Cali-Tokyo was once again in a cold and dark night while its contestants slept, and their hosts planned. They were out by the water, trying to lure something out with fishing rods that had large cuts of meat on the hooks as some sort of bait. Dana was the first to get a bite, her fishing rod almost pulling her into the water, but Chris quickly grabbed her and pulled her back, allowing the rod to sink into the water.
"Last time on Total Drama Mega Mechas: the two teams got to say hello again to their mechs in their next challenge, which was a grand style showdown to see who could destroy an enemy with more flair. Things got heated in both teams when each of their "leaders" tried to take control of everything on their own, without caring for what their teams had to say. Margaret did alright with her choices, though she and Daniel kept arguing with each other. The rest of the team had mixed reactions to this, but the Bots had a whole different issue. Little Caleb couldn't acknowledge the fact that he could be wrong about something, saying that their was no way his team could win. When it finally came time to show off everyone's skill, the Droids absolutely destroyed their opponent's, all three of their contestants scoring a perfect ten in comparison to the Bots, who only had one really high score. In the end, Caleb was eliminated for his attitude, but not before confessing his love to Dana, who shut him down right away."
"It was so weird," Dana added, "He's not even my type. I'm more into boys like...nevermind."
"Oh, we all know what kind of boy you like. Anywho, tonight, there'll be lots of action! Who will outshine their opponents in this explosive episode? Find out now on Total Drama Space Station!"
The camera flew through the sky, going all the way down to the ground and into the dome, right in the center of a field inside.
"Dear mom and dad I'm doing fine," was heard as Buck was seen strumming a tune on his banjo happily while Daniel danced to the country tune wildly.
"You guys are on my mind," the camera swung past the two to show Caleb rolling his eyes while sitting at a table in the cafeteria. Larida was smiling cheerfully and patting the young looking gent on the head.
"You asked me what I wanted to be and I think the answer's plain to see," at a nearby table, Mitch was reading a book that he wrote to the ever-shy Celeste, who was happily listening to him.
"I wanna be famous!" Margaret ran past the two, startling them as a pair of security robots were chasing her.
"I wanna live close to the sun," suddenly, Margaret ran into Valerie and fell over, rubbing her head as the shy girl erupted in anger and the two started screaming at each other, scaring away the robots.
"So pack your bags, cause I've already won," the camera swung over to the outside of the dome, where Calvin was at the entrance, searching for clues of some sort, before waving to the camera with a bright smile and going stone-faced, realizing that he should be focusing on his task at hand.
"Everything to prove, nothing in my way, I'll get there one day," Yves was close by to the secret agent, watching him closely while keeping to herself and blasting an unsuspecting Garett with a water gun, as he was attempting to blast Calvin.
"I wanna be famous!" Blaster ran past the two, pretending to be a cyborg and blast some robots with her arm, only to knock over Brittany, who looked at the airhead angrily.
"Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na," the camera swung up to the sky, showing each and everyone's mechs being shot out of the top of the dome, with each person in them.
"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous! I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!" the light had faded from the sky and the camera showed the fourteen contestants in a jet takeoff room, seated in a circle while Chris and Dana stood in the center, each with mischievous looks on their faces.
Buck and Mitchell felt weird being in a five star room by themselves, and they honestly had a hard time trying to go to bed. It was a little past midnight and both of the boys were still wide awake, with bags forming under their eyes.
"Heya, Mitch?" Buck called his teammate's attention. "Whatcha up to?"
"Oh," Mitchell replied, as he was hunched over a desk, "Just looking over my story board...I'm a little puzzled by something."
"What's that?"
"Well, I was gonna do a story revolving around our elimination order and murder blah blah, you know?"
"A little creepy, but yeah."
"Well, I've been filling in the placements after each new challenge...but something's wrong."
"Hm? Whaddya mean, there's only been four. How could something've gone wrong already?"
"Well...there's only supposed to be four...but somebody wrote something in the next square."
"Huh? How'd they get in there? Don't ya keep it all locked up when you ain't using it?"
