The camera shows a peaceful morning, the sun rising in the distance, it shifts to the different quarters, showing the contestants sleeping restfully. Suddenly, a loud, blaring horn sounds up, which wakes everyone on the ship up.
"So much for a good night's rest…" Sammy complains, wobbling her way up, she jerks back onto the ground, the other cast members on the Scallywags fall out of their hammocks.
"What's going on?" Topher panics, quickly rushing to whatever window he could get to. He looks outside to see the bright, blue ocean, except, there wasn't a beach to go along with it anymore, "I think we're sailing the seven seas!" he adds, which causes the rest of his team to join him at the windowsill.
"Do any of you get seasick?" Noah is sure to ask his team, to which they all shake their heads. The group goes back to their hammocks and lies down, Eva, on the other hand, decides to explore the crates on the ship.
She rips open one of the wooden boxes to see a bag of dice, "Check this out." Eva calls them over, she opens the bag to reveal black and gold dice, twenty sided, six sided, all different types of dice. The group awed in their discovery.
"Sweet!" Justin exclaims, "How about we play some games to pass the time?" Eva nods and divides up the dice to each person, Eva and Noah branch off from the group, as do Katie and Justin. Sammy looks around the quarters for someone she could play with, she sighs and sits down, she starts aimlessly rolling her dice.
"Are you alright?" Topher sits down with the twin, she looks up from her spree of dice rolling to see him and smiles.
"Yeah," she reassures, fidgeting with the die in her hand, the ship gives a hard swing, causing the two of them to stumble. They both gave a small, high pitched screech before picking themselves up, laughing.
"Whoever rolls higher wins!" Topher unexpectedly calls out, rolling his die to a five, she giggles and rolls hers, which lands on two. They continue this sequence for a while, each winning some and losing some.
Sammy groans at another loss, she glances at Topher and asks him, "So why did you decide to come back, with everything that happened on our season?" Topher pauses from rolling his die and stares at the ceiling, deep in thought.
"Well, when I win, I'm gonna create my own reality show!" Topher explains, Sammy finds herself leaning towards Topher, nodding at each phrase, "I'm not sure what it'll be about, but I wanna bring some of the friends I make on this season onto the show, that's about all I know." Topher continues, snorting at his own unassurance.
"So, can I come on your show?" Sammy inquires, smiling mid-way through at the absurdity of her statement. Topher's eyebrows raise at an instant, his eyes widen.
"I mean, are we friends?" Topher replies back with a question, Sammy still rolls her die as she formulates a response.
Sammy squints her eyes, "You know what?" she starts, she smiles, "Yeah." This causes Topher to match her smile, they begin to roll their dice again, the camera switches its focus to Katie and Justin.
"So what are your thoughts on my friend Sadie?" Katie giggles, twirling her hair.
"Sammy? Like, on our team?" Justin repeats, Sammy turns around from her game, Justin shakes his head at her, she turns back around.
"No, Sadie." Katie reiterates, Justin leans his head back and looks up at the ceiling.
"Oh!" he remembers, quickly redirecting his attention to the girl, "Sadie McLouis?" he clarifies, but Katie just lowers her eyebrows at him.
"Sadie Claward?"
"No."
"Sadie Michaels?"
"Nope!"
"Sadie… Gilligan?"
"No!"
"Sadie Allen?"
"Maybe… oh wait, no!"
"Which Sadie is it!" Justin slams his hands on his kneecaps, desperately trying to remember another Sadie.
"I think her last name is Jefferson… I'm not 100% on that." Katie answers, oblivious to Justin's suffering.
"Oh…" Justin realizes, "Which one?" he asks, still unsure of the sweet girl's best friend. Katie slaps her hand on her forehead.
"The one that was on Total Drama! The peanut gallery? Total Drama Island?" Katie explains, trying to help Justin recall his memory of her BFFFL.
"Ah, I see, I could've sworn her name was Sally…" he confesses.
CONFESSIONAL:
Katie sits down in the confessional and begins to pout, "Sadie told me once in the seventh grade that she had the most unique name in the entire school!" she exaggerates, putting her hands up, "I feel a bit lied to." she claims, awkwardly looking around the confessional.
END OF CONFESSIONAL
The camera shifts to the girl's quarters of the Rapscallions, where Anne Maria and Dakota are doing their makeup together.
"I'm still so tired from yesterday." Dakota complains as she applies her eyeshadow. Both girls appear to have dark circles under their eyes from their eventful day.
"I feel you, I hope we don't have to do an immunity challenge tonight." Anne Maria adds to her statement, applying her perfume.
"Where did you get your perfume from? It smells really nice." Dakota asks, taking in the apple vanilla mist.
"I'm not sure, but you're free to borrow it whenever." Anne Maria replies, setting her spray on the vanity.
"You're the best." Dakota thanks Anne Maria before applying a bit of perfume herself, both girls go back to sit on their beds.
"Have you seen any cute guys around here?" Anne Maria questions as she files her nails.
"No, Sam's the only guy I'm looking at, I miss him already…" Dakota mopes as she flops further onto her bed.
"Girl, you cannot let him get in the way of a million dollars." Anne Maria disapproves, Dakota sits herself back up.
"You're the one who's probably swooning over a guy as we speak." Dakota rolls her eyes and shoots back, making Anne Maria giggle.
"Why did I have to end up on a team full of lame guys?" Anne Maria complained as the camera quickly shifted to the boy's side of the quarters, hollering over a match of rock-paper-scissors, "Like come on Chris, Justin was right there." she adds, making Dakota's mouth drop open.
"You like Justin?" Dakota inquires with wide eyes. Anne Maria whistles and scatters her eyes around the room. Dakota leans in on Anne Maria to the point where she almost fell off the bed.
"He's hot, what can I say? That tall white boy ain't bad either." Anne Maria confesses, Which sets Dakota off, she tries to contain her laughter but can't, Anne Maria follows quickly after.
The camera shifts over to the almost identical boy's quarters, same light brown wallpaper, same wooden flooring, same lighting fixtures that hang a little too close to the ground, the boys hear the girl's contagious laughter from the other side of the thin wall
"I wonder what's up with them." Dave asks, not pleased by the influx of sound ruining the conversation he was having with the other boys. Dave walks out of the room and goes over to the girl's room and gives a quick knock, the girls quickly shut themselves up and he is met by a guilty Dakota at the door.
"You need something?" She asks, pretending nothing happened.
"Can you guys quiet down? I didn't realize two people could create an entire sitcom laugh track." Dave deadpans, Anne Maria chuckles a bit at his statement.
"We were just having a little fun, that's all." Dakota defends, which causes Dave to roll his eyes at her.
"Well, can you have fun a little less… annoyingly? You guys are killing my eardrums." Dave snaps back, the girls frowned before Dakota nodded and shut the door. Dave quickly steps away from their room.
CONFESSIONAL:
"Dakota and Anne Maria, they're getting on my nerves," Dave reveals, he yawns, "First, they spent most of the night talking about god knows what at a regular volume when I was trying to sleep, now they're laughing like they've just seen a kangaroo ride a unicorn onto Venus." Dave complains, soon, there's a knock on the confessional door.
