Last time on Total Drama Island; we put the campers through the most dangerous challenge of the season; an extreme sports battle! While there were injuries; mainly Noah impacting into the earth from an airplane, there was also stiff competition and high tensions. A secret of Eva's was revealed when Beth, the super stalker, found out that it was really her planting the love letters to Heather all this time. While Izzy, Justin, Duncan, and Heather all succeeded in doing their part for their respective teams, Sadie from the Bass totally failed when she got launched from a moose into a pile of dirty sweat socks, and it was time to send her home. Only ten campers are left; who will crumble under the pressure? Who will rise above expectations? It's time to find out, right now, on Total, Drama, Island!"
The campers from both teams began filing in to the dining hall that morning, pretty exhausted and tired from their last challenge. Next to the door, Chef and Chris watched the teenagers enter through the door.
"Morning campers," The host greeted in his usual cocky voice, "Hope you're hungry today, Chef's got a few special things prepared."
"I think ya'll are gonna' like it real good, hehehe." Chef snickered as he walked back into the kitchen.
"But there isn't any food here. Besides, anything Chef gives us can't be worse than the usual slop." Duncan decided, taking a seat at the usual Bass table.
"I wouldn't get too comfortable Duncan, I think you'll be moving shortly." Chris foreshadowed, moving along, "Now, before I get into that, I'd like to congratulate you for making it to the final ten. You're currently at the halfway mark, which means there's only a little bit left to go."
"Does that mean we can finally escape the grasps of the psychotic host and co-host cook on this bizarre island?" Noah asked hopefully, but Chris shook his head.
"Nope, it means you have the best chance of making it to the very end of the competition!" Chris exclaimed; causing Noah to frown.
Noah Confessional
"What baffles me is that Chris and Chef actually think that they're clever and somewhat sneaky. Please, there isn't anything they've done that I haven't predicted or expected. There's going to have to be some kind of huge doozey to throw me off balance and trust me, I doubt that's going to happen."
"…Because of the merge coming up next episode, there will be no elimination this challenge." Chris explained. The campers began cheering happily and allowed the host to continue, "Additionally, this challenge is going to an ultimate battle of the sexes! Males and females going head to head! Since Bridgette is the only female on the Bass, she'll be moving over to the Gopher cabin and Cody, Noah, and Justin, you'll be moving to the Bass cabin."
"I'm here too Chris, you didn't mention my name." Eva grunted, glaring down the host for forgetting her.
"So, like I said, Bridgette is the only female on the Bass." Chris laughed for a second at his joke while Eva tightened her fists before Chris stopped his laughter and finished, "Just kidding Eva, move on over to the Gopher table and male Gophers vice versa."
"Forget him, he's a jerk." Bridgette calmed to the female, who took a deep breath and relaxed. She nodded in response to her friend and smiled.
"Now, once you guys have settled in to your new cabins, come back here and I'll start explaining the challenge. Get moving campers!"
Noah Confessional
"Alright, well, this whole male and female battle thing was a twist, but I guess it was bound to happen eventually. Besides, being on a team of males will just remind me how I lack in comparison to them in all areas with the exception of mental ones. Seriously, it's true."
Heather Confessional
"Chris is insane if he thinks I'm sharing a room with she-hulk and the surfer hippie. I swear if that hairy beast gets sweat anywhere on our floor or my clothes I'm going to rip her arms off. Still, I guess I could act nice and get the newbie's to join in an alliance with me. It's the least I can do after all, since this whole thing with Justin is going nowhere. He's too busy playing with Noah and that braced-face stalker. If he wants to hang around with the children, so be it. And no, I don't need his attention to feel wanted; I get that feeling from all of the money daddy gives me to go shopping."
"Here, the bunk under mine is open if you want it." Duncan guided swiftly to Noah as he, Cody, and Justin entered the cabin.
"Uh, thanks." Noah gave the male a strange look before tossing his bag onto the bed Duncan had offered him and unpacking his things. As he did this, he felt a pair of eyes on him and turned to find the male staring at him. "Can I help you?" He asked, somewhat annoyed. Duncan paused for a moment before shrugging and commenting,
"…Just making sure everything's cool, whatever." He feigned off, but Noah wouldn't let this drop.
