Ok, you've all waited long enough for this. Big thanks to everyone who voted and surprisingly the votes were pretty close, nonetheless a winner has been decided. Enjoy the chapter.
A stage hand was whispering something into Mike's ear.
"What, I have to do it? Um, ok. Last time on Total Drama Action, our two finalists: Damion and Ruby, raced through the entire film lot in the final challenge of the season. The two gave it all they had and after a neck and neck race, we're left with a tie! Who will walk away with the million dollars? Find out now on the thrilling conclusion of Total Drama Action! ... Was that good?"
Everybody was sitting at their positions in the Aftermath studio. Viola, Ciana, Damion, and Ruby were nowhere to be found though.
"Hello and welcome to the finale of Total Drama Action! I'm Mike and I'm here with my friends and fellow interns Ella, Amy, Sammy, and Dawn. But that's not all, we also have our special guest: Zoey. Not to mention we have all of the past contestants here with us as well." Mike greeted.
"Ruby and Damion are currently in the back, they're eating right now as they weren't given any food this morning." Ella explained.
"Whatever, we all know that everyone's waiting to find out who's gonna win the million!" Amy stated. The audience applauded at her statement.
"So this is where you've been all this time?" Sammy asked her sister.
"Well duh, where else would I have been Sparemy?" Amy hissed.
"Sparemy?" Blake asked, though she wasn't answered.
"Now before we bring out our finalists, lets introduce our third and fourth place contestants." Dawn announced.
"What? No! We need to bring Damion and Ruby out here now!" Amy shouted.
"Why can't we interview Viola and Ciana? They should have their time in the spotlight just like we did." Tamara suggested.
"Hey, Chris left me in charge and that means what I say goes!" Amy argued.
"Well you'll have to deal with it, b*tch!" Ciana said, she and Viola had already came on stage.
"Ugh! Fine, but I made a little change since the last Aftermath. Instead of playing Truth or Electric Chair, we're going to play a little game called Truth or Anvil!"
"Amy please, Mike and I asked you to stop with the violence!" Ella pleaded, her voice shaking a bit.
"And I said I would think about it. Now on to the questions, and since Ciana is technically in fourth place, she'll be interviewed first." Amy replied. Ciana sat down in the hot seat, glaring at Amy as she sat down.
"I swear to you-know-who, if you do anything to me than I will kill you. With a fork!" Ciana threatened.
"She'll do it Amy..." Briar warned.
"I'm sure she will." Amy replied, rolling her eyes. "First question: Are you mad at Michiko for what she did?"
"Are all of the questions going to be about what I did? I already apologized and I know that isn't really enough but can we just not bring it up anymore..." Michiko pleaded.
"Well obviously I'm still pissed off about it, but after I was voted off everyone told me why she did it. I felt bad for her, but I'm still gonna keep my eye on her." Ciana explained. Amy waited for the Anvil to drop, but unfortunately for her, the Anvil stayed where it was.
"Ugh, next question. How do you feel about your time on the show?"
"Well I rocked the game pretty hard when I was competing, and I could've won if it weren't for Chris and his stupid f*cking rules!"
"Mind your language please, Ciana..." Viola chimed in.
"Right... anyway can I get out of this chair now?" The buzzer went off as soon as Ciana asked her question. Mike helped Ciana out of the chair. "How long has she been here?" She whispered to Mike.
"Since the last Aftermath, she's been driving everyone crazy with this stuff, first an electric chair and now it's an anvil! She even made Ella cry!"
"Aww hell naw, someone has to put that girl in her place!" Ciana said, leaving the stage. As she left, Amy was strapping Viola into the chair.
"Ok Viola, you know the rules. First question: How did you feel about being eliminated right before the finale?" Amy questioned.
"Disappointed. The million dollars was within reach, but Chris decided to have a double elimination." Viola answered. As Amy continued asking Viola questions, Mike brought the other interns backstage.
"What did you want to talk to us about Mike?" Zoey asked.
"Actually Ciana was the one who needed to talk to us. So what did you need Ciana?"
"Amy's pissed us all off since the season started. I was thinking of teaching her a lesson." Ciana explained.
"Should we inform all of the previous contestants about this?" Dawn asked.
