Chapter 25
The next few days were surprisingly quiet on the Total Drama Jumbo Jet. After the fight with Corin the Masked Jungle Hunter Gwen was enjoying the peace and quiet while getting some well earned rest. So much had happened in the Amazon Rainforest, the fight with Corin, Carlos showing up and revealing that Nebula had a group of rogue spirits with him, and the fact that her team lost, and finally it seemed Courtney and Duncan were over for good. Duncan would ignore Courtney and Courtney didn't even look in his direction making it a somewhat awkward silence in the Economy Class. There was still no way of figuring out who was the Avatar of Nebula and the fact that Nebula didn't reveal himself during the battle with Corin made Gwen consider that no one on the plane was Nebula's Avatar.
Gwen was asleep while sitting up and leaning back against the wall while Dawn slept in a meditative position. Elliot was lying down next to them, lying down on the cold bench but a smile showed it was nothing bothering her and she even had a bit a drool coming out of her mouth. Almost everyone else was asleep except for a few people. Andromeda watched from within the Star Necklace as Courtney tapped Heather on the shoulder and woke her up.
"Wha..." Heather yawned. "What time is it? It's still night out!"
"Shh!" Courtney held a finger in front of her lips. "I need to talk to you."
"And you couldn't wait until morning?!" Heather whispered harshly.
"It's important." Courtney pulled Heather up and dragged her out of the room.
Normally Andromeda wouldn't involve herself but she had remembered Dawn's earlier assessment of Courtney's mental state and the fight she had with Duncan. She also remembered Gwen and Heather were in a shaky alliance since Gwen needed to stay on as long as possible to find Nebula. Quietly and quickly Andromeda manifested the silver smoke that was her specter form and slowly flew towards the door to the cargo room.
"So what the hell is it that you needed to wake me in the middle of the f..." Heather started but Courtney covered her mouth.
"Shh! You want to wake everyone else up?" Courtney took her hand off Heather's mouth. "I want to talk about making an alliance."
"Alliance?" Heather asked tiredly raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah. I don't know if you've noticed but we're both at a disadvantage here."
"Oh really?" Heather folded her arms. "How so?"
"Among everyone on our team who has the most friends?"
"...Gwen." Heather answered slowly. "She's got Cody, Duncan, and those two girls."
"Exactly. If we lose again either one of us can be voted off." Courtney started.
"Don't you mean you or Duncan can be voted off?" Heather smirked. "I'm not in any danger."
"Because of your little alliance with Gwen?" Courtney smirked as Heather narrowed her eyes. "I know and to be honest your deal won't get you far."
"And why's that?"
"Gwen hates you." Courtney shrugged. "There's no way she'll allow you to get past the merge. The first time you screw up she'll ask her two friends to vote for you along with Cody and Duncan who dislike you as much they do and bye bye Heather."
"Oh, and she's so fond of you? The girl who's been after her head since the second season? If not for the tie and the reward challenge than you would have been gone." Heather challenged. "You think teaming up with me is going to get the heat off your back?"
"Come on, you can't believe she's not thinking about getting rid of you. You only asked her for an alliance when Sierra was kicked out leaving only Cody to help you if we lose again." Courtney retorted. "Without Gwen and your friends to back you up and the both of you know."
"So I have you and Cody to help me out? There's still something you're missing."
"I know...Duncan." Courtney growled. "He's been fighting with me ever since we got off the bus back in Egypt and to make it worse he doesn't believe we're back together! To him, our reunion on the bus was some stupid fling!" She took a deep breath and exhaled, trying to stay calm. "But I have a plan."
"I'm listening."
"I know a way to deal with Duncan and get him back on my side; somehow convince Cody to work with us in voting off Gwen and we can take away her advantage." Courtney explained. "If we take out Gwen and her friends you'll have Cody to help you out, especially if he believes you were trying to help Gwen and I'll have Duncan helping me out, we'll be able to take out the other teams easily."
"And how do you know that?" Heather narrowed her eyes.
"I've made a deal with someone else who's agreed to help." Courtney smirked. "Think about it."
Andromeda quickly returned her specter form to the Star Necklace before anyone noticed. Dawn was right; Courtney was aiming for Gwen and her friends now. Heather had been made a useful but an unreliable ally and if she considers Courtney's offer she could become a threat again.
