AN: I would like some comments. I noticed that there have been fewer reviews each week.
Chapter 12A: The City by the Bay (Part 1)
***Recap***
Chris: Last time on TDAT, the sleepy town of Seattle, Washington, but our contestants were sleepless when they had to carry a large pot of genuine Starbucks coffee up to the top of the space needle. Dakota hit hard, and caused Logan's coffee to spill. No coffee equals no million dollars. As Logan left to join his eliminated friends, Dakota, Samantha, and Michelle built a totem pole from eliminated contestants' faces in a throwback from Total Drama Island. After a long race, Samantha claimed her second victory, and Michelle was voted off.
Four are left. Who will be eliminated next? Will it be evil genius Jake, who I'm really getting annoyed with? Or will it be cocky cowboy Dakota, who Samantha's getting annoyed with? Or maybe it could be Josh, who Holly was getting annoyed with? Or finally, it could be Samantha, who no one's getting annoyed with. Find out who goes home next right now on Total Drama American Tour!
***Back to Game***
For once, it was a quiet morning in the girls' quarters. Samantha got dressed and decided to read on her bed, knowing the guys would probably still be sleeping.
***Confessional***
Samantha: I'm still not used to it. I'm the only girl left, going against three guys. I really need to focus and make it through this round so I can face the jury.
***Back to Game***
Meanwhile, in the boys' quarters, the three guys were also surprisingly quiet after they woke up. After getting dressed, Josh left the room to go to the lounge.
***Confessional***
Josh: So we have four misfits that don't really belong. This is worse than New York. Jazz, I miss you, buddy.
Jake: I've got to come up with something better. Six pack's gonna freak when my plan finally goes off. In fact, I might do it a little early. I will have my revenge!
Dakota: I think I did it. Now I just need Jake and Josh one more time, and it'll be an all guy victory. Or I can try to get Sam back, with these. (He takes his shirt off and flexes for the camera.) Oh, and Logan, if you see this, sorry, but I have to play the game. Hope you understand.
***Back to Game***
Dakota left his shirt behind as he left the confessional, and decided to take a nap on one of the lounge chairs next to Josh. "Hey dude?" Josh wanted to get the cowboy's attention.
"What?"
"What happened to your shirt?"
"Dude, this is going to be awesome here, and I need your help. You've got muscle right? We're going to try to convince Sam to vote with us to get rid of Jake.
"She hates both of us. She's not going to vote with us."
"Come here." Dakota flexed his abs. "Come feel them."
"What? I don't swing that way."
"I'm not hitting on you. It's part of my plan."
"If you're going to do that in front of Sam. She'll kill you. Just get over it."
Meanwhile, Jake left to go to the confessional. When he got in, he noticed Dakota's blue shirt still on the floor. Without thinking twice, he swiped it.
***Confessional***
Jake: Wow that was easy. Now I just need to throw his shirts overboard.
***Back to Game***
Dakota and Josh's conversation in the lounge continued. "Then you do it. Take off your shirt and let me see what you've got."
"It's not much, but Sam likes me better already." Josh took off his shirt and revealed a muscular physique that almost put Dakota's to shame.
"Nice. Holly doesn't know what she's missing out on."
"So here's the deal. When we get off the plane, you strut your stuff to try and win Sam over, then all three of us vote off Jake. Okay now. Give it your best shot. You should be good at this."
"I don't feel comfortable."
"Okay. Pretend I'm Holly." Josh reluctantly started to flex and Dakota placed his hand on Josh's stomach. "Yeah. That'll work, dude." Just as Dakota let go, Jake walked in to get a pot of coffee.
"What the hell?" Jake then bursted out laughing as Josh put his shirt back on, while taking a photo of the situation. "Dudes just came out of the closet!" Jake laughed some more. "This is rich!"
"That's not what it seems." Josh was quick to recover.
"Just let him think that." Dakota reprimanded Josh's recovery. "I'll be right back."
Dakota went back into the confessional to put his shirt back on, only to find it gone. "Jake? Have you seen my shirt?"
"No, gay boy."
***Confessional***
Dakota: I liked my other nickname better. Now everyone's gonna think I'm gay. No, this can't be. I'm starting to lose it. First I lose Sam, and then Jake misinterprets things, and steals my shirt. This is one rough day.
***Back to Game***
Dakota ran back to the lounge to talk with Josh. "Josh? Can I borrow one of your shirts?"
"They might be too small, but you can give it a try."
After going back into the boys' quarters to put on a shirt, which fit perfectly, although a little snug and revealing, the cowboy put on his hat and rejoined the other guys.
"Oh look, now we've got twins! Now just make out, and it'll be gold!" Jake boasted out while still laughing.
