Okay as suggested by my bud Omni here are the teams:
Screaming Beavers
Lightning
DJ
Lindsay
Justin
Tyler
Zoey
Heather
Dawn
Killer Hamsters
Lincoln
Ezekiel
Gwen
Cody
Sadie
Katie
Owen
Courtney
The contestants in their swimsuits were overlooking the cliff as Chris was there as he explained "your first challenge's half is to jump off this thousand foot cliff and into the lake! If you look down you will see two target areas; the wider area represents the part of the lake stocked with sharks and inside the area is a safe zone your target area which we are pretty sure is shark free but you never know!"
They looked down and saw how small that their target area was compared to the wider area and spotted the sharks there. "Look McLean; Lightning has sponsors and talent scouts coming to my sports games back home with full scholarships offered! Being mauled to death by sharks is going to hurt Lightning's career and make those offers dry up!" Lightning ranted looking like he wanted to pummel Chris on the spot.
"This is very high up..." Lincoln muttered underneath his breath gulping and taking a step back form looking down at the top of the cliff.
"This... I didn't sign up for this!" Heather complained as Chris smugly brought out a copy of the contract and tossed her.
"You did actually; fine print contains a waiver's agreement." Chris informed her as Heather looked at the contract. "Anyway; for each member of your team and actually survives you get a crate that will help you for the second half of your challenge! Killer Hamsters; you're up first!" Chris then finished explained much to the eyes widening of the Killer Hamsters and silently asking if he was serious.
"First he gives us the label of 'hamsters' and then he makes us do this suicide dive first? This is no way to treat us! Especially not a certified CIT!" fumed Courtney with her arms folded in the confessional.
"Come on everyone; I hear they make the interns do these tasks first to make sure that they are survivable!" Owen tried to reassure his team who gulped and were nervous about going first; Chris silently snickered thinking about when he had Chef Hatchet try out this dive first since all of the interns were in hospital. This didn't set well with the Killer Hamsters.
"Come on everyone; it doesn't look so bad... It will be over before you know it!" Lincoln said trying to put on a brave face even though he was terrified out of his mind. Holding his breath he then went and ran and jumped doing a cannonball thinking that if this doesn't kill him then his family probably will when he gets home. The Killer Hamsters watched as he made it into the safe zone and cheered as he was pulled into the boat nearby with Chef Hatchet manning it.
"I am not going to lie; I thought for sure that the first one doing the jump was a goner for sure but Lincoln pulled it off." Gwen said with her arms folded smiling looking quite impressed.
Ezekiel then ran and jumped off the cliff looking quite assured; he ended up hitting a stalactite off the cliff on the way down but still ended up landing in the safe zone. "Way to go Ezekiel; I am pretty sure we lost most of our braincells but we have done it!" Lincoln managed to shout excitedly as he helped Ezekiel into the boat.
Courtney went up and looked down; "excuse me Chris I have a medical condition that makes me not jump off tall cliffs. I can't do it!" Courtney told Chris with the remaining Killer Hamsters giving her looks but she looked steadfast.
"Okay but if you don't jump then you have to put on this chicken hat for the rest of the day and then take the chicken way down!" Chris informed her placing a chicken hat much to the irritation of her teammates and pointed to the stairway down. Courtney looked their way and cringed as she touched the hat but then made her way to the chicken exit with sighs from the remaining Killer Hamsters.
"Nice going you chicken!" Gwen snarked as Courtney passed her and Courtney glared at her way.
"If you are so brave then go next!" Courtney retorted passing her by and going onto the stairway.
"Fine I will!" Gwen shouted back and realised what she had said and gulped when she looked down and noticed Lincoln and Ezekiel on the boat and while she couldn't make them both out, it looked like they were trying to encourage whoever was up next. "Okay... I won't let myself live it down if Homeschool is braver than I am..." Gwen muttered as she screamed jumping down and made it to the safe zone with Cody following not too far behind her.