"Hey scrawny boy! How long does it take to make a confessional?" Anne Maria yells at the germaphobe from outside the confessional, he sighs and stares directly into the camera without saying a word, it cuts out briefly after.
END OF CONFESSIONAL
"What's the deal with Dave?" Tyler asks the others, aware of Dave's sudden change in mood.
"He's a whiner, don't worry about him." Max reassures him. Tyler looks to the door, waiting for Dave to come back.
Dave surprisingly walks back into the room calmly, he grabs a book off of the table and flops onto his bed.
The rest of the male Rapscallions sit in silence, staring at the walls of their quarters, Dave looks up from his book to see the others acting so introverted, he speaks up, "What's with all the silence? It's kind of unnerving." The others give Dave a blank stare.
"We did everything we could think of last night." Tyler comments, a flashback of the boys finding the ship's supply of rum plays, it is shown that they all played games, talked about their lives for hours on end, the clip ends with the four being wasted on their beds.
"Oh, right. That's a night I never want to remember." Brick jumps in, ashamed by his poor choices the previous night. Brick looks around the room, still dirty from what they had done.
"We should really clean up." Dave suggests, getting up from his bed to go find a broom. Tyler jumps down from his bunk to come with, they both start to walk around together.
"So what you said last night was something that actually happened?" Tyler asks Dave, who generates a long face.
"Yeah, which is why I didn't exactly want to come back onto the show, I absolutely humiliated myself last time." Dave recalls, pained with guilt.
Tyler empathizes, "I get that, my girlfriend forgot my name for half a season, that really sucked." Dave looks up at Tyler and can't help but chuckle a bit, to which Tyler playfully smacks Dave on the arm.
"Heh, maybe we're not so different." Dave half-jokes, Tyler surprisingly agrees, Dave smiles before spotting a broom.
"Say, what if we were to team up? Like an alliance?" Tyler suggests, Dave swiftly turns around, he raises his eyebrows at the clumsy jock, "I mean, if we're really not that different, then we can vote everyone out, no problem, we'd be unstoppable I think." he adds. Dave looks down at the ground, he weighs out his options.
He looks back up at Tyler, "Bet," he declares, Tyler attempts to reach out his hand to shake on it, "No thanks on that one though." he denies. Disappointed, Tyler lowers his hand.
"Attention all buccaneers! This is Captain Chris speaking! All hands on deck!" The loud speaker rattles with each phrase, the two Rapscallion boys run with the broom quickly back to their quarters before heading up to the main deck.
The camera pans to the main deck, Chris is decked out in his iconic pirate get-up from Total Drama Action. Chef, while not dressed up, still looks intimidating enough to be considered a pirate. The sun is shining down on the both of them, the ocean breeze sweeps around Chris's hair. From the west, the Scallywags climb up the ladder to the main deck where they meet Chris, and to the east come the Rapscallions in a single file line down the main deck who get their first look at the post-day one Scallywags.
"Welcome pirates to your first reward challenge!" Chris announces, which peaks the interest of both teams, a group of interns rolls out a table with a large assortment of meats, coupled with that, many glasses of rum.
"Owen would've loved this." Noah comments upon the reveal of the table, Eva chuckles a bit.
"Every good pirate must know how to eat a hearty meal before setting out on an adventure, which is why in today's reward challenge, each team will have one half of the table. The goal is to eat as much food as you need to find a key, once you find a key, go find the chest the key matches up to, there will be six keys in total, with only 2 opening the chest that contains the map that will lead you to find a gem. Once you have the gem, come back to the main deck and hand it to me to win today's reward," Chris gives the challenge explanation briefly, "Any questions?" he quickly asks, Brick raises his hand.
"Yes?" Chris calls on the cadet, to which he sharply takes his hand down.
"What will be the reward for this challenge?" Brick asks the host, who simply shrugs and gives a smug grin.
"On your marks, get set, FEAST!" Chris yells as the teams rush to the table, "Also! You have to actually eat the food, not just search around in it!" Chris adds quickly before anyone gets the idea. On the Scallywags side of the table, Noah carefully mauls an entire chicken leg within the first minute of the challenge.
"How are you eating that so fast?" Katie mumbles, holding back throwup. Sammy sees Katie's struggle and politely steps away from the girl.
"When you live with a food vacuum for eight months in the food capital of the world, you get pretty used to it." Noah responds with several implications.
On the Rapscallions' end of the table, things look much emptier as the team's star eater, Max, scarfs down plate after plate.
"Are you even checking the food for a key?" Anne Maria yells to the tubby boy while sifting her fork through a baked potato, Max's eyes grow at least five times wider than they were a few seconds ago. Anne Maria begins to open her mouth, not before Dakota stuffs it with food from her plate.
"Stay focused, we gotta win this challenge!" Dakota reminds Anne Maria, who picks back up her pace.
"Got one!" yells a voice, the camera pans to Eva holding up a large golden key, she runs over to the chests and begins to try to stick the key in each one of them to no success. She slams the key into the last chest she could and it opens, inside there is a scroll wrapped in a red, silk ribbon, she takes off the ribbon and unravels the scroll only for it to read, 'You really thought, did you? Try again!'
"Dud key!" Eva yells back to the others before rushing back to the table to continue eating. It seemed as if the interns took all of the keys out after that, because they ate and they ate, but no keys were found.
"I don't think I can do this anymore…" mutters Dakota, who was beyond bloated from the influx in food. She holds her stomach as it angrily rumbles. Her face turns pale, she dashes over to the edge of the ship and throws up chunks of meat and other items from off the table.
"We got a sick one!" Chris shouts, Dakota wobbles back over to her table and attempts to eat more. Despite the eating they were doing, both teams had just reached the halfway mark.
Dave carefully nitpicks through what he has to eat, carefully choosing foods that correlate with his diet, he grabs for a small cut of steak and cuts it open, inside, the juices ooze out, but so does a key. Dave makes a mad run for the chests and opens one first try, but inside was nothing but a thick layer of dust that coats his nasal tunnels, causing him to sneeze a few more times than optimal. Suddenly he sees a pair of beige cargo pants fly past him, he gets up to see Topher opening the second chest for the Scallywags.
"The Scallywags are pulling it together with this challenge! Will the Rapscallions be able to recover?" Chris lures in the audience, increasing the watch time. The camera cuts back to Topher opening up the chest to see a scroll that closely resembles the one Eva had. He opens the scroll to see a layout of the ship, with a red x on the spot.
"Let's go find this gem!" Topher calls to his other teams, who quickly rush over. The Rapscallions look at each other in fear.
Chris walks over to the Rapscallions, still at their table, stuffing themselves to death, even Max looks exhausted, "Keep going!" Tyler grabs a key out of a bowl of refried rice and takes it over to the chests, eventually he opens the right chest and pulls out a scroll, he opens it to see the same message on the Scallywag's first scroll. Tyler drops the scroll, defeated. The Rapscallions all grumble before continuing to eat.
The camera switches over to the Scallywags, who were all speed walking through a corridor. "My modeling agent is going to kill me when she sees the weight I'm gonna gain on this show just from this challenge." Justin fears, imagining the face of an angry woman setting down a paper that says something along the lines of 'You're fired!'
"You being a model makes a lot of sense." Sammy comments, checking into every closet and cabinet for their gem.
