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Last time on Total Drama Island: The Killer Bass kicked butt in the awake-a-thon when Delilah took a snooze on the can. The Killer Bass took their second loss in a row. Harsh. Haden orchestrated the first Total Drama Island alliance by convincing Logan and DeShawn to join him and that he would get them to the final three. Damon pocketed Eden's MP3 player and he and Naruto sat back to watch the fireworks fly. Nicely played, twinkies, nicely played. Even though Eden pretty much could have kicked anyone's butt, in the end it was his temper that got him kicked off. Who will break the rules of their new alliance? Will Edward be able to stay awake until the end of the episode? And who will be sent home this week? Find out at the most dramatic campfire ceremony yet on Total Drama Island!
(cue theme song)
"Delilah," Chris said as he approached her table. "You look like death, dudette."
"Stick it," she retorted before pausing. "In a girl."
"You know I'm single," Chris shot back. "Unlike some people, I don't have massive amounts of people of the opposite sex drooling over me twenty-four seven."
"Izaak snored all night," Marshall whined in an attempt to change the subject.
Harriet walked in at that moment and sat down, her green eyes very, very groggy and glassy-looking. The Killer Bass broke into laughter at the sight, and even Chris couldn't help but roll on the floor with laughter.
"What?" she asked confused.
"Someone messed with your face," Jessie said holding a spoon up like a mirror to the Harry Potter cosplayer.
"Hey, everyone! It's Edward!" Chris announced as the exhausted male trudged in extremely slowly.
"Wow, you guys," Edward yawned as he plopped onto a seat. "I can't feel my face."
"I can't see your cousin," Misty retorted, and Edward and Trinity looked around to find Sarah missing in action.
"Huh. She probably went sleep-walking again. she does that whenever she falls asleep even though she wants to be awake," Edward said shrugging.
"So, why is that?" Trinity asked, voicing Chris' unspoken question.
"We're not sure, she grew into it somehow," Edward said sounding confused, even though it was clear to Trinity and Chris what he was saying.
"Translation: it's the only way she could fight back against her mother after being knocked unconscious and still being beaten," Chris muttered to Chef, who growled and nodded. "I was thinking of having the last seven campers choose one parent to bring onto the show."
"Or both," Chef grinned. "It would prove Sarah's points."
"Yeah, but I don't really want to do that to her dad," Chris muttered.
So when oatmeal began flying, he put a stop to it and ordered them out to the next challenge. Once most everyone was gathered in the arena, Chris calmly walked in and watched the few remainders trudge in. Delilah was the last one to enter, and she plopped down onto the bench.
"Wake me up and it'll be the last thing you do," she threatened, and Tyler swallowed in fear.
Chef blew the wistle loudly and walked past, giving them looks that clearly stated "I don't even want to know", "What the hell is Delilah doing?", and "Why do I put up with this crap?" before rolling his eyes and stopping beside Chris.
"Okay, campers, your next challenge is the classical art of dodge ball," Chris announced. "The first rule of dodge ball is…"
"Do not talk about dodgeball?" Misty asked, and Sarah snickered.
"As I was saying," Chris continued. "If you are hit with the ball, you are out."
"Ow! You can't do that!" Marshall yelled after he was hit in the chest with a ball that Chris had thrown, and right as he threw it back to Chris angrily.
"If you catch the ball, the person who threw it is out," Chris explained as he tossed the ball up once.
"Throwing balls, gee, another mentally challenging test," Misty said rolling her eyes, and Sarah couldn't help but snicker and try not to laugh.
"I know, right?!" Logan asked, and the two females stared at him before turning to each other.
"Okay, now, Jess, try to hit me," Chris said throwing a dodgeball to the cowgirl and she caught it. He took another one in his hands as she prepared to throw. "If you're holding a ball you can use it to deflect a ball! But, if it knocks the ball out of your hands, you're out!"
"So what do we do again when the ball comes at me?" Logan asked confused.
"You dodge!" Chris retorted as a ball went in his direction and he deflected it to send it rocketing into Logan's face. "Ooh! You were supposed to dodge!"
"Owww!" Logan whined as he held his forehead. "Right."
