Contestants: Leshawna, Max, Dawn, Brick, Noah, Tyler, Courtney, Sugar, Beardo
Eliminated: Sam, Sadie, Rodney, Katie, Anne Maria, Leonard, Scott, Ezekiel, Eva, Staci, Dakota
"Last time, on Total Drama: Redemption... The merge. Some contestants never see the day. With everyone on their own, alliances formed quickly, specifically between Courtney, Leshawna and Sugar, and another between Brick and Tyler. Beardo made a return, but had very little impact. During an exciting battle, some rose to the challenge while others fell flat. Literally! Leshawna, Dakota and Tyler continued to a battle with an old friend: Lightning. When he made fun of Sam, Dakota totally freaked and went Dakotazoid on him, winning her invincibility! But she gave up the million to run off with Blainely, or should I say, Mildred, and shoot her own reality show. How could we possibly top that? Find out right now on Total. Drama. REDEMPTION!"
"Alright!" Courtney says to her two alliance members, Sugar and Leshawna. The three girls stand in the woods, each leaning against a different tree. "Our first alliance meeting officially begins now." Leshawna stays quiet and rolls her eyes.
CONFESSIONAL: LESHAWNA
"I know I said Courtney and I could be friends, but this girl is really holding an official alliance meeting? Ugh, whatever. If it keeps her on my side, then I guess I'll have to deal."
"Wouldn't it be best to keep this alliance a secret?" Leshawna huffs.
"We are. That's why we're in the middle of the woods." Courtney responds.
"Then maybe we shouldn't go announcing alliance meetings?"
"Whatever. Moving on, we only have three of us and there are nine people left in the game. Courtney explains. "I think we should bring in another member. Someone we can trust, but not be threatened by..."
"Oh!" Sugar perks up. "I say Max! We need an evil genius like him on our side!"
"I have to admit," Leshawna shrugs. "Boy did figure out that ice challenge."
"But you didn't win that," Sugar reminds her.
"I know," Leshawna growls. "But it wasn't his fault."
"Then he's obviously a lot smarter than he seems..." Courtney ponders. "How about that new guy?"
"What new guy?"
"Beardo?" Sugar asks.
"Right!" Courtney confirms. "You know him, right? What's he like?"
"Well, he makes a lotta noise and...uh...well that's pretty much it. He don't even talk much." she shrugs.
"Sounds perfect." Courtney nods.
Meanwhile, Brick and Tyler are sharing a morning workout, going for a three lap jog around the island.
"So, I'm thinking our alliance isn't gonna be enough," Tyler explains.
"What do you mean?" Brick asks between breaths.
"Even though we're the toughest guys here, it's just the two of us. If anyone catches on, we could be outta here!"
"That's a good point." Brick agrees. "Did you have someone in mind?"
"Not sure. Uh, how about Dawn?"
"I dunno." Brick shrugs. "She's nice and all, but sometimes she just says stuff she really shouldn't know... What about Courtney?"
"No way bro. She's too sneaky. Couldn't trust her one bit." Tyler explains.
"Alright. Maybe Max?"
"Dude, he's evil and proud of it. You'd trust someone like that?"
"Alright." Brick rolls his eyes. "Beardo?" Tyler slid to a stop, and Brick did the same after.
"The guy they just brought back? I guess he's pretty harmless...We gotta talk to him today then, before someone else does!"
CONFESSIONAL: TYLER
"Hah. I knew it! Social game? Mastered!" he shouts confidently.
"Brick! Tyler!" Chris calls out. "Just in time!" The two athletes join the rest of the contestants around their host. "It's time to announce today's challenge! Everyone, grab a slingshot!" Chef arrives, with a cart of slingshots and little pouches of marbles. "Hidden in the trees are plates featuring each of your faces! All you have to do is find and smash them before yours gets smashed. If your plate is smashed, so are your chances of winning invincibility. Last person with their target unharmed, wins! Everybody clear? Good! Ready? GO!" The nine finalists rush off into the woods together.
"Okay girls," Courtney whispers to her alliance. "If we want to keep this a secret, we'll need to split up, but don't shoot each others targets. And if you see that Beardo guy, talk to him. Try and be his friend. Got it?" Leshawna and Sugar nod in agreement. The trio parts ways, while the other alliance sticks together.
"So we just gotta stick together and take out everyone else," Brick explains, "And we can find Beardo and invite him into our alliance!"
"Right on!" Tyler calls out as they both jog into the woods.
While following a dirt trail, Max examines his slingshot. He pulls the band back for a test shot, but the marble in the pouch flies backwards and hits him in the face.
