Total Drama: The Original Island
Episode 8: The Nostalgia Saga
By: BigBadBrad
The helicopter lands as AJ nods to Jackson and packs his stuff up. Jackson creates a small grin which surprises Milly who looks at him after talking to Mimi. Her eyes narrow as he continues to stare at him. Jackson's eyes avert from Aj to Milly.
"What are you looking at?" Jackson asks quickly. Milly raises an eyebrow at him suspiciously, however Jackson plays it cool.
"You talked to AJ, the whole time. Not only that but from the past few days your habits have been…. Different. Could it be possible that you're getting somewhat feelings, bonding feeling with Aj?" Milly asks smartly. Jackson smartly looks Milly. He has the reverse card in his pocket.
"So, you've been documenting my manorizes, eh?" Jackson asks as he feels his left pocket, he casually puts his hand in there swiftly. Milly doesn't seem to mind.
"Yes, I do that for everyone, that's simply my planned profession," Milly says professionally. She however is surprised by Jackson's faint smile remaining on his face.
"And you do it, respecting the privacy of the people your writing about these people…. right?" Jackson asks smugly. Milly realizes the trap she's fallen into put remains calm.
"So you wouldn't be bothered with… I don't know someone reading your entries?" Jackson asks.
Milly scoffs, "I never knew you were a lawyer,"
Jackson clicks the thing in his pocket.
"I'll take that as a no then," Jackson says, "But here's what I'm gonna do, if you talk to anyone criticizing me or saying I'm a threat. I'm gonna leak this conversation to every camper here, and I don't believe they like their privacy being… infringed," Jackson whispers into Milly's ear before he get a small push from Travis.
"Get off my… um girl," Travis says awkwardly. Milly is immediately taken aback.
"My girl? I'm not your girl, I'm nobody's girl," Milly says offended.
"Oh… ok," Travis says shocked. He's at a lost of words.
Travis Confessional
"Ummm wow, I definitely did not expect that. Ummm I guess my clever things I said about her didn't work… unless," Travis says.
"Ay bro, do not come to conclusions, they never work. Trust me," Joe the cameraman responds cautiously.
"Well I know that… but Jackson and Milly did kiss that one time… oh goodness, my rival's dating my girl?" Travis gasps.
"Welp I guess nobody listens to me," Joe the cameraman says exhaustedly.
End Travis Confessional
Travis awkwardly packs his stuff up as Milly watches apologetically.
"Also… add reading access," Jackson continues, simply not caring about what just happened.
Milly sighs as the camera goes to Nui and Lance. Nui is sitting on the other edge of the helicopter as Lance gets his and her stuff.
"Thank you for getting my stuff, I know it must be hard for you," Nui says apologetically she glances at him cutely he simply walks by her.
"It's nothing, I'm in a military camp, I'm basically a weight lifter," Says Lance confidently giggles as Lance looks behind himself to see her.
"Come on," Lance says. Nui somewhat frowns before she gets up.
The camera shifts to Mimi who sits next to Chris awkwardly.
"So...umm how are you gonna get home?" Chris asks as he taps his fingers.
"I was going to ask you that," Mimi says taken aback.
"I thought you were going to… not get on the helicopter," Chris says somewhat quitely. Mimi rubs her forehead in frustration.
"Uh get out I guess, I'll find a way," Chris says as he rubs the back of his neck.
Andrew slunches over as Lucas and Brittany steps around him.
"Can you be useless somewhere else?" Brittany asks obnoxiously.
"Well excuse me," Andrew sarcastically says.
"You're excused, right Lucas?" Brittany says snarcally, her medium blonde hair swings sassily.
"Yesssssss, that's right my queen said it," Lucas says cheerily.
"Look, I'm not going for your bull #$% today, just go with your... Idk Tucci bag or something, I'm sad and hurt just go…" Andrew says as he looks down somberly.
"I'm sorry, but you need to get a grip, now come on, we have better things do than hang out with things number 1, 2, and 3," Brittany says as her long finger with an expensive ring slides from Andrew, to Nui and Lance.
"Did you hear that? She said it, mhmm she said it," Lucas says somewhat flamboyantly. Brittany glares at him before she snaps her fingers, that grabs Lucas' attention who goes from teasing a hopeless Andrew to being at Brittany's command.
"Hey, you stop being annoying and get my bags," Brittany snaps.
