"Everyone report to the rec room for a MANDATORY special early showing of the new episode!" The intercom blared, everyone filing in. It was near three o clock AM and everyone was annoyed and tired to be called up so early. For some reason, the episode didn't air at the normal slot, and instead of showing them the show tomorrow and having it be a double episode day, they decided that it would be better to show them early.
"So did you warn Sierra about Mike?" Noah asked Cody as they filed in, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
"Funny thing is, I think her phone broke." Cody shrugged. "Her last twert was all jumbled up, like "ASDDFGFJLHHKL" or something."
"So you didn't warn her that there's a psycho on the island?" Noah looked more concerned than he normally did.
"I'm sure she can handle herself. She beats up sharks on a regular basis, she can take Mike." Cody smiled reassuringly.
"Hey, has anyone seen Bunny?" DJ walked into the room seconds after everyone else, worried.
"Why?" Geoff asked, nervous. He wasn't actually responsible for this bunny's disappearance, but he still felt a little guilty about losing DJ's first bunny.
"He was acting pretty funny and ran off, and I'm worried." DJ frowned.
"Huh, Dakota was acting a little funny too." Sam added, from Dakota's lap. "She kept bugging out, but nothing bad happened. Maybe it's just a mutant thing, I mean, Bunny's got that weird tail tentacle thing going on." He shrugged.
"Maybe, but why last night?" DJ asked. "And where is he now? What if he gets eaten!"
"He's got fangs." Geoff replied, smiling reassuringly. "He can take care of himself. I'm sure he'll turn up, dude!" He patted DJ on the back.
"Dakota sorry for breaking Gameguy." Dakota apologized to Sam sheepishly.
"It's ok, Dakota." Sam smiled. "I can always get a new Gameguy. You're more important, I'm just glad you're ok."
"The tea leaves warned me about last night." Dawn announced. "The moon cast a spell over all the animals."
"Yeah right, like that could happen." Jo scoffed. "Dakota goes nuts all the time... No offense." She said to Sam and Dakota.
"Actually," Harold piped up, snuggling up to Leshawna, who was begrudgingly allowing it. "The moon last night corresponds with the extremely rare occurrences of a blue harvest moon." He explained. "It's a recorded phenomenon that occurs only once every fifty years."
"So what, last night Dakota went nutzo because of a stupid moon?" Jo protested.
"Actually, all animals are affected by the moons light. It's unknown what causes it and why humans aren't affected." Harold continued, annoyed at the interruption.
"So why haven't we heard of it?" Noah glared.
"Like I said, it only occurs on rare occasions." Harold repeated.
"So my dog Sasha would have been freaking out?" Noah asked.
"I suspect so." Dawn answered before Harold could, Harold mumbling incoherently.
"Watch episode now?" Dakota asked politely, pointing to the TV, which was about to start the show.
"Last time on Total Drama All Stars." Chris announced, the camera fading in to the clips as usual. "After swapping teams, Courtney and Duncan were stuck living with the enemy." He explained, clips of Duncan and Courtney's performances playing. "But, while Courtney was given the cold shoulder by every villain except Scott," Courtney and Scott's awkward hug was shown.
"Heheh, Scott and Courtney?" Sam laughed. "That's a weird couple."
"Says the guy sitting on top of his ten foot tall girlfriend." Noah smirked.
"Duncan got a hero's welcome so warm, it made him question his own bad boy-hood." The party thrown for Duncan played onscreen. "At challenge time, giant pancakes were gobbled down, and in a few cases, thrown right back up thanks to a barftacular obstacle course." Gwen throwing up all over Duncan was shown, as well as Alejandro swallowing to keep from puking. "Way to reswallow, bro." Chris laughed. "The heroes finished first, but an uneaten chunk of cake in Sam's pocket sent the heroes to loserville."
"I'm still really sorry that I lost everyone the game." Sam sighed. "I kind of knew I would get voted off really early." He looked resigned. "I'm not even that much of an All Star, honestly."
"Sam is All Star!" Dakota insisted.
"Thanks, Dakota." Sam smiled, kissing Dakota on the cheek.
"Ugh, please stop kissing." Jo scoffed. "No one wants to see it. We just want to watch the episode and get some freaking sleep."
"And Sam took a particularly awkward Flush o' Shame." A clip of Sam's elimination played. "Only ten players remain, which one of them is gonna take a circley swim in the big porcelain bowl?" Chris was standing at the top of the giant toilet, gesturing down to the bowl. "Find out right here, right now, on Total Drama All Stars!"
After the theme song, the camera was zoomed in on the ground, a bowl of Chef's gruel falling into the dirt and spilling everywhere. The camera moved up to the porch of the loser cabin, Duncan coughing and spluttering. "This slop tastes like dirt gravy." Cameron piped up worriedly, eyeing his bowl of gruel with fear. "Which technically would be mud, but-Woah!" Cameron began walking down the stairs, before tripping and falling. Cameron had fallen face first into the slop.
Jo burst out laughing at this, Brick looking worried. "Hey, that's not very nice, Jo." Brick said.
"Sorry, sorry, but seriously, he tripped?" Jo chuckled. "Cameron's got two left feet!"
"Wow Cam, you ok?" Mike asked Cameron, helping him up and handing him his broken glasses. "Here you go, buddy." He put the glasses on Cam's face, but they cracked in two and fell to the ground.
"Awww, Mike's so sweet!" Beth grinned.
"Oh boy..." Cameron groaned. The camera panned back so Zoey was in shot, she turned around and gasped.
Confessionals:
"I can't believe what I just saw!" Zoey said, gripping her head. "Or have just seen... no, saw... " She pondered the correct word. "Either way, I can't believe it!"
The camera rippled to a recording from Zoey's perspective, of the same scene we just saw. When Cameron walked down the stairs, Mike's? hand grabbed his foot and caused him to fall. Mike came out from under the stairs and gasped, blinking confusedly. the flashback ending. "Why would Mike do that to Cameron?" Zoey asked, confused. "They're friends... Did Mike break Sam's Gameguy too? And Sierra's smartphone?" She gripped her head again. "But why?"
"Because your boyfriend has multiple personalities!" Noah said, extremely annoyed, still tired. "Why is she surprised that Mike would do something weird when he's got other personalities!"
"Well, Vito wouldn't do that to Cameron unless I asked him to." Anne Maria protested, spraying her hair to get it back in place from being woken up. "I bet it was that Malevol-ant one or whatever."
"Wait, Mike broke my Gameguy?" Sam asked, late to the punch.
"Yeah, sorry dude." Geoff shrugged. "It's this other personality of his or something."
"Aww man, I thought Mike was my friend." Sam sighed.
"Do not worry, Sam, Mike is still very much your friend." Dawn smiled at him.
"Look at my hand." The camera switched to a second confessional, as Sierra pointed to her empty hand. "It looks so weird without my phone!" She said, pulling her hands closer to her chest. "And without my phone, do I even exist?" She looked around nervously. "And if I can't talk to him, does Cody exist?" She gripped her head in fear.
"I'm pretty sure I exist." Cody poked his stomach. "Yep, still there."
"Maybe it's in your best interests for Sierra to think you don't exist." Noah said. "That girl is one step away from kidnapping you and forcing you to have-" Noah continued, but Cody put his hand over his mouth.
"I don't want to hear about that!" Cody said, shivering.
"Zoey, can you see me?" Sierra stepped out of her cabin and looked at Zoey, who was busy staring at Cameron. "Am I here?" She continued. Cameron put his glasses back on, only for them to break again. "Aaaahhh!" Sierra screamed right in Zoey's ear, and Zoey recoiled.
"Ow... What was that for?" Zoey looked indignantly at Sierra.
"I thought you couldn't see me!" Sierra explained.
"What?" Zoey asked, her ears apparently blown out by Sierra's scream.
"I thought I was invisible." Sierra smiled. "Thanks Zoey." She walked back into her cabin.
"The thought of an invisible Sierra scares me." Cody said, looking extremely panicked. "She'd be able to spy on me all the time!"
"An invisible Sierra..." Noah pondered. "Yeah, that's up there on my top ten fears."
"What's your biggest fear? You didn't last to the phobia challenge." Trent said.
"And I'm glad I didn't, in retrospect. Besides me, Zeke, Tyler and Cody here, everyone who ranked higher than us had to compete in most of the seasons." Noah shrugged. "And look how well it turned out for Zeke."
