The scene opens on Chris, standing on the pier. "Last time on Total Drama All Stars." Flashbacks of the previous episode start playing. "Light revealed he's planning to exploit Kim's secret crush against her to Bart, and agree to find out who he is. If it was any of the other contestants, I'd think about how nice that is. Meanwhile, Finn decided to ask Katniss to eliminate Light, continuing their intense rivalry. I'm taking bets on who will win out of them. It makes up for not getting paid last week. After a very messy and very naked food fight, the Giant Sharks lost their second challenge in a row and sent home Hit-Girl, much to Finn's disappointment." The scene cuts back to Chris standing on the pier. "Who will try to get us axed this week? Who will get the axe this week? And . . ." At this point, Chris's phone goes off. He opened up the phone and read the text. "Hey, my new holiday house is ready. Will you get to see it? Find out this week, on Total Drama All Stars."
Intro song plays
At the Striking Vipers cabin, Bart is hiding outside while Kim, Annabeth and Sabriel talk. As far as Bart was concerned, it was all just mindless babble, but he kept his ears open for the one topic Light wanted him to find out about.
"So Annabeth, why did you come here?" asked Sabriel.
"Me? Well, after Percy disappeared . . ."
"Hold up. Disappeared?" asked Kim.
"Blame Hera, she sent him to the other side of the country several months ago with no explanation to anyone," said Annabeth. "Anyway, me and a group of other demigods are soon going over there to collect him and another couple of demigods so we can save the world from Gaia. Lately, I've been getting impatient with Leo, the guy who's building the ship to get us there, so Chiron suggested I take some time off. I don't think either of us realised that this place was actually a reality show."
"So, you've been without Percy for several months now?" questioned Sabriel. Annabeth nodded. "Jeez, that's tough. I don't know what I'd do without Touchstone for that long."
"Touchstone?" asked Annabeth.
"The old prince of the kingdom who was imprisoned as a boat figurehead for several hundred years," said Sabriel. "Together we saved the world from an ancient evil monster sealed in a tomb."
"Me and Percy did that too," said Annabeth. "Kim, you save the world from freaky monsters too?"
"Nothing as powerful as you guys," said Kim. "The worst I've been against is some psycho chick with glowing hands. But Ron and I take her down every other week."
"Ron?" asked Annabeth. "Is he your . . ."
"Boyfriend?" finished Kim. "No. We've been friends like forever. Although . . ." Annabeth and Sabriel leaned in at this. "Don't tell anyone, but I kinda have a crush on someone at camp."
Bart's ears pricked up. This is what he'd been waiting for.
"Ooh, who is it?" asked Annabeth, sounding more like a schoolgirl than a powerful demigod.
"It's . . . Light," said Kim, clearly embarrassed.
Stunned silence followed. Finally, Sabriel broke the silence. "Light?" she asked. "That guy who manipulated Finn and got Haruhi eliminated?"
"I know, he's a bad guy," said Kim. "But he's also kinda cute."
"I agree that he's cute," said Annabeth. "But that's all the more reason that I hate him. The last cute guy I liked became a vessel for the Titan Lord and tried to destroy the world. Be careful of him."
"I agree, I get a bad feeling around that guy," said Sabriel. "He seems to be connected with death. I'm not sure how, but he is."
"I'm not gonna act on it," said Kim. "Just don't tell anyone about this, okay?"
"I promise," said Sabriel.
"Me too," said Annabeth.
"I don't," Bart said to himself. Quietly laughing to himself, he got out of there before they could notice him.
Meanwhile, on the beach . . .
"Alice?" Finn called.
Alice was just staring out at the sea, not moving, not even breathing. Finn moved closer, and suddenly she jumped. "Sorry, just looking into the future," she said. "So Finn, you want me to try and vote out Light?"
"Yeah, how did you . . ." started Finn.
"Know you were going to ask that?" finished Alice. "I see into the future based on the decisions you make. You decided you were going to ask me that, so I already knew you would."
"Oh, cool," said Finn. "So, will you help me?"
"I see you've already got Katniss and Murtagh to help you," continued Alice. "You have made good choices in asking them, and I will gladly help. However, I must warn you that Light is planning your elimination too."
"I'd guessed as much," said Finn. "I swear to you, by the end of the day, one of us will be gone."
