Episode 9 - A Beauty In The Trash
Here's the first episode of the merge!
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After Team Loro finished up their elimination, Manny called everyone to the front of Team Tigre's cabin, "Attention! Okay guys, it's time to announce something very important...you've all merged!"
No one cheered, but some of them clapped for the sake of ending the awkward silence.
Manny shrugged, "So, yeah. Team Loro need to move their bags to Team Tigre's cabin because all of our merged contestants have to stay under one roof. Alright, get moving and get to sleep! Tomorrow is our first challenge in merged style!" Manny left while Team Loro started moving their bags to where they had to go.
Fredrick: (CONF.) It looks like I've made the merge. Nice! I plan to go on my own from here on out rather than having an ally...but who knows? Something might happen.
Silver: (CONF.) *on paper* So happy right now, I made the merge! Now, it means business! I've got to work harder than everyone else here combined to make it to the end!
Aurora: (CONF.) I'm pretty happy that I merged, but what's the better is that I did so with Damien! I wonder what we'll do to take out the others?
Sally barged into the girls' side of the cabin, "Hey ladies! I'm ready to bunk with you all!" Silver walked in with her things as well, setting them down at an empty bed.
Alice smiled, "Hi! I hope we get to be friends!"
"Maybe," Sally mutters, but then looks surprised when she seems Damien lying in bed with Aurora, "Excuse me. but why is a guy in the girls' room? I don't feel comfortable over here!"
Silver: (CONF.) *paper* Yet she's comfortable sleeping with the guys on our old team? Does she ever make sense?
Damien looks to Sally and Aurora, "Oh, what's the matter? That I love Aurora and I want to be close to her?"
Sally answered, "You might do something to me while I'm sleeping and I'm not okay with that! Leave!" She points to the door, "There's the door!"
Aurora groaned, "Could you please not kick Damien out? He literally won't bother us! Right, Alice?" Alice nods her head, "See Sally? It is too late for arguments! Find you bed and go to sleep already!"
Silver listened and found a bed to sleep in, but Sally simply did not want to stop arguing, "Hey! You two need to listen! In don't want to sleep in a room with another guy in here!" Sally went up and pushed Damien off the bed, beginning to drag him out, "Out!"
Aurora, becoming even more mad by the minute, pushes Sally to the floor. After Aurora looked away from Sally, who was picking herself up, and went to Damien, who got up as well, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah! Don't worry about me, worry about Sally - she's fucking crazy!" Damien sat on Aurora's bed.
"I am not crazy; I just don't want you here!" Sally yelled, "Is it that hard to understand?" She grabs Aurora's hand, "Don't test what I can do to you."
Aurora slaps Sally in the face, "Don't test what I can do to you!" Aurora then throws Sally to the floor and the two start going at each other. Worried, Silver and Alice stand in the corner. Meanwhile, Damien was laughing through the fight.
"Damien, this isn't funny!" Alice yelled, "You need to stop your girlfriend from hurting Sally!"
"She can handle Sally!" Damien chuckled, "She's a strong girl."
Moments later, Christopher opened the door with Fredrick behind him to the girls' side, "What the hell is going on?" He rips Sally out of Aurora's hands, "Why are you yelling? We're trying to sleep!"
"Aurora is being a bitch about not having Damien sleep with us!" Sally complained.
Silver wrote quickly and showed it to everyone, "Yet Sally is the same person who wants to sleep with thew boys of Team Loro!" Everyone read it, loping at Sally, confused.
"You are all over the damn place," Fredrick moaned, scratching his head, "You can figure that all out." He walks out, with Damien doing the same.
Christopher sighed, "Sally, can I speak to you. Outside?"
Sally shook her head, "No. I'm tired and..."
"Now!" Christopher walked Sally out, shutting the door behind him.
Alice and Silver quickly went up to Aurora, whose face was bleeding.
"Aurora, are you okay...oh gosh, Silver, get an ice pack in the mini-fridge in the bathroom," Alice put Aurora on her bed and analyzed her face, "You'll be okay. Sally is so strong!"
"She is!" Aurora responded, sighing, "I was losing my grip on her!"
