Chris "Last time, on Total Drama Luxury Tour… We returned to Rapa Nui. Teams searched for eggs, and reunited with a certain pair of condors. Cody got his "son" back, Justin learned that he still had his charm within the animal kingdom, and Trent got closer to Sadie's other half. But ultimately it was Owen who took the first walk down the plank for "apparently" decking the baby condor with an egg… hmm… I could have sworn Alejandro had the egg at the time… Who will go next at our newest destination? Find out here on Total…Drama… Lllllllllllluxury tour!
*cues theme music*
**Killer Captains**
During these long periods of downtime, the contestants do what they can to pass the time.
"Got any sevens?" Cody asked.
"Go fish" Bridgette responded.
"Got any Kings, eh?" Ezekiel asked Sierra.
"I got one" Sierra responded, handing homeschool her card.
"Umm… why does this card have Cody on it as the king?"
"I printed these playing cards myself" Sierra proudly announced.
"Hey Courtney, want to join us? The more the merrier especially since Heather has been in her room all day and Trent and Katie have been steering for us" Bridgette friendly invited.
"Pfft, no way. I don't need those losers' company" Courtney gave her snotty remark to Ezekiel, Sierra, and Cody's dismay. She then walked into her cabin and shut the door.
"She is so mean! I cannot stand her!" Sierra stated out loud.
"Go easy on her, she had it hard last time. She may have not been the nicest girl around, but no one deserved what happened to her last season" Bridgette protested.
Heather then came out of her room and walked to the supply crate, ignoring the others. She took some meat and used a blender to turn it to soft mush.
"Wow Heather, you're taking your condor-care really seriously" Cody complimented.
"Shut it, Geek-face, this is your fault anyhow" she stubbornly said while stomping back into her cabin with Cody Jr's meal.
Up on the deck, Trent plays music while Katie happily enjoys it.
**Screaming Admirals**
Duncan relaxes next to Gwen.
"Ugh, I cannot stand this junk pile" Gwen complained.
"Relax babe, I promise you this next one will be ours" Duncan assured.
"Good, I would kill for a less eye sore of a ship"
"Believe me when this contest is over, we're gonna have this thing decked out with skulls, bat wings, and gargoyles! It will be the most metal boat ever!"
"That would rule!"
**Rabid Skippers**
"Is Alejandro still on the deck steering?" Noah asks Izzy privately, wary of any possible eavesdropping.
"Yep, Cadet Izzy saw Sadie with him up there" Izzy responded.
"Good, I need to tell you something. I think Al framed Owen"
"What? Big O?"
"Yeah, I think he told everyone Owen threw the egg at that bird"
"OH THAT DIRTY ROTTEN A..." Izzy shouted just before Noah covered her mouth.
"Shh! We can't confront him at this time. We have no idea how much influence he has over the other Skippers" Noah instructed, "We have to act naïve and seemingly buy into that eel's lies, at least for now"
**Killer Captains**
"Land ho!" Trent yelled to his team.
Heather heard him from her cabin and ordered Cody Jr to stay in her room as she left the ship with her team.
Everyone meets up with Chris at shore alongside the interns who will be working on the Captain's ship once more.
"Where are we now?" Tyler asked the host.
"We are in Mexico, I know that" Alejandro answered.
"Well, we aren't at our next destination yet, we are gonna be going a few hours on land," Chris informs as everyone else groans, "but since time is a factor we'll be going on bus there" a beat-up old school bus driven by Chef pulls next to them as the contestants hop aboard. After a long, heated, bus ride they finally get to their destination to a large cavern that appeared before everyone as they stepped out.
"Welcome swabs, to the Naica Mine!" Their host announced, "This Mexican mine has the richest and LARGEST amount of selenite crystals! For this challenge, you all have to retrieve the BIGGEST crystals the mine has to offer. Deep inside the mine there is a chamber called the Cave of Crystals. It is there where you will have to mine me up the enormous selenite samples and bring them back up here to me. I should warn you, it gets REALLY hot when you get down there. Without protective gear, you guys would hardly last ten minutes, so I suggest you use your time wisely when you're down there" Chris said with a smile.
"So we're supposed to walk down into the dark scorching abyss to our deaths?" Heather angrily asked.
