Episode Five: The Box
Episode Five! Yay! And the correct answer to the Q of the Week was…to save Pikachu! Omg I almost typed in to steal Pikachu because of Team Rocket XD Oh, and before I forget, check out my profile! I updated it! Specifically take a look at the Total Drama section. It has a hint to the next chapter every week, so be sure to take a look before you go! Thanks!
TDU Train, Conductor's Room
"Last time on Total Drama Universe," Chris began. "Contestants were taken to Chilly Castle where they had to bake, build and ride their way to victory. Each team had to choose two players to work together to build a motorcycle. Sparks flew when Eggman and Tails were chosen to work together, also putting tension between the fox and his girlfriend. Unfortunately Zoey stopped it before something ugly happened. In the end it was Shadow who emerged victorious when Burgundy stripped the brakes from Angel's bike. Or was it Phineas' doing? Who will win? Who will suffer from horrible injury? How much pain can I put these weirdoes through before they di-…I mean, crack? Find out here, on Total…Drama…Universe!"
(Theme Song na na na whatever)
Hospital Car, Room 3
Angel woke up when the light coming from the window shined over her face. She looked around. She was sitting in one of the chairs in Tails' temporary room, her arm wrapped in a cast and in a sling. She looked over at Tails, who was sleeping in his bed. She glanced down at her arm. "At least I didn't lose another limb," she said to herself. Silently, she sat down on the bed next to him. "What're we going to do Tails?" she asked the sleeping fox as she stroked his fur. "We've already lost twice and three of us are stuck here."
Tails groaned as he woke up. "Angel?" he asked sleepily. "What're you doing here?"
"Sorry if I woke you up from your sleep," she said.
"It's okay," he replied. "That's all I've been doing the past three days anyway." He looked down at her arm. "What happened to you?"
"I crashed in to a building in All-Stars mode and lost the challenge," she replied.
"What?!" Tails exclaimed. "I swear, if it was Eggman-"
"It wasn't Eggman," Angel said quickly. "It was Burgundy."
"Burgundy?" Tails repeated as he sat up. "But…why? All she wanted was revenge on Cilan-" he was cut off when a high pitched scream came from down the hall. "What was that?" he asked after a few seconds.
"That sounded like Morgan," Angel answered. "I kind of forgot she was here. C'mon." She ran down the hall, Tails flying awkwardly behind her.
"Get AWAY!" Morgan screamed as she chucked a pillow at Brock's head. "Creep!" Angel and Tails watched from the doorway while Brock got on his knees and proposed.
"What's…going on?" Angel asked the two of them.
"Brock's been watching us!" Morgan exclaimed.
"He's the doctor," Angel said, rolling her eyes. "Plus the whole WORLD is watching us. We're on TV, hello?"
"Well it doesn't matter," Morgan said, turning Brock and his flowers down. "I hooked up with Brenon after the Quidditch challenge."
"WHAT?!" Angel and Tails exclaimed at the same time.
"Why can't I get a girlfriend?!" Brock wailed at the ceiling.
"Brenon and I really like each other," Morgan continued. "So we're going out now."
Tails' eyes widened. "I'm starting to wonder how powerful the anesthetics and pain medicine here is."
"I'm starting to wonder if I went in to a coma after crashing in to Ash during the rebellion." Angel said. "I'm going to go lie down," she walked out of the room, still stunned.
"I'll come with you," Tails said, following her.
Loser Class, Team Y
"Loser Class again!" Sonic exclaimed. "How could we lose twice in a row?!"
"We'll probably lose again," Duncan said. "Think about it, without Angel most of our team is gone! Most of us can't do anything. Nothing can help us win!"
"Who you calling nothin'?" Angel asked. She and Tails walked in to the room, him on crutches. "Screw Brock, we're not losing another challenge."
"How'd you guys get out without him and Nurse Joy seeing?" Melaney asked.
"Me," a voice said. The others turned and saw Morgan standing in the doorway. "I turned Brock down, so now he's all sad and stuff. Oh well. We're not losing this challenge though. I haven't even had a chance to get in to First Class yet."