"I do...that's why I'm concerned."
"Well, who does it say?"
"...Yves."
"Yves!? No way, not gonna happen!"
"Relax, somebody could just be trying to get to us."
"Yeah, but you never know. In any case, I would never vote against her."
"Why? What if she messed up the challenge?"
"She wouldn't do that."
"You don't know that."
"I trust her...she's not evil or anything and she has no ulterior motive-majiggy."
"Once again, you don't know that."
"I do! Look, Mitch, would ya do me a favor?"
"What's that?" he closed his book as he replied, locking it up once more.
"Next time we lose...don't vote against her. She'll prove to you that she's a team player, I swear."
"I don't think I should make that kind of deal..."
"Please! Ya can even vote for me, if ya want. Just don't vote her out."
"I guess...if we had three votes at least we could save her from elimination...but only once! I'm not gonna let this become a reoccurring thing, ruins the flow of the book."
"Deal!"
Buck hopped off of his bed to high five Mitchell, though the latter didn't comply with it.
Confessional
"I really don't wanna get an innocent person eliminated to save Yves from fate," Mitchell said, looking more paranoid than usual, "But I like Buck...so this once, I'll help him out."
"Yves is a nice gal!" Buck happily spoke of his teammate, "She's caring...sweet..."
Yves was seen in the confessional staring coldly at the camera, clearly uninterested in saying anything this late at night.
"...and she's darn pretty, too!" Buck finished, immediately blushing and looking away, "Not that that matters, though!"
Confessional End
As the boys got ready to head back to their bed, they could feel the ground quaking beneath them, causing them to fall over on top of each other.
"What in tarnation?" Buck quickly rose up, helping his teammate up too.
"I don't know what that is," Mitchell shook his head before he spoke, "But I have a gut feeling that Chris has something to do with it."
"Yer...probably right about that. Let's go check it out!"
The two fled their room, quickly being met by the girls, though Larida was completely awake this time, perhaps having gained some night experience from the last night challenge. Yves seemed the most tired this time, with bags under her eyes that almost made her look like a zombie. Celeste looked angry, for a change.
"Interrupting my sleep, making me get out of bed," Celeste grumbled to herself as she saw the boys. "What are you guys doing?"
"It wasn't us!" Mitchell replied, "It's Chris, as usual."
"That little rascal!" Larida chuckled at the thought of another one of Chris's schemes. "I wonder what it could be this time?"
"I don't know," Yves said very quietly, "But can't it wait just a little longer?"
Buck seemed to be in awe, though he didn't mean to get himself distracted so easily. Yves was so exhausted and looked the part, yet he kept seeing her as if she was all gussied up for a school dance. He shook his head, knowing it wasn't real, yet the gown she was wearing didn't go away from his sight.
"Uh...Mitchell, ya seeing this?" he asked his fellow boy, pointing to Yves, who looked confused that she was being pointed at.
"Yeah? That's our teammate, you don't have to refer to her as 'this.'"
"Not like that! I mean the dress!"
"Huh? But she's not..."
The conversation was interrupted by the group being shook by another quake, though they all managed to stay standing.
"Alright, we need to get to the bottom of this!" Celeste angrily said, speaking louder than the rest of her team. "They're probably in the field...I think."
Confessional
"It's too late for this...I can't deal with Chris's nonsense right now," Yves mumbled, trying to wash the tired look off her face with water.
"One night challenge? Fine," Celeste started, still appearing pretty angry, "But two? That's where I draw the line. Hmph."
Confessional End
The contestants met up in the field, only ten of them left from the original fourteen. The Bots were already distressed enough as is, but being met by their opponents, who were now on a two challenge winning streak, made their mood even worse. Not to mention the fact that Dana and Chris were there as well, looking more devious than ever. Margaret looked as if she was ready to pummel Chris into the dirt as she approached him with malice, though she was held back by Calvin and Blaster. Garett couldn't help but clap at the sight of it, the violence and brutishness of his fellow contestants made him all too pleased. Daniel, however, was extremely upset. He was a bundle of joy back when Theodore was around and when he first arrived, but the drama had been getting to him, especially Margaret. It was making him feel like a different person.