'Kids, they always like to cause trouble.' Andromeda sighed. 'I wonder how you will handle this one, child.'
She'd let Gwen and her fellow Avatars sleep for the night, they'd need all the rest they could get.
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"You have got to kidding me?!"
It was morning now and another Avatar meeting had been called with the Dimension Seal Method freezing everyone but the Avatars.
"I'm afraid so, child. It seems that Courtney has become really determined to get rid of you." Andromeda replied.
"I always knew she was crazy." Elliot muttered.
"It's not that she is crazy, she has become really determined and unfortunately her interactions with Duncan have stressed her out to the point she might become slightly...unbalanced." Dawn explained.
"And I have been hanging out with you guys more than Duncan and yet she blames me for it?" Gwen sighed. "Okay, this is getting way out of hand."
"Especially since we can't seem to locate Nebula's Avatar." Luna pointed out. "You need to stay in this competition long enough to unmask Nebula before he escapes again."
"Which has become harder because Crazy In Training stopped using her medication." Elliot mumbled.
"Elliot, part of the reason she is stressed is because she feels that everyone is against her." Dawn pointed out.
"If she wasn't on my case twenty four seven I wouldn't be fighting with her." Elliot shook her head. "She's way too obsessed with winning!"
"Tell me about it." Gwen sighed and shook her head. "Regardless, Courtney's so called alliance with Heather is just as fragile as the one she made with us. So as long as we don't screw up Heather won't turn against us and she won't believe Courtney's alliance will work unless she sees prove it can work. Heather's many things but she's not stupid and she usually sticks to her end of the deal unless something goes wrong or her supposed allies turn against her. Even though I am not fond of her I am not turning on her yet and she knows that if she tries to boss us around like she did with Beth and Lindsay we'll just drop her and leave her in the dust."
"So that just leaves how Courtney plans to get Duncan and Cody on her side. Cody may be nice but he can't be as close to Heather enough that he'd vote us off." Elliot said.
"Let's keep an eye and see what she does." Dawn replied. "We can understand her intentions better if we act like we don't suspect anything."
The Avatars nodded and cancelled the Dimension Seal Method.
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The trip to the next destination seemed shorter than last time but that did nothing for the awkward feelings down in the Economy Class. One of the causes might be the fact that Duncan was silent through the whole trip, sitting on the bench with his arms crossed and refusing to speak. Another reason might be Heather who copied Duncan's actions, sitting on the far end of the bench Team Amazon sat on. Or perhaps the real reason was that Alejandro and Courtney had walked into the room, laughing and sharing cookies.
"Oh my...these are the best cookies I have had, next to the ones my mother made of course." Alejandro finished one piece. "No offence."
"None taken. My mother actually showed me the recipe for these cookies so of course I would understand perfectly." Courtney replied happily as she finished her piece.
Gwen watched with a raised eyebrow before turning to see Duncan and Heather's reactions. To her surprise Duncan didn't seem to look while Heather simply turned her head and faced the opposite direction.
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Confessional: Gwen
"Why do I have the feeling I'm caught in a whole new drama show that's going to end in a blood bath?"
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Confessional: Heather
"So, Alejandro is in on Courtney's plan! I should have known! Well, if Courtney thought she could get me to join she's dead wrong now! Anyone who teams up with that guy is automatically on my elimination list!"
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Confessional: Alejandro
"Heather might think she's masking her emotions but we all saw that. She is so jealous." Alejandro laughed.
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Confessional: Elliot
"Is this show always this dramatic and crazy?"
"Yep!" The door opened and Jimmy poked his head in. "You should see what's going on in the First Class?"
"What's going on in the First Class?" Elliot asked.
"I don't know but it's better than the drama down here!" Jimmy closed the door and ran off.
"Wise guy." Elli0ot grumbled.
End Confessionals
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"I'm glad Lindsay's team won the last challenge and everything, but her being up in First Class and me back here, it sucks." Tyler sulked.
"Uh, yeah I know exactly what you mean. When I'm...uh, away from Izzy for too long, I get really..." Owen started.
"Happy, because your girlfriend is a complete and total not job?" Noah asked, sitting next to the both of them. "And I'm not talking tiny size, that girl is a Brazil sized nut job."
"Hey where is Izzy anyway?" Owen looked around for any sign of his girlfriend.
"I saw her go up to the cockpit to talk to Chef." Alejandro said, strapping himself in.
