Happy Spring Equinox everyone in the Northern Hemisphere! I'm ChrisATD1, but you already know that. As you probably noticed from the last chapter, I have a cover for the story, but it wasn't a cover that was submitted to my cover contest, it's just a temp. The contest is still going, even though no one has entered yet, so there's that. So, without further adieu, here's Chapter 19!

Chris's Trailer (Around 9 AM)

The Sun's rays managed to make their way to the inside of Chris's mobile trailer and onto the Total Drama Host's face. Feeling the light upon his face, Chris started to awake from his slumber. He sat up on his bed, yawned, and stretched his limbs as he usually did every morning. Afterwards, he hopped off of his bed, slid his feet into his slippers, walked over to Sam's sleeping bag and kicked him in the back.

"Ow!" Sam yelled out as he turned over to see the Host in his robe.

"Intern," he said as he kicked the sleeping Gamer, "Make me the usual coffee. Two scoops of sugar, a squirt of caramel, a cinnamon stick, and whipped cream to top it off."

"Ugh! Yes sir…" the Gamer replied in a groggy and agitated tone. Luckily for Sam, Chris didn't catch his tone as the Host walked to his desk and picked up his Walkie-Talkie.

"Chris to Chef, come in. Over," he said into the device looking to get a response. There was none. "Chris to Chef, do you copy? Over," Still no response. "Hmm…we're not moving at the moment, so he must be on his break or something," he said to himself. "Well, he can't be too far away from here, so I'll just talk to him when he gets back." Then, the Host became curious and walked towards a window in the back of his trailer. "Speaking of here, I wonder where we are. We should be pretty close to D.C. after driving off 10 hours ago."

He opened the blinds on the window and saw that the trailer was inside of a structure and there were two men who had their hands on the rear of the trailer. This scared Chris, especially when one of the men looked at the window and saw his face. He quickly closed the blinds and crouched under the view of the window.

"Sam!" the Host said in a hushed yell. "There are strange men outside the trailer."

"What?" Sam asked at regular volume.

"Shhhhh!" Chris shushed him. "They'll hear you!"

Suddenly, there was a knock on the trailer door.

"Yipe!" Chris exclaimed as he crawled under his bed. "Intern, protect me!"

"Chris! Open up!" said the familiar sounding person knocking on the door.

Sam walked to the door and opened it.

"Good morning, Chef," Sam greeted the co-host.

"Mornin' Gamer Nerd. Where's Chris at?" Chef Hatchet asked as he walked into the trailer.

"Oh Chef! Thank goodness you're here!" Chris exclaimed as he came out from under his bed and jumped into Chef's arms. "There're some strange men outside the trailer and I need you to protect me from them!"

Chef looked at Chris with a confused look. "Strange men? You mean the mechanics?"

"Mechanics? Why would there be mechanics touching my trailer?" The Host asked incredulously.

"'Cause they're moving it so they can get to the bus's engine."

"What?!"

"Well, they have to unhook your trailer from the rear of the bus because that's where the bus's engine is-"

"I know where the bus's engine is, Chef," Chris interrupted, "But why do these mechanics want to get to the engine?"

"Well, I told you last night that I thought there was something wrong with the engine and that I had to park the bus and look at it, which I did. After I did that, I figured out that I couldn't fix it myself, so I had to take the bus to a shop, but they didn't open until a few hours ago."

"Wait, wait, wait, wait! You told me that something was wrong with the engine last night?"

Chef replied with a nod.

"I don't remember that."

"Well, you responded to it when I told you over the talkie," Chef said.

"Really? What time was that?"

"Around 11, 11:30."

"What?! That's not possible! I went to sleep way before then."

"It's true," Sam interjected, "I was still awake when Chris fell asleep, and I remember it being like, 10:20."

"Well, maybe you were sleep talkin', because I know I heard your voice come from the Talkie," Chef said.

"Well, maybe you were imagining things, because I never talked to you on the Talkie last night," Chris countered.

"Ugh!" Chef said as he shook his head and turned around to walk out of the trailer.

"Don't you walk away from me," the Host said as he and Sam followed Chef out of the trailer.

Meanwhile, unbeknownst to those three, they were being watched from Chris's closet. There was a person inside the closet who made a huge grin and giggled silently as they closed the closet door.

Outside Chris's Trailer

Chef and Chris continued arguing as the mechanics continued working on the bus until they were interrupted.

"Hey! Can you two keep it down?! Some of us are trying to listen to music! And by 'us', I mean me!" Eva yelled from the top deck of the bus.

