rikkeneon552: It's much rather like a sign of respect, but it can also be that she fell in love with Cody as something happened during the run to the castle outside the view of the cameras, but hey, you decide if it's that or this.
amit avrashmi: Trust me, they'll get their chance... but not just yet I'm afraid.
TheMoonIsCheese: first, love the name (I also believe the moon is cheese.), second, it's something one of the cast members would say...but that's for you to guess who, as I'm keeping them anonymous just for the giggles.
Messiah: Then you'll love what I actually have in store for them.
Inside the ice cream truck, Noah was holding onto the award, devising a plan to get them all away from the horde of people they're running away from. "Okay, here's how it goes, we stop near the studio, where Chris might be at right now, and start to go there by foot, making Beth drive away as the whole cast starts chasing after us. But little did they know we don't have the trophy, as it will be hidden here inside the freezer. While we're in the studio, we grab Chris and carry him outside with Beth waiting for us at the parking lot, giving him the Gemmy and get that 5 million. Everyone clear on that?"
"That sounded like a great plan little buddy," Owen said to his best friend. "I just hope we don't get sidetrack into something insane, Hehehehe!"
"Alright, we're almost at the studio," Emma proclaimed, "we just need to get past Riverdale and-"
The truck suddenly started to swerve left and right making everyone inside it loses their balance.
"Beth! What's going on!?" asked Tyler.
"They're rolling wheels spinning towards us! Someone's trying to hit us!" Beth said while steering back and forth from left to right.
As the truck gets out of balance, Noah tripped from all the swerving and let go of the award, where it perfectly landed inside the mouth of Owen.
"I got it!" Kitty then pulled the trophy out of his mouth, hitting his sibling Emma with it in the process. "Sorry abo-" She couldn't finish her sentence, as she screamed to the top of her lungs what she saw at the driver's window…a fallen tree in the middle of the road.
Beth hit the brakes as she was nearing the tree, but the sudden stop causes Kitty to lose her grip and had the Gemmy flew across the track, hitting Tyler on the head, making him dizzy and fell towards the floor. The Gemmy then starts to roll away outside the truck, where the truck stopped in front of a huge school located somewhere in Riverdale.
This school was so massive, that the field of the entrance to the school would be considered as a small park. Its exteriors looked as if they were crafted in the mid-19th Century, coated in blue and white paint, with numerous buildings were towering one another.
The Gemmy stopped somewhere on the field, open for the taking, and it was soon taken by Jo, "I'll be taking that! Jo wins again!"
As she was showboating the trophy to herself, Scott was running towards her and said, "I don't think so!", then pounced onto her. They were both struggling to grab ahold of it, as both members were rolling around and pushing each other away from the Gemmy. As Jo was on top and Scott, she forcibly took it away from his hands, and rose above her head, making sure he couldn't reach it as he was laying on the grass on his back, but it was a huge mistake as Jacques jumped above Jo and snatched if from her.
"Great job Scotty!" Jo blamed her foe.
"Me? You're the one who couldn't get a good grip on it!" As Scott stated the obvious, she punched him in the jaw, making Scott retaliate by grabbing her by the jacket and made them start to roll around again.
Meanwhile, Jacques ran back to his partner with a huge grin on his face. "Josee! Look what I've got!"
"YES! Finally, 1st Place! We're no. 1! We're no. 1! "
As he was nearing toward her, another tree went flying up in the air and blocked Jacques in his tracks. The person who was throwing all the random items at the contestants was revealed to be Eva. She jumps and landed in front of Jaques, grabbed him by the collar, looked him dead and the eyes, and threatens him. "What's it gonna be, the trophy, or your lives?"
Scared for his life, he hastily gave the Gemmy to Eva. As she grabs the award, Eva threw Jacques as hard as she could towards his partner and starts running away, but then he was halted by Brick.
"I'm afraid I have to stop you right there Ma'am! That was very un-sportsmanship like and I suggest yo- *Bonk*", Eva hits brick with the trophy and made him woozy and fell to the ground, not before him spitting nonsense, "Ima Preatey BaLLrENiA!"
Eva smiled that there is no one else to stop her, but she thought wrong.