"Me either," Tails added. "And I've had a serious craving for pie lately… I swear, the food in that place tastes like it's from Bucket O' Sushi, EGGMAN," he said, glaring at his arch enemy. "'Now with real fish', ugh."
"You're lucky I haven't snuck in there and poisoned your food, you meddling pipsqueak," Eggman growled.
"Yeah, when you built that restaurant I'm pretty sure you already did," Tails shot back.
"Either way we've got two of our best players injured," Gwen said. "We can't win challenges like this!"
"Sure we can," Tails said. "Do you forget who we are? I don't even need to walk, I can fly!"
"He's right," Angel said. "I'm ambidextrous. A broken arm is just a minor setback."
"And I'm…just Morgan," Morgan said.
Bathroom Confessional
(Morgan)
"I can't believe I don't have any powers or anything. I mean, everyone here's either a furry or a Pokemon Trainer. Duncan's got experience from going to Juvie, Zoey's got her survival skills, and I guess Gwen's pretty smart. And I've got nothing."
Loser Class, Team Y
"C'mon guys, we can do it!" Ash exclaimed as he stood up. "Sonic, you're the original, are you really going to let Shadow AND Silver beat you? And Tails! You've got an IQ of 225! You don't need to take some crap from of a couple of ten-year-old Disney characters! You're eleven now, you're stronger, faster, smarter…" he continued on, lifting everyone's spirits. Morgan turned to Melaney while this was happening.
"And no one finds it weird that Tails is now eleven instead of eight, Angel is twelve instead of ten, Ash still hasn't changed, and only a month has gone by since the rebellion ended? Not to mention that the age gap between Tails and Angel has decreased by six months-"
"And logic has been chucked out the window!" Melaney exclaimed. The others turned and gave her strange looks since they hadn't heard her conversation. "…and so has whatever shred of sanity people thought I had left." The awkward silence was destroyed when yelling was heard from Chris' car.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DROVE US IN THE WRONG DIRECTION?!" the Y's heard Chris yell from two cars away.
"IT'S NOT MY FAULT!" Chef yelled back from where Chris was. "HERE I AM, SLAVIN' AWAY IN FRONT OF A HOT STOVE ALL DAY, JUST SO THESE SPOILED LITTLE BRATS DON'T STARVE!" Tails hid behind Sonic, trying to become as small as possible. "AND WHAT'VE YOU DONE? JUST SITTIN' IN YOUR HOT TUB ALL DAY, EATIN' THEM FANCY PIES-" Tails' stomach growled. Everyone looked at him.
"What?" he asked. "It's not like you guys aren't thinking the same thing." Ash's stomach growled too. "See?"
"Ash is always hungry," Misty pointed out. "I don't see why Chef doesn't just use Brock and Cilan to-"
Brock rushed in to the room, flowers in his hands. "Did a beautiful girl say my name?!" he asked hopefully.
"Hey, back off Brocko, you had your chance," Ash said quickly. The two of them began to bicker as Misty watched.
"Are you seriously letting them fight over you?" Angel asked, crossing her arms.
"I know I shouldn't, but wouldn't you do the same?" Misty asked. "I've been trying and trying to get Ash's attention for years, and now he's asks me out! If Tails was fighting with someone over you-"
"I'd break up the fight myself," Angel finished. "I am not some prize to be won. Besides, I've already got my knight in shining armor," she said, looking over at Tails. "I don't need to be fought over. Plus I'm usually the one that's doing the fighting anyway-" she was cut off when the yelling continued.
"I HAVE THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB HERE!" Chris screamed. "I HAVE TO BE THE HOST, ANNOUNCE CHALLENGES, AND PUT UP WITH CONTESTANTS-"
"AND THAT'S SO HARD," Chef said sarcastically. "I CAN DO IT, FOR PETE'S SAKE! JUST WATCH!" A few seconds later, Chef stormed in to a room. "It's challenge time, maggots!"
Middle of Nowhere, Box
"Why're we in a box?" Dawson asked. The teams, Chris, and Chef were all in a large steel room in the middle of nowhere, the only thing inside a small desktop computer.
