Author's Note: Welcome back to another chapter! This is another extensive one like the previous one. So, if you need a break from reading this chapter go right ahead. Just make sure to finish it. With that note over, enjoy!


Teams

Blazing Gaffers

Boys - Pharoah, Buck, Buford, Maverick, Edgar

Girls – Janet, Lucy, Niu, Georgia, Sua, Lilith

Freezing Grips

Boys – Knick, Christopher, Simon, Raymundo, Jett, Axel

Girls – Saraphina, Daniela, Kristie, Tamera, JJ, Melissa


"Last time on Total Drama Lights Camera Finale," Chris said, narrating a summary of the previous episode. Flashbacks occur as he retells these events.

"The final twenty-four teens arrived at the film lot in Total Drama's last season. After giving a sweet and fast tour around the lot, I took the contestants to the prehistoric set where they wack alien eggs with bones. They picked up either a red card or a blue card to determine who will be their teammates. Those who got blue became the Freezing Grips while the ones who got red became the Blazing Gaffers."

"After the two teams formed, the competitors had to evade Casey and Chef blasting them with slime. The Freezing Grips won the first challenge of the season thanks to Jett, Saraphina, and Christopher."

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention that Henry decided to hire some weirdo to hold me hostage in my trailer and pretended to be me. So glad that nutcase got booted off first."

Chris is done with narration. The flashbacks end. Chris is shown inside the crafts and services tent where Casey is in the kitchen preparing breakfast for the contestants. The kitchen area looks like a stereotypical high school cafeteria where the lunch ladies serve the students. Chris notices Casey grabbing a bottle of her homemade spicy hot sauce.

"It's breakfast Casey, not dinner," Chris told his co-host.

"What? We need to spice up the competition for the viewers," Casey casually said while smiling. She squeezes the bottle and puts a bit of hot sauce on a plate with scrambled eggs.

"You serve them that for the morning and it is coming out of your paycheck," Chris warned.

Casey narrows her eyes and eats the eggs with her sauce in one bite.

"Good," Chris thanked as he put his hands behind his back. He looks at a camera. "Who will be the next contestant to be riding the lame-o-sine? Find out now on Total… Drama…"

Casey breathes fire off-screen directly at Chris' hair. The charming man panics as he can feel his hair is on fire. The camera pans to Casey so she can finish her co-host's sentence.

"Lights, Camera, Finale!" Casey announced. She then giggles as she watches Chris use a fire extinguisher to put the flames out of his hair.


The theme song for Total Drama has an orchestral vibe to it while still being groovy. A camera pops out of the entrance to the Crowstillo Caverns from Crowstillo Island. Another camera pops out from a carnival booth. Then one shows itself from a clothes racket at the film lot. A smooth transition occurs on Camp Wawanakwa's high cliff. The camera drone dives into the water around the cliff, creating a splash.

Dear mom and dad I'm doing fine

The full cast of Total Drama Island is shown inside the dodgeball court. Everyone is throwing dodgeballs at each other. It looks to be the Screaming Gophers on the left side of the court facing the Killer Bass on the right side of the court. Teens throw and get hit. Owen throws a fastball.

You guys are on my mind

The fast-moving dodgeball transitions to a tire. The camera pans out to show Duncan driving the Action Cast in a tram. He looks to be annoyed by Courtney's talking. This distracts him and crashes the tram with him and the cast into something off-screen. The smoke released from the tram enlarges.

You asked me what I wanted to be,

The smoke disappears to show the jumbo jet soaring in the sky.

and I think the answer is plain to see

The World Tour Cast jumps out of the jumbo jet with parachute bags. Alejandro winks at the audience before deploying his parachute. Quick zoom on the parachute.

I wanna be famous!

The parachute descends to show Cameron in his robotic suit fighting Lightning who has armor and carrying a mannequin leg with spikes at the 'coliseum' Chris build. The rest of the Revenge Cast are sitting at the bleachers cheering for either combatant. The fight ends when Cameron charges a ball of electricity on his iron suit's right fist and shoots at the camera. Though, it is clear it is for Lighting from the athlete's person of view.

I wanna live close to the sun

It is night and the blue madness full moon is glowing brightly. Mike inhales and turns into Mal. Someone throws Mr. Coconut at Mal's head off-screen to bring Mike back in control.

Go pack your bags, 'cause I've already won

The camera pans to the right to show who throw Mr. Coconut. It is Zoey, who is smiling happily at getting her boyfriend back. The rest of the All-Stars cast is running away in the background from rabid fluffy rabbits.

Everything to prove, nothing in my way

Another transition displays itself. The Pahkitew Cast is inside the labyrinth of the artificial island running away from scuba-bear and a mechanical orange cat. The cat stops to breathe fire from its mouth.

I'll get there one day

The fire stops and the next part shows the finalists of Crowstillo Island trying to complete the obstacle course. The rest of the cast is cheering for their favorite at the peanut gallery. Knick, Saraphina, and Casey take out one of their accessory clothes and throws it at the camera.

Cuz' I wanna be famous

The trench coat, scarf, and jacket fall from the camera lens. The Back to the Islands Cast is shown at Boney Island's Fun Zone using anti-mutant guns with the orange liquid in it to turn the mutants from the show into normal animals. Jeremy accidentally shoots some liquid at the camera.

Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na

The cameraman wipes off the orange liquid with a small handkerchief. Once done, at a cliff of Crowstillo Island, Yves and Knick are shown doing a sword battle against King Crowstillo. In the background, the rest of the Radiant Cast faces off Henry in his robotic suit. Henry activates a laser cannon from the suit's left arm and unleashes a laser blast.

I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!

Once the laser blast disappears from sight, the Calamity Cast are riding the roller coaster at the carnival. Some are frightened, some are having fun. JJ takes out a colorful streamer-like grenade from her wig and throws it into the air. The grenade explodes and streamers cover the screen.

I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!

The streamers end up at the Glided Chris Awards stage where the Lights Camera Finale Cast is getting ready to have a picture taken. The streamers end up on everyone. Some find this annoying while others continue to smile. All contestants, Chris, Chef, and Casey whistle. Once the song is over, the picture is taken and the intro ends.


The episode starts with the Blazing Gaffer girls inside their trailer. There are three bunk beds with each mattress having a blanket. a pillow, two chairs, a small wardrobe cabinet with a large mirror on top, and an orange carpet on the floor. Each girl is in their pajamas. Niu and Georgia are currently sitting on a chair looking at the mirror while applying pink lipstick to their lip. The actress is wearing long black pants, and a black shirt with a rose picture in the center while Niu is wearing a teal camisole with a white polka dot pattern and matching shorts.

Janet is happily swinging her legs back in forth, sitting on a top bunk. She is wearing a simple green oversized tee shirt with planet images on it.

"So, girls, what will you be doing today before the challenge?" Janet asked kindly. "Macaroni art? Frisbee? How many light years does it take to reach Uranus?"

Lilith hears Janet from the bottom bunk. Her pajamas are a long dark purple nightgown. She is currently fixing her pigtails.

"I'm going to hang out with Maverick and Edgar before breakfast," Lilith answered the space geek.

"Really? I thought you would only hang out with girls considering your preference," Georgia mocked the goth as she puts her pink lipstick on top of the cabinet.

"That doesn't mean I can't hang out with guys," Lilith told as she narrows her eyes at the actress. She finishes fixing her pigtails.

"I think she was being rhetorical," Sua thought. She is wearing a baby blue sweater, yellow pajama pants, and a pink sleeping mask. She has the mask on covering her eyes as she gets up from the bottom mattress of another bunk bed. She walks to the cabinet to get her clothes but accidentally hits the ladder that goes to the top bed of the bunk she is sleeping at.

"Correct Sua, at least someone in the showbiz can tell how another speaks," Georgia spoke as she watches Sua take her pink sleeping mask off. She gets up from the chair she is sitting in so Sua can sit and put on makeup while looking at the mirror.

Lucy is shown climbing down the ladder of the bunk bed Sua was at. The detective must have taken the top one. Lucy is wearing a white t-shirt with short black shorts.

Once landing on the floor, she speaks and looks at Georgia. "You know, this isn't the Dangerous Serpents. This isn't a villainous team. I don't think it is wise to start mocking your teammates."

"Oh of course, of course, Lucy," Georgia played off at the advice. "How so foolish of me."

"You're being sarcastic, aren't you?" Lucy stated not amused.

"No darling not at all," The actress spoke cynically as she puts on her white gloves. "You're correct, we are teammates. But as teammates, we also need to learn to poke around and have fun with each other."

"Stop trying to justify your actions," Lucy said as she walks to the wardrobe cabinet.

"Well Janet," Niu said to break the tension in the trailer. She takes out a folded list from under her pillow at the bottom bunk bed she is sleeping on. "I'll be following my schedule for today." She opens the list, which is long.

So long in fact it touches the floor and rolls over to where Lilith is. This sparks everyone inside to look at the goal digger curiously.

Niu clears her throat to speak. "At six o'clock with sixteen minutes, which is now, I will be speaking with you all."

"Did you actually wait for it to be that time to speak with us?" Lilith asked.

"Just picturing you doing nothing until now is amusing," Georgia told Niu.

"Wasn't she putting lipstick on? Sua remembered, done putting on her own makeup, which is just powdering her face a bit.

"Don't ruin the moment," Georgia answered back.

"At six o'clock with twenty minutes, I'll be doing stretches," Niu continues reading her list happily, ignoring her teammates. "At six o'clock and twenty-two minutes, I'll go to the boy's trailer and knock on the door. At…"

"And I'm officially done hearing this conversation," Georgia stated with a bright smile. She opens the wardrobe to get her regular outfit and a yellow towel. She puts them over her left shoulder. "If any of you need my assistance, I'll be taking a shower. So don't ask me for help."

Georgia opens the trailer's door and leaves, letting the door stay open.

"Want to come with me to hang out with the boys Sua?" Lilith asked the idol.

"Splendid idea Lilith," Sua agreed. She rapidly and excitingly opens the wardrobe and begins taking out her clothes and Lilith's.

Janet continues on the top punk. She watches the two girls leave and then looks at Niu. "You got a nice schedule going on. Wish I could have that. I tend to forget things."

"All you need to do is write the stuff you want to do for the day," Niu advised as she watches Janet climb down the bunk's ladder. "That way you can remember."

Janet gasps happily after landing on the floor with her feet. "Oh my gosh, that is an excellent idea."

"I would recommend not giving specific hours," Lucy advised Janet then looks at Niu and lets out a chuckle. "Surely you're not expecting everything to go as the list says, right?"

When Niu does not answer her, Lucy remains quiet and worried.

Confessional – Lucy – Blazing Gaffers

"I'm worried that Niu isn't going to do well with her fixed schedule. Total Drama is a game where Chris calls for challenges on the fly. She's not going to anticipate the dude's next move unless she can read minds. Which she cannot."

She sighs. "Oh well, I'll cross that bridge with her when we get there."

Confessional – Niu – Blazing Gaffers

She continues reading her list. "Seven o'clock, go have breakfast after taking a shower. Seven with fifteen minutes, finish…"

End Confessionals

The Freezing Grips girls are inside their trailer. All six of them have woken and are in their pajamas. The trailer's interior is exactly like the other one, with the only exception being the carpet being a dark blue. Sara is sitting on a chair wearing an oversized red t-shirt, black shorts, and has her hair tied into two fishtail braids. She is currently untying both fishtail braids.

"Those from the first cast that got into Action had the good stuff," Sara said happily. "Like seriously, free makeup products for us to use at any moment? That's incredible." She finishes untying her braids and starts doing just one fishtail braid where her hair is dyed in bright purple.

Kristie is sitting in a lotus position on the bottom mattress of the bunk bed she is sleeping at. She is wearing a plain black nightgown. She takes her cellphone from under her pillow and begins texting.

"Is great to see you having fun with the makeup since that is one of your biggest interests," Kristie told Sara while still texting and looking at the cellphone's screen. "We didn't get to see much of that during your runs before this one."

Sara shrugs while still concentrating on herself. "That's probably because Chris or the editors didn't find that necessary at those times. But I did apply makeup during my runs."

The rest of the female Freezing Grips are sitting on their bunk beds. Tamera and Daniela are on the top while Melissa and JJ took the bottom.

