Chapter 3: Surpr-ice!
Last time on Total Drama Reboot of the Island, a tell-all game was played, and an obstacle course was ran through. B got a little heated, Mike took a fall, and the Toxic Rats won and Hairspray Anne Maria took an underwater exploration!
Who's next to fall, and who's winning it all? Find out on this 'cool' episode of...TOTAL DRAMA REBOOT OF THE ISLAND!
(Opening Scene)
Dawn meditated on the beach. She waited patiently, not a care in the world. She heard footsteps.
"Hey, Zoey."
"Uh, hi Dawn. Can I talk to you for a second?"
"Certainly."
"I was just wondering if you had, I don't know, sensed anything off with Mike lately or his aura."
Dawn stared at Zoey calmly, then smiled.
"You have nothing to worry about. Mike's just fine. For now."
"Huh? What do you mean by that? Dawn?"
But Dawn had disappeared.
Meanwhile, Jo, and Padme had ran into each other.
"5k run? You?" Jo laughed in her face.
"I lost count. And I don't really care."
"Yeah well, back off, newbie. If anyone's taking that money, it's gonna be ME!"
"Hard to do that when you don't have an immunity idol. Or an alliance."
"What do you-"
"ATTENTION CAMPERS! Meet me in the woods for your next challenge! And get here QUICKLY! Otherwise, uh, things are gonna get CRAZY! So, MOVE, MOVE, MOVE!"
The campers ran through the forest to a clearing with a large cliff.
Cameron, of course, arrived last. He puked into a bush queasily.
"Reminds me of Chuck." Hank chuckled to Padme.
"Shut up." Padme silenced him threateningly.
"Campers, get ready to test your strength on the Cliff of Death!
Players will have to climb up this steep cliff using either their hands or find something in this humongous pile of garbage."
"Easy!" Padme glared at the others.
"Which is being guarded by Fang!"
The mutant shark popped it's head out, then went back in.
"Oh, yeah. And as for that penalty, Cameron, you'll have to wear this!"
A giant metal belt was latched onto Cameron and padlocked, instantly sending him to the ground.
"This must weigh 100 pounds!" He gasped.
"150, to be exact."
Confessional
Padme: That little nerd better not slow me down! Even if we lose, my biggest competition in strength is Jo, and I don't trust or like her one bit. And it'll be a few days before her attitude can easily get the others to take her out!
End Confessional.
"The winning team will gain an advantage in the second part of the challenge, and it's a GOOD one. Mutant Maggots, with Mike still recovering, I'm afraid I can only give him until tonight to recover, then it's curtains for him, so that means Maggots could lose TWO tonight! Anyway, the challenge starts...NOW!"
The teams got to work. Padme and Jo began climbing, as Dawn approached Lightning.
"Why aren't you going after them?"
"Oh, sha-please, weird girl. The Lightning's strong muscles-"
Dawn stared up at him. "I know what you did last summer."
Lightning stopped mid-sentence. "How'd you know?"
"It's all over your aura. The guilt, the fear. Now get up there. Right now!"
Lightning gulped, and began climbing, catching up to Padme.
"Not sha-bad, dude! Maybe one day, you'll be as strong as the Sha-Lightning!"
"Get your EYES checked, idiot!"
Lightning glared at Padme as the both reached for the same jut on the cliff.
"After you." She chuckled.
"Sha-yeah!"
As Lightning went for it, Padme grabbed his hand and threw him down to the bottom.
"OW! Not sha-cool, dude!"
He landed on Brick.
"My arm..."
In the trash pile, Cora was digging around, when Fang popped his head out, scaring her. The mutant shark stared at her, then noticed Scott, and smiled deviously. He left Cora and started to chase Scott.
"Well, I'm done. Goodnight, everybody." Sam slid down the cliff. Dakota prodded him back awake.
"Need...game." He sighed, then was dragged out by Fang, who was bored of Scott, and began getting clobbered.
Cameron was being dragged by Zoey, as B was assembling some sort of rocket chair.
"Seems the Rats have given up climbing, as Padme, Jo and Brick are in for a surprise." Chris laughed.
