I got some great reviews for my last chapter. Thanks! Now to respond:
Sierraandcody62: Thank you for calling me awesome! It's true that I have large chunks of this fic planned out, but there are also large chunks of it unplanned. For example: I planned most of the Shipping Sailors' part of this episode many months ago; but I've barely planned anything for the two other teams. So there are also a number of moments in this story that I randomly came up with right on top of my head; such as Izzy suddenly kidnapping Scott. It's cool that you're rooting for Pablo!
zquest: That's a nice top ten! Luckily, seven of your favorites are still competing, plus B is going to make some more appearances in this story, though not as a contestant.
NoahTheBookworm: Oh. My. Goodness. The Noah is reviewing my story?! Nah just kidding. Anyway, there will not be a NoCo chapter in this story. One reason being that I don't like them as a couple. But the main reason is that I want this story to firmly stay K+ and family friendly which means there will be no Yaoi nor Yuri in this fic.
Jason Kreuger Myers: I'm glad this story is making you curious. And maybe there will be some Heather/Jerome in this story. Alejandro isn't going to appear much in this story, but it would be interesting to see what he thinks about it. You have a very good reason to be wary of Pablo, but it won't be revealed until another chapter or two. And yes, one of the points I was trying to make in the last chapter was that there was fault with all three members of the infamous love triangle of World Tour. And I'm glad that you and other people are warming up to Courtney in this story; I thought she was a decent character in Island and the first half of World Tour, but when her worst traits are amplified, like in Action or in the second half of World Tour, Courtney can be quite annoying.
NerdyBarista: Once again, I LOVE your reviews. I'm glad that Cameron's stage-fright surprised you, since that was what I was going for. And to answer your question about Cody and Courtney: Read this chapter to find out! You make a good point that Heather needs someone who is either her match or her opposite, and Jerome has the potential to be both! I shouldn't go into anymore details, lest I spoil the story I so carefully plotted. Anne Maria and Leshawna could possibly hold the Fanon Fixers back, but Anne Maria just by herself could possibly hold the team back with her laziness and apathy to the competition. You have indeed picked up on the fact that Pablo does have some hidden depths, which will be hinted at in this chapter and more fully explored in the next one.
Being a Christian, I love stories about redemption, which means throughout the story there will be a lot of characters redeeming themselves. Duncan going from being a 'Jerk with a heart' of Gold to straight up jerk is precisely why Duncan has become my least favorite character. His grudge against Courtney is also supposed to be an allusion to the way he tormented Harold throughout the entirety of Action just because of what Harold did to Courtney in Island. The guy has trouble forgiving people. Duncan will receive some positive character development in this story, but Duncan isn't the type of guy who will change overnight.
I'm so glad you found Jo's fourth-wall breaking hilarious! (I have been waiting for somebody to say that this story has funny moments.) That confessional is an example of a random joke that I totally came up with off the top of my head. You can probably tell form reading this story that my three favorite types of comedy are wacky & unexpected moments, deadpan sarcastic jokes, and meta/fourth-wall breaking moments. And yes, there will be lots of drama in this story (if you're writing a Total Drama fic, it's pretty much a requirement) hence the foreboding. I love how long you're reviews are, which is why my responses to them are also quite long.
Now, on to the main event:
Episode 2: Crack Pairings Galore, Part 1
"Last time on Total Drama Fan-Fiction Theater…" Chef narrates.
"Twenty-Four teenagers arrived at a familiar film lot to compete for 750,000 dollars.
Most of them have competed on the show before, but we also have three new contestants: Pablo, Viktoriya, and Jerome.
The contestants discovered some new features on the film lot, like a Museum were they can watch previous episodes of Total Drama, and a play theater where both challenges and elimination ceremonies will take place.
After forming three teams: the Fanon Fixers, the Sue Crew, and the Shipping Sailors; we started our first challenge, based off of a CodyxCourtney fan-fic: 'Candy For Your Thoughts.' And surprise, surprise; it lead to Cody and Courtney developing a friendship.