"Yes ma'am," Says Lucas as he walks around Andrew and carries Brittany's two Zebra print bags with gold locks.
"I guess it can get worse," Andrew mumbles underneath his breath.
"Plus if she was here… I guess Matt would want me to win," Andrew realizes, "But, eh whatever?"
Andrew looks up to see he is alone, the sky is a dark blue he stands up and hops down from the helicopter.
"How did I-" Andrew asks as he bewilderly looks around. He sighs as he sees the open windows of the teams all talking. He looks back to see Chris walk away with Mimi in an intern's outfit.
"Hey, Chris!" Andrew shouts to Chris and Mimi who are walking away from the helicopter.
"Andrew? What are you still doing out here? We have a challenge tomorrow?" Chris says stunned at how Andrew is still here.
"Oh… we do. Umm I really have no clue why I'm here, especially when Dior Meo comes on in approximately 10 minutes. I guess I'm just trying to move on," Andrew says as he looks down to his thumbs. Chris walks over and puts his hand on Andrew's shoulder. Mimi follows behind but does not comfort Andrew.
"What's going on? Is there anything you need to tell us?" Chris asks concerned.
"Oh… well, I've just been trying to shake off Vincent and Matt's eliminations. I know that it's good for Matt. She can finally show how bright she was but I still miss her. I mean I feel bad for her, I was the reason she's gone. All I had to do was give her one kiss. One… stupid, loving, thoughtful kiss. But, I failed. I failed my team and I don't want to fail anymore," Andrew says as his eyes tear up. Mimi watches as Chris pats Andrew's back.
"It's fine dude, just take your time and relax, all you can do is just try. Try to move on and if you feel bad, so what? Stay on the sidelines and be emo, at least right now you have an excuse," Chris says as he looks deep into Andrew's crying eyes.
"I use to be exactly like you…. But richer, and less nerdy…. But, that's beside the point. You can win it, I absolutely know you can," Chris says as he pumps his fist into the air. He watches to see if any other campers are watching them. The only contestants around is Milly who is taking an anxious walk down through the abandoned part of the island. However Chris can hear laughter and talking from the cabins. He also sees Lance sneak into the spider girl's cabin followed by Nui's voice shouting Lance's name.
He looks back to Andrew who sits there on the helicopter emotionally. Chris smiles.
"Ok now get off the guy we hired to bring this back to New York should be coming here in like an hour," Chris says nonchalantly as Andrew hops off the helicopter a second time.
He looks behind, waves, and walks back toward his team's dorm room as cheesy inspiration 80's music plays. The scene goes to slow mode, rewinds, then happens again.
Chris Confessional
"What can I say… I like helping someone in need of my services," Chris smiles politely.
End Chris Confessional
The next day is horrendous, the Florida rain shows up and showers over the island. The camera is inside the boys Dolphins cabin.
Travis is sleeping calmly, Jackson appears to be reading a bible however, he is reading Milly's journal underneath. Meanwhile, Aj lays on his bed looking up at Jackson who cracks a small smile, Aj trustfully looks away.
"Campers! Today's challenge starts in…. umm…let's just say 10 minutes?" Chris says as he checks a modern white watch on his wrist.
The camera shifts to the spider girls dorm room.
Brittany gets up to Chris' voice in her classic pink one piece pajama suit as Lance rubs his eyes on the white rug layed over the stained light brown wood floor. Nui wakes up in her traditional floral dress.
"Wha- Lance's why are you here?" Nui questions Lance who's barely awake.
"Umm actually… why am I here?" Lance asks himself as he gets up and examines himself in Brittany's makeup mirror.
"Get away from my stuff you troll!" Brittany screeches as Lance drops the tiny mirror.
"Uh sorry… I should go now…" Lance says as he runs out of the room in black pajama bottoms, he's missing his shirt which sloppily remains on the girl's carpet.
"Umm… that shirt is your problem," Says Brittany as Nui glances at her not surprised.
The camera cuts to show the campers stand in front of Chris, Claire, Mimi, and a few other interns.
"Ok so today's challenge should be pretty easy hidden in this island are different important objects to… all of you, your team's task is to find the most objects in lets say… 15 minutes and we'll let you guys start…. Now!" Chris says as the campers run off.
"Wait! Spiders huddle!" Lance shouts as every competitor stops. The members of the spiders moan as they tiredly walk over to Lance who stands a few steps from where he was when Chris announced the challenge.