"I've caught you staring and watching me a bunch of time and everyone else seems to think something is up between us. Is there something you need to tell me?" Duncan turned a light shade of pink for a moment before quickly coming up with an excuse,
"You're weird. I just don't think I've seen someone like you before."
"Weird huh?" Noah repeated to himself, frowning a little, "Funny, you seem to think I'm a little bit more then "weird", but I'll let this drop for now. Just know that I have my eye on you." He whispered harshly, causing Duncan to smile and retort with,
"I look forward to it."
"Hey, sweet cabin you guys!" Justin interrupted, checking the place out as he tossed his luggage on to one of the upper bunks.
"Yeah," Cody agreed, "Ours didn't even have a useable window, this is like an oasis in comparison!"
"Well make yourself at home, here, help yourself." DJ grabbed two sodas out of a cooler stashed away in the corner behind one of the bunks, offering the drinks to the two and leaving Cody and Justin in shock.
"How'd you guys get a mini-cooler? Oh and this is diet right? Trying to watch the 'bod." Justin explained as he happily took one of the drinks from the teen.
"We stole it from Courtney after the boating challenge a while ago. Well, Geoff did anyway. He said she didn't need and that she was spoiled enough as it was. Whatever the dude's goal was yo, he sure accomplished it by taking this thing." DJ explained as the other two males exchanged high fives. Meanwhile, over in the female cabin, the girls weren't exactly getting along, not that it was really unusual.
"...You are not taking my bunk you ox of a woman!" Heather snapped as she held back Eva's arm while the other female stomped across the floor.
"I'll take whatever bunk I want, got it?" Eva snapped back, causing Bridgette, Beth, and Izzy to flinch at the hostility.
"Guys, come on, chill. We can totally play a game of poker or war or something! I have some cards over here, see?" Izzy tried to persuade, holding up the full deck but Eva and Heather were too busy focused on each other to listen.
"Maybe we should just let them fight it out? One of my many ex-boyfriends used to say that if an issue arises, it's best to avoid the crisis." Beth revealed. Bridgette glanced at the girl and asked,
"An ex-boyfriend of yours really said that?
"No. Not really." Beth confessed quickly, causing Bridgette to face palm.
"…And maybe you'll stop being so prissy and actually compete for once!" Eva screamed and kicked in one of the bedposts.
"Hey, that's my bed! My army of pillows will be destroyed!" Izzy shouted frantically over the fight.
"…And maybe you'll stop leaving a ton of hair in the sink of the washroom before we get to use it! Seriously, that pit hair is nasty!" Heather gagged, making an exaggerated face to go along with it.
"At least I can actually compete! I bet you'll chicken out before the challenge even starts you wimp!"
"Watch me." Heather growled through her gritted teeth. Eva shot daggers at the girl, both with her eyes and in her mind, but kept any thoughts she had of pounding the female into the ground out of existence right now.
"You guys, we need to get along! The guys are probably bonding right now and we're busy fighting!" Bridgette commented as the two fighting females stormed away from each other.
Beth Confessional
"Heather and Eva fighting? Okay, this totally blows my previous theory about the whole love letter problem from earlier. Another one of my ex-boyfriends used to say that if you argue with the one you love, you'll end up in the mud. Well, I think that's what he said. It was hard to hear him through all the lightning and rain while he was on the roof of his house that day..."
Izzy Confessional
"THOSE PILLOWS WERE SO YOUNG!" Izzy sobbed loudly between her exasperated cries, "THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A CHANCE TO FIGHT IN THE WAR! OH WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN TO THE BEST OF US!?"
Heather Confessional
"Okay, so arguing with man parts wasn't the best way to get either of those two on my side. But hey, the day is still early and, despite every fiber of my gorgeous body telling me not to, I have to make nice with the beast Eva if I ever want to get Bridgette to join me. Let's face it, those two are tight."
"Well now, I guess it's time for today's challenge!" Chris exclaimed with the campers lined up in front of him in the dining hall.
"But we haven't eaten yet. Did Chef run out of ingredients or something? I'm sure he could just grab some rats and toss them in some soup or something…" Cody trailed off as Chef stepped out from the kitchen.