Daniela is wearing a plain black shirt with black sports pants. Tamera has black short athletic shorts and a red tank top. Melissa is wearing pink yoga pants and a white sleeveless shirt. Lastly, JJ wears a white tee with black sleep shorts and red flip-flops. She is not wearing any clown makeup, showing her pale skin.

"So, Sara," Melissa decided to speak, twirling her hair in a shy manner. "How's your relationship with Christopher?"

"The best as always," Sara grinned. She finishes making her fishtail braid. Next, she turns around to face her teammates. Except for Kristie who is sitting to her left. "Three years, minor situations, and overall, just a good time. I moved in with his uncle once I turned eighteen and left the orphanage. It's a bit weird not living in a city area but is so calming not having to hear constant honking from cars and New Yorkers yelling at each other."

Her teammates chuckle at her telling.

"Well, I'm glad you have a stable relationship with him," Melissa said as she gets up.

Sara notices the frown on the athletic nerd. "Hey, let me put some make-up on you."

"Really?" Melissa wondered, forming a small smile. "Thanks." She sits on the chair next to Sara.

"To be clear, I'm only doing this for today. So don't go try making me feel sorry for you for the rest of our stay," Sara warned coldly.

"Roger that," Melissa understood, and the two girls share a laugh.

"And sent," Kristie exclaimed excitedly as she posted something on her phone.

"What's the new message on your blog this time?" Tamera wondered as she puts her elbows on her knees and her hands on her cheeks. "Have to keep up the status, but don't give me too much so it doesn't go over my head."

"Just posted a theory of how you and Axel will get together this season," Kristie answered, not truly understanding what the vixen told her to do.

Tamera blushes and covers her face with her pillow. "Can you stop insisting that we are getting together?"

"No way, that's like the number one ship right now," Kristie answered. "It's been trending for weeks on my blog since LCF was confirmed."

Tamera groans in annoyance and mumbles words onto her pillow. She hears Kristie texting. She puts her pillow back on her bed, climbs down the ladder, and heads to grab Kristie's cellphone.

"Hey, I need my phone!" Kristie exclaimed as she got up from her bed. "Don't you like the spotlight you're getting?"

"Of course, I like the spotlight, who do you think I am?" Tamera sassed the Total Drama fan. "But not like this. No one needs to know about my feelings for Axel."

"So, you admit you like him?" Daniela smirked. She climbs down her top bunk.

"I did not confirm that," Tamera told the stuntwoman. "Can we just change the topic?"

"But the fans have so many questions," Kristie countered. She charges at Tamera to grab her phone.

Tamera extends her arm and puts her hand on the fan's face so Kristie cannot grab her phone. The vixen then gives the phone to Daniela.

"Chuck it out of here or something," Tamera said, wanting to be done with the conversation.

"I have a better idea," Daniela grinned as she takes Kristie's phone from Tamera. She runs up to JJ. Which was not much of a long-distance since the trailer is not that large. "Where's your wig?"

JJ smiling, takes out her wig from under her pillow. Daniela stuffs the phone into the wig. Kristie stops trying to get her phone which allows Tamera to halt holding her off. Kristie whimpers like a puppy.

"You're a contestant now, so no electronics like the rest of us," Daniela told Kristie. She goes to get her clothes from the wardrobe.

"But JJ is full of them in that wig of hers," Kristie countered.

"Good point, but she knows not to be on a screen twenty-four seven. You're not going to succeed in life by just always checking notifications," Daniela stated and proceeds to head to open the door of the trailer.

"I was literally helping produce this show," Kristie once again defended herself.

"Not much of an accomplishment," Daniela taunted. She leaves the trailer.

Kristie crosses her arms and glares. JJ notices and decides to cheer her teammate up. By offering a piece of pumpkin pie. Kristie accepts this, grabs the piece of pie in her left hand, and pets JJ's head with her left hand.

"And done," Sara said, finishing her makeup on Melissa.

Melissa looks at herself in the mirror. Her eyebrows look wonderful, and she has nice, fainted blush on her cheeks. She feels happy.

Confessional – Sara – Freezing Grips

"I'm pretty much guaranteed to be the leader of this team since I did well in my first two runs. Well, not Radiant Redemption, but that's because Casey blindsided me. I kind of wish she competed. Even getting into the Crowstillo alliance, I probably could have convinced everyone in it except Christopher to vote her off."

She smirks thinking of what could have been. "Casey being first boot has a nice ring to it."

Confessional – Daniela – Freezing Grips

"I practically carried my team into making the merge in Back to the Islands. We only lost twice. This time it will be the same. Like seriously, we got all the power players here except Kristie and Raymundo who will need to carry their weight. Yeah, Jett and Melissa didn't merge either, but they showed themselves to have excellent skill during their run last season. Both just got outplayed."

End Confessionals

The Blazing Gaffer boys are inside their trailer. Like the Blazing Gaffer girls, this trailer has the same interior. The six boys are just waking up from their slumber. Edgar is on the bottom mattress of his bunk bed simply wearing black boxers while Maverick is on top. The promoter has on a ripped blue tank top with black casual basketball shorts.

At another bunk bed, Pharaoh takes the top while Buck gets the bottom. Like Edgar, Pharaoh's pajamas are simply black boxers. Buck on the other hand is wearing a white t-shirt with motor oil stains and flannel pajama bottoms that are also somehow covered in motor oil.

Buford is chilling getting up from his bottom bunk. He hops off his bed and stretches. Like Pharaoh and Edgar, he is also shirtless and is only wearing black boxers.

"Man feels great to not have Henry sleeping in with us," Buford told his teammates while still stretching.

"You're telling me," Buck agreed as he takes off his yellow blanket. He sits on his bed. "I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing that critter will be bunking with us."

"We would need our eyes open the whole night," Maverick joked and said seriously at the same time, getting up from his bed and quickly heading to the mirror to fix his hair.

"I was practicing that ever since Henry got on the boat I took here," Pharaoh added from his top bunk and laughed. "Just don't blink."

Edgar gets out of his bed. "Yeah, sleeping with a criminal would make anyone tense." He walks towards the wardrobe in the trailer and quickly grabs his clothes.

"Aren't you going to stick around and chat with us, partner?" Buck told the emo.

Edgar gazes at his clothes. He came back here to socialize with people. But what would they think of him? Probably none of them has the same interests as him.

Just then, a knock is heard on the trailer's door.

"Servant, go open that door for Pharaoh," Pharaoh joked to Maverick, acting like his first appearance on Crowstillo Island, all high and mighty.

"Roger that sire," Maverick joked back. He opens the door.

"Hey Mav," Sua and Lilith greeted at the same time, standing by the door.

"Want to walk around the film lot and chat about our favorite horror movies?" Lilith offered some friendship time.

"Sure thing," Maverick accepted and gives a thumbs up. "Let me go take a quick shower first."

Edgar approaches the three. "Hey, um, can I… join you three? I wouldn't mind talking about horror."

"Sure," Lilith immediately gave the confirmation. "The more the merrier. We are a team after all. By the way, I totally love the whole black you got going on."

Edgar lets out an awkward chuckle. "Thanks."

Edgar and Maverick leave the trailer. Maverick makes sure to close the door after heading out.

Buck, Pharaoh, and Buford are now out of their beds.

"So Buck, any girls you're interested in this season?" Pharoah said approaching the MacGyver. He nudges Buck on his elbow.

"Well, they all are purdy, but none of them look like they're into me," Buck admitted, having a hard time processing who could take interest in him.

"You're kidding me," Buford stated dumbfounded. Pharoah has the same neutral expression as Bo.

Suddenly, another knock is heard on the boy's trailer. Buck decides to get it. Buford and Pharoah still find it hard to believe their teammate does not know about Niu's crush on him.

"Howdy there," Buck greeted the person who knocked. It is Simon, looking calm.

"Hey dude, can we chat a bit before breakfast?" Simon asked kindly. He is wearing his pajamas which consist of black bottoms with a white shirt and pink bunny slippers.

"Sure thing partner," Buck responded joyfully. "But let's make this quick because I have to get to the showers."

Simon chuckles. "Is all good dude, this won't take long."

The two friends head out to speak privately. Buck closes the trailer's door. Only Buford and Pharaoh remain. They look at each other, wondering what to conversate.

"So, do you still text Georgia?" Buford asked, making the atmosphere immediately awkward by bringing up Pharaoh's ex.

Confessional – Buford – Blazing Gaffers

"That could have gone better."

Confessional – Edgar – Blazing Gaffers

He is happy but not smiling. "Glad Lilith is on my team. Out of everyone here she has the most stuff in common with me. I am hoping this becomes a great friendship down the road."

End Confessionals

Like the last three scenes, the six Freezing Grip boys are in their trailer. Unlike the Gaffers guys that were getting up, this group is already awake in their pajamas.

Knick and Jett are sitting in their respective bottom bunk beds. Knick is wearing a red shirt with dark grey sweatpants while Jett is also wearing grey sweatpants without a shirt or his beanie. The two are causally writing stuff in their own journal.

Axel watches this entertainingly, sitting from his bottom bunk. He has on right now red boxers and a white tank top. While the gentleman is watching his teammates continue to write, Christopher and Raymundo are doing pushups on the floor.

Christopher is simply wearing grey shorts as opposed to Raymundo, who is wearing a white shirt with black sweatpants.

"Have you two ever thought of collabing with each other and making a book?" Axel suggested as he stands up from his bed.

Knick and Jett give a quick look at each other before continuing to write in their journal.

"When Jett makes it to the merge, then we'll talk. Which might be never," Knick stated, forming a sly smirk on his face as he writes.

"Oh haha, hah," Jett faked a laugh. "You know we are a team, right?"

"Didn't stop you from being an asshole to Gabriel," Knick said as he closes his journal.

"And you're not?" Jett responded.

"He got you good," Raymundo told Jett and laughed. This causes him to get unfocused on doing pushups and accidentally fall flat on the floor. "Ow."

"You think you're so clever just because you were a two-time finalist," Jett told Knick as he closes his journal and gets up from his bed.

"Can't disprove the facts," Knick simply stated, enjoying Jett's anger.

Jett gets his clothes out of the wardrobe and heads out of the trailer. He does not close the door.

"That was not necessary," Christopher now standing told his alliance member. "Why do you mess with him?"

"Honestly, the dude is just easy to poke at," Knick answered. He gets out of his bed and looks for his outfit inside the wardrobe Jett left open. "He really can't chill without making everything serious."

"Weren't you like that in Crowstillo Island?" Axel remembered as he folds his blanket. "Your gameplay was quite serious, and you barely had any fun besides cheating your way to the final three."

"Good point, but getting rid of my targets was becoming fun thanks to Casey," Knick admitted that the gentleman is somewhat right. He grabs his clothes and puts them on his right shoulder. "But I also wasn't hot-headed and insulting my teammates. Still, I guess I should try and bond with him." Knick leaves the trailer.

Raymundo gets up from the floor. The last three boys inside the trailer look at each other.

"We need to vote off Knick as fast as possible," Axel advised the two. "He probably has some plan going in his head to make it to the finale again. Whenever we lose a challenge, he's gone."

"Axel, you sure that's a good idea?" Christopher questioned the plan. He goes to look at the mirror and checks himself out. "I will agree Knick is a threat if he stays too long, but he also has a lot of experience on the show. Which can help us with these challenges."

"But that also gives him more ways to stay if we don't vote him off soon," Axel countered. "Raymundo, what do you think?"

"Um… just ride the wave to victory?" Raymundo admitted unsure. "When it comes to surfing, we got to be steady on the board. I wouldn't mind voting off Knick. But I also don't want to be thinking about him so much throughout our stay despite looking nice." He gazes at Christopher with a smirk. "You're looking good as well."

"Thank you, Raymundo. Training and discipline are key," Christopher showed his right bicep, taking the compliment well. "I will be heading off to the showers now."

"Wait, you didn't answer if you're willing to vote out Knick," Axel exclaimed, watching his teammate leave.

"I'll give it some thought," Christopher answered with a smile as he closes the trailer's door.

Confessional – Axel – Freezing Grips

"Is it soon planning to get rid of someone? Nah, Knick is just the best option to pick if my team loses. Raymundo seemed convinced enough and Jett will definitely vote anyone out as long as he stays in the game. If I could get Christopher to side with me, Sara will come along. That's almost half the team right there. No way Knick will be escaping that."

