Total Drama: Ultimate Islands!
Episode 11: Beach Volleybrawl
Part 2: The Spike Down
Yeah, the first part may have ended pretty abruptly and in stupid fashion, but the second part will not...as there's a volleyball tournament, a larger than average court and some bombs that are only designed to trip up people.
(It's motion-sensitive for more of that McLean design expertise)
Aside from that, though, what's going to be up with the volleyball players, the drama bringers, the background fillers, the foreground runners and Lynn, Clover and Tron?
Memeking: Catalina's going to be a real player...in the fourth part, 'cause in this episode, I'm focusing on some underused characters on the first match.
1602jaw: As you're going to see in this chapter, it wasn't toned down much.
Seriously, though, I kinda don't have an good idea on how to
A lot in the next three parts, so let's go and they may be a little long, but I haven't written three volleyball matches before...so please actually review this chapter!
Chris just showed himself, somehow groomed up completely at 5:59am and he had to introduce the audience two minutes to 6am without missing a beat.
"Welcome back and I've been way worse!" Chris announced, not putting on the loudspeakers for a brief moment of respite. "Gotta wake the campers up at 5:59am for good reasons."
At this point, you know how it is and what it gonna do...as the sun had barely risen up at this time, the birds were flying and the foliage had gotten some light winds and-
"WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP, We're about to play some volleyball, yo!" Chris just shouted like it was the most normal thing ever.
Just to throw off the pre-prepared contesants that were either expecting to wake up at 6 or even the contestants that were already awake.
And Catalina was already throwing some random stuff at some window that Tanya conveniently opened out of nowhere.
"This motherfucking Canadian thinks he's the coolest host in the neighbourhood!" Catalina shouted, practically waking the rest of the Deers up. "Nobody likes this guy, always thinking he can fuck around."
"That is partially true, though I do not dislike Chris too much." Dawn answered, just taking care of some birds.
"I dislike you too, bitch." Catalina casually whispered.
Dawn probably heard it due to the energy and everyone else could see that the host was just in the fucking around mood.
"Do not worry, because we're a team that has co-operation on the mind." Dawn told, just for good measure...as Snufkin looked pretty well-rested. "I can sense that you're well-rested."
"Yeah...I don't know why you know that." Snufkin said. "But you guys should know better."
"Our host really does like to throw people off and he's good at it." Dawn answered, as Snufkin looked on smugly.
*Snufkin's confessional*
*Confessional cut*
Everyone woke up and they had some breakfast in the big room and this time, there was a whole challenge right ahead of them and as Chris just shouted something important at them.
"Remember when I said the thing about volleyball? It's that time for this awesome challenge with an awesome twist!"
"It definitely is!" Owen shouted. "Guys, can't you be a little more optimistic?"
"Hard to be in this economy...and show." Michiru said. "Wasn't Pahkitew Ilsland wildin'?"
"Yeah, but it was the good kind!" Chris announced. "Volleyball, though."
"Hey, it's not like there are bombs!" Owen exclaimed, which got the rest of the team looking at him incredulously. "He has changed."
While the Crows were walking with Owen's potential thought in mind, others were a little less understanding of a reality show sadist's change...even more so when they managed to see another part of the beach that was on another side of McLean Island.
And said west side of the beach had a few volleyball courts that completely threw off everybody...as it was slightly bigger than a normal one and definitely had something in the ground.
Some people were pissed.
"Welcome to the beach volleyball court, where you all have to do keep your ball up and make it drop on the other teams' side! And this time it's a tournament!"
The contestants were keeping their eyes peeled on the bigger than average courts.
"The first round is gonna determine who's going to the winners' final and who's going to eliminate two of their teammates!"
Chris looked real interested in something.
"The winners' final is going to determine who gets to take a teammate from the second place team! Easy!"
The host looked like he was about to announce something awesome.
"Oh yeah...any move done with your hands can be used to volley the ball and there's two bombs on each side, just to make things a little spicy! Also, if your team pops or slices the ball, the other team gets the point! Any questions?"