Everyone gasped when they heard that, realizing what could happen if Izzy was in the...
Too late!
The plane started shaking and tossing everyone around.
"We're going down!" Tyler cried.
The plane shook, spun, and flew up and down before it stopped and hopefully for good. Gwen groaned as she sat back up. 'If Izzy ever gets into the cockpit again I might just take a free fall out of here.'
"Having some trouble controlling your team, Alejandro?" Heather asked with a smirk.
Alejandro looked up, seeing Owen crammed into an overhead compartment while sucking his thumb. He looked to the right and saw Tyler vomiting in another compartment and Noah hanging from a bird cage with his head stuck inside.
"Your attempts to insult my team are...cute." Alejandro smirked.
"Whatever, my girl power team is going to win. We don't get distracted by anything, especially boys." Heather glared.
Alejandro smirked and pointed at Courtney who was caring images of Gwen, Duncan, Elliot, and Dawn being stabbed, choked, or burned into the wall. Elliot turned to the rest of the team and started making 'coo-coo' sounds.
"That is not nice." Dawn softly reprimanded.
"But true." Elliot smirked.
"And we know whose fault it is for that." Gwen looked at Duncan.
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Confessional: Duncan
"I don't see what the big deal is. Chris is the one who played the video of me trying to vote Courtney off so why am I getting heat for this? It's not like anyone on this team likes her. All I did was vote, she probably would have the same thing to me eventually."
End Confessional
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"Ahem! This is your captain speaking," Izzy said through the speakers, deepening her voice to sound like a captain. "If you'll look outside the window you'll see what happens when a plane does a summersault!"
"Give me that!" Chef grabbed the mike. "Uh...you all might want to hang on to something heavy!"
Everybody screamed as the plane shook again and spun more than once as it skidded across a river and crashed with a big splash, sending everyone flying all over the place. Elliot groaned as she lifted herself up.
"What did I land on?" Elliot looked down and saw she had landed right on Ezekiel. "Oh hi Zeke! Thanks for cushioning my fall!"
"No...problem..." Ezekiel groaned.
"Forget Brazil Nut, she's planet sized nut bar!" Noah groaned as he got out of a large pile consisting of Duncan, Tyler, Cody, Alejandro, and Owen.
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Luckily Chris used a boat to transport everyone out of the half sunken plane and onto dry land where they now stood outside of Louvre Museum in Paris.
'Well this is interesting.' Gwen smirked. 'Of all the places I thought we'd land at this was an unexpected one.'
"I didn't exactly get the chance to prep my introduction, what with the unexpected water landing and all. Just going to give the highlights." Chris shuffled through a deck of cards. "France, city of love, art gallery, filler, lots of artwork, priceless artwork..."
"Eeeeeee!" Lindsay squealed. "Paris! There's only one guy I want to share this with! The guy I've been dreaming about since we've been apart. Where's my Tyler?"
Tyler, who was standing next to Lindsay the whole time cleared his throat. "Hey Linds."
"Tyler!" Lindsay pulled him into a hug. "You know, every time I see you I picture you looking different in my head!"
"Everything looks slightly different in her head." Alejandro whispered to Noah who nodded.
'I guess that wish really worked, even if it nearly killed us.' Gwen thought.
'A wish is a wish, child.' Gwen was sure Andromeda was shrugging.
"You know, I just realized that you always wear that track suit. It's a good thing we're in Paris means only one thing!" Lindsay said eagerly.
"I know, l lov..." Tyler said happily but Lindsay had something else in mind.
"Shopping!" Lindsay cried happily.
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Confessional: Elliot
"I think I literally felt my IQ dropping so fast I forgot how stand just by standing near Lindsay."
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"I can pick out new clothes for you! EEEEE..." Chris finally grabbed Lindsay's mouth, effectively silencing her.
"There's no time for shopping, the first challenge is about to start." Chris gestured to the entrance. "Everyone inside the Louve."
"Uh, I think you mean Louvre." Courtney corrected.
"Whatever, go already!"
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They were now in the museum watching Chef wheel in a large wooden crate.
"Challenge time, kids!" Chris announced. "Each team gets their very own famous sculpture. Team Victory yours is Rodin's the Thinker. Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot, you guys get the Venus de Milo."
"Ah Venus, such beauty." Alejandro looked at the picture.