"Get outta' our way, Scallywags!" Anne Maria yells down the hall, running miles ahead of her team, she pushes Katie into the wall and runs towards the entrance to the third floor. The rest of the Rapscallions follow shortly after.
"We have no time to waste." Noah reminds the team, who are standing dormant from shock, they quickly snap out of their trance and head down another hall.
The camera cuts to the Rapscallions, dashing down hallways at the speed of sound, Anne Maria leads the team, whipping around corners, "Come on, we can still win the reward!" Anne Maria encourages the others, who straggle behind.
"Do we really gotta run?" Dave complains, holding back whatever was going to come out of his throat.
Anne Maria snaps at him, "If you want the reward, then yes. Quit whining about it!" While this causes Dave to pipe down, he silently retaliates against Anne Maria's bossy attitude.
"There it is!" Katie shouts, the camera pans to the Scallywags running down the hall to a red gem on the balcony of the ship. Without turning back or giving it a second thought, Topher rams the others beside and grabs the gem, he runs back down the hallway and the Scallywags make their way back to the main deck.
"We're right there guys!" Anne Maria yelps to the rest of her team as she approaches the gem on the other side of the ship, she uses all of her energy to lunge onto the gem and grasp it. The rest of her team approaches her, not looking, she hands the gem to Max, "Whoever's got the gem better help us win." Anne Maria demands, They all run off without her, soon enough she comes walking after.
The camera focuses back on Chris and Chef on the main deck, "Both teams have their gems, it's a tight race to see who will be winning today's reward!" Chris declares, To the left, comes Topher climbing up the ladder from the second floor, to the right, the majority of the Rapscallions rush out of a door, the camera zooms in on Chris, making it impossible to predict who will give Chris their gem first.
"The winner of today's reward challenge is the Savage Scallywags!" Chris announces, causing the six winners to break out into a plethora of cheers and chants.
"We did it!" Sammy yells as Topher gives her a side hug, they both start jumping up and down. Eva and Noah give each other pats on the back while Justin gives Noah a firm handshake. Katie jumps around frantically, making sure to give each of her team members an embrace. Anne Maria makes it back up to the deck, confused about the commotion being caused.
"Did we win?" She asked, to which her teammates gave her a quick and guilty shake of the head. Anne Maria facepalms, the rest of her team look down in shame.
Chris smirks at the reactions of both teams, "Scallywags, since you won today's challenge, here's your reward!" Chris pulls a tarp off of a chest filled with pillows, blankets, mattresses, and warm pajamas. Alongside it came three bottles of rum. The Rapscallions groaned, "This would've been a real nice one to win, it gets pretty cold in the loser's quarters." Chris teased, which the Scallywags agreed. Chris dismissed both teams to go back to their quarters.
CONFESSIONAL:
"We needed that win, and I'm glad we got it, it really seemed to help team morale." Sammy tells the confessional, still overjoyed by beating the Rapscallions.
END OF CONFESSIONAL
The camera jumps to the Rapscallions, who all decided to stay in the boy's quarters for the day. As they walked back to the room, they patted each other on the back, none of their heads were as high as they were before the challenge.
"I can't believe we lost, we had it!" Tyler complains, which seems to be the common thought among the team.
"I blame tubby over here," Anne Maria points to Max, who is disgusted by her statement, "He was the one with the gem."
Max spat, "Shut it, you collapsed right when we got the gem!" he countered. The rest of the team looked concerned, but didn't dare to even open their mouths.
"You haven't done a single thing for this team since the moment you joined it!" Tyler added, getting frustrated with the short one's antics.
"Like you've done anything, chicken legs." Max insults Tyler, who is taken aback by his comment.
"You're one to talk, no legs." Dave deadpans, which causes the rest of the team to burst out into a hysteria of laughs. Without saying anything, Max gets up and leaves the room, slamming the door behind him.
"Maybe we went a little hard on him?" Brick suggests, but the rest of the team shoots down the thought at an instant. They all begin to discuss with one another without Max, the camera shifts away to the newly crowned champs of the reward challenge.
Justin, Eva, and Topher hauled in all of their winnings from the challenge, they laid it down in the empty corner of their quarters, the others surrounded the loot.
"Now how are we gonna divy this up?" Noah asks the others. Most of them look at the uneven amount of items, then back up at their fellow Scallywags.
"We can play a game with the dice to see who wins what?" Sammy suggests, the rest of the group nod and join Sammy on the floor of their room to play a dice game. They form a large circle with plenty of room to roll dice.
"Whoever rolls the highest gets a blanket and pillow combo." Noah offers, they all roll their dice, Noah rolls a three, Topher rolls a five, Sammy rolls a four, Katie rolls a one, Justin also rolls a three and Eva wins the blanket and pillow with a six. The group continues to barter off the items until it is decided that each person got one set of pajamas. Katie, Justin, and Noah won the mattresses, then Topher, Katie, and Eva won a pillow and blanket combo, Topher offered to give up his pillow to Sammy, who ended up winning nothing. Each team member came out satisfied with their winnings. The group decided to split the rum though, because that was a sacred resource that could not be wasted by just one individual. Their auctioning lasted until late day, the group was tired by the time it was all over.
"What if we all just got ridiculously wasted tonight?" Noah jokes with his teammates while lying on his new mattress, "It's not like the other team have any chance of winning." he adds, the camera quickly cuts to the Rapscallions, who are still arguing over the challenge.
"I mean, it's only day two, what's there to lose?" Eva weighs in, fully down with the idea. The others look at the gallons of rum in the corner of their quarters, waiting to be drunk by a group of irresponsible teenagers.
"We'll start at eight, agreed?" Justin sets a plan, the others agree, Justin walks out of the room and out onto the main deck. He looks off into the sunset, the wind catching his hair. To his right stands Max, parallel to Justin. The sun glaring off of his face.
"So why are you out here?" Justin asks the schemer, attempting to make conversation with the other team, Max acknowledges the model but quickly tries to divert from talking. Justin chases after him, he grabs Max's shoulder.
Forced to speak, Max questions Justin, "Why do you care exactly?" Justin stops himself, why does he care? He could've just let the boy go, but he continues to give him a glare until he fesses up.
"I just do, okay? I can tell something's up." Justin tells him, reluctant, Max stops trying to leave, he takes Justin back to the edge of the boat.
Max sighs as he stares at the sunset, "My whole team hates me. If we lose the challenge, I know I'm going to be out." Max lays his head down on the bow, Justin smirks as he thinks of a plan.
"What if I threw the challenge without my team knowing, so you have time to save yourself before your next elimination ceremony." Justin suggests, which sparks the attention of Max, he raises his head and listens intently.
"How would you pull that off?" Max inquires, unsure of Justin's seemingly unreasonable plan.
"Simple, pin the blame on Katie," Justin answers with little to no shame, Max exhales out of his nose at the statement, "With what happened during the first immunity challenge, I'm sure Noah and Topher would be good with voting her off, and I could easily get Eva's vote, Sammy's the only one I worry about, but at that point I'd have the majority." he lays out his plan in front of Max, who takes in this information like a dessert.
"While I'm impressed with your villainy ways that even compare to me, what'll happen if it doesn't go to plan?" Max questions, taking every possibility into account.
