Chapter 4- Where everyone thinks that Cody and Heather are dating for some reason.
That's… disgusting.
Gotta agree with you there, kiddo.
What was Heather's first impression of Sweden? It was cold. Very cold. So freaking cold, that she bitted her honor and asked Chris for the coats he promised in Yukon. It wasn't a big surprise when he told her they didn't arrive yet. It was Chris Maclean, after all.
"You should have seen it coming." He whispered, trying his best not to laugh on her face.
"Oh, shut up. At least you are dressed properly." She had a point. Between the seven remaining teens, Cody and Gwen were the only ones wearing a long sleeves shirt. And Cody was the only one with a sweater.
"Fine." He said, starting to pull his sweater up.
"What are you doing?" She asked. "Don't strip on TV. Your mom would kill me."
"Few things." He answered. "A, like you can be mad on me for striping on TV, Ms. Fan service. B, I'm not striping, just taking of my sweater, and C, to be mad on you about me, Joyce would have to remember I actually exist. She never does."
"Why are you taking of your sweater?" she asked, looking on him in suspect.
He finished taking his sweater, revealing that on his white shirt were written a sentence. "I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research."
"Sherlock. Nice." She said, "That doesn't answer my question." She added after a moment of silent.
"Here, Take." He said, giving her the sweater. "I don't want you to freeze."
"Why would you do that?" she asked. "I think you've made it clear that we are not friends."
"What are you talking about?" He asked.
She didn't answer.
"Do you want it or not?!" he yelled on her. She took a step back, looking on him in surprise.
"Sorry." He said, embarrassed, after a moment. "I don't know what happened to me."
"I definitely don't know." She answered. "You are usually very quiet around me." She had a pretty good guess why, but she wasn't going to talk about it on TV. She knew him better then anyone, and knew different things about him, like that the flirty attitude he used to have never been more than a disguise, and that he really loved Gwen. That his heart broke each time he saw her and Duncan. She could see it on his face.
"Thank you." She said at last, taking the suggested sweater and wearing it. It was a bit tight and smaller on her, given the fact that Cody was shorter then her, but it was still comfortable. And defiantly warmer from being without it.
Walking to their team, none of the noted the three people staring them with surprise.
(static)
"Isn't that nice?" Sierra asked in the confessional, her voice raging with unhidden anger. "I mean, it's so nice that Cody gave Heather his sweater that she won't freeze. And it's not like I'm jealous or something. Not at all."
(Static)
Gwen stood in the cockpit confessional, next to Chef. "I'm worried for Cody." She said to the camera. "I think Heather might try using him."
" You're jealous." Chef said, laughing.
"I'm not!" she answered automatically. "What do I have to be jealous about?" She froze, understanding what Chef tried to say. "That's ridiculous. Cody doesn't love Heather. He likes me." She looked to the camera quietly. "right?"
(Static)
Alejandro stood in the confessional, cursing in Spanish. He took a long breath, transferring back to English. "I can not understand what a woman like Heather can find in a… pipsqueak like Cody." He sent a look in the camera before returning to speak. "That will force me to change my plans, if it's true. If chicka is dating Cody, she'll be much harder to manipulate."
(static)
But of course, neither Heather nor Cody knew what there teammates have said. If they did, they'd be disgusted. I mean, they were siblings, for god's sake. But they didn't, so they just went on with their life. More correctly, the challenge.
All they had to do was to build unknown building without the instructions. Easy pizzy. At least it wasn't life risking this time, unlike Greece, or Area 51, or Egypt. Anytime, really.
"Cody was building robots since he was six!" Sierra said. "I'm sure he can build whatever this is without any problem."
"It's fine with me." Gwen said.
Cody just pulled his shoulders and went to their pile of stuff.
"I'm okay with Cody being in charge." Heather said, making the loner and obsessive uber-fan to switch looks. That wasn't like Heather at all, giving up a chance to be in charge.
