Last Week on Total Drama Fandom Action! The campers dove into the heat of war and saved some prisoners! Almond's steely wits led the Rockets to the first back-to-back win and Almond's second challenge win! The Victors flopped as Sherb's rage spree finally came to an end with his medical evacuation.
This week, things are going to get PRIMAL up in here, as our contestants are about to go on a lovely island vacation trip on every camper's favorite island… Boney Island, that is! Who will rule the primeval jungle? Find out here on TOTAL! DRAMA! FANDOM! ACTION!
The campers had woken up early in excitement after Chris told them about their "vacation" to a luxurious island that they forgot all about breakfast and set about packing their things. A few hours later, they arrived at the shores of Lake Muskoka, where the yacht continued their trek.
Inside, the ten remaining campers were chatting to pass the time. Jesslieward in particular were discussing when the Merge would happen.
Leslie: Jesslieward has so far been dominating the competition. We've won three challenges between us, and only Squidward's been in the bottom so far. But that's what alliances are for, henny, and when he's at the top and we're at the bottom, we're sure he'll pay it forward
Squidward: I will do anything to make it to the Finale, but there's no need to turn on my allies. I'll save that for the ACTUAL Finale.
Jessie: We are successful and thriving! We've sent home half of the eliminated campers between us. Good thing is, we're not being so upfront about it, so not even a Jury Vote can stop Jesslieward now!
"Alright, we're here!" hollered Chef.
"THIS is what you call a vacation?!" Squidward groaned. "This is the same damn lake in the middle of nowhere from LAST season!"
"At least we can go for a swim," noted Ty Lee.
"You might want to rethink that," said Momo, pointing at the floating garbage, dead gulls and the grinning anthropomorphic shark in the water.
"Welp, I tried to be positive…"
Chris stood proudly as he watched the campers survey the lake and its surroundings. "Well, campers, since this is the last group challenge before the Merge, I decided to make it a little special! For today's challenge, you have to take a lovely boat ride to Boney Island!"
"Heh, Dark Enchantress Cookie would kill for a piece of real estate like that," chuckled Almond Cookie.
"Once there, you must reactivate the emergency power grid in the middle of the Island, there's three switches, one for each team, and fetch me an egg from the local Stymphalian Geese!"
"Stymphalian WHAT now," asked Neville.
"Oh, this can NOT be good for my cuticles…" groaned Leslie.
"And if that's not exciting enough, here's something else awaiting you on the island: The Chris McLean Invincibility Idol!"
"Now THAT is a good thing," said Leslie.
"Here are your canoes. Be careful! Fang's extra hungry today!"
The Victors paddled fast, hoping the shark would not target them. "Here's the plan," said Leslie. "Neville will be in charge of switching the power grid on, while Alphys and I fecth the egg!"
"How come we need to do the egg task?" asked Alphys nervously.
"Because, henny, I'm gonna give you a makeover and turn you into a mallard, so you can distract those geese and let me snatch that egg!"
"Sounds like a plan to me," said Neville.
Neville: Finding out this is the last challenge before the Merge is nerve-wracking. I don't want to come so close just to get cut off…
The Whales paddled furiously, determined to Merge together. Momo's plan was to take all of them together to each task for safety and multiple perspectives, but Ty Lee objected, much to Momo's surprise. She had always been a yes-girl.
"I think I can handle the geese myself. Trust me on this. You and Squidward focus on getting the power grid,"
"Alright, if you say so."
Ty Lee: Alphys and I are the only campers yet to win a challenge, and I really feel I have to prove myself if I'm going to stay. It's now or never now that the Merge comes after this!
The Rockets were paddling for their lives. Fang had decided he wanted fresh meat with a side of cookie for dessert. Alfred tried to scare the shark off, to no avail. Jessie was screaming as she was at the very back of the canoe, and with her hands on the paddle, she could not reach her Pokeballs.
Fang leapt from the water and onto the canoe, biting Jessie's hair. Chaos ensued.
"Oof! That's gonna leave a mark!" said Chris, spying the spectacle on his binoculars
"Yeah," replied Chef. "On Fang, that is!"
Jessie had the shark in a chokehold. "AND IF YOU EVEN THINK OF CHEWING ON MY HAIR AGAIN, I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND HANG YOUR HEAD ABOVE MY FIREPLACE!" She proceeded to yeet Fang across the lake.
"Whoa," said Raze. "And I thought Reyna was scary…"
The Victors arrived first on the island, where they were immediately greeted by the local fauna. "Neville, stay near the coast," said Alphys. "A power station is rarely built on the slopes of a mountain".
"Got it." Neville ran off and disappeared into the brush. Alphys turned to Leslie. "Now, we look for that mallard nest,"
The Whales arrived second, with Squidward already being attacked by a savage herd of wooly beavers. "Too bad that didn't kill me…" said the flattened clump of squid on the ground.
