Author's Note: I'm not gonna really cover DJ and Lindsay's adventures unless they are relevant to the plot, this is all Cody, Heather, Alejandro, and Noah centric. Everyone else is a sideshow in comparison and unless they're doing something in relation to Codeather and Alenoah's plots, they won't usually be covered.
Noah did not enjoy being woken up by a rat falling in his mouth, oh how he hated economy class. He chose to glare at Alejandro, due to being the reason they were even there before noticing he had an eye patch on… what?
"Stupid economy class." He chose to grumble instead.
"Being back here has some perks." Tyler said brightly as he caught Lindsay happily waving to him which Alejandro groaned at, clearly not in the mood.
"Next time we get on this plane, we better be in first class." Alejandro crossed his arms angrily.
'Oh that is rich coming from you!' Noah thought to himself as he narrowed his eyes, considering Alejandro was the main reason they were even in this sour predicament.
"Yeah, cool! Let's be a team! A team that gets along, a team that forgives everyone for anything that ever happened by accident." Owen put his arm around Alejandro much to his great displeasure which Noah smirked fondly at, so Owen was the reason for Alejandro's state. He couldn't honestly be more grateful to Owen right now.
Heather could not be anymore annoyed right now. Not only was her face still bruised, Courtney and Gwen were still being nuisances as always. Courtney by throwing a jab at how "good" she looked while Gwen may have potentially just jinxed the team with her saying how Team Amazon being in the Amazon would just be a lucky sign.
Whatever, now they were at the forest of Peru and Chris was explaining their next challenge, "Welcome to Peru.Birthplace of the mighty Amazon River! This challenge is called the 'Am-AHHHH-Zon Race'. Teams must hike along an ancient Inca trail through the Peruvian jungle, all the way to Machu Picchu. Hidden somewhere among the ruins of Machu Picchu, a golden treasure awaits discovery!"
Now that was an exciting premise to Heather.
"Find the treasure to win first class passage to our next destination," Chris said. "Last team to arrive at Machu Picchu will likely have to send someone out the elimination door."
And be warned," Heather noticed as Cody immediately rose in anticipation, "the jungle contains many vicious insects!"
Cody then raised his hand which Chris did not seem surprised by, "Yes, Cody, the legal department made me well aware of your deathly allergies and insisted we supply an EpiPen." Chris held an epipen in his right hand, and swiped it away from Cody. "Wouldn't make sense to give it to the person who has the allergies. What if you need an injection when you're unconscious?"
"Ooh Ooh, I'll take it!" Sierra waved her arm in a begging motion, Cody almost looked to Gwen but a glare from Heather prevented him from doing so. With that, Chris ended up giving Sierra the EpiPen, much to her delight.
"Also, in the jungle are the Zing-Zings," Chris then explained, holding up a photograph. It depicted two brown-skinned individuals in colorful headdresses with monstrous masks that covered their faces; both of them were half-hidden by the trees they were peeking out from behind. "A native tribe who have nev-er encountered modern man, and they're not about to. So, if you spot a Zing-Zing, do. Not. Make. Contact." As he spoke, a loud drum started up behind him. "They-" he began to add before pursing his lips and shooting an annoyed look behind him, where Heather saw that Chef was beating on a tall drum. "Will you stop that?!" Chris said, and the cook obliged with a shrug.
"How far is it to Mucky Pitchet?" Owen asked obliviously which made Heather baffled at how horribly he pronounced that.
"Machu Picchu," Chris corrected with a smile, "is a hop, skip, and a jump from here. Plus eighteen hours." Heather and the rest of the cast groaned in unison. "The jungle is too dangerous to travel at night so teams will have to break at dusk and camp along the trail until sunrise."
"And I assume there are no tents?" Alejandro asked curiously.
"Correctamundo." Chris confirmed, "Now, because the playing area is so vast and dangerous, each team will have a walkie-talkie in case of an emergency." He picked up a cardboard box filled with the devices. "Teams, I wish you good luck," he said. "Or, at the very least, a lack of death."
After that, Heather and the rest of the cast had gotten their walkie talkies and encountered a crossroad.
Lindsay was too busy playing Eenie-Meanie-Minie-Mo to determine what direction to go in so that left Cody some time to whisper to Heather, "Heather. I gotta ask, why'd you make me let Sierra take my EpiPen?"
