AN: Well, it's the first original episode of the season. Tell me your thoughts! Is it good, bad, I dunno.
acl97 gioia: I did do that! I hope you enjoy today's episode!
Nicky Haugh: Thank you! Yeah, I didn't really understand why he didn't enact his plan of revenge sooner in canon, but with his return in this story, well, it'll be interesting.
The S.P.Y. Conspiracy
Chris stood on the Dock of Shame, ready to do the recap.
"Last time on Total Drama All-Stars: after swapping teams, Dawn and Lightning were forced living with the enemy. And, while Dawn got the cold shoulder by each Villain, Lightning had a grand entrance.
"At challenge time, giant pancakes were gobbled down, or in some cases, thrown right back up thanks to a barf-tacular obstacle course! And, in a shocking turn of events, Alejandro was brought back into the game. And though the Villains were still sent to loserville, it was Heather, the queen of mean, that went down the Flush of Shame.
"Only thirteen players remain, which one of them is going to take a circular swim in the big porcelain bowl? Found out right here, right now! On Total! Drama! All-Stars!"
Loser Cabins - Boys
After the challenge, Alejandro shaved and got a haircut, as well as new clothes. He was sleeping above Scott in a sleeping bag.
Confessional: Alejandro
"After two years of being stuck in that robot suit, I find it difficult to sleep if I'm all...spread out." He explained.
"Ugh, we need to get into the spa hotel. If we keep losing challenges then the Heroes will just pick us off one by one!" Duncan told his two teammates as he got into the bed opposite of Scott.
"I miss the hotel." Scott moped.
"Gentleman, please, we now have an advantage on our team. Dawn may be a useful asset to us, she may be able to see the Heroes weaknesses." Alejandro explained, slightly smug.
Scott scoffed. "Yeah right, no way is fairy girl gonna turn on her old team."
"You never know, Scott." Alejandro simply replied.
Loser Cabins - Girls
It was awkward in the girl's room. Courtney and Gwen slept on the beds, looking at the wall so they wouldn't have to face each other. Dawn was meditating on the bunk above Courtney.
She was sensing Mike's aura. The only personalities she could see well was Mike, and the large black one. The others seemed to only be small, very small.
She knew that this evil personality was the one that destroyed the contestants' belongings, and was also responsible for breaking Gwen's arm.
Little did she know, someone else knows just as much about the dark personality, if not a little less.
Spa Hotel - Boys
"Nice going, B!" Cameron told his teammate as they sat on their beds. He just smiled in response.
"Yeah, you really did come through for the Heroes." Mike added.
"Lightning ain't congratulating anyone yet until he finds out who burnt his basketball." Lightning stated, narrowing his eyes at his teammates.
"I guess that's fair." Mike agreed cautiously, rubbing his arm.
Boney Island
Trent walked on Boney Island, his dagger in hand, though he was mostly walking absentmindedly. His mind kept replaying the moment Gwen broke her arm during the last challenge.
He tried to shake it out, but no matter what he did, it always kept coming back. His grip on his dagger tightened.
He was going to find whoever burnt his guitar.
His eyes widened. He mostly forgot about his burnt guitar.
Anger started to well up in him. He gnashed his teeth and let out a scream. He swung the dagger around, striking a nearby tree.
He sighed, putting his forefinger and thumb to the bridge if his nose. He pulled the dagger off the tree and pocketed it as soon as he heard helicopter whirring.
As Chef picked up the exiled musician, the man in red watched from behind a tree. Trent was already broken, so putting those memories back into his mind will destroy him further.
The figure stepped back into the shadows. After all, his work here was done. Now it was just time for nature to take its course.
"Attention spare bones, it's challenge time! Get out of your cabins pronto!" Chris announced through the intercom.
The contestants made their way outside of the cabins and stopped in front of Chris, who was wearing an army helmet again.
"I thought we already had a war challenge." Cameron recalled.
"You did." Chris frowned at the bubble boy. "Let's welcome back returning exile, Trent!"
The helicopter whirring is heard and Trent jumps down again onto his feet for the second time in a row, and stalked over to his team.
"Now that we're all here, today's challenge is a homage to our season three's Area 51 challenge, and a bit of season two's spy challenge at that."
