after a fever of sorts, right?" Yves thought about the season for a moment, remembering the intern that tried to take the whole island over. "...Right, there was. I gotta get to that control room or whatever…that's her base of operations, I think." The dancer sighed to herself again, soon starting off in a random direction. Once she started to disappear from the camera's sight, the bear tossed the piece of paper away, tiptoeing as it followed her, quiet enough to not be noticed.
While the dancer was in search of the control room of the Pahkitew replica, Teddy was still wandering through the halls of the factory, taking many selfies and posting them to his social media with crazy captions and hashtags with "TeddyInACrazyFactory" in them. "Hehehe…the fans are really gonna love to see where this goes! I bet I could drag a video out to three separate videos with an escape room challenge like this one! Now, what was the room I was supposed to be escaping from?"
The YouTuber turned to see the door in front of him, which had a radioactive symbol on it. He rolled his eyes, already annoyed with the rather dull encounter he had with radiation a few challenges back. He opened the door to take a gander at his escape room, only to see an odd replica of Camp Wawanakwa, which had toxic sludge laying all about. "Ooo…I got a perfect idea for what I could use this stuff for!" Teddy snapped his fingers before scooping up a handful of toxic sludge and lathering it through his hair, looking up as his room turned the green color that it was before he bleached it to impress Alice. "Haha! This is a natural dye, so there's no problem with me using it!"
Teddy snickered to himself, failing to notice that there was a small slip of paper in his hair. As he snickered, it came falling down in front of him, landing right on the grass. He noticed it, soon picking it up to see what the whole deal with it was. "'Capture the flag can be really silly…is it just me, or is it kinda chilly?' Ah! This is definitely a callback to something…ooo, I should really know the answer to this little riddle. Let's see…mutant…chilly…flags…Siberia!" Teddy snapped his fingers, scanning his surroundings and spotting a rather icy mountain off in the distance. "Nyuck nyuck nyuck! Who would've thought Siberia would be hidden here on Scrap Island?"
The YouTuber dropped the slip of paper on the ground, storming off into the distance towards that icy mountain. The slip of paper sank back into the toxic sludge, melting as it fell into it.
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"See, last time I ran into the toxic waste that was in the no man's land of the island, nothing cool happened to me. Haven't noticed a single change about myself…it's super lame!" Teddy stood up from his seat, slamming his fist down in the palm of his hand. "I won't let the waste fail me this time! I'm sure to mutate into a sexy monster man for all my fans to enjoy even more than the me that they know already!"
"It's been a good while since I last watched any of the older seasons of the show, but my memory doesn't typically fail me…I should be through with this challenge briefly. I can only hope that Calvin can't fumble his way through his own escape room…he doesn't deserve to make it any further than he already has." Yves looked off to the side, suddenly speaking in a more hushed manner. "Put us in danger…and brought that thing back from that horrible place…he has got to go."
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Calvin kept bumbling through the spacelike room, eventually coming across a small replica of Venus, which seemed to have a very warm aura around it. He found his forehead forming droplets of sweat as he stood near the fake planet, taking a good lookover the surface of it to see what exactly was so important. "Venus is the planet where one-hundred sixteen Earth days make a single day, there should be some type of clue here somewhere…right?"
The agent took the replica in his arms, seeing as it was the size of a small exercise ball. He spun it around a bit, eventually finding some words written along one of the sides. "Here we go! Already on the second hint…this will be over before I know it! Ahem…'The second planet can be quite hot, why don't you cool off at the station's spot?' The station…the space station? Where was that supposed to be situated? I have a gut feeling that it wasn't that far from…Earth?"
Calvin turned around to see the replica of Earth not too far away. He shrugged his shoulders, starting to wobble over to his home planet and circling around it, looking for another clue. He didn't see anything written on the planet, and he stopped circling it, standing directly in between Earth and Mars. "I don't get it…the space station was definitely near Earth…right?" The agent suddenly felt quite a bit chilly, soon looking up to see a hole with a rope dangling down from it just above him. "Aha! That's the ticket!"
Calvin snickered to himself, soon jumping up and grabbing a hold of the rope before climbing it all the way up to the top, eventually popping through the hole and appearing in a replica of the main lobby of the space station. The attention to detail was definitely there, the only thing out of place being a holographic sign in the center of the room. He took a good look over it, reading the pixelated words that flashed before him. "'To save a host, you'll have to throw down. Go to the site of the galactic showdown.'"
