Caelan was standing at the very tip of the speed boat as it sped to what appeared to be an island. After standing in the sun for a while, his clothes were dry and he was ready for whatever Total Drama Island had to throw at him. As his boat got closer, he realized that the application was a lie and that they were not staying at a five-star resort. His boat finally reached a dingy peer and he hopped off with his luggage. He then made his way to the host, Chris McLean.

"Caelan! Glad to have you on our show." Chris said, holding up his hand for a handshake, "How's your brother doing."

Caelan took the hand and shook, "Cody's doing fine. He just really hates my guts right now."

Chris laughed, "Yeah, if my brother ever stole my chance at the spotlight, I'd probably hate him too."

And with that, Caelan laughed nervously and walked past Chris to the other side of the peer, where he was surprised to find a large number of contestants have already arrived.

"How did you guys get here before me?" Caelan asked as he started high fiving everyone.

"I don't know, man." Geoff said after accepting Caelan's high five, "We just got on the boats and they brought us here."

"I guess it doesn't pay to always jump the gun." Gwen stated. She stared at Caelan's raised hand for a second before high fiving it.

"Trust me, Gwen, it will pay off eventually." Caelan said confidently. He then took his place next to Trent and Gwen.

After a couple of minutes, everyone arrived and they all took a commemorative photo together, which ended with a big drop into the ocean. Then, everyone was sent to the campfire pit and got the basic introduction of Camp Wawanaka. As Chris continued to talk, Caelan looked around and started to think about his situation. Everyone seemed friendly enough, and he seemed to get along well enough with them. He still had no idea what to think of with Heather, and Duncan might be a future problem (Caelan couldn't trust someone who would bully a deer).

"Caelan"

"What?" Caelan said as he was snapped out of his thinking state. He saw that it was Chris that called him and he was pointing toward Gwen, Trent, and Heather. Caelan walked to where those three were standing and waited as others joined them.

Once Caelan and ten other contestants were situated together, Chris said, "From this moment on, you guys will be officially known as…The Screaming Gopher."

"Huh, I never knew Gophers could scream." Caelan thought aloud.

After the other team, The Killer Bass, was formed, Chris continued to explain about the many cameras around the island and the confessional.

Confessionals: Caelan

"So, my first confessional….I have no idea what to say."

…

"Go Screaming Gophers!"

Everyone was then sent to the cabins, where they would be sleeping for the remainder of the game. As Caelan was unpacking with the other guys at their respective sleeping den, they all heard screaming at the girl's den. Everyone ran in and saw Lindsay screaming at a cockroach.

"Seriously?" Caelan said, flabbergasted, "I thought you were being murdered."

As everyone scattered to avoid the cockroach, Caelan sighed and brought his foot down hard on the roach.

"There, now there's nothing to be scared of." Caelan said. Things seemed to have calmed down, at least until Caelan's foot moved involuntarily. Confused, he lifted up his foot and saw the cockroach was still alive and unscarred.

"What the…?" Caelan said.

Leshawna was laughing as she walked toward the Caelan, "Looks like you need to cook yourself some protein, honey." She said and then she stomped the cockroach, but it still remained very much alive. Harold was next to stomp the roach, but he was actually knocked down by the vermin.

"Okay, now we're in trouble." Caelan said as they all slowly backed away from the roach.

"Move aside, ladies." Duncan said from behind. Caelan turned around and barely managed to get out of the way as Duncan brought down an axe on the cockroach, finally ending its reign of terror.

Tyler then rushed into the room to comfort Lindsay. Caelan then turned to Duncan and said, "Where did you get that axe?"

"I just found it lying around. You know, I think I'm gonna keep this thing just in case there are any other annoying pests."

Duncan eyed Caelan for a while before laughing maliciously.

"And there goes my peaceful nights of sleep." Caelan said as Duncan walked away with his axe.

After the cockroach incident, all of the campers walked to the mess hall, where they met the chief named Chief. After his terrifying introduction, they lined up for what Caelan had hoped was at least edible. Caelan was finally next and Chief gave him what appeared to be a really sloppy joe.

"Wow, this looks…exotic." Caelan said cautiously, "So, Chief, from one cook to another, what kind of spices did you use?"

Chief glared a Caelan, who took the hint, "Okay, it's a secret. I totally understand." And with that, Caelan quickly retreated to his team's table. After Caelan sat the down, he poked his food, which somehow caused it to scurry off the table.

"I am now officially terrified." Caelan said. His teammates witnessed the runaway food and all agreed with him. Leshawna leaned toward him, "Yo, can you please hook us up with some real food?"

All of his teammates looked hopefully at him. Luckily, Caelan had a bag of snacks in his pocket, which he promptly pulled out. But the moment the snacks were in the open, a knife whizzed through the air, hit the bag of snacks, and stuck it to the wall. They all turned and saw that Chief was the one that threw the knife.

"The only food allowed in this room is my food!" Chief said, "If any other cooks think they can come into my territory, then they will be what I serve up next."

"Point taken." Caelan said, feeling defeated. He somehow felt that things will only get progressively worse.