During the song performance challenge, the Sue Crew won with a Rocking Latin-inspired performance of Alejandro's song from the fic; and ironically, the Shipping Sailors lost during a performance of the same song, when bad memories of Alejandro led to Courtney abandoning the stage in tears. But don't feel too bad for her. Cody and Justin were able to calm Courtney down, and she later on apologized to various contestants that she mistreated. Didn't see that coming.
Ultimately, the Shipping Sailors voted off Izzy, who blew up her drum set with gun-powder and injured her teammate Tyler. Unfortunately, she kidnapped one of the judges for this completion, Scott!
What will the challenge be this time? Who will be the next contestant sent packing? And will I manage to get Scott back? Find out now, on Total. Drama. Fan-Fiction Theater!"
Theme Song:
Dear Mom and Dad, I'm doing fine.
(The camera zooms into the abandoned film lot. As the camera zooms past various film studios we see Courtney with her P.D.A. arguing with Chef, B pushing Scott's trauma chair around, DJ carrying a pot of soup, and an intern looking up fan-fiction on his laptop.)
You Guys are on my mind.
(The camera then goes up the replica of the cliff from Camp Wawanakwa and down into a small pool.)
You Asked me what I wanted to be...
(Inside the pool we see Owen swimming. All of a sudden Fang appears and tries to sneak up on Owen, but Owen passes gas, which causes the mutant shark to retreat.)
...And I think the answer is plain to see...
(We pan up to the beach movie set and see Harold and Bridgette surfing. All of a sudden, Harold is knocked off of his surfboard by a mutated seagull.)
I wanna be..
(We pan to the left, where we see that Duncan has used the seagull-launching gun to shoot at Harold. Duncan turns around to see Gwen glaring at him. Gwen then storms off, and Duncan looks guilty and tries to follow her.)
Famous.
(The Camera zooms past them, and we see Tyler, Jo, and Mike (as Svetlana) running a race. Tyler then trips, as a large metal door opens with a flash of bright light.)
I wanna live close to the sun...
(We see Anne Maria and Justin relaxing on beach chairs on the beach set. Anne Maria is trying to use hair spray, but is so distracted by Justin's beauty that she accidentally sprays Justin in the eye.)
...Go pack your bags, 'cause I've already won!
(The camera pans to the right, and we see Jerome and Viktoriya standing on top of two platforms, fighting each other with giant Q-tips. Viktoriya ends up smirking as she knocks Jerome's fedora off his head.)
Everything to prove, nothing in my way...
(The Camera pans down, and we see that Jerome's fedora has landed on Mike's head. This causes Manitoba Smith to appear, who then smirks as he puts his arm around Zoey, who is frowning.)
I'll get there one day.
(Cameron then shows up, and quickly takes the fedora off Mike's head. Mike returns to normal, and Zoey smiles first at Mike and then at Cameron.)
Cause I wanna be….
(The scene transitions to the control room, where it is revealed that Pablo has been watching the scene between Mike, Zoey, and Cameron on the TV Screen. Pablo smiles at this.)
Famous!
(The TV screen then goes to static before showing a new scene: Trent and Cody, dressed up in their Drama Brothers clothes, playing the guitar and keyboard respectively. Watching them perform is Courtney [Who is smiling at Cody], Sierra [Who is jumping up and down with joy], and Leshawna [Who is "dancing" to the music being played.])
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na!
(We pan to the left to see Lindsay hugging Noah, whom she has mistaken for Tyler. All of a sudden, Izzy swings by on a vine, and snatches Noah away. However, Izzy's grip weakens, and Noah is accidentally dropped on top of Bridgette.)
I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!
(The camera zooms past Noah and Bridgette, and we see Heather exit the lame-o-sine. After a few seconds, Heather then enters the winner's-sine. The winner's-sine drives off, revealing that it was blocking a view of the theater.)
I wanna be, I wanna be,
(We see Chef standing in front of the theater, pointing to the top of theater which says: "Now Playing: Total Drama Fan-Fiction Theater.")
I wanna be famous!
(The camera then zooms into the theater, where we see that in the audience Jerome and Viktoriya are sitting with a single chair in between them. Jerome and Viktoriya are both glaring hatefully at each other.)