In the bushes nearby, Light overheard the entire conversation.
Confession Cam: Light
"So, Finn's plotting my downfall huh? Bring it on. I beat L easy enough, I can beat Finn too."
"Campers," came Chris's voice over the loudspeaker. "Meet at the base of the cliff on the beach in an hour for today's challenge.
One hour later, on the beach . . .
"Campers, welcome to today's challenge," said Chris. "Behind me, you can see my new beach house." Sure enough, behind him was an enormous beach house, complete with a diamond banister on the front porch. "It has everything I want in it: an eight person hot tub, a miniature golf course, its own gym, a theatre, and a ten foot gold statue of me."
"And I assume we don't get to go anywhere near those things," said Wallace.
"Doing so will cause instant elimination," said Chris. "Your challenge is this: the contractors who built this place forgot to put in a staircase so I can actually get in there. You guys need to build one."
"Are you sure it's safe for unqualified, untrained kids to do that?" asked Kevin.
"No, it isn't," said Chris. "So that's why the contractors who screwed up will be forced to go up it first to test its stability, then those who aren't dead or comatose will work free of charge to build a good one. The team with the least dangerous death-trap wins. Any questions?" No-one spoke. "Okay, go."
"Alright guys, anyone here have any construction experience?" asked Rachel. No-one spoke. "Okay, anyone good with manual labour?"
"I have extremely high strength and stamina," said Alice.
"Same here," said Murtagh.
"And it takes a great deal of strength to survive multiple Hunger Games," said Katniss.
"Okay, that'll have to do," said Carly.
"Hey, I can do some of the strongman stuff too," said Zidane. "Especially if it keeps such pretty girls from straining themselves."
"Your help is appreciated, but please stop hitting on everything with two legs and a pair of boobs," said Alice. "Need I remind you that I can do worse things to you than Garnet?" Zidane was about to say something, but then Alice continued. "And I'm talking about painful things, not dirty things." Zidane shut up at this point. At this point, Light came walking up from somewhere, but no-one seemed to notice.
Meanwhile, the Striking Vipers were also discussing tactics . . . kinda.
"What do you mean, us girls don't need to do anything?" demanded Annabeth, glaring down at Bart.
"Well, you girls are hardly going to keep up with us strong guys," said Bart dismissively.
"I helped defeat the Titan Lord Kronos," said Annabeth. "Ayane won the third Dead or Alive Fighting Tournament. Kim is a crime fighting cheerleader. And Sabriel is a very accomplished magic user. I think the question is whether you can keep up with us."
"Whatever sister," said Bart. "Wallace, Ash, Finn, Kevin, what do you guys think we do?" Annabeth was fuming.
Confession Cam: Bart
"Hey, Light would want me to start the team fighting so that if we lose, I can offer my 'help' to one side. I figure making the most sexist comments possible and getting the guys on my side is the best thing I can do."
"Seriously Bart, we could use their help," said Finn. "Like Annabeth said, they'll probably be more use than you."
Confession Cam: Bart
"Okay, I don't want Finn on my side anyway. But the rest I can use."
"These girls aren't your typical teenagers," said Wallace. "They can stomp the crap out of you blindfolded."
"I've seen Rhydon that were less dangerous than these girls," said Ash.
"Ayane is a ninja," said Kevin. "End of discussion."
Confession Cam: Bart
*beep*
"Let's see if you still think I'm a poor defenceless girl when I do this," said Ayane as she swung around to smack him. Bart managed to duck, and Ayane's fist slammed into Finn's face. Finn flew through the window of Chris's beach house.
"Guys, we can't fight amongst ourselves," said Sabriel. "Look, the Giant Sharks are already half finished."
Sure enough, the Giant Sharks were working together beautifully despite their differences to co-ordinate a very stable and well-made staircase. The Striking Vipers, realising they were behind, quickly got to work.
About an hour later, both teams were neck and neck and about to finish their work. Annabeth, being an aspiring architect, knew exactly what to do and when, which sped the Striking Vipers progress significantly. Unfortunately, Bart had other plans.
Sneaking up on Ash, Bart grabbed one of Ash's Pokéballs. "Please be something heavy," whispered Bart. Bart threw the Pokéball, and out popped . . . Snorlax. Snorlax landed on the Viper's staircase and it immediately collapsed under its weight.