"Let's do this together Sadie!" Katie said coming over holding hands with Katie.
"Right here with you Katie!" Sadie said as holding hands they jumped off together and made it to the safe zone.
Finally there was Owen who gulped and then ran and jumped down yelling as he made his way down and made a big splash that scared the sharks and ended up wrecking the nearby boat.
Lincoln groaned as he felt like he had been hit by a massive tidal wave as he got himself up and then was embraced by Ezekiel; "We are both alive! We survived!" Ezekiel cheered as they noticed Owen there in the safe zone and went to check on the other Killer Hamsters and they seemed okay as they got up and checked on themselves. "Why don't you warm yourself up with this jacket that I found..." Ezekiel said about to pass Lincoln what appeared to be an orange jacket.
"Thanks Ezekiel; you have a long way to go but baby steps and I am sure... Gwen?" Lincoln said gratefully as Gwen ran to them and snatched the orange jacket away from them. Gwen then pointed to Owen in the water.
"Guys... I can't find my bathing suit..." Owen admitted with embarassment as Lincoln and Ezekiel with faces frozen slowly took a closer look at the orange 'jacket' with their faces turning to disgust along with the others...
Back on top of the cliff Chris checked his clipboard and told the Screaming Beavers "good news Beavers; if all of you jump in order to beat the Hamsters then you get pull carts to pull your supplies. Bad news: the boat is a bust so you will have to swim to the beach and avoid the sharks!" Much groans at this as they looked at eachother.
"Stand back loser because Lightning will win this!" Lightning shouted as he ran and jumped off the cliff without fear on his mind (any concerns melted away after he saw the other team pull it off just fine), landing in the safe zone and then swam right to the beach as if it was nothing.
"I don't know about this..." Zoey gulped coming up looking quite scared but then there was Dawn appearing before her.
"I sense the fear in your aura but if it helps then we can jump together like Katie and Sadie!" Dawn offered and Zoey looked at her gratefully as they held hands and jumped right down with Zoey screaming and Dawn not really affected.
They landed in the water together with Zoey relieved but screaming and held onto Dawn as they saw the sharks coming near them. "Hello my finned friends; could you spare us a ride to the beach please?" Dawn asked the shark and Zoey stopped screaming long enough to notice the sharks stopping and smiling at them?
Dawn went onto a shark to ride the fin and helped Zoey up to ride another one as they went up to the beach much to the wide open mouths of their teammates and the Killer Hamsters.
"We are seeing that right? This is not like a delayed reaction to the food that I had on the plane getting here?" Lincoln asked looking around and saw them all slowly nod at once. "That... Is so cool! My sister Lana and Sam the girlfriend of another sister Luna are really into animals but I never saw anything like that! Wow if Dawn was in Jaws then it would have been an entirely different movie!" Lincoln muttered in awe.
"I can do the Jaws theme with my armpits; do you want to hear?" Owen asked having gotten his bathing suit back before coming out of the water and was in position to start but the answer was a resounding 'no'.
DJ looked down the cliff and shook his head; "I can't do it! I have been scared of heights since I was a kid..." DJ ended up saying turning back as Chris put the chicken hat on his head and pointed to the stairway.
"Are you sure?" Chris asked making a chicken impression as DJ sighed and walked to the stairway much to the disapproval of his remaining teammates.
Tyler jumped down looking impressive but ended up hitting on a bit of equipment attached to the ring around the safe zone and just barely swam to the beach avoiding the sharks.
Then there was Justin swimming down and landing in the water; the sharks mesmerised by his looks and let him swim past.
Chris looked to Heather and Lindsay who were the final 2; "Heather, Lindsay... If you both jump then your team gets the pull carts! If one jumps but the other doesn't then no pull carts for any team but if you both chicken out then the Hamsters gets the pull carts!" Chris informed them as Heather shook her head and folded her arms.