20 minutes later

"I hate it when I'm right about bad things." Caelan groaned. He and his team were all in swimsuits for their first challenge; jumping off a huge cliff into a small safe zone surrounded by shark-infested waters. The Killer Bass had nine jumpers and two chickens, which meant that his team must have to get at least ten jumpers. Caelan could already tell that the Gophers weren't thrill with the prospect.

Once their turn began, Trent said the thing everyone was dreading, "Okay guys, who's up first?"

"Me!" Caelan shouted instinctively. He then began to silently curse himself.

"Seriously?" Gwen said in awe, "You're jumping the gun now?"

"Yep." Caelan said as he anxiously stretched his leg. As he stretched, he vaguely heard Heather complaining about not wanting to jump because of her hair. Then he heard Leshawna telling her to jump. After that the two got into an argument that quickly got worse and worse.

Trent then leaned toward Caelan, "Um, should we stop them?"

"Don't worry, I'm on." Caelan said.

Heather then smiled wickedly at Leshawna, "Well at least I'm popular-"

Before the argument could escalate, Caelan rushed forward, grabbed Heather by the waist, and he threw himself and her off the cliff. After a heart racing fall, with Heather constantly screaming in Caelan's ear, they managed to make it into the safe zone. They were submerged for a second before resurfacing.

"Yeah!" Caelan roared, "That was awesome!. High five, Heather!"

Heather then gave Caelan a hard slap across the face.

"I deserved that." Caelan admitted.

"You're so gonna regret this." Heather stated before swimming away.

After that, Caelan stayed in the safe zone and high fived all of his teammates that jumped in. He was later joined by Trent and Noah as all of the Gophers cheered on Owen to jump.

"Come on, buddy!" Caelan yelled, "Do this jump and I'll make you a pie."

After a moment's pause, Owen jumped and his screams filled the air. Caelan, Trent, and Noah cheered him on, but Caelan soon realized they were in a predicament.

"You know, we're probably in his blast radius." Caelan told the two other boys. They all then stared at Owen, who was getting closer.

"SCATTER!" Caelan said, but it was too late. Owen reached the water and they were all swept up by the massive wave he created. One of the waves was quickly sending Caelan to a collision course with a tree, he couldn't help but think, 'We won'.

*SMACK*

After a brief blackout, Caelan awoke to see all of his teammates dressed and the next part of the challenge; getting their crates back to camp. Since they won the first part of the challenge, they were able to use carts.

"Hey Caelan!" Owen said as soon as he saw him, "I did it!"

"I know, and you were awesome!" Caelan said as he walked to one of the carts.

"Thanks! So…about that pie…"

"Don't worry about the pie. I'm on it." Caelan said as he started to pull one of the carts, "Alright everyone, let's get back to the cabins." He then began to sing, "'99 bottles of pop on the wall, 99 bottles of pop. Take one down, pass it around, you got 98 bottles of pop on the wall.' Come on guys, everyone sing!"

The Screaming Gophers stared at Caelan. They then all shrugged in unison and joined his singing.

10 minutes later

The Screaming Gophers were all searching through their crates to complete their next part of the challenge; building a hot tub. Caelan and Leshawna were both looking through one of the crates when Heather and Lindsay walked up to them.

The moment Caelan saw Heather, he said, "Hey, I'm really sorry that I forced you to jump off the cliff."

"It's okay." Heather said, "I'm actually here to apologize to you about how I said you would regret it. That was totally uncalled for. And Leshawna, I'm sorry I called you a Ghetto rap star wannabe. I didn't mean it. Plus, I love your earrings."

"Straight up?" Leshawna said, "Well, then I'm sorry you I said you peaked at high school."

Heather smiled, "Truce?"

Caelan and Leshawna both nodded. Then, Heather and Lindsay walked away.

"Well, that was nice of her." Caelan said.

"Yeah, it kinda was." Leshawna admitted, "Although, something tells me she's gonna irritate me again with her attitude."

"I wouldn't be surprised by that." Caelan said.

As Heather and Lindsay walked away, Lindsay asked, "Did you mean all of those things?"

"Of course not." Heather said, "Those two are going down. I only said those things to get on their good side. Then, I'll take them done when their least suspecting."

"Ok, okay." Lindsay said. She was still confused by the whole thing, but she didn't lead on.

After a quick building montage, the two teams finished their hot tubs. In the end, the Gophers won, gaining immunity and their own hot tub.

Later that night…

Caelan was in the hot tub with Trent, Heather, Justin, and Lindsay. The team were all relaxing after their first victory.

"Man, this pie is awesome!" Owen said as he scarfed down the pie Caelan made for him, "Thanks a lot, Caelan."

"Hey, I always keep my word." Caelan said.

"Where did you get the ingredients?" Lindsay asked.

"I stole them from Chief's kitchen."

"Seriously?" Trent said, amazed.

"Yep." Caelan said nonchalantly, "Don't worry, I only took a little bit. Chief won't notice. I also snag these."

Caelan then pulled out two six-packs of sodas and passed them around to a cheering public. He held up his soda and said, "To the Screaming Gophers. May this be the first of many victories."

"The Screaming Gophers" the rest of the team said in unison.