"Calm down, Lover Boy." Chris handed the last picture to Team Amazon. "Team Amazons, you ladies get the Statue of David. Here's out it works, it's up to you guys to find your statue that's hidden somewhere in the Louvre." He finished badly pronouncing the Louvre.
"That shouldn't be too hard. The statues are big." Elliot smiled.
"About that, Chef has broken the statues into pieces and hidden them. First team to find their pieces, race to the Pyramid Court and reassembles them wins." Chris explained.
"But the Thinker isn't in the Louvre and the Statue of David isn't even in France." Alejandro pointed out.
"Plus wouldn't breaking them earn you a one way trip to Federal Prison?" Gwen asked.
"Well, your right about that, Gwen, we're not using the actual statues. Those are priceless so Chef made some fake ones. Right?"
Chef didn't answer; instead he looked very nervous for some reason. Everyone just stared at him for a second before he took off like a rocket.
'Did he really made fake ones or did he just destroy valuable and priceless art?' Gwen thought.
"I almost forgot the twist-twist, here's your motivation." Chris held out a remote and pressed the red button.
The crate split open to the Sasquatch from Total Drama Island, a bear with a chainsaw and...
"Aw, DJ look it's that baby seal you accidently ran over in the Yukon!" Lindsay cooed.
DJ in the meantime gulped as the seal growled at him. He yelped in fright and jumped into Lindsay's arms, the girl was barely able to keep herself from falling.
"I'd start running if I were you." Chris laughed.
The three times took off running with the three animals chasing after them. They split up and started looking for the pieces to the statues they had been assigned to find.
"Come on guys, there's no way I am going to let the boys beat us to the Pyramid Court." Heather had already found the chest while the rest of the team were still searching.
Duncan and Courtney glared and turned away from each other, crossing their arms as they looked around. Cody turned around and saw...the bear with the chainsaw.
"AH!" Cody jumped into Dawn's arms, while Elliot and Heather hugged Gwen out of sheer fright.
Duncan ran behind them while Courtney simply stood still, screaming in fright. Fortunately the bear's chainsaw stopped working. Duncan took the chance and punched the bear in the gut, knocking it over.
"Ha! Take that!" Duncan laughed as he turned around. "Nothing to worry about."
"Oh yeah, that's what everyone was thinking when you hid behind everyone else like your meat shields!" Courtney spat.
"I didn't see you doing anything about it!" Duncan retorted.
"Okay, that's it!" Heather walked up to the quarreling couple. "Duncan, you got her into this so you fix it!"
"Why me?" Duncan glared at Heather. "She's the one who's crazy!"
"And I can't stand anymore of the shouting! We can do this challenge without you!" Gwen finally had enough. "You can just deal with whatever issues you got!"
"Easy for you to say!" The both of them shouted.
The rest of the team agreed with Gwen and walked off, leaving Duncan and Courtney to deal with the giant bear. However the two of them were too busy fighting and arguing to notice the bear who just stood there, watching them fight.
"Hi guys, my name is Chris." Chris walked into the middle of them, cutting off their argument. "And I'm the host of the show; hey did you know you're on it right now?" He asked, also getting annoyed with their fighting. "And supposed to be doing a challenge?"
"I refuse to work this insensitive jerk who needs a serious lesson in commitment!" Courtney pointed at Duncan.
"And I refuse to work with this annoying windbag who could use a little mouthwash!" Duncan pointed back at Courtney.
"Awww, don't really care." Chris said without any sympathy.
"Well, I refuse to be on the same team as him." Courtney retored.
"Still not caring." Chris said as a bell rung. "You know what that means, time to sing before your off my show!"
"Forget about it!" Duncan growled.
"Then allow me to start, I've got it all planned out!" Courtney cleared her throat as music started playing.
Everyone stopped and looked as Courtney started singing.
Courtney: I love Paris in the Springtime!
Je t'aime Paris in the Fall!
It's the city of Love in the summer!
But now it's just a bummer!
Duncan: Don't look at me!
I'm not the one with the Howler Monkey call!
So don't expect me to take the fall!
Courtney: A chance of a lifetime in the city of pure delight!
It would have been a dream to take in all the sights!
Though now the dream will never be true
all because of you!
She pointed straight at Gwen who raised both eyebrows. "Me?"
"Her?" Cody and Duncan asked at the same time.