"I doubt she can do much damage with an EpiPen, and besides, we need her vote if we want to get rid of Courtney." Heather reminded the geek, thankful that Courtney and Gwen were a good distance away so they could talk. Cody didn't seem to fault this logic and so he stopped with the questions, which was good. She didn't need Alejandro or Sierra getting any ideas.
"Uh… right?" Lindsay asked curiously to DJ before they both shrugged and went down the right path which caused Team Chris to follow, likely because of Tyler.
"Maybe we should go left." Gwen then spoke up.
"No, right. If it's wrong, at least everyone will be wrong." Sierra spoke up and as they argued, Heather narrowed her one good eye to see the trails and saw that the left one was wider.
"The left trail's wider." Heather broke the tie which surprised all of her teammates before she immediately clarified, "What? I hate Gwen but I'm not risking immunity."
The rest of the team figured that was a fair point and then headed towards the left trail with Heather with everyone hoping they made the right decision.
Noah was not happy about going through the buggy jungle. He really hoped that Tyler had chosen the correct path or things would not be pretty for them.
As he was lost in his own head, a giant fly seemed to have grabbed him by his head before lifting him from the ground and into the skies. Noah screamed in terror, believing he was about to die but suddenly, a rock flew over and smacked the fly off of him and sent him falling down into Alejandro's arms, "Perhaps you should be more careful amigo." He smirked charmingly which made Noah's eyes widen and cause him to… blush…
"Yeah, whatever. Thanks." Noah scoffed before getting off of Alejandro and let himself continue walking. Noah knew he was bisexual, but Alejandro felt like such a snake. He told himself he wouldn't fall for such a Justin copy so why was he so charming?
Cody was honestly shocked to see that his team actually chose the right path and it was evidenced by the fact that they were standing before Chris, stationed by a T-bar.
"Welcome Team Amazon, since you're in first place, you get to use this handy dandy T-bar. Everyone else will have to take the line hand over hand." Chris instructed.
"Uh… but there are five of us?" Courtney cried out indignantly.
"Oh… oops." Chris smirked mockingly which earned him glares from all five Amazons.
"Ooh, I have an idea." Sierra cried out happily before taking off her belt and hooping it over the line before grabbing Cody in her right arm, "First place!" Sierra shrieked as she and Cody flew down the line and onto the ground.
"Wow Sierra, that was awesome." Cody complimented.
"Thanks." Sierra said happily, "Anything to help you out."
Cody smiled a bit before his stomach twisted in knots, he was starting to feel guilty for trying to use Sierra's vote to go against Courtney. He knew it was best for his game but if he was being completely honest, he did feel bad for having to appease Sierra just for her vote. Especially when it wasn't genuine.
Back with Team Chris, Alejandro was trying to lead his team through the forest when suddenly DJ and Lindsay ran off the other way screaming much to Tyler's worry.
"Lindsay! What's wrong?!" Tyler tried asking but DJ and Lindsay were too lost in their fear to acknowledge them and were gone.
Suddenly Owen gasped and it was clear and pointed ahead and Alejandro's eyes widened as they saw that there were Zing-Zings in front of them, holding spears. They then pointed the spears directly at the five team members in which Alejandro immediately took out his walkie-talkie, "Chris. We need help immediately. Chris?"
Alejandro checked the back of the walkie talkie and groaned, "No batteries." This was not going to be fun.
Meanwhile with Team Amazon, it was finally nighttime and the team was sitting by a fire while rationing the bananas they had won for making it to the halfway mark first. However, the fire was dying out so Heather and Sierra walked out to get some more wood which left Cody alone with Courtney and Gwen. This was honestly really awkward to Cody, considering he was not on good terms with Courtney and he and Gwen were in an awkward place right now.
"Okay, now that Heather's gone, I was thinking we should strategize for the next vote. My personal pick would be Heather. She's been a nuisance since Island and has continued to be so." Gwen recommended.
"Like I said, I'll gladly vote her off." Courtney scoffed with a lighthearted roll of her eyes.
Cody wasn't surprised by this. He knew this was going to occur given what happened in Yukon with Heather constantly whipping Courtney. Though for some reason, he didn't want Heather to go. For alliance reasons of course, but despite her rough exterior, she hasn't really been all that bad to him.
"Cody!" Courtney's sharp voice snapped him out of his thoughts as he turned back to the two girls.
"Huh, what?" Cody blinked in confusion.
