Topher was standing on the edge of the now-destroyed VR room. He was frowning in annoyance "This… might be an issue" he rubbed his chin.
He pulled his phone out, getting ready to call the producers for new VR equipment when he found his phone was glitching and not displaying right.
"Did this whole system start failing?" the host started shaking his phone, hoping that would do something.
When he looks down at his phone he sees a dark figure glaring at him "I don't remember getting an app for a creepy girl to appear on my phone" he frowned.
The figure didn't respond, instead, his phone turned off with a fizzle.
"Ok, that's it!" Topher slammed his phone onto the ground "We're doing an emergency challenge!"
He then noticed that the camera was filming him "Oh, yea. Right. Last time on Total Drama, I got kidnapped by a bunch of robots. And once the contestants realized they missed me, they came rushing to save me"
The scene of the contestants having fun at the beach played "And down there, Vinnie because queen of the furries. And I guess Mitch found a girlfriend or something I don't really care"
It shows Roxie carrying Mitch to the surface and winking at him.
"But in the end the Ferrets had the fewest contestants make it out at the end of the challenge. So they sent home Michael.
Topher appeared again while swiftly walking away from the recording "That's about it, see you when I get the new set up ready!"
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 floated on a raft. Bobby looked nervous about the water.
"I wanna be famous!" Colmillo was holding Mitch in a chokehold on land 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, Michael and Mimos were 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, as he walked he could see 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
It was early in the day for the contestants. Marty was silently sitting in the cafeteria with a calm smile. He was looking at some of the photos he snapped. A chunk of them was of Maxine and Mitzy at the beach, but at some point, Ellis had convinced him to start snapping a bunch of him.
While he was enjoying the peace, he could hear someone angrily sitting at another table. Marty raised his head to see Maxine sitting at another table with her arms crossed like a pouting child.
"Morning Maxine!" Marty waved with a grin.
The villainess ignored him, just scooping some of the gruel into her mouth. The photographer silently scratched the back of his head before another person sat down. Though right in front of him.
It was Mitzy, however, she looked just as upset and annoyed as Maxine.
"Morning Mitzy" he smiled.
"Morning" she spat out before eating her own gruel.
"Guessing you're not having a great morning?"
"Nope"
"Right…"
Confessional: Marty
"I don't know why those two seem so upset. Did they wake up wrong today or something?" the photographer rested his cheek in his palm "Or maybe their periods lined up. I think that kinda thing happens with women. I have no clue though"
He sat up again "But either way I'm going to lift their spirits right up!" he smiled confidently "One flirt at a time"
XXX
Later in the morning, all of the Ferrets were sitting together at a table. However, Veronica and Ellis were both sitting at one end of the table, with Dylan, Bobby, and Walter all sitting on the other end.
While the team should be disappointed by how much they've failed recently, everyone seemed pretty happy with themselves. Veronica was smugly smiling along with Ellis, Bobby and Dylan were just playing paper football together, and Walter was just proud to have taken down another villain.
Ellis was silently writing in a notebook with AirPods in his ears. While no one could hear him, he was currently listening to Liz talking about how much she loves her team.
On the paper, he had Liz's name written down without anything by her name. He slowly wrote the first words describing her, which was just: "TOTALLY BORING" while underlining it repeatedly.
At the likable end of the table, Dylan was sitting with an amused smile as Bobby ate through the gruel that was whipped up for them "I have no idea how you can eat stuff like this"
"It's definitely impressive how strong your gut is" Walter mused.
"I just eat whatever I can find" Bobby smiled, not really expecting this kind of attention for just eating some food.
"I guess considering what you usually eat I'm not too surprised you like it" Dylan chuckled, getting a chuckle from Bobby.
Though he was only chuckling because she was.
"Do you want some of mine?" Dylan asked casually while pushing her gruel forward "It's hard to stomach this kinda thing"
"Sure!" Bobby smiled and rapidly nodded his head.
Dylan scooped some of the gruel up before putting it into his mouth. Bobby's face turned into a deep blush as he gulped it down.
"Thanks" he smiled.
"No problem" she smiled back.
Confessional: Bobby
He still had a faint blush on his face "I'm not used to people liking being around me. I love my slob lifestyle and all… but I know no one else really likes that kind of thing. So having Walter and Dylan like me is pretty sweet"
as he spoke a lollipop dropped from his hair "Ooo, speaking of sweet I should give this to them! But there's only one…" he frowned before reaching into his hair, eventually pulling out a fish.
"I guess they can just fight over who gets what!"
XXX
While most contestants were 'enjoying' the food, Vinnie had seemingly slept in pretty late. She yawned softly while waking up in her bed.
No other Raccoons were around to notice that Vinnie wasn't wearing her costume. In fact, it wasn't lying anywhere. But the honey-obsessed contestant got up, she hadn't noticed.
She started slowly making her way out of the dormitory. However, by the time she got to the downstairs of the hotel, she walked past a large mirror.
Walking past it, she could see from the corner of her eyes that she wasn't in her costume. "What-"
Her eyes widened in shock, looking around frantically to make sure no one had noticed her being out and about. "I have to go find my costume-"
Before she could rush back to the room, she could hear Topher's voice set in over the loudspeaker "Yo, Vinnie and Mitch! Not to rush you both or anything, but we kind of have something important going on right now. So hurry your butts to the cafeteria!"
She groaned angrily, slowly trudging to the cafeteria with no pep to her step. When she arrived, she could see everyone standing in their teams. However, noticeably Jazmine wasn't standing with her team but Goomine was.
"Hey, who's that chick?" Ian was the first contestant to point her out.
"I don't remember seeing her before," Liz noticed, but she was obviously smiling as she looked her up and down.
"Is she another intern?" Walter guessed.
