Topher was standing on the dock of a flat grassy island. He smiled confidently as he crossed his arms "Welcome fans of Total Drama. Remember me?" He flashed his shiny teeth "That's right folks, It's Topher back and better than ever"

He leaned back with a smug smile "And what better way to celebrate having a new host than with a brand new cast to go along with it? That's right we have a brand new cast of teens coming here for weeks on weeks of nothing but pain, betrayal, and sabotage. But enough about hearing me say that, actually, I don't think you've heard my voice quite enough yet" Topher smirked.

He walked along the deck "Along with a new host and new cast, we've got ourselves a new island!" He gestured behind himself to the large shark-shaped island "And with all the new things there's hardly enough room for something else amirite?" He chuckled "wrong!"

He pointed to the other side of the dock where Nurse Nelly was sitting. She had a standard nurse outfit on, but she still had the red splots all over her costume. And no, the stitches didn't go away either. "Say hello to Chef 2.0!"

Nelly side-eyed him "do I have to be Chef 2?"

Topher simply ignored her as the camera focused back on him "Well, I'd say that's more than enough new to share so far, so let's get right to the meat of things in the first episode of… Total Drama Arcade!"

Intro starts

"Dear Mom and Dad, I'm Doin' Fine," Topher and Nelly stood at the front of the island, with the nurse rapidly measuring Topher's limbs and where his organs should be.

"You guys are on my mind." The camera zoomed past the two hosts to an abandoned-looking city. In the middle of the plaza was a giant pool that the camera dove into. At the bottom, Dylan was trying to pull a chest up to the surface.

"You asked me what I wanted to be And now I think the answer is plain to see," Dylan felt someone tapping her on the shoulder. She turned around, only for Ian to come out of nowhere and swim away with the chest. Bubbles floated up to the surface, where Bobby and Mimos floated on a raft. Bobby looked nervous about the water before Mimos copied him.

"I wanna be famous!" On land, Colmillo was holding Mitch in a chokehold as the writer desperately tried tapping out.

"I wanna live close to the sun," in one of the abandoned buildings Camila was waving her hands around mystically over a crystal ball as Marty just stared past it and at her chest. Veronica meanwhile just crossed her arms skeptically.

"Go pack your bags, 'cause I've already won," inside the crystal ball Camila saw Ellis just having a casual friendly conversation with Thomas whose fingers were crossed behind his back.

"Everything to prove, nothing in my way" past the duo, Micheal was sitting on the ground in the middle of nowhere just enjoying some peace until Vinnie fell down on top of him with a beehive in her hands.

"I'll get there one day" past them Matt was using his walking stick to walk around when Vinnie ran past him with the bee nest in her hands while dragging Micheal behind her. Matt fell to the ground as the bees quickly swarmed him.

"Cause I wanna be famous!" back in the abandoned city Mitzy and Tess were lying on the ground, smiling to themselves as they drew a comic. Liz looked down at her work and gave her a thumbs-up before feeling Bailey hug her from behind. Making blood come from her nose. However, Maxine came in and stomped on her paper

"Na na na na na na na na" in one of the buildings Therion and Charlotte playing a game in a room before Charlotte laughed confidently once beating the gamer.

"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous" Walter was looking around the dock to the island, seeing some footsteps on the ground as he slowly followed them. As he got closer to the camera he flashed a flashlight at the camera.

"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous" The light from the flashlight turned to the moon as it slowly moved down to the cast. Jaz and Antoinette sitting together by the fire. Jaz saw the camera on them and quickly pushed Antoinette out of the way, trying to get the camera to focus on her before the other girl pushed her right back. The other contestants slowly whistled.

Intro Ends

While Topher was still on the dock, all of the other contestants were seemingly waiting to get to the competition while riding on a boat. And on this boat, everyone seemed to just be going about their own plans.

Near the front of the boat was a guy in A light green sweatshirt that's a bit unzipped, a red tee-shirt underneath with a blue camera design, light blue jeans, white socks, and orange shoes. He had royal blue hair and lightly tanned skin. He was only standing at 5'6" and had a camera pulled up to take pictures of the scenery around him.

He grinned to himself as he saw a dolphin flying out of the ocean.

The photographer Marty continued to snap pictures at the dolphin, before looking around for anything else beautiful and worth taking pictures of. As he turned back to look at the other people at the top side of the ship, before smirking to himself seeing one girl leaning back and relaxing.

Near him was a beautiful white woman. She was just sitting down on a deckchair while typing on her phone. She really looked like she wanted to be… just about anywhere but here really.

She had long blond hair that flowed to her upper back, and was rather skinny but very well developed, to say the least. She was wearing a very fashionable pink party dress with matching pumps and earrings. By her side, she had an expensive-looking purse that was nearly filled to the brim.

"Lookin good" Marty complimented before snapping a picture of her.

Veronica side-eyed him with an annoyed expression "Um, can I ask what you're doing?"

Marty smiled innocently at her "Oh, sorry if I annoyed you. I'm just used to snapping pictures of beautiful things when I can."

Veronica smirked slightly "beautiful things huh? Well I would say you found just the thing right here" she leaned back in her seat to show off her figure for him. "Good to see my presence here has made someone excited."

Marty just smiled at her before moving over to start snapping pictures of her from different angles "It's hard not being happy having someone like you here" he mused.

Veronica just smirked as she kept posing "well hopefully you don't get eliminated early, would be boring not being appreciated while in the finale"

Marty smirked "really confident huh?"

Veronica just smirked back "well when you're this beautiful you have to be confident"

As the two of them flirted with each other, a boy was sitting near them with a quiet annoyed expression.

"You're really making a strong impression already" the very pale boy groaned weakly in annoyance as he covered his ears to not have to listen.

Michael had messy black hair and bags under his eyes. The competition hasn't even started yet and he already looked entirely miserable being there. He had a lime green t-shirt with an origami swan plastered on it, along with blue jeans and black sneakers. Weirdly, he had what looked like an origami praying mantis on his shoulder… for some reason. He was also wearing gray glasses.

