Welcome to chapter 12! So that last chapter was kind of a filler. We just had to eliminate somebody. Now, the drama, hilarity and insanity of Total Drama High Seas shall continue. And It's going to get ugly again! Normally, I like to reply to reviews right before I start the story, but I'm going to mix it up a little...
The Abysswalker: What's Hunter X Hunter? I don't think I'm familiar with him...As for Dave's telling Samey not being a smart idea...we'll just have to see how that plays out...You're rooting for the VILLAIN to win? Interesting choice...
Cinemaisland: Glad you're getting into the story!
MrAwesome1999: While Topher has hinted at his infatuation with Amy, Amy only sees Topher as a tool to help her do what needs to be done. That's all I'm going to say.
Guest: Everything that's been going on between Dave and Sky has been kind of crazy, but Sky has redirected her hate toward Samey. We'll just have to see what happens...
Hugh Takinamee: Sorry about having a little less action. I promise this chapter will have more...You don't like Ted? Just wait until he competes for himself! I have big plans for him!
Guest: Noah's the minor villain? I hope he didn't see that review. It'll just make him try harder ;)
Gonzo22: We don't know what Walt Disney would think of those movies...I personally didn't like them too much. If I ever get a time machine, I'll have to go back in time and ask him...
So, it seems like a lot of you were enjoying the Ezekiel/Ella ship. I'm sorry we had to see her go, but I need to build up hate for Noah...and don't worry, we'll see more of her. I promise. We might even see her compete again ;) but maybe not in the way you think!
I'm also getting quite a few comments about how you weigh in in the Dave/Sky/Samey fiasco. At some point, we'll see things get better. When exactly? Nobody knows (except me. I know).
A lot of you seem to think that Amy and Topher will be found out and forced to compete. Well, I'm sorry, but they won't. At this point, though, it's not a matter of if they'll get busted, but when and how mad Chris will be...We'll just have to see.
Also, it's time to announce a new contest! If you can guess the place I got the names for the chapters from, your favorite character that has not been in this story will get a cameo!
Now for the story:
Last time on Total Drama:
Contestants "let it go" in a talent contest putting their skills to the test. Throughout the contest, the Cool Kids' Club was "one jump ahead" and things took a sour turn when the Geeks & Freaks lost because Noah's microphone was conked out!
In the end, "the circle of life" played out as per usual and Ella was the "poor, unfortunate soul" going home after Noah framed her by breaking Rodney's banjo.
But Ezekiel and Ella proved that "love is an open door" after he "kissed the girl" upon her elimination. And now I'm officially out of Disney puns.
Who will survive? Who will endure? When will they give me more details on this new season? All this may or may not be answered on Total! Drama! HIGH SEAS!
Chapter 12: Kartastrophe!
CARGO HOLD
"I can't believe the Cool Kids' Club still won after we sabotaged them!" Amy shrieked indignantly.
"We have bigger problems to worry about," Topher said, "In case you haven't noticed, Dave and Samey are still in the game. While Bridgette and Courtney and Brick may not believe them yet, they will if those dunces continue to blab about us being here.
"So what do we do?" Amy asked, "We can't just leave here! We'd get found out!"
"We can't stay either," Topher said, "We'd be in bigger danger if we stayed."
"Good point," Amy acknowledged. "We're moving. What's the time?"
"One in the morning," Topher said, "Everyone's asleep. We won't be found."
"Good, we're moving," Amy said, "let's go!"
"Where?" Topher asked, "There's nowhere on this ship that would be safe. Anywhere we hide, we're still in danger of being found."
"Not true, there are empty staterooms here. If we camp out in stateroom 1 we should be fine. Both residents are gone now," Amy reasoned, "Plus, there might be some good food. Sugar was in there, after all.
"Then let's go!"
The two cruel teens snuck out of the cargo hold.
"So, what do we do now?" Amy asked Topher.
"We lay low," the fanboy answered, "wait a couple days before we make the next move."
"But that'll be enough time for Samey to get her friends back," the villainous cheerleader complained, "All my hard work will be soiled!"
"Don't you mean our hard work?" Topher asked.
"Whatever," Amy said.