"I said who are you voting for?" Courtney rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"Oh sorry, I wasn't really considering who to vote for. With us winning so many challenges and all." Cody chuckled nervously.
"Well you should probably vote Heather with us. Come on, it's a three to two vote, and none of us can really trust Heather anyway." Gwen smiled reassuringly, which kinda did reassure Cody as it gave him hope that he and Gwen were still on somewhat good terms.
However at the same time, he knew he would be screwed if it came down to him and Courtney.
"I'll consider it, but Sierra HAS been bugging me recently." Cody reminded the girls in which Courtney rolled her eyes in disinterest while Gwen gave a frown but she didn't push the subject anymore.
'Good. The last thing I need is a confrontation.'
Meanwhile, Heather and Sierra have been gathering wood for the fire when Heather spoke up, "Y'know, I think we should talk about our strategy for the vote."
"Why?" Sierra raised an eyebrow, "We're winning after all."
"Yeah, and who knows how long that'll last. Team Victory will disband eventually whether by losing or by a team swap." Heather reminded the superfan, "Which is why we need to think about who to vote off in case we lose."
"Okayyyyyyyyy." Sierra trailed off which allowed Heather to continue speaking.
"Here's the deal," Heather smirked, "I've been talking to Cody recently and we both agree that Courtney should be the one to eliminate next time we lose."
"Courtney? Why not Gwen? She clearly distracts him and she pretty much jinxed us today." Sierra rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"Look. I hate Gwen with every fiber of my being but when I think she's tolerable compared to Courtney…" Heather began exasperated before remembering a certain interaction Cody had with Courtney in the Island special, "You watched Total Drama Island's special right?"
"Duh. I've seen every episode." Sierra scoffed indignantly.
"Then surely you remember how hateful Courtney acted to everyone that day, and that includes Cody." Heather reminded the stalker, "She literally grabbed him into a chokehold and her attitude only got worse in season two."
Sierra tried to speak but all that came out was a gasp and stammering which Heather was pleased with, she knew it was working.
"All I'm saying is that if we vote off Courtney, she won't endanger Cody like she did to the others last season." Heather explained before heading back to the campfire with Sierra behind her as she pondered what Heather just said.
The two immediately returned and dumped their wood onto the fire, both of them sitting on seperate sides to Cody when suddenly a growl was heard.
"Uh… excuse me." Cody blushed nervously.
"I highly doubt that was you." Heather looked around fearfully.
"Maybe it was the fire." Sierra suggested optimistically.
"No, fires don't growl." Courtney shook her head before Gwen's eyes widened at the sight of giant caterpillars surrounding them.
"Guys, look!" Gwen cried out in horror.
A caterpillar spat on the fire as soon as the Amazons saw them and immediately began to go after them much to their fear.
In the morning, Heather woke up groggily to find that her entire body had marks all over it, and Courtney, Gwen, and Sierra did not look much better. What even happened last night?
Oh right; a bunch of caterpillars attacked and they had to fend them off. Just lovely.
Wait… weren't they missing somebody?
"It's daytime." Courtney alerted her teammates which made Sierra and Gwen wake up immediately, "We have to get to Machu Picchu and find that treasure."
"Wait a moment, what about Cody?!" Sierra gasped in fright as she began hyperventilating and running around, "Cody! CODY!"
"Sierra, calm down!" Courtney said sharply.
"Look, she has a right to be worried. Cody could be dead for all we know." Gwen reminded the overachiever to which she just rolled her eyes at making Gwen even more annoyed. Heather would've smirked at this cracking alliance if not for the fact this was a serious situation.
"Everyone relax!" Heather yelled out causing the girls to turn over to her, "I'll go look for Cody, the rest of you head to Machu Picchu."
"Why can't I go look for him?!" Sierra asked, offended.
"You're too stressed out, you'll probably suffer a breakdown if you're alone." Gwen explained to the fangirl.
"Exactly." Heather nodded firmly, "I'll go look for the dweeb, the two of you just try and calm down Sierra."
Heather then ran off and breathed a sigh of relief, she really needed to get out of that strenuous situation, now to find Cody.
After walking around in the forest for a while, she started calling out his name multiple times but each time she would receive no response. Heather was actually starting to get worried now. She hasn't heard a response for a good while now. In all honesty, he couldn't really forget what he said to her just yesterday.
"You honestly didn't deserve that. You didn't even do anything this time."