Josh punched Jake right in the face, launching him down to the cold metal floor with a nosebleed.
"Nice one, man!"
Jake got up and went into the galley to clean up, as Chef and Samantha came into the lounge to talk about the next location. "Where's Jake?" was the first thing he asked.
"He's cleaning up in the galley." Josh answered.
"Get him out here, now!"
"Where's Chris?"
"He's flying the plane, so I'm going to explain things." Josh left to get Jake and when they came back, Chef continued his speech. "Today, you four are going to the place the military forgot. San Francisco, California. It'll be a long gauntlet through your past memories. No, it won't be your childhoods or anything, but memories all of you shared on this tour." Chef then stared at Jake and snarkally added, "Well, most of you. Get ready to jump off in fifteen minutes."
Chef left to go back into the cockpit to trade places with Chris, allowing Chris to jump with the contestants. When he got there, he noticed two people wearing the same black shirt. "Two Joshes? Where's Dakota?"
"I'm Dakota. I had a shirt problem thanks to Jake."
"Not caring. In twelve minutes, all of you will be jumping off of this plane and landing on Alcatraz Island, where you will wait for further instructions." Twelve minutes later, everyone jumped off the plane as it flew over Alcatraz Island. Within seconds, all four players landed on the island along with Chris. "Today's challenge is a long one, so stay focused and pay attention. Remember the old challenges?"
"Is this what Chef meant by 'face our memories'?" Jake answered.
"Yes. Get ready to recreate some of them in this multi-step gauntlet through San Francisco. First, each of you will have to swim from this island to Pier 39. I advise using these wetsuits." Chris showed off four different colored wetsuits. "The water's really cold, and you might die if you don't wear one. One you make it to Pier 39, you will have to find one key that will open up a box. Inside, you will find a paintball gun."
"What's that for?" Samantha asked.
"You'll need it to shoot a target on the top of Nob Hill. Take a cable car up to the designated spot and shoot your colored target. Your color is the same one as your wetsuit. Shooting the target will release a bobsled that you will use to sled down to Chinatown, where three happy customers will be willing to buy the robot parts located in your bobsled."
"Are they the same ones as Bentonville?" Samantha had another question to ask.
"No. From Chinatown, take the cable cars to Russian Hill where you will find a colored coffee squirt gun. Shoot the coffee to raise the ball to the top of the tube. That will release a flag that you must carry with you back to Pier 39. Once you go back there, you must raise that flag on the flagpole and surf back here to Alcatraz Island using a surfboard from the pier. The first person to make it back here wins invincibility and will be guaranteed to be in the final three."
"Got it." Samantha was determined.
"One more thing before you start. All four of you must wear these flowers picked from Lombard Street, the second crooked-est street in the world."
"What's the first?" Dakota asked.
"Why Wall Street of course. Haha." Chris laughed at his own joke.
***Confessional***
Chef: McLean? You stole that joke from the cable car drivers! You also owe one of them $20 for talking to a girl on your cell phone, cheapskate.
***Back to Game***
"Any questions?" Chris paused for a moment.
"Yeah," Samantha answered. "We didn't do anything with a squirt gun."
"I know, but it's been filled with the leftover coffee from the Seattle challenge."
***Confessional***
Samantha: That's just wrong.
***Back to Game***
"Ready?" Chris held out some matches, ready to fire a rocket firework into the air. "When the firework goes off, the challenge starts!" Chris lit the rocket, and soon after, it exploded in the sky, and the challenge was on. Everyone put on their wetsuits and started to swim towards the pier. The water was really cold, though warmer than the Boston water.
Dakota was the first to arrive at the pier, and while looking for his key, he encountered a familiar face. "Oh it'sa you againa! Get out ofa my restaraunta."
"You again?"
"I run this restauranta. It's my new one after my Boston restauranta closed a downa because of you and you're a muscle bound a frienda"
"I'm looking for another key, and your window has it."
"Tough a luck."
Dakota left the restaurant and started to think of a different approach this time to get his key.
Meanwhile, Samantha's key was in an aquarium right on the pier. "This does feel very familiar," she thought to herself. She went into the aquarium, and got her key with ease. Now she had to find her box.
Josh also had trouble finding his key. He looked for a fishery similar to the one in Boston, but couldn't find one. He found a key located on the top of a service tower, so he started climbing. Moments later, he reached the top, and found his key. "Now how do I get down?" He thought to himself. He thought of a way, and attempted to slide down the pole. After hitting some branching obstructions, he made it down.
