Author's Note
Well uh, hello loyal readers! :) It's been a long time coming! If you had seen the 'Sorry' chapter I posted like a couple hours ago, albeit I wasn't lying when I said I didn't know if I'd wanna continue. A writing urge took over me and where we are today. I know you're excited to read this so I won't stop you, but first, let's respond to some reviews shall we?
Gucci Mane LaFlare: 9/10's are pretty nice I must say! I'm glad you liked Topher, he didn't really have much to do so inserting him into scenes can be pretty tricky but I managed to do so. Geoff and Scott definitely had to get Harold back about his underwear, it's an iconic scene in canon so doing it here was a MUST! Also, I'm happy you picked up on the Scarlett gag lmfao.
OmniUIShaggyOverexaggerated: Said it better than I could myself.
Knifez: I too pick up on the Topher statement, he always gets far as the main villain or their henchmen. I love writing for the Killer Bass just because of their drama-induced dynamic! You say either Jo or one of Samkota gos this episode huh? Well you gotta read to find out, that's for sure! Another lover for the Scarlett name gag, nice!
Stress2Impress: Glad you hear you think it was better than in really did overdo the whole 'taking over the show' plot in canon. As for your elimination predictions, you must wait and see my friend.
Derick Lindsey: Dude, LOVING the long reviews! I'll try to answer anything I really can in this response. After reading your explanations about Trent I understand where you are coming from and apologize for any miscommunication on my end. Was Jo's comment foreshadowing *looks around* I guess you'll have to wait and see. (sorry for about addressing everything you wrote)
The British Guy: Somewhat close Austin two-timed the twins that were playing alongside him in the BB house.
The 13 remaining campers stand as:
Screaming Gophers: Courtney, Geoff, Harold, Sadie, Sammy, Scarlett, and Scott.
Killer Bass: Brick, Cody, Dakota, Jo, Sam, and Trent.
Sorry if this episode feels off in any way, it's been a while since I've wrote and I wrote most of this in under 2 hours, heh.
Episode 11 - Who Can You Trust
"Last time on Total Drama Island," Chris started, "things really got cooking between the campers. Harold left his dirty underwear on the ground during the morning. Leaving Courtney with a mouthful of it later." clips of Scott ripping and yelling was shown. Followed by Courtney yelling at Geoff, then throwing up off-screen. "Sam had a hard day. Getting burned and stung by bees doesn't really add up dont'cha think?" clips of him getting burned and stung were shown. "Or maybe it does when you realize that he's been keeping that tiki idol he got from Boney Island. Hah! What a sucker." clips of him cherishing the tiki was shown. Plus a scene of Chris warning him about it.
"Geoff led the Screaming Gophers to victory." clips of Geoff lighting the candles appeared next. "And Topher led the Killer Bass to sweet, sweet loserville." clips of Topher instructing everyone plus him and Trent prying the fork away was shown. "At the campfire ceremony, it was buh-bye Topher." Chris sniffed. "I'm gonna miss that kid." he lamented over clips of his departure. "Will the Bass break the curse that they don't even know about? And just how much trust do they have in one another?" clips of the six Bass staring at each other was shown. Then back to Chris on the dock.
"Find out this week, on Total… Drama… Island!" he exclaimed.
(Transition to Theme Song)
[Many shots of the lights and hidden cameras popping out and turning on were shown. Mostly hurting the wildlife in the process. A cue card shifts the shot over to the dock. The camera immediately starts to fly by the 'Wawanakwa' sign, some buildings on the campgrounds, and Chris who's in a director's chair drinking coffee. The lyrics begin once the camera passes the host.]
Dear Mom and Dad, I'm doin' fine;
[The camera zips past some trees, going up the cliff that left us on a cliffhanger last episode. Peeking over to see two rings made of buoys arranged in the water below.]
You guys are on my mind!
[The viewpoint changes as if someone jumped off the cliff and into the lake; Cameron is shown in his bubble, observing the area with glee. As a fish swims by him, a fishing hook pierces and makes a big hole in his bubble, leaving Cameron to get out of the bubble and flail his arms in despair.]
Ya asked me what I wanted to be,
And now I think the answer is plain to see!
[The camera surfaces, showing B and Scarlett in a canoe, B was shown controlling the motorized fishing rod. Cameron suddenly surfaces barely hanging on to the canoe. As B awkwardly glances at him. The contraption malfunctions and Cameron's bubble flies high into the air.]
I wanna be… famous!
[The bubble hangs in the air momentarily before coming back down. A pan down reveals Jo punching a tied-up punching with extreme passion. Brick promptly jogs past her. Jo gets angered by this and attempts to catch up to the cadet. Only for the pierced bubble to drape over Jo's head. The camera zooms out to show Courtney and Scott watching the scene unfold, Scott laughs at Jo's misfortune and Courtney rolls her eyes at his behavior.]
I wanna live close to the sun!
[The camera goes to another part of camp, Sam and Dakota were sitting on an inflatable raft. Both on their respective favorite devices. Too pre-occupied with their devices, they don't notice quick enough and go over the edge.]
Well pack your bags, 'cause I've already won!
[At the bottom of the waterfall, Lightning was striking several different poses on a broken log, suspended over two rocks. During the middle of that, he missed Izzy flying in on a vine from off-screen. She promptly crashes into Lightning, and they're both sent off-screen.]
Everythin' to prove, nothin' in my way;
[The camera barely keeps up with Lightning and Izzy, panning rapidly to do so. They crash into the outhouse confessional, causing Sugar to unceremoniously fall out with her pants fall the way down, with a pixilation over the part of her body that can't be shown on television. The camera begins to pan to the window in the Main Lodge, Chef could be seen through it.]
I'll get there one day.
[The camera moves past the window. Chef was shown stirring a pot of something, pukeworthy green directly with his arm. He looked behind himself to show Harold and Cody tied up in chairs, sharing the nervous at what's about to come.]
'Cause I wanna be… famous!
[A pan left shows Topher holding a picture of something admiring it happily. He flips the picture over, revealing it to be Chris when he was in a teenage boy band. Holding a guitar proudly alongside three other people. The camera goes past another window and to the stairs near the docks. Katie and Sadie were shown to be admiring Trent who was tuning his guitar just a couple feet away.]
(Na-na nanananaa, nanana-nanaa, na-nananananaa)
[Just down the docks, Sammy and Geoff were shown lounging on lounge chairs, chatting it up. Amy defiantly flips the chair Sammy was sitting down, laughing hysterically. Sammy turns red awkwardly as Geoff gives Sammy a concerning look.]
I wanna be! I wanna be! I wanna be famous! (Na-na nanananaa, nanana-nanaa, na-nananananaa)
[The camera quick-pans ahead stopping at a waving Beth. Beth backs up and begins to twirl her baton at a great rate speed. So much so, that it looks like it's about to catch on fire. She cluelessly throws the baton up into the air.]
I wanna be! I wanna be! I wanna be famous! (Na-na nanananaa, nanana-nanaa, na-nananananaa)
[The time transitions from day to night as the baton stays in the air. As the baton comes down, the sparks from it turns into fireflies. The camera pans down to reveal Sam and Dakota sitting at the campfire, gazing in each other's eyes. They lean in for a kiss, only for it to be interrupted by a crazed Izzy popping up between them, wrapping her arms around them for a hug. The camera pulls out slowly revealing the rest of the cast, whistling the last few notes of the theme song with Chris watching by the side.]