"Ugh. What do you want?" Asks Brittany snootily, "If you have nothing to say then… umm you're wasting my time,"
"Actually, if you could just listen for more than a millisecond, you'd know that I do have something to say," Lance says constructively. Brittany scoffs and rolls her eyes.
"Anyways as I was saying, they're going to run off on their own and end up wasting tim-"Lance says as he's cut off by Brittany.
"Like we're doing here?" Asks Brittany sarcastically.
"Oh my goodness, will you please shut up and let the girl talk?" Asks Andrew in unbelief.
"I second that," Nui says as she lifts one finger in the air.
"Umm anyways… they're going to end up looking over where their other members have looked, I suggest we go as a group and look for the items in a bunch," Lance says says.
"I agree, that's a pretty noice idea if I say so myself," Nui says as she nods her head in agreement.
"Andrew? Lucas? You two dudes seem….quiet," Lance says expecting to hear their approval.
"Um…ok," Andrew says as he looks outside the circle to Travis who has already found a pair of his glasses.
"Hmm that's where they were," Travis says nonchalantly as he shrugs.
"Um Lance… we should probably get this done… like now," Nui says impatiently as she tugs Lance's jacket sleeve.
"Ok, let's go!" Lance says as he gets in front of everyone and begins to pass Travis. They round the corner of their dorms immediately Lance finds an album left on the ground.
"I think this is mine…"Lance says as he picks up the album. On there it simply says Metalix, Powerball. Lance immediately recognizes it and the signature of the bass guitarist, Ryan Taylor.
"Yeah um this is definitely mine," Say Lance who pockets the album in a section between his stomach and his underwear.
"Ok now be on the lookout for the other team's items," Lance says as the team walks behind the dorm.
The group passes by a knife placed on the ground.
"This has to be someone's item for sure, probably Jackson's," Andrew says as he picks up the black jack knife from the paved ground behind the tan building of the Spider girl's dorm.
"Ok then, pocket it," Lance instructs as they walk past the behind of the first dorm building as they go towards the second one they approach a small colorful watch.
"Um do you think this belongs to anybody?" Lance asks as he picks it up.
"it looks like it belongs to a three year old," Jokes Brittany, however she is taken aback when Zach clears his throat.
"It's mine," Zach sheepishly says as he takes it from Lance, "It belonged to my crush of 7 years Rae McMorner…. She was my crush until I arrived here, "Says Zach as he winks to Brittany who flinches away from his disgusted.
"Ok so far we have mine, Zach's, and… I'm assuming Jackson's," Lance runs by before he gets rushed by Luna.
"Um hey have you guys seen a red, linen crop top. It stops at around here," Luna says as she points slightly above her stomach.
"Uh, no we haven't, you'll find it eventually, I assume it would be very hard to miss," Brittany instructs sarcastically.
"Gee thanks," Says Luna annoyed as she begins to walk away.
"What did I do?" Brittany asks frustratedly.
Nui pats her back, "You'll understand one day,"
"Understand what!" Asks Brittany confused and oblivious.
The team sighs as they walk away.
The camera follows them as Andrew spots something on top of a roof.
"It looks like… wait is that Sailor Sun Volume one part 23? I think that's mine. It was the first manga I ever did read…" Andrew says as he points up toward the colorfull book ontop of the Dolphin guys building. However they are shocked when they see Jackson climbing out of the dorm's window to get to comic book first.
"Thanks for the tip!" Says Jackson as he holds a bar next to the window and takes a leap from the middle of the bar to the roof.
"I guess I'll add this to my collection," Taunts Jackson as he reaches to get the comic. Andrew growls at him.
"Oh I see you have brought a dog with you, they're cute when they try to mad," Says Jackson as he shakes the book at him, "Your lucky I won't rip it,"
Andrew stops growling and looks up at the comic knowing there's nothing he can really do unless… if he climbs up the bar to get it himself. So that's what he does. He climbs heroically to the top of the medium height building where he can see Chris and Claire staring at the two of them.
"Will you please give it, I need it like, now," Says Andrew as he stands in between Jackson and the back of the building.
"What about…. No, what do you take me as, some stupid guy that a nerd like you can take advantage of?" Jackson asks as he puts his hand on Andrew's shoulder. Andrew remembers last night and instantly creates a small smile.
"Umm no, you aren't, look you know what? I think I should go…" Says Andrew cautiously. He knows that this wouldn't really effect him much in a good way.