"So, what's your fear, fruitcake?" Eva pressed.
"Oh, normal stuff, you know, Zeke, psycho killers, mutants, Australia in general..." Noah listed off on his fingers. "That's pretty much it."
"I thought you said you were afraid of-" Owen began, before Noah cut him off with a glare.
"That's. It." Noah growled.
"What?' Zoey asked, still confused and unable to hear her.
The camera switched to the spa hotel, where whistling was heard. It faded into the dining hall, where Alejandro and Heather were eating dinner, Alejandro whistling through his nose and bobbing his head to the tune. "Ugh, do you have to whistle through your nose while you eat, Windy?" Heather got up and moved closer to him, throwing her hand down on the table.
"Yeah, cause if he thinks Izzy is falling for it, he's wrong." Izzy piped up. "His nose-whistling is nowhere near as cute as Big O's." Izzy patted Owen on the head.
"Awww, thanks Izz'!" Owen grinned.
"You can whistle through your nose?" Sam asked, confused.
"Yep!" Owen grinned, and he began whistling the Canadian national anthem through his nose.
"Sweet!" Sam smiled. "Teach me how to do that!"
"Ugh, that's just weird." Jo said, rolling her eyes.
Alejandro glared back at her for a second, before pushing his dinner aside. "Heh, typical Heather." He left the table and walked off. Heather gasped and her eyes widened.
Confessional:
"Typical Heather? He calls that a comeback?" Heather asked, annoyed. "It's like he's not even trying..." She said, then got another wide-eyed expression. "It's like he's lost interest in me." She looked around, worried.
"Why does she keep pretending she doesn't care?" Noah looked annoyed. "It's obvious she likes him."
"She's afraid of rejection." Dawn said. "It's sad really, she's ignored by her parents and she's too proud to admit she loves Alejandro."
"Ok, you do know what a rhetorical question is, right?" Noah glared. "We've gone over this before."
"No one has EVER lost interest in me!" She glared and pointed at herself.
The scene switched to Alejandro's confessional. "To get the upper hand, I must throw Heather off her game." He mimed throwing her with one hand. "And so far, so bueno. Muy bueno." He kissed his hand.
The camera switched over to a shot of the setting sun, before switching again to Courtney standing on the balcony of the spa hotel. "I feel like I'm missing something." She sighed. "But what?" She looked in front of her to find a little bird was standing on the branch next to the camera. The bird was unusual, however, in that it looked almost exactly like Scott, from its orange feathers down to little freckles on its face. "What could it possibly-" She began, cut off by the little bird laughing, it sounded just like Scott. "Scott!" She gaped. "I actually miss that scuzzball!"
"Ok, hold the phone, why does that bird look like Scott?" Noah looked confused and shocked at the same time.
"It's so cute!" Dawn grinned. "Even the resemblance to Scott can be forgiven." She smiled.
"It doesn't just resemble Scott, it looks just like him!" Noah groaned. "Why does it look like him?"
"Does it matter, Fruitcake?" Eva glared.
"Yes, it does! What are the odds that a bird that looks just like him even exists? And that it shows up right when Courtney's thinking about Scott, and that it sounds just like him?" Noah insisted.
"The odds are incalculable, Noah, without a full readout of the birds species and the normal coloring of the species as well as Scott's genetics." Harold interrupted.
"I wasn't literally asking!" Noah groaned. "Why does no one around here understand rhetorical questions?" He sighed.
"You are kind of overreacting a bit, Noah." Cody smiled. "It's just a bird."
"Ugh." Noah groaned again.
"What I want to know is why Courtney's interested in Scott!" Justin jumped in for the first time in the past two episodes. "I'm much more handsome than that farm boy."
"She obviously just likes bad boys, Justin." Trent patted his band mate on the back.
"I can be bad!" Justin whined.
"I wonder how he's doing on Boney Island." Courtney looked around.
"Yoo-hoo," The camera cut to said island, Scott looking for the invincibility statue. "Invincibility statue, come to papa!" He poked at a random bush with a stick to weed out any animals hiding in it. The bush rustled and a bear came out, yelling from being poked. "Ahhh!" Scott screamed, before his head was grabbed by a robotic claw, lifting him up and away from the bear. "Hey, what the-!" He said, as the bear lunged at where he was just standing. The claw retracted to reveal it was in fact Chef piloting a helicopter, and he grinned and began flying off with Scott in tow. "Ha, later sucker-ah!" Scott laughed at the bear, before he was hit in the back by a tree, and hit again by the next tree, screaming each time.
"Evening campers!" Chris cheerfully announced over the loudspeakers. "Gather round the starting line for a BIG announcement." The camera switched to everyone at said starting line.
The copter's blades spinning were heard, and a dusty, scratched up Scott was dropped onto the ground. "Ah!" He screamed. When he landed with a thud, he groaned.
"Ohmygosh, are you ok!" Courtney quickly knelt down to his level, worried.
"Courtney? Caring about somebody?" Leshawna smiled. "Well who'd have guessed?"
"Why wouldn't I be?" Scott got up and dusted himself off. "That was nothing." He laughed, before his spine made an odd cracking noise as he stood up. "Ugh." He moaned.
"Well... good, because we have a challenge to win!" Courtney turned away from him, embarrassed."Get it together!"
"Uh... Yes Ma'am!" Scott paused for a second, but ultimately perked up and saluted her.
"Scott just agreed to do something for someone else. What is wrong with this picture?" Noah groaned.
"Dirtboy must really like her." Jo laughed. "That's why I don't have crushes. They force you to compromise your defenses." She looked triumphant, meanwhile, Brick had an extreme look of dejection on his face.
Confessionals:
"Maybe it's cause Pappy's in the army and Mama's a waitress..." Scott pondered, hand on his chin. "But I kinda like taking orders!" He smiled, pointing to himself.
"My only interest in Scott is as an ally, really!" Courtney insisted.
"Aw, phew." Justin smiled, actually buying it.
"Courtney's in luurve!" Izzy grinned, giggling.
"Sure he's cute, but in a sloppy, rustic sort of way... Like a shack with nice curtains, or a donkey wearing a wig." She smiled.
"Wow. That's her best compliment." Noah said, dumbstruck.
"If I went up and asked someone out by telling them they were like a donkey wearing a wig, I'd get beat up." Cody said.
"You'd get beat up just for asking, Gap-tooth." Jo laughed.
"Good news, you guys." Chris walked up to them, wearing a safari hat. "As a special treat, it's time for an extremely dangerous nighttime challenge!" He looked at his watch for a second, but then looked back up.
"So that's why we've been called up at three AM for this stupid show." Jo growled.
"Ooh, I was awake!" Izzy grinned. "I sleep during the afternoon so I can watch you all while you sleep!" Everyone looked up in shock at this, scared. "What?"
"I was up reading tea leaves with B." Dawn smiled, B shrugging.
"Oooh, well come on, details!" Owen grinned.
"Oh no, Owen, B is just a good friend." Dawn smiled.
"Sure..." Owen laughed.
"No, I'm not kidding." Dawn smiled again. "B is not interested in romance at the moment."
B looked slightly annoyed at this, sighing. "I think B can talk for himself." Trent added.
"I'm not sure he can talk." Jo said. B groaned and glared. "Sorry dude, I mean, if you can talk, you should."
B looked resigned and opened his mouth, but before he could speak, a loud crash was heard, and Izzy groaned, having fallen onto Owen. "Sorry guys!" She laughed.
"Izzy, B was about to speak!" Owen coughed. B glared and huffed, and refused to speak again. "Aw, c'mon buddy!" Owen grinned, poking B. B simply pushed Owen away from him, smiling slightly.
"Can we please stop bugging the mute and just watch the show?" Eva growled.
"How is this 'good news'?" Gwen asked, air quoting 'good news'.
"Entertainment value, hellooo." Chris explained as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "This one is gonna be ratings gold." He explained, Chef rolling up a TV with a map of the island on it. "In a nod to season fours buried treasure fiasco," He began.
"Being buried alive sucks." Sam added for clarification.
"I still can't believe they buried Gwen alive." Trent glared at Chris's image on the TV. "Oh, and you." He added sheepishly.
"Your challenge is to race to the far end of the island." The map updated itself with a trail."First team to get EVERY member across the finish line wins." He added. "And, someone from the losing team will be taking the big flush." He pointed downward.
