Episode 4: Dodgebrawl

RECAP

Chris: Last time on Total Drama Island, the Screaming Gophers kicked butt in the Awake-a-thon when Duncan took a snooze on the can and the Killer Bass took their second loss in a row. Harsh. Simone and Jax bet each other on an old classic- who can stay up the longest? Many hours later, Simone won the bet. Heather orchestrated the first Total Drama Island alliance by convincing Lindsay and Beth to join forces with her. Then pocketed Eva's mp3 player and sat back to watch the fireworks. Nicely played, Heather. Nicely played. Even though Eva could've pretty much kicked anyone's butt here, in the end, it was her temper that got her kicked off. She became the second camper to rock the Boat of Losers. Who will break the rules of their new alliance? Will Gwen and Andi be able to stay awake until the end of the episode? And who will take the next humiliating walk down the Dock of Shame? Stay tuned for the most dramatic campfire ceremony yet on Total. Drama. Island!

*cue theme song*

It's morning and everyone went to the main lodge for breakfast. The Screaming Gophers (sans Andi and Gwen) have finally recovered from their sleep deprivation and are eating their breakfast very well, while the Killer Bass are still tired and puffy-eyed. In front of Simone is a box of Jos Louis, as Jax stuck to his end of the bet.

"Duncan! You look like crap, dude," Chris said as he walked over to us.

"Stuff it," Duncan muttered.

"Harold snored all night," Courtney said.

"Wow! Four nights with no sleep? How much are you hurting, dude?" Chris chuckled.

"Wanna find out?" Duncan threatened as his teammates all hid under the table.

"No, no, it's cool. It's cool."

Suddenly, the door opened. Everyone looked and saw that Harold was wearing a drawn-on mustache.

Everyone laughed while Simone just chuckled.

"Okay, what?" Harold asked as he sat down.

"Someone messed with your face, dude," Geoff smirked.

Harold picked up a spoon and looked at his reflection.

"Hey, sweet 'stache," Harold smiled.

"Hey look everyone it's Gwen and Andi," Chris announced while Gwen and Andi entered the room.

Andi had to guide Gwen to the table since the latter is too drowsy to know where she is going. Andi then sat between her and Lindsay. Everyone in the Screaming Gophers started cheering.

"Why are we clapping?" Lindsay asked Jax and Justin.

"I'm so tired I can't feel my face." Gwen groaned before slamming her face hard on the table while Andi yawned and covered my mouth.

CONFESSIONAL TIME

COURTNEY

"We are so sucking right now! Okay yes, Eva was a psycho, but at least she was an athletic psycho."

END CONFESSIONAL

"So, let's go over the rules one more time," Heather told Lindsay and Beth. "Number one, I am the captain of this alliance, so I get to make the rules. Number Two?"

"Breaking the rules can result in getting kicked out of the alliance?" Lindsay answered.

"Good. Number three, I can borrow any of your stuff without asking, but my stuff is strictly off-limits."

CONFESSIONAL TIME

ANDI

"Okay, that is so wrong."

END CONFESSIONAL

"I don't know about that last rule," Lindsay said.

"That's cool. I can change it. I can also find someone else to take to the final three with me."

Lindsay and Beth shook their heads.

"Good, wanna have some fun? Hey, fish heads!" she called to the Bass.

"Oh, boy, I ain't in the mood..." Simone groaned.

"Way to kick out your strongest player! Why don't you just give up now?"

She sidestepped to avoid two pieces of gruel launched by Simone and Courtney, which hit Gwen instead.

"Missed me!" Courtney glared.

"Okay campers, listen up!" Chris announced. "Your next challenge begins in ten minutes! And be prepared to bring it!"

Simone walked over to Gwen.

"Hey, sorry about that. That gruel was meant for Heather. Are you alright?" she apologized.

"Nah, it's fine. Heather can be a real pain, you know?" Gwen yawned.

"You okay walking?"

"Yeah, I'm cool."

After breakfast, we all headed at the gym as Duncan flopped down on the bleachers.

"Wake me up, and it'll be the last thing you'll do," He threatened his teammates before falling asleep.

"This is all your fault you know!" Courtney scolded Harold. "You and your snoring face!"

"It's called a medical condition, gosh!" Harold retorted.

"She does have a point, though," Simone shrugged.

Chef was in a referee outfit. He blew his whistle.

