Before you read the chapter I would just like to announce that I've made a poll asking you all who you think should be in Season 3. Keep in mind, only 9 out of the 22 campers and 5 interns (minus Mike) will move on. Now before you all say that I'm pushing it by having 3 seasons based on one story, please just trust me. So I'd appreciate it if you made your vote as soon as you can (this may be the last chance for the OC's that didn't compete in Season 2 to appear in the game again. Anyway, enjoy the chapter!
"Last time on Total Drama Action, we had a bit of a wild ride in our Murder Mystery movie challenge. Ciana proved that she isn't as tough as she let's on! Hehe. Michiko is still as mysterious as ever, and Ruby was surprisingly calm under pressure! Unlike poor Tamara, who seemed to be in hysterics about the challenge, which was awesome! Shockingly though, Luis managed to calm her down and the two of them hooked up! Isn't that just the sweetest thing! The most shocking thing though, was seeing Viola, the tough leader of the Tenacious Turtles, break down after seeing the dead mannequin version of Dutch. Speaking of Dutch, he and Viola hooked up as well once the challenge was over! But they couldn't enjoy being a couple for long, as Dutch was voted off in the end. Only 9 contestants remain, we're quickly nearing the halfway point of the season! Who will be the next person to take a ride on the Lame-O-Sine? Find out right here on Total Drama Action!"
It was the morning after Dutch's elimination. The boys were in their trailer, Johan was singing a song.
"Set a course for action,
Adventure doesn't wait!
A fantastic journey for your dreams,
A thrilling mystery!" Johan finished singing. [1]
"Wow! That was amazing!" Luis praised.
"Yeah, you don't know how nostalgic it felt to hear that song!" Damion added, a rare smile on his face.
"Hehe, thanks guys." Johan replied, he looked around the trailer for a moment. "You know, it feels kind of empty in here. We're down to half the number of guys since the season started."
"Yeah, I know what you mean. It's gotten really quiet since the others left." Luis stated, Damion sighed before he spoke.
"Well all have to go at some point. Nothing lasts forever..." He said.
*confessional*
Johan: Damion's been depressed since the season began. I really wish I could help him, but for me to be able to help him, I need to know why he's so down in the dumps. Maybe I could ask Dawn for help. Now that I think about it, a lot of the others have been upset lately. Everyone I see just wants to walk with gritted teeth but I just stand by and I wait my time, they just seem to want the water and not the wine. [2]
*end confessional*
The girls were just hanging out, Ciana was playing cards with Tamara and Nikki, Ruby was texting on her phone and Michiko was in the bathroom. Viola was watching the others, she didn't seem happy but she wasn't showing it. Nikki noticed Viola's behavior and went to go talk to her about it.
"Hey V, are you doing alright?" Nikki asked.
"Oh no I'm fine, I'm just lamenting over the fact that my boyfriend was voted off the night he and I got together!" Viola answered, noticeably irritated. Ruby could hear her as she was texting, she started to look guilty...
"Woah, woah! Viola please, take it easy." Nikki pleaded.
"Take it easy?! That's easy for you to say, your boyfriend didn't get voted off last night!" Viola snapped, making Nikki flinch. Ruby then decided to step in.
"Viola, would you rather face one of us in the finale or have to go against Dutch?" Ruby asked, this made Viola think.
"I just wish he would have stayed longer..." Viola said.
"I'm sorry Viola..." Nikki said, trying to console her teammate. This gave Viola an idea...
"If you're really sorry, then you'll vote for Johan if we lose again." She said, this made Nikki gasp, but she eventually nodded in acceptance.
*confessionals*
Viola: Nikki has a point, it would've been better if Dutch was eliminated sooner than later. If he wasn't eliminated, I might have gone up against him in the finale.
Ruby: What Viola wanted was pretty cold. It honestly makes me feel a bit grateful that I'm still single.
Nikki: Viola's one of the strongest competitors in the game and for me to be on her bad side would be really bad. But voting off my boyfriend... is it really worth it?
*end confessionals*
"Attention everyone, front and center! Immediately!" Chris exclaimed. Everyone went in front of the trailers, Luis handed the bird over to Dawn.
"Is young Julius getting any better?" Dawn asked.
"Julius?" Luis questioned.
"Oh, forgive me, the birds name is Julius." Dawn explained.
"How do you know?" Damion asked.
"I speak to animals, I've bonded very well with our winged friend here!" Dawn explained, Chris let out a loud fake cough to regain the attention of the contestants.
"Alright, there's one thing I want to take care of before the challenge starts." Chris announced.