The agent thought about the third clue for a moment, soon recognizing exactly what it meant. "That must be…the basement where they had to fight off that assassin. If my memory serves me correctly, that would've been…this way." Calvin pointed towards the hallway that was on the left side of the lobby, soon rushing down it and leaving the lobby.
In one of the other escape rooms, Brittany had finally made her way to the dock of Camp Wawanakwa, jumping off of her mini boat to see a corked sign post with some words on it. "'You've got a chance to earn a fortune to keep, but you'll first have to make a faithful leap.' These clues, I swear…she's not trying hard enough to keep me down! That's obviously the place where they had the first challenge in the show…the thousand foot cliff!" Brittany grinned as she looked off into the distance, seeing the cliff distinctly in the distance.
"Well, well, let's go see what this cliff has got in store, shall we?" The mean girl started to jog towards the thousand foot cliff, which was more like a twenty foot cliff in the room, but still quite tall. She scurried all the way up to the top of it as fast as she could, being met with another sign post with even more words on it. "'To face your team and stay alive you're going to have to take the dive.' Dive off this cliff? She can't be serious."
Brittany peered over the edge of the cliff, seeing the body of water beneath her with a safety ring in it. She let out a sigh, soon taking in a deep breath before leaping off of the cliff and cannonballing right into the center of the ring. As she started to sink through the water, she noticed a letter that was laminated so the water wouldn't damage it. She snatched it up before resurfacing and letting out her massive breath, gasping for air soon after. "Hiding a clue in the water? This really is a pathetic challenge, you know that, Dana?"
The mean girl took a look over the letter that she had found, reading the words that were on it. "'This island's trials can be adverse, but not as much as one with a curse.' A curse…a curse…a…curse?" Brittany looked up from the letter to spot a replica of Boney Island not too far in the distance. With a sigh, she started paddling towards the second island.
Again, in one of the other rooms, Yves had just made it to the control room of Pahkitew Island, where she found a chair sitting before a screen full of different camera views of the island. She moved over to the chair, looking down at the desk to see a note left on it. She rolled her eyes at the note before going to read it over. "'Competition can be a dreadful thing, look what it did to the delusional king.' The king…oh, right. There was some contestant that thought he was actually a king or something stupid like that. What happened with him again?"
The dancer scratched her head in thought while she looked back up at the screens to see if there were any hints about the clue she had found. As she scanned them over, she managed to see a view of a cane sword stabbed into the ground on a hill, a bed of flowers surrounding it. "Right…he attacked his girlfriend or something like that. I can't believe that people would do such terrible things to their partners like that…" Yves paused for a moment, thinking too much about what she just said before shuddering and turning to leave the control room. "That hill can't be too far from here…let's see…"
Yves made her way outside, and she took a look over the replica of the island to see that the hill was in the incredibly rainy part of the island. She let out a soft sigh before starting to hustle over to the cane sword, noticing that the flowers were planted in such a way that they spelled a clue out. "That's super cheesy, Dana…whatever. 'Zombies and fright go hand in hand, it was here that a rich boy made his last stand.' Rich boy…that guy named Arnold, I believe. He was one of the final two still kicking in that challenge with the zombies…I think the basketball player shoved him to the horde to win immunity that night? That was… just by the elimination ceremony area."
The dance took a good look over to where the elimination ceremony was held, seeing that it was on the part of the island with all the snow. She groaned in annoyance at seeing how the weather was, but ran over to it nonetheless. Right in front of the cannon, she saw a cracked pair of glass on the ground, a note wrapped around part of the frame. She scooped the glasses up in her hands to read the note on them, ready to get this whole thing over with already. "'You've made it to the last challenge you'll face, use the bear to blast a way out of this place.' The bear?"
Yves was a bit confused about the clue, and she suddenly felt an ominous presence lurking behind her. She turned around to see that the Scuba Bear was standing behind her, growling ferociously. With a scream, she started to run away from the creature as fast as she could, with it chasing her down ferociously.
Back in the room that just resembled an open sky, Caleb was still falling rapidly and screaming like a complete madlad. It didn't take long for a trampoline to fall into his hands, one that he immediately pulled the strings on to save himself from certain doom. As the chute opened up, and his descent to the ground came to a slowed down pace, he noticed that there were words on the inside of the chute itself. "'You've saved yourself from certain death, but can you outlast the Earth's lava breath?' What!? I have to go to some sort of shitty volcano now!? Dana is trying to kill me!"
