Northern Narwhals: Dakota, Leshawna, 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, Sadie
"Last week, on Total Drama: Redemption..." Chris starts, as usual. "The contestants went searching for keys. Some were successful, and some just couldn't 'key-p' up. Sadie, after costing her team the win by giving the key she found to Katie, ended up getting the boot. On the other hand, the Western Weakfish seized victory when Zeke showed off a more freaky side, helping his team finish in first and gaining them a surprise advantage in today's challenge. What IS today's challenge? Who will get kicked off the island next? Find out right here, right now, on Total. Drama. REDEMPTION!"
Katie sits on a rock on the beach, her face buried in her knees, eyes full of tears. Dawn appears, seemingly out of nowhere, beside her.
"You have a really strong friendship with Sadie." She says softly. Katie's head perks up, startled by Dawn's sudden appearance.
"Oh yeah," she starts. "We're like never ever ever appart so this is like really hard for me!"
"I understand." Dawn says, resting her palm on Katie's shoulder. "I can tell you feel really alone without her." Katie replies with a nod. Dawn hesitates before speaking again. "You're not the only one who feels alone. Staci was voted off first last time she was on the show. She didn't really have the chance to make any friends." Both girls look over to see Staci, sitting alone on a bench by the firepit in the center of the cabins. She is sitting quietly, her eyes buried in some magazine. Staci looks up and notices Scott walking past her. She opens her mouth as he passes to speak.
"Hey Scott, ya wanna hear about how my great-"
"Nope." Scott says, without even looking at her. Staci sighs and folds the magazine in her lap, staring at the ground.
"Well, Staci does tell a lot of cool stories..." Katie says. She looks up to notice that Dawn isn't beside her anymore. After looking around for a moment, a bit confused, she stands up and approaches Staci. "Hey Staci. Whatcha reading?" Staci's frown quickly inverts into a smile as she holds up the magazine.
"Inventor's Digest" she says. "A lot of these people have really cool ideas. I bet they were inspired by my ancestors."
CONFESSIONAL: DAWN
"I can tell Katie and Sadie really depend on each other," she explains. "I'm worried that with Sadie gone, Katie won't be able to play as well. But Katie and Staci's auras match up pretty well. Not as well as hers and Sadie's, but still pretty well."
Meanwhile, on the girls side of the Eastern Eels cabin, Anne Maria has just finished applying a full can of spray to her hair and doing her make up. She closes her folding mirror and turns around to see Eva, sitting up in her bed and throwing her hair into a messy ponytail.
"Hey Eve," Anne Maria starts.
"Eva." Eva growls.
"Right whateva. How come you never do anything else with your hair?"
"I'm not into all that fashion, girly stuff like you." Eva glares at Anne Maria, trying to hold a fake smile.
"I'm just sayin', you're a pretty girl, you just gotta change your style a bit."
CONFESSIONAL: EVA
"I've never really been called pretty before..." Eva starts, looking surprised. "I was only being nice to her so I'd have an ally, but...she's actually not bad."
CONFESSIONAL: ANNE MARIA
"Aight so I was exaggerating when I called Eva pretty, but I could make anyone look almost as good as me! Almost as good."
Suddenly, the conversation is interrupted by a knock at the door. Anne Maria walks over and opens it, and standing before her is Rodney, holding a bouquet of flowers.
"I uh...got these for Eva..." he says awkwarly.
"Listen up! Eva ain't interested! Now step off!" Anne Maria shouts. She shoves Rodney backwards, sending him down into the dirt, then slams the door. Noah walks out of the boys side of the cabin and sees Rodney on the ground.
"Whoa, are you okay?" he asks.
"I didn't realize...Anne Maria and I were meant to be..." Rodney groans.
"Ugh, when will you learn?"
About a half hour later, Chris has his contestants gathering around a quartet of large, wooden crates, each with holes along the top and numbers one through four painted on the front, similar to the treasure chests.
"We've had some complaints that the challenges haven't been dangerous enough so far..." Chris says.
"Who's complaining about that?" Leshawna shouts.
"Mostly me and Chef," Chris laughs. "So today we're going hunting! Each team must tie their bandana around one of these four dangerous creatures!"
"This'll be easy for me!" Sugar interrupts. "One time I wrangled a bull for the talent contest in a pagent! I didn't win though 'cause the bull put two of the judges in the hospital." She laughs while her teammates stare at her with wide eyes. Chris ignores her and continues his introduction.
"Weakfish, for winning the last challenge, you get this as your advantage!" Chris shows a mysterious purple object to the Weakfish team. Tyler holds up his hand to catch it, but the sharp tip sticks into his palm.