"You have one minute until game time! Bass, you'll have to sit someone out each game," Chris instructed.
"Alright, who wants to stay out with Edward Cullen over here?" Brett asked.
"Alright, I'll volunteer," Misty said grudgingly as she and Edward went over to the bench. "Now let's see all you keeners get on out there and dodge."
Within moments, the lineup was set. Sarah, Brett, Naruto, Coda, Trinity and Damon were eagerly standing on their side of the dodgeball court. Across from them was DeShawn, Haden, Logan, Marshall, and DJ. Coda threw one at Marshall, who got mad and began throwing, only to miss and hit Naruto in the face.
"That'll smear the whiskers," Chris chuckled.
Sarah let out a loud roar and threw a ball at Marshall as hard as she could, landing one right in his chest from point-blank range. Marshall, who thought she was a weakling, didn't see it coming and was thrown clear all the way to the back and rammed against the glass perimeter.
"OW!" he yelled as he clutched his gut.
After a few more balls were thrown, Jessie got out, and she looked at Marshall, who smiled and gave her a thumbs-up. Trinity saw this and snarled before picking up a ball and chucking it as Marshall, who squeaked in alarm and clutched his privates with a mask on his face that simply oozed and screamed unimaginable pain.
"Mommy," he said in a tight whisper that came out as a girl's voice.
"What the hell was that?! Ref, he's not even on the court!" Haden yelled.
"Oopsies! Looks like my hand slipped," Trinity said walking towards Jessie to pretend to inspect her injured face. "Try to dodge next time before you get kicked off."
Haden growled before throwing one right at the back of Trinity's head, who turned as she sensed the danger, only for Sarah to catch it. Haden stormed off of the court, and Sarah threw the ball at DJ, who dodged, and then threw one at her back. Unfortunately for Edward, he was behind Sarah when she dodged, and so he got hit in the head instead.
"Sorry!" DJ said wincing.
"Oh, it's cool," Edward said calmly going back to the bench.
It was down to Coda and Brett, the former of which used a ball to deflect one ball but was hit with another one in the gut. Coda stared at DeShawn and DJ. She smiled and threw one ball at DeShawn, who dodged, only for the ball to swing back around like a boomerang and hit him in the rear.
"That is one tough ball to dodge," Chris said emphasizing each word and pointing a thumb at DeShawn.
Coda dodged the ball that was thrown at her by a furious DJ, and smirked as she picked one up and began rubbing it against her shirt quickly so that it would build up a massive amount of static. She beamed as she threw it at DJ, who screamed in alarm and ran around the court like a chicken with her head cut off. Sarah was trying so hard not to laugh at the sight, especially when DJ ran face-first into the wall when she was looking behind her.
In the second round's lineup, it was DeShawn, Izaak, Tyler, Marshall, and Haden versus Sarah, Trinity, Bartholomew, Damon, and Jessie. Marshall had all of the balls for his side, and so the four knew where to aim for the dodging part. Their calculations were wrong because as soon as Chef blew the whistle, Marshall started throwing the balls as quickly as he could and again refused to aim.
One ball was caught by Chef just before it hit his gut. Chris dodged the second ball with a loud and indignant "hey, watch the face!", the Killer Bass had to scatter to avoid being rammed as the third went directly towards the center of their team in the stands, and the fourth one rammed right into Jessie's face.
"NOO!" Marshall yelled as the cowgirl dropped to the ground.
"Ooh… Marshall?" Jessie asked fearfully as she woke up a few minutes later with Marshall staring at her worriedly. "My face – how's my face?"
"It's really… not that bad," he said smiling sheepishly even though her face was a mess. "You still look great!"
Sarah and Trinity stared at the two with amused and devilish grins on their faces that clearly stated that they were going to get a long mileage out of this one. Trinity calmly walked up to Marshall as he continued to soothe the cowgirl's fears and gently threw a ball at his gut, which he ignored. He suggested that the go for a walk, and Haden stared in shock as the soldier cosplayer led the cowgirl off of the field.
"Inconceivable!" Brett yelled in a perfect mimicry of Vizzini.
"Lord Orochimaru, that is it!" Sarah screamed in outrage and as a battle cry.