Courtney: And you, and you, and you!
She pointed at Duncan, Elliot, and Dawn.
Elliot: Okay, that's it!
All the grief we get from you,
I am through!
Everyone, run and hide before she loses her last screw!
Oui, my friends she truly is a shrew!
Duncan: Oui, my friends her mind has officially gone coo-coo!
Heather: Oui my friends, we all agree that it's true!
So now can we hurry and find that statue!
The camera switched to Team C with Noah stuck in a lazy grid.
Owen: Oui, my friend, you are going to make it through!
Noah: Uh, non my friend that thing just burned off my shoe.
The camera then switched to Team Victory.
Lindsay: Paris, the city of love, the city of delight!
Look, we can see all the shopping malls in the light!
All the shops, all the clothes, all the shoes, they are calling to me!
And I can't even go and see!
Oui, my friends what a truly cruel fate!
Bridgette: Oui my friends, we must go before it's too late!
Ezekiel: Oui my friends, that seal has a truly bloody taste!"
He pointed at the baby seal that was attacking DJ, who had time to shout as he tried to kick it off of his leg. "Zeke that last one didn't really rhyme!"
Gwen, Dawn, Elliot, and Lindsay: Here we are in Paris, the city of love and delight!
Duncan, Cody, Noah, and DJ: And all we want is to leave tonight!
The music ended, signalling the end of the music challenge for today's episode.
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"All right, we got all the pieces except one, so hurry up before the others beat us!" Heather said, getting back to the challenge.
"Hey guys! I think I know where the last piece is." Cody spoke up, holding a map in his hands.
"Where?" Heather asked eagerly.
"Well, judging from the Amazon symbol on this map the last piece should be in the Amazon exhibit." Cody held up the map.
"Oh great!" Heather took the map. "That's on the other side of the museum!"
"All right, so have a couple of us head to the Pyramid Court and start putting the statue together. Dawn, Elliot!" Gwen turned to them. "You two can do that."
"Why us?" Elliot asked.
"Because you two can work together without any distractions while the rest of us can find the piece." Gwen explained.
"And when do you deci..." Courtney started but Elliot grabbed the pieces in Gwen's hands.
"On it!" Elliot said quickly to shut Courtney up.
"We'll move as fast as we can." Dawn took the pieces that Heather had.
The two of them took running towards the Pyramid Court leaving the rest of Team Amazon to find the pieces. It took about five minutes to reach the Amazon exhibit that was full of fake trees, fake plants, and wax dummies of Amazon warriors holding spears. Gwen had to suppress a shudder because more than one of the dummies reminded her not in a small way of Corin, the Masked Jungle Hunter.
"Split up and start looking!" Heather commanded.
Duncan and Courtney went off in opposite directions to cover the parts of the opposite furthest from each other leaving Gwen, Cody, and Heather to search the room they were in.
"You ever get the feeling that if they stay on any longer we're all going to be in the center of the World War Three?" Cody asked.
"Knock it off and start looking." Heather said, walking through the exhibit.
"Guess it's just you and..." Cody turned around but the only other person with him was already gone. "Gwen?"
Heather was looking through some of exhibits, careful not to touch them just in case Chris had left some kind of trap. She heard footsteps behind her and spun around to see...
"ZING ZING!" Heather jumped back in fright.
The so called Zing-Zing however simply laughed and took its mask off revealing a smirking Gwen. "You scare lot easier than I thought.
"You! What are you doing?! Trying to give me a heart attack!" Heather scowled. "You realize how much trouble you could get in for stealing."
"This was at a gift shop, not part of the exhibit." Gwen tossed the mask away. "You got to see the dummies here; they'll make you want to fall down laughing."
"Since when do I feel like doing something fun with you?" Heather crossed her arms.
"Fine, just trying to lighten things up but if you if should come across a piece while looking at the exhibits you can't say we were wasting time." Gwen shrugged. "Come on, just take a look."
"...Fine." Heather pointed at Gwen. "But if we lose because you made us stop and look at some stupid exhibits our alliance is off."
"Deal." Gwen shrugged knowing Heather was just trying to make it look like she didn't her or friend's help.
Gwen led her to an exhibit showing a perfect replica of the Zings-Zings with one even resembling Corin. However the one that caught their attention was the one who seemed to look like Owen with dark skin and a mask barely covering his face.