"HEY, SISTER STEROIDS!"
She looks behind her and saw that she was taunted by Leshawna, with her group behind her.
"I think you have something that belongs to us!"
Eva started to get infuriated as she had to face off another group of people, and out of anger and desperation, she bent the Gemmy and threw it at the others. She turned the trophy into a boomerang.
Harold and Trent stepped in front of the others.
"Don't worry guys! Harold and I totally got this!"
"I'll get it for you Leshaw-", but he got cut off as the trophy hits him and Trent.
"Harold! Oh, that is it!"
As Leshawna charges at Eva, the "trophy-rang" was still spinning. The others were able to avoid being hit; Gwen was able to duck, Crimson and Ennui stepped to the side, and Mickey and Jay bumped into each other making them fall down and miss the weapon.
Stephanie and Ryan on the other hand got caught with it, first hitting Ryan, because he was too big, then Stephanie because it was roaming back toward Eva.
When Leshawna started to lock hands with Eva, she ducked right on time before being hit by the returning trophy. Eva catches it, as swung it at Leshawna, who dodges the hit and grabbed the trophy, causing another back and forth stalemate.
Meanwhile, on top of a building, Izzy was climbing up a Telecommunication antenna, with Lighting following her. Lightning was starting to worry about how far they've climbed.
"Yo, crazy girl! Isn't this a bit too high?"
"Nonsense! We'll have the perfect view finding the trophy right here!"
Below the two of them were the others that followed Lightning up.
"Should we follow them up there?" Sammy asked.
"If we can get a better view, then I guess we could?" Sky questioningly.
"I don't know about that but I can see things perfectly fine right here." "In fact, I can see two chicks fighting it out at that school down here!"
And true enough, it was revealed that they were directly below the school, a street away to be exact.
"Fighting?" Jasmine squinted her eyes and saw something glimmering between them. "*Gasp* they've got the Gemmy! Come on!"
The rest of the group started to climb back down the building, leaving Lightning and Izzy on the antenna.
Back down, Eva was pulling the Gemmy away from Leshawna with all her strength, which was working as her foe's fingers started to loosen up one by one. Leshawna doesn't want to lose, so in desperation, she kicked the trophy out of both of their hands and it went flying, but Gwen was watching them fight the whole time, saw the opportunity, and quickly grabbed the trophy.
"I got it!" Gwen raised it to celebrate her perfect catch, but it was short-lived as a van was nearing her. She jumped out of the way letting go of the trophy, and then when the van stopped at where Gwen was, the van hit the trophy got bounced up again. The culprits inside were Blaineley and her camera crew.
"Quick, keep rolling! We need all the action we can get!"
As the Gemmy was up in the air for the gazillionth time, Eva tried to go after it, but Leshawna jumps at her and pins her to the ground. But eventually, the person who caught the Gemmy was Sky, who was able to drop down as fast as she can to catch the award. When all four of them came down from the building, they were met with Jacques and Josee.
"Give us the trophy! I won't be humiliated again!" Josee said in a fit of rage.
As both of them ran towards the Sky, she looked behind them and called for one of her teammates' attention, "Jasmine catch!"
As Jasmine catches the Gemmy, the Ice Dancers quickly turned foot and charges at her. She called for her boyfriend's attention and threw the before being pushed down by the two trophy chasers. "Shawn!"
Shawn effortlessly ran up to it and catches, but once he caught it, he came face to face with the Goths, and had them mistaken for the one thing he fears the most, "Zombies! AHHHHHHHHHHH! Sammy!"
He throws the trophy out of fear, and as Sammy was about to catch it, she heard not only a familiar voice, but also one identical to hers.
"SAMEY!"
"Amy?"
Her twin sister, who is currently covered in filth, was furious she left her by the dumpster and tackles her away from the falling Gemmy. As it lands on the ground once more, Mickey and Jay, who were hiding behind a bush tried to grab it, but suddenly, the hot air balloon that was flying all around Toronto came crashing on to them, pushing all of them at a tree, making all the contestants hanging from it.
"Whoa, cool place." Mike commented on the school ground they landed on.
Back at the top of the building, Izzy and Lightning we're almost at the top of the antenna.
