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Chapter 16: Dia de los Muertos Part 1
"Last time on Total Drama World Tour, we headed a couple hundred miles south of our home country of Canada to the Walls Unit of Huntsville, Texas. After a bit of interviewing from Tyler and Gwen, Cedric revealed he was actually the infamous unidentified murderer Zodiac in a past life. Gwen won the last meal cooking challenge, and Tyler dropped a hot burger down my pants. We then introduced the final four to the general prison population to search an experimental immunity idol, which backfired horribly when Cedric stole it from Gwen. Even though Duncan won in the end, it wasn't enough to save his girl from being given the boot by his archenemy. We're whittled down to three unlikely players now. Will Duncan break the secrets to Cedric's powers. Will Cedric succeed in his nefarious plots? Does Tyler stand a chance of surviving in the crossfire? Find out in the exciting semifinal to! Total. Drama. WOOOOOOORLD TOOOOOOUUUUUR!"
It had been about 24 hours since the last elimination had taken place and the plane was covered in a dreary aura. Even Chris seemed to be downtrodden as opposed to his normal sadistsically cheery mood. The only one to be even remotely happy with the results was Cedric as almost everything had gone as he'd planned. He'd brought Tyler and Duncan to the final three was him, and very little stood in the way of his goals.
Tyler was especially upset with the recent events due to his lack of ability to do much and his very personal vendetta against the demon. While sipping his coffee in the first class, Tyler heard a loud ruckus coming from economy class. Suspecting it to be Cedric's shenanigans again, he went to check out the chaotic scene.
But to his surprise, he saw that it was a sleep deprived looking Duncan who had practically taken apart the entirety of first class "Come on pipsqueak! Where the hell are you!" The delinquent yelled in frustration at his failures to find Cody.
"Duncan, what are you doing?" Tyler asked, fearing for his former teammate's mental state.
"I've got to find Cody. If I can reattach him to their body, he might be able to force Cedric back under lock and key somehow!" Duncan explained his reasoning before coming up with a rather terrible idea "Maybe if I sing it! Pipsqueak, where the hell are you!"
While Duncan was normally a decent singer, his exhausted body made him sound very off key, hurting Tyler's ears "Duncan! I want to find Cody as much as you do, but no good could come from singing like that!"
"I know. I'm just out ideas." Duncan admitted.
Seeing as having the punk so tired would get them nowhere, Tyler had Duncan waterfall some of his coffee before starting to brain storm "Alrght let's think for a second man. Where have we looked so far?"
"I looked all over first class earlier and I couldn't find him there, or the cargo hold for that matter. I looked as much as I could in the lounge before Chef kicked me out; and I haven't gotten any results here either." Duncan said while looking around the carnage he had caused.
"Wait a minute." A dark thought crept into Tyler's mind "What if he's not on the plane anymore. What if after you caught him the first time, Cedric hid him somewhere in Africa or Huntsville. Or what if he just tossed Cody out the drop of shame!"
Economy class went silent after that idea came from Tyler's mouth, with both men frozen from pure dread at the thought of that being the fate of the geek. The silence was quickly broken when Cedric walked in, happily humming Les Toreador like he always did with a file and cigarette in his pointed fangs.
To their ire, Cedric wrapped his arms around his fellow semi-finalist and began to mock them "Good morning ladies. Looks like my plan to get us into the final three went swimmingly. And now the rest of my plans will go through as well!"
"Why do you have a file in your teeth?" Tyler asked, ignoring the demon's mockery.
"I have to keep them sharp somehow you know!" Cedric explained while Duncan shoved him away and pointed an accusatory finger into his face.
"Back off jackass! I haven't forgotten the shit you pulled yesterday!"
"Oh, you mean the part where I voted off Lust, or the part where I caused the biggest embarresment to Texas since Bush made Dick Cheney his running mate?" Cedric fired back while putting away the file, before turning his attention to the now static filled intercom.
"Attention semi-finalists, we are now approaching our penultimate destination. If you have anything to say to the confessional before we disembark, please say so now."
Confessional:
Cedric: "It appears I'm the last member of Team Amazon just as planned. I only have one thing to say concerning that…Suck it sloth."
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Duncan: "So it looks like I've made it to the end again, albeit the last two times it happened I wasn't drafted into a musical against my will. As much I hate him, I can't be surprised that Cedric made it this far with his big evil brain. But Tyler's another story."