The campers were understandably pissed about this new chaotic volleyball match that was going to happen and there were many hands that were up from people who wanted answers.
And a few from people who knew better.
"Alrighty, campers, we've got Rhinos against Crows, Deers against Swordfishes, so get prepared for your crazy matches!" Chris finished the announcement with a chuckle.
Min Min and Squigly were plain surprised that they managed to get a big role and were talking about it a minute before the match.
"I swear it's like you're not here most of the time." Min Min remarked.
"Please don't tell me that. Half of the challenges are poorly disguised torture." Squigly said, as her bone dragon was poking out of her hand.
"Can't disagree, but serving many people at the same time gives me that same feeling." Min Min stated, still wearing her hat...just 'cause. "Besides, what do you want to do?"
"I want to contribute in the challenge, nothing more!" Squigly said, humbling herself a bit. "Is that wrong?"
"Not really, that's how it is." Min Min stated.
The two friends smiled for a bit, before getting themselves prepared for their first round match against the team that...had a new player and said new player wasn't in the field.
And they had a strategy.
"Hold on, I think we've gotta see what these guys have and then make sure that we don't get tripped up by their team's gimmicks." Samus explained, as Luigi shot a dirty look at her. "It's universal for a reason."
"And...we need to have some fun with it and mix them up!" Luigi shouted. "Even if we lose..."
"That doesn't seem wrong." Samus looked thoughtful. "Spike, be the best libero you can be."
"The guy who dives for balls? Got ya there!" Spike exclaimed.
"Alright, Samus and Snake are at the back, I'm going to do the spiking thing with Tanjiro...and Penny gets to support Jack...'cause they haven't been used in a long time." Luigi explained, sweating a lot at his team who mostly accepted it, as Dawn gave a thumbs up. "Daisy, I hope that this is good!"
*Luigi's confessional*
"Maybe I can't win this challenge, but something tells me that I can't really be sad for my girlfriend. She would've wanted me to kick some butts...but I don't know how to do that..." Luigi said, his nerves not perfectly still...but his heart set on trying his best.
*Confessional cut*
"First to 25 points wins the round!" Chef shouted. "And there's a guest referee in this thing!"
Axl was real confused about his job, considering he barely knew what a volleyball was half an hour ago...but he was overseeing the blue and red team.
But he knew how to blow a whistle and the first match of the day was underway...with the renewed green banana and the volleyball girl getter in the captains' seats.
The Daring Deers (Luigi, Tanjiro, Samurai Jack, Penny, Samus, Snake & Spike) vs The Striking Swordfishes (Oikawa, Lowain, Sokka, Cassie, Squigly, Amelia & Min Min)
The whistle was blown from Chef, who chuckled for a bit and Axl was a little unsurprised by the callous chef's attitude.
Tanjiro may not have the proper skills to properly a serve, but he did do a strong overhand serve...putting his demon slaying strength in his hand.
And said serve was strong enough to almost go to the edge, Oikawa and Lowain figuring out that it could go out...but it didn't.
DD 1 - SS 0
"Whoa, you did it, kid!" Snufkin shouted.
"Yes, but we're just getting started." Tanjiro remarked...considering that Lowain had the ball.
The Swordfishes' reponse?
Get Eva to serve and she did serve with her strength and it was strong enough to simply deflect off Samurai Jack's hand and out of the court, giving them their first point.
DD 1 - SS 1
Eva just looked at her hands and sensed that there was more of that coming up.
And guess who served it up?
Oikawa, the guy who was spinning the volleyball in his own hands and having a real smug smirk on his face, just put all of the force from his right hand to the volleyball.
It went flying and then went in similar direction to Eva's serve...except a little bit shorter and Samurai Jack was going for it...and missed it.
SS 2 - DD 1
The whole crew was cheering for the serving duo, more than motivated to steam-roll the continuously losing Deers and then someone else had to serve the ball.
Lowain knew what a volleyball was and he served like a normal guy would, ready to send it back a whole lot.
On the other side, Penny was trying to see where the ball was going and started the rally, passing it around the people that could keep it up and she was definitely one of them.