"They couldn't have gotten this done earlier?" He whimpered angrily as he got up. He made sure his praying mantis was ok after getting up before walking away to try finding someplace quieter.

As he walked towards the back of the ship, he found two girls sitting by themselves. Though they seemed quiet enough for him to sit down near them.

The first one looked like an average girl. She had a blonde ponytail with pink and cyan highlights, and was wearing A pink jacket, like a hoodie but with a zipper and no hood with a black star pattern on the heart. Blue pants. Black midcalf boots.

She was just smiling to herself as she looked over the vast waters, before writing down something in a binder "That would be fun…" she whispered happily to herself.

The other girl was much smaller than either of them and had similarly pail skin to Michael. She was only at 3'10" and was wearing a large gray hoodied cloak that went down to her legs, however, the hoodie was currently down to show her medium-length hot pink hair with one side ponytail. She had black sneakers and black socks that were the only parts of her attire beyond the cloak that was visible. Well, those and the black choker with a cat bell around her neck.

"What are you writing?" Maxine asked the other girl while trying to glance over her shoulder.

Mitzy smiled over at her, not expecting her to suddenly talk to her "Oh, I was just writing for my comic. I thought, y'know, while we're waiting I could maybe try working on it. I was just about to introduce the antagonist of the chapter"

She just leaned in further to see what she was working on "antagonist you say? What are they like, are they evil?"

Mitzy nods a little "Yea, she's kinda evil" she shrugged slightly "she's not as much of a focus or anything"

"What kind of dastardly plans have they committed then?" Maxine smiled excitedly.

Mitzy chuckled in amusement at her excitement "I'm not really as good at writing villains so I haven't fully thought out the plan"

"What!? What's a villain without an evil plan!? This villain of yours is sounding rather pathetic if you ask me" she crossed her arms with a confident smile on her face "I already have all my diabolical plans set for this season just you wait!"

Mitzy slowly lowered her paper to stare at Maxine "are you sure it's your… best idea to talk about how you have a bunch of evil plans?"

"You think I'd be scared of what you two can do?" Maxine pointed at her and then at the annoyed Michael "please, I'll eliminate you two before you have the chance to know friend from foe!"

Mitzy just started nodding slowly "what might be some of these evil plans of yours then?"

Maxine smiled in surprise, not expecting her to want more "well, I could simply go on and on about my schemes. I must first wait to make sure that our destination will be beneficial to my plans. Then-"

Maxine continued to list her set of plans, as Mitzy slowly started writing them all down while slowly nodding her head.

Under the top of the ship and those waiting underboard, there were many contestants spread around doing different things. On one of the couches, a guy was just sitting back and enjoying a nice small nap. The guy had a peaceful smile on his face as his dad body slowly raised and fell.

His hair is a medium brown color, rather long, and very frizzy. He lets it shag everywhere, so it covers his eyes and poofs out like crazy. There are noticeable chip crumbs and some candy wrappers in his hair right now. He was wearing a navy blue tee with stains on it from various drinks and food over a white, long sleeve shirt, a pair of jeans with a couple of tears on them, and basic black sneakers with the laces untied.

Bobby just enjoyed the peacefulness of being alone. However, as he tried to rest creaks were heard from the wood-planked ground.

Behind him, a large man at 6'4" and some muscle started sneaking up behind him. He was wearing a dirty white v-neck t-shirt worn underneath a dirty unzipped gray hoodie along with dirty gray sweatpants and torn black and white sneakers. He had shaggy brown hair and a scar running along his lower left arm.

Ian smirked to himself as he slowly reached a hand into Bobby's pocket. He could feel something in his pocket before quickly pulling it out. However, when he got a look at his haul he frowned. It was just a bunch of moldy old Cheetos "what the hell?" even for the criminal that was disgusting as he tossed them away and started rubbing the Cheeto dust off on Bobby's shirt, only to feel something slimier.

"Sick" he groaned while rubbing it off on the couch Bobby was napping on.

"What'cha doin?" Bobby slowly rolled over to face Ian, even after being pickpocketed the slob just had a laid-back smile.

Ian backed up slightly, not realizing he was actually still awake "oh, nothing. I was just wondering if you had any…" he gulped slightly "snacks I could borrow? I'm getting hungry"

Bobby smiled "should… have just said so man" the slob reached into his hair, slowly pulling out what looked like what was left of a cookie.

Ian stared blankly at his snack, seeing some hair sticking out of the cookie. He glanced at the camera before slowly grabbing it and taking a small nibble.

"Oh man, I think I'm full already! That's one amazing cookie, but I think I gotta go meet the others now"

Bobby just smiled and nodded at him, before munching on the cookie Ian took a bite out of it. The thief quickly pulled himself up before sneaking away from him and behind a corner. When he was out of sight he gagged while clutching his stomach, before slowly putting a hand into his mouth and pulling out one of Bobby's pieces of hair. Ian had to cover his lips sickly before running to a window to throw up.

As he ran, he ran past a dark room on the ship, where three contestants were sitting around a table.

At the front of the table sat a tall woman at 6'2". She had a curvaceous and slightly chubby figure with honey tan skin. She had curly, wavy black hair that reached down to her upper back. Camila was wearing a flowy, off-the-shoulder magenta crop top with sleeves that go down just past her elbows and flare out. With this, she wears a long layered skirt that reaches the ground. The top layer is magenta with a slit over the left side, revealing the navy blue bottom layer. Wrapped around her waist is a navy blue sash, and she had a navy blue headband wrapped around her head.

Camila was wearing a lot of jewelry, including a gold plated necklace with a red gem in the middle, a long necklace with a crystal attached to it, gold hoop earrings, and multiple golden bracelets on her wrists.

"So, shall we take a look into your futures?" Camila spoke in a mystical tone, slowly rubbing her crystal ball "all it takes is five dollars and all will be revealed"

One of the boys sitting across from her was a skinny guy with short black, with a red streak. He was wearing a black shirt with blood splatters decorated and a Jason Voorhees mask on the front. He was looking around like he was in a panic.