"Not necessarily," Topher said, "Girls can hold grudges for quite a while. Courtney's reluctant to forgive Samey, and Sky's been hurt so many times she can't think straight."
"You're right!" Amy said, "I love you Topher!" She lept up and gave Topher a big hug.
"You do?" Topher asked, incredulous.
"As a friend," Amy said, "What were you thinking? I have a boyfriend back home."
"Oh, ok," Topher said
DINING HALL
Bridgette, Samey, Geoff, Lindsay, Tyler, Dave and Brick sat together for breakfast as per usual, but somebody was missing.
"Have you seen Courtney around?" Bridgette asked Samey.
"I don't know," Samey replied, "I think she's still mad at me."
"You betrayed her trust," Bridgette said in a matter-of-fact way, "She told you everything and you used it against her. Then you blamed it on your sister who you claimed was camping out in the Cargo Hold."
"She was hanging out there," Dave said, "I beat her twice in chess while you guys were at formal. Topher was there, too."
"But I saw her get kicked off the ship!" Bridgette insisted, "The first day!"
"Bridgette," Samey asked her friend, "have I ever done anything to you to make you think I'm not trustworthy?"
"Not to me," Bridgette said, "but you did to Courtney and she's my friend."
"She's my friend, too, Bridgette," Samey insisted, "I would never do anything to hurt her. Just come to the cargo hold! I'll show you!"
Bridgette, Samey and Dave went to the cargo hold, but Amy and Topher were already long gone.
"I don't see anyone," Bridgette said, "please stop insisting that your sister is down here. You know I'm not mad anymore. Lindsay isn't mad anymore, Dave isn't mad anymore. Just tell the truth!"
Samey sighed and the three went back to the dining hall.
DINING HALL
The reason Courtney was not with her friends was because she was sitting with Sky.
"So here's the deal," Courtney proposed to Sky, "I know Samey's hurt you. She's hurt me, too, but we can't loose our cool here! We are two of the strongest competitors Total Drama has ever seen!"
Sky sighed, "This whole thing has been an emotional roller-coaster for me. I really just want to leave so I can get back to normal and continue my training."
"You can't give up now," Courtney implored, "You're an athlete, a competitor! You can't give up!"
Sky sighed, "I've never given up on anything before, but I can't keep going on. Every day it's just another problem. Whenever things start to look up, it's just another heartbreak!"
"But that shouldn't keep you from trying!" Courtney said, "If anything, it should motivate you more! You didn't see me give up when Duncan cheated on me!"
"No, I guess not," Sky agreed.
"Great!" Courtney smiled, "Now for the real reason I've asked you here. I want an alliance."
Never in a million years would Sky have suspected that Courtney would've asked her for an alliance.
"I don't know," Sky said, "I was in a bad alliance earlier in the game."
"That was Heather," Courtney said, "I hope you'd trust me a little more than you'd trust her."
"No offense," Sky started, "But you don't exactly have a squeaky-clean track record yourself."
"I admit that I'm not exactly reliable, but I think we'd work great together. With my leadership abilities, intelligence and superior planning skills and your excellence in challenges, we could easily make the finale!" Courtney was getting excited, "Plus, we've got a common enemy: I want that skank Samey gone as much as you do!"
"I guess," Sky said, unsure of herself.
"And maybe, once we get rid of Samey, things will go better for you too."
"Maybe so," Sky agreed.
"Then we're on?" Courtney asked, extending her hand.
Sky grabbed Courtney's hand and shook it, but looked back before leaving, "But just remember. If you do anything that is the slightest bit unfair, I'll leave you and make sure you're the next one in the ocean!"
"Noted," Courtney smirked.
CONFESSIONAL: COURTNEY
"I really don't intend to do anything bad here. I haven't won a single student council election since I got onto this show. I need to prove I can win fair and square! Also, we're merging soon and I need an ally or else I'll be gone! I feel like Bridgette will turn on me soon, so..."
CONFESSIONAL: SKY
"I feel like I'll need to hold Courtney at arms length, but having an ally will not only make me closer to winning the game, it might also make it...enjoyable!"
END CONFESSIONALS
Ezekiel sat alone. He had never felt more lonely in his entire life. He had his head buried in his arms. He felt weak.