"No, you're supposed to RIDE down there" Chris proudly corrected her, "Each team gets a mine cart to ride down Naica Mine and into the Cave of Crystals and then use them to carry the crystals back up. Whichever team gets to the Cave of Crystals first also gets first dibs on mining equipment left down there by the interns I sent last night. No word from them since, hm. Well anyhow, good luck all of you"
C.C.
Noah "I kinda wished Alejandro framed me back at Rapa Nui all of a sudden"
Courtney "He can't legally force us down there, can he?"
Alejandro "I dunked in lava, I can handle this"
All the contestants load up onto their teams' carts. They all clustered due to the lack of space due to the mine carts barely being able to hold eight people at once.
**Rabid Skippers**
"Glad Owen isn't with us anymore, our cart would break" Alejandro said.
"Cadet Izzy still thinks he should have stayed" Izzy mentioned with distain.
"Yes, it was with great reluctance to vote him off, but competition brought out the worst out of him. But let us win this for his sake. In the meantime, I will become the new captain in his honor," Alejandro said with his façade in place.
**Killer Captains**
"Move it, Heather!" Courtney yelled trying to kick some breathing space in.
"Ow!" Cody cried as he gets hit in the face by Courtney's shoe.
"Watch it, Courtney!" Heather yelled as the other shoe hits her, "You don't get half the cart space to yourself!"
"Just move out of the way and let me lead then!" The CIT barked.
"Ahem, I am captain of this team!" Heather reminded.
"You'll be voted out in no time, just like Owen!" Courtney threatened back.
"Okay how about this, then?" Heather offered, "You can lead the team today and if we lose, you'll be the one who we vote out"
"Hmph, you're on, but if we win, I am the team leader!"
"Fine"
C.C.
Heather "Okay, gambling our chances of victory may not have been my best decision."
Courtney "And once I am leader, you are going first, Heather!"
**Screaming Admirals**
"Wow, Doris, this is rather impressive actually" Duncan complimented to the best of his ability.
The admirals are in awkward positions but are offered plenty of breathing space thanks to it. This also allowed Duncan to lead their mine cart much more easily.
"Thanks to my mad skillz at Tetris, I know how to organize my blocks" Harold gloated.
"That's my ginger biscuit" Leshawna added.
Chris "Okay, on your mark… get set… GO!
The host sent them rolling as he and Chef pushed the carts down into the mine.
"Man I wish we had a song for this part" Chris said disappointedly.
"I have the strange urge to play Donkey Kong" Chef added.
As the teams road down the abyss they were soon unable to see a thing.
"Where are we supposed to go if we can't even see where we are going?" Bridgette asked as the vehicle took them to parts unknown.
"What do you say, "Team Captain?'" Heather mockingly asked.
"Umm… I don't know…" Courtney hesitantly responded.
**Screaming Admirals**
"See anything Duncan?" Gwen asked nervously as the mine cart took speed in the darkness.
"Hold on one second," Duncan says as he pulls out his lighter. As soon as he ignited the flame, the reflection of light lit up all the crystals the cave held inside it, revealing vast beautiful mounds of selenite.
"Wow…" DJ said amazedly.
"There so big…" Beth added.
"But the ones we need are at the bottom" Geoff reminded.
**Rabid Skippers**
"Beautiful" Lindsay also said on her team's cart as they rode past the lit crystals.
"Focus, Lindsay!" Alejandro yelled as their mine cart hit one of the large selenite mounds, spinning it out of control.
The Skipper cart fell behind as the Admiral and Captain mine carts were neck and neck.
"You're going down, princess" Duncan taunted.
"Bite me!" Courtney shot back.
As the two carts raced, the interim captain leader noticed a tunnel.
"A short cut, let's take it!" Courtney told her team.
"But what if it's a dead end?" Cody questioned.
"Shut it twerp, I'm team captain!" the CIT yelled back at the geek.
The captain mine cart rolled down the unknown tunnel, and as soon as they do, everything goes dark.
"You idiot, Duncan's team had the light source!" Heather reminded angrily.
"Oops..." Courtney nervously said as the cart rides into the darkness.
"What are we gonna do?" Katie panicked.
"Use my guitar!" Trent reluctantly says.
"You sure, Trent?" Cody asked.
"Just hurry up and break it in two, then start a fire with the two pieces!" Heather yelled.
Just as the team got the fire going they find themselves rolling down to a sharp corner on a ledge. As they all scream, Cody turns the cart as sharply has he could. Unfortunately, the turn ended up throwing him and Courtney off the ledge and into the abyss.
