Northern Narwhals: Dakota, Leshawna, Max
Southern Starfish: Dawn, Staci, Brick
Eastern Eels: Eva, Noah,
Western Weakfish: Courtney, Sugar, Ezekiel, Tyler
Eliminated: Beardo, Sam, Sadie, Rodney, Katie, Anne Maria, Leonard, Scott
"Last time, on Total Drama: Redemption..." the dark-haired host begins. "Scott tried to control his only teammate who didn't hate him yet, Staci! Unfortunately, Staci chose Dawn and we said good-bye to Scott! The teams are getting smaller, but tonight, that could change! Find out what I mean and more right here, right now, on TOTAL. DRAMA, REDEMPTION!"
The remaining contestants all gather around in the area in the center of the cabins, with their host in the center. It's 2:00 am, and the island is dark. The groggy contestants glare at their host in the dim moonlight, with their suitcases and duffle bags next to them.
"You'd better have a good reason for waking us up this late, Chris!" Courtney growls.
"Yeah," Dakota whines. "I need my beauty sleep!"
"Relax, you'll all be happy you're out here in just a second" Chris explains. He slams his finger down onto a red button on a small metal box he held in his lap. The cabins in the north and south simultaneously explode. Everyone but Chris jumps in surprise as red and yellow light up the camp, and are followed by a rain of flaming little wooden fragments. "As of right now, four teams become two! Weakfish and Eels are one team, and Narwhals and Starfish are the other!" The campers all groan at his announcement. "Keeping with the theme of alliteration and marine life, Dakota, Leshawna, Max, Staci, Dawn and Brick, you are now the Atlantic Anchovies! Courtney, Ezekiel, Tyler, Sugar, Eva and Noah, you guys are now the Pacific Porpoises! Now go get acquainted with your new friends and get some sleep!"
"Why did you have to do this at two in the morning?!" Courtney exlaims. Chris responds with a quiet shrug. The contestants sigh and start making their way to the two remaining cabins.
"Yo, Dakota," Leshawna says quietly. "Still in on our final two deal?" Dakota smiles and nods.
CONFESSIONAL: DAKOTA
"This final two deal I have with Leshawna is perfect!" she squeals excitedly. "I get max camera time, everyone can see how nice I am when I let her get the million, and my friend gets a million bucks! Which I really hope she uses on a makeover..."
"This is going to be a great team," Dawn whispers to Brick. "All their auras read well, even Max is really a good guy."
"I am not good." he says from behind them, having overheard. "I am pure evil!"
"Aw, you're just lonely." Dawn says. "If only your babysitter did more than watch old action movies and paid attention to you." she puts a hand on his shoulder but he pushes it away.
CONFESSIONAL: MAX
"Dawn dared to say that I was good. How dare she insult me like that!?"
CONFESSIONAL: DAWN
"If all Max needs is a friend, he could be a great ally! But my main focus is still Staci. It should be easy with Scott gone."
"It'll be great having you guys on our team!" Courtney says with a fake smile. "With Noah's brain and Eva's brawn, we'll be unbeatable!" Sugar interrupts before Noah or Eva can speak.
"Are either of you guys wizards?" she asks. Noah and Eva respond with "No" and "What?" "Figures..." she huffs as she stomps into the cabin.
"Forget her." Courtney sighs. "I know you two will really help us out tomorrow." Courtney enters the girls side of the cabin.
"We can't trust anyone on this team." Noah explains. "We gotta stick together." Eva nods.
CONFESSIONAL: COURTNEY
"Of course I'm not really happy about having that smug little punk and rage-aholic on my team," she explains with her arms crossed. "But I've gotta make sure they're on my side!"
CONFESSIONAL: EVA
"It's so obvious that Courtney's trying to manipulate me." she growls. "I'll just let her think what she wants and let my athletic skills do the talking."
The campers quickly find their new beds, drop their bags and get back to sleep. The morning was fairly uneventful. The contestants were still tired from being woken up late at night, forced to pack their bags, and then moved to another cabin. Not long after they had eaten breakfast, they found themselves standing in their new teams at the top of a tall cliff. Chris stood between too large spools of rope. In front of each spool are two wooden shelves with three dips in them, each labeled with Porpoises and Anchovies carved into the side.