"Trust me, I'll make sure it does." Justin smiles, giving Max a new hope, they shake hands on it.
"Justin! We're gonna start drinking without you!" Sammy yells for the model, who quickly rushes back over to his team.
The group is sitting on the ground, sitting in the same circle they were in for the auctioning, Topher goes around the circle and pours a shot for each Scallywag, he begins the night by exclaiming, "To our first victory of many to come!" Topher raises his glass.
"Cheers!" The others follow suit, and their shots of rum clink off of one another, they all take their first shot.
"I'm not big on alcohol." Katie says after downing her first shot, she sets her shot glass to the side. Still, the others are intent on taking another.
"How about a few rounds of truth or dare?" Sammy asks, curious about the tea of her fellow castmates. The others agree and Sammy begins off with asking Noah a truth, "Is it true that besides for Emma, you've had a relationship with another contestant on the show?" she asks, Noah simply nods, which hypes the entire group.
"It was totally Cody." Katie jokes, the others light heartedly agree. Noah quickly tries to shut that allegation down.
"Justin, truth or dare." The brainiac asks Justin, Justin panics, caught off guard.
Justin scrambles around, "Dare!" he blurts, instantly regretting it, he giggles a bit.
Noah smugly grinned, "I dare you to knock on the door of the Rapscallions, when they open it, say their pizza delivery arrived and run away." The Scallywags let out a collective taunt. A singular drip of sweat came off of Justin.
"You're good…" Justin mumbles as he pours himself another shot. Noah chuckles to himself, successful in his plan.
"Eva," Justin calls for the hotheaded girl, who groans, "truth or dare."
"Truth." Eva declares. Justin prepares Eva another shot.
"Is it true that you hate someone on this season?" Justin interrogates, the others let out oohs and ahhs.
"Not on this team," Eva clarifies, which the team raises their glasses to, "Hey blondie! Truth or dare?" Topher and Sammy look at each other, Topher points at himself, Eva raises her eyebrows at the blonde girl. Sammy bites her tongue, looking around at her fellow Scallywags.
"Dare." She bravely announces. Suddenly her brave face melts away into fear.
"I dare you to take a shot." Eva smirks, Justin begins to howl with laughter, the others giggling alongside him, Sammy rolls her eyes and pours herself a glass.
"Oh Katieeee…" Sammy teases, staring directly into Katie's eyes, which were a chocolate brown.
"Truth?" Katie trembled, unsure of herself.
"Who is your favorite member of our team?" Sammy inquires, leaning in on the black-haired girl.
Topher chuckles, "Hoh-oh, Looks like we're being bold today!" Katie fidgets with her hands, she cracks her knuckles a bit before looking down at the ground.
"I- I don't like that question, you're all pretty great." Katie smiles, disappointed, Eva and Noah slowly nod at Katie's response.
The group continues their game of truth-or-dare, getting drunker by the hour, by midnight, Noah is wiped out on the mattress, Katie also lies down for bed, attempting to rest. Still, Justin and Eva are going stronger than ever, Topher keeps up well with the other two, the camera pans over to Sammy, who looks just about dead. Her eyes have created dark circles for her dark circles, her face droops low, she forces her eyes to stay open.
"I… I think you shou-should go to bed." Topher claims, Sammy does not respond, instead just nods and stands up.
Eva slams her fist on the ground, "Damnit! We wer' just gettin' started!" she shouts, unaware of her noise level.
"Keep it down, Eva! Some of us are trying to sleep now!" Katie loudly whispers to the drunken woman, who quickly apologizes.
Justin pats Eva on the shoulder, "We all should go now, eh? Can't be losing that challenge." Justin still seemed relatively sane, despite drinking more than enough shots. Eva grumbles before launching herself on her mattress.
"Goodnight…!." Topher drags out before quickly falling asleep.
The camera tilts to the early morning sunrise, it follows the sun upwards until the pirate ship is visible, on the main deck stands Chris in his regular dark turquoise tunic and green khaki attire. The camera zooms in, showing more of the infamous host, the camera slowly pans to Chef, who is cooking breakfast for the contestants in the ship's kitchen. A large horn blares off, awakening most, if not all of the contestants.
"Today's your rest day, cherish it! You're in for a LOT of pain." Chris begins, doing his classic maniacal giggle, "If you want, you can meet me and Chef up on the main deck for breakfast!" The microphone cuts out.
"Can Chris not wake us up on a rest day?" Dakota complains, the camera switches to the two girls in their quarters, who are tossing and turning in their beds. Just as they get comfy, someone knocks on the door, both of them dramatically whine. Anne Maria gets up to open the door, just to be greeted by none other than Brick.
"Greetings, ladies!" Brick grins, much more enthusiastic than Anne Maria than Dakota, who both slowly blink at the cadet, "Even though it's a rest day, I wrangled the other guys together to do some group practicing for the challenge tomorrow, you can never be too prepared." He winks, Anne Maria scrunches up her nose bridge.
"Uh-uh, no way I'm doing work on my rest day." She denies, Brick crosses his arms and taps his toe, his jolly attitude turns sour.
"I'm with her, we need our beauty sleep if we're even going to think about winning the challenge." Dakota steps behind Anne Maria, defending her friend. Brick sighs, instead of saying anything, he nods and walks away silently.
CONFESSIONAL:
"There is no way that musty army recruit asked me to do work on my free day!" Anne Maria exaggerates, "If he's going to act like that, then he better be on his A-game, because right now he's talking the talk, but not walking the walk." She rolls her eyes before the confessional cuts out.
END OF CONFESSIONAL
"I heard your season was miserable." Tyler comments to his black haired teammate with a collared white shirt layered with a blue vest.
"Yeah, that's what they all say. I surely didn't help that either." Dave jokes, which cracks an awkward chuckle out of Tyler.
"What made it that bad? When I watched it, it wasn't the worst." Tyler asks, attempting to cheer the guilty Dave up of his troubles.
Dave froze, "You… you watched my season?" he responds, starstruck, Tyler gives an assuring nod, "That's cool!" he grins widely, Tyler snickers a bit.
"Yeah man, I was really rooting for you to get the hot chick, too bad she… y'know." Tyler stops himself before going too far into the topic. Dave sighs and Tyler gives him a pat on the back.
"I don't like to focus on that aspect of the show, there were other parts I enjoyed much more." Dave redirects, he gets up and walks to the door, he stops and gestures to the jock, who follows him out of the room. When the two reach the mess hall, they are met by all six of the Scallywags poking around at their food, looking miserable.
Eva smacks Noah in the arm with her elbow, "The sleepyhead Rapscallions finally woke up! What a surprise." she taunts, giving the rest of her team a laugh.
"Rapscallions? More like Napscallions!" Katie playfully adds, receiving an equal amount of chuckles from the infinitely tired Scallywags.
"Would you knock it off already? We don't want trouble, we're just here to eat." Tyler defends the two, Dave smirks and places his hand on his hip.
Eva gets up to get seconds, she lightly bumps into Dave, "Loosen up a bit, we were only kidding." Dave rubs his arm frantically. Topher bangs the table a bit, causing Eva to turn around, Topher simply gives her a disapproving glance, she comes back to sit down promptly.