Aurora: (CONF.) Sally is a threat. She's very strong and seems like she will do anything to take someone out if they want to compete against her. You know what that means? I'm gonna beat her!
Silver got the icepack and placed it on Aurora's face. Silver also put down a small tub of water with a washcloth inside it to clean Aurora's face.
Aurora sighed in relief, "Thanks guys...it means a lot."
Alice smiled, "Anything to help!"
The cabins were quiet now, even though Christopher and Sally were outside the cabins, talking silently.
"Sally...what is going on with you? Why are you constantly arguing with everybody? Are you trying to prove something? Are you trying to intimidate somebody?"
"I am," She states, "I'm gonna win this show and the way to do it is by making the competitors feel scared of me, therefore I can take them out when they're weak."
"Sounds villainous," Christopher asks, "Do you think that that's a good thing?"
"It's not villainous," Sally says, "It's being someone who wants to win a million dollars! I'm gonna get to the top, and now that we've merged, I'm going to compete for real!"
Christopher sighs, "Please Sally, just don't argue with anyone, okay? If you want to be tough, fine, but don't be awful at it." He walks to the boys' side of the cabin.
Sally: (CONF.) Does Christopher really think that talking to me is gonna work? I'll do me, and he'll do himself. If things stay that way, then we won't have a problem!
Sally enters the cabins again, noticing that the girls were all asleep, "Awesome. He's gone. I wonder how that problem could've been solved?" Sally lies down in her bed, closing her eyes to go to bed.
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The next day arrived, and the contestants were out and about as usual. Aurora and Damien were reading by the beach, Sally was practicing martial arts, Christopher was still doing a clean-up of the beach, Fredrick was reading Shakespeare, and Alice and Silver were sitting together, listening to music.
Damien looked at Aurora's face, a bit upset, "Sally did a number on you, huh?"
Aurora smiled, "I'm good, really. I scratched her face though. I saw her this morning and the mark is still on her cheek, so I didn't fail you master." Damien and Aurora laugh at the joke, going back to reading.
Damien: (CONF.) I love those moments when you know that your girl is strong and won't back down from people who try to hurt them. It's sweet...blech! This sounds so unlike me! *chuckles* But it's worth it.
Alice was playing a song while Silver was writing some things.
"What are you guys doing? Christopher asked, wiping his sweaty face, "Can you guys help me clean up the beach?"
"Christopher!" Alice yelled, "You'e so sweaty! Go take a bath and stop overworking yourself! It's sweet that you care but sometimes you can't put everything into it!" Silver agreed.
Christopher sighed, putting his shovel down and taking a seat next to Silver, "You're right. I should relax."
"You know the best thing about you Christopher?" Alice asked.
"What?"
"You've really come out of your shell while we've been here. You barely spoke to us but now...you're comfortable. I hope I played a part in that!"
Christopher nods, "You sure did." He looks to Sally, "Sally is just..." He groans, "I'm a bit worried. She's a strong competitor and clearly is from that fight last night in the cabin."
Silver wrote some words for the two, "Don't overestimate her. She has just a good chance at winning as the rest of us. Do what you have to do and be strong at it."
Alice and Christopher nodded, turning away to watch the beach.
Manny and Courtney arrived, calling everybody to them, "It's time for the challenge guys, head with me to a section of the beach!" Manny brought everybody to a part of the beach that had a huge pile of junk and garbage in the middle and seven different circle mats on the beach, "Everybody needs to head to a circular mat so that I can tell the instructions. Go now!" The contestants all ran to a mat, all colored red, "So, now that everyone is set, we can talk about the instructions for the challenge."
Courtney begins, "When you see trash, you may dismiss it as just trash, but in reality, you can create beautiful art through it. For the first part of the challenge, everyone must got to the center of the circle mats and grab all of the heap of trash and stuff that you want that we have found in the ocean, the island, and the jungle. Everyone must create a figure or art to present to your hosts in thirty minutes, and we will announce TWO winners at the end of this challenge! Those winners were the ones who we feel like presented their trash as something beautiful. Our two winners will actually have an advantage in the second part of the challenge. Are we ready to fight for the trash?"
"We have to run to the junk pile to get what we want?" Fredrick asked.
