I would like to dedicate this chapter to MickeyMcFinnigan who suggested this idea for a challenge! It's based off of the Survivor: Gabon Lake Launch immunity challenge. However, I have modified it, and with some suggestions from MickeyMcFinnigan, we think it's Total Drama Universe worthy.
I'd also like to thankacosta perez jose ramiro and JupRea for their reviews this past chapter, as well as lilliflower98, American King and mgoldberg for their reviews for previous chapters. Thanks guys, I really love reading what you think! :)
I don't own Total Drama.
"Last time on Total Drama Island, the teens battled the most intense challenge yet: the Awake-a-thon!" Chris announced. "After taking a 20k run around the island and then giving them a luxurious turkey dinner, our tougher competitors managed to survive for eighty-some hours without falling asleep! Sam won the challenge for the Bears, Sadie rescued her team from Eva's wrath and Heather ended up with a mosaic of bruises and a bloody lip! In the end, the Gophers sent Staci home because she wouldn't shut up. What will happen tonight on Total Drama Island?"
Cue theme song.
The campers were assembled in the Mess Hall, the Gophers and the Bears looking significantly more well-rested than the Bass were. Both Gwen and Duncan had their faces on the table and were sleeping.
"Gwen, Duncan, you guys look like crap." Chris said.
"Stuff it." Duncan said, glaring at the host.
"Harold snored all night." Heather said in irritation.
"I'm so tired, I can't even feel my face." Gwen said, before her head fell against the table once more.
"Wow. Four days with no sleep, how much are you hurting?" Chris taunted.
Duncan glared at him. "Wanna find out?"
As everyone on Duncan's team, save Gwen – who had fallen asleep, dove under the table, Chris put his hands up defensively. "No, no, it's cool."
A unified gasp from the entire Bass table announced Harold's arrival. The two other teams stared at him and the graffiti that had been marked on his face with a black marker as he passed.
Confessional
"I must thank Harold for his unwitting assistance in giving the Gophers the edge in today's challenge." Alejandro said.
Static.
"That's it Harold. Once you start-" Heather yawned. "-messing with my sleeping-" Another yawn. "-patterns, you're gone." Heather's speech was punctuated by yet another yawn.
As Harold took his seat at the Bass table, the entire hall burst out laughing at him.
"Okay, what?" Harold asked at last.
"Someone messed with your face, dude." Geoff said.
Harold picked up a spoon and admired the black scribble moustache that had been drawn on his upper lip. "Hey, sweet 'stache."
"Hey everyone! It's Sam!" Chris announced as the gamer walked in, still playing his video game console and not looking any more tired than he had before.
The Bears applauded as Sam walked to the table and took a seat beside Sierra, who was staring longingly at the Gopher's table.
"Let's go over the rules one more time." Heather said with a yawn. "Number one: I am the captain of this alliance so I get to make the rules. Number two?"
Lindsay and Beth thought for a moment before Lindsay answered. "Breaking the rules can result in getting kicked out of the alliance?"
"Good." Heather said with a nod. "Number three: I can borrow any of your stuff without asking, but my stuff is strictly off limits."
"I don't know about that last rule." Lindsay said.
"That's okay, I can change it." Heather said. "I can also find someone else to take to the final three with me." When both Lindsay and Beth shook their heads in horror, Heather seemed satisfied. "Good."
"Okay campers, your next challenge begins in ten minutes!" Chris said. "And be prepared to get wet!"
"Didn't we already do a challenge like this?" Courtney asked in irritation, looking up the thousand foot cliff from the base of the hill.
"You mean the one you chickened out on?" Eva growled.
"Welcome to challenge number three, campers!" Chris said. "Today's challenge is what I like to call the 'Canal of Doom'. Part one of this challenge involves a footrace to the top of the hill. The first team to the top will receive a bonus that will give them an advantage in part two of today's challenge!"
"Do we have to jump off the cliff again?" Courtney asked in apprehension.
"What do you mean again? You didn't do it the first time!" Eva growled.
"You'll see." Chris said.