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Tyler: "Can it really be true? I'm in the final three? That's awesome!…I just wish it could've happened under different circumstances."
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Cedric: "My chances of winning? Let's see, a pride filled coward and a klutzy meathead. I'd say I could beat them both with my legs tied behind my back!"
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Duncan: "I'd say my chances of winning are pretty high. If it all comes down to one final vote I think even I could beat Cedric there."
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Tyler: "I'd like to think I could win, but it's not going to be easy going up against a guy who's already won once, and somebody who can literally breath fire!"
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Cedric: "When I win, you'll know when a flaming bipedal cheethah rhinoceros bursts through your front door to bite your face off! But what to do with the money…I guess I could use it to roast marshmallows."
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Duncan: "If I when I'll use my money to make sure that Cedric gets locked back up where ever he came from in the first place. And as for the rest of it, I can just use whenever necessary."
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Tyler: "If I won the million, I imagine I'd just end up spending most of it on Lindsay. I just hope Cedric hasn't done anything to her since he's made it clear that he's got no problem taking hostages."
The three men got off the plane to see that they were in an urban area which had dulled due to the colder weather in the area as of late, surrounding the ruins of what appeared to be a pyramid. In front of the pyramid stood Chris and Chef in mariachi garb, with the latter holding a latter holding a large prism like box.
"Greetings passengers and welcome to the semi-finals of Total Drama World Tour, in what I personally think will be one of the hardest challenges ever developed by by producers." Chris did his normal exposition before clearing his throat and continuing with the lecture "Today you'll be going on a tour of Mexico, starting here in Mexico City at the ruins of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlán. You'll encounter many pieces of Mexican culture on this trip, from the Ancient Aztecs to the Day of the Dead."
"But isn't it Christmas time, and not Dia de los Muertos?"
PART ONE: Players will search for hollow sugar skulls representing their former competition this season. The will search throughout Mexico City for the first five skulls, before heading on Jeep to the coast. They will then scour the beaches for the next five and boat across the Gulf of Calafornia to Cabo, where they will find the final five candy skulls. Inside each skull is one Cayenne pepper which they must consume upon breaking the skull. The one who eats the most Cayenne peppers by the time the final skull is found and broken will gain a free spot in the finals, while the other two will be at risk for elimination.
"That's pretty much how this challenge is gong to work, and don't think we're going to give you any hints or milk for the peppers!" Chris said before pulling out a picture of the late Ezekiel "The first sugar skull of Ezekiel can be found here. You've got 24 hours to find all 15 peppers. Ready, set, go!"
On the host's signal all three of them began running around digging up parts of the ruins with their bare hands. Due to having sharpened his nails, Cedric had am easier time than the others, digging away at the ground like a poke digger. Seeing this, Tyler felt worried and slid over to Duncan.
"Look, I don't think we can take this guy alone, I mean look at him." Tyler said he watched the demon tear through the rocks covering the ruins.
"And your point it is?"
"We're going to have to help each other win this challenge if we even want to stand a chance against von Túfeice." Tyler pointed out which struck a chord in Duncan's mind.
Cedric however nearly burst out laughing at the jock's words as he looked at them at his plan in the ruins from above "You people are just a riot. If you wanted to take me out with the whole strength in numbers strategy, you should have done that like a week ago! If I thought I could lose with you two still around, I'd still be in my Beanpole suit!" In response to Cedric's gloating removed the stone he was standing on causing the mad hatter to face plant onto the ground.
"I think we've got a deal. I'd rather take you to the finale than Baron von Psycho over here." Duncan accepted the deal with Tyler and elaborated further "Let's try to keep the number of peppers we eat this challenge even between us. That way Cedric will have even less of a chance."
"Fascinating Pride. But you do realize you'll actually have to find some skulls for that strategy of yours to actually work? And I won't make it easy for you in the slightest!" Cedric said grinning ear to ear, while cracking his knuckles. Then to the shock of the others, Cedric used his telekinesis to raise up the pieces of the ruins.
After only a few seconds of looking, he found the sugary likeness of his former minion floating the air, and made a move towards it by jumping on the midair rubble "Looks like I'm getting the first laugh." His expression changed to one of annoyance when he saw Duncan had leapt into the air and grabbed onto his ankle.
