The camera panned over the expansive mass of desert that took the center of Scrap Island as its own, eventually landing on a location where there seemed to be a great deal of dugouts and pits in the sand. A closer look into the largest of the pits revealed that Dana and Aaron were both there, each of them sitting under a rather large, yet elegant sun umbrella to keep the scorching heat from melting them alive. It was almost December, so one would be expecting snow, but for this particular island, it seemed like it got closer and closer to the equator each day.
"Miss Dana, are ve certain zhat zhe contestants vill be able to deal vith zhe heat? Ve are in zhe shade and I still feel as if I'm frying in my own oil…" Aaron panted as he wiped a large amount of sweat from his brow, recoiling in disgust when he saw how soaked his hand had become in doing so. He shook his hand a good deal, successfully getting the sweat off, but sending some of it flying towards the host. "Miss Dana! I am so sorry, I didn't mean to-"
"It's fine, it's fine." Dana reached into her pocket for a handkerchief, which she used to wipe Aaron's sweat off of her without so much as a shift in expression. "When the apocalypse comes around, you've gotta lose your fear of the gross and embrace all things disgusting. That's why I haven't showered since we got to the island!" The prodigy grinned at Aaron, who only seemed a bit perplexed by this announcement of hers.
"But…you have showered. In fact, you showered just zhis morning! I asked you vhen ve vould be going to zhe desert, und you said 'after I shower!'" Aaron was about to continue, but as he noticed the death glare that Dana was shooting his way, he immediately stopped.
"Ahem…let's just get on with the intro, okay? Last time, on Total Drama: Scrap Island!" Dana turned to face the camera, grinning ear to ear. "We had a special guest, and a good friend of mine, come down to the island to join us for a super intense challenge! Ellie, the gaming granny, or gaming mommy as Teddy might call her, was super excited to shove our final eight contestants into the fray of a battle royale, heavily inspired by the popular game: Blortnite! Of course, some people should've excelled with this type of challenge, but it turns out that Teddy's mutation from before was a bit more severe than we initially thought. His newfound lightning rod abilities got him accidentally sniped by Fridge, who was shortly taken out by a group of robo-thugs afterwards. Valerie watched Bunny struggle before accidentally falling into her own demise, and Caleb went total Rambo and made Brittany crush on him just a bit before the two of them were unfortunately knocked out by the closing thunderstorm around the island. This only left Calvin and Yves, but the dancer was more invested in getting her revenge on the agent for his knowing of Jay's whereabouts than the challenge itself. She took his partner in crime, BroBot, out with one shot from her shock rifle before getting the same treatment from Calvin himself, and getting voted out of the game. Seven survivors remain, this apocolypse is really taking its toll on everyone. Who will be the next to fall? 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.
It was still somewhat early in the morning, and the contestants were still asleep…at least until the speakers in the hotel kicked up out of nowhere, followed by Dana's maniacal voice. "Good morning, survivors! You know, we were thinking…what better way to enjoy the scalding weather than to have you all come down to the desert for your next challenge? That's right, we gotta challenge coming up today, and it's gonna be a scorcher! I'd put on sunscreen if I were you…and make sure that if anybody gets burnt out there, you smack 'em right on the burn for forgetting that extra layer of protection!"
Teddy groaned as he got up from his bed, just having woken up thanks to Dana and her obnoxiousness. He rubbed his eyes with his hands before walking to the corner of his room, where there was a large mirror and several different arrays of makeup and makeup applicators. "Gotta look my best for the fans toda- AH!" The YouTuber screamed and stumbled back as he took a look into the mirror, seeing that his hair was glowing a bright yellow color. Not only that, but it seemed as if electricity was coursing through his hair, with little sparks bouncing off of his scalp. "I…I…I'm a Super Slaiyan!"
The now ecstatic boy jumped for joy, clapping his hands together wildly before running out of his room and into the hall. Upon hearing the obnoxious cheering that came from him, the other six contestants came out of their own dwellings to see what all the commotion was about. Of course, they were all bewildered by the glowing hair and the sparks, but no one was more astounded than Fridge. The muscle hulk walked over to the YouTuber, his jaw dropped in awe. "Wow, Teddy Bear! Your hair is like fireworks right now!"
"I know, isn't it the coolest thing you've ever seen!? I feel like I've got untold power coursing through my veins…I could probably even do a Labehabeha! Oh, let me try it!" Teddy got into a fighting stance, holding his hands together at his hip while looking dead ahead at Valerie. "La…be-" Before he could get on with the attack, Fridge quickly grabbed his hands to stop him.
"M-maybe don't do a super move like that inside…I don't wanna be a Fried Fridge, I just wanna be a Fridge." Teddy shrugged his shoulders after pulling his hands back from the giant's. The two of them started to head downstairs, with the other five trailing behind them, each shocked as well as annoyed.
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"Yeah, Fridge and I have been hanging out a bit more since he and Caleb stopped chilling. It's like when someone leaves one YouTuber's crew to come join mine instead! Believe me, it happens a bit more frequently than you would expect…no complaints, though. I'm always down to have the largest crew in the whole internet!" Teddy clapped his hands together again, causing sparks to fly from them. His eyes dilated and he quite literally pogged at the sight.
"I always knew I was destined to be the sidekick to some superhero…Teddy Bear has the lightning powers and I've got the super strength! What would our superhero team be called, though? Man…Friendleb would definitely know what to call us. I mean, Ex-Friendleb." Fridge sighed as he shrunk down in his seat.