Luigi looked more than ready to get an simple spike, tossing up the ball for Tanjiro to hit down onto the Swordfishes...and Tanjiro jumped a little too low, but that was enough for a solid spike...
...that went horizontal, which Oikawa recognised and Sokka could see it, leading to the Swordfishes getting another point.
SS 3 - DD 1
Sokka didn't know what a volleyball was, doing a simple overhead serve and it was dropping by the time it went over the net, which Luigi tried to read properly.
And ended up letting the ball fall down because it was too close to the net, causing Luigi to accidentally put his head into the game and making it move onto the floor.
"Are they okay? Because that was terrible." Sokka remarked.
SS 4 - DD 1
*Oikawa's confessional*
"As much as this is amateur hour, this must be super-amateur hour, because they could easily have gotten that. They're strong players, apparently not strong volleyball players, though!" Oikawa complained, still with a serious grin. "Is Kageyama really the only competition around here?"
*Confessional cut*
Apparently not so, because Samurai Jack came to serve and he used the few seconds that he had to observe what the other players on the blue team...even if Amelia distracted some of them.
Min Min was ready to do some stretchy savings with Squigly looking at her...only, not really observing her friend and that's where he wanted to serve the ball.
It may have been a simple jump serve with striking power, but he had to help his team and sadly, Squigly paid enough attention to pass it along.
The ball got passed around the Swordfishes' court, both of the rookie spikers trying to do something...and then Oikawa set it with his face, since Cassie messed up the thing.
And then Lowain spiked into...
...Penny's face and the ball rolled onto the Deers' ground.
SS 5 - DD 1
"Yeah, let's go! Nice job serving with your face." Cassie remarked, as Oikawa had a pained smile.
"Please don't let me do that again..." Oikawa was a little dizzy.
"Affirmative!"
The Striking Swordfishes were good, as...the deers were daring to get a point, courtesy of Penny looking very tired of this game and Samus looking determined.
"That hurt way less than it should!" Penny shouted. "At least I'm at the back now."
"Good, because we'll turn this around." Samus said, now at the front...ready for the serve.
Amelia just did a simple serve, but being taller did help a bit, as Penny had a weird receive that made it upwards and sideways...but Samurai Jack just caught it.
And there was a few rallies, considering that a good chunk of them weren't sure when to spike and then Oikawa mixed them up with a decent spike that almost went through...as Samurai Jack tossed it weirdly high up.
High enough to even confuse the best of volleyball player and Luigi got a little bit nervous...but he had a crazy high jump and did the spiking motion strong enough to actually hit the edge of the Deers' court.
Luigi wiped a sweat brow, as...
SS 5 - DD 2
...he started to work on turning the tide back, as Samus and Snake did some cool high-fives towards him and Tanjiro...did a really hard high-five, causing Luigi's hand to wince in pain.
Wherever that made their steamrolling worse or not, no-one really knew because the Swordfishes were about to bring their A-game with Cassie doing a simple serve with a stupid amount of power.
As it was literally flying and Tanjiro went for it out of instinct, but it was a bad one...as the ball actually hit the net.
SS 6 - DD 2
"Wait, why did you go for it?" Snake asked Tanjiro.
"Because the ball was coming very quickly and probably could've hurt someone!" Tanjiro just blurted out at light speed...before looking at the sea.
"...Well, see if they're going out." Snake remarked, being the guy that was about to serve.
Snake took up his own position and he had protocol to ensare that win, doing what looked like a underhand serve...that got sent into the sky without missing a beat.
It went a bit too forward, so you could guess what happened.
Min Min hit it with her strechy arms and it bounced right back up onto her team's court, forcing her to lie down.
A chance ball for the Deers? It was on everyone's watch, as Samus caught it without missing a beat.
"Nice moves, Min Min." Samus snarked...which was weird, as the ball was being passed around her own teammates once again. "Give it to me."
"No problem!" Snake remarked, doing a questionable set towards the bounty hunter.
And Samus...got blocked by a smirking Sokka and a confident Lowain, but fortunately the ball went outside of the court during that hit nearly hit one of the interns.