"SNORLAX?! What are you doing out of your Pokéball?" demanded Ash. "Return now." Snorlax returned to its Pokéball, but the damaged was done.
"AHH!" screamed Annabeth in frustration. "What in Hades was that Ash? Are you trying to sabotage us?"
"It wasn't me," said Ash.
"Didn't you say those Pokéballs don't open unless you throw them?" asked Bart, faking suspicion.
"Yeah, but . . ." started Ash, but then Chris came up.
"Time's up, campers," said Chris. "Let's see what you've got, Giant Sharks." The Giant Shark's staircase was made entirely of mahogany, incredibly sturdy, and to top it off, the banisters were etched with Chris's face. Chris looked at the staircase, and let out a few tears. "It's beautiful," he said, and blew his nose on a handkerchief Chef offered him. "It's not as much as I deserve, but it's close enough." Wiping away another tear, he turned his attention to the Striking Vipers. "Now, where's your staircase?" asked Chris, looking very confused at the pile of rubble.
"Ash wrecked it," said Bart, looking and sounding as disappointed as possible.
"It wasn't me," said Ash.
"Well, if you haven't even got a staircase to show, that means the Giant Sharks win," said Chris. "Striking Vipers, I'll see you at elimination."
Most of the Striking Vipers glared at Ash, with the exception of Ash himself, and Bart. He was quietly laughing to himself.
Confession Cam: Bart
"Releasing that tub of lard Ash had with him was just to get the rest of the team on my side again. Now we can get rid of Ash."
Confession Cam: Ash
"I know someone's behind Snorlax being released. But who? My gut feeling is that it was Bart, so I'm going with him."
Confession Cam: Annabeth
"You are so going down for what you did to my hard work Ash."
Confession Cam: Wallace
"I'm voting for Ash, because I don't want to invoke the wrath of Annabeth."
Confession Cam: Kim
"Ash, what the hell were you thinking?"
Later that night at the campfire ceremony . . .
"Campers," started Chris. "There are nine of you, but I only have eight marshmallows. Those of you who receive a marshmallow are safe . . . for now. For the one that doesn't, they will be going home via that cannon over there in the Blast of Shame. And you will not be coming back. Ever. The following contestants are safe." As Chris read each name, he threw them a marshmallow. "Kevin. Wallace. Bart. Annabeth. Sabriel. Ayane. Kim." The camera focused on Ash and Finn, the two contestants without a marshmallow. "Ash, Finn. One of you is going home tonight. The final marshmallow goes to . . ." For several seconds, the camera cut between a nervous looking Ash, and a confident looking Finn. "Ash." The marshmallow landed in Ash's hand.
"WHAT?!" was the outraged roar of several campers.
"I ordered that all of you vote for Ash for what he did to us," said Annabeth. "Why is Finn going home?"
"I can explain that," said Chris. "You see, even though Ash got eight votes against him, Finn broke the rules."
"No I didn't," said Finn.
"What did I say before the challenge?" asked Chris.
"That anyone who went near the stuff in your beach house was instant . . . oh," said Finn. "But wait. Ayane smacked me in there."
"Excuses, excuses," said Chris. "Chef, take him away."
Chef grabbed the protesting Finn and shoved him into the cannon. "Any last words?" asked Chef as he lit the fuse.
"Yeah, guys, watch out for . . ." started Finn, but before he could say the last word the cannon fired him over the horizon.
"I love my job," said Chef.
"Me too," said Chris.
Meanwhile, in the shadows of the campfire ceremony, Light was too shocked to move. His greatest nemesis in the show, gone. And he didn't even have to do much. He got up and left before the Striking Vipers noticed he was there.
"Wow, five episodes in and we've already lost a hero," said Chris in the studio. "What will Light do about Kim? What will Annabeth do about Ash? And did Finn do enough to stop Light? Find out in the coming weeks right here on Total Drama . . ."
"Wait, wait, wait," said Marty, barging into the studio. "Why didn't I get to do anything this episode?"
"Because the writer couldn't think of anything for you to do," said Chris. "Plus, Light's way more fun."
"*beep* you," said Marty, who then turned around and left.