*whistling*
(All of a sudden Pablo appears in the chair between Jerome and Viktoriya and Pablo puts his arms around both of them. Jerome smiles at this, while Viktoriya rolls her eyes. The camera zooms out, and it's revealed that the entire cast is sitting in the audience.) [1]
The next day, the Fanon Fixers were the first to grab breakfast, since all the members of both the Sue Crew and the Shipping Sailors were sleeping in. DJ was making custom omelets for each contestant.
"OK buddy." DJ said handing a large plate to Owen. "Here is what you ordered. Hopefully I made it right. Truth is, I've never made a five-cheese omelet stuffed with sausage, ham, bacon, fried chicken, beef brisket, and Ranch dressing before."
Owen grabbed the gargantuan omelet, and ate it up in five and a half seconds. After burping, he told DJ. "Woo-hoo! That was a great Omelet! Can you make me another one like it?"
The Jamaican teen stood there with his jaw dropped. He spent almost ten minutes making that omelet, and Owen scarfed it down in five and a half seconds flat?! OK, it wasn't a surprise considering it was Owen, but still! DJ wasn't about to spend another ten minutes on another Omelet!
"Why don't I make you a triple bacon omelet instead Owen?" DJ offered Owen.
The big eater agreed to DJ's suggestion, and sat down next to Noah. After that, Owen sighed saying "It's not fair that the Shipping Sailors got to go down town last night with the Sue Crew."
Noah responded by asking "How exactly is that not fair?"
"Because several of our friends got to go out to eat at restaurants, and I didn't!" Owen said.
Noah gave the big eater a deadpan stare and said "Sure Owen, that's totally unfair; especially considering that last night you ate seven pounds of lasagna."
"Yeah!" Owen said, missing Noah's sarcastic tone. "DJ ran out of ingredients and…"
Owen's voice trailed off. He then realized that Noah was speaking sarcastically and then he started chuckling. "Oh, Noah! You little wise-cracker!"
Cameron woke up in the boy's trailer. After stretching a few minutes, he thinks aloud, saying "I wonder why Chef never bothered to show us to our trailers last episode?"
"Probably because it took Helmet 798 over 13,000 words, spread out between three different chapters, to describe that last episode." Cody said, who had just woken up. "I'm sure he had to streamline the story somehow."
Cameron smiled at Cody, who he was starting to become friends with. They had a great time at the arcade last night with Pablo.
"Wait a minute.." Said Cameron, at the memory of the Brazilian boy. "Where is Pablo?"
"He probably went out to grab some breakfast." Cody speculated. "I would too if I was that skinny."
Pablo tiredly entered the craft services tent. He had large bags under his eyes, which led to Jerome asking Pablo with concern, "Are you OK?"
Pablo smiled and responded by saying "I'm fine. Just a bit tired is all. My team returned to the film lot at 12:30 A.M. last night; and when I got back, instead of going to sleep, I went over to the museum to watch a few episodes of Total Drama Island. Didn't go back to the male's trailer for sleep until 4:05 A.M."
Trent looked concerned and said "Look Pablo, you shouldn't stay up that late. You need to get some rest, especially when you're competing on a show like this."
"Yeah, I'm sorry." Pablo said. "I'll be sure to go to sleep early tonight."
Confessional:
Pablo: I may be exhausted, but is was worth it to see all of those Total Drama Island episodes. As I watch each episode, I slowly am building a strategy to win the whole competition.
By 9 O'Clock, all the members of the Sue Crew and Shipping Sailors were eating breakfast. Bridgette was eating with Courtney. "So how was your date with Justin?" The surfer girl asked her friend.
Courtney smiled "It was nice. But Justin and I ultimately decided to just be friends. A good call too, since Justin isn't really my type."
"So, who is your type?" Bridgette asked Courtney.
Courtney was looking at Cody, who was at another table. "I don't know." The C.I.T told her friend. "Maybe a really nice adorkable brunette...with a gap between his teeth..." Courtney then looked shocked, and tried to take back her statement. "Wait! I..."