"Anyone who doesn't jump this time will get THROWN off, understand?!" Eva snarled at her team, who nodded in unison as they cowered in fear.
"Ready? Set! Go!" Chris said as quickly as he could.
The Bears were the least prepared for a sudden start and took a few seconds to realize that the race had begun.
"That was the most painful thing I have ever done in my life!" Sadie gasped, collapsing at the top of the hill.
"You did good, Butterball." Eva said. She'd spent the entire race running beside Sadie, shouting at her to move faster. Eva hadn't given the girl a choice other than to sprint up the hill.
"Congratulations Bass! You're first!" Chris said, handing them a rolled up tube of plastic and a block of butter. "Here's your bonus in the next challenge!"
"You've got to be kidding me. Butter?" Heather asked in disbelief.
"And a crazy carpet!" Chris said. Then he turned to motion at the three tubes at the edge of the cliff; one green, one orange and one purple – the three teams' colours. "One at a time, you will ride your team's water slide down to the lake. You'll then swim out to retrieve a covered number tile. You'll then race back to the top to tag your next swimmer. Once you've received your six tiles, the remaining teammates will use them to decode the lock on this chest that contains an axe to cut this rope, which will raise your team's flag. Bears, you're up two people so choose two to sit out."
"I'll sit out." Sierra volunteered, glancing over at the Gopher's team as though she was hoping for a chance to mingle with the other team.
"I think Sam should sit out too." Courtney said.
"Sam and Cameron are sitting this one out." Eva snarled. "B is decoding. Sierra, you're swimming."
Confessional
"Ever since B fired me across the sky with that stupid contraption of his – which I am still going to get him back for – Eva has been treating him like he's our team's secret weapon or something." Courtney said angrily. "It's like she likes him or something."
Static.
"Now that I've had the chance to evaluate the players on my team, it's time to start putting my strategy into action." Scott said. "And what's my strategy you ask? Lose. Whittle down the team to something I can manage. Then the other teams will underestimate me and by the time we're ready for the merge, they'll think I'm the weakest player, an easy target. But I'll tear that false sense of security right out from under them – they won't even know what hit them."
Static.
"Eva's been really nice to me since I helped her find her missing mp3 player." Sadie said. "Or at least, she's been less mean to me. Except she yells at me a lot more during challenges."
"Hey string bean, you're decoding." Jo said, nudging Noah roughly with her elbow.
"Oh yay, lucky me." Noah responded sarcastically, before walking to their team's decoding table.
"I'll use my mad skills to get our chest open!" Harold volunteered, rushing to the Bass's table as Leshawna unwrapped the butter and began to grease one side of the crazy carpet with it.
"Are you ready, campers?" Chris asked. Leshawna shoved the stick of butter into Heather's hand and rushed to the water slide, preparing the crazy carpet.
"You gonna chicken out of this one too, Princess?" Duncan asked, smirking at Courtney.
"Get set!" Chris said. Jo was up first for the Gophers.
"Not a chance." Eva answered for the brunette. "In fact, she's up first!"
"Go!" Chris said.
"What?!" Courtney asked in alarm as Eva shoved her towards the purple tube, which the girl tripped and fall face-first into. She screamed the entire way down.
Jo was several minutes ahead of the other two girls and tagged Justin immediately as she made her way to drop off the tile at Noah's table. Leshawna and Courtney both managed to make it back to the top of the hill, where they handed their tiles to their team's decoder before tagging Ezekiel and Scott respectively. Then, both Leshawna and Courtney collapsed.
"SHARK!" Scott's voice screamed up from the lake. Several of the teens rushed to the edge of the cliff where they saw Scott be pulled under the water, then moments later re-surface, swimming as quickly as possible.
"Looks like Scott's found the juvenile Megalodons that we imported just for this occasion!" Chris said with a laugh.
"Megalodons?!" Cameron asked in alarm. "But they're supposed to be extinct!"
Bridgette raised an eyebrow. "What's a Megalodon?"
"A giant prehistoric shark!" Harold answered. "Gosh!"
"Like a Great White?" Bridgette asked. "Once, I saw one of them swallow a surfer whole."