Confessional – Christopher – Freezing Grips

"I had a feeling Knick will become a target for his past performances. I'll keep what Axel said to me a secret for now until it feels like it needs to be revealed."

End Confessionals

The twenty-three contestants are sitting at brown wooden picnic tables inside the crafts and services tent. Everyone is wearing their regular outfits. The Freezing Grips are sitting at a table to the audience's right while the Blazing Gaffers are at a table to the audience's left. Everyone has a silver tray with eggs, bacon, and orange juice. With the exception of bacon for Saraphina. Casey watches the contestants eat from the kitchen, hoping some drama occurs to entertain her.

At the Blazing Gaffers table, some of the members are chatting about a topic.

"Okay, so theoretically speaking since none of us will do it," Lilith said to Edgar, Maverick, and Sua. "Hopefully." She giggles a bit before speaking. "If you need to hide a body, where will it be the best spot for it?"

"Underground, in the dirt?" Sua wondered, tapping her chin with her right index finger. "Dead bodies get smelly, don't they?"

"Pretty good idea," Maverick admitted before drinking a bit of his orange juice. "But that might be dug up if anyone notices it. Like, the place is all grassy but suddenly there's a human size spot of dirt? Sounds suspicious to me."

Maverick, Lilith, and Sua look at Edgar to see if he will comment on the topic.

"Um, I… think burning the body would be better than burying it," Edgar admitted shyly, touching his eggs with his fork. "The evidence is practically gone."

"That will depend on your location," Lucy got into the conversation after swallowing some eggs. "Burning a dead body is a tactical idea but consider this. It takes a body to be completing decompose for about two to three hours by the fire." She points her fork at Edgar to get her point across better. "And, if you don't have the proper equipment the smoke can lead to people calling the fire department if your location is around a neighborhood."

"You are seriously joining that conversation?" Buford questioned Lucy.

Lucy nods as she takes another bite of eggs. She swallows it to answer her teammate's question. "Why not? I had to continuously study crime. Is part of being a detective. These types of topics are discussed when theorizing of what the murderer could have done."

"I would like to add that burying a body will take at least eight to twelve years to turn into a skeleton," Pharaoh spoke after drinking some orange juice. "So, you better hope the hiding spot is good and deep."

"How do you know that?" Janet asked the fake royal as she grabbed a piece of bacon with her left hand and bites a part off.

"My parents are archeologists. Sometimes they will discover human bones, so I know a couple of facts about how burials work," Pharaoh answered the space geek. He cuts a few of his eggs with a knife and fork.

"Back at the farm when a critter dies my Pops and I will bury them," Buck spoke, holding his half-full cup of orange juice. "Though, since we are talking about humans, I have no advice."

"How good are you with a shovel?" Niu asked, gazing at Buck. She has finished her meal. "Do you use it without a shirt?"

"When the weather is hot, I take off my shirt and wrap it around my head to keep the coconut cool," Buck said to Niu proudly.

Niu imagines Buck being shirtless and swoons. She is blushing tremendously.

"Hey, are you okay? You look pretty hot," Buck told his teammate with concern.

"Thanks," Niu cooed.

"I'll ask Casey to give me a pack of ice to help you with that fever," Buck told Niu as he gets up and heads to the kitchen. "Must have been those eggs."

Niu realizes that Buck was not calling her hot and instead was just saying that because he thinks she is not feeling well. She frowns.

Georgia watches her teammates talk, being amused by the topics. She notices Buford's annoyed expression. Then she looks at Lilith with a smirk.

Over at the Freezing Grips table, it is quieter. The team is calmly eating their breakfast without saying a word. That is until Tamera decides to speak after finishing her eggs.

"You see the other team bonding? We should bond like that," Tamera told her teammates. "Bonding is good so we can have synergy for the challenge. So, somebody should start making a conversation, or I'm going to be talking about how awesome I am."

"You just want us to talk so you can have screen team," Jett muttered but it was loud enough for the vixen to hear. He is done with his meal.

"Yes, yes, that is true," Tamera admitted, looking at the runaway. "But I also want us to come closer together. We are a team. Let's act like one."

"I'm hoping we can all make it to the beach episode and have a blast," Raymundo said excitedly. He drinks a bit of his juice. "This show since Crowstillo Island has always done the beach episode."

"That's if you last long enough," Knick joked while cutting his bacon with a fork and knife.

Raymundo gives an awkward laugh.

Christopher enters the conversation. "I think what Knick meant to say…"

"I doubt you can defend that," Simon interrupted then laughs.

"Who cares, all of you should be trembling by Knick's presence," Daniela told her team before putting a piece of bacon into her mouth.

"Seriously?" Sara spoke in a deadpanned tone. She finished her meal. Plus, having her arms crossed.

JJ nudges Melissa's left shoulder softly to get her friend's attention.

"Hmm?" Melissa looked at the silent clown.

JJ points with her five left-hand fingers at Daniela and then Knick. She forms her hands into a heart.

"I don't think Daniela likes Knick that way," Melissa admitted as she puts her empty cup on a tray. "Feels more like an appreciation."

JJ draws a question mark in the air.

"You're not sure if that's true or not?" Melissa asked wanting confirmation.

JJ nods.

"Hey Daniela," Melissa called out to the stuntwoman. "How much do you appreciate Knick?"

"Ah, so you want to know why I'm the president of the Knick fan club," Daniela grinned as she finished her breakfast.

"There's a… fan club?" Knick pondered, weirded out by the revelation.

"There's a fan club for every Total Drama contestant silly," Kristie told the journalist happily. She sucks her breakfast like a vacuum cleaner and swallows it in one gulp. "Except for Chase. He does not have a fan club. Dude sucks and not in a good way."

"Do I have a fan club?" Tamera wondered.

"Is that a rhetorical question?" Axel asked smirking.

"Maybe," Tamera teased. The two Freezing Grips look into each other's eyes. Kristie is trying really hard not to squeal.

"Good morning contestants," Chris greeted as he arrived at the craft and services tent. Chef is behind him. "Get ready in fifteen minutes because Chef will be hosting today's challenge."

All the contestants' eyes widen after that mention. Did Chris just say Chef is hosting today's challenge?

"Good luck, you're in my domain now," Chef said mischievously and chuckles. "All of you meet me by studio ten to start today's challenge. The last two have to arrive must drop and give me twenty."

"But that's literally the other side of the film lot," Edgar complained.

"Then you better have the stamina to get their skinny boy," Chef exclaimed. "Ain't no deadweights coming to my challenge."

Confessional – Kristie – Freezing Grips

"The last time Chef hosted a challenge was in episode eleven of Total Drama Revenge of the Island," The Total Drama fan stated as she adjusts her glasses. "It has been a long time coming. Despite being headstrong for these, he does deserve to have another time to shine."

End Confessional

Chef and the two teams arrive at the front of studio ten except for Kristie, Edgar, and Janet. The three show up panting tiredly.

"Kristie and Edgar, you both arrived last," Chef shouted at the two. "Twenty push-ups now!"

Edgar passes out and falls to the ground. Kristie notices this, looks at Chef and passes out herself to not do the push-ups.

Chef rolls his eyes at the two. "Pathetic, you two won't survive for what I have in store. Somebody pick those two up while I open the doors." As the host said, he starts opening the doors to studio ten.

Maverick picks up Edgar and puts the unconscious emo on his left shoulder. Christopher does the same for Kristie. Kristie opens her eyes at the camera and winks, letting the audience knows she is pretending to be insentient. She goes back to faking.

After finishing opening the doors, Chef enters the studio and turns on the lights. All the contestants enter the place and look at what is in front of them.

"No way," Axel stated with disbelief.

The teams witness twenty-four comfortable gaming chairs spread out by seven feet in the middle of the studio. Above each chair is a virtual reality headset hung by a durable cable in the ceiling. The headset is white with the vizor being black. To the right is a giant television screen with many cables plugged around it.

"Kids, welcome to the virtual reality studio," Chef announced as he raises his hands high for dramatic effect.

All the contestants rush to examine the place and accidentally walk over Chef.

"Sometimes I hate my job," Chef muttered.

"Need help," Knick asked as we walked back to check on the cook.

"Did you have to join the others in stepping on me?" Chef asked as he gets back up by himself.

"Couldn't let an opportunity go to waste," Knick smirked.

"Sit on a chair now! That's an order soldier!" Chef snapped.

Knick gets frightened and heads to the gaming chairs.

"Intern! Turn on those computers," Chef called to Meredith.

Meredith is shown standing near a desk that surrounds her at a two hundred seventy-degree angle. The only exit from the desk is behind her since the rest is covered by keyboard devices and computers.

"Welcome to studio ten," Meredith greeted the contestants. She blows a kiss at Buford.

Buford catches the air kiss. This makes Jett pretend to gag.

"Today's challenge is based on the genres superhero and supervillain," Meredith happily said while finishing turning on the computers.

"Isn't the supervillain part of the superhero genre?" Melissa wondered as she sits down on a gaming chair.

"Nowadays there are films that give the history of the villain so for this challenge it works," Meredith calmly answered.

"Most of those films aren't great though," Maverick pointed out, sitting on a gaming chair.

"Yeah, but it produces money sadly," Niu added.

"This sounds like a lazy attempt to not make a mixed genre," Knick admitted as he examines the giant TV.

"Boy, you better shut that mouth of yours," Chef threatened. "I'm the host now. I can give your team a disadvantage."

Knick simply goes to sit on a gaming chair.

"Alright maggots, everyone take a seat as Meredith finishes giving her history lesson," Chef ordered as he stands in front of a large TV, looking at the competitors.

All the contestants sit down on a chair.

"Thanks Chef," Meredith expressed gratitude and then pays her attention to the cast. "The first superhero film was in 1920 called The Mark of Zorro. However, the masked vigilante Zorro first appeared in the serialized novella called The Curse of Capistrano in 1919 by author Johnston McCulley. This film and book inspired the many superheroes we see in media today."

"Really?" Melissa questioned. "Isn't Superman and the Mole Men from 1951 the first actual superhero movie? Produced by Barney A. Sarecky? Zorro sounds like a Robinhood."

"Just you so you all know, we are not sponsoring that superhero," Chef told the audience.

Meredith looks offended at Melissa's comment. "Are you questioning my history expertise?"

"What? No," Melissa answered, feeling sorry. "I'm just pointing out that maybe your fact is wrong."

"Wrong? Facts aren't wrong," Meredith answered annoyed. "That's why they are called facts. And the fact is I'm correct."

"Okay, okay, geez," Melissa said and remains quiet.

"Didn't know you knew about the superhero genre," Simon said to the athletic nerd, sitting on a chair next to her.

"I decided to spend some time learning about pop culture after quitting sports," Melissa told the jester.

"Love it when my girl gets feisty," Buford commented, making Meredith blush.

"You may continue Chef," Meredith told the bulky cook.

"Alright maggots, today's challenge is hero versus villain. All of you will be transported into a virtual reality world where you will have one superpower," Chef spoke firmly.

Meredith walks to each contestant, giving them a piece of paper and pencil. She gives a wink to Buford and a glare to Melissa while doing this.

"Each of you will write your one superpower on the piece of paper Meredith has given you," Chef continued instructing. "Then I will receive the papers and Meredith will type the powers into a computer and program them into your virtual reality characters."

Meredith is shown typing randomly on a bunch of keyboards on her desk.

"Sounds simple enough," Tamera admitted while writing down her superpower.

"Each of you must detail your superpower's strengths and drawbacks. If I find a power too strong, I will tell Meredith to grant you a random power from the files," Chef declared then snickers. "Trust me, you wouldn't want any of those files."

Simon gulps nervously before he finishes writing his superpower. Once every contestant has finished writing their superpower with the strengths and drawbacks, Chef collects all the papers and pencils. As he gives a quick check to each power, one contestant decides to ask a question.

"Hey Chef, how's the challenge going to go? The heroes need to trap the villains in a cage?" Maverick asked kindly.

"And which team will be the heroes or villains?" Lilith added.

"At ease maggots, I'm looking at the powers here," Chef told the two Blazing Gaffers, still reading each power. Once done, he gives the papers and pencils to Meredith. Next, he walks up to the giant TV and looks at the two teams. "The villains will be the Blazing Gaffers. Freezing Grips will be the heroes. Each member will have this electric baton stick inside the VR."

Chef grabs a black baton stick with blue circuit lines all over it from behind the TV.