"You can't tell me that makes you want to laugh." Gwen chuckled.
"You got a point; it's like Owen's jungle cousin." Heather snickered. "He probably smells just as bad. Okay, you showed me now can we get back to finding the piece?"
"Fine." Gwen sighed as they turned around and started looking around.
None of them heard the Zing-Zing resembling Owen slowly start walking towards the girls with their backs turned, ready to grab them.
"Heather, did you get the feeling your being watched?" Gwen pushed away some bushes.
"We're on live TV, of course we're being watched." Heather replied.
"Actually I was thinking along the lines of someone here in the room behind us." Gwen stood up.
Heather turned around to scold Gwen for letting herself get distracted again when she saw the giant Zing-Zing standing behind Gwen, ready to attack her. Heather's eyes went wide as she stepped back and screamed. Gwen's reflexes thanks to years of training under Kurt and Andromeda allowed her to duck as the masked man tried to grab her. She turned around and saw the man lunge at her but Heather picked up a spear from the exhibit and swung it, slamming it into the man's head and knocking him down.
Both girls stood over the knocked out man realizing that he was probably another one of Chris's intern.
"Nice move with the spear." Gwen commented.
"Thanks." Heather dropped the spear.
"Hey guys! I found it!" Cody ran up to the two girls holding the head of the statue. "I found it!"
"Well then let's go!" Heather took the head and started running with Gwen and Cody behind her.
"What about Courtney and Duncan?" Gwen asked.
"They'll catch up." Heather replied nonchalantly.
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When Gwen, Cody, and Heather reached the courtyard they saw the statue was already finished with just the head missing. Heather ran up and placed the head on the statue completing the first half of the challenge. "Finished!"
"Got it!" Just as Heather put the head on her statue Team C finished their statue.
"Us too!" Lindsay put the finishing piece on Team Victory's statue.
"Congratulations, Team Amazon, you made it just in time to finish at the same time the two other teams." Chris walked up. "Don't you just hate ties? So now we have to have a whole new challenge!"
The teams groaned and protested just as Courtney and Duncan ran into the courtyard.
"Thanks for waiting for us!" Courtney growled at her team while Duncan remained silent.
"Sorry, Courtney but you're going to have to wait to yell at your team seeing as how we now have a tie breaker challenge to commence!" Chris announced. "Since we are in the fashion capital of the world we're going to have a walk off, people! It's a walk off!"
"Aw man, I hate walking!" Owen groaned.
"Each team will pick a designer and a model..." Chris began but was interrupted by a fan girl scream from Lindsay.
"I am so the designer on this team! Can I pick Tyler?" Lindsay asked.
"Tyler's not on our team!" Bridgette pointed out.
"As I was saying," Chris said, annoyed that he was interrupted again. "Each team will choose a designed to design an outfit for their team's model which will be judged by three handpicked judges. The one who impresses the judges the most wins."
"Oh! Oh! Oh! Let me be the designer! I have so many outfits that I just have to see Big O try on!" Izzy jumped and landed in Owen's arms. "You'll try them for me, right Big O?"
"Okay..." Owen said what little resistance he had crumbling from looking into Izzy's puppy eyes.
"Well I'll be the..." Courtney started but Elliot pushed her aside and waved her hands.
"Me! Me! Let me be the designer for Team Amazon!" Elliot called out.
"Okay, Elliot's the designer for Team Amazon." Chris announced.
"Now wait a second..." Courtney protested.
"Moving on to Team Victory." Chris looked at the last team.
"I volunteer to be the designer and I know who the model is!" Lindsay raised Bridgette's hand.
"Wait a second." Bridgette gulped.
"All right, let's get on with the show!"
Elliot turned around and grabbed Dawn. "Come on, we got work to do!"
"Why me?!" Dawn squeaked in protest as Elliot dragged her off.
"Because Gwen hates models and you're only other person on the team whose got a good sense fashion!" Elliot replied.
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Confessional: Heather
"Dawn and Gwen with the only good sense of fashion on this team?! Sometimes I think that Elliot is just trying annoy me!"
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The teams were gathered around a stage with a pink curtain and a catwalk in front of a table for the judges to sit and see everything.
"And the judges we have...some guy named...Kurt!"
Gwen's spun towards the judge table to see a familiar set of shades staring at her and a black baseball cap covering his red hair. 'No way.'