"I don't know, that sounds like one of my books where the character knew he was going to die and tried everything in his power to stop it before just dying to something else…" Mitch whispered nervously. Refusing to keep his eyes from wandering away from Camila or the other boy for long.

The boy next to him just smiled encouragingly at the paranoic. He had lightly tanned skin and looked only a bit less scrawny than Mitch while standing taller than him. He had long white-blonde hair in a ponytail that goes to his upper back. He was wearing a long-sleeved blue shirt with a purple stripe, blue jeans, purple sneakers. His right ear also had a hoop earring.

Ellis tried patting him on the back before Mitch jumped away from him "Come on man, it's just a fun prediction thing, how bad could it be? Plus it's free, you won't get that deal very often"

"I didn't say that" Camila immediately countered before going back to her tone "A look into the future is draining. Seeing and feeling what shall come. Five dollars is required to even make the journey worth it"

Ellis stared blankly at her "five dollars? Don't you think that's a bit much?"

Mitch sighed before just handing her five dollars "just tell me how I die already"

Camila smiled at the nervous boy as she took his cash "let us begin then. I do warn you that making a prediction is a dangerous task. Just knowing your future may have disastrous consequences for those who are not careful"

"So what's the point of getting a prediction?" Ellis crossed his arms.

"Well knowing what happens may very well save someone's life and avoid disaster in its own way" she smiled at him "you don't have to take my prediction, if you wish to not be helped it's of no concern to me" she turned back to Mitch with a warm smile "let us begin shall we?"

"If we must" Mitch murmured.

Camila smiled before slowly rubbing the mystical crystal ball. "Mitchell… in your near future, I see you facing a nigh-impossible task, one even legends nay not match… during your time here you will find your ideal woman" she smiled before picking all of her stuff up "and that's all for today's predictions"

Mitch smiled a bit, even though the prediction was short, he was just happy knowing the prediction didn't have him dying a horrible, slow, or painful death "well thanks ma'am"

She nods and smiles "why thank you. Also, we should be landing rather soon so I would get ready if I were you two" She started walking away with her mystical items as the two boys just looked at each other with different levels of skepticism.

On another level of the boat, a giant bear was rummaging through a kitchen. But this bear didn't look like a normal one, quite the contrary. It looked exactly like Winnie the Pooh, everyone's favorite fictional bear. The bear looked like a large costume, which was probably apparent from the fact it was entirely yellow. She was obviously looking for something, however.

"Ah, I got it!" Vinnie cheered as she pulled out a large pot of honey. She sat down happily before sticking her giant costume paw in the pot and pulling out a large glob of honey. The costume kept its wide smile as she shoved a handful of honey into its mouth "so good…"

As she continued to feed herself another contestant found themself walking in and looking around slowly. She was very small and weak looking, though it was hard to tell her figure through her layers of coats. She was wearing a blue winter beanie with a white poof ball on the top of it, a black scarf that looks fuzzy and seems to cover most of her face, just not her eyes, a big, blue winter jacket that looks like it is the third jacket she is wearing because of how many layers, black, fuzzy gloves on, black snow pants and black snow boots.

Her skin was very pale, to a level that it was almost blue-ish in tone. She also had small tufts of yellow hair sticking out from under her hat. She seemed to be looking for something as well, before finding Vinnie happily eating by herself.

Bailey stared at her silently as she started walking towards her. Before Vinnie could react Bailey jumped at her and pulled her into a big bear hug.

Vinnie seemed surprised by the sudden hug as she turned around to look at her. The cold girl just had her eyes shut tight while slowly rubbing her head around against her furry costume.

"Hey there" Vinnie smiled before turning around to hug Bailey back "I wasn't expecting any bear hugs this early!"

Bailey just nuzzled in a little closer "s-sorry, I-I just need to warm up a little"

Vinnie just lowered her bear head down to her "don't worry about it! I'm always happy to make new friends!" she slowly raised Bailey up like a baby while holding her tight.

Bailey smiled softly "I'm still cold but thanks" she whispered.

"Well, we can hug as long as you need to warm yourself up!" The bear whispered excitedly while still holding her tight.

Bailey and Vinnie continued to hug each other, simply not seeing any reason they would pull back, granted the bear did have to move one of her arms to keep scooping up globs of honey. She was a hungry bear after all.

Walking past the kitchen was a guy who looked like he would likely shop at Hot Topic unironically. He had shoulder-length black hair, parting from the middle of his head, with small bangs on the right side, was rather short and scrawny as well at 5'3". He had a black long-sleeved shirt with a blooded skull on it, a white short-sleeved undershirt, black pants with a red belt, white boots, matching gloves, and was wearing sunglasses.

He had a long walking stick as he slowly walked around, trying to find his way to the top of the ship. He tapped the base of a large trash container before he kept walking "this place is giant" he spoke in awe as he kept walking "I wouldn't be shocked if this whole season was just on here"

As he slowly felt around he could hear someone walking close to him "hello?" He asked nonchalantly while turning towards them.

While Matt couldn't see who was walking to him, the camera showed off the attractive young woman who was just looking around the boat in innocent wonder.

She was a somewhat skinny person, however, she still managed to have an hourglass figure. She had thick dark blue hair that reached down to her shoulders. Her attire was as laid back as she looked, as she was wearing a white crop top, a blue flowy mini skirt with a matching belt on it, and white sandals.

"OMG hi!" Antionette smiled when seeing him "sorry if I spooked you or somethin. Like, I love that shirt you're wearing" she pointed towards it.

"Uh… thanks" he scratched his cheek awkwardly "I think you're the first contestant I've bumped into yet. I was kinda worried everyone just left me behind"

"Oh, totes" she quickly nodded We're, like, deep down in this ship"

Matt nods with a small smile "maybe we can try finding some stairs upwards then."

"Oh, totes! But, uh, one question"

"Yea?" Matt tilted his head.