SS 6 - DD 3
"Wait, that's total bull!" Sokka yelled.
"Not really, though. If you block the ball and it goes outside the court, then it's their point." Tails explained, as Sokka slapped his hand. "Why?"
"Because..."
While these two had their short conversation...
...Lowain was up for the serve and decide to copy Snake's serve one-for-one...besides the fact that it went high and forward and got messed up in the process.
Spike may have caught it by flying, but he actually sent the ball downwards into his team's court.
"Sorry, guys, it looked like it was-" Spike complained.
"Well, don't complain, we're just getting started." Samus just patted him on the back. "Just-"
"Look at the ball, got it!" Spike shouted.
SS 7 - DD 3
Luigi was up to serve, his knees sweaty, his arms heavy and he didn't eat his mom's spaghetti...but he threw it up in the air to do the thing and considering his (Mario & Sonic) Olympic game experience, he did said thing.
He served it real high, making a bit of a borderline spike...that got easily caught by Sokka's receive that sent it right back into Luigi's space.
Passing to Samurai Jack, Snake say that the samurai had...a questionable idea of what volleyball was like, as Samurai Jack received it the wrong way.
And it went out.
SS 8 - DD 3
In the red and green court...
"I am sorry, but I did not know where the ball was going to be sent." Samurai Jack told the technical leader.
"It's okay, it's okay, we're fine!" Luigi was a little bit frazzled.
"But next time, I will help." Samurai Jack, which was rather fitting.
Because it was now the samurai guy's time to serve and he did the overhead serve that provided a lot of power, which got the Swordfishes into a bit of a panic.
The samurai knew that this wasn't going to be easy either and it wasn't getting any easier...when Luigi got blown up and started doing backflips in the air.
Cassie threw the ball backward towards someone that was not expecting the ball or getting blown up either, as Luigi just sent it down on the other side...smashing Sokka's head.
SS 8 - DD 4
Luigi landed on the sand, burnt, but he did have the Bros. trademark enduring strength and his team were...happy, but they weren't really sure what to do about it.
"Man, I'm loving this kind of volleyball!" Chris enthusastically shouted.
"Then go and step on those bombs yourself!" Oikawa shouted right back.
"Alright, campers, chill."
There may not have been confessionals during that time, but that was because sand got blown up and some people weren't in the mood to have sandy eyes.
"Yeah, this guy's crazy. Crazy dedicated to his job." Snufkin remarked, as Dawn looked at him sadly.
"I can sense that you know it's wrong." Dawn said.
"Luigi's standing up like nothing, chill a little." Snufkin bumped Dawn's shoulder real casually.
"This is still unacceptable." Dawn remarked. "And it's because of his nature."
"Okay, then." Snufkin shrugged.
At this point, I'm going to have to speed the match a bit due to time constraints and to also do some confessionals.
*Dawn's confessional*
"I can sense that he's a anarchic character, but I was not really expecting him to be okay with our mistreatment...his aura does tell quite the story, though." Dawn answered, as she was just hanging out with her bird friends.
*Confessional cut*
"By the way, you can do anything...as long as it comes from your hands! Come on, guys!" Chris was a little bit bored, considering that it was a nothing special volleyball match at the moment.
SS 12 - DD 6 (at this point)
After more than a few points, some of the team players realised that they could do some "stupid shit" as Tanjiro did his ridiculously strong serve once again and put some of his breathing behind it.
Which turned it into a Water-Breathing volleyball, complete with trails of water and it going straight down on the other-side of the court and Tanjiro kept his breathing in check.
"Wait, I did that?" Tanjiro asked, as his friends crowded up against him.
"Yeah, you sure did!" Spike shouted, as he high-fived Tanjiro quite strongly. "Try and do that again."
"I will do it once more!" Tanjiro said, as Spike looked confused about something. "...or attempt to."
"Try as much as you can!" Spike exclaimed, as the demon slayer was really nervous about the dragon.
SS 12 - DD 7
Tanjiro just kept on his own breathing, ready to defend the ball in spite of Luigi's mediocre serve just barely sending the ball to the other side...and the ball being sent back with whole lot of power.