"Because SOMEBODY drove us in the wrong direction," Chris said, glaring at Chef.
"Yeah, yeah, we heard it all this morning," Knuckles said. "Just explain the stupid challenge already."
"Fine," Chris said harshly. "Since all of you are able to stir up entertainment without even having to go through a horrible challenge, we'll all be stuck in this room together. If you fight with ANYONE, you'll automatically teleported out by the computer and will have to do extreme exercises with Chef."
"That doesn't sound so hard," Mike said. He turned to Zoey. "At least we can spend some time together now."
"Yeah," Zoey said happily.
"Are you kidding?!" Gwen exclaimed, panicking. "I can't do this! I have claustrophobia!"
"Relax," Silver said, leaning up against the wall. "Five minutes from now almost everyone'll be kicked out anyway."
5 Minutes Later
"Wow, Silver was right for once," Sonic said in astonishment. Five minutes had gone by, and he, Angel, Cilan, Melaney, Dawson, Tails, Eggman, Phineas, and Ferb had were the only ones left in the room with Chris. Rouge, Amy, and Blaze all turned on each other, Knuckles had punched Ash for stupid reasons, Heather had gotten to a fight about season five with Zoey and Gwen, Duncan and Mike got in to an argument about the girls (which made Brock step in, of course), Chaotix and Rocket fought about the Oil Ocean challenge, and Stephan had gotten in to quarrels with everyone who said his name wrong.
"I'm surprised using duct tape on the smart people worked," Angel said. "It's too bad Tails counts as a smart person though." Phineas, Eggman, Tails, and Ferb were all leaned up against the wall, their hands and legs tied up and duct tape covering their mouths. "At least it keeps them from fighting."
Melaney groaned. "This is insane…"
Bathroom Confessional
(Melaney)
"First you put me in an alliance with two blue insane hedgehogs, then you make me be in a room with smart people, who really aren't that smart, and Dawson and Cilan. IS YOUR GOAL TO TORTURE ME?!"
(Chris)
"Total Drama and any involved enterprises are not making any intentions for human, animal, or Pokemon abuse. Okay, where's that bucket of poisonous fish for the next challenge?"
The Box
"It's very quiet," Melaney said to absolutely nobody. "Sonic and Angel are talking. The smart people look like they're going to kill someone. Dawson-"
"What are you doing?" Sonic asked.
"Evaluating the situation-"
"DON'T SAY 'EVALUATING'!" Angel exclaimed. But it was too late. Cilan started talking about evaluation time, and wouldn't shut his mouth. "Nice."
Dawson walked around the computer, examining it. He was about to walk away, but he tripped over a wire and landed on the computer, smashing it to pieces.
"What did you do?!" Chris exclaimed. "That was our only way out of here!"
"Maybe it can be fixed?" Dawson said hopefully. A few seconds later, the computer burst in to flames. Tails mumbled something unintelligible under the duct tape, but you could tell by his voice that it wasn't something good.
"So we're stuck in here forever?!" Angel exclaimed.
"If someone doesn't fix the computer, then yes," Chris replied. He and the contestants looked at the group of smart people, sitting duct taped together.
"Don't free all of them!" Melaney said quickly. "The last thing we need is a bunch of nerds fighting over how to fix it."
"Those three aren't worthy of the term nerd," Angel said as she pointed to Eggman, Phineas, and Ferb. "Only Tails." She walked over and untied him, then kissed him on the cheek.
"Thanks," Tails said after he had taken off the duct tape. He walked over to the computer, which was just a pile of ash now. "Okay, this should be interesting." He turned to Chris. "What type of computer is this one connected to in order to function the teleportation device?"
"Uh, the white one?" Chris said, confused. Phineas groaned, still tied up. "I don't know!" he exclaimed. "I'm a reality show host, not a freaking genius!"
"It's fine," Tails said. "Angel, I need you to activate your eye."
"Sure," she replied. The holographic screen displayed in front of them, ready for use. Tails took out his Miles Electric and began typing something in.