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The group made sure to get their sunscreen on before heading out to the desert. As they made their journey, Bunny glared Brittany and Caleb down while sticking her tongue out at them. The chess player furrowed his brow, but rather than making some obnoxious outburst, like he typically would, he just looked the other way. Brittany shook her head at the blogger before looking over to Caleb. "You think she's ever gonna get over that stupid contingency plan thing? She's gotta have better things to do with her time, right?"
"Rodents like Bunny only exist to pester people, don't you know? So, in other words, no, she has nothing better to do." Brittany snickered at Caleb's comment, expecting him to laugh along with her, but he didn't, as he just kept staring on ahead with that annoyed expression of his. She couldn't help but blush and glance away. "I must say, with Yves exposing Calvin the other day, things aren't looking as horrible and grim as before…we may just stand a chance, supposing people actually want to vote for him."
"Y-you can't seriously think that any of the clowns that are still around would want to vote for him after that? Everyone is either off in their own world, or they care too much about petty differences." Brittany's blush was mostly gone at this point, and she looked back at Caleb. "I figure Bunny would rather force a tiebreaker with you and someone else, anyways. And if we vote Calvin and the two of you end up at the bottom…"
"What?" Caleb looked up at Brittany with a slight annoyed look on his face. "You think I'll lose a tiebreaker against Calvin just because he's bigger than me?"
"Well…last time you were in one of those, you were put up against Celeste. You only managed to win that one because you were too slippery for her to get a hold on." The faux-rich girl glanced back to Calvin, who was walking quite a good distance behind the rest of the group with his arms crossed. "Calvin's not only bigger than you, but he's no pushover, like she was."
"I hate to agree with any notion that I would lose against anyone, but you might be right about that. Oh well…can't be in a tiebreaker challenge if I win the main challenge anyways, right?" Caleb smirked proudly and kept walking on ahead, ignoring the hateful glares that Bunny kept casting towards him.
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"Brittany's definitely right about Bunny on that tiebreaker forcing…that little rodent knows that I probably get knocked flat by anyone else in any physical challenge. Of course, the tiebreaker could always be something intelligence-related…bah, what am I even worried about? We haven't even gotten through the main challenge yet!" Caleb shook his head with that proud grin on his face.
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The contestants eventually made it to the desert, and it didn't take them long to find the enormous dugout that Dana and Aaron were situated in. Valerie peeked over and looked down at the two of them. "Are you guys pretending that you died and you're having a zombie party in your mausoleum? I've done that before…except it wasn't so much a zombie party as it was a pity party."
"Well, there is going to be a party, but not zombie's…or is it zombies? There's gotta be a better classification for it, but you've got the general gist right!" The host stepped out from underneath the umbrella, lifting her goggles off of her eyes with a smirk on her face. "We recently discovered another spectacular thing about this little island of ours…when it came together, the desert brought something rather special along with it! Below our very feet lay the relics of an age long forgotten!"
"No way…" Teddy's jaw suddenly dropped and his eyes lit up with lightning bolts in his pupils. "We must be standing on the burial site of all those copies of O.T. for the Batari! I always wanted to get my hands on a copy from the landfill, but I never expected that dream to actually come true!"
"Vell, not quite…" Aaron took his turn stepping out from under the umbrella, but the second the sunlight touched his overly pale face, he turned a bright red color. "Of course…I knew I should've stayed in zhe shade until nighttime. B-but…no, zhere are no video games below zhese sands…instead, ve have found zhat zhere are a plethora of dinosaur fossils!"
"Hot damn! That's quite the discovery…I bet it would make for some good posts on my blog, as well." Bunny rubbed her greedy hands together while licking her lips. "Of course, the headline would be something like…'Reality TV Hosts Desecrate Dinosaur Burial Site!' Yeah, that'll definitely be a good attention grabber for sure!"
"Do you always try to make everyone out to be a bad guy so you can ruin their lives with your blog, Agent Yoshihiro?" Calvin frowned at the blogger from where he stood, getting a glare shot back at him.
"You complain about me ruining people's lives, but you were the one who could've saved us the possibility of death by mentioning that that psychopath was on the island. Don't think I've forgotten that, I just haven't posted about it quite yet." Calvin rolled his eyes at Bunny, who returned her attention to the dugout.
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"Let me just make one thing clear, my intentions were to put a stop to Jay Harett before anything got too crazy. I just…may have had some issues actually finding him before all that stuff went down. It's my own fault for not selecting a better partner for the job…Agent Coil's head was up in the clouds far too often." Calvin let out a sigh before looking down at the watch on his wrist, which lit up with a picture of him and BroBot on it. "Of course, no partner could've been better than…"
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"Now, the thing about dinosaur fossils is that, well, people always wanna see what the finished product looks like, not just the individual pieces." Dana kicked some of the sand with her boot, revealing that there was the skull of a large, carnivorous dinosaur beneath her. "Your challenge is to dig out enough bones to put together a whole dinosaur! Of course, you can mix and match parts, because we'll be judging you based on which of the dinosaurs we believe would be the apex predator that would outrank all of the other overgrown lizards that you come up with!"
"Ve have a nice variety of tools for you all to partake of for your digging…shovels, drills, pickaxes…just try your best to not damage any of the fossils in the process." Aaron gestured to the side of the dugout, where there was a large crate with an abundance of the tools that he had just mentioned. "You'll have zhirty minutes to dig around for enough bones to make your dinosaur come to life. Zhe survivor vith zhe apex predator vill be granted immunity tonight. As for zhe rest of you…you'll be up for elimination in tonight's ceremony!"
The contestants gasped at hearing that last word….despite how many times it had been used before, it was still an unsettling thought, especially when they had gotten this far into the game. "It would be pretty cool if we could see these creations really come to life and battle it out, but my industry hasn't even discovered a way to make that pipe dream possible." Dana sighed and shook her head, "Well, in any case, your thirty minutes starts…now!"