Soon, Max walks in, which causes Justin to immediately go get seconds, "Hey, are things going better with the team?" he enthusiastically asks Max.
"Well, we're all gonna do some training, and I wasn't excluded or anything, so I guess you can say so, they still won't listen to my rants about modern technology and how it's going to take over the planet, but not everyone's ready for that intellectual hurdle, aren't they?" Max rambles, Justin avoids eye contact throughout his long drawn thought. Max waves a hand in his face, not looking too pleased.
"Oh, sorry." Justin apologizes, still uninterested in Max's ridiculous theories and ideas.
CONFESSIONAL:
"I really should be more careful with who I chose to u- work with." Justin corrects himself, "I've worked with one too many crazy people in my time on the show." From inside the confessional, Max is heard talking to himself. Justin cowers in the confessional, waiting for Max to leave.
END OF CONFESSIONAL
The camera comes back to the other Rapscallions arriving at the mess hall, Brick stands in line for his meal, Chef plops down not one, but two sea biscuits. Brick stares down at his plate, then back up at Chef, "Was this a mistake?" Brick asks, trying to hand back the extra sea biscuit to the tall man in an apron.
"No, you're the favorite, and by a long shot." Chef reveals as he salutes the cadet, who promptly salutes back. Brick smiles at his extra sea biscuit and joins his tablemates.
Noah scoffs, "Brick gets extra food for serving in the army, but when I serve for this show for a whole five seasons, my efforts are dismissed."
Sammy walks over to the other table, "How's your team fairing?" She asks the Rapscallions, who all shoot each other a look.
"We've been doing fine." Dave lies, Sammy smiles upon hearing, she fidgets with her hands.
"That's great? How are you guys spending your free time?" Sammy interrogates. Their team gulp, not expecting more questions.
"Oh, we've been talking, hanging out, the usual." Anne Maria answers for the group. Who all shakily nod. Sammy looks back over at her group, who signal for her to come back over.
"That's great! Well, good luck tomorrow!" Sammy wishes, Anne Maria raises her eyebrows and gives a quick wave as the Scallywag girl goes back to her team. The rest of the team does not give a reaction.
Brick looks up from his meal, "She seems nice." he comments in between bites, the others snort.
"Probably just a facade, you know how the other team is, they're all fake." Anne Maria shoots back, the other Rapscallions giver her looks of confusion.
"What about Noah?" Tyler blurts, sticking up for his Scallywag friend. Anne Maria gives the side eye, Tyler shuts up quickly.
Brick gets up to throw away his tray, "Enough about the other team, we've got ourselves to worry about!" Brick motivates the others, the guys follow Brick to the main deck while Dakota and Anne Maria head back to the quarters.
"Give me four laps!" Brick declares as he starts running, Dave and Tyler begin running at a moderate pace side by side, Max quickly trails behind, "Keep with us!" Brick yells to the chubby boy, who is stumbling with each step.
"I'm trying! I'm not the brawn on this team, I'm the only one with a brain! We should be exercising our brains right now!" Max complains with each large and loud breath. Brick sighs and looks back to the other two.
"What kind of challenge do you think will be tomorrow?" Brick breaks the ice, Dave starts to pant a bit.
"Maybe Chris has hinted at it?" Tyler suggests, which gets the others thinking about what Chris had said within the last two days.
"Maybe it's an eating challenge?" Dave adds, Brick shrugs as they come up on their third lap around the main deck.
"Now that I think about it, I needed to ask you guys something." Brick remembers, Dave and Tyler slow down a bit, Max speeds up to catch up with the others.
"What is it bro?" Tyler asks curiously, the male Rapscallions finish their laps, they stand around to catch their breath.
"I don't really have anyone here, I mean, you and Dave have each other, the girls get along well, and I don't exactly know how to talk to Max," Brick confesses, Dave and Tyler look to each other with sympathy, "Maybe it's possible the three of us ride it out to the merge." he adds.
'Sure thing dude, that would be sweet!" Tyler answers, pumping his fist in the air. A hot, sweaty Max turns up behind them, slowly regaining his breath.
"Never-" Max is cut off by a large breath, "Again." He finishes, he drops to the ground and curls up in a ball. Uncomfortable, the others continue on with their training without the evildoer.
Once Max regains his breath, he tries to do some sets with the other guys, but is forced to go back to the quarters, the other three talk and laugh with each other as they work out. By the time they are dismissed from training, Dave is a pile of limbs.
"Great job guys, way to keep up the hustle." Brick compliments, Dave shakily moves his head up and with the few muscles he has, smiles. Tyler, still with some energy, shakes Brick's hand firmly.
"We'll be back next week!" Tyler shouts to the military recruit as he walks to the confessional, Dave rapidly turns his head.
"Next WEEK?" Dave repeats, stricken with despair. Tyler shrugs and continues walking.
CONFESSIONAL:
"Getting Brick on our side was massive! Now we have the team majority, unless Anne Maria and Dakota team up with Max… heh. That won't happen, right?" Tyler questions himself, the camera statics.
END OF CONFESSIONAL
For the rest of the day, Brick, Tyler, and Dave all made light conversation in their quarters. Anne Maria and Dakota spent their day trying out new techniques with their makeup. The Scallywags played a lot of dice games to tide over the day, and Max spent most of the day in the confessional, making confessionals absolutely no one wanted to see. All in preparation for the day ahead, both teams went to bed extra early with no alcohol, to ensure everyone was at their best in the morning.
When the horn goes off the next morning, the boat makes an abrupt stop, "Land ahoy, buccaneers! We've made it to our first challenge location, Mauiwi Island! So get up and get prepared, you're gonna need it!" Chris announces through the speaker. The camera pans to the Rapscallions getting up rather quickly.
"Good morning! Are we ready to kick some Scallywag butt?" Brick asks the others with excitement. Dave and Tyler nod as they scurry out of their quarters, meeting up with the girls.
"We're no 'Napscallions!' We'll show them what we're made of!" Tyler declares, soon after he trips over his own shoe.
"Wait, they called us that?" Dakota asks, unaware of the Scallywags' nickname for the other team. Anne Maria also looked at Tyler in confusion.
Tyler slams his fist into his other hand, it creates a loud sound, "Yeah, and we're gonna wipe the floor with them, then we're gonna dry it!" The boy in the red track suit announces to the rest of his team, who all try to hold in their giggles.
The camera shifts to the Scallywags, who are stretching in their quarters under the ship, they walk around the quarters hastily, making sure to waste no time.
"Today's the day things actually matter." Noah makes an attempt to motivate the others.
Sammy holds the door open for her fellow teammates walking out of the quarters, "We gotta win that immunity, make them scared of us." she declares. Both teams head to the mess hall, there waits Chris, back in his pirate get-up, Chef stands at the counter of the kitchen, waiting to serve sea biscuits and beans.
"Good morning, mateys!" Chris greets both teams, they all line up in front of Chef's serving counter, Max walks over to Justin with a grin, he gets the model's attention.
"You're still going to throw the challenge my trusted ally?" Max asks Justin, who takes a short sigh, Max looks at Justin with confusion.
"Yeah, definitely," Justin says as he walks up to the counter to receive his breakfast, Chef plops down a spoonful of beans and a dried out sea biscuit on his plate. Justin holds his breath from the stench.