"Today's challenge is the classic game of dodgeball," Chris said. "The first rule of dodgeball is..."

"Do not talk about dodgeballs?" Noah remarked as Owen snickered.

"As I was saying, if you get hit with the ball, you're out," Chris explained as he hit Courtney with a dodgeball.

"You can't do that!" Courtney glared as she threw the ball back at Chris, only for him to catch it.

"If you catch the ball, the thrower is sent out and the catcher gets to bring out another team member on the court."

"Throwing balls," Noah said, "gee, another mentally challenging test."

"I know, right?" Lindsay asked.

"Okay now Geoff, try to hit me," Chris threw a ball at Geoff.

"If you're holding a ball," Chris continued. "you can use it to deflect a ball, but if it knocks the ball out of your hands, you're out."

"So, what do I do again when the ball comes at me?" Lindsay asked.

Geoff threw the ball. "You dodge!" Chris said. He deflected the ball and it hit Lindsay on the forehead.

"Ooh," Chris said. "You were supposed to dodge!"

"Ow, right," Lindsay got up as she now has a bruise on her forehead.

"You have one minute 'til game time. Gophers, you'll have to sit one person out each game."

"Okay, we can't get lazy. The Killer Bass are going to be trying extra hard to catch up. Who wants to sit the first one out with Sleeping Beauty here?" Heather asked.

"I know I am," Andi answered while rubbing her tired eyes. Gwen and Andi went to the benches.

"Alright, I'll volunteer," Noah said as he also sat down on the bleachers. "Now, let's see all you keeners get on out there and dodge!"

Six members from each team then went out on the court for the first round.

"Bring it on, fishies. Otherwise, winning three in a row just won't be as satisfying," Heather teased.

"You're going down," Tyler unsuccessfully roasted, "we're gonna bring the dinner to the table, and then we're gonna eat it!"

Courtney facepalmed at his comment.

"Both teams ready?" Chris instructed, "Best of five games wins! Now, let's dodge some balls!"

Cody made the first move and threw his ball. It narrowly hit Tyler, who was able to dodge it.

Tyler spun around and threw his ball, but it hit Sadie, who was sitting on the bleachers, instead.

"That'll smear the makeup," Chris commented.

"Nice job," Courtney chastised, "now let's see if you can hit someone on their team!"

Owen charged forward and threw his ball, which hit Tyler in the gut, sending him to the wall.

"Ow, darn it!" he said as the Gopher's cheered for Owen's performance.

Simone threw my ball at Jax, only for him to deflect it with his ball.

Chef then called Simone and Tyler out while Jax stuck his tongue out at his sister.

"Time to unleash my wicked skills!" Harold said.

"Yeah?" Leshawna said. "Then bring it, string bean! Let's see what you got!"

Harold slammed the ball onto the floor which sent it straight up, but it landed right next to Leshawna. She picked it up and smirked.

Harold screamed and ran before getting hit by the thrown ball, and Chef blew his whistle to motion Harold off the court.

Lindsay walked up, holding a ball.

"Can someone remind me what to do with this again?" she asked as Katie successfully hit her.

"Alright, Katie!" I cheered with my team.

Amongst the cheering of the Killer Bass, Tyler waved at Lindsay. Lindsay waved back. Heather saw this and threw a ball at Tyler, which hit him in the groin.

"Mommy?" he asked in a high-pitched voice.

"Ooh," Andi winced as she held her face on the cheeks with her hands.

"Girl, what are you doing?" Simone glared.

"What the heck was that?" Courtney said. "Ref, he's not even on the court!"

"Oopsies, slipped," Heather lied.

Courtney threw a ball at Heather, but Owen caught it just in time, bringing its thrower out of the court. Gwen joined the game.

Owen threw a ball at DJ, but he dodged and threw his ball. Owen ducked and the ball hit Gwen instead.

"Oh, sorry," He said.

"Oh it's cool, trust me," She replied.

As round 1 progressed, soon only DJ and Katie were left for the Bass and Leshawna and Cody for the Gophers.

DJ and Katie both threw their balls at Leshawna. She was able to catch one, but the second hit her in the stomach.

"Easy out, guys. Easy out," Courtney said to DJ and Katie.

Cody looked a little terrified, but then he threw his ball. DJ was able to duck it, but it boomeranged and hit him in the back.

"That is one though ball to dodge!" Chris commented.