Confessional: Duncan
"Area 51." He recalled, crossing his arms. "Good times." He rolled his eyes sarcastically.
"You're challenge? Reach the vault that we placed down on the island, sneak in, and retrieve the U.F.O codes.
"Pfft, that won't be so hard." Scott scoffed again.
"It does sound that way, doesn't it. But, I've hired some highly skilled...um...actors to guard the vaults. If you get caught, you will be put in a cell. First team to return to moi with the codes, wins the challenge. The Heroes won last time so they get the advantage: a map scouting out all the weak points of their vault."
The Heroes, minus Trent, cheered as Zoey caught the map.
"I would give something to the Villains, but...that would just be unfair." Chris taunted the Villains, which Gwen and Alejandro rolled their eyes.
"Anyway, your challenge starts…now!" He blew his air horn, and the teams ran in search for their vaults.
Zoey examined the map, leading the Heroes to the vault while the Villains followed several feet behind.
"Those actors better be ready for the Lightning, because Lightning ain't goin' down without a fight! Sha-yeah!"
The two teams stopped in front of two dirt paths. One side had the Villain's logo, and the other had the Hero's logo.
"May the best team win." Alejandro eyed the Heroes, before walking on his hands into the Villain path, his team following him close behind.
Zoey turned to B with the map and handed it to him. "Here, B. You probably know a lot more how to use a map then I do." B took the map and walked down the path. His team followed behind.
The Villain team ran down the dirt path with Alejandro leading the way.
Dawn suddenly came to a stop. "Friends! Stop!" She warned.
"Why? So that the Heroes can win agai-" Courtney was interrupted when a laser shot the ground beneath Alejandro, blowing it up and sending the arch-villain into the air.
The Villains stared in shock as Alejandro landed back where Dawn stood. Suddenly, another laser shot at the ground beneath Scott, launching him into the air too. Gwen, Courtney, and Duncan stopped in their tracks and spun around.
"Would anyone like to offer a plan?" Alejandro asked, rubbing his head.
"We can just use the plan we had in season three." Duncan replied lamely, picking up a rock. Alejandro eyed the rock and sighed. "If you say so."
B led the Heroes down the dirt path. After a moment of running, his eyes widened as he read the map, and stopped. The rest of the Heroes stopped as well, except Lightning, who kept running.
"No one keeps the Lightning behind!" He yelled, only to be blown up, launching him back to next to Trent.
"Is that a minefield!?" Cameron asked, holding his head, squinting due to the loss of his glasses.
"What do we do?" Sierra asked. "Cody isn't here to sacrifice his candy and…" she leapt into Cameron's arms. "What do we do Cam-ody!?" She yelled to him.
As Mike, Trent, Zoey, and Lightning stared confusedly as Sierra, B snapped his fingers. He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a handful of bolts and screws.
He tossed them forward, setting the minefield off.
"Nice work, B!" Zoey complimented. B smiled and ran forward, throwing down more bolts and screws to set off the mines in front of them as the rest of the Heroes followed behind.
The Villains were just using the same plan that they came up with during season three.
"Remember, throw a rock and run in the other direction." Duncan reminded his team. He stood up with a rock in his hand. He tossed it to the left and ran down the path to the right, getting behind a tree as cover.
Courtney stood up next, holding a rock. She tossed it in one direction and ran in the other. Almost as soon as she threw the rock and ran, the laser targeted her instead of the rock.
The ground exploded beneath her, launching her into the air as Duncan, Scott, and Alejandro laughed at the sight, especially Duncan.
"That's not funny, Duncan." Gwen scolded him as Courtney landed behind a tree opposite of Duncan.
"Whatever, babe." Duncan rolled his eyes, smirking.
"I suppose we come up with a new strategy. If we continue this way, the Heroes will surely have a lead." Alejandro reminded his team.
Duncan scoffed. "Whatever, Al."
Gwen sighed and tossed a rock. As the laser locked onto the rock, she ran towards the tree Duncan was hiding behind.
Scott and Alejandro looked around, only to see that Dawn was absent from the rest of the group. Alejandro sighed and picked up his rock. He tossed it towards Duncan and Gwen, and as the laser locked on it, he ran on his hands to Courtney.