With that announcement, the group hurried to make their way down into the pit with the hosts. One by one, they grabbed their digging tools and spread out to dig up whatever they could find. Valerie took a good look around the pit while holding all three of the tools at the same time, trying to find a prime spot. Meanwhile, Brittany, who was standing next to her, was struggling just to hold the drill by itself. "How are you holding those like they weigh nothing? You don't even have that much muscle on you!"
"Why is the stick bug telling me that I've got no muscle? Have you taken a look in the mirror? Or…maybe you're too self conscious to look at yourself, knowing that your family can't stand you must sting enough to generate a poor self image. …Who am I kidding, you just think you're a superstar." Valerie scoffed while she started walking off in the pit, leaving a wide-eyed Brittany standing there in awe.
Bunny snickered while dragging her pickaxe and shovel behind her, "You let yourself get roasted by Valerie…that's gotta leave a pretty bad mark, huh?" The blogger continued to snicker before suddenly tripping on something and falling face down in the sand. She pulled herself up, glaring at Brittany, who was now laughing at her. She went to say something, but as she opened her mouth, she noticed the thing that she had tripped on was part of a fossil. "Hoho! A golden opportunity right at my very feet!"
"Of course you would get lucky and find something right away…that's just like you." Brittany rolled her eyes and started to leave to find her own dig site, huffing and puffing while she struggled to carry the drill.
Bunny went back to snickering like the little imp she was while she scooped great amounts of sand up with her shovel. It took her some good amount of time, but when she finally uncovered the fossil, she realized that it was a set of wingbones. "Well, well! It looks like my dinosaur will take to the skies…surely an aerial assault will be enough to put the others to shame, right?"
"Ha! Don't make me laugh!" Bunny looked up from the fossil to see Teddy standing over her with a cheesy smile on his face. "Sure, wings would probably be great in most battles, but my dinosaur will obviously have the same electrifying powers that I have…those wings will be clipped by our lightning before your pathetic dino can do anything to mine!"
"I really don't think the dinosaurs are going to get superpowers in this challenge…besides, how are you going to dig up anything if you don't have the tools for the job with you?" Bunny gestured to her own digging tools before pointing out the lack of Teddy's own, though the YouTuber didn't seem to be bothered by this.
"Well, I had grabbed my own tools, but Fridge insisted that I let him handle all of the digging for me. He said something about wanting to be the perfect sidekick, so who am I to deny him a dream like that?" Teddy pointed off to the side of the dugout, showing that Fridge had a pickaxe in each hand, and he was slamming them down against some hardened bits on the ground in powerful strikes.
"Don't you worry, Teddy Bear! I'll make sure we both get good dinosaurs to join our super team!" The friendly giant swung the left pickaxe down hard, a loud cracking noise emitting from the strike. He lifted it back up, pulling some skull that now had many cracks running all over it. While Fridge was impressed with this find, Teddy could only facepalm while Bunny stifled a chuckle.
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"Okay, maybe not my brightest idea to let Fridge handle the digging for us…if he ends up damaging any more of the bones, we won't hear the end of it from the unholy Cancel Crew…yeesh." Teddy shuddered as a thought bubble popped up above his head, revealing the image of a rather furious looking chubby girl with a white blouse and pink-framed glasses. Her hair was black on one side, and pink on the other. "That Hannah is definitely someone I don't ever wanna meet…"
"Fridge being the simpleton that he is may actually prove to be pretty useful…well, at least it would if he was still trying to help Caleb out. I don't really get anything good out of him messing with Teddy in this challenge." Bunny tapped her chin in thought before an idea came to mind.
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Bunny whistled nonchalantly while strolling over to where Fridge was digging and holding her hands behind her back. The athlete took notice of her and almost immediately started shivering in fear. "Relax my friend…I'm not here to make any more romantic advances. I'm here to propose a good plan that may help your good pal, Teddy!"
"We're gonna do something that will help Teddy Bear? That definitely doesn't seem too bad…what did you have in mind?" Fridge was still shivering a bit, but not nearly as bad as before.
"Well, you'll just have to offer some help to that old friend of yours, Caleb!" Bunny grinned a wide grin, but Fridge shook his head at her almost immediately.
"Nope, no way am I gonna help out Ex-Friendleb. He had a plan to get rid of me! He was using me this whole time…and he was using you, too! Why would you want anybody to help him out?"
"I can't get into the specifics or the plan won't really work! Look, do you want to help Teddy out or not?" Bunny leaned towards Fridge with the grin still on her face, and he slightly nodded his head. "Then you'll have to tough it out and give Caleb a hand for this challenge! Trust me…Teddy's gonna thank you later, and Caleb may even get eliminated for it!"
"Well…you are pretty smart sometimes, so I guess I could try to help him out. But if things don't go well and Ex-Friendleb wins the challenge because I helped him, I'm gonna be really…not so happy!" Fridge grabbed his pickaxes and started walking towards Caleb, leaving Bunny to rub her hands together while snickering like a devilish fiend.
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"It's literally the perfect plan! Fridge screws up most things that actually require a good amount of brainpower to get through, so it shouldn't be too long before he screws Caleb out of the win today!" Bunny swiped her nose with her thumb and stuck her tongue out at the camera. "I know, I really am a genius, aren't I?"
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Calvin swung his pickaxe hard against the ground, cracking it a good deal, though the dent he made didn't seem to bring him any joy whatsoever. He was still quite bitter about losing his best friend, so at this point, most things just didn't really affect how he was feeling. He swung the pickaxe again, striking the ground hard enough to spread the cracks out even further. As he pulled the pick back up, the ground started to tremble beneath him. His eyes went wide, and the cracks suddenly opened up, revealing a cavern beneath him, which he plummeted down into.