The short boy looked down at the area below him, noticing that he was descending right into the center of the volcano, whether he wanted to or not. When he finally landed, he noticed that the lava was actually just a solid surface, though it was still quite hot. He dropped the parachute down to the floor, immediately wiping the sweat from his brow as he felt the heat kicking in already. "Holy shit…this really is insane. Alright, where's my clue, Dana!? I want out of this place already!"
Caleb looked around the walls of the volcano, eventually seeing some flaming words along part of the wall. It was a bit edgy for his tastes, but he just wanted to leave at this point "'It's far too hot for a little baby man to take, how about you chill off in a frozen lake?' Oh, you bitch, I am not a baby! Ugh, whatever…I'm sure she's talking about that one challenge that took place in Sweden, but how am I supposed to get out of this volcano!?" It took a while to see, but Caleb eventually noticed some rock climbing juts along part of the volcano's wall. He groaned, about ready to throw Dana into a pit of piranhas for putting him through this.
"I guess I'm gonna have to climb to get out of here…great, just fucking great. Once this is over, I'm gonna make that big oaf of mine pummel her." Caleb continued to grumble as he headed over to the rock wall, grabbing each jut one by one to pull himself up towards the top of the volcano. It took a lot of effort, and quite some time, but he eventually did manage to get to the top, only to tumble all the way down the volcano's side as he came over the edge. He screamed all the way down, eventually crashing into the middle of a huge body of ice, which was shockingly cold.
"W-what the hell!? Straight from the heat into the fucking death grip of winter!? Ugh!" The shrimpy boy got up off of the ground, shivering horrendously from the horrible cold that surrounded them. He looked around, but he couldn't find any sort of clue, only a singular chisel. He took the chisel in his hand, looking it over as he shivered, not sure what he was supposed to do with it until his eyes wandered down to the ice, noticing a door of sorts buried far underneath the ice. "O-o-oh! I-I'll b-b-be out o-o-of here in n-n-no time!" With a staggered chuckle, Caleb started slamming the chisel down against the ice, chipping away at it as best as he could.
Confessional
"That bitch thinks she can keep me down with a little help from the elements, well I'll show her a thing or two about how crazy good I am at overcoming these dumbass trials of hers!" Caleb's button nose was entirely red from how cold he was, but the rest of his face was red with a fiery rage.
Confessional End
Bunny muttered to herself in annoyance as the rain pelted her hard, her journey through the forest proving to be a lot more arduous than she had originally anticipated. After some time, she managed to come across a replica of the haunted village itself, smirking as she took a good look at the main building, which was rather large. She rushed over to the doors, opening them up to step inside and warm up a little bit. "Finally…I thought I was going to be stuck out there forever!"
The blogger shook her head, getting droplets of water everywhere before slamming the door shut behind her to keep the rain out. She took a few steps towards the center of the room, noticing a table with pictures of the season's contestants on it, each of them looking a bit cryptic just from the pictures alone. "Hm…this all seems to be a bit weird to me. Oh! Who's this girl? I like her style!" Bunny tapped the picture of Camille with her finger, grinning as she saw that she had a camera in her hands.
"Camille Harlow…some journalist or something like that." Bunny squeaked and jumped up before turning around to see that there was a taller girl standing in the doorway. This girl was wearing a maroon colored pants suit, with sharp, red sunglasses that only added to the intensity of the gaze behind them. "Stand up straight! The posture of you teenagers always tips me over the edge, I swear…"
"You…I know you! You're that nasty girl that competed in Island! Colleen!" Bunny clapped her hands together before pulling her polaroid up and snapping a picture of the stern girl, who had a vein popping up in her forehead out of annoyance. "What're you doing in here, nasty girl?"
"I offered some assistance to the young hostess of this show in return for a donation to my school fund, nothing more, nothing less. Though her placing me here is only a grim reminder of what happened to my mother, considering that she, as a ghost, was a part of this season." Colleen had a dull look on her face, as she was no longer the being of pure rage that she used to be. "You probably want to get out of here, but it can't be done so simply…you need to solve my riddle to make it out."