"What are you looking at, pretty boy?" Chef barks at Justin, to which he scurries away from the counter, never making eye contact with his food. Max walks up to the counter and receives significantly less food than the boy before him, "Don't look at me like you need all of that food." Chef regains Max's attention from his less-than appetizing plate, Max simply rolls his eyes and sits down with his team.
The camera cuts over to the Rapscallion's table, who are all very quiet, sitting and staring at their plates. None dare to even pick up their forks to taste test, "Is this even editable?" Dakota asks the rest of her team to break the ice.
"I don't think so, I'm starving though, and if we're gonna win, I'll have to eat something." Tyler says as he takes a bite out of the sea biscuit, instantly one of his teeth chips. He bites down roughly and swallows. He holds his stomach tightly with pain.
"Now what made you think that was a good idea, boy?" Anne Maria stares Tyler down, questioning his less-than optimal decision. The rest of his team looks at him with worry in their eyes.
"I don't know." Tyler says as he takes a spoonful of beans, he feels himself getting ill again. Everyone on his team looks away, then they start looking at the Scallywag's table, who are having a heated discussion.
"Why would you put your beans on your biscuit?" Sammy says, looking sickly just viewing Justin's meal. The rest of the team looked at his plate, disgusted.
"It's what the people did back in Britain in the mornings, reminds me of home." Justin explains the odd combo he put together, he takes a bite without any issues.
"But aren't you Canadian?" Katie asks Justin.
"And isn't it beans on toast?" Noah says, trying not to look at Brick as he keeps eating the 'breakfast' Chef had made for them all.
"Does it look like we have toast here? He had to make due." Topher retorts with a layer of sarcasm. One by one, each member attempts the combination of the two foods on their plates, and one by one they all start to mind it less. But once they all get used to the flavor, a blaring sound goes through their ears.
"Good morning pirates, it's time for our second elimination challenge! Whichever team loses gets to head to the elimination ceremony and send one of their members to the Plank O' Shame!" Chris announces through a megaphone, each team looks at each other with hope, for they have prepared for this for the last two days.
The contestants walk off the ship for the first time in days, they are greeted by an island with little to no vegetation. Instead there are large platforms with ropes dangling off of them. Chris puts his hands up in the air, "Welcome to Mauiwi Island! Every good pirate must know the ropes of their ship, which is why in this challenge, contestants will run through a rope themed relay obstacle course!" Chris announces the theme of the challenge, the camera pans to the first leg of the challenge.
"In the first leg, team members will have to swing across ropes hanging above ten feet above the ground, it will hurt if you fall, if you do fall, you have to start all over," Chris giggles at the thought of this as the camera pans to the second leg of the race, "The second member of your team will have to do the same thing."
Dakota nudges her other teammates, "Can I not do that part? I'm afraid of heights." As soon as the Rapscallions have time to even process, a loud blow horn is set off into their ears.
"Sheesh, can I finish?" Chris asks, visibly annoyed by the disruption, "Anyways, in the third leg of the course, contestants will climb a ladder and swing across another rope, except this rope is thirty feet off the ground, and the destination is a rope wall all the way over here, you'll have to climb across that to get to your next teammate." The camera pans quickly to a wall made of rope about fifteen feet away from the rope. Both teams take a small gulp, hoping they are not the ones put onto that station.
"Team member number four will have to slide down this rope and run across this lovely minefield, but instead of exploding just dynamite, it explodes a variety of different… fun things to wash out of your clothes later." An intern demonstrates one of the mines, they soon get covered in sticky jam over their eyes, which makes them run into another one filled with confetti. Chris laughs at the intern's misfortune and takes his attention back to the contestants.
"In section five, team members will have to run across the minefields, except Chef will be trying to target you with the spaghetti cannon." Chris laughs as Chef pulls out the spaghetti cannon and shoots it at the still struggling intern, who yelps in fear. Topher tries to protect his hair, remembering what happened last time with the cannon.
"Finally, in a twist of events, the tracks will merge, making both the Scallywags and the Rapscallions fight it out on a tightrope-like beam to get across, whoever makes it back to the starting line first wins the challenge, understood?" Chris finishes explaining as the groups nod their heads.
The camera pans to the Scallywags plotting out their plan, "I think my three years in on-camera film classes would've trained me enough to walk on that beam on stage six." Topher suggests to his team.
Justin scoffs, "Only three years? My entire life has basically been an on-camera film class." Topher rolls his eyes, the rest of the team stands awkwardly.
"Just take stage six, Topher, we don't have time to argue!" Sammy exclaims, giving Justin a dirty look, he rolls his eyes and walks towards stage four. Sammy goes to stage five, Katie goes to stage three, Noah goes to stage two, and finally Eva goes to stage one. The camera pans to the Rapscallions, who are still arguing over who goes where.
"Have you seen my finger strength? I've got stage one in the bag!" Tyler shouts into the sea of shouts coming from the other team members.
"I nominate tubby over here to stage four, that's the least likely one to mess up." Anne Maria backhandedly suggests to the rest of the group, who seemingly agree.
"I'll take stage five, anything else is gonna make me sick." Dakota says.
"I'll take stage six." Anne Maria says, Brick without any input from the team takes stage three, which leaves Dave on stage two. Once the teams were in their positions, Chris turned on the megaphone again.
"Tyler, Eva, are you ready?" Chris asks the two on stage one, they nod from their separate tracks. Chris blows the horn and they both immediately jump onto the ropes. Tyler faceplants into the first, giving him a rug burn. Eva effortlessly gets across and hands off the baton to Noah.
From stage two, Dave looks at Tyler slightly upset, "Come on man! I thought you said you had it!" Tyler slowly but surely makes it across the other ropes, handing off the baton to Dave. Dave goes to jump to the first rope but lands face first into the ground.
"Ouch!" Chris spectates from the side, giggling at Dave's pain. From the other track, Noah does the exact same thing. Over and over again, both team's baton holders cannot seem to get across the ropes.
"Come on Dave, think about our training!" Brick shouts from stage three, Dave eats dirt again and climbs back up the rope.
"We never did any rope jumping in our training, dude!" Dave yells back, clearly frustrated. Each and every time he falls, he wipes himself down, trying to remove the dirt from his body, which gives Noah an advantage.
"You can do it Noah! Come on!" Katie cheers Noah on enthusiastically, Noah makes it from the first to the second rope after a ridiculous amount of attempts. But as soon as he thought he was doing well, he heard Dave handing off the baton to Brick, which made him slip off the rope entirely. Katie slapped her forehead as the Rapscallions got further in the lead, now with Max holding the baton on stage four.
Noah picks up the pace and hands the baton off to Katie, who speeds her way through stage three, she hands it off to Justin. Max looks over at the other track at Justin, who is right on pace with him.
"Hey friend!" Max greets Justin, who sighs and throws a coin at the mine right in front of Max, it drenches the boy in honey. Suddenly, a swarm of bees come out from seemingly nowhere and start attacking Max for the honey. Max runs in circles, trying to get the bees off of him and the honey out of his eyes.
"You traitor!" Max screams, continuing to be stung by bees, without a second thought, Justin keeps running and hands the baton off to Sammy.
