Last time on Total Drama Island; the campers were forced to face their deepest darkest fears in the best challenge we've had yet. While most of them turned out to be total chickens and wimped out, there were some brave competitors who stepped up to the plate for their team. Eva swallowed her pride and admitted her fear; then went on to beat it, winning a point for her team. Gwen had her heart broken, courtesy of Trent and Justin but all planned out by Heather, who sat back with me to watch the inevitable explosion. The two eventually made up while the Bass were busy losing the challenge, thanks to Courtney. Despite totally failing her team and losing their trust, it was Ezekiel who was eliminated; his fear of cockroaches getting the best of him. With the Killer Bass's internal fighting and the Gopher's disgust of Heather, which team will be the first to crack? Find out right now in the most dramatic episode yet! Right here, on Total, Drama, Island!"
"Bass, Gophers, welcome to today's challenge. This challenge is a real summer camp experience-"
"What, like jumping off of a cliff wasn't considered one?" Noah interrupted sarcastically, collecting a few laughs from some other campers.
"Noah, I'm glad you opened your mouth, because today's challenge is canoeing. Each team has to have a team member with a penalty and since you so kindly volunteered yourself, I'm giving that penalty to you. Here." Chris tossed Noah a pair of handcuffs and a green, torn up life jacket. "Put those on, that's your penalty."
"Kinky." He replied as he slapped the cuffs on his wrists.
"Bass, you get those items too. Any takers?" Chris asked, surveying the team.
"I nominate Courtney." Eva voiced sternly.
"I second that." Bridgette agreed, grinning at Eva who gave the blonde thumbs up.
"Fine, give me the pieces of crap." Courtney stated, catching the items and locking herself in the jacket and handcuffs.
"Now, can I finish?" Chris insisted, continuing without an answer, "Today's canoe trip will take you across the lake to the mysterious Boney Island!" The host announced with a somewhat ominous but annoying voice, "When you get there you will have to portage; otherwise known as carry your canoe to the other side of the island. It's about a two hour hike through a treacherous forest, so I hope you're all prepared."
"Oh I am so ready, let's go going!" Izzy giggled, quickly being stopped by Chris,
"Not so fast, I'm not done yet. Once you arrive at the other end of the island, you'll build a rescue fire that will be judged by me. The first team to paddle home and return their canoes to the beach wins invincibility. One more thing and then you're free to go. Legend says that if you take anything off of boney island, you'll be cursed forever!" Again, Chris spoke in a mysterious voice, making weird hand gestures.
"Speaking of curses, has anyone seen Trent and Gwen?" Heather asked coldly, glancing around the group.
"I think I saw them back at the cabin," Justin admitted, heads turning to him, "They were talking or something."
"Yeah I think that! I mean, who wouldn't think that about you." Trent expressed, smiling lightly at Gwen who was seated next to him, legs resting on top of his legs.
"Thanks Trent, you really make me feel great about myself. I don't know what I was thinking the other day, sorry about that."
"No, forget about it, it's cool."
"Hey, you guys!" Cody called from the beach front, "The challenge is about to start, come on!"
"Shall we Gwen?" Trent gestured, taking Gwen's hand and pulling her along to the beach, her smiling the whole time.
Trent Confessional
"This is amazing! I'm so glad me and Gwen are getting along so well, it's like we're already a couple. I don't know why I was so worried a few days ago, things have turned out okay."
Katie and Sadie Confessional
Katie began, "Despite coming here as bffs, we want to expand our list of friends! We decided to split up and choose new paddles partners!"
"Right," Sadie agreed, "Maybe if we get lucky, we'll get even more bffs! Oh yay!" The two then began squealing in unison.
Izzy Confessional
"Am I being crazy or is Cody just being really sweet? And I mean like really sweet, like a piece of chocolate dipped in more chocolate and covered in sauce. Mhm, I'd eat that right up! Haha, I'm like a shark right? Roar!"
Heather Confessional
"Despite being stuck on a team of losers, I knew I had to join someone's paddle crew. So I decided to be strategic and play the sympathy game."
Heather strutted over to the first canoe and pushed it in a very extravagant way, making sure everyone was watching her,
"Oh no! This canoe is just too heavy! I don't know if I'll ever move it on my own." Heather whined, falling over on her knees a bit too dramatically.
"Yeah, good luck with that." Gwen mocked, hopping into the canoe next to her and allowing Trent to push the object into the water, hopping in shortly after. Cody and Izzy stepped by Heather, sulking by herself even if she was acting. Cody, feeling guilty, called out to her,
"Hey Heather, you can come ride with us if you want." Heather shot up and ran over to the two, greeting them with a smile,
"Thanks you guys, let's work hard today!" Heather shined with happiness, smiling wickedly when they turned away. While everyone else was busy gathering a partner or partners, Noah, Beth, Justin, Katie and Sadie all met under the dock, making sure they couldn't be seen,
"We haven't met in a while you guys." Justin announced obviously, much to Noah's annoyance.