"Sounds easy enough." Duncan shrugged.
"Why do they always say that?" Noah asked. "Everyone knows it's never that easy."
"It does, doesn't it." Chris grinned cheekily as the map rolled away. "But, tonight's full moon is an extremely rare blue harvest moon, and let's just say, it has an unusual effect on the island's animals." He explained, before laughing evilly.
"See, told you, gosh!" Harold laughed.
"Villainous Vultures, you won the last challenge," He turned to the villains. "So, you get this map with the fastest route across the island." He pulled out a map. "Heroic chump-sters," He addressed the worried heroes. "You get to wear nifty bacon hats, and sausage tails." Chef walked over to the heroes with said meaty apparel. "Which, should add to the fun when you come face to fang with the island's friendly creatures... and by friendly, I mean hungry." He laughed.
"Doesn't this seem dangerous?" Beth shivered.
"What isn't on this show?" Noah said.
"If the villains have a map of the quickest route..." Mike whispered to Cameron conspiratorially.
"Mike's getting game!" Eva smiled, impressed.
"We should follow them!" Cameron finished. "Great idea, Mike!" Suddenly, Zoey appeared behind him and whispered something in his ear, Cameron gasping. "He did what?" He looked nervously up at Mike, who didn't seem to notice.
"Why is everyone so afraid of Pointy?" Jo scoffed.
"This will be a piece of cake." Heather walked up to the other villains with the map in hand.
"On your mark." Chris announced.
"Ah, you mean a piece of pie." Alejandro sighed, correcting Heather.
"No one says that, gosh." Harold said, annoyed.
"Get set." Chris continued.
"Listen you-" Heather leaned down to his level, but was cut off by Chris's air horn, which sent everyone running.
The scene cut to Cameron and Mike running together. "Mike, why'd you break my glasses?" Cameron asked, confused.
"He didn't break his glasses directly, he tripped him." Noah corrected.
"Who cares?" Eva glared.
"What?" Mike gaped. "I didn't! Who told you that?"
"Zoey made me promise not to say she saw you do it." Cameron explained, before realizing his mistake. "Oops, sorry Zoey." The camera panned out to show Zoey running behind them.
"Cameron's terrible at keeping secrets, isn't he?" Cody said, smirking slightly.
"My great great great great great grandfather invented keeping secrets, yah. Before him, everyone just shared uncomfortable facts with everyone!" Staci blurted out, before covering her mouth and looking extremely sheepish. "Oh my gosh I'm so sorry I couldn't keep it in much longer!" She said, scared.
"Seriously?" Mike looked worried, then sighed. "Aww man, I don't know what's been up with me lately, I haven't been able to summon my other personalities for days, and now I think I might be sleepwalking and breaking things and-ugh, I'm so sorry Cam." Mike apologized.
"Awww, poor Manny!" Lindsay pouted.
"It's ok Mike, I forgive you." Cameron smiled. "And I promise I'll help you figure it out, whatever it is!" He declared, before running straight into a tree due to his poor eyesight.
"You're a great friend Cam." Mike said, not noticing Cameron had been knocked aside. "Uh, Cam?" He looked back, and the camera cut to Cameron, who was still crumpled into the tree. As he fell, Sierra ran by and caught him.
"Don't worry Cody, I'll be your eyes and ears and as many nostrils as you need me to be." She grinned happily, Cameron blinking in fear as he realized who had picked him up.
"Cody?" He said. "Uh, you mean Cameron, right?"
"Ugh, I hope she makes it to the final two." Cody grimaced.
"You want her to win?" Noah asked, incredulous.
"No, I want her to be as far away from me for as long as possible." Cody shivered. "Which means her making it to the finale."
"Sure, heehehehehee." Sierra laughed creepily, before stopping and gasping. "You guys, look!" She pointed upwards, dropping Cameron to the ground. Everyone looked up in fear at where she was pointing.
"What in the world?..." Zoey gaped, looking up at the moon, which had turned an unearthly shade of blue and emitted a pulse of moonlight.
"Ok, this is getting freaky." Bridgette whispered.
"Ooh, I like this!" Izzy clapped her hands. "I bet I turn into a werewolf!"
"Blue moonlight?" Cameron said in awe. "Extraordinary!" The camera switched to a bear pinning a small squirrel against a tree, before the pulse of blue moonlight washed over them, and the squirrel growled, launching itself at the bear, who only cowered in fear.
"I told you the squirrels were evil, Noah!" Izzy grinned. "Toold yooou!"
"It's the moon." Noah groaned. "Squirrels aren't normally evil."
"The moon turned that poor innocent creature into a killing machine!" Dawn shivered.
"Aww, don't worry." Trent smiled, patting her on the back. "At least it won't get eaten now."
"Thank you, Trent." Dawn smiled sweetly. "I'm glad you're finally reaching out to someone and getting over your remaining emotions for Gwen."
"Uh... you're welcome?" Trent backed up slightly, creeped out a little by her sudden soul reading.
The Scott bird from earlier was seen flying through the air, launching itself at an intern who was outside the hotel. "Ahh!" The intern quickly shut the door, but that didn't stop the bird, it crashed through the door and continued its assault.
"Seriously, no one's bothered by the fact that the bird looks like Scott?" Noah asked again, annoyed when everyone shook their heads. "Ugh, I swear, it's not normal!"
"And the moon is?" Cody smirked.
The camera focused back in on the moon, before panning out and revealing a herd of bunnies growling. One jumped up near the camera and roared.
"Looks like we know where Bunny went." Geoff smiled.
"He could get hurt!" DJ screamed.
The moonlight pulse washed over Mike, and he gasped, his hair falling over one eye, indicating the Malevolent one's return. "A blue harvest moon, how fortuitous." He laughed, pulling his hand together in an evil manner.
"Fort-two-itus?" Lindsay turned her head in confusion. "What does Manny mean?"
"That's not Mike!" Dawn shivered.
"Fortuitous means to happen by a fortunate accident." Harold explained.
"Why is Pointy being affected by the freaky moon?" Jo asked. "I thought you said only animals were affected by it."
"Quite correct!" Harold pulled out his old Sherlock Holmes hat and smiled. "I'd say Mike is an anomaly, my dear girl."
"Please take that off." Leshawna glared at her boyfriend, who sheepishly took the hat off.
"Don't call me dear!" Jo growled.
"And what's that about Jo being a girl? You crazy?" Lightning said, scrutinizing Harold. Jo snarled and slapped Lightning across the face. "Sha-what was that for?"
"Figure it out, dumbass!" Jo yelled.
Confessional:
"Seems that this blue harvest moon has brought me back," The Malevolent One smirked, air quoting the blue harvest moon. His voice was much deeper than Mikes and it reverberated without any source. "Now that I'm in control, I'll torment these peons a little."
"Boy, Mark's evils side sure says a lot of funny words." Lindsay said, worried.
"He gives me the willies." Owen shivered.
"Izzy doesn't like him, he seems like rotten ham." Izzy growled, crouching on Owen's shoulder.
"But first, I have to sound like Mike." He smiled, then coughed, pushed his hair back up and widened his eyes. "Hi, I'm a bug-eyed weirdo and everybody loves me!" He pointed at his face as he did a fake smile. before laughing evilly. "Perfect."
Jo burst out laughing at Mal's impression of Mike. "I like this guy." She smiled.
"Yeah, but he's evil!" Brick stuttered.
"Yeah, he's broken some geeks toys, but that's mean, not evil." Jo defended him.
"Hey..." Sam said. "I resent that, you know."
"Besides, why do you care?" Jo accused Brick, poking him in the chest.
"I just don't trust him, that's all." Brick insisted, face slightly red.
"Don't get your panties in a wad, Brickhouse, it's not like I like him or anything." Jo said, annoyed.
"What was that, Mike?" Zoey looked at Mike? suspiciously, causing Mal to cough and sweep up his hair.
"Uh, just, y'know, sweet moon!" Mal said nervously, putting a hand on Zoey's shoulder and smiling. Zoey accepted this and walked off with a smile on her face.
Meanwhile, the villains were stopped by the sudden appearance of an alligator, which was thumping its tail against the ground, paying close attention to Heather. "Um, since when do gators do that?" Courtney asked, Scott standing behind her with his hands on her shoulder.