"No." Bailey spoke up next, seemingly surprised to see her "T-That's Vinnie"
"Wait…" Bobby frowned slightly "Vinnie isn't a bear?"
"Do you ever pay attention?" Veronica deadpanned.
While they were all distracted seeing Vinnie without her costume, Mitch silently snuck in from outside with his hair all messed up.
"Have fun" Marty smirked down at him.
"I was just writing a book about a haunted pizza attraction. But I won't tell you where I went. I don't need any of you following me around"
"Quiet!" Topher yelled angrily at the conversing "Focus on the now kiddos. Because this is going to be important"
The contestants silently stood firm in their groups, not being used to the host being so upset with them. Vinnie however didn't seem too bothered by his yelling as she silently crawled to the back of her group.
"Great. The internet is down so I can't see how much my TikTok with Nurse Nelly is doing. So, you're all going to be fixing it with the VR equipment"
"You called me here just because of the internet messing up?" Vinnie deadpanned.
"Oh, don't worry Vinnie" Topher smiled with clear anger behind it "Because, from today onward, your teams are no longer your teams!"
Almost every single contestant gasped in surprise.
"Wait, a full team swap?" Therion frowned "None of the seasons before ever did something like that"
"Yea, but I'm not Chris" Topher snapped his fingers. However, neither intern came when he did so "Ugh, remind me to fire Insignificant and Lana later"
He walked out of the building. Leaving every contestant to wait nervously until the host came back with a large box in his hands "I'll be pulling names. When you're called, join up with the rest of your team"
The contestants nodded as Topher began reaching around in the box, before pulling out the first name. "On our new Pathetic Plumbers, we have…. Walter. Ian. Vinnie. Bailey. Maxine. And Mitzy"
Bailey smiled, looking over to Vinnie. She was excited to still be on her team, however, Vinnie didn't seem all too excited about her team, just wanting to go somewhere else.
"Good to see my preferred minion will stay by my side" Maxine smirked at Mitzy.
Mitzy just silently nodded back as Marty jokingly clutched his heart "Ouch". The villainess however just ignored him as she kept walking.
"I hope we all get along well" Walter smiled excitedly to his team.
Ian just glared down at him "Yea, I'm sure this'll be magical"
"Then, on a brand new team, we have theeeee Mega-Maggots!: with them we have Ellis, Bobby, Marty, Jazmine, Colmillo, and Therion!"
"Alright!" Colmillo smirked before pulling Therion into a headlock "Looks like you and I are going to be staying on the same team"
Therion blushed a little as he smiled "Yea, g-great"
The rest of the team didn't seem too bothered by the team. Though Ellis was clearly annoyed at Bobby smiling at him. "Guess we're staying on the same team" he extended his slime-covered hand to shake his.
Ellis backed away from him to not throw up "I-I'm good. Thanks"
Bobby just shrugged before turning around to high-five Goomine. Seeing that she wasn't on his team prior she didn't see any problem with it, high-fiving him back. Before gagging at the different slime on her hand.
"And, on our last team, we have… the Killer Kombatants! This will be Dylan, Liz, Camila, Mimos, Mitch, and Veronica"
"This feels like a downgrade somehow" Camila murmured.
"You're all free to chat amongst your new teams as long as you want. But don't take too long or we'll start adding penalties for this challenge"
"I hope we all get along with each other" Goomine smiled to her teammates, before someone suddenly dropped a bucket of water down on her.
The goo scratched loudly in pain before turning into a puddle on the ground.
Jazmine dropped down with the rest of her team "So. What did I miss?"
"Not… much" Ellis looked down at the puddle before back at her "Did you have to do that though?"
"Trust me." she nods "It had to be done"
As the cosplayer celebrated, the small puddle she created slowly started crawling away, and into a vent. Though everyone besides her noticed that much.
"Well," Ian started while turning toward Walter "You and I are the only ones on this team without any friends. So I'll introduce myself, I'm Ian"
"It's nice to meet you" he smiled back "
"Ok team" Mimos clapped his hands together with a stern expression on his face "I'm going to be leading us. So anyone who wants to complain can bite their tongue because I don't care"
Dylan slowly raised her hands, causing the mimicker to roll his eyes "Yes, leotard. Spit it out"
Dylan took a moment to soak in the nickname "Are you… going to be like this the whole time?"
"Sure am. So get used to it!"
Confessional: Mimos
Mimos now had a whistle around his neck with a confident smile "On my last team there were way too many big personalities around for me to really take charge. But, hippo hips is without anyone but the simp so I'll be just fine taking charge! I mean, who besides me could even lead? Horror Fanatic? Rich girl?"
He couldn't help but snicker loudly.
Confessinoal: Veronica
"Well, I didn't exactly plan for Topher changing the teams all of the sudden. But lucky for me, it all totally worked out in the end"
she slowly got out her phone before showing it to the screen. She had added a bunch of filters making the scene pink with hearts floating around them "I love technology"
XXX
Eventually, all three new teams made it to a new VR room at the top of their housing.
"Alright. Good. we can finally get started" the host clapped his hands together as everyone put on their VR headsets.
"The goal for today is fixing the internet and how messed up all the machinery is."
"How does someone come in second" Walter raised his hand "I want to be sure we're clear on that before we start. Unlike last time"
The host frowned at him "Don't be a baby Walter you lost that last one fair and square. But. You make a fair point. Second place will go to the team who finds what caused this issue. Make sense to everyone?"
All of the contestants nodded their heads "Good!" they were then all transported to the VR world, where all the new teams found themselves away from the rest.
The new Plumbers were placed down in a large open field. In the middle was a giant white castle.
"Well, that looks promising" Mitzy smiled.
"Should we go for the castle or explore around here?" Walter looked around at the expansive fields.
