Total Drama: Ultimate Islands!
Episode 11: Beach Volleybrawl
Part 4a: Volleysaving
Goddamn, this challenge is taking it out of me and the last match will also take the top two teams and judge to see who's going to take two players and...do strategy with them?
Does it matter that much, we've got Volleyball, we've got Clover and hopefully, a match that doesn't drag on for too long.
Also, the actual Haikyuu references may or may not be coming...and also, this part will be cut up into two for timing reasons.
"Damn it, we're back!" Chris was back at the stands. "And this time, we've got some random guests!"
Chris and Chef were sitting in the very excellently made VIP sections, which just had a roof that was as safe as the rest of the season and of course, there were a few guests.
Well, three were a few and the portal definitely didn't spit them out of nowhere.
First there was an angry 5'11'' guy who had tanned skin, brown spiky hair and was actually wearing an unzipped jumper, a green t-shirt and...just brown denim trousers...and very pissed off.
"Hajime Iwaizumi, guy who is mad and a friend of Oikawa!"
"Do I have to sit next to this guy?!" Iwaizumi shouted.
The light-skinned 6'3'' guy sitting right next to him was Wakatoshi Ushijima, wearing a black t-shirt and some red volleyball shorts and some volleyball shoes and his hair was olive brown.
"Wakatoshi Ushijima, up and coming volleyball dude and also a friend of Tendou."
"I do not dislike you, that's it." Ushijima said, still doing the intimidating look. "Besides this is just torture."
"Your looks don't match your words." Iwaizumi said, scooting away from the very tall player. "Holy shit, is Hinata okay?"
"Not surprising." Ushijima said.
"And lastly, Shoyo Hinata, short kid, orange spiky hair and very...spirited."
Hinata was 5'5'' (Which is still really short.) and had distinctly spiky hair, a white t-shirt, some volleyball shorts and black shoes and he was...mortified at this challenge.
"What is...what is this?! Is Kageyama alive?" Hinata asked.
"They're here to see two whatever teams go against each other to earn the right to steal two teammates! Not one, two."
"Please answer, Chris McLean, sir!" Hinata yelled. "Also, that sounds very, very dumb."
"Okay, we've got the Crows, with the very much alive Kageyama doing...stuff with his changed-up crew and the Swordfishes with this Oikawa guy changing up his teammates too. I'd like to see some explosions!" Chris shouted, which just irked the young VIPs that were in attendance.
"...Wait, that was real." Hinata was knocked out on the ground. "Why?"
*Iwaizumi's confessional*
The brown-haired guy looked...mad as fuck to put it bluntly.
"If he thinks he's going to get away with this shit, he's going to go through me...but first, Oikawa's going to get a piece of my mind."
*Confessional cut*
Well, Oikawa was just doing a number two and in prime piece getting position, as the others were waiting for the star attraction to show up.
"Goddamn, get your butt out here. We're not waiting for the captain." Falco remarked. "And we're winning this one!"
"Look, you need to be more patient." Oikawa said, coming out of the bathroom and throwing the towel backwards. "Kageyama's team got eliminated due to dirty moves."
"Which you're fine with."
"Yeah...whatever he got, we're about to do to the red-haired guy."
"You mean, a close game?" Amelia just came out of nowhere and stopped the guys' conversation. "Do what we did this time!"
The two of them were walking into the court with confidence, fists and burn protection and this time, Nicole, Bayonetta, Arle, Sokka and Reg were joining the two of them with their confident mood.
Leshawna was just there, ready to throw some random sass where it wasn't needed.
"Hello, welcome to the final match of the day! This match determines who gets to take two players from the opposite team and apparently, it's personal today!"
"...What is wrong with you?" Hinata asked before being ignored.
"First up, we've got the continuous losers, the team that can't strike and the team that has saved themselves from elimination...The Striking Swordfishes!"
The seven of them looked ready and they were all pretty mad, mostly because the court looked like it was a bit of a warzone with the obvious holes in there.
"Secondly, we've got a team that's mostly very competitive and partially very self-destructive, yet determined...The Rugged Rhinos!"
Dante, Azula, Clover, Lynn and Tendou were ready for the runback and there were a few different members this time around...as Sol and Pinstripe joined them with some different strokes...and Legoshi just wanted to say some words.
"What the..." Tendou had something to say.
"Wait, that's completely true." Legoshi said.
"Have some faith in highly questionable teammates, we've got this thing!" Tendou remarked. "...Maybe."