That left Scott by himself. He picked up a rock and tossed it up in his hands, and caught it. He threw it straight down the dirt path and bolted towards Duncan and Gwen.
When he reached behind the tree, he wiped his brow in relief. He felt a tap in the shoulder and turned around.
Fang was smirking evilly at him. Scott's eyes went wide with fear, but before Fang could do anything, the laser shot at the ground beneath him, launching the mutated shark flying back down the dirt path.
The Heroes looked out of a bush they hid in. They saw the vault ahead of them, being guarded by the 'actors' in body armor, holding batons.
B looked down at the map. The vault had a long fence surrounding it, but the map showed the weak points and areas easily infiltrated.
"So, what's the plan?" Mike asked.
"We're looking at the areas that have the weak points." Cameron responded, looking over B's shoulder.
"Well, Lightning's not waitin' around for anything!" Lightning claimed. Before anyone could stop him, he bolted through the front gate. "Who is ready to get struck by the Light-" before he could finish, one of the guards tackled him to the ground.
"Hey! Ow, man! Lightning's leg doesn't bend that way!" Lightning cried out in pain.
The guard lifted Lightning to his feet, handcuffs on his wrists, and begins to lead him away.
The Heroes glance at each other. "Uh, those guys don't look like actors." Mike commented.
"No, no they don't." Trent spoke up for the first time in the challenge. He crouched down to a certain part of the fence, and began to cut a hole in it with the dagger he found.
"Whoa, what's that?" Sierra noted the dagger.
"Does it matter?" He responded, cutting through the fence.
After a few moments, he finished cutting through. He stood up and pocketed his dagger, and pulled the fence away. The Heroes started to crawl through the hole into the base, though B had a little trouble getting through.
"Thanks, Trent." Zoey whispered to her teammate, to which he shrugged it off. "Yeah, sure." He responded, uncaring.
The Villains looked over at the fence surrounding the base. Dawn suddenly joined them behind Scott.
"Hello." She smiled. Scott jumped back in fear. Alejandro turned towards the moonchild, his eyebrow raised. "Where did you go?" He asked her.
"Oh, I used a short-cut." She replied simply.
"Yeah, whatever, creepy girl." Duncan rolled his eyes, looking out at the fence.
"You don't have to act this way just because your father didn't want to play with you as a child." She told him. Duncan spun around, looking at her in shock as Gwen raised an eyebrow at her boyfriend.
"Hey! How about you don't read my mind? There might be private stuff in there!" He told her harshly.
Confessional: Dawn
"I didn't mean to insult Duncan in any way. I do hope he does not take offense to me reading his aura." She said, rather nervously.
"What're we gonna do to get in?" Gwen asked, bringing the subject back to the challenge.
"How about you get tackled and get dragged away by one if those guards?" Courtney asked her harshly, glaring her down.
"Señioritas! Perhaps we would all like to calm down?" Alejandro told the team. He eyed one of the guards carefully, then turned to Duncan. "I believe I have a plan." He turns towards Scott. "It involves both you."
The screen suddenly pauses and Chris is seen in the control room. "Al has a plan, but will it work? Find out when we return on Total! Drama! All-Stars!"
Commercial break.
When the show fades back, two men have been tied up and are bound and gagged behind trees. Scott slipped on the helmet and grabbed Courtney while Duncan, who was in the other suit, grabbed Gwen. Alejandro walked on his hands in front of them, Dawn beside him.
Duncan and Scott made sure to not look at any of the other guards, otherwise their cover may be blown.
Scott and Duncan pretended to force them around the corner and out of the guards' line of sight.
"Well done Scott, Duncan. Now I suggest that we find the code." Alejandro stated, looking around.
"Woah woah! Who said you get to be leader?" Courtney asked accusingly.
"Oh, my apologies," he began, trying to keep the sarcasm out of his voice. "Would you like to take control?" He asked politely.
"Yes I would! And first order of business is to lose the deadweight!" She claimed, jabbing her thumb at Gwen, who sighed miserably, and Duncan, who just scowled.
"You heard the lady!" Scott scowled at the two. He put on his helmet and shoved Duncan and Gwen into sight as he, Courtney, Alejandro, and Dawn, though regretfully, opened a door and walked through before the guards could spot them.