From the top of the cliff came a block of ice. Jo dodged it, but Padme punched right through it. Jo glared at her, as another block nearly crushed Brick, who had resorted to climbing with one arm.
Meanwhile, at the med wing, Mike tossed in his sleep...
Subconscious:Mike.
Mike stared transfixed as the hand from the grave burst the earth to reveal a familiar figure, his hair covered one eye.
"Hello, Mike." Mal spoke.
"YOU? But I thought...the tower...the others-"
"Yes, you must be confused. Allow me to explain.
You see, when you destroyed my tower, you didn't destroy me. You merely destroyed my physical form.
Mike watched as Mal vanished.
"Just you wait til you see what I have in store for you." Laughter echoed throuhgout his head.
End Subconscious: Mike.
Back to the challenge...
"An old chair? I was beaten by a mutant shark so you could collect THIS?" Scott threw his hands up in the air frustratedly.
B sat in the chair, about to connect a set of wires. He motioned for his team to grab on. Scott rolled his eyes and held on, as the chair blasted off, landing at the top, just as Padme, Jo, and Brick made it to the top.
"Alright, Chef, you've got-huh?"
The person throwing the ice blocks wasn't Chef, but Moth.
"Hey, Padme." She turned to the chair and scoffed. "Cora."
Cora reddened a little.
"What're you doing here?"
"Chris wanted me to assist in this challenge. And I think the Rats won. Just saying."
The Rats started celebrating.
"Hold on, folks! I decide who wins!" Chris flew in on his jetpack.
Jo started laughing.
"The Rats! Thanks to BEVERLY!"
B growled, as Padme tried to punch Moth in a fit of anger. She dodged it, and it hit Brick in his bad arm.
"Hey, you fixed it! Thanks!"
Padme's punch knocked the cadet off the cliff. He landed on Hank.
"My other arm..."
"Ouch. That had to hurt. They'll be even more hurting after the break!"
(Commercial)
The contestants now stood in an icy area, shivering. Chris sat in a warm jacket with hot cocoa, Moth and Chef at his sides.
"Cold enough for you?"
"J-just get on w-with it!" Hank shivered.
Confessional
Hank: I've flown helicopters and planes all over, so how I am not used to the cold, you ask? I never spent time outside in snow before, so my body's not used to temperature.
Dawn: Lightning will crack. Keep in mind he still owes me a favour, and I plan to use it to my advantage...
End Confessional.
"I'd like to welcome you to part 2 of the challenge: Capture the Snow Fort!
It's pretty easy: either take the flag from one of the teams fort and bring it back to yours, OR destroy the other teams's fort with a stock of surprise balls. Why are they called surprise balls? You'll have to find out!
Team Rat, for winning part 1 of the challenge, choose either the castle...or the shack!"
Two forts were unveiled: A sloppily built shack which looked like it would fall with the slightest touch, and a medium sized castle.
"Sha-e-easy! C-castle!" Lightning moved over to the castle, and his team followed...only to find a very shaky structure. Snow and ice covered cracks very unevenly.
"Oh, come on!" Cora groaned.
Chris and Chef howled with laughter. "That was Moth's idea!"
"Cocoa?" Chef offered.
Moth took a sip. "Not bad, Chef. Not bad at all."
The Maggots cheered at their, although smaller, was at least finished.
"Looks are deceiving, ain't they?" Chris chuckled, but was then interrupted by heavy footsteps.
"WAIT! WAIT! Doc said I'm ok to compete!" Mike ran over to Chris.
"Mike's back!" Chris announced. "So, begin the challenge!"
"As team captain, we need to-" Jo and Padme cut each other off.
"We need to- stop interrupting-oh, for the love of-"
"Heres a thought: why don't you two shut up?" Hank said. "I can defend. Remember Maui, Padme?"
Confessional.
Chef: Where HAVEN'T they been? Seems like they got a good thing goin' on. Hehe.