"That was terrible!" Sammy exclaims in discomfort before she runs off from the station, eventually Max recomposes himself enough to run to the next station and hand his baton off to Dakota. Max gives Justin a dirty look, still covered in honey and bees.
"I thought we were allies." Max cold-heartingly tells Justin, who simply ignores him. The camera pans back to Dakota and Sammy running for dear life, Dakota gets splattered onto the ground by Chef's spaghetti cannon, she lands face first into a mine full of hot sauce.
"My eyes! My eyes!" Dakota yelps as she tries to untangle herself from the web of spaghetti, she gets up and keeps running, unable to see. Sammy gets splattered in the back, she stops for a few seconds out of shock and pain but manages to keep running towards Topher at the final station, this manages to allot Dakota enough time to catch up, and both are neck and neck. As soon as Sammy hands off the Baton to Topher, Anne Maria receives the baton from Dakota. The track merges, Anne Maria and Topher run side by side to the beam. Topher lunges himself onto the beam first, with Anne Maria following closely behind him.
Anne Maria attempts to push Topher off the beam, "Ain't no way I'm letting your team beat me right now." Topher kicks his leg back, keeping his balance, which causes Anne Maria to trip. Topher uses the opportunity to get further ahead. Anne Maria gets up and wobbles the beam, causing Topher to lose his balance and fall onto a mine, making himself soaked in ranch dressing. Anne Maria catches up but ends up slipping on some of the ranch dressing that was splattered onto the beam from Topher's fall, she lands on a mine which sticks Anne Maria to the ground. Topher gets up and runs across the beam to the starting line and hands Eva the baton.
Chris turns on the signal, "The Scallywags win their second challenge in a row!" The ranch covered Topher runs over to the spaghetti covered Sammy and the rest of his dry teammates and they all hug, regardless of how disgusting it is.
"We did it! We got immunity!" Katie and Sammy yell in almost unison, Justin and Topher pat each other on the back while Noah and Eva stand there awkwardly smiling and taking in the excitement.
"Scallywags, head back to your new rooms up in the private quarters!" This news makes Noah and Eva perk up drastically.
"We did it Eva! We got out of the boat slums!" Noah cries in joy, practically squeezing Eva to death. While she wasn't screaming like Noah, there was still a lot of visible happiness on her face.
"As well as a whole 'nother round of whiskey, rum, and wine waiting for you right outside your quarters, have fun." Chris teases a bit, which makes the whole team, especially Justin and Topher, light up in excitement once again.
"We get to get drunk! We get to get drunk!" Justin and Topher chant loudly in harmony as they walk to their new rooms. The camera pans to the Rapscallions, who are less than pleased.
"To you all, I'll see you at your first Plank O' Shame tonight!" Chris and Chef walk back onto the ship, very pleased with themselves. The Rapscallions trudge after, not very happy with the results.
CONFESSIONAL:
Brick sits down in the confessional, he sighs, "We were right there, it was a combination of all of us that messed up the challenge. I just wish it went just a little differently. Well, that just means we'll have to train harder next time!" Brick perks up a bit at the thought, from outside can be heard Dave and Max groaning loudly.
END OF CONFESSIONAL
The Scallywags get back to their new quarters and are amazed, "Oh. My. God." Katie squeals, running into the girl's cabin and flopping onto the nearest bed. Sammy quickly follows after her, Eva slowly walks in and climbs up to the top bunk above Katie and immediately falls asleep, from the guy's cabin is heard a lot of chanting.
"I can get used to this, fellas." Noah says as he lies on the silky white mattress. Justin sees a table of booze and immediately runs over to it, he gawks at the sight of bottles of booze stacked on top of each other as high as the table itself.
Topher comes to look at the table as well, "This is way more than what was down there! No wonder the other team lost, they were all stupid drunk!" Justin chuckles at his comment before taking a bottle for himself and climbing up above Topher and sitting down on the top bunk. Soon enough, Sammy and Katie come into the guys room with several bottles of their own, prepared for the night ahead of them.
"Where's Eva?" Justin asks, confused to only see two of the three girls on his team.
"Sleeping, somehow." Sammy responds, sitting down next to Topher on his bed, Katie takes a seat on the ground in between Topher and Noah's beds. The group opens a bottle and grabs their first shot.
Katie raises her cup high into the air, "To immunity!" she cries, the others repeat after her, they down their first shot almost instantly. The group was in for a long night.
Also in for a long night were the Rapscallions, who had just made it down to their living quarters, upon arrival, Dakota gags for fresh air, "What died down here?" Dakota complains as she takes a look around. The room was dark, only with a small lantern in the corner and a covered window, the walls were damp and the floor creaked with every step. Some could've sworn they saw a rat. Empty bottles of rum and whiskey were scattered across the quarters, left for the Rapscallions as a reminder of what could've been.
"I don't know, but I don't think I want to." Brick comments, he looks at the slimy wall and almost throws up. The group collectively hears the Scallywags directly above them getting their party on as they wildly yell, the Rapscallions groan in misery.
"That could've been us up there if Max kept his eyes on the road." Dave complains, he sets his stuff down on the cold, hard ground.
Anne Maria scoffs as the rest of the team, besides for Dave and Max, giggle, "Don't act like you were the all star of the team either, twig legs."
Dave gets up in Anne Maria's face, "You let yourself get knocked off by that prissy Chris wannabe hairspray fanatic!" Anne Maria rolls her eyes as Dakota shoots daggers at Dave.
"At least she succeeded after the second attempt, unlike some people." Dakota steps in to defend Anne Maria, leaving Dave defenseless.
"At least my eyes aren't still burning from hot sauce!" Dave screams as he slams the quarter's door shut behind him, stomping with every step. Brick and Tyler look at each other, confused and irritated. Dakota and Anne Maria walk over to the other side of the cabin from Dave and sit down.
"If only everyone would stop fighting, maybe we'd win a challenge." Tyler mumbles under his breath, loud enough for only Brick to hear, he nods and they both set their stuff down.
"So, who are we voting for?" Brick asks Tyler, who shrugs his shoulders. They both sigh.
Tyler stands up, "We should probably discuss it with Dave." he suggests, Brick stands up after him and they go to find Dave together, Max follows after them, but goes in the opposite direction as them, leaving only Anne Maria and Dakota sitting in the room.
"Man, I was gonna vote Tubby, but I'm sick of twig leg's attitude, thinking he knows everything but doesn't help the team." Anne Maria vents to Dakota, who seemingly nods in understanding.
"But what about the guys? They're all going to team up and vote, and if Max doesn't vote Dave, then Dave will know we voted him, then he'll get his gang to get us next time." Dakota asks, concerned. Anne Maria ponders for a moment.
Anne Maria's face lights up in color and expression, "Then why don't we get Tubby on our side? You know he's desperate, it'll at least give us a chance!" The idea seems to pique Dakota's interest, but a look of uncertainty washes over her.
"What if it doesn't work though?" Dakota asks, Anne Maria shrugs, the camera pans over to Max, he seems to be out on the deck, watching the waves go by. Soon enough, the Scallywags come out on the deck, blabbering away about whatever. Max goes up to the group and drags Justin aside.
"Whatcha doin' man? That's our teammate!" Topher asks, slightly out of it, Max simply doesn't respond and drags Justin further away from the group.