"What is he doing with his hands on her shoulder?" Justin gaped. "He will pay for advancing on my princess!"
"You weren't even dating." Noah said, annoyed.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Justin said quickly.
"As in, she can date who she wants." Leshawna said, also annoyed. "I get y'all had your heart set on her, but if she wants to date Scott, she can." She looked a little more sympathetic as she patted him on the back.
"This moon is like no other," Alejandro explained, walking forward. "It must be causing the animals to become their opposite!"
"Wow, Alejandro!" Heather looked up from the map, her eyes sparkling heavily and her voice oddly sweet. "You're so smart!" She swooned.
"Ok, so she's affected by the moon too?" Jo glared at Harold. "Only affects animals my freaking ass!"
"Gosh, I'm sorry!" Harold jumped back. "This wasn't in my prediction!"
"Stop hating on my String-bean!" Leshawna glared. "So what if he was wrong?"
"Sorry, sorry, I'm just tired." Jo sighed.
"Are you feeling all right?" Brick asked, worriedly.
"Why wouldn't I be?" Jo looked confused.
"You just apologized." Brick said.
"No I didn't, shut up." Jo snapped.
"Excuse me!?" Alejandro looked extremely worried by the sudden change in personality.
"Who's a little boojiboojiboo, you are, yes you are!" Heather began to hug the alligator tightly, cooing. All the villains recoiled, Scott still using Courtney as a boundary between him and Heather, Alejandro cringed.
"Ok, this is just weird." Beth said. "Heather being nice?"
"Awww, maybe Hannah's gonna be a nicer person forever?" Lindsay grinned.
"That would be nice." Beth smiled.
"This is plain old creepy." Noah said, eyebrows raised.
"She's faking it." Dawn said.
"Really? How can you tell?" Trent asked, curious.
"Her aura isn't tinted blue like the moon, nor are her thoughts pure and free of malice." Dawn explained, as if that made perfect sense.
"You can read thoughts?" Trent looked impressed, if a touch creeped out.
"Not all the time, only when they are strongest." Dawn smiled.
Confessional:
"I've never seen Heather be so sweet and kind!" Alejandro said. "And it is terrifying!" He rubbed his arms in fear.
"She is creepy." Cody said, shivering. "Not, like, Sierra level creepy, but pretty creepy."
"You judge things on a scale of from normal to Sierra?" Noah smirked.
"Yeah, it works pretty well." Cody smiled. "There's normal, then Dawn, then Izzy, then Zeke, then Sierra." He set up an imaginary scale, placing everyone on there.
"Sierra ranks higher than Zeke?" Trent asked.
"Hey, Zeke might be crazy, but he doesn't root through my garbage and post what I had for lunch on tweeter." Cody shrugged. "Plus, he's not a problem on a day to day basis."
"What about two days ago when he was here?" Noah said.
"That doesn't count." Cody insisted.
The confessional cut away to several birds with sharpened teeth flying at Sierra, who dropped Cameron yet again to intimidate the birds. "Back off, stay away from my Cam-Codykins!" She shrieked as the birds lunged at her, Cameron running away.
Several bunnies stood in a row in front of Scott, Gwen and Courtney, growling. One bunny roared like a leopard, causing Gwen and Courtney to abandon Scott. "I'm not gonna be taken down by a gang of bunnies." Scott looked down at the massive herd of angry rabbits, only to have three lunge at him. "Ahhhh, help! I'm being taken down by a gang of bunnies!" He screamed.
"See, Bunny's doing fine!" Geoff smiled. "He can take care of himself."
"Oh..." DJ said, still worried. "Now I'm worried he'll hurt someone!"
Confessional:
"I wasn't SCARED of those bunnies, I was surprised." Scott insisted. "Totally different." He said, before a familiar growl caused his eyes to widen in horror. "AHHHH!" He screamed, before looking at the camera. "Uh, um, I mean, ARGH!" He changed his scream into a threatening yell.
"Bwahahaha!" Jo laughed. "Man, these idiots keep getting funnier!"
"Awww, he's so cute when he's scared, right Sadie?" Katie squealed, much to the annoyance of Eva.
"It's too early in the morning for your shit, ok?" Eva growled.
"Oh, sorry Eva!" Katie said, voice still high and annoying. "Like, we forgot you were there!"
"Just CAN IT!" Eva yelled, making a threatening gesture with her fist.
"Uh oh..." Zoey began backing away slowly from a small duck, which was advancing towards her menacingly, quacking.
"Ducks shouldn't be scary." Beth said, shivering.
"Ducks are just chickens that swim." Tyler said. "They want to kill you just as much as chickens."
"I don't think that's how ducks work, Tyler." Noah said.
"Why are you scared of chickens?" Bridgette looked sympathetic.
"I'm not telling you, you'll laugh." Tyler shook his head.
"I promise we won't." Bridgette smiled.
"Hey, I ain't promised anything." Anne Maria butted in.
"And I know I'm already laughing." Jo smiled.
"Ok, most of us won't laugh." Bridgette sheepishly amended. "I see your point."
A bird lunged at Duncan as well, Duncan ducking. "Woah, that's it, I'm out!" Duncan ran off.
Mal grinned as he watched the chaos, and when Cameron came running by, he pulled him and leaned closer. "C'mon, now's your chance to get away from Sierra!" He motioned over to Sierra.
"Won't that hurt her feelings?" Cameron asked, worriedly.
"Run away while you still can, Cam!" Cody yelled.
Zoey continued to back away from the duck, while Sierra was being tormented by a bird pecking at her head. "Ow, ow, I think it's using Morse code, ow!"
"She'll be fine, she's got Zoey." Mal grinned, clearly pleased by her pain. "Anyway, we should make sure there's no danger waiting up ahead," He smiled falsely.
"Well, if you're sure..." Cameron said, Mal fishing for a stick on the ground.
"Hold on to this stick." Mal smiled, holding a long branch in his hand. "That way we won't get separated, c'mon!" He waited until Cameron had grabbed on to the stick, and ran off, Cameron screaming as he was dragged along.
"Why do I get the feeling he's going to stab him with that stick?" Noah said.
"Izzy normally likes scary movies, but this one sucks!" Izzy blew a raspberry. "It's so obvious that they're gonna go into the woods and Mal will abandon Cameron to get eaten by the bunnies!"
"Eaten by bunnies?" Owen looked up at his girlfriend. "That's a little, uh, specific."
"Izzy has a hunch!" Izzy grinned.
"Well, if you have a hunch, then it must be true." Noah rolled his eyes.
Sierra dropped her hat on the ground and the birds swarmed it, before the duck scared them off and put it on for himself. "Phew." Zoey said, relieved. "Is everybody ok?" She asked, "Hey, where are all the guys?" She looked around.
"Huh!" Sierra gasped. "Cam-Codykins!" She screamed.
"Ahhhhh!" Scott screamed, still being chased by the ravenous horde of bunnies.
"Hurry, there's no time to waste!" Alejandro and the rest of the villains ran after Scott, before a loud bite sound was heard.
"Ow, ow, ow!" Scott screamed, running back, a bunny biting his butt. "Ow ow ow!"
"Hurry up, Heather, you have the map!" Alejandro called back to Heather.
Heather was still cuddling with the alligator."Yay!" She threw up her arms and got up, running to catch up, the alligator happily waved goodbye. "Running!"
"Ok, nice Heather is really creepy." Sam cringed. "I didn't even know her, and she's kinda weirding me out."
"Dakota protect Sam." Dakota smiled, patting Sam on the head.
"Good work guys!" Heather ran ahead of everyone else, passing Courtney and Gwen. "We're halfway to the finish line, yippee!" She leapt up and began skipping ahead of the group. "This is fun!"
"Ok, she's weirding me out too." Leshawna said. "Heather being this nice was not meant to be."
"O-k, this is sufficiently weird." Gwen said, nervously looking at Heather.
"I know!" Courtney said as the camera showed Heather happily skipping along. "Why is Heather being affected by the blue harvest moon?"
"It's a mystery!" Harold grinned, pulling out his trusty keyboard from TDA and pressing a key. "Gosh I missed you," He cradled the instrument.
"Uh, Sugar, don't do that." Leshawna took away the instrument and put it behind them.
"Sorry Leshawna." Harold sighed.