"No, bigger! Megalodons make Great White sharks look like goldfish!" Harold said.
"How big is big?" Mike asked uneasily.
"Try fifty feet long!" Cameron said before passing out from the shock.
"A fifty foot long shark?!" the entire group of remaining contestants repeated in response.
"Aww man am I glad that I went before they arrived!" Leshawna said, wiping a bead of sweat from her brow.
Confessional
"Owww." Scott moaned, rubbing his sore butt. Then, pulling out a massive shark tooth that was wedged in his behind, he studied it. "What the - a shark tooth?"
Static.
"What is everyone's problem?" Courtney growled. "It's like everyone on my team is trying to get me hurt!"
Justin arrived back first, dropped off his tile and tagged Ann Maria. Ezekiel arrived minutes later to tag Heather, and eventually Scott made it back and tagged Sadie.
The gap between the Gophers and the two other teams began to widen as Ann Maria punched the Megalodon when it came after her. Trent managed to avoid the shark when Ann Maria tagged him. He tagged Zoey.
Despite the crazy carpet and the stick of butter, the Bass were still falling way behind the Gophers. Tyler, despite his bragging about how awesome of a swimmer he was, he still fell behind Lightning and Trent, and Gwen wasn't able to do much better when she was up against Zoey and Eva. The Bears were desperately trying to close the massive gap that Scott had created. With Lightning and Eva on their team, they were at least able to gain a few seconds back.
Zoey put her all into it, but on her way back to shore with her tile, was met by the massive sharks. It scooped her up in it's mouth, intent on swallowing her for lunch.
"ZOEY!" called her team from above.
"Let me go!" Zoey said. "Please!"
When the shark went to swallow her, Zoey grew increasingly desperate.
"I SAID 'LET ME GO'!" Zoey said, punching the top of the shark's mouth with all her might. In shock, it opened its mouth and Zoey escaped, jumping from inside the shark's mouth and back into the lake. When the shark went to try and take another bite out of her, Zoey kicked it in the face, and it stopped in its tracks. "Sorry! But I did ask you nicely!"
Gwen dropped into the water and swam for dear life while Zoey unintentionally distracted the sharks for her.
When Eva splashed into the water, she found herself immediately involved in a wrestling match with one of the sharks, the other sharks stopping seeking other prey to watch the intensifying battle. Eva was clinging to the shark's back, punching and kicking it with all her might, punishing it for trying to eat her. Meanwhile, she shark bucked and tossed in the water, trying to get the girl off its' back.
While Eva fought the shark, Zoey was able to extend the Gopher's lead by a few seconds. Managing to make it to the top of the hill, Zoey tagged Cody.
"Zoey, are you okay?!" Trent asked.
"Yeah, fine." The redhead said with a nod.
"Brick, you're up next." Courtney said.
"Why me?!" Brick asked in alarm. When Courtney responded with a glare, Brick raised his hand in a shaky salute and spoke with an even shakier tone. "Yes, ma'am!"
Eva beat Gwen to the top of the hill, starting to close the gap between the teams. Brick took a deep breath as he prepared to walk to the water slide. Cody hit the water and almost immediately began to scream in terror as the sharks surrounded him and prepared to eat him.
"Cody!" Sierra screamed, shoving Brick aside and stealing his tag from Eva, diving into the water slide before anyone could stop her.
"Oh great." Eva snarled, while both the Gophers and the Bears rushed to the edge of the cliff to watch Sierra take on the giant sharks. She was ruthless in punching and kicking the sharks until they spat out Cody. Then, she carried a shocked and shaking Cody to the shore and carried him up the cliff.
"Hurry Sierra!" Eva screamed at the violet-haired girl. "We're falling behind!"
When the duo reached the top of the hill, Cody accidentally tagged Owen, who dove headfirst into the water slide but didn't move. He wiggled around for a few moments.
"What are you waiting on, Owen?!" Jo screamed. "Get a move on!"
"Guys! I'm stuck!" Owen said. "A little help please?"
Jo frowned and shoved her teammate's butt, only to have him fart in her face.