"Ouch!" he cries, staring at his palm. "That hu...hur..." before he can finish his sentence, Tyler collapses on the ground.
"Oops...we'll get you guys another one!" Chris announces, moving on with the show. "You also get to pick your box first!" He tosses a crowbar into the crowd. Ezekiel picks it up and approaches box number one. He jams the crowbar into the side and yanks the front down. A pair of red eyes glows in the shadows of the box. They lower as two brown, furry paws emerge. The bear inside rushes off into the woods. Sugar picks up Tyler and slings him over her shoulder, and the team runs off after the bear.
"That bear is a Pahkitew Island native!" Chris shouts. "Starfish, you pick next!" Ezekiel hands the crowbar to Scott.
"Don't pick box number two. Trust me." Dawn whispers, but Scott ignores her. He approaches box two and rips the front off. A monstrous roar comes out of the box as a legged shark appears. Scott screams and runs back to his team, cowering behind Brick.
"Remember Fang?" Chris laughs. "He sure remembers you!" Fang snaps his jaw at the Southern Starfish team and chases them all into the woods. "Eels, your turn!" Eva picks up the crowbar Scott dropped and steps over to the fourth box. She rips the front down and looks into the box, but sees nothing.
"What is this, a joke?" she growls.
"No joke!" Chris shouts. "This is the most dangerous animal we could find!" After a few seconds of silence, something jumps out of the box. A girl. She has messy, orange hair and is dressed in all green.
"Izzy?!" Noah yells.
"Not today!" Izzy calls back. "I am Oonga! Queen of the jungle!" With a powerful yell, Izzy rushes into the woods. The Eel team chases after her, passing the crowbar off to Max. He marches up to the last box, but before he can open it a large, hairy purple fist breaks through the front. The crate collapses, revealing an ape-like beast. The monster pounds its chest like Tarzan.
"Sasquatchanakwa!" Chris shouts as the purple animal runs deep into the woods. "Better get going, guys!" The Narwhal team scurries after their target.
"Okay guys, we'll have to work together to catch that bear." Courtney calls out. "Zeke, do you still have that tube from yesterday?" Zeke nods and hands her the tube, she then places the replacement dart into the back end. "Now we just need a way to lure it over to us..." The team's eyes slowly shift towards the unconscious jock, laying limp over Sugar's shoulder.
Scott and the Starfish have finally gotten a safe distance away from Fang.
"I should've known Fang would be around if I came back on this show," Scott moans, out of breath.
"I warned you not to pick box two." Dawn reminds him.
"Thanks, Captain Planet." Scott sneers.
"Where did Katie and Staci go?" Brick interjects, trying to relieve some tension. The two girls walk up to their team calmly.
"It's so good that your family invented tennis rackets" Katie says with a smile.
"Yah, it's so much easier than playing with baseball bats like they did before" Staci explains.
"If you two are done chit-chatting, we have a challenge to win!" Scott growls.
CONFESSIONAL: SCOTT
"Staci and Katie have become pretty chummy..." Scott says. "If they actually become useful, they could become a threat together. I'll have to throw this challenge and split them up. And if the challenge is hunting Fang, that shouldn't be too hard..."
Before the team can think of a strategy, Fang surprises them by leaping out of nowhere and snapping his massive jaw at them. They all scream and split up, running different directions.
Leshawna, Dakota and Max are walking through the woods together, trying to find Sasquachanakwa.
"Finding a purple gorilla shouldn't be this hard, we just saw him." Leshawna complains.
"Even if we do find him, the real challenge is getting a bandana on him." Max says. "Ohh if only I had my mind control helmet with me..." Leshawna and Dakota exchange confused glances. Breaking the silence, they hear a loud roar behind them. The trio of narwhals turns around to the gorilla-like monster behind them. They start backing up nervously. Sasquachanakwa charges forward, leaving Leshawna and Max paralyzed with fear. Dakota, however, shuts her eyes tight and makes a fist. Her eyes shoot open again, now yellow with red pupils as she launches her hand forward. With surprising strength, Sasquachankwa is knocked onto his back. Dakota blinks again, her eyes now back to their normal green. Leshawna's jaw drops, while Max simply walks over with his arms folded.
"Very impressive. You should consider being my new sidekick." Max says as he ties the bandana around Sasquachanakwa's ankle.
"Uh, okay sure. Whatever that means" Dakota smiles.
CONFESSIONAL: LESHAWNA
Leshawna sits quietly, her eyes wide and her mouth still open, for a brief few seconds.
"That means we win!" Max shouts.