"Nah, let's surprise 'em. Anyway, you guys in?" Ciana asked, the others were quick to agree, except for Sammy and Dawn who seemed rather reluctant.
"I don't know about this..." Sammy admitted.
"Sammy, after everything your sister did to you, now is the time to get your revenge." Ciana explained.
"But revenge is never the answer!" Dawn argued.
"Did I mention Amy hates nature and tried to hurt Julian?" Ciana added, causing Dawn to gasp in horror.
Back on stage, Amy had just finished asking Viola questions.
"Well now that we've interviewed the losers, it's time to bring out our two finalists! Let's give a big round of applause for Damion and Ruby everyone!" Amy announced. The two finalists walked on stage and we're immediately greeted with cheers and applause. The stage hands brought out two special chairs just for them.
"So, how does it feel to be in the finals?" Amy asked.
""It's pretty exciting actually, I never thought I would make it this far!" Damion answered, Ruby looked around the stage, looking for someone.
"Where are the other interns?" She asked. Amy looked around and sure enough, the other interns, Zoey and Ciana were gone.
"Ugh, of course they would desert me and make me do all the work!" Amy hissed. "Whatever, what everyone is waiting for though is which of you two will win the million bucks! But we have one problem, we don't know how you'll earn the money. Anybody have any ideas?"
Johan raised his hand for a moment but quickly put it back down.
"You had an idea dude?" Dutch asked.
"Yeah but I don't think it would work out." Johan answered.
"Well what is it, we don't have all day?" Amy added.
"I was thinking they could settle this with a Rock Off."
"A what?" Blake asked.
"A Rock Off, the two of them will use an instrument of their choice to play a song as perfectly as they can. Whoever plays it better wins, the reason I said it wouldn't work out is because I don't know how well they can play instruments." Johan explained.
"It does sound kind of boring too, anybody have any better ideas." Amy responded, Johan looked a bit insulted at her statement.
"Um, what about a maze? Whoever gets out first wins." Bella suggested, surprising some of the others.
"That doesn't sound like a bad idea. Let's do it!" Amy announced.
Ruby and Damion were standing in front of a maze that the stage hands had set up outside of the studio. There was a separate entrance for each of them. Everyone else could see them from the large screen in the Aftermath Studio while others waited by the maze's exit. The other interns returned to the stage, Amy was irate about them leaving her.
"How dare you all just leave me here to do the show all by myself! I bet you put them up to this Sparemy!" Amy hissed, pulling Sammy's hair. Almost immediately, Ciana shoved Amy off of her.
"Oh f*ck off! You sister didn't do anything!" Ciana cursed. Mike and Dawn calmed the two girls down, Ella and Zoey brought Sammy over the Peanut Gallery. Sammy sat down next to Derek and Blake.
"Hey, are you ok?" Derek asked.
"Oh, hehe, I'm fine." Sammy answered, the two blushed a bit.
"Sammy I don't mean to sound rude, but I'm seriously about to hurt your sister." Blake stated.
"What's up with her anyway, why does she treat you that way?" Derek asked.
"She's been doing that for as long as I can remember, I don't even know exactly why though." Sammy explained.
"Well someone has to put her in her place!" Blake said.
"If you ever need a friend to talk to Sammy, you can talk to me or my sister, or anybody here. You seem like a sweet girl."
The blush on Sammy's face returned, Mike suddenly turned on a microphone that would allow everybody outside to hear him.
"Ok you two, all you need to do is find your way out of the maze. First one out wins the million dollars!" Mike said. Ella pressed a button on a remote control that gave the finalists the signal to begin the challenge. The two raced inside of the maze, despite the small size of the maze the two struggled to find the exit.
Everybody cheered them on hoping that one of them would exit the maze and win the money. Both finalists eventually found the exit to the maze, running as fast as they could... but they both exited at the same time, resulting in a tie.
"Another tie?!" Charlotte said in shock.
"Daaaaayyyyummmm!" Tristan added.
"Well this is... unexpected!" Ella said.
"Now what do we do?" Alyx asked, nobody had any ideas at the moment.
"Hey Mike, while we think of a new idea for a challenge, why not show the audience some behind-the-scenes clips from the first season?" Johan asked.