"Nice to see you all here!" Chris started, looking over at Margaret, who was still ready to tear him to shreds. "I'm sure you felt the quakes, so you know that there's something challenge worthy happening right now!"
"This had better be good, Chris!" Margaret said violently, "If it isn't, I'll have your head on a platter!"
"So feisty!" Garett cheered for his teammate, receiving some glares from his other teammates that were trying to keep her back.
"You know, Agent Hearth," Calvin mumbled, "You could lend a hand here."
"Yeah, she's too strong!" Blaster struggled to hold her teammate back.
"Calm down everyone!" Dana shouted, calling all attention to her and the other host. "Allow Chris to finish."
"Thank you, Dana," Chris nodded to his co-host. "Right now, a legendary event is happening just outside of this dome! A massive creature, known as Zodgilla, for legal reasons, is romping around outside and causing a mess. We need you all to take him down with this!"
Chris gestured to two very large syringes, each full with a strange liquid that glowed purple. The contestants looked a little shocked to see something like that, though Garett didn't look as phased, almost as if he had seen it before. Mitchell narrowed his eyes at the opponent, who noticed quickly and smiled back at him.
"This is a special type of tranquilizer that is potent enough to take down a creature of this size. All it'll take is one cleverly placed injection to knock the beast out so we can send him back into the water from whence he came. Each team gets one of the syringes to tackle the task, but it won't be easy, as he's one mean lizard! And, don't worry, if any of you happen to come in contact with this tranquillizer, you'll notice that it only acts as a minor hallucinogenic to humans. You may see people with odd outfits or notice that people's faces look different than usual, but you should all be okay to pilot your mechs."
"So we won't die?" Mitchell asked, slightly relieved.
"Probably not."
"Probably?" Larida gulped as she questioned the uncertainty.
"You'll be fine...now you'd better get suited up for combat!"
The contestants groaned as they headed into their mechs one by one. They each went to their team's syringe, trying to see who should be tasked with carrying it in the challenge. The Bots simply had each player test out picking it up to see who would be best equipped for the task. Yves was the first to go, but she quickly failed as her mech wasn't nearly strong enough to pick it up off the ground.
"This is ridiculous," Yves muttered, stepping away from the syringe and allowing Larida to try and take over.
The mother tried as she could, but her mech's hands, being too fluffy to actually take hold of it, failed just as her teammate had. Celeste grew even angrier than she was before, waltzing up to the syringe and picking it up with ease, intimidating most of her team which only knew her as the sweet little shy girl.
"Oh my," Mitchell quietly commented as his mech slowly clapped.
Confessional
"I really don't want to be like this right now," Celeste looked sadder than before, acknowledging that she was being rude. "But they've gone too far, too many times! We can't just let them push us around...right?"
Confessional End
Meanwhile, the Droids had their own issues with the massive syringe. Margaret had been the first to attempt lifting the thing, but she quickly failed.
"Gah!" Margaret grunted, stepping away from the syringe, "This is too much, how are we supposed to do this?"
"Let me try!" Blaster stepped up to the plate, also failing in her task as her mech couldn't quite lift it more than waist level. "Ah, fiddlesticks!"
"Wait, Agent Coil!" Calvin interrupted, "That gives me an idea! Perhaps, we could place the syringe on top of my mech? It could line up between the horns to stay steady!"
"Not a bad idea," Daniel mumbled. "Not bad at all."
"Well?" Garett grabbed everyone's attention, "What are we waiting for?"
The team worked together to lift the syringe above Calvin and place it atop his mech. It creaked slightly, but aside from that, it worked out nicely.
"Alright contestants!" Shouted Chris, "Get out there and tranq that big lizard!"
Before they had time to respond, the contestants were launched into the sky by Chris and Dana. immediately noticing the very large creature rampaging throughout the city. it was far bigger than any of the mechs, and struck fear into the contestants as the each landed from their sky high trip.
Confessional
"Oh my god!" Daniel was absolutely shook, "What the heck, man! I can't bust a move with that enormous thing around...oh, we're gonna die. Chris is gonna let it kill us. This is great...always wanted to live out my last day on a sad island with none of my family or friends around."
"Oh, this is so cool!" Blaster squealed, excited to see how the action would pan out. "I wish I could get a picture, but I don't think my mech can do that..."
Confessional End
The beast was attacking buildings a bit far off from where everyone was, giving them at least some room to breathe and think about their current situation. The Droids huddled up to craft a plan for the challenge.
"So we know I need to get the injection set," Calvin started, shivering as he spoke due to the massive creature out there, "But I wouldn't be able to actually push it in, someone would have to do that after I get close enough."
"I can do that!" volunteered Daniel, "You just need to get there, is the thing."
"Well," Margaret interrupted, "Us other three will have to distract the monster. Garett, you can play your big guitar and grab his attention while me and Blaster shoot at him with our mechs, right?"
"That I can do," Garett agreed, "That I can do."
"So it's settled then...we'll go enact this plan. Be careful everyone!"
"Its not like ya to care whether or not we come out of this okay," Garett mentioned. "Where's the real Margaret?"
"No time for stupid jokes, Garett. Let's get this over with so we can sleep!"
Without further ado, the group charged into battle, following Margaret as their leader once again.
Confessional
"I could care less what happens to them," Margaret mentioned, "But I do care about my sleep that Chris continues to rob from me. It's unforgivable."
Confessional End
Meanwhile, the Bots had already started going in to the fight, trying their best to get at the beast without getting crushed or destroyed. Mitchell, Buck, and Larida were near its feet as it was stomping on top of roofs and roaring a mighty roar. The eldest of the group kept shooting balls of fluff at the creature, though they would just hit and fall off immediately. Mitchell would try to knock it down with a few good hits to the ankles, but they didn't do anything useful as the monster simply kicked the boy aside. Then, there was Buck. He had been seeing the monster as a knight in shining armor, and was utterly confused about how to go about defeating it. He shot chains out at it's legs, attempting to get them wrapped up, but that failed as the chains hit and fell to the ground.
"Oh, darn!" Buck complained as he continued to run circles around the "knight."
"Nay fiend!" a voice came from the monster, but it could only be heard by Buck himself. "I will not be fell to the likes of you, I say. I will prevail in this mighty battle, have at you!"
The beast swiftly kicked Buck away from it, causing him to be sent flying into the distance.
"Buck!" Yves shouted to her teammate from the air, but her words couldn't be heard.
"Watch out!" Celeste yelled to her other airborne teammate as the beast swung its long tail at her.
Yves managed to avoid it by a split second decision, but it scared the lights out of her as she floated down a little bit, away from the imminent danger. Celeste remained in the sky, attempting to fly around her massive enemy to find some sort of opening in its defense and take it down, but she struggled to get anywhere, as the beast kept swinging its tail in the sky at her this time. She managed to avoid the first few attacks, but she was quickly struck by the tail, causing her mech to plummet to the ground, dropping the massive syringe on her way down.
"Celeste!" Mitchell worried frantically as he tried to run to where she was landing.
He got there just in time, luckily catching her and keeping her safe from danger, but he couldn't save the syringe, which hit the ground and shattered into a million pieces, letting the liquid pour out onto the ground. The team quickly noticed the crash of the syringe, and the loss of its contents, all looking over at it in despair as they realized that they know had no way to win the challenge. Larida tried to speak, but she was quickly struck by the monster, sending her flying towards where Buck had landed, and leaving only a frightened Mitchell and Yves to take on the challenge that stood before them, with no syringe.
"Well...what do you suggest we do know?" Yves asked her teammate as she floated down to him.
"I don't think there's anything we can do at this point...unless," Mitchell started to come up with a plan, though it left a sour taste in his mouth. "We could try to steal the syringe from the other team."
"But...how could we even do that? I'm pretty sure only Celeste could lift ours...we wouldn't be able to steal it from them."
"That's true...but we could at least do the injection."
"What do you mean?"
"We could actually give that monster the injection. Let the other team stick the needle in, but steal the glory last minute."
"I don't like the sound of it...but it's the only way for us to win this challenge..."
"I know...let's give it our best shot!"
The two immediately started towards the other team with their evil intent, though you could clearly tell that they didn't want to go through with this. The Droids were executing their plan perfectly to start, Garett hadn't started to play yet, but Margaret and Blaster were on the attack, keeping their distance while making sure the monster payed no mind to Daniel and Calvin, who both happened to be approaching from the ground.
"We need to keep him focused on you two just a little longer!" Daniel shouted to his airborne teammates.
"Yeah!" Calvin started shouting to them as well, "We're closing in on him, should only take a few minutes now!"
"Roger!" Blaster replied, firing shots at the monster from her arm cannons.
"You got it!" Margaret added as swarms of small knives flew towards the beast, though they couldn't penetrate it's hide
Garett, on the other hand, had spotted the two other teammates approaching from a ground level and went down from the rooftop he was standing on to intervene with their plans. He dropped down right in front of them, causing them to halt their progress and startle both of them.
"Well," he started in his devious voice, "What have we here?"
"We...uh...we," Mitchell struggled to find the right words to say, having been confronted by his opponent out of nowhere and shocking him greatly.
"No need to explain, I know why yer here. I saw what ya guys did, such a shame. Unfortunately, though, I can't just let ya get yer way with our team just because ya lost yer chance on yours. This is the last stop for y'all."
Yves glared at Garett, attempting to fly over him, but he quickly grabbed her mech's leg, swinging her in circles and hitting Mitchell with her, barely giving him time to react before the two were ultimately handed defeat by their opponent. They found themselves both injured and unable to move as they lay down, slowly losing consciousness in their mechs. Meanwhile, Calvin had just made it to his destination, wheeling his mech at mach speeds into the monster's leg just as Garett struck a screeching note on his guitar, grabbing the beast's attention while Daniel pushed in the syringe, injecting the serum into it as fast as he could right before he and his friend backed away from it. Garett then started to play a lullaby on his guitar, enhancing the process and causing the beast to slowly slip into a sleep and crash onto the ground.
"Well, I think that means we win," Garett smirked as he spoke, his team all in awe at the performance he had just put on.
"That was awesome, Garett!" Margaret cheered out of nowhere, but quickly regained her composure. "I mean, you really know how to take people down in a cool way I guess."
"Yeah, you saved our butts!" Blaster applauded her teammate.
"Nice going, man," Daniel patted the Triceratopper on the back, causing Calvin to laugh at the hilarity of it all.
Chris and Dana's helicopter came out from the dome, this time with a massive crane on the bottom that picked the beast up off the ground with, surprisingly no issues at all. They quickly carried the monster off to the water, dropping it in at the end and returning back to the teenagers, those of which were still conscious at least.
"Well," Dana started, "Color us surprised. You guys started out having horrible management of your team, but today, you showed amazing teamwork. That's amendable, you could pat yourselves on the back."
"Yes, indeed," Chris applauded. "With that, the Droids have claimed another win in this contest, and don't have to eliminate anybody tonight!"
"Aw, yeah!" cheered Calvin, "My plan worked!"
"Heck yeah it did," Daniel continued, cheering his teammate on.
"You guys are safe from elimination, so you can head on back to your rooms while the Bots, despite being unconscious, all have to come with use to the landing room!"
The droids made their way back to the dome while Chris and Dana, much like what they did with the monster, hoisted the Bots off of the ground and brought them back to the field before having the security robots take them to the nurse's office.
Confessional
"I think whatever was getting to me has worn off," Buck said, though he had a neck brace on from his injuries due to being kicked far away. "It musta been that liquid...but who coulda gave that to me? I don't remember seeing it ever..."
"This challenge was awful," Larida started with both a sad look on her face and a sling for her left arm. "And to top it off, we all messed up! Who could be eliminated?"
"Not...cool...Chris," Celeste slowly spoked through the bandages that were wrapped around her face due to her injuries.
"This is horrible...I can't help but feel that none of us did our best tonight," Yves started speaking as she was seen with a back brace. "And we're all injured now...thanks a lot Chris."
"What a disaster," Mitchell mumbled, rubbing his legs which were completely casted from being injured during the challenge. "But I made a promise to Buck earlier, so that means that we'll be eliminating..."
Confessional End
The gravely injured Bots found themselves in the landing room with Chris and Dana once more. This was their third time here, and at this point, they were tired of it. The hosts only had four pilot badges left in their possession, which made the mood even worse than it already was.
"Well, Bots," Dana started, "I must say that I'm disappointed in you lately. You started so strong, but you keep losing and losing. I worry that you may never win a challenge ever again at this rate."
"Shut up!" Celeste said through her bandages, clearly both exhausted and upset from the challenge.
"Right, you're all tense. Anywho, there is only four pilot badges left for you guys, which means that one of you disappointed your team more than the others did today. When I call your names, you can enjoy the fact that your safe, if only for a brief moment. If your name isn't call, you won't be receiving one of the pilot badges and you will be losing the game, being eliminated and forced to walk to the jet of shame, never to return here again. The first badge goes to...Mitchell."
Mitchell caught his badge, but he had to stand to do it, which caused a shooting pain through his legs. He quickly sat back down and rubbed them through the cast, glaring at his hosts.
"Thanks, I guess," he muttered.
"Now...Celeste..."
Celeste caught her badge, though her eyes, which could be seen despite her face being bandaged up, showed that she was still incredibly angry.
"...and Yves."
Yves caught her badge, honestly shocked that she wasn't in the bottom two. Buck was even more shocked than she, having thought that she would've at least been voted for by somebody as only he and Larida remained in the bottom two. The mother gulped, scared for what may happen next.
"Well, you two, here we are. You let your team down today, though it really wasn't that surprising considering that you all got wiped out in the challenge. Buck, you were the first to fall, though I suspect some foul play as you were clearly displaying symptoms of hallucinations. Larida, you just haven't really had an edge in anything since the second challenge. It's a shame. The final badge goes to..."
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Buck was relieved as he caught his badge, looking over at Larida whose jaw had dropped in shock. She was unable to speak, as her team appeared to be sad over the elimination though for the most part, they were in agreement that it needed to happen.
"I guess...that's alright," she managed to say, clearly as upset as could be as she rose from her seat, tears in her eyes.
"Sorry, Larida," Buck mumbled, clearly not too pleased to see her go, but knowing he had to vote for her.
"It's fine...you'll all do fine without me, you're a great team! I'm sorry I disappointed you guys, but I'll be rooting for you!"
"Goodbye, Larida," Yves quietly said, tears in her own eyes as well as the mother gave her a one arm hug.
The others were quick to join in the hug, all teary-eyed from the result of the elimination. It lasted for a good while until Larida finally broke it up, turning to the jet and heading inside before waving goodbye to all of her teammates and friends as it took off.
Author Notes:
*Larida has fallen, which was very painful for me to do as she was such a wholesome character to have around. Unfortunately, she just couldn't really keep up with everyone in this season, but she tried her best while she was still in play.
*I know I said there would be two episodes this week, but unfortunately I can't find the time to actually write two episodes due to the other story I'm writing and my busy work schedule. I apologize for this, so this episode is posted a day early because of that.
*Some good news though, I will be making an eventual sequel to Mega Mechas, as I am with Space Station, though the premise will be much different. The season itself won't be coming out until after Lost City, the sequel to SS, but it is in the plans!
*Votes: Larida - Yves, Celeste, Buck, Mitchell; Buck - Larida
*Placements: 14th - Theodore; 13th - Brittany; 12th - Valerie; 11th - Caleb; 10th - Larida