Total Drama: Ultimate Islands!
Episode 15: Minigame Monday
Part 1: But It's Not Monday!
After all of that, some of the campers have really felt the effect of the battle, some are really feeling the effect of the votes being weird and some are just there.
But would a round of Mario Party minigames ease the tension and not put on stress? Maybe not, but sure does give Chris a whole lot of entertaining moments to share and many chances to do some dumb shit. (to be crass)
Including the eliminations!
Anyways, we've gotta do things to do thing, so I write down thing, so you guys can enjoy thing and give me feedback on thing.
1602jaw, I'm glad that you approved of my crossover and I didn't really have a plan for it, but I think it'd fit the tone of an smaller Cruise chapter.
Memeking, like your review of the previous two chapters and I appreciate that you'll like this entire episodes
There will be Super Crown content, you...might be warned.
"Last time on Total Drama..."
Chris took a breath to make things way more dramatic, considering that the episode that came before it.
"...dramatic battles were had, cursed artifacts were disrespected and he had a lot of guest guys ready to make the campers do some humiliating challenges! But four better challenge givers came in to bring the fight to our team, somehow leading to some wild things...like the Deers winning again!"
The whole team celebrating, including Luigi still on fire and Aisling trying to stop it with leaves, was there in the intro montage.
"And because of that, there were some not so surprising votes. Carmelita from the Rhinos, Sandy from the Deers and Arle from the Swordfishes are goners!"
The three contestants' contrasting moods were as they were walking on the Dock of Shame.
"These 79 contestants are going to have a party! With games, crazy celebrations and of course, hosts that aren't as awesome as me! And a lot more people are forced out of the game...find out what the party is all about in..."
Of course...the camera zoomed out.
"...Total Drama: Ultimate Islands!"
14 challenges.
4 teams.
And so far, it was not the greatest of times.
Actually, it was a bit more like the worst of times with the introduction of the gatecrashers and the generally stupid strategies that have defined the season so far.
It was not going to stop here, though, despite Azula's group just generally being content to stay back and try to win some challenges and win the Rhinos did not.
"Alright, what are we talkin' about?" Harley asked.
"Isn't it obvious? Trying to ensure that the old man doesn't go senile and accidentally sabotage the team for personal reasons and...keeping all of us in the competition." Azula explained to the ladies that they were sitting in one simple area.
Which was still on the roof for reasons that would beggar belief.
"Okay, so what do we do about that?" Harley asked. "Kicking his ass would also count as sabotaging our butts."
"...Who said we'd have to kick him. All we need to is ensure that he's not going to do something stupid, find someone to eliminate and hope that all of us beat the challenge." Tron Bonne explained. "And volleyball guy's the easiest target."
"Definitely...all because of the blackmail I have on him." Azula stated. "And if he knows well, we'll blinside him with the firepower of a Fire Nation war ship...completely decimating his chances wherever he survives this elimination or not."
"...Brutal. That's a good plan, though, and I'll just be here kicking ass." Harley just held her bat like it was the only reason she's not dead. "So, where's Yumeko?"
"Gambling and trying to get into other people's minds." Azula answered...as the gambling girl just trying to climb up the hill. "As some important people would."
"Really...are you sure she's not just crazy?" Tron Bonne remarked, as Squirrel Girl was hearing some important words through her squirrels. "Her family's insanely rich! Her gambling skills were apparently second to a few and she loves risking it all."
"And does it not take a bit of genius to do all of that while being relatively sane?" Yumeko added, finally up on the roof. "Gambling is a game of minds, wealth and deception after all."
"Yes, Yumeko! Why are you late...and please don't tell me you gambled with the old man." Azula said, as Squirrel Girl was writing a whole bunch of stuff down.
"Why not?"
"...Reasons that have to do with everybody's sanity."
"Come on, I only bet on the crown and an immunity idol."
The other four members actually paid attention to the black-haired gambling addict, as Azula deeply sighed.
"Nice one, I would not like to get down from there."
*Squirrel Girl's confessional*
The ginger-haired girl
"I haven't done anything much...in ten challenges, oh my god! Usually at this point, I would've beaten a god with my squirrel sense, Tippie Toes, Monkey Joes and the rest of them squirrels." Squirrel Girl remarked. "Right now, I'm just hearing people talk shit to each other...but I also want to help in the challenge. Not a big deal!"