"Ugh…" Calvin rubbed his back while pulling himself up from the hard ground that he had just landed on. It was quite dark in the cavern, so he wasn't able to see much of anything. He tapped his watch a bit, causing it to emit a flashlight beam from it, which he used to show what he was standing on. As he got a good look at the ground, he realized that he stumbled upon a jackpot unlike any other. He grabbed his pickaxe from where it had fallen, and immediately got back to swinging at the ground.
Meanwhile, up on the surface just standing outside of where the newly opened cavern was, Valerie was peeking down into it. "Huh…neat. Maybe I can uncover some hidden tomb like that if I swing hard enough." The unpopular girl grabbed her pickaxe and walked over to the wall of the dugout, using it to swing and strike it. This, of course, caused the wall to rumble tremendously, and a wave of sand came down from the top like an avalanche. It managed to miss Valerie entirely, but Brittany, who was standing closeby, got buried by it.
"Heh…man, I could watch that replay all day." Valerie giggled before looking back at the wall and seeing some dinosaur ribs buried in it. "Well, whaddya make of that?"
Some muffled screams could be heard from the massive pile of sand that had just covered Brittany up before she managed to free herself from the sandy prison. She took a couple of deep breaths before gritting her teeth and storming towards Valerie. "Hey! Are you seriously trying to get me killed?"
"Well, I wouldn't be opposed if you would just shut up forever…" Brittany gasped at the nerve of Valerie, and the unpopular girl rolled her eyes in response. "I'm kidding…I wouldn't wanna risk jail time over killing someone like you."
"Listen here, you pathetic lardass!" Brittany grabbed Valerie by the shoulders, spinning her around so that the two were facing each other. "If you seriously think that I'm going to just let you get away with almost murdering me, you've got another thing coming!"
Valerie blinked slowly while she looked at Brittany with a dull look on her face. "...Is this the part where we start making out to shock the fans or something?" The faux-rich girl recoiled in utter disgust and ran back to the sand pile to grab her pickaxe from it. Valerie shrugged her shoulders and turned back to face the cracked wall again. "Suit yourself."
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"I really can't stand Valerie…she's been going after me like this for a good while now, and it really seems like she's trying to get rid of me! If it weren't for the fact that I've gotta be more worried about Caleb right now…ooo, I would get some pretty intense payback!" Brittany balled up her fists and punched the wall before pulling her hand back. "Ow! What is this wall made of, metal!?"
"After Margaret made a hole in the wall, we figured we should probably reinforce the walls a bit." Dana smirked and knocked her fist against the wall, causing a loud echoing of metal being struck to sound.
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Caleb had his drill in hand, which he was using to crack open a rather large boulder when Fridge walked up to him with both of the pickaxes in his hands still. "You look like you're having a really hard time with that rock, fella. Maybe I can give you a helping ha-"
"Shoo. I don't need you bothering me while I'm trying to win this thing." Caleb didn't even look over at Fridge while he kept on digging, only succeeding in upsetting the athlete.
"Not even for old time's sake? We used to work together on all the challenges, I just wanna help out one more time…" Fridge pouted a bit, and Caleb finally sighed and looked over at him.
"If you wanna help, why don't you go work with Brittany? She's having a hard enough time as is, your muscles will definitely make it easier for her." Immediately after saying that, Caleb went back to his drilling. Fridge stood still for a brief moment, thinking hard to himself.
"Hmm…Rabbit told me I have to help Friendleb, even if I don't want to…and Friendleb is saying that me helping Brittany will help him…I guess that's what I have to do!" The friendly giant started stomping off towards Brittany while Bunny watched from a distance, her jaw dropping out of astonishment. Caleb grinned to himself as he slightly looked over his shoulder to see the look on Bunny's face.
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"Sure, Fridge may screw things up for Brittany…but judging by how miserably she's doing at the challenge already, his help is honestly better for her than nothing. As if I would let Bunny try to get one up on me that easily." Caleb tapped his forehead with his finger while smirking at the camera.
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Teddy tapped his chin with his finger as he scanned the dugout, almost like he was looking for something completely different than the obvious. "I could've sworn that he…he had my pickaxe somewhere around…Fridge!" The YouTuber cupped his hands around his mouth as he called out the athlete's name, though no matter how loud he got, there seemed to be no answer. After a few seconds of silence he crossed his arms. "That guy really just up and took my pickaxe, how am I supposed to get this dig done with no tool?"
Teddy groaned loudly before stomping his foot down in the sand, sparks flying from the spot that his foot had landed on and soon coursing through the ground all over. His eyes went wide and he suddenly started to nonchalantly whistle while shuffling out of camera view. As the sparks kept on cycling through the sand, they eventually made their way over to Caleb, who was standing proudly near a dinosaur skeleton. His dinosaur wasn't anything huge, unlike most of what the others had put together. In fact, his wasn't even as big as Fridge was. It seemed to be almost turtle-like in nature, with a boastful shell that sported spikes along the rim. "Heh, no way any of those other dinosaurs would be able to successfully kill this glorious bastard!"
The sparks finally came into contact with the bones before Caleb, shaking the ground with a mighty rumble unlike anything the chess player had experienced before. With light now emanating from the eye holes of the skull, the skeleton seemed to come to life, bellowing a mighty roar and causing Caleb to stumble to the ground out of fear. Some of the other contestants glanced over to see what all the commotion was, but they barely had the time to look, as their own dinosaur skeletons were soon given the same treatment. Teddy looked around nervously, hoping that no one had seen what he had done, only for the ground below him to start quaking. He fell down to his rear, trembling while the ground opened up and revealed a fully put together dinosaur skeleton, this one bearing close resemblance to an oviraptor.