"No time for wisecracking, guys, we need to find that power plant!" said Momo. "Ty Lee, you sure you'll be safe going for the mallard's nest alone?"
"Sure I'm sure! Just find the power plant and leave the egg to me!" She leapt into the tree branches and swung away, like some queen of the jungle.
"I'm sure she'll be fine," said Squidward.
The Rockets arrived last. Almond and Raze would handle the power grid and Jessie was practically used to poaching, anyways, so she only needed Alfred's help.
Jessie: I've never worked on a gig like this without James. Hopefully, Alfred will make a nice substitute for this time…
Neville was running for his life. Not only was the local fauna savage and aggressive, they also somehow evolved resistance to magic, much like dragons and other kinds of magical creatures back home. His spells did little to stop them. To make matters worse, the power plant was nowhere in sight. Collecting himself, he found no way to hide from the creatures.
Hide.
"Oh, what a blind beetle I am!" he said, chuckling nervously. With a tap on the top of his head with his wand, Neville vanished from sight. The Disillusionment Charm.
Meanwhile Almond and Raze had zeroed in on the first of the power plants. Alfter Almond jimmied the rusted locks open, Raze made quick work of the complicated computer work needed. "Thank goodness, those lessons with Killjoy paid off!"
Squidward had found their team's power station… after thirty minutes of getting mauled by the local fauna. Squidward was also secretly looking for the Immunity Idol. It would be such a great boon for the Jesslieward Alliance, one that would assure they would not only Merge but even make it to the Finale unscathed.
He and Momo had gotten separated in the chaos. She had tried to save him, but was headbutted by a wooly beaver off a cliff. Squidward dearly hoped she was safe, or at least that she would be another medevacation.
Jessie and Alfred located one of the Stymphalian goose nests. Jessie decided the species would have a behavior similar to Mandibuzz or Corviknight, very territorial birds, violent when disturbed. Alfred volunteered to make a distraction for Jessie to grab an egg. She nodded in agreement. "It's a plan, Al. Let's hope we don't get blasted off."
"Not us, babe! This plan is foolproof!"
It was NOT foolproof.
Jessie was running for her life, egg in hand, while Alfred was getting mauled alive by the geese. The geese were Pokemon in their own right, and none of her team could take on the beasts alone. Some of the flock broke away from Alfred's unconscious body and went screeching towards her. She braced for the worst.
"More tea, Mrs. Squawkers?" said Alphys in her impeccable Canadian goose outfit, sewn by Leslie on the spot with their portable sewing machine.
Leslie: I can make a designer gown in under sixty seconds! A goose costume is child's play!
Leslie crept slowly towards the eggs, careful not to make a sound. Though even if they did, they could easily just stand still and blend in with the background flora. They reached ever slowly towards the eggs, now within their grasp…
Ty Lee saw the dead goose and promptly teared up. It had been a mother, probably attacked by some predator that attacks nests to pillage eggs. All over the nest was the yolk, shells and jetsam of devoured eggs. Her psyche was deeply disturbed by the savagery that had occurred here.
Taking a careful step forward, she noticed a lone egg still intact, in the middle of the nest. Perfect, she thought. Not only would it hand her team victory, it would also allow her to potentially save a life, unless of course Chris was planning to have the eggs scrambled for tomorrow's breakfast.
She gingerly picked up the egg and made a makeshift cradle out of cloth she tore off from her sleeves. Carefully, she leapt into the trees and began swinging when she heard a whoop of joy.
Momo clutched her leg in pain as she awoke from the fall off a cliff courtesy of that stupid wooly beaver. Panic settled in, not so much the fear of losing but the fear of not getting off the island before the nasty wildlife got her. Thinking fast, she created a splint and bandages for her leg and fixed it, forcing herself to get up and walk towards what might be the shoreline.
She had not gotten far when she tripped over a rock. She winced in pain, but it evaporated as soon as she realized what she tripped on was not a rock at all.
It was the Immunity Idol.
Jessie winced, but the blows never came. A dark shadow blocked the sky from her worm's-eye view and upon clearing her eyes she saw a bright pink furry thing engaging the geese in brutal combat, taking them out one by one.
"Bewear?!"
The pink Pokemon smiled through its eyes, finishing off the last goose and running happily towards her, giving her a tight hug.
"I missed you, too! I'm so glad you came to save me!"
Neville patted himself on the back satisfactorily after finishing the power station task. He had always heard from Ron Weasley's father that Muggle electronics and computers functioned on rather intuitive and logical bases, allowing ease of usage, the opposite of magecraft, which was locked away in so much jargon and arcana as to discourage those who lacked the patience and discipline to wield them properly.
