Author's Notes: God, this is probably the longest chaper I've ever written. Thank you all for your reviews and your opinions. I would say more, but my hands hurt from all the typing. I really, REALLY hope that you guys enjoy this chapter!
Harold stared and stared, the green eyes behind his glasses wide with disbelief. He watched as 'Duncan' walked forwards towards the gathered group with an arrogant smirk on his delinquent face. A cold chill went through Harold's body the moment he saw the mohawked teen and Heather share a quick glance at one another. It only lasted a mere second, but it was enough for Harold to realize that something was terribly wrong.
"How's it going, dude!" Geoff beamed and shared a high-five with Duncan.
"Nice to see that you're not a tarantula." Noah sarcastically commented, shooting Harold a sharp glare. Everyone in the lobby had now turned to stare at Harold, who was still standing in the middle of the room, transfixed by the sight of Duncan, completely normal and human.
"H-How?" Harold stammered out, a deep red blush beginning to burn in his freckled cheeks. He was fully aware of all the embarrassing stares being fixed his way. "How did you change back from a tarantula?"
"What the heck are you talking about, nerd?" Duncan rudely replied. Harold noticed his voice sounded slightly different, yet very familiar at the same time. "Hit your head with the nun-chucks too many times, dorko?"
A tittering of chuckles followed the delinquent's comment, causing Harold's embarrassment grow. The lanky, red-headed teen was trying his best to make sense at what was going on.
"This is impossible!" blurted Harold, sounding both angry and upset.
"No," Cody pointed out, "what you were saying was impossible."
"What I was saying was the truth! GOSH!" Harold knew that he was fighting a losing battle. Now that this imposter Duncan was here, there was no way the others would believe his outlandish story even if it was the absolute truth. Not even Gwen and LeShawna seemed to believe him anymore!
However, there were some truths that neither Heather nor this imposter could hide. He fixed a glare at 'Duncan.'
"Fine…Duncan, if that is your real name," Harold spat, narrowing his eyes to suspicious green slits. "Where's Courtney at, huh? And where's Jus…" he instantly clamped his mouth shut. An ominous feeling fell over Harold as he realized why Duncan's voice sounded so familiar yet so very different.
It was not Duncan's voice…
It was Justin's!
"Courtney's gone." Duncan, who Harold knew was really Justin, said impassively.
"Gone?" It was Bridgette who had spoken. She stared at 'Duncan' with concerned green eyes. "Where is she?"
So now you care! Harold sarcastically remarked inside his mind, shooting the blonde surfer girl and her boyfriend a withering glare. Figures that even as 'Duncan' Justin managed to get people's undivided attention.
"Emergency leave." Heather cut in, standing besides Duncan. "Her…aunt got sick so Chris let Courtney leave for visit with her."
Though Bridgette still looked unconvinced, Noah stood up from the lounge chair and drily said, "Well, that works for me. I'd like to continue this fascinating little conversation about magic and spiders, but I don't want to lose any more brain cells." He made towards the elevator. "Night."
Cody stood up as well. "I'm going to bed too." In the seconds that followed, everyone began to get up and head to the elevators, ready to retire back to their rooms for bed. Harold swung his head, helplessly watching as his fellow friends and cast-mates passed him, not even giving him a backwards glance.
"Don't tell me you believe them!" Harold cried, desperately trying to make them see the truth. "They're lying! That's not really Duncan! Courtney's not really at her Aunt's! They're stuck as tarantulas and hopelessly lost! They need help!"
Trent was the last one in the elevator. He turned around to face Howard and said just as the elevator doors were sliding close, "Try to get some rest, dude, and lay off the comic books."
Harold's shoulders slumped in disappointment. They didn't believe him. None of them believed him.
A cruel chuckle came from behind him. "Tough luck, loser." Heather said, her grey eyes narrowed and gleaming. Her long raven hair slithered with delight.
Harold whirled around and pointed an index finger at Heather and Justin. "You may win this round, but Izzy, Ezekiel, and I are going to get Duncan and Courtney back and reveal the truth! The real Duncan! Not an imposter like you, Justin!"
"We'll see who finds those spiders first!" said Justin, folding his arms across his chest.
"Be careful, pathetic loser," Heather deviously warned, leaning in close. "Don't get in our way of million or else you'll make our friends on the other side very angry." With this dark warning hanging over the geek's head, Heather turned and left the lobby.