"I don't care what you guys say I'm definitely checking out the castle. The best part of games is the collectibles and I'm betting that place is just oozing the stuff!" Ian tried to not drool as he started making his way to the castle.
"It will make for a wonderful evil castle for yours truly!" Maxine laughed manically.
"Looks fine" Vinnie grumbled in annoyance as she kept walking.
"A-are you ok Vinnie?" Bailey quickly started walking by her side.
"Why wouldn't I be?" she looked down with less excitement than Bailey had expected to see "Are you asking because the clock that is my life is slowly ticking forward and I can't stop it?"
"Y-y-y-you just seemed upset…" Bailey whimpered.
Vinnie sighed slightly "Sorry. I don't mean to be rude to you or anything Bailey. I'm just not having a good day today is all"
"Oh. I'm sorry to hear that" Bailey frowned softly while slowly moving closer.
"Don't worry about it. Everyone has these days-" mid-sentence she stops talking as she feels something wrap around her.
She looks down to see Bailey was silently hugging her. "Are you getting cold? I don't know if you can get warm from hugs in a game"
"I'm cold but that's not it" she whispered while placing her head on Vinnie's back "I just thought you might need it"
Vinnie wasn't quite sure what she should say in return. Standing there with a small blush.
"Let's keep things going girls!" Ian yelled over his shoulder.
"Really had to ruin the moment" Vinnie silently complained before she started walking again.
"We can hug and walk like before" Bailey nuzzled her head against her back.
"I… guess it won't slow us down" Vinnie murmured before hugging her back as they started walking again.
Confessional: Bailey
"I know hugging always makes me happy, so I thought, why not try hugging Vinnie?" she smiled while clasping her hands together "I hope it helps her until she starts feeling better"
XXX
In another part of the virtual world, the Maggots were teleporting into a world that was really just a giant playground.
"This is an interesting spot to put a challenge" Ellis murmured while walking to a sandbox "Think we just have to find a way out of here?"
"It's possible" Marty nodded slowly, though he was clearly not paying attention to it as he looked over at Jazmine with a flirtatious smirk.
She smirked back at him as Ellis stepped into the sandpit. Stepping all over it as he tried finding some way out. "Well. no luck over here"
"Let's all just look around" Therion suggested "If we're all split up I'm sure we'll all find something that works… somehow"
"Fine. I'll go with Marty-"
"I'm good" Marty raised his hand "I'd rather look around with Jazzy" he shot her finger pistols, getting a confident smile in return.
"Ok… I'll go with Colmillo then-"
"No way short stuff" the wrestler shook her head "If I'm partnering up with any short weakling on this team it's going to be Therion" she pointed down at him.
Ellis silently stared at the four teammates, before silently looking over at Bobby. He was lying in the dirt, using a pale and shovel to dig up the dirt. He was making a little dirt castle.
"So I'm stuck with him…"
"Have fun~" Marty waved before walking over to a slide with his partner.
Therion and Colmillo watched over to the swingset "Why are we going over here? We could've wrestled on the spinning wheel thing"
"I just wanted to try something. Since we're just dealing with a thing messing over the internet, I wanna see if this world is a lot glitchier than usual. One of my favorite glitches to do in games was basically drive a car into a swingset and get sent flying"
"Oh cool!" Colmillo balled up her fists "I'll get the car. Do I just need to drive into the swing set?"
Therion nodded "Just be careful. It'll send you flying across whatever map this is"
"Oh stop" Colmillo smirked while running away from the playground "I'm already super into this!"
Therion quietly chuckled. Once she was out of sight he started silently tapping his foot while looking around. He was hoping the time would pass by pretty quickly.
But it takes a good amount of time until he finally heard something coming. This was a loud car honking.
He turned to the source of the noise. While mere moments ago he was bored out of his mind, he was now face to face with Colmillo driving a truck directly at him.
"Colmillo!" the gamer yelled in surprise before she drove directly into him. Once he was out of the way she continued to drive until hitting the swing.
The moment the truck made contact with the swing it sent the wrestler and the truck flying to god knows where.
"Therion, are you ok over there!?" Ellis worriedly called.
"Just fine" Therion raised a thumbs up as he slowly pulled himself back up.
"That was rough even for Colmillo" he murmured before looking back at the swing. It was spinning over and over again. So fast that it looked like it could knock someone out.
"At least that's what happened" the gamer mused. However, as he watched it he noticed that the literal fabric of reality was being torn by the spinning swing.
"Uh…" he slowly turned around "Do you guys think this might be bad?"
Confessional: Therion
"I know the idea was my fault and all…" he stopped, before tapping the table with his fingers. He started looking around the room slowly "I was trying to think of an excuse but I don't have anything. My bad"
XXX
And for the last team, the Kombatants were all standing in a sewer. However, the whole room was shaking and glitching out as some parts appear and then disappear.
Camila visibly gagged at the disgusting sewer water. She grabbed her dress to pull it out of the gross water "I cannot believe we've been sent here first…"
"I can carry you if you want" Liz grinned perversely "I promise I can keep you out of the water the whole time"
Camila looked down to her water covered feet "I hate to say you make a fine proposal"
"Really?" Liz's eyes widened in surprise "I-I mean of course. I would hate to have one of my teammates feel disgusted the whole challenge"
Camila silently rolled her eyes as she got onto Liz's back for a piggyback ride.
"I'm surprised you're strong enough to actually carry her" Veronica mocked.
"Is that a joke about Camila's physique or my physical strength? Because either way, I don't appreciate it. And I would appreciate you trying to be nicer when on a team with me"
"I'm good" the rich girl rolled her eyes.
"There's got to be a monster hiding in these sewers. I bet it's like a giant crock man!" Mitch was jumping onto Camila's back, just wanting to stay out of the water in case there was a sudden drop-off.
