We are now officially at the halfway point of the story, are you excited? Before you read the chapter, there's something I'd like to point out. Do you remember at the end of season 2 they had to Celebrity Manhunt Total Drama Reunion Special? Well I'd like to put that into this story as well, so once the winner is decided, the contestants won't see each other for a whole year and a lot of things about them could change. Anyway, I've rambled long enough, enjoy the chapter.
"Last time on Total Drama Action, our 9 contestants tried to get rich quick in our Bank Heist movie challenge. Michiko proved herself to be a very... resourceful when it comes to opening safes. The getaway car segment of the challenge proved to be rather interesting. At the end of the race, the Turtles took the victory, putting the Roosters up for elimination. In the end, Luis took the ride home, leaving Tamara heartbroken. Now only eight campers remain, who will be the next contestant to take the dreaded ride on the Lame-O-Sine? Find out right here on Total Drama Action!"
The boys cabin was empty except for Johan and Damion, the only two boys left in the game.
"So it's just us isn't it..." Johan said, trying to break the silence. Damion was feeding Julius seeds.
"Looks like it, we'll go down eventually too, we can't be safe forever..." Damion replied, unsettling Johan a little bit.
"Well, I'm gonna go get some air. Let me know if you need anything dude." Johan said, leaving the trailer and leaving Damion to himself. He took out a locket and opened it, there were two different pictures on the inside. One of them was of a man and woman who shared similar traits to Damion. The other was of a 12 year-old boy, Damion looked at the photos for a few moments before Julius landed on his arm.
"I guess it's almost time to let you go." Damion said to the bird. Julius began to chirp a sweet little melody. This little song seemed to stir something up within Damion, he smiled at the bird.
*confessionals*
Johan: Honestly, I think Damion and I are boned, the girls'll probably team up and take both of us out and an alliance between me and Damion won't help, there's two of us and six of them.
Damion: I've gotten past half of the others competing but I haven't really been trying to win. I've spent so much time wallowing and just being out of the way that I've forgotten why I came on this show in the first place. I need to win, I need to make sure nobody feels the pain I've felt... [2]
*end confessionals*
The girls were doing their basic morning routines, Ciana took Viola aside.
"Hey V, listen were practically the strongest girls in the game. So if we team up, we'll make it to the finale and then we'll just let the better girl win." Ciana proposed.
"I'm afraid I can't do that Ciana, if I'm going to make it to the finale then I'd rather do it alone. But thanks for the offer." Viola answered, walking away from Ciana. Michiko was listening to the duo, smirking.
*confessionals*
Ciana: The merge is coming up soon, I NEED someone to make make an alliance with.
Viola: Ciana has the right idea of forming an alliance with somebody, but it can't be me, I prefer to go through this game alone.
Michiko: *her eyes are glowing* Ciana thinks having an ally will save her. Hehehe, once I'm finished here, there won't be anyone to save!
*end confessionals*
About an hour later, Chris called everyone in front of Studio #10, which looked like a N.A.S.A launching station.
"Good morning Final Eight, welcome to Studio #10! Now before we officially begin the challenge, I'd like to announce that the teams are being merged! As of now, there are no more official teams!" Chris announced, Johan, Nikki and Tamara were the only ones that looked excited, the others looked either serious or nonchalant.
*confessionals*
Ruby: Last time I made it to the merge, Hayden messed with everyone. He's not here anymore, so that means I have a better chance at making it farther.
Viola: Halfway there, the others are tough though. Getting to the finale won't be an easy task.
Nikki: I'm so glad I made it this far, especially with my boyfriend being here! But after watching everyone last season, I know they're tough!
Johan: Oh, we're halfway there! Woah! Living on a prayer! [3]
Tamara: I think I might be in trouble. Viola doesn't want an alliance, I don't talk to much with Nikki or Ruby, Ciana and Michiko honestly scare me. Johan and Damion are nice enough though, if I can on their good sides then maybe I can get them to vote with me?
Damion: I can't afford to give up or let the others beat me! I've made up my mind, I need to win this game! Lives are at stake!
*end confessionals*
"Anyway, step into the rocket and I'll explain the challenge." Chris said, the contestants stepped onto the rocket, which looked rather high tech. "Alright 'actors', the challenge is pretty simple, you will be launched high up into the stratosphere, where you will experience weightlessness. You objective is simple, find a way back down to the ground."