Suddenly, the Host gasped out loud.

"I almost forgot! I've got a show to host!" With that, Chris hurried back inside of his trailer and closed the door behind him.

Inside Chris's Trailer

After closing the door, Chris rushed to his personal bathroom to quickly brush his teeth while he took a quick shower.

After his shower, he rushed to his closet, open the door, and grabbed one of his signature outfits without even looking at the closet. If he had looked at the closet, he would have seen a hand give his clothes to him before he closed it back up.

After clothing himself, Chris quickly made his way back outside to where Chef and Sam were still standing as his unknown roommate giggled silently to their self.

Outside Chris's Trailer

As the Host rejoined his co-host and intern, he started to look around.

"Where's the camera crew?" Chris asked in a terrified tone. Both Sam and Chef pointed towards the camera that was currently capturing footage from inside the shop. The Host turned his head and saw that he was being recorded.

"Oh… Ahem! Last time on Total Drama Avengeance!" the Host started as the picture changed to show the events of the previous episode as Chris described them.

"We made it to New York City for our 8th challenge of the season." (Shows the Total Drama Double Decker Bus driving towards the New York Skyline)

"However, since the traffic was so heavy, I had the two teams race to Coney Island by any means necessary." (Shows the TDDDB stuck in gridlock traffic and both teams running in opposite directions)

"The Old Team asked some local authority figures how to get there…" (Shows Old Team asking a Police Officer and a conductor)

"…while the New Team brought a local teen with them to guide them." (Shows the New Team meeting Christopher and getting into the train station with him)

"This dude would prove to be pretty useful for the New Team as they did manage to win the race to Coney Island…" (Shows Mike, aka Svetlana, getting across a busy street the hard way)

"…and win their reward for the next part of the challenge, which was a hot dog eating contest." (Shows the stage full of hot dogs on plates)

"Oh yeah…and the New Team's reward was having Cameo Contestant Owen on their team for the challenge! Ha-ha!" (Shows Owen walking from behind the stage with hot dogs and a drink in hand before Noah says, "We're doomed.")

"Noah was so right, so I decided to be nice and give the highest scoring person on the losing team solo immunity." (Shows Chris telling this bit of news to the Old Team and some of their facial reactions)

"After a horrible happening involving Geoff's choke wad…" (Shows Chef giving Geoff the Heimlich maneuver and a piece food flying out from the Party Boy's mouth)

"…and a plate full of hot dogs that were quickly devoured by Owen-Ugh…!" (Shows the wad landing on Owen's plate as he raised it to his mouth, followed by everyone vomiting)

"It was just between Justin, Noah, and Eva, at least until nature called for Eva. Ha-ha!" (Shows Noah, Eva, and Justin eating hot dogs until Eva ran from the table to the porta-potty.

"The bitter rivals fought until the end only to tie. So, I decided to give immunity to both of them." (Shows Noah and Justin eating their final hot dogs before fainting and ending with tying scores)

"With Justin and Noah safe from elimination, the Old Team decided to send Bridgette packing." (Shows Geoff carrying Bridgette to the Copter of Shame before watching it take off)

The camera shows Chris wiping some sweat from his brow.

"Whew! A lot happening, huh?" he asked rhetorically, "Well, there's some more Total Drama fans. Turns out, the engine for the Double Decker crapped out during our trip from New York City to Washington D.C. So, since we're required to have one challenge per day this season, we're gonna have to improvise a challenge here in…"

The Host turned back to his cohost and asked, "Where are we anyway, Chef?"

"We're still in New York City," Chef replied.

"WHAT?! You didn't even make out of the city?!"

"The engine started making sounds when I was crossing the bridge!"

Chris pinched the bridge of his nose and grumbled.

"Umm…we're still rolling Mr. McLean," the cameraman said.

The Host looked back at the camera and took a deep breath.

"Thanks, Skippy," he said to the cameraman. "Now that we have to improvise today, what challenge will I come up with on the spot? Find out right now on…" [1]

"Total!"

"Drama!"

"Avengeance! Ugh…"

*Theme Song*

The Bottom Deck (10 AM)

Everyone was awake, although this time they were awakened by the sounds of people using tools along with some arguing. Even though the Bottom Deck was supposedly soundproof, the combining sounds made their ways into the bus once they were loud enough. Everyone was confused by the sounds that they were hearing, so they decided to go to the Top Deck to check out what was going on.

The Top Deck

Being led by Brick, the New Team walked up the stairs to the Top Deck of the bus. There, they saw most of the Old Team had their ears covered to block out the cacophony. The only exceptions were Geoff, Eva (who was listening to her mp3 player), and Noah (who was reading his book, again).