"You'll get your food soon, so shut up and listen!" He snapped, quickly gathering the teen's attention.
"We might as well tell them," Chris snorted shortly before picking up a clipboard off of the table he was next to and reading it off, "Today's challenge is…The Brunch of Disgustingness!"
"That doesn't sound so bad…" Justin gulped.
"You'll all be dining on a nine-course meal where each member of your team will have to finish each dish. You will not know if the next dish is grosser then the last. It could be not as gross, or just as gross. Either way, you have to eat it."
"There is some kind of reward for this, right?" Heather asked viper-like; Chris just smiling in response.
"I was about to get to that. For your reward, the winners of this challenge will spend two days at a local five star resort where they'll be pampered, eat gourmet food, and be given antibiotics against anything they might have caught while competing on the island!"
"Oh I could so use a nice hair scrub and pedicure!" Beth exclaimed happily while the other campers smiled about the reward.
Noah Confessional
"I've had a black scab on my elbow for three weeks now. I would literally kill off everyone here just for that resort treatment. Well, maybe not like Justin or something, but definitely Heather. She's the one reason I'm still competing. The minute I eliminate her I am done, it's not worth it."
"..The losing team will be going hungry tonight, although I'm not so sure you'll want to eat anyway. But you'll be stuck here regardless, on Total Drama Island, with Chef." Chef grinned evilly and waved at the campers, mumbling,
"I've got some great ideas for ya'll, hehehe." He cackled. With that, the campers rushed to their respective tables, ready for the challenge. Silver trays were placed in front of each camper.
"Eugh, what is that smell?" DJ moaned as he held his nose to block out the foul stench emitting from under his tray.
"It smells like defeat to me because you guys are going down!" Heather insulted, smirking confidently.
"Enough chit-chat, let's begin the challenge." Chris pushed, speeding the campers along, "You can now lift the lid off of your trays and eat your appetizers." The teens did as they were told and gagged upon lifting up the lids, as there was some kind of hairy and gray circular meat placed underneath the lid stacked on up on little piles. "It's bovine bull meatballs! Eat up!" Without hesitation, Eva grabbed one of the balls and tossed it in her mouth, swallowing the piece of meat in a few bites.
"Hurry up and eat the meat. I want that spa treatment." Eva commented lowly, eyeing her team. The females all nauseously stared at the nasty things on their tray. Honestly, they weren't even sure if it was food. "Eat it." Eva demanded, louder this time. Izzy shrugged and placed one into her mouth, slowly gagging the piece down.
"Ew, that was gross. I wonder if there's like some kind of recipe for this stuff." Izzy asked, staring around the room for any more spare pieces of meat. Meanwhile, the guys were fighting the same battle as the girls, but all of them seemed a bit more concerned about the effects the food would have on them in the long run.
"We should all just down it on three." Cody presented; DJ and Noah nodding in agreement to the idea. Out of nowhere though, Duncan quickly snatched one of the pieces of meat and chewed it up for swallowing, not even flinching at the foul taste.
"We're not losing to a bunch of girls." Duncan stated as he coughed and choked on the piece of meat. Noah and DJ exchanged weary glances before following behind Duncan and eating their meatballs with horrified expressions after doing so. Cody gulped in nervousness and gobbled the gross meatball down without too much gagging.
"Ew, who eats this stuff?" He choked out through his gags, causing Chef to smile.
"Snotty teenagers who have no respect around here! That's who!" The cook snapped. Cody, in shock and fear, responded with,
"Hehe, message received."
"Justin, you're the last one, get your head out of your ass and eat one." Duncan ordered, but Justin shook his head.
"Eating any of this will cause great harm to both my physical and mental image. Besides, I could lose my incredible charms and good looks!" He explained, causing the other males to glare angrily at him.
"…Done!" Bridgette called from across the room as she swallowed the last bite of meat for the females.
"Well, it looks like the females have beaten out the males for the first round!" Chris announced, causing the girls to cheer and males to scowl at Justin, who was oblivious to their anger.
"Oh wait to go Justin, you just let the girls win!"
"Hm?" He asked, focused on his reflection in the small hand mirror he always seemed to carry around.