"Maybe she's part wolf?" Gwen asked awkwardly, both of them laughing before Courtney coughed and realized who she was talking to and glared at her, running up ahead.
"Man, she really hates Gothball." Jo gaped. "I mean, really hates her."
Confessional:
"So...close..." Gwen sighed.
The camera switched to Cameron being lead ahead by Mal. "You've had trouble accessing your other personalities ever since the beach challenge, right?" He asked in clarification. "That's when Scott hit you over the head with a shovel," Mal seemed to be slowly getting fed up with Cameron getting closer to the truth. "Maybe that's the cause."
"Wow, Cam, you may just have a point!" Mal rolled his eyes and whipped the stick around, sending Cameron flying off a hill, hitting a rock and tumbling down. Mal's hair slipped down and he grinned as Cameron fell.
"Called it!" Izzy grinned, unaware that everyone else was freaked out.
"That is not cool." Leshawna glared.
"Yeah, Cameron's a weakened team member, and you never leave your weakest teammate." Brick stated, meaningfully starring at Jo.
"Ok, ok, I get it, Mike's nutty side isn't nice." Jo said, grumbling.
"Ow, ow, woah!" Cameron screamed as he tumbled, finally falling to a stop, disoriented. "Sorry," He moaned. "Lost my footing." He got up. "Where are you?" He called out for Mike. "Mike?" He asked. "Where'd you go?" He turned around as he heard rustling, screen blurred to match his eyesight. "Mike, is that you?" He focused in on the source of the noise, a small bunny. It twitched its nose and tilted its head, Cameron smiling weakly. It suddenly roared and reared up, exposing its sharp fangs. "Uahhh!" Cameron screamed, backing up against a nearby tree. "Mike? Anybody? HELP!" He screamed as the bunnies advanced. The camera backed away into Chris's recording studio, Chris laughing, four reels of footage playing. The middle one showed Cameron being menaced by bunnies, the last two were of an empty forest, but the first had a silent and unnaturally tall man standing motionless in frame.
"Wait wait wait!" Cody shrieked. "Pause it, pause it, paauuse it!" He whined.
"It's already paused, calm down." Noah glared.
"Look, look, there's a guy in the first tape!" Cody insisted, pointing at the TV.
"Wooah!" Izzy grinned, walking up to the TV and poking it. "Guys, he doesn't have a face!" She grinned, again oblivious to everyone's fear. "That is so cool!"
"Oh come on, Izzy, he has to have a face!" Noah walked up to the screen and looked closely. "Holy crap, she's right!" He exclaimed.
"But people are supposed to have faces!" Lindsay said, scared. "How does he eat without a face?"
"Aw come on, guys, he's just some freak in a business suit. Hell, maybe he's one of the producers." Jo protested. "Stop freaking out and get off me." She growled at Brick, who was shivering, clutching Jo's arm. Jo shook him off and glared at him.
"The producers have faces, Jo, I've met them." Geoff said, scared and annoyed at the same time.
"Well maybe they hired a new one?" Bridgette smiled nervously.
"I talked with them yesterday about doing the Aftermath again for the next full season." Geoff explained. "There wasn't some freaky tall guy with no face yesterday."
"Maybe he's nice?" Beth suggested weakly.
"What kind of nice person goes out in the middle of the night on creepy film sets/islands and just stands there staring at the camera?" Noah replied.
"Sierra?" Bridgette smiled.
"Ok, besides her." Noah amended his previous statement.
"Producers!" Jo interjected. "I'm still sticking with the producer angle."
"It's a mystery." Harold grabbed his keyboard while Leshawna wasn't looking and pressed a key, grinning. "Sorry Leshawna." He smiled sheepishly.
"Hey, why hasn't anyone asked Pixie Chick about this?" Jo said, turning around. "Hey Dawn, who the hell is this guy?"
"I... I don't know." Dawn whispered. "He has no aura... nothing." At this, most of the contestants began whispering among themselves.
"Ok, guys, can we please stop freaking out?" Bridgette tried to calm everyone down, calling everyone to attention. "Let's just watch the episode, ok?" She smiled.
"I'll call the producers, babe." Geoff said, pulling out his phone. "They edited the episode, so they'll know who he is." Everyone seemed to calm down at this.
"Oh my gosh, Sadie, it's so freaky!" Katie whispered to Sadie. "Like, it's like that one movie we watched together once!"
"Oh my gosh, I remember, the one where we ran out of the theater screaming?" Sadie asked.
"Yeah, that's the one." Katie nodded. "Isn't this just like that?"
"Oh my gosh, it is!" Sadie squealed. "It's like a real movie!"
"Hey Dakota, this is just like my video games!" Sam said, happily. "It's scarier in real life though." He sighed.
"Dakota not scared." Dakota smiled.
"Well yeah, but you're like a super awesome mutant babe!" Sam explained. "I'm just Sam."
"Hey dudes!" Geoff called out, getting everyone's attention again. "The producers said they have the situation under control."
"Yeah, but they said that about Zeke." Eva glared.
"I've still got bite marks, if anyone wants to see!" Izzy interjected, pointing to a spot on her arm.
"Anyway," Geoff continued. "They said they're investigating the man who appeared in the episode..." He explained. "And that I'm not allowed to call them at four in the morning ever again." He sighed, sitting back down and turning on the TV.
"Who will make it to the other side of the island." Chris announced, ignoring the tall man in the background. "And, who's about to become a serving of teen cuisine?" He asked, raising his arms. "Stay tuned to find out, right here, on Total Drama All Stars!" The show faded out.
The scene faded back in on Cameron being cornered against a tree by the rapidly advancing bunnies. "Somebody, anybody, help!" He called out, back against the tree, bracing himself for being eaten. "Nice bunnies..." He whimpered, looking down at the horde of angry, growling rabbits. Just as one lunged for him, he was swept away by Sierra, who had swung in on a vine.
She swung down to the ground and set Cameron down. "Oh that was close!" She grinned. "Better hitch you up for safekeeping!" She ran off, Cameron looking at her in fear.
"Hitch me up, what does that me-" Cameron began, before Sierra ran back carrying a bunch of reeds, she quickly began weaving them into a sling, wearing Cameron like a backpack. "Woah!" He screamed. "What are you doing?"
"Ugh, flashbacks." Cody shivered. "I don't know how babies deal with those things, they're terrible!"
"Don't worry, I'll never let you out of my sight again!" Sierra cooed.
"But-but..." Cameron protested, Zoey running past them.
"Let's go!" Zoey commanded.
"Never?" Cameron asked, worried.
"Why is Zoey ok with that?" Cody said, annoyed.
"Why was everyone ok with Sierra slinging you around during the Africa challenge?" Noah challenged. "Face it, everyone's just accepted that it's easier to just ignore Sierra than to deal with her."
"But-" Cody began. "Ugh, whatever." He sighed.
"Ugh, a rope bridge?" The camera cut to said bridge across a chasm, Gwen groaning. "Obviously it's a trap." She said. "We should go around."
"That'll take three times as long!" Courtney countered.
"Well I'm not crossing that thing." Gwen pointed at the rickety bridge and walked away. "And anyone with any brains will follow me." She added.
"What if you get lost?" Alejandro asked. "Every member of the team must make it over the finish line for us to win."
"Besides, if you don't come with us, we'll miss you SO much!" Heather grinned sweetly, Alejandro shivering from her niceness.
"Awww, Helia is being such a sweetie!" Lindsay smiled.
"This is really creepy, bro." Geoff said. "First Mike goes all crazy, then Heather, and then that weird guy? What's going on?"
"It's the moooon!" Izzy waved her arms around mystically, oohing and aahing.
"You do creepy sound effects really well." Owen smiled again.
"If you take that detour, you'll cost us the game." Courtney said to Gwen as she walked away, before gasping. "That's your plan, isn't it!" She pointed accusingly. "Admit it!"
"Wow, is everything Gwen's fault now?" Trent said, annoyed. "I got over Gwen because she was happy with Duncan, can't she just stop being psycho and deal with it?" He glared, before pausing. "Wow, that came out a lot meaner than I expected, sorry."
"You've got a point there, Guitar Pick." Jo said. "Wow, got to write that one down for later." She smiled.
"I'm just glad you didn't call me something related to nine." Trent shrugged.
"I couldn't think of one in time." Jo said. "Not a lot of things related to nine that work as nicknames."