"That's because we've all been busy trying to avoid all the psychopaths around here." Noah stated blandly, continuing, "Now, we're all gathered here because it's time to set our plan into action, despite Ezekiel's elimination. This plan involves mostly you two, Katie and Sadie." The besties nodded in agreement, allowing Noah to finish, "You two have got to find out more information on your teammates. We already know about big mouth Courtney so try to get and know that big athletic looking dude and that tough jockette, okay?" Noah instructed, referring to DJ and Eva and pointing at the two the best he could while wearing the handcuffs. "That'll be all, let's get going before our teams suspect something." As Noah, Justin, and Beth all hopped onto their water craft, The Bass were busy dividing themselves into different canoes.
"Oh, DJ, come with me!" Katie jumped excitedly, grabbing DJ's arm and dragging him off to a canoe.
"Hey, uh, Eva," Sadie started, "You want to-"
"No." Eva cut off, "I'm going with Bridgette." Eva stated firmly, walking over with the blonde surfer to hop into one of the canoes. Sadie looked around the rest of the Bass team, examining her choices. Between Duncan, Geoff, and Courtney, Duncan was definitely her best choice. She approached the male happily and began talking,
"Duncan! Come with me!" Sadie nudged, hoping up and down excitedly.
"Uh, sure you creepy clone." Duncan agreed, allowing Sadie to pull him away. As those two boarded a canoe, Geoff scurried over to Bridgette and Eva,
"Mind if I hop in with you ladies?"
"Yes, get away." Eva said dryly.
"No, come on, let him stay. Get in Geoff." Bridgette laughed kindly, smiling as Geoff joined the two while Eva grunted.
"Hey, what about me?" Courtney screeched rudely.
"What are you blabbering about?" Eva asked, pushing her canoe into the water.
"I have to go in a canoe! Who wants to take me?"
"Why don't you just swim?" Duncan mentioned annoyed, "I'm sure if you just move all that mouth power down to your legs you'll make it in no time."
Courtney Confessional
"Okay, maybe I was really harsh when I said what I said during the last challenge. I just don't know why my team's acting so uptight about this; I am their strongest player after all."
"I think we should let her come with us." DJ said, turning to Katie as the two pushed their canoe onto the lake.
"No, why should we do that? She's the one who acted like a total jerk!" Katie shouted defensively, not wanting to be stuck with Courtney.
"Come on, how would you feel if that was you?" DJ pointed out, making Katie feel awkward and weird.
"Fine," Katie sighed, giving in, "Hey Courtney!" She called; Courtney craning her neck to Katie's words, "Why don't you come with us? It'd be sad if you had to go all alone." Courtney turned their way with the same expression of disgust that she always seemed to have and strutted over to the two.
"Good, now let's get lined up. Go ahead and start us up you two, I'll just sit back and relax like the natural order of things."
Katie Confessional
"Well, Courtney's above manual labor now is she? Well that's not gonna go over very well."
DJ Confessional
"What an, um, pardon my language mama, but bitch! I'm sorry mama, but woo that felt good. Maybe I should curse more often! I mean, if that's okay with mama. She doesn't want any son of hers using foul language like that, but it felt so right."
"Great idea DJ," Katie muttered as she and DJ struggled to push the boat out onto the lake; taking about five minutes but eventually managing to do so. With all the other canoes lined up, Chris decided it was time to start the race. Raising his hand, he began shouting to the campers,
"On your mark campers! Get set!" The host pulled out a pistol from his coat pocket and fired a shot into the air which signified the start of the race. Unfortunately, he nailed a bird with the bullet in the process and caused the animal to fall right in front of him. "That's gonna upset some people." Without hesitation, the campers began rowing the canoes as hard as they could. Right out of the gate, the trash talk started.
"Hey fish heads!" Heather called to the Killer Bass from her canoe as she let Izzy and Cody row them, "Maybe if you're lucky you'll be close enough to see my ass when we kick yours today!"
"What madness are you barking woman? That's not gonna do any good, we need action!" Izzy screamed, jumping to the front of the boat and rocking it back and forth.
"Izzy, relax, your cry for attention isn't going to-" Cody tried to calm the read haired girl, but quickly got cut off by Heather's screaming voice as she clung to the side of the boat for dear life as the boat continued thrashing around in the water.
"Onward to victory!" Izzy screeched as their boat came to a halt as no one was paddling anymore since Heather was straddling Cody and knocked the ore out of his hand and into the lake.
"Whoa, why'd we stop?" Izzy asked as the other boats swiftly passed theirs; even Katie, Courtney, and DJ's canoe as only Katie and DJ were rowing and for some bizarre reason, Courtney had decided to drag a cooler onto the canoe when the two weren't paying attention which was really weighing them down.
"Can't you guys row any faster? We're almost going the same speed as the canoe that stopped!" Courtney scolded, crossing her arms.
"Listen Courtney, you can't talk to people like this and expect them to listen to you." Katie tried explaining, but Courtney simply blocked her out, murmuring the phrase,
"Faster!"