"Riddles! I'm sure I can answer any riddle you've got for me with relative ease! Go on, hit me with it!" Bunny rubbed her hands together, licking her lips as she waited for Colleen to give her the riddle.
"Alright, fine, fine…a muddy team swap idol in a well to cleanse it, but where it should be, you'll find the exit. I could come up with better riddles in my sleep, but I'm only here to help Dana, so it doesn't matter too much." Colleen sighed as she grabbed a ruler from her hip and slapped it against the palm of her hand.
"In the well…I swear, I'm gonna run outside and jump into the well and find that its actually a huge maze or something like that." Bunny let out a sigh as she started walking right back to the doorway that she had just entered from, opening it back up and staring out at the rainy forest, with the well not too far in the distance. "If I die, can I come back and haunt you for leading me to my doom?"
"Just go already…" Colleen didn't even look back at Bunny as she spoke to her, getting an eyeroll back from the blogger, who ran outside and dove into the well. The stern girl dug into her pocket, pulling out a neatly folded letter and reading it over. "'You've been selected to compete in the cast of Ultra Fallen Stars due to your poor performance in your previous seasons.' …Let's just hope I won't have to deal with nuisances like her when that time comes."
As Bunny landed in the well, she found that it was quite full of water, but she was able to spot a door all the way at the bottom of the well itself. She snickered to herself, taking a deep breath before starting to swim down to the bottom of the well. As she went deeper and deeper, she noticed that the pressure was getting quite intense, and she was forced to close her eyes. It was getting more difficult to dive down as she got near the bottom, and she was only barely able to twist the doorknob to open the door, causing her and all the water to fall into a large open room. She was about to fall and hit the ground, but for some odd reason, she was caught by someone. She opened her eyes after a brief moment, seeing that it was none other than Fridge who caught her. "Ah! My hero!"
Bunny attempted to kiss the muscular boy, though he dropped her right down on the ground, blushing from the gesture. She got up to her feet, noticing that Caleb and Brittany were in the room as well, the shrimpy boy shivering like crazy while the mean girl was trying to warm him up with a blanket. "Huh…the gang's all here, I guess! Who got here first, I bet it was Caleb!"
"Oh!" Fridge clapped his hands together, a big smile on his face. "I actually got here first!" Bunny was a bit astounded to hear this, soon looking up at the boy with utter shock on her face. "There was a robot in a limo that kept asking me where I wanted to go and talking about how much he likes alien eggs…it was getting annoying so I told him to take me home and here I am!"
"It seems that Dana put in a cheat for Fridge, that little bitch…meanwhile, I was getting assaulted by Heat Miser and Snow Miser for a solid fifteen minutes." Caleb grumbled to himself, still looking as cold as ever, despite the blanket around him.
"I had to look for the exit door in a den full of…urk, prehistoric beavers. I thought I was a goner until I managed to lead them into the water outside!" Brittany pointed to herself with a prideful look on her face, only for a hole to burst through the wall next to her, a robotic bear crashing through and busting into millions of tiny pieces on the ground. Each of the four in the room already turned their attention to the newly formed opening, seeing Yves walking through it while hyperventilating. "What the heck happened to you?"
"Bear…robot…cannon…boom…" The dancer collapsed to the floor, knocked out cold almost immediately. It wasn't long after this that another door opened, this one being on the wall like a normal door. An enormous cloud of black smoke rushed out of the door, being followed by a chubby figure coming out into the open. Valerie was covered head to toe in ashes from some sort of explosion, the whites of her eyes being the only things that were easy to make out from the soot.
"...Why are you all looking at me like that? I had to blow up Cali-Tokyo to open the door…I find it odd that Dana would put something like that in an escape room, but whatever floats her boat, I suppose." Valerie shuffled over to a couch that was in the room, plopping down in it when another door opened up, several mutant creatures bursting out of the door and running away in fear from a lanky figure that walked through.
"No radioactive superpowers, this is super lame! I ought to write a formal complaint to Dana for this…ugh!" Teddy sat down on one of the chairs in the room, grumbling to himself out of utter annoyance. Dang, most of us already made it out of our rooms already? There's…how many people left?"
"Two left." Aaron spoke up from the loudspeakers, causing each of the contestants, excluding the passed out Yves, to look up at the speaker itself, which was hanging in the corner of the room. "Calvin and Mitzy are still in zheir escape rooms, each struggling with zhe final step to making it out. Zhe rest of you are safe from elimination for zhe time being, but one of zhose two vill be eliminated tonight."