"I'll see you on the other side!" Gwen called back from further down the trail. "Y'know, if you make it!"
"Good luck!" Heather waved goodbye.
Confessional:
"Talk about gullible!" Gwen laughed. "Anyone who's ever seen a movie knows that the rope bridge always breaks!" She explained. "Also, I'm pretty sure Heather has rabies." She calmed down for a second, glaring at the camera.
The camera cut back to Mal holding one of the birds in a death grip, the bird snarling and bearing its (surprisingly existing) teeth. "Who wants to help me make someone else wet their pants with fear, huh?" Mal grinned at the little bird.
"Eep!" Brick jumped slightly. "Mike is really creeping me out."
"Suck it up, he's not that scary." Jo glared, hiding a slight look of fear on her face as well.
"Hold on a second." The camera showed Duncan walking by, Duncan turning around and looking suspiciously at Mike?.
Mal looked surprised and coughed nervously, pushing his hair back up. "Hey, Duncan." He said slightly shakily and deeper than Mike's normal voice. "Man am I glad to see you!" He said stiltedly, looking around shiftily. "I uh, got lost."
"Ok, he's creepy as hell, but he's a terrible liar." Noah scoffed.
"Yeah right." Duncan rolled his eyes. "Seriously dude, where do I know you from?" He looked closely at Mike.
"Uh, Total Drama season 4?" Mal asked nervously.
"Nah, I know you from somewhere else, I just can't put my finger on it." Duncan said, stroking his chin. Mal suddenly let go of the angry bird.
"I think Duncan knew Mike!" Lindsay finally caught on.
"Uh, duh." Jo glared. "She's right, but I don't think it was Mike he knew." She looked as if she had figured it out. "She knew Mike's creepy personality!"
"That makes a lot of sense, Jo!" Brick smiled. "But the other personalities called him The Malevolent One."
"Malevolent, shmalevolent, whatever." Jo shrugged.
"Yikes!" Duncan ran away from the bird, which chased after him.
Mal laughed evilly as Duncan ran away, the hair falling over his eye again. "Toodles." He grinned.
"Come on guys," Heather began walking up across the bridge. "Nothing to be afraid of!"
"Except you." Alejandro muttered.
"Maybe someone brave should cross it first and make sure it's safe!" Heather's eyes sparkled as she clasped her hands together.
"I'll do it!" Scott raised his hand to volunteer."Back home we have a special way to cross these bridges." He explained, then put a hand on his chest and coughed. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" He began screaming and flailing his arms wildly, continuing until he had made it all the way across the bridge. "Like I said, nothing to it!" He panted.
"Well, it worked, I'll give him that." Noah shrugged.
Scott shrunk back when he saw a small beaver looking at him, chittering. "Um, are beavers normally nice, or normally evil?" He called back to the others, before the beaver lunged at him, latching onto his hand. "Ow!" He ran back to the bridge, the beaver letting his hand go in favor of chewing the rope holding the bridge on one side. The beaver chewed through the rope before running off to attack Scott again, the bridge falling to one side.
"No!" Everyone screamed. "Ugh, not helping!" Courtney yelled over to Scott,
"Ow geyow, MY BUTT IS NOT A CHEW TOY!" Scott screamed and ran around like an idiot., the beaver clamped onto his butt.
Jo burst out laughing again, and Brick rolled his eyes. "What's so funny about this?" He asked.
"A beaver is chewing on his ass, and you're asking me what's funny about this?" Jo snickered. "His butt is a chew toy!"
"Ok, it's pretty funny." Brick tried to keep a straight face, but snickered and relented.
"Good job, keep it busy!" Alejandro said sarcastically, yelling over to Scott. "Shall we go?" He smiled at Heather.
Everyone slowly began shuffling across what was now a tightrope. "Agh-oooh, if I don't die on this bridge, I'm going to kill Gwen for taking the long way around and costing us the challenge." Courtney glared, shivering in fear of the drop.
"What did Gwen even do?" Cody groaned. "Choose the right path?"
Suddenly the board Heather was using for balance broke, and Heather began to fall. "Woooah!" She screamed, before Alejandro quickly grabbed her hand and kept her from falling. "I knew you still cared!" She said, voice back to normal from her moon entranced state.
Confessionals:
"Now who's typical?" Heather leered, smirking. "Sucker." She folded her arms. "As if the moon affected me." She grinned. "But as long as I keep him guessing, I'll always have the upper hand."
"She was faking!" Trent laughed. "Guess you were right, Dawn." He smiled.
"I suspected that she was faking, yes." Dawn said.
"Suspected?" Noah blinked. "You flat out said she was faking."
"I did, didn't I?" Dawn smiled.
The confessional switched to Alejandro, glaring at the camera. "How dare she trick me?" He pouted. "I should have let her fall." He looked up, and slapped himself. "Urgh, estupido!"
"Ow, ugh, ow ah!" Scott was hugging a tree as the beaver continued to bite at his pants. Courtney looked worried and pulled the beaver off of Scott.
"Chomp this, freak!" She walked back over to the bridge and used the beaver to saw off the final rope, causing the bridge to fall.
"Now the other team can't use the bridge!" Alejandro said. "Brilliant plan, Courtney!"
"But if Gwen can't make it around the pit, the bridge is no longer an option, is it?" Heather rebutted, back to her normal grumpy self.
"She's right," Alejandro changed his tune. "Terrible plan, Courtney!"
"Sha-whipped." Lightning insisted. "Every dude on this show except for me is being stupid for some girl!" He smirked. "Even Brick and Jo, and they're both dudes!"
"How many time do I have to tell you, I'm a chick!" Jo growled. "I have boobs!" She yelled, emphasizing her chest. "And I don't like Brick!" She blushed.
"Whatever, if you want to pretend to be a sha-chick, I'm cool with that, but you totally like him." Lightning smirked, before Jo lunged at him. "Sha-wha?" He dodged the punch.
"I will kill you!" Jo growled, before Brick grabbed her arms and kept her from fulfilling her statement. "Lemme go!" She snapped at Brick. "I'm gonna knock Sha-dumbass here a new one!"
"It's not worth it." Brick said, trying to stay calm as Jo pulled away from him, face flushed red. "He's not worth it."
"Sha-why is he so pissed?" Lightning asked obliviously.
"Dude, she's mad at you because you called her a dude!" Geoff explained.
"It's pretty obvious." Noah groaned.
"The Lightning ain't stupid!" Lightning said, dodging another punch from Jo. "Jo's clearly a guy. I mean, what kind of girl is named Joe?"
"It's." Jo growled. "A." She pushed Brick aside. "NICKNAME!" She screamed.
"Wait. So what's your real name?" Brick stopped her for a second, Lightning taking his chance to hide behind B, who shoved him aside.
"Mary...Josephine..." Jo mumbled, face tomato red.
"Huh?" Brick cleaned out his ears with one finger, confused. "What did you say it was?"
"Mary...Josephine." Jo mumbled again, annoyed and slightly louder.
"Did you say Mary-" Brick began, before Jo shoved her fist into his mouth.
"Shut. Up." Jo blushed, taking her fist out of his mouth, she wiped it off. "Gah, when did you last brush your teeth, soldier?"
"Jo, that's a pretty name!" Brick smiled sweetly. "And I don't normally brush my teeth at three in the morning." He said sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Just kiss already!" Izzy shouted from the back of the room, and both Brick and Jo blushed intensely.
"Izzy, can it." Eva defended her friend. "They can kiss when they're ready." She snickered.
"What is with all the interruptions?" Noah groaned. "I want to watch the show and go back to sleep for another hour."
"Whatever, that's Gwen's problem." Courtney scoffed, tossing the beaver off the cliff, the beaver fell down, flipping her off before it suddenly used its parachute to glide the rest of the way down.
Confessional:
"If we lose this challenge, it's totally Gwen's fault, not mine." Courtney insisted.
"Gah, she's really starting to annoy me with this Gwen thing." Trent said.
"I bet you still like Gwen!" Izzy grinned, giving up teasing Jo in favor of a new teasing target.
"Maybe I do, but Gwen's happy with Duncan." Trent said defensively. "If she's happy, then I can deal with it."
"That's very noble of you." Dawn smiled. "Most people... for example, Courtney, spend their whole lives blaming others for breaking up with them."