Justin fixed his blue-eyed stare on Harold. "Now, normally I don't resort to violence, since physical contact would disfigure my perfect complexion." A cruel sneer curled upon his Duncan face. "However, since I'm supposed to act like Duncan and since this body can't possibly get much more hideous…" Without warning, Justin launched forward and delivered a painful punch to Harold's stomach.
Harold instantly fell to his knees, clutching his gut and groaning in agony. Even though his eyes were squeezed shut, Harold heard Justin laugh and walk off, following after Heather. Alone and in pain, Harold fumed with indignation, angered at the fact that just as he had made amends with Duncan, a new bully had stepped up to make his life miserable.
Not this time. Harold silently swore. He would NOT let Justin and Heather win! He would NOT be scared by their threats of violence and voodoo magic! He would NOT let them unfairly steal the million dollar prize!
"Those two will get that million over my dead and perhaps zombified body!" Harold heroically proclaimed.
Suddenly the elevator doors opened and out walked out a charred and electrocuted Izzy. She was dragging out Ezekiel, who was smoking and still letting out charges of static. The insane redhead looked at the empty lobby and then down at Harold, who was still kneeling on the ground, clutching his gut in pain.
"So, what'd we miss?" Izzy asked with a grin.
Harold miserably groaned.
About five hundred feet in the air and fifty miles away from the hotel, a certain tarantula couple were still floating around, clinging to a several Chris balloons, and still heatedly arguing while a rainstorm raged on around them.
"I want you to know that I still blame this entire thing on you!" Courtney yelled angrily up at Duncan, who was a few inches above her on the balloon strings.
"What a complete surprise!" Duncan said, rudely rolling all four eyes, which was quite difficult to master, but after spending a couple of hours of listening to Courtney's complaints, the spider boy had it down to an art. "Like I haven't heard you say that about hundred times!"
Courtney lifted one of her free legs and wiped the rain from her glaring face. "Well, it's the absolute truth! If you hadn't been so perfidious, impulsive, incongruous…"
"Get to the point! Jeez, does it look like I carry around a thesaurus?"
The brown and purple spider continued as if he hadn't spoken at all. "…so idiotic enough to actually fall for Heather's tricks, then we would still be safe and sound at the hotel as humans! And I would be spending my half of the million instead of being stuck here with you!"
Duncan flipped his soggy green mohawk away from his face and glared down at Courtney, getting fed up with all her annoying rants.
"Oh, well if that's how you really feel, then what about I just take all the million and go as far away from you as possible?" Duncan nastily taunted, sneering at the angry look on Courtney's face. "How will you like that! Hahahaha…!"
Pop!
Duncan stopped laughing at the sounding popping. He lifted his face up and saw to his horror the balloons had floated down towards a large forest and had gone too close to one of the sharp, pointy tree branches.
"Uh-oh."
All the Chris balloons started to pop and Duncan and Courtney were sent falling down toward the forest floor along the shredded balloon fragments.
The two tarantulas screamed as they plummeted down through the forest canopy, passing by towering branches and whipping through the sprouting leaves as they got closer and closer to the ground.
Lady luck seemed to be on Courtney's side for once; the girl tarantula managed to get herself caught in some hanging vines and they suspended her in midair right before she was about to topple into the mud-covered ground. Courtney breathed a joyful sigh of relief at avoiding a painful, mud-splattering fall.
Then lady luck decided to be a bitch.
"Aaaarrrgggghhhhhhhh!"
Duncan fell right on top of Courtney, snapping the vines, and causing them both to fall into the slimy, mud covered ground with a big 'THUD!'
The dark brown surface of the gooey mud bubbled for a second before a two tarantulas emerged, coughing and spluttering and completely filthy, covered head to all eight legs in mud.
Courtney vicious wiped the mud from her face so that her dark eyes, simmering with rage, could be seen. She pulled a soggy leave from her head and angrily threw it to the ground as she spat, "How dare you! Half of that money is mine!"
Duncan shook his self like a dog, flinging mud everywhere. He lifted one leg at a time to shake the mud off of all eight of them. "No way! I'm the winner of Total Drama Action! All the money belongs to me!"