"Is it who's going to change teams?" Michiko asked.
"H-how did you know?!" Chris asked in shock.
"You did this for the past three challenges, we wouldn't be surprised if you did switch the teams around." Johan explained.
"Well since I'm so predictable, how about you Johan joins the Roosters, and Michiko will go to the Turtles!" Chris said.
"Wait... what?!" The musician asked in shock.
*confessionals*
Nikki: As much as it stinks that my boyfriend isn't on my team anymore, at least I don't need to vote for him anymore.
Ciana: Perfect, now I might be able to make an alliance with him!
*end confessionals*
"Now that we've got that settled, everyone follow me to Studio #9."
Studio #9 looked like a safe that would be in a bank, large and securely locked.
"For the first part of today's challenge, you'll have to break into these safes and collect your teams load out. Once that's done, meet me in the back of the studio for the second part." Chris explained before leaving. Both teams grouped up together to figure out a way into the safe. Luis took a close look at the safe to either find a way in or to open it.
"You see anything Luis?" Tamara asked.
"Well there's no way to get into the safe besides either finding the correct combination or using brute force." Luis answered.
"Brute force, huh? Well this shouldn't be too hard." Ciana gloated, she tried tackling the safe to bust it open, but she just ended up hurting herself. "What the hell?! I thought you said use force to bring this thing down!"
"Perhaps brute force isn't the best way of getting inside..." Luis said, slightly embarrassed.
"Gee, ya' think?" Ciana answered.
"If we can't break into it, we have to find some way to open the safe." Damion noted.
"I'm way ahead of you! But I'm going to need absolute silence." Luis said.
The Turtles also tried using a combination to open the safe, but they couldn't open the safe either.
"Come on, we don't have time for this!" Michiko said impatiently, making Viola increasingly annoyed.
"Complaining and rushing me will not get the safe open faster, if anything it'll male us waste more time!" Viola hissed.
Sammy and Dawn were tending to Julius in the back of the studio while they waited for the contestants.
"You know, I've never really noticed how cute this little bird is!" Sammy said gleefully.
"Yes, Julius is rather cute. How have things been going with your sister by the way?" Dawn asked, Sammy sighed in defeat before answering.
"Nothing's really changed, I tried standing up to her but this is how she reacted." She showed Dawn a scar on her left shoulder, prompting Dawn to gasp in complete shock.
"How could your own sister be so violent?!"
"Amy's been that way since we were born, she even made me shave my head so people could tell us apart." Samey said.
"That's just awful! Though I don't see the need to shave your head since there is a fairly simple way to tell the difference between you two." Dawn noted.
"What would that be?" Sammy asked, doubting Dawn's claim.
"Well you have perfect skin, Amy has a mole." Dawn answered, making Sammy laugh a little bit. Suddenly, Amy walked into the room.
"Hey, did either of you call me?" She asked.
"No, you must be hearing things." Dawn replied.
"If you're messing with me then you're going to regret it, Sparemy!" Amy hissed before leaving the room.
"Sparemy?" Dawn asked, clearly confused about the nickname.
"It's short for 'Spare Amy', she started calling me that a few days ago. She even said she's going to change change my birth certificate once we get home." Samey told her, she picked up Julius, who started to fly almost as soon as Sammy picked him up.
"It's almost time to let him go..." Dawn said.
Luis was almost done cracking the safe.
"I've almost got it open, I can feel it!" He said, with an audible click, the safe opened. The Roosters rushed inside and took their gear, leaving the Turtles behind.
"Come on! We can't let them get ahead!" Nikki pleaded.
"Complaining won't make me work any faster!" Viola said, clearly getting frustrated. Michiko noticed a small air vent by the entrance of the safe that led inside of it.
"Give me a minute girls, I'll get this open." Michiko told them, she pried open the vent and crawled inside of the safe, the other girls could hear a few bangs coming from inside the safe. Suddenly, the door to the vault collapsed, as if someone destroyed it using explosives.
"Come on, no time to waste!" Michiko exclaimed, handing Viola the equipment. The girls were shocked and dumbfounded at how Michiko tore the door down.
The Turtles caught up with the Roosters, who had just arrived at the back of the studio, which looked like an ordinary bank. Chris, Chef and the interns were already waiting for them.
"Hm, that didn't take you all as long as I thought it would!" Chris said, annoying a few of the contestants. "Anyway, you'll need these for the second part of the challenge."
Chef handed the two teams a sack which contained something that felt like paper.
"And what exactly are 'these'?" Tamara asked.