"Why are you carrying that stick around… Do we all get one!?" Antionette seemed more excited about getting a stick, for some reason.

Matt stared blankly… in her general direction "um… I brought this stick because I can't see at all. I'm kinda blind"

"OH MY GOD!" The Diva gasped before covering her mouth "I'm so sorry! I totally didn't mean to be insensitive there"

Matt just seemed more embarrassed now "Don't worry about it, I don't really want to make that a big deal. How about we just keep looking around?"

"But… you can't look" Antionette frowned slightly.

"It's just a saying" he deadpanned before he started walking away from her, before tripping into the trashcan he had tapped earlier.

He fell face-first onto the ground as the trashcan spewed its insides all over him and the ground. Matt groaned softly in annoyance. "Oh man, that was a total wipeout" Antoinette giggled in amusement before coming over to try to help him up.

Matt could hear her stepping closer before pushing away from her to get up "I'm fine… just fine. I don't need your help up but thanks"

Antoinette just smiled, not seeming insulted "well if you say so." she put her hands behind her back and rocked back and forth as he tried wiping the trash off himself "so, like, can we go then?"

Matt nods as he pulled out his stick in front of himself again "yes, we can. Thank you for the patience" he started walking down the hall.

The diva just smiled to herself before following right behind him.

On another part of the ship, one of the contestants looked to be trying to find where all the cameras were. She looked like she might as well be as flat as a board. She had long brown hair that she had tied in two pigtails. Her outfit however was rather strange, she was wearing a French maid outfit with a black uniform, white apron, a bayonet, and black gloves.

"I thought this was a reality tv show, where are all the cameras?" She put her hands to her hips with an annoyed look "I signed up to be on a show for Pete's sake!"

"Relax a little, we're just getting a ride to the season. I'm sure we'll get our intros before long" She could hear another girl in the room, however, she was standing behind her.

The woman behind her had a good in shape build, standing at 5'11" and having some good muscle mass. She had slightly tanned skin, with blond hair that didn't look too well kept. She had blue jeans, a red t-shirt, red shoes, pink necklace around her neck.

"Well sorry, but I need to know when the cameras are out. How else will I make sure I have a good first impression?" Jaz frowned at her.

"I don't think you have to worry that much about a first introduction" Liz smiled softly "that maid outfit should get people's attention faster than you think"

Jaz just eyed her slightly as she pulled out her phone "so who are you supposed to be then?" She started typing on it, not even raising her eyes to look at the other girl.

"Oh, I'm Elizabeth but you can call me Liz" she smiled softly at her "it's a pleasure to meet you… what's your name?"

"Jasmine, but you can call me Jaz" she just kept typing on her phone, before glancing up slightly at her attire "You sure have an interesting sense in attire. And your hair is a total mess. Are you sure you know what show you're on?"

Liz just looked at what she was wearing before looking up "yes, I know this is Total Drama. I just didn't think my choice in attire would matter here"

Jaz just nods "well at least it'll be easier to stick out in comparison to you"

"Right" the cast mom slowly nodded "well I don't think you should focus too much on what others think of you while competing. Even if you don't end up garnering attention I think you look great"

Jaz nods, smiling a little bit at the compliment "Yea, I know that much. When do you think we'll get to the island?"

"Knowing this show we'll probably blow up before getting there" Liz mused.

The maid cosplayer groaned "that would suck, I don't want to ruin this costume I just got it. And I guess swimming all the way to the island would suck too"

Liz glanced down slightly, trying to hide a smile on her face "when we land in the water you can sit on my shoulders… you can avoid swimming and won't get too wet"

Jaz raised an eyebrow at her "that sounds good… but what would you get from that?"

"That's not important" she smiled innocently "I'd feel bad if my potential teammate has a terrible time on the island"

Jaz nodded slowly "well, alright then. Let's go up to the top then, I don't want to be caught in the main explosion if that is going to happen" she turned away from Liz to start heading up the stairs.

Elizabeth nodded before slowly following behind her. Everyone once in a while she glanced downwards with a small lewd smirk.

In one of the lower deck rooms, two of the contestants were simply enjoying their time in silence as they stared at a large flatscreen tv. A video game seemed to be plugged into the tv, which they were both using as they played a fighting game.

The guy to the right had a figure that was fit enough for a swimmer, Therion had black surfer styled hair, with long bangs that cover his right eye, a few layers of the back of his hair is slightly swooped outward, and his hair reaches to his shoulder, and has a stubble with a soul patch.

He was wearing a black and red unzipped hoodie jacket that reaches just above his midriff, an dark gray shirt with a white wolf decal, black sweatpants with his right side having black and red 787 decals, wear a black and red gaming headphones on his neck, black and red checkerboard running shoes, and prescribe long black-rimmed glasses, also wear wolf necklace and a black bracelet on his wrist. He had a backpack resting behind him.

Therion was currently getting his ass kicked in the game already.

Next to him was a girl with an espresso skin tone. She had black hair done in dreadlocks and a ponytail. Like Therion she had a swimmer's body build.

She was wearing black capris, a purple shirt with the Icon of Team Conquerors which looked like a football shirt. She also had purple sneakers.

Charlotte cheered proudly after knocking Therion's character out "easy win!"

The boy just chuckled a little "you're really good at this game"

Charlotte smirked "thanks. I should probably start becoming professional for this game too, I think I'd rock at it"

"You play games professionally?" He looked at her, showing some surprise.

She just shrugged a little "yea, I have a professional team too" she casually showed off her shirt. "This is my team, we're the Conquerors"

Therion nodded a bit "that's impressive. I never really considered going professional with gaming or anything"

Charlotte shrugged "Yeah, it's fun and all, but there's a really bad reputation of cheaters or hackers joining teams. I know one of my old partners was bad with that stuff and we had to kick him out"

Therion just nodded slowly before hearing part of the floor creak behind them. He looked back and felt his eyes widen slightly in surprise seeing a giant woman crouched down in a pose like a predator that's about to pounce. She had a dark brown skin tone with a much more muscular build than the two of them.