"Well you're not getting the last one!" Duncan yelled at the demon as he was kicked in the face and poked in the eye by the wooden cover of Cedric's cane.
"Get the hell off me you mangy dog!" Cedric fired back right as the tips of his fingers touched the floating offering. Just then he let go of telekinetic powers causing him, Duncan, and all the rubble to fall back onto the ground.
When the dust cleared, Cedric and Duncan were still wrestling for the skull, a match Cedric quickly won by kneeing Duncan in the groin. While the delinquent writhed in pain on the ground Cedric raised the skull victoriously in the air "Let this be the start of my victory." It turns out he spoke too soon when Tyler snuck up from behind and cracked the skull in his fist, grabbing the pepper inside.
Tyler immediately shoved the pepper into his mouth and chewed it up before swallowing. This turned out to be a very poor idea when his mouth began steaming from the spiciness "HOT! HOT! NEED MILK!"
"I don't know what you think you're going to accomplish with this. I'm smarter and stronger than both of you combined! You haven't even figured out where I hid Beanpole yet!" Cedric tried to intimidate Duncan.
Duncan gave a low chuckle and a hateful look to the witch doctor, before sharing his own threat "Well then get ready Cedric. Cause the gloves are coming off!"
Confessional:
Duncan: "I bet you're wondering what I was thinking partnering up with Tyler; but with Cedric tearing through all these challenges I'll need all the help I can get to take him down. Besides, Beth is just as clumsy as he is, and teaming up with her last season did me wonders."
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Tyler: "HOT! HOT! HOT!"
Once they were finished with their glaring match, both Cedric and Duncan darted out of the ruins to find more skulls around Mexico City, or at least the route through the city they were being directed on. Tyler soon followed after finding something to extinguish the burning in his mouth.
"Alright then let's makes things a bit easier." Cedric looked around before releasing a plethora of shades put from his sleeve and began speaking to them "All of you, go find any of those candy skulls that looks like those who've already been eliminated!"
"Crap I forgot he could do that!" Duncan chastised himself for the mistake before looking around for any skulls of the remaining four they were looking for.
After some more time of glancing around the path, he saw that a vegetable shop keeper had a skull that had the appearance of Leshawna embedded into it. So as to not let Cedric gain a lead Duncan ran up "I'll need to buy that offering skull off of you."
"Será de $35."
"We have to pay for these ourselves?" Duncan groaned, remembering his last experience with foreign currency in the game. His frustration only got worse when Cedric's cane flew into the skull, before telekinesis was used to pull out the pepper inside.
"Honestly Pride, you're making this too easy." Cedric dropped the pepper into his mouth before walking off, taking special note of knocking an ice cream cone out of the hands of a nearby child.
Duncan gave Cedric another look of hatred, before he heard the shopkeeper clear his throat, expecting reimbursement for his destroyed merchandise. Sighing in annoyance, the delinquent took out his wallet to pay the man. After this he saw another skull at the top of a nearby roof, representing Harold.
"About time the dork did something to help me out." Duncan remembered his old adversary, before jumping and climbing on awnings to retrieve the skull, using the fabric as trampolines. After a bit of jumping he grabbed, the skull which broke upon impacting the ground. After popping his neck back into place, the punk swallowed the pepper which caused his mouth to burst into figurative flames.
However he turned his attention to something else as he saw a large crowd of protestors and rioters breaking into stores and committing other various crimes. As to expected the Mexican police were quick to arrive "¡Calma! Todos ustedes están bajo arresto por robo, vandalismo, agresión sexual y asalto!"
"¿No te cobre? ¿Ese tipo del sombrero por ahí se va a destruir todo por lo que no tiene ningún sentido nada más?" A rioter yelled in mad glee to the officer holding him down.
"Es su culpa. ¡Sus caminos pecaminosos son la razón para el Armagedón temprano!" A protestor yelled to a bystander.
"…¡Soy un trabajador de la iglesia!" The man responded.
"El extremo está nigh!"
"¡Viva a nuestro Salvador Zodiac!"
While Duncan watched the scene in shock, Cedric watched this with amusement as he looked for the remaining two skulls in the area "Some people just can't hold their spice." After more of his quipping, Cedric used his speed to rapidly search around the capital, at one point knocking a dress onto a street performer by accident.