"If you'd help, we'd move faster!" DJ explained, rolling his eyes in annoyance. He wasn't typically the type of person to get mad at anyone, but Courtney just seemed to strike all of his sour notes.
"I'm handcuffed here people! I can't row even if I wanted to!"
"We all know you don't want to so I don't think the handcuffs would have made much of a difference." Katie murmured to DJ, causing a series of a few giggles and a comforting smile. In another Killer Bass canoe now about 800 miles away, Sadie and Duncan sat in an awkward silence. The two were a bit behind the main pack but still managed to keep pace despite only being a team of two. Sadie was breathing heavily as she paddled with all of her might while Duncan used a minimum amount of strength, actually letting Sadie do most of the work.
"So," Sadie spoke up, fidgeting in her seat, unsure of what to say, "How're you doing?" Duncan sighed but didn't respond, preferring the silence over this uncomfortable conversation.
"Maybe we should row harder, we're falling behind a bit." The larger girl pointed out, Duncan nodding in agreement. Several minutes went by with no exchange of words if you actually wanted to call it that considering Sadie was doing all of the talking,
"Hey," Duncan muttered, finally speaking up, "You should take it easy, you're doing a lot of work."
"No, it's fine. I'm trying to make myself more useful on the team! After all, I wouldn't want to disappoint anyone!" Sadie replied happily, still rowing with the same enthusiasm.
"That's kind of lame, don't you think? Not everyone's going to like you if you try to appeal to them."
"I'm not trying to appeal to anyone," Sadie pouted, defending herself, "I just think teamwork is an important value. While we're talking here, can I ask you something?"
"As long as I get to ask you something too." He responded, receiving a nod from Sadie. "Fine then, I'll go first. Why did you choose me to be your paddle partner?" Sadie was about to answer honestly when it hit her; she wasn't supposed to talk about the alliance, if they were even calling themselves that. She panicked for a quick moment before coming up with the first thing that came to mind,
"I think you're cute!" As soon as those words left her mouth, Sadie punched herself mentally. How stupid was she? Duncan seemed speechless; as all he did was leave his jaw slightly ajar and twitch his eye a bit with his face tinted a light red color that the BFF was sure no one had ever seen before.
"That's uh, sweet Sadie, but I don't really-"
"Oh yeah I know, you're into guys' right?" Sadie blurted out; cutting Duncan off and once again beating herself up on the inside for the idiocy that was spewing from her mouth. At this statement, Duncan frowned and responded in a harsher tone then before,
"What are you trying to say? I'm not into dudes; that's nasty." Sadie sensed a bit of deflection in his words, but decided to let it slide; more confused on what he was saying rather than how he was saying it,
"Hm, but I thought you liked that one Gopher kid?"
Duncan Confessional
"After Courtney's little tantrum, I'm not taking any chances. If I let anyone into my life for even a second, it's game over for me. I can't let that happen either, I want that money. Wait a second, who told Sadie I liked dudes? Er, I mean, because I don't it's just that, uh…"
Beth Confessional
"Isn't it great when you're surrounded by a ton of cute guys and they don't know you exist, giving you free range to crush on them all you want? I used this tactic back at my high school during co-ed gym class. Needless to say, I don't think Web Dorberman appreciated my secret love letters, hair collections, and phone calls so much when he found out I was the one sending them, but now we have lawyers and restraining orders to sort out all of our problems!"
Beth, Noah, and Justin all sat comfortably as they had someone become the lucky ones and chosen a canoe with an underwater jet propeller, powering them along up the lake to the island. While it was just the three of them, Beth decided to make her move. She scooted right next to Justin, causing the teen male to jump in shock but relax when he noticed it was only Beth.
"Oh, hey Beth. Sorry about that, I must've dozed off with my eyes open, it's one of the many talents I have with my eyes. I can also invert my eyelids, you want to see?" Beth was too lost in Justin's beautiful face to respond properly, so she just mumbled out some gibberish that even she couldn't make out what she was saying. Taking Beth's words as a yes, he flicked his eyelids upwards into his skull; his eyeballs becoming red and bulgy before he squeezed his forehead and popped the eyelids back out.
"Wow, you even make eyelids look hot." Beth mumbled, actually surprised at how she managed to form some words. Noah, noticing the somewhat strange interactions between his two canoe mates glided over on the other side of Justin; the boy now sandwiched between the two. Noah leaned over and whispered into Justin's ear,
"Dude, she's totally flirting with you. You can either drop out now like Owen on the first day of camp when he broke one of the bunks or go along with it like the waves Bridgette caught when the boats dropped her off on the wrong island. Your choice man." Noah rubbed his wrists quickly to numb some of the pain from the handcuffs and scooted back away from his tan friend, hoping he'd do the smart thing. Unfortunately, in the short time Noah had gotten to know Justin; he came to the realization that he probably wouldn't. Justin, oblivious to almost everything that was going on around him because he was spacing out watching a seagull fly by snapped back into reality when their canoe suddenly stalled and jerked backwards; tossing the three teens to the floor of the craft.