Justin looks at Max confused, he tries to walk away from the short man, "You can't just leave, you traitor! Do you realize how much destruction you've caused?" Max looks directly into Justin's eyes when he says this, without a hint of guilt Justin stares right back, as if he never caused Max to lose the challenge for his whole team.
"I did what I had to for the good of me and my team, what can I say?" Justin explains, which earns him a slap on the wrist from Max, who is clearly hurt.
"I… I thought you said we were friends! Partners! You never turn your back on a partner!" Max cries, guilting Justin into apologizing, it doesn't seem to have much effect on him though.
Justin sighs, "Don't you know?" he begins, which confuses Max, "The number one rule of evil is that evil rides alone. I thought you of all people would get that."
"I- I do get that! I just thought things were different, that you wouldn't stab me in the back!" Max explains, he grabs onto Justin, tears in his eyes.
Justin shakes the short boy off of him, "Was it like that when you moved Sammy's puzzle pieces and caused us to slow down in the first challenge?" Max's body does not move, his jaw hangs wide open, his eyes practically bulge out of his face.
"You mean to tell me, you- you knew about that?" Max stumbles, still shocked by the news, Justin simply nods. Suddenly, footsteps can be heard from behind the both of them, Max turns around, Justin looks up from the boy and grins brightly.
"What are you doing here? Talking with the enemy team?" Dave shouts at Max, which startles him, Tyler and Brick look on at both Justin and Max with anger in their eyes.
"It's not as it looks, we were just talking about the challenge." Justin covers up for Max, who audibly takes a breath of relief.
"Right, like we'll believe you, you're probably discussing ways to cheat!" Tyler starts to instigate, moving in closer on his suspicious fellow teammate, who is now sweating and shaking.
"That wasn't exactly what we were talking about." Justin says, which fires up the others even more.
Max starts to hyperventilate, "Fine! Fine!" he shouts, making them back up a bit, "Me and him were discussing throwing a challenge."
The three gasp, "So you messed up that challenge on purpose?" Brick asks, betrayed.
"You're planning on messing up the next one for us?" Dave asks.
"Not cool man." Tyler sighs, he looks at the other two and they all decide to walk away, Max starts walking swiftly after them.
"Wait! I didn't mean it like that! Justin was supposed to throw!" Max tries to explain with little to no success, Justin takes a deep breath and laughs a bit before going back to the main quarters.
Max runs back to the quarters and opens the door, he barricades it and runs over to Anne Maria and Dakota, "You guys have to help me! I'm screwed!" He cries out, Anne Maria and Dakota grin at one another before going back to paying attention.
"Whatcha need, Tubby." Anne Maria asks, pretending to be annoyed by the boy as she normally would. Max explains the entire situation with Justin to them, when he finishes, they are left without many words.
"So you need our help, why?" Dakota asks, still not picking up on the hint, Anne Maria nudges her arm against Dakota's and gives her a very cunning look, she instantly gets it.
"Just don't vote me out!" Max begs as the barricade on the door is bust down, at the door stands the three guys.
They look on in horror as they see Max talking to Anne Maria and Dakota, Dave gives Tyler a look, "Get out of here, you traitor!" Tyler shouts at Max, who quickly scurries away.
"What was that for?" Anne Maria asks, confused, the guys give each other some more looks.
"Max hired Justin to make it look like he wasn't throwing a challenge." Brick said, which shocked both Anne Maria and Dakota, who had just heard something completely different from Max.
Dakota looks over at the guys, "Max said he teamed up with Justin so Justin could throw a challenge and Max wouldn't get out first, so that he could heal his bonds with the rest of us." The guys all look at Dakota with confusion.
Dave steps up, "He's lying to you, Max said himself that he and Justin were talking about throwing a challenge." Anne Maria and Dakota look in shock.
"Rapscallions, it's time for the Plank O' Shame ceremony!" says Chris over the loudspeaker, each contestant gulps as they walk up towards the deck, the five who were in the quarters when the announcement was made see Max slowly walking towards the deck in front of them.
"Max or Dave?" Dakota asks Anne Maria quietly so that neither guy could hear her.
"We'll see when we get there."
The six Rapscallions make it up to the deck, where Chris and Chef await them with their pirate outfits on. Each team member sits down on a stool around the plank of shame as Chris begins his speech, "Welcome Rapscallions to the Plank of Shame! Today, a collaboration of pretty much everyone's unfortunate attempts led you to be up for elimination."
"What about me?" Brick asks, somewhat hurt by Chris's generalization, while Chris does not respond, Chef gives Brick a small thumbs up, which makes Brick smile.
"Anyways, if our overachievers would stop correcting me, Dave is up to the confessional first." Chris announces while throwing shade at the cadet, one by one, each contestant votes until all members of the team have voted.
Chris counts out the votes, "While today's elimination isn't too much of a surprise, there were two likely candidates for elimination, tonight, you all will receive a single saltine cracker for your achievements."
"I heard the other team got chocolate coins last time!" Max complains, which makes the others reasonably angry. Chef looks at Chris with concern.
"Since we spent most of the budget on the pirate ship and the rum, we had to make a few budget cuts," Chris explains to the contestants, "Anyways, the first safe is…" The group looks on in anticipation.
"Dave." The girls look at one another in shock as Dave cheers and downs his saltine cracker.
"Dakota will also not be going home tonight!" Dakota smiles and more hesitantly takes her saltine cracker, she pretends to eat it.
"Neither will Brick!" Brick eats the saltine cracker without any issue.
"Tyler, Anne Maria, Max. You all are in the bottom half, but the one closest to the top half is Tyler!" Tyler's worry quickly goes away as Dave and Brick look at him with excitement.
"Anne Maria, Max, you both received at least one vote, but now we need to figure out who had more."
Anne Maria looks at Dakota with worry in her eyes, Max looks down with the same expression.
"The last one safe is…" Both look at Chris, waiting for the big moment.
"Anne Maria."
Anne Maria sighs a large sigh of relief and eats the saltine cracker, Max looks down at his hands, which are without a cracker, he looks back down at the ground.
"It's time to go to the Plank O' Shame, Max." Chris says as Max stands up, the scene cuts to a plank off of the side of the ocean. Max stands there longingly, waiting for it to be over with.
"Any last words?" Chris asks Max, who thinks for a second.
"You all will find out the truth soon enough!" Max says as he goes to jump off the plank, instead, the plank launches him off of it, he flies into a place no one else can see.
"You thought it would be a regular plank? Think again! Max got completely obliterated tonight at the Plank O' Shame! Who's going to be next? Who's going to dominate this game? I don't know, but we'll find out soon on Total Drama; Wakiki Islands!" Chris announces as the episode fades to black.
A/N: Might've been predictable, but I hope it was at least a somewhat unique way to get rid of him, maybe for a split second I hope you thought Dave might've been out. Sorry I've been gone for god knows how long, i have no excuse, just got a lot of writers block and never finished the chapter, I know it's a lot longer than the others, but hopefully it was good enough that you wouldn't mind.
Voting Chart:
Dave, Dakota, Brick, and Tyler: N/A
Anne Maria: 1 (Max)
Max: 5 (Dave, Dakota, Brick, Tyler, and Anne Maria)