Jake didn't even consider doing the challenge. He made it to the pier, but instead of finding his key, he went into town to finish the last part of the plan. He took out his cell phone, and started dialing a number. "Number of welds? ten. Location of welds? cargo hold. Style? fillet." His cell phone started to give a description of the welds Jake placed on the plane. He entered a code phone number onto his cell phone. All he had to do now was wait for the perfect moment.
Back on Pier 39, Dakota found a homeless bum sitting on a bench. "Change? Spare some change?"
"Dude, I'll give you a buck if you go inside that restaurant and get that key for me."
"Ugh. You will?"
"Yeah. Here you go." Dakota gave the bum one dollar as he went inside the restaurant and went as fast as he could to get the key before the snooty waiter could notice. The bum made it outside, but he pocketed the key before Dakota could get his hands on it. "Hey! Get back here!" He chased the bum down, and caught him as he was about to run for it to sell the key. "You sneaky thief! Give me that key! I need it!" Dakota took the key by force and ran sway so he could find his box.
Moments later, Samantha found a box. She attempted to open it, but the key she had didn't fit.
***Confessional***
Samantha: Chris? Don't tell me you put fake boxes on the pier!
Chris: (In a day spa) I forget to tell them that there are fake boxes on the pier so that I can spend more time getting my pedicure done. These shops are great, and I've got money to burn.
***Back to Game***
It took two more boxes before Samantha found her paintball gun. "Got it!" She screamed, as she ran towards a cable car. "Let me on!" She said to the operator.
"It costs $10. Gotta keep the tradition alive."
"Ten dollars for one way?"
"It used to be five, but this economy you know."
"Fine I'll pay." Samantha paid the car operator ten dollars and left the pier. Josh was the next to find his box, and like Samantha, he had an argument with the cable car drivers. The argument went for so long and so heated that Josh had to pay twenty dollars to ride the cable car.
Jake still refused to participate in the challenge. He found an old run-down building in a bad part of the city to serve as his base of operations.
***Confessional***
Jake: This is a dump, but hey a copy machine, and it still works. Time to cause some much-needed drama.
***Back to Game***
Jake found a giant mountain of blank paper, and using the photo of Dakota he took earlier, he got to work making copies. It took about 1000 copies before Jake felt satisfied. He left the building and started posting the copied flyers throughout the town.
Samantha reached Nob Hill first, and started to fire her paintball gun at her target.
***Confessional***
Samantha: The paintball challenge. Just like Gettysburg and San Antonio.
***Back to Game***
She missed the first shot. She fired again, and missed. On her third try, she hit the target, and it opened a garage door containing a white bobsled. As she went to pull it out, Josh made it to Nob Hill, and started to fire his gun. It took him five shots to hit the black target on the wall. Moments later, his garage door opened, revealing a black bobsled.
As Samantha got her bobsled out of the garage, she noticed Josh standing in her way. "Out of my way, Josh."
"Not yet. You've got to check this out." Josh took off his shirt and started to flex his muscles to try and impress Samantha. It didn't work.
"Do you do this to every girl you know?"
"Come on, Sam." After a pec bounce, she still wasn't attracted.
"You're too much like that demonic beast."
"You can't resist this, Sam." Josh kept trying to flirt with Samantha, and after a third attempt, it still didn't work.
"Move or I'll make you move."
Josh's plan failed, and in shame, he put his shirt back on and went to his bobsled. He tried pulling it out, and before he got it out, Dakota arrived at the hill with his paintball gun. He hit his target in one shot and headed to his blue bobsled. Josh was still pulling his as Dakota started to pull his own bobsled out onto the street.
"It didn't work." Josh told Dakota.
"What did you do?"
"I did what you wanted me to do. She's not into me."
"If she's not going to cooperate, then she has to go."
"Sorry. I've got a challenge to do." Josh finished pulling his bobsled out onto the street and headed into Chinatown.
***Confessional***
Dakota: Josh, I don't understand you sometimes. It's not that hard to impress a girl. Hey, I did it when I showed up in New York.
Samantha: Holly? If you hear this, tell every girl in the Aftermath to get a restraining order on Josh. He's not going to quit, and he's freaking me out.
***Back to Game***
Dakota got his bobsled out into the street as headed into Chinatown as Chris finished his pedicure. "Who will win this important challenge? Probably not Jake, but he's not out yet. Find out who makes it to the final three next time right here on Total Drama American Tour!"
AN: Who do you think is going to win the challenge? Also will Jake's plans succeed?
Contestants (Post-Merge): Jake, Dakota, Samantha, Josh
Eliminated so Far: Jane, Seeiah, Elijah, Tonia, Roxanne, Lucas, Xander, Leilene, Jasper, Holly, Logan, Michelle