"Justin, I think you and I need to have a meeting right now." Noah stated; Justin removing his gaze from the mirror and to the other teenager.
Justin Confessional
"It's not like I threw the challenge or anything, I just need to keep in shape is all. Now with all of this tension between the other guys it's like it's all my fault. Maybe we all just need to relax and come together. Listen, I know those girls hate each other, but they didn't even show it that challenge! Maybe that's what we need to do…"
"Justin, I can respect your wishes, but we need this trip to that resort." Noah confirmed, snapping his fingers to make sure the male was in fact paying attention to him. "If we win this challenge, I can personally guarantee that there's going to be some kind of gym and organic buffet bar there." Justin perked up,
"Really? Will there be strawberries? No more of this horrible camp food?"
"You bet. Now put your all into this challenge, we need this win." The shorter teen encouraged; Justin nodding in agreement. As the two returned to their table, Chris began his explanation of the second course as silver trays were being passed around to each team.
"You guys like pizza?" Chris asked as the campers all seemed to nod in unison.
"Oh oh, are we having pizza?" Izzy questioned excitedly, "Will there be toppings?"
"You can bet on the toppings Izzy, definitely." Chris smirked devilishly. Upon placement, Chef raised the lids off of both trays and revealed yet another disgusting meal. "You'll be dining on live grasshopper pizza with tangy jellyfish sauce and live anchovies."
"O-Oh, t-t-that's not right…" Beth stuttered out sickly; turning around to vomit on to the floor. Each camper took a slice of the pizza onto their plates and stared at it skeptically. Eva, once again pushing back any of her doubts and fears, picked up the slice and shoved it down her throat; not even choking on the gross piece of food.
"Eat the pizza; it's not going to kill you." Eva encouraged somewhat, the best she knew how anyway. At least she was trying.
"B-but if I eat that, I'll have l-living things hopping around inside of m-me, that's so nasty!" Beth stuttered in fear once again, pushing the piece of pizza away from her and trying not to gag. "It's n-not even food! It's poison!" Beth shouted.
"You're eating this food!" Eva demanded, but Beth shook her head. "Fine, have it your way." In a few swift movements, Eva stood up and stomped over to the girl, grabbing the piece of pizza and holding the girl down on the ground while she forced the thing into the short teen's mouth. "Eat it!" She screamed as she did so. After swallowing and consuming the piece while still pinned by Eva, Beth proceeded to upchuck the recently consumed food all over the stronger female.
Eva Confessional
Eva recited a long list of swear words too graphic to be heard on television that were all blocked out by censorship. She was still covered in barf.
"Alright, alright, I ate it. It's your turn Justin." Cody passed along, sticking out his tongue from the taste and waiting for Justin, the last member of the male team who needed to eat the pizza. "The girls are beating us right now and Heather's the only one who hasn't eaten hers yet!" Justin sat silent for a moment before taking a deep breath,
"I'll do it for the organic bar!" He decided; forking down the pizza in two bites. Duncan and DJ followed behind him, gagging slightly at the taste and Noah took a moment to stare at his with wide eyes.
"Dude, come on, eat the pizza." Justin pushed, burping a loud long burp and throwing up on the table shortly after. Chef groaned and grabbed his mop, brushing up the gross digested food and into a bucket on the floor.
"Fine fine, don't rush me." With fingers crossed, Noah stared down at one of the little grasshoppers moving around and chomped right into it; biting his body in half and devouring the pizza in a swift movement.
"Ugh, no, no, I can't do this." Heather feigned, pushing the plate away from her is disgust.
"With Heather's forfeit, the males have won the second challenge!" Chris announced, causing the males to cheer and Beth on at the female table to upchuck behind her again. "Now, who's ready for the next course?" With no other choice but to continue, Chef placed a silver tray in front of each camper and allowed the teenagers to lift the lids off; revealing a moving substance all piled together and topped off with some kind of green sauce.
"Um, did you guys just sprinkle the barf Beth and Justin just produced and put it on top of this dish?" Bridgette asked as she eyed her food cautiously.
"Actually, its live meal-worms covered in snail slime and hairballs."