"Hit anybody with this and they will be pixilated out of the VR. Meaning, that person is out of the challenge. The last member or members standing for a team wins the challenge," Chef almost finished explaining. "Everyone will be transported to a destined area."

"No cage trapping?" Daniela wondered. "Just a full-out brawl?"

"Yep," Chef answered. "This is war maggots. Ain't no taking prisoners in this place."

"But this isn't a war challenge," Janet pointed out innocently.

Chef stares at the space geek for a few seconds dumbfounded. "Everyone put on your headset. The challenge starts now!"

Every contestant does so as commanded.

Confessional – Pharaoh – Blazing Gaffers

"I know I shouldn't be this worried, but my team already lost a player, even if it was Henry. An extra player the Freezing Grips have can easily put mine at a disadvantage. Hopefully, they are not that coordinated, cause if so, this could mean trouble."

End Confessional

Inside the Virtual Reality, the Blazing Gaffers are pixilated to a suburban area. All eleven of them are standing in the middle of the road while grass, sidewalks, and houses are all around. Up ahead the team sees a stadium with a large glass dome on top of it. The stadium is the size of the smallest baseball park in the United States.

Buck chuckles upon seeing the dome. "For some reason, I find that place familiar."

Janet looks to her right and gazes at a castle awfully familiar. It looks over six hundred years old, but the conditions seem rather stable with a few cracks in some areas of the castle.

"Oh cool, that looks like Crowstillo's Castle," Janet pointed out. She then remembers what happened to it. She lowers her left arm and frowns. "The castle that I accidentally destroyed."

Pharaoh approaches Janet and puts his right hand on her left shoulder. "Don't feel too bad about it. If the castle was still around, King Crowstillo might have used it during the battle. Which could have put us at a disadvantage."

This makes Janet feel better. "Yeah, you're right. That would have been a disaster."

All of a sudden, Buford trips onto the ground for no reason. No one touched him which makes it weird. This does not bother his teammates since they chuckle at him as he gets up.

"Is one of your power's drawbacks clumsiness?" Lilith joked.

"No," Buford said after taking out some rubble from his face. "I wouldn't give myself a stupid drawback like that."

"Hey, did anyone see Georgia leave?" Niu asked her teammates.

The Blazing Gaffers do not see the actress with them.

"Looks like she wanted a head start," Buck joked. His hands are made out of metal. "I'm betting on a turkey's leg that we'll probably be fighting in the big places."

"Alright everyone," Maverick spoke as he steps in front of his teammates. He turns around to look at them. "We'll be splitting up into groups of two. That way we can cover more ground."

"I suggest we reveal our powers so each of us could decide who should partner up with each other," Lucy advised.

"Great thinking Lucy, then we'll split up into two," Maverick gave a thumbs up to the detective.

Lucy is unsure of Maverick's plan but shrugs. "Yeah, sure."

Buford trips onto the road a second time with no interference. This causes his teammates to chuckle at him again. Except for Janet, who looks concerned for Bo. While the team is discussing their powers, Georgia is shown behind a bush, hearing the conversation.

Confessional – Lucy – Blazing Gaffers

"I don't agree with Mav having everyone separate into two groups of two. Sounds pretty dangerous. But, as much as I want to lead, I'll let him be in charge of this challenge. Besides, if we lose thanks to his decision Pharaoh, Janet, and I will just vote home off. Nothing personal, that's just how the game goes."

Confessional – Maverick – Blazing Gaffers

The promoter is confident. "My strategy is full proof. Teams of two work well for parties since those need staff members to make sure things are under control. This challenge will be no exception."

End Confessionals

The Freezing Grips are pixelized into a suburban area as well on the opposite side of the virtual world. Looks like there was not enough budget to make two different starting locations. However, there are two new locations shown beside the dome and Crowstillo's Castle. To the left is a large rectangular building that looks like a prison, while the other place to the right is a full stone keep castle.

Knick recognizes the castle from a place he has seen before. He narrows his eyes at the castle and clenches his hands into fists. Sara notices this and walks up to her friend's right side.

"You okay?" Sara asked the Canadian.

Knick keeps looking at the stone keep castle. He breathes out and puts his fists into his trench coat's pockets. "I'm fine, just had a bad memory."

Sara can tell Knick is not okay but does not persist on the matter.

"Alright Freezing Grips listen up," Daniela called out to her team. They all look at her. "For this challenge, you will be following my orders. There will be three groups. One six and two threes. I will be part of the six group. Dibs on Knick."

"Actually Daniela is best for us to separate so we don't get distracted," Knick suggested, now calm and having his hands out of his trench coat. "I'll take Sara and Christopher."

Daniela smirks and puts her hands on her waist. "Very well Knick, you know what is best."

"Well, that was handled easy," Tamera told Axel, surprised Daniela did not try to force Knick to join her.

"Girl just has a lot of respect for him," Axel told the vixen while gazing at the stone keep castle. "I can see why."

Tamera chuckles and softly hits Axel's right shoulder with her left one. "Two-time finalist am I right? Pretty big threat, don't you think?"

"Shh, don't let him hear you," Axel whispered, looking at Tamera and putting his index finger on his mouth, making a shushing noise.

Tamera gives a deadpan stare and shows Axel that the Crowstillo members of the Freezing Grips have already walked away.

"Oh," Axel stated.

Axel and Tamera look at each other and chuckle.

"Yo, newly couple get over here," Daniela commanded for the two to be by her side.

"We are not a couple!" Tamera and Axel said at the same time and blushed.

"Don't care, get over here to talk," Daniela ordered. Melissa, JJ, and Simon are by her side. "We will be the big group of six. I sent Raymundo, Kristie, and Jett as the second group of three."

Axel and Tamera obliged, trying their best not to look at each other.

Confessional – Simon – Freezing Grips

"Glad that Daniela let me team up with JJ and Melissa. Well, I don't think she put us together intentionally, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that I have to apologize to JJ and Melissa. I spoke to Buck earlier and I realized my pranks can be seen as too jerkish. But without pranks, how am I supposed to have fun?"

End Confessional

Edgar and Lilith have entered the prison and are walking around one of the hallways full of empty prison cells to their left and right. The walls are grey with their paint looking like it has not gotten a retouch in a decade. The many metal bars are intact, with a few cells having some bars broken and on the floor. Many cold sinks have words written all over them. Some of the faucets produce drops of water. The dirty toilets have not been cleaned in ages.

The two Blazing Gaffers continue examining the place, stepping on the cracked cement floors.

"This place is cold, abandoned, dreadful, uneasy," Edgar stated, listing off the descriptions.

"I know right? Isn't that so cool?" Lilith told Edgar bubbly. "Being in this alone cold spacious prison is so much fun!"

"Agreed," Edgar said motionless.

Lilith stops walking which results in Edgar doing the same. The goth turns around to look at the emo, smiling but curious at the same time.

"You're happy being here?" Lilith sincerely asked.

"In this prison, yeah is nice and quiet," Edgar admitted, keeping a stoic expression.

Lilith laughs. "You know you can smile when you like something. Go ahead, try it."

Edgar tries to make a smile. He makes his monotone face slowly into a smile, but it is so forced he just brings it back to his usual expression.

"Sorry, even in this prison of despair I cannot smile. I am happy though. Even if you cannot see it," Edgar apologized before turning around to not look at her teammate.

All of a sudden, the two hear metal bars clanging.

"Someone must be nearby," Lilith told Edgar. She gets close to a wall and leans on it, putting her right ear on the wall as well. She can hear all the faucets around the prison leaking drops of water and footsteps. "Someone is in a hallway. Three hallways to our left and coming in close."

"Should I use my power?" Edgar wondered.

"Wait," Lilith said as she continues to listen to the sounds. She can hear more footsteps or are those rocks? Metal bars? "Ugh, there's too much noise for me to concentrate on the footsteps." She stops leaning on the wall and faces Edgar. "Maybe super hearing wasn't a great power to give me."

"Hey, we know that at least one person is in the prison with us," Edgar said as he begins walking away to a different hallway. "Let's just stay together until we find that person."

"Right," Lilith agreed and follows the emo.

The two Blazing Gaffers keep walking around the prison at a much faster pace. The two hear a metal bar drop to the floor nearby.

Thanks to Lilith's super hearing, she is able to pinpoint where the metal bar was dropped.

"This way!" Lilith exclaimed to Edgar and grabs the emo's left wrist to take him with her.

They cross two hallways and Edgar is starting to feel like they are getting nowhere.

"Lilith, I'm pretty sure the person must have left by now," Edgar admitted, still being dragged by the drummer.

"No, the person is still around here," Lilith believed as she looked at her teammate. This distracts her from getting stuck into a giant spider web in the middle of a hallway.

Luckily, Edgar is able to free himself from Lilith's grip to not get caught up in the web.

"Normally, other people will be frightened by this, but not me," Lilith happily said then chuckled. "Being caught in a spider web is cool."

Edgar moves his right hand close to the spider web.

"Don't," Lilith said, causing Edgar to halt his intention of freeing her. "You need something to take me out of the web."

"With what? This prison only has metal bars and a library," Edgar stated. "I doubt books are going to help break that bond you have with the spider web."

"Go find our teammates," Lilith instructed, not trying to break free from the web. "Pretty sure Maverick, Buck, or Niu can get me out of this."

"But I can't leave you alone," Edgar insisted, trying to stay in the prison.

"We'll only be sitting ducks," Lilith said. "If I get pixilated, so be it. But if you can go and get help there could be enough time to save me."

Edgar nods. "Alright, I'll get help." The emo turns around and heads to the hallway to his right since that section is part of the way they got into the prison in the first place.

Lilith stays still patiently while humming one of her band's songs. Spiders begin to crawl on her until a loud metal bang is heard, scaring the arachnids away.

"Ow," Lilith winced in pain due to her super hearing. She hears footsteps approaching and gets a bit scared. "Um, is someone there?"

It is Edgar, walking towards Lilith.

"Um Edgar, did you forget what I told you?" Lilith wondered as she pretends to struggle to break out of the web. "Find some of our teammates?"

Edgar does not respond. He simply takes out his electric blue wire baton and forms a smirk. Lilith's eyes widen in fear.

"Never thought you were the jokester type," Lilith admitted then chuckled awkwardly. Not getting a response from her teammate, she glares at him. "This isn't funny Edgar, stop messing with me and play the challenge right."

Edgar is two feet away from Lilith.

The goth exclaims, "Edgar!".

Edgar uses his baton to pixilate Lilith out of the challenge. Satisfied, Edgar goes through a transformation. His eyes turn light blue, his black hair becomes purple, his skin turns whiter, and his figure becomes more feminine. With the transformation done, Georgia is shown on screen. She presses a blue button on the baton to turn it small like a mini hockey puck. Then she puts the baton between her chest and turns around, walking to the hallway on her right as Edgar did.

Speaking of Edgar, he is shown in the hallway knocked out on the ground. There is a metal broken bar next to him. Georgia's smirk has never left until now since she needs to act as if she cares for the emo.

"Oh my gosh Edgar," The actress said worryingly. She rushes to her teammate and gets on both knees on the cracked cement floor. "Are you alright?"

Georgia uses her hands to lift Edgar's face towards her. Edgar groans in pain, rubbing the back of his head with his left hand.

"What happened?" Edgar asked as Georgia helps lift him up to stand as does the actress herself.

"You were knocked out by some of the Freezing Grips," Georgia lied to Edgar's face, but was able to act it out like it is a truth. "I came by and blew them away with my wind powers. Sadly, I couldn't save Lilith from being pixilated."

"Oh, so I couldn't help her in time," Edgar frowned, sad to know he was not much of use.

Georgia puts her left hand on Edgar's right shoulder. "Hey, she will want you to power through and help us win the challenge. Make her proud and show our teammates how great you can be."

"Thanks Georgia," Edgar expressed without changing his facial expression. "You know, I would expect you to not care about my feelings considering what went down in the aftermath."

Georgia chuckles. "Oh darling, let's just get out of this prison."

Confessional – Lilith – Blazing Gaffers

She is livid about what happened. "What is Edgar's problem? He wants to be friends with me and all of a sudden, he just eliminates me from the challenge!? That is so not cool! If my team loses, he is out of this film lot for good."

End Confessional

Kristie and Raymundo are walking through the grassy field inside the stadium with the glass dome on top. The two see the blue seats around the stadium and the silver stairs. The walls around are a darker green.