"You would have never made it as far as you did in either season if it hadn't been for me!" Courtney argued, shaking the soggy leave in his face. "You horrid, lying pile of bull…"
"FROG!" Duncan yelled out a warning, scrambling out of the way as long sticky, pink tongue shot towards them. Courtney caught sight of the monstrously large bullfrog in the mud, staring hungrily at the spider couple with bulging yellow eyes. Screaming in fear, she crawled out of the mud, following after Duncan. The mohawked tarantula flung himself from mud and onto drier ground; he let out an 'oof!' when Courtney stumbled and fell on top of him.
"Excuse me, but if I do recall," Duncan said, lifting his face spider face up to the female lying on top of him. "I survived just fine after you were voted off in Total Drama Islan-Aaarrghhhh!" Both he and Courtney screamed in terror when a giant, pinkish-purple snake slithered from the tall grass and reared up, hissing as he eyed the two potential meals. It struck out; shrieking, Duncan and Courtney leaped in opposite directions, dodging just as the viper buried its fangs into the ground.
The tarantulas took this moment to begin crawling away as fast as their eight legs could take them. The snake pulled his fangs from the ground, shook his reptilian head, and swiftly slithered after them.
"Oh please!" Courtney continued bickering with Duncan even as they were fleeing for their lives through the dark forest floor. "If I hadn't helped you, you would have been voted off in some of the very first challenges!"
The snake struck out and they jumped.
"Oh yeah?" Duncan argued when they resumed scampering, "Name one time!"
"The phobia challenge!" Courtney said, leaping as the snake struck once again. "If I hadn't encouraged you, then you would have still been cowering in fear from Celine Dion!"
"I was NOT afraid of Celine Dion!" Duncan snapped, ducking from the viper's fangs. "I'm only afraid of Celine Dion standees!"
"Oh," Courtney sarcastically scoffed, "that sounds absolutely terrifiiiiieeeeeeeeee!" A pair of giant, talons suddenly wrapped themselves around Duncan and Courtney and lifted them up into the air.
"Fooooooodddddd!" hooted a large, Great Horned Owl. It looked down at the tarantulas in his talons, large amber eyes gleaming in the dark. "Gooooooooood foooooooood!"
"Holy censored! That thing's talking!" Duncan gasped, surprised that they could understand the speech of animals now.
"Don't change the subject!" Courtney snapped, still glaring at her companion and determined to win the argument. "You also need to give me half of the money because it's your fault that I got voted off in both seasons!"
"What are you talking about? Harold got you voted off in season one!"
"Only because he wanted revenge because of your constant immature bullying! So indirectly, it was your fault! You owe me that money!"
"Fooooooood toooooooo looooooouud!" The owl hooted, fixing his meal a ticked off glare.
"You stay out of this!" Duncan growled and viciously bit down on the meaty part of the owl's talon, sinking his venomous fangs into it. The giant nocturnal bird let out an ear-splitting screech and instantly dropped the spider couple.
For the second time that night, Duncan and Courtney plummeted from the drizzling, night sky. This time, they landed in a slow-moving stream. The two resurfaced and weary climbed onto a small, grey boulder sticking out of the dark water. Duncan, heaving with exhaustion, rested his head against the rock's surface, listening as Courtney coughed up some water. To his disappointment, almost getting eaten and drowning did nothing to shut the girl up.
"Listen Duncan," Courtney said, the anger in her voice melting to weariness, "back at the hotel, you promised that if I kissed you, you would give me my half of the money."
Duncan sat up and shook his head in an exaggerated manner. "Oh no, no, no! I promise to give you the money if your kiss changed me back to normal!" He gestured at their wet, foresty surroundings with his front leg. "Does this look normal to you?"
Courtney looked ready to explode. "Why you revolting, lying little…" suddenly her face went blank. She looked around the stream, staring as if in a trance.
"I know this place." She finally said in an oddly quiet, almost fearful voice.
Duncan blinked his four blue eyes and opened his mouth to ask her what was wrong but something else caught his attention and his question instead came out as, "Why are those boulders moving?"
Three grey boulders, almost identical to the one they were standing on, were slowly moving close to them.
"I know this place!" Courtney shrieked in fear, instinctively moving closer to Duncan; he, likewise, did the same until the two were back to back. "It's the stream from the animal challenge!"
Duncan gulped. "The animal challenge?" The boulders slid forward in the water and revealed giant fins.
Those weredefinitelynot boulders.
Suddenly the boulder beneath the two tarantulas was shaking and, to their horror, a large, triangular head slowly rose from the depths of the murky water. The giant shark twisted his head around so that he was staring at the two little, eight-legged morsels on his back. The shark flashed them a deadly, sharp-toothed grin.