"Look! We're almost at the top!"
"You know, Lightning starting to think this was a bad idea!"
Izzy turned down to Lightning. "There's gonna be Lightning?"
As Izzy turned away for a second, the top of the antenna vigorously rocked for a few seconds. They both turned to see Sam with his trousers stuck on the tip.
"Oh, hey guys!" Sam said.
All of a sudden, the ground started to rumble. They turned and find Dakota running toward them and her boyfriend. She jumps up and tried to land on the antenna, but due to her weight and size when she clung to it, she accidentally pushed it towards the school. Lightning and Izzy let go of the antenna before it started falling, but they started to free fall to the ground after. Dakota grabbed Sam before they impacted the school, having the antenna breaking a chunk of the building down. As Dakota fell butt first on the antenna, her arm formed into a slide, giving Lightning and Izzy a perfect opportunity to slide onto it and do a somersault. Lightning went first and did a perfect somersault.
"Lightning Sha-Scores!" He then notices the trophy that was between his feet. He picked it up and celebrated again. "Oh yeah! Double Lightning score! Sha-boo-"
Izzy then lands on top of Lightning with a somersault of her own, tossing the trophy up and it landed safely onto Izzy's hand.
"Izzy's got the gold! Touchdown!"
Izzy threw the trophy onto the ground and it bounced around the grass and landed near the debris of the school. When Dakota got up from the impact, the antenna moved slightly upwards, where a giant piece of stone fall down and hit the trophy, causing the trophy to break into 43 tiny pieces after all it went through.
"…..Whoops. Shouldn't have done that I guess."
The bus full of the contestants arrived a bit late, and every single contestant went near the broken trophy. Blaineley came walking towards them with a mic on her hand, and was about to finish her commentary.
"In a shocking turn of events, and after all the destruction and chaos that they've left behind, it came to this! All of their hopes and dreams shattered! They're now questioning if all that trouble was worth it!"
"…..What now?" Asked Mary.
A few seconds later, a helicopter went flying down landed onto the field, and outcomes Chris and Don.
"I told you that Chef was a good pilot," Chris said confidently.
"Yeah, and you told me that he's also unlicensed so that obviously didn't scare me." Don said sarcastically.
Once they both turn around, they were shocked by what they saw.
"What just happened?" Don asked.
"AND WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY TROPHY!?" Chris ignores all the debris around them and focused on his now shattered Gemmy.
"CHRIS!" Blaineley started to run towards the two of them. "I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR THE FOOTAGE YOU GAVE ME! THIS GONNA BE TV GO-" She stopped her sentence and took notice of Don being next to him. Her smile faded away and started to glare at the said host. "Hello, Don…."
Don did the same as well and glared back at her. "Hello, Mildred…."
Chris ignoring both of them started to walk towards all of the contestants. "You people are insane! How could you have destroyed the one thing that is important in my life? I can take all the insults and beatings, but I will NOT stand you all breaking anything dear to me!"
"Aw come on Chris," Owen said. "I'm sure we can fix it with some glue and some tape."
"Sure, maybe, but the image of it in pieces will be imprinted in my head forever!"
"Oh stop being a drama queen Chris!" Heather said.
Chris turned his back on the contestants and started to ramble, "I can see the headlines now, 'Chris McLean's Inaugural Gemmy Award for Best Host, shattered here in Rosedale by ungrateful contestants!'"
"Kinda long to be a headline dude." Tyler stating the obvious.
"WHAT IN 'GREAT COPERNICUS' HAPPENED TO THE SCHOOL?!"
The raspy feminine voice came from the entrance of the school, where a woman in her late 50's, brown hair tied to a top bun with numerous white streaks all over, wrinkles on her face, pure red lipstick covering both lips, and reading glasses in front of her blue eyes. Every single clothes she had was pure black; a black blouse, a black blazer, a long black skirt dropping down to her ankles, and black stiletto heels. She walked towards the bulk of people crowding the trophy itself.
"EXPLAIN YOURSELVES ON WHY YOU ALL ARE LOITERING IN FRONT OF THE BROKEN BUILDING!"
As she scans the crowd, a familiar face stood against all of the people in the crowd. "Christian McLean! I never expect to see you here in my grounds!"