Liz seemed to be getting tired by trying to hold them up "M-Mitch are you sure you can't stay on the ground?"
"If they're not touching this gross water then I'm not either!" Veronica jumped on but tried personally avoiding touching Mitch either.
"G-g-guys, I don't think I can carry all of you like this…" Liz's legs started shaking.
"I'm fine walking in the water" Dylan chuckled while stomping repeatedly in the water.
"You babies are really going to slow us down this bad? I didn't think my last team could be worse yet here we are!" Mimos started walking closer.
"What are you doing?" the three on Veronica's back started trying to pull away from him.
"Just come along" the mimicker grabbed Veronica by her collar before putting her on his back. He then grabbed Mitch and held him in his arms.
"See? That's easy and since I'm not built like a glasshouse I can still keep ahead of the rest of you"
"Did you have to carry me like this though?" Mitch deadpanned in the bridal carry.
"Can you be less competitive?" Dylan rubbed her neck "Liz was just trying to help you don't have to insult her like that"
"When she gets my respect sure" Mimos frowned at her "And believe me, while the whole team is made up of babies, you're the biggest baby when it comes to complaining"
"You haven't talked to most of this team" Camila snickered.
Mimos chose to just move on from this conversation. Turning to the only entrance in front of them. It was a plain opening to another part of the sewer. He started walking closer before it suddenly glitched shut again.
"Do we have to make progress?" Mitch worried.
"Yea, if we don't try we can just eliminate Mitch" Veronica grinned.
"I'm not going to lose after how many times my team avoided an elimination ceremony" Mimos closed his eyes, backing away from the glitched-out entrance.
Veronica and Mitch were both looking nervously at each other before the team leader started rushing forward.
Both contestants he was carrying started screaming in fear as he started running at the wall. The other three silently watched him as he got stuck inside the wall and reappeared next to the others in a few moments.
"Alright, that failed a bit" he admitted. "But I'll solve it"
He put Mitch under his arm before trying the exact same thing again. Though he luckily made it through…
Only to find even more glitched pathways through the sewers.
Confessional: Liz
"I don't know if I'm the only one thinking this but the whole team swap business has kinda been rough. I mean, I don't want to insult them or anything but I liked all the friends I made on the old team"
She slowly put on a more stern expression "No. that's a bad mindset. Mitch, Veronica, and Dylan might need my help! That's the most important of all. And not to insult them… but Veronica and Mitch look like they could use some help. Plus, Dylan's cute enough that you'd wanna see her lying down on your bed like-"
As she starts going into detail it cuts off.
XXX
Back with the Plumbers, they made it back to the large castle. While at first, it was a large princess-themed castle that seemed to be welcoming them. The closer they got the more it looked like Dracula's castle.
"Now this is a real castle!" Maxine stated confidently.
"I don't know. I mean just imagine all the taxes you'd have to pay just on property alone" Walter shook his head slowly.
Ian scoffed as he tried looking for a lever to bring down the drawbridge "You'd pay taxes?"
"It's illegal to not pay them so, of course, I would!"
"And here I thought you were cool" he slowly shakes his head.
"Just focus on the challenge Ian" Mitzy stated dryly.
"We have no way across, I have nothing to focus on!"
While they were arguing Vinnie and Bailey finally caught up. Though to do so Vinnie had to carry her friend like a baby. She silently rolled her eyes as she walked in on their arguing.
But, in the corner of her eye she could see someone moving behind one of the castle's many windows "Guys, someone is in there!"
They turned to look where she was pointing but didn't see anything "Aw man, I actually fell for that old trick"
"I'm being serious. I saw a- oh nevermind…"
"So does anyone have an idea on how we can get the bridge down?" Walter changed the topic.
"I've got this!' Maxine pointed proudly at herself "someone must throw me at the window!"
"Are you sure that's safe?" Mitzy worried.
"Eh, who cares?" Ian shrugged while picking the villainess up like a football "It's just a game, if she gets some cuts it'll only be emotional damage" he threw as hard as he could at the lower windows, managing to crash through them.
"Great! Now she can open the gate" Ian smiled.
"Like I'm doing that" Maxine looked out the window again with a large mocking grin "This is now my life. And only my minions can come in! So… could one of you throw Mitzy over here?"
"I think I'm fine Maxine" Mitzy gave her a blank expression.
"Ok, she's not cooperating. We gotta throw someone else" Ian looked around the contestants. Walter and Mitzy looked a bit too big for him to throw that hard. He looked over to Vinnie and Bailey before smirking a bit.
"Hey, ladies sorry to interrupt but…" before he could give them a moment to react he grabbed Bailey and chucked her as hard as he could at the same window he threw Maxine into.
"What- she didn't say she wanted to be thrown" Vinnie frowned.
"Oh she's fine" Ian rolled his eyes as Bailey gave them a weak thumbs up "But I like you more without that costume. Much feistier" he grinned.
Vinnie quietly grumbled to herself, until they finally got the drawbridge to lower. Bailey was standing at the entrance with a few glass shards sticking out of her jacket and scarf.
"Well done Bailey" Walter clapped encouragingly.
"T-thanks" she murmured as the others started coming inside.
Ian and Mitzy just walked past her, though Mitzy gave her an encouraging thumbs-up.
Vinnie was the last one to walk inside, looking down at her. "S-sorry I left you behind…"
"Don't worry about it" the girl smiled before dusting all the glass off her clothing "Let's just keep moving"
The freezie pop smiled, jumping back to Vinnie's side to hug her as they kept moving into the fortress.
"I wonder where Maxine went" Walter frowned while looking around. Multiple doors and stairs were going in different directions.
"She'll run around until she tires herself out. Then she'll take a nap. We don't need to worry too much about her" Mitzy mused "What we should focus on is how we get to the next stage of the challenge"
"So we should just split up?"