"Does anyone know what's going on?" Brick asked the Old Team.

Everyone either didn't hear Brick's question or chose to ignore him.

"Hello?" the Cadet said as he tried to get the Old Team's attention. After getting ignored a second time, Brick decided to go for a more direct approach. He and Anne Maria, who decided to follow Brick, walked up to Tyler, who had his signature headband as well as his hands covering his ears to keep the noise out.

"Tyler! Do you know what's going on?" Brick yelled so that Tyler may be able to hear him.

"What!?" the Sport-o shouted back.

"Do you know what's going on?!" the Cadet shouted louder.

"What!? I can't hear you!"

Suddenly, Anne Maria walked between Brick and Tyler, grabbed the latter by his collar, and pulled him out of his seat.

"He said," the Jersey Girl started saying right when the sounds of tools stopped suddenly, "DO YA KNOW WHAT'S GOIN' ON?!"

With the sounds of the tools quieted, everyone in a 4 block radius from the shop heard Anne Maria's high volume voice. Anne Maria, herself, noticed that she had just yelled at the top of her lungs in a quiet setting, so she gasped, covered her mouth, and widened her eyes in embarrassment. A few seconds later, the sounds of tires screeching and cars banging into each other, along with a man yelling, "My leg!" reached the automotive repair shop. [2]

"Sounds like we've got more business comin' our way, fellas," one mechanic said to his coworkers. "Thanks a lot, girlie!" he happily shouted to Anne Maria, who was still in a state of utter embarrassment.

Bottom Deck Confession Cam

*Static*

Anne Maria - "Dat was the most embarrassin' moment of my life. Well, my life afta I started workin' on my tan. I've had embarrassin' moments, before I got my tan n' my poifect hair, that were a lot worse than what happened today. But, still…I musta looked like a crazy person! And Brick was right behind me too! Ohhh! So embarrassin'!"

*Static*

Outside the Auto Shop (10:45 AM)

Chris had told all of the contestants to exit the bus and convene outside of the auto shop after getting ready for the day. It took almost two hours for all of the contestants to shower and eat before making their way to Chris and his cohorts.

"Ok," the Host started, "As you all have probably noticed by now, we're still in New York City. Well, that's because Chef broke the Double Decker."

This made Chef start grumbling under his breath.

"But, even though we're not in a new city, we're still gonna have a challenge. Now, as soon as I can think of a challenge, we'll get right on it!"

"Try not to hurt yourself, Chris," Noah snidely remarked.

All of the contestants, along with Chef, snickered while Chris glared at the Know-It-All.

"Or, we could just skip the challenge and eliminate a certain sarcastic pain in the neck!" Chris replied.

"I second that decision!" Justin said while raising his hand, to which Noah replied by glaring at the Model. Katie gasped and wrapped her arms around Noah's shoulders.

"Don't you even think about it, Chris!" she said right before the sound of two people falling was heard from behind the group.

Everyone looked into the auto shop and expected to see two mechanics on the ground, but instead they saw two people in black spy-looking clothes complete with black ski-masks on the ground right in front of Chris's trailer door.

"Uh oh! We've been spotted," one of the black-clad figures said with a feminine voice.

"Wait," Tyler started saying, "That sounds just like…"

"RUN!" The other figure yelled as they both got up and tried to run out of one of the two wide entrances that auto shops tend to have. Obviously, they chose the entrance that the contestants were not standing in front of.

Unfortunately, for the first darkly dressed figure, Eva was able to catch and constrain her pretty easily. The other person managed to make it to the corner of the uncharacteristically empty New York City block.

"Stop that person!" Chris yelled to no one in particular.

At that moment, the unknown person looked back at the group of Total Drama characters and yell, "Run, run, run as fast as you can! You can't catch me, I'm the- Ah!"

The mystery person was unable to finish their statement as they had run into another person, who was running down the adjacent sidewalk, at the corner of the block. The sudden impact sent both people falling to the ground, which is where they lied until some of the contestants and Chris made their way to their location. When they got there, everyone saw that both crash victims were dazed, but they also noticed that the innocent bystander was a familiar person.

"It's Christopher," Dawn said as she crouched down next to the Local Fan's fallen body and felt his head which had a bruise from the hard impact. B, who was part of the group that tried to catch the masked assailant, couldn't help but feel that tinge of jealousy again while seeing her girlfriend tend to the local.