"Why the sudden pit-stop Noah, did something happen?" Beth asked, moaning as she rubbed her jaw.
"I didn't stop our canoe but you should be glad it did. Look up ahead." Noah gestured towards the large rock in the shape of the skull, signifying boney island. The current was now taking their water vehicle up the lake and closer to the shore of the island. Since the boat had stalled, the other canoes had now caught up and were trailing behind the three. Among them, there was a canoe consisting of Bridgette, Geoff, and Eva. Needless to say, the trip there had not been so pleasant for the trio, nor was it very nice now. Bridgette tried to block out the sound of Eva and Geoff arguing nonstop back and forth.
"Listen blockhead, there's no way some party animal knows what's good for this team. I say once Courtney's eliminated, I'm in charge."
"Hey, relax. We can work through this if you'd just shut your huge mouth long enough for me to finish a sentence."
"Stop it you two, that's enough!" Bridgette screamed, although a bit too loudly as Cody, Izzy, and Heather turned from their canoe to check out what was going down. Bridgette sighed and lowered the volume of her speech,
"You two can't bicker, we're a team here. We have to work together, you understand?"
"I don't have to listen to an idiot who thinks drinking beer and getting high are more important than hard work." Eva glared at Geoff before turning away and focusing on her rowing.
Eva Confessional
"People like him make me sick. You can't just party all you want and expect everything to happen the way you want it too, that's bullshit and it's not the way I play."
All the canoes; even the one Courtney was in, all arrived at the shore of Boney Island around the same time; each canoe team quickly scurrying off to raise their canoes and carry them through the forest. As Justin, Beth, and Noah all sprinted ahead to lead their team, Cody and Izzy struggled to even lift the canoe in the air let along over their heads.
"Heather, you mind helping here?" Cody asked, although it was more of a demand then a question.
"And break a nail? No way." She scoffed, strutting away to catch up with the rest of the team. Gwen and Trent stared at each other longingly as they also passed Izzy and Trent, too lost in each other to even listen to Cody's cry for help.
"We can't give up! The race has just begun!" Izzy roared before flipping herself under the canoe and lifting it above on her own. "Grab on!" She instructed to Cody who hopped behind her; grabbing the canoe as well as she began pedaling away, forcing Cody to sprint to keep up. Right behind the Gopher's were the Bass, who were now arriving on the shore. Duncan and Sadie arrived first and sprinted away with their canoe as DJ, Katie, and Courtney appeared and did the same; with the exception of Courtney of course who wasn't helping at all, leaving only Geoff, Eva, and Bridgette. As the three stepped out of their canoe, Eva gave Geoff a hardy shove to reach the front of the vehicle, wanting to lead the three.
"Get used to this animal; I plan on being in charge for a while." She smirked, glaring at Geoff who just seemed to shrug which really pissed off the jockette and walk behind Eva, assisting her in lifting the boat. Bridgette frowned and did the same, following the team into the woods.
"I don't think this is the right way." Beth expressed, taking a moment to look at the sky and then back down at their surroundings, "Aren't we supposed to follow the sun or something?"
"Maybe if I followed your eyes, they'd show us the way out of here." Trent flirted with Gwen who he was standing besdie, causing the goth girl to giggle who usually wouldn't be caught dead doing that.
Gwen Confessional
"It's just one of those days where the universe is perfectly aligned to make everything you ever wanted to happen a reality. They get two thumbs up from me."
"Wow, talk about barfing." Heather interjected as she referred to the couple.
"Maybe it's the kind of barf that turns brown when it hits the water." Noah stated annoyingly. "Let's get moving."
"No!" Izzy shouted frantically, "You have to let me guide you! One time I got lost in the woods with my uncle, aunt, and my third cousins dog that we ended up eating because we were lost for so long. Anyway, while we were lost, I went all survival expert and I ended up finding an abandon campsite! I bet if I can do the same now if you'll let me!" Not having any better ideas, the Gophers went along with Izzy's plan; hoping it wouldn't cost them in the end. Meanwhile, the Bass weren't having a nearly as rough time, having taken the path on the right instead of the left like the Gophers at the beginning of the race.
"You guys should be thanking us." Duncan mentioned out of nowhere while the group was walking relatively silent until the male's outburst.
"Yo, why should we be doing that?" DJ questioned with suspicious eyes.
"Me and Sadie here chose the correct path, that's what! It's pretty obvious the lame brained ground animals took the bad path. I mean look at this flat land. If you ask me, you-"
"I'm sorry half-head; I don't remember asking you anything, right?" Eva ruled, stricken with annoyance.
"Hey man, don't talk to him like that." Geoff scolded, trying to defuse the bomb of a situation that was happening around him.
"What does he know?" Sadie bellowed, allowing her usually calm and quiet self to speak up, "Knowing the party animal he probably would have gotten us lost!" Katie gasped at her besties words before choosing a few of her own,
"You can't say that him! We're a team!"