"Haha, I got dips on the big one!" the shark growled in a deep voice. He opened his jaws to sink his hundreds of fangs into the two spiders, but Courtney raised her front legs out and shouted.
"Wait! You can't eat us!" Courtney cried. "Don't you remember me? I'm Courtney! You're human from the challenge!"
The large shark snapped his jaws shut and stared down at Courtney with a confused expression on his pointed face. "Courtney?" He murmured in quiet, thoughtful voice.
Courtney smiled in relief. Her shark actually remembered her! He couldn't possibly eat her after all they've been through.
The shark twisted his head side to side, addressing the two other sharks besides him. "Sorry boys, change of plans." The other sharks groaned and while Duncan and Courtney cheered. Then Courtney's shark stared straight at his human partner and his expression turned sinister.
"You three get the big one." His jaw curled to a cruel sneer. "The gal's all mine!"
With that, all four sharks struck, leaping towards the two spiders with jaws snapping and teeth tearing.
Courtney managed to jump into the dark water before her partner shark could snatch her up, but she was instantly swept up by one of the large waves that the thrashing sharks were making. The powerful wave threw the girl tarantula up into the air and onto a high tree branch extending over the stream.
Hardly believing that she was still alive and safe, Courtney dared to look back down at the stream. The sharks were still thrashing around, trying to find and snap up a spidery dinner. She could hear the lead shark growling and wondering where the girl spider had gotten to. But where was Duncan?
"Courtney!" a voice called from below.
She looked down and saw Duncan, looking quite terrified, staring up at her from a small floating stump.
"Quick, throw me a vine!" He ordered in a loud, desperate whisper. His blue pupils kept flickering back towards the sharks, who hadn't realized where he was yet.
It looked as if Courtney was about to oblige; she held the vine up and was about to throw it down at him. Then she reconsidered and held it back.
"No." she coldly said, glaring down at him. "Not unless you promise me that you'll split the million with me when we get back!"
"WHAT?" Duncan slapped four legs over his mouth, too late realizing how loud his outburst had been. The four sharks instantly froze and turned their heads in Duncan's direction. Thunder rumbled up above.
"There he is!" Courtney's shark shouted, already beginning to swim towards the trapped spider.
"Come on, Court!" Duncan begged, franticly glancing from the oncoming sharks back to Courtney. "This isn't one of Chris's fake bomb challenges!" Fear was thick in his voice as he shouted, "You wouldn't let me die out here, would you?"
"You got me voted off, stole my money, changed me into a spider, almost got me killed and stranded in the middle of the god-forsakenness wilderness!" Courtney spat, "You just try me and see what I would or would not do!"
The sharks were closing in on Duncan. He could hear one of them ask, "Do you think he taste like crab?" Dark chuckles were the only reply.
Duncan couldn't take it any longer. "FINE! HALF THE MILLION'S YOURS!" he screamed as the lead shark opened his jaws, revealing three rows of razor sharp teeth. "NOW FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THROW ME THE DAMN VINE! PLEASE!"
Courtney quickly tossed the vine down and Duncan swiftly clambered up just as the lead shark bit down on the wooden stump that Duncan had been on a second before. The giant shark spit the now shattered piece of wood out and jerked his head upwards, snarling and glaring his black beady eyes up at the branch where the two spiders now stood.
"You two better get comfy!" The vicious shark roared as his buddies slowly swam in circles under the branch. "Cause we'll be waiting! We own these waters, ya hear me!"
The tarantulas shivered in fear at the threat and continued to stare down at murky dark water, where four ominous fins now circled below them. When the horror of what just happened finally died down, Courtney turned to face Duncan. She was shocked into speechlessness by the iciness of his blue eyes. All warmth had drained from them as they glared at her, as hard as flint.
"We're done." He bluntly said. Even though his voice was low, it shook with outrage. "When we change back to humans, you can have your half of the money and do whatever you want with it. But we're through."
Despite all the anger she felt for Duncan, something inside Courtney broke at his words.
"Fine!" she angrily said, ignoring the pain that was shooting through her body. "After all this, I never want to see your two-timing face ever again!"
"That makes two of us!" Duncan spat. He turned his back to her and began to crawl to the opposite end of the branch. He had had enough of her rants and her spoiled selfishness.
"Fine!" Courtney cried, moving to her end of the branch. She snapped a large leave from the branch and, using it as a blanket, curled up to fall asleep.