Colmillo was dressed like a luchador. She was wearing a lime green shirt that had a grey fist on a yellow sun, green and cyan striped shorts, black protectors on both elbows and knees, and black short boots. Her face is covered on a green mask that only shows her eyes and mouth. However, behind the mask, her long flowing black hair went past her shoulders.

"What are you-" Therion started before she dove towards the two nerds with an excited grin.

She grabbed Therion in a chokehold while wrapping her legs around Charlotte's head "ha, los tengo a los dos" Colmillo smirked.

"What are you saying?" Charlotte glared while trying to pull her legs off.

"I said I got you two!" She spoke confidently before letting them go "you two dweebs were just too easy to catch off guard!"

Therion rubbed his neck and chuckled softly. He seemed pretty relaxed for just being attacked "yea, I guess I should've seen that one coming"

Colmillo just smirked proudly "so what are you two dweebs doing?"

"We were playing a game" Charlotte deadpanned.

"Oh" Colmillo started slowly slouching off the couch "that's so lame! Come on, wouldn't you two rather do something actually worth your time?"

"What are you suggesting?" The gamer boy innocently asked.

"We should wrestle for real!" She smashed her fists together.

"The only wrestling I do is in video games" Charlotte stated plainly.

Colmillo groaned in annoyance, just slouching down further as Therion awkwardly scratched his cheek "I mean… if you really need a partner I guess I could help?"

Colmillo smirked at his offer before grabbing him by the arm, as she got up and in his face, he quickly regretted his offer as she just shoved him off the couch. While he was sprawled out on the floor Colmillo stood up confidently on the couch before tapping her elbow and diving down on top of him.

Before the impact could land, it shifted to another part of the ship. A petite girl was sitting on the top of the ship just minding her own business as she climbed up the side of the building. She had dirty blond hair that was shoulder length, princess curls, and usually tied into a messy bun. She had flecks of multicolor paint in her hair.

Tess was wearing a graphic T-shirt with Mr. coconut on it and ripped skinny jeans. Her clothes are often splattered with various paint stains. She also had an orange backpack and ukulele on her back.

She glanced around slightly before smiling giddily while pulling her backpack off her back. She pulled out several different paintbrushes and other items before rapidly painting the ground below her with an excited smile.

No one could see her so the little artist just started painting the spot up as much as she wanted, however, as she kept painting someone else slowly started crawling up after her. Tess didn't notice him as he just sat down at the side of the boat.

The guy sitting near her was in rather good shape, looking pretty fit. He had wavy black hair that he had combed to the left. He wore brown boots, blue ripped jeans, a yellow shirt under a dark blue unzipped jacket, and gold gloves.

Mimos glanced at her for a few moments before slowly moving closer to her "why hello there" he smiled softly at her. He spoke with a rather flirtatious air to him.

"Oh, hey there!" Tess smiled innocently at him, she had barely gotten to work but her hands were already covered in paint.

"That's a nice talent you have there" the copycat just continued to smile at her "I must wonder if your art is as beautiful as you are chica"

Tess blushed slightly "Oh, thanks" she smiled "I wasn't expecting to get a fan for my painting today but I'm glad to have you enjoy them!"

Mimos just watched her as she went back to her painting. Mimos frowned slightly at her seeming lack of interest in talking before straightening himself up and standing over her "I think I have a proposal for you, uh, what's your name?"

The painter looked back at him "I'm Tess"

"Well, Tess, how would you like to work together?" Mimos smirked a bit.

She just looked at him "oh, an alliance already? Do we have to do anything crazy with that?"

"Oh no, of course not no. We can just be friends who work with each other to make sure things don't go too poorly"

Tess just shrugged "yeah, sure. I wasn't expecting an alliance this early though, we don't even really know if we're on the same teams"

Mimos just put his finger to his lips as he went back to looking suave "don't stress that pretty little head of yours chica. I can think for both of us. If we're on different teams, it just means we can control two different teams at once. Believe me, I've thought of this"

Tess slowly leaned away from him "Right…" she chuckled awkwardly "Good to know. Uh, do you want to paint with me?" She quickly changed the subject.

Mimos smiled and nodded "I would love to! I've never painted much but I'm sure with you as a teacher I would be able to handle it"

Tess just happily handed him one of the paintbrushes, which he was quick to take from her and start painting the ground.

As they painted, Mimos would repeatedly glance at Tess, before painting the same thing she had done. By the time both of them were done they effectively had the exact same painting on the ground.

"Not bad" Tess mused.

Mimos smirked "yea, not bad"

Down from where they were standing, a girl was just relaxing from her seat and taking in the rays. She was a tall, skinny girl. She has long legs and dainty arms, a rather flat chest, and a small waist. She had a curly black mess of hair. She also seemed to have scars all over her body.

She had a red basketball jersey with the number 06 on it and her last name "CHIU" in white print, loose-fitting light blue jeans, a red baseball cap turned backward, and beat-up white sneakers.

"You know, if the season stays like this I don't think I could be too upset" she whispered with a small smile.

However, as she was trying to relax she could feel a guy examining from practically every angle. He looked unhealthily skinny, like a simple push would make him wipe out entirely. He was sporting short blond hair and was wearing a white shirt with a beige vest on top of it, khaki pants, and brown shoes. He had a little newsboy cap on as well.

"Um, can I help you?" Dylan asked with a somewhat amused smile on her face.

"Oh, apologies" Walter bowed slightly. "I simply was making sure you had nothing devious on your person"

Dylan giggled in amusement "really?"

"Dead serious ma'am" Walter gave her a serious look "villainy in these kinds of shows are always wrong and I plan to stop them from happening as long as I can"

She slowly nodded her head "right… right. But if I may ask, why walk up to me? Do I scream villain to you?"

"No, but villains are always subtle and sneaky with their manipulation. Well, except for Scott I suppose. But the point stands. Besides, I had a source telling me to investigate you"

"Oh, yea?" Dylan raised her eyebrow "who's the source?"

"Thomas" he casually pointed over his shoulder.

