Okay guys here's the exploration chapter and this is where we'll start the character interactions segment. Also guess what? It's my birthday! And I'm giving you guys this chapter as a gift. You better appreciate it.

By the way if you see a 0-0-0-0-0 that means you're going to a different scene. Now let's join our victims in this slightly remodeled school.

Episode 1- Welcome to Total Despair: School Days

The contestants stood in still silence after Harold's statement. Some were confused, others were infuriated, and a few were relatively calm.

"Sooo...what are we going to do?" Izzy said, breaking the ice.

"Obviously, we look for an Exit!" Jo said.

"Whether or not we find an exit, we should still explore this building to know how our stay will be!" Brick added.

"I suggest we go in groups of four, in case anyone tries to...murder someone they can't do it without witnesses! We would also be able to guess who it was by what group they're in." Bridgette said.

"Good Idea soldier!" Brick shouted happily.

"Maybe Before we do that we should check out the ID-Cards?" Noah said.

"Oh yeah, the bear said that this thing had a map right?" Anne Maria said. She then picked up her device and turned it on with just a touch. She tapped her finger on a small app called 'Map', and then frowned.

"What the heck, it says 'need to be updated'!" She said.

"Great, I guess we'll just have a look around ourselves." Trent said.

"Before you do that we should at least check these rules first." Noah said.

Rules of The Reality Show of Mutual Killing

1. All contestants who break the following rules will be punished with Elimination

2. All contestants must remain in school until the end of the show

3. To no longer be a contestant you must either become a 'Blackened' or be Eliminated

4. To leave school, you must commit a perfect murder making you a 'blackened'

5. After a body is discovered by three people other than the 'blackened', a special announcement will be made to alert the whole school

6. Night time is between 9:00 pm and 8:00 am. Some areas are closed off at this time and the water is shut off as well

to host or any security cameras will be dealt with quickly

8. Use of explosives ON the building is not slowed

9. You may not kill more than two(2) contestants at a time

10. There is to be no sharing with your ID-Cards

11. You must sleep in the Inn area, anywhere else is punishable by elimination

12 New rules may be added whenever Monobear feels like it

"Well that sure brought my hopes up." Justin said. "Well are going to split into groups, or what?"

"Oh wait there's 21 of us so one groups is gonna have five members. Oh and someone needs to carry DJ!" Sierra spoke up.

"I'll do it." Eva said, before picking up the brickhouse with a heart and carrying him on her shoulder.

Eventually after much(as in about a couple of minutes) discussion the five teams were made.

"Okay Team 1 is Jo, Mike, Zoey, and I!" Brick Announced, "Team 2 is Dj, Eva, Noah, Izzy, and Owen. Team 3 is Katie, Sadie, Trent, and Justin. Team 4 is Alejandro, Heather, Harold, and Lindsay. And the final team is Geoff, Bridgette, Anne Maria, and Sierra!"

"Every one go anywhere that isn't already being looked at until this whole school is thoroughly searched!" Jo shouted. Then the teams went their separate ways.

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"You know what we need? A team Name!" Izzy shouted.

"Izzy's right guys! How about the Sneaky Snakes?" Owen said.

"Or the Awesome Aardvarks!"

"The Super Salmon?"

"The Likely-to-win Llamas!"

"How about the Quiet Quails?" Noah said exasperated.

"...AWESOME!" Izzy shouted.

"We can always count on Noah for a name!" Owen said happily.

"...Anyway, what are we looking for again?" Noah asked Eva.

"The Stairs." Eva said curtly. Still carrying DJ on her shoulder

"Look! There they are!" Izzy said, before running up the stairs.

SLAM!

"Ow!"

"What happened now Izzy?" Eva asked.

"There's something blocking the stairs!" Izzy responded.

The Quiet Quails quickly followed Izzy up the stairs to see that a steel gate was in the way. Izzy gripped the bars and began to gnaw at them.

"Izzy the only thing you're going to do is ruin your teeth." Eva said.

"I wonder why this gate is here?" Owen asked.

"Who knows." Noah said.