Before Duncan and Gwen could recover from their state of shock, a guard tackled Duncan and another grabbed Gwen by the shoulder.
"Ow! Okay man!" Duncan surrendered as the guard slipped handcuffs onto his wrists, and the other led Gwen away since one of her arms was in a sling.
Confessional: Courtney
She is grinning smugly with her arms folded across her chest. "That was the least of what they deserved." She claimed, now smiling.
The Heroes snuck around the building. They got lucky that nobody spotted them yet, well, except Lightning. Currently, B was holding Mike on his shoulders, who was holding Zoey on his, Sierra on hers, Trent on hers, and Cameron on his.
B had given Cameron his screwdriver to unscrew the vent in the wall. It was rather high up. As Cameron slowly unscrewed the vent, B was keeping lookout for any guards heading their way.
He froze when he heard footsteps heading in their direction. He glanced up and gave Zoey a warning sign. Her eyes went wide and she looked up.
Cameron unscrewed the vent and climbed in quickly. Trent climbed in after and helped Sierra in.
B looked back at the coming footsteps. The weight on his shoulders slowly got lighter when he felt Zoey jump into Sierra and Trent's hands.
The footsteps were nearing the corner and B put his hands on Mike's feet, and threw him up. He scrambled into the vent. The silent genius jumped up high and grabbed the edge of the vent just as the guards turned the corner. They shouted something as Sierra and Trent tried helping B into the vent.
Suddenly, the two guards grabbed onto B's lower half, and began pulling, trying to pull him out. Trent and Sierra let go of him, fearing that they too would be pulled out.
B quickly reached into his coat pocket and reached out to give Sierra the map. She reached out too late when the guards fully pulled B out of the vent, with the map.
Zoey and Mike exchanged nervous glances.
"Should we keep moving?" He asked her.
"I think we have to." Cameron stated. Zoey sighed and turned around.
As the Heroes started crawling in the vent, B was thrown into a cell with Lightning. Right as the door opened and B was thrown in, Lightning ran in and body slammed into the two guards, knocking both of them over.
"Ha! Guards, you've been struck by the Lightning!" He flexes again, and the guard tugs his leg, bringing him to the ground. "Ow!"
The remaining Villains walked through the door and looked around. They saw the actual vault at the other side of the dark warehouse-like room.
"It seems that this room is unguarded." Alejandro noted as they walked towards the vault.
As they reached the vault, the TV screen lit up, showing Chris and his familiar smile. "Welcome to the Villain vault! Looks pretty nice, huh?"
"Just get on with it!" Courtney demanded.
"Fine." He frowned. "But the only way you'll get into this vault is if you remember what the color of the wire you all cut from season two in the spy challenge." He smirked. "Good luck!"
With that, the screen turned to black. All of the Villains turned towards Courtney, expecting her to remember it.
"Why would I remember it?" She asked them. "Lindsay is the one who cut the wire."
"If you can't open it, then I'm afraid your journey must end here." Alejandro stated.
"What's that supposed to mean?" She asked, raising her eyebrow.
"Forgive my bluntness, but I believe you will be the one voted off if you can't open the vault. Besides, Duncan may have known the correct color as well." He explained, smirking as Courtney starting biting her lip.
Confessional: Courtney
"The one time that Gwen gets karma, it bites me too! How is that fair!?"
Courtney eyed the panel on the wall below the TV. It had a black wire, a red wire, a yellow wire, a blue wire, and an orange wire.
She began pacing down the warehouse, finding wire cutters on one of the empty shelves as she tried to remember which wire she cut.
All she wanted to do that day was to win, and she couldn't remember a color that was on a barrel!?
She reached the wires again and leaned against the wall. She looked at each wire carefully. As she looked at the wires, she slowly remembered her experience on season two. She acted horribly that season. She guessed it makes sense why she's on the Villains team, then.
She had to do this, process of elimination style.
She glanced over all if the wires. She knew for a fact that yellow was on the barrel during that challenge.
She skimmed over the rest of them, stopping at the orange wire. Was there even a orange wire on the barrel?
She searched her memory. She was positive that there was no orange, so that crossed out that wire.