The boy he pointed to had a skinny body with black hair up in a mess in a sudo-emo cut. He was wearing a white long-sleeved collared t-shirt under a short-sleeved black shirt, blue pants, and brown shoes.

"Well, maybe he's being suspicious trying to get you on me" she smirked a bit "you should definitely interrogate him."

"Oh, that's a fair point!" Walter quickly nodded his head "Thomas! I got a lot of-" when he turned back around the other guy was just already gone, causing the detective to sigh.

"Guess we got ourselves a manhunt. Wanna help?" He turned back to Dylan, just to see she also ditched him.

"Great…"


As the contestants hung around, relaxing and enjoying their free cruise, only for Topher's voice to suddenly break the silence of everyone relaxing.

"Hello hello, contestants!" Topher announced through a loudspeaker system "If you could all be up on the deck facing the island that would be great" and before they knew it his voice cut back off.

They all looked at each other before going towards the front of the ship.

"I wonder what he wants us to stand here for" Ellis wondered while scratching the top of his head.

Mitch was standing behind everyone else with his arms crossed "he's probably got bombs that he plans to use for killing us all. This'll be a killing game where the winner just gets to live I'm sure of that"

"I hope he's not on my team" Colmillo deadpanned hearing his worrying prediction.

"Could be worse" Ian deadpanned while gesturing to the midget with pink hair in front of him.

"This season isn't going to be as fun as I was hoping…" the wrestler sighed. Right next to her Therion had a black eye, though he looked like he was trying to not feel too bothered by it.

In the distance, the campers could see the large island in the distance, along with the dock and a few large buildings further on the island.

"Ugh, finally!" Veronica raised her hand "I was about to get impatient if we had to keep waiting to get there"

Before anyone could respond to her complaint, a large explosion went off under their feet. "I called it!" Mitch called as he flew high into the sky.

All of the contestants launched high into the air as the camera cut to Topher on the dock. He breathed in slowly before sighing in satisfaction "I always wanted to do that…"

Behind him, Nelly appeared, lightly tapping him on the shoulder to make him jump in a panic "Oh, it's just my cohost who's covered in "paint". Good, good." he chuckled slightly, however she didn't seem amused "right, just don't get too excited about the explosion. You only get the parts that don't come attached to a contestant anymore"

Nelly just silently nodded to him, not showing if that deal appealed to her at all.

"I wonder who will get here first" Topher raised his hand to cover his eyes to not get an eyeful of the sun's rays. As he got a lookout to the ocean, he could hear someone's screaming get closer. Before he knew it, Maxine slammed into his stomach like a cannonball, knocking him on his ass as he wheezed in pain.

Maxine slowly stood above him as he clutched his chest "You can't blow evil up that easily!" Maxine mocked before laughing maniacally, which resulted in her needing to cough.

He grunted while continually holding his gut "c-cut to the others, c-cut to the others" he whimpered softly.

In the water, most of the contestants didn't seem too bothered by the sudden swim, or at least most of them seemed fine with it.

"Ugh, that totally ruined my clothes! And phone! And-" Veronica was listing her complaints as Mimos started swimming past her.

"Oh get over it" he rolled his eyes. As the copycat continued to swim he could see Therion was struggling to stay above water "spaz" he mocked as he just swam right past him.

As the gamer continued to splutter in the water, the luchadora Colmillo dove under and raised him in a shoulder jawbreaker move.

"Oh, thanks Colmillo" Therion thanked with a small smile.

"Don't think about it, I was just making sure my new practice dummy is alright"

The gamer whimpered nervously but the camera had no interest in focusing on his misery, at least right now.

Further back one of the contestants somehow had a worse time after landing off the ship. Matt groaned weakly as he laid flat on the rock. His shades were slightly broken as he just didn't move.

No one seemed to really be worried about him as they swam past him. And besides the poor blind boy, the two in the furthest back were Jaz and Elizabeth.

Elizabeth, as she had promised, was carrying Jaz through the water to avoid her getting her maid outfit wet. Liz had a wide grin on her head, feeling Jaz's thighs at the sides of her head as she tried swimming as well as she could without drowning. "Worth it" she grunted out while trying to stay above water.

Past them, Tess was just floating in the water with a small frown, with all the paint that was covering her the water she floated in was just coated in multi-colored paint. "I hope the water doesn't get into my paint supplies" she whispered as she tried swimming past the paint.

As she swam, an area next to her had fish slowly pop up at the top, all of which are dead. The water itself was starting to get gray as the poisoned water got closer to the shore. After a few moments, Bobby walked out of the water soaking wet, it looked like a lot of the snacks in his hair and clothing had seeped out in the water.

"Ah, man…" Bobby frowned sadly as he dropped face-first on the ground "I lost all my snacks…"

Camila and Charlotte were the next two to get to the beach. Both of which were holding up their respective treasured items, with Charlotte clutching her games and Camila holding her crystal ball up.

Camila slowly stood up with an annoyed expression "Ugh, I knew this would happen, and yet I had no way to stop this" she complained as she tried getting the saltwater out of her hair while getting the sand off her clothing.

"Oh don't worry about your looks" Ian smirked at her as he crawled out of the ocean "the saltwater stinging my eyes is already nicer than looking at you"

Camila just smiled innocently at him "If you talk like that I'm sure karma will have a few choice words to say towards you"

"Believe me, if karma exists it's not going to be taking an interest in me just for saying you look ridiculous" Ian mocked.

Camila seemed to not look bothered by his attitude "you weren't held much as a child, were you?"

Ian just looked annoyed at her "Don't act as you know me at all"

"Please" The 'Clairvoyant' smirked a bit "I'm not acting"

"Please don't keep the arguing going" Michael groaned in annoyance.

"Yes, thank you" Mitzy nodded "We just got here, we don't need to start acting like enemies already"

Ian grumbled a bit but nodded as he sat away from everyone else. Camila smiled and sat down with the two of them "You both made a good point, really"

"I just don't want arguing to be all we do all season" the Origami King murmured exhaustedly.