"This seems more like a team challenge." Ruby stated.
"I'm well aware. But there will be a reward for whoever lands this thing in the next part of the challenge. Now I'm just gonna get out of here. But before I go, Johan some girl wanted to say hi to you, I think her name was Tina." Chris said, Johan gasped and then scowled when he heard that name.
*confessionals*
Johan: Ugh, I never thought I'd have to hear that name again.
Nikki: Who's Tina and why did Johan react like that? [4]
*end confessionals*
"Anyway, see ya'!" Chris left the rocket, after only a few seconds, the rocket was shot high up into the air. Since they didn't have enough time to strap themselves into a char, everyone was smashed into the wall.
Once they were high up in the sky, the rocket stopped moving and the contestants began floating.
"W - We're floating!" Damion said.
"This is awesome!" Tamara added.
"As amazing as this is, we need to find a way back down. This anti-gravity is making me nauseous." Viola said flatly.
The contestants looked around for something they could use to get back down, there wasn't a steering wheel or anything of that nature. Ruby entered one of the rooms in the ship, there wasn't much inside of it but there was a window.
"Wow..." Ruby said, captivated by the view.
Michiko and Tamara entered a different room, there were several spheres with eye shapes on them, they would blink at random intervals and say random things.
"The fact sphere is always right."
"Don't forget garnishes such as fish-shaped crackers, fish-shaped volatile, organic comping and sediment-shaped sediment."
"Who are you? What is that? Oh, what's that? What's that?"
"SPAAAAAAACE!"
This prompted Michiko to shut the door and walk away, leaving Tamara to try and comprehend what just happened. [5]
Nikki tried a different room, as soon as she opened the door, a video began playing. The video showed some sort of robot that looked female in a room with blacked out windows. The Robot already looked creepy as is, but it became 50 times creepier when it began to sing.
"I feel fantastic. Hey, hey, hey. You feel fantastic." It sang repeatedly, it's voice remained monotonous and eerie. [6]
Nikki shut the door without hesitation and tried the room next door, the same room Ruby was in earlier. When she looked out of the window however, she noticed some sort of black object in the sky, it looked like some sort of aircraft. [7]
Shockingly, Nikki noticed someone looking out of the window of the black aircraft. This person was looking right at her, it appeared to be a teenage girl but her skin was pure grey and parts of her face had black squares and lines on them. The person seemed to be saying something, strangely, Nikki was able to hear her! It didn't sound like natural speech, it was more like some strange beeping with a few voices in a strange language. When she heard this noise, Nikki bolted from the room as fast as she possibly could. [8]
Johan went into one of the rooms, this room had several computers, switches and buttons in it. Johan found a button that looked promising, he pressed it without hesitation. The room began to light up and whir, a small dish by the button began to glow. In a flash of light, a muffin had materialized on the dish.
"Yes!" He said enthusiastically, he continued pressing the button.
From the camera room, Chris, Chef and the interns were watching Johan.
"Oh my god..." Chris said, half laughing. "How much money does this set cost?"
Chef and Samey chuckled a little bit while Dawn and Amy looked at him strangely.
"Who knows, all I know is that we made a hell of a deal! Where'd you get all of those props though? The robots, the spaceship, the black ship." Chef replied.
"The producers have the cash, except the black ship isn't ours. I have no idea where that's from." Chris answered.
"Hmm... weird." Chef said.
Back in the ship, Johan was still pressing the button that created muffins from thin air. There was about 30 muffins there already and counting. The door to them room opened, Tamara and Ciana looked inside all saw Johan.
"Boy, what the hell are you doing?" Ciana questioned.
"Oh, uh, hehe I guess I got a little carried away." Johan answered.
"Well Viola says she found the way back down." Tamara said, the three of them went to go leave the room, Johan grabbed a few muffins as he left.
Everyone regrouped in the room they started with, Viola was tampering with a few buttons and switches. One of them turned on windshield wipers while another shut the lights off.
"Any luck Viola?" Johan asked.
"Nothing yet, but one of these should send us back down to... where did you get that muffin?" Viola responded.