(Transition to Episode)
An instrumental opened the episode today. Chef put a scoop of something green on Brick's tray. Sticking a straw in it next. "Today's breakfast is Canadian-Italian fusion casserole." Chef explained, smiling as if he had created something extravagant.
"Wow Chef! This looks good." Brick told him, genuinely excited to eat. "I'd prefer gruel but this'll do."
"Please." Scarlett muttered under her breath. "We're being served the oddments from the cooking challenge."
Chef's smile turned upside down in a matter of seconds. "Yeah that's right! You gotta problem with that?" Scarlett took her tray and shrugged returning to her table off-screen. "Darn kids."
The camera moved over to the Bass's table. Only Brick had breakfast so far, and mostly everyone looked at him crazy. "Isn't that leftovers from the cooking challenge?" Trent asked, pointing at Brick's food. "That looks nasty bro."
"Of course it's leftovers! Chef just screamed it!" Jo said. Brick quickly gave her a look and Jo's behavior made a 180. "I mean, Chef just said it… silly."
Sam smiled. "Ha, well that seemed forced."
"I'm trying okay?" Jo told them in a forced manner. Standing up and going for the door. "I'm gonna take a jog." once she left, the Bass continued to converse.
"Guess I'm skippin' breakfast." Cody said.
"Not me!" Sam smiled. "At least it looks better than plain ol' gruel. I'll take green mush over gray mush any day."
Brick brought a spoonful of mush to his mouth while Trent spoke. "Is your hand alright now? You've had gauze on it for a while."
"Yeah, turns out that I'll have to keep it on for a couple of weeks." Sam held his injured hand and inspected. "It was a pretty bad burn, heh."
"Sam I'm so sorry! I swear I didn't do that on purpose!" Dakota apologized, Sam laughed it off.
"Yeah, I'm fine." he smiled, standing up and walking towards Chef.
Dakota looked around suspiciously before speaking again. "Guys! Can we please vote off Jo next time." Brick suddenly began to go into a coughing fit. Caught off-guard by Dakota's remarks. Cody and Dakota glanced at each other awkwardly.
Confessional: Dakota
"Wrong time." she groaned.
"Guys," Courtney began as she sat down with a tray of food, "everyone go get some food. Today's an elimination day. We need to get as much nutrients in before the challenge starts."
"Nah brah." Geoff said, slouching. "I'm chillin'. We've won three straight challenges."
"Correct, but we've also lost four straight challenges." Scarlett pointed out. She tasted the leftovers for breakfast and choked it down. Throwing the rest away. "Then again, I'm not sure this is exactly edible anymore."
"C'mon, it's been only three days. It's still good." Scott crowed, he ate the mush and grinned. "See?" he said through chewing. "It's fine."
"Easy to say when you have no brain to think." Scarlett rolled her eyes.
"Hey!" Scott shouted. "No one has an oversized brain like you Scarlett."
"If for some reason 'oversized' is equivalent to 'smart', then Beverly has an oversized brain too." Scarlett remarked. "But look, what happened to him."
"Hey, he had to go." Scott replied seriously. "He didn't even talk! How can you trust someone like that?" he got up and walked away. "I'm gettin' a drink."
"Why can't we ever just get a normal breakfast." Sammy asked as she played with her food. "This doesn't taste good."
"Most likely due to the abomination the Bass made." Scarlett considered. "I actually take pride in my somewhat decent cooking."
"So guys," Geoff tipped his hat up a bit, "what do you think the challenge is gonna be?"
"Can't decipher." Scarlett told him. "If I knew who officially decided the challenges it'd be easier. Christopher's challenges would be unmistakably more challenging if he was the one making challenges. But since the producers aren't imbeciles, they make the challenges creative and difficult simultaneously."
"Guys does it matter what the challenge is?" Courtney inquired. "Let's just focus on winning."
"Court's right. I don't think I could vote one of you guys off dudes." Geoff admitted, resting his elbows on the table.
"Hmph, I've got someone in mind." Harold scoffed. Behind him was Scott, holding a boiling hot cup of coffee. Hearing Harold's statement, he poured it on the dweeb.
"Oops." he lied, cackling immediately. "Must've slipped."
"Ahh! It's hot! Hot! Hot! Gosh!" Harold panicked, running outside while flailing his arms. The rest of the Gophers stared at Scott after the dweeb's departure.
"What?" Scott defended himself, shrugging. "Accidents happen."
Confessional: Scott
"Harold must be onto me! He's been acting all sorts of weird towards me lately. During the episodes and the live feeds!" he spread his arms out wide. "I gotta make sure he ain't a squealer."
The static cut to a shot of the forest. The scene started off touching, Chris walking on-screen with a frown. "Hi, Chris here." he began, his voice sounded way lighter than his usual affirmative tone. "Sometimes teams… just don't get along. So the producers and I thought that the best way to work through the group friction would be…" he paused, "to exploit it for laughs! This is gonna be awesome!"
/
The teams were now assembled at the Dock of Shame. Six Bass on the right and seven Gophers on the left. Chris stood in the middle of them in front from the camera's angle. "So, last week's challenge exposed a few Bass issues." the camera cut to Jo and Cody glaring at each other while Brick watched with a furrowed brow. "And I'm sensing a little something funky sitting in the Gopher's hole too." the camera cut to Harold and Scott. The former sent dirty looks to the latter, who ignored it fully. "So, this week's challenge is gonna be centered around building trust. Because, all good things begin with a little trust."
Confessional: Sammy
"I trusted Amy once." she said. "Then she shaved my head so everyone could 'tell us apart'."
"There will be three major challenges that will have to be completed by two or more members of the team." Chris explained, Courtney rolled her eyes. "Normally, we like to have the campers choose their partners. But not this time. More fun for me!"
Now the 13 campers, plus Chris stood at the base of something unknown at the moment. "So for the first challenge, you'll be doing an extreme, free-hand rock climbing adventure!" he said as the camera panned up to reveal the cliff in front of them. "Brick and Trent will play for the Bass, Courtney and Samey for the Gophers. Here's your belay and harness." the camera cuts to the Bass partners once they catch those items.
"Thanks Chris for the partners." Trent praised while fist-bumping Brick. "I'm sure they did rock-climbing stuff like this in military training right?"
"Well, no…" Brick told Trent, shocking him. "But there's no challenge Brick McArthur can't overcome."
"I've done rock climbing activities when I was a C.I.T." Courtney informed everyone as she looked at the harness warily. "But I wasn't too good at it."
"Oh, then maybe I should…" Sammy muttered, mildly scared of Courtney.
"Nope! No need!" Courtney shut her down firmly. "I can do this."
"You better." Scott said off-screen, the camera pulled out to reveal him and the rest of the Gophers behind the two selected.
"Shut it Scott." Courtney replied. She looks at Sammy next, who held the belay. "Hopefully you can hold me up. You don't look that strong."