The group of contestants looked between each other, Caleb snickering to himself as he realized how much danger Mitzy was in at this point. Back in her room, she found herself standing on the beach of Camp Wawanakwa, a look of pure sadness on her face while she clutched a heavy looking shovel in her hands. Before her, there was a baby-sized robot sitting in the sands, minding its own business. She thought about the clue that she had found previously, the words still aching in her brain. "'To get the key to leave this place, you'll have to smash this robot's face.'"
The comic artist fell to her knees, dropping the shovel in the sand and sobbing to herself from the stress of the escape room. "I can't just hurt this robot…he didn't do anything to deserve it! That would make me a…a villain!" Mitzy held her head in her hands, wincing from the thought of having to kill the innocent robot with the shovel. "I can't do that…I just can't!" She looked up from the sands, seeing that the robo-baby was staring at her with confused eyes. With her sadness morphing into a smile, she grabbed the robot and hugged it close to her. "There, there…I won't hurt you, it doesn't matter what happens to me."
The robot didn't make any noise in response, it just sat there while Mitzy hugged it. Meanwhile, back on the replica space station, Calvin found himself locked into combat with a robotic replica of Thomas, which was throwing him about the basement with ease. It picked the agent up and tossed him into a crate, which caused the crate to burst open into many pieces, dazing the agent quite fiercely. "Ugh…this agent is getting his rear end handed to him at this point. Is there anything I can do to beat this bot and stay in the game?"
The robo-Thomas turned around to let out a mechanical laugh and mock Calvin as he sat in the rubble, only for the agent to glare back in response. If there was one thing he didn't like, it was being taunted like this by some criminal. He grabbed one of the planks from the rubble of the crate, swinging it at the robot and knocking it's electronic head off of its shoulders. The robot's body fell to the ground, its chest soon opening up and revealing a key within it. "Aha! The key to get out of this place!"
Calvin snatched the key up, looking over at a door that was in place of the door that lead to the interns' room from the real space station. With a determined look on his face, he stepped towards the door, putting the key into the knob and twisting it open before walking out into the room where the other seven contestants were waiting for him. He looked over the group, his confident smile immediately shifting to a frown as he realized who was missing from the group. "Agent Wakeman…?"
The loud speakers pumped on again, with Dana's voice soon speaking up. "Our eighth contestant has made it out of his escape room, which means that we know our loser for the night! Mitzy…you're out of here!"
Confessional
"Maybe I lost…maybe…but I do have one thing to share with everyone before I leave the island for good. I don't feel good about it…but it needs to be done." Mitzy stood up from her seat, staring confidently at the camera. "For justice!"
"I hate to see Agent Wakeman go…she truly was one of the greats." Calvin saluted the camera, a single tear dropping from his eye.
Confessional End
The contestants gathered back at the Colosseum of Shame, where Mitzy was standing right before the Trampoline of Losers. She had her back turned to it as she looked back at her former competition. Calvin and BroBot stood next to each other, both saluting her, and soon getting a salute back from her. Yves stood off to the side, hardly interested in the elimination, as she and Mitzy never really interacted in the past. Valerie was standing next to Teddy, quite a bit baffled with the fact that his hair was back to its normal color, while the YouTuber himself appeared to be quite annoyed with how the radiation didn't affect him at all…a second time. This left Brittany, Caleb, Fridge, and Bunny, all of which were huddled together, each glad to see that the super heroine was getting eliminated.
Dana approached the comic artist from behind, patting her on her back while Aaron watched from the sidelines. "Well, Mitzy, you really did prove that you don't have what it takes to follow the path of a true villain…even if it means getting yourself eliminated in a high stakes competition. If it makes you feel any better, I'm sure some activists out there will definitely approve of how you let that robot kid live. Did you have any final words before we send you bouncing up, up, and away from Scrap Island forever?"
"You know…I actually do." Mitzy dug around in the pockets of her hoodie, pulling out two chess pieces. One was the black rook, while the other was the white queen. Most of the contestants found themselves confused at the sight of the objects, though Caleb seemed utterly horrified to see them in her hands.