"I am on live TV; I can't be seen with wet hair!" Heather huffed and Lindsay did the same.
"If she's not jumping then not me!" Lindsay stated as Heather smiled at her and then Lindsay gulped as Chris took out the 2 chicken hats. Heather cringed at it but went steadfast as she went to the stairway with Lindsay reluctantly following causing Chris to put the chicken hats on them much to Lindsay's horror.
"Killer Hamsters has only 1 chicken to Beavers' 3 so the Killer Hamsters get pull carts that they get to pull their supplies for the hot tub making competition! Winners gets to keep their's while the losers will be voting to send one of their own home!" Chris yelled out to the cheers of the Killer Hamsters and groans of the Screaming Beavers.
The campers were fully dressed moving their crates with the Killer Hamsters having a much easier time pulling their crates with them and even have a sing song while the Screaming Beavers were struggling to move their crates by hand. DJ and Lightning were able to carry them the best but Lightning was visibly furious.
"Uh a splinter..." groaned Heather with her chicken hat as she did the bare minimum in trying to push her crate.
"Boo hoo; get to carrying your crate and make something of yourself!" snapped Lightning as Heather glared at Lightning.
"What is your deal jock boy?" Heather demanded as Lightning then stormed towards Heather to get in her face.
"Lightning's deal is that by some bad luck; Lightning got put on the team that had 3 CHICKENs ON IT WHILE THE OTHER ONLY HAD 1! HOMESCHOOL JUMPED AND YOU 2 DIDN'T! AT LEAST HE IS PULLING HIS WEIGHT!" Lightning snapped point got DJ carrying his crate with no problem.
"Come on everyone; we need to work together... We can't be at each other's throats!" Zoey said concerned trying to pull them apart while leaving her crate with Dawn helping as Lindsay stepped back not wanting to get involved.
"All this arguing won't help anyone and your auras are quite concerning... Lightning; you're over competitive streak hoping that you won't disappoint your father could do well to be toned down a bit." Dawn told Lightning who blinked and looked defensive. Heather snickered behind her hand at this as Dawn said "Heather; there is a dark cloud within your aura and it's quite scary..."
"Who asked you and your false magic mumble jumbo..." Heather snorted pushing Dawn back into her crate with a force that snapped it open and Zoey gasped as she helped Dawn pick up the stuff inside and put it on top of Zoey's own crate so they could push together.
Heather sighed as she got Lindsay to start pushing both of their own crates.
The Killer Hamsters made it to the camp grounds first and were made by Chris to open their crates with their teeth and looked to the building material inside. "You know... I think I know where to start as like I said before; my Gramps runs this summer camp himself and my sisters and I helped out when he needed it!" Lincoln said putting his hand to his chin.
"My old man is a bit of a master of DIY and he has shown me his skills, I could have an idea as well." Ezekiel said standing next to Lincoln and looked on in awe as Lincoln gave him a fist bump motion. "My first fist bump! This is the best day of my life!" Ezekiel screamed with tears of joy as he returned it.
"Thanks for offering but I think we could do with a real project manager; someone with real CIT experience!" Courtney said facing the other campers with a smirk as Gwen scoffed.
"You are thinking it is you Ms Chicken Head?" Gwen asked rhetorically as Courtney scowled in response.
"Uh look; they seem to be knowing what they are doing..." Sadie pointed out pointing to Lincoln and Ezekiel who seemed to be starting without them as they turned to see Courtney.
"I think I am still project manager and a good project manager recognises the team's strengths so I say we follow their lead!" Courtney said matter of factly as they 8 Killer Hamsters went to work putting their hot tub together as the Screaming Beavers arrived and did their best to quickly open up their crates.
"I don't see a motor or a hammer anywhere..." DJ commented as they pulled their supplies together.
"I wonder if those would have been in your crate or would it have been in either of their crates?" Lightning remarked looking towards Heather and Lindsay with a glare.