"Look, I believe that everyone here can win this. What's with Sol, though?"
"He's been holding back something for someone." Tendou answered, as Legoshi just looked at him incredulously. "Oikawa's got a real talent for pissing people off."
"I doubt it, this jackoff's my teammate and he's got the ability to piss me off. You probably got some beef." Sol remarked, looking real ready in his volleyball uniform.
"...Yeah, you know the feeling! Don't go slacking." Tendou said.
"Wrong answer." Sol...answered.
"Let's play some explosive volleyball!"
And the volleyball was indeed explosive, as Oikawa started with some kind of angry serve that just got flying on ahead and actually hit where it really needed to.
The "hole" (actually just a slight depression) zone, where Sol set the ball back to Azula without missing a beat and Azula was ready to get back with a simple fiery spike that no-one wanted to deal with.
Besides one blue bird with a smirk and good receiving wings and his buddies.
"To be honest, the ball's still on fire." Falco remarked.
Indeed it was and someone ended up messing up the set, Pinstripe treating it like a hot potato and getting the Swordfishes.
RR 0 - SS 1
Pinstripe gave a dirty look towards Azula and decided something important that Sol didn't even care about.
"If you've got a fireball, make sure that it's not touching my hands, lady!" Pinstripe shouted.
"And you should be prepared for it." Azula remarked to Pinstripe, who scoffed. "We do need to win after all."
"Alright, you're the teenager."
While that was happening, Kasumi was ready to use her arts to improve her basic serve...the serve coming off a little bit stronger than it usually would be and having a weird arc.
Pinstripe was trying to get it, as Sol moved in the same direction towards the ball...but the gangster weasel got it up and it went around the entire block...before Tendou tried to make a swing for it.
And then Tendou actually got blocked by a heated Nicole and even got the ball slammed into his torso.
RR 0 - SS 2
*Tendou's confessional*
The guy looked self-satisfied.
"I would say she's hot, but I'm not that kind of person. And the fact that she's really annoying means I'm going to have a fun time crushing her with my blocks!"
*Confessional cut*
Kasumi did one more simple Todoh-styled serve, somehow sending the ball sky high through the manifestation of trying to win and freaking out the Rhinos.
Or rather, Clover just jumped up to get it and tried to hit it high, but only ended up sending it down to Pinstripe, who messed up the dive and lost them the point.
"Fuckin' volleyball, man." Pinstripe said. "This is like a court of bullshit."
"Indeed it ain't." Sol remarked with a smirk.
RR 0 - SS 3
Nicole was very much pissed and her flying serve showed just that, as she practically powered that serve into the sky from some unknown anger, but it was still in the sky.
And since it was in the sky...some of the members were scrambling to even get it, besides one red-haired guy that had his hands up.
Tendou was real calm about it, received it and the ball practically went up...ready for Azula to slam it down all-flamed up and receive the point, confidence included.
RR 1 - SS 3
"Don't get confident, because our strategies are the same...but ours are stronger in any war!" Azula stated, which got the whole Swordfish squad laughing.
It was back to the volleyball madness that Chris was enjoying, but many others weren't excited to see some twisted version of it...and of course, Azula served up a hot one.
Oikawa prepared his hands for the heat that came up and he received it back into the other side, turning it into the hottest chance ball ever.
"My my, that's a hot chance ball!" Oikawa exclaimed, before seeing Pinstripe doing a receive...that went backwards. "Wow, don't get confident, huh?"
Lynn received it, almost doing a set of sorts towards Tendou, the guy that was ready to do some moves, by faking out a spike and...Azula doing a fiery spike.
Unfortunately, she got blocked by Nicole's fiery hands. (and Amelia was there.)
RR 1 - SS 4
"Hold on, young lady, where are your parents?" Nicole asked sincerely.
"Dead and lost...so where is yours, then?" Azula fired right back without missing a beat.
Nicole seethed...as Azula looked back towards her teammates, who weren't pleased with the circumstances and determined to say some words.
"We'll get our butts into it!" Pinstripe shouted with the rest of the team shouting "Yeah!" to add to the camaraderie.
This time, though, Bayonetta did a jump serve and she had to use Witch Time to further attune the serve's power, hitting right in front of Azula with impressive speed and bouncing right out of the court.
The witch just did a cheeky wink toward Dante for that move, as Azula and Dante were looking at her incredulously.
RR 1 - SS 5
The whistle blew, as the whole squad cheered for Bayonetta's witchy serve and Sokka just tried to rub her hair, but ended up rubbing her back.