"This is ridiculous!" Bridgette screamed, gathering everyone's attention. "Look, I've seen these shows before. Once the team starts fighting, everything falls apart. They start losing challenges, and then none of them have any chance at the money! We can't let that happen to us, can we?"
"How informative," Courtney responded sarcastically, turning her head, "Luckily for you, I've seen these kind of shows too and I happen to know that there's a ninety-five percent chance of a merge soon. When that happens, you can all expect to lose. But regardless, as Bridgette said, I believe that we all need to tolerate each other until that time, agreed?" The group remained silent until Eva spoke up,
"Great, so now the homophobe is going to preach to us about getting along, that's real ironic," Which just sent the team spiraling into arguments once again. Bridgette, the only who wasn't consumed in her teams bickering just stood and sighed, hoping that the Screaming Gophers were being as dysfunctional as them right now.
Izzy Confessional
"I may be one-fourth psycho and two-thirds quirky, but I know what I'm doing when it comes to navigating! I already told you the story of getting lost in the woods right? Well it was a total lie! I wanted to lead the group to victory, so all I had to do was tell a tiny white lie! It'll be worth it though when my team sees that I was spot-on."
"Are you sure you know where you're going?" Trent asked Izzy as she held Gwen's hand, walking along with his team. Cody turned to stare at the two curiously before turning his head back to Izzy who responded,
"I'm ashamed you doubt me!" Izzy laughed hardily, skipping a few steps ahead of the group. "We're almost there, don't worry!"
"I sure hope so, I'm not sure I can take this heat anymore." Heather moaned, fanning herself with a piece of paper from her back pocket.
"What's that you got Heather?" Beth questioned, referring to the piece of paper Heather was holding.
"This? I got it from some lame-ass camper on the other team. I saw someone rush into the cabin and then sprint back to the Bass one. It's some sappy love letter."
"Ohh, can I read it?" The brace faced girl asked yearningly. Heather shrugged and tossed the letter behind her and into the small female's hands.
Beth Confessional
"Getting a love letter is one of those special moments in your life when you stop and think; someone likes me! Well, unless it's a threatening love letter with mentions of sexual advances among other things, but I won't get into that. The point is that whoever wrote this letter has a crush on Heather and with this pen, I'll be able to act like it was from Justin and he has a crush on me!" Beth quickly scribbled Justin's name at the bottom of the paper and smiled eagerly at her handiwork.
"Hey, I think I see the shore!" Izzy stated to the whole group, happily pouncing off the ground.
"I didn't think crazy over there could do it, but I guess we should start collecting firewood then." Noah commanded, separating the group as they went in separate directions. Gwen and Trent strode hand in hand as they made their way over to a rock to search for sticks.
"Listen Trent, do you think we're being too open about our relationship? I mean, we're kind of just shoving it in everyone's face. I also feel like we're moving way too fast. I mean, if we-"
Gwen was cut off by Trent shoving their lips together in a passionate kiss. At first, the goth female closed her eyes and allowed her lips to be glued to his before quickly stepping back, pulling the two apart,
"Trent, I just tried to tell you I thought we were advancing too quickly and then you pull that? Maybe this was a mistake."
"No Gwen, I just, I mean," Trent stammered, trying to choose his words and think of a logical reason why he kissed Gwen, but he couldn't wrap his mind around his thought process.
"Trent, we need to think some things over before we're ready to commit to a relationship, okay?" Gwen explained, hoping Trent would agree. Luckily, he nodded his head, feeling a bit hurt that Gwen had somewhat rejected him.
"If that's what you want Gwen, I needed some time to think anyway." Trent spoke positively, smiling as he walked behind a valley of rocks.
"Damn, I thought for sure kissing her would get rid of any doubts she had about our relationship. I really like her…" As Trent chatted away with himself, he spotted a small glimmer out of the corner of his eye. He twisted his neck around to see a small wooden object, it appeared to be a doll or tiki of some kind, but he couldn't be quite sure. Upon holding it in his hands, a smile grew over his face,
"Gwen will love this!"
"I'm leaving!" Sadie shouted at her team as she stormed away moving forward.
"Finally, someone's moving!" Bridgette groaned in joy as she followed Sadie around a turn in the path and ended up on the shore. Bridgette twitched for a second before screaming, "It was here this whole time?"
"Hey guys, get over here, we found the beach!" Sadie called; the rest of the Bass running up behind her.
"Hey look, it's the fish!" Justin announced, "Took you guys long enough!"
"We're behind! Get moving!" Courtney ordered; her team to surprisingly listening to the CIT and gather every twig and stick they could find.
Geoff Confessional
"Dude, there is some tension! Man, if I had a knife I could just cut right through it. Seriously though, all this fighting with each other isn't getting us anywhere; its lame man."
DJ Confessional
"Ever notice how when you want something to happen, the exact opposite happens? I just asked for one day yo, where we weren't fighting. Katie's been complanin' about it, so I want to figure out some way to stop it, y'know?"