"Isn't it a bad idea for both of us to be walking around an open space like this?" Raymundo asked his teammate as the two Freezing Grips head to the center of the field.

"That's exactly what we want," Kristie answered the beach bro. The two are now standing in the center of the grassy field. "Unless someone on the Blazing Gaffers decided to be a sniper, I doubt we will be caught off guard. We'll just look around the field if someone comes after us."

Raymundo looks around the stadium for his and Kristie's safety. "This still feels like a bad plan. We're practically fishes waiting for seagulls to come in and take us away."

"I'm glad you came back to compete. The fans were crazy to have you return." Kristie mentioned as she adjusts her beanie. "My blog had hashtag bring back Raymundo for about two weeks."

Raymundo is surprised by this news and looks at the fan. "You're not lying to me, are you? I always believed no one remembered me during my BTTI run."

"Well, you didn't do anything to stand out to be memorable," Kristie admitted, accidentally hurting Raymundo's feelings as she looks around the stadium. "But one day a fan just posted the hashtag and it started trending on my blog."

Raymundo lets out a wide smile. "Finally, after all this time. I thought I was…"

"Get down!" Kristie exclaimed as she launches herself at Raymundo to bring herself and the beach bro onto the ground of the grassy field.

A ball of firecracker blasts towards the two Freezing Grips. Since they went down on the ground, they dodged it. Raymundo looks at the hole it made in one of the stadium walls and gets frightened. Kristie looks to her front and sees Maverick and Sua running towards her and her teammate on the field.

Quickly thinking, Kristie touches Raymundo's forehead with her left hand. Her hand glows a blue aura around it for no more than three seconds.

Raymundo looks at her confused. "What are you…"

"Roll!" Kristie shouted. The two Grips roll in opposite directions to avoid another firecracker ball hitting them. The blast burns the grass that the two were laying on.

Maverick and Sua stop running so the promoter can focus more on creating firecracker balls with his hands.

"What's your power?" Kristie exclaimed to Raymundo as she gets up from the field.

"Water manipulation," Raymundo answered as he gets up. He barely dodges a firecracker blast sent his way.

Kristie takes quick glances around the area and notices a bathroom sign at one of the exits out of the field. "This way!" The Total Drama fan signaled Raymundo.

The two Freezing Grips head to the exit while Maverick and Sua give chase again. Maverick decides to create smaller firecracker balls to have better aim at his opponents.

While Raymundo can dodge them due to his surfing skill prowess, Kristie throws her accessories at the firecracker balls coming at her to block the attacks. Like her beanie, her glasses, her scarf, and her choker.

Through the red-painted hallways with yellow floor tiles and checking the signs, Raymundo and Kristie run near a girl's bathroom.

"Sweet," Raymundo smirked which causes Kristie to give him a look of disgust. The two enter the bathroom by pushing its door.

Maverick and Sua shortly arrive and stop in front of the bathroom.

"Why aren't you blasting the door out of the way?" Sua asked the promoter, perplexed by the halt of the attack. Then she grows a sinister smile. "I want to see more explosions."

"It's the girl's bathroom. I can't look or go into the girl's bathroom," Maverick explained his reasoning for stopping.

"Oh right," Sua realized.

The two Blazing Gaffers stare at the door, waiting for their opponents to come out. Unexpectedly to them, they notice water coming out from the bathroom's floor.

"Guess someone took a big load," Maverick joked.

Sua laughs and then says, "I don't get it."

The girl's bathroom door bursts open with water and its great pressure causes the two Blazing Gaffers to hug each other, scream, and be taken by the waves of the water.

While that is happening the Crowstillo trio from the Freezing Grips are walking to the entrance of the stone deep castle. The area they are in is full of trees and dirt paths. Sara and Christopher can tell something is off with Knick since he is lacking behind them. The couple stops and turns around to face him. The journalist stops as well.

"What?" Knick rapidly asked.

"Something is disturbing you," Christopher answered worryingly. "What is it?"

"Is nothing to talk about. We are in the middle of a challenge," Knick pointed out.

"You better tell us what's wrong with you after the challenge," Sara said, looking out for her friend. "We can't have you this distracted."

"I am not distracted, and I make no promises on that," Knick denied before adjusting his glasses. "We get into the castle and explore around to find any Blazing Gaffers."

Christopher and Sara decide to not keep instigating the journalist.

"Very well, there is a time and place for everything," Christopher understood. "But I believe we should know each other's powers to be more coordinated coming into the castle. I shall start first. I have chi powers, which allows me to increase my strength, speed, and endurance while doing martial arts."

Christopher gets into a tai chi stance and suddenly a golden aura surrounds his body. He gets back into his well-standing posture.

"That will be great for close combat," Knick complimented the warrior. "I, however, will rather not expose my ability just yet. Is pretty much a trump card, so I can't use it right away."

"Tch," Sara smirked. "Is probably lame anyway," She joked. "My superpower is invisibility. No one will suspect me being with you two." On command, her skin and hair turn invisible. "I can catch anybody by surprise."

Knick and Christopher looked at her with raised eyebrows.

"You want to tell her, or I'll do it?" Knick asked Christopher while still looking at the sweet bad girl.

"Tell me what?" Sara wondered, the camera not showing her yet.

"Sara, I believe your powers only turn your body invisible, not your clothes," Christopher spoke truthfully.

The camera shows Sara checking herself to see if her boyfriend is correct and he is right. Why are there cameras in a virtual reality world? Who knows, maybe Chris just likes cameras.

"Seriously? Did I have to be really specific in order for me to turn completely invisible?" Sara groaned with annoyance.

"Your power isn't useful unless you strip your clothes," Knick stated, being blunt.

"Knick," Christopher exclaimed, blushing intensely.

"What?" Knick shrugged as he looked at the warrior. "It's the truth. Unless she takes off her clothes, she just wasted a good ability. Besides, no one is going to see her naked. She is invisible remember?"

"Knick's right babe. No one is going to see me nude," Sara told her boyfriend. It is unsure if she is looking at Christopher or not since her face is invisible.

After giving it some thought, Christopher agrees. "Very Sara, remove your clothing."

"Oh, I was wondering if you could help me with that," Sara flirted.

Christopher chuckles as he gets closer to his girlfriend. "Well, since you insist."

Knick looks back at the deep stone castle to not look at the couple.

"Remember to go slow, okay?" Sara told Christopher off-screen. "Even if I'm invisible, I want you to feel my skin."

Knick rolls his eyes and puts his hands on his ears to block the giggling and kissing the couple is making. Once they are done, Sara is now completely invisible and hands her wired baton to Knick. The baton is not activated.

"Here, put mine in your trench coat," Sara told the journalist. "I can't be all invisible with it."

Knick takes the baton with his left hand and looks at Sara. If he could see her that is, which he cannot.

"Make sure to stay by Christopher and my side," Knick advised and the three finally head inside the deep stone castle.

Buford and Janet are on the second floor of the virtual Crowstillo Castle. The hallways look completely out of shape. It feels like at any given moment they can break. Thank goodness there are windows so light can infiltrate the place.

"No wonder you and the other Crowstillo contestants didn't sleep here," Buford sparked a conversation with the space geek as they continue walking around. "This place can barely hold itself."

"It was a fun place. Had lots of history of King Crowstillo, King Podelio, and the wine-making deals," Janet stated as she counted her fingers for each history she speaks about.

"Wait, wine-making deals?" Buford paused on moving. Janet continues to walk.

"Yeah, how is the Crowstillo wine supposed to last long?" Janet gave a question to her teammate and then proceeds to answer it. "Turns out King Podelio made a deal with this king called Vi…"

Janet gets pushed to the ground, but neither she nor Buford saw what could have caused her fall. After several gusts of wind coming seemingly out of nowhere, someone reveals himself. That person is Jett, grinning at Bo.

"Hello Buford," Jett greeted, a hint of venom in his voice.

"Pfft, you? Here? Great," Buford said his last word in a sarcastic manner.

"Yes, me," Jett kept grinning. He looks at Janet who gets up. "This is between Buford and me. You either walk away or I take you out in an instance."

"No way," Janet exclaimed determined as she raises her right hand. "Bo is my teammate, and I will make sure nothing happens to him." She lowers her hand as if she is throwing something at Jett.

A few seconds pass, and the three contestants realize nothing has happened. Wanting to get this over with, Jett simply takes out his baton and hits Janet with it at rapid speed, almost impossible for Buford to see. Janet pixelates out of the VR.

"Super speed!?" Buford exclaimed in horror. "How is that not overpowered?"

Jett uses his super-speed to constantly throw Buford off balance and finishes his attack by tripping his opponent. Buford puts his head up to look at the snickering runaway in front of him.

"Before I pixelate you away, let me tell you something," Jett smirked. "Remember those two times you tripped in front of your teammates at the start of the match?"

Buford's eyes widen, realizing what the blond is getting at. "You didn't," Bo tried to call out a bluff.

"It was me, Buford. I used my super-speed to trip you twice in front of your teammates just so they can laugh at you, and you will feel embarrassed about it," Jett told his plan as he approached the dude that keeps it real.

"That is so petty dude," Buford gave his opinion. "No wonder you and Lisa are meant for each other. Wait, no you aren't. How is she by the way? Oh right, the rumors are she dumped you. Bet you only wanted a booty call."

Jett grits his teeth. "I dumped her, not the other way around."

All of a sudden, Jett receives a major headache and screams in pain. He gets on his knees and puts his hands on his head. "Gah! What is this suffering!?"

His headache gets worse and worse. He continues to groan out of agony. Buford gets up from the floor and stands next to Jett closely.

"That will be my superpower," Buford answered, not in the mood of throwing insults after the punches he received. "I'll call it the Migraine Lie. While is not anything physical, if someone tells a lie near me, they will get a headache so bad they wish they were dead."

Jett tries to say something but cannot concentrate due to his overbearing migraine. Buford takes out his wired baton.

"This challenge is over for you," Buford told the runaway and pixelates Jett out of the VR with his baton.

Confessional – Jett – Freezing Grips

He curses before calming down. "Yeah, I got cocky there, but I don't know what hurts more. That fact Buford bested me twice, or the fact you can feel what happens to you inside the VR. I'm probably not going to sleep tonight with this headache. At least it is small compared to the one Buford gave me."

End Confessional

Around an open area with no houses, just some trees are the group of six Freezing Grips led by Daniela. She is in the front, Simon is behind, then Tamera, Axel, JJ, and lastly Melissa.

"Remember to keep on the lookout for any Blazing Gaffers coming your way," Daniela reminded as her teammates do as she said.

On top of a hill nearby are Buck and Niu laying on the grass on their stomachs.

"Looks like we hit the jackpot," Buck told his teammate.

"The only jackpot I see here is you," Niu flirted, looking dreamingly at her crush.

"But I don't have any pot of gold on me," Buck joked while keeping a sharp eye on the six Freezing Grips.

Niu sighs. "Let me just think of a plan to separate them and we can pick them off."

The six Freezing Grips continue walking around the area full of trees until Daniela puts her left arm out to the side, signaling the other five to stop moving.

"We got company," Daniela told her teammates. The six Freezing Grips notice Niu and Buck standing on the nearest hill.

Niu covers her mouth with her arms in the form of an X. Then she quickly puts her arms down and unleashes a sonic screech coming from her mouth, targeting the Grips. Her six opponents put their hands on their ears to lower the hearing of the sonic screech. The volume from the attack is so loud they are too focused on covering their ears.

This lets Buck have enough time to slide down the hill and build a blue metal wall with his mechanical hands to surround Daniela, Simon, and JJ. With those three out of the way, he pays his attention to Tamera, Melissa, and Axel. The three are still covering their ears. Speaking of ears, Buck has his covered with soundproof doohickeys, so he does not get hurt by Niu's power.

Tamera notices Buck coming at her with his baton ready. She makes different poses while keeping her hands on her ears. The various poses, including a flirty wink and showing her nice white teeth, creates a light that temporally blinds Buck's eyes.

Buck drops his baton and puts his hands on his eyes as he groans in pain. "Dang nabbit, felt like I was going to heaven seeing that light," The MacGyver admitted.

Niu notices her crush is in trouble and decides to stop her sonic screech. Not the best idea since now the Freezing Grips not surrounded by the built wall can use their powers. She slides down the hill to help.