"'These' are bags of money, plain and simple. What you need to do is build a getaway car and race to the finish line." Chris announced. "There's two separate piles of garba- I mean, building materials, that you can use to guild your getaway car. The team that makes it to the the finish line first will win invincibility and the money they have in their sack."
*confessionals*
Ciana: We get to keep the money if we win? Then we can't afford to lose this challenge!
Tamara: We won't lose this challenge, my team has Luis! I'm sure he'll think of something that'll help us win!
Viola: With Luis on the Roosters' side this won't be an easy challenge.
*end confessionals*
"I'll meet you guys at the finish line, in the meantime, you better start building!" Chris exclaimed.
The two teams began building their cars, it was reasonably difficult for the them to get useful parts as most of the things in the two piles were garbage. Eventually though, Luis found something he he found interesting.
"Guys, you might want to check this out!" The small boy said.
"What is it Little Man?" Johan asked.
"This engine, it's very powerful, if we can use it for our getaway, we'll be able to go at very high speeds!" Luis explained, the eyes of the Roosters lit up as they quickly took the engine.
About 2 hours later, the teams had finished their cars. The Turtles built a normal car that could fit 4 people while the Roosters had to build one that could fit 5 people. The special thing about the Roosters' car was that they installed a turbo on it using the engine Luis found.
The Turtles finished first, Viola hopped into the driver's seat and sped off without hesitation.
"Crap, we can't let them get ahead of us!" Damion cursed.
"Not to worry, our getaway vehicle is finished!" Luis said, the 5 Roosters piled into the car with Ciana taking the wheel. However, she had second thoughts about driving when she saw how many buttons and switches there were.
"What the hell is all this?!" She said in surprise.
"I've taken the liberty of customizing the controls, do you think you can still drive it?" Luis asked.
"What do you think I am, a rocket scientist?! You drive it!" Ciana snapped, startling everyone. She and Luis switched seats. Luis took hold of the steering wheel and drove off.
There were two different paths the contestants could drive through, one of them went southwest while the other went southeast. The Turtles took the southeastern path, though it didn't really matter as both paths were equally difficult.
Sammy and Dawn were waiting with Chris by the finish line. They, along with Amy, had remote controls that controlled a plethora of traps in the two paths.
"Why can't things ever be easy in this game?" Ruby asked, dodging a softball that had been flung at her.
"With Chris in control of the challenges, things will never be easy. But complaining about it won't accomplish anything." Viola answered, swerving bast a bowling ball that was rolling towards the group.
"Hey girls, when do you think the merge will happen?" Nikki asked.
"Well there were 16 of us when the game started and there's only 9 left. My guess is that after tonight, Chris will merge the teams." Michiko replied.
"Do you think we should form an alliance?" Ruby asked.
"This isn't really a good time to talk about this, I'd rather not crash." Viola remarked, Nikki was about to say something, but a football was launched towards her, she narrowly avoided the flying pigskin.
"Point taken!" Nikki said.
The Roosters had taken the southwestern path, Amy was relentless in activating the traps to hinder the Roosters' progress.
"Chris isn't letting up is he?!" Damion stated in shock.
"When does he ever let up?" Ciana remarked, an irritated look on her face. Johan saw a drawbridge ahead, it was beginning to slowly open. If it went all the way up, the Roosters would surely lose.
"Hit the nitro... HIT THE NITRO!" [3] Johan shouted, startling Luis. Luis searched for the button that would activate the nitro, thankfully, he found it in time. The engine flared, the car sped towards the bridge, it was then launched off of it and sent flying through the air. The car landed back on the ground, the Roosters were all thankfully unharmed.
"And that's why you must always wear your seat belt!" Luis stated.
"Way to go dude!" Johan praised, Tamara hugged her boyfriend while Damion breathed a sigh of relief.
"We're not done yet, we still need to win the challenge!" Ciana announced.
*confessionals*
Ciana: I thought this game would be easy, but the others are either really smart smart or really strong. That just means this game might actually be tough.
Damion: Having a teammate a smart as Luis is incredibly handy, but the merge is coming soon so I'll have to ally myself with the right people. He might just blitz all of us and win, I noticed he has been playing a bit rougher than last season.
Chris: Ok, why does everyone blame me when things get tough for them, it's getting insulting!
*confessionals*
The Turtles were a little over halfway through the course. The girls were staying quiet so Viola could concentrate on driving, which proved to be no easy task with all of the obstacles being thrown their way. Eventually, the team drove through a neighborhood of cardboard houses, despite the girls staying quiet the atmosphere just seemed... unnaturally quiet...