"If it does what your last science fair project did you are so dead, though." She added after a moment.
"What did your last science do?"Gwen asked, coming next to Cody. "And how does Heather know about it?"
"It exploded." Cody said, blushing. "Programming mistake. And how DO you know, exactly?" He asked Heather. She wasn't living in town last science project he competed in.
"Damien told me!" She responded.
"That would explain it." Cody said, knowing that his little step-brother (Why was it so easy to think about Heather as his sister, but so hard to think about Damien as his brother?)
That's because Dam is the most…
Kids are in present!
Annoying little brother in the world. What did you think I was about to say?
Knowing that his little step-brother had a little… obsession with knowing everything about everyone. Not in the Sierra levels of crazy, but that was pretty close one.
"Who is Damien?" Gwen asked, holding two woods together.
"Her brother." "My brother." They said together.
"Why would her brother know about your science project?"
He looked surprised for a moment, and then smiled, an understanding shines on his face.
"I completely forgot you didn't know." He said. "Heather moved to my street a while ago." That wasn't lying. He just forgot to mention the fact that she was living in the same house as him. "And Damian is a bit of a… gossip boy."
"That explains it, I guess." She said, still chucking her two woods. "Just… what are we building, exactly?"
He whispered to her the answer, and she smiled. "So this two goes there, right?" She asked, pointing.
"Yep." He said.
Both teams were working separately, when a bell rung. All of them knew that sound, and all of them sighed.
"We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff." Cody called.
"We are NOT doing Scott Pilgrim now." Heather yelled on him.
Duncan sighed, and started singing
.
[Duncan]
Ahh, ah-ah, ahh
Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah
Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah
Ahh, ah-ah, ah, ah-ah
Ah-ha, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
[Duncan]
Welcome to the show
[Owen and Alejandro]
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah
[Duncan]
We're here to let you know
[Owen and Alejandro]
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
[Duncan]
Our time is now
[Owen and Alejandro]
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah
[Duncan]
Your time is running out
[Owen and Alejandro]
Ah, ah, ah
[Team Chris is really really hot]
Ah-ha, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ha, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Team Chris started waving their hands, and in the finale edit, it looked like they were shooting sound waves.
[Team Chris is really really hot]
Feel the wave of sound
As it crashes down
You can't turn away
We'll make you wanna sta-a-a-ay
They put their hands down, as the edit entered again, giving each one of them a pair of bat wings, red to Alejandro, green to Duncan and blue to Owen and a pair of pony ears on their hear, hiding their actual ones.
[Team Chris is really really hot]
We will be adored
Tell us that you want us
We won't be ignored
It's time for our reward
Now you need us
Come and heed us
Nothing can stop us now
[Cody, Sierra and Gwen]
Oh-oh, oh-whoa-oh
I've got the music in me
Oh-oh, oh-whoa-oh
[Cody]
Don't need to hear a crowd
Cheering out my name
I didn't come here seeking
Infamy or fame
[Cody, Sierra and Gwen]
The one and only thing
That I am here to bring
Is music, is the music
Is the music in my soul
Gonna break out (Out!)
As team Amazon played, the editing added three of them a pair of pony ears. Sierra and Gwen got a long ponytail as an extension to their hair, while Cody got yellow and Sierra got purple pair of wings.
[Cody, Sierra and Gwen]
Set myself free, yeah
Let it all go (Go!)
Just let it be, yeah
Find the music in your heart
Let the music make you start
To set yourself apart
Alejandro smiled cruelly. "So they want to make it into a real battle of the bands, ha? So let's battle."
[Team Chris is really really hot]
What we have in store (ah-ah)
All we want and more (ah-ah)
We will break on through (ah-ah)
Now it's time to finish you!
Seeing an opportunity, Duncan throw pieces of wood on them, making Cody, Sierra and Gwen fall to the ground.
Heather, standing aside, had a pretty good feeling what was about to happened.
"Heather, we need you!" Cody called.
Yes, that was what she was afraid of. But Cody asked, and she didn't want to be eliminated. She went forward, standing next to Cody, and with his nod from him, she took off her sweater and let it fly in the open air.
[Heather]
You're never gonna bring me down
You're never gonna break this part of me
My friends are here to bring me 'round
Not singing just for popularity
Heather took Cody's hand and helped him stand up.
[Heather and Cody]
We're here to let you know
That we won't let it go
Gwen and Sierra both stood up, joining the others.
[Team Amazon]
Our music is a bomb and it's about to blow
[Heather and Cody]
And you can try to fight
But we have got the light of
[Team Amazon]
Friendship on our side!
Got the music in our hearts
We're here to blow this thing apart
Cody and Heather waved with their hands, and in the finished version, they looked like they shoot a rainbow circle.
[Team Amazon]
And together, we will never
Be afraid of the dark
But I thought Uncle Cody was afraid of the dark.
Melania! I taught you to be better then this. You are supposed to know better then laugh about other people!
Like mother like daughter.
Hi!
But really. I know you. I know your husband. She is twelve. If how you were in sixteen is anything to go by, that makes a lot of sense.
I hate it when you have a point.
And to you, Mel, I was afraid of being alone, especially in the dark. Remember what the song said: And together, we will be afraid of the dark.
I hate it when you gave a point.
Good, so where were we?
[Team Amazon]
We're here to blow this thing apart
And together, we will never
Be afraid of the dark
Heather let go of Cody, getting her own pair of ears and hair extension.
[Team Amazon]
Here to sing our song out loud
Get you dancing with the crowd
As the music of our friendship
Survives, survives!
Got the music in our hearts
We're here to blow this thing apart
And together, we will never
Be afraid of the dark
Here to sing our song out loud
Get you dancing with the crowd
As the music of our friendship
Survives, survives, survives!
In the end, all of the editing extras disappeared, and team Amazon shared looks.
"Wow." Gwen summed what they all thought.
Cody's face was cheerful. "I didn't know you liked My Little Pony, Gwen."
"I don't." She answered. "My brother does, and the songs playing on a loop from his room."
"ohh." He said, the smile disappearing.
"I'm mostly surprised that Duncan knows the song." Heather said, pulling the last pieces of what they build.
"You are saying he is not brony in the closet?" Cody asked.
"He is not, as far as I know." Sierra informed them. "But he has a little nephew."
"Make sense as everything, I guess." Cody pulled his shoulders.
both teams finished their building, and looked on the two boats that the other team had.
Team Amazon tried to push their boat, with not much of success, while in team CIRRRH, Duncan was the only one pushing his boat to the water, as Owen was about to fart and Alejandro was trying to flirt with Heather.
Owen set on the ice, farting, and the ice broke beneath him. Both teams climbed quickly to their boats, and landed in the water.
On the Amazon's ship, Sierra smiled. "I have a name for the ship!" She announced, looking to the others. "This ship will know be known as the OTP!"
Cody laughed his ass off, while Heather and Gwen just looked confused.
"What the one true pairing has to do with…" She cut herself, rolling her eyes. "Ohh, dahh."
"I thought it was funny." Cody said.
"That's because you are nerd."
"Geek!" He fixed her, sound like he had this conversation a thousand times before. "I am a geek."
"What's the difference?" Gwen asked curiously. She didn't know that Cody saw himself as a geek, and he was one of her closest friends.
"Nerds know a lot of useful stuff. That is Noah. Geeks, like me, know a lot of useless stuff, and that's why I can quote the beginning of the first Harry Potter book and quote full conversation from Buffy the vampire slayer."
She raised an eyebrow. "You like Buffy? I thought I was the only one to know this show in our age."
Heather sighed, saying something that sounded a lot like "not another one."