She wouldn't let anyone else know this but that was kinda touching to her and she grew a little respect towards Cody that day.
"Did he actually die?" Heather gulped.
Heather shook these worries off, "The geek survived a bear attack after all. A bunch of oversized insects were nothing." Heather reassured herself.
"Cody!" She tried again and stopped when she saw a shuffling cocoon in the distance, that wouldn't really bother her except the cocoon was huge. She might have just found Cody.
She ripped off part of the cocoon and saw Cody's face much to her relief.
"Heather!" Cody smiled optimistically when he caught view of his savior.
"What happened to you?!" Heather asked incredulously.
"Oh, I got dragged off by these caterpillar things and was tied up but I'm alright now. It's nice you care." Cody said happily, probably in relief since he just got saved.
"Well… of course I do. How else are we supposed to win challenges with you out of commission?" Heather scoffed with a smirk.
"I heard you talking to yourself earlier." Cody smirked to which Heather widened her eyes before she just opened the cocoon and let Cody fall out.
"Ow." Cody grunted.
"Let's just get to Machu Picchu already." Heather quickly commanded.
Getting to Machu Picchu wasn't that hard, Heather knew the direction she came from before she went to find Cody but by the time they made it there, Team Victory had already found the golden treasure.
"What?! We lost?!" Heather asked incredulously.
"Yeah. No thanks to you and Cody." Courtney glared angrily at the duo before Heather narrowed her eyes.
"Oh I'm sorry, I was making sure we didn't get a penalty for leaving any of our teammates behind and it's not like this is Cody's fault. The caterpillars literally dragged him away!" Heather yelled which caused Courtney to widen her eyes but she shut up, good.
"You guys still get second place." Chris said happily, "However, Team Chris will be heading to elimination tonight."
Alejandro was struggling as he shuffled on the ropes, their bonds were really tight and he was starting to lose hope at being found.
"Well this is just great." Noah spoke angrily, "Being tied up against my will by some psychopaths. How did I not see this coming?"
"Don't give up, we could still be found by Chris." Owen smiled hopefully.
"How?! Our walkie talkie has no batteries and I doubt Chris would care enough to send a search party!" Noah replied crankily.
"I know you're upset, but there is no need to shout." Alejandro replied calmly.
Noah sighed before rolling his eyes, "Whatever."
Alejandro then looked to see that Izzy was humming and moving her arms much to his confusion, it did not make sense but neither did Izzy.
"I can't believe I won't be able to say goodbye to Lindsay." Tyler sighed miserably from next to Owen.
Suddenly, Chef appeared carrying a hatchet in which a Zing Zing pointed a spear at him.
"Chef!" The group cried out in shock.
"Look out! The Zing-Zing's gonna kill you!" Owen cried out in despair.
"That isn't a Zing-Zing! It's a local Peruvian actor." Chef scoffed.
The two Zing-Zings then removed their masks and smiled as they took out a sign, "Indeed. We play the borders." One of the actors smiled as they began walking off.
"Someone should really sue those idiots." Noah scoffed.
"Wait, so I was creating a breakout plan for nothing." Izzy groaned before slipping out of the ropes and stepping onto the ground.
"YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN OUT THIS WHOLE TIME?!" Tyler and Alejandro cried out in shock and anger.
"Why am I not surprised?" Noah cried out furiously.
"And y'all lost the challenge, you gotta vote someone off." Chef reminded them.
"Oh you have got to be kidding me." Alejandro grumbled.
The teens then returned to the plane and as soon as they did, Alejandro immediately confronted Tyler, Owen, and Noah in loser class when Izzy left to go talk to her "rat friends".
"Men, tonight Izzy has proven she is hindering this team instead of helping it." Alejandro said angrily, "Tonight she must be voted off."
"I agree there." Tyler nodded firmly.
"I don't know guys. Izzy may be… a bit much, but she didn't mean any harm. Maybe we should give her another chance." Owen smiled optimistically.
"Dude, Izzy literally cost us the challenge by not getting us out of that mess when she easily could've. I'm sorry but she's gotta go." Tyler sighed remorsefully.
"And besides, don't you think it would be unfair to vote off anyone else?" Alejandro raised an eyebrow at the chubby blonde, which made him twiddle his fingers nervously.
"Well… I…" Owen gulped before the intercom went off, "Attention Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot, it's time to vote someone off from the competition."