"Gah!" Jo choked, collapsing on the ground, curled up in a fetal position as she hacked up a lung.
As Gwen arrived and tagged Duncan, the Bass took the lead, Eva shoved an apprehensive Brick over to Sierra to get tagged.
"Gwen, are you alright?" Trent asked, looking concerned.
"Yeah. Zoey and Eva distracted all the sharks for me." the goth girl responded.
Alejandro frowned and sauntered over to the Bass's team, stealing the remainder of the butter, which he quickly used to grease Owen's expansive waistline.
Owen still wasn't moving very much, and so Alejandro gave him a hard shove with his foot, but the overweight boy only farted in Alejandro's face as well. Alejandro collapsed on the ground, coughing like Jo. However, the gas was just enough to get Owen moving, and he began to slide down the water slide towards the water, increasing in speed every second.
Confessional
"Have I ever mentioned that when I get nervous, I get really gassy?" Owen asked, laughing nervously before proving his point with a loud fart.
Static.
Heather entered the confessional, and her face turned green. She brought her hand to her face to hold her nose. "Let me guess: Owen was just in here."
Owen's flatulence cleared the sharks from the area the moment he hit the water. Owen did his best to swim out to the last tile, while Eva grabbed Brick's arm, had Sierra tag him and threw him forcefully into the water slide. Duncan was ahead of them both, but Owen had the luck of his flatulence propelling him through the water.
Harold quickly unwrapped the tiles and began trying to figure out the combination for the lock, while Duncan used his pocket knife to start cutting threads to weaken the rope that they needed to cut to raise their team's flag.
"Lindsay, can I talk to you for a moment?" Heather asked, glaring at the blonde girl who had been busy flirting with Tyler.
"Okay!" Lindsay responded obediently.
"What are the rules of the alliance, Lindsay?" Heather asked.
"I can't date Tyler." the busty blonde responded solemnly.
"Good." Heather said. "Care to explain why you're still flirting with him?"
"I-" Lindsay began, looking upset. "I can't date him or like him?"
Heather thought for a moment. "Actually, Lindsay, I think you may be right. You can date Tyler-"
Lindsay gasped. "Really?"
"Really." Heather said. "But there's one teensy little condition."
"Okay, sure, anything!"
"You have to get him to vote with the alliance. He can't be in it, since my plan is only for the final three, not four, but if you want to date him, he has to vote with us."
"Okay, sure!" Lindsay said, nodding enthusiastically.
"Uh. . . thanks for saving me from those sharks, uh – it's Sienna isn't it?" Cody said.
"Sierra." the violet haired girl corrected.
"Oh, well thank you Sierra." Cody said.
"No problem, any time!" Sierra said.
"Well, I don't think I'll be swimming with the sharks again anytime soon, but thanks anyway."
"I think I love you." the girl blurted out.
"Oooooh-kay." Cody said, his eyes wide as he processed what the girl had said. "I think it's time for me to go now. I'm going to go and stand somewhere . . . that isn't near you."
"Okay! I'll see you later, Codykins!" Sierra said, waving to him.
He shuddered and muttered to himself as he walked away. "I hope not."
Confessional
"I think I'd like a restraining order. Preferably now. Sierra was nice and all to rescue me from those sharks, but then she hit a ten on the psycho scale." Cody said, shuddering. "I really hope she doesn't make it to the merge."
"Bass have their flag up!" Chris announced.
"But how? They haven't even opened their chest yet!" Courtney protested. Duncan was looking smug and held his knife up for Courtney to see. The brunette frowned. "That's not fair, they cheated! They didn't even use the axe!"
"I said that the chests held an axe you could use, not you had to use." Chris said.
As Brick returned with the final tile for the Bears' team, B pulled out a knife from his trench coat to cut the rope with, but he was too late.
"Gophers get second!" Chris announced. Noah had cracked the code and used the axe to cut the rope in the time it had taken Courtney to complain about the Bass's methods. "Bears, I will see you tonight at your first campfire ceremony!"
"So. . ." Sadie said to her fellow campers as they sat at the Bears table in the mess hall. "What do we do now?"