Chris and Naruto jerked in surprise as she jerked the ball from the latter and chucked it at DeShawn and DJ, who were standing right next to each other staring at her as though she'd lost her mind. She jerked the ball from Bert's hands and then threw it at Justina. Trinity had a wide smile on her face as Sarah took the ball from her outstretched and offering hand, just before Sarah let out a roar and then threw it at Tyler's face.
"OW!" Chris yelled as he winced. "That one's worth an instant reply."
A screen came up just then with the scene playing, ignoring the now-still dodgeball court as they stared at Chris, who was guiding the cameramen.
"Forward, rewind, forward, rewind, Forward, rewind… HIT PAUSE!" Chris said slowly before suddenly getting the idea. "Hoahoh! That's going to leave a mark."
"Whoa! She dropped that like an Electrode about to perform self-destruct!" Brett yelled jumping up and down with Pikachu on his shoulder.
"I don't know what got into me," Sarah grinned sheepishly, even though she, Chris, Chef, Trinity and her family all knew.
"Okay, this is bad!" Haden yelled. "You people suck! One more game and we lose the whole challenge – again! We need someone strong, someone mean, someone who will crush those lame fish into the dirt!"
The team all looked at Delilah, who was still out cold. They then looked at each other and huddled together for a few minutes, all debating on who should wake Delilah up. Finally, as if by popular demand, they grabbed a really, really long stick and began poking her.
"A little higher," Haden instructed, and Logan steered it towards his nose. "Eyew, not that high."
Delilah awoke with an angry growl as she jerked the stick out of their hands and snapped it clean in half.
"You had better have a really good reason for sticking this up my nose," she growled, and Marshall took the reigns.
"We're down two to nothing," he explained. "We need you to help us get through this, we'll lose without you!"
"Fine," Delilah growled. "But you'll do exactly as I say, when I say it!"
"Got it," Marshall said calmly.
"Okay, here's a strategy that I picked up on my first trip to Juvie," Delilah said smirking. "It's called 'rush the new guy'."
She punched her palm with her right fist and then went into the huddle of others to give them instructions. As soon as Delilah walked out onto the field with Marshall, Haden, DJ, and Izaak, the Killer Bass smiled, thinking that they'd won since the Screaming Gophers had resorted to using their most exhausted player.
But as soon as all the balls were on the Gophers' side of the court, they realized the strategy, and Sarah was the first one to have four balls sent flying towards her. they all landed dead on in rapid succession, hitting her in the head and knocking her out.
Naruto and Damon sighed as they both took one of her arms over their shoulders and carried her off of the court, with her moaning out a few phrases in her sleep. Chris caught a few, some of which made him shudder in shock and disgust, a fact that he easily masked by putting on a grin of mirth.
*static*
Naruto: "Okay, I heard what Sarah was moaning, and holy Ramen bowls it was creepy. She kept muttering out something like "No, please, I'll be good. Please don't hit me." and other stuff like that. it was really creepy, man! But what was even more creepy was that she kept saying 'no, daddy, no…' and 'please, please get me out of here'. In all honesty… I don't know what to think. I think her dad did something to her. and I don't mean a lot more spanking than necessary, I mean sexual abuse."
*static*
Damon: "Okay, knowing Naruto, he'll have come up with the wrong conclusion, but I heard a bit more than he did out of Sarah's moaning since I stayed behind to watch over her while Trinity took to the court. It turns out that she was begging her dad not to force her to leave, but at the same time she was begging her mother to not do something. I think her mom's a drunk who's abusive. I don't know about Naruto, but I'm going to talk to Chris about this when this challenge is over. after all, he did say that he was the counselor at the camp, and I'm kind of freaked out by this."
*static*
After a few hours of playing dodgeball, all team members were exhausted but accounted for, and Sarah was finally waking up to find Chris staring at her.
"Have a nice nap?" he chuckled. "Your team is in the final playoffs."
"Ow," she moaned. "I think they broke something…"
"Oh, they broke something," Damon muttered. "Chris, can I talk to you after the challenge? It's about something that's been bothering me over the past few days that Naruto's been kind of ignorant over."