"I'm sorry for that!" Sokka jumped back, as Oikawa looked pissed.
"You're acting like that I'm not just getting started." Bayonetta confidently stated, as Oikawa looked at her with confusion. "Besides, the captain's trying to get a good look."
"Yeah."
"I'm trying to understand what your deal is, no biggie." Oikawa answered.
There was a bit of silence, as everyone got back to their positions and Oikawa was just there.
"Do it again, then."
The Umbran Witch prepared herself to mix it up with a simple underhand serve that made the ball go high into the sky, still with the cheeky smile.
Five of the seven Rhinos were just trying to figure out where the ball was going to go, while Dante and Sol had their hands to the sky, ready to get it and get it they did.
Right before it fell off their hands and no-one caught it.
RR 1 - SS 6
At this point, some of the Rhinos' backbenchers were mad at the lack of points that their fellow players were getting.
"What the hell, get some points!" Muscle Man shouted.
"I'm trying, these guys are actually built different. One of them has wings!" Tendou complained to Muscle Man, who scoffed.
"These things are beatable, man, you just gotta...do something." Muscle Man said.
"Yeah, I'll consider that." Tendou smirked, ready to receive some crazy serve.
And Sokka got distracted to do a good serve, quite literally smashing into the back of Amelia's head and bounced onto the floor, which got...some of the team laughing at him.
*Amelia's confessional*
"I don't think that I'm anything other than bad at volleyball, but getting worse? Sokka, you really confuse me for such a war hero." Amelia answered honestly, not pleased.
*Confessional cut*
RR 2 - SS 6
Despite that, the Swordfishes were back on their weird tactic and even weirder personality clashes as they were racking quite a few more points, especially since the guys that were hanging out in a depression.
Even if Sokka's serves blew chunks by accident, these guys were working their teamwork like it wasn't a big deal.
And also...Reg's arms practically cheated the Swordfishes out of trying to reach the balls and the cyborg kid saved their butts several times and at this point...
RR 5 - SS 12
...Dante was ready to turn it all around with his own hands, doing a jump serve that looked sloppy and powerful and it was going real straight, real serious.
Someone actually received it and it bounced right off them, the cat mom ducking from Dante's real powerful serve.
"That is one spicy serve!" Nicole shouted in surprise.
"And familiar, too." Oikawa spat out.
RR 6 - SS 12
Back at it again, the demon hunter had a pretty big grin on his face as he threw the ball up, jumped and hit it real hard and almost did a spike with a stupid fast ball.
Stupid fast, as in when it landed, it caused a whole lot of sand that went into Falco and Oikawa's faces and the ball was still flying out of there.
"I'm sorry, how are we supposed to deal with this?" Falco asked.
"Heh, you guys figure it out. Especially you, Bayo!" Dante shouted, as his crews were actually hugging him.
RR 7 - SS 12
Whatever was happening with Dante's serves, didn't really disappear with Pinstripe's go at the ball, but the mobster was ready to turn it up a notch with a basic serve.
He just served up into the air like Bayonetta, except it was way lower and surprisingly, it did have the same effect like hers.
Falco tried to serve it, but because he has wings, he ended up as a backward set and hit Nicole's angry face and the ball hit the sand again.
RR 8 - SS 12
*Falco's confessional*
The blue bird had some bruises.
"You have got to be kidding me! I meant to move it back to the setter man over there!" Falco complained, his wings covering his face.
*Confessional cut*
While Pinstripe was soaking in the celebration of his still terrible serve, there were some other talks going on the Swordfish side, some of which between the backbenchers and the main guys.
Falco looked a little worse from wear and Nicole looked the same mentally.
"Guys, they're gaining on us." Tails asked. "Mostly because these guys are getting used to it."
"To be honest, we're not, they're just getting better." Oikawa remarked, almost ignoring the fox. "Alrighty, guys, we need to smash through their gimmicks with...gimmicks."
"Gimmicks that specifically counter stuff like Tendou's guess blocks, Dante's power serve, Azula's fire ball and whatever else these guys have." Tails told him.
"We've got that! Just because you're the smartest of us all...doesn't mean that you know everything about everything!" Oikawa shouted, honestly mad. "Besides we're the best team of six we can get right now."
"...Oh, I thought you didn't have it." Tails looked a little meek. "Seems like you guys are in the right hands."
"Heck yeah, we are!" Oikawa's anger spilled over. "We're gonna strike like swordfishes do!"