"I hope you make the right decision, amigo." Alejandro said lowly before he and Tyler walked off.
Owen sighed sadly while Noah gave him a look of remorse, he honestly didn't deserve to be pressured like that.
"Hey. If you want to vote anyone else off, you could try voting off Tyler. He's the one who suggested we go on the wrong path and I'm sure Izzy's voting for him too" Noah whispered in his friend's ear which made him raise an eyebrow.
When they made it to the ceremony, Chris had called all of them to vote and once they did, Noah sat in his seat smugly. The reason he had targeted Tyler was to put Alejandro in a position of weakness. Owen and Izzy would totally vote with Noah instead of Alejandro and if they lost, he would be gone. Maybe that would teach him to throw challenges.
"Alright, mini Chrises. Are you ready to find out who you've chosen to eliminate, let's take a look at who you all voted for, just for fun." Chris smirked as he turned on the television next to him.
The first confessional to play was Alejandro's who stamped his passport happily, "Adios Izzy, I would say it was a pleasure but as evidenced by today, it was not."
Tyler and Owen gave Alejandro some confused looks and Noah couldn't fault them, for all they knew he was a gentleman so why was he suddenly being so smug?
Tyler's confessional was next, "Sorry Izzy but you screwed up." He stamped his passport with much less enthusiasm than the Spaniard did before him.
The next confessional to go on was Noah's himself, "Izzy may have screwed up but Tyler also screwed us up by making us go in the wrong direction for Lindsay's sake. He's gotta go." He stamped Tyler's passport.
In present time, Tyler gave Noah a hurt look to which Noah bashfully looked away from, he liked Tyler, he really did but he was the only valid option to eliminate besides Izzy.
The next recording just showed Izzy smiling at the camera and stamping Tyler's passport before leaving with a smile.
Noah smirked, now if Owen just voted off Tyler like he said he would than it would be smooth sailing from here.
The last confessional to play was Owen's and he gulped before voting, "I… vote for Izzy… Tyler made a simple mistake but Izzy shouldn't have waited so long to save us plus her biting really hurts. Sorry Iz." He then stamped Izzy's passport much to Noah's shock but that did not compare to Izzy's reaction.
"You voted for ME?!" Izzy asked furiously to which Owen bit his lip fearfully at, yeah that was not going to end well.
"I guess it would be a good time to send Izzy falling out of the plane, if it were a reward challenge, which it's not." Chris said before blowing on a noisemaker, "Surprise."
Alejandro, Tyler, and Owen gasped at this while Noah sighed in relief. He could still get the majority against Alejandro next time.
Izzy then growled at Owen furiously causing him to run off.
"Traitor!" Izzy cried out furiously before stomping out of the ceremony.
"Okay you guys. You can leave now." Chris snickered, "This'll be an awesome episode."
Noah and Tyler exited the elimination ceremony with uneasy looks on their faces but Alejandro composed himself quickly and he began to glare at Noah, "So Noah, care to explain why you voted for Tyler today?"
Noah was not in the mood for Alejandro's crap so he briefly commented, "Izzy and Owen are my friends and Tyler put us in the wrong direction. Nothing personal."
"Aw come on, I thought we were all friends here." Tyler said, clearly hurt by the implication Noah gave.
Noah stopped and gave Tyler a serious look, "No offense Tyler, but I hang out with Owen and Izzy more than I do with you."
"Well… I guess that makes sense." Tyler sighed sadly before walking off to loser class to which Noah looked on in a rare show of sympathy. At least before Alejandro ruined it.
"Why were you plotting against Tyler when Izzy was by far worse in the challenge?" Alejandro lectured.
"Like I told you, I have less bonds with Tyler than I do with her." Noah scoffed before glaring at the Spaniard, "And who are you to talk about doing badly in challenges when you made us lose one of them."
"It was a strategic move against Heather." Alejandro glared at the bookworm, "And all I did was put us in second place. Izzy made us outright lose."
"Ugh, you're insufferable." Noah grumbled furiously before storming off in anger.
His team was a mess now thanks to this challenge. Izzy and Owen were now going to have relationship problems, Tyler was upset with him, and Alejandro was being an absolute nuisance right now.
Duncan was right when he sang his little number on the first day, this absolutely sucks.
Author's Note: Didn't focus much on AleNoah but don't worry, I'll give them some more time. Hopefully the Codeather made up for it.