"Hey, Zeke, what's up?" Noah asked the prairie boy.
"You know, just life," Zeke said, "My girlfriend's gone, but you already know that, eh?"
Noah put a faux-friendly hand on Ezekiel's shoulder, "I'm sorry, Ezekiel. Rodney convinced me to vote for Ella. I don't know what he has against her, but I figured I had nobody better to vote for. I didn't know It'd hurt you so much. I'm sorry."
"Wait," Ezekiel said, "Rodney? Why'd he want to vote off Ella?"
"I said I don't know, but he managed to convince me."
CONFESSIONAL: NOAH
"This is great. I know my team will fail again, I mean, they suck, but when they do, I'm safe again. If it comes down to just me and Ezekiel, I'm fairly certain I can beat him, and by the time I'm the only one left, we should be merged and the rest will vote for strong competitors like Brick and Sky.
END CONFESSIONAL
"We've hit land again!" Chris's voice boomed over the loudspeaker, "Meet me outside the ship in 5!"
Chris stood in front of a strange looking span of asphalt with large blocks spanning around like some sort of a maze.
"Welcome, contestants!" Chris announced to the 12 teenagers that stood in front of him, "Prepare for the most painful, exhilarating challenge yet! It's time for a demolition derby!"
The twelve contestants looked at the large track and noticed twelve karts with balloons tied to the back.
"In today's challenge you need to pop all the balloons on the back of the opposing team's karts!"
"With what?" Geoff asked.
"Throughout that course, you'll find special items that our helpful interns placed throughout. They're hidden in black, wooden boxes. Some of them can help you pop your opponents' balloons. Others are totally useless and some might even hurt you!"
"My team is at a serious disadvantage," Noah complained, "We have only three members to the Cool Kids' nine."
"Why, aren't you smart," Chris sarcastically remarked, "You weren't smart enough to notice that each of your karts has five balloons attached while each of the other team's karts has two."
"Yeah, but they still have more balloons," Noah whined.
"Too bad, we're not changing anything. If you loose all your balloons or your kart gets totaled, you're out. The team that looses all of its members will be sending somebody home tonight."
After the twelve remaining contestants got into their karts, Chris walked into the center of the battlefield, megaphone in hand.
"Alright! We're ready to begin! Oh and you might want to wear your seatbelts, hahaha!" Chris announced, "In five...four...three...two...one...GO!"
The contestants split up, each looking for an item to throw at their opponents.
Tyler was driving his kart around the maze of blocks, looking for some sort of helpful item. He couldn't find anything. No black boxes or anything. Not only that, but he was a terrible driver. He got quite a few tickets back home for speeding, parking, running over the neighbor's cat and plenty of other offenses.
Meanwhile, Brick was having a much easier time finding boxes than his teammate. As soon as he set out, he found a black box. He stepped out of his kart to lift the black box and found a dart shooter with three pointy darts.
"Yes!" Brick shouted, "I'm deadly accurate with these things!" Brick saw a blur shoot by. He stepped onto the gas pedal and took pursuit. He got close enough to identify the driver as Rodney. He fired his three darts and skewered three of Rodney's five balloons.
"Damn it," Rodney cursed.
"Sorry," Brick said as he whizzed by on his kart.
Meanwhile, Rodney drove away from Brick as fast as he could. He knew his opponent had military experience and figured his best hope of staying in the game was putting as much distance between him and the trainee as possible.
"Dang," he said to himself, "The game just started and I'm down three balloons. I'm in a real pickle here."
He noticed a black box. He got out of his kart and lifted it. He found...a pickle underneath it.
"Mmm...Pickle," Rodney grabbed the crunchy fruit and chomped down.
Meanwhile, Bridgette had a kart in her sights. It was too distant for her to identify the driver. She was tracking the kart, but knew it would be useless because she had no weapons to use. She decided to discontinue suit when she noticed that Geoff was driving the kart she was following.
Meanwhile, Geoff was desperately trying to find somebody to throw his bomb at. The fuse was lit when he found it and he figured he had about two minutes before it blew. He drove around but he couldn't find anything. The fuse was almost gone. The bomb was going to explode any second. He threw the bomb behind him and heard a loud explosion behind him.