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Jo's group chose to explore the entirety of the gym to see if anything was up with the extremely large room. Mike and Brick were exploring in a few rooms that were in the back of the gym, Zoey stood idly, and Jo herself looked around the stage and podium.

"How the hell did that bear even escape from here?" Jo said. She tagged the wood of the stage to find some kind of secret hiding place.

"Hey Jo, what are those things covering the windows?" Zoey asked.

"Hmm? What the hell is that...a steel plate?" Jo said.

There was in fact a steel plate screwed onto the windows from the inside.

"Shit."

Meanwhile Mike and Brick looked around the small room in the back. So far there were four lockers, a desk, a set of filing cabinets, and a storage of sport's equipment. Boxes of Sport's balls, a bin of hockey sticks, and other miscellaneous things. There was also an odd baseball machine in the middle of it.

"Hey Brick, what do you think of our situation?" Mike asked nonchalantly.

"What do you mean Mike?" Brick asked.

"Well it's just really...messed up. I mean, why us of all people? I mean, if Dakota was with us it might be for a ransom but there's just five of us from revenge of the island. The guys from the first seasons outnumber us, so why are we put in here with them?" Mike explained.

Brick thought deeply, and then realized that Mike was right and everything about this made no sense.

"I honestly don't know." Brick said.

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"Okay guys, so what did we find?" Geoff asked.

"There's two classrooms that had zero difference to each other." Anne Maria answered.

"Oh! I found a room full of computers! But only some of them worked, and they didn't have any internet." Sierra said.

"I found the bathrooms and a weird elevator that's locked up." Geoff said.

"I found the Nurse's office and a lot of medical supplies." Bridgette added.

"So is there any place we haven't checked?" Geoff asked.

"Probably that mysterious black and whites set of doors right by the corner." Sierra said, pointing at the mysterious set of doors.

The group proceeded to the doors to find...

"Welcome to the MonoShop Bastards! How may I help you?" Monobear greeted them.

The Monoshop was a small room that looked like a Chuck E Cheese Prize Corner, but with random items instead of toys(though some could still be found).

"Well this is weird." Anne Maria stated flatly.

"So this is like...just a store?" Geoff asked.

"Pretty much, yeah!" Monobear responded.

"But we don't even have any money?" Bridgette said.

"No need! The only payment the MonoStore receives is Monocoins, you can find them anywhere in the school. I'll even give you some on good occasions!" As Monobear explained, he picked up a golden token with his face on it to show the group.

"Special occasions?" Sierra questioned.

"You'll see. Now, if you're not buying anything...GET OUT!" Monobear shouted.

"Sheesh! No need to lose your cool!" Anne Maria said.

So the group proceeded back to the Gym.

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Heather's group managed to find some of the better rooms in the intersection of the Inn and school. Harold explored a room that contained several washing machines and dryers. Heather explored a bathhouse, and Alejandro and Lindsay investigated the cafeteria and kitchen.

They all came back together after exploring and shared their findings.

"Okay the Laundry room was pretty basic but I found something weird in it, a bunch of weird bottles of something called 'Monoform' that I hope doesn't mean what I think it means." Harold elaborated.

"I understand, the cafeteria is quite regular for a school and-"

"There's a lot of food! And knives..." Lindsay said, interrupting Alejandro.

"Yes...eres correcto." Alejandro said.

"I got to admit the Bathhouse is amazing and If I'm staying here I'm sure as hell going to use it." Heather said.

"Yeah, gotta' relieve the stress of being stuck in a school and being forced to kill each other." Harold said.

"Oh shut up geek!" Heather responded.

"We very well should meet our cast-embers again, shall we?" Alejandro asked.

"Oh yeah, that scary grey lady said we should go back after looking around!" Lindsay said.

"Fine, let's just go." Heather said quickly.

The four then made their way back.

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Our final group were split up in teams of two. Katie and Trent checked their rooms while Sadie and Justin looked around elsewhere.

"Hey Trent , can I like, ask you something?" Katie said.

"Oh sure Katie, go ahead." Trent answered.