"Might as well" Mitzy shrugged "What else can we do?"
As she spoke, they could hear loud thud noises on the level above them.
"I'm thinking we should go that way" Ian noted before quietly walking up one of the stairs.
"I'll take any lead we have" Walter smiled before following him. Before being chased after by the rest of the team that was still together.
Back at the park, everyone on the Maggots ignoring Colmillo was standing in front of the large purple void that appeared.
"I don't play games much but that is interesting" Ellis murmured.
"Should we be worried about that" Jazmine was standing the furthest away from the void "That looks like we ripped a hole in the universe"
"I'm sure it's fine" Marty shrugged "Worst-case scenario we're probably just going to wake up in the real world again"
"We could make it worse" Bobby murmured while sitting on the ground.
Ellis scoffed "Why would we want to make it worse?"
He shrugged before playing more in the dirt "I don't know, I just want to feel a part of things"
"Actually… he might have a good idea. We're here to try stopping whatever is glitching everything. So if we glitch out this whole place we might have a chance of getting to where we need to go"
"It's not like we've found any other way out, so it's at least worth a shot" Jazmine tapped her chin "But how do we glitch things?"
"Let me find an example…" Therion looked around before seeing the red spinning wheel "Ok, this is easy enough"
He goes over to it and grabs it and starts quickly spinning "anyone got something they want to launch?"
Ellis and Jazmine looked around the area before their eyes settled on Bobby.
They pushed the large slob over to his spinning wheel "What do we do with him?"
"Are… you sure you want to use him?" the gamer frowned slightly.
Ellis and Jaz slowly nodded their head "Ok… fine. Just push him against part of the spinning.
Jazmine and Ellis slowly pushed him closer. Slowly but surely he was getting closer until he made contact. Suddenly Bobby was sent flying into a fence, moving around slowly like a ragdoll.
"Ew…" Marty murmured watching Bobby slowly shaking across the ground. Though the blob seemed to just be enjoying himself.
A small void appeared at the wheel "Ok guys, now we just need to put objects on top of Bobby and they should go flying in different directions!"
The three teammates not doing anything started quickly running to grab any items they can find.
"This might go pretty well if we can stay focused…"
His train of thought was cut off by hearing the same honking coming towards him "Oh… not again" he sighed before getting steamrolled over by a new truck Colmillo stole.
Confessional: Ellis
"Therion being the team captain is pretty nice. He's a handsome enough guy. In fact, this whole team is sweet. If I didn't have Bobby around I'd say this team is a guaranteed shot at making the merge. But it's hard to not still be worried about Veronica. I mean, on our last team she only got along with me, and even then she was still pretty snarky. I'm going to have to mess around with this one too"
He groaned slightly in annoyance before getting his AirPods out "I like the drama and all but doing it all for just one girl is a little bit of a pain"
XXX
Eventually, the team managed to make almost the entire playground a bright purple void "I think we're close to being down" Therion nodded slowly as he looked around "I think we just need one more…"
"I'm out of stuff to glitch" Jazmine shrugged.
Marty was about to grab a red kickball that was rolling on the ground when it suddenly went down into the void "Yea, no, I'm out"
"Oh come on guys, how hard is it to split reality in half!?" Colmillo smirked "I bet I can do it with one arm behind my back"
"You can sure try" Ellis deadpanned.
Colmillo rubbed her chin. She looked at Bobby, who was no longer ragdolling and was just hanging out like he usually did.
"Oh, I got this!" she looked over to Therion with an excited smile. She grabbed him before tossing him at one of the trees. Though for once she actually tried to not hurt him too badly.
When he made contact with the tree, his hands extended like noodles, causing the last needed void for them to appear as they vanished into the tears.
Next thing they knew they were now standing in a room that looks like it would be used for NASA. There was plenty of desks, a large monitor in front of the other monitors, and many buttons to press randomly.
"This is new" Jazmine looked over the screens "Oh, you think these have higher definition than a phone?"
"Maybe?" Bobby guessed "But what are you talking about with… "definition"?"
"Is there someone here that wasn't born in the 50's?"
Marty raised his hand "Yea, I wasn't born then. So my answer is I'm not sure either" Jazmine silently stared back at him.
"What do you think we should do Therion?" Colmillo was smiling apologetically at him as she pulled his arms back to their normal length.
"Uh… I think we should…" he slowly rubbed his temple "press random buttons?"
"Oh, I can do that!" Bobby smiled while walking over to one of the computers. Before slamming his palms on every single button that was on it.
"I like his energy" Marty before going to do the exact same thing that he was doing. Eventually getting followed up by Jazmine and Ellis, who were much more careful with what they pressed.
"Are you sure you're doing ok?" Colmillo looked down at him.
"I'm fine" Therion chuckled "Just… a small concussion really"
"Ah, you always remember your first one" she smiled, giving him a small pat on the back.
Back with the Kombatants, they had all split up. Dylan was going down a middle route, Camila and Liz went down a left route, while the other three were going to the right.
Dylan was taking a mostly relaxed, nonchalant walk through the sewage. Her hands were comfortably tucked into her pockets.
While it was rather relaxing for a good while, this would become short-lived. As she could hear multiple noises crawling around behind her.
"Who's there?" she frowned while raising her hands to defend herself.
In the water, she could see two crocs silently staring at her. They were floating on the sewer water, they looked docile at the very least.
"Oh… h-hey there" she smiled nervously, backing away from them.
They didn't follow after her, however, they slowly raised out of the water. They had rock-hard abs and looked like they spent all their time in those sewers lifting weights.
"Oh my god" she looked terrified "You could grind meat on those-" she gestured to their abs before one of them tried biting down on her arm.