Unfortunately, the bomb landed on the hood of Courtney's kart, blasting the engine open. The CIT was unharmed, but more than a little irritated that she was out of the competition.
"Thanks to Geoff," Chris's voice roared over the loudspeaker, "Courtney's kart was totaled and she is out!"
"Geoff, you son of a bitch!" Courtney swore in a not-so-quiet way.
"Sorry," Geoff yelled sincerely as his kart screamed by.
Courtney dismounted her vehicle and left the kart arena.
"One contestant down, eleven more to go!" Chris told the camera, "What's going to happen next? Find out soon on Total! Drama! HIGH SEAS!"
CUT TO COMMERCIAL:
The cheesy spokesman was replaced by a woman this time. She stood next to a lanky boy in a blue shirt with his hair spiked up, who was looking less than satisfied.
"I don't know about you, but I'm guilty of feeding my dog from a fork. One day I freaked out when one of my dogs almost yanked the fork from my hand and swallowed it.
"I guess you didn't freak out enough to stop feeding your dog with a fork," the boy said.
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"If you don't want your dog to choke on a fork," Mike said, "Just put the food in a bowl!"
"Shut up, Mike, you're not helping! I hope you don't plan on getting paid for this!" The announcer looked irritated, but quickly put on that cheesy grin again, "Anyways, you can order two forks now for only-"
Mike put his face in the camera, "Guys, if you buy this product, it'll be the worst investment you've ever-"
The cheesy announcer lady shoved Mike out of the way and tried to wrestle him away from the camera.
"Order now!"
BACK TO THE SHOW
Ezekiel was having a hard time maneuvering his kart. He'd driven the tractor back home before, but this thing was much lighter and he couldn't control it very easily. He noticed another kart in hot pursuit.
Behind him, Bridgette held three ninja stars in her hand. She found it hard to take aim in the moving vehicle and continued to inch up closer to the prairie boy. It didn't help that he was spinning and swerving like a drunk to get away. She was just a couple feet away. Just a little closer...and...she caught a whiff of the exhaust fumes from the kart she was trailing. She slammed on the brake and started coughing and dry heaving as Ezekiel got away.
CONFESSIONAL: BRIDGETTE
"I should've figured that McLean would use cheap, noxious gasoline to power his karts."
END CONFESSIONAL
Bridgette floored her kart in search of Ezekiel again. She would get those balloons this time. She heard a loud POP behind her. She looked back and saw a cackling Noah in the back. She then turned around and tried to ram into his kart.
Noah couldn't believe that Bridgette had made such a gutsy move. After he recovered from his initial few seconds of shock, he tried to put his kart into reverse, but it was too late. Bridgette had collided with his bumper releasing one of his balloons into the air and loosening the other four. As Noah frantically tried to tie his balloons back onto his bumper, Bridgette zoomed off, leaving the bookworm a sitting duck for the next attacker.
That next attacker happened to be Tyler, who was charging up to Noah's kart with no intention of stopping.
"No! Not again!" Noah screamed as he got back into his kart and tried desperately to get the gas going. He then noticed another threat behind him.
Geoff, eager to redeem himself for accidentally eliminating Courtney cane rushing up behind Noah, wielding a machete. Noah realized that if his kart didn't get moving soon, he'd be sandwiched between the two. He tried pressing on the gas, but to no avail. Then he noticed that the key wasn't in the kart, but it was too late. Noah clenched and braced for impact.
It never happened. Geoff breezed by Noah hacking the strings and releasing Noah's remaining balloons into the heavens above. Geoff looked back to laugh at his downed opponent, but didn't realize that Tyler couldn't slow down. The two screamed as they barreled toward each other, but Tyler took a split-second swerve and crashed into the wall, destroying his kart. Geoff breezed by him.
"And that's Noah and Tyler down!" Chris announced, "Only nine people are left!"
Dave heard Chris's announcement as he exited his kart to check a black box he found. When he opened it up, he found a swarm of angry bees.
"Aaagh!" Dave screamed. He was extremely allergic to bees. He almost burst out in hives just thinking about them.
Dave gunned his kart in his attempt to escape to escape the angry insects. He knew that swatting at them would only make them angrier. He breezed by another kart and realized that the bees had given up pursuit. He also realized that one of the bees stung his balloon, leaving him with just one left.
When Sky breezed by Dave, she noticed the swarm of bees had diverted its efforts to her. She gunned the kart, but it wasn't enough to avoid the irked invertebrates, which plunged their stingers into her flesh as she drove, pumping the athlete's body full of venom. Sky was able to stammer, "I hate you, Dave" before she passed out.
"And thanks to some very angry bees, Sky is out of the game!" Chris announced, "Six Cool Kids and two Geeks & Freaks remain!"
One of those two Geeks and Freaks was Ezekiel. He was determined to find Bridgette again and get her for trying to sneak up on him. He held an arrow in his hand, his weapon of choice.
Bridgette was starting to get a little frustrated as she tried to find somebody to throw her ninja star at. Since Ezekiel left her in the dust, she couldn't find a single opponent.
Ezekiel, Bridgette in his sights, accelerated toward her. He was hot on her tail. He got close and launched his arrow, narrowly missing her remaining balloon. Bridgette instinctively threw her second ninja star, taking Ezekiel's hat right off of him.
"What're you trying to do, kill me?" Ezekiel yelled at the surfer
"Sorry," Bridgette said.
Dave was frantically searching for another weapon. He knew that if word got around about how Sky was eliminated, he'd be done for. He drove around, narrowly dodging an unknown projectile launched by Rodney. He'd found a black box. Under the box was a teddy bear with a heart on its chest.
"It's official," Dave said, "This competition hates me."
He pocketed the teddy bear for some reason.
One wall away from Dave, Samey was driving in her kart. One of her balloons was skewered by Rodney's projectile (the one that was meant for Noah). She drove around the wall to see Dave in his kart. He tossed the teddy bear to Samey and gave her a smile as he breezed by. Samey picked up the stuffed carnivore and held it to her heart, momentarily letting go of the wheel. Her letting go was her undoing as she crashed into a wall. The force from the smash released the lone balloon from her bumper.
"That's only seven contestants remaining!" Chris's voice roared, "Can Rodney, Ezekiel, Brick, Geoff, Bridgette, Lindsay or Dave win this?"
Lindsay was an easy target. She was napping in her kart, taking a quick break from the action. When Rodney found her, he quietly sneaked out of his kart and used his teeth to sever the strings attached to Lindsay's balloons.
"And Lindsay's out from sleeping on the job!" Chris announced.
Rodney snuck back into his kart and took off in search of his next victim.
Dave noticed Ezekiel behind him and tried to shake him off the trail, but Ezekiel was persistent. Holding a hammer in his hand, he drove close to his enemy and threw his object, but it was futile. He wasn't very strong. Dave whirled around, hearing the hammer clatter to the ground and hurled a sharp stick at Ezekiel's kart, destroying the first of his five balloons.
With only two balloons left, Rodney was able to take out Bridgette and Dave with his katana, but finally met his match when Brick blew two more darts at his remaining balloons.
"Dang it!" Rodney yelled as he got out of his kart, "but at least I still have my pickle." He began to munch on his half-eaten snack.
"And only Ezekiel, Brick and Geoff remain!" Chris announced into his microphone.
Ezekiel drove to another black box and found that it was totally empty.
Brick found a black box of his own, but when he opened it, he found a giant cobra that sunk its fangs into his arm. Brick immediately went limp and fell, making him the second serious injury in this challenge. He hoped that Geoff could finish Ezekiel off without him.
Meanwhile, Geoff had a crazy idea. He was going to total Ezekiel's kart by smashing his own kart into it. It was a last resort, but it seemed like he had no choice. There were no more weapons to be found...or were there?
Ezekiel had found himself a can of pepper spray. He drove around, making a few turns and was face to face with his rival. Geoff showed no sign of stopping as he charged into Ezekiel, screaming. It was unclear to Ezekiel whether he was screaming out of fear of screaming a war cry. Ezekiel did what came naturally. He pulled the trigger on the pepper spray, nailing Geoff in the eyes.
Geoff's screams of whatever became screams of pain.
"AAAAGGGGHHHHH!" Geoff screamed, "MY EYES! MY EYES!" He couldn't see. He'd lost control of his kart. He was skidding out of control and smashed into the wall, wrecking his kart and ending the challenge.
"And the Geeks and Freaks win their first challenge in, like, a while!" Chris announced, "Cool Kids' Club, it's time to send somebody home!"
DINING HALL:
"Great job, boys!" Noah, looking happy for once, congratulated his team. "Ezekiel, you're our new MVP!"
"I just did what came naturally, eh?"
"Well, good job at it. Keep that up and we'll make it," then Noah leaned into Ezekiel's space, "But if we don't, remember Rodney."
"I wo'on't forget."
For the Cool Kids' Club, it was a rather painful meal, especially with the knowledge that one of them might be having their last dinner on the ship.
"So," Sky started, "Samey's finally up for elimination. Are we going through with this?"
"No," Courtney seethed, "Not until we get that idiotic, backstabbing creep Geoff off this damn ship!"
"What do you have against Geoff?" Sky asked.
"He's so freaking dense!" the CIT fumed, "He destroys my kart and he just shrugs it off! Does anything bother him?"
"No, Courtney, but...you need to admire his good attitude."
"This is a game of strategy! The worst players have to get voted off and Geoff proved to us that he was the weakest link today!" Courtney explained.
"But, he's Bridgette's boyfriend and Bridgette's my friend! She's your friend, too, Courtney!"
"I know," Courtney said, "but she doesn't need to know about this, right?"
"It doesn't seem right!" Sky protested, "I can't go along with this!"
"Sky, I'm sorry it's come to this. I don't want to see Bridgette suffer either, but I think you're not understanding! You haven't exactly been the most valuable player this season and you haven't been using your talents to your full potential."
"Ok, I'll vote for him if we go for Samey next," Sky said.
"Great!" Courtney said, "Nice doing business with you!" She shook Sky's hand. Sky looked reluctant.
CONFESSIONAL: SKY
"I still don't know if this is the right thing to do, but I don't really have any other options."
END CONFESSIONAL
"Sammy, I think we're going to have to vote for Courtney this time around," Bridgette told her friend.
"What? But why!" Samey asked, shocked, "Courtney's our friend!"
"I know, but she's overcome with anger. She needs to cool down. Voting her off will be the best thing to do," Bridgette reasoned.
"So if I care about Courtney, I'll vote for her," Samey concluded.
"I don't want to sound like that. It makes me sound like I'm manipulating you to get my way. I really have Courtney's best interests at heart here."
"Ok, then," Samey said, "If you really think it'll help Courtney, I'll do it."
DECK OF SHAME
"Finally, the Cool Kids' Club looses a challenge!" Chris told the nine remaining Cool Kids, "There are nine of you, but only eight spots available for safety. The votes here are pretty mixed-up. It seems like there was no clear scapegoat to blame your loss on. The following contestants received no votes: Lindsay, Brick, Dave and Bridgette."
"Which leaves you five," Chris looked from Courtney to Sky to Geoff to Tyler to Samey, "The contestants who are also safe include:
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"Aw, that's too bad dudes!" Geoff said, not too disappointed, "I was just starting to have fun!"
"Geoff!" Bridgette said, "No!"
"Sorry, babe," Geoff said, "But we all gotta go sometime, right?"
"I guess...but..."
Geoff held Bridgette in his arms, "Listen, Bridge, I know you can make it all the way. And I'll be watching and cheering for you the whole time." Geoff held Bridgette in a tight hug as he walked off, rubber lifeboat in hand.
"Bye, guys! I'll miss you! All of you!" Geoff yelled as his figure gradually shrunk into the distance.
"Bye!" Bridgette yelled back, blowing a kiss, "I'll miss you!"
"And that's half of our contestants gone!" Chris announced to the camera, "Who will be the next victim of the seas? Find out on Total! Drama! HIGH SEAS! Oh and you Americans, hope you enjoyed the Super Bowl!"
I actually don't know who won the Super Bowl. It hasn't even started by the time I finished writing this, so...
In all fairness, I really don't like either team, so I'll be angry no matter who wins ;)
Remember to review and answer the question at the beginning to see if your favorite character will be appearing next chapter!