"Guy, we can win this time! This one's easy!" DJ tried to encourage to his fellow guys, setting an example and consuming several of the worms before anyone else. After holding back barf, he lightly smiled and said, "See? Delicious."
DJ Confessional
"I'm not gonna' let Katie's elimination a few challenges ago go to waste. She taught me to be brave and that if I stick through with something, I can accomplish it. Plus, it's just a bunch of possibly contagious worms covered with a potentially fatal substance. It's not like I'll die, right?" After taking a few seconds to ponder his words, DJ barfed all over the camera and covered the confessional bathroom in his gross upchuck.
After glancing at each other for a few seconds, the males all nodded in unison and ate the gross worms simultaneously; choking the whole time. Meanwhile, the females just gave their dishes extremely uncomfortable looks; even Eva.
"Well come on, who's going first?" Heather asked; eyes still locked on the moving creatures on her plate. Bridgette glanced around the table and sighed, figuring they weren't going to get anywhere just staring like they were.
"I'll do it." She spoke up, gulping and then devouring the little buggers on her tray. With one swallow, she was able to consume all of the worms that were stacked up on her plate. The other females, who watched the event, weren't very inspired by her act. In fact, it caused Beth to turn around and spew some more barf and Izzy to laugh crazily.
"Do it again!" She laughed. Unbeknownst to the females, the males had just finished their plates of food and were now celebrating.
"The males have just won the third round!" Chris chanted as the boys continued to cheer over their victory over the females.
"Come on you guys, we need to pull together!" Bridgette somewhat snapped to her team.
"Well maybe if Eva would keep her big nose and head out of everyone's faces we could actually eat." Heather blamed, turning to glare at the tough teenager.
"And maybe if a certain long haired female would stop worrying about other people and just stuff the food in her mouth, I wouldn't have to get people's faces." Eva snapped back.
"Guys, stop fighting! With all this good food around, there's no need to be angry!" Izzy piped up, smiling in the hopes that she had defused the situation. Eva and Heather sat back down and turned away from each other in anger.
"Now things are about to get interesting." Chris spoke, allowing Chef to move in front of him and speak.
"I hope your stomachs can handle all of what's coming, hehehe." Chef chuckled creepily, stepping back into the kitchen and returning with a push-cart full of silver trays.
Bridgette Confessional
"As long as our team fights against each other we'll never have a chance at winning! There has to be something I can do to reunite our team in unity."
Izzy Confessional
A plate of the worms the two teams were supposed to consume was sitting on Izzy's lap while she stuck her fork in and out of the tray of creatures, shoveling the bites into her mouth. After swallowing, she spoke, "I don't know what my team was talking about, this stuff rocks!" She returned to burying her face in her food again as opposed to talking some more.
"Just think about it you guys." Bridgette spoke as her team sat in defeat at their table while they waited for their next meal to appear. "The longer we fight, the more the guys win. Do you want to win that resort treat or not?"
"Well or course we do," Beth agreed, "It's just that-"
"No!" Bridgette interrupted calmly, "It's because we aren't coming together as a team to work out or problems. The guys aren't on the best terms right now and we can take advantage of that and come together and win!" Bridgette squeaked. The other girls exchanged glances and all nodded in unison.
"Alright Bridgette, I'm in." Eva agreed, smiling. "Everyone else better be in too." She threatened, glaring down the others.
"Yeah, females rock!" Izzy chanted, raising her hand for a high-five with Beth.
"Yeah! Why not?" Beth cheered as well, meeting Izzy's hand. "Come on Heather, join in." Heather sighed and turned away,
"Fine, just don't hold us back." She agreed, half smiling to herself.
Heather Confessional
"I am not bonding with those losers. I just think it's best that I put my hatred for them aside in order to win this challenge. It has nothing to do with the fact that I'm secretly lonely. Oh shit-"
Beth Confessional
"She's bonding with us."