"That's right, I'm so gorgeous that I can blind people by just making poses," Tamera boasted at Buck as she takes her hands off her ears.

Melissa decides to grab a part of the built wall and creates a human size hole. She notices Daniela, Simon, and JJ playing cards.

"You got any fours?" Daniela asked the jester. JJ touches both her teammates' left shoulders and then points to Melissa to let them know they have been freed.

"Seriously?" Melissa exclaimed, looking at the three.

Confessional – Melissa – Freezing Grips

"I wanted super speed for my power here in the VR, but I guess Meredith must have put the files of someone else wanting that ability." This does not bother her that much since she is smiling. "Is not bad, at least the randomization gave me super strength."

End Confessional

Melissa rips two parts of the built metal wall with each hand and throws both at Buck, knocking the southern down as soon as his eyes get better. Tamera, Axel, JJ, and Simon wince once they hear the impact.

"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry," Melissa apologized to Buck and quickly rushes to him until Daniela grabs her left wrist.

"You two can make up after this is over," Daniela told the athletic nerd. "We have the challenge to win."

Niu makes it where Buck is laying on the ground. She gets on her knees and shakes her teammate and calls his name. "Buck? Buck?" After no response, instead of being concerned Niu forms a smile on her face. "I guess mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is in order."

As Niu opens her mouth, Buck gets up with the bottom part of his body still on the ground.

"I'm awake Chuck! Don't put toilet paper in the principal's office again," Buck exclaimed.

Simon chuckles at this. "I remember doing that a lot in middle school." He moves his right hand's fingers to conduct electricity. "Sorry about this Buck, but I need to win." He uses his electric fingers to zap Buck, but the Blazing Gaffer quickly creates a shield from his mechanical hands to prevent himself from getting zapped.

Niu unleashes another sonic screech, this time using her ability to push back the Freezing Grips thanks to the change of her sound frequency. Each Grip lands on a tree, which hurts their back. Then all fall to the ground.

Buck grabs his baton and directly heads to Simon. Niu takes out her baton and decides to take out the biggest threat which is JJ.

"I'm too weak," Simon cried out in pain as he rolls on the ground to have his back touching the grass. Buck, only inches away from the jester raises his baton.

"Sorry about this partner, but I need to win," Buck joked in a laid-back manner.

Before pixelating his friend, Buck gets hit on the back by a long silk-wrapped line of colorful handkerchiefs. This hit brings back memories of him getting laser shot by Henry. He tries to pay no mind to this and decides to strike Simon, yet all of a sudden, he cannot move any muscle in his body.

He can hear someone being pixilated behind him.

At that moment, Simon smirks and summons electricity from all ten fingers to zap Buck.

"Power!" Simon exclaimed with an overdramatic evil open-mouth grin.

Buck shakes uncontrollably from the electricity flowing through him.

"Unlimited Power!" Simon shouted, conducting more electricity from his fingertips.

Buck blows up in pixels from constantly getting electrocuted.

JJ is shown standing. Niu is nowhere in sight.

"Good job using your paralyzing handkerchief tethers JJ," Daniela complimented the clown as she gets up from the ground.

JJ takes out a clown horn and honks to express her gratitude. Axel approaches Tamera who is on the ground and extends his right arm.

"Need assistance?" The gentleman offered his help.

Tamera smiles at Axel and grabs her teammate's right hand. Axel lifts up Tamera and accidentally brings the vixen close to his chest. Both stare into each other's eyes.

"Hi," Tamera and Axel said simultaneously.

JJ takes out a boombox from her wig and plays romantic music to set the mood. Daniela steps on the boombox, her body and clothes now fully covered in a silver metal coating. The exception is her glasses so she can see.

"Not the time JJ," Daniela told the clown then looks at Tamera and Axel. "We got more Blazing Gaffers to defeat."

Tamera and Axel separate, and smile at each other. Simon helps Melissa get up from the ground next to the tree his teammate hit.

"Sorry for pulling the joy buzzer on you in the last challenge," Simon apologized. "I should have realized my pranks should only be for people that are close friends to me and or can handle my pranking. Can we start over?"

Melissa smiles at the jester. "Sure, I rather not hold a grudge. Besides it's not like you're going to do it again to me." The two notice their teammates moving forward and decided to follow after them slowly while conversating.

"So, you like JJ, don't you?" Melissa asked Simon. Thank goodness the two are not so close to their teammates.

Simon is surprised the former athlete knows. "How did you figure that out?"

"Is pretty obvious," Melissa answered after giggling. "I think you have a good shot with her."

"You think so?" Simon wondered as he gazes at the back of his crush.

"Yeah, the times she and I have been alone she tends to talk about you in American sign language," Melissa confirmed, making sure Simon and she are at a visible distance with their team. "Though, she did not like the whole zapping me you did. Neither did I, but hey, you're just trying to have fun. But next time think about how others would feel about the pranks."

Simon sighs. "Yeah, I really need to work on my pranking. And what you said to me was the advice Buck gave me this morning. Can you help me get together with JJ?"

Melissa looks unsure and decides to speed up her pace, leaving Simon confused.

Confessional – Melissa – Freezing Grips

"Feels weird that JJ tried to help Fenton get with me and now I'm the one helping JJ get with Simon. Well, not yet. I'm still unsure about that. I don't think I'm cut out for being a wingman. Or in this case wing-woman."

Confessional – Simon – Freezing Grips

"Yeah, I'll admit that I went a bit far on electrocuting Buck in the challenge but come on. How can I not pass up a reference to Constellation Clashes?"

Confessional – Buck – Blazing Gaffers

He is laughing in the confessional. "Simon got me good. I don't why he was acting like a full-blown villain, but his over-dramatic performance was too darn funny."

End Confessionals

Back at the stadium dome, Sua and Maverick are moving around rapidly in the flood until heading back onto the stadium's field. The grass absorbs most of the water, allowing the two Blazing Gaffers to stand up and watch Kristie and Raymundo approach them. With puddles on the field, the two Freezing Grips can now use their water manipulation freely.

Raymundo creates water tentacles out from various puddles and controls the tentacles to attack Maverick and Sua. For the promoter, this does not bother him since he can use his firecracker blasts to destroy the water tentacles. However, for Sua, she does not activate her ability and gets slapped by the tentacles over and over.

"Ow, ow, ow!" Sua exclaimed from every hit. One of the tentacles slaps her butt. "Hey!" Sua called out to Raymundo as she rubs her butt from the hit. "Not cool!"

"It was the tentacle I swear," Raymundo tried to defend himself, lifting his hands up and feeling embarrassed.

"Dude, pretty sure you control those," Maverick pointed out. He created a large firecracker ball with his hands and launches one at the beach bro since his opponent is distracted.

Raymundo creates a wall of water in front of him. The explosion from the firecracker blast sends Raymundo flying away, hitting a stadium wall.

"I probably deserved that," Raymundo admitted before falling to the ground in the same position he hit the wall.

Kristie appears behind Maverick and touches him. Her left hand briefly glows a blue aura. Maverick turns around and sees Kristie unleashing a small firecracker blast at him to push him away.

At a safe distance, Maverick and Kristie unleash firecracker balls at each other, each one impacting the other. Some parts of Maverick's clothing are ripped due to the first blast, like the short black sleeve t-shirt with the image of a skull with a gas mask on the center. Part of the area that covers the promoter's stomach is gone. Now everyone can see his chiseled abbs.

"Pew, pew, pew-pew," Kristie said as she continues firing firecracker balls from her hands at her opponent.

"Pew, pew, pew-pew," Maverick mimicked for fun as he launches his own firecracker balls.

This goes on for a bit until Kristie begins to hear someone singing. Is not a song she has heard before nor knows the language. This makes her stop using her power. Maverick stops firing as well and sees Sua singing in Korean, putting Kristie in a trance.

Kristie's darkish green eyes swirl as Sua continues to sing her enchanting song. Sua commends the impersonator to approach her, which Kristie does under the idol's control. Sua uses her baton to pixilate Kristie out of the VR.

"Whoa, nice job Sua," Maverick congratulated. "Surprised I didn't get controlled by your amazing singing."

"That's because I wrote my hypnotic song to only affect the Freezing Grips, not our team," Sua told her teammate as she stands next to him. She gets a devious smirk on her face. "Let's finish Raymundo off."

A new shot shows the two Blazing Gaffers getting close to Raymundo with their batons ready. The Freezing Grip tries to stand up, but the impact from earlier gives him a hard time doing so.

"You battled good Raymundo," Maverick complimented the beach bro.

Raymundo, feeling like he has no other option, moves his hands around slowly and clenches them a bit. All of sudden, Sua and Maverick can feel their muscles stop. Then their muscles move out of their control. Their legs, arms, and neck crack many times and make positions that a human is not supposed to do. This is possibly hurting their bones. The two are unable to speak.

"Sorry I have to do this, but I need to win for my team," Raymundo sincerely apologized to the two, still using his hands to control both bodies as he finally gets up from the field. "The average water in a human's body is almost two-thirds. As long as I concentrate hard enough, I can control anyone."

Raymundo uses his left hand to continue controlling the bodies of Maverick and Sua as he takes out his baton from his right hand. "Again, sorry that this is being painful. I didn't want it to come to this."

With that apology out of the way, Raymundo uses his baton on the two Blazing Gaffers, pixelating them out of the VR.

Inside the sixth floor of the stone deep castle are Knick and Christopher walking around a hallway full of statues of knights holding spears and shields. The walls are white with red stains all over. The floor is painted a golden yellow.

"Guess no one wants to be here," Christopher realized as he stops to examine the statue knights.

"Good, that means we can stay here, and they'll come to us," Knick stated as he continues to walk down the hallway with his hands in his trench coat pockets.

"Do you ever get the feeling we are being watched?" Christopher asked Knick as he takes a closer look at one of the knight statues, having a gut feeling someone is inside it waiting to strike.

"We have cameras looking at our movement almost everywhere we go on the film lot," Knick stated, making the answer sound obvious.

All of a sudden, the knight Christopher is looking at starts to move and uses its shield to try and bash him, but Christopher dodges. Rapidly, Christopher gets into a bow stance. Which is putting his right foot back and his left foot straight, with a one-foot lateral distance between the heels.

Christopher then turns his body to the left a little; his right hand ends up in front of his forehead and the left hand simply rotate to face it. This activates his chi powers, giving him his golden glow.

The knight uses its shield to try and bash Christopher's head with it a second time, but the kung fu warrior turns to his right and drops his right arm to the waist while swinging his left arm up past the face to block the shield bash. Christopher goes for a praying mantis pose and uses his left hand to swiftly take out the helmet from the knight statue and gives a rapid kick to his opponent's stomach, sending the knight to the wall. The knight falls to its feet. With the helmet removed, the person behind the attack is none other than Buford.

Confessional – Buford – Blazing Gaffers

"When I entered the castle, I saw Knick and Christopher walking in one of the halls. Wish I could have gotten other Freezing Grips coming my way because my superpower ain't going to work on those two. Christopher will come at me with his wisdom nonsense and Knick is almost blunt every single time words come out of his mouth. Dressing up in medieval statue armor was the only chance for me to even have a shot against them since I know Christopher's pick for a superpower will be enhancing his martial arts. Doesn't need to take a genius to know the dude will go for the basic."

End Confessional

"I require assistance Knick," Christopher told his teammate as he fights Buford one on one, dodging spear attacks while blocking shield bashes.

"Pretty sure you can just end it already with your chi strength," Knick stated, not finding any reason to help out.

"Please, he's not going to take me down that easily," Buford told the journalist as he continues fighting Christopher. "We all know Christopher likes a good fight."

"This is true, you are quite skilled at this," Christopher complimented his foe while keeping up on avoiding the spear attacks.

Buford mumbles, unhappy he could not get his opponent to lie even though he knew the chances of that happening is low. Unexpectedly, Buford gets hit in the back of his head by a floating shield and lies on the ground unconscious.

"Sorry," Sara's voice is heard, meaning the floating shield belonged to her. She is still invisible.

Knick chuckles at seeing Buford knocked out with the tall dude's tongue out. "Yeah, I'll admit it's a bit cruel to laugh at this, but whatever. Is just virtual reality," He takes out his baton and pixelates Buford out of the VR.

"Nice plan of distracting Buford so I can grab a shield and hit him with it babe," Sara thanked her boyfriend.