Katie threw her ball but Cody dodged it. He grabbed a ball and rubbed it on his shirt, which charged it with static electricity, and then he threw it. Katie attempted to run away from it, but the charged ball homed in and eventually hit her. The Gophers won the first round and they all cheered.

"We can do this!" Harold encouraged his team. "We just have to believe in ourselves!"

"Oh, I believe," Courtney said, "I believe you suck!"

"Yeah, you throw like a girl!" Tyler said.

"You should talk!" Simone rebuked.

"It was a warm-up throw! Look, I can dominate this game! Just give all the balls to me!"

"Yeah, right."

Chef blew his whistle.

"Fine!" Courtney said, "Just try to aim for the other side, okay?"

"Alright Noah, you're up," Heather said.

"You know, you guys did such an awesome job last game," he replied, "that I don't wanna mess up your mojo."

"Fine."

"Okay if I go again?" Jax asked while Beth volunteered to play.

"Sure, you two can go," Heather nodded as Beth and Jax went out on the court. "Let's go, guys."

Tyler spun around and threw all of his balls. The first would have hit Chef if he hadn't caught it in time. The second flew over Chris, who ducked in time.

"Hey! Watch the face, dude!" Chris yelled.

The third flew over the Gopher's bleachers. The fourth hit Lindsay in the face and the fifth hit Jax in the groin.

"NO!" Tyler cried as he ran over to her.

"Finally," Courtney sighed.

"Tyler, good throw, but bruh..." Simone winced as she looked over at Jax, who was already on the floor. "You alright, Jax?"

"Yeah, I'm good... thank you," Jax nodded as Andi helped him walk over to their team's bleachers.

"Tyler? Oh, my gosh, my face! How's my face?" Lindsay asked Tyler as he helped her up.

"It's really not that bad," Tyler said. "You still look great!"

"Really?"

"Yeah, really!"

CONFESSIONAL TIME

ANDI

"Huh... They really are made for each other."

END CONFESSIONAL

Trent walked over to Lindsay and Tyler and chucked a ball at him.

"Nice shot, Trent," Andi grinned.

"Thanks, Andi," Trent replied.

"Wanna go for a walk?" Tyler asked.

"Okay!" Lindsay smiled.

"Hey, get back here! You are so close to being out of the alliance!" Heather shouted as Lindsay and Tyler walked out of the arena.

"Just leave them, Heather," Andi assured.

"Great Gatsby, that is it!" Owen yelled. "Game on!"

He grabbed Izzy's ball and threw it, taking both Katie and Sadie out. He then grabbed Beth's which took Bridgette out. Afterward, Trent gave his ball, and Owen threw it, which hit Geoff in the face.

"Ow," Chris said, "that one's worth an instant replay!"

"Forward, okay rewind, forward, rewind, forward, rewind, forward, rewind, and pause!" Chris said while he was using the remote. "That's gonna leave a mark."

"Ooh, he dropped it like it was hot!" Leshawna remarked.

The Gophers cheered at their second game victory.

"Owen, that was amazing!" Andi exclaimed in joy.

"Dude, that was wicked..." Jax let out a whimper, still in pain from the Tyler incident.

"I don't know what got into me," Owen said.

"I'm glad someone is trying today," Heather said sarcastically. She was staring down Noah.

"Oh sorry," he said. "Woo-hoo! Way to throw those murder balls! Go team go!" he said with fake enthusiasm. I rolled my eyes.

"Nice team spirit. Hey!" she shouted to the Bass. "It's 2-0! How does it feel to suck so much?"

"Not very good," Harold replied.

"It's not over yet!" Courtney said. "It's so over," she whispered to Simone.

"Oh, yeah. We're screwed," Simon sadly and fearfully sighed.

"Man, the Killer Bass can't seem to catch a break, can they?" Andi commented.

The teams all sat down on the bleachers for a break.

"What are we gonna do? We can't lose for the third time," Simone spoke up.

"Simone's right. One more game and we lose the whole challenge... again! We can't let that happen, people. We need someone strong, someone mean, someone who will crush those stupid Gophers into the dirt," Courtney said.

The Bass looked over at Duncan, who was still asleep.

"Oh, no, no, no. We can't wake Duncan up," Simone shook my head.

"Simone's right. If we wake him up, he'll kill us," DJ added.