In just a short montage and after what seemed like an eternity, the two teams were now faced with the final plates of food in front of them. To recap, the fourth dish was a green colored soup with toenails and hair that the females quickly devoured. The fifth round was a wad of chewed up bubblegum slapped onto a plate, something that the females re-chewed and swallowed with little problems. The next dish, or rather drink in the sixth round was a cup of skunk stink captured into a glass that the campers were forced to swallow. The males made extreme faces while they drank, but still came out on top and won the round. The seventh round was an old rubber flip-flop with a smiley face drawn in glue on it; an object that females somehow managed to eat. Finally, the eighth round was a huge bowl filled with garbage that Chef had dumped into it from the breakfast earlier that morning. The males ate the raw garbage and almost barfed while doing so, but were still able to win; tying the score. At this point, the campers were all pretty sick and woozy, tired of the challenge at this point.
"That spa is going to be so worth it once we win this challenge." Heather groaned, rubbing her stomach.
"Ditto, I can't wait to get my knees buffed again. They've lost that special luster that they once had." Justin revealed out loud, staring down at his not so shiny knee-caps while the other males gave him questioning looks.
"Well, despite that disgusting barf fest of food you guys just consumed, the scores all tied up!" Chris commentated excitedly. "This is the final course of the day; it's delicious dolphin wieners. Hot dogs made of dolphins!"
"Dolphins? DOLPHINS?" Bridgette screeched as she stared down the hot dog on her plate.
"Don't chicken out now or we'll get Izzy and Eva to shove it down your throat, now shut up and eat it." Heather ordered while turning to look at the two females she had just mentioned; Izzy waving back happily and biting into the piece of dolphin she had on her plate. The males all began consuming their dolphin dogs as did the females with the exception of Bridgette, who just had a horrified expression on her face.
"Eva, feed her the meat!" Heather snapped through her chewing at the tough-looking female. Eva paused her eating to stare down at her shocked friend and then turned back to see Heather's intimidating glare.
"No." She responded sternly. Eva wasn't going to just turn around and betray her friend and make her do something she didn't want to do, even if she had done it to be Beth previously, because let's face it, Beth was a creepy stalker.
"Are you defying me? Listen hairy arms, do you want to win that retreat or not? Shove the dolphin into her mouth!"
"No!" Eva screamed, this time louder than the last time. "Bridgette's my friend and the last thing I need is some stupid looking future teen mom telling me that I need to go and assault my friend. That's not how we do things." With the females quarreling, no one was paying attention to the male table where, just a second ago, all of the dolphin dogs had been devoured.
"The guys win! The challenge is over!" Chris announced to both tables in his usual tone. The females broke out of their fight to concentrate on the host and began sulking in a mixture of anger and disappointment.
"And we were so close!" Beth moaned as she watched the guys cheer and march their way out of the mess hall and to the luxury boat waiting for them on the dock.
"Well with that, it looks like the girls get to help Chef clean up, isn't that right Chef?" Chris commented, prompting the insane cook to step out of the kitchen.
"Who wants to go hunting for some giant squid?" He asked sinisterly, smirking devilishly as the females gave him concerned and worried looks.
Cody Confessional
"Wow, can you imagine the kind of V.I.P. treatment I'm going to get? This is going to be the best kind of resort ever! I wonder if they'll have a whole computer set-up or some kind of new television or massage technology or maybe they'll have-" Cody's confessional camera turned off suddenly, unbeknownst to the male who continued blabbering even though it wasn't being recorded.
Noah Confessional
"I guess winning with a team wasn't so bad. I mean, we wouldn't have without a team in the first place. I know I've been berating this whole team aspect, but it wasn't that bad. But now that we know the merge is next challenge, I can just toss all of that garbage out the window and focus on the game. It's about to go down."
Izzy Confessional
"Losing just means that we get to go hunting for squid! Yay for squid! Have you ever wondered if they could ever walk on land with so many tentacles? They could like crawl around or shuffle and stuff! Haha, how cool would that be?"
The guys are the big winners today, while the girls get to go hunting for a giant squid. What a consolation!" Chris joked, laughing,
"Woo, a squid!" Izzy shouted from off camera.
"What shocking surprises are in store for our campers next time as they head for the big merge? Find out next time on Total, Drama, Island!"
Well, that's it! Sorry it was like a filler chapter, but that's all building up to the merge in the next chapter. By the way, who would you guys like to see return for the merge? I already know the first person who's coming back, but who do you guys want to see? Thanks for reading and I'll see you next time! C: