AN: Sorry I took so long. The fic is still alive, but I've been busy on other stuff and with finals. Finals are over, and this story is back to normal, so here we go.

Chapter 7: Total Drama Corporate Takeover

***Recap***

Chris: Last time on Total Drama American Tour, we went to Orlando, the entertainment capital of the world, where a former contestant tried to kill us all. Our ratings went through the roof, but our budget went down the drain as we had to pay for damages for EPCOT center. I hope you're happy Jake as we head on to a new location to pay off our debt. Find out where it is right now on Total! Drama! American Tour!

***Back to Game***

Everyone went to bed after the tiring day in Orlando. Late in the night, in Chris's quarters, he and Chef start to have an argument.

"Where's all my drama!" Chris yelled at the top of his lungs. "First Seeiah's gone, then Roxanne, and now Lucas! I need drama! I need ratings, NOW!"

"Hold up, Chris." Chef interrupted. "We've still got Jake."

"He's not in the game. But, he is still on the plane. That gives me an idea."

"You said I was going to teach him how to cook."

"No, that's a lie. Your job is to keep him from destroying my new plane. I don't care what you have to do, just stop that evil beast!"

"I'll keep him in my sights. That red hair's really easy to see. I can see it from three miles away."

"Hopefully, he's not like that purple-haired creature from last time. Oh wait, he's worse."

"How is he worse?"

"Who cares? I need my beauty rest!" Chris and Chef go to sleep. The next morning, everyone gets ready. In the boys' quarters, Jasper was actually happy that Lucas was gone, and he was able to sleep in peace. Logan was still worried that Xander might be lying to him. Dakota felt confident that he was going to make it another week, and Josh was starting to get a little worried.

"Dudes?" Josh asked, as he woke up. "Why is it so quiet all of a sudden?"

"Lucas isn't here." Xander answered. "I'm going to the lounge. Football's on."

"What's with him and football?" Josh answered.

***Confessional***

Xander: I've got to watch last night's game. The girls kept watching their reality TV last night. At least Jake's not sleeping with us.

***Back to Game***

Meanwhile, in the cargo area of the plane, Chef and Jake were getting ready for their first lesson. "Listen up, maggot!"

"Don't call me that!"

"I call you whatever I want, maggot! You've got a huge debt to pay for destroying EPCOT. Now here's a broom and dustpan." Chef gives Jake a worn-out broom and a small dustpan. "Actually give me the dustpan. You don't deserve it." Chef swipes the dustpan back from Jake. "Sweep every box in this cargo area. NOW!"

Jake begrudgingly started to sweep the boxes. "FASTER!" Chef yells, as Jake tries to speed up. "You're not doing it right! DO IT LIKE THIS NOW!" Jake continued to sweep off the tops of the boxes in the cargo area while Chef continued yelling at him.

Meanwhile, in the girls' quarters, Leilene and Holly were busy getting ready. "We all know you like Josh. Don't try to hide it." Leilene said.

"It's just; he tried to hit on all of us on the first day."

"Dakota did the same thing."

"No he didn't."

"Yeah he did." The two girls continue arguing as Samantha and Michelle were getting ready.

***Confessional***

Samantha: Come on Holly. Just admit you like Josh. You've been talking about him all night. I know it. You know it. The audience at home knows it. Even the rats in the cargo hold know it. Just admit it so we can get this over with!

***Back to Game***

Back in the boys' quarters, Josh had a plan. "Tonight I'm going to do it."

"Do what?" Jasper asked.

"I'm gonna kiss Holly. She'll never know what hit her."

"Maybe Leilene will kiss me?"

"I dunno. That's up to you."

A voice is heard from the lounge. "All contestants report to the lounge. Repeat. All contestants report to the lounge." The nine remaining contestants went to the lounge area where Chris called them. He started to explain things. "Today we're going to a slightly different location."

"And?" Michelle asked.

"We're just going somewhere a bit unexpected."

"Where would that be?"

"It's a surprise! And I think we're here now!" Chris pushed out the contestants as they fell.

***Confessional***

Xander: I'm getting tired of Chris just pushing us off. When are we going to have a proper landing?

***Back to Game***

The contestants fell out of the plane and landed safely in what seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. They looked around, but there was nothing but grass and dairy cows. "Here? You're kidding right?" Holly remarked.

"This must be the farming challenge." Josh added.

"Yes. Here," Chris answered, "We're in Bentonville, Arkansas. Home of the largest corporation in the world! Wal-Mart!"

***Confessional***

Josh: Are you kidding? Wal-Mart sucks! Target's the way to go."

Samantha: Doesn't seem that much different than Texas.

***Back to Game***

"Wal-Mart is so successful because of its low prices…"

"…and corporate greed." Josh interrupted.

"You know, Joshie. We had one Lucas. We don't need another."

"Don't call me Joshie!"

"Got it, Lucas."

"Grr!"

"As I was saying, each team is going to form their own corporation selling robot parts. Disney won't get off my back from Jake destroying EPCOT, so you'll have to set up shop and sell as many trinkets of Jake's creation and your destruction as you can in order to win this challenge and be guaranteed to be on the jury."

"There's a jury now?" Michelle asked.

"Yes there is. The jury will decide a winner one there are two contestants left. That's why it's important to win each challenge from now on."

"Does that mean there's a merge?" Logan asked.

"I never said merge did I? Now get to work. We have robot parts to sell to pay off Disney."

The two teams went into the now landed plane to scout for robot parts. All of the boxes were freshly dusted after Jake's punishment, which meant it was very easy for the teams to read the boxes' labels. "Let's see here." Leilene said to herself, "Dishes, makeup for Chris McLean, Cyanide, here we go."

"Found them?" Holly asked.

"Yeah. Got the robot parts."

"Now we have to find Jasper and Josh. I think they went that way." Holly and Leilene went deeper into the cargo hold to find the two boys while Team Freedom tried to find robot parts of their own. After some time, both teams finally found their parts and started to set up their booths in Downtown Bentonville. After an hour long walk, both teams reached their tables on the sidewalk.

***Confessional***

Michelle: Bentonville's a really small place. Why would Chris even send us here?

***Back to Game***

The two teams finally set up shop. On Team Freedom's booth, they had plenty of customers. One customer came up to them wearing a green button-up shirt. "I'm trying to buy some stuff for a project."

"How can we help you?" Logan asked.

"I need scrap metal. I'm trying to build an android woman for my brother. Any metal I can take off your hands?"

"We have actual robot parts from Orlando."

"Cool. I'll take two arms, two legs, and some scrap for the head and torso."

"That'll be $50."

"Fifty bucks? Come on guys! I'm trying to build a robot woman for my brother so he can dump his girlfriend."

Dakota decided to chime in. "I wonder who's more pathetic. You? Or your brother."

"Fine. Be that way. I'm going to the other shop right next to yours."

***Confessional***

Logan: It's Xander's fault that prices were too high. I wanted $10, and Michelle wanted even less, but Xander wanted to actually make some money to keep for himself.

***Back to Game***

The green shirted guy went to Team Liberty's booth. "You looking for parts?" Leilene asked the guy.

"Yeah. I need two arms, two legs, and some extra scrap."

"That'll be $5."

"Now we're talking. That other shop is way too expensive."

Team Liberty gave the customer some scrap parts, and closed the sale. So far, Team Liberty was in the lead. A female customer was next, looking for some metal to build a shed for her husband. She went to Team Freedom's booth first. "I'm looking for some sheet metal for a shed."

Logan responded this time. "Sure, we've got some for $10."

"I'll take it." The customer handed Logan the money and get her scrap." Over time, the two teams continued selling the robot parts to potential customers. In fact, Team Freedom was ahead for a while, until Team Liberty advertised them out of business with even lower prices and better publicity.

Meanwhile, back on the plane, Chef and Jake were in the galley going over the next phase of punishment. The galley was extremely messy after Chef's last experiment went horribly wrong. "Come on Chef!" Jake asked. "You've got to let me back in the game."

"Fat chance! You'll never be back in the game. Now clean up this galley. I made myself a nice bean burrito pie."

***Confessional***

Jake: Bean burrito pie? That's just gross.

***Back to Game***

"Since the microwave blew up my pie, you get to clean it!" Jake tried to hold in his own vomit, but after a few seconds, he hurled right in front of Chef, who was not pleased at the reaction. "Come on maggot! I don't have all day." Jake got out a mop and started cleaning the galley floor with Chef continually insulting him.

***Confessional***

Jake: This isn't over. After I get out of this, I will get my revenge, and Chris will have to put me back in the game!

***Back to Game***

Back at the booths. Dakota and Xander started to get into an argument. "Xander? What happened? You were supposed to set them higher! We've got to have our money!"

"We have our money. We'll give Chris half and we keep the other half."

"No idiot. If we sell more, Chris will want more."

"It's all Jake's fault."

"Tell him that yourself. In fact, go ahead and try to find him. He could use some help on the plane."

"Guys?" Logan yelled out. "We need your help!"

"Whatever." Xander replied. "Just give us a minute." Dakota and Xander finish their conversation and rejoin the rest of their team, which is currently swamped with customers.

"While you two were having your water cooler chat," Michelle stated frustratingly, "we got swarmed by people looking for robot parts. Are there this many people in this town?"

"Chris hired them! Bentonville doesn't have this many people!" Samantha answered. The two teams continued selling robot parts until Team Liberty finally ran out.

"What this?" Chris yelled out. "Team Liberty is out of robot parts? Well, get more then."

"There aren't any more on the plane." Josh remarked.

"Well, that means Team Liberty finally wins again!"

"Yesss!" All of Team Liberty was happy that they finally won a challenge after three losses in a row.

"Team Freedom?" Chris asked. "You've got to vote someone off. Meet me in the elimination area after the plane takes off."

***Confessional***

Samantha: We lost? Well, it's pretty easy who to vote off.

***Back to Game***

The contestants packed up their booths and headed back to the plane, which promptly took off. In the cargo area, Dakota and Xander continued their conversation from earlier, "Remember, you've got to do the right thing. Get rid of the extra."

"Yeah. He's getting really annoying. At least he can't hear us."

"If I take you and Sam to the final three, we can get rid of Michelle next week, then come merge time, get rid of the others, starting with Jasper. That kid freaks me out."

"Sure, but he's got Leilene and Josh protecting him."

"Whatever. We get rid of Logan, then Michelle, then Holly, and then we'll go from there."

"Got it."

***Confessional***

Dakota: Xander's just as easy to manipulate. Now I just have to decide which brute to keep, and which one to eliminate. I don't really need the girls' votes, but they sure can help. Maybe it is time to get rid of the dumb muscle…

***Back to Game***

Meanwhile, in the girls' quarters, Holly was in a rut. She didn't know whether to admit her crush. "Just do it, Holly." Leilene shouted.

"Fine! He's moderately hot, but I would never date him!"

"He's not a bad person you know. He just had a bad start."

"Eww. I still wouldn't date him. Not in a million years."

"I would date Jazz."

"Go right ahead. You can have that weirdo who stares at a blank TV screen all day. Just leave me alone." The two girls changed into their pajamas and went to the lounge where Josh was watching some wrestling.

Meanwhile, Chris called Team Freedom to the elimination area. "Team Freedom, or red team, or whatever, go to the back of the plane where someone will be voted off."

AN: Voting time! Team Freedom needs to vote someone off. Votes will be tallied in either three days or after everyone has voted. (Whichever comes first.) You can still review the story, but your vote must be sent via PM, or it won't count.

If you do not vote, I will vote on behalf of your character.

Teams:

Team Freedom: Logan, Dakota, Xander, Samantha, Michelle

Team Liberty: Jasper, Josh, Holly, Leilene

Eliminated so Far: Jane, Jake, Seeiah, Elijah, Tonia, Roxanne, Lucas