"Fine!" Duncan did the same on his end.
"Fine…" Courtney sniffled despite the anger and pulled the leave blanket over her head, wondering if this night could get any worse.
Like a cat, Duncan tucked his eight legs underneath his body and miserably buried his head in the folds of his front legs. He, likewise, wondered the same thing.
"Fine…"
The morning fell upon the two transformed humans in a wave of warm sunlight and chorus of sweetly singing birds. On the big tree limb, Duncan's little spider body rose and fell in rhyme as he peacefully slumbered on, curled up underneath a large, green leave. Suddenly a large acorn hit him on the head.
"OW!" Duncan shot up, wide awake and staring around in confusion. For a moment, a jolt of panic went through him when he saw the strange, forest surroundings. What happened? Where am I? He wondered, staring around perplexed. Then memories from the night and day before came back to him and he relaxed.
"So it wasn't a frinkin' nightmare after all." Duncan sighed cheerlessly, staring at his tan, hairy spider legs. Damn it.
"Rise and shine, Duncan! We don't have all day!"
Duncan peered down over the edge of the branch; in the clear, bright blue water below, the sharks had vanished, probably to hunt for larger and easy to get prey. Focusing his sight away from the water, he spotted Courtney making her way down the vast tree trunk. Though he was still furious at the girl for tricking him into splitting his money and leaving him out as shark bait, the boiling, unspeakable rage he had felt the night before had immensely cooled after a deep sleep. Now, the delinquent was content with the idea of annoying the crap out of Courtney until they returned to normal and split paths.
"All day for what, Scruff-lina?" asked Duncan, christening her with a new nickname, which he himself thought was very clever. Strangely, Courtney did, in a strange way, remind him of his dear, beloved pet tarantula- both of them seemed to possess the instinct to kill him.
Courtney frowned and rolled her eyes, miffed at his new immature (and slightly pathetic) idea for a nickname. "We're heading back to the hotel to fix the mess that you got us into!"
Duncan, not quite feeling up to climbing all the way down the trunk, had fashioned a swing of web and was contently lowering himself down to the ground. He flashed Courtney a smug look as he passed and couldn't help but cockily reply, "Hey, you were the one that so desperately wanted a kiss!"
Courtney seethed with fury as the utterly impossible delinquent. She didn't know what annoyed her more- his smartass comment or that his ridiculous little silk swing was making more progress and getting him to ground faster than she.
"You know perfectly well why I kissed you, you annoying, lazy pest!" she shouted down at Duncan. The only reply she got was laughter.
What did I ever see in him? Courtney mentally screamed. She was glad that they were officially broken up! It was clear as crystal that they were not suited for each other.
After a few minutes of lowering and climbing, both tarantulas had made safely to the ground.
"Took you long enough." Duncan uncouthly said the moment Courtney jumped down the remaining two feet off the trunk. He had made it to the ground five minutes before and had been waiting by the tree's long, bulging roots.
The brown and purple tarantula stomped over to Duncan, pointed a front leg to his face, right under where his nose would be. "Oh, don't you start with me, you…" Courtney crossly began before she was interrupted by a loud rustling noise in the bushes.
"What was that?" Courtney asked, her voice betraying a quiver of fear.
"More animals?" Duncan guessed, warily backing up.
The bushes rustled even more, shaking violently as if something large was about to come out of it.
"It's getting closer!" shrieked Courtney, eyes growing wide with fear. Was it the bullfrog? Or perhaps the killer viper?
Suddenly two glowing red eyes flashed from the shadows of the bushes.
Duncan and Courtney screamed and dashed towards each other, hugging their bodies close and squeezing their eyes shut in fear as they awaited what horrible, terrifying creature would come and devour them.
A moment or two passed. Courtney whimpered and clung to Duncan who tightened his hold on her. The mohawked tarantula warily opened one of his four eyes. The other three quickly flew open as well and widened in surprise.
It was only a cute little rabbit.
"Haha! It's just a dumb rabbit!" Duncan laughed out loud and, in his relief, accidently let go of Courtney. She fell to the ground, letting out a small gasp of surprise.
Suddenly the adorable, big-eyed rabbit got an angry expression on his face and stood up on its hind legs. It stomped towards Duncan and shouted in the bewildered spider's face.