Kurt smiled deviously and waved at her and Gwen had to turn around. 'He's out to drive me insane, I know it!'
"Chef..."
Chef sat next to Kurt with his arms crossed.
"And finally...me!" Chris sat next to Chef. "We will be judging the models of each team for this challenge. "The first team up will be Team Chris is Really Really Really-"
"Team C," Kurt interrupted and looked to the cameras. "For anybody just tuning in, the designer for Team C is Izzy, and stepping up to the pedestal as the model is the winner of season one: Owen."
Owen stepped out onto the stage...every move causing him to let out a series of squeaking noises. He was clad in tight leathery clothing, including what looked like an XXX large motorcycle jacket...and for some reason a batman mask and a red batman symbol drawn on his chest.
"...Poor Owen," Gwen said.
"I can't see out of this mask, how do I look?" Owen asked, looking around.
"Oh dear god, big guys + tight clothing = sick me." Chris groaned.
Kurt and Chef looked uncertain at first until...
"Ooh, I think I know a way to decide my score. Owen, ever see the Nolan Batman films?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Do your best Batman impression."
"...I'm Batman." Owen said in a deadly serious voice.
Kurt burst out laughing. "I just had to get him to say it! Oh but man I gotta admit you do rock the Batman voice without sounding like you have throat cancer so I'll give you a positive mark for it."
"But big guys in leather costumes don't go well...in fact he went and blinded half the cast here!" Chef jerked his thumb towards the cast members.
"Actually I think the batman voice made up for it." Cody said, with anybody else who actually read comics nodding their heads and murmuring affirmatively. Upon seeing that at least half of the cast members had a somewhat positive opinion of the fat Batman, Chef sighed.
"...fine, I'll go easy on you this time, tubby." Chef grumbled as he, Chris and Kurt held up cards.
Kurt held up an 8, Chris held up a 2, and Chef held up at 6.5.
"Well, did better than I thought he would," Gwen nodded as Owen walked off stage.
"Team Victory, you're up! Designer Lindsay and victim-I mean model: Bridgette."
First Lindsay stepped out, and was guiding a nervous Bridgette into the limelight...
"Humminahumminahumminah." Chris and Chef mumbled at once, staring at the blonde along with most of the cast-and even quite a few viewers.
Bridgette was dressed in a perfectly tight light blue dress that reached her knees with matching high heels that were the same color as her dress. Her hair was no longer in its pony tail looking neatly combed as it hung down past her shoulders, and she wore long light blue gloves. Around her neck was a silver chain necklace with a dolphin. Bridgette was looking down at first until Lindsay tilted her head up and nodded encouragingly.
Kurt nodded approvingly. "Now we're getting somewhere!"
The judges all held up their cards.
"Nice form, not much confidence, but you still scored mighty high." Kurt said, holding up a 9.5. "At least there's no mask or cape."
Lindsay face palmed. "Oh man, I forgot the masquerade mask!" She hugged Bridgette. "I'm sorry Bridge, I cost you points!" Bridgette nervously pat her back.
"Uh...it's...okay?" Bridgette muttered as they left the spotlight.
As she walked back she accidently tripped and fell. "Ow! This is why I don't like wearing high heels."
She managed to pick herself back up and walked to the back of the stage.
"Alright, now it comes down to Team Amazon. Designer: Elliot and Model: Dawn." Kurt narrated. "Bring 'em on out!"
Dawn nervously stepped out into the open with Elliot watching from off to the side. The reaction was almost entirely the same as Bridgette's when the audience saw her. She was wearing a set of heels-at least not agonizingly high ones, and black leggings like her usual set, but she was wearing a tunic which was a very pale shade of periwinkle with black lining and a red sash to keep the top part of it secure. The dress reached down to her mid thighs and the sleeves reached her forearms and she wore a white pearl necklace around her neck.
Her pale blond hair was done up in a bun at the back, but her usual fringes were left hanging at the front of her head. More than a few cast members wolf whistled, and Chris and Chef had their jaws dropped. Dawn looked elegant and graceful while at the same fragile and shy because of all the looks she was getting. The dress worked perfectly with her natural pale skin and she looked almost ethereal, yet no one denied how beautiful it made her look.
"Wow..." Chris whistled.
"I know." Kurt nodded.
'She looks almost like...an actual spirit of the moon.' Gwen thought. 'Did Luna do anything?'