"We have to figure out who we're gonna vote off." Courtney said, taking charge of the team.
"Lightning thinks you all should be voted off after your terrible performances in today's game!" the athletic boy stated.
"I think we should vote out B." Courtney said.
"What? Why?!" Eva growled.
"Why do you care so much?" Courtney asked. "Besides, if it he hadn't been so slow in getting that combination figured out-"
"It wasn't B's fault at all!" Eva snarled. "It was Brick's! If he hadn't been so slow in getting that last tile to B, we would have won!"
"You guys seem to be forgetting that everyone left me for shark bait!" Brick said.
"Oh boohoo." Scott said, holding up the Megalodon tooth that he had dislodged from his butt cheek earlier that day. "You're not the only one who almost became a bite-sized snack."
"What about you!" Courtney said, pointing her finger at Scott. "You took your sweet time getting back up the hill!"
"Yeah! You destroyed any chance we had of getting the lead!" Eva growled.
"What about Sam or Cameron. They didn't even help." Scott countered.
"We weren't supposed to! You guys chose us to sit the challenge out!" Cameron argued, before his eyes got wide and he shrank back, almost as though he was afraid of his own outburst.
"Fine, what about Izzy, Mike and Bridgette?" Scott said. "They weren't chosen to sit out, and they didn't help either."
"I was ready to jump in next!" Bridgette said. "I'd have gone in Brick's place if Sierra hadn't jumped ahead!"
"We lost because Sierra had to butt ahead in the line!" Scott said.
"Hey! If I hadn't rescued Cody, he would have been shark bait for sure!"
"So basically, you all suck!" Eva snarled.
"Hey!" Courtney and Lightning protested in unison.
"What about you, temper tantrum?" Scott said, turning to Eva.
"What?!" Eva growled, enraged.
"Well, you can't control your temper." Scott said nonchalantly, while half of his team disappeared under the table to hide in fear.
Their fear was justified when Eva threw a punch at Scott so hard that she knocked him out of his seat and into the wall, four feet behind him.
"OW!" Scott complained, bringing his hand up to his quickly bruising eye. "See? That's exactly what I'm talking about!"
"Guys, this method isn't working!" Mike said, before gasping. "Aww, darnit! Just make a danged decision already!"
"That's what we're trying to do, Mike!" Courtney said, rolling her eyes.
"Mike?!" he said. "The name's Chester, Missy!"
"Excuse me?!" Courtney asked, not impressed. "Are you making fun of me?"
"Back in my day, we didn't need fancy reality t-v shows to get rich, we did just fine getting a regular job!" Mike said.
"This isn't funny!" Courtney said, glaring. "So just knock it off!"
Confessional
"Oh, so now they're making fun of me?!" Courtney said. "I've just about had it with this team! B tried to kill me, Sierra is a nutcase and now Mike's making fun of me. Well, mark my words: they're all going down!"
Static.
"Okay, so either Mike is a really great actor, or there's something up. That old man skit? Yeah, I think Mike could have chosen a more appropriate time for a comedy routine – unless it's not a comedy routine." Bridgette told the camera. "Things have been super awkward between us since the Awake-a-thon. And by awkward, I mean if we even make eye contact, one of us leaves the room. We don't even like each other that way, which is why it's so awkward. But I'm pretty sure that Mike wouldn't do something to offend Courtney on purpose – right? I mean, he saw how angry it was making her, and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't do that on purpose."
"B, I need to talk to you." Eva said, catching the boy as he made his way to the Bears' cabin.
The silent genius looked around and shrugged before following Eva a little ways away from the cabins, where they found Sadie waiting at the edge of the forest.
"I think we should form an alliance." Eva said.
"Oooh, good idea!" Sadie said in agreement.
B didn't look convinced. "We've already seen how divided our team is – that much was clear in the mess hall. I think that we need to decide who to vote out because if we let our team do it, we're going to lose good players because people are only going to vote together by chance."
B shrugged, then nodded his agreement.
"You agree? So you're in?" Eva asked.
B nodded again.