"Muffin button, I have enough for everyone." Johan said, giving a muffin to everyone. "I saved a special muffin for my special muffin!" Johan said, giving Nikki a muffin and kissing her on the cheek. [9]
Viola pressed a light blue button that immediately made the ship plummet down to earth.
"WE'RE GONNA DIE!" Tamara screamed.
"NOT HELPING!" Michiko shouted back at her. The rocket was quickly reaching the ground, everyone was beginning to panic. However, it began to slow down until it finally stopped and landed safely.
Everyone stepped out of the rocket, they had trouble adjusting to the gravity and walking on solid ground but they got used to it.
"Glad to see you all back on the ground contestants! Since Viola was the person who completed the challenge, she will get an advantage in the next part of the challenge." Chris announced. "Now follow me for the second part of the challenge."
Chris led everyone to a small court with a G Machine, the contestants who knew what the Machine was gulped in fear.
"The second part of today's challenge is, The Vomit Comet! All you need to do is stay in this thing for as long as you can. Now since Viola won the previous part of the challenge, she will be granted five seconds added to her time and she gets to pick who goes first." Chris proclaimed.
*confessionals*
Ruby: Maybe eating a muffin before doing this was a bad idea...
Johan: I think I just screwed everyone over. Muffin button, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME!
*end confessionals*
"Hmm... I'll go first." Viola said.
"You sure? ... Alright, the Vomit Comet is custom made to have a stop button inside of it, just on case you want to give up."
Viola climbed into the G Machine, Chris wasted no time in turning it on. Even though Viola was in the machine for a few seconds, it felt like hours. Viola eventually pressed the button to stop the Vomit Comet.
"And Viola sets the goal to beat at an impressive 13.42 seconds, and with her five second bonus, her final time is 18.42 seconds." Chris announced, Viola staggered over to the others.
"Are you ok V?" Ruby asked.
"I'm alright, a bit dizzy, but otherwise ok." Viola answered.
"Ciana, you're up!" Chris announced, Ciana wasted no time in strapping herself in. As she was being spun around, Ciana started to feel a bit queasy. The others watched in shock as the small glass panel on the Vomit Comet went from being completely transparent to being a sickly green color. The G Machine then stopped right in its tracks, Ciana stepped out of it looking angry, yet sick to her stomach.
"Why did you stop it?" She asked.
"Yeah... I forgot to mention, if you spew then your ride is over. Ciana, your end time was... 13.68 seconds, meaning Viola's score still stands!" Chris announced. "So who's going next?"
"Shouldn't we clean it first?" Damion asked.
"Meh." Chris answered, shrugging his shoulders. Ruby went up next, despite how grossed out she was about having to ride in a vomit splattered high speed ride (which was understandable).
Her run seemed to be almost as good as Ciana's, she ended up pressing the button to quit her run.
"Not bad Ruby, you've actually managed to get a flat 14 seconds." Chris said. The interns ran up to Chris, Dawn whispered something in his ear.
"Tell him that I'll take care of it!" He whispered back at them, he then turned back to the contestants. "I've just received word from the producers that they want the challenge to go by just a little bit faster, so Michiko and Tamara are going next and since you're both going together, you'll both get the same time as your final score.
The two girls entered the machine, they had very little space between them, prompting Tamara to hyperventilate. Unfortunately for her, she didn't have any time to leave the Vomit Comet, which had already begun spinning. It didn't run for very long though, both girls seemed to how up almost simultaneously.
"Wow, a measly 7.89 seconds! Pretty bad if I do say so myself." Chris taunted.
"Please... stop talking!" Michiko said, wiping her mouth off, Tamara threw up a little bit more.
"Hey lovebirds, you're up next!" Chris said, the couple hesitantly entered the Vomit Comet. Once the two were strapped in, the ride begun. Nikki was clinging to Johan for dear life, Johan seemed to be doing all he could to keep his lunch down. Eventually, the couple stopped the ride.
"Not bad! You two are the closest to beating Viola's score at 17.31 seconds!" Chris said, patting Johan on his back, causing the musician to collapse.
"That thing spun my head right round." Johan said sloppily. [10]
"Hehe, it all comes down to Damion. If you can't beat Viola's score, then she'll win invincibility. Strap yourself in Damion, because it's Vomit Comet time bro!" Chris announced.