"Look Lightning; I am sorry for not jumping and my uncalled for comments earlier. Let's do our best and make up for the head start that the Hamsters have?" Heather asked putting on a smile shocking most of her teammates.
"Way to go Heather!" cheered Zoey patting Heather on the back as Dawn looked sceptical reading her aura.
"Making peace with the jock wasn't easy to go through with but in competitions like these you have to keep your friends close and your enemies closer!" Heather remarked with his arms folded looking sneaky in the confessional.
When the teams were done Chris looked to their hot tubs with the Killer Hamsters' looking good while the Screaming Beavers looked like it was barely holding on and had planks broken as well thanks to Heather pushing Dawn into her crate and the hot tibe was barely holding together with duct tape, while a bird was swimming in it but Dawn noticing it went and took off the bit of cans plastic around it's neck.
"Careless littering but you are safe now little guy!" Dawn smiled at the bird as it flew away as the others stared at her but Dawn stepped back as their hot tub burst open.
"Killer Hamsters you are safe from elimination and you get to rock this awesome hot tub for the rest of the Summer!" Chris announced with the Killer Hamsters cheered much to the dejected Screaming Beavers. "Sucks to be the Screaming Beavers as tonight you are at the bonfire vote some off!" Chris announced to the Screaming Beavers.
"Lightning lost... TO HAMSTERS!" Lightning told himself looking down at the ground.
"You girls; you 4 did good you know for girls... I mean us guys were doing most of the work but you didn't..." Ezekiel shout out to Courtney, Gwen, Sadie and Katie as Lincoln went and covered his mouth to not bury himself even deeper than he already was and give out a sheepish smile with the 4 glaring at him harshly.
"You know what Homeschool... This doesn't make up for everything but you showed your stuff so I will make an attempt to forget things you said on the boat ride here!" Courtney told Ezekiel as she walked off with Gwen shaking her head.
"Good thing that you have Lincoln looking out for you; I can see you being the first one off if we lost today!" Gwen said patting Ezekiel on the back. "Good job to the both of you though." he told them as she walk off.
"I think she is warming up to me; good thing that I don't think we will be as divided as the Beavers look to be right now." Lincoln said with a sigh of relief in the confessional.
In the lodge; both teams were eating their meals as best as they could digest as the Screaming Beavers looked uncomfortable at eachother. "What do we do now?" Zoey asked breaking the silence.
"Decide on who is leaving and I see only 3 wearing chicken hats and big guy DJ could come on handy with his strength." Lightning brought up pointing to DJ with a relieved look on his face and then to Lindsay and Heather with Heather glaring at him.
"You know if one of us should go then I volunteer myself as I chose to follow Heather and we would have at least tied with the Hamsters to give us a better shot." Lindsay sighed as Heather looked relieved. "I am sorry for letting you all down and especially you Heather as I wished that I could have had more time to get to know you. It was a blast taking in the sun with you on the ship." Lindsay told Heather who gave a humble look on her face.
Zoey wanted to speak up in defence for Lindsay as Heather said "it's nothing really Lindsay and I enjoyed myself with you as well..."
"Yes; relaxing and you talking about the losers you saw on the boat... What was it you said? The two jocks with more muscles on their bodies than braincells? The empty headed pretty boy, the weird yoga girl doing yoga that should just fall off into the water and the redheaded girl that should be easy to play like a fiddle with how desperate she seems to be for friends?" Lindsay said looking like she didn't realise what she was doing as Heather was taken aback as the teammates were shocked and turned to glare at Heather.
"What are you doing Lindsay? Be quiet!" Heather whispered into Lindsay's ear.
"What? I didn't even bring up how you DJ seems like just another muscle or how you can use Lightning to win the challenges until it was safe to have him voted off?" Lindsay said out loud as Heather was frustrated.
"You stupid idiotic blonde? Can't you keep something to yourself?" snapped Heather out loud and then covered her mouth as she realised all the glares she was getting and the murderous look from Lightning.
