The scene opens on Chris, standing on the pier. "Last time on Total Drama All Stars." Flashbacks of the previous episode start playing. "With the teams merged, Light was finally able to get his secret alliances to join forces publically. Ayane decided to warn Katniss that she was in serious trouble, but before she could tell her in person, the contestants were gathered to compete in the day's challenge. Why she didn't just tell her while they were gathered is a mystery to me. Anyway, after a few trips around the Rollerchriser, we slowly reduced the field down to six. But, due to a surprise visit from Kasumi, we lost five more contestants in one go, thanks to Ayane. Guess who took the Blast of Shame." The scene cuts back to Chris on the pier. "Who will lose their head? Who will lose their cool? And who will just lose? Find out the answers to these questions and more, right here, on Total Drama All Stars."
Intro song plays.
Light and Kim were alone on the pier, staring out to sea. "It's a beautiful view, isn't it Light?" asked Kim.
"Only half as beautiful as you," said Light, leaning in closer to her. Kim nestled her head into his chest.
Confession Cam: Light
"I cannot believe women fall for that sappy crap."
"Light, I want to ask," said Kim, angling her face up to look at him. "Your plan is to get me, you, Bart and Marty to be the final four."
"That's right," said Light. "If all goes well, we will be all that remains in five weeks."
"But what about after that?" asked Kim.
"What do you mean?" asked Light.
"Once we're the final four, does it just become anyone's game, or do you intend to bring one of us to the end?" asked Kim.
"Already planned that," said Light. "How does me and you in the final two sound? Chris will love it: the two lovers of the series battling it out for the grand prize. A dramatic conclusion to a dramatic series."
"You're choosing me?" asked Kim, stunned and blushing. "Because I heard Bart say . . ."
"I only told him what I needed to say to get his vote," said Light. "This alliance consists of almost half the remaining contestants. That means we don't really need him once we get rid of everyone else."
"But how do I know you're serious?" asked Kim. "You could always . . ." But before she could finish, Light brought his lips to hers, and kissed her passionately. It was only seconds later that they broke apart, but Kim was completely breathless.
"Does that answer your question?" asked Light, smiling down at her. Kim was still too shocked to speak.
"Campers, meet at the mess hall for today's challenge," said Chris's voice over the loudspeaker.
"Well, we better get going then," said Light, getting up and walking back up the pier.
Kim stayed where she was for a little while, but eventually got up and started moving back to camp. On her way there, she heard a voice in the nearby bushes, calling her. She peered in, and saw Wallace hiding there. "Hey, what are you doing here?" asked Kim. "Shouldn't you be heading to the challenge?"
"This is more important," said Wallace. "Look, I've seen the way Light's been playing this game. I want to ask you: do you really believe what he's telling you?"
"Of course I believe him," said Kim. "Do you really think he'd admit to liking someone if he didn't?"
"With one million dollars on the line, yes I do think he'd do that," said Wallace.
"What do you know? I doubt you've ever had a girlfriend," said Kim. "You probably have no idea how a guy in love would act."
"I don't want a girlfriend, but I know how a guy in love would act," said Wallace. "That's beside the point though. My point is that he doesn't care about you. Maybe he was serious about getting you to the final two, or maybe he's already made a deal with Bart or Marty and told them the same story he told you."
"He wouldn't do that," argued Kim.
"Yes, just like he wouldn't get rid of innocent contestants," said Wallace. "Honestly Kim, I'm lazy, but I'm not ignorant. I've realised something: Haruhi, Finn, Annabeth, Sabriel, Alice, Murtagh, none of them were as accidental as you think. Light planned each of those eliminations carefully to make sure no-one noticed. Except I did, and he overlooked me because I'm not a threat to him that he knows of."
"You lie," said Kim, though she wasn't sure she believed what she said.
"Watch him carefully Kim," said Wallace. "He will turn on you the second you become a liability to him."
Kim stared at him in horror. "I don't know if I should believe you," said Kim. "But if I do, what should I do?"
Wallace placed a hand on her shoulder and started guiding her to the mess hall. "You have to break up with Light," said Wallace. "Tell him whatever you want, but break up with him and side with Katniss."
Kim smacked his hand away from her. "You're just an agent for her, trying to get me on her side aren't you?" she demanded. "I should have known Light would never do anything like you've said."
"I'm on no-one's side," said Wallace. "I just don't want to see Light lying to a perfectly innocent girl anymore."
"Yeah right," said Kim, marching off to the mess hall.
Wallace shrugged his shoulders and followed. "I tried," he said to himself. "Don't blame me when he breaks your heart."
Five minutes later, outside the mess hall . . .
"Campers, time to introduce today's challenge," said Chris. "Chef, give them their maps." Chef emerged from the mess hall, carrying a pile of rolled up maps, each with a camper's name on it.
"Let me guess, we've each got an individual treasure, and the first one to get it wins?" asked Zidane.
"Close," said Chris. "Each of you has an individual treasure, but your goal is to guard it. The maps show the way to a wooden replica of your own head. You must either protect it from fellow campers, or attempt to mark a fellow campers head with these markers." Chef handed out a bunch of coloured markers. "You may not move any of the heads out of their hiding spots. Breaking any of these rules will disqualify you from the challenge. The camper to mark the most heads will have immunity from tonight's vote."