"Yes, it seems you did." Chris's voice crackles from a speaker that seems to be growing right out of a tree, beside a camera. "That means the Northern Narwhals get access to the luxary suite tonight!" Max and Dakota cheer, while Leshawna snaps out of her trance and cheers with them. "But don't forget, the last team to get a bandana on their animal is sending someone home tonight!
"We should just try talking to her," Noah suggests to his team, referring to Izzy. Izzy sits on a tree branch, staring down at Noah and her team.
"You're right..." Eva says with a deep inhale. "Izzy get down here right now or I'll crush you like a grape!" she screams.
"Not quite what I meant." Noah says bluntly. "C'mon Izzy, I thought we were friends" he pleas.
"Noah and Izzy are friends, but I'm not Izzy. I'm-"
"Oonga, queen of the jungle, we know. Just come down here, please?"
Izzy lets out a loud war-cry and swings down on a vine that seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Noah and Eva step to the side, Anne Maria shouts and dives to the ground. Izzy plants her feet on Rodney's chest ,sending him to the ground. She laughs and starts running away on all fours. Noah, Eva, and Anne Maria all chase after her, leaving Rodney in the dirt.
Tyler lays against a tree, almost awake by now. The bear is sniffing the ground a few yards away.
"Hey look! A vulnerable teenager! Hope there are no hungry bears around!" Leonard shouts from behind the tree. "Force field, force field..." he mutters to himself nervously, waving his stick around. The bear's head perks up as it slowly makes its way over to Tyler. He leans forward and clutches his hand with his eyes still closed.
"Man my hand is killing me..." he groans. He opens his eyes to see the brown, furry creature before him. Tyler screams as it stands up on it's hind paws. A dart flies out of a nearby bush, striking the bear's behind. The tip of the dart folds and bends as it falls to the ground.
"It didn't work?" Courtney whines from the bush, where she's standing beside Ezekiel. "Why didn't that work?!" The bear turns to face her with its eyes glowing red. It gets back on all fours and rushes towards her, but a rope suddenly appears around it's neck, yanking it backwards. The bear twitches a for a moment, a bit of metal revealed under it's neck fur where the rope had hit. The team regroups around the broken bear, and see Sugar holding the other end of the rope. "It was a robotic bear?!" Courtney shouts. "What the hell, Chris?!"
Chef Hatchet, watching on a screen from a hidden studio room, is seen throwing a remote control on the ground. "Stupid kids broke my bear" he grumbles.
"Good thing you had that rope, eh." Zeke says as he ties the yellow bandana around the bear's paw.
"Yeah, where'd you get that?" Courtney asks.
"Found it on that tree over there" Sugar says with her ever-present smile and farm-girl laugh. She points over her shoulder with her thumb. Though the Weakfish don't notice him, Scott is peeking out from behind that same tree with a feindish grin.
"Perfect, now as long as the Eel team catches Izzy before my team finds Fang, I can work on splitting up Staci and Katie" he mutters to himself as he walks away. Passing some shrubbery, Scott notices Fang and Dawn. Dawn has one hand gently placed on Fang's snout.
"I understand if the other sharks weren't very nice after you grew legs," Dawn says quietly. "But look at what you can do now. I bet they've never been on land." Fang seems to be smiling at her. Quietly, Brick creeps up behind him and ties a bandana around his fin. He and Dawn share a high-five and a smile. Scott turns around and groans.
"We have our results! Seems like the Eastern Eels have an important choice to make tonight!" Chris announces through the speakers. Noah, Eva and Anne Maria all sigh. Izzy turns around, still wearing that almost-creepy smile.
"Whoops! Sorry guys!" She says.
Chris stands before the defeated Eels, holding a plate with three marshmallows. "Well well, I guess you guys picked the wrong box." he says mockingly. "When I call your name, come up and get your marshmallow. Your sweet, gooey safety from a humiliating elimination. Safe tonight, is..."
"Wait!" Rodney shouts. Chris gives an annoyed sigh, but Rodney talks over him. He stands up and faces his team, more specifically, Anne Maria and Eva. "Ladies, you're both wonderful, but...our love can never be..."
"What do you mean our love?" Anne Maria asks. Eva just glares at him.
"I know you're upset Anne Maria. But my heart belongs to another..." He turns around and sees another girl, stepping onto a boat that's pulling away from the dock. "Izzy! Come back!" he shouts.
"I know a way to catch up to her..." Eva grumbles. She stomps over to Rodney, lifts him over her head and drops him into the Ball of Shame. She slams the door shut as Anne Maria pulls the lever, launching the ball across the quiet water and towards Izzy's boat.
"Well, way to ruin the ceremony guys." Chris complains as he turns to face the camera. "Who will be voted out next? Will the Weakfish or Starfish ever lose a challenge? Find out next time on Total. Drama. REDEMPTION!"