"I think I know who is going home first..." Courtney told her teammates as they started snickering.
At the campfire pit at night the Screaming Beavers sat down on the stumps as Chris was there to meet them. "Screaming Beavers; you lost the first challenge and one of your own has been voted off to board the Dock of Shame and the Boat of Losers and they can't ever come back later. When I call your name then your safe and you get a marshmallow." Chris said and then started calling out and tossing marshmallows to a relieved Zoey, Lightning, Dawn, Tyler, Justin and DJ. "Lindsay. Heather. You both didn't jump and one of you is leaving." Chris said and Lindsay looked tense and worried while Heather had her fingers crossed.
"The Marshmallow goes to... Lindsay!" Chris said tossing the marshmallow to Lindsay as Heather was open mouthed and started glaring.
"what? No! I won't accept this! Do you hear me? You are all hearing from my lawyers! My parents are champions at the local country club! You Beavers are so dead!" ranted Heather and actually had to be dragged to the Dock of Shame by Chef Hatchet by the arm.
In the confessional Zoey was breathing a sigh of relief and smiled at the camera; "us losing the first challenge should be a blessing in disguise since it meant that we got to vote off Heather! Without her here causing drama; it should be much easier for our team to be one big group of friends and turn this into a healthy friendly competition!"
At the cabins the Killer Hamsters were having a victory party with Lincoln, Cody, Courtney and Gwen in the hot tub while the rest were outside dancing and Cody had them do a toast. "Would you believe when I was a kid it was hard to enjoy the water like this... My family kept being banned from pools before I could even get in!" Lincoln said as he noticed Zoey and Dawn standing by smiling and waving.
"You ladies up to talk to the Codmeister?" Cody asked with a flirty look as Courtney pushed his head underwater.
"We just wanted to congratulate you for winning the first challenge and hope you enjoy yourselves with the hot tub. It's one big friendly competition, right?" Zoey asked with Dawn nodding.
"Off course; no reason why we can't still be friends who just happen to be on opposite teams. Not much different than playing video games against my friends back at home." Lincoln said assuringly going to put his arm up to shake on it but ended up accidentally splashing the two girls with them giving him a look as the others left the frightened Lincoln in the hot tub.
The two girls then began giggling as they looked at eachother wet in their clothes and put their hands in to splash Lincoln as he began laughing with them.
"Cute but Lincoln had better not let this jeopardise our chances at winning." Courtney commented with her arms folded.
"This place still stinks I think but I am here so I might as well try to win. Besides Lincoln and those 2 party crashers are making this party more fun." Gwen commented.
Lightning when he came to the cabins area shook his head and put on a competitive face and then was followed by Lindsay who flashed them a smile with a wave.
Lindsay sighed as she looked down at the confessional; "Oh Heather; I am going to miss you... Shame that were careless enough to share so much thoughts with me and it was so easy to turn everyone against you..." Lindsay commented and started smiling as she kept as she looked to the camera.
"With everyone thinking the big drama queen diva is gone; they don't have to worry about any unfortunate drama... They won't be exactly looking to sweet clueless brainless beauty Lindsay to be looking to see how she can manipulate events to her liking." Lindsay said as her smile slowly turned into a smirk...
Hang on what? Not only did the Screaming Beavers lose but Heather the main villain of the original Total Drama Island season gets voted off first? Well if you remember or want to double check; Heather didn't want to jump and wasn't going to but it was Leshawna who ended up throwing her over with Lindsay saying that if Heather didn't then she wasn't going to. So with Heather, Lindsay and canonical chicken DJ on one team and the only other chicken Courtney on the other team then that means the Beavers lost the first part of the challenge and would be at disadvantaged for the 2nd part.
Plus remember the Camp TV pitch and the trailer I mentioned in the first chapter... Seems that Lindsay was going to be the main villain in that original version...