"Ow!" he cries, dropping the slingshot and his bag of marbles. "Worthless contraption! When I rule the world I shall see to it that all of these are destroyed!"
"You don't have to get so mad," Dawn's soft voice explains as she approaches him from behind. She bends down and grabs the slingshot for him. "Didn't you have one of these as a kid?"
"What?" Max says, surprised. Dawn kneels down and starts picking up the spilled marbles. Max hesitates, but quickly joins her.
"There was a mean spirited old man who lived across the street from you." Dawn says. "The kind of old man who keeps any ball or Frisbee that lands in his yard. Then there was that little girl who lived next door..." Max opens his mouth to say something, but Dawn continues telling her story. "A bully took her favourite doll and threw it into the old man's back yard, so of course he kept it. So you took your slingshot and chipped three of that old man's windows. While he was yelling at you, the little girl snuck into his shed and took her doll back." Max's eyes grow wide as he listens to Dawn's narration. "It wasn't the most peaceful thing to do, but you did it with good intentions." she concludes.
"I also mailed that bully an envelope full of glitter!" Max adds proudly, before he realizes what just happened. "How did you know all of that?!" he demands. Dawn empties her palms full of marbles into Max's hands. She smiles, and silently walks away, leaving Max dumbfounded.
CONFESSIONAL: MAX
"There is only one way she could have known about that: Sorcery!" he shouts. "I'm more of an evil science person myself, but with powers like that, she could be an excellent evil sidekick, if she didn't constantly insist that I'm good. No worse than my last evil sidekick, who tied to kill me..." He puts his hand under his chin to think. "Hm, insisting that I'm good, or trying to kill me...I can't decide which is more sickening."
Max finally recollects his thoughts and continues to walk, only to slip on a forgotten marble and drop them all again.
Elsewhere, Courtney is wandering alone. Her eyes, however, are not looking up at the branches for targets, but down at the ground.
CONFESSIONAL: COURTNEY
"An alliance is great, but nothing is better than an invincibility statue!" she explains. "A challenge about wandering through the forest? If it's in there, I'm gonna find it!"
"Why ain't you lookin' for targets?" Sugar asks after appearing from behind a tree.
"What?" Courtney jumps. "I..I am!" she explains hastily. Thinking quickly, she grabs the slingshot from her back pocket and drops it behind her. "I just dropped my slingshot! Oh! Here it is!" she pretends to notice it for the first time and picks it up. "See? Got it!"
"Hmmmm..." Sugar hums. "Okay then," she shrugs and walks away. Courtney breathes a quick sigh of relief.
CONFESSIONAL: SUGAR
"Courtney's lower than a snake's bellybutton!" she yells. "Ain't no way I can trust her for too long!"
Continueing her path, Sugar happens upon a glass plate hanging above her, depicting Courtney's face. With an evil grin, she pulls her band back and smashes the target with one of her marbles.
"Courtney!" Chris yells through the speakers. "You have been eliminated!"
"What?!" she yells.
"Please come back to the fire pit and take a seat!" Courtney throws her slingshot down and growls as she stomps towards the fire pit.
Meanwhile, Beardo is making slow progress through the woods. He doesn't seem to be concentrating on the challenge, and is instead just walking and beatboxing impressively. Noah sees him passing and decides to approach him.
CONFESSIONAL: NOAH
"So I obviously don't have a lot of allies. With Eva gone, I'm pretty much on my own. As much as I hate it, I don't have too many options for allies..."
"Hey, Beardo, right?" he says, but Beardo does not respond. "So uh, you...Would you consider...because you...ugh" Noah's attempts to catch the beatboxer's attention are not working. Beardo is too focused on his beat. "Ya know what? Forget it!" he shouts, annoyed, before walking off. Beardo opens his eyes and looks around, but sees no one and continues what he was doing.
Brick and Tyler run past Noah, almost knocking him over.
"There's one!" Tyler shouts. Brick fires a marble into the trees and shards of glass fall from above.
"Noah! You're out!" Chris announces.
"Perfect." he grumbles, watching Brick and Tyler continue their run.
Dawn's walk has lead her out of the forest and onto the beach. Before she can turn around, she sees a seagull, drifting in the shallow surf. The seagull has a plastic holder from a six pack of soda cans wrapped arond it's neck. The girl gasps in horror. She carefully gets herself closer to the bird, and gently picks up a shell from the beach. Using the shell's edge, she slices the plastic off of the bird's neck. The gull takes a huge breath of air before looking at the girl who saved it, and was now cutting up the rest of the plastic. It quickly flies up and lands itself on her head. Dawn smiles and picks it up before she hears Chris's voice again.