Time stood still while the contestants were frozen in fear from the dinosaurs coming to life, but the skeletons seemed to be…well, entirely passive. Aaron shifted back to his typical pale shade from the burnt red that he currently was, gulping nervously while Dana took a step forward, cocking her head to the side while she observed the behavior of the reborn fossils. "Hm…it seems like some intense amount of energy brought these prehistoric corpses back from the dead…" Dana tipped her head down before looking back up with the widest grin she had ever sported in her life. "THAT IS SO COOL! LOOK AT THEM, AARON!"
"I-I-I see zhem, Miss Dana…are ve sure ve shouldn't be running in fear of our very lives, now?" Aaron's worry was almost immediately dismissed by Dana rushing over to the oviraptor and patting it on the skull. It didn't seem too bothered by this, as it just sat there and accepted the head pats.
"Do you know what this means!? We can really have the dinosaurs duel against each other and see which one is the apex predator! It's like a wet dream come true!" Dana's mouth started to water while Valerie raised an eyebrow at her.
"I don't think you know what a wet dream is…" As Valerie put in her two cents, her dinosaur suddenly flopped down on the ground in front of her, seeming to let out a miserable sigh. She glanced down at the beast, that being a therizinosaurus. It's long nails seemed to be painted in black, and there even seemed to be some black eyeliner under its eye holes. "...You are such a mood, you know that?"
"Heheheh…do any of you guys really think you'll be able to withstand the aerial assault from my bag o' bones here?" Bunny nudged the dinosaur skeleton next to her, revealing it to be primarily composed of pterodactyl bones, though the skull was that of a stegosaurus. It looked…odd, to say the least. But there was one contestant that had a much odder skeletal warrior by her side.
"How am I supposed to do anything with a weak dinosaur like this one!?" Brittany threw her arms up in a fit as she looked at her pathetic dinosaur. Fridge had gotten most of the parts for her, and a good deal of its body was cracked. It must've been a younger tyrannosaurus…but it just looked too derpy. It was even trying to touch its claws to its toes, though it couldn't quite reach them. "Fridge, you seriously need to watch how hard you're swinging that pickaxe!"
"Oh, sorry Brattney! I was just trying to help…maybe it was too rough because your dino is so tiny? He needs to consume more vegetables to grow up big and strong, like mine!" Fridge pointed behind him, revealing that there was definitely…some sort of creature there. For starters, it towered above him like a giant. Oddly, though, this wasn't so much a dinosaur outside of the ankylosaurus skull that it was sporting. The rest of its bones were fixed in the shape of a peak performance bodybuilder. It flexed its boney biceps, somehow making them actually flex like muscles. The very sight of the unholy beast caused jaws to drop everywhere.
"We'll be having these creatures dueling it out? All I can say to the other agents is…good luck." Calvin had climbed up from the pit that he was in before, crossing his arms while he looked towards the other contestants. They looked back at him, waiting to see what sort of dinosaur he had in his arsenal. Suddenly, a skinny, snake-like bone structure poked up from the pit. Some of the others chuckled a bit, but their laughter was cut short when that structure kept on coming up from the pit, getting wider as it did. When the massive skeleton revealed itself to the others, they were shocked to see that it was no ordinary dinosaur…but a complete dragon.
"This is going to be…friggin…awesome!" Dana squealed out of delight, rushing back over to Aaron and hugging him tightly, causing him to cry out in pain from his burnt skin being touched.
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"How is that fair!? Calvin gets a full-blown dragon and I'm stuck with Dopey the Dunce!" Brittany huffed while crossing her arms, her dinosaur sitting next to her in the booth and scratching at the wooden wall with its tiny claws.
"Good focus definitely helps you get these challenges done better…when you don't spend any time talking to others, you don't have to worry about distractions." Calvin cracked his knuckles before leaning back in his seat with a dull look on his face. "I'm going to win this challenge for the fallen agent…"
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The contestants had separated themselves from the dugout which had now been converted into a grand battle arena. Each of them was posted in a "corner," as if they were the trainer to their dinosaurs, which were still in the pit. Caleb smirked and adjusted his glasses while his small turtle of spiky doom stood still below him. Teddy gulped while his oviraptor was holding up and staring at an oval-shaped rock, almost as if it was an egg that it wanted to break into. Bunny snickered to herself, holding her polaroid tightly in both hands while her mismatched pterodactyl somehow kept itself flying, despite the fact that it had no actual wings. Fridge, on the other hand, flexed his biceps while his bodybuilder fossil man did the same, the two of them looking quite imposing among the group. Calvin sat himself down on the ground, staring on ahead while his draconic beast hissed a horrifying noise. Valerie was jamming out to music on her phone while the therizinosaurus pal she had put together was mimicking her behavior, only with a phone that was clearly just a clump of weeds. Then, there was Brittany, who was covering her face in shame while her pathetic dinosaur stared directly at the wall behind it rather than at the other dinosaurs.
"Champions, are you ready to have your fossils fight it out to see which one of them is truly the apex predator!?" Dana shouted through a megaphone while sitting atop a rock structure that was seemingly shaped like a throne. "Only one of these beasts is going to make it out on the other side of this bout, and the one that does will have its master declared the winner of the challenge! Oh, this is so exciting, I just can't contain myself! On your marks…get set…tear each other apart!" The prodigy grabbed an airhorn and blew it right into the megaphone, the loud noise sending the fossil monsters into a frenzy.