"WHO YOU CALLING A RABBIT! I'M A BUNNY!" the bunny, despite looking like the most adorable thing on earth, sounded like an overweight truck driver who had a bad chain-smoking problem. His breath wasn't very pleasant either; Duncan managed to get a good whiff of rotten carrots.
"Gwah!" Duncan gagged and fanned the air around his face, slightly turning his head in disgust. "They're the same thing you moron!"
"Are not! They're…" The bunny never got to tell Duncan the difference between a rabbit and bunny. The cute (but really not so cute) creature trailed his sentence off and stared down at Duncan, particularly at his green mohawk. Suddenly his bunny face lit up.
"Hey! I know you!" The bunny shouted, jumping in the air with delight. "You're Duncan from the Killer Bass!"
Courtney picked herself back up from the ground "You know this bunny, Duncan?" she exclaimed in astonished tones.
"No!" Duncan replied, as shocked as Courtney.
"Rabbit stew?" offered the bunny, raising and lowering his brows suggestively.
"What do you mean? Rabbit ste…"
Duncan was then hit by a sudden flashback of what had happened during the campout challenge in Total Drama Island.
Flashback…
"Hey guys!" DJ called, walking up to the Screaming Gophers campsite, "Look what I found!" he revealed a cute, adorable grey and white bunny in his arms. The bunny let out deep-throated cough.
"Well," Duncan replied, eyeing the bunny with interest, "I never had rabbit stew before but what the heck? I'm game."
DJ looked appalled. "No! This is my new pet!" He cried, petting the little thing. "I'm naming him Bunny!"
End of Flashback…
Duncan blinked and stared, blue eyes wide and mouth open in shock.
"Bunny?" He gasped, unable to believe it. "Bunny, Bunny?"
"That's impossible!" Courtney cried. "Bunny is dead!"
"Yeah, you got eaten by a snake!" Duncan stated, remembering what Geoff had told him of the pet-sitting disaster.
"And an eagle!" added Courtney. Bridgette had told her the same story.
"And a shark!"
Bunny raised his paws for silence. "First off, the name is 'Bunn-eh'. Not 'Bunn-y'! That just sounds ridiculous!" Neither Courtney nor Duncan could honestly tell the difference. "Secondly, yes, I may have had a bit of a mishap, but I showed those predators who's boss!" Bunneh said in a tough voice, pumping his little furry fist in the air. "I gave them a 'HYAH!'" he did a karate kick, "And a 'HI-YA!'" he punched the air before him. "Then I finished them off with a 'YWWEEOHAHAHAH!" the rabbit thrashed around wildly, growing and baring his teeth. He then leaned back against the tree trunk and gave the two spiders a smug grin. "You won't find those guys messing with me any time soon, I tell you."
Duncan and Courtney could only stare in bewilderment.
"But wait," Duncan said, finally managing to find his voice after seeing that weird little presentation, "if you've been alive all this time, why haven't you gone back to DJ?"
Bunneh's long ears drooped as a rather embarrassed expression crossed the rabbit's face. "Uhh…well…you see…" he stammered and scratched the back of his furry head in a confused manner. "…I…uhh…was busy. Yeah! That's it! I was busy!" Bunneh pulled out a ukulele-shaped twig with spider strings attached to it. He began to pluck the strings and play it like a guitar. "Ta-dah! As the official pet star of Total Drama Island, I thought I should have me my own special talent! I mean, I know Lassie has that whole 'well' thing going on, but can that dog beat a ukulele playing bunny? DON'T THINK SO!"
"But DJ has a new pet bunny," Courtney said, "After you left, Dunc-MMH!" Duncan's slapped his front leg over her mouth.
"Ish-nay, on the bunny-ay!" Duncan quietly hissed. Last thing he wanted was this psycho rabbit to be mad at him.
Bunneh's eyes grew wide and a string on the ukulele snapped.
"WHAT?" He let out an outraged growl. "I GOT REPLACED! WHO'S THE SON OF A JACKRABBIT THAT TOOK MY HUMAN AND REPLACED ME! I'LL SHOW THAT GUY WHO'S THE TOP DOG OF THIS SHOW!'
"O…kay…" Courtney nervously said. She gave Bunneh a polite, forced smile. "It was nice meeting you again, Bunneh. It's a pleasure to see that you haven't been digested." She grabbed Duncan's front leg and began to drag him off, heading in the opposite direction of the crazy rabbit. "But Duncan and I really have to go!"