*Confessional cut*
Hank Hill...was not pleased and neither was the guys that were situated in the middle of the arts and crafts cabin, which included the guys' alliance, Satori Tendou, Yumeko and Rock.
The hut was a place for activity of the slightly cursed kind, mostly due to the...aforementioned crown at the top of the first paragraph.
"I just wanted to sell some propane on this show." Hank answered. "I don't know what this is."
"That's what I'm asking! Why are you selling old man stuff on this TV?" Tendou asked.
"Because I'm here to support my family and there's some evil son of a bitch on our team."
"Makes sense...but you can also sell volleyballs."
"No thanks, I don't really sell volleyballs in here and I don't appreciate the insult." Hank stated. "I'm just too busy with trying to make a working BBQ, though."
Tendou may have sounded interesting, but there was one thing that the rest of the Rhinos' arts and crafters that obviously were still stuck on and it was mostly down to Yumeko's...gamble.
"I don't care that you're losing...you smiled during it." Yumeko said. "Take some time off being angry and you might come up with good strategies."
"Of course, you would think that this madness is fun." Coach(wo)man remarked. "Why would bet like this?"
"The fun part is both the stakes and the strategies that come along the stakes." Yumeko explained, a bit annoyed. "Which I did not need to say twice."
And the donkey trader scoffed at the remark, as Yumeko was still excited to see what would happen.
"What is wrong with you, woman?" The donkey trader herself yelled. "Personally speaking, you have the skills and the money to do literally anything else...you stupid girl."
"Well if that is so, then why can't you beat me with your cheats?"
"OOOHHHH, she got ya there!" Rock butted in loudly, trying to do a romantic rock song.
Yumeko and Coach(wo)man were strictly in shit-talking range, as the other contestants were glancing at their temporary battle and the ones that were allied with the malicious donkey trader were caring about this...sort of.
Besides Rock, who just saw Yumeko got fully snatched by Coach(wo)man and somehow directly ending up...in the asset area, which didn't work out at all.
"Uh, can you two stop? This has gotten weird." Rock remarked.
"Yeah, can't believe that the gamble you started has consequences..." Bayonetta was there.
And actually broke up the two ladies that were about to have a squabble.
"...honestly, I don't know why you did that. More importantly, Dante, I don't know you're in the worst alliance of all time." Bayonetta remarked. "Either that or you're not even close to my level."
"Laugh all you want, when we're up against her, I guarantee you're not going to be talking shit all together." Dante said, as Pinstripe just stood up. "You've got a friend?"
"Unlike you, I have quite a few that would send you on a one way ticket to the docks!" Bayonetta's smirk showed it, as Leshawna looked confidently at the deadly duo. "Strategy-wise even."
"Strategy's the only thing you might have it up on me and that ain't saying much. I've got a bajillion and one reasons to take the win."
"Yeah, that's quite sad-"
At this point, Yumeko was just cheering on the white-haired demon hunter while The Coach(wo)man was oddly bemused by...the lack of his (her?) name being mentioned.
"Wow, these two have it for each other. I'd honestly like for them to gamb-" Yumeko quite literally rooted for Dante, before quite literally getting slapped in the face.
"You stupid woman, you did notice Dante didn't bring up me once." Coach(wo)man stated, (quite) literally glaring at...the tall witch.
"No. I'm betting on Dante or Bayonetta leaving the island, nothing that serious."
"...Forget it."
The old woman put herself up out of here, as Dante and Bayonetta were in shit-talking neutral, throwing their best insults while the people that were on their team's side were just shouting about stuff.
Besides Hank, who just raised his thumb up awkwardly for his demon teammate...being a regular man with the Lord's faith and all that.
"Whatever the next challenge is, I'll make sure to give you the Devil May Cry treatment of paying you extra!" Dante shouted with the angriest grin.
"Please, the only payment that I need to give you is showing how a Umbran Witch does things and of course, it's going to cost you the competition!" Bayonetta remarked.
"Wanna bet?" Yumeko butted in for no reason.
Everyone prepared for a simulteanous shout, considering that the demon hunte and the witch somehow pissed each other off at breakneck speed and-
"Heck yeah. Whoever loses has to drink...something hot, I don't know." Dante asked, as Bayonetta started to shake his hand.
"Habanero sauce, that I can do."
And there was a lot of cheers in the place, as the wildness of the situation caught up to everybody in the general area, as Yumeko was just plain excited that there was even betting.
*Leshawna's confessional*
The black-skinned all-star looked more than ready to back a teammate up.
"All I'm doing is support her ass as a team player. Don't really like her that much, but I'm not playing around and neither is she...that I can respect!"
*Pinstripe's confessional*
The potoroo looked excited.
"You know what, I'm betting real money on the fact that the habanero sauce is going to make Dante sweat a bit. I don't know, but what I do know that is my boy's going ahead!" Pinstripe shouted. "...What's up with him and the old man, though?"
*Yumeko's confessional*
She sat with intent.
"If you're wondering why he's...like that, it's mostly because I bet on the Super Crown which would somewhat embarass anyone involved. To be fair, it's not like I have not worn it before"
*Confessional cut*
While the two alliances were fighting, Tanjiro, Samurai Jack, Snake and Samus were getting stronger for the sake of potential villains coming back from the dead.
Just because one woman wanted it to be so and her friends were in the mood to make a comeback, so two of them...along with Piccolo, Yuri and Uraraka were training their best on the wooden platform.
Snake and Samus...were actually trying to get their minds off the previous challenge's battle.
"No way, so you've got a stalker of your own. That would be incredible, if it weren't so tragic." Samus remarked. "Ridley just does...so many crimes and he always feels the need to do them."
"No matter if they make sense or not, Samus, there's some people...or birds in your case that won't change even if the world goes against them." Snake replied with gritted teeth.
"At the very least, I can just kill him and that might be the end of it for about a year or two, which is a long time in space." Samus just took a breath in. "Meanwhile, your most consistent enemy's your brother."
"...Yeah, imagine that." Snake got a chuckle. "The family reunion's going to be ugly."
"Wish I had one, but you've always got a plus one when you need it." Samus said. "Because-"
"-If they're all in one area, the fireworks are bound to get someone's attention."
"And I can help you and whatever crew you've got deal with that."
The two spies were actually smiling again, as Piccolo just flew right down to the ground and grumbled in their faces.
"Don't worry about us, we're having a casual chat." Samus immediately answering, knowing that Piccolo was going to throw something out.
"Good. That kid with the brown-ish hair really needs to find a way to relax, lest he gets kicked in the ass by some villain with Ki." Piccolo told the two of them, who were up. "I just...see something in him that I don't like."
The two super-soldiers just got to stepping in.
"So all we need to help this guy win the mission, right?" Samus asked.
"The mission is to clear his head!"
"Got it."
Piccolo just sighed, knowing that the couple wasn't going to put any good advice his own way and Yuri and Uraraka were still working and sweating their pits off, as they high-fived each other.
"You know what, I bet that Chris is going easy on us!"
"Yeah, Piccolo, there's definitely no challenge today!" Yuri just had to tempt fate.
And fate had an answer.
"Campers, come meet me on the boat! We're going to a familiar island, one that has not sunk yet!" Chris announced. "It's going to be a party over there!"
The host just chuckled for a moment.
"For the record, the island's passed all safety checks and that good stuff and yes...some of you may know it."
The host just made whatever lack of excitement the campers had for the challenge just turned into a bit of disgust...considering the only real answer thjat was there.
Everybody was on the boat and immediately, Chris and Chef were smiling at their widest, which meant there would be only one reason for the sudden amusement.
"No, no, no, not that island. I swear it almost self-destructed." Sammy quivered, the tenth episode of Pahkitew in her mind.
"A self-destructing island? Total Drama, where you have been all my life."
Tifa kept trying to take swings at Deadpool while he said that.
"Not here, that's for sure!"
"It blew up...because it was not funny."
The boat was practically a small liner that could hold 128 people, but the host may not have cared for the seventy-eight contestants that were either prepared for whatever challenge come out of Chris' insane mind, just not caring about the hosts' words or writing their wills, as Tanya was doing on the boat
"Seriously, maybe this guy was just putting a few jokes in...for our sakes?" Tiana said with quite a lot of worry.
"I do not believe him for a second." Dawn remarked.
"What kind of island has...whatever he said?"
"This island did have it...luckily it was removed."
"...Sure."
Though all of the contestants did notice that the island actually looked quite a bit different, since it actually had been years since Pahkitew Island aired, mostly that it was a lot bigger than anyone really anticipated.
Like nearly twice the size, counting the reclaimed land that was definitely legally added and totally not impossible to clear, even if it was illegal and...the weather extremes were noticeable at the top of the island.
"Welcome back to Pahkitew Island. It has been a long time coming from...the incident and let's just say it's way better than ever!" Chris announced. "We got snow, we got lava, we even have a desert! And right now, you campers aren't staying here yet."
"That's good, because that sounds...terrible." Sammy hesitated, not super excited.
"And you know that it does not get much better." Dante remarked with a smirk.
Sammy just slowly shuffled away from the demon hunter...for obvious reasons.
"Anyways, remember when I said that we're having a party! It's not that kind of party, but it is a party where the competition's wild enough to be a massive challenge!" Chris announced. "Or rather, many minigames tied to one super challenge!"
The contestants were actually excited because it was more likely than not that Chris didn't make any sadistic changes to the minigame madness.
"That's right, we kinda have a Mario Party. Me and the guest hosts wanted to make a board, but it's currently not working right now-" Chris explained, right before a familiar mushroom-headed lady piped to say something important.
"Hold on, this is going to your-" Toadette yelled, as a blue spot was practically soaking up the unpaid taxes that Chris hjad.
"That's right, it's broken due to reasons! But the board's still only one half of the thing and this challenge is the other half of Mario Party! You campers are going to play some Mario Party minigames and there might even be a few Total Drama minigames!"
The contestants were suddenly quite a bit less excited...besides Yumeko, who knew about the gambling minigames and a sleep deprived Tiny Tina, but there was still a bunch of cheers.
"Yeah, exacta-mundo! And this time, avoiding today's eliminations will be much harder...in ways that I will not explain!" Chris announced, basking in the groans and jeers. "Yeah, enjoy the games!"
"The board works, Chris. It's just that it wouldn't make sense with this many people!" Toadette explained, very nervous to even do that. "Sorry, Chris!"
"Okay, dude, I got that already!" Chris replied tersely. "Campers, you guys should follow these signs towards the...area. I've got better things to do!"
While the campers were confusedly walking along the signed path, Toad was burning up a space on the ground with a grin, as Toadette realised that Chef Hatchet did not have it easy.
Mostly because Chef was also trying to handle removing the spaces and carrying essentially a piece of concrete that spilled out money, which made up for his...money issues.
*Chef's confessional*
He finally smiled genuinely.
"What did I do to deserve this? Probably a lot of things, but at least pretty boy ain't going to catch the cash!"
*Confessional cut*
As for Yumeko and the crew that was with her, she was about to get an unwelcome surprise in the form of an old friend and part-enemy, part-girl that she never wanted to see again.
They were also seventeen and were wearing the Hyakkakou Academy uniform...which was just a red-blazer and
The first one was blonde, lost and clearly trying to pull the other one away from the danger zone of everywhere still.
The second one had black hair, a crazy yellow eye, an eyepatch on her right side and clearly...was lost and but couldn't care less about being on Pahkitew.
"Goddamn it, Midari! I can't believe you just hopped through a hole in the wall and we're on some weird island!" The blonde teen shouted. "Besides...Yumeko."
"Shit, Mary, that's a problem." Midari said, smiling like an idiot. "But this place is filled with deathtraps that would do some damage to me. Put that to a gamble and-"
And just like that Mary was neck deep in a hug and Midari got pushed away like it was nothing, as Yumeko was genuinely surprised to see a friend here.
"Holy shit, Yumeko...you've teamed up with some weirdos on a reality show!" Mary shouted upon seeing Yumeko's...strategic allies. "...Should I-"
"Oh, Mary, it was actually a really fun time! I got to gamble so many people, I went through only the craziest challenge and I can't really say anything on my new friends, but they are simply the best!" Yumeko enthusiastically shouted.
"Yeah, I'm glad you're having a good time. But how do I get out of here?" Mary asked.
"I literally do not know. Some other people from other worlds just came up yesterday and then they went, Mary." Yumeko stated nonchalantly. "Can't believe I forgot to ask them to gamble!"
Yumeko's crew, at this point, were clearly not ready to open more cans of worms.
"...Well, you're not helpful. Midari, stop staring at Yumeko." Mary remarked.
"Well, why not?" Midari asked, standing right into the gaze of the glare. "I've got a billion damn questions to ask, but that look is really enough for me!"
"So, I'm just lost with you...and you desperately want to gamble with someone in...here." Mary realised something. "See ya, Yumeko!"
"Buh-bye! I've got to do a challenge with my friends, Marty!"
As their "friend" just went off towards the challenge, the completely mismatched duo were just...trying to get themselves out of here and figure why would Yumeko do this.
Actually, they already figured it out.
"Damn, she went on a reality show...because of a gamble." Mary was completely exasperated.
"You know what, she's got guts. Imagine being her insane tenacious self within this weird-ass place where all kinds of crazy come together!" Midari shouted, releasing more than her pent-up feelings. "...I wouldn't last a day in here."
"...Yeah, sure."
And that was the end of this weirdly abrupt cameo of people being stuck in this weird world of a overly big reality show that's a clashing combination of contestants from the other worlds.
Speaking of Yumeko and Azula's crew...there was one thing that everyone wanted to talk about, despite the former trying to desperately not do that.
"Nice, you were friends with a eyepatch girl!" Harley shouted. "Tell me what that's like!"
"That's a massive stretch." Yumeko began, not in a talking mood. "We gambled twice. She sabotages the gamble. And as you know..."
"...you really like gambling?" Harley asked.
"...She is a masochist for gambling and I am not. I don't really know her, but I do not want to be with her."
Harley was...not shocked, weirdly enough.
"It's weird, actually. I both know a lot, yet I barely know anything about you." Azula remarked, desperately trying to catch up to the rest. "But I do know enough about you, Yumeko, that you'd easily run circles around us."
"Oh yeah, probably." Yumeko cheerily remarked. "If it was a gamble, I would be able to help you guys reach the final challenges and then dip out of the competition...if only because I would have a lot of enemies!"
"But why? You have more than enough money to easily buy all of us our dreams and then some!" Azula said.
"Because it's fun, it's what friends do and it'd make for an exciting competition!" Yumeko shouted, still smiling proudly. "What kind of show would it be, if it was boring."
"...You may be speaking nonsense, but I will back up your statement." Azula said.
The crew were ready to back up their team and unknowingly, they were going to do it for the last time, lest their butts were up on the mysterious elimination block.
Every one of the 78 remaining contestants were just standing in front of another massive hut that had no seats and...weird ass ring lights that were right above the seat-less tables...and they looked like boom mics to boot.
And more importantly, the weirdly deadly duo of Toad and Toadette, who was sure of how they were going to handle this challenge and they were in the well-lit, yet atmospherically wild massive room that was a weird alternative to McLean Island's mess hall.
And the lights looked like they could be for something else.
"Good morning, you guys, are you all excited for MINIGAME MONDAY?!" Toad yelled.
"But it's not-" Tails tried to correct him.
"MINIGAME MONDAY!"
Regardless, a lot of the contestants were cheering for the diminuitive host and his weird, weird challenge that may or may not have been tainted by the influence of the host with the most.
"Good, because I've got a lot of minigames and one simple rule for you guys to follow! Depending on how you place in the minigames, you teams gets a bunch of points...which you need to avoid eliminations!"
Toad may have done half of the yelling, but he coughed, which was Toadette's opportunity to finish up the challenge.
"1st place gets 6 points, second place gets 4 points, third gets 2 and last place only gets 1. That's the simple rule that's over this whole challenge and plus...you have to follow the minigames' rules, which shouldn't be hard." Toadette just took a breath, as Toad was very much angry. "There's going to be at least six contestants going home...so it's wild up in here-"
"-And super cool, because it's a party!" Toad just interrupted his co-host with a over-confident look.
Most of the contestants were sure of the simple rules and the ones that didn't get it had it explained by their friends, as Reg had a look of realisation from Tails' and Lowain's explaination.
"Oh, that makes a lot of sense." Reg said. "I just thought that the mushroom man's voice was...weird."
"Nah, man, it is real annoying, dude." Lowain stated.
"...Wow, that's mean."
"Brah, I just haven't got used to it." Lowain stated...
...right before the two-tailed fox stepped in front of him.
"Hey! You just have to get used to it and plus...he's a cool guy...I think!" Tails tried to defend Toad badly.
The robot child...had no idea what to do with this information, but he just decided to shrug it off for not knowing the guy.
With that being said, all of the contestants didn't really have a clue about what was going on how they would actually get to the minigames and why this place looked like a dystopian version of Total Drama's classic mess hall.
But there was one thing for sure...Deadpool was anticipating the Mario Party Madness that was coming on a Tuesday and so was a bunch of people on his team.
"Oh yeah, this is going to be awesome!" Deadpool yelled.
"Yeah, the friendship-destroying part's kinda gone...which is pretty cool." Pit said.
The two guys had a high-five as there was a sighing Kyo.
"What, this is kinda stupid?"
"And what if it is? It's the best kind of stupid."
Kyo just scoffed at the very goofy duo, as he knew that there was no way that the McLean spin on this challenge wouldn't involved a lawsuit generating twist...and because he had plans.
*Kyo's confessional*
"So, previously I was going to kick Iori's ass...somehow and now I'm kicking his ass in some Mario Party real life shenanigans!"
Kyo had a very smug grin at this point.
"Oh yeah, it's all coming together!"
*Confessional cut*
Little did he know, Iori was also thinking up some plans on how to beat rivals' butts.
*Iori's confessional*
"Fuck Kyo. That's the plan really...and also fuck the old man and fuck being in an alliance, because all they did is make this team suck to be in...which must be hard, because they have some annoying people." Iori complained. "Screw Kyo!"
*Confessional cut*
And the two hosts vanished like they weren't there, which got the already confused contestants to realise that they were about to get some bamboozlement...in the form of the green lights lighting up.
"If I get an random disease from this, it's my fault." Oikawa was disappointed.
"Really, I welcome poor health, random volleyball man!" Heavy declared.
"All you do is shoot people with some giant gun that's probably very uncool."
"I like to think different. Sasha...cool, Sasha not problem."
"Yo and we are back!"
Everybody groaned at Chris' sudden presence...again, but that was routine at this point.
"The first miningame is ready for the first four contestants to jump right in! Heavy, Tanya, Mikasa and Clover...get ready for your first shot to making it!" Chris announced. "It's going to be a wild one!"
The four of them were set there...standing in the green light, sure of the fact that this challenge was stupid and ridiculous and they were looking at their military-ish uniforms, trying to assess each other.
And there was Clover, knowing what the fuck was going on, but not knowing why it was even going on anyways...still looking at the competition that was standing right besides hers.
"Uh, sure, what are we doing-"
Like Clover, the rest of the four were teleported away to a place that was pretty dusty and probably cost a hundred dollars at most to mame the arena for, as it was a sturdy fence and a big dirt patch.
Unfortunately for them, they were teleported right into some mini-tanks that were pretty damn small, but just the right size for the contestants to drop into there.
"...Oh! That's what we're doing!" Clover realised. "Like, could have been anything else."
"Oh, please! Getting to use a tank like this provides a serious opportunity for good attack, of which I will use on you." Tanya shouted at Clover, her cannon aimed for her.
"Uhhh...too bad because this is a game!"
"A game that we're both playing, so I suggest taking this seriously."
Tanya and Clover steeled themselves, as the other two were really excited to be in a tank, if Mikasa being surprised and figuring what the controls were...actually counted towards that.
"That's right, the minigames will start...right after the break and they're starting off brutal!" Chris announced, chuckling the contestants into unease. "I might have added a few twists!"
To be continued in the second part of the episode that has ton of minigames and games of chance, some moments of romance and more likely than not, injuries!
And I didn't forget about Azula's alliance, Khun's voting-only alliance and even Tanya's weird alliance, as they're going to play an important role for...basically the rest of the competition, starting from this one.
And more importantly, comment down below (or review in or AO3's case) on to see who's going to win?
Azula or Sokka?
Dante or Bayo?
Tendou or Oikawa?
I know that the last one isn't as much as big deal as the other two, but if you've seen Haikyuu, you know why I put them up there.
Sorry for the delay...I actually still have the tinnitus and I had an ear infection, so I tried to stay away from the computer for about...two weeks due to that.
Part of that might have included me being lazy, but you know, it's still a Wednesday over here...and 4/20 in the UK, if that's what you're into.