"Ok, sorry for bothering you!" she started sprinting away "I was just trying to compliment you!" she yelled while watching them chase after her.
On the Mimos route, they weren't having too much trouble jumping between stone platforms. Part of the stone collapsed, dropping a piece of stone into the water before submerging.
"This feels dangerous" Mitch whimpered.
"Oh, you'll be fine baby boy Mitch." Mimos rolled his eyes as he kept jumping "If I was going to drop you I would've dropped you a while back"
"Good to know that you realize you're carrying precious cargo then" Veronica smirked.
"I'm only carrying you two because I know you would get nothing done without me."
"Fair enough" Mitch admitted with a shrug.
"I'll have you know last challenge I was one of the few contestants who actually managed to do anythin-" Veronica was cut off by Mimos stopping in his tracks.
She looked over his shoulder to see that they were now standing over a pit. This was the entrance to a new room, which was just a giant pit with a swirling whirlpool down below. Across from them was many other openings to the room.
"This is different" Mimos noted while looking down.
"D-d-d-don't lean too close to the edge!" Mitch panicked while clutching his shirt.
"Please, I'm not going to fall into the water. So stop whining or I will drop you" he threatened.
"Yes sir…"
They continued to look down at the water below. However, while they were distracted another crocodile started crawling closer to them. Veronica silently turned around before her eyes widened. She repeatedly knocked Mimos on the back of his head to get his attention.
"What is it?" He growled before turning around. When he saw the croc he just snickered "Oh, you're scared of this? Let me handle it"
The aggressive leader set Mitch and Veronica down on the platform. He cracked his knuckles with a confident grin on his face "Come on over here before I have to turn you into a fashionable purse"
The crocodile blinked one eye at a time, just making the mimicker feel all the more confident as he dove at it.
Mitch and Veronica silently watched before wincing in pain as Mimos grunted and groaned. After a few moments, Mimos was flung right over the side of the cliff. Crashing into the whittling water.
The buff croc looked at Veronica and Mitch with his arms crossed expectantly.
"Alright, alright I get the picture" Mitch raised his hands as he slowly backed away from him "I knew I'd die from drowning one way or another anyways"
And with that, he threw himself over the side.
"I hate this team" Veronica whined miserably before following after them.
The croc smiled proudly before slithering somewhere else. In the water the group of three floundered around, desperately trying to stay above the water.
Once they were already halfway to the middle of the water when Liz still carrying Camila walked to the edge of another opening. "What's with all that screaming?" Liz worried.
"I think it's the drowning teammates" Camila pointed down at the trio slowly spinning around.
"Oh my god!" Liz suddenly dropped Camila on the ground "Sorry Camila" she turned around to quickly apologize before jumping into the whirlpool "I'm coming guys!"
She landed in the water, quickly getting caught in the swirling water as she tried to keep Mitch above water.
Camila watched the four slowly going to the middle, smirking a bit as she waved down at Mimos while leaning against the wall. "Have fun wherever that's going"
Mimos scowled up at her before pulling his shoe off his foot, the psychic wasn't preparing for him to suddenly pull it above water and chuck it directly at her head. So she didn't react fast enough, falling over with the rest of them.
Since she was already unconscious she was going straight for the middle.
Eventually, the five couldn't keep themselves above, going down the whirlpool.
Instead of drowning, however, they all suddenly woke up in a large computer room. Though they were totally soaking wet.
"Ugh, where are we now?" Veronica complained while standing up "Good thing this is a video game or I would have killed someone for messing with this dress"
"That tacky dress?" Camila grinned mockingly "I think it getting ruined would honestly be better for you"
Veronica gasped before turning around, pointing angrily at her chest "You're saying that when you dress up in robes like that!?"
"Is someone upset?" the clairvoyant stood up to shake her hips from side to side "I know my attire makes me look simply delectable but knowing it makes you seething angry just boosts my confidence higher and higher"
Liz silently smiled watching the catfight, mentally trying to force herself to step in and stop them. But just couldn't bring herself to do it.
"Women" Mimos rolled his eyes while walking over to the machinery. This was when he noticed the Maggots were all sitting around trying to do something with the buttons "HEY!"
This caught the attention of the Kombatants and the Maggots. Which then brought both teams to notice the other team was there.
"Hey, how did you guys get here so fast?" Liz frowned.
"I guess we're just better than you" Colmillo smirked.
"Oh is that right?" Veronica scowled.
"It sure is" Marty smiled in amusement, just wanting to get in the middle of the drama.
"Ugh, is this going to be a fight thing?" Jaz whined.
Therion shook his head with a small smile "It doesn't have to be" he walked closer to Mimos "How about this, you guys work on the machines closer to the bottom while we work on the ones higher up?"
"That's an interesting proposal…" Mimos nodded slowly, before looking back at Therion "Sha-punch!" he smirked while decking him across the face.
Therion stumbled on the ground, but Mimos didn't get the chance to continue the fight as Colmillo dove at him, bringing him down to the ground.
"I'm not going to wait to be taken down!" Mitch screamed, running toward the others who weren't fighting.
The other three girls looked at each other before deciding to just run into the combat after Mitch.
Confessional: Mitch
"Let's be honest" Mitch was sitting in his confessional with a black eye and multiple bruises "Colmillo was going to break all of our bones one way or another. So if we can at least take down more of their team I can pretend we put up a fight"
XXX
Back at the castle, Maxine was sprinting from hall to hall with dangerous intent. As she turned a corner, a shadowy figure turned to the right.
"Come back here! There shall be no trespassers in evil's new castle!" she yelled while trying to keep up.
As she got to the turn it took, she only slammed into Walter "Since when did you all get into my castle?"
"We… or Ian threw Bailey in to open the gate for us" Walter shrugged a little "Were you the one making noises in here?"