Bridgette gasped "Courtney, do you have a crush on Mike?"
Courtney then looked super relieved. "Uhhh... sure. Too bad he already has a girlfriend.." Courtney then chuckled a little awkwardly.
Confessional:
Courtney: That was way too close! I almost told Bridgette about my secret crush on Cody! (After a beat Courtney looks really nervous.) No, No, No! I didn't say that! I do not have a crush on Cody! (Courtney waits another second, before adding once again...) I don't!
Cody meanwhile was talking with Tyler. "So did you have a good time at the mall with Lindsay?"
"Kind of." Tyler responded. "I'm glad I got to spend time with my gal, but going to the mall with Lindsay isn't always fun. She's very forgetful and gets lost real easily."
Tyler then sighed."So when I went to the restroom for a few minutes last night, I came back to the store where I last saw Lindsay and she was gone! It took me a half an hour to find her; she was asking a manikin for directions."
Cody tried hard not to laugh. Duncan, however, was not as kind. "HaHaHa! Really? Wow, I knew your girlfriend wasn't the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, but seriously! Does she even have a brain at all!"
Gwen then glared at Duncan. "What is it pasty?" Duncan asked his girlfriend
"Remember what we talked about last night?" Gwen asked her boyfriend.
Duncan responded by saying"What? Oh yeah!" The delinquent turned to Tyler and said "Sorry for insulting your girlfriend."
Confessional:
Gwen: Last night Duncan and I talked about our relationship. I told him if he didn't stop acting like a jerk, then I would break up with him. (Gwen sighed.) Sometimes I wish that Duncan showed off his kind side more often.
*Static*
Duncan: So me and Gwen talked about our relationship last night. She was all: 'Oh Duncan! Stop being a jerk, or else; yadda yadda yadda!' (Duncan sighed) If I wanted to be in a relationship with a girl who bosses me around, I would've stayed with Courtney!
Heather had just finished her breakfast. She felt like something was wrong. "Does something feel...off?" She wondered aloud.
Sierra responded by saying "Right now it's precisely 9:04 A.M. Chris would normally interrupt our breakfast and introduce challenges at exactly 8:45 A.M."
"I wonder why Chef is running late?" Asked Owen.
Immediately after Owen said that, Chef walked in the tent. "Sorry I'm late. Well I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that I managed to get Scott back from Izzy."
"How is that good news?" Jerome quipped, since Scott was number one on his most hated Total Drama contestant list. [2] Mike and Zoey chuckled at Jerome's remark.
Chef ignored Jerome and continued to speak. "The bad news is that Izzy did something to the screen that B installed on the trauma chair, and now it won't stop playing the kid's show 'Blues Clues!'"
Sure enough, the screen on Scott's trauma chair was displaying an episode of the kid's show. "We are going to play Blues Clues! Cause that's the game we play!" The red light on Scott's chair kept on flashing, indicating that Scott was not happy with the show displayed on his communication screen.
"B! Come over here!" Chef ordered his newest intern. A few seconds later, B, now wearing one of the red intern outfits, entered the tent. He pulled out a wrench, and tinkered with the trauma chair. All of a sudden the screen stopped playing Blues Clues. The screen instead displayed the words: 'thank you B.'
"All right, now that we got that weird scene out of the way..." Said Chef, lamp-shading the bizarre moment that just occurred."Let's get started on today's challenge. Follow me."
The twenty-three remaining contestants followed the chef turned host out of the tent, and saw the giant slot machine from last episode.
"All right maggots! Today's challenge is going to be based on crack pairings."
"Crack huh?" Duncan asked. "Are we really allowed to say that on air? I mean, Total Drama is kind of a kid's show."
Confessional:
Noah: A kid's show? (Noah rolls his eyes) Yeah right. If Total Drama is a kid's show, then I'm the least cynical person on the planet!
"Silly Duncan! Crack pairings have nothing to do with the type of crack your thinking of." Sierra told the delinquent. "A crack pairing refers to when people ship two characters who barely interact! In the Total Drama fandom, there are several popular crack pairings such as Trent & Courtney, Cody & Bridgette, and Gwen & Tyler!"