Katie and Sadie Confessional
"This is really hard!" Katie complained.
"I know!" Sadie agreed, "How are we supposed to work with our team and collect dirt on them at the same time for Noah? This is hard."
"Good work on leading us to the shore earlier Izzy, you were a big help." Cody thanked the frizzy red-haired female as he walked along with her to drop some sticks into their fire pit to signal Chris.
"It was no big deal; anyone with my leading skills and keen sense of smell could have done it!" She laughed modestly, smiling. Just as Izzy was about to ask Cody a question, she was cut off by Cody turning his head away from her and watching Trent call Gwen's name. This caused Cody to squint furiously and storm off; leaving a confused Izzy behind.
"Hey Gwen, I have something for you!" He called excitedly as he stopped next to her, "Here, it's a little charm I wanted to give you." Gwen smiled warmly and snatched the little item from his hands,
"Thanks Trent, but this doesn't mean commitment, does it?"
"Of course not!" Trent choked out quickly, "I just uh, thought it'd be nice gesture, you know?" He finished. Gwen chuckled a bit, which was again out of character for her and stuffed the object in her pocket,
"I'll keep thinking about things. You go ahead and think too, okay?"
"Of course!" Trent agreed, nodding. On the other side of the beach, the Killer Bass weren't cooperating at all; not like it was a surprise. Eva intentionally body checked Courtney sideways and Courtney retaliated by grabbing a fistful of sand and chucking it at the athletic female, only to have her move out of the way and smack Duncan right in the face.
"Watch where you're throwing crap!" The male snapped, enraged.
"Good to see you guys cooperating. Keep making things easy for us." Noah sneered, passing by the Bass side with two armfuls of branches and twigs.
"You're pissing me off too shrimp, no matter how cute you are!" Duncan blurted; instantly regretting his words. Noah stared at Duncan uneasily for a moment before rushing away from the Bass, dropping his sticks as he went.
"Good intimidation strategy gecko head, more sticks for us." Eva congratulated, gathering the timber the short male abandon and tossing it into their fire pit which was growing rapidly.
"Now we just need a way to have to it reach Chris…" Eva trailed off, racking her brain. DJ and Katie popped up behind the athletic female, having just raided the ground around the bush they were behind for stray twigs.
"Yo, why don't we just fan the flames?" DJ interjected, Katie nodding in agreement. DJ whipped off his shirt and Katie grabbed the biggest tree branch she could find. The two then quickly proceeded over to the fire pit and started fanning the flames rapidly, with little effect.
"Geoff, give me your jacket!" Bridgette commanded; Geoff taking off the pink-purple jacket he was wearing and throwing it over to the female surfer. Once in her hands, she began assisting the other two with the flames.
"They're beating us!" Heather shrieked, "Get some mores sticks, hurry!" The teenage female began jogging to an open area in front of the woods where an abundance of sticks was. As soon as Heather started gathering the item, she was stopped when she heard a distinct muttering sound. Taking a few steps into the woods and looking at the ground she found Noah scrunched up against a tree and hugging his knees; seemingly in shock.
"What is he saying? Such crazy talk…" Noah mumbled, not even glancing at Heather when she snapped her fingers.
"Noah!" Heather screamed which actually caused him to turn his head in attention, "Get up and start helping! We're behind the Killer Bass and their fire is almost visible!"
"There's no need to worry. Take this." Noah stated calmly. Heather seemed a bit shocked as she accepted a small clay ball with sticks and grass stuffed in it. "A clay bomb, made it in all this confusion," Noah explained, "Just throw it into the fire and the explosion should be big enough to get Chris's attention. Just be sure not to stand too clo-" Before Noah could finish, Heather sprinted off back to their fire pit, leaving the male to himself.
Noah Confessional
"Good old Heather. Too obnoxious to thank someone for their help and then too impatient to wait for an explanation. Good thing I'm not like that-, well, I mean, I did rush off from Duncan. But he's thinking about this situation too much. Wait, is that his plan? Make me flustered enough for our team to lose? That'd make sense. Man and I thought Heather was manipulative."
Beth Confessional
"There are three crucial steps to getting a guy. Step one is to always make sure you're looking your best, which I mean come on, just look at me. Step two is to have him on his knees, and I mean from boredom. Literally recite every single line from that history report you watched on television and memorized every word of until he falls into a deep sleep. If that works, you can successfully move on to step three, which I'll explain after I work step two on Justin."
Beth scurried over in a very clumsy matter to Justin, regaining herself as he turned to spot her.
"So Justin," the short female started, "Did you ever hear abou- oof!" Beth groaned as she was suddenly shoved to the ground as Heather ran past her, shouting,
"Move geek!"
"Watch the knees Beth!" Justin shrieked as he jumped away and let Beth fall on her face. "Those things are my money makers. You okay though?" He asked, reaching out a hand to help her.
