5 minutes ago….

"Okay," Chef is talking to himself "Grab the skinny one, the fat one, and the loud one all at the same time."

Chef was seemingly blending in with the shadows on the catwalk of the Studio he is currently in right now. Below him were TV host, Don, and all 36 contestants from the previous season. While Don was riling up the audience for the show, Chef drops down a rope that has a hook on it and stuck it first at Noah.

"What the-"Before Noah finished his sentence, Chef pulled the rope toward him, where he caught him in midair, where Noah looked super surprised to see him.

"Chef? What are yo-"

"Quiet skinny boy, stay put" as he puts down Noah next to him, he then drops the rope at Geoff and pulled him up quickly before he let out a squeal.

"Yoo! That was super sudden!" Geoff then noticed Chef. "Chef dude! What's hap-"

"SHHHHHHH"

Chef puts him next to Noah and then drops the rope at Owen's collar. "You boys gonna help me with tubby or am I gonna do this myself?" He asked towards both boys.

"What's going dude?" Geoff asked Noah.

"I have no clue." Noah answered. "But knowing Chef, he'll chew us up if we don't help him."

Noah and Geoff moved right behind Chef Hatchet, and grab the end of the rope. Meanwhile, Don was done talking with the audience and turned towards the cast.

"And now, let's start the show starting wi-" Don noticed something was off. "Hang on…12345678…There are only 34 of you, where's Noah and Geoff?"

The cast suddenly turned heads where they were, only leaving spaces next to Owen, and Brody. One of the cast members, Mickey, looked at Owen, and noticed a rope behind him.

"Hey, Owen? What's that rope doing behind you?" He asked.

"On the count of 3," Chef said.

"Huh? I don't remember wearing this." Owen said.

"1"

"Wait…" Junior said. "Up there."

"2"

"Is that…" Don said.

"PULL!"

All three of them pulled to get Owen airborne.

"WOahAHhAHAHA!" Owen screamed while on the air. "Sweet Crust on an Apple Pie! HELP!"

As Owen was in the air, he started swaying from side to side in panic, flaying his arms and screaming on the top of his lung. The audience and the cast members were just looking at Owen flying, turning their heads from left to right.

"OWEN! STOP!" Noah shouted. "I can only hold so much weight before I break any of my arms!"

Owen swinged himself to the upstage center and hit himself hard on its wall and made a giant crack from the impact. The audience and the cast gave an "Owwww" when they heard his head collided with it.

"Okay! I had enough of this!" Don shouted "SECURITY!"

As 9 huge security men came and corner the three of them, the catwalk started to let out a creaking sound and started shaking.

"Uhm, Noah dude?" Geoff asked. "Can this floor hold like 12 people?"

"It's a catwalk Geoff." Noah answered. "And yes, it can….."

"Phew" Geoff said in relief.

"…IF ALL 12 PEOPLE WERE THE SAME SIZE AS I AM!"

"Wait….What?"

The catwalk's support suddenly broke and all 12 men start falling from the air and crashed on stage but not before the cast members jumped away from the falling structure. A huge smoke formed from the crash, then Chef, while coughing, swayed away the smoke from his face and got up next to Geoff, Noah, and Owen. The security team suddenly cornered him behind the cracked wall. He grabs Noah and Geoff and tossed them onto his shoulders, and grabbed Owen from his collar and short, and pointed his head towards the wall.

"Uhhh…Chef? What are you doing?" Asked Owen as his voice was trembling.

"Everything just for a pay raise!"

Chef then charged toward the wall while screaming the words "FOR MY PAY RAISE!" All three of them were screaming from their lungs as Chef was about to hit the wall…

Present….

"Chris!" Shouted Gwen, "What the [Bleep] is going on here?!"

"Yeah Brah!" Geoff protested toward Chef. "We were just chillin' back and was about to have our show when Chef grabbed us by the neck!"

"Show? What show?" asked Heather.

"Of course! Now I remember" shouted Bridgette. "Geoff told me about the Ridonculous Race having a reunion special and how he was invited!"

"Whaaaaat? They're having a reunion at the same time as us?"

"Wait a sec" Sky interject. "Is that what you mean by 'harder to get by'? Because they're currently in a different studio?"