"Wait, so if we can't move our heads how are we meant to defend them AND go for someone else's head?" asked Katniss.
"Don't worry, you are allowed to set up traps and other defences around your head with whatever you find," said Chris. Katniss looked satisfied at this. "Okay, you have one hour to find your head and set up any defences. Go."
Wallace was the first to find his head, which was located on the roof of the communal washroom. Light found his under the pier on the beach. Kim's was sitting on a low branch in a tree at the edge of the forest. Bart located his at the amphitheatre, hidden in the stands. Ash's sat at the campfire, atop of Chris's podium. Katniss discovered hers in the middle of a clearing in the forest, with several trees surrounding it. Marty found his at the sight of the towering inferno challenge (and desperately hoped they had removed it). Zidane found his in Sasquatchanakwa's old cave, and Kevin's sat on a rock in the middle of a river.
"Perfect," said Kevin, noticing plenty of things to use for traps. Immediately, he started gathering rocks, and weaving some vines into a net.
Meanwhile, Ash brought out his current team to protect his head: Tauros, Heracross, Sceptile, Gliscor and Krookodile, with Pikachu to stay with him. Katniss started setting up snares, and Light buried his head. Since technically he wasn't moving it, this was a legal move. Kim climbed a few feet up the tree, then tore at the bark until she got a long strip of it. She then dropped to earth with it, and carefully laid the strip (still attached to the tree) in such a way that it hid her head, while still looking like the bark naturally peeled down. Zidane, Bart, Marty and Wallace didn't do anything to hide or protect their heads, the first three because they thought their head were fairly well hidden, Wallace because he couldn't be bothered.
"Okay campers, you have six hours to mark as many heads as possible. Your challenge starts now," said Chris over the loudspeakers. The campers finished setting up their defences (if any), then set out to trying and win. All except for Wallace, who sat watching his head.
Within five minutes, Bart had found Kevin's head. Carefully, he started wading through the water towards the head. He didn't notice that Kevin had set up a tripwire under the water. Which means he certainly didn't notice that he set it off. He did however notice the rocks that fell from the net above him. Sadly, this wasn't until it was too late to move. The falling rocks fell on Bart's head, knocking him out. He floated on down the river until he reached a nearby waterfall. No prizes for guessing what happened next.
Meanwhile, Ash and Pikachu had found Katniss's head. "Hey Pikachu, looks like Katniss left this unguarded," said Ash.
"Pika pika," replied Pikachu, which could have meant anything from 'you're right Ash', to 'I have a nut allergy'.
"Okay, let's do this," said Ash, taking out his marker. Ash crept carefully forward, and was suddenly flung six feet into the air. Pikachu jumped onto the ground, only to be caught in another trap.
"Well, well, look what I've got here," said Katniss, coming out from behind a tree. "Looks like you two have been caught in two of my eight four snares."
"You set up eighty four snares in an hour?" asked Ash.
"Years of practice," said Katniss. "Anyway, now that you're here, I have a proposition for you."
"I'm listening," said Ash.
"Team up with me and I'll let you down," said Katniss.
"And if I refuse?" asked Ash.
"Then you stay like that until the game ends," said Katniss.
"You wouldn't leave me hanging like this," said Ash.
"Okay, if you want to believe that," said Katniss, turning to leave.
"Wait," called Ash. "I'll do it."
Katniss returned to Ash, drawing her knife. "I knew you would," said Katniss. "One thing though: I have a sneaking suspicion that Chris will have some kind of penalty for being marked the most times. So, we don't mark each other's heads. Same goes for Zidane." Katniss started cutting away at the rope.
"Really? You told Zidane about this too?" asked Ash as Katniss helped lower him to the ground.
"Not yet," said Katniss. "But I assume that because we have an alliance, he wouldn't . . ." At this point, Katniss heard another of her snares go off. She turned to check what had happened. "Oh, for *beep* sake Zidane."
"What? I'm not allowed to win the challenge?" asked Zidane, hanging from a snare.
"Didn't you think Chris would have some kind of penalty for most marks?" said Katniss as she freed Pikachu. "By the way, Ash has just joined us."
"What? I thought it was just gonna be me and you," said Zidane. "I didn't know you wanted to see other people."
"For God sake, we're allies, not lovers," said Katniss.
"Okay, fine, as long as there's nothing emotional in it," said Zidane as he cut himself free.
Katniss sighed. "Okay, fine," she said.
"Sorry I have to be harsh on you, but it's just because I care about you," said Zidane as he dashed away.
Ash just stared at Katniss. "Is that normal?" he asked.
"Sadly, yes," said Katniss as she left. Ash soon followed.
Back at Kevin's head, Marty had just discovered it. Approaching from some bushes, Marty didn't notice another cleverly concealed tripwire. Not until it set off the trap that is: a log swung down from above and crashed into him, sending him flying. What was really unfortunate was that it sent him all the way to Katniss's head, where he immediately got caught in a snare.