"No, someone else broke in before us. I've been hunting him down until I bumped into you"
"Oh, sorry" Walter apologized. "I just heard someone running around in this direction"
"Apology not accepted!" Maxine stormed past him "I must capture this man!"
"Hey, I think I got him!" Ian yelled from another room.
"What!?" Maxine ran as fast as she could to the room. Inside Ian had someone tied up with a bag over their head. The room was themed after a large film set.
"Easy win" he smirked confidently.
"Who is it?" Bailey tilted her head, everyone but Mitzy was there now.
"Easy" he lifted the mask "It's Mitzy!" Ian gasped dramatically "How could you do this?"
Mitzy silently glared at him with tape over her mouth, so she couldn't complain back at him. The rest of the teammates just looked at Ian with slightly annoyed expressions.
"What?" he frowned "Why are you all looking at me like this?"
"Mitzy wouldn't do something like this" Vinnie stated plainly.
"Yea, she's one of the kindhearted people still in this game" Walter nodded.
"Sure, but if we tell Topher she did it we'll win… so no harm no foul right?"
The contestants silently started walking away from the two of them, just annoyed with Ian. However, before they walked away they could hear something walking on the stage.
They turned around to see a scrawny man standing on the stage with a mask covering half of his face. But to everyone, it was pretty clear that it was just Insignificant. Except for-
"Who are you, you dastardly fiend!?" Maxine raised her fist "Answer me before I bring my anger down on you like a thousand suns!"
"I would never tell you filthy Americans what I've done and why I've done it" he flipped his cape like a serious supervillain.
"Insignificant why are you doing this?" Vinnie deadpanned.
"I'm not Insignificant! I'm…" he reached into his pocket, pulling a notecard out "I'm Significant!"
"Right, well whatever you say Significant" Ian smiled while running over to him.
The starving young man screamed in surprise, running off stage to try to escape. Before he could fully escape off stage Ian dove at his legs, knocking him down to the ground behind the curtains.
Ian shook him around a bit before tossing him back onto the middle of the stage with his legs and arms tied. "And we win" he smirked.
"At least that wasn't too hard" Walter smiled slightly.
"And so the castle is all mine!" Maxine stood on one of the chairs to show off her dominance before they all suddenly disappeared.
Back in the computer rooms, everyone was slapping each other around or just trying to mess with them. Like Colmillo trying to rip Mitch in half as he hides on her back while holding on for dear life.
The problem with the fighting was that so many of them were there now that the scene was slowly buffering and loading.
The only one not in the middle of the fighting was Bobby, who was just smiling and still pressing buttons.
"Guys, do we really have to be fighting like this? I mean-" as Therion spoke Mimos just pushed him over, just getting tired of his talking.
Therion rolled over, very slowly, before hitting one of the computers. He groaned as he slowly sat up. When he looked back to the others he could see Colmillo slowly getting closer to punching Mimos.
Therion pulled himself up, accidentally pressing one of the buttons. Suddenly, everything started speeding up again "Oh, I think I got it" the gamer smiled in surprise.
Almost immediately after saying that both teams disappeared from where they were standing.
They all woke back up in the new VR room, with Topher silently looking down.
"We won right?" Mimos smiled expectantly at Topher.
"Oh, yeah, sure" the host slowly nodded while typing away.
"Wait- what?" Jaz scowled "Therion touched the button! He won the challenge"
"Fine, fine" he put the phone in his pocket "I'm still trying to remember who's with who." he pulled out his phone to type on it a little bit before putting it back.
"OK, uh, Maggots and the Plumbers are safe." he looked over at the Plumbers specifically "Thanks for getting the cause by the way. I'll be sure to put Insignificant on toilet duty this week"
"Trust me it was our pleasure" Mitzy mused.
"First challenge with the new team and we lost…" Camila sighed sadly.
"At least we gave it our all" Dylan smiled encouragingly.
"That's the way to look at it Dylan" she nodded proudly.
Veronica rolled her eyes "I hope one of them goes home"
Mitch smirked slightly at her "If it's not you that goes packing"
"What was that!?" she quickly turned around. But Mitch was already long gone.
"If my team was capable I might have been able to carry us a little easier" Mimos sighed disappointedly "I'll see you all at the elimination ceremony!" he waved with a smirk that showed he was confident he wouldn't be going home.
The new team, the Kombatants were now sitting at the elimination ceremony. In the back part Mimos, Veronica, and Camila were sitting in a row. In front of them were Dylan, Liz, and Mitch. With the last one constantly turning around to make sure Veronica wasn't planning something.
"First elimination ceremony for the new teams. I'd be more stocked but for some of you, I'm kinda getting tired of seeing you all the time"
He specifically looks at Dylan, who just laughed it off.
"I guess I have been having trouble so far this season"
"Sure are" Topher mused "But without further ado, get to voting. But be warned, we're doing something a little special this time around"
"That's very promising" Veronica deadpanned.
"I'll go first. I'm not scared of some dumb gimmick" Mimos smirked while walking away.
"It's such a pain seeing someone with such a huge head" Camila slowly shook her head.
Mitch and Dylan silently stared at her, but she was just too good to notice their stares. "That's… very right Camila" Liz chuckled softly.
Eventually, everyone had voted. Not showing any of their votes this time around as they looked around nervously. "So. I'm sure you're all wondering what our little gimmick will be here yes?"
He got slow nervous nods from everyone but Mimos.
"Well, I'm glad to hear it! None of you know your team that well yet. Ignoring Camila and Liz that is. So, for our twist, we're going to be playing your voting for the rest of the team to see!"
The contestants gasped suddenly "You can't do that!" Mitch raised an accusatory finger "That's infringing on our first amendment rights!"
"Your rights don't count here in the ocean" Topher smiled before turning around and pointing at the screen.