"Y-you bitch! You went into my room and stole my shit!" The little scamp attempted to run over and snatch the pieces from Mitzy, though she was too fast, and threw them over to Fridge and Bunny, each catching one piece. "Hey! Guys, those are mine! Give them back to me right now! I mean it!" Caleb's hotheadedness was at an all time high, but Mitzy grabbed him by the collar of his shirt so that he couldn't run over to his allies.
"It may have been a villainous thing to go into Caleb's room and take his things, that's true…but I had to show the two of you something. Pull the tops off of the pieces, there should be some notes tucked into them." Mitzy kept holding onto Caleb while Fridge happily popped the top off of his rook, and Bunny skeptically twisted the top off of the queen. As she had said, there were notes in each of them, which the alliance goons pulled out to read.
"Guys, don't read that! I swear, if you-" Caleb's protests were no use, as Mitzy finally let him loose from her grasp and he fell to the ground almost immediately. He looked up to see a rather confused look on Fridge's face, and quite the irritated one on Bunny's.
"Friendleb…why does this say you're trying to get rid of me at the final three of the competition? You and Brittany will eliminate me no matter what because I'm…too stupid to see anything wrong with it happening?" Fridge's mouth curved into a wiggly frown, feeling the worst he had felt since his arrival on the island. It was hard to believe that Caleb could have such plans to get rid of him, and it stung. "I thought we were friends…"
"You think you got it bad, you big lug? My note says that the little rodent was going to convince the others in the game that I've been spying on them and sneaking pictures of them in embarrassing situations!" Bunny crumpled the note up and tossed it to the ground, glaring down at Caleb. "You were gonna try to get everybody to vote against me in the next elimination ceremony, weren't you?"
"Everybody has these sorts of plans when it comes to alliances, you guys can't seriously say you don't have backup plans to get rid of others when things start going south!" Caleb picked himself up off the ground and dusted himself off, trying his best to get the two off of his case.
"Don't try and say that this is just something you do normally! If that were the case, you'd have a plan to get rid of Brittany, but I don't see one here!" Bunny shifted her glare to Brittany, who was a bit taken aback by the suddenness of this all. She was a bit confused about the lack of a plan as well, truth be told. "You wouldn't dare have a plan to get rid of your 'girlfriend,' that's what it is!"
Caleb gritted his teeth, growing more and more annoyed with Bunny while Fridge sniffled to himself in sadness. Brittany shuffled off to the side, trying to hide from Bunny's warpath, while Mitzy slowly nodded her head. "It wasn't my most heroic move, I will admit this…but I had to let you guys know that there was no friendship or loyalty backing this alliance. Caleb was using all of you from the very start."
"Wow, Mitzy…that really was a pretty interesting way to go out with a bang." Dana was a bit startled by the revelations that were being made, but more so just a bit uncomfortable with the tense atmosphere around her. "I suppose you can-"
"You ruined everything, you bitch!" Caleb swiftly turned around to shove Mitzy backwards, causing her to stumble back onto the trampoline and bounce far away in the sky. His face was red with rage as he took deep breaths, clearly unamused by the turn of events.
"...Well, looks like we're gonna have to wrap things up here if we don't want Caleb to explode in a little tantrum!" Dana scooted off to the side, looking at the camera while Aaron waved to it from the podium. "What effects will the fallout of this alliance have on the rest of the competition? Find out next time on Total Drama: Scrap Island!"
Author's Notes:
*And the heroine is gone, but she went out with quite the bang. The bulk of Caleb's alliance is in shambles, and there's no telling whether or not he and Brittany will keep on going as strong as before.
*Colleen is a character from my versions of Island, Action, and World Tour. Scarlett is an intern in my version of Pahkitew Island. The references to the contestants in the Pahkitew room were all to contestants that compete in my version of Pahkitew, as well.
*Also, the next episode that comes out will be the third aftermath of the season, so we're gonna need some questions for our losers! Zane, Buck, Margaret, Vernon, Mitzy, and even Ivy can take questions, but methinks they won't be too thrilled with another little guest that'll be tagging along for the episode. See you next time on Aftermath III: NOW KISS!
*Placements: No Placement - Chris, Ivy; 22nd - Daniel; 21st - Larida; 20th - Mitchell; 19th - Alice; 18th - Blaster; 17th - Max; 16th - CJ; 15th - Ronnie; 14th - Celeste; 13th - Zane; 12th - Buck; 11th - Margaret; 10th - Vernon; 9th - Mitzy