"Uhhhhh….yes! That's right! Because somebody stole 3 of my most popular contestants from the show's history on the same day we're shooting our reunion special."

"But we didn't know there was gonna be a reunion for Total Drama," said Noah.

"Yeah, and if we did, we would have gone for this one before Ridonculous Race." said Owen.

"Uhhhh…Uhhh… The-then you should haveeee… answered the invitations I've sent you! Yeah, that's it! The invitations!"

Then suddenly the whole cast started to look at each other and wonder what Chris is talking about.

"Uh Chris," Harold raised his hand. "I never got an invitation. And if I did, I would have said yes to it."

"I never got one either," said Sadie.

"OMG! I never got one as well!" said Katie.

The whole studio suddenly started to ramble and talk on, eyes were wandering, mouths were moving, and heads were scratching until Scarlett called for everyone's attention.

"Excuse me, but I believe I have a theory, or an accurate answer if you will."

Everyone looked on as she was about to explain the current situation they are in. Scarlett motioned to one of the cast members to push her towards Chris. Rodney stood up and pushes her. While being pushed, she said "Please refrain from asking or interrupting me while I'm explaining, I rest assure that I have 99.9 % of your answers"

Rodney stops near Chris and puts her near him.

"You see, I believe Chris was jealous because of the ratings Ridonculous Race got while he was off the air, and how the producers of the company were in favor of Don being a quote-on-quote better host. When word got out that they'll be hosting a reunion episode, he went bonkers and got desperate. He needed and wanted to be the face of reality TV again so that he won't be overshadowed by a younger-looking star. So when he got the time and date of the episode, he hired a bunch of people to grab all of us around the globe and bring them in the exact time and the exact date, thus explaining why we weren't aware of the current event and the reason why we never received an invitation to show up here. Why it had to be today? He wants this special to outshine the Ridonculous Race reunion special with a group of people the viewers came to know well and loved, because Chris 'ego can't handle someone like Don, a fresh face for a fresh new generation, and wanted the reunion special to flop due to viewer rating plummeted, and think that the reason why the episode didn't work is that no one was interested in him, thus the producers would return to the one and only Chris McLean to host more shows, because this reunion episode has more views than Don's reunion episode, thus ending my theory."

The room was filling with a short void of silence before everyone from both studios met with applause to her explanation.

"Well congrats… you figured me out…" Chris said with the least enthusiasm.

"Chris" Don called to him, "you do realize we host two different types of shows right?"

"Yeah, so?"

"So you don't need to be jealous, I mean I may be more handsome than you but-"

"No one is better looking than Chris McLean!"

"So all of this was all just an elaborate scheme just to beat Don at being a better host?" Cody asked.

"It's not even a good one either!" said Alejandro.

All of them suddenly started laughing. Chris was about to pop a nerve. He walked off stage and started to talk to himself grumbling. Don then walks where Chris was originally standing and greeted the audience of the 1st studio.

"Well now that's out of the way, shall we give the audience from both shows give what they want?"

The audience cheered.

"Welcome to the Reunion Special of both Total Drama and Ridonculous Race!"

Offstage, Chris was still grumbling and was talking to himself. "Ungrateful bunch of people…gave them fame and fortune… They wouldn't be here without me…"

"Today we celebrate the return of all of these past contestants from both shows."

"I mean for what good reason should I care anymore! He's running this shindig now! There must be some way I can get my crown back."

"In their short time being together, they formed bonds of friendship, rivalries, and romance. Not to mention, put their bodies on the line against all odd, poured their blood, sweat, and tears, and joined the show for one reason, and one reason only."

"There has to be some way….but what?"

"And that reason was the huge cash prize of 1….Million….Dollars!"

Chris heard this off stage and had the biggest idea ever, something big enough to entice the contestants. He hastily grabbed something from his backpack (without even looking) that was wrapped in a black cloth and wrote something on paper. He then passed both towards a random intern and said "Take this and bring it to this location!"

"So why don't we start with the show with the first person eliminated from the show…Eva!"

"WHAT?!" Eva protested again. "Why me again?! I came back for the merge of the first season! Why not that fat girl who lies a lot, or that beatbox guy?"

"HOLD UP! STOP THE INTERVIEW!" Chris marched back on stage with a phone on hand.