"He won't kill us, guys. He wants to win, too," Courtney persuaded.

"Courtney's right. We need Duncan's fierceness to win this," Harold agreed.

"That's the spirit, Harold! Now go wake him up," Courtney ordered.

"Why me?!"

"Because, other than Tyler, you're the worst at dodgeball."

"And if Duncan does try to kill you, you're pretty much the only one we can afford to lose," Simone added.

"No way! I'm not doing it!" Harold shook his head.

"Well, then, who's gonna wake him up?" Courtney asked.

We no one wanting to wake Duncan up, the Bass got the idea of grabbing a long stick and poking Duncan with it. They started poking his butt.

"We have to go higher," Courtney whispered.

We then poked Duncan's nose, which woke him right up. Duncan grabbed the stick, pulled it away, and broke it in half.

"You better have a really good reason for sticking this up my nose," Duncan glared.

"Look, we are down two-to-nothing. I can appreciate you needing a little nap time, but we need your help," Courtney said.

"Oh, and why should I help you, darling?"

"Because I can personally guarantee you that if we lose this game, you'll be the one going home, darling."

Duncan thought about it for a moment, then sighed.

"Fine, I'll play, on one condition: you do what I say when I say it," Duncan said as Courtney nodded. "Okay, here's a strategy that I picked up during my first visit to juvie. It's called 'rush the new guy'."

Six of each team's players went out onto the court to start the next round.

After Chef blew his whistle, Leshawna and Justin tried to hit Duncan and Courtney, but the latter two dodged the balls and let them bounce over to the wall.

Once Simone and Katie grabbed them, they and the four other Bass players successfully knocked Owen down. Soon after, they then took out Leshawna, Izzy, Beth, and Justin.

They then had their eyes on Andi and threw the balls at her. She dodged at them multiple times until she finally got tired and collapsed on the floor. Even though Andi didn't get hit, she was out anyway.

"It worked!" Simone sighed as she and the Bass cheered.

"Come on, a little effort out there, people," Noah commented. Izzy, Leshawna, and Andi glared at him.

The Bass cheered at their first win.

"I think we should do the same thing all over again," Courtney said. "So Harold, sit this one out too."

"But I sat the last one out!"

"It's for the good of the team."

Geoff gave a comforting pat to Harold's back.

"It's for the good of the team. Simone, why don't you sit this one out with Harold?"

"Sure thing," I nodded with acceptance.

"Okay," Heather said. "Not that Noah here cares, but we are not losing another game to these guys, got it? And where is Lindsay?" Heather stormed out of the court.

Heather headed over to the docks and noticed Lindsay and Tyler canoodling with each other below the docks.

"This is so against the rules," Heather quipped as Tyler and Lindsay noticed her presence.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean it!" Lindsay said.

"Hey, why don't you just chill out?" Tyler tried to calm Heather down.

"Why don't you dodge this?" Heather threw a kayak on Tyler.

The Bass employed Duncan's strategy again and soon, Izzy, Trent, and Justin were out in a few minutes. Just then, Heather came back with Lindsay.

"Sit down and stay there!" Heather ordered. "Okay," Lindsay replied sadly.

"How are we doing?" Heather asked as Beth was taken out.

"Not so good, I guess," Andi replied.

"Sports, not my forte, remember?" Noah said.

"You know you could actually give it a shot and pretend to care," Heather rebuked.

Just then, Leshawna was the last victim of Duncan's strategy as the Killer Bass cheered.

"This is s-s-so unacceptable!" Heather cried.

Tyler walked over to his team's bench.

"Dude, where have you been?" Simone asked.

"Nowhere."

"You were with that blonde Gopher girl, weren't you?" Courtney glared.

"No. Maybe. So?"

"So, she could have been getting you to spill all of our weaknesses to her."

Simone looked over at Lindsay, who 'talking' with her hands.

"Okay, this is it," Chris said, "the final tie-breaking game!"

"Go, team, go!" Noah cheered unenthusiastically.

The Bass huddled up.

"Okay, who's going in?" Duncan asked.

"I think it's my turn," Harold said.

"No way! We actually have a chance to win this," Courtney combated. Harold nodded and walked over to the bleachers.

"Gophers, Bass, let's send this sample to the lab and see what you're made of," Chris said as the final round began.

"Gophers, Bass," Chris said, "Let's send this sample to the lab, and see what you're made of!"