He turned around after hearing a noise and to his horror, Alfred Jones was running towards him, and close behind was a flock of savage geese!
"RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, DUDE!"
"Petrificus Totalus!"
Neville sighed in relief, having remembered from the Triwizard Tournament, specifically Harry's bout against the Hungarian Horntail, that many magic-resistant animals had weak spots, usually the eyes, and the Stymphalian Geese had huge, saucer-like eyes.
Alfred stared in disbelief. "Well, wham, bam, Billy Kaplan! How the hell did you not become the Chosen One?"
"Neville Longbottom and the Philosopher's Stone doesn't exactly roll off the tongue."
"Ah,"
Leslie and Alphys were triumphantly running with the egg in hand as the geese chased them. Neville, Alfred, Almond, Raze, Ty Lee, Momo and Squidward also emerged from the woods and were now all running towards the safety of the shoreline.
"We need to make it, first!" said Squidward.
"Leave it to me!" Momo clenched her belly and out spawned a massive cannon.
"Hop on!"
"We are SO gonna win thi-" Leslie was knocked over by the shockwaver released by the cannonballed Whales, who sailed across the sand and landed right in front of the Chris Jet.
Chris spotted the egg and nodded. "Killer Whales, you are the winners! And Ty Lee, I see you managed to get that egg without a single scratch on you! Congratulations, you are the winner of this week's challenge!"
"Oh, thank you! We're not gonna eat the eggs, are we?"
"God, no! Stymphalian Geese can smell a person that ate their eggs for miles and will frequently attack them non-stop for twenty five years! Come to think of it, I didn't actually think anybody would make it with an egg, so I didn't think that through."
The Rockets came second and the Victors last.
"Team Victory, I am sorry, but you will be sending a teammate home tonight. But for now, let's all hop on the Chris Jet and get off this crazy island!"
"We're going so fast, I don't think even the Vulture of ours at VALORANT flies this fast!" noted Raze.
"That's courtesy of our special pilot!" said Chris.
A familiar blond face with a scar on his lip turned and waved from the cockpit.
Alfred Jones cheered. "Eyy! Jason, you're looking pretty fly for a dead guy!"
"Flying the campers in nature, yes Gawd," said Leslie.
They arrived on time just before sunset at the Studios. After telling them to get to the showers and have dinner, Chris told the campers to prepare for the last elimination before the Merge.
At the Ceremony, Chris congratulated the Whales and the Rockets. "All of you are now safely in the Merge!" Cheers erupted all around. Jessie and Squidward looked nervously at Leslie, who was up for elimination.
"Victors, only two of you will be moving on to the Merge. To make things EXTRA special, let's make the vote public, shall we?"
Everyone was tense.
"Let me ask you, Leslie: Who should go home tonight?"
Leslie: Not this… not this… But going home right before the Merge does not make sense with my fantasy..
"I would have to say Alphys. She's just not on the same level as everyone here right now. She is literally the only one without a challenge win, and this is Chris Mclean's Total Drama Action, not Total Drama Friendship, so my vote goes to Alphys."
"Okay, and you, Neville?"
"My vote goes to Leslie, for all the same reasons they want to send Alphys home. For what it's worth, Alphys has been a far bigger help to us than Leslie all season, so I'd have to vote for Leslie to go home."
Leslie began tearing up, seeing that Alphys held the tiebreaker vote.
Chris looked on. "Alphys?"
"This has been the easiest decision I've had to make in this crazy competition, Chris…"
Leslie sighed in defeat.
"I'm going home," said Alphys.
"WHAT?!"
"Listen, I didn't join to win the crown and all that. I wanted to meet new people, overcome some old demons and prove to myself I could be brave, that I could make the right choices, the choices that would let me protect the people I care about. Now that I've made it halfway through, I think I've already won in my book. So, thank you for this amazing experience. It's been beyond awesome hanging out with you guys, but I've decided to head home."
Alphys hugged her teammates. "There's no hard feelings, Leslie. Trust me, I know what being friends with a diva is like."
Neville and Leslie wished Alphys luck as she returned to the outside world. She hopped on the Lame-O-Sine. "Always use your knowledge for good! Sayonara!"
Leslie: So this is how Trixie felt…
Chris shook his head in amazement. "Well, well, well, folks, there we have it! Our Merge cast for our second season!"
"The Belle of the Pokemon Ball, Jessie!"
"The All-American Hero, Alfred!"
"The Detective Dad, Almond!"
"The Bombshell, Raze!"
"The Mollusk Maestro, Squidward!"
"The Circus Girl, Ty Lee!"
"The Girl with Everything, Momo!"
"The Boy Who Almost Was, Neville!"
"And the Oddest Flower on the Field, Leslie!"
"Join us next week for the first Merge Challenge! It's Chris McLean's Talent Show Extravaganza!"