The scene cut back to Sierra and Zoey, Sierra still carrying Cameron in a sling. "Hey, where's Mike?" Zoey asked nervously.
"He ran off, I think something scared him." Cameron explained, confused. "Where's Duncan?"
"I thought he was with you!" Zoey said.
The camera cut to Duncan, the bird still chewing on his sausage tail. "Wagh! This is SO not how I want to die!" He screamed.
"Agh!" Gwen yelled, waving the squirrels that were casing her away. "Get away from me you little freaks!"
"Gwen!" Duncan yelled, grabbing his sausage tail and spinning it around, using it as a whip. "Heads up!" He tossed the bird and tail past the squirrels, who all stopped in their tracks and chased after the bird. Both Duncan and Gwen sighed in relief. "So, tell me"
"Tell you what?" Gwen turned and faced him.
"Y'know, now that you and Courtney are on the same team," Duncan smirked. "What has she said about me?"
"Seriously?" Leshawna folded her arm crossly. "Boy's still after Courtney?"
"Ugh." Trent groaned.
"Oooh, someone's still in lurve!" Izzy poked Trent.
"Please stop, ok?" Trent sighed, pushing Izzy's finger away.
"Are you kidding me?" Gwen glared at her boyfriend. "How does such a big ego fit inside such a teeny tiny brain?" She poked Duncan's head. "She hasn't said zip about you, ugh!" She groaned, walking off.
"Whoo!" Cody grinned. "I've still got a shot!"
"Cody, give it up." Noah groaned. "If Duncan's got too much ego for her, then she's not going to be interested in a Casanova wannabe."
"I thought your name was Conny!" Lindsay looked confused by the new name for Cody that Noah had accidentally planted in her brain.
Confessionals:
"Duncan." Gwen growled. "Know what's most uncool about him?"
"That he's dating you?" Cody quipped. "Boom, just thought of that!"
"Cody..." Noah groaned.
"What, I had to!" Cody grinned sheepishly.
"How he's still obsessed with Courtney." She complained. "That's so uncool it burns!" She groaned.
"Well, that too." Cody smiled.
"What is her problem?" Duncan frowned. "Of course Courtney talks about me." He smirked.
"Man, he's being a jerk!" Tyler said. "I'd never look at other girls while Lindsay is around." He smiled at Lindsay happily.
"Thanks Tyler!" She grinned happily.
"I'm still surprised she's remembered your name for an entire year." Brick smiled.
"Of course I remember his name, I never forget names, Mortar!" Lindsay corrected Brick, smiling.
"That's not even close to Brick!" Jo laughed.
"What else does she have to talk about, Scott?" Duncan laughed.
"So far, he's treated her a hell of a lot better than you treated her." Leshawna frowned.
"I could treat her better." Justin butted in.
"She's just using him to make me jealous!" Duncan insisted. "Well, good luck with that." His eye twitched as he smiled falsely.
"Gwen!" Courtney called out. "Ugh, where is she?" She threw up her hands in annoyance.
"Maybe she's at the finish line already?" Alejandro suggested.
"Ugh, the bridge is out!" Zoey complained, reaching the cliff. The camera switched to Mal holding a large club (or stick, really) over his head, sneaking up behind her and raising the stick to finish the killing blow. "How are we supposed to get across now?" She didn't seem to notice that Mal was right behind her.
"Ooh, this is the part where we yell 'LOOK BEHIND YOU!' and then the she looks around right before he kills her!" Izzy grinned, completely disconnected from reality.
"Is... Is he going to kill her?" Cody shrieked, clutching his chair.
"I-I think so." Noah said, genuinely frightened.
"Isn't someone going to do something?" Bridgette asked. "I mean, if Mike's actually going to murder Zoey, the producers would do something, right?" She said weakly.
"Don't worry, I'll protect you!" Geoff smiled, holding Bridgette's hand.
"I'm not worried about me, Geoff, I'm worried about them!" Bridgette said, annoyed.
"Hey Mike!" Sierra said, causing Mal to drop his stick.
"What?" Mal said, voice deep, before putting up the act again. "Hey, there you are!" He smiled falsely, putting his hand on Zoey's shoulder.
"Run away!" Beth urged Zoey.
"Mike, where'd you go?" Cameron asked.
"Sorry Cam, a bear chased me away." Mal lied smoothly, Zoey's eyes widening. "But it's ok, I think I shook 'em."
"But I thought the bears were all nice now!" Lindsay said, not getting that he was lying through his teeth.
"He's lying, babe." Tyler explained.
"But that's not very nice..." Lindsay pouted.
"But with the weird moon, wouldn't a bear be all sweet and cuddly?" Zoey protested, causing Mal to glare at her, although she didn't notice.
"Right, right!" Mal laughed, slapping his forehead. "Oh, I'm an idiot."
"I know how we can cross the pit!" Sierra grinned, laughing.
Confessionals:
"Oh boy, you know you're in trouble when the only person with a plan is Sierra." Cameron looked worried.
"Obviously Mike is lying," Zoey said, confused. "What's going on with him?"
"Your boyfriend has a psychotic alternate personality that just tried to murder you!" Jo yelled. "Get a clue!"
"Oh my, I hope that Mike can escape Mal's clutches before something bad happens." Dawn sighed. "I should consult the tea leaves again."
"Mal?" Brick asked. "Who's that?"
"The dark one possessing Mike's mind." Dawn said, frowning.
"You mean the Malevolent one?" Brick asked, still confused.
"He has many names." Dawn said. "The Mountain King, Mal, The Malevolent One, they are all names that fittingly describe him."
"I think Mal fits best." Jo said. "The other names are stupidly long."
The scene switched to that of Sierra clutching a long rope that they were using to swing across. "I don't know about this..." Zoey said.
"Trust me!" Sierra grinned. "Without my smartphone, my other senses have become heightened." She explained. "Just hold on tight and try not to think about it!"
"Oh boy, this is a great idea." Noah rolled his eyes. "What could possibly go wrong?"
"Wait, what are we doing?" Cameron yelled, terrified.
"Hehehehe, something AMAZING!" Sierra laughed creepily, before she jumped, all of them screaming, before hitting a tree on the other side and falling off the cliff. Sierra held the rope in her teeth as she held on to the edge of the cliff.
"Welcome to the finish line, villains!" The camera cut to Chris, standing right before the finish line. "Seems like you're still missing a player." He said, as they ran to the finish line, all panting.
"What?" Courtney growled. "Gwen's not here yet?" She stopped in her tracks. "Gwen!" She yelled. "Ugh, I knew she'd sabotage us!" She closed her eyes, not realizing that a moon crazed deer fawn was growling at her. "AHHHH!" She screamed when she opened her eyes, the deer rearing up and snarling at her. "Seriously!" She screamed as she ran, before tripping and falling, the deer advancing towards her menacingly.
"Courtney!" Justin yelled.
Courtney braced herself, throwing a hand in front of her face, the deer opening its mouth, baring its ridiculously sharp fangs, before Gwen threw up a stick that it bit into. "You-you saved me!" Courtney said, surprised.
"You'd do the same if the positions were reversed." Gwen smiled, fending off the deer.
"Well..." Courtney bit her lip. "Of course I would..."
"Yeah right." Noah said, annoyed. "She'd let her get eaten in a heartbeat."
Confessional:
"No I wouldn't!" Courtney growled. "If our positions were reversed, I'd be one step closer to a million dollars!" She put her hands on her hip. "And Gwen would be deer food."
The deer finally broke through the stick and roared. The scene abruptly cut to Mal pulling Zoey up from the cliff, Duncan running past them. "There you are!" Zoey smiled.
"We still have a chance!" Sierra smiled as they ran together to the finish line. The camera panned up to the moon, which emitted another pulse and turned back to its original color. The deer had pinned down both Gwen and Courtney, and was about to lunge for the kill when the moon pulse washed over it, and it stood up, completely normal, jumping off.
"Courtney and Gwen, the moon curse is over, hurry!" Alejandro called over to them, happy.
"They know it's over," Heather groaned. "They don't need you to narrate, Lolly-jandro."
"Aw man, Heather's getting into the mean nickname thing too?" Jo groaned. "I should have used that."
"Well, you could still use it when he's voted off, Jo." Brick smiled, trying to make her feel better.
"I'm not speaking to you, Dog-tag Breath." Jo huffed, blushing.