The first "dinosaur" to make a move was Fridge's muscular macho man, who immediately rushed towards Brittany's wimpy dinosaur. The pathetic boney boy turned around and looked up at the bodybuilder with its derpy eyes, tilting its head to the side as Fridge's freak of nature started flexing its biceps once more. Brittany slapped her palm against her face, dragging it down slowly. "It's just standing there and bragging, just bite its leg off or something like that!"
"Now, now, Brattney, we don't want to encourage that sort of violence when we can have them become gym bros instead. See, look. My dino friend is showing yours a thing or two about proper form!" Fridge pointed down to the arena, where his "dinosaur" had grabbed Brittany's and was doing squats while hoisting it up over its head. Fridge clapped his hands and laughed innocently until his creation suddenly slammed Brittany's against the ground, causing it to explode into millions of tiny bone fragments. The two contestants were utterly shocked while the beast started flexing its muscles again.
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"I didn't expect my bone friend to go that intense with his reps…perhaps he had a bit too much pre-workout this morning?" Fridge held up a bucket of pre-workout while staring at it inquisitively. He eventually shrugged his shoulders, "Who am I kidding, you can never have too much pre-workout! Just make sure to do the right amount of exercise afterwards, yeah?"
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Caleb and Bunny stared each other down, each of them smirking confidently while their dinosaurs stared at each other in a similar manner. Bunny's let out an awful squawking noise before starting to fly towards Caleb's, but his immediately braced itself, as a turtle does, and when Bunny's finally reached his, it had no way to actually do any damage to it. "Huh!? Hey, that's not fair! You can't play defense in a challenge all about offense!"
"What do you mean? The best offense is a good defense, haven't you learned anything from those combat and sports movies that all have the same general plot?" Caleb shook his head at Bunny while her dinosaur poked and prodded at the shell of Caleb's, trying to find a way to get past its perfect defense, but failing in doing so. It turned to look back at Bunny, seeming to shrug its wings.
"Don't you look at me like that, you've gotta find a way to destroy that thing before we have to deal with the dragon!" Bunny pointed to the far corner of the arena, right at the dragon that was staring down towards the center of the arena at Teddy's oviraptor. The much smaller fossil walked around like how a flamingo would, backwards knees and all. It didn't take long for its master to realize that it was headed straight towards Calvin's dragon.
"Woah, woah, woah! Buddy, I know you probably are thinking that a dragon egg would be a mighty perfect snack for you to munch on after the battle is over, but it'll be lights out for you if you even get close to that thing!" Teddy grabbed his dinosaur's attention and started pointed at the looming dragon. "I mean, just look at that thing! It looks like it could probably scoop you up in a matter of seconds and swallow you down like a tasty treat. Now, why don't you be a good little buddy and go take care of the emosaurus in the other corner, eh?"
The oviraptor turned to look at Valerie's dinosaur, which was listening to what could only be described as emo punk hits from the early two thousands on its fake phone. It took a few steps towards the creature, with Teddy nodding his head in approval, before it suddenly turned right back around and started off towards the dragon again. "What!? No, I told you to not go towards the dragon!"
"Don't worry, Teddy Bear! My dino pal will surely help yours by stopping it from making this mistake!" Fridge snapped his fingers, cueing his hunk of a beast to start barreling towards Teddy's oviraptor at maximum speed. Once it got close enough, it grabbed the raptor by the neck, flailing it around in the air like it was some sort of toy before eventually throwing it out into the distance. Teddy watched in horror and dismay while his dinosaur came crashing down to the ground from the sky, landing and falling apart almost immediately. "Whoops…looks like my guy put a bit too much force into that throw!"
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"I can't do this man…how was Caleb able to withstand Fridge's stupidity for that long? This guy has knocked me out of two challenges in a row and I already want him out of here for it!" Teddy held his head in shame before slowly peeking back up at the camera. "I never thought I would be praising that angry leprechaun for his patience for simpletons…"
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Dana awed at the arena while she raised the megaphone back to her face. "Two dinos are already out for the count, which prehistoric beast will be the next to crumble!?" Aaron covered his ears as best as he could, as the host had accidentally aimed the megaphone right at his head. Back in the arena, Fridge's "dinosaur" was flexing its boney muscles again, showing all the pathetic nerd dinosaurs that it truly was the apex…at least in one aspect.
"That's so gross…how do you even get bones to move like that?" Valerie scoffed at the wannabe dinosaur while her own dinosaur skeleton did a similar notion, only garnering the attention of Fridge and his crony. "Why is that thing staring at me like that?"
"You dare to oppose its intense muscle mentality…something like that is sure to rile him up! He's had far too much pre-workout at this point, I can't control him anymore!" Fridge threw his arms up and cried out in fear as his "dinosaur'' started barreling towards Valerie's with intense speed. Valerie's dinosaur started to get up, but about halfway through the process, it fell back down and let out a bored sigh. Fridge's beast ran through the poor thing like a bowling ball speeding thirty miles down a lane through some pins, knocking Valerie's to bits. "Oh, the horror! This isn't the kind of friend I had in mind when we started this challenge!"
"Whatever, like I care." Valerie crossed her arms and turned away from the arena, hiding the fact that she was now sniffling like an upset toddler.
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"There lies the Moodosaurus…the most relatable dinosaur that there ever was or will be." Valerie teared up while playing more emo hits on her phone in memoriam of the beast that she had only known for such a brief time. "He would want me to be listening to Blue Day right now, I just know it."
"My dinosaur may be a bit too much for me to handle…I didn't put a brain in him when I made him, so I thought he was just gonna be a pleasant dummy! I wonder why that isn't the case…" Fridge scratched his chin in thought, not realizing that the door to the confessional was now open wide. He looked off to the side, noticing that there was a large, boney hand sticking right through the opening. "Oh, hello friend! What? N-no! I wasn't talking about you at all, I promi- AHHHH!" The muscular boy was swiftly grabbed by the hand and pulled out of the confessional while he screamed.