End Confessional
Padme looked at her friend. "Fair point. Mike, Hank, and Cameron defend. The rest of us can-"
A snowball suddenly hit Padme in the back of the head, unleashing a small explosion.
"No! I'm not gonna LISTEN to the snowball, I'm gonna chuck it!" Scott argued with Dawn at the Rats base.
"But it's full of negative energy!"
"So am I." Cora interrupted, picking up a snowball.
Dawn left the shack, joined by Lightning and Sam.
"Running...why did it have to be...running?"
Sam then fell through a crack in the ice and comically froze solid.
"Don't worry buddy. Sha-Lightning will get you out!"
"Theres no time!" Dawn pulled Lightning away and ducked as a ball of ice hit Lightning in the face and he fell into the crack and froze solid too.
Dawn noticed B, rolling a giant snowball into place with a ray of sun, directing it over to the Maggots base, melting it from the outside. Jo was attacking Dakota, and the combined forces of Zoey, Jo, and Brick were too much for the already preoccupied Rats. Dawn stared up at B's plot. She threw her snowball up at the larger one, knocking it off course and reflecting it off of the blocks of ice that Sam and Lightning were stuck in. It hit the Rats base, almost immediately disintegrating it.
"AND THE MAGGOTS WIN!" Chris announced. "Your reward? Your very own hot cocoa! Burn your mouths with hot marshmallowy goodness. But tonight, the losers alao get marshmallows. Well, except for one of 'em."
As for Sam and Lightning-"
Moth started chipping the two out to sweet freedom.
"Thanks, but we got a game to win!" Lightning then fell back through the ice.
"I'm not getting him out again."
Confessional.
Dawn: That was just a little accident. All B really needed was a little push. And as for Lightning...well, let's just say that I have a plan...
End Confessional.
Dawn lest the confessional and found Cora.
"Oh, hey Dawn. What's up?" She asked.
"Theres something you need to know, Cora. I've read Lightning's aura, and honestly, it's not impressive."
"What do you mean?"
Dawn whispered something, and Cora gasped softly.
"Are you SURE?"
"Positive."
"CALLING ALL RATS! REPORT TO ELIMINATION! SUBMARINE NEEDS FOOD!"
"Spread the word." Dawn vanished behind a tree.
Elimination.
"Tonight, one of you will travel to the bottom of the ocean and out of my life!" Chris told the Rats at elimination.
"But it ain't gonna be Cora or Dakota!
Scott and Dawn are also safe!"
Scott and Dawn glared at each other.
"Beverly!" Chris laughed. "You're safe!"
B flipped Chris off and got his marshmallow.
"Sam and Lightning, you both failed to really assist in the challenge.
Lightning, you got thrown off a cliff by a girl..."
"What girl? Lightning don't see no girl!"
"I'M A GIRL!" Padme screamed at him.
"YOU'RE WHAT?"
"And Sam." Chris laughed. "You were mostly a punching bag for Fang and you're not really physically gifted!
So the last marshmallow goes to...
...Sam!"
"Whoohoo!" Sam grabbed his marshmallow, as Lightning gasped.
"SHA-WHAT?"
Lightning now sat in the Submarine of Shame.
"Throwing away one of your strongest players? You!re all gonna regret that, especially you, new girl!"
"You don't get to call me 'new girl'! After what Dawn told me what you did..."
Lightning gulped and was sent away without another word.
"Toxic Rats, goodnight! You're all safe...for now!"
Epilogue
The Rats sat around the fire.
"What exactly did he do?" Sam asked Cora.
She whispered something to the team. They cringed and gasped.
"Oh, that is DISGUSTING!"
"Why? Why would he do that?"
"Even I'M not that weird!"
The team went to bed.
Dawn stared at the fire. Waiting. Plotting.
"I know them better than they know themselves. I know their fears, their desires.
And I will win it all!"
She saw a bug by the log, and she put her hand over it and coaxed it away from the fire.
"WOAH, I think the nature rights people might be happy about that! Will Dawn make good on her threat? And who's next to take the Submarine of Shame? Those answers and more on the next episode of...TOTAL DRAMA REBOOT OF THE ISLAND!