"If I can hack in to the mainframe, I might be able to open the doors to this place so we can escape. By the way, Team Y better be winning this challenge if I get us out of here. I don't see Hideous and Derp over there doing much of anything." Phineas' eyes glowed with anger, but Tails ignored him.
"Yeah…" Chris said awkwardly. "Legally, I can't exactly do that due to issues with contracts, so we're just going to have to free the others and turn this in to a challenge!"
"Crap," Sonic mumbled. He walked over and untied the others, making sure that they wouldn't attack Tails.
"I wonder how the others are doing," Angel said.
Outside the Box
"I WANT 200 PUSH-UPS, RIGHT NOW!" Chef barked at the contestants. The competitors got down on their hands and knees, doing the exercises as quickly as possible. "When I'm done with you all, you're gonna cry. You're gonna puke. And some of you might not make it at all."
Bathroom Confessional
(Gwen)
"I can't believe I'm saying this, but I actually MISS Chris. I'm not sure how much more of Chef I can take."
The Box
"At least we've got something to work with," Melaney said to the Y's that were in the box. "Phineas and Ferb have nothing to use except for what's left of the computer."
"That doesn't mean it's going to be easy though," Tails said as he typed. "Even with Angel I'm not sure if we're going to be able to get out of here really soon. I think-"
"I think this is ridiculous," Eggman interrupted him. "Why are we all relying on Tails to get us out of this mess? Remember what happened to the Blizzard-"
"What? Shut up!" Angel snapped. "Of all people that would pull that off it was probably you! I don't think Tails would try to hurt me after all we've been through. YOU on the other hand…"
Phineas smiled at Ferb. "The plan's working, bro. With them fighting like that, we'll have the million AND our revenge on that stupid fox. By the time this challenge is done, at least one of them will have killed the other. Pretty cool, right?"
Bathroom Confessional
(Ferb)
"No. Not cool."
The Box
Ferb nodded, pretending to agree with him. He continued to work on the burnt up computer, then stopped when he heard something coming from the Y's.
"Done!" Tails exclaimed. On the holo-screen displayed numbers and various symbols. "Now I just have to type in the password and we're good to go," he said. He typed it in and saw something that he wasn't expecting to see: Skype.
"Why'd you go on Skype?" Sonic asked.
"I didn't…" Tails said, a look of concern on his face. "Did you?" he asked Angel.
She shook her head, also slightly shaking the screen. Tails walked closer to it, then jumped about three feet in the air when a face appeared on screen. "What the heck?!" Angel exclaimed. On screen was a skinny man with brown hair and the Green Lantern symbol on his shirt. He was sitting in what looked like a small apartment, a refrigerator and a chair visible behind him.
Tails' eyes widened. "No…but…how? SHELDON?!"
"What?!" Phineas and Eggman exclaimed at the same time.
"NO! Not another smart person!" Melaney groaned.
"Greetings," Sheldon said. He raised his hand and did the Spock symbol. "I see somehow the four of you survived," he said to the former tributes. "I also see that you have three new emails."
"But you…died!" Tails exclaimed in shock. "It's nice to see that you're alive, but…how?"
"That is one of the few things that I don't know," Sheldon replied. "Nevertheless you have three new emails. Check them."
"I still don't understand!" Tails said in confusion. He gasped. "Where's Penny? Is she okay?"
"Sadly Penny did not come back," Sheldon said. "Only I did."
Tails' heart sank. He had missed the two former tributes from Pasadena. Yet the question still remained: how did these others come back? He looked back up at the screen. "Is there any particular reason why you called, Sheldon?"
"And make it quick," Chris said, tapping his watch. "We've only got a half hour show here."
"Yes, well, I have a challenge for you," Sheldon said to the group. "Now-"
"Hey!" Chris interrupted. "I'm the one that makes the challenges here. So you can-"
"I'll pay you a thousand dollars right now if you let me finish without being interrupt-"
"Deal," Chris said quickly.