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The camera cut back to a view of the arena, where Fridge was now being used as a dumbbell by his own creation. The other contestants cringed as they saw the boy just being toyed with, though he seemed more upset about something else. "Friend, your form isn't as proper as it should be! Try doing a two point lift rather than consistent straight curls, its the only way to really help work the most of your arm!"
"Is somebody going to save him? If we just leave him like that, he's gonna get killed by that thing!" Teddy started biting on his fingernails, clipping them with his teeth. As the clippings flew from his hands, they struck the ground and let sparks fly from them, although it was tough to see in the heat.
"Yeah, yeah, I can save him, whatever." Bunny waved her hand at her own dinosaur, which was currently still flying around Caleb's and trying to find a way inside its shell. It glanced over at her before looking to where she was pointing: at Fridge and his dinosaur. It nodded and started flying towards the two, grabbing the beast by its skull and plucking it right off of its poorly constructed shoulders. The beast collapsed to its knees, dropping Fridge down before hitting the sand with a massive thud. "Is that better?"
"Better!? Rabbit, your guy killed my muscular gym bro!" Fridge got down on his hands and knees, sobbing while slamming his fist down in denial. "He was a rough guy, but it was all just a horrible mood swing, I swear! But now…he's dead! And it's your fault!" The football player got up from the sand, shooting a glare Bunny's way before grabbing a heavy rock from the ground. He held it in one hand, spinning himself around quite quickly before eventually letting the rock fly out of his hands, hitting Bunny's pterodactyl and busting it to pieces. "There, we're even now!"
"Fridge!? You just made me lose the challenge!" Bunny grabbed the buns in her hair, tugging on them angrily while she gritted her teeth. "How are we supposed to get Caleb to lose if he's now one of the only two contestants left in the challenge!?"
"As far as I remember, you said if I helped him out, it would make him lose the challenge. Now that I went and helped him, you're having doubts about whether or not he'll actually lose? Make up your mind! This is why you'd never be as good of a leader as Ex-Friendleb was!" Fridge huffed from his nostrils before he walked off to climb out of the arena, leaving Bunny utterly furious with how obnoxious he was being.
Caleb glanced over at the girl with a grin on his face, waving to her. "What's the matter with your little alliance over there…it seems like you're having a bit of trouble keeping Fridge in check!" Caleb snickered while Bunny stormed away from the arena, grumbling to herself all the while. He turned to face Calvin, who still seemed as dull as before. "Alright, you agent freak! Let's get this challenge over and done with already!"
"Agreed, I was getting pretty bored with watching everyone else mess around." Calvin snapped his fingers, cueing his dragon to let out a mighty roar that caused everyone to cover their ears out of fear that they were going to shatter. Caleb's turtle kept staying tight in its shell, but this didn't matter, as the dragon rushed towards it and picked it up in its mouth, soon swallowing it down in one gulp. "There, we're done."
"Unbelievable!" Dana's jaw dropped while she turned her megaphone back on so she could pester the general public again. "Despite sitting out for the bulk of the challenge, Calvin has shown that the power of his dragon is truly unbeatable! What a way to end it! The winner of the challenge, and therefore, the winner of the immunity tonight, is none other than Cal- huh? What's going on there?"
Dana pointed at the dragon, showing that it was jittering around funny. The contestants had all thought the challenge was already finished, but looking back at what was happening showed them that that wasn't the case. Calvin raised an eyebrow as he watched his mighty beast jump around like something was wrong, only to see Caleb snickering out of the corner of his eye. "As I said before…the best offense is a good defense. I thought you would know this, as a secret agent wannabe and all."
"What do you…?" Calvin looked back up at his dragon, soon seeing spikes pierce through the bones in its long neck. Within the neck, the turtle was spinning around at hyper speeds, enough to shatter the bones entirely and separate the dragon's head from its neck. When the head crashed into the sand, the turtle was seen standing atop the now opened neck, staring fiercely at the defeated competition. "...Well played…well played indeed."
"Wow…what a twist ending there…I didn't expect this when I first saw the dinosaurs in the beginning of the challenge, but Caleb has somehow clutched the win with his overgrown turtle!" Dana cheered for a brief moment but then realized who she was cheering for and cleared her throat. "Whatever, Caleb gets immunity for the elimination ceremony and all that, you know the drill."
"Of course." Caleb adjusted his glasses before walking over to join Brittany, who was glaring at Fridge rather intensely. "Looks like the big oaf caused more damage than ever before…I do love when things don't go Bunny's way."
Meanwhile, Bunny was finally coming back to the arena to walk over to Fridge, her arms crossed and her brow still furrowed. "Well, I have let myself calm down a little bit, and I suppose I can forgive you for completely throwing the challenge like a baboon. Caleb didn't end up losing, you'll have to vote for Brittany…we can probably get her out for the count if we convince Valerie to vote along with us. Just make sure you-"
"No way, Rabbit! First, you tell me that helping Ex-Friendleb is gonna get him to lose, but it didn't! He won the challenge because of it!" Fridge stomped his foot down on the ground, sporting an angrier look than he ever had before. "Now, if I go and vote for Brittany, I'm gonna get eliminated, I just know it! I should just vote for you instead!" Bunny opened her mouth to say something, but she was unable to, as Fridge started walking away immediately.
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"Fridge is such a simpleton…even if he is a cute simpleton. I wish he would be more open to listening, but the only one that was truly able to tame him was Caleb." Bunny shrugged her shoulders with a small smile on her face. "If he doesn't want to listen, that's all on him."