"Not the best approach but I'll take it!" Beth squealed as she took Justin's hand and allowed him to help her up. While Beth continued swooning over Justin, Heather had just arrived at her team's fire pit. Taking a quick glance over at the Bass, she noticed that their signal was almost visible. Heather slammed the clay bomb into the fire pit, causing an instant explosion. The explosion sent her flying backwards, right into a large stone jamming up from the ground. The explosion also managed to reach Chris in his helicopter, forcing him to higher to avoid the explosion.
"Wicked job Gophers!" Chris congratulated using a megaphone so he could be heard. The Gophers started cheering, but Chris spoke again, "Unfortunately for you guys, since the signal technically reached the Killer Bass side too, the fire also counts for them. Get moving back to your canoes!" The Gophers sighed in disappointment as the Bass sighed in relief; thankful the challenge was almost over.
Duncan Confessional
"You think I said what I said to Noah to throw him off? I mean, uh, yeah that's what I did. On another note, you see how Sadie's been creeping all around me? It's starting to bug me, but I guess I can suffer a canoe ride back and never speak to her again."
Gwen Confessional
"Why did Trent give me this thing? I appreciate the thought, but look at it. Looks like something Heather would create if she ever had a kid. Assuming she can still have a child in the shape she's in now."
Beth Confessional
"I guess payback is pretty sweet, especially when it's on someone like Heather."
Noah Confessional
Noah shrugged before mumbling, "I tried to warn her."
Chef strapped Heather into a stretcher as her body twitched in pain and wheeled the girl away, her team waving goodbye. Once she was out of sight, Gwen began speaking,
"Listen guys, since Heather is kind of like our unofficial appointed leader, I'm taking charge." She stated firmly.
"Weren't you just in a contemplating suicide state like a day ago?" Justin asked rudely with no actually intention of being rude. He received a nasty glare from both Trent and Cody as the shorter of the two males cleared his throat,
"I think Gwen should lead. She's always looking out for everyone else when it's convenient for her, so why shouldn't we let her lead us?"
"I want to lead!" Izzy shot up eagerly, jumping, "I got us here in the first place!"
"Stir-crazy has a point." Noah observed, turning back to Gwen.
"That's just it though, she's crazy." Gwen pouted angrily, "Besides, I'm sick of just sitting around on the sidelines and doing nothing, feeling sorry for myself. It's time to get in the game."
"It's settled then!" Cody agreed as their team started heading for the canoes, Izzy in a somewhat jealous rage.
Izzy Confessional
"When has Gwen ever done anything for anyone besides herself? More importantly, why is Cody supporting her? She hasn't done anything for him!"
Eva Confessional
"This is great. With their team bickering like this I can really pull out all the stops in luring the Gophers into a false sense of security before we literally crush them. Not like Heather can get any flatter then she already is."
"Same partners as before, except Geoff will be riding with Duncan and Sadie," Eva commanded, giving Geoff an evil look when he was about to speak up, "Good, no arguments. Let's get moving." Sadie rushed over and hooked Duncan around the arm,
"Canoe buddy! Come on, we have to beat those gophers!"
"We're canoe buddies? That's dumb. Besides, isn't it a little awkward after what you said earlier?"
"Hm?" Sadie hummed with a confused look, "Oh! No, I don't like dwelling on stuff like that. Besides, it wasn't any more awkward then what you said to Noah earlier." Duncan's face flushed with embarrassment causing Sadie to laugh.
"It's okay, natural feelings right?"
"Pf, there's nothing natural about what I'm feeling. I tried just being that guy that was friends with him, but I feel so much more. Maybe I'm a freak, wouldn't be the first time I've been called that." Duncan sighed sadly. Sadie hugged him from behind and smiled at him,
"If it wasn't natural, would it be part of the human society?" Duncan smiled back at Sadie and hopped on to their canoe as Geoff persistently trailed behind Eva and Bridgette as they made their way to theirs.
"Is there a reason you're following us?" Eva demanded sternly, shooting daggers at Geoff.
"Just wanted to ask Bridge for my shirt back." Geoff stated calmly; swerving around the menacing girl and right to Bridgette.
"Oh sorry, didn't realize I still had it. Thanks for letting me borrow it."
"Naw, it's cool. That was great what you did to help the team, brave too. We should hang out sometime?"
"Yeah, that'd be cool." Bridgette replied, smiling as Geoff made his way over to Sadie and Duncan. DJ and Katie both gave each other high fives and hopped onto their canoe and even helped Courtney on to the canoe.
"She was a total pain today," Katie whispered into DJ's ear, causing him to snicker.
"Let's hope it's not that way for long, yo."
"ATTENTION CAMPERS!" Chris boomed from his megaphone, gathering everyone's attention, "WHEN I FIRE THE GUNSHOT, THE FIRST TEAM TO ARRIVE BACK AT CAMP WINS. READY?" Without warning, Chris did as he had said and fired a gunshot into the air, hitting yet another bird and killing it.
"Stroke you guys, come on!" Gwen ordered as she blew a whistle she seemed to have pulled out of nowhere.