That left four possible wires left.
She looked over them again. She looked at the red wire, blue wire, and black wire specifically. She already knew that the yellow one was on the barrel during that challenge when Lindsay mentioned that it matched her hair.
Come to think of it, like the orange wire, she didn't think there was a black wire either. That left the blue, red, and yellow wires left.
She narrowed it down to the yellow wire and blue wire. She remembered one if the wires during that challenge connected to the back of the barrel, and since yellow was the only wire she remembered, she recalled a bright color on the back of the barrel.
That left it at a fifty-fifty chance. The blue or yellow wire? She had a gut feeling that it wasn't the yellow wire, and she tended to trust her gut.
She raised the wire cutters to the blue wire and cut it. She let out a sigh of relief once no alarm went off, and the vault door opened.
"Well done, Courtney." Alejandro politely told her as he, Scott, and Dawn entered the vault. She scowled at him and followed him in.
The Heroes had been crawling around aimlessly in the vents. Finally, when Zoey looked down, she saw a white panel-like ground with red lasers creating a pattern and a silver laptop on the platform in the center of the all white room.
"I think this is it!" Zoey told the Heroes.
"How do we get down?" Cameron asked.
"Ooh! I have an idea!" Sierra laughed creepily. She pulled out a long rope and threw it to Zoey.
"Uh, thanks." Zoey thanked her, albeit off guard as Cameron started to take the vent off using B's screwdriver.
Once he got it off, Mike volunteered to lower down Zoey to grab the laptop while Trent shrugged and accepted lowering her down as well.
Sierra and Cameron crawled back a few feet as Mike and Trent started to lower Zoey slowly down in.
"Careful!" She whispered up to them. Mike nodded while Trent rolled his eyes.
Zoey started to get in range of the laptop, almost able to grab it. As she reached down to grab it, Mike let out a quiet gasp. His hair flopped down over his eye and the dark rings appeared. Mal smirked and let go of the rope, which dropped Zoey and launched Trent down and out of the vent as well. Mal quietly gasped again, reverting back to Mike.
He looked around in confusion, before he lost his balance and fell onto Trent, who was rubbing his head.
The alarms went off and the vault door opened. Mike and Zoey raised their hands in surrender as the guards stormed in. They pulled Zoey and Mike along, and another pulled Trent to his feet, and forced him out of the vault.
With that, the door shut, leaving Cameron and Sierra rather confused at what just happened. They just lost three of their teammates at once.
The Villains looked at the lasered ground in front of them. A silver closed laptop was at the center of the room on a platform.
"Well, this is a problem." Scott comments, looking at all the red lasers.
Dawn steps forward, surprising the Alejandro, Scott, and Courtney.
She looks down at the lasered ground and puts her foot down between two lasers. She looked at the ground again, hoping to find another opening to put her foot. She did, and took another step.
Alejandro and Courtney watched with intrigue. Scott just looked unimpressed.
She took another step, nearly slipping, which made her heart drop. She glanced down at the lasered ground again. She took another step, stepping to safety. She was closer to the laptop now, and her heart pounded. She took a deep breath and took one more step, closing in the distance between herself and the laptop.
She reaches out and grabs the laptop, taking it in her small hands. She jumps up, doing a flip, and landing on her toes on the platform. Dawn spins around on her heel to face Courtney, Alejandro, and Scott. She raises the laptop, locks eyes with Courtney, and throws it to her.
The laptop slams against Courtney's chest. She holds it close, not wanting it to break.
Scott quickly puts his guard helmet back on, and pulls out the baton. He, Alejandro, and Courtney walk out of the vault, not giving Dawn a second look.
Dawn glances down at the laser floor. If they are to escape, then she needs to cause a distraction. She jumps down onto the lasered floor, raising the alarm almost immediately, but at that point, no one is paying attention to Scott, Courtney, and Alejandro leave now, thanks to her.
The three Villains race down the dirt path, Courtney holding the laptop.
"Excellent work, team!" Alejandro commented as the three made their escape.
Suddenly, without warning, a laser locks onto the ground below Courtney, and explodes, sending her into the sky. Alejandro and Scott stop in their tracks and exchange glances.