It didn't take much longer for most of the other contestants to slowly make their way to the boat, with only Vinnie, Bailey, and Mitch taking their sweet time.

Topher drove over on a segway with Nelly following right behind him "Ah, glad to see that explosion didn't cost us too many contestants" he smiled.

"Did you really have to blow us up?" Mitzy frowned towards the host.

Topher shrugged "I gotta make sure our season starts with a bang. A new host has to prove he can exceed his predecessor"

Nelly quietly counted the contestants that were quietly sitting on the beach "It looks like we're missing three of them, sir"

Topher frowned before counting himself "Huh, you're right… It's more than I was hoping for but I guess you can have at-" before the host could finish Vinnie floated to the beach, just letting the waves carry her as she landed where everyone was.

On her stomach, Bailey and Mitch were both sitting on her, using her large costumed body as a raft to the shore. Bailey looked like she was genuinely terrified of the water even up to getting to the beach. She looked around nervously before stepping off Vinnie and bowing thankfully to her.

Vinnie pulled herself up and just smiled at Bailey, however getting up caused Mitch to get thrown off and land pathetically in the sand.

"Ok, we're good then I think that's all of them!" Topher announced, seemingly relieved at not starting off his season with a crime already. Nelly however looked a bit bummed "You all can follow us back to the city where your challenges will be set!" The host smiled before segwaying away, making sure his helmet was on tight enough as Nelly eyed the back of his skull.

The contestants started following after him, but the trip was taking much longer than many of them were anticipating.

"This is so un-Gucci" Antionette panted after a while of walking in the warm sun.

"Gucci?" Ellis deadpanned "really?"

"Like, what's wrong with Gucci?" The diva looked confused at him.

Thomas nods "Yea I don't see the problem. I say Gucci, like, all the time yea"

"I never heard you say that" Walter looked more skeptical of him as he suddenly ran up behind him.

"Haven't had a chance" Thomas shrugged with a small smirk "This whole show has been so totally un-Gucci"

Ellis just looked marginally annoyed but chose to not make a big argument if he could avoid that.

"Contestants!" Topher announced confidently as he swiveled his segway around "Contestants, welcome yourself to our island resort!"

He raised his hand, gesturing to the expansive city behind him, it would have been impressive with its large city fountain and beautiful palm trees. However, the whole city was covered in different kinds of black gunk.

"Why's this place… so gross?" Veronica frowned. Next to her, Bobby was quietly standing around smiling to himself only for part of his shoe to touch the slime. Almost immediately it started climbing up its body, attaching itself to the top of his head.

It takes the slob a few moments before giggling to himself "that tickled"

"A-Are these things going to be around all season?" Therion whispered cautiously.

Topher just put a finger to his lips "If you don't talk too much, they just won't notice you so keep it down"

That didn't help any of the other contestants relax as they continued following after Topher. "As you can see we have this whole resort for our season, and from there, all of our challenges. But, before we get to that, we have more to show off"

He lead them into a large building, that at least looked well put together. Topher segwayed to the stand at the front of the room with a wooden stand. Before it was 13 seats. At the top of the room were a few projectors that were turned to each of the walls. They were all currently turned off, however. "And here we have the start of our tour, the route to elimination"

The room didn't look like it had any openings besides the door, so it was hard to guess how someone would be eliminated, but at the same time, no one wanted to ask in the case he felt it needed a demonstration.

"No questions? Great! Expect to be sent here if your team loses in a challenge. Research has found people aren't too into constant non-eliminations, so don't expect to have many chances to get out of this" he grinned.

"Can we hurry this along?" Matt crossed his arms "No offense or anything, I'm sure this elimination area is simply beautiful… but I can't exactly enjoy it" he deadpanned.

Topher sighed "Right. I forgot we had to do more diversity hiring this season. Follow me" Topher instructed before leading them somewhere else.

Confessional: Topher

Topher was sitting in a small room, putting on some makeup. The room seemed to have an arcade theme, with a line of arcade games behind him "And in the arcade room we have our confessionals" he smiled "Like before contestants can just come in here and spill their guts to their heart's content. Though I'd make sure you're by yourself before coming in here"

XXX

Confessional: Dylan

The ballerina tapped the table in front of the camera awkwardly "honestly, I don't think I'll need to use this too much" she shrugged a little "feels like these confessionals are just ways for people to angrily complain about others. And that's kinda… really lame" she deadpanned.

XXX

Confessional: Marty

"Man this place is great" the photographer grinned to himself as he sat down "I know this show usually has a lot of beautiful women like Lindsay or Anne Maria competing but it feels like this whole cast has a lot going for it. Charlotte, Colmillo, Jasmine, Veronica, Dylan, Tess, and Camila are totally hot. And Vinnie is pretty cute too, even with the whole bear thing, and Elizabeth seems pretty nice. I think I'm forgetting one…" he frowned as he tried remembering who it was before going to static.

XXX

Confessional: Bobby

Bobby was quietly sitting in the confessional with a smile. While he was sitting there the blobs that had started attaching to him started going from a dark black to a pale gray before they dropped off him. After a few moments, he looked down at the blobs "Oh good, I was worried my smell was starting to go away"

XXX

Topher lead the contestants to another large building, though this one was in the middle of the plaza. It was a large building, and at the bottom of the building, there were multiple different VR stations. They all had stands and platforms.

"And here are where some of your challenges will be set" Topher stated before getting on to one of the machines "For many of your challenges, we'll be using these babies"

"What are they?" Vinnie tilted her bear head "I've never seen something like that"

"It's called VR" Topher smiled as he put a helmet on his head "with the state of the art machinery, we can have you all in the most dangerous kind of challenges, without nearly as many lawsuits" he started walking on the platform, as it moved around with him.

"Sounds like the challenges would be pretty easy" Ian whispered to himself with a small smirk.