"...They don't-"
Tails got shouted over by the whole team, despite the fact that they were in the lead and the team were really feeling themselves once again and the fox just saw something that was straight out of a comedy.
Pinstripe served again, but it ended up being way worse than the previous time, even hitting the very top of the net and losing all of its momentum.
Even then...it still fell on the other side and even hit the sand and the team was real not excited for the next point, but Oikawa's team of six were more than determined to lead the way.
RR 9 - SS 12
Falco was really getting into his groove, even adding a real cocky smirk to his face...as Sol did the same kind of serve and it got completely stopped by his real strong wings.
Like it fell down on the other side of the court, quite slowly.
RR 9 - SS 13
"I'm fine, fellas." Falco remarked. "Sorry that my wings...caught fire."
Sol got read real good and Tendou looked shocked as heck.
"Seriously, you guys are awesome to play volleyball with." Tendou proclaimed. "And I'm gonna block your butt."
"Then try me."
The two of them were giving each other the dirtiest of looks and looked really funny to some people, but they were real serious about getting into the groove.
For the next few bunches of points (and for this chapter's tardiness and word count), it was a real back and forth with some weak-ish serves that came from Sokka and Clover for a few points, but it was still a pretty close game.
Sol's spikes were meaty, only being able to fly off the hands that received it and sometimes, it blew the opponent back as well...always ready to give a point.
When it wasn't being blocked by Falco's oddly reliable wings, as the bird had the jump and the potential to just spike way above Oikawa's range (which he did really do quite a few times.) and terrible receives. (It slipped through his wings once.)
Tendou was blocking like it was nobody's business, somehow reading the weaker spikes like it was nothing and Reg doing some legal moves with his stretchy hands to ensure that the blocks didn't count.
It counted of course, especially it got pushed off into the court.
Somehow, the Swordfishes managed to get back the lead, as everyone on the court managed to keep themselves in check...as even Sokka kept the ball up with his awkward hands (mostly because of Reg trying to do something and actually working.)
Lynn was also on point with Azula absolutely trying, despite her team not being that and they both were real mad.
*Lynn's confessional*
"What the heck happened to Clover, I know that she's good with doing stuff, but it's like she got real distracted with something important." Lynn said. "I'm going to have to do something."
*Confessional cut*
RR 13 - SS 22
Lynn and Azula were apparently of the same mind, as they both did the same crossed hands sign to stop the Swordfishes' momentum and they had one decision to make.
Mostly about the red-haired guy that was clutching his stomach.
"Tendou, you have been a useful ally in this challenge of volleyballs, but we need someone who can replace you in a useful way." Azula said. "We cannot lose to Sokka and his team of fools because of the old man's ally."
"Shut up, Azula, you weren't the one that got so many points this round and also, the old man's...definitely here." Dante snapped right back.
Well, what happened?
He got a one touch and Dante wanted to do something cool, so he tried to do a fast pass and while that was happening, Tendou was still in the air and he...got the hit and also lost a point.
It literally happened in less than half a second, so...things got awkward between Dante and Azula, the two of them arguing and Tendou just standing there in pain.
"What the hell, how I am even standing?" Tendou asked...as Rock was looking at him.
Clover was looking back at Rock for seemingly no reason.
"Ohhh, I see what's going on. Have at it, man!" Tendou remarked, as Pinstripe clicked his fingers towards Rock. "We've gotta suggest Rock, he's ready to back up his girl."
"Really, man?" Rock asked. "I just wanna help out one of the bros like..." He mimicked a bass strum. "...we're down here, so we've gotta go up."
"Good call."
Tendou and Pinstripe both raised their eyebrows, as Clover just chuckled at the interaction, as Azula didn't look too surprised at the result and Dante was quite angry.
Dante and Azula were both confused, as Tendou and Rock did a swapping high-five.
"Why does it have to be you?" Azula asked, while seeing the whole team cheer for Rock. "You're not even close to being the best of the benched people."
"Because we need to do something and those guys think we're womp womp, but we're way above that...you know-" Rock confidently stated, trying to
"Ding ding, just...try to not look like a failure." Azula said, almost mockingly.
"I won't!" Rock exclaimed.
The team was a little bit different and they were about to try to restart their own momentum with Rock in the defender's seat and Sol in the blocker's seat.
The seven may have been different, but Oikawa was ready to pull out...the same old serve that wasn't that powerful and the serve just flew once again.
But because of...the swap, Rock tried to get the ball back up and it didn't go back up.