Meanwhile, Geoff and Brick picked up the masked person by their arms easily, since the person was still dazed. Chris walked in front of the slightly conscious person and reached for their mask.

"Time to see who this person is," the Host said as he pulled the mask off to reveal…

"It's Izzy!" Ezekiel said in shock as he saw the Crazy Girl's face with her signature red and frizzy hair put up in a messy bun so that her identity couldn't be compromised with her mask on.

"Umm…Chris," Eva said as she walked up to the group with the other former masked person. They all looked away from Izzy to see that the Muscular Teen was carrying…

"Sierra?!" Chris yelled in shock.

Sierra, whose small amount of hair was put into a small ponytail similar to Heather's from season three, smiled nervously before waving gingerly with her constrained arm.

"Hi, Chris…" she said in an uncharacteristically quiet voice.

In the Auto Shop (11:15 AM)

Sierra and Izzy, who had recuperated from her collision, were tied to two chairs that were not being used in the shop.

"You are so lucky that I was unconscious when you tied me up, Chef!" Izzy crazily yelled from her seat.

"Nice work, Chef!" Chris commended before turning his attention to the two trespassing teenagers. "Ok, you two. I have a few questions for ya."

"I'll neva talk! You can't make me, see! I ain't sayin' nuttin', coppa'!" the Crazy Chick said in her best mobster impersonation.

"Well, if you won't talk," the Host said before turning to Sierra, "maybe your friend will."

"Don't say nuttin', Sierra!"

"Shut it, maggot!" Chef yelled at Izzy, which prompted her to growl back at him.

While Chef and Izzy continued their storied rivalry, Chris made his way to Sierra.

"Hey there, Sierra," he said in an uncharacteristically sweetened tone, "How have you been?"

"I-I've been alright," she stammered out an answer, "Are you gonna do anything bad to us?"

"What? Of course not!" the Host replied with a chuckle, "I'm Chris McLean. When have I ever done anything bad to someone?"

"Well-"

"Don't answer that one," he said quickly before continuing. "Sierra, could you please tell me why you and Izzy decided to stowaway in my trailer?"

"Don't answer that, Sierra!" her accomplice yelled.

"Quiet, you! Or I'll tape your mouth too!" Chef yelled back.

"Ha! Silly Chef! I'll just eat the tape! It'll taste better than anything you ever made for us!"

"That's it!" he yelled before pulling out a roll of duct tape and preparing to make good on his threat.

Meanwhile, the contestants, Sam, and Christopher were watching all of this unfold from not too far away.

"Are Chef and Chris doing a Good Cop/Bad Cop thing?" Christopher asked while holding a bag of ice against his forehead.

"It sure looks like it," Sam answered.

"I think they would both be bad cops, if they were real cops, that is," Katie commented.

"Ba-zing!" Mike said with a chuckle which made Zoey giggle too.

"Pfft! Chris wouldn't last one day on the force if they were real cops," Eva said.

"What about Chef?" Brick asked.

"Chef with a gun and a badge? That's a scary thought," Noah commented.

"No doubt! Remember that water gun he had back in season one? He was scary with that thing," said Geoff.

"Oh yeah! I remember watching that, eh. Glad I wasn't in that challenge," Ezekiel joked.

"Same here," Tyler agreed.

"Pfft! Please! At least you guys didn't have to deal with a land shark," Dakota said.

"Aww! Fang was just misunderstood. Besides, he did give Scott what he had coming, right?" Dawn asked. B agreed by nodding his head.

"I wish I could do what dat shark did to Scott, and do it to him again!" Anne Maria said as she punched the palm of her hand.

"Look! Chris is coming towards us," Justin pointed out.

Sure enough, the Host was making his way towards the group of teenagers.

"Sam! Come!" he said with a snap of his fingers.

"Yes, sir," he groaned as he got a kiss on the cheek from Dakota before walking to Chris's side.

"Alright, contestants…and other," he said while making a side glance at Christopher. "Speaking of which, why are you here again?"

"Oh," the Local Fan started answering, "Well, I saw on the morning news that the Total Drama bus had broken down, so…"

"Wait! We were on the news?!"

"Yeah," Chef answered casually.

"Why didn't you tell me, Chef? I could have helped promote the show!"

"Well, you were asleep! 'Sides, I promoted the show just fine when they interviewed me."

"They didn't ask for me?"

"Nope."

"Well, that's just great…" Chris said sarcastically as he facepalmed, "The perfect time to promote this season, and I wasn't even awake for it."

"Hey! Are we gonna have a challenge today or what?" Anne Maria asked out of turn.