Chris is standing at the edge of the forest. He laughs at the explosion in the distance, but then stops when Courtney suddenly flies into him, sending both of them to the ground. She quickly gets off him, followed by Chris, who dusts himself off.
"Here!" She slams the laptop into his chest. Chris smirks and grabs it. He picks up his megaphone, "The Villainous Vultures win!" He shouted just as Alejandro and Scott emerged from the forest. The two cheered. The host starts speaking into the megaphone again, "I'll see you tonight, Heroic Hamsters!"
When the Heroes returned, they slumped and walked towards the spa hotel, until Alejandro stops Mike, and takes him away behind the loser cabins.
"What is it, Alejandro?" He asked him, annoyed.
"You see, Mike." He started, getting off his hands and on his feet which are now working. "When I was stuck in that robot suit I had to work for the production team for Total Drama. For two, long years. And during this season, I noticed that it was indeed you who burned the others' belongings."
"I...what?" Mike asked, confused.
"You are not one with five brains, but six." Alejandro smirked, watching Mike's eyes go wide. "So tell me, who is that sixth stranger?"
"H-he...I locked him away! T-there's no way he could return!" Mike pleaded.
"But he did, didn't he." Mike looked down at the ground.
"I won't tell anyone about your sixth personality, only if you help me." He smirks.
"Why would I help you?" Mike asks, starting to panic.
"You will do what I want, when I want." Alejandro narrowed his eyes, "Otherwise, I will reveal to Zoey of your personality."
"Fine!" Mike nearly shouted, holding his head.
"I'm glad we have an understanding." Alejandro smirks, and struts off back to his cabin.
Mike gasps after Alejandro is gone. "Dammit!" Mal cursed, punching the side of a tree. He chuckles darkly, turning in the direction that the arch-villain went. "Enjoy the rest of your life, Al."
The Heroes are sitting in front of the campfire while the Villains are in the peanut gallery.
"Wow," Chris chuckles, shaking his head, looking from the Heroes left to right. "I think all of you have a good chance at being eliminated tonight. Lightning, you ran right into the base and was immediately captured, that's a good reason to call it quits for you. Trent, your new attitude may not make your team like you as much as the old you."
"Bite me." Trent sneered.
"No thanks. Zoey, you took charge of the team and is probably a big factor to why your plan failed." She just looks down, saddened. "Mike, you dropped Zoey on accident, which not only got her eliminated from the challenge, but also Trent and yourself. And finally, B. B, you could be going home because you were the one who led your team, and took the map with you after you were eliminated." B just frowns. "I mean, seriously? It's votin' time!"
"Oh, I do hope Mike or Trent are eliminated before it's too late." Dawn quietly says to herself.
"Hm?" Gwen asks, turning towards Dawn, not hearing her.
"Oh, nothing." She replies, turning away.
The last person to vote was Cameron. He walked back to the stump and sat down. "When I call your name, you know the drill." Chris shrugs before smirking. "Sierra. Cameron. Zoey. And Lightning."
"Sha-bam!" Lightning points at Chris, catching his marshmallow.
"And tonight's lucky loser is…" Chris smirks as Mike and B look nervous. They both looked at the final marshmallow desperately.
"B!" Chris announced, tossing the final marshmallow to Mike.
"Sorry, B." Zoey apologized.
"But before we get flushing, who's going for exile on Boney Island?"
"Me! I'll go!" Scott smiled, walking up to Chris.
Confessional: Scott
"Last time I found the invincibility statue in no time flat!" He bragged. "Now I get the whole night? It's in the bag."
"Any final words, Beverly?" Chris asked as B was he was in the bowl. He looked up, frowned, and shook his head. "See ya!" The host pushed the button, flushing B down the toilet, only for it to get clogged mid-flush. Chris turns to Chef. "I thought you were gonna fix that water pressure problem?" He asked him. Chef just rolls his eyes and pulls out comically oversized plunger, and walks over to the toilet. Chris turns to the camera and continues as Chef is heard unclogging the toilet off-screen.
"We just went from thirteen to twelve, who's next in line?" He turns to Chef, "Can you stop that for a just a second?" Chef crosses his arms and waits for Chris to finish the outro. "Find out next time on Total! Drama! All-Stars!"