"Um, yes, that is totally what I was going for," Christopher somewhat spoke the truth.

Confessional – Christopher – Freezing Grips

"Okay, I may have forgotten Sara was with me and Knick. She was so quiet along the way. She is only that quiet when she is writing or meditating with me."

End Confessional

The large group of the Freezing Grips Daniela is leading get out of the woods and arrive at a circle on the ground. There are four paths connected to the circle, each path either leading to the stadium, Crowstillo Castle, the prison, or the deep stone castle. As Tamera and Daniela argue on which side path to choose, Lucy and Pharaoh pop their heads and upper bodies out from an oak tree.

"That's a big group," Pharoah commented.

"Yeah, going in straight on will result in both of us losing," Lucy observed. "However, I do have a strategy on how we can take them out one by one."

Pharaoh raises his left eyebrow with curiosity as Lucy takes out a rich gold quartz color pocket watch from her right blue jeans pocket.

"Touch the watch," Lucy told the fake royal, giving a sense of trust.

Pharaoh does what his teammate said. Lucy opens the lid of her pocket watch. Everything turns black, grey, and white except for the two Blazing Gaffers. Pharoah notices the six Freezing Grips are not moving or breathing.

"What the?" Pharaoh spoke perplexed.

"No time to explain, use your sand manipulation to bring a Freezing Grip to me so I can take him or her out with my baton," Lucy instructed, looking at her teammate while holding her baton in her left hand.

Pharaoh takes out his Nemes crown and reveals a bottle of sand on top of his head. "Luckily I wrote down on the paper that I always have a bottle of sand with me." He puts the bottle of sand near a tree branch and removes the tapered cork from the bottle. Pharaoh's next move is manipulating the sand with his hands to come out of the bottle and head towards the Freezing Grips.

Still controlling the sand, Pharaoh uses it to get a great grip on JJ and brings the clown to Lucy. As Lucy readies her baton, her pocket watch's lid closes by itself. This results in time moving again and the colors returning to normal.

Daniela, Axel, Tamera, Melissa, and Simon notice JJ is not with them. Simon looks behind and sees Lucy pixellating JJ out of the VR with her baton.

"There on the trees!" Simon exclaimed, making his teammates turn around to see Lucy and Pharaoh on the tree. "And took out JJ!"

"How did they do that?" Axel wondered, finding it impossible Pharaoh or Lucy could be fast enough to bring JJ to them and pixelate her.

"Maybe one of them has that super speed I wanted?" Melissa theorized.

Daniela narrows her eyes at Pharaoh and Lucy, both climbing down the tree they were on. She sees Pharaoh controlling sand in the air.

"We would have noticed sand coming towards us," Daniela told her team. "Lucy must be responsible for this."

"My pocket watch needs to recharge. Keep them away from us with your sand powers," Lucy instructed Pharaoh.

"Right," Pharaoh understood and makes his sand resemble a fist, floating in the air. "And here comes the giant fist!"

A large ball of water washes the sand away. Lucy and Pharaoh look to their right and the five Freezing Grips gaze to their left. Raymundo stands a far distance away with a smile on his face. He has a water ball floating in his left hand.

"Sorry for the intrusion, but I fight for my friends," Raymundo said, referring to his teammates.

"We're not your friends dude," Knick stated as he is shown approaching the beach bro. "Just a team."

Christopher stands next to Raymundo. "A team that sticks by each other's side," The warrior added. Sara is most likely with the three boys, just invisible.

The four approach their Freezing Grip companions. All nine smile at Pharaoh and Lucy.

"Are we seriously the only two left from our team?" Lucy asked Pharaoh, surprised and disappointed that this could be a reality.

"Nope, you still got two more," Georgia answered off-screen. She arrives walking next to Pharaoh and Lucy.

Edgar makes it and stands next to Georgia. He sees the nine Freezing Grips.

"Yep, we're officially screwed," Edgar admitted already defeat, seeing no hope in his team winning.

"I'm surprised you're still around in the challenge," Georgia told Pharaoh while still watching her opponents in case they make a move.

"You really shouldn't," Pharaoh responded, not wanting to look at her ex. "But you always underestimate people so it's a given."

"Excuse me?" Georgia is baffled at what her ex said.

Edgar notices a large shadow hovering over everyone and looks up to see a humungous shooting star coming towards the contestants.

"Uh, guys," Edgar said as he points at the star approaching.

Everyone looks up and realizes everyone's virtual reality lives are in danger.

"Georgia, use your wind powers to blow the star away," Edgar said to the actress in a panicked manner.

"Edgar, I can blow many things, but a star is not one of them," Georgia responded, accepting that she will be pixilated out of the VR.

Inside the studio, the competitors eliminated from the challenge are watching the star coming from the TV screen. All are wondering who was responsible for bringing in a shooting star from outer space to the field with their facial expressions. The only one not curious is Janet, who is enjoying the star about to crash.

Chef walks up to Meredith at her desk.

"Hey, you're going to need to do better on your research," Chef told the intern.

"What do you mean?" Meredith asked, taking her vision off the computer screens to look at Chef.

"Chris got a call from an executive saying you didn't get your fact right on the first prehistoric movie. It was Brute Force from 1914 or in some cases call The Primitive Man," Chef replied.

"So, I was wrong?" Meredith wanted confirmation.

Chef simply nods and heads back to his station. Meredith frowns.

"I know I'm still right for today's fact, but I should apologize to Melissa at one point," Meredith told herself.

Back in the virtual world, the remaining thirteen contestants brace for impact. Edgar uses his powers to blend into a shadow from an oak tree nearby, turning himself into a shadow. Christopher and Melissa decide to try using their powers to perhaps hold the upcoming shooting star before reaching land. Axel makes clones of himself. So many that parts of the clones cannot be seen by an extreme long shot. Raymundo creates a wave with his water ball to ride it and surf away from the coming star.

Daniela jumps and stomps the ground, causing it to crack thanks to her silver metal coating. She does another jump and stomp, resulting in her going through the ground and ending up inside the hole she caused. Some of the rubble hits her head, but her metal coat allows the sleazy girl to not receive any damage.

Simon uses his electric power to try and destroy the star while Tamera pretty much accepts the fact, that she might not be able to survive this. Lucy, in the heat of the moment, opens the lid of her pocket watch to stop time, not realizing she forgot to have Pharaoh touching the watch. She goes to find a hiding spot.

Once Lucy's time stop finishes, the star strikes land. The gigantic star immediately pixelates Christopher, Georgia, Tamera, Melissa, Pharaoh, Raymundo, Simon, and Saraphina. The star explodes and its burst engulfs the entire virtual world.

Axel continues to clone himself as his duplicates pixelate away. Once the burst is done Axel stops cloning. He breathes in and out before falling to the ground, passing out, and getting pixilated.

Confessional – Axel – Freezing Grips

"That didn't turn out well. The drawback to my cloning power is that I can feel the pain my clones get. Basically, I was feeling every single clone of mine dying from the star's burst and my virtual body couldn't keep up at the end."

End Confessional

The coast is clear. The star has burned itself and no more destruction has happened. Daniela climbs out of the hole she made and looks around, noticing nobody around except for Knick.

"How are you still here?" Daniela wondered as she approaches her teammate. "There's not even a single scratch on you."

"That will be my superpower that saved me from such a demise," Knick answered as he adjusts his glasses.

Daniela chuckles and realizes Knick's superpower. "Ah, I remember now. You know, isn't it cool we both use glasses to make ourselves look like nerds when we don't need them?"

"That's fascinating," Knick stated.

Daniela goes to hug her teammate yet stops once she hears someone talking and approaching.

"Well, that was intense," Lucy admitted with a smile on her face, glad to have escaped that calamity. She sees the last Freezing Grips standing in her way. "Two against one? I like those odds."

"Actually, is a two on two," Edgar's voice is heard. Using the shadow of Lucy, he appears in his human form.

"Smart thinking," Daniela complimented the emo.

"Um, thanks," Edgar accepted the gratitude.

"So, are we going to do this the easy way or the hard way?" Knick asked Lucy and Edgar.

"I prefer easy," Lucy answered with a smirk as she opens the lid of her pocket watch again, freezing time. She runs towards Knick and takes out her baton to pixelate the Grip out of the VR.

However, as soon as she goes for a swing Knick moves out of the way. A light purple color aura engulfs Knick's body, which brings back his colors instead of the grey, white, and black colors when Lucy freezes time.

Knick takes this opportunity to kick the back of Lucy's left leg. This causes the detective to fall to the ground.

"Looks like you forgot the superpower I told you I'll like to have," Knick stated as he takes out his baton and takes a few steps to be close to his ex. "Indestructible forcefield."

Once Knick pixelates Lucy out of the VR, time continues. Edgar is confused that Lucy is not with him and gulps seeing the intimidating looks of Knick and Daniela.

Confessional – Lucy – Blazing Gaffers

"Okay, now that's completely unfair. How in the world Chef thought that giving Knick the forcefield ability he likes would be balanced?"

Confessional – Chef – Host

He shrugs. "Knick gave justifiable drawbacks to it. Not my fault some of these teens didn't go for almost broken powers."

End Confessionals

Nervous about what to do, Edgar blends into a rock's shadow nearby and disappears.

"Be on the lookout for shadows," Knick told Daniela as the two covered each other's backs, looking around for a surprise attack. "Edgar can get in and out of any shadow he pleases."

"On it," Daniela confirmed, focusing on their target. She smiles brightly showing her pearly white teeth, trying to contain her excitement about working together with Knick.

What the two did not figure out is that Edgar can use their shadows. Which is what the emo does. Edgar uses Daniela's shadow and then becomes his human form. Both Freezing Grips caught off guard, Edgar uses his baton to strike Knick with it, but in a soft gentle way.

Knick's forcefield aura activates but gets pixilated away. The journalist then starts to pixelate himself.

"I'm counting on you Daniela!" Knick said before leaving the VR.

Edgar turns into a shadow for a different rock. This leaves Daniela alone in trying to figure out how to defeat the last Blazing Gaffer standing in her way of winning. Daniela takes off her glasses and looks at them as if there are dirty spots on them. Thinking she is distracted; Edgar rises up from her shadow and turns into his human form to attack with his baton.

This plan does not work. Daniela anticipated another behind maneuver. This is why she looked at her glasses to see the frame reflection of Edgar forming into his human self. Daniela dodges her opponent's launching attack and gives a nice clean knee kick to Edgar's stomach. Since the sleazy stuntwoman is coated in metal, the knee kick is much more devasting than your average human kick.

Daniela also pushes Edgar away with her knee as she made an impact. Edgar rolls on the ground until coming to a stop. He clenches his stomach and groans in pain.

"You got a lot of potential kid," Daniela praised Edgar as she takes out her baton coted in a rustier metal. She stands next to her hurt adversary. "Make sure not to waste it."

After getting a tap from Daniela's baton on his forehead, Edgar pixelates out of the VR. Daniela hears Chef's voice.

"Daniela has won the challenge for the Freezing Grips!"

Daniela smirks with satisfaction.

Confessional – Daniela – Freezing Grips

She has her feet crossed on the dressing table, kicking back and relaxing on the chair provided while having her hands behind her head. "Being the one to have the team win our second challenge in a row is a great feeling." She chuckles. "Is tempting to rub it in the Gaffers' faces, but I don't want to make any enemies this early in the game. I'll just chill out with my teammates during our celebration. Wonder who is going home though."

End Confessional

It is sunset and the Blazing Gaffers are at the trailers area. All of them are sitting on logs as they gather around the unlit campfire. Sua, Maverick, and Lilith are sitting together on one log. Georgia, Buford, Buck, and Niu are sitting on the middle log while Edgar, Lucy, Janet, and Pharaoh are sitting on another log. Tensions are high between Lilith and Edgar.

"For the last time Lilith, I didn't pixelate you out of the challenge," Edgar exclaimed, feeling hurt that the drummer will accuse him of such a vile act.

"I saw you; you were there. You came up to me with your stupid smirk and got rid of me while I was invulnerable. Stuck on the spider web," Lilith gave her side of the story. She is furious. "How can you just make self-sabotage like that? It wasn't even a good one!"

"Lilith I would never self-sabotage to get rid of you. I want to be your friend. I went to get help," Edgar truthfully confessed, but Lilith does not see it this way.