Meanwhile, atop the communal washroom, Wallace was doing his best to fight off other contestants.
"Hey, don't make me threaten to come up there," yelled Wallace as Kim helped Light onto the roof. The two of them quickly marked Wallace's head and left. "Okay, that's it. I'm gonna come up there and tell you very sternly not to do that." But they'd already split up.
Kim darted off into the forest, climbing into the trees and jumping from branch to branch. She soon found Kevin's head. Kim carefully inspected the ground around the banks of the river, and noticed several traps set up, as well as what appeared to be where some traps had been. Seems some idiots actually fell for that, thought Kim.
She jumped from one branch to a slightly lower one overhanging the rock to try and get close enough to mark it. It never occurred to her that Kevin might have set up traps in the trees too. So, she didn't notice that the branch she was on was not actually attached to the tree; it was propped up from beneath to give the appearance of being attached. As Kim leaned forward to mark Kevin's head, the branch snapped, dropping her into the water. "Ha," she called when she resurfaced. "Is that all you've got?"
Nope. The falling branch fell on a vine, snapping it, and the cargo it was carrying (a large pile of rocks) fell on top of her. She followed Bart's example and fell over the waterfall.
"Ten minutes left," said Chris's voice over the loudspeaker as Katniss, Zidane and Ash met outside the mess hall.
"Alright, how many have you got?" asked Katniss to the two boys.
"I found five of them," said Ash. "Any idea where Light's is?"
"On the beach under the pier," said Zidane. "I found it on pure thief instinct. Oh, and I got five. All but mine, Kat's, Bart's and Kevin's."
"Wait, you got mine?" asked Ash. "How'd you get past my team?"
"And why?" asked Katniss. "We're all on the same team."
"This was before I knew about it," said Zidane. "And in answer to your question Ash, I came in from above. The bull and the croc couldn't leave the ground, so they weren't a problem. The flying scorpion thing I defeated by myself, and the scarab got its horn stuck in a rock trying to charge me."
"What about Sceptile?" asked Ash.
"The plant thing?" asked Zidane. "Please, I navigated the Iifa Tree. Like that thing was going to be a problem. Don't worry, I doubt anyone else could have touched it."
"Well, hopefully there's no penalty for being marked," said Katniss. "By the way, six."
"Sweet," said Zidane. "Ash, I say we let her mark our heads. That way, at least one of us has immunity."
"Done," said Ash, dragging Katniss to the campfire.
Ten minutes later . . .
"Alright campers," said Chris. "Some of you took a nasty blow to the head thanks to Kevin, so I better remind you that there was a challenge today." Marty, Bart and Kim glared at Kevin, who laughed nervously. "Needless to say, you guys didn't win. In the end, with the amazing achievement of finding all the other heads and marking them, Katniss wins. She is immune from tonight's vote. Now, for a cruel twist." The contestants glanced around nervously. "The one of you with the most marks gets one additional vote for tonight's elimination. That person, with nine marks is Wallace."
"Wait, nine?" asked Marty. "There are only nine of us left."
"Yeah, I got bored and started drawing on my head," said Wallace.
"And as a result, you've currently got one vote against you," said Chris. "Now, go vote, and I'll see you at elimination."
Confession Cam: Kim
"To vote for Wallace, who wants me to break up with Light, probably to get him for himself, or Kevin, who nearly killed me. Ooh, tough choice."
Confession Cam: Marty
"I know I'm repeating last week's vote, but Kevin has to go, and Katniss is unavailable."
Confession Cam: Light
"Is Wallace working with Katniss? Don't know, but he's one vote closer than anyone else, and Katniss is immune."
Confession Cam: Wallace
"Light, you are the male Envy Adams: evil and sexy. The former is why you have to go."
Later, at the elimination ceremony . . .
"Campers, there are nine of you left," said Chris. "But, I only have marshmallows for eight of you. So, eight of you will receive a marshmallow, and the other will receive a one way trip home via the Blast of Shame, and will never be allowed to return. Ever. The following contestants are safe." As Chris read each name, he threw them a marshmallow. "Katniss. Bart. Ash. Zidane. Light. Kim. And Marty. You guys are safe." The camera cut to Wallace (looking apathetic) and Kevin (looking nervous). "Campers, there is only one marshmallow left. That means either Kevin or Wallace is going home. The final marshmallow of the night goes to . . ." The camera quickly jumped between Wallace and Kevin for several seconds. "Wallace." The final marshmallow landed in Wallace's lap.
"Aww, come on," said Kevin. "I capture a pair of criminals a couple of times, and this is how you repay me?"
"Considering you gave me a concussion, yes," said Kim as Kevin was dragged to the cannon. His scream was heard as they campers returned to their cabins.
"Well, that was entertaining," said Chris. "Do you know what else is entertaining? Watching Light's army fight for supremacy over the show, since they're now one half of the remaining contestants. Can Katniss do anything about that? Will Kim break up with Light? And have we been renewed yet? Come on people, my pay checks don't write themselves. Find out the answers to all these questions and more, right here, on Total Drama All Stars."