Northern Narwhals: Dakota, Leshawna, Sadie, Max
Southern Starfish: Dawn, Staci, Katie, Scott, Brick
Eastern Eels: Eva, Anne Maria, Noah, Rodney
Western Weakfish: Courtney, Sugar, Ezekiel, Tyler, Leonard
Eliminated: Beardo, Sam
Chris stands at the end of the dock, his usual spot, eager to introduce the show. "Last time, on Total Drama: Redemption...The contestants were treated to a peaceful hike through the forest, and refreshing glasses of water. There were thrills and spills, but in the end, Sam got dumped when he dumped his teams bucket. Big mistake," Chris laughs as he continues. "Another challenge sends another camper bouncing across the water! Who will find the key to success? Who will get locked out of their chance at a million bucks? Find out right now on Total. Drama. Redemption!"
Dawn is meditating out in the forest. A small grey squirrel scampers up to her. She looks down and gently picks it up, letting it sit in the palm of her hands. An ominous looking figure appears behind her, causing the squirrel to shriek and scurry away. Dawn looks up surprised at Leonard, who had startled the squirrel.
"Hey Dawn!" he squeaked. "I'm ready to learn where your powers of sorcery come from!" Dawn calmly stood up and faced him.
"I told you," she started. "What I do isn't sorcery. It's not something I can just teach to anyone."
"But I want to learn your ways! Like how do you do it without a wand?" Leonard asked, waving around a twig. Before Dawn could answer, another voice interrupted them.
"Hey!" shouted Courtney as the approached them. "What are you doing with her? She's not on our team!"
"But I want to learn from her! Learn about her mastery over magic!" Leonard replies. "It'll be for the good of the team! For the good of the world!" He turns back to face Dawn, but she has suddenly disappeared. "See? Teleportation could come in handy in a challenge." Courtney's response was nothing more than a silent glare.
CONFESSIONAL: LEONARD
"I thought Dawn and I were the only mages on this island, but it turns out Courtney's a real witch. An evil empress maybe! Perhaps it's up to me to take her down!" As he says this, he stands up proudly, only to sit back down and nervously tap his fingers together. "Or not, she kinda scares me."
Elsewhere, Brick and Tyler are hanging from branches on opposite sides of the same tree, doing pull-ups. They both hang by their arms, now out of breath.
"How many did you do?" Tyler asks slowly, while gasping for air.
"Just finished one-hundred." Brick replies, his face red and sweaty but his breathing steady. "You?"
"A hundred fifty" Tyler replies, seeming a bit smug.
"Well this was just my first set," Brick says back nervously.
"One-hundred ninety eight...one hundred ninety nine...two hundred!" another person calls out. Looking up, Brick and Tyler see Eva doing the same exercise on the branch above Tyler. She lets go and drops down, landing on Tyler's fingers. He lets out a soft whine as he drops to the ground, with Eva hopping down in front of him. Brick tries to hide his laughter as Tyler gets back up. A sudden, loud honking sound startles Brick, sending him into the dirt too. Chris is standing behind them with his air horn and a huge smile.
"Let's go guys! Challenge time!" he said excitedly, leading the trio of athletes away.
The eighteen contestants gathered around their host. He stands before them with a map pinned to a rolling board and three wooden treasure chests, each with a white 1, 2 and 3 painted on the front. "Today, we'll be going on a treasure hunt!" Chris announces.
"Oh! I found them!" Dakota squeals. "Yay we win!"
"Not quite," Chris says. "You don't need to find the chests, you need to find the keys. The keys will be in one of four locations!" Chris motions to the map. "First is the slippery, frozen peak, located right here."
"An icy mountain?" Courtney asks. "How is that even possible?"
"This whole island is mechanical," Max explains.
"Yeah" Sugar adds. "Ya 'member when we all almost died cause of Sc-" Max interrupts with a hiss.
"Don't say that name!" he warns.
"Back to the challenge..." Chris starts again, slightly annoyed now. "The next location is this island here, where they may be a few Boney Island inhabitants." Chris' smile grows when he sees the worried expressions on the faces of the contestants. "Next up is this watery cave, where you might wanna get in and out before the tide comes in." Chris laughs, before pointing to the final location. "Finally, this springtime meadow, full of beautiful blossoms and flowers. Nothing dangerous." The contestants all look confused at the last location.
"So if there are four places and three keys, that means.." Leshawna starts.
"That's right! One place is empty!" Chris shouts back. "Ready? GO!" The four teams immediately form small circles.
"Okay!" Courtney shouts to her fellow weakfish. "I'm in charge, alright?" No one replies. "Great! Knowing this show, the most dangerous places will have the keys. I'll go to the cave. Tyler and Zeke, the mountain. Sugar and Leonard, the island. Alright?"
"What about the meadow?" Tyler asks.