Back at the finish line, Chris watched the two teams via a large television screen, he noticed the Turtles' location and smiled with glee.
"Oh there at my favorite spot!" He said excitedly. "Dawn, turn on the rocks!"
"Are you sure they won't get hurt?" The Aura Whisperer asked.
"They'll be fine, trust me!" Chris answered, Dawn hesitantly pressed a button on her remote.
The girls were still driving through the cardboard houses, when suddenly several gating guns came out of the windows! They began firing small pebbles at them.
"Duck!" Nikki shouted.
"I can't! I need to see where we're going!" Viola remarked. The team made it through the guns without taking any serious damage, though their car began emitting white smoke.
"Is everyone alright?" Nikki asked.
"I'm alright, but the car is banged up. We better finish this challenge quickly." Viola noted.
"Look out!" Michiko shouted, several walls had sprung up in the path Viola was driving in. As she didn't have enough time to react to it, the team ended up crashing into a wall. Thankfully the wall ended up just being made of paper.
Suddenly, a clothes rack was rolled in front of the car, the girls accidentally drove through the rack, the four four girls ended up with different costumes and clothes on as a result. Viola ended up with a football helmet and uniform, Nikki had an Marine soldier's uniform, Ruby had clowns' makeup on her face, and Michiko had a red and white hockey mask that looked horrific, yet somehow familiar. [4]
After going through the clothes rack, the Turtles accidentally ran over an old man who seemed to be cleaning the studio. [5]
After all of the crashes, Viola saw what looked like the finish line.
"We're almost there! Just hold on for a little while longer!" She said.
The Roosters were speeding towards the finish line, they were only about 5 feet away when the engine began to break down, causing their car to stop.
"Oh, that is a major upset for the Roosters!" Chris announced.
"Are you sh*tting me?!" Ciana cursed.
"No time to complain about it now, we need to get out and push this thing!" Damion said, the Roosters all exited the car and began pushing their broken down car to the finish line.
Suddenly, the Turtles sped towards the finish line as well, unlike the Roosters however, their car didn't break down, enabling them to cross the finish line.
"And the Turtles win!" Chris announced. "Roosters, looks like I'll be seeing you'll be sending someone home again! As for the Turtles, you're allowed to keep all the money you have in the sack!"
The Turtles excitedly dug into the sack and pulled out the money, which had Chris' face on them.
"What is this?" Michiko asked.
"Enjoy your 500,000 McLean Bucks, usable in the Craft Services Tent to purchase bottled water and chips. They're worth 1 cent otherwise."
"Are you serious Chris?!" Viola hissed.
Later that evening, Ciana knocked on the door to the boys trailer, Damion answered.
"Hey is Luis there?" She asked.
"No, he went out to walk with Tammy, do you need something from him?"
"He's not here? Good, because I need to talk to you and Johan." Ciana said, going into the trailer.
"Uh, hey Ciana. What do you need?" Johan greeted.
"I need you guys to vote with me tonight. We all know the merge is coming up soon and we need to get rid of a big threat." Ciana explained.
"You don't mean..." Damion began to say before Ciana cut him off.
"Yeah, you know who..."
At the Elimination Ceremony, the Roosters all looked nervous.
"After tonight, 5 will go down to 4, who's going to be the one to take a ride on the Lame-O-Sine tonight? The first Award of the night goes to..." Chris began.
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"Next is Damion."
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"And the second to last award goes to Johan. It's all down to Ciana and Luis, an interesting bottom to if I do say so myself. But I don't make the votes. Anyway, the final Gilded Chris Award goes to..."
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"Ciana! It's time to go Luis."
"No, why Luis! Why him!" Tamara argued, Luis held her hand.
"It's ok Tammy, I had a lot of fun this season and I even became your boyfriend! That's worth more to me than the money!" Luis explained, the others all went 'aww' at this. Tamara held Luis hand as the two went over to the Lame-O-Sine, they shared one final kiss before Luis was sent off.
"And so with a bittersweet end, we're halfway done with the show. Who will be next person the next person voted off? Stay tuned and find out!"
And that's the end of the chapter, I hope you guys enjoyed it. I would like to announce that I do need 2 OC's for the next Aftermath episode.
References:
1: Some lyrics to the theme song of the original DragonBall anime.
2: Lightning Bolt by Jake Bugg.
3: A line used in an episode of Teen Titans (not Teen Titans Go! that show is awful).
4: A hint to something that will be revealed later.
5: That happened in the episode 'Oceans Eight - Or Nine' of the original TDA.