Topher raised the helmet off his head, somehow keeping his hair still in perfect shape "don't you worry kiddos" Topher smirked "Only a handful of challenges that aren't physically possible will be in there. And trust me, you'll feel just as much pain in there as in a normal challenge"

Some of the contestants started getting a bit more nervous. "On the higher levels of this building are your bedrooms based on teams."

"When will we know our teams?" Ellis raised his hand.

"Are the rooms based on gender?" Marty quickly raised his hand after him.

"Is there a heater in our room?" Bailey quickly shot up.

"Settle down on the questions" Topher ordered "we have a state of the art system for creating the perfect teams"

As he spoke his cohost Nelly walked in with a large box "Alright contestants, go ahead and reach in there"

The contestants stared at Nelly, who smirked softly as the bag she held had some moisture soaking the bottom of it.

"Like… what's in that?" Antoinette worried slightly.

Topher just grinned "even I don't know, but you first people to take whatever's inside with different numbers gets to be team captain!"

Colmillo smirked a bit standing in front of everyone "Sure, let's do this" she pulled the box open and grabbed the first thing she could reach, only finding a moistened white ball with the number 1 drawn on with sharpie.

"Huh, that's a little disappointing" The Luchador frowned.

"Congratulations Vanessa!" Topher announced quickly after "You're going to be our captain for the Pathetic Plumbers!"

Colmillo frowned at the name of her team "Since I went first can I at least get a different name?"

"Sorry, but that's just the luck of the draw" Topher shrugged. "Anyone else want to try their luck? Either you're a leader or you're going to be stuck with Colmillo on your team"

The Wrestler scowled in annoyance, causing some of the other contestants to get a bit nervous. Michael however didn't seem too bothered by her glare as he went forward and reached into the box, getting a 2 ball.

"You are going to be on the Fighting Ferrets, gonna celebrate there Michael?" The host smiled encouragingly, wanting a reaction from the origami king, who just shrugged a little.

"Fine, let's hurry this along people. We have a challenge to get to after this so I just want to get right into that"

Several more people started moving forward to take their random ball. It took a few more people looking around but eventually, Liz got a ball with '3' on it. "Oh, good" she smiled a bit at what she found.

"Congrats Liz, you're leading the Randomized Raccoons"

"Is that a gamer thing?" Elizabeth frowned slightly.

Topher just shrugged "I don't get paid to write anything, just go stand away from the other teams so we can faction you all up"

Liz and the others started slowly separating into separate groups.

The last person to walk up was Bailey, who reached into the box and pulled out the last sphere, however, it was much smaller and much squishier. The color somehow seemed to leave Bailey's face worse than it usually was "w-w-why is my ball different to the others…?"

Nelly looked at it and slapped her forehead "that was my lunch for later" she snatched it from her hand and shoved it into her pocket "you're team three so just go stand with the others"

Bailey whimpered and nodded before running to the raccoons.

Topher turned to one of the interns when Bailey joined that team "make sure you cut their heating before they finish their challenge"

On team one, the Pathetic Plumbers, had: Colmillo, Charlotte, Marty, Mitzy, Jaz, Therion, Maxine, and Mitch. Colmillo looked more annoyed by her team than anyone else. Marty grinned slightly at Charlotte, who just ignored him. Their symbol came on screen, showing a large red plumber in the corner.

The Fighting Ferrets had: Michael, Thomas, Ellis, Veronica, Dylan, Tess, Walter, and Bobby. Only Tess seemed excited by her team, with most of them just looking indifferent or slightly annoyed. Their symbol was a yellow ferret with a bandana on its head in a fighting pose in the other corner.

And then lastly there was the Randomized Raccoons: Elizabeth, Antionette, Camila, Ian, Mimos, Matt, Vinnie, and Bailey. Liz gave her team an encouraging smile, even though most of her team was busy glaring at someone else or just not paying attention to her. Their symbol in the corner was a purple raccoon with a six-sided die it was holding close in its arms.

"Ah, you know what randomizer isn't so bad" Topher smiled looking at the teams "these all look perfectly terrible"

"So what's our challenge if you were so excited to start it?" Matt deadpanned

Topher smirked back at him "Thank you, Matthew. I was hoping you would ask that" Topher snapped his fingers as green tubes appeared above them.

Topher put a finger to his lips so no one would respond before technological backpacks suddenly dropped from the tubes, slamming into Matt and dropping him onto the ground.

"Now, if you're wondering what these are-" Topher holds up a spare one in his hand "these packs are effectively portable hoses" he smiled "with these puppies, you will all need to clean up thirds of the plaza. There are additional items lying around that can be used to help you if you can find them."

"Wait, aren't you going to show us where we eat?" Bobby slowly raised his hand.

"You'll get food when you survive this challenge" he deadpanned before raising a hose to hose down Bobby.

"What's the challenge if we're just cleaning the place up? I-I remember this show usually having a twist…" Therion frowned while pulling on his hose, yes, the one on his backpack.

"Well, you all saw the blobs latch onto Bobby" Topher grinned, "there's more going on than just pollution. So how about you all start getting out there so we can get to part two huh?"

Most of the contestants shrugged, before reluctantly making their way to the door.

"Ferrets have southwest, Plumbers get the north, and the Raccoons get the southeast" Topher called to them as they all made their way out.

Topher stood by himself, before turning to Nelly with a small smile "go give them a hard, non-lethal time"

Nelly smiled a bit before nodding. She rubbed her hand together as they started walking out.

Once they were all out Topher turned to the camera with a confident grin "Not a shabby start if I do say so myself. Is a bit of a drag having to introductions, so I'm glad I just skipped right over that to get right into some action. I'd say it's already even better than how Christ started his seasons if I do say so myself"

"But, how will they all fair in this challenge? Will any friendships or rivalries form soon? And will Nelly let me keep all of my organs by the end of the season? Find out most of those questions next time on Total Drama AAAAAAArcade!"

AN: not too much to say, but I'm happy to say I got this out rather quickly after my revealing my full cast. I tried to show a bit of everyone's personality in this chapter, even if some people were focused on more than others. But I hope this was at least a fun enough chapter for everyone.