Confessional:
"She is so rude, so overbearing!" Alejandro put his fist in his hand. "I'm so relieved." He sighed happily, hand on his forehead.
The camera cut back to the heroes, the moonlight pulse passing over Mal and causing him to gasp, Mike stopping in confusion, unsure of where he was. "How did I get here?" He looked around.
"Mike, hurry!" Zoey and the others had crossed the finish line, Zoey calling over to her boyfriend.
"Oh!" Mike said, a second too late, running just as Courtney and Gwen crossed the finish line.
"Oh he is so eliminated." Trent sighed. "Hey, I owe you ten bucks, B." He said to B.
"You don't even know if he's gone yet!" Jo growled.
"Well, he lost them the challenge, so who else would they vote off?" Trent shrugged. "But I guess you're right."
"And the villains win, again." Chris announced, frowning at the repeated loss of the heroes. All the villains cheered, and the heroes groaned.
The camera switched back to the elimination campfire, the heroes filing in. "Ugh, wish I was on the heroes team." Gwen sighed.
"Aw, cheer up Gwen." Duncan leaned over on the peanut gallery counter, kissing her. "There, that should do it." He suddenly looked over at Courtney. "You think she was watching?"
"Ugh, I think I really hate homeboy now." Leshawna groaned.
"Ugh!" Gwen threw up her hands and shoved Duncan aside. "I can't do this anymore, it's over!"
"Whoohoo!" Cody threw up his hands in celebration, before faltering when he realized everyone was glaring at him. "I'm sorry." He sighed, sitting down again.
"W-what just happened?" Duncan looked around, eyes shifting.
Confessional:
Gwen sighed unhappily, hands on her knees. "I never thought it would end like this!" She looked at the camera. "When he kissed me on the plane after the London challenge, I felt fireworks." She put her hand on her chest in bliss. "This time, it was like being kissed by a shoe, the thrill is SO gone." She glared.
"Due, looks like you might have a shot with her again." Geoff patted Trent on the back.
"I-ugh." Trent began, but groaned. "I thought she was happy with him!"
"She was." Dawn smiled. "But Duncan is not a tethered soul." She explained.
"Ok peeps," Chris began. "Each of you is a loser in your own right." He smiled. "But, the villains won the challenge, so, they've earned themselves another night of luxurious luxury at my spa hotel."
"Redundant statement was pointless." Noah snarked, everyone except Harold and Beth blinked in confusion.. "Let me guess, none of you got that." He sighed.
"I did, gosh." Harold smiled. "Redundant and pointless are synonyms, and redundant means that it-" He began, before Noah glared at him. "Oh, it was rhetorical."
"I volunteer for exile on Boney Island!" Scott raised his hand again.
"Sure, I don't care." Chris shrugged.
"What?" Courtney looked worried. "No!" She said, turning to Scott. "Why?" She asked softly.
"Sorry babe," He put a hand on her shoulder. "I gotta find that invincibility statue." He smiled as the copter lowered its claw and picked him up again, Courtney sighing as he was carried away.
"Ok people," Chris announced. "Tonight we-" He began, before Cameron interrupted him.
"Wait!" Cameron got up.
"Now what?" Chris glared.
"I volunteer for the Flush of Shame!" He yelled.
"Sha-why would he do that?" Lightning asked, still cowering behind an extremely annoyed B.
"Shut up!" Jo snapped at him, causing him to shrink back so B covered him again.
"Noooo!" Sierra yelled, crying.
"Cameron, why?" Mike asked him, worried.
Cody coughed. "Sierra!" He coughed again.
"Sorry Mike, I'd love to help you with your, uh, problem," Cameron walked up to Mike, scratching his head. "But I just can't take any more of, y'know, this!" He pointed to Sierra, who was curled up on the ground, sobbing.
"Oh, are you allergic to long grass?" She asked, still curled up. "I can get chains instead!"
"Was she planning to do that to me at some point?" Cody shivered.
"Well isn't this a perfect way to introduce the surprise twist." Chris grinned.
"Oh no, he said the S word..." Bridgette said, scared. "That's never good."
"Today's ejected hero is tomorrows new villain!" He explained, everyone gaping.
"What?' Cameron gasped, confused.
"That's right!" Chris explained. "Instead of flushing Cameron, I'm sending him over to the villains side!" He said with glee, everyone gasping, Sierra sighing. "Sorry Sierra." He said without a hint of actual sorrow.
"Why would he do that?" Beth asked.
"He expected Mike to be flushed." Dawn explained.
"Huh?" Trent asked, confused.
"Chris is aware of The Malevolent One, and when Mike lost the hamsters the challenge, he intended to preemptively switch Mike over to the villains." Dawn smiled, as if it was obvious. "His scheme was written all over his aura."
"The things you know scare me, you know that?" Noah gaped.
"Why would Chris care about which side Pointy's on?" Jo asked.
"Even Chris is scared of The Malevolent One, Jo." Dawn said, shivering.
Mike suddenly gasped and his hair flipped over his eye again and laughed, Mal returning, before pushing up his hair to look like Mike. "I'll find a way to help you, even from the villains side, I promise." Cameron said, smiling and extending his hand.
"Gee, thanks, pal." Mal grinned, gripping his hand, and when Cam turned away, the hair flipped back over his eye.
Cameron nervously walked over to the villains side, staring up at them. "Uh, hi..." He said weakly, waving as everyone glared down at him.
Confessionals:
"Cameron doesn't know what he's in for." Mal laughed. "None of them do." He turned to the camera, moving his hand. "If I have my way, and I will," He pointed at himself. "Everybody loses." The camera pushed in on him.
"He is really creeping me out." Cody said. "I mean, he actually tried to kill Zoey and Cameron!" He shivered. "That's not ok!"
"Seriously, Gwen can't do what anymore?" Duncan asked obliviously, not getting what she meant. "What is she talking about?" He looked worriedly at the camera.
"Think they've had enough punishment?" Chris walked up to the camera, smirking. "Yeah, me neither." He grinned. "Find out who's next to take the plunge when we return with another all new episode of Total Drama All Stars!" He announced as the camera did its usual fadeout.
"So..." Noah began. "We just learned Mike, or 'Mal'," He air quoted. "Is actually willing to kill the other campers."
"I'm kind of scared." Beth said, eyebrows knit together with worry.
"Yeah, no matter how awful Red's fashion sense is," Anne Maria said, annoyed. "She doesn't deserve to die."
"I'm going to go back to bed." Jo groaned. "I never want to be woken up this early ever again."
"I'll-I'll go with you, my room is next door." Brick smiled.
"I said I'm not talking to you, Brick." Jo glared.
"I don't know about you, but I'm calling the producers again." Bridgette said. "I don't think that they would be ok with attempted murder, no matter what the stupid ratings are."
"Good luck with that, Bridge." Geoff grinned. "Might want to wait a while though, they're still mad about me calling at four in the morning."
"I'm gonna go find Bunny." DJ walked out.
"Well I'm going to bed and if anyone wakes me up before at LEAST ten, I'm going to strangle them." Eva growled, specifically at Katie and Sadie.
"Omg, this was such a scary episode!" Katie squealed unhappily, watching as everyone left the room.
"I know, I mean, Mike tried to kill Zoey!" Sadie agreed. "That's like, only supposed to happen in movies!" Sadie began walking out of the room, Katie following with her.
"What I don't get is where that faceless guy came from." Cody turned to Noah as they left.
"Probably not our problem." Noah shrugged, walking out the door as the last person to leave the room. He couldn't help, however, jumping when the door shut behind him without anyone to close it.
AN; I shall now pose a pertinent question. What if Slendy really is the executive producer of the show? You can't tell me that wouldn't make sense.
This is literally one of my favorite episodes of the fucking series, ok? Mal TRIES TO BRAIN ZOEY WITH A CLUB! That's what really makes me like Mal a lot as a villain. As awful as all the villains are, none of them have ever tried to kill another person. Mal, he doesn't really care about the money, and while the other villains just scheme to eliminate the competition, Mal is the only one to try to eliminate them permanently. Over the course of the twelve episodes he is in, he attempts to kill another contestant twelve times. None of the other villains even try once (besides Zeke, but he's not sane). And now you all know what I really think Jo's real name is, and that Izzy is a huge shipper. Also, I am so glad the comedy gods saw fit to let me write the words "I have boobs!" in a serious conversation.