"Fine, Leonard you go to the meadow." The team nods and part ways.
The Eastern Eels have also mutually agreed on where they were going. Noah would go to the cave, Eva to the mountain, Anne Maria to the island and Rodney to the meadow.
"The island looks like it's the most dangerous," Brick starts.
"I'll go there," Dawn says. "I think I can communicate with the wildlife well enough." The team agrees. Scott will go to the cave, Brick to the mountain and Katie to the meadow.
"What about me?" Staci asks.
"You should come with me," Dawn says. "Trust me." Staci agrees. The Northern Narwhals have made their plans too. Max leaves to go to the island, Sadie the meadow, Leshawna to the mountain and Dakota to the cave.
CONFESSIONAL: DAWN
"This is my chance to prove Staci's value to the team. All I have to do is use her um...creativity, to our advantage."
Dawn, Staci, Sugar, Anne Maria and Max arrive on the beach.
"Staci, didn't one of your relatives invent boats?" Dawn asks.
"No, but they did invent life jackets. Pretty cool right?" Staci says proudly.
"What did they use before that?"
"Oh empty water bottles! And it was really easy to drown if you weren't thirsty."
"Great idea! Follow me!" Dawn says as they rush off. Max has disappeared from the shore, but he is soon seen again, now in a speedboat rushing towards the island, and laughing maniacally.
"Chris was a fool to leave this unattended with an evil genius like ME around!" he shouts to no one. Sugar just leaps into the water and starts swimming. Anne Maria steps into the water, looks up at her hair and steps back out.
"No way am I getting my hair wet!" she shouts.
Meanwhile, Scott arrives at the cave, a rocky crack at the base of a cliff. Courtney, Dakota and Noah arrive behind him. The cave is small, dark and wet. Courtney, Dakota and Noah rush in and start feeling around blindly in the dark, the water already at their ankles. Scott, however, slowly backs out of the cave and runs off.
CONFESSIONAL: SCOTT
"Of course I'm not gonna crawl around in some dark cave. With everyone scattered around like this, I can go looking for the immunity idol." Scott says with an almost evil grin.
Eva is leading the rest of the mountain climbers towards the top. Close behind is Tyler, followed by Leshawna, Brick and Ezekiel. Zeke seems to be the only one having trouble climbing, so Tyler slows down to help him. Their hands were all numb from the snow and ice. Brick managed to climb up above Leshawna, only to slip on a frozen stone and fall down on top of Leshawna, sending them both tumbling to the bottom. Leshawna pokes her head out of the snow and glares at Brick.
"Someone's very lucky the cold made them numb..." She says menacingly. Tyler, being as clumsy as he is, comes crashing down beside them. Eva and Ezekiel are the only two remaining on the mountain. Eva pulls herself to the top where the shiny, golden key is waiting. She grabs the key but another hand is already attached to it. Ezekiel.
"Let go! I had it first!" Eva barks.
"No way eh, this is the farthest I ever made it and I'm not going home yet!" Zeke snaps back. The two yank back and fourth on the key. Eva readies a fist, but before she can throw it, Zeke's eyes fill with red. He leans forward and hisses, revealing sharp teeth and a burning, greenish drool that melts the snow in seconds. Eva jumps back, releasing the key and sending both of them rolling down the sides of the mountain. Zeke lands on top of Tyler, holding the key tight.
"Duuuuude..." Tyler moans. "Hey, you got it!" The weakfish stand up, high-five, and run off.
CONFESSIONAL: EVA
"Okay, not many things scare me...but that...I don't even know what that was!
Back at the shore, Staci and Dawn return with a long wooden board, several empty water jugs, a long pole and a rope. They fasten the objects together into a makeshift raft and begin pushing their new boat across the water with the stick. Anne Maria was still on the beach, filing her nails. Staci prattles on about her family as she and Dawn arrive at the new island.
"Max and Sugar must've beaten us here," Dawn starts. "We have the advantage though, if we split up we can-" Dawn is interrupted by a short, pale kid running up to them, screaming. He hides behind Staci and points at the huge, brown, furry creature looking down at them. It seems to be a mix of a bear and a beaver, though with huge tusks. "You don't want to hurt us..." Dawn says calmly, though her voice was mostly drowned out by Max and Staci's screams. "You are worried about something. A friend, maybe?" Almost on cue, another one of these beasts rushed by with Sugar riding on top.
"Woooooohoooooooo!" She cries out.
Somewhere in the rolling green fields, Sadie, Katie, Leonard and Rodney were all searching for a key. Rodney was gracefully plucking flowers for his current love, Eva. "Eva's gonna love these!" he says. Katie and Sadie stand beside him, watching.
"Awwww, that is soooooo sweet!" Sadie says.
"Yeah, you two make, like, the perfect couple!" Katie adds. Leonard is digging through the tall grass with the stick he calls a wand, but does not find a key. After a short time of wandering around, Sadie picks up a gleaming key from deep under the grass.