"What you want in me is an ally to backstab later in the game," Lilith said, frustrated in believing that Edgar won't tell the truth. "You can kiss your treacherous ways goodbye taking that lame-o-sine."

"Georgia was in the prison," Edgar pointed out, getting the actress into the conversation. "She was there."

"You are correct Edgar; I was at the prison. To summarize everything, Edgar was knocked out by a Freezing Grip who then pixelated Lilith out of the game. I used my wind powers to blow the Grip away so I can rescue Edgar," Georgia explained, telling her falsehood.

Lilith gets up from the log. "Lies! Lies! Lies! There was no Freezing Grip at the prison." She glares and points at Georgia. "You're just trying to make me look bad."

The situation is getting uncomfortable for all the Blazing Gaffers except for Georgia who is taking the issue rather well.

"Darling please, you already look horrible with the clothing you use on a daily basis," Georgia insulted Lilith. "I'm simply speaking the truth. You can't convince our teammates Edgar betrayed you when I'm testifying. Sounds like you just want him gone."

"Oh yeah, well… you were an aftermath host," Lilith countered as she puts her hands on her waist. "You have a whole bunch of data of us that you can use to exploit ourselves."

All eyes fall on Georgia. The starlet laughs.

"Do you really expect me to remember all your files from the aftermath that happened months ago?" Georgia rhetorically asked Lilith. She crosses her arms while smiling with delight. "No offense team, but I wasn't going to waste my time keeping info of you all. I have better things to do. Even Pharaoh can vouch for me here."

Pharaoh does not look at her ex but does nod, meaning Georgia is speaking the truth.

"Whatever," Lilith said in frustration and resumes looking at Edgar. "You're going home tonight." She walks away. Maverick and Sua go after her.

Janet, Pharaoh, and Lucy decide to group up somewhere else to talk about who to vote for. Buck, Niu, and Buford head to their respective trailers. Georgia decides to sit next to the pouting Edgar.

"Some friend she turned out to be. I believe you know who to vote for at the elimination ceremony," Georgia told Edgar, a mischievous smile forming.

Edgar sighs since he has no choice.

It is night. The Blazing Gaffers are arriving at the bleacher of the Glided Chris Award Ceremony. Lucy stops to grab Janet's right arm and Pharaoh's left arm, halting the two as well.

"Remember who we are voting for," Lucy whispered to her two alliance members.

"I still believe this is not the correct decision," Pharaoh whispered back.

"Who are we voting for again?" Janet kindly asked.

A quick scene change shows the bleacher with the Blazing Gaffers sitting on it. Like before, the females sit in the first two rows while the males sit in the two upper decks. Each contestant is holding their voting device. Chef is standing in the center of the Glided Chris award stage wearing his fantastic glamourous purple dress that goes down to his feet, glass slippers, some earrings, and a purple chef hat. He is also wearing a wireless microphone film headset. There is a glass table next to him. On the glass table are ten small, glided Chris awards.

"Alright, you losers of today's challenge know how this works. Vote for the team member you want out, I get the results on a cellphone," Chef shows his cellphone with a pic of an anchor inside the ocean. "And only ten of you will survive for the next day. Get to voting."

Everybody selects the person they want to be eliminated from their voting device. Chef takes a quick pick of the results on his cellphone. He puts the cellphone under his purple chef hat.

"Soldiers is time to find out who's the one walking tonight," Chef declared as he grabs a glided Chris. "The ones safe are…"

"Buck, Niu,"

The two catch their glided Chris, happy to still be in the competition.

"Pharaoh, Janet, Sua,"

The three that got their name called catch their glided Chris. Well, not Sua because the glided Chris hits her head.

"Ow," Sua winced and rubs the top of her head with her right hand.

"Buford, Maverick, Lucy," Chef continued announcing who is safe and throwing a glided Chris at each name spoken.

Maverick, Lucy, and Buford happily catch their glided Chris.

"You three," Chef said to Georgia, Lucy, and Edgar. "Each of you received votes tonight."

Confessional – Edgar – Blazing Gaffers

"That was expected," He said in a monotone tone.

Confessional – Lilith – Blazing Gaffers

She is still upset about what is going on. "The fact Edgar keeps pretending he didn't do anything just makes this even harder to not cause a scene."

Confessional – Georgia – Blazing Gaffers

"Didn't expect to get votes, but I guess is sort of to be expected. I don't blend well with my teammates."

End Confessionals

Chef grabs another glided Chris from the table. "The next Blazing Gaffer safe is…"

"Georgia."

The starlet is satisfied to be safe and catches her glided Chris with her right hand.

Edgar and Lilith look at each other. The emo is gloomy more than ever while the gothic drummer is glaring.

"The final glided Chris goes to…"

"Edgar."

Lilith stands up and shouts, "What!?". Edgar does not catch his glided Chris. He is too unhappy after the broken friendship.

"Edgar and Georgia are using all of you," Lilith said to her team. "I'm telling the truth." She gets out of the bleacher and turns around to look at her teammates. She can tell Maverick and Sua didn't vote for her. The rest of her team feels sad or happy about her departure.

"Maverick and Sua, make sure to kick their butts for me," Lilith told her friends, referring to Georgia and Edgar. She notices the unsure look on their faces which makes her frown. She sees Chris approaching her.

"Lilith, time to take the walk of shame and get in the lame-o-sine," Chris instructed.

Lilith sighs in defeat and leaves with McLean.

Confessional – Buford – Blazing Gaffers

"Got to take an opportunity when I see one. Lilith didn't take me to the finale last season by pulling a loophole. Whether she was telling the truth or not today does not matter to me. She was a threat that needed to be voted out." He smirks. "And yeah, I will admit it felt satisfying seeing her leave the competition."

Confessional – Lucy – Blazing Gaffers

"I convinced Janet and Pharaoh to vote off Lilith. Sure, Pharaoh made a good case of why we should have voted for Georgia, but everyone knows how she plays the game. Lilith is a finalist, has a great social game on the team, and has great endurance. Georgia does not have any of those three. So yeah, Lilith had to go. Nothing personal of course is just how the game Total Drama goes. I know I made the right decision."

Confessional – Pharaoh – Blazing Gaffers

"I voted for Georgia, not Lilith. Lucy was quite stubborn in wanting Lilith out, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Crowstillo alliance or not. I know Georgia more than anyone in this competition. We need to get rid of her before she hurts people's friendships. I can't side on who was telling the truth, but I rather have kept Lilith over Georgia."

Confessional – Edgar – Blazing Gaffers

He is dejected. "The person I wanted to befriend the most this season is now gone. And the worst part is I don't know why she would believe that I pixelated her out of the challenge. Georgia told me what happened, she was there. Did Lilith just not want to be with a loser like me?"

Confessional – Georgia – Blazing Gaffers

She snickers playfully. "Oh dear, what a horrendous display of a potential friendship coming to ruins," The starlet spoke sarcastically. "Yeah, Lilith was my first target out of everyone here. I'm not having her endurance and buddy skills on this team. This is why I made sure my superpower was the ability to shapeshift into anything. Ruining her friendship with Edgar was just a bonus. Which is music to my ears."

She picks up a pink lipstick on the dressing table and uses it for her lip.

"I was going to tell Lilith the truth privately to her to watch her reaction, but I'll do that to someone else." She chuckles deucedly. "Enjoy these upcoming acts ladies and gents, because the real show is about to commence."

End Confessional

Chris, Chef, and Casey are inside the crafts and services tent at a picnic table eating lobster.

"She's going to cause a lot of trouble, isn't she?" Casey asked her co-hosts.

"Oh yeah," Chris answered joyfully. "I'm looking forward to it."

Chef gets up from the table and looks at a camera to end the episode.

"The previous winner of Total Drama is gone! How will her elimination affect the Blazing Gaffers? Can the Freezing Grips continue their winning streak? How long will it take for Buck to realize Niu likes him? Can Simon win over JJ's heart? Find out next time on Total… Drama… Lights, Camera, Finale!"


Votes

Buck – Georgia

Niu – Georgia

Pharoah – Georgia

Lilith – Edgar

Sua – Edgar

Maverick – Edgar

Edgar – Lilith

Georgia – Lilith

Lucy – Lilith

Janet – Lilith

Buford – Lilith

Total Votes

Lilith – 5

Edgar – 3

Georgia - 3


Teams

Blazing Gaffers

Boys - Pharoah, Buck, Buford, Maverick, Edgar

Girls – Janet, Lucy, Niu, Georgia, Sua

Freezing Grips

Boys – Knick, Christopher, Simon, Raymundo, Jett, Axel

Girls – Saraphina, Daniela, Kristie, Tamera, JJ, Melissa


PLACEMENTS

23rd - Lilith

24th – Henry


Author's Note: There goes Lilith. She was fun to write like in Carnival Calamity, but she was ultimately found too much of a threat by Georgia. I could see Lilith making the merge again because of the strengths listed by Lucy, but that is the reason why the gothic drummer was targeted early. Still, wonderful character to write.

LittleRedline provided some of the superpowers for the VR challenge. The ones she made were for Buck, Niu, Edgar, Buford, Kristie, Raymundo, Sua, Daniela, Pharaoh, Tamera, Melissa, and JJ. Thanks again LittleRedline for the help.

After my author's note, I will leave a description of each competitor's superpower from the challenge.

I want to be clear that not all challenges will be in VR further going on into the story. In fact, there will be fewer VR challenges than challenges taking place in a studio. Shout out to Lord Gemini for giving information on the actual first prehistoric film. I should have done better research, my bad.

If you like, leave a review or PM me what you think of this chapter.


Superpowers:

Axel – Clone Copy: The user creates clones of himself/herself. Making clones has a limit of ten thousand. The weakness of the power is that you share the same pain as the clones.

Buck – Hammer Hands: The user has technological hands that can create weapons, walls, and other constructions that one can think of. The weakness is that the ability depends on one's imagination.

Buford – Migraine Lie: The user unleashes a devastating psychokinesis headache to anyone who lies from earshot. This ability is useless if the opponent always tells the truth.

Christopher – Chi Combat: By doing a martial art pose, the user unleashes a bright gold aura that enhances their defense and offense. While not carrying a weakness to the power, long-range attacks defeat this ability.

Daniela – Metal Metal: The user cotes their body into a strong metal material. Unless one can crack the metal, this ability does not have a drawback.

Edgar – Cloak of Shadows: The user can blend in with shadows and turn into the shadow. Any shot of light towards the user with the exception of the sun in shadow form will cause great damage.

Georgia – Imposter: This power allows the person to shapeshift into anyone or anything. The drawback is that the user might develop the personality of the person shapeshifting for the time being.

Henry (If he was here) – Army of Bones: The user unleashes an army of skeletons at their opponent. The skeletons are not the most durable.

Janet – Star Summoner: Sends stars from outer space to Earth. The attack takes a while for its full effect.

JJ – Tether Halt: The user unleashes a long silk-wrapped line of colorful handkerchiefs that can paralyze foes for a brief moment.

Jett – Speed Blitz: Can move faster than light. The only weakness is the user not using its full power.

Knick – Aura Blocker: The user is surrounded by a mystic purple aura that shields the wearer from any physical harm. Powers that attack the user internally are its weakness.

Kristie – Copy Maker: By touching another person, the user gains the ability of their power.

Lilith – Hearing Help: Super hearing that can identify any type of sound from a large distance. If there are too many loud sounds at once, the user gets a headache.

Lucy – Watch Out: Can stop time by opening the lid of a pocket watch. The more time the ability is used rapidly, the less time the power stays active.

Maverick - Firecracker Blast: Can create balls of fireworks from the user's hand and shoot them.

Melissa – Muscle Might – The user has super strength. Long-range attacks can handle this power.

Niu – Sonic Screech – A powerful sound wave is unleashed. The user can change the ability to have the sound wave hurt not just the ears but the whole body and push opponents away.

Pharaoh – Sand Manipulation: Can control sand. Its weakness is water.

Raymundo – Water Manipulation: Can control water. Its weakness is not having a source of liquid in the area.

Saraphina – Invisibility: Can turn completely invisible.

Simon – Shocking Tips: Can unleash electricity from the user's fingers.

Sua – Hypnotic Song: The user sings an elegant song that hypnotizes the opponent in doing their every command. It is a close-range power.

Tamera – Lightshow: By making poses, the user creates a bright light that blinds enemies momentarily.