"Yeah, sure," Chris said backing off and letting Sarah sit up and rub her head, only for her to stare in shock as her final teammate caught the ball and sent one of the two gophers out.
"I guess I'm in," Sarah moaned as she walked out on to the field, and her vision swayed. "Oh, no… not now…"
"Play ball!" Chris yelled, and Sarah's battle instincts kicked in as a ball was thrown in her direction.
"You filthy little Mudblood!" Sarah screamed, throwing a mass of balls at DeShawn, who began dodging and rolling as quickly as he could to avoid her rage.
She let out another scream of rage as her battle instincts went into overdrive, and he was extremely hard-pressed to catch one. Eventually he did, though, only to find that it was Logan who hopped into the game.
"Back of the court, Princess," he snapped, and Sarah hit him with four balls in the groin as he did so, knocking him out cold from the pain.
"That's for knocking me out earlier!" she screamed, her eyes wide and wild with emotion and adrenaline.
"Wow," Chris said shocked as the Screaming Gophers carry their teammate off in shock. "They messed with the wrong redhead."
Sarah continued to scurry and throw balls as quickly as she could and dodge whatever balls came her way. However, Logan was doing the same, and the game went on like this for a few hours until finally one of the Killer Bass stepped in.
"Sarah, let me-!" Brett started, but Edward jerked him back.
"No! Don't snap her out of this! If you do, she'll be out cold for days," Edward snapped loudly to all of his teammates. "This isn't the first time this has happened, but it's been getting less and less common as time's worn on. it only comes out when she's under extreme pressure, and it will fade just as soon as the pressure's gone. She'll be asleep anywhere from five minutes to five hours, but it will pass."
"Alright, you're her cousin," Harriet said warily giving him a look that asked if he was insane. "but are you sure that this is a good idea?"
"Trust me, when she gets like this, it's time to run for the hills," Edward said nodding. "This is one of those times that her animal instincts will kick in. You know, the fight or flight ones. Most of the time it's her flight ones that kick in, and the fight ones have been what's been occurring less and less."
"Sorry, dude, but you've got to go," Sarah snarled with a grin on her face that rivaled that of an insane Princess Azula, with her eyes wide and an insane kind of excited.
*static*
Haden: "Okay, normally I'm not up for listening to someone of the opposite team, but when that Edward guy was giving an explanation, he sounded as though there was a reason behind what was going on with his insane cousin. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but that girl is either crazy, or has been living a life of hell."
*static*
Trinity: "When Edward told me about Sarah's house life, I knew that the effects that it would have on her would be bad. But I never expected anything of this magnitude, none of us did. I could just sit there and hope that this episode thingy of hers passed soon so that we could have the happy-go-lucky Sarah back and not the survival-mode Sarah."
*static*
Marshall: "Sarah in survival mode has got to be the worst kind of problem I can think of running into! It's a miracle that nobody died from that! She's crazy! Hell, Sarah in survival mode is by far worse than Eden was with his temper! But… I could have sworn that it was multiple balls coming towards her that brought the problem on. or maybe it was from taking four balls to the head… hm…"
*static*
"Die! Die! DIE!" Sarah screamed with a laugh as insane as Bellatrix Lestrange's.
"Goodnight, Logan," Delilah said rolling her eyes.
But to everyone's astonishment, Logan dodged all four of the balls that Sarah threw at him.
"Whoa," Misty said shocked as she dropped the book in her hands.
"Time out! Time out!" Marshall said, and Chef blew the whistle.
"Where'd you learn to do that?" Delilah asked, and Logan beamed.
"Figure skating," he chirped, and the others deadpanned.
"Well, remember, don't just dodge, you have to catch one, too," Marshall said with a nod.
"Remember, Sarah, you have to do this or get sent to your room again," Edward said coaxing the frenzied girl into even more frenzy than they could handle. "And if everything is taken care of, you get an extra dessert tonight!"
Chef blew the whistle, and both teams started shouting for their respective teammates.
"COWABUNGA!" Sarah screamed, throwing a ball as hard as she could into Harold's gut.
He was sent flying backwards, curling up over the ball and ramming against the wall behind him unmoving.
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