"I could vote for Bunny…or I could vote for Fridge. You see, the thing about Bunny is that she thrives when she has other people on her side. Brittany and I sure as hell ain't on her side and I know that Valerie doesn't care much for her either. I heard her smack talking Calvin earlier, and Teddy…well, is Teddy much good of an ally, anyway? Now, Fridge…the guy definitely packs a punch, and with the final coming up, challenges are sure to get more intense. If we happen to end up in an intense physical challenge with him, we're definitely toast." Caleb tapped his forehead while grinning at the camera.
"I was going to vote for Brittany…but if someone else is going to tell me too, well, I just don't really feel like it." Valerie shook her head at the camera.
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The final seven made their way back to the Colosseum of Shame, where each of them was seated in the benches. It was odd seeing them this barren…and not a single person watching down from the seats above. Caleb and Brittany sat next to each other, the chess player grinning proudly at his victory while Brittany had her arms crossed and was blushing out of embarrassment. Valerie was lounging in the furthest back seat she could grab, bobbing her head softly while listening to her music. Teddy was staring down at his hands, watching sparks fly from his fingertips while Fridge peeked down at him over his shoulder. Bunny seemed rather calm, despite the disagreement she had with Fridge, and was just sitting off to the side. Finally, there was Calvin, who wasn't seated, much like the last elimination ceremony. He just leaned against the back wall in silence.
"Well, well, here we are again with another elimination ceremony! You guys all know the rules, what with the voting for each other to get someone out of the competition for good, having the only person to not get their rations bounced away on the Trampoline of Losers yadda yadda." Dana gestured to the platter of six rations, which was being held by Aaron, who was back to appearing as miserably sunburnt as before. She grabbed the first bag from the group, "Of course, the first set of rations goes to our challenge winner…Caleb, surprisingly."
Caleb rolled his eyes as he caught his bag of rations. "Leave it to you to always belittle my achievements…we all know you secretly think that I'm pretty hot shit."
"In your dreams…" Dana grabbed for the next two bags of rations, shaking them around a bit in her hands. "The next two contestants that are safe for the night are…Teddy and Valerie." The host passed along the next two bags of rations, though when Teddy went to grab his, it was struck by a spark flying from his hands, and it disintegrated. "Huh…I don't recall you being able to do that before. YouTube magic?"
"Uh…y-yeah, YouTube magic! It's all for an upcoming video of mine!" Teddy rubbed the back of his neck while chuckling awkwardly, and Valerie caught her rations without so much as a slight smile on her face.
"Only one more of you guys didn't receive any votes for the elimination ceremony tonight, and that contestant is…Calvin!" Dana grabbed the fourth bag of rations and tossed it over to Calvin, who caught it with one hand and nodded back at the host. Brittany goot even redder in the face, though with anger rather than embarrassment. She opened her mouth to voice her opposition, but Dana was quick to cut her off. "Relax, Brittany…you only got one vote tonight, so you're entirely safe…at least for now."
"Huh…who would've thought that we'd be in the bottom two together." Bunny shrugged as she looked over at Fridge, who stuck his tongue out at her. "Sooooo mature."
"You tricked me into helping Ex-Friendleb! That's an unforgivable crime, you know that!" The athlete kept glaring at Bunny, but she didn't seem to mind all too much.
"Well, you two, things kinda went downhill for you after you denounced your partnership with Caleb, didn't they? Bunny, you like to play with people and control them like puppets, and it seems like each of the puppets have had enough and want to get rid of their master. Fridge…your blunders consistently get people injured, cause you and your friends to lose, or help your enemies. People are right when they say you really screw things up when you don't have Caleb keeping you in check." Dana giggled slightly as she reached for the final bag of the rations, shaking it around a little bit. "Well, only one of you is gonna be sticking around after this…and that player is…"
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"...Bunny!" Dana tossed the final bag of rations to the blogger, who grinned as she caught them. "Fridge, sorry to say it, but people just can't handle all the damage you cause when you don't have someone to keep you in check. The Trampoline of Losers awaits, my bulky pal!"
"Wait…so…I don't get a bag of rations?" Fridge raised his finger to his chin, tapping it in thought while Dana shook her head at him. "Oh…that is very sad…" The large boy stood from his seat, hunching over slightly while he slowly shuffled towards the trampoline. "I just wanted to make some friends, but all the friends here were really…well…mean…I guess I can forgive you guys though!" The boy turned around with one last huge smile on his face. "Friendleb, Teddy Bear, Brattney, Rabbit, Valkyrie, Agent Man! I hope you guys all make it to the finale! Don't forget your good pal when you make it to the top, eh?" The boy kept on smiling before stumbling back onto the trampoline and bouncing away from the rest of the contestants.
"It's so nice that he can be so forgiving…which just means that we're stuck with six spiteful people…hurray." Dana sighed and slouched down next to Aaron. "Oh, well…Fridge is out of the game, meaning the biggest physical threat is gone! Who will be the next to topple over? Find out next time on Total Drama: Scrap Island!"
Author's Notes:
*The voting for this one came out to be very close, and if it weren't for Fridge being the dumb dumb that he is, Brittany may have actually bit the bullet in this episode! Of course, the guy doesn't really use his brain that much, so it was to be expected that he would screw it up. We're down to our final six, and only six more episodes in the season! I'm excited to bring the season to a close, and I hope you're all excited as well.
*Votes: Fridge - Caleb, Brittany, Teddy, Valerie; Bunny - Fridge, Calvin; Brittany - Bunny
*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; 8th - Yves; 7th - Fridge