"Does that get easy?" Gwen asked, smiling at Cody. It wasn't a surprise that that was her chosen quote, because that was something she was thinking about a lot, since Greece.
"You mean life?" He asked, recognizing correctly that she was testing him.
"Yeah." She said. "Does that get easy?"
"What do you want me to say?"
"Lie to me." Gwen asked.
Cody sighed "Yes. It's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true. The bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies and... everybody lives happily ever after."
"Liar." Heather and Gwen said together, which caused Gwen to look at her in surprise.
"My brother is a fan." Heather said after few moments of silence. "He and I made a deal: I'll watch Buffy with him, and he'll watch Glee with me."
"Your brother? Damien?" Sierra asked," Because as far as I know, you two aren't really getting along."
"No, not Damien. My older brother." Heather said, sending a quick look at Cody.
"She doesn't have an older brother." Sierra whispered to Gwen. "Or at least, she didn't have last year."
The other girl sent her a strange look. "Really? That's kind of wired." She said, distracted a bit.
The team reached Chris, which told them they had to pick a team captain and explained the challenge.
"I sagest Cody!" Sierra called, putting the Viking cup on the brunette's hair.
"Thank you, but NO!" He said, putting the cup on Heather's hair. "Here, much better."
She looked at him in question.
"I trust you." He said, pulling his shoulders. "And I think we both know that you are a better leader then me."
"You are probably wrong." She said dryly. "Each time I try to lead its ends with a failure."
" Aw, Heather, why do you have to be such a buzzkill?"
"Because, Cody, this show is not all about having fun! We need to work hard if we want to be the winners."
"Just take the dam hat already." He said, starts humming. ""You may be pretty, but your super smart. Check out you grade, they're all "A's" for the start."
"What I have in looks, well I have too in heart!" She sung, smiling. "And well Cody, yeah, that's totally awesome."
"Yeah, it's so cool and that's totally awesome!" Cody sung another line before quitting.
"I'm stuck now, don't I?" She asked.
"Yep." A joyful Cody said.
She sighed.
"C'mon." Cody said. "You know you love me."
"I know I love you." She echoed.
(Static)
"She meant it as friends!" Sierra yelled to the confession camera. "Right?"
(Static)
""For Cody, I hope she meant it platonically." Gwen said. "Heather won't be good for him."
(Static)
"Right. So let's show them." Cody cheered.
Only if the cheer had anything to do with winning. If only. But not, the winners of the challenge were team Chris. It started all right, with the boys acting stupid and attacking instead of winning. And then it all went to hell. The boys, now out of cannon balls, decided to throw Owen. The OTP cracked apart, and the boys won. Darn it. At least it was non-elimination challenge, so they just had to do is economy class. Again.
Why does everyone think you are dating?
Because, as you are going to find soon, boy and girl in that age can't just be friends. There most be something more. At least, a lot of people think so.
And in this show, people saw relationships in the tiniest things. Do you remember my friend, Noah?
Yes, why?
When we were sixteen he kissed me accidently on the ear. People teased me about it until I married Courtney.
To be fair, there were a lot of instant relationships on the show. Tyler and Lindsay knew each other for maybe week and a half when they started dating.
So what's next?
The merging.
References of the episode-
Cody's shirt has a Sherlock quote.
Obsessive uber fun and the loner are Sierra and Gwen's official titles, if to believe the total drama wiki.
I'm pretty sure I stole the idea of Cody's robots exploding from programming mistakes from some fanfic. I don't have an idea which.
Gossip boy is a play on Gossip Girl.
"We are Sex Bomb Omb…" It's from Scott Pilgrim vs. The world.
The song is welcome to the show, from the second Equastria Girls movie- Rainbow Rocks.
I saw the Nerd/Geek thing in tumbler somewhere.
Gwen, Cody (and Heather) quote conversation from Buffy's episode-Lie to Me.
Later, Cody and Heather quote from Very Potter Musical's Going back to Hogwarts