'No child, Dawn is using nothing but her natural looks.' Andromeda smugly replied.
"Okay, the new girl definitely ranks just a little higher than Bridgette." Chris smiled and stood up. "Team Amazon is the winner!"
"Yes!" Heather pumped a fist into the air.
"I know we'd win!" Elliot cried happily.
Gwen simply smiled and nodded at Dawn who shyly smiled back.
"Team Victory comes in second with the Bridgette's lovely entrance while Team C...sorry Bat Owen, you lose this round." Chris sadly announced.
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Gwen stood at the entrance of the Louvre just as a Dimension Seal Method was cast, freezing time for her and the other Avatars.
"I was wondering when you'd show up..." Gwen didn't bother to face the person who cast the Method. "Kurt."
"How nice to see you again too, Gwen." Kurt walked up and stood next to Gwen. "I heard you've had a lot of fun in the last few weeks."
"You can call it that." Gwen glanced at him. "Did you know anything about this Black Star group that Carlos mentioned?"
"Only in rumours but I knew Carlos and any one of our fellow Avatars would drop in and check on you." Kurt smirked. "I got called out here because people are getting anxious with Nebula and the Marauder. Having an Avatar with a rogue spirit that has a group to call on for back up on an international live television show is a call for concern."
"We're not exactly sitting on our butts here, Kurt. We're doing what we can even against rogue ice spirits and masked jungle warriors." Gwen sighed.
"That's good. I'd thought I'd be a lousy trainer if you at least didn't give Corin a scratch." Kurt chuckled. "I was surprised when I heard the Masked Jungle Hunter showed up on your last episode. I knew that there'd be trouble which is why Dawn and Elliot were asked to join you but a rogue spirit like Corin showing and possibly the Black Star...now there might be some cause for concern."
"Some?" Gwen raised an eyebrow.
"On the bright side I heard you gathered the Messenger of Winter Jack Frost as an ally." Kurt smiled. "A truly formidable ally to have at your side. And lucky for you there's no sign of spiritual activity around here, we got friends here watching the museum and the city until you leave."
"That's a relief." Gwen sighed. "But we still have no luck in locating Nebula. Dawn theorized that Nebula has mastered a form of Negative Spiritual Energy meaning the regular spirit trackers are useless plus we don't even know if his Avatar is aware that they even are an Avatar. All the leads we got was when Carlos identified Nebula's aura color."
"I know, he told me. We'll be watching and seeing if the person who leaves tonight is the Avatar." Kurt nodded and started walking down the steps. "Once in a lifetime, an Avatar becomes part of something that can be called a miracle that changes everything for both worlds. Just remember that not every change is a good one and try to learn something important from it that'll stay with you for the rest of your life."
Gwen watched as Kurt vanished like a ghost without a single sound and the Dimension Seal Method was dispelled.
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The cast was now back on the plane and it took off into the air with Team C sitting in the elimination room.
"Team Chris, you guys have done a good job in avoiding losing which was what I expect from a team that's named after me but now...One of you will be taking the drop of shame tonight and you can never come back." Chris held up a tray of peanut bags. "And the first one goes to...Alejandro!" He tossed a bag at a smirking Alejandro.
"Noah."
Noah caught the next bag.
"Tyler."
"All right!" Tyler stood up just as the bag hit him in the face and knocked him over. "Ooof!"
Chris held up the tray as he stared at the last two members of Team C. "Owen and Izzy, you both are the last ones. One of you will be going home tonight. Do you have any last words?"
"I had a really great time here guys and if it's time for me to go than I'd just like to say that it's been really fun." Owen answered, actually sounding mature.
"I had lots of fun too! With the curses, the mummies, the falling, the crocodiles, the rabid goats, and the zombies mice in the air vents and..."
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"The final bag goes to...Owen!"
He tossed the bag at Owen who sadly caught it and stared mournfully at Izzy.
"Aw, don't worry Big O, it's been a real blast!" Izzy kissed Owen on the lips and ran for the door. "See ya later everyone!"
To the shock of everyone she actually jumped out of the plane without a parachute!
"You might need this!" Chris tossed the parachute out the door. "Well, folks that's another episode done. What challenge will our cast face next? Will Izzy catch the parachute and survive or will I be getting a lawsuit in the near future? Find out next time on Total...Drama...World Tour!"