"We just started, chill." Beth complained, which actually managed to make Gwen laugh,
"I thought you guys wanted to win. Come on, don't be so dumb."
"Ease down the control a little bit." Trent whispered to Gwen in front of her, as they were sharing a canoe. Something had come over Gwen that she herself wasn't even sure what was going on. She could feel like little tiki charm that Trent had given her start to vibrate in her pocket but she continued speaking,
"Also, what's up with these lame-ass contestants? It's like they want me to win the million dollars. And don't get me started on the host!" The charm in her pocket began violently shaking in her pocket until it ceased all motion. As soon as that happened, all of the Gopher canoes stopped suddenly; jerking some of the campers forward. Without warning, all of the canoes sank instantly, leaving all of the Gopher's in the water.
"Great leading captain." Izzy growled sarcastically as all of the Bass canoes whisked by them. Within a few mere minutes of the Gophers treading water, Chris's helicopter flew over top of the team,
"Hey, what're you guys doing? The Bass just won! Pick your favorite loser and send them home!"
Geoff Confessional
"I think a few things were accomplished today. I got to spend some time with Bridgette which is awesome. We won the challenge and as a bonus Heather got all her bones crushed. It's been a great day."
Noah Confessional
"Ugh, that is the last time I send Katie and Sadie to do anything. I ask them to gather information and what do they come back with? Stories about love and acceptance, lame."
Justin Confessional
"You haven't seen Beth around, have you? She's following me man, I can feel it. It's like she's everywhere. Her eyes are just staring into my soul!" Justin whimpered and rushed out of the confessional. Soon following, Beth landed with a thud from the ceiling of the outhouse, obviously spying on Justin,
"Step four," Beth began as she stared at the camera a little too closely, "If step one and two don't work, follow the guy relentlessly until he has to go out with you."
Gwen Confessional
"I don't know what happened to me. It's like I wasn't myself, it was some scary shit. I'm sure it has something to do with this weird doll thing, well I'm done with it." Gwen set the tiki down on the wooden seat around the toilet ring and stepped out of the confessional.
"And now, the always anxiety inducing marshmallow ceremony," Chris began climatically, "When I call your name, come and get a marshmallow." Chris sat the plate down on his podium and called out the first name, "Justin." The male eagerly ran up and snatched up one of the treats, hugging it against his face.
"Izzy." Izzy smiled and then heard Chris announce Cody's name right after hers; the two turning and walking up together to get marshmallows.
"Heather." Heather, who wasn't present and was probably unconscious, could not claim her marshmallow. Instead, Chris threw it in his own mouth and voiced the next two people,
"Trent, Beth." The two rushed forward and snatched a marshmallow, thoroughly enjoying it.
"Noah, Gwen. This is the final marshmallow of the evening."
Trent Confessional
"Not gonna lie, the short dude's sarcasm and attitude are getting a little old. I don't want to hear it anymore."
"The final marshmallow goes to," Chris droned the familiar phrase again, sending fear into the campers that had already received immunity. Noah looked nonchalantly in the distance while Gwen bit off one of her nails and flicked it on the ground. "You guys could act a little more into this you know." Chris pouted.
"Whatever, just give one of us the marshmallow." Noah mumbled, trying not to fall asleep with the mixture of how bored and tired he was.
"Agreed, just give me the marshmallow already. There's no way Noah's going to win out over me."
"Hate to say it Gwen, but he did. The final marshmallow goes to Noah." Noah grudgingly stood up and lumbered over to the tray, pulling off a treat and eating it.
"Why did I get kicked off? I helped you guys! I was doing my best! Trent, did you vote for me?" Gwen asked frantically as Chef popped out of nowhere and began taking Gwen to the Boat of Losers.
"Of course not, you'll wait for me right?" Trent pleaded, Gwen responding with a nod. With that, Gwen was tossed onto the boat as it began sailing away from the island.
Cody Confessional
"I can't believe Gwen's gone. I didn't even get to know her that well. I wish we could have spent more time together."
Izzy Confessional
"I did it, getting Gwen kicked off. It was easy really. Just tell everyone about Gwen's attitude on the canoe and it was bye-bye to her. Maybe next time she'll stay away from Cody and stop distracting him!" She shouted with ferocity. As she was about to exit, she spotted something jetting out from the corner. "Hey, is that a tiki doll? Oh, I've always wanted one of these, yay!"
"Looks like things are getting interesting. Is there actually someone on the island crazier then Courtney? The answer to this question and more, next time on Total, Drama, Island!"
Elimination Count; Leshawna, Harold, Tyler, Lindsay, Owen, Ezekiel, Gwen
A/N: Hey! Thanks for reading! Sorry it took so long to update and that I kind of pushed the Gwent on you this chapter. I didn't write much about it the previous chapters and since Gwen was getting eliminated in this one, I had to rush it. I hope you enjoyed it regardless. Also, since it's really late now there may be some potential spelling and grammar mistakes as I'm extremely tired. If you spot any(I'm sure you will) please feel free to notify me! Thanks for reading and please review! :)