"Welcome to today's challenge!" Chris starts. "It isn't Total Drama without a jump from a dangerous height! So today, you'll have to jump off this cliff and into the water, find a clam and take its pearl! But be careful, because not all of these clams have pearls, aaaaand there are sharks!" The contestants gasp in unison. "What? You're surprised? Hard to think some of you have been on this show four times. Anyway, you'll all have to pull your teammate back up with these," he continues, motioning to the spools of rope with cranks on the sides. "First team to get three pearls wins!"
"Ohhh!" Dakota squeaks. "Me and Sam love pearls! Sam talks about diamonds and pearls all the time! Actually, maybe he means something else..."
"Moving on," Chris continues, slightly annoyed. "If everybody's ready, then get going!"
"I'll go first for our team," Brick announces, stepping forward for the Anchovies team. Courtney does the same for the Porpoise team.
"We could really use your strength on the crank, Eva." Courtney suggests.
"Yeah, I know." Eva growls back. Courtney and Brick both tie the ropes around their waists and walk to the edge of the cliff. Together, they hesitate but eventually jump off. They both splash into the water. A clam sits in the sand between them. A large shark rushes up to Courtney but Brick swims in front of her in a moment of chivalry. Courtney ignores the gesture and grabs the clam before swimming back to the surface. She tugs on her rope twice to signal her team. Eva, back at the top of the cliff, starts spinning the crank and lifting Courtney back up. Brick slowly rises behind her, clinging onto the rope with one hand and the other clutching a clam. Courtney pulls her clam open first.
"Yes!" she shouts, holding a small white sphere between her fingers. "Wait...this is a ping pong ball!" she growls and tosses the ball off the cliff, as the Atlantic Anchovies cheer for Brick and the pearl he just found.
"It ain't all bad," Sugar says, snatching the clam from Courtney. "I love me some seafood!" she shouts before dropping the entire bivalve into her mouth. Both teams all stare with shocked and horrified expressions as they hear the crunching shell between her teeth.
"Hey, Sugar?" Chris says as he approaches her. "You know that's not a real clam, right?"
"Hmm?" she hums with her cheeks full.
"Yeah, plastic." Chris informs her. Sugar shrugs and swallows it all.
"I thought it tasted funny."
Dawn admires her team's pearl while Ezekiel and Max prepare to jump next. Staci frowns at her for a moment, but then opens her mouth.
"Did you know that pearls were discovered by my great great great great great great aunt Marissa? And her daughter was the first person to put one in jewelry, yah. It's true, I swear." she lies. Dawn looks puzzled and lets out a soft sigh.
CONFESSIONAL: DAWN
"So maybe Staci really does believe what she says..." the pale aura-reader starts. "I guess calling her a liar was a mistake. I'll need a different approach."
"Is that so?" Dawn says quickly. "Hey, um, I'm sure everybody loves hearing these...facts...but maybe you shouldn't talk about them so much."
"Why? Because you think I'm lying?" Staci says with narrow eyes and a defensive tone.
"No, I was wrong to say that." Dawn nervously covers for herself. "But if your relatives have done so many amazing things, then don't you think the others might feel...intimidated?"
"OOoooooh!" Staci gasps. "THAT must be why they voted me out in season four!" Dawn smiles, feeling accomplished.
CONESSIONAL: STACI
"I knew Dawn didn't really think I was lying! Uff, I should've known that I'd intimidate people!"
Meanwhile, Max was being lifted back up the cliff by Leshawna and Brick, holding on to another clam.
"Foolish sharks!" Max taunts as he rises above the water. "Next time think before messing with an evil mastermind like myself!" As he breaks into a fit of maniacal laughter, a shark leaps out of the water and chomps at him, only grabbing the base of his pants and tearing a bit off, but this is enough to make Max yelp. Ezekiel scans the sandy ground for another clam, but the same shark is charging towards him. Zeke meets the shark's gaze with his own, bloodshot eyes and sharp, crooked teeth. The shark slows down as Zeke's team begins pulling him out of the water. He arrives at the cliff's top after Max has opened his clam and held up the pearl he found.
"You didn't get anything?!" Courtney and Eva both shout at Ezekiel in unison, surprising them both. As they exchanged wide-eyed glances, Dawn inspects the prize that Max had claimed.