"What?" Tyler said. "People ship me and Gwen?! But I like being in a relationship with Lindsay!"
"Thank you for providing the contestants with an explanation." Chef told Sierra. "Now for this challenge, each team must write a fan-fic that ships two of their members. You will have until lunch to plan and write a story. After Lunch, you will have an hour to practice acting it out. And after that, you will be acting out your fan-fic for all three judges: Me, Scott, and Chris."
Chef then pointed at the giant slot machine. "And I will determine which team members you'll have to do a fan-fic on with this here slot machine. First up, the Shipping Sailors." Chef pulled the lever on the machine. A few seconds later, the slots displayed the faces of Jo and Tyler.
"What?" Jo said shocked. "We have to write a romantic story between me and klutzy McGee here?"
"EEEEE!" Sierra squeed at the prospect of a new crack pairing. "Jyler! You two would make a great couple! You both share a love of sports! Not to mention, Tyler looks kind of like Jo's first boyfriend Ian, but Tyler isn't nearly as mean as he is!"
"Wait! How do you know about my ex-boyfriend?" Jo said, feeling creeped out that Sierra somehow knew so much about her.
Before Sierra could answer, Chef interrupted by saying, "Now for the Fanon Fixers." Chef pulled the lever again, and this time the faces of Sierra and Trent.
Confessional:
Sierra: Me and Trent? Trierra? Cool! Trent is my second favorite Drama Brother, so it will be fun working with him for the challenge.
*Static*
Trent: Me and Sierra? I'm not quite sure what to think. On one hand, Sierra is a very nice girl. But she also creeps me out sometimes with the things she somehow knows about me and all the others.
Chef then pulled the lever one more time, and it paired up Bridgette and Cameron.
Cameron looked very shocked at this revelation. "What? I have to do an acting challenge again? Chef, can we choose another male for this challenge?"
"Let me think about that." Chef said. "No. Now all of ya'll better get started; you don't have all day."
With that, the three teams went their separate ways to start writing a story.
Notes:
[1] First of all, I would like to say that the idea for doing my own opening theme came from ferguson97's alternate version of Total Drama World Tour, which you should totally check out BTW, and not just because Viktoriya is in that story too.
Just like Total Drama Revenge of the Island's opening theme was a remake of Total Drama Island's, my opening for Total Drama Fan-Fiction Theater is a loose remake of the opening for Total Drama Action. So I would recommend rewatching the season two theme-song to better understand mine.
Also, while my opening recreates season two's opening, with some bits borrowed from seasons one and four, my main inspiration for coming up with moments for my opening was World Tour's theme; which is my favorite opening due to the large amounts of clever foreshadowing throughout it. In the same way, I threw in tons of foreshadowing of in this opening.
[2] Jerome's list of his Top five most hated Total Drama Contestants:
1) Scott
2) Alejandro
3) Duncan
4) Jo
5) Sha-Lightning
Wow, I almost feel disappointed with this chapter, There are nearly 4,000 words, and yet I've barely started the challenge for this episode.
Nonetheless, I still liked a lot of moments here. I'm glad I finally got to write out the opening, which I planned out about a month ago. And I got to write a lot of character interaction, which is something I always want to see in a Total Drama fan-fic.
This chapter has lots of examples of the strange moments I randomly come up with off the top of my head like Owen's omelet, most of Courtney's conversation with Bridgette, and Izzy somehow turning Scott's trauma chair into a TV. Writing the next chapter will be interesting, since I have a very specific plan for what will happen with the Shipping Sailors, but I'm pretty much winging it for the two other teams; I literally just came up with the pairings for the Sue Crew and Fanon Fixers off the top of my head.
Next time on Total Drama Fan-Fiction: The twenty-three remaining contestants get to exercise their creative muscles as they collaborate to write a story. But things get hairy when the challenge 'causes problems to arise for one of the couples. Can Cameron overcome his stage fright? Will Sierra continue to creep out Trent? And why on Earth didn't Jo get more screentime in this chapter, when she's supposed to be a major part of this episode? Find out the answer to these questions when the next chapter is uploaded.