"Good call, but wouldn't you need a way… down?" Jackson asks.
"What do you mean?" Andrew responds questionably.
Jackson puts his hand on Andrew's other shoulder and pushes him over the roof. Both of the hosts seem visually scarred but all they can do is watch. Jackson hops down and runs towards the abandoned area of the island.
The camera transitions to Aj, he is in the abandoned side of the island with a pink flip phone and loads of the other camper's possessions hidden in a hoodie pouch, however he can see that people are working on a small forrest area. He decides to look to the beach.
"There's a higher chance of something being here than my man, Andre Wilshard finding ladies in the Las Vegas area," Aj jokes to himself as he walks away.
The camera cuts to Chris with a microphone.
"THAT'S IT THE CHALLENGE IS OFFICIALLY OVER, EVERYONE BRING YOUR PERSONAL ITEMS AND HEAD TO THE JUDGE'S TABLE, STAT!" Yells Chris as he blares through the microphone.
Aj hears this.
However he is sunned when Jackson screams "Boo!" into his ear.
Aj drops the flip phone in fright which shatters into pieces. His eyes widen as he slowly looks down to the now shattered bejeweled pink flip phone.
"Oh goodness, Brittany would be so pissed at you," Jackson says sincerely, 'I'm sorry for scaring you…"
"F #$ man, what should I do?" Aj asks frantically.
"First, I'm not your f #$ man. But ummm man… um if I were you, I would just not show up for the submission, she'd never know," Jackson shrugs.
"Good plan, but wouldn't I be sabotaging the challenge?" Aj asks cautiously.
"I got it for you, anything for a friend," Jackson smiles.
"Anything for a friend," Aj repeats slowly.
Aj Confessional
"Did I do that?" Asks Aj as he begins to sweat. He does a small apologetic shrug as he anxiously sticks to his seat.
"Come on man, you're going to have leave here soon, you'd still win the challenge for your team, it's not worth your time to stay in here," Joe the cameraman says seriously.
"Mm Mmm, I am sticking right here, no matter what, until that angry white lady goes the f#$% away this is where I live, am I right or am I right? Plus my guy, Jackson has my back. He was a little rough with Travis but… who cares if you know what I mean. I mean am I right or am I right?" Aj says as he points a non existent microphone to a non existent crowd.
"You're wrong," Shouts Joe the cameraman.
End Aj Confessional
The camera swaps to the host table.
"Ok first let's see what the Spiders have brought us," Claire smiles as she looks to Chris, Nui presents Lance's album, Zach's bracelet, Jackson's knife, and Andrew's comic book.
"Ok…things are not looking the best for you guys," Claire says seriously.
"Do you have any…person of interest if you guys lose?" Claire says seriously.
"Umm I do," Nui says as she glances to Brittany, Andrew, and Lucas who are huddling together.
"Well let's see what the dolphins have," Says Chris as he stares to Travis.
"We have… a picture of Nui's brother, I don't know why that's her most important thing to her but that's beside the point, we also have my glasses, and Luna's mother's iconic pink glitter shoes," Travis says presenting his stuff, "I swear we had more stuff," Travis looks behind him at his team, "And another member,
"Actually, where is Aj?" Asks Luna.
"Don't ask us, he's your boyfriend," Milly says casually.
"Well wherever he is, the dude's late. With that the Spiders win," Chris announces as the Spiders celebrate.
"What do you mean they win? Aj still had like 5 possesions," Milly says, "This is an outrage,"
"Well he didn't submit what he had at submit time, sorry dudette there's nothing we can do about it besides patting you on the back and sarcastically saying it wasn't your faults," Chris shrugs.
"Anyways… just get the votes over quick," Chris says as he and Claire leaves the table. Milly opens her mouth but she's shushed by Claire.
"No ifs, ands, lawsuits, or buts," Claire says seriously.
Milly stomps her foot in denial before sigh and putting in her vote.
As she walks out she notices Travis also walking away from the cafeteria, where they vote.
"Uh…hey Travis," Milly awkwardly says as she waves to Travis.
"Uh… hi Milly… what do you want?" Travis asks coldly.
"Hey I need to talk to you somewhere…. Private," Milly says nervously. In the background Aj cautiously runs from the confessional room to the cafeteria.
Travis Confessional
"And he throws to Travis… HE Catches it. Touchdown!" Travis hypes himself.