Damion slowly climbed into the Vomit Comet and strapped himself in. Damion tried as hard as he could to keep his lunch down. After a few moments, Damion finally ended his ride, surprisingly, he managed to keep it down.
"And that's the end of the rides. As for the time, Damion managed to stay on for 18.421 seconds, now since the times are pretty much even and I don't really want to have a tiebreaker, both Damion and Viola will share invincibility tonight. As for the rest of you, get ready to vote someone off!" Chris announced.
*confessionals*
Johan: I think this might be the end for me. I made everyone else get sick, I deserve to be eliminated.
Tamara: I have a weirdly bad feeling about this elimination. It feels like someone's going to be hurt really badly...
*end confessionals*
Some time later, Damion and Johan met up with Sammy and Dawn. Julius was flying in front of the group.
"It's time to set you free my little friend!" Dawn said happily.
"It's a shame that we have to let him go." Johan stated.
"I know how you feel, it's like just yesterday we just started taking care of him." Sammy added.
"Go on Julius, you are free!" Dawn proclaimed, Julius flew off into the sky, seeing the bird fly away stirred something within Damion, as if it gave him a new hope.
The moment was absolutely shattered by a high pitched voice.
"SAMEY! GET OVER HERE NOW!"
Amy stormed over to them and grabbed Samey by her arm. She began shoving her sister towards their trailer, however she was stopped by the others.
"What is wrong with you? How could you treat your own sister like that?" Damion protested.
"Oh step off!" Amy replied.
"Amy, the way you treat your sister is completely inhumane. You don't have to be this way, we can just talk out our problems over some Jasmine Tea." Dawn suggested.
"Ugh, you people are just so annoying! You want to be with her, then fine!" Amy shouted, shoving Sammy back to the group, she slapped her sister across the face with the back of her hand, leaving a bright red mark.
"You ok Sammy?" Johan asked, trying to help the poor girl. Sammy nodded as response, but it didn't do much to quell the suspicions of the others.
"Sammy, if you ever need a friend to talk to you can let any of us know, we're always here." Johan proclaimed.
"He's right, you don't need to be afraid to tell us anything." Dawn added.
*confessionals*
Dawn: What Sammy needs is some time away from her sister, perhaps I can ask Chris to make her a host of the Aftermath Show with Mike and Ella.
Sammy: It's nice to have friends that watch out for me so much, I'm glad I met them.
Amy: I seriously don't deserve all of this negativity... I think I'll have a nice chat with Chris later.
*end confessionals*
Later at the Amphitheater, the Elimination Ceremony was about to begin.
"You all know how this works, the person with the most votes stacked against them will take a ride on the Lame-O-Sine and they can't come back. Ever! So make your votes." Chris announced.
Amy handed Chris the awards, she scowled at Sammy and Dawn as she did.
"Since Damion and Viola have invincibility, they get the first awards. The next award goes to Ruby."
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"And Nikki, so it's down to Michiko and Johan. The final Gilded Chris Award goes to..."
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"What?! But that's not fair!" Nikki protested.
"Nikki, it's ok! I made a mistake and I have to pay the consequences for it. You still have a chance though, so make the most of it, ok?" Johan replied, the couple shared one last kiss before Johan was driven away.
"With Johan's elimination, we're down to only one guy left in the game! Can Damion blitz his way past the girls and into the winners circle? Or will th hurls take him out? Find out next time on Total Drama Action!"
Some time later, Chris was about to head into his luxury trailer, but Amy stopped him.
"Hey Chris, there's something important I wanted to talk to you about, it'll just take a minute..." Amy said ominously.
What is Amy going to do? Will Damion last against the 6 girls? Only time will tell, until then, I hope you liked the chapter.
References:
1. Buzz Lightyear
2. A little hint about Damion's backstory
3. Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi
4. Foreshadowing
5. A nod to some of the Personality Cores from the Portal series
6. A reference to a very creepy video
7. A reference to the Black Knight, a mysterious aircraft seen in the Earth's upper atmosphere.
8. An OC of mine who I won't go into too much detail about.
9. Everything about the 'Muffin Button' was based off of a joke from DragonBall Z Abridged.
10. A nod to the song 'You Spin Me Right Round'
And so ends the long list of references.