"Wait…..Ms. Fincher?! What are you doing here?!" Chris turns his head towards the school's sign near the entrance. He figured out instantly why she is here.
"It is now Headmistress Fincher if you will! Now explain! Why are you herein, and who are these hooligans with you?!"
"Uhhh…why don't we talk inside the school? The rest of you, go back to the studio, I'll deal with the rest of you later."
The scene cuts inside a school office, with Ms. Fincher on the phone talking to someone while Chris, Chef, Don, and Blaineley were waiting for her to finish. "Uh-huh, I see….yes sir. I will inform them this instant."
She puts down the phone and glared at all four of them on the news she just received. "Well I just talked to the mayor of the city, and let's just say that someone wants you to pay for the irreparable damage your so-called 'contestants' did to the city, not to mention the damage you caused to the school with that giant freak bringing down an antenna!"
"You see about that….."Chris sheepishly tried to answer.
"I mean you can pay me half of the 5 Million dollars directly to the school, and the other half to the municipal, but unfortunately, there is no cash prize, all because of your ego of being the better host took control."
"….Uhhhhh…."
"I mean honestly, what were you trying to accomplish with that stunt? This is something you would do back when I was teaching you manners and Trigonometry!"
Chris cannot say anything due to the overwhelming aura of her old teacher until Chef came in and spoke for him.
"Excuse me Headmistress Fincher, but I would like to apologize on behalf of his actions towards you, the school, and the city."
"An apology won't be enough to build the foundations back up."
"You hear that Blaineley?" Don said while tapping her with his elbow to grab his attention. "Apologies don't fix problems certain people made."
"What? You're accusing me?" Blaineley said in surprise. "It was clearly you who-"
"QUIET!" Fincher stopped their bickering before it escalated and turned back the attention to Chris. "Now Mr. McLean, obviously what happened wasn't your doing, but you clearly stated this so the mayor is also putting the blame on you. He also stated that if you can't pay for the damage you've caused, you and those responsible will be locked up in federal prison for the rest of your lives."
Chris was in shock at the ultimatum given to him, "JAIL? I can't go to jail….again….plus I don't have enough money, I used all of it to buy all of my mansions!"
"Why can't you sell some of your mansions to get the money?" asked Chef, stating the obvious answer to the problem at hand.
"You kidding? No way am I selling one of those bad boys! You know how hard it is to get those lots?"
"Well if you're not gonna sell them, what can you do?"
Chris started to think of a way to avoid jail. Being Chris, he always tries to find a way to benefit and satisfy both himself and others. He looked behind the seated teacher to see the school's motto on a golden plaque. The motto was written in Latin and said "aedificationem competitive paragones" which translates to "building competitive paragons." What caught Chris' attention was the word competitive, making him smile and had another idea. "Chef called the producers, I have a solution."
An hour has passed, and all of the contestants were waiting for Chris and the others to return back to the studio, then a few seconds later, they came walking with a TV behind them, and Headmistress Fincher trailing behind.
"Hello contestants, do I have news for you?" Chris greeting the contestants back.
"You're getting fired?" Noah jokingly said.
"You wish! No! I have good news and bad news! Let's start off with the bad news first. Now as you know, I can't give one of you the 5 Million Dollars, because none of you gave me my Gemmy back as it was shattered back at the school. However, here comes the good news, generous as I am, I'll be giving you guys another chance for the money!"
They all started to cheer as they heard the good news, but before it went on into a full-blown celebration, Chris cuts them off.
"But here's the problem, there are currently 82 contestants here, which is extremely difficult to handle, so some of you won't be able to participate."
As soon as they all hear this, they all started to grumble on the possibility that they might not be a participant.
"Wait, so who gets to compete?" Cody asked.
"Good question, we tried to figure out how to cut down the competition to at least half of 82, but that won't be fair and unbiased to all of you, so I had the idea on the people who came close to getting the 5 Million."
"But that doesn't make any sense," Beth said. "You weren't near us for the whole race."
"True, but thanks to Blaineley capturing everything with her camera crew, we came to a consensus that those who made contact with the award will earn that chance. Blaineley, if you will."