Confessional: Mitch
"I don't trust a single soul on this team. But… Mimos carried me most of the challenge, literally, and didn't throw me around like a ragdoll so I think he can stay. But I don't trust Dylan, she's just so laid back and her team was constantly losing. If you ask me, I bet she's trying to copy Scott's self-sabotage plan! I mean, she didn't help us at the end of the challenge"
Confessional: Liz
"It's always hard to vote for someone… and this one is even harder. But I know I have to vote for Mimos. His leadership can't be good for our teammates, and the ego is a bit hard to deal with. I'm sorry Mimos"
Confessional: Mimos
"Dylan. Easy" he stamped her face "I'm trying to run a well-oiled team that can actually match what I'm doing. So someone laid back is just not going to work out"
Confessional: Dylan
She had a calm smile on her face "I like this team… but Mimos is kinda really harshing the groove y'know?" She stamps his face.
Confessional: Camila
She was silently filing her nails "Well, I think it's quite clear who should go. I'd eliminate Liz because she's disgusting. I know I could feel her 'holding me up' by placing her hands on my perfect rear. But, Mimos was close allies with Ian back on our last team. So I think it's clear Ian making the merge with no allies would be much better. But knowing how likable he is I doubt I have to worry much about him either way" she stamps Mimos.
Confessional: Veronica
"I want to vote out Camila. I mean, she thinks she looks good, but clearly, she doesn't even come close to what I've got going on right here" she smirked "But… she didn't do anything wrong. So to make sure I'm not the one going home I'm more than happy to vote for Dylan. I mean, Mimos is annoying and unattractive and all, but he seems to know I'm worth listening to. So goodbye ballerina girl" she waved at the camera.
XXX
Camila and Veronica silently glared at each other as Dylan started looking worried. Liz was just silently frowning with her head down
"That's right" Topher smiled "We've also got the season's first tie-breaker!"
Mimos silently turned to Dylan, giving her a smug smirk "You're going down. Hard"
"For this little tiebreaker I have something just perfect for you both" he smiled "Just come follow me"
This only made the ballerina worry further as they walked outside the elimination building. Nelly was now wearing a construction-themed outfit. She wiped her brow before turning back around "It's ready"
"What's ready?" Mimos raised an eyebrow.
"That's the tiebreaker. Have either of you played Super Monkey Ball?"
"Monkey… balls?" Dylan silently frowned.
Topher frowned back "It's not about their actual balls. You see, in this game, you're on a slowly moving platform in balls that are constantly rolling around. First one of you to fall out is getting a one-way ticket home"
Mimos and Dylan side-eyed each other, getting mentally prepared for the fight. Next thing they knew they were both in large red and blue balls on a platform above the ground. It looked like a giant plate.
Topher stood on a latter positioned near the platform "Get ready…" Mimos and Dylan crouched forward "Get set…. Go!"
The moment he said go, the platforms started raising and lowering in random spots, trying to buck the two of them off. Mimos and Dylan were almost immediately knocked onto their backs as they got tossed around by the constantly moving platform.
"I… think I'm going to get sick!" Dylan was turning green as she kept rolling around.
Eventually, they both managed to get their footing again, even if they were still bouncing around in totally different directions.
"Let's go ladies!" Topher yelled up to them with an amused smile.
Mimos silently smirked to himself like a hamster in a giant ball. He rammed into a still struggling Dylan in the side. She bounced far to the side, only managing to not get pushed right off by the platform suddenly turning to the side.
"Oh come on, just go over!" Mimos growled before running towards her again. Dylan saw this coming and started rushing to hit him back.
Both slammed against each other, causing them both to bounce back closer to the edges. They decided this was the perfect plan to keep trying. So, they slammed into each other over and over again.
Eventually, Mimos got a good angle on her, sending her flinging right to the edge. Mimos smirked confidently as he started rushing back toward her to try finally finishing her off.
Dylan looked at the oncoming Mimos, and then managed to roll out of his way this time, leaving Mimos running straight for the edge of the platform.
His eyes widened in surprise as he tried to stop from going over. Dylan saw her win was in her grasp, deciding to run while he was barely leaning over the edge.
When she was about to deal the final blow, a smug grin grew on Mimos's face. With one step and push of his arm, he was spiraling around her before softly bonking her on the side.
Dylan's eyes widened as she toppled over the side, being sent falling fast and hard. However, before making contact with the ground she was enveloped by a green pipe that suddenly sprouted from the ground.
Once she was gone into the pipe Topher raised his hands "And it looks like Mimos is staying another day! Congratulations!"
The platform lowered, allowing Mimos to pop out of the ball, before throwing up on the ground.
"Let it out champ" Topher smiled, slowly patting him on the back.
The rest of his team looked upset, disappointed, or uncaring seeing Mimos manage to stick around. So they all just started walking away. Mimos didn't seem to care either way as he continued to stay hunched over.
"Don't worry. I'm sure your new team will get used to you, and maybe even like you….." he smiled at the camera "Next time on Total. Drama. Arcade!"
AN: And that's the first and maybe only challenge that doesn't have much of a theme to it in relation to specific video games at least. Basically, every triple-A game starts off with a lot of glitching and just tons of messes so I thought that might be worth a try for challenges. Besides that, it was nice having Dylan around when she was. Having someone laid back is definitely different than most of the contestants still in the game. But besides being one of the few people who can put up with Bobby I didn't have too much of an idea on what to do with her. But she was still pretty nice to have
Teams:
Pathetic Plumbers: Walter, Ian, Vinnie, Bailey, Maxine, Mitzy
Mega-Maggots: Ellis, Bobby, Marty, Jazmine, Colmillo, Therion
Killer Kombatants: Liz, Camila, Mimos, Mitch, Veronica