"Yep!" Courtney smiles, holding up the horn, "It's first come first serve!" She blows the horn, "You now have thirty minutes! GO!" And everyone went in for the pile.
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Fredrick, Sally, and Damien made it first, grabbing all that they could find. Fredrick grabbed a cardboard box that was still intact as well as some sports balls. He wrestled for some blue paint with Christopher, but Christopher let go and reached for some plastic dinosaur bones and stuffed toys. Sally quickly ran up to the top of junk pile and took some plastic bottles and slid down the pile, hitting Fredrick and Silver along the way.
"Move!" Sally yelled, only to trip on the slippery floor created by Silver accidentally dropping paint on the floor, "Whoa! Ow!"
Silver wanted to apologize, but kept running as she grabbed a mattress, dragging it with all of her might. Sally jumped onto the mattress, smiling as Silver struggled to move it.
"This mattress is hands down the dumbest idea that you could have. It's so inconvenient!" Sally yelled.
Silver, annoyed, threw some of the leftover paint in her can and threw it straight at Sally, who fell off of the mattress.
"AH! What the hell?!" Sally screamed, rubbing the paint off her shirt, "Are you kidding me?"
"Not at all!" Aurora yelled, grabbing a broken TV set to her area. Damien grabbed some Christmas lights that were underneath a tire and brought it to his area. He ran quickly for the tire and brought it back as well. Sally, after getting a tire as well, went back to her area to make what she needed.
Meanwhile, some of the contestants were heading back and forth between their area and the trash piles. Christopher kept searching for the fake dinosaur bones, Silver kept searching for possible pillows or night lights, and Damien kept looking for car parts.
Alice was still searching for musical related things. She had already found a large figure of a treble clef and a radio, but she wanted to look for more. She found some lights, but was immediately confronted by Damien, who started tugging at the lights as well.
"I need these...let go!" Damien yelled.
"Never!" Alice tugged as hard as she could, but was losing her grip.
Aurora soon came up to them, trying to tug the lights along with Damien, "You can't win!"
The tugging continued until the lights snapped, making Alice fall onto paint and Damien and Aurora to fall onto soggy clothes.
"Ew!" Aurora yelled, "This is disgusting!" Damien chuckled, picking up Aurora and heading off to find something else. Alice, upset of having the lights broken, ran off to find something else.
The thirty minutes were soon over, and Courtney blew the horn, "And it's over! Let's see which two of you guys won the first part!" Courtney and Manny stroll around to each contestant, talking about which they liked and didn't.
Sally created a 'Dump' - There were tires, broken bottles, and an overall mess.
"I was inspired by the dump in front of us of where we had to get our things so I recreated it!" Sally smiled, but Courtney and Manny weren't. They walked to the next people.
Silver created a 'Dream' figure. It featured a bed that had two people painted onto it like they wee sleeping and there were night lights that weren't turned on. It was all set up very nicely. The hosts nodded and moved to the next one.
Damien's art was 'Cars.' Various car parts were on the ground, with some elevated by boxes. Some tires were around too, with the overall theme being specific and cute. The hosts moved on.
Courtney and Manny went up to Alice, whose art was entitled 'Music.' It showed musical objects and figures such as a model treble clef, radios, and posters of musical people. An image of The Orland Stepsiblings was on the floor, showing a picture of Alice and her stepbrother Steven when they first started making music.
"Wow, if that crumpled trash of a musical poster of Alice and her brother says anything about Alice..." Damien starts.
"First of all," Alice says, "Steven is my STEPbrother, not actual brother. Get it right." Damien shakes his head, looking away.
Manny and Courtney went to the 'Sports' art made by Fredrick. It was basically an exhibit of sports balls and equipment found in the trash. Overall, it wasn't very interesting.
Christopher's exhibit was 'Dinosaurs.' He found fake fossil bones and put them all together. The finished product was about half of Christopher's height.
"Impressive!" Manny stated, "What do we have for Aurora?"
Aurora's art was called 'Living Room,' with a TV set in place, some pillows to sit and watch, and some boxes for no reason.
Manny and Courtney started contemplating on who won the challenge, "Okay, for the first part of our challenge and the two receiving an advantage in the second part of the challenge is...