"This isn't a pearl," she says blankly. Her team looks both annoyed and surprised. "Sorry, but it's not." she shrugs.
"Hey!" Ezekiel calls out in an attempt to redeem himself. "If you guys don't want it, we'll take it!" Dawn shrugs again and hands it to him. Zeke whispers a soft "yes" and rushes to place it on his team's board.
"Okay, now I know you did NOT just give away one of our pearls!" Leshawna barks.
"But it wasn't-" Dawn tries to defend herself but Leshawna guides her to the cliff's edge. Dawn sighs and ties the rope around her waist. She and Tyler both take the plunge into the lukewarm waters below. A shark immediately rushes towards Dawn, but her warm smile and gentle eyes cause it to stop short. She carefully looks around and places her hand on a few clams before grabbing one and signaling for her team to pull her up. Tyler watches, amazed, as she waves to him and rises out of the water. He quickly snaps back to reality when he sees a shark swimming rapidly towards him. He flails around a bit and ends up grabbing the first clam he sees. Back on land, to everyone's surprise, both Dawn and Tyler had found pearls.
Noah and Dakota jump next. The sharks don't bother them much, and they are both back at the top with matching clams.
"I know there's a pearl in this one!" Dakota says optimistically. She pulls the top shell and a stream of black ink sprays out and hits her in the face. She lets out a sound that's half howl and half shriek while she drops the clam and rubs her face. Noah smirks and pulls the pearl out of his clam.
"That's three!" he cheers, just as the pearl in his palm pops like a firecracker. "Ow!" he yelps, shaking the pain off his hand. "Okay, that's still two." he grumbles.
Staci and Sugar jump next, but find similar results. Staci's clam shoots confetti at her. She opens her mouth to say something, but stops once she sees Dawn. Sugar had mistakenly grabbed a real clam, which Courtney swiped and threw off the cliff before she could eat it.
Underwater, Leshawna and Eva both grab the same clam. They both pull on it, but upon seeing the shark behind Eva, Leshawna lets go. Eva smiles, feeling triumphant, until she turns around and sees the shark too. She does not waste time waiting to be pulled back up, but instead starts climbing up the side of the cliff. Leshawna has found a new clam and is being lifted by her teammates. The Porpoise team has spun their crank fast enough to help Eva reach the top first. She pulls the pearl out of her clams mouth and places it on her team's board just as Leshawna stands up at the cliff's edge. She had found a pearl too, but was too late. She places the useless stone with the first two that Brick and Dawn had claimed as she and the rest of her team let out a defeated sigh.
"And the Pacific Porpoises win!" Chris yells. As they cheer, their first pearl starts shaking. A small crack appears and, not long after, so does the head of a baby turtle. Dawn jogs to the hatching creature and lifts it up in its eggshell, cradling it in her palm.
"I told you this wasn't a pearl," she says to Leshawna.
"Ohh, tough luck!" Chris says. "Eggs don't count, so that means the Anchovy team wins instead!" Their faces all perk up and they let out a collective cheer, while the Porpoise team does the opposite.
"Well well," Chris begins the elimination ceremony. "Interestingly, the Weakfish were only here once before the teams joined. Any comments? Eva? Noah?" Neither of the former Eels say anything, and instead just stab Chris with angry glares. "Jeez, tension." Chris pulls the lid off of a silver platter, revealing five, plump marshmallows. "Safe tonight are..."
"Sugar"
"Courtney"
"Tyler"
"Eva" The four safe players catch their marshmallows and breathe sighs of relief. "And the final marshmallow goes to..."
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"Noah!"
"What?!" Zeke shouts.
"Yeah, you're out." Chris says bluntly.
"But I was doing so good!" he shouts.
"Yeah, was! Now you're out."
Chef emerges from the shadows and grabs Ezekiel before tossing him into the oversized hamster ball.
"Know what? I don't even care, eh!" he shouts, his voice slightly muffled. "You girls are gonna need all the help you can get!" Courtney, Eva and Sugar all glare at him just before Chris sends the ball of shame rolling off the island.
"Some people never learn, do they?" Courtney huffs, shaking her head.
"Well," Chris begins. "Four teams are now two, but for how long? Will these new teams work well together? What ever happened to that pink bird that followed Dawn around? And will Staci follow her advice? Find out next time on Total. Drama. REDEMPTION!"