"You won't be holding her up exactly," Chris interjected, demonstrating with his own belay. "one camper pulls the slack through the belay as their partner climbs." Courtney and Sammy glanced at each other. "If the climber falls, the belay will stop them from crashing." Scott even pulls on the belay to see if it's true, and he grinned.
"Nice." he commented.
"The catch:" Chris announced, "both the side and the base of the mountain are rigged with a few minor distractions like," each obstacle appeared as Chris listed them off, "rusty nails, slippery oil slicks, mild explosives and a few other surprises."
Harold smiled as Chris listed off the dangers. "Wicked."
"Say that when you're the one risking your life here." Courtney growled, causing the dweeb to back up swiftly.
Chris continued to explain, "The person on belay must also harness their partner up." shots of the two duos were shown. Trent and Brick looked way more confident than their female competition. "It's all about trust people and remember," Chris stuck up a finger sternly, "never let go of the rope. Your partner's life depends on it."
Sammy began to harness Courtney, the cheerleader looked helpless while Courtney still grilled her. "I hope you realize that my life is seriously in your hands Sammy. Like, I could die if you let go."
Sammy sighed and continued to work on the harness. "I know."
"Hey, cut her some slack Courtney." Geoff spoke up, laughing at the pun he just made. "Get it? Haha." Trent looked at the Gophers interactions then ditched harnessing Brick to go and speak his mind. Confusing Brick and his teammates.
"Yeah, she's capable enough to hold you up Courtney. Don't underestimate her." Trent reasoned, getting odd looks from everyone else.
"Um, this a Gopher problem." Scott reminded him snidely. "Go back to your team, Elvis."
"Hey! That nickname was my idea!" Jo said, crossing her arms. "Elvis! Get back over here." Trent sighed and began to walk back.
"See ya, Sammy." he smiled awkwardly. Sammy looked uncomfortable and groaned loudly once her boyfriend departed.
Scarlett snickered. "What a fine quality boyfriend Samantha." the camera quick-panned over to Trent who overheard that comment. Causing him to groan and facepalm himself.
"Stupid."
/
The camera flashed ahead to a close-up shot of Courtney's hand grabbing the edge. In doing that, a nail was under her hand. "Ow." she yelped, moving her hand slightly. "This is hard enough without the distractions."
"For you," Brick mentioned as he climbed up with no problem. Smiling at his adversary, "this is easy! Ahhh!" like Chris listed, an explosion struck the cadet and he was launched back down. A separate explosive detonated right above Courtney, earning a hard flinch from her. Meanwhile as Brick fell, his mildly girly screams rang through the air. That is, until Trent caught him with the belay.
"Calm down dude, I got you." Trent called up here, gripping the rope tightly. Behind him, Jo turned to Sam.
"Is it bad that I wanted him to fall?" Jo asked the gamer, who frowned immediately. "I mean, thank God Trent caught him. Whoo!" Sam raised another eyebrow at Jo's random burst of happiness. Then, Chris popped up and began to narrate next to the two.
"I promised surprises. Habanero pepper sauce anyone?" he announced, raising a water gun with said contents inside. He shot a stream of the pepper sauce at Sammy first, indicated by her shrieking.
"Come on!" the kind cheerleader screamed. "It's in my eyes!" she was about to let go and wipe her eyes, but then Courtney gave her input.
"Don't let go Sammy!" she yelled, looking down at her partner with no sympathy. "It's just pepper sauce. You're fine."
"Don't worry Courtney." Trent said, interrupting yet another Gopher moment by approaching his girlfriend. "Keep climbing, I'll help Sammy out."
Sammy smiled weakly. "Thanks Trent."
"Hey! What're you doing?" Jo scowled in anger. "Pay attention to your own team!"
"Yeah…" Sam faltered. "what are you doing?" Trent turned back at Jo and Sam while cleaning Sammy up with a dirty look.
"Helping my girlfriend out," Trent answered bitterly, the shot of Chris cocking his water gun impishly was shown as well. "stop acting like I'm sabotaging the team-" his sentence got cut off due to Chris spraying him with the pepper sauce. The impact was so unexpected that he fell back and Chris laughed at his misfortune.
"Pay more attention next time." Chris advised, still laughing. Trent sat up from the ground and unknowingly let go of the rope to wipe his eyes.
"Agh! Nice going Chris." he muttered. Off-screen, Brick's screams were heard as he collided into Trent on the ground. Both males groaning in utter pain.
"Um," Courtney looked down confusedly. "what just happened?"
"Resume your climbing! Brick has fallen fully down." Scarlett ridiculed, smirking at the Bass partners.
"C'mon guys!" Sam said positively, bending down towards them. "You can still do it!"
"In your dreams!" Courtney boasted, she took the final step to the top and smiled.
"Looks like the Gophers have won the first challenge!" Chris announced as Courtney exclaimed.
"Yes!" she said, down below, Sammy had already let go of the belay and began to walk away in annoyance.
"Finally, now I can change out of these." she mumbled. The camera returned to Courtney as she began to climb back down. But suddenly, a burst of pepper sauce struck the upper half of her body.
"Chris?!" she shrieked, beginning to lose balance. "What the heck! Ahhh!" she eventually fell off the mountain in horror. The shot followed her until she crashed into the ground face-first. Everyone just stared at her awkwardly, for lack of a better action. Courtney pushed herself up enough to sit up, holding her head in agony and bearing a dazed look. "Ow…" she groaned.
"Christopher?" Scarlett walked over to the host. "What was the cause of unintentionally injuring our teammate. She won, yet she got punished. Why?"
"I dunno, Scar." Chris replied, shrugging nonchalantly. "I just felt like getting one more kick in." he looked past Scarlett to the rest of the cast. "Can someone take her to the infirmary?"
"I'd prefer if you'd call me Scarlett." the genius told him, twitching her eye a little.
Chris scoffed in spite. "And I'd prefer if you'd call me Chris. But guess who doesn't wanna listen?"
"But Christopher is your birth name." Scarlett said. "I'm only doing your parents a favor by addressing you by the somewhat common name they've given you."
"I can personally boot you off the show Scarlett." Chris threatened, his phone began to ring from his pocket and brought it out. "Huh, it's the producers." he answered the phone, "Yello. Okay… gotcha. Buh-bye." he closed his phone and faced Scarlett. "Turns out I can't personally boot you off. But I can keep injuring your teammates." he smiled smugly until his phone began to ring once again. Causing their expressions to switch over.
/
Spotlights shined in the Main Lodge combining into three main ones behind a podium. Said podium was placed in between the two tables. On one side, Geoff and Scarlett rose up from who-knows-where. Opposing them, was Jo and Cody. who also rose up. Next, the pizza guy from Episode Six somersaulted into view and landed behind a wooden podium. Chris finally rose up, dusting himself off and smiling smugly at the camera.
"And now Round 2 the, Extreme… Cooking… Challenge!" as Chris announced, the four campers peered awkwardly at the delivery guy who crawled his way out of the mess hall. Going into the kitchen and dashing out the building. "Each team must choose who cooks, and who eats." he instructed with smiles directed at both duos.
"Ooh! I'll cook!" Cody exclaimed happily, much to Jo's anger.
"Hey, no fair!" the jockette turned to Chris for help. "I wanna be chef!"