"Omigosh, Sadie, you found the key!" Katie squeaks. Both girls let out long and loud screaching sounds of excitement.
"Wait, you take it!" Sadie says. "You helped me twice already, it's my turn to help!"
"No way, it's yours. Besides, I bet Brick already got the key from the mountain." Katie says back.
"No, please. Take it for me!" Sadie pleas, shaking her head. "I'll be fine, I promise!" Katie reluctantly takes the key, and smiles. The two then rush off towards where the challenge began.
Scott finally returns to the outside of the cave, grumbling to himself. "Couldn't find that stupid statue. Whatever, it's an ugly thing anyway. He looks down towards the cliff from the beach, but the cave has vanished. "Uh oh, the tide. I hope Courtney's okay! Wait! No I don't! I hope...ah forget it!" Inside the cave, Dakota grabs the one thing that glistens in the light shining through from an open crevice.
"Yay! I win!" she says to herself.
"Not so fast!" Courtney yells, trying to snatch the key.
"Hey stop it! It's mine!" Dakota says back. Both girls topple over and splash into the water below, letting the Key fall into Noah's hands. When they resurface, they notice the change in water level. "Oh no, the tide! What do we do?" Dakota worries.
"Well gee, I guess we couldn't possibly swim out." Noah says bluntly, jumping into the water and escaping with the key.
"Welcome back!" Chris says once the eighteen campers regroup. "No luck on the island, eh?" he says to Dawn, Staci, Sugar, Max and Anne Maria.
"All we found was this," Dawn says, holding up a small, pink bird. The bird flaps its wings and opens it's beak, letting out a small flame. Staci looks at the bird and smiles
"Oh, that reminds me of the time my great great-"
"Shush," Dawn warns quietly. Staci closes her mouth slowly.
"Ya I wouldn't know what was there, Chris. I couldn't risk my hair," Anne Maria says without thinking.
"You what?" Noah says, annoyed.
"Time for prizes! Zeke, you and Tyler got back first so you can open chest number one!" Chris says.
CONFESSIONAL: COURTNEY
Courtney sits still, once again surprised. "Tyler...and Ezekiel? Maybe this team isn't so bad...I bet my leadership is all they needed!"
Ezekiel walks up to the chest with the 1 painted on it. He sticks the key in and turns it. The top falls back and Zeke reaches inside. He pulls out a marshmallow, a hotel-styled room key, and an Italian flag.
"For your prize, not only are you and your team safe, but you get the luxary suite and a gourmet Italian dinner tonight! Ezekiel also pulls out a small, plastic tube.
"What's this for?" he asks.
"Hold on to that, because it'll be your advantage in the next challenge!" The Western Weakfish team lets out a collective cheer. "Next up, Katie!" Katie smiles and unlocks the second chest. Again, there's marshmallow. She also pulls out several small bags of chips and a two liter bottle of root beer. "The Southern Starfish are also safe tonight, and get these tastey snacks! McClean brand potato chips and McClean Cola! Yum!" Katie cheerfully hands out the chip bags to her teammates and holds onto the soda for later. An extra chip bag is given to Sadie.
"Thanks, BFF!" Katie says.
"Thanks for what now?" Leshawna asks, crossing her arms.
"Oh, nothing!" Both Katie and Sadie reply.
"And finally, Noah!" Noah approaches the third chest. A soft buzzing sound can be heard from inside. Noah hesitates, but opens the chest anyway.
"Just perfect." he says as a swarm of bees rises from the chest. He screams as they chase him down to the beach and into the water.
"While there's no extra prize, the Eastern Eels are also safe tonight! Narwhals, I'll see you at the campfire tonight!
"Well here we are again," Chris says to the Narwhal team. "I have three marshmallows, and four of you. None of you managed to get a key today, so I'd say none of you are safe. The first marshmallow goes to Leshawna," he says, tossing a marshmallow to her. "Also safe, is Max!" Max grins as he catches his marshmallow. "And the final marshmallow goes to..." Dakota and Sadie both exchange nervous glances. "Dakota."
"Yay!" she says, jumping to her feet and getting hit in the eye with her marshmallow. Sadie's eyes instantly fill up with tears. Leshawna puts a hand on her shoulder.
"Sorry girl," she says.
Sadie stands inside the plastic bubble of shame. Katie runs up out of the woods to see her. "Sadie! Oh I knew you should've kept that key! This is all my fault!" Both girls start crying.
"No, Katie! I-AAAAAH" Sadie is launched across the gentle waves.
"Glad to break up that sweet moment," Chris laughs. "Another camper down! Will the Narwhals win with only three left? Will they become the next Team Victory?"
"Hey!" Leshawna shouts from the background.
"Find out next time, on Total. Drama. REDEMPTION!"