The guy was trying to step towards where the balls would actually go and the empahsis was on trying, as the bally got slammed just fast enough that Tanjiro had to receieve it.
It bounced rather seriously in thje air...almost high enough to seemingly reach the sky, but it happened to go down...right in the place that people got blown up and in classic fashion, Samurai Jack got blown into the sky.
And he tried to save the ball...but the ball actually went too high to not be slammed onto the ground...as Penny almost caught it...but the ball just bounced right into the net.
SS 13 - DD 7
"Oh no, this ain't my day!" Penny exclaimed, really not in the losing mood. "Besides, what kind of volleyball is this?"
"The crazy kind of volleyball...where there are bombs." Spike nervously stated. "What's with this."
"It's Total Drama, but I wasn't expecting this crazy thing!" Penny exclaimed.
"...Oh."
Oikawa was back on the serve, ready to jump it once again and he really delivered with a powerful one, the ball flying towards the danger spots on the Deers' side, which only Snake tried to intercept.
The super soldier jumped for that jump serve and tried to pass it on in the air, but the ball and the bomb-thing was really not on his side, as Snake got blown up again and the ball hit his body.
SS 14 - DD 7
Snake groaned on the ground, as the bluest team were all celebrating the crazy serve that quite literally sent one of the world's best to the ground...though not at volleyball.
"Do you really think we're going to lose with this many points in hand?" Snake asked. "Not a chance!"
"Hold on, this won't be a gag, right?" Spike asked.
"Not a chance, this is real life, not a show." Snake remarked.
"Oh, just checking, because he's about to do it again." Spike stated.
Oikawa was in fact about to do it again, a little lost in the sauce, but he did put his real strong hand onto the ball and just crushing the spirits of the Deer that was about to try and get it.
Penny tried to receive it with her hands, but it was just her head...and it still went backwards, as she fell backwards...which got the rest of the Deers doing the sympathy pained groan with Penny.
"Are you like a normal human or something?" Penny asked.
"Yes, he is!" Samurai Jack exclaimed.
SS 15 - DD 7
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How down bad was the Deers? Real down bad, as while they had a solid team...when they realised that the servers were aiming for the bomb spots, the Swordfishes' lead just went further.
Here's a bit of montage for word count and pacing reasons.
SS 17 - DD 10
The Deers were finally climbing in the points, getting 3 in a row at this point and they weren't even doing too bad with Samurai Jack doing an impressive jump serve that out-sped even Oikawa's by a good measure and it didn't help that it got blocked...which made it fly high in the air.
Squigly was trying to go for it, but the real player of the moment was Min Min, using her ARMS to stretch them further than anyone has seen before.
And since how powerful the serve was, it ended up as a high chance ball...a ridiculously high one at that, which got Cassie jumping to do a sand-lifting spike, netting the Swordfishes another point.
...
SS 20 - DD 13
Squigly was clearly keeping up with the pace with her teammates, despite her parasite friend Leviathan...doing half of the work with the weak bounces that had the uncanny ability to take the power down several notches.
This was one of those times, as she stopped a spike with the bone pass to Lowain, who then passed it back to Oikawa...as the jock-ish volleyball captain then passed it back to Lowain, who spiked it back into business.
And gaining another point.
...
SS 22 - DD 13
"Guys, time out! I feel like we just got skipped!" Lowain shouted, as the blonde guy just crossed his arms.
"Okay, who cares about whatever you're talking about?" Sokka asked, as the ball just slipped through his hands. "And we've got bigger issues."
"Bruh, that was my fault." Lowain said.
*Min Min's confessional*
The girl with a orange beanie sat down.
"To be honest, this might be my favourite challenge...despite people just blowing up by just running. Mostly because I can really use my arms in weird ways." She said, quite honestly. "Aside from the cooking challenge, because...ramen."
*Amelia's confessional*
The space ship captain didn't really have faith in the other team.
"Wow, if they're going to be like that, then avoiding elimination must be the easy part...despite Chris so willing to make this randomly dangerous for his own enjoyment." Amelia answered.