RR 13 - SS 23
"I swear the serve feels different up, close and personal!" Rock shouted.
"Don't get your pants in a bunch, I've seen more impossible stuff before!" Pinstripe slapped the back of the rocker.
"Okay..."
And of course, the chances only got slightly better, as Sokka served and it was time for the fast pass, Rock doing a real weird set...to Pinstripe who put it back up.
Sol knew what he had to do it, even smirking for it.
He did an impressive spike, out-speeding every other ball on the field and the sand got dug up.
RR 14 - SS 23
Sol raised the fist, as his team cheered for his spike and Rock just high-fived him.
"Whoa, how did you do that?" Rock asked.
"I just did that, nothing more." Sol said.
"Cool, you're a action guy." Rock told the bounty hunting fighter, who was not impressed with his words. "Right!"
And because of that, a certain witch was looking at a certain half-demon guy as he went up to serve and she anticipated when she had to use...the move.
Dante finally did the misleading jump serve, complete with the power-filled push and though it may have looked like Bayonetta went at speed, she was using Witch Time.
No-one could tell what happened, but everyone could see that the ball still beat the block and went right through the Umbra Witch.
RR 15 - SS 23
"Huh, I saw what you did! Nice slowdown you've got there!" Dante remarked to a rather smug Bayonetta. "So, we're going to take ten more points from you."
"Don't be certain, it makes you look rather dumb." Bayonetta remarked right back.
The tension between the two of them could be felt...from the edge of the court.
"Oooh, looks like this match could be far from over!"
*Lynn's confessional*
The brown-haired girl was rubbing her head with a towel.
"The only chance we've got is to do a lot of cool things!" Lynn exclaimed. "Which is hard, but this team has winner mentality. Nothing could take us down now!"
*Confessional cut*
The Swordfishes must have been listening in, as there was someone up to serve that was about to blow that away.
Falco was smirking, as he was spinning the volleyball like a basketball and he was prepared to do some crazy stuff with his floaty serve, which had quite a bit of power on it.
And a weird amount of spin.
"Wait, what the hell is the ball doing?" Sol asked, trying to catch the ball that fell straight down...past the net.
Everyone was trying to get it and...they couldn't get it.
"Oh man, will the Swordfishes take two players from the Rhinos...or could the impossible happen? Because those guys have the challenge point for real!"
Chris may not have been as enthusiastic as he usually was, but Falco wasn't about to go out without a bang and there was certain a bang coming up.
Falco did the jump serve and at first, it looked to be a bad one...
...
...except...
...
...it hit the very top of the net, robbing the ball of all of the momentum and causing the ball to land right in Azula's fiery hands, because she wasn't about to lose two people.
But she was.
Thanks to Nicole, smashing down the ball and she just put one knee on the ground...
...for the match point, as no-one could get it.
"Finally after...not that long, the Swordfishes finally win this challenge and they get the chance to take two from the Rhinos! But first, who do our esteemed guests have to say about it?"
"Oh, screw you! The annoying guy nearly died!" Hinata stomped out of the VIP area and even missing the ladder.
"...That was incredibly terrible." Ushijima said, calmly walking out of there.
The host with the most paused for a moment.
"Okay, Deers and Crows, choose which two has to leave this super-season! Rhinos, you guys can't object to what the Swordfishes do...so there's nothing you can about it!"
Everyone was just leaving the location, some of them more calmly than others and Chris had some words that were coming in through his thing.
"...Wait, the episode is how long now?!"
The guy talked some more.
"Damn it!"
The intercom was off.
"Okay, we'll be back after the break!" Chris said. "Which we definitely planned!"
To be continued in the 12th episode, which isn't the 13th challenge...because it's the twelveth challenge and there's eight baskets, two for each team and all of them are hidden behind some...strange tasks.
But first, there's a fifth part (4b in reality) with the team swap, eliminations and what not and I'm sorry to cut this part short...but it is very much not short with Rock, Clover and the what not stuff!
And a new alliance to boot (?)
And definitely coming in the next episode, more than likely being started as soon as I do a secret extra chapter of this!
Azula and Coachman will force their practically opposing strategies to clash in getting baskets.
Tails and Reg are going to try and deal with a questionable fellow and the Deers get to have an alliance of their own, which doesn't necessarily bold well for them.
And Pit, Miko, Samus and Snake get to go along with their own technically seperate adventure along with the potential new couple on the block!
And finally...some people will be eliminated (Surprising, I know.)