End Travis Confessional
The camera switches to a shot of him and Milly alone at the beach.
"What's up?" Asks Travis expecting to get his first girlfriend.
"Umm you might not like this…" Milly says anxiously.
"I'm an open book, I mean I'm a good listener," Travis comforts her.
"Ok… umm… so… I'm a lesbian," Milly says quickly. Travis' eyes widen he is at a loss of words. His mouth is hung.
Travis confessional
It shows Travis somberly listening to the remarks he made in his confessional before.
End Travis Confessional
"Oh… um ok," Says Travis awkwardly.
"Yeah, it's a secret and I know that you have a crush on me so I thought that it would better be said now than later," Milly explains shyly. Travis can only nod his head.
"Remember it's a secret… so um yeah," Milly says as she walks away leaving Travis stuck on his own on the beach.
The camera goes to the cafeteria for the elimination ceremony
"Here in this bag, I have Dr. Fluffycon's famous fluffy marshmallows. Each of you besides one person will be staying here at this… in my words luxurious tropical, somewhat rainy paridise. Anyways lets get some people confirmed. Little miss sassy, Milly, tough guy Jackson, and model gal Luna all are safe," Says Chris McClane as Claire tosses them their marshmellows.
"This leaves only two people, Travis, you're girl game needs to come after the competition, and Aj, your refusal to show up cost the team the challenge, and that's why your going home," Says Chris as Claire passes Travis a marshmallow. Aj is at a loss of words as he's pushed out of the cafeteria and onto a boat being run by Mimi.
"Babe no!" Shouts Luna as she runs after Aj she can only stop herself at the end of the dock, in front of Aj.
"I'll miss you, Luna," Says Aj as he leans in for a hug which Luna gives. He pushes him back causing for him to land on a couch placed by the window.
"Where's my phone?" Brittany angrily asks in the background.
Aj looks over to Mimi, "Step on it,"
"You know how to drive that?" Asks Claire to Mimi, she's responded with a nod. The two drive off into the abyss.
Chris and Claire watch as the two of them leaves and watches Luna cry on the ground they simply look down at her then at each other.
"Um this seems like a you problem," Whispers Chris before he speedwalks away.
Claire sighs as she walks up to the devastated Luna.
"Hey girl, what's up," Ask Claire awkwardly she tries to change her choice of words but Luna listens and responds back.
(Sniff) "Aj's gone, and I… I…. love him, so much," Says Luna in between sobbing. Claire looks down at her unamused, she lifts Luna's chin.
"Look, just like Chris said to Travis, you came here to win, not to find a lover. I understand how hard it is, but you two didn't break up, you're still a thing. But, that's not your priority. Sorry if I sound like your mom but you need to take charge and actually be able to win this thing," Claire monologues however Luna just glares up and continues crying, "What?" Asks Claire somewhat confused.
"My mom is dead," She cries but looks up at Claire as one tear dramatically rolls down her face.
"Your right, I do need to be more focused on the game but… I'll start that tomorrow," Say Luna as she smiles up at Claire who is still red and embarrassed after mentioning Luna's dead mother.
"Umm yeah, you do that," Claire says as she pats Luna's back as they both watch Mimi's and Aj's boat go into the night.
Votes
Aj- Jackson, Travis, and Milly
Travis- Luna, Aj
Mellisa
Gareth
Nikita
Matt
Vincent
Mimi
Aj
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Announcements
Ok so Aj's elimination am I right. I wanted Aj's downfall to be that he was reliant on others. You can see that within his time during his run he relied a lot on others. He was mostly just seen as Luna's boyfriend at I feel like this was better to eliminate him now.
Also in some news. If any one can help me write gay characters, please help me do so, just Dm on Fanfic. Some exciting news, I will be dropping the application forms for my next SYOC project and sequel to this SYOC Total Drama: The Original Sequel with the next month. So I am super excited to start that. I've also picked my merge entry character.
Not to spoil anything but the next episode that will hopefully release next week is my favorite, so look out for that. Finally, be sure to review. I love your comments on my work! Also if you have criticism and want to help suggest ways to help "Fix" my fan fic then go ahead, I'm all ears. Ok, final thing for real. Shout out to TheGreatGolem, he's been helping me write this SYOC since the start. His tips and suggestions have really helped so bravo to you my friend.
Signing off,
BigBadBrad