"Sounds good!" Mike responded.
Everyone turned their attention to the large screen, which began showing clips from seasons 1 and 2. These clips included everyone arriving at Camp Wawanackwa for the first time, some of the interns' prank war, Michael and Dutch's first fight. Damion and Corlissa becoming a couple, the cooking challenge, the paintball challenge, the formation of the girls' alliance, Blake and Dominic's first kiss, the Brunch of Disgustingness, Johan and Nikki becoming an official couple, Hayden being eliminated, the Monster Movie challenge, Viola and Dutch kissing, Tamara and Luis becoming a couple, and Michael winning the first season!
"Wow, we've all been through so much together!" Tamara noted, hugging Luis.
"Yeah, it really stinks that we might not see each other after this..." Ben said woefully, bringing everyone to the realization of the situation.
"He's right, we might not see each other again after this!" Caine stated.
"I'm really going to miss you all!" Charlotte said, tearing up a bit.
At an airport in Toronto, Chris and Chef waited for their superiors, Chef was watching a nearby TV that was showing the Aftermath, which was a live broadcast. He saw the clips that were shown an turned to Chris.
"You gonna miss any of those kids?" He asked, Chris thought for a moment.
"Ehh... not really. Why, are you gonna miss them?"
"They weren't all that bad, some were kind of alright."
"Who would've thought that big, bad Chef was such a softie!" Chris chuckled. Chef growled but something on TV caught his attention.
"Well if we really might not see each other, then we can at least end this show with one last laugh!"
It was Ciana, she seemed to have an idea and a sly grin on her face.
"Mike, is there any embarrassing footage of Chris? He's made us look like jokes since this stupid show began, we should make him look like a joke in return!"
Everyone else looked ecstatic at this idea, Mike chuckled and put clips of Chri doing disgusting and embarrassing things such as, chewing with his mouth open, singing Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' in the shower (the curtain was covering him, so we can't see Chris), taking a selfie with a duck face, and many more.
Everyone in the Studio was laughing hysterically, even people in the airport were laughing. Chris approached Chef, who was also laughing.
"The producers called, they're gonna be a bit late... what's with you?" Chris asked before seeing what was on the TV. "What the f*ck?! Come on Chef, we're dealing with this now!" Chris grabbed Chef and the two entered the Lame-O-Sine (which the two used to get to the airport). The two drove drove back to the Studio as fast as they could.
Back at the Aftermath Studio, the clip show of Chris had just ended and everyone was trying to control themselves.
"Hahaha, oh my gosh! That's just embarrassing!" Astrid laughed.
"I can't believe that losers made us play his stupid game!" Dutch added.
"As hilarious as that was, there's still one thing that we need to do. Somebody needs to win the million dollars!" Amy said.
"And it looks like I'll take care of how the winner is chosen!"
Everyone was shocked to see Chris and Chef walk on stage.
"What are you two doing here? I thought you said you had an errand to do!" Ruby asked.
"I did, but since you all don't know how to run this show, I'm taking over!" Chris answered, he sounded angry but he kept his composure. "Since a challenge couldn't decide the winner, we'll try something else. Every contestant from season two who was previously eliminated will vote for who they want to win. Starting with Corlissa and ending with Viola. But before we begin voting there's a few things we need answered to. Damion, Ruby, you've both been hiding something from everyone and I think they'd like answers."
"Yeah, we never found out what happened to Damion, he's been depressed since this season started." Sapphire stated.
"Care to explain why that is, Damion?" Chris asked. Damion sighed before giving his explanation.
"Alright... after the first season ended I met up with my friend Kai who was in the hospital. He was ill with cancer at the time. I tried to make his time there a bit easier for him by trying to make him smile. It worked for a while but he still ended up passing away in the end. I was... broken after that, I thought that no matter how hard I tried to make make people smile it would never work out in the end. But after a while during the season, taking care of the bird, Julian, and just being around everyone else made me realize that I've just been wallowing in my own self pity. That's when I decided that if I win the money, I'm donating it to cancer research charities. I don't want anyone else to feel the way I felt."
Everybody was in a stunned silence at Damion's story.