In about fifteen minutes of searching he came across a building he knew to be the National Palace of Mexico. He fully prepared to strut in, only to have a guard stop him. The man angrily pointed to a no smoking sign, and a wanted poster of him issued by the United Nations. In response to this Cedric showed off the sword in his cane, though that only resulted in the man calling for back up.
"¡Cedric von Túfeice es aquí, y él está armado con una espada!" The guard said into his radio, to which a plethora of other guards run out from the sides. The mad hatter just chuckled at this before doing something that shocked everyone, including Tyler who had followed him over there.
He exhaled a large amount of ice and frost from his mouth which literally froze all the soldiers in their tracks "You've got to be kidding me! He's got ice powers now?!"
"Hey, if you've ever read Inferno, lots of things have changed with Hell. But the thing that rings true is that the center always stays ice cold!" Cedric blew more smoke out of mouth before using his telekinesis to pull Bridgette's skull out of a nearby window and melting it into its inside pepper. He then turned away to begin looking for the final skull "Want my advice Red just let it go. Or at least get these guys some medical help, cause it's already cold outside and the ice isn't helping."
Despite being irritated, Tyler took the latter of the demon's advice to heart and ran to a nearby taxi driver "I need some help. There's a whole group of security guards that have been frozen solid in front of the National Palace!"
"¡Eso es horrible! Mantener mis folletos para mí mientras encontrar un teléfono público." The driver handed Tyler a bunch of brochures to the city which Tyler took a small peek at instantly knew that Chris would hide at least one of the skulls at this location.
Once quick medical help had arrived for the frozen guards, Tyler ran up to the taxi driver with some pesos he'd found on the ground nearby "How much will you take to get to the Monumento a la Independencia?" To Tyler's surprise the man took the money and the offer to drive him to the monument. He looked at the statue in awe as he saw that Lindsay's likeness was portrayed on the sugar skull.
That awe turned to competitive fury when he saw that Duncan and Cedric had made it there also and they had very different ideas as to who they wanted the skull to go to. Both Tyler and Duncan ran to the monument and began climbing it, thought due to his general poor luck, Tyler had a bad time climbing. However he also had much more determination to get the skull due to personal reasons, and almost had it.
However Cedric decided to toy with the jock by throwing his cane and shattering the skull right as he touched it with his fingertips. Not wanting to let the mad hatter get his way, Tyler leapt from the statue in order to grab the pepper, only to painfully hit the ground with the Cayenne pepper in hand.
"Don't just lie there you idiot, eat the pepper before he takes it from you!" Duncan force fed Tyler the spicy vegetable, who reacted in a very painful way, before recoiling from his injuries to the fall. The jock then ran off westward at breakneck in order to find another bottle of milk to quell the burning sensation on his tounge.
Confessional:
Tyler: "Man those peppers are hot! What idiot came up with this challenge?"
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Chris: "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that."
"Alright men, now that the final pepper has been found, make your way west of Mexico City to find your dune buggies. From there you'll drive to Puerto Vallarta where you'll find the next five offering skulls. And be careful, reports of Chupacabra sightings have been popping up in the area you'll be driving in! McLean out."
"¿Qué es ese ruido?" A nearby Spanish woman asked about the sudden voice from nowhere.
"Es el host bastante estúpido hombre de Drama Total. Ignorar lo Consuela." The woman's girlfriend walked up to her and explained the situation, before they both walked away.
"Great more supernatural crap." Duncan moaned irritably at the mention of Chupacabra. While he normally didn't believe in cryptids, after his experience with Cedric, he knew that just about anything was possible as long as he was competing.
The mad hatter had already started however, and did so by pushing Duncan over. While speeding off, he gave the punk a side glance to mock him further "If you know what's good for you Pride, you'll just stay down! Otherwise I'll have to give you a few more scars!"
"I hate that guy." Duncan growled in anger as he watched Cedric prance off into the setting sun. He then began to chase after him with full intent of somehow out running him. This proved to be easier said then done as even without using his powers, Cedric still had fast general speed.
As expected Duncan made it to his dune buggy a bit later than Cedric, who appeared to be reading a note pad. Duncan found he had something similar in the front seat of his vehicle, only to growl in anger upon reading that the keys were hidden somewhere in the car. The delinquent only got angrier upon seeing that Cedric had merely hotwired his his buggy with a lit cigarette, and had left him in the dust.
"See you at Cabo Pride!"
The punk growled at seeing his rival drive off west at an incredibly high speed, before digging through his car. Due to having dug through several points of the plane looking for Cody's current body, he was easily able to find the key and slammed his foot on the gas. Despite going at a whopping 193 km/h speed, Cedric quickly found that Duncan had caught up to him.
"Oh what a day! What a lovely day!" Cedric cried gleefully before ramming the side of his buggy into Duncan's. The delinquent briefly lost control of his vehicle before straightening the wheel and continuing the drag race. Seeing that this didn't affect Duncan much Cedric began to monologue.
"You know what's sad about you Pride? You're pretending you're actually any different from how you were before. I can tell you would still rather be anywhere than right here. You want to drive away and leave me to do what I want like the coward you are. Even when you stood up to me back in Africa I could tell you were worried you'd end up just like Frank!"
"THAT DOES IT!" Duncan fell right into Cedric's trap and brought his dune buggy closer to to the one in control of the demon, which backfired when backfired when Cedric grabbed the punch he threw and sank his teeth into his arm. However unlike the last time this happened, Duncan managed to hold back a howl of pain and retaliated by using his other to punch Cedric in the face, making special note to not knock off his top hat.
"I won't let you interfere with my plans Pride! Not after I've come this far!" Cedric said through his teeth while Duncan noticed something ahead and stopped his attack. Prying the demon's mouth open, he was now released from the demon's grip and rove off in the other direction "That's right Pride, run away from me like you-"
Cedric was so busy mocking the punk that he didn't notice the large rock he was driving right towards. As a result, he was launched from the car upon impact and landed a whimpering baby animal. The serial killer groaned upon realizing he'd landed on a Chupacabra pup, and he was being faced down with a very angry pack.
"Want to protect the young one? That's cute, even cryptids fall for this foolish earth sentimentality that most intelligent life has fallen into. Let's settle this." Cedric prepared to pull out his cane, only to to realize the tarot he had sewed to his arm that held the cane had broken off during the fall. The mad hatter gave a resigned sigh as the Chupacabras pounced on to him.
Confessional:
Chris: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That was so messed up. I knew those suckers would be on the outskirts of Mexico City, but I didn't think we'd actually run into them! Now I just hope the riots don't cost too much money once we hit Puerto Vallarta"
After Cedric had been momentarily taken care of, Duncan continued his high speed drive towards the coast of Mexico. In about two hours when twilight began to fall, the delinquent had followed the flagged route to the sandy beaches of Puerto Vallarta. There he found that Tyler had already made it there and was digging through the sands with his bare hands.
"Wait, I didn't see Tyler at all on the way here? How did he get here!" Duncan asked in surprise as to Tyler's sudden appearance.
"He ran into this rich guy while looking for milk earlier who's a fan of the show, named Lord Nemo Vaughn. Gave him a ride over here and offered Mexican authorities anonymous tips on how to beat Cedric from Dr. Cho." Chris explained before moving on "The five skulls of Izzy, DJ, Noah, Owen, and Alejandro are still buried here. Once all five have been found you can boat across the Gulf of Calafornia to Cabo."
Duncan didn't waste anytime looking for the skulls with Tyler. He knew that even with Cedric having been left behind not long ago, he would likely come back sooner than later and could find the skulls buried under all the sand. While the semifinalist dug up the beach, Chris stepped in front of the camera to make an announcement of commercials.
"Will Tyler and Duncan find the five skulls before Cedric arrives? What happened to Cedric and the Chupacabras? Wo will go on to the finale? And what will the fate of the world be if Cedric wins? Find out after this short break!"
(A/N): So what do we have after a chapter of major reveals? How about one where absolutely nothing happens! Thanks to those who reviewed and sent out ideas last time, even if I couldn't read them due to the review glitch. The Lord Nemo Vaughn character is actually from Lord NV's other story Total Drama Eden, which I urge you to read. Also thanks to duskrider for regularly reviewing as well. I'm not sure how long the next chapter will take due to a trip I'm talking this week, but I can say that they story itself will be finished by the end of the month.
Now that I'm done with that, please sure to follow, favorite, review, and due all three to Lord NV's Peanut Gallery.
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