"What now?!" Don asked.

"I just talked with the producers with something huge!"

"Is it about your butt?" Izzy said, making some of the cast chuckles.

"My butt is in perfect shape! Now if no one would interrupt me, thank you!"

Everything was pointing towards Chris; eyes, heads, cameras, everything.

"The producers wanted me to announce that this Reunion Episode will be an amazing one! Because they told me that a cash prize will be given at the end of the show!"

"And how much will the cash prize be? Cause there is no way it will be big enough to persuade me to participate." Courtney said.

"Yeah! I earned enough bruises for 1 M!" Trent added.

"Oh no! It won't be just a million" Chris said. "The cash prize will be a whopping….5…..MILLION…..…DOLLARS!"

Everyone suddenly gasped at Chris' announcement. They were shocked to hear such a large amount of money is being put on the line for a single episode.

"You're kidding?! There's no way!" Jo said.

"5 Mil!? There's no way the producers agreed to that?!" Don said.

"Oh! But they did! You see, there's this thing called 'experience and trust,' something you've yet to earn, DON!"

"Lightnin' can buy 2 Football fields with that kind of money! And Lightnin's bad with numbers!" Lighting shouted.

"I can use that money to completely take over the whole country!" Max said.

"You better believe it dudes and dudettes! One of you will get the chance to go home with the huge ton of cash and we're doing Chris McLean style! All you need to do is bring me my pristine Gemmy Award hidden somewhere inside Casa Loma, here in Toronto, and bring it back to me."

"And where will you be?" asked Zoey.

"Nowhere specific, because I'll be roaming around the city as well, so the first person to find me and give me my Gemmy will be rewarded 5….MILLION…..DOLLAARRRRRSSS!"

Everyone on stage got excited and started jumping for joy, knowing that they'll be able to win big. Everyone, including the Ridonculous Race cast members.

"Hear that Ryan!?" Stephanie proclaimed to her gigantic boyfriend. "We'll be rich if we win!"

"Huphuphup!" Chris interjected on them. "Sorry! But this is only exclusive to the Total Drama crew!"

"What?!" Emma shouted "That's ridiculous! We're literally part of Total Drama!"

"Totally!" Kitty added. "We're part of the show's spin-off! It literally said 'Total Drama Presents:' on the title card!"

''Truueeeee! But you're not under my supervision during your time as a contestant. So sucks to be part of Don's group huh?"

The Ridonculous Race started to voice out their frustrations on not being able to participate in the trophy hunt, everyone, except of course Crimson, Ennui, Spud, and Taylor.

"Well sucks to be them, 'cause I don't need that prize money. Daddy can give me that much money, and I got better things to do." Taylor said.

As Taylor was walking offstage, Heather found the perfect moment to antagonize the uninterested woman.

"Ohhhh surreeee, leave now. I'm sure your Daddy can afford a paper bag for him to put over his head knowing that her daughter is a quitter on national television!"

Taylor stops midway and angrily turns her head towards Heather.

"What did you say?"

"Well, it's just that I thought the only reason you're quitting is that the best thing you can do is not keep up with us and disappoint your own father!" She then points at Lindsay. "I mean this idiot right here can last 4 seasons of this show, but you can only manage…how many episodes were you in? I guess it doesn't matter, you're completely forgettable anyways!"

Taylor was fuming from what Heather said. Kelly noticed that her daughter was enraged and ran towards her to calm her down.

"Now now sweetie! I'm sure your father will be alright with you leaving, I mean he does love you, dear-"

"OH IT IS ON!" Taylor ignored everything her mother was trying to say and marched right towards Chris.

"You! Host Man! I want IN on the money!" She demanded.

"Did you not hear me? I said Total Drama contestants only!"

Chris was then grabbed by the collar and came face to face with Taylor and her beaming eyes.

"Then make me one! Right now!"

Chris was surprised by this demand, but he showed a little smirk at the end of his lips.

"Are you sure about that?"

"YES! ANYTHING JUST TO SHOW THIS [Bleep] HER PLACE AND BEAT HER AT HER OWN GAME!"

Chris snapped his finger and an intern handed him a bunch of paper. She reached one on Taylor's face and said "Just sign here please."