Blaineley opened up the TV and showed snippets of the whole recording, and revealed who the contestants were.
"Congrats to the following: Taylor, Heather, Anne Maria, Alejandro, Max, Rock, Cody, Duncan, Scarlett, Dawn, Zoey, Mike, B, Cameron, Ellody, Sugar, Courtney, DJ, Katie, Brody, Jen, Noah, Kitty, Jo, Scott, Jacques, Eva, Leshawna, Gwen, Sky, Jasmine, Shawn, Lightning, and Izzy!"
Those who were called upon were ecstatic, but the others were not.
"But wait! There's more! Due to technicality: Sanders, Owen, Emma, Tyler, Brick, Trent, Harold, Ryan, and finally, Stephanie. Congratulations to all of those who were called, because you all get a chance to win 5 Million Dollars!"
The rest that was called suddenly lit up and joined the others to celebrate qualifying for the money. Once it toned down a bit, they all started to speculate on how the money is going to be won.
"So what do we do? Do we fight it out in one huge stage like a battle royale?" Cody speculated.
"Maybe we'll play it out like a game show!" Harold said.
Chris interrupted all the chatter, "Or maybe you'll all be going back…..TO SCHOOL!"
And in unison, everyone in the Peanut Gallery went "Huh?"
"Let me explain." Chris then started to lie. "Due to your excessive behavior getting the trophy, you've caused property damage to Toronto. The mayor wants us to pay for the damage to everything broken in the city, but the price they're asking is 10 million dollars! Obviously, the producers and I had to give away the original 5 million to pay off half the debt."
"So we're all basically fighting for nothing?" Leshawna asked.
"Not exactly. You see, I had the brilliant idea of getting your money and the money you own to the city."
"And that would be?" Sky asked.
"One word: Sponsorship. If we can grab a hold of numerous sponsors, we'll be able to dig up the 10 million needed, and by doing that, is by producing a new season of Total Drama!"
"I'm starting to understand the whole plan of yours, but why do we need 'to go back to school'?" Ellody said while trying to piece all the clues together.
"You see the woman behind me?" Chris turns and points to his old teacher, "That is Headmistress Fincher. Back when I was a kid, she was my teacher in mathematics. She now runs my alma mater, Crestheart, the school you dropped an antenna on. She would have liked to press charges, but with our history and all, and her being a fan of Total Drama, she decided not to do so at all. As long as we get the money needed for the repairs for the school, she decided to keep a close eye on us while filming by offering my old school as the next location for the new season to take place in."
"You mean we'll spend the whole season in a school within the city?" Noah asked angrily.
"Oh no! The one you've damaged was Crestheart Elementary, I didn't go there and she was only here because of a monthly visitation," Chris then clicked on to the next slide to show a gigantic school in the middle of the forest near a lakeside. "The school you'll be staying in and the school she's looking after is Crestheart Boarding School in Quebec, Canada. For the past 4 years of my life, I stayed and conquered the hardship thrown at me, and now, it will be your time to survive the dangers of going back to the best time of your lives."
Chris then looks at the camera. "To all loyal viewers watching, mark your calendars, because in 5 days, you'll get to watch all these contestants battle it out in challenges, rivalries, and detention, so that only one will stand to win the whopping prize of 5….Million….DOLLARS! So be ready, and tune in on TOTAL….DRAMA….DROPOUT!"
Author's Notes: AAAANNNDDD THERE YOU HAVE IT, FOLKS! This has been the prequel to my upcoming fanfiction, Total Drama Dropout. The reason why I've separated the prologue and the main story is because (1), I wanted to give this the same vibe Total Drama did for Action and World Tour, giving the suspense of who's competing and who won't, and (2) The main story won't be out until December to January 2022, I have a lot on my plate right now and I want to release the chapters in a consecutive day, and that be on Saturdays (UCT), but don't fret because, by the time I'm going to release it, I have plenty of ammo (finished chapters) to release even without the other chapters completed or finished yet. If you're interested when it's gonna be released, just give this story a follow and I'll post a new chapter that will announce the same day of release.
Thank you for all the follows and favorites that this story got, and I hope you guys tune in for the upcoming story that is...Total Drama Dropout!