"Well after that heart wrenching story, now it's Ruby's turn to admit her secret. Care to tell everyone what those letters said and why you got them in the first place?" Chris questioned.
"You really want to know? Fine. School isn't really a place I like going to." Ruby began.
"That's normal, school just be wack!" Tristan interrupted, earning a few glares. Ciana punched him in the arm to keep him quiet.
"Not for the reasons you're thinking of." Ruby continued. "Everyone already picked on me because I'm an albino, but I made the mistake of getting a boyfriend who was on the football team. Long story short, it didn't work out. But the thing is, he has a photo of me that's kind of... interesting. Apparently he showed that picture to everybody in my school, and they've been sending letters to my house. When I was with my sister after the hospital movie challenge I finally saw the letters. After that I just lost confidence in myself."
Everyone was once again in silence, a few of the others looked sorry for Ruby and wanted to console her.
"Well now that there are no more secrets, it's time to decide who will win the million dollars." Chris announced. Chef drove in on a forklift carrying a blue outhouse. "Inside this outhouse you'll find a pen and paper, use it to write down the name of the finalist who you think should win. Since Corlissa was first to be voted off this season, she gets to vote first."
*voting confessionals*
Corlissa: We all know that I'm voting for Damion, after after what he's been through I think he deserves to win.
Sapphire: It's a tough choice but I'm going to vote for Ruby. Both played so well in my opinion... wait, didn't I predict those two would be in the finale.
Michael: This vote is probably the hardest I've ever done on this show.
Astrid: I think Ruby's earned this win, she's dealt with so much.
Hayden: I dislike both of them so what's really the point of me voting?
Briar: Personally I'm voting for the one who's played better during this season.
Dutch: Voting shouldn't be this hard!
Luis: I was not expecting to vote for the winner! I'm so torn over who to pick.
Johan: I think they're both cool but I think I have to give this one to Damion, he's been a friend to me since the first season.
Tamara: *her eyes are closed and she has frantic look on her face that basically says 'Who did I vote for?!*
Michiko: Why should I say who I'm voting for?! *she covers the camera before casting her vote*
Nikki: I'm voting for Damion, his story was just so sad and his plan for the money is amazing!
Ciana: I gotta vote for Ruby, she's just a lot tougher in my opinion.
Viola: I'm voting for Ruby, plain and simple. I just believe she played better.
*end confessionals*
"Alright, now the votes have been made its time to announce the winner. The first vote goes to Damion."
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"Can you just get back to counting the votes! We don't need you reminding us how many they have!" Ciana shouted, Chris gave her an annoyed look before counting the next vote.
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"And with the final vote, the winner of Total Drama Action is... Ruby!" Chris announced. Confetti dropped on to the stage the crowed went absolutely insane. Chef handed Ruby the briefcase with the money in it. Amy approached Chris, she looked a bit impatient.
"Ok Chris, we have winner, can I get my paycheck already?" She asked. From backstage, Ciana pulled a rope that released a large bathtub filled with honey that splashed onto Chris and Amy. Mike and Johan dropped a large sack full of feathers down on the two as well. Everyone roared with laughter at the sight of this.
"Ugh! You're all gonna get it!" Amy shouted, heading backstage to clean herself off. Chris stayed on stage to end the show.
"Well after... that, we finally have our winner:The tough outcast, Ruby. I'm Chris McLean and this has been Total. Drama. Action!"
Later that evening, Chris and Chef returned to the airport where the producers were waiting for them.
"Mr. O, sorry for making you wait. Hehe." Chris said nervously.
"Mr. McLean, thank you for coming. We have everything set up for our next show. Well, almost everything."
"So what do you need me to do?"
"Do what you do best Mr. McLean, I'll see you in a year."
"Wait, why a year?" Chris asked.
"A lot can happen in a year Mr. McLean, and one more thing before I go. Take good care of the plane." Mr. O said, tossing Chris the keys to a a plane before he and the other producers drove out of the airport.
"Oh it is on!" Chris cheered, a confident look on his face.
Thanks so much to everyone who voted and all of the readers for sticking by. We'll be seeing these characters again, in about a year or so. In the meantime, stay frosty guys and I hope you enjoyed.