Bunneh stopped yelling in fury and hopped after them. "Wait, where're you two going?"
"Off to the city." Duncan said, crawling after Courtney through the green, leafy bushes.
"Why?" questioned the bunny curiously.
"Because we have to get back to Total Drama set and change back into humans." Courtney explained. She shot Duncan a severe glare. "He managed to get both of us transformed into tarantulas!"
Bunneh snapped his fingers and smiled. "I knew there was something differently about you two! I thought you guys just got a new haircut!" The rabbit then gave a puzzled frown. "But why are going all the way into the city? Camp Wananaka is right here in the forest."
"But no one's there." Duncan argued.
Courtney's eyes lit up. "Except…"
"Except…?" Duncan questioned, raising a brow.
"Chef!" Courtney exclaimed, smiling. "Chris said that Chef was at Camp Wananaka! We can go to him and he'll be able to help us."
"No way." Duncan said, scowling. "We're not going to Chef for help! In case you've forgotten, that guy hates us…particularly me! If I go near him like this, then he'll probably squish me!"
"But it's the quickest way! Don't forget, we only have one day before the reward ceremony."
Damn, he had forgotten all about the stupid reward ceremony.
"If Heather or Justin get that money before you do," Courtney continued, "then they can make use that you'll never be able to have it, even if you do turn human again."
Even though Duncan loathed the idea of going to Chef for help, he had to admit that Courtney was right. Right now, all that mattered was getting back to the Total Drama Action set before Chris decked out the million tomorrow night.
"Fine." Duncan said, heaving an exhausted sigh. Both him and Courtney turned to Bunneh and together asked, "Can you take us there?"
Bunneh looked shocked. "No way!" he cried, shaking his head and waving his paws around. "That big Chef guy is crazy! Do you want me to become rabbit stew?" Without waiting for their answer, the Bunneh turned away from them, laid down in the grass, and started to play his ukulele.
The two tarantulas gave each other hopeless looks.
"Looks like we'll have to find our way back to camp on our own." Courtney said, shrugging her spider shoulders as she began to turn away.
Duncan gestured for her to be still. "Hold on," he said, with cunning gleam in his four blue eyes. "I have an idea." He slowly crawled up to Bunneh and began to speak in a conversational manner.
"It's too bad you want take us back to Camp Wananaka." Duncan droned in a slow, casual voice. He studied the ends of his front legs as he continued speaking, well aware that Bunneh was listening. "Cause, you know, we could have taken you back with us to the city. DJ would have been excited to see you again….would have forgotten all about that new bunny of his."
Bunneh's eyes popped open and he froze from pulling a string on the instrument.
"But, I guess you're not interested." Duncan finished. He waved farewell to the rabbit and began crawling back to Courtney. "Enjoy a boring life in the wilderness!"
"That's it?" Courtney questioned when Duncan returned to her side. She sounded very unimpressed by his performance.
"Wait for it…" Duncan murmured. One…Two….Three…
"WAIT!" Bunneh shouted, hopping after the tarantula couple. "What if I went back with you to the city? Then DJ would take me back and I'd be the top pet of Total Drama Island again!"
"Told ya." Duncan whispered to Courtney, smirking in victory. He then turned his attention back to the rabbit. "Bunneh, that's completely genius. Couldn't have thought of a better idea myself."
Courtney just gave the boys an annoying eye roll.
"Then it's off to Camp Wananaka!" Bunneh shouted as he hopped ahead of the couple, leading them deeper into the forest still playing his ukulele.
"Hey, you know what would make this trip really fun?" the rabbit suggested. "Let's sing a song broadway-style about you two are going to do once you're human again! Here, I'll start you out…Oh, when I'm human…take it away, Duncan!"
"Shut up."
"Take it away, Courtney!"
"Bunneh, we're not singing!"
"Jeez, you two would be a lot more fun as frogs…"
Please don't kill me for my choice for Louis. I know that you all were expecting something big and furious for him and, at the beginning, I was going to make him something big and threatening. However, once I found my choice for Ray, I knew that I had to change my choice for Louis to make it work. I'll give a full, detailed explanation once I reveal who Ray is. However, it was really fun bringing the original Bunny back. The name "Bunneh" is just an old inside joke that I wanted to Yes, I made him have a deep smoker's voice, but really, did you not here that rabbit cough in the episode?xDDDDD
Anywho, hope you guys enjoyed! Please read and review!^^