"Why do you think we got kidnapped, I know Total Drama is popular but are we really that important?" She responded.

"Honestly, I don't even know. Heck my band was only a one hit wonder for a couple of months." Trent said.

"Yeah, but even I have less than that. I was eliminated too early and never came back on the show. I think Sadie is more popular than me." Katie sighed.

"Hey, come on now don't beat yourself up for that. It could be worse."

"I guess, at least I didn't go through what happened to...those two." Katie trailed off.

"Are you talking about-"

"Hey guys we're back and you won't believe what we found!" Sadie said.

"We found a Furnace and a storage room, the storage had several toiletries and blankets but there was something else as well." Justin expanded upon Sadie's words.

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"Okay everyone I hope our search was not in vain. So what did you guys find?" Brick asked everyone. All of the contestants gathered back to the Gym after their exploration.

"Well first of all, the stairs are blocked off by gate." Noah said.

"It was really tough, it almost broke all my teeth!" Izzy added.

"You tried to bite it?" Zoey asked.

Everyone ignored her.

"All the windows have a steel plate that I don't think we can get through." Jo said "But, as if that's going to stop me!"

"The backroom has a lot of sport's equipment and a gym teacher's desk." Mike said.

"And what was the rest of the school like?" Brick asked.

"We found a lot of rooms; like the A/V room, the bathrooms, some classrooms, and a store!" Geoff said.

"Apparently Monobear just scattered a bunch of tokens around the school to help us buy stuff." Anne Maria said.

"I also found a Nurse's office! It had several different medications and medical tools. If someone were injured I think we could do fine!" Bridgette said. "Tough most of my expertise comes from an internship at a vet so I might have trouble here and there."

"Don't worry madam, I was actually trained in Emergency help a while at bootcamp!" Brick stated.

"I got a badge for first aid!" Harold chimed in.

"Well I guess that's fine. So what else did you losers find?" Jo asked.

"The Kitchen was fully stocked and I believe that it gets refilled every once in a while." Alejandro spoke up.

"There's a bathhouse to die for." Heather added.

"All the rooms seem to be identical to each other." Trent said.

"There's a furnace room to provide us heat, but there's also a storage room. The storage room has a lot of strange props and what-not, many toiletries, pillows, blankets, and oddly enough 10 individual copies of the clothes we're wearing." Justin said.

"Now you don't have to face the hassle of having to pick your clothing every morning!" A high pitched voice shrieked.

"Gah, it's you again!" Justin spat.

"Hey I just came here to tell you guys it's bedtime! Anyway I hope you enjoy our little Reality Show of Mutual Killing, I'm sure your fans just can't wait for the first episode! Well toodles, bastards!" Monobear said before running off.

"Wh-what happened?" DJ said groggily.

After explaining everything to DJ the contestants decided to finally rest and meet together in the cafeteria. They mostly went to sleep without a hitch. Though some stayed up a while longer.

End of Day 1

Alive: Alejandro, Anne Maria, Brick, Bridgette, DJ, Eva, Geoff, Harold, Heather, Izzy, Jo, Justin, Katie, Lindsay, Mike, Noah, Owen, Sadie, Sierra, Trent, and Zoey

Dead: None

Special Status

None

New Locations

Bathrooms, Gym, Classrooms(2), Monostore, A/V room, Nurse's office, Inn, Cafeteria + Kitchen, Laundry Room, Bathhouse, Furnace room, and Storage Room.

(AN) Okay here's the exploration chapter and I'm going to be honest here guys. I. WANT. REVIEWS. Reviews are one of the only ways I know if I do something right or wrong and I really want you guys to review, what you like or didn't like. I don't actually care if it's a couple of paragraphs long, In fact I want you guys to give me an honest to God analysis.

For example, do you think I write these characters well and do you guys like how they interact? Because I have at to write free time events for the next chapter and I need criticism at this moment. Every 'Episode'(Exploration-Free time-murder-investigation-trial-end of episode) needs these characters to interact.

I hope you understand because anything you can say can help. Love you guys-Anontomy