"Sorry Jo, you were Head Chef last time." Cody shrugged, diving into a vengeful look. "Oh wait, I'm not sorry."
"Oh, so you think you're funny now?" Jo asked, ready to jab at her teammate. Chris leaned in from the side impatiently.
"This show runs on a hour-long block." Chris said, tapping his now-existent watch.
"44 minutes to be exact." Cody corrected for him.
"Yeah…" Chris narrowed his eyes at him. "so turns out that Cody's cooking for you Jo. No more time to argue about it now." he grinned and returned to his stature. Jo growled at Cody while he cowered in horror.
"I was Head Chef last time." Geoff told Scarlett. "You can cook if you want to."
"No it's fine… dude?" she said awkwardly. Even raising a fist to be bumped. The three other campers, even Chris, looked shocked at Scarlett's sentence. But Geoff's shock went happy.
"Aw brah!" he hollered, fist-bumping the genius as she forced a smile. "You're getting the lingo down already!" he swung his hat around his finger shortly. "I knew you weren't all genius up there." he pointed vigorously at Scarlett's forehead and chuckled.
"Um…" Jo said as she watched the Gophers interact. "Can we get on with the challenge?"
"Good call." Cody nodded as he too watched Geoff and Scarlett.
"Today you'll be preparing fugu sashimi, the traditional Japanese poisonous blowfish." Chris explained, in front of him Chef pushed a cart with the blowfish in a tank. A gong rang which rattled both Scarlett and Geoff, both looked rather disturbed but were quiet regardless. A diagram of where to cut to fish was projected on the wall in black-and-white.
"The fugu blowfish contains enough lethal toxin to kill thirty people." Chris informed him, Chef tapped the tank with a fish net. Causing the blowfish to puff up in alarm.
"Fishies! Meet your maker!" Chef shrieked, tossing the fish directly on each team's platform. Jo, Geoff and Cody merely glanced at the fish but Scarlett looked at the fish in complete awe.
"Um," she raised a finger politely. "Geoffrey can I...?"
"Huh? Can you what?" the surfer dude asked. But Scarlett bit her tongue instead.
"Actually nevermind. Continue Christopher." Scarlett said. The host glared at her before resuming his lesson.
"They must be sliced veeery carefully to cut around the poisonous organs." Cody poked the fish delicately with his knife.
"You better not be thinking of killing me today." Jo ordered sternly, Cody remained quiet and shrugged. Earning a blank look to the camera from Jo.
"The poison paralyzes the nerves and there is no antidote! So no worries." the host smiled cheerfully.
"It's moments like this where I wonder how this show is even broadcasted." Scarlett remarked. Chris leaned in once again but to the Gophers.
"We're really good smooth talkers." he answered plainly before returning off-screen. "Begin!" Geoff began to prod around the fish with his knife. Eventually popping it and watching it fly across the room. Scarlett sighed but failed to notice the sheepish look Geoff gave her.
The camera skipped the entire cooking process, focusing directly on Cody's finished work. A nice assortment of sashimi rolls. "There." Cody said, placing something green on the top roll. "Some parsley to wrap things up." Jo rolled her eyes and then the camera quick-panned over to Geoff's dish.
"Um," Geoff said over a shot of his mushy fish. "I'm not feeling too hot about this." Scarlett cringed slightly, regained her composure and gave him a forced smile.
"You and me both." Jo remarked, staring at her partner's sashimi.
"Don't focus on Jo's belittlement Geoffrey." Scarlett deadpanned. "This dish looks… extremely radical." she put a smile to Geoff's face with her false compliment.
"Really Scarlett?" Chris asked off-screen. Himself and Chef Hatchet were watching the genius and surfer with anticipation. "Really? If that's true, eat it."
Her posture stiffened immediately. Her mind could only think one thing - possible death if she was forced to eat it. Her glare fixated on Chris as he was going to force her to eat it. She then turned to Geoff who knew himself that his work wasn't as good as Cody's.
"I think just admiring its beauty is efficient enough, heh." Scarlett said covering up her worries with an upbeat tone and a smile.
"Not enough if you want another win." Chris told her, beginning to get fed up with her resistance. "Eat it now, or forfeit Round 2."
"Scarlett, I know it's not good-" Geoff tried to say.
"Shh." she shushed him. Facing Chris with a dry stare. "Can I have a kitchen knife?" Chef handed her a knife mainly used by butchers. Catching her off-guard. Regardless, she used the knife to cut a decent-sized piece. She forked it and closed her eyes. "The things I would do to win." she sighed.
Confessional: Scarlett
"If Geoffrey or Samantha wasn't the one making the food, that crime of fugu sashimi would not have been eaten." she told the camera. "But if this gets me in the likes of those two…" she looked at the camera with fierce determination. "it has to be done."
The static returned to a close-up of Scarlett holding the sliced sashimi. She put it closer to her mouth, where the ancitipated looks of Chris, Chef, Cody and Jo all focused on her. But finally, the fish was chewed. And chewed, and chewed, and chewed but lastly swallowed. Scarlett gulped forcefully. Her eye twitched and she eyed Geoff blankly, worrying just about everyone else.
"Um, Earth-to-Scarlett?" Chris called out, walking up to the redhead. "Are you still here?" she remained utterly silent as she looked at Geoff blankly. Unexpectedly, her hair frizzed up and she fell backwards.
"Woah!" Chris moved, excited that the ratings would go up due to another injury. "Looks like Geoff's fugu sashimi wasn't too dreamy." he joked, Scarlett began to twitch severely on the ground as her skin began to turn blue. Vomit spewed out her mouth slowly. "Welp, next up."
"Is someone gonna help this girl?" Geoff shouted, motioning to his seemed-to-be paralyed teammate.
"Let's finish the challenge first." Chris said. "Jo, hurry up and eat."
"No way! I'm not gonna eat that." Jo complained.
"Why? It's not poisonous! Plus, if we lose today you'll for sure be going home."
"You've said that before and newsflash, I'm still here." Jo deadpanned.
"But, we have the votes this time."Cody revealed. "And-"
"Shut up, I'll eat the dang fish. Like a man." Jo shut him up, grabbing one roll and tossing it into her mouth. She smiled as she chewed, ultimately swallowing it. "Huh? This is actually not half bad. Good work Cody-" her stomach violently gurgled and her expression turned dazed. Then she abruptly blacked out, hitting her head on the table and collapsing. Cody, Chris and Chef smiled at the unconscious dirty blonde while Geoff still looked concerned.
"Well," Chris said as he glanced at both injured girls. "that was fun."
/
A light-hearted tune blessed our ears as the shot cut over to the Dock of Shame. Both Trent and Sammy were in their swimsuits, sitting on the edge of the dock. Despite being a couple, they sat there in silence. Awkwardly looking at the scenery, that is, until Geoff showed up.
"Wassup guys!" Geoff exclaimed, somersaulting over the two and diving into the lake. The splash Geoff had caused hit the couple, but their reactions differed. Sammy laughed as Geoff surfaced, while Trent furrowed his brow.
"Hey Geoff." Sammy greeted. Her and Trent drenched in lake water. "Did you win our challenge?"