"Alright, I think we should vote out Brick tonight." Eva said.
"Yeah, he totally let the team down today." Sadie said in agreement.
B seemed to consider this for a little while, then held out his hands as if asking 'why?', before beginning to mime.
"I. . . don't understand." Eva said.
"Oooooh, I love charades!" Sadie said. "Katie and I play all the time!"
"What's he trying to say?" Eva asked as B took off his hat and began to touch the top of his head.
"Ok. . . hat? Head? Hair?" B gave Sadie the thumbs up, then made a sweeping motion. "Long hair?" B signed her another thumbs up. "Izzy? No, Bridgette? Sierra?" B stopped and gave her a thumbs up sign.
"Oooh, B is right." Sadie said. "Sierra did mess things up for us today!"
"Mike, we need to talk." Bridgette said.
"About. . . the Awake-a-thon?" Mike guessed.
"No, about dinner today." The blonde said, taking a seat beside him on the steps. "What was up with the whole Chester routine?"
"Chester?" Mike repeated, his face filled with dread.
"Yeah, Chester."
"Well, uh. . . I, uh – I'm an actor!" Mike said. "That was just one of the characters I've been working on."
"Couldn't you have chosen a better time to show everyone?" Bridgette said. "I mean, you're a great actor – you got really into character, it's just I think you could have timed the whole performance better. Courtney was getting really upset over the whole thing."
"Really?" Mike asked.
"Are you sure you're acting, and there's not something else going on?"
"I-" Mike began, then he looked down at his feet. "Promise you won't judge me."
"I promise."
"Okay, so I have this quirk-"
Bridgette raised an eyebrow. "Define 'quirk'."
Mike leaned over and whispered in the girl's ear. "I have multiple personality disorder."
Bridgette's eyes went wide for a moment. "I think you should tell Courtney."
"I would rather not." Mike said. "It's really not something I'm proud of, I don't really want to go around telling people."
"She thought you were making fun of her tonight at dinner. I think she's probably going to try and vote you off."
"I-" Mike began, then he shook his head. "No, I can't do it yet, Bridgette. I'm not ready for everyone to know."
"Not everyone, just Courtney."
"No, I don't think I'm up to that just yet."
"Okay, it's your choice."
"Promise me you won't tell anyone."
"You have my word."
"Welcome, Bears, to your first elimination ceremony!" Chris said. "The two other teams know the procedure already – if you get a marshmallow, you're still in the game. One camper won't get a marshmallow tonight. That camper will be the one that you have voted for, the one you have chosen to go home. Once the marshmallows have been given out, the eliminated camper will walk the dock of shame and take the boat of losers and leave the island. That means you're out of the contest. And you can't come back. Ever."
"Bridgette. Sadie. Izzy. Scott."
The four named campers stood up to receive their marshmallows.
"Lightning, Cameron, Sam, Eva."
The next four campers stood up to claim their marshmallows.
"Courtney, Mike, B."
Courtney glared as B received his marshmallow.
"Sierra, Brick, you are the bottom two tonight. The final marshmallow of the night will be going to. . ."
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"Brick."
"What?!" Sierra asked in shock. "I have to say good-bye to Cody!"
"No you don't." Chris said, but when Sierra tried to bolt towards the Gophers' cabin to say goodbye, she was stopped by Chef, who captured her and dragged her down the dock of shame.
"Bye Sierra!" Cody called, coming out of hiding as the boat began to drive away.
"You came to say goodbye to me?!" Sierra asked in excitement.
"Yeah, something like that." Cody said. "Have a nice trip!"
"Bye Codykins!" Sierra called. "I'll miss you!"
As the boat took Sierra out of sight, Cody turned to Scott. "Thank you so much for voting her out for me."
"Oh, it was no problem, pal." Scott said.
I don't think that this is one of my better chapters, but I'd still like to know what you guys think of it, so please review!
Also, I have several other Total Drama stories that I'm working on that I'd love for you guys to check out. The ones I am working on besides this one are: an AU season 3, a parody-ish season 5, one where Disney characters compete for the million and one crossover with 6teen.
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