*Confessional cut*
SS 22 - DD 14
Besides the obvious, things weren't looking up for the Deers...especially Penny and Tanjiro, who despite doing some good stuff, were hurting more than a bit from the random explosions.
Snake was back in the game, though, serving another volleyball and there was a whole bunch of uneven sand.
Rather appropriately, after Snake served them and there was a quite a few passes, the same guy did a one touch by accident and the ball went into...explosions territory.
Long story short: the ball bounced again and went outside of the court.
"Yeah, that's a lot of bull crap." Penny said. "Yeah, I said it."
"I don't know how that's different from all of the challenges." Samus remarked.
"And should it be like that?" Penny complained, as Samus groaned.
"You know the answer."
SS 23 - DD 14
"Alright, the Swordfishes might be able to not arrive at the elimination ceremony, but the Deers could come out of nowhere!" Chris announced. "Probably not, but stranger things have happened."
"Shut the fuck up, we can win this shit!" Riley yelled from the stands with Chris still smiling.
Penny served...as she would, doing a simple one to not get it screwed up for everyone and it went up...with Sokka doing a questionable receive that made it go straight up.
Amelia just slapped it down on the Deers' court, as Tanjiro messed up the block and actually ended up getting blown up (again), causing the ball to go ridiculously high.
Out of bounds, even.
SS 24 - DD 14
"The fuck y'all doing. This is some exploding bullshit!" Riley just added to the sentiment of hating explosions...with B nodding to that.
"This is the definition of 'why is this here?" Uraraka nervously asked.
One more serve and one more point, which meant that Amelia looked ready to make some serious moves...or serious move, all because of the rules that were there.
The serve was diagonal (don't ask how.) and Penny easily got it back up to play with a okay receieve and it was Tanjiro's time to spike...as Snake was also trying to mix them up.
Instead, they mixed each other up, which ended up with Tanjiro getting smashed, Snake doing a poorly timed shot and that stuff barely hitting the net on his team's side.
The Daring Deers were daring to be to angry, as they were a whole bunch of frustrated shouts.
SS 25 (Win) - DD 14 (Lose)
*Tanjiro's confessional*
The brown-haired Demon Slayer looked nervous.
"I can't believe that I did that...now I'm sure that I'm going to be eliminated!" Tanjiro said, really down in the dumps. "And I hope that Luigi doesn't get eliminated either, but he was the captain of this thing."
*Luigi's confessional*
The brother looked happy, in spite of the situation.
"I lost the match...so why I do feel fine? Like, I should be more sad about this...maybe because I tried my best for Daisy?" Luigi asked, actually shedding a tear.
*Confessional cut*
"Wow, these Swordfishes are finally striking...non-elimination, as they're up in the final match and the Deers have to eliminate a pair of campers, which they're used to!"
"No, we ain't." Riley complained from the stairs.
"He is kinda right." Uraraka nervously answered.
"No, he ain't!"
"Oh...ok!"
And the bluest team in the game finally felt relief and someone had to say something about it.
"There's no way that Kageyama could lose." Oikawa remarked.
"And there's no way that Azula could win!" Sokka looked at him, which got Oikawa lost at where he was going. "Because they're not on the same team."
"Yeah, I got that." Oikawa answered with a smirk. "Besides, I need to swap you out."
"No, I'm fine..."
Sokka just fell to the ground.
"...with that. What's with this host?"
"Stay tuned for the Crows and the Rhinos volleybrawling for real!" Chris interrupted the two of them.
To be continued in the third part of this beach volleyball episode, where the Crows and the Rhinos do battle in this explosive volleyball match!
I know that saying that I'm 22...that sounds old to people who are 13, but the reason that I know why I can complete this is because I've got a whole lot of years ahead of me.
Will full-time work slow me down? Maybe, but I imposed this challenge and I've got the lord behind me...so it's possible that I can finish this and have a sequel of sorts.
Or not, I don't know what the future holds for me.
(Something within TD Endless inspired to write this extra thing.)