"Dawn! You've been eliminated. Put the bird down and get back to the fire pit." Dawn shrugs, puts the bird back in the water and walks away, without noticing the bird walking behind her.
"That'll show her who's evil!" Max says proudly. He suddenly hears more glass shattering behind him.
"Yeah!" Leshawna cheers for herself.
"Max! You're out too!" Chris informs the contestants.
"Curses!" Max yells. "You shall pay for this..." he warns Leshawna.
"Yeah whatever," she shrugs in response.
Sugar finds another glass disc in the trees. This time, it belongs to Leshawna. She stares at it, unsure of whether or not she should shoot it, until a marble flies over her head and does it for her. She turns around to see Beardo in a bush behind her. He makes a "ka-ching" sound, like a cash register, and runs away.
"Leshawna is out!" Chris confirms. Sugar glares back at Beardo as he flees. "Sugar! You're out too!" Chris adds.
"What?!" she cries, before seeing Tyler and Brick pass her, sharing a high five. She fires one more marble, hitting Tyler in the back of the head, before she exits.
"Well now what?" Brick wonders. "How could we get Beardo into our alliance if we have to knock him out of the challenge?"
"Challenge first, alliance later!" Tyler answers. "Check it!" he points to the target with Beardo's face. Brick looks unsure as he pulls the string and loads his slingshot. He gives one last glance at his alliance mate, who nods in approval, before taking Beardo out of the challenge. Chris calls his name and Beardo exits the forest. "Just you and me now, bro." Tyler says.
"Only one of us can win the challenge." Brick says back. Both guys look up and see the opposing target over each others heads. They stare each other down, a fair distance between them now. A tumbleweed rolls past them, leading to confused stares. Both of them look to the side and see Chef with a wheelbarrow full of tumbleweeds.
"What?" he barks. "Adds dramatic effect!" They both shrug and resume the challenge. Tyler quickly readies his slingshot.
"Sorry bro, but I gotta look out for myself!" he says before letting go. The marble flies over Brick's head, but misses the target. It ricochets off the tree and hits Tyler in the eye. He falls over backwards and hits the tree behind him, causing it to shake. This was enough to send his own target to the ground, eliminating himself.
"Brick wins invincibility!" Chris announces. Tyler, back on his feet, shakes hands with his alliance partner.
"So nobody talked to Beardo?" Courtney asks her alliance as they sit on a massive rock by the beach. "How can we expect him to help us if we don't talk to him?"
"We could talk to him now?" Leshawna suggests.
"No no, we have to talk about who we can vote for tonight." Courtney commands.
"Okay, how about Tyler?" Leshawna says.
"Tyler? Why?"
"Dude's in an obvious alliance with Brick. Together they could be tough competitors!"
"Tyler will never be a strong competitor." Courtney dismisses. "Hmm," as she thinks, she looks up and sees Beardo, beatboxing on another rock, with Noah beside him.
"So, maybe we should form an alliance?" Noah says, making another attempt.
"Hm?" Beardo finally notices.
"Yeah, we'd get much farther working together. I know neither of us have many allies.
"Uh, sure thing." Beardo says awkwardly. They share a handshake before Noah leaves.
CONFESSIONAL: NOAH
"Finally, a bit of security on this island!"
The contestants sit in the dark now, a dim fire and the moon as their only light. Chris holds a plate of marshmallows and examines the small crowd. Max is glaring at Dawn, Tyler and Brick share a fist bump, and the others sit with their arms folded.
"I have only eight marshmallows," Chris begins. "The camper who does not recieve a marshmallow must immediately ride the Ball of Shame off my island and can never ever EVER come back. Brick, you get the first marshmallow." he tosses the treat to the day's winner. Brick catches it and gives a salute. "Also safe are..."
"Dawn" Max looks surprised as she catches her marshmallow, but then relieved at the next name called.
"Max"
"Sugar"
"Leshawna"
"Beardo"
"And the final marshmallow goes to..." Courtney glares at Chris, while Noah looks surprised.
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"Courtney."
"What?" Noah jumps up. "Me?"
"That's right, dude." Chris says.
"I don't know why everyone voted for me..." Noah says, his voice muffled slightly by the plastic prison. "I guess it doesn't matter." After a brief pause, Noah yells as the ball is pushed by the spring-loaded plank and sent off the island. Courtney shares a smile with Leshawna and Sugar.
"That's what happens when you get in the way of our numbers advantage..." she whispers to herself. Tyler and Brick also share a glance and a nod.
"Well, that was a mild surprise." Chris states. "Twelve down, eight to go! Who will be next? Find out next time on Total. Drama. REDEMPTION!"