Sheldon cleared his throat, then looked at Tails. "Now we never truly found out which one of us was smarter before the plane crash in the arena. So I propose a quiz to truly decide who has the greater intelligence."
"Interesting," Tails said. "In what categorization would this quiz be?"
"Let's keep it various."
"Challenge accepted then." Tails replied.
"Oh, and by the way, if you don't pass, you're all stuck in here for the rest of your lives."
Melaney grabbed Tails' shoulders and shook him violently. "You have to win this!"
"Don't worry," Tails said, pushing her away. "I got this."
"Question one," Sheldon began. "What is a chemical rea-"
"The process in which the properties of a substance are changed, both chemical and physical, creating a new substance that is entirely different." Tails answered immediately.
"Correct," Sheldon said. "Question two. Define 'nuclear fusion'."
"The process in which two atomic nuclei combine to form a larger nucleus, forming a heavier element and releasing huge amounts of energy," Tails said confidently. "C'mon, Sheldon, give me something that a first grader can't do."
Sheldon twitched. "Name the diatomic sev-"
"Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, and Iodine," Tails answered. "Give me a challenge Sheldon!"
"Fine!" Sheldon exclaimed. "Balance this." A chemical equation appeared on the screen.
CH4+O-CO2+H2O
"That's your challenge?" Tails asked, crossing his arms.
"I have harder ones but I watch this show and it's already going down the toilet as it is."
"Hey!" Chris exclaimed.
Tails rolled his eyes, then typed in the answer.
2CH4+4O2-2CO2+4H2O
Sheldon flinched. "Rats. You're right."
"Yes!" Tails exclaimed.
Sheldon twitched again. "This is not over, Miles Prower. One day we'll find out who's smarter! Live long and prosper." He then hung up, leaving the others confused. The screen then started to glow, teleporting Chris and the others out.
"And the Y's win the challenge!" Chris announced. Team Y cheered in excitement.
Phineas stormed over to Dawson. "This…is your fault! If you hadn't broke that stupid computer, we wouldn't be in this mess! It is so over for you."
Bathroom Confessional
(Phineas)
"I can't keep getting beat that fox! I'm going to cause him a world of hurt! Watch your back, Tails."
Elimination Room
Team X was gathered in the Elimination Room, every competitor but Dawson and Georgia having a cupcake. "X's," Chris began. "This, is the final cupcake. Dawson. You're on the chopping block for destroying our only way out of the box. Georgia. You haven't exactly done anything useful in the last few challenges."
"Well what am I supposed to do, volunteer for something stupid when Team Rocket can do it and no one will care if they get hurt?!"
Chris shrugged. "Anyway, the final cupcake goes to…Georgia."
It was Dawson's turn to shrug. "Oh well. It's not like we all didn't see it coming." Chef grabbed him, then tossed him out the train.
Chris turned to the camera. "So many contestants remain. Who will win the next challenge? How did Sheldon come back? How is Phineas going to achieve vengeance? Find out next time, on Total…Drama….Universe!"
Chapter Five's done! Yay! So I kind of got this idea during math class. Melaney and I were talking about the story because we had nothing else to do, and Dawson was on the back computer trying to get his flash drive out of the USB port in the back. It broke, so he pulled out the tower too quickly and it landed on the ground, then the monitor got all messed up. He tried to turn it off, and it wouldn't. In fact I think it's still like that. So that's how THIS chapter was thought of. In other news, Sheldon's back! Now four fallen tributes have come back to life? Hmm, that's strange. Another thing: I'm kind of supposed to be studying for a science mid-term, but I wanted to do this, so I incorporated some of my notes in to it! Yay, I killed two Pidgey with one Moon Stone. Don't give me that look. I used the Burn Heal joke five times, I can say whatever I want. ;) Oh yeah, and I've updated my profile! Make sure you check out the Total Drama Universe section, since it'll give you little hints about the next upcoming chapters! Okay, so Q of the Week: Who was it that called Tails and messed everything up when the rebellion was sneaking in to the Capitol? Thanks for reading! Oh yeah, and we've reached 20,000 words! Thanks so much guys! See ya!