As Taylor grabs and signs the contract, she shoved it back onto Chris' chest, much to his pleasure knowing that he has a new contestant in the instant.

"Congrats Taylor! You are now OFFICIALLY a member of Total Drama!" He then looks at the other RR cast. "Anyone else wants to get that dough?"

Suddenly everyone from RR shuffled to get a contract and sign it to be able to participate.

"Congratulations! Now all of you have a chance to win the money!"

"Chris!" Don walked towards him, "This is insane! Good for ratings, but insane!"

"What's wrong, jealous that all of your contestants went towards me? Anyways!" He looked towards everyone, "If all of you are ready! The race for the 5 Million is about to start right…."

They crouched to their knees and took a running stance. There are others smiling at each other, others were glaring, and some were just excited to win.

"NOW!"

As soon as Chris spoke, everyone on stage ran towards the exit and started shoving each other just to get ahead of one another. When they were about to reach the exit, Dakota was stomping towards the exit, breaking the exit wall creating a giant-sized hole, making it easier for all the contestants to leave the studio. Everyone was racing for the trophy, everyone except for Chris, Chef, Don, Scarlett, Ezekiel, and Duncan.

Chris looked at both Scarlett and Duncan and asked "Why aren't you racing for the money?"

"You know, we could be on the run for the money….IF WE WEREN'T SHACKLED DOWN!" Duncan screamed.

"Riiiiiggghhtt… forgot about both of your situations."

"Chris, do you even have the money for the winner?" Chef asked.

"Oh, that! That was just a hoax!"

Don, Chef, Duncan, Scarlett, the audience, the camera crew, the backstage crew, the WHOLE studio, gasped and in unison said "WHAT?!"

"You duped those people into finding your award and bring it to you, only to be met with NOTHIN'?"

"Relax Chef, They're not gonna be able to find my Gemmy because the thing I gave my intern was Mr. Coconut. Time will pass, they'll get tired and give up before they figure out it was all a lie! See Don? This is how you host properly! You need to learn how to lie to your contestants!"

"Well the only thing I'm learning right now is to avoid a target behind my back," Don interjected.

It was met with an "Ohhhh" from the audience.

"Trust me, it's all worth it just to be on top! I mean, it's one of the reasons I got my Gemmy! Here I'll show you, and even let you touch it so that you know what greatness feels like."

Chris closes his eyes and snaps his finger and an intern gave him his backpack. He rustles the back while his eyes are still closed, and pulls out what he thinks is his Gemmy. He then pulls the cloth covering it.

"See? Bask in my greatness and be blinded by its glorious glimmer."

The audience gasped.

"Uhhh, Chris…." Chef called for his attention.

Chris opened his eyes, and what he thought was his Gemmy on the palm of his hand…was actually.

"Mr. Coconut?! But that means…..Uh Oh!" Chris then realized the thing he gave his intern was his actual Gemmy.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA! NICE MOVE MCLEAN! YOU SCREWED UP BIG TIME! HAHAHAHAHA!" said Duncan while he was out of breath.

"Why does he even carry his Gemmy everywhere he go?" asked Scarlett.

"He likes to showboat" Chef answered while he's pinching his bridge.

Chris was panicking; he grabbed Chef by his collar and screamed "We have to find it before anyone does!"

"Well good luck with that Chris! You're gonna get it!" Duncan said.

"He'll either get a huge lawsuit or an artificial jaw when they find out it was all fake… My bet's on the jaw." Scarlett said.

Chris noticed the two who were in shackles laughing at his expense. He then had an idea.

"You two! Help me out! Get me that Gemmy before any of the contestants does!"

"Why should we? What do we get in return?" Duncan asked.

"Anything!"

Chris was getting desperate to be asking help from two people who he considered dangerous. Both Scarlett and Duncan looked at each other and both knew what they want.

"We want you to bail us out of the arrest," Scarlett interjected.

"And a monthly commission of 50k!"

"FINE! FINE! I'll get you out of jail and give you money every month!"

"Damn! I should have asked for more!"

Chris unlocked the shackles and releases Scarlett from her jacket.

"Well partner, shall we get ol' Chris here his money back?"

"Indeed my scheming companion!"

Both Scarlett and Duncan shook on it. It was the beginning of a beautiful temporary partnership.

Continue in Part 3