"Right! Back on topic," the Host said as he got back on topic, "Well, after making Sierra spill the beans, it turns out that she, Izzy, and a third accomplice, were responsible for the engine malfunctioning."

"How'd you get her to tell you?" Katie asked.

"Probably a bribe," Noah commented.

"No! I used my dashing good looks!" Chris said with his signature smile…

Five minutes ago

…which was the same smile he had on an 8" x 11.5" photo of himself with his signature on it, which he had in his hand in front of Sierra.

"If you tell me what I want to know, I'll give you this autographed picture of me," he told her.

"EEEE! Deal!" the Uber-Fan squealed.

"Anyway," Chris continued, "She also told me that the third person was also hiding out in my trailer when they fell out, but I'm guessing she stayed in it while they tried to run. So, I'm making it your challenge to find that third person and bring her to me, or at least find out who it is."

"Wait," Noah interrupted, "Sierra told you that the third person was a female, but she didn't tell you who it was?"

"…No. She said she couldn't tell me…"

"What happened? Did your 'good looks' run out or did your wallet run out of cash?"

Three minutes ago

"I-I can't tell you who it is!" Sierra said, "If I do, she'll kill me! Well, not literally, of course, but-"

"Aw, come on! All you have to do is tell me her name," the Host said with annoyance.

"Ok, I'll tell you if…"

"If I give you another picture?" he asked hopefully.

"Nope. If you let me lick…your…hair!"

"What?!"

"I've always wanted to know what you hair gel tasted like."

"No way! You know what? I have all of the information I need. Ugh!" Chris said with a shudder as he turned around and walked away.

As soon as he was out of earshot, Sierra turned to the camera and whispered, "I knew that would work."

"That is not important!" he continued, "Getting this challenge underway is what's important. Now, you guys are gonna search everywhere for clues. The Double Decker, my trailer, the auto shop, anywhere you think you can find something substantial. Then, once you think you know who it is, find her and bring her to me because I want to do the unmasking. The team that is responsible for bringing this person to me wins the challenge and immunity. Any questions?"

Noah raised his hand and said, "Do you really expect us to be able to do this challenge? For all we know, this mystery person could be long gone by now."

"Actually, Chef got a few of his NYPD buddies to block all exits in this place. Also, if she manages to run into any of those officers, they will just send her back inside so they can't disrupt the challenge."

"…Wow!" said the speechless Know-It-All, "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm starting to like this challenge."

"Alright! If there are no more questions, then the challenge starts now!" Chris announced before pointing at Christopher. "You! Local yokel!"

The Local fan pointed at himself with a confused look on his face.

"Yeah, you. You don't get to help the contestants this time, but you can help guard Larry and Curly over there," he said as he pointed to Sierra and Izzy, "With Sam."

"Ok! Cool," Christopher said with a shrug as he walked to the constrained teens with the Gamer Nerd.

While the teams of teens dispersed, Chris looked at the camera.

"How will this improvised challenge go? Just who is this mystery accomplice? And why did she, along with Izzy and Sierra, sabotage the bus's engine? Find out the answers to these questions when we come back to…"

"Total!"

"Drama!"

"Avengeance!"

[1] - Skippy was the name of the cameraman from a Total Drama 8-bit pixilated comic called Total Drama Survivor on . I think the guy who made it did a pretty good job.

[2] - Shameless Spongebob Squarepants reference.

There you have it! I think this might have been my most random chapter so far. It's definitely different from how my usual part one chapters are, but that's mostly because of this mystery person tangent that I've gone off on. Speaking of the mystery person, I know a lot of you guessed that the mystery person was Sierra, but I was initially just gonna have Izzy as the mystery assailant. However, when I saw that most of you guessed Sierra, I thought to myself, "Hmm! That could definitely work!" So I changed it from being one mystery people to three. But the question is, now that two of them have been revealed, who do you guys think is the third? I bet many of you won't expect it this time, but I'm not gonna change who it is depending on who most of you guess. I'm not that evil. Mwah-ha-ha-ha-haaa! Ahh-ha-ha-ha! Anyway, the poll is still open, the contest is still open, blah, blah, blah.

Also, we're only a few weeks from this story's first annual Birthday, Published Day, Anniversary, whatever you want to call it. So, if I don't update before April 14th, I'd just like to say that it's been a great year and everyone who's read this story from chapter one to now or has reviewed every single chapter, you guys are all awesome! Everyone who's only read some of the chapters and reviewed or read but never review, I thank you guys too! Stay tooned for chapter 20!