"CODY!" Sierra screamed.
"Cody! Are you alright?" Trent yelled, hoping his scrawny friend was okay.
"I don't hear them" Bridgette worried.
Unfortunately the cart was still rolling at incredible speed as they continued down the mine.
**Rabid Skippers**
"Where did the Captains go?" Noah asked the Admirals after his team caught up with them.
"I don't know, they took a turn and we haven't seen them since" Gwen answered.
"They'll be fine, let's just keep going" Duncan cut in.
**Killer Captains**
Cody and Courtney found themselves in pure darkness.
"Ugh… my head hurts…"
"Well good going, twerp! Now we're gonna die because of you!" Courtney barked at his direction of sound since she could not see him.
"It was either us or ALL of us" Cody defended.
"Pfft, if only it was just you"
Cody, clearly not wanting to continue with this, felt around for some flint. Suddenly he sees a flicker of light in the distance, "Could it be?"
Cody runs to it and finds one half of Trent's fiery guitar and thanks his guitarist friend silently.
"GIVE ME THAT!" Courtney yells as she snatches it from the geek's hands. With the torch guitar half, she proceeds to find a path to the Cave of Crystals. Cody, not knowing where else to go, follows her.
Meanwhile their team continues to roll down to places unknown.
"He's gotta be okay… he just gotta…" Sierra panicked.
"I threw one of my torches down to them. That should help for now" Trent tried to assure her.
"But what if the fall killed him?"
"DON'T THINK LIKE THAT!" Heather yelled louder than she wanted to, "I mean, if he can survive a bear and shark attack, he wouldn't let this be the end of him, right?"
"Hey look, I see finish line, eh!" Ezekiel pointed out.
"We made it!" Katie announced.
"In third," Duncan finished Katie's sentence as the mine cart reached the other two.
As the teams enter the crystal rich chamber, they immediately notice how incredibly hot it was.
"Someone turn the thermostat down" Lindsay complained.
"Where are we, in the planet's core?" Beth added.
"Now that all teams made it to the Crystal Cave, part two will begin! As you can see the selenite deposits down here put others to shame," Chris spoken through a walkie-talkie left for them by the missing interns, "Since the Admirals got here first their advantage for the crystal harvest is the box of TNT dynamite.
"Sweet," Duncan stated, eager to test their reward out despite the intense heat that filled the area.
The Skippers will get mining picks as part of their secondary advantage and the Captains will have to settle for heavy stones.
C.C.
Duncan "Would love to keep some of our reward as a souvenir when we finish, hehe"
Noah "Yeah, give a sociopath some explosives. No harm can come from that"
**Killer Captains**
"Stop following me, twerp!" Courtney snapped at the geek.
"I don't have another option since you took our fire" Cody reminded.
"Then just stay out of my way and keep your trap shut!"
"Hey, we should go that way!" Cody eagerly pointed out.
"Where it's hotter? If you want to die, that's fine, but I am not gonna let Duncan and Gwen beat me!"
"If it gets hotter, it's more likely to be the Cave of Crystals"
"Oh please, why should I listen to the group leech?"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Cody said, now getting a little aggravated.
"Pfft, the only way you ever made it far was from someone else's help"
"What?"
"Like last season, the only reason you made it to third place was from clinging to the skirts of Team Amazon, and even those minuscule moments of somehow being able to stand on your own two feet only existed by mere flukes!" She harshly stated as it sunk deep into Cody's skin, "And even thereafter, it was Sierra who did all your work for you! And why, it's because you are nothing but a pathetic little wuss!"
"…" Cody just turns and walks away after hearing that, not wanting to trade light for any more abuse. After escaping her sight, he silently whimpers to himself, "…she's right…"
The geek could only rely on his feeling of heat, now that the light source was gone, to try and find the Cave of Crystals in his newly depressed state.
Chris, "Will our miners make it through the heat… in more ways than one? Or will their hopes "cave in" on them? Find out when we return to Total… Drama… Luxury Tour!"
Teams:
Screaming Admirals: Duncan, Gwen, Leshawna, DJ, Geoff, Harold, Beth, Eva
Killer Captains: Heather, Cody, Sierra, Bridgette, Trent, Courtney, Katie, Ezekiel
Rabid Skippers: Justin, Tyler, Lindsay, Noah, Izzy, Sadie, Alejandro