"Nah brah. The Bass won even though Scarlett and Jo got sick." Geoff said bitterly, treading water closer and closer to the cheerleader. Speaking of her, she looked at her boyfriend, who looked displeased.
"What's wrong?" Sammy asked. "You should be happy. Your team caught up!"
"It's just one point." Trent remarked dryly. "Wasn't that hard."
"Yeah but it shouldn't have even been your point dude." Geoff replied, still bitter. "Now both girls are in the infirmary."
Sammy gasped and put a hand over her mouth. "The infirmary? Are they doing alright?"
Geoff shrugged. "I dunno. I came straight here after Chris left us. I think he's setting up the next challenge."
"Oh, we'll wanna relax while that happens?" Sammy asked, patting a spot on the dock next to her for him to sit down. The surfer took notice of that and obliged, gazing into each other's eyes. A pan to the left revealed Trent's bitter expression.
"Um, hey guys?" he said, standing up. He motioned away from the dock and he moved away slowly. "I'm gonna just… head out."
Geoff and Sammy glanced in confusion before looking back at the musician. "Why? The view's really nice out here man."
"Yeah, plus we could relax over here. We've already done a challenge. Chris wouldn't make us do another. Right?" he turned to Geoff who shrugged blankly. "Right?" her view took a 180, only for TRent to be long gone from the dock.
"Huh?" Sammy raised an eyebrow at his disappearance, but Geoff diving back into the lake got her attention. She smiled, jumping in as well.
/
In the infirmary, Jo laid there on a cot, some kind of bandage was wrapped firmly across the front part of her head while Scarlett laid on the cot beside her. The jockette awoke, sitting up painfully and looking around. Instead of frowning in her usual moody state, she remained blank.
"Wha- where am I?" she pondered out loud, she continued to look around the infirmary until a certain 'nurse' spoke.
"The infirmary." Chef answered, he was in the back, looking for something.
"Why?" Jo countered, putting more emphasis in her tone. "I don't even remember how I got here."
"You collapsed after eating Cody's sashimi. The kid forgot to take out all the poisonous organs." Chef continued to rummage through the bins until he actually found it. He squirted it a bit and walked near Jo.
"Hey!" Jo yelled, backing towards the tent wall as Chef approached her. "Watch where that thing goes?"
"Must you scream?" the voice of Scarlett came, the camera pulled out to include all three of them in the same shot. The genius had just woken up, her skin was clearly more pale and her glasses were off. "I was having the most splendid dream."
"About what? Winning the world record for 'Most Books Read'?" Jo mocked, worsening their personal relationship. But even though she was awake, Jo had tried to go back to sleep, laying back down.
"No, it was a dream of me, winning the hundred thousand dollars." Scarlett sighed, reminiscing her dream. "Soon, that'll be a reality." Chef finally stopped at the redhead, needle in hand. Scarlett stopped smiling once she noticed the needle Chef held.
"Pull up ya sleeve." Chef said darkly, grinning evilly. Scarlett shrieked loudly, and the gamer arrived at the scene. Starting off confused due to the worry cries.
"I haven't heard that type of scream since I played Dungeons Warriors: The Game." Sam leaned against Jo's cot.
"What do you need, kid?" Chef asked, Sam looked at him with a half-sheepish, half-nervous look.
"I'm not here for you." he replied, focusing on Chef. "The gauze on my hand is starting to fall off. Can I get some new gauze? I forgot to take it off when I was washing my hands, heh."
"Whatever. Just take off real quick after I'm done wrappin' it for ya." This place is only for injured contestants." Chef articulated, returning to his bin and going through it once more. As Sam waited, he noticed Jo 'unconscious' in her cot.
"I will," Sam leaned against his teammate's cot. "what happened to her?" he motioned to Jo.
"Collapsed and hit her head.' Chef said simply, he found the gauze and turned to the gamer. "Got the gauze. Get over here." Sam obliged, but continued to talk.
"Ouch… must've got her good." Sam commented, looking back at Jo with concern. "Say, don't tell her this but, I'm kinda glad she's out for a while. She was causing way too much drama man."
Chef smiled as he finished up on Sam. "I hear ya, me and Chris were eating it all up when we watched the edited episodes." Sam admired his new bandaged hand.
"Thanks Chef." Sam said, and before Chef could even say anything, the gamer was on his way out the tent. Chef watched him walk away for a moment before picking up the needle again.
"Don't you dare come over here with that needle!" Scarlett commanded, tons of authority resided in her voice. But regardless, the hulking man proceeded to approach her. Scarlett's screams eventually got louder and louder, but the camera moved onto Jo's face. One eye was open and was scowling, hard.
"Sam…" she groaned. Scarlett's pleas were awkwardly heard in the background.
Confessional: Jo
"Was Cody telling the truth when he said everyone was coming after me?" Jo asked, less worried but more in disbelief. "I mean, I knew he and Dakota were but Sam? I thought he was just neutral about the whole thing! Aw crap," the intensity of it all began to sink into Jo. "I gotta win this challenge!"
5 Bass and 6 Gophers stood in front of Chris as he explained the next section of the challenge. Jo and Scarlett were obviously missing. "Good news! The third round involves three more challenges. It's the 'Three Blind Challenges'." the camera began to pan over the 11 campers. All looked either worried, nonchalant or was paying their attention to something other than Chris.
"It begins with the 'Blind William Tell', followed by the 'Blind Trapeze', and culminating in the treacherous 'Blind Toboggan'." Chris sequenced. At the end of his announcement, Jo had just arrived at the scene. Making the teams even again. "Back from the infirmary, Jo?"
"Yup, just listening to conversations drove me nuts so I came here." she answered with crossed arms.
"Good to hear." Chris sighed happily and faced the Bass particularly. "Isn't it great to see Public Enemy Number One in the flesh." he took in another sigh. "Good TV." several glances were shot at each other from the Bass's team. Most noticeable was Jo's dead stare towards Sam, which the gamer tightened once he saw. Abruptly, Chris put on the glasses from Episode 9 on Sam, followed by an arrow on his head and walked away.
"Like legendary marksman William Tell, you'll be knocking arrows off your partner's head… with crab apples." Chris grabbed one from the crates of said fruit beside him and began to toss it up and down.
"Um, wasn't it the other way around?" Courtney attempted at correcting.
"Shush! Also," the host held up a white blindfold, "the shooter will be blindfolded." Sam gasped as he knew he wasn't the shooter. Meanwhile, Chris had already put the blindfold on. "The person who knocks off the person while causing the least amount of facial damage, wins." he slingshotted one of the crab apples at Sam. Unfortunately, it hit him in the groin.
"Agh! More pain!" Sam cried as he fell to the ground. Chris raised his blindfold, and smiled at the sight.
"Ah, nuts. Samey and Scott you'll be one team. Since you already have the gear on, Sam you'll be partnered up with Dakota." Chris announced, regardless of the pain. The soon-to-be couple gazed into each other's eyes once they were called.
"Chris?" Sammy spoke up, "I think you made a mistake. This is my second challenge."
"I know, and this is my choice." Chris answered somewhat rudely, even pouting to mock her.
"But, don't you think this is kinda unfair…" Sammy murmured.
"My challenge, my rules, my choice." Chris stated, handing Sammy the arrow and glasses and she sighed sadly. Geoff caught her sigh, and gave her a pitiful look.
Confessional: Geoff
"Me and Sammy are real tight." Geoff crossed his fingers to emphasize his small point. "When Chris wasn't treatin' her fairly, I had to do something."
"I'll do it for her!" Geoff cried out heroically. Murmurs of acceptance rang out between everyone else.
Chris groaned. "Fine, Geoff and Scott versus Sam and Dakota. Now can we start this challenge?!"
"But I'm violently allergic to apples." Harold informed, rather worried that he'll be affected.
"Which is why you weren't picked, doofus." Scott teased him. "Now watch out, Scottie here is gonna be shootin'." he mimed shooting a pistol and aimed it for the sky as Harold glared at him.
"Okay, let's rock and roll!" Chris started, Sam and Geoff were both spread from each other. The latter seemed more relaxed about the situation. The rest of the campers watched from behind Chris and with that, it began. Dakota was the first one to shoot her apple, which hit the gamer in the shoulder. Scott fired not too soon after, missing Geoff completely. This pattern continues as the shooters missed the arrows. Dakota hit Sam more than Scott who missed completely. But finally, the winner was crowned…
"What?" Scott said, raising his blindfold to see out of a single eye. "Did I hit it?"
"Yeah dude! We won Round Three!" Geoff shouted, picking up the arrow with the apple skewered through.
"Thanks for doing my job, Geoff." Chris monotoned.
The surfer smiled, "Hah, sorry bro."
/
Now the campers were at the setting for the fourth round. A trapeze bar, suspended over a small pond of water. "And now, the 'Blind Trapeze'! To avoid serious injury, the trapeze has been set up over this pond. Which is full of jellyfish." a shot of said animal was shown, followed by the campers' scared reactions.
"So safe." Scott rolled his eyes.
"You two will stand blindfolded on the platform until your partners tell you when to jump." Chris instructed, handing out blindfolds to Courtney and Cody.
"What's the catch?" Cody asked, suspicious of the host's behavior.
"No catch. You better hope that they catch you, that's all." Chris pointed towards the water, where the electricity was seen above water. "Or that's gonna be one heck of a painful swim. Okay, hut hut!"
A skip forward showed Sadie swinging back-and-forth on the bar. Courtney stood blindly on her team's platform. She clutched the pole nervously. Much to Sadie's dismay.
"C'mon Courtney! You got this!" Sadie yelled across to her. "Just wait for my cue!"
"Mhm," Courtney nodded, still clutching the pole.
"Jump!" Sadie shouted, Courtney flinched a little but didn't jump regardless. Earning a sigh from her partner. "Courtney, just trust me! I'm not gonna let you fall! Don't you wanna win?"
Courtney moved a bit closer to the edge. "Yeah."
"Then you have to suck it up and trust me!" the lighter BFFFL told her, taking charge. Which the others were surprised about.
"At least she's more controlling than her friend." Jo scoffed, Brick elbowed her immediately so she edited her sentence. "Yeah um, you got this Sadie!"
"So much for 'paying attention to your own team'." Trent scoffed. Jo immediately fought back.
"Shut up 'Band Boy'! I do what I need to do." Jo directed her second sentence towards Brick, who showed no emotion to her.
"Hey guys…" Courtney spoke from the ledge, "you guys aren't really helping me focus here…"
"Don't worry about them, Court!" Sadie exclaimed, continuing to swing back and forth with her arms stretched out. "Please just jump on my go! If we win this, we're safe again!"
Courtney began to inch closer and closer to Sadie. "Yeah that's true…are you sure you got me?"
"Yes!" Sadie shouted, now getting a little hasty with Courtney's decisive attitude. "Just jump on my go!"
"Who knew Courtney would be such a wuss?" Scott snickered from the land, Geoff too chuckled at the remark as Courtney overheard.
"Can it, Scott!" Courtney fretted, frowning at the dirt farmer before focusing once more on the challenge. "Okay Sadie, on your mark."
The heavier partner sighed in relief. "Alright, 3… 2… 1…" the ex-CIT looked even more frightened as sadie counted down, and the music tensed up. "JUMP!" Sadie screamed, although Courtney managed to jump, she and Sadie bonked heads and fell into the water, whereas the others watched in delight or extreme horror.
"Oh em gee!" Sammy squeaked, covering her mouth in shock. " How did that even happen?"
"I thought you said you'd catch me!" Courtney shouted as her and Sadie's screams got drowned out by the cackling electricity.
"Let's just be happy it did happen." Chris chortled, now facing the Bass. "Alright, Bass, your turn!"
A flash brought the scene to the trapeze once more, this time Trent was blindfolded and Jo had taken Sadie's spot with a scowl. "Can't believe they made me do this crap." she muttered angrily. "Trent, make this easy and jump on my go." the guitarist merely stood on the ledge, as if he didn't hear a thing Jo said. "Trent?"
Trent snapped back into reality after hearing his name once more, and bent his knees slightly. "Oh yeah sorry, it'd just be nice to hear some support during this time of crisis, y'know?"
Trent's not-so-subtle remark caught Sammy's attention. Prompting the cheerleader to look around in confusion. Scott suddenly leaned in and said,
"I think he's talkin' about you Samey." he told her. Despite frowning at her nickname, she cupped her hands and shouted at Trent.
"You got this Trent!" she says, in response Trent gave a thumbs-up to his girlfriend and stood proudly.
Jo groaned. "Now's not the time to flirt with Bubbles over there. Just jump on my go!" Trent nodded with confidence seeping through him. "Ready.. Set… GO!" the musician jumped on command, and unlike the others, actually latching onto Jo's hands, avoiding the water.
"'Woohoo!' 'Yeah! 'We did it!'" were all different cheers the Bass had screamed once they realized that they had gotten another point.
"Hey, you caught me!" Trent smiled coolly at the jockette, who scoffed in disbelief.
"I help train old 40-year old men, of course I caught you." Jo smiled smugly at what she was about to say, "Guess it just proves my worth to the team am I right Trent?"
Trent looked uncomfortable as he knew the team wanted to vote her out, but he responded with, "Yeah sure Jo, heh."
Confessional: Trent
"Last time I checked, Jo was public enemy number one. But she's crazy good at challenges though." he looked down in careful thought before raising his head to discuss his next topic. "Man, hearing Sammy's voice just rocks my world, y'know-"
As all 13 campers regrouped and began to follow Chris to their next and final destination, the camera focused on Sammy and Scarlett who were in the back of the group.
"Scarlett are you alright? I heard what happened." Sammy looked at the genius in concern, who had returned looking fine.
"I should be adequate. My immune system is at the highest caliber, I have no worries and you shouldn't either." she answered sternly. "How's your life back home?"
Sammy gasped. Shocked at Scarlett 'cared' about what she did outside of the island. "Wow Scarlett, I didn't think you cared."
Scarlett put on a fake smile and looked at her. "Samantha, of course I would care, you're my friend just as much in the game as outside it!" she shuddered at her fake excitement but resumed her happy-go-lucky demeanor.
"Aw, you're so sweet!" Sammy gushed at her new friend in Scarlett. "Well for starters, I-"
It only took a few seconds for Trent to rush back at the duo and insert himself between them, earning an annoyed look from the redhead.
"Hey guys, how's it going?" he asked, looking at the two with his signature smile. "Ready for the next challenge?"
Scarlett mumbled. "Trenton, I'd advise to return to your team ASAP." Trent took mild offense to that and stopped the trio.
"What? I can't get some quality time with my girl and her somewhat scary teammate?" he responded, pulling Sammy close to him.
"H- hey Trent." Sammy waved, attempting to break loose to Trent's hold but failing miserably. "Can ya let me go for a bit?"
Trent noticed his mistake and complied with her instructions. "Ah shoot, sorry Sammy. Just excited to see you." he professed, gazing into her eyes. "Hopefully you feel the same."
Just as this interaction was about to get at its peak of awkwardness, Scarlett grabbed Sammy by the arm and pulled her off-screen.
"Come on Samantha," she began, leaving Trent with a ditzy smile on his face. "let's not make Christopher wait now."
/
With a pan from two toboggans resting on a tree to Chris facing the remaining campers, the final challenge was explained. "And now, the Final Leg; a blind toboggan race. Each team will have a driver and a navigator. The driver steers while the navigator shouts directions."
"Sounds like a perfect fit for Jo." Cody sneered, earning a nonchalant look from his dirty-blonde rival.
"Oh yeah, and the driver will be blindfolded." the host says, getting multiple shocks from the cast. "Now for the partners… hm…let's have a men-on-men race. Scott and Harold versus Cody and Sam should do it." both duos looked at each other with neutral glances. That is, until Harold whispered in Scott's ear.
"You better not make us lose. I have my connections." he threatened, receiving a shove to the dirt by Scott.
"Relax dork, I got this." Scott reassured, crossing his arms defiantly.
/
The camera flashed a span of minutes later, revealing the cliff and the 4 teenagers on it. Cody and Sam were getting ready to begin, with the former about ready to put on his blindfold. "Ready Sam?"
The gamer replied with confidence, "I was born ready, you can't play 'Racing with Tony Eagle' for 14 hours straight and not get anything out of it, heh."
Cody put a finger to his chin. "But isn't Tony Eagle a skateboarder?" and instead of Sam answering his question, Chef got the duo's attention by his next action.
"Just lubing them up," Chef told the camera, spreading lube on the bottom of the toboggans. "Get a little more speed goin'." he smirked.
The usual flash in between scenes again occurred, bringing a shot of Chris walking towards the Gopher duo, while Chef stayed behind the Bass duo. "On your marks," the host began, "get set... " he pulled out his trusty air horn and blew it, signaling for him and Chef to push the teens down the hill.
Once the race was on the Bass duo was focused on first. Sam looked ahead with a frightened expression as Cody began to drive aimlessly.
"Hey Sam…" Cody chuckled nervously, "some directions would be very nice right about now!"
Sam shook his head back into reality, "You got it dude! RIGHT! RIGHT! LEFT!" Sam began to spill out directions one after another and Cody followed them, avoiding any distraction that was in the way. As they passed by a tree, the scene swiftly moved over to Harold and Scott, who weren't communicating as well as the other duo.
"Left!" Scott screamed, and Harold went right. "Right!" Scott screamed yet again, and Harold went left, bumping into a rock, slowing down their momentum. "Why aren't you listening to me? Is this how you want to die?"
"Sorry Scott," Harold turned to the farmer solemnly, "I don't trust you." The viewpoint switched to Scott's as there was a big and wide tree waiting for Harold, once the shot returned to normal, we saw Scott frantically tap Harold's shoulder.
"Harold! Move out of the way! Do it!" he shrieked, flailing his arms as Harold ignored.
"Not gonna get me this time, Scott." he replied, only for him to eat his own words as they crashed into the tree. Once Scott recovered slightly from the crash, he slapped the back of Harold's head in anger.
"What the heck, Harold?! You almost killed us just now!" he brought Harold back up into a sitting position while Sam and Cody had zoomed past them laughing.
"Consider our losing streak, finished." Sam told Scott on his way down.
Scott began to shake Harold in a hurried fashion. "Drive Harold drive! We lost the lead!"
Harold ordered, "Are you gonna try and sabotage us?"
"Just drive!" Scott yelled, pushing the dweeb forward so the toboggan could move again. Once they were off-screen, the music lightened up and Sam and Cody returned to the screen.
"Nice one!" Cody said blindly.
Sam laughed. "Dude deserved it, he's a jerk. Left!"
Cody swerved to the left before continuing the conversation. "He's not the only one on this island. Jo's been a jerk from the start."
"Yeah, but at least she's a beast in challenges. Left!" Sam shouted.
Cody swerved once more. "Yeah but we can win without her. It's not like she's controlled all of our wins. In fact, we've lost three straight times with her. What's so different without her?"
"Man, I don't even know how we're losing." Sam then pulled out his tiki idol from Boney Island and looked at it. "I thought this thing was supposed to give us good luck, not bad."
Cody turned his head to sam. "What thing are you talking about?"
"Oh nothing." Sam said, sticking it back into his pocket. "Just some collectible I found on Boney Island."
"You what?" Cody asked, steering out of control now in surprise. "Did you bring something back from Boney Island?"
"Yeah, it looked like something cool so I wanna put it on my shelf back home." Sam answered obliviously.
"No…" Cody said in realization. "Sam didn't you hear-"
"WATCH OUT!" Sam yelled, pointing ahead in straight fear. Not hearing a clear direction, Cody just moved randomly, hitting a mine in the process.
"Ahhhh!" the Bass boys screamed as they headed towards the finish line.
/
The shot returned to the Gopher redheads, they finally began to communicate well, dominating this cliff with stern looks.
"Right! Left! Left! Right! Don't move!" Scott ordered, Harold followed every direction Scott yelled until an explosion set off right behind them, startling the two of them. "What the heck was that?"
"Sounds like an explosion to me!" Harold said warily, earning another strike from Scott.
"I knew that, doofus." Scott sneered, another explosion set off and he immediately cling to Harold. "Agh!"
Some ways away, Chris held a red detonator, looking at the camcorder impishly as he set the dynamite off one by one.
"We had a few explosives left over and I just hate to waste." he says, commencing a multitude of bombs as he rapidly pressed the detonator.
Meanwhile, Cody and Sam got back on track, communicating just as well as the duo they're facing. "Dude, me and you have got to talk about the weird tiki thing you said you brought. It's bad karma."
"I didn't know that!" Sam lied, fessing up right after. "Okay, maybe Chris told me during the cooking challenge..."
"He told you and you still kept it?" Cody said in utter disbelief.
Sam looked down in guilt. "I thought he was just pulling my leg! I mean, who really even believes in curses?"
"I do!" a voice rang. That voice was identified as Scott's once him and Harold had finally caught up to the Bass. "It's why you guys have been losing, didn't you hear Chris?"
"I was in the bathroom! I didn't hear a thing!" Sam defended himself. "I don't even know how I got it, it just hit me!"
"Guess my aim's pretty good huh?" Scott laughed, noticing his slip-up, he covered his mouth and attempted to regain his composure. Only problem was that Sam had already heard him.
"You did what?" Sam glared at the farmer, who sunk in his seat behind Harold. "You're the reason we've lost so many times?"
"Scott!" Cody groaned. "What the heck!"
"Another sabotage, huh?" Harold asked nonchalantly. "I'm not surprised."
"But you see," Scott told him, "this was for the good of the team-" his sentence was abruptly cut off by an explosion that hit the two duos, sending both of them in the sky with a shriek. Now the camera cut to the teams waiting at the finish line, eyeing the airborne teenagers.
"You are one sick dude, McLean." Jo said, watching the challenge in awe.
"I do my best." Chris smiled, tossing the detonator away. He looked up in excitement "Looks like we're gonna have a winner."
"It better be us." Jo mumbled. Right after she said that, the screams of the four boys began to get closer and closer. They eventually hit the ground together in a pile in front of everyone. But one certain tech geek's foot was outside of the finish line.
"And the Gophers are the winners of the toboggan race!" Chris declared. The Gophers immediately roared with cheers as the four boys got up in agony.
"It's not my fault!" Sam told everyone, pointing at Scott framingly. "He gave me the tiki!"
"What tiki?" Trent asked, walking up to the four.
"The one from Boney Island." Sam answered, pulling out the tiki once more. "Scott threw it at me, knowing I'd take it back to camp."
"What?" Brick said upset, "That has to be breaking a rule somehow."
"Nope. No rule about sabotage. Scott's off the hook." Chris informed everyone. Hearing this, Jo, Brick and Trent all glared at Sam while Dakota took his defense.
"Wait guys, he didn't mean to make us lose four times! You guys gotta keep him!" she rubbed his back comfortingly.
"Oh yeah, and vote who?" Jo laughed. "Gamer Guy here, is obviously the reason we've kept losing."
Dakota furrowed her brow. "No Jo, what if it's your attitude? All you do is boss everyone around and cause drama, I'm voting for you tonight."
"Um hello? The name of the show is Total Drama." Chris interjected. "And while everyone watching this is loving all the drama you guys are providing, we're on a time limit."
"Guess we'll see who goes home tonight won't we?" Jo scoffed, walking back to camp with Trent and Brick. "Enjoy your last steps here, Pewdielie!" Sam hung his head in despair while Dakota softly kissed him on the cheek.
"It's gonna be alright." she told him lovingly. "You'll be here tomorrow. We got Cody, at least we can tie it up. Right Cody?" the camera panned to the geek, who looked at him sheepishly.
"Yeah, let's just tie it up." he says, rubbing the back of his neck.
/
Another challenge, another campfire ceremony. The usual transition into it played along with its trademark music. The bass's logo appeared in the top-right corner. And Chris asked a question to start the night off.
"Who wants a treat? A tasty goodie that represents exemption, security, peace of mind-"
Trent yawned. "Guy, we hear this way too much. Let's just hurry up so I can give Sammy a goodnight kiss."
"Yuck." Jo cringed.
"~And if you don't get a marshmallow you have to walk the Dock of Shame and you can never come back ~" Chris sang hurriedly behind Brick. "Ever." he returned to his oil drum podium, beginning to hand out the treats.
"Now let's see, one for Brick, one for Dakota." he tosses two marshmallows, two separate ways, caught in the mouth by the recipients.
"Trent, Cody! Well done my brothas." Both young men also catch their marshmallow in their mouth. Relieved that they'd stay another day. "Looks like we only have one left… Jo and Sam, the final marshmallow goes to…" the bottom two looked at each other, then paid their attention back to Chris, with the jockette less scared than the gamer. As Chris waited, the guitarist spoke up again.
"Okay, can I go now? Sammy's probably already asleep." Trent began to walk away, only for Chris to run over and drag him back to his seat.
"Don't rush me, the audience eats up this kind of dramatic conclusion." Chris explained with a harsh sounding tone.
"Whatever dude, just hurry up." Trent said, head in his hands. Chris patiently waited for a few more minutes, racking up as much suspense as he could, before finally calling out the final name.
…
"Once again, Jo." the jockette grabbed the final marshmallow, tossing it at the back of her now ex-teammate's head.
"Look who's out." she snickered. "GG Sam."
"Cody!" Dakota shouted, turning towards the brown-haired teen. "You voted with Jo!"
"Look I'm sorry, it was a hard decision. I just didn't wanna lose again." he responded sincerely. "Sorry Sam."
Chris promptly held up a ballot with several scribbles on it. "He's not lying, look at his ballot. But that's besides the point. Sam, you're done. Head out bro."
Sam sighed, but listened to Chris's instructions. "Yeah, yeah I know." he began to walk past Chris dejectedly, heading for the boat. Once he was off-screen, Chris faced the five Bass.
"The rest of you are safe… for now." he added impishly.
/
The camera cut to Sam just about to reach the Boat of Losers, and Chef waiting for him impatiently. "C'mon gamer freak, let's head out."
Sam put one foot in the boat, "Mhm. Just sucks that Scott played me like that."
"Did I ask?" Chef responded, worsening Sam's mood.
"No…" the gamer replied, but a voice he knew all too well began to get closer to him
"Sam wait!" Dakota piped up, running after Sam. "I have something I wanna say to you!"
"Yeah Dakota?" Sam turned to her sadly. "I know I'm a loser-" with a long and deserved kiss on the lips, Dakota shut Sam up for good.
"You'll never be a loser in my books okay?" she told him. "I just want you to know that."
Chef attempted to break up the two. "Hey! Stop all this lovey-dovey crap! I gotta take Sam to-"
"In a minute sir!" Dakota yelled, clutching Sam tightly. "I'm gonna to win this for you okay? Boyfriend."
Sam's eyes immediately lit up at the last word she said. "Boyfriend?" he said with a goofy smile, getting yanked by Chef onto the boat.
"Time's up, we're gone." Chef told him, speeding the boat away farther and farther from the Dock.
"I love you Sam!" Dakota screamed, waving in the process. Off-screen, Sam yelled back;
"I love you too!" hearing this, Dakota blushed and the camera panned up to the night sky. Capping of the eleventh episode of the season.
Author's Note
Not really the most surprising elimination I must say, but I guess you could say some more stuff was accomplished in this chapter. 1. Jo manages to survive yet another elimination. 2. The tiki plot is finished. 3. Samkota becomes official. 4. More awkward Tremmy moments. All in all, due to getting a surge in writing I banged out over half of this chapter for maybe around an hour and a half.
Alright, this story's schedule has been kind of bad honestly. I went from saying a chapter a week, then a chapter a month, then taking an unplanned 8-month hiatus. So in all honesty, I have no idea when the chapter will be up, I won't lie and say in a week because something may come up. But with quarantine going on, these may come out quick. Who even knows anymore.
Welp, it's been 8 months, the least you could do would be to review xD
And with that, I'm signing off.
See y'all next chapter!
Checkmate King.
TJI Elimination Order
Cameron - (22nd Place)
Beth - (21st Place)
Lightning - (20th Place)
Sugar - (19th Place)
Izzy - (18th Place)
B - (17th Place)
Amy - (16th Place)
Katie - (15th Place)
Topher - (14th Place)
Sam - (13th Place)