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.Christopher and Aurora! Congrats you two...you both will have to carry your art to the finish line rather than having your feet tied down by individual twenty pound weights!"
Christopher and Aurora cheered from winning and not having to get tied down by weights for whatever they were going to do next. Eventually, everyone who didn't win the advantage were tied at the feet by weights that made it harder and slower to move by Courtney.
When that was finished, Manny explained the final part of the challenge, "In order to find out who is actually immune from elimination, you must all either run with either your twenty pound weights OR your pieces of art to the finish line," Manny points in the distance to a flag that had been planted in place before the challenge started.
Christopher and Aurora were surprised.
"Do we have to run with all of the stuff we used to make our things? Is this even an advantage for Christopher and I?" Aurora asks.
Manny nods, "It's better than being dragged down by weights! It's gonna be really interesting! The first person to make it to the flag first and touches it wins immunity while the rest must be up for elimination through voting. Are we ready?" They all nodded and Manny blew the horn, "GO!" And everyone started running, although they were pretty slow at doing it.
Christopher was in the lead, holding up his dinosaur sculpture with ease. But, it was beginning to put some weight on his hands. He started slowing down after running for a while. He turned to see Aurora making her way with Fredrick running in an awkward gait but catching up. He also noticed Silver, running as fast as she could. She was running at an even pace without letting the weights put her down. Sally and Alice were beginning to catch up, getting closer to Silver. Damien was actually behind all of them, falling over quite often.
Christopher: (CONF.) I really want to help Alice but...I don't want to seem like I'm too close to her...
Christopher kept moving slow as Silver, Fredrick, and Aurora moved past him. Alice ran up to Christopher. She was panting, upset and tired.
"Are you tired?" Alice asked, "I want to...just fall down and sleep."
"I'm tired from this thing, but at least we don't get eliminated by the end of the day," Christopher said, with Alice agreeing.
Sally passed by them as well as Damien, "Hey you two!" Sally called out, "You're a bit behind!"
"Does it really matter?" Alice asks, "All that matters is that someone wins!" Sally chuckles and passes by.
Aurora was starting to speed up, happy that she was getting close to the end, "AHHH! I'm gonna make it there!" She turns around and notices Fredrick, who was smiling evilly. Aurora smiled at the competition, and kept going, touching the flag and cheering, "I won. I won!"
Fredrick made it second with Silver coming in third. Sally got there fourth, Damien made it fifth while Alice and Christopher got there last together.
Courtney started clapping, "Congratulations Aurora! You've won immunity for our first merged challenge!"
Aurora gave a huge hug to Damien, who was happy for her.
"Alright guys, tonight is the elimination! Be prepared to vote anybody out except for Aurora!" Courtney cheered.
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(Elimination Ceremony)
Everybody was sitting out by the campfire at nighttime, ready to see who got the most votes to get sent home. Manny and Courtney took their seats by the contestants and held out chicken wings to give out to everybody.
Courtney began talking, "So, it's time for our first post-merge elimination! Besides Aurora, the people safe as of now are...
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.Silver! Sally, you have been eliminated! Have a great boat ride on the Bee Boat Of Shame!"
Sally seemed shocked, but accepted it and stood up, grabbing Silver's notepad that she had out. She quickly wrote a note on Silver's notepad and dropped it on Silver's lap. She mumbled, "You guys are gonna regret this..." She then jumped onto the boat and sailed away.
"What's on it?" Damien asks.
Silver opens up her notepad and shows it to everybody, "If you're not going to eliminate the right person, then I will later. Don't forget about it."
There was some silence, but Silver simply threw Sally's note into the campfire, making it flare up. The contestants then stood up and headed back to the cabin.
Manny turned to the cameras, "And Sally is gone! The first victim of the merged contestants! Who will be next? Find out next time on Total Drama Panganib Island 2!"
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To be honest, this wasn't my best episode. I wasn't really sure what to do with the challenge, but I hope it was satisfactory enough and I'll try my best to adjust to how small the pool of characters that are still on the show.
Thanks to everybody who read and liked it though. There's a poll up, but I will say that you can only vote for ONE person rather than two. This is just to keep things fair with all the contestants since the winner will be because of who earns the most votes.
See ya later!