"Knock 'em out, throw 'em out, rah rah!" Noah said. A misfired dodgeball hit him.

"You're right," Heather commented, "Sports aren't your forte."

Soon, Geoff tagged Harold into the court.

"Back of the court, princess," Duncan said.

Gwen threw her dodge ball which hit Courtney in the face.

"That's for the oatmeal." She said.

Leshawna laughed. "You messed with the wrong white girl!" She commented.

As more players were taken out of the court, eventually it was down to Harold, Andi, and Owen.

Seeing this, the Gophers cheered.

"Sorry dude, but you've got to go down," Owen said.

"Good night Harold," Duncan said.

Harold shifted his face to a more determined look. He taunted Owen.

To everyone's surprise, Harold easily dodged all the balls Andi and Owen threw.

"Woah," Noah said.

"Wow. Harold sure has a lot of surprises," Andi commented before she got hit in the stomach.

"Timeout, timeout!" Courtney said.

"Man, that boy's got dodge!" Duncan said.

"Harold, where'd you learn to do that?" Simone asked.

"Figure skating," Harold replied.

"Harold, that was awesome!" Geoff said. "But dodging isn't enough."

"He's right," Courtney said. "To win this, you'll either have to throw him out..."

"Which we all know you can't do," Duncan added.

"Or catch the ball. Can you do it?"

"Definitely."

Both Harold and Owen walked back onto the court. Both glared determinedly at each other.

"Harold! Harold! Harold! Harold!" the Bass chanted.

"Cowabunga!" Owen shouted as he threw his ball.

The force of the throw was so strong that Harold was knocked into the wall. The Bass gasped for a second, and then Harold held up the ball, revealing that he caught it.

"The Killer Bass win!" Chris announced.

"It's impossible!" Owen wailed. "WHY?"

The Killer Bass cheered. DJ picked Simone up and spun her around with ecstasy.

He realized what he was doing and put her down.

"Sorry..." DJ blushed.

"No worries. We won!" Simone smiled.

The Bass carried Harold and walked out of the stadium, all the while chanting his name.

"Nice dodge, skater nerd," Duncan complimented as he and DJ carried Harold out of the arena.

"Gophers, what happened?" Chris asked them.

"What can I say?" Noah said. "Weak effort."

"Oh, shut it, Noah," Gwen said.

"You know, for once, I agree with her," Heather added.

"Yeah. And I may be tired from the awake-a-thon. but I went out and played anyway. All you did was just sit there and cheer apathetically," Andi snarled at him before Cody and the girls left, with Owen, Jax, Trent, Justin, Noah, and Andi left behind.

"Touchy," Noah said. He saw them glaring at him. "What? I'll tell you, the team spirit here is severely lacking lately."

"Ha! That's rich, coming from you," Andi rebuked.

CONFESSIONAL TIME

ANDI

*scowling and arms crossed* "Okay, now I'm starting to dislike Noah. Wait, dislike? I think the correct word is hate."

HAROLD

"I guess I'm kind of a role model now that I won the dodgeball competition. People probably all want my autograph when the show is over and stuff."

END CONFESSIONAL

At the campfire ceremony, all of the Gophers are gathered for their first elimination ceremony.

"Campers," Chris said, "You've already placed your votes and made your decision. One of you will be going home. And you can't come back, ever. When you hear me call out your name, come pick up a marshmallow. Owen... Gwen... Cody... Trent... Jax... Heather... Beth... Andi... Justin... Leshawna... Izzy. The final marshmallow goes to..."

Lindsay looked worried, while Noah looked confident.

...

...

...

"Lindsay."

"Woohoo! Yeah!"

"What? Are you kidding me?"

Lindsay cheered as she received her marshmallow.

"Alright, see if I care," Noah said. "Good luck because you just voted out the only one with any brains on this team."

The Gophers were unfazed and threw all their marshmallows at him.

"You need to learn a little thing called 'respect', turkey!" Leshawna said. The Gophers cheered at her comment.

"Whatever, I'm outta here," Noah said as he walked away to the Dock of Shame.

CONFESSIONAL TIME

ANDI

"Finally, Captain Sarcastic is out of the picture. And I really hate his snarky comebacks as much as I hate him."

END CONFESSIONAL

"All right, so it wasn